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ITALT-THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES . ThP following extracts from Madame _Wolfens-Js " Letters from Naples , " written during her _^ _jSw * there in 1843-4 , and now publishing in x _frTmaasine , wiU afford omt readers a glimpse of 5 " _thKmm able state of things prevailing in the _^ _SSTjortta of Italy . Madame _Wolfbns-Ws sketches serve to complete the picture of _S _ mnv sla Teiy _» fraua ' and _" _^ _Tf _which Mr . IFt _^ Ji _' _lias so eloquently described as cursing the _ggrsurfaee of the Italian soU . May a change soon come . T 3 £ LAWS AXD THEIB ADMINISTRATION .
v of the _kws of the French code were retained in , " _sjierthe restoration of the present royal family _^ _rile dirone ; but it is commonly acknowledged that _** are Terj carelessly executed . The officers employed _-liar a _da-imstra-ion think much more of the _advances to be derived from their post , than of fulfilling the _jjjfjjes attached to it . Gain is the first object with all inch person * as well as with all directors of public _in-StutiaBS * ¦ _ease ana P leasure _toe second . If complaints . « made of neglect or injustice , an agitation takes _tdaee for a few days , a show of doing something is _^ ade , and then things fell back into the old train , and go _on asbadly _asbefw
The public fimctinnaries are said to exceed the offices ; _ind though i * cannot be doubted that , in a corrupted _conntxr , numerous officers of law are absolutely necessary f et , when theyare themselres corrupted , they only increase the expenses of the state to the injury of their country . _She whole system of government from the top to the bottom , is one of abnses , peculat ion and intrigue . Every _tiungis done by favour and bribery .
THE ASM ! AHD ITS DESPOTISM . The general spirit of peculation likewise here prevails . It is true , ofhis small pay ( about 2 _Jd . a-day } the soldier cannot be deprived ; yet it is commonly reported , that in several reg iments a certain allowance for accoutrements , tc , has been for a time , and iu some cases entirely , _withheld by the commanding ' officers . Though means icere found to escape the reprehension of the Government for such miserable spoliation , the men did not patiently submit . Three cases have recently occurred of officers being shot by their own soldiers ; and in one instance it _tras well taiown , that the assassin sought to punish the _sroibeiy of his regiment , for which there was no other means of obtaining redress .
Yet the soldiers , in their turn , are an oppressive Burden on the people . Since our arrival here , a party of dragoons slopped for refreshment at a small inn on the road towards Beneventum . But instead of proTing good -customers to the poor landlord , whose whole fortune was invested in his little stock of prorisionsfor man and beast , they not only refused to pay for their own good cheer , and the provender consumed by their horses , but carried off with them all the corn and hay that remained . Vainly did the wretched man they thus robbed , go lamenting { com house to house . In his own neighbourhood there was no redress to be found . To make his complaint in form , he must travel to Naples ; anil when he arrives there , there is little probability that any attention will be paid to the prayer of one who has neither friends at court , oormoiisj lo purchase them . There is neither security cor justice for the poor ; and the magistrates , who ought to be their protectors , only add to their miseries by their ratty and tormenting tyranny .
It is one ofthe favourite royal pastimes to perform a _spedes of mock campaign , during which his Majesty shares in all the fatigues of his men , marches at their head tlirough tbe dust and the heat , and bears a part in all their hardships and difficulties . His orders for their supply and accommodation are most imperative . During one of these recent marches , a command was sent forward to the proper authorities of a small town , to provide the forage necessary for the horses ofthe cavalry . By some mistake , or perhaps from the impossibility of fulfilling
tbis order before the time specified , nothing of the Mud was ready when the army arrived . His Majesty ' s anger , it is said , jknew no bounds , and ha immediately commanded the principal municipal officer , who was the person responsible , te be shot without trial , or further investigation . The agony of this poor man , who was married , and had several children , surpassed all description ; and though his pardon was obtained by the generous intercession of the general to whom the task of enperintending his execution was committed , he died of an apoplexy in consequence of his terror .
It can scarcely be wondered at , that the people now universally shut up their houses , and take to flight , when they hear of the approach of any _considerable body of soldiers . The Swiss troops , in the employment of the Government ; amount to more than six thousand . Their pay more than doubles that of the troops of the line , which is a great cam * of jealousy to the native soldiers ; and it is generally rumoured , thatjso had a feeling exists amongst the latter , that their fidelity could be little counted on , in an ; case of real danger , more" especially in a popular insurrection . In fact , we heard it asserted by many Italians , that the tranquillity of the people , in their present miserable condition , is chiefly owing to the dread of foreign interference , and their terror ofthe Swiss regiments .
STATE SECEECr—GOVEENHENT SPII 8 . The great causes of the corruption of the Government , and the hopeless misery of the governed , are , that there u no chamber of representatives , where complaints may openly be made against acts of public and private tyranny , and no liberty of the press , by wiich the errors o ' f the Government , and the crimes of individuals , or even judicial proceedings , _maybemado known to the public at luge , and subjected to their judgment . Every thing is done in secret . The most flagrant enormities are committed under the veil of mystery , from which , should a word of troth escape , it is stifled as quickly as possible . Any author who dares proclaim the secret of public abuses , or peculations the most enormous , is at once thrown intj prison .
The Jesuits at Sorento have built a high wall around their garden , behind which no _oneknowswhatispasiing ; and so itis with the Government "Without the barrier of tyranny and 6 ecrecy that surrounds i _^ the people are allowed to iave neither eyes , nor ears , norToice . One consequence of such a _ _QT 6 tem is , that society , of ¦ every shade and class , is universally infested with spies . They haunt the coffee-houses , and the promenades ; they _temptyoaihMi its ardour to pour ont its indignant feel _, ings , that they may profit by its punishment ; they form infamous intrigues , that they may draw from the lips of the wife the secrets of her _nnsnspectinjf husband ; they have tickets free at all times for the theatres , aud other places of amusement ; and under the title of nobility , penetrate into reunions the most select .
The connexion of this abominable class with the police , affords them immunity for numerous crimes ; but in no way are they more dangerous , or less suspected by _strangers , than as the masters of lodging-houses , who , with their servants , are veiy _freguently employed as spies . We had reason to know , that ia one apartment , the landlord of which styled himself a Count , and was in ihe service ofthe police , eveiy word uttered by his lodgers was regularij reported to him by his domestic , who , fawning and specious , might well have been mistaken for one of the most honest and simple of human beings . Books , papers , and every object in the chambers , were examined during the absence ofthe occupants , and petty thefts frequently committed .
Sot is it only the petty officers of the police who escape responsibility in virtue of their connexion with the government . It is weU known that peculation , and fraud , and falsehood , pervade every branch of the state ; and in all the great public charities , the results of this system of plunder are terrible . Kot many years ago , a priest , who was the superintendent of an orphan asylum in a countiy town , instead of supplying wet nurses to toe infants at the expense of the funds ofthe charity , _ajtnally substituted one goat to suckle four children , and _aimrouriateu lie snnjlns money .
In the seraglio , an enormous bunding , in which are _loSged more than two thousand vagrants and destitute poor , Tonng and old , starvation and despair produced , towards ihe end of the year 1 _JH 3 _, an insurrection amongst its wretched inhabitants . The complaints of the -sufferers reached the king ' s ear 6 ; in consequence of whiili . something like au investigation was instituted . This , it is stud , led to the discovery , ' that 120 , 000 piastres , or £ 21 , 009 , were deficient ia the fluids of the charity . TBI STATE _UOTTEBIES—THEDS . _OEMOalLISING EFFECTS ,
But the pursuit , I scarcely know if it can be called a pleasure , which engrosses the most of the thoughts and money of the lower and middle ranks , is the Lotto , a Mud of lottery , tbe tickets for which are sold in all parts of the town , and throughout the kingdoms of the two Sicilies , in shops , where they are disposed of for the Go-Ternment . To eutics adventurers to purchase , the last lucky numbers may be seen stuck up in front of these legalised gambling-houses , ornamented with huge bow 9 Of coloured paper ; whilst others , for the next lottery , are exposed in tempt ing orderfor sale .
The drawings take place every Saturday , , in the huge old hall of the tribunals , in the ancient palace of the earlv Neapolitan longs , called the Vicaria , in the neigh-Ijourhood of the gate of Capua . This gloomy and enormous building is surrounded by a massive wall , and situated in the most ancient part of the city , amidst narrow streets , from which the lofty houses for ever exclude fhe light of the sun . Iu some of tlieae dismal avenues , _© r _riratos , as they are called , it is really frightful to glance into the roinous and desolate courts of the heavy ¦ tone buildings , or into the shops , which , like black , dark , and filthy dens , yawn on either side . Without windows , _theirhuse ancient wooden doors stand perpetuallj open ? o admit as much of light and air as can find their way iut « such places . But what an air ! laden with _imioritieB , it seems _ rife with fever and pestilence ; andwhen midst these sinks of-vice , ana din , and misery , •« js _S _^ _timpossible to believe that a fewpaces bey _. ndsuch _^ k _aadloatjTsraie aTenuesnatureextenisher treasures jn . _rervviuiery . ' of beauty to the sun .
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court of the building was surrounded by a trumpery drapery of white and red calico , bespangled with bits of gold paper , above which were placed two miserable plaster basts of the King and ~ Qiieen , with half a dozen paltry lamps burning before them . Such a decoration attached to those ancient stern gray walls was not only trumpery , but ridiculous , and was mote suited for the entrance to a puppet-show than to tbe seat of justice , and one of the most ancient strongholds of the monarchy . In the court-yard were several carriages in waiting ; and , as we mounted a great stone staircase leading to the upper stories of the' building , crowds of lazzaroni , and men and women of the middle and lower classes , pushed past us , all hurrying in the same direction . There , ' where kings had trodden in all their feudal pomp , the ragged and half-famished populace were scrambling without order or respect , in search of a paltry gain ;
On entering the great gloomy old hall we saw a raised platform at the further end , on which sat four judges and two priests , in the full costumes of their different professions , to give solemnity to the scene , and an assurance that all is carried on with the utmost impartiality ; whilst the minister of the police , in a black silk gown , elevated in a kind of pulpit , attached to the centre of the wall on one side , presided over the proceedings of the assembly . A guard of soldiers stood at the foot of the gallery , and the remainder of the hall was crowded to excess . There could not he less than tiro thousand persons present . Lazzaroni , with their ragged scanty covering ; wretched women , with infants in swaddling clotheB , or rolled in dirty shawls , in their arms ; soldiers , workmen , and miserable , haggard , hollow-eyed looking wretches , fallen from a better class ; a few decently-dressed persons , and
even priests and monks , were all crushed together into a dense mass . Except the members of the church , they were evidently all people who had to earn their livelihood . ; and yet there , for several hours once a week , they may be seen , not only risking a portion of their hard-earned gains , but wasting their time in idleness and the vicious excitement of gambling . Almost immediately after our entrance a young man advanced to the front of the platform , and , having shaken a kind of box containing the numbers of the lottery , five were successively drawn by a child of the orphan asylum . As each was brought forth before it was seen by the people , it was given to one of the judges , and from him passed through the hands of all the officiating personages , except those of the minister of police , whose seat is at a considerable distance . They were then registered , and finally a man proclaimed them , in a loud voice , to the anxious assembly _.
The effect was electric on the eager throng . It seemed as if their liveB , or the lives of all dear to them , depended on this announcement , such was the clamour with which each successive number was received . Yet even amidst this confusion , could be heard the cries of disappointment and despair , from the ruined , undone , and famished wretches , who are well hnown in many instances to sell the bad and clothes of their wife or children , to purchase a ticket , and make a last effort to recover their innumerable losses . On onr return home , we witnessed with pain the frightful agitation of the lower orders , as the news was rapidly spread through fhe streets . The different lottery offices we passed , were surrounded by crowds of the poorest of
the poor ; and many miserable wretches , stunned by disappointment , stood gazing on a list of the fortunate numbers , as if utterly unable to comprehend that their hopes of the past week were destroyed . Others were eagerly handing them from one to another ; and if wj had been ignorant of what had taken place , we might have imagined that some great and dreadful public calamity had oceurred , on which the future welfare ofthe city and its inhabitants depended . Nor is the agitation and the ruin limited to Naples alone . Throughout the whole kingdom of the Two Sicilies there are government offices for the sale of tickets ; and the numbers drawn at the Viearia are announced by couriers or telegraphic despatches , to the furthest corner of the country , within an hour after they are known .
The degrading influence of this horrible gambling extends its effects over every class , and is in truth more dreadful than a plague , or an earthquake , as it is ever recurring and never ending . The players may risk from two or three half-pence , to any amount they please , and the winnings when several numbers are taken , may by some extraordinary combination be immense ; but although , as in all games of hazard , this rarely if ever occurs , whilst the losses are great and almost certain , the possibility of gain leads on the desperate blindly to destruction .
This is in truth one ofthe most virulent diseases that eats iuto the very existence ofthe people of Naples ; yet sneh is their attachment to this frightful , this incessant gambling , that itis believed that no grievance could so readily provoke a rebellion , as an abolition of the lotto . Their dally misery is rendered supportable by the hope , that at the end ofthe week their fortune may be established for ever by some extraordinary prize . Industry becomes paralyzed by a perpetual dependence on hazard ; and their small gains , instead of contributing to the com . fort of their families , are again and again wasted in this fatal , this _witheriD" pursuit .
IHE PBIESIS—THE MONKS—POP ULAB IGNORANCE AMD _SOPEESTITIOX . Numerous were the anecdotes we wero told of their laxity of morals , and ofthe petty sins by which hundreds in holy garments are hourly undermining the morals of society . But there is one story of this character current in Naples , of the very blackest die . It regards the abduction of a girl from the Orphan Asylum , or Hospital ofthe Annonciata _, by a prieBt employed in this establishment , who , after a severe investigation of the affair , alone escaped the proper punishment of his diabolical crime by the protection and favour of Ids friends in power . The details of this adventure are too horrible to be inserted here , but they are commonly known in Naples . They have even been made the subject of a romance ; and
though the work was immediately suppressed , and the author thrown into prison , the indignant feelings excited by such conduct are not to ba thui easily obliterated from the public mind . Though it is well known that the Neapolitans are ardently attached to the Boman Catholic religion , and all the bigotted observances and _supertti . tions incorporated with the true faith in this southern and benighted region , and lax , or even liberal opinions on such subjects are exceedingly rare , yet the bad conduct of theclergy has taught the people to divide them from the the religion they profess , and produced , amongst the male population , a very-general contempt for their persons , and an impatience of their enormous extortions and ever increasing power . By a new enactment , though a priest may be tried by the civil tribunals , the sentence passed on him by these courts , whatever it may be , cannot be carried into execution till confirmed by a council of bishops , which amounts almost to the exemption of tHe
clergy from the just punishment of crime . Nor is the existing government desirous of any reform in the church . Where an authority , like that in Naples , is grounded on human ignorance , superstition , weakness , and crime , it is not for its interest that the priesthood should be of a character either to enlighten or elevate the moral character of its subjects . Neither is there any hope of the press produciug any amelioration . On the return of King Ferdinand from Leybach , so heavy a tax was added to the censorship on books , thattheir importation from foreign countries was entirely prevented . The booksellers were nearly ruined , and , anxious to relieve themselves from such a burden , represented ; io the minister , the Marquis of Medici , the injury done to the finances by this interruption of trade , at-the same time praying for an abolition of the duty . To this he coolly replied , that it was not his object to benefit the finances , but to ensure the _ignerance of the people _.
"We have never been able to obtain any exact account of the number of secular and monastic clergy in the Kingdom of Naples ; but that the amount of the various members of this body constitutes a very large and ever increasing part of the population there can be no doubt . Several well informed persons have assured me that it amounts at least to a tenth _. When we remember that the means of existence are drawn , in one form or other , by this enormous and idle proportion of the community , from the labouring classes , already burdened with taxes to the amount of sixty per cent ., we can no longer wonder at the misery we bave witnessed since our entrance into this oppressed kingdom .
Though several orders of monks live entirely by begging , the property of the ecclesiastical body is immense . The Jesuits lose no opportunity of adding to their riches ; and rich legacies from noble devotees are daily falling into their hands , frequently to the utter ruin of the families of the decased . It need scarcely be said , that nearly all the talent and learning of the clergy centre in this order ; and as education is almost universally in their hands , no rising genius escapes their attention ; every youth who , by Ms abilities , might subsequently prove a dangerous enemy to their encroachments , or a useful benefactor to his country , is immediately enlisted in their ranks .
The monks of the other different orders and secular clergy throug hout the country are generally taken from so low a class , and their education is such , as scarcely to raise them a step above the half savage populace . It is the duty of their profession to instruct and guide . It is said that recently a discipline , more severe thanformerly , has been introduced into the church ; the young clergy have been subjected to more strict examinations on taking orders , and the tone of capacity and instruction has slightly risen amongst them during the last twenty years . But still tins vast body of unmarried men , taken from a corrupt and passionate population , necessarily retain many of the vices and characteristics of the mass to which they originally belonged . The priest is one of the people : he participates in their feelings , their
super-. stitions , and too often in their ; crimes ; but should , m some rare instance , his knowledge and his talent rise superior to the ordinary level of his class , should he seek to disabnse his flock of their favourite errors , their suspicions of heresy are immediately awakened , and whispers are rapidly circulated thaO-lie is a bad priest ; that he believes nothing ; tbat he has _'* dealings with the enemy of mankind , and seeks to draw others along with -bum into tHe _abyss of destruction . In fabt , tlie utmost caution is necessary in all dealings wilh a * people so utterly benighted in the gloom of ignorance as _thU'SJftsantryef the interior of the kingdom of Naples . <
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The Proposed Opening Of The Ports [We Ta...
THE PROPOSED OPENING OF THE PORTS [ We take the following sensible letter from the Times of Tuesday , November 4 th : ]— ¦ .. _.- ¦ # Sib , —There . has been agood deal of very cool talking lately , in whicli you have had your share , about opening the ports at once for the admission of foreign corn and other produce , with the avowed intention of laying on the Corn Laws again as soon as the scarcity is oyer . If this advice is nothing more than a convenient cloak to disguise a secret design of surrendering the Corn Laws altogether , we can only admire the honesty of the advisers , and the profound contempt they must entertain for the understandings of their agricultural readers . The Cora Laws once suspended would stand as little chance of restoration as
trial by wager or examination by the rack . The little finger of the Minister may throw them over , but I question if the whole aristocracy of England would be able to set them up . The idol once hurled from its pedestal is gone for ever . Itis probable enough , however , that the idea is seriously entertained . If so , it is just worth your while considering what such a measure really amounts to . It comes to this : —Having , by the dispensation of Providence , had it in our power for many years , by our great capital and our great demand tor food , to develope the resources of all nations , to encourage their agriculture , and communicate to them bur manufactures in retnrn , —having had it in our power to found accumulations of food all over the world , and especially in Europe , we resolutelv refuse to do
so , and leave our fellow-creatureB without the inducement , and indeed without the means , of laying by for the future . At length , however , finding ourselves and all Europe on the eve of a dreadful famine , we suddenly violate the law we had _> ourselves laid down , in order that we may pounce upon our neighbour ' s scanty store , which is scanty because we have done our best to make it so . Through our fault , it is not enough for them and for us . Yet , without the smallest shame or compunction , we are to seize it for ourselves . We say seize , because , the very idea of opening the ports implies a belief that by our superior wealth we shall have the advantage of the foreign consumer in his own market . He is starving as much , or even more than we ; but we with our bags of gold are to come in and take away the corn of his own fields before his eyes .
I really do not know any standard of morality , Christian or heathen , national or social , romantic or familiar , by which such a proceeding would not be utterly base , shabby , and detestable . The gentleman who should act thus to his neighbour would be scouted at once out of decent society into the purlieus oi Capel-court , not to say St . Giles ' s . To play fast and loose , to communicate or not , to regulate our dealings solely for one ' s own momentary convenience , to make rules creating general discomfort , and break them just at the time they happened to be more profitable to ethers than to ourselves , to reduce men to poverty and then skin them alive , deserves only one name , whatever name that may happen to be , which the language supplies for the
meanest and most iniquitous conduct . It would , in fact , be a mere attempt at scramble . A violent man , who finds : that through his idleness , his stupidity , his _perrerseness , his unsociableness _, er other folly , he is not coming off quite so well as he wishes in the lawful distribution , will sometimes suddenly throw things all of a heap , in order that the right of the strongest may then __ supervene . Now , mere wealth is just as brutish a thing as mere sinew , and the persons who recommend us , in expectation of an European famine , to open our ports at once pro hue vice , wishthat wealth to be as brutishly used . We hare established a certain law , which has eventuated in a certain distribution of food throughout the continent of Europe , to which the several
continental nations have by our law a certain right and expectancy . That is to say , at this present moment they have a moral claim to corn at 17 s . aquarter , or some such difference , less than the Englishman . But for onr law they would have provided for the contingency ; therefore , it is our law which has regulated their present supply . To break that law just now is simply to break faith with the starving population of about half Europe . Be the law good or bad we ought to abide by it , at least throughout any particular disaster it may occasion . When we do resolve to give an English price for foreign food we ought io givo at least a season ' s notice , in order that some preparation may be made by the rude agriculturists ofthe continent for the
exorbitant demands of the English consumer . ' I am reasoning as if the scheme would answer as you suppose . It would not answer , —at least , not generally . I cannot suppose that if , as is feared , the harvest is even worse in most , parts of the continent than in England , the European Governments will be so unnatural , and so oblivious of our own past policy , as to let the British merchants quietly sweep tHe shores of . the Baltic or the Euxine , while their own people are starving . If the immediate effect of opening the ports be not to raise the price at Dantsic and Odessa exactly that Ids . or 17 s . we have removed , undoubtedly the Governments will take care to lay on just as much as we take off . If we levy a duty on importation when we can do without corn , of course the corn-growing countries will levy . aduty . on
exportation when they cannot do without it . It any money is to be got by , the traffic ,, the nation . which has the other at its mercy will of course take care to get it . We may thank our stars if we come off with only a " moderate fixed duty ; " but it is far more likely that if things turn out as ill as is apprehended the continental Governments will entirely prohibit exportation . We have at home a slight indication of what we may soon expect from all the _^ world . Already , there has been a loud cry to prohibit the exportation of food from Ireland . Were we at war with the rest of Europe , it would not only be justifiable but perfectly appropriate to take every advantage we could—to ruin the agriculture of . bur neighbours , and then _^ should they , in spite of us , make a , little accumulation , to rob them
ofit the _hrst opportunity . The necessities ot war allow a much wider range of conduct than the prosperities of peace . War ia destruction . It is warlike to starve , if starvation answers our purpose better than bullets . It is warlike to burn magazines of corn , to blockade , cities and harbours , to turn rivers and fill up wells . But we are at peace with our neighbours ,, and are bound to observe that sublime aud simple rule of conduct which nature teaches add revelation confirms between neighbour and neighbour . Let the English reflect how would they endure , with corn at 80 s . _a-quarter , to find themselves outbid by some wealthier neighbour offering 85 s . An act of indemnity may be easily procured ; - and
certainly would not be domed to a Minister whose sole immediate object was to fill the mouths of a hungry people . It would remain for future consideration whether such an act is in the true spirit of law ; whether it is wise to give a Ministry so great a power of disturbing the operations of trades ; whether it is constitutional to substitute occasional surprises , not to say violences , for regular legislation . If it is necessary to open the pons now , why not always , when corn is at the present price , or a scarcity is possible ? Why not admit the fact into your system at once ? We may as well have a dictator , as a man who can raise and lower the price of food by the breath of his mouth . I am , sir , yours , & c , Honesty .
Murder In Ireland. The Tipperary Vindica...
MURDER IN IRELAND . The Tipperary Vindicator of Saturday last contains the following : — Murder or Patrick Clarke , Esq . —We regret to learn that Patrick Clarke , Esq ., who had recently come to reside in Tipperary , was shot dead about half-past two o'clock yesterday ( Friday , ) whilst riding about his lands at South-hill , within half a mile ol Nenagh . Mr . Clarke held a considerable property at Portarlington , and he had a mansion-in Alernonsquarealso . It is impossible , just now , to assign a cause for the perpetration of this deed of blood . The alarm was immediately given , and the police from Nenagh and the surrounding districts were quickly oh the spot . Whilst we write the utmost activity prevails to discover the perpetrator of the deed . Two balls were driven through the ill-fated gentleman ' s head , and he expired immediately . We have heard that he had been compelling his tenants to sell corn a few minutes before the murder . Two men were seen crossing the country immediately after the deed , but no clue hadbeen discovered of the perpetrators . "
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Accident on the North of Englano Railway . — Newcastle , Satobdat . — An accident occurred to the mail train this morning , on the Great North of England Railway , which , though of an alarming character , was fortunately unattended with serious _results to the passengers . The mail train from the south , due at Darlington at twenty minutes past seven o ' clock , was upwards of an hour and a half behind its time . On arriving at that station the train consisted of the engine and . tender , a luggage van , two second-class carriages , two first-class carriages , post-office , and one or two carriages behind that . When between four and five miles north of Darlington , the engine got off the line , and , crossing the upline , went over an embankment between seven and eight feet in height . The wheels , however ,. _sinking
into the soft earth , prevented it from reaching the bottom , and , in the meantime , the engine man , who maintained his position , turned off the steam . The tender was dragged across the up-line , the rails of which were displaced , and the two second-class carriages wero thrown together upon their ends , in an upright position , on the line . The coupling chain between them and the rest of the train broke , arid the other carriages maintained their proper position ; though most of them were thrown off the rail . Fortunately , noneof the passengers sustained anyserioua injury , which is probably owing to the slow rate at which the twin was travelling , it not being going at Snore than fifteen miles an hour . The second-class ¦ c arriages and tender were much broken ; _amessen-| er was sent back to Darlington for assistance , before the amvalof which the express train from Newcastle _wasseen approaching , and intimation of danger having been conveyed by signal , it was stopped before reaching the scene of the accident .
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"V r LONDON . _^ iU iu _* Llrr _-T densel y crowded audience _atofi _^ - . Cooper ' 9 lecture fast Sunday night . Mr . _«& _f . _^ g _^ eoVto the chair ( after one of the People s Songs' ? had been sung ) , expressed the deep gratification be had in knowing that Mv . Cooper atter experiencing much suffering and persecution , was beginning to see a little of the sunshine of life ; He had no doubt the lecturer would have pleasure in explaining what he ( the chairman ) meant . Mr . Cooper immediately informed the meeting that a citizen of London , whose name he was not at liberty to mention , had walked home with him from his lecture the preceding Wednesday night , and presented him with a cheque for £ 100 . Thegentleman was an entire stranger to him , and informed him that he
maae him the present in consequence of having his sympathies awakened by reading the " Purgatory of Suicides . This announcement was received with three thundering rounds of applause . The historical subject for the evening , _«* The life , reign , and character ' of Napoleon ; " was then commenced . After giving a spirited narrative of the Italian campaign , and the battles of Lodi , & c , which first raised Buonaparte to high rank , as a general , —the lecturer proceeded to describe the conqueror ' s course in Egypt and Syria , and avowed his disbelief of the story about poisoning the sick at Jaffa . The Consulate , the passage of the Alps , the battle of Marengo , and other striking events of this most remarkable man ot modern times were . next , ranidlv noted _ and
his coronation by the Pope , introduced some facetious anecdotes relative to the behaviour of the Parisians towards his Holiness . " The battles of Austeriitz , Jena , _ b , ylau , and Friedland , and a brief recapitulation of Napoleon ' s Spanish visit ; the battle of Corunna and death of Sir John Moore , with the campaign that closed with the possession of Vienna and battle of Waeram , introduced some interesting observations on the Emperor ' s repudiation of Josephine , and marriage with Marie Louise . The most exciting and harrowing part of the discourse was , of course , the description of the Russian campaign , and its horrible disasters . The fall of the despot , the siege of Dresden , the deteat at Leipzig , and [ liis abdication and retire * ment to Elba ; with his return , and the " crowning carnage , " Waterloo , " were all pointedly and forcibly related and depictured . Mr . C . took occasion to intersperse remarks on the characters of Napoleon ' s
subordinates in the work of conquest—Murat , Ney , Massena , Berthier , Lannes , Soult , Ac , as their names arose in the narrative ; and also on the characters of his political employes—Talleyrand , Fouche , and others . Napoleon ' s enterprises ot road-making , canal-digging , bridge-building , & c , and his selection of sagacious spirits in the _formation of the celebrated "Code Napoleon , " were duly eulogised . In conclusion , however , Mr . C . disclaimed any spurious pity for the " Exile of St . Helena ; " and avowed his conviction that the " murderer of a million" deserved no better fate than to be placed apart from future means of a savage , like any other wild beast . A contrast between the characters of such men as Nap » leon , _Csesar , and Alexander , and the godlike beings , Socrates , Confucius , and the Car p enter ' s Son of Nazareth , terminated the long lecture in such a mode as to draw forth thrilling and prolonged plaudits .
Metropolitan District Council . —At the fortnightly meeting , held in the City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane , on Sunday afternoon , Mr . John Mills in the chair , it was unanimously resolved , "That this council hereby call on all Chartist localities throughout the kingdom to take up the case of Frost , Williams , Jones , and all other patriot exiles , with a view to their immediate restoration to their native land ; and that petitions be got up and signed individually , collectively , or by the chairman on behalf of public meetings ; and that such petitions be forwarded without delay to T . 5 . Duncombe , M . P ., 3 , Albany , London , in order that he may present and found a motion on the same at the commencement of the ensuing Parliamentary session . " In addition , to the council , several members of the Exile Restoration Committee were present , and acted in concert with the council .
National victim Committee . —A meeting of this body was held at the Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane , on Sunday , November the 2 nd , Mr . Mills in the chair . Mr . T . M . Wheeler , the secretary , on behalf of Mr . . O'Connor , presented the balance-sheet of Mr . John Cleave , which leaves a balance in favour of the committee of . £ 22 2 s . 5 | d . The balance-sheet as presented , with" a trifling exception , was received , and the following resolutions were adopted : — "That the sum of £ 2 be now awarded to Air . John Richards , late of Stafford gaol ; and that the secretary be hereby authorised to draw the same from the treasurer , and transmit it to Mr . John Richards accordingly . " " That the secretary be requested to inquire into the case of Mr . Tattersal , and report at tne next meeting . " " That this meeting stand adjourned until Sunday next , at half-past four o'clock . "
Chamist Co-operative Land Society . —Westminster District . —The adjourned meeting resumed its sitting on Sunday evening last , at the Parthenium dub-rooms , 72 , St . MartinVlane . Mr . Miller was unanimously called to the chair , when , on the motion of : Mr . Ford , the fifth rule , altered as follows , was adopted ; -r"It shall be . the duty ofthe Board of Directors to transact all the monetary and other business of the society ; ' and when a sufficient sum of money shall be subscribed they shall be empowered to purchase a suitable _. pl ptorplots of land , until it amount to . 120 acres , which shall be divided into . 60 equal allotments . They shall appropriate to each occupant the sum of £ 15 . 16 s . 8 d . They shall then apprise the members of the society , and instruct them
to select , by lot , occupiers , to whom the several allotments , with the buildings , & c ., shall be let at a rent of £ 5 per annum , on a lease forever . Tliey shall then effect a sale of the land , buildings , & c ., at the rate of twenty years' purchase on the rent paid , and'carry the proceeds j after defraying unavoidable expenses , to the credit of the society , to be again employed in the purchase of more Land , the building of more dwellings , the apportioning of more cash , at the rate of £ 15 lGs . 8 d . to each occupant , to be again divided in allotments to the members , and so on in continuity ; and that a proviso be made to secure to the holders of the several allotments the first right to purchase their holdings ; also that the persons subscribing to the
first £ 5 , 000 shall be deemed the first section of the society . " The following suggestions to Conference was also adopted : — " That the trustees , treasurers , secretaries , and all other officers , shall be elected by the members by way of ballot . " " That the accounts of-the society be audited quarterly . " "That the first line of rule twelve be omitted , " and the following stand instead of rule the sixteenth : — "That a ballot take p lace amongst such members who hare paid up their shares , on or before the first day of January , 1846 , for priority of location—after which period members shall be located in accordance with the priority of payment , consistently with rule the fifth . " It being now half-paat ten o ' clock , the dis cussion on tho remainder ot the rules was adjourned until Sunday next , at seven o ' clock precisely .
Somers Town . —On Sunday _ovening . last ameeting of this locality was held at Mr . _Duddridee ' s , 18 , Tonbridge-street , New-road . Mr . Rowland in the chair . The delegates having reported that the District Council bad agreed to a resolution , calling on the localities throughout the Kingdom to get up petitions to the Ilouse of Commons , for the restoration of Frost , Williams ; and Jones , and all other political exiles . Mr . John Arnott moved , seconded by Mr . Thomas Edwards , that we exert ourselves to obtain the use of the St . Pancras Vestry Rooms , to hold a public meeting for the above object . Carried unanimously . The whole ofthe members present resolved themselves into a committee ( with . power to add to _| their number ) to carry tlie same into effect , and having appointed Messrs . Farris and Laurie as a deputation to wait on the vestrymen with a _requisitwnvfor that purpose , the chairman left the chair .
¦ , -.,.- CULLOMPTON _, DEVON . Lecture ox the Land . —On Thursday evening , October 30 th , a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town was holden to hear a lecture from Mr . T . Clark , of the Executive . Mr . Wm . Poole having been voted to the chair , he briefly introduced Mr . Clark to the meeting , who commenced a very able and eloquent lecture , iii the course of which he pointed out the ill effects to the labouring community consequent on the Land being holden by so few . He traced the origin of landlordism to the Norman Conquest , when the royal bastard plundered the people of England and parcelled out the land to his followers . He entered into our present overgrown
manufacturing system and its effects on society . —Mr , C . then proceeded to illustrate the capabilities of the soil , read extracts from Mr . O'Connor ' s work on Small Farms , to corroborate his statements , pourtrayed the happy condition of the Agricultural population , where holding Land on secure tenure . Pointed out the benefits ofthe Chartist Co-operative Land -Society and urged his hearers to come forward for the purpose of carrying out so good and philanthropic a Plan . An unanimous vote of thanks was given to Mr . Clark for bis able lecture , and to the chairman for his services , and the meeting dispersed highly pleased with the lecture . Upwards of thirty persons have taken shares In the Land Society ' here , and Mr . Clark ' slecture will doubtless do much good .
. STOCKPORT . Mr . J . R . Cooper , of Manchester , lectured here last Sunday to a numerous and attentive audience on the moral and intellectual advancement of the people . Mr . J . Bennett in the chair . Mr . Cooper said , — " Knowledge was power , and that the working classes were making great progress towards the attainment of that knowledge . Formerly there were no printing machines , and the people'had but few books , wrote with the pen ; but now they had that bright luminary , the Northern -Star , which had been the means of imparting knowledge to thousands . ' The religious tracts had poisoned the minds of the people by teaching them to be content with their station . " A vote of thanks was then awarded to Mr . Cooper for his lecture , and the meeting separated ,
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WIGTON . Co-opkrativb Land SociETr . —On Sunday evening a lecture was delivered here by a friend . We have proposed to deliver six lectures in the following order : —The first on the " Land , and the Vote every man's Right . " Second , " The possession of the Land and the Vote by eveiy man , would make every man rich . " Third , " Poverty shall be the lot of all who will not possess themselves of the Land and the Vote . " Fourth , " It is every man ' s right to possess himself of the Land and the Vote . " Fifth , " Commerce , with a whole world , without working men possessing themselves of the Land and the Vote , cimnot save any country from ruin . " Sixth , " What is the principal cause of the people not possessing the Land and the Vote ? " The first lecture was delivered on Sunday last and told well . We meet every Sunday evening , at six o ' clock , for Land lectures and discussions , and every Thursday evening , at eight o ' clock , for the receipt of Land monies , and performing the Land business . Our meetings are in the _Rechabite-rooms , Market-hill .
MANCHESTER . Mr . Dornian , of Nottingham , delivered two eloquent and instructive lectures on Sunday last , in the Carpenters' Hall , to large and respectable audiences . A vote of thanks was given to Mr . Dorman for his able lectures . SHEFFIELD . The Widow op Bookee the Chartist . — At our weekly meeting on Sunday night , Nov . 2 nd , the case of widow Booker was brought before the meeting with a view to see if something could be done to alleviate her sufferings , she being sick and in deep distress . We thought an appeal to our Sheffield friends might be of some service , and it was resolved— " That the collectors be authorised to receive subscriptions on her behalf , in the course of their rounds next Sunday . Nov . 9 th .
BRIGHTON . A Democratic Supper was held at the Cap of Liberty , Portland-street , on Tuesday evening , to commemorate the birthday of Henry Hunt , and the formation ofthe Chartist Co-operative Land Society ; on which occasion the large room of the above house was well filled with a respectable company , who seemed to highly enjoy themselves by the manner in which they did justice to the viands set before them . After the cloth was cleared , Mr . Mitchell took the chair , and Mr . Lasliford the rice-chair ; when the chairman gave " Lou d Roar 'd the People ' s Thunder" in prime style . After which Mr . Page gave the " Marselliese Hymn , " which was followed by several patriotic songs and toasts , till a late hour , when the company separated , highly pleased with the evening ' s entertainment .
BRISTOL . Public Meeting . —On Monday evening last the Public Hall ( which had been lent by Mr . Simeon for the occasion ) was well tilled , to hear an address from Mr . Thomas Clark , of Stockport , on the propriety of working men joining the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . Mr . Cains was unanimously called to the chair ; and , after making a few prefatory observations on the object of the meeting , introduced Mr . Clark , who showed at length , how the purchase and sale of Land might be effected , and the capability of the Land to produce _enoughjl ' or the sustentation ofa population ten times as large as the present . At the close of his address a vote of thanks was awarded him . Several rules were disposed of , and some shares , taken up . A thriving branch ofthe Land Society exists here , and will hold its weekly meetings on Tuesday evenings , in the above Hall , Bear-lane .
PRESTON . At a general meeting of the Preston branch ofthe Land Society , held on Sunday , November the 2 nd , Mr . James Duckett in the ehair , the following resolutions were agreed to : — " That we disapprove of the Manchester resolution . " " That we are of opinion that the Society should , if possible , be enrolled under the Building Societies Acts . " "That members taking two shares should have their four acre allotment on gaining their chance for the first share . " "That the present section of the Society close for the enrolment of members on the assembling of Conference , and that another section commence from that period . " "That the Society be divided into districts , and that a district be ballotted for , to take the next purchase , which shall be lotted for by the members , if a sufficient number have paid up their shares in that district . "
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MEMBERS OF THE OPERATIVE BAKERS ' UNION , ABERDEEN . Fellow Countrymen , —In the earnest desire to promote the welfare of our present' position , and to procure for ourselves and fellow-labourers our rights as men and as citizens , we have been led to approve and adopt the plan of organisation proposed at the Convention , held in Glasgow , upon the 29 th of September last . Aware that many of our fellow-brethren have , through misconception , drawn very unwarrantable conclusions respecting the motives and objects of those who have joined what they are pleased to term the "New Move , " we think it a duty which we owe them * and to ourselves , frankly and openly to avow our reasons for the cause we have adopted .
Without pledging ourselves for the perfection of any system devised by human ingenuity , we beg to submit the following as our reasons for becoming members of the National Association : —1 st . Because it has for its objects the obtaining of our rights . 2 nd . Because it proposes to carry out what every unionist has to somo extent been endeavouring to do . 3 rd . Because it would improve our condition , and would qualify us to make the best use of our rights when we obtain them . 4 th . These reasons appear to us sufficient to justify our conduct for the course we have taken . Having on former occasions pledged ourselves to use every just and lawful means in our power to obtain our rights , we would have deemed it a violation of tbat pledge had we neglected this plan of organisation . Claiming and exercising for ourselves the right of individual judgment , we assert it to be the best and most efficient plan that has yet
been proposed for making our rights a national law . We ground this assertion on the fact that there are yet thousands of our fellow-brethren who are yet ignorant of our objects in view , or indifferent to their own interests ; and we think it must now be apparent to all intelligent men , that nothing less than the demand of a majority of the journeymen Bakers of this country will ever procure for us the objects we aim at . ¦ We call on every unionist to co-operate with us in our endeavour to elevate the condition of the white slaves from their bakehouse bondage , by restricting our labour to ten hours ' per day instead of eighteen . Should this appeal to our fellow-tradesmen be made in vain , we will nevertheless devote our energies and continue our exertions to the utmost of our feeble ability in the propagation of the truth , relying on its power for uprooting ignorance , vice , and misery , and establishing in their stead knowledge , virtue and happiness .
( Signed ) John Graham , President ofthe Aberdeen Operative Bakers' Union . Aberdeen , October 28 th , 1845 . United Trades' Association for the employment _oy Labour in Agriculture and Manufactures . —The Board of Directors met at the Trades Office , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbur y , on Monday , November 3 rd ; T . S . Duncombe , M . P ., in the chair . A letter was read on behalf of the united branches of operative Potters , from Mr . William Evans , applying for one hundred shares of the Trades' Land and Building Association , such shares to be paid for in weekly instalments of 25 s . each . Several Tin-plate Workers waited on the board , and took out a number
of shares for themselves and fellow-workmen . In conjunction with the united trades for the protection of industry , they _liayo entered into an engagement with Mr . David Ross , of Leeds , to lecture on the objects sought to be obtained by the joint associations . Previous to Mr . Ross ' s provincial tour , he will deliver four lectures in the metropolis , at the following times and places : —Tuesday , November 18 th , Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street _Tottenham-court-road ; Wednesday , November 19 th , South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blackfriars-road ; the National Hall , High Holborn , on Thursday , November 19 th ; and on Friday , November 21 st , Hall of Science , 81 , Whitechapel . To commence each evening at eight o'clock precisely .
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_EXTnAORDINARY CASE OF SuiCICB . — HaDLBIOH , Nov . 1 . —A deliberate and frightful act of suicide was committed in this town on Thursday last , under very peculiar circumstances . The individual , John _Jayhes , was proprietor of a boarding school of the first repute , and until within the last week he was highly respected for learning and moral character . However , in the course of the last week two of the pupils , sons of Mr . J . Growse , surgeon , made such representations to their parent as induced that gentleman to prefer a charge against Jaynes of a horrible character , in consequence of Which a warrant was issued for his apprehension . The officer took liim into custody on Tuesday , but he was allowed to remain at his own house until the charge should be investigated before the magistrates—the wretched man declaring that it was a conspiracy got
up against him . Though closely watched , and deprived , as it was supposed , of every offensive weapon , he by some means possessed himself of a pistol , with which he shot himself through the head , at an early hour on Thursday morning . The ball had _k ° S y the head , and death was instantaneous . The distress of his bereaved wife , who believed him to be incapable Of the offence laid to his charge , ad _jmta of no description . She is said to be an amiable and accomplished lady , and is most respectably connected in Gloucestershire , where Jaynes formerly resided . Information ofthe tragical occurrence was immediately forwarded to Mr . H . Wayman , the coroner , before whom a jury was yesterday empannelledat the Swan Inn . After a long examination of witnesses , tho jury , after a short consultation , returned a verdict of " _Felo-de-tt . "
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_T ) eath ~ from Hydrophobia in Leebs . — During thmai _pastweek , aman ofthe name of Thomas . RensHaw , f „ whoresidedinImperial . s . reefc _, LeylandSi » ndwas em-a .. ploved as a barrel washer to Messrs . Singleton _ssi brewery , has died under circumstances whichi Ieaveei little doubt thathe has fallen a victim to hydrophobia . l . The deceased was bit in the thumb by a little fancy / dog , which he kept , in July last . He was _^ forty-sues years of age , and has left a wife and three children ; . Leeds . —Municipal Elections . — The municipal il elections took place on Saturday last , butineyeroaa any occasion excited less interest . A stranger com-.-ing into the town would not have discovered that the e elections were taking place . The Whigs have gained I two . The Edinburgh Tows Council have voted tha i freedom of the city to Lord John Russell .
Be ye Fishers of Women !—There are 620 , 000 ) girls at this moment receiving , their education in i French convents . The Corn Dealers op Liverpool " are actually r exporting the corn in bond to Russia . This fact speaks volumes . Female Teachers . —A class for training female * ? teaehere is about to be established b _ r the directors i of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution . Leeds Post-Office . —During the present year , no > fewer than eleven millions of letters passed through the Leeds post-office . Winter Assize . —There will , it is understood , be a Winter Assizes held in the month of December next , in the same places as last year . . .
_, A Saint Caught . —We have been informed that Sir Andrew Agnew was detected by a gentleman , a short time since , travelling in a railway train on . the Sabbath-day ' . The saint was sadly out of countenance when discovered . .. .. .... A Consummation devoutly to de wished ¦ ¦ nr all but Umbrella Makers . —Some enemies of the umbrella are seriously entertaining the idea of forming a company to erect light transparent verandahs from the houses , across the footpaths , so that even on the wettest day the metropolis can be traversed from one end to the other without an umbrella . * Irish Northern Provincial College . —We are enabled to state , on _unquestionable authority , that the Government Commissioners have reported in favour of Belfast , as the site of the new northern college .- —Northern Whig .
Railroads and Turnpikks . —Notwithstanding the railroad mania and building , turnpikes continue to bring theirprices . The Montrose turnpike , for instance , was last week put up for letting , and brought an advance of £ 100 beyond what its tolls let for last year . A Great Bore . —Among the new projects on the tapis in Scotland is the plan of making a tunnel under the Clyde . The proposal has met with muck favour . . Douglas Jerrold , Esq ., was to have presided at the annual soiree of the Sheffield Mechanics'Institute , holden last week , but was prevented attending by an attack of influenza which for some days confined him to his bed .
Love and Crime . —A few nights ago , a tanning man , atVry , inthe Moselle , entered his master ' s room , and murdered him with the colter ol a plough , and then , going to the chamber of the farmer ' s daughter , fired a pistol at her , but missed his aim . He immediately went out into an adjoining wood , and there hung himself . Rejected love is said to have been the cause of these crimes . Wheat . —In March last , a blade of wheat sprung up in the garden of a poor man , at Shipbourne . It was cultivated and produced 40 ears of corn , having 2 , 013 grains . Another blade of wheat , of a different description , also sprang up in the same garden , which produced 26 ears of corn , containing 1 , 392 grains .
Spanish Economy . —The oil lamps at the palace of of Madrid have been substituted for the new gas ones lately put up , and the gasometer is to be pulled down . Thus cleanliness ahd splendour of light are sacriticed to make a yearly saving of about £ 00 , while peculation and extravagance run riot in every branch ofthe public service . Wholesale Bank Note Forgery . —A regular establishment for the fabrication of spurious bank notes has just been discovered in one of the suburbs of Vienna . The principal delinquent is aged Y 4 yeaira
and , up to the time of discovery , lived in first ratestyle . Caution to News Agents . —It is the _opinion of the solictor-general and Mr . Peacock , that a London news agent is liable to apenalty of twenty pounds for sending any supplement to a newspaper to the country news agent _without sending the newspaper with it ; and that the " country agent is also liable to a penaltv of twenty pounds for every supplement which he may sell or deliver , and without at the same time delivering out the newspaper to which the supplement belongs ..
Recruiting at a Discount . —The Time' statesthat a difficulty is experienced at the present time in procuring a sufficient number of recruits for the Royal Artillery , and that the regiment is greatly short , of the required strength . — " An officer of the corps has been in Scotland since the early part of August for the purpose of recruiting , and he _hasnot succeeded in . obtaining a single recruit . " ; . The Quebec Subscriptions . —The Canada papers state that the subscriptions and contributions in all parts of the world for the relief of th _£ sufferers by the two late destructive fires in * Quebec , received up to the 26 th of September , amounted to the sum of £ 62 , 136 18 s . 5 d ., independently of a grant expected from the provisional treasury of £ 20 , 000 . Of thia large amount , only- £ 900 came from the United States . _..-..::. _; , _ Old Clo ' . —There died lately , at Kendal , a penurious bachelor , named John Stalker , a labourer in a coal yard , who , left behind him twenty-eight complete
suits of clothes , most of which he had never worn ; fifteen new hats ; fifteen new shirts that had not once been in water ; as much cloth as would make eleven others ; handkerchiefs without number ; nineteen tea cannisters ; fifteen pint cans ; and a collection of pots and pans which would set up a vendor , besides a considerable sum of money which he never had the heart to expend on himself . Mob Law in America . —A portion ofthe citizens of Lexington have fohned themselves into & __ band , termed "The Regulators , " painted and disguised aa Indians , and threaten to drive every free black from the city and country . Their first depredation was committed on the night of the 19 th Sept ., when they took a black preacher , stripped and whipped him , and afterwards gave him a coat of tar and feathers . Every man feels it necessary to go armed in selfdefence , and an obnoxious word or sentiment exposes one to the fury of the populace .
Thorwaldsens Statue of Bxron , after being , like its original , so long homeless , has arrived at Cambridge , and taken up , it may be presumed , its final abode , amid the scenes of his earlier , and soma ofhis happiest , days . A Newspaper in St . Helena . —A newspaper was published for the first time at St . Helena in June last . Encroachments of the Russians . —Intelligence from Asia informs us ( says the Constitutionnel ) that the Russians have just established themselves at Esterabad , an important port of Persia in the Caspian Sea . The Magnetic _Telegraph between New York and Philadelphia will be completed on the 10 th of November , and that between Philadelphia and Baltimore on the 1 st of December , making an uninterrupted line between New York and Washington . The wires are conveyed under the waters of the . Delaware and the North Rivers .
Lowitti . _Coiros Trade . —fhe number of persona employed in the cotton mills at Lowell is 9 , 235 . Population of New York . —The census of the city ol New York , just taken , places the number of inhabitants at 360 , 000 . German Emigrants . —Two hundred and eight German colonists arrived at Rio on the 26 th August , in the English barque George . Tho Brazilian Government is making great efforts to attract this useful class of emigrants to that country . Wolves in France . —Great numbers of wolves
have lately made their appearance in the neighbourhood of Dieppe , and done great mischief _amongstthe sheep and cattle . Those rapacious animals were previously quite unknown in that district . A Grand Scheme is talked of in Holland , being no less than the draining Up ofthe Zuyder Zee , the whole of whioh was dry land a few centuries ago . The Last of the " Monsters . "—The Cork _Re porter gives a lengthened report of the dinner to Mr . W . ' iSmith O'Brien , M . P ., at Limerick / on Wednesday last , and states it to be the "last monster demonstration of 1845 . "
• Romantic Story . —lhe Birmingham Journal states that a young American planter , named Da Costa , Of good family and immense fortune , recently came over to England in search of a wife , and visited some ofthe most fashionable cities , spending his money like a pr ince , without meeting the object of his search . At last , whilst standing at the door of his inn in Birmingham , he saw and deeply admired a Miss Riramer , of Alcester , who was on a visit in * the town , followed her , obtained the consent , of her parents to pay his addresses to her , won her affections b y tlie ardency and sincerity of his suit , and married her on Sunday week , at Alcester church The bride's eldest brother has set out with the newly married pair for America . ' ' - -
. Bread Stuffs ;—V 7 e regret to see that this odious American term is finding its way into our agricultural reports , and instead of speaking 'of grain o £ which so much , of the public food is _derived _. ' . _wo axe . told continually in the English , as woU _^ ih tha Irish and Scotch papers , of "the _raatoiaLiise -wMoli has already taken place in the value of br _^ _iliijfs , ' * instead of in the value of . bread , or ur _* _$ e _^ * valtteof grain . —Leeds Mtreurv . j um _*^ _ail
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 8, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08111845/page/7/
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