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      Greenwich. Great Meeting In Support Of T...

      BBcnre hia return whenever a vacancy shall occur ; as from his deep study , greatreseareh , high and commanding talents , unsurpassable and ' unadorned' eloquence , we conceive him to be a moit fit , and exceedingly proper person to represent the many and varied interests of this borough in the Commons House of Parliament . Mr Morgan laid : He rose with very great pleasure to move the adaption ef thatresolution . and from the loud and well-deserved plaudits with which the meeting had greeted Mr Kydd ' s very able and eloquent that would it unani

      address , sure he was they carry - mously there , and back it up by providing the means for ensuring that gentleman ? return , at the next election , come when it may . ( Loud cheers . ) When Sir Kydd issued his address on becoming a candidate , it was asked , why address the non-electors ? Bimp ' ly because if they had not votes they had influence , ( loud cheer , ) and he called on them to use that Influence on behalf ot Mr Kydd , who , in return , would use his beat exertions to procure that for them of which they never ousht to have been

      deprivedthe elective franchise . ( Loud cheers . ) To his Irother ' electors , he would say , if you desire the aristocracy to be represented return a lordling ; if you wish tbe army to ba represented return a general ; if yon wish the government and navy to have a monopoly of your representation , why continue to return Admiral Dundas ; if you wish the church to ba represented find a Sir Robert Inglis ; if you wish the law tb ba represented return a lawyer ; but if you wish the people to be represented yon must do what he ( Mr Morgan ) had resolved to do—use every effort , strain every nerve , to secure the return of our excellent Mend and advocate , Mr Kydd . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Mr Feyer seconded the resolution .

      Mr Howes , a tradesman of Deptford , and an elector ofthe borough , said he had great pleasure in supporting the resolution . He believed their greatest enemies were the parsons , who told them at their baptism tbat they were the « children of God , and in heritors ofthe kingdom of heaven . * and yet did ah in their power to prevent tke working peeple from possessing the elective franchise here en earth , lie was bo enemy to monarchy Jor aristocracy ^ but he was a foe to the sham kings , and sham aristocrats , daily arising around them , and he was delighted to find that Mr Kydd was not of thatfclass . ( Loud cheers . ) He possessed the franchise , and he thought

      it a lasting disgrace to this country that men of far greater calibre than himself should be denied that privileee . ( Great applause . ) To his latest brejth he would advocate the right of all to be placid within the pale of the constitution . ( Renewed cheering . ) We live in momentous times , and sure he was that governments must put down the liberty of the press and freedom of speech , ( which wasimpossible , ) ° r it would soon put down corrupt governments . ( Great cheering . ) He had the m ° re pleasure in supporting thatresolution , because Mr Kydd had avowed himself the advocate of tbat great and just measure , the People ' s Charter . ( Loud cheers . ) - amidst

      The resolution was then pat , and carried , the loudest acclamation . Mr Ktdd responded , and moved a vote of thanks fo the chairman , for his courteous _ and impartial conduct in presiding ever that meeting ; which was seconded by Mr Ronrssoif , and carried by acclamation . Mr Erksst Jones having acknowledged , in suitable and eloquent terms , the honour dene hira , the meeting was dissolved . We are delighted to find that steps are in progress for the organisation of election committees in the three townships of Deptford , Greenwich , and Woolwich ; and that an election fund is also to be immediately established .

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      Great Meeting At Halifax On Monday, Jan....

      GREAT MEETING AT HALIFAX On Monday , Jan . 24 th , a public meeting was held in the Odd Fellows' Hall , for the purpose of hearing an address from Ernest Jones . Long before the appointed hour the hall was filled ; and so great was the crowd thatmsny hundreds were unable to obtain admission , numbers having come a distance of ten miles and more to attend the gathering . Mr Jonathas Gatjkeodgbb was unanimously called to the chair , and opened the proceedings in a speech replete with eloquence and argument , alluding to the monstrous sums ingulfed by placemen , and others , like theDake of Wellington , the necessity for high [ taxation to meet these calls , and the heavy burden of the National Debt . These , he contended , the people would not have to suffer were they ropre * seated in Parliament , and he hoped they woald yet see Mr Jones their member , as he certainly was how their representative . ( Louo / cheers . ) He now

      introduced Mr Ebsest Jones , who was greeted with deafening cheers , and said : I have the honour of doing that to-night whieh your members ought to have done-appearing before tbe constituency after tbe dose of last session . They should be here to render an account of their stewardship , but , seeing tbat the one has done nothing , and the other done mischief , they would have found that an . irksome matter . ( Hear , hear . ) Some may have come here imbued with prejudice . Oh ! prejudice is a very childish thing ! It is hearing with the ears of another , seeing with the eyes of another , and speaking with tha tongue of another . Z want them to use their own . What do tbey know against Chartism ?

      • Oh ! bat they have heard that nobody told somebody , who told anybody , who told everybody , who told them , that a Chartist was a destructive , and an in-^ fidel . We ll , I . for one , will , in one sense , admit the charge . I wish to destroy the bayonet and the sword , b ) makifig all men brethren . I wish to destroy the bastile , by developing the resources of our country . I wish to destroy the gaol , by teaching youth the path of virtue , instead ot sending it to the castle of crime . ( Immense applause . ) I am somewhat of an infidel , too . I have no faith in the pro . mises of Lord John Rassell . I have no faith in class legislation legislating for the general good . I have no faith in ten thousand per annum making a Bishop holy . I have no faith in tithes paying tbe

      fare to heaven . I have ne- faith in the Chancellor of the Exchequer . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Now , gentlemen , if you are still prejudiced , you are prejudiced against that which you are yourselves . Arc you against war ? Then you must be against slaughter . Are you opposed to the easy death by the cannon ball ? Then , surely , you must be opposed to the torturing death by the bastile , Are you opposed to the quick pang of the scaffold ? Surely , you must be opposed to the leng racking of starvation . There are more ways of murdering than by the ball and the bayonet . Is there a man here who will say he has & right deliberately te murder his brother by foul air , over-work , and hunger ? Who says he has s right to wastejwhile his brother wants

      , or to sleep in a palace while his brother lies with a stone for a pillow , and the snow for a coverlid ? Oh ! if you are respecters of vested rights , respect the oldest of them all—the right to live . If you respect that , you are Chartists ; for a man cannot live without the means , and experience proves the only means to be—representation for the people . That is the Charter . ( Centinued cheers . ) I defy you to trace the misery , the ruin of the rich , and the wreck among the poor , to any other cause than class legislation . _ Show us another causewe re open to conviction . Let us hear how your minister-member , Sir Charles Wood , accounts for it : ' deficiency of capital . ' How so ?—when he said , almost in the same breath : ' He could

      meet the dram for foreign food with thirty millions . ' If he finds deficiency there , how he must keep his accounts I Bat he has another excuse—tha railways sunk capital . Why , they just spread it . The tram-rails are not made } of sovereigns , bat iron ; and that must be paid for—the labourer must be paid—the land must be bought—the officials must be salaried ; they distribute capital instead of sinking it . I'll grant you tbat the labourer don ' t get the lion ' s share , but still the money circulates . Why , Sir Charles don't know the difference between a fixed and floating ^ capital . If I build a house for . £ 1 , 000 , the capital ia not fixed—it is the labour that is realised , and the capital goes on reproducing . "Well , they say , like to like : and Wood I vou have

      run your head against a post . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Another excuse , however I The cotton crop has failed—therefore , cotton is short . Cotton is short ; but not because the crop has failed—because other countries are using it that never used it before . Other countries are manufacturing , and want some of that cotton . America now uses onefourth of her growth . Sir ! you will tiad the cotton * shorter * every year . { Hear , hear . ) Then there was the potato blight—the visitation fre & i God 1 If every misfortune is a visitation from God , what a visitation church and aristocracy are ! But the secret of the visitation ia this : Lord John , like most other men , has ^ two legs ; but with this difference , that one leg is a Tory leg-, and tha other a

      "Whig leg . Now , the Tory leg is the shorter of the two , and he just shoved a rotten potato under the short leg , to make himself stand straight in his policy . ( Cheers , and laughter . ) Ah , sir ! Jones Lloyd , the banker , has summed up our financial policy in a few words , - when he said : * Periodical panics were necessary to keep onr commercial system going . ' What a system that must be that requires periodical ruin to make it live . What a clock , of which you must break the niaisspring every time you wind it up . ( Cheers . ) That is the system of yonr minister-member ! Are there any of Sir Charles Wood ' s supports ! s here . What ?

      None ! Oh ! you are ashamed to own it . Now then , timber merchants ! how do you like your Wood ? ( Protracted applause and laughter . ) Sir , the real causes ofthe evil are that thfe secondary capital , money and mannfacturej has been placed above the primary capital , labour and land . Oar manufacturer has locked up capital in raw material , and that ca pital has not been reproduced at home , because foreign competition is undermining home employment . ( Hear , hear . ) Gold has left the country for toreien food , because you have neglected home ro-Sm ! S i Wealt , l J ken absorbed by a few , and nerK ° / J Dent ¥ , intercePted «>« "turniag chaneel * of wages and local trade . The pressure has

      Great Meeting At Halifax On Monday, Jan....

      been , because the greatest aud most wholesome distributive organ , the working . classef , have had no wealth to distribute . ( Hear , hear . ) The remedies are obvious . Unlock the land monopoly . With a land-holding people there will always be a steady circulation , safe from panics . Sweep away Customs and Excise . Establish a property-tax upon a sliding scale , making the rich pay so much moro in the pound than the poor , —and , above all , give Universal Suffrage . Jones Lloyd gays , under the present system , panics are necessary in the monied world . Well—who govern the conntry ? Tho monied world—which ia inhabited by very few men . Then , they are not fit to govern , if they are subject to panic * . A frightened general is not the man to lead

      an army . ( Hear , hear . ) Then place the people beyond the reach of panics , by giving tbem the land . You will find it difficult to frighten a man with his corn on his fields , hia flitch in his cup board , and his musket over his fireplace . The dignity of England requires ne panic-stricken men should govern her , — let the people govern , and you need not fear Nicholas throwing his paper on the English market , and seeing the British lion tremble at the fluttering of a bank note . ( Loud cheers . ) With reference to our foreign liabities , to which I have just alluded , a word as to the National Debt . I don ' t say repudiate it—but I say : let those pay who contracted . ( Hear , hear . ) The working classes were no contracting parties—so they are not legally liable . We got no

      benefit from it—so we are not morally responsible . They may say , ' we are defended against invasion . ' Invasion , say they ! Why , since then , have we not been invaded by the tax collector and poor rate 1 Talk of invasion—the French soldiers would be a trifle compared to the tax collector ! But tbey prevented slaughter at home . Ay ! in Ireland—whore ' s the slaughter now ? Ay ! in the Highlands—ask the cotters . Ay ! in England—look at your own doors . Then , I say , let those who get value for it pay the bill ; we will not be taxed to meet your liabilities . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , my friends , why do not your representatives say something of this ? Your representatives ! Sir Charles Wood represents you not . Ho represents the fundholders ; he

      represents the poor rate : herepresents the window tax ; he represents the pension list ; he ^ presents the National Debtr-but never let him say he represents tbe men of Halifax . ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) One point of tbe Charter is , however , tbe law in Halifaxpayins members : you pay Sir Charles your share of £ 5 , 000 per annum . And , then , there is the gallant Captain , whom his proposer cal ' ed your generous young merchant prince , and advised you to reject me and elect him , because he was so intimately acquainted with our commercial interests . What bas the generous young prince been about ? He has not opened his mouth once . Why did he not give his advice , and set the blundering Chancellor right ? Why , sir , I shall almost think I know as much of

      our financial system , even as the generous young prince himself . ( Continued applause . ) I have now alluded to the causes erroneously assigned as productive of the national misery . I have endeavoured to trace these miseries to their real source , and to propound the remedy , and I now call on yon to prepare yourselves for action . Rely on none , but on yourselves ; welcome every friend , but listen to no compromise . You are either right or you are wrong ; if you are right , you become accomplices ia your own oppression , if you swerve one hair's breadth from the path of duty and consistency . ( Hear , hear . ) Do not either mistake your enemies—they are aristocracy and middle-class . Aristocracy was your greatest enemy , and would be now had it the power ; the

      middle-classes are your greatest enemies having tbe power . By middle-class , I do not mean the small retail shopkeeper ; "bis enemy is our enemy—tbe great moneyocracy- That middle class I designate as the author of all recent oppression . Who shut the people up in rattle boxes ? Who murdered the little children ? Who established the human fleshshops ? Who contracted with the parishes at bo much per hundred and one idiot in nineteen ? Who enacted the new Poor Law ? Who built the bastiles ? Who parted man from wife ? Who propounded the hellish doctriEo of competition ? Who pulled wages down ? Who opposed the Ten Hours Bill ? Who are trying to subvert it ? Who passed Cosroion ? Who deluged India , China , Africa , and the Pacific

      with blood , to get markets for the sweat and marrow of their English slaves ? Who—but the middle class—the sconrse of the people and the curse of humanity ? ( Immense applause . ) Rally against it , working men . Rally against it , shopkeepers of Halifax ! But in doing so do not re-establish aristocracy . To the dust with aristocracy , since it has trodden tbe people to the dust . Perish the privilege of title ! Gjd never gave a title , save the noblestman ! Deck his heart with honour , his face with honesty . and his tongue with truth , and there you have God ' s nobleman at once . ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) To the work , then , men of Halifax . Be trne to your cause . Stand by the Charter—name and all . The name is the password , by which you know a friend

      from a foe 1 ( Liud cheers ) Those who advocate the six points under a different name , are forming a party within a party , to split your ranks asunder . ( Hear , h ? ar . ) It is a pirated edition of the Charter ( Great applause ) . Organise your ranks , then—you have the moral right—Jo not neglect the physical power . If you wish to preserve peace at home , be so strong that none can break it . ( Hear , hear . ) The government are increasing tbe army and artillery . Is it from fear of French invasion ? Not they . There is no danger of that . The first French bayonet that bristled on the coast of Hants or Sussex , the first gun fired in _ the English Channel , would be the signal for revolntioH in Paris—and the discomfited army returning home , would find a republic where it had left

      a kingdom . ( Tremendous cheers . ) No ; those guns are pointed inwards—monopoly is arming against English liberty . Prepare , then , men of peace ! there are two ways of using physical force : the one is to be strong enough to strike—that ia bnt a poor way and a wrong one . The other is : to be go strong , that none dare strike you ! Become so ! ( Protracted cheering . ) And remember ! we will transgress no law—it is we who will prevent bloodshed ! Be true to your words , ' No vote , no musket ! ' and they cannot make foreign war . Be united among yourselves , and they cannot make home dissension . ( Hear , hear . ) It is we who spread the glorious principles of Christian love , ' All mbk abb brethren 1 ' And , air , tbe peoples of the earth are beginning to learn this

      truth ! From Germany , Belgium , France , and Switze ' and , the delegates of freedom have been sen ? hither—and sn echo comes over tbe western waves , from the mighty shores and inlands of a vast republic , —crying : ' Peace on earth , and unto men goodwill !' These delegates have been sent to ascertain whether English Chartists are for themselves alone , or for the great cause of humanity . In September next a congress of nations is to be held at Brussels , at the same time as the conspiracy of cotton-lords—the free trade congress . They ask us to join the fraternity of nations , and to have the Chartist body represented by Chartist delegates . Men of Halifax ! the Chartists are responding nobly to the call—and I ask

      you now , are you willing to be so represented , and to send your ambassadors ? If so—hold up your hands . ( Every hand in the meeting was raised amid deafening cheers . ) There ringa the knell of tyrants ! When the people unite , the despots sink ! Yes ; the cycles ef change are running out . The grub , royalty , was transformed into tbe feudal oligarch ; then the middle class spun its cotton web around the torpid noble ; and now the people are breaking their flimsy chains , and from the perishing frames of decaying systems , bright-winged Liberty shall soar above the garden of its own creation ! Rally , then , for civil and religious liberty—no compromise—the Charter and no surrender ! [ Mr Ernest Jones resumed his seat amid rapturous cheering , long and often renewed . ]

      Thb Wife And Ihe Man-Servant.—Last Week,...

      Thb Wife and ihe Man-servant . —Last week , an inquest was held on the exhumed remains of William flowells , a farmer , residing in the parish of Llanellen , _ terminating in . a verdiet of ' Wilful murder against Mary Howells , widow of the deceased , and Jamea Price , his servant . ' Jane Morgan said tbat she was a servant to the deceased . His family consisted of himself , his wife , a male-servant named James Price , and witness . The deceased , who was very deaf , enjoyed good health up to the 9 th of November last . A . little after nine that night he had some apple dumplings for his supper , which were made by witness . The deceased helped himself to the first dumpling he ate , but her mistress gave him the last one , which she split through the middle , and put sugar and milk upon it . About ten o ' clock

      the deceased was seized with violent purging and vomiting , and ho died at twelve o ' clock the following night . Before he died the man servant used to sleep in an adjoining room , but afterwards her mistress and witness slept in one bed in Price's room , and Price occupied a bed in the same apartment . That arrangement was made , because none of them liked to sleep in the room where the master died . She had several times got up before her mistress and Price , leaving them in their separate beds . She had heard her mistress call to Price on more than one occasion , ' Come here , Jem , and warm my back . ' They had remained together in their room frequently a couple of hours after she had left . About a

      fortnight after deceased ' s death , Price and witness' mistress went off together , and were away sometime . After the body was taken up she heard her mistress say , ' It will bo better for me to stand my ground , and then I shall not be suspected so much' She further added , * If they shall find anything in him it is you that shall be hanged , as you made the dumplings . ' Mr Richard Steele , who had made tbe post vwrtcm examination of the body , deposed that deceased bad died from arsenic . Edward Evans , druggist , of Abergavenny , stated tbat he knew Mary Howells , tbe widow of deceased . He remembered ielling her a pennyworth of white arsenic , which is about half an ounce .

      A committee has been appointed to deliberate on the beat methsd of restoring and preserving Rubeub ' famous Antwerp pictures . Cowry shells , the currency of West Africa , are such awkward money tbat it requires one man to carry two pounds' worth .

      The Fraternal Democrats. On Monday Eveni...

      THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . On Monday evening last the monthly meeting of this society took place , a week earlier than usual , to accommodate the members of tho German Society , who hold their anniversary festival on Monday next . Johx Hutchinson waa called to the chair . The following new members were elected , and subscriptions received : — Daniel Paul . Glasgow , 5 s . ; a Friend , Auchterarder , 5 s . ; T . M . Wheeler , O'Connorville , Is . ; Rowland Laoey , Wm . Burnett , and John White , Wooton-under-Edge , Is . each ; Louis Rodaner , /?/* , Rochefortsur-Mer , France , Is . Od . ; Mark Murray , Henry Baitramp , and — Hcinberg . The following subscriptions were also received from old members : —John Shaw , Is .: H . Bauer , la . and H . Merriok . Worcester , 2 s . ; Rogers , Bristol , la . The chairman then introduced

      Ernest Johkb , who said : In the union of Fraternal Democrats 1 see the germ of better times , aud 1 consider this society as a great and powerful adjunct to the cause of democracy in England . There was , at its formation , a slight mistrust on the part of my Chartist brethren against the Fraternal Democrats —they feared it was an attempt to supersede tbe movement—to create a party within a party they have now learned that every member of this society is a thorough Chartist , and that Chartism is a test of admission forks members . ( Cheers ) The Charter is the first stage on a long journey—be it ( he province _ of this society to point to the second . Its immediate duty is to gather the scattered elements of democracy throughout the world ,

      and raise the union of peoples against the conspiracy of kings—to bridge the channel with the arch of fraternity , and to gather the human race in one temple of true Christianity , on whose entablature is written , ' Am . Men are Brethren . ' ( Applause . ) In this sense we are indeed a peace society , and of peace the resolution I hold speaks . But , sir , because we are the advocates of peace , we are not those of slavish submission . I tell the Societies for the Preservation of Peace , let them give us peace to preserve , and we'll preserve it ; but where is peace in England now ? There is no such thing . Peace 1 while industry is robbed by idleness ? Peace ! while the palaces thrive and the cottanes decay ? Peace ; while unwilling idlers starve in the heart of plenty ?

      I believe peace to be a state in which the laws of God , nature , and humanity , harmonise with our social condition . Whence this horror at invading the temple of life , and opening a pathway for its redrobed essence ? for you have broken tbe peac . 6 in that magnificent fane , when you first chained . its indignant spirit , wounded its noble heart , or turned its manly strength ; and the thrust of the bayonet is but the last act of tha Jong tragedy penned by our ruler . « , and aoted 1 ^ our poor ! ( Loud cheers . ) Preserve peace indeed ! See your peace in your bastiles—see it in your gaols—see it in your streetsand consecrate it in your churchyards ! Go to the starving father , as be buries his lastborn in a shroudless grave—go to the Irish mother , who , with a fond

      weakness of love gave the breast to her dead baby , and thus died—go—and if you can , then call it peace ! No ! men 1 you are treading through a battle-field , strewed with , the dead corses of labourploughed by the crushing chariot-wheels of capitalround which the sullen phalanxes of the oppressed still gather , and the war-cry of immortal liberty still swells against tbe march of the conqueror . ( Immense applause . ) Ah ! sir ! whenever a monopoly is in danger , then hoary-headed treason preaches peace . When the rogues in grain fear the elaim of the famishing , be sure they play the Christian , and cry , peace ! When the lundhelder fears that those who got no value will refuse to recognise the national debt—he cries peace I When the placeman dreads

      for pension and sinecure , and the churchman for his tithe pig , and the landlord for hi ; game , and the lawyer for his fee—be sure they all cry , peace —which means—we , the rich , will make war on you , the poor ; but you , the poor , shall keep peace to us , the rich . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Yes ! when humanity is roused at last , then the . vile trucklers who trade in God , come with their penny worth of Christianity , for which you pay ten millions a year , and cry , peace ! ' The ' peaee' that we want is , a ' piece' of bread—for rest assured , if you want peace , givo men food—since peace and hunger are unruly neighbours . If you want peace , make men free—for peace and slavery go not hand in hand . ( Rapturouscheers . )

      Government are driving the people fast to bloodshed and insurrection ; for , hunger is the father of murder ; and in the same degree in which a people grow hungry , they become turbulent . Let two devout Christians be wrecked at sea , and escape upon a foodtess raft ; let them have Christianity in their souls , faint at the sight of blood , and start in horror at the bare idea of hurting a fellow being . But let them , too , flaat on with the waste ocean , like monopoly , around them , and tbe burning skies , like | golden oppression , above—and mark bow they will look less warmly on each other , and as the sun sinks , each will creep to the opposite end of his raft , and watch the otheramotions—and their friendship will subsideinto mere acquaintance , and their converse into silence ,

      and their silence change to a curse—and ere a third sua sets , the lean one will look longingly on the fat one—and ere a few short hours have passed , the catnibal will glare in their eyes—they will close in their death struggle—and the devout Christian will be eating the heart oi his brother . ^ Sensation . ) Thus it is with peoples—misgovern them , you have starvation —starve them , and you have insurrection . ( Loud cheers . ) Then , I say , if you want peace , be prepared for war . Not against foreign kings-rtheir people will find work enough for them—but war against the aggressor at home ; so , tbat if he break through tho barriers of the eonstitution , you can drive him back from the barrier he has broken . Peace we shall have , as far as the wars of kings are concerned ; we will

      not fight for them—and without soldiers , they can make no war . We will not pay war taxes for themand without money there can be no soldiers . We will notlet them hold . ' our purse-strings—and without freedom there shall be no money . ( Continued cheers . ) Remember , that never have bo many recruits offered for the army as in this year of starvation ; and Skibbereen has produced more than any other place in proportion . Therefore monopoly gets strong on tbe evil it creates , and here again hunger proves itself the father of murder : Remember that tbe symptoms of coercion are spreading to England ; they are talking of amounted and armed police here , and onr artillery , line and militia , are to be placed on a war footing . Let them not get too strong , before you get

      strong yourselves . Remember , too , that We are gaming something worth defending—our collages and ihe Land . Ours is no longer tho position of despair , but the stand of hope . De not let government nip the Land movement in the bud by restrictive laws , by poor rates and taxes , by lowering wages , non-employment and emigration , as they will do ; oh ! mark my words , they will do it , if yeu do not organise your millions—your militia of freedom in its defence . Take an example fromrgovernments that say they cannot put their forces on a peace establishment ; while other countries have theirs on a war footing . So be it ; by the same rule , an oppressed people cannot neglect their strength , while a class government are increasing their army . ( Hear , hear . ) Let all England

      become a National Guard , every man a soldier , and every cottage a fortress , not to make war , but to save peace . ( Loud cheers . ) And before you swell the phalanx of the peacemongers , look abroad and see what peace has done for Europe . ( Hear . ) Peace ? Peace did not win America her freedom . Peace did not drive the Dutchman from the Netherlands . Peace did not plant the standard of reformation on the plains of Germany . Peace d'd not life tbe cross of the Puritan on the hill-tops of Auvergne . Peace did not keep the French for eighteen yea's from the heritage of Islam and Abd-el-Kader . Peace did not hurl the despot Bourbons from their rotten throne . Peace did not drive tbe Inquisition from the vineyards of Spain . Peace did not scourge the foul Jesuit from the vallies of Switzerland . Peace

      will not beat back the Austrian hound from Italy . Italy , that has lain forages like a ' Parian ^ statue , . beautiful , but , alas I as cold 1 Peace will not drive the counting-house tyrant from the thrnheof France . Peace will not write the name of Poland on the scroll of nations . Peaco will not lift Freedom , the unpedestalled God , to its place in the qreat temple of the earth . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) Then , who joins the sickly cry of the peacemongers ? I , too am fer peace . I am for the nations of the earth using every peaceable endeavour to obtain their rights—but when the & all fail—be men . ( Renewed cheers . ) Even nature sanctions it . What clears the air of its close fever , and purifies the surcharged atmosphere of summer ? The thunder , with i's war of elements

      ! ( Cheers . ) Go , ask your churchmen . Why , God himself , the Lord God of hosts , has set you the example . When the Israelites were onpressed by the Assyrian , did he bid them run awaydid he bidI them become slaves-did he preach peace ? fnnVn )}' " »*»? £ ** , camp ofthe spoiler , and slew 190 , 000 in one night with his own angel ! There is a peace doctrine for you ! ( Immense cheers . ) Why , sir , when Joshua was fighting his enemies . Gsd actually made the sun stand still on Gideon , and the moon in thevalley of Ajalon , that they might have one hour ' s more daylight to cut each others throats . Why , sir , Christ himself did not stop to preaeh peace in the temple , but actually took a scourge to drive the money changers out ! There is a peace precept Tremendous lauseThe

      ( app . ) money changers have got into the temple of liberty . Use thv scourge , great God of humanity , and expel them ! ( Renewed cheers . ) There may yet be Waterloos-not the Waterloos of kings—but those of peoples . Peace Thou art too great a blessing for cowards . ' Peace is in heaven eternal , but on earth we must pass through the storms and showers to reach the sweet hiatus " of the calm and sunshine . And shall we , sir , cry « stay ' to the great fiat of God ' s eternal law ? No ! Let the wave break on life's tumultuous ocean ! Do ye not hear the distant hurricane ? I hear jj a . s , a , whisper—a scarce-heard whisper—in the snowy Appenines I mark its low sigh , yet soft as a maiden's breath , in the vineyards of France . I -note it—a faint echo , on the hills of Oermany-andletart ai its

      The Fraternal Democrats. On Monday Eveni...

      low rustling—ay , even in the oaks of Britain—denoting that the hour of change is drawing near It may yet bo but aa a morning breeze in Englandherald of a bright day . But be the oak uprooted , or untouched , I see the calm beyond . Peaco there will be when the last throne tumbles in the gulf o t jme —when the last coronet falls from a degenerate brow—when the last biyonet corrodes in the rust o vears . Peace there will be , when equality has taught man justice , and the inheritors of heaven have won their heritage of earth . ( Ernest Jones concluded by mmri n * the resolution , as follows , and resumed his

      seatamidst a perfect storm of applause ) That in the opinion of this meeting the outcry respecting tho' National D . fencos , ' is got up by those who have an Intirent in perpetuating tbe present unjust , p lunders ing and murdering system ; and that the object of the parties who have created the said outcry is—1 st . To p ( olong tho slavery of tha Brftioh people , by increaamg the p hysical force of their rulers ; and 2 nd . To prolong the reign of tyranny generally , by reviving those national antipathies which wero the disgraco of our fathers , and which this meeting solemnly repudlatt . ' The resolution was seconded by CiiARiiBB Keen , supported in au able speech by Cabl Scuappeb , and carried unanimously .

      Juhan IIarnet then came forward , and after a few observations ridiculing the pietended alarm of a French invasion , moved the adoption of an address to the Proletarians of France . The Address ( whieh will be found below ) waa received with loud applause ; and having been seconded by Joseph Moil , and supported by Henbiech Baubb and Cari , Schapter wm adopted by acclamation . The meeting then adjourned till the first Monday in March .

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      THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS Assembling in London , TO THE PROLETARIANS OF FRANCE . 'All Man are Brethren , ' Mew of Francs , — The signs ofthe times proclaim coming changes of vast magnitude and importance to your order . We have watched with profound emotion those manifestations of progress and harbingers of popular . triump h—the Reform Banqnets—which have

      recently , engaged the energies and talents of soma of your moat patriotic citizens , The' system' which at present prtsses like a vampire on the heart of France , will in vain attempt by calumny and force to stay the progress of these manifestations . Any such attempts will hut accelerate that crisis , in which the omnipotence of the popular sovereignty will prove the nothingness of renegades and traitors ; It requires not the power of prophecy to foretell your speedy liberation from the degrading and disastrous yoke under which France has groaned for the last seventeen

      years . ,. «•! . Political progress has won a great triumph in Switzerland . It has been well said by an enemy , the oracle of Jesuitism in your ( fJChamberofPeers . that'the flag which is now victorious on the other side of the Jura , ' is the symbol of those principles for whieh the French Democrats ef 1832-34 were proscribed and immolated . Triumphant in Switeerland , the Democratic banner will progress , ' conquering and to conquer , ' through Europe . The oppressed people of

      Germany have already significantly attested their accord with the patriots of Switzerland ; and throughout Italy the struggle—morally or physically—is at this moment successfully progressing . In this country ( Great Britain ) the working millions , completely divided from the classes above them , are steadily advancing in political intelligence and political power ; and while perseveringly labouring tor their own emancipation , they are not indifferent spectators of the grand struggle ot which continental Europe is the theatre .

      For centuries the people of this country have been oppressed by a territorial aristocracy , which though now somewhat shorn of its political power still retains the lordship of the soil , and the monopoly of moneydraining places in the government—domestic and colonial . A Church establishment the wonder of the world for its enormous wealth plundered from the people ; a system of taxation of boundless rapacity ; with other abuses inseparable from an unrelbrmed political system derived from feudalism , have tended to reduce the working millions to a state of social as well as political slavery .

      We have yet to name a more potent cause ef tbe slavery ofthe Proletarians . The manufacturing and commercial enterprise of the British people has been unexampled in the world ' s history , but the reward of that enterprise has been reaped wholly by the master , class . The utter prostration of Labour beneath the Juggernaut wheels of Capital , dates from the time when England commenced to take the lead of other nations in manufactures and commero > . The patient and untiring labour of this people , with all the wonderful inventions and improvements in machinery and chemistry , which have produced for the master-classes their enormous masses of

      wealth , have brought for the working men only desolate homes , rags , hunger , and all the horrors of pauperism . As the manufacturers and merchants , and their allies , the usurers have amassed wealth , in the same proportion tbe millions have become more and more impoverished , until the spectacle is presented of this richest of nations containing millions of its most iudusfious classes totally destitute of those escial possessions which ! give men an interest iu the institutions of the country they inhabit . lsit to be wondered at that a wide gulf exists between those who possess all , and those who possess nothing ?

      That gulf exists between the working millions of Great Britain and all the classes above them . Political events have rendered that gulf impassable . As yon , Proletarians of France , were deceived and sacrificed by the bourgeoisie in 1830 . so were the working men of this country cheated and betrayed by the middle class in the agitation for the ' Reform Bill . ' The late success of the Free Traders completed the iniquitous frauds of that class and has already opened the eyes of that minority ofthe work - ing men who were previously unconvinced of the treachery of their ' respectable' and' Liberal' deluders . The Democratic movement in this country is emphatically a Proletarian movement . The result will be a social reformation which will render political equality nokwgeran illusion .

      This movement , therefore , menaces all classes of the enemies of Labour . The privileged orders , consequently , are alarmed . Their alarm is increased by the extraordinary attitude of late assumed bythe working millions of this country towards the nation a of the continent . Isolated from their continental brethren , the working classes of Great Britain have , until within a few years past , been indifferent or hostile to other nations . But now , from the Seine to the Danube , from the Tagus to the Tiber , every movement for veritable liberty excites the attention and calls forth the goed wishes of this people . The barbarous sentiment of nationality now hardly exists amongst the People of this country ; it has given place to the sublime principle of fraternity .

      At this moment there is suddenly raised an outcry for the increase of what are called the ' National Defences , ' under the specious pretext of guarding England frem a' French invasion !' Brethren , if you were to judge ofthe people of this country by the majority of the English journals , you would suppose that a blind passion of fear and hatred combined , directed against you , had taken possession of this people . Be not deceived . The people of Great Britain are perfect ' y calm ; they have no share in this pretended frenzy .

      The outcry against France has been got up , and is wholly confined to persons interested in the perpetuation of the existing system . The journalists are generally very far from representing ' public opinion ;' on the contrary , they represent those who find them the wages of corruption . In Russia and German ; the press is fettered by the censorship—in your countryby the laws of September—and in England the money bag achieves by corruption the effects produced in other countries by coercion . With very few exceptions , the English journalists are the enemies of tbe English Proletarians . ¦ The object of those who raise an outcry for increasing the army , navy , and other ' defences'of this country is two-fold : — -

      1 st . —To increase tho physical force of tho ruling classes—and , thereby , establish better guarantees than at present exist for keeping tbe working classes in subjection . Combined with this , it is intended to create places ior the surplus scions of the aristocracy and gentry , who at present have no means of sucking the blood of the people . 2 nd . —To revive those national antipathies which formerly separated this people from every other , and caused tbe most unnatural hatred between them and you , the people of France . By reviving those national follies , tbe enemies of liberty hope to keep the nations divided , and thereby perpetuate the oppression of the many , and the tyranny of the few , in this and every other land , The working men of England are well aware of these schemes of their enemies . The conspirators will fail .

      The national prejudices which were onceso fruitful of disasters to the cause of freedom , now everywhere diaappearine before tho light of political knowled ge and the interchange of fraternal sentiments are nearly extinct in the ranks of the working men of England . We can assure you , brethren tbat there is nothing in the shape of heitile feelin ^ existing amongst tbo veritable people of Great Britain towards Franco or Frenchmen . The contrary lathe fact . 'French principles , ' that is the principles of E quality , Liberty , and Fraternity , are now the adopted principles of the enlightened masses of this country .

      Not assumvna to directly represent the Proletarians ot Great Britain , we are , nevertheless , iu a position to declare that their sentiments are those ol sincere fraternity towards you , the people of France , and the people of all other nations .

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      Men of France , the time has arrived when the Proletarians of every nation should frankly declare themselves to each other , and cordially unite as brethren . ..... In all countries the working men are subjected to political proscription and social suffering ; their enemies are tbo same , and their interests are identical . Let , then , tbe Proletarians of all lands forget snd mutually forgive the wicked and bloody fends ot the past , and work together for that happy future which shall witness their deliverance . ' National glory' is no compensation to tbe millions for the Toss of their rights , and their subjection to social misery ; on the contrary , international wars but aggravate their calamities . What matters it to the working classes if the arms of England are victorious in Asia , or the arms of France triumphant in Africa ?

      ' Ye men who shed your blood for kings , like water , What have tbey given your children in r « turn V —the kings of gold as well as the kings of courtsthoy have rewarded you and yours with oppression and hunger , degradation and chains ! The ruling classes of England sometimes attempt to throw dust in the eyes of the British people by felling them that they are the possessors of an empire on which tbe sun never sets . ' They , the plundered people , who have not one foot of soil in their native land they can call , their own 2 This delusion is perfectly understood by the working men of Great Britain . You , mon of France , are sometimes told by the advocates of ' national glory' that the frontiers of France should be extended to the Rhine . Again , the Germans are told by pretended patriots and venal balladmongers to fight for the Rhine—1 The free , the silver Rhine , '

      on the shores of which the people are slaves 1 What matters it to you if France has the Rhine , or what matters it to tbe German people if Germany has not the Rhine ? What concerns you and the German people is to protect your labour and your rights from the plunder and tyranny of domestic spoilers and ' national' oppressors . While denouncing international wars , we do net share the sentiments of those who consider all war unjustifiable . We , on the contrary , assert that as long as tyranny reigns there neither can nor should be peace between the oppressed , and the oppressors . But wars for the mere sake of victory or conquest we denounce as gigantic crimes against humanity . Ne nation has suffered so muoh as France from the

      folly and crime of war . The truly great men of your first revolution foresaw the evil consequences of the nation abandoning itself to the lust of military conquest . Those incorruptible patriots warned your fathers , but they warned tbem in vain . History has recorded the result : —the Republic was lost , the brigands triumphed , and the Revolution resulted in a military despotism . A few years ago your cunning rulers laboured to excite a way-feeling , not for the purpose of engaging you in a we * with other nations , fer that was not their then policy , but tbat they themselves might covertly carry en a war against you . Unhappily they were aided by men who , if not traitors to the

      cause of progress , were deplorably infatuated . Rawing the war-whoop against' perfidious Albion , ' they demanded the fortifying of Paris , just as the aristocrats and ' perfidious' liberals of England are now shouting for ' national defences . ' Paris was fortified , that is embasiiUed . Your lathers levelled one Bastille , —men of Paris look around and behold the number of Bastilles now surrounding you , not for your defence , but for your subjugation . Believe us , men of Paris , all Europe can see that the modern Bastilles are intended not to protect you from ' perfidious Albion , ' but to protect the traitors who oppress and degrade you . The enemy against which your rulers guard is not tbe forces of the' foreigner , ' but the masses of St Antoine .

      But history is * philosophy teaching by example . ' The errors ofthe past will be a warning to you for the future . There have been congresses of Kings , let this year witness a congress of Peoples . At that congress let the union of nations be solemnized ; and let tho ridiculous antipathies and barbarous enmities ofthe past be buried iu oblivion . Frenchmen , Englishmen , Germans , Scandinavians , Poles , Russians , Italians , and men of all other lands , we appeal to you to embrace as brethren , and march forward , shoulder to shoulder , in the pursuit of Eqoaliit , Liberty . , and Fraternity . In the inspired langnage of glorious Beranger : —

      ' Rise ! ferm yourselves the holiest alliance ! Rations join heart and hand I ' Signed by the secretaries and members ofthe committee , in behalf of , aud in . the name of , the Association , — G . Julian Harney , " ) . Ernest Jones , ( _ n . nni !} . ;*« : « Camus Kiev , f Great Bntain . Thomas Clark , 3 J . A . MlCHELOT , ) rv „„„ Q H . Bbbxard , £ France . Cari . Scrapper , lp 0 , „„ Joami Moli , }¦ Germany J . SCHABELITZ , \ c ™ H »» I J H . Krkh ,, / Switzerland . Peter Holm )„ ' ,, GustavusLusdbbrg , / Scandinavia . Loms Qborski , Poland . Carl Pohss , Russia . London , January 31 st , 1843 .

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      FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Stouiibmdob . —Tbe friends of liberty and the People ' s Charter are requested to meet in the Christian Brethren ' s Room , High-street , on Wednesday evening , Feb . 9 th , for the purpose of forming a branch of tho National Charter Association , in conjunction with the Land members of this town , at eight o ' clock precisely . The members of tne Land Company of this branch are informed that the general quarterly meeting will take place at the above room , on the same evening at seven o'clock . MANCHBSiER .-The directors of the People ' s Institute announce that a grand amateur performance will take place in the Large Hall , on Wednesday , Feb . 9 tb , when the play of « William Tell' will be performed , a ' variety of singing , to conclude with the farce of 'Bathing . ' The proceeds to be applied to the defence of Mr O'Connor's seat in Parliament .

      Oldham—On Sunday ( to-morrow ) , a lecture will be delivered in thelargeroom of the Working Maa ' a Hall , by Ernest Joues , Barrister-at-law , ot London ; Subject :- » ' Emigration and Homo Colonisation , contrasted / Doors to open at half-past ; five o ' clock in the evening , and the lecture te commence at six precisely . —On Monday , Feb . 7 tb , a public meeting will be held in the above hall , to take into consideration the propriety ol petitioning Parliament to pass into law , the document known as the People ' s Charter . Ernest Jones , Esq ., will be present , and W . P . Roberts , Esq ., and Mr James Leach have been invited and are expected to attend . Chair to be taken at half past seven o ' clock in the evening . 0 CK

      , ^ / 0 , . ~ 0 n Sundar . tbe 6 th of February , Mr Wild , of Mottram , willlecture ia the hall ofthe Lyceum , at six o ' clock . Subject : — Priestcraft . ' — On Monday evening , a' meeting of the members of the National Charter Association will be held at seven o ' clock at the Lyceum . Potteries . —The delegates of this district will not neglect to attend the monthly meeting , on Sunday ( to-morrow ) , at three o ' clock , at Mr Yates ' , Miles Bank , Shelton . South Los ' don Chartist Hall—Mr O'Brien will lecture in the above hall , on Sunday evening next , Feb . 6 th , at eight o'clock . Subject : — ' Land , Currency , Credit , and Exchange . ' Heywood . —The members of the Chartist Association aro requested to meet in their room , Hartleystreet , on Sunday next , the 0 th inst ., at two o ' clock in the afternoon .

      The Bristol Chartists meets everv Tuesday evening at seven o ' clock , at Nicholl ' s Coffee Rooms , Rosemary ' street . Manchbster . —Mr- John Robinson of Manchester , willlecture in the People ' s Institute , Heyrod-street , on Sunday , Feb . Sth , at six o ' clock in the evening . A members meeting of the National Charter Association will be held at two o ' clock in tbe afternoon . Southampton . —Mr Saunders will lecture at the Burton Ale-house , Orchard-lane , on Tuesday , Feb . Sth , at eight o ' clock . Mb Kydd ' s Tour . - Sheffield , Monday , 7 th ; ^ t ^ M . ' JM ^ 8 th Barnsley , Wednesday and Wakeneld , Thursday .

      J ' Donovan ' s Roots . —Birkenhead , Sunday , Feb . 6 th ; Manchester , Monday 7 th ; Liverpool . Tuesday 8 th ; Chorley , Wednesday 9 th ; Preston , Thursday 10 h ; , Burnley Friday 11 th ; Clitheroe , Saturday JS & Ft ° k ? ' W 13 th : Todmorden , Monday Wednesday 16 th ; Bury , Thursday 17 th ; Heywood Inday lS . h ; Rochdale , Saturday 19-h ™ ! ii N ?' T 1 TA ! l op BkRRY . edoh , Lead Gate , Black Hill , Iveston , and Shotley Bridge , and vicinity , are earnestly invited to meet at the house of Mr James Reed . Painter , Berry Edge , on Sunday afternoon , Feb . 0 th , at two o clock , to take into consideration the necessity of raising a People ' s Hall .

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      Windy Nook . —Tho Land members of this branch are requested to attend at their usual place of meet ' in g , on Tuesday evening , at seven o ' clock ; Cheltenham . —The members of this branch are requested to attend a general meeting , at the Temperance-hotel , on Monday evening , at eight o ' clock . Ha . nley and Shelton Branch . —The half-yearly meeting will bo held on Monday , the 2 ht inst ., in the Christian Brethren ' s Room , Market-street , llanley , at seven o ' clock in the evening , when all the members are particularly requested to attend . Birmingham . —The members and friends ot No . 3 branch will hold a tea festival on Tuesday , Feb 2 ' 3 nd , at Mr Smith ' s Coffee-house , & , Littlehampton-streot . lea on tho table at six o ' clock . A publie meeting will be held in the above place on Thursday evening , the 10 thinst ., for the purpose ol establishing No . I branch of the New Land Company

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      Chair to be taken at eieht o'clock . A public m » et ing will be held at Mrs Thompson's , Royal Oak e » Charlotte-street , on Monday eveninjr , the 14 th " inat for the purpose of establishing No . 2 branch of tha New Land Company . Chair taken at eight o ' clock # Liverpool . —Mr Jones will lecture on Mondav evening Feb . 7 th , in tho Association Room 59 Rose-place . Subject : 'Manners and Customs nf the Ancient BritMis . ' At eight o ' clock . Mr Don ovan will leeture at the above place . On Tuesday even ing , Feb . Sth . Subject : 'Annual P arliament ' Chair to , be taken at half-past seven o ' clock . " '

      ' -, NKwcAsiLB-rpoM-TiNB . —The members of this branch are respectfully informed , tbat by a resolution passed , they will have to pay their monies on Sunday evenings between the hours of six and eight after * which hour no monies will be acknowledged for that week . This branch of the National Land Company beg to apprise the working classes and also the friends of Mr O'Connor , that a public subscription will be entered into immediately , ' to ena . ble that gentleman to defend his seat in the Coremons' House of Parliament , and the following per " bops have taken collecting books to solicit subacrip . tions from their fellow labourers : —Mr John Brown Mr James Pigdon , Mr Peter Murray , Mr H . Stokoe '

      Mr J . M'Dougal , Mr fj . Johnstone , Mr James Watson and Mr John Robertson . —The members are also requested to attend a full meeting on Sunday nex . Feb . 6 th , to elect a corresponding secretary . — Mr John West will lecture at Berry-edge , Durhnm on Mondav , Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday ' February 7 th , Sth , fjtb , and 10 th : North Shields Monday , FebruaryiMth ; and Sunderland , Tuesday , Feb . 15 th . —The persona who have given in their names to the secretary to become members of the National Co-operative Benefit Society , are requested to attend at the house of M . Jude , Cock Inn , head of the Side , Newcastle , on Wednesday evening , Feb . 16 th , at eight o ' clock .

      Nottingham . —The members of No .-2 branch of tbis place will ' meet at the Rose and Trumpet , top ot Goese-gate , on Snnday evening at six o ' clock . Debet . —As it is in contemplation to hold a delegate meetings to take into consideration the best means of procuring signatures to the National Pe < tition in the district , all the smaller branches around Derby are requested to communicate with the corresponding secretary , Mr E . KirfcJand , No . 4 , Full , street , Derby . Preston . —The monthly meeting of this branch will take place on Sunday evening next , Feb . 6 th , in the "large room at Mr Frakland's , Lune-street , when the committee for drawing up rules for an auxiliary to the National Land Bank , and for assisting members when located , will give in their report . Nottingham . —The next meetine of the Land

      members will be held at the Stragglers , Tollhouse Hill , on Sunday evening at seven o ' clock . Stockport . —A meeting of this branch will take place on Sunday next , at two o ' clock in the

      afternoon . New Radfoiid . —The shareholders of this branch are requested to attend a meeting in the room of the Hope and Anchor , Obapel-street , RadforJ , on Monday evenme next , at seven o ' clock . Little Tows , near Leeds . —The Land members are requested to attend a general meeting at Charleg Brooks's , on Sunday , February 6 th , at ten in the forenoon . DoffCAsreR . —A public meeting of tbe members of this branch will be held in Mr Meon ' s Assembly Room , Manchester House , St Sepulchre Gate , on Tuesday , Feb . Sth , to make necessary arrangements for raising subscriptions to defend tbe seat of F . O'Connor , Esq ., in the Commons' House oi Parliament . Kidderminster . —The members of this branch are requested to meet at the Falcon Inn , on Monday evening , at seven o ' clock .

      Libcolh . —This branch of the Land Company will in future meet at Mr Joseph Simpson ' s , City Arms . Liverpool . —A quarterly meeting of this branch will be held at 52 , Rose-place , on Thursday evening , February 10 th . Falkirk . —The next quarterly meeting of this branch will be held in Fleet's Coffee-house , on the evening of Monday , the 7 ch inst ., at eight o ' clock . Arbroath . —The members of this branch a » -e requested to attend a general meeting in Mr Simpson's School-room , North Grimsby , on Saturday , Feb . 12 th , at eight o ' clock , p . m .

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      CORN EXCHANGE . Mark-lane , Jam 31 . —The market was tolerably well supplied with English wheat , by land carriage samples , from the near counties ; and although the trade cannot be called brisk , a good clearance of the stands was made , at priees fully equal to those of Monday last . Foreign wheat was a more frea sale than of late , at previous rates . Selected samples of barley realised rather more money , but cannot be quoted higher . The arrivals of oats during the -week have been but modorate . Tbe slight improvement in value established towards tbe end of last week was not maintained . Beans and white peas without alteration in value . Maple and grey peas Is . dfi 31 * 61 * Abbitais into London from 2 ^ th Jan . to 2 9 th Jan ; Wheat : English , 3 , 922 . Barley : English , 5 , 883 . Oats : English , 861 ; Scotch , Sll ; Irish , 70 ; Fortign , 2 , 430 . Flour , 3 , 956 sacks Malt , 3 , 934 < jrs . Londoiv Av £ baoes . —Wheat , 54 s 8 d ; barley , 31 b 3 d ; oats , 2 * 8 lOd ; beans , 35 s 7 d ; poae , 45 s 7 d .

      CATThE . Smithfield , Jan . 31 . —There was a considerable in . creasoin the supply of beasts , which caused a dull trade , and last Monday's quotation * were not supported . The average quality of tbe supply was improved , and most likely everything would ba disposed of , or nearly so , at about 2 d per 8 lbs . reduction . The number of sheep was also larger , hut still tbe market was not over supplied with tbe choicest descriptions ; notwithstanding , owing to the state oi the dead market and damp weather , trade was dull , at rather lower prices ; although there were very few calve » Jon offer , the demand fell off very much , and , except for the choicest , a considerable reduction was submitted to . Trade for pigs was heavy . From Holland there were 174 beasts and 40 sheep ; from Ireland , 200 beasts ; and about 1 , 800 from Norfolk and Suffolk . Perstonaof Slbs , s , d . Per stone of 61 bs . s , d . Best Scots , Herefurds 4 8 Best Dns . and Half-Best Short-horns .. i 6 breds Sb 0 0 Second quality beasts 3 6 Best Long-wools > I 6 Calves .. .. - 4 4 I Do . do . Shorn - 0 C

      Pigs .. .. .. 3 8 Ewes J 5 secondqliy ... 3 8 Best Dns . and Half- Do . do . Shorn .. .. 0 0 breds 5 0 Lambs .. .. .. 0 0 Bea & ts at market , 3 , 053 ; sheep and lambs , 19 , 391 ; calves , 68 ; pigs , 280 . Liverpool ; Feb . 1 . —We have had small supplies from Ireland and coastwise since Friday , but considerable ol foreign , Indian corn , and flour . At this day ' s market there was only a slow trade iu wheat , but rather more firmness than at tho end of last weefc , and Friday ' s prices were well supported lor both old and new . Oats were in very slow request , and might have been bought on rather easier terms . In beans and grinding barley the transactions were quilo trifling , but for neither was the currency altered . The diinand for Indian corn and meal was languid , and , with more of each offered than of late , the previous prices were not fully supported .

      Newcastle-uponTvni , Saturday , January 29 . —The weather still continues extremely seasonable ; intense frosts have prevailed , with a full of snow . So severe indeed , was the frost last night , that the river is covered with masses of floating ice ; and should a change not occur between this and Monday , the water communication between here and Shields will , in all probability , be stopped . Our arrivals of wUeat and flour this wsek have been upon a moderate scale , but a considerable proportion ofthe previous week's . receipts being left over unsold , the trade bas ruled excessively quiet , and the sales effected in either articlu since this day se ' uuight , have been upon rather easier terms .

      Ilctt , Tuesday , February I . —Business is very iaanimate , and iu the absence of speculation , to encourage , which no grounds are at present apparent . At presout our own farmers amply supply the little local demand , and , in our opinion , they will continue to do so . Oats continue much neglected .. Beans have recovered their late depression , and new foreign are Is . dearer . Peas of fine quality fully maintain their price .

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      ( From the Gazette of Tuesday , Feb . 1 . ) BANKRUPTCT ANNULLED . George Holland , of Portway , licens «< l victualler—John Stringer , of Kingston-upon-llull , draper—John Hull , of Ooveatry , ribbon manufacturer .

      BAffKKUPTS . William Wyatt , of Banbur y , coaclimaker—John Clayton , of Crown-court , Cheapside , Manchester , warehouse , man—William Pike Barrett , of 5 , Palace-row , Scw-road , lron-nionger-John O'Donuell , now or late of Sydney , street , Chelsea , bricklayer-Johu Shenpard , of Shirk-v , common brewer—John Bczzsli , of Deptford , builder—ThOinaS LuUer , lute Of Farr ' iHgdon , but now of areat Coswell , innkeeper-Alfred King , of Oxford , timber merchant-John Bendett , of Bast Peckham , grocer—John George Moore and Henry Bayliss , of Norwich , war * , houstmeu-Wiliiam Star , of Lynn , currier-Jason Pigg , of 1 ulbouru , grocer—Robert Howell Frttwelllate of

      . StapU-. inn and Liverpool , but now of St Martin , Jersey , aud 6 f Greenwich , ship owner—Jlenry Cross , of Kirtou , farmer— Charles Middlcton Keruot , of AY est Cowee , chemist—John Thompson , ofSheffleld , licensed victualler —Joseph Parker , of Blackburn-John Bumby , of Manchester , cattle dealer—James Rand , of Preston , provision dealer—Thomas-Pox , George Rippon , Christopher AkeRheud Wawn , and William Lisliam , ot Woat Cornforth and Thrialington , Durham , limeburners— George Cradock , of Darlington , ropu maker—John Turner , of Tavistock ind ,. Plymouth , attorney—Kobort Spencer , of St Sidwell , Exeter , printer—Suinuol Benny Serjeant , of Callington , attornuy-athw—William Bagnall , ef Burslem , grocer .

      SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS : Thomas Burns , of Edinburgh , writer to the si'neJDavis Hall , of Ntmmains , merchant—William Moflatt of Glasgow , merchant-John Blair , of Paisley , manufacturer—John Gibson J ' eebles , of Glasgow , commission agent-Albert Cny , of Edinburgh , stockbroker-James Uoss , latoof Edinburgh , commission agent—Alexander Couper , sen ., ol St Andrews , shoemaker-Jghn lugllS , Of Edinburgh , leather lactor . a ^^

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 5, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05021848/page/8/