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      EEC RECEIPTS OF THE rTATION & Ii LAND I COMPANY . " . ¦ .,.: ¦

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      FOR THE ESBCTJT 17 B . 1 XCX 1 TS & BT 0 . sum Westminster , , Preston , per perJ 6 ra * shy 0 511 James M * Lia . Bothe . tb . am , per hob m 0 3 0 George Turner 0 7 0 EXCEIVED AS 1 AKD OFFICE . SadcESe Bridge 4 2 0 PH'Grath , An-Bradford ( York ) o lo 0 nual Sabscrip-Great Horton , fern for 1819 9 4 0 perMrLoftus 0 10 0 W Dixon , ditto 0 4 0 D Clark , Annual C Doyle , ditto 0 4 0 Snbcriptiaa for 6 Julian Harney , 1849 m 0 4 0 ditto „ 0 4 0 SKjdd , ditto M 0 4 0 Keighley H 019 0 ttcEivxo ur w . sioas . Sheffield , perG CawU M „ „ ., 017

      EXECPTIYE SEW YEAR'S GIFT . 8 SCEIVEB AT IARD 0 FFIC 3 . Sir Walters , Pal- JJew Badford , kirk „ 0 2 6 per J Sweet .. 0 10 F 0 RW 1 YBSA 3 D FAMILIES OF YICIMS . KSCCVTD ST IT , UOEK . Alnwick , per J Young .. « M - ' 9 7 6

      Defence And Victim Fund. Acciivxd Bt F. ...

      DEFENCE AND VICTIM FUND . aCCIIVXD BT f . KTS & . South London Eotherham , per Hall M 019 3 | George Turner 011 6 MCI 1 VED AT URD OFFlCX . i A . few Friends at Huneaton . « 0 IS 6 i Gieenvrich , per Gff- - 0 2 0 | WWbitcomba Oil S MrP & ttison M 0 10 l ZMHMundeu - 0 4 3 Daniel Broad M 0 10 I Ipswich , per Ann Smith M 0 0 4 i 1 Garrard .. 010 0 Mr Lister .. 0 1 0 \ i SadcliSe Bridge 017 3 Hr Edgar - 0 2 6 \ £ HrDoBglas „ 0 0 6 John Heffernan 6 4 0 \<\ JJrSmiri „ 0 0 6 MrJTompsoa ,. 0 6 0 ' i = Mr Porter « . 0 0 6 MrBossi'er .. 0 10 |] HrWestlaks - 0 10 HrBaiTOWS » 0 6 6 1 Mr Derby - 0 lo 0 * . KSCKIVZD AT LAKS OFHCE . . ( HrsH'DouaTl „ „ „ -90 S

      Kotices. J All Branch Secretaries Who Ha...

      KOTICES . J All branch secretaries who have sent monies to this : i -oSce daring the quarter ending December 25 th , 1848 , i will send , as sooa as possible , a return of each person ' s s payments to Land , Extensa , Bonus , and Loan Fund * . I Let this role be btiictlt attended to . The returns must embrace the acknowledgments in the Stai of this day . 3 Ko money must be returned as paid daring the quarter S hut what * has been received at this office oa or before ihe 2 lst instant-Teignmouth and Stratford . upon . Avon were last week erroneously placed in the Stax among the branches which bad net made their returns . Messrs Edwsrdg and 1 Coombes , the secretaries of these branches , have ever h been most prompt in complying with the regulations of ^ the Company . Pbiiip M'Giath .

      Defence Fund. Xsc11v1d 21 Wttllajf Aisei...

      DEFENCE FUND . XSC 11 V 1 D 21 WttllAJf aiSEI . £ a . d . ArdsUy , near Barnalqr . per J . Hodgson ... 0 3 11 TV . Douglas , Thornley Colliery ... ... 0 0 4 Mr Atkinson , London ... ... ... 0 10 Birmingham , a Friend , per 3 . "Willi ... 0 10 0 „ Mr Waddleton , ditte ... 0 1 « ,, Sundry Sabscriptions ditto ... 0 3 6 Ur Beck , L « mdoa ... 0 0 6 ^ TrCiait ' s Brush Shop , Leicester ... 0 5 6 AtiezcUSe ( coHcctien . after lecture by Mrs Theobald ) per 6 . Cavffl 0 3 1 J North Cbcrcb Street School Boom , ditto ... 0 5 6 } Tuastall , psr J . Steele ... ... 9 7 0 OMswififord , per J . Chance ... ... 0 7 0 { Jgrentry . Hr Garlic , Mach Park Street . „ 0 0 6 „ MrPritchsro , Gosforf Street 0 10 ,, Gosford aad Hnch Park Street 0 2 6 } „ mil Field 0 0 5 | „ Spon Street ,., ... 0 0 lo Kartawich , per W . Bowe ... ... 0 4 0 . Nottingham , per / . Sweat ... ... 0 9 2 Morton Colliery , Co . Durham , per J . Eoxey 0 2 0 Monmouth , per E E . las ... ... 0 2 6 Brizhton , per W . Flower ... ... 0 10 0 Sirmingtam , People * ! Hall , per W . H . Eudhall 0 1 0 „ „ per Mr Goodwin ... 0 10 If . Clark , Birmingham ... ... 0 1 0 Bristol , per W . Hya tt 0 6 0 Total £ 4 10 5

      Trial Of Thb Manchester Chartists. [We H...

      TRIAL OF THB MANCHESTER CHARTISTS . [ We have received the following from one of the defendants , written a snort tine before his conviction . } Tola trial commenced on Monday last at eleven O ' clock , before Barcn AJderson . Tie defendanta ' names were called , aud they were ordered into the dock . John West demanded that the indictment should ba read , before be would coBssEt to plead ; which , was complied with . George White objected to p ' ead , on ' tbe gtoand that ba was not in a position to obtain a fair trial , as he not received a copy ef the depositions , nor Bad any idea ef the charge .

      The judge crannied the objection , and tha defendants pleaded— 'Not Guilt / . ' An application * as then made to bo allowed places at the table vhich waa agreed to ; The Attorney General opeaed the proceedings in a most bitter tone , and several policemen were examined . The defendants cress-examined the police witnesses on both days , and also a volunteer ap ; sained Ball , who BWOTOtO tb . 9 most infamous lies concerning Church burning , firing houses , blowing op buildings , & o . He out-Powel'ed Powell ; tat such was his audacity , that 03 being brought to identify the parties against whom ha was swearing , be could only name two . He was ultimately turned out ef court by tha judge . Tha defendants spote in their own defence , and occupied nearly the whole of Tuesday with their

      several speeches . On Wednesday morning , a few 'witnesses were called for the defence , seme of them to prove an ahbi . but they were of no particular use . The Attorney General then began in a most bitter strain , to endeavour to prejudice the jury against the defendants , alleging that it was through their speeches that all the evils arising from the late excited state of the public mind proceeded . Be then endeavoured to make out a charge of general conspiracy against them , and at tha writer of taisbap-£ 533 to be one of the party , be must come to a speedy close , at be must try to get this posted lest ha should be incapab ' e in an hour . There seems little doubt that we snail all be is Ejrkdale gaol to night . And sow that we hare dose our dnty , it is to be hoped that the people will do their duty to carfamilies .

      The Assassinations At Stanfield Hall. ¦E...

      THE ASSASSINATIONS AT STANFIELD HALL . ¦ eifiSE OF THS KO . TJIBT . —VJBDICT OF W 1 XTCL MORDEE igAIKBTBUSH . WntosDHiM , WBDjris » AY . —Tha protracled inquiry was retained bj Mr Press , the Norfolk coroner , ior tha sixth , time , yesterday , at the King ' s Head Ins , in this town ; and eoae additional evidence having been given , whieh , however , added nsthing material to ihe facts already before the public , The Jury fraud the following verdict : — ' That the ¦ deceased Ur Isaac Jenny and Mr Isaac Jenny Jenny were wilfully nnrderedby ** BJomfield Rash . ' The search for tbe weapons with which the crime * -were perpetrated ii still prosecuted with thaatmoii rigUuce , bat hitherto without success .

      Joseph Adt Acini!—Fhe Public Are Caution...

      Joseph Adt Acini!—fhe public are cautioned against the renewed attempts at impositioa by tht ottorioos Joseph . Ady . Alderman Woolmer of Exeter , has lately recerwdoBe of Ms epistles referruu to bia haling obtaintd £ 10 . 000 . for Sir Herbert J Fast , and offering , for % remittance of £ 1-, to interfere in a similar case , ' only cot 19 Bflej ) WW ]* '

      To The Working Classes. « Words Are Thin...

      TO THE WORKING CLASSES . « Words are things , and a small drop of Ink : Faffiaj—Uka dew—npoa a tnoogbt , produces That whUh . makes thousand ! , perhaps millions , thiak . * BfaoK .

      WRONGS , RIGHTS , AND DUTIES . MEMOIRS OF CITIZEN CAUSSIDIERE . * { Concluded . ) BkOTHER PaOLBTARUNS , Not the least of the wrongs of jour order is ibe impossibility of obtaining a fair and impartial trial in tiis event of having to mast a charge of' sedition , ' political' conspiracy , ' or that higher offence , onoe so commonly committed by the aristocracy of this country , ' treason . ' For a member of your order to be accused of either of these offences is tantamount to being condemned . An acquittal is a matter of such rare occurrence , that I doubt if even that notorious possessor of the beat of memories , ' tha oldest inhabitant , ' can remember such an event .

      I have not forgotten the historical fact of the acquittal of House Took , Thulwall , and others , which acquittal is celebrated every year at Ridley ' s Hotel , Blackfriars , by a set of bourgeois liberals asd policial adventurers , who meet to guzzle and glorify each other , and toast' Trial by Jury . * The celebration of' ths glorious triumph of Trial by Jury' is in these times a glorieus exhibition of humbug . Trial by Jury , 'like most of ' our excellent institutions , ' is avety good thingfor tbe rich and the bouroeoisie , but , as regards the poor , they would not be much woree off were they subjected to trial by court-martial . As long as the middle classes dabbled in sedition , their leaders , spokesmen , and instruments generally , were acquitted whenever a majority of' Liberals got

      into the jury-box . But times have changed . Tbe lourgeouit , if they have not obtained all they want , have obtained sufficient power to enable them to accomplish any further change whenever they may choose to pnt forth their strength and help themselves . They therefore no longer sympathise with tee advocates of organic reform . The Charter is to them' the abomination of desolation , ' perhaps natso much on account of the principles of that measure , as because the Chartists are strongly suspected of a desire to make political reform subservient to social reform . Perhaps the bit-by-bit reformers arerhjht in their suspicions . I trust they are , for I bold , with Laubkrah , that Liberty is something more than a word printed on a placard and posted at tho corners oi the streets . The liberty to live—the liberty to

      enjoy the fruits of oae ' s own labour , unplundered by idlers—is tha first of liberties ; and 'Charters' and ' Constitutions' are only valuable so far as they may enable the disinherited people to recover their social rights , and protect those rights when recovered . Mr ? ou £ CK , ' . o & muel for some of tbo Liverpool Confederates , remarked a few days ago , that * it certainly was most gratifying to know that no charge of packing juries bad been raised during the trial of the Chartists in England . ' There is no need to incur the odium of packing juries when it is well known before * hand how the jurors will cive their verdict . Place Ftutian in the dock , let Silk Gotm charge tho culprit with beirg a , * physical force Chartist / and insinuate that he is not exactly free from the taint of * Communism . ' and forthwith Broad Cloth in the jury box wilt billow out 'GUILTY . '

      Jb the present day 'Trial by Jury'is one of the * great safeguards' of Baipotism . If a working man is imprisoned , transported , or hanged , who dareeromble * Has he not bad the benefit ot trial by jury ? Ah ! Proletarians of Germany , how happy you will be wben you have secured for yourselves that 'invaluable privilege ! ' How comfortable yon will feel when handed over to tbe tender mercies of dungeon villains , by the verdiet of twelve honest bourgeois , in * stead of being condemned by tbe mode heretofore in vogue in your country . Skining eels ia of coarse unavoidable ; Providence made eels to be skinned , asd if one is an eel , it is a matter of great importance that one shonld be skinned' constitutionally ' . '

      Tbe recent Chester Assizes afforded examples of tbe happy working of our blessed constitutional system . Similar examples bare bees exhibited at the Lirerposl Assizes . York , too . will produce its quota . At Chester the learned judge gravely informed the Grand Jury—whom he termed ' wise men '—that certain ' evil men' 'had tried te persuade the working classes that a general feeling existed amongst the rich to act towards them as oppressors . ' -If flUeh men exist anywhere ont of the dreamland of bis lordship ' s imagination , they should be set down as foolish , rather than as evil men ; for why should they devote their powers of persuasion to prove that which is as notorious as tbe eon at noon-day—the incontrovertible fact

      that'Laws grind the poor , and rich men rale the laws *' I wonld recommend the foslbh ( or * evil' ) men aforesaid to * save their breath to cool their porridge ;' seeing that tbe work of persuading the people as to tbe oppressive character of the rich can be best performed by the rich themselves , and is at this very time being moat admirably performed by jadeea , lawyers , and jurors , the 'legal and csnstitutional' representatives and champions of the privileged and the powerful . Of att the san sights under tbe sun , the mockery of justice performed in our Law Courts is amongst the saddest . Under the guise of a ' charge' to the Grand Jury , the Judge delivers a political speech embracinR a review of European politics—the everthrow of dynasties—the dire effects of

      revolutionsand the folly and wickedness of those who seek any change in our glorious institutions . Next a Whig Attorney-General appears on the stage , supported by an' array oTlegal talent , ' ' retained for the Crown . ' The talented gentlemen do not forget that their hoHE-hair head-fittings give them the privilege of uttering any amount of evil speaking , from assertions of tbe existence of 'dark and dangerous conspiracies , to imputations of * commnnism . ' The witnesses are then called—modest , truth-lovine policemen , and wretches compared with whom Judas Iscabioi , was a gentleman , for Mr Iscahioi' went and bunded himself—a not very common occurence with Whig spies . Sometime ? , when under crossexamination , the spy will come out with something like the following admission : —

      Ween charged by ths men with being a traitor ,. I always told tbem I was not . I was la tbe batit of com . muslcating ty ths policeman Brown all 1 knew . Then we have the following edifying interruption : — The Judge . —It is sot likely he would tell tha mob he was a traitor . Like your clients , he pleads not guilty to the charge . You may call it a lie if you like , I don't call it a lis . The Judge considers that a lie is not a lie , if the liar is a spy ! Bnt n ? ark the ( not rery ) deUcate insinuation intended for the ears of the jury : ' Like your clients he pleads not guilty to the charge . ' That is to say , the defendants are as innocent of the charges laid to their account as the spy is innocent of lying ! Sometimes the defendant has the assista nce of one of those worthy

      orators—? Who , right or wroog , will vindicate for gold . ' But occasionally the defendant ia too poor to secure that assistance and therefore defends himself . This affords thajudge . an opportunity not to be tbrownaway , of refusing the victim a seat , pen and ink , or ether matters , trifling in themselves , bat Beoessary to enable the accused man to make bis own defence . The defendant speaks or reads his defence , and tha boot at reporters for the public journals dismiss it in a line as a ' Chartist haranpnp , filled with the usual stuff of web . addresses . ' ln & 'Q 6 * dofttw > b » , * replies , the judge sums up with'his usual ability and impartiality , ' and tbe jury , after knocking their heads together aa a matter of form , face the bench , and proclaim the prisoner 'guilty . ' The doomed man is a Chartist , 'thai is enough , ' cry the bourgeois jury , — ' Away with him , away with bins ! Cruelty him . crucify trim V

      Then comes the sentence . This is a grand occasion for insulting the victim , and delivering another political speech . Sometimes the judge says to the prisoner . 'You are a young man with a very voluble tongue , and an empty head , as most mob orators are . ' I will merely append the remark that ' empty heads , ' are not confined to ' mob orators . ' It ia fortunate for some persons that a horse-hair wig covers a multitude , ' of absurdities . Brieve me , brother proletarians , ' trial by jury / will never be of value to you nntil you reconquer

      your right of direct and universal representation in the Legislature . When yon sbtUl ^ bave von the acknowledgment Ot that right , and shall be able to exercise it in accordance with the system projected in tbe Charter , yon will only hare yoanel ves to blame if yon do not make of « trial by jury , ' a Terity . When working men shall be tried by their peers , then and not till then , will the great principle of' trial by jury , ' be carried out , and be a safeguard of the liberties of your order , instead of being , as it is at present , an engine of oppression and cruelty .

      Brother Proletarians , both the wrwga yon suffer , and the rights most wickedly withheld from yon , should stimulate jott to tha performance of your duties . , . , . . These duties at the present moment are plain and imperative . . 1 st . To show your active sympathy for your persecuted brethren and their families . 2 nd . To calmly but resolutely recommence your labours for the recovery of your political franchises , ^

      embodied in the People ' s Charter . Tbe victims are numerous and duly increasing . It is melancholy to rtflsct on the too probable Fate of too many bereaved families , unless an ample fond is provided for their , relief . But I bare no hope of seeing auob . % fond established unless tha machinery of a powerful Chartist organisation is called into existence : With , suck machinery the collection of funds would be comparatively easy . __ Again , early in tne ensuing session ao attempt should be made in Parliiaeat to prwwe , if p » w

      To The Working Classes. « Words Are Thin...

      ble , a curtaiimsnt of the sentences passed on—and an amelioration of the treatment of the incarcerated and expatriated victims . The machinery of a national combination will bd necessary to gat up memorials ; addresses , Ac . Sympathy for the victims should , therefore , bo of itself a sufficient incentive to cause you to rally round the New Executive , and the newly-organised Plan of Organisation . But , if you possess the hearts and souls of men , your own emancipation will be the prime motive of joar renewed exertions to carry the Charter .

      When tha working men of other nations offer their Mood for holy liberty , surely re may give a few sweat drops . 0 o tbe continent thousands have already laid down their lives , and tens of thousands mora are ready to walk iu the footsteps of tbo martyrs , and shall we , 0 ! my countrymen , shall we not make the small sacrifices which , if generally offered , would suffice to achieve our political redemption ? If we will not do the little required of us to enable us to burst our chains , then , indeed , we shall well merit the pitiless tread of our masters , and that worse doom , tke contempt and scorn of our brethren throughout the world .

      The Stab , of Saturday last , contained an Addren from the Chartist Executive , appealing to all who hold and cherish . the principles ef Chartism for tbe means' to commence tha new year with a renewed campaign for the Charter . I earnestly trust that that appeal will be responded to . The offering reqjired will enable the Exeoutive to take active measures for tbe propagation of Chartism without waiting for the slow returns provided for in tbe roles of the Association . Indeed , if armed with the

      means of re-creating an agitation for the Charter , the 'slowreturns ' may be immediately transformed into quick returns . Armed with funds , the Executive will be enabled to send forth lecturers and agents , who will everywhere ' organise the friends of Democracy , and who in their tarn will , as 8000 as organised , supply the chiefs of the Association with the means of carrying on the struggle . Entertaining these views , I hold that every true Chartist ought—and I am persuaded that every true Chartist wiU subscribe to the national

      NEW YEAR'S GIFT , for the advancement of our holy cause . Let every Democrat give bis mite . Let the Chartist councils and committees at once set about the good work of providing trustworthy agents to collect the subscriptions . Let the resolotiea be universal to devote Sunday , the last day of this memorable year , aud Monday , the first day of January , 1849 , to the collection of the patriotic offering for the Charter . ' England eapeeU that every tmn will do his duty . ' Bboihik Proletarians , I shall devote tbe remainder of this letter toacoaolading netioeef the Memoir of Ci ism Caussidiere . Last Saturday ' s Stab contained ( in the Review page ) an extract describing the unfortunate affair

      of the 15 ' . h of May . It will be remembered that the accusatory resolutions adopted by the National Assembly against Gititen Caussidibbb , charged him with being concerned in the mauifestati & n of that day . A careful perusal of tbe exile ' s account of his conduct on that occasion has served but to confirm the previous conviotion I entertained of his perfect innooence of the charge fabricated by his enemies-No unprejudiced person can read the ex-Pref ( Ct ' 8 frank and straightforward statements without coiling to the conclusion , that so far from participating openly or secretly in the as ault on tbe Assembly , he regarded that assault as most injurious to the cause of the true Republic—a matter to be deplored by all honest democrats .

      On the evening of tha 15 th of May , the Prefect of Police was summoned before tbe Exeoutive Commission . He attended , at the cost of great personal goffering , for he had been unable to walk far many days previous , owing to a contusion of tbe right knee . He-was told by Garmbr Pages that the Assembly demanded his dismissal . Caussidibrs defended himself , bnt added that he was quite ready to resign bis office . Be was answered , that the Executive decided to retain bis services as Prefect of Police , The members of the Commission appear to have acted a double-faced part . They made solemn promises to CAuasiDiESB ( ht the presence of witnesses , ) guaranteeing the proper organisation of the

      Republican Guard ; and , trusting to those promises , he consented to retain his office of Prefect . The nex » day ' s Mositedr , which should have exhibited the realisation of the pledges given by the Commission , contained instead an order fer the disbanding of the Republican Guard , the Montagnarcls , & o „ rcoompsnied by a decree authorising the establishment of a totally different force . This act of double dealing was appropriately followed up by sending a hostile force of the Garde Nationals and Qarde Mobile , with two pieces of artillery , against the Prefecture , to dislodge tbe men whose only crime was that oi being too thoroughly Republican to suit ths t & ato of the Commission , and tbe designs of the Anti-Republican majority in the Assembly .

      Sick of the faithlessness of tbe Commission , CaossmiBBs threw up his Prefectship . His leave-taking with his faithful guard was a sorrowful one . ' Tho ; were , ' says he , ' not soldiers , that were leaving me , but brother * , friends , in whose o rapany I had safely come out of many dangers . It was a cruel moment ! Many of them I saw for tha last time—they fell in the days of June . ' Cifoan Ca . xsum . rrs . ' s account of the receipt and disbursement of the public monies at the Prefecture , during bis three months of office , will be read with unalloyed satisfaction by his friends , and eannot fail to command the ( it may be unwilling ) respect of even histnemies . A letter from Lamariihk testifies to the honesty , ability , and energy displayed by Citizen CAUsfiDiEr . E'dttring his three months of power as Prefect oi Pclica .

      On resigning bis Prefectship , Citizen Cacssibieh-k also resigned his seat in the Assembly . At the June election he was re-elected at the head of the list , his name commanding 147 , 000 votes . The terrible combat ef June , Citizen Caussidibrs rightly names ' the insurrection of despair . ' I have repeatedly commented on that extraordinary insurrection , and I have always defended the insurgents . I fiod nothing in Citizen Causbidisbb ' s book to make me regret that defence , but much the re vera a . Honour to the martyr-heroes of June \ Accused by Onixiox Babrot ' s Inquisition , and proscribed by the votes of the reactionary majority in the Assembly , Louis Blanc and Caussidiebb withdrew from France for a time , and took refuge in this country .

      The exiled patriots took this step most unwillingly bnt I think most properly . Their frienda rightly argued that to remain in Paris would be to increase the number of hostages already banded over to the reactionists . Citizen Caujsimbbe concludes his Memoirs with an earnest and eloquent prayer for the speedy ' realisation of the Democratic and Social Republic ' Cit ? zen Oausbidibbs ' s Memoirs faithfully image their author . The book ia a picture of the manfrank , hearty , and honest .

      Though no youth , Citizen Caub ) imbbb is jet young enough to give promise of many years ' service in the ranks of Democracy ; He very properly belongs to 'the Mountain , ' for in person he is a mountain of a man . His appsaranoe iathe personification of good faith , good humour , and kind-hearted-Bess ; and to him may be justly app lied the words of th © rhymer : — 'If to his share somj huam errors fall , LJok oa his face aad you'll forget them all J » Since August last both Louis Blanc and Caussibdcbb have been sojourners ia this metropolis . They await the summons of their judges to return to their own country . Oa the day of trial they will face their accusers , and defend their acts and their principles . That they may triumph over their enemies ia the sincere wish of every English Democrat . . L'Ami » u Peuple . Dficember 20 tb , 18 i 8 ,

      Cholera. On Saturday, The Following Fres...

      CHOLERA . On Saturday , the following fresh cases were . reported to the Board of Health - . -Limeheuse , 1 fatal ; Bromley St Leonard ' s , 1 ; Wandsworth , 2 , 1 fatal t Whitechapel , 1 fatal ; Nordelph . 1 ; Sunderland , 1 fatal ; Monkwearmouth . i ; Hertford , 1 fatal ; fcdinbBrgb , 13 ; Glasgow , 31 , 10 fatal ; Maxwell . toWB , 11 , 5 fatal ; StNinian ? , by Stirling . 1 ; 0 Id Kilpatrick , 7 , 3 fatal ; Treaant , 2 ; Kirkintilloch , 1 fatal ; Binttle . 2 . 1 fatal ; Glencaun , 1 fatal . Total new cases , SO ; 26 deaths . . On Monday , the Board of Health received reports of the following fresh cases : —Lambeth , lfatal ; Poplar , 1 faW ; Stoke Newington , lfatal ; Waads worth , 2 , 1 fatal ; Hackney Road , 1 ; Cambridge , lfatal : Monkwearmouth , 8 , 1 fatal ; Edinburgh , 8 . 4 fatal : Glaseow . 34 . 19 fatal ; Dumfries and

      Maxwell-town . 12 , 6 fatal ; ( Falkirk , 3 fatal ; Prestonpans , 11 , 8 fatal ; Prestonclerk , 1 ; Castle Douglas , 2 fatal ; Greenock , 1 ; ThornbiU ( Morton ) . 1 ; New Kilpatrick , lfatal ; Old Monkland , bj ICoatbridge , Lanark , 12 fatal . Total , 99 ; 60 deaths . On Tuesday , the Board of Health received reports of the following sew oases : Whitechapel , ?; Bromley StLeonard's 1 ; Islington , 1 fatal ; Wandsworth . 1 fatal ; Liverpool , 7 , 6 fatal ; Edinburgh , 17 . 11 fatal ; Glasgow , 1 % 20 fatal ; Maxwell town , 18 , 8 fatal ; Cleesburn , 1 .. Total , 132 , 53 d 6 aths .-Yesterday the Asbeny , convict ship , from Woolwioh for flobart Tewa , arrived at the Quarantine Ground , Mother & ank , having cholera on board . The surgeon of the Victory , flsg-ship at Portsmouth , was sent off to render assistance . —It will be seen that our Dublin correspondent reports five fatal cases as haying occurred at Belfast .

      _ „_ . . „ Wednesday the Board of Health received reports of the following new esses : —Wandsworth , 1 fatal ; Chelsea , 1 fatal ; Castleford ( Pontefaot ) , 2 1 fatal ; Monkwearmouth , 3 , 1 fatal ; Cowes ( Isle ot Wight ) , 2 , 1 fatal ; Scotland , viz ,: Edinburgh , 7 , 4 fatal ; Giaagow . 69 , 30 fatal ; Maxwelltown 7 , 4 fatal ; Brittle , 1 fatal : Preatonkirk , 1 fatal j Prestonpaos , £ fatal i KelsOi 4 , Total now ease * , tfi .-WM *

      The Rational Mode Of Permanently And Pea...

      THE RATIONAL MODE OF PERMANENTLY AND PEACEABLY ADJUSTING THE PRESENT DISORDERED STATE OF EUROPE . Skcond . Srction . . Law 8 . f Every one shall have egual and full liberty to express the dictates of HJS conscience on religious and all other subjects . "

      REASONS FOR THIS LAW . Any thing short of this liberty is tyranny of the most demoralising character , and the father of falsehood , The law of God on this subject is , that man forms not hisown opinions ; he ia compelled to have them by the strongest conviction made on his mind , and his mind is created for him . No man has therefore any just right to say to another , " You shall not think your own thoughts , but mine . " This is contrary to nature ; and the Jaws of God declare that one man shall have no more power over the

      thoughts of another than that which fair argument , expressed in ' the spirit of charity , based on the knowledge of the true formation of opinion , shall give him . Truth can never become the language of the world until this mental bondage of one man ' s thoughts to another shall be altogether abandoned . The language of the mind and heart is always a delightful language to humanity , and it is the only language of reason and rationality . Law 9 . " No one shall have any other power than fair argument to control the opinions and belief of another , ' *

      The reasons for this law are included in the preceding . ^ Law 10 . " So praise or blame , no merit or demerit , no reward or punishment , shall be awarded for any opinions or belief . "

      REA . 80 K 3 FOR THIS LAW , The laws of God declare that man cannot form , or , of himself , change his opinions or belief ; that they are therefore , in every case created for him , It is most irrational , then , to attribute praise or blame , merit or demerit , or to reward or punish men for the , opinions which , by their nature , they are compelled to have . And yet the ignotance of man on this

      subject has produced , through the ages which have passed , more division of mind and feelings , aud more violence and crime , than any other error of our inexperienced ancestors . It has destroyed all moral and mental charity , and made man far move irrational in his conduct to man , than any other animal to its own species . This error , also , must be entirely abandoned , before there can be any chance for the language of truth to be introduced among the human race .

      Law U . "But all , of every religion , shall have equal right to express their opinions respecting the Great Creating Power of the Universe and to worship that Power under any form and in any manner agreeable to their consciences , not interfering with the equal rights of others who may deem all such worship useless or irrational . ' '

      REASONS FOR THIS LAW . The existing religious impressions over the world have been the natural effects of the circumstances of latitude and longitude , acting upon the easily impressible young mind trained within their influence . The inhabitants of these districts have , through this process , with comparatively few exceptions , been made conscientious disciples of the religions taught in their respective localities . They could not avoid having these impressions made upon their minds , and they are blameless for them . It would be therefore cruel and unjust to prevent

      any of these persons from expressing their conscientious irapress ' ons , or from following their respective modes of worship , The laws of God declare that man has an eternal right to express his thoughts , and to act according to the notions of right which have been given to him ; therefore , openly to speak his belief , and act accordingly , and not to prevent any others from having the same liberty , however widely the thoughts and actions , if not injurious in practice , may differ from those which he has been compelled to receive . This knowledge of the true formation of opinions is the only foundation for universal charity , and

      kindness , and forbearance among men . No mere ' precepts can create these godlike virtues ; they rievw have existed upon earth ; they never can be formed under the laws of man . It is useless to expect to see them in practice until those uncharitable and unkind laws shall be abandoned , and superseded by the all-merciful , benevolent , and wise laws of God—not until those laws shall become the lairs of the world , and govern all the thoughts and actions of men . Then there will be true mental liberty , and pure charit y , undefiled by the ignorant laws of our early inexperienced ancestors .

      Third Section . The Principles and Practices of the Rational Religion . Law 12 . " That all facts yet known to man , indicate that there is an external or internal cause of all existences , by the fact of their existence ; that this all-pervading cause of motion or change in the elements of the universe , is that Incomprehensible Power which the nations of the world have called God , Jehovah , Lord , & c , & c . , but that the facts are yet unknown to man which can enable hiav to define what that Power is . ' '

      REASONS FOR THIS LAW . The irrationality , insanity , disunion , and miseries of human existence , have chiefly arisen from the most crude and wild notions of men respecting the active power of nature , of which they are at thU day as ignorant as when they first began to conjecture upon a subject so far , hitherto , beyond their capacity to discover . The priesthood of the world have led mankind so far astray on this subject , that they have misdirected and stultified the reasoning faculties of the human race , and filled their minds , at various periods , in different divisions of the earth , with all manner of absurd inconsistencies .

      They and their disciples have written and spoken of a Power to which theyhave , through a wild and disordered imagination , attributed their own feelings , thoughts ) and conduct , although they have ever been most ignorant of every attribute of that Power , and have never possessed the slightest knowledge of what it may be . To day—after the unnumbered ages which have passed—after the millions of works written upon the subject—after the innumerable sermons preached respecting it—after the torments which have been insanely inflicted

      upon the conscientious , the sacrifice in religious wars of human life beyond estimate , and a senseless waste of the wealth of society to sup * port idle or ill-occupied inquisitors , bigots , fanatics , and visionaries , to establish and extend one set of absurdities , in opposition to others equally , or more or less absurd—all that the whole experience of the past has disclosed to man ' s capacity is , that some Power to continue nature in its onward progress , exists from necessity , but what that Power ia no man has yet discovered , and all the sayings of the past on the subject are mere human sounds without meaning , and serve only to expose the extent of man ' s

      irrationality . The discovery of this important truth indicates that the period approaches when the human intellects shall be relieved from this insanity , and when man shall be disabused of this stumbling block to his onward progress towards the attainment of real knowledge , aad shall be enabled to become a rational being . Thus will the Creating Princip le of the universe , to which man can do no good , cease to be the cause of hatred , anger , disunion of mind , and uncharitable feelings among the human race . Thus will . the ohsiiTj UCtion be removed which prevents charity , aud kindness , ! and union being created , peace becoming universal , and happiness everlastingly progressive ,

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      An abstract name , to which no definitive rational idea can be given , will thus cease ( o be , as it has been heretofore a firebrand , burning up the universal love of humanity , and destroying the germs of charity and unity between man and man ; charity , union , and love , without which virtues human existence becomes a curse instead of a blessing . nv j . i j j . Robert Owen . 11 o be concluded in next Saturday ' s « Star . ' ' ]

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      rm . l , MKirOMrt ttBaii . The absurd mandate ef Judge Perrin , with reference to the publication of the proceedings in this case by tbe Dublin papers , has been insisted upon , and ihe consequence is that tbe Frbsman has come out daily with blank colnmns where the report should have been . Tbe following is from the Mormxq Eeralv , by ' our own reporter * ;—1 The court sat at ten o ' clock on Monday , when Charles Gavan Duffy was arraigned .

      'The court gave judgment against the nrisoner on bis motion to quash tbe new indictment . * Judge Perrin said , that thejprisoner hsd been called upon to plead to an indictment , found by tho grand jury of t * . e city , charging him with felony , in compassing to depose the Q-ieea , and levy war against her Majesty under ihe statute of the last session . The prisoner had moved , through his council , that the indictment be quashed on the ground that another indictment was pending charging the same offence , found by the grand jury for the county of Dublin , and preferred against the prisoner under the

      6 th of Geo . iv ., eh . si . It was now contended that the Grown were bouad to abide by the first indictment ao found by tbe county grand jury , and coald not try the prisoner under the indictment found by the city grand jury , therefore the indictment ought to be quashed . It was plain upon the authorities that there was no legal objection to the Grown availing itself of a bill of indictment ; found by the city s ?* andjury -while another indictment was pending , but tbe Court were found to protect the prisoner from suffering any disadvantages , or being tried a second time for tbe same offence . There were clear

      authorities establishing that the mere fact of the existence or pending of another indictment for the same offence was not a sufficient greusd for culling upon the Court to quash a fresh indictment . It was so taled \ n a cam referred to in * The Kinev . Straiten , ' cited by Mr Butt , the case of The King v . Wells , ' 3 d Burrows , and also in 1 st Blacbstone ' s Reports . It was not illegal , as appeared by the authorities to which he had referred , before the statute , to have a second bill found , so that it seemed difficult to hold that where there was no provision in the act they shou ? d imply tbe existence of a provision restraining the Grown from preparing a second bill in tbe place where the offdtica was committed , and where upon further consideration and reflection the first officer of the Crown

      might deem it fit and proper to proceed . No donbt the Court , at the same time , would take care to prevent asy oppression , or any vexatious use or abuse of the proceeding ; bat no authority was adduced to show that one of several indictments ( where more than one had been preferred , as in the case of a larceny in a stage coach ) was either invalid or better than the other . He was ef opinion that there was nothing in the statute prohibiting the Attorney General from tending up a fresh bill of indictment in the county of the city , although a bill of indictment had been found , or might be found , in the county , lie did not think that the Court could imply a provision the effect of which would be to deprive the Crown of the power of enforcing the due administratis !! of justice by preferring a fit and proper bill if it

      were the opinion of the responsible advisers of the Crown that that was the preferable course to take . His Lordship then proceeded to show that the indict moot was only oae-third the lize of the previous indictment , and neither the Court nor the council could object to the indictment upsn the ground of its brevity . It appealed to the court tbat the application was one of first impressions , and as the prisoner would not be in any manner prejudiced by the trial , it felt it to ba its duty to refuse the motion . Baron Richards coneurred in the judgment delivered by the senior judges . s Mr Duffy here addressed Judge Perrin , and observed that it would be a serious injury te him if his lordship refused to withdraw the order vthioh be had made on Saturday—namely , that the proceedings should not be published ,

      Judge Perrin said tbat be conld not hear the prisoner through counsel and for himself . Mr Butt , Q ,. C , cue of Mr Duffy ' s counsel , here addressed the Court . He said it was irregular for any one ta address his lordship upon the subject ; but he understood his client to be desirous that his lordship would not carry out hia order prohibiting the publication of the trial till it had terminated . Judge Perrin . —We cannot comply with the request . The prisoner was then called upon to plead , Mr O'Hagan , ene of hia counsel , handed to the Clerk of the Crown a plea in abatement , on tbe ground that the prisoner could not ba called upon ts plead , inasmuch as two of the grand jury by whom the bills had been found—namely , Waiter Sweetman and Patrick Boylan—were not at ihe time

      inhabitants and freemen oi tha oity of Dublin . The case was then adjourned from two o ' clock to five to give the counsel for the Crown an oppertunity of considering what answer they would give to the foregoing plea . At five o ' clock the law officers returned into court , and were informed by their lordships that as they had taken up another case ( one in which a woman was charged with having poisoned a man namod Thomas Nolan ) , they should postpone tho further hearing of the arguments in Duffy ' s case till the following morning ( Tuesday ) . Judge Perrin threw out that aa the Court wouldpro . tecfc the prisoner from being injured by the existence of another indictment , it was for the Crown to say whether a nolle prosequi shonld not be entered upon

      Dobus , Dsc 20 . —The argument of the plea in abatement proceeded yesterday morning , and will last during the diy . The Attorney General entered o demurrer , and contended that the common law or the statutes did not disqualify jurors from having any freehold in tho county for which they wore em pannelled in the counties oi cities , and towns , nor need they necessarily ba inhabitants , provided they resided therein , that is , transacted their business , or held their places of business , in the county , in the body of which they were empannelled ; that at common law every loyal subject was qualified who dwelt within the body of the county . Should this question be decided as it is generally presumed it the effect will be

      will , in favour of the prisoner , _ strange and embarrassing to tbe crown . This is the third commission sicca Mr Duffy was first indicted , and under tbe Habeas Corpus Act he ia entitled to be now put upon hia trial , admitted to bail , or dis charged . As regards tbe second indictment yet subsisting , tbat found in the county , the crown teems already to abandon it , and both grand juries having been discharged , no new indictment either in city or county , can be preferred at this commission . What course then remains to prevent Mr Duffy's release on bail , unless , indeed , the powers oi ' the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act be invoked against him , and he shall ba continued in prison under a warrant of the Privy Council ?

      The question of the demurrer was argued yesterday by the Attornev General ; and Mr John O'Hagan , with Mr Nap'ier , Q , C , supported the plea . Mr Serjeant O'Brien replied upon the part of the crown . At the conclusion of the argument the court intimated that the question to be decided was too grave , and the authorities quoted on both sides were of such numbers and importance , that they could not bo considered and judgment upon them prepared tomorrow . ' The court , therefore , will not give judgment to-day , or probably to-morrow . It ia likely tha * the judgment will not be delivered until Saturday .

      After their lordships had declared thoir resolve to ponder on tbe question , Mr Justice Perrin adverted to the order prohibiting publication of the proceedings . His lordship said that some vary foolish strictures upon the order promulgated by the court had been brought under his notice . He advised these parties to beware . What the court had directed was within its jurisdiction , and it was determined tbat its legal obligation should ba enforced . He cautioned those parties how they disobeyed the order . _ Baron Richards expressed his concurrence in the determination of his learned brother , and in the

      propriety of tha order , and referred to precedents , amongst others those afforded by Lord fillenborough and Mr Justice Holroyd . Mr Duffy then addressed the court , and said that he would show that the prohibition of publication was the causa of substantial injustice towards him . Mr Justice Pemn said the order was made as well for the protection of the prKr as the crown , and t would equally protect both . If , however , the prisoner had anything to urce against the order , let him instruct hia counsel to put it forward , and the court would give it due weight , otherwise they could not hear anything against the order .

      THE EKBEKIHATINO SYSTEM , The evictions aad houseJevelllng do no ! oeaie In aotlvlky . At ArdnaeranhB , a lltila tasmlet about two miles from Limerick , twenty houses were levelled on Monday , 'thousands of the fertile acres of Tioperaty are waste , and these are inoriased each day by farther aviations . The ease Is the same in Limerick and in Clare , We find dally announcements of Urge farmers running away , and sweeping all with them , They grow alarmed lest their turn may soon come , and they evade tne fata of others by dUhonsstty leaving ths land naked on tne landlords' hands . A few days since , la a district of Clare , while the farmers were at market with their produoe , the landlord ' s agents descended en the farmers with a large body of armed followers , and without legal process or authority ef any Mod , It is said , swept away all the sloe ' * on tbe land te aatlify the landlord's claims , On the other side of the picture we find that a tenant , holding ninety . sevea acre ; of land , bad sold eff everything , and , with the whole of the ornduoj ia bi » pocket ,

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      had reached LlaurSck . to emigrate , when be waa ar < « ated at the salt ot bia landlord and other crediicrf . A . fcmala , a tenant of . Mr M , Dawson , Tipperary , started a few days since with all her property , fcr America , owing £ 200 , At the lest meeting of the Kllrosh guardians , a fa rally of eix children oougfet admitwriOe to the work * house , whoso parents bad deterred them , U / Inj to America HoaaiBtE McaD £ R , Cjo « TrCAiw & r . —Itappearsthat In a village called L ' shochavally , oonvinlint to Castlelambert , resided a family named Holland , the elder of whom , Patrick , on the 24 tb Jane last , went to England for the purpose of seeking employment , leaving at hia home a younger brother , named Michael , aad a sister aged about 24 together with two children Diiilsg his

      absence * , up to the 12 in of Saptember , rumour has lr , that a boy in tho village , alto named Holland , was pay * leg his addresses to the sister , and goes ao far as to say that they were on terms of the greatest Intim . cy , much to the annoyance of the younger brother , who was dU * posed not to allow a marriage alliance—the conacqaesaa being that brother and sitter lived on . the worst postibla terms , However , on Patrick Holland's return , tha usual welcome from a sister to an absent brother being pasied , and all apparently mnoh satisfied asd xtelighted to see each other , he naturally inquired for Michael , whom he wondered not to see befdrrbim , out the sister replied tbat , three days previously to his arrival , he left ; for America , and tbat eh ? , to defray the tipcnsfl ' of the vojage , gave him thirteen guineas . This quieted his mind a little , nntil he saw the clothes of his brother oa

      the lover , which caused further inquiries , 'Which wars also set at rest by telling him tbat the brother Michael , thought them not worth carrying epross ' to the New World , but gave them to him . Believing this , all re * mained shrouded in mystery until last wetk , when h % commenced clearing aa ¦ unoccupied apartment in the house in consequent e of a smell notch' he daily found 00 . entering for his farming implements ; After removing some four or five carts of building materials , wfjfcn were heaped in a corner , to hit astonishment and horror ha found tbe mangled corpse of bis brother . Not being ; able to account for the untimely fate of the deceased , ha sought udviee of his unole and grandfather , who Oa hearing the melancholy news recommended , fur the character of the family , the house to be thrown down and tbe rules heaped on the spot to conceal the body

      Bat tbe idl cted brother very properly differed in opinion with his aged friends , exposed ths matter to the authorities to have the vengeance of tbo law fall upon the pjrpotratora of so barbarous an tct , and tbat-the . mur * derers of his brother should not esoop 9 with impunity . Earing come to Athenry he brought with him head con , stable Ramsey , in whose pretence the remains of tha murdered man were lifted from thur place of conceal , meut , and an inquest having been held , . a -verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against the eister . snd her lover . On learning the above facia , we .-4 rg . aire 4 mora particularly and heard tbat the lover re / used marrying : tbe sitter of the deceased , and that she a f « w days ' sinee eloped with another , who , on hearing of the murder and of the suspicion which rested upon her , also abeiu doned her . She has tinea evaded the police , bat . , they succeeded in arresting the unfortunate first lover .

      Stobm tist Win —Tha aciounts from all parts of the country bear testimony to the uern-ity of the storm of Friday lai t , The casualties by sea and land appear te hare been very numerous , CDOLBB * IK BELFAST , On Saturday and Sunday no less than five cases , all fatal , were reported in the workhouse of Belfast , and there setms every probability of its extending- in the house , THE COltUBIES IS ANTEIH . Messrs Owen and Gillau , from London , two of tha proprietors of the Ballycastle and Meirlough Bay Cat . iieries ( North Antrim ) have had an interview with his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant . A new aad interesting product of the Irish peat , resembling spermaceti ia quality and appr-araaoe , end which had been used for the manufacture of candles , was exhibited to his lord , ship , BOW TO IMFSCYS IBEIiAND .

      Mr John Rowland , merchant , ot Collon , oteervmr tha distressed condition ef the weavers of that town and district , commenced the linen manufacture , aud now employs upwards of 600 looms—three hundred of which belong to thb town . If we average the families of these 300 men thus employed at three each , ' we end this enterprising gentleman affording means of subsistence to l . SOO individuals , who would be otherwise destitute and a burden on the ratepayers of this town , It is gratifying to learn that Mr Rowland hai increased not only tha demand for Irish linen in the English market , but alio its character for quality . TBE B 0 TAT 0 & T PARLIAMENTS AGITATION .

      The first public meeting of the association for repeal * ing the union and establishing a system of rotatory parliaments was held on Mosday , at the NorAumbeil . ni Building . Tho meeting was called for half past QUO o ' clock , bat as there were not more than half-a-dczen gentlemen present , the ehair was not taken for nearly aa hour afterwards . Amongst those present were Lsrd Wm . Fitzgerald , Lord Massireeno , Sir M . Chapman , W , 8 . Crawford , Eq ., MP ., H . M . Plgot , Esq ,, J , L , Nspler , Eiq ., and about twenty other gentlemen . Lord Wm . Fi 2 . ; erald having taken the chair , Captain Robinson read some remarks in reference to the letters which the association had nceivid In reply to their circular . Seme correspondents declined to join tbe association , because they did not go the whole length of demanding a repeal of the union , others be . cause they ( the association ) went too far . Oa the whole however , they b * d every reason to be well satisfied with the success of tho project io far , ' The petition bad already received S 10 names of highly respectable

      persons . Mr W . S . Crawford , M . P , moved the first resolution , which was to the iffdct , — 'That the present mode of legislation for Ireland is at the root of all difficulties under which ihe conatry labours . ' The hon . member for Rochdale spoke at length In support of his proposition . Lord Massareene seconded , the motion , which passsd . The following resolutions , prepared by the committee , were submitted to the meeting , — ' That amongst the masy striking instances of n « gleet of Irish effalrs ma ; be enumerated the various attempts which have been made by Irish members in the Imperial Parliament to amend tho laws relating to out medical charities , la which patriotic tfforis they have entirely falle . i , owing to the anxious endeavours to place these charities under the peor law commissioners—to tho entire obstruction i for fourteen years of a measure of the moat vital iaipor . . tance to Ireland , ' ' Tbat the present mode of legisla . . tion for Ireland tends to alienate tfee aff ctloos * , of her r people , to prevent their industry aad self-reliance , asd d

      would bo impolitic ! even in a recently conquered country , * , * 1 That the waste lands of Ireland offer a vast field of ro « u muncratlve employment for her unemployed population , i , while the disappointment and tho many abortive at- ttemptB tbat have been made to legislate an the subject st in the Imperial Parliament , sitting at Westminster , tor- raishes another argument for a meeting of tha Imperial al Parliament in Dublin , ' and . agreed to . STATE OF CAVAK CODNTI , A local Conservative Journal , the angio-Gelt , laments its that tho voluntary assesament system , to extend employ- ) ymant and thus diminish poor rates , has not been takemea up generally in that county . Only four electoral dlvi-lvisions have carried out the principle , because , aays tue . tb . eA journal , * it Is only evil that is catching io iroiand . 'id . ' Hera is tbe state of Cavan , as assented by tbo Anqiojio-Celt : —

      ' Wnat a melancholy picture does Cavan present art at this present moment ! A half-stamd , b & lf . clothedhed peasantry , k ^ pt alive by a growing poor-rate , tbo landand untitled , the labourers idle , farmers sinking into paupers ^ ers , landlords melting away into thin air . Are there any any landlords'n CiVan' Yes , balf . a-dczen , perhaps—or ior il may be some eight stout-hearted gentlemen , who still still reside oa their estates , and manage—God ktowe how—> wto hold thtir heads above water . Tbe rental ef thtf tht county is large , but the proprietary la small ; at leasteast if wo may judge from appearances , and ' de non flpjwpp * rfliitibus el non aistentftus edtlem est ratio , ' We mast noit no be understood as wUhing to lay under one sweeping cen ; cen sure all the landlords now absent from their post . No No thing rould bo more unjust . Some of them are kep kep away by circumstances over which they have not , not , no

      ever had , the slightest control . How could the mot mot ! self-denving landlord who had an estate , say of teof te thousand a-jear mortgaged to three-fourths of its valuivaluii stand against tbe taxation oonstqutnt upon thepotaipotaii blight ! The utmost each a man could do wou'd bet bell make tho beat fight he could for a short time ( tho struggtrugg ; could not b » long ) , and fall , like Camr at the foot foot Pompay ' s statue , decently , Wa could name samowbiowlt hare se fallen— men whose bitterest regret «~ amid thJd thu miserably straightened circumstancei—are not for their then soiree , but fer their Impoverished tenantry , who « cone com i tion they had vainly strained ever ; nerve to amelioratlioral I Si sio omnes . Bat truth compels us to add , that th < at th « s Is a elm of landlords in this country who , though tbtghthi might do much to alleviate the suffirings of their their it nantry , pr * f .. r to do nothing . They calculate , vde , vec

      justly , that the present state of things cannot Inst . It . Tf poor-rate is increasing , and will Increase , ptrbaps f & ips {& m few years more , to nearly the entire absorption of en of it rental . But what of that ! Thiy have Other ( her 11 sources aud can live out the oriels . In the mean tioan tin a ' there is a flsul of goodness In things evil . ' Farms wrma j j In process of consolidation , Nominal landlords are > are Ing' used up , ' and are slowly making wiy for raw meni capital and enterprise . Paupers are dying eff , or ef , ot eifl grating . In a few years more their estates wll be rll be rr fer improvement , but tbe surplus population most whim witt off the land first . Is thia the cold-blooded policy policy r the landlords of the Ctoiebme division of the Balho Bah ! borough Union r Our readers are aware tint > tbat farmers of tbat division met some time ego ego

      patsed a series of resolutions calling upen their lshelr lsa lords to env « into a voluntary taxation with tlnith til for the purpose of employing the able . bodled pooad poo : ) : some remuu « atWe labour . Here was a manly tfianly efifi in the rigst direction , originating with the farmersAnners , t , ought to have originated with the landlords , ords . though they forgot or neglected their duty , they othey oi to have been at least thankful to their tenantstenautss putting them iu mind of It ; particularly whentt jutsult Jutt with their interest . Nevertheless , not one of tie of tt with tha exception of M ? Johnston , condesoende ' esoenaeli reply to the circulars of tha secretary appointed blnttd bl >; meeting , or to take the slightest notice of a moveia move ' e : which they ought to have encouraged b * every nevery nn la thilr power , ' ' '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 23, 1848, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23121848/page/5/