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_ The Iokus Isles . —The following ' appears in ihe National— " We have received lettera from the Ionian ^ Inlands , eofcfinning the reports of xiistnrbancts m these islands , ¦ which were speedily sappressed , fcut an extreme agitation prevail ^ and the insnrreelion is probably adjonrnrid to a more favonrable opportunity . The success of the English < 5 o"vernment is attributed to treachery . A plan of insurrection "was prepared , which was denounced by traitors , Ihe police having been apprised of ihe fact , the oppressors of the Ionisns hastened toaveid the danger .-. Corfn , placed under \ he puns of the citadel and of the ships = of war , caused them no nn-« asiness , bnt the other islands were less easily to be guarded , as tbe garrison , of 1 , 500 Scotchmen were
Bot EoffieieBt to restrain the population . Jhe English judged it more prudent to compromise a portion of the populatioa'by forcing them to revolt , without giving Them an opportunity to ehqose . their time . One of those men ever at the service of the police offered to become an agent to exciie-a rising , and , arming himself with a £ ua , he pretended to be a sportsmas-in pursuit of game . The police pursued him , with orders to arrest him for carrying arms "without a license . They commanded him to surrender , but he lesisteo , and the gendarmes not being in the secret shot him dead . Such an event naturally excited public indignation . A body of armed peasants proceeded to the police-office , aid threatmnrder the The Lord
ened ^ police . High Commissioner was ready , three companies of Scotchraen "were sent against the peasants , and lie latter ¦ w ere cut % o pieceB by an overwhelming force . The English did not stop there j ihey proclaimed martial law , and ia order to disorganize the plans of the insurgents they arrested their chiefs . The English Government , as hypocritical , in the face -of Europe as merciless towards ths unfor unaie people subjected to ite laws , has proclaimed that thi 3 affair vas merely an affiir of plunder suppressed by the acuvhyof the Lord High Commissioner . The truth is now known , and the language of the English Government cannot again impose on Europe , too long deceived , as to the true conduct of the protectors of the Ionian Islands . "
PBJL 5 CS . —The National announces ihe acquittal , at the-assizes of Laval , of M . Ledru Rollin , a Meml > er of the Chamber of Dsputies , whom the Government had prosecuted for some offensive language he held long ago , in ad dressing his constituents . The Momieur contains a series of report 8 , addressed by Martha ! Bogeaud to the Minister of War , under-date Algiers ,.-20 sh sit ., giving an account of the military operations in the different provinces of the regency during the first fortnight of September . On the 12 th Colonels Grey and O'ieiffe surprised the
camp of Abd-el'Ksder , at Assian Tirein . The Emir had just time to fly , and on reaching the adjoining mountains , . be rallied Ids fugitive force and nude a bold stand , fighting himself in the foremost rank , sad vainly urging his discouraged cavalry to follow him and charge ihe assailants . At last , however , overcome by numbers , he abandoned the field , leaving seventy killed , his tent and those of his Agas , mules , horses , carpets , &c , in the hands of the French . On the following day Abd-el-Kader fell in with the division of General Lamoriciere , and experienced another defeat .
Sioeh is PiSis , —From thevioleaoe of the gale yesterday morning , the streets and squares of Paris "srere covered with slates , tiles , and fragments of every kind , torn from the roofs of the houses . Many of the flags * t the pnblic buildings were either brought down or torn to slips . The Tuileries did Dot escape , for the roof of the Pavilion de Flore , "which has only just been re-covered with slate from Angers , was-stripped in many places . The gardens and ths Champs Eiysees wtre strewed with branches from tbe trees . Several women and children were l > lown down on the bridges . An aceoostic pheno- ] Kienon wta 10 be heard on the Pont des Invalides throughout the day . The wind , in forcing i ts way ' between the bats of iron , on which it is suspended , prodnced Eolian sounds as deep as those on the diapason stops of the large ** ehnrch organs , tbe vibra- ; feon extending to the whole of the bridge . — . Galig- j sumi ' s Messenger . j
Dbeasfcl Ftse . —In the night of the 25 Ja ult ., a farm , with all its buildings , live and dead stock , ivas destroyed by fire at Boufllargues , in the Gard A girl of ten years eld perished In tht flames . The calamity would have been much more terrible , but for the almost supernatural courage of the mother ef the family , ; Awakened from her sleep in a state of suffocation from the Emoke , and finding her Irasband in the Eaae condition , she carried him in her arms to a window at a further part of the house , and when he was somewhat recovered , induced him to make his escape through it . She then in like nanser saved her mother , upwards ol seventy jears old , and two of her three children . She reterned for the third , but the poor riiiM , in Beekiag her own safety inflight , got involved in the flames sad was burnt . Her body was afterwards found in "the tutus , reduced to a « nder . —French Paper .
25 O 2 W . &T . —A Town BrssEU . —A Stockholm lstter states that vhe town of Egersund ( Norway ) , was eHarely destroyed by fire on the 4 ih September . DrrcH xkd Fiasdsbs Mail . —The Hague , Oct . 19 . —To-day , at one o ' clock in the afternoon , the Minister of the Interior closed the session of the States General fer 1842-43 . The latest accounts from Java say , thai on" the night of the Sih of January there was an earthquake in the island of JJIas ; the shock continued for some minutes , inaEyhonse 3 were overthrown , and the inmates buried in the rnin 3 . A portion of the monntain Horessa Eunk down into the valley and over"whelmed the buildings belonging to the
Government , except the Governors house . A large JLampong , called Mego , was swept away by an . enormous "wave , and many persons perished . The same wave carried off , near Mount Sie-Tolie , a league fiather to the north , Beveral Indian proas , with saeh violence , that these vessels , among which was » Government cruiser , were thrown out of the river , to the distance of 100 to 160 paces on the shore . The fear that the Achinese of Glora wonld take ad"vantage of this opportunity to attack the garrison of 2 uas had not been realised . Iiast Saturday night , there was a violent hurneaae , and thunder Btonns , with torrents of rain , at Kamnr . On the following morning , the streets were strewed vriih fragments of files and dates .
Spaix . —Batoskb , Ok . 8 . —Almeria rose on the 1 st , and proclaimed the Central Junta . General Concha left Madrid on the evening of ihe 3 rd , to assume the command of the army of Azr&gon .. October 10 . —There has been an attempt at a rising at Granada on the 27 th of September . There ¦ was fighting , and some persons were wounded . Order was re-established . On the 2 nd there was no change at Almeria . Prosiest ** , Ccr . 10 . —On ihe 7 th the Junta attempted to storm the citadel of Barcelona with the 1 , 000 of the 1 , 500 men under their command . They "srere repulsed with the loss of 80 men . M . Bosch , ihe vice-president of the Junta , was mortally grounded . In consequence of this attack the citadel and forts fired on the tows . The fire ceased in the evening , and did not recommence oh the 8 : h .
Ths Jodbsal des Dehats gives tse following aceonnt of the affair ;—** Oh the 7 th , half an hour before day , the 400 volunteers silently descended into the ditch , and applied ladders to the ramparts , which they ascended with the mostTkerfect goodfortune , without any sentinel having the alarm . Having reached the top of the embankment , they gave the signal agreed on for a false attack , intended to draw the attention of ihe garrison to another quarter . At the same time the insurgents nnmaskea a battery of eight pieces of cannon , which commenced a well-directed fire against the citadel , whilst 2 , 000 volnnteers placed in _ thB trenches of the esplanade and in tbe houses of Santa Maria directed a rolling fire of mnsketry against the xaciparts . Toe garrison was aot moved by tins soise , to which they were accustomed daring the last month .
* Tbe men who had mounted the breach , who had Riven the sgnal , and had descended into the interior of the citadel , found themselves arrested by an unforeseen obstacle—a second ditch , which they coald not pass . They then endeavoured to draw up snear ladders to scale the second entrenchment . But the opportunity was Io 3 t—daylight had appaared-, and the garrison beat to arms . Obliged to return to the ditch , and to retreat under the fire of the garrison , tne volunteers lost 100 men killed or wounded . Sat it mast be admitted they had very nearly sue-Cacoeeded in their attempt en the citadel . A . letter from 3 Iadrid , dated October 3 rd , published m the Chronicle , has tbefollowing : — I mentioned yesterday that communications had taken place between Canedo , the commander of theGo-Ternment forces before SaragoBsa , and the corpora- " fion of that town , with a view to arrive at an aaaieable arrangement , if possible . The Saraeossa .
people , it appears , have sot been so easy to dupe as those ef Madrid . The terms they demanded were ihat the National Guards should remain on their present foetiag , and the junta Tetaia its powers as a local board , " giving up , however , the demand of ike foroutiOQ of a- oentral jonta . These demands were aeeeded to ^ Canede > rovMtt « QaDy , _ They kare been csbaitted to a Counca of Ministers here , Wto , hewer , retoe to lafifyttemi and General GgMu is appointed to-leave to-night ^ to supersede Ooaftdo , andi in theh * xa * & *> i& * & * rnex wbooj , i « bring the Saragosaa folks to thair senses ; so that ¦ we ^ aU , probably , have Borne warm work . A letter froafiira gosa , of the 29 th , in to-day ' s £ « , says that a very determined spirit pterafls there j that fl ^^ , 12 , < K » HHmtmder anas , ; and 100 ^ pieces of ejumon mofflated on their defences . 1 } is also stated Sbalftsirl » d made * brilliant sortie , and some of fee troops f 6 rmmg the blockade had gone over to
The same Correspondent , in a letter dated Oct . ^ 4 th , Esvs— Two battalions of the Begiment of Africa ¦ wen ordered , some time since , from Navare , to rein-
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force the government troops before Sarajtossa , but they had repeatedly shown symptoms . . of defection , and several cfiieers and sergeants had been separated and sent prisoners to Toldsa , and others arrested at Onate . Many arrests have also taken place in other corps at St . Sebastian and Tittoria . An order has been issued to the troops , constantly stationed within and about the Post-ofBce , not to form in groups of more than eight ; so little confidencs have the military authorities in the only force which keeps them on from day to day . Their fears are , no doubt , great ; but the -way in which they display them ia quite lidiculeBs . The travelliag tinkers that are wont to go about here , and as they traverse the street , inform the inhabitants who have pots or
pans to mend , of their presence by striking an iron rod against a plate of the same metal , have all at once been discovered to be a most dangerous race of men ; and the sounds which Tvere wont to call the maid-Bervants from the attics to the ground floor , with their cracked tta-kettleB , &o , are now ascertained to portend revolutions , and to be nothing less , in short , than a new mode of beating the generate ^ bo their tinkling proceedings have been peremptorily prohibited . It was only the day before yesterday that the whole town , from the Bilb&a-gate to the Puerto de Sol , was in high alarm from the guard of the Yalladolid diligence blowing his horn as be
eatered the city ; whereupon all the guards turned out in a great fright , prepared for action ; and when it was ascertained that there was no other foe than the heavy diligence , their conrage greatly increased , and a corporal asd four seldiers were detatched in pursuit of the unlucky horn-blower , who was captured in due course , and ensconced in the guard-house of the principal station . The Madrid annual fair ianow going on ; and it is usual , among other things , to have arms of various kinds , as pistols , swords , &c , in some of the stalls ; but the dealers—these who had anything of the kind in their stalls the first day , did not venture to show themselves on the second j tkeir career was soon stopped .
A letter from Barcelona , of the 30 th , states that General Sanz had given notice to tbe foreign consuls of his intention to attack the town the next day , and the French had ail embarked . Prim had returned , and obtained a re-inforoement of . 1 , 000 men , to act against : Amettler , who was raising recruits at Gerona . The Junta had been unremitting in strengthening their defences , and there was no talk of surrendering , as the government papers here have so often reported to be the case . Alcancz , a town near Saragossa , has declared for the Central Junta . . - Don Manuel de la Serna , Espartero's minister of the interior , and who is now in London , has been returned as a deputy for Seville . \
Thb Elections . —Up to the present time ( October 8 th ) , 187 Deputies have bees appointed . The opinions of thirty of them are not known . The rest may be classed as follows : —Sixty >] oderado 5 , asd sixty to seventy entertaining the opinions represented by MM . Olozsgaand Cortina ; thirty Francitquisles , Centralists , Republicans , &c . Of the ; Chamber , which is composed of 240 Deputies , only about 180 ordinarily meet . The Parliamentary majority will be considerable . ; At Grenada , according to the dispatches ef the
Political Chief , an insurrection took place , which was promptly suppressed . Two battalions of the National Guard revolted , and attempted without success to cause the people to join it . The Political Chief , in conjunction with the Captain-General , proclaimed martial law , and harangued the people . A sanguinary conflict took place between the troops of the line and the revolted National Guard ? , near the quarter of St . Jerome . Several were ' killed and wounded on both sides . At length the revolted soldiers , not being supported , deliver ; d up their arms , and the insurrection was suppressed . -
Granada was tranquil on the 6 th . There is no news of Senile or Cadiz . Bat the towns of GaLHoia seem all to . have proclaimed the Central Junta . A letter from Perpignaa , 7 th inst ,, in the Emancipation ef Toulouse , says : — : " On the 4 th , Pkim * who not seeing any possibility of attempting a coup de main against the fort of Figueras , bad retired towardB Girona , and commenced an assault on that to wn . It is impossible to describe the energy and valour displayed by the inturgeBts in the defence . All fonght with a courage and ardour that did not abate for a single moment . Women and children were seen to take part in the action in rolling from the top . ef the wall on the assailants heavy articles of furniture and masses of stone . The struggle was desperate between the two parties , and Pbim was foreed to retreat . It is said that the losses are great on both sides /'
According to the Aloniteur of Saturday , " Almeira submitted on the 5 ih . " On the 8 th the negotiations for the surrender of Saragossa were still proceeding . " Pebpjgsak , Oct . 12 —On the 9 th , the Junta invited all foreigners to quit Barcelona , allowing them only a delay of twenty honrs . On the 10 th , the departure of the French and their embarkation took place without accident . The Consul took up his residence at Barcelonetta . " Commander Mar tell , having been cloEely pursued by the population , surrendered at discretion to the commander of Tortosa .
" The advanced guard * t the Gate of France , at Girona , had deserted to General Peim with its captain . "
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CRIMES OF THE RICH-SUFFERINGS OF THE POOR . The condition of the poor is a subject which , altogether irrespectively of the Poor Law and its collateral questions , must ever excite the attention of thinking men . Above all , it should in London , where the condition of the poor is most strikingly appalling . It appears from the report of the proceedings at AJarlborough-street Police-office , in our columns of yesterday , that there is an average number of fifty human beings , of all ages , who huddle together in the parks every night , having no other shelter than what is . supplied by the trees and hollows of the embankment . Of these the majority are young girls who have been seduced from the country by the soldiers , and turned loose on the world in all the destitution , of friendless penury , and all the recklessness of early vice .
This is truly horrible . Poor there must be everywhere . Indigence will find its way and set up its hideons state in the heart of a great and luxurious city . Amid the thousand narrow lanes and bystreets of a populous metropolis there must always , we fear , be much , snffering—much that offends the eye—much that lurks unseen . But that within the precincts of wealth , gaiety , and fashion , nigh the regal grandeur of St . James s , close on the palatial splendour of Bayswater , on the confines of the old and new aristocratic quarters , in a district where the cautious refinement of modern design has abstained from erecting one single tenement for poverty j which seems , as it were , dedicated to the exclusive enjoyments of wealth , —that there want , and famine , and disease , and vice should stalk in all their kindred horrors , consuming body by body , soal by soul ]
It is , indeed , a monstrous state of things . Enjoyment the most absolute , that bodily ease , intellectual excitement , or the more innocent pleasures of sense can supply to man ' s craving , brought in close contact with the most unmitigated : misery ! Wealth , from its bright saloons , laughing—an insolently heedless laugh , at the unknown wounds of want Pleasure , cruelly but unconsciously mocking the pain that moans below 1 All contrary tbinga jostling one another ^ -all contrary , save the vice which tempts and the vice which is tempted 2
It is a sickening theme . It brings home to the heart the ntter weakness—the utter hardness of our nature . There is wealth , there is skill , there is art , there is science , there is theory , — all these enough , and more than enough , in England , Most abundant are they in the heart of England . Yet does the life-Wood rush in a more healthy stream ? DoeB the pulse of the nation beat with a more generous rapture ? Whom has its wealth made happier ! Whom has its skill taught to shun the moral pestilence that consumes its tens of thousands ! Whom has its theory taught the high and paramount duty which man owes to the infirmities of his brother man !
There are men of many theories abroad . Some wonld build in the human race within parallelograms , and bid them go and practise virtue fintuitively . Others would ampatate tariffs ani navigation laws , crying to all , the ialfc , and the bljnd , and the penniless , " Go trade , and betrieh . " Some there are who , believing that society is hollow , false , and tottering , wonld . restore long-forgotten rules , and bring the vague and casual charity of men under the cognizance and -direction of the church . But these men are laughed at . by the age . For is not the age
utilitarian , and therefore wise ! But let all men , whether of theory or of practice , remember this—that within the most courtly precincts of the richest city on God ' s earth there may" be found , night after night , winter after winter— -women young in years—old in sin and suffering— -outcasts from society—bottiko ibom * uokb , wlih , ahd desiasb . Let them remember Hub , and learn not to theorise , out to act . God knows , there is much room for action now-a-days . — Ttmes .
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Tmasmasa or DBAiHl- ^ EsojniutJX Phitosofj ^ - ^ aonKS Esquimaux , according to Sir John Bosh , ttectimeor . fflurder very larelyoecurs . vvnen it does , tne murderer ' s punishment consists 3 !; *^ ^ ° ^^ . ^ .. ^ Petoarsolitude , or to be SS" 1 ^^ eWradivtfnal 6 f Ms tribe-i insomuch , that even the sight of him is avoided by all who may inadvertenflv meet him . On being « ked why Iris hfeis not taken in return , it was i ^ lied , " that this would be to make themselves equally bad—that the loss of his life wonld not restore the other—and that he whe should commit sack an act would be equally guilty . "
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THE " REBECCA" MOVEMENT SOUTH WALES . ( from our own Corrtsponient . J In the appendix to my last week ' s letter , I informed your readers ol a fracas which had taken place ia the early part of that week , between the daughters of Rebecca , and two of the administrator * ofleg&I processes , who are beat known by the name of barn-bailiffs . The affray came , off at a place called Tyrypound , in the parish of Jj ' . angunnor , which ia in the occupation of a Mr . Win . Phillip , against whom a distraint was issued for the sum of £ 7 10 s . being half-a-year ' a rent of bis little farm . As your correspondent has had an interview with «• Phil-o ' -the-Pound , " since ' his liberation from gaol , he will give an account of the scene in
Phillips own words : — "I was on toy way to Caimartnen" says that personage , "in order to transact a little business ' ; and when about n mile on my road , I met the two bailiffs , who informed me that they were going with a dietress to my house . I remonstrated '¦ with the fellows , and told them that I had a Bet off against the account ; as I bad furnished my landlady with bay , straw , and other ( arm produce , for which I had not got credit ; and which would make a material difference in the amount , if it did not leave & balance in my favour . But they paid no attention to this , and persisted Id their determination of executing the warrant I accompanied them back , and as we were passing a public-house at Nant- ) -cws they began sponging for something to drink ; but as I did not feel indebted to them for tbeir civility ,
I was in nowise disposed " to stand treat . " When we arrived at the farm , they began rummaging among the things , and one of my sons had some sharp words with them . While this quarrel was going on in the barn , an old ¦ woman appeared at the barn door , who seemed as if scarcely able to totter on her staff She said ' my little children , what ' s tbe matter with you here ? ' and my son explained to her tbe nature and business of our visitors . ' Bailiffs I' said the old lady in great apparent surprise , ' Bailiffs ! in my peaceful dominions ; no , no , ibis must xiot be ; come here , my dangbtars , and give these men tbeir gruel ! ' On looking out , " continued old Philip , "I saw teat the barn-yard was quite full of people , all dressed in -women's clothing , and the most of them with handkerchiefs over their faces . When John
o ' -ttie Ball Court ( one of the bailiffs ) heard about the ' gruel' he darted off through the crowd , followed by a band of the strapping dames ; even the old lady herself pursued the flying hero with wonderful agility , asd showeied some weighty blows upon bis shoulders with her stafL Few sf ber daughters were abls to keep pace with her ; and , after a cbace of about a quarter of & mile , tht > ranaway was secured , sad brought back to tbe boose . John Vie Mermaid got off with much less ipjaty than bAe comrado ; for , as be was captured immediately , be escaped all the blows which were plentifully administered during tbe flight . The bailiffs ¦ were then ordered to pa down on their knees , and Eat the writ ; but when they manifested their willingness to obey her mandates in this particular , by
each of them swallowing a part of it , 'Becca declared herself satisfied , and ordered them to put the remainder in th « fire , -which was done accordingly . The old lady then observed ' that H 3 they were strangers , they shonld be hospitably treated ; ' and asked one of her daughters ' -what -wom in the pig trough'J Grains , mother . ' was tbe reply . ' Bring here a couple ol platesf nil , and two spoons ! ' was the next order . The bailiff * showed no great inclination to feed ; bat , after receiving sundry admonitions from tbe oak saplings ¦ with -which each of tbe young ladies was provided , and making certain wry faces at the quality of their repast , they at last got through with their breakfast , and desired to begone . But , no ! the tdiblts only had been despatched ; and the old lady urged that it -would be a -want of courtesy in her to permit their departure without haviag partaken
of something to drink . Two jags were accordingly filled with not eery clean water from a neighbouring ditch , which they were desired to drain to the dregs . Having finished tbeir repast , they were ordered again t « go down on tbeir knees , and take tbe following oath on ihe Bible : — 'At the Lord liveth , and as my soul livetb , I will never come here to Hiake a distress again ! ' They were then permitted to take their departure , -which they did , mentally vowing that no earthly consideration should again tempt tbem out on sneb an errand . " Tbe old man farther informed yonr correspondent that on his arrival in Carmarthen , after tbe bailiffs went away , he was apprehended on a charge of aiding and abetting ; and , after four days' imprisonment , was liberated on being jbound over , hisuself in £ 200 , and two sureties is £ 100 each , to answer any indictment that may be preferred against him .
I have learned that on Thursday night last , another of these much dreaded officials was enjoying "tired nature ' s sweet restorer , " at a farm called Towy Castle , in the paiish of Llandefellog , near tbe town of Carmarthen , where be was lawfully in possession , under a sheriff ' s warrant for £ 130 . He was roused from his balmy slumbers by the unwelcome sound of a horse ' s hoofs , which he at once guessed to be tbe signal of the approach of the lawless Rebecca . He rolled himself up In the counterpane , hid himself below the bed , and used every effort to avoid coming in oootaot with a lady of whose prowess he had beard so much . Bat Rebecca insisted on an . interview , which the frightened " bum " ultimately consented to , under a promise that her ladyship woald do him no harm . Rebecca received him most graciously , told him he was not to blame , and urged him at once to depart and make the best of his ¦ way to Carmarthen , or vengeance wonld be sore to overtake him . Tn « alarmed bailiff instantly censsnted ,
and proposed p » a > j"g his way home through the fields , as tbe road was shorter and more convenient . ** Your convenience , " Bald 'Becca , " is not to be consulted ; you must go by the main road , that my daughters may see you go . " "Any way , " said the officer , "that will please you ; only let me go ! " and away he scampered as fast as his legs ooala carry him . Rebecca on this occasion ia said to have had the mane of a horse hanging down her back and a large feather in her cap . Her daughters were all disguised and well armed with guns , pistols , and swords . They saw tbe bailiff clear off the premises , ' and fired several shots after him to make him quicken bis pace . They then returned to Towy Castle , and wished to convey away the whole of the property ; but Mrs . Phillips , the occupant , begged of them not to do so , as the whole would be settled in s few days . 'Becca replied , that ualess the business -was settled to her satisfaction , she would pay tbem another visit .
On Monday night , a large party of Rebeccaltes perambulated the neighbourhood of Earl Cawdort lead-raines , at Rhandir Mwin , in Carmarthenshire , for the purpose of intimidating the workmen , who are from the county of Cornwall , from pursuing their mining operations . A degree of jealousy has existed for many years between the Welsh and Cornish miners who are employed at these works ; and it would seem that the former are sot averse to have Rebecca ' s all potent aid to expel the latter from tbe neighbourhood .
I mentioned last week the destruction of a gate between Boilth and Xlandovery . After the demolition of the gate in question two policemen were despatched from Brecknock to guard the toll-house , and to prevent any farther outrages . These two guardians of the peace and tbe pikes found their avocation too dry tot tbeir taste , and accordingly ad jeurnod to a neighbouring pablic-honseto " wet their whistle" with something comfortable . The evtr-vigilant Becca , taking advantage of tbeir absence , set fire to the hoose ; and the whole building was consumed before tbe policemen returned .
On Thursday night last , a farm-house and buildings were burnt down , about six miles from Carmarthen , on tbe Swansea road , in the neighbourhood of Llanddarrog . The cause as usual ; taking tbe farm over the head of tbe old tenant . The whole was reduced to a heap of ruins . On Saturday night , five prisoners -were escorted in from Llandovery by a troop of dragoons , charged -with being participators in some of the outrages in that quarter . They were two tailors , a stonemason , a labourer , and a boy . When the examination and committal takes place ( for they will be committed as a matter of course ) , I shall forward you the particulars .
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T . && fanners here nominally enjoy the franchise ; but it is only the semblance of freedom without the reality ; for they are driven to the poll , the helpless tools by which the aristocracy hope to keep the manacles of slavery rivetted on the limba of freeborn men . A new era basbowever dawned upon the minds of the Welch . They are now beginning to see , not exactly as their fathers saw -and daring to think , aye . and act , for themselves , without consulting any lordling's will . A spirit of enquiry is abroad ; and the more . that the people enquire the more they ore convinced that the present system is not , as they had hitherto been taught , the very height of human perfection , ' However tbe Times , and tbi other half-fledged brood , which follow in its wake , may trumpet forth their cuckooo notes , the
Welch people are daring to season upon " broad principles and deep foundations ; " and another election may perebance convince the country that they have not thus been reasoning in vain . I neither hope nor fear that tbe present " Rebecca Movement" will diverge into a "Chartist Movement ; " because I am certain that it will do no such thing ; but I am equally well cobvinced : that the numerous publio meetings which nre held almost daily , and tbe doctrines which are there advanced , are rapidly preparing the public mind for the recipiency of ' * . Chartist principles ; " and when they shall have been fully convinced of the fallacy of their present " movement ; " when they shall be fully aware tbat their hopes are vain of thereby obtaining substantial lelief , it will then be the duty of the Chartist public to take advantage of " the turn of the tide , ' and allow tbeir principles to have fall scope . It would
be madness , nay it would be worse ; it would be traitorism to tbe hallowed cause of Chartism to attempt to mix it up with the present movement . Rebecca most be permitted to run , her course . This may , and I have no doubt will , take ber months to effect ; but sooner or later her agitation must come to an end j and then will be the time for our Chartist friends to be up and doing . The ground will be ready cultivated for its reception . Ail that they will have to do will be to sow the seed , and ' ¦ "' *¦ my basnett to a 'prentice cap" a plentiful crop of back-bone Chartists will be the result . Not that 1 would counsel apsthy or Indifference for one moment , to any portion of the Chartist public ; we have bad rather too much of this already . Let the individual Chartists be unceasing in the diffusion of a knowledge of their principles ; and let our organized Welsh societies be prepared for united and energetie action , so soon as the present excitement shall have passed away .
It is now some twelve months ago since the "Rebecca ' warfare against toll gates begun . It has been carried on from that time to the present , without having experienced any considerable interruption . The Government took no steps at the commencement either to allay the excitement , to remedy the { grievance , or to curb the lawless spirit which had begun to manifest itself . The popular commotions "had no connection with politics ; " therefore , the Government did not feel called on to interfere . But no Sooner did these commotions cause the people to turn their attention to the study of political questions—no sooner did they bend their inquiries to the workings of the infamous New
Poor Law , to tbe revenues and management of ecelesiastical affa ra , or to any one of tbe thousand questions in which the people feel an interest—thaa the tactics of those In power were instantaneously changed ; their " craft was in danger , " and , come what may , Rebecca mast be put down . A solitary itinerant , a Bow-street magistrate , was sent down to Wales as a Government Commissioner , ill order that the farmers might be led to suppose- that the Government actually desired to remove their grievances . But old " Becca " was not to be gulled ; she raw tbat this was only an expedient to draw her off from the consideration of her wrongs ; and , consequently , her career was not for a moment interrupted .
A ratal police was next established ; tbe Principality was inundated with soldiery , botbo , foot , and artillery ; every village , nay , every clachan is now garrisoned with troops ; and hordes of spies and London police are prowling tbe country in every direction . Still the old Lady is unsubdued ; nay . she waxes bolder and bolder in proportion to the energy displayed by her opponents , and the more determined they appear to be to put a stop to her proceedings , the more she seems resolved to bid them defiance . The terrors ol the judgment seat are now to be added to the formidable array ; and on the day in which these observations shall be given to the public in the columns of tbe Star , the Special Commission will be opened in Cardiff for the trial of tbe Glamorganshire prisoners . Whether this will put a stop to the old Lady ' s progress is a mystery which I daro not venture to attempt to solve .
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The Storm in ^ Scotland . —Up till Tuesday night the weather had iftsett calm , and except for a few light raina , on the | whole favourable for gathering in the odda and end * of the harvest , and for raising the potato crop , Wednesday , however , was ushered in with torreuts of rain , which continued to fall without interruption the whole day , accompanied . -by sudden and fierce gusts of wind , increasing towards tvening to the wildest tempest , and the rain pouring out as if the whole sky had become one vast waterspout . About nine o ' clock the hurricane was at its height ; and Thursday morning was again calm , coldand clear ; butiwhen day broke the whole range
, of the Ochills was coated with snow as in the depth of winter ; and farther west , Benlidi and Benlomond were glittering like ] two mighty icebergs to the sun , presenting a singular contrast to our own Pentlands , which were still fresh and verdant as in high summer . Yesterday morning the thermometor stood at 28 , with ice on the ( pools half an inch' thick . The potatos were to some small extent washed bare by the tremendous rain of Wednesday , and although a few have been injured by the frost of yesterday morninp , we were happy to learn from several persons occupied in lifting them , that the injury has been to a very small extent , —Caledonian
Mercury . \ SuictDE . —Mr . Gibson , aged fifty-seven , official assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy , committed suicide , by hanging himself on Friday tho 13 th inst ., at his house , No . 9 , Blandford Square , London . A j ury on view of the body was holden ou Saturday before T . Wakley , IVI . P ., when a verdict " that deceased had destroyed himself , being at the time in an unsound state o ! mind , " was agreed to by twelve of the jurors ; one of the jury ( not included in the twelve ) dissented from the verdict .
Death of the Bishop of LiCHFiELD . —The Rev . Dr . Bowstead , Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry , expired after a painful illness , on Wednesday the llth iust ., at Cliftoa Wells , near Bristol . The deceased was a Whig in politics and strongly adverse to the tractarian doctrines recently introduced into the Church . He waa consecrated Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1838 , and on the death of Dr . Samnel Butler , the learned editor of " iEschyllus" and master of Shrewsbury School , in 1840 , he was tran-Blated to the see of Lichfield and Coventry . For some time he was prebendary of Salisbury We understand that , on Friday last , the mortal remains of the Rijsht Rev . Prelate were removed from Clifton to EccleBhall Castle , Staffordshire , prior to being deposited in Lichfield Cathedral .
The Clock op St . Clement's . —Our publisher is greatly inconvenienced by parties coming into the office to inquire why ! all the four dials of the clock of St . Clement ' s tell a j different story , and why every one of them is always wrong . If the clock cannot keep going let it turn off all its hands , wind up its affairs , and retire at j once from publio observation ; but let it not attempt to occupy & high and prominent position , if it is ] unable to fill it with credit to itself aud profit to the community . We have put up with more from this clock than frem any other public servant . Wo thought it might only want time to
bring itself round ;! but finding it will not give us any hour , we will no longer give it any quarter . We expected a meeting of the hands the other day at twelve o ' clock , but it did not occur , and things remain in the same uncertainty . We feel justified in calling on tbe clock for an account of its works ; and , it' no minutes halve been kept , we shall leave the public to judge of the entire matter . Since writing the above , we have fbeen told that it is the hourhand wbioh refuses to move in tbe affair , but that the minute-hand is quite ready to second anything reasonable . —PunchJ
The latb Mrs . Goudie , Burns' Cottage - The Ayr Advertiser , of last week , notices the death , at Burns' Cottage , of the relict of the late John Goudie , better known in the annals of the land of Burns as " Miller Goudie . ' Mrs . Goudie was in her 70 th year , and tUt within a few years of her death waa in her usual health , —receiving , with the same kindly , and somewhat maternal hospitality , every addition to the many thousands whom she had welcomed to the humble birthplace of the poet . No One who evet visited the cottage—not even the most eminent and fastidious in the literary world—but dropped something like a blessing upon the tidy old landlady , who kept the cottage as bright and olean as they could wish the poet ' s famei —[ In the Star of August 26 th , in G . J . Harney ' s 'f Northern Tour " , appeared a notice of Burns' Cottage aad its now deceased occupier , Mrs . Goudie , yras then apparently well and hearty . She has now followed her partner to " the land o' the leal . " ] !
The Heroes op Wah and op Science . —As an instance of men of a modern era , let us take Napoleon Buonaparte , Emperor of France , aud James Watt of Greenook , ] civil engineer . The former applied the energies jof a sagacious and comprehensive intellect to his own political aggrandizement ; the latter devoted his more modest talents to the improvement of a mechanical engine . The former was and is par excellence , a , hero of history—we should scarcely find in the works of the most voluminous ana ) ists the name of the latter . What has Napoleon done to entitle his name to occupy so prominent a position 1 He has been the cause , mediate or immediate , of sacrificing the live- of two millions of men . Has the obscure Watt done nothing to merit in the
records of mankind ? f Walk ten miles in any manufacturing district ; eater any coal mine ; examine the bank of England , travel by the Great Western railway , or navigate the Danube , the Mediterranean , the Indian or the Atlantic Ooeau—in each and all of ttese , that giant slave , the steam-engine , will be seen , an ever-living testimony to the services rendered to mankind by its subjugator . Attachment to a fayourite pursuit is undoubtedly calculated to bias the judgement ; but , ) however liable may be the obscure votary to scienoe to override bis hobby , Francis Bacon , Lord ! High Chancellor of England , in ascribing to scientific discoverers a highermer . it than to legislators , emperors , or patriots , cannot be open to the charge of egotistic partiality . What , then , says this illustrious witness I— " The
introduction of noble inventions seems to hold by far the most noble place among ah human actions . And this was the judgement of antiquity , which attributed divine honours to inventors , but conferred only heroical honours upon those who deserve well in civil affairs , such as the founders of empires , legislators , and deliverers of their country . And whoever rightly considers it , will find this a judicious custom in former ages , since the benefits of inventors may extend to all mankind , but civil benefits seldom descend to more than a few ages , whereas inventions are perpetuated through the course of time . Besides , a state is seldom amended in its civil affairs without force and perturbation ; whilst inventions spread their advantage without doing injury or causing a disturbance— Blackwood's Magazine .
THE ! REMEDY . The spring puts forth its buds and flowers , And vernal glories clad the bowers ; And bursting from its wintry tomb , Earth smiles in universal bloom . i The feather'd warblers oa the spray , In anthems grest returning May ; Again the murmuring streamlets flow , And all seems harmony below . Shall man alone bear grief ' s impress , Unmoved by nature's loveliness I Shall tbe belief he soon must dit Call from his breast the bitter sigh I
No!—for if nature he'll pursue , Health and long life will be his due ; For dread of death no longer chills Those who have taken Parr ' s Life Pills
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Dublin Workhouse . — Afr . M'DoBongb , school master of the South Dublin workhause , was obliged to resign from drunkenness . Mr . Skelly , clerk , of the Drogheda workhouse , is discharged . He "was a Rs . pealer . - Irish Soldiers in ihe Legion . —There " are no where to be found more amusing fellows than Irish eo diers , fall as they all are of quaint humour and smart repartee . " I have heard many droll traits and stories of tne Irish soldiery noder EvanSi- ^ On the 16 th of March , 1837 , when the Queen ' s troops were in full retreat , my eqaadrOn was formed Bf > on the road to Hernani , occasionally charging down when the opportunity presented itseJfi in order to cOver the
retreat . Up came an Irish infantry mad , who , although following the example pretty generally given him , and retreating , still seemed to do it a a contre cceur and kept up a sort of running fight on his own account , perfectly independent of any body else in the world . The fellow was steaming from what appeared to be a mixture of heat and fdry , and his face was as red as Dan O'Connell ' s after a few hours' speech to the finest pisanthry . His lips and cheeks were black with biting cartridges . 'Be G—d 1 ' said be thumping his musket bait down to the ground , and wiping nis face with a rag he took out oi his shako . Be G—A ! and they oall John Carlos a pretendher ! What a devil of a fellow he'd be if he was in airnest . ' —New Monthly Magazine . '
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From the London Gazette of Friday , Oct . 13 . BANKRUPTS . Joseph Harrison , of Brighton , coach-builder , ' to surrender October 3 D , at twelve , and November 24 , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitor , Mi . Cross , Surrey-street , Strand , London ; official assignee , Mr . William Turquand , 13 , Old Jewry Chambers , London . William Eiward Filey , of Norwich , wise-merchant , October 25 , at ten , and November 16 , at half-past one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitors , ' Messrs . Hill and Matthews , 1 , Bury Court , St . Mary Axe , London ; official assignee , Mr . James Foster Groom , 12 , Abcbnrcb Lane . Lombard-street , London .
James Leonard Woodruff , of Great Rlissenden , Buckinghamshire , innkeeper , October 25 , at three , and Nov 15 , at ten , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitor , Mr . Paterson , Boaverie-street , London ; official assignee , Mr . Lackington , 3 , Coleman-etreet Buildings , London . ¦ Joseph Rldgeway , of Manchester , merchant , October 26 , at eleven , and November 21 . at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester . Solicitors , Messrs . Barlow and Aston , Manchester ; and Messrs . Bower and Back , 46 , Chancery Lane , London ; official assignee , ' Mr . R . Powdreli Hobson , Manchester .
John William Harrison , late of Stockton-upon-Tees , Durham , grocer , October 30 , at eleven , and Nov . 20 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-npon-Tyne . Solicitors , Messrs . Conwell and Ridley , Newcaatle-upon-Tyne ; and Messrs . Maples and Co ., 6 , Frederick ' s Place , Old Jewry , London ; official assignee , Mr . Thomas Baker , Newcastle-npon-Tyne . Thomas James Whldboroe , ol Liverpool , eneralat , October 26 and November 14 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool . Solicitors , Mr . John Neal , Liverpool ; and Messrs . Hall and Co ., 2 , Verulatn Buildings , Gray ' s Inn , London : official assignee , Mr . James Cazenove , Liverpool .
John Smalley , of Snelntoa , Nottingham , iron-founder , October 26 , at one , and November 28 , at twelve , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham . Solicitors , Mr . John Smith , Waterloo-street , Birmingham ; and Mr . John Bowley , Nottingham ; official assignee , Mr . James Christie , Birmingham .
DIVIDENDS DECI / ARED . John Nottingham , ol Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , picture-dealer , dividend of 3 s . 6 d . in the pound , payable at 2 , Nicholas-street , Bristol , on October 25 , or any sue . ceeding Wednesday . . William Densem , of Bath , tailor , dividend of 2 s . 2 d . in tbe pound , payable at 2 , Nicholas-street , Bristol , on October 25 , or any succeeding Wednesday . John Stevens , of Rhodeswell , Limehoo&e , road-coutractor , first dividend of 7 a . in the pound , payable at 12 , Abcburch Lane , London , on October 18 , and three following Wednesdays . John Moss and Co ., of Hasliagden , Lancashire * cotton spinners , second dividend of 6 s . O ^ d . in the pound , pay . able at 72 , George-street , Manchester , on October 21 , aud every following Tuesday .
Potter , Lever , and Co ., of Manchester , merchants , final dividend of ^ L in the pound , payable at 72 , Georgestreet , Manchester , on October 24 , and every following Tuesday . John Fletcher , of Maryport , Cumberland , boiler-manufacturer , first dividend of Is . 6 d . in the pound , payable at 57 , Grey-street , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , on October 21 , or any succeeding Saturday . John Baylis , juu ., and James Baylis , of 15 , Gutter Lane , London , crape-manufacturers , tint dividend of 3 s . 6 d . in the pound , payable on October 14 , and the following Wednesday . DIVIDENDS TO BB DECLARED , AT THB COURT OF BANKRUPTCY , IN L 0 ND 9 N .
Joseph Boyd , of 189 , Piccadilly , publican , November 6 , at balf-past twelve—Jackson BarwiBe , of 16 , Pall Mall , house-decorator , November 6 , at one—Skinner Zichary Langtoa , of Barga Yard , Backlersbury , City , merchant , November 6 , at eleven . DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED IN THE C 0 UJITBY . Edward Ollerenshaw , of Manchester , hat-manufacturer , November 7 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester—Herbert ; Hardle , of Manchester , merchant , November 2 , at twelve , at the Court of
Bankruptcy , Manchester—William North , of . Bath , tavern-keeper , November 10 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol—Thomas Hooper , of . Hay , Breeonsbire , chemist , November 7 , at two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol—David Edwards , late of Pernbroke , Haverfordwest , miller , November 7 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol—Richard Pitt , Jan ., of West Bromwich , Staffordshire , hatteTj Nov . 0 , at half-past eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Birmingham . -
certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meet Ing . Henry Andrews and Charles TwJninjr , of Pecfcbam , Surrey , brewers , Nov . 6—James Watklns , of 65 , Exmouth-sfereet , Clerkenwell , draper , Nov . 6—JohBEHiott , of Colchester , builder , Nov . 8—Joseph Marriage , Jan ., of Moulsham , Essex , Miller , Nov . 3—George Jackson , of Hertford ; upholsterer , Nov . 10—James . Smith , of Goldsmith-street , Wood-street , London , warehouseman ,
Nov . 11—Charles Christelow , of York , woollen draper , Nov . 7—John Blonnt Herbert , late of Gloucester , timber-dealer , Nov . 14—David Edwards , late of Pembroke , miller , Nov . 7—Joseph John Monk Mason Scott , of Liverpool , corn-merchant , Nov . 7—Henry Bourne Jones , of Birfcenbead , Cheshire , plumber , Nov . 14—James Hellings , William Smith Bato , and T . Bate , of Rugeley , Staffordshire , brewers , Nov . 8— -Thomas Hitchcock , of Alrewas , Staffordshire , worsted manufacturer , November 8 .
certificates to be granted by tbe Court of Review , unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before Nov . 3 . Abraham Harris , of Sharp ' s Buildings , Towe > Hill , slop-seller— Robert Jones , of Carnarvon , draper—Ryce Davies , of ADercarne , Monmouthshire , grocer—Edward Riwlinson , of St Helen ' s , Lancashire , alum-manufacturer—Thomas Skinner , late of Godalming , but now of Dorking , Surrey , butcher—Charles Holebrook , of Uttoxeter , Staffordshire , plumber—Jobn Ogden Burnley , of Heckmondwike , Yorkshire , corn-miller—John Alex
Lee , of Liverpool , iron-founder—John Harriman and Thomas Harriman , of Nottingham , drapers- ^ James Bottomley , of Delph , Yorkshire , woollen-manufacturer —Enderby Laughton , of Wisbech , Cambridgeshire , brewer—Richard Gooddy and William Edward M'Kee , of Kingston-upon-Hull , millers—John Swallow , jun . of Sfcireoat , Yorkshire , corn-miller—William Henaey Bond , Kingswinford , Staffordshire , wine-merchant—Joseph Oates t of Glossop , Derbyshire , inaJceeper- ^ r Joseph Keep Beer and William Henry Bastick , of fit , Thomas the Apostle , Devonshire , coal-merchants .
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . Blackburn and StansBeld , Bradford ^ waste-dealers—T . W . Poldlngand S . Cowell , Liverpool , wine-dealers —Buckley and Aspden , Manchester , engravers to calico printers—W . Kilburn and Co ., JlJarsden , Yorkshire , coal-proprietors—Elam Brothers ? Oxford-atreet and Huddertfleld , truss-makers . ' 4
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THE STATE OF WALES . The inhabitants of South Wales are not only a serious and thinking race ; but they ara also a patient—an enduring—a long-suffering people . Difficult as they are to rouse , hard as it is to awaken them from inaction into activity and life , their resentment when roused ia fully equal to their former endurance j and their resistance of oppression is as powerful and stringent as their former patience . They have suffered long ; they have suffered slleBtly , and they . have suffered much . The grievances to which they have been subjected were partially detailed in the last week ' s Star ; and these , coupled with the rapacity of landlords and the depredation of agricultural produce caused by the Free Trade Tariff of Sir Robert Peel ,, operated so powerfully upon
tbe interests of the agriculturists , tbat one vast , general , and overwhelming ruin seemed about to engulph all who were engaged in agricultural pursuits . The burdens which they were called upon to pay were annually increasing to a fearful amount ; their rents , already screwed np by competition far above the real value of the land , were increasing also ; many of the farmers wer reduced to such an extremity of poverty as not to have in their possession even a change of linen , but were compelled to keep their beds while their shirts were in tbe vuah-tub ; many more enjoyed the near prospect of being tarned adrift from their homes—those homes which were endeared by many a tender recollection , tbe cottage in which they and their fathers were born
—with no other alternative before them than the wide world , or the detested Bastile , Cases like these were neither Isolated [ nor rare , bat were beginning to form the rale ; whilst comparative comfort was regarded as the exception . The situation of the farm labourers la troly pitiable . They well remember the time when they could enjoy toe present , and look . forward to the future .. THey c * nld at all event * regard that future , without the fear of actual starvation casting a gloom over their minds ; for they knew that tha then law of tbe land kept acoal want from the threshbold of their homes . But now , in these days of maudling sentiment and mock philosophy , the comforts of the labourer are fled , and his peaoe of mind has fled with them .
The state of degradation to which pur Welsh farmers have been reduced / should act as another stimulus to oar Chartist brothers never to lose sight of the great objects for which they are united , viz : —the franchise ; and sot only this , but the fullest and most ample protection in its exercise .
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED defence fund . j for the executive . " ¦ n v mv rTP-AVtr National Charter Asso- Mr . { Morris Donovan ... 0 1 0 BY MR- CLHiAV& . dation , Carrington , Mr . | Robert Bradury ... 0 1 0 for Ma . m'douall . near Nottingham 0 S 0 Doctor Hulley 0 10 0 £ s d Now Redford , per Mr . Half Manchester coUeo-Mr . Rathbone 0 0 6 Saanders ( omitted in tion 0 9 0 Sh . mptoB ( P « H « . pmi . « . > i . t 1 0 0 ^ jjg ^ ZZ I ' ? S * Sto-BS = 5 = , suBscmP T . g , EC | ivED ftg-3--- ^ } J y Snssrs ^ EL 0 F 0 B vlcm m KSffiSr .:::::: 2 1 I HnrfdMraflaId " ( Drooeed 8 From Sunderland 0 10 0 From the New Town « p iSa bv Mr D Millbank . Sowerby 0 11 0 Class of Chartists at of lecture by Mr . v . q Nomioh ^ 1 0 0 Bishopwearmouta .... 0 2 6 HSsfieid ^' rMr . E . Long Buckley 0 7 0 Truro-WilliamFarr ... 0 1 0 Clayton ) 0 5 0 for executive . j JohQ . Jonr 0 1 0 National Charter Asso- Sutton-in-Asbfield . 0 15 0 i E ? wPd TreRenzer 0 0 oiation , Carrington , Mr . J . Prescott , Red- _ , j WiUiam Burndge 0 1 0 near Notting ham ..... ! 0 5 0 ditch ... ! 0 1 0 Bedford , by A , Z 0 10 0 Ship , Steelhouse , Bir- ; «» ^ ,. . for the vict : m fund . minRfaam , per Mr . D . ! *<> b mb - «> pax * . Pott .... ., 2 0 0 Mr . W . Shttttleworth ... 0 3 6 St . Glave ' s & St . John's Mr . W . R ., Harmony Mr . Robert Bradbury ... 0 1 0 Locality -0 7 0 Hall , Hants . 0 5 0 Mr . John Roche 0 10 Council , i ' wr . Hamlets-0 4 8 Stok « -upon-Trent , per A Friend 0 1 0 Standard of Liberty » 1 " . I Mr . W . Eason 0 8 6 Mr . J . Isherwood 0 2 0 National Charter Asso- montps rptt ? ivi ? t » -by mr Mr . John Wier ........... 0 1 0 eiation , rCamngton , MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . M > j , ATmstrong 0 0 6 near Notting ham ...... 0 5 0 O CONNOR . Mr . W . Hashes 0 1 0 Wooton-ander-Edge , pr . for victims . Three Friends 0 0 6 Mr . Lacy ..- * «*•» 0 4 0 Half Manchester coU Mr . J . Anderson 0 0 6 BinRham , Notts ., per f lection -. ; 0 9 0 Mr . N . Duckworth 0 0 6 Mr . J . Sweet ..... 0 5 0 FromMr ^ Longbottom ' s Per Mr . Dixon .. 0 1 0 Keiehley Female Char- book , byJ . Millington 0 S 6 Mr . Thomas Elliott 0 1 0 tists .. „ .. 0 10 0 Mr . J . BirdaU ............ 0 0 6 Mr . Robert Bradbury ... 0 0 10 . «» wrwrmvE . Sf *'?? ^* •••*" ¦ ° 9 I Collected at public-house 8 4 2 ^ fob executive . Mr . S . Pewsoii 0 1 0 Mr , R . Paver .-..., 0 1 6 Boot and Shoemakers , Bedford , by A . Z 0 10 0 Mr . S . Bigee 0 0 6 Golden-lane 0 5 0 Sheerness , per Merry ... 0 6 0 Mr . J . S . Bnokley « 0 0 3 MrSriT " h 0 10 ' S . H ., perJ . B . MrsJHewett ... 2 7 6 Mr ' Ratbbone . .... 0 0 6 Mwry 0 1 0 A Friend 0 0 4 National Charter Asso- defence fond . Bradford . —A person at oiation , Carrington , Mr . Henry Hart 0 10 Mr . Jones ' s meeting 0 1 0 near Nottingham 0 5 0 From Nine Persons at By Mr . Smytha'book ... 0 SO Mr . J . K .. Nottingham , White-lee-Vale 0 1 6 Collected by friends 0 6 8 per Mr . Sweet 0 5 0 From Low Liversedge .. 0 0 3 From the New Town Wooton-under-Edge , From the New Town Class of Chartists at from three Chartist Class of Chartists at Bishopwearmouth .... 0 5 0 Teetotallers 0 3 0 Bishopwearmouth .... 0 2 G Sheernesa , per J . Merry 0 3 0
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From tlie Gazette of TiU ^ tay , Oct . 17 . BANKRUPTS ^ William Hollis Frears « n draper , Wood-street , Cheapside , to surrender October 30 and November 30 , at one o'clock , at the Court of Bankruptcy ^ London . Solicitors , Messrs . Wjlloughby and Co ., Clifford ' s Inn , London ; official assignee , Mr . Turquand , bid Jewry Chambers , London , a . William Dickinson , merchant , Bexley , Kent , Oct . , at half-past twelve , and Nov . 39 , at twelve , atthe Court of Bankruptcy , London . Solicitors , Messrs . " Walker and Gridley , Southampton ' Row , Bloomsbury Square , London ; official assignee , Mr . Graham , Coleman-street , City . '
Richard Soarpe , draper , Chelmsford , Oct 26 ana Nov . 14 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London Solicitor , Mr . Sole , Aldermanbnry ; official assignee , Mr ] Lacfelngton , Coleman-street Baildlngs , London . John Wood , tobacconist , Coleman-street , City , Oct . 2 . 4 , at ten , and Noy . 2 fl , at twelte , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Xonclon , Solldtori ; Meuu . tittmbj and Co ., CUoroh Court , Old Jewry ; official assignee , Mi Johnson , Bar iiigfaaHHrtHiet * London . _ ; Robert Tebbltt Abbott and Alfred Tuwaytes Tebbltt , tea-dealers , Birmingham , Nov . 1 , at twelve , and Nor 25 , at half-past eleven , at the Birmingham District Court SoUcitor , Mr . Mole , Biraingbjun { official MBig nee , Mr . Whitmow , Birmingham .
Anthony Gordon , William Cartwrlght , aud James Blaekett , machine-makers , Manchester , Oat 30 , a * elaven , and Nov . 20 , at twelve , at the Manchester Dis trict Court Soliciters , Mr . Makinson , Manchester ; and Messrs . Gregory , Faulkner , Gregory , and BourdllleD Bedford Row , London ; official assignee , Mr . Prases Manchester .
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Dreadful and Fatal Accident . —On Monday the llth inet , a serious aco dent occurred at Pasture Hill Colliery , wherebv seven individuals loBt their lives by a sudden influx of water . All those who were in the other part of the workings escaped , with the exception of one man , who hastened to warn his fellow-workmen of their danger , but before he could return , his ! retreat was cut off by the depth th water had gained , Mr . Bellamy , of North Snnderland . and the trustees of Bambro ' , sent their men to aid in reducing the depth of water and rendering every possible assistance . The names of the sufferers are : —Men—R . Coehrane , John Arkle , Donald Campbell , and John Arkle . Boys—Nicholas Mather , James Stephens , and Peter Gallagher .
Mb . Shibl ' s Speeches . —Of all men living , Mr Shiel is , distinguished for eloquence the most fiery and rapid he says himself that he is characterized by an " infelicitous rapidity of elocution . " No shorthand writer , however expert , can follow out his " many membered periods " . Aware of this , the Hon . and Learned Gentleman prepares his speeches beforehand , and after delivery gives them to his favourite paper , the Morning Chionicle , vrhioh , however , does not appropriate them to itsfilf , but gives what are technically called " pulls" to the other journals . It is onl y when Mr . Shiel intends to speak for two or three hours that he so prepares himself ; when he makes a short address , say of half an hoar , he immediately retires to the library
of the House of Commons , or , which is not unfrequently the case , for greater convenience and quiet , be goea , off to the office of the above-named old Whiff paper , and there commits to writing what he has just uttered , giving the slips of his copy to the printer as he applies for them . On the second day of tbe recent Irish Church debate , Mr . Shiel made his appearance in his club ( the Athenaum ) as early as eleven o ' clock in the forenoon ; he was supplied with an immense quantity of paper , folio after folio of reference , including Johnson's Quarto Dictionary were pilgd before him , and with " the pen of a ready writer , " ¦ he indicted his speech on the Church question . In the coarse of the day , Mr . Ward had an interview , with him , and Was delighted to find ihat he would have the weight of a thorough searching speech from Mr . Shiel ; they shook hands and parted ; Shiel resumed , and never stopped writing ,
musing , or referring to his books until the clock struck four . Off he hied to the House , and took his seat half an hour afterwards ; it was soon buzzed about that he was to open hiB battery in the course of the evening ; but , as your readers are aware , that opportunity was out away by Mr . Escott moving that the House be counted , when there were only a few members above thirty present . Mr . Shiel's speeeh , however , will beep . One word more—and I hope the most fastidious readers of the Register will not think that the curtain is improperly drawn—Mr . Shiel , ever since his memorable contre-temps at Penenden Heath , several years ago , where the courier of a newspaper obtained from him three columns of a speech , which waB printed in that evening ' s paper , but which , owing to a row at the meet ing , was never delivered—has always taken the precaution Of speaking his speeches before he gives them in MS . —London Correspondent in the Edinburgh Register . '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 21, 1843, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct673/page/6/
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