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Snglsnfc , SE-VCASTLE-OS-IISE . DnKADrvi , Mlt . ikr—F . arly on tlio morning of SiinfJ ) y 1 , 1 = 1 a nvst- uie . i
situated in the Kii . 'hi' . r . ir ' i' - nil ; an . ! on Proud and his party Laving tho pnb'ic-house . WeVu loft also , an-- ! ¦ went in tliesvv . e ilirecti-m . Ii i-roj . ortvd thct the qur . rrel nr ; n renewed . avJ that spni-thuii' « . f the nature rf a shiiL'ulc took place b f-rtirn Welsh an • V-vrt- ' ¦> , Welsh . rent away , and the party si : r > p-WJ they Ii !< 5 ' jot rid of him . However , before thoy had jo ^ e fur up the lane , Welsh , who is sujP ' CM'd ' - have taken a somewhat nearer road , suddenly re-r . ^ . -aroi , and . tusking up to proud , sciz-vt hsild of his hea'I , * i . id , jiKiiint' ii ' oac-k , cut his thro . it so drca-lni ' iv , that the unfo ' . tunaie victim
died almost inrnedi-iu \ v . After cunwiitiiii ; the horrid d ? cd . Wp ' . sa instantly ran (¦ : !" , awl calkdatthe game puMic house , vfcre h l : n j « ii of whisky , and having -Jrcttk it , lie st . V . e-ito v . a mistress of the Lou- ? t ' : at it- was thela * t tlni-j fhe would see him . He t * a-n left . pm \ listened to tieFourslonee station . Qn tacuii . e ir- he seems to haw . bten entirely overcome , partly \> y the liqirr he kid taken , and the exertions nude to Sea fiv-m the locality of his crime . In the meantime , intelligence of the * murder soon spread over the Tillage , and Mr . Mauglian haviij " arrived at fho spot , guv . -, dine Lms io nuke infant , purssit , mil tho constable { . \! r . Gcor-e Ridley ) iiimcdiat- ? iy m ¦ u : ife ^ . a h ;> r- ? , and we :: * to the Fourst nosstat'ftn , where We '? h w . -js taken .
On Tuesday afternoon an inquest f > n the b'dy of the m T . ipri . 4 ni . m av hell at Newiinra ^ h , before S . R » erl , Esq ., f no of the coroners for XnrVnumber land , when after heaving the evidence of several Tritnrs » cs , the . iary returned a verdict of Wilful Mur- ' er aga . inst V « V «' i , whn was c .. n ; : » I : ted for trial a * the ensuiuc a >< z s . Welsh is not mure than 23 years of a-je . The deceased was nujeh > i ! . Jer , and has left , a wi-Jow and family to lament his fate . LiVEnrooi . Aizzgt . d Artfcl R'lBDnr . T . — A story is current h ? re that a lady of ?»« town ste ;> jied from 5 ier carriage opposite the Roya ! F . aiik P . ni ! din . <; $ , passed thrr .::. li i ' jg ara , and , entorin . s ; the » & : !; , ' presented a cheque for a eon l- ' e : able suti , which sli-. roceiveJ in l »? nk not-s . It is believed that she was minutely ¦ wa tched . S ' . ie returned to her carriage , and whs just ab iut to step in , when a S ' -utk-man in sp ' . et : i « ics , ¦ wiiho .: t his h . t , ami with a pen in his hand , hastiy ,
lut nolitcly , aetost ? c ! ! ter , sayin . % ' I beg pardon , mndam : we ha-e forgotten tn make , a intiuiomndam of your ' :-. itcs . "VTI 11 you Icindly return tlioni to me for a few m nutc-. and I will restore tlicm to you direel ' y . " Thel-. dy . believing the yc ^ oa who ' addressed he ; to l > e one of the clerks of the bank , surrendered the notes at once , and the gentleman hasti ' v retreated up the st-tps thryag ' i the i ; ates , into : ha area , and ran in the direction of the bank . The lady waited gome time , an : ! a * ! o : _ th - . vent to the h . snk to inquire wi « y ' , Lc uotes weren-tsentbank to lur . She was assured that no person hnd been sent after her from the bank , arid that her business ¦« n tu the teller had been completed when the note * were counted rtut to her . Sha perceived at once lhat she had bean in ^ en '^ nsly robb ? d , and that the respeetaMc lonkinc gent-emau in spectscles , after he had olnasjicd the n ; tes , must inve made his exit from tie buildings throu ^ li the ^ atts opening into Elbow Line .
Tiir . Destitcte lEi « n . —At the usual fortnightly me :-t : n . c of t ' uevestry the str . t . 'ment of accounts for the fortnight ending on Saturday last , was submitted by the vos ' rr clerk . For the week enainc the 30 th Januay . it ap peared that there were 23 , 445 Irish cases atte : dt-d to . comprising 2 . ; , 405 nun , 2-5 , 603 women , and % , 5 S 5 children ; total of individnsls . I 47 , "' . < 3 ; who received in money , ^ 17 S CsOd ; and in bread am ! soup , £ 225 12 s Sjd . ' The casual reiie ; to other 100- was £ 13 11 « . To : a ! exrra cost to the paris « . for t ie week , ciused by the IvWi immioriition , £ 3 ?? S- - ' ltd . For tha week ending Satnrd . ' iT the 6 th
icsiant , tiie total nmnber of Irish fmisrants whose wants wore aliendei to wa-55 . lSGrt-.-inr O . ISi pen , 13 , < i * . > women , and 33 , tt' 7 chid vn ; at a coat in nnney of £ 1 G 5 , Is 3 . 1 . ar . d in soup : in > l breaJ , £ 102 1 O < Cid ; to other casual poor , £ 11 2 s 01 . Total cost , £ 527 Hi 9 £ d , king r . n extra cost tor the irMs pr-os , of £ S 1 G 12 SJtl . Oa the inotioa ot Mr . SenoleSa / J , soondedby Mr . ATK'in . it wasresoived that a deputation from the bwd be authorised to proceed to Lnndun , to urge n ;* on government the ne-CHsiiy of soine le-: is ' ative medn- being adopted to check the contkued influx of Irisii jnnu ^ ral on into this port .
r . rxcoHV . CnAiiC . E of MrnDER . —un Shtircay las ' , a considerable sassation wascau ^ d j r . Ilunccrn by the fact of a man named Richard Eu ^ aru ' s , a carpenter by tnde , luvini f killed his wife , it appeared that Edwards , who is a man given to drink , had bu-en fnddlinsr all that day , i ; i « tea < i of being at his work ; and his wife Betty Edwards , who is described as having ben r . <] uiet . peaeea-je woinau , had sent one of her children tft receive what wa ^ es were tiue iu him . About four oVluck in the auenmoji , Ed-. vav < is came h ' irae ; aud wanted to pet some money ; bat- his wife declined to give him any , ss all tlw . she Lad received was due to the provision shop . Ed sards imni-edi * - tely beg : - , n to abase and beather , in the pretence of her children ; he took her by the hair of her head and attempted to throw her out of doors , and then h « struck her several times about the head and neck ,
knocked her down , and kicktd her nw ^ t severely . His eldest son who is an apprentice , interfered on be-1 half of his mother , but was obliged to desist in cun-Eequene-- of the threats of his fa ' . her ; but he van out to letch the neighbours in , who found her on the Boor q-iite dead , so that she had literally beeu bsaten to death . Etiwards took the matter quite coolly , and when his son was desired to send fur a doctor he threatened that if he went he wonldkill him . Again , ¦ when he was told his wife was dead , he made uso of the brutal language , " Let her die , and to h—I with her . " Edwards was immediately tekeu into custody . On Tuesday last , an inquest on the body was held at the Royal ilotel , Runcorn . before Mr . Henry Churton , coroner , when the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder against Richard Edwards , " who ¦ was accordingly committed to Chester Castle on the coroner ' s warrant , to take his trial at the next Chester aSS' 2 S 3 . UAXCI 1 ESTER . DESTrrcnox—The Sow Kitchex . —The distribution of soup and bread continues with unabated liberality . On Saturday , not less than l . oOO jallons ol soup , and 1 , 500 loares of bread , were distributed to needy individuals ; on Monday , there were 1 , 400 gaiUmsof soup , and 800 loaves of bread i ; iven away ; an < J on Tuesday , the quantity distributed was 1 , 500 gallons of soup , and 1 , 500 loaves of bread
WAHKIKGIOS . Iscrka « ed Distress . —On Monday evenin" last , a meeting was held at the Sections ' House , "to take into consideration the steps necessary to be adopted for providing some proper relief to the distressed able-bodied poor in the townshi p of Warrington and Latchford , and to whom no other parochial aid can be given , except that afforded in the Union Workhouse . Mr . Reynolds , the senior overseer , presided . Litiraately it was resolved , that a requisition to the constabler to convene a public meeting , for the purpose of establishing a soup kitchen , eradoptins such other means as the urgency of tl . e ease required , to relieve the able-bodied poor , should be adopted .
ItOLTON . Fatal Coal Pit Accidest . —On Friday last an inquest vfas held at the Hare and Hounds publichouse , Little L-ver , on the body of George Baxendaie a boy aged ten years , son of Wm , Baxendale , bricknnker . ' 1 he hoy was employed as » drawer in one of Mr . John Fletcher * .- coal-pits , and was descending the shaft on Thursday erening , with some other b-jy ? , by means of ladders . The other boys wislimi- to r-a * s the -icceased , he stepped aside on one ot the ! a :: din s . where there was a board off , and fell through to ; the batUm and was killed . The jnry returned a verdict « f ' Accidental Death "
LEIGU . Fatal Collikrt AccmuxT . —Oh Friday afternoon an anqu-: st was hclJ at V . ' estleigh , before Mr . Ilenshall , dc-puty-oroner , » , n the body of Charles Burton , a >; ed twenty , who has died from the effects of burns reciin-d by an explosion of fire damp , at the Liverpool and Manchester Coal Company ' s Works , Park Colliery . The explosion took place on Thuraday the 2 S ;! i ult .. and ten persons were burned , three of the number being dangerou-lr injured . Burton and a boy named J ; i ; ncj Cunl ffe , ag . ' d twelve , died on the Tu ? 5 'ar nhv the accident . V-.-rJic ' s to the effect tkia ts . o dealhi were the result t > f wcoiupnt were returned in b itii cases . The inquest on Cuuliffe was hoM before Hayes , lie having died in liiudley , which is iu a different di > trict .
OLDHAU . Distress o . v tiie IIatters The operatives eagaged in the hat manufacture at Oldiiam , arc in great distress from deficiency of employment . Great natnbexfl of them hare not more than two days ' werk per week , and some not mure thau a dav ' a work per fortnight . ' A 8 HTO 35-tnn ) RB-I . T . VB . lin ^ H V 5 ™ J - "r ° « Monday afternoon , John S h * w , » tad about tixteen years of age went toner tetbefutoiy , irten the ice gaye an ? hef « U
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in . The body was recovered in a short time after wards , and the us : sal means used to restore animation , but without effct . SrALTB ! UDGF . » Charge of Frt / iNy . —At ti : e Stalybridcc petty sessions , 01 Monday last . Cl » risfe > pher Tlsornton was oharscd with stealins tv , -o deal boards , the property of Mr . J . inies WoMh ' . v , of High-street , Stalybrid ^ e . It appeared from the prisoner ' s o < sn Ptatement i when ctiarired with the offence , that he had stolen them on Saturday mornmji . frmvi Mr . Woolley ' s c . irt-houso 11 ^ was met by the watchman when carrying them away , and taken into custody . — -The prisoner was commited for trial . ,
mtADFom Lambsiablr Cask of . ViAxsr . uT . nTBR . -A man named Joseph Holmes , aHy maker , at Victoria Mill , bowling , was killed on Tuesday , under circumstances which hare caused a great sensation in Bradford T th ? "eiKhb ° urhood . Dece-wtd was in pwtucr . slnp with someother persons as fly makers . He was ¦ i young man , and resided with his widowed iroth'r wlio , it is stated , had another son killed some time sinec . Deceased was , on Monday night , at the narley Mow Inn , where he quarrelled with the landlord of a beer-shop , in Howlin ;; , known by the si » n ot the Rose and Crown ; and in a ti ^ ht , the landlord ( Haley ) received a severe thrashing . It appeared that the treatment which Halev had received the
previous night , was , on the Tuesday morning , the subject of much conversation at the beer-shop , where Jolm Hartley , aced forty , a labourer at liowin » foundry , and a biscuit b ; ikcr , named Thomas Ilollins , livii . e at Chapel-lane , bettor known as " Biscait . T « m , " from his hawking biscuit- happened to bs . Tom had , according to his confession before the magistrates , seven piuts of ale at the Rose and Crown , and being ; a noted fighter , it was arranged he should drub Holmes for his conduct . Accordingly he waswatehx'd comin ^ to hU dinner . On his eominspast the house , Elizabeth Haley accstedhim , and asked him how he could fashion to come p 1 st the house after he had used her husband in such a
manner . Hartley then , according to the evidence of William Benn , of Queen ' s Head , delver , seised Holmes and the prisoner . Rollins then struck him two or three tinier alwut the head , having , at the Sf . tne time , hold ot his eallar . On Collins , the constable of Bowling , coming and charging peace , Rollins left hold of iiolmes , who fell from the pavement and instantly expired . lie was carrie . ! into the Rose and CrowB , bleeding much at the nose and head . Mr . Field , surgeon , was soon on the spot , but could ren der no assistance , and made a ffost mortem examination of the deceased's hea «! , that he had found about twoonnces of effused blooil in the posterior i > art of the bruin , and that deceased died from the effects of the rupture of a blood vessel of the brain caused by violence . The prisoner , Hartley , who was defeWed by Mr . Terry , said nothing in defence . Rollins said he was drunk at the time . h : ivinsr had eevon nint * of
ale , and that dec-cased challenged him . Both prisoners were committed to York Castle fov tvial , bat bail was accepted for Hartley . Rollins is 27 years of age . XtWAIlE . Fatal Accidf . st ox tug Nottingham and Lincoln Rmlwat . —On Saturday last a fatal accident happened 011 the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway , near the Staythrope Gate , about four miles from Newark . It appears that . it five o ' clock in the morning , George Cree , a « red 23 years , in the employ ot Messrs Craven and Son , contractors , tnok two horsos on the railway when the mail train from London to Lincoln had been due nearly an hour , and the workmen had all ceased ti-cir ' employment to let the train pass . Cree perceiving tlu * mail train approach , moved off the down line with his burses : but at that
momenta special cattle tram from Lincoln happened io corae up , and tho engine caught Cree upon the head , and struck one of the horses . The rcan was carried about 100 yards , his head was sma-hvd to pieces , his brains were scattered in all direction !* , his left leg cut off , his rk'ht thijih broken , t * ie bono protruding through the flesh , and the horse killed upon the spot . The other hor ? c escaped unhurt . The body of Cree was convoyed toRollestmie Church , and in the afternoon Mr . P . Falkner , Coroner , held an inquest , when the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "
WORCESTERSHIRE . Malicious Outrage . — In the beginning of last « eek , one of those acts which , we have so often to record in the mining districts , resulting from the most fiendish and revengeful feelings , occurred at Broukmoor . It appears that before daylight on Wednesday morning lour pieces of hard oiilc were introduced between the teeth of the crown wkcel and the nut wheel of the Star Pit winding eneine , at the Wiuewaters Colliery , near iirookraoor , belonging to L . ins Ward . The objest of the miscreant was to ireik the machinery , and destroy the lives of the first baud of men who miglit happen to descend the shaft , a calamity which was happily averted by the timely discovery of the ahVir . A * reward of £ 20 has been < ff .-red by Lord Ward ' s agent for the discovery of the miscreants engaged in this nefarious transaction .
CHELTENHAM . Suspected Murder . —A few days ago , while some men were making a new road through an orchard , belonging to Mr . Croome , of Durableton , they discovered some humnn bones . Inquiries were instituted , and it was ascertained that about eleven vcars ago a herse had been fo-. snd tied to a tret near the spot , bat the owner was never discovered . The man . wii-- found the horse kept it for twelve months , at ' the end of which time he sold it for £ 10 . Theimpre-sion among persons living in the neighbourhood was , that the owner of the horse hd been murdered , and the discovery of the bones strengthens the supposition .
NORWICH . Extensive Fire . —On Saturday night la « t the anti-friction grease manufactory of Mcssw . Kittore and Lockett , near the Foundry Bridge Wharf * , Nurwicb , was entirely destroyed by fire . Ilmv the fire originated is not ascertained , but susnicious are entertained that it was not accidental .
ESSEX . Fire at Rahwinter . —On Saturday evenine , between six and seven o ' clock , a fire broke out at an offhand farm occupied by Mrs . Carter , at Radwintcr ; and though assistance wasspecdily rendered , and the fire engine from Walden was as quickly as possible conveyed to the spot , a smaU b ; irn and some sheds were destroyed , bcside 3 about fifteen quarters of oats and fifteen quarters of barley ; three cows and two cilfs which it was impossible to get . out in time , were bur ; -. t in the latter . Superintendent Clark and four of the police hastened to the eptit and rendered every assistance , and by great exertion the other part of the premises and the dwelling-house , were saved . The damage is estimated at about £ 260 . There is no doubt the fire was entirely accidental . Mrs . Carter has had charcoal burners eraploj-ed there through the winter , and on Saturday a quantity of chat-coal was I placed in the loft over the cow-shed before it was j properly cold , and as the fire broke out in that ; part there is no doubt that this caused the
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BOXFORD . . AWFCLLT SUDDES DEATH OF THR RtV . W . PlUME . —On Monday evening last , about eight o ' clock , while Mr . Plume was sitting by the fire , she perceived Mr . Plume ' s hand , upon which he had been previously reclining , drop , when in an instant he fell forward upon the hearth-rug . Before any ne could be called to his assistance hn was acarpse . The deceased gentle man was deservedly respected and beloved by all wh ;> knew him . He had held the mastership of th > grammar-school for nearly thirty-three years , and was in the sixty-sixth year of his age .
DEVON . __ Cossciexce-strickex Tiiikves . — A short time since . 'in a parish on the confines of Devon and Cornwall , an henest and thrifty farmer engaged a sweep to come to his house for the purpose of sweeping his chiranics and flues ; and as the worthy knight of the soot-brush arrived late in the evening , he was provided with a warm supper and was comfortably domiciled in the barn , in order to commence his o ;> era tions early on the following morning . Sooty having wrapped liiimelt" in the winnowing sheet , and stretched his weary iimbs on some clean straw , had just resigned himself to the arms of Morpheus , when lo , a man with a dark lantern , and another witii a number of sacks , entered the barn , and speedily began to fill the sacks with the wheat , which was lying in the barn-pool , just fit for the market . The sween lay snu » in his dormitory , and watched their
operations without saying a word ; when one of the thieves remarked to his companion , that they should get on much more expeditiously in filling their sacks if they Lad got a third person to hold their candle . Sooty , with genuine simplicity , aroused himself from his rustic crib , and exhibiting his ebony figure to the astonished rubbers , coolly said to them , " I'll hold the candle for you , " The conscience striken thieves , in their excited imagination , readily conceiving '' the gentleman in black" to be no less a personage than his Satanic Majesty himself , hurriedly threw down the sacks , flew through tho doorway like aflash of lightning , and in their terror and hurry to escape the clutches of Old Nick , actually took their deuarture , leaving a horse and cart behind them , which they had intended for the transit of the corn , and poor Sooty , the only actor left on the stage , speedily alarmed the sleeping inmstes of the farmhouse and put them in pursuit of the marauders
UKEAT IXFLl'X OP Ikisii Po'wt into NKwronT . — A correspondent writing from this place « m Saturday says : " We have had frequent importations of Irish poor into this port every year in search of employment ; but the present number of immigrants from that unhappy country is quite unprecedented . A vessel , named the Wanderer , has just arrived lure with nearly two hundred of the wretched and famished creatures , chiefly from Skibbcreen , huddled { together m a mass ot wretchedness unparalleled . On examining the crowded vessel it was found that between twenty and thirty starving in » ., _ wnmon
and children , were lying on the ballast in the hold ma dying condition . Their state was most deplorable ; and had it not been that surgical and charitable aid wm rendered the moment the vessal came alonmide the wharf , it is said that many would have be « abroBgbt ashore dead .
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VlE " Scotland Militant MovEUKNTS . r-ln consequence of the disturbances which have recently oc-nrred in the ili _ rhl : nds , a considt-vflh ! c augmentutum of the military tor . 'Hsat present ntationcd in the Highlands is now taking place . In addition to the troops which have aiioadyboeudesuatehed to the north from Edinburgh , a detachment of fifty men of the 7 Glh Re » iment , uniier Captain Dennis , left the castle on Friday foi A&'i-deen ; and a detachment of 100 men oi the same raiment , under Brevet-Major Scott , Captain , Flanagan , and Lieutenant Lurge , proceeded on Sabbath fur Rurchcad l > v liteamcr .
CLEARINGS IS THE nKBMDES . In South Uist there are plaees called Frobosts , where the people , generally speaking , were upon the whole , comfortable and ably to pay their way ; but they have been turned out of their small holdings , to the barren hilis and mossy moors , to spend their energies on a stubborn soil , which can yield no reinuneratinu crops for years to come ; and how in the meantime the poor pcopleare to be supported , no one c-ui tell . At . WiiitRunday last , n , number ot families were cleared from Water .-ny , to raalre room for cattle ,
and tlie » e families are now located on a most sterile spot , to the east of Castla Bay . The Sound of Ei iskay was at the name tinis cleared of a number of families , in ordci to accommodate sheep or cattle . And were are the people now ? On the wildest portions of the inhospitable hi ! l of Kilbride . Again , U 10 inhabiiantsof the cast side of Binnraorehavc ' becn banished to « he outskirts of the Kiibi-ide hills , and this for no other purpose than to provide additional grazinps . Preparations are now making , it is reponed , for another clearing at the ensuing Whitsunday ; the place to be cleared is said to be Ilelesav .
I / 'CIICARKOX . IIokuible Destitution . —A family in Kishorn , have subsisted for several weeks ( his season on boiled j . ras 3 and nettles , without tasting any other species offend . Nothing whatever have been done in the parish beyond giving the paupers a tew bolls of meal , and ere summer , Jesntown will be as utterly destitute as Skibbereen , in Ireland .
FRASERBUUGH . Food Riots . —la thntown the condition of nearly three-fourths of the population is deplorable , and families havu been living on turnips three times aday , with a luinritul of meal cast in amongst themothers have been without b-. -t .-aii or meal ia ^ hoir houses for days—want is to be seen depicted in th-. 'ir c mntenaRces . They repeatedly applied to different parties for advice or relief , but nothing having bi > en d'liie for thorn , and thinking that there would be nothing further for them but starvation ,
from the shipment of train continuing to be pretty extensive , they assembled litre in laige numbers on Friday and Saturday week , demanding relief for themselves and families On entering the town , they immediately repaired to the harbour , sine ! turned the carts which were shipping the grain u ; . the quay . No violence was done to any one , nor was a single pane of gla-s broken in tke town ; and on both days , when an asHun . nc- was made by the Chief Magistrate that something would be done for then , they dispersed , and left , to-vn quietly .
Uiois bt Femalh 3 . —During the past week the village of Garmouth has bern kept in a perfect ferment by the unruly proceedings of a number ot women . These Amazon * were regul . rly mustered by a ringtowJcr or two , w ' io appeared on parade , with fl * g on shoulder . Guards were l ; ept during niizht to warn the party of the approach of any carts with grain for the stores ; and in the daytime the most perfect surreillanee was observed . * * * Two of the ringtolers concerned in the riots , named >? ' » ' « aret M'Dan . ild « r Murray , and Isabella Bowie or Brown , were apprehended , ami esbc-tcd by ? guard of the 7 Gih , committed to Elgin prison .
ARDkK . A poor woman , resident within a mile of this town , was subject to attacks of epilepsy , and in one of the fits , a few days since , an infant she had in bed with her fell out , and wa ? nearly devoured bv a pig . The neighbours missing tho wo ^ nan . and conjecturing all was not right , burst open tlie door , and horrible to relate , found the head and some of the infant ' s lim b ^ about the floor , and the unfortunate mother a corpse in the bed !
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Srriantt . Dcblik , Fku . r the Bask of Ireland . —On Thursday , Thomas Jones Atkins , late of Grafton-street , and formerly of Wicklow-strcet , engraver ; and Thomas James , ' ot Mecklenburg-street , engraver ; and Henry Fitzsimon , of Whitehorse-yard , printer , were brought before Messrs . lletehcock arid Tyndall , at College-street Po ice-office , in custody of Brcnnan , and some other officers of the detective police , charged with beine concerned in the forgery of notes of the Bank of Ireland . The notes forged were dated May 11 , 1 S 44 , and _ 6 th of December , 1845 . A witness nameo Daniel M'Cormick , of Toomevara , who had been engageil in eirculfttiug the forged notes , in various parts of the country , was examined at much length as to tho nio . le of operations . An officer of the B ink of Ireland was also examined . The prisoners were committed for trial at the commission . * DISTRESS IN CLAUr ..
The Rev . Mr . Molonoy , writing from Kilkenny to the Clare journal , and a'ter recounting toe various deaths caused by starvation in tha : pari-h within the last three months , says , " But w ! : y trespass on your space with a few isolated cases ?" " Tii ' .-re are 6000 yet breathing skeletons of men and women in the parish . Your reporter , when here , seemed to be deeply moved at rhe si » ht of some . What if he had > nen here now ? What if he hnd seen them all ? What if he hndseen the'hundredsupon hundreds who are unable to crawl abroad ? Had he visited the
cabin of poor Blake , the death of whose child I have already stated , he would see there the mother of deceased , like a corpse on which a lingering consumption had committed all its ravages . lie would have seen her and her other famishing little ones laid , no ! 0 : 1 a bed , as poor Blake called it , but on a wad of unwholesome , I mii'ht say loathsome , straw , on the damn earth , without a > heet , blanket or quilt , deserving the name—even the ordinary inner article ofdres 3 ofevery female she had not , but a piece of time-perforated calico ab ' iut the . neck and fhouldtrs
STATE OP CAVAX . Dwtress is rapidly on the increase , and in several localities the relief arrangements are very defective . A vast cone iurse of lahuurcrs , at least 500 in number , flonked into Cavan on WedilMday last , all of whom hnd just been thrown o . it ot ' e nploynient , in consequence of the cessation of the public works ' in the above parish .
CARRIOAUOT . Within the last thirty days 50 deaths have taken place in this locality ! nAKTRT . Fourteen inquests were held in one day , the verdict in each case being—Death from Starvation . TRALHK . So great is the famine here that several" donkies " have been sacrificed in that country uy the starving peasants , and used as food .
COUK . —FAMINE RIOTS . On Friday morning , about half-past nine o ' clock a notice was bnujht to the Turkey-street guardhouse , stating that a larjie mob , numbering from eight hundred to one thousand pens < m , had gone to the wwkhouse with the intention of attacking that establishment , and plundering the provisions contained there . A party of police , under the command of Sub-Inspector Walker and head-constable Condon , wan immediately ordered out , and proceeded quickly to the scene of the anticipated riot . It appeared from the evidence of head-constable Crowley , delivered before the magistrates this morning , that he had aUo proceeded with a detachment of police , to the workhouse , but , on his arrival there , he found
that the mob had left it a short timo previously without committing injury or violence . After leaving : the workhouse , the mob came down Dou ^ las-strcet , and attacked the shop of Mr . Harry , baker , eut ot which they took a quantity of bread . They then proceeded down White street , and up George ' s quay , where they met a bread cart , which they rifled of the greater portion of it « contents . Head-constable Condon , and the party under his direction , met the mob at Parliament-street , and fo' lowed them into Princc ' s-street They then attacked the shop of Mr . Thompson , baker , Prince ' s-strcet , and notwithstanding the opposition of the police , carried oil a large quantity of bread , after demolishing Bevera ! panes of glass , and committing other injury
party of three hundred or ibur hundred separated from the main body , and walked quickly by PrinocV street , nccmnpanic ;! by head-constable Condon and his party . O . i entering Patrick-tawst , they ran quickly towards the Parade , and on getting into the n ° - ' j 'Yv'Pf ' u ; tllc ? rushed illt 0 ll » e shop of Mr . David Walsh , broke the glass in the window wilh their Bhovels , and attempted to obtain possession 0 ! the bread 111 the window . The police arrested two ot n -Ttr P , : " 11110 " 1 actor 3 'n the outrage , named Darnel Walls , and a man named Casey , at present hrait in Blackpool , bat originally from the parish ot Macroom . lhe prisoners were taken into Mr . Walsh ' s shop , when the mob attacked tho police with their
spades and shovels , and swore they would not leave the place till their comrades were liberated . Several ot the police were struck with atone * , and also beaten w : th tliesjiai ' es of tlie rioters . At thin time the riot had asavmwd a most serious aspect , thi mob appearing determined to rescue the prisoners , Head-constable Condon took a bayonet from one 0 ! the policemen , and with a few of ' the partv charged the mob with drawn bayonets down tho Norlli Main-street , over North-gate brid ge , up Shandonstrcet , and Clarence-street . The rioters theu retired towards Blackpool , and tlie constabulary returned into town . Daniel Wallis , Patrick Ivoche , Jeremiah Murphy , and Daniel Casey , were brought uu to
tinpolice olhce 111 hall an hour after the occurrence and committed for trial before the Recorder . Up tn the hour of one o'clock the baker ' s sho is in Patrickstreet , and the other principal streets of the city remained close for fear of a second attack " Dubux Fun . 8 .-Thk Rent ooikg dowsio Fauisb Pojr i—The usual weekly meetiiig of the Repeal An-
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• • ociation was held this day , at the Conciliation Hall , Thonma Steele , Esq ., in the chair . The Chairman , in tnking his seat , addressed the meeting at same len-th . In alluding to Mr . Roebuck ' s recent Attack on Ireland and the IrUh , he compared that iivtividual to a certain crawling insect afliicicd with a loathsome disense . The Secretary read the minutes of the last day's proceedings , and a letter from Mr . O'Connell . wliich was ordered to be inserted on the minutes . The reni for the week amounted to £ 23 SK 6 d ,
DREADFUL INCREA 8 B OF FAMINE . Tiie deaths from starvation are rapidly increasing in the western « ind southern counties—to such an extent , indeed , that some of the local journals find it imi'ossihle to publish reports of tho inquests . The Sli'to Champion lvports sixteen inquests , in all of which the verdicts were "death fioni starvation . " The Cork Reporter 'ays : — '' The duty of publishing reports of inquests held unpersons who have'died by starvation' has now and uch numb dil
become so frequent , s ers are ay reaching us from every part of the county , that tinlimits of our space do not admit of their publication . Our reporter sends particulars of 15 . such cases from Biintry yesterday , and m entions that 20 more had occurred durins tlie week , but inquests could not be held ; and wo received this morning from Mallow reports of 11 inquests he'd by Richard Jones , Esq ., on persons who hiid died from want of food . Communications pour in from every district , a tithe of which we could not find room for , statint ; similar appalling facts . "
The reports from Kerry arc equally afflicting as to the ravages of famine . Mr . Stephen O'Roardon , in a letter to the Trake Chronicle , ^ ives t ' ie particulars often inquests which ho held from the Gth to the 31 st January , in which the verdicts were "died from want of food . " In addition to thrse he mentions several cases of death from want of food , in which inquests have not , been held . The Longford Journal says" Our poor , notwithstanding all tho efforts made to relieve them , arc wretchedly oil ' , and throng to the workhouse to lini ? h a miserable existence , as the following farts prove : — ' Deaths since the 1 st instant ( Monday ) , 41 ; ditto in the month of January , 116 ; ditto in the month of December , 71 ; total , 231 . *'' Typhus fever and dvscntery are spreading iu the most destitute districts , ror . K .
A letter from the Rev . Cornelius Corkron , P . P . 10 Daniel O'Connell , dated January 2 l 5 . li , and thu particulars of which are attested by the chairman ol the Ballyfcard Relief Committtce and others , give * : in appalling picture of tlie geni-i-al destitution . The di-trict subject to the Bullyfeard Relief Committee , of which 1 am a im-mbur , comprises a terri--ory of three" miles radium ( ever remarkable for the cultivation of potatoes ); it contains 1 , 200 destitute ¦ subj ects for relief , each 011 an average having five in ' " ¦ iniily . Of thes-ff 700 are employed on the public works , earning from U . to Gs . per week , and payin » 'ii . Oil . a stone for Indian corn flour . Life thus ' sustained is but a nrotraeted death .
llio destitute unemployed on the public works arc in a state of appalling misery , which I will not , because Ijcouid not , ( / escribe . They arc , to my own knowledge , frequently without tasting any food for forty-eij ; ht hours , and then glad to get raw turnips , cabbage , or seaweed , which they greedily devour . Soiua sustain life by visiting in troops the hoiucs of the gentry , some by casual charity , som by plunder . Our union workhouse is full . The weekly areragc ( if deaths in my parishes , from slow starvation , is four ; three such cases occurred this daynamely , Denn , of Faranbrien ; Cummins , of Ballinvul . in ! : ; and Lyons , of Ballingurry . The last ( an ? . bi ? ^ died'yountr man . atied ° 7 , ) applied to out committee yesterday for work , after a liuvd competition , he succeeded in obtaining it , went home , and died of exhaustion . ( Since I wrote the above a coroner ' s jury has declared it starvation .
BAKTRV . Fifben additional inquests on ca * es of death from famine have been held : > ince the above , and twenty more have occurred during the week , but inquest * wmklnot be held .
MALLOW . Eleven inquests have been hoklherc by Richard Jones , E > q ., on persons who had died from want of fond . Communications pour in from every district , a tit ' ue of which we could not find room for , stating similar appalling facts . THB IRISH PO'iR LAW—OUI-BOOK 11 ELIEF . The fallowing requisition , bearing the signature * of eighteen priests , appears in the Cork Reporter : — " We , the undersigned , respectfully request a meeting of our brethren , the Roman Catholic clergy of the united dioceses of Cloyne and Ross , at Ferinoy , on Thuisday , the . 11 th inst ., to coupler tlie propriety of petitioning parliament tor out door relief for the ablebodied as well as for the infirm poor of Ireland , and for an enactment affording cheap and speedy means to enforce suuh a right . "
FMOHTFt'L EXTERMINATION'OF Till ! STARVING . The progress of distress in tins county of Cork miy be learned by the following brief para praph extracted from tho Southern Reporter of Saturday : — " The duty of publishing reports of inquests held on persons who have ' died by starvation' has now become so frequent , and such numbers are daily reaching us from every part of the country , that the limits of our space do not admit of their publication . Our reporter sends particulars of 15 of such case > from Bnntry yesterday , and mentions that 20 more had occurred during tho week , but inq ies ! s could not be held ; and wo received this morning from Mallow reports of 11 inquests held by Mr . Richard Jones 0 .: persons who had died from want ot food . "
DRKAPFUL INCREASE OF MORTALITT . Di'iimn , Feb . 9 . —The most appaliiHu statements c-imc forth alums : daily from diit ' erunt parts of tlu country , but from the county ot Cork above every other . Take the following as a specimen . It is extracted frcim a letter from the Rev . Dr . Trail ! , rector of Schull , and the chairman of the relief committee of tint parish , and it bears date from Schull Rectory , 5 : h iiist . : — Frightful and fearful is tlie haroc around me . Our medical friend , Dr . S » -c < . -tmnn , aKiuittamanofuiutnpe < ic ) i able veracity , informed me yesterday that , if ho st-itud the mortality in my parish , at an average of thirty-live ¦ laily , hu would be within the truth . The childron in particular , he remarked , were disappearing with awful rnpidiiy . An < J to this I may add the aged , who , with the younjj—neglected , perhaps , amidst the wide-spread destitution— are , almost without exception , swollen , and riinniiiiK for the u'rave .
Since I penned the above I wa « hastily summoned to a sick bed . Fast as my horse ' s limbs could carry me I hurried to the spot , bat ere I t-etichud it the spirit had tMketi its flight . Over the corpse was one sun weeping and wui'inp , while in a corner lay anotherin feyer—his wife ; near her confinement , miserableaud wretched—and all starving together . Oil my way I had met a corpse , a little hay its only shroud , going to the place of interment and I passed a gentleman tvho stated that he had found a man in the agotiies of dissolution bj tUe road :-id « . On my return I visited three persons in fever . On abed
of straw , in onn of the caMns , lay a pwr dying Roman Catholic , with one child , a little corpse , ; it his side , and another nearly expiring at his t ' eet , while a third was bo feeble that the mother , wringing her hands in nngutab—herseU pale and emaciated—was obliged to chntige its position as necussity required , i ' rom this heartrending pceno I proceeded homeward , and stepping into a miserable hovel , where lived another R man Catholic family , nnd where I had been not two days before , I beheld the father dead aud ghastly , and his poor daughter , apparently in great pain , sitting opposite to her departed pureiit , herself not far from th «
grave . Nothing else have we to anticipate than another city of tho pliiguc ! Three dead holies—miserahili ; cisuwere recently cmiveyod in one cart , 9 id < by side , totli > - burying ground , and thrown into a hole , ummmnieu . nmvept ; for , amongst u 3 , sorrow has long sincu exhausted hoi- tears . A piteous story I may here relate . A female win obsi rvtd directing her wny in the gi-ivo . yiril , unattended , save hy two children wliieh she bore in her arms . One of these , it seem ! , was a corpse , and far it ulic scratched a hole , and having cnsign ' . ' : I it . to its cold dwi-Uing , she tnnk up tile oth-r and placed it . in her lap , and was sui-11 in that position waitiiv . ' till it . ilso should expire , that she mig ht lay her two dead infants iu one common grave .
TUB FAMINE IN tl . STKIl . The mortality is gronter in one Unvn in Lister than in any part of the south or west . In the workhouse ot Lut'giMi , ono ( if the [ icincipal sca ' . s of the lim-n manufacture in the county of Armagh , the ( ' . oaths liavv increased to a most aiavming extent . In the first week oi January they amounted to thirty-live ; but last week the deaths in the workhouse , containing less than 800 persons , amounted to ninety-live !
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( from the Gazette oi Tuesday , Fell . 0 . ) Thomas Spratt , Sloane-terrace , Sloaup-square , St . Luke ' s . Chelsea , coaehmaker—Tamnzin Sarah lluttifant , Xoi-wivh , habcidasher—William Grossinitli , l ' ortsmoutli . Inlicr . ^ illiain Ulcnkiili'ii , Btoekwell I ' lirk-rnuJ , Surrey , Imilili'i '— . John Henry Paine , Higli-street , Caiuberwvll , beer retailor--Jusiali Uiiines , Chipping B . n-net , Hertford . sliiro , vii'tualler—William Hitchcock , Houston , liui-kiiinhainsbiro , victuullur—Nathaniel Thnuipsnu , Ijirerpool , f -a-tor—Mary Grimes , Gloucester . saddler-John Spi-nuor , Notting ham , nurseryman— James Dodgsuti , Waki'tield , Yor kshire , innkeeper—George Hole , TTaUilwt , Sotnui' ^ vt shiiv , coal merchant—Kichurd Uean , Clitherou , Lanca . sliirc , grocer .
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ANNUAL BAN ( iUliT OF THE GERMAN DK MOCRATIC SOCIETY FOR THE EDUCA . TIO . V OF THE WORKING CLASSES . [ She © cttt 0 t !) e ~ £ i \ xt \ mq ** &m \ U ttfyHftfVLV &vMttV . ] This patriotic and flourishing society celebrated its seyenth anniversary on Monday evening la < t , Feb . 8 th . In the course of tho past twelve months the society has greatly advanced in numbers and n > - Kimrccs . The members now number upwards 0 | three hundred , and a branch society has been established in Whiteebnpcl , which already numbers one hundred nnd sixty members . The parent society now holds its meetings in a lar ^ eandspicmiulroum in the r ear of the White Hart , Drurv-lano .
The library of several hundred volumes has been considerably increased , and the maps , mu > ical instruments , and other ajipliancs for the instruction and ' ¦ ntertainment of the members have been consider-» bly augmented . Altogether , the society ia in a most flourishing condition—prospering , and evidently destined to prosper . The hall of meeting is a large room having a raised roof , decorated with beantiful arabesque ornaments , omnprKed of graet'fHl scrolls , figures and flow , rj , -. ¦ ss ociitJed with medallion portraits of Shakespeare , Schiller , Mozart , and Albert Diicer . On thecentreof une of the walls immediately above the chairman ' s sea ! is an extensive view of Hnnipatead Heath , taken during tho last May festival of the association ( paiutwl
by Messrs . Holm , rtiicndcr , Clausen , and lius ) . On one "ide of this view is a statue of Liberty , and on thi ; other Bide a staiuo of Justice . The other sides ef the room are decorated with large and beautiful maps , with which , on tliisocciihion , were tntonvovon wreaths and festoons of laur ? l and other vcrgreens . The room was brilliantly illuminated with K iiSi > - "'n extra qu . Mitity of which was supplied for the purpose of giving cft ' ec-t to a largo and beautiful transparency gratuitously painted by sn English member , Charles Keen . Tiie painting represented a fiill-lenutli female figure , combining the attributes of liberty and equality ,
trampling tinder her feet the hydra of corruption , nnd holding aloft k bonnet rovje , the rally ing-sun ol awakening nations . In the back-ground war ami tyranny are represented as tadini ; away beneati ) tlit influence of the rising sun of liberty , which li { . ; hti < tifi ihc happy homes of the emancipated millions ' . Tltv "hole is surrounded by a golden wreath ( on crimson ground ) of oak leaves and acorns , with which is ent . wined a riband , bearing the society ' s motto : — " ALL MH . V ARE BUETIIRKS , " in twelve different lanjruaijcs : German , EnslMi , French , Swedish , Danish , Dutch , Italian , Greek , Spanish , Polish , Hungarian , and Russian .
> Thu eatables provided by the worthy host , Mr . Rogers , were of the best quality , andstipplied in ; i l ) tindancc . This portion ( if the entertainment ( as every other portion ) gave unbounded satisfaction . The tables having been cleared , and the chair taken by Carl Schapper , The Chairman ( who spoke in German ) said : Brothers , —This is indeed a happy evening for all who have the welfare of our sociuly at heart , fi . r all who have ranged themselves tinder the banner of liberty , equality , and universal fraternity . Our labours herein London have been crowned with succm ; a branch of our society has boun establULed in tiie east end of London , which already counts more than ICO members , all animated with the best spirit ,
and our society lias nearly tripled since last year . ( Cheers . ) To be be successful in their struggle is ail die reward which honest Democrats can hope for ; this reward we have received , therefore , we are satislied . ( Applause . ) But although we have hitherto been successful , and have firmly established our society , we must not believe that our work is done , and tlmt . we can now repose . No ; we must still advance , for standing still must end in going backwards . Tin . ' principles which we have made known in our meeting places in London , must also be spread on the continent ; it is , therefore , our intention to commence publishing thi 9 year a monthly paper called the Proletarian ; a paper which shall defend all those who are deprived of their due share of nature ' s bounties j
, ¦ gainBt the usurers and money mongers who oppress and rob them ; a paper which shill advocate the principles !) ! truth , justice , and fraternity all over the world . ( Loud cheer * . ) But in order t' > effect this , we must again make sacrifices , we must be more firmly united than ever . And , brothers , I am convinced every one of us will do his duty . ( Hear . hoar . ) We havo heart and we have hope , for we know we struggle for truth against ignorance and superstition , for justice against injustice and oppression Therefore say , let the German pavwns in London open rival establishments ; let them fulminate against usfromthdr pulpits , theycrn do usnoharm theirtime is past , all that they hive done , and all that they can do , is to make our society known to all Germans who
coins to London , anil become thus the involuntary means ot incrcasins our nun . burs . ( Loud cheers . ) » ne word ra-ire brothers and I lnvo done . Wo ar-i ¦ in conspirators , all ttiat we do , we do in the face nf fie Sun , we can let every body known it ; but do rot Ictus forget that on the continent we must , above all , : ain our ri hts of which the people are deprived , and * hieh happily the English people possess to a area ; xtcnt . _ 1 mean the liberty of the press , the right o < wociating , &c . We must gaiti these ri » hts psawtally if we can , forcibly if we must . Should therefore ur princes resist the will of the people , resist with
41111 s and swords , we must do our puty . The communists and democrats must be found in the fore-; iot ranks . ( Applause . ) We will not conspire to nakc revolutions , we do not like revolution ' s , but it revolution is forced upon u < , then we we will show that we know hi > w to do our duty . Thy star < f liberty is rising . No priest nor king can make it descen ' i i-ain . ( Cheers . ) Forward then brothers , and let us ilwajs remember the wot ds of our immortal poet : — " The man who dies for liberty , Even if he i * lumped , Dies the most jflorious death , That . in » n can die . "
[ Hit Mann dcrfiir die Krciheit fallt And wiii-d' er auch gehnn , ;< Ht Dor hatauf dieser Erden « e ! t Das schonstt ! Loos euipfangen , ] ( Great cheering . ) The CiiAiiiMAS 1 hen introduced Ji'lian Haunky ( Cheers ) vho said , I beg , Citizen Cnairman , to congratulate you and my brother members on the progress of this society as ' evidenced "y this numerous ¦ assemblage , the great increase ol members and the possession of this beautiful room , t ' his hall is truly ft temple of liberty , where un-ler the twiner of fraternity men of all nations gather to commune with . er » ch other , to learn of each other , to help ' ach other , and t-i work together for the advancement
of tho freedom and happiness of the whole human race , without distinction of oountry or creed , (^ pplause . ) There is one proof of progress , I might add , namely , ttie opposition of those who fear the march of our principles . I understand that somo of the Ucrmnn priests residing in London have become alarmed at the progress of this society , and have opened rival shops , l-iyal and orthodox societies , to which tho young men of Germany arc entreated to come to oupp ' y their mental wants . ( Hear , and laughter . ) As is customary , the rivai 'istablishments seek to gain custom by abusing the old established concern ; and , therefore , denounce this society as " revolutionary , " " intidel , " and so forth . 1 havo not heard , however , that our rivals have been very successful ; , ' . t a « v
rate , they have not yet injured thin so-.-ictr ; on the contrary , the imre the society is denounced the buttor it becomes known , and its advance is in proportion . ( Cneers . ) It is not unnatural for the Gi-rmaii parsons to take this step—they are interested in supporting thn present order of things ; for , like the Ephesian silversmith , by this craft they have thvir living . They have n » t , however , moved wholly *> f their own accord . They have , doubtless , been stimulated by tlie German despotisms uutl thciv d . ' > lumatic agents . It is an old trick oi' despots to make priests their mouthpieces . Alexander knew the way to make the oracle utter a favourabio response , anil no doubt the Prussian ambassador—though no Alexander— -is equally able to " work tlie oracle . " ( Hear ,
hear , and laughter . ) I beg to assure the Prussian ambassador , hN master , aud his tool . * , that l-hcyming meii of Germany ;! iv b .-tter taught in ! his society than tlieyran leach them . All the ordinances of moral ityan ; taught aud acted up to by the tuembcts of this society . Tln'i'C is not omu drunkard , nor one idler am mgst our members . We do not ; eacb perjury , robbery nor murder , nor have we perjurers , robbers and murderers for members . Can imrvoyal , ; irislocraticftl and cvansjeliea 1 cnotnicssay llw same ? No ! They have brok"n oaths , tm-i ! trcatte-i , and violated solemn engagements entered into with nations . Wiier- are the long jii-oiniscd free iHStittitious which the Gennans and Poles \\\< n > . to have ? 1 shall speak of the Prussian con-.-tituuon presently . Has not the treaty of Vienna
been torn in shveds' ' . Are not our enemies convicted if perjury . Ate they not robbers ? Have they not robbed nations of their freedom , and only within the last three months confiscated an entire state they had sworn to respect , protect and maintain ? Is not the * in of murder upan their souls ? Are they no t crimson-dyed with the Wnod of patriots whom they Have Hogged to death , ahotto death , lwngcd , stabbed and puUbncil , and toi-tni-oil in a thousand ways ; a-. nl wliumthcy huvo consigned to tho dasjsjors ofa ^ assin ^ ' ( ( .-ipplati c ) . Kven more , have they not m-ukwar upon the immortal mind of man i ]) o not thoir t-eusors hack and hew and strive to murder thv iluiUiihtsof men ? lias not the king of Prussia tried
*« o corrupt , every man who hail tlio power ana will to teach the people and had the multitude in the path of knowle ! ge and freedom ! and where he has faiied to corrupt , has he not proscribed , persecuted , nud . wiled tlie uii'ii who free in soul da' -od to givo tliciv five thoughts ut ' i-rance ? ( Applause . ) At last we . hi ; ivssuwd tiio Prussian Coustitutimi l \;\ s been j > mducod . Nc «' . s from Germany has been received this day , that after thirty years conception the R < na ! Prussian mountain has brought forth its mouse ( Laughter . ) Behold the Prussian constitution . There are to be tw « Parliamentary houses . The uppei house is to consist of prineos of the blood royal , am of other prinoeB of non-reigning housef where seat
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are to be hereditary . The lower house is to cons /«( ot elected menders of the nobility , inferior nobilitv and of members elected by cities . What is to be the ' qualification of the citizen members we arc not told nor what is to be the electoral qualified tinn ; but you may safely calculate that both will be of the most aristocratic character So it appears the Prussians are to have—first an ty'i-edita-ry hospital of incurables ; and , aecondiv a tax-trap , which will be a cross between the old Enlish bornughinongerinj ; House of Commons and " the present infamous Vn nch Chamber of Deputies Such
a , constitution will neither compel responsibility on ti . p part of the rnlers . nor . Mtur . cntcc the liberties of the people . The effect will bo merely to corrupt nnd satisfy the so-called higher ordors , and pive the kin « a luiinb-r of partners , wlio will tosetuer constitnte the firm of opprc-sion , taxation , hnnihu " nnti co . ( Loud cheers . ) 1 denounce this constitution as '' a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . " ( Gioit applause . ) Like a certain constitution nearer home it . may be wd of the Prussian constitution in tlo wmds of Thomas Paino : — ' "
" Of all tlio wonders timo e'n-saw That merit mi-n ' s npplanspa , Since Ailnm delved in Pnra'li < f , And Eve rnndy bei ' . s of roses ; Thcgroatest wonrtcrof theci all And free from ill dtlu-ion , Is , oh lift up yourhunds an . l i-yes Tlie Prussian Pun ^ titutinn ' , " ( Laucliter . ) And in the concluding nyoH s nf fir . 111 . v I am quotint ' , it may he truly said of l / reWirfc Wnliam ' s constitution : — m "' Tis ( his—' tis thai—' tis t ' otht . r thing'Tis everythhw and Nothing !"
UuBlitei- ar . 'l a'plmj-e . ) The only good I sec in tnc 1 rusian con ^ ihif . inn is , that it is the en . trance nf tlm wrnee of revolution , the ij ' cin vwz ot the rnd . All tliofe who mav hope anythlncf fr ™ the constitution , will snon find themselves tin " dec- 'ivfd . " Blessed are th'iy who expect notliin ? " vrrly , tlio . v shali not | , disa ' ppoint' d . " ( Laiiphtfir . ) The Gorman mn . « p . s niay he sure that whether the Prn . egi an enftitution i . * aristocratic or shopocratic thry will derive no b-iirfit from it . Tlio evils that nffict thnm are snriiil as well as politicaland onl
, y th" mo « t thorotipli snei il h « wpll us [ Witical rnforms run aff . rd them rel > of . The Communists and real Democrat" —indeed tlm two are one—are the men whdpfi banner the German people must follow . { LmkI cheers . ) Tho Prussian kinc will miserably dceive himself , if h ^ im asines that the German p eople will bo hefter plwed with promises than perfii-mancf . that they have no lovi > for realities and no desire fur substantial . Pcrlinns they still think yon the contented denizens of Ttreamland . One of vour poets las
said—The Russians and French take the land , Tlio flrUish tak > - the ocean ; Eut the Germans find in th « land of dreams , The empire of great emotion . This unsubstantial empire will not . however monk lor , » er Fatisfy the Germans . Lately I saw an extract from a . German paper , the name of wliieh I forget , in which the writer announced a schema tnr a new Gorman empire Where do you think ? Why | in the hravt of Afrifa . Arniios of emigrant . Gprma ' ns wpr ? tf » p-ocnod to the interior of the African contivipnt , there to build up < i new and free Germany ! Rut I hope thn Germans are not such fools as to " 0
m sparch of a new Gprmnny when the old one is a pir , idi « e formo'l for hnppine < s , and only mndered mi' -Tahlfl by the injustice and wickedness of a few contemptible tyrants , (' . otid cheers . ) If there must he emigrations to Africa , it is not the German pc . plf , but . the German princes who should be sent tmckin ? . It is tho kings , nobles , priests and usurers , the favourers of society , who ' are best fitted to herd with inurd rons savasres , avd the lions , ticors , sernonte ; iiHl monsters of Africa . ( Applause . ) Let the Gorman people act on thn answer given by an EnRli < hiian when told if lie did not like his country h « had better leave it : —
If bugs molest me ai in b > d I He , Shall I desert my bed for them ? Not I . I will arise and every bu ? destroy , Jtew make my bed , and all its sweets enjoy , ( Great cheering . ) The chairman then called on Mr . Ernest Jones , who was rpceived with { jrcat vpr ^ iis ? . and spoke as fallows : —Citizen Chairman and Brothi r Denmnrats ! When we recllect that tho tit ! i " wa « . and notion ? neo , in wliieh a Frenchman conlil not walk the strprts of London without men cnl nc after him : "there coos a Frenchirogi" or an'E' c ^ slimmtt ^ e streets of Paris without being cr ¦ ¦ ted as an " English bif-steak ! " When his ap . relation in Berlin or Vienna was a " verntcha-
Enqlinger ,- "—wh"n we rsmerabcr that a celebrated I ' alian autlvr , Goldoni , ridiculed him in one of his plays as " Milord Romvl-n ' -heef , " and a Frenchman sr > tiriz'd him as "Milord God-damn , " when we tT :: ^ k that bloody battl es wore the upholders of tlvss !)•• • iu 'ics , nnd thnt , R . > ssbach , Fontenay , and Wa" rl-io , the plmme of htrnanitv , wore the glories and tho results of kingcraft ; recollecting these things , I « av . we enn but Ice ! a proud hope , in seeing here unif' - 'l . rnemhors -if those different countries , banded 'or t c c- ' . nse o f democracy , who , a few years back , wov . ld hnvfi b ert cutting each other ' s throats m the cui' . e of king * . ( Clirrrs . ) It-needs , indeed , n « lirnvcr argument , to prove how superior democracy is to monaruiiT , sinco democracy is destrAyinc the
ir . 'i ) "r-int prejudices that menarchy created , —and imdagmc the wounds of nations with the bands of fVfi-crnity . ( Hear . ) We are met here on a convivial poe ? . * ion , but not on a convivial one alone—it is a sfiV-mn , thritisli a joyous meeting ! Every glass is a : or . 'tn to equality , —an > l as cabinet measures are confo tod at cabinet dinners , be our resolves strengthw ? A to-niu'ht nn this festive occasion , tosaveour-. r > rcsfrom the clutch of privilcse , ^ ince its measures or . iv tend to fill the measure of endurance . What do we demand ?—That which we can obtain . We < lrrnand fair distribution of earth ' s wealth for all . W ' . at says privilejre' / "Oh ! " it cries , "ifthe woa'fh of Enelandwfro equally divided amnnc Enirishmen , there would be £ lo 0 per annum for each ' . ' '
W ith-iut advertmc to whether this estimate is hi ^ h -nou-rh , 1 tell them , takin ? them at their own words , f ' i' -y have p . T"ed sentence on class-leai-lation . WouM that eve'y m-ri had £ 150 a-year ! and I < Hon ! . | nn : mourn , if even a Lord John Russell had iv more . ( Loud Cheers . ) You sue , by their own coaf e ^ ioa , we do not ask for wli . it it is impossible te » b Ti ; i . Now , let us look to the power we possess of obfsinin ? it . Revert again to tho past , and find enco'iraeement . Not many years ago , m « . H dared not have said not even have whispered , that which they ' spoiik loudly iuiw . ( Iloar . ) Sviio darts silence the b- »' 'i voice ? Whoro are the shrinking satollit-e ? of power to- 'liy ? Oh ' , they arc afi-aW to cha'knpc tha ^ . wliieh th ^ r know they cannot conquer . We have achieved ouv first victory—of free speech ;—now or » - w ^ sri ! for the second ; -lthe victory of free action . ( Hr'ers . ) You are not alone—every capital , evcrvvi !! ace of Europe has detachments of vour armv . You arc
but onftoftlH rutpo « t « of that vast force , keepin ? your bivonaolj thrnugh t ! ie iiiglst of tyranny . Hold sharp watr-h , undbo ready to nurch witii tue morning , for the -nmipcts of liberty may sound with f ^ very hour . ( Clmers . ) You may not remain tojother . Ions —ties . if affection or tho ' power of iieeeSMtv may call you back to your for homes ir . oti ' . or irtmh—> mt , rcmembtir , you take with you a sacred mssion ,. — you are the apostles of the iiolie&t religi 'ii , f ' -io re'icion of lunnanity ; become the nrophots c ' a millennium , —the millennium of liberty . While tho nrie-it hurls anathemaR on yotir head , and lures y ^ a tiiroii ^ h the slouch of dc < pond in a shadowy eha < e of ifiiven , tell him . a bird in the hand is worth two in the hii-h . »| nt you can make . 1 heaven of this earth , which wil ! mu'ih smooth tho . way in searching af . cr nn-itiiei ! To'I yo . tr cnuntrvin-n . when you return , what vou have seen in Kucland , I am proud of it ! Enelish demoeriev need not be ashamed ' . Tell
rho-n thn British Chartists are ir . the iie ! d , — ami foovniivi national antipathipji , prnnlsim the l > : 9-tlierhood of man throughout the world , —anil r . ro jvady to prove their ¦ incority iu your ciu ? e . ( Cliecrs ) IVI ! them too we ar no noisy hrawl"rs . —we arc mon of peace—but not men o * ' abject submission While we see thr sworn strikiiii ; our foreiiin brethren , tell them our palms arc burning ;—( cheer- ) tdl them w- know a better swwl is vvady to i « P from its s .-abbani on the Vistula and the Seire , the F . lne and the I ' o , the Dauuho and the D-uiro .-ie » l them w believe there are somo other stream * in hurope by whose -oi . le democracy ' s Boldiers pscc irabut tel !
Uatiently ;— them at the sum ,- time , ( and rliis is cheorinj ! new-. . ) that here in Kneland tiicre will be no violence—that monopol y is vuuishm" uctore 11 s , -ts the snow melts befm-e tho sti . ! ; barini ; : nc vroon Cclcb , as wo lift the green flag « f the Clwrtcr ! 1 Loud cheers . ) I ell th : m . we hate bloodshed , even where it 1 * to stnko a tyrant ; but toll them , in those ( amis , where tyranny will not yield to Reason , that it */<« , / yie'd to F-i-c el ( Loud applau e . ) There nmy be another Waterloo . T hope tlure will not . » : it , if thoi-c should , it will not be Englishmen against Frenchmen , but the Waterloo of demito . racy against despnti ^ n ! ( liapt'irous Applause . )
. Mi'ssrs . Miclu-lot , Putz , Stra'i ^ s , Paucr , Olnrski , a-i ' . l Pi .-u-ntlor , « lclivfrcl eloquent JvUlresses in ike Fl ' tMlcil and (¦ ci'iuim laniiua ,.. * .- ; , which excited * sc ufii'istc . utliiixi . -ism . { Wo were pron . i « -o > l t-ai . si . - . tions of the se . t-vnl s : cf - ' ; 'ics , bn ! Imvo not reviuv them , otherwise :: ^ s : i : nnd have appeared . I > ru . \\ H . \ nxKvl ) - > inj acaih oii ' lod on do ' tverc ? a si' -- >> m « sneccli , in which ho showed the ndv . it . c . " of th-irnoniKl allb-ni ' i of nations , ar , f | sovercly critir ! 0 i tho iihsuvd doctrinos—ahsiu'd under presor . ciro'i- ' -istrmccs—nf the invicher < of " p -rmanent « nd u- ivc ' .-a ! : eace . " Ho concluded by proposin < r " Tiie ¦ .: •; : " : i > f the . I ' rok'tarians of all nations , aud " fho : » n-: v : i .-uwn ' of inoqimlity in every siiane mil form . " I r . itisasiario cliPCi-ing . )
ih " ^ Mavscillsisc , " nnd a number of patriotic sor . ps . Uertnan , French , ami Enalish . were swig in ' . he cu-ree ot the evemng . The festival was altogether most checrinsj , and indicative of " the gooJ tinif COt ) MC { J . " ' B
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Brewing and Distiluso from Sugar . —We learn that her majesty ' s government , have acceded to the app lication of the sugar reliners , and now propose to allow the use of refined crushed and bastard suaurs in the breweries , —wo presume also in tho distilleries , but the letter which has been shown us does not say so . The cases , however , are precisely similar .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 13, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1405/page/6/
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