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      HOUSE OF LORDS .-FiinuT , Jak . 29 th . tcri Whakkciippb asked three questions relative j to the t «» tHJsrt ot Frost , Williams , and Jonas , at New South Wales . Pint , -whether it was true that the ; - Tere better treated thin other eonTiets ; secondly , " fceiber specific instructions of any kind -ware sent oat vtit ' i them ; and , lastfy , whether anj despatches had bets received from Sir J- Franklin conveying information upon the subject . He was anxious for an expla-j fiat : on on this matter , for it -vras not right that an hup-- ssion should go through the country that persocs ' ¦ ¦ Ww and been guilty of such Crimea were nevertheless ' bet - x treated than other convict * .

      I ^ r Marquis cf >~ ORMAXBT replied , that no special 1 tn * -. r . iction tad been sent oat with Frost and hi * asso- j da' >? : - . The governor , however , bad sent home a letter fro-2 Frost complaining that -while on board the Mandarin tbey -were not allowed to wear their own cJothes , lar . ° - » t they were in fact treated in every respect like the ner oenvicts . Sir J . Franklin had inspected the j oor - ' ca on their arrind , and the only difference in J the-- treatment was that he immediately sent Frost and 1 his - »» oci » tes to Tasman ' s Paiac-sala ; the penal settle- j me :: of the celony , whereas the others were sent to 1

      pit ; :.: ieaary employments . So far as the- Government : and > ir J . Franklin -were concerned they felt obliged to it * noble Lord for affording them the opportunity of giTJig this explanation . He had heard nothing farther on : ie subject , but he would say , with " respect to the occ rxation of these parties , that it was not unuioal to em . ; -j persons in tfee sort uf labour to which they ' yrerr previously accustomed , and doubtless in cou- ! fcrvnt ? -with this usage , and not as a special favour ; for . If dons as a special favour , Sir J . Franklin mast ; bar- reported it

      Tuesday . Feb . 2 . . j T '_ e Esrl of Cardigan sirrrendered himself into the j cof , j of Sir Augustas Clifford , the usheT of the black i rod . jid -was subsequently admitted to bail , bimsel ! in . ' tht .- 'im of £ 10 , 000 , and two sureties to the amount of \ £ 5 . . 0 . each . 1 z ? Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill was read a Becond tm- , and the house adjourned . !

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      : : orsE of commoks , Fruut , Jax 29 . S C-ptaln Polhill asted if » paragraph which he had ' »^ 5 r m the paptrs , to the effect that Prince Albert had : ret ^ - . ed an anrwer toan address from the Loyal Repeal As ? .-iation of Ireland , was true . I : d Joh , v Rcssell knew nothing of any such docu- j mei : . and , at all events , it \ ras a rnatter for which Mi' --ters did not hold ibemsdves responsible . Theo : ily ! r e 6 i--. ; isible party -was Mr . Anson , the secretary to his ' Bo ^ ..- Highness . ; 2 > r . Sfcr ? eaEt Talfoubd moved for leave to bring in a E . ' fcr the extension of copyright , w ; uch Bill was in ' eab ince the same as that of last session . ! I -. WiUBuaTos opposed the Bill . 1 0 . a division , the Boa . and Lestrue 4 Sergeant sac- ! eee . 1 by a majority of 142 to 30 . " * 1 .-i Johs Rcssell thea u . oved for leave to bring i hi r 3 ili to renew tha puwen of uTe Poor Law Com- | mi > r' cers , andtomake : ^ rthtraij : endmtntsin the laws reli : i § to the poor of England . ¦;

      2 > : Gsimsditch ol jecttd to the principle of governing ~ r / Unionv \ 3 r . Waklet expected that the Noble Lord would ; hav ; broaght in two uisunct bills upon these two dis- ] feet subjects . In srery stage he would oppose the , ' Bii . ' or extending the powers of the Commissionem for : ea years . He was quite amazed that a Minister of i a l ^ -eral Whig Government , calling itself a Reform ! Mit-try , and relying upon the people for their sup- , por-. p honld propose a law of this nature after tbe ex- per nee which they had had of its previous working j ana mast ptrnicions tendency— ( hear )—a law which ; tea t frum the people the administration of their own j a 5 k-ra and deprived them of the means of applying i the : ; own money to the wants of those destitute poor i

      ¦ wh- came Trader their observation in tbeir own respec- i tm . cauties . Was the Noble Lord prepared to show . the isCcssity fer the oeatiauanca of this commission ?; Ee - "s anxious to know , was the law to be such as the i will f the Commissioners might please to interpret it , ' or v-. j it to be found in the SUiute Books of-the realm ? i ( Ee--r , haar . i If tlie Poor Law was te be recognised i snd Tell understood as a positive law of the law , as- ¦ tort i . y those who administered such a law should be ' obli , -d to abide by its provisions , an 4 ba expected to con- -It and examine the particular statutes upon the * a bj-ct , in £ t « id of being infiofcncfcd as they at present ¦ Wrr - bj an appeal from the heartless and tyrannical re- ' ¦ p re * ntations of the B * -ard of G-uardiiins . If this were

      a c . ' . Lctitatioual mode of governing the country , the ooi .-r such a consutntion was got rid of the belter . He h . Id is his hand a small book , wuich he obta ne i si 5 Tifcr 3 f-t Eouse ; it was entitled " -Amended Workboc - Bulss . " Heaven oaly knows what the original rules ¦ WcT-.. "which it appeared had been ameixied . . ( " Hear , bear' and laaghter . ) But what did he find und ? r the head of ' discipline and diet of -paupers ?" It Etited that all paupers in the workhouse , except thofc- who were skk , should , at certain specified hours , rise from their beds , go to work , leave eff work , and go to b- d , and should beaUowed such intervals for meals as ahaL b « notified to them by the ringing of the bells ; but that luring the meals the most perfect silence most be r . aintained . He ( Mr . Wakleyi obserred , that they

      Trere to be kept to work throughout the day , except whei they were at their meals ; but even in the workbou !~; at their meal times they were not permitted to brea ^ the silence that reigned around by the utterance of & single word . This was a privation that was even by t r ' minals deemed the most danger cub and severe . ThU waa measuring out the same kind of punistmen to tr . ose acfortuaat * beiags -who stretch out their hanc a towards them in the supplicating tone of hunger and . estitution , and the hardened felon « oademned to toSi - for bis crimes and offences against society and the J -ws . Was it to enforce regulations of this kind that he Poor Law Commissioners were to be continued in their present situation ? If not , why should the oourrry be burdened by the heavy expense which they entai . ed upon it ?

      Si me further discussion took place , after -which Lord Johs Rcssell said that the whole principle of the bill was involved in the continuance of th * Cornmiss oners ; > at whether the period -was to be for one year or for ten was Dot involved in the question then bsfu-e the House . Leave was then given to bring in the bill , and the Bou . * adjourned ,

      Monday , Feb . 1 . T } - ere was no business in the Lords of any public inter- « t , and the Commons could not muster " a HOOii . " Tuesday , Feb . 2 . Lord J 0 H 5 RrsSELL gaTe notice tliat on Friday cc-xt he w jald move the thanks of the house to Admiral Sir R . S ' -opford and those who were engaged at the capture of Acre . Mr . Huke gaTe notice that in the first w « ek or March he wo-old move for leaTe to bring in a bill to amend the Reform Bill , by extending the suffrage to lodetrs .

      Captain PoLHTLL renewed his question as . to -whether a letter addressed by Mr . Anson , ; the private secretary ot Prince Albert ) to Mr . Ray , the secretary to the Loyal National Repeal Association , conveying to that' -ody the thanks of his royal highness " for their addr ss to his royal biyhn »« on the birth « f a princess , was k ^ nuine ? Lo " -d Johs Russell said he had seen the letter in the newspapers , but he had not thought it necessary to laait any inquiry on tie subject In reply to a question from Mr . Hcme .

      Lord JOHy Rcssell stated that the treaty entered into by Admiral Napier was not approved of by Sir R . Stopford , bat hi consequence of steps taken by Admiral Stopford , the submission of Mehe ' met AC had baen accepted by the Sultan , and a commander had been sent from the Pone to Alexandria , with the view of conferring on Mehemet Ali the hereditary Pachalic ° * £ < TP '> and to enter into arrangements for the evacuation of Syria . In the meantime , Mebemet Ali had consen ' . rd to give up the Turkish fleet , which it was expected would be soon ready to proceed to Constantinople . Sir Robekt Peel aiked the Noble Lord whether he -was prepared to lay on the table of the House " all recent despatches from Canada , in order to bring them down to the present moment

      Lord J . Russell said he was not aware -whether there were any despatches which he could lay on the table of the House . He was not , however , prepared at that moment to give a positive ans-wer . Sir R . Peel asked if any day had been fixed to give effect tt > the Act of Union . Lord Johjt Russell said it was the intention of the Go'vamment to have proclaimed the Union at the end of January , or the beginning of the present mrmth . Mr . H . Hiiro * gare notice that , on Thursday , he would nio-re for a modification of the standing orders which required that -ten per cent on the capital ahouid be deposited in all eases of Bail way Bills . Ee would move , iwtead of ten , that five per cent iionld be sufficient

      The ATT 0 BKKT-QE 5 KRA . L moved for leave to bring In a Bill to facilitate the administration of justice . la order to correct the present delays in the courts of equity , it wonld be neeeraary to appoint two additional Judges , and to create two additional courts of equity , and to abolish the jurisdiction of the equity side of the Exchequer . This would , he said , lead to no great additional erpendltare , u there were sufficient fonda already orirtang in the courts of chancery and exchequer to provide compensation to those who might be SBfieress by the change .

      Sir E . Sdqdsm was of opinion that they should prceeed more gradually than wai proposed to be done by this Ktt He thought that one additional Court would be sufficient , and that at all events it should be aicertainsd by experience that one -was unequal to the baseness before they burdened the country with two . The Ri fc ht Hon . Gentleman went at length into hia Tiews of the alterations which he deemed requisite . He proposed that there should be two assistants te the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords , " and that wheu not sittirz in the House of L » rds th « y » aould sit in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council In accord-

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      ance with those - views , ha would more tat leave to bring in a Bill to facilitate the Administration of Justice in the House of Lords and the Privy Council , Mr . Lynch contended strongly far the immediate necessity for two additional Judges , aad gave a decided preference to the Bill of the Attorney-General over that of the Right Hon . Member for Rlpon . Leave was immediately given that the two Bills shoal d be brought in . Mr . Laboucheee thea brought forward bis proposition for equalising tke duties on Host and West India rum . The subject , he admitted , was one of such importance that he would not seek to bind the House by calling for a vote before proper time should have been given for consideration . He would , therefore , conolude by moving that the House should on Monday next resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House , to consider the propriety of equalising the duties on East and West India rums . As the law already admitted the

      sugars of the East and West Indies at equal rates of duty , bis object now was to place rum upon the same footing . The proposal was so just and reasonable , that our possessions in the East Indies should be placed at no disadvantage as oompared with oar poMeuioa * el * e > where , that the whole burden of proof should , in bis opinion , rest with those who would resist so just a proposition . The Right Hon . Gentleman then argued at great length that this alteration would not , when carried into operation , prove to be so injurious to the West Indies or the distillers at home , as had been ae strongly insisted upon by the parties interested , while it would give the greatest satisfaction to our East India possessions . He would also observe that it was the intention of Government to place East India manufactures , exported to Ceylon and Australia , on the same footing as the manufactures of Great Britain exported to those colonies , by the abolition of discriminating duties .

      Mr . Goelburf referred to the great importance of the subject as a reason for net embarking in the discussion until the question should come on for consideration on Monday night Mr . Hums was disappointed that a measure of justice so Tery limited and paltry should have been proposed by the Government Mr . Hogg said that this measure , though , perhaps , not so extensive as it ought to be , would be haiied with the greatrst gratification in India-Sir J . C HOBHOCSE thought it would be imprudent to attempt to do more than it was probable they could successful ly accomplish .

      Mr . O'Co . nsell gave notice that on Monday , when the question again came before the House , he should move that measures be taken to prevent the importation of rum , the produce of slave labour , into this country by excluding such rum from the equalised duties ; and he should , at the same time , call attention to the gross neglect of the East India Company in cot making rules and regulations for carrying tha Slave Act into effect . Sir S . Lushisgton quite agreed in the course suggested by the Hon Member for Dublin as regarded rum , the produce of slave labour . The motion was agreed to .

      Lord Staxlet moved for leave to bnng in a Bill to amend the laws relating to the registration of voters in Ireland . The main provisions ef his Bill were the same as these of last year , and its object was to remedy abuses whick all parties admitted to exist He proposed , in the first place , te abolish certificates as evidence of the right of voting , and to transfer to Ireland the system ot annual registration which prevailed in England , the registry to be made up by public ofiicers , acd revised , as in England , by barristers- He proposed also that , as in English counties , bo in Ireland , persons seeking to obtain the franchise should give public notice of roch intention , in order that objectors might have the opportunity of opposing their claims , if improperly advanced . He proposed also that there should be a

      right of appeal , as well for the objector as for the claimant , and that such appeal should be te the Judge of Assire . By way of protection , however , against frivolous appeals , he would tire power to the Jud * e of Assize te visit the defeated party with costs , if he deemed his claim or objection , as the case might be , to be frivolous or vexatious ; except the party appealing bad obtained the previous decision of the revising barrister in bis favour . He had looked over the forms of notice in his Bill , and bad rendered them * less onerous to the claimant ; and , as an additional security to the latter , he had introduced a clau » e , compelling the objector , when giving notice of objection , to give notice of the grounds also upon which his objection was founded , so that the claimant might kuow the nature of

      the objection be bad to meet The Noble Lord alluded in m « st respectful terms to the Liberal Association of Ulster , for many of the members of which he had the greatest esteem and respect This Association was formed with a view to search out grounds for the rejection of this Bill , and they professed themselves supporters of the present Government , while they deprecated repeal Yet that Association had pat forth its plan of registration , and , strange to say , upon all the leading principles of his Bill he had the sanction of the Liberal Association of the province of Ulster . Tlie Noble Lord , anally , declared that he had no intention to introduce into his Bill any clause to define the franchise , for he was not prepared to mix up that difficult question with one sufficiently complicated in itself .

      Lord Morpeth remarked that the Noble Lord ' s Bill bad met with so much success last year , that he had become enamoured of it , and could not resist the temptation of bringing it forward , although her Majesty ' s Government had given notice of a measure oa the same subject He complimented the Noble Lord on the temperate manner in which he had brought his motion forward , and should offer no opposition to it He would remark , however , that the Ulster Ass > ciation did not approve of the double appeal , unless the franchise was defined . In the Bill which it was the intention of the GoTemment to introduce , It was proposed to amend the laws for the qualification , as well ss for the registration of voters .

      Mr . O'CosKELi said he was not bound by any compromise between the Noble Lords . They ought to nave the Government Bill before the House in the first instance , and he therefore moved that the debate should be adjourned until after the 4 th inst Mr Hcme seconded the amendment After some few observations from Mr . W . S . O'Brien , Lord J . Rcssell entered at some length into an analysis of the Noble Lord's Bill , to which he said his objections were but little diminished by the alterations , and in the wake of which would follow the same calamities as would , in his opinion , have followed the Bill of last year . He thought , however , that the Noble Lord was perfectly justified in the course he had pursued in bringing in the BUI , and he should therefore vote for its introduction , and against any delay that might be offered .

      After some observations from Mr . Lucas and Colonel Rawdon , The House divided , and the motion of the Noble Lord was carried by a majority of 261 to 71 . The House then adjourned .

      Wednesday , February 3 . Mr . Baikes moved , pursuant to notice , for an Account of the quantity of Sheep and Lambs' Wool imported into the United Kingdom in the year 1840 —specifying the countries from which it came , the quantity that paid a duty of one penny per pound , and the quantity that paid a duty of one half-penny per pound ; of the quantity of Foreign Wool re-exported during the same period , and the countries to which it , was sent , and the quantity remaining warehoused under bond on the 5 th day of January , 1841 . Account of the quantity of British Sheep and Lambs' Wool and Woollen Yarn exported from the United Kingdom in the year 1840 , specifying the countries to which they were sent Account of the quantity of British manufactures exported from the United Kingdom in the year 1848 specifying the countries to which they were sent

      Lord J . Rcssell rose to propose the following resolution : — " That this House entertains a just and high sense of the distinguished and exemplary manner in which John Rickman , Esq . late Clerk Assistant of this House , uniformly discharged the duties of his situation during his long attendance at the table of this House . " Several members tpoke of Mr . Rickman in eulogistic terms , and the resolution was adopted . sir . Bern al brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply . The resolutions were agreed to , and ordered to be further considered on Friday next The House then adjourned . _ . ^^^

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      Walsall Election . —Great excitement has prevailed at Walsall durag the progress of the election , -which , has just now ooncluded ; and ma » y are the tales in circulation as to the honourable conduct pursued by both parties towards the independent electors . An agent from Waisall , en the part of the Tory party , attended on Monday night at the Fox Inn , Freeman-street , Birmingham , and there hired thirty men , at 15 s . and £ 1 each , to prooeed to Walsall at five o ' clock the next morning , of coarse to kick up a row if required . There appears to h&ve bees no damage done up to the clow of the poll . The election was strongly contested . The following was the state of the poll at its final # lose . Gladstone , 365 ; Smith , 827 ; majority for the Tory , 38 .

      CAjnEHBURT , TuES » AT EvKKisQ . —The poll opened at eight o ' clock this morning , in seven different polling booths , and the first hour gaTe Mr . Smythe a majority of 16 ; on the next hour ' s poll Mr . Wilson gained 3 , which reduced Mr . Smythe ' a majority to 13 . From ten o ' clock to eleven there was a tremendous struggle , both parties polling as quickly as possible ; as many ss 661 voters were polled , in the course of that hour , of which Mr . Wilson had a majority of one , thus reducing Mr . Smythe ' s majority to 12 . From eleven to twelve there were 150 voters polled , and the result of the total poll at that hour placed Mr . Smythe in a majority of 84 . To this return th « greatest interest was attached , because a large majority at that hoar , it was thought , would prove a decisive one . Every « fiort was then u .- * d by the Blues to reduce the majority , but withont ar * il . Mr . Smjthe ' s ( the Tory ) preponderance on the poll increased each successive hour to 108 , 120 , 130 , and finally to 163 .

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      ERBLAITO *

      Dublin , January 31 . DR . COOKE'S ACCEPTANCE OF DANIEL O'CONNELL'S CHALLENGE TO TWENTY-SIX HOURS' DI 8 CUS 8 I 0 N OP CIVIL AITD RELIGIOUS LIBERTY . TO DAKIKL 0 ' CORNEI . L , ES ^ ., X . P . Sib , —This is probably the last letter with which I shall trouble you . I beg you , therefore , do not burn it as you did my first- Rather treat it lik « mj second , and read ik twice—as I trutt it contains some matters important to yourself and your country . But , before proceeding farther , I must set myself right with the public

      In the Dublin Monitor ' s report of the speech in which alone you attempted a reply to my challenge to a discussion of repeal , I find these words ;— " He invites me to a conference , and the mode he takes of conveying that invitation is by writing me the moat insulting letter he could possibly pen . I bad read about five lines when I flung it into the fire . I am sorry for it ; for had I thought it was of value , I would have kept it as a curiosity . " I am happy I can gratify you with a copy—net that I believe you either like it , or care for it—but that the public may judge of the nature and extent of the " insults" I was guilty of penning . For the accuracy of the copy—indeed it is rather the original—I pledge my word ; and I am grateful to that Providence by which such an unimportant document has been preserved—that from the charge of offering an unmannerly insult I may stand exonerated before the public " Belfast , Jan . 5 . 1841 .

      " Sib , —As you have determined to carry the repeal agitation into Ulster—and as I hold it to be the duty every loyal subject to give it all the legal opposition in his power—I beg to inform you that 1 purpose to challenge you to a public discussion of the question in all ita bearings , political and religious . " The challenge I intend to appear ( God willing ) in the Bel / ait Chronidt of to-morrow , and I send you this notice that you may have the earliest knowledge of my design . 1 ¦ i have the honour to be , your obedient servant , " H . COOKK . " " T » Daniel O'Connell , Esq . "

      Now , there's the wondrous " curiosity" you wish you had preserved ; there ' s " th « most insulting letter I could pen . " Lot the public judge of my insult and your veracity ; but , no matter , " the gulls shouted , " and on the faith of your testimony , I was written down " unmannerly , " while you wure echoed the very " pink of politeness . " Perhaps you will say you referred not to my private , but to my first public letter . If so , I shall submit the point of etiquette to any tribunal of gentlemen that even you may appoint ; and if you find three gentlemen in the kingdom who will 6 ay that , in that letter . I " insulted" you , I pledge myself to the most public retraction and the most humiliating apology . I'll do more , Now that the affair is not before ** the gulls" for a " shout , " but before the public for decision , point out in my challenge what you denounce as " most insulting , " and I shall explain , retract , or apologise , as the nature of the case may require . Bat to come to a more important point .

      I have always , Mr . OConnell , BUspected you mistook your profession . Nature intended you for the army . Never was the " cedant anna toga" more unhappily verified than in you . Why do I think so ? I'll tell it you in a Btory , for the truth of which there are living vouchers . A little before the year ' 98 , a respected country gentleman received a commission to raise a corps of yeomanry for the defence of the country against the impending rebellion . On applying to a worthy farmer to join his company , the reply was a question , " Will it be foot or cavalry ? " The captain answered—foot " Ah ! " replied the farmer , " I would join you if you were cavalry . " " An'l why , my good fellow , would you prefer the cavalry ? " " Ah ! " rejoined the farmer ,

      theyr'e best for a retreat like . " Now , it is on your powers at a " retreat like" that I found my opinion that nature intended you for a great general . For , as one of the chief qualifications of a gcod general is always to secure the means of retreat , I will venture to affirm that , since the days of Nimrod , in the retreating department , you stand fairly without a rival . But let me warn you , Mr . O'Connell , that though you foiled me once , though you utterly baffled the whole array of protests thrown in your rear by the Belfast A ' etcs Letterstill I don't despair of making you my prisoner . At all events , of one thing I am certain—that I will cut off your retreat upon every way but one—a road you know right well , and by which , if again you retire , I leave you " alone in your glory . "

      But to exhibit your retreating powers to the public . You threatened t » invade Ulster to argue repeal . You threatened to appear on its military frontier with an Bgreeable cortege of 50 , 000 men—the most of them notorious sans culottes—the men who had a few year * ago been shut out of the same town ¦ Newry ) by the turning of a pivot bridge , and the muzzle of the cannon . Tcu did not tell us how many might accompany you to B"lfast , but yuu gave tolerably plain indication ot the will , that with so many is law , when you told "the gulls" in Dublin that you could , or wished you could , ' 311 a pocket-handkerchief with the consolidated

      shouts that would greet you at the Linen Hall—a vaticination of your 8 that may hereafter rank you with that brother prophet , who , for the love of the Moabitish rent , came to curse Israel , but whom Providence overruled , in spite of his covetousnuas , U > bless them . Ar . 4 though you should , in your usual style , call me by the name of the animal that rebuked his " madness , " I will not be deterred from administering that castigation , so long as your gigantic talents are perverted to disturb the peace of this province , undermine the integrity of the empire , and threaten tho stability of the Protestant religion .

      Now , it was to arrest your mad career of mobbing , and speeching and shouting , that I challenged you to a deliberate discussion of the repeal question , before an impartial and orderly assembly . For doing bo , you said I " insulted" you , and of my insult the public can judge . You called me every ill name you could invent or recollect , and , because I dreaded you would accuse me ef wishing to convert a political question into a polemical controversy , and therefore promised to exclude religion ; as a consummate tactician , you turn my Sank , and effect your retreat with a skill that would have made Xenophon stare , at the head of tea

      thousand—and the " gulls shouted . " Well . someonehaa said of a great general—he has beaten ub so often , that , at last , he will teach us to beat him—and to compare the small with the great—so thought I in my simplicity . I took you at your word . I offered te discuss religion , by asserting in the newspapers , as you wished , the errors and heresies of the Roman apostacy . I stand to my word still , and on the same condition—viz ., that you obtain for me one column , or two . or more , weekly or less frequently , in one or two southern Romanist papers ; and I now add to my proposal , that , for every Romanist southern paper yon furnish me , I secure to you three northern Protestant

      papers . " Now , my dear Roman Catholic countrymen—snd though I denounce the traditions and heresies whereby crafty men have deluded you , you are dear to meconsider , I pray you , for you ore admirers of courage , whether physical or mental—consider , I pray you , the cowardice of that man who dares neither to meet me fairly and openly on politics or religion . Let your priests and a hireling press say what they will , there is something within you that tells you my proposal is fair ; and , if Mr . O'Connell again retreat , not merely from me , but from hiB own word , what can you conclude but that he dreads my exposure of the rottenness of his cause ? And what , Mr . O'Connell , is your next retreat ? Why , in Belfast , there is not a word

      whispered abeut my cutting off your retreat into religion , but you are ready , you say , at any time , and 1 must presume at anyplace , to discuss with me the questions of civil and religious liberty for twenty-six hours ! And at this second edition of your challenge , " the gulls shouted . " Now bear witness , ye 30 , 000 !! repealers , who , for the greater convenience of hearing , were so miraculously squeezed by the patent Findioalor press into a space that never heretofore did , and never again will , contain 1 , 300 men , women , and childrenbear witness to Mr . O'Connell ' s challenge and pledge , and to my third , end , I trust , successful attempt to cut off his retreat . Mr O'Connell , with joy do I accept your challenge , and I undertake to demonstrate , from your councils , bulls , extravagants , decretals , theological

      and moral institutes , and biblical notes , as well as from history—binding myself to quote only from Romish authorities—that the religion of Rome has ever been , and / still is , not only adverse to , but absolutely destructive of , civil and religious liberty . I take up your Romish gauntlet—there lies my Protestant glove . Won't yeu lift it , Mr . O'Connell ? What ! gone again ? —another rettea ' . ?—and why not ? Dr . Cooke , you ' re " a loathsome theologue ; " I hate your " Insulting pat ;" I abhor your " Ulster brogue ; " I'll have none of yonr " cookery ; " dont think to "bully" me into keeping my word : don't think on your own dunghill to crow over me , you deepless "Cock of the Nertb . " Patience , patience , Mr . O'Connell—a truce to all his genteel talent at nomenclature—I thank yon

      heartily for the sublime pan with which yon have illustrated your own wit , and for every scholarly and gentlemanlike name with which yon have not insulted , but honoured me ; and especially I thank you for the last " Cock of the North . " Yes , I accept the sobriquet as an omen for good , though , like your vaticinating brother , you meant it for eviL it was a cock that reminded Peter how thrice he had hovered on the very threshhold of apostacy and ruin , and thus warned he went out and wept bitterly . And while the work of the bag-carrying Judas was going on , the salvation of the penitent wan ensured . And I , Mr . O'Connell , contemptible as yon affect to believe me ,

      have been privileged to utter a warning that even not a few of the vacillating "liberals" have beard , while our sleeping Protestantism has been aroused to a sense of danger , and the defence of those liberties and institutions which the Judas hand of Repeal would sell to out enemies for a " shout ot the gulls , " ox another bag of the " rent" Yes , Mr . O'Connell , I thank you fox all the " insulting" epithets yeu have applied to me for you honour me , when you treat my bumble name with the same , civility with which yon treat a Stanley . But especially far the last attempted insult I thank you , for it not only reminds me of the salutary warning of the " bird of dawn , " but also of the poetic pewer

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      with which the great Master of Nature has invested it ; and when I think how God was pleased to own my humble labours in concentrating the might of Ulster , and terrifying the wizards of Repeal , it reminds me of the sulphurous exit of the ghost in HamUt , which" Faded at the crowing of the cock ; For then ( you know ) no spirits dare walk abroad ; No planets strike , no witch hath power to charm—B » wholesome and so gracious are the times . " But yeur pitiable partisans here , taking their cue from their leader ' s talk of iny " crowing on my own dungbAir—I pardon them the uncomellneas ot the fljjuTO ^ - but even of that I will not leave them the possession . No , Mr . O'Connell ; it is not in Belfast I desire to meet you . And though I shrink not from Dublin , the

      Rotunda , or the Corn Exchange—London and Exeter Hall should be our ground of meeting . You'll retreat upon business , I know . Yon shall not . I ' m behind you again . There aie the Easter recess , and the days of ( I thinkj Ascot races ; on either of these occasions I 8 er to meet you—and , that no obstacle may be pleaded , I shall depend upon the very few friends I can muster in London to bear the whele exp « nce of the meeting . Yon know , and I feel your every advantage over me ; but you know , and I feel the boundless advantage of my cause ; and , by the blessing of God upon my feeble arm , I trust to tear away the cloak ot hypocritical and mercenary patriotism in which you are enveloped , and to expose , to the horror ot the nation , that horrible system of studied falsehood and mental slavery , of which you are the

      pensioned missionary . Yes , Mr . O'Connell , there is nothing I more cordially desire than to expose that system of " enormous lying " by which Romanism and repeal are supported . Yet , at the same time , I am thankful -to God that your party are serving the cause of Protestantism by every additional volley . The chief of our " Liberals" are getting their eyes opened , when they read the transcendental falsehoods which the priests' organists here are every day playing ; and yet absolutely continuing , without a blush , to walk the streets in open day . Thirty thousand repealers . '—the " immense pavilion" erected for the dinner 1!—your graceful entry and triumphant exit !!! Tut , these are all but trifles to what I might gather , and , indeed , they are but trifles to the " out and

      out" capacity of your own son , Charles O'Connell—at least , fruiu the name , so 1 take him to be . He says , in a late oration in Dublin—and which , from the peculiar raciness of " genteel invention , " he must , as I take it , have learned from yourself—he says you bad to be protected by an array $ rom the " Orange mob , the bloody blackguards , " of Sandy-row J "Oh , where was Roderick then 1 " Where was Tom Steele with the 30 , 600 repealers ? /! Terrified by the millions of Sandyrow—a little street , of a few houses , to a considerable degree occupied by Roman Catholics , and the whole about as extensive as a back lane in Brentford . But , theii , this eloquent son of yours affirms you had to be " guarded through" this redoubtable—this most warlike Sandy-row , at au early hour in the morning . I'll tell Charles a secret—neither you nor he had a foot in Sandy-row—neither of you ever saw it , during your

      whole sojourn . Should this eloquent eulogy , which Mr . Charles O'Conuell has pronounced on the more than Grecian prowess of our modern Marathon , ever be read by any citizen of London , and should this , I hope my Uwt letter to you , ever be read there as the commentary , what will bethink when informed that when i Mr . O'Connell and Co . stood to enact the repeal pantomime in Belfast , they were somewhat about as near Sandy-row , as a man at Charing-cross is to the White Horse in Piccadilly ; and what will he think of the necessity of a mighty guard throughout Sandy-row , when told that he ( O'Connell ) in his triumphant exit from Belfast , went as much towards Sandy-row as a man goes towards Piccadilly when he gallops from Cnartog-cross directly over Westminster-bridge ? Charles , Charles , you are your father ' s son ; but I suppose " the gulls shouted . "

      You were " guarded through Sandy-row , " says the veracious Charles OConnell . I will tell you through what you were guarded—Sandy-row lies to the west of " our village , " and you spankedaway utterly unheeded , with only the loud laugh of ono single Belfast merchant , and at whom the exalted Thomas Steelemost valiantly shook bis clenched fist , by way of conciliation , and you passed by the ora « r of Cromac and May-streets , where your " cherishing" friends had demolished the windows of one Protestant dwelling , and , by the visitof a twopound brick bat , had nearly killed a female of my own congregation in another . Believe me , ' Mr . O'Connell , I do not state this by any way of excuse for the stone thrown into the Music Hall , and , which is said to have injured one of " the lovely and the good ; " but I do it to put an end to your tragical bluster , and to remind the nation , and especially our English brethren , that the life of a Protestant female is still as precious as that of a Romanist .

      Mr . O'Connell ! Mr . O'Connell ! I must speak to you In indignant seriousness . If there be one thing that more than another should harrow up the conscience now , or that more than another will burn in it hereafter , it is , and it will be , the fearful thought and recollection of having poisoned principle at the fountain-head , and , by neglect , example , or encouragement , contributed to the ruin of your own children . See with what recklees audacity you have taught your son to practice your own art of invention ! Repent , era it be too late . Bt tread the maie of imposture into which you have not only run yourself , but in which you are

      inextricably involving your beloved offspring . ' I have called you a " great bad man ! " Beware , or you will soon become s little one . The towns of Kilworth and Annan have aflvrded yeu two ominous warnings . I am not superstitious ; but I will tell you again to beware—the hand of Providence , and not of accident , prostrated the animals before you—and , be sure , these events are but the " precursors " of the prostration of your character and your influence , if you return not by repentance to the utterance of truth and the practices of peace . I remain , an inveterate enomy to your principles and practices , but a sincere friend to your immortal souL H . Cooke .

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      LEIGH . —Mr . Bellamy ' s Liberation from Lancaster Castle . —At a meeting held during the week , ( our correspondent does not name the evening . ) Mr . Bairstow , having been invited to lecture here , the friends obtained the use of the Rev . Mr . Aitkins' chapel , which is capable of holding five hundred persons . About two hours before the commencement of the lecture , Mr . Bellamy agreeably surprised the Chartists , by his sudden , and quite unexpected , arrival from Lancaster Castle , ( where he has been confined fifteen months , ) having obtained a respite of three months . Mr . Bellamy appears to enjoy excellent health ; aud has undergone no change of principles . The chapel was completely filled , owing to the excitement created . At the conclusion of Mr . Doyle ' s lecture , three cheers was given for O'Connor ; the Lecturer , and the Charter .

      PRESTON . —On Monday night , this town was visited by Harrison , the spy , who was discovered there ; aud , by the activity of one of the Chartists , taken before the Guardians on Tuesday , for leaving his family chargable . The lenient ex officio Chairura&n , however , let him loose again pon society , on his promising to pay when he got work ; and would not allow the 10 s . reward for his apprehension . LEEDS . —Death of Miss Ann Carr . —Want of space prevented our noticing last week the death of this extraordinary female , who for many years has been a very prominent character in the neighbourhood of Leeds , as the founder and principal preacher of the sect of Female Revivalists ; and which took place at her residence in Regent-street , oa Monday , the

      18 tii instant , after a protracted illness of nearly three years . She w&a a woman of extraordinary firmness and decision of character ; possessing talents which fall to the lot of very few of the more gentle sex , and which pre-eminentl y fitted her for the peculiar sphere of activity , in which she was the means of accomplishing much good . The fervenoy of her religious enthusiasm was calculated to work powerfully upon uncultivated minds , putting a strong cheok upon ( he developements of licentiousness in its grosser and more revolting forms , and enlisting the strong feelings of the animal man in the cause of virtue and religion . This led to many extravagances both of doctrine and demeanour , which , while they served equally as a source of amusement to the thoughtless

      and profane , and of sorrowful concern to the rationally pious , were yet abundantly counterbalanced by the moral good resulting from her indefatigable labours among the lowest classes of society . She was for 34 years a constant and laborious preacher ; first among tbe Primitive Methodists , and afterwards as the leader of the new Methodistic sect , which , ia conjunction with her friend and colleague , Miss Williams , she founded in Leeds , in 1822 . She had a chapel in Regent-street , and another in Brewery Field , both of which are now left to the governance of Misa Williams ; aud , at her decease ,

      to be vested in trustees . She was a person of most benevolent habits and philanthropic disposition , aud we believe devoted a considerable property to the prosecution of her benevolent labours in the promotion of religion , temperance , and education , of all which she was the ever-active and untiring advocates The respect entertained for her waa evinced by the thousands who followed her to her last resting-place . She was interred , according to her own request , on the third day after her decease , in the Cemetery , Woodhouse Lane ; and many , while standing near her grave , felt indeed that they had lost a mother and a friend .

      RoBBtfo the Dead . —There are some strange rumours afloat as to the proceedings of some officials , or their deputies , at the parish ohnroh , in this town . Those who have access to the vaults can probably explain the matter , which , at present , is shrouded in secrecy , though we are given to understand a searching investigation ( strictly private ) is now going on . National Chabtbb Association . —The Council of the National Charter Association are reminded that the meeting takes place on Sunday next , at the General Washington , New Road End , to commence at half-past two o ' oloek .

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      FROM OUR SECOND EDITION OF LAST WEEK . PEOM OCR LONDON CORRESPONDENT . Thursday Evening , January 28 / fi , Half-past Seven . After waiting in the Court of Queen ' s Bench all day , since its opening at ten o clock this morning , to record the proceedings in the case of Mr . Hether-. ington , who , it was expected , would be called upon to receive sentence for "blasphemy , " an adjournment of the judgment until Saturday morning next , at ten o ' clock , has been decided upon , which was communicated to Mr . H . shortly before the rising of the Court , at five o ' clock , by Sir John Campbell , the Attorney-General . The Court was crowded at its opening in every part , and continued so until it appeared , from the length of the proceedings before the Judges , that no probability of Mr . Hether ing ton ' s case being brought on to-day , existed .

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      PARIS . —The topic of interest and conversation in Paris , at present , is the seizure of several of tbe Paris papers by the Government , for having inserted correspondence between Louis Philippe and Prince Talleyrand , both before and since the former became "Citizen . King . " Dreadful Murder neat Bristol . —A dreadful murder was committed near Bristol , on Monday last . An old lady , named Shedden , aged sixtyseven , wife of a retired apothecary , was found , by her husband , after an absence from home of a few hours , in the kitchen , covered with blood , and her , skull completely beaten in , as if with some blunt instrument , in three different places . The individual at present Buspooted of the murder , is ayouthi named Radge ; but , sufficient evidence had not been obtained to criminate him , according to the last accounts .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Thursday , January 28 . In the Upper House , last night , the Duke of Wellington explained that , owing to some misunderstanding about the hour at whioh the address was to be presented to her Majesty , he , in common with several other Noble Lords , were unable to be present , which he should otherwise have been , upon the occasion . The Lord Chancellor brought the case of the Earl of Cardigan , for firing at Captain Tuckett , under the consideration of their Lordships , and a committee was appointed to search the journals , in order to ascertain the proper mode of proceeding , and to report thereon to the House . The committee to meet at two o ' clock on Monday .

      FROM OUR THIRD EDITION OF LAST WEEK .

      In reply to a question from the Earl of Haddington , Viscount Melbourne said that Government was not prepared with any measure for the settlement of the animosities arising out of the non-intrusion question in Scotland , but that the existing law should be maintained , and those who enforced it be protected . The Earl of Haddington was strongly of opinion that the existing differences could not be brought to a satisfactory termination without the intervention of Parliament . Their Lordships then adjourned .

      The Lower House met at 35 minute 3 past one , and proceeded to Buckingham Palace to present the address of the Commons to her Majesty . Half-past one was the hour appointed by her Majesty to receive the address , but the Commons did not make a house until that hour had elapsed .

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      A French Paper states that the Parisian speculators in the funds had pigeons prepared in London to transmit lithographic copies of the Queen ' s speech to the Frenoh capital , and that the arrival of the birds would be looked for on Tuesday evening . Paris . —W « are informed , on authority , that several false tickets of invitation to a grand ball , to be given at the Tuilleries on Wednesday last , were fabricated , for the purpose of passing into the King ' s presence evil-disposed persons , by whom it is possible that his life would have beeu attempted that evening . The police , informed of the fact in time , were taking nwasures to prevent the intrusion of improper characters to the ball . —Morning Herald . The Bristol Murder . —The coroner ' s jury , after a Patient investigation , have returned a verdict of Wilful murder against Charles Rudge , " themaa upon whom suspicion at first fell .

      Trade Report . —London , Thursday Evening . — The business of to-day ia produce was limited , and the sales were not very large . At the public sales the greater part of the teas were withdrawn , the importers declining to offer them in the present depressed market . The prices obtained for those sold were about the previous market rates . On 'Change Company ' s congous , Is . 5 jd . per pound cash . Tallow . —The market qniet . On the spot the p rice is 46 s . 6 d ., February ; and March 46 d . 3 d . ; and March and April , 46 g . The delivery up to Wednesday night , 1 , 080 casks . Sugar . —400 hhda ia the raw market at steady prices . 50 cases , 4 . 5 bags , and 2 boxes Brazil , mostly damaged , sold 20 s . to 33 s . 6 d .

      ¥ Coffbb . -178 casks , 38 brls . and 154 bags British Plantation sold , a few lots fine middling Berbice fetched 106 s . to 108 s . 6 d . ; Demerara . ordinary and good , 85 s . to 90 s . ; and Jamaica , middling , 105 s . to 112 s . ; 700 bags Brazil , damaged , gold 36 s . to 40 s . ; and sound , bought in , 41 a . to 41 s . 6 d . ; 845 bags Ceylon sold 71 s . 6 d . to 72 s . 6 d . ; and 795 bags East India , 9 d . doty ( ordinary Java ) 43 s . 45 s . 6 d .

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      Leeds Corn Market , Febbuabt 2 nd . —Thetis , plies of all kinds of Grain to this day ' s market ? larger . There has been a fair demand for VfhS and last Week ' s prices fully supported . Barley ^ been dull sale , and Is . per Quarter lower . Oa , uS Shelling have been dull Bale . Beans little alw aiion . " THE AVERAGE PRICES FOR THE WB » Febb 31841

      ENDING » aRT D , . ^ Wheat , Barley . Oats . Rye . Beam , jw * Qra . Qrs . Qrs . Qrs . Qrs . qJ * 6102 2206 533 — - 358 ^ £ , % . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ , a 1 3 3 6 i I 13 H 1 3 4 j — . ¦ .. 2 . 3 . 0 i - -Zi * HUDDERSFIELD CLOTH MaBKET , TcESDAT , Fk&V —Our report of this day ' a market varies very lM ^ from our report of last week . New good of fat ' patterns were cleared at prices much as usual . ff Fancy trade continues to be the best , although t £ * manufacturers complain of low prices . Favourite ? , opinions are entertained of a good spring trST ^ Some of the large establishments were never dS more , still the small manufacturers are only J 2 ; tially employed . The Wool market remains in naS tke same state as for some weeks past , and pjS may be quoted as stationary . , '

      Richmond Cobn Market , Saturdat , Jan . 4 ft We had a fair supply of all kinds of grain in ^ market to-day , and the sale was tolerably bsidr Wheat sold from 7 a 6 d to 9 s ; Oats 3 s 8 d to 4 s- | L ley 3 s 9 d to 4 b 6 d ; and Beans 5 s 6 d to 6 s 3 d per W Malton Cobn Market , Jan . 30 . —The suppl * 4 all kinds of Grain at our Corn market this day tl only short . Wheat the same in price as last w «? Barley , of fine qualities , unaltered , but iDf < S samples Is per qr . lower . Oats as before . WkS red from fi 6 sto 683 . Wheat white from 70 s to 12 per qr . of 40 st ; Barley 25 s to 32 a per qr . of 32 * Oats lOd to lid per stone . ' Newcastle Corn Market , January 36 . —ju arrivals of Grain coastwise are very trivial to &nu marxei

      wee * , as w-uay » me supply 01 farmor ' Wheat was only moderato ; the samples generiBi were sadly out of condition , which made good & parcels in demand , at rather higher prices than ym paid this day week . Good south country Whofe are much wanted . The Btook of old foreign left a hand not being very select , but little business « u done on late terms . The demand for Norfolk naty . ing Barley is only limited , although offered at 1 decline of Is . to 2 s . per quarter ; and formait , eiti * old or new , there is at present hardly any at . There was a fair supply of Oats from the counta which were taken off at full prices . In Barley fa grinding , Beans , or Peas , so little was doing ty prices may be considered nominal . Arrivals daritf the week , coastwise , 86 qrs . Rye , 586 qrs . Barley-iS 22 qrs . Oats ; foreign , nU .

      State of Trade . —During the whole of the M week the market has presented the same appearam of dulness and want of animation that was appartst for two or three weeks previously ; the general d » inclination to do au extensive business being , yestat day , somewhat increased by the unfavourable * , counts of the condition of the United States' BaaL which have roiched this country through tho mediaii of a passenger landed at Cork , from the New Y « k packet , Cambridge . The demand both for gotxfc and yarn was very limited , and it was difficult to

      make sales except at a trilling re duction fromik prices of the preceding week . Holders , howCT * were generally firm , and the business done was , e « . sequently , trifling . —Manchester Guardian of Wei , York Corn Market , January 30 . —There islea grain offering than for some time past , and the w * ther has made the condition very indifferent . % demand for Wheat continues good , aud prices » fully supported for all but sprouted samples . B « . Jey iB dull sale , and secondary qualities Is pern ; lower . Oats and Beans are not so ready sale , bit we note little alteration in their value .

      H ve » pool Corn Market , February 1 . —H » imports of Wheat coastwise and from Ireland , itj of Oats and Oatmeal from the latter source , out this day Be ' nnight , are to a fair amount ; those rf other articles of the Corn trade are modente . Throughout the week the trade generally has beet void of anything like activity , the vend for VfW from this market depending chiefly upon the waatl of the town and immediate nei ^ hbeurhood ; holdefy however , have not pressed sales beyond what thai would take off , and prices have , with little exception , been sustained : at Friday ' s market , Irish new

      Wh « at was rather easier to buy . The best bnsdi of United States Fiour have continued to bring 36 a . j Canadian 35 s . to 3 » J 3 . per barrel . Some parcelia Oats have been taken on country account ; best mm of Irish mealing at 3 s . to 3 s . Id ., and two or tea small cargoes of Welsh common at 2 s . 104 \» 2 s . lOjd . per 451 bs . Oatmeal has met a taoienii demand at 26 s . to 27 s . per 240 ibs . Malting Barley has continued in small supply ; choice ChenSer would bring 39 s . to 40 s . per imperial quarter ; a grinding qualities little has been done . Npchanpa the value of Beans , but prices must be quoted Is . per quarter cheaper .

      Liverpool Cattlk Mabket . Monday , FebAWe have had a good supply of Btock at market if day , with regard to number , for the season of tie year , but the quality generally has onl y ; been toj middling . Good stock of both descriptions us only been in fair request , at about last week ' s pries , but the middling and ordinary qualities , whiek were the greatest portion , has been bad to sell , and » great number have been left unsold at the dow , but the good stock was sold up at rather ail erif hour . The best Beef realised 7 d ., varying &w that down to 6 d . per lb ., with some at a littklea price . Good Wether Mutton may be quoted at 7 J 4 , second ditto 7 d ., with middling and ordiarf qualities down to 6 d . per lb . and under . Nambs of Cattle at Market . •—Beasts 1 , 24 « , Sheep 5 , 154 . Manchester Cork Market , Saturday Jaw . 31 '—During the week the expected supplies of Ftaa

      from the interior have oome forward , and with 1 more plentiful show of samples a lively demand fa the article has been experienced ; consequently , bna « ness to a fair extent has been transacted in good , middling , and choice qualities of English manufMture , without much variation from the previously current rates , and stocks ia first hands move off into consumption as they arrive . Oats have been inter / moderate request ; and for Oatmeal prices wen barely supported . There waa much firmness exhibited at our market this morning , and holders of Wheat demanded full rates for all description Fiour was likewise in better request , and a moderate extent of business was done at the annexed quotations . Oatmeal was also rather more inquired tor , but no improvement in valae can be noted . There was not much passing in Oats or other uncles , and prices were unaltered .

      London Cobn Exchange , February 1 . —Then was only a moderate quantity of Wheat on sale this morning from Essex , Kent , and Suffolk , td the fre 3 h . supply of Barley , Beans , and Peas , W rather limited than otherwise , but there was agora arrival of Oats , having several vessels from Ireland and Scotland up for this day ' s market , as « l » is few with this article from our own coast . Th « imports of foreign grain have been very triflifl * During the greatest part of the past week the we * - ther has been fine and mild for the season . On Saturday it . changed to rain , and yesterday then were both rain and Bnow , and tbe wind baring gtf round to the eastward there was a sharp frost throughout the night . There was a good demand for choice English Wheat , and owing to the limited show on sale aa advance of la . to 2 s . per qaarW

      was obtained on all such qnalities . witn a fair stedj sale of foreign at fully as much money . The FJoff trade was without any material variation , p rine marks ex-ship meeting a moderate demand . & < # * malting Barley brought last week ' s prices , butth * secondary sorts must be quoted Is . per quirt * cheaper . For several weeks during the severe wrtxher little was passing in Malt ; the arrivals htMuft been good since , with an accumulation of stock a the hands of the town and neighbouring maltsten , this article has been more pressed for sale , andtb * decline submitted to must De quoted full 2 s . per ^ r . on all sorts even , the very finest qualities . Beao were in steady request at last week ' s prices , aw Peaa of all sorts were folly .- as dear , particularly choice maples adapted for seed ; indeed , in bob * instances , for such an advance of Is . per quarter w * obtained .

      London Smithpield Cactus Market , Febbpabt 1 . —In our Cattle market of to-day the numwof Beasts offering from the whole ot the gr « iflj-i districts was , on the whole , limited , but , generjl lj ¦ , speaking , of middling and inferior quality . Iw *** withstanding the weather was favourable to slao / j&si * tering , and the attendance of dealers was numerort ^ r the beef trade was by no means so animated as , y this day Be ' nnight . However , last week ' 3 quotation ¦ were well supported . With Sheep , we were && * tily supplied , whilst the demand for them was bri *^ f and the prisaest old downs readily produced 5 s . J * j-s 8 lbs . About 200 Essex , Kent , and Surrey LMg ^ were brought forward , but the sale for them «« f i ( heavy , at from 5 s . Sd . to 6 s . per 81 b . Calves « P # « off slowly at late rates , but in Pigs a fair amounJip business was passing . ' vf . ; j

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      O'CONNOB , Eaq ., of Hammersmith , Oo « L Mlddlemx , by JOSHUA HOBSON , at hi * Wgj , ing Offices , No * . 18 and 13 , Market-street , WTgate ; and Published by the said Joshua Ho ***/ ( forthe said Fsargus O'Connor , ) at hi » JWJJ ^ Ung-houae , No , 6 , Market-street , Brlggato ; " ^ . internal Communication ftT ^ fng between ^** S No . 5 , Market-Btieet , and the Baid Nob . It ** 13 , Market-street , Briggate , thus constituting . JP * whole of the said Printing and Publishing 9 & one Premises . . 0 * All Communications mnst be addressed , ( Post-paW * . HOBSON , Northern Star Office , Leeds . ( Saturday , February , 0 , 1841 *

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      Bow-Street . —Liberation of Mr . Vincent , the Chartist . —Vfisterday , Arthur Dyson , bookseller , of No . 146 , Kingsland-road , and Richard Cameron , bracer and stock-maker , of No . 12 , Dorrington street , Clerkeawell , attended before Mr . Hall , for the purpose of putting in bail for Henry Yincent ; the Chartist , at present a prisoner in Oakham Gaol . . Mr . Hall inquired of the parties whether they were housekeepers , and had paid their rent and taxes ! Mr . Dyson said he paid £ 30 per annum rent , and had paid both rent and taxes . Mr . Cameron said ho paid £ 50 rent , and all was paid ap with the exception of the last quarter , which was ready for his landlord when he called for it ; he had paid all his taxes .

      Mr . Hall asked whether they had their receipts with them } Both parties having answered in the negative , Mr . Hall said that they were to be bound for Vincent for the term of three years . It wa 3 necessary that tbeir receipts should be produced . He had no doubt that all would be right , but it was his duty to make proper inquiries into the matter . It was then arranged that the parties should attend again on Friday , when , if the documents produced were satisfactory , tueir bail would be taken . —Sun , Thursday .

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      Debatiko Societyv—A debating society eoinmeneea to-night at Mr . IlUngwortb ? 8 , to oommence at eight o ' clock precisely . The subject will b « , " Whether is a Monarchical or a Republican Government , tbe best calculated to promote the happiness of the people ! " Let every Chartist feel that it is bis duty to encourage and promote such * sooiety as this by bis presenoe there to-night ; let him endeavour to bring aa many as he can , and show that he has the good cause at heart ; to the yonng men especiall y , this is an opportunity that ought not to be lost sight of .

      Leeds Town Coukcil Meettko . —A tolerably numerous special meeting of this body took place on Wednesday last , for the purpose of determining what steps should be taken to meet the role nisi of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , calling upon the Mayor , Aldermen , and Burgesses , to show cause why they refused to admit Mr . Radford Potts , as a Councillor for the Mill Hill Ward . A motion was made by Mr . Alderman Tottta , and seconded by Mr . Alderman Benyon , that steps should b * taken by the Mayor and Town Clerk on behalf of the Mayor , Aldermen , and Burgesses , to meet tht rule . Mr . Atkinson moved an amendment , wbioh was seconded

      by Mr . Wright , that the Mayor * nd Town Clerk take no steps on behalf of the Mayor , Aldermen , and Burgesses , it being competent for ahyburgess to proceed as he thought fit . After a long and very angry discussion , a division took flac « , when there were for the motion , 32 ; against it , 26 . —A second amendment was also proposed by Mr . Atkinson , seconded by Dr . Hunter , of a similar nature ; when there appeared for the amendment , 23 ; against it , 31 . —The discussion was carried on in anything but a gentlemanly manatr ; the body would learn a good lesson froai attending % few Chartist meetings .

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      Leeds Cloth Markets . —The state of the weather since our last has prevented any fresh assortment of goods from being brought to market , and consequently the sales in the Halls have been more limited ; but the general state of the woollen trade remains without material alteration , and the tone of both merchants and manufacturers ia evidently improving .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1841, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct365/page/8/