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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1841.
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SONG OF THE MECHANICS CHILD Yrsz— "Robin Jdair . " Child , ia thy father dead ? Father is gone ! To this has m&ehioeiy led . ' God ' s vUl ba done ! Mother fcu sold her bed ; Setter to die than wed ! Where shall she lay her head ? Home w » have cone . ' Father clammed thrice a week—God ' s "will be done ! l * ng for -work did he seek , Work he found none . Tears on his hollow cheek Told what no tongue eould speak : Why did bis master break ? Q od ' s will be done I
Doctor said air was best—Food "we had none ; Father , with panting breast , G-roan'd to be gone ; y ow he is with the blest—Mother ays death is best ! We hive no place ef rest—Tes , ye hare one . '
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SOXG ON FEAKGFS O'CONNOR . j ^ i fame ' s trumpet resoond . to the earth ' s utmost bound , In the praise of Lord Nonnanby ' B nartyr , fa he ' s valiant and just—aye , and true to his trust , And be nobly contends for the Charter . Jar O'Connor is Tirtnous , noble , and brave , ^ jid ovx fast-sinking empire is destined to save . Sing loud and strong his praise in song , The F "" i of troth and honour ; Who nobly fights for Britain ' s rights , The famous , famed O'Connor . for be bravely withstands the mean threats and commands Of the haughty oppressor and foeman , And he bartles with might for fair Freedom ' s
blrth-A * d W * ST » t mind bends -under to no man . for proud is his spirit , unabaekled his s * ul , Aad his name is the pass-word to liberty ' s goal . Sing loud and strong his praise in song , The man of truth and honour ; Whose noble soul none can controul , The famous , famed O'Connor . ja a dungeon ' s deep cell thaae dark tyrants of hell For a season have cruelly bound him ; Yet his name is en&ferine 4 , round our hearts is en twined , And brave millions again will surround kirn , lite a giant refreshed by sleep , in his might , Bell retain to our camp , and renew the good &ght . Sing loud and strong his praise in song , The man of truth aad honour ; Who nobly fights for nature's rights , The famous , famed O'Connor .
Each true heart of the earth shall rejoice in his birth , He is fonntd to emancipate isan ; For oar Charter of rights like a lion he fights , And the Charter ii god-like in plan . > Bj the Charter fair freedom to each man is given , Who is stamped with the impress and image of HeaT-. n Sing lcud and long his praise in song , The man of truth and honour ,-Who nobly fights for nature's rights , The good , the great O'Connor . DlXIEL CiSSEDT . Leeds , June 12 th , 1 * 41 .
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LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA . Bj the arrival of the Royal jlail steamer , Calsdoni * , at Liverpool , New York appers of the 31 st nli ^ and Boston and Halifax papers of the 1 st and 3 rd inst ., respectively hare been received . This fine Tessel sailed from Boston on the 1 st and Halifax on the 3 rd instant , and , including a stoppage of ten kours at the latter port for the Canada mails , has tosde the voyage in the reaarkabJy short space of twelve day 3 and fourteen hours , the shortest , with but one exception , made since the establishment of the Cunardiuie of steamers . She has brought 1-04 passengers , who are delighted with their short and pleasant passage .
The arguments in the case of Mr . M'Leod bating besn concluded , the Supreme Cour ; took time to consider it 3 judgment . It afterward made an order , which was , " that inasmuch as it is impossible that any decision will be made this term . WLeod shall be committed to tee custody of the Sieriff of > ew York , and that the Sheriff of Niagara be discharged from responsibility . " The Sheriff of Sew York had , it -was stated , refused to undertake lie responsibility of the custody of the prisoner , who was Tery well treated in his peculiar circumstances . The H ' alifax papers are loud in their condemnation of the treatment which Mr . M'Leod had received a ! the hands of the Americans , and blames the snp ' weness of the British Government on hi ? behalf . The New York papers , frieDdly to England , seem to fear thai the tone assumed respecting the case of the prisoner may lead to a serious dispute between the two countries .
The New York papers contain a letter from Mr . IPLeod . It denies positively the boastings alleged io hare been made by him , thai he was present at the destruction of the Caroline , and charges heavy persecutions on the " patriots" of Buifiio , Lockport , &c He ascribes his arrest and indictment wholly to the vengeance of the said " pa-. riot ? , " and says tint they haTe punished him more than the public ire aware . The Extra Session of Congress -nas to commence to the 31 st ult . The message from the President would be delivered on the 1 st instant . The iourrsals are filled with speculations as to ihe ieadiu . s business which was likely to en ^ &ge the attention of the Legisltfcure . The National Theatre at New York had been destroyed by fire on the rnonnng of the 29 ih nit . The event was supposed to have been caused by incendiaries . A girl wa 3 burnt to ueath curing the fire .
The state of trade had not undergone any alteration in the interra ] between the 20 : a aad 31 st ult . It iris dull . MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK—ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN LIYE 3 LOST . { From the Quebec Mercury , of Jilay 22 . ) It agaia becomes our du ; y to record a calamity isTolnn ^ destruction of human life to an awful ex : eni . Four of the crew and foor of the passeufers of the brig Minstrel , Captain Outerbrid « e , urived here yesterday , brin ° -iug the disastrous intelligence , of which the following is aa accurate summary .
The Minstrel left Limerick , Ireland , on the 21 st April ] ast , for Quebec , with one hundred and fortyone passengers , emigrants , intending to settle in Canada . The vessel had a tolerable passage up to Tuesday last , at four o ' clock in the morning , when de Struck on the Red Island Reef . There was a heavy searanniDg at the time , but the boats were launched and made fast to the fore chains . Upwards of one hundred passengers embarked in their boat ? , bet their doom was quickly sealed ; the vessel * heeled off" is to deep water and -went down stern foremost , so suddenly that the " painters" of the
bows could not be cast off , and the people -who bad embarked in the boat 3 perished , with their equally unfortunate companions on board the ship , except feur of the crew and lour passengers , who alone , of upwards of 150 souls , remained vo tell the sad tale . These eight persons had embarked in the gig , which WistowiDg astern , and fortunately for them , the rope which attached it to the vessel broke when she * eto down . They succeeded in puiiing to While liiaad . wh-ere they remained until the follomng &y , when they we ' re taken off by the ship Wellington , M'Intyre , and brought to Grose Isle .
Captain Onterbridge , of the anfonunate Minstrel , i behaved most gallantly during the awful scene , xmtii he perished with the rest . He declared that he * ouid not leave the vessel caul his passengers were ; » tm , and he wsb the last person seen by those who * were in the gig . ' Following are the names of the survivors : —Crew , —Patrick O'Loghlin , steward ; James Grady and ' Thomas Enwright , seamen ; and John Donoghue , - * Pprcatice » Passengers—Flaherty , shoemaker , aud ¦ * tfe , HoDoria Ringrose , and Collins . Following is a statement of the number of the ] * rew and passengers who perished : —Crew—Cap- j win Outcrbridfje , mate , and 9 other ? . Passengers— , « ale adults , 47 ; female ditto , 41 ; males under j fourteen , 10 ; female ditto , 9 ; males under seven , females ditto , 12 ; infants , 10 . Total perished , 1 * 7 .
The passengers above mentioned as being saved , * p the Wellington at Grose I&le , and came to Quebec in the Thetis , from Limerick .
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, Tse Cirr Policb akd the Ibish Tsetoiallebs . -lafc City Solicitor has received instructions to prefer ^ ep bills of indictment against as many Irish tee-^^ ers frr assaults upon the police and other per-K » a , upon London Bridge , and other parts of the ~ " 7 i on Whit Monday , duriDg the temperance pro-J ^ iosg . Th witnesses have been summoned to ** teBd before the Grand Jury at the London Ses-S ° Es , which commence at Guildhall next week . * o of the City Police are siill suffering from the * Tere isjuries they received on Whit-Mond&J from « tt teeiouller- . The honourable and learned icsti-«* -W of tb . e outrages is aliowbd to go scot free ¦ W at his business in agiiatiug the eight million * .
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The jopbsev from Hereford to London is now performed in ten hours . Thb accouchement of her Majesty may be expected ths latter end of September , or beginning of October , TTT versus XXX . —They hare temperance waggons in th * west of America , marked TTT , to denote thai the owner is a teetot&Uer . Thb Cbow * Paiscb of Hanorer ( Prince George of Cumberland ) has irrecoverably lost the sight of both eyes . It is tjkdsestood to be fully arranged that Prince Albert will visit his Royal connexions in Germany this smmner . His Royal Hiijhness ' s visit will not exceed a month or six weeks . Thb-Jpliet arrived from Newfoundland , reports the Atlantic to be very full of ice . She was a fortnight locked up in it without seeing a drop of water .
Failure at Glasgow . —We regret to announce the f&ilure of the extensive commercial house of Grant and Co ., of Glasgow ; their liabilities are said to amount to £ 180 , 000 , and it is feared the effect mil be felt by many other houses . — Edinburgh Witness . Thb GKSiT uTfio . T of Bonitchiirch , Kilkenny , is void by the death of Dr . Butler . It consists of fourteen parishes , so oddly strung together as to constitute a benefice about thirty miles long , and scarcely in any part of it exceeding two in w ; dth . Mukdeb OP Mb . Hall . —The Tipperary Constitution , contains the following paragraph : — We are glad that the murderer of Mr . Hall , and his two accomplices in the horrible deed , have been arrested , and are now in custody . One of th ^ conspirators is au old woman .
A Noble Absentee . — " Why are you not off to canvass your friends , Belfast I" said Lord Melbourne , as he dismounted at Downing-street , to the opponent -of Emerson Tennent . " i would do so , " replied the Peer , " but the Sheriff , when we meet , makes such demands upon my time that I find it more pleasant to solicit by proxy . ' The Chisis a ^ d the Teetotallers . —An address to the teetotallers of Ireland will be published before the dissolution , calling on them , as the moral rpgen * - rators of Ireland , by declarations of all their different bodies , to oppose themselves to bribery , and , by solemn pledg-es to their country , to promise to use every effort to discover and expose all attempts at corruption . —Pilot .
Large Failure in Wigas . —Tnc-re has been a stoppage here of the Sovereign 2 / lills , carrid on , since the failure of Mr . Thomas Dajwell , by Mes-is . John Heron and Co . A meeting of creditors is called , and proposals will be made to reH » me work . Their liabilities are reckoned upwards of £ 100 , 000 . Numbers of poor people are thus thrown out of employment , and some banks ¦ will , it is feared , be lar ^ e sufferers . . Ljbebated Welsh Chartist . —On Wednesday , David Lenies , ene of the mtn sentenced to seven jvars' transportation for being connected with the " Newpori Riot ? , " was discharged from the Peniu-ntiary , a ; Milbank . His time would have expired in March , 1847 , but the state of hia health was ~ uch , that had he b ? en loiger detained death must hare speedilv terminated his ^ irff- ; ring . s .
> ew Order with respect to St . James ' s and Hyde Pai . ks . —Tne metropolitan police have recdved orders from ihe Commissioners of Woods and Forests , that on all future occasions when persons may be found with benches , tables , stools , &c , in cither of the Parks for the purpose of letting out for standings ,, they are to be immediately seized . The order , it is supposed , has been issued in consequence of some " annoyance experienced by her Majesty when she proceeds publicly through the parks , or at ths reviews which occasionally take place .
Destructive Fire . —Abont a quarter before three o ' clock on Sunday morning last , an alarming fire took place on the extensile premises belonging to Messrs : Fairburn and Co ., engineers and boilermakers , situate near the river side at Mill-wall , Poplar , opposite Deptford dock-yard . Ii appeared to have commenced in the paint workshop , a small wooden bnilding detached from the main premises , aad was not extinguished u&til tho place was entirely burned down . Beautiful Writing . — We take the following choice specimen of writing from The Times : — " There is a meekness ( a pretty si ? one , though ) and a malignity in dissent . The malignity prevails chiefly at Leicester- . There is a kind of a minister with us here , in whose black heart all the devils seem to hare quitted their native hell to reside . The Chartists , also , are a much more jolly straightforward s « : of fellows than the Whigs . "
Whig Cossistkscy . —There are some things almost too obvious to require reinaik , but which appear to escape observation . Such is the case of tho Whigs with regard to the corn-laws . These sagacious and inconsistent persons , while they deprecate the cornlaws as a bread tax , actually bring forward a fixed duty on corn , by which they propose to raise a reveDue of double the amount of that obtained from the laws they condemn . If this is not blowing hot and cold , we know not what 13 . Quekb Stort of a New Candidate . —Alderman Pirie met with rather a serious accident the night
beiore last , at his house in Cambt-rwell . He felt a little feverish before retiring to rest , and , in consequence , slept in a strange room . During the night he rose , for the purpose of taking a draught of water , and , forgetting that he was sot in his own chamber , opened the door , supposing it was that of his dressing-room , when he fell down the stairs , and was braised and hurt in various parts of his body . The injuries sustained by the Alderman are not of such a ratare as to give his friends any alarm , aithongh i : may be some time before he will be able to resume his active habits ot business in the city . — Friday * paper .
Rioting at Liverpool . —We regret to state that fearful disturbances have arisea at Liverpool , in consequence of" the interference of a number of Irish '¦ abourers in the neighbourhood of the docks with the ship-carpenters , the latter being a very powerful body of artisans , and for the most part tutored under the Tory school . Several encounters have taken place . The poheeare all ont and armed with cutlasses . The opposition by the Irish has been caused by an absurd display of an Orangeflag , which , with other Tory emblem ? , have been daily paraded about the town since the " 29 ih of May . In one part of the town the windows of several houses have been completely demolished .
Fracas between two Military Knights . —Mr . ; Charles Hunt Lorimer , one of the Military Knights ; of Windsor , was . summoned before the Mayor by Major Lawrence , a brother Knight , for having , on ' ¦ the 5 th inst , threatened to cut complainant into little pieces , and making use of other threatening ; expressions . Major Lawrence deposed that on ' Saturday last he was walking from the Castle yard , i and bad not proceeded more than ten yards from i Henry the Eighth's gateway before he met Mr . Lorii mer , who said , " You are a pretty fellow ! " Comj plainant , not having had any communication with \ defendant for more than twelve months , was much | astonished , and replied , ** Yes , I consider myself a prettier tellow than you are . " Defendant then said ,
" You are a blackguardly rascal , and no gentleman . " Complainant turned rotnd and walked with defen-¦ dam iuw the Castle yard , and desired him to repeat ; what he had just said in the presence of a soldier I who vras then on sentry . Defendant immediately replied , " No , you old blackguard , 1 will do no such thing , " continuing io walk bj his side . Defendant 1 said , " By the living God , wherever and whenever I i get you out of this place , I will make a sad example : of yon and cut-yon inw pieces . " Complainant de-; clared he never gave defendant the least provocation i to justify such conduct . The sentinel alluded to , ! being examinedv corroborated that part of the Major ' s i statement whieh took place in his presence , and ' the magistrates bound both parties over to keep '¦ the peace .
Admiral Elliot . —It i 3 rumonred that Admiral Elliot , the brother of Lord Minto , and the " renowned * ' hero of Chnsan celebrity , is abont to be appointed to the lucrative command of Plymouth dockyard . The palpitation of this warrior ' s heart , we bear , has wonderfully improved since his hasty and spirited , departure from his friends , the Cfeinese ; and , altbocgh nnfk to do his duty and work abroad , he returns home from the scene of battle and difficnlty to brother Minto , where he finds himself well enough to partake of the family board's influence , by obtaining an appointment deservedly the birthright of many a brave officer . So much , alas , for the Minto interest and impartiality in thus rewarding the gallant Elliot for his important services in India .
Distressing Suicide op a Female Servant . — Mr . Baker , the Coroner , held an inqoest on Saturday , at ibe Old Turnpike House , Stamford Gate , Hackney , on the body of Caroline Goodwin , aged 21 y housemaid to Mrs . Caffray , of Stamford Hill Sarah Cook said that the deceased had been in the service of Mrs . Caffray for the last eighteen months , and described herself as a single woman . About a memh ago , "in consequence of her increased size and other appearances , witness accused her of being enceinte , but the accused denied it . On Wednesday last she became very ill , shewing all the symptoms of an approaching accouchement ; and
notwithstanding her entreaties , witness insisted upon having a enrgeon called to her assistance . Mr . Toplmin , a surgeon , was then in the house , on a visit to her mistress , and at witness's request he accompanied her to see the deceased . Upon reaching her bedroom , they discovered her upon the floor , sorTonnded by a pool of blood , still flowing from a wound in the throat , and & razor belonging to the footman lying by her side . Although witness had not been absent from her more than half a minute , the deceased Lad inflicted snch a deep wound that she must have died icssiastiy . Witness thonght deceased had been attached to one of the male servants , asd by ¦ whom the had recently been forsaken . Verdict" Temporary insanity . "
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- _ St % e versus Gas . —The Commissioners of the Metr ^ pbtan Roads , in consequence of the great reduction in the amount of tolls , owing to the improvement in travelling by railways , have given notice to the authorities of Kensington and other parishes that they have come to the determination to cease lighting the turnpike roads , so as to restrict their expenditure , and not deteriorate the efficiency of the roads under their charge . Cobjugal Tenders ess . — The following is the c « py of a letter written and actually sent by an affectionate wife to her " dear husband , " who , having been capitally convicted , was latterly sent on board the Ganymede hulk at Woolwich , county Kent . The woman is at present resident at a town
in the eastern part of the same county . For obvious reasons we omit names , bnt give the remainder verbatim as it was written : — " Dear husband , —I take this opportunity of addressing these few Hues to you , hoping to find you in good health , as it leaves me at present , thank God for it . Dear husband , I am going to change my line of life , and I hope it will be for the better . I must tell you , I am going to be married , and I hope you have no objection , for you know you have not behaved to me aa a husband ought to have done , both you and your family have used me very ill , but everybody knows I never gave yon anj reason to ill-treat me . I have been to the
overseers to ask their advice what I am to do , and they told me I had better get another husband , as I did not expect you would ever come home again . Yon need not fret about it , nor make yourself in the least alarmed at what I say , for I can assure you it is true . The overseers of the parish are going to give the man ten pounds to take me out of the parish . 1 have invited your brother Robert to the wedding , and I wish you was at home to make one amongst us . I shall tell you the man's name is William . You need not forget me , for all that ; aud if you should ever come where I am , I hope you will call and see me , so I conclude , and still remain your affectionate wife , —Catherine . To William
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Ganymede hulk , Woolwich , Kent . " If the husband finds fault with this communication , he must be a very unreasonable man . ' What could be more affectionate on the part of his late wife than tho wish that he could be at her second wedding \ Why should friends fall out about trifles—the more so when it was with the advice and premium of the moral , virtnoas , and high-minded guardians of tho poor of the town of Ch d ? The Census . —At the Thames Police Court , on Friday , Catherine Harvey , an Irishwoman , living in Match-walk , Shadwell , was charged by Mr . Currew , churchwarden , with refusing to give an account of the number of persons in her house . When applied to , she said she would see the Government and
the churchwarden d d before she'd split . The conseqnence of this refusal was , that the churchwarden could not make out his return . Mr . Ballantine said he would reduce the penalty from £ 5 to 40 a . and in default of Mrs . Harvey paying the latter sum , he sentenced her to be imprisoned for a week . At the Marlborough-street police-office on the same day , Mr . Clavering , hosier , Regent quadrant , was summoned for refusing to answer the questions of the enumerator appointed to take the census for that district . When the paper was produced , the defendant would not give an explicit auswer ; and when told that lie was required under a penalty to give a proper reply , he d d tho government for having legalised such an inquisitorial proceeding . The highest penalty ( £ 5 ) was then inflicted .
Death Sentences oh Aborigines . —A petition was on Wednesday week presented to the House of Commons of a curious and rather interesting character—namely , a petition of members and friends of the Society for the Protection of Aborigines , complaining of the sentence of death on certain natives of the Big Murray tribe , for an alleged attack on the brigantine Maria , from Adelaide to New Zealand , wrecked near the southernmost point of South Australia . It prayed for inquiry into the circumstances of the case . The petition was merely ordered to lie on the table .
Appropriation . —A man was charged at Bowstreet with robbery at Buckingham Palace , a few days ago . He was a journeyman upholsterer employed at the Palace , and had * ' borrowed" a few pieces of the silk used in fnrnishing the apartments . The man said that he viewed them only as " perquisites , " and really in a place where perquisites are so plentiful as in the palace , and where so much plunder in the small way is continually going forward , some excuse must be allowed . Few continue very honest after being employed at Court , and , in verity , when robbery is charged on a poor fellow casually employed there , that fact ought not to be forgotten . It is probable that when he got into the Palace , he thought he had a right to do as others did . The only wonder is that heconfined himseif to matters so insignificant as silk-snippings . A courtier would not have been half so easily contented .
Attack on a Gaming House at Windsor . —On Wednesday week there was a , large party , consisting of the officers of the 6 th Rifles and several of the 1 st Life Guards , at the mess at the infantry barracks , in Sheet-street , in consequence of several promotions which have recently taken place in the Rifles , occasioned by vacancies caused by the decease of the Hon . Colonel Molyneux . The festivities of the evening were kept up till past twelve o ' clock , when a large party proposed going to s well knowu gambling house ( which has been tolerated in this town for upwards of twelve months ) and where several of the officers have been cheated of large sums of money , in Augusta-place , where they were immediately admitted . What took place there before the row commenced , or what was the occasion of the havoc and destruction which almost
immediately afterwards ensued , we have not been able to ascertain . However , they had not been there more than half an hour , before there was a scene of the greatest confusion throughout the whole house , causing alarm and terror from the noise which was created , around the entire neighbourhood . The police were sent for soon after one o'clock , previously to which a portion of the 6 th Rifles , who were on guard at the Castle , had ? been despatched to the scene of action , and whom the police met on their return to the guard-room . Upon Mr . Superintendent Giilma-n and Serjeant Dobson , with several men , entering the house ( which they found empty , with the exeeption of one of tne gamblers , who , it appears , had secreted himself , ) they found scarcely one piece of furniture left whole .
The green baize vras torn off from the billiard and other tables ; the doors of the different room 3 broken down ; the window ? , with the sashe 3 and frames , broken to pieces ; all the lamps smashed ; chairs and tables dislocated ; tho fan-light over » he front door gone ; and the balustrades upon the s . airs torn away . At this time the whole of the party had gone off , and as for the proprietors of the gaming-house , they were glad to effect their escape , during the disturbance , from the back of the premises , across the garden , into a large piece of waste land called the Lammas . It was expected that some complaint would have been lodged before the borough magistrates at the Town Hall ; but no application has been made to the bench on the subject .
Desperate attempt at Murder .. —An excitement little inferior to that experienced at the assassination of the late Sergeant-Major Shepherd was felt a few days ago , in Woolwich , in consequence of a very prevalent rumour that a gunner in the Royal Artillery had thot a bombardier belonging to the same regiment . Considerable doubts were at first felt as to the correctness of the report , but upon subsequent inquiries it was ascertained tbat it was but too true . A company belonging to the 4 th battalion of the Royal Artillery , commanded by Colonel Chesney , has recently arrived at the garrison , after an absence of nearly ten years' service at Malta and in the Mediterranean . A gunner belonging to th 8 company who had been on guard
during the day in the Royal Arsenal , having charge of iheTconvicts in that establishment , named M'Garret tey , retired , after being dismissed guard , to the Royal Artillery canteen , where he drank so freely as to become intoxicated , and subsequently entered into another quarrel with another gunner , by whom he was severely maltreated , his eye being cut in a dreadful manner . Several persons in the room , including another gunner of superior strength , interfered between the combatants , and prevented any further mischief being done . This was about halfpast seven . # Shortly after this , M'Garrettey left the canteen , * and proceeded in a state of
intoxication to the barrack-room , in the eastern win # of the great arch . The unfortunate bombardier , whose name is John Grace , was standing at the time leaning over a desk , when M'Garrettey proceeded very deliberately to the place where his musket was , and taking it down , fired it at bis victim . The shot entered the back back on the right side of the spinal column , and passed into the abdomen . Grace immediately fell , and an artilleryman who was passing the room , alarmed by the report of the musket , entered the room » nd discovered tbe prisoner , who at once declared that " he had shot the man / ' The wounded
man was conveyed to tbe Ordnance hospital , where Sir J . Webb , tbe principal officer of the department , was in attendance , aad every assistance was rendered to the sufferer . . Sir John questioned him as to whether there had been an ; previous altercation , or whether he was aware that there was an y causefor the offence . The wounded man replied , ' None whatever . ' The ball is supposed to have entered the liver , but as any attempt to probe tbe abdomen would be fatal , the exact seat of the wound is not known . M'Garretty , who has been fifteen years in the
regiment , was immediately placed under arrest . He is a man somewhat advanced in life , and bears a notoriously bad character in the regiment . Grace is a married man , and highly respected in the company to whkh he belongs , and to which he acted as orderly . No cause can be assigned why the prisoner should commit ihe atrocious act , but the fury of his passion , there being eome resemblance in height and make to the gunner who bad abused M'Garrettey . Grici has since died , and a Coroner ' s Jury have returned a verdict of wilful murder against . M'Gflrrettey .
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Lord John Russell , finding such neT ^ 'Onding "totl and trouble" connected with State hi *' " 11688 is about to lighten the burthen , it is said , by th «> admixture of domestic bliss . His lordship intends v . ° get married . When the important event occurs , it 13 t ? $ that he will resign the direction of colonial affairs for the Home department . It is to be hoped , at least , that he will take care to get the honeymoon well over , before a fresh Parliament assembles . Everything in England proceeds at rail-road pace , and there is , therefore , nothing surprising in che fact that the Queen of such a country should produce a Royal family upon the same rapid principle that pervades every other department of national industry . Two confinements within twelve months arc , indeed , something to be proud of , and if her Majesty should only gratify the nation by twins , the result would , of course , bo doubly satisfactory .
Madkid , June 3 . —A new commission has been again named for taking into consideration th « establishment of banks in the provinces for the purpose of furnishing funds t » the agriculturists at a fair rate of interest . The minister of finance has not yet succeeded in obtaining any advanoes from the different capitalists , the latter trying to drive too hard a bargain . The resignation of this minister is talked of , and , although only a rumour , the funds declined yesterday to 26 ^ for cash , at which price they remain to-day . The ministry has just received
a check in the chambers . In spite of-their opposition to it , the cortes have adopted , by 82 against 52 , the project of the commission , to the effect that seoators holding situations under government shall not receive any salary during the session . The member Loped has resigned . M . Calatrava haB been named senator . The health of the young queen does not improve . The council of regency , and the guardians appointed by Ferdinand ' s will , iu case of any unforeseen event to the queen-mother , have put in their claim to the guardianship .
Ireland . —Two more murderous outrages have been committed in Ireland . One day lately , at two in the morning , the house of Patrick Nevil , at Cloninines , in the South of Kerry , was broken into by three men with blackened faces . Nevil was made to get up and give the robbers some £ 40 , which he had saved ; and in spite of his submission , when they left , one of them shot him in the breast with a pistol . Nevil held only two or three acres , and was but little above a mote labourer . His recovery is
thought hopeless . Again , in Wexford , at Killeton House , near Ballylongford , a shot was fired into the bedroom of Mr . Wm . Hicke , a Justice of tho Peace . Six balls passed through the window-glass and bed curtains , and lodged in the wall just above where Mr . Hicke lay . On the same night , a notice threatening to visit him with tbe fate of Mr . Brew was po .-ted on his hall-door . Mr . Hicke is a Catholic and a Liberal . The expulsion of some refractory tenants is thought to have been the cause of the attempt .
Presentation of Plate to the late Sheriffs Evans and Wheelton . —On Saturday last tho subs-cribers to the ShoriflV Plate Fund gave a banquet to those distinguished public officers , at the West India Dock Tarern , Blackwall , London . Hughes Hughes , Esq . was in the chair , supported by a Jarge party of influential gentlemen of various and opposite political opinions , but who cordially united on this occasion to testify their admiration of the manly and constitutional resistance which theso worthy High Sheriffs of London aud Middlesex had made against the arbitrary power assumed by the ( late ?) House of Commons . About seventy ladies and gentlemen sat down to dinner . Amoneyt the latter
were the late High Sheriff * , also Messrs . Charles Pearson ( City solicitor ) , James ( secondary ) , tbe Rev . John Jennings , A . M ., James Anderson , Esq ., Richard Carpenter , Esq ., Thomas Saunders , Esq-, Messrs . France aud Palmer , Messrs . Eagletox , King , Illidge , < &c . After dinner , the Chairman addressed Messrs . Evans and Wneelton in appropriate terms , and at the conclusion of his address , the splendid silver waiter and two ice-pails , the whole weighing above 400 ounces , was presented to the late Sheriff Evans , and the superb candelabrum and eperdue , weighing 294 ounces , to the late Sheriff Wheelton , amidst the unanimous cheers and plaudits of the company . Both gentlemen acknowledged the compliment in suitable terms .
The Queen of Hanover . —We find , from the German papers , that the health of th * Queen of Hanover ia in a very unsatisfactory state . One of these journals has the following letter from Hanover , dated June 2 : — " The inhabitants of this city are very uneasy respecting the health of her Majesty the Queen . It appears , from certain circumstances , that her disorder has not abated ; since yesterday evening the access to Leinstrasse ( tho street which parses by the royal palace ) is stopped , so that only pedestrians can no through it , and the evening patrol of the military band is suspended in order not to disturb her Majesiy . However , though her Majesty ,
as we hear has had a restless night , the physicians , it is said , have expressed some hope to-day . It is generally reported that Professor Scrunlein , at Berlin , has been requested to come here and give his advice . May all turn out well , Tho celebration of his Majesty ' s birthday was very restricted , on account of tho melancholy situation of the Queen . The King appeared on the parade , where he made a speech i o the officers from the provinces who are now here , aud was received with acclamations by the troops . It is expected that orders will be conferred on a great number of persons , and that there will be a considerable promotion in the army . " So much for Royalty .
Algiers . —A letter from Algiers , of the 26 th ult ., gives the following details of the recent fraud committed by means of forged Treasury Bills : — " On the 22 nd , a Spanish schooner , named La Vierge de Regla , Captain Jose Maria de Otero , came into port from AJtneria , with a cargo of 2 , 000 quintals of lead , consigned to the storekeeper-general of the army . As no such officer exists , the ship was immediately put under surveillance , and a report got abroad that her freight was the produce of fraud , through the means of forged bills . We have learnt , from good information , that the author of the fraud presented himself , several weeks ago , to the French consuls of Spain , assuming the name of Holy de Beaumont , aud pretending to be a brother of M .. Gustavo de
Beaumont , the deputy , now at Algiers , with M . de Tocquevillo and M . de Corcelles , on their return from Mosta-ganem , having apparently given up their intention of accompanying the expedition against MascaTa and Tekedempta . Hely do Beaumont gave himself ont to our consular agent in Spain as an officer of the military administration in Algeria , and produced a pretended letter from the Governor-General , charging him to make Jarge purchases of lead for the army . All the consuls of France at Valencia , Malaga , Gibraltar , and Cadiz , appear to have entertained no doubt of the authenticity of the letter , or the reality of his mission , for they gave him successively letters of recommendation . Cadiz and Gibraltar were the ( principal theatres of his
frauds , and it is eaid be issued his false bills at Gibraltar to the amount of 200 , 000 f . At Cadiz , the vice-consul introduced him to several of the first merchants , and through their mediation he obtained one-third of tho lead now on board the detained ship . In one transaction to the amount of 40 , 000 f ., he gave a bill for 50 , 000 f ., receiving the difference in money . Not the least Btrikmg part of the affair is , that there is every reason to believe that the lead thus acquired was destined for Abd-el-Kader ; and thus the French consuls , unknown to themselves , it is true , have been made accomplices in a fraud , and an attempt to supply an enemy of their country with ammunition . It is confidently believed that the ship was on her way to Morocco , but was driven by stress of weather into Algiers . "
The Forthcoming General Election . —Wo could almost find it in our hearts to regret that Lord John Russell has so signally defeated himself . We are not disposed to admire a ¦ ** tyrant majority '" of any party in the House of Commons , but Lord John Russell has unconsciously done his best to create one . A Government to be » f any use , ought to have a clear working majority ; bat they may have too large a majority ; for an effective opposition is after all the spur to good , and the check upon bad , legislation ; and we cannot see the materials for one out of the forthcoming eleotions . We have counted no Jess than seventy-one so-called liberal members of the present House of Commons , who have already declined serring their constituents again ; a "
defection from the public service , which says much for their personal predence , but promises very badly for the organisation of an opposition in the next Parliament . The Whigs , in fact , seem to have turned quite sulky with the public—something in the same spirit that Fox evinced when he left the House of Commons in despair , and took to translating Horace at St . Anne ' s-hill . When the last Russell leaves Bedfordshire , and Mr . Joseph Hume affects a desire to retire into private life , the game must be nearly op . As journalists , we almost reel melancholy when we reflect upon how many of our old choppingblocks we shall miss when the new Parliament assembles . Three or four , we understand , aro to be " pitchforked" in the event of losing their seats ; Sir John Cam Hobhouse for one ; and it would be a very appropriate termination to his consistent
career for him to walk into the House of Lords in a white hat at last . We do not profess to know any thine of cabinet secrets , but the on dlt amongst the clubs ia , that tb » pitchfork business had a great deal to do with the Whigs sticking to office , until they knew who would -want providing for after the result of a general election . The provincial constitnencies should bear this in mind . At any rate there can be no harm in their asking such a man as Sir John whether he has not got a peerage in his pocket if the country should refuse him a seat in the House of Commons ; and , if he eanwe-i answer in the negative , perhaps he may be asked on the hustings , at Nottingham , whether he is of tho saaio opinions now as he vvas some years ago , when he called the House of Lords " a refuge for the destitute ?"—Tory paper .
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Snow at Midsummer . —The mountains in Scotland have , during the past week , heeu capped vritb snow . The once joyous and sultry 4 th of June was truly Siberian , but a beneficial change seems at hand . —Newcastle Journal . A Tup of tho Cheviot breed , the property of MeSBM . Young and Craig , Bighouse , Sutherland , was clipped a few days ago , when its fleece was actually founu to weigh no less than 194 imperial pounds . Changes ik Government Functionaries . — Several changes wili take place at the close of the session among the subordinate government
functionaries . It is understood that the Hon . E . J . Stanley will vacate thepost of one of the secretaries to the treasury , in which he will be succeeded by Do Le Marchant , Esq ., of the board of trade . Mr . J . Parker , M . P . for Sheffield , now one of the lords of the treasury , will take the place of R More O'Femll , Esq ., as secretary to the admiralty who succeeds Mr . R . Gordon , M . P . for Windsor , in the office of financial secretary to the treasury . A vacanoy in the number of lords of the treasury is thus occasioned . Some other changes are . we hear , contemplated , which include the Hob . E . J . Stanley ' s introduction to a higher post ia the Government .
Masonic Festival . —The third aad greatest of the charities which the masonic body support , that for founding an asylum for the aged and decayed members of their body , celebrated its sixth annual festival on Tuesday last , in their hall . Mr . Benjamin Wood , M . P . for Southwark , took the chair , and was supported by a considerable array of stewards and the friends and admirers of this crowning charity of the ariciext order of freemasons . Since the establishment of this institution , the male and female schools have gone on increasing in the amount of their utility ; and although at its outset the Aged Masons' Asylum met with some obstacles , arising more from ignorance than pr < judice , still , having twice received the unanimous sanction of the grand lodge , it may now be considered as the best , as it is the youngest , offspring of masonic charity .
Horrid Murder and Suicide in Derbyshire . —The village of Milltown , parish of Ashover , wag on Thursday week the scene of a most horrid tragedy ; and it seldom falls to our lot to publish details of a more revolting character . The perpetrator of tho bloody deed was one John Towndrow , once a farmer of considerable respectability , but of late years rather reduced in circumstance- ' . It appears that his wifo aud he have for some time past lived unhappily , owing to circumstancos and dispositions of mind into which it ia not now our province to inquire , but there seems no reason to doubt that the main cause which led to the awful transaction originated in a dispute about some meney , which bad lately been left to Towndrow ' s wife . The throar . of
Mary Towndrow , the wifo of the deceased John Towndrow , was cut from ear to ear , and her forehead severely fractured by a blow from a heavy instrument . The throat of the deceased , John , was also severely out , and both bodies were disfigured by blood . At ihe inquest , the first witness called was John Coates , who deposed that about one o ' clock at noon on Thursday , he was passing deceasod ' s house , when ho saw their daughter look through the kitchen window ; sben then screamed , and begged him to foreo the door open , which he did . On entering the kitchen , tho body of John Towndrow was lyin # on its left side , his head hanging over the edge of a tub ; the deceased , Mary , waa lying with her head against the wall ; both their throats were cut
and teey were quite cold and dead . A razor was lying on the ground near to the spot where John lay , and a setting stick , brokeB in two pieces , lay near to tho body of his wife . In the house-place adjoining tho kitchen the breakfast things were on the table , and the cups contained tea ; the two chairs in which the deceased appeared to have been sitting at breakfast were thrown over . and a apair ofspectacles , usually worn by the deceased ( Mary Towndrow ) lyinsj on tho hearth . To this witness appearances warranted the conjecture that a quarrel arose during breakfast , and that the ill-fated husband dragged his wife into the kitchen , and there committed the deed . A hammer stained with blood was found by Mr . George Bonnington . This witnp . s 3 stated that he had known the deceased husband about twelve
years ; that ho had occasionally worked for him as a labourer ; and that during that time ho never saw him act irrationally . Ho also stated that on ths day previous to the murder deceased conversed with witness respecting his wife , stathig that he did not know whether he was to have any harbour there any longer , as he supposed she wa 9 gone to fetck somebody to turn him out . There was nothing singular about him during this convercation , nor did | he appear in the least excited . Ho was quite rational and calm . There was a great deal of blood upon the hands of the deceased . Mr . Geo . Bonnington was the second person iu the house after the discovery was made . On the forehead of the deceased ' s wife was a large fracture , which induced witness to search for the instrument
by which it had been inflicted . Oi the shelf behind the staircase he found a hammer , the head of which was covered with blood , and which appeared to have been wiped . The razor &heaih was on the house table . Witness knew the deceased kept his razors in the house cupboard , and the conclusion he had arrived at was , that deceased struck his wife with the hammer which he afterwards replaced on the shelf , and then fetchea his vszor and completed the horrid deed by nearly severing his wife ' s head from the body , and afterwards cutting his own throat . After a brief consultation , the Jury returned a verdict of temporary iusauity .
A " Haunted' House . —Extraordinary and Mysterious Circumstance . —For some few days past VVindsor and its immediate neighbourhood have been in a state of considerable excitement , in consequence of a house , which stands alone , surrounded by its i-rounds , at Clewar , about a mile from the town , having been reported , from the extraordinary noises which have been heard there , to be " haunted . The house is occupied by an elderly couple , their two daughters , and a female domestic . The noises which have been heard ( and which aro continued at intervals throughout the day and night ) , resemble those which would bo caused by & person rapidly , for two or three seconds , striking his knuckles violently against tho panel of a door .
The knocking is so loud that it is heard by the inmates of houses four or five hundred yards off . Such is the alarm these strange , and , at present , unaccountable noises have caused throughout the neighbourhood , that a lady who resides at somo distance has given notice to her landlord that ehe quits instantly ; and the haunted family are represented to be in such a state of mind that thoy are making preparations to leave the houso immediately . At one time the door was taken off its hinges , and placed at the back of the closet , but the knocking was precisely the same as before . It should be observed , thai at three or rour times , when the knocking took place , thero were five persons , and sometimes more , present from Windsor and elsewhere , who were determined , i ! possible , to detect the cause , and who wero totally unconnected with tbe family residing in the house ; but they were &M 11 left in ignorance of its origin , and without the ' means ' of accounting for it .
On Saturday last , a gentleman volunteered to sit up with the occupant of the house , during the whole of that ni ^ ht . This offer , at the suggestion of the magistrates , was accepted . The rest of the family retired to rest at the usual hour , and up to six o ' clock the next mornii g , no noiseB were heard ; but in tbe course of Sunday they were more violent than ever . Many ignoraut persons , of course , ascribe the noises to some supernatural agency , and a tale in now currant , that some person left that neighbourhood , some time back , in a " verymysterious manner , " and that " no doubt a murder was committed near the spot . " However this may be , gentlemen of high standing in the epunty ( noagiftrates , clergymen , and others ) , have visited tho house during the past week ; and certainly , to say the least , they are all exceedingly puzzled at the extraordinary noises they have heard within three or four yards of tha spot where they had stationed ihcmsolves .
Dissolution of Parliament . —It is generally supposed that the large arrear of public business , necessarily created by the sudden dissolution of Parliament , will suggest the necessity for the assembling the new House of Commons as speedily as possible . The first Parliament was dissolved on the 18 f . h July , 1837 , and tho Writs were made returnable on the 15 th of November following—thua allowing an interval of nearly four months for the elections , which , considering the mode of canvass , and the short time allowed for taking the poll under the Reform Act , was a much longer period than could , by possibility , be required . It is , however , conceived that , in the present instance , the utmost despatch , compatible with the convenience of the several candidates and constituencies .
will be employed , so as to ensure the opening of the new Parliament at an early period . The choice of a Speaker will , doubles ? , as in two recent instances , become the first great party question of the session . Mr . Manners Sutton ( Viscount Canterbury ) held the chair for eighteen years , and presided over seven new Houses of Commons ; Mr . Abercrombie ( Lord Dnnfermline ) for four years ; and Mr . C . ShawLefevre for . two years . ¦ The last , election for Speaker was on the 29 ; h of May , 1839 . The next will be the fourteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom . It appears by a return prepared from the rolls and journals of both houses , ? hat since 1809 , when it is supposed the duration of Parliaments was
extended beyond one year , only four Parliaments have existed beyond seven years , and only nine have had a sexennial duration . Of tho rest , only nine Parliaments have lasted above five years , three above four years , and three above three years . Only ten existed above two years , and no Jess than tbirty-Bix fora shorter period . The average duration , from I 5 # 9 to the present , time ( including the ieng Parliament in the reign of Charles I ., and that in the reigu of Charles II ., which lasted nearly seventeen year ? , ) dees nos exceed the space of three years each ; so that , although , nominally saptennial , Parliament may be said to have uot move than a really triennial existence .
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THE WELSH "PLOTTERS" AGAIN I A paragraph from tha Hereford Times i 9 % present " going the round" of the " Establishment , " and which we here insert for the Lurpote of caliing forth a true version of the case upon Chartist authority ; . for we don't believe the facts a ? set forth in the Whig print . If there is any fouadation for the report at all , the odds are a hundred to one , tbat "Sir" Tern Phillips and his bloody coadjutors have been at teork again in search of a title for another miscreant . Here is the Whig statement : —
" Information from Pontypoo ! has b « en received at this office , tiom unquestionable authority , that a package has arrived "at Newport , p «* packet from Bristol , to be forwarded to Mr . 6 . Moore , at Mr Good win ' s , shoemaker , Pontypoel . The package was said to be of a very- suspicious nature , and Superintendent Roberta accordingly attended at the Swan Inn , and placed two officers to watch the movements of any party who might call for it . No individual making bis appearance for that purpose , it was finally tafeen to the station-house . Upon examination it was found to contain two muskets , two bayonets , one fowlingpiece , two pistols , five bullet moulds , of various sizes .
a force pump for an air gun , a great quantity of inflammatory Chartist ; publications , one of CoJonel Jlacerone ' s books , called " Instructions to the People how to make combustible Materials , " a quantity of Cobbett ' s Works , &c , with several parcels of worsted and cotton stockings , linen drapery , and worsted yarn , so well packed round'the fire-arms that no oue would suspect tbe package of containing such goous . On the following day ( Tuesday ) , a person called at tbe coachoffice for the package , upon which he waa taken into custody ; he proved to bo George Black , a Chartist agitator and orator from" Nottingham , who has been very industriotia in South Walea this last twelve mouths .
particularly at Merthyr ; be assumed to travel with stocking 3 for sale . Qn Wednesday last , the prisoner ¦ was taken before C . H . Leigh , W . H . Little , and E . H . Phillips , Esqs ., at the police office ; when , after a lengthened investigation , he was committed for one month to hard labour in tho House of Correction at Uak . He attended a Chartist meeting at N « -wport on Mentiay last , and made a moat violent speech . Ha stated that he is sometimes called Moore , hut more generally Black . He was committed under the Vagrant Act for trading and . hawking without a Jiceiiae . Goodwin , to whose house the package was directed , is a Chartist Jeuder at PDritypoo ! . "—Hertford Times .
A word or two upon this , as it appears . " Information from Pontypool was received from unquestionable authority , that a packet had arrived at Newport . " Ah ! How did the " unquestionable authority at Ponlypoolknow the packet was either coming , or had arrived , at Newport I How came the Pontypool authorities to know that ? Au answer , Mr . Hereford Ti 7 nes , ifyon please ! " The package was said to be of a very suspicious nature . " "Several parcels of worsted and cotton Stockings , linen drapery , and worsted yarn , were so
well packed round the fire arms , that no one would suspect the package of containing such goods . " See how the story confounds and contradicts itself ! It was " saidie be of a very suspicious nature "—and yet its nature was such " that no one would suspect it ! " What bunglers ! How very like a plot ! a trap 1 ! If Black had any thing to do with the " very suspicions" package , we say , judging from the statement given above , he has been entrapped by the " unquestionable authority " of Pontypool !! .
Bcack " has been committed to the House of Correction for one month , under tho Vagrant Act , for trading and hawking without a license . " This is the most inexplicable part of the who !* affair ! " Trading and hawking without a license : " where is the proof of that 1 Is going to a coach office to see after a package of goods " trading and hawking ? " We cannot understand Welsh Authority ! Will our friends see that we havo a full statement of all the facts of this moat " suspicious" case , as far as they can make them out \ Let us know all the actors in this strange business ; and lot them detail the evidence on which Black has been
committed to the tread-mill for a month , on a charge of " trading and hawking without a license . " This case must be ferretted out ! The " authority " succeeded once ! He must not do it again !! No more plots ! Let our friends be on * their guard !! The Whigs , reduced to the last extremity , will try every means to keep themselves afloat—and a good 44 plot , " which would appeal to the fears of the men of property , would be a perfect " God-send . " The above story gives ' evidence that the " plotteks " aro again at work . Let every Chartist look out . Defeat the hellish move ! No siore PLOTS ! ! jum-ft ^ . i ^^ » -i « -..-. «¦ , r n * r r r . nwwuwM ^ B-v ^ vw ^ -
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THE " DUNDEE CHRONICLE . " With most sincere regret we extract from the columns of our esteemed contemporary the following article , for the purpose of laying it before the Chartists of Scotland , and of demanding for it their instant and effective attention , that the cause of Chartism may not lose a valuable advocate : — " Our readers -will observe that an inipartant meeting ot the shareholders of this journal was held on Wednesday last The financial affairs of tlie Company are certainly in r . o enviable position ; and , as poverty is not considered a crime by those whose cause -we havo espoused , we have , without hesitation , laid the whole matter shortly before the public . Tbe circumstances attending tbe purchase of the paper cannot be already
forgot , but must be fresh in the recollection of the whole country , —as the purchase cf such extensive property was at the time tbe wonder and admiration of those whose principles were reciprocal with our own . That the shareholders are generally composed of those who live by the labour of their hands , we do not affect to deny but , instead of this being a disgrace , we deem it no inconsiderable recommendation , because -we can boast of that which few journalists can boast Of , viz ., the honest and straightforward advocacy of the unprescriptable rights of man . But , while we deem this aa honour to ourselves , we cannot shut our eyes to the fact , that the existence of this poverty has precluded those very individuals from not only paying up the share * already subscribed for , but baa prevented them from
subscribing for the necessary number of shares , bo as to enable the Directors to carry on the business with that requisite economy -and spirit , necessary for the conducting of such a journal as the Dundee Chronicle . It -will be Been from the report , that the working men who have subscribed for shares are extremely inconsiderable , when we take into account the vast mass of men who have exposed the cause we advocate , and wheu we calculate upon the enthusiasm existing amongst that mass . No doubt , we are somewhat to blame ourselves for a remissness in not laying our peculiar circumstances before the public There is a certain delicacy attending the admission of actual distress , tbat , the public is as well aware of as
onrselvett ; but the point can be overstretched ; and we think , despite the revilinga of bur foes , that we are only doing our duty by throwing aside tbat falsa delicacy , which , under our circutnstancts , would be gross folly any longer to affect That we are embarrased , financially speaking , we at once frankly admit ; and we make this admission with unfeigned sorrow and regret Nothing , we are satisfied , could afford matter of congratulation to our enemies equal to the extinction of the people ' s paper , for . the simple reason that they hate democracy , and want not the amelioration of the miserable condition of the uiilUoua . To restore to the people their natural and inherent rights , and to lessen their burdens , has been the aim and object of the promoters of this journal
" We have to return out sincere thanks to our readers generally throughout the country for the liberal support which they have given the paper since its commencement , as our circulatioa is greater than we could by possibility have anticipated ; and we trust that the appeal now wade foi additional shareholders "will not be in vain . Let the few Chartist papers now in existence cease to live , and the boldest and most destructive Wow will be given to the cause of liberty , -which by » ny means whatever could be struck . Shall the enemies ot the people . have to congratulate themselves on the extinction ot the greatest palladium which liberty can possess , viz ., a free and unfettered pr&sa ? W « think we are not wrong when we emphatically say—No ! a thousand times , No !
" Men of Forfarshire and Fifeshire ! we have done onr duty , and ve now appeal to you for aid . Few , indeed , in the county districts , Lave become shareholders of the paper ; but it is hot too late , and we hope that yoa will yet manfully do your duty . "The manager will shortly write the respective agents directly on this most important subject " By order of the Directora . " We are quite snre that , after reading this , the people know their duty , and Trill perform it , without farther prompting . We must , however , re-echo most emphatically the following sentence . "Let the few Chartist papers now in existence cease to live , and tho boldest and most destructive blow will ba giwtt . to tke cause of liberty , which by any means whatever could be struck . Shall the ene * mies of the people have to congratulate themselves on tho extinction of the greatest palladium which liberty can possess , viz ., a free and unfettered press We think we are not wrong when we emphatically 8 » y—No ! a thousand times , No 1 "
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The Northern Star. Saturday, June 19, 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JUNE 19 , 1841 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 19, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct711/page/3/
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