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      January 30, 1847. -Put? Vftd -Nn^N « , T...

      January 30 , 1847 . -put ? vftD -nn ^ n « , THE NORTHERN STAR .

      Jurefgn Ihobementsu

      JUrefgn iHobementsu

      «« And I Will War, At Leastin Words, |*O...

      «« And I will war , at leastin words , |* od—shoiAld my chance sa happen—deeds , ) With all who war with Thought !" « I IhinV 1 hear a little Wrd , who sings The people by and b y will be the stronger . "— -Biaou

      ADDRESS OF THE POLISH DEMOCRATS TO EUROPE . If , on the occaiion of the late suppression of the Republic of Cracow , the Polish Democratic Society —the true organ of the pres ent wishes , u-eas , and actual wants of Poland-once more raises its voice , it is because it owes to Europe the duty of manifesting a trank , conscientious , and solemn appreciation Of the act perpetrated by the three Whern Powers . Ofthepeculiar position in which Europe is thereby placed , and , . lastly , of the right of Poland to her ancient independence .

      Considered in itself , that , is to say , from a moral point of view , from that of eternal justice , this deed is ss odious as it is base and dastardly . It is a murder perpetrated by the stronger upon the weakerjet more , a spoliation of the victim by its murderer . In a well ordered civil society such a crime is foreseen and punished with all the rigour of the law . An international criminal law does not yet exist . But , c in justice and public conscience—the guarantees of the safety of nations—be less severe towards the crime of lis nationaUle than the civil law is towards an offence committed against a single individual ? Is not the seizure of a town , or province , a state—is not the confiscation , to one s own ptout it a whole population , which , on tha faith of treaties ,

      considerei * by the Governments of Europe as most sacred and solemn , ought to be "free and independent "—as iniquitous and revolting a plunder as an armed highway robbery ? Is not the arbitrary erasure from the map of the world of a state whose existence was assured by the whole of Europe , a rebellion ef the three monarebs against all the rest ? Is U not an act of revolt against the political and social order established by the mutual consent of governments ? Is it not a defiance thrown by the overbearing pride and blindness of kings at the patience and good sense of nations ? Is it not , in fine , a most striking instance of that very spirit of anarchy of which absolute goveinments accuse the nations of Europe .

      And vet , whatever the enormity of ibat crime , it does no t surprise us Pole * : it is the consequence of the far greater crime perpetrated against our whole country s £ venty-fouryears ago . Poland—chivalrous , a ^ ricu'tural , and hospitable , want that time in one of those critical moments , when nations , weakened by long and terrible struggles , seek new forces in regeneration . Her noble and frank spirit , her military loyalty , made her rely entirely upon her sa-g ' . oriousiy tested valor . She knew her civilizing mission , and faithfully fulfilled its duties . In looking around her . she thought herself secure , for she saw nothing that could surpass , Or even equal , her prowess in the battle-field , or in the advancement of her ideas and institutions . But She did not discover the subtle and wily spirit , the craft and rapacitv , oi her neishbonr-j , who had been long Mng in wait for a favourable opportunity to strike her dead , to plant upon her grave thestanderd of their dominion .

      Thus Poland was vanquished neither by arms nor bv the might of ideas , but merely by that brigand audacity , which , in the dead of the night , murders the unwary . Since then they have many times torn Poland to pieces and drenched her in blood ; she has suffered -whatever a martyr people can suffer ; all the crimes which o » lv hell could invent have been perpetrated against her and her children . That of which Cracow is nsw the victim is , therefore , for Poland but the eonM ? quence of her murderous struggle with the absolutism or the barbarity of the Three Northern Pswcrs , a struggle to which Official Europe has been and is tothis very moment impassible and indifferent . The suppression of Cracow may , however , have very serious consequences for Europe . It at once destroys all | the illusions , all the pretexts , of nretended European law . Absolutism , long bridled and repressed in its ambition , is again beginning to show

      its spirit of invasion and slavery . It longs to be free in its actions , it wants to di-engage itself from all ties , were they never so weak , that hind- r its dtst-uctive policy . Listen to its language now ! See nifci what disdain ! it addresses one of the greatest nations of Europe ! "Finally , " says the Austrian government , " we attach less importance to these words , now so often repeated , ' that tbe French will not consider themselves bound by the treaties of Vienna , ' as this does not in the least alter the case : for it is neither the conventions of Paris or Vienna , nor the respect due to the faith of treaties , which have imposed any reserve upon the French ; they would long since have broken them , had they felt themselves strong enough : and we would not blame them for it . But these are precisely guestions of tear . Forty years ago Austria would noc have used such language witiiuut immediately seeing the tricolour on the road to Austerlitz .

      Now the three absolute Powers of the North think they may do whatever pleases them . Thirty years have passed away since the conquerors of European liberalism dictated at the Congress of Vienna iaws for the sui jugatcd nati' . ns . They did not dare then totakefuil advantage of their victory ; the feeling of liberty and glory in the hearts of nations were then too powerful to be braved with impunity . Xow it is not so . Muscovite Absolutism , having chained Ans'ria and Prussia to its car , by their complicity in the crime per * etrated against Polind , feels itseif bold enough to lift its bloody sword against timid a ad patient Europe . It tramples nationalities under its feet , arbitrarily destroys the existence ot states , tears treaties , spurns contracted engagements , crashes the weak , and insults the strong . *

      It is enough to pouriray such a situation to show how seriously it threatens official Europe , the Europe of Governments . Every thing proves that the suppression of Cracow is only the first step towards a vast remodelling which the Northern Powers are anxious to apply to the present system of European equilibrium . Projects of a partition of Turkey , elaborated by Russian agents , circulate in diplomatic circles , and find a welcome reception in the German newspapers inspired by the cabinet of St . Petersburg !* - Saxony , whose existence seemed so problematic at the eonpress of Vienna , turns an uneasy look towards Berlin . Swltzciland is more than ever threatened by Austria .

      This , however , is bat a part of the projects of the tiree absolute Northern Powers . Other interests , of greater consequence and import to Europe are in danger . Its liberty , its conscienc : and civilization , are at the mercy of the Muscovite , supported as tie is b y the weakness the avidity and the natural inclination-, of Prussia and Auatria . Russia has never ceased to increase and to grow stronger : she presses heavily upon Turkey , she covets the English pssessi'ins in the Indies , she incloses Austria at the mouth of the Danube , she penetrates into Prussia and t ' area : ens central Germany . Austria , feeble nnd titterin * , exerts herself to strengthen her dominion

      by everywhere consolidating despotism ; she demoralises the peasants of Gaiicia , and orders tup butchery of unarmed patriots , she is anxious to annihilate liberty wherever her influence can reach it , in Switz * rh : r . d , in Italy , in Hungary . Prussia repels the liberal ideas by which sue is besieged ; for the last thirty years she has lulled the impttience of her subjects with tiie hope of a constitution , which her ideas and hir secret tendencies delay for ever * moderate in her interior policy , she cajoles the constitutional monarchies , whilst her real affections incline towards lue despotism of Austria and Prussia . Lit Europe reflect upon this state of thing * . '

      By the suppression of Cracow the three Northern Powers have unveiled their policy . What does that policy leave secure in Europe ? There was oucc S"iue pub- **; law , they have destroyed it ; there were guar . iat « 5 ior some states at least ; they have a-i-iihi-Lited iheni . Thenceforth , the * - , there is robe no security for anything in Europe , no rescrai'it lor the strong , in -juaraites for the weak , no safety for anybody . All is to 1 x 2 anarchy , revolution , and war . "

      * Every Cue Knows That Tiie Treaty Of Th...

      * Every cue knows that tiie treaty of the i'lst of April and the « rd of M < : y , relative to Cracow , cnncluded be-* ^ reeii Russia , Prussia , and Austria , was inserted in the hnal treaty of the 9 th of June in the same year ; it is linuwa . tb .- it this treaty was signed cot only by Russia . Prussia , and Austria , but also by France , Boglind , Spain , Po-tng-il , and Sweden ; it is known tliat the reciprocity of rights and obligations spoken of in that treaty iiextendedaswelltothe 6 th article of the treaty of the ' 3 rd of May , which states , "the town of Cracow , -villi its tsrritiry , U declared for ever ( a i-crpet-tite ) a fret-, independent , and strictly neutral City , " as to all other clauses l-. nd provisions . E »< -n ABstrisi herself thought so for raerly . In a di-patch , a-idressed on the Tth of February

      ISIS , to ths minister-plenipotentiary of Austria tn Suitzerlaad , Prince Metternicb thus writes with reference to that final treaty : " Tbe said powers ( all the powers ) thought tit to insert in this document all the different t'eatits , conrentinns , andpablic .- ? cts , concluded privately b 'tween the divers states , in order to make it a whole . 1 has originated the final treaty of the Congress of Vi' -ana , i & contestibly the fundamental law of the actual folitical system of Europe , since it has been sanctioned iy the consent of alltiu states of which that system consists ; therefore tbe provisions andprinciples embodied in tUat treaty , whether they regard , directly or indirectly , cue or other of the European states , became binding upon all "

      Well ! what do the Northern Powers say now ! " Th * erection of Cracow into a free , neutral , and independent t , wn was the act solely of Russia , Austria , and Prussia . England and France were not contracting parties to the <¦ inventions concluded in this respect between the three Powers afuresaid ; tbey did cot become so by sigHinj * the faal treaty cf tiie Congress of Vienna , neither did ilie O & tr subscribers , tbe three Powers excepted . " Compare these ' and judge whether it is p . ssiMe to Cjnceive a more outrageous contempt of good faith and rsuon . With such arguments , what security is there for those itatei whose existent * depends on treaties !

      * Every Cue Knows That Tiie Treaty Of Th...

      L-t Europe reflect upon this state of things ' As for ouKelTO , weareonl y anxious to prove , that this violent deed of the three Northern Powers doe away with the legal sanction given by the Congress „ f Vienna to the partitions of Poland ; thatit liberates us entirely from that yoke , even before official Europe ; that it compels not only the Peoples , but likcw . se the Governments which did not participate in that iniquity , to acknowled ge the sacred right which we possess , and which we are ready to sign again with ourblood -the right to restore Poland entire , » ree and independent

      We are anxious to prove , moreover , that this act may forward the emancipation of some hundred millions of people groaning under the yoke of absolute and arbitrary power ; because it points out to them duties which , when fulfilled , will place the European family in conditions consistent « ith justice , and with the respective wants and destinies of every nation . Feelings of national honour and individual liberty are not yet extirpated among the Slavonian and German populations . They bud in Russia and the Austrian possessions ; they shoot in Prussia , and prevail in Italy and all the states of the German confederation . The spoliation of Cracow is a new , a more direct and more powerful appeal to those feelings , than ever could be made by the three

      Governments . Let the nations held in fief by Russia , Austria , and Prussia , or those upon whom these Powers exercise the least influence , be warned t « be on their guard ; for the same will which annihilated the independence of Cracow , may reach them too , at anv time . There is no bar now between them and that will . Treaties are broken , and the faith of public engagements , once so arrogantly violated , may be violated over and over again . If there are anv guarantees for the subjects of Russia , Austria , and Prussia , can it be supposed that they will be more sacredly kept and respected than the independence of a whole town , of a whole state ? Can the citizens and peasants of these Governments , already too heavily oppressed , be without a constant fear of

      having their chains still more tightly rivetted by that s une selfish and absorbing thought of absolute doniinion ? Will not th : doty of revolting against oppression and » arbitrary power appear to them now niore natural and imperative ? Will they deem themselves bound to respect the tyrannical laws which are imposed upon them , whilst their oppress is violate treaties concluded and accepted by their o vn free will ? Yes , in trampling under their feet , v hat oujiht to have been for th « -m sacred and inviolate , the Governments assuming the name of " Cont rvative" have themselves proclaimed and justified i ivolution ; they have imposed upon Nations and lMoples the duty of mistrusting their faith ; they b-ivc absolved them from their oaths of allegiance and

      fi ielity . The liberty of action thus restored to the oppressed c ' ves a new action to what twenty-two millions of Poles have always considered their birth-right and t ' . r . 'ir duty . The struggle which has la-ted now for nearly a century , that struggle , exalted in its purple , powerful and inexhaustible in its means , is new to bes-iu again with fresh energy . Cracow , a * before , will continue to be its focus , as well as Warsaw , TVilna , Posen , or Leopol , as well a <* the least Polish borough ; for , wherever Poles abide , there is but one wish , one desire , one oath , that of breaking tbeyoke which oppresses oar country and of restoring to her her greatness and ancient independence . But the restoration of Poland is also of verv

      momentous import to Europe , for , ten centuries ago , after having united different stocks of the Slavonian race akin to her by their identity of origin , wants , larguage and manners , it was Poland aione that preserved and developed ; the Slavonion democratic genu , which foreign despotism bad stifled and destroyed in the other stocks of that race . It was Poland alone which protected European civilisation , and drove far away tbe Tartarian , Turkish , and Muscovite hordes , which were incessantly attempting to penetrate into her interior . And when on one side the human mind , emancipated in the West , declared war against old ideas , while on the other side there rose in the North a new absolute power to combat that emancipation , Poland , that ancient representative of democratic ideas , placed in the vanguard of European civilisation , and always faithful to her mission , first entered the lists and fell .

      She fell , and the family of sixty millions of Slavonians lost with her their only representative , the nations their truest ally ; and on her tomb Absolutism cemented an impious compact and strengthened its pnwer . By the fall of Poland , central as well as Western Europe is uncovered . Absslutism , after having seen the standard of the new era , proclaimed by the French revolution , hoisted on the walls of Vienna , Berlin , and the Kremlin , triumphed again , and Cossacks were encamped in the streets of Paris . And whilst the congress of Vienna was pondering over the claims of some , and the interests of others , the hero of victories gained in a struggle of twentyfive years duration proclaimed from the summit of hisrock tbis memorable prophecy , — " In fifty years Europe will either be Republican or Cossack . Poland is the key-stone of the arch . "

      Wbatdid Europe then ? Shegave Poland over again to the three representatives of absolute power * , she intrusted to them the key of the arch , the key of that stronghold against which all the shafts of her foes used to be shattered ; she committed to absolutism the guarantees of European liberty . Thirty years have passed away since then , and the structure , " which was to last centuries , is sinking and t ' aliin ;* everywhere , Poland , even such as the Consress of Vienna thought fit to establish , is no more . Russia , which was then considered dangerous on the borders of the Vistula , is now on the frontiers of Germany . Absolutism is spreading aud increasing in strength and audacity . The European balance of the Congress of Vienna has disappeared . Europe is threatened directly by Russia , and Prussia and Austria , instead of repressing , arc pushing her on and encouraging her in her designs .

      We Poles , therefore , theorgans of that policy which our country has always followed—of that policy of sacrifice , sympathy and devotedness for civilization and the liberty of Europe , we proclaim again before the world , with all conscientous men , with all those statesmen whose solicitude is not limited to the mere direction cf the present , but who as anxiously dire into the future , we all proclaim , that , without the restoration of Polnnd . the invasion of the South of Europe by the North is an event more or less distant , but , nevertheless , inevitable ; that Poland , free , independent and entire , is the only barrier capable of stemmino that torrent .

      Poland performs her duty . The Confederation of Bar , Kosciusko , the years 1 S 09 , 1812 , 1830 , aud 1 SW , satisfactorily testify tbe activity of her spirit , and show that she has not resigned the eminent mission with which Providence hath intrusted her . Bleeding , fettered , and mangled by her oppressors , she endures her martyrdom with fortitude and hope . Though stifled by an uneasy and barbarous absolutism , she studies her past , and is quickened by her glory , her devotedness to liberty and religion . But it is particularly since 1 S 30 that Poland has made an immensenr-igressinher moral regenerations . Her forces

      are doubled . Her resolutions and perseverance , instead of being weakened , have been on the contrary strengthened by political and religious persecutions . Before 1830 everything was concentrated in the army and the nobility ; now the citizen , the peasant , and the mass of the people , are ready for the struggle . Ideas of liberty and emancipation arc propagated from mansion tn mansion , from bouse to house , from cottage to cottage . In vain will absolutism blind and momentarily deceive the people , the genius of liberty will b 3 more powerful than his assassins or his srold .

      Po ' . and is suffering , believing , acting , and concentrating her forces to intrust to the bravery of her children the care of her destinies . Poland will do her duty . liut does Europe her ' s . ' The protestations which she publishes , the sympathies which she evinces , arc they worthy of her greatness , are they sufficient to prevent the dangers which threaten her ? Did the natio . 'is which are now quiet and strong , exert themselves sufficiently to extinguish the fire set to their sister ' s house , which , if not quenched in time , may sooner or later consume their own ? Does Europe still imagine herself bound by some public engagement or some solemn treaty ? Are we to show her the means , and indicate the day of action ? Let Europe reflect upon this state of things I Poland will do her duty . The Sth of January , 1817 . In the name of the Polish Democratic Society : 1515 members :

      Joseph \» TsncKi | Vicron Ueltmas . v j Leon Zieskowicz j Central Committee Atnenr Parasz | Vixcesi Mazurkiewicz j

      The Prevailing Scarcity.—We Are Informed...

      The Prevailing Scarcity . —We are informed that the following document has received the approbation , if not of the highest personage of the realm , at least fa lanie number of the highest ranks in our nobility . A similar voluntary undertaking was , as many of our readers are aware , very generally adopted , under the patronage of Royalty , during the dearth which prevailed at the beginning of the present century . There are probably few householder *) of the higher and middle classes of society in which a considerable saving might not easily be effected , and , although in proportion to the deficiency of supply the amount of provisions thus saved may seem

      insignificant , it is to be remembered that the only practical remedy for a scarcity is to limit consumption , and that every loaf thus saved is not only so much gained by the householder , but so much added to the national stock : — "We , the undersigned , deeply impressed with the distress which prevails amon-r a 2 rea : ciiiuber of our feliow-countrymen in Great Britain and Ireland , from the want of necessarv subsi < tence , and observing that the prices of tood are risb jj think it our duty to pledge ourselves to reduce in 0 I ] families , as faras may be practicable , ! heconsum- , t * of bread and flour , and wc invite the oo « operat" , all those who may concur with us in our estir j-afc tbe present enlergeac * c " —Hmtu .

      Colonial Antr Jforeip Intelligence*

      Colonial antr jforeip Intelligence *

      India. Indian Papers And Letters In Anti...

      INDIA . Indian papers and letters in anticipation of the overland mail have been received . The following ia a summary of the Indian news : — The Punjaub remains tranquil , It is said , however , that unquestionable evidence has transpired oi there having been an understanding betwixt the K ;* j ; ih LallSing , Vuzeerat Lahore , aud Sbaik Eirauni-ooddecn , the Cashmerian insurgent leader , with the purpose of keeping Goolab Singh from taking possession of his new dominion .

      borne most extraordinary instances of gambling in opium have occurred in the course of the month . The Bombay bargains are usually made contingently on Calcutta quotations of the Government sales . To raise these , rival speculators bid , till £ 13 , 000 was offered for chests usually disposed of for £ 150 , the bidding being so arranged that no sale could be effected that day . Government have made it a , subject of special notification , and large fortunes depend on the results .

      FRANCE . Famine Riots . —Thk Polish Question . The rise of prices at Nantes has caused much excitement , and the Prefect had despatched two companies of infantry to Juigne , where some disturbances had arisen . The National de V Quest states , that the distress is so great in the neighbourhood of Roscoff , in consequence of the high price of provisions , that there are several families , who do not eat bread once in four days , and who e principal food ia composed of cabbage or turnips stolen in tho fields . Troops were marching from various points of France towards the theatre of the disturbances occasioned by the scarcity of provisions . A disturbance took place on the 22 nd at Rouen , in consequence of the exportation of provisions . Some fatal disturbances at Caen are reported .

      The Comweree says * ' Flour again rose on Saturday , a :: d reached 58 f . le . Should another augmentation raise it to 65 c , the price of the kilogramme of bread would then be 51 c . The National calls upon the Government to close the ports against the exportation of provisions generally . The paragraph of the Address relating to the incorporation of Cracow , was on Thursday brought under discussion in the Chamber of Peers . All the i Members who spoke vied with each other in expressng their reprobation of that act as a violation ol treaties , and an infringement of the law of nations . The principal speaker was decidedly Count de Montalembort , who , in a very energetic sptc : h , pointed out the consequences likely to arise from the conduct of the Northern Powers . The paragraph was adopted without a dissentient voice . The address itself was subsequently adopted .

      SPAIN . The Madrid papers contains little news worth recording . It would appear , however , that the movements of the Carlists in the provinces , had began to create some uneasiness in tbe capital . The Clamor-Publko states , that very iilarming- accounts had been received from Navarre , where the Carlisfs had been successful in exciting a strong feeling against the law of recruitment , and rousing the people in favour of ths Count de Montemolin .

      P O R T U G A L . THE CIVIL WAS . Count das Antas , with the forces under his coramanil , after the defeat of those under Count Bomfin at Torres Vedras , retired to Oporto , where he is reorganizing all his forces , and preparing to oppose Saldanha , who left Coimbra on the 8 th with from 4 , 000 to 5 , 000 men , with whom he says he is coming to storm Oporto ! forgetting that Dom Miguel , with an array of nearly 40 , 000 men , could never achieve this , even through a period of eighteen months , and was compelled to abandon the enterprise . The forces at Oporto since Count das Antas ' s arrival amount to upwards of 5 , 000 men of the line and above 8 , 000 of volunteers , almost all of them men who belonged to the old battalions of Oporto , and all animated with the best spirit , and determined to fiuht for their liberties .

      The men i » f Bomnm ' s division nave nearly all rejoined their comrades : 200 arrived at Thomar , and from thence went to Abrantes to join ths popular forces under Colonel Cesar do Vasconcellos , who has strongly fortified that place . At Figueira great numbers had arrived , and four vessels were ready to leave with them for Oporto , besides many who went to the south , and joined Count de Mcllo at Evora . The brave regiment of Vizeu is again formed ; the 2 d and Cth Infantry harealready 300 men each , the 2 d and 7 th Rifles arc much stronger . The regiment of Oporlo Fusiicers has already upwards of 900 men , attd a great number of horses have been boaght for the cavalry . This week orders have been given to make ready 10 , 000 stand of arms , to be distributed to the neighbouring towns .

      B . irin Cazal was obliged to quit Braga after his victory , having massacred upwards ot 300 of the inhabitants , and finding probably that provisions were very scarce , as the people of the neighbouring villages used every endeavour to starve him , stopping all supplies . The consequence was his retreat to Va ' engii : his friends , the Galhgos , on the other side of the Minho , will probably provide lor him . The Junta of Oporto sent immediately a civil governor to Braga , who was received amidst great n-joicing of bells , < fco ., which example was followed by B . ircellos , Pcnafiel , and all other towns through which his forces had passed . Hence it is clear that in the north of Portugal Donna Maria will govern only where her soldiers are halting . Baron Castro Daire , with the popular forces under hiscimmand , took Villa KealontSe 28 th ult .

      The steamer Duke of Oporto has just arrived from the Algarves , having captured a fine war schooner off Cape Espichel , mounting a swivel and two guns , and with a crew of sixteen men , all of whom on their arrival at Oporto offered their services to the Junta .

      POLAND . Polish Frontiers , Jas . 10 . — The number of Russian troops in the kingdom of Poland is increasing in a remarkable manner by the addition of t-oops from the interior of the kingdom , especially since the roads have again become passable . Five regiments of infanty , two of dragoons , besides fisht cavalry and artillery , have arrived since the mddle of last month by the road of Brzestz Litewski alone , to be placed in cantonments in different parts of the kingdom . An article from the Poli-h frontiers in the Mannheim journal , says that the Emperor is expected in Warsaw before the cemmencement of Spring , on account of important changes to be made in the ad . iiinistration of Poland .

      Gaucia Frontier , Jas . 14 . — The 29 th of this month is the day fixed for tiie union of Cracow , with the Austrian Custom-house line . A report has been lately spread of the discovery of a conspiracy at Cracow ; whether there is any truth in it must appear in a few days . Berlin , Jan . 15 . —It is now decided that the military occupation of the province of Posen shall be strengthened . The whole of the 5 < h corps of the army will in future be garrisoned iu that province * , the cavalry regiments will be quartered iu the small towns , the artillery and infantry be divided between Posen , Griescn , and Broniberg .

      ITALY . Letters from Rome of the 14 th inst . state that the Pope preached a senuou on the preceding day , in the Church of St . Andrea della Vale , which has produced the deepest emotion on the auditory . It was the first time , during the last 300 years , that a Sovereign Pontiff had ascended the pulpit to address the faithful .

      UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . New York papers to the 4 th , and Boston papers to the 5 th have been received . The following , which arc the latest proceedings in Ci-ngi-ess , is taken from the Jew York Journal of Commerce : — Important Vote ! — War and Taxes IUpudiated ! — The House having been appeak-d to to support the war , by eupplyinjr the Government with the means for carry ing it on , and the Secretary of the Treasury having for this purpose recommended a tax ou tea and coffee ; iu order to enable the Govunnent to obtiiin a loan , the quvstiou was brought up to-day for early adjustment . The House thought it best to give an early answer to the proposition of the Secretary of the Treasury , and to-day they did answer it . Mr , Wentworth , of Illinois , offvrod a vesolution tl'i » morning , as follows : —

      " Resolved—That it is inexpedient to impose any d-iiy on t « a and eotfee . " Every effort was made to gel rid of the-question by the opponents of tbe resolution , but in vaiu . A motion to lay ths resolution on the table , was rejected —yea * - - , 49 ; nays , 1 W . The resolution was then ado ; t <; d — yeas , 115 :. nays , forty-eight . We see that General Taylor has again been urging Santa Anna to close with the terms of peace proposed by the United States . The Mexican Chief , howevyr , perseveres in his resolution to listen to no offers of peace until the invading fosces quit Mexico .

      Later Ntivs . —The Zenobia arrived at l . iverpoo on "Wednesday afternoon , bringing New York papers of tl ie tith instant . Mr . Pulk bad sent a message to Co-ngre-is , which is da ted December 29 , the object of wf jicii was to ask for a bill to create a lieutenant-geupral . and urge that eariy action should bo made by ' Congress upon the subjects submitted for their i-oitaideration , as necessary for active and efficient service in prosecuting the war , before the pieseut ia « vourable season for military operations iu the eutiuy ' a country had pa ssed away .

      Significaht.— The Spboial Reporter Of Th...

      Significaht . — The spBOial reporter of the Cork Examiner mentions the complete discontinuance oi marriages in that county .

      Shocking Accident On The Great Westfav I...

      SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTFAV ItAILWAY . On Monday afternoon as the express train from Exeter arriving at Paddington at half-past four , was passing the four o'clock down train at Southall , the tire of the drawing wheel flew off , and striking a second class carriage en . the down train , broke the upper part to pieces . killing on the spot two men , and wounding several others . A lady in the express train was also injured by the robound of a part of the broken wheel ; neither train was thrown off the rails , and the express was not travelling at above its usual speed .

      ( Fttmer ParticnlaM . ) The twelve o ' clock express up train from Exeter usunll arrives at Southall about a quarter-past four o ' clock , and on Monday , in duocourse , it passed that station within a few moments of its proper time . The four p . m . down trnin , which calls at all the stations , arrived at Southall at the same instant . The express train had advanced at its usual speed about 50 yards beyond the station , the down train , at slackened speed , being about 250 yards on the London side , when the tire of the off driving wheel of the express engine suddenly broke into several pieces , which were projected in different directions with terrible velocity . One portion , measuring C feet 2 inches in length , and weighing 2751 b ., flew almost perpendicularly to a very considerable height , and in its descent fell with

      tremendous force ou the reof of the first carria « c of the down train , forcing away a small portion of tkefro **! one , as well as a longitudinal slip of the top , ard making a clear breach into the carriage itself . So great w » s the force with which th's portion fell , that tho three first compartments of the carriage were broken tbe . one into the other , and rendered a complete wreck . The first compartment was that usually occupied by theguanl , but this officer was riding in another part of the train , and that escaped injury . The second compartment contuined six persons , and here the accident was most fatal in its results . The enormous mass of iron , on breaking through the roof of the carriage , fell directly upon the heads of two of the passengers , who were seated opposite

      e-ich other . The one , a cattle dealer , named Bishop , residing at Colnbrook , ia Buckinghamshire , was seated with his back to the engine . He was struck at the back of the head , his skull being completely laid open , and his body by the force of the concussion thrown into the tap of the other unfortunate deceased . The latter , also a ciittli ! dealer named Halt , retained his erect position after receiving his death blow , which consisted of a most frightful wound , literally dividing the cranium and face into two distinct parts . A lady named Hibotson , the wife of a paper maker at Colnbrook , who was in the same division of the carriage was al < o struck on the head and rendered insensible , several other passengers bei"g more or less shaken .

      A portion of the tire fell on the down line of rsils , nnd threw the engine attached to UN ) down train off the line , other p-rtions flying in various directions , and one large pieze , by some unaccountable accident , striking nnd pussintr through the side panel of one of the first-class carriaj-es iu the express train , aud seriously wounding . Mrs . Mountjoy Martyn , who was a passenger iu the same . The driver of the expresstrain although fully conscious that an accident had occurred to his canine , was driving at so high a speed in to render it Impossible for him to stop until he had gone marly half a mile beyond Southall . The run between the Hanwell station and Soutlmll being then equi-distant , he came gradually on to the for . mer place , where he stopped to examine ns to the extern and nature of the disnsttr . The injury which Mrs .

      Mountjoy Martyn had suffered was here first ascertained by the guard , and the diiver having satisfied himself that the engine would run safely on to town , came up to Pad dington without loss of time . Mrs . Martyn was sitting with her back to tbe engine , close to the window on the off side , and received a violent blow on the left hip from a portion of the tire , which bnke threugh the side of the carriage ; her escape from fatal injury is miraculous ; she was thrown by the violence of the shock from the corner of the carriage in which she was sitting to the further end of the compartment . Mrs . Martyn on reaching Paddington was conveyed to the waitins room , and an express was instantly sent for Dr . Locock , her medical attendant : thio gentleman shortly arrived and remained with his patient at the station nearly two hours , at the expiration of which time she was removed to her residence in Charles-street , Berkeley-square .

      The engine to winch the acciu-nt occurred is one of the finest locomotives in the Company ' s service . It is c . illi-d the " Queen , " and was built in February of last year . The tire —* he failure of which has been the cause of thh terrible , disaster—is one of Gooch ' s patent , the peculiarity consisting in a coating of steel , half an inch in thickness , over a body of iron about one inch in thickness . These two substances are weldel together , and tiie perfect tire is then " chilled " on to the ring of the wheel in the usual manner . The advantage of using sfee ! in the formation of the tire is to secure a greater degree of durability in working , whether its liability to fracture is at the same time increased , is a question which will n » doubt be solved at the inquest .

      The driver of the txprcss train had a most miraculous escape . Some portion of the tire when it flew off the wheel struck the hand rail on which he was resting , with great force , and bent the iron pillars on which it is fixed , nearly double . Happily tie escaped injury alto , gether . Had the iron struck him and his stoker , than which nothing could bo more reasonably anticipated , the consequences must inevitably h : ive been of the most drca-lful nature . The train , travelling at a speed exceeding fifty miles an hour , truuld liav < - dashed on to P >< 1 dington , finishing its career only by tho destruction of probably nearly ever passenj-er in the carriages attached to it . Mr . Halt is a married man , without family , aged thirty years ; Mr . Jii-hon is very little more than twenty-one years of age , aud umnariied .

      the inquest . On Wednesday atternoon , Mr . Wakley opened an in . quest on the bodies of the above-named unfortunate men . The jury having viewed the bodies , John M-. ydon was the first witness called . He was a passenger in the same compartment of the second-class carriages in which the deceased rode , and was sitting next Bishop when the accident occurred . The train started from Paddiiigton at four o ' clock , and was up . propelling tho Southall station , when something fell on the carriage in which witness was sitting with a tremendous crash , carrying all before it , and striking Halt and Bishop instantaneously dead . Witness was so much alarmed at the catastrophe that he recollected nothing

      more . John Gauntlet ' , a policeman , in the service of the Company , who was on duty at , the station when the ex . press train pussed , said he saw the tire of the wheel fly off , the moment after tho train cleared the station , and a portion of it ascend into the air , and directly after fall on the roof of one of the carriages of a down train , which had arrived at the same moment . He ran to the spot , and there saw two men iu the carriage dead . The expresstrain was travelling at about fifty miles an hour when it parsed tfce station .

      James Almond deposed that he was an engine driver and hud been so for io years , and 1 ) years upon the Great Western line . Left Swindon at K minutes past 2 o ' clock with the llueen engine and six carriages ; that was five niinuten late ; passed the Southall station at 23 minutes past four o ' clock , with a strong wind . The first thing witness . "aw was fire dying from the splasher , I turned round with my back to the dome , and saw the roof of the earriigc in the down train breaking in . Knew something was wrong , and stopped as quiekly ns we could , which was about two minutes , when I found that the entire tire of the driving wheel was gone ; went to town without it , at nfcout 'i 0 miles an hour ; the tire win broken into four pieces , had seen the tire since . Mode principally of steel , and thought part of it unsound , should say thatit was uns uiul for an inch and a lialf * the outside was sound but the inside was not , the outside was bright but the iuMde black and dirty ; tliouyht the bright part was sound and the other dark part unsound .

      Mr . Daniel Gooch , of Warwick Place , Bayswuter , engineer , deposed that he had the management of tho locomotive department on t-ho Great Western Hallway . The-Queen engine was made at Swindon , under his superintendence . The tivt-s of the wheels asie purchased from the ILiigh Foundry Company , Wiganj . B-incashire . Jobn Fawcett , a tinith , living at Swindon , is employed to p-ut on the tires aud examine then ) , and prove them . By the Coroner . —About four-ftfths-of the tire W iron , and the other fifth is steel . The iron is all wrought , and the Company spare-no expense a * to tho quality , ot the " steel . It was unsouad in the weld , where it -mis wrought together , and that caused it to go in other part-i

      The first fracture took place al : the welded end , and these two-thirds of tbe substance is dark and the other bright . All the othsr fractures were bright , tfould tell by tho books how . many miles the wheel inu * t have gone diwing the time it has been used . Frosty weather has great influence on the metal . Had found wheels which had been still-all nisht , cracked in the mo-snir . ); in limes of simp frosts . Knew no means of preventing such accidents but by enjwuing ou the company ' s servant * increased vigilance iu tho welding of the tires . IVe bare done ereryihing we know of to prevent such defeats , but have foumi lives ring which eventually proved unsound . In the majority of enses in siwh fraetures it etves way ia the iv «! d .

      The Coroner here said it would be now necessary tknt the inquiry should be adjouriie-l until Monday iBoining . Iu the i » enntin * , » an examination would be made of she wheel aud tl >« carriage by impartial engineers , aad he trusted the vesult would be beneficial tn the puUie . Mr . yredeiick Braithwaitc was then proposed as Hw engiaeer tube appointed , and the ii . quiry was adjourned until lo o ' clock on Monday next .

      Bad Legs And Wounds Of All Kinds Cured B...

      Bad Legs and Wounds of all kinds cured by llollowav's Ointment and l'ills .-lf these valuable roudicines he used fgethei- accordinj , ' with the directions j ** , vcn with them , there is no case , however obstinate , bae " ,, or long standing , but may be short y cured by their surprising efflcacv . Thousands of persons who had bee ' . i valient * in large " hospitals , and under the care ot the greatest surgeons of the day without deriving th-e least benefit , as a last resource use Holloway ' s 0 < ntrtieut and Pills , which always cure them , and frcqu ' -Htly in as little time as a cut finger would require v . nen treated in the usual way .

      ^Metropoi Ftair Intelligence*

      ^ Metropoi ftair Intelligence *

      Painless Opanations J* ™B Londo.V Hospit...

      Painless OpanATiONS J * ™ b Londo . v Hospitals . -Mr . II . G . Johnson , of £ t . George ' s llo-pital , has amputated the leg of a ms . i while under the influence of ether . On being ijiicstivvncd afterwards , he decl ared that he felt no ineonvenieacc j ' rom iiilialiiw the ether , and that with the exception of Irarfng lont not feeling ) the saw , he wis perfectly " » ' > nscioua of the operation . Mr . Lawrence , ol ' St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , removed the eve of a patient while under the influence of ether the patient aftevwards statinsrhat he lwd cx . ierii-nced no pain . At UMr-i-g . c--.--a Hospital , Mr . Hancock perl ' ormril an operation , the paiirfnl nature ol which , under ordinary circumstances , c „ , not l . » surpassed . The success of the ether . i „ this -ase , is , ' perhaps , the most satisfactory

      example yet ntfoi-d . vl . Tho patient suffered from disease and K r . wii ^ . j ,, of tlw naila „ , both he great toes . 11 is siillerings were intense , and the only chance of rel . el fny in complete removal ol the nails . _ 1 he an-uisti ot tins operation , formerly may be nadily ima-jim-d , for every b-idy knows how extremely sensitive are the . ru . i ' .-v of tins nails . On the present ocea-inn the pat ' n-nt was etherised , and became insensible in throe minutes . The operation was immediately pirfoiined ; ami consists in running the sharp-pointed blade of a pair of scissors under the nail down to th « root , cutting the nail down tho middle , and then forcibly extracting each half with a pair of forceps . During this process ( which without the ether is a piece of exquisite torture ) the pa'ient was obviously quite insensible to pain . When consciousness returned , he declared himself

      petfectlj i » iioiiuu of what had been done . He again inhaled , preparatory to the removal of tho other nail by tiie same process . This was accomplished , the feet and legs bein ^ purposely left free from restraint ; but during the removal of the second nail there was not the s ! ii * htest sign , either of twitching of the toes or contraction of the muscles of the lefr , while the countenance remained perfectly unchanged . A towel was then thrown over his feet , to ob : cure them from his view when he recovered his sensibility . In about a quarter of an hour consciousness returned , and upon being asked whether he was ready to undergo the operation , he said he was , and desired the surgeon to begin : when being shown his toe and informed that the nail had already been removed , he expressed astonishment nnd delight , declaring he had felt no piiiu , and was wholly unconscious of anything having been done .

      Wkstmixstuk Ophthalmic Hospital . —This institution was again on Wednesday the scene of some operations on patients while under the influence of etherc vapour . We have only room to state one of the cases . The first patient was a female suffering from cancer in the breast , Mr . Hooper was in attendance with his apparatus for administering the ether , and the mouthpiece having been properly applied , in a very few minutes the patient was in a complete state of insensibility . Mr . Charles Guthrie , who at-ain operated , immediately applied the knife , uid havin-j laid bare the right breast , in which the cancer existed , proceeded to cut away the whole of the diseased parts , an operation which he performed with remarkable skill and dexterity . During the whole time the patient exhibited no symptom of

      pain . Her eyes remained open , and as the ether was now and then applied to her mouth , she called out sharply , " Take that away ; take that away ! " In the midst of the operation , she was asked if she felt any pain , when , to the utter astonishment of all present , she pointed to a window partially lowered opposite to where she was seated , and said , " I feci that window . " The sash was immediately raised , and the poor creature appeared satisfied . The operation lasted five or six minutes , and was perfectly successful , the poor woman declaring , at the close , that she had been quite unconscious of the operation , and dad felt no pain . " Mklaxciiolt Death op the Hon , Charles Stuart ,

      —On Monday evening , Mr . Bedford , the Coroner for Westminster , held an inquest at the Queen ' s Head Tavern , Queen-street , St , James ' s , on view of the body or the Hon . Charles Stuart , lately residins * at No . 10 , Panton-street , Haymarket , The deceased , who was in the 33 rd year of his age , was the fifth son of the Earl of Moray , by a second marriage , and had formerly been in the army , holding a commisiion as Lieutenant in the 72 nd Foot Pcgiment . Che deceased was found dead in his apartment . Mr . IV . T . Dver , surgeon , proved that death was the ret-esult of apoplexy , produced by natural causes , and aftoi-iiuicli more evidence , the Jury returned a verdict—Natural Death .

      Destructive Fire in Moobwelds . —On Monday morning , at an early hour , a fire , nearly attended with ioss of life , broke out at the Djers' Arms publichouse , 53 , Long-aiJey , Moorfields . The flames were first dis'uvered in the kitchen , and had communi-3 ated with the club-room and spirit stores before any of the inmates could be made sensible of their danger . After considerable trouble the residents — eh-Ten in number—were arosed ; but the house was snfuJlol smoke that some of them were unable to descend by the staircase , and Mrs . Chapman and another party were saved by the escape belonging to the Society f or the Protection of Life from Fire . Two of the lodgers did not effect their escape until the lire had penetrated their room , and they were triflingly injured . They were placed in a cab and conveyed to the workhouse . The engines been sat to work , the tire was extinguished , but not until several rooms were burned , and the dwelling-house and contents were seriously damaged by fire .

      SiiminKLD Nuisance . —Between one and two oVlock on Monday , a lad named Thomas Uadclifl ' e , aged sixteen , was knocked down opposite the Adelaide Hotel , London-bridge , and gored by an ox , whinch , togetherwithjothers , was being driven from Sinithtield market towards Camberwell . The wimuu will , it is feared , prove fatal . Most Di ^ trbssino Cass , —A very melancholy accident occurred on Saturday morning at tho house , No . 81 , Did Gravel-lane , occupied by a poor old woman , named Elizabeth Hill . It seems that Mrs . Hill keeps a coffee-house on the above-named prem i ses , from which she derived an income so trifling that she lias been compelled to eke out a scanty subsistence for herself and five . children , by taking in amongst them some of the low-priced slop work , on which they labour continuously up to a very late haur . About half-past two o ' clock on Saturday

      morning . Mrs . Hill fell asleep while sitting over her work at the fire , the second daughter , a fine young woman , twenty-six years of age , whilst continuing her occupation , found that her dress had suddenly naught fire . Not wishing to alarm her aged parent , she endeavoured t 3 extinguish it by her own unaided endeavours , but the tire gaining upon her she was compelled to scream with agony , * her mother started up , and , seeing her child all over in a blaze , endeavoured to extinguisli the fire with her hands , in which attempt she sustained most severe injuries . The daughter was nearly burned to a cinder , and on assistance arriving was couveyed to the London Hospital in a state of terrible agony , precluding all possible hope . On inquiring at the hospital on Saturday night our reporter ascertained that the unfortunate young woman , whose name was Frances Hill , expired in extreme torture about four o ' clock the same afternoon .

      Fiue in Leather-lane . —Gn Sunday evening , between five and six o clock , considerable alarm was cieated in Leather-lane , llolbovn , by the outbreak of a fire upon the premises in the oceupafcion of Mr . Wvmer , bread and biscuit maker . The flames originated , from some unknown cause , in the bakehouse on the b iseim- 'iit , which contained a large quantity of shavings for heating the oven . An abundance of water being obtained , " the firemen succeeded , by carryiiiL- the pipiii- of the engines down the staircase , in eoiifinim * the Haines to that portion of the buildin .- in which thev originated , hut they were entirely extinguished- until considerable damage was done to the stiick-inrtraiie and premise * . Allkokd MuiinKit of a Female . —On Monday evenim- . at eight o ' clock . Air . W . Payne held an adjourned isquest at the Vestry Hall , llorslcydown , on the body of Elizabeth Roberts , aged 20 , who was found drowned on Thursday week , with a severe fracture offhe . « kuil , ai ! . d ' who , it was reported , had

      been murdered . A mi-aiher ot witnesses were examined kwt night , fiom whose evidence it appeared , that on Friday nine weeks tlie _ deceased hud a few words with her mother respecting tho payment of a dress that she had been to a wedding in . She objected to pay , and left the house in a passion , sivini . it the time , " Mother , you will be sorry fop this . ^ She also left two packets of he ? own hair ukli-essetl to ditt ' . rcnt parties , which were sealed with , wax , and lettered " low . " To her brother Itiehsril she said , "Good bye , Dick ; " and to a feh « 1 b she had previously stated that shs should like to . die at the ' use of twenty , because It was such a

      s . wcet age . None of Iter friends had seen her after the diiy she left her home , aud it wus only through the publicity g iven bv tho newspapers , that her friends heard of the body being found . Dr . Misken , who had examined tho body , swd that from the appearance he should say that it had been under water a coup le of tuon'hs . The whole of the hair was washed away , ami the skull was fractured , but how thoinVtiry was received , oi course , no one could tell . The probability seems that ths unfortunate female "had precipitated herself li-ora sonic height , uud had stm- 'k herself in falling . The jury returned an open verdict , " That the deceased was found dead in the water with a fracture of tho skull . "

      Extensive Borglauy im Regent ; Strem . —On Tuesday moniin-f , between the hours o ? one and five , a most daring burclary was committed upon the premise *) of Messrs . HalUtufY anil Uanufoi-. l , jewellers and fcilversndths , No . SSa , Regent-street . It appears that ahout she latter hmir a policeman uns going his usual rounds , anl on arriving at the tloor of the above house , he as usual save it a vu ? h , iiiid was surprised lo find it open . A search beini * made , it appeared thai some thieves had cil'eotix'l an entrance twin iho rear of the premises , nnd by picking the locks of two doors made their way into tiie shop from which lhey took property , consisting of « old and silver plate to the value of upwards of £ ' 300 . Fifty sovereigns which were left iu the till on the previous nigh ' , ware fortunately overlooked by the thievtS .

      Painless Opanations J* ™B Londo.V Hospit...

      DfiKADlUI , ACCIDKNT TO A NhWSPAPEB MlSSKKQER -As a mounted mM * cn er was on Saturday eve nini ! ruling ut a furious pace with a large parcel J i , * . 'w , paper *} f . r the PiK . *¦*»•* , St . Martin ' s-le-Gra ¦ his ii-inwslipped at Tcmp / e Bar , and ho fell v . itb tearful yiol .-m-e to tho ground . When | vai , wl un ho was quite insensible , nnd blood flowed profusely from injuries he had sustained about the head " . Ui 9 wounds hnvin ; been bound up in an adjoining snrs -eou ' s , and the requisite stimulants administered he was conveyed to his home in a state of the most intense sufferings .

      DxSIttUCTION OP THE VULCAN BrkwBHV Iiy FlHK — On VVodncsilay morning , at half-past one ¦ . ' chek , a five , involving a most ruinous destruction of property , brokcout on the premises belonging to Mr . Edwards ) known as tbe Vulcan Brewery , situate in . Salnv . n ' lane , Limehouse . The discovery was made by a j , „ lico constable of tho K division , by seeing lire rushing through the window-shutters of th <* limit beerhouse . An instnnt alarm was given , ami after a dual of trouble tho inmates , the proprietor am ) his female servant , were arou . sed fri-m their shimbc- * ¦ hut tho flames hail made such fearful havoc , ih . it it was

      impossible for either party to descend the stairs , ami to save their lives they were obliged to jump from the upper windows into the street . The engines of the London Brigade and \ Ve * t of Jvr .-1-itid Company arrived at tho scene of conil , i ^ i'iiti < ui . and plenty of water was obtained from the mains of tho East London works , which was scattered over the flames ; not-!!! , ! i i- . I * ' , J «»' t . ii : ici . to spread , until tho r £ ? . h ? . * { rewerJ * ' " ¦ its coi . umts ncre ci-m-» ri -lir » L ! ' »«»« . 0 ii Ve . ln ,. „ lav min-ni ng , four serious tires occurred n , > . iv .. , -. . . , » , ) . ' Tl . „ e ii '"iK-ron * . par s ot tliu Uiftropolto . he following are i h « particulars :-In Con-ImMr * , twelve , upon he m y Mu ,,- e . iii ^ in the occupation ol Mw . Sarah Siih y . The lire , which was oaibcd

      by tliecopperl ue , * , hts . r , * d « o ., Mdcrali ! cluiIdof the board timber m tho pu-. y -mils . The tin me .., h „ d ranch tiiffl-uay in stay in- * the pro . 'rc . i i . ftln- Ilame . s and this was not dom- till much nf the wm , d work and the walls were remov , ; i by culling aw . iv . Supposed to bo insured in f « Allianw . — ' .-vt l . iiiuhi . use . About half-past one , on Wednesday mornin-, a destructive ( we was discovered upon the uremic * in the occupation of Mr . Samuel EiUar-ls , brewer -Sib cntiirh-passage , and Fn-d-. rick-str--.-t , . Salmon ' s ' lane ' , Limehause . The brewery was near ! v ilu-trnveil anil ilie dwelling communicating thcivwith burm-d nut , with the exception of the fount r < , <„ , th « first floor , building nnd contents in .-m-ed in the I'hoontx . Ihe adjoining hou . se in Kh-M ; e .-v . c ; l-i ' .. nii , in the occupation of Mr . Tedrnanh .-iii-drcs-erwas

      da-, , maged m a trifling manner ; not inMircd . —At New C'O-h . Shortly before threw , upon li . c nreiui .-M , the property of Mr . J . Trimneil , {• :., * .. ( tin- occupier ) situate in St . James ' s-pht' -e . New t ' -n-s . Tiii- lire wasnot extinguished until this bavment fl . or , and flooring above , were severely dam . v . o i l , lire , and the valuable- furniture m . it i-i . tJIv da . - ii-iit ' d bv heat , smoke and water . Building insm-ed : ti tin .- Licensed Victuallers' office , furniture in ti ; -.- Alias , ihe adjoining house , in the oceupnti ii ot ' . M' . O . Bryan , was .-ilsodamaged . In tins Old K-mt . r . iad . Just before five o ' clock , a fire iiroseom in Vim building , occupied by Air . Ifoxton , linker , Abn-ui-sirm , Old Kent-road ; in consequence , it a .. pears , nfu detect in the crown of the ovenFoiiunatI . the ( ire was

      ex-, , tinguished before any very oxt-n . ive damage was done , except in the lofts inimcdhi ' elv „ vor the bakeh . 'use . Contents not insured ; innl- iii- * unknown . ACCIDBNT FttOM Keaiuno IN ll : H . —U : i VVeillicsilay morning a young man , wuind J .. im Saunders - , footman to Mr . Fothergill , V > s , Scniom-.-treet West , Euston-square , set the lied ami b .-ti-lin-r on fire by falling asleep whilst reading in Wd , t . w . l he is so severely burnt that he is ni * te . \| K * .-uii u , n-civi-r the use of his right arm . It was "m ..- " . foitumitc that tho house was not do'troyed , . iliich it would have been had not Mr . Fotfiergilt , jun ., who had been to tho theatre , on letting himself in with > ! : cv , pioceeded to the man ' s room to desire him w cad him in tha morning , when the fire was disc iv .-ivd .

      Thb Late Fire at Messb- . Ai . vBts '* Kousoav . —Ijt-Qtn-sT os one or the SpmKHis . —On Tuesday . veiling Mr . William Payne , held an iw-uo't at tiu . i's Hospital , on the body of George Uiehe-, a-je . ) thirt * .-three who was fatally injured at the late ile-ilorahla occurrence at Messrs . Aiugt-r's lion-fouivlry , U-ip-.-r Grouml-strMt Blaekfrlais . Thomas Ilaigh . of 1 , Avae . stre .-t , Waterlooroad , said that tho deceased was a iirem-. n's a-sistant , and on Friday week , about ten o ' clock at ni . ht , was enfjaged with witness and several other pariiis in tl j foundry . A ladle which had just been fillv . l with seventy hundred weight of hot liquid ir-n , was Wing lifted hy a purcbass eratie , when it turned ovr and the metal flowing out , a quantity splashed up , and comim- in contact

      with the dome of the furnace , it reh-.-unded , and tell over the deceased like a shower , si-tiiag his clothes on fire . At that time the deceased wnsiihoui iwlve fin t from the pit , As soon as possible he was got . nit . and conveyed to the hospital . By thecorou-r : The lti-U .- was suspended on two pivots , or axles , and , in order to steady tho whole , two handles were placed on the < f-o .-iM sides , which were hel . i by as many men . Oiie of ilu- parlies had not properly secured his handle , and irm in the net of ad . justing it when the accident oecumd . Four men were injured , two of whom still r , mains iu St . Thomas ' s Hospital . Deceased died this niormii ; , ' ( Tu _ - * . ! ai ) from the effects of the injuries received . Ver . iict—Accidental death .

      FaTAL ACCIDENT AT Sir Avgvstvs Cliffy-id ' s . —On Tuesday , Mr . Bedford held an in .-uesi r . t St . George's Hospital , on tbe body of John Edwat . is , nj * * d "" I " , who died in that institution from injuries ustaiued at the residence of Sir Augustus Clifford , I ' s ' .-t-r . iihc Ulnck Uod , No . 74 . Eaton-square . The deceased was in the employ of Messrs . Cubbitt , the builders . On the aftevno n of tho 14 th ult . he was at work at Sir . A . Ciiifor-. i's , standing on a plank supported by two pairs of steps , engaged in cleaning the kitchen skylight , wlnn , nvei balancing him . self , he fell head foremost into n wooden basin full of water in the sink , and rebounded oa to the stone Uoor . ing . Using unable to stand or get up , tie was removed to the hospital , where the only inj-. in he was found to have received , was a slight bruise and laceration of the left thigh . He went on several dais very » ell , when abscesses , consequent on the wound in the lrg , formed in his left elbow , and under the exhaustion uc-ic-duned thereby he sank and died on Saturday last . Vetdiet—Accidental Death :

      EiTftAoiiDiNARV SuiciDB , —On Tuesday , nn inquest was taken before Mr . W . Baker , at the Telegraph publichouse , llawHin ' s street , Milo-end . Old Town , on the body of a man named William Iloldsworth , iijted seventy years , who committed suicide in the following strange manner : — -The deceased lived at No . fl , Swan place . Mileend , and was formerly a ship ' s carpenter and joiner , II .: was subsequently employed in the London Docks . and while there he met with a severe accident , and his leg was amputated , Tho dock company allowed him a pension oi 7 s . per week , and ho continued to work at his trade , and by his industry and frugality he connived to amass a considerable sum of money , £ 150 of which he lent to his son , who failed in business . This circumstance preyed upon his mind , a » dhehas been for tome time in a very low and desponding state . The loss of

      his money , and the fear of being compelled to apply for parochial relief so operated upon him , that ho at last determined on committing self-destruct !*!* , which he if . fected in the following way : —On Sunday night , after wishing a female named Cosgrore good bye , he locked his room door , aud after taking off his coat aud ntckel > 'h , he laid himself upon the ground , placed his neck over a basin , and then stuck himself in the neck just under tho right ear with his own knife . One of the principal arteries was wounded , and he bled to death . When the unfortunate man was found by the woman Cosgrore th » basin over which his neck was placed , was full of blood , which had also flowed over the room . The knife « ith which he had stabbed himself was firmly grasped in bis right hand , The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide while labouring under insanity .

      Suicide by Oxaiic Acid . — On Tuesday , Mr . G . I . Mills , the Deywrtj Govoner , held aa inquest at the Marlborough Arms , Francis-street , Tottenham . court-road , ou the body of Sarah Brown , aged 27 . William Drown , tho deceased ' s husband , said he was coachman to Mr . Betts , the railway contractor , and resided over the stables iu Upper Gower-mows . On Saturday morning last he went out with the carriage , and , on his return home to dinner , lie found his wife , as was frequently die case , the worse for liquor . Whilst at dinner , they quarrelled , whin she suddenly rese from the table and went our . She returned in about a quarter ot ' . in hour , and , in a short time , hearing a moaning noise proceed from the loft , lie went there , and { ound deceased in an insensible stalej with a cup near her , and a' paper by her side , having on it the name of Mr . Tosswell , a chemist in the

      neighbourhood , and the Inscription , " Oxalic atid—poison , " He vemovid deceased on to his bed , and sent for Mr . Tosswell and Dr . Acre , but , btfore they could apply any remedy , she expired . The deceased bad taken to drinking within the last twelvemonths , and hud pawned everything she was possessed of to ubtaiu it . She had several times threatened suicide lo prevent him scolding her , and once was brought home by a policeman , who found her attempting to jump ill" one ef the canal bridges . She had frequentl y fetched oxalic acid for him as he used it to clean boots tups . Mr . 11 , Matthew * , assistant to Mr , Tosswell , proved having served the dedceased with an ounce of oxalic acid , for which she paid 4 . The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased destroyed herself , but , as to her state of mind at the time , there was uot sufficient evidence to show . "

      Awful Casualty At Ska. Liverpool, Wkdnes...

      AWFUL CASUALTY AT SKA . Liverpool , Wkdnesdat . — A great gloom has been east on our mercantile community by the intelligence received this morning , by the Lady Falkland , Captain Smith , arrived at this port from New Orleans , which vessel , on tha 18 th inst . i f * 11 ia w itht - ^ York packet » Mp Columbia , in distress , linvinp - on tho l'ltb lost overboard the Captain ( Rathbouc ) , first and second mates , fiv * stamen , and » boy , while scudding iu a heavy gale . The Lady Falkland put her mate on board , to navigate the Columbia . Captain Ratliboue was well known and highly respected in < hf » place , and his unhappy fate is deeply lamented . H « fof *[ mrly commanded the packet ship Oxford .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30011847/page/7/