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      Hints To Sportsmen.—" The Oldest Of Men ...

      Hi : T . S . DC- NCOMBE A > D THE nAUAS EXILES . At a public meeting rf Italians residing injondon , t . i , ?« _ s « wc Rooms it was unanimously resolved . — SH „ Sbuncombe . Esq ., M . P ., for his generous and . pSUdactin P ^ anu-ntrciKx-li-ii ' the upturn ot novate letters at the Post-office . . " hat a medal , struck in commemorabon of the brothers Bandicra , and their feUow-sufferers at Cosenza , be presented to tbe same honourable gentleman , as a testimonial of the respect and gratitude of this meeting , and respectfully submitted to his acceptance by an appropriate address . . - *• .,-"That a deputation , composed of the chairman , and two other gentlemen , to be chosen by this meeting , wait upon the honourable gentlemen at his earliest convenience , charged with the testimonial and address above uid . "

      Aixitirf ngj ) = ~ Jiaiiotu , 11 . Mauara , aud F . 0 . Beggi , waited upon Mr . Thomas Buncombe , at the Albany , when the medal * was presented and the following address delivered : — "Sir , —We have the honour to appear before vou , charged with a mission from a large number of our countrymen redding in England . " We are requested by them to tender their feelings of profound respect and sincere gratitude to you for the upright and generous manner in which you vindicated the honour of English hospitality , by loudly denouncing the dark transactions of the Government who disgracefully violated it , " Conscious of having performed a sacred duty to your onn country , vou arc , no doubt , equally aware that you have also advocated the cause of an illustrious though unfortunate nation , whilst the Government you opposed basely prostituted the power iritli which a free people invested them , to make it subservient to the sanguinary

      views of foreign despotism . " Sir , —Wc would request you to accept a medal wliich has been struck in honour of nine Italians , lately shot at Coseuza for the cause of the liberty , unity , and independence of their country . "It is with pain , sir , that in our desire to do you honour , we have notldng to offer but what is intended as a commemoration of a national disaster ; but you , who have but recently experienced how , even in a land of freedom , injustice may prevail to an alarming extent ; how espionage , foigcry , and calumny may be practised by men entrusted with the highest authority , and ( even whilst in their heart disavowing such nefarious measures ) sanctioned by a large majority of other men chosen toexcrcise a salutary restraint upon the former—you will be easily disposed to appreciate a sacred cause rather from its jus tice than from its success—you will feel that there is a depth of adversity bordering on sublimity , and wc are assured vou will share our reverence for the blood of our

      nartjTS . " Iu the name , then , of our slain brethren , in the name i many thousands of our living countrymen who might forfeit life or liberty by merely uniting with us in this demonstration , receive , sir , the thanks of all good Italians ; and God speed the day when the whole eraancipitcd country may be allowed the free expression of its debt of gratitude to vou . " Wc would likewise request you to thank , in our name , such of the members of Parliament as seconded and sujiported you during the numerous debates on the subject . " To which Mr . Duncombe made the following answer : —

      "Gentlemen , —I can assure you that you have only made a fair estimate of my feelings when you say that I can appreciate a sacred cause , rather from its justice than from its success . Idosoappreriateit , andsincerelytrust that the day may not be far distant when your illustrious country , unawed by the perfidy of a British cabinet , undismayed by domestic tyranny , and untrammel cd by foreign despotism , will avenge the national insults she has endured , and claim satisfaction for her murdered martyrs , by proclaiming her national independence and heroppressors' treason .

      " Gentlemen , —I accept the proffered testimony of your approval of my humble services with a sorrowful pride . Sorrows for the loss that you and Italy have sustained , and pride that through my exertions the stain of the martyr ' s blood has been wiped from the English character , and stamped upon the real perpetrators of the foul deed ; and trifling though the gift may appear in your eyes , I shall proudly preserve it as a valued testimony of good men's approval , and shall bequeath it a relic commemorative of what England was in the days of her rulers' perfidy , and as a warning to rising generations of the imbecility of hoping to arrest the progress of freedom hv the terrors of the scaffold .

      " Gentlemen , —In compliance with your wish , it will be my duty to convey your thanks to those independent members of Pariianicut who dared to exercise a constitutional privilege iu spite of Ministerial influence or State necessity . And in once more thanking you for the honour you have this day done me , I believe I am only expressing the sentiments of the great body of my countrymen , when I say that they sincerely wish your noble cause may speedily be brought to a successful and triumphant issue . "

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      * The inedul , aue $ qnisitenisster-picce of engraving , uy Benjamin Wyon , Esq ., is now exhibited at Messrs . Wiley and Putnam ' s , fi , Waterloo-place . It is tastefully laid in a mourning frame , aud bears an Italian inscription , of which the following is a literal translation : — " To Thomas Sliugsby Duncombe , Esq . SLP-: because he honoured with generous words in Parliament the memory of their brethren slain fur the sake of Italian faith , at Cosenza , in 1 SH : because lie manfully upheld the rights of the Italian eslles , basely , and with fell intent , violated in their private eorresjiorideute by the English Government ; because he hurled back the slander aimed at one of their countrymen in jialliation of that enormous breach Gfliospitality--many Italians , in public meeting assembled , voted this sfight but dearest pledge of their gratitude and applause . "

      Endowment Of Ma.Inooth. Oa Tuesday Night...

      ENDOWMENT OF MA . INOOTH . Oa Tuesday night a numerous meeting of the electors and inhabitants of Fhisbnry took place at White Conduit-house , to protest against the Maynooth Bill . In addition to the other speakers of the night , Air . T . Duncombe , M . P ., took his scat upon the platform . Mr . It Beslct having been called to the chair , stated briefly the principle which guided him in Ids opposition to the grant . Those who thought with him did not participate in the " . No Popery " cry , nor did they object to the endowment ofMay-Boeth for any reason that was not equally applicable to the appropriation of the public money to the support of the Protestant , Presbyterian , or any other faith , or of that class of Dissenters who received a grant from the State under the name of Regions donum . ( Cheers ) . The chairman called on

      Dr . Errs to move the first resolution , which was a general condemnation of all State endowments of whatever creed . After supporting this principle at some length , the speaker denied that the opponents of the grant to Maynooth were acting in an unfriendly spirit towards Ireland . It was his belief that they could not render Ireland a greater service than in resistbgthe measure of Sir R . Peel . ( Hear , hear . ) The Goreniment had discovered that Ireland ' s greatest grievance was the Protestant Establishment in that country , and Mr . Macaulay—a man whesc opinion on such a subject was worth having—had

      called it a "bad thing , and a " rery bad thing . " ( Hear , hear . ) Such being tbe case , it would occur to an unsophisticated man , that the best course to pursue would be to remove that great grievance ; hut this was not in keeping with the policy of Sir It . Peel , who preferred conciliating and quieting the Irish people by the paltry " instalment" which England had been surprised " : o find so acceptable to O'Conuell . If this was justice to Ireland , it was also injustice to England ; and , therefore , every honest man would , ctm > hivatW with the utmost regard for the true rights and iuicruts of the Irish , refuse to give it his sanction .

      The resolution was seconded by Mr . Billingham , a Wesleran : and when put by the chairman was car ried unanimously . Dr . Piuce moved the second resolution in an eloquent speech , de < taring that if the State determined on endowing anything , he would rather sec error in the enjoyment of its bounty than that truth should be shackled by tbe unholy connexion . The resolution declared the sympathy of the meeting with the Irish in their struggles against tbe Irish Church , and affirmed that , iu their opposition to the giant , thev

      were not actuated by any hostility to the Catholic faith . The doctor , in referring to the " . No Popery " cry , pronounced it to be tbe resuscitation of one " of the most dang . rous principles that over operated on the destinies of the nation , and under which ages of injustice had been perpetrated . ( Cheers . ) Mr . H . Veecesx , in an emphatic speech , wliich elicited the approbation of the meeting , seconded the resolution , which was put and carried unanimously . Mr . J- H . Yarkt , barrister , proposed the next resolution , which was as follows : —

      That this meeting declares its solemn opinion that he Anglican Protestant Establishment in Ireland is a national nuisance , and is , beyond every other religious endowment in the world , opposed to every principle of justice , while it is , and always has been , the principal cause of discontent in Ireland . And this meeting pledges itself to support the Irish people in every constitutional effort to abolish it Mr . Parry ably addressed himself to the subject of tie resolution , * which was seconded by an elector , aud carried by acclamation . A petition in favour of Mr . S . Crawford ' s motion was then put to , and confirmed by , the meeting , with a request that it should be presented by their representative , Mr . Duncombe . . .

      Mr . T-scomhe was received , on rising , with loud cheeriLi ,. He had attended the meeting because , in Parliamentary language , there was " no house" at St . Sfephcn ' s ' that night ; and looking at the manner in which the people of England were represented [ at this moment , he apprehended that it would not give them much concern if they heard that it was not going to meet again . ( Hear , hear . ) He would certainty present their petition , but he could tell them that it would not have the slightest effect upon Sir It . Peel , who did not conceal bis determination to rcgard-the "ferment" against his bill , as be called it , as a stanulus rather than an obstacleto him in pushes l ! 3 ? , "S ^ Ihunent , ( Cries of "Shame . ") t ^ nfeT ^ S W ™* of the speeches made that . a ?^ * was re J ° lced *¦» ^ d that the course he ^ ^ adopted was so strictly in accordance with their ** ^ nJ ° lSV ^ , f ? ? ieBn t 0 redress A" ? g , ^ -ances that Ireland bad so long endured ? It

      Endowment Of Ma.Inooth. Oa Tuesday Night...

      might hare the momentary effect of making the Catholic population of that country forget for a wliilc the wrongs she had suffered at the hands of the present Government party , and it might even secure Sir R . Peel and Sir J . Graham a reception in Ireland when accompanying her Majesty to that country ; but in six months time they would be hated again as much as ever for Ireland would learn how much she had to be thankful for . ( Hear . hear . ) They had been taunted with hostility to Ireland in opposing the Maynooth bill , but nothing was more unjust . Had they ever been hostile to Ireland ? ( Cheers . ) Did they not demand justice for O'Conneli when he sought a new trial ? ( Hear , hear . ) Did they not shew their disgust at the packing of his jury , and , above all , of the exclusion of the Roman Catholics ? ( Loud cheers . ) Whythenwere they to be told that

      , , thev were unfriendly to Ireland and hostile to the Roman Catholic iaith ? But who had been the enemies of Ireland—who did sanction the packing of the jury ? Why , those very men whom O'Conneli was now fawning upon and nattering , although in that very place he had affected to despise their assumed conciliatory tone towards Ireland . ( Cheers . ) He thought better of the Irish than to suppose that they would ever suffer their real wrongs to be buried in the repairs of Maynooth College , for which this beggarly giant had been proposed . ( Hear , hear . ) The hon . member , after shortly expressing himself in favour of the abolition of till State endowments , sat down amidst loud applause . The Ciuiumas read a letter received from Mr . Waklcy , M . P ., who had been prevented attending bv two * inquests which lie had engaged to attend the

      same evening . The meeting then resolved to memorialise the Queen for the dissolution of Parliament , in the event of their petition proving ineffectual , after which it dispersed , soon after ten o ' clock .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, Mat 3, 1845.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , MAT 3 , 1845 .

      Where Are We Going To ? To What Are We C...

      WHERE ARE WE GOING TO ? TO WHAT ARE WE COMIXG ? " WHAT'S IN THE WIND THAT BLOWS THIS WAY ?" The greatest DE-former of the day is Sir Robert Peel . To that man seems to have been giren a special missiox to break up the murderous system of PnoTESTAxi AscEXDAxcr , loan-mongering , ragmoney , high taxation , and defiance of the people ' s will . It has been his fate to deal out to that system the most violent Mows that it has received : blows that have sent it reeling and staggering like a drunken man and from which , thank God . ' it can never recover . And yet he has done all this as the System ' sfriend I He was tiie founder , the

      builderup , of the great Conservative party—a party that tvas to have maintained , inviolate , " our glorious COXSTlionox in Church and State ; " a party that ivas to have resisted the insidious efforts of the innovator—he who designed to alter the "ENVY of surrounding nations , " and "take the shine" out of the " admikaiio . v of the world ; " a party , composed of the adherents , the Mowers , and the zealous admirers of the "Pilot that weathered the storm "—the members aud spouters of the Pin-clubs—the drinkers of the insulting toast , " The land we live in : those who do not like it , damn ' cm let ' em leave it : "

      a party , numbering in its ranks the men who stood up , uncovered , and received Castlekeaoh—cutthroat Castlereaoh—with shout upon shout of delirious joy , as he entered "the House , " on his return from Paris , laden with the spoils of the French capital , when the hated Boprhoxs had been thrust back on the French people by the swords of Europe , subsidised by English money ; a party who helped that said Castlereaoh to pass the infamous SIX ACTS—to suspend the Habeas Corpus Actio send the miscreants , Oliver , Castles , and Edwakbs among the people to promote

      insurrections and riots , that the dungeons might be filled , and the scaffold groan with its victims ; a party , who aided the "first gentleman in Europe" to persecute his wife , Carouse , to the deatli , and even into the grave ; a party , who yelled with savage delight , when Caxxixg , brutal Caxmng , made the cruel sufferings of a " Reformer" matter of jest , and spoke of the old man of seventy , with Ms bowels forced out of Ms body by prison usage , as "the revered and ruptured Ogdek ; " a party , who cheered and cheered again , when that same brutal and insolent Cassixg declared his insolent intention to "

      oppose Parhamentura JfeforsH to the last hour of his existence ; " a party , who had the managing of loans—the fingering of taxes , during the "high and palmy days" of Bank Restriction and a nation ' s madness , and whose superciliousness and haughty , insolence knew no bounds ; a party , who hailed the Irox Duke ' s declaration , that " Reform was not needed , for the existing constitution of things was the perfection of human wisdom , " with every manifestation of extravagant joy—but who were soon forced by "the spirit of the age "—( let loose in Paris in July , 1830 , when the one branch of the

      House of Bourbox was kicked off the throne , spite of the " swords of Europe "—we were not then able to subsidize / J—to ask " what shall we do with the Duke" ? and he was not only obliged to get bulletproof window shutters , but glad to acquiesce in that ¦ very Reform he hadso imperiously attempted to sneer down : it was with materials such as these that Peel built up his " great Conservative party , with which to resist the destructive tendency of the time And yet , lack-a-day , he has been the GREAT DESTRUCTIVE of all ! By his Peel ' s Bill , he put a partial stop to the flights of the " rag-rooks "—that

      Actessart ; portion of our " glorious'' " ENVY of surrounding nations "—and in doing this he nearly destroyed the nation itself ! He transferred the property of one into the hands of another ; he doubled the amount of taxation on the shoulders of the people ; he took from the landlord , the merchant , the manufacturer , and the producer , and . gave to the Jew and the loan-monger ; he drove hundreds into insolvency , and caused consternation and dismay on every hand ; he reduced us to " within forty-eight hours of barter , " so that with die whole of the " admiration- of the world . " it was lust " touch axd

      go ! " By his Emancipation- Act of 1829 , he destroyed the Protestant Church—that inte gral and " glorious" portion of our heaven-devised system Since that " act of suicide , " one-fourth of the tithes in Ireland have been " appropriated" to the Irish landlords , as a bribe for them to collect the rest ; and a goodly number of the Bishops have been " put under . " The penal laws have ken repealed ; and the " diutv little not" of the Ministry , —letter-opening and seal-forging Jemmv , —hasout-spokenlyproclaimed that Protestant AscEXPAXci-isover ! Mother Church but waits the day of final dissolution . The hand of the destroyer is on her ! Her constitution is undermined—is gone ! We shall shortly have to lay Ucv in the earth—and " the devil go with her . " By his

      Tariff , Peel has destroyed- tbe "agricultural interest" Where are the " bold" and tbe " unyielding " county members now ? where the " firm phalanx of farmer ' s friends ? " Where are the farmers themselves ? Turning their glasses upside down , when Peel ' s health is proposed at their county clubs ! and endeavouring to procure the repeal o f the iblt-taX , EVEN AT THE RISK OF VIOLATING " XATIO . YAL faith" ! And by his last measure , the Maynooth Endowment Bill , Peel has destroyed his oimparty . ' The great Conservative combination to resist " inovation" and " spoliation" is torn to fragmentsscattered to the winds ! Ah , Peel has been the DESTRUCTIVE , after all ! He talked long , and smoothly , about conferring our Institutions : but Ms has been the reign of chaxge ' Js ot onlv has he

      broken up his own party , but he has split-up , divided , and rendered of little avail the parties opposed to him . Hehasdetached FoxMAULEfrom Russell—D'Israeli from Lord Jonx Maxxers—Ferraxd from Muxes—Crawford from Heme—and , 0 ! wonderful and more wonderful still , Coddex from Bright ! Yes , Peel has been the skilful operator that has managed to cut in twain the ligature that bound tbe " no-political" Siamese-tuins together , and enabled them for once to go into different lobbies . Talk of Destructive after that ; where is the man that dare advance a claim to the title ? Let him hide his diminished head . Peel is the man . '—the man for the day—inn max ron mi : times-the GREAT DESTRl-CTIV E ' . He is puffing iJoint as fast as he cau ? The system , under bis bands , is breakinaup on even-side .

      Where Are We Going To ? To What Are We C...

      There will yery soon be very little of the "ENVY of surrounding nations" left . The hand of ih « suoAvator appears in . every direction . Institution after institution is subjected to his scrutiny and operation : limb after limb is lopped off : and soon there will be little left to bespeak the form , and extent , and power , of the " great has been . ' " Does the reader doubt this ? Is he sceptical ? Does he confine his attention to the present time alone , without contrasting that present with what has gone before ? andean he not see the great difference that exists—or appreciate the changes thus brought about ? If so , he cannot see to where we are tending . Ho

      cannot see that society is all on the heave —all moving onward—all progressing towards " first principles" in political , social , and economical policy . If his view is thus narrow and contracted , he cannot sec that prejudice is giving way—that insolent pretension is in disfavour—and that exelusiveness is , — imperceptibly almost we admit , but still , —loosing its hold . The man of expansive philosophy—he who can grasp the question as it appeared yesterday , and the day before , as well as to-day , sees all this : and he also sees a bright vista opening up for the future , promising light , and life , and love , and happiness to all that breathe .

      Peel is a DESTRUCTIVE . That has been his mission . With a mind formed only to take advantage of the passing hour to palliate or stave-off the evils by which , as Minister , he is surrounded ; with cunning plausibility enough to work the game of partv so as to make the respective adherents of either side support his expedients to make TUb THING last his time ; with no quality or faculty that constitutes true gbeatsess—that causes you at once to bow to power of mind , to feel subject to intellectual grandeur—that infuses a conviction around that genius is ruling ; with no power of construction , Peel could not be anything else but a DESTRUCTIVE . ' To him it is given only to pull down : others will have to follow , and build up , when he has sufficiently cleared the way .

      That he is proceeding rapidly in his vocation , we adduce the following testimony . It is from the limes- ' and is itself one of the " signs of the times . " Let the reader note it well , and then let him answer our questions " where are we going to ? " or " to what are we coming ? " If he is not able to spell C-K-A-R-T-E-R out of it , we shall take him to be a dull scholar 1 Speaking of the debates oh the " Maynooth Endowment Bill , " and on the fact that the " Representatives of the People" openly despise the petitions of these who elected them , the Tnncs

      says—Member after member gets up and claims credit forthe sincerity and weight of his opinion , on the ground that it does the greatest violence to that of his constituents . Jt is the wise boast of our representatives that the men who sent them to Parliament abe fools . They omit to explain why the living deputy is entitled to more respect than the written petition , and how the multitude , though Incompetent to pronounce , oil a single Parliamentary question , were , nevertheless , competent to select a Parliament man . Forced , as wc are , to supply this omission , we cannot help feeling that tfcese <; etitlcin « n furnish »» their own persons the strongest evidence t » the incapacity of the t « n-poHiiders , or the fifty-pounders , who have returned

      them . It is hard to say which has done itself tho most credit , the reformed constituency , or the reformed House of Commons . It is hard to say whether there is less public spirit out of doors , or less independence in St . Stephen's . Beware , faithless representatives ! obsequious supporters ! The Catholic Emancipation Act led to one refobh . " What if theMatkooth Act should result iu another 1 The members who make these displays occupy a singular position in the national mind . They stand between two intelligent parties—the Premier and the people . The Premier knows what he is ahout—nobody more so . He knows the true character of Ins measure as well as if it were his own child : and douhtless rejoices with a

      paternal instinct in the prospect of its legitimate consequences . On the other side , the people hnoiv what they are about . They see the true import of the measure ; they know what is coming . One and aU , they proclaim . their honest and deep objection to propagate the creed of Rome at the national expense , and their sober certainty tluxt a whole establishment will come in at that opening . Were itpossihledid the forms of the constitution allow the constituency to operate directly on the Legislature , the result wouldbe infallible . Sir It . Peel might as well stand in tho

      river at Gravesend and drive hack the flowing tide . But midway in the political channel stands a fortunate barrier—the representatives of the people . To every use there is an abuse ; to every representation a misrepresentation . These gentlemen were made for one purpose and maybe used for another . Obvious circumstances give the Premier the haft end of these useful instruments . In personal conflicts a weapon may always he considered the property of the stronger party . Sik Robert jdst now is stronger tuas the people , and has possession of their weapon , viz ., their representatives ; WHO NO

      LONGER REPRESENT THE PEOPLE , but Mm . The people having lost the hold , feel the lash . There is a peculiar appropriateness in the figure . The representatives , professing , as they do , to know and feel nothing about the measure—neither entering into the intcntious of the Premier , nor the prejudices of the people , passing the bill with wilful blindness and deafness , are in the same relation to the two intelligent parties between whom they stand as the aforesaid whip . They declare themselves a mere senseless , lifeless weapon , instrument , or tool .

      Yes ! "Catholic Emancipation" did " lead to one reform : " and "the Maynooth Act" will RESULT ix axother "—and a far more sweeping one ! Parties , as at present placed , cannot stand ! Political morality is at such a low ebb in " the House " of PARTY , that one side answers to the description , "faithless representatives "—and a good portion of the other to that of " obsequioussupporters . " Can that system stand ? Its own iniquity will weigh it down to the earth ! " The people" do "know what they are about "—and the " result will be infallible . "

      "Sir Robert'" may "fastnow be stronger than the people , BECAUSE the representatives represent not the people , but HIM : " but the people will have representatives of their own : and then no man will be " stronger" than the people ! To that end , the Times has in somewise contributed : and Ids pointing out the mode of counteracting Sir Robert Peel ' s strength , shews the way in which the wind has set . May it soon blow us to the Charter—as the beginning of that state of things which shall secure to the producer his full share of the fruits of his industry !

      "Physical Force" Repealers. Yes, It Is T...

      "PHYSICAL FORCE" REPEALERS . Yes , it is true ! the Repealers are talking of "Physical Force ' . " At the last meeting of the Association in the Conciliation Hall there was some furious wotitimia—ostensibly in answer to some unwarrantable and empty bluster of Mr . Babingtox Macaulav ' s , in his speech on Mr . "Waud ' s motion on the Maynooth grant . The mouthing of the one was made the peg whereon to hang the mouthing of the

      other . And thus both parties , —the Whig supporter of the ifory-conciliatory policy on the one hand , and the " moral force" " never-shed-one-drop-of-human blood" spouter in Conciliation Hall on the other , have been talking of fighting : the one to preserrc the "Uxiox at all hazards , and the other to intimate to the boastful Scot that the Irish are determined on Repeal ; and that the chances are , if it comes to a fight , that the English and the Scotch will , in such case , come off onlv second best !

      On Monday last Mr . Smitu O'Briex thus held forth : — He took for his text the recent strong remarks of Mr . Macaulay in reference to the question of repeal . That gentleman , exclaimed Mr . O'Brien , declared in the strong , est manner , thatthe people of England were firmly determined to maintain the union under the verv worst dangers that could threaten them . He ( Mr , O'Brien ) could declare with no less firmness the determination of the people of Ireland to have a Parliament in Dublin . [ Here the meeting rose and shouted lustily for several minutes . ] The language of Mr . Macaulay almost tempted him to use the language of defiance ! ( Itenewed

      cheers . ) He frankly confessed that it tempted him to tell the English people if they put tbe issue—not upon tho rights of both countries , but upon their strength , the union could not Ve sustained by the whole physical power of England . ( Cheers . ) But he would not be tempted by that rash insulting boast to swerve from the policy which they had marked out for themselves—namely , connection with England by the golden links of the ' Crown—but thoroughly independent of the British Parliament ( hear ) . He told -Mr . Macaulay he would act wisely to restrain bis bluster ; and he told him that no sentiments ever

      uttered in that hall were more idle than that empty bluster of his . He told him , if the contingencies which ' lie mentioned iu his speech were to happen , it icouW ttenlic ' too late—re wobm > be PERrEcrxv idle to NEGociATE ( cheers ) . If 50 , 000 Frenchmen were drawn up on their shore , ready to be conveyed across the Channel in steam-vessels—Uo told Mr . Macaulay the question of repeal would be easily settled ( cheers ) . If the American fleet were ready to carry regiments of Irish emigrants to the defence of their native land —?/ the Irish soldiers in the British army , for : ning as they did fuUy one-third of the entire of that force , were io refvic to shed die blood of their fellou' -countrvmen—ir one

      "Physical Force" Repealers. Yes, It Is T...

      mu . u 0 n of natives of ireland resident in england and Scotland resolved to co-oferate with the people of Ireland—if such a consummation as Mr . Macaulay contemplated were to take place—Vie British empire would be broken up , and thenceforward the history of Ireland would he written as a separate and independent nation . ( Protracted loud cheers . ) There ! let the reader take wind—and then let him remember that it is a speech delivered in

      Conciliation Hall , by one of the " moral force" anti" physical force" leaders , that he has been reading . It is not from a Chartist manufactory . It is direct , " bran spanking new , " from the Royal-Royal-Loyal " three-cheers-for-Peel-and-Graham" Association itself ' . Let him remember this fact ; and thenlet him tax his memory as to the former doings of this same Royal Loyal set ! and give proper vent to the feelings thus created .

      In reference to this part of the subject , we have received a letter , penned by one from whom our readers will be delighted to hear . For some time the Dublin * Chartists have been "laying on their oars . " Though silent however , they have not been unconcerned spectators , nor unobservant of passing events , 'f hey have been " biding their time ; " and now the time w come , when they arc again constrained to speak out . Here is their fiist manifesto , written by our old favourite and firm friend , Patrick O'Hiooins . To the recommendations and advisings in it , we urge special attention . If the English people adopt tho course therein pointed out , the

      measure of justice to all , for which they have so earnestly and so perscveringly struggled , win soox be obtained . But if they adopt the other course ; if they allow the expedient of the moment to occupy general public attention ; if a crotchet is allowed to be launched on the wave of public opinion , all the "head-way" that they have hitherto gained will be lost—all that they have hitherto done will be undone;—and they will , after running a course which is sure to end in bitter disappointment , have to begin again , — -not where they may leave off now , but where they had to begin at first ! It therefore behoves them to be alive to the impending dangerand determined to " withstand all temptation !"

      In this spirit we commend to the attention of the working people or England the Mowing address from one whom they have had cause of honour , because he litis ever proved himself a friend—and a wise friend too : — Chartists of Great Britain-. —Miracles will never cease ! Just read Mr . Wm . Smith O'Brikx ' s empty bombastic threat , in reply to Mr . Macaulay ' s speech on the Maynooth bribe . This descendant of the great Buyan Boroihsie , and of the renegade Thomokd , says , in his last speech , that he will "fight " for Repeal ! The repudiator of " physical force ; " the denouncer of Chartism , will "lead" the Irish dupes to " slaughter" ! Those who refused the moral , the peaceful , the honest , the hearty , the sincere

      co-operation of 3 , 500 , 000 Chartists , for the attainment of their just rights—rights common to the people of both countries , are now a & out fo solicit the aid of the "Torch and Dagger Chartists" ! You were iguorainiously kicked out of the Repeal ranks . Your money was returned . A Catholic priest at Manchester boasted , iu a letter to the Repeal Association , that "he had had an unfortunate wight expelled from the Repeal ranks , because he had had the temerity to accept of Chartist subscriptions to the Repeal fund , " You sent missionaries of peace here in 1839 , offering your co-operation to effect a peaceful , legal , and constitutional repeal of the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland . They were beaten and ill-used by the Irish Repealers , the staff of O'Connell . Their blood was shed in

      Henry-street , m Dublin , by the "peaceful" followers of the " Liberator "—for which those followers received his thanks , and the thanks ef the Irish Executive ! Those who led tho attack upon the Chartist missionary have since got snug births under the Whig Government , —the sworn enemies of Repeal , — with the exception of "dear Ray , " whose son has got a place in the Custoni-House . The "

      Liberator , who has a vow registered in heaven , " never to shed , or sanction the shedding , of one drop of human blood , in the pursuit of any object , no matter how desirable , " threatened , at a dinner in the county of Tipperary , " to bring over an army of 500 , 000 Irishmen" to help the Whigs—the enemies of Repeal—to cut your throats , unless you would cease agitating for Repeal ! Let there be no mistake about this : because the Charter includes

      Domestic LEaistmoN ; and all Chartists are Repealers . But your throats were to be cut by Irish Repealers , because you would not be , like themselves , poor , betrayed , deluded Whig dupes . The same " Liberator "—who , " blessed be God , " " never shed one drop of human blood , " thanked God , —publicly , ostentatiously , and blasphemously , —for having , by special interposition , enabled " Serjeant Daly and a handful of Irish Catholic recruits to shoot down and shed the blood of English Protestants at Newport in Wales . "

      Well , after all , and bad as you are , you , are now about to be courted by the Repeal neophyte , Mr . W . S . O'Brien , to join the Repealers , to help them to FIGHT the myrmidons about to be led on by the renowned Macauuy ! There is so much fun , real fun , in this Whig sham-battle that I can scarcely be serious . The fact and truth is , the Repeal-Whig-Irigh-patriots are " as mad as the divil" because their party have not the merit of bribing the Irish Catholic clergy into silence , through the medium of the endowment of Maynooth , and those other little endowments which those far-seeing gentry anticipate , and which are sure to follow .

      These political traders know th & byou are in earnest ; that you are now , and ever have been , ready and willing tohelp your poor Irish brethren to obtain their just rights ; and they have the vanity to think that by eloquent harangues , and empty , but flowery , bom _ bast , they can make you believe that they are pro . moting your interests , while it is their own they are seeking . Having succeeded , beyond their most sanguine expectations , in duping , cheating , and plunder , ing my poor countrymen out of their pence and their senses , they now purpose trying a similar experiment upmi you !

      Now , then , after all the injuries you have received at the hands ' of these soi disant patriots ; after all the brave , honest fellows ' whom they have helped to keep in prison , until some of thorn—Clayton , Holberry , aud others—died there ; what think you of that scheme ? I know that your love of right is so firmly fixed within your souls , that you are to a man , ready to forgive all the wrongs inflicted on you , on the condition that Mr . W . S . O'Brien , the "Iterator , " and all the vest of them will unhesitatingly and at once make the six points of the People ' s Charter the basis of Repeal . Let them evince contrition by a manly and honest adoption of the Charter , " name and all , " and we will join them for a Repeal . Do you agree to this ? If so ,

      let your response reverberate from one end of the empire to the other . Let me be answered by 3 , 500 , 000 of my brethren . The Charter anl > Repeal—and no hklusion ! You are sure to be appealed to ; but budge not an inch , unless the People ' s Charter , " name and all , " be adopted by my countrymen . When the Irish Universal Suffrage Association suspended , for a time , their meetings , they were strongly impressed with the opinion , the certainty , that the O'Connellites would come to this : that the Repealers would find themselves weak and powerless , while opposed to their true friends , the Chartists . It is now obvious that wc judged rightly . Patrick O'IIiggins . Dublin , April 20 th , 1845 .

      The Poor Man's Share Of « Prosperity." A...

      THE POOR MAN ' S SHARE OF « PROSPERITY . " At last he is to have it ! At last it is within his reach ' . It w hung up for him to Iook > t-to bless his eye-sight with—to enjoy 1 N anticipation- I At last alllinow ivhatit is—now uvea it amounts to the Poor Man ' s Share of " Prosperity . " It has been a long time in coming . It has taken much consideration-much thought—much dcliberation-much weighing of other interests , before the

      The Poor Man's Share Of « Prosperity." A...

      exact " share" could be dealt out . The partitioner of it , Lord John' Russell , announced at the end of last session , that he was confident that the workman did not enjoy anything like the amount of comfort he ought to enjoy , considering that he produced so much for others ; and he announced that ho would try to devise a scheme which should secure to him " more . " From that time to the present he has been engaged in his undertaking ; until , at last , the feast is fully prepared—dished—all-hut served up—and soon the poormay"fall to it" "with what appetite they may . "

      What the nature of the feast thus prepared is , the following will in somewise show . It is sure to " whet the stomach . " Great will be the anticipation from this description . It is Lord Joror ' s own . At the time we write this , he had intended to have been engaged in giving a somewhat fuller description : but men ' s contrivances don't always hit . Lord Jon \ is forced to "put oft" his description of the full feast to the 20 th of this month—when he will submit the following to the " stewards" of the aristocrats'dinner-table , as / u ' s BEOTLvhoNB for THE POOR MAN ' S FEAST .

      " 1 . That the present state of political tranquillity , and tiie recent revival of trade , afford to this house a favourable opportunity to consider of such measures as may tend permanently to improve the condition of the labouring classes . " 2 . That those laws which impose duties usuall y called protective , tend to impair the efficiency of labour , to restrict the free interchange of commodities , aud to impose on the people unnecessary taxation . " 3 . That the present Corn Law tends to check improvements in agriculture , produces uncertainty in all farming speculations , and holds out to the owners and occupiers of land prospects of special advantage which it fails to

      secure . " i . That this house will take the said laws into consideration , with a view to such cautious and deliberate arrangements as may be most beneficial to all classes of her Majesty ' s subjects . " 5 . That the freedom of industry vronhl be promoted by a careful revision of the law of parochial settlement which now prevails in England and Wales . "fi . That a systematic plan of colonization would partially relieve those districts of the country where tiie deficiency of employment has been most injurious to the labourers in husbandry . " 7 . That the improvements made of late years in the education of the people , as well as its more general ditihsion , have been seen with satisfaction by this house .

      " 8 . That this house will he ready to give its support to measures , founded on liberal and comprehensive principles , which may be conducive to the further extension of religious and moral instruction . " 9 . That a humble address be presented to her Majesty , to lay the foregoing resolutions before her Majesty . "

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      Sib Jas. Gsbahah, And "Absolution" From ...

      Sib Jas . GSbahah , and " Absolution" from Conciliation Hall . —The Belfast T mdioator , in commenting on the late debate on the " Maynooth grant , " says : — " IVt are not so content with Mr . Shell ' s voluntary promise , that Sir James Graham would receive a cordial weep , tion in Ireland . > Vo have a profound esteem for Mr . Shell . lie is ono of the ornaments of our country—a man of superior genius and very great acquirements , who has distinguished himself in every walk of literature , and is among the first in the first of all arts—the divine art of oratory . He is indeed an honour and an ornament ; but ho stepped beyond his province when he undertook , on the part of the Irish people , to

      promise a warm or cordial reception to Sir James Graham . We sincerely hope that Sir James will never put his defiling foot on any shore , to which he will not he followed by his Poor Law fame and letter-opening notoriety . It would not be wise , or at all correct , to call Sir James Graham the murderer of the Bandicras , and other chivalrous Italians , who , revisiting their native land , were met by a hangman , Sbirro , set upon them by tiie English Secretary . But the accident of their legal execution ought to pursue the soul of the letter-opener from shore to shove , like a ghost ; it ought to prepare for him a reception , not ' cordial , ' as Mr . Sheil promises , but warm beyond conception . And should the death of the Bandieras be forgotten by our chivalrous people—should the ruin of these young and

      gallant spirits , which recal our own Lord Edward to our memory , be unheeded by this land—pcrh .-ips Mary Furley—the persecuted Mary Furley—the victim of a beastly law , and a more ¦ Secretary , will bi > recent enough to stimulate our ' cordiality . ' No , indeed , Mr , Sheil ; the people are not going to halloo in the train of a man for telling one more falsehoodtho falsehood of the recreant schoolboy , that iuwas sorry for what he did . Come here yourself , it you please , the follower of the Queen , aud we shall welcome splendid genius and private integrity ; bin throw no mantles , be they worked with all the brilliant colourings of your perfect art , over him whom we scorn , because we are patriots—whom we hate , because ire ave men . " Thomas Pain , Statleybbidqe . —There was some appli

      cation of the sort he names to the treasurer of the fund , which was refused on the ground that no treasurer is at liberty to lend the fond entrusted to him . W . C , Mabvhill . —Certainly , a landlord has not a rij ; li < to stop up a " right of way" to a tenement which Julias let with such right of way . If he does , no doubi an action against him might he maintained . J , M ., Deptfohd , is right . The people » i « sJ take tlmii affairs into their own hands , and do their own work . Then the desertion of leaders can do them no harm . Indeed , the day for mischief from that class has gone . S . Kidd , Selkirk . —Let the matter rest a little as it is , It at present stands in strong contrast with the flaming bounces about fair play , and whining complaints ol burking . D . Potts , Bikhingham . —Wo really cannot spare room for their address ou this occasion .

      A Buildeb , Camobn Town . —We never promise insertion to papers before we have seen them . If he chooses to forward the communication he speaks of , it shall have our best attention ; and if likely to serve the public , sbal ! find a place . f > . Cavill , Sheffield . —Let him forward a complaint to the Post-Master General , setting forth the facts of the case . A , A . J . Alva . —We will endeavour to comply with his request , if other engagements will permit . Charles Willis , Kensington , —His letter shall be handed over to the Executive Committee , to see what they think of his proposal . T , R ,, Manchester . —We know nothing of the merits oi either work . Though we advertise , it does not follow that we read the works .

      Alexander Campbell , —We have received the following disclaimer from our old and valued friend Alex . Campbell , which we publish to disabuse the minds ot those who may not know the writer as well as we do . We beg to assure our friend that we never for one moment conceived him to be the writer , although the atrocity in question bore his name . Mr , Campbell says —A friend having pointed out to mea letter in "the National Reformer , " of the 28 th ult ., edited by J . B . O'Brien , containing wiiat appears to mo a gross attack upon the character of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., bearing the signature of "Alexander Campbell , " and dated " Dundee , April 15 th , 1815 , " I am desirous that no one should suppose me to be the writer of that letter , as the person who directed my attention to it believed it to be , You are well aware I am not given to personal abuse against any man . I am , sir , yours truly , Aiex . Campbell . Mv . tR . VfiL » , Mottxam , —We do not knotr the address , but the placo of residence is Macclesfield .

      Monies Received By Mr. O'Conjs'oit. Ror....

      MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'CONJS'OIt . ror . THE KXEOOTIVE , £ 9 . d , From the Chartists of Yeovil 0 10 o From a Democrat , Chepstow .. . 008 duncombe testimonial . From the Dyers of Wigton 0 6 0 RECEIPTS I'ER GENERAL SECRETARY . SUBSCRIPTIONS , £ S . d . Lcvt-lshaui ( omitted in previous list ) 0 5 0 Newport , Isle of Wight 0 4 0

      CARDS . Lewisham ( omitted in previous list ) 0 5 0

      VICTIM FOND , Newport , Isle of Wight 0 ! . ' 10 Erratum . —TheSs . 6 d , in last week's , §(<«• from Bristol , should have been 8 s . 9 d . from the late Bear-lane localitv , Bristol , The balance sheet of the receipts and expenditure of the late Convention will appear iu next week ' s Star . The new cards and hand-book , price 3 d ., are now ready for issue . It is imperative that each member furnish himself with them . Tiie . vamhers of the Lojulon localities will be expected to take out their cards at their several meeting-places oa Sunday evening .

      The members of the Executive Committee will attend the various public meetings in the localities , to be got up for the purpose of forming a Central Metropolitan Registration and Election Committee , of which T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., has kindly consented to act as President THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER , Socrctarv .

      Gttfomts, Wtom, & Ftifffmste

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      Fatal Accident.—On Tuesday Last, An Inqu...

      Fatal Accident . —On Tuesday last , an inquest was held at the Anchor Inn , Ilunslet , near Leeds on the body of John West , of Ilunslet Carr , labourer aged forty-three years . On Friday afternoon last ' the deceased , whilst riding on the front of a cart between Ilunslet and Rotlm » ll , was thrown offbv the sudden starting of the horse , when one of the wheels passed over his body , and he received such injuries as to cause his death on Smithy afternoon . Verdict" Accidental death , "

      Fatal Accident.—On Tuesday Last, An Inqu...

      The Late Fatal Accioent on tUk a . IhtAsca of the Sheffield akd Miscuesnn ft WAy .-Asinox , TiiuRSDAY .-ycsterday , the a , lj 0 „ *" . ' inquest on the bodies of the fifteen men killed bv ^ falling of nine arches on the Ashton Branch Raji ... was held at the Commercial Inn , in this town | J aj W . S . Ruttcr , Esq ., coroner for the Lancashire j ; sion , and dims . Hudson , Esq ,., . coroner fortlvc pi , shire division , and the joint juries of the two corohp " The inquiry excited considerable interest niiionTi the railway people of this district . Mr . Clwm ., deputy chairman of the Sheffield line , and 4 / . " i other gentlemen connected with the comm were present . The object of the in quirv ,. ' really into the cause of the accident , i } ,. \ f F . Mackworth , the resident engineer t » the c pany ( the branch ) , was examined at great len » f ! ° * to the performance of the work . In his opinio ,, *!/ 14 contract had been earned out . The original coim » ? was put in and read . It set forth the nature / 'ji

      o mafni'inlc 1 ft 1 m lKOfl hv the . nmitt * n / if / ., « a :.. 11 - ™* 5 materials to be used by the contractors in the fn , tion of the arches , drc—Mr . Samuel Ifol mt , ' , ?' neor and builder , of Liverpool : Was fre quently " ployed as surveyor . Had been in the bu siness tiiiT " two years , twenty-four of which he had beei master . Was one of the contractors who erected 11 viaduct at Stockport and Salten Ford , near H 0 l . Chapel , on the Manchester and Birmingh am liaiW Had been requested by the two coroners to c . \ -i ' | , the works at Ashton Viaduct , in coniunction «¦ ' ; ' ) , 1 , Belll ;(! r . 20 and Mr . Lee , of Manchester , lj , jr ; and surveyors . They had unanimouslv agr eed ti "' report , which he would read to the jury . The « . „ ' „ ,+ stated that they had examined the ruins , ium L ? taken a description from tho plans and specificatim ,

      which were set lortn m tno report . On cxaminm ,. tho plan they found the interior filled up witli rniiM " stones mixed with scablings and brickbats iie » limv ,, H „ thrown in , without being regularly bedded , wrth innr tar of a very inferior quality , all of which bore evf dence of the slovenly execution of the works , tu report , which was length ) -, concluded with the . f „ i lowing declaration : — " Wc cannot close this \ ya \ u ^ examination without expressing our opinion that gretit blame has been incurred , and that this awident has taken place through the inferiority both of the material and the workmanship . We refer parti , cularly to the construction of the piers . These wore totally insufficient for sustaining the weight which lui been placed vertically upon them . The pressure couM

      only act on the exterior casing , for the interior did not in the slightest degreecontribute to their strength and would not have borne their own weight if tin exterior casing had been removed from them . 'J'lie want of binders also , to connect the two sides of tho piers together , has been a most fatal error , and pain , ful as it is to us , we arc compelled to state that in our opinion this accident would not have oeevmed had the works been executed in a proper manner . " —Mr . John Davis , chemist , of Manchester : Had re . ccived from the last witness several packages of mortar , which he had analysed and made a report of them in a letter to Mr . Lee , from which it appeared that there was 70 per cent , of sand , 81 of lime , and 21 } of iron , & c . Several other witnesses ' were examined , after which the coroners each

      rccapitulated the evidence , commenting in strong terms on the nature of the works , and explaining tlw law of deodand which could not in that case be levied ; after which the jury retired , and in about forty mj . ' nutes returned with a verdict of Accidental IlcatVi , accompanied by the' unanimous expression of their opinion , that they considered the sole cause of the accident to arise from the insufficiency of the work * and the inferiority of the material used , together with negligence of the men and the contractors , alia that of the company ' s servants , and a request that the coroners would forward the evidence taken liefore them to the Lords of the Privy Council or the Board of Trade , with the view to the Government sending down some competent engineer to inspect Che whole of the works prior to the line being opened to the public .

      SuicmE ov the Captain op a Danish Ship . —Or Wednesday the Captain of the Danish bri g Rctay , whose name is at present unknown , committed suicide by cutting his throat while in a warm hath , at the bath establishment in Tower-street . 0 a Thursday evening an inquest was held on the boiiv bv Mr . Payne , city coroner , at the White Horse , Rood , lane , Tower-street . —George Reid , one of the waiter * at the above house , said that on Wednesday , about noon , the deceased applied for a bath . ' Witness showed him into one of the bath-rooms , and there left him . In consequence of the deceased not making ha appearance after a reasonable time had elapsed , witness went and knocked at the door ; but , receiving no answer , the door was ultimately broken open , ami the deceased was found in the bath partially dressed , with his head under water . Upon lifting him up , a dreadful wound was discovered in the throat . A razor , covered with blood , with which the deceased had

      committed the rash act , was found in the hath . It bore the mark of "Bensal" upon it . Michael Nielson , mate of the Betty , said that he had known the deceased for about eighteen months . The vessel arrived at the Limehouse tier on Monday last . lie was a man of very large fortune and he intended to retire on his return home , after the present voyage . Ho had neither children nor wife , and all his friends arc well off , and reside at Copenhagen . He was a perfectly sober man . Hi )) father was a clergyman , and his brother , witness bc < lieved , committed suicide by shooting himself . The last time witness saw deceased alive was on Wcdncaday forenoon , when he complained of being unwell . Of late witness had seen a great change in his spirits . Mr . Wm . May , ship-broker , and several other witnesses , gave such evidence as to prove that the mind of deceased had become impaired , and the jury , after consulting , returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity .

      Singular Discovery of a Gentleman Dying ixthb Stbeets . —Shortly after eleven o ' clock on Monday night , as two gentlemen , who gave their names and addresses as O . B . C . Harrison , Esq ., 23 , Woburnplace , and Charles Roumier , Esq ., Shanlock Hall , Bovmgdon , Herts , and No . 8 , Regent-square , were proceeding alonglWelstcad-strcet , New-road , their attention was attracted to the body of a man lying partly on the kerb and partly in the gutter , who \ w groaning heavily , and appeared to he dying . They instantly gave an alarm to the police , and police-constable Francis , 140 S , having procured a stretcher from the Somere Town station , aided bv the two , ew . << tlemenabove-named , andayoungman named Barber , conveyed the apparently dying man to the St . 1 ' ancKW workhouse . On their arrival there was no medical man residing on the establishment , and Mr . Cooper , the parish surgeon , who resides in Camdcn-stvect ,

      had to he sent for . He arrived in a bout ten minutes , and although signs oflifc were exhibited on hisadmission , long before the arrival of the surgeon he had expired . The body of the deceased was attired in such . a dress as a gentleman would wear , hut as no money or any article of value was found upon his person , it is not known whether he may not have been ( li'iuwoil and robbed by some one . " He is a man apparently about 45 years of age , 5 feet 11 inches high , his head nearly bald , having brown hair , with rather a long visage , and whiskers inclining to red . His dress eoii < sists of a nearly new suit of black , bod v-coat , waistcoat m \ tVQ \ vsm , ahlack silkhandkercluei ' , and Bluchcr boots . He had on tho little finger of his left hand a galvanic ring , and a paper was found in his pocket hearing on it , " Earl of Pembroke , Carlton-gardens , from Scruggs . " The cause of death has not yet btc ti ascertained , nor has the body been indentificd .

      Mysterious Affair . —During the whole of Wednesday afternoon the inhabitants of Clare-markcc were thrown into considerable excitement br the discovery of the following extraordinary case ' : —It appears that there has been residing for several yearspast , in the house of Mr . Macey , the surveyor and builder , fi , 1 Jenzill-strcet , Liucoln ' s-iun , a person of the name of Thomas Parr , by trade a copper-plate printer . About three years since , his two daughters , the one Mary , agedthirty-six , and the youngest Ann , thirty , left the union workhouse , where thoy had been aJ paupers , and came to reside with their parent in a small room adjoining his own apartment on the third floor . They never permitted the father or any of the lodgers to enter their room , and weeks have been known to elapse without their being seen by any of the lodgers . For some days past the neighbours had complained

      ot a mostdreautul stench apparently proceeding from the room of these females . Upon interrogating tha youngest she denied all knowledge of the cause , at the same time positively refusing to permit any person to enter her apartment . About three o ' clock or Wednesday afternoon , Mr . Baker , the sumnioninj officer , and a policeman , proceeded to the room , aud upon bursting open the door , were nearly driven back by the disgusting nature of the effluvia that issued therefrom . Upon the bed they discovered the voungcst sister , Ann , asleep , and by her side the body of Marf dresscd . in a dreadful slate of putrefaetion , havin » been dead between four and five weeks , impossible cause can be assigned for the conduct of the suvvWrtg sister , farther than the rumour that she has been subject to fits of insanity . The bodv awaits the coroner ' s inquiry .

      Accident at Oxford . —On F : * eri > . oon a > ad accident befelMr . Thompson ,,- ian commonef of Oriel College , Oxford , who ¦ pother gentleman was out for a ride on horst , and had been to Bicester On his return , and when on the MidlUeton-road , about a mile from the latter town , he horse fell over a sheep that was lying in the roadthe rider was thrown oil' with great ibree , and was greatly injured . His companion returned to UieesM aud obtained apostchaise , in which the injured gentleman was conveyed back to the King ' s Anns Innlie is now ( Monday evening ) lying at tho inn in : I precarious state , suffering from concussion of the brain . But faint hopes arc entertained of ids recovery .

      SuopKiXfi Accident at Sea . —SouTiiAMrTOX . --- ' Saturday morning , at eight , the Q , ueen saw a sW capsize in Portland Race , and twice ran back M render aid , but met with none of the crew . She appeared to be about sixty tons burden , and there a pilot-boat not more than a quarter of a mile" ' ? her . She had two water-casks painted green , an " large bilge keelsons .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 3, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_03051845/page/4/