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Febbuary 21, 1846. THE NORTHERN STAR, *
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Febbuary 21, 1846. The Northern Star, *
Febbuary 21 , 1846 . THE NORTHERN STAR , *
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MONDAY . b The O tiGificnr . —iVc have always shewn that tbe 1 -weakness of the well-fed , stalwart , agricultural ins terest , consisted in the fact of its members being i thinly scattered over die country , while the strength t of their opponents was manifest in the facility with i which their adherents could be called together hy c placard , advertisement , or ring of bell . _ The confit dence of the country party consisted mainly , indeed ) altogether , in their Parliamentary strength ; aud i while the tenants knew and felt that the links which i bound them to their lords were oppressive , aud so ; many restrictions upon industry and capital , yet , i nevertheless , the old feudal system still prevails to : such a degree that the tenants * with leases were
VO-: LuNTEfcUlS , coerced by anomalous conditions to fight the repugnant battles of their masters , while tenant farmers , which means tenants at will , were pressed into the same force from the fact , tbat although their tenure was uncertain , aud might be destroyed at will , neverthe . eaa such course inevitablv entails the breaking up of establisknit : nts ; me necessitous , and therefore ruinous , disposal of stock ; as well as the surrender of any little improvement that might have been made , aud the forlorn hope of the realisation of distant anticipations , with the still stronger tie which hinds man to a home . Sow , these I 07 , 0 a 0 tenant slaves at will constitute more than a fourth of the county constituency of England , numerically speaking , whilst , iu reality , mis slave-class
holds the balance of power , inasmuch as they are the ready , the never failing reserve of the tyrant lords , to whose will they are bound upon the day of election . The country party—that is , the old , * hanging , torturing , crucifying , liuekhig , transporting , cruel , church and King party , are now perfectly aware of this latent strength ; and we learn from the numerous Protectionists' meetings , that they have at length resolved to bring the country muscle aud sinew , to bear upon ihe enervated frame of the exhausted operative , rather than abandon their power without a straggle . . Now , this is precisely what we have always predicted —that the landlords would create a bloody revolution rather than abandon that political power
which has so long preserved lor them all the channels of corruption as sustenance to feed their young broods upon tbe taxes of the country , while their elder children monopolised the laud of the country , and made population press too hardly upon the means of subsistence . The operatives , however , if weak in body , are strong in mitiJ , aud have leaders who have led them in the moral fight , that will bead them , if necessary , in the physical resistance ; while we beg to remind the bull frog yeomanry , that when the people petitioned for a repeal of the Corn Laws in ISlit , before machinery had achieved the sole dominion of trade , and when the removal of the restriction would have conferred essential benefit upon the manual operatives , upon the respectable old
handloom weavers , the bull-frogs cut them down , and trampled upon them like so many do ^ s on the held of Peterloo . This oligarchical interest , this laud monopoly , bound together by political power , is the nightmare that has long pressed upon society—the demon that the waking country has resolved upon dashing trom its breast . But yet we will foster even that demon , in the hope of using it , rather than accept the simple measure of free trade in corn , without those collateral changes which must of necessity place the country interest in antagonism to the unrestricted use of machinery and unopposed power of capital . The landlords , shorn of thvir monopoly , must , of necessity , drop into the school of labour protection , and agricultural improvement ; and it is therefore that wc will hail their last moan with
gratitude , or receive their tardy co-operation with gladness , if not with respect The hall is up , aud how we play the game depends upon the dexterity , the courage , the energy , and the prudence » f the ¦ working classes ; for the owners of machinery , the arbitrators of wages , and the possessors of capital may rest assured that an OLD DISTINCT and long united party will not sanctum disruption without having a blow , and a heavy one , at the despoiler . LOKD ASULET AXD THK TfiX UoClts' BllX . — " With tlu blessing of God ! " —to use Lord Ashley ' s words—the noble lord has resolved upon retiring from a hopeless contest for tbe representation of Dorsetshire , as well as from the leadership of the Ten flours * Bill ; nevertheless , we still impress upon all
¦ who would still pick their own bieimshes out of Sir Robert Peel ' s free trade measure , the necessity , the pressing and increasing necessity , of testing the dying House of Commons upon the question of Short Time ; and , above all , we remind them that Russell is still grasping after office , aud tbat he is pledged to the support of the iuea » ure , while ti : e Protectionists will gladly purchase a hustings toleration , and election support , by joining with them ; while the ray opposition of the League will furnish the strongest grounds and most cogent reasons for giving to it their support . We would impress , with all our weight , upon the friends of Short Time , that it is just a quesu-n , nay , just THE QUESTION , to test the present house upon , nnd that it wiil no : be a question to lie ao prudently submitted to a new House of Commons .
The Refohm Hill . —Everybody knons that it is a high breach of privilege for a peer of Parliament to interfere with an election , yet we find that a few noble dukes have contrived , despite of " the Bill , tkc whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , " to retain possession of so many pocket boroughs as to give them an undue and dangerous influence in the House of Commons . Wc lock confidently to the day when neither the peer nor the sen of a peer shall be qualified to sit in the House of Commons ; when members of the government and their subordinate ? may speak , but shall not vote ; and when the measures of the Commons shall be submitted , not to hereditary dotards , but to a senate of grave , wise men—none underthirty-five years of age-selected by the country ,
and whose mature wisdom will be a check upon the enthusiasm of the younger branch of legislation . This was a portion of our constitution , propounded in 1831 , and published and eulogised in "Cobbett ' s Register" of the same year : a change which , amongst many others , we hope to see , and at no very distant period . In fact , we are tired of peers and their sons' governments and their creatures—old women in pantaloons ; old ladies in wigs and lawn sleeves ; arnry officers and navy officers , all looking for promotion ; baronets , knights , merchants , bankers , manufacturerc , stockjobbers , lawyers , and fcull-frogs making laws to circumscribe genius - , to coerce labour , io regulate wages , levy taxes , and squander them upon their creatures , their pimps , their w s , their bastards , their crippled offspring and useless menials , while the toiling skive is hut allowed the remnant that remains upon their plate to feed himself and his
industrious family upon . Who dared to write like this in the good old times of Church and King , and what power can now resist the liberty of speech that we have wrenched from tiie griping tyranny of the law ; or who cau obstruct that knowledge thatflutters upon every passing breeze , and whistles the necessity of repentance and change , or obstinacy and destruction i Moxei asi » Share Market . —We have no hired City slave ; however , wc can read the signs of the times , and were ihefi r * t , by many weeks , toaunounce the fact that Peel would endeavour to prop the funds b y the railway deposits , pending the discussion of his great commercial measure , and we were the first to proclaim the disastrous results of this cunning policy . Xow , let us see how the daily press , that lags immeasurably behind the people ' s PIOXEER , treats the subject new . Wc take the following few lines ihmi tie linKsof this { Monday ) morning : —
SOME AITREHEXSIOX IS FELT THAT TIIE IXJUUIOUS 1 XFLUEXCE OF THE PAYMENTS I'OIt RAILWAY DEPOSITS WILL BE MADE MANIFEST
SHORTLY AMOXG TRADERS OF TUE LOWER CLASS THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM , AMOXG WHOM THE MANIA PRINCIPALLY SPIIEAD , AND WHO ARE NOT IN A POSITION TO OBTAIN ACCOMMODATION IN THE PRESENT STATE OF THE DISCOUNT MARKET . If our warning note has failed to alarm the confiding , will not the above extract from the Thundeierawake a just suspicion ? The Railways and the Lawyers . —Very many months ago , in partitioning the spoil of the confiding dupes , who had paid their railway deposits , we announced that the "gentlemen of the long robe " would not be found amongst the minor recipients ; in confirmation of this assertion , we can now state
that THREE HUNDRED AM ) FIFTY THOUSAND ACTIONS , all arising out of railway litigation , have been instituted ; and allowing that they proceed no further than the service of writ , entering of appearance , consultation , " declaration , and plea , and allowing the small sum of twenty pounds cost on each action , we have the enormous sum of seven millions of railway deposits , or funds from depositors , in some shape or other , modestly appropriated by tbe craft ; and happy ia the man who escapes with this small taste of legal knowledge . Now , of all money in the world , that most unprofitably spent , indeed thrown away , is that wasted in litigation . Jt dots not return in any profitable way to society ; it is hoarded up unfunded propert y , or lent on mortgage to the aristocracy . Trade . —The same cause that has had the effort of
propping the funds , has also had the effect of crippling trade , as we learn from all quarters that there is a delicacy to icereasc stocks until the result ol Peel ' s measure is known and understood . Tue Cons Trade . —The hope of famine induces the philanthropic farmers to keep up grain for the famine squeeze ; while , nevertheless , the dread of Sir Robert Peel s measures is bavins the effeetof keeping prices down , as millers are unwilling to speculate bfivond the mere hand to mouth supply .
IRELAND . FAMVSE . ^ -Sti !) the cry of hunger rings through the sea-bound dungeon , while the wretched hovels of the peasantry are deserted at night by the miserable occupants in search of food or reckless vengeance upon those whose laws and monopoly hav e been the eause of starvation and want . Jt is a sin , that while pestilenct- ami fawine are raging through a fertile and productive country , that the poor inhabitants should ^ be driven to exasperation and crime , while
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tlieir representatives are nigktlyjtiglitina the b y-batU < of their respective orders . ;
TUESDAY . The Great Question . —The resumption of the debate on the great question last night , has this week , like the last , stripped the papers of all interesting matter ; indeed it would appear as if society at large entered into a contract to suspend its usual pranks until the Commons had closed their jabber . However , the tedium of the long-protracted debate in the Commons was a little relieved by a few shots from the Protectionist outposts in the Lords . Wc must repectfully request our friends to keep sternly beforethem the reasons we have assigned Un approving Peel ' s tariff of 1 S 42 , as well as his present measure . Now these two changes must be taken as a whole , and cannot be separated . In 1841 . in our
letter read by Mr . Wakley in the House of Commons , and published in the daily press , we designated the tariff of that year as a precursor-Chartist measure We relied upon it as the wedge to break up the old oliirarchical factions , and we asserted that it would belollowed by other measures , which would lead to the complete and entire overthrow of what is called the constitution of the country . We predicted that the funds would beattacked ( they have been reduced by a quarter per cent . ) , we prophesied that the Church would not escape the mawlmg hand of the paralvsed agriculturist ; we prophesied that a party wholly distinct from commerce and agriculture would spring up , who would see not only simplicity
but beautv in Chartist principles : we even said that manv of our colonies would he given up , or would throw off the yoke , and that a minister ot agriculture would be added to the cabinet . The history ot a countrv is not like the history of a family ; a fact or two mav constitute the records of the one , while the other consists of innumerable incidents . Let us now " 0 to the progressing proof of our predictions . In the House of Lords last night ( Monday ) Lord Beaumont moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the burdens on real property ; and in considering the question , the supporter of the Poor Law Amendment Act is now compelled to speak of the poor in the following terms : —
The support of the poor was a national object , just as much as the maintenance of justice and the national defences ; nor did the original Poor Law ever contemplate levying these rates from one particular class of property . lie then attacked tho operation of the . Poor Law with respect to the Law of Settlement : — To that law he had an unalterable objection , as being injurious in the extreme to the agricultural body , and useless to the manufacturer ; white agitating for free principles in tbe corn market , they should secure the same ADVANTAGE IS THE LABOUR MARKET , and the fir .-t step to this would be to DESTROY ALTOGETHER TIIE LAW OF SETTLEMENT . * * # In his epinion , it was impossible to estimate the loss of protection , and he would defy the most iugenious calculator to arrire ut a satisfactory result .
Here , then , we have the title of the poor involuntarily forced upon the consideration o the indolent , thoughtless lords . In explaining the mode of doing away with the Law of Settlement , Lord Beaumont said—That he differed from Sir James Graham ' s five years ' industrial residence , for he thought that the pour man . vas emiflen to settlement and relief WHEHEVElt HE HAFPESED TO Vf . VST IT . Now , wc ask the pettifogging brawlers agaiist our encomiums upon
THE ALL-MIGHTY MEASURE , whether that one single avowal of itself does not characterise Peel ' s measure as worthy of more praise than even we bestowed upon it ? Lord Dacre said that the country laboured under an enormous weight of taxation , and tbat it was most important that justice should be done to landed proprietors , tenant iamiers , and householders by the remission or equalisation of their peculiar burdens . Yes , Lord Daere , we have told you for the last
thirteen years that the way to adapt taxation to the exigencies of the State was bv making the LAWMAKERS the TAX-PAYERS ; and as soon as this change is effected , then children wiil laugh at the notion of a people crying out against famine being called upon to pay over fifty millions a-year for manbutchers , and sailors , and your younger sons , and your royal w s , and bastards , and placemen , and pensioners , quartered upon industry . When you have to pay tor royal prostitutes , you'll see crime in prostitution : when you have to pay for war , you'll
see virtue in peace . Lord Stanley was anxious to enter his protest against the opinion put forth by Lord Beaumont . The tithe was not a peculiar burden on land ; on the contrary , he airreed with Lord Brougham in thinking that the bind tax and tithe were burdens upon land IX TIIE SEXsjE OF WHICH THEY WEKE SOW TALKING OF 1 H . -R . DEXS . Yes , res Lord Stanley , you'll talk of burdens now in a very ditfeient sense when you have to pay them vourself . He continues : —
If the l ? . nd were unprofitable the rent fell , but the claim of the titlieowner was undiminished ; and being undiminished , must be added to the price actually paid for the production of corn . Xor was the ease altered bv commutation , for if after that comaiutaion the legislature lowered the price of the article produced , and insisted the producer should pay the same amount for his commutation , it was an increased and ADDITIONAL BUlt-DEX . In conclusion , he could not agree with Lord Beaumont in thinking that the abolition of protection was already settled , though he concurred with him in his dcs . re that the opinion of the country should be deliberately taken un the question .
Sow , here we have the very hig hest Churchman meditating an attack upon tithes , while we have the roc- id of the Northern Star , of lSiO , showing preciselv the advantage that free trade , unaccompanied bv a ' tithe adjustment , would confer upon the Church . In fact , we assert , without fear of contradiction , or without the pusillanimous dread of being thought egotistical , that we have analysed , for five years , cverv argument that is now brought to hear upon the question of free trade . As to Lord Stanley ' s threat of a dissolution , and his opinion that the question of protection is not settled , it but confirms us in the belief that Staulev and the old Tories will die hard ,
and « ive the Church a kick iu their last throes . House of Commoxs . — The Duke of Richmond ' s eldest son , Lord March , and who has no earthly business in the house , spoke first and said nothing . Mr . MiliKX Gibson said , ' with respect to America , it was notorious that the price of labour was near ' . y double that in England . " A good reason , we think , for enforcing the principle of restriction , because the good wages iu America is a consequence of the paucity of hands in proportion to the work required to be done ; and when we can weed the rattle-box and the sweating-room of their exotics , we shall have double wages to that paid now for labour . Mr . Gibson
continues : — The question was now in such a position that it c » uld not be endangered It was carrwd , indeed , already—not , indeed , by this Parliament , or by politicians in either House oi Parliament , but by the forc « of public opinion out of doors . There was no truer barometer of public opinion than Sir Robert Peel . If they wished to know what the people out of doors were thinking of , let them look to what Sir Robert Peul was doing . If Mr . Gibson means that free trade in corn ,
without the collateral measures , is carried by the force of p opular opinion , he ' s grossl y mistaken : for , we toll him , that , notwithstanding an approval of the whole measure , as a wedge to split up the block , we would , nevertheless , resist to the death the single measure of free trade in corn ; while , we arc ready to confess that Sir Robert Peel is * good barometer of public opinion , but it is of Chartistopinisn—not free trade opinion-Chartist opinion , which he hopes to crush by timely concessions , but which he inevitably fosters , as the principle cau neither be killed nor arrested .
" Mr . Halsev wished to know , if the price of English wheatshould fall , OX WHAT PRINCIPLE SIR
ROBERT PEEL WOULD SETTLE THE TITHE COMMUTATION ACT ?" Of course Sir Robert Peel did not answer that question ; but wc will . He will settle it upon tbe principle of dog eat dog ; pull baker , pull devil : pull landlord , pull parson ; and the devil part the couple . Sir Robert Peel dwelt most extensively on the threatened famin ? in Ireland , aad for the purpose of strengthening his position , he read A scries of letters received by the last two Irish mails from Sir D . Roche , Lord Stuart de Decies , anil various other gentlemen ut ditterent warts of that kingdom ,
givsn » the most appalling description of the scarcity of the potato in Ireland . Oue-ei"hth of the crop was always wanted lor seed ; and if that quantity was « ot saved from consumption as food , Ireland would hare to struggle with famine in the next year also . It was impossible to supply that quantity of potatoes "rom any foreign country ; and the government therefore proposed to get * he seed potatoes into its keeping by givinjf othsr food in exchange for them . Sow . iii that case , would it be possible for him in May next , sritb a duty of 17 s . on the importation of foreign com , to call on the people to pay cuch a duty for the f « ud to be distributed to tbe people of Ireland to save
tlu-vri from starvation ? Snpi > ofiog famine then to ensne , nwldthcaristocracy beablctol < ear theotiium of saying " Wc wi ' . lifcroto on tliegotermnetd the retjiovtili & iiy of utpplyuyt the people of Ireland with food , but one lota of tho Com Laws we will not jturt tcifft . " Sow , in simple justice to ourselves and the Executive , we ask the reader to hold the measure of the Executive iu one hand , and the last pa ssure of the above paragraph in the other hand , and a .-k himself whether tin- burthi uuf that Message *' X & nut that , if FA . M 1 XE CAME , which Sir Robert Peel asserts
WILL COME IX MAY , the Chartists were prepared as a body to resist a measure , the intention , if not the effect , of which was to arrest pestilence , stai ratios-, and famine . Were we not ready to hazard our policy upon this point alone , and was it not unanimously acquiesced in ? Did wc not declare aud reitemte that we would not jeopardise the character and the very « xt . -teiice of tho Chartist party , by resisting a measure whieh , if stopped by our obstruction , weu'd have afforded the League the opportunity offing- "HERE IS FAMINE ; we would have
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arrested it , but your trieuds opposed us , ami is not a hungry man susceptible of hopeful impressions when those in want have built so much upon the cry of cheap bread ? " Yes , wo assert , without the fear of contradiction , that , UNDLREX lSTING CIRCUMSTANCES , a successtul resistance to the measure upon our part would have given to the League the undivided confidence and support ef the working classes . We believe that scarcity—tha t is , even greater scarcity than Ireland is periodically visited with , has already come , and we cannot too much rejoice at having stopped the League and 0 'Council howl of " OH , THE RASCALLY CHARTISTS STA RVED YOU !" Peel proceeds : — He reminded the House that in November last he had advised , and three of his colleagues had supported , the suspension of the existing ; duties on corn by an order in council .
In November last , wc used the following language ; _ " If famine threatens Ireland , and If scarcity threatens England , why doesn ' t Sir Robert Peel , without waiting for the meeting of Parliament , open the ports , and trust to the people lor an indemnity against his accusers . He goes on : — That portion of his measure which related to the Corn Laws might be rejected , and the other portion accepted , or vice versa . He wished it , however , to be considered as a whole , and rejected or accepted as such . It was also the intention of the government to adhere to Us own proposal . He stated this , however , distinctly to the house —that if the agricultural body should be of opinion that
immediate was preferable to deferred repeal , a nd if by uniting with the Anti-Cora Law League they placed him in a minority , he should only . consider what course he ought to take to give effect to the law so amended at their instance . Ue would do all he could to carry the proposition of the government ? He preferred it . He d \ U not pretend to say now what eftect success in the House of Commons might produce elsewhere ; but his opinion that it was necessary to procure a hiial adjustment of this question was so strong tbat he should prefer immediate repeal so carried against him to the chance of throwing the country into confusion by postponing for sis months the settlement of a question which was now paramount to all others .
No , Sir Robert , wc won't have the free trade fat without our own bone ; we'll have all or none . And then , if you choose to take that responsibility whieh must inevitably follow the settlement of the question , without the three years' adiustment , why , welland good ; we must only see how we can scramble the people ' s share out of the mess-trough ; We now come to the conclusion of the Prime Minister ' s speech , and we give it verbatim , that we may luxuriate in another bit of self-adulation : — Those times may recur ; the years of plenteousness may pass away , the years of dearth may succeed ; and if they do come , and if it should be our duty again to express sympathy with suttering , and again to exhort to fortitude , 1 do ask every man who
hears me to commune with bis own heart , and ask himself this question—If these calamities do occur , if we must express sympathy with suffering , if we must repeat the exhortation to fortitude , will it not be a consolation that we have relieved ourselves from the heavy responsibility of regulating the supply of human food ? Will notour expression of sympathy be more consolatory , our exhortation to fortitude mom impressive , if we can at tbe same time say , and say with pride , iu tint time of comparative prosperity , urged by no necessity , yielding to no clamour , we anticipated this difficulty , and removed every impediment to the free circulation of the bounties of creation ! Will it not be a great and lasting consolation to us to be enabled to say to a suffering people , " These are the chastisements of an all-wise aud
beneficent Providence , sent for some great and humane purpose , to abate our pride probably , to coiivinco ks of our nethiiiguets , or to waken in us a sense of our dependence upon God ; they are to be borne without murmuring ; " and we shall then be able to think that the dispensations of Providence have not teen aggravated by human institutions preventing to the people the supply of food ! Those arc Sir Robert Peel ' s words ; now mark ours , delivered a thousand times : — * ' How comes it to pass that if famine talis upon tlieiand the industrious alone are the sufferers ? Why is it that those who tamely bear i . U the pangs of hunger are to be satisfied with royal and aristocratic sympathy , or to brave
the law ' s oppression if they complain ? You murmur uow , aml murmur justly ; when famine falls unequally , you are bearing all the horrors , but if every man hud the means of working out his own salvation , and if famine came upon toe land as ihe dispensation of tin all-wise Creator—if the Queen , the peer , and the squire , suffered a comparative diminution in the comforts , you would be cheerfully reconciled to an abatement iu your necessaries of life . This is the reason that I complain , ami 1 will complain until I sec an attempt to remedy this crying , this unnatural disparity . " Now , where is the Chartist that has not heard that passage twenty times over ?
NOMIXATIO . N FOR WESTMINSTER . —Our expi'CSS lias just brought the overland mail from Covent-garden , by which we learn that the General beat the Captain in the show of hands . " "We trust to-morrow he will beat him by a siiow of tongues ; however , they are both pledged to vote for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones , so that our dearest cause wiil have a friend in either . Frost , Williams , and Joxks . —It will be seen with delight by every man in the kingdom , that Mr . Diincombe has named Tuesday , the 24 th , as the day for presenting petitions , and moving an address to the Crown for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones . Now Chartists , you have a week from
this day ( Tuesday ) , three days after you have read the Star , and if ever you delved , spun , or wove for three days and three nights , delve , spin , and weave as you never spun before , for the short time allowed you , and we firmly believe , that as the time is named , more will be done iu three days than would have been done in three years . Sign , scribble , scrawl away ; send your petitions both ends open , double tied with a piece of string , addressed to T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., House of Commons , London , and heaven will bless every man , woman , and child that joins in the rightcousdemaud , and every tongue will hoot and hiss every candidate who refuses to swell the cry for their restoration . Oh ! what a day for England when those three men land .
Money Market . —Still Consols are going down
IRELAND . Frke Trade . —The Irish Protectionists who have not got anything near like their legitimate share of plunder and patronage , and who have not got the safety valves of commerce as a substitute for protection , are beginning to muster nil their strength to oppose Peel ' s measures ; but , like their English brethren , they'll fail . Why didn ' t they read miv letters , written from York Castle , apprising them of the coming storm , which they now vainly hope to resist . Just think of those usurpers , those descendants of Cromwell ' s soldiers , crying out about their privileges and protection , while THE NATIVE |
IRISH ARE STARVING . Mr . Gregory and his Constituents . —The lion Conservative member for Dublin , Mr . Gregory , has been served with notice to quit by his constituents for supporting Sir Robert Peel's policy . ( fCosxaj . v . O'Higgi . vs . —Elsewhere will be found a communication from our Dublin correspondent , by which it will be seen that a county grand jury ol landlords threw out the bills against O'lliggins , while- the grand jury of shopkeephig cits found tilCm , alter a wrangle . It will also be seen that tile trial is removed by certiorari to the Queen ' s Bench , so that , in the language of our reporter , it bears the aspect of a great State trial .
FOREIGN . % a reference to our foreign summary it will be seen that oppressed Poland has at length resolved upon rising as one man to lace the bayonet , the musket , aiiil the cannon of the tyrant autocrat . All tbat we can say for the present is , may the Lord strengthen their arm in defence of liberty , and may tliey sweep every vestige of the tyrants' power fi-om oil * the fair land of Poland !
WEDNESDAY . The debate and the Westminster election are the all-absorbing topics of conversation , and all news not connected with those two topics is rejected as trilling , until the i . s-ue of one and the result of the other is known . True , tli 3 wearisoraencss of the debate is a little relieved by the novelty of some of the preliminary skirmishers;—for instance , petitions against the embodiment of the militia were presented by Mr . Trelawney—throe from Cornwall ; from the southern division of Leicestershire , by Mr . Parke ; from a large body of inhabitants of Bristol , by W . F . II . Berkeley ; from 3 , 000 of the inhabitants of Leicester , by Sir John Eastbope ; from Monmouth , by Mr . Blewitt ; from various parishes in London ,
hy Mr . Duncan ; from 7 , 900 inhabitants of Salford , by Mr . Broiherton ;> om the West-Riding of York , by Lord . Morpeth ; and similar petitions from several places , by Mr . Hume . OUR . MAN presented a petition in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill , and also obtained leave to bring in a hill to amend the Friendly Societies Act , which was read a first time and ordered to be read a second time this day week ; the reasons of the lion , member for introdu cing the bill will be found in his clear and explicit speech , which wc give at length . It is really a very singular thing that a pewou who is neither lawyer , clergyman , mamiftcturer , ; post-m ; i « ter , nor officer , should bo able to make himself so minutely acquainted with all the technicalities and practices of those several professions .
All ' . 0 Conuell introduced his measure for relief to Ireland , and concluded by humbly thanking the Saxon Parliament , in his own name , and in the name of the Irish nation , for the patient and indulgent manner in which the honourable Saxon ? e . indetCL-nded to hear him . Ho didn ' t mention the threatened coercion ; neither did Sir James Graham give any pledge as to the future course to be pursued by governm ent , beyond some temporary relief to bo administered to the starving people . Not a word about the Landlords' and Tenants' Bill did Sir James say ; and thus the Irish have come off with a withdrawn motion by the Liberator , aud now thev arc to depend
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upon the tende r mercies ot their teuileMieai'tcd Saxon rulers . Lord John Manners , son of the Duke of Rutland , opened the great debate , but said very little . Sir Charles Napier , a joll ; old sailor , and a capital good fellow , amused the house by describing the mode in which he has improved a farm of forty acres of bad land , which formerly grew only four or live quarters of oats , perjacrc but now produces eleven quarters , and on which , after losing a 200 for the first year , he now , by drainage and SPADE CULTURE , taught him by a humble neighbour , realises a CONSIDERABLE PROFIT . The gallant admiral also stated , that if the gentlemen opposite would do with their land what he had done with his , that tboy need not be afraid of foreign competition , as England would
soon become a great corn exporting country . And when the Protectionists laughed at the jolly admiral sailor ' s little patch of forty acres'he gave them a broadside , in the assurance that what was true of forty acres would equally hold good as to 400 , 000 acres , and that his land was of the very poorest , coldest , and impoverished description , and he now realised a handsome income by it . Well dene , jolly old tar ! and may you long live to pace the greensward—it is better than pacing the deck of the " woollen walls of old England . " Friend Bright , after a regular Covent Garden fling , contended , that under our existing policy the agricultural labourers received the SMALLEST S HA RE of the produce of the soil . Now , we should be glad to know what shave of the produce of his mill those who work the machinery make ?
Lord Duncan moved the adjournment of the debate till . Thursday next , so that we are to have another coil of the snake before we have done with it . By St . Paul ! its the slowest cookery for those that are waiting for a breakfast that wc have ever heard of . The Irish are starving and the English are beginning to get hungry , the Prime Minister announces the certainty of famine coming before May , while we see an equal , if not a greater certainty of the debate lasting till the end of June . It is good for another week in the Commons , it is good for three weeks in the Lords , it ' s good for a month in committee , and , with a fortnight ' s Easter holidays , brings us to the middle of May ; and this is barring accidents that may happen outside and changes inside .
Sin ltonwir Peel . —It is confidently stated by Sir Robert Peel's most intimate friends , that in the event of his measures being carried , he will abandon office , and leave to his Whig successors the precarious inheritance of seeing them carried into effect . In such an event , however , the people would now insist upon having their say ; and with Peel's measures once carried , whole and entire , we safely affirm , that without a bold , a sweeping , and comprehensive Short Time measure—not a Ten Hours' Bill , though we'll take that first—but such a bill as will so regulate the working of machinery as to render the existence of a competitive labour reserve impossible , but that the hours of labour shall be governed as well by the improvements in machinery as by tbe amount of
population requiring work . Unless we see such a measure as wiil make "machinery MAN'S HOLIDAY , INSTEAD OF MAN'S CURSE— " and mind , those were our own words , enunciated at Stockport eleven years ago—unless we see such a measure as tbat , with Lord Beaumont ' s Law of Settlement—that is , that the poor man shall receive relief IN THE SPOT WHERE HE SHALL WANT IT , we would rather see a military despotism in this country than a government of LEAGUE WHIGS . The time , we believe , is conic , when the whole question of PARENT aud CHILD ( LABOUR and CAPITAL ) , must be taken into consideration and legislated justly upon ; and , as we prefer obedience to the fifth commandment to obedience to the commandments of
political economy , wc shall honour the PAltEN'l in preference to the CHILD . If the people do not now bestir thcmselm for a Ten Hours' Bill , we hope they may be fed in the Unions upon bones for the remainder of their natural lives . Monbt Market . —Iu spite of the best endeavours to keep the funds up , a considerable re-action has taken place ; and well would it have been for the flats if they had given ten guineas each for a copy of the Northern Skir , and had profited by our timely
warn-Court CIRCULAR .-JOY FOR THE MILLION ! - Providence always takes care of the poor , and in its mercy promises them another DEAR ROYAL BABE iu April next , though the ill-natured political economists would dash our loyal aspirations , by deferring the joyful event till May ; but her Most Gracious Majesty takes , we are sure , too lively an interest in the happiness of her most loyal subjects to be any party to such a disappointment . Oh , dear ! oh , dear i what a tribe of royal paupers the royal couple threatens us with ! Is there no parson Malthus to relieve the ROYAL PARENTS from the INFLICTION of a large family ? We wonder what the Malthusians would say if the female operatives were as fruitful in industrious children as Queens and Peeresses arc in idle ones !
I Ireland. I Poor Seery.—This Poor Fello...
I IRELAND . I Poor Seery . —This poor fellow , who was § found guilty on his SECOND TRIAL , at the § Commission held at Mullingar , was MURI DERED on Friday last , , and from a pertect I consciousness of his innocence , his remains were I escorted to the burial ground by 60 , 000 of his 9 insulted countrymen and women . IVe have I read the evidence upon which he was murdered , 1 attentively , and wc have no hesitation in saying I thatnojust man would "hangadog" upon such I evidence . The Irish priesthood , how ever they I may be reviled by those who have despoiled 1 tlicro . of the right of administering monastic I property to the poor of their flocks , are not just I the men to sanction murder , or to withhold 1 from the murderer , or the attempt at murder , I that censure which justly belongs to him . Such I is the confidence of the poor in the only pastors I tlmt have never deserted them , through torture , I lingering punishment , and death , that we would § as soon believe that we were nosv walking upon i our heads , as that Seery would die with the I guilt ot falsehood upon his soul , aud the crime I of withholding his full confession from iiispasi tor . Neither would all the money in the English H Exchequer induce so many pious priests to join 8 ill the lamentation over his murder , if they were I not convinced of his innocence . Sir Francis 5 Hopkins lives , so does Bingham Baring , but I Cooke and Seery lie in the cold tomb . We cannot envy the feelings of the two living mur-I ilerers , nor those of their coadjutors upon the I two juries . Those upon tho first who held out i against the judgment of the majority , ana those I upon the second , who were awed into an act of I murder front a dread of the treatment their 3 predecessors had received , itis hard to write 9 on cold-blooded murders committed upon the a defenceless Irish people , in legal phraseology , 1 but if " great libels" are the best correction of great crimes , then would wc ransack the catalogue of stinging , branding , damning wotds , for epithets to stigmatise the murderers of this poor but honest peasant . We rejoice to find that his own class sympathise with his widow and his 1 orphans , and that , though stripped of their pro-1 lector , vengeance will not bo satiated by an I ottering of more victims . Subscriptions have § already been entered into for the support of I Seery ' s laniil . i . We shall * end our mito to Mr . I O'lliggins ; and if ever we were justified in I making an appeal to the English Chartists , for a humane and charitable purpose , it is an appeal on behalf of this murdered man ' s family . \\* shall be happy to receive anything that will betoken Chartist abhorrence of cold-blooded murder , and to transmit it to Patrick O'lliggins , Esq ., who has taken a lively interest in the family of poor Seery .
Coercion. — Not A Word Has The Liberator...
Coercion . — Not a word has the Liberator said about the threat of Irish coercion since he came to Saxon land . Here his waitings are as plaintive as a sucking dove , while ho roars away in his letter to Conciliation Hall , " Hurrah for Repeal ! " Now , we tell him , and the Irish people will very soon discover the virtue of our policy , that his course , instead of thanking the Saxon Parliament in his own name , and in the name of the Irish people for hearing him , would be to demand of the Prime Minister a full development of his intended Cv-ovcien Bill , ami then , in reply , to say , " 1 call from this spot upon every Irish member to join me in resisting the
commercial policy of the government , if Ireland ' s share is to be coercion . If he has fifty followers , whoso seats depend upon obedience to this just call , they would break up the administration , and the Irish will soon find that their strength consists in the policy of OBSTRUCTION , and that their greatest weakness is manifest in the prostitution of their representatives to the support of measures whieh may entail toleration or patronage . Fifty Irish members standing together would be able to snap any government that was hostile to the interest of the people , but the fellows forget country , and look to self , the very moment they enter the House of Commons .
FOREIGN . From every country iu Europe each posi brings intelligence of the struggle being now made for the overthrow of despotism , and the establishment of democratic principles . The great _ Chartist petition of 1 SI 2 has awakened the spirit of liberty throughout the continent of Europe ; the next , signed , by live millions , will establish its temple . SwU / Mtuul , almost in the heart of the Italian serf states , presents to the slaves all the beauties of republican institutions ; while France , ready to assist the Austrian despot , fears to encounter the wrath of Switzerland '; tiie heart of Poland is beating high for liberty , and Prussia ' s despot is cowering before the united voice of a people lodking for a constitution . Belgium , , with her agricultural constitution ; Switzerland , with her republic ; Saxony , with her small farms , stand undisturbed in the " midst of the European volcino . Land is the basis of the constitution of tlmse three little countries ; while those based upon king-craft ,
Coercion. — Not A Word Has The Liberator...
large enough to swallow them up , are awed into quiescence from the dread ot'deruocratic infection and the agricultural mania .
THURSDAY . Tub City op Westminster without a Rf . pkese . v TAiivB . —This is a carious fact , but nevertheless true , even as regards the electoral body . General Evans and Gapt . Rous unitedly polled GG-Ll , and there arc 14 . 0-1 ,-J electors in the city , leaving 1 , -M , or nearly 1000 of a majority , unpolled . This is such an abuse of the vote held for others in trust , that we eouK not possibly urge a stronccr reason for restoring the trust to those from whom it has been -so long withheld .
Ghkemvicii . —Wc confess ourselves , though not easily astonished , to havo been literally flabbergasted last night ( Wednesday ) , on entering the great Lecture Room which the Greenwich Chartists had , with a spirit peculiar to that indomitable body , ventured to hire for a meeting on behalf of Frost , Williams , and Jones . The building is a magnificent one , fitted in the style of an Amphitheatre , with great taste and elegance , and was not only tilled , but in some parts , and especially in the angles , was literally wedged . Three-fourths of the meeting consisted of the middle and higher orders , and never was there an audience belonging to those classes that did themselves more honour than did those gentlemen lust night . They not only paid attention , but like an
audience at a theatre , nearly every pewon present had a copy ofithe new plav ( the Charter ) in his hand , which was very prudently distributed gratuitously at the door . As if the working men were capable of rising according to the emergency , we never heard them make half so good speeches , though we have heard them make many good ones , as they made last night . Finding such an audience , instead of simply confining themselves to the mere cry of the restoration of the exiles , they entered into a statesmanslike view of the times and circumstances that led to their conviction . Doyle made a most ^ powerful speech , embracing the questions of poverty , crime ,
ignorance , unjust distribution , drunkenness , disregard of the superior classes , and many other evils flowing from class legislation . We were not fortunate enough to hear the speech of M'Grath , which is always good ; but for ourselves , the other speakers , tbe Chartisis of Greenwich , and the cause itself , we return our best thanks totheaudiencc for their excellent and praiseworthy conduct , while we cannot sufficiently congratulate the people upon the impression their principles are now making when advocated by lecturers who have a sincere desire to witness their progress . **& n Mosbv Mmiket . —Again the funds are very , very flat , and the share market partakes of the epidemic .
IIRBLAND . Siu Francis Hopkins asd the Murdured Seeui . —It will be remembered that Mr . French , the stipendiary magistrate , swore upon the trial of Seery , lhat Sir Francis Hopkins hud not mentioned his ( Seery ' s ) name in the first information he tendered . Mr . French swore this distinctly , and now that poor Seery isilead and gone , his prosecutor writes a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal for the especial purpose of meeting the evidence of Mr . French , and whieh he concludes thus ;—It was sworn on the trial ( but Ibis fact has not boen commented 011 iu your journal ) , by a constable of the Dysart police station , distant six miles from Mullingar , that he had received a written order at five o'clock in the morning to arrest Seery . The hist informations wore sworn at 11 a . m ., six hours subsequently . This should satisfy most persons tbat the mime of Seery had been meuti ' oncd before the first informations were sworn .
] Sow , &> tne trom this fact establishing the credit ol Sir Francis , it , will convince any reasonable man of the correctness of Mr . French ' s evidence . Nay , it is the strongest continuation that Sir Francis Hopkins , at five o ' clock in the morning , was in doubt as to Story ' s identity , and that at eleven , he was satisfied that he was mistaken . Now , here is the plain analogy of the last paragraph . Sir Francis Hopkins sends to arrest Seery at live , to have a peep at him ; he sees him at eleven ; swears informations ; and the stipendiary magistrate swears that he did not mention Seery ' s name , neither does the paragraph wc quote state that the Dysart police constable had received the written order ( to arrest Seery
tvom Sir H-aucis Hopkins , though we give him the benefit of the presumption ; neither can he expect to shake the sworn testimony of the stipendiary magistrate by the white-washing letters which lie says he subsequently received from the Crown Solicitor nnd Sub-inspector of police . He says— " The public can now fairly judge between Mr . " French ' s testimony aud my own . " Yes , the public will judge , and the judgment is that Mr . French is right and you are wrong . It is a very easy way foe the Baronet to get over the murder of pour Seery ( who has not the power of judging between him and Mr . French ) , by riding oft ' on a squabble with the stipendiary magistrate .
Westminster, Election. A Public Meeting ...
WESTMINSTER , ELECTION . A public meeting was held in the large hall of the Puvtueniiun , St . Martin ' a-lane , on Sunday evening , February loth , to consider what steps the democratic party should take in consequence of the vacancy caused in the representation of Westminster by the appointment of Captain Rous to fill the place t >! one of the Lords of the Admiralty . Mr . James Grassby was unanimously called to the chair . Mr . Thomas Clark said , although a resident , he came under the denomination of a non-elector , lie had placed in his hand the following resolution : — " That in the opinion of this meeting no Parliamentary election should take place without the working classes manifesting their opinions relative to the merits of the various candidates , and enforcing their claims to that full measure of representation
contained in the People ' s Charter . " Mr . Clark then lucidly reviewed the qualifications , or rather the want of qualification , in the two candidates who had presented themselves for the sufli-ages of the electors . He said the people throughout the country were raising their voices loudly against our huge war establishments and against aggressive warfare , yet both candidates belonged to those establishments—the one to the army , the other to tho navy ; and , cousequcntly , both had an interest in upholding the present state of things , and were both , therefore , unfit to become the representatives of a people who boasted of their civil institutions , and their desire for IVeeuom . ( Loud cheers . ) Neither wore advocates or supporters of the People ' s Charter , and hence neither could hope for the support of the toiling anil much oppressed work ing classes . ( Loud cheers . )
Mr . Humphris seconded the motion , and it was carried unanimously . Mr . Souter , in a few words , moved the following resolution : — "That in consequence of the very brief time intervening between this and the day of election not permitting the democratic party to take such steps as would be necessary to ensure success for a candidate holding their opinions , this meeting is of opinion that it will not be advisable to take any part in the present contest ; but this meeting hereby pledges itself to use every means in its power to secure the return of a candidate , or candidates , advocating the principles of the People ' s Charter at the ensuing general election . " Mr . T . M . Wheeler , in seconding the motion , reminded the meeting of the words of Thomas Wakley at the Crown and Anchor— "That the WOrking-MCn njvet' would be ellick-ntlv represented until SUCll time as men of their own order were sent into thai
I house "—( loud cheers );—anil regretted thattbey were not now prepared for the contest . He said , surely , if in the early days of Henry Hunt the democrats of Westminster could nominate a candidate and procure the votes of eighty-four gallant men , in the present day , when democracy had made such giant-like strides , they might with equal facility obtain the support of thousands for their principles . ( Loud cheers . ) lie therefore suggested the propriety of their taking immediate steps to prepare for the forming of a powerful committee . Let them bo satisfied with nothing less than a committee of three hundred electors and non-electors , and with such a committee , and attention to tho register , success must and would crown their efforts . ( Great cheering . ) The resolution was carried unanimously . A committee of thirteen , with power to add to their number , was appointed . A vote of thanks was given to tho chairman , and the meeting dissolved .
Ihk Nomination took place on Tuesday , but as the working elusiips had no representative on the hustings , wc need lint take ' up OUV valuable space in narrating the particulars . There was a great crowd assembled , sufficiently uproarious to do honour to a Covent Garden nomination . Mr . Joseph Carter Wood proposed , and Lord Francis Egerton seconded the nomination of Captain Rons . Mr . Bouvcrie proposed , and Dr . Bainbridgc seconded the nomination of General Evans . The candidates then spoke at great length , and amidst great uproar . On the show of hands being called for , only a few comparative l y were held up for Captain Rous , the rest being held up for his opponent . The nomination was therefore declared to be in favour of General Evans . A poll was then demanded on behalf of Captain Rous , and the assemblage dispersed .
Tim Pou , i 8 o commenced on Wednesday morning at the usual hour , and from the commencement General Evaitstook the lead bv some hundreds , which he kept throughout the day . On Thursday the official declaration of the result of the polling was made , when the High Baliff announced the numbers as tollows : — For General Sir DeLacv Evans 3 & 3 For Captain Rous 2906 Majority W It was his duty , therefore , to declare General Sir De Lacy Evans duly elected . The successful candidate then thanked the electors , who were also addressed by Captain Rous . The proceedings then terminated .
A Spot Is Now Traversing The Sun's Disc,...
A spot is now traversing the sun ' s disc , which is estimated to he 20 , 000 miles broad , ami to cover an area of 1 , 002 , 282 , 000 square miles—more than five times as large as our globe .
Muuder Of A Ba.Mlhl ;\Mj Si.K-H'I'. ^F T...
MUuDER OF A bA . Mlhl ;\ MJ Si . k-H'i ' . ^ F TIIE FATHER . Shortly alter seven o ' clock on Monday morning the neighbourhood of Southampton-street , " Camlx-rwell , was alarmed by tiie frantic screams of a woman who had just , made her escape by the back-duor oi No . 5 , Wellington-place , a small cottage residence , only one story high . The first person who repaired to the spot was Mr . Pratt , a-surgeon , who re .-kiw at No . -4 , and who upon entering was horror-struck at , the scene which presented itself . In an upper room , upon the floor , lay the lifeless body of M . PhilJareto H » - reau , a Frenchman , aged fifty-three , with bis throat cut from ear to car ; on the bed , ins son , ageu thirteen , quite dead , shockingly mutilated about the throat ; and iu a lower room , another son , aged
eleven , with his throat cut , a wound on the cheek , and his hand much lacerated , who was at hist ,- > upposcil to be dead , but afterwards showed some symptoms of life , though unable to articulate or give the least account of the dreadful catastrophe ; and in a short time afterwards , a female child , aged eight months , was found dead in a water-butt whieh stood in the garden , but having no wounds whatever about its person . Upon investigation , wc tiud that the unfortunate man had resided at No . o tor nearly the last twelvemonth , supporting his family as a teacher of languages ; but this mode of existence had been so precarious , that for some time past they had stiil ' ered extreme privation and great pecuniary embarrassment . M . iloreau had been in
the habit of rising about . sevcn o ' clock in the morning , and usually took down stairs with him one of tne twin infants ( a boy and a girl ) , who slept in the same bed as he and the mother . This morning , upon dressing himself , he did the same thing , taking the female child with him , and leaving the male infant in bed with the mother . In a few minutes the mother was alarmed by a loud shrieking , which , she at first attributed to the two elder boys quarrelling , am ) , therefore took no further notice of the matter for a few moments , but the shrieking being continued , she went to the room , and upon opening the door was i met by the younger boy , who immediately raw Meeding down stairs , at the bottom of which he fell down
apparently lifeless ; and , on entering th room , Mrs . Iloreau saw her unfortunate husband in the act of cutting his own throat , and before she could interpose he had fallen down a corpse . On looking farther she discovered her eldest son dead in toe bed , but could not perceive any trace of her infant child , who was , however , shortly afterwards discovered to have been drowned in the rain-butt . There is no doubt whatever but that the unfortunate lather proceeded to the garden instantly on leaving his owlroom , anil , having drowned the child , then ascended to the children ' s room , where he afterwards perpetrated the other murder , committing suicide the moment an alarm was raised .
As no vital organ has been severed , hopes are entertained that the younger hoy ' s life will lie saved , although , of course , there is great danger that he will not survive the shock . The widow of tiie unfortunate Frenchman states , that on her husband getting tip she noticed no particular change in his manner . He took bis infant son , William , in his arms , and kissed it very affectionately , lie then departed ., as she supposed , to the bedroom occupied by the boys , but instead of so doing he must have walked into the back yard , and plunged the inlant into the water-butt , and then have kept it under water till it died . She states that she never heard him go down stairs , nor heard the least noise whatever , until aroused by the cries of her two boys . She then jumped out of bed and ran up stairs , where
she found her husband standing over her eldest son , the bed literally deluged with blood . Sho immediately shouted to him , but he appeared not to hear her , or else to pay no attention to her cries . She , therefore , ran out and gave a further alarm . The only thing that can account for her husband having destroyed himself and two of his children is the fact of his having of late been in exceedingly distressed circumstances . To such a state have they all been reduced as to frequently want the common necessaries of life . Upon searching the place nothing whatever in the sliape ot food was to he found , neither was there anything in the house that could have been sold to purchase as much as a breakfast . The widow further states that she believes it was her husband ' s intention to have murdered her and all the children bsfore he
destroyed himself , which he doubtless would have done , had it not been for the screams of her son PJiiilarete . Such precautions had he taken , that the dvor-chain was found so twisted that she could not have opened tne street door to escape , had he made an attack upon her life . She says that she has been married nearly twenty year . - - , that the deceased was formerly a schoolmaster at Leicester , but had of late been obtaining a scanty subsistence for his family by teaching the French and Italian languages . Mr . Docavy , landlord of the Lion , Wellingtonplace ( next door but two to where the dreadful tragedy was enacted ) , says , that whilst standing in his bar his attention was suddenly arrested by hearing cries of murder proceeding from C ' ittherftie-cottago . He proceeded thither when he saw Mrs . Iloreau standing inker night dress in the garden . She begged of him to cemc in to her assistance , as
her husband was murdering her children . He told her to open the door , to which she replied that-it was so fastened that she could not . lie then followed her through the coach-house , and on entering the house found the place in darkness . Having Queued the shutters and obtained a light , he found the man lying in a pool of blood on the floor , with his head nearly severed from his body . Behind the headboard of a crib bedstead , he found the boy Helvetius with his throat cut from ear to ear . The other Jail , Phillareie , was also bleeding at the neck , aud one of his fingers was nearly cut from his hand , showing that ha must have struggled with his father . Seeing that one of the injured children was alive , he immediately sent for a surgeon , and Air . Pratt came and sewed up the wound in the child ' s neck , He then went in search of the infant , and , after some considerable time , it was found in the water-butt q itcdead .
A baker in the neighbourhood states , tbat lie hag known tho eldest boy to purchase on many occasions a single penny loaf tor breakfast , and that he came tor one on Friday last , having only three farthings to pay for it . The Rev . Mr . Moore , of Camden Chapel , upon being made acquainted with tho distressed c ' Ottdkion of the poor widow , very humanely sent her a sovereign to assist her in the present emergency ,
INQUEST ON THE BODIES , On Wednesday an inquiry took place before Mr . W . Carter , at the Bricklayers' Arms Tavern , Southampton-street , Cambcrwell , as to the deaths of'M . Philaret Hourcau , and Helvetius and William Iloreau , his sons who were murdered by him on Monday morning , previous to his own suicide . The jury having been sworn , and a foreman chosen , they proceeded , accompanied by the coroner , to view the bodies , which were lying side by side of each other ott a mattress , in the first floor back room of Catherine-cottage . The infant appeared as if asleep , but the deceased man and boy presented a frightful spectacle , their heads being nearly severed from the bodies . Throughout the house , a very respectable residence , not a particle oi furniture was observable . Mrs . IV . A . C . Iloreau , the widow , deposed as follows : —The family retired to bed on Sundav about
eleven . Helvetius and his brother ( who h } IlOWgoiDg on well ) slept up stairs , where the bodies were lying . Her husband and she , with two twin children , slept in the parlour below , Her husband got up about seven on Monday , taking one of the children ( the deceased William ) with him into the garden , in about an hour she heard a scream , and afterwards went up stairs to their sons' room . When she got there her husband was in tbe actofcuttinghisown throat , and holding Helvetius , who had also bis throat cut , down on the floor . She instantly ran down stairs , but found the chain so fastened that she could not open the front door ; and having got into the garden , gave an alarm , when several persons came . When she got back to the kitchen she touiid another son ( Philatre ) standing up , aim ue had also his throat cut . Tho infant ( William ) she
afterwards discovered had been drowned in the water butt . Sho had no doubt these deaths were the act of her husband , and that they had been caused by great irritability of his mind , caused by extreme want . He was ofton unable to supplv the children with food . He had been a teacher ot * languages in the country , but lately had had no professional avocations , and that caused his extreme destitution . They had pawned and sold everything they had to procure food , aud the la , t article they had was pawned on Saturday . She was satisfied this had produced a state of temporary insanitv .-The jury returned the following verdict :- » We find a verdict ? wfi " nin " - U 1 St 1 , hilarct noroau . " ^^ SsK ^ ffi William Uore ™> a » d ™ Sh f , 1 a f / Ullaret Uomu k ^ yed himself while m a state ot temporary insanity , produced by extreme privation and want . " f ««« J
Bankrupts . I-From The Casetto Of Friday...
BANKRUPTS . I-From the Casetto Of Friday , February ISfA . l James Tomig , Salcott , EM « , shipowner .-William iani Chenor , Commercial-road , Stepney , cooper .-Wiffiam lam b . bfon Alderton , ChauwryJam , , , twl pen-ntanuiiic- incturcr .--Kobcrt Kent , Aldeuhain , Hertfordshire , lionised ueJ victualler . -Gerge Prentice , Tollesbury , Emx , jfeh- fishmonger . —Thomas Keynolds , Cow Cross-street , cheese- esemon Ber . —Hichard Widen Cronk , Seal , Kem , grocer . — r , — Frt-dcrick Jones , Canterbury , n-ifia . Ul « relmnt . _ CharU-8 iric . 0 . wuW Robaon , r - insbury-street , plasterer . - Charles tries James Baker and Kdwtivd Jamus Rastooo . l , LoncVn , den , war . hou . Biien .-liobm Lambert , Liverpool , immu ,- * .. , fac turniK chetmst .-John lloss and Enoch lturton , - \ c-. v- W-. vcastle-upon-lyue , flour dealers . —Henry Moore XajW , jlor , Birmingham , haberdasher . — Gilbert Brown , Shiuii .-iII , ii .-ill , Shropshire , banker—Richard Lewis , Wootton under- iiler-Edge , Gloucestershire , woolien-ninuuiaeturtr . —WilJiam lliam Bradley , Leeds , lhix-spinuer . — WilUaui Holilsworth , orth , i liirst-i ' il , Yorkshire , hour dealer .
Wc Learn From The Tailort' Advocate, Tha...
Wc learn from the Tailort' Advocate , that the an- e annual conference of Ihis numerous and useful body of . dy ol men will commence at Leeds on the 2 nd of March , ch , v ,.. ¦ v . ir'S & ' & j . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 21, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21021846/page/5/
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