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- SV . i !! ? w - "~ Bcfore a ««» Pting to de-« w the lamentable occurrence that has cVeated an £ ^ « , ~ 08 ten » twn in BriBtoi which has not fe i known for years-crowds of persons up to this ntaent congregating round the spot , endeavouring tgaaver their musing reUUTea-ituHist be preapea that the Bristol river has for some years past « jen converted into a floating harbour , extending © mHanhamtothedockaat Rownham . Hotwells , nistance of about six miles , and from the Quay-* ad to the basin at the docks at Rownham Hotrells , about two miles . Upon this portion of the bating harbour several river steamers have recently lacd
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leen pe , the traffic between Bristol and the Hotwells being very considerable , some idea of Much maybe formed from ite fact that the Red Jtover carried 1 , 800 passengers yesterday . Last evening one of these river steamers , the Red Rover | ba / ing proceeded to the Wells , at about half-past i eight o ' clock , and having taken in some thirty or more passengers at a place called Rawling ' s-wharf -was about to proceed on her retnrn voyage to Bristol , when some persons called ont from the other ade of the lock that there were gome passengers going , and the Red Kover was backed into * he look for the purpose of taking them on board . Several were so taken , and others were about gain * onboard , when a sudden and tremendous exntosion
tooK place , wnich was heard distinctly at fully a mile ^ isiant , in the neighbourhood of Clifton , which shook the surrounding houses , and by which the Bed Rover , with her engines and machinery , was torn to pieces—her funnel , the plates of her boiler , and other portions of her machinery being' hurled into the air—and death and destruction scattered around . The bodies of some of the passengers were thrown by the shock high above the * houses ; others were cast into the water ; and almost every passenger wa 3 more or less injured . The vessel almost immediately sank , going down by the head , her stern fortunately remaining long enough above the water te enable some of the unfortunate passengers to be taken ont of the after-cabin windows .
The screams of the drowning and injured were at this moment most appalling , and an immense crowd -speedily surrounded the spot . Mr . Davis , the active tide surveyor , with his men , and the various watermen in other boats , hastened to render assistance , by whom several persons , living and dead , were picked op . Such was the force of the explosion that some of the plates of the boiler of the steamer -were thrown with considerable violence on to the roofs of the houses in Avon-crescent and Kawling ' syard , more than one hundred yards from the spot where tbe explosion took place , and one piecs , UD-¦ wards of one and a half hundred weight , wastbrown into Messrs . Hennetfs timber-yard , at fully as great a distance . The body of a little girl , named
Jefferies . was hurled by the explosion with such violence as to be thrown completely across the lock to the road on the opposite side , where its brains were dasfeed out against the wall . Of coarse at this moment the confusion was indesoribable , and the extent of the damage could not be ascertained ; but six dead bodies were very shortly found , and placed under a shed in the Kova Scotia-yard—viz ., those of Isaac West , a married man . with a family , who was a professor of music , and who had been playing attheAshton Strawberry gardens ; Samuel Jefferies , a workman at the Pottery , also married , and with a family ; two little girls , named Jefferies ; a gentleman , whose name we have beard was Fowey ; and a man named Henry Starr . The following persons were also con «
Teved to the Infirmary deeply injured ; viz : —William Bailey , with legs fractured ; William Puddy , the captain of the Red Rover , with thighs fractured ; William Brewer , tobacconist , fractured legs { one since amputated ;) Francis Lucas , accountant , severe fractures ; Charles Keating , professor of mnsic , with very severe injuries ; Eliza Pelford , severely scalded ; Eliza Pelford , her daughter , also severely scalded ; Thomes Yenn , severely scalded ; Charlotte Eliza Hodge , severely scalded ; Martha Eenuaings , scalded : Mary Anne Darsden , legs fractured ; Samuel Edwards , scalded ; Ellen Hodge , with both legs fraetured ; William Cooper , dancingmaster , severely injured in the head , and also very nracn scalded ; William Nicholas , the engineer , much
scalded ; David Lewis , the stoker , much scalded ; Thomas White , with fractured legs ; Maria Haynes , with contused forehead . —The following were removed to their homes : —Mr . A . & Langdon , builder , of Old Market-street , with one leg fractured : Mr . John Langdon , his son , with concussion of the brain , who lies in a very precarious state ; •¦ "fr- J- D-Weston , ironmonger , of Castle-Street ; Air . Langdon s son-in-law , with fracture of the bones Of the face and temporal bone , and also severely scalded ; Mr . Thomas Penton , jun ., clerk of the market , severely scalded , and with contusions of the head and face . —In addition to these we have heard of two female 3 who were very severely scalded aoout the breasts , and that some other injured
parties had been removed to hotels . The whole medical staff of the Infirmary were of ceurse unremitting in their attentions to the distressed sufferers , and hare remained np all the night , but we regret to state the following have since died , viz .: —Charles Keating , professor of mnsic ; William Nicholas , the engineer , and a man unknown , and many others are m an utterly hopeless state . They are still dragging the river , where there are doubtless other bodies ; indeed the body of a woman was just now fished up , but it again slipped from the grapnel . —The escapes of several -were scarcely less than miraculous . Mr . Anderson , the owne r , was standing at the after cabindoor , in which his wife was sitting ; he was driven
into the water , but fortunately succeeded in dragging his wife through the cabin window , and tbey were both saved . Mr . Oldland , bookseller , was also running to overtake the boat , and was within a very short distance of her when the explosion took place . Of course there are all sorts of allegations afloat as to the cause of the accident , but as the whole matter wffl undergo a rigid investigation before the coroner , we refrain from at present alluding to them . On Tuesday afternoon , strenuoas efforts were being made to raise the hull of the shattered vessel , and toe search forthe bodies was being continued . The Red Rover was about forty-five feet long , with eight and ahalf feet beam .
The IxqcE 3 T . —On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was commenced before the city coroner , J . B . Grinder , Esq ., and a respectable jury , on the oodies of such of the sufferers as died before they could be removed from the scene of the accident . These were Robert Pavey , Isaac West , Samuel Jefferies , Henry Sturr , and Susan and Mary Ann Fnlford , the two last children of a groom , whose wife and eldest daughter lie seriously hurt at the Infirmary , and not , a 3 was at first supposed , the children of a hackney car driver named Jefferies . The inquest was held at the Commercial Hotel , Hotwells , and excited much interest John Leonard , of Frogmore-street , waterman , sworn . I belong to tbe wherry Why Sot . Last
night , just after eight o ' clock , I was in my wherry at the Nova Scotia ship , and the Red Rover steam boat was lying at the wharf alongside of the lock . She was taking in passengers , and appeared to have from forty-five to fifty onboard . I believe the captain was on board , but I did not see him . The youngman present , Wm . Lowther , was at the helm , and appeared to be going to steer the boat . Mr . Anderson , the owner of tbe boat , and his wife were in the after cabin . I saw them there before she went into the lock . The Red Rover had backed from her regular landing place to the lock , for the purpose of taking in passengers who were coming down that side , and she had not been there five minutes when she exploded . I saw the explosion . boiler and
Her part of the wooden houses , both fore and aft , went into the air in fragments , and were thrown with violence in all directions to a distance from the vessel . Some of the coals came into my boat . Many of the passengers were thrown into the water by the explosion , and some remained in the hull of the steamer . I and other wherrjmen endeavoured to save the passengers , and I saved the fireman , two men , and a woman . Tbe fireman was four feet under water when I caught him . The Sreman ' s face was black , and hia eyes appeared out , and the other men were also hurt , but the woman ¦ w as not . The water was about twenty-six feet deep there . When I had put the people safe on shore , I went and got the " creepers , " and assisted in getting up the bodies . —The Coroner said in the
absence of many necessary witnesses , and the pre-™ « ated state of mind apparent in . those present be thought that little good would result from contmuing the inquiry at thatperiod , and he should SS ^ H ^ T ^ to-morrow so as to give an 2 ff 52 ? ° inf ? ming himself more perfectly , SS / SKSi ? "& * " witnesses .-Thein-IXfS ^ fWK" *^* ' J « bn Ayre , of the Season n ™ * ^ attended Ott W > alf Of Mr . ^ SSS-SSw ? ^ f" ** . to watch the pro Sfril ! ^ fortunat e suffems , vS ^ &SXf ^ f *? «**»*« S ^ d musician a . ea in tne Infirmary last nbU —a nnmhw nfm « n asassr ^ A-isEKi
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Fohkios Fruik . —The importations of fruits nnw in season from the continental states are ext *« i ingly large . The steamship Soho , from Antwern * has brought no less than 3 JUo baskets O f £ St sorts of fruits , the growth of Belgium . The steamships which arrived last week from the French and Dutch ports brought several thousand packages of various kinds of fruits , including large quantities of apricots and other stone-fruits , the first suppl y of tbe kind during the present season . It is stated that there was a gentleman on board ae « Orion , " whose errand to Glasgow was to con-^ t the late Dr . Boras regarding his health . The patent and physician were unknown to each other , "fl iwa * were lost .
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i& ^ ttt ^ -r , * ^ WMtRsisSS ^ Ssra-aas T ^ sa ^ snt'ss ifes OTer ^ tiaate the value of the example E to hS rarai neighbours by a man like Mr . Mecbi . ShaMn " Wlf ftorouglyfree of tbe unique , u Pe « ti 2 which have so long haunted the ima gination of the hereditary cultivator of the soil-bringine to the pursuit of farming all the enterprise and all the energy which , lavished upon the vari ous branches of our national commerce , have caused that com .
MR . MECHI'S EXPERIMENTAL FARM AT TIPTREE HALL . ¦ m mmv % Sm ^^ **** at ,
merce to become the greatest upon the earth de termined to prove that if Great Britain can beat the world in spinning cotton and foririne iron Great Britain can also beat the world in J 3 wheat and rearing potatoes-Mr . Jfochi strives to show to his brother agriculturists that their salva K ° ^! L \? r ^ ' that r teyare to be helped through their difficulties , net by pro . techve act * of parliament , but by the application 10 their trade of that business-like spirit , that skill USfi * ente 3 > rise whi , , " «>* commonly er . ' pended upon the successfnl pursuit of any industrial occnpahon .-By noon , a formidable group of Ren . tlemen connected with agriculture in its various departments-some few from the county of Essex , but the greater number from more distant parts of the kingdom-had assembled at Tiptree Hall . It was interesting to recognise the outskirts of Mr . Meebi ' .
lam Dy weir luxuriant crops , their small , trim , and elmleas hedges the broad expanse of his fields , com . pared witirthe diminutive proportions skirted b * thickets of hedge , of the ordinary fields of the district . The land in that part of Essex is a stiff clay ; and a great part of Mr . Mechft farm was , a few years ago , a mere bog , not worth a penny per acre . The judicious outlay of capital , and the application to the cultivation of the land of that spirit of enterprise and vigorous determination to effect improvement by which alone it is becoming pretty evident that the farmer can hope to prosper , have however doss their work , and Mr . Mechi ' s model farm is now acknowled gedeven by his
, neighbours of tbe oldest and the slowest school of agriculture , to be something extraordinary , and something very significant of the times . In the course of ths proceedings of the day nothing was more gratifying than to observe the terms of cordiality which appeared to subsist between Mr Mechi and the old fanners by whom he was surrounded . Forming a pleasant chatty group the party wandered from field to field and from crop to crop , now plodding their way amid tangled thickets of beans or peas—anon np to their shoulders in golden expanses of waving grain-Mr . Mechi ex plaining his system , stating all the antecedents of
each particular field , giving the exact date ef the laying down of the seed , the exact amount and quality of the manure expended upon the ground , estimating his actual expenses , and calculating his expected returns . Excellent as the practical lecture was , most significant as were many of tie facts stated , and most pregnant as was much of the advice given , there was a tone of cordial good feeling , of genial bonhommie in Mr . Mechi ' s observations and councils , and even in his jocose scolding , which was in the best taste , and which could not but lend real force and practical efftct to his good-humoured exhortations . Mr . Meehi
possesses the rare art of teaching without giving himself ths airs of a pedagogue . He meets his unscientific neighbours with no pragmatic display of superior and contemptuous skill , but taking each man by the button hole , he , so to speak , shukes an acknowledgment of slovenly farming out of him , and jokingly and pleasantly points out the features and the results of his own far better system . With hardly an exception , Mr . Mechi's crops are luxuriantly rich and promising . Fanners who have been in the habit of considering that they can only put one-fourth of their land yearly under wheat had better see the agricultural arrangement of Tipton Hall Farm , one-half of which is annually sown with
the grain from which rent is generally supposed to flow . Onesplended field of wheat , the produce of which will be more than five quarters to the acre , was , a few years ago , a mere raarsb . Mr . Macbi drained It thoroughly , and it now affords a fine current of water suited to the purpose of the farm yard . The harvest of potatoes , beans and peas , will be capital . Mr . Mechi explained , in detail , the rotation of the cropping adopted , and the nature of the manures used . Epsom and glauher salts were amongst the materials employed for improving the growth of the potatoes , and . super-phosphate was described as an unfailing agency in cropping turnips . In the
course of the day a new seed depositing machine . invented by Messrs , Ransom and Mar , of Ipswich , was exhibited . This excellent implement sows the seed with mathematical precision , and can be adjusted so as to drop any required quantity to the acre . Mr . Machi ' s farm-yard is in many respects a perfect model . The amount of live stock kept is very great , including oxen , pigs , sheep , and calves . All these are home-fed , principally upon mashed and prepared food , and kept in pen 3 , the flooring of which consists of bars , between which all filth at once drops , thus affording to the animal a constant and perfect degree of cleanliness very rarely enjoyed by the quadruped inmates of the farm-yard .
The tour of inspection orer , a capital cold dinner followed , which having been duly disposed ef , a succession of toasts , more or less connected with agriculture , and that agriculture of the new and improved school , most fittingly wound up the proceedings of a very instructive and significant day .
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On Friday , the 19 th insfc ; at three o ' clock , a dinner was given , m a pavilion erected for the purpose , ; to Mr . George Frederick Young by his political friends and admirers then assembled in Exeter . The general meeting of members of the Royal Agricultural Society m the Guildhallhad just terminated , and the dinner hour suited the habits and the convenience of the farmers and landowners . It was expected , therefore , that there would be a numerous and influential muster of company . The Duke of Richmond , the Marquis of Dawnshire , and many other prominent members of the Agricultural Society were confidently announced as intending to be
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present , and a-grand demonstration in favour of protection to native industry was anticipated . The Duke of Richmond would not stay for the jm-ilion dinner of the society , because he wished to I'O out of the scrape ; and the Earl of Chichester apologised for his absence , without explaining the real cause . The Marquis of Downshire , and every nobleman of standing and consideration of the society , were absent at the entertainment to Mr . Young , which must therefore be considered aa discountenanced by the society . It was disapproved by Mr . Young himself , who , however , considered himself debarred from expressing his opinion by having accepted the invitation before he became aware of the bad taste and want of delicacy which his friends
were displaying . i .. Th £ company present numbered from 600 to 700 , the chair being filled by Sir John Yarde Buller , and the only people of any note present , besidesthe invited guests of the day , being Earl Stanhope , Earl TMbot ^ Mr . W B . Terrard , Mr . Buck , M . P ., Sir John Duckworth ,-M . P ., Sir W . Carew , and a few ot the local aristocracy , one or two habitual Protec t tionist spouters , and several of the clergy of the if * * 1 . was a Tery noisy band of musicians placed at the lower end of the pavilion jarring harsh discord throughout the evening , ana behind the chair a very spacious gallery had sprinkled in front of it a few ladies who , at different stages in the proceedings , were regaled with chamnarae .
Mr . tx . i . Yobso , in returning thanks for the manner in which his health was drunk , spoke at great length y He declared his conviction that Protectiomst principles were again in the ascendant , and that free trade , the prophecies of which , he said , were fallacious , was losing its hold on the convictions of the people . Some circumstances , he admitted ,. had intervened to cast a momentary glow of prosperity over certaininterests of the country but the march of events was steadily , rapidly , and surely going on . Wages were being reduced , employment becoming less certain , and the people growing aware that tney had been grossly and scandalously imposed upon . ( Here the company all rose and cheered Mr . Young vociferously , one elderly
gentleman taking the lead , and keeping up the Kentish fires till he was blue in the face with his exertions . ) Mr . Young after endeavouring to show that the increased exports of the country were more than balanced by a diminished home consumption and a rapidly-increasing population , proceeded to charge the Board of Trade with cooking their returns , and then took up the question whether Adam Smith was aFree-trader or a Protectionist . Having satisfied the company that Adam Smith was entirelv of their way of thinking , he complimented the Ame " - rican ambassador also on unmistakeably concurring with them in his speech delivered at the pavilion dinner on the previous day . He then took up the opinions of Mr . Husfcisson and Mr . Ricardo . to show
that they -were Protectionists ; and passing from them to Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham , he compared the opinions of these two statesmen at different periods of their lives ; and with reference to each of them in that double view , asked which was the real Dromio , at which there was much laughter and cheering . Mr . Young proceeded to show that Mr . Bright was a Protectionist in the matter of cotton , and that the free traders had found out in that article the folly of depending on the foreign supply . In touching on the subject of free trade as connected with the sugar and slavery questions , and the horrors of the factory system , he declared that though the golden image had been set up , the Protectionists would not fall down and worship it . This figure of rhetoric produced another general burst of cheering , in which the company to
snow that they would not fall down stood up ^ and in which the elderly gentleman who had distinguished himself a short time previously exerted himself again to the verge of apoplexy .- Mr . Young , in conclusion , expressed his opinion that there was not much to be done by the gratuitous distribution of tracts , as had been tbe policy of the Anti-Com Law Leaguo . He applauded the discretion displayed by the Protectionists in parliament , and after some observations on the amount of capital lying dormant in the country , he sat down , predicting that the time was close at hand when the country would reject the sbrdid , foolish , and despicable axiom of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market :
The Earl of Stanhope , in responding to tbe toast of the Protectionist members of the House of Peers , said that he had been requested by bia friend the Duke of Richmond , whose name was justly esteemed by them all , to express the regret which he felt for his unavoidable absence ; but he was engaged to be present in the House of Lords to endeavour to protect the interests of the poor factory slaves . ( Hear , hear . ) The noble earl declared his conviction that the objects and effect of free trade were the destruction of the most valued
institutions of the country . Out of the majority in the House of Lords by which the repeal of the Corn Laws was carried , there was not the materials for an honest jury . He predicted a speedy dissolution of parliament , and in anticipation thereof he advised them to trust none who would not pledge themselves to the protection of native industry . He advised them to read the Morning Jkrald and Bell ' s Weekly Messenger only , to agitato in every corner of the empire , and declaring his conviction that in the end they would receive the blessing of Him from whom no secrets were hid .
Mr . Buck and Sir John Duckworth then addressed the meeting , and vindicated the course they had pursued in parliament . After them Mr . Feeuukd rose and spoke . He complimented Mr . Young upon the exertions which ho had made , in spite of great difficulties and constant opposition , in rallying the public mind around tho banner of Protection . He was also happy to . see the chair filled by Sir John Yarde Buller , for when the Peel rot was devastating the benches of their party in the House of Commons—when they scarcely knew who were faithful to their solemn pledges , his honest face was always seen , and his manly voice raised iu defence of the promises he had made his constituents . He ( Mr . Ferrand ) had had some
rough work to go through in his political career , especially in the House of Commons , but whatever treatment he had there or elsewhere experienced , it made no difference to their worthy chairman , or to those other members of Parliament who had that day honoured them with their presence . ( Cheers . ) He would ask the farmers of Devon before they proceeded further if they were up to the mark—( great cheering )—for he would tell them that at the next general election 700 , 000 of the farmers of England would have to save themselves from perdition —( immense cheering , with Kentish fire )—and not only themselves , but their common country , agriculture , manufactures , and commerce . They had been told by Mr . Cobden at Leeds , in January last , that if the agriculturists did agitate he would appear in the West Riding and stir up a rebellion .
But if a rebellion was got up in Lancashire by the cotton-spinners , he knew where to look for Mr . Cobden ; he would be found under bis own bed—( loud laughter and cheering)—skulking away from the head of those people whom he had stirred up into rebellion against the Constitution of England . ( Cheeva . ) Yes ^ th ey were going to fight ; but it was on the field of tbe Constitution , and their only weapon would be the elective franchise . ( Cheers , ) He was told that in that county the landed proprietors—the country gentlemen—stood by tho farmers as they were in duty bound . ( Cries of " Uo , no . " ) If there were any who did not , they were only keeping themselves in countenance by the example of many others in England at the present time who were deserting their duty . If they wanted an instance of the results of free trade at
tbe present moment , he bade them look at Ireland . What a state was that country in . Her farmers were flying by tens of thousands , with their capital , to America , the country of protection . Her agricultural labourers were flocking to the manufacturing districts of Lancashire . With reference to the returns of foreign and Irish cattle imported into Smithfield market at present , he declared that a government encouraging such a state of things deserved impeachment , and as sure as he was then addressing them , if the existing or any other government continued so insane a course for two years longer , it would not only be impeached , but driven from the country . ( Cheers . ) He regarded Ireland only as a stepping-stone by which the worst evils of free trado were to be introduced into England . What , again , he asked , was the condition of the manufacturing districts—the cotton
districts , at whose bidding so many miseries and frightful horrors had been inflicted on the country ? Why , they were starving for want of cotton ; and it was only the other day that Mr . Bright , with faltering voice and with brazen face , presented a petition from the cotton-spinners of Lancashire praying for protection . ( Cheers . ) Yes , Mr . Bright , for these Manchester Freo Traders , asked a Red Free Trade House of Commons to give them protection —( loud cheers)—and that the suffering farmers should pay their quota towards the expenses of a Royal Commission to encourage the growth of cotton in India . The government would have been glad to do it , but tbey were afraid of the taunts that would be hurled against them . He went to the Protectionist benches and asked them to give him a helping hand . They were ready to do it , but Mr . Bright durst not take it to a vote , and the question remained in abeyance . But what was
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The SmJ ? L ¥ noasMre a * the present moment ? 'rwfw ^ r commenced running' short time . Wfl ? 0 MTtIIT . . \ T i" > " at the prlsent momen 800 , 000 Irish who had fled thither from death and desolation and there would speedily come a terrific SH % " ( H Hl ' Jte ^ - > Tho fight of Protection against Free Trade was to take place among the labourers of Lancashire , and a terrible conflict it SSShW'W w ( Cto - ) Tho Irish and iho S aifiil 2 l ? T dy b 6 / T to' fi « - ! t w ^ ld be £ v ? nm »? & lV ft Warned her Mft J esty ' II ! S ? ' '¦ **»* # would come sooner than they HJTi ^' r i ? heew- ) The English would bo Jn ^ iivS . Ir !? h , 7 ° ™ work for half the price f * 11 Enghah labourers could live ; tho capital of the masters would sun »^ f . tul anA ^«
ffiWfc government would keep down the SStS ^ fr * ™ : « ^ t l ^ t lorn ? , and SStaft ?«? Ould arise in thi 8 country which VM ? t } ° government- " England for the EngliBh ; Ireland for the Irish . " ( Prolonged cheering . ) Mr Ferrand then repeated EE Sn * V ^ ' ^ v 11 Snd Mr - B « ghtto meet him among the Lancashire operatives , who , he said well knew now that « the big loaf •> Leant the ffl Sf&f % Oud cheM 8 ) The T ^ nottng J iiS th fre was great destitution in ° the Shetland * , and that m the Highlands 500 , 000 per-SS TT 4 t 6 J ? staving . Let them , however , herAhev w at iV f th ° . 4 Cultural di 8 trict 8 ' ™* there they would now have been ten times worse if the
agriculturists had not listened to the entreaties of the government not to send their labourers to the union but to employ them out of capital The farmers did s o , and how : did the despicable WhW evince then- gi-atitude ? They secretly employed wr . names , tho Poor Law Commissioner , to falsify a return in order to prove in parliament that there was no distress in the country , because the labourers kept out of the union . ( Cheers . ) Let them look at London , where Mr . Sidney Herbert was transporting 30 , 000 destitute needlewomen in order to meet a difficulty which he had himself assisted to raise , and to relieve the misery which ho had helped to create . All these sufferings were endured , and were to be endured , in order that 600 Manchester manufacturers might consume blood-stained , slave-P *™ , ^" . v ( Loud cheers , ) He told them , as he had , he believedlately told 20000 farmersthat
, , , tho days of cotton power wore numbered . ( Immense oheering . ) He told tho farmers in February last that if they would adopt his advice wool should rise threepence in the pound . He was now told by a London tradesman that wool had risen ninety per cent ., and flax thirty per cent ., while tho bloodstained , slave-grown cotton had only risen fifteen percent . Mr . Ferrand then proceed to explain his Anti-Cotton League scheme amidst general marks ot approbation , mingled occasionall y with the sound of an ill-suppressed laugh , and he concluded by declaring his belief that in a few months such a spirit would have sprung up . against the blood-stained , slave-grown cotton , that if another supply was attempted to be forced on this country , tney would meet it on its road and sink it in the Atlantic . This sentiment was rapturously applauded , and in tho midst of the cheering Mr . Ferrand resumed hia
^ Mr . P . Foskett , Mi-. L . PALK , Dr . Brekt , Mr . Basseit , of Ilfracombe , and the Rev . J . Mass then addressed the company , which from the commencement of Mr . Young ' s speech had been undergoing a steadily increasing diminution of its numbers , until at last but a small knot of people remained in the large pavilion , in the centre of a perfect waste of bare wooden benches . The Chairman , before leaving his post , aaid , that under Buch circumstances he supposed it would not
oe very proper to give , as the last toast , " To our next merry meeting : " but , as it would in all probability be necessary to have another meeting before the assembling of the next parliament , he would only express a hope that those present would be ready to meet him again . Assent to this was signified in the usual manner , and with cheers for Lady Y » rde Buller , Earl Stan , hope , the Duke of Richmond , Lord Stanley , Mr , Buck , the Chairman , &c , tho proceedings terml nated . . . ¦ ¦
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THE IRISH DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION . The following address has been issued to the members of the various branches of the Irish Democratic Association situated in England , Scotland , and Ireland : — i Brother Democrats !—I am directed to inform you , that in consequence of the unavoidable ¦ withdrawal of Mr . English from tho secretaryship of our body , and also in consequence of our being compelled to change our place of meeting , there has been for some time a little derangement in the management of our affairs ; to these necessities , as likewise to the suspension of tho Irishman , you must attribute our carrying on such an imperfect
corresnondence with you for the last few months . I am also directed to inform you , that about a month ago the men of tho Irish Alliance made a proposal to us , stating their desire that wo should enter into a conference with them , and examine minutely tho rules of both bodies , that each might discovor what impediments lay in the way of cementing a union of both parties , and of bringing under one banner all the Democrats of Ireland . In making this proposal they—the men of the alliance—gave us a promise that they would do all in their power to have the existing obstacles removed , and that should their council offer any opposition to them they would coerce them , or hurl them overboard . In this manly proposal , given with such a pledge of earnestness .
no person , surely , could detect any insidious designs ; and would it not be highly unbecoming in us , who profess such great faith in our principleswhose proudest boast is , that they are the principles of Mitchell—would it not be cowardly if we rofused , or were afraid to meet them , when they made thus much of an advance ? Yet , strange to say , thero were a few individuals found in our own ranks who counselled such a dastardly course , and who even opposed our entering into negotiations with them . These men , who , from their insignificance in number—some twelve or thirteen—could not give us any eflective opposition at home , took a base and perfidious advantage of my not knowing your addresses , to despatch to the greater part of vou a
manifesto , -which , when it was read before ourfaces , about a week afterwards , we perceived to be nothing but a tissue of misrepresentations . The vileness of that document procured from all who heard it , read , an instant and eternal damnation . Heaven is our witness , that we bear no ill will towards tho men of the Francis-street Beading-room ; but , vse ask , was it fair or honourable on their part , without ever acquainting tho committee , whom they themselves helped to elect , and on which they had representatives , to write to you , and poison your ears against men who are as honest , as sterling , and as staunch democrats as they themselves ( the men of Francis-street ) would wish to bo thought they are ? "Was it just , without getting the
permission of that committee ; whom they recognised as the governing body of the Association ; to open a correspondence with . you , as on the part of that Association , and pour into your ears ihose poisonous drops , so calculated * to engender distrust , hatred , and discord betwixt men who , on my soul , do not differ with you in tho slightest , either in your aims or your principles , by giving to you this one-sided and prejudiced report of tho whole proceedings as they took place up to , that time ? They made you the victims of what one of our members very truly denominates—a "Political Swindle . " They have accused us of " weak-mindedness ; " it may be so , but it is" quite cleai that it is not out fault ( if fault there be )~ but tho fault of those who
madeus so . But this you must bo told , that not one of those men , who are so " weak-minded , " because they are willing to see , cduld a union be effected , not one of them but is prepared , if required to-morrow , to follow' in the footsteps of John Mitchell , or to partake of the hospitality and good cheer which the "black serpent" deals out so leniently to Smith O'Brien , at Maria Island , Not one of them , hut , like you , brother democrats , concentrate the summit of their hopos in an Irish Democratic Republic ; but when tho offer was made them ; as honest men , they wevo desirous of seeing if the thing were practicable , and if so , to advise it to bo done , and if not , to throw it to the winds ; hut the few men before alluded to . eavotho nroiect an
opposition , tor which they could not assign ono single argumentative reason . Boing over-ruled by the majority of the members of tho Association , and thus frustrated at hoine , it was then they had recourse to that disgraceful alternative , of which I have already spoken . But I have spent too much time , ink , and paper , in refuting those absurd and groundless , but , a « , the same time , diabolical accusations , which have , been in such an unmanly manner preferred against ua . I havo now dono with it , and will proceed at once to tho business of this letter . I will lay the whole case before you as it really occurred , from tho beginning up to this moment ; and in giving this tvuthful version of tho affair , I dofy the Francis-street men to contradiction . When you have heard it , judge for yourselves whether you would not , aa honest men , have acted in the same
manner , had you been p laced in the same position . Before I proceed further , it may be as well to observe that there are numbers , some of the best and oldest of the Confederates of ' 48 , who stand on neutral ground outside both tho Alliance and the Democratic Association ; these men have been dinging " Union" in our ears every day since the association was foraedi They declare they will not join any party until there is an amalgamation of the Irish Democracy , and will not join the Alliance or our association for fear , they say , of perpetuating disunion ; these , and our ownmembersby their loua clamouring for " Union , " hounded us on to a conference , whether we would or no . Now for the facts I have promised , The Alliance made the proposal for a conference . If we placed any faith in the strength of our own convictions should we ho justified in refusing to meet them ? We still think wo should have been highly culpable had wo adopted
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such a course / .. Accordingly wo did meet them ,, to see if the thing was possible . , Thp committeo appointed by our body mot tho committee of the Alliance on the 3 rd inst . j when they ( our committee ) laid before them ( the committee of . the Alliance ) a plan for the formation of a body , whoso duty it would be to watch over , to protect , and to advocato . the sacred rights of , labour , . This question is , I need not remind you , one of what bur polite and refined tyrants designate' the " abominations of Socialism ; " but , nevertheless , when it is firmly rooted in the Irish heart , it will teach the Irish peoplethatthere is something worth fighting for , that they have something worth the spilling of a drop of human blood foi-. Some time ago , in our own f 5 'Iir _ l A ^ J Vof working this quostion rselves but lack of
ou , funds , and other aid , which the association was not able to supply , prevented us from developing the project , and so we weve constrained to . abandon it for the time . Well , to this plan , the Alliance willingly gave their assent and promised us their active co-operation The committees then proceeded to examine miniitelv the fundamental rules of both bodies , when they perceived the principal existing differences to lie in those concerning the Church Question and Parliamentary Representation . After very little dispute , tbo Alliance abandoned their former opinions on the Church Question , and adopted ours , as they considered it the wisest view of the subject . If you refer to our rules , brother Democrats , you will find that view to be non-interference on the Parliamentary Question ; they were obliged also to succumb , but , wstoad of adopting our opinions in full , they consented to
let it remain an open question for persons to exorcise their individual judgments upon . Thus brothers , this dreaded Conference is ended , and we have come but of it with as whitehands as when we entered it . Of course we could go no it a % untl 1 m shouId obtain tho concurrence of the different branches , and it is to obtain that that I get this letter published , as I have not the addresses ot all the branches . It is with you now to decide . And , m conclusion , we would beseech of you to ponder , to deliberate over , and to give this subject a calm and mature judgment , before you COmeto tiny final decision on it . "We would further entreat ot you not to allow your better judgment to be influenced in any way by that epistle which cm . ^ rated from Francis-street , for , we assure you , it is nothing but a categorical concoction of insinuations . Think now whether it is better to unite and be free , or to keep divided and be enslaved for ever .
TnoxiAS Cullen , Secretary , 1 ( 1 _ . " Ifish Democratio Association . 13 , King-street , Dublin . P . S . —I feel much pleasure in being able to publish a copy of a resolution passed at the general meeting amid universal acclamation : — " That we , the members of tho Irish Democratic Association , do hail with great pleasure the proposed union of the Irish Democracy ; and we hereby tender a vote of thanks to the six members representing the association at the Conference . "—J . Kblly , Chairma i T . Cum , ev . [ We are sorry that the demand upon the columns of the Aorthern Star has so long prevented the publication of this address . ] - ¦ ¦ *
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. A . meeting , holden in Barnsley , it was agreed J . ° ™ Democratic Association , to be called . ilie Jiarnsley Democratic Association . " , its objects are :-i . To make the People ' s Charter ( whole and entire ) the Law of the Land . 2 . To make the Land National Property . J . m carrying out of the social system , so as to pSyer yman ' p 0 Ssible ' om cm " Means :--The diffusion of knowled ge by the circulation of tracts , public di 8 CU 8 sion \ L ° and a thorough union with the Irish Demoei-nts We M pose inculcating a spirit of manhood , anu ' repuuiato all demoralising agitation such as petitioningSo , ment , &c , tfec .
BARSS LEI DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF ENGLAND . Brothers , —A few years ago we considered ourselves the advanced guard of democratic freedom , but reeent events prove that the men of France , Italy , and the different states of Germany , have gone before » s , leaving us in tbo rear . We are re * solved that it shall no longer be so , and , therefore , briefly lay before you our democratic faith . The whole of society , from one extremity to tho other , i 3 thoroughly corrupt and debased , by the unjust and unequal di stribution of wealth , which enables one class to pursue a vicious career of extravagance unparalleled in the world ' s history , whilst those who produce the nation ' s wealth by excessive toil , which crushes the heavtof manand renders him an
ab-, ject and servile slave , cannot procure for himself and famil y the common necessaries of life . Against this unjust and unholy system we are resolved to wage ajust and holy warfare . We commence at the root of the evil , by at once proclaiming that the Land should become national property , as every sod , both arable and pasture , from deepest earth to highest Heaven , belongs to the people . The land was created for the common use of all ; whv then should the few lay claim to that which is essential for the sustenance of the human family ? Where is their exclusive right ? Let them produce their musty parchments , and prove they are title deeds from Heaven , then wo will believe the land to be theirs , but not till then . As well mfoht th « v lav
claim to the light of Heaven and the air we breathe . Ours then be the holy task to restore it to the rightful owners—the people . Of self-government , we also claim for the entire people the right . Why should a smaU section lay claim to the exclusive privilege of making laws to govern a community without their consent ? This is a vile usurpation that ought not for one moment to be tolerated . Do not our horny hands produce tho nation ' s wealth ?—and were we to cease labour all must inevitably ¦ perish . v A resolution , though desperate as it may appear , would after all be preferable ( were thoro no other means of escape ) , that continuing dead drudges , miserable helots , toilino like beasts of burden for idle vampires who add inBult to
injury by insolently proclaiming tnat we are not capable to govern ourselves . We desire to snap our chains , and this we will be enabled to do by making tho People s Charter tho basis of a constitution , and carrying out the social system ao as to make every man his own employer . Then the idle drones-who style themselves respectable , though living on the fruits of others industry—would have to work or starve . What a deplorable state is our country reduced to , when the lives of her useful artisans are entirely depending ontbe whim and caprice of employere ; and oh Heaven ! that wo should tolerate such a cursed system , when thousands of our
females are driven to prostiution to obtain a liveli « hood . But this is a system that the preachers of every creed and denomination , with rare exceptions , not only sanction , but openly support . The hired tools belonging to the press would fain make us believe that we nre the happiest people in tbe world , enjoying , as they say—fche blessings of freedom . What vidiculdua cant , when six-sevenths of the male adult popoulatJon are outside tho pale of the constitution . They also tell us of the right of public meeting and petition , and that it is right to beg from Parliament . Brothers , it : a a ripU to degrade ourselves in the world ' s estimation , but this is a sin which we repudiate , and shall be guilty of no
more . Think of wha t you do when you pen one of tkoso precious documents , an humble petition to the honourable and right honourables , and we , in duty bound , will ever pray , &c , &c . In the first place , you acknowledge your own inferiorty by the distance you place botwoen yourselves and your rulers , and in the next you tell them that they may rest secure , that you will ever continue to remain miserable spaniels , whining and praying , even though they never accede to your wishes . Did ever a people in tho world obtain liberty by such poltrooncry ? No , it was not by suoh means that Tell freed Switzerland—that tho French got rid of their feudal aristocracy—or that caused the star-span eled
banner of America to float triumphantly on the breeze . Wo propose a different line of proceeding to thai ; we have been accustomed to . 'We propose , by the circulation of tracts , not only to instil a spirit of manhood , but also to toach the ignorant portion of the people their social rights . This work may soon bo accomplished ; and then common sense will teach the other means by which the liberty of our country can be best secured . We also propose a thorough union , on equal terms , with the Irish Democracy . Wo freely and openly offer them our aid . Tkey know best themselves what they require ; whilst , m return , we ask their assistance to accomplish our object . They , too , are opposed to
Parimmentary ag . tation . Why , then , should we not unite ? The tyrant of one is the oppressor of tha otlier—the same enemy crushes us both . We have now briefly laid before you our principles , and if you agree with them , we call upon , you at once to adopt them . We arc actuated by no ambitious notion of opposition to other Ohartisfi Associations , but believe that the time hath coma when it is necessary to declare fearlessly and honestly our opinions and objects , believing that there are many in each locality who hold views similar to our own . Those who wish to form societies can . communicate with us , with a view to appoint some large town for a central body , and agree to a plan of
organisation . Let ua not only applaud the chivalrous deeds and noble daring of continental patriots , but also try to imitate their example ; and when the glorious struggle is renewed throughout Europe for Democratic liberty—which we have every reason to believe will soon take place—let us , then , be in a position to join the loud and universal shout of " Vive la Ilepitblique Democratique et Sociale !" Thomas Garbutt , Matthew Garbutt , Michael Segrave , Daniel Lidgett , John Poppleton , William May ; John Shaw , secretary .
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TO THE DEMOCRATS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND .
Mr . Editor , —I call upon all true democrats to bestir themselves for the attainment of a proper representation in the Commons House of Parliament . No man ought to be idle one moment at this great work ; and as it is for every man ' s benefit to obtain the People ' s Charter , so it is every man ' s duly todosomothing towards , achieving that great object ; something may and can be done , if every town and locality would follow rhy advice , which is this : —Let each town , where a Chartist council sits to transact business ( and in those places where there is no such council , let them immediately elect properly qualified men to do their business , ) immediately form an elective committeft to wntnh tho
proceedings of all municipal , borough , and county elections . This elective committee should forthwith divide such towns and places into districts , and each district should prepare proper collecting books and efficient collectors , to collect monies from all parties forthe upholding and contesting all such elections . That public meetings be held , to explain the above-named objects ; and further , also to take the sense of such meetings , that they shall declare who , in their opinion , are the most fit and proper persons to represent their interests in Parliament . All monies so collected to be uaedfor defraying such electioneering expenses , so that any poor candidate may not be still more reduced by bearing his own expenses , and that the
men so proposed shall bo faithfully upheld , and all legal means used to secure the return of such candidates . That all such district committees shall send one delegate to the Central . Committee , and that a president , secretory , and treasurer be appointed in each district , and that the delegates 80 appointed form and comprise the central committee , and if there should not bo a sufficient number of districts to form a sufficient number for tbe conducting the business of the Central Committee , there shall be elected , from the acting council , such a number as , in the opinion of the members , may be sufficient to transact business , never having lesa than thirteen of a central committee , viz ., ten members , and three officers , which shall he the
chairman , treasurer , and secretary . That the central committeo shall not meet less than once a week , to transact the business required , but as much oftoner as may be deemed necessary ; and that such central committee shall so appoint its time of meeting as not to intrude upon the time of meeting of any of the aforesaid district meetings . That each district shall meet not less than once a week , and that ench delegate shall attend his own district meeting at' the time appointed , to deliver to the members ' of the district a . faithful report of all the proceedings in the central committee . It shall be the business of the central committeo to establish an efficient registry for the registration of all reform voters , and that
such business shall bo distributed among the differont districts , according to the extent of such district , so that too heavy a burden of work may not he upon the actions of the central committee . That each delegate shall report the progress every week that his district lias made in registration and collections ; and that auditors be appointed to overlook the books , and cast up all accounts , both of the central and district committees ; and that a balancesheet be made out every month , and presented to the members for their inspection , so that there may not be any dissatisfaction amongst the members as to the expenditBro of the money so collected ; and that the principles of democracy be fully carried out in all the proceedings of the district and central
committees . Now , brother democrats , I have maturely considered the above propositions , and feel confident that if all men felt as I do on the above subject that it would Boon be carried into effect , and we should soon see the beneficial workings of such a system ; and as Scotland requires no property qualification for Us representatives , it is our duty to secure as many of our own men for that country as possible ; and we may also , by acting up to the above directions , secure the return of many hartists in
C England , Wales , and Ireland ; and as our revered political father said , a few weeks since , in one of his letters in the Star , that ho wished he had eleven more good and true men in Parliament beside himself , he would put government to their pins , we might be enabled to furnish him with fifty helpmates . Jiow , men of Great Britain and Ireland , how long will yo continue to be so dull and apathetic in the cause of freedom ? You must , nnd can , emancipate yourselves , but if you wait for either government or the middle class to do your , work you will be deceived .
My dear fellow countrymen , I have studied the above subject carefully , and I believe it to be workable ; and I must now inform you that I shall hold myself in readiness to attend any of your public meetings , and that I shall further explain the subject and the objects wo may come « t , by sending men of ouv order to represent us . I require ail communications , inviting me to attend such meetings and deliver lectures , to be sent not later than Saturday , August 3 rd , so that I can communicate with those persons who invite mo during tho week following , and on the , 10 th of August describe my tour in the Star and Reynolds s WeeUy . ^ ewspttper , and so commenco niy route on tho 17 th of August . My address is as follows : —Dr . Frith , 105 , Tavern-yard , Broomfields , Wakefield-voadBradfordYorkshire .
, , Now , my dear friends , as I have suffered severe persecution during the last two years , arid during that time have been twelve months and three weeks confined within the folon's cell , I am not in circumstances to bear my own expenses , as I havo a wife and family to maintain ; therefore I leave the matter in your hands for your consideraton , feeling assured that the plan 1 have laid down is quite practicable , and will , if oarried out , be of incalculable good to our glorious cause . I now subscribe myself , Your ever faithful friend and devoted servant in the holy cause of Freedom , Bradford . Nathaniel Frith .
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The Poukiiahun Pastor , Meinholb , whoso singular romance , the Amber Witch , is well known in England , has just been condemned to three months ' imprisonment and a lino of 100 thalors , hosidos costs , for slander against another olergyman named Stosch , in a communication published in the New Frustian Zeitung . The Amber Witch is one of the " curiosities of literature , " fov in tho last German edition tho author is obliged to prove that it is entirely a vrotfc of imagination , and not , as almost fill the German critics believed it to be when it appeared , tho reprint of an old chroniclo , u ¥ ?' M * CACUY Ja at present visiting the principal battlefields of Scotland ;
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A Gentleman named Gbntkr , living at Brompton , an acquaintance of a gentleman named Tevr m A \ akcfield , Yorkshire , received a short time since a letter from Eastbourne , in Sussex , assuming acquaintanceship , and , after gossiping about domestic aftaira , the writer stated that he had iost his purs and asked for a loan . The letter was signed George Tew , and Mr . Gunter , not doubting that it was sent by his Yorkshire acquaintance , immediately forwarded £ 15 . He , however , suspected that all was not right , and that flie Christian name was not correct , and accordingly he wrote off to his Wakefield friend . That gentleman immediately stated that he had not been in Sussex , and that moreover his banker had received a letter a short time since from a person , who signed it Charles Tew . and who
stated that he had just arrived at Southampton , from Malta , and requested a remittance . Ths banker very shrewdly sent tho letter to the real Mr . Tev before he remitted , who , of course , repudiated the authorship of it . But to return to Mr . George Tew , Mr . Gnnter received another letter from that gentleman , gossipping again about family matters of the Tews and Gunters , and stating that he was at Southampton expecting a couple of Alderney cows , ono or which waa intended as a present for Mr . G ., and that he was still rather short of cash Mr . Guntev registered a five-pound note , and sent h \ s son to Southampton . The latter and a policeman were concealed in the post-office in that town , on the 17 th inst ., and the moment Mr . George Tew received the letter the
policeman tapped him on tho Shoulder . He was a man nearly sixty years of age , respectably dressed , and appeared a mixture of tha sporting man and gentleman farmer . Before the magistrates he gave his name George Richard Tew , said that he belonged to Doncastor , and was living on hia property . It appears he had been in South " ampton about a fortnight , went by the name of George Richards while there , and that he is a wellknown betting man on the turf , no was remanded to Hammersmith by the magistrates . Noiseless Carriage Wheels . —An invention , by which a band of solid vulcanized-India-rubber ia fixed by means of a flange round the iron tyre of carriage wheels , has been patented by Messrs . Marks , ot Laiigham-place , and may bo seen at the Polytechnic Iustitution , RegenUtreet . The advantages derived from it are that much ioltine over
rough roads or streets is avoided ; no noise is occasioned in passing along the streets by the rattling of the iron tyre , the wheels to which it is applied are rendered less liable to strain upoathenavoor ellies by the elasticity of the material , and the maenal itself from its : pliability and toughness lasts longer than the common iron tyre . Something of the kind was a few years ago attompted by employing leather , but the application was ineffectual . The patentee have despatched several sets of wheels to St . Potersburgh for the carriages of tha Emperor of Russia . Those who are curious ia subjeqts of this sort should inspect this simple but ingenious contrivance , Abbiyaii op Bullion from South Amebica .- * The Amphitrite , twenty-four , oorvette , from Soute Amerioa , with a large freight of bullion on hoard , arrived on Monday raorninjr at Portsmouth , wbe » she will discharge her treasure for conveyanceta the Bank . of . England ,
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Test op Awzciioh . —Mr . Archibald , Stanhope , a groggy sentimentalist , residing in Buckley-street , Philadelphia , conceived the harrowing suspicion that his wife was not as passionately fond of him as a lady of good taste should be ; and , to put the matter to a fair trial , he hit on a little stratagem , which he put in practice the other day , -with the results hereafter to be detailed . He took a suit of clothes and composed an effigy of himself by stuffing the garment ^ with a quantity of Straw which had lately been discharged from an old bed . Having suspended this figure to a rafter in the garret by means of a piece of clothes-line , he ensconced himself behind a pile of rubbish in the same garret , to watch the effect . After a while his little daughter
came np after a jumping-rope , and caught a glimpse of the suspending figure . She ran down the stairs , screaming— " Oh ! mother , mother , daddy has hung himself I" " 2 fow for it , " thought Archibald , in ambuscade , —" we shall hare a touching scene presently . " " Hung himself ? " he heard Mrs . Stanhope repeat , as she walked leisurely up stairs ; "he hasn ' t got pluck enough for such a thing , or he would have done it long ago . Well , I believe he has done it , however , " she continued , as she came in view of Archibald ' s straw representative . " Moll , " to the little girl , " I think he ought to be cut down . Yon had better go into the kitchen and get a knife , my dear ; but don't go down too fast , or you might fall and hart youself . Stay—I forgot
—there ' s ao Knife in the kitchen sharp enough . You can go round to Mr . Homes , the shoemaker , Sixth-street , he ' s only two square ' s off , and ask him to lend us his paring knite ; tell him to whet it a little before he sends it . And , Molly , while you are in the neighbourhood , you can call at your aunt Sukey ' s and ask bow the baby is . And , Molly , you can stop at the grocery-store as you come back , and get a pound oi seven-cent sugar . " Poor Archy ! " sighed Mrs . Stanhope , when her daughter had departed , "I hope we'll get him down before the vital spark ' s extinct — tor theBO buryings are very troublesome , and cost money . He wanted to put an end to himself too ; and I think I ought to let him hare his own way for once in his life ; he used to say that I was always acrossing him . I wish he hadn't spoiled the new clothes-line—an old rope might have answered his purpose . " Here a voice , which Bounded like that
of the supposed suicide , broke in on Mrs . Stanhope ' s soliloquy with "You confounded Jezabal , I'll be the death of you ! " Mrs . Stanhope , thinking this must , of course , he a ghostly exclamation , uttered a wild scream , and attempted to escape down the narrow staircase . Archibald , starting from his place of concealment , gave chase . Mrs . Stanhope stumbled midway on tbe flight of stairs , and Mr . Stanhope having juBt reached her and made a grasp at her dishevelled hair as it streamed backwards , the amiable partners were precipitated to the bottom together . Both were rather badly bruised , and the cries of tbe lady raised the neighbourhood . Archibald was arrested for making a disturbance and practising on the tender sensibilities of his wife . He was recognised in 200 dollars , and jocularly proposed hia suspended effigy as his surety ; but he found , to his MHTOW , " Btraw bail " as not acceptable under the administration of Mayor Jones . —Patnytlvaman . . ? P ** "dies have had their dresses destroyed » Sheffield by haying titrol thrown wpon them ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 27, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1584/page/7/
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