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      mcr rear , and c ^ ed ins the ' x ™ ™ ' = *? J " , neatest ^ evi-msM Uv 7 . 015 . -58 Slb . 'l * ? t ' f $ sources of this iiirrea . e arc Hnc to Rri .. » h V-iH . America , the Hans * , ticTown . -. < « » o 1 ^ , ^ 1 * ' to China . SapW -. nA Sicily , Stumma am . •> - *• • £ - Trieste and the Austrian perl ,. and t- ^ . .. the Levant . The only «^;^ S " « r « r \ 1 « that country for tho ' ast *¦* ** r ^ . ± ^ iri . p laincaWsIn 1 S-M was 61 ^ . ^] > £ ' * ,. ; *? Erewe of 5 . 700 . 580 yarf j <^/ n * h ^ oW to tinns of thi * increa se bein 2 ^ c (•• > « . «« n » 1 l

      « -. -r . .... v vi . 1 . impi'ira . ¦ " , m " «<" , miBP ^ B ^ pri ChTna ) Nan ^ ^ d Sicily . I ' -nasal . Madeira , -fee , Sardinia and Tuscany . Tricrff » nd the Austrian norta . There is a decrease to Turkey and the Le vant of 1 . 1 OH i . OOO yards . The ox-v *! - * of printed and dyed calicos in ' l ? - ! G were 267 0 & . 797 yards , beini ; a'Vcre . v afi comjiarcd with I 8 i 5 » t 43 . 765 . 900 xara * . The principal countries to wh > h the export ha « d"crea « ed a e Chili and Porn , Colomliia , the Han * eTown ? . In d ; -s ( nearly ] O . 00 . ) . « W > Dyart ] - *) Tiirkey

      and the Levant ( 7 000 009 yards ) . Trieste , and the Austrian ports , ic .-. lfiwW'r Guardian .

      JUKCEESTSB . Imwigratms of Destitute Iuish . —In the town of Manchester , where I reside , it is reiUv pitiful tn see the scores of poor Irish who are daily arriving in the most wretched and forlorn state of destitnti-m and poverty . These ; -onr creatures . nnaMe t «» procure subsistence in their own eoantrv , are glad ti eniiprac to any of onr towns in V . i « s h » ve « f rncetin ^ with employ ; hut on their arrival thev find that they have only WK to msl-c ill worse . 1 hapnoned the other dnv t- fall in with a family who had just arrived from Ireland . I jot into convi * r--af ion with the man , who i'are me a most heart-rending description of the condition of tho Irish people . I told him that it was

      a shame * fo »* a fine <* omtry like his in have such an amount of poverty in it . " " Yes , bat" says he , " you see it is the cent-emen who are at the head of it who make laws for them-elves , and v . ( t for the poor , - if we w .-re righilr c / ivarned we shnold have no wed l » feel the loss of the praties a haporih . hut »>»*»• w ® are rish'ly governed it is what we may expect . " I askel hini how they would eo on for potatoes next year ? his answer was , that he did n ^ t know how thev would di rext year ; " we have not seed for 300 acres in the whole of Ireland , and if so * ucth : n < : is not done 1 don't know what will be * the end of it . " Let measktheffovern .-nentof ( hi « cmntry glisten to thj . and take warninsr in time , otherwise anar ; hy and bloodshed must ensue . —Correspondent . j

      The Soup Kitchen * . —On Saturday bisr . as usual , the distribution nfsnun comw-wed at cdaht o ' clock , and by ten o ' clock , about 4 000 quarts had been distributed . As nnny were not supplied , it was announced that about four hundred quart- ; would he distribated in ( he afternoon , at four o ' clock ; at which time cnnsidc-rr . Wy upwards ' '; a tawisand persons were in attendance ; and asihw was jtill an inadequate supply of stop , a cart load cf bread was procured and distribated smon ^ f- t ::. * e who had cot an soup . Under the = e *? iw . am tsntes , \ i _ wr . <» s . ' , * . i » - poscd that there would not be f . s many tickets as usual pres' r . fcd at the kitchen on Monday morning ;

      but the contrary was the fact The quantity of son p made was considerably more than on any prcious day ; and yet the whole supply anv-uniinff to 4 , 000 quarts , was disponed of . as usual , by ten o ' clock-We understand that it ha * been found ne «? ssary , from " the ereat pressure from whhont , " to nd-nit applicants by the wida do r ( entrance f : om Pool-street ) , and to sire them e ^ re-s by the narrow dnr . r , leadin-r into Clnrcncs-street . —On Tuesday niornins the delivpry emmenced at e : » ht o ' clock in the morning , and the whole snp ly of 5 . 600 <* ii * ats w . i ? distributed bv eleven o ' clock , and there stil ! remained in . iny applicants unMipplif d . There was al ? o a di-tiibntioD cf 3 C' 9 , ' oaves of bread .

      Br . AnroRn FEM * . LEOpf . nAT : vES —Tiie committee reien'ly anpmnt ' . 'd at liradford f * r improvin ! : i !; e E'wial and "moral condit i on of the factory sirls have just r > :: b-} i <;} ird an addres « - re « n < - - ti !> g ? o-rcin- ' « . ' ors uhJcb it CD-ic . irs there are 1 . 200 gir ' s living i-i ! :- < Lin 7 s away from heme , and a « rreai number of them front a distnnc . ' . The e- 'rnmiftee inti-nd to ti 1 up three r . r . 'oar ] od ? ini : houses , in some ! .: ' these t ! r * z \ rU will be bfimlcd and Indeed , in o " -her < 1- ihvA . The eotnniitfoe are n » w fining' up one of th- * JoJ-ricg i : ou ? cs in Thornt- n-r-nad . Vacrim Orricr . —The B-i-vrd Utive * * a ; iiinted a ron-mittec consisting o' the cuaidi-ns f ;* r Bradford to'viJ ' -Rip , to « e ! ect a pit-cr of Ero' ; nd t' > build a r , ew Ta ^ ran " - office upon . and vtoh ' . ain intVw-Ratien a * i ' . o the c-o ^ t of tho buildins , a » d the bc-. t methoi of rtudcrinr it tfiicient .

      Livsnpioi . T » I * nAME Vri-tris . —This popular a" re ?? hss been fulfillinj ; a farewoll ' ¦ . 'ica < : enH nt fir the ] ; st m' » :: ta at Liv ( rpoo ! , and c : i Frida ? evening slis T- ^ ok ieive of the ? e i ?! c of that town in thef ii-swin . 'characterisih * address : — " Ladies , and Gentlemen . —I appear bcore you to say farewell , and rhat in its mc-si painful shape , a linr and last farewell . My health , rather than my inc-initiim . be ! : evc me , induces this apparently «*? l < . ' en s'ep . Were I , irdeed . ss c'd as s !< 5 n ^ co » d people have br-en pleased to f . moy mi , I o-j-rli * to : av : * ret ' reJ years a . o . not Mi ! y fr m th-. ¦ Eiirn : * see : e , bat from 'he -tar ** of li'le iiJ-elf . The tn-tb i-, t '; at h .- . vin-:- > ccn l" ; ii- bjio'cth ¦ p ; r-ii . % r . nd , owirst'i th- -1 kindness of tin : public , c .-nspicwisiy si-, a * an rar'icr arc thai * is r . < ml ir > i h'in ¦ J

      believe I may venture to assert , quite sti . - x-ni . n-sHt . ed AtZff this you will , perhaps , »< xiicet mo u » tell you what my ag ? rc :: llyis . but I ehim tin- ji-iviVge ot rnv . ' 9 X , and leave that hirhly-iinp-.-tant qu * -rion stiii open . It Icorne- one who has eni-iv . d . b- > th as as : a ; tres j and manager , a siiarc o ! j-u ' iiic favu'ir and npplaa-e . such a * is accorded t > few , to submit , w ' r . linit a murmur , to t ! : os ?; , fHi :-ii '* is which are the lot ii m-Kiy . Great as lr . s been the favour I have i . htained . it has brer , nowhere create : than in this fl-. * - * i- ! i : n- ; , onu ' i-nt . and liber-i ? town ; ai . d I be * tiitrei-irc , t < i ofi ^ r t <» i : s nmn «* r- » us re ; iri ** - "ntativ ** s hen p * -is ,-ii : : ry humble and hvurtfAt tii-x .-k-. llow j .- n ^ ' 1 i ; i 5 y yt-t perform in London isuuc-sv . in . luit

      riv " ::-slth at pre . * e- it not penn tt n < . ' r ,: e to up . dcrro V .: ¦ ¦ cmtiiiusl fatii-avs of tiMvcllii ' -r j-rofrssj . iia ' . ly , I hi e cru-i- * lo the d-terminalinn of clos :. n * r ni v C-inntry :: cc .. ; in : s alt'i . - eth' -r . lSi-fiin * I <| ppa « t , ho-vev ; -r . allow y . m on r . rtiiin * : from bioincvi to rcc jra-BenJ to jf = ur cordi-il support my junior partner . He h ? . ; . secured fur hir . i-elf my good v . ill , and has , I trurt , f-iitlj ' ei himself to yours . It i- lu ; therefore , who will , iu future , undertake thp travf )! s : i-ilf * iartnieat Let me , then , express my eis-iu ^ t hope that the HIsM-a i patt- - -:- , r" you haw for > -o nnny yt-ars exttridtd t ^ mvsiSf , wili bi stvadiiy i-aijtis . uei ta iny husuind . La ; lie < an 1 cfntlemcti , I m i-t rcsM-ctfully , r . ri-Iro ' 'St * -r-itpfu ! iv , bid v « u farcrt-cl ! . "

      < inF . AT l \ U * > RT I'F AM * . * . niC . \ X I ' ll VI-IOXS 1 X 10 I . iv :: bimol . —TcKsjuy—I ; i . s sratiSi :::- fcjfiudth . it , in this tr-iiigseawM of d ' . -irtl ; airl f-. u . i-A ' . t ! : e pmduccof other pinintrii-K t-nme forward mi jdeatifully . Tiie Liverpnl Cu-m . ms bill of entry c . ntain-ihc fill-1 l « . vin-particii ! .-i : s „ f tliC carj / ies « * f ' R < p ... ili--iiiiock t i fv < vsn Sew Y-rk : Cisark * llu-tib iston ' , ii * m St . -. n ! rew 3 , \ . 15 . An-i-1-Sax .. ii . ' n . m U . ston ; iV-kindiaro , fro . u Pln ' uJi-lj-hia ; LVisdiu * . from - v-w \ ork ; hnpir * . from New Y „ r ;; ; Ashland , , ' ,- rrj . > arannah : /< ab ih , Vtv .. ;; rt . i ' . om St . An < .. -s . X B . ; Riva ' . from llaii ^ x . Aw .: —43 . 15 S Inin-U offl . jor ; 20 : U- » bushels , iwi sat- ; . ; , and 287 b .- ^ - 1-f wheat ; $ , : & : } lends of era meal ; G 502 s : i-: ; - and 5 , 203 b . sgs of India-, cum ; 2 , 0 St » l-oxe > aid V' 7 casks of cheese ; 2 a . " ij barrels of b < ad ; "J 2 < j btn-s < . f apples ; . 10- ! ca > K ~ m tierces 30 hafftieri- * - --. » nd 230 tiero-s , ion btnvls , mid " Uejs ol beei ; -V » 2 sacks of coru ; 201 k" » s « : bawi ; 70 barrels ot It . iwis ; 1-30 baricis of ;[ ion ' s ; 10 ) barrels ot biscui's , < tc .

      GREAT FIEE AT LIVKHrOliI .. Between the hours of one ; i » id two o ' clock on Tuesday morning , a dreadful fire broke out in the spacious premises belonging to Mr . Uha li »*; or situ atedou the cast side ofMason-st . tet , near VVappin-r . which destroyed buildings and oilier property to a very considerable amount . It seems to have " < iri <; inatcd in a wooden shed used by Mr . Cbalhinc-r as a place of temporary deposit for flour . The high wind whi-h prevailed aided the fairy of the dcvo-iri- ig element , and speedily ignited the aujic-nt property . From the wooden shed , the flames were carried across a yard to Mr . Challoner ' s stable , which was burned down ; and we regret to add that a fine horse which was in the stable was also burned to a cimh-r . The

      fire next communicated to Air- Challoner ' s i-irge warch'ni e , which was used partly as a flour store and partly as a block manufactory . This fine bmlditv . ' was entirely gutted . The roof , joints , and fl-wrs rave way at an early period , and nothing now rem ains hut the bare walls . Tuceeof the rooms were luily stored with flour , and the other rooms contained a hirge stock of blocks and steam machinery , the wiio ' e of which hare been either wholly destroyed or ren ' ered utterly useless . The fire next communicated with a fine warehouse belons-ing lo Mr . Tiiomas JJ-ioth . the corn-merchant ; and this warehouse

      alto-(• ethcr with the whole of its contents , has likewise been d «* tro > ed . The roof and floors have been burned ihrouL'h , and the b . irc walls only are standing . A second warehouse belonging to Mr . Booth , ai-. daltrg e warehouse belonging to Messrs . Lodge and 1 ' ritchard , on the east side of liursfc-street , both took fire , but owing to the vigorous exertions of the firewen . they were only partially damaged . A smali . weLing house adjoining Mr . Challoner ' s warclnuse was also on fire f „ ra short time , and itsprescrraiJiMi is entirely owing to the efforts of the li . e men . -No correct estimate can as yet be formed of the value of the propert y destroyed , but doubtless it v . n amount to several thousand pounds .

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      Death fruu Starvation . — An inquest was held on Tuesday r . pon the body of a man unknown who di .-d ir . the Northern Hospital , on Sunday . It appear * « . l bv ih » evidence that the attention of a police-, iW ' nas ' cal ' pii te the deceased < m Sunday morning , he ** u . s then lying on some steps in Marylebooe quite ij-jCii-iWe , and was tVi-tliiit- ; at the mouth , lie was ? . t one * cimveyed tu the hospital , where he died sdiartly after-v .-irds ; upon a postmortem examination ofthe ' bfl'iy , Mr . Gildersleeves , the house surgeon , found that the intestines were very much congested , and that there was palpable evidence that death resulted solely from want of fund . The jury returned a verdict of Died f » r want of nourishment . "

      BLACRBCKN . MA-fLM-GKri-R — On Tu nday , at noon , Thomas kiy , butciier , Ribchestcr , was brought into the t iwii in custody of the police , charted with having killed John Ward , labourer , in a fight , in the White Bull , Rib-wester . A large party were carousing to-•; ether , wfcvn the two parties named quarrelled and e-minu need fighting . They fouubt for some time , till the prisoner was drarged off Ward , who was discovered i <* lie quite dead . Death is supposed to have resulted from a kick on the eyebrow , administered by the hc . vy iron i-oiinted clog of Kay .

      XOKTItUMBKBlAND . Fatal Collier ? Accidint . —A distressing acci-• lent oecnrred at Gostorth Colliery , about three miles fmm Newciu-lIe-upon-Tyne , on Monday afternoon , bv v-Uk-h Ihree v > ung men , of tho names of C : mk . Il-ran , and Ki ' dlcy . were killed , and an overman , named Cliampby , ' was much injured . ^ The men , it appear ? , were working the "' broken , " and had removed recently the whole of the pillar of coal without putting in props sufficient to support the roof , which fell , and buried the three workmen in

      thr rains . The -verraan was attempting to leave the p / ace , wJicn a portion of the roof fell upon his foot ard threw him down , but he contrived to drag himself out , and shouted for assistance . A party of hewers who had been at work in another part of the mine hastened to the spot , and distinctly heard the groans of one « f tiie men , but they were unable to reach him for some rime . On clearing away the rubbish , the three were found dead , but not much mutilated , fo that it is supposed their death was caused br suffocation .

      WlCAil . Fall op trk Mgs * -teb Chimney . —On Thursday afternoon , shortly after 4 o ' clock , this very imposing fabric fell to th « cround with a loud crash . The chimney which has been completed for only a few months , was commenced by Air . Dobb nearly four years affo . close to the lands of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , at the termination of his extensivcchyinieal works . Its progress since that time has been gradual durin-r the summer months , but its progress has been necessarily stayed for several months of each winter . —when its part comp l etion gave indications of its future greatness . Its completion was effected a few months ae o , when it had reached the great height of upwardsof 400 fee or about 134 yards , and the event was duly celebrated . Shortly , however , after this was done an indention of one side near the

      top was observed , and which was watched daily , when , after a further 1 ipse of time , a very apparent deviation from f ' 'e perpendicular had taken place , and the base slightly parted from the side of the excavation . A funher inclination being observed , the advice of Mr . Fairbajrc , civil engineer , of Manchester , was obtained , and we believe he recommended a portion of the top being taken down , and the work was eon-equently commenced , and continued until the day of its fall , when ws believe a person v . as up the building ; at this time about 28 yards had been

      laken off . For some time past a further ainkin- ; of the base has been observe ' , and greater fears were entertained for ifs safety , and a series of stays were being constructed to place round it . But all the measures were without avail . It lell on Thursday afternoon , across the canal , and extends for the length of a field beyond it . The passage of boats on the cinal is stopped until it can be cleared , and active measures are now being carried on for tbe purpose . We believe this is the third chimney wnichhas fallen on Mr . Dobbs' premises . —Manchester Courier .

      STOCKPORT . Wkclfsale Robberies . —Op . Monday , at the Bomuch Court ; three men , named Markey , Turner , and Blood , wre brought before the magistrates , charged as follows : —Mr . Sadler , superintendent of police . Mated that all three of them had been apprehended by Sergeant Walker , the previous day , on suspicion of being concerned in several very extensive robberies . On Satutday the police had occasion to search Markey ' s house , when a very considerable smount and quantity of property , believed to be

      st »! en , was found . Markey is the tenant of the li *> u « e , and the other two are professedly his lodgers . 1 'he police had removed a whole cart-load of goods ; amongst other tilings , a cheese , part of another '• he . ese , a barrel cf mustard , a loaf of sugar , glasses , timber , Ac . the pionerty ot which they had received information aa having been stolen during the last four or five months , and some of which had been owned by various gentlemen in the town . All the three were together when they were apprehened , and the prontrty taken . Tney were remanded .

      LEEDS . Rujef op the Distressed Poor is Leeds . —A plan has been suggested for giving to the mendicants who are found ia ihe public streets of this town , and in the adjoinins . ' villages , begging , a supply of food , consisting chiefly of a preparation of riee at public tables , to be provided for the purpose , a sufficient meal at certain hours of the day gratuitously , without any inquiry into their circumstances , or into the eountiy or parish to which they belong . The difficulty in the way of the execution of this project arises from wane of funds applicable to such a purpose ; as the Guardians of the Poor on being applied to , declined to expend any part of the public money raised for the relief of the poor belonging to this union , in indiscriminate relief , particularly of thosv who had no local settlement within their union . A p-i i- ; ic subscription is contemplated for tbe above puroose .

      Verdict of Maxslavguter agaixst ax Excise-Dpj vbr .- —On Friday a Coroner ' s inquest was held at tne Court House touching the death of David Anderson , a farmer ' s labourer , who was killed on the Leeds and Bradford Railway , under the following circum > tanee ? : — On the morning of the 15 th instant , between five and six o ' clock , five carts , each drawn by one horne , were despatched from Rawdon to Giiderstone . for coals . They had to pass over the L' -eds and Bradford at Calverley , which at that part cros > es the public road on a level . The gates on each side of the line were open , and no parties were in attendance to watch them . The morning was exccedinely dark and fogey , and the usual signals were

      lii . t exhibited , ruur of the carts passed over the tii-eiin safety , and on the last one which was in charge of the decease , getting on the crossing , an engine and train was seen approaching , and ere til's vehicle could be got over the engine struck tiie horse , killed it on the spot , drove the cart some distance , and frightfully injured the deceased , who wa « . seated on the top o { it . He survived tiie occurrence hut a few hour-: . Aftes hearing evidence , the Jury found a verdict of " Manslaughter against the engine driver , J , ; nies Gee , " accompanying it with an expression of opinion that the Company had shewn s-rcat carelessness in the management of the crossing at the Calverly Bridge station .

      ROCHDALE AND MIDDLETON . BcnoLART . —At'the Rochdale petty sessions , on Monday last , John iJurst , woollen weaver , apparently upwards of fifty years of a ^ e , who was formerly transported for fourteen years for burglary , was brought upon a charge of having , on Friday evening , ot eirly on Saturday morning last , broken into the house of Mrs . Mary Whittaker , provision dealer , Sniallbridge . An entrance had been effected b . v breaking the back kitchen window , and a black shawl and other articl a were stolen . He was committed for trial at the next Liverpool assizes .

      Fatal Accident from Machinery . —On Saturday last . Mr . Dearden held at inquest at the Collier ' s ' Arms , Dearnley , between Smallbridge and Littleborough , ou the body of a young man , twenty-three years ot age , named Joseph Butterworth , whose death took plac : under the following circumstances : —Deceased was a power-loom j > bbcr , in the employ of Messrs . Robert Leach and Brothers , woollen manufacturers . On Friday last , while at work in the factory , he w . nt to grind some shuttle wheels . For i ! iis purp . ee he stood on a bench , and whilst attempting to throw a string over the shaft which was in motion , his left shirt sleeve was caught by a cog wheel , above the elbow . By this his left arm was nearly torn from his body , and several of his ribs were broken . He died the same day . The shafting is about eight feet from the floor , and he ought not to have put the string on while the shaft was in motion . The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "

      ijirmixoium . Charge of Fraud agaixst a Corx-Dealer . —A corn-dealer of extensive business and most respectable connections in this town , named Thomas Goran ) , is now in custody at the public-office , charged with obtaining metiers upon false pretences , to the amount of between . £ 3 , 000 and £ 1 , 000 . The pri - soner followed the occupation of a commission agenr , his business being to purchase wheat , barley , and other arain , from fanners and dealers at the Utratf > rd , Worcester , and other markets , on account ot extensive millers and consumers by whom he was em-1-l . iyed . From the information whivh has at present tra' ! . viircd , it appears that Mr . Oonim has purchased cR-ii : on several occasions in the name of wellknown established firms of the highest credit , sub-. ' •• ' qitcntjy . sohi tiie lots so purchased to other parties , ami ultimately . ' -pproprintcd themoneyrcceivedupon the sales to his own purposes .

      XOTTIXCIIAM . Shockim ; D * :. snrcTK . ' . \ . —O-ying to long continued de ¦!• ssioii in trade , and the high price of provisions , th-j wjrking classes in Nottingham are suffering misers find privation to an alarming extent . The unifin workhouse , originally built to accomodate one thousand individuals , now numbers within its walls 1 , 1 / 1-J souls . ' Out-door relief is given to 3 , 181 persons . In Radford and parishes adjoining tbe town multitudes are in a state of extreme want and desti-

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      tution . The Radford workhouse contains 109 persons , and the guardians are obliged to offer the house to a great number nf app licants for relief , as it is found impossible to raise money in the parish to pay the out applicants on the scale hitherto adopted . LEICESTER . Misery . —The poor rates of Leicester are much increased by fbe distress which prevails among the frame-work knitters , 3 , 176 , or one-sixteenth part of the population , are receiving parochial relief .

      ESSEX . The Secrst Poisonings . —The prosecution of Mr . Thomas Newport , a farmer nf respectable connexions at Clavering , at the direction of Sir G . Grey , the Secretary oi State , charged with being accessary to tbe recent poisoning of children , in that and the adjoin ; village of Maunden , was proceeded with at the eaol of Newport , in thiscountyon Saturday before the Rk ht Hon . Lord Bradbrook and Mr . Birch Woolfe , magistrates for the Saffron Walden district of the county . The prisoner had been apprehended on the previous Friday , by Mr . Superintendent Clark of the Essex constabulary force , and Mr . Inspector Shackell , of the London detective police . The charge preferred against tbe prisoner was for feloniously aiding

      and abetting Sarah Chesham in administering poison to Soloraan Taylor ( since deceased ) , the illegitimate child of Lydia Taylor , with intent to destroy its life . It is also said that he will be implicated in the murder o ! Joseph and James Chesham . The most important witnesses were Lydia Taylor , the parent of the deceased child , Soloman Taylor , and her mother . It was shewn that while the former was in the service ot the mother of the prisoner she became eneientc by him , and he failing to induce her to take some drug to procure abortion , she was discharged . A month after her confinement , Sarah Chesham , whom she had not spoken to before , went to see her . She seemed yery fond of theinfant , said Newport was a good-for-nothing fellow , and on leaving remarked

      she would call again . In a month or two she visited the house of Lydia Taylor , and brought some "luxuries , " tea , appledumplincs , butter , Ac . She took the baby | in her arms , and suddenly it was taken very sick . Sarah Chesham observed that she had only given it a bit of sugar . Only a small portion of the luxuries were eaten . Chesham begged of Taylor to call at her cottage at Clavering with the child , and in consequence of her solicitations she did so . After being there a few minutes she took the infant in her arms , and running down stairs , said she would take it to see its father . The young woman ran after her across a field ,, and for a minute or so lost sight of her by her turning round a hedge . On coining un to her , Taylor saw her resting her feet on the bank

      and putting something in its mouth Chesham vias wiping her fingers on her gown . The child looked verv pale nnd sickly , and its lips were smeered with something like ointment . On questioning her what she had been administering it , she merely answered a " sucker . " The mother had great difficulty in cleansing the mouth of the child of the stuff that adhered to it . A short time afterwards a similar occurrence took place . The infant became seriously ill . and greatly wasted away . By medical skill , it partially recovered ; in a few weeks , however , it was more violently seized with the former symptom , an j in the beginning of last October it expired . On the mother of Lydia waiting upon the prisoner for some

      assisttance for her daughter , he told her it was a bad job , and she must get rid of it . He made use of the same remark on subsequent visits . When he refused to relieve her , she applied to the magistrates at Saffron Walden , and they ordered him to pay 2 s . Od . a week towards its support , Sarah Chesham was committed for attempting to poison it before it died . Other evidence was given . andtheprisoner madealenethened defence . He admitted having told the mother of Lydia Taylor , that she must get rid of it , but he firmly denied being implicated in the transaction mentioned by the women Chesham . She had only trumped them up againsthim with a view of extorting money . The prisoner was fully committed for trial .

      BURItEV . EXTRAORDIXART OCCURRENCE NEAR BaXSTEAD Dswns . —On Monday a long investigation took place before William Carter , Esq ., the coroner for Surrey , at the Blue Anchor , at Banstead , near Epsnm . on the body of a man found under most extraordinary circumstances . The jury , upon viewing the body , found that his clothes were torn almost to shreds , and the ends of his fingers almost bitten off . George Johnson stated that on Tuesday morning he went to look for ahorse which had strayed from the common , and on going through a field hesawa man lying down . He went to him , and he turned over and groaned twice . With assistance he was got away , but then he was quite dead . The Coroner—What sort of weather was it the previous night ? Witness—Very cold and frosty . The Coroner—Was anything found ? Witness—Yes , I found an old jacket under him , a-d his shoes by the side of him . A stocking was found

      about two rods off , under the edge , and the fragments of a blue cloth cap , which seemed to have been torn into shreds . There were marks nf his having been rolling about on the grass , and there was also on the ground , the mark of a stocking . Wood , the constable , deposed that he found no marks of external violence , but the top joint of the fore finger on the left hand was very severely injured , as well as the nail . After some other evidence , the coroner inquired if the police had any reason to suspect these strange appearances had arisen from violence . Theinspeetor said he did not think tkey had , or there would have been other foot-marks in the field . The jury , after some consideration , returned the following special verdict : — " That the deceased was found dead without any marks of violence , and we are of opinion he was seized with illness , and died from exposure to the cold . " The deceased , from his dress , is supposed to have esoaped from some lunatic asylum or

      union . CROVD 0 H . Accident on the Brioutox Railwat . —On Tuesday , about noon , a very shocking accident happened on the Brighton Railway , near the Stoat ' s Nest Station , a few miles beyond Croydon . It appears that the signals on each side of the line are attended to by on « man , and having signalled an up train , he proceeded to cross the permanent way to the opposite side to signal the eleven o ' clock mail train from London , which he saw approaching . The unfortunate man , however , it | is evident , must have miscalculated the distance , for ere he could clear the rails the buffers of the engine struck him with fearful violence , and hurled hira " some distance . He was immediately conveyed to Guy ' s Hospital in a very dangerous condition , and was not expected to survive the night . His skull is fractured , and his body otherwise much injured .

      SOUTHAMPTON . Fire . —On Saturday evening about nine o ' clock a fire broke out on the premises of a Mr . Spicer , a farmer and extensive cattle dealer , regularly attending Smithfield market , at a farm iu the neighbourhood of Rorasey . Four horses , a cow and calf , pigs , sume stacks of corn , hay , < fcc , were destroyed . The premises were the property of Lord Palmerston .

      SALISBURY . Electxox . —On Monday the election of a Member of Parliament took place in the room of Ambrose Hasscy , Esq ., who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds . Richard Hetley , Esq ., bmker , of Salisbury , Conservative , proposed W . J . Chaplin , Esq ., as a fit and proper person ; and Wm . Fawcett , Esq ., aretired gentleman , of the extreme Liberal party , seconded th e same . When , there being no other candidate proposed , W . J . Chaplin , Esq ., was declared duly elected .

      CORNWALL . Famine Riots . —Last week from two to three hundred labourers from the china clay-works picvented the shipping of corn at a port called 1 ' entewan . It is feared that the miners will join in this popular demonstration , if ^ so , . things will assume a serious aspect . Troops have been marched from Plymouth to the scene of these disturbances .

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      SCOTLAND . GLASGOW . The Aoskwites . —The late fire consumed property worth at least one hundred thousand pounds . When this fire was raging and devouring everything within its reach , when the whole city was in commotion , when , but for the stillness of the wind and the favourable aspect of the heavens , the mo > t valuable portion by far of the one-half of the city of Glasgow might have been wrapt up in one devouring sheet of flame , it was discovered that the active and managing partner of one of the most extensive concerns connected with this property was in Edinburgh and Dundee , and it was then most wisely resolved to send an

      express to him , t « apprise him of tho calamity , and to bring him to Glasgow with all expedition , ' This , however , was found to be impossible . The directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Companythose canting Agnewites , win have so recently crept into that con « ern , and stopped the Sund ay trainspositively and peremptorily refused , through their officers , to despatch an express engine for the laudable and necessary purpose above stated ! Nay , we have heard ( says the ' Scotch Reformer ' s Gazette ) that they stoically refused t ; » allow a solitary passenger with the above express to take his place heside their own engineer , who was going at any rate with their ( pious ?) engine to Edinburgh with the mailbags . from Glasgow , which they still carry for hire on tliKt day !! Hut this is not all . When the flames

      were beginning to reach the opposite fsidc ol thestrcct , whew * some of these good Sir Andrew Agnew itci have their workhouses located , all hands " were set to work , and did work till a late hour on Suiid-iv nit -lit . Yet the kith and kin of those people hail denied the train for the express to Edinburgh at mid-day , as we have stated . In the evening of that same day , however , when the fiery clouds began to lower upon their own houses , they put every leg and arm , every bodily aid they could command , to save their goods and chattels—their prints , patterns , and shawls ; their day-books , ( heir ledgers , their cash-books , their invoices , and bills of lading—ami those , wc will be bound to say , from what wc have heard , were fingered by them far more anxiously than the Bible itself , with the Fourth Commandment , that evening .

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      The saints are provoking a storm they will find 1 difficult to allay . The Scotch Reformers' GaseM says : — ' * We have pretty good authority for stating that the Committee for re-establishing the Sunday Passenger Trains , have M-ied with the secretary to the Railway Company letters from 5 G 8 shareholders , dissenting from the resolution of the directors to withdraw these , trains , and requesting them that they may be immediately re-established . These letters represent no less than 11 , 061 whole shares , 7133 half-shares , and 11 , 672 quarter shares . The Destitute Irish swarm Ihe streets of Glasgow . On Friday about two hundred men , women , and children , in an absolutely destitute elite , were examined before the magistrates on the charge of being " houseless and foodless !" JOHN O OROATS .

      Scotch CunisnANiir . —A boat belonging to W ick , while attempting to get out of IMmsdale harbour was struck by a sea , and driven to the south part of the river , where she became a wreck . The cargo , wheat and barley , was considerably damaged . The good people of Helmsdale refused to render assistance , because it was Sabbath !

      destitution in the islands . Mull . —Destitution begins to be much felt in the islands . There are a great many deaths amongst the old people and children , not exactly from want , but from a change of diet . There were fifteen funerals in Ross churchyard lately in one day .

      EDINBURGH . The New Antidote to Phtmcal SrrFEH (» o . —The Edinburyh Witness Kives the following remarkable instance of the successful application of ether iu destroying the sense of pain : — " Another eiperiment with the inhalation of ether was madeinthcllojal Infirmary , by Professor Miller , and proved eminently successful . The patient was a middle aged Irishman—a ' navvy '— who had sustained a compound fracture of tho leg nine weeks before . Tha fracturehad not united , in consequence of the presence of a dead piece of bono , and it became necessary to remove this by a painful operation . The patient was seated on a table , and the inhalation was applied by means of a very bcautful yet simple apparatus , made by Squire , of

      London . At first little effect was produced , but after tome minutes the p . ttientfell backwards , as if in a swoon . The operator was then about to proceed ; but the man immediately objected , eajing that ' he was not asleep , and that he trusted nothing would be done till he was asleep . ' For full twenty ' minutes more the inhalation went on ; the man confused and talkative , but wide awake , and occasionally expressing very unptaatlcally his conviction that ' it would not do . ' At length , however , while in this wakeful state , the operation was begun . Incisions were made on the shin , and flaps were dissected off so as to expose the bone beneath . A portion of this was sa « n and clipped through , and then the dead bone was removed . Only during the clipping of the bone with strong straining pliers did any sign of feeling escape from

      the patient , who was busy inhaling all the while , and now and then protesting that' it wouln ' nt do . ' The operation occupied about ten minutes , and , from the highly sensitive nature of the parte implicated , must have been attended with excruciatine suffenng under ordinary circumstances . After it was over , the professor said to the patient , ' I suppose you won't let me operate to day . ' ' Certainly not , ' said the patient ; ' it won't do ; I must be asleep . The thing hasn't succeeded with me . and I am sure it can ' t succeed with any one else , for I did everything 1 could to pet sleep for my own sake , and I'd do anything to pltaee you . ' ' Ton won't even let nu-malrea cut jnto the leg ! ' 'No ; I must be asleep ; we ean try it another time . ' This plain proof of his utter unconsciousness of the operation having been performed

      was acknowledged by Jbe specl » tors in a hearty round of applause ; The patient then sat up , and seeing the wound , bumt into an immoderate lit of laughter , saying , 'No doubt there ' s blood , or something very like it ; but I havn't felt a single thing done to my leg . That bates the globe ; ' and , on being asked decidedly as to his having ' felt anything , ' he repeatedly answered' 'Not a ha ' porth . ' He got into aniaziM- * spirits , and refused to leave the table until he was told ' all about the toldrums of the business . ' And then , with the manner ef a tipsy man , and very happy , he kept surgeons and students in a roar of laughter for some minutes with a narrative of his condition during the inhalation , which , Irish-like , seemed to have been a . strange medley of imaginary fights and ' killings' going on around him . but wholly

      irrespective of his own leg and the operation . On being carried out , he declared triumphantly , ' This is the very beet thing that has ever happened in the three kingdoms . ' The professor stated that he considered this case quite conclusive as to the powers of tbe ether , because there was not a more painful operation in all surgery , and because the patient , having been avowedly a hard and Aaoitnal drbifcer of spirits , was one of those persons who are least susceptible of the ether ' s influence . The whole proceedings seemed to give the greatest satisfaction to the medical and surgical officers cf tbe institution , and to a large assemblage of interested spectators . Perhaps the most remarkable thing in such a strange tale is , the circumstance of the man being so wide awake and talkative while all the while quite insensible to tbe cutting of his limb . "

      Destitution and Crime . —The Edinburgh Weekly Register of Wednesday last , statts that some of the principal streets of Edinburgh , swarm with ragged children clamoving for relief . The same paper also says that Edinburgh appears to be rivalling Glasgow in the amount and extent of its robberies . The streets are absolutely insecure for many hours before midnight , and unli ss increased vigilance is manifested by the police , there is no saying to what extent the depredators may carry ou their outrages ,

      KACDfFP . Meal Riot , — The greatest excitement prevails at all the shipping ports in this neighbourhood , in consequence of the enormous shipments of grain which have been taking place for some weeks past , and the rapid advance in the price of food . The quantities shipped at Portsoy . M-cduff , Fraserburgh , 4 c ., as well as at Ba-. ff , for the last two months , have been unexampled ; whilst the price of meal has risen from 18 s . te 30 s . per boll ; oats to 46 s ., and barley to 00 s . per quarter . Friday se ' niplit a formidable tnoD assembled at Macduff to prevent the

      shipment of a [ quantity of meal and grain which had * rrived in carts , end for the time they succeeded . They placed a high barricade ot railway sleepers , found upon the beach , across the way to the vessels , and stripped off one of her sails te prevent her going to sea , Saturday , the magistrates called a public meeting in the Town Hall to consider the matter , at which a large committee was appointed to confer again with the magistrates on Monday forenoon . The same disposition to prevent shipment is manifested at Banff and elsewhere , bat we have heard of no farther aggressive measures being adopted .

      ATRSIIIRE . Fatal accidents on tub Glas « ow , DcKFtiins , and Carlisle Railwat . — This Railway is ranking rapid progress . The Centres of the great bridge over the Ayr are now in , and give a goad idea of what this mighty structure will be , as they are seen towering far above the tops of the highest trees which grow at the top of rocks one hundred feet in height . Many accidents have taken place . Suveral horses have been killed . Three men have lost their lives . The first was a miner , who , along with other three , had charged three shots

      onemtnrning at one o ' clock intheMossgeil tunnel . Two oftheshots went off , whil e the thi r d h u ng fire ; the men approached near the spot , when eff it went , knocking them all down , and carrying away one of their heads . The man instantly died . The next case of death was a young man who got jammed between two loaded waggons . He had one of his legs smashed , and sustained severe bruises . He never spoke , except that he cried " Lord have mercy on me ; take charge ot my helpless mother . " A lad of sixteen years of age named William Morton was run over by a train of empty waggons and killt-d on the spot .

      ARBROATH . Highway Robberies or attempts thereat , are becoming matters of common occurrence in the neighbourhood of this town 1

      ABERDEEN , " Meal Mobs . "—Threatened Djstbr-ia . yces . — On Friday forenoon , there were considerable apprehensions of a riottakiag place iu Aberdeen , caused by the present high price of provisions . A number of people assembled on the Links at eleven o ' clock , and one or two parties gave some very distressing details of the state to which they bad been reduced . About two hundred of the crowd were railway labourers , who came from the opposite side of the Dee , bearing a black Hag . Another body of individuals had assembled before the Town House , and commenced cheering and yelling—causing great disturbance . The provost addressed the crowd , pontine ; out the uselessness and folly of attempting to break the peace . The meeting on the Links then mt-stered about 1000 strong , and it was agreed to send a deputation to the provest laying their melancholy case before him . The

      deputation waited on the magistrates , and represented the grent distress prevailing among them , owing to the dearth of provisions , Tho magistrates at once expressed their desire to use all means within their power te elleviate tiie distress of tba people , trusting lhat every one would have the good sense not to aggravate the calamity by anydisorderly conduct . Throughout the day , considerable excitement prevailed . At three o ' clock there was a swear , ing in of special constables . In the course of the afternoon a portion of the crowd made mi attempt to take flour from a cart ou Trinity Quay , and the ringleader was tiikca up and lodged in prison . In the evening the crowds increased , the shops werccarl-f shut , and numbers of windows were broken . The police , in taking \\]< some of the ringleaders , were pelted with stones . Bu . lore midnight there were fifty men and women imprisoned .

      KIRKCALDY . Fatal Effects of Intkmpekancc ,-A few days ago , mi old woman , residing in l ' lithheml , of the name of Klder , was found by some neighbours lying in bed in a most , distressing state , her face , hands , -fcc , sadly binned , still alive . From external circumstances , it i . s coiijidured that spontaneous combustion had been the cause , She only survived till the next day , when death put an end to her sufferings . There was also found dead on the cvining of the same day , Tuesday , a woman , of he name of Henderson , residing at the West end of this town , much given to intemperance . She was found lying on her face on the floor , a stiffened corpse , her nose be . tng much flattensd by the fall .

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      IRELAND . 1 KB FAMINE—O 0 VKRNMKNT MEASURES . A circular hai been issued by the Commissary General , from which we make the following extracts v—<• AUGMENTED RATIO OF DONATIONS ON SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR AFFORDING GRATUITOUS REblEF , AND PROVIDING FOOD FOR SALE , AT FIRST COST < tc . ' TO TDE SECRETARY OF EACH SELIEF COMMITTIE IN IRELAND . " Commissariat Relief Office , Dublin Castle , Jan . 20 , 1847 .

      " Sir—Commissary-General Sir R . I . Routh d- 'Sires to state , that in consequence of the distrass prevailing in districts whore the union workhouses are full or unavailable , his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has authorised the recommendation of grants in an augmented ratio on subscriptions , having reference to the extent of destitu tion in each district , Where much distress exists the grants will be equal to the subscriptions . In some cases a greater amount will be recommended . Under the circumstances reverted to in in the first paragraph , the government regulations allow of gratuitous uses to the Infirm poor , to widows , orphans , and children where the supporting member of the family is incapable , from sickness or other cause to maintain them .

      To persons requiring relief on such grounds the food is afree gift of charity , but when the committee sell , is not desirable to do so under cor . t price , for it Is an object to maintain the funds ©* tbe committee as unlmpnred as possible , so as to make them applicable to the « hole season . The food considered to be best suited for gratuitous relief is soup . This should also be provided for sale , when practicable , with a view of economising the consumption ofcorn .

      FAMINK DISEASE ANI > DEATH . Dublin , Jan . 23 rd . —The accounts from the Northern Counties to-day are most appalling . To the | hor rors of famine the dread of pestilence is now superadded . The low fever , called by the peasantry "the plaeue , " is extending in some of the remote districts of the county of Cork . The Du 6 hn £ "jeniw- Post says ~ "ffe mentioned a week or ten days ago that a low , and , as it would appear , a contagious fever had shown itself in many places in the county of Cork . The poor peoph ' called it the plague , and fled from the infested hovel , leaving the wretched inmates to perish . In order to show the formidable character of the evil , and the imperative necessity of promt precautionary measures , we shall here introduce an extract of a letter which we received this morning from a friend in Carrick . on . Suir , u pon whose accuracy the fullest reliance maybe placed : —

      We are in an awful condition in this part of the conntry . Our fever hospital would be crowded with 56 , and we have now 126—three and four in each bed—all suffering from ' starvation fever ; ' and our workhouse has now 300 over the number .

      DBBAMUL MOB . TALITT IN THE WEST OF THE COUNT ! OF CORK . The Cork Examiner contains detailed reports of ten inquests at Bantry , all of which yerdicts were returned that death had been caused by starvation . The same journal contains the following extract from a private letter from Bantry : — Each da . y brings with it its own horrors . The mind recoils from the contemplation of the scenes we are compelled to witness every hour . Ten Inquests in Bantrythere should have been at least tico hundnd inuiests . Each day , each hour , produces 'its own

      victims—holocausts offered at the shrine of political economy . Famine and pestilence are sweeping away hundreds—but they have now no terrors for the poor people . Their only regret seems to be that they are not relieved from their suffering and misery by some process more speedy and less painful . Since the inquests were held hereon Monday there have been not less than twenty four deaths from starvation ! and , if we can judge from appearances , before the termination of another week the number will be incredible , As to holding anymore inquests , it it mere nonsense . The number of deaths is beyond counting .

      From Mayo the reports are of the same melancholy character . From Kerry and other counties several appaling statements hate been received . '

      IRISH POOR LAW—ADVANCES PROM THB TREASURY . Dublin , Jan . 24 . —The boards of guardians in se-Ternlofthe noor- 'aw unions are makin'r arrangements for affordinc increased accommodation , in order to lessen the danger of the spread of infectious disease from the over-crowded state of the work houses . In other unions the guardians declare the establishments insolvent , and threaten to close the workhouse * . At tho meeting of the Bailieborouch guardians on Monday , a resolution to that effect was adopted , and a call was made upon the Pom-Law Commissioners to " enable the board to raise a sufficient sum of money to carry on the expenditure of the house until part of the rate shall be colcollected . "

      In reply to a letter from Daniel Connor , Esq ., chairman of the Dunmanway board of guardians county of Cork , showing " tiie urgent necessity that the Treasury should be authorised to make advances by way of loan to boards of guardians on the security of the future rates , for the purpose of affording additional temporary accommodation to the destitute poor . " Lord John Russell has sent the following : — "January IS , 1 S 41 . " Sir—I have received the resolution of the TOiinman way board of guardians , convening a distressing nc count of that union . The Treasury have empowered the Lord Lieutenant to act in urgent ceses in the manner he shall deem expedient , and I shall transmit to him the resolutions . " 1 have the honour to bo , your obedient servant , "J . Rdssell . " Daniel Connor , Esq . "

      STATE OF THE PEOPLE . ( From our Correspondent . ) Dnef . HEDA . —Since I last wrote to you the condition of the labouring classes has been growing worse , Notwithstanding the laudable exertione ef tbe clergy and gentry of the town , the Relief Committee find it difficult to continue the soup kitchen . Theie are upwards of six hundred getting a pint of soup with a pound of bread daily , whereby they are enabled merely to keep life in their " shells , " for it would not be right to call their emaciated frames by any other appellation . The bakers are obliged to have a policeman in each shop , to prevent the carrying away of their bread by the hungry people who crowd our streets . The bread-carts leaving town for the neighbouring villages , are compel , led from the state of the times , to have an officer ' s guard two each cart .

      We appear as if our country was beseized . Soldiers marching with fixed bayonets . Our shops closed long ere the u < ual time , and constant firing of shots during the night , as if the people were preparing from some dreadful conflict . The working men of the town who hare employment , seeing the strides' destitution is making , resolved to call a meeting of the working classes , to memorialise the Queen to prohibit distillation from corn in the united kingdom , and thereby suve | the food of our starving fellow-countrymen .

      The meeting was held in the Linen Hall , Dr . Atkinson , J . C , in the chair . Several other highly influential gentlemen took part in the proceedings of the meeting . A committee consisting of the following pe sons was ap . pointed to aivide the town into districts : —Hugh Cariihrr-Patricic Henry , John Apperson , ( proprietor of the" Con , servative Journal" ) , Patrick Murphy , ( the same " Paddy " who was denounced by O'Conncll for being a Chartist in lS t l , Peter Kelly . James Slavin . ' and Dr . Atkinson . There is an incident connected with this meeting , which it may heiutercsting to the readers cf the Star to hoar , the requi . sition calling the meeting was signed by the first named individual on the above committee , this to a certain

      clergyman , not remarkiiblefor his discretion , seemed an unpardonable offence , and gave unmistakraMe proof that the whole affair was a wicked design of the Chartists of Drogheda . Accordingly he waited on James Mathews , Esq ., Mayor , to get him to use his authority to prevent the meeting from being held , to the immortal horror of our chief magistrate , he peremptorily refused to comply with such an illegal request . This occurred on the Saturday evening previous te the meeting . Failing to induce his Worship to do his behert , and determined not to be frustrated in Id's object , lie , on Sunday after last Mass , from the altar of the God of trath , gave vent to his feelings in language totally unsuited to such u

      place . It would appear from this Revemul ( I'GeMleinanV opinion , that the stoppage of tbedistilleriesand breweries is t-atifc ChartUm that , for the working classes to call » meeting for tho purpose of taxing themselves for the re-Jiof of their more needy brethren , is a thing that every Christian minister ought to denounce . © S ^ l I shall not more particularly allude to this revareiul Pastor of Him , who has told us not to hear false Mitnett against ourneighour , further than to observe , that he is not under the spiritual jurisdiction of that learned -niui exemplary divine , the Most Rev . Dr . dolly , who , in'he hottest time of Anti-Chartist persecution lure , nevei allowed his clergy to become the tools of any dofiirn . ing knaves , nor his chapels to become the scene of false

      attacks on private character . In concluding niy present communication , I would earnestly entreat of the Charlists of England , to treat kindly those unfortunate ft l ! o » vcountrymen of mine who are being driven by the ce tain approach of death in hvlutid , to seek a means of livhi " in - . lie law ! of " Saxim . " Forget their doings for the last few years , in groaning and misrepresenting tin " Saxon Chartists . '" - They knew not , what thxv were do . Ing V Treat them kim'ly whenever you can , and bv thf . means you will do a gveiit deal to removs from ' their minds the false impressions made on them by tueenemicof the working classes of the united kingdom : but while you tlms mitigate their sufferings , forget uot to tell them that you are " Chartists , " and tw seud them lwmc with a correct knowledge of the " Charter . " H . C .

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      ! Dcstitf , Jah . 2 Stb .-Many more deaths from , tirv , tion are reported in the accounts record to-dav V what is termed the " starvation fever" is spreading the western as well as in the southern counties . S " Tim Sligo Champion contains the following alarm " Fever is still on the increase - the deaths in th . house are most numerous , and almost all the »» who have died were carried off either by typhus tW " ° * dysentry . There are at present four hundred on ^?' sick list in the poor-house , or one-third of all th 6 inn ,.. This is really alarming , and from the great Incroawof fever in the town wc fear a plague will ensue , Dublin , J * n . 26 . —Account * received this morn ' confirm previous statements of the spread of nialiun f fever in some of the poor-law workhouses .

      LATEST FROM SKlBBEBEEN , Extract from a letter from Doctor Crowley , ofsvi , bereen : — ' llu Deaths here are hourly increasing ! Doctor I ) onov nnd I are just this moment returning } from the vf lage of South Reen , where we had to bury a body nu * selves , that was eleven days dead ; and where do \ l ' think t—in a kitchen garden ! We had to di g the ground or rather the hole ourstlves—no one would cume nea ' us , the smell was so intolerable . We are half dea d fro * the work lately imposed on us .

      ACC 1 DKKT ON TIIE BELFAST AND POKTSDOWM UMi . WAT We regret 40 say that on Saturday last , an accident which at first threatened to be of a very serious nature * took place on the above line , when , but for the precaution of the engineer of the down passenger train , the results might have been fearful . The morning was f « gpv sa < * at about eight o ' clock , a . m ., the luggage and down ' paj . senger trains came into violent collision , by which some of the passengers were less or more injured , but not seriously , and the materials of the engine and tenders were scattered about in all directions .

      C * LWAT—DEATHS ar iTABVinoN . From all parts of the county of Oalway the most har . rowing accounts have been received , and deaths from starvation are increasing . The 7 \ iam Herald status that five inquests were held from the 16 th to the 21 st instant , and in each case the verdict was , died of starvation . " Private letters from Connemara mention details of woe almost unparalleled . In Clifden , that the population are fast dying away for want of food—many are hurried to

      their early graves from utter destitution , without the ceremony of a funeral , and frequently without the cover , ing of a coffin , and the clergy are incessantly employed In administering the consolations of reh ' iiion to those who are falling victims to the ravages of famine , In tho village of Olann , westward of Oughterard by about two miles , in one wretched cabin , ten human beings , coniti . tuting an entire family , lie dead in one heap of rottenness and putrefaction .

      APPALLING STATE Of THE COUNTT COBK , The Cork Reporter contains a statement from its cor . respondent of the dreadful destitution in tie district of Bantry : — "Mothers bearing dead children in their arms are every whereto be seen , and those who follow them are often compelled to eat grass to satisfy the cravings of tbe hunger that gnaws their vitals . As an example of the rapidity with which death stalks through the land , it may be stated that during tbe last ten days tbe Rev . Messrs , Freeman and Ueglcy ilsitcd nnd prepared for

      death no less than forty . two , thirty-five of whom were in the utmost state of destitution , and of that number twenty-eight died , twenty . five of absolute starvation That number did not include the deaths in the workhouse , which have been unprecedented in extent , not . withstanding tho exertions of the hoard of guardians . Scarcely an hour elapses without some of the population dropping and sinking into the grave , and children , after suffering the pangs of hunger for four or five days . Many die on the mountains , uncared for and unheeded ,

      From the southern counties the reports are equall y afflicting . From some of the counties of Ulster the accounts are quite as bad as from the south or west .

      lE . APrEAUANCE OF THE POTATO P 18 EA 8 E , The Corfc Uepoiter says : —A gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of Kinsale planted in a hot-bed , about three months since , a quantity of sound potatoes of the quarry kind , and on examining the produce yesterday , which by the forced growth had far advanced to ma . turity , he found tbem black and diseased , TheNewry Telegraph describes the workhouse of that own as crowded to excess , and , as they say , '' gorged with destitution . " An alarm has been raised in ibe town on the score of fever and disease , which may rea . sonably be apprehended from such a state of things .

      THE LIBERATOR AND HIS STARVING DUPES . ( from our otwi Correspondent . ) At the meeting in Delusion Hall , on Monday , the 18 th instant , the Liberator is reported to have burst into tears while reading a letter from Dean New . man , detailing the sufferings of Mr . O'Connell ' s constituents in the County of Cork . " Twenty . five per cent , of them have perished by this •¦ me . J cannot , cannot go on . My bleod freezes . The tears rush from my eyes . I am unmanned . " ( Here the Liberator burst into tears . ) Freeman's Journal , Tuesday , 19 th January . 1817 .

      How well this infamous old impostor acts bis part He said that he would proceed to London next day to vote against the Whig Ministry unless they would send immediate relief to the people of Ireland . The papers stated that he had actually sailed from Kingstown by Tuesday ' s packet . But , instead of which , he has concealed himself in his house in Merrion Square till the debate on the address should , be . over : because if he made his appearance in the House he must have either supported the address or oppossd it . In the one case he would lose character with ' even the silliest of his dupes ; in the other case he might risk the loss of the Whig patronage . In the meantime , the starving people of Cork , for

      whom he burst into tears , are utterly forgotten . A week's total wantof food is nothing in the estimation of this BEKSAnn Cavanaoh . Poor Bernard Cavanagh was an honest impostor compared to the tearshedding " Liberator . " Act tho name of the knare was not seen in the debate in parliament ; and as no one could S' e ' h < m in Dublin ; and as at last , thank God , every body believes him to be a cheat ar . d a deluder : worse in every respect than Moore ' s veiled Pbofiiht ; his friends , those who confided in him a short year . since , papered the city of Dublin with a placard , of which the enclosed is a copy . No one is i pulling it down : no not even his friends , the ; exemplary poUee . " OUR PROPHET AND OVJR GF 1 DE . "

      O where , and O where is the Liberator fled f He said he'd go to London to get the people Bread But O where , and O where has ocr Liberator fied With a tongue as sweet as honey , lie gets hold of all our money , But O where , and O where has ocr Liberator fied With a tongue as sweet as honey , lie gets hold of all our money ,

      ? And leaves us without a penny to buy a bit of bread . 1 The landlords he'll support , Of t ! ie poor he makes but sport , When he visits at the Court ; While we are dying—dead , For want of the promised bread , O where and O where has our Liberator fled ! When Dead he found out that we were dying , When will he leave off lying ? Cur children he ' s left crying All for the promised Bread , And its where and O where has the Liberator tied ? ? He has sold us to tho Whigs , The base aud Woody pri gs , Who have run iheir brutal rigs Upon us poor Irish dupes .

      Dublin , Sunday , January 24 , 1847 . DOWNFALL OF THE GREAT SHAM—THE "RENT ^ T DOAVX TO FIFTEEN POUNDS . At the meeting of the Repeal Association on Mondavjav , another " positively last appearance this season ' of the tha star of Conciliation . liftll failed in drawing a tull . houscusc Mr . O'Conncll was present , and , ou the authoritv of * f JMr . William Thomas Kelly , amemberof theassoeiatioutioui read out the names of « ev < ral landlords in the county otyoi Mayo , who , according to Mr . Kelly , has obtained deemwes against their tenants at the late quarter sessions for tin- tlm rent only due in November last . These were the gtntlcntlc * inen who were calling the Government to come for

      forward , although they tlumselves would render ne sssistssistt mice , even if death were to be the consequence of thuithuiii hardheartednes- . It was arranged that the committedtt *' should meet on the following day to prepare a petition hm 11 Parliament on the subject from Mr , K . liy , in onier t « r u have commissioners appointed to point out the good frof fro " the bad landlords through the cimtry , so as to enablnabM the Legislature to treat each case as it deserved . U »'• ' ' : » a : i announced that Mr . O'Flaherty , of Knockbane , is to t to Mi the " Old Ireland" candidate for Gulway , in succession tion !! Sit * Valentine Blake , whose resignation is no lui : i * eri : 1-err matter of doul > t . At the Corn as well as the Stock E'k to change there was a serious full in the funds , tl < f riif nil having close , ! at £ 15 . Itid . lid , Tiie ship is sinking , ig .

      Tiik Irish Confkw-ratiox , on Yovso ium" ;! : ! .. '" . ' Pah i v . —A tan extraordinary meeting of the eounioiinu onlnday , at throe o ' clock , Chas . Uavan Dully , l ' - *' , to * in the chair , Mr . Mitchell reported that , acci'iili-i'i'liii ' to tho directions of the council , he hud bid betobetoo Mi-. Hcnn , Q . C ., the resolutions constituting tl-g til confederation and its council , and had received tK-d th !' scntlcnian ' s distinct opinion that there i . i nothilothiiii illegal in the constitution of cither ; and that it tit iithh do uot hereafter exorcise or assume a ris-ht to vol h vol V sent others , they cannot come under the provijhjvUM ot the Convention Act . Mr . Doheny in the ah .- Vib . - • ot Mr . Lawlor , brought forward the report of ' of '' committee on famine , prepared by that gentlrmalrmaa

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30011847/page/6/