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      Poland's Hope. As Xkjest Ionea. Poles! B...

      POLAND'S HOPE . as xkjest ionea . Poles ! be free . The words are spoken ; Battles lost and treaties broken , Ratify the great decree ; Sot the war-horse madly prancing , Not the bayonetredly glancing , But the march of mind Advancing , Says : Be free ! Poles , be free ! Yet we say not : Peace !—to them ! Peace ! It is a costly gem . That a slave cannot afford ; While the Vistula ' * great waters Swell with tears of Poland ' s daughters , And with Wood of Russian slaughters , ^ eTer never sheathe the sword . Tell the Kaiser , King , and Tsar , They must still prepare for war .

      As long as there's a man to bill ; lis the cheater they have cheated ; 'Tis the nobles they defeated ; 'lis the tyrants that have fleeted ; But the people brave them still ! RuKia ! launch o'er that great river , From each battery ' s burning quiver All the arrows of your hate : Blood ef Poles their fire shall quell , And , for themselves invincible , Shall make the Russian free as well , Soon or late—soon or late .

      Tremble , monarchs ! lest the slave Learn , from striving with the brave , Their great courage , to be free ! lest your soldiers , home returning , Corns with fires of freedom burning , And your worthlessfettew spurning , Strike at je—strike at j e ! 'lis no more the olden story . Sceptre golden , crozier hoary . Worthless waifs of Folly ' s day : Tis the people , freshly risen , Beat against each nation-prison ; So appeal from Pste ' s decision : You or they—you or they 1

      Fields are rife with fiery store ; Freedom bends her harvest o ' er , Poland ! not alone for thee : Throughout nun ' s great inheritance , Where ' er God ' s glorious sunbeams glance , And breezes blow and billows dance , Potts , be raze * and "Wo * u > , at mist

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      Extinction Of Pauperism. Brttuitcs Napoi...

      EXTINCTION OF PAUPERISM . Brttuitcs Napoieo 5 Louis Buoxapabtb . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . Princes but rarely profit by mUForttme : whether la prison or exile they usually "forget nothing and leam nothing ; " nevertheless , in this ajse of progress there are even princes who exhibit themselves as exce ptions to the above um \ ersally-recognised rule . y / e understand that his exiled Highness the Duke B'Bra nswickhas , during his stajr amongstno , become iraething more than a mere political Radical , and should be ever return to Brunswicfc will be very likelv to astonish the liberal gentry who some fifteen Tears ago were bo excessively revolutionary . In the little work before us we have evidence that the lessors of adversitv have also had a good effect upon the last of the Napoleons . The would-be Emperor of

      France has not sojourned in the citadel of Ham for nothing . He has , apparently , left that fortress " a better and a wiser man ; " less inteat upon gainings crown , than of improving the condition ot the unhappy millions of bis fellow-creatures . Although we should be ver y sorry to help either the Duke of Brunswick or Prince Napeleon to thrones—for " put aot your trust in princes" is still the orthodox belief with mt—nevertheless , we hail with gladness every exhibition by them of a sincere interest in the wal . fare of their fellow-men . If , indeed , they have abjured the arrogance and prejudice of class , and learned to regard all men as their brethren , onr wish will be that they may speedily hare their term of exile brought to a close , and consequently , be surroanded by better circumstances than they are at present , to enable them to aid iu the great work of mankind ' s regeneration .

      In the little work before us , the author , after briefly but faithfully describing the evils of the present system as regards industry , taxation , agriculture , and home and foreign commerce , sums up in the following words : — The working classes possess nothing . We must make thtm proprietors of the soil . They possess no wealth tave in their arms . We must employ these , so as to make them useful to all . The working classes are like Helots in the midst of a Sabyrite people . We mast give them a position in society , and bind their interests to the soil . Finally , the working classes are without organisation attachments , rights , or prospects . We must give them both rights and future prospects , and elevate them in the scale of society by combination , education , and discipline . The author next brine forward bis remedy : —

      To accomplish a project so worthy of the democratic and philanthropic spirit of the age , so necessary fer the general well being , and so nseful to the repose of society , three things are necessary : —1 st , A law . 2 nd , The advancement of funds from the budget . 3 rd , Organisation . r . TffE law . There are in Prance , according to official agricultural statistics , 9 , 190 , 000 acres of uncultivated lands belonging to government , to boroughs or individuals . These heaths , commons , or pasture lands yif Id a very small rent of 8 francs an acre . They are like sunk capital , benefiting no one . Let the chambers decree that all tb ? se uncultivated lands shall belong in right to the working association , on condition that they annuall y pay

      to the actual proprietors the same amount which they receive now . let them consign the idle acres to the Hie arms , and these two unproductive capitals will spring into Ufa , the one operating upon the other . Then the means will have been discavered of mitigating misery by enriching the country . So as to avoid the reproach of exsggitation , we will suppose that two-thirds of these nine millions of acres ran be given up to the association , and that the remainder may be either unarabls or occupied by houses , rivers , canals , & c . There will remain 6 , 127 , 000 acres to be cleared . This work would be rendered possible by the creation of agricultural colonies , which when scattered all over France would form the basis of a single and vast organisation , of which all the poor workmen might be members although not individual proprietors .

      2 . THBABVAHCEOt JrSDS . The necessary advance of money for the creation of these colonies eught to be furnished by the state . According to our estimate , 390 millions of francs or £ 12 , 000 , 000 payable in four years , would be required . This advance of 300 millions of francs would not then be a sacrifice , hut a magnificent investment of money ; and could the State on contemplating ( he grandeur of the ohject refuse it , whilst annually expending 4 C millions of francs in preventing or punishing attacks made upon property , whilst sacrificing every year 300 millions of francs in teaching the trade of soldiering , and whilst proposing aa etpenditure of 120 millions of francs in the construction of new prisons t In short , the nation which without perishing gave 2 , 000 millions to the Invaders of

      France , which without murmuring paid 1 , 000 millions to emigrants , which without alarm expended 300 millions oa the fortifications of Paris ; will that nation , I ask , hssitate to advance 800 millions in four years to abolish pauperism , to relieve the coxemnnity of the enormous burdens , imposed by misery , and to augment the territorial wealth by more than 1 , 000 millions i SOME OF TOE ADVASTAGES or AGKICCLTGBAL COLONIES . Agricultural colonies would have two ends to fulfil . The first would be to support a vast number of poor by employing them in the cultivation of the soil , & c . The second would be to afford a temporary refuge to the floating mass of workmen , whom the prosperity of trade , once called into activity , and whom its stagnation or the improvements in machinery , plunged into the deepest misery .

      All the poor—all who were oatot work—would find In these colonies means of employing mind and bod y for the benefit of the entire community . * * * When private industry required hands , it would seek them at those central depots , and it is clear that the workman who was always sure to find a living in the agricultural colonies would not accept of private employment , unless the latter presented greater benefits than the former ; hence a remunerative scale of wages would always be maintained .

      * # * Instead of seeking consumers in China let ns increase onr territorial wealth . Let them employ all the idle arms for the benefit of all the wretched and industrious , and let them not forget that France , which has been so richly endowed by heaven , contains within herself all the elements of prosperity . It is a stigma upan our civilisation to think that , in the nineteenth century the tenth part of our population should be in rags and perishing from want , amidst manufacturing produce which cannot he sold , and agricultural supplies which cannot be consumed .

      It would not become us to quote the entire of this work ( which may be had for the small charge of sixpence ); we therefore , pass over the author ' s system of management for the agricultural colonies , and his calculations as to the expenses , receipts , and profits . Weconfin eourselvestothe concluding observations Of the author : The book itself tells how such revelations happened to oe published by Charles Knight , of Ludgate-bill . Two gentlemen of the Centra ! Society of Education went to examine some HSS . in the Augmentation Office , and found there no less than 200 bundles , or volumes , having all reference to the commissions apf ointed by Henry the

      Extinction Of Pauperism. Brttuitcs Napoi...

      Eighth , to visit and scrutinise all the abbeys and monasteries of the United Kingdom . Their curiosity was naturally excited by the importance of the subject , and the scandalous neglect in some quarters or other of having left to moulderin dust for 300 years documents founded on authority , evidently proving that the church establisbment is anything but what it should be . They immediately set to extracting what appeared to them most important to be known by the public at large , and had actually began to print two or three sheets , when suddenly , to their great disappointment and surprise , they were told that , the 200 bundles of the MSS . had been removed by authority from the Augmentation Office ( where the public bad access ) to the Treasury . The gentlemen of the Central Society of Educationwhose laudable

      under-, taking bad thus abruptl y been interrupted , wrote immediately to Lord John Russell , then Under-Secretary of State fer the Home Department . His lordship replied , that he had ordered these 11 SS . to be removed from the Augmentation Office to the Treasury , because thegovernment bring itself employed on the investigation of the same , with the intention of publishing them , his lordship did sot consider it proper that they should come before the public through any other channel . The sheets already printed were forwarded to Lord John to convince him that the publication was actually begun , requesting it might be allowed to continue . This , however , was denied , and all they could do was to publish the very little book now with you , in which , however , there is enough to show , by the correspondence of the

      commissioners , Thomas Cromwell , Archbishop Cranmer , and others , that the reforms intended by the new Angelican bishopric * were principally the application of church revenues to the education of the people—that is to say of all the poor , and even of the ploughman and labourer ' s children , and of aH those whose parents ' annual income did not exceed £ 40 per annum , equal at least to £ 140 of the present currency . You will see further in that precious little book , that churches were to be built and repaired out of the church revenues ; bridges to be built and roads repaired out of the church revenue ; schoolmasters and teachers to be paid , and the schoolboys to have weekly pocket-money out of the church revenue ;

      in short , it is evident from the authentic document there j imprinted , that if the church had continued to be esta- ' blished according to the intentions of its founder at the Reformation , neither poor-rates nor county-rates would 1 ever have been charged on the people ; for although pauperism has much increased with the population , the amountof clerical tithss have increased ia three hundred years with the increased value of property in the proportion of at least a hundred to a thousand . In short , bad the bishops been compelled by the Crown ( head of the church ) to adhere to Henry the Eighth ' s Scheme of Eishopricks , pauperism would never have become what it unfortunately now is , and the English nation would be composed of the best educated people of Europe .

      The military discipline which forms part of Prince Napoleon ' s system may suit Frenchmen but would not Englishmen , and in other respects this plan for the extinction of pauperism may not meet the concurrence of those who are already engaged in trying ether plans , in despite « f the want of government help ; still tills little book deserves our hearty recommendation , and sure we are , that with all the faults of this plan , there are few indeed of our readers who would not see Prince Napoleon called in toadminister to Ireland in her present wretched state , rather than longer trust her in the bungling hands of the quack Russell , or the old bleeder O'Conneli .

      The Reasoner. Paris 8 And 9. Edited By G...

      THE REASONER . Paris 8 and 9 . Edited by G . J . llolyoake . London : Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . TVe are glad to see that the Reasoner has been doubled in size with only a slight advance in price . This is proof of progress . In these two parts there are many well-written and truly valuable essays , among which we mar distinguish articles on " The ljiwa of Nature ; ' * Sir E . B . Lytton ' s "Zanoni ;" " Influence of Lord Rosse ' s Telescope on Theology ;"

      and "The German Divines , " ( translated from Quinet ) The last number ot Part 9 ( February 17 th . ) contains an interesting account of some discussions at Northampton and Long Buckley , in which Mr . llolyoake has been acting as Reason ' s champion , and appears to have had by far the best of the fight . In the same number is contained some remarkable disclosures concerning " Henry the Eighth ' s scheme of Bishoprics ; " which , it appears , is the title of a book , of which we have the following strange account : —

      Every one animated by a love for his species demands justice for the working classes , who seem to be disinherited of all the benefits tf ctrilisation . Our project confers upon them all that is calculated to improve the condition ef man , comfort , education , order , and the chance which is afforded every one of elevating himself by hie own merit and industry . Our organisation tends to nothing less than the making in the course of a fewyears , the poorer classes the richest association in ali France , Now the reward of labour is left to chance or violence . The master either oppresses , or the workman revolts . According to our system wages would be fixed , as all human things ought to be regulated , not by forse , but according'to the just equilibrium estabhihed between the wants of those who toil and the necessities of those who

      provide work . In the present day all flock to Paris , which as a centre , absorbs all the energies of the country ; our system , without injuring the centre , would carry life to the farthest extremities , by bringing into action 85 new systems , working nnler the direction of the Government . What is wanted to realise such a project % One year ' s pay of the army is fifteen times the sum given to America , or an expense equal to that employed on the ( ortifkations of Paris . This advance would , after twenty years , bring back to France 1 , 000 millions , to the working classes 800 millions , and a revenue of 37 millions of francs . Let the Government put our project into execution , modifying it according to the experience of men well versed in such complicated natters , and who may supply useful hints and cast new lights upon them . L « t it take to heart the great national interest . Let it establish the comfort of the masses on an immovable bans and it will become

      immoveable itself . Poverty would n » longer become seditious , when wealth was no longer oppressive . It is a great and holy minion , and worthy of man's highest ambition to strive to subdue human nature , to heal all wounds , to soooth the sufferings of humanity by uniting the people of the same country in one common interest , and by accelerating that future which civilisation will sooner or later usher in . 1 b the beginning of the last century La Fontaine uttered this sentence , which is too often true , but always sad and so destructive of society , order , and hierarchies— " I tell yon in plain French our enemy is our master . " In the present diy the aim of every wise Government should be to bring about a time when it might be said , " the triumph of Christianity has destroyed slavery . The triumph of the French revolution has destroyed servitude , and the triumph of democracy has destroyed pauperism . "

      No doubt Lord John Russell , whose jackal ancestor sacked so large a share of the plunder of the Roman Catholic Church , had good reasons for suppressing this strange book . Why does not some member of Parliament pnt a question concerning tho said book to his little lordship ?

      Royal Polytechnic Institution. During Th...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . During the week Doctor Bacbhoffnerhas been engaged in delivering his annual course of lectures , in which he introduced a most eloquent and comprehensive description of the matured views of our modern astronomers . The clear and comprehensive style of the learned gentleman , aided as he is by the gigantic apparatus of the establishment , renews the course of lectures a most valuable and instructive one , not only to the rising generation , but to those of mature growth . Theleeturewas rendered more pleasi n g by musical illustrations performed by the orches . tra of the institution , conducted by Dr . Wallis . Most of the « irs , we understood , were original by this gentleman . In the chemical department , Dr . J . Bynn has commenced a course of lectures on general chemistry , in which he exhibits several most beautiful and brilliant experiments .

      explanatory of the wisdom , power , and goodness of the first great cause . Thisgentleman ' shctureonthegun cottoa still attracts great interest , and the Doctor continues to lecture on the subject three times a week . In speaking of the rapid actios of the cotton during au ' exploMon , the Profeseor showed a most remarkable experiment , fie took a few grains ot the cotton , and screwed it up in a s of t piece of paper ; after making a few holes in the paper with a common pin , he placed thepaper in the barrel of a pistol , the cotton towards the breach ; he then fired it off , and although the cotton exploded with force enough to expel a bullet , yet the paper remained untorn and uninjured . At first sight the result seemed the effect of some slight ef hand , but the Doctor referred it to the rapidity of action , the newly-formsd gases escaping through pin holes , without tearing the paper in the least .

      Trials At Lucerxb.—The Judicial Proceedi...

      Trials at Lucerxb . —The judicial proceedings concerning the individuals accused of complicity in the assassination of M . Leu have been brought to a close . The judgment discharges M . Corragioni as suspected , condemning him to an eighth part of the costs . The same sentence has been pronounced against Ileussler , who , moreover , for having taken part in the expedition of the Free Corps , will have to undergo ten months' detention in tUe House of Correction . Rose Felix , mother of the assassin , Jacques Muller , has been condemned to eighteen years' hard labour . M . Ackermann has been condemned to death , as the instigator of the assassin . At the same time , as it was he that denounced him , in consideration of a promise of impunity , there is reason to believe that his appeal for pardon will be accepted . The absent accused have been treated like M . Corragioni , but several of them , especially MM . Buhler , Brunner , and Freichen , have been condemned to death as leaders of the expedition of the Free Corps .

      Nottingham . —Lace . —There lias been more selling in each department , since our last , than during any preceding week this year . A similar demand , and without increased supply for the next month , would of necessity clear the market of stock and bring things into a very healthy stale . ' Glasgow . —Corros Goods . —For some descriptions of piece goods we are unable te report any improvement in our market .

      The Democratic Committee For Poland's Re...

      THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE FOR POLAND'S REGENERATION TO THE DEMOCRATIC POLES . IN REPLY TO THEIR ADDRESS TO EUROPE .

      Voles ! Brothers ! We congratulate the friends of Poland and the democracy of Europe on the glorious evidence in behalf of liberty you have once more given to the world . You have established the eternal truth that the cause of justice cannot be quelled on the field of battle , nor buried under the ruins of stormed capitals , '; you have proved the superiority of democracy over monarchy ; since monarchical Poland has fallen before her enemies , but democratic Poland is gaining additional strength with every struggle .

      Thanks , ; brave soldiers ! Thanks . gallant brothers ! You have sounded the note of hope and the tocsin of revolution to every slave , —and though your measure of suffering surpasses that of most , those , even the least oppressed , behold in thereckless violation of all treaties by your tyrants—the omen of laws to be infringed , and constitutions to be disregarded by their own . Placed in the vanguard of European liberty , Poland has received in her breast the blows aimed at the heart of western democracy . Across her prostrate / orm advances the Cossack charge of despotism , even self-interest therefore calls on the people of Europe to drive the foe from the house of their neighbour , before they are forced to struggle at their own fireside . Brothers , | we hail with delight thisj fresh proof of your undaunted energy , and in its acknowledgment intend not only to convey the expression of our heartfelt sympathy , but the assurance , of all that support which EnelisU democrats are authorized to

      give . Erkbst Jones , President . ! G . Julian Hahney , Secretary London , Feb . 22 , 1847 .

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      The Social Condition Of Ireland. To The ...

      THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF IRELAND . TO THE EDITOR OF TUB NORTHERN STAR . S » , —The majority of your readers will , I have no doubt , agree with me that neither would the Railway measure of Lord George Bentinck , ( had it been carried , ) nor that of the Government , have any tendency , exaept temporarily , to alleviate the condition of the Irish nation , but that which is required I will with the utmost brevity endeavour to explain . In 1835 Sir Robert Peel said , "Ireland was his chief difficulty , " and here 1 will venture to assert , that that country need not be so to any minister who has honesty and courage sufficient to

      land , have been but so many " beatings about the bu s h ; and at a time like the present when famine stalks through the lsad . it is no uss mincing matters ; suffice it to say then that Ireland is crucified between the landlord and the parson , and no measure of relief can embrace permanency which has not for its object , to render the possession of the land , not as miserable cottiers , or tenants liable to ejectment and all the evils connected with subletting , & c , & c „—but as proprietors , accessible to the people ef that unhappy country , —and here I would sug . gest , that if a company similarly conducted ta the Chartist Land Company here , was established iu Ireland , it would not fail to ultimately accomplish that great desideratum .

      I am , your obedient servant , R . C . SniTON , An Elector ofNottrngham , Grey Friar's Gate , Feb , 20 th , 1847 .

      The Rate-Paying Clauses. To The Editor O...

      THE RATE-PAYING CLAUSES . TO THE EDITOR OF TUB MOSTHEBN STAB . Sib , —For some weeks past I have looked forward with intense anxiety to the procee . lings of this evening , with regard to the fate of the Bill for the abolition of the Rate Paying Clauses of the Reform Bill , introduced by the patriotic member for Finsbury . I roust inf . rm you that I have just retunrned from the house of ( at present ) Incurables , where I hare been alternately gratified and disgusted , delighted with tbe manner in which the people ' s claims were enforced by Jfr . Buncombe , Capt , Pechell , Mr . Wakley , General Evans , Mr . Hume , Mr . Williams , Sir B . Hall , Commodore Napier . & c . In fact , all the speaking worth listening to was decidedly in favour of the measure ; but Lord John , as might be expected , opposed the petitions of the people , in a crafty ,

      selfish , and equivocating speech , and , of course , was backed up by his colleague , Sir George Grey ; but oh ! my God ! when another champion of Class Legislation rose for the purpose of opposing the motion , I felt that degree of disgust for the institutions of my country , t h at I blushed to find myself an Englishman , and I wondered how , in tbe name of common sense , a constituency could be found to return such an ape to Parliament . He commenced with bis "ifs , " and " ahs , " by meaning to say that " every b 6 dy should cheerfully pay all rates and taxes , and would rote against the motion , " but how the reporters will be able to put his speech into plain English , I re lly cannot divine , and feel assured that no respectable paper would faithfully publish what he said ,

      for it would be a gross insult to common sense and its readers , in fact , he said as much in about ten minutes as any other idiot would in half a second , which would amount to these three words , viz ., " D—n the people !" On inquiry , I found this was the immaculate member for Carlisle , a descendant of the noble house of Norfolk , whose crest is a Hon . and whose motto says , " Sola virtus invicta , " —which means virtue is alone invinciblebutas to tbe amount of virtue the honourable gentleman p ossesse s , I will leave you and his constituents to infer from his sentiments to-night . I doubt not , Sir , he was sincere in the expression of them , for it ' s precisely the same sort of virtue that was exercised by his noble ancestors when they came orer with William the Conqueror and his rapacious crew of brigands .

      I trust my friend Arthur , and brother Chartists of Carlisle , will look to this , and at once prepare to remove the disgrace of having their borough misrepresented by such a poor fool ; and if they cannot find a better man at the next election , it is my intention to oppose " the hon , member" myself . Thenext , and only opponent of the measure , was Lord G . Bentinck , at which 1 was very much grieved , for I had some little hope that his lordship would espouse the popular cause , hut , alas 11 am convinced that Whig , Tory and Protectionist , are ever united in crushing the

      hopes , and resisting every measure of justice to the toiling millions , and nothing short of a complete reform of that corrupt home will ever emancipate the people of this country from the burdens under which they groan . Let the people now bestir themselves , secure the return of a few staunch Chartist members , who will continually rine into the ears of the legislature the wants and wishes of the masses , and so retard the progress of ( what is called in Parliamentary phraseology ) public business , that they will be compelled 111 c : ede to the rights of the manv , until all are iully and fairly represented .

      Hoping for a speedy consummation of my wishes , and still clinging to my motto , " The Charter and the Land !" I am Sir , yours truly , J . Shaw . Gloucester-street , Commercial-road , East . Tuesday Night , Feb . 23 rd .

      Sudden Asd Awectino Death.—The Sudden An...

      sudden asd Awectino Death . —The sudden an affecting death of Mr . Charles Thornton Cunningham , Lieutenant-Governor of St . Christopher ' s and of the Leeward Islands , is announced in the West Indian papers which have just arrived . It appears that this gentleman had driven in from the country to Basseterre , the seat of the government , in apparently vigorous health and cheerful spirits , to open the newly-elected Houses of Legislature . After transacting some business with his private secretary , and despatching a note to invite some officers in a French skip of war just come into port to luncheon at Government-house , he rode down to the mailoffice to meet his letters and a box containing a picture of a much-beloved sister , recently deceased

      in England , lie stated to more than one person , that his earnest desire to possess the picture was not unmixed with fear as to the effect the sight of it might produce .. upon him . So strongly had this apprehension fastened itself on his mind , that , on the arrival of the box at Government bouse , he sent a servant in quest of a friend who might be with him when the box was opened . Having failed in finding him , he proceeded to open the box . JJia butler , who was present , reports that he looked at the countenance earnestly , turned pale , whispered a few words to himself , walked hastily up to his own room , was heard almost instantly to tail as he entered it , and his servants following upstairs found him stretched on the floor a corpse . The St . Christopher ' s Gazette , as well ns many other public and private communications , bear the strongest testimony to the ability , vigour , and high moral character of this gentleman , and to the tenderness and munificence with which at

      ali times , and ~ espec a !/ y under a recent visitation of Island fever , ho had ministered to the wants and sorrows of the negro population . The houses of Assembly met immediately after his death , ami passed an unanimous vote for a funeral at the public expense , to testify , as they expressed it , at once their respect for his official rank and the high esteem in which he was held by all classes of the community . On the next'day he was followed to the grave by all the public authorities , the members of the two houses , the most distinguished persons in the colony , and by thousands of grateful and mourning negroes , to whose welfare he had largely contributed . Mr . Cunningham assumed the government of St . Kitts in May , 1839 , and fell a victim , as his physician states , partly " to the exhausting influence of tropical climates on the nervous powers , " and partly to the intensity of brotherly affection , in the 30 th year of his age .

      » i £ D at Bolton , on the 17 th February , Robert Blinkhorn , who for five or six years has been an active member of the Chartist Association , also a member of the Land Company . He was followed to his grave on Sunday last by his fritntfs deeply regrett d .

      The New Poor Law. Brougham Vetz Brougham...

      THE NEW POOR LAW . BROUGHAM veTZ BROUGHAM ,

      ( Mr . Oastler has recently addressed the following to the Editor of the Morning Post . ] If the elevation of the social condition of the people of England be , indeed , the object of Lord John Russell ' s Government , his first act will be to restore the Christian and constitutional right * of the poor . The social edifice can never be safely reared on injustice . Our legislators may strive to give peace and secure order among the different ranks of society , but their efforts will be vain until they have filled up that wide gulf which the New Poor Law has caused between the rich asd the poor .

      The friendly sympathy of the payers to the receivers of the poors' rates is destroyed by that law ; it roust be re-established ere their union can be hoped for . Parochial government , tho distinguishing feature of the ancient Constitution of this kingdom , has interwoven itself into the very nature of Englishmen ; its absence festers and irritates the national mind , and wiji for ever prevent a willing obedience to the laws ? it has destroyed that veneration for our laws and institutions which distinguished the loyalty of this people from that of all other nations .

      These thoughts have suggested themselves from the perusal of tho observations made by Lord Brougham , on the 23 rd ultimo , in the House of Lords . It is painful to hear one who has been Lord High Chancellor of England , who should b ° a constitutional lawyer , when speaking of the meditated alterations of the New Poor Law , say— " I do hope that no one part of thecorner stone of thesystem , namely . centralsuperintendence—that no one inch or atom of that corner stone of the whole important fabric will be touched : "

      for , Sir , it is manifest thatcentralisation is the master grievance of the whole system . It is that which entirely separates the ratepayers and tho receiversit destroys all sympathy between the parties—eradicates those local ties that were the strongest bulwarks of the nation—removing from the breasts of the wealthy the fostering care of the poor , and from the latter their attachment to the dispensers of the national bounty . It destroys the influence of the clergy and tbe aristocracy , and makes them the mere tools of commissioners .

      England owes more of its greatness and glory to the sympathy of the different classes in society than to her science and wealth . When that link is weakened her power and glory wanes . Lord Brougham may have become enamoured of centralisation by his residence in France : it is the duty of every Englishman to resist the establishment of that system here , where parochial government is the distinguishing ; and life-preserving principle that pervades all our institutions . That Lord Brougham is possessed of great and varied talents , none can deny ; that his lordshi p ' s judgment is sound—that he understands the English character—I have yet to learn .

      The settled conviction of the people of England , expressed in their manly denunciation of the New Poor Law , he calls "clamour . " Their meeting in peaceful assemblies to petition for its repeal he styles " violent , unscrupulous agitation . " Tbe strong constitutional arguments ( backed by the opinion of the late Ltu-d Chancellor Eldon ) that are used to persuade tho Legislature to repeal that law . Lord Brougham calls "the most senseless theories , ""the most injurious for the people of this country that can be entertained , "— " the pressure from with out . " Lord Brougham should remember that it was " clamour , and violent , unscrupulous agitation" that raised him to the woolsack—it was " the pressure from without" tha obtained the Reform Bill .

      May be . Lord Eldon indulged in "the most senseless theories , "—perhaps that venerable and constitutional lawyer was not so deeply read in the principle of our laws as his eccentric successor . The learned ib Westminster Hall jud ? e otherwise . One point , however , is " capable of proof . Lord Brougham now says , "That Bill ( the New Poor Law ) was forthe benefit of the poor , and not of the proprietors ; that I shall ever maintain . " Lord Broutrham , on the second reading of the Now Poor Law Bill in the House of Lords , said— " All property is shaken to pieces , and the times are fast approaching when it shall bo no more . " It is , then , impossible that his Lordship can speak correctly now . Again , Lord Brougham told their lordships that "the rental was crumbling down daily and hourly into the poors' box . " Was not this to alarm his

      hearers in respect of their property ? Ilis Lordship also said— " Thus stands the case ; suppose I am a Westmoreland pauper—as I certainly very soon may be , if the present svstem continues ! " How , then , can this same orator , with truth , assert that " the New Poor Law was not for the benefit ot the proprietors ¥ ' Lord Brougham is , forsooth , very anxious that the consideration of the New Poor Law shall be first had in the House of Lords , in order to secure "the greatest circumspection , deliberation , and the most mature reflection . " The following quotation from his lordship ' s speech already quoted will at once exhibit LordBrotigham ' s peculiar qualification for " circumspection , deliberation , and reflection , " and convince him that he greatly mistakes when ha assures their lordships that ( he New Poor Law " was for the benefit of the poor , and not of the proprietors : "—

      " I will not say that as yet the [ old Poor Law ] system has to worked as to Jay waste any considerable portion of territory ; that it h & f a direct and necessary tendency to do so ; that unless its progress be arrested it must go on till it gain that point ; that ere long we must reach the brink of the precipice , towards which we are hurrying with accelerated rapidity ; that tbe circumstance of one parish being thrown out of cultivation inevitably and immediately tends to lay three or four others waste , and that this devastation , gathering strength as it proceeds , must needs cover the land . On these facts no man who consults the body of evidence before your lordships can entertain the shadow of a doubt . Stand where we are , we cannot . I might say with others , whose minds are filled with despair and the dread of coming events , that I could be content never to have

      things better , so I were assured t * n * y would never be worse . But this—even this wretched compromise—Is impossible , with the frightful scourge that is ravaging our ceuntry . The question is , shall we retrace our steps , or shall we be pushed forward , and down the steep we stand on , by the momenftitn of this weight which we have laid upon ourselves ? That such is our position—that such is the course ¦ we are pursuing—that such is tho gulf towards which we are hastening , no man living , gifted with an ordinary measure of sagacity , can deny . This , then , is the picture of our situation ; harsh in its outline , dismal in its colouring , in every feature sad and awful to behold . This is the aspect of affairs , menacing the peace of society , undermining the safety of dominion , and assailing the security of property , which tho system , as now administered , exhibits to the eve . "

      Such was the wild declamation of a Lord Chancellor , who now insinuates that t he Members of tho House of Commons may not safely be entrusted with the consideration of the measure , about which , in the House of Lords , he so wildly raved and raged—a measure which he now says , and declares " he will ever maintain , " " was not for the benefit of the proprietors . ' " There can be no mistake about these extracts : they are from Lord Brougham ' s corrected speech , of which thousands of copies were sent to different and di-tant places , at the public cost ; among tha rest , one was sent to me .

      I think 1 have demonstrated—Lord Brougham being witness—that the New Poor Law was for the benefit of the proprietors , and not for the poor . If I mistake not , I have shown , on the same authority , that , while Lord Brougham is present , tho House of Lords is not the place where we may expect the New Poor Law to be treated with " the greatest circumspection , deliberation , and most mature reflection . " Really , Sir , it is high time that this momentous subject should be treated with its deserved attention . It is absolutely necessary that deceit should no longer be practised upon our Legislature . We have recently

      had an awful exhibition of the want of truth in another place . I have furnished ground in this letter for Lord Brougham to apologise to their Lordships and the country for the misrepresentation of a most important fact ; if his Lordship fails to correct his misrepresentation , the public cannot have great re * acecfc forthe truthfulness of his character . If you will allow me space , I will , in another letter , prove ( Lord Brougham being again my only witness ) that his anticipations of the benefits to be derived from the New Poor Law were vain and delusive . On his own authority I will , with your' permission , establish the f act , that tbb Nkw Poor Law is a Failure !

      I remain , Sir , Your obedient servant , „ , Richard Oastler . London . Feb ., 1847 . P . S . —How strange ! Those very men who told us that the 43 d of Elizabeth had caused the ruin of England , now propose tho same measure for tho cure of Ireland ! Believe me , there is more in the question of the New Poor Law than many are willing to believe . The times are approaching when the poor must really receive the most serious and benevolent attention of the Legislature . Let the Protectionists eschew centralisation , or cease to profess allegiance to the principles of the Constitution . R . O .

      Illicit Distillery. »- On Wednesday Morn...

      Illicit Distillery . » - On Wednesday morning , Messrs . W . Bayford and J . Lewins , the active officers of Kxcise , proceeded to No . 5 , Triangle-place , Kennington-cross , where they knocked for a considerable time , but , no answer being returned , they got a ladder , and gained an entrance by a first-floor back window . In a lower room they found a largo copper still , capable of containing nearly 200 gallos * , and a quantity of fermented wash of malt and molasses No person was found on the premises , but the still had recentl * bacn at work ,

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      Extencatiso Circumbtances !—A Brussels journal announces that an hoklkeeper and his wife having ^ lPJ 03 ec i ? ' ? awassinatiug a traveller , and S rtm . « hl >^ body into sausages , were found KI Th . t ? ad di * ot' extenuating eircum-SKhLff ? re 1 i , " ™ . Momt , copies "Ltnna S ? ' ^ obaer ™ that : no doubt the extenuating circumstances" were that the conort t o S r-VSr ^ itaVurlr in Fobbiosbrs is CoNsntmnoi . uj . -The member of rrX ' r nnn de ^ f ^ « * follows :-Greeks , 6 , 000 ; Maltese and Ionians , 1 . 983- Austrians , 4 , 581 ; French , 865 ; Russians , 780 ; Persian 657 ; Sardinians , 405 ; Neapolitans , 247 ; Tuscans ' 211 ; English , 210 ; Belgians , 182 ; PrussiansTuT Spaniards , 48 ; Danes . 47 : Dutch . 27 : Amcrin ™

      ,, 24—total , 13 , 467 . Mbndiciit w Mabchbsier . — "A Ratepayer , " in a letter to the Manchester Guardian , states , that in one hour last Saturday 31 begga s called at his door —in the course of the day 134 . Cautiox . —On Saturday evening a person genteelly dressed , without a hat , and wearing spectacles , and standing in the passage of a house in Red Lionstreet , Holborn ( used as a billiard-room ) , accosted a youth who was passing by , and tapping him on the shoulder , requested he would get a cab for him , as lie was in a hurry , promising to give him sixpence for his trouble . 'Ihe youth having a bag with him , he invited him to put it behind the door , ns ho would go quicker without it . On the return of the boy with the cab , it is needless to say the bag and its contents , together with the gentleman in spectacles and without a hat had disappeared

      , . 1 us * kver at Sierra Leone . —Letters from Sierra-Leone up to the 26 th of December have been received , reporting that the fever prevailed to such an extent in her Majestj ' s sloop Wanderer , that she was kept at Anchor there , and had been placed in quarantine . Up to the above day she had lost Lieutenant W . II . Walters and nine of tho crew , and had twenty-one sick in their cots . Death of General Darroch op Gourock . —We have to record the death of General Duncan Darroch of Gourock , which occurred at his mansion on Tuesday the 16 th instant . Shipwreck . —The Moniteur announces that tho steam-frigate Caraibe went on shore on the 10 th of January , at about five leagues from tha French establishment « f Saint Lou ' s ( Sesegal ) , and that about twenty of the crew perished .

      The new Monet-order Office . —On Monday next the new money-orderoHice in Aldorsgate-i-treet , will bo opened fer the transaction of public business , and the payment of money on money-orders . Influx of Emigrants from tab South of Ireland to tub Port of London . —The Ajax steamship with a full cargo , and an immense number of deck passengers , consisting of men , women , and children , apparently in very poor circumstances , arrived on Monday afternoon at Wapping . Further more , numerous bodies are , it is said , preparing to follow .

      An Excellent Substitute foh Potatoes . — French kidney or haricot beans are superior to every other kind of grain or pulse in point of nourishment , They contain , according to Einhoff , 84 per cent , of nutritive matter , of which 50 is pure farina , the rest gluten nnd mucilage , Exkcutiin nr Ether . —A man , condemned to death by the Court of Assizes of the Ardoche , has petitioned the Minister of Justice to permit him to undergo his punishment by inhaling ether , death by such means ; he understands , being without pain . Extraordinary Shot . —An extraordinary shot was last weak made on the Hampshire coast by Colonel Hawker with one barrel of his 2001 b . gun , and a 12-ounce patent cartridge by Elcy . He picked up , at this one shot , 178 oxbirds and a plover , exclusive of about three dozen more birds that escaped in the scramble of collecting the killed and wounded .

      The Mackarbl Fishery . —During the past week large catches of mackarel have been taken , oh Saturday last thousands were sent off by the railroad to the London and Bristol markets , and a market for them is now procured through railway agency in Birmingham . Thousands were retailed on that day in this town at one penny ea « h . Tub New Comet . —The comet is rapidly increasing in brightness , and will continue to do bo until its disappearance , about the end of the second week in March . The other evening , notwithstanding the moonlight , it was distinctly seen through an ordinary night-glass .

      Fever has considerably increased within the last few days , among the Irish paupers in Liverpool . Skrmons , PricbTknand Sixpence . —Tho follow * ingadvertiseraent appears in tbe John Bull of Sunday , under the head of " Manuscript sermons supplied : " — " Many young ministers from press of parochial business , and from inexperience in composition , being sometimes obliged , very much against ^ their inclination , and to the serious injury of their ministry , to copy sermons from books , the advertiser , an experienced clergyman , engages to supply original

      sermons of good composition , of decidedly Evangelical doctrine , and of practical application , on the receipt of half-a-sovereign for each . Persons requiring sermons may choose their own texts , and need not disclose their names , as the sermons can be directed to a fictitious signature , at any post office they are required to be sent to . Yarmouth llsRRixes . —The town of Yarmouth ia bound by ancient charter to send to the sheriffs of Norwich a hundred herrings , which are to bo baked in twenty-four pies , or pasties , and then delivered to the lord of the manor of East Carlton , who is to convey them to the Queen .

      Horses . —Never since the establishment of horse racing in England have there been so many horses in training a * there ate at the present time . Club * . —The Army and Navy clubs are going to astonish London with the most magnificeat clubhouse ever yet built . Destructive Fire in Waterford . —On Friday morning , about three o ' clock , a most ruinous fire broke out in the extensive bacon concerns of Mr . George Courtcnay , in William-street . No clue can be ascertained as to the origin of this awful calamity , which has destroyed property to the amount of £ 7 , 000 .

      Determisbd Suicide . —On Monday morning , as a man was walking towards the entrance of Victoriapark , he perceived a quantity of blood close to a gravel pit , and on proceeding towards it discovered the body of a man in the pit with bis throat cut , and quite dead . The deceased was about 38 years of age , and was respectably dressed . Poi'i'lation of Flanders . —The last Belgian census has brought to light the singular fact that the population of Flanders has decreased in late years . In 1816 , the population of West Flanders was counted at 612 , 000 , a decrease of 22 , 000 on tho former year , and that of East Flanders was 701 , 000 or 15 , 000 less than in the former year . In the other provinces , population had increased during the same period . Between two

      A Revbnue Cutter Sdsr at Sba . — and three o ' clock on Friday afternoon , tho Nimble cutter , Mr . J . P . Blundell , commander , was standing along chore , between Berry Head and Dartmouth , in chase of a small smack , when her progress was suddenly arrested by a sunken rock , and caused a rapid leak ; the vessel fell over on her starboard side , drifted from the rock , and instantly sunk in an upright portion , in deep wafer . The crew were saved by hastily cutting away the boats from tho tackles , but without clothes , bags , or bcrfdinff . ' The Hoo Crop" of the United States this year is thw times tho worth of the cotton crop . Ihe " standingarmy" of swine consumes annually two hundred million bushels of corn . Illicit Stills . — The Excise officers seized no less than four illicit stills in the neighbourhood of Bothnal-green , on Friday .

      Electric Telbgr . \ ph in Paris . —A system of electro-telegraphic communication is being formed round Paris , between each of the octroi stations ( where the city dues are collected ) , at the several barriers ; thus establishing between them all a much more rapid and direct correspondence than has hitherto existed . Extensive Robberies . —On Saturday information was forwarded to the police , that the premisesof Mr . Jackson , Commercial-road , Pimlico , had been entered by thieves , and £ 111 in gold and silver , two £ 10 and one £ 5 Bank of En gland notes and three cheques for £ 11 , £ 13 , and £ 15 abstracted ; and from Mr . Waler ' s , Sloane-strcet , £ 100 in cash , a £ 20 note , and silver plate and watches , valued at £ 200 , carried off , it is suspected , by the same ganjr . Soyrii ' s Sour for the Poor . —Wo understand that Mr . Soyer , of the Reform Club , has received instructions from government , te proceed

      immediately to the Lord-Lieutenant ot treianu , ana to submit his plan of a model-kitchen for the preparation of soups on a large scale ; which , if approved of , will be at onco carried into effect . iMi-UDENCB .-On Friday , an Irishman , miserably clad , and to all appearance in a state ot exhaustion from starvation , entered the Kemlworth Ctistle , kept by Mr . Clapporton , in tho New North Road , and craved relief . lie was immediately noticed by the worthy host and a Mr . Silverthorne , - who mimediatclv procured him some hot gin nnd water . After the fcilow had partaken of it , ft few slices of thin bread and butter were placed before him , when the fellow insultingly turned to his benelactors , and coolly told them that he could not eat it without ham . The imagination of the reader iray picture to himself the surprise of the hearers of this declaration , and during the temporary astonishment that ensued , the fellow walked off .

      Very like Famine !—Tho granaries in and about Stockton and Yarm are so loaded with the " staff of life" that many of them are in danger of breaking down . A RoYiL Poet . —The Journal des Delats announces that tho King of Bavaria is about to publish a fourth volume of poems . , Mineral Wealth of Great Britain . — In the course of a lecture , delivered to the general c lasses of King ' s College , by Mr . Teuuant , on miueralogicai

      Extencatiso Circumbtances !—A Brussels J...

      geology , the lecturer stated that tho annual value of the mineral produce of this country amounts to about £ 25 , 000 , 000 . —of this £ 9 , 100 . 000 . is from coals ; £ 8 , 400 , 000 . from iron ; £ 1 . 200 , 000 . from copper ; £ 920 , 000 . ; from lead ; £ 400 , 000 . from salt ; £ 390 , 000 . from tin ; £ 60 . 000 . ( earn manst . mese ; £ 35 , 000 . from silver ; £ 22 , 000 . from alum ; £ M , 000 . from zinc ; and £ 25 , 000 . from various other metals , as antimony , bismuth , nr » enic , & c . Railroads in Egypt . —The barrage and embankment of the . MIo are progressing satisfactorily , ;> nd in December last 20 , 000 persons wero employed thereon , working alternately day and night . Ali Pasha , in fact , contemplates great structut . il improvements in Egypt , which he certainly will carry out if his life bo so far prolonged . Amongst these is a railroad from Alexandria to Cairo , another ( iom Suez to Cairo , An embankment of the Mi <; in Nubia (!) is also spoken of .

      Those Bors to bb llu » o will Nkvrr Dr <« wn . — The Emperor of Russia is about to construc t a suspension bridgeat thepoint where a short time i \ : << he narrowly escaped being drowaed in crossing the Nje mer , near Kowno . The works will be commenced in spiing . Swindling in the Metropolis . —Informal ioii lias been received by us as to a mest extensive and artfttllv concocted system of plunder , attempted to be carried on at present by parties in London , fimf . of whom reside west of Tottenham-court-roatl , and another who advertises by certain initial * , l ' . irtics requiring Joans must be on their guard . —Sunday Times .

      bsow in the Midlands . —It is somewhat Si ' i . iiular that in the midland counties generally , and it ; the bleak regions of the Peak of Derbyshire in particular , less inconvenience was experienced iron . 1 . oplying snow , and , in fact , that less snow Ilin ui'lcn than perhaps in any other district in Great llritain . Compressed Peat Charcoal . —Mr . Jasper Wra . Rogers proposes to cut up the peaty superstratum of the Irish bog-land into portions , subject tlicso to hydraulic pressure , and then convert thorn into charcoal ; thus affording employment to multitudes , preparing tho land for useful purposes , and affording tha means of smelting British iron into material equivalent to that of Sweden . Turf , too , at 5 } . a ton , will produce as much steam as Scotch coal at 10 a . a ton .

      Stranou liavnz of Speech . —Tho Hon . Mr , Eicklin of Illinois , in allusion to division on tlio war question in the Whig party , said , " they gobbled with the Turkeys and roa-ted with the chickens . " A Qubbr Chick . —The lady of a respectable citizen in Philadelphia gave birth to a tine sou in en * of the public sleighs on Wednesday , —AVv York American , A Subscription for the relief of the distressed 1 rish has been commenced at Geneva , and has alrculv pro * duced more than £ 110 . Lamentable . —Two boys , one of whom is nine and the other eleven years old , have been committed . for trial at Loughborough , on a charge of burglary . Property Tax . —The grand council of the Swiss canton of Berne has resolved to impose a property tax , which will not exceed one thaler for every thousand thalers of capital .

      Musical Mice . —It would appear t & at musical mice are becoming common ; for the Ipswich Journal yaya that a bootmaker of that town has trapped a sinking mouse , which that paper describes as " a most interesting nnd , at the same time , a moat wonderful performer . " Auld Reekie . —In 1846 , among 4 . 508 prisoner * confined in the prison at Edinburgh , 2 , 400 wore convicted drunkard * . Hydrophobia . —Very serious mischief Ins lately been committed by dogs in a rabid state iu the neighbourhood of Penrith , and in different parts of Westmoreland . A Good Example . —Messrs . Chubb and Sun , tho eminent lock and fireproof safe makers have , inconsequence of tho rise in the price of provisions , raised the wages of their workmen for three months certain . This is the more creditable , as it was unso » lioitcd .

      A Challenge . —Mr . It . Newall , of Lomion , has challenged to row the best four men at Newcastleupon-Tyne , for £ 300 a side . The match to Lu rowed on the London river ; if not , ho was ready to meet them half way , each party paying their own expenses . Austrian Ttrannt . —It is , according to the Aus « trian code , a grave offence to smoke a cigar whilst passing before a sentinel . If the unwary passenger , on the first summons , does not remove the offending pipe or cigar from his mouth , he is admonished by a stab from a bayonet , and several inhabitants of Cracow hare been thus wounded since the occupation of the city by the Austrians , Deserters from the United States Armt . — The Slates Police Gazette advertises the names of

      718 deserters , for each of whom a reward ot thirty dollars is offered . Of this number , 102 deserted the 16 th of October last . The names comprise only the men belonging to the standing army , and does not include the volunteers , who amount to 10 , 5 ilmen , very nearly double the number of the regular troops , as stated in the Adjutant-General's report up to the 5 th of December last . It appears from this statement that more men desert from the United States array of SMS men than from the French army of 300 , 000 ; llosKEOPATHic—Tho Aulic Chancery at Vienna has published a decree which subjects the homoeopathic doctors to a more severe control . Formerly they were allowed to prepare their own medicines ; they are in future obliged to procure their ingredients and medicaments from the apothecaries .

      Gaol Perquisites . —It camo out in the course of proceedings at Lambeth Police-court , that the Governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol makes a perquisite by giving copies of the commitments of the prisoners to their friends , for which half-a-crown is charged . An luassas SpECuuiiON . —In the United States Senate Mr . Morehcad presented a memorial lately from the editor of a daily Cincinnati paper , asking Congress to invest him with power to form : t company to extend the magnetic telegraph " acww tho Atlantic Ocean ! " Referred to the Post-office committee . Hbrrihos . —The Norwegian herring fishery has been very plentiful , aud the fislv hsvve bocn ol ' excellent quality . Tom Thumb . —Mr . Atkins , of the Liverpool Zoological Gardens , has purchased the miniature equipage of General Tom Thumb .

      Prioress . —Tho sultan has ordered the abolition of the Constantinople slave markets . Cod Fishery . —The deep sea cod-fishery 1 i : ih commenced at the Islo of Man , and many prime ii >' i have been caught . Slavert . — The last census of the United States gave 420 , 000 as the number of female slavs under ten years ot ' age , and 390 , 000 as the number between ten and twenty . Thb Peels . —Commander William Pci ! , son of Sir Robert Peel , has been appointed to coiumand the " Daring , " twelve gun sloop , on the West India station . Lamb Mortality . —An unaccountable mortality appears to prevail in Worcestershire among tin- voung lambs , which are said to bo dying in great numbers ,. without any apparent cause .

      Wonderful . —The Arbroath Guide mentions that a tumour near a cow ' s udder was lately opened by a veterinary surgeon , at Forfar , and a dinner fi « rli complete , except a part of one prony , was taken t > ui . Fiction . —The editor of the Burlington iVc . Press informs his readers , that having published " . I'ombey and Son" and tho President ' s Message , he utiyht to be excused giving any more fiction for tho present . The Potato Disease . —The loss caused by the ravages of the potato diseas , within the counties of Anglesey and Carnarvon , is estimated , by parties who are competent to judge , at 10 s . in tit * - , pound upon the annual rental of tho land , as assessed to the poor rates . Extraordinary . —A few days since , a policeman stationed at Oakham caught a robin with a cinnamon-coloured back , and other parts of a cinnamon colour . Its breast is red , and the same as others , and its wings , tail , and legs , and each side of its head , are of a hue approaching to whiteness .

      Provisions from the United Statks . —The Oxford and Orphan , from New York , Uiehard Anderson from Baltimore , Defence and Radius from Charleston , and Larne from New Orleans , which , were reported at Liverpool on the 22 nd inst ., bring 8 , 001 barrels of flour , 8 , 603 bags and 30 , 474 bushels of Indian corn , 2 , 103 barrels of Indian eoni-meal , 657 tierces of rice , and 200 boxes of biscuit . Suet and Dripping . —The late Mr . Suet , the actor , going onco to dine about twenty miles from London , and being only able to get an outside place on the coach , arrived insuch a bedraggled state , from the incessant rain , and so muffled up in great coats and handkerchiefs , that his friend inquired , doubtingly , " Aro you Sueli" " No , " replied the wag , " I ' m dripping . "

      Good Character . —Tho lato Lord Eldon had occasion to discharge u coachman whom ho suspected of purloining his corn . In afew days after , he received a letter from a merchant , inquiring into the man ' s character , and his lordship ' s reply was , that lie was sober , and a good coachman , but ho entertained suspicions that he had cheated him . Tho man came next day to return thanks to his lordship for procuring him so excellent a place . — 'My master , ' said he , "was contented to find I was sober and a good coachman ; butas to ' cheating' your lordship , he thought the devil himself could not do it . -Life

      o f Lord Eldon . , „ .. n „ , . . SuioiOT .-0 . i Tuesday , before Mr . Payne , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospit » l , on thebody ; of James Birch-¦ ill \ eed IS The deceased was a watchmaker , and during the last month he had been in a dejected at-ite through pecuniary difficulties , lie left home on fflVl * f » on tuo following da , he entered tho Bluo-coat Boy ale-house , at Islington . Soon oftcr he « 'as found on the premises bleeding from a severe wound in the neck . Ho was very much exhausted , and by his side lay a large carvingknife covered with blood . He was subsequently conveyed to the above hospital , where he died on Sunday last . The jury returned a verdict of" Tempo * rary insanity .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 27, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27021847/page/3/