On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (5)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
ihtimt &(to£, _
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
EMi LAND . Tnr . Ottox TiunE — ' Bam ' * / . »• ¦» d Clause" \* inet pubHs ' iPcl , nn-l exhibits the yearly oxcon < . t " ram for the last nine years , and of . tlire id , I'hin anJ printed calicoes , an . 1 other fatoir * . tvrtUe la * : five year-. Wp fiml that , ? ho qnantity oi cotton yarn txpnrfdinlSWwas l . "» 7 . l 30 . a 2 Mh-nn ' ln" ™* flVt ' r the export of 1 S 15 of no Wss than ' 2 » W 2 , < KW b or more than 20 per c . nt . on the wholeexport ol the former year , an-i escce . r » n 2 tlw export « if W , i ( the g reatest previously ) hy 7 015 . 55 Sib . The principal sources of this , increase are < < ue to Kritirfi North Am » ric * . the llnnscatic Towns , to Holland , India , tfl China , Naples and Sicily , Sardinia awi I u « rany , Trieste and the Austrian ports , and t o Iiirkoy , am the Levant . The only remarkable decrease « , ot 270000 albs to Rn * ia ! being th « smallest export to
. . thatcotintrv for the last ton v .-. irs . The export o . plain calico " - * in ISiO wa « 61 S . S » . lM yari" - * increase of 5 . T 00 * . HG yards ov . t 1843 : the chief portions of this increase being due t « xh-.- exports to Brazil , British North At » . o- " «< , <" " \ f . n < i Fer " . E « TDt Holland ; of l-I . OAO « W ?»«!« to India ( g-eatly orrrbalmwl by nearly &WM 0 W dernsws to OhinaV Naniesiind Sicily , l ^ rtuaal . Maleiva , &c , Sardinia and Tuscany , Trieste and the Austrian ports . There is a decrease to 'I urkcy and the Levant of 13 flfl fl . flflfl yards . The <> xnnrt « of printed and dyed calicoes in " lS 4 ti were 267 084 , 797 yards , being ' s - ' reread as compared with 1 S 4 ") of 43 . 705 . 900 yard's . The principal countries to which the export has decreased a-e Chili and I ' cro . Colombia , the IUnse Towns . India ( nearly 10 . 000 . 000 yard' ) Turkey and the Levant 17 000 000 yards ) , Trieste , and the Austrian ports , &c — . V " »» ' / i « t /* r Guardian .
MANCHESTER . IsiMiGBiiiosoFDksnTtTE luisii . —Tnthe town of Manchester , wher « I reside , it is really pitiful to see the scores of poor Irish who are daily arriving : in the most vrtetclwd and forlorn Mate of destitution and poverty . These noor creatures , unable to procure subsistence in their own country , are glad to emi-Cra e to any of our towns in the hope of meeting with employ ; but on their arrival thev find that they have only com « to make ill worse . 1 happened the other day ti fall in with a family who hail just arrived from Ireland . 1 cot into conversation with the man , who save me a most heart-rending description of the condition of th < s Irish people . I told him that it was
a shame fo « - a fine ro : intry like his to have such an amount o ? poverty in it . " Yes , but" says he . " you see it is the Gentlemen who are at the head of it who make laws for themselves , and not for the poor ; if we w « re rightly covcrned we should have no nred te feel the loss of the praties a haporth . but until we are rishMy governed it U what we may expect . " I askel him how they would tro on for potatoes nest year ? his answer was , that he did not kiwir how they would do next year ; " we have not seed for 100 acres in the whole of Ireland , and if something is not done 1 don't know what will or the end of it . " Let me ask the Government of this country to listen to thi . and take warning in , time , otherwise anarchy and bloodshed must ensue . —Correspondent .
The Sorr Kucnss . —On Saturday last , as usual , the distribution of soup commenced at eight o ' clock , and by ten o ' clock , about 4 , 000 quarts had been distributed . As many were not supplied , it was announced that about four hundred quart * wo «» d be districted in the afternoon , at four o ' clock ; at which time considerably upwards of a thousand persons were in attendance ; and as there was still an inadequate supply of soup , a cart load of bread was procured and distributed amongst tln * e who had got no smip . Under the « e circum-tances , it was supposed that there would not be as many tickets as usual pres'tited at the kitchen on Monday raornins ; bat the contrary was the fact . The quantity of sou p made was considerably more than on any previous day ; and yet the whole supply , amounting to 4 , 000 quarts , was disposed of , as usual , by ten o clock- We understand that it has been found necessary , from
" the creat pressure from withont , " to admit applicants by the wide do r ( entrance ftom Pool-street ) , and to give them ezre « s by the narrow door , leading into Clirence-street . —On Tuesday morning the delivery commenced at eight o ' clock in the morning , and the whole snp ly ol 5 . 000 quarts was distributed bv eleven o ' clock , and there still remained many applicants unsupplied . There wa « also a distribution of 300 loaves of bread .
BRADFORD Female Operatives —The committee recently appointed at Bradford f > r improving t !> e social and moral condition of the factory eir ' s havejusi pub-Ihhed an addres < respecting lorfgin ^ s , frora which it endears there are 1 , 200 girls living i » lodiinss away from home , and a great number of them from a distsnep . The committee intend to fit up three or four lodging houses , in some o * " these th <> irirls will be boarded and lodged , in other's I d .-e * l . The committee are n < w fitting up one of the loJgicg houses in Tiiornt-n-road . Vaokast Office . —The Board have appointed a committee consisting ot the Guardians for Bradford tov . n « feip , to select a piece of ground to build a new TaRvunt offico npn-i oi-ti ^ + r » nHtnin ttifor . iiatlctii < w to thec-vt of the hui ! dinj , ar . d the best method of rendering > t efficient .
LlVCBFaOL . MiDAMK Vf . stris . —This popular ac ' ress has been fnlfj ! lin « a farewell encasement for the list month at Liverpool , and on Fridav evenin-r she tonk leave of the pe ^ sle of that town in the f »» H'iwin * : characteristic sd > lre > s : — " Ladies , and Gentlem « n . —I appear beore you to say farewell , and that in its most painful shape , a long and last farewell . My health , rather than ray inclination , believe me . induces this apparentiv sudden step . Were I . indeed , as © Id as som ^ EWid people have been pleased to fancy nn , I nneht to i ave ret ' red years H 40 . not < . nly from th <; inirai-scone , but from the " -tairc of life itself . Tiie Irutli i-, fiat having i « cen Jnnc before thepuhlic , and , owinsrro the kindness of that public , conspicuously
so , at an rarher aje than is usual , n » t bein .- , I believe I rnay venture to assert , quite superannuated . At ' tfr this you will , perhaps , expeet me to tell you what my age really is . but I claim the privilege " of ra- - * ex . and leave that hichly-important qu > tion still open . It become * one who has enjoyed , bnth as an a ; tres < and nnna . scr , a share ot ; iubiic favour and a ; 'plau « e . such a % is accorded to tew , to submit , withiut a murmur , to those afflictions which are the lot « f WAr . y . Great as has Wen the favour I have obtained , it has bi-en nowhere Greater than in this fl-iurWiiii ! :, opuU'iit , and lib-nil town ; and I beg , therefore , to offer to its numerous representative ' s her .- present my humble and liesrtftlt thanks . How
Inn ; : I may yet perform in London is uncertain , but my h-alth at present not pennittinc me to undergo ti »« continual fatisui's of tr . ivelling professionally , I ha e come to the d-.-tertninatiun of eiosin" tnv ctmntry accounts a : to ; -cth < . r . Befm-e I depart , " how - ever , allow me on retiring from bu . » ine » s to recommend to your cordial support my junior partner . He hasjeeuredftruirasclfmy goodwill , and has , I trust , entitled himself to yours . It i- he , therefore , who wil ! . in future , undertake the travelling department Let me , then , express rny earnest hope that the liberal patna <* : <• you have for * o minv years extti . drd t <> myself , will b ^ steadily uiniiuu&l to my Imshmd . La « lie ^ an-1 Gentlemen , I most respcetfullv , and most gratefully , l > id vou farem !! . "
< JntAT Ikv . irt fF American IV . visioxs into Livtni ' . joi . —Tuesday —It is gratifying to find that , 112 this tr-ing sea « o : i of dearth and funiue , the produce of other countries come forward so plentifully , file Liverpo-4 Customs bill of entry cnnains the foll-iwin ? parti .-ulars of the cargoes of ILpiiahannock , from New Y « rk ; Charles Ilumb r > ttui frmn St Anirews X . IJ . ; An ; lo-Sax ; jn . In . m Ii-jston ; Kocainuham , from P ! ii ! adcl | ihia ; Cornelius , from ><• «¦ lork ; Empire , from New Y . iric ; Ashland , ir savannah
.. m : Kib-lia Stc » art , tVom St . An •! r . -js . . . \ B . ; Uiva ' . from II : iiii ; tx . < fcc .: —43 , 138 b . m-ls ofauur ; 23 . 312 bushels . C « l sacks , and 287 bi . i - « -f wheat ; S , U < JS birvtls ot torn meal ; 0 502 sat-t : » : md 5 , 203 bags of Indian corn ; 2 . 0 SJ ) boxes and 1 " , casks of cheese ; 2051 barrels of bread ; 320 barrels of apples ; 393 casks , o' . lO tierces . 36 halttierccs and 230 tiercts , 100 barrels , and 5 kecs of beet ; -Vj 2 sacks of corn ; 20 :. i kecs of bater ; 79 barrels ot nams ; 150 barrels of pork ; 10 i barrels of biscui ' -s . &c .
CBBAT FIRE AT LIVKtlt'Oni .. Between the hours of one and t «<» o ' clock on Tuesday morning , a dreadful fire broke out in the gpicious premises belonging to Mr . Cha loner situ atedon the east side of Mason-street , near Wapping . which destroyed buildings and othtr property to a very considerable amount . It seems to have « rl » inated in a wooden shed used by Mr . Challontr as a place of temporary deposit for flour . The high wind which prevailed aided the fury of the devouring element , and speedily ignited the adjacent property . From the wooden shed , the flames were carried across a yard to Mr . Challoner ' s stable , which was burned down ; and we regret to add that a fine horse which was in the stable was also burned to a cinder . The
fire next communicated to Mr . Challoner ' s large warehiiu e , which was used partly as a flour store and partly as a block manufactory . This fine buildin-r was entirely gutted . The roof , ioints , and floors save way at an early period , and nothing now remains but the bare walls . Three of tiierootni were i uily stored with flour , and the other rooms contained a I .-iree stock of blocks aBd steam machinery , the whole of which have been either wholly destroyed or rendered utterly useless . Tiie fire next coramunicau'd with a fine warehouse belonging to Mr . Tnomaa Booth , the corn-merchant ; and this warehouse altogether with the whole of its contentshas likewise
, been destroyed . The roof and floors hare been burned through , and the bare wails only are standing . A second warehouse belonging to Mr . Booth , and a large warehouse belonging to Mcssra . Lodge and rntchard , on the east side of Hurst-street , both took fare , but owing to the vigorous exertions of the firemen . they were only partially damaged . A small swelling house adjoicing Mr . Cualloaer ' s warehouse was also on fire fora short time , and itspreserratien is entirely owing to the efforts of the firemen . * o correct estimate can as yet be formed of the value of the property destroyed , but doubtless it ^ . 11 amount to several thousand pounds " ^
Untitled Article
Dbatii from Starvation . —An inquest was held on Tuesday upon the body of a man unknown , who died in the Northern Hospital , on Sunday . It appeared by iht ? evidence that the attention of a policeman nascal ' cd to the deceased on Sunday morning , he was then lying on some steps in Marylebone quite insensible , and wa » frothing at the nieuth . lie was at once conveyed to the hospital , where he died shortly afterwards : upon a post mortem examination of the body . Mr . Gildersleeves . the house surgeon tound that the intestines were very much congested axd that there was palpable evidence that death resuited so lely trom want of food . The jury returned a verdict of Died for want of nourishment . " BLACRBDHN
. Ka hiT V , On T ** day , at noon , Thomas Iv-u , butcher Rochester , was brought into the hiiIVt ?' w f , the Hice . charucd with having Killed John Ward , labourer , in a figat , in the White bum . Kibche ^ ter . A large party were carousing together , when the two parties named quarrelled and comm enced ni ? htit . » . They fought for some time , till the prisouft was dragged off Ward , who was discovered en be quite dead . Death is supposed to have resulted from a kick on the eyebrow , administered by the he . ivy iron vomited dog of Kav .
XORTHOMBEBHRD . tatal Colliert Accioent . —A distressing accident occurred at Gosforth Colliery , about three miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne , on Monday afternoon , by which three young men , of the names of Cook . Heron , and Ridley , were killed , and an overman , named Champlay ' was much injured . The men , it appears , were working the 'broken , " and had removed recently the whole of the pillar of coal withont putting in props Mifficient to support the roof , which fell , and b'iried the three workmen in
the ruins . The ivertnan ' . was attempting to leare the place , when a portion of the roof fell upon his f > ot and threw him down , but he contrived to drag himself out , and shouted for assistance . A party of hewers who had been at work in another part of the mine hastened to the spot , and distinctly heard the groans of one of the men , but they were unable to reach him for some time . On clearing away the rubbish , the three were found dsad , but not much mutilated , so that it is supposed their death was caused br suffocation .
wi&&a . Fall or the Monster Chimney . —On Thursday afternoon , shortly after i o ' clock , this very imposing fabric fell to the ground with a loud crash . The chimney which has been completed tor only a few months , was commenced by Mr . Dobb nearly four years ago , close to the lands of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , at the termination of his extensivechymieal works . Its progress since that time has been gradual daring the summer months , but its progress has been necessarily stayed for several months of each winter . —when its part completion gave indications of its future greatness . Its completion was effected a few months aeo , when it had reached the great heiibt of npwardsof 400 fee or about 134 yard » , and the event was duly celebrated . Shortly , however , after this was done an indention of one side near the top was observed , and which was watched daily , when , after a further kpse of time , a very apparent deviation from t ! ie perpendicular had taken place .
and the base slightly parted from the side of the excavation . A further inclination being observed , the advice of Mr . Fairbairn , civil engineer , of Manchester , was obtained , and we bslieve he recommended a portion of the top being taken down , and the work was consequently commenced , and continued until the day of its fall , when we believe a person * : as up the building ; at this time about 28 yards had been taken off . For some time past a further sinkin « of the base has been observe . ! , and greater fears were entertained for its safety , and a series of stays were being constructed to place round it . But all the measures were without avail . It iell on Thursday afternoon , across the canal , and extends for the length of a field beyond it . The passage of boats on the canal is stopped until it can be cleared , and active measures are now being carried on for the purpose . We believe this is the third chimney which has fallen on Mr . Dobbs' premises . —ManchaUr Courier .
STOCRPORT . Whclksale Robberies . —On Monday , at the Borough Court ; three men , named Markey , Turner , and Blood , wre brought before the magistrates , charged as follows : —Mr . Sadler , superintendent of police , stated that all three of them had been apprehended by Sergeant Walker , the previous day , on suspicion of being concerned in several very extensive robberies . On Saturday the police had occasion to search Markey ' s house , when a very considerable amount and quantity of propertv , believed to be
stolen , was found . Markey is the tenant of the house , and the other two are professedly his lodgers . The polce had removed a whole cart-load of goods ; amongst other things , a cheese , part of another cheese , a barrel of mustard , a loaf of sugar , glasses , timber , &c . the property of which they had received information as having been stolen during the last four or five months , and some of which had been owned by various gentlemen in the town . AH the tnree were together when they were apprehened , and tuo pmpprfy taken . Thev were remanded .
LEEDS . RSLIEF OF THE DISTRESSED POOR IS LEEDS . —A plan has been suggested for giving to the mendicants who are found in the public streets of this town , and m the adjoining villages , beggiBjr , a supply of food , consisting chiefly of a preparation of rice at public tables , te be provided for the purpose , a sufficient meal at certain hours of the day gratuitously , without any inquiry into their circumstances , or into the country or parhh to which they belong . The difficulty in the way of the execution of this project arises from want of funds applicable to such a purpose ; . 16 tht Guardians of the Pow on being applied to , declined to expend any part of the public money raised for the relief of the poor belonging to this union , in indiscriminate relief , particularly of thos " who had no local settlement within their union . A public subscription is contemplated for the above purpose .
\ erdict of Masslalghter agaisst as Engine-Driver . —On Friday a Coroner ' s inquest was held at the Court House touching the death of David Anderson , a fanner ' s labourer , who was killed on the Leeds and Bradford Railway , under the followin ? circumstance * : —On the morning of the 15 th instant , between five and six o ' clock , five carts , each drawn by one horse , were despatched from Rawdon to Gilderetone . for coals . Tkey had to pass over the L ? edi and Bradford at Calverley , which at that part crosses the public road on a level . The gates on each side ef the line were open , and no parties were in attendance to watch them . The morning was exceedinaly dark and fogey , and the usual signals were
nut exhibited . Four of the carts passed over the line ! in safety , and on the last one , which was in charge of the decease , getting on the crossing , an engine and train was seen approaching , and ere tha vehicle could be got over the engine struck the horse , killed it on the spot , drove the cart some distance , and frightfully injured the deceased , who was seated on the top of it . He survived the occurrence but a few hour * . Aftes hearing evidence , the Jury ' ound a verdict of " Manslaughter against the engine driver , James Gee , " accompanying it with an expression of opinion that the Company had shewn great carelessness in the management of the crossing at the CalverJy Bridge station .
ROCHDALE AND MIDDLEIOS . BuHGLAnr . —At the Rochdale petty session ? , oa Monday last , John 11 urst , woollen weaver , apparently upwards of fifty years of age , who was formerly transported for fourteen years for burglary , was brought upon a charge of having , on Friday evening , er early on Saturday morning last , broken into the house of Mrs . Mary Wliktaker , provision dealer , Sraailbridge . An entrance bad been effected by breaking the back kitchen window , and a black shawl and other artick-s were siolen . He was committed for trial at the next Liverpool assizes .
Fatal Accident frou Machlvurv . —On Saturday last . Mr . Dearden held at inquest at the Collier ' s Arms , Dearnley , between Snmllbridge and Littlerarough , on the body of a young man , twenty-three years ot age , named Joseph Butter-worth , whose death took plac- under the following circumstances : Deceased was a power-loom y bber , in the employ of Messrs . Hubert Leach and Brothers , woollen manufacturers . On Friday last , while at work in the factory , he wtnt to grind some shuttle wheels . For this purpose he stood on a bench , and whilst attempting to throw a string over the shaft which was in motion , his left shirt sleeve was caught by a cor wheel , above the elbow . By this his left arm was nearly torn from his body , and several of his ribs were broken . He died the same day . The shafting is about eight feet from the floor , and he ought nol to have put the string on while the shaft was in motion . The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "
BIRMINGHAM . Charge of Fraud auaisst a Cors-Dealkr . —A corr > dealer of extensive business and most respectable connections in this town , named Thomas Gomm is now in custody at the public-ofiice , charged with obtaining nionejs upon false pretences , to the amount of between £ 3 , 000 and £ 4 , ( 100 . The prisoner followed the occupation of a commission agent , hw business being to purchase wheat , barley , and * f lner srain , from farmers and dealers at the ' btratford , Worcester , and other markets , 011 account of extensive millers and consumers by whom he was employed , b roni the information which has at present transpired , it appears that Mr . G . > min has purchased cram on several occasions in the name of wellknown established firms of the highest credit , subsequently sold the lots so purchased to other parties and ultimately appropriated the money received upon the sales to his own purposes .
XOTTIXGHAM . SiiocKtxc Destitution . —Owing to long continued depression in trade , and the high price ef provisions , the working classes in Nottingham arc suffering misery and privation to an alarming extent . The union workhouse , originally built toaccomodateone thousand individuals , now numbers within its walls 1 , 014 souls ! Out-door relief is give n to 3 , 184 persons . In Radford and parishes adjoining the town multitudes are in » state of extreme want and desti-
Untitled Article
tution . The Radford workhouse contains 109 persons , and the guardians ave obliged to offer the house to a great number of applicants for relief , as it is found impossible to raise money in the parish to pay the out applicants on the scale hitherto adopted . LEICESTER . Misery . —The noor rates of Leicester are much increased by the distress which prevails among the frame-work knitters , 3 , 176 , or one-sixteenth part of the population , are receiving parochial relief .
ESSEX . Thk Secret Poisonings . —The prosecution of Mr . Thomas Newport , a farmer of respectable connexions at Clavering , at the direction of Sir G . Grey , the Secretary oi State , charged with being accessary to the recent poisoning of children , in that and the adjoin *; village of Maunden , was proceeded with at the gaol of Newport , in this county on Saturday before the Right Hon . Lord Bradbrook and Mr . Birch Woolfe , magistrates for the Saffron Walden district of the county The prisoner had been apprehended <> n the previous Friday , by Mr . Superintendent Clark of the Essex constabulary force , and Mr . Inspector Snackell , of the London detective police . The charge preferred against the prisoner waafor feloniously Riding
and abetting Sarah Chesham in administering poison to Solnrnan Taylor ( since deceased ) , the illegitimate child of Lydia Taylor , with intent to destroy its lite . It is also said that he will be implicated in the murder of Joseph and James Chesham . The most important witnesses were Lydia Taylor , the parent of the deceased child , Soloman Taylor , and her mother . It was shewn that while the former was in the service ot the mother of the prisoner she became encienu by him , and he failing to induce her to take some drug to procure abortion , she was discharged . A month after her confinement , Sarah Chesham , whom she had not spoken to before , went to see her . She seemed very fond of the infant , said Newport was a gosd-fer-nothing fellow , and on leaving remarked
she would call again . In a month or two she visited the house of Lydia Taylor , and brought some ' luxuries , " tea , appleduraplines , butter , « tc . She took the baby ) in her arms , and suddenly it was taken very sick . Sarah Chesham observed that she had only given it a bit of sugar . Only a small portion of the luxuries were eaten . Chesham begged of Taylor to call at her cottage at Clavering with the child , and in consequet . ee of her solicitations she did so . After being there a few minutes she took the infant in her arms , and running down stairs , said she would take it to see its father . The young woman ran after her across a field ,, and for a minute or so lost sight of her by her turning round a hedge . On com in ? up to her , Taylor saw her resting her feet on the bank
and putting something in its mouth Chesham « as wiping her ringers on her gown . The child looked very pale and sickly , and its lips were smeered with something like ointment . On questioning her what she had been administering it , she merely answered a " sucker . " The mother had great difficulty in cleansing the mouth of the child of the stuff that adhered to it . A short time afterwards a similar occurrence took place . The infant became seriously ill and greatly wasted away . By medical skill , it partially recovered ; in a few weeks , however , it was more violently seized wiih the former symptom , and in the beginning of last October it expired . Onthemother of Lydia waiting upon the prisoner for some
assisttance for her daughter , he told her it was a bad job , and she must get rid of it . He made use of the same remark on subsequent visits . When he refused to relieve her , she applied to the magistrates at Saffron Walden , and they ordered him to pay 2 s . 6 d . a week towards its support , Sarah Chesham was committed for attempting to poison it before it died . Other evidence was given . andtheprisonermadealengthened defence . He admitted having told the mother of Lydia Taylor , that she must get rid of it , but he firmly denied being implicated in the transaction mentioned by the womon Cheshara . She had only trumped them up against him with a view of extorting money . The prisoner was fully committed for trial .
SURREY . Extraordinary Occurrence near Banstead DiWNs .-On Monday a long investigation took place before William Carter , Esq ., the coroner for Surrey at the Blue Anchor , at Banstead , near Epsom , on the body of a man found under most extraordinary circumstances . The jury , upon viewing the body , found that his clothes were torn almost to shreds , and the ends of his fingers almost bitten off . George Johnson stated that on Tuesday morninir he went to look for a horse which had strayed from the common and on going through a field hesawamanlying down . Lie went to him , and he turned over and groaned twice . With assistance he was got away , but then he was quite dead . The Coroner—What sort of weather was it the previous night ? Witness—Very cold and frosty The Coroner-Was anything found f Witness—Yes , I found an old jacket under him , a-d his shoes by the side of him . A stocking was found about two rods off
, under the edge , and the fragments of a blue cloth cap , which seemed to have been torn into shreds . There were marks of his having been rolling about on the grass , and there was also on the Eround , the mark of a stocking . Wood , the constable , deposed that he found no marks of external violence , but the top joint of the fore finger on the left W , d » os rcij oOTGioljr hijurca . no woll <» tho nail . After some other evidence , the coroner inquired if the police had any reason to suspect these strange appearances had arisen from violence . Theinspector said he did not think they had . or there would have been other foot-marks in the field . The jury , after some consideration , returned the following special verdict : — " That the deceased was found dead without any marks of violence , and we are of opinion he was seized with illness , and died from exposure to the cold . " The deceased , from his dress , is supposed to have escaped from some lunatic asylum or
union
CROYDON . Accident on the Brighton Railway . —On Tuesday , about noon a very shocking accident happened on the Brighton Railway , near the Stoat ' s Nest Station , a few miles beyond Croydon , It appears that the signals on each side of the line are attended to by on « man , and having signalled an up train , he proceeded to cross the permanent way to the opposite side to signal the eleven o ' clock mail train from London , which he saw approaching . The unfortunate man , however , it " . is evident , roust have miscalculated the distance , for ere he could clear the rails the buffers of the encjne struck him with fearful violence , and hurled him " some distance . He was immediately conveyed to Guy ' s Hospital in a very dangerous condition , and was not expected to survive the night . His skull is fractured , and his body otherwise much injured .
SOUTHAMPTON . Fire . —On Saturday evening about nine o ' clock a fire broke out on the premises of a Mr . Spicer , a farmer and extensive cattle dealer , regularly attending Smithfield market , at a farm in the neighbourhood of Romsey . Four horses , a cow and calf , pi g * , some stacks of corn , hay , Ac , were destroyed . The premises were the property of Lord Palmerston .
SALISBURY . Election . —On Monday the election of a Member of Parliament took place in the room of Ambrose llassey , Esq ., who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds . Richard Hetley , Esq ., banker , of Salisbury , Conservative , proposed W . J . Chaplin , Esq ., as a fit and proper person ; and Win , Fawcett , Esq ., aretired gentleman , of the extreme Liberal party , seconded th « same . When , there being no other candidate proposed , W . J . Chaplin , Esq ., was declared duly elected . CORNWALL . Famine Riots . —Last week from two to three hundred labourers from the china clay-works prevented the shipping of corn at a port called Pentewan . It is feared that the miners will join in this popular demonstration , if ; so , . things will assume a serious aspect . Troops have been marched from Plymouth to the scen » of these disturbances .
Untitled Article
The saints are provoking a storm they will fiRd i " difficult to allay . The Scotch Reformers' Gazette gays : — " We have pretty good authority for stating that the Committee for re-establishing the Sunday Passenger Trains , have l « d » ed with the secretary to the Railway Company letters from 568 shareholders , dissenting from the resolution of the directors to withdraw these trains , and requesting them that they may be immediately re-established . These tatters represent no less than 11 , 061 whole shares , 7133 half-shares , and 11 , 672 quarter shares . The Destitute Irish swarm the streets of Glasgow . On Friday about two hundred men , women , and children , in an absolutely destitute Btste , were examined before the magistrates on the charge of being " houseless and foodless 1 " JOHN 0 ' onOATS .
Scotch Christianity . —A boat beloKRing to Wick , while attempting to get out of H » lmsdale harbour was struck by a sea , and driven to the south part of the river , where she became a wreck . The cargo , wheat and barley , was considerably damaged . The good people of Helmsdale refused to render assistance , because it was Sabbath !
DISTlTnilON IN THE ISLANDS . Mm . —Destitution begins to be much felt in the islands . There are a great many deaths amongst the old people and children , not exactly from want , but from a change of diet . There were fifteen fttnerala in Ross churchyard lately in one day . EDINBURGH . The New Antidote to Physical Suffusing . —The Edinburyh Witness gives the following remarkable instance of the successful application of ether in destroying the sense of pain : —
" Another experiment with the inhalation of ether was made in the Royal Infirmary , by Professor Miller , and proved eminently successful . The patient was a middle aged Irishman—a ' navvy' —who had sustained a com . pound fracture of the leg nine weeks before . Ths fracture had not united , in consequence of the presence of a dead piece of bone , and it became necessary to remove thiiby a painful operation . The patient was seated on a table , and the inhalation was applied by means of a verj bcautful yet simple apparatus , made by Squire , of London . At first little tffect was produced , but after tome minutes the patient fell backwards , as if in a swoon . The operator wag then about to proceed ; but the man immediately objected , saying that ' he was not asleep , and that he trusted nothing would be done till he waB
asleep . ' For full twenty minutes more the inhalation went on ; the man confused and talkative , but wide awake , and occasionally expressing very « mpnatically his conviction that ' it would not do . ' At length , however , while in this wakeful state , the operation was begun . Incisions were made on the shin , and flaps were dissected off so as to expose the bone beneath . A portion of this was sawn and clipped through , and then the dead bone was rumored . Only during the clipping of the bone with strong straining pliers did any sign of feeling escape from the patient , who was busy inhaling ail the white , and now and then protesting that' it would ' nt do . ' The operation occupied about ten minutei , and , from the highly sensitive nature of the parts implicated , must have been attended with excruciating suffering under
ordinary circumstances . After it was over , the professor gaid to the patient , ' I suppose you won't let me operate to day . ' 'Certainly not , ' said the patient ; 'it won't do ; I must be asleep . The thing hasn't succeeded with me . and I am sure it can ' t succeed with any one else , for I did everything I could to jet sleep for my own sake , and I'd do anything to please you . ' ' You won't even Itt me make a cut into the leg V ' No ; I must be asleep ; we can try it another time . ' This plain proof of his otter unconsciousness of the operation having been performed was acknowledged by the spectators in a hearty round of applause : The patient then sat up , and seeiug the wound , burnt into an immoderate fit of laughter , saying , ¦ No doubt there ' s blood , or something very like it ; but Ihavn'tfeHa single thing done to my leg . That late »
the globe ; ' and , on being asked decidedly as to his having 'felt anything , 'he repeatedly answered" Not a ha ' porth . ' He got into amazing spirits , and refused to leave the table until he was told ' all about the toldrums of the business . ' And then , with the manner ef a tipsy inau , and very happy , he kept surgeons and students in a roar of laughter for some minutes with a narrative of hie condition during the inhalation , which , Irish-like , seemed to have been a strange medley of imaginary fights and 'killings' going on around him . but wholly irrespective of his own leg and the operation . On being carried out , he declared triumphantly , ' This is the very best thing that has ever happened in the three kingdoms . '
The professor stated that he considered this case quite conclusive as to the powers of the ether , because there was not a more painful operation in all surgery , ani hecause th « patient , having been avowedly a hard and habitual drinker of spirits , was one of those persons who are least susceptible of the ether ' s influence . The whole proceedings seemed to give the greatest satisfaction to the medical and surgical officers cf the institution , and to / a large assemblage of interested spectators . Perhaps the most remarkable thing in such a strange tale is , the circumstaBCe of the man being so wide awake and talkative while all the while quite insensible to the cutting of hie limb . "
Destitotioh m « d Ceime . —The Edinburgh Wetkly Registtr of Wednesday last , states that some of the principal streets of Edinburgh , swarm with ragged children clamoring for relief . The same i . « « r also says that Edinburgh appears to be rivalling Glasgow in the amount and extent of its robberies . The streets are absolutely insecure for many hours before midnight , and unless increased vigilance is manifested by the police , there is no saying to what extentthe depredators may carry on their outrages .
MACDCFP . Meal Riot . —The greatest excitement prevails at all the shipping ports in this neighbourhood , in consequence of the enormous shipments of grain , which aav « been taking place for some weeks pa 6 t , and the rapid advance in the price of food . The quantities shipped at Tortsoy . M-eduff , Fraserburgh , Ac ., as well as at Banff , for tbe last two monthi , have been unexampled ; whilst the price of meal has risen from 18 s . to 30 a . per boll ; oats to 40 s ., and barley to 50 s . per quarter . Friday se ' night a formidable mob assembled at Macduff to prevent the
shipment of a [ quantity ef meal and grain which had arrived in carts , and for the time they succeeded . They placed a high barricade of railway sleepers , found upon the beach , across the tray to the vessels , and stripped off one of her sails te prevent her going to Rea . Saturday , the magistrates called a public meeting in the Town Hall to consider tke matter , at which a large committee was appointed to confer again with the magistrates on Monday forenoon . The same disposition to prevent shipment is manifested at B : icff and elsewhere , but we have heard of no farther aggressive measures being adopted .
ayrshire . Fatal accidents on the Glascow , Domfbier , and Carlisle Railwat . —This Railway is making rapid progress . The Centres of the great bridge over the Ayr are now in , and give a ( toed idea of what this mighty structure will be , as they are seen towering far above the tops of the highest trees which grow at tho top . of rocks one hundred feet in height . Many accidents have taken place . Several horses have been killed . Three men have lost their lives . The first was a miner , who , along with other three , had charged three shots
one morning at one o'clock in the Mospgeil tunnel . Two of the shots went off , while the third hung fire ; the men approached near the spot , when eff it went , knocking them all down , and carrying away one of their heads . The man instantly died . The next case of death was a young man who got jammed between two loaded waggons . He had one of his legs snushed . and sustained severe bruises . He never spoke , except that he cried " Lord have mercy on me ; take chargo ot my helples 6 mother . " A ' lad of sixteen years of age named William Mortou was run over by a train of empty waggons and killed on the spot .
ABBEOATIt , Highway Robberies or attempts thereat , are becoming matters of eommon occurrence in the nei ghbourhood oi this town 1
ABERDEEN , "Meal Mobs . "—Threatened Distdrbances . — On Friday forenoon , there were considurable apprehensions of a riot taking place in Aberdeen , caused by the present high price of provisions . A number of people assembled on the Links at eleven o ' clock , and one or two parties gave some very distressing details ef the state to which they had been reduced . About two hundred of the crowd were railway labourers , who came from the opposite side of the Dee , bearing a black flag . Another body of individuals hud assembled before the Town House , and commenced cheering and jelling—causing great disturbance . The provost addressed tho crowd , pcinting out the uselesauess und folly of attempting to break the peace . The meeting on the Links then mustered about 1000 strong , and it was agreed to send a deputation to the provtst laying their melancholy case beforVhim . The
deputation waited on the magistrates , and represented the great distress prevailing among them , owing to the dearth of provisions . The magistrates at once expressed their desire to use all means within their power to elleviate the distress of tha people , trusting that every one would have the good sense not to x ^ grurate the calamity by any disorderly conduct . Throughout tho day , considerable excitement prevailed . At three o ' clock there was a swearing in of special constables . In the course of the afternoon a portion of the crowd made an attempt to take flour from a carton Trinity Quay , ami the ringleader was takei up and lodged in prison . In the evening the crowds increased , the shops were early shut , and numbers of windows were broken . The police , in taking up some uf the ringleaders , were pelted with stones . Before midnight there were fifty men » nd women impri-Roned .
KIHKCALDV . Fatal Effects op Intemperance .-A few days ago , nn old woman , residing in 1 ' atlihcai ) , of the name of Elder , was found by some neighbours lying in bed in a most distressing state , her face , hands , Ac , sadly burned , still alive . From external rircutnstani'es it is conjectured that spontaneous combustion hnd been the cause . She only survived till the next day , when death put an end to her sufferings . There was also fouud dead on the evining of the same day , Tuesday , a woman , of he name of Henderson , residing at the West end of this town , much given to intemperance . She was found lying on her face on the floor , a stiffened corpse , her n » se betng much flattens by tbe fall ,
Untitled Article
IRELAND . 1 HK ^ MINE—GOVERNMENT MBABUHEB . A circular hai been issued by the Commissary General , from which we make the following extracts : — " AUGMENTED RATIO OF DONATIONS ON SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR AFFORDING GRATUITOUS RELIEF , AND PROVIDING FOOD FOR SALE , AT FIRST COST < tc . ' ¦ TO TBE BECBETART OF BACK BELIEF COHMITTIS IN IRELAND . " Commissariat Relief Office , Dublin Castle , Jan . 2 « , 1847 . " Sir—Commissary-General Sir R . I . Routh desires to state , that in consequence of the distress prevailing in districts where the union workhouses are full or un&vail-Hblc , his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has authorised the recommendation of grants in an augmented ratio on subscriptions , having reference to the extent of destitu tlon in each district . Where much diKtresn exists the grants will be equal to the subscriptions . In tone cases a greater amount will be recommended .
Under the circumstances reverted to in in the first paragraph , the government regulations allow of gratuit-0 U 8 uses to the infirm poor , to widows , orphans , and children where the supporting member of the family is incapable , from sickness or other eause to maintain them . To persons requiring relief on such grounds the food is a free gift of ch » rity , but when the committee sell , it is not desirable to do so under cost price , for it is an object to maintain the funds of the committee as unimpnred as possible , so as to make then applicable to the whole season . The food considered to be best suited for gratuitous relief is soup . This should also be provided for sale , when practicable , with a view of economising the consumption of corn .
FAMINE , DISEASE , AND DEATH . Dubiin , Jan . 23 rd . ~ The accounts from the Northern Counties to-day are most appalling . To the | horroia of famine the dread of pestilence is now superadded . The low fever , called by the peasantry "the plague , " is extending in some of the remote districts of the county of Cork . The Dublin Evening Post says «—We mentioned a week or ten days ago that a low , and , as it would appear , a contagious fever had shown itself in many places in the county of Cork . The poor people oallea it tbe plague , and fled from the infested hovel , leaving the wretched inmates to perish . In order to show the formidable character of the evil , and the imperative necessity of promt precautionary measures , we shall here introduce an extract of a letter which we received this morning from a friend in Carrick . on-Suir , u pon whose accuracy tho fullest reliance may be placed : «¦ .
We are in an awful condition in this part of the country . Oar fever hospital would be crowded with 56 , and we have now 128—three and four in each bed -all suffering from ' starvation fever ; ' and « ur workhouse has now 300 over the number . DUEADPUL MORTALITY IN THE WEST OP THE COUXTT OF CORK . The Cork Examiner contains detailed reports of ten inquests at Bantry , all of which verdicts were returned that death had been caused by starvatioB . The same journal contains the following extract from a private letter from Bantry : —
Each day brings witk it its own horrors . The mind recoils from the contemplation of the scenes we are com . pelled to witness every hour . Ten inquests in Buntryth « re should have been at least two hundni inquests . Each day , each hour , produces 'its own victims—holocausts offered at the shrine of political economy . Famine and ptstilence are sweeping away hundreds—but they have now no terrors for the poor people . Their only regret seems to be that they are not relieved from their suffering and misery by some process more speedy and less painful . Since the inquests were held here on Monday there have been not less than twenty four deaths from starvation ! and , if we can judge from appearances , before the termination of another week the number will be incredible . As to holding anymore inquests , it U mere nonsense . The number of deaths is beyond count , ing . From Mayo the reports are of the same melancholy character .
From Kerry and other counties several appaling statements have been received , IRISH POOR LAW—ADVANCES PROM IBB TltKASURY . Dublin , Jan . 24 . — -The boards of guardians in se veral of the poor-law unions are making arrangements for affordinp increased accommodation , in order to lessen the danger of the spread of infectious disease from the over-crowded state of the work houses . In other unions the guardians declare tht establishments insolvent , and threaten to close the workhouse 1 ! . At the meeting of the Bailieborongh guardians on Monday , a resolution to that effect was adopted , and a call was made upon the Poor Law Commissioners to " enable the board to raise a sufficient sum of money to carry on the expenditure of the heuse until part of the rate shall be colcollected . "
In reply to a letter from Daniel Connor , Esq ., ohairman of the Dunmanway board of guardians county of Cork , showing " the uraent necessity that the Treasury should be authorised to make advances by way of loan to boards of guardians on the security of the future rates , for the purpose of affording additional temporary accommodation to the destitute poor . " Lord John Russell has sent the following : — "January 18 , 1817 . " Sir—I have received the resolution of the Dunmanway board of guardians , convejing a distressing account of that union . The Treasury hsve empowered the Lord Lieutenant to act in urgent c * ses in the manner he shall deem expedient , and I shall transmit to him the resolutions . " 1 have the honour to be , yoar obedient servant , "J . KCSSELI . " Daniel Connor , Esq . " STATE OF THE PEOPLE . ( From our Correspondent . ) Drogheda . —Since I last wrote to you the condition of the labouring classes has been growing worse . Notwithstanding the laudable exertione ef tbe clergy and gentry of the town , the Relief Committee find it difficult to continue the soup kitchen . Tbeie are upwards of six hundred setting a pint of soup with a pound of bread daily , whereby they are enabled merely to keep life in their " shells , " for it would not be right to call their emaciated frames b y any other appellation . The bakers are obliged to have a policeman in each shop , to prevent the carrying away of their bread by the hungry people who crowd our streets : The bread-carts leaving town for the neighbouring villages , lire compelled from the state of the times , to have an officer ' s guard two each cart .
We appear as if our country was beseized . Soldiers marching with fixed bayonets . Our shops closed long ere the usual time , and constant firing of shots during the night , as if the people were preparing from some dreadful conflict . The working men of the town who have employment , seeing the strides' destitution is making , resolved to call a meeting of the working classes , to memorialise the Queen to prohibit distillation from corn in the united kingdom , and thereby ? ave | the food of our starving fellow-countrymen .
The meeting was held in the Linen Hall , Dr . Atkinson , J . C , in the chair . Several other highly influential gentlemen took part in the proceedings of the meeting . A committee consisting of the following po son 6 was ap ' . pointed to divide the town into districts : —Hugh Carnher-Patrick Henry , John Apperson , ( proprietor of the" Con , eemtive Journal" ) , Patrick Murphy , ( the tame " Paddy " who was denounced by O'Connellforbeinga Cbartistin 1841 , Peter Kelly . James Slevin . 'anrl Dr . Atkinson . There is an incident connected with this meeting , which it may beinteresting to the readers of the Star to hear , the requ . sition calling the meeting was signed by the first named individual on the above committee , this to a certain
clergyman , not rcmarkablefor his discretion , seemed nn unpardonable offeree , and gave unmistakc able proof that the whole affair was a wicked design of the Chartists of Drogheda . Accordingly he waited on James Mathews , Esq ., Mayor , to get him to U 6 ehis authority to prevent the mooting from being held , to the immortal horror of our chief magistrate , he peremptorily refused to comply with such an illegal request . Thi 6 occurred on the Saturday evening previous te the meeting . Failing to induce his Worship to do bis behert , and determined not to be frustrated in hi" object , he , on Sunday after lust Mass , from the altar of the God of truth , gave vent to his feelings in language totall y unsuited to such n place .
It would appear ftom this Reverend ( i ) Gentleman ' s opinion , that the stoppage of the distilleries and breweries iR raitfc Chartism that , for the working classes to call » meeting for the purpose of taxing themselves far the relief of their more needy brethren , is a thing that every Christian minister ought to denounce , I shall not more particularl y allude to this revoreud Pastor of Him , who has told us not to bear false witncit against ourneigbour , further than to observe , that he is not under the spiritual jurisdiction of that learned ami exemplary divine , the Most Rev . Dr . Crolly , who , in tinhottest time of Anti-Cliartist persecution " here never allowed his clergy to become the tools of nny ' desiini ing knaves , nor his chaytls to become the scene of false
attacks on private character . In concluding mv present communication , I would earnestly entreat of the Chuv lists of England , to treat kindlythose unfortunate fellow countrymen of mine who are being driven by the ce tuiti approach of death in Ireland , to seek a means of living in the land of "Saxon . " Forget their doZ . fcc l « last few yearn , in groaning and misrepreaentinir the « Saxon Chartists . " « They knew not , * h « Se ? i « o tag I- Treat them kiuOly wheneveryou ' can ^ rb ; means you will do a great deal to remove from their minds the also impresses made on thorn by the enemies of the working classes of the united kingdom but while you thus mitigate their sufferings , forgot not to tell them that you arc " Chartists , " and se send them home with a comet knoffled f « of the " Charter . " H . C .
Untitled Article
Ddblih , Jik . 25 tb .-Many more deathTfTo nuTarv " tion are reported fa , the accounts rewl-ed tSJ ? £ what is termed the " starvation fever" I , spreading the western a * well a > in the southern countie ,. Th « Sligo Champion contains tht following alarming Fever is still « n the increase ; the deaths in the Do n * house are most numerous , and almost all the person who have died were carried off either b y typhus fever 0 dysentry . There are at present four hundred on Z sick list in the poor-house , or one-third of all the inmatei This is really alarming , and from the great increase of fever in ths town we fear a plague will « nsue . Dusuh , JiN . 26 . —Accounts reccivad this mornin * confirm previous statement of the spread of raaliunanf fever in some of the poor-law workhouses . LATEST FROH SKlBBEBEEK . , V
Extract from a letter from Doctor Crowley efSkih bereen : — " Deaths here arc hourl y increasing ! Doctor Donovan and I are just this moment returning J from the vjl lage of South Reen , where we had to bury a body our * » eln « , that was eleven dayg dead ; and where do y j think t—in a kitchen garden ! We had to dig the ground or lather the hole oumlveB—no one would come near us , the smell was so intolerable . We are half dead from the work lately imposed on us .
ACCIDENT OK THE BEtPAST AND rO » TBDOWH RAlUK ^ t We regret to say that on Saturday last , an accident which at first threatened to be of a very serious nature ' took place on the above line , when , but for the precaution of the engineer of the down passenger train , the result ! might have been fearful . The morning was foggy and at about eight o ' clock , a . m ., the luggage and down pS ( u senger trains came into violent collision , by which some of the passengers were less or more Injured , but not seriously , and the materials of the engine and tender * were scattered about in all directions .
GALWAT—DEATB 8 BI ITABTATIOK . From all parts of the county of Galway the most har . rowing accounts have been received , and deaths from starvation are increasing . The Tuam Herald states that five inquests were held from the 16 th to the 21 st instant and in each caBe the verdict was , died of starvation . " ' Private letters from Connemara msntion details of woe almost unparalleled . In Clifden , that the population are fast dying a way for want of food—many are hurried to their early graves from utter destitution , without the ceremony of a funeral , and frequently without tht cover , ing of a coffin , and the clergy are incessantly employed in administering the consolations of religion to those who are falling victims to the ravages of famine . In the village ofGlann , westward of Oughterard by about two miles , in one wretched cabin , ten human beings , coHdti . tuting an entire family , lie dead in one heap of rottenneis and putrefaction .
APPALLING STATE OT THE COUNTY COB . K . The Cork Reporter contains a » tatement from its cor . respondent of the dreadful destitution in tie district of Bantry : — " Mothers bearing dead children in their arms are every whereto be seen , and thote who follow them are often compelled to eat grass to satisfy the cravings of the hunger that gnaws their vitals . A « an example of the rapidity with which death stalks through the land , it may be stated that during the lust ten days the Rev , Messrs . Freeman and Begley visited and prepared for death no less than forty . two , thirty . five of whom wereia the utmost state of destitution , and of that number twenty-eight died , twenty . five of absolute starvation . That number did not include the deaths in the workhouse , which have been unprecedented in extent , not . withRtanding the exertions of the board of guardians . Scarcely an hour elapses without some of the population dropping and sinking into the grave , nnd children , after suffering the pangs of hunger for four or five day * . Many die on the mountain * , uncared for and unheeded . From the southern counties the reports are equally afflicting . From some of the counties of Ulster the accounts are quite as bad as from the south er west . BE . APFEABANCE OF TBE POTATO DISEASE . The Cor * Sepoiter says : —A gentleman resid i ng in the neighbourhood of Kinaale planted in a hot-bed , about three months since , a quantity of sound potatoes of the quarry kind , and on examining the produce yesterday , which by the forced growth had far advanced to maturity , he found them black and diseased . The Hewry Telegraph describes the workhouse of that own as crowded to excess , and , bs they say , " gorged with destitution . " An alarm has been raised in tbe town on the score of fever and disease , which may rea . sonably be apprehended from such a stat * of things .
THE LIBERATOR AND HIS STARVING DUPES . { Frmn our own Correspondent . ) At the meeting in Delusion Hall , on Monday , the ISth instant , the Liberator is reported to have burst into tears while reading a letter from Dean New . man , detailing the sufferings of Mr . O'Connell ' s constituents in the County of Cork . "Twenty . five per cent , of them have perished by this t j tne . I cannot , cannot go on . My bleod freezes . The t ears rush from my ejes . I urn unmanned . " ( Here the Liberator burst into tears . ) Freeman ' s Journal , Tuesday , 19 th January . 1817 .
How well this infamous old impostor acts his part lie said that he would proceed to London next day to vote against the Whig Ministry unless they would send immediate relief to the people of Ireland , The papers stated that he had actually sailed from Kingstown by Tuesday ' s packet . Bat , instead of which , he has eoncealed himself in his house in Merrion Square till the debate on the address should ; be over : because if he made his appearance in the House he must have either supported the address or oppossd it . In the one case he would lose character with ' even the silliest of his dupes ; in the other case he might risk the loss of the Whig patronage . In the meantime , the starving people of Cork , for
whom he burst into tears , are utterly forgotten , A week ' s total want of food is nothing in the estimation of this Behnard Cavanagu . Poor Bernard Cavanngh was an honest impostor compared to the tearshedding " Liberator . " A 3 the name of the knave was notseen in the debate in parliament ; and as no one could sie" lrin in Dublin ; and as at last , thank God , every body believes him to be a cheat and a deludor : worse iu every respect than Moore ' s veiikd Pnornui ; his friends , those who confided in him a short year since , papered the city of Dublin with a placard , of which the enclosed is a copy . No one is pulling it down : no , not even his friends , the exemplary police . " OUR PROPHET AND OUR GUIDE , "
O where , and O where is the Liberator fled » lie said he'd go to London to get the people Broad : But O whtre , and O where h « 8 our Liberator fleo ! With a tongue as sweet as honey , He gets hold of all our money , And leaves us without a penny to buy a bit of bread The landlords he'll support , Of the poor he m » kes but snort When he visits Ht the Court ; ' While we are dyin g—dead , For want of the promised bread , O where and O where has our Liberator fled »
When Dead he found out that we were dying , When will he leave off lying ? Cur children lie ' s left crying All for the promised Bread . And its where and O where has the Liberator fled ? He has sold us to the Whigg , The base and bloody prigs , Who have run their brutal rigs Upon us poor Irish dupes . Dublin , Sunday , January 2 i , 1817 . DOWNFALL OF TIIE GREAT SHAM-THE » R P \ T DOWN TO FIFTEEN POUNDS
At the meeting of the Repeal Association on Mordav = ^» arres ,-rs 3 z ^^ Zttssd : "3 Sr r = ^ ---r ! en onl dn IT Bt u , tate quarter 8 e 8 si ° "» *<» the rent onlj due in November last . These were the erotic men who were calling the Government 0 com ' fward , although they thenuelves would render ne List lardhmtednm '
. It was arranged , ha h cOmm ie Parliament on the subject from Mr . K lly . in order to Si mm : apP ° iDted t 0 * "lint ™ "te good from he bad landlords through the country , so as to enable tho Legislature to treat e « h me as it deserved was announced that Mr . O'Fhherty , of Knockbanc , is be the Old Ireland' candidate for Galway , in succession to sarUlcntine BlBH whose resignation i , no longer * matter of doubt . At the Corn as well ., me Stock Exchange there was a serious fall in the funds , tbe rent having cloiei at £ 15 . 16 d . lid , The ship is sinking .
Ihk Irish Ci ^ fkhkratios , or Yotxa inmxD 1 AiiTY . —Atan extraordinary meeting of the council on I- inlay , at three o ' clock , Chas . Gavan Duffy , Ksq . mthe c > w . Mr . Mitetoi-11 reported tint , according to the directions oi the council , he had laid before Mr . llcnn , U . C ., the resolutions constituting the confederation and its council , and had received that gentleman s distinct opinion that there is nothing K / , n "; . consf't « t '"" of either ; and that it they WnUf eaAer CXercise or as 8 ume a nsnt to reire . oft ! S ' , r ? Hnot , comc under the provision « f iS t nvc , ntl 0 " Act - Mr . Dohenyin the absvBce oi Mr . Lawlor , brought forward the report of tho committee on famine , prepared by that gentleman .
Ihtimt &(To£, _
ihtimt & ( to £ , _
Untitled Article
—? " — SCOTLAND . CL 4 S 00 W . The Agxkwites . —The late fire consumed property worth at least one hundred thousand pounds . When this fire was raging and devouring everything within « ts reach , when the whole city was in commotion when , but for the stillness of the wind and the favourable aspect of the heavons , the most valuable portion byfarottheone-halfofthecity of Glasgow might have been wrapt up in one devouring sheet of flame it was discovered that the active and managing partner of one of the most extensive concerns connected with this property was in Edinburgh and Dundee and it was then most wisely resolved to send an ex ' press to him , t » apprise him of the calamity , and to jring him to Glasgow with ali expedition This h ? wever « Wi 18 f 0 V I" be impossible . Tho directors
.... . of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Companythose canting Agnewites , who have so recently crcnt into that conaern , and stopped the Sunday trainspositively and peremptorily refused , through their officers , to despatch an express engine for the laud able and necessary purpose above stated ! Nav we have heard ( says the Scotch Reformer ' s Ga ' ette ) that they stoically refused to allow a solitary ms senger with the above express to take his place be side their own engineer , who was going at any rate with their ( pious ?) engine to Edinburgh with the mailbags from Glasgow , which they still carry for hire on thit day !! Hut this is not all . When the flames were beginning to reach the opposite fside ot tli » - street , where some of these good Sir Andrew Agnew ites have their workhouses located , all hands " were set to work , and did work till a late hour on Sundav night . Yet the kith and kin of those people had
denied the train tor the express to Edinburgh at mid-day , as we have stated . In the evening of that same day , however , when the tiftry clouds began to lower upon their own houses , they put every leg and arm , every bodily aid they could command to save their goods and chattels—their prints , patterns and shawls ; their day-books , their ledgers their cash-books , their invoices , and bills of lading—and these , we will be bound to say , from what we have heard , were fingered by them far more anxiously than the Bible itself , with the Fourth Commaadjnent , that evening .
Untitled Article
« THE NORTHERN STAR . January 30 184
-
-
Citation
-
Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1403/page/6/
-