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      Notice 1 I K Lancashire And Yorkshire

      NOTICE 1 I k LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sundaj neX ' , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , the Lambeth locality will meet at the Siuth London Hall , and Mr . Pattinson , the sab-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sunday evening next at the Princess Royal . Circusstreet , Maryiebone—Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-Street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street . New road , a lecture will be delivered . On tbe same evening at the Woodman Tavern , White , street , Waterloo Town ; at six o ' clock the members of the ocality will meet ; and at eight o ' clock a lecture will be delivered by Mr . J . B . Leno . On the same evening , at the Assembly Rooms , 99 , York , street , Broadway , Westminster , Mr . J . B . O'Brien will lecture . On the same evening at the Albemarle Coffee-house , Alhemarle-street , Clerkenwell , a meetine will be held . '

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      A . M'Leod . Newcastle . —Reports should be written ontj < m one > iii » W tltf paper , and the speakers should follow in lveular sucne ^ ion . Tint raitND v » ho forwarded the petitions from Hudd-rs fi lu . iioliufirln . and ifonlev will oblige by forthwith ^ ending bis address to John Araott , li , Southamptonstruct . Strand , London . T . Hkow-n ' s usr . —Cambridge , pi-r Murrell lis—Weleliman Gd—Wardnur-street . Wilson ' s Tinmt-n 7 = 91— Mr . Ilee is —Chapman ud—Lemon Land Carbine 4 s ad—Shuredicth Is fid—Sweatings Is—Messrs . - Back and Hunnarcli , Brash-makers £ 2 10?—Mr . llufford , Cubit ' j 2 s— W . Cut ting . Carvers , New Houses of Parliament £ 1 8 s ( id—Smith ' s Workmen 2 s lid—Mr . Abbott Cd-Mtchd ^ ki , one < , f the Refugees employed 3 s . il . S ., Bristol-road , BirmiiiKham . —Sixteen months . It , Bhieblv . IfasH-sdrn . —A pressure t . f other matter prevunts our d . iiug justice to vour letter tills week .

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      PRISON REVELATIONS . Lord Dudley Stuart has presented , and tbo House of Commons printed , a petition which demands not only the serious attention of the Legislature , but the people of this country . It involves questions of tbe greatest moment and importance to all classes of tbe community , and records facts which are dis graceful iu the highest degree to the adminis tration of the law in this country , and the Government under whose sanction such infamous conduct was perpetrated .

      If there be any distinction more obvious tUau another , it ia . the difference between persons sentenced to imprisonment for political , nnd those for personal or criminal offences . Political non-conformity may be inconvenient to the Government for the time being , but it is not a crime . On the contrary , the history of the world proves it to have been hitherto the highest virtue . It is the secret of till progress . The political heresy of to-day becomes the recognised popular creed to-morrow , and the foundation of new and beneficial inatitutions . "Whether Governments are ever justified iu depriving persons of liberty for the mere publication of opinions adverse to exist-

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      ing institutions , is a . question ' we ^ shall ' not stay to argue now . But , at all events , every one will concede , that all . beyond the precautions necessary for the safe custody of political prisoners , is the wanton and unjustifiable gratification of party hatred . The law and the ad ministrative functions are perverted from their legitimate purposes into instruments for wreaking the vengeance of the powerful upon tbe weak combatants in the field of political strife . _ ' ¦ . . .. . . in his

      Mr . Ernest Jones , petition to the House of Commons , has enabled us to judge of the present administration in this respect . His prison r evelations disclose an amount of petty persecution , malignant hostility , and systematic abuse of inordinate power OH the part of both Government and its subordinate tools , such as we could scarcely have credited . The pres entation of the petition may be taken as the best guarantee of its truth , because no one in bis senses would have made such grave statements public , and called for inquiry into their truth , unless he was prepared to substantiate them .

      Mr . Jones was sentenced to be imprisoned for two years and one week , for the delivery of a speech in June , 1848 . His offence was technically that of a misdemeanour of the first class , and the sentence was simple imprisonment , without any further aggravation or punishment . The law simply intended , and the sentence embraced , nothing beyond the deprivation of liberty ; and Mr . Jowks was assured , while in the dock , that he would re * ceive lenient and considerate treatment .

      But the Government , and the subordinates who manage the gaols , have a mode of violating the law of their own exclusive manufacture . A new philosophy of prison discipline and classification has been invented , which ia so exceedingly gross that it cannot adapt itself to details . It makes no difference between the political lecturer and the pickpocket—the open advocate of Parliamentary Reform through the Charter , and the burglar who breaks into your house at midnight . Whatever fish are caught in the net of the law are treated as if they were all of the same species . The Procrustean system is indiscriminate in its application , and tho prison law may , at the discretion of the authorities , overide the

      common law . Hence , Mr . Jokes was treated in the same manner us if he had been a criminal , instead of a misdemeanant . During the two years and one week he was confined in Tothill-fields Prison he was kept in separate confinement , on the silent system , enforced with such rigour that even reading the Bible to himself , in a scarcely audible voice , was followed by a severe reprimand . He was compelled to wear the same habiliments as culprits guilty of heinous offences—marched about the prison with common felons—required to pick oakum—the " hard labour " which is added by special sentence , to punish with severity grievous offenders , or to pay weekly to be exempted—and placed on such diet aa seriously injured his health .

      It would seem , indeed , that a . malevolent ingenuity had been at work , to devise every possible way of tormenting and injuring him . During tbe most inclement portion of the first winter , he was kept without fire , aud with the same clothing as in the height of summer , in a cell open to tho winds of heaven . His sleeping place was equally exposed ; and such was the damp and fog in the cells , that Mr . Jones frequently brushed the dew off his blanket in the morning . .

      The effects of this cruel and most unjustifiable severity soon became apparent . Tic doloreux and rheumatism almost deprived him of the use of his limbs , but his cell was not changed . For five winter months , though afflicted by an aggravated attack of neuralgia , he was compelled to rise at a quarter past six o ' clock ; and , even in the midst of rain and snow , to walk through two yards , aud wash and dress

      in the open air . The result was ,, the loss of sixteen pounds weight in seven weeks , and a frame so shattered that he was ordered into the infirmary , where he stayed under medical treatment for nineteen weeks . Upon leaving it , the old , harsh , and murderous discipline was resumed , which , at the close of a fortnight , sent him back to the doctor in a more dangerous state than before .

      Under these circumstances ,: and believing that his death would ensue from this new mode of slow murder , his wife petitioned that his own medical man might be allowed to see him . That request was refused . Mr , WAKiEr , a member of parliament , applied in that capacity , and also as a medical man , to see Mr . Jones , and was refused . No interview was granted with friends or relatives , of more than twenty minutes duration , and then only four times in the year , in

      the presence of a turnkey . He was not allowed to write , even to his wife , more than once % quarter , and for the first nineteen months of his imprisonment denied the use of writing materials . Even when the cholera was spreading its ravages both within and without the prison , thepermision to hear from his family was refused ; and when lying in danger of his own life , no communication was allowed to be made other than the prescribed quarterly letter .

      Tame patient acquiescence under such treatment would have been a crime , and not a virtue , Mr . Jones accordingly bethought himself of ascertaining from the judge who sentenced him , whether his punishment was in accordance with that sentence , aud the assurances of lenient treatment which followed it . He was refused permission to make such inquiries , and threatened with additional severity and indignities for his contumacy , in daring to make such a request . The

      application to see the prison rules , under which alone such severities could be inflicted , was met with a denial . Leave to communicate with a solicitor , to petition Parliament , or to see Messrs . O'Connor , Wakxey , and G . THOMPSON , at the usual period for seeing visitors , was refused . The Board refused even to answer his questions , or to admit him to the weekly meetings of the visiting justices , though both the Act and the Prison rules specify that to be the right of prisoners . '

      Nothing seems to have alarmed these Tothill-fields Inquisitors more than the chance of the torture they vera subjecting their ' victim to , becoming known . The Governor added a paragraph with his own hand , to a letter written by Mr . Jones to his wife , asking for au interview with the three gentlemen we have named , in which Mrs . Jones was warned not to write to them , at the peril of being herself forbidden to see her husband for a few minutes , every three months iu the presence of a turnkey .

      The money which exempted him from picking oakum having fallen in arrears , for one week , Mr . Jones , was ordered to perform fiirced labour , and on refusing to do SO unless he was allowed to write to his judge , or to petition Parliament , both the laws of the country and the rules of the prison were set aside . The arbitrary will of the Governor was substituted for both , and the prisoner was locked up in a' refractory cell , put upon bread and water , and kept without books for as long as tho Governor " chose . "

      Shaisp and Williams , two of his fellow pr isoners , perished under this illegul and atrocious treatment . Mr . Jones escaped with a shattered constitution , and tho conviction that had he continued longer under the tender mercies of the Whig Government , ho never would have quitted the prison with life . Mr . Jones now places those facts before the House of Commons , and prays that it may institute an investigation of the treatment to which he waa subjected . His charges are , that the authority of the judge was superseded—the rules of the prison violated—tho laws of the country broken—his own health

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      irreparably damaged—and his life imperilled ; and for the sake of preventing similar cruelties being perpetrated upon other prisoners in future , he claims a lull inquiry into these charges . ' .. '"¦ i Comment upon the facts now stated is unnecessary . The heart of every reader will have instinctively prompted indignant detestation of the parties who were guiltyof such cowardly cond ucfc , The allegations do not stop with the subordinates : the Home Minister is distinctl y and specifically implicated in the statement of Mr . Jones ; and we trust he will be brought to the bar of public opinion , for thus abusing the powers of his high office , and perverting them to gratify the hostile and revengeful feelings of a partizan against a political

      opponent . Contrast the . treatment of Ernest Jones , the Chartist , with that of Captain Somerset , the Guardsman . Both of them gentlemen by birth and education . The one stepped over the narrow and exclusive limits of a class training , aud devoted himself to the advocacy of reforms which would enfranchise the masses . For this offence against the oligarchy he was doomed to the indignities , suffering ,

      and deliberately-inflicted tortures , both bodily and mentally , we have described . His long and dreary imprisonment was unchecked by the countenance or voices of friends , except at long intervals ; and the utmost stringency was exercised during such brief and limited interviews as were permitted . The other having wilfully and openly broken the law , and assaulted the police in the execution of their duty , was sentenced to a few days' imprisonment in the House of Correction , but the

      "Visiting Justices had no objection to his short confinement being relieved by the visits of friends . A succession of carriages drove up to the prison door , and the cell of the Captain was converted into a levee , or drawing room , daily . He was not guilty of Chartism . He merely broke the law , and the severities which attended the avowal of unfashionable political opinions , were mitigated when they came to deal with gross and palpable overt acts , in defiance of the statute law . Among all the misdeeds which will make the present Ministry infamous iu history , their treatment of the Political Prisoners of 1848 will not be the least damning .

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      THE STRAW MOVIN 0 . In the midst of the prevailing political apathy it is gratifying to observe that the franchise question makes headway , Those who have watched the proceedings of Sir Joshua Walmslby ' s association are aware that hitherto Mr , Cobden has fought very shy of it . His support has been excuedingly abstemious , and may be said to have been limited to an annual contribution to its funds . Up to a recent period the Freehold Land Societies enjoyed the benefit of his active

      assistance , as the best and most effectual method of extending the suffrage . Other members of the so-called Radical party itv the House of Commons were equally coy . When the question was brought on by Mr . Hume , they voted in its favour , but there their cooperation ceased . They felt no real interest in the subject ; aud even when Mr . Bright and Mr . Milner Gibson at length attended a meeting of the Association in Manchester , it was clearly more with a view to take the sense of the people ol that city on their conduct with reference to the Papal Bill , than

      for the sake of Parliamentary Reform , A change has come over "the spirit of their dream . " Frankly owning his past neglect , Mr . COBDEN has , this week , thrown himself fairly into the franchise movement . The declaration of Lord John Russell that he will be prepared to introduce a measure of reform next session , has brought the member for the West Riding to the conclusion , that the franchise question "is now the most , practical question that politicians have to do with . " Ulaiming the title of a practical politician , and referring to his past public career in jnsti r i

      fication of that claim , Mr . Cobden adopts the franchise movement , ori ginated and kept in life by others , as the next question for practical legislation . His accession will , undoubtedly , greatly add to the strength and influence of the middle class mftvement . COBDEN is the model politician of that class , and , though their confidence in him may be somewhat shaken by his extreme policy on the Peace Question , and by some of the results of Free Trade , yet the name of no other

      public man has the same prestige with them at present . The sagacity displayed in conducting the Auti-Corn Law agitation to a successful issue , if honestly applied to the furtherance , of the franchise movement , will , undoubtedly , soon place tho question in tbe prominent position it ought to occupy ; and though ; we think that any settlement short of manhood suffrage must be unsatisfactory , still we must express our gratification at any event which promises to accelerate the pace towards that goal .

      A short time ago , as we have said , Mr . Cobden confined his exertions within , the narrow limits of tbe Freehold Societies . At the first meeting of the National Freehold Laud Society he stated tho reasons why he did so . First , he held that the only way of getting a reform of Parliament was for reformers to devote themselves exclusively to tho manufacture of forty shilling freeholders ,

      and thus do for themselves what the Legislature would refuse : second , that the days were gone by when any great popular agitation cnuld bo got up on the suffrage question . Mr . Cobden is not very successful in his prophecies , the movement has progressed in spite of his abstinence ; events have ripened , aud driven both Whigs aud " independent liberals" to the conclusion that an organic

      reform is absolutely necessary . Mr . Cohden iu his speech at the London Tavern on Mondoy , puts the exact position of affairs in his usual forcible style ; thoug h , our readers will see that he is but repeating what . we have been endeavouring to press upon their attentive for months past . Tiny had u promise of a proposal to be made next year by the head of the govornniunt . He ilii ] not mind whether Lord J » lm ttussell was in power next year or imt ; still , his d -duration that the time , was comu when anew lletbvm Hill ini s'jt be propo-cd b . v tlie ln' . id of the government totally changed tlia cluu-aetci' of their position as a prac tical question before the country , lie cared not whether he \ v ; nt out of office or remniuvd ih , tiiej- hud a very large

      party cn-operating with them W a measure of reform ; and it womd depend ^ upon tlie people out of doors what that measurerfioulil be . ( Hear , hijir . ) Some reform ivas absolutely indispensable ; for tlicy had come to such a dead lock in the House of Commons that-they could notgoou witbout . it . They should be . obliged -o' collie tothc people outofdoors to readjust tho-balance , so as to throw a preponderance i » to > ie scale ; for at present , no one knew on which side it would be on any other question submit'cil to tliu house . All the existing parties had ? one to decay , and fallen to ruins ,. and had become mere nils in the . way of political progress . ( Hear , he i ' . ) There , must be reform of parliament to enable any party to govern at all . ( Cheers . )

      Ho proceeded to ask " what that reform was to be ? " and answered , the measure proposed by Mr . l-luMis ; in favour of which he delivered a very telling speech . He has abandoned tho plan of purchasing what is in itself a right , and now apparently takes his stand upon the principle , that irrespective of political results the sttffmge naturally belongs to the people simply on the ground of citizenship . We say apparently , because it is not certain how far either Mr . Huaie or

      any of the " Little Charter" men recognise that principle . If they did go frankly , they would advocate manhood instead of household suffrage ; and we hope that in the progress of events thoy will be driven from the expediency they now substitute for a plain ; md just principle ; ' "In these causes of great truths and of great necessities" it has been remarked , " all men may aid , and no man can retard . " Tho conversion of Mr . Cobden from being the advocate of the Freehold Land scheme into the determined up-

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      holdfa , - " LittIe Charter , ? ' is a proof of the truth ° *''? observation- * -wh y should either he or those with whom he is to act in future stOP there \ f , ^ not follow their own premises to a legitimate . conc ! lia » and enfranchise all citizens : on the broau ground that taxation and representation ought to oe 6 o-equai ? Should Mr . Hume find au opportunity of bringing on his motion again this year it is the intention of Mr , Dunoombe to move , as an amendment , a resolution , pledging the House to take the question up mxt Session ,

      with the view of extending the Suffrage . The hon . Member for finsbury had placed a notice on the paper to that effect , for the day of the "NoHouse , " when the " Little Charter" was to have come on . Someof themetropolitan jour nals have accused him of inconsistency and hostility to Parliamentary Reform , for having taken that course ; whereas , in the present state of public business and of parties , it is decidedly the very best that could he adopted . There is not the slightest chance of carrying Mr . Hume ' s motion ; but the amendment of Mr .

      Buncombe would test-the sincerity of the Ministerial promise . Mr , HUME would , in all probability , withdraw his motion in favour of the amendment ; and if the Ministerialists and " independent Liberals" voted in favour of the latter , the advantage would be gained of distinctl y pledging the House to deal with the question . How they should do so is , as Mr . Oobden" says—and as we have repeatedly urged—a question for the people . Public men

      are , after all , but the instruments by which the public will is carried into effect ; and , as we have seen Mr . Cobden impelled so far forward this week , there is every reason for supposing that a hearty and determined agitation out of doors , during the period that must intervene between this time and the meeting of Parliament next year , would induce our legislators to go a great deal farther than they now dream of .

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      Parliamentary. The Ceylou Job Ia A Very ...

      PARLIAMENTARY . The Ceylou job ia a very Hack one . It exhibits , in perfection , all the vices of Whig government , from family interest pushing " relative " into a position for which he was totally unfitted , and then having recourse to the basest subterfuges and trickery to cover

      up the misdeeds of their protegee , and evade the responsibility which ought to attach to his mis-government . Apparently this crooked policy will succeed . The Ministry will escape the vote of censure , which otherwise would have driven them from office ; not because the censure is unmerited , but . because they have created so much delay that , in the meantime , new combinations of circumstances have arisen

      of a more pressing and immediate interest , and people , in poitical matters , always are more affected by the immediate than the remote . Besides , practically , the labours of the Committee have had their fruition in the dismissal of Lord Tourinqton from the office of Governor , and in the withdrawal of Sir Emerson TenNENT , the Secretary , and other officials connected with the tyrannical and blood-thivaty treatment of the Cingalese . Lord Tourington ' s notions of government were fitter for Russia , or a Turkish Pashalic , than a British Colony . He first drove the people

      into a state of insubordination , by the imposition of intolerable taxes , aud then caused the soldiers to slaughter them almost without provocation . When the riot or " row , " for it was notlvng more , was summarily quelled , his "lordship " exhibited an extraordinary ferocity , and continued in cold bloed to murder the natives by means of courts martial . These are rude and rough weapons iu the hands of authority at all times , but Lord Torrington was more than usually oblivious of the distinctions between innocence and guilt . Had the motion been brought on last year , while the interest was still fresh —had it even been introduced last Session when Mr . BaillIE , the Chairman , first

      propounded it , and when the publication of fresh evidence had revived the subject , the discussion would havebeen a lively one , and the vote would have had important political results . But the Whigs are lucky . The sham " resignation , ' ' early in the Session proved that no other Government is practicable at present . Since then , the interminable debates , and'inextricable confusion arising out of the Anti Papal Bill , has made the Stanley party by no means anxious to take office until it is disposed of . We expect , therefore , that the upshot of the debate will be au agreement to "let bygones be bygones . " The matter will be hushed up , and the Colonial Office escape richly merited condemnation ,

      Since the above was written ,. the division has taken place , and verified our anticipation . Ministers are whitewashed by a majority of eighty . The only other question of importance before the Commons this week has been the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill—which is just where it was last week . The farther the question is explored , the more bewildered all parties become . The lawyers differ as to the nature aud the extent of tlie clauses . The "Irish-brigade" keep up , with great spirit and pertinacity , their obstructive policy , and considerable portions of each night are thus

      consumed in divisions . The result is , no progress is made . The Irish members are threatened with day as well as night sittings if they persevere in this course . But they tauntingly respond— " Try it , and see who will soonest tire . ' They have the majority in a very pretty <* fix , " though the termination is hardly doubtful . The Fabian policy of delay will not avail against the overwhelming majorities recorded iu favour of the measure . The House of Lords still dawdles for want of something to do . By way of making a show occasionally , they get up a talk . now and then . But it is mere talk . One was of a rather

      curious description tho other night . A Bill for Regulating Public-houses in Scotland was the topic ; and it was singular to hear the revelations of three Scotch "dukes , " two Scottish '' earls , " and one Scotch "baron , " respecting the state of society in moral and religious Scotland . According to the " noble" witnesses who gave evidence against their native country , it is the most drunken , debauched , and immoral part

      rof tho empire . Whisky is the ruin of the country ; and if there can only be restrictions enough placed on its sale to reduce its consumption two thirds , it would quite satisfy the lordly Legislators . But the question arises , how would the . Chancellor ' of the Exchequer like that ? We suspect not at all . Our society is bo badly constructed , thnt it thrives by the demoralisation and the wretchedness of those who are its victims .

      DOMESTIC . The Isle of Wight and Harwich elections have given , an accession of two Members to the tree Trade party . , The return from the borough is of no political value or signification whatever ; but that the Isle of Wi ght should abandon Toryism and Protection is a sigu of the times , which may arrest the attention of philosophers at the Carlton and Conservative OJubs . Party feeling seems to have run very high , and one gentleman lost his life in consequence of the excitement .

      Tamworth has been , the scene of an antibvead tax riot . Following up the policy of the Protectionist party , which consists in having dinners all over the country , at which the viands and witics are seasoned with lugubrious accounts of the ruin already caused or impending tho Protectionists of the Tamworth district , ( lined in the Town Hall on Tuesday . The place was assailed by the town ' s people , the windows smashed , and the company com-

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      pelled to boat a retreat to I ^ Tn ^ way there a hand to hand fight to 'J ° " « H whicli many persons were 8 eriou » W I , ° J ' This is but a specimen of what nd \? i '" ** for should the Protectionists be * 2 L £ * " ** to attempt re-enacting a com tax ° $ & Divisions multipl y among ; , Even within the diocese of EXeter \ 1 ^ anu < charitable bishop finds it i „ J 2 ' 7 mainta ' a *«« seeming of xanAn & iT J ? diocesan b" ™ od will be a maimD j * «« uiuuubuu » , ' **»« « " » uo » maimed '

      onn . that upward * of forty of his clergy £ '" 8 licly protested against it . But his <• u £ ? ub will no doubt proceed . He is too ei «? P > 1 fiery a controversialist to be easji' ? * an < aside from his object , and J > e will I ! f * succeed in keeping tbe ember , ? of strif S dissension alive . Poor Established Chi ?" which is thus rent and torn by intestine , 1-sions both on doctrines and discipline < nl for the loaves and fishes . « Oh > ffn . I e would be there , my countrym en 5 " a ^

      It is confidently stated that the Pop formally condemned the lately ™ if . ai Queen ' s Colleges iu Ireland . The" £ T ? put the screw on , and the Catholic U \ M " ^ of course , be compelled to wi thdraw ^ u ' •' children from them . It is cer tainty not 1 culated to raise the Papal Church in Pi , n . estimation , to find its dignitaries thus oppr ) si the diffusion of sound knowled ge , and flf * growth of that kindly and unsectariau feey , u whicli ought to be the distinguishing cnar | ' teristic of a Christian people . In the TOca * time , ravaged alike by the harpies of 1 / lordism and priestcraft , Ireland becomes daii Y more and more desert and depopulated , fta people fly by thousands from a land richl y ea

      dowed by Providence , but which raw cursed by his ignorance , his prejudices , and misdirected passions . FOREIGN . The parliamentary war in the French Chamber grows more unparliamentary ilU ( j more warlike , as the time for actual coii ( lic i . approaches . New symptoms of social disor . ganisation make their appearance in the !

      pro vinces . In the department of the Cher the peasants have assembled armed with scythes and other rude implements , and actuals stormed several of the chateaux of the pro . prietary class . This Jacquerie has caused great alarm in the metropolis , and adds a new element to the troubles that already gather black aud portentously over the French soi > disant Republic .

      In Italy things go from bad to worse , The French have a sorry time of it in Rome . A . 8 „ sassination makes short work of tho soldi er s of tho fratricidal republic , wherever ic has a chance . The citizens have found out an effec tual method of enfeebling the tyrants that domineer over them . The tax on tobacco forms in Rome , as it does here , a large item of rev <> . nue . The Romans have cut off the supplies-Smoking has been universally abandoned , and the Papal Exchequer , low enough before , ha «

      been entirely cleared out by this stroke of p 0 . licy , The authorities , maddened by a reststance which cannot be directly grappled with retaliate in the most irritating and anuoying manner—the cut of the ban- or the beard , tlia shape of the coat , or the colour of the dress are all subject to revision and summary correction , according to the arbitrary taste of the sbirri and their employers . How aU this will end we need not say . Tlie tyrants could not play a better game for tho people . " Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad , "

      With respect to Germany aud the northern parts of the continent we have nothing novel or important to note , and the colonial and American news are equall y unsuggestWe .

      Monies Received Fob Tub Week Ehdino Tuor...

      MONIES RECEIVED Fob tub Week Ehdino TuoRSDiv , May 29 rn , 1851 .

      mstmvp m iim mmi BECBira ) » r W . U 1 DEB . £ s . a , From Birmingham—E . Hughes ., 0 0 S J . Follows ., ., „ Mt T . Best .. .. .. 006 J . Winters .. .. .. 00 $ _ £ i > i i ) DECEIVED AT LAND OFFICE , From Eccles—W . Marley .. -. 010 fi . Marley .. .. .. 008 J . llibert .. .. .. 0 I 0

      J . JMmlow .. .. .. 0 1 ( t j . jmmiow ., ,, ,, 010 T . Worthingtou ., .. I ) 1 0 W , Worihington . .. ., 010 S . Patter .. .. .. 010 T . Crooks .. .. 0 0 I Mr . Harnett .. .. 0 1 0

      National Charter Fund. Received By John ...

      NATIONAL CHARTER FUND . Received by John Ahmctx—Limehouse and Ratcliffe to cality , per T . Shepliard Us—Worcester , per J . Harding 15 i 3 d—E Jacobson , jun . 8 s—J . Mewis , St . Pnncras Cd—Col looted at St . L ' uueras Vestry room 9 s 7 d—VV . Smith . Wit linhiill Is—Kettering :, ; , er G . J . Harney Is— W , Z . ftmlev , Maimensbury , per ditto Is—A .. Trevelyn lJ-Cliiirlsiiffl , Paisley , per It . Hunter Us 9 d-Mr Williams ls-Oevonport , per J . Rogers 7 s—Loughborough , per E . Tliwiipsun , Leicester 5 < 2 d—Mr . Lines , WrminghamOd—olr . S ' j eppard dittofid—Mr . Rider , as er Star 4 s . FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES , lteeeived by W . Kides . —< J . W . ls-A Chill'tiit Cd , REFUGEES AT LIVERPOOL . Received by John Abnott . —Mr . Rudlmll , UirmingliamM ,

      Latest Fobeigx. Denmark Bank Despotism.—...

      LATEST FOBEIGX . DENMARK Bank Despotism . —The introduction oi the Danish language into the German districts has provoked a good deal of ill-blood , but tho late edict published ou tho subject of tho salutes with which the people are compelled to honour Danish soldiers aud officials seems expressly calculated to exasperate the )>«}»•

      lar feeling against the Danish government . All the iuimbituuts in Schleswig , from schoolboys up to the highest ranks , are ordered by the edict referred to to take off their luits to all Danish officers and officials , and to salute the common soldier with a bow without taking off the hat . This outward respect , forcibly imposed , can only excite and entertain hatred . In no country , civilised or barb arous , «' u 3 ever such edict hoard of .

      Surrey Sessions. Removing Railway Danger...

      SURREY SESSIONS . Removing Railway Danger Signai . s . -J ™ b 5 b Crawford , a young man connected with a ! a »> il 5 ' ° | ] 'Oine distinction , residing at Norwood , was t ! iir « d ed with removing and throwing twu dauber signals at- ittac ' aed t o a railway train on the London and S < . * utli til Coast Railway , thereb y endangering the lives of tn « lie public . —Tim prisoner * pleaded Guilty , a » ras sfU' '" ' Usnced to be imprisoned in Brixton liuiiss ofCorrcc- return ( ov n ' me months , with hard labour . Tlw * etitence tc « seemed to greatly surprise i he prisoner a » 'l » " »" friends , who confidentl y relied on a penally b « i » S i « = 11 dieted . . bVVVW //* ,, //^^^ ., //^/^///////"

      The Guardian States That The Isle Of Sie...

      The Guardian states that the Isle of Sieve , m < a » of tho Hebrides , has furnished , since tho Peninsular mar war , no fewor tlian twenty-one lieutenant- ? " , ! , ' mid inajov- » er . erhls . , fortv ^ oiglit lii'Uteniint-cotonsi'j w » 'j GOO major * , captains , and subalterns , 10 , 000 to * loo ' soldiers , 120 piper ? , four governors of British et Z 7 i nie .- , one governor-general , one adjutaiit-ge ' * ' ' *; imo chief baron of England , und one judge ot » I i " ' Court of Session . f . , . ^ . lliiPAnieitB or the Pacific—On Wcdiic * " V * * j . ' . mornincr . at half-past nine , the United Sit "** ! ' i : steam-siiip Pacific , Captain Nve , left the w I ' ' * !! with the usual mails , for the " United S tates aw aD »» British America . She had on board about ^; !^ . ; . Oiissencei's , and a good uencral cargo of were » : c » disc . Great anxiety is expressed relative ( ° 7 « ;; lion-arrival of tho new screw steam-ship Lafa . \ OItt i \ ° ¦ duo for seine days past , having left Phila ^' i ' " 51 "Miia ° the 11 th inst .

      . . , Fatreh Gavazzi gave his tmnitv-fittt oration flfoi o » Sunday at the Princess ' s Coriuert-iwH , aud «¦ - »»•» - » = • vigorous and effective , is usual . A l'ERFECT CUIIE OF DF . OFST Bit IlOUOWAV ' * ' lL "f ''| Ih " '' lI ' < £ Lambert , vfSwun . street , is uveas tie , Had eiij « . vi '» t he ' i lie > . . of health until the meridian i . f life . At tlmt eiw « F , f ' !' ,, , ,,,,,, she was attacked with drotisv , attended l > ya vitv liv '' ' liv . , some cough , 'fhe medical aid of several ™ rv _ i- »><» ; i- »><» |; practitioners was procured , but their eftorts !¦ ' > ^ " ^ remove , or even abate , the rigour of the disK , iB ' J - e water in her body and lees increased so l-aniujy tn » ' Jn » (||(| were entertained that she could nothing survive , w a crisis she commenced taking Hollow-ay ' s Vills , nil" * ; 'VM' ;' <¦ so powerfully on her comjihiint , that its progresi . ¦» ^ -esi . ¦ immediately arrested , and in the course of two montw ' ontw > cure was complete-

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 31, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_31051851/page/4/