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      Furuit, Au .Ust 25th. —At Half-Past Twel...

      fired . In an instant a rush was _roade tobatter m the Windows and doora of the lower story , whilatiuie pavement was dug up , and a volley of stories hHrled Into the _nppsr story . One of these had nigh termiaated the d _& _omatio services of the Bavarian Minuter . Meanwhile the bugles founded the-dMrn ,, and tte constables appeared in strong detachments . Alter _S Sct , during which thirty-six constables anTseveral leaders of toe mob were wounded , the former succeeded in arresting sorre and dispersing Sorest 0 f the rioters . In the course of half an hour in considerable

      more the Burg her Guard _mnatered force , and finding the mob re-assembled , aud icedi-( atinz further mi schief ia different qaartera . beat the charge and dispersed thorn with the bayon « _% or rather with the sight of the bayonet , for they fled without waiting to be attacked . Ths cumber of wounded of the people is not known , hut thirty five constable" are on the wounded and braised list Towards midnight the populace , or rather the Demoeratic leaders , thought it prudent to withdraw , and peace was nerfectly re-established . On the 2 nd ult ., a measure was introduced into

      the Assembly , intended to prevent open-air meetings and processions , unless previously authorised by the police authorities . _VrasKa , August 21 . —The working classes were en masse this morning , in consequence of a reduction ot _fivekreatEirs in tbeir wages , namely , from twentyfive to twenty , paid to the workmen employed by the State . They repaired in a _bady to the hotel of the Municipality to demand the re-establishment of the former rate of wages . At this moment the generate is beating , to call the National Guards under arms . The Academic Legion have resolved to adopt a conciliatory attitude , aud to endeavour to calm the work _, men . The Ministers have resolved not to give in . The gates of the inner city are partially _cloaed . The Committee of Security has dec _l ared itself permanent . _Towards noon strong picquets of National Guards on foot acd horseback , as well as divisions of the Academic Legion , traversed the streets . The troops all remain quietly housed in the barracks .

      On the 23 rd ult . the disturbances were renewed ; a collision took place between the workmen and the military , and lives were lost os both rides . It continued till nightfall . A large body oi insurgents , driven back by the _tailitary , barricaded themselves on _onB of the islands _forced by the Danube . At ten at night six of the workmen had died of their wounds , and sixty-one were more or less _Severely wounded . Sixteen of the National Guar J were wounded . A National Guard was stabbed ia the back and died immediately . Near tbe station of the Northern Railway three shots were fired from a house , whereupon the doors were forced by the sapper . * , and in the straggle which ensued some lives were lost . Accounts _frem Vienna up to the 2 A _' , h nit ., state that the city was restored to tranquillity , and that tbe collision between tbe working classes and _^ National Guards had ended iu the former giving way .

      ITALY . The _Coscoamief Turin gives a letter frrm Milan of the 18 : hult , which describes that city as affording a mo t gloomy aspect . The Austrian troops bivouack in the bastions , the public gardens , and the most _frequented places . The prisoners who have beenlibe _* rat d are encouraged by the Austriana to pil : age the houses , and they do this with their prison dress still on them . ' It diplomacy or the Piedmontese arms do cot save ns ( says the writer ) despair will induce au effort which may perhaps be the last- ' The Opikio— of the 22 d nit , states tbat _Radetski has despoiled the numismatic museum , the public library , and the picture galleries at Milan . Jx CbsTiTcuo * r al Subalpiso of the 23 rd ult , slates that Marshal _fUdelzki had left for Vienna with the English Ambassador , with a view to arrangea treaty of peace before the conclusion of the armistice .

      HUNGARY . A litter from _Festh of the 21 st alt . ia the _Bbkshdh _Zsirnsa , states that the Hungarian troops have been defeated by the insurgent forces ati St Thomas . The people of Peath . are iu a state of tha utmost excitement ; they accuse tbe ministers of being traitors to the cause of their country , and assert that their generals carry en negotiations asd endeavour to make terms with the insurgents and tbeir patron , the Ban of Croatia .

      POLAND . ' Orderreigns in Warsaw . ' Letters to the 22 _od ult . state that that city 'continued to _eujov perfect tranquillity . ' For that ' effect' behold the ' cause : '— * The new fortress which already commands the city and postage of the river to Frags , is baing strengthened by a lunette . The report of a conspiracy having been discovered seems to be confirmed , but measures have been taken to place Warsaw under the impossibility of rising , unless at the risk of destruction . Great is Nicholas in the art jf preserving ' tranquillity . ' INDIA .

      There h some sort cf fighting , going on about something , somewhere iu India . But as our readers have precious little interest in ' our Indian possessions . ' it will suffice to say tbat there have been soma * glorious victories * —on a small scale—gained by the ' Britishers , ' at the * very trifling cost' ol some few hundreds of English troops killed and wounded .

      LATEST FROM FRANCE . A Legitimist insurrection took place at _Montpellier on Tuesday last but was almo 3 t immediately sup pressed . The Prefect and two magistrates were wounded and a gendarme killed ; six of the insurgents were wounded .

      8 The Northern Star. September % 1848.

      8 THE NORTHERN STAR . September % 1848 .

      Warwick.—The Land Members Are Particular...

      Warwick . —The Land members are particularly requested to attend a general meeting at Mr Donaldson _s , on Monday evening next , to consider the propositions of the Executive Committee . _TTat—» t _. —A district delegate meeting will be held in the Working man ' s Hall , oa Sunday afternoon , September 3 rd , at two o ' clock , when all localities iu the district are expected to Bend a delegate . Those localities who have not paid their levies are requested to do so as soon an possible . Mi 5 _CBBBTz _&—The Monthly meetiag of Land members will be held in the People ' s Institute on Sunday morning , September 3 rd . Members are requested to bring their levy cards . The directors , Mr Cullingham and Mr Silvester Ryan , will attend . Chair taken at nine o clock . None but members will be admitted .

      Salfoxd . —The monthly meeting of Laud members will be held on Sunday afternoon next , at two o ' clock , at Mr Lea ' s , Temperance Hotel , _Irwellstreet , when tbe propositions of Mr O'Connor will belaid before the meeting . Members are requested to attend . Nohth Lakcashibj ! . —A district delegate meeting will be held in the Odd Fellows' Hall , Padiham , on Sunday , September 3 rd , when the Mowing places are requested to send delegates : —Preston , Charley , BIsckburn , Clitherce , Padiham , Come , Burnley , Aecrington , Barrowford , and _Oswaldtwiatle . Chair to bs taken at eleven o ' clock in the fore no on .

      _WoLviBHAHproH . —A special meeting of the shareholders of the Land Company , will ba held on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock , at Mr Liver-ley's , Brickmakers' Arms , near the New Inn , Horseleyfisld , to take into _consideration the propositions of Mr O'Connor . It is earnestly requested that all members will attend . Tillicoultry . —A meeting of Land members will ba held on Saturday evening . September 9 th at six o ' clock , in Goalsuaughten Hall , to consider Mr O'Connor ' s _propositions . Barbican . —The committee for the dispwal of tha gold seal , are requested to attend next Wednesday evening , at eight o ' closk , at _Cartwright's coffeehouse , Barbican . Durham . — -Mr Byrne ' s route for the next week : —Crook , Monday , Sept . ith ; Tow Law , Tuesday 5 th ; _Walsingham , Wednesday 6 ; h ; Bury Edge , Thursday 7 th ; _Lsad Gate , Friday 8 ih .

      DcBHUt— -A district delegate meeting will be held at OH Shildon , Chapel-row , on Sunday , 10 th Sept . All branches in the district are requested to send a de ' egate _. and all branches that have not sent money to the lecture fund are requested to pay the same to Mr R . H . Robinson , district _tretsurer . _Cosausros . — -Au adjourned meeting te consider the propositions of Mr O'Connor , will be held at Tuesday evening , at half-past seven , in their _Meetias Honse , Lion-street . _Kkssisgtoh . —The Lied members in this district are requested to meet at the _Portobelle

      Coffeehouse , _Notting-hill , on Monday ! evening next , at eight o ' clook , to take into consideration the proposed alterations . South Lohsox Chartist Hall . —The members cf the Lambeth locality are requested to attend a meeting of importance , on Sunday afternoon , at three o ' clock . Ghxenwich . —A Bpeoial general meeting of the Land members will ba held at Mr _Paris ' _s , Cold Bath , ou Monday . September 4 th , to consider the propositions of the directors for the _futuer management of the Company .

      Rk-Eiajhsatiox Op Chartists At Bradford ...

      _Rk-eiajhsatiox op Chartists at Bradford —On Friday ( yesterday ) , at Bradford Court House , the several persona who were apprehended last week by the Bradford police on a charge of _seditiauB _oonspirtrx . _-sere examined singly . John Smith , _ahoemaser ; Eli Wilman , James Heilicar , William Wood , Adam Stratton , Edward Power , all of Bradford , _-coolcorabera ; Thomas Wilkinson and Joseph Ridehalgh , weavers , and Daniel Liudou . tinner , of the * imeplaoe ; aad Thomas _Ibbefcson , of Horton , woolcomber . The prisoners were remanded for a week Nathan Smith , of Bradford , woaleomber , who had _bzea apprehended on another oharge which waa not _Subshutiated , was also remanded for seditious _congpirscj , as was also a woolcomber at Bradford named John Bentley . who had been apprehended at his residence _. New Leeds , Bradford , on Thursday night . ASHTO */ . _—APPSSHBBBlOa OF AffOTHKB CiDBBISr . — On Saturday afternoon police constable Brown , of the Ashton police { force , arrested a young man , named Charles Jepain , a pieoer _, aged 24 , under a bench warrant , charging him with conspiracy , sedition , & _C . He was brought before the mayor yesterday , whoa , net being prepared with bail he was remanded .

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      Saturday, Auausi 26. House Op Cohmoms .—...

      SATURDAY Auausi 26 . HOUSE OP COHMOMS . —This house sat from twelve to two o ' cloik , for ths purpose of forwarding several measures a _staje , and thus hastening the time for prorogation . A conversation arose on the _sutjeot of the Horsham election . The Attorney-General having been charged with being accessory te bribery te support bis son , dewed that he had _hnnlmpllcAteaia the transaction in the way alleged , and gave an _explanation of his conduct , which Ur _Aastey who raised the question said was perfectly satisfsc ory . Tbe repsrt on _taeJChanoellor of the Exchequer ' s last budget was brought up , and a bill ordered to be founded thereon The Post-horse Lloences , & c . Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed .

      Tbe Postage on Newspapers ( Channel Islands , * co . ) Bill was read a second time and ordared to be committed . Tha Westminster Improvements Bill was read a third time and passed . The Slave-trade ( Muscat ) Bill went through oommittee . Tbe _Taxing-master ' s , Court of Chancery ( Ireland ) Salaries Bill was reported . The Lock-up Homes Bill was read a second time aad ordered to be committed ; as was also ths Drainage Certificates BUI . The _Batttrsea Pork Bill was reported . Ur Pabkes brought up the Consolidated Food Bill and the Exohequer Bill , which were ssverally read a first time . HOSDAY , August 23 ,

      HOUSEjOF LORDS . —Sdcab Doxies . — Earl Q « r , in an _explanatory speech , moved the second reading of tbe Sugar Dntles Bill , stating its _otject to be to alter tke existing duties as the ; ore fixed by the act of 1816 , by extending tbe period of protection , in consequence of the present condition of the West India colonies , beyond tbe period contemplated by that act . Ths noble earl expressed bis hope that the colonists wonld accept the measure in the spirit is wbich it was proposed , and that t ' aey would not be led away by those who were endeavouring to impress tbem wiih tbe idea that their prosperity

      was not an object of interest to tbe heme government , and that they wonld rely on tbeir awn _exertiens for success , and not look for farther protection , the principle of free trade being one to wbioh parliament was finally and irrevocably pledged , and from which he belleTed they never woald consent to depart . Eves those ef their lordships wbo disagreed with him en this point , would , be wag sure , concur in the opinion that _erea if this policy was to be changed it was not to be effected by the adoption of iU . ad * lsed measures calculated to sow discontent and dissatisfaction ia the

      colonies , A discussion followed , in the course of which Lord Dekxah took an opportunity of replying to a very powerful attack upon his speeoh ob the Slave Trade by the Momma Ca & oNicLE . The bill was read a second time , and the other bills forwarded a stage . Thbir lordships adjourned at nine o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The Speaker took the chair at twelve o ' clock _. The West India Colonics and Mauritius Bill and ths Savings _Binki Bill were then read a second time . The Post Horses Licences , he ., Bill , ths Postage oa Newspapers ( Channel Islands ) Bill , the Lock-up Houses Bill , and the Drainage Certificates Bill passed through _ciinmittoe . The reports on the Boyal Military Asylum Bill and the Taxing Masters' Court _of-Cbanoery ( Ireland ) Bill were brought up and agreed to .

      The Battersea Park , « to ., Bill was read a third time and passed . At three o'clock tbe morning sitting was suspended . In the evening sitting at five o ' clook , Oa tbe motion of Ur Pinhsx , a aew writ was ordered for tbe borough of Cheltenham , in tbe Teem of the Hon . Craven Berkeley , whose election bad been declared to be void . Shut Dealeis Bur . —The bouse having gone Into committee on tbe Spirit Sealers Bill , on clause twenty _, five being put , proposing to enact that a penalty of £ 25 be imposed on any _person carrying one gallon of spirits without a permit , and authorising a _polloeman to appre _. _ht-nd aud carry before a magistrate any one so eff _ending , who on conviotioa should impose the foregoing fins er six months' imprisonment with bard labour , Mr Home moved that the penalty be fixed at £ 100 , but with liberty to tbe magistrate to reduce it at his _discretion .

      Oa a division the amendment was negatived by a majority of eighteen , the nutnb . rs thirty-three to fifty . enr . The _Chascillo * of the _Exchequsk having expressed hia _wllllngaess to reduce the penalty to £ 10 , and three mouths' Imprisonment , Mr Hmb again moved that the magistrate be empowered to reduce the penalty at bis discretion , when the committee divided , the amendment being aegatived by a majority of twenty-five , the numbers t & irtj-one to fifty-six . Mr Hdkb was willing that tbe maximum of punishment should be retained , but thought ths minimum should be struck out , as there might be cases in which a magistrate might desire to dispense with pauisbment altogether . MrFozBEs moved that as a minimum of punishment ( imprisonment for one hour be inserted . This amendment , however , was not persevered in , and the remaining clauses were agreed to .

      On the motion to go into committee on the British Spirits Warehousing Bill , Mr M . J . O'Cohrell , in the absence of Ur Moffatt , took up hia motion , and moved tbat it be aa Instruction to the committee to extend the provisions of the bill so far as to apply to spirits distilled in the united kingdom the privileges at present enjoyed by the owners of foreign and colonial spirits , In respect of the mode and time of levying the duties chargeable thereon . The motion wai opposed by tbe _Chanceiwx of tbe ExcBiQun , as involving a loss to the revenue of £ 118 , 000 per annum , which he could not risk . After some discussion , and on a division , the instruction was negatived by a majority of thirty-nine , tbe numbers being thirty-seven to _stventy . _six , and the b ; ll passed through committee _. Copper asd Lead Duties . — Oa the motion that the Copper and Lead Duties Bill be read a second time ,

      Lord G . Bemtihck , in the _absence of Ur Wyld , moved the amendment oi whioh that gentleman bad given no . tice—namely , tbat the bill ha read a second time upon that day six months . He founded bis motion partly on the impolicy ef reducing a revenue which waa already incapable of msetlng our expenditure , bnt principally on tbe injury which it wonld inflict on the miners of Cornwall . In that county 80 , 000 tons of copper were raised ananally , and 22 , 600 persons wera engaged In raising it . The miners were paid in proportion to the qaantity of ore which they raised ; and as tha reduction of the duty on foreign ore mast reduce the prlae of Cornish eopper , it must reduce at the same time their wages and their profits . In that county the harvest wat deficient an 4 the potatoes were universally diseased ; and if this measure were passed during such a _dlspeasatlon of _Providence , its _inhabitants would be crushed under the miserable policy of _government , and one of the largest

      counties of England woald be placed in tbe same destitute and desolate condition as that in which the people of Ireland were now placed . He then arraigned ia the strongest terms the conduct otthe Board ef Trade , and more especially impeached the _accuraoy of its rstaros , _Thoie retains were always wrong , and _wroag , too , ia the very wjy which corroborated the views of the free traders . It had been aaid tbat the importation of foreign copper had fallen off within the last six months , and a retma _signed' A . W . FonMmque , ' gave the importation of copper at 1 , 319 toes , when in point offset it had amounted to 5 , 395 tons , aad bad bien greater than any previous imputation within tke same time . Who Mr A . w _" . Fonblanque might be he _neither knew nor cared , bnt ha hoped that he was not a pluralist who added the functions of the editor ef a newspaper to those of Assistant-secretory of the Board of Trade , and was thus incipable of paying proper attention to the duties of his office .

      MrWiH > , _whohademtewdthehouseduringtbe speech of his lordship , seconded tbe _amendment , and spoke at some leagth in its support . Ur _Liboechob denied that the introduction of foreign capper ore Into tbii country , duty free , woald be detrimental to the interests of tbe miners of Cornwall , and farther added that this bill whioh le-allsed that introduction , would not promoto the monopoly of a few smelters abroad . Ha had n » doubt whatever that this country wou'd , after the passing of this measure , con _tinua to be what it waa now , the great seat of the

      smelting trade of the werld . He should be sorry , indeed , te propose any measure which was likely to in . flict Injury on the population of a county which , from its peaceful and loyal habit * , was entitled to the indulgent consideration of the bouse ; bnt he wat convinced that this bill would be advantageous both to the producers and consumers of eopper . He then defended the statistical department of the Board of Trade , and Mr _Foablonque , from what he denominated the discreditable and unwarrantable attack of Lord _Gaorge Bentinck .

      Mr Hehi . it observe ! that It was net against Mr Fonblanqae , so much as against Mr _Labouehera himself , that the noble lard bad directed bis observations * and proceeded to analyse the return , with a view to show that , 'to say the least of ft , that return had been made up lfl _^ _s clumsy way , and did not indicate , as it purported to do , ' the real state of the case . As to the bill before the houae , it behoved the government to show that the revenue wai now ia a better state , so as to admit of its proposal , than it had been in for several years past . So far as the revenue was concerned , the measure was most inopportune , and its efface upon the industry of Cornwall would be of the most injurious description , whilst it would do no good to any o . her interest in the couatry , at the same time that it would encourage slave labour abroad _. After some farther discussion , the house divided , aa ths numbers were : —

      For the amendment ... ... 21 Against it ... ¦ 7 T Majority against —66 The bill waa then read a second time , and to ba committed on Tuesday . Tbe other business was then disposed of , and the house edjeuratdet two o ' olock ,

      Saturday, Auausi 26. House Op Cohmoms .—...

      TUESDAY , AcouST 29 th . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The business was almost entirely of a routine charaoter ; ana " , after several bills had been advanced a stage , amongst which was the Sugar Duties Bill , which went through committee , their lordships adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —At the _moraing sitting , The Postage on _HewspapMs ( Channel Islands ) Bill , the Royal Military Asylum Bill , and the Taxing Masters ' Court of Chancery ( Ireland ) Bill , were severally read a third lime and passed . Tht reports ou the Pott-Horses Lloences Bill and the Lock-up Houses Bill were then brought up and received . Oa ths motion that tbe Diplomatic Relations with tho Court of Rome Bill be read a third time ,

      Mr _NAfixa moved , as an amendment , that the bill bs read a third time that day three months , The ho nourable and learned' gentleman supported his amendment with a brief speech , whieh originated s . short d ! _somston , in whioh Mr Shell , Mr Anstey . Mr Urquhart _, Mr Sergeant Talfourd , Mr Henley , Mr _Ndwdegate , and Mr . J . O'Connell took part , alter which the house divided and the numbers were—For the amendment 25 Agalntt it ,., „„ 88 Majority against ,....,., „ ,., „ _ " 3 The bill was read a tblrd time and passed , Tbe Consolidated Fund Bill then went through committee , the Chancellor of the Exchequer moving the insertion of the appropriation clause , which was agreed to . At five o ' olock the sitting was suspended till half-past six . At the latter beur the bouse re-assembled .

      Tobago . — Lard O . Birtinck , who had a motion on the paper for printing the petition from the Speaker and memsere of tbe House of Assembly of Tobago , relative to captured negroes , drew attention to the case of tbat colony . Earl Grey had excluded that oslony from tbe benefit of any of tbo proposed loan ef £ 500 , 000 , and also from participating in the government scheme of Immigration for importing free labour into tbe colonies , although that island was labouring under great finanolal difficulties , and was entitled to great consideration owing to the great attention they had devoted to education and civilisation , there being in that mull colony no less tban sixteen schools , eight of which

      were of the Ciraroh of Eagland , Thero was more land cultivated in Tobago in proportion to its population than in either British Guiana , Trinidad , or Jamaica , and they were therefore justly entitled to a proportionate share of the _assistance to be given to the colonies . Discover _, ing that kis wishes bad been anticipated to a certain extent by the p & titlon having been already printed in the ordinary way by the committee , and his purpose in moving tbat it be printed with tbe votes being served by bis having beea thus enabled to make bis speeoh , tho noble lord concluded by observing tbat he would not press his motion . The motion was thereupon withdrawn .

      The New Loam . —On tho motion that the bouse sesolve Itself into committee on tbe _Ecchequer-bills Bill , Mr Home objeoted to the plan proposed whereby to meet the deficieaoy , of borowlBg money in a time oi peace , and would take tbe sense of the house upon tbe proposition . To permit expenditure to exceed income was the act of spendthrifts , and unless the government turned over a new leaf in this respect , they would Involve the country in all the ruin cf a national bank _, ruptcy . He had urged upon the government at the

      commencement of the session' the propriety of either redaolng our expenditure by curtailing our establish _, meats , or of meeting 'he dtficlenoy by fresh taxation ; but both the house and tbe government turned a deaf ear to bit eounsel , and tbat which he foresaw now came to pass— -a proposition to meat the deficiency by an increase to tbe permanent debt of the country . He pro * tested against thriftless expenditure , against enormous establishments , and against borrowing money in time of peace , and conoluded by moving as an ameodmen * that the bill be committed tbat day three months .

      Mr Monti complained of the conduct of the government in not having brought forward the measuro at an earlier period of the session , for tbey had certainly given the house and the oountry to understand from the _spesobes they had made , that by one means or another they would do without either additional taxation or other assistance . ( Hear , hear . ) It seemed as if the government had postponed the matter until there were so few members present in the house that tbey oould _OB-ry anytbiag tbey liked , Tbat _systera of tneetlBg exigencies of expenditure by funding would lead a country , as borrowing wat sure to lead a private Individual , to inevitable rain . It led to every species of extravagance , by inducing _recklessness , bb every government was but too ready to bave recourse to suoh a simple

      mode of making both ends meet . When he ( Ur Uunti ) first enttred the house , there was a state of _thlaja existing very like that wbich was bcfjre tbe country now . There wat a Whig _goveinmrot In office _ivrugg'tag In Us last agonies —( laughter )—the revenue la an exhausted condition , trade languishing and almost extinct ; the people in want of _employment ; and discontent , as a matter of course , prevailing . The great physician wa » sent for , and hia fee was para . ( A laugh , ) But for many months after he _csme into offioe matters were in the same condition . At length he proposed his income tax , which be ( UrUuntc ) supported , became it removed some of the weight of taxation from tho poor and placed it upon the shoulders er she rich , and he had been gr'atly abuBed for supporting it by those who , like the

      members and supporters of the present _government , were opposed to it . Howevtr , a _parlod of prosperity followed . They had a _succession of good harvests ; trade revived , and tbe railway mania caused a display of great wealth and prosperity . But new they seemed to be coming again to a period exactly similar to that at which he had first entered the house . They had again a Whig government in office . H * would not venture to say whether their tenure of _office would be long or abort . ( A laugh . ) They found the reveaae _rsduclng , expenditure _iucreas . ing , trade falling off , and the people _unemployed , and ia a state of discontent almost bordering upon insurrection _. And be saw no man , or men , who would ever be able to _govsra the country In quiet , unless th-y could so manage publio affairs as that every honest , sober , In

      dustrlou * man would be able tt find employment and earn a living . Every administration that he had ever seen had been trying to produce a state of prosperity . But every one of them , whether Whig or Tory , bad failed ; and he now asked the present government were they going to be obstinate ? Was the real good of the country to be lost sight of , because they would persist it . putting faith in aad adhering to what tbey oalled political economy aad established theories t If a man told tbem that their monetary arrangements were bad , their reply was ' Oh , that is all Brummagem ! ' ( A laugh ) Bat they should reoolleot they had done nothing better than Brummagem had done as yet . The state of tbe country wonld become , under their system , as It -had been before , _moit disgrac « _ful . What could bo more disgraceful than the state of English credit last year , when no London banker ' s bill would be _oasbed os tbe continent of Europe ? He knew a party wbo had boen

      travelling in Italy last year , and tbe most anexcepuonable bankers' bills were not negotiable . Was not that disgraceful to thia country ? and was it not a state of things whioh affor Jed a significant continent oa the Aot of 1814 ! ( Loud cheers , ) He ( Mr _Muutx ) never knew things in a good state in this country when six men could be got together to talk polities . Ne man , however evil bis designs , or _cunalng his inducements , could obtain a masting on any subjeot when trale was good . Ho had in his day assisted la agitations , and he knew how it could be dene and haw it could aot ba done , ( Oncers and laughter . ) If the government _wlthed to draw the teeth ef the people , let them make the people happy . ( Cheers . ) No people In the world were easier governed tban the English provided they _received a just remuneration for tbeir labour ; but if the government could not go on without bailing and funding , they would Sad tbe government of the country a mo it dlffiouU task . ( Cheers . )

      The Chawgellor of the _Excueqcbb _defindid the proposition of the _government , contending that , as his hon , friend ( Mr Hume ) contended , tbat the oountry could bear no farther taxation , and at tho home had decided by overwhelming majorities that the existing establishments of the country should be kept up , he did not see what elie the government could do bnt resort to a loan to meet the temporary excess of expenlltnre , whioh could be paid off by reduoing expenditure , Instead of resorting to taxation , whiohmlght beooine _permanent . After some observations from Mr Coert , Mr _Hbtwaud , Mr Wodehouse , and Sir H . _Wiliovqhbt , Mr _Hbhmt , Mr Nbwdioate , and Mr _Spoowib said they had no alternative but to vote for the Cianoellorof tbe Exchequer ' s Bill , as ths Free-traders in the house had thought fi ; to throw away _taxitijn , and therefore Itfc only the choice of borrowing .

      Mr Cobdbndenied that ike Freetrade measures had reduoed the revenue , aHd asserted that the net revenue of this year was larger tban ony preceding year . The hon . member inveighed against our military oxpondlture , aud declared that tho ory raised about _iavasion was a _wi-ked delusion , invented by professional men to frighten the oountry . Lord G . _Bewtwcx thought Mr Cobdenthe last man who should charge any person with creating wloked deluslons , for ot all the delusions ever practised on the country he was the parent of the greatest . The asser .

      Hon nude by the hon . member that the _Free-trade measures of late years had not diminished the revenue was sufficiently contradicted by a look at the not revenues of _thetwoyeata , 1848 andl 8 l 6 . In the latter namod year , before a great part of these _Free-trade measures oamo Into operation , the _revsnae was two millions more than In the present year . Had the government _ask 9 d tbe house to _re-impose some of the GuBtoms duties ' whioh had been thrown away for the _beneflt of forei gners , and to the impoverishment of our countrymen , aad bad the house adopted that proposition , there would have been no neoeBilty for a loan .

      Lord J . Rosseil defended the finanolal measures of the government _. The bouse then divided—For going into committee l <( _gg Against it . " \ '" 15 Majority against the amendment " „ —51 The house went into committee ou the bill . Mr Home proposed aa amendment , tbot the required money be raised on debentures at five per cent The amendment was negatived , without a division , and the bill passed through committee . The West _Inlla ColonAei and Mauritius Bill went through committee ,

      Saturday, Auausi 26. House Op Cohmoms .—...

      On tha motion to go into ooramitt ** on tha Savings ' Banks Bill . Some discussion arose , aud Lord C . BBMiiHes moved , as an amendment , that tbe Bill be committed that day three months . Mr Monjell said that , unless the depositors In the savings banks in Ireland should be protected , and that the _trasUes should be made to do their duty , the greatest apprehension and mischief would be created in that oountry . He recommended the government to confine the Bill te Ireland , and not to extend it to Eagland or Scotland . The CflAHCELLoa of tbe Exchequer defended tbe BUI . For going into committee ... , „ 49 _Againitit ... ... ... ... ai _Majority ... __ 28 The Bill then passed through oommlttee . Some otber bills were forwarded .

      Coma ah » Lead Duties Bill—The _ChanosLloe of tbe _ExoHiQoia moved the order of the day for oommlttee on this bill . Lord O . Bbmtimck ohjeeted at that late hour ( twenty minutes past three ) to take another stage of this bill . The Chancbllob < f Ba > _Excbiqgeb tben egreed to fix tbe committee for Wednesday and the house adjourned attbree o ' clock having sat , with only an interval of an hour and a half , from twelve o ' olock the previous day . WEDNESDAY , Aug , 30 . HOUSE OF LORDS—This house contrary to its u _^ uaI custom sat on Wednesday , but the business was purely routine , and confined to expediting the bills on th * table . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The house met at twelve _o'rioifk . Review or tue Session .-On the motion that the Distilling from Sugar Bill be read a tblrd time .

      Mr _DisbaeI . 1 rose and took an elaborate review of tbe session about to close . It was a session of unexampled duration , and one the ifficiency of which was by no means commensurate nith its length . It opened with a gaudy array of promised , and would _olose with a miserable sum total of performance . After a sitting of ten months' duration they were now about to _separate , having done little or nothing tbat was useful to the country . For this there was blame tomewhere . To whom the Ministry thought it attached was evident from a paragraph , which had appeared in a _Sunday puper , whioh attributed the postponement of tho government * fish dinner * to the quantity of talk with which the house was inundated , and by whleh tbe progress of publio business was obstructed . Assuming ,

      _tb-u , tho viaw of the government to be that _thedtlays which bad characterised the session were to be attrl . buted to tbe conduct of members , and the formi of the house , be proposed to Inquire how far such views were correct ; and , if incorrect , who were , in reality , the parties to blame for the present unsatisfactory state of things ! He utterly denied that the blame lay either with the forms ot tbe house , or with tbe cos . duct of members , and proceeded to maintain his denial by referring seriatim to the chief features of the _oesslon , Parliament had been summoned _together at an early period , on account of the commercial distress which _weighed upon the energies and enterprise of the country . Had tbere bees too much talk ia the bouse upoH that _surjict ! Ho denied that there had

      beenall discussion upon It having been _stlfla * by thsoppov tune appointment of a committee to _laqulre into the whole subject . Tha 'Ecillalion of tbe government io _refctenoa to this and other subjects , was the chief cause of nil the attest which bad taken plaoe . He tben adverted to tbe committees wbich had been appointed to examine the estimates , a course wbich he denounced as unconstitutional , as tending to withdraw , more or _Uss _, from tbe consideration of tbe bouse , to wbich _apprrta ' ned tbe oxclusive control of matters of finance , questions relating to supply . Having disposed of this point , he made tbe hituse exceedingly merry at the description which ho gave of the finanolal polloy of the government . Having traced tbe three first budgets from the 18 th of February , when the first was made ,

      te- th ; 30 th ef June , when the last was Introduced , apr « pos to nothing , and having also shown up the referenoe of tbe estimates to two Select Committees , the hon . member thus wittily , and , at the same time , truly , wound ap his review of the financial policy of the _Mi nistry : — Well , sir , but those _budgets have beea discussed ; two committees bave sat , and six months and a half have been wasted under this administration of men of business , wbo were to bave made their financial exposition in February . This , sir , is the state of affairs , when the First Minister of the Crown , with an almoBt sublime coolness , announces , late In July , tbat his right hon . friend the Chancellor of the Exchiquer will take an op * portuBiiy—not even _thesi _, mind , a tery early cne—but will take an opportunity before tbo house separates , of

      making his financial _suument , ( Laud cheers . ) Well , sir , we bave it at last . ( A laugh . ) At last we have the budget , the fourth budget of tha session . There baa before this existed an _administration called the ' government of all the talents '—hut we bave now the government of all the _budgets . ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) Ob that we had a revenue bearing in extent the slight . 691 rtJatlen to tbe frequency and _voluminouBness of our financial statements , and we should indeed be a flourishing country . _( Laughttr . ) But the fourth budgetalas ! it came lit ' , and at a moment when Tte stood much in _tii > od nf _glnd tidings . ( Inogbtor . ) Unhappily it was not characterised by any pecu iarly sunny aspect . I shall not soon forget the _scsne of Us advent—it was adreary moment , and a thin bouse . ( laughter , ) Tes

      perhaps the thinnest houce which evtr yet attended a ceremony so interesting to every oountry , and especially io a financial and commercial oountry like tbis . ( Cheers . ) f never saw a budget brought forward before an attendance so gloomy and s . o small . . No . ; I never shall for . get the aspect of affairs . It reminded me irresistibly of a celebrated charaoter who , like th e Coanoellor of tbe Exchequer , bad fear trials , and whose last was his most _unsuccessful one . I thought , sir , of the great hero of Cervantes —( a laugh )—when he came baok from his fourth and final expedition , ( Rene sred laughter . ) Hon . gentlemen will remember the chapter . It Is touched with a _maater pencil . The great spirit oi Quixote bad subsided . ( A laugh . ) The glory of that financial chivalry whleh cut ub down in tbe beginning

      of the _gBBBlon , and _trampled onus and cantered , over us In the middle of tha _resden—all this had fl * d . ( Cheers . ) It was past ; as , when losing his belief in chivalry , or finance- ( a laugh)—the hero of the tale returned crestfallen and weary . The _virajera were drawn up to reoeivo him , the villagers being in the present instance typified by the opposition —( shouts of laughter )—and ren—so we are told—oven though they wero aware of bis weakness , they treated him with respeot— ( loud obeers and laughter)—and these , too , were his _Immediate friends , the barber and the curate , aad thebaohelor Samson CwraBco—let them be represented by the First Lord of the Treasury , by the Seoretary of State for Foreign Affafrs , and by the President ot tbe Board of Trade ( shouts of laughter . ) Well , sua the hero returned . Tbore was the demure reverenoe and the

      filgned _lotks of sympathy with which his friends greeted lira , broken as he was in spirit , and about for ever to renounce those delightful illusions in wbioh he had so long trimphantly sallied—and everything , though me . lenoholy , was _beeumlng—though aad , was in tbe best taste , when _suddouly we have the wife of Saaoho _Panza _ru'hing forward , and crying , ' Never mind your kicks or your cuff * so long a « you have brought home some money , ' ( Shouts of laughter . ) That was the test of truth , and the _fiasle of the expedition . The C _laacellor of the Excbeqior bas been all the session bringing home barbers' basins inste ad of knightly helmets ; and at the last moment , true to nature his voaation , and his _oarear , he fiads , instead of a surplus , a _deficiency , and instead of reduo _' ng a tax , he commemorates bis sreond year of Usance by contracting a second loan . W . i had had the Government of' all the talents , ' but we might now congratulate ourselvoB on having the

      government ' of all the budgets . ' If , under these _olrcumstanoes , the present session was unproductive for good , tbe Cabinet cosily threw the blame upon tbe cumbrous nature of tbe forms of the house , end the obstructive lrquaoity of its members . He again totally denied that the houso was justly chargeable with obstructing publio business , The delay which hid taken plaoe In connexion with financial business was eatlrely attributable to tbe mismanagement of tbe government , and the protracted la . hours of its unconstitutional committee * . Nor was the bouse to blame for the _tardlnets with whleh the Publio Health Bill had renohed its final stages . Thehistory of tbat bill in both houses cf parliament , was rtplate with curious _incidents and remarkable episodes , and but for tbe ' fine talents and amiable _cbaraotet ' of Lord Morpetb , who had

      charge of it , it would not have _esoaped the multitudinous _peills wkloh threatened It with an untimely fat * . Nor oould anything be more monstrous Or extravagant than to charge the house with the failure of tbe measure for the repeal of the Navigation Laws . Far be It from him to regret or moan over that failure ; but he could not avoid atttlbutlBg It to the wast ef firmness and of _ptaatlcol capacity on tbe part of the government . It should have beea _Introduced at an earlier period ; but was postponed for other measures of far less importance . When at last introduoed , it was pushed boldly for a time , when its after-progress was Interrupted by what he considered one of tbe most remarkable episodes oi the session—the attempt at legislation for the West India Colonies . Having thus Introduoed , in due turn , the Sugar Duties

      Bill , the honourable gentleman , much to the amusement of tbe house , dwelt at _considerable length upon the extraordinary incidents whioh had characterised its passage through the bouse , commencing with the _ofc-rv . _pcated declaration of the Prime Minister that no departure was to take plaoe from the act of 1816 , from which _che bill was in reality , after all , an aotual depBrturo , and ending with tbe' budget of blundtrs , ' tbe oorrectioa of which bad oaused much tlmo to be wasted . The progress of this bill bad been delayed by several obstructive incidents , suoh as tbo third budget of the Chancellor ot the ExabcquT , end the two days discussion which _oo ourredonthe ' missing dlspatob . ' It was to tbiiblll ,

      whieh ultimately passed only in the tblrd shape la which it had been introduoed , that the measure for the repeal of tho Navigation Laws was sacrificed . What ground then , was there for charging the _promsture fate of tha * measure cither to the oouduot of rmmbers , or to I _neonveBlenoes arising from the forms of the house 1 Another subject on whioh much limy had been wasted , wb . _'oh inlghthavebeen aavo * _, had the house at tbe firBt adopted some definite principle of action , was tbe coaduot of the delinquent boroughs , and the measures which were to be taken respecting them . During the session tbere bad been _aedition la Euglaud _, insurrection in Ireland , and rert'lntlen ta Europe , What if tho _Wbigi bad

      Saturday, Auausi 26. House Op Cohmoms .—...

      been in opposition with each a combination ? Considering the magnitude and importance of these events bnt Utile time bad been spent over thsm In the House . How much time would have been spent over thtm had the Whigs occupied other benohes , he left the house to determine . The time of tbe publio , tben , had not been wasted either by the coaduot of members or by the forms of tbe house . ' But' said tha bon . member , ' the time has been wasted , and it now remains for me to tell yea what have been the consequences of that waste , I am new going to read the bills ot mortality of the set

      slonofl 8 s 8 , ( Lvighter . ) Tbe obituary is now almost _complete—bulng drawn up to last Saturday nigbt . This is what tbe country bas lost—forty . st . vcn bills , all upon important _subjeoli , tome upon most important , and many upon interesting subjects . More than two-thirds of these were government measures , and therefore ought not to have been brought forward , unless they (* ere demanded for tbe public weal . I say noihlfur of the Jewish Disabilities Bill or the repeal of tbe Navl . gallon laws—tbey have consecrated monuments of their own . In this list I find :

      Outgoing Tenestf ( Ireland ); . Borough Elections ; Eleotlve Franohlsa and _Rjriitration of _Ecctors ( Ire . land ; Pollleg Places ( Ireland ); Audit of Railway Ao . counts ; Schoolmasters ( Scotland ); Tenants at Will ( Ireland ); Metropolis Polioe ; Agricultural Tenant _, right ; Poor LawUnlon _^ Oaarges ; Qualification of M-. m . bera ; Tithe Rent Caarge , dec . ( Ireland ); Borough Elections , ( _Nj 2 ); _Horthsia Borough j Lunatic Asylums ( Scotland ); Qualification and _Registration of Electors ( _Ireland ); Election and Polling Plaoe ? ( Ireland ); Light Dues ; Sclentifio Societies ; R man Catholic Charitable Trusts ; Roman Catholic Relief ; Sale of Bread ; Highways ; Waste Lands ( Ireland ); Poor Law _Offlotrs Superannuation Allowances ; Landed Property ( Ireland ); _Btkshoute ; Life Policies of Assurance ; Cruelty to An ' _msls Prevention ; Clerks ef tke Peaoe ( Dublin );

      Appeals in Criminal Cases ; Smoke Prohibition ; Remedies against the Hundred ; R ° glstering Births , Ao ., ( Sootland ) ; Marriage ( Sou-land ); Landlord and _Tenant ( Ireland ); Provident Associations Fraud Pre . vmtlen . _Ctaneery Proceedings Regulation ; Charity Trusts Regulation ; Fees ( Court of Chancwy ); Legacies to _Cnaritable Institutions ; Officers of _Courts of Justice ( Ireland ) Assimilation at Appointments ; Poor Removal ( England aad Scotland ); Renewable Leasehold Conversion ( Ireland ); Bills , Having endeavoared to vindicate tke _bouss from the opprobrium of being the oause of what he termed thin great publio calamity ( the waste of time ) , he proceeded to show what he considered to be the reel cause of it , That oause be found there ( pointing to the Ministerial bench . ) I see there a body of « en who acceded to

      power without » _pa-llameatary _najorltv . I think that tbey were justified in accepting offioe _undsr such _oiroumstancea by the exigency of the case — justified by more , by tbe practices of tbe British constitution , ( Hear , hear , ) But though they were , in the first ia . _sianeff _, justified in taking tbat course , tbey are nor , ia my opinion , in _pmlsttag ia it under tha olrcumstanoes ; aad tbeir _parsietanoe in tbat course occasions , it appears to me two results , hoth cf the most serious nature . In tbe first place we have a cabinet which in preparing their measure * , bave no conviction that those measures will be passed , ( Hear , hear . ) After all their delibera . tion—after all their _foresigbs—after all their observations oi the times and their study of the _laterests of tbe country , when their measure is launobed from tbe cabinet to the houso , it Is not-received by a confiding

      majority , confiding from their belief in statesmanlike qualities and from sympathy with the great politioal principles pr . _/ _ftsied by the members of the administration . ( Hear . ) On the oontrary , the success of a _mea . sure when it enters this house depends upon parties whose aggregate exceeds their influence , The temper ef one leader is to be watched — the indications of opinions in another ore to be observed—the propositions ef a third are to be studied , until at last tbe _measaie is so altered , remoulded , remodelled , patched , cobbled , painted , veneered , and varnished , as to bear no _aspeotjof its original farm , intention , or olrcumstanoes— ( cheers ) or in disgust it is withdrawn , after having undergone a prolonged and elaborate _disousslon , and been one great souroe of _tuewoBte of that publio time whioh is not less valueless than the publio treasure . ( Cheers . )

      There is another inoonveBience attending this state of things , whioh Is In my opinion still more grave , although less flagrant . It is that you cannot _expaot from ministers so situated , the matured , finished , and complete measure whicb , underotberoircamstances , we should have a right to _expiat . Men will naturally say , what is she use of taking all these pains , what is the use of all this consideration , what la the ute of all this study or foresight , when the moment the measure is one of our hands it ceases to be the measure of the cabinet , and becomes tbo measure essentially of tbe House of Commons . ( Hear , bear . ) For these reasons measures are thrown before ns with a foregone eonclaiioa tbat we are to Bave the administration mnoh of their care and trouble ia preparing the legislation of tbe country . Thus , instead of being purely a legislative body

      we are evary day becoming more and more aa _administrative assembly . The Heuse of Commons is now oonduoted as a great committee of state on pablio & ff lire , in which every man speaks with the same right , and most of us with the same weight , _Na more do we see the disciplined array , the traditionary influence of hereditary opinion , the realised'experience of anoiont societies Bnd ef races that for generations have lived and flourished in the practice of a high aud _neble _sys . « e n of self-government . ( Cheers . ) Nothing of this _. You are to De _compeesaied in future by other qualities . The conceits of the _illiterate , the orotobets of tbe _whlmsioal , the violent courses of vulgar imposition , tbat acknowledges no gratitude to antiquity , and to p _« s . teritj no service , until at last this free and proud patlla . ment of England is to subside to the low Water-mark of

      tbOBO national assemblies and those provisional _cenvenlions wbich are at tbe same time tbe terror and ridi . oula of the world . Sir , I trace all _thetviW In the disorganisation ef party . I have known honourable gentle _, roin make observatlens to depreciate party government . I am not now going to enter into the disousBion of whether It is good or not ; but tbis I tell yon , and I have told you _before , and it has not been disproved , tbat you cannot ohooaa between party government and parliamentary government , tbat you oanBOt have parliamentary government without party , and that , therefore , when you _denounoe the latter you ore striking ont the olrcumstanoes wbtoh has made this country , and which I _hqpemay keep It , great . The system whleh is now pursued Is a system opposed to those old party cond _» tions that bave hitherto been the spirit and life blood of

      tbe House of Commons . I am uot charging gentlemen opposite with departure from that svirlt . I am charging them with a system of which they may be the unwilling administrators ; bat no less is their responsibility for the _ooRstquonoes . I oan foresee—that whioh I dare not contemplate—what those consequences may be . In my opinion they are very weak words whiob should desoribe them as prejudicial to the realm and perilous to parliament , fatal to that high leve of public life whioh hitherto has been our best security for national grandeur . It is , I fear , more than that , the finis fatorum of the _greatDi-danlauhouse . This I am sure of , that if we persist , the comcqutmooe will be suoh as ho revolution has succeeded ia accomplishing—suoh as no conspirator In those midnight conclaves which you have disturbed hai had tbe audaoity to devise . I know that nothing can long withstand its deleterious influence . It seems to me that the class of publio men whioh bas so long been deemed glorious in pablio affairs will be swept from tbe scene . I protest against this system in the

      eleventh hour , and I call upon the oountry to bread it wl . h indignant reprobation . But , sir , whatover may be those consequences , whatever may be the _forunes ef individuals or the fate of institutions , at least I have had the satisfaction of calling publio attention to this political plague spot . I have had the duty of attempting to place in its true aspect the caiBoof this great national evil ; I have bad more , I have had the consolation of justifying this great astern . Wy , wherein it is my highest _honour to hold & teat , nd of vlndlcsttBg in the face of Eagland the character and conduct of the House of Commons . ' ( The boil member resumed his seat arnld loud cheering . cord John Russell delivered a long speech in reply , defending tbe government from tho imputations ot Mr Disraeli . Mr Hdue then spoke , and was followed in a sarcastic speech by Mr Osbobnb , directed against both Mr Disraeli and the government . After a few words from Mr _Hoososr , the bill was then read a third time and passed .

      At a quarter past four the sitting waa suspended till a quarter past six . . At the latter hour the bouse re-assemb'cd , and went into committee on tae Copper and Lead Duties Bill . The clauses of tbis bill having been agreed to , the house resumed , and after disposing of tbo other orders of the day , adjourned at the unusually early hour of balf . _past nine .

      Dreadful Accident On The Lancaster And I...

      Dreadful Accident on the Lancaster and i Pkeston Railway . —On Monday afternoon the 21 st ult , a collision took place at the Bay Horse station on the Lancaster and Preston Railway , between the express train from London and an ordinary passenger train on its way from Preston to Lancaster , by means of which one woman was killed almost on the spot , and thirteen men and women injured , two of the men beisg ia a very precarious state , and all more or less severely bruised . After a three days' sitting the inquest on the body of Harriet Airey , the female who came b y U « death in the late collision on the Lancaster and Preston

      line , terminated at an advanced hour on Tuesday evening last as far as the evidencj _Was concerned . Among this evidence , that - of Mr Errington , superintendent of the line , _^ _yeut to show tbat the driver of the express train had not the si gnals of danger given hira which be mi ght reasonably expect . Further , that the driver of the express train was a most expert and _trustworthyjman ; and that the accident would not have bees of nearly so

      serious a nature h ? A the last carriage been made of sound wood , Some fragments of the carriage were brought into court , and were of such _rottep wood _aato , crumble when touched . Otber _evidence proved the inefficiency of the signals , especiall y at the Bay-horse station , and the various , complaints which for a length of time past had b ' een made of thia fact . The jury , after two hour . ' / deliberation , being unable to agree on their _YO _^ ict , adjourned its delivery for a vreek ,

      Ireland. Lord John Rcssbll 'S Visit Io I...

      IRELAND . LORD JOHN _RCSSBLL s VISIT IO IRELAND—IHK CROPS . — IHB HATE _PaiSONSBS . [ From our own Correspondent . ) Dublih , _Auotjst 2 d . We are all on the tip-tee of expectancy in Dublin ; Lord John Russell ia coming to look at us , and the probable object of his visit to Ireland , and under such circumstances ; constitutes tbe subject of inquiry amongst all parties . Every brain is on the rack , ewry tongue is on the wag . Some Bay he comes to make arrangements for a periodical sitting of the Imperial Parliament io College-green , and for % periodical sojourn of the Q , aeenand Royal household on Cork Hill . Others aver tbat he wants to see with

      his own * two eyes' our rotten _potatoes , and smell with bis own veritable nosp , tbe effluvia from oar blighted fields ! And furthermore , it is added , that if his _premiership discovers that tbe potatoes are really gone , ' and the wheat-crops really blighted , and the turnip crops really _« missed , ' and the hay reall y ' swept off" by inundations of our irapatient IriBh mountains streams , aud our peasantry rtally in the last stage of social existence , and Ireland really in a fair way of becoming a howlia _* wilderness-then they say , if Lord John finds all _theae things coming to pass , he intends to turn his attention in good earnest to our situation , and seek counsel acd devise the best means of saving ourselves and our country from final destruction . Thia is all

      very fine indeed , but as we Irish say , when we bave good cause to doubt the truth of certain propositions — * we fear the news is too good to be true !' But whether or not , conjeoture as to the object of Mr Ruseeli ' s Irish teur does not end here . It is affirmed in some quarters that bis sole business is to consult with Lord Clarendon and the _Irish government on tbe propriety of granting » general amnesty to all tbe State prisoners ; to pardon those who are already convicted ; to release John Martin from Richmond Penitentiary ; and recall poor Mitchel from Bermuda < Can this be possible ? Can those who think in this manner be serious ? _Whatever may be the special objeot of the Premier ' s visit , it must eventuate for tbe benefit of

      Ireland . ' 'Tie an ill wind tbat blows nobody good ;' and his lordship cannot have a drop of honest blood in his veins , nor a drop of tbe milk of human kindness in his heart , if he does not ; take cognisance of our miseries , and set about earnestly to work for our amelioration . He will see what certainly the most graphic descriptions , the most elaborate statistical evidence , or the most earnest appeals from our intercessors , could never convey to his _imputable conceptions . Talking over thia to a _waggfch friend of mine , an hour or two ago , he suggested the propriety _ofserviag Lord John as the _Munster peasantry were wont to do with excisemen aad revenue officers in days past—that is , to carry away his lordship , vi et amis , to some wild , half desert region of Cork , or Kerry , or Maya ; locate him for a week in one of the rudest mountain huts in the _neighbourhood ; furnish bim with a sop of stinking straw

      or _nalt-decomposed heather , without fheet , blanket , qui't , or pillow to lie on ; give his lordship a spare meal _a-day of _semi-rotten potatoes , relished with what we call a blind herring '—i . e ., a solution of a spoonful of salt in ? o much spring water as joa like —give him this , taking care to _<" . eny him fire , candle-light , and gocd air , and tben Lord John will be pretty fairly ' _insinsed' into the actual condition of the Celtic peasant , and will probably cease to wonder why he Bhould be a ' rebel' in grain , an enemy in heart te tbe Saxon , acd disposed to give a preference to Turk , or Jew , or ' Tom the Devil , 'aaybody rather than a British Prime Minister . But , without advocating the adoption of my ' experimental friend ' s' suggestion , I feel eatisfied thai Lord John Russell ' s visit will be beneficial , and I am happy that h ? has signified his intention of being in Dublin on next Friday or Saturday .

      The acoounts from all parts of this island are still of the most gloomy hue . The potato blight still works insidiously , and it is admitted that , even with favourable harvest weather , the lo _> _s will fce equal to fully fifty per cent , of the entire crop . The wheat , too , is thin , puny , and now commencing to grow in the ear . This crop will be short by at least onefourth , and far below the usual annual average . Barley , bare , oats , and rye , are pretty good , but muoh doubt exists as to whether it can be got safely into the haggard . Turf is represented as getting mouldy and rotten on the banks , and cannot be dried for the winter ' s futl . Turnips will be short by ninety per cent , of tbe breadth sown , whilst tbe hay is badly saved , and most of it lying by the rivers and in low situations , haa been _Bwept away by tbe immense

      floods which arose during the late rainy weather . On tbe whole , the prospects ot the _coustry were never so bad within the memory of any body now living , and if L _3 rd John Russell be not convinced of the paramount necessities of the Irish people ; and if he does not either exert himself for their relief or resign the reigRB of government to some one who will , a curse will fall on himself and his coubciIb , and Britain will lament the day she committed herself into his keeping . The State prisoners in Kilmainham — Smith O'Brien and T . F . Meagher—are ' well . ' Poor C . G . Duffy , who still pines in Newgate , is said to be very low , both in health and spirits . I am told he is deeply involved by the correspondence and letters found in that unlucky _travelliag-bag ef Smith O'Brien .

      It is pretty well ascertained now , that Mr Riobard O'Gorman baa succeeded in escaping the ' spotters , ' and is now , with J . B _. Dillon , Franois Morgan , and others , respiring beneath the sunny skies ot Franoe . Tbere is no authentic account of Thomas _D'Aroy M'Gee , of the Nation , or Thomas Devin Reilly , of the F * u > 2 * . James F . Lalor , is still in Newgate , in a very dangerous state of health .

      ARREST OF MR _M'MANUS . ( From the correspondent of ths Morning Herald ) Dcbus , Friday . —On Wednesday , head-constable Crowley arrested _M'Manus , of Liverpool , on a charge of treason , at Cork . He also arrested a young man named Daniel Corcoran , who bad been a clerk in the establishment of Messrs Lyons , of Cork , on a oharge ef aiding the escape of T . B . M Manns . These arrests were made on board the N . D . Chase , au American vessel . Th ) prisoners were examined on Thursday morr . in _? , before Mr A . F . Roche , J . P . Orders were given for the appearance of Captain White , of the Chase , and the two gentlemen were then removed from the court hand-cuffed , and consigned to the city gaol . Previous te being removed , Mr , M'Manu 8 , who is a most gentlemanly person in appearanoe and addreBs , thanked those gentlemen who bad shown him any kindness , and said , he did not regret any act he had done , but would cheerfully go through it again .

      THE SPSCUL COMMISSION . Yesterday the special commission for Tipperary was fired to be held at Nenagh on the 19 th September , and at Limerick on the 2 nd October- The judges to preside are Mr Blackburne _, Chief Justice of the Queen ' s Bench ; and Mr Doherty , Chief Justice of tbe Common Pleas .

      Supposed Child Murder.—Before Mr Bedford...

      Supposed Child Murder . —Before Mr Bedford , at the _Malpas Arms , Charles-street , _Grosvenorsquare , on the body of a male child . J . Haeker , 104 C , stated that on Saturday night last he found a parcel lying on the steps of the house , 60 , Green-street , Leicester-square , which , on being opened , was discovered to contain the body of a male child . The covering was a piece of paper and an apron , and it was taken to St George ' s workhouse . Mr Symes , surgeon , examined the body , which was that of a full grown child ; and , upon opening it , found the lungs fully expanded , and the vessels of the head and heart gorged with blood- He was of

      opinion the child had been bom alive , and that strangulation was the cause of death , but in whe _& way he could not decide . The Jury returned & verdict tbat the _deceased died from suffocation _,, but how caused they had no evidence to show .- ** Yesterday Mr Bedford received _information o & thft finding of two ether bodies of children , which , ar _* supposed to have been made away with . The MuBD _& a at _Ashton—At the _adjourned inquest on Bri ght , the murdered policeman _aeld oa Tuesday , no farther evidence was presented . The authorities are in possession , of information , which

      it was _st & Aed would ba injurious to , the ends of E justice at present ta make known . The coroner : stated _that the jury might either relurn a verdict t and close the _investigation , or they might again l _adjousaand afford time for farther investigation . . _Thu jury retired , and in a few minutes returned and 1 gwe in a verdict of Wilful murder against some e person or persons unknown . ' They also stated their ir conviction that the murder had been committed by y two parties , one having fired the gun , and the other _: r having used a pike .

      Loss of A Steamer and Sloop . —We learn : _u frora a notice posted in the Exchange-room , that at tbe Prince of Wales steamer , from Belfast to Fleet , it . wood , on Sunday morning , at an early hour ( about ut two o ' clook , a . m . ) , came into collision with tha bo sloop Jane , of this port . The sloop was _ladeu with th flour and sugar , and it is a complete wreck , hut her ier crew have been fortunately saved . Misfortunes tea never come singly . The steamer herself , at a later ter hour , was on shore , near te the Point of _Ayrepre lighthouse , with the loss of the second mate andnd two hands . —Livopool Albion .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 2, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02091848/page/8/