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      - - Monday. __The Potatoe Chop.—Many Of ...

      - - MONDAY . __ The Potatoe Chop . —Many of the ' jjstis n- ^ jc pjgjgymen , who have a much more jionian tav ntanee wita ^ peop ie ^ ^ 5 ct rr n than the clergy « f ^ F otl «» nation upon ** i Vnd who are much more efficient judges cart " ' . / " ^ gct than all the Government commisapo" L within the last week given it as their f iqnp > * L t tj , e total loss of what appeared sound of o ?) rJ 0 " ' cr op is fast approaching . It must be tli e V ° }~ m 5 n ( i that the Roman Catholic clergy of * f A who give this opinion , receive their " unf Pf ] injjiressions from a source from which no Goto ^^ t agent can expect it , and that so far from ^ "nld nonsense of the priests leading or misleading j ' nconle being true , it is the people who lead the -ts to sound conclusions , the priests in turn dircct-^'"' tlie necessary action , and especially on a . subject lnsunian wuicu

      licllis dear to every , anu or ne v therefore be supposed to have some knowledge Tn ' t cosnrnox of ms roon ) . It may not be cut of Hcc to " state two facts here , which will account for P appears paradoxical to the English mind . The ^ e is the fact that the Irish people hate and detest , jLf'ard and disrespect , and think it an honour to folate , the Saxon laws . The other is , that the ¦ Rowan Catholic clergy have been their trainers in ijji ! thought , and their abettors in resistance . Now , tie " admit both facts , and honour the priests and the ^ op le because they are sustainable upon every principle of ' a , v a , l < * J ' - 1 ne triumph of England eVcT Ireland was marked by the degradation , the coercion , the chastisement , the punishment , and deof the Catholic

      jjjgement Roman priesthood by law . Jjvlaws the most penal , the most savage , the most { Ki ' runroas that ever disgraced a statute-boot This barbarity , added to the indomitable courage of the jloman Catholic priesthood , served to make them objects of admiration sis well as of reverence , and to establish their double claim to popular sympathy aud support . The shafts of the law were always aimed at tlie poor priest * while the most tender of the ilock in turn became a little shepherd to guard the hunted pastor . This state of thingsvery naturally produced and knit the bonds of affection between priests and people , and rendered them mutually dependent upon eaeh other for counsel and support . The priest was the only man above his own station in life to whom

      the peasant could look for any consolation , and his complaint being alwaysof thelaw , and the law always being the priest's avowed and bitter enemy , the priest fought the people to hate the law , while the people consulted together how they could break the law made for the prostration of their religion and the humiliation of their pastors , and until time and the restoration of the Itoinat Catholic clergy of Ireland to their proper position shall heal this old and deep wound , the priests and the people will hate the Saxon laws as much as ever they did , and we honour them for it As this is a very interesting subject , and one Hpon which the mind of England has been grossly misled and deceived , we shall further illustrate our position by indisputable facts , and wc shall show that

      it is notso much to Protestantism , to Orangeism , or landlordism , as to the Saxon law , that the Irish people are opposed . For instance , then , wc will suppose that the most griping clergyman , the most rackrant landlord , or the most bloody Orangeman , whose lives have been spent in acts of tyranny and oppression , te come within the fangs of the law ; that is , sappose a judgment , or other legal process , to be executed against either landlordj parson , or Orangeman , the very parties who have been oppressed by both one and the other will watch night aud day to take vengeance on the Saxon law through thc miserable process server or sheriffs officer , whose only offence has been so far his connection with the administration of Saxon law . Hence we have solved

      another riddle , and one which required solution , because we honour both priests and people for their hostility , opposition , and courage . We mow I'eiiwne the subject of" the potatoe . It appears that the speculators having laid in tkciv stock , have now succeeded iu foreingan illegitimate rise in the price of the article , and thus we have to face the double calamity of potatoe famine in Ireland , and low wages famine in England ; while it is a notorious fact that the culpable negligence of Government , thc ignorance of the starchy Irish commissioners , thc folly of the Irish landlords , the tricks of the Irish patriots , and t -c speculation of the Irish " food forestailcrs , " have

      combiuedto cause the consumption , the waste , and Joss of a scanty crap to on enormous extent . Yes , we aver that panic gave rise to the notion , a correct one too , that the potatoes would not keep ; this notion created glutted markets , glutted markets crested low prices , and low prices created waste , s ; : thai , ia point of fact , panic has served its end ; and now the patriots are beginning to get afraid of their own monster , aud hence we find some o : those patriots , ma-Je dumb by Whig patronage , enforcing upon the Government the necessity of meeting an evil which they themselves might have prevented . "We give the following as a specimen of what the Irish latriots propose as a means of staving off their own trial : —

      "Ilesolved , —That the several commissioners winch of late years have inquired into the state of Ireland , all concur in demonstrating that tiic misery , povertr , and destitution of thc people are extreme . " That tliis uuiiappy star ? , mainly caused by want of tmi-lcjinent , will , we have reason to drtaU , he frightfully increased in the apiM'Oaehing Season by the jrop-essirelj aasaicatiag malady that has ssized on the potatoe crop . " That to avoid the evils of the impending famine , every exertion should he made to procure employment for the people , and that speedy legislation on the Irish railway rails , of which so many notices have been given , would grcativ promote such employment .

      " That the facility for passing such railway bills would be greatly increased were the inquiries on them to take place iu Dublin , much expanse would thereby be saved to the promoters , mucn Inconvenience avoided by tlie witnesses , and much money retained to fructify in Ireland that , uiidw the present system , is spent in London . " That therefore our respected chairman , Sir G . Hodson , Hart ., bs requested in the name of this board to lay these our unanimous resolutions leiore the lord Lieutenant , and to pray h ? s Excellency to use bis influence with her Majesty ' s Government to Induce them speedily to call Parliament together , and to adopt such measures as will turAile till i-aqnirUs on railway bills to sit without delay iu Dublin . " Signed on bihali of the meeting , *• Geoece Hodsos , Dart ., Chairman , " Kaihdown Union . "

      ! Xow let It be borne in mir . d , that this Mr . Christopher Yitzsuuon , the Clerk of the Ilsnaper , a snug berth , isAlr . O'Conncll ' s son-in-law , ana was Repeal member for the county of Dublin , which ke sold for the clerkship of the Oanaper , and our conclusion is , that there must be something very tempting or very threatening in rauiinc when it makes the . patriots , who have been so long dumb , speak out . Q—Does 3 Wr . Fiizsimon consider his salary as a sinecurist any injustice towards Ireland ? and does it require tlie Kcpeal of the Union to induce him to surrender it io the Saxon Government ? We are now about to state one other fact umnei-ted with Irish patriotism . It is a fact , which wc assert upon the authority of one of the highest legal functionaries in Ireland , and if not true , we shall be Lanpv xo receive a contradiction ol

      it from tue Nation or the srefsuai ' s Journal . The fact , as stated io us , is this—that Mr . O'Dwycr , Rc-X » eal member for Drogheda . was sopped off , by the Whigs , upon a salary of £ 600 a-ycar . for which he had to do little , net much , —that Ids oiHee has since been abolished , and paradoxical as it may appear , we arc informed t- ; at Mr , O'Dwycr receives a compensation OF TIIfiEE THOUSAND AXD SIXTY POUXDS PEK asxcm for doing nothing , in lieu cf six hundred a year for doing little ; and the question wc now ask is , whether the three thousand aud sixty pounds a year , or the three thousand and sixty pounds , was given to JAr . O'Dwyer for compensation , and in cither case , will the dumb patriot require the Repeal ol the tnion to induce Mm to surrender the » Ew » ia > or ¦ vmrvs ? Oh 1 Ireland has a terrible account to settle Tvlth her friends as well as her foes .

      Suite of Lielanb . — It appears that a special ecmjaiScion is to issuu for the trial of the persons charged -jvith the attempt io murder Sir Francis Hopkins , in fiie-county of Westmeaih , while we learn that Mr . Lloyd , of Longford House , xo iwcbi the uest l & xu-Xvim ix THE woeld , and ihe poor man ' s magistrate , has been fredatlu ^ he county T ipperary—that a man nained Snilmartiu ks been fired at through the wiiiu ' ow of the house , and severely wounded iu tiic lead , and that a man named ALIowney , also in the county Tippena-y , has been killed for tafcingland over the heads 01 parties that were ejected . Tills , we fear , Is only the beginning of the end . Esgljlw-The all-absorbiag topic , in every circle , and in every newspaperis the t » melt conversion ol

      , Lord John fLusselito the principle of free trade , anu the cxr £ EMEmrAX £ D coixciDENtE of orisiox between the noble lord and th e ex-Secretary lor Ireland , Lot !' MorDetii . As far as wc can learn from the most 1 cgitiuiaie sources , ires jujcsti ' s scbkcis , we arc hapnr to mid that they sue perfectly alive to tne "Wing do <> e . aud will he prepared to resist to tlu death . Sonie of our letters have such significant passages as tins— "Tf ell , Fergus , isn ' t that a ' . vev . 3 * ov £ < " Eh 2 but vou were right , and if they come out at 1 won't wc floor them . Tou must be up and atihtanauain , aud never fear the people . '' We will be np andat tlieta again , and wc never did fear and doni

      the peopie , the WLigs , m > r the League , we ' fear them now . ~ , The Siock . Exchaxge . —The bloodsuckers and the Gexevese Traveller who writes for the limes have got afraid of their own " thunder , " and are now endeavouring to mitigate those fears created by the 0 repn cload , as their stocks have already suffereu ^ oefuiiy from ^ apprehension of war . The majority ° f English capitalists would just as soon trade in fluniai blood , human suffering , and human misery . f in railway scrip ; and this is one of the greatest norrore of au unconstitutional oligarchy . The alarniet ormg the old trickster , Daniel Webster , to their aid . as if this money "bawd" was America , and because Daniel Webster makes »¦ speech against tie uncon-

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      ditional assumptionof the Oregonterritory . themoneyrnongershave actually succeeded in getting stocks up a bit . We shall now put our opinion upon record with reference to this Oregon question . We hate war , nor do we look to the weakness of England , by which is meant the over-taxation of her industrious people , to bear the expense of war ag a popular triumph . We speak not of the legitimate claim of the republic to tlie whole of the Oregon territory in dispute ; we do not stop to inquire whether or no the immediate casus htUi is thc apprehension least the English Hudson Bay Fur Company should take possession pending negotiations of the most important posts of the commanding positions of that territory ; we do not stop to inquire whether 000 Englishmen , under the double protection of the bye-laws of an

      association and of Acts of Parliament , shall Lave committed depredation upon the rights of four thousand Americans : nor do we stop to ask what the benefit to either country would be of the possession of more land than either of them can possibly want ; but we do hesitate to Inquire of what possible benefit the war can be to the people of the respective countries who will have to bear all the burthens . We fling from our minds the debasing expectation of any national improvement through the bloody process of murdering , wherever it takes place . The long continuance of an European war created lewdness , presumption , and expense among our aristocracy ; while the power that war ever confers upon the great , has , above all other enemies , keptdown the rising genius of political progression . War is a thing that may be

      jocosely canvassed by those who have not to bear its horrors , to feel its wounds , or sutfer its desolation . War may be a joke with those who fatten upon its fruits ; but war is a thing not to be thought lightly of by those who have to tear all its hardships . We hope that the day is not far distant when all national disputes will be submitted to the wise arbitration ot nations having a mutual interest in thc preservation of peace , and , therefore , as we look to the inseparable interests of eve : y member of the American Republic to set us a wise example , in this instance we trust that rather than embroil brothers , fathers , and sons in an unnatural war , which is only to add an incuniliiance of more land to already overstocked states , that we think the matter should be left to arbitration , rather than to the sword and the bullet .

      War is to trade what the hotbed is to the plant , it forces it but strengthens it not in its growth ; while peace is as the pure air of heaven , which forces it not , but strengthens it till it arrives at a wholesome maturity . We conclude our comment upon this painful subject with the following extract from the letter of a Genevese traveller to thc Times . The writer says : — "If , however , on this jyoiiit I mistake Vie feelings of Vie British Ministry , then war is inevitable , and a tuar in ivhich every American , of every faction , will cordially and zealously unite . ' ' Let the reader compare the above , which appeared in thc Tt ' iucs of Monday , December 1 st , with the following passage from the Star ol" Saturday : — "Thus the leading journals of both sides would endeavour to foment strife between the Northern and Southern

      States , and sow open their eyes to theabommations of slavery . We will say merely a word here upon the relative destractrve capabilities of the two nations . Our fire-ships may , in passing , pay their compliments to Sandy Hook , and may bury New York in its ashes , it is true ; but if we consign their buildings to ashes , as the old women , in olden times , cast their tea to thc dee -, may not their successors consign their cotton to the same element V " Pooh , paoh , nonsense , " responded the speculators who know not the meaning of patriotism , " the Southern States know their interest too well . " True , so they may ; but a war ol pride will absorb all personal considerations and private interests , and tiic battle cry will not be " cotton and money , " but "liberty and vengeance . " "U their subjects were wise , War is a game that princes would not play at . " .

      People of England , avoid war as you wotdd avoid plague , pestilence , and famine . If Napoleon had not been a tyrant looking for Ins own personal aggrandisement , and if a long war against his aggressors had not been undertaken , you would have had your land and your Charter long since . lacrcfore again we say , avoid war .

      TUESDAY . Ireland . — Hxilway Speculation . —We take the following graphic account of railway affairs from the London papers of this morning , and from thc Northern Whig of Saturday : — Railway Splcclatioss . — Tlie recent failures in DuV . lin , and circumstances connected with one in particular , to whicli it would not be prudent lo allude , llslVfc thrown a gloom over the city , which , if but one-fifth ol the current rumours turn out to be well founded , it would be dinicult to foretell the ultimate consefuienceF . Money is scarce and difficult to be obtained at any sacrifice . The prices of provisions are rising everyday , and owing tu the suspension of business by several large cstal * - lisliincnts a number of persons will be deprived

      ofresjiecti-Heaad profitable employment . The panic in railway speculations must by this have nearly reached a crisis . Private sales were , I am informed , made within the last two days at a loss to the sellers which a few months ago ivonld be regarded as wholly incredible ; aud these not the scrip of any ot the numberless babble lines which are just now worth so much waste paper , but shares in what were deemed legitimate and solvent projects , and which with a deposit of ; £ 2 Ws . pjilJ raised a premium ranging from £ 7 to £ ' & ' and upwards . These very share * could only be got rid of no later than yesterday by the holders submitting to part with them at a discount of £ S each . The following melancholy statement bearing upon this subject appears in the JTortliera } Hiig of yesterday : —

      "An"Englishfriend of onrs , who called at our ofnee yesterday on business , gave us the following account of the melancholy results of railway speculation . It was contained in a letter to him , from a friend in the north of England . The parties referred to are all personal friends of his family ; and it is to ha feared that the details but too faithfully represent a wide and extending field of misery and ruin brought about by the mania of railway speculation . The following is an extract from the communication : — 'Trade here is in an awfully stagnant state ; and we arc expecting such a crash a ? has seldom or never been known in L . You will , before this , hare heard of poor H ' s suicide . The family have wisely kept all as secret as possible ; but speculation has left his widow and child dependent on

      their friends for everything . His widow will be confined of her second child in the ensuiug month . A has stopped payment ; he h ; : s lost in speculation £ 12 , 000 . lie is ali . ' e to oScr fis . Sd . in the pound , which will be accepted . F—— poisoned himself this morning , solely from the consequences of injudicious share-jobbing . He leaves a large family with sorry prospects . Twenty years < rf unsullied reputation have tints been blasted by six months of folly . 1 » and Co . have shut up ; and tliey have told me themselves that they have not one penny left . Six months ago II came into the house with a capital of £ 5 , 000 , and it is all gone . We have many more minor cases of suffering ; and perhaps no family in this district can say that , individually and relatively , they are unscathed by this devastating mania . '"

      Is not this horrible ? In our summary of last week we stated that three shocking suicides had occurred within the week in Liverpool , and here we have two oi them accounted for . The other case was as follows : — A person withawifeand family , who had gone beyond his depth in railway speculation , hired a boat for the ostensible purpose of a pleasure trip , and as soon as he found himself in a convenient situation , he threw himself overboard , exclaiming , in agony , "The railways have done this ; oh , my poor wife and family !" Gosse ^ vxsces of Famine , axd LixnwnD iy-KAS . vr . —The Limerick Chronicle of Saturday contains the following : —

      " To show that no rank or station , from the humble cottier to the noble peer , is safe from outrage , which now is become a system in the country , we hare to announce that on Thursday evening last , so early as six o ' clock , the gatekeeper ' s lodge at Mountsliannon , the seat of Lord Chute , was entered by an armed party , who dcnantlcd a gun , and abused the- * nmnies when they could not fiin ! ihe prize they sought . The Earl of Clare has offered :: reward of £ 50 for the discovery of the audacious miscreants .. What ran be the object of such daring aggressions as this indicates on a nobhiuan resident in Ireland , who expends a large f jrtune iu labour and improvement * upon his demesne and estate , all the year round , in which his tenants benaficially participate , and whose excellent private character is a theme for praise and model of imitation in every circle of society S Wc cannot believe the

      magistrates of Castleconnell will remain mert under this gioss affront to the highest and most esteemed member of their order in f-. at district . In the neighbourhood of Newcastle , near this city , notices are posteddemandiHgaii increase of wages and a reduction of rent . At Bridgetown , in the county of Clare , notices have been posted , signed < Molly Maguive , ' not to pay rents ; the tenants to keep the money in their pockets , and to have the fear of Molly before them . On Thursday night a notice was served on a fanner named Ai-abill , at Erina , in tlie county of Clave , the estate of Sir Hugh Dillon Massey , not to pav rent , and warning the otlur tenants to follow his - example . Eig ht armed men were observed traversing

      that district a few nijjhts before . " Suefc ever has been the result , and such ever must be the result of tvranny , oppression , and bad laws ; and i . j -jt Providence now and then afforded ppportunitieVs uck astBe P ,-eseat famine presents , lor bring-L „ the / oul deeds of the lest landlords in . the world Wti-j > vr man ? justices to justice , we should still Pimf inn / to' tor of their r , real sacrifices anu liberality , and of the fS *! * osseluyratitiide of the barbarous Irislipeople . r , _ „ . Hr ^ GER WItL ^ KEAK THROUGH STOXE W ^ LS . -The Moving is from : ihe Mbnny Mtda ato , —

      ttexorr is K . * kek « . GiOL .-Jr . Duncan ,, 8 <• governorof thecitv ^ on , havinglately received pi . vate uiforraatlouthatan attempt to effect an escape was in contemplation amoun t the p risoners , and that the actiug liberty-man , apcr W named Quirk , under sentence forburglarv , was cone « aed in the conspiracy , acta * measures were adopted to prevent tho success ot tlie project , aud the liberty-m ; w . was changed . On Thursday morning , between ten and ^ Jeven o ' clock , Quirk having been sent into the yard to work with other prisoners , the conspirators at once pei'ceived that their plot was discovered and their hopes of success a « 8 tr <» yed ; where-

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      upon , acting at the instigation of Quirk , some of them refused to work . The governor , finding them thus engaged in a mutiny , directed the turnkeys to remove the r ingleaders and to place them in solitary confinement . The mutineers , however , resisted , pelted the turnkeys with laige stones , and knocked the governor down . Mr . Dnucan's son having given the alarm at thellayor ' fi-offlce , Head-eoustable Lynn , with a party ' of . police , was promptly in attendance , and after a desperate resistance , succeeded in placing the mutineers iu irons . The Mayor and thc local inspector arrived almost immediately at tlie prison , and having investigated the case , informations were sworn by their directions on Friday against the conspirators . —Kilkenny Moderator . AnnREsa or the TirpERARi Magistrates to the Bkitisii Punuc—We give the following puling appeal from the above worthies to the British public : —

      Tiom August , 1814 , to February , 184 & , there occurred in this riding of Tipperary sixteen murders , sixteen attempted murders , and fifty-two cases of firing into houses , robber ies for arms , gr ievous assaults , and threatening notices . To each succeeding Government , have representations and recommendations been forwarded from the magistracy of this county , similar to those contained iu our late address , and the answer received is in spirit still the same as though tho day were gone by when measures of coercion for Ireland could be proposed to Parliament with any chance of success . We hold a dift ' erent opinion . Jealousy may exist as to anything like an infringement on political rights . We confine ourselves as magistrates , to the recommendation of extraordinary measures when all else has failed , to prevent the continuance of a system of terror and assassination , and in this righteous cause

      we deem ourselves entitled to call on good men of all parties , without distinction , for their support aud assistance . The measures which we especially recommend areas follow—first , that a modified insurrection act be placed on the statute-book , to be resorted to by ( Toveniment only In the case of any particular barony of a county , which shall appear to the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council to require the same ! and secondly , the creation of a law imposing a line on any district where a murder , or attempt to murder , shall have occurred , tlie proceeds to be paid over to the family of the injured party . The insurrection act to which we refer would empower the authorities to enter all houses by night . Persons absent from their homes , or strangers discovered in houses not their usual places of residence , will be obliged to accountfor themselves , and ,

      faiiing to do so satisfactorily , might be brought before a military tribunal or a special commission , and subjected to severe punishment . Such a measure would at least afford security durin ? the night to the houses of the humbler classes , who might then be induced with less reluctance to come forward as witnesses in a court of justice . The bad charac : ers , most of whom are well known to the police , would soon be expelled from thc country , and detection would be more likely to follow the commission of the crime of murder , inasmuch as the per . petrators of such acts are usually strangers who come from a distance . In the sanguine hope that we have not in vain addressed this remonstrance to the British public , ami that the majority of our representatives , of all shades of political opinion , may he prepared to advocate in Parliament the cause of true freedom , aud fearlessly stand

      forward in defence of the outraged rights of humanity , We remain , fellow countrymen , your faithful servants , Dunailey , Chairman . Let the English reader reflect upon thc above appearing simultaneously with the coercion Whigs attempt to regain power . Think of their modesty . The measures which they spscial ' . y recommend are , firstly , a modified insurrection act to be placed on the statute book . ' Ah ! you tyrants , your Liberator has placed one there already ! Secondly , the creation ot a law , imposing a fine on any district where a murder , or attempt to murder , shall have occurred , the proceeds to be paid over to the family of the injured party . Aye , aye , we'll agree to that ; but , firstly , let us have a measure placed on thc statute book to discover who thc murderers are 1 and wc wager our

      existence that all the money in your coffers would not atone for one-half of the murders you have committed within the last forty-five years . The worthies go on — ' the insurrection act to which we refer would empower the authorities to enter all houses by night . " You , burglars , that was the worst part of your Coercion Dili , and then they proceed thus— " Persons absent from their homes , or strangers discovered in houses not their usual places of residence , would be obliged to account for themselves , and failing to do so satisfactorily , might be brought before a military tribunal , or a special commission , and subjected to severe punishment . " Here we have the military courtsmartial again in lSi-5 . If we were dubious as to the real condition of the Irish peasantry , and if we were at a lo ? s for any . justification for their acts of reven < re .

      we find both the one and the other iu the exordium of the address to the British public , which was too lengthy to publish ; but from which , however , we select the following landlord condemnation . They say , " the Irish peasant occupies a thatched cabin , in most cases with a frail and ill-fastened door , and without the probability of escape ( now how you would -naiile them ) , he and his family are exposed , during the long nights of winter , to the vengeance of the ruffians , against ivliose laws he may have offended . " Oh ! horrible , here ' s a state for a people to live in . In mud cabins , with a frail and ill-fastened door , and without the probability of escape from the laws of the ruffians who hunt them lihe wild beasts . This document is signed by the jJonr . E chairman and . fifty of his K . 'iOTJiER xoblks , and as they ask for a response from the British public , we give it as follows : — " Noble

      Lord and Gentlemen Tyrants—We , the British public , having read and carefully considered your address , beg leave to express our horror at the acts of vengeance to which your unmitigated acts of tyranny have driven a brave , a generous , aud confiding people . Arc you aware , my lord and gentlemen , that your heartlessness has become a by-word with the British public , and are yon aware that we , the British public , have entered into a solemn league and covenant with thc Irish people to secure for them houses with wellfastened doors , and from which there will be no necessity for them to fly in the dead hour of the night , and into which there will be no possibility of your entering without being subjected to that penalty which the law inflicts upon thieves who break into other people ' s houses at night . —AVe remain , my lord and gentlemen , your uncompromising friend , x Jons ChuKiEn , Chairman .

      The Potatoe Cnor . —An Irish gentleman writes to the Times , stating that its commissioner knows nothing at all about the potatoe disease , but , at the same time , stating that his own crop is all either gone or going . We also learn that provisions of every kind are getting up to an enormous price . Exglaxd . —Tim Russell Dodge . —Thomas Wakley , M . p . for-Finsbury , and coroner for Middlesex , seems determined to lose no time in tendering his allegiance to the Russell dodge . Now , this is scarcely lair , as Mr . Wakley ' s brother , and some more of his family , have tasted the sweets of office under Tory patronage . Wc should like to know what pickings above £ 1 , 200 a year Mr . Wakley , official assignee for the Newcastle district , receives ? And when this is answered , we have a few more clumsy questions to

      ask . " Last night Mr . Vakley , Ai . P ., attended at the George Inn Coffee House , Holborn , to meet the overseers of the several metropolitan parishes , ivhom he had , invited ly advertisement , to discuss the propriety of calling upon the Government to throw open the ports , or repeal the Com Laws . " Now , this notice is very significant , but unfortunntcly the number who accepted the invitation being _ so few , only eight or ten , the meeting separated without corning to any other resolution than to try another go . Our friends will bear in mind that timing the last days of IVhigcery , we designated Tom Wakley , Joe Hume , Arthur Roebuck , William Henry Ward , William

      Moiesworth , John Temple Leader , and some few others , as the roitkx staff of Whiggery , who , although they now and then proposed . vliat they considered popular measures to secure their position with the people , that neverthelesss they were ever ready to fly to the rescue when the Whigs were in danger . Wc have no doubt that those worthies , everyone ol whom are yet unfortunately in Parliament , will endeavour to get ' up some other new move , professing to go beyond Whiggery , and determined to . push Whiggery beyond the mere principle of free trade when they get ixTo office . Against these , otu old , our implacable , and most wily foes , wo must be prepared to take the field , for if we let them they ' ll

      skij . CS AGAIX . The Oregox . —The Times of this morning has discovered what we announced in our yesterday ' s summary , that Mr . Daniel Webster not only . is xot America , but that he is only the puny , leailehof a puny minority . The question of the Oregon , notwithstanding the desire of the press of both factions to modify American feeling towards Eiiglaiiij , is still doing its work on 'Change , although the improvement we noted yesterday has rather increased to-day . Irish ILvrBtD of . Saxo . v Law . —The Tines of this morning favours us with an article upon the . above subject , but is unable to discover ihe causes from which we traced the xatciul aversiox in cur summary of yesterday . AVe wish we could spam room for the article from the Times . Really the London press is daily establishing the character of projhet for the Northern Star .

      The Whig Pkess axd the New Dodge . —The managers of the Hominy Chronicle have been taking vast pains to have the first pluck at the new pigeon . The breath of the little Lord has fanned into new life special trains , and "extraordinary expresses , " and all the old appliances of Whiggery . Its columns teem with the most absurd and ill-reasoned calculations upon industrial support , aud in order to strengthen our assertion , that the working classes are to look for nothing more than the increased profit of capitalists from the Russell . coalition , we

      give the following silly admission from a leader of thc Chronicle , which concludes thus : "The great and terrible league itself is a mere transient association , of the most heterogeneous political elements , by the way , for a specific object , which object being attained , it dies a natural death . That object it will achieve ; but its leaders would , evidently , prefer achieving it with the sliaLttst ijossible disturbance of existing social and political arrangements , that they may have their hands free again for those pursuits of quiet and profitable industry in which monopoly

      - - Monday. __The Potatoe Chop.—Many Of ...

      obstructs and injures them . This is , surely , not a temper , which-even . Tory aristocracy need hesitate about propitiating , for tear of ' ulterior objects , ' the usual 'lory bugbear . An organisation of the industrious classes having no earthly purpose than to sweep away an obstruction from the path of industry , is really one of tlie " very last things that any jiist-miiKled Government need dread . The League ncitner has , nor can have—so far as we can understand—any other 'ulterior object' than to go about its business , and make up for lost time abstracted from the commerce and industry wh ich it represents . " Here , then , is a pretty significant hint as to the peoples share of the 'coalition' triumph . We quite agree with our friend that the leaders would

      evidently prefer achieving their victory with the slightest possible disturbance of existing social and political arrangements , that they may have their hands tree once more for those pursuits of quiet and profitable tillage in which popular iughts would obstruct and injure them . Our friend then says , " This is , surely , not a temper which even a Tory aristocracy need hesitate about propitiating . " What , then , so the working classes and the Tory aristocracy are to be propitiated by one and the same means ? Ah , Mr . Chronicle , your dodge served for 1832 , but thirteen years of experience has taught the working classes the value of your professions , as well as the fact you admit , that there is no difference between a Whig and a Tory Government .

      " Tanta , ra , ra , ra , Rogues all , rogues all . "

      WEDNESDAY . Ireland . —This morning's post has brought us a full account of the Platonic battle between the Liberator and the Gutter Commissioners , in which the pugilists mill each other to their hearts' content , and the battle finishing by the Liberator crying enough . He says "he'll never again mention the name of the gutter commissioner , " while the gutter commissioner invites all travellers in Ireland to visit Oalurciveen , and judge for themselves . Mr . Fitzgerald , the chairman , amused his audience with an account of his travels , and Mr . Smith O'Brien told the meeting , amid cheers , that he had no objection to a war in which English soldiers may be shot , but that he had a great objection to a war in which Irish soldiers were to he shot .

      The New Move . —Thc Liberator , amid deafening cheers , in responding to the appeal of Lord J . Russell , said that the Irish would never unite with the Whigs , or any other party , except for a Repeal of the Union . , Well done , Dan ; stick to that ; but we fear the young " Hannibals have already been well provided for under the desolating union . The Liberator again announced that , on the next day of meeting , he would be prepared with an act to enable her Majesty to summon her Irish Parliament . We were promised that three weeks ago , 1813 was to have been tne Repeal year ; 1844 the cfeHcftintjyear ; and 1 S 45 , now drawing to an end , was to have been the " Give me but one year of perfect tranquillity , and the Repeal is sure , " It should always be borne in mind

      that Dan ' s greatest exertions for Ireland arc to be found between the time of his return from Dcrrynane ( after he has gained strength ) and thc tribute day , From the beginning of August to the beginning of October Dan trains , and from the beginning of October till the tribute day he does his work , an 1 from that till the beginning of August in the next year he prepares his puppet and machinery lor the ensuing season juggle . We cannot dismiss this weekly notice of the Irish tragedy without directing the pointed attention of our readers to the letter of that real philanthropist , brave patriot , and true Christian , Patrick O'lliggins—a name that will ever live in the hearts of the English Chartists , because they know that the greater portion of his suffering

      has been a consequence of his steadfast adherence to their- principles . Is it not a melancholy and heartrending reflection that an Irish Catholic , whose country ' s struggle for centuries has been for liberty of conscience , should , in Catholic Ireland , be compelled to celebrate mass for himself on the top of a cold bleak hill , lest his attendance at a place of worship should subject him to the taunts and revilings of his misguided countrymen ? Is this the fruit ol that religious liberty which the Liberator says he has achieved for his country ? And is the brave O'lliggins to be driven from the sanctuary for no other reason than putting the Liberator ' s theory and pledge into practice and effect ? Ireland demanded Repealers . She had struggled through two contested

      elections—the elections of 1833 and 1835—upon the single principle of Repeal That principle had grown into the one all-absorbing national affection . In 1837 , O'lliggins said that he would go with Ireland's young love , and would vote for no man who did not pletige himself to support the Liberator's national injunction—the injunction to vote for none but Repealers . The Liberator had a country and a family to sell , and met the stern obedience of his pupil with a tyrant lash of the detested apostate . lie , who had pledged Ireland to Repeal , said , " U'Aoever ash for further pledge from a candidate than the support of the base , bloody , brutal , and coercion Whigs , is Ireland ' s enemy . " " Alas , poor country , Almost afraid to know itself . "

      But fear not , brave O'lliggins ; you have manfully maintained your ground amid the pelting elements , and each day ' s increased knowledge will lead to increased discovery and give you an increased strength . The Rest for the week was announced to be £ 302 7 « . Sid . The Potatoe Cnor . —As we announced in our last , the forestallers of the people's food are getting afraid of their own monster , and are now beginning to assure the country , through their organs , that

      tnere is no fear of scarcity , and that there never was a better crop . This is done in order that the ignorant people should abstain from glutting the markets , from tin apprehension that their potatoes won't keep , and that the speculators may thereby have the full benefit of scarcity in the certain rise that must take place . Upon the other hand , the patriots who meet at tlie Mansion-house , publish weekly accounts of the increasing malady . They , as a matter of course , are guided solely bv the effect that excitement ever lias upon the Conciliation money-market .

      State of Ibelasd . —We have this day received awful accounts of attempts to murder , as well as frightful instances of popular determination , not to dig their potatoe crops , unless the landlords consent to give them free of rent . The poor fellows who found the seed and labour will have paid more than double rent when they have completed the operation of digging . Share Market . —This new channel of industry is now pretty nearly closed , and the pigeons who have escaped with some feathers , arc seeking a new outlet for the remnant in a little bit of home consumption , through the patronage of Irish railway committees , all sitting in Dublin , ' and entailing an expenditure , merely upon thc working hands , of no fess than one million of money . What fat picking for the vermin !

      England . —The English press is like the dog that dropped tho substance to grasp at the shadow . As it' by mutual consent , our journalists have this morning abandoned the Oregon for little John , thc shadow of Whiggery . Mr . Cay-ley , one of the Yorkshire members , has addressed a long letter to Lord John Russell upon his sudden conversion ; and the Times , alter belabouring the Corn Law question in every shape , except fixed duty , which is now thought to be too Jate , indulges in a running comment iipon thc respective merits of the manifestoes of the lordly anti-monopolist and the monopolist . The Times , jumping to certain and permanent conclusions upon tho most ^ fantastie . il presumptions , and all through dealing with the present scarcity as if it was to

      continue to everlasting and world without end—the Times , instead of dealing with Mr . Cayley ' s arguments , would put ji fringe to his curtain . We give one instance of our friend ' s sophistry . The Times says— " Compared with gold , wheat is as scarce now at 7 ^ 5 . a quarter as it was at 00 s . during tlie war . Compared with the price of clothing , that is , with those commodities which the Manchester operative has to offer in exchange for food . " Now , although the comparison between thc relative value of gold and wlicat is admissible , yet we aver that the price of clothing and the price of food is an absurdity , in asrauch as the price of clothing never does regulate the price of wages , which is the tiling that regulates the labourers' ability to buy food . The rimes launches out of its depth by plunging into an amount of presumptive se > - juiturs . For instance , the Times dissolves the view that many people take of the effect

      that thc importation of foreign corn would have upon domestic cultivation , and also tells us that population is increasing beyond the power of the land , under its present management , to furnish subsistence . Well , we admit thc first ; that as a matter of course , the land of England would not go out of cultivation after thc question had been finally adjusted , but , then , we also contend that so far from the change inducing a better system of cultivation , it would bring about a more slovenly cultivation ; and hence the second argument of the Times may be considerably strength-, ened , as the . people would thereby be left ' deoendent upon a still more scanty subsistence . Upon the second proposition ire aver ? 'ifett aKEotig / i the present system of cultivation does / deny the neeessarv amount of subsisteiiceyet , an-niPitoyliD' system . of cultivation wouldat'b ' ne' ^ 'uissblvcallthe hobgoblinsof the Times . - ¦• : - - ¦

      The Mon . vi . vo Chronicle . —This worthy Whig coadjutor has a very funny article ' this morning ; in which an attempt is made to force Sir Robert Peel into the Russell " consistency" trap ; and let the reader just mark the virtue of our public instructors . The Chronicle says "that Lord John Russell has been so ineonsistent that Peel need hot-now be afraid of the charge of inconsistency ; and that it-Hansard is used as an evidence against the little lord , it may be quoted with double effect against the right honourable baronet , " ° Tempora ! 0 Mom . '" O Murther 1 O Chronicle !"

      t ; £ ? i ? , , ? -T As yfit the « Mg » - 'goe « bravely on . LoaiM ^ V ^ ' the combatants are all on for Sir „ ^ - e Vhe W gfoge ™ * M ^ « ady lor the pit in a " main" or a "shake "

      - - Monday. __The Potatoe Chop.—Many Of ...

      The Markets . —From all parts of the country the declining market * and stoppage of mills bear unequivocal testimony of the power of the capitalists to starve the working classes under the present system . IVe will now put one question for the philosopher to answer : — Jfow many years of idleness could the capitalists sustain without the dread of starvation vpon their profit * during the last three years of prosperity , and how many years of idleness could the working classes sustain upon their share of the profits ! We pause for a reply . The Money Market . —The jobbers have contrived to give "the thing" a momentarily favourable hoist , and stocks and shares are looking up a bit ; but still all is gloom and despondency , as no temporary improvement can make amends fur the permanent injury that delusion has sustained .

      Court Circular . —We have not been well enough to visit the court this week , and not wishing to rely upon the reports of our contemporaries , wc abstain from any notice of royal movements , other than we have the satisfaction to know that our dear i-riends are all well , or we should have heard from them . Tue Government . —A Cabinet Council was held yesterday , when nothing was done ; another will be held to-morrow for the same purpose .

      THURSDAY . Ireland , —The Potatoe Crop . —Lord Mountcashel , a very extensive Tory proprietor , residing in the county of Cork , writes to his friend , Lord Bandon , a brother Tory , announcing the fact that he fears that the whole of the potatoe crop is lost to the people . These are parties who are likely rather to suffer than to gain from excitement . MoLiiY Maguire in tub Cavit . vl . —We learn that tho Castle officials have been busy in investigating the placard that we published three weeks since in the Star , and which has been extensively circulated in Dublin . The officials proceeded in their work with closed doors , and it appears they have discovered the printer . It will be remembered that the Liberator tendered the services of the Repeal Association as a " detective force" to aid the inquiry . AVe really saw nothing in the placard to warrant all this

      circumspection , and were at a loss for an assignable reason for the Liberator ' s alarm , until we read his character asalandlord . publishedby the' Gutter Commissioner . ' Englaxd . — A Cabinet Council was held yesterday , at which it was unanimously decided that Parliament should be' called together early in January , for the pm-pose of repealing the Corn Laws—and thus poor little John has been baulked of Ids triumph . Peel is not just the man to stand over nice points when office and the distribution of the loaves and fishes , are at stake . What will the little Lord bid next ? Perhaps as he has swallowed the landlords at a gulp , he may wash them down with her Majesty ' s subjects , and bid thc Chartkr . The noble Lord iias certainly reserved an extensive field of consistency in his cAVaOVSAXD PnmiEXT COA'OESSIOKS axd equitable adjustment . Will he have the boldness to say that the Charter was one of them ?

      The Stock Exchange . —We have heard of over twenty suicides , recently committed , arising out ol the mad railway speculation . The public never hears of those things , as coroners are very cred' -lous , and very easily deceived . There . is no better plaister for an awkward wound than gold dust . Upon the whole the money and share market begins to look upwards , and the jobbers look checringly upon the prospect of diminishing their losses . The MoriVlvg Chronicle . —The Morning Chronicle has another long yarn upon free trade , and refers to an able document enforcing the principles that was

      published twenty-five years ago by the merchants of London . Does our contemporary forget at that very same period the working classes assembled at Peterloo , in Manchester , for the very same purpose , and were butchered and cut down by the merchants of Manchester ? Tarn the people were justified in looking for a repeal of the measure , and sow they are equally justified in opposing it . Then machinery and capital had not assumed that ascendancy which would have converted all thc benefits of change to the purposes of their owners , while xow tho working classes understand full well that every extension ot trade has been promptly followed by a reduction of

      wages . FRIDAY . Ireland . — The Roman Cotholie bishops are at complete war concerning the gigantic scheme of godless education . England . —The Premier's determination to repeal the Corn Laws is no longer a speculation . They are ' . loomed ; and it is our business to try for our share in the change . The poor little Standard of last night , and the Herald of this morning , are in fits at the notion that the Times should he made the organ of Government , and are jealous that the first intimation didn't come through them . If it had , the country would have thought it a joke .

      The Taurigrade Coalitirn held a meeting at Leeds on Wednesday . at the little Court House , in the day time , when the working classes were engaged , when William Brook , Chartist , moved an adjournment to the evening , and to a larger place . Gardiner seconded him , and although they had justice upon theirside—the anti-monopolists and dissenting parsons nearly devoured the poor working men who had time to look iu . . Tht Stock Exchange . —Securities of all kinds , and especially exchequer bills , have a downward tendency , owing , it is supposed , to private letters from America breathing a warlike determination . We again repeat then , that Peel knows all this , and has merely exchanged the sliding scale for a war scale , to silence the League and tickle the landlords . Asieiuca . —The news from America is condensed , but will be read with intense interest . "

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      Savage Assault,—At The Thames Poiioe Cou...

      Savage Assault , —At the Thames poiioe court , on Monday , James Goggin , a brutal-looking fellow , was charged with assaulting and wounding Anne Butler . Tlie complainant , who was far advanced in pregnancy , and had the mark of a severe wound over her left eye , stated , that on Saturday night her husband , who was a sober , quiet man , and seldom frequented publichouses , was drawn into a row with the prisoner and his brother at the Lord Nelson public-house , Robin llood-kine , Poplar . Being an Englishman among a number of Irish she was apprehensive that he would be killed , as they treated him in a very savage manner , bit at his head , and tore the hair out in moutiist' ul with their teeth . She succeeded , however , in getting him home , and afterwards went out to procure some supper . In doing so she passed the

      prisoner , who was in company with two women . One of the women , as she passsod , made an allusion to complaint ' s situation , and , at the same time , made a kick at her . The prisoner , with many imprecations , swore he'd have some one ' s life that night , and then putting his hand in his bosom , he took out something , with which he struck her near the left temple , and nearly stunned her . He was about to repeat the blow , when two men came along whistling , on which one of the women cried out , " Uncle , there is somebody coming . " and thc three of them ran away . She could not say whether the weapon she was struck with was a poker ; but if it was it was a very short one . She was , however , quite satisfied that it was a piece of Iron , and the blood flowed copiously . The chief-clerk . —Have you any witnesses ? Complainant .

      —No ; they took care of that . Had I had the other blow and been killed , no one would have been aware of it but himself and the woman : 'Howe , 157 K , was called to the complainant ' s house , 45 , Well-street ' , Poplar , and found the blood Slowing from a ieart ' ul wound over the eye . lie then went to the prisoner ' s lodgings at Buffets-court , Robinhood-lane , where he found hini sitting in a chair , and took him into custody . He said nothing at the time , but he afterwards swore vehemently at the station-house that he was innocent of the charge . The prisoner , in his defence , again vehemently asserted that he was riot the pnrty ,-but complainant , being recalled , said she was quite ' certain he was the man . The prisoner , in dof ' altjof bail , himself in £ 4 . 0 aud two sureties of £ ' 20 each , was committed for trial .

      Quacks axd Quackery . —On Saturday niuht Mr . Bedford held an inquest at the Plough , Carey-street , Lincoln's Inn-fields , upon thc body of Mary Hoskin , aged CO , late of No . 2 , Vere-street , Clarc-mavltct . In consequence of a report that the deceased had lost her life through quack medicines , tho inquest-room was crowded with medical men , parochial officers , and inhabitants , anxious for tho result . An unusual number of jurors having been sworn , the coroner stated that ho felt it his duty to have thc body disinterred and examined by the surgeon of King ' s Collce Hospital , in consequence of written and other communications which he had received respecting the cause of the deceased ' s death . Mr . Samuel Sumner Dyer , house surgeon , King's College Hospital , stated that he opened the body , which in all its parts

      and organs was healthy , with the exception of the right side , which was inflamed , and contained M ox . of fluid , which pressing upon the lung , caused death . That lung was congested " , and contained cancerous deposits . Cancer in the breast caused the inflammation which caused tho effusion that terminated in death . —By the coroner : He had not anaJysecl tlie stomach as he did not deem it necessary , having found the cause of death . Iu Ms examination . ho did not detect the slightest trace of either mineral or vegetable poison . Mr . Welsh , licentiate , surgeon , from Dr . Walker ' s , Drury-lane , said that about a a fortnight ago he was suddenly summoned to attend deceased , whom he found stretched upon her bed in

      her clothes , and quite dead . Upon inquiring who was her medical attendant , he was informed that a woman named Burdett had perscribed for her , and that all her remedies hadbeen mysteriously applied . The woma ! iJ 3 urdett , and . another woman who . was in the . room , commenced a series , of criminations and recriminations , in which each accused the other with , having given deceased-wrong medicines , and Burdett said , " That all was not right . " Her son , who entered the room at the same time , said that his mother had not been fairly dealt with . The medicines were also thrown away , and these facts , coupled with the fact that she had been buried without a medical certificate , her death being registe-. ed as the result

      Savage Assault,—At The Thames Poiioe Cou...

      of cancer , whereas it followed from the ettusion upon tho chest , raised in his mind strong suspicions that her death had been hastened by the app lication of improper medicines . Mr . I » fe £ ^^ % said that he obtained the best certificate he couldot herMeath . and that he had acted in perfect accordance with the Act of Parliament , and that he won d again , if an opportunity presented , act-. Similarly . 1116 coroner , Dr . Walker , and the other medical gentlemen , and the jury , having consulted for a short time , they arrived at the conclusion that an analysis ot tlie stomach was indispensably HGCCSSaiT . ' The inquest was accordingly adjourned for a week , in order that the analysis may be fully performed .

      „ tn t- < V . A « Vm Shocking Death of a Female by Fire . — On Friday evening Mr . Bedford held an inquest at St . George ' s Hospital , on the body of Hannah Blackburn , aged thirty-six . Thedeceased was the wife of a carver and guilder , residing in the Kew-horsc-road , Richmond , and about six o ' clock in the evening of Friday , October 24 , was in the act of brushing the lire-grate , in which there was a fire , when by accident her cap caught fire , and her face , neck , and shoulders were dreadfully burnt . She was brought to the above hospital where she gradually sank under the injuries , and expired on Monday last . Verdict , Accidental Death .

      On Wednesday, Martha Browning, A Young W...

      On Wednesday , Martha Browning , a young woman apparently about twenty-five years of age , was brought before Mr . Bond , at Queen-square police-court , charged with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Muiulell , an elderly woman with whom she resided . The case is one of a most extraordinary and mystcrious character . The supposed victim of the prisoner ' s violence was found dead by her daughter on Monday morning , and on the evening of that day a coroner ' s jury sat upon tlio body , and returned a verdict " that the deceased had committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity . " Since that period some circumstances of a suspicious nature have transpired , tending to criminate the accused as the

      murderer ol the deceased female , and on her being found on Wednesday afternoon in possession of a sham banknote , which itwas obvious she had considered genuine , as she had attempted to get change for it , she was closely interrogated by thc husband of deceased's daughter , who at once recognised it aa corresponding with one or two which the ill-fated woman had been seen to have in her possession the day before her death , and a desire on the part of the prisoner to possess which , supposing them to be genuine banknotes , it was inferred might have induced , her to put a period to the existence of their possessor . The accused ' s replies were anything but satisfactory , and she ender . voui-ecl to efleefc her escape from the house ,

      but was detained . The husband of the deceased's daughter insisted upon her accompanying him to the Station , and before their arrival there she became much agitated , and said , "I did it ; I did it J Lord , have mercy upon ine ! " The prisoner , who had the appearance of a hearty young woman , was lifted into the dock in an apparently senseless state , immediately after which she fell into a succession of strong lits , between which she gave way to a paroxysm of despair , and tore her hair . She afterwards fell into a state of apparent insensibility , sal volatile and other . restoratives were administered without effect , seeing which the magistrate stopped thc inquiry , and ordered the prisoner to be remanded until Monday next . She was removed to Tothill-fields , Bridewell , in a cab , still in an insensible state .

      Fall Of Three Houses.—Loss Of Liff. On T...

      FALL OF THREE HOUSES . —LOSS OF LIFF . On Tuesday night , about eight o ' clock , an occurrence that at the time caused great exc itement , and has since spread a gloom overthe neighbourhood , took plucc in Cavendish-place , Wandswovth-road . It appears from the inquiries made by thc reporter that Mr . Corrall , a builder , had recently erected four sixroomed houses with shop fronts , in Cavendish-place . They had been covered in , and the lathing and flooring had been completed , but there yet was some plastering , and other matters to be done . On the night in question Oliver Carroll , the son of the builder , who was only in his twentieth year , his brother , and a labourer , were at work on one of the basement-floors of the houses , laying concrete , when , as it is supposed , the end wall of the house nearest

      thc Cavendish Arms , bulged out , and in less than a minute thc three houses separated from the fourth , which was apparently much more strongly built , and fell with a loud crash , buiying in the ruins the two brothers , the labourer escaping with a few bruises from the falling bricks . An instant alarm was given , and in an incredibly short space of time a large body of men assembled , and commenced removing the bricks and Umber with the sanguine hope of preserving tlie persons buried . In a few minutes one of the Carrolls was discovered , and brought out ; he was alive , and owed his preservation to two pieces of timber falling crossway , and thus preventing the rubbish suffocating him . lie was carried home by two men , suffering from some very severe contusions . In about ten minutes after tlie accident occurred , Sergeant

      Emmerson , 10 V , with a number of constables , arrived , and cleared away the mob that had assembled , so that the men might pursue their work uninterrupted . The men laboured unceasingly for threequarters of an hour , when a sufficient opening was made for a man to creep in , who reported that he saw the deceased Oliver Carroll in a sitting position , about three yards distant from where he was . The men redoubled their energies , and in another ten minutes they cleared an enormous mass of timber and brick which were on the deceased , and Sergeant Emmerson dragged him out . His head had been driven between his knees , and his back was apparently broken . He was , to all appearance dead , but , nevertheless , was conveyed with the utmost celerity

      to the Cavendish Arms , where Mr . Palmer , a surgeon , had been in attendance since the accident , so that he might be of service to the unfortunate sufferers . Mr . Palmer resorted to bleeding , tho application of stimulants , & c ., but although one or two drops of blood came there was no sign of life manifested , and thc surgeon gave it as his opinion that the deceased must have been suffocated some time . One or two carpenters were in thc act of leaving the building at the time of its falling , so that their escape may be considered miraculeus . The materials of the houses were evidently of a very , common description , the mortar especially seemed to have been made without that great essential , lime , for there was scarcelv a brick to which it adhered .

      Dreadful Fire And Loss Of Life. On Frida...

      DREADFUL FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE . On Friday morning , between the hours oi twelve and one , a fire , attended with serious destruction of property , and it is feared with fatal consequences to an aged female , broke out upon the premises belonging to Messrs . Cooper and Willard , boot and shoe manufacturers , carrying on business at No . 9 , Bedford-place . Commercial-road East . ' At the time of the outbreak there wore nearly a dozen persons in the building , the majority of them being in their beds asleep , One of the lodgers first discovered the fire . It appeared that his intention was arrested by hearing a noise resembling the fall of some heavy substance from the lower part of the premises , lie immediately opened his room door , andpe rceiving the smell of fire , he raised aa

      alarm , and having procured a pail of water he hastened to the front shop , which he found wrapped in flames . He endeavoured to extinguish tlie flames , but he scon found , from their increasing vigour , that he was unable , and he forthwith hastened to the upper part of the dwelling to arouse his wife and the rest of the inmates . Scarcely , however , had he got . into the apartment that he had but a few seconds before quitted , than flames and ; smoke , ; with an immense body ofsparlcsshotup the . staircase with such rapidity as to cut oft all chance of escape by the regular means . In this extremity he succeeded in procuring a rope , which he fastened round the' waist of his wife , and after much trouble he

      _ managed to lower her out of one of the upper windows . Several of the other parties living in tlie place were , however , not so fortunate , and to escape being burnt to death , they were forced to resort to numerous expedients . One of the females threw her infant out of the window , and pitching upon the window-blind , the canvass gave way , and the child fell through , but was , . fortunately , caught in tlie arms of a spectator , and received no personal injurv . Several other parties effected their escape by leaping from the upper casements , at the period the flames were breaking through the front window shutters , and extending nearly half across the carriage road .

      On the arrival of the engines they were instantly put to work from an abundant supply of water , furnished by the East London Works . Such a firm hold , however , had thc destructive clement obtained of every part of thc premises , that it at once appeared certain that nothing could save them from destruction The fire still progressing , it caused several other brigade engines to be turned out , and also throne belonging to the West of England Company with Mr Connorton , the chief officer . . - ^ J ^ ; - 1 , flic . firemen , from their first arriva ^ selj ^ to ' -work most vigorously , and by judiciously aiBtMfintf the water , they happily succewlirigirr ^^ cnS ^^ from extcndingto the inimerous contigiioiisiSgs , and by a quarter-past two o ' clock the confeatitn was safely subdued . At that time the whole of the valuable stock in trade , belonging to -Messrs . Cooper and Co ., was destroyed , and the furniture of the lodgers consumed .

      hor a considerable time it was feared a bed-ridden female , eighty years of age , named Lea , had perished , she having been in bed at the' time of thc outbreak , on the first floor . Alter much inquiry , it appeared but too true that the poor woman had perished , as not the slightest tidings could be heard of her , and from the fact of her being bed-ridden , she was unable to help herself . This , coupled with the fury of the fire . makesitbuttoo probablethat slid had fallen a victim to the destructive element . "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 6, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06121845/page/5/