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" And I will war ,. at least in words , - ( And—should my chance so happen—deeds ) , "With aU who . war . with Thought !" « I think I hear a little bird , - who sings The people by and by will he the stronger . "—Braox . 5 _^ - We suspend for a week the selections from "Mr . M & _zzisi ' s "Italy , Austria , and the Pore . " _Ifext week we purpose giving Mr . Mazzisi _' s concluding appeal to England , ana to Europe generally ; together with some comments of our own . We have this week to call the attention of our readers to another subject .
In the lasttwo numbers oi Douglas Jen-old ' s Maga zine _, there have appeared two articles under the title of " The Englishman in Prussia , " in which the writer sets about describing the social , moral , political , and religious state ofthe people of Prussia . In the first article there was a snort account of the famous " Holy Goat ; " but in this month ' s number the subject is more fully treated of , and the expose ofthe shameless frauds committed by the" priests on the credulous multitude is so astounding , that for the information of our readers we have deemed it right to wive it a place in our columns . ' -
THE _DOll COAX AT TBEYES , ' ( From . Douglas JerrolcVs Magazine , for Septer / iber . ) That the CaliphHaronn Alraschid is really a matter-offact , historical personage , requires a considerable effort for many people seriously to believe , when they call to mind the various •* extraordinary" circumstances in which he plays so conspicuous a part in the "Arabian Sights Entertainments ; " hut that his name should ever he hrought forward as a secure basis whereon to settle a doubtful question of " authenticity , * ' could certainly never have entered the imagination of the majority even of the most courteous readers . Such , however , is the case ; and the " _Commander of thefaJthfnl"isthesole " sp pnsqr for the genuineness of most of those sacred Christian relics to which millions of Kheaish Catholics constantly bend tlie knee with prayer and adoration . ";
The numerous relics of saints , apostles , martyrs , and Other holy persons , preserved in the churches of _lllienisli Prussia , seem to he fairly tiaceahle hack to the time of Charlemagne , who was crowned Emperor of the West in the year 800 . The sacred hits of wood , hones and rags , are undoubtedly a thousand years old ; So far , they are genuine , —and valuable . Tbey were all collected-by Charlemagne , and the majority came to him directly from the hands of the Caliph _Haroun Alraschid . Finding _^ hatthe devout Emperor set a great value on such things , the friendly and magnanimous caliph took care to supply liim with many rare presents . It is not improbable that Giaffir and Mesronr had " standing-orders" to procure every extraordinary curiosity of this hind tliat could be heard ofi With any likelihood of its Toeing genuine—or plausible .
The _aepressedandstnpified countenances of ihelthenish peasantry have been in a great measure attributed { in So . I . of this series of papers ) to the influence of gross superstition , as their meagre and unenergetic bodily condition has been chiefly attributed to their very poor and insufficient diet- That these opinions hare some good - foundation may he shown by the evidence of the collateral -fact , that the peasantry of the north of Germany are a comparatively fine , handsome , able-bodied race ; they are better fed , and they have none of the gross superstitions eo onirersal in the Rhenish provinces . Tbe established ' religion of Northern Germany is the Protestant . The political despotism is the same , hut not the mental : and , as the peasantry of all countries are unlikely to trouble their heads with politics , the influence is not seen in tbe expression of their faces , except as it affects their physical condition . It is the despotism over the soul that strikes the deepest marks in tbe countenance of the Rhenish
I » easantrj- - "While _allnding to the various objects of the superstitious reverence and idolatry of the people inhabiting the lastmentioned province , and hefore we proceed to the deplorable sequel of the history of the Pilgrimage to the Holy Coat at / Treves , it may heas wall to give iherea _& er a passing glance at a few other relics , now in constant exhibition , in order to show him that the above holy garment is uo wonderful exception , or accident of the time , but only a part of a regular system , and that he may see the actual state of intelligence among the working classes at this present day in these most fertile and populous
pro-. Thc cathedral of Cologne is quite a museum" of sacred relics and remains , monuments and muniments , pictures and painted windows ; and the church on the Kreuzherg , near _lloim ( in the vaults of which lie the mummies of some score of devout monks ) , has also a very broad marlie staircase , in every step of which relics are enshrined behind a small lattice--work of-wire , and no one is permitted to ascend or descend , except by walking , or rather crawling , upon his knees . Many other places , rich in possessions of this kind , crowd to our recollection , and would be likely to confuse any attempt to enter upon a fe _» r _particulars ; hut , fortunately , a little hook is within our reach , written in Prench , and containing an account
oftie relics deposited in the cathedral of Aachen ( Aix _) , founded , as was the city itself , hy Charlemagne . The relics of one cathedral have a strong family likeness to tiiose of most others , and a peep at the relics in Aix win he the most appropriate , after what has already beeu said of the friendly _xaunificcnee of _Tlnroun Alraschid . The title of this little hook is sufficiently lengthy and explicit— "Tresor _d'Aix-la-Chapellc ; ou , courte Description des Saintes Reliqaes , qui ont eie _recueillles par le tres-glorieux Empereur Charlemagne , _et ensnite placces dans la hasiligue de _5 otre-Dame d'Aix-Ia-Chapclle , ou elles sont conservees et exposees puhliqueinent tons _les sept an 3 a la veneration des _fii'Mpc . " _/
It should he observed , hy the way , that these "treasures" of _Ais-la-Ghapclle ao not consist only of those tilings sent from Arabia hy the " Commander of the _rairhfttl _, ** hut many of them were presents from Greek emperors , the Empress Irene , and from Christians inthe East , who regarded Charlemagne as their benefactor , he having forwarded considerable sums of money for the relief of those who suffered under the tyranny of the Saracens in the Holy land . "Knowing , therefore _^ Ears the book hefore ns , " his extraordinary piety , and
his love for all religions objects , they sent to him from all parts of Palestine , of the East , from Rome , and other-parts of Italy , from Africa , ana from Spain , the most important relies . These he has distributed and placed in different collegiate churches and cathedrals , which he caused to be built , as proved by the letters patent which he granted to these churches . But he had a particular predilection for the church of _Xotre-Dame jn Aix-la-Cbapelte , which was the chapel of Iris court , and he enriched it with the most precious relics . " Here are a few of them : —
L The white robe in which the Holy _Virgin was attired in the stable at Bethlehem , when she gave birth to tlie Saviour ; itis of cotton cloth , of about five and a half feet long ; icftence tc * may _coiicftttfe , with _Alcephorus and Epiphanlus , that the Holy "Virgin was tall of stature . II . The swaddling clothes , which are spoken of in the 24 th chapter of St . Luke . They are of a deep yellow colour ; ( d ' undrapjaune , tresfonce ) as coarse as felt , hut woven III . The linen upon which St . John the Baptist was decapitated , or rather , in which his body was enveloped and carried * away : Matt . siv . 12 ; Mark vi . . 20 . This lima is _« H catered witli Uood .
The little hook from which we quote is declared to be jmhUsliea " avee permission des Snperieurs ; " and at the hack of the title-p 3 ge , we read , Vn , et approuvepar _50 _U 5 _, Aix-la-Chapelle , le 15 Mars . Fonck , Vic . griis . " _5 ow , if it he really true that this was published with sich permission , and had been seen and approved hy the < % nitary Fonck , the supervision must have been very _dbht which could allow " the 24 th chapter of Luke to he referred to , instead of the 2 nd , ( for the 24 th refers to the « _rnwfixion !) and the 20 th Terse ofthe 6 th chapter of St . _Mari _, instead ofthe 23 th Terse . In any case , this shows that fhe compilers thought that anything would do for Me worshippers of these Treasures . There was no need to be particular . IV . The linen which was wound round the Saviour on _fiie cross . The marks of the precious blood are visible "jwiiit . ic .
» . A Tcliquaire ( shrine for relics ) , which contains : — ( 1 - ) The point of one ofthe nails with which our Saviour was fastened upou the Cross . ( 2 . ) A bit ofthe wood of _thel _Ufly Cross , upon which he was crucified . ( 3 . ) A tooth of St . Catherine . ( 4 . ) The great hone of one arm of Charlemagne , from the elbow to the shoulder . As nearly all the most important of the relics contamed in this church were deposited there hy Charle . _Biasne , we mi ght be tempted at first to imagine that in a moment of enthusiasm he had sent them this great bone _« _fo ne ofhis arms ; it will , however , be more rational , on _arilier consideration , to determine that this relic was collected for him , after his death , and placed among the rest _uv the hands of some devout monks . Here are a few more , selected from a great varfctv , all « ' a similar kind . IX Some hair of John the Baptist . A rib of * $ t . _« q . _hc-n _, the first martvric
, . - U . A shrine of gold , enriched with unpolished stones , swi ? f \ WMe ' _^ * P of t ,, e eartn wMcu was wT W 5 tL ibe blooa of St - P _& eil 5 _^ few of llis - _> ss . Upon this shrine the King of the Romans took _" _^ _Mtb at his coronation _, _"l- A little casket of gold , enriched with jewels , conisan _* _alU ° f tl , e arra c _* _S * Simeon . Above this casket A _^ J _^ PhiaL containing some oil which miraculously Havw flle bones *? * Gatherme _- _A llied Tentnred to ask a question , in a humble tone , relic I , 6 ™ 111 _° _^ _'e'al _^ o was calling our attention to this con " _^ siting the church , he cat short all further cf Ik "' ' _^ observing that "it was one of the presents _-s _* 3 ] t onn Alraschid , and was , therefore , of unquestion-« ff an \ 5 citr ' " The cal 5 I _wonla n 0 aonDt nave cut da-ri _? . atfs lleaa 3 n _» moment who had attempted to ut | -avehun . -
ft . I , * _J he _othw part ofthe arm of Charlemagne , from _^ _ana to th e elbow . _^ _hav esin celeanit f bai „ oQlet _va _rf _> was sentby ia _u-jj ' ' Si _"S of France , who caused it to be enshrined _Ivt " » * " - " posited i /™ enri :: 1 , e * wi * enamels , in which is _de-§ avi a _"f we sponge with which they gave our _Soajg . _water u P 0 n the cross ; a thorn of the holy crown ; a _toojj _^**? of St ZachariaB , father of John the Baptist ; ¦ _% an * « Thomas , _aposfle to the Indies ; some hair of - Postle _SuBartholomewj _^ c , & c .
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The most important relics are only exhibited la public once during seven * years -the rest are in daily-course of display . Chapter IV . of the little-hook quoted , is thus headed : "Avee quelle devotion on'doit visiter et honorer les saintes B , _eliques . "It contains a variety of prayers , suited to the different relies which ' are exhibited , and to be used on those occasions . We forbear to quote any of them—and , if the truth must be told—out of respect and reverence , even to the superstition . ' Whatever there may be absurd and derogatory in these adorations , they nevertheless breathe a tone so sincere , so devout , so full of faith and often so pathetic , that it is scarcely possible to read them without emotion . And this is equally the case with regard to many ofthe almost innumerable prayers which have been written for the exhibition of the Holy Coat at 3 _' reres . One of them ( we forbear to translate it for the reason just adduced ) thus commences : — -
Oinem Jesus ! Bu h _' oehste _gottliche liehe ! entziinde mem Herz mit dem Feuer Deiner heiligen Hebe , damit _ichDichmeiuenGottnnaufhdrlich liebe . 0 _liebeyoiler Eridser ! _Du bist fin * uns am _Kreuze in den gr ' ossten Leiden gestorben _. um unssinen Beweis Deiner Liebe zu geben , Aber ach , wie wenig wirst Du von uns undankbaren _JTenschen geliebt ,. & e . But another passage from one of these ( entitled "Gebetebeider Anschaunng des heiligen Rockes" ) being of a more calmly impassioned and profound character , the following translation is offered : — "Thy holiest name , Jesus , be my light , when my nerves of sight are broken ; thy holiest name , Jesus , he enthroned in my heart , when mine ears can hear no more ; thy holiest name , Jesus , be in my thoughts , when my tongue grows stiff . with coming death ; and when , at last , my soul separates itself from my body , then be tby holiestname Jesus , my last sigh in this world , and my first word on awaking in eternity . " -
It will ,- however , be readily -understood , that while many of these prayers induce a profound feeling of reverence ( to tlie divine , object , —not , of course , to the article in question ) , there are many which shock by their gross ignorance , or induce a , feeling of the ludicrous . . We have seen some of these prayers and addresses containing such expressions as , :, _'HoIy Coat , help us : "— - " Sacred Shirt , envelope our souls 1 " — - " Blessed Frock of our Lord _. relieve us of these afflictions ! " & c , ifcc .: The reader being now in full possession of the materials Of Superstition SO deeply and extensively operating at this day throughout the populous provinces of Ehenhh Prussia , let us proceed to the melancholy sequel and consequences of the Pilgrimage to the Holy . Garment at Treves .
The poor people , by tens of thousands and hundreds of . thousands , trooped . off to Treves , each according to his means ; some with ample means of sustenance , for the time , and conveyance , for the . journey ; others without sufficient means of . any -kind , though they had sold all they possessed in order to go . Many stood in absolute need of assistance by the way there , and far many more could nerer have got back at all without assistance . As it was , the majority of the poorest returned in a . most wTctched condition—exhausted , thin , ragged , half-starving , and with scarce a shoe to their feet . Yet , for the
most part , they came hack praying aloud as they slowly staggered and crawled along , so much were they sustained by the fanaticism which possessed them . Many of the oldest died ; but they died rejoicing , and their relations and friends felt their grief aUe ' _viated wljen they _re--collected it was in such a cause ! How melancholy that all _' this amount of self-devotion , this sacrifice of all outward and perishable things to an , internal principle , should be thus misapplied and wasted ! But governments are all alike in their neglect ofthe means they possess of turning the elementary principles of humanity into good .
In saying that many m these poor people sold all they possessed in order to make this Pilgrimage , we mean so literally , and including all they had reserved to support them during the winter . One poor man , who was afflicted with sciatica or lumbago , and could not walk , sold his little field and some ether things for thirty thdlers , to be taken as far as possible in a cart . He expected to be completely cured by praying to the holy garment . To his infinite astonishment and misery , and that of all his relations and friends , he returned as ill as he Went ! The surprising intelligence having rapidly spreaa , a shrewdly devout person suggested to him that perhaps the man who drove tlie cart might not
_haie been a true Catholic . Inquiry was made . Tlie carter was not a true Catholic of the Church of Rome . He was no Catholic at alL The investigation was now carried to the utmost point . The man ' s father was a Jew ! As for the man himself , he was found to he nothing ; hut he had Jewish blood in his veins , and this was clearly the reason why the poor sufferer with sciatica had returned without being cured . He called all his remaining energies together , sold whatever remained , borrowed all he cculd ofhis poor relatives , and hiring another cart , with an undoubted Catholic to drive it , performed the Pilerimage a . second time ! Seed we say he returned as before?—need we record the sad end of this infatuated sufferer ?
The money and provisions which the peasantry had reserved to support them during thc winter having been thus wasted , . thousands of them were soon reduced to a state of want and deplorahle wretchedness . If the last winter was hard and of long duration in England , it was far worse in Germany ; in fact , there were two winters in immediate sequence , or with only two or three days' intervals of sun and thaw , followed by heavy rains . The accumulation of snow in some of the most frequented tkroughfares in several cities and towns was so great that when it hardened and settled down into ice , itformed a superstratum of two feet , and in some places three feet , over the pavement . It is the custom not to remove this till the winter is quite over , the composed Germans sagely reasoning that if they clear their doorways or the horse-way before the winter is over , they may have to do it a second time ! When , therefore , there did
at last come a general and final thaw , all this mass of iced snow was converted into a stream of dirty water , with which the streets flowed from one end to the other , in some places tlie streets being quite impassable without wading directly through . This was the case in Cologne , in Bonn , and more especially in the villages . At this period the condition of the peasantry was most lamentable . Having expended aU their means , and therefore being without money , food , sufficient clothing , or fuel , they were in a state of absolute starvation during the prolonged frost , and were only saved from death by individual and public subscriptions . Whatmust tlie fanatics and impostors among the clergy , who bad inflamed the imaginations and passions of the peasantry to undertake that ruinous Pilgrimage—what mustthey , if they thought at all , have thought of themselves and their preaching , when they witnessed all this misery which they had produced .
But the worst was yet to come . Whde the general thaw atthe close of the winter-was covering the streets ofthe cities and towns with water and slush , it was rapidly 2 t work upon the mountain snows , and the snows en all the hills along the borders ofthe Rhine , and of the hills beside the rivers in the valleys . A stream of melted snow soon began to flow down into the Rhine from all the neighbouring heights , and this stream soon swelled to a torrent ; the ice at the same time began to break up at Mainz ( Mayence ) , Bingen , aud Cohientz , and down it all came in huge masses completely covering all the surface of the broad river , floating rapidly onwards , and with the certainty of never stopping till it reached Holland . Bay after day , unceasingly , and througout the night , did this flowing down of mountain-streams continue , _together with the continuous floating down the Rhine of the great flat masses of ice , in one grand and
apparently endless succession . It looked as if the winter palace of Time had been broken up , and was being carried away in his accelerated course toward oblivion . Thc river began to rise , first a few inches in every twenty-four hours—then a foot every night—then a foot and a half—and it overflowed its hanks on all sides ; till one night it was found to have risen nearly three feet , and fhe alarm had of course become general . The Rhine bad now risen upwards of ten feet , and the country on both sides was under water . All the fields and adjacent villages were under water , and all the streets of the towns tbatled down to the rirer . The peasantry were flying in all directions , and as they retreated to the nearest _viUa-je , it was soon found necessary for tbe inhabitants of that village to ' fly also , thus carrying with them »» _accumulation of terror and _dislress and starvation , to the next village , the inhabitants of which hourly expected to be under the same necessity for flight .
A few remained whose houses happened to he larger than tbe rest , andhad a floor above thc _ground-floor , into which some of the faintly retreated to stand "the siege . " But the besiegers were too strong , and as the waters rose , the occupants were again obliged to retreat into the next floor ahove , if their house had another floor ( which only a few in each village generally have ) and if it had not , they were compelled to escape in boats . Villages which had previously heen seen from the opposite side of the river , standing upon green hanks or bright gravelly soil , with rows of trees along thehauks at the river ' s edge , were now only discoverable hy the tops of things—little church spires , roofs , chimneys , top stories , tops of trees , _A-c : in front all was water , with water all around , and water heyond . The villages on the other side of the river , opposite to Bonn , were more especially in this
nearly obliterated position , as obserred by the inhabitants from the Alte Zoll , from tbe high houses , from the high -rounds at the back ofthe town , and from the top of the lar < re gallerv of the old windmill in front , which during the whole of one Sunday was thronged with successive crowds of spectators . The remaining inhabitants who were still "holding out" in the second floors of the inundated villages , were supplied with food by ooats from Bonn . It was a common thing at this time to see large boats afloat half-way up two or three of the streets of Bonn , taking in bread from a baker's shop . One ot the first of these bread-boats was engaged by some English residents , whorowed away forthwith to the inundated villages , plving " in and out" among the roofs and chimbreadant
neys and other " tops of things " to distribute , relieve in other ways the occupants of upper floors , oi other unromantic Venetian _^ situations .. The ' » natii clergy who had excited the poor to their ruinous Pdgwm age were by no means equally " prominent" any o these occasions . - . . . ; - . When the inundation was quite gone , the _devastate it . had . committed upon these poor little villages was W too visible ;—housesi and cottages unroofed , . or with , th lower part so injured that they would not , De safe to _Irr in , and _required to be rebuUt' many cottages comp lete ! " gutted , " or with only the upright po _^ ts or piles le ; standing , and some had been completely swept away . - 1 will be readily un derstood that these were cases of tot ! loss-the poor people had no "insurances , " nor foo ( nor money , nor place to lay their leads , nor clothes , w
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Implements of trade , craft , or , husbandry / ' They were only saved from death by subscriptions which were raised throughout the whole of Prussia , the . lists beginning with tiie King , ( though the subscriptions actually began with the merchants and other private individuals ) , and immediately followed by the nobility , army ! merchants , English residents , and , indeed , by the principal inhabitants of all the cities and towns , according to tlieir several means . What must the poor people have thought of such a calamity ; as this inundation following their recent Pilgrimage to the Holy Coat ! and what must they have thought of its healing aud preserving properties , if their minds had been at liberty to think of the matter .
The Land
THE LAND
Within That Land Was Many A Malcontent, ...
Within that land was many a malcontent , Who curs'd the tyranny to which he bent ; The soil full many a wringing despot saw , Who work'd his wantonness in farm of law . Byron , "A people among whom equality reigned , would p _» ssess everything they wanted where they possessed the means of subsistence . Why should they pursue additional wealth or territory ? Soman can cultivate more than a certain portion of land . " —Godwin . ¦ . "Ivo one is able to produce a charter from heaven , or haa any better title to a particular possession than his neighbour . " _—Paley . " There could be no such thing as landed properly originally . Man did not make the earth , and , though he had a natural right to _owi _^ 'it , he had no right to locate as _Jii 3 property in perpetuity any part of it ; neither did the Creator of the earth open a land office , from whence the first title deeds should issue . "—' Thomas Paine . Theland shall not be sold forever . _—Jfoscs .
" There is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of _Jand . "—Blackstone . > _.-.. _- ' _- .. " The land or earth , in any country or neighbourhood , with everything in or on the same , or pertaining thereto , belongs at all times to the living ' inhabitants of the said country or neighbourhood in an ' equal mariner . For there is no living but on land and its productions ; consequently , what we cannot live without , wc have the same property in as in our lives . "— Thomas Spence : "The landis the people ' s inheritance ; and kings , princes , peers , nobles , priests , and commoners , wlio havo stolen it from them , hold it upon the title Of popular , ignorance , rather than upon any right , human or divine . " —Feargus O'Connor . : " - •''• •
" ily reason teaches me that land cannot be sold . The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon , and cultivate , as far as is necessary for their subsistence ; and so long as they occupy aiid cultivate it , they have the right to the soil—but if they voluntarily leave it , then ; any other peoplehavc a right to settle upon it . Nothing can he sold , but such things as can be carried away . " —Black Hawk . ¦ "Every individual possesses , legitimately , the thing which his labour , his . intelligence ( or more generally ) , which his _acliuiti ; has created . " This principle is incontestible , and it is well to remark that it contains expressly : m ' _acknowledgment of the right of all to the soil .- For as the soil has not been created by man , It follows from the fundamental principle of property , that it cannot belong to any small portion of thc human race , who . have created it by their activity . Let us then conclude that the true theory of property is founded on the * creation of the thing possessed . ' "— . Fourier . < ..
" If man has a right to light , air , and water , which no one will attempt to question , he has a right also ' to the land , which is just as necessary for the maintenance of his Subsistence . If every person had an equal share of the soil , poverty would be unknown in the world , and crime would disappear with want . " —Mike Walsh . "As the nature and wants of all men are alike , the wants of all must be equal ; and as human existence is dependent on the same contingencies , it follows that ' the great field for all exertion , and the raw material of all wealth , thc earth , is the common property of all its inhabitants . "—John Francis Bray , " What monopoly inflicts evils of such magnitude as that of land S It is the sole barrier , to national prosperity . Thc people , the only creators of wealth , possess knowledge ; they possess industry ; and if they possessed land , they could set all other monopolies at defiance ; they wouia then be enabled to employ machinery for their own benefit , and the world would behold with delight and astonishment the beneficial effects of this mighty engine , when properly directed . "—Author of the "Reproof of Brutus . "
PROGRESS OF AGUARIANISM IN AMERICA , A press of other matter lias forced US to _fOl'CgO the insertion of several articles under this head which we had prepared ; and has also caused us to keep back certain information we possessed as to tho efforts of our American friends to free the public lands in that country from the jobbers and speculators , by mailing them really national property . As wc have a mass of intelligence before us , relative to their recentproceedings in their agitation for the restoration of the land to the people , we think we cannot do better , in recommencing the series of articles on this question , than make known the progress which this greatest of questions has made . _^ We have several copies of Young America and the Albany Freeholder before us .- We commence our extracts from the first of these papers .
The _Ixatioxai- Kefobm _Association of New York has continued to holl weekly meetings for the promulgation of its views and objeets . It appears ' that some of the members contemplate emigrating to the public lands at _present unoccupied , and there forming free townships , under the auspices of the Association . Other members contemplate a like proceeding in the Oregon territory . Some of the speakers , we perceive , advocate the forming of the Oregon territory into an Independent Republic . The state of Old England forms a fruitful theme for the speakers in illustrating their arguments against land-monopoly and its evils . At one ofthe meetings the following speech was delivered by a " son of the ocean , " who , it seems , in the course of his wanderings o ' er the " deep , deep , _seaii" has touched at ( what might be , and what shall be ) our " right little , tight little , Island . " Hear him : —
Capt . _Kempto _;* , of Frankfort , Maine , said—Mr . President , Ladies , and Gentlemen * . The importance of this cause will he sufficient excuse for its humble advocate . Had I tat still , my heart would have been more than eloquent ip its advocacy . I comefromthenorth-easternparfcofMaine , from a town' once owned chiefly hy " proprietors , " and a large portion of which had heen granted to Gen . Knox for his revolutionary sei vises . It was afterwards sold to individuals . There I first breathed the breath of life . My ancestors bought a settler's right ; but in fie language of a previous speaker ( Jlr . Manning ) who so feelingly described a visit in search of his father ' s homestead , " where is their right now V Inphiceof ploughing my father ' s field , I have been doomed to plough the ocean . The measure proposed hy the National Reformers , as to justness , appears Self-evident to every rational mind . I cannot
forbear to ask , in the name of Heaven , how the poor are to enjoy therightsof " life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , " if capital anil avarice are to be allowed to stretch forth their long arms and monopolise the means from which those blessings flow ? ( Cheers . ) The opponents of jour great measure claim to he great sticklers for morality : so are we . Do they expect morality where there is great _inequality ? It cannot he . A sailor to India , for instance , gets 10 dollars , a month , and that Is above rather than below the estimate : 120 dollars for twelve months' subjection to hardship and intolerance ; for although a ship master myself , I must say that such is the condition of sailors . Now , suppose a sailor has a wife ( and a sailor has as good a right to a wife as another man ) , what must he his situation with a family inthe port of New YorK t When in port , he can only he home
at night , and he has 120 dollars to provide food , clothing , house rent , and fuel , while it is impossible to get decent houseroom alone for 100 dollars ! His children eannot go to school , because their clothing is not fit for them to appear In- and if that sailor has a daughter , what must be her situation under such circumstances as she grows up , with no prospect but a factory or one place worse ? There is no concealing the fact that the oppressed situation of seamen , whether married or compelled by an unjust policy to remain single , is a most fruitful source of crime . But the wealthy are opposed to reform , and bo we can't have morality ! Wherever there is most equality , there is most morality . At Cape Cod , where each seaman owns a house , in their fishing voyages they work and share alike ; and there is a good state of morals , and the people are happy and contented . If we appeal to history ,
we shaft find that as a people suffer their liberties to he encroached upon immorality and crime prevail in proportion . In England , where , of a population of thirteen millions , thirty thousand are allowed to possess all the son , there are thousands of starving beggars and hundreds with then' carriages and six and every luxury . I have been there and seen the coudition of things , and in many other foreign parts . In that country it is well known , William of Normandy partitioned the plundered soil among 700 of his Barons ; and the state of things produced by the perpetuation of _^ that system of plunder will he produced here , and our children wear the jokc of bondage ; unless this Association and its auxiliaries he powerful to prevent it . In this there is no mistake . ( Loud applause . ) We are told there must be factories for our surplus labour . But look at the factory the girl at
system in Manchester _and'Leeds . See sickly her incessant toil , the breezes of heaven never allo wed to fan her feverish brow , and salt and potatoes for her scanty meal . Is this the refuge of our surplus labour ? it makes one's Wood boil to think of it . Go to Khode Island There we see how loth men are to part with iugotten power . The time is now to effect a reform , While we have the ballotand can effect it without bloodshed . ( Cheers . ) But if things should go dn in the same tram , no change can be ' effected without a resort to P » J ' s _' ca _' force . This is clear enough . ( App lause . ) We fin here already , an aristocracy looking down upon the producers of wealth as the "lower classes , " a p hrase i abominate ! Is not a working man as high in statue as a broker in Wall-street ? When the clash of arms was heard , and muscle was required , who , then , sustained the struggle ? I have been astonished at the _Jukeivarinness
with which men will sustainfourteen or fifteen hours'daily toil ; hut I have come to the conclusion that they are not yet sufficiently enlightened . Let us arouse the press , j and you might as well attempt to chain the Atlantic wave as to attempt to stay the progressof this reform . __ ( Applause _. ) This is my firBt appearance in a meeting of this description . I met with one of your papers , read every word of it , and was delighted' to find so much m accordance with my . own sentiments / For one , -I have determined to do all in my power to advance this cause . . ( Lond cheers . ) -Being master of a ve 6 sel ,, I cannot he much on _shore , hufl am determined to talce your ' pledge ; " and lecture npon it in my native State . ' ( Great applause , ) Though her mountains are long covered with ' a snowy mantle , and her springs congealed in ice , yet the warm gush of human affection flows in many a noble heart , whose possessors will put their shoulders to the wheel
Within That Land Was Many A Malcontent, ...
and deliver the car of freedom from the slough Aristocracy . ( Greatapplause . ) ' ' .. ' ; ' . ' - '' - _?/ *?' P Ptain _IvEMpioif !—we wish our gallant British tars would take a leaf out of your lo" *; there is much need ofit . ' :. ¦/ . . ¦ V- ¦¦ . _„;' ; The Lund movement in this country has attracted theattentiop of the . American Reformers . At one of the association meetings— -.-: ¦ v > .,:. ¦¦ ¦ _-. Mr . Evans read , from the Northern Star , an account of the proceedings ofthe Radicals or National Reformers of England , ¦ with a view of reclaiming the right to the soil of whicli the people _. of that nation have' heen so barbarously plundered . The Chartist or National Iteform party , he said , had . till recently been contending for the right of suSVage , without looking to a ' much more important use of that right than to reduce the taxes * , hut now that they have discovered that by it they might restore a fundamental natural right , he anticipated that we should soon hear of a rapid increase of the Chartist party .
Mr . Bovay then said ho had purposely avoided speaking ofthe great measure ofthe age ; but it had been incidentall y discussed by the reading : of the highly interesting proceedings of our brethren across the water . Those proceedings were sure harbingers of brighter days for the toilers of England , and ofthe world . He sometimes desponded , under the apathy of the people to their true interests ; and when nedid so he spoke what he felt , as he should do on all occasions . He would rather die for the truth than live for error . ( Great applause . ) ; * __ In Young America of June fth , we find the following : —
National Reform in Engiand . —By the recent numbers of this . paper , it has been seen that , tho trades of EngVaiia , inNationnl Convention assembled , hare decided that it is to the land they must look for effectual relief . Since the National Convention of the _^ Trades , the Chartists , too , have held a National Convention , and they also have decided that theland is the natural refuge for the surplus labour which is continually depressing the useful classes . Other bodies have adopted the same rational view of the case ; and the best means of regaining their right to the soil is fast becoming the absorbing topic of the millions of England . ; That best , of , all papers , the London Northern Star , the proprietor of which is himself a practical agriculturist , teems With interesting information on this subject , which cannot for want of room be transferred to our columns . The following petition for a partial restoration of the soil , was adopted , on the 5 th of May , at a ' large public meeting at the South Loudon
Chartist Hall , Bltckfrinr ' s _. road . Here follows the petition , which has already appeared iii our columns . In the same paper Ot'June 2 Sth , there are the following editorial remarks .- The strictures on the press apply just as truly to the journals of this country as to those of the States ;—Free Soil Movement in Engl & nd . —Two things I am in difficulty about . The first is , as te the means of _informingVthepeople of tin ' s country of what is going on In England towards a recovery of the soil of England by the people ; the second , how to convince thinking men that their efforts are to be successful , and that at no distant day . And yet , feeling as sure that this glorious result is approaching , as did Columbus of the existence of this continent when he saw the signs of land on the ocean , I know it is my duty to do What I Can to impart the information before nie and inspire the belief I cutertain . . ¦ ¦ , .
, In the first place , this sheet is not large enough , were it all devoted to the subject , to give an account of the movements ofthe English mechanics and operatives having special reference to the recovery of the _stnl . In the next place , would it he believed , that a movement of this nature , adopted by two National Conventions representing nearly all the working classes in England , and followed by local bodies of trades ; will it be believed that only one paper of general circulation in England records or even notices this greatest movement of modern times , and that not one paper in this country to which the people are accustomed to look for foreign news , even mentions it ! Yet such is the fact .
On the ' arrlval of every steamer , 6 ur people are entertained with all the twaddle and puerilities of the _eom-ts ; howMr . Sucli-a-one , who represents this Republic at a salary of C 000 dollars ( which is not Jmlfenough for him ) was presented to the monarch ; what an "interesting " situation ' the lung-breeders are in ; wliat is said and done , i nd what is not said and done , about Oregon , Texas , and California * . all this , * - and much more of a like important kind , is duly recorded and scattered over the country by our faithful press , with all imaginable speed , beeausa these are the things that concern the Thirty Thousand who hold the stolen land of England ; but not a word about tho movement of the Thirteen Millions to recover the possession of their property ! This is news with which the toiling millions of America ( whose land is fast sliding from under their feet ) _haveno business , is it % We shall sec ' .
In an early number of this paper , I have said , and have repeated it subsequently , that the people of England only needed to be informed , first , that there is an abundance of land in England to furnish a much larger population than the present , every soul Of them , with tho necessaries and comforts of life , and next , that they had a right to the land equally ( a thing not dreamed of by the mass of them ); that they needed only to be informed of this , and united upon it as the people of Ireland are united on thc comparatively trifling question of Repeal , and the right tliey would have . When I first said this , witli a full confidence that the people would be so informed , and would obtain their right , hadl heen asked how much progress the cause was likely to make up to this point of time , I should not have said the half of what it actually has made . Through the _indcfa'iguble and patriotic exertions of one man , Feargus O'Connor , with tho best paper in the world ( the Northern Star ) , and a member of Parliament ( Mr . Duncombe ) at his hack , the working classes are now organising nnd perfecting their organisation for a recovery of the soil .
I am compelled to break oft for want of room ; but next week shall devote a large portion of this paper to the information which so intimately concerns tho people of this country , but of which our city presses think it necessary to keep them in _tetal ignorance . In accordance with the above promise , we find in the next number of Yoimg America , three letters ( copied from this paper ) , addressed by Mr . Feargus O'Connor to " the working , classes" and "trades " of England . The Editor makes the following commentary on Mr . O'Connor's letters : — The Land . —In to-day ' s paper ' will he found three letters of the proprietor of theA'brrt < ' _'' H Star , taken from the three last received numbers of that paper , which will show in part thc progress ofthe frecsoil movementin England . I shall hereafter endeavour to give an idea of the
movements of thc trades on this momentous subject , winch , apparently , the " machine presses" of this country have resolved to keep in the dark . The trades throughout England are forming Land Associations , in accordance with the recommendation of their National Convention , which decided that a location of the surplus labour on the land is better policy than strikes . In consequence of this movement , the _Park-holders , beginning to see ahead _, are condescending to play cricket with mechanics and country clowns , and lords are even holding meetings to get up Public Baths for the people ! But the cricketing aud condescension comes too late . These things are very well in their place , as far as they go ; but they are no substitute for the natural right to an inalienable freehold which the people have found out is theirs during thc thirty or forty years' existence whicli centuries of oppression has left to them !
By perusing Mr . O'Connor s letters our readers wdl see the policy of tho English working men under the difficulties which surround them , and may derive a useful lesson to spur them to action before difficulties here _thiclien about them to the same extent . In one respect we are worse off than they . The extent of our country is such that even now the expense of getting to the land not monopolised places it out of the reach of those who are compelled to live from hand to mouth , and the difficulty is fast increasing . The land is gradually receding from all but the capitalists . It costs more even now to get from the seaboard to our public lands than to get from Europe to this country ! And if the further sale of these lands were permitted , our farmers and mechanics must gradually b . eome worse off till starvation stares every one of theih in the face .
Mr . O'Connor tells the English working men some plain truths respecting their want of union while their enemies are firmly handed together , which may he read with much profit on this side of the water . There they have many other difficulties to contend against ; but here this want of union is almost the only one . The trades of this city , and the useful classes tlnoiighqut tlie country , have full power to prevent the election _oi any man who is not pledged to the principle of a free soil , and they cannot much longer remain blind to this fact . There is reason to believe that the republication of our proceedings in England has inspirited our brethren there in tlieir movement , nnd I . have no doubt that the reaction will be reciprocal . Let it ever be borne in mind that thc
interests of the landless on both sides ofthe water are closely connected , and that their opponets are Land Monopolists wherever found . 'Die progress of Agrarian principles in America is evidenced by the meetings held in different parts of the union in favour of the principles of the Reform Association ; by the movement amongst the trades , several of whom have adopted the principles of thc Agrarians , or given evidence that the time of adopting those principles cannot be far off- ; and lastly , by thc establishment of new papers in support of Agrarianism , or thc conversion of old papers to its principles . .
Anenneiiiy's Pile Ointmekt.—One Of The G...
_AnEnNEiiiY ' s Pile Ointmekt . —One of the greatest legacies bequeathed to human kind , by the immortal Abernethy , was , no doubt , bis wonderful discovery tor the infallible cum o ' f that most loathsome and painful disease—the piles . The proprietor of this valuable remedy , though under the . treatment of several doctors , suffered intensely for many years with the piles , and occasional bearings-down , " yet was nothing better , but rather grew worse , " until he applied to that eminent surgeon Mr . Abernethy , whose prescription completely cured him-, and has since proved Its powers to hea } in thousands of cases of piles , fistula , l & c . In fact the medical profession , alwavs slow and j unwilling to acknowledge the virtues of any medicine ; not prepared by themselves , ate now unanimous in j recommending '' The Pile Ointment , " as prepared ¦ from the original prescription of _thatdeparted wonder of thc age , Mr . Abernethy . Sold in covered pots at I 4 s . Cd . by __ all respectable chemists , and dealers in pa-! tent medicines , injevery market town throughout the ; united kingdom .
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Strike on the North _BbitisiiiRailway . —On Monday morning last , nearly five hundred men inthe Cdckbumspath district , who have received from Us . to _Ipa . per ireek , struck for an advance of wages to 20 s . ¦ This demand being refused , the men proeeeded along tlie line , towards Berwick , and compelled every man svhoin they met to stop his work and join them . Where their commands were not promptly complied with , the mob carried them , into eifeet by force , and , in consequence , the movement was joined by a great number of , men along the . line . About 1 , 400 men altogether struck work—an alarmingstate ' _ofjthings certainly , when we consider that neither in this town nor within twenty miles is there any adequate military or civil force _., About 400 ofthe men remained at . Ay . ton , and several hundreds at other placesOn
. Wednesday morning a number of the men assembled at the hiring place lor shearers , but would not allow thcni to be hired except on their terms . The wages offered by the farmers were ls . Sd . per day , but the " navies" insisted that tlioy should receive 3 s ; , or they should not be hired at all . The magistrates , we niidcrstand , having taken into consideration tiie defenceless state of the . town , and the facility with which such a bodyof men might commit any outrage , have resolved to make an application for a detachment of military to be stationed at Berwick . On Wednesday a few of the men returned to their work on Mi * . Podds ' s contract , and on Thursday morning the greater n um ber of Mr . Evans ' s men also vetuvncU . They have not received any advance of wages . —i' erwick Warder . . - ¦
Hollc-wat ' s Ointment asd Pills . —Dreadful swellings in the whole body , accompanied with a loathsome skin disease , and their wonderful cure . —A child , five _j'ears of age , named Jones , whose parents live at No . 4 ; Ilorse-shoe-alley , Wilson-street ,. Finsbcry , London , was , from tlieage of sixteen months , fearfully swollen in body , and covered with large sores . His face was frequently quite black like that of a black . child ' s . He had been taken to all the hospitals , and most of the surgeons of eminence , but met with no relief . He has , however , j ust been radically cured by the means' of the above invaluable medicines .
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BANKRUPTS . ( From . Friday ' s Gazette , September m , _is-is . _; Samuel Culluin , Bigmcre , late of Haverili , Suffolk , straw plait _manufacturer-ltobert Starhuck , Gravesend ship . wnght-lVilham Mcnzies , Gloucester , draper-Rowland Parry , Bangor , Carnarvonshire , flour-doaler-Jo _<* ci > h _D-il ton , Joseph Burn , and Robert Turpin , _Xewcastle-uponlyne _. _earthenwai-c-manufacturers—Uichai- il Haver , Lonir . ton , Stoke-upon-Trent , dealer in ale . .
BAHKRuTTS . fFrom Tuesday ' s Gazelle , Sept . 9 , _1845 . J Stephen Davies , of Somerset- ' * , harf _, Bankside , Sonthwavk . and of Junes-wharf , Wilton-road , Pimlico _, coal merehant-Freuerick Ward , late of . _Kosomond-street _, Clerkenwoll , oilman . —John Savage , of Old _Comptonl street , _Solso-squave , victualler _;—Georg-e Co . v _, Plymouth victuailer .-James _Itamsden , son ., _Arinley , Leeds , clotli manufacturer and worsted spinner .
DIVIDENDS . James Southern , of Birmingham , grocer , second and final diudend of Sid m the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Bu _* miugUa \\\ , » v . y Thursday after October G . 1 liomas LakiH _, of JfottHigham , cabinet-maker , second and final dividend of ljd in the pound , payable at ' 7 _Waterloo-streot , Birmin gham , any Thursday after 6 ctober 0 . Nathaniel _Neal Solly and Richard Solly , of Tividale , Staffordshire , ironmasters , second and final dividend of fid ' and l-2 Sth of a penny in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any _Thursday after October o . Thomas _izon , of iTandsworth , Staffordshire , merchant , final dividend of 5-f . ths of a penny in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Birmiiigh . ini , any Thursday after October G . .
Thomas Morris and William Woodward , of Burslem Staffordshire , drapers , first dividend of 12 s Gd in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after October G , John Lamb and Thomas Lamb , ' of Kidderminster , engineers , first dividend of 2 s 6 d in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after October 6 . ' Edward Robinson , cf Wolverhampton , grocer , first dividend of 3 s . , in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloostreet , _Birmingham , any Thursday after October G . Thomas Hall , of Great Asliby , Leicestershire , butcher , first dividend of 4 s 9 d in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , Birmingham , any Thursday after October G .
DIVIDEND TO HE DECLARED . At the Court of Bankruptcy , . London . Barnard Benjamin Oivcn and Bernard George Owen , of Pall-mall , tailors , October 2 , at half-past twelve—George Nettleton , of Brompton , Kent , tailor , October 2 , at one-Thomas Kewell Gorbell , of Bedford-place , Commercialroad , bookseller , October 2 , at twelve—John Stammer , of 17 , Charles-street , Grosvenor-square , brush dealer , October 2 , at half-past eleven—William Hill and William Kemble TVaekcrbath , of _Leadenliall-street _, City , ship agents , October 2 , at a quarter-past two—Richard Blundeu , of Alton , Hampshire , plumber , October 2 , at eleven .
IN TnE COCNTRT , Nathaniel Phillips , of Haverfordwest , hanker , October 10 , at eleven , at tlte Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol-Thomas Recs , of Liverpool , brewer , October " ? , at eleven , at tlio Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—John Scott , of Birmingham , gun maker , October 10 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester—Conrad Ifaverkain Greenhow _, of j _Sorth Shields , ship broker , October 2 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne— Tliomns Revely , jun ., of _Newcastle-upon-TynC , plumber , October 2 , at eleven , atthe Court of Bankruptcy , _JTeivcastle-upoii-Tyne—Robert Currie , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , bookseller , October 2 , at eleven , at tlie Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—John Lambert , of New Elvet , grocer . October 2 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Thomas Wright , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , ship broker , October 2 , nt two , nt the Court Of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-T yne—Jnhtl Stainthorpe , of Hexham , Northumberland , common brewer , October 2 , at two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Cjebtificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting .
nenry Wood , of 21 , _Abclmreh-laiie , andl ' amham-stvoot , Gvavel-lnne , Soutlnvark , general agent , October 2 — William Matthews , of 12 , _Lisson-grove North , Marylebone . pianoforte maker , October 2—Thomas Powell , of Allerton By water , and late of Castlefovd , Yorkshire , brickmakcr , October 3—Thomas Russell Crcigb , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , cartwright , October 2—William Iiichard Carscadcn , of York , hosier , September 30—Manning Allen , of St , Helen ' s , Lancashire , butcher , September So—Henry James Witchell , of Carnarvon , bookseller , September 30—Joseph Spencer , jun ., of Liverpool , builder , October 1—George Laurie , of Pleetwood upon-Wyre , Lancashire , chemist , October 1 — John Aldcroft , of Longsight , Lancashire , victualler , October 2 . Cehtiwcates to be granted by tlie Court of Review , unless cause bc shown to the contrary , on or before Sept . 3 o . Thomas Chirk-son , jun ., of 10 a , Charles-street , Middlesex Hospital , upholsterer ' s warehouseman—Joseph Loin ' s , of Birmingham , card manufacturer—William JI'Alpine , of Liverpool , tailor—Frederick Lindsay Cole , of 101 , _Fenchurcli-street . City , wine merchant—John Cummins , of Weymouth , Dorsetshire , bookseller—John Furuival , of Kettering , Northamptonshire , corndealer .
_PAKTBTERSII 1 PS DISSOLVED . John Lloyd and Richard Knight Parker , of Lower Homcrton , Hackney , builders—James Holbeck and John Jennens , of 21 , Princes-street , Hanover-square , gold _laccmen—Richard Figg Hews and _George Hews , of gtovrington , Sussex , tailors—Thomas Martin Ilden Tilby and George Robert Clover , of Liverpool , metal merchants—William Walker , surgeon , and Henry Walker , chemist , of 58 and 59 , St . John-street , Clerkenwell—Mary Hodgson aud Anne Jane Hodgson , of Liverpool , hoot and shoemakers—William naimes and Thomas _Haimes , of Melbourne , Derbyshire , lace-glove manufacturers—Charles Faircloth and Abraham Amstrons , of Lad-lane , Citv ,
accountants—Hugh Kennedy and James Kennedy , of Taun . ton , drapers—John Webster and Thomas Staley , of Stock _, port , grocers—Robert Johnstone , Webster Flockton , and James Williamson Brooke , owners of a patent for the manufacturing of lamps forthe combustion ofnaptha , & c , —William Wilson Hyde , John Hugall Dutchman , and Charles Johnson , of Mull , auctioneers—Thomas Smith , Charles _Jam-s Coates , and Benjamin'Bell , of 11 , Waterlane , Great Tower-street , City , ship and insurance brokers ( so far as regards _Chai-Jes James Coates)— David Dueltett and Henry Palmer , of _Brighton , lineiitlrapers—Joseph Henderson , sen ., and Joseph Henderson , jllll ,, Of TaillltOIl , mercers—Peter Pearce and William Chater , of Haverhill , Suffolk , grocers .
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_MAScnESTun _Conx Market , Saturday , Sept . G . — The weather since our last report , though at times colt and gloomy , has continued of a favourable character for securing thc harvest , which we hear on all hands is now making rapid progress . The trade during the week has consequently remained in tho same inanimate state as previously noted , nnd the general tendency of prices was towards a further decline . At our market this morning the transactions in wheat were on an exceedingly limited scale . Irish might have been purchased at an abatement of 2 d . to 3 d . perTOlbs ., and _otliersorts barely supported the currency of this day se ' nnight . Flour likewise moved off very slowly , the few sales effected being at a reduction ot' Is . per sack . Oats receded in value Id . to 2 d . per 45 fts ., and oatmeal ls . per load , with but little demand for either article . Neiv oatmeal
brought 20 s . to 29 s . Gd . per 240 Ibs . Leeds Cons Market , Tuesday , September 0 . — "With moderate arrivals to-day thc trade is firm for wheat , but the demand still continues exceedingly limited , from , the difficulty the millers experience in moving their stocks of flour . The supply of oats is small , and they are held for higher prices . Beans and peas' are also scarce and fully as dear . In the value of barley or other articles no alteration , ihe weather continues as fine as could be wished . '
Leeds _Cloto Markets . —The trade in the cloth markets since the late change inthe weather , continues in a prosperous state / business being good both at the Clotli Halls and the warehouses—manutacturers are well employed . York Corn Market , Sept . 6 . —The weather being remarkably fine for harvest operations , and our _tarroers being all encaged , we have but a very few samples of grain offering . We experience a very firm trade Tor wheat at a decline of ls . to 2 s . per quarter ; other articles without any material altera-¦ ¦ l - l g v * " : r '
tion . -I ' .. _-, •¦¦ •' . '• ; - •¦ - Richmond Cons'Market ; Sept . 6 . —The weather has been very favourable this week , and our market to-day has been tolerably supplied with grain . Wheat sold from 7 s . to 8 s . Oats 33 . to 4 s . Barley 4 s . to , is . 3 d . Beans os . to os . Cd . per bushel . , Jr et \ _t to
Mascnestun Conx Market, Saturday, Sept. ...
LiVEKPOot Conx Market , Mond as , September & —We have this week a fair arrival of oats , flour , and oatmeal from Ireland , but of wheat it is very small . Tho chief import from abroad is of Canadian flour , ofwhich . wehavehadl 4 , 8 i 3 if barrels . The duty on foreign wheat has declined to 17 s ; per quarter , and on flour to 10 s . 2 _| d . per barrel ; that on . beans has fallen to Is , ( 3 d . per quarter . With exceedingly fine weather the whole of the past weefcya considerable portion of the grain in this district has been cut , ahd some quantity carried , in better order aiid condition than , was anticipated . The reports from ¦ the soiitliern counties , however , speak less favourable of the
yield and quality of the new wheat , arid though we have had no particular animation in our market ; ttie trade has assumed a decidedly better tone . Sovera'i parcels of Irish wheat and Canadian flour have . been taken for investment during the week , at fully tuesday ' sprices . No transactions have occurred in bonded ; The demand for outs and oatmeal has been circumscriocd , and prices have a downward tendency . The decline of duty on foreign beans to within Gd . per qr . of the lowest point , has thrown some quantity of Egyptian on the free market , and they arc offered at 33 s . to 33 s . Gd . per 4 S 0 _Ejs . Peas , barley , and Indian com have had a moderately ia . lv sale for feeding purposes , and are withoutalteration in value . ' -
Liverpool Cattle Market , Monday , _SurrEMitEHS . —The supply of cattle at market to-dav has been rather smaller than last week . The greatest portion . _^ of second-rate quality—any thing good eagerly soiigufc after , and sold at nigh prices . Beef 5 _Jd . to ( id ., mutton Oil . to 7 d . ; lamb ( Jtd . to 7 d . per lb . Cattle imported into Liverpool from tho 1 st to the Sth of . September : —cows , 3000 ; calves , 27 ; sheep , 10 , 323 ; lambs , 3 G 37 ; pigs , 4 . 509 * , horses , 3 o . Maltox Cor . v Market , ' Sept . ' C . —We have very thin attendance at market to-day , and only a little grain offering , of any description ; wheat was sold rather below last week ' s rates ; in oats we make no alteration ; barley nominal . Wheat , red , o 2 s to 58 s ; white ditto , 30 s to Gls per quarter of forty stones ; oats , 10 ld to ll _* d per stone .
Lokdox Corn Lxwusge , Monday , Sew . 9 . — Throughout tlie whole of last week there were regular supplies of nearly all sorts of grain , consisting , however , principally of English and Forei gn , with but little of either Scotch or Irish . Altogether the supply of Foreign wheat was large , about a fourth of whicli was from _JDantzic , and 11 , 000 quarters from Stettin . With flour tho market continues to ba but moderately supplied , home _roanulacture constituting the sole arrival . On the several market days a fair ; amount of business was transacted , wheat realising full , v Monday ' s quotations , and other grain also making iimvrates . Advices Irom all parts continue to speak of the favourable progression of the harvest , and the weather having been uninterruptedly ' fine enabled tho farmers , to use all practicable diligence for securing their crops . At present no fair cstimato can bc formed of which are the favoured districts , but that the wheat does come down vcrv various in
its quality , as also in heaviness , is now an ascertained fact , and which mast tend , although perhaps at a distant period , to exercise an infiuctico over quotations . The crops of barley and oats , particularly the former , are generally throughout the country abundant , and prices must rule low for these grains during the greater part of the coming year . Eeans aro not well spoken of , and peas of all sorts are but a small and unsatisfactory yield . This morning there was a fair supply of wheat fresh up from Essex and Suffolk , but not much from Kent , and prices have ranged firm at the rates of this day week , aud in someinstanccs a trifling advance has been obtained . Barley commands a steady sale for immediate wants , flfi steady rates . The oat trade is fully as good for all sorts , and there has been a fair country demand . lJeans and peas the same as last week . There was a fair arrival of mustard , but not much other seeds at market , which was taken oft' at the prices of . this day week—quality various ,
OUBUENT PRICES OF GRAIN , PER _IMPERIAL QUARTER . —British . s s s Wheat , Essex , & Kent , new & old red 46 56 White SO 60 Norfolk and Lincoln . ... do V . ) 55 Ditto 5 fi 58 Ji ' _orthuin . and Scotch white 41 ) 56 Fine 50 57 Irish red old 0 0 lied 48 51 White 52 5 S lire Old 29 32 Xew ' i ' J SO Lvauk 3 i 3 & Barley _Giiuding . , 20 27 Distil . 28 30 Malt , SI 32 Malt Broun .... 52 51 Pale 55 50 IVare CO US Deans 'licks old & new 37 38 Harrow 38 40 Pigeon 41 4-2 Peas Grey 35 38 Maple 37 38 White 38 40 Oats Lincolns < fc Yorkshire Peed ' 22 24 Poland 24 26 Scotch Angus 23 ** 5 Potato 26 28 Irish , . . Wlutu 20 ' Ji DIack 20 22 Per 2801 b . net . 8 si Per 2 S 0 lb . net . s a Town-made _Iflouv . . . 51 5 * i Norfolk & , Stockton 36 SS |
Essex and Kent . . . . 3 S 42 Irish 37 39 Tree . Bond . ¦ Foreign . _s s 8 s Wheat , Dantsic , _Kuuigaburg _, & o 5 _U 03 4 'i 4 . U Marks , Mccklen _' mrg 5 G 58 S ! l 88 Danish , Holstein , and _Frioshvndred 48 52 23 3 V Russian , Hard 48 52 Soft ... 48 52 23 30 Italian , Red . . ¦ 50 52 White . . . 54 5 S S 2 29 Spanish , Hard . 50 52 Soft .... 52 52 31 35 Rye , Baltic , Dried , ... 28 30 Undried . . 25 30 22 3 ! Barley , ' Grinding . 21 26 _Waiting . . 28 30 10 24 Beans , Ticks . . U 8 (! Egyptian . 34 35 28 2 i l _' eus , White . . 3 T 30 Maple . . 3 ( 5 S 7 2 S 32 Oats , Dutch , Drew and Thick 23 25 . 20 30 Russian feed , 20 22 14 23 Danish , Priesland feed 20 22 14 16 Flour , per barrel . . 28 30 21 27
¦ AVERAGE PRICE .: ) Of thc last six weeks , which regulate tl : c Duties from tho 4 th to the 10 th of September .
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¦ Wheat Barleyi Uitts ., _Ji ' ye . 'Beans , 1 ' cas . ... , ,. s . d . s . d . l s . d . \ s . d . \ s . d . j s . d . Ivoefc ending July 20 , 1815 .. 51 7 29 2 23 Si 31 7 -10 3 SS 10 Week ending | _Au-J . 2 , 1845 .. 53 3 20 8 22 5 34 C 40 5 41 0 Week ending | Aug . 9 , 1845 .. 53 S 29 7 22 S 3-3 lo 41 0 39 0 Week ending ~ Aug . 10 , 1813 .. 57 0 29 i 22 2 31 4 41 2 39 1 Week ending Aug . 23 , 1 S 15 .. 57 0 29 9 22 S 33 4 41 S 38 12 Week ending Aug . 30 , 1815 .. 5 $ C 30 0 22 W 35 7 42 1 38 £ Aggregate aver . _iiie of thc las . six weeks .. 55 1 20 7 22 C 83 10 41 1 39 3 London aver- _> ages ( ending Aug . 2 C , 1 S 45 ) 60 0 30 5 22 0 34 9 11 11 40 S Duties .. .. 17 0 9 0 0 0 9 G 1 C 3 S _, . . ¦ ¦ - i — ¦¦ i- m mi ¦ —m + Imports from _Augdst 31 to _Sei'Tembeb . 7 , inclusive . ENGLISH SCOTCH . 1 E 1 SU . _jl'OltEtCS TOTAL . Wheat .. .. 11 , 047 50 0 3 , 861 15 , 558 Barlev .. .. 7 G 0 1 , 025 1 , 350 3 , 0-51 Oats .... 14 0 20 , 034 ll _^ _i'l 31 , 97 a Ryo .... 0-0 0 0 . 0 Eeans .. .. 304 0 0 0 304- - Peas .. .. 358 o 0 58 41 C Malt .. .. 5 , 349 0 _l'l « 3 , 55 i > Tares .... 0 0 0 0 0 Linseed .. 0 0 5 J 1 , 855 1 , 90 a Rapeseed .. 20 0 0 27 4 T Flour , sacks 5 , 540 0 lCO 0 5 , 610 Ditto oris ... _Q 0 0 0 0 London Smitiu'ield Cattle Market , Monday , Sept . S . —The imports of Continental cattle during last week have boon heavy , particularly of sheen , of whicli the number , according to one of the _otikial returns , exceeds 1 , 000 head . The returns in full are respectively—14 G head of oxen , ti cows , C 31 sheep , 11 Jambs , 39 calves , and two goats ; and 317 head of oxen and cows , 1 , 107 sheep , il calves , and two goats . The following statement of the imports of Foreign ; cattle i ' or the present year , as made up anil corrected to last Saturday week , is taken from an official SOBreo :- Oxen Sheep and and . Cows _. _Zitunbs . _tomlon - - from Jan . I to Aug . 30 , 1815 5 , 014 2 , 314 Liverpool . from Jan . Ho Aug . 8 _'i _, 1815 10 3 Hull - - . from Jan . 1 to Aug . 30 , 1845 2 , 9 b 2 450 Souihpamtonfrom Jan . 1 to Aug . 30 , 1345 23 — The tone of trade at Smithficld this morning was much the same as that of last Monday . Business , without being particularly dull , was not what it latterly has been , and prices , though iu most cases lugh . ee than at corresponding periods for several years past , not so high as they have been . Thc stock of sheep is now , of course , greatly increased by the , lambs ot thisvear ; and , consequently , less scarcity is telt tor a continued supply of mutton . This may be assigned as one reason cf thc decline- in the rates i'or sheep . The number of sheep and lambs in the market todav , though not by about 1 , 000 equal to last Monday a return , was still larger than the average supply . tor c « too months Of beasts there was also _aplentitut ¦ _SKStto market , and of calves and pigs about a average number . The beef traue vyas it m _^ h a shade lower than on this day se ninglit , as the best Scotfmade but 4 s . per stone , which is 2 < yower ou that day . For middling and inferior qualities , however no change occurred . The supply comprised 3 , 400 head of about an average condition , _lhes number of sheep returned as toll paid was 27 , 480 ; the sale of which was much thesame as last week . Prices remained unaltered at the decline which took place _, on last Monday , and a clearance was not effected . Prime Downs made 4 s . 10 d _.,-and polled ewes 3 s . Sd ., which are the highest and lowest prices of the day . Veal sold steadily at from 4 s . to 5 s . The better qualitv of lamb and pork made 2 d . per stone more than , last Monday , but otherwise prices weregunaltcred . By the quantities of 81 b ., sinking tlie offal . _ ' ¦ _s . d . _s . a . Inferior coarse beasts . . " 5 n- ' 2 _« Second quality . ... ¦ •* " f j ) _Trime large oxen . . ' . » . " . 0 Prime Scots , & c . . .. . % " - " = ~ Coarse inferior sheep . . » * ° ? Second quality . . • \ \ \ r Prime course woolled , . * * * . _" Prime Southdown . • * ° \ * _-J Lambs . . • • • . * * \ % Large coarse calves . . . . 3 6 * * Prime smaU . - - . . • • 4 4 4 *} Suckling ealves , each . . . . 18 0 SO 0 _Largehoga . . . . . fc v > 3 8 . Neat small porkers . , . 3 10 4 * Quarter-old store pigs , each . . 16 0 20 HEAD OS CATTLE OK _SAVE . ( From the Boots of the Clerk of the Market . ) Beasts , 8 _, _271-Sheep and Lambs , 33 , 700-Calves , 1 _* C «* Pigs , 410 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 13, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13091845/page/7/
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