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FOEEIGN . The powerful squadrons of Prance and England remain In tie Levant . A correspondent of the Times says that the English exhibit very superior seamanship to the French , whenever the vessels take ashortsail . Chixa . —Accounts hare been received from China , hy way of St . Helena , to th « 16 th of June . The trade was still suspended . SeTeral vessels had sailed for England , bnt others had arrived at Whampoa .
ITb « mission of General Elio to the head-qnarters of thsCount d'Espagne has beena failure . The Count positively refused to lay down Ms arms at the command of Don Carlos . Possibly he and his officers are waiting for some of Espartero ' s money .. The liberation or retention of Don Carlos is almost £ he solitary topic of discussion in the Paris newspapers , ltis said that the Austrian Ambassador had obtained a promise from Louis Phillippe and Mar-CTiwS ? r the Pretender ' s immediate release , bat that the Marquis de Mirafiores , Spanish Ambas-Mdor , and Mr . Henry Bnlwer , ^ presenting the English Government in Lord Granvffle ' s absence , rtronriy opposed iis liberation ; that the majority of the ^ Council sided with them , and the King and Soult have been obliged at least to postpone the performances of their promises . " -
HOME . - A Commission has been appointed to proceed to ran ? , and resume negotiations for a commercial treaty -with France . Mr . Bnlwer and Mr . 3 I'Gre * or are the commissioners . —Evening paper . Edinburgh , "Wetcosdat . —Sir John Campbell arrived in -town on Eriday week , and on the = anie evening dined with the Lord Advocate . He i 3 to be entertained at a- public breakfast on Thursday mornmg in the Hopetoua Rooms . —Scotsman . - - lose Paixaas . —At a meeting of the Perth Town Lonncil , held on Monday week , M . Ennock , precentor in the Wesi Chnrch , gave in his resignation . Report ^ ays that he had been induced to resign from die enormously "Jong psalms ' , he had to Sag on imaday . No human lungs could stand it . —Perth Chronicle . ' -
Socide . —On Monday evening , Mr . Bond , an artist , living in Hhadegund buildings , Cambridge , aged twenty-two , committed suicide bv ^ hootiag himself through the head . Jt appears that the deceased supped as jrsual with his mother and brother , a pensioner of Jesus College , who retired to bed leaving him below smoking fib pipe . Shortly afterwards , the report of a pistol was heard ; and en descending , his afflicted friendsfound the deceased lying in the passage , his skull completely shattered , sna the floor deluged with blood . —Cambridge Free
BaTH . —The Wiltshire Independent announces that Sir Thomas Lethbridge will be a candidate at Vie next election for Bath ; and very properly condemns the polities and character of its present repre-• entation . If Sir Thomas Lethbridge , however , is tobea candidate , he mustactwith , not against Mr . Roebuck . He is himself most unpopular in Bath ; as Ms treatment there , and that of his partisans , Tvhen he stood for the county , plainly showed . If the Whigr bring forward one good candidate , thev may succeed ; but if they attempt to obtain both seats and exclude Mr . Roebuck , whose supporters are the majority of the Liberals , they will probably be punished by the election of two Tories , and retaliation from the Eadicals in places represented bv Whig officials .
A Sapient Jcby . —In a case in the Crown Court , on Tuesday , at the present quarter sessions for the county of Gloneesfcer , the jury fonnd two prisoners guilty of stealing without zfelenions intention . " The laughter excited ia conrtwas excessive , and tie jury corrected the verdfct by returning a general Terdiet of guilty . —Gloucester Paper . Melaxcholt . Occcxbesce . —la consequence , of the heavy rains / which fell on Friday last , the river Yeo , which crosses the turnpike road at Pen Mill , near Yeovil , was so srrollea as to overflow thebridge , asd prevent the passage of foot Dassenzers . Towards
the evening a man of the name of Palmer , ( parkkeeper to a gentleman in the neighbourhood , ) who was somewhat intoxicated , determined to make his Tray across and carry his little boy who waa with him on his shoulders ; and notwithstanding the xemonstrances -off some by-sSanders , and the entreaties Of the pooi child , who exclaimed , " Don't go father don ' t go father , " he persisted in his determination . When he reached the middle of the stream , the current , which was very powerful , overcame him ; he was lifted off hi 3 legs , and both the father and the child were carried down the stream and drowned .
LVFLAXMATOHT LANGUAGE OF A PbIESI . —( From the Dublin Evening Mail . j— - " Such was the inflammatory language used by priest Davis in his sermon m . Sunday last , in Longford Chapel , that the officer in command of the 39 tb inarched -of the soldiers that went to prayers . The subject of his discourse was flie registry . "—Longford Journal . Highwat Robbery . —On Thursday night week , between eleven and twelve o'clock , a 3 Mr . Joseph Banner , a gentleman residing in Church-buildings , dapnam Common , -was returning home , along the
roynder-ToaiU Clapham New Park , he wa 3 attacked by two men , who stopped him , and demanded his money . ^ Mr . Banner , Being a powerful man , struggled with them for some time , but they eventually overcame him , and forcibly took from his jockefhis pocket- book , containing a bill for £ 50 , and a" £ 10 Bank of England note , -with which they escaped across the park towards Brbrton . Mr . Banner was somewhat inebriated at the time , and is not , unfortunately , able to give that description of theii persons which is likely to lead to their detection .
The Qc ££ >" 's JIabbiage . —Flying Tumours begin * to ripen into certainty as to the marriage of the ! Queen ; and it seema that Victoria will not , like the \ former maiden Sovereign , be teazed with repeated \ applications from Parliament to enter the matrimonial circle . Prince Albert is a guest at the Palace , which is Kkely to be "his home ; and as our fair " readers , at least , may be curious to know something of the form and bearing of the man who can ' . win the hand of a Queen , we may add , that . he is ' . described as a " jfine noble-looking fellow , with blue eyes , hair and whiskers rather sandy , stature tall ; j of a cheerful disposition , most unaffected in his manners , and Tip = ppaVa "R ^ giisTi well , but with some- j tiinH of a foreign accent . " - i
Fatal Accideht . —On Wednesday mornings last week , as the colliers were at work in the Wolverhampton colliery , ( formerly Timmins ' s ) near Wolverhampton , a large quantity of hanging coal , weighing about ten tons , suddenly gave way , and fell npon fonrof the men , and instantly killed them . Another man who "was close to them was much hurt . Three of the unfortunate sufferers , namely , Samuel Haynes , John Aston , and William Jones , were married men ; the fourth , Joseph Evans , was a young man about nineteen years of age .
2 &EIHODISM asd Chaktism . —Amongst the arguments which the Methodists , we see , use to prove that they are the favoured and chosen people . of God , i > : the increase of their numbers , now said to be 1 , 115 , 932 . But such arguments from prosperity will be found to tell as jnuch against as for the Methodists . What , by the same rule , can they say for the Catholics of Ireland ! What , for the idolaters of Hindostan . and Chlnal What for . Mohammedanism , which at one time prevailed -over nearly all Asia and a large part of Europe and Africa ' What , by the same rule , wDlthe iiethodist 3 say |
of the Chartists , who , springing . up as it were lastj year , in less than a twelTemonth numbered more i than a million members and frightened the rest of the community . The Methodists have been exposed j to no particular persecution . Ridicule has been the ] chief weapon directed against them , but the whole -j force of the law has been turned against the Char- tists . They hare not stood the test of time like the j TV ' esleyacs , bnt their success , and the Buece 33 o £ aj hundred other political and religious sects , makes the inference of the Methodists from their present success , that they are God ' s chosen and peculiar people , one of extreme hazard . j
Whig TtraSsy . —The conduct of the Duke of Somerset "Sgpards the _ electors of Totness , who ref used to SUWfcrt Mr . IJlonnt , the Duke ' s candidate and son-in-law at the last election , has excited much indignation in that borough . Although ar distinct promise was given by his agents that no elector would be molested on account of his vote , and an indignant denial was given to the charge that his Grace wished to make Totnes 3 . family borongb , notices to qnii have nevertheless been served upon several of . tae Somerset tenantry -who supported Mr . Baldwin . A feeble attempt was made to rescue the Duke from the discredit attached to the-breach of faith and tyrannical exercise of a landlord ' s power ; but it failed completely . In Stafford , too , the Whigs are doing as they like with their ora . " The StaffnrAzhirA ( iasMe sava— "Air . Meeson , ihe
respectable landlord of the Swan Hotel , inihis borough , has received notice from Mr . Blount , the fit agent of Lord Stafford , to quit the hotel and the farm whieh herent 3 of hisXordship , because he has permitted the Swan to become die Tory house ! Mr . Meesoa , we believe , has always professed Mb wiUingnes 3 t <) vote as his landlord desired , and has so voted . Ihe rival hotel was the Whig house , and therefore he could not think of aeting so dir ^ tly against _ his own interest as to refuse receiving the Conservati-Fe party into the Swan . It was in vain , that the unfortunate innkeeper nrged the injustice of being compelled by his landlord to do more than vote for him . To conxpel a man to . vote contrary to his conscience , is arbi- - trary and tyrannical ; but it is the refinement of tyraiiny to seek his ruin merely because he attempts to proftrre an honourable livelihood by fulfilling the duties of his calling . " _ -
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Caseot Mv-bderat PAistET .-Tuesday morning I&SE * ° l ° ^ ' ffitlmation ? M bronghv ^ hf SS ^ h ^ f I «« ^ ktoBM pn the station , that a man had been found murdered in St . James ' s-street Sffi * - T&Bp Of * e night e ^ blfeSutfpro : deciL ^^! ^ fc ** ' dkcoveredS deceased to be Alex . M'Fee , cabinet-maker ' one of the workmen ^ of Mr . Hunter , Bign-street , Besides tZ " ! - *^ v $ *?* tne Siouth , there were some shght marks of violence observable on the ¦ iSuSr ^ ^ H tlie ^ T conveyed to the Po ^ ffice , Sergeant Itesell . with praiseworthy
« - »« * jf , got intimation of the transaction conveyed to the surgeon , Dr . M'Kinley , and the Superintendent , and then proceeded to the apprehension of the parties implicated in the commission of the murderlour of whom he had in custody , either as principals or witnesses , m less than an hour afterwards . Such an occurrence in Paisley has created agreat sensation , particularly as Alex . M'Fee was a sober , inoflensire man ; as a proof of which lie has been thirtysix years in the employment of Mr . Hunter . —Glasgow Chronicle .
DBSTfiucrivE Fiee at Amber Mills . —On Saturday morning last , about four o'clock , the family of ilr . Ludlum were alarmed by the cry of fire issuing from an extensive com mill in his OGCDpa . tion , and neartohia dwellmg-house ; the fiames at this time nad consumed a considerable portioa of the woodwork and machinery in the interior of the mill , and had obtained such an ascendancy , that in the absence of a fire engine the destruction of the whole building became inevitable , and in a short time the roof fell m , and the machinery and building were entirel y
consumed . Ihe workmen employed on the mill had quitted the premises about nine oMock the previous evening and , as they state , after having snuffed out the candles fixed against the wall to light the mill , with their fingers , a practice too common in corn mills , and so dangerous that it cannot be too highly deprecated , as the lake unfortunate event too fully moves . Besides the loss of the mill and machinery , -Mr . Ludlum had wheat and flour in the mill to the value of many hundred pounds , all of which has been entirely consumed . —Derby Mercury .
* " A ?~ n ^ Ix : rEMP £ RA - ~ Society- —A correspondent ot the Sun suggests the formation of a society , under this name ^ to stay the tide of vexatious regulation by which ail the minor traders are bein S har-«^ t Jhe Rowing in part explains his idea : — lne object should be to unite into one body , on payment of a subscription from each person , all the publicans , newsmen , greengrocers , and tradesmen of all descriptions , who are continually harassed by the interference of persons who having no business of their own , meddle continually with that of their neighbours ; all the workiug classes who prefer rational recreation on the Sabbath , to catching cold from listening w drowsy or intemperate parsons : and all
tne public men and gentlemen of every description who are impatient of the progress of a system which threatens to make social life an unceasing torment and strife . &ueh a body would be numerous , and with its funds , which , by a small subscription from each member , might be large , it might hire lawyers to watch over cases brought into police courts , and protect various classes of tradesmen from the annoyances to which they are now subjected . It might also watch over legislative proceediags , and by getting up numerous petitions or remonstrances in time prevent the passing of such meddling , mischievous acts as the ! New Police Law . "
Religious Exclusion . —The Rev . Thomas Lisk , of the Catholic Chapel , Chelsea , has described , in ihe columns of the Morning Chronicle , a gross act of injustice committed towards the poor Catholic soldiers , in excluding their children from the benefit of the Duke of York ' s Schoql , Chekea . The Cathoacs are said to form the majority of our army , a circumstanee , it im properly observed by the Chronicle , not to be lost sight of in deciding on a question of this nature . If the Roman Catholic soldier is exposed to the same daiiger as the Protestant , and suffers the same hardships in the cause of his country he is entitled to the same return from that country . But here is an institution to which Catholics as well as Protestants have contributed , only accessible to the
children of one sect of Christiaus : It may be said , indeed , that the children of Catho ^ lies as well as Protestants are admissible to to the school in question , and that no distinction will be made between them . 'But if the conditions of the admission are education in a- reliligion which the Catholic believes to be false , he can allow his children to receive the benefit of the institution only b y offering violence to his own principles The Inquisition did not punish aaiy -who wore ready to profess the Roman Catholic faiih . To receive the service of the Catholic , and to tantalise him with the spectacle of so gross a partiality towards his Protestant fellow soldier , is absolutely" disgrace ful to the character of the country . This marked injustice cannot be too severely reprobated .
Aximal Sympathy . —A correspondent of . a contemporary , sajB the Dorset Chronicle , cites the following remarkable instance of animal sympathy •—"Walking lately across the ground usually called the Bishop ' s Park , at Wells , on the evening of a day which had been very wet , when , -irithin about twenty yards of the deep trench which runs-through and divides it into two nearly equal parts , I saw a fuU-grown mare standing oh its margin , and what then appeared to me ( for I could but just discern part of it 3 head and neck ) to be her colt , fallen into the trench , and unable to free itself , on account of the soft , slimy bank which it had to climb . I walked forward—the mare did not recede , but = eemed more earnest and agitated as I approached . 1 stood still within five yards of her , and observed that there was distress , if not agopy , iu her demonstrations . I then noticed her grasping within her teeth the mane
! of the helpless object of her solicitude , twist most dexterously a large tuft of its flowing hair round her mouth , plant her feet firmly in the ground , and with all her strength struggle to effect the captive's liberation . After much splashing and slipping , and straining and groaning , she succeeded in dragging the captive up the bank ; and then what I had supposed to be her colt , I perceived to bo an old blind horse ! They stood for an instant , as if to recover from exhaustion , and to exchange an emotion of mutual joy . I was much charmed with-this display of brute sympathy , and sprang forward to caress the kind animal , but the mare bounded away into the open field , and the poor blind horse followed the sound of her footsteps , until I saw them quietly grazingin the distance . I felt instructed , as I walked away , meditating upon that Scripture which says— " Ask the beasts of the field , they shall teach thee . "
! , Frightful Homicide at Buckjlysd , near Aylesbcbt . —Early on Tuesday morning last , this town , and neighbourhood were thrown into a state of great I excitement and alarm by a report that a murder had ! been committed by one respectable farmer on the I body of another , at Bucklaud , near Aston Clinton , about five miles from this place , and that the mutilated remains of the unfortunate deceased were lying by the road side at the foot of Tring-hill . The unfortunate individual who has met with so untimely i and so dreadful a death , is a respectable fanner , of 1 the name of John Choles , residing at Bucklana- a
man of about sixty years of age , well known to the I inhabitants of this town , from his regular attendance ' at the markets . The still more unfortunate indivi-! dual by whose hands the bloody deed was committed , i and who- is now in custody on the charge , is Mr . i Thomas Pattison , also a respectable farmer , residing : at Buckland , about a mile from the residence of Ms ; victim . The unhappy man is about . forty year 3 of 1 , is a native of iN orthumberland , and has a family of eight children . Deceased has also left a large ~ family , aD adults . It appeared that the deceased i Choles and the prisoner Pattison were , on Monday evening last , drinking together at the New Inn .
¦ ! W hile in the public house , both parties appeared to be on the most amicable terms , singing , talking and even dancing together in the most jovial manner . Abont a quarter past ten o ' clock both men left the house apparently in the best of spirits . Both were the worse for liquor , but Pattison was much more intoxicated than Choles . They were both seen to leave the house together , and this was the last time Choles was seen alive . After leaving the New Inn , they both walked together for some little distance , Chere begins the prisoner ' s statement , ) when Pattison suddenly miss » d hi 3 companion , who is supposed ¦ to have proceeded by an unfrequented footpath , \ -while Pattison kept to the beaten lane leading to both their residences . After walking about one I hundred yards , both parties met at a spot called i Putnam ' s Gap , where the footpath and the lane : meet . Just at the spot where this junction takes
place "was the fatal deed perpetrated . According to the prisoner ' s statement he mistook the deceased for some person sent to waylay aud murder him ; under fthis impression , and the excitement caused by the j drink he had taken , he threw the deceased down , ; and beat him in such amauner as to cause his death . ( Upon coming to his senses , and finding what aj dreadful act he had committed , Pattison went to I police-officer Johnson , residing at Tring , informed ! him of the horrible particulars , and gave himself } into his custody . —( Abridged from the Aylcsbury j'A « M . . - . » - Stabbisg . —Considerable excitement prevails in Iincolh relative to a reputed case of stabbing with a knife , alleged to have occurred during a brawl on Monday afternoon , on the green in St . Botolph's . Miehael Buckley and George Gill , two upholsterers , met at a beer-shop , quarrelled , and fought . After a few rounds , Buckley is said to have' struck his antagonist with a small table-knife , and to have
inflicted a deep inciaon near the temple : he then started off and walked up the High-street , giving vent to very disgnsting language asne passed along . When in the neighbourhood of the Stone-bow , Mr . Bruce , a city magistrate , on being acquainted with what had transpired , ( . no policeman being at hand , ) seized him and had him conveyed to the Stationhonse . The magistrates met to investigate the case on Tuesday night , when Gill ( who is not so seriously injured as was at first supposed ) declined prosecuting ; and it then appeared to be a matter of deubt whether the wound had not been caused by Gill ' s falling on a sharp stone , and not by-a knife . — Lincoln Mercury .
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AcciDEW on the Mebset . —Livbrpool ,: Thuks ? bay . —An accident tjecurred this morning on the river , by which , itiafeared , one unfortunate individual has lost his ; life . Fourteeaother persons had a very narrow escape . The contract mail-packet ^ Queen Victoria , commanded by Captain Beazley , came to her moorings off Monk ' s Ferry , on Sunday last , to lie there until Suaday next , whilst undergoing the usual inspection and necessary fenovation . About nine o ' clock this morning one of her boats was sent to the Cheshire shore with three seamen to bring on board the workmen employed in cleansing the boilers , and in other operations . The boat and her hands returned in about half an hour with ten or twelve persons , including firemen and an engineer from the Company's vard . In iroinirnlmn «!; 3 fi +. > in
Queen 1 telona and in consequence * ' of the strong flood-tide running at the time , which was one of the Strongest we have witnessed in the river , the bow o { £ ? ' - **?* , strnck the outer rim of the larboard paddle-wheel , and was inBtantly siihk . The bands of a cutter belonging to her Majesty , which was lying m the Sloyne . saw the accident , and were very active m their endeavours to pick up the people . One man , James Power , a cpal-trimmer , we regret to say , is missing , and is supposed to have been drowned . A fireman named John Hughes , and another , whose name we have not yet learnt , are lying at Birkenhead , having , we believe , been rescued Irom impending destruction by one of the boats from tnat terry . They are exceedingly ill , but their recovery is confidently expected .
The Alleged Death - or : a Medical ¦ Practitio > eb from Want . —On Friday night an inquest wasMd at the Red Lion , Bath-street " * Commercial-Toad , East , oh the body of Mr . Cooney , a medical practitioner , whose death was alleged to have been occasioned through exhaustion from want of the necessarW of life . Mr . Tripe , a surgeon , deposed tnat ne had known the deceased for many years : as a medical practitioner , and some short time ago he was sent for to see him . He then found him in a very ^ exhausted state , and his exhaustion , he believed , had been brought on by his not having taken sufficient nourishment to sustain him ; in fact , his not taking the common necessaries of life , and in a gTeat measure starving himself . He subsequently brought a physician , Dr . Fox , to see the deceased , arid the opinion of that gentleman agreed in every respect
with that of his own , and that was , that the deceased died from want of the common necessaries of life . Coroner—You don ' t mean to say that he iutentionally starved himself I Mr . Tripe--No , I don't mean to say that , but I mean to say that his circumstances did not permit or enable him to procure the proper necessaries of life . : Coroner—I understand that upwards of £ 9 . in money was found in the house after his death and Svith this sum at his disposal , together with the property in his house , it was impossible to suppose that a man could deprive himself of cqnuabn necessaries . Mr . Tripe said that the monw had been obtained in the manner which ho haa ^ escribed to Mr . Norton on the precediDg day by the deceased to pay his rent * for which there was an execution in his honse . After some further remarks from Mr . Tripe , the Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death . "
Fatal Effects of Drunkenness . —On Friday , an inquest was held at the Shakspeare ' s Head publichouse , Shakspeare ' s Walk ^ Shadwell , before Mr . Baker , on the body of Sarah Shooter , aged 28 years , cT ° i suddenly at her residence in Billet-court , bhadwell , on Tuesday last , in a state of intoxication . Ihe jury proceeded to ^ view thobody , which preisented a ^ shocking spectacle . It appeared from the evidence that the deceased woman was the wife of a labourer occasionally employed in the docks , and tad been much addicted to drinking , and when under the influence of liquor was in the habit of giving way to most violent passions . On Tuesdav she »? otverv much
intoxicated , and while in that state she let some trifling circumstance irritate her until she became abfolutely mad with passion , and at length fell down from exhaustion and expired . No medical man was called upon before she died . Mr , Hammersley , surgeon , of Wapping-wall , said ho had made a post mortem examination of the body , aud found an effusion of blood upon the brain , which caused death . It was occasioned by the rupture of a blood-vessel ; violent jpassion or exciteihent , combined with habits of intoxication might lead to this . The Jury without deliberation returned a verdict of "Natural Death . " The deceased has left four children / the youngest of whom is only six months old .
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ATEEMPT TO STEER A BALLOON AGAINST THE WIND . * R j ?? ^ " ^•"~^ some time past-a workman named Eulriothaa been making experiments to steer balloons , and he has long announced that his first essay would take place yesterday at the Champ do M ^ rs . Many Parisian sceptics contended that his ascent would be confined to a monetary vol , and not an aeial one , but the promise to return the riiouey in the event of the experiment not succeeding at length excited the attention and curiosity of the public to a very great height . On approaching the Chainp de Mars there were thousands of spectators at the
exterior , but their , ardour was damped at the entrance gate by the demand of twenty francs admission into the interior of the circle where the balloon was filling , arid five francs for the second places The consequence was that the civil and military force considerably preponderated , for there was a battalion of light infantry , one of the line , asquadron of municipal caTalry , two commissariefl of police , besides a host of police agents , and sergens de ville , &c . One extraordinary preparation must not be omitted in this account . It was a litter covered with a mattress , in case M . Eulriot should tumble out on the Champ de Mars .
Three o ' clock was the hoar announced for the ascent , at which period 1 arxived on the ground and found a huge , unwieldy machine , in the shape of what the Frenchmen called an immense ovoide lying on its sides ; but I thought the description of Prince Licknowski , who was on the ground , the most graphic : he termed it . " a coldssal German sausagej with a net thrown over it . " The car was , of course j the greatest novelty , as it was the means by which the huge machine was to be navigated . It consisted of a kind of chair or cabriolet seat , butSvithout the wheelB , in lieu of which were appended ,
on each aide , saus like those of windmills . Before and behind the car , vr chair , were two machines like-ships' poops . The secret of M . Eulriot was that these flaps , paddles , or windmill sails , would act against the currents . What struck me instantly as highly dangerous , was the descent , as the car , on touching the earth , must be broken to pieces , and its occupant thrown rudely out . I communicated my fears to the Teteran Gamerin , who Was , with his a ? ronautic daughter , rendering every aBsistance to the new aspirant for clouded honours . --M . Garuerin . shrugged his shoulders , and did not seem at all to admiie the contrivance ; but M . Eulriot was confident , and all was got ready to " ¦ ¦¦
-Start . " ' - . :, - . . ¦• . ' ; - .. .. ; The netting was attached to the hoop in the usual manner , and at half-past four the ascending povver was tested . The balloon was paraded over the heads of the spectators , M . Eulriot , without coat or hat , working hastily at his windlais . It rose , however , but a few feet , and would have touched some palings had it ijot been pushed off , and M . Garnerin called out to him to throw out ballast , which he < lid . The balloon then rose rapidly , and , as had been foreseen , in despite of the sails , took the exact direction of the pilot balloon , which had been let off previously by ^ ldle . Garn erin . Yet everything was in favour of the experiment ; there was no suna < jd
, scarcely a breath of Tvind ; but it was evident the balloou dragged away the car , and not the car the balloon , as was expected by M . Eulriot . The strength of the mechanism was not sutficie-1 to cope with the huge body propelled by the ascending power of the gas . Withiu five miuiites , owing to a thick mist which prevailed , the balloou was out of sight , learing ^ ho multitudo below to descant learnedly upon ^ the causes of the failure , and to discuss whether ' the admisaion money ought not to be reclaimed . A more generous feeling , however , obtained a sway , and that was apprehension for the safety of the infatuated aeronaut who hadthus risked his life . A friend of M . Eulriot
promised to send me an account of his voyage and descent , but I have not received it at the hour I write . The Commerce and Galignani , ; however ^ state that he descended without an accident at Courbevoie , a village beyond Neuilly , on the road to St . Germains .: M . Garnerin had given him every instruction to let oiit the gas by degrees , - so as to descend gently ; but if there had been any wind , and the car had come with violence to the ground , nothing could have saved M . Eulriot . Momma Post .
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DESTRUCTIVE TORRENTS IN THE ALPS . ( From a Correspondent of the Morning Post . ) ¦ ¦ - Bavexo , Oct . 10 ;—The cries and prayers of the unfortunate have at Jength been heard . The deluge which has been poured upon the Alps and their neighbourhood , with sucli fatal results , has at length ceased . Four days aud nights-did it . descend -without a moment ' s intermission , and with a fury almost unprecedented , syrelling the t 0 rrent 8 to bursting , inundating the low countries , and bringing destruction , dismay , aud death to the dwellings and to the very hearths of the unhappy inhabitants . On the evening of the 7 th , the wind had blown from the south , veered round to the north-east , aud with the clearing hea-vens
the rain ceased to fall . At that period the violence of the torrents "was at its height , but such was the rapidity with which the accumulated waters descended from the mountains , that in a few hours they had considerably diminished , and by twelve o ' clock next day they so far discharged themselves into the valleys as to give us , who were imprisoned in the dreadful Vale of Vedro , some hopes of making our escape . Ou the 8 th , about eleven o ' clock , we left the refuge , between Goudo and Isella , guided by four stout mountaineers . God ! what wreck—what desolation—what chaos lay before us ! An earthquake could not have left more appalling iraces of its wrath . It would seem as if all the demons » f destruction had beeu let loose to
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r | vel ; and do their worst on this-devoted region Rocka of _ a size that tyould make them appear as ramoyjable ^ as the : earth ; itself , hurled from ihe highest cliffs , and peakspand scattered about lik » pebbles . ir e the - tavirie , in the villages ,: and across- the ^ oad > r Torrents poured iW ) m flewVand hithertojinsuspected beds , rushing oyer gardeiis and uprooted plantation ^ and exulti ng ov ^ r thfr foundations of demolished habitation ? . All symptoms of cut tiyation and of human industry vani 8 hed , atid nothing but ruin , . total arid unrelievedi appeared bii every side . . Qt the splendid military road of Napoleon from Goudo to Crevolaiy nothing " remains ; but a fe # wrecks , just ^ ehough to show whe * riB ran the great route of the / Simplori . Tjhe iyyo vow and beautiful bridges leading into Vaizo have teeri so
completely swept away that of one riot ; a vestige 19 lott , ana of the other only a few Stones . Here bouses have been rolled with the rushing torrents down the savage gulf of the Diye , and the late wretched inhabitants sent -wandering over the vnld ^ Tocks for shelter , glad at having escapod a shocking death ; To attempt to describe our journey out of this horrible ravine would be absurd .. Led onby our intrepid guideSj we had to plunge into foaming ^ torrents , black with maddened age—to climb precipitous heights strewn with loosened stories ,: tottering over our heads and ready tp fall at the least agitation--to scramble over crumbling earth and : insidious sands in positions where one slip wouldrlead to instant anriiliilation ^ -to cross ragmg floods astride upon poleS i laid across the
yavviuug gulphs from rock to rock . The dangers and the sights of that day will never be erased from my mind , for not in the . wildest stretch of my imagination , had 1 ever conceived any thing as really existing half so . horrible : Near Isella I was strrick with one thing eminently remarkab ' e even in this scene , where all was eminent . A pioce of the road , of about 30 paces in length , * which had been cut through the Hying rock , and which consequently would have been supposed to be the most Secure and irremovable of the whole work , carried , with the flinty foundation on which it was laid , into the all-recoiying vortex , stood there . high aud uuharmed , as if in mockery of riian ' s art , ihevnormous base on which it was laid having been undermined bv the hill of
waters lashing beneath it . Having made our way in the , manner . I have mcntLpned to Creypla , arid passed the noble bridge in that place , which bravely outliyed the deluge , we felt some relief from the apprehension of a horrible death ; but the scene before us was , if possible , more heart-rending than that we had just escaped from . " The beautiful vales of Piedmont , their orchards , their vines j their plantations , and their fields turned into ono vast desert of sand and slime—rthe yet ruling waters being the only disputant to its undivided empire , Such . convulsions . " and visitations amidst mountains ; and ravines ; sprung as these are from the contentions of the clement , are in some sort natural ; but in the midst of fertilo plains and populous vales they fill the mind with tenfold astonishmerit—thev
strike tne heart with tenfold anguish . All thb road toDomo-Dossolo was brokon into a hundred fragments , arid utterly impracticable ; except bri foot , and thus I may say fhat from Simploh yillage to pomo , a distance of about twenty miles , the passage of ths Alps , with the exception of a few fragments , is entirely destroyed . What damage may have been douo from Simpjon to Brieg , Icaniipt of my own knowledge speak , but' report says it is equall ^ oxtcnsivo ; every town and every inn on the line is filled with pergons and vehicles atrested by this misiiortune , and ; littlo or no chance have they of either goingori or returning . A few weeks may , perhaps , render the route passable by pedestrians , but I haive it from one or the inspectoTs that carriages will not be enabled to pass , earlier than xt
nespring . Had but a little care and money been yearly expended upoa this superb work , the present afflictvou- . would havo been in a > me measure alleviated ; but the roadhas been lefrfall Uio disrepair mended merely temporarily , as occasion required , and . that in the . worst and most slovenly . manner It is said the King of Sardinia more favouts the passage of Mount Cenis , as loading through a greater extent of his territory , arid that he is , therefore , ; indifferent or ' averse ; to the bimplori route . It is also said that the Emperor of Austria has no objectiou to the shrittirii' np of the fereat : higUway for ; tho French into his Italian dominions , liufc whatever be the real cause of the nogiect it i ^ lamentable to see this unequalled monumeut 6 f genius arid art falling into decay , and sinking under the combined attacks of
those elements , it was intended , - aud for iso long a time has successfully striven , to subdue . We reached Domo . on the ovenirig of the Bth ^ and left it next morning , still hiving the misery to pass through nothing but uuraitgated "ravage ; The Hplondid bridge which crossed ^ he Toicei at Masone was so Wholly swept away as not even to leaVe a . traco of whore H fitoodj and the road to Vogogna was intersectod at very few paces With the impet \ ious mbuntain streams , which nothing could resist . -The pretty and populoua town or Ornavasco , betweeu Vogogna and Hcriola , presented ono of' tbo saddest spectacles it is possible to conceive . Torrents fiorce and of a volume scarce imaginable , were rusliiug ^ even on that , the second day after the subsiding of tlie : flolnrfl .
through the doors and windows of the fllfated -houses , tho streets boiag choked up ten Or twelve feet \ yith the stone and sand which had beon previously carried dowii and there deposited . A volcanic eruption could not have left Jbehjrid it a greater accuniulation of earth and stones than was throwu upon this half-buried town by the irruption of the mountain waters . Like another Heciuean , it stood overwhelmed with ruins , deserted , arid half hid Muder the earth , while a few solitary individuals stood . looking over the devastation of their homes , and the blasting of their hopes , with leaden aspects arid fixed eyes—pictures of despair . The elements would appear to have reached the climax in their War of humanity , for as this was the most afflicting sight we met with , so it was the last . From
Orriayaaco to Hpviola , although some remains of the inundation yet rested oil the land , yet the greater portion had drained off , and the road remained almost entirely perfect . At iioriola what a change ! . rrom unbounded ra # eto the most divine peace ^ -from hideous doformity to the most exqiisite proportions ! i'he lovely Lago Maggiore lay before us , reclinirig . like a bultaira , at voluptuous case , her beauteous bosom heaving and swelling at unequal intervals—the expiring throbs after a late violent passion—and hor breath fragraut with the delicious perfumes of tho ^ ltron and « live trees . There she fay , clothed in her robes of the brighteat green , spangled over with unaccountable gems , which snarkled Til ™ a . fir .
moment , and blazed in the rays of the cloudless suh , the tar Rhetian Alps standing round her couch like domestics , obedient to her wish arid auxiliary to her pomp . 'Never did anything appear to me so like a Uream—so like a coup de theatre , as this sudden transiuon from thosavago . to . the gentle . It was as it some kind , good-natured genii had , with a stroke ofher wand , transported you from thefell liiagiciari ' s devilry to the enchanted : abodes of enjoymerit and delight And hero I shall / take advantage of the sweet languor of the clime , and take a short siesta , that is at Bavenio , where I now roposei&pped in -fcJysium , and fanned by the odorous airs of the allbinihng lake . I may conclude with OtKello . iu exclaiming"' ¦ If after every tempest conies such calm , May the winds blow till they have wakened death , And may the labouring bark mount hills of seas Olyiiipus high !; and duck again as low As hell ' s from lieaVen . " ;
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GREAT MEETING } -AT CASTLETOWN , Mf ; THE COUNTY OF C 0 RK . P (; The following : is the report of the meeting which weprbmised last > veek , and which we pledged but--s « ives would be read wth satisfaction . . A hustings was erected iji an open Bpace hear to the town , and upon , ; Mr . O'Connor makintj ^^ his appearance thereon , he was r « 9 eived with waving of bats and loud and lprig-continued cheering . Mr : Kidney , paper-manufact urer , was unaniinotislv called to tno ; chair . ' : : -. .. ¦ ¦*/¦ . ; ^ - ^ ' ^* - O'Sullivan ,: Roman Catholic rector oUhe parish , and . many of Mr . O'Connor ' a political adherents , were upon the platform . . ¦¦ . *; ,. ? r . Tte Chairmah ; said that ley mre swa » that - T'V * y ° nnf > K wa « K oing about the country , addressing the people , teaching them their rights , * and how to acquire them . HeJieed not domore ^ as the y were anxious to hear jiim , than introduce their old friend , Mr . Feargiis O'Connor . : : Mr . O'Connor then came forward and was received with renewed cheers . He said , standing as he did betweeu the Chairman and theiramiable pastor , that he felt proud in having such a Kidney on one side arid so sound a heart upon the other ( Cheers and laughter . ) The Chairman had informed them of his purpose , and it was rumoured that the eyes of the country were ^ upon that meetirie . He rejoiced at it . Would to God that the eyeiof all Ireland and the ears . ofall Europe were upon him and opea . to him that day . : ( Cheers . ) ' He- was : aware that the politician for Ireland , at the present time fihoula resemble the iudicious auack . who snitA . 1 -liia
drugs tothepaiate rather , than to the : disease of his patient-- ( laughter ;) ---but ashe was not a quack , he would deal with the distemper , arid go to the root of the evil . ( Hear , hear . ) They had tried every thiug but the right : thing , they had tried every one but themselves . ( Loud cries of " Hearj hear ") Ihey wero pompously told that they had achieved the great measures of Emancipation and Reform but he would ask , while both moasures had caused depopulation and disaster , had either put an addiwk P * l ° ltt * ^ JP ot ?; : ( No - no . ) Ko ; not one . Who , then , were , the Jjainers ? He would tell thorn . A parcel of trafficking politicians , briefless barristers , ' . and pettifogging attorneys—( cheers " hfellOWS- to Wnnm t . Ktttf hn . rf cn ' van * iitt «* . lm » , l « n — . j
pence tor the purpose of duping them , aud assisting in their subjugation . v ; ( Cheers , ) If a man had I pimple or a boil upon his arm or his log , it was not by scratching it or pricking it , thatjie cured it . No ; it wa 3 b y internal cleauaing ^ -by purifying the system—( loud cheers)—but the humbugs who undertook their cure , fattened by irritation , and therefore they pricked the sore instead of clearising the body . ( Loud cheers , ) When he Was on his Way to the meeting , he was apprehensive of being late ; and upon passing a very black-looking gentleman oh his way to the other house , ( here Mr . O'Conrior pointed to tho Church ) , ho asked ; him if mass was over ? The answer Was , What do I know about mass i
You know one thing —( replied Mr . O'C . )—you- know ]^*« f t pay for it ! ( Loud cheers , and laughter : ) Welthe saw both houses from where he then stood , and he would make the most of his position by way of illustration . They saw the liitle house . ( Great laughter . ) In the littl « house , small as it was , they could let lodgings . ( Renewed laughter . ) Aye , but let them stop awhile .... ; They saw that big house ^ in which they prayed , ;¦ ¦ and let him ' 5 ? ¦ ¦ v »? i ? ' - " how ifc came to pass that those : in the little house made those in the big house support both houses ? It was simply because those in-. the little one had the votes , and those in the big one had none . ( Cheers , and "True , for you ! " ) Well but thatwas the fault of the big hbusetforwherievfir
those of the big house were as united as those of the little house , ar id it was equally their interest to be so , each house would have to take care of itself ; and so light was the religion of the tyrants , that he pledged himself , when thrown upon their own resources , they would let the house tumble , ; and the shepherd starve . ( Great cheers . ) He once stated in hiaplace in the House of Commons , that the situation of the parishyra 5 as folloyys . The rector never had been in the parish , and lived 200 miles off ; his naine was Hamilton . The curate lived in M 6 ragh : his name wasLaird . The clerk lived in Baridpn , fourteen miles pfF , arid for that they raised his salary "i ., }^ 1116 was Barker ; arid the sexton kept ai house of ill-fame at the church door ; his name was
Thompson . ( Loud and long continued cheers , and " It ' s all true !") Well ; a worthy , who thought the parish couldn't be empty while he was in it , wrote to Tory Shawto contrajiict his statement ; and Mr . Shaw ' s word was taken agairist his ( Mr . O'Connor's ) facts which ihey all knew to be true . ( " Aye ! to be sure . ") Did the Emancipation relieve them of a . ny : part of that , except the , bleBsings of ¦ resident infidels instead of : absentee . atheists ! , ( Laughter . ) Oh , it was no joke to be obltged to call men denominated ministers ; of the gospel infidels and atheists , butit was nevertheless , true ,. for they were in the habit in yonder spot of damning those who fed them , and of paralyzing the very hands by which rthey were supported and fed . ( Cheers . ) Aye 1 it was labour that
red triepi ; they couldn't eat churches , nor crass nor mud , but yet they could eat What labour produced . ( Loud cheers . ) But now , poor ignorant tools , what were 4 hey doing \ They never thought of consumption , they merely thought ofproduction - ^ d therefore the blessings of the Reform Bill Were just tnese , that it readered the franchise a curse lustead . of a blessing . ( Cheers . ) The vast amount of plunder in army and navy , and church , and place and "pension , made it profitable for the landlords to abandon agricultural profit for legal plunder ; ( hear ) and thus , when the franchise became profitable in t" 6 ^ tender mercy they began to think of coloriisirig Australian : wilds and deserts with the Catholic population of Ireland , and of suDolvinff their ni a ™
with £ rotestant tenapts , - who would give Protestant rates for the support of a Protestant church , and an ?* . mv . to collect Protestant tithes , and a police . ( Loud cheers . ) Well , it was WPrth their consideration ; for a commission , or a living , or a superannuated guager at twenty-five , was more than compensation for the patrons , or the landlord ' s share of tithe or taxes . ( Loud ; cheers . ) Oh , he saw , though long absent , that they understood his talk . ( Loud cheering , and cries of "We do ! "V Well ,, he would tell them more , that until they got those things called Votes , they would bo civil Irid religious slaves . ( Great cheering . ) If every ; man hada vote , no man would be Without protection , lhere wer » more there than all the voters of the
county of Cork . But what good was that ? None . Yes , it was some though ; for he taught the " nqn-eloctorg in that county their duty . ( Cheers , and ^ YQu didj ^ Let him put ; one plain que stion to them . Did they , pr did they not , think that every man ol sound mind , of * twenty-prie : years of age and not tainted with crime , ought to have a vote ( > ? - ' W ' "> V ' 1 * they think they ever would get justice till thai was effected I , (" No , no , " and cheers . ) Well , then , let them recollect what Lord Mulgrave ' s reply was to the men of Meath . rie told them that it was not in the power of any man ; to do so much for them , as it was in their own power to ^ do for themselves . ( Cheers . ) Let them thinK of that , aud pay no more associations for dpine mischief , and living upon the sweat of the miseroie
a , starving , people of Ireland . Lord Mulgrave was cejisured for having general , gaol deliveries . Why it was . a miserable thing to be obliged to substitute mdividual _ clemency for just . law- ( hear ; hear ) --but if every Lord Lieutenant Was to go about one month after each assizes ,- and open the gaols , the prisoners would have suffered just twenty-eight days too much punishment . ( Loud cheering . ) Oh ; it was true ; for ; as a barrister , he knew many , who ° » eyed the dictates of naturp , and its first laws of self-preservation , to be transported for theft , arisin ° ' from hunger , { Loud cheers , and "True for you . ' ) WeH . butwonld a Catholic judge have more pity dri he -jiv >) Jifo ; * h ey tad bad Catholic landlords andmiddleBieni : ( Cheers ^ Thev had bad Ta fholiV
m * gistrates- ( chcers ) -rtarid bad Catholic policemen ;; —( cheers)—and when once appointed they were' * part of the system . "( Gheerij . ) But a bad Catholic was the worst of all bad men ^; f or in conscience and p ^ y . he should have if , fellow-feeling for his Catholic tellow-sufferers . ( Cheery ) ' When he was in England all the mctions abused him , and none defended Juray ; and now that he Was there , somo of the minions ; of factioii woald seize the opportunity of assailing him in England . ( Hear , hear , hearv ) Bat let them fire away ; ii was a glorious thing that he . could stand before any meeting of EilgliBh ,: Scotch , or Jxm , ^^ and say , "Here lam ;¦" ¦ ¦ whaV in the whole of my life-time , have 1 done to merit your censure or . reproof ? ( Loud and long-cbntinuedcheeririg . )
He . was glad to see so many women present . ( Laughter . ) : It .-reminded him ; of English meetings , where females did not think themselves lessenea -or joining in the liberation of thecountry ; arid j after all , the women ^ w ere the best men . ( Cheers , and laughter . ) - Ayei faith , and they . would teach the men their . duty ; for if . Paddy refused to attend the meeting for tepeal and TRriiversal Suffiage , he would find a bone in tBe praty when he thought it w ^ s going to melt in his mouth . ( Great laughter ,, ind cheers ;)• -.- Why , how you cheer ! He tUouglltte -was turned traitor : to Ireland—( " No , no no !")^ -but traitors Called him traitor because he would not be guilty of treason against the people . ( Cheers . ) Although they . neyer read the paper they heard g , great dealr-they heard that the English doOdIb werotliAir
enemies . He would give one instance . Two - ¦ of their best : men , Lovett and Collins ,- by rebels called trajtors , were a portion ofadeputatidh who waited upon Mr . Attwood ; f ; pr the purpose of iDsurine his support ofonrgreat principlesin the House of Commons . One of those ptinciplea was equal Vepresentatipnjbv which ' Ireland , Mco ^ ding to population was ; to ; have , an equal : number of members with ^ rvn ^^ ^ eeri ^ S ' ) ^ % you like that said ! " ?• V , ' . F ell , : Mre' Attwdod' and said that for a thousand y ^ ars En glandhadljeld the asceridancyover ^ elanxt , > and ho never-would : consent ^ 6 an equality of representative power . ; ( Groans , and " Oh * , oh . " o Ayey , bntwaittill they , heard what the traitors ; Saidi before he ( Mf ; O'Connor ) could rise to replv tovett and Collins XOollirist a / Birmingham man , aM ^ ot h : - traitors ); tackled at ; him like lions , and de-• iared that their caa «« . was the cause of Ireland
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equally with England ^ -that they had embarked in S ^ K ^'> ^ uldsink ^ swim wSoheS Irish brethren , and rejected hisoffer of one-sided support .. ( Cheeringandwaving ^ of hats , whichSa for several minutes . ) . Oh ! but they are in pS sukT are . the ^ bre traitors .:: ( Loud crie ^ of « S n o- ) . ^ ow , those ; were some pf the choicest spiritjs of the agef- ( hear , hear ) -meri who denied the blessing pf their own ; freedom , if Ireland was denied f « K » . - ; < Lo « d cheers . ) Would not these facts teach those Itm whom the light 6 t newspaper knowledge was withheld , that ttwas-the interest of every tAding politician to persuade ^^ the people :-of - Ireland that their Jlnghsh brethren were their enemies ( Lh « ers . ) : Who more sympathised with the unrepresented of Ireland than the same class in England *
. SS ^ S' - ' i- - ift tbem hear , and believe from him the iactj . tfiat it he said ; one word against his native Kir ^ f ^' the People wfuld kick him off % hustings , for heis abad bird who fouls hi 3 own XfoH l 01 !? ' - ' . ^ Wett ' th ^ n ' what had the present nSl ^ a ^ f f 0 T th ? They knew the story of d spensing doctor for axure . He gave heri wana p ^ SP ? p # ^ sS 17 I A h ^' ^ ^ P ^ so yer hononr but it did me gopd ^ nd Tim good too ^^ was the reply . « f How , iim ? " . said the doctor . ^ Why vver honourS
. . » « W ^ Pression , it mad ^ fl ^ satof ^ lri ^ breeche ^ r' ^ Lond arid loug-contiuued ^ gSo JSfow , the Reform ^ warm plaster had cured the imp-ressron unon the Whigs ^ but thSrilaseat fia i 'mateJfor Padfcbreeches . : ( CheerJS laughter . ) The poor : fellows : did not know their own value ; but he would explain it . ( Hear , : bear . ) lhere was not alabouririgman there , in thebest employment , who could earn more than eight pounds a-year ^ - ( heaT ) - ^ and he considered himself tT ^ ^ ' S' ^ as called idle ; arid so must he ( Feargus O'Connor ) be idle , if another got all the benefit- of his labour ; ( Rear ? S j But what was the real value , if properly appUed buppose ; every working man had an : interest in his
labour ; then suppose he Paid more than the talue tor five acres of ground . ( Loud cheers ;) How well they knew what he Was about . Suppose one pound per acre , that was about £ 8 for wages , and £ 5 for ^ ' Ja £ ™ S ? m i th > y w ould produce more than £ 80 worth in the year—( loud land long continued cheering ;) --and if no tyrant landlbra could dispossesslum he would work fourteen hours a-day and long for morning to be at it agairi .: ( Cheers !) Ihusthey ry ^ ere robbed of £ 65 a year and then they were obliged to have substitutes , such as government education aud Poor Laws , doled put with , a stepmother ' s hand , to polish up a bad ca \ i 8 B and support a ^ bad . system . ^ Loud cheers . ) : Lo 6 k , said ie ^ at that pjd man and that old womari ; they should have a . comfortable asylum , for which thev should thank
no man—( hear , hear )—and those young children should be educated by their comfortable parents , and then ignorance Would be a crime iri the landi ( Loud cheers . ) They seernqd to like his plan . ( Cheers , and ;* Aye , feithi" ); Well , then , he cViuld teUthem that his plan rieyer wouid be carried till every man . entitled to the vote , had the vote ; and then the comfort would follow . ^ Cheers , and '' That ' sit !? ' ) Ihen every peasant ' s cottage would be every peasants s sentry-box ,. and every poasant ' s homestead would be his drill arid exercise ground ; and then the martial band would fly to the cry of * My stake is in danger !! ' : with : more fervour and courage than even the new police would rush to . the collection of tithes . ( Great cheering . ) Then if 200 or
, 000 : Russians ^ Turks ; Germans , landedhr Corki they Would not make one meal for those Who left tennre , wife , and child in the barrack-yard in "Home , sweet home ! " CGheers . ) Talk of what had been done for Ireland indeed ! Bah ! it was alia humbug- ^ Oanghter)—arid the . huriibugis knew it . Let themt just look at his and their well-tried , honest ,-virtuous aud amiable \ friend aud pastor , then sitting by hia side— ( loud sheers , and cries of God bless him !") -and : let them ^ hinkthathe laboured from day-light till dark for the skim-milk , while a nonrresiaent cormorant took the cream of the parish . ( Cheers . ) If . they had votes would Lord Ban don have dared to oust his tenahtryjfoirnoWima but professing their country ' s and their father's
rejigion i ana suDstitutJng ipr" - as honest men as ever breathed , * parcel of emigrant Protestants , without further stake , character , or capital , than the name of ChurehmanX : ( Loud cheers . ) No ! and yet hia Lordship would impiously kneel at the altar , of his Godi ; and say '' Amen ! " when the parson . prayed tha ¥ . the fruits Qf the earth iahpuld be : preserved to his kindly use , so as in due time he may * erijoy them ! ( Laughter and cheers . ^ : ; Aye , ; faith ( said Jlr . O Connor ) , they , are the fellows to enjoy everything and anythirig ; and yet the land rings with the prais of these infidels arid atheists ( loud cheers ) , while
they and their friends were doomed to hear nothing but railing from those whom they support and keep alive . They j iad got a new policeVaudevery village * waa like a garrison town , and Ireland was once more to resound with the cr of " Repeal of the Union !" ( Loud cheers . ) . Hold , they should riot cheer , for the new plan of . ajijitating for the Repeal was : to stick a handkerchief ia every man's throat who mentioned it-T ( laughter )—arid they were to take their silent thoughts to their silent pillow , arid lie upon them ; ( Laughter . ) They were no more to mention Repeal -rit Was to come upon them as if by mairic , and like a thief ia the dark . But ^ -
, O no we never mention it , It ' s nanie it isi too hard . " ( Loud laughter and cheers . ) Ah , that was not the way that the Irish of bid gained : their rights—by thinking of them . ( Cheers . ) If they wanted to dig , they took the " tree" of thespade in their hand , and put their foot upon the " bookkawri' ^ Oatfghter'J-rand then they dug ; but if they : were only thinking : of digging , the devil a : praty ; ever theyd have . ( Loud laughter , and cheering . ) He had a \ vord to say to them about re ^ stering ; it was this ; that Cork was differently situated from any other county iri the kirigdoni . They could return whom they pleased , and : the furtheir- the man went , the surer he was of his election . ( Cheers . )
They . could return a uniyersaVsrifFrage man , arid thatwas the reason he thdright the sufFrage waa valuable to them . He had never stood upon any other principle . | he never Would abridge it by & month in- the age eveti of theelectd * . ( Cheers . ) They did not see their position ; he : did .- They bad a ; positive arid a native battle to fightV ; The positive strength of the enemy consisted in the value which th % mostly attached torepresentation , and thus ekcitement was therein completed ; and the necessary Organisation was eternal , never failing ; while their negative strength consisted in the depopulating and intirriidation syste * m which was gomg on . ( Loud cheers . ) But , after all , their own cowardice and want of union was their greatest enemV . ( Hear .
hear . ) He cared not what the intentions of th « aristocracy might be supposed to : be ; he told them thatiiwag : the iature of man to hold power for himself so long as : he could—( hearj hear)—and their duty to themselves and their country ^ was to look ^ r power , which had effected so much evil , arid now to try and dp some gobd . ( CheersO . He never blinked any question . One pack of traders said he , worked for the Whigs—7 another that he worked ifor th « Tories ; but they ; the people , Who knew ^ him , knew that it would not be for the hearth blood of either Whig or Tory to ask him to turn orie inch to th « right hand Or to the left . ¦ ( Loiid cheers and " No ! " ) No ; he might have lived iand been : over rich upon their misery ; but * as all ought to be above board , h «
was there betore his country , his God , themselves , and their incorruptible minister , and , with his eye upon his , and his hand upon his heart , he , swore that ; he had never , that he niever would enter into coriiproriiise , ^ bargain , compact , or understariding with any party but the whole people . ( Waging 0 ? hats , and vociferous cheering . ) He never had , he never would , take a farthing of the poor : man '« riloney for any poor service which he could render . ( Renewed cheers . ) He had formed an alliance betjveen ; England and : Scbtlarid ; and jWith : God ' 8 blessing , he would add Ireland to this league . ( Cheers , ) Some rascals said he was : aiding the Tories ( Laughter . ) WJiy , good God ! where was the family'that had suffered so ^ much 'from that hellish faction ? ( Hear , hear . ) And : independent of sound principle he . had an everlaiBting ^ ani pnconquerable —an implacable hatred to the bloody murderers ( Loud cheers . ) Had they riot ^ huritea / his" 'familv *
anddugup their domains in search '' dl " pikes : arid persecuted ; . and ' \ robbedj and ruirie ^ . tlwmioA . y'ei , andii € i had lived to be . a thorn / in their ^ sides , ( GKeew , and * ' Long may you live . " ) He was then ^ " frul ? proud and an honoured jnaril he « ould stand before a meeting of English , Scotch , Irish , or Welsh , and Uare his traducers to the combat . ( Hear , hear ) Many lslhe man with muddy brogues and dripping coats , who sat upon his spfas . and tro ^ L upon his carpets , and did he ever say "Walk ^ - or rise •! " : ( " No . no , ' aud cheors . ) He would then conclude by proposing some resolution for their / adoption or rejectioii ; arid he explained- flie nature of one arid all , which was put aridcarried with . applause .: Mr . O Connor then paid a high compliment to ' . the ; chairnian , and gave a short sketch of the battles * he had foughtwitnthe : Rev : Mr ! O'Sulliyan , and a lively sketch of that high-minded gentleman ' s character froru the time he had came to the parish , Which waa leudly applaudedby . themeeting . ¦ .
He then proposed a vote of thanks , ; and three hearty cheers for the Chairmafaj which : was cheers fully responded Ito ; -- * after which a volley of cheers was given ^ for ^^ MrV O'Su lliVari , : who , in return , proposed threecheerifor their friend arid honestadvocate , Feargus O"Cpnn 0 r . . ' . -: ' ; ' ; . " - \ " ¦¦ v- '' ¦ ' ¦ ' X . . ~' : ' - The meeting then dispersed , evidehtiyriri hi g ^ spirits at the revival of olden ^ timesi Mr ; - O'Connor having first asked them if - their confidence m and affection for him . had remainedvnhdiininiahedj which was answered by "Aye , " and Ipudaidnear » cheers ,.-. * : . ' . ;;\ . ; . " . '; -0 . ; : :: ;' - \ : ^'; : yr :-: / : " - . ; . :: ¦ - /¦; s-:. ; : ii v Wega ^ e-Ifieresolritioriffliastweefc - /; r •;
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EARTHQUAKE IN SCOTLAND , On ^ Wednesday evening , about fifteen minuteapast ten o clock , a shock of an earthquake Was "' . felt al over this city , in Leith , Portpbella , and Newhaven It continued : for about fifteen or twenty secoiida and occasioned a tremendous motion in the '' 'floors of the houses where it was obsoryed , as if rocking up and down , accompaDiedwith a rattling of the win * - dowsand ; au undulatiug iriovement of the chairs totally unake any other noise , or any shaking occasioned by the passage on tho street of heavy carriages . * It was decidedly felt in many housea , and at exactly the same time , in var ious streets both in the Old aud Now Town , and Occasioned ho little alarm . —Edinburgh Courdnt . :
Siirli . ng .--About a quartet of an hour after ten o clock on Wednesday night , the : shopk of an earthquake was felt at Causewayhead , distant rather more than a mile from Stirling . It is said to have been accompanied b y the same . . rumbling noise that had been ^ described as attending the recent shocks at Lriett and Lomrie , and also to have been so severe as to shakethe liouses , andy | n Bom ^ instances , to make articles o £ earthen and crystal ware rattle and strike against each other . The shock was' felt ; at the same tirne , in the lower parts of Stirlinarparticularly in Cowan-street , the Terrace , and \ V olhngtpn-place ; but it does not appear to have been nearly so violent as at Causewayhead , and many places adjacent to it . ) : ¦¦ '¦ - * : " ' -, *
_ Alloa . —Two very smart shocks were felt here on Wednesday night , tlie one about a quarter past ten aiidtheptherabouttwenty-fiyemiuutesbet () reeleycn . Ihe first , andby fai- the moet seyore of the two , nidicated its approach in a loud noise something Ijki distant thunder , but much more awful arid alarming Many people felt : their beds consiactabiy aeitatea , and furniture of all kinds , especially crooke ^ ry and clock , work ( the weights ) shook yiplently . Hpiise bells in some plaeeswero : set a ringing , and : some people were so terrified as to rupto the streets . The second shock was much slighter , but those whofelt any of . them , describe thiemselveb as beirig in the most disagreable state imagiriablo . : ¦
'" . .. - " [ Accouhts from . ICineardine arid Fifeshire state that the shocks were distinctly felt m these quarters at the same time , and caused great ilatm . In Pertshire they have beenfrequeritfpr fully . ten days , but it- does riot appear that any : i shock was ftslt on Wednesday , when the earthquake was so general furthe * South . ¦¦¦ ¦ -. . .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 2, 1839, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1081/page/3/
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