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      The Irish Miller , —If Lyre are to be made to grind the faces of the poor , we don't see why thu miller should not grind those who execute the laws ; at all events , we give the following attempt at the practice : — In our last ws mentioned the search for unregistered arms on the premises of William Bucsly , the miller , at Ballycloughduff . anawe have been furnished with the following particulars byaneye-witucss : —Sub-inspector Fallon having got information that liuckly bad a quantity of arms concealed in his nri'J- provided himself with a warrant and nrocecded to Hujte , ordered head constable Green to turn out a certain number of the constabulary under his command , and marched at their head toBallycloughdaSj where , dispersing the men , so that no one could escape , he proceeded to Bucklv ' s house , and

      showing him ths warrant , asked hi ; u to give up the double-barrelled guu and . the other arms mentioned in the warrant . Buckly replied if the police were drawn off he would surrender them . This Mr . Fall iu refused todi . aud on finding that the liead-coastable and four police were on the water-wheel searching it , be cried out to his sm to lift the sluice aud drown them all . This young rascal proceeded to do so , aud was in the very act of effecting it , when oae of the police ( sub-countable Ftfsmell ) sprang forward , and , placliu ; nis carbine at his breast , swore he would drive the contents of it through him if he did not desist . Had this diabolical attempt succeeded , it would have caused the deaths of head-constable Green and four nun with him oa the wheel , where tbe arms were idund .

      What ' s sacee for the . Goose is sausb fob THE GaSDES . —TfiE XATiOS" ASD IUE AlTOUssr-GE . vEatL . —The Saiioa saw no reason wh y Patrick O'lliggius should not bo served up to the O'ComicU repast with seditviu sauee , but now that the Sation is served up with the same sauce to the Attorney-Generars tabk , there is tremendous howling . It appears that Jonathan Henn , the very ablest advocate at the Irish bar , was retained by the Crown for the prosecution of Mr . Duffy before the informations were sworn , aud upon Air . Daffy applying to retain Mr . Ilcnn , that gentleman announced the fact that he had h . en already retained by the Crown . Now , great as our hatret is of all prosecutions and persecutions for the expression of opinion ,

      ire aver , without fear of contradiction , that but for the servility of the Irish press , and but for its baseness aud prostitution when the English Chartists were prosecuted , the law ofseditioa , or rather the whim of authority , would now be an obs / iete tiling , a m e re remnant of ancient absurdity . O'G-jaiieU and the Irish press t erretted us out for prosecution , laughed at our sufferings , and denounced us as trait-irs . They have each in turn had a taste of the sauce and tlO \ V DO T 1 IEY LIKE IT NOW ! Noi a word about all the ablest counsel being retained against the Chartists . Not a word about packed juries and Ijloodv-mindcd judges . So , no , it was ail right then ,

      bat now' that the fox has got amongsttae Irish geese , Mr . Duffy tells us that nothing ever has been done or ever can be done for the lib-Tiy of a country except by tha publication of seditious libels . Well , then , why did ' nt Mr . Doily publish Patrick O'Higgins seditious libsL especially when he had the opini on of the Libjrator that it was the very MOST SEDITIOUS PUBLICATION hi had ever seeu . We must presmns . according to Mr . Duffy ' s mode of arguing , the greater the sedition the greater the benefit to Irish . Ubirty . A- ^ ain , then , we ask , why did he not publish it ? Two young Sheers , two of the mast noble spirits that Ireland ever gave birth to . were hung in 17 ? S—

      * S" ho feats to tait of " 95 . By the brutal law of Edward it reunited two witnesses to prove an overt aet of treason , the father of those two voum : men , bursting with loyalty , brought a bill into the frisk House of Commons to make one witness sufficient , and scarcity was the Royal assent dry upon the parchment , waen the two sons were dragged from ths dock to the prison , aud there hung , ratnwelied before they were de-ul , then beheaded , and after death their ( todies divided into four quarters , according tothe law made-Vsy their own father . Moral : If nica will dig pits for others , or assist tyrants in making laws , when they fall into the one , or are entrapped into the other , they ha * e no one to blame bat themselves , and should lie without murmuring in the bed they hare made far others .

      The perseentisn of O'Higgins is but a poor return for the manlyindignation of the English Chartists at the prosecution of O'Connell , Duffy , Gray , Barrett and Co . Three of those worthies have the management , we were about to-saj the command , of newspapers ; and the other has the eontroul ef the liberal press , and yet net one has dared to mention the name of O'lliggfns except to damn him . Mr . Duffy h- < s printed three columns in the _ \\ ttion upon his own case ; If he had printed one upon O'Higgins' we would publish , every line of his , but he must he just before we arc generous .

      TUESDAY . Free Trade . —Still the 'srar rages between . the land aud money slave-drivers , aEd in order to show that the Protectionists are resolved upw . Eghtiugthe League with their own weapons , we give the follow ing advertisement , duty free , from a protectionist journal .: — The MiXCFicrcawc of Yotc $ . —Under this title . tbc Sussex Erpress of Saturday ha * the t ' oUowicg .: — "The Auti-Corn Law league have commenced their . labours 01 purchasing freeholds ic Sussex . Tneir plan is to iuvest

      any person who will pay tiein £ C 3 « ith a county vote . VTe , however , are in a poduoa to supply Protietiouists TRithtaequalificitiou fc * r £ ••« , bdag £ 3 less ; awl . there fore any person who may be aoxi « as to bec-juie a voter far East . Sussex can attain his object by remitting us that amount , wish , his prop ** uajie * nd address . We beg it to be perfectly understood abat we have eo councxioa whatever iu this undertaking with any society ; frat through , private arrangement , aud with a determination to meet the League with their own weapons we liave ruaced ourselves in tha position of securing to any Protectionist for the sum named , tee rights of a count

      vote . ** That ' s what they call in Ireland shooting a man with his own gun . Now we'll make a bit of a prophecy alwut this question of free trade , aud we won . ' take so long a time as the Timet did for the fuMft meat of its prophecy , we take short cf a week , audwe prophecy that the freetraders will be marvellously net tled at Peel ' s version of free trade , while the landlords won't nibble at the bait . The landlords appear to have made up their minds that the free traders are to have a bite out of their "haunch , " sad that in return the landlords are to hare another ecrge on the bellies of tho poor—that is , that the poor ' s *~ e ! sef fund is to be transferred from the j-aies 10 the

      • consolidated fund . Thesquires , however , think that the relief would be bat Irisu salvation , as they'd have to contribute their proportion t-i that augmentation of the consolidated fund out of which the support of the poor was to come . Bu' as we cannot dismiss this subject with a mere commentary in our summary , we will content ourselves at present by merely observing that Protectionists and Anti-monopoli-ts would agree , without a murmur , to doom the last remaining vestage of the privilege of the paupers , was it not from fear af that vengeance which the poor oppressed will oae day assuredly tik- ; upon the rich oppressor . We shall wait with feverisii anxiety t « see what part the poor are to be made to act in this new protection drama .

      The Cobs Tbade . — We have no change to note since yesterday ' s comment under this head , with the exception of the terrible denunciations which appear in t'ris morning ' s papers , by the farmers , of the suborned coadjutors of the plunderers of labour . Corn continues to tumble like " rolley policy" on the wall , aad ail the Queen ' s subjects , and all the Queen ' s men , won't make "rolley policy right again . " Money Market . —Worse aud wors « is all that we iave to note in this department of jobbery . There is , in spite of liiinisterla ! confidence , the Times as-Burauee and the League ' s effrontery , some evil genius presiding over the pockets of the grubbers . They all appear to be buttoued up , and it will take a slashing tailor to open them for a bit .

      Couur Czbcgur . —The Queea and the royal babies have had a difference as to thu farms of the royai speech , the ladies of the household hare bwught about a mutiny in the nursery , and the Qaeeusays taatske'il kavea HEADACHE on the 22 ud if the speech is not modified to the teste of the children . Tive . Council of His ft iyal Highnes the Prince of Wales for the Duchy of " Cornwall has presented a donation of £ 100 to tiie Royal College of Chymistry .

      IBELiSD . Kixg Pratie Agaix . —What a magical effect the letter and restoration of " little John " had upon the Irish Murphy ' s . Not a word was heard absut His Majesty and all the diseases with which he was being consumed when the Whigs came back to power and the jobbers hoped to come back to patronage ; but , now that it is all up with them , the Corporation Committee continue to receive the most frightfol accounts of the rdapft of his Majesty . These philanthropists no longer confine themselves to a fourth or a third or a half loss , —we learn now that threefourths of the family is dead and rotten ; and if money does not comeat once for the employment of the pojr , all Ireland will be a wilderness . Qaere , — Will any of the Committee starve . Musha , nor the devil a one .

      Formcx . —Chartism ix Prussia . —In one of Mr . O'Connor ' s letters after his return from the Continent , he stated the tact of the Prussians , through their several incorporated bodies , having demanded a constitution from the King alwut six years ago , and that the mover was laughed at . Two years subsequently he brought it forward again and had a decent minority ; after the Chartist petition was presented , Chartism in Prussia made a rapid progress ; and when the same proposition was recently propounded the mover had a birge majority in its favour , and npon the reasons being submitted to the Aut > crat , he condescended to v ouchsafe the following reply , through his representative , the Berlin Suu Gazette : —

      THE KISC OF PECSSIA AND HIS M 01 XE . TheBerlbi State Gazette gives the following as the replies wade by the government to the demands addressed to it by the Diet of tbe province of "" russia : — ' _ L Participation ofthelaj members of religious com-Bunitiesin the uisc'isswus and resolutions ou tcclvsiasti

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      eal affairs . _ K > piy : The gove >„ ment has alread ig ^ that laics should be called t ^ , lorm pHrt of „ , „ first ^ synod whic - i is shortly to . be convoked ; but as it has been determined not to accept any proposition on the chances to bemtrodueed in . ; 0 the organisation and constitution of the Protestant church except from the ecclesiastical authorities themselves , it cannot decide anything relative to the future organisation of the proviadal synods , befoie having heard the propositions of the general synod . : !• Amelioration of the revision of tlie codes and the intro ' duc tionofthe - ury . —Reply : Considering ' the importance of the question , preparatory studies of g ' reat extent are required , and they are not yet terminated . The Diets are therefore recommended to wait with confidence the result of the delibera ions of the competent authorities

      , o . Sleeting of the States-General , and proclama . tion of a constitution for tha whole kingdom . —Reply : TheDieto , in their address of March 10 , 1845 , baring expressed their confidence iu the promise which vet made in 1813 , relative to the development of their constitution , we do not see why they make mention of the petitions addressed to them on this subject . We thank tbe minority for having shown tlie inutility of such a proceeding , i . Publicity of tbe discussions ia the Diets , within certain limits . —Reply : W « refuse to comply with the prayer of this petition . 5 . To communicate to the Diets at least six weeks before the opening of the session the propositions which the government wishes to bring forward . —Reply : We shall communicate to the Diets such propositions as we please , and when we think it advisable . C . To reduce the amount of ten years of territorial possession , required as one of the conditions of eligibility for the representatives of the tjwns in the Diets , and iu general to increase the circle

      of eligibility in towns . —Reply : Peremptory refusal . 7 . Reform of the legislation relative to tbe press , and less severity iu the censorship . —Reply : The complaints of the petitioners are anything but well-founded . The press , in fact , needs an amelioration , but only to prevent in a more efficient manner the transgr .-ssioii of the limits which are imposed upon it , in the interest of public order , and of the reputation of private individuals . 8 . Emancipation of the Jews . —Reply : The government is busied with a general system ot" legislation for all things relating to the Jews in a civil as well as a religious point of view . 9 . To replace the duties on the grinding of corn and die killing of cattle by a direct tax . —Reply : Sot at present ; but the government will see if it be possible to lower by degrees the amount of those impost * aud to prepare a general modification . 10 . The Diet pronounces against protective duties , and demands the free entry -ot irou into the province . —Reply ; la the changes which are to be effected in the tariff , tiw government will take into consideration tbe interests of the

      whole kingdom . As to the free entry of iron , it -cannot be granted . " This thanking « f Jhe minority reminds na very much « f friend Sturge ' s abandonment of -the chair and ceafereuce at Birmingham , declaring that the minority had all the wisdem and justice on their side , ttowwer , bs that as it may , the Autocrat ef Prussia may rest assured that men with arms iu their hands , are « et going to be governed by the JBvrlia State Gazette editor ., with a goose-quill in his hand ; for , as sure as the sea rises aad sets , so sure < will the enlightened mind of Prussia give > to Europe the next signal of constitutional advance , unless , indeed , our Charter twiaklesin the firmament before .

      Another -Kovai , -Tvrast . —We give -the following epecinieu of the terror that ever haunts the guilty mind . Creinwell was afraid to sleep two uiguts in the same place , and the tyrant Nicholas , as will -be learned freni the -following sketch , fears least - « he vety walls of his room should hear his dreaming grunts for blood and cruelty . There is great hope for genius and . justice when tyrants tremble before their threnes , while there can be bat little respect amongst foreigners for the-Euglish , who allowed the

      same derilto be & astcd iu tiikik land white-their own poor were starving . -But it was ihe press , the base , bloody , and brutal press of England thatfcrutitied the English mind whilst smothering the moans of Poland , aud tlie wailings that were only heard in the desert , because their creator was the guest of ouR'ftBEss forscoth . We rejoice that this tyrant caanot-Elccp quietly in hisbed . We wish , from our souls , that the chambermaid or lacgueys had poked him into the leather bag , , and sent him as a -welcome offering to the inhabitants of the wilds of Siberia .:

      —Tub Ehpehos of Russia . — "A letter from Wenice , ' says the Constituiwmel , " speaks of ih . extraordinary precautions taktti by the E'ii { . ' -- -ror Xichulas to escape all attempts that might be iau . de agaiust-bis life . On Ins arrival at Padua he himself visit-d the apartment in which he was-to sleep , striking the walls of his bedcliamber witiiabammer . lie then caused the mattresses of the bed to be removed aud replaced by a leather mattresses , which was filled with hay under his eves . The Emperor refused to taste aay of the dishes premiered for

      his supper , arnica ! led fur his . travelling case , out of which be look -a bo tie of Malaga wine and a cold . roast lew ' , tvhich he shared with count Or ' iift " . At Venice thepublic expected him with . much impatience at the . theatre , but he remained iu theiottom of . the box , and couid-scaroely be seen . Count OrJoii' sat in . the front , attired is a . rich uniform . When the play was . over , four carnages drove ap to thebaic , and nobody euuld tell which was tlie oue iucendeJ fur the . Emperor . The same precaution . was observed when he Jeft Venice , . and no one -could tell tvhether the-Emperor repaired by ^» a or land to Trieste . "

      Thank Get ! for . that . What honest man would live au hour if he was obliged to hammer the brains out of the walls for fear he should talk of his own misdeeds iu his sleep . More of she AauBiuir of zeb " Vet" of iue Esglish Vbbss . — " The Emperor Nicholas eft Vienna by the Olmutexoad , in the morning of the 2 nd iiKt . lie had a conference of several hours with Prince Metteraichon the 1 st , and dined in tbe evening with the Imperial family . Ilis Majesty paid , on the 1 st , a visit to the Duke of Bordeaux , who had just arrived from frohsdorff . Our own private letters refer to ( in Russia ) a most extraordinary

      proceeding . It appears that the brother of Madame Kissiiiff , lady of the Russian Minister in Paris—a man « f immense wealth and influence—had been exiled ¦ " towards" Siberia ., by order of the Emperor . His sistert-Madame KissUiJf } , when she heard of the outrage perpetrated on her brother , remonstrated so forcibly , that she received as order to join and accompany him in his exile 1 Immediately on bearing these facts , M . Kissiiiff sent orders by express to arrest the culprits ( if we must so call them ) on their route , andrelease them from a pnnishmentso odious . * Further / says our correspondent , * we know not of this uui' juA affair . ' "

      WEDNESDAY . Free Trade Agaix . —The Timet , true to its calling , aud determined to have its " I / aiiy Bread" whoever shall fiili short , befab-jurs the Dukes of Richmond and Buckingham even more sordidly and vulgarly th . ni Cobden and Bright were wont to receire chastisement from the Thunderer , The article of this morning is su truly descriptive of the conduct of a thorough-paced bawd , after she finds that out and out prostitution is to constitute her future stock in trade , that we should like to place the w- —3 before our rea-lers , bat for her im . uen- > e length . There is one passage which so bespeaks the virtue of patriotism that we eaunot avoid quoting it . The Times says , " Once let everybody in Eugland get his mouthfnlof bread , and there is an end of our glorious constitution , which it now appears was framed with the 1

      express intention of preventing so horrid a consummation . ** We would ask the Tines , who ii as hopelessly ignorant upon the subject of free trade as Joe Hume i < of arithmetic , whether the free traders , with the commanding power of machinery , are just the men to allow of such a catastrophe as that of tiie constitution being overthrown or even weakened by so dire a calamity as that of every labouring mm having enough of bread . The Thunderer argues that the measure of free trade will not receive opposition from the Lords liecausc all the old " fogies" are not to lie found upon the public Un-stings . This is purely Ti , nes reasaniug , for we might with e < mal propriety argue that it would not receive much support iu the Commons , as we find its advocacy on the hustings confined to Cobuen and his fiddle . By this day week we shall be able to have a hearty laugh at Great Jove when he runs away from his own Thunder .

      Mosey . Market . —Notwithstanding that the Government Commissioner still continues to " operate " upon the patient , the disease is but little abated , and symptoms of decline have become more and mora manifest . The reasons , it is true , are now peeping out as Parliament is about to meet , and when they cannot much longer be concealed , and when , notwithstanding the polite reserve of the " fascinating financier" and chief bookkeeper , the minor clerk * on "Change are beginning to '' smell the rat" as lie comes to the mouth of the hole , long as the tunnel may be . Texas and Mexico , then , are the rat-holes , and Republicanism is the great rat ; but of this under its proper head . Phiscb Albert jlsd nis La . vdm > rds . — We take the following paragraph from the Times : —

      We are authorised to give the most express contra , diction to tlie statement put forth at the late vestry meeting at Windsor , that tiie late King George III . and his successors uniformly paid rates lor the Flemish Farm , such btiug directly contrary to the facts . It is true that when this farm was let to a tenant the rates were paid in the u-iual course , bat since tbe tenant quitted possession , inlSSO , the farm has uniformly been ia the bauds of the Crywn , and no rates have ever since been paid . We have every reason to believe th-. t when tlie memorial agreed to at the vestry , disclaiming the legal liability , has been presented , it is hi . Royal Higlmess ' s intention to pay a sum equivalent to the rates , as uo question touching the Prerogative of the Crown can now arise .

      Now , was there ever such rubbish as the above ? What , then , if members of the Itoyal family purchase a whole parish , the result must be that the paupers in that parish lose their title to relief . We are vM that wheu George the Third held Flemish Farm he paid no poor-rates , but when a tenant subsequently took it he ( the tenant ) paid poor-rates . This admission may be made to serve a double purpose , firstly , one of the princi ples of political economy , and secondly , the principle of royal dependence . We are told die population already presses hardly upon the means of subsistence . So wonder , when the Prince steals the paupers' land , and feeds pheasants where peasants should be allowed to fced themselves . Secondly , it

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      will open the question whether the Royal Family ought to hold any land , or whether they should not rather , as tae principal paupers , be dependent upon an annual vote of supply . Now , we contend for it , that a monarch has no ri ght whatever to any particle of property beyond what is annually voted by a House of Common's , representing the whole people : and small as the siu may be of refusing to pay poor-rates upon one farm , it 13 to the surrender of all the Crown Lands precisely what tbe defence of Gatton and Old Sarura was to the Reform Bill . These minor questions are the first peep into the show-box , and presently the astonished gazers , when they see the " vast possessions of the Crown and the ar ' stocracv—the racecourses , the deer-parks , tiie preserves , the foreststhe sheep-walks , the exercise grounds with

      ^ mansions for horses , the C ommons enclosed , and all the rest of the embezzlement , —will exclaim " Eh ' dearee me , why ever should we go to America to Poland , to the Baltic , and all them there places ' for our DAILY BREAD , when we could have it at home but for all them there kins ; s and lords and squires , and b . shops and parsons , and guardians and gamblers , and fat horses and do s , and decrs and pheasants , and rabbits and partridges , and even varmirt—that all , by G-d , is better protected by law nor we poor devils be , that all is talking so feeling loikeabjut . hhl d d if it baiut better for we to nave land ourselves , and see if we baint better wi the laud aud wi ' owt them there tomfoolery than wi owt the land and all that there rubbisii "

      . 1 crhaps such change as is referred to above may be also referred to * in the following squeak , which we take from the Morning papers : — Another Siosj . —At the Gloucester sessions , on Tuesday last , Mr . Craven Berkeley ,-M . P . far Cheltenham , objected to an increase of the expenses of tho county , on tbe ground that " a groat change was about to takeVace in the agricultural interest ; " and Earl Fitrfiardiuge observed , that ' * thoy could not shut their eyes to the fact that some great change would take place . " Possibly Earl Fitzhardinge does notcare how soon .

      IRELAKB . Coxctuatio . v IIau . JuGoiiEur . —Look here , my friends—you see that plain sheet of paper ; there , look at it , it ' s what the clumsy oldjugglersu'aedto turn into my lady ' s table , my lady ' s bed-. tcad ; now you see it ' s an arm-chair—now you see it ' s a fishing boat , to go a fishing in—now it ' s my lady ' s nightcap , now it ' s a daisy ' s cradle . Now , ladies , and gen-: tlemen , this here was the old rubbisii that them there old pickpockets was in the habit of deceiving feonest folks mth . —but se * here , yeu see iuat 1 ?* o . Law , Mr . Showman , what is it I Eh , my little dears , it ' s nothing at all yet ; but look now , there ' s euld Ireland 1 Oh dear , how beautisome!—there ' s Catholic emancipation ! there ' s justice to Ireland !• There ' s j the Repeal of the Union—there ' s the Precursors ' •" eciety , to see if wc can do without it . There ' s a dery law : ; you see twelve nieathere upen your right , that won ' t find no Irishman guilty wimtsomever he

      « pes . There ' s a groat sight lor you—there s the " glorious , pious , and immortal memory , " iu ;» glass of the * Bov . vk Wktbr . ! l " iiere ' s Federalism . Eh , whatever is that ? Musha , but that ' t-a ouare thing And there , ladies and gentlemen , there ' s = a great sight for you—there ' s the " lloly Protestant Alliance ! " And isthat all , Mr . Showman ? No , my Httle-fiears , oncmore . Look here ! Oh , how beautisome . What ' s -that , Mr . Showman ? THAT'S THE BINT , MY LITTLE DEARS- ! - ! Well , so Dan Jias actually offered to merge the Repeal into the -Eioly Protestant Jfitiaiice , though , of course he saysdn theoutset , that he never will -abandon Re pea ! : ; but then he'Ujoki the lloly Protestant Alliance for ouldilrcland ! Oh , youdmmbuggiiig old rascal- !—is it to get rid of the Holy Protestant Alliance that the brave Irish have been-struggliiig for centuries !—and but for you they'd have done it in 1831 , in ' . 1832 , or in any vear from that to 181 ( 5 . !

      The Yociig Libbkatok . —The second Daniel , it appears , is to be returned-for Dundalk upon the Repeal interest . In IS ' U we had 43 Irish Repeal membars , a stag that could have shaken tyranny fromits throne , and could have carried every beneficial measure for Jreland , even to the Repeal . Let us see , now that another . Bepcal election favoc is to be enacted , what has become of the Master Q , uills in tlie Repeal wing . Dan has been silent and has said that it is treasen to mcution the -subject in the House . His son Maurice says ditto . His son John echoes it . His son Mevgan hasa . sung place for life and darenot mention it , and gave up tlie county of Mcath for the bone . JJisson-in-law ,. Fitssimon has a very snug berth . and gave up the county of Dublin for the fat .

      His son-in-law , Charles O-Ccnneu gave up Kerry county for his shave of the pickings . His brotherin-law duna , the best of the lot , resigned Kilkenny c ;» unty for " a consideration . " Carew O'Dwycr evacuated Drogheds , upon . a like INSULT . Sir Nicholas IFitzsimou , the pctbeljy police justice , abandoned the King ' s county for his share of the dripping . All the others who would not answer for the tool box have either boen denounced as the greatest enemies of Ireland , or whipped to the ConcLJiation Hall , to whistle in . chorus with the great juggler—to live jn hope for tlie next day ' s sale . Now this is a picture so faithful and true , with the names « f the traitors who deeerted for pelf , that no mortal man can either deny at or justify it .

      DiTFFV asd the Saxos Law . —Dan didn't open his lips upon Daffy ' s sedition at Conciliation Ha / 1 , lest he might lie answered with thcery of "Musha , be gorra , but its worse nor Paddy O'Higgins ! " The grand jury were to find true bills of indictment against Mr . Duffy yesterday . We say were to find them , for the business of a Saxou grand jury is to find true bills against every Irishman that goes before them . This reminds us of rather a curious anecdote . In 1 S 32 , when the Liberator enrolled the Irish Volunteers , and exacted & guinea each "smart money , " instead of giving "bounty , " honest Jack Lawless and Feargus O'Conuer were amongst the first who enlisted ; aud upon the same day Mr . Lawless dined with Mr . O'Connor , when Lawless , shoving his fingers through his hair , as was his custom when

      anything amused him , exclaimed , with an oath , "Dy G— , O'Connor , this is the funniest thing I ever heard . The Colonel of the Irish Volunteers has registered a vow ia heaven NOT TO FIGHT ; and by G— , I think the Colonel of the Irish Volunteers . should figjt every mm that asks him . " It is the duty of an Irish grand jury to find bills against all Irishmen . Oh , if the A ' utioa had dealt fairly , j ustly , and honourably , by our Chartist friend 0 ' Iliggins , what sympathy Mr . Duffy would have had from this side of the water ! What resolution * , what meetings , wliat addresses , and what leading articles We would have adopted nis sedition , and thus tested tho difference between PURE Saxon Jaw based upon bold opinion , and Saxon law emboldened by the subserviency of the Irbdi press .

      The Grubbers . — 'ihe Irish grubbers are to meet at Conciliation Hall bef « re they come to London in a body to give the POOR LITTLE FACTORY CHILDREN cheap bread . The Rest for the week was ^ glC-i ; many districts having refused to contribute anything in aid of gorernmeat prosecutions . We rejoice that the Irish poaple are at length beginning to open their eyes . Horrible asd Brutal Axikmi'i of Mollt Maouirg 10 DfiSTROr IIumas Lifk . — "A most diabolical and wicked attempt to murder a highly respectable family residing in the city of Oxford was made on the night of Friday last , between the hours of ten and eleven o ' clock , but most providentially frustrated . It appears that the policeman on duty

      on the above evening obserreu at a distance something attached to the front sitting-room window of Mr . Samuel Quartermaine , who resides in Alfredstreet , High-street . He immediately went to the window shutter and took it down , when he discovered that it wits of a combustible nature . He then took it into the house , and to the horror and consternation of the family it proved to-be a petard , containing three and a half ounces of gunpowder , bound very tightly round with paper forty folds thick , and covered with string which had the appearance of having been dipped in turpentine , the whole weighing eleven ounces and a half . It was attached to the shutter by an awl similar to those used by harness-makers and shoe-makers , having the mark of wax-thread round the handle : and upon further investigation it was

      discovered that the fusee had been lighted and had partially burnt the shutter , but fortunately , owing to the materials being damp , it did not explode . If it bad , the consequences must have been dreadful in the extreme , as Mr . Quartermaine had all his family and a friend at his house thst evening , who were sitting in the front parlour . Himself and daughter were occupying seats close to the window , and , had the explosion taken place , they could not have possibly escaped with their lives . A reward of £ 100 has been offered for the discovery of the miscreant , and wc hope ere long that he will be brought to condign punishment . Mr . Quartermaine is a highly

      respectable livery-stable-keeper , aud is well known in the sporting world . " W « really bej ; Mrs . Maguirc ' s pardon ten thousand times . We extracted the above from the Times newspaper ef this morning , and from the base assassinlike attempt , and from seeing it in the Times , we presumed that it must have been nerpctrated by Mrs . Maguire or some of her numerous family , but looking over the paragraph again we find that it occurred in the very seat of science , literature , civilization , Christianity , and the arts ( Oxford)—it ivas a lark of some of the higl-spirited Collcjians . We would recommend the heads to make immediate application for a stri . vce . nt Cokrcio . v Bill .

      roREic . v . —Simix . —The Old Br . ooDiiou . vo . —Narvaer wa * compelled to admit in his speech , as a legislator , that he had acted illegally , but that necessity , the tyrant ' s prolific plea , had rendered it necessary for him to punish the editors of the Clamor Publico . We wish that we had a Narvacz in Ireland to nerve the arm of our Irish cotemporaries . The same tyrant has banished Prince ' Don Henrique from the kingdom ior having written a liberal address , but the Corte » icem perfectly satisfied with every act of the devil's tyranny , upon being assured that his Holiness the Pope had written a loving letter to the Queen of Spain , in which lie addressed her as— " My beloved daughter . " There isone portion of the tyrant' s speech so funny a ; d so characteristic of that ascendancy which tyrants think they hold over nature hensclf ,

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      that we cannot forbear publishing it . In talking of the Queen ' s marriage he says , " Her Majesty has not as yet signi fied Iter desire to coniractmatrimony . Ministers have not thought it necessary to awake in her bosom any stick sentiments . " We would recommend General Narvaez to pass an act for the destruction of Cupid and all his darts and arrows . Upon tho above announcement the folks in tlie gallery instantly s ' ruck up tho following national anthem ' to be sung to the Queen at the approaching festival : — Do you ever bethinking 0 / young men Confess the truth I charge ye , Fur if ye do its a terrible sin

      You should think of none but your elargy , TVhen under the clothes you are going to repose And find wicked notions intruding , The virgin invoke , give your stomach a Stroke It ' s as good as any charm . When sinking forest be these last words c . v . rci ^ 'd Queen of Angels between us and harm . America , France anb England . — . , o , then , wo were not far wrong after all , when we asserted that Oregon was in the back ground of the belligerent group and that the non-interven'rioo . chost stood prominentl y in the foreground . Jt , £ ppMr 8 aad it would not appearnow if it need . appear in the Quean s speech of 1 Way next , that the annexation ot iexasis alter all to be the ¦ belli ( the cause

      casus , of war ) between Monarchical Fj , . ,, and Republican America , Elsewhere will be f ouml the correspondence between M . Gruizot , the Fr . cdt minister of war , and his deputy at Washington ., avul the assurance of Lord Aberdeen , that cDmmupjeations of a like nature had been made to his dopv . ty at the same place . Tue ramm * the English militia of 40 , 000 and an American : militia ot 200 . 004 , is now . perfectly explained , but still there is a difference between the order to raise militia and the doing of ifr-Thc mind of this country has undergone •& tremendous change since men allowed themselves to be ballotted for like slaves , mercenaries , aud cut-throats to fight for the privileges and properties 0 f their oppressors . We trust that the cry-of

      „ ,. , NO VOTE , NO MUSKET , will tty through the land like wildfire . We early announced the importance to America , and to the democratic force all over the world , of the non-intervention policy . No doubt the Autocrat of Prussia will be very glad , " vsder existing circumstances , " to join the league of . Kings against the league of People . Upon the Queen ' s first visit to the King of the French , we announced the real intention of that visit to be the formation of such a leaguo for the preservation of those silly privileges and dangerous powers which wisdom and knowledge are now attacking on all sides , and before which they must , sooner or later , " drift as snow before the wind . " M . Guizot ' s deference to the wish of the majority is vcrv

      statesmanlike . He says that although France and England will consider their wishes RESPECTFULLY , yet they wont tolerate their fulfilment ; and , knowing that they can " oPERm : " upon the br ?_; lies poclcots of Mr . Houston , the President of Texas , M . Guizot , in his practical love of democracy , is satisfied to-consider him as a MAJOPJTY against tho Republic of America and Texas . The cunning minister would arouse our sympathy by persuading us that it is altogether a > qucstion of the slave-owners of the Southern States , out he appears to have forgotten thatiLord Palmerston boldly and truly declared ia the House of Commons last session that the whole press of France was in the PAT OF THE SLAVEOWNERS . Now then wo shall have a rumpus , and 510 mistake . So , hurrah for

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      THURSDAY . Free Tbaoe . —The mice had ji play of their own last night , at Covent Garden , as the cat was away . Cobden , we presume , was starring it in the provinces , or rehearsing his part in the new piece to be performed at St . Stephen ' s . The fiddle , was also absent , aud consequently the proceedings were deficient in fun and interest . Cebden is certainly tlie best actor in the company , and Bright , within himself , comprises the estimable qRaliiiea of the useful man , who combined the heavy and the liglit by bringing-on a trunk -und taking offa letter . We are not aware that we ever mentioned tiie gag put upon Bright ' s mouth by a shoemaker at the Northampton meeting . " See , " says Bright , " what impracticable people the Chartists are . ! They have their six

      points , which I will compare to six waggons ; and they want to drive these six waggons through a gateway together , while we find it too narrow to get one waggon through . " . ( Great cheering from thcLuague . ) — " D—a thee , thou fooile , why doesn ' t thou lielp us to make gate wide enough to send all through together ? " { Tremendous laughter and cheew followed this trite observation , which literallv flabbergssted poor Bright , when . he was driven to the necessity ol teaching the meeting how to make bread out of iron ; when a nailor again stopped him with , " Why , men , our guts would all get rusty ! " )—Upon the whole , we have a notion that Cebden and the fiddle Are beginning to look from the moral to the political of free trade—from the big loaf of the operative tothe loaves aud fishes ef Do wning-streefc .

      The "Times " andirsNew Mastehs . — Tbe 71 mm of this morning evinces the truth of the old proverb , that it is impossible "to serve two masters . " Wc really long for Wednesday , in the hope of seeing a refreshing journal from the pens of Jerrold and Dickens . The Thunderer , m ite attempt to keep up the free-trade clash , is absolutely piling rubbish upon rubbish until it is difficult to tell whether its notions upon agricultural and political economy are drawn from Virgil , the Bible , or Arthur Young : hut one thing is quite certain , that in the attempt to prop tlie i ' ree trade huilding the architect is dilapidating , nay , pulling down the old temple of political economy . It is a favoured maxim of the League that population presses hardly upon the means of subsistence , while

      the Timet assures us that deficient population all over ihe woniD will preclude the possibility of furnishing a surplus of food . Perhaps the Timet , or the political economists of sixty years ago , would have enforced the impossibility of producing a surplus of cotton stuffs , ana ef the fallacy of supposing that tiie manufacturers of them could be waked in tho midst of their own production . The Times docs not understand a imigle particle , of the science of agriculture ; we no , and we now tell the writer of this newspaper '' stiiif , " that ere long the improvements in machinery will set the disinherited operatives thinking as to how they can get the laud , and when they do acquire it , England alone , with her now surplus population , cracking stones , nicking oakum , and crushing bones

      within the walls of the unions , would produce in England , which is not the most highly favoured wheat growing country , an annual surplus of over twenty million quarters . Now , not justifying thu nou-eonsumption of wheat by the Irish people , and supposing that all the oats grown in the country , as well as the potatoes § row » , was consumed at home , which would be a vast improvement upon the present diet , what does the Titnes think of the answer that the Irish export of wheat gives to its folly ? The Timet commits an egregrious blunder when it presumes the incapacity of a farmer iucrearing his production from twenty to thirty quarters—not that we mean to say that this ratis ot progressive improvement couldproceed «{ *" «/" B " to ?» . - but , wedo contend that the adoption of the principle laid down by Virjf . 1 , which we do not forget having read in our schoolboy days , namely , the dibbling aud

      afterculture of wheat would ensure a four-fold product from the amount of land usually devoted to that crop . What wc assert is this , and no booby with a goose quill in his hand can refute it , that there arc not one hundred acres of laud in one lot in England , Ireland , Scotland , or Wales cultivated to one-third ot their power . We beg our contemporary to confine his remarks to a comparison of the value and weight of the oratory of the individual belligerents , allowing him the full privilege of alternately praising and bespattering Richmond and Cobden , Arthur Lennox and friend Bright ; but , in the name of common sense and decency , to abstain from strictures , comment , or guess upon the capabilities of the soil , because the ignorance displayed upon this subject may , and probably will , lead to tho conclusion , that the Thunderer ' s noise is not from Jupiter , but from behind the scenes of that theatre at which the Times maj have an engagement .

      The Cons Tiude—We learn from this morning ' s reports from all parts of the country , without exception , that the millers are bitten with the i «> stock mania , aud merely buy from hand to mouth , waiting for information from St . Stephen ' s corn-mart . Every species of grain " rules" lower , and is more difficult to quit , even at the reduction . The farmers are frantic , the landlords ave rabid , the free-traders arc funking , and tho Minister is quaking , as we learn that another black sheep has expressed some squcamishneas in the C . ibinet .

      Tub Stock Excim . vge . —As the time for ministerial development approaches , panic appears to increase in a geometrical progression . All is Hatter than yesterday ; while Exchequer-bills , which above all other descriptions , of scrip denote ministerial strength and confidence , have partaken of the prevailing epidemic . Again the Government Commissioner has been operating , but the breeches pockets of the patient remain tightly buttoned . Oh ! what a day we shall have on Thursday next , when the Peel biilnnce-shcet makes its appearance on 'Channe ; for , mystify it as he may , the shrewd arithmeticians there will see much more in the indefinite term , sundries , than all the rest put together .

      Court Ciiiccl . m . —Her Miijesty walked alone in the preserves , for the purpose of rehearsing her part in the new drama . entitled BREAD or NO BREAD to be produced at St . Stephen ' s on Thursday next . She got amongst a clump of trees , and addressed them as " My lords and gentlemen . " We trust that she will use the expressive and characteristic words of her august grandfather , George the Third , on Thursday next , and address them as " My lords and peacockjjl The Queen , Prince Albert , and the Court WC ^ Fnad entire new Court dresses from Moses and Son for the occasion . Tiie DEAR little babes were taken their accustomed airing , and went as far as Flemish Farm whore they were nice by a group ot starving paupers from Windsor . We are told that tlui Queen ' s stock of potatoes ave running low , and

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      that orders have been n ^ ued lay a store Irish oats as a substitute . Prince Albert a \ d ihr Paupers ov Windsor . — Common law is lused on custom , and nothing but tbe subserviency oi" a people can ever constitute bad com-{ uon law . 'i . 'he truckling authorities of Winds * have had fte baseness to forego the claims of the poor to tlj tjir R 1 ( mT DIVIXE rent from Flemish Farm , and ha \ K . accepted as a ouacious gift that that was a us and holy , and legal claim . The paltry Hck-H . Pi . itles , we suppose they dine with the palace scul-» . oitt now and then , but we trust to the independent spirit of the kitchen boy and shoeblack , that they will ask them how they came to compromise the poor ; and we trust to the poor themselves to call them t

      o an account for having received as a gracious royal git , what was theirs by right divine , and to which they had a better title than Prince Albert or the Queen herself ? It is melanchol y to see how the poor are bought and sold like cattle at a fair . Oh for the vote , to make every man his own overseer ! The Famine . —On Wednesday next Sir Robert Peel gives a full dress dinner party , to which 200 of his turnspits have been invited . The Queen ' s speech will be rehearsed there , and the two gentlemen nominated as mover and seconder . Wc understand that a positive order has been issued that no potatoes should be served up , lest the mover and seconder should get an untimely cholic . We long very much to see this speech ; we suspect that it will be very much like the old g entleman and his ass .

      Ihe Railways . —The frightful accidents that have recently occurred upon several lines from tlie negligence of the companies' servants is likely to become subjects of parliamentary interference . It is a rule with the directors of the several companies not to allow certain newspapers to be sold at their stations . Two vendors have been threatened with the loss ot STANDING for having so far outraged all decency by offering the Northern Star for sale . How we pity the poor devils who thus reject knowledge , and luxuriate in their ignorance .

      IRELAND . Mollt avd nun Children . —By St . Paul , Molly is an admirable recruiting sergeant , and will soon have as largo and much braver a militia than the Government . The news from Ireland is altogether so interesting , that we cannot afford to curtail it by a word . In debating the state of Ireland before the Reform Bill , Sir John Cam Hobhousc said , "You may tranquillise Ireland when you have a rope round every man ' s neck , or a soldier with a fixed bayonet behind every man ' s back ; " and , from the necessity of distraining for rent and tithes with police and military aid , as noticed in our report , we are inclined to believe that one soldier to each Irishman would not be sufficient to insure tranquillity . When Lord

      Dunfermline was auditor to the Irish estates of tlie Duke of Devonshire , his grace requested him to procure the best information of the grievances of Ireland , and to suggest the most likely remedies . His lordship , then plain Mr . Abercromby , proceeded upon a tour of instruction , accarapauied by the late Mr . Swanston , a driver to the duke , an excellent man and a Scotchman ( a neighbour of our own ) , who did more to improve the country than half the resident landlords . After a month ' s tour the noble lord was lost in a sea of confiicting representations , and said to Mr . Swanston , we have heard a load of grievances , but I see no remedy , do you ? Yea , mon , replied the Scot , 1 ken it a ' . What is it says his lordship ? Easy enough

      was the reply , and itcanna fail whenever an outbreak takes place , I'd hang the nearest landlord , the nearest parson , the nearest attorney , and the nearest agent , on the nearest tree , anu you'd uc » er c . < . ' n Uonv nf a squabble in the district . General Sir John'Lambert was requested by government to furnish his notion of remedies for Irish grievances , and the gallant general declared that Ireland never could be tranquil until there were milestones on every road , the names of the owners painted on every cart , finger-posts at evary cross road , and until the parish beadles wore cocked hats and earned gold-headed canes . Now , we say that Ireland never can be tranquil , never

      ought to be trauqnil , and we hope never will be tranquil , until every man of twenty-one years of age has a vote and a musket , a lease for ever of his holding , tithes abolished root and branch , the magistrates appointed by the people , the bishops removed from the llouse of-Lords , mother church allowed to stand upon her own bottom , the lawyers and barristers sent to the plough , and the Bank of Ireland restored as the senate house of the nation , its members elected by the free voice of the whole people , and , if necessary , separated from English connection , that has operated as a drag-chain upon Irish industry , as a corrupter of the Irish press , and as the f oul upholder of a devastating church .

      JTue Police ahd Peasantry . —The Packet contains the ^ ubjoined particulars of 11 despurutu rccontro between the peasantry and the police , in which tbe latter were repulsed : — " On Friday , the 9 th inst ., Mr . Williams , contractor , had a number of labourers from RoosUey to work at Caruadg-bridge , on the Shannon , the labourers in that vicinity 1100 being so expert at such work as the llooskey men . In consequence of some information that opposition would be given , 20 police , under the command of Constable " Balfour ( whom I mentioned to you in my last report ) , arrived early in the day in Caruadg to protect the labourers . As soon as this was perceived , scouts were sent off in all directions , and about two o ' clock p . m . a mob of over COO Molly Muguires arrived at Carnadg and commenced an attack on the labourers and uoUcc , aU of

      whom were forced to retire . Unfortunately one of the police was severely injured , and now lies in a dangerous state , his jaw-bone being broken in two places , hand eight of his teeth being knocked out . It is fortunate that Constable Balfour used such forbearance under such try . injj- circumstances , else the consequences must have been awful . And it is now the surprise of every one in the vicinity how they got oft" so safe . On Thursday , the 8 th , a party of the 8 th Hussars , with a magistrate and some constabulary , accompanied Air . George Knox ( agent to the Crown ) to the lands of Balljkilcline , to protect him wwl Uis bailiffs while serving some law notices . And on the same day Mr . John B . Malone , Sub-Sheriff , had a party of police and military to protect him in making a seizure for rent , under an execution at the suit of a Mr .

      Roe agiiivist Mr . Little . A meeting of ten magistrates , Mr . W . Lloyd , D . L . and J . t \ , in the chair , was held in Strokcstown , on the 7 th inst ., to take into consideration the propriety of having a new police-station formed near Hill-street , to protect Mr . Church , whose new house was levelled at night 11 short time since . The majority of tha magistrates were of opinion that it was more uecesary to reinforce the present stations , which have only a few men , wholly inadequate to the state of the country ; the original question was therefore lost , end so the matter ended—Mr . Lloyd receiving . 1 vote of thanks for his conduct in the ehair . Such is the state of this part of the county . 1 cannot help remarking , that if any i " uglisn county were in such a state of insubordination , 1 think Sir It . 1 ' cjl would not be so tedious in taking steps to restore tranquillity . The Government arc much to blame for their supineness . "

      Murder is the Cou . v-rr or Limerick , —A correspondent of the Evening Post says : — "Ou Sunday evening , a man named Leahy , a tenant of Sir Matthew Harrington , Bart ., was shot dead on the lauds of Drunibaniiy , county of Limerick . " To which may be added the following : — "Limerick Chronicle-ufAee , Jan . 12 th . To the catalogue of agrarian outrages detailed in Saturday's Chronicle , we have to add that the Annaody police party , while on patrol last night , encountered an armed band of about twenty Kockitcs , near Aherue , the seat of General Sir Richard Burkir , when a conflict took place , and shots were exchanged , by which two policemen were wounded , one severely , and some of the ltockites , who retreated . All the city of Limerick police left this last night for the scene of outrage , and to protect the Annaody police branch , —P . d . Tlie military force returned to this garrison ou Saturday night from Knocksentry , the estate of Sir C . Molyneux , with three prisoners , "

      Explosion on Board a \ acht . _ About two o'clock this morning au explosion of gunpowder took place ou board the splendid yacht the "flower of Yarrow , the property of the Marquis of Conynghani , now lying in the Custom-house docks . The vessel immediately took fire in several parts , and but for the prompt attendance of tho watch on duty , aided by the plentiful supply of water , would hare been speedily reduced to a heap of ashes . By half-past three o ' clock the fire was completely extinguished , but not before a vast deal of damage had been done , to the amount , it is supwoaed , of from £ "> 00 to £ 1 , 000 . I Uav « heard it stated that the accident occurred from a package of bluelights having ignited and communicated with a canister of gunpowder , which blew up with such violence that a 111 . 111 and boy on board wen : literally blown out of their berths , without , however , suffering any material injury . How the Times bawls for coercion !

      Mb . Duffy . —True bills have been found against Mr . Charles Gavan Duffy , by a Saxon grand jury , for the publication of a malicious and seditious Jibe ' , published in the JVation newspaper . Will * DlD ' iNT HE DEFEND O'HIGGINS ? Foreign . —War being an unprofitable thing just now , the Times recommends that General Narvaez , whom tho Thunderer informs us has done so much for constitutional liberty iu Spain , should proceed to Mexico , as the rallying point against American interference . Wc guess , however , that the gallant officer has quite as much upon his hands as will confine his operations to his own country ' s sphere for a bit . The fact of the matter is , that the American struggle against European intervention is the contest of the new world of science against the old world of exploded ignorance ., Princes are trembling upon their thrones from the just thunder of popular knowledge , directed towards a searching investigation of long-established tyranny and misrule .

      Tub Cloud i . v the Wkst . —As tlie time approaches for Ministerial development , the butter is coining out of the stirabout , as the irishman says , Horace says that the first blow is half the battle ; and from the following it will be seen that Sir Robert is of the same opinion as the great satirist . A Callao letter , of November 1 , posted in the Liverpool Underwriters' room , says , "The admiral , In her Majssty's ship Oollingwood , 80 , is at tbe Marquesas ; her Majesty ' ship Mudeste , 18 , aud the steamer Salamander , are in company ; and , after having made the round of the island , Jie will proceed , it is said , to the Columbia river , where he will be joined l » y her Majesty's ship America

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      50 . This intelligence is in some degree confirmed by art extract from the Nee York Sun , which says , " Our private adviccslfrom Monter .-y , Dpper California ( Monterey is about 600 miles from the river Columbia ) , to the middle of October last , came to hand yesterday . The intelligence is important . A British fleet , destined for Oregon , was passing up the west coast , of which our correspondent at Monterey says— ' The pioneer of this fleet , the British ship of war America , touched here some time ago , and the movements of her commander , Captain Cordon , aroused our suspicious at thu time . He refused to give any news , saying men-of-war did not carry news . He also refused to carry a circular letter to the United States' Indian agent at Orejou city , remarking that he was not sure of going to Columbia river . I have ascertained that Lord Aberdeen , the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs , had a brother on board the America , and one of Sir Robert Peel ' s sons was also an officer or passenger . We were all very glad that these distinguished visitors had every facility extended to them for collecting facts in this vicinity . '"

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      NOTIONS ABOUT FREE TRADE IN THE FAR NORTH . We find the following letter in the Montrose Standard : — _ ,, ,, .. . lam no politician , and seldom address editors of newspapers ; but my attention has been drawn to what is passing around us by seeing a letter , which has been for some days on the table of our Newsroom , addressed by our worthy member for this district of burghs to " The Provost of Forfar . " Ihis circumstance leads me to believe that both the member and our respectable chief magistrate court publicity to the document .

      After acknowledging the receipt of a memorial on the subject of Free Trade , and giving a hint to our democratic constituency as to what " the people " ought to do , Mr . Hume proceeds to give his views and opinion to the blow-up of the Whig cabinet , —if such a name can be given to tho late abortive attempt to form a Ministry . He writes to the Provost as follows : — * # "I may mention to you , that one of the chief obstacles to Lord John Russell ' s forming an administration , was the refusal of Lord Grey to act in any Cabinet where Lord Palmerston was Foreign Secretary ; and Lord P . would uot take any other office . I objected to tbe war policy of Lord Palmerston , especially to his attack ou Syria ; and I should have been sorry to see his Lordship again in that office , with the power of m king war , as he had formerly done , by a weak minhtty . ' "tain t' wpeueeand ftt . trade wilfc all the world ; and there is no place in this kingdom would benefit more by them than Forfa-.

      "Iff can live to sec these blessings , I shall die contented . Believe , yours , sincerely , ( Signed ) " Joseph Hume . " I sincerely hope he will long live to see his country prosper under a good and just Government . But there is one thing which I hope Mr . Hume will explain . Is his " Free Trade" the one-sided Trade which abolished every protection to Agriculture , and continues restrictions 011 all other necessaries of life ? If tlie Governmsnt could want the taxes—if tliey could want the means of maintaining the State , the army , and paying the national creditor—I say let us have " Free Trade with all the world . " But let us be just as well as generous . Do not ruin one industrious class and continue restrictions for the support of others already abundantly wealthy . Let us have

      a total and immediate repeal of all duties on every necessary o ' life . But let not tiie agriculturist be crushed while we maintain high import duties to protect the Manchester manufactures—Leeds broad cloths , shoes , hats , and stockings—and Birmingham button . Suoi , "Free Trade" is like a carpenter ' s hatchet , all on one side . Abolish , tuereflji-e , every tax on the necessaries of life ; but before doing so , point out in what way the Government are to meet the country ' s engagements , and support the National Faith ? Are we to wet the sponge ? Shall we play the game of Pennsylvania ? These are serious considerations ; but they are based on equity and honour . Our Coin Law soterie in this burgh are in their own view men of shrewd penetration . Many of them arc so . Others , who are the loudest , are of a

      class who never heard of Adam Smith , or , if they did , never saw his book . They know a hawk from a hand-saw ; and a few can tell a cow from a colt . These are the men who think themselves entitled to clamour and insist on the government taking their dicta to regulate the measures of the state in one of the most difficult parts of political economy ! To such injustice Mr . Hume ' s souse of honesty and long experience as a politician must prevent him from lending the sanction of his name . Tiie prospect of a new election may weigh in these advices to " the people , " but the intelligent part of his constituents arc not to be swayed by any clap-trap writing or illogical reasoning . I may have a few words to say to Mr . Hume on other matters , and I shall probably write you again ; but I avoid mixing up any other subject with this communication .

      By the way , the country should vote a statue to Lord Grey for keeping Lord Palmerston out of the Foreign Office . Friends and foes consider him little better than a firebrand , who , were he Foreign Secretary , would , in a few months , set the world by the ears . Ho is , moreover , a political turn-coat—hut tins is the affair of his party . Forfar , Jan . 0 , As Equitable Free-Trade

      Ministerial Arrangements. We Have Much P...

      MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS . We have much pleasure in confirming a rumour which was current on Wednesday , to the effect that the Hon . G . A . Smytlie has been appointed Under Secretary of State for Forei gn Affairs , in the room of Lord Canning , who has been for some time anxious to retire from the onerous duties of an office which he has filled with much ability and most exemplary attention . Mr . Smyfche will now have an excellent opportunity of obtaining an Insight into public business , and we trust that the applause which his brilliant success in Parliament has excited will not induce him to neglect those less showy acquisitions without which no Minister can in these days hone to succeed in obtaining the confidence of the public—Times .

      Lord Canning retires from the Foreign-office ; but , instead of succeeding Lord Metcalfe , as it was rumoured he would , we understand he will succeed Lord Howard de Waldon as ambassador at Lisbon . The Standard says—Wc have every reason to believe that it has been proposed to Lord Cathcart to succeed Lord Metcalfe , and thus unite in the same hands the civil and military government of Canada . The report of Lord Granville Somerset ' s retirement from ofiice is altogether without foundation . The rumour is revived that Lord Lyndhurst i » about to resign the Great Seal , for reasons unconnected with Ministerial policy .

      It has been strongly rumoured in Westminster Hall that Mr . Pembcrtou Leigh has resisted most earnest solicitations from the Premier and the Duke of Wellington to succeed to the Woolsack ; and that , inconsequence , the following arrangements arc contemplated : — Sir Edward Sugden to be Lord Chancellor ; SirF . Thcsiger , Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; and Mr . James Wortjey to be the new Solicitor-General , the present Solicitor-General becoming , of course , Attorney-General .

      Destitution' Axd Duath From Wast.—On Fri...

      Destitution' axd Duath from Wast . —On Friday afternoon a protracted inquiry took place before Mr . Carter , at the Duke of Gloucester tavern , Crosbyrow , New uigton , respecting the death of a female child , the illegitimate offspring of Louisa White , of No . 5 , New-street , New Kent-rea ' . The jury having been sworn , proceeded with the coroner to view the body , but when they reaciied the house , the summoning oIKcer informed them that it would i e dangerous for them to enter the apartment , the room was in such a filthy state . There was also a femalt in the adjoining room , suffering from an attack of typhus lever . The body was therefore brought down stairs into the passage by the officer , and when viewed by the jury , it presented a most hocking spectacle . Louisa Whiteof No . 5

      New-, , street , deposed that the deceased was her daughter , and was eleven weeks old . Atthe time she was confined she was in great want , being without the common necessaries of life . Witness Bant to the workhouse of St . Mary , Newington . Walivorth-road , where Mr . Bradly , one of the relieving officers , immediately granted some assistance , which was continued for four weeks , but nt the expiration of that tune it was stopped . During tlie List seven weeks she had been in a state of great want , being at times without food for two days together . She had no filing in her room , and slept on a few rags for a hed . Jane Lee , a lodger in the same heuse , stated that she had often given the woman a cup of tea and a slice of bread , and if it had not been for the little

      kindness towards her , both mother and child would hate perished from hunger and cold . She would keep in her room from morning till night rather than let her troubles be known . The j ury returned the following verdict : " That deceased died from debility of body arising from the want of proper nourishment , whick the mother was unable to give it , owing to her stale of destitution . " Serious Cab Accident . —On Saturday afternoon , between one and two o ' clock , a serious cab accident occurred , by which the driver of the cab , and numerous ether persons , had a narrow escape of their lives . It appears that a cab was passing down Waterloo-place , at a rapid rate , when the horse took fright , and sot off in a furious gallop towards the

      Duke of \ ork ' s column . The driver endeavoured to arrest tho progress of tho animal , but without effect , and , dashing down the steps leading into the park , the cab was overturned , and tkedvivcr thvownbetvcatn it . At the moment there were upwards of thirty persons on the spot , who all fortunately escaped iniury , as did the sentry , who had a narriw escape , his iireloek being knocked out of his hand by one of the wheels . The horse broke awav with the front part of the cab and the shafts , and galloped on through the park , in the direction of Storey ' s Hate , till he arrived at the railings ending the gravel walk , against which lie rushed violently , and ii ' ll , when he was secured by some bystanders . The drivor was exti'icitfid , having sustained only a few align t bruises .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17011846/page/5/