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_„ - _«?« . \ RY OF THE POLISH REVOLT ! - S _& _F tt 0 RRIBLE CRIMES _OFTHERUSSS _' DES POTISM . hv year . by T 0 ' ce or _pen ' _^ lTe never _^ to declare onr solemn protest against the _@ _"Srotta _*^ one onr ou _^^ _brethren by the _^ _" _' _tomcnt and enslavement of their country , _£ " _S _fiiturn ofthe memorable , though ill-fated sod _^^ _ycia-Jcr , renders necessaiy the renewal of *** ** * _« _tfest , did it speak the sentiments of the - merclv _, would be of no moment ; but that _pro-^ _fLgaycs " of importance when it speaks the sentitF _* _r _^ _party , and makes known tbesympathiesand _v _^ _iL of the revolutionary section of English , society , * _- _** _*^ _fl n which , as sure as time and as certain as " _^ S Trill vet te i Q th * ascendant in this country . * i the name , then , of the" democratic masses af - t Britain , _whese ideas and hopes we are _privi-^ to represent , we declare anew , on this 30 th of _winber l _* 3 _i-5 i onr ™ _mitigatedabhorrence of the _^ _rjj . _jnje known as " the Partition of Poland , " our _f ** _^ indignation toward the oppressors of that _^ ntrr , oar heart-felt sympathy with our suffering earnest resoivc ui aiu _tucm
_irfthrfll au < 1 oy every _^ ansin our po wer in _promoting the restoration of rJish freedom and Polish happiness . Behave now to place on record in our columns a « _j-r ttive go horrifying in all its details that we _?^ , j refuse to give credence to its statements did f _fjpericnee assure us that no crime is _toointoon = no atrocity too hellish , to be perpetrated by ? j-ni . LAS and his barbarous tools , when in pursuit of " _vird-irlin" object , the perpetuation and extension _j ' me slavery and misery of their unhappy victims . Knt wcmust add , that the facte we are about to _utienttoonr readers are too well corroborated to Ire even a shade of doubt as to their truth . _^ It appear * that in 1 S 37 tliere still existed m ths civ ot Minsk a convent ef humble nuns of the order rfSt Basilius . Then-time , likethatoftiie Sisters £ Charity . " was divided between their religious Miesattendance oa the sickand the education ot
, , _nwrchildren . Far and wide thc suffering and needy ud learned to bless their unassuming benevolence , _-wllieonleof all ranks regarded with veneration a _immunity , distinguished not by _aseebc practices , _Imt through its active and unwearying philantliropy . Between 1837 and 1845 forty-four nuns perished at Ae hands of tlie _Enssian despotism , ontof _nrty-eignt L > h _* d to duties whose fulfilment appeals so directly „ -. * human svmpathies , that a religioussisterhood , _ado-ons to their own had been spared even during tie _Freneh reign of terror , wliich so pitilessly swept ssav aM social landmarks . Of the fourteen that _tmained eight had either had their eyes torn out or _Sdr limbs broken , and ofthe other six only four had drentth to attempt , or fortune to effect their escape . The Mowing particulars of this atrocious persecution we give from a work just published , entitled , "Eastern Europeand the Emperor . Nicholas " : —
The Emperor Kicholas , having profited by his influence ui privileges in nominating corrupt and ambitious tools 10 the bishop ric of the Basilian communion { that is to sav , the Roman Catholics with Greek forms ) , amongst _jijfie Semiasko , lhe bishop of the diocese in which the _fifixeilt Of these poor nuns was situated , had apostatised 10 the Gra-fc fr « n the latin church . _Ponding that the rent mass ef tlie _clergy , and the whole of their _congreg ation _, refused to follow the examples of their chiefs , 5 itIlolas ordered forcible means to he resorted to , and SGt en foot a persecution , which caused the females of this idineus association great alarm , and induced them to _tse the private influence of their friends in the Russian _csptal , to be allowed to retire from their convtnt into Hie bosoms of their families . This boon the Emperor refused , referring them to their _radiate _hiskor .
Stiniasko , after vainly using all his persuasive powers tfth this community , to induce them to pass over to the __ ass . au church , _.--Jiowed tliem alike the threats and pro-EKfslie uas empowered to _mafceintaenameofXieholas , ssJtlieawfnl signature appended to a document whicli cwainsncedhiin to adopt such measures as the interests ? _freliiiou might require , to oulhre all recusants to reform . _TiaSins their determination tmsbakeable , he left them direc months to consider the matter ; and then , detaching fnei liis breast one of the numerous orders with which lie E : nj «_ ror had _rexvardtd his apostacy , he attempted tt _jen h on the bosom of the superior , to wln » m he held out a halmg _profpeci _ofhononrs and _rexvarfis . _Ihtss women , it must he remembered , in tlieir devout _UlU-f , now saw in their former pastor only an impious seeder from the faith of tlieir fathers . Irena Meieslas , ithe superior of the convent , ) therefore , spurning this _tjm-lariou , said tauntimrlv to the
bishop—• ' Kvep it , keep it ; it would ill accord with the humble « r _(« _wliicli marks my order , and with you it serves to fee a iTeast beneath which there beats the heart of an _ajtosutixV Thee nans had been fortified in their resolution hy flit exhortation of theii * confessor , a weak , but probably _vtH-ataauig man , namtdMichalewitch . _-Asd ! ep _£ __ -secution became more rigorous around him , haireea the threats and promises of his bishop , he was Sriaa _ ced to desert to the Russian communion , and be ins afterwards frequently obliged to take his seat as master of the tribunal xvhich attempted to subdue the _tfeiaacy of these women . It is , however , probable that fe xidded more to terror than seduction ,, for he strove _SK-araitly to bury his remorse in incessant intoxication ; sni iu tliis condition be afterwards fell into a pool of inter , where he was drowned .
Three days after the insulting refusal of the superior to apostatise , Semiasko came with a detachment of _solars to turn the sisters ont of tiie convent . Such was fe _violence employed—such thc terror inspired by thc account of _universal persecution , that a sick nun of tieir number fell and expired upon the pax-ement of the _tliapel . The remainder were heavilyironed _, hand and foot , and marched to Vitepsk , where they were placed in a llussian con-rent of "black sister-.. " These hlaek sisterhoods , winch may , in some measure he compared to our penitentiaries , are places of Tcfuge for the widows of private soldiers , and receptacles for the most disorderly prostitutes .
Here the thirty-three _nnns of St . _Uasilius , fromMinsk , met nith fourteen more of their order , transferred from another convent to thi ? abode , _wht-re for two years the ; neretppt at bard labour , chained in couples , and _exlased to all die malignity of the depraved associates with ¦ _Rlicm these women of gentle birth were thus forcibly _siingled . Tn _isS 3 , all other efforts having failed to shake their _tHi-lation , they were transferred to another Russian cou-Tait o * black sisteis , in the city ofl ' olock . Here they _urn with ten more nonconformist nuns of the same _<*< _* £ _ ¦ _ The whole number of these women , fifty-seven , were now hrought up twice a week , on Wednesdays and Tr . _'hxs , before a _commission of the Unssian authorities ana _cltrgr _, and flogged hefore thero , receiving fifty _brakes a-vfiuce .
This was continued for months together , till the wounds npon their hacks was an open sore , and tliat _ptces of the _sc-ib ? _, and then of the law flesh , adhered to _ti-e instruments of torture . Three of tlieir i-. umfcer died ba «_ ih tbis iufliction . They were then fed on salt herrings , and refused drink fa favourite Russian mode of torture ) , e \ cept on the condirion of apostacy . This punishment , which it appears ttey found thc most _difiicnlt to hear , was superseded by a sjstem of starvation . They were only fed onee _ex-ery « _thtr day , and driven to eat nettles and thc fodder of the convent cattle .
Thev were employed to dig out clay , and not _under-HMdinghow to conduct an e __ cava : ion , the earth fell in and _bnried five of their number . With incredible barbarity tie _KuBsi-m authorities not only refused to dig them out , bs : _printed the nuns from atUlllJItillg tO _Ortricale _*&• -= ¦ companions . They perished in tliis _self-duil grave . lie nest labour in whieh lhe survivors xvcre _em-P'oyvd _. wasto aid the masons in constructing a palace fer lhe renegade bishop . _Svmeoitherolish gentry , xvh » se spirit no terrors xvill _^ _Mil . _tmrtng io look on , —one of tlieir number addressed _soice _wai-fis of consolation to ihesepoorxvomen . Within _txTtiity-iVur hours , not only tbis imprudent individual , _bufail those aronnd bim bad _disappeared _Tht-fsiShig of a wail in tlie midst of tlie nuns injured _^ 'y . _audSdlk-d eight of them outright . A ninth and _toili « oon afktr peiisbed .
These ten bodies w . re carried off by tlie people , and Ku . iH ) where all the efforts of theJiussian auiliorities _fauea to _discover them . _Alioutthispsriod , several monks of St . Uaalius were brou _ght to the « nne convent . Their treatment is _de-& Ay > e 2 asharivghetn more harbarous than even _ihat ol _"" * nuns . Four ef these men , _Zawecti , Komar , Zile-* _" _«_ and _Buctacj-ns-ki by name , ali upwards of seventy _jeareof age , were at last , in the full severity of winter , _^ _pped and placed under a pump , where as the water was peered over them it gradually congealed into ice , and froze thrm to death : another named the Abbe _Laudanski , _^ d andinSnn . whilst staggering beneath a load of firewood _, was struck upon tbe bead with such violence hy a _'b-oaktt , _despoil that big skull was fractured , and he _^• _Jt-pon the spot .
_B _-Pi _> £ i _ ea ihat one of these surviving monks Of St . f _^ dins _saccecctd in making his escape ; and Semiasko , _™ tatcd at this incident , resolved to conquer tlie obstuu ' _7 _« the nuns , and publishing that they were about to read their recantation , caused them to be forcibly led by the soldiery to the portals of the Russian church . The curiosity which this announcement caused , led the whole population of tbe city of Polock to assemble ; _not-TAbstanding tht examples which had been made of those who had expressed their sympathy with the sufferers . The apostate bishop , in his episcopal garments , adranc d toxvards t * e nuns , and bidding the soldiers leave _iis-irarsist . rsat iheriy . spoke to them with paternal _fckdness , and offering his hand to the " r superior , pre-3 « re . _ i io „ _-,
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herd , to become the _execattonerof these whom be had not already done to death , and to strike off their heads before the threshold of tbat temple , which their footsteps would never voluntarily cross . So galling was the provocation of this rebuke- ta the Russian bishop , that unable to contain himself , be struck the superior on the face , and then flung the axe indignantly from bim . It chanced in falling to wound one of the nuns in the foot ; and a moment after tho superior having pnt her hand to her mouth , which was filled with blood , drew ont one of ber shattered teeth , and holding it up to him said , "Take it , it will earn you some fresh order from the Emperor . " Such was the effect of tbis scene , that nothing could restrain tlic enthusiasm of the people ; and as the nuns were led back by the soldiery , the crowd followed them singing with one accord Hallelujahs and Te Deums .
Such , notwithstanding the repressive terrors of the Russian authorities , became the feeling ofthe population of the city of Polock , that it was found unsafe to continue the persecution of tbe nuns within its walls , and they were ordered to be removed to the borough of Medzioly , in the province of Minsk . This public defeat of the Russian bishop and authorities was . however , revenged on these poor women by an act of such diabolical malignity as only tbe most undeniable evidence can render credible . When tbe Russian soldiers , and the _ncwly-made deacons bad been rendered drunk with brandy , all these helpless nuns were turned out amongst them as incurably obstinate , to treat as they thought fit . Then commenced a scene worthy of pandemonium—theshrieks and prayers of the victims mingling with tbe oaths , blasphemies , and ribaldry of the croxvd , to whose brutal lust they xvere abandoned .
When the fury of these demons in human form had been exhausted , it was discovered that two of these unfortunate females were quite dead . The skull of one had been crushed by the stamping on the temples of an ironplated heel . The other was trampled into such a mass of mud and gore , that even its human character was scarcely recognisable . Eight others had one or several bones or limbs broken , or their eyes torn or trodden out . Of the whole number , the superior , a woman of iron frame as weU as indomitable resolution , fared the best ; but she was not allowed to attend or console her mutilated sisters except on the condition of apostacy . They were aiterxvards marched out of Polock by night on foot , and chained txvo by two , —even those xvbose eyes had been torn out , and whose hideous wounds were festering . Those whose legs were broken , or xvho were lamed , were sent forward in carts under the care of Cossacks .
A gentleman of Polock , M . Walenlaowitch , having ordered a funeral service tobe read for these victims , was seized in the middle of tbe night and sent to Siberia , bis _property being confiscated . A monastery of Dominican monks , in another part of tbe country , having ventured to pray for them , was immediately dispersed . On reaching iledzioly , the nuns were again immured in a convent of the black sisterhood , and divided into four parties . Here they were put into sacks , and towed after boats in the water , which was alloxved to rise to their mouth and nose . Three more of their number perished in this manner , either of cold , or fear , or drowned hy incessant immersion . Ihe inhabitants of Medzioly carried off their bodies in the night , as the earthly coil of holy martyrs wbich men would some day venerate and hold precious .
After two more years' captivity of the fifty-eight nuns ( thirty-four from Minsk , fourteen from Vitepsk , and ten from Polock ) only fourteen survived , and of these eight were either lame or blind . The superior , Irena _iliesceslas , who bad fared the best , had an open wound , from which she was obliged to extract with her fingers the carious bones , and which afterwards becoming filled xvith worms , from want of dressing , caused her intense agony . At length some relaxation of vig ilance having opened a prospect of escape , this courageous woman persuaded three of her companions to attempt it with her . In this enterprise these four women all succeeded , enfeebled by disease as they were , and without money Or passports , nt distance of between 200 and 300 miles from the Austrian and Prussian frontiers .
Atthe commencement of the present year , profiting by the scene of riot and drunkenness to xvhich the saint'sday of the _. protopope of the convent had given occasion , they effected their escape . Leaping down a high wall into the snow ihey alighted in safety , and immediately fell on their knees in thanksgiving . They then separated , to facilitate their flight . The superior , in the midst of all the severity of the season , was _drivnn to hide for days together in the woods , without other food than berries , or anything to quench ber thirst but the snoxv . Once , driven to extremity , she knocked atthe door of a wealthy looking house , and being-received with veneration by its owner , was provided xvith money , provisions , and a correct map of her route . She crossed the frontier disguised as a shepherd ; but even then was not in security , as the cowardly government " of Prussia _gix _* cs up even its oxvn subjects tothe Czar .
It was not until she had reached _Tosen , in the midst of a Polish population , that she felt in security ; and here she had unobtrusively withdraivn to a convent of the Sisters ot Charity , but she xvas considered too pvecious , as a living testimony of the horrors daily perpetrated in that Golgotha xvhich the frontier of Russia eneircles , to be left in her retirement With her scars , wounds , and personal evidence , she has been wisely forwarded to Paris , where a deputation recently waited on her , to express their sympathy _xxith her cruel treatment . In Posen she xvas joined by the sister Wawrzecka _, and shortly afterxvards learned that the other txvo bad , in like manner , escaped the pursuit of the Russian authorities , and been safely forwarded by the zeal of the inhabitants to the Austrian frontier .
The above shocking narrative was copied into the Times , thc editor of that paper prefacing it with the observation— " Wc hope and believe these descriptions to be grcviously overcharged . This observation called forth a letter from the author of the work , from which the narrative had been copied , from which we give the following extract : — , The authenticity of the revolting details rest , firstly , on accounts transmitted from the Archbishopric of Posen to Paris , recording the joint deposition , on oath , ofthe nun _Warrzecka and the superior Irena _Jlieccslas , and establishing the _trustxvorthmess of these deponents ; secondly , on accounts receix'cd in Paris direct from Poland confirmatory both of the general features of the case , and of the estimation iu which the character of tbe superior is held in her native city ; thirdly , on the personal evidence of tliis woman ( relating only what regarded herself , and what she had seeu with her oxni
eyes ) as given hy her iu Paris , where , till the 10 th of last month , she was residing with the sisterhood of the "Assumption Impasse des Vignes , " UueJes Postes , a religious community now removed to a nexv convent at Chaillot , xvhere any inquiries can be made into h « story . The facts given by this xvitness ( xvho for thirty years has secured tlie veneration of all with whom she came in contact ) , to the person from whom I hold tlicm , is the foundation of my statement . Irena Jiieceslas was , hoxxever , daily called upon to repeat her evidence hi Paris , substantiating the personal portions of her narrative , by thc ineffaceable scars and marks recording the violence of which she had been the victim . On the _Uth of October , the eve of her departure for Rome , xvhere she might have perhaps met face to face with the Emperor _Nicholas , she xx-as induced to make her appearance in Prince Czartoryski's _draxving-room , and to satisfy the curiosity of a numerous company by a repetition of the atrocities which have been copied into your columns .
It would be too bad if the very excess of the cruelties of tlie Russian Government and its _agents should , by outstripping the belief of the civilised world , screen the oppressors from its odium xxitbout further inquiry , and avert the sympathy due to its victims . I am , sir , very respectfully , your obedient servant , "The Airman or _Keyelatioks of Rcssia , ' * ilortimer-street , Cavendish-square . It appeai _* s from an article published in thc Journal des Debuts , a fexv days ago , that _Ihexa Mieceslas is now in Rome , where her appearance has caused a great sensation . The excitement is so great , that in manv oFthe convents imprecations have been
appended to the ordinary prayers , and amongst others the following : "A furore Nicolai libera nos , Dominc , " InKx-i Mieceslas was presented to the Pope , when on hearing an account of her suffering , he affected to doubt that the Emperor could havo had any knoxvledgc of the atrocitiss practised towards her and her companions : but thc abbess replied that she had addressed a memorial to Nicholas , _describing her sufferings , and that some time afterwards thc apostate Bishop Sem iasko showed her the memorial , and with it a letter , which he had received in the Emperor ' s handwriting , to the following effect : — " Holy and Venerable Archbishop , —Your conduct has been holy and venerable . I approve what jou have done , and _Avhatyoumaydo . "
And now , vc unwomanly , heartless she-aristocrats , who _jftincd " witli vo « r "lovely and interesting " Queen , that " paragonof a wife and mother , " that " * roval incarnation of all the domestic virtues , " in feasting and xvorshipping the brutal royal ruffian , Nicholas , how will ye answer to your country and your sex fertile foul _outrage ye did to both ? Attempt not ia shelter yourselves behind tlie paltry excuse that the visit of the northern miscreant took place previous ta the above horrid facts becoming known . These abominations _arebnt part and parcel of a system which has been _iongin operation , ibr the purpose of utterly extinguishing all that is Polish in nationalitv , religion , mind , and feeling . Ye knew tbat the mothers , wives , and daughters of rolish patriots had beeu subjected to tortures of precisely a similar character . Tc knew that those noble women
liad been banished to Siberia , others flogged to death with the accursed knout , and others , still more wretched , subjected to the brutal lust of the ruffianly barbarians and slaves who form the armies of Russia . This ye knew ; yet ye thronged palace , playhouse , and racecourse to get a look at the " dear delig htful' * destroyer who had caused these horrors to fall upon vour sister women . Oh , shame to ye ! Scorn and retribution light upon ye ! And Victohia , too ! But she " can do no wrong . " Well , well , men ave growing wiser ; millions of bearded men xvill not for ever be content to be ruled by the things of monarchy . Ti'hen the day of " settlement" comes , this one act of Victoria ' s reign—this feasting and faxvning upon the ruffian Nicholas—will assuredly be remembered along with the hideous persecution cf the nuns of St . _BasiUCB . ( 1 ° _& continued . )
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TO TKE EDITOR OF THE _NOBTBESN 8 TAK .. Sir , —I-- shall feel very much obliged if you can make room for the inclosed , letters , in your next publication ; 1 should not bave asked for the insertion of more than the rejected or the mangled letter and my answer , but without the previous correspondence the letter itself would be incomplete , and as all your readers are . net readers : of the lucubrations of the Cuttie Fish who , does the dirty work in the Punning Print , I think it but fair that both sides of the question be stated -..,...... I am , sir , yours , Sue . London , Nov . 22 , 1845 . John Akdill . Extract from Leader in the "New Moral World " of Nov . Sth , headed the "New Organ , " referring to a publication entitled the " Herald of Progress , " pub _-lished by the officers of the Rational Society . —
Mr . Holyoake says , "the organ is necessary to ordinary respectability and the commonest importance . '' The possession of an organ in times past did not make the society respectable , and very " common" _indaed i » the importance to be thus derived . He says "All these lessons , -which during the last eight years have been instilled into us respecting the value of ' our own paper , ' are surely of v » lue now . " Certainly , and the lesson is , that a society may subscribe for years to sustains publication , and besides purchasing it weekly , pay tlie _salary of the editor , subscribe to purchase the printing materials ,
and after all , they discover that all the time they have been paying a _person to mislead them and throxv dust in their eyes as to the real position of their affairs . The lesson ii one which is not likel y to be lost on the members , which it would be altogether if they were to adopt a similar course again , and subscribe to set up another paper , which is the advice given to them by Mr . _Hetheringtoathe publisher , Mr . Ardill ( of the Northern Star ) , the treasurer (!) and their brethren at thfe Board , on behalf of whom Mr . John Cramp signs as secretary , inviting subscriptions . : It is only a variation ofthe stanza quoted by us a few weeks since : — -
"Dd , dil , dil , will you come and be killed !" On the above assertion being pointed out to me , I immediately wrote a note to the editor , xvhicli appeared in the next number of the New Moral World , dated November 15 th , under the head of " Subscriptions for the Rationalists ' ' New Herald , " as _folloxxs : —
_SUBSCBIPTION TOR THE BATIOSALlST ' s "NEXV - ¦ ¦ --. HERAI _. _T ) . " . To the Editor . Sir , —A friend has just directed my attention to a paragraph in the New Moral U orW , in the article headed ' ! The Hew Organ , " in which you say I Lave advised the members of the Bational Society to " subscribe to set up another paper ! . * ' I shall feel obliged if you xvill inform me , as early as convenient , upon whose or what authority jou make such a statement . I am sir , yours , & , c . Northern Star Office , John Abdill . IC , Great Windmill-street , London . November 8 th , 1845 .
[ Our knowledge was derived from the public intimation of the circumstance given hy Mr . John Cramp , through the pages of the Nm Moral World . It is true , he did not say in distinct language , Mr . Ardill advises the public to subscribe to set up a nexv paper , but that which he does state conveys this impression unquestionably . In No . 07 of this publication appears a manifesto , dated thc 23 th of September , from Mr . John Cramp to the members ofthe national Society , wherein he informs us tbat he had " stood for a long time watching the first glimpse of tbe sun , " xvhich at length had appeared , and our readers will smile at this sun being neither more nor less than the new paper . And , in order to give birth to this ricketty bantling , it is not announced who are the parent birds , - ( xvhether hens , ducks , or geese ,
is not mentioned , ) who sat , and brooded npon the golden egg until it was hatched . First he says , " Our President has at length taken upon himself active duties on behalf of those xvho have reposed their trust in him . " Those who have reposed their trust in him would _hax-e been better pleased if he could hax _* e realised a good dividend for them from the assets rather than _bring out a neir paper , and some will be rather sorry that tbey have re posed so much confidence in hira . Then he says , " Mr . Ardill joins us , ex officio , as treasurer . " Hoxv much is to be entrusted to him is not stated . Then Mr . Cramp informs us , "Mr . Hetherington has been nominated a director ! " Nothing is said about reposing trust in Mr . Hetherington , but as he is the publisher for the Rational Society , of course he is to be trusted for the proceeds of the publication after the members have
subscribed to establish it , and doubtless , like all previous officers of the society , he is very trustworthy . And lastly , Mr . Cramp proceeds to say of himself , " I have been appointed general secretary . " The previous communication of Mr . Cramp bad been signed by him as _socretary of the Congress , but he seems on this occasion to have become a pluralist , to have been promoted into genera ! secretary , without relinquishing the office of secretary to Congress . Who knoxx s but what Mr . Cramp may become Secretary of State as xvell as general secretary , tlirough the instrumentality of bis organ . He then informs the members of the Rational Society , that " The Cenirtil Eoard hax _* e it in contemplation to issue a periodical , " and he calls upon the members of the Rational Society to transmit funds to him , to be paid over to the treasurer , that treasurer being Mr . Ardill .
It must he acknowledged , that this is very like a recom . mendation from Mr . Ardill , for the members to subscribe to set up a nexv paper . W " e find the commencement of the paper to he the act and deed of the Central Board , and xve find Mr . Iletherington and Mr . Ardill , one a publisher , and the other connected xvith the press , added to the council on tliis occasion , as though for the express purpose of giving tlieir aid and experience in the matter , and we find Mr . Ardill volunteering to hold the stakes , through his secretary , Mr . Cramp . Then on the 12 th of October , appears another manifesto published in tke form of a handbill , nnd addressed "To the members and friends of the Rational Society . " " Signed on behalf of Vie Board , Jons _CaAMr , Sec . " This
manifesto is a very unique productirn , certainly very creditable to tbe Board on xvhose behalf it is signed , and xve regret that _xx-e hax-e not _noxv space at liberty to publish it in full . After announcing their conviction tli _' at it is essential to the xvell-being of the society to have a paper , and informing the members and friends xvhat it is to be culled , the secretary publishes the confession . " It may be , perhaps , proper to remark , that tbe parties to xvhose c & re the interests of the society are constitutionally entrusted , have no funds at their command" (!) very frank and very honest . Then he says , " The paper will be commenced at their oxvn risk , and any loss consequent upon it , xvill be borne by them individually . " If none of them have any funds , they certainly are not risking mueh in the undertaking .
But though they are willing to take all the risk , it is announced in the same document that " 6 hould any surplus arise from the sale , it will be used as the laws and constitution of the society shall prescribe . " So that tlie Central Board are willing to give up all the profit of the the pubacation to the society , and bear tlie loss themselves , _hax-ing told us they hax-e no funds frem xvhich to defray the loss ! nnd then tbe truth comes out occasionally , in-broken sentences , " unltss the members feci bound to contribute to a fund for general purposes . " And _nftcrxx-ards it is added , " Any deficiency Ouit may arise from ( lie paper wili be the only thing charged to the general fund . " Lastly comes tlie climax , " xve earnestly entreat the society to rally round the organ . "
- On reference to the publication itself xve find this announcement to be viewed of such importance that a large portion of it is re-published _ox'er the leading article both in the first and second numbers of the national Herald . If Mr . Ardill wishes to repudiate all connection with the undertaking , of course he can do so , and make _knoxvn his intention . His letter to us manifests that he is , very properly , rather ashamed to be connected xvith it ; and , if xve mistake not , there will be found many others anxious to disclaim any part or lot in the matter . 13 ut something more will be expected than a simple disavowal from those xxho have been most actix _* e in iauuchiug the project . We find the names of Mr . Buxton , Mr . Ardill , Mr . Hetherington , and Mr . Cramp , appointed or re-appointed to office on the very occasion when the project xvas finally resolved on , therefore every one of them is clearly amenable for the consequences , though xve are no strangers to the fact that others , whose names are less prominent , have been equally instrumental in producing this abortion . ]
i o tin ' s importation of . _yiccial pleading from tlic Old _Bailey , I wrote thc following answer : — Northern Star Office , IC , Gi ' _entWindmill-stvtet , Ilaymurltot , London . _Xoveiiibti' 35 th , lSi 5 . To the Edit or of the New Moral World . Sir , —I did not exptet that my note to you would have been honoured with a place in the _ P . m .. t . _# J * ru't ; neither did I expect that so short a letter , asking so simple a question , xxould have needed so long an answer as you haxc given to it ; but truth is hot easily hid ; and xve never dtpart from the honest and straightforward course
xvithout having to pursue a very intricate path , in our endeavours to make the worse appear the better reason . My note of half a dozen lines has required more than a column fiom you as an ansxver—a p ' roof to me that you haTe not any authority for the assertion in your previous number , with respect to " my adBt ' ce" to tbe Rational Society . I , _hoxvei-er , take the ansxver , such as it is , and xvill make tbe best I can of it . I xvill also avail myself oi your implied offer to allow me to make "known my intention " respecting my " repudiation of all connection with the undertaking , " although this is very much like knocking a man doxvn , and then saying you xvere mistaken with the person .
First , then , you say , "Our knowledge xvas derived from the public intimation of the circumstance g iven by Mr . John Cramp , through the pages of the Ntic Moral World . It is true , he did not pay in _distinct language , Kr . Ardill advises the public to _subscribe to set up a new paper , but that wliich he does state _conveys this impression unquestionabl y . " Noxv as I do ' , not read the New Moral World , I cannot tell xvhat Mr . Cramp may have said respecting me . I know that you said , " i ~ had advised the members of the Rational Society to _subscribe to ** _^ ' « P _onotfiei paper . " I know also tbat I did not advise in' " <« matter ; and I leave jour readers to judge xvho has to _. _'d the truth in this affair . Further , your ansxver is an _acknowledgment that the authorit y upon xvhich you made su _(* b a statement does net warrant you in bringing my m ime so conspicuously before the public , as an indiJiAtal who * J " ' * _advised the publishing of the HeroU of Progress . _£ _& .
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Finding that the . statement was not true of me individually ,, you seek to screen yourself from tha con 6 equences of having published a falsehood by dexterously shifting ground , and saying , " The Central Board did the thiag , and I , as one of the Board , nm clearly amenable . " . I . have not denied my responsibility as an _cs-officio member of the board , for bringing the paper into existence ; but this is not" od » isi ?}< . * members , < fc « ., " yet , if you are desirous , of knowing how far I did advise , 1 now tell you , and your readers , that neither in _iityitidividual capacity , nor as treasurer to thc -Rational Society , nor yef , as _ex-gffioio memberoftke Central Hoard , havel given one wordoi . advice in this affair ; and if you had consulted sonioof your friends , who are cognizant ' of these matters ,
tktty , surely , for the sake of old acquaintance , xvould not have let you put your foot into it in so foob ' sh a manner as you hax-e done ; however , if going so far out of your way to drag my name before the _public , in a manner so uncalled-for , has served your purpose , Icannotbut be satisfied , and wish yeujoy of your new acquaintance ; but you will find me rather a " queer" customer . With respect to my " appointment , or re-appointment , to office onthe very ( occasion when the project was finally resolved on , " I can only say , that I am not aware of any power but that of a congress that can " appoint , " ' * _re-appoint , " or displace me ; and if such a farce as my " re-nppointment" has been enacted , xvhich I very much doubt , I can only laugh at the actors , mid pity tlieir simplicity .
The remainder of your long answer chiefly concerns Mr . Cramp , in xvhose hands ' I leave his portion to deal with as he pleases . —I am , sir , yours , < be ., John Ardill . In the New Moral World of Noy . 22 nd appears ihe following Jesuitical uotice : —
NOTICE TO C _« RBESPONDENTS . J . _Anmu—Northern Star Office . ' , — A hitter has bean _receix _* ed from Mr . Ardill , expressing some surprise that liis former letter had been published . . ' It was addressed to the Editor of the Aite Mo rat World , and not to us individually , nor wus it marked ?? private , " it was , therefore quite optional with us to publish it or not , as itis with that whicli we Itnve this _xreek received from hiin similarly addressed , arid xvhich , doubtless , he will publish in some channel or other . We beg to decline it , He professes to think it strange that so short a letter , as that published last week , should have required so long an
answer . It did not require so long an answer or commentary , but xve chose to make it serve as a text or a peg on which to append a fexv remarks ; besides does he not know the proverb that , " a fooimay say _B 6 much in five minutes as it wiU occupy a wise man an hour to ansxver , " in quoting which xve distinctly disclaim any intention of classing Mr . Ardill with fools , or ourselves xvith the wise , but merel y to show that there is no force in this apparent anomaly . Mr . Ardill says he never reads the New Moral World , which is rather difficult to reconcile with his writing to us two successive weeks , to call us to account for xvhat is contained in that publication .
The pith of Mr . Ardill ' s second letter , divested of the splenetic expressions against ourselves , is a denial of individually advising the members of the Rational Society to subscribe to set up a new paper , by attempting to draxv an artificial line between what he did as Mr . Ardill , and xvhat he did as e _^ officio member of the Central Board . He says , " I have not denied my responsibility as an _cic-ojicio member of the Board , for bringing the paper into existence , but this is not advising , & c . " It appears to us that the responsibility of bringing the paper into existence , and afterxvavds having his name _givun out as treasurer to a fund , the secretary of which calls for subscriptions , to be passed over to Mr . Ardill , from which the deficiency on the paper , it is acknowledged , is to be charged , does not essentially differ fiom recommending the members ofthe Bational Society to subscribe .
Now , I must acknowledge that I was not only " surprised , " but rather vexed to find myself figuring axvay among such duty water as is known to be belched forth in the print wliich I have quoted . It is true I did not use Mr . Hill as he did me , and address my note to James Hill ( of Wisbeach , & e ., & e ., ) the editor (!) neither did I mark it private . laddressed it simply to the editor , for it xvas in the capacity of editor he had abused me by making false statements . 1 did so because I was not desirous of attacking a man , by an exposition ofhis private character , in order to prove that his statements of me to lhe public , in his capacity of editor , were false : proving a man capable of making mis-statements , or of falsifying tacts , does not prove the falsehood of any
but the particular statements ; and I xxas desirous of directing my repl y to the statement itself j and not of seeking to heap upon the head of the editor thc errors of the man , or the errors of the editor upon the head ot the individual . Had Mr . Hill done the same by nie , I should not have complained ; had he confined his punning sarcasm ( to give it no harsher term ) , or what he calls his" severe criticism , " to the party xvhich had called the paper into existence , the birth of xvhich seems to have given him so much pain , I should probably have _nercr heard of It , or , if I had , should not have noticed it , so long as it xvas honest " severe criticism ; " but xvhen he descends to personality , Us in my case , I can only think there is "
Something Sinister" intended ; and , if . such be the ease , or if there be " Something Secret" at the bottom of all this , thc " Sad Scoundrel" will find that he has lo deal . xvith one who , though he may not he " Something Superior , " is not a Simple Simon , who xvill quietly bear the Spiteful Spleen of a Silly Scribbler , xvho appears desirous of making a Sanguinary Sacrifice of all those he Supposes Stand betxveen him and his objects . He declines my letter , and prophecies I shall publish it in some other channel . It did not require much foresight to prophecy tliis , for tlie letter lie received was a manifold copy , and was intended to show him tliat if he did not publish it some one else should .
He says my note did not require so long an answer : then why did he give it ? The truth is more likely to be that it did require so long an answer , for it would not be convenient to say the statement was made without authority .: and if it was a falsehood , it xvas his , fov which he xvas sorry . He chose the round about method of getting out of the difficulty by getting . farther into it .. I say , truly , " I never read the New Moral World , and do not know xvhat Mr . Cramp may have said respecting me . " I should not have known of the appearance of either the statement or my letter , had they not been both pointed out to me by a i ' riend . I certainly looked for tliis number , and xvhen my friend shoxved nie thc notice to correspondents , I sent to _puivliasj the throe last numbers , xvhich are the lirst 1 have had ; and if he intends from this to claim nie as a reader of liis pi _* int ( he is likely to have a goodly number of subscribers , for I am not the only person he has attacked by his Scurvy Scurrility .
The next and last paragraph in his notice , is the most cool , impudent , and barefaced falsehood I have ever rend , I have not attempted to draxv any line at all ; for I havo given a plain denial to the whole statement by saying , that " neither in my individual capacity , nor as treasurer to the Rational Society , nor yet as ex-oficio member of the Central Board , have I given one word of advice in the matter . " Noxv xvhat more does he xvant ? it is plain and _under-, standable _, not mystified b _. v a multiplicity of words , like his answer to my note , its only fault in his eyes 1 suppose to be its extreme plainness . With respect to my responsibility as a member of the Board , he knows that it is unfair to impute the acts 6 f a body to any individual composing that body
, xvhere the majority rule the minority , for the individual accused may have been one of the minority ; hoxv much worse is it when , as in this case , the president ins complete power , and the " Board ave merely appointed to carry out what he may _deyiso and determine upon ; and in my particular case , it is worse even than this , for my connection with the Board is _ex-ojjicio , I hold my appointment under the congress , by virtue of my appointment I am entitled to a seat at the Board to receive the monies paid to me as treasurer , aud to disburse such monies according to tlie order of the president ; if Mr . Hill can persuade himself that this is " advising thc members of the Rational Society to subscribe to set up another paper , " or anything like it , ho is easy to persuade .
but 1 think he will find a difficulty in persuading others to think the same xvay . My name lias not been given out as treasurer to any fund but that of the society , that I have ever heard of , except by Mr . James Hill , or the editor of the New Moral (?) World , for ] find 1 h looking over the number for Nov . 8 th , that I figure again in that number as the treasurer to a fund , the monies for xvhicli fund are to be " paid into the hands of Mr . Ardill , ( of theAM . ni Star ) , for what propose we have not been able to discover . " 1 can only sny that 1 hate not ' * discovered " the fund or yet the " purpose" ofit , but I think I " discover " that Mr . Hill has been very desirous of having aside thrust at
Mr . Ardill , ( of the Northern Slur ) , for what is best knoxvn to himself , perhaps it is for my connection with a paper tiiat has several times given him a teazing the last time as " William 1 wish I may get the title deeds : " if it is so , he ought to know , that trom my p osition with that paper , I cannot have anything to do with what appears in it , any more than xvith xvhat appears in the New Moral World . Or it may be that he thinks me an opponent , and has a mind to give me a Sly Slash ; if such be the case I trust he will always find me willing to bear either his Severe Strictures or his Sax-age Sarcasm xvith Suitable Simplicity , or ready to meet his Sly Scuujiixg xvith Superior Subtletv .
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Loxgevitt . —On the estate of Lady Headly , within a fexv miles of Trnlce _, a woman named Julia " _Hickey died on tlte ith inst , having attained the advanced age ot 112 years . She retained full possession of her acuities up to the early part of the present year lhere are now living of her descendants Si grandchildren , 1 C 0 great _graud-children , and four great great grand-chddren . 6 Jl _}?^ T l \ 7 l S , T , _, _« _2 _S" _' K while stand _ug at a hall door , had her apron torn by a mad dog that made a snap at it in passing . _ShJ got a needle and thread and sewed up the rent , and not having _apair oi scissors b y her 8 Jie Cllt off t ' _,, e tliread mill her teeth , and she got hydrophobia and died of it . — Irofessor Colics Lectures , New House of LoBM .--It is understood that at the commencement of the session of 184 ? the new ilouse of Lwds will be ready _foroccupatwa ,
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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FORGERY . During the past week the inhabitants of Cardiff have been thrown into a state of some considerable excitement by the discovery , that the sum of £ 240 had been raised from the Brecon Old Bank by means of a forged cheque and that the person charged with haying committed tbe offence ( a female ) had been taken into custody . On Wednesday morning , at the Angel Inn , where the magistrates hold their meetings , crowds of men , women , and children assembled , xvho were watching . for the appearance of the supposed offender , as it was . understood she was to be taken for examination before the magistrates . However , in this the . crowd xvas disappointed , as the party charged with the offence was declared by a medical gentleman to be too ill to undergo an
examination that morning . It appears that about five _weeki ago a young man , apparently in extreme ill health , called at the Gxvaelod-y-G _. irth Arms publichouse , Merthyr Tydvil , kept by Mr . Richard Williams , to inquire where Mr . Harman , a highly-respectable inhabitant , resided . The servant who answered the " young man" gave the required information , but immediately added to her fellow . _servant , "Dear me , did you ever see anybody so like Mary Williams , the Miss of- —as this ' young man ! '" The fellow-servant who was thus appealed to , said / ' he is the very imago of her . Tho young man ; hoxvever , proceeded to the residence of Mr . Harman , but upon hearing he was not at home , desired to see Mrs . Harman , who shortly afterwards made her appearance , and as the " young man "
seemed very unwell , was tolerably well dressed , and in appearance something like a minister of the Gospel , Mrs . Harman asked , him in . He entered the house , sat down , and then stated that having come to Merthyr for change of air , he had been desired by Mr . Morgan Thomas , of Ynisgoy , to procure from the Brecon Old Bank the sum of £ 2 iO . -. He had been to the bank , he said , but the clerk had refused to let him have the money , as there , was something irregular in the cheque _^ or written authority which he had with him ; therefore it was necessary he should be accompanied by some respectable person , who knexv him , and who was likewise known at the bank , _Jnthis dliemma the " young man" said he suddenly recollected that he had often heard Mr . Morgan
1 nomas say that Mr . Harman was his particular friend ; and therefore , as the money was required instantly , he ( the " young man" ) had taken the liberty of calling to ask Mr . Harman if he would accompany him to the bank . It is said that upon hearing the " young man ' s" story , Mrs . Harman wns quite indignant that the money had not been instantly paid by the clerk at the bank , and ( actuated by that generous feeling wliich impels women to render assistance to , any person in distress ) instantly determined to accompany the " young man" herself . She did so . Upon arriving at the bank she was told by Mr . Richards ( the clerk ) that the authority produced by tiie interesting young fellow from , Mr . Thomas was not quite regular ; and that if Mrs . Harman would ,
on her husband ' s behalf , sign the cheque , the amount should be forthwith paid to the young man whom she had accompanied _, to the . bank . Mr . Evans , the manager of the bank , entered at this particular juncture , and having heard the decision of Mr , Richards , entirely concurred in it . Mrs . Harman signed the cheque as required , andthe " young man" ( whose illness at this time became distressing ) received the £ 240 , and placed it safely in his trousers pocket . He did not seem to like notes much , and therefore _alarce portion of the amount was in gold . "And noxv , said Mr . Ex _* ans , " as I never liad the pleasure of seeing you here before , Mrs . Harman , do step in and bring your young I ' riend xvith you . " The party proceeded to the parlour , and
partook of refreshments ; but the "young man " ( poor fellow !) could only take half a glass of wine , and expressed a desire to returnhome . Accordingly , Mrs . Harman left , xvith him in a few minutes , out , as he appeared so delicate , very kindly took him home and made him a nice comfortable cup of tea , of xvhich he partook but sparingly . Hoxvever , to ginand-water after tea he paid more attention , declaring that " it did him good . " Ho then declared it was time to go . to the railway station , but , as he was " so delicate" he yielded to Mrs . Harman ' s hospitable solicitations , and took " one glass of ginand-water more . " Mrs . Harman then placed his £ 210 in a silk handkerchief safely , accompanied him to the station-house , and xvhen ( the " young
man ) expressed a wish to go into a second-class carriage , site ( Mrs . Harman ) declared emphatically he shoukj do nothing ofthe kind , it would be enough to give him his death , & e ., and insisted upon his going into a first-class carriage , at tlie same time charging tho guard to be attentive to him . * lle xvas booked for Pentrych , near Cardiff ; but upon the arrival ofthe train at Troeddyrhixv , only three miles from Merthyr , lie tapped tho window of the carriage and desired the guard to open the door , as he was too ill to procsed . The guard heard him and opened thedoor and the " youngman" stepped out and wentaway . " Hang me , " exclaimed the bveaksman , "if that ere _felloxv haven't got a voice like a ' ooman . " "Itell you xvhat is is , " said the guard , "there ' s
something very queer about him . Three miles back he came in scarcely able to move , assisted by women , as if he was not going to live five minutes , and now , look lie walks—there ' s a pace for you I" Some _xx-eeks after the " young man" had so strongly excited the sympathies of certain kind-hearted folks a _^ t Merthyr , Mr . Morgan Thomas went to Merthyr from Ynisgoy , proceeded to the bank , and having transacted his business , was asked by the clerk if they had not better put that £ 240 straight ? " " What £ 240 ? " said Mr Thomas , "Why , " replied the clerk , "the £ 240 we paid to a sickly young man , who appeared like a preacher , xvho xx'as accompanied b . v Mrs . Harman . " Of course this produced an explanation . Mr . Thomas most positively declared that he had not authorised
any preacher to draw money for him , and instantly proceeded to Mrs . Harman ' s residence . A variety of circumstances induced Mr . Thomas to suspect that one Mary Williams , a married xvonian _, but who had transferred her affections from her liege lord to a dignitary ofthe order of odd fellowship , was the party xvho had personified the delicate , interesting , and amiable youngman , and in this suspicion he xvas confirmed xvhen he was informed that the party rcf ' eired to had deposited at a bank in Merthyr the sum of £ 120 in the notes of the Brecon Old Bank . She was accordingly taken up and _Jodjrcd in the station-house , where she now remains . She is , we are informed , the owner of several houses , and lias , at one time , moved in a respectable sphere .
Lxirontaxt Case In The Cnunr Op Queex's ...
_LxironTAXT Case in the _Cnunr op Queex _' s Bexch the Queen * v . Richard Johnson . — The defendant in this case was convicted under the 39 th George 111 ., c . 70 , g . lo , for having received at the door of a house not licensed for tiie delivery of lectures a sum of 2 d . for admitting an individual to hear a lecture delivered by a certain Emma Martin , upon the subject of " The Follies and Cruelties of the Christian Missions . " The conviction was upon an information laid by a common informer , and did not state upon the face of it the name of the party to whom p . portion of the penalty was to be paid . Mr . Parry noxv applied to the Court for a rule to quasi _, the conviction , upon the ground that tho 2 nd Victoria , c 12 , whicli amended the statute of the 39 th
George 111 ., provided also that no information should be laid for any offence committed under that act ( the act of Victoria ) , and also provided that the statutes of George III . and that of Victoria should be constructed altogether as if they consisted of onl y a single act . Thc learned counsel contended that in such circumstances the effect of the provision that the acts should be construed together was that no information under the 39 th George III . could belaid , except in tlic name of the Attorney-General , in conformity xvith the provisions of the act of the present Queen . In reference to the second _obj ection , the learned gentleman observed that the prisoner liad no means of ascertaining the person to whom a part of the penalty xvas to be paid , the effect of which may be to cause his imprisonment for an indefinite period . Lord Denroan said that the recent act of the present Queen did not appear to he applicable to the present case , as the clause in that act xvhicli required
information to be laid in the name of the Attorney-General , referred exoressi y and exclusivel y to the offences connected with printing aud publishing , in the circumstances prohibited by the act ; and the considerations arising from the words of the latter act in this respeat wore strengthened by the circumstance that separate offences punishable upon information xvere _cragd by that act . Tlie objection whieh was rested upon the fact that the conviction did not distribute the penalty might have been fatal if the con-Yictiun did not follow the very form which was given in the statute ; but as the conviction was in the very words of the act , and as it xvas very probable that the defendant xvould not experience any real difficultv iii ascertaining , in fact , who the person was to whom the remainder of the penalty was to bc paid , the rule forquashiug the conviction would be discharged . The other Judges concurred with Lord Denman , and the application to quash tiie conviction was accordingly refused .
Fatal Accident on the Great Western _Railhoao . — Oxford , Monday . —This morning a fatal accident occurred on the Great Western Railroad , at the Abmgdon-road station , under the following circumstances : —A young woman , named Fanny Gosling , residing in this city , started by the mail train at hajl-past ten o ' clock , to pay a visit to her mother at Chiton , which is a short distance from Abingdonroad station . On arriving at the latter place , instead ot proceeding at once to Clifton , she attempted to cross the line for the purpose , it is supposed , of seeing some of her old acquaintances , who lived at the
other sideot the railroad , at the tavern . While she xvas standing on the platform , the mail-train passed her ; and no doubt thinking that the line was clear , she stepped on it ; but the moment she had put her foot on the second line of the rail , the fast down tram , which she could not have seen previously , came in contact with her ; she was knocked doxvn by it and killed instantaneously ; her feet were severed from her ancles , and her body otherwise much mutilated . Several persens witnessed the accident , and endeavoured , by calling out , to make her aware ot the great danger she was in , but to no purpose , the poor _womaa seemed quite _paralysed ,
Lxirontaxt Case In The Cnunr Op Queex's ...
Death of a _Celudbated Swiss . — Jacob _ Stutz , it Swiss writer , xveli known for his excellent _Pictures * Popular Life , writtenin the Zurich dialect , recently died near _fcternenburg ( Berno ) . His poems are more than a mere happy imitation of German ; writers , and , although somewhat eccentric , he possessed much talent . -He built with his own hands a hut ot small planks in the woods , which ha christened Jacob ' s Cell i and here be ended his days , after a short illness from disease of the ehest . . ... . . ... .. '/ A Pigeon with Foun Legs . *— A living pigeon , with four legs , is exhibiting at Preston .
Mr . Wilkiss , the barrister , is about to ba made a . Queen ' s Sergeant . A Mammoth _Hohsb , twenty hands in height , and weighing 9 , 500 pounds , , is exhibiting in Loudon . _Failuriof tub Potatoe Chop in Nohtii _Cumobri , an » and Durham . —The march of the potatoe disease in these txvo counties is fearful . It is supposed to be all but universal through the border districts . FREE _Paiuion . —Samuel Chambers , convicted ai Leicester in 1844 , and now in Van Dieman ' s Land , under a sentence of transportation , has received a free pardon on the ground that "the conviction was bad . " He will have a free passage to this country .
Approach op Winter . —Last week so , severe was the frost that Lochfine , at Invcrary , xvas covered over a large portion of its surface with ice . The ferry steamer , in crossing . from Inverary to St . Catherine ' s passed through a sheet more than half-amile in extent , xvhich cracked and broke . with agreat noise as the boat passed . through . , ; ,, ; Liverpool Cellars Last week seventy-two . informations were laid against owners , of property , and tenants of houses , for letting off cellars as places of abode , contrary to the provisions of the Health . Improvement Act . The parties were , in _mosfceasea , fined 5 s . each and costs , which the magistrates intimated would not be levied if the cellar occupants , re _» moved immediately .
Wablike Rumours . —Dublin , Nor . 24 . —It is reported in town this afternoon that Government mean to increase the army by 20 , 000 men , 10 , 000 to be formed into second or reserve battalions , thus effecting a great saving in the number of officers required for the additional force . It is also confidently stated , in military circles , that the militia xvill be ballotted for eariy next year , and called out for training . . Fatal Coal-pit Acoideht . —On Saturday , the 15 th inst ., two miners , named George Hewitt and John Garner , were killed in a nexv pit adjacent to _Duckinfiold Hall . Fatal Explosion op Gunpowder . —On _Saturdsy afternoon , Nov . 15 th , about half-past four o ' clojj | L . the house of a man named James Rothwell , _situwe in Blackburn-street , Little Bolton , was blown up by an explosion of gunpoxvder , xvhich caused great alarm in the neighbourhood , and occasioned the death of a boy , aged seven years .
Hurricanes in the Channel . —Jersey has been visited by a dreadful hurricane . The winter storms have commenced in the Channel . Dangerous Illness of . Lord Chancellor _Lthdihjkst . —The Lord Chancellor has been seriously ill , and is not yet out of danger . He was first attacked on Friday the 15 th . During the whole of Sunday , Monday , and Tuesday , ( the 16 th , lfth , and 18 th ot this month ) the mahid y ; assumed a . very alarming character , and a general impression began to spread that there was no chance of his Lordship ' s recovery . It appears that his illness arose principally from obstruction of the bowels , an ailment by which , he has on former occasions been assailed . On Wednesday symptoms of improvement were manifested . * On Thursday and Friday he was much better ; on Saturday last " he was able to get out of bed ; and since then has been gradually advancing towards convalescence . Lord Lyndhurst is 73 years of age .
, Early Closing of Snors . —A public meeting , convened by the London General Association of all Trades for the early closing of shops , was held ou Tuesday evening , in the theatre of the Western Institution , _Leicester-square , in furtherance of tlie objects of the association , xvhen General Sir De Lacy Evans took the chair . Mr . Lee , Dr . Epps , and other gentlemen addressed the meeting ; and resolutions in accordance with the principles of the association were unanimously adopted .
Warlike _Pbepauatioks . —We can state as a fact that a naval officer high in command has been privately engaged in taking measurements of the large steamers under mail contract service xvith her . Majesty ' s Government , and xvith orders to report immediately to the Admiralty ou their capabilities for carrying _guna of tht largest calibre . The the large steamers , forming the fleet of tho West India Royal Mail Company ; also the vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Company , together with the . Great Britain and Great Western , are said , to have been quietly but officially inspected . A naval officer , well j acquainted with the coast of Amerioa , has been
summoned to London , to give information to the Admiralty . Such a combined force as these numerous and powerful ships would form , independent of the regular steamers of war , would be one of the strongest ever seen on the ocean . The West India Company ' s ships alone are twelve in number , and of about 1 , 200 tons burden each . —Liverpool Times . CATnor . ic Cathedral in Australia . —A magnificent ( Catholic ) Cathedral , upon a scale of considerable magnitude , will , ere long , be commenced in Adelaide ; ample funds having been munificently subscribed elsewhere , by friends of the Catholie Church . '
A Roman YiM , i . — -The remains ofa Roman villa , of considerable extent , have been recently discovered near Wheatley , Oxfordshire , and some excavations have been made under the direction of Dr . Bromet . French Duel . —The Journal de la Cote d'Or of the ISth inst . states that a duel , xvhich created the utmost horror , took place betxveen two privates of artillery in garrison at Gray . After one of the combatants had been slightly wounded , and the seconds had interfered to put " an end to the combat , the wounded man _toek an opportunity to attack his adversary , xvho xvas not on the defensive , and passed his sword through his body . The victim had sufficient strength to draw out the sword , and then fell dead .
TnE Tea Trade , Nov . 24 . —The deliveries of tea in London last week were 492 , 4811 b ., and this year , to the 1 st inst ., they xvete 20 , 706 , 0001 b . The stock on the 1 st inst . was 30 , 3 GO , 0001 b . The imports this year have been 32 , 418 , 0001 b . —an increase of upwards of 2 , 000 , 0001 b . The stock on the 16 th inst ., however , was reduced to 29 , 48 S , 00 Olb . 'fhe deliveries had increased to 31 , 506 , 0001 b ., and the imports to 33 , 418 , 0001 b . _Callisg out of the Militia . —A report has been for some days current of an intention on the part of her Majesty ' s Government , not to rely so fully as it has hitherto done upon the Chelsea pensioners in case of any occasion for their services , but to call out the malitia for a short period of training . It is said that the expediency of forming a better school of recruits for the army will be put forward as the ground for this measure—Times .
Dr . NicnOL _. of Doctors ' -commons , died on Monday last . Tap . late Qui Tam Actioss . —The action commenced by Charles H . Russell against Mr . II . Hill , to recover £ 40 , 000 and £ 20 , 000 won on the turf , has been stopped on tbe payment of costs incurred , xvhich were taxed at £ 10 4 s . 10 . The above named qui tarn informer has since been captured and lodged in Whitecross-street gaol , for the costs ef an action brought by him against Lord G . Bentinck , and tried at Guildford Assizes .
A Relic . —A rather interesting relic xvas discovered a fexv days ago upon _tluj shore of St . Brelade ' s Bay , Jersey . While Mv . Robertson , a gentleman who resides in that _ioca-lity , was rambling upon the beach , his eye was attracted by a small dark , and rusty-looking object lying amongst the shingle . Lifting it up he found it to be a drinking cup , similar iii shape and general appearance to those which are to bo seen in tho paintings of the old Flemish masters . The date of its manufacture cannot be assigned to a period less remote than 400 years . It has two handles , and is about double the size of a common claret glass .
BATna and Wash-houses for the Labouring Classes . —Tbe establishment for the poor at Glasshouse-street , London Docks , lias now completed tlie first six months of its experiment , and during that period the warm-baths , wash-tubs , and drying apparatus have been used by 29 _. 0 S 0 persons . The buildings on tho site for the first model establishment at Gouldstone-squnre , Whitechapel , were sold by auction yesterday , and are to be cleared away this week . The foundation stone is to be laid there on the lGtli of December , Tke Irish Colleges . —Lord Primate Beresford has declared his intention of bestowing £ 1 , 000 on each _ti the three provincial colleges , towards the foundation of divinity schools for students of the established church .
Modern Expedition . —A gentleman did business on the Com Exchange , _Brunsxvick-strcet _. _onthelOth of October , and sailed tbe same day inthe Caledonia . He arrived at Boston , purchased a cargo of flour , shipped it , and returned in the Great Western . On Friday he went to the Corn Exchange , sold the cargo and jn the course of thc day the Joshua Bates , containing the flour , arrived , after the quick passage oi fifteen days from Boston . Ibrahim Pasha has quitted the baths of St . Julien , near Pisa , for Florence , xvhere he intends to remain ten day 8 ,. and then proceed , by xvay of Marseilles , to the baths of Vcrnet , in the Pyrenees , where he hopes to complete his recovery , ' Rotal Charlib . —Mr . Walter Akeroyd , of Pwston has in his possession four hand buttons _belongine to some ot the rebel chiets of Prince Charlie ' s army _rhey few the Pmp _iVpwtaft . and liis initials
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 29, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29111845/page/7/
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