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« . An aJwillwar , at leastin words , i And-s houLdmy chance so happen—deeds , ) « . i think I hear a little hird , who angB The people brand b y wUl be the 6 tronger . "—Bibon ITALY—THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES . TJie following extracts from Madame "Wolfex 3-rnGEB ' " " Letters fr ° Naples , " written daring her Sence there in 1843-4 , and now publishing in rTit ' i ihqasine , mil afford our readers a glimpse of * w a boniniable state of things prevailing in the NeaooW portion of ltal ¥ - Madame Wolfensrr-EB's sketches serve to complete the picture of trrannj , slavery , fraud , and misery , which Air . Mizzisi has so eloquently described as cursing the vhole surface of the Italian soiL May a change snoa cowe .
II 1 E LAWS AXD IIIEIK ADMINISTRATION ' . ¦ Many of the laws of the French code were retained in v pies after the restoration of the present rojal family " K jx throne ; but it is commonly acknowledged that V eV are very carelessly executed . The officers employed jq their administration think much more of the advanta ^ s to be derived from their post , than of fulfilling the dnccs attached to it . Gain is the first object -with all such persons , as well as with all directors of public institations : ease and pleasure the second , If complaints are made of neglect or injustice , an agitation takes l > lace for a few days , a show of doing something is niade , and then tilings fell hack into the Old train , and go on ssbadlyasbtfere .
The p ublic functionaries are said to exceed the offices ; and though it cannot be doubted that , in a corrupted country , numerous officers of law are absolutely necessary , yet , when thejare themselvescorrupteu , they oalyincrease the espenses of the state to the injury of their country . The- whole system of government from the top to the bottom , is one of abuses , peculation , and intrigue . Every tiling 13 done by favour and bribery . . —
THE ASHY AKD ITS despotism . The general spirit of peculation likewise here prevails . It is true , of his small pay ( about 2 £ d . a-daj ) the soldier cannot be deprived ; yet it is commonly reported , that in several regiments a certain allowance for accoutrements , ic , has been for a time , and in some cases entirely , withheld by the commanding ' officers . Though means were found to escape the reprehension of the Government for such miserable spoliation , the men did not patiently subink . Three cases have recently occurred of officers being shot by their own soldiers ; and in one instance it was well known , that the assassin sought to punish the robbery of Ms regiment , for "which there was no other means of obtaining redress .
Tet tee soldiers , in their turn , are an oppressive bur-¦ den on the people . Since our arrival here , a party of -dragoons stopped for refreshment at a small inn on the road towards Beneventum . But instead of proving good ¦ customers to the poor landlord , whose whole fortune was invested in his little stock of provisions for man and beast , they not only refused to pay for their own good cheer , -and the provender consumed by their horses , but carried off with them all the corn and hay that remained . Vainly -did the wretched man they thus robbed , go lamenting from house to house . In his own neighbourhood there was no redress to be found . To make his complaint in form , he most travel to Naples ; and when he arrives there , there is little probability that any attention will be paid to the prayer of one who has neither friends at court , nor moiwv to purchase them . There is neither security nor justice for the poor ; and the magistrates , who ought to be their protectors , only add to their miseries by their petty and tormenting tyranny .
It is one of the favourite royal pastimes to perform a species ofmock campaign , duringwhich his Majesty shares in all the fatigues of his men , marches at their head through the dust and the heat , and bears a part in all their hardships and difficulties . His orders for their supply aod accommodation are most imperative . During one of these recent marches , a command was sent forward io the proper authorities of s small town , to provide the forage necessary for the horses of thecaT « lry . By some mistake , or perhaps from the impossibility of fulfilling
fins order before the time specified , nothing of the land -was ready -when the army arrived . His Majesty ' s anger , it is said , knew no bounds , and h « immediately commanded the principal municipal officer , who was the person responsible , to be shot -without trial , or farther in-Yestigatim . The agony of this poor man , who was married , and had several children , surpassed all description : and though his pardon was obtained by the generous intercession of the general to whom the task of superintending his execution -was committed , he died of an apoplexy in consequence of his terror .
It can scarcely be wondered at , that the people now universally shut up their houses , and take to flight , when they hear of the approach of any considerable body of soldiers . ; The Sv . iss troops , in the employment of the Government , amount to more than six thousand . Their pay more than doubles that of the troops of the line , which is a great cause of jealousy to the native soldiers ; and it is generally ramoured , thatso bad a feeling exists amongst the latter , that their fidelity could be little counted oh , in wn casa of real danger , more especially in a popular insurrection . In fact , we heard it asserted by many Italians , that the tranquiffiry of the people , in their pr £ « m miserable condition , is chiefly owing to the dread of foreign interference , and their terror of the Swiss regiments . SWTE SECBECT— GOVEBSJEENT SFISS .
The gpjat causes of the corruption of the Government , and the topeless misery of the governed , are , that there is no chamber of representatives , where complaints may openly bo made against acts of public and private tyranny , aad no liberty of the press , by which the errors of the Government , and the crimes of individuals , or even judicial proceedings , may bemade known to the public at large , and subjected to their judgment . Every thing is done in secret . The most flagrant enormities are committed under the reil of mystery , from which , should a vtora of truth escape , it is stifled as quickly as possible . Any author who dares proclaim the secret of public abuses , or peculations the most enormous , is at once thrown intj prison . Tne Jesuits at Sorento have built a high , wall around their garden , behind which no one knows whatis pasting ; and so it is with the Government . "Without the barrier of tyranny and secrecy that surrounds it , the people are allowed to have neither eyes , nor ears , nor voice .
One consequence of such a system is , that society , of every shade and class , is universally infested with spies . They haunt the coffee-houses , and the promenades ; they tempt youth in its ardour to pour out its indignant feelings , that they may profit by its punishment ; they form -infamous intrigues , that they may draw from the lips of the wife the secrets of her unsuspecting husband ; they hare tickets free at all times for the theatres , and other ¦ places of amusement ; and under the title of nobilitv , penetrate into reunions the most select . The connexion of this abominable class with the police , affords them immunity for numerous crimes ; but in no
way are they more dangerous , or less suspected by -strangers , than as the masters of lodging-houses , who , ¦ with their servants , are tot frequently employed as -spies . We had reason to know , that in one apartment , the landlord ofwhich styled himselfa Count , and was in the service of the police , every word uttered by his lodgers was regularly reported to him hy his domestic , who , iawnisg and specious , might well have been mistaken for One of the most honest and ample of human beings . Books , papers , and every object in the chambers , were examined during the absence of the occupants , and petty thefts frequently committed .
Kor is it only the petty officers of the police -who escape responsibility in virtue of their connexion with the goverumeLt . It is well known that peculation , and feud , and falsehood , pervade every branch of the state ; sud in all the great public charities , the results of this syitem of plunder are terrible . If ot many years ago , a priest , wbu was the superintendent of an oiphan asylum ia a country town , instead of supplying wet nurses to the infants at the expense of the funds of the charity actually substituted one goat to suckle four children , and approuriated the surplus money .
In the seraglio , an enormous building , in which are lodged mere than two thousand vagrants and destitute poor , young and old , starvation and despair produced , towards the end of the year 1 S 13 , an insurrection amongst ia wrelchtid inhabitants . The complaints of the sufferers reached the king ' s ears ; in consequence of whiih ( omething like an investigation was instituted . This , it is said , led to the discovery , that 120 , 000 piastres , or £ 24 , 009 , were deficient in ' the funds of the charity . THE STATE LOTTERIES—THEIB DEMOE 4 LI 6 ISG IFFECT 8 . But the pursuit , I scarcely know if it can be called a -pleasure , which engrosses the most of the thoughts and money of the lower and middle rants , is the Lotto , a kind of lottery , the tickets tor which are sold in all parts of the town , and throughout the kingdoms of the two
Sicilies , in shops , where they are disposed of for the Go-^ eminent . To entice adventurers to purchase , the last lucky numbers may be seen stuck up in front of these legalised gambling-houses , ornamented -with huge bows of coloured paper ; whilst others , for the next lottery ^ are exposed in tempting order for sale . The drawings take place « ry Saturday , in the huge ¦ old hall of the tribunals , in the ancient palace of the . early Seapclitanldogs , called the Yicari a , in the neighborhood of the gate of Capua . This gloomy and enormous building is surrounded by a massive wall , and . situated in the most ancient part of the city , amidst nar-¦ row streets , from which the lofty houses for ever exclude
the li ght of the sun . In some of these dismal avenues , -or riofcH , ai they are called , it is really frightful to glance into the ruinous and desolate courts of the heavy -stone buildings , or into the shops , which , like black , dark , and filthJ dons , jawn on either side , TCthout windows , their huge ancient wooden doori stand perpetually open to admit as much of light and air as can find their way into such places . But what an air ! Laden with impurities , it seems rife withfeverand pestilence ; andwhen Amidst these links of rice , and dirt , and misery , it is almost impossible to believe thatafewpaces beyond such 4 tik andl oathBomeaTenuesnature extends her treasurej in every rsriery of beauty to the sun .
On the first floor of tn « Yicaria is the prison of poor culprits and debtors ; snd many a young and savage . iaoMag fece may 1 » seen gazing with rations eyesapom the busy throligs that are continually crossing the open place beneath . In honour of the ceremonies of the day , htheary arched gateway b > which we entered the Inner
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court of the building was surrounded by a trumpery dr » pery of white and red calico , bespangled with bits of gold paper , above which were placed two miserable plaster basts of the King and Queen , with half a dozea paltry lamps burning before them . Such a decoration attached to those ancient stern gray walls was not only trumpery , bat ridiculous , and was mora suited for the entrance to a puppet-show than to the seat of justice , and one of the most ancient strongholds of the monarchy . In the court-yard were several carriages in waiting ; and , as we mounted a great stone staircase leading to the upper stories of the building , crowds of lazzaroni , and men and women of the middle and lower classes , pushed past us , all hurrying in the same direction . There , where kings had trodden in all their feudal pomp , the ragged and half-famished populace were scrambling without order or respect , in search of a paltry gain .
On entering the great gloomy old hall we saw a raised platform at the further end , on which sat four judges and two priests , in the full costumes of their . different professions , to give solemnity to the scene , and an assurance that all is carried on with the utmost impartiality ; whilst the minister of the police , in a black silk gown , elevated in a kind of pulpit , attached to the centre of the wall on one side , presided over the proceedings of the assembly . A guard of soldiers stood at the foot of the gallery , and the remainder of the hall was crowded to excess . There could not be less than two thousand persons present . Lazzaroni , with their ragged scanty covering ; wretched women , with infants in swaddling clothes , or rolled in dirty shawls , in their arms ; soldiers , workmen , and miserable , haggard , hollow-eyed looking wretches , fallen from a better class ; a few decently-dressed persons , and
ereu priests and monks , wers all crushed together into a dense mass . Except the members of the church , they were evidently all people who had to earn their livelihood ; and yet there , for several hours once a week , they may be seen , not only risking a portion of their hard-earned gains , but wasting their time in idleness and the vicious excitement of gambling . - Almost immediately after our entrauce a joung man advanced to the front of the platform , and , having shaken a kind of box containing the numbers of the lottery , five were successively drawn by a child of the orphan asylum . As each was brought forth before it was seen by the people , it was given to one of the judges , and from him passed through the hands of all the officiating personages , except those of the minister of police , whose seat is at a considerable distance . They were then registered , and finally a man proclaimed them , in a loud voice , to the anxious assembly .
The efiectwas electric on the eager throng . It seemed as if their lives , or the lives of all dear to them , depended on this announcement , such wa 6 the clamour with which each successive number was received . Yet eTen amidst this confusion , could be heard the cries of disappointment and despair , from the ruined , undoae , and famished wretches , who are well hnown in many instances to sell the bed and clothes of their wife or children , to purchase a ticket , and make a hist effort to recover their innumerable losses . On our return home , we witnessed with pain the frightful agitation of the lower orders , as the news was rapidly spread through the streets . The Different lottery offices we passed , were surroundsd by crowds of the poorest of
the poor ; and many miserable wretches , stunned bydisappointment , stood gazing on a list of the fortunate numbers , as if utterly unable to comprehend that their hopes of the past week were destroyed . Others were eagerly handing them from one to another ; and if we had been ignorant of what had taken place , we might havn imagined that some great and dreadful public calamity had occurred , on which the future welfare of the city and its inhabitants depended . Nor is the agitation and the ruin limited to Naples alone . Throughout the whole kingdom of the Two Sicilies there are government offices for the sale of tickets ; and the numbers drawn at the Yicaria are announced by couriers or telegraphic despatches , to the furthest corner of the country , within an hour after they are known . - '
The degrading influence of this horrible gambling extends its effects over every class , and is in truth more dreadful than a plague , or an earthquake , as it is ever recurring and never ending . The players may risk ftom two or three half-pence , to any amount they please , and the winnings when several numbers are taken , may by some extraordinnry combination be immense ; but although , as in all games of hazard , this rarely if ever occurs , whilst the losses are great and almost certain , the possibility of gain leads on the desperate blindly to destruction .
This is in truth one of the most virulent diseases that eats into the very existence of the people of Naples ; yet such is their attachment to this frightful , this incessant gambling , that it is believed that no grievance could so readily provoke a rebellion , as an abolition of the lotto . Their daily misery is rendered supportable by . the hope , that at the end of the week their fortune may ba established for ever by some extraordinary prize . Industry becomes paralyzed by a perpetual dependence on hazard ; and their « m » ii gains , instead of contributing to the comfort of their families , are again and again wasted in this fatal , this withering pursuit .
THE PBIEST 8—THE HONKS—POFCIAB IGNOEAKCE AND SDFEBSriTIOJf . Numerous were the anecdotes we were told of their laxity of morals , and of the petty sins by which hundreds in holy garments are hourly undermining the morals of society . Buithtre is one story of this character current in Naples , of the very blackest die . It regards the abduction of a girl from the Orphan Asylum , or Hospital of the Annonciata , by a priest employed in this establishment , who , after a severe investigation of the affair , alone escaped the proper punishment of his diabolical crime by the protection and favour of his friends in power . The details of this adventure are too horrible to be inserted here , but they are commonly known in Naples . They have even been made the subject of a romance ; and though the work was immediately suppressed , and the author thrown into prison , the indignant feelings excited hy such conduct are not to be thus easily obliterated from the public mind . Though it is well known that the
Neapolitans are ardently attached to the Boman Catholic religion , and all the bigotted observances and superj . ti . tions incorporated with the true faith in this southern and benighted region , and lax , or even liberal opinions on such subjects are exceedingly rare , yet the bad conduct of the clergy has taught the people to divide them from the the religion they profess , and produced , amongst the male population , a very general contempt for their persons , and au impatience of their enormous extortions and ever increasing power . By a new enactment , though a priest maj be tried by the civil tribunals , the sentence passed on him by these courts , whatever it may be , ennnot be carried into execution till confirmed by a council of bishops , which amounts almost to the exemption of the clergy from the just punishment of crime . Nor is the existing government desirous of any reform in the church . Where an authority , like that iu Naples , is grounded on human ignorance , superstition , weakness , and crime , it is not for its interest that the priesthood should be of a character either to enlighten or elevate
the moral character of its subjects . Neither is there any hope of the press producing any amelioration . On the return of King Ferdinand from Leybach , so heavy a tax was added to the censorship on books , that their importation from foreign countries was entirely prevented . The booksellers were nearly ruined , and , anxious to relieve themselves from such a burden , representedj to th » minister , the Marquis of Medici , the injury done to the finances by this interruption of trade , at the same time praying for an abolition of the duty . To this he coolly replied , that it was not his object to benefit the finances , but to ensure the ignorance of the people . We have never been able to obtain any exact account of the number of secular and monastic clergy in the kingdom of Naples ; but that the amount of the various members of this body constitutes a very large and ever increasing part of the population there can be no doubt . Several well informed persons have assured ma that it amounts at least to a tenth .
Whenweremembtr that the means of existence are drawn , in one form or other , by this enormous and idle proportion of the community , from the labouring classes , already burdened with taxes to the amount of sixty per cent ., -we can no longer wonder at the misery we have witnessed since our entrance into this oppressed kingdom . ' Though several orders of monks live entirely by begging , the property of the ecclesiastical body is immense . The Jesuits lose no opportunity of adding to their riches ; aud rich legacies from noble devotees are daily falling into their hands , frequently to the utter ruin of the families of the decased . It need scarcely be said , that nearly all the talent and learning of the clergy centre in this order ; and as education is almost universally in their hands , no rising genius escapes their attention ; every youth who , by his abilities , might subsequently prove a dangerous enemy to their encroachments , or a useful benefactor to his country , is immediately enlisted in then : ranks .
The monks of the other different orders and secular cleigy throughout the country are generally taken from so low a class , and their education is such , as scarcely to raise them a step above the half savage populace . It is the duty of their profession to instruct and guide . It is said thatrecently a discipline , more severe thanformerly , has been introduced into the church ; the young clergy have been subjected to more strict examinations on taking orders , and the tone of capacity and instruction has slightly risen amongst them during the last twenty years . But still this vast body of unmarried men , taken from a corrupt and passionate population , necessarily retain many of the vices and characteristics of the mass of
to which they originally belonged . The priest is one the people ; he participates in their feelings , their superstitions , and too often in their ) crimes ; but should , in some rare instance , his knowledge aud his talent rise superior to the ordinary level of his class , should he seek to disabuse his flock of their favourite errors , thtir suspicions of heresy are immediately awakened , and whispers are rapidly circulated that ha is a bad priest ; that he believes nothing that lie has dealings with the enemy of mankind , and seeks to draw others along with him into the abyss of destruction . In fact , the utmost caution is necessary in all dealings with a people ^ so utterlybenighted in the gloom of ignorance as the pea . santry of the' interior of the kingdom of Naples .
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^ MMMMMiaMBiHBHiMa ^^^^ B ^^^^^^^ - ^ ia ^^ MMai ¦ ¦¦ THE PROPOSED OPENING OF THE FORTS , [ We take the following ' sensible letter from the Times of Tuesday , November 4 th . : ]—_ Sib , —There has been a good deal of very cool talking lately , in which you have had your share , about opening the ports at once-for the admission of foreign corn and other produce , with the avowed intention of laying on the Corn Laws again as soon as the scarcity is over . If this advice is nothing more than a convenient cloak to disguise a secret design of surrendering the Corn Laws altogether , we can only admire the honesty of the advisers , and the profound contempt they must entertain for the understandings of their agricultural readers . The Com Laws once
suspended would stand as little chance of restoration as trial by wager or examination by the rack . The little finger of the Minister may throw them over , but I question if the whole aristocracy of Englam would be able to set them up . ' The idol once hurled from its pedestal is gone for ever . . . ¦ ' ¦ It is probable enough , however , ' that the idea is seriously entertained . If so , it is just worth your while considering what such a measure really amounts to . It comes to this : —Having , by the dispensation of Providence , had it in our power for many years , by our great capital and our great demand for food , to develope the resources of all nations , to encourage their agriculture , and communicate to them our . manufactures in return . —havir ie had it in our power
to found accumulations of food all over the world , and especially in Europe , we resolutely refuse to do so , and leave our fellow-creatures without the inducement , and indeed without the means , of laying by for the future . At length , however , finding ourselves and all Europe on the eve of a dreadful famine ,, we suddenly violate the law we had ourselves laid down , in order that vre may . pounce upon our neighbour ' s scanty store , which is scanty because , we have done our best to make it so . Through our fault , it is not enough for them and for us . Yet , without the smallest shame or compunction , we are to seize it for ourselves . We say seize , because the very idea _ of opening the ports implies a belief that by our superior wealth we shall have the advantage of the foreign
consumer in Ms own market . He is starving as much ,, or even more than we ; but we with our bags of gold are to come in and take away the corn of Ms own fields before his eyes . I really do hot know any standard of morality , Christian , or heathen , national or social , romantic or familiar , by which such a proceeding would not be utterly base , shabby , and detestable . The gentleman who should act thus to his neighbour would be scouted at once out of decent society into the purlieus ot Capel-court , not to say St . Giles ' s . To play fast and loose , to communicate or not , to regulate our dealings solely for one s own momentary convenience , to . make rules creating general discomfort , and break them just at the time they happened to
be more profitable to ethers than to ourselves , to reduce men to poverty and then skin them alive , deserves only one name , whatever name that may happen to be , which the language supplies for the meanest and most iniquitous conduct . It would , in fact , be a mere attempt at scramble . A violent man , who finds that through bis idleness , his stupidity ,, his perverseness , his unsociableness , er other folly , lie ia not coming off quite so well as he wishes in the lawful distribution , will sometimes suddenly throw things all of a heap , in order that the . right of the strongest may then supervene . Now , mere wealth is just as brutish a thing as mere sinew , and the persons who recommend us , in expectation of an European famine , to open our ports at
once pro hac vice , wish that wealth to be as brutishly used . We hare established a certain law , which has eventuated in . a certain distribution of food throughout the continent of Europe , to which the several continental nations have by our law a certain right and expectancy . ~ That is to say , at this present moment the ; nave a moral claim to corn at 17 s . aquarter , or some such difference , less than the Englishman . But for our law they would have provided for the contingency ; therefore , it is our law which has regulated their present supply . To break that law just now ia simply to break faith with the starving population of about half Europe . Be the law good or bad we ought to abide by it , at least throughout any particular disaster it mar occasion .
When we do resolve to give an English price for foreign food we ought to give at least a season ' s notice , in order that som 8 preparation may be made by the rude agriculturists of the continent for the exorbitant demands of the English consumer . I am reasoning as if the scheme would answer as you suppose . It would not answer , —at least , not generally . I cannot suppose that if , as is feared , the harvest is even worse in most parts of the continent than in England , the European Governments will be so unnatural , and so oblivious of our own past policy , as to let the British merchants quietly sweep the shores of the Baltic or the Euxine , while their own people are starving . If the immediate effect of opening the ' ports be not ' to raise the price at Dantsic and Odessa exactly that Ios . or 17 s . we have . removed .
undoubtedly the Governments will take care to lay on just as much as ' we take off . If . we levy a duty on importation when we can dp without corn , of course the corn-growing" countries will "levy a duty on exportation when they cannot do without it . If any money Is to be got by the traffic , the nation which has the other at its-merey will of . course take care to get it . We may thank our stars if we come off with only a " moderate fixed duty ; " but it is far more likely that if things turn out as ill as is apprehended the continental Governments will entirely prohibit exportation . We have at home a slight indication of what we may soon expect from ; all the world . Already there has been a loud cry to prohibit the exportation of food from Ireland . Were we at war with the rest of , Europe , it would
not only be justifiable but perfectly appropriate to take ever } ' advantage we could—to ruin the agriculture of our neighbours , and then , should they , in spite of us , make a little accumulation , to rob them of it the first opportunity . The necessities of war allow a much wider range of conduct than the pros-E-ities of peace ; War is destruction . It is ware to starve , if starvation-answers our purpose better than bullets . It is warlike to burn magazines of corn , to blockade cities and harbours , to turn rivers and fill up wells . But we are at peace with our neighbours , and are bound to observe that sublime aud simple rule of conduct which nature teaches and revelation ' confirms between neighbour and neighbour . Let the English reflect how would they endure , with corn at 80 s . a-quarter , to find themselves outbid by some wealthier neighbour offering 85 s .
An act of indemnity may be easily procured , and certainly would not be denied to a Minister whose sole immediate object was to fill the mouths of a hungry people . It would remain for future consideration whether such an act is in the true spirit of law ; whether it is wise to give a Ministry so great a power of disturbing the operations of trades ; whether it is constitutional to substitute occasional surprises , not to say violences , for regular legislation . If it is necessary to open the ports now , why not always , when corn is at the present price , or a scarcity ia possible ? Why notadrait the fact into your system at once ? We may as well have a dictator , as a man who can raise and lower the price of food by the breath of hia mouth . lam , sir , yours , &c ., Honesii .
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MURDER IN IRELAND . The Tipperary Vindicator of Saturday last contains the following : — Murder of Patrick Clarke , Esq . —We regret to learn that Patrick Clarke , Esq ., who had recently come to reside in Tipperary , was shot dead about half-past two o'clock yesterday ( Friday , ) whilst riding about his lands at ' South-hill , within half a mile ot Nenagh . Mr . Clarke held a considerable property at Portarlington , and he had a mansion in Men-ionsquare also . It is impossible , just now , to assign a
cause for the perpetration of this deed of blood . The alarm was immediately given , and the police from Nenagh and the surrounding districts were quickly on the spot . Whilst we write the utmost activity prevails to discover the perpetrator of the deed . Two balls were driven through the ill-fated gentleman ' s head , and he expired immediately . We have heard hat he had been compelling his tenants to sell corn a few minutes before the murder . Two men were seen crossing the country immediately after the deed , but no clue hadbeen . discovered of the perpetrators . "
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Accident on the Nobth of Engxakd Rah-wait . — Newcastle , Saturday . — An accident occurred to the mail train this morning , on the Great North of England Railway , which , though of an alarming character , was fortunately unattended with serious results to the passengers . The mail train from the south , due at Darlington at twenty minutes past seven o ' clock , was upwards of an hour and a half behind its time . Oh arriving at that station the tram consisted of the . engine and tender , a luggage van , two second-class carriages , two first-clas 3 carriages , post-office , and one or two carriages behind that . When between four and five miles north of Darlington , the engine got off the line , and , crossing the upline , went over an embankment between seven and eight feet in height : The wheels , however , sinking into the soft earth , prevented it from reaching the bottomi and , in the meantime , the engine man , who
maintained his position , turned off the steam . _ ine tender was dragged across the up-line , the rails of which were displaced , and the two second-class carriages were thrown together upon their ends , in aa upright position , on the line . The coupling chain between them and the rest of the train broke , and the other carriages maintained their proper position , though most of them were thrown off the raU . Fortunately , noneof the passengers sustained anyserious injury , wMch is probably owing to the slow rate at which the train was travelling , it not being going at more than fifteen miles an hour . The aecond-class carnages and tender were much broken ; a messenger was sent back to Darlington for assistance , before the arnvaloi which the express train from Newcastle was Been , approaching , and intimation of danger hanng been conveyed by signal , it waaBtopped before reaching the scene of the accident .
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¦ > % '¦ ' ¦ - : : ¦ - ¦ LONDON . i Uiir ¦ Looautt . —A densely crowded audience attended Mr . Cooper ' s lecture last Sunday night . Mr . » tr-V , " bein S calle ( l t 0 tlie chair ( after one of the people s Songs '' hadbeen sung ) , expressed the deep gratification he had in knowing that Mr . Cooper alter experiencing much suffering and persecution , was beginning to see a little of the sunshine of life . He nau no doubt the lecturer would have pleasure in explaining what he ( the chairman ) meant . Mr . Cooper immediately informed the meeting that a citizen of London , whose name he was not at liberty to . mention , had walked home with him from his lee . ture the preceding Wednesday night , and presented him with a cheque for £ 100 . Thegentleman was an entire stranger to him , and informed him that he
made him the present in consequence of having his sympathies awakened by reading the " Purgatory of Suicides . " This announcement was received with three thundering rounds of applause . The historical subject for the evening , "The life , reign , and character of Napoleon , " was then commenced , After giving a spirited narrative of the Italian campaign , and the battles of Lodi , &c , which first raised Buonaparte to high rank , as a general , —the lecturer proceeded to describe the conqueror ' s course in Lgypt and . Syria , and avowed his disbelief of the story about poisoning the sick at Jaffa . The Consulate , the passage of the Alps , the battle of Marengo , and other striking events of this-most remarkable man of modern times were . next , ranidlv noted : and
his coronation by the Pope , introduced some facetious anecdotes relative to the behaviour of the Parisians towards , '' his Holiness . " The battles of Austerlitz , Jena , kylau , and Friedland , and a brief recapitulation of Napoleon ' s Spanish visit ; the battle of Corunna and death of Sir John Moore , with the campaign that ck ) sed with the possession of Vienna and battle of Wagram , introduced some interesting observations on the Emperor's repudiation of Josephine , and marnage with Marie Louise . The most exciting and harrowing part of the discourse was , of course , the description of the Russian campaign , and its horrible disasters ; The fall of the despot , the siege of Dresden ; the defeat at Leipzig , and "hid abdication and retirement to -Elba ; with his return , and the " crowning carnage , Waterloo , " were all pointedly and forcibly related and depictured . Mr . C . took occasion to intersperse remarks on the characters of Napoleon ' s
subordinates in the work of conquest—Murat , Ney , Massena , Berthier , Lannes , Soult , &c , as their names arose in the narrative ; and also on the characters of his political employes—Talleyrand , Fouche , and others . Napoleon's , enterprises of road-making , canal-digging , bridge-building , &c ., and his selection of sagacious spirits in the formation of the celebrated "Code Napoleon , " were duly eulogised . In conclusion , however , Mr . C . disclaimed any spurious pity for the " Exile of St . Helena ; " and avowe . d his conviction that the " murderer of a million" deserved no better fate than to be placed apart from future means of -a ' savage , like any other wild beast . A contrast between the characters of such men aa Napeleon , Ceesar , and Alexander , and the godlike beings , Socrates , Confucius , and the Carpenter ' s Son of Nazareth , terminated the long lecture in such a mode as to draw forth thrilling and prolonged plaudits .
Metropolitan District Council . —At the fortnightly meeting , held in the City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagain-Iane , on Sunday afternoon , Mr . John Mills in , the chair , it was unauimeusly resolved , " That -this council hereby call on all Chartist localities throughout the kingdom to take up the case of Fr-ost ,. iWilliams , Jones , and all other patriot exiles , with a view to their immediate restoration to their native land ; and that petitions be got up and signed individually , collectively , or by the chairman on behalf of public meetings ; and that such petitions be forwarded without delay to T . S . Duncombe , M . P ., 3 , Albany , London , in order that he may present and found a motion on the same at the commencement , of the ensuing Parliamentary session . " In addition to the council , several members of the Exile Restoration Committee werepresent , and acted in concert with the council ,
National Victim Committee . —A meeting of this body was held at the Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane , on Sunday , November the 2 nd , Mr . Mills in the chair . Mr . T . Mi Wheeler , the secretary , on behalf of Mr . O'Connor , presented the balance-sheet of Mr . John Cleave , which leaves a balance in favour of the committee of £ 22 23 ^ 5 | d . The balance-sheet aB presented , with a trifling exception , was received , and the following resolutions were adopted : — " That the sum of £ 2 be now awarded to Mr . John Richards , late of Stafford gaol ; and that the secretary be hereby authorised to draw the same from the treasurer , and transmit it to Mr . John Richards accordingly . " " That the secretary be requested to inquire into the case of Mr . Tattersal , and report at the next meeting : " " That this meeting stand adjourned until Sunday next , at half-past four o ' clock . "
Chartist Cooperative Land Society . — West-MiNsigR , PfSTBic ? . —The adjourned meeting resumed its ' sitting on Sunday evening last , at the Parthenium club rooms ; 12 , -St . Martin ' s-lane . Mr . Miller was unanimously called to the chair , when , on the motion of Mr . Ford , the sGfth rule , altered as follows , was adopted : — "It shall be the duty of the Board of Directors to' transact all the monetary and other business of the society j ; and when a sufficient sum of money shall be subscribed they shall be empowered to purchase a suitable plot or plots of land , until it amount to 120 acres , which shall be divided into 60 equal allotments . They shall appropriate to each occupant the sum of £ 13 IG 3 . 8 d . They shall then apprise the members of the society , and instruct them
to select , by lot , occupiers , to whom the several allotments , with the buildings , &c , shall be let at a rent of £ 0 per annum , on a lease for ever . They shall then elect a sale of the land , buildings , &c , at the rate of twenty years' purchase on the rent paid , and carry the proceeds , after defraying unavoidable expenses , to the credit of the society , to be again employed in the purchase , of more Land , the building of more dwellings , the apportioning of more cash , at the rate of £ 15 1 G 3 . 8 d . to each occupant , to be again divided in allotments to the members , and so on in continuity ; and that a proviso be made to secure to the holders of the several allotments , the first right to purchase their holdings ; also that the persons subscribing to the
first £ 5 , 000 shall be deemed the first section of the society . " The-following suggestions to Conference was also adopted ' : — - " That the trustees , treasurers , secretariesj"arid all other officers , shall be elected by the members by way of ballot . " " That the accounts of the society be audited quarterly . " "Thatthe first line of rule twelve be omitted , " and the following stand instead of rule the sixteenth : — " That a ballot take p lace amongst such members who have paid up their shares , on or before the first day of January , 1846 , for priority of location—after which period members shall be located in accordance with the priority of payment , consistently with rule the fifth . " It being now half-past ten o ' clock , the discussion on the remainder of the rules was adjourned until Sunday next , at seven o ' clock Drecisely .
Somers Town . —On Sunday evening last a meeting of this locality was held at Mr . Duddridge ' s , 18 , Tonbridge-street , New-road . Mr , Rowland in the chair , The delegates ' having reported that the District Council had agreed to a resolution , calling on the localities throughout the Kingdom to get up petitions to the House of Commons , for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and all other political exiles . Mr . John Ar ' nott moved , seconded by Mr . Thomas Edwards , that we exert ourselves to obtain the use of the St . Pancras Vestry Rooms , to hold a public meeting for the above object . Carried unanimously . The whole of the ; members present resolved themselves into a committee ( with power to add - , tp Itheir number ) tq , < carry the same into effect , and having appointed Messrs . Farris and Laurie as a deputation to wait on the vestrymen with a requisition for that purpose , the chairman left the chair .
CULLOMPTON , DEVON . Lecture on the Land . — -On Thursday evening , October 30 th , a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town was holden to hear a lecture from Mr . T . Clark , of the Executive . Mr . Wm . Poole having been voted to the chair , he briefly introduced Mr . Clark to the meeting , who commenced a very able and eloquent lecture , in the course of Mhich he pointed out the ill effects to the labouring community consequent on the Land being holden by so few . He traced the origin of landlordism to the Norman Conquest , when the royal bastard plundered the people of England and parcelled out the land to his followers . He entered into our present overgrown
manufacturing system and its effects on society . —Mr . C . then . proceeded to illustrate the capabilities of the soil , read extracts from Mr . O'Connor ' s work on Small Farms , to corroborate his statements , pourtrayed the happy condition of the Agricultural population , where holding Land on secure tenure . Pointed out the benefits ofthe Chartist Co-operative Land Society , and urged his hearers to come forward for the purpose of : carrying put so good and philanthropic a Plan . An unanimous . vote of thanks was given to Mr . Clark fer his able 'lecture , and to the chairman for his services , and , ; the meeting dispersed highly pleased with the lecture .. ' Upwards of thirty persona have taken shares In . the Land Society here , and Mr . Clark ' s lecture will doubtless do . much good .
STOCKPORT . Mr . J ... R . Cooper , " of Manchester , lectured here last Sunday to a numerous and attentive audience on the moral and intellectual advancement of the people . Mr . J . Bennett in the chair . Mr . Cooper said , -- " Knowledge was power , and that the working glasses were making great progress towards the attainment of that knowledge . Formerly there were no printing machines , and the people had but few books , wrote with the pen ; but now they had that bright luminary . theiVfM ^ m&ar , which had been the means of imparting knowledge to thousands . The religious tracts had poisoned the minds of the people by teaching them to be content with their station . " A vote of thanks was then awarded to'Mr . Cooper for his lecture , and the meeting separated .
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WIGTON . Co-operative Land Society . —On Sunday evening a lecture was deliverod here by a friend . We have proposed to deliver six lectures in the following order : —The first on the " Land , and the Vote every man ' s Right . " Second , " The possession of the Land and the Vote by every man , would make every man rich . " Third , " Poverty shall be the lot of alhvho will not possess themselves of the Land and the Vote . " Fourth , "It is every man ' s right to possess himself of the Land and the Vote . " Fifth , " Commerce , with a whole world , without working men possessing themselves of the Land and the Vote , cannot save any country from ruin . " Sixth , "'Whatis the principal cause of the people not possessing the Land and tho'Vote ? " The first lecture was delivered on Sunday last and told well . We meet every Sunday evening , at six o ' clock , for Land lectures and discussions , and every Thursday evening , at eight o ' clock , for the receipt of Land monies , and performing the Land business . Our meetings are iu the Rechabite-rooms , Market-hill .
MANCHESTER . Mr . Dornian , of Nottingham , delivered two eloquent and instructive lectures on Sunday last , in the Carpenters' Hall , to large and respectable audiences . A vote of thanks was given to Mr . Dorman for his able lectures . SHEFFIELD . The Widow op Booker the Chartist . — At our weekly meeting on Sunday night , Nov . 2 nd , the case of widow Booker was brought before the meeting with a view to see if something could be done to alleviate her sufferings , she being sick and in deep distress . We thought an appeal to our Sheffield friends might be of some service , and it was resolved— " That the collectors be authorised to receive subscriptions on her behalf , in the course of their rounds next Sunday , Nov . 9 th .
BRIGHTON . A Demociiatic Supper was held at . the Cap of Liberty , Portland-street , on Tuesday evening , to commemorate the birthday of Henry Hunt , and the formation of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society ; on which occasion the large room of the above house was well filled with a respectable company , who seemed to highly enjoy themselves by the manner in which they did justice to the viands set before them . ' After the cloth was cleared , Mr . Mitchell took the chair , and Mr . Lashford the vice-chair ; when the chairman gave " Loud Roar'd the People ' s Thunder " in prime style . After which Mr . Page gave the " Marselliese Hymn , " which was followed by several patriotic songs and toasts , till a late hour , when the company separated , highly pleased with the evening ' s entertainment .
BRISTOL . Public Meeting . —On Monday evening last the Public Hall ( which had been lent by Mr . Simeon for the occasion ) was well filled , to hear an address from Mr . Thomas Clark , of Stockport , on the propriety of working men joining the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . Mr . Cains was unanimously called to the chair ; and , after making a few prefatory observations on the object of the meeting , introduced Mr . Clark , who showed at length how the purchase and sale of Land might be effected , and the capability of the Land to produce enougliji ' or the sustentation of a population ten times as large as the present . At the close of his address a vote of thanks was awarded him . Several rules were disposed of , and some shares taken up . A thriving branch of the Land Society exists here , and will hold its weekly meetings on Tuesday evenings , in the above Hall , Bear-lane .
PRESTON . At a general meeting of the Preston branch of the Land Society , held on Sunday , November the 2 nd , Mr . James Duckett in the eliair , the following resolutions were agreed to : — "That we disapprove of the Manchester resolution . " " That we are of opinion that the Society should , if possible , be enrolled under the Building Societies Acts . " " That members taking two shares should have their four acre allotment on gaining their chance for the first share . " " That the present section of the Society close for the enrolment of members on the . assembling of Conference , and that another section commence from that period . " "That the Society be divided into districts , and that a district be ballotted for , to take the next purchase , which shall be lotted for by the members , if a sufficient number have paid up their shares in that district . "
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TO THE JOUNEYMEN BAKERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND , FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE OPERATIVE BAKERS ' UNION , ABERDEEN . FxiiLOw Countrymen , —In the earnest desire to promote the welfare of our present position , and to procure for ourselves and fellow-labourers our rights as men and as citizens , we have been led to approve and adopt the plan of organisation proposed at the Convention , held- in Glasgow , upon the 29 th of September last . Aware that many of our fellow-brethren have , through misconception , drawn very unwarrantable conclusions respecting the motives and objects of those who have joined what they are " pleased to term the "New Move , " we think it a duty which we
owe them and to ourselves , frankly and openly to avow our reasons for the cause we have adopted . Without pledging ourselves-tor'the perfection of any system devised by human ingenuity , we beg to submit the following as our reasons for becoming members of the National Association : —1 st . Because it has for its objects the obtaining of our rights . 2 nd . Because it proposes to carry out what every unionist has to some extent been endeavouring to do . 3 rd . Because it would improve our condition , and would qualify us to make the best use of our rights when we obtain them . 4 th . These reasons appear to us sufficient to justify our conduct for the course we have taken . Having on former occasions pledged ourselves to use every just and lawful mean 3 in our power to obtain our rights , we would have deemed it a violation of that pledge had we neglected this plan of organisation . Claiming and exercising for ourselves the right of individual judgment , we assert it
to be the best and most efficient plan that has yet been proposed fur making our rights a national law . We ground this assertion on the fact that there are . yet thousands of our fellow-brethren who are yet ignorant of our objects in view , or indifferent to their own interests ; and we think it must now be apparent to all intelligent men , that nothing less than the demand of a majority of the journeymen Bakers of this country will ever procure for us the objects we aim at . We call on every unionist to co-operate with us in our endeavour to elevate the condition of the white slaves from their bakehouse bondage , by restricting our labour to ten hours' pet * day instead of eighteen . Should this appeal to our fellow-tradesmen be made in vain , we will nevertheless devote our energies and continue our exertions to the utmost of our feeble ability in the propagation of the truth , relying on its power for uprooting ignorance , vice , and misery , and establishing in their stead knowledge , virtue and happiness .
( Signed ) John Graham , President of the Aberdeen Operative Bakers' Union . Aberdeen , October-28 th , 1845 . tf . NiiED Trades' Association , tor the . employment of Labour ia Agriculture ' and MaHWac ; tubes . —The Board of Directors met at the Trades Office , 30 , Hyde-street , Blpomsbury , on Monday , November 3 rd ; T . S . Duncombe , M . P ., in the chair . A letter was read on behalf of the united branches of operative Potters , from Mr . William Evans , applying for one hundred shares of the Trades' Land and Building Association , such shares to be paid for in weekly instalments of 25 s . each . Several Tin-plate Workers waited on the board , and took out a number
of shares for . themselves and fellow-workmen . In conjunction with the united trades for the protection of industry , they have entered into an engagement with Mr . David Ross , of Leeds , to lecture on the objects sought to be obtained by the joint associations . Previous to Mr . Ross's provincial tour , he will deliver four lectures in the metropolis , at the following times and places : —Tuesday , November 18 th , Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street Tottenham-court-ioad ; "Wednesday , November 19 th , South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blackfriars-road ; the National Hall , High Holborn , on Thursday , November 19 th ; aud on Friday , November 21 st , Hall of Science , 81 , Whitechapel . To commence each evening at eight o ' clock precisely .
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Death from Hydrophobia in Lbbbs . —curing past week , a man of the name of Thomas Kenslia who resided in Imperial-street , Leylands , and was e ployed as a barrel washer to Messrs . Singlewi brewery , has died under circumstances ' . wmcn-lea little doubt that he has fallen a victim tohydrophobj The deceased was bit in the thumb by a little fan dog , which he kept , in July last . He was . ; forty-a years of age , and has left a wife and three , children . Lekds . —Municipal -Elections ' . —The miinicip elections took place on Saturday last , but jnever < any occasion excited less interest . A stranger cor ing into tho town would not have discovered that tJ elections were taking place . The Whigs have gaiiu two . The Edinruroh Town Council have voted tl freedom of the city to Lord John Russell .
m ye Fishers of Women !—There are 020 , 0 ( girls at this moment receiving their education i French convents . Tub Corn Dealers of Liverpool ' are actual exporting the corn in bond to Russia . This fat speaks volumes . Female Teachers . —A class for training fenia teachers is about to be established by the directoi of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution . Leeds Post-Office . —During thepresent year , r fewer than eleven millions of letters passed throug the Leeds post-office . ¦ Winter Assize . —There will , it is understood , I a Whiter Assizes held iu the month of Deceinb * next , in the same places as last year . ! A Saint Cauoht . —We' have been informed th Sir Andrew Agnew was detected by a gentleman , short time since , travelling in a railway train on tli Sabbath-day ! The saiut was sadly out of counti nance when discovered .
A Consummation' devoutly to be wished b all but Umbrella Makers . —Some enemies of tb Unibl'ella are seriously entertaining the idea of fora ing a company to erect light transparent veranda from tho houses , across the footpaths , so that eve on the wettest day the metropolis can be traverse from one end to the other without an umbrella . Irish Northern Provincial College . —We ai enabled to state , on unquestionable authority , tht the Government Commissioners have reported i favour of Belfast , as the site . of the new norther college . —Northern Whig . Railroads and Tuhnpikes . —Notwithstanding th railroad mania and building , turnpikes continue t bring theirprices . The Montrose turnpike , for in stance , was last week put up for letting , andbrough an advance of £ 100 beyond what its tolls let for las year .
A Great Bore . —Among the new projects on th tapis in Scotland is the plan of making a . tunne under the Clyde . The proposal has met with mud favour . Douglas Jeerold , Esq ., was to have presided a the annual soiree of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institute holden last week , but was prevented attending by ai attack of influenza which for some days confined his to his bed . Love and Crime . —A few nights ago , a farmini man , at Vry , in the Moselle , entered his master ' room , and murdered him with the colter ot a plough and then , going to the chamber of the- farmer'i daughter , fired a pistol at her , but missed his aim He immediately wentout into an adjoining wood , am there hung himself . Rejected love issaidtohav been the cause of these crimes .
WHEAT . —In March last , a blade of wheat sprunj up in the garden of a poor man , at Shipbourne . 1 was cultivated and produced 40 ears of corn , havinj 2 , 013 grains . Another blade of wheat , of a difleren description , also sprang up in the same garden which produced 26 ears of corn , containing 1 , 39 grains . ¦' . ''' . Spanish Economy .. —The oil lamps at the pahwe 0 of Madrid have been substituted tor the new gas one lately put up , and the gasometer is to be pulled down Thus cleanliness and splendour of light are sacrifice ! to make a yearly saving of about £ 60 , while pecula tion ami extravagance run riot in every branch of th public service . Wholesale Bank Note Forosrt . — A regular ef
tablishment for the fabrication of spurious banknote has just been discovered in one of the suburbs c Vienna . The principal delinquent ia aged 74 ; year and , up to the time of discovery , lived in first rat style . . ' . " . . : Caution to News Agents . —It is the opinion 0 the solictor-general and Mr . Peacock , that a Londoi news agent is liable to apenalty of twenty pounds fo sending any supplement to a newspaper to the coud trynews agent without sending the newspaper wit it ; and that the country agent is also liable to penaltv of twenty pounds for every supplement whic he may sell oivdeliver , aud without at the same tim delivering out the newspaper to which thesupplemen belongs . ' , .
Rkcruitino at a Discount . —The . Tinicff states thi a difficulty is experienced at the present time in pr < curing a sufficient number of recruits for the Roy : Artillery , and that the regiment is greatly short < the required strength . — " An officer of the corps ha been in Scotland since the early part of August ft the purpose of recruiting , and he has not succeeded i obtaining a single recruit . " The Quehec Subscriptions . —The Canada papei state that the subscriptions and contributions in a parts of the world for the relief of the sufferers b the two late destructive fires inJQuebec , received uj to the 26 th of September , amounted to the sum 0 ioo 10 01 i
% U 2 , s . ou ., muepeuuenuy ; grant expeeie from the provisional treasury of £ 20 , 000 . Of thi large amount , only £ 900 came from the Unitei States . Old Clo \—There died lately , at Kendal , a penu ricus bachelor , named John Stalker , a labourer ia : coal yard , who left behind him twenty-eight complet * suits of clothes , most of which . ' he had never worn fifteen new hats ; fifteen new shirts that had no : once been in water ; as much cloth as would mak < eleven others ; handkerchiefs without number ; nine teen tea cannistcrs ; fifteen pint cans ; and a collec tion of pots and pans which would set up a vendor , besides a considerable sum of money which he nevei had the heart to expend on himself .
Mob Law in America , —A portion of the citizen of Lexington have formed themselves into a band termed "The Regulators , " painted and disguised ai Indians , and threaten to drive every free black fron the city and country . Their first depredation wa committed on the night of the 19 th Sept ., when the ; took a black preacher , stripped and whipped him and afterwards gave him a coat of tar and feathers Every man feels it necessary to go armed in sell defence , and an obnoxious word or sentiment expose one to the fury of the populace . Thorwaldsen's Statue of Btron , after being like its original , so long homeless , has arrived a Cambridge , and taken up , it may be presumed , it final abode , amid the scenes of his earlier , and son * of Ilia happiest , days . A Newspaper in St . Helena . —A newspaper wa published for the first time at St . Helena in 'Juaj last .
Escroachmests of THE Russians . —Intelligent from Asia informs us ( says the Constitutionnel ) tha the Russians have just established themselves at Es terabad , an important port of Persia in the Caspiai Sea . - ; The Magnetic Telegrnpu between New TTorl and Philadelphia will be completed on the 10 th . 0 November , and that between Philadelphia and Balti more on the 1 st of December , making an uninter rupted line between New York and Washington The wires are . conveyed under the waters . of th « Delaware and the North Rivers . ' Lowell Coiros Trade . —The number of personi employed in the cotton mills at Lowell is 9 , 235 . ' Population op New York . —The census of the cit ; of New York , just taken , places the number ofinhabi tants at 300 , 000 .
German Emigrants . —Two hundred and eigh German colonists arrived at Rio on the 26 tl August , in the English barque George . Thi Brazilian Government is making great efforts t < attract this useful class of emigrants to that country , Wolves in France . —Great numbers of wolves have lately made their appearance in the neighbourhood of Dieppe , and done great mischief amongst the sheep and cattle . Those rapacious animals were , pre viously quite unknown in that district . A Grand Scheme is talked of in Holland , beinj no less than the draining up of the Zuyder Zee , " th < whole of whioh was dry land a few centuries ago . The Last of the " Monsters . "—The Cork lie porter gives a lengthened report of the dinner t < Mr . W . Smith O'Brien , M . P ., at Limerick , 01 Wednesday last , and states it to be the " last moo ster demonstration of 1845 . "
Romantic Stoby . —The Birmingham Journal state that a young American planter , named Da Costa , 0 good family aud immense tbvtune , recently canv over to England in search of a wife , and visited somi of the most fashionable cities , spending hia monsj like a prince , without meeting the object of hi search . At last , whilst standing at the door of hii inn in Birmingham , he saw and deeply admired s Miss Rimmer , of Alcester , who was on a visit ia th < town , followed her , obtained the consent of hei parents to pay his addresses to her , won her affec tions by the ardency and sincerity of his sufe ? Jt * married her on Sunday week , at Alceatep *! ifrft The bride ' s eldest brother has set out witlsfe&vJW married-pair for America . f ^» £ qpj Bread Stuffs . —We regret to setfthagtlris d&gn American term is finding its ^^ nto £ dng jEgfiuft tural reports , and instead ofr&eilj&frjsigrfffii which so much of the P # W « fiji ffi »^ a ^ S told continuall in tht f EoglSls BfiSimi l »» &W Tishand Scotc ^ J ^ # ^ f ^ % ^ W ^ l ^^^ l p V to"V o i . b , s its ; . Q . BBPBa }> SM
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Extraordinary Case op Suicice . —Hadleigh , Nov . 1 . —A deliberate and frightful act of suicide was committed in this town on Thursday last , under very peculiar circumstances . The individual , John Jaynea , was proprietor of a boarding school of the first reputo , and until within the last week he was highly respected for learning and moral character . However , in the course of the last week two of the pupils , sons of Mr . J . Growse , surgeon , made suck representations to their parent as induced that gentleman to prefer a charge against' Jaynes of a horrible character , in consequence of which a warrant was issued for his apprehension . ' The officer took him into custody on Tuesday , but he was allowed to remain at his own house until the charge should be . investigated before the magistrates—the wretched man declaring that it was a conspiracy got up against Mm . Though closely watched , and deprived , as it was supposed , of every offensive weapon , he by some means possessed himself of a pistol , with which he shot himself through the head , at an early hour on Thursday morning . The ball had lodged in the head , and ' death was instantaneous . Ihe dis « tress of his bereaved wife , who believed him to be incapable of the offence laid to his charge ; admits of no description . She is said to be an amiable and accomplished lady , and is most respectably connected in Gloucestershire , where Jaynes formerly resided . Information of the tragical occurrence was immediately forwarded to Mr . H . Waymani tho coroner , before whom ajury was yesterday empannelled at the Swan Inn . After a long examination of witnesses , the jury , after a short consultation , returned a rer » dictof"MKfo-re . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 8, 1845, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1340/page/7/
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