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      India. By The Arrival Of The Overland Ma...

      INDIA . By the arrival of the Overland Mail from India , sue learn several failures have taken place , and the commercial news is generally gloomy . In ( _Joorasoor the insurgents were increasing , and a force of three native regiments was about to march against thera . but the difficulties efthe country render success verT _dnnhtfnl .

      FRANCE . M . Saczefc has been re-elected to the presidency of the Chambers , and all the ministerial candidates to the secondary oSces . The business of the Chamber cf Deputies commenced on Monday . The bills for the reform of the postage system and the reduction Of the duty an salt were brought iu . The Reform Banquets are going on . The governaent has dismissed Professor Berard , dean of the faculty of medicine , for having written aletter to the conductors of a Reform Banquet , approving of the movement . The Princess Adelaide d'Orleans , sister of King Louis-Philippe , died at tha _Tuilleries on Friday morning , she was born on the 23 rd of August , 1777 , and _T _? a 3 therefore in her seventy-first year .

      SCSBESDER OF ABD-EL KADXB . Abd-el-Kader has surrendered to the Duke of Auaale , on condition that ha sheuld be sent to _Alexandria or St Jean d'Acre . It appears , however from an extract of a French correspondence published under the directions ot the government , that there is some donbt if the Cabinet will ratify this condition , so that it is possible that , in spite of this condition , Abd-el-Kader may be retained a prisoner in France . It appears that Abd-el-rlader , having surrendered on the 21 st , was _shinped off from Oran for Toulon on the 24 th , on board the Asmodee steamer , along with mnety-two persona who form his suite . The illustrious Emir wa 3 overpowered—not beaten . His last the

      _« _-as , perhaps , most brilliant of all his _achievements . With a handful of faithful and devoted adlierents , he ia the night of the 11 th and 12 th _ult . _attacked the Moorish _campa and routed the immense array they contained , but , overpowered by numbers , and hemmed in on all sides by hourly increasing Classes of Moors , he was gradually pushed back on Sie frontier of Algeria . The weather had been frightful , which impeded military operations . On the 21 st of December the fords of " the Moulonia be-• eame practicable , and the baggage and the families Of his brave companions proceeded _towards the slain of Triffa , t 6 _e resolve of Abd-el-Kader baring been to see them in safety in the French territory , and then cut his way through the Moors with such ef his adherents as should dare to follow hira . * He

      threw himself into the country of the Beni-Snassur , ' Bays the Duke d'Aumale , ' and sought to again take the road to the south , which the Emperor of Moroccohad left free ; but , surrounded on that side by our cavalry , ke trusted to the generosity of Franee aad surrendered , on condition of being sent to St Jean a ' _Acre or Alexandria . '

      SPAIN . There have been certain changes in the existing Cabinet , which is supposed to be on its last legs . The _Mossikg Post broadly insinuates that Queen _Isabellas suffering from the effects of slow poison ; and again that she is about to abdicate . It is more fean hinted that a certain old gentleman at the _Tuillieries is responsible , both for the Queen ' s illhealth and her contemplated abdication .

      SWITZERLAND . The activity of the agents of Austria in eicitins ihe Catholics of the Grisonsand Tessin to renewihe -straggle is so glaring , that it is plainly exposing Switzerland to another civil war to disband the annv while these machinations are continued . ITALY . The accounts which we receive from Rome leave no doubt of the faotof the Pontifical government having assumed a system of government Tery _different from that proclaimed by his Holiness on his _ac--Gession .

      On the 23 rd December , at eight o ' clock in the mornine , the _Austriana vacated all the posts in the _^ ity of Ferrara , and withdrew into the citadel and the barracks of St Domenico and St Benedetto . "Some of the Italian papers state that the evacuation Of the City of Ferrara by the Austrians was complied with on condition that the Pops _shonld put a stop to the Liberal movement in his dominions . Austrian troop 3 have taken possession of the duchies of Parma and Modena . Large masses of Austrian troops are advancing to the Italian frontier . Ths King of Sardinia has written to his Holiness the Pope , desiring him to recall the Jesuits from bis states .

      Letters from Naples , _tof the 23 rd nit ., state that the eeneral in command of tha Swiss troops in the _uervice of ihe King of Naples has written to his _Majtsty , stating that he and the troops under his command are ready and willing to keep faithful to the oath which they took on entering the service , to sp ill their blood , or lay down their lives in defence of his Majesty _against foreign enemies , but that ihey will cot fight on bis side against hisovrn subjects .

      GREECE AND TURKEY . The difference between the governments of these countries has been adjusted .

      UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . The President's Message will be _foand in another _colnmB . General Taylor broke np his encampment at Walnut Springs , near Monterey , o n t he m or n ing of theSthof November , and with his staff , and General Wool and staff , returned homeward . On the 17 th of _November there arrived at Vera _Crur . from the city of Mexico ( under charge of General Harney ) a train of 600 waggons , with a quantity of specie , and 1 . 500 men , sick and wounded ; amongst the latter was General Shields , who had distinguished himselt so much in the late battles near Mexico .

      The road from Mexico presents a most complete scene of waste and desolation . At tha approach of an enemy the inhabitants of the small villages abandon their houses and run to conceal themselves in the woods . Nearly all the churches have been turned into hospitals or stables for the troops , and the bells of all the churches at Guanajuata have been _^ rolled down for the purpose of casting pieces of _^ artillery .

      'Totalloss Of Her Majesty's Steamer Aven...

      'TOTALLOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER AVENGE 11 . The Pacha , which took out the Indian mail in . stead of ths Erin , _hst returned from Malta . She brings news of the total loss of her Majesty ' s steam frigate Avenger on the Cerilla rocks , on the 20 th of December . Three officers , a surgeon , and five of the Crew only are saved . The Avenger is a steanier of the first class , of 1 . 444 tons and 650 _howr-power . She was built by Sic W . Symons at Devonport in 1845 , and was put into commission for the Mediterranean station on the 20 th of last _Novesber . We Bubjoinalistof her officers : Captain C . B . Napier ( . SOU of the admiral ); Lieutenants Hngh _^ M . Kinsman Frederick Marrvsfc ( son of Captain Marryat ) ., Francis _R-wke ; Ma 3 ter _, William Archer ; Second Lieutenant of Marine Artillery II . S . Bavnev , Surgeon James H . _Steele ; Paymaster and Purser Vaientine A . _Haile ; _Assistant _Snrgeoa Bernard Dekny ; Second Master William Betts ; Clerk Henry JSWalker

      .. . _ . „ , „ , . Further _Pakticolabs . — The Pacha , Captain Olive , hasju 3 t arrived . She left Southampton , on the 9 th , with the Indian mail in lieu of the Erin , ¦ which received damage _during the late dreadful sale , and was obliged t » return . The Pacha reached Gibraltar on the 17 th December , and left again the same evenin * for Malta . _H . M . ' s steam frigate Avenger left Gibralter five hoars before her . On the 20 : b , the Avenger was seen from the masthead ef the Pacha . Thi 8 wasat 2 p . m . The Pacha arrived at Malta on the 22 ad , and left on the 24 th for England . On the evening of the 25 th , she was signalled by a French man-of-war named the Lavoisier , aud Captain Olive was informed by the French captain that th ? Avenger Was wrecked on the evening of the 20 : h , on some sunken rocks known as the Cerilla Rocks , about thirteen miles from the Island of _* l <» _iof-nnrl which must have happened within a mast

      , few hours after she had been seen from the _Sd _\ The Pacha . The Pacha _^ _M *»« £ _panied the French man-of-war to the _« ne ° tQe wreck , and picked up _portionsof it , which She now has on board It appears all on board the Avenger perished , except three officers , the _surgeon , and fave of the crew , wh * escaped in a boat to Turns It was at Tunis that the French man-of-war heard ot tne _SSiSnd from whence she immediately went _™ to render assistance , and while attempting it met with the Path * .

      More Announcements Of Deaths (Paid For) ...

      More announcements of deaths ( paid for ) have _append ™ _^ e obituary of the Times during the last few days , than for many years past _Exktmvb Cos _flagratioss . —A number oi _owei . Img-hou _^ and a large Independent chapel have been barned to the ground near A _ianmter . Lord Clarendon ' s agricultural _J . cl _»^ . _™ 5 b r _* ° _generally received with favour in the districts o « ireland to whieh they have been Bent . ,. _gSmhu E 5 ? iIE * o , Duke de la Victoria , left London , on Thursday , December 30 th , on h ia return _^ The Papal government has constituted the Diario df _SSIcialionrnal which wiU be conducted by editors appointed by the secretary ef _£ _»»• _Misstated to have become much more difficult to obtain recruits for tbe army since the standard of height has beenraised half _ant inch .

      Ult paF e _« froma . United States , b , rthe _Bntan-Bin , announce the death , at the age of 85 , of Chancellor Kent , the celebrated American jurist . working in the neighbourhood of Sheffield , has _toirtoen wives now living , in various parts of the _^ _ffinflaenzaisnoivextKEely . _prevalenfcin Algeria ad on the northern coast of Africa .

      France, Tax • Satisfied'hijoaitt-Omzot' ...

      FRANCE _, tax satisfied ' _HiJoaiTT-omzot _' s bchehe or be TO **— QUEER NOTIONS OF H . GASSIER _PACEB-DE HOCBATIC BAKO . UET AT CHALON—SPEECH OF H . IE DRC-aOI £ lH _ A _DEKOCKATIC _CONGEESS—SFEECH OS V _FtOSOK—THE ' _KEf-OBHB' AHD THB ' _HATlOltAL '

      ( From our ParU Correspondent . ) Ths French Chambers are now open , and we shall very soon have the pleasure of seeing what effect the Reform agitation has had upen the 225 « _sati . fied'mem . hers of the majority . Tfe shall see whether they will be satisfied , too , with the _rammer in which Guizot has exposed France in the SwUb q _« _estion to the ridicule of all Europe . Why , this fat , corrupting and corrupted , stock-jobbing , swindling , _hloodsncking , and cowardly majority , are the very men to swallow down even tbatto say ' amen' to the trick which Palmers ton , in return for the Spanish marriages , played on his worthy col . league _Guizot—to declare that never was France so great , so glorious , so respected , so ' _Batisfisd '—as at this very moment .

      Aad it ig at tfcU very moment that all the papers of Paris , from the Debats to tho _BEFOBHf , discuss , as openly as can he done under the circumstances , the eventuality consequent upon the death of Louis-Philippe . The Debats , afraid of seeing tbe majority » plit itself np , warns them every day that this inevitable event , whenever it takes place , will be the signal for the general rendezvous of all political parties ; that > republican _, ism , ' communism , ' ' anarchism , ' 'terrori « m , ' aBd so forth , will then break from their subterraneous ca . verns to spread desolation , horror , and destruction ; that France will be lost—liberty , safety , , property will be

      lost , unless the friends of order ( M . _Guizotand Co ., of course ) keep them down with a strong hand ; that this perilous moment may occur any day ; and teat , if M . Guizot is not _supported ia office , all will be lost . The other papers , the Peessb , the Constjtdtjonhel , the Siecle , on tha contrary . 6 ay that quite the reverse will take place , that all the horrors of a Woody revolution will overrun the coantry , unless that abominable corrupter , Guizot , shall , at the moment of the _kind ' s death , have been replaced by their respective political _h-roes _. by M . de _^ Girardin _. M . . , Thiers , orM . O . Birrot . The Radical papers discuss the question from another point of view , as we shall see by and by .

      Thus , even the Debats agrees indirectly that « satis _, fied' Franca only awaits the proper monwnt for proving her dissatisfaction , in a manner which the frightened bourgeois imagination of the Debats depicts most ludicrously to its terrified reason . This , however , does not matter to the * satisfied * two hundred and twenty . five . They _har-a a _lajjic of their own . If the people are satisfied , then there is no reason for a change of system . If they are dissatisfied , why , then , their very _dissatisfaction is a reason to stick more to the system ; for if only one inch was abandoned , there would be a sudden eruption of all the horrors of revolution . Do whatever you like , these bourgeois will always draw the conclusion from it that they are the best rulers of tha country .

      Nevertheless , Guizot will give a small bit of reform . He will add to the electoral liet the _capacities' that is , all persons possessing a university _4 sgrse , lawyers , doctors , and other such humbugs . A glorious reform , indeed ! But this will suffice to disarm the' Progressive Conservatives / or , as they call themselves now—for , In want of something else to do , they change names every quarter—the Conservative opposition . And it will he a ready stroke for M , Thiers , who , while sending his second , M . _Daver . ' ier de Hacranne _, on a Reform banqaetting . errand , slily prepared his reform-plaa , with which he was to surprise the Chambers , and which was equally the same as the one now to be proposed by his rival . Gairot .

      There will be a deal of cryiBg , shooting , and noisemakine generally in the Chambers ; but I hardly think U . Gaiist has anything serious to apprehend from his faithful two hundred and twenty-five . So much for tbe official world . In the meantime tbe Befortn banquets and the polemic hstween theHAxion _* i . and the Befokhk have continued , Tbe allied oppositions , that is the left centra _( M . Thiers ' s party ) , tbe left ( M . Odillon Barrot _' _apartj ) . and the ' sensible Radicals ' ( tbe Na ? i » nal ) , had the banquets of Csstres . _Montpallitr . _Neabaurer . and others ; the ultra-Democr & _ts ( the Refoeme ) , bad the banquet af Clialon . Tbe chief speaker of the banquets of _Montpellier and Neubourg was M . G » rnier-Pages , brother of the well-known democrat of that name , deceased a few years sgo . But M .

      _Garaler-Pag-s , the younger , is far from btiae like hit brother ; he totally lacks that energy , that courage and never compromising spirit which secured go prominent a position to the deceased leader of French Democracy . AtN * ubonrg , M . Sarnier . Pages , tho younger , came nut with assertions proving him to be 'entirely ignorant of tha actual state ot society , and consequently of the means of improving it . While all modern democracy is based upon the great fact , that modern society is irreparably divided into two classes—the bourgeoisie , or possessors of all means of _production and all produce , and the proletarians , or possessors of nothing but their labour to lire upon ; that the latter class is socially and politically oppressed by the formtr ; while the acknowledged tendeney of modern Democrats iu all countries ia

      to make political power pass from tbe middle classes to the working classes , these latter constituting theim . mense majority of the people—in the face of all these fact " , H , _Gsrnier boldly asserts that the division of the people into middle classes and working classes does So reality not exist , that it is a mischievous invention of M . Guizit ' _s got np to divide the people ; that in apite of Guizot be recognises that all Frenchmen are equal—that they all participate of the same life , and that he recog . niseBin Frasce none but French citizens I According to M . _Garnier-Pages , then , the monopolising of all Instruments of productions in the hands of the bourgeoisie , which abandons the proletarians to the tender mercieg of the economical law of wages , reducing tbe share of the workinsr men to the lowest level of f-K > d , i 9 an Invention of M . Guizot _' g too ! According to him , the whole of that desperate struggle now going on ia all civilised countries of the world , between Labour and Capital , a struggle the different phases of which are marked by

      coalitions , trades uuionB , iaurde » , riots , and bloody insurrections—a struggle _whosa reality is testified by the death of the proletarians shot at Lyons , at Preston , at Langenhielan , at Prague , this struggle has been carried oa npon no better grounds than a lying assertion of a French professor I What else do the words af Sf . Garnier-Pages mean bat this ? ' Let the capitalists continue to monopoliBe all powers of production—let the working men continue to live upon the merest pittance , hat gire him , as _s compensation for his _suffering , the title of a citizen 1 * Ay , M . Pages would under certain circumstances , and with certain restrictions , perhaps , consent to give the people the _suffrage ; but let them _never think of profiting by the gift by passing measures which would essentially alter the actual mode of production and dis . tribotion ef wealth—which would , in course of time , give to the entire people the command of the productive powers ef the country , and do away with all individual ' employers ' . ' The Refoshe was perfectly rightin styling this honourable gentleman a bourgeois radical .

      Tha Ultra Democrats had , as I said before , only oae _hanquet , but it was a bumper , and worth a dozen of the coalition party . More than two thousand _citisens sat down to dinner at _Cna'on-sur-Ssone _, The _Uatio » a _£ had been invited , but very significantly had not come . The men of the Reforms , accordingly , had it all their own way . M . _Ledru-Rollin , who had been designated by the National as the chief of the ultra-democratic party , here accepted tbis position . He explained bis position and the position of his party , by relating in a brilliant abstract , the different phases of French democracy since 1789 . Ha then justified himself against the attacks of the National , attacked that paper in turn , and proposed a jary of de mocrats to be nominated from all parts of Franee—one-balf by either par « y—to decide between the

      _RiFoixE and the National . And now ( he said ) , after having settled this home affair , would it not ba a good thing if the French democracy entered into relation with the other democracies ! There is at this moment a . great movement going on in Europe amongst all the disinherited , who suffer by heart or hy hanger . This is the momeat to console them , to strengthen tbem , and to enter into communion with them . Let us , then , hold a congress of Democrats of all nations , now , when the _congres _. of _kiags has failed ! There i . one republic in Europe , which just now has secured in Its own territory the ascendaney of democracy—there is Switzerland , a country worthy of seeing the Democrats of all nations upon its free soil ! And thus , citixens , let me conclude by coupling to my toast : « To the Unity of tke French Revolution , ' that other one The Union of all

      Demo-, oracieB , ' This speech excited loud applause , and it merited It , We heartily rejoice in M . _Ledru-Rollin ' _s oratorhl success at _Chalon , but at the same time , must protest _agaiust an unguarded expression , which , we are sure , has been said without intention to hurt , M . LedruKoIlin says , tbat the moment has arrived for French Democrats to console and to strengthen the suffering working men of other nations . The Democrats af no eotmtrg , we are sure , want consolation from whomsoever it be . They admire the revolutionary pride of French Democrats , but they take for themselves the right to be quite as proud and independent , The four millions of _English Chartists certainly ara strong enough to do tbeir own work for themselves . GIsd as we are to gee the French

      democracy take up with enthusiasm the idea of a Democratic Congress , and aa alliance of all democracies , we expect , before all things , a perfect reciprocity , and equality . Any alliance , whieh should not recognise tbis equality ' as its foundation , would itself be anti-democratic . We know however , too well tke profoundly democratic sentiments of tbe men of the Rbfobme to doubt of their _perfectly agreeing with us ; we only wish them to drop , forthe interest Of our common cause certain expressions , which far from _expresiing- their real sentiments , are an inheritance { from the time when the *« n > _wr . alone represented the French Democracy . tte tout _'

      At the same banquet , M . FIocon _apoke to _* - ¦ _TbeRl _B btt of Man and of the Citizen . ' He read be _dlcLratL of right . Of tbe _NatiOBM C _Mon which no declared to be , np to _thit day , the ' _^ " _^ f _^ true Democratic principles . To this , what he called the ue irench principle , he opposed _^ _" _^ _^ moneyocracy , which places man opOB a low . r levelMBiim than he gives in nature when bi . labour U not _rea _ _uin fl . This system , from t he country in which it first . rose , he _ealtei the English _system . Bu _* lo , he « M _^ irfclle the _EngUsh principle it introduced into the fatherlandof the revolution , the _EngtlBh people themselves . trn . JJ throw its yoke off their _iboHMnrf _. and write upon _tneis

      France, Tax • Satisfied'hijoaitt-Omzot' ...

      eaunefrthe glorious " _rnoftoS _^ Liberry ' , _EquolityrFtV ' ternity 1 ' Thus , by one of those painful turns , of which history offers raore than ana example , the very nation which first gave truth to the world , fallen back into _darkuess and ignorance , would soon be obliged to ask from its neighbours the revolutionery traditions which itself could , nstconserve . Shall it ever come thus far with " us ! No , never , as long as there are Democrats like you ; and meetings like this ! No , we never will prop up the worm . eaten frame of those English institutieas , which the English themselves will no longer support ! ( No no !) Well then , to your tents , O Israel ! Every

      one of you rally round his standard ! Every one for his faith I Here , on our side , Democracy with her twenty _, five millions of proletarians to free , whom she greets with the names of citizens , brothers , equal and free men ; there the _bastard-opposition , with her monopolies and aristocrncy of capital I They speak of reducing the quolification by one half ; we . we proclaim tha rights of man and of the citizen ! ( Loud and long-continued applause , which ended fey the whole meeting singing the Chant du X > epart . ) We regret not to have room for giving more of the speec hes delivered at this splendid and thoroughly Democratic banquet _.

      At last , the Refohme has forced the _HAxrowAr , to enttr into a _polemic . The former journal , in decla . ring its adhesion to the principles announced by M _. _Garnisr-Pages , at the Montp * lUer banquet , is a speech on the French revolution at the same time disputed the right of men , like M . Garn _ler , who had _aaorificed tbe interests of Democracy to 'M . OHlloaBarrot and the _middle-clasa opposition , to ac * as the representatives of the principles of the Revolutio n . ThiB , at last , brought out a reply from the NATioNiti in which Ledru-Rollin in his turn was attacked . The principal points ofaccusation against the NATtoNAt _' were : lst Its support of the bastiles around Paris , by which the inheritance of the revolution was placed under the control of twelve hundred pieces of cannon . 2 nd . Its "Hence last year , upon a pamphlet of M . Carnoi , in whie he engaged the Democrats to join the Left Centre and the Left , to g : t them into office as soon as possible , to drop for the moment the Republican principle , and to sgitate for an extension

      of the Suffrage within the limits of the Charter . M . Garnisr Pages , the younger , had aboht the same time an . nounced similar principles ; the pamphlet declared itself to be the expression of tho opinion not of an individual , but of a party in the Chamber . The _Rbvobme attacked both M . Gsrnier's speech and M . Carnot ' s , { son of the celebrated member of the Convention and Republican minister of war , ) pamphlet , and tried to provoke' the Natiomai to a declaration . But the NaTiosAtreraained silent . The _Refobhs rightly declared that the policy proposed by both deputies would tend to nothing but to place tha Democratic party wholly under the control of M . M . Thiers and Barrot , and break it up entirely as a distinct party , 3 rd . The National following up in practice dnrirg the Reform hanquet agitation , tbe policy proposed by M . Carnot . 4 th . Its virulent and calumniating attacks upon the Communists , while pro . posing : at the same time no practicable or effective remedy for the misery of the working people .

      The dispute has been going on for a week at least . At last the National retired from the contest , after having conducted it in a very improper manner . It has been regularly beaten _; but , in order to ma « k its de . feat , it finally accepted M . Ledru ' s proposal ef a Democratic jury _. We can joaly declare our fall adhesion to the part the _RrroBMihas taken in this _affair . _Ithas saved the honour , independence , and the strength of FreBch Democracy as a distinct party , tt has maintained the principles ef the Revolution , which were endangered by the course

      pursued by the National . It has asserted the rights of the working classes in opposition to middle-class encroachments . It has unmasked these bmtrqeois radicals—who would make the people belteva that no class oppression exists—who will not see the frightful civil war of class against class in modern society , —and who have nothing but vain words for tbe working people . The _RzroBXS by keeping up this contest , until it ha 9 succeeded in forcing Its naughty rival to break _silence , to wave , to retract , to explain , and at last to withdraw , —the RHFOBKE _. we gay , has well merited of Democracy .

      Democracy And The Rights Of Labour . Pub...

      DEMOCRACY AND THE RIGHTS OF LABOUR . PUBLIC MEETING IN EDINBURGH . A pablie meeting of the working . _classta of Edinburgh was held in Adam Square Hall , on the evening of Wednesday week , for the purpose of adopting energetic measures to brinjr out tbe Wkeli Express newspaper , on tbe broad basis of genuine _demooracy . Mr Jahz 8 Cchming was called to the chair . Mr John Grant then ros _? and addressed tho meeting . He called attention to the notice in the _Esprebs of last Saturday , announcing the intention of the proprietors to discentinue the _publication of that journal , and stated that a number ef the most influential democrats of Edinburgh had . entered into arrangements with Messrs Harthill to produce the paper en their own account , starting itat . once on the principles embodied in the People ' s

      Charter . He stated , likewise , that the reading-room , in 279 , Hh , 'h . Btreet , had been secured , where the _E'Mess would in future be _pu'liBhed , and would afford facilities for supplying the public with every paper of the day . Tbe responsibilities of tbe parties being extremel y heavy , Mr Grant impressed upon the meeting the necessity of every effort being made to secure a wide and extensive circulation for an organ tbat would truly ' represent the wants and wishes not only of the working population of _Edinburgh , but of every part of the United Kingdom . The new proprietors of the Express were fortunate in _sscuring the services of a well-known , talented , snd able advocate of the tights of the people , and had every pros _, pect of making a hold and _fira stand in defence of genuine democratic principles , Tbe speaker concluded amidst great appl . _iuse .

      Mr Alex . _Gbaht then very briefly addressed the meeting _, af er which Dr Alex . _Huntbb , F . R . C . S . E _., came forward , and was received with tbe most enthusiastic applause . The honoured gentleman entered boldly and eloquently into the question of the rights of labour . He considered the working classes as the true and genuine base of the social fabric , snd the aristocracy as merely the _api-x . The apes could not exist without the base , aad hence , according to 'first principles' , ' the _working and

      roilingmillions were the only real wealth and genuine _aupport of a nation ' s prosperity and happiness . The Wieklt Expbess was brought forward to ennnciate and enforce this doctrine . It waa to be , In truth , the child of the NoETHEB ! f Stab , the only journal , in fact , that truly and properly reflected tbe perfect embodiment of genuine democratic principles . The doctor then _enlarged upon the grievances of Ireland , and contended for repeal of the union as a matt * r of right and _just'ee , aad concluded a brilliant and eloquent address of an hour ' s duration amidst loud and prolonged cheering .

      Mr John Cockbobn said that the spirited efforts of the gentlemen who had come forward in support of the _Expexss deserved the highest encomiums , and begged to move that the thanks of the _tnteting be recorded to them for thtir spirited and praiseworthy _undertaking . Mr Cdthbebtson , baker , seconded the motion . All _parties bad their particular organs and exponents . The High Church party were represented ; the Free Kirk had their organ ; and the Excise traders had made a bold and successful tfFort to be heard . But the mo » t important portion of the community—the labouring classes—were completely unrepresented and misrepresented . They were _entirelj at tbe mercy of every journal whetbertheir

      voice should ba heard or not ; and until the Expbess was _gtartf ( J , there was no channel through which the sentiments _oftho working classes could be conveyed to tbe public . With regard to the pause of the journeymen bakers of Edinburgh , he gratefully acknowledged the in . calculable service which had been rendered them by the WeiKLT EXPSESS ; and in everj part of Scotland where he had been as the delegate of the Bakers' Union , thai paper was received with the utmost enthusiasm . Mr Cuthbeitsm concluded an energetic and eloquent speech by hoping that the Weeklt Expbbbs would meet that support it merited , and resnmed his seat amidst general npplame .

      Dr Htjsteb , on his swn behalf , and on _bBhalf of the other gentlemen who co-operated with him in undertak . ing the heavy responsibilities connected with the Expanse _, returned thanks in a speech replete with cordial good humour and sound democratie principles . A number of gentlemen then came forward and _rocis . tared _themieives as subscribers for tho _Wjeklt Ex . _pbess ; and after a vote of thanks to the chairman , the meeting separated _^

      Woolwich.—An Oppicer Stabbed Bt A Obkirt...

      Woolwich . —An OpPICER STABBED BT A OBKIRTi —A very lamentable casualty occurred at Woolwich , in connexion with the death of the late Colonel Peebles , of the Royal Marines , who expired on Monday morning . It appears that at tho moment when Colonel Peebles waR suddenly seized with tatal illness , hiBBon , an officer in one of the regiments of the line , who was home on a visit to his parents , rushed out of the house in a state of great excitement to procure immediate medical assistance for his father . On passing hastily out of the gate of the Koya ! Marine _Barracks , he was challenged by the _, _£ ntrr L i . 5 n _^ l exoitement md no heed to the challenge , but passed on through the gate . The sentry imagining it waa some soldier who wanted to get out of the barracks , struck at him with his bayonet , which pierced the back of Mr Peebles' neck _, inflicting a very serious wound , the consequences of which will ba doubtful for some time . ¦

      - . Rochester —At the Rochester Quarter Sessions on Saturday last , held before J . Espinasse , Esq . R e c order , among the prisoners for trial was one Edward Darling , an agricultural labourer , twenty yea rs o f age , charged with stealing a drake , value 2 s ., the property of George Harris , ef Finsbu _^ _, of which he was found guilty , and proof _having been adduced of two former convictions , the learned Recorder . told the prisoner that he considered him a far too dangerous person to be suffered to remain in this country , and sentenced him to ten years' transportation . On the sentence being pronounced the prisoner uttered aloud cry aad fell _heaviiy on the floor ; and at the _eamemonient aloud cry was heard frbra another part of the court , from a widowed mother , who excla'med in an agony of despair , ' Oh ! my boy , my boy , ' and in this state both mother and sen were carried ont of

      Some idea may be formed of Ihe style in which the Turkish Sultan confers gifts , whe _^ n it is known that he is said to have lately , giten the Grand Seraskier £ 30 , 000 , merely as a slight mark of his _gutUfeetioB .

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      The Whistler's Wnistle. To The Editor Of...

      THE WHISTLER'S WniSTLE . TO THE EDITOR OF THE _NOBTHEBH STAB . SlB _, --Sb < rald yeu think tho following w orthy of space in your valuable paper , I shall bo very much obliged _. It will be fresh In the momory of the readers of _tl-e Stab and tbe readers of the _MahchestbbExamineb too , that the excuse the ' Whistler'made for not meeting Mr O'Connor in public discussion in Manchester was , * hie wantof _el-quenee . ' Now mark , the ' Whistler' has just concluded a courso of lectv > Tes on ' Ireland -, ' and has announced another courso on the ' French _Invasion . ' I may bore remark , in addition to tho title of * Whistler , ' he has ' added an & ther , viz : — 'One who has handled a musket , ' I _thir-. k it would have been more euphonious If he had called himself' One who has

      handled a musket to murder his fellow man . ' The fact of his haviBg delivered a course of lectures , and being about to commence another , ; _proves that he has sufficient eloquence to address a public audienco , when pounds , shillings , and pence , are to ba pocketed . The ' Whistler , ' having found his eloquent tongue by delivering tho above diseourBes , has given a stimulant to tho National Land Company ; in Manchester _upwards of one hundred and fifty members » ere enrolled last week . The National Land and Labour Bank has made _ovon greater progress in Manchester than the Land Company , as the following facts will testify : — £ . b . d . Dec . 6 th Depos _' . _tafor Manchester 11 0 0 Bo 13 th 23 15 0 Do 20 'h 02 - 18 6 Do 27 th 107 8 C

      £ 205 2 C The above sums have been transmitted by me on be . half of tbe dcpoBitora . The above facts prove that the National L » nd and Labour Bank in Manchester gains confidence ; and that tho shnr ? holdera ot the National Land Company in Manchester are determined to support tho Lind and _Labour Bink in the cairns way that they have supported tho Land Company . Let the Land mew . berB in other towns nnd _village do likewise , and by this means they will do more towards convincing trades ' unions , sick clubs , and _veerat _ordrrs , of the stability of thetand and Labour Bank than all the lectures delivered in the kingdom oan do . I am , sir , yourobedient servant , J . L . Alcock , Deputy to the depositors of the Land and Labour Bank . Manchester District .

      P . S _. —On Wednesday , _December 29 th , 18 H . we enrolled fifty-two now members _; on Thursday , December 30 th , forty . _six _; on _Frilay , _eighty-two ; making a total in three successive nights of on « hundred and eighty new members . The National Lund and Labour Bank i * the great topic of the daT in Manchester . The first week in 1848 has witnessed more than tha whole _doposits for December ( for the _Manchestrr branch ) . The amount for this week is £ 381 . 15 s . Now I think the abovo _ficts are serious considerations for ! . Tosh . ' I hope I may bo allowed to present tbem . as a How Year ' gift , t » the firm of the' Whistler , ' 'Josh . ' and Co . 3 . L . _Alcocr .

      The National Petition. To The Tcitob Of ...

      THE NATIONAL PETITION . TO THE tCITOB OF TnE MOBTHEBN STAB . Sin , —Will you allow me to address n few line * to the Chartist public . I have been nine years a _subscriber to your honest and noble Stab , and likewise a close oi stiver for more than twelve years of the public conduct of its really brave and honest propriptor ; and most happy am I , with thousands more , to bear witness , that neither paper nor proprietor has ever gone from tbe path of- Justice . Did Mr O'Connor ever _betray us I No ! Then wby sheuld we betray him * we do'betrny him , for wo are too negligent of tho cause we profess to admira and straggle for . There hivo _' been many suggestions thrown out with reBpect to the ' National petition , for the best way to obtain signatures . Now , my plan Is not a new one , but I will tell you with what _succbsb it

      has been tried in a government place where Chartism was never heard of _exci-pt by the calumnies of the prtss-( tang . At tbe time of obtaining aiirnatureB to the lastgreat National Petition , 1 was at work in _SheernesB in Kent , nnd with the assistance of a goo . ! man , a Mr Harrisonhe was then above sixty years of age , —we sent to Mr Cleave for one sheet which hold two hundred names , thinking of going from house to house with the petition _headings ai night when we had done work , and calling for their signatures the following night if approved of well , Mr Harrison , 'in his part of tho town , got tho two hundred names in four nights ; we sent for more sheets , and got sis hundred , making eight hun . dredsignaturea in a place where the real truth of Char . Hum was never _knnwn except what I could drive into their hcadB , iu going for signatures from house tonouBP , A few words mora and I have don e . In _la-t week ' s Sta _* thero is on _address on behalf of Mrs Jones , I shall give my mite ; about twelve montho since I was in a

      _rsfflo at sixpence per member , with the understanding that I would mako up the waistcoat to fit the winner without any- further chnrge—tho committee at first passed a rote of thanks for my present , although I _want-d no vote for doing ray duty . I told them I merely wanted to set nn example for those that could afford it to give a be tter artiste for Mrs BIJis er some one else that stood in need of assistance . Hearing no more about my article for about six weeks I went to Denn . street Rooms , and to my surprise was _tol-1 that it was not worth raffling . R ther curious , an article that I make up for ten or twelve shillings is not worth having * , but the best of all was one of the committee told me it would cost ten pounds in trouble and exp _nse to have it done , they must have taken me to be n fool . But they who know rao roust be the best judges of that . — My thanks to Messrs Harney and Stallwood , they did assist according to promise to pet a raffle . I subscribe myself one that Is willing ? t » assist my fellow slaves , J . fl . _MfiBBT .

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      MR _KYDD' 3 TOUR , TO THE IDitob OP THE SOMnEttH BTAB . Deae Sib , — -For the pa » t fortnight my labours have been confined to Newcastle aud surrounding district ? , including North and South Shields . Tbe noticeable features of these , meetings havo been tbe attention of my bearers , and the remarknhle speeches of the chairmen of the North Shields and Alnwick meeting ? . The former , a . gentleman of acknowledged respectability—a plain Northumbrian , possessing a strong ia ; tisct of common sense , and a man of close observation , — -hit remarks on the conduct cf tho urns were extremely terse and pungent . * Men oi Shields , I _thnnk you for tbe honour conferred on me . I wish to sny a few words on the newspaper press . It is the duty of tho press to protect the pub . lie interests , —it is the duty of the public to watch the

      _preJS . I read more than two or three newspapers . If I read n statement which my own observation assures me to bo untrue , I write to that " paper ; if the editor refuse to publish tho truth , I refuse to _Bubecribe to bis paper ; if this practice was general , truth woul 4 be ge . neral , —party _Intcroit and prpjudieo would be _dlBCardcd , —n & wapap crg would ho the monitors of the peopio and the recor ders of truth . Men , I call on you to follow mv humble example , —never wnit until other men will say your actions are right , —discard the very name of policy , —do right , and rightful _tfftcts will follo « 7 I wish some of _thuse _wiseacrea of ring and glove gentility had heard IhU plain speech . The _remarlfflWe passage in _Mt * _ _Statt ' s sp _« ch , chairman of the Alawick meeting ,

      was the following : — ' I have _botn for many years a Whig , and own , fory _ars , that I thought Mr O'Connor a tool of the Tories . All I read nnd heard from my friends made me think that Mr O ' Connor was a Tory in _dispuise , but the _promulgation * . f the Land Plan taught me my error . I was wrong , ignorantly wrong , and before my fellow citizens who ha ve known me for years , I own my error . Mr O'Connor ' s Land scheme is above suspicion ; it shows tbat ho _desina the independence of the people , and knows that nn industrious peopI « is a coun . try ' s greatness , I am no longer a Whig , —all party distinctions are errors in judgment . I ani of the people and for tbe people , ' Both gentlemen are practical gar . deners . _^— understand the value of tho land , —and being

      _practical men , reason from f _« cts , and piac « the _queation of land and its capabilities bejond _cbtU or dispute . The Alnwick meeting was held in tho theatre on the first of _January ; admission twopence ; despite these drawbacks , the meeting was numerous , and comprised in its numbers many Of the mo _» t " rational minda of tbe old borough . I _thmik the proprietors oftho MANCHESTER _EiClMlKEB for _theirinduttry aid z'al in advertising the National Land Bank , by sending copies of their newspaper almost universally to dissenting ministers and public readingrooms . Such a course gives to our project n publicity tho Stab alone cannot _accomplish ; and as tho National L » nd Bank has b 6 im a leading feature of my lectures , I find tho Examiheb ad _vertisements benofJcial . I hero - with send you a copy of the Newcastle _ADVEansEa _. con . tabling a report of a lecture delivered in _Newcastle .-of out

      the report is quite come t , but is , courso a mere . line With OHO or two error , in figure * which _donot alter its _eeneral tenor . I thank tho reporter for his _kindncDP , _laSsent pass over the editor ! ai remarks « I have aCnt _% r _^ _eTn _^ an early day , lecture in o no oi »> " v r town ; the _subject will then fee _re-opened and I w 1 then review the strictures of the ADVERTISER If . full . M ) friends will , I hope , be satisfied with this assurance . Ids not always who to reply to aa opponent hastily , and as there is no novel or original view of the question broached , I wait for the future comments , and mil review nil the _objections iu a separate artielo . 1 thunk Mr Morris , Gardener , Preston , tor his candid and valuable letter on the capabilities of tho soil , and _oBsurt him I win _uieiiwbeii _ibV fitting timo arrives . I may add that the National Land Batik excites much interest

      in the north of England , I arrived from Alnwick this morning by railway , And am , as ever , yours fraternally , _Newcastle , _Sauoel Kipp , January 2 nd , 181 ? _»

      THE CHARTIST LAND SCHEME . ( Prom the Newcastle _Advkmibib . ) ifr S . Kydd , one of tho National Land Company ' s _lecturero , addressed meetings in Mr Judt's Long Room , Cock Inn , Newcastle , on the eveniogs- of Tuesday nnd Wednesday last . Tl e subjects treated 1 y him were , the capabilities of tho soil—the bcn < fits _tojbe derived from a full developementof our natural _reaouiOiB- —the general

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      [ employment of _our-enrplus labourers in agricultural pursuits—and tho . _Ohariut National _LanJ Plan—Land and Labour Bink , as established ry Mr Feargus O'Cobnor Mr Kydd said that the great difficulties the working classes had to content with wero insecurity of employment and the want of _prodtable remuneration The condition of the people wan at _tkis hour the all absorbing question—it had at last forced itself on the notice of our _legislature , and all parties _admitted , as by common consent , that a starving population , ' in . creased poor rates , ruined shopkeepers , and reduced manufacturers , did not constitute true national greatness , snd were in no way consistent with an advanced j and' _improved _etiita of _GivilUatiun . Tho fldmiSHon ot the evil was the first step towurds a remedy . Though the admission of the disease , however , was universal , the _causes which produced it were not so generally admitted . Between the years 1811 and 1841 , we had had is England , an increase of our population of not less

      than forty-nine and a half per cent . ; and , according to the returns of the relative numbers employed in _agriculture pursuits in 1814 , as compared with 1841 , there was shown a _decroase in _agricultural employment of 287 000 ptrsons . _During this period we had an immense manufacturing developemeat . The _yjiant _mlndsof Watts , Stephenson , Arkwright , _Hargreaves , and others , had given to England an increase of tho powers of production unequalled in tho history of the past , and such as even ths poets of tho sixteerth century did not even dream of . Our country had by tbis facility of production risen iu the scale of nations , so far as manufactures were concerned , nnd for some timo this increase of commerce found profitable employment for our peopio ; but in the progress of European and American civilisation the improvements in mechanical power had become the property of the world . This was as it should be ; for mind was as universal as light , and to argue that other nations _should not be encouraged iu manufactures . and _n-ap the full and unrestricted _bont-fit ot all

      improvements ivas absurd , and not less ridiculous than to affirm that on _.-. _huif of the inhabitants of tho glole should have Hi 0 _udvantaise of the sun , moon , and stars , and tho other half to li » e in the mists of _perputual darkness . Such results , however , materially changed our international relations , and affected the internal condition of our industrial population . The cost of every requisite f , r tho comfort and maintenance of a family hud fallen one half—broad stuff . , butcher's meat , and , in fact , nearly every kind of agricultural produce excepted . The bread stuff * _represented the landlord interest , which still remained high i „ _- , Cottons , calicoes , & e . represented the working man ' s inteicse . II <; r « , then , we had , as it were , a bird ' s-eye viewof tho whole ease . 0 : her nations had become our manufacturing rivals ; home _r-ompetition , added to foreign

      competition , hud reduced the labourer * ' _wages . The rffvets wero registered iu oarfe . tr hospitals ande ' _hurchyards . The interest of the _laudlori a » d annuitant , however , had increased ; in less than twenty . five _yeurs , the Jews had doubled their fortunes and the landlords _thtar rents , and that , too , at a time when land did not find its proportionate share of employment for the increase cf populatioa . And had land found Its _proportionate share of _sraployment , instead of '" Y _?™ " in thtt _> ear WIL hy the enumeration . 4 , 1 _^ , 775 persons employed in agricultural pursuits we should have had G . S 91 . 276 persons aa employed—being an increase over the number now employed of 2 445 5 M . He thought , therefore , that it was plain that if the ' land of this country had found a proportionate share of em . ployment _, relative to the increase of population , we should not have _snffored from

      nqw dull trade , and we should have bad but little to fear from want of the necessaries of life . Thomas Carijle bath quaintly said , that life was a con . _st « nt repetition of the active vab ' to do ' There was a volum « in the _scs-. tence ; and it seemed to be a sulci _, dal national policy to allow one man , able and willing to labour , to remain idle , from a wo it of employment . Better lot a man produce an ! consume than consume without producing . Pioduction and consumption were a nation s greatness ; consumption without production a nation _s _weakness . Yet we had _miJlions of men idle and star »> n , nnd million s of acres of land profitable , if cultivated—millions of labourers half fed , and millions of acres ' of land half cultivated ; reminding us that land nHdlabour constituted the rude elements of all property Having thrown out these general views the lecturer prol

      , C _^ , _V 0 b 8 er - thatthe National Land Company offered to those joming the association a _cettage and two , three , or fourncres of land , with an advance of £ 15 £ 22 . 10 s ., or £ 30 . sterling , to begin operations with ; the money paid to secure the same being £ 2 12 s £ 3 18 s and £ 5 is . ; the £ 2 12 s . hting the _proper ' _.-y qualification to entitle the shareholder to possess s _cottsffg and two acres , and so on in proportion ; five percent of interest being charged as rental by tho company , and paid by the allottee . Ihe allottee had it in his power to buy his holding at twenty years' purchase . Thus , if the rtnt of a cottage and two acres of land was ten pounds per year by paying to the directors . of the company the Bum of two _hun-lrvd pounds , the property becaraB on indopen . dent freehold , the same as if tho party possessing tho cottage and land had bought it in the ordinary way of

      business ; and after such purchase the connexion be . tweeen tbo company and the allottee ceased . If , on the other ban . 1 , the allottee continued to pay the rent , so iong as the conditions of agreement were kept , no party could turn him out of his holdiB ? , and bo Increase of rent could take place . It might here be properly asked —What became of the rent paid , seeing this waB a joint . stock company , tbe capital originally paid by the sub . _seribers or members , b _. _ing the first purchase money ? He answered , the same was paid into tbe funds of the society , to redeem the fee simple of the estate ; and after deducting tbe _aliquot parts , as cost of management , the romaining portion w _« b paid into the Redemption fund ; so they would _« ee that the _paying a _rent went , in tbo first case , to buy land to enable the company to _localeits members and after the location ot all its members the

      profits so arising must cease ; the company having ac _complishedit _* _objsct must _i . _Iko cease ; and the land and houses would of course become the bona fide property of the possessors , In the course of two year * the National Land Compnny bad increased to forty . two thousand mem _bers—had in their possession not loss than two thousand acres of land , nnd had located eighty members ; and if the society received from the wnrkinit classes tbe support anticipated , they would in a few years not only command the attention of the public and the _pres-- but wouH force their case upon the attention of the ' propertied classes and government of this country . It was a notle task to solve the enigma—What could be done for tho people ? Audit waa a fact notices noble , that the _oppressed aud injured people were setting themselves to the task , trusting to their own provident habits and in

      s _^ If-rehance _prefe rence to public charity , or the forced concessions of the mistaken few , yielded _grudgingly to tho maddened and clamorous many . It was worthy of remurk that the allottees oa _thete estates _consisced of nearly all trades , and ft was astonishing to observe the ease with which they changed from sedentary habits of life to work as out-door labourers . He believed this was partly attributable to their improved health from out-door l « bjar—partl y owing to their inde pendence of character—but chit fly offin . t ; to _Jhe fact that tbey felt tbey were working for themselves andr _. aping the reward of their own industry . The estate of O'Connorville was cultivated by shoemakers , silk-weavers , and framework knitters _. practical gr . _rdeners and plough . men , and all _saemod nearly alike successful . All managed their pigs and their poultry well -. —they dug

      and planted their potatoes—sowed nnd reaped their bar . ley . And tho Nottingham _frame-work knittt r was quite as good a kitchen _pardner as the practical _ploughman . The estate of O Conn 0 rville also illustrated the inereaBod value of land when divided into _smallsr allotmen t s , as compared with land either lot or sold in large _allo-mentr . The estate of _O'Counorvilie tost , we believe , £ 25 . pcr _, nere : and the sum of £ 30 . or £ 60 . had been regularly paid as a premium for the possession of two or three aero allotments . The estates of Minster Lovel , and _Lowbands had in the _original purchaao cost more ; but he had no doubt that tho increased value would tear a relativo proportion . Land thickly popu . lated and in small allotments woald always rise in value—the increase of popuiation and increase of capital alone producing such a result . The National Land

      Company brought land in the wholesale market , aud divided it into small allotments , brought the population fr « m other districts to live thereon , and thereby raised the value of land in Its market value—enhanced the value of it te the possessor—and increased its intrinsic worth te the community . This _wns , therefore , b clear ByBtem cf Increased g'lin to all parties , snd was Itself an answer to those who said the scheme wns a bubble , fer so long as money was invested in a sure and indestructible under . _taking , raised in value—and capable of _bciny reproduced at Will—so sure could that capital be used advantageously forall practical purpoB'S . Mr Kydd alluded to the _curabilities of the soil by a reference to a series of practical experiments , _snmo of which he read from Chambers ' s Information for _tdb People , and concluded amidst the applause of bis hearers .

      One Of The ' Dispatch' Gang. To The Edit...

      ONE OF THE ' DISPATCH' GANG . TO THE EDITOR OP THE _HORTHERN STAR . _Deab Sib , —I perceive amongst the notices to _corres . pondents in the Di 8 _P « Tcn a letter from an individual , who rt _joicos in the _cosmonien of ' Mr John Fields , shoe _, maker of Nantwich , Cheshire , ' and who . it appears , is still ambitious of being a fool . Notwithstanding the many disgraceful attempts he has made ' to render himselt _consplcu-us , but without _bucccbs hitherto , perhaps he may _euit tho vitiated _tajto of tho ' Licensed Victuallers ' or _^ _an . ' Now for the statements made in the abovo paper . Somo members of tbo Land Company , and the public generally , might be led to suppose that the said John Fields was the very ' Immaculate incarnation' of innocency , _honesty , and patriotism , whereas hit wonderful production is a tissue of falsehoods from the beginning

      lo the end , He styles himself a _vietim to the tune of £ 0 , Now we'll try to jog his memory . Dots he rccol . lect being at Crewe upon two _several occasions , not twelvemon ths back , when DrM'Dounll wasleeturing at that place and after asking leave to put a question or two but instead of dotal M ) , KOiuK intOfl lQBgrigmaloro about the oft confuted attacks upon Mr O'Connor ' s balance sheets , and how much 'bosses' and other things' _cosses , ' and asking the Doctor for hn money back , when ha afterwards told his companions that he knew the _* _Direotoia would not return the money , ho goaly wanted to see what the doctor would say . I ask tho ' immaculate' Joba iif he remembers j f fro respectable persons , each offering him the cost j of his shares and five per cent upon them , and h _«

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      would aot part with them . ; and does be not , likewi 80 remember an offer made through VaeCrewe ' _secretary t the same effect ? snd does not heremembir soying _hs did not want to part with his scrip , but that he won'd take £ 5 . 10 s . for it f And if ho could sell at that price , would take out four shares immediately , thus _empowering himself to question the conduct of the directort at any time , and attend all meetings he could , and prevent as much as possible , persons from joining . Poor _Gobbin ! Very like a victim , more liko a whale for bis swallow . Now the people about this neighbourhood are quite -atis . ned concerning the character of this creature , but he might pass wbere not known aB one of the Dl « PATcn ' S ' _mnQctabU _oarmpondenta . ' nnd Mr 0 'Coimoi ' s poor victim ; whoreas _, if all be true ( an 4 ft lias net been denied by him as yet ) we hear of him , he is in his own sphero ,

      one of the most despicable and domineering tyrants _. According to current report , thiB patriotic John was a policeman or constable in the south of England , during- a turn-out of _agriculturalisbourers _, and his conduct was so bad , by tho use of a loHg truncheon upon the poor defenceless operatives of the soil , that not leBS than twenty-one warrants were issued against him , and he was obliged , and glad to sneak awny . Then ho speaks of poor men , like himself , bain * _humbugged by Mr O'Connor and his assistants , out of their money . It appears , that had his shares been bought at his price , hu didn ' t mind being humbugged again to the tuneof £ 5 G _* ., levies , Jkc . Wh y , J „ hnny Mon _, ' thou art growing imbecile and doting . He . no doubt , recollects the turn out of shoemnkvrs in _Manchestir , when

      lie was employed in cutting out for . and lodging tbo knobsticks in _Puwonago-lane , in that town ; and when that would not do , went to Ayr in Scotland , _likewise to London and Nantwich , to procuro shoes , iic ., at the lowest prices , thus ruining the poor shoemakers of Manchester . Surely , John , jou would not do tbis business for nothing , and should not be so poor ns . you stylo _yourself , and after being duped once want to sel out and be duped again . But perhaps you have been licerfit > _us and extravagant , or the curse of the _toadcatci- and tyrant follows you . Hoping , Dear Sir , you will _yii-e poor John this tasty mouthful for his largo swallow in your next , I beg to subscribe myself , One , who until the _despicable conspirators _* _nn shew better cause why not _. _wishes to continue Mr O'Connor's 'Vic _| _ui . '

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      TO THE MEMBERS OF THB LAND COMPANY OP BISHOP AUCKLAND DISTRICT . Brother _LAnneatw , —Now tbat our glorious Land Company has finally closed , I would address a few lines to you on the _sutjtct of the agitation of those God-like and noble print iples embodied in that immortal document , the _Tcople ' s Charter . For some weeks hack , I h _. _ive seen in the _Stau notices of delegate meetings held in Newcastle , Durhum , Shields , and other pUces , The men tf those towns are up and at work iu earnest , while we of this distriet are looking on with apathy . Others are doing what they can towards our emancipation ; and while it reflects credit on them , it brands us with 6 hame . Brother'Landsmen , ' fhail this continue , shall it be said that when our neighbours are up in tbe cause of liberty , we stand looking oh with our hands folded , or sneak behind like cringing cowards , and when they bave nobly struggled for freedom and won the victory , Bball we , _witn blushing faces , accept the boon from their hands ! ' Never , never , ' methinks I hear _ji-. n cry . ¦ ' We will to work , and as we bop .- to share in tbe general happiness that will follow the peopl-j ' s triumph , we , too , will brave th « battle ' s _s . rifo , and share the conflict 1 '

      . Be it so , then , all jou hire to do is to resolve , fo deterrains to establish the Charter _Astcciatiou in this _district without delay . We _mtat make a _beginningior rsmain as we are . Let our commencement be nosv . ' LSt those who are favourable to the cause instantly hold correspondence with each other . I , for one , am willing to _engage in tho _struggle , and give all the help 1 can . towards the furtherance of our principles . My house is open to all those imbued with the same spirit . Let us commence , then , and cu operate with tbe men of Newcastle aud othir places ; let us organise our associations ,

      _get up our meetings , and agitate our . principles in earnest , and in ordor to the better accomplishment of our objret , let us form debatiBg societies and mutual im . provement classes . This will be a great aid in bringing out dormant talents and _nbilitits , and I have no doubt the spirit of freedom will awaken once more in tha Bishop Auckland district ; . Having thrown out these few remarks , I hope some more t dented indivi / ml will take them up , improve , ani bring them before the public from time to time , till an agitation is begun in this part of the country that shall end only with tbe achievement of our lost rights _.

      I remain , brother Landsmen , Yours , in the cause of Freedom , Old Shildon , Jan , 2 , John _Parke !*

      To The Members Of The Journeyman Steam E...

      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE JOURNEYMAN STEAM ENGINE , MACHINE MAKERS , AND MILLWRIGHTS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY . ' Truth ' s beams begin to penetrate the mind ' s horizon , And to dissipate those clouds of error hitherto so dense , That man could not perceive e'en common sense . ' GEHTMHEH , —When « ver anything new is ushered forward to tbo attention of mankind in genmil , aud es . pecially to one class in particular , a natural curiosity is excited ; and somo . with a self-sufficient _amilo , and others , with a vacant , idiotic stare , can at once fix the result , without _giving - ' lemselvea the least trouble-to _baconie acquainted with Us true nature and design ; From such weakness arises all that error In judgment which leads men to censure and condemn what they cannot _tully understand . The officious Henry Selsby has placed in our hands the December Trade Report for 1847 ; published also a report of an Executive Council meeting , held November 27 , 1847 , for the expreiB Intention of suspending those branches that _bartt deposited tlieir tania in the National Land aud L-ibour Bank . Henry Selsby

      has onco more vomited his spleen against the Land and it * _supporters . This said production he has appended to the December trade report ; and so determined is H , Selsby ol conducting tbis affair after his own fashion , that he prepares the manuscript , and superintends tbo printing and posting of the report himselt J So very clever is Mr Selsby 1 that be has achieved all this without the ktiowltdge of the Executive Council , or the committee appointed by them to superintend the printing . Now , Mark ! Selsby is _ins'ructed by tbe Council to present rJI matter for tho press to the priuting committee , for ; _^ heir approval . If approved of , it is the duty of that " ' com * _mittee to _pluce the manuscript in the hands of the printer , and see the work properly executed . But Mr Selsby not wishing the matter to be interfered with , las thought proper to violate the Executive Council ' s instruo _tloiiB , and treat tlieir ( _rd-. _rs with contempt , and yet this Selsby had the audacity to trll you that he had written it 1 for the Executive Council !'

      The printing committee asserted to the members of tha MaBchesterSrd _bransh , thatH . Selsby had noteonsulted tbem in iccordance with rule 11 , although he makes uso of the plural number , ' we , ' at least twenty five times , and speaks of himself in the third person * The printing " committee denouncod the general secretary forj . hia want of _candour , and his _basenessin attempting _topatm off that illegal document as being published ttitfi their approval , The Manchester Srd branch ( seeing tke enormity of tbo case ) bave appointed a deputation to lay tha matter before the Executive Council at their next meetiiig . ' _* The ; curtain is now crawn _, and 11 . Sel & by stands the couvieted scribe . Pinalty djl , —See minutes of tbe last delegate

      meeting . Every member who has read tbe rules of pur society , knows full well that the Executive Council have uot the power to _swpcud any branch of cur body , neither has the decision of tho tranches ou the banking question given them any such power . The council has not presented tbe suspending of the Derby and the two Manchester branches , to the members of the Whole Society for tieir decision ; until tbis bo done , Henry _Selsby ' s hash goes for nothing . I particularly invite every member to read attentively the first portion of _Selsb / a address , because it is calculated seriously to affect the wages of you all .. Then ask yourselves t ' _- > e following ; question * : Can tbis man . after writing this , fairly _reprt-Bcnt our interest j l » ho about to become a candidate _io the masters' _association I lb he

      a tool of tbe masters i In writing the above , I wish it to ba understood that I have no motive but to prevent tha delinquent , Selsby , _effecting that which the muster _cless would give thousands of pounds to accomplish , namely—the _aciiihilatlouof the _muttiil eenfidencu of trades' uuinus : tbe certain prelude to dismemberment and ruin . Am Old Mancu _^ steb Membeb . January Srd , 1818 .

      Libebauir Cf Wobkixg Me>F.~The 'Iroarnen...

      _LiBEBAUir cf _Wobkixg ME > f . ~ The ' iroarnen of Birming ham , ' as they were wont to bo called , have just signalised themselves by an act of noble liberality , which is perhaps without parallel . A 8 will he seen by tho _following brief account of the meeting of the weekly board of the Queen ' s Hospital , held last week , the committee of the' Artisans * Penny Subscription Movement , ' originated entirely bv workin _? men , presented the magnificent sum of £ 924 _ISj . Od- as a new _yeai's ifferinsr towaids _thfl funds of the hospital . At tho same board the medical and _surreal officers paid over ihe sum of _AD «„ fees from pupils- thieves last week

      _Mawce and Theft . —Some broke open the hatches of the Dispatch , Dovt-r and London trader , lyinis in the Dover harbour , _atoba niiintitvatf spirits , and then set . fire to the cargo in _iilWtL hold . The fire in the fore part became extinguished _, it appeared , bv » cask of ino ass * bursting over it , but the one that had been lit w thoaftel part ot the vessel was burning when the captain went on board in tho morning _i _^ _» ad a short time more elapsed before it "as _^ covered , _theWtl and cargo won 'd haw been _Mato consumed ' , as tbo lire was rapidly advancing in tbo direction of a cask of _over-vroot spirits . From three to four hundred shipwrights in JNorttt and South Shields have been suddenly thrown out et employment , mainly , it is supposed , owing to tne

      pressure of the _tirnea . _.., Two large flros have recently occurred in th _0 Tl « . nity of Reading , and _another at _Wendoter . AC Aylesbury , it is feared , that an incendiary spint _prevails among the _labouring population . Jenny Lind will _^ without a rival in London next season , as _GrislwKf beat _st Petewburgb , and . -AJ g boni _. _beiriga contralto , docs not same into _corfPeK _* tion with her . &

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 8, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08011848/page/7/