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      cerera practice ot riding on Jumee fiehina , ietarned a verdict of « Accidental D 3 atb , ' FiaoDvis the Nomh . - Daring the las i ** or seven daja . in the counties of Cumberland and Wert-E 0 « Ian

      places hurried away by the flood , and the quantity of lar ® trees aad other wrex * swHeh , -ean » down waa immense . Many of the milleft , whose mills are stopped ' from grinding , and others lmng on . «» magma , of the rivets , were obliged to retire to the npper apartments of their dwellings . Fortunately , noaocounthaa yetcome to fund oftbe loss of htunaa life- At nfno o'clock oa Monday night the flood had abated very little , and fearawere entertained for the stability of the bridges on tbe rivers Eamont , Lowther . Eden . Gsider , and other streams . ¦ ' ¦ _ bur

      Baboo Bdboubt . —One oftbe most daring glories that . has far » long « n » taksn place ini ttaa neighbourhood oocurred on Sunday npnung , at we house oF ~ a Mr Benjamin AspinaU , a respectable farmer . residing near the White Crow , in Adlington afcout four miles frora Wigan . Tte bn-glars , three of whom were seen by the inmates of the house , effected an entrance by taking a pane of ({ lass from a window and removing an iron staunoheon placed inside . Some one of them , it would appear , then got through the aperture , and went to the front door ana admitted his aceompliees , of whoex it is supposed there were sbt ; Tha ruffians proceeded npstairs , ana ,

      finding the family around by the noise they had made , and awake , they " ' eaiauded all the money that was is the house , and threatened if it was sot instantly delivered up they would shoot them , at the came time presenting pistols . They were disguised , and with blackened faces . After a shcrt parley , they broke open the drawer * is the presence of the ownera .. sud succeeded is getting a gold watch , and abont £ 9 or £ 10 ia money . After this ,, they proceeied downstairs , helping thsmselveitoaehsase . a quantity of currant ^ somo pieces of eletb , and a number of articles similar ; they left the premises without'deteetion .

      EMBitttxuKst bt a Cfc * ss > -Oa Wednesday week , at tha Birouga Court , Manchester , a young man named George W . Mortimer , lately employed u cashier by Mr Alexander Glendinning , propiutor of tbe Seedly Printing Worka at Pendleton , near MaBoheiter , was brought op charged with embezzling a sumo * upward * of *> 700 . the property of his employer . The prisoner had been emplojed ty Mr Glendinning for a period of nearly three years . That gentleman resides is the south of England , and is in the habit of coming to Manchester two . or three times inthe course of the year . In October last he arrived- in Manchester and called upon the prisoner to see his cash accounts . Mortimer told Mr Glendinaisg'that , in consequence of illness , his account *

      vrera not prepared for inspectiou . Mr Glendinning then directed the prisoner to have the accounts ready en the foUowicg Thursday morning . Oa that day Mr Glendinning called at his counting house , but found the prisonerwas noi there Mr Glendinning remained in his ooun ' ing-hooae until the evening , but the prisoner did not make his appearance . This aroused Mr Glendinuing ' s suspieioss , when he sent to his bankers , and their accounts convinced him that something was wrong . He then communicated with Mr Bewick , Chief Superintendent of Police , and the latter gentlemen , by the orders of Mr Glendinning " , broke Of ea the Tariona drawers in the office of which Mortimer had the keys . Confused heaps ef mosey , private memoranda , promiisory notes for money hot by the prisoner to his private friends , & J . were found in the drawers . Search waa then

      made for Mortimer , and he was found in a state of inebriety , and placed under the surveillance of a police-constable until he beosme sober . After a few days all restraint was removed , apon an undertaking given by the prisoner ' s brother , that he would make up his account ? , which he did , and it was then die covered that ha was deficient in hia cash account £ 459 , and deficient in a sum of £ 250 , on account of rents which he had received in trust for . his master . Oa the llthof November tbe prisoner was discharged from Mr Glendinniug * a employ , and he ( the prisoner ) then commenced an aetioaagaiost "Mr Glendinning for false imprisonment . This induced Mr Glendin sing to apply for a warrant against the prisoner , which waa granted , and he was apprehended accordingly . Three cases of emben ement were proved against him , and the Bmch decided men committing him co take hia trial at the sessions .

      AraBZHXHsioir of J , Pakhiktcs foe Shxxf Stealing . —In the early part of last winter large numbsr £ of sheep were stolen from different farms around Long Meiford and Sodbary , and , on the nighto £ the 5 iholSept « nb ^ r , * l 847 . four sheep , three hogKeWasd « ae maiden ewa were stolen from the field of Mr Hale Wm . Wettrop , of Buera St Mary , farmer . . Oa the morning after the robbery the field gate , where thirfy ^ eTea she ep were folded the previous evening , waa found lifted off its hinges , with the lock unfastened- and the print of cart-theels upon tbe road whieh adjoined the field had been apparently obliterated by tbe foot of soma person . Every exertion was used by Mr Wutrop to dissever the perpetrators of this bold robbery , and . in

      conseque ice of suspicion , the premisesof John Parmenter , ef Long-Meiford , jabber , were searched , and in his ¦ hed or outhouse were found tbe carcasses ot two sheep recently killed , and the skins of fear sheep exactly correspoHdiDg with the description of sheep lost by Mr Western . Parmenter immediately abscondid , and , although constables and policemen hare been continually , since that time , npan hia track . no sooner did they attempt to cantors him than hll . rudden foaxrtttl © completely btflsd their effort ! . For six raantha pa * , Superlutendant Hoy , of the Essex Police-station , at Hedmghao , has been on the alert , determined to swore Parmenter , and success has at length croirned his exertions . Having suspicion that Parmenter was employed amongst a

      large number of workmen at Victoria Road , Newingtoo , Saperioieadanfi Hoy disguised himself , and with a-white hat instead of the leather-rimmed gotsamer of the palice , he proceeded with two pdioemsn in plainclothes , to Ncwington , and went amongst the workmen , bit assistant waiting a signal to approach . After gone difficulty he foaad Parmenter , and " ** *» , ?& his opportunity by Parnenfer going under » wall . Hoy said , ' John Parmenter , yoa are my prinner , ona charge of stealing Mr Weitrop ' s sheep . ' Prisoner said , "Yea are quite mistaken , I am not flie man yw take me for , - " but Hey arid , « W hy , Parmenter , yoa know me . " To which he rejoined , If it had not been for yonr white hat yea woald

      never have taken me . I should have known yea ia moment . ' On Thursday week tn « prisoner , was brsnght before W . a . Bmao , Esq ., at the Town Hal , Sudbury , and gnat anxiety was shown ia the resalt of the ease by thejatteadance of many respect able farmers . Mr J . J . S . Gooday , solicitor , conductei tha ease oa the part of the prosecution . The noon ww cleared of xHttaaare , and a great many wiroduea , were eumined . The prueser , when called noon , made a bug statement , inculpating another party , and Mr Gwday prayed a remand until Monday morning , the i & lust ,, whieh was granted , when further evidence will , it is -aid , be produced . DuaiaceuL jfaTSlXoaui Hoax . —A cruel ass *

      most unnatural hoax was played off in Huadersfiela a few daft ago . ft appears that a youg man aa-ntd Wright bad *!* , at XlniUy , * Mirer > bme paid bis *« re » ies to a Hnsnt girl far upwards of &„ o ye « r » . About six weeks agohepanoadadhsr toUaveher place onpnrpoeatoba mirried ; she did so , aid the banni wewpaMiahed at tha parish clorch , asd expired oa Sunday last , Honday was fixed as tha wsdding day ; eTixphiBgwaaprepartdforwi nuptials ; dresses , dla-• w , M « ttegaestsinvltei . Th « giri * « brother and fiater anired oa-B » tarf « ai , ^ B poa the inritatfen of tits nnatsjoonaltel . harta , «« Tdled nearly forty mJIti , Theyuung ^ tt hadtofrowed w « al potia , Vafctead of the yeong woaan ' s , in order that all should g * on 1

      ^^ T- *!** * WM * wat tte h-ttfateaattem whataxee ^ SatMaay ha ^ cfftoleed , le . rt ^ wort - , ertonlJ return at night . Kight came , and Boaoay came , bat ao Mr toe ^ madaUi appearance . It was , thea con . fiaeatty exp « cte * hsi wdnMiretara ky thearit tram on Monday rnarmas ; , haTln # > -s ; onei «* he iaM . 'td teteH ti ~^ to act aa bridesmaid . ^ if ondsy paisid ' avis , abd ^ Tae ^ VtttUatniftbtva dtuppointaent of all lr ^ rwaeontettjed , tetpthtastlf ; aorhas any thing bsea f ^ ^^ ^ htomadetowasince . HIsparaaUar . ta great distrtas at thadecsftfal and shameful part ha tweeted ; and tho girl ' i frlaads have , returned to their fcoaes , after losing bvh ^ ae , expests , asd every other laeaavemente towmoh-they have bsen pntia ceasegtuaeo ottbiMOeeaaal fObxw . ¦¦ " ' - Bnamamiea o > I * txm ** b . —© a Saturday a P « e *« n « cl electors took place , betas it was strictly

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      pr int * , it is taipotsiDle to say what took place , btyoad the fact thatit was decided to eaU a pabliosasetlng early in the earning weak , probably : oa Tuesday , when a per > ¦ ossrUIbatfomlsattdhy thaUberali ; The friends of Dr Cartels , an advocate ofSeetara Cafismons , who ooatesteA the boroagh with lit Bailer at the last general election , areaaktng exertions to ensure that gentleman ' s ' return . The Bight Hon . Thomas Babfngfoa lfacaulay is the person who will In all probability be nominated by the Liberal party , but the honourable gentleman has not yet beea communicated with . It Is very generally reported that Ssmuel Trehawke Kekewlob , Eiq ., will be actndidste to represent ' this boronshia ParUtnent in tbe room of Charles Bailer , Esq ,

      Cbolsss . m mahohistm . —News arrived in town on Saturday last , by elcotrlo telegraph , announcing the appearance of cholera In Manchester . The deceased was a gentleman trarelllog by the train towards his home , Higher Bronghton , where-he expired after an attack of a few hoars , at fire o ' clock oa the morning of Saturday . " - : '! ' , ; ' , , ' [' :, A . ¦ Bexsskssk Bcstu . — Oa Saturday week at Soutbmolton , Sarah Nlebolle was committed by tbe Rev . W . H . Earslake , for trial at tha sessions ; for stealing a gander frem Ifr Crocker , of Kestseott Farm , in the parish of Chittlehampton . Mr Crooker traced mark * to tho prisons * * * door , and thea gave information to Ballard , the police officer , who searched the premises , and

      found fresh plucked geose feathers about the housr , aadtthe legs , entraiif , & c , in a pot concealed . Frem these , circumstances , as also the fact of the girl ' foot coitespondiBg with the marks fa the ground , to . to * her into custody , and her father , wl « h whom she resided , alio . At Somthaohon they were plscsd ia the ststloa-boose to await tbe arrival of a magistrate , when Mrs ? lsher w » struck with the auutatl appearance of the prisoner ' s waist , and suspecting the' buttle not to be * patent , ' proeeedsd to search her , and dtscoTtied the gander , minns the head aad wings , tied in a towel , and , with tbe aid of two strings , contracted as near the comet shape as it would allow . The father was discharged from custody .

      Tax Bkscoh Mo » bi » . —On Monday week , a man answerisg ths description glren of the murderer , Thomas Williams and who oa being interrogated as to the mode of his arrival in this town and his" previous occupation , prevsrlcated considerably , was taken Into custody and detained until commab ' cat ' os could be had with the authorities in Brecon . He evidently pretends to bean Irishman , and girts the name of Jerry Halouey ; bat the account he renders of himself is so extremely ansatisfsetcry as fully to Joatlfy hia detenUon , even supposing blm not to be the partj for whose apprehension a large reward has been offered . A . reply was received from Brecon , ' and J / flioney was dlscnargei from custoJy , he not taring a scsr on the ' left cheek , which the alleged murderer is marked with . '

      A Floatiko Railxoad . —Oor railways have beea laid { a cuttings and on embankments , through tunnels and orer vladnets , and by the genius of a . Stephenson they are actually befog carried over arms of the sea , where ships in full sail can pais beneath them . White this daring work , however , can be effected where the width , as at the Msnal Straits , ia only some 500 feet , such great tidal estuaries as the Forth and Tay will sot admit of it . As these Friths lis across the route of the great east coast line of railways , which will shortly extend from London te Aberdeen , It became extremely desirable thai some means should be devised by which those sees might be crossed without the trenblesome necessity of passengers and goods changing carriages . We are happy to say that a plsn has been devised for carryieg tha trains bodily across the Tay at Broughty Ferry , where It Is about a mile and a half broad . Mr Robert

      Sister is at the present time building , fa Ms yard at Goron , a floating railway for tbe Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company . It Is being belli of iren , 180 feet ia length ; and thirty-Ave in breadth , It is to have three lines of rails on deck , so as to enable it to take en a railway train of 500 feet in length , and it to be propelled by engines of 250 horse power . As the mainline of railway on etch tide of the Tay is cons * - derably abore tha lerel of the sea stationary engines on either tins of the Filth are to be employed to draw np or lower the trains . This railroad steam-boat is expected to be launched in a few weeks . In the meantime , and before the above improvement is completed , the Edinburgh and Northern Company have made arrangements for having their cattle and heavy goods tor the English markets carried by the Dundee end Perth lice , and thence through Fife , and by the east coast lines toEng . land , en very moderate terms .

      A LuiUIi Tales . —We mentioned , a fcw weeks ago , that the new Town Council of Stockport , which , at the last election , had become Conservative , for the first time since the passing -of the Beform Bill , had summarily dismissed their town elerk , who had made himself very obnoxious to them by the intrusion of his Free Trade and Dissenting politics , and by bis snipe and woodcock exhibitions after journeys to London abont Improve ment Bills . Kr Coppoek surrendered his effica with a good grace , and the council appointed Mr John Taughan as his CHcoetser ; bat Immediately on this , the ex . town clerk set himself to consider how best to nullify the con . stqatnoes of tbe decision , By bit advice an application was made to the-Lord Chancellor , for such an addition to the number of boroagh magistrates as should give his friends the majority , and this being granted they

      appointed him their clerk . Aa no salary was attached to the office of town clerk—the council Saving , seme time ago , arranged , from economical aad other pradeatW reasons , that the town clerk should also be the clerk to tha magistrates , at a redaced salary , and paid out of ths fees arising oat of magisterial proceed . tegs—Mr Taughaa was that left with without any emolument . On this discovery deputations proceeded to London , to show the nsn necessity , for any proper purpose , of new magistratss , whilst a speotal meeting of the ; council subsequently protested by twenty-nine to thirtsf n against this icsidlooi and party attempt to govern the towa 'in spite' of the bargeisef . Erery con . sStation *! means by protest , by petition , by reasonable argument , and by the force of facts , was employed

      against this Iniquitous jobbing by a disappointed feetloB . But it was of no avail ; the Whig officiate mast serve their party , and the borough Is now blessed with seventeen justices , and only eleven ' policemen ; though the eld magistrates had little to do , there being only nine prisoners for trial at the ensuing Rants ford Seedonvand three for Sslford , aud one for the Chester and Liverpool Assists respectively . The new batch are—Mr Alfred OrrtO , Mr Stephen Tales , Mr Carrlngton , Mr Etkrigga , and Mr Edward Manland , the latter gentleman ( a Ceatervative ) being , as ex-mayor , already a msgistrate for the prestnt year . With the exception of Mr Coppoek and a very few of hli violent partisans , ths traasaction IS vie wed by erery body With feelings of unnjltlgatsddIignsl ,-. Ztt « TWli 62 .

      Death oi Psokbsos Sakcxi . Coona , F . R . S . —This emiaeat sorgeon expired oa the 3 rd lost , at bis country ret ! d < ase , Saepperton . Mbi * wchost SBrrvratca ; a » SxarosD . — Early 00 ths morning of Wednesday week during the gale , a Swedish schooner , named the Lafayette , of Uddswalla , from St Ubes , laden with a cargo of salt , & o ., wat wrecked ia this bay , opposite the Buckle Ian , and we muoh regret to state that two of the crew out of seven ( Swedes ) were drowaei' The bedy of one ef the unfortunate men was found en shore before daylight near the west field

      gun , bat the vital spark , was extinct . Bis name waa stated to be Nicholas Ifelsaa . The vessel Is » complete wrecVaud It Is expected the aexttld « wiU kBoe * neren * ireJyV to pieces . The coast guards exerted themselves , la saviog the lives of the crew , and the survivors ""had maehkindnessaad attention shown them at the above ian . The poor sailor who was found was interred in Seaford chnrobyard , on the following day , aad was followed to the grave by the strriving crew , whohadsoaarrowly escaped the . same tad fate . The remains of the otaer hnfortubsite man who was drowned had not bew discovered .

      Kaaaow Bscapx , - » We IcarceJy McolIeBt a btttsr lastance of presence of Bind , when that quality U decidedly required , than the fallowing : — A short time ago Mr Beddard , a person residiag at Brimfield ; near Ludlow aaddoiugacont'deraUe business as a higgler , was re ! turning hose in bis cartfrom Kidderminster . On the read , between Bewdley and Hewaham Bridge ; he met a women carrying a basket , who asked him for a ride . He consented , aad on tha woman ' s getting ; Into the cart he came ia contact with her hand , which immediately struck Mm as beiag too large aad hard fer a woman " * . Bis suspicions being thus aroasea . aadrecolisctlngtiie « ecarrene * of a robbery nuder ; similar clreamstanoM slsswherebehlt

      ( , npoathe following iegtalous atede of gttting quit of hie companion . Poshing off his hat at if by accldsat . Into tba road , he wished ftetonpoeed woman to get down and pick itop , « hu ma » waa rather sWrrish , and ha . was afraid to quit therein ! Tbe leaning woman eomplUa , bat u - soon aa she was out of the cut Mr Beddard . floggad hie horse Into a gallop , and gave her or him the go-by . ; About haif-a . mile onwards ho had again occasien to exercise all his self . pessessioa and . ingenuity . Two men came be , and demanded If he had teen a woman carrying a basket on the road f Be replied , Tee ; aboat a quarter ef a mile from this ; and as I passed she was getting np ' ihtoa centleman * agig . ' . Oa this the fellows tat on ? at a smart

      pace ; aud Mr Beddard continuing hit Jonrney arrived safely at home . On examining the basket left in the cart it was found to .. centaia a brace' of pistols and a large dasp-knife . Mr Beddard had about Ue person on that occasion upwards of £ 100 In nsoaey . Knxsxe ist a Lunnc Astlojc—On Monday , a jury assembled at the Town Hall , Derby , totavsetigate a serious ease , lathe presence of the mayor and visiting iutiess . The following are tbe particalan of the evl . denod : —About six months ago , a young man , aged it , veryresprcUbly eonneotod , was seatte tbe Btebystflata in a state , of great . imbecility of mind and phjsloal weskness . Be was not a violent loaatio , aadoonseqseafly was not secluded . Ha associated with other

      patientf , perambaiated the grounds , aad even on ' the afternoon of the day preceding the murder which cauied the InvesBgatlon , was asked by Mrs Brfgitoek , this wife of the pb | sician who bad cherge ' . of . the asylam , to wait wi * her , tat he refused . TjntUwlthlnthli . weekor ten . days past , a keeper eitpt ^ tbe-Mme'r « emr"but tines that' time the-keeper sltpt . with .. two : patisati inaaad ^ jeWBgepsj ^ nU . fandthe . yomig lonario . and a companion ' aemed , Tomlinson , ( whe was also considered harmless ) slept by themselves ,, ; Ths keeper « ir thea ia bed between seven aad eight , o'clock at sight and as usual , leaked the dojr . Abont six o ' clock 00 tBtffollowtog mwnJat , one of the patients , whose duty lt « , get ap and light the fires , went to tbe keepefe rdamfor 'light , whereepon ToaKmua ooBuaeaeti singing as

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      was « ueosM » with him every mo ? meg wtoa to heard ZS tttM ^ hha elag » m . littl . SSSsr » musamt arts , wis heard , ; WWcl }; caa . ed th . keeMrt » iwp « at of bed end « sh late thatoom . ^ waeaet sufficiently ^ Ught . to oVemlhes ^ te of things Sry mmately . but oa entering he saw the young lunatic Hngby bis bed-side , with nothing on but his . shirt , and his compaaloa Tb ^ lnsoa lying groantog upon S , fl or , T . state ofnuiltj . The = to * £ , M act was to ' push the young man dawn *> P » ^ ^ , and cover Mm over ; ' his second te fetch » "kJJ ^ J LsUtanco , and call Dr Brijstock . . On """^^ the : Tomliujpn bafl-teeathca Wsjw W . »• .- - - ^ -L' ^ ^

      room , : skuU was split , lower Jaw broken , aad several teeth knocked ont , and apool of blood lay upon the ^ or . On making farther search , a piece of thick wood / W " foand in a corner of tha room , which" was *^" '*?|^ blood : thU piece of woe * prov . d to be a !»* . * «*» from the bed ea which the murderer slept ; aad it is conjectured that the dsceaeed wes . la . the act of ohang . ing his shirt , when his companion sprang out of bed , and struck him several blows with the lath ; He denled the aot and would not believe that Tomlinson was dead . ' During the investigation the prisoner looked bewildered , and frequently mattered something la an Inaudible voice . He looked thin and emaciated . Ha was committed to the count ; gaol on a charge of wllfal

      marder , and now awaits bis trial Bdioiait aud McaBxa . —Several robberies have recently been committed in and near Credltoa , Devonshire , On Friday week , a farmer , named Wellington ; was routed in tho night by burglars , who , not content with stealing his meney , beat him Very severely on the head with bludgtons . On the following night the house of an aged woman , named Holman , at Taphouse , Tedbuty St Mary , wss broken Into ' and from the appearance of the premises next dey , it is supposed the made some resistance , for her body was found quite lifeless on her bed ; a chest of drawers and a chair being upon her , where they had apparently been placed to suffocate her . The murderers have not yst been discovered .

      AWmv Sioasr a » p Loss or Lira . — -The boat Monarch , of St Agnes , Cornwall , pat to sea at five p . m . on the 1 st .: employed on the herring fishery . The crew cosslsted ol four men , via ., James Front , ten ., aad James his soa , John Bfnnett , and — Bun * . At 7 . 50 this coast was visited with a severe shock of a hurricane , the wind veering feom S . W . to N . W ., when the beat swamped , and all hands found a watery grave , Front leaving a widow aad eight children , Bennett a widow and two children , Bunt a widow and one child . A few of the floating articles ef the boat have washed on abore , confirming tbe sad catastrophe .

      Teat or SntnoJB . —A few days ego one of thoie nol untrequeat creators of alarm In the streets , an overgoaded cow , escaped frem her drivers , and was plunglag madly alongj when a tall , handsome Hlghlaadsr , of the name of Maorea , a gamekeeper with Glenmorrlston , happened to pats . He at once threw himself before the enraged beast , teiz . d her by the horns , tumbled her , asd held her firmly pinioned there tilt the'drfvers came np , and effectually seenred her wlthTropel . This featol strength excited the astonishment of many an on-loeker . —Inverness Courier .

      Fatal Acccdest— . On Monday evening week a young woman , named Margaret Malcolm , residing in Castlehill , met her death la South Gray ' s Cloie , High Strut , in a very sudden and distressing manner . About twenty minutes past eight o ' clock she , with two companions , left the United Inanbtrlal School , about the middle of that close and bearing an ambrella , was proceeding up the close and passing an old and high building , when a large stone , loosened by the wind or heavy raia , fell oa her head , end earned immediate death , Fortunately both her companions eiosped , although a quantity of rubbish fell at the tame time , and shortly after several ether stones gave way , and some passers-by had a narrow escape . She was a monltress , and very much liked by her pupils and acquaintances , — Caledonian Jtsrckry

      LsoarasTM Euectiow . — Mr BsrWy ' s appointment to a colonial government has brought two candidates into the field—Blr Slward Buiwer Lytton , and Mr Feel , the second son of Sir Robert Feel . An active canvass will be immediately commenced by tbe friends of these gentlemen . ( Tcnotit or Vrtconsr MEisouam . — -The funeral ol the late Yiteonnt Melbourne took place on Friday after . noon , Dec ; 3 d , when the remains of the deceased were removed from Brocket Hall , near Welwyn , for interment in the family vault in Hatfield Church , Yiicount MelbottMS ( Lard Beaavale } nas prevented by the state of his health from assisting at the obsequies of his departed brother . Viscount Falmerstoo , Lord De Mauley , Lord Ashley , Earl Cowper , the Bight Hon . Edward Elliee , and

      the other relatives and personal friends of the late viscount , were present at the ceremony . Ahothkx Atxeufi at Mcxdek at CAaoirr . —On Tuesday week last the town of Cardiff was again the seene of another diabolical attempt at murder . The victim on this oocaeioa was an Irish girl , It appears that she had been fetching sand down by the wharves , and whilst returning with It about three o ' clock , p . m ., some one suddenly pounced upon her from behind and stabbed her under . the right arm with some sharp instrument , probably a knife . It entered about two inches and a half deep , but , fortunately , by coming in conttot with one of her ribs , it was prevented from penetrating

      farther . The poor girl was immmedlately taken to the infirmary , where her wound was dressed , and we are glad to find that she Is considered sot of danger . No cine has been had oftbe villain who inflicted the wound , although several parties have been taken upon suspicion . A Carts SH 0 T .--0 n Saturday last , as a child belong . Ing to John Shaw , of Hoyle Mill , Barasley , was playing with Its father's coat , which he bad jsst taksn off , a loaded pistol which was In one of the pockets , went off , Tbe ball entered the ; child ' s hip , and came out in the front cf the thigh , very fortunately missing the vital parts . The child if likely , to recover . Shaw is In tbe habit of carrying a loaded pistol about him fer the protection of his person .

      A Wokaw KiiLin ur A Sum . —On Sunday week , at a poor woman named Hannah Dawson , ofMethley , aged elghty-elghtyesrsj was going across a field in tbe occupation of Mr Ferrer , of the Rose and Crown Inn , at that place , the was attacked by a tup Iamb , and to much injured that she died oh the following Tdeidi-y , . Iaiss iHroDMci .--A . few days since an Irish woman , with two or three children , applied for relief at the Hall workhouse , and after her caie had beta inquired into , a loaf of bread was handed to the . eldest child . The mother Immediately turned round' to the ' child , gave lt agoodthraihln ' g , and ! then threw the loaf into the street , declariag she would have something better or no . ttlsgatall .

      CarxD BoFfocATio .- —On Tuesday week , an Inqneit was held at Tnrvey , under the . following singular circumstances ; — It appeared from the evidence that a man , named George Law , . on retiring to bed , on Saturday evening , pat the embers of a wood fire in a kettle , and placed it on the floor of the . bed room In which he , with bis wife and youngest child , between two er three years of age , slept . Two other children slept la tbe adjoining room ; the door / between the two rooms was left opea , but the oae at the top of the staircase was par . Hally closed . There Is no chlnhey in either apartment . Whea Law awoke oa the following : day he felt stuplfiad , and could hardly stand Us wife , who experienced .. a similar sensation ,, told blm that the cbild WSJ dead . There was no smoke ia the . room , but neither of thsm could see clearly . He saw a neighbour passing , whom

      he called In , and , to hie surprise , found It was three in the afternoon . — EHxa Cotton , the person alluded to , said she found the inmates of the cottage in a v « ry strange state ; the man appeared ia a mise , aad seemed net to knew what he was aboat , Mr Godfrey was Imi mediately celled In , and stated he foand' the mother In bed with the dead child . Two children were in aa ad : joining room ; one of them was in a state of approsohluf death . Taking . appearaacss Into account , and . the evU ience he had heard , he wis of opinion that the death ; of the deceased arose from suffocation , by the Inhalation of the fumes of charcoal . In answer to the Coroner , it wat slated that the house inhabited by Law , and tbe adjoin . Ing oflH , had been recently erected , and the occupants have been In the habit of patting embers In pots to warm the rooms . Thejury returned a verdict according to the above facta .

      OwniK . —AcciDJHrx to ths JfAit OAir . ^ On Saturday morning abont seven o ' clock , aa accident hap . pened to ths mall cart 'from Manchester , when passing through " the market places Thebntehera w « re : remov Ing their standings ecrosf the street to prepare for the business of the day , and the . nolle occasioned by the wheels running over . the stones frightened the horse , so that it commenced i kicking , and plunging violently ; Tbl splashboard of ths cut was teen dashed in pieces , the driver was violently thrown ont , aad the wheel puied ever him . Ha was taken np almost senseless aad carried into Mr Dodge ' s printer , where his leg and ' side were fomented , aad he remained until bit brother waa fetched from Manchester . The begs and parcels were forwarded to Saddieiiorthbyaeoiveyance > * 6 vided

      p yMr Backltj without d » Uy . Although still sofferint from the accident , the driver is not urloatly-lojated . F « ACE Paotii . ioKi , but Wi » PiAOnOiv-At gear , boroagh , last wuh , Mr William Beeni Crawford , worklag Jeweller , was brought np In custody , charged with having thrown a stone at the head of a recruiting ser geeat of the 5 th Battalioa of ArtUl » ry , aBd thereto inflicted a serieot wound ; It appears that the Pesos Sooievf bad posted the Iowa wlto ' piaeards , cautioning yonng men net to enlist , and coinmentlbg geaeraliv upon the character of our military establishment ; aBa a mas wis likewise employed to pirsde tbe town with with tMs

      a board , placard posted upen it . The ser . gieaat , thtekjng tfeete placird , mfgnt pr , T , nt him ob . teiatag tecreita « a *« fait day , eonsnited the major on the eae ' ect , and ceacfadlng , from whattook place at this latarfiew , that he wal justified In' removing ^ the pla " cards , reWaestod the aaan carrying the boardW destst expotlngthem , which be refuted to do .. The se ^ eant then attempted topaU ^ own the obaox lCMpUoar d . end while < Wog so , the ' prisoner Crawford , who was in the crowd babied the itrgeant , ; took np a stoo < aad hurled It at his hea # . A private , wKo" % bb atari *« . ** tiie prf . toner into custody to the Town Hall , where tho taegis . trates were sitting , The msglstrates , thinking the of .

      feneo tooserfoos to be disposed « f sommarlly , bound me prisoner over ' to appear a | the seiilons to answer an » charge that meybethenpreferred against hlm , - ^ HsU . faavntipar ,. "' - ^^ -- . ¦¦ ¦ - ¦^ - - ¦ ' '' ; ¦ - ' ¦ " - <¦ - ¦ - ' ¦ . !!¦ : < ,. ¦ :, DxixvrioN or rax MAit , ^ -Fioo » on tBt RtltWAT . ^ . The mail frem the South has been delayed la ooneeqataceof the floods , which have carried away two

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      bridges , one near ; Leamington , theother near 6 mwlb . ro * , besides aeulyfiUug np ' one ol the ^ cotttnie on the line of the deleloniaa Bsilway wl ^ i tht arthewept on the line by tke floods , . The country all aronndjs . nndsr water . Thei railway companyhne made prompt , . vfaagameate . foreiearlagthoUoejand keeping o ' pen . tije i . courie for Bussngers . iso . thst the dstentlba for the present wIU nbtbegfeaiend ' ltWybeaxpeoted . to be , altogether removed in a day or two , , _ Da CHAKMBfl . —The reported death of Dr [ Chowbers , as stated ia the Lahcss of < Sa'urday last , Ik contradicted . ' . •¦ , vi > ¦ .-.-. : ¦' • ¦ ' - ' , ¦ ¦' ^^^

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      Th * Bbai 'RBvoi ' -Jirok . —The ' Cork GbwMperident of the Daiw News giver tbe , following ; graphto account of the effeotiof landloraism , upon the . 'landlords themselves . ! If such is the' state of things in a county ' which wall one of the most proaperpus in Ireland ; the condition of otheri not . to favoured , may beconjecfared :- « , , . r . . ' .. " . ' "" . The' social revolution , ' ' which has so . long been foretold , is now tety Visible in thW country , and the signs of its progrees banno longer be mistaken . The embarrassmenta of tha gentry in ' tlua ^ great co ' nat *'—< tte Yorkshire of Ireland ' -not only exceed anything recollected , but' even go beyond the gloomy anticipationflof the most for ^ bckJinggfthaic order . The p ««

      ouniary diffidulties of several families in ; this county , who were supposed to be ' out of the reach of all financial casualties ; 'aVe no longer matters of secret , but are o penly discussed in every social , circle .. Every district presents its spectacle of rained families , and the patrician class of this unhappy island is now in its torn suffering with the pieli-an clauee the dire scourge of the potato rot . Tour Dublin correipon * dent rebeBtly informed you that it was calculated that Ireland has lost forty-three millibni , in coosequence of the famine years , and you can easily suppese what destruction of . classes ; must have taken place amongst ns . I will specify ' a few instances , of this county , which will show you the mingled operation of the potato rot and the poor layw . '"'' :, ., ' ,.

      'One gentleman in this county , TepieaenUng cue oi the eldest families , had . a well-paid rental half-adozen years age of ; eleven thousand a-year . The property owed a hundred thouiihd peuads . ; ,, Whatever rents he has received within the last two years have not paid the demands on him for interest money . He has'been compelled to eject several defaulting tenants , and many others have stealthily emigrated to America , leaving fatma untilled , and no chattelsou the lands . ,-, He has now no less than four thousand acres of his patrimonial estates untenanted and . idle , and the difficulty of procuring selvent tenants is jnst as great as getting reoiat all . ... An . urgent

      demand has been made on him by one of hia principal creditors for twenty-five thousand pounds , and the incumbrance must be discharged immediately , or ; due legal remedies be taken . Ptior to the famine this great laudlord ' waB most solioitouBlfor a change of the law of real property . Bis wish has beon fulfilled by the * Incumbered Estates Bill * He wishes to aell land to the amount of fourthotuaad pounds a year , with the beat titles , but in , the present state of the money market he cannot find a buyer to give twentyfive per cent , of the value . What Engu ' shmau will invest iu Ireland ; and where is there a monied class here to give value for the property of our ruined gentry ?

      • Mark the pontoon of the landlord alluded to here , fie owes a hundred thousand'pounds ; be receives only a rnowty of his rents , and a viaiiportiouofh / f estate is idle . He has reduced hia establishment to the hweat figure , his expenditure not exceeding thatof a gentleman farmer . V ' A few days aince there was asheriffs tale at the demesne residence of one of the grand jurors of this county . The execution waa put in for the small sum of £ 200 . So little means was there of staving off the claim , that things wen let sell for about a quarter of the value . Thus , turnips worth £ 18 an acre were actually sold for £ 57 ' And this it one of the most curious peculiarities of the crisis . Sales

      of any kind in this country are now attended with vast laerifioee ., Thus , a few weeks ago there was another sheriffs sale at the splendid park of one of the first grand jurors of this county . A variety of valuable property was put up to auction . But the want of money in all classes prevented any competition . The carriage which had been used not long since during its owner ' s year of the high shrievalty , fetched twenty-five pounds , and a pair of tolerable carriage borses sold for fourteen pounds ! The state bed of the grand bedchamber , with carviaes . hangings ,, and all appurtenances , sold for fifty sftii ' tnee /

      'Another grand juror , who used to drive four-inhand , is now ' a Sunday man . ' Audio one district of this county there is a cluster of country seats of which the owners are remarkable for their rapidly acquired sedentary habits . Gentlemen who were noted for their activity' in field sports have become suddenly fond ef the fireside , ana instead of' tallying ho * Matter Reynard , they have become tarryat-home in their ways of life . Sir Bulwer Lytton makes a spendthrift exclaim in one of his novels , ' Ah ! It is really deuetd fashionable to be deep in debt , because it shows that a man once upon a time had credit . ' And by this text our Irish gentry were never so 'deuced fashionable' as they are now .

      Another , sheriff ' s sale is every day expected at the residence of a landlord who had £ f , 000 per annum of rent roll . Right and left the gentry are cracking beneath the poor-law like sheet-ice in a thaw . -Of the stringency of the poor-law , and of the vigour with whioh it aot ? , I will cite an example . One of the embarrassed landlords I have alluded to above , was asked during the famine last year to give a subscription to the local fund of his district for the Kdor relief . He sen * £ 25 . In this year £ 600 , will arely pay his poor : rates ! A titled neighbour of the same gentleman sent twenty pounds te the same relief fund , and for his property located in that particular union the noble lord wiU pay this year upwards of four hundred pounds . '

      Mhe quantity of land out of employment , and the extreme difficulty of selling estates , at present conetHute the peculiar and argent difficulty of this timet Until there be javre social confidence in the state of the country , land cannot fetch its value , and holders will naturally defer its sale . Estates that formerly might have been sold at twenty-five years' purchase ( if worth thirty shillings an acre ) are now , with the pressure of poor-rate , and the low prices of produce , not worth more than fifteen years' purchase . Yon ' caneasilyimagine from this facs what a state cl things we are inhere . Toe simple fact is , that since the property ef the country changed its proprietorship at the period when James II . was defeated , there has not been in Ireland such a social . * revolution n

      u being effected now . ' . Four times the property ol Ireland changed hands in the seventeenth ceatury , according to the- calculation of Lord Clare , in his famous union sptejb , ' In what hands the -. property of the fallen gentry will now go it is' very hard : to say . One would wish ,, as Sir . James Graham did last session , that more of the catholic capital of Ireland was attached to the soil . . But the catholic eapitilista have themselves Buffered heavily along with every other class , and under present circumstances they , are not likely , to emtarfc good money in buying land , when excellent wheat fetches only

      twenty-two shillings a bag in Cork market . It is not alone . the ' gentry who have suffered . The trading classes ia all the | towns . have been heavily mulcted . Ten years ago the tanning trade of Cork was & most lucrative and thrWingbraneh of manufacture . It has now become a ruinous business . " The sale of leather for the lower classes was almost stopped during these latter times of distress , aad the English dealers have succeeded in besting out the Irish tanners even from bur own markets . Within the last twoyeari some of the eminent catholic capitalists of this city have found that for losing a fortune rapidly' there is nothing like 1 leather . " - ¦

      O 0 MPITI 0 H or thb oouaTar . > ' There is no symptom of Improvement In the , Irish social horizon , which is dally , If not hourly , becoming morebsiy as the ' erisis approaches / Iadesd , if entire . credence is to be given to a provincial southern paper , ( the IiinaiCK ' ExiiiiaiB , ) the briry visible ' sign of •' clesroace'is to be found in a system of wholesale extermination of tenantry . ' which ; . is at [ presentravaging certain districts in the ' counties of LlmetlcV , CU « e . and Kerry ; : In the last numbsr ef that journal . there , is a catalogue ef misery whieh , if bnt the one half be true , shows a state of demoralisation without parallel In any cbantry ' professlng to be governed by the laws of civlllsst tibn . the record extends over' two aolumns of close print , but a few extracts , taken olmoit at random , will

      ierreu samples of the . whole . Thus , . a letter from Inagh , ia the count ; of Clare , tells of tbirty . five houses Uvelled , and the occupants , 'amounting to . 200 souls , sent houielMs upon , the world . In Jtilkee some thirty or forty persons ' shared a similar fate , Ia Scsr-fleight hohses have beea levelled , and two others doomed to a similar precess . . InCreoin ' several families , have been dispossessed , and ftosa Tarbert . tt issald that the better class ef formers have rellnqalshed their holdings sad emlgrslted ' . vfllh their families to America , In Bathkesle It Is Stated thsf , at the last meeting or the union board of caatdiaos , ' , Upwards ef 909 emaciated beings crowded roond . the if orkhodie , " uttering the most piteous lamentations on faelr hopeless condition- " The majority ef them came from tha remotest electoral divisions of the unfon , —some ' from Qlynn , many from beyond Groom , and hot a few frbmSbanagoidenv They could hot ob- '

      tain admistloB Into tbe workhouse ; owing to a want of accemmbdatioa , and'weTe obltged ^ tOL ratraee their steps *«<*> " * * if wretched homes ,, to fllvedod . kuowi how ; , Oa a recent bo » rd . day ,, » oaie . ? Wor 800 ; were also nnaWe to , ' obtain' admisSl 6 i > . ' T , hp . ' flood ., of pauptriem is'increasing ni ^ re arid inbre rapidly every . ' da }!; butwe hope the gu & rdiatti , in w ' tpte ' humanity ^ wlllendeavbar , to ' mai < barra ^ gom foon 8 g praotlceble to ' save the- fives of'th ' ejr fello ' w .. creata > eiV who ' thi'bag to ; them for pfbteptlohand assistance . " They ar « : the ; i > ply ( and the Ia »« reeonree of ijfef ' r unfortunate ' teU low . b ^ g » J , andnpon : th > m \ wm : de ^ nd , fc ajeapi » g « omthe ^ snofi 4 eath , * - The condition of a portion of the county of Keny Is thai deserted ; -- 'I am told that scenes of mlssry aot to be amife * : *** » Sssbkrwn , or Ska }' , lu ttudt . la

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      ; Seat » , or Wlrash , contdtt wttassssdii IhU mdmaht la iaaay aspot asar the town ' of Dltgli . \ Thereis ^ ibme amploymtat . ' Mr Oanway'HIeksoa Is engaged pretty exteasivelyindrainsgsopsratleaf . Mr John HloksoB , of the 6 rove ,. affords considerable w ' erS ; Mt Hussy . too , aad the Rev ; Mr'Tbwniehd cohtrlbnts their qaeU to employment ; . but on , a breadth ef'ttiritoiy ef about eight or nine miles In bircumfereaoe , 'the whole of which aoknowledgeslisrfl Ventry as its master , little or nothing , nay , I alight say , literally nothing , in this Wey'flf drainage , or any other work , Is doing . The lands for a great partarS waste ; and of the . tenants located upeu . them many who have tbe meiins are . anticipating the ftaS ^ r ^ r , audmaklng ' thelr way' to OiSjlt' and Liverpool for Am « - rioa , while the Inability to cultivate under which others laboar is not ' diminished by assistance In tbe shape of seed or any ether form that I kaow of . Whole villages , ^ MM ! iWi ' iu ^

      such as the two named Bsllymere and Gloonties , have been depopulated—nOt ^ however , by voluntary abandonment—the houses levelled ' to' the ground , the roofs burned , aad the wretched people forced to flock Into the town , the ' tenements in which are filled to overflowing by the evicted and destitute . If a man who saw Dingle fifteen years sinoe beheld . lt now , I will not write what I think he would or should say—but If a man of ooromon humanity beheld it , deeply would ha execrate the system by whioh changes so lamsntable and so ruinous have been wrought in ' the state of Its society . Many are the respectable and hospitable families who bare been reduced to ; penury and beggary ; and countless are the once contented occupiers " who are now la misery and want , cooped up In the town , or cramming thepooraouso and lying a dead weight en the ' resources of the union , badly able as It Is to bear them . ' . ,

      Meantime ; the LTmsrlof paper observes , the most xe > msrkable fettnrei ot . trade at present are the exports , tlons of people and food : — ' There are at present in this port seven vessels'actually shipping corn to remove it from eur shores , end ten vessels preparing to take away passengers , besides a great number who take shipping at Liverpool . Groups may bo seen flocking In every day from the country , with thslr little articles of property packed UP for th ^ raUway conveyance . ' If reoommended not to go now' th tha depth of winter , but remain until spring , they s ' sy they wbnld not have the means then to pay tor' their passage ; sod tbsV as there is no chance ol life at home they may as well run the risk of the pssiage to America . '

      FaoaiEtsor DBroPctAxioa . —In a townland ia the Immediate neighbourhood of Borrlsokane , where twenty , five families lived ia comfortable circumstances , nine cf those families emigrated yrltblu the last few months , ' and four ef th ' ettt died , leaving twelve on the townland , some of whom are In ' the abit Indigent circumstances , desl . sous of leaving the country If they , could , The village otBallymaekeyhas become a'heap of the most squalid pauperism , whilst it dees not contain due fourth of the once oeaparatirely happy cottiers by whom it was ia . habited , death having made sad havoc among thsm . Of Toomevara the same may be skid In a great measure ; . and in nearly all the rural chspels on Sundays it is obierred that the congregations are thin , scanty , and ragged , ' not numbering half what they were a few years ago / "' ' ''

      Stats er CaisrB .-iThe provincial journals supply further lamentable evidences of the Increase of crime In various parts of the country . The Angio-Cut has the following from Oavaa ^ where ' the magistrates recently ' asiembled and called upon the government for stringent measures ef repression :, " ' ' AriEBrT . At Unapia ik ih « OocHir Cava * . —We have to record another attempt of this description , whioh proved all hut successful , on a farmer named Robert Pliher , who resUes at place ca « ed Kiilicunny , within three miles ef Mullsgb ' . On Frldaj evening hat , ahoat the hour of eight o ' clock , Fisher wm fired at on the public road , from some rained walls , withla seventy perches of his own house , as he was returning from Mr Kea « ng * # , of Sylvan Park / The shot took effect ^ woaoding him very severely on the right hip and left ana .

      There are good hopes entertained , however , of his re . covery . Tie assassin must have been very convenient , as Ihe wadding of the piece was found at the very spot where Fisher had been standing w . ben he received the fire , Fisher is an honest , industrious man , and la the habit of employing a great nnmber of labourers . He has beea on the bait terms with ait his neighbours , aad was aot engaged In a dispute of any kind , eonscqntntly no motive can be assigned for . this daring outrage . The guilty party escaped , it , Is supposed , into ths county Heath , which adjoins Caraa near that place , as the police tracked the footstep ' s of two men in that direction . A reward has been offered under the direction of Master Breoke , fer the prosecution of the rumsns concerned In tbe attack on I / one , the bailiff on the Blackwood property in this county .

      Bubouoai , Atxmux at AsBAStiHAiioH . —On Sunday evening last a young woman , the wife of a respectable elderly farmer , named Walsh , residing at Cranagb , within three miles ; of Athlone , Roscommon side , was fired at when abont retiring to bed , and it is feartd mertslly wounded , several slugs having been lodged in her hip and back . The circumstances whioh led to this melancholy taaneacrion an , aa near as can be guessed at , as follows - —It appears the unfortunate woman lived for some few years as servant to Walsh , to whom she subsequently got married ; this created an ill . feeling in ihe mind of Faith ' s son , by a former wife , though a married man , and separated from his father . The wife of the elder Walsh was farjadvanoed hi pregnancy , and it is supposed the object of the assassin was to put her ont of the way , lest the property should devolve to her Issue . Walsh ' s eldest son has been arrested on suspicion . Up to this date she still lives , although inthe most excruciating agony , Walsh's family are very r » . spectacle . —Westmeath Guardian .

      Abbeix or A Hdbduib and bis Habboobebs . — Oa the 22 ad nit ,, Oonstable . Devally and thsMnlllnavat police party succeeded , after a lengthened search , ia approbending at Maaswell ' s Court , a man named Joseph Eearns , en a charge of having murdered a person named Whelan at Mooneoin . last August , and also a young man named Gaul , charged with the tommlsslon ot a murderous assault . These prisoners have been committed to the county gaol , together with James and John Holden , the men in whose home they were found concealed . The latter persons were taken into custody for harbouring felons , and this should be a warning to the farmers of our county to exclude all offenders from aid or shelter!—Mlcinny Moderator .

      Thi ItlMsTsa Sxpasss has the fallowing account of the arrest of another murderer fix Tlppar ' ary : — 'John Coonan , charged by the verdict of a coroner ' s jury ! with being one of the murderers of Michael Smith , ' at Bellybropby has biea at length arrested . Since the perpotratlon of this fonl deed , for wbloh one man was executed , Coonan contrived to baffle the vlgllanse of the police , until last Saturday night , when he w & s arrested under the following circumstances ;—On last Saturday night , as Constable S , P . Jackson and party were in search of stolen mutton , at Cullshlll , in the county Tlpperary , tbe reflection of a twlakllBglightj eta place atwhioh he considered there was a habitation , attracted hli attentien . Having approached it noiselessly , hei found the light to proceed from a wretched hovel , Ut apart from human habitation , and there to his great loy he fbondCobnan , who had with blm his outfit for America , for whioh lend he was to start the ensuing morning . '

      • -.. KeicBKA , Not . SO . —As Thomas Lyster , Esq ., manager to Hamilton Lyttsr , En ., was tetat & lng ( torn , the Tlppersryr Joint-stock Bank of this town , to Mlllpark Mills , he was attacked on the highway ( within 120 yards of the spot where the servant men of ihe Messrs Bo * d was robbed abont seven weeks ego ) by two armed men ; and robbed of £ 80 sterling in half notes . Pooa La wBiriflBAnoir . —The Poor Isw Commissioners have sanctioned a meeting ef the rate-payers In the Davidstown electoral division of the Alby Union , . for tho purpose of making a rate for pauper migration , . LiBgRAT « m or PoMTiCAii Paigoms . —After antmprlsonmehtatfqar months , Mr Mahonywss'dlwharged by order of the Ljrds Justices on iWedassday . Prevtoustohls release a special report on . . the State of bis health was submitted to the government by the medleal officer of the prison . Messrs iiawleis and Burke were liberated on the same day . Dr M'Csrron ^ brether . ln-law to Mr Charles Gavi n Daffy , is one of the liberated prisoners aoonsed of

      treasonous practices . : J '' » a Bern's BAaxaiJi'rer . 8 c « aei » ii > , —Tbe attempt to make Mr Duffy svbankrapt has signally failed . The claim whioh Mr Daffy dttpntti has been withdrawn , ' and 'the commission ol banhrnptcy superseded , at the ' cost of the person on whose affldavlt It was itteta . ' Mr Daffy is aow the only political prisoner in Kewgate . Mr Dnnne , was reelected Lord Mayor of Dublin on Friday for ths rsmalnlng pertion of the present ysir , He wasBOlcppeseoi | , ; The corporation of Kilkenny have elected Dr Cane as mayor cf that city for the ensuing year ; The doctor had just been released frpm ' prisea , where he was confined undsrthe Habeas Corpus Busptaslbn Act . " ''

      BKiBBKcaHtMT , —Cossldsrable moaifioatieas , of the public establishments have bteuj for some , time under eoatsmplatiOB ; and amongst others to whioh the besom Is to be . applied U the Irish Poet Offioe , with a View of Improving , not Impairing , the working of that important department . ; At present there U a most unjust dlstelbatlon of labour , with an Inverse , 'ratie of oompsniation , allotted to ttie cletke of the several offices ; for , while the persons employed In the inland and sorting departments are well nigh harassed out ef existence by a neverending round of doty , ehieflj ontng to aa Insufficiency of hands , the more for tunatofebtlsmiii ' upstairs , ' whe luckily held situations in the Becratary ' i , A ' ceouutant-General ' s , ' and Deal-lstUr offices , not to speak of the Bumerbaelrlb ' e engaged in ' the survey , ' enjoy , by comparison , ' a ' psrfeetsliMborsr To correct this anomaly , by thinning the ranks , heads aad subordinates , of the class auuded to

      aoove , is tke ohject of the tenuity now peadlngi The office of Paymaster of the Civil Service , at the head of which was the Right Hon . T . ' F .. Kennedy , has ' beeii ¦ ooiisied . . several , 6 r thejsubor ^ ln ^ tes ^ lso . bave been retired , and the business will b » done under the Tressurv , to 5 clerk p ^ tro iu < . haCaWie , , Sir James Dombrala has proceeded to Bogleod , aad the depattment , of whioh ***«*}** i heed ^ the Irish C iast iJnard , service-will be transferred to loBdon . also .. Tie , offlbii of WSh Seorefaryto the Post-ofiioe . will exUt , aoaere , Mr ; 6 oabv l ^^ ^ . ' ^^^ % » w ^• ' ; ' ^^ M'o 1 f . tliJ Money Order-offiee will als 6 ; be . aia / ens » d with , The Board Of Works . hae ^ heeia-weededl li-a . very . great ^ toat , and on Monday the wMt . ^ tbiemplogu-tbtte , wUh two or three ettepulene , were dtspeuea with ! The permaseat staff , «* d { , w or three partiss whose Mrvkes are valuable k van ' w dspusmtats , alone RBMla ,

      To The Democrats Op London. ['' Gentibme...

      TO THE DEMOCRATS OP LONDON . ['' GENtiBMEN . —As one who has for some years past filled a place in the ranks of Metropolitan De . mocracy , and has taken a deep interest in the fate of the British liberty movement , I presume to address to you , through the medium oftbe People ' s Organ , a few observations upon topics ! bearing peculiarly , at the present juncture , upon the success ' of our cause . ; In the Star at Saturday last , appears the plan of TO THE DEMOCRATS OP LONDON .

      National Organisation as revised by tbe Executive . The principles , according id the vote of the Bir . mingbam delegates , is . that of the old plan . There are , however , some slight modifications of details , which upon investigation , will , I think , be found to be improvements . The pWn . is complete in all its parts , and is now submitted to the democrats of Great Britain , for the ratification of their sanction ; It has been placed fairly before the friends of human progression—the votaries of glorious freedom , and it now remains to be seen , whether it is to be

      a dead letter , a mere caput mortuum , or a lvNing active , energetic reality , instinct with every essential for the accomplishment of its holy aim . There is a trite aphorism , to the effect that ' Hope deferred maketh the heart sick ; so , with equal truth , may it be said , that frequency of disappointment chills popular eutbus asm , and damps the ardour of exertion for freedom . That the fervency of popular feeling has sustained a check , no

      oneconversant with the calamitous events of the past three or four months can deny . But , thank God it is not extinguished : no , no , the malignity of tyrants , and the machinations of spies—worthy allies—have done much to check the fire of patriotism , but a spark still exists and may with care be kindled into a 'bright flame , from which the li g ht of liberty may radiate to the remotest regions of the globe . Be this the mission of the National Charter Association .

      Tbe plan of Organisation promulgated by the Executive , is well calculated to render powerful th & Chartists of Great Britain . But it must betaken up with zeal , spirit , and resolution . It must be espoused by men with hearts in their breasts , and ; minds in their beads ;; men whom reverses will not retard , nor misfortune make melancholy ; by men who , seeing liberty in . the distance ,, are resolved to surrender only with their lives in their efforts to > reach the Heaven-bora boon ; by men prepared to brave the' oppressor ' s wrong , and the proud man ' s

      contumely y let the staff of our National Charter Association be composed of such sterling materials as these , and the days of Whig and Tory ascendancy may be numbered . -We have , I believe , upon record , the opinion of a Judge , to the effect that tie con « stitution of the Association is legal ; its object we feel to be just , its means constitutional . It setsalike at defiance , the infernal machinations oftbe odious spy aud the legal fineness of his dexterousmaster , tbe Attorney-General . Hence the most scrupulous politician may , with perfect safety , regis * ter his nameupon the roll of the Association .

      Men of London , it behoves you , as denizens of the British metropolis , ' to take the initiative in the work of organisation . It behoves you to lead the van of the movement , to set a noble exemplar , and thus give a tone and a tendency to tbe proceedings of your brethren throughout tbe empire . Your activity or supineness can almost determine the successor failure of political movements- A grave responsibility , then , re ' st upon your shoulders . A manly and patriotic procedure , on your parts , at this juncture , may prove the precursor of your country ' s rescue from oligarchic thraldom ; whereas , a degrading and passive subserviency will embolden your masters to make further detachments from the small modicum of freedom you now possess .

      I humbly presume to tell you , that among the nations of Europe hone owe their country duties more sacred than you . Your country writhes and pinesunder the onerous impositions of political fraud and religious intolerance—she wails under the conjointdominion of landlords and fundlords—and she appeals to the patriotism of her sons to extricate her from her perils . We have at our command the means of doing so , and if we do not respond to her call by a prompt award of the required succour , weevince a degeneracy of nature , which places us among the lowest on the scale of European nations . Men of London , your immediate step should be to ' rally round the old banner in your respective

      localities , and thus strengthen the breath of life in the new Organisation . Begin at once the work of reforming and re-organising . Whatever defects your experience bas proved to exist in the old mode of agitating , let them be at once remedied . The writer of these remarks knows " veil the metropolitan system of agitation . He has , for the last six years , sustained his part in it , and his experience constrains him to say that it needs reformation . Let each Democrat ask himself , . what is the purpose of agitation ? And he will find his common sense answering , that it- is to display the justice of a cause , to add to its adherents , to combat opposition , to dispel prejudice , and thus to foster and

      strengthen public opinion , until that tribunal fiats the triumph of the cause contended for . Now ,, many of our places of meeting appear to me illadapted to attain any of these ends . I consider that taverns are not the proper arenas for the inculcation of the principles of citizenship . They are not the most seemly seminaries to ' school the people into a knowledge of the sublime principles of human progression ... Their . murky atmosphere ' is not the best meiium through which to discover the light of truth . Neither are appeals , emanating ;

      from such forums ' , " likely to bare much weight with those tb whom they are addressed . We should immediately redeem our public character from the imputation of being pot-house politicians . With that stigma resting upon us , our efforts to imbue the public mind Of this metropolis with the justice and necessity of the Charter will prove comparatively abortive . Let no . man read this as the language of reproach or reproof . It is neither . It is the sincere dictate of conviction , founded on experiences and thus made public to benefit the movement .

      How is this defect in our mode of agitation to be remedied ? Some of you are now diligently engaged in the solving of this problem , ' while I believe all are more or less convinced of the course to be pursued to that end . If you would elevate and render acceptable the cause of Democracy ; you . must , advocate it in halls uncontaminated with fumes of inebriation . In such places it may be upheld in a manner accordant with its greatness ; it may be maintained with fervency and a dignity

      commanding at once admiration and respect . It is pleasing to learn that a little temple , dedicated to Democracy , bas just been opened in Commeicial Road East , and that several of your localities are engaged iu creating the necessary funds to securerespectable places of meeting . To your halls , then , Chartists of London ! furnish them with libraries ; attach to them reading « reoms ; and thus rendu * them so many central luminaries dispelling the gloom of ignorance from society .

      Another topic demands your attention . The press as an engine of agitation , bas never yet by our party been brought fully into play : We should as far as possible bring its mighty power to bear upon the apathy of the masses . ' The Northern Star 'has ,. by exhitihg Democracy in its purity and sublimity ,, removed the film from the eyes of thousands' ' of sceptic ? , Still there are myriads of the community , who recognise Democracy only in the hideousneasand distortion , in which it is paraded by its enemies .

      As an antidote to this poison of misrepresentation , I know of nothing more effective than ably written tracts , explanatory of our principles ' and those reforms we seek to effect through them . I would have these tracts circulated upon tbe plan of the religious societies , This I think would be found an efficient mode of diffusing our ! principles and augmenting the aumber of the Association—two objects to attain , ' which must be near and dear to the heart of every good Chartist- Let every patriot ,, then , hasten to one or other of our centres of

      Democracy , and there enrol his name under the new Organisation ' . Let him cast his mite into the treasury , to enable the ' Etecutive to start vigorously with the . hely work of national regeneration . . Take heed that the efforts of the Executive are not paralysed tor want ot means , as the neglect of the people , bas hitherto furnished the ' erieiny with a very plausible-pretext for the retention of their rights , hamely-i-tkat their indifference proves that they care little ' whether jhej be slaves or Jreemen ? and , therefore , that they are unfit for the elevation .

      , from ; serfdom 'for ; which their friebds' ^ ontend ; Cease , ' men of toridonVto afford' grdiindVfbr thisstinging ; reproach . Show the worldthaiyburappreciation of . your political . rights , ' !* as ' high , correct ,, and sensitive as that of any other ; " class in the Empire ; u Let thenext Star herald forth * the resolve of many metropolitan meetings , to re ^ cbtf rnerie ' e the winter campaign against the-pdwers bfceri-uption with renewed spirit , and much will be ' 'dbrietb 1 nfu $ new life into the Democracy ot Great Britain . _ , Jfnitjs . London , December 5 th , 184 < L

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 9, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09121848/page/6/