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      Pa 11liamentary Rev]Ew. The Debate, On T...

      formation of the practices _meutioiu-dhy Mr . _AV * U . * y Had reached them ; that Mr . Parker Had been directed to , make inquiries on the spot ; that I Had had aa interview _, with Mr . Parker , trio _wrfwHj rcportftlto mc the rcsu . ll 0 ] his : inr « f _Ration ; I * ratff > w : oftheinmat < s of tlie workhouse _, of depraved appetite had eaten meat off the hones : that j when the guardians heard of iuh « y uivcctedan iuvestiga-, tion by their medical man ; that tlie oilier _workhouse ; officers had been cnjoiued to Iks careful to prevent in-, mates of depraved appetites gaining access tothehoue j store . If I say that the assistant-commissioner made this j _cffMwiu-ficafeii orally , thai iciff _mks _ft-ty _tufiice . This report s

      must not be produced . It must be treated as if it had never been wade . * " j And so ihe report was shelved 1 After this exhibi- ' iionofMacLlavcl ' an _statcsmsnrhip , we should ima-, g inctherealTalueof the ** official explanations" of the Homo Secretary will be fully appreciated by most people . It is , however , gratifying to know that on a division , tbe government , in spite of all this tergiversation , fraud , and suppression of evidence , were beaten ; that a committee of inquiry—not only into ihe conduct of the subordinates in these infamous

      proceedings , but of the commissioners—was appointed . This unconstitutional authority , which has hitherto acted as thourh it was practically indispensable , is now called to the "bar , and must plead its own defence . "We only hope that its judges will be men of clear heads and determined courage , able and willing to sift the crafty statements which will be made A ia Gkaium , and of resolution sufficient to withstand all the arts and blandishments of power ,

      should it attempt the suppression of the facts disclosed during the investigation of the committee . The Poor Law Commissioners and the Home Secretary mast not he permitted to pass seaihless , by throwing out of employment such understrappers as "APDocgaJ- raid _Pakkek . They were , as long as there was no public outcry , both considered excellent officers in their _rcsyectivcstations . The law and the commission , out of which such abominations originate , must both be swept away .

      The case of Fkost , Wiixwms , and Joxes was brought before the Commons by Mr . Dgxcombe , on Tuesday , in a practical and _exhaustlessspeech , worthy of his reputation and his position as the representative of the working classes in Parliament . The matter itself is so fully discussed in another part of oar columns , thai it is unnecessary to say more than allude to it in this place We have also given a Tcry full account of the debate in our Parliamentary columns , from which oar readers will be able _t-i form their own judgment as to the a > _timqs of the two great parties , wub . reference to Chartism . Certainly , though the Conservatives may be as unfriendly as the Whigs , they are more decorous iu the expression of their antipathies . I

      The state of Wales , with resppct to education , was brought nnder notice by Air . Williams on Tuesday evening ; in an elaborate speech , and was rcjdicd to , © lithe part of the government , by Sir J . Gkaium , who expressed great anxiety for the promotiom of educational and social improvement , not only in that , but all other districts ofthe country—and upon bis promising a qualified compliance with Mr . WilruMS * s motion , it was withdrawn . The other business transacted has , np to the time of our writing , been of minor importance . There has been much talk , not without its value , we admit , as preliminary and preparatory to actual legislation , but still not of that character to warrant any special notice .

      The Protectionist party during the week appear to have been stricken with panic ; and though several of its members _vtMBt valorously gave notice of amendments in committee , somehow , when they came to the point , their courage , like that of Bub Acres , oozed oat at their finger ' s ends . Mr . _Ltohkll withdrew his threatened opposition on the timber duties ; and the redoubtable Mr . Miles , who was to have made a stout fight on maize , contented himself with _entering '' his * _ol < _tan protest" against its _introduction . Sir _Robeet is evidently '' too cunning of fence" for the " Country party ; " and we douhi net that some of them , like tlte valorous hero _atee mentioned , wished they had made the discovery

      sooner , and so been saved the disgrace of defeat . "Lord G- Bextixck is the only remahun _? cn .-: inp ' on in the field at present , _thouah opposition is threatened from other quarters at fuiare stages . Still the general belief now is , that the measure will pass more rapidly to the " other place" than was at fires anticipated . " Time is working wonders ; ,: and if it is not thinning the ranks of the Protectionists , it is , at all events , rendering them less loquacious . Sir Robert _Pbel has taught to other Ministers that may follow : n important and most valuable lesson . In politics tbe molto of a statesman should be , " Be bold 1—be bold ! " There is no need of the warninz . "Be not too bold !"

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      Eo I\Eaucr3 & Camspmtieiits,

      Eo i _\ _eaUcr _3 & _CamspmtiEiits _,

      J-Bost, Williams, Ask Joses.—Brother Cha...

      _J-bost , Williams , ask Joses . —Brother Chartists , —Ths _jn- -ti *! ii of ihe hon . _xuetttbev for _Fsni _' mry is for the present lost—not so niuch ( as may he _ghsineti from tlie debates ) because the "house" did not think them fit objects of _meicy , as because the ' * house" was evidently of opinion that the case should he hft iu the hunt ' s of the Minister . Friends , permit _ine , _therefore , to _surest to you tiie propriety of immediately adopting memorials to the Home _Secretary , Sir Jatnc ? _Cialiam , on behali of ihe Wtlah martyrs , on ihe simple "round ( and » hat only ) , that the finie am : _suflVrinyni-Jurcd hy those mea have _purged their _crinit- , and vindicated tlie ma- j jesty of tlie law : aud lbrwr . rd them to the member tot ' the bwuugli or ounty iu _whit-l- tlie meeting is held , for i presentation . Yours trul y , Eumcmi _Stallwoob . — , "March 11 , lS'G . ] _YETEKAS _I _' _iTKIoTS * ASD ExiiES * _WlDOWS * ASK _Cll't- ;

      _DiiEs _' s Fcs : > = > . —Ti : _cKcuudf | ustrtcriy public _nieeiinj : _= was held in xiw luii , _Turaajiaic-laue , last Sunday af- _tent'wn ; . Mr . Julian _Jhu-a ey in the chair . The j balance shea fn : •' , _< . quarter _siuwtd that the total re- i _tcipts for the tivo funds _jiini _. _ijuteu to £ ' 11 , being nearly ! double the receipts « rf _<> ur first quarter ; the aecsuut ' will lie fiium ! in another j , ji j _< jj tin- Star . 1 b _^ , that if _liitre * _x-ihe _2-ii ; : iil .- _^ i _.-i _' i .. riii _ssny _scjrt vf * T , l _* ; e _]* ar- ! ties _discoviriu-r Uie _< rror t _.-h notice it _puhlh-lv . I _' ur- i suaut to tlie _recoiniiicudatidii wade aud approved at ! the publie mcet ; : i ; f , we _agreed , ia committee _, oil the fol- '

      lowing Tuesday nijht , to remit _!( . •« £ " , ;• _astWtance to the i rtcipicuta lio . n ihe funds . At j resent , we judge that ! wecaiinot _lvuitt _thtiii Mifach-ut for -x _tul-sistei .. < t ; but j 1 lVel sure , from the _lu . blo _example already si t , that J these funds will _*«•;« he icjidered amply sufficient _, for ; this desirable purpose . _lirs . IJoherw , of ] _'irniin ; : ham , ' win edit , alsv , Iiavt such weekly ai _« l as wc think call I be afforded 5 and the stated ricipieiils fr _.-m tlie two funds will , therefore , in future be six persons , witli their families . I be ; : _t-i state , u < nv this _ncevudstep is t .-il ; en . that _iliere vet remains anollier to betaken , iu _orun-to

      carry « ut _fisilj the design J _lonunl iu _prison . That is , to confide the _liiaiiagtineni of t ' use funds to the Executive . 1 Leg it may be uui ' _eretood tliat ] _> hal ! ( _tiirouuh some one or mure of the _L-ndui _, _r ' _elvxatts to the next _aunuai c _.= uvc » tiou ) cause that _prttJuiMtSmi tu be laid before _oUI y . _ally a _.-. s < lubly . 1 am of < _ip : iii < iu _thiitall rilkf funds belonging to our hoiij ought to he administered by tlie _Ew-utitv Conuniltec . These two funds , however , had frst to lie created ; and their creatiim was a _li-gitiin _.-j te subject fur { ihiiautlii « p : e tlibrts hy any number of private persons . _Unt ! am loo much alive _io the necessity of s _c-iupsct r . _viuXMr " njsusji , iii every sense ol _' Uic v . oto . lo _dt- _^ ire lo _^ t : _^ rait __ - the _miiuaitfnifni ef _« ny i " uu _> i ur Iiumum-s from ihe has . H _* of the _Exccutivi-, thai ma \ tend to strengthen their influeuce . I trust this _Siuluut-ut will meet a heart v

      re-S ] i » usc from every _tluiiuiug Chartist . Jjy omy i ectipts shrtX tlie <; uart « _-ly _wtetxng , arc * _-V . <« _j . fn . _ni « V . f _* . I * . ufiiverponU - < ly brethren , having begun so well in this cheering curse of _philan-hropy , lee m-i ; _ot grow slack or " weary in _ncll-doiiig . "—Tiio . vas CouriK , _Secietaiy , 1 S _1 , lliackfriai ' s-road . PX . OST . lVlLUUIs , A . vn _Joxts . —Sir , —After _seting the rtpi : rt of tlie i _ccepti < ui of . Mr . DuiicoinbL- ' s n . uiiou in farour of "Frost , Williams , and Jones . " 1 thought there could be hut liulc chance ol _tlitir rf . urn until wehad shown _lwrarlidineutaiid the country that % ie are dcteruiiiied , by _obtaining the " Charter , ' * to han-u in our power u _, gram , not Aik , for jusdee to _thi-in . Xow , to carry out _tiuit _olject we must lavt ¦ , *» , _< . •• , an . ikuov . ins that «• example" is _betU-r than pr ,. , ept , " ' _Ifc-nclose iialf a sorer . i i _, jor thi- _Kxtcutive ; at ... if tiie _woikiiig im . ii of Eugiaud will Suli _> ui . i „ r the

      same _puijK _^ i I shall u _„ i desj . air Of jet neing tile " lVmk ' s Chart-, t" tin : law oi Uu-hun ' i . 1 _« , „ _y „ . y < _-uis truly , a woikiug man , 1 " . W . a . rtai _^ us O'Connor , _Esij _., I'Oiihem Star _Ofliu- . l » . s . — -jj _, _^ shall !•«« _helhciart hy many , if the _Ci-ar : i . « t w > ikiug _nit-u will give _iikvnise . _Commercial-ieau , _E-tbtjMai ' vb l _* 2 _th , ISit T . liens . —Tiie lines aie r > oi poetry . Hii . Uaiu . ow dtsu _^ s _us _toilnte , iu _ausv . er to tliose wlio _coiiip ' _aiu of not being able lo g _* _-l the _Star m i . _eicesler , thai he _ngulai ' y _supplies if . Orders _m-cived by him at 7 , l . oivu- Sandacrc-si ; tet . _JlAatLtjiii . _\ 2 . —V . _' e an- _rtytu-stcd to state to a'i who may he desirous of co _- . ii : _iiuiiif _.-: * . iiig w . lh tlie _Sub-Scnctary ' _fiheMary'eboucloniaty , tiiat they mu _< t addrc & s aa follows— " _VhiLviiti _'^ kts _, S 3 , _DcVoUthuc-iaeet _, _Litstii _Grotf , _Mai- kLoue . ' '

      J-Bost, Williams, Ask Joses.—Brother Cha...

      Tue Missus _as » _Oobsblves . —We give the foliowing precisdy as it _t-aiue to hand . Wc make no complaint of the conspiracy therein described , yet we have little doubt that the miners , the working incu who have been made the victims of it , willdeumnd asaiisfactory explanation from their delegates . Indeed we have beemvarued more than once lately of what hits been going oil ill certain quarters , but we abstaiucd from noticing it until goaded by the very parties who treacherously forbade communication < vith the Shir , and then taunted us with neglect . Tiie following _let-er will speak for itself : —Sir , iii _reference turtle letter that appeared in

      the _* ttir ot last week , writteu hy Martin Jade , 1 think a feiv remarks are _uteessary . lie says , " the just and proper inference is , that had any account of tlie said strike been published in the Star , those _ituKviduals ! v _* _ouhl "o t have come to supplant the miners now on strike . There can be no doubt that such wouid hat e _i been the case with respect to the individuals iu mifstiou , but it is also very questionable whether the _publii cation of such things ' do not bring upon the parties the : verv evil thev desire to prevent , ' - "Sow , I have yet to : ' earn why the publication of this strike , if calculated to _ureveiitseveii _kn-jtetieWrofli coming , would not also i prevent seven huudred ; why did not _Hordu Jude ex' _phun Himself ? He afao says , that it was not through i any il" feeling towards ihe Star or its conductors that it : was not published . Now it is evident , by his letter ,

      ' that he « as acquainted" with the resolutions pasted at a i dele-ate meeting held iu Bolton , about a month since , ! when tlie Star v . as secretly burked . I know of several that _-ave it up iu coiistquencc of this meeting . I took : - * fc _« iii for two colliers , and they have given it up , and thev toofc them in for the use of two lodges , not one of whom knew anything concerning the _tesolu-! tious passed with reference to the Star at Uoltou , al-• _thou- 'h thev sent a delegate . Sow , what wouldyou in . fer from this conduct i Why , that tlie leaders of the colliers' movementhave conspired against tho _i-tar—for ! what reason they know _btst tlieuiselves , but they _can-I not prevent others irom gue » slng . Sir , by publishing j this letter you will oblige your well-wisher , _Kiciiaku ' lUxiu , _l- _ado _iiic-bridge , -March Sth . _—l ' . S . I am not a miner . The resolution passed at Bolton , was not to

      Send their proceedings to the _^ t : sr . Thomas -Mills need not be angrif _, his poetry shall be yet used ; he has not been ill-treated , but really other matters ofvitaltiuy « rtaiic *\» vessedoau 5 tu its exclusion . T . Caset , Greenwich . —Yes , "Mr . O'Cknmell voted for what was eahed the mitigated Coercion Uili that was passe c ia 1 SS 3 . _Geokge i * _KA . \ cis , Wilts . — We really cannot give opinious upon title cecds and marriage _setth-mtuts . A . B . O . —We _thint the ! ea _* _t he can do is to take the mother the money for the support of his child , as we prts . nne he went to her to get it . Edwahb HoDgkissox , lioLTo . v . —All persons required to wor c _ujiou land purchased by the _assuciatioi-- will receive timely notice . J . _Losgj-jitom . —If he will have the case of ' "Susan " written out clearly and sho . _tly , he shall have our opinio : ! , for we deem the case oue of great hardship .

      E . _FoaD , lliimocSE . _—ilr . O'Connor will Jiave much _pleasure iu _opening their llall for them , also iu _appoimiiig the day , and in assisting them to keep k open . John Tokdolf . —Yes , Halls wc built by shares ; if he will apply to . Mr . John Murray , 100 , _Tratis-strect , Manchester , lie will seud him a copy of the rules . _Samcei . Paix , Okmskiuk . —If he will apply to Mr . Murray , as above , he will receive the required

      information . Ms . O'Cossoa and the Tullot . —Mr . O'Connor begs to acknowledge most kind ami _l espectiul communications with reference to his address to the electors and nouelecwrs oi _Edinburgh , requesting a _re-com-idcrafion of his views _lYo-utaeiollowrsig _societicsaud individuals : — from the Leeds Council , through Mr . Win . Urouk , secretary ; from the Chartists of Hamilton , through J . l _' ark ; from Wiu . Sykcs , _llolbi-ck , near Leeds ; from Thomas Wild , Oldham ; and from Sunderland , froai William Dobbin , a most feeling and pathetic letter , showing that the ballot would be the most valued of all the provisions for the poor dependent vo . er , who has ever been Mr . O'Connor ' s especial client . ! In answer to these several respectful communications , Mr . O'Connor begs to return ids thanks to the applicants _, and sav , that the letter of Dobbiu alone would

      have been sufficient , while the several taken together wouid _iu-. hice hiiu to give , t . i » ugh a shorter r . ot a less plaiu , _auswet than he lias already given to Mr . _Coojiev . Ills auswer then shall be simple , straightforward , manly , and uuciistakeab ' v , which is , that he now sees that a Chartist ruriiameut alone should hare the liower of deciding whether the principles of the Charter could be as well or better carried out by the bahci ; aud , therefore , he b _.-gs to subscribe himself as an advocate lir . rthat point which , if the applicants wili _take tiie trouble to read bis address again , they will mid that he only meant lo resist , under the prtsi , iitr « - _i'l-esiniative system , and merely gave au opinion that with a Chartist constituency it would not be required . We thaw it would b = well if ail _perious challenged by public opinion would take the same early and straightforward mode of _lutetiisg it that Mr . O'Connor has

      _Jjjmls Powell . —His copy of the Farming " _* _oi-k , together with ins letter , lias been handed over lo Mr . Wiicckr , to be forwarded to him , aud tile sums he speaks of are all acknowledged iu last week's Star . Tut _Mt-i-DEKEU Seekv . —We cauuot forego the pleasure of publishing the following letter , which wc have _reccivrdirouiouririeud David Pott , oi uirmiugham _. as the best _au-wvr lo the hypocrites who wouid persuade the Irish people that the English Chartists have no sympathy for titciu . _Wecx-wec , through their means , to sec the wile and children of the murdered Seery _conilortab ' y settled iu a farm of their own , pui chased with the English . Ciiatvis _- . s' money . The folio » ir . is the letter of David _roiu Wo have a right to aspect that tlie chairman will read it at the next meeting held at ConcHiation _UaH , and , indeed , such course , if adopted

      low ; ago , would have intimidated the Minister lrom his rascally attempt to coerce Ireland : — "liiruiiughaui , March 11 th , 1 S 10 . To Feargus O'Connor , Esq . llear sir , The enclosed order is made payable to you through > lr . James Smith , Ship , _Sta-Uwusc-UiiK ' , and is lor the widow of poor Seery , who was murdered in Ireland on the _evidence of an Orange tyrant , and found guilty by sii Orange jury , for the purpose ot assisting in coercing poor Ireland . May it be the means of creating that feeling in the breast of every peasaut iu Ireland , ns shall drive such bloodthirsty rascals from their native country . Aye , and it soon would lie the . case if it was _i _.-ot tor that Judas _O'Cotiue'l . liy inserting it in the _JiWtple' * paper Hi _ivllvws _, _jou will much oblige the _Chartists ol" this locality , 1 ) . Pott : — Chartist meeting at ihe Ship , per David Pott , 10 * . —* i 4 , York street . "

      St . GLonGfs-STkEEr , _> _oiiTiu ; _-irTox . —The H * . Cd . acknowledged last week was acknowledged under the _gcut-ral hi-ad " Executive , " because all tiie expenses of tiio late Conference conies from the Executive l ' uud , aud is acknowledged under that _geueiui head . _SnhLTON . —The £ 1 Gs . from Sheltuii , announced in last Saturday ' s Star as for the _Ivaliuual Charter-Association , should have been announced " for the late Convention . " The _Ohuiam Elictiok . _—Dr-r . Sis : I have great _plecsuie iu ini ' ormiiigyou that we came off victorious as lar as the public meeting went on Saturday evening . The friends of Mr . Cohbett and Mr . Pox _lnbouied hattl to get the show of hands , but it was " no go . " _liotii parties stood obstinate , aud would uot conic to anv terms with us . We _ohVreil to give up Mr . lhilliday

      and go for J- ox , if the lricnds ol t ox would consent to support Jir . _llaliiday the _inxt vacancy , but they would not . Then we offered tile same to Mr . Cobbetl ' _s friends , but _ti-. ty likewise refused . We then no's wp owv miii _^ s to _stan-i or fall by our man ; this took place previous to the _meeting . Mr . Fox was proposed first , and Mr . Cohbett second , and then Mr . Halliday , who was put as an _auieuunirut to Mr . Cohbett , _wiieu a forest of hands were held up . I'ur Mr . Cobbetl , betwixt twenty am ; thiny hands were held up ; Mr . Fox had more . Mr . _ilailiday had an overwhelming majority over both put together . Doth parties are at present determined to go on in opposition to ihc decision of the meeting : w « shall Uitrefore lose no time in bringing the _nonejectire influence to bear ou the electoral body . We arc- determined to ciirrv Mr . Hallidayinto thr house

      the nest eh-ciiou . This heing ihe case , 1 hope you will not _disappoint us on Kaster Sunday . We arc _casing the old committee together on Wednesday , and if they will not go with us lor the return of Mr . ilailiday , tveshall then call a public meeting ami elect a 1 . -1 : 11 ' one . awl get as many « f the eleilois with us as _posriljle . — 1 am , de _:, r Pe .-ayuF , yours truly , Wa . IIaMLE , _sub-eteiviuiy . —OMhau ., Mare ! . !> , _l- _^ _! . —To _Peai-gus : O'Ci . nnor , E _.-q . STi : ATFor . ii os Avon . —Any person wishing » opan the L : ; iid Society , may do so by app ly ing to Mr . Paine , shocmater siiulnews agent , Shecp-sircct . r _£ ; The great _hngth at which we have reported the debate uu Mr . Duncotube ' s motion for the restoration ol the exiles , aud the very lengthy account we have gi _' - ' tn of the Polish _lusuirtciioii , compel * us to withhold Ecvcra ! _cuuunuii ' _catious till next week .

      Ileceirts Op The Chartist Co-Operative L...

      _ilECEirTS OP THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAXD _SOCIETI .

      SHAKES . FEU MK . o ' co . N . _N _' oB . t S . d . Ashliir-undor-I . _j-i-i ; _, per E . Ifuhsou .. - 1 " <; Exeter , per _Priui-ij _.-j ; Clark .. .. „ 2 3 0 _I : i"M . j ; i . per Joseph Mriuey 4 u n ll .. » _u _., i , _j « .-r _iiilwiuti ri <> , ig ' kiusou .. „ -i S 1 U Wig ; .. -. , per _Thtiniai - i ' ye 1 _* J S 1 II . i by , p . r Win . ( -handler 4 10 0 _lliiKil . y . per Joseph _lidtvuvn .. „ „ : ; 14 « Plymouth , per K . _iiohertsoii .. _ _. „ :, u ti Dudley-, per W . _ilai . kiti .. .. \\ „ 4 15 _i ; _tildhi _. iii- ner V . " . 11 ? ..,...,. * . ., it it Oldliniu per Y . \ _Jlauu-i- -j 0

      , .. .. „ « Sundvilaiid , _pei-W . D „ hhie .. " \ , -j :, 0 _Aiji-aludu l _' oiey , Ashfuril „ " " , _« is C C < . ckcn : i .. uth , per (" corge Peat ,. * " „ : ; U < : _Jjuci- ' _c-iieUi , p _« r , < o ! i „ * Varrcu „ , I , 0 0 Xott : ii gii .-iiii , _pi-.-. l . Siva l .. " " s li 8 Joseph Robinson , Kirkb _y-in-Ashiic'd , per J . -. _T * .. 2 18 ( i * " " * " •• .. .. .. 1 12 4 _WssgMv , Mother I ' . raikiu So . 1 , pvr John _Caiu-^ _nvxou 4 „ „ Jt . iin Muart , _lii-aiiliam 44 , s . _^ lford , per John . Miliiiig ; _.. ii 714 ; i I ' _-Tiiwisnuui , per _JVaJj _, j- Thorn .. .. .. . ' , < i ii liauford , tier J awes _SuuikIvi-s .. .. .. 4 2-0

      Ileceirts Op The Chartist Co-Operative L...

      Manchester , per . lohu . Murray * .. ## .. 18 14 1 Alva , per . lolui Hobwtson .. „ .. 3 _1 " # Mr . Murray requests us to state that the cause of the small _reuiittauce from Manchester this week , is in couse-( jueucc of the whole ofthe building trades in that town being out on strike . The liioiiev announced irom Bury in last week ' s _« ttr Should have been from Kndelilt ' c . LEVI FOB THE L » NU COSFEEEKCE , PEIt MK . O ' CONSOR . Kxctcr . per Frederick Clark 0 1 « _JJolton . per E . llodg l-inson _y 0 y Alva , per John _Jlohertsun .. „ .. 010 LEW _FOIl DlKECTOKS . - PEft MB . _o ' cONNOK . Uoltmi 0 3 1 Abraham Doxcy , Ashford o 0 Sh

      , NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . FXECL'TIVE . _TEK 3111 . O ' COSNOK . Church Greslcy , per Richard Ilawley .. .. 0 1 ( 1 0 lioltoii .. .. .. .. .. .. o 5 0 lhiuiogne , per David lleid .. ., ., 1 ti 0 Halstead . jier R . 0 . Payne old James Edie , Kincaple , by Cupar , Fifi .. .. 0 - ' 0 _TFi'U Tilt WIDOW OK THE _SliCGnTliKED _SEERV . _PElt Mil . _o'coskok . " From the Chartists of _Divmiiigham , mect _' ni" - at the Ship , per David Pott .. .. .. 0 10 0

      NATIONAL ANTI-MILITIA FUND . l'EB . MR . o ' COSNOll , James Sweet 0 0 3 William Hrown „ .. 0 ( I 8 William Duncklfv OH li KobeitCupitt 0 0 6 Robert « luvev tt 0 « Markllcvill 0 0 3 Sunderland , per Henry llains " 1 _ ' _Hici-ard Town , Fustian Dyer .. .. .. 0 0 "" 0 KECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAKD SOCIETY . SHAKES . PEB . GEKEEAL SECRETARY .

      £ S . d . £ S . ( I . _Sr-ilevbridc . .. 10 0 0 Rath - ' < i ( I _Stokc-sub-Hamdeu ( I 1 ( I Ishiini 0 2 8 Lambeth .. .. 17 5 !> llebdeii _lh-idge .. 3 u _J . James Mav .-h .. 0 * " « Mr . W . Fox .. .. 2 i _« Mr . J . King .. .. 014 Norwich » .. 028 Reading .. .. , * i 0 0 Leicester .. * . ' - ' 0 tl Tower Hamlets .. 480 Dunfermline .. 014 Westminster .. 4 Id (> Preston ( O'Connor ' s Warrington .. .. 1 lti 4 Hriguue ) .. .. 3 3 3

      CUIUS AND HULKS . Mcrthvr , per Mor- llebdeii lh-idge .. 004 gau 0 1 0 Derby « 1 0 Westminster .. o 0 lu Lambeth .. .. 0 0 li Secretary .. ., 016 LEW FOtt TUE LAND CGNFEEENCE . Colnu 0 0 C Derby 0 10 llebdeii _lh-iuge .. 0 ll ( 1

      LEVI FOE PMECTOBS , Collie 0 10 llolbcck .. .. 010 Merthyr ( Morgan ) 0 0 "> Preston ( O'Connor Dcvi / . es .. .. o I ) 8 iirigadc ) .. .. 0 1 0 Dudley .. .. 0 0 « Derby » 1 _» Cockennomh .. 008 Plymouth .. .. 0 0 11 EttKATUM . —The * - ' s . _8 d . acknowledged last week from Sheriield for the Executive , should nave been for Levy . Several small sums for levy were also _acknoivied-jed _, which h : id appeared in a previous Star . Notice . —On and after Saturday , March 21 st , all cominuu * c-itiou . s for . Mr . Wheeler _lnu-t be addressed to him at the office of the Chartist Co-operative Land . "Micicty , ! > H . Dean-street , Soho . Suu-sccrclarWs are requested to _cojiy the above address . T . M . _WlIEEl-EH , Sec .

      "NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . P £ ll GE . _VA-llAL _SECUL-i-AllT . Mr . King .. .. « 0 11 Leicester ( profits -Maryleboiic .. .. « 8 0 on Star ) .. .. 012 EXILES' _lll'STOEATION _iOSD . Westminster .. 041 Mr . T . Salmon .. 0 0 fi Milne ' s Hook .. 0 0 11 Mr . W . Salmon .. 0 0 C City locality .. 050 Carlisle .. .. 0 10 0 Teetotal Carpenters 0 2 6 Souiers Town .. 0 5 0 City Chai ti-t Hall Mr . Moore .. ,. 0 I tl ( collection ) .. 037 Mr . II . Stallwood .. 0 0 i ; Raffle , Miinlcboiie _, Mr . Tobin .. .. 030 _pei-Codwiii .. 0 10 0 VICTIM FUND , Carpenters' Hall , Manchester .. .. .. 100 EXILES' WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS * FUND Carlisle .. .. .. .. .. -.. 070 ANTI-5 IIL 1 T 1 A SOCIETY . Leicester .. .. .. .. .. .. 050 Mv . l'i _.-kci-solc , Lambeth .. .. .. 0 ' 1 11 Mr . Fieidiug , Marple 0 •"• 0 The balance-sheet of the Xational Charter Association will appear iu next week's SUt ,: Thomas Mai-tin _Wheeleu , Secretary . ¦ _TT .

      Second Quarterly Account Of The Income A...

      SECOND QUARTERLY ACCOUNT Of the income anil expenditure of the Veterai l'atriou- ' l ' timi , and Exiles' Widows' aud Chil dren ' s Fund : quarter eudiug Sunday , March fc 1610 . INCOME . MONEY _SljCSCXinKD FOIl TUE TWO TVJ . NDS _JOISTIA * . il _.-ti-ylc-Loii-j Chartists ( _Ociujr a sum ori- £ s , tl , giualiv collected for Air . Cooper while in ¦ _•" _Jimm-d Gaol ) . 0 7 0 Mr . \ Yeir , Hamilton , Scotland 0 t 0 Mr . Gecrge White , Br . diord , "l " urkshire 0 1 0 Mr . Edward Ihadiey , Leicester 0 1 0 Mr . ltolj ' _uison , Camp , 1 ' rcscot 0 2 0 . Mr . Gray , iiuru ' ey ( collection ) ( J 1-1 0 Mr . Robertson , l'hiuoutu ( per Mr . _lloj-er O'Connor ) ... ' 0 7 C Mr . l ' earce , London ( collection ) 0 " 1 0 Uhaitist Seaman , Stockton ( _colk-ciioii ) ... 0 I ) 11 Mr . Siiums , London ( collection ) 0 7 0 Mr . Warren , London ( collection ) 0 " 1 S Mr . Dear , Loudon ( from G . 11 ., 2 s . Od . ; Mr . Loft , ls . ; Self , to make up a

      balance in committee , Cjil . ) 0 ' 1 0 j Mr . Weir , Hamilton , Scotland 10 0 Mr . Siiums , London ( collection ) 0 0 0 Messrs . Brooke and 1 h > . x , Dewsbury ... 120 John Hornby , Stockton ( collection ) ... 0 2 0 Chartist Seaman , _Stockioi' - » n-Tecs ... 0 1 0 Mr . Wheeler ( from Lower _Wailey , 10 s ., * Brighton , 7 s . ; Mr . Wells , "Is .: Air . George , ls . od . ) 115 Female Chartists of _ltoehdale ( jier Air . Mitchell ) ... 1 10 0 Collected by Mr . Suaw * . Dr . _liowkcit _, Is . ; J . Vv ' atkinson , ls . ; W . Ellis , Ud . ; S . Bicwerton , 2 s . Did . ; lt . Marsden , 1 ' rtston , Oil . ; Rev . J . Scholeiield ,

      Manchester , 10 s . Od . ; Air . Heywood , lUitti , 3 s . ; and at Bradford , as follows : —W . Ciiarnock , Gd ; W . House , Od . ; i . Jackson , Gd . * , 11 . Sutclitl ' c , ls . * , J . _CJiarieswnrth , Is . ; II . _Hudson , Oil . ; T . ll & llvhy . fi / i .: II . Mm * , h . ; _JIlewhirat , 0 d . ; J . Ryeciofo , Od . ; G . Watvon , Od . ; Roebuck Inn , Is . lOd .... 1 10 li Air . Buriev , _Alaiichester ( per Air . linger O'Connor ) 0 2 0 Mr . Brook , Little _llurti . n , near Bradford 0 M 8 Mr . Lawucr , Tunuridge Wills 0 10 0 Chartists of Uarpenters' 1 lull , Manchester 10 0 Air . _lA-nnis _Wi-snii _, ilatcfiffe 0 -111 Mr . Sliackleion ( being the ivmnant of a sum _oriiiinal _' . v intended fur a West

      London Chartist Hall ) 0 1-1 5 Mr . W . Flower , Brighton 0 1 li T . S . K ., Birmingham 0 _/*» 0 Mr . Gray , Burnley ( _eollcciiun ) 0 12 2 AU * . Whlch-r ( from Cheluiilmm , 7 s . ; from Sunderland , -5 . -. ) 0 12 0 Mr . Edward Mitchell , Rochdale I 0 0 Air . "D avid l'oit , Birmingham ( collection at the " Ship" ) ... 10 0 Mr . Reynolds , of London ( collection ) , os . Sd . * ; Air . Dear , Od 0 C 2 Box at City Chartist llall , Turnagaiiilaue : Ue . c . 7 tl \ , _Ts . _aUd . _; Dec . 14 iu . 4 s . ; Dec . 2 hi , 4 s . ; Dec . 28 ili , Sti . ; dan . 4 Ui , 2 _» . Sd . ; Jan . 11 th , Sid . ; Jan . 20 th , "is . S _.-l . ; Feb . 15 th , Od . ; March 1 st , Is . aid 15 3 *; Mr . Weather ' _nend , Keiehiev ( per Air . O'Connor ) 1 < ' 0

      £ 10 _« 7 INCOME < _-V Till ' . vr . TEP . AX VATlUOTs' VUND . Half of the Iticgoing joint _acc-oiini . ... 51 11 J- } _liaiaiu-e in hand at chse « f first quarter 0 3 I « Mr . _Maltlniw John , Mo . _-thvv Tidvil ... « ' _* « Air . T . Csrruti . evs , Carlisle ... ... 0 t b Chartist Co-operative Land Society , _Bir-Jiiim-bain \ » _" Chartist Seaman , Siuckiou-on-Tces ... 0 - 1 XKi _)« li _MSMTB _*» M ** _U IXCW 1 F . OF THE _tXiLEs' WIDOW--, ' _AXU ClUUHiKX S _l'UXl _) . Half of the _foi-cgoi .: _u j ' _. ' iiit , account ... 'J _M _"s Balance in hand at close of lirst quarter 0 - 1 Charli .-tsol'C aili . _MC ( per Mr . Whceici ) ... 0 7 <> _iuT-i- U _mmaamiBiac

      I .- _' . M ) ITUKK . Air . Thomas _Vrest-a , Jan . 5 th , 15 s . -, Jan . 2 _( Jih , 3 l ) i 2 5 0 Mr . Alian Davenporc , Jan . _otli , las . ; _^ Jan . 20 th , Ills 15 0 Air . John Richards , Jan . oth , 15 s .: Jan . 20 th , 10 s 1 5 0 Mr . Thomas R . Smart , Jan . oth , _l-5 s . ; Jan . 20 th . ICs 1 5 f > Total cxpeiulituro of Veteran Patriots ' Fund _fli 0 0

      _mogniiiiiii Mrs . Ellis , Irom the Exiles' AVidows' _ai-d Children ' s Fund , Jan . Sth , . 112 15 s . ; Jan . 2 C-. ii , £ 2 Hts £ o 5 0 _iMinmr—" Whole income of Veteran Patriots' Fund fur sternal quarter 10 10 Is Whole _os-fi-ulum * of ditty ( i 0 0 Balance in hand £ 1 10 _ ' : Whole income of Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund for second quarter ... 10 1 4 " Whole vXiiciKiilure of ditto ... « ... . ? 5 ( I _JJala-wsial-and £ i I ' _jj

      'Ihe Polish .Insurhectickn.- ' The Follo...

      'IHE POLISH . INSURHECTiCkN .- ' The following proclamation lias been issued by the 1 _vovisioiutl Government at Cracow : — MANIFESTO OI ? TIIE POLISH GOVERNMENT OF THE _GEXERAS POLISH CAUSE . Poles ! The hour of insurrection has sounded . All dismembered Poland rises and _greateus . Already our brothers of the Grand Duchy of Posen , of Russian Poland , and of Lithuania , have risen , and in Russia combat against the enemy : they combat for their most sacred right , taken irom tlicin hy force and fraud . You know well what litis passeil and is passing . The flower of our youth languishes ii ! _duugcuiiii . Our fathers , whose councils sustaincd us , are subjected to contempt . Our clergy is

      reviled . \\ houvcr desires to live or die for Poland is destroyed , or pines in u dungeon , or is liable every moment to be thrown into one . The groans of millions of our brethren , who perish under the knout in subterranean dungeons , _« ud are sent away to the remotest cuds of the countries of our oppressors , submitting to all the sufferings of whicli humanity is capable of enduring , have deeply struck and moved our hearts . They have taken away our glory ; prohibited our language ; interdicted the profession of the faith of our fathers . They oppose insurmountable barriers to the amelioration of our social state , arm brother against brother , aud calumniate the most honoured children of our country . Brothers , one step morn ,

      and Poland exists no longer . Our grandchildren Will curst our memory for having left them nothing , iu one of the finest countries of the world , hut deserts and ruins ; for having lett ouv warlike people in irons ; for bavins forced _tliem to profess it foreign faith , to speak a Strange luuguage , and for h . wing reduced them to he slaves of our oppressors . The dust of our fathers , martyrs of the rights of the nation , cries from -he tomb to avenge then ? . Children at the breast implore us to preserve for them the country that God has confided to us , The free nations of the world invite us not to allow our nationality to be destroyed . God himself invites us . lie who will one day demand an account of our _stewardship . We .-tic twenty niiU ' ous ! let us rise im one mail ,

      and no force on earth can crush our power . We .-hall have such liberty as never was enjoyed on this earth . Let its ciu ' _cauour to _soinjticr a / twits of liberty ofa community , where each shall enjoy the goods of the earth , according to his merit aud his capacity . Let there be no more privileges , hut each Pole find full _set-uriti fur himself , his wife , his children , and let him who is inferior in mind or body , rind without humiliation the infallible aid of Ihc nation , _uiJiidi statu" have the absolute properly of the laud which to-day is only enjoyed by some . Interests ( class interests ?) thus cease , as well as _coi-uca aud similar rights and those who shall fall with arms iu their hands for the national cause , shall obtain an indemnity iu the

      land or national goods , Poles . ' from this moment we recognise not any difference . Let us henceforward be as the children of one mother—of justice ; of oue fatherthe God who is in Heaven . Let us invoke his aid ; he will bless our arms , and give us victory ; but in order to draw down his blessing , we must not sully ourselves by the vice of drunkenness , or any other iut _' _woious action ; let us not treat despotically those who have been _cuun'de-1 to us ; let us not kiil those who are without arms , nor such as do not think with ourselves , not strangers ; for uv fight not ivith people , but with their oppressors . In token of friendship let us mount tiie national cockade , and take the following oath : —

      " I swear to serve Polnnd , my country , by council , word , and action . 1 swear lo sacrifice to her my _ojjinions , my life , Illy fortune . 1 swear absolute obedience to the national government , whicli has been erected in Cracow the - . ' - ' ud of this month , at eight o ' clock in the evening , in the house of Krystuftirz , aud to all the authorities instituted bv the government . And may God assist me to keep this vow . " This manifesto shall be inserted ir the government journals , sent into all Poland , and notified in all the churches from the pulpit , aud iu all the communities by placards iu puulic places . Loots Gokzkowski , Jean Lissowski , and Alexandre Ghxecokzewski . ClIARLKS Glty . _ECOIii'BWSKI , Secretary ofthe Government . Cracow , Feb . 23 , 1 S 4 G .

      Ivrystofon : was the residence ot Joseph _Pontntowski , during the campaign of ISO'J , and is-held in respect by the _Cracovians . Cracow itself was the cviulle of the old Polish monarchy , and capital of the kingdom under the Jagcllen race . In addition to the decree above given , it is stated by tlie Paris F > ebut $ that other decrees were issued on the 2-1 th , and _nnionjr the names attached to them appear . ' thut oi" Count Pottilicki . One ol * the richest citizens oi ' Poland , Count Wodzieki , an old . soldier , has been named , it is said , Commander of the Guard of Safety of the Republic .

      ihe provisional government has taken the most urgent measures of defence , lor on all sides Prussian , _AAii-tvinu , and _liussmn forces were marching- to crush iiic insurrection . The Austrian Colonel iianfeldt , with 400 of the old Cracow militia , have passed over to the new government . It was said tintt desertion had manifested itself in the regiments Mawidulls and IWtotilli , and that they had been sent away from ( jallicin . Ic was the attempt to destitute this Colonel hy the Austrian General , De Collin , which caused tlie militia iu rise , and tiirced De Collin to retreat to Podgorzu . The three Consuls ofthe Protecting _Poweis had re . tired into Gallicia and Silesia . Their houses were plundered during the lit st explosion . The insurgent force was said to be twelve thousand , armed with scytnes ; but the scythe is the national weapon of the Poles , and it was with this arm that they beat the Russians at Rudavin _, under Kosciusko .

      Ihe town ol Cracow is an open town , without tUiy defence , but an old castle on tlie _Podgorze side . J n Gallicia , it was said , on the taich of travellers , that the insurgents were well armed and furnished with eavalrv .

      By Letters From The Austrian Frontiers, ...

      By letters from the Austrian frontiers , Lemuerg , Feb . 22 , we have the following _;—Up to the present , one hundred persons have been _nrri'bieil ai Lemuel's ; the garrison has been reinforced by three squadrons of hussars . The troops are kept constantly under anus , and under the strictest discipline . The report that the prison and arsenal were attacked by the _in-urgents is not continued . Great excitement prevails among the people . Lumber ? , is jiuiuilatMi by Germans , _aitd by 30 , 000 Jews , yet they manifest gieat sympathy with the Pules . The _reuohtiiviutrtr spirit has spread exceedingly amongst the _woriiiuu dusses .

      At Wadowizea Count Bobrowski has been arrested with four comrades . Ten new arresis have taken p lace ; among others MM . Poninski and Laniiiski . A repot t was current that a general _iusiinvctioit had broken out iu Poland , and that ; the _Pwpe had _MCiit a brief to approve of the insurrection . k is suiu that sutim of Uie , _uiswvffvttts have been tried by court-martial , and shoe , at _Lctnberg . _Vii-. N . _NA , Feb . 26 . — -The official papers confirm the retreat of General Collin , tlie Austrian reprtsentative . M . de Lieinann is at Biala . Part of the _gari-isor . of Olmut _/ . arc under marching orders . _ZVic ¦ rovoiiitionurp spirit has gained the troops . _M-my ( _leal ' _i-warrants only await the signature ol ' the _lunpeior . The events iu Gallicia have greatly afl ' ected ihe Bourse . The shar . s of ihe Milan Railway have fallen from 22 to 20 .

      lt is reported that General Collin dismissed the Commandant of the National Guard at Cracow . The National Guard , not appvoving ot * this measure , _jjiiiuediau-Jy joined the _insiir-jeiih * . _Figlitim ; coinineiicfd at once in the streets , and 20 » men of the iiilautry and half of thu cavalry ( 110 men ) were slain . The troops retired towards the bridge over the _Vistula , and part ol * _ihein were cut off . The _bridge has been destroyed , some say by the troops , some by the patriots . At Cracow , and in the neighbourhood , the patriots muster 12 , 000 strong , but very _brnlly _pioviiietl with arms ; thousands have nothing but scythes . Up to the present , the Russians have only been able to collect oOO men of infantry , and about KK . I _Ooss-tcks , who have just entered the territory of Cracow . _^ The insurgents seem determined on dossing the Vistula , below OMiivieneziu , and on entering _Gallii-iii .

      In lolliiiia , and _iiortiif-rn _Hiingiii-y , something is stimns , hut , as yet nothing ot' importance has o _.-cmrc-ii . The Si'iiaienf CVnemv has retired with the Austrian iroops to Piidgoize . The whole territory of Cracow is hemmed in by - . roups . VircssA , _aotli . —General Collin has received reinforcements and more are expected daily . The _cous'iiracy extends from Thorn to tlte Carpnkiar mountains . A regiment hr . s received orders to leave Vienna for the " frontier . Two other regiments , one from Olmttiz , the oilier from Tropau , are under marching orders . Thu two _vetiimcnts _Mazachelli and Uertoletti _, _composed principally of Poles , have been disbanded * It is said that , desertions hare taken place from the troop ., commanded by _Geiu-ral Collin .

      The . _i ' oliow ' uie ; information is derived from letters received from _Pt'tt-sia aud Saxony : — Ilr . uus . Fmi . 27 . —The Minister of the Interior has received , ii is said , the information that -Voro-* The following inter uppeavwl in the Jtoily Ants of Tuesday : — 10 S , High Hollioni . Sir , —You state in y « nr paper of io-day that " the two regiments Ma-sachrili _awd _Ui-rtolciti , i : oiupo > 'i > d principally of Poles , have been disbanded in Cnliicia , " on account of tlie Austrian government being aware Hoa they sympathised with the Polish national insuritc tlo _» . _'l'lie two regiments , as even their names might indicate , are Italian regiments , and almost exclusivel y composed of Italians . Hoping that the correction may prove uf some importance as evincing a symptom of the _Ittil-. tm feeling u > - wards a brave oppressed people engaged iu a cause identical iiith our _i . wn , 1 remain ., sir , your most obedient servant . March !) . Jos , _iUzziKi ,

      By Letters From The Austrian Frontiers, ...

      _slaicfci , t / ie ' _icutl oj the conspiracy , had escaped trum his prison . Silesia , Bkesi . au , Feb . 27 . —Letters just arrived from . Cracow say that the Austriuiishiwe been driven from Podgorze and Wielieska , and that the insurgents are gaining ground in Gallicia . , , According to news , daied Breslau , 3 rd March , Silesia : — The insurgents muster 40 , 000 strong :. _DmssuEN , 24 th . —M . Seiuoeder . Russian Charge d'Aiiaires , who had proceeded to Weimar , lias been recalled in all haste , as his presence was deemed necessary . The Universal _^ German Gazette assures us that the bombardment of Cracow lias commenced . The number of arrests in the province of Posen alone is 8011 .

      Intellfgeace received lrom Frankfort up to tiie 27 th ult ., state that on the 21 th , the victorious Polish insurgents crossed the Vistula , at Siepulomize , near which they were joined by numerous partisans , and whence they proceeded to \ Veiliezka , in the hope of sin-prising the Treasury of the Alining Administration . By this movement the coinnuililWl' ol the Austrian lorccs ( General Collin ) was threatened ou his left Hank , and was obliged to retreat still further from Cracow than Podgorze , and to fall 'back ' on Mogilani and Wadowice , where he was in hourly expectation of receiving reinforcements . A considerable quantity of snow had fallen during the two preceding days , and that circumstance , together with the spread of the insurrection , had prevented any communication between the truups of the three protecting powers . It appears , by all accounts , thai the insurgents found plenty of arms aud ammunition iu Cracow , and other sinews of war . All anxiety tho

      respecting late of the Austrian and Prussian ministers in Cracow is now happily removed , as ic is ascertained that tbe former safely escaped to Tesehen , and the latter to Prus-ian Silesia . . Numerous priests and monks are in the ranks of the insurgents . According to an account in the Frankfort _Oberpostamts _Zeiltmg _, _&\> ortion ofthe Russian frontiers had at one time been invaded by the Poles , who had , however , been repulsed . It appeal's that t \ Y 0 Belgians | , are amongst the leaders ofthe _insurgents . Several senators of Cracow , and tlte bishop , were obliged , on the night of the 22 nd , to seek safety in _llight . They have reached Vienna . Up to tlie 24 th the number ofthe Polish adherents was reckoned at 20 , 000 . Martial law has ' been proclaimed in the districts of Lemberg , _lizeszower , Bochina , and Tarnow . The last account from the first town was , that disturbances had broken out in the district ot Koloinear , and that large bodies of insurgents had made their appearance in _Sangei-z .

      Ihe Augsburg _Allgemeine Zeilung , ofthe 2 nd im , t ., contains intelligence lrom Cracow up to the 23 rd ultimo . It fully confirms the accounts already _forw-iidcd , that early on the morning of the 21 st , the Austrian troops were attacked by the insurgents . The day oi' the 21 st passed off quietly , but on the 22 nd a , very considerable number of insurgents , led by the Polish nobles Patulski , Darowski , _By-stmriirvvftli ) , ami Wenzil , got possession of the castle . The above paper adds that the Austriatis , on account of the overwhelming majority of their opponents , were obliged to evacuate the city , and that details of ti frightful nature respecting the outbreaks on the _Silcstan frontier had been received . It- promises further particulars on the morrow ( the 3 rd inst . )

      Accotding to the Austrian Observer , the Polish Eagle was _sus _' _fCtKieii over Poiigoize _, and the insurrection spreading in the neighbourhood of Tarnow , Bochiiia , and ltzcHKiw , where , as _,-:,-i ted by the above journal , very distressing ( sehr betruUiude ) ' scenes had occurred . P . S . lt is now ascertained that the money-box of the mining- administration at _Wielicxka has fallen into the hands of the insurgents . Up tu the 27 th no news from Warsaw had reached Vienna , via Breslau , during several days .

      _i'he Deutsche _Alluenwine Zeilung states that on the 23 rd ult . the western portion of Gallicia was in the possession of the insurgents , who , on the 25 th , repulsed , with considerable loss , a company of the Breslau jager who had marched on the territory of Cracow , h is generally supposed that to-morrow ( the oth inst . ) the troops of the three protecting powers will inarch towards Cracow . According to the journal last quoted , a rumour prevailed in Breslau , on _tbeSSth ult ., that disturbances had broken out in Hungary . It is now certain , beyond the possibility ol doubt , that the present movement is , or will be , a _getterai one throughout ancient Poland . We take the following _ti-oni the German Universal Gazette : —

      '" BiHisiAu , 2 Sni Feb . —On the 23 rd inst . the insurgents attacked the _Ausmans at Podgorze , and are said to have driven them back into Austrian Silesia . Thus eastern Gallicia would be in the hands of the insurgents . Up to the present tke insurgents have had the upper hand against the Russia troops in Poland . An _insurrection is said to have broken out at Lem berg . lt is reported that the Jews have offered considerable sums to the provisional _govenimenr , and to enrol themselves for the common cause . At Cracow , women on horseback parade the streets tlie priests bless the arms ot the men , and pi each revolt . The _pvovisiotuu-y govermnentsent two detachments _towai-os the Russian frontier , who took some Cossack _ptisoneis , but it is said that the insurgents have been beaten by the Anstrians at Wadoveza . General Clopizki has left for Dresden .

      According to correspondence from _Miml-erg ' , Russian Poland is in movement , and lighting has commenced _between the military and the people _. At W'ilna the populace were fired on with grape—50 , 000 Russians are hi Poland , and the soldiers lia , ve received orders to give no quarter . From Silesia , 1 st March . —At Cracow the insurgents have shown the greatest respect for Prussia . Whilst the Austrian and Russian eagks were torn from tho _hoieis of the representatives , aud dragged in the mire , the Prussian eagle was respected , and an armed force was _> ent to protect M . Eiigelimrdc , the Prussian representative ,

      BATTLES BETWEEN THE POLES AND TIIE _; AUSTUlAiNS . [ From the German papers . ] The Franktort Obcrportaints Zeilung publishes the following correspondence , dated Vienna , . March 1 , It must be observed that this journal has , from the commencement of the outbreak , shown itself hostile to the en use ofthe Polish insurgents : — " _PuuGoit-tE , fc _')' . B .-J" ? . _—Yesterday afternoon General Collin marched through this ti . wu from Wadowizc , with live companies of tlie Schwelling infantry , a bitttaliun of the _Furstcnwortli infantry , a corps of militia , a squadron of imperial chuvaux letters , and a

      hail batteiy . He arrived in front of this place at six this evening . The insurgentsoeeupied the Bret floors » f the houses and barracks , _wiieiice thev tired < m the Austrian troops as they stormed the place . After a short' resistance the termer abandoned their posts , and hastened over the _oridae lo Cracow . Several lives were lost . General Collin was attacked by another body of Cracow insurgents , whom he repulsed with the loss of eighty hilled or taken prisoners . Several additional troops arc expected here to-morrow . Bieiitcriitnt-Coloiiel _Bi'iiciiekl , at the head of the faithiul armed peasants , attacked with ell ' ect the _iusiUgeiits , who have already beeu repulsed beyond Wielicsika . "

      1 he breslau correspondent of tue Ikustchc Allgemeine Zeilung states , under date March 1 , that an engagement had already taken place at . Gdow between the Austrian forces and the insurgents , and that tlie hitdcr had been ( iefc-atcd . G < iow is a ' lOUC four German miles from Cracow , and lies on the high road to Lemberg . The same writer also ennouneos the approach of the Prussian troops along tlte frontier of Cracow , in the direction of _Bettthe and Piessen _, and adds that they were short oi provisions . They were under the command of General You _Bradeubui-gh .

      Other accounts from Breslau , under date March 1 , state -hiit the provisional government of Cracow were actively ciiLaged in ¦ placing the city and territory ill a .-. laic of defence ; that no excesses were commuted there by the _ini-uvgeuts , amongst whom were 0000 men armed with scythes ; and that on the 20 ch ult . twenty Austrian cannons passed through Biala . Intelligence from Posen in the . _' l « _i _/*' . « ri ; _J % fl ««; ic Zeituna tu the 21 th ult ., states thut the _g-arrii > oii had received strong _rviuiMWim'iils . All wa > quiet tkere up to that period . About _tiliy individuals , chiefs , belonging to the upper classes , were in custody . According to the Vienna correspondent o ! the above

      journal , the coiiiuuiiiieariuit between Tarnow and Ltmbcrg has not been interrupted . Vienna papers state that lour ilii _.- > i : ii _: _infwiry _vej-iments were posted at Kiclce , about lii ' teen miles from Cracow . The above named paper also _-iiiblisties a correspondence- limn ihe Galliciau frontiers , _iiii-. ier dale February 2 uUi , according to which it was generally reported that the patriots had burned the town oi Kmomaa . Much anxiety prevailed in Lemberg About ( 1 , 000 patriots had collected in the _iieiuhlmtirhimd of Sandccz , a portimi of whom marched into the Hungarian district of Arva . Numerous Poles , who had been living in Vienna , Prague , Brunn , ifce _., had left for the scene uf the

      revolt-All Russian Poles living in foreign countries havo been ordered by their government to return home , under tbe penalty of confiscation of their property _. Tin . ' _V'ta ' iie ctiiti Mosaic Gazette asserts that an _instiiTi'clitmary movement- had taken place in the neighbourhood of lummeiieiz , in South Russia , and at Lublin . A later number uf the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeilung stales that the accounts respecting the defeat of the insurgents at _Wailowi / . _- ; had -not beui confirmed ; and that , on the cmtrary , the Pales were _gtun-ing ground in Gallicia , and had been victorious in some _iMCotmtcrs (/ ii enigeu Gefuhten . glmklich gewescu ) , _Smlksia , Feb . 27 . —The insurgents are masters of about , lit ' teeti German miles round Cracow ( sixty-nine English ) . 2 ' / ic _mj-itri-wiih * trait the Germans wah the greatest moderation . At Cracow it is _suilieietit . to wear a red and white cockade to be in _sM ' _vtv .

      Tomorrow , the post organised by the instiiv . _i-. 'i ( s will commence uommimication with Prussia . Vesterday some Poles from Dresden were uot permitted to pro-

      By Letters From The Austrian Frontiers, ...

      ceed to Polnnd . _Giezfe , inspector of police , supposing that the conspiracy was hatched in . Paris , exacted aU letters coming from that city . The director of the Port has laid a complaint . _Prussian Simwia , Feb . 28 . —Russia has so much to ( lo ill Lithuania , and on the Prussian frontier , both east and west , that-no very considerable force can march on the republic of Cracow . Brksmi / , March 1 . —The revolutionary government at Cracow have issued a new coin and paper money . Craeovia is divided into eleven districts . Each district is under the care of a commissary . The government have taken the treasures .. of the cathedral for the publie good , lt is said the insurgents arc pining around in Gallicia . General llohr commands the troops . The insurgents have already been summoned to surrender . It is said that the Prussian troops will not enter Cracow alone , but in with Austrian and Russian troops .

      company Prussian troops to the number of 5000 have left for tho frontier . , .. Fkoxtikr of Polaxd . —Fresh troops arrive daily at Warsaw from the interior of Russia , 'i here are but few regular troops iu the different towns of Poland . Austma , Viksxa , Feb . 27 . —The accounts from Galliciaare still of an alarmimr nature . Tlie insurgents are advancing to the number of 10 , 000 . The Jesuits ' College at Tarnow litis been pillaged . We hear from Prague that Count Than has been arrested . It is certain . that at a ball the imperial eagle fell amidst general applause . General Szembcck , well known in the revolution of 18 D 2 , is among the insurgents . _STATl * OF IVAIl & AW , | Fromthe Journal desDelats . ]

      A letter dated the 20 th ult . from K-ilteh , a frontier town of Polish Russia , communicates a new incident in the Polish insurrection . On the _2-kh Prince Paskewitsch received at Warsaw an _estafetlc from Baron de Sternberg , the Russian Consul at Cracow , informing him of tiie insurrection , and the retirement of the Austrian troops from the city . He immediately gave orders to the small body of troops in the province on the border ni tho republic of Cracow to move towards the frontier , and form a junction with all the Austrian .- - . But on tlie same day a despatch from Sicdlce informed him that the chief town

      of the old Palatinate had become the theatre of a sanguinary conflict ; between the troops and the inhabitants . The remarkable featurs is that this collision took place precisely at the period fixed for the general insurrection . _Siedlee is a considerable town , and was the pivot of the operations of the Polish army on the right bank of the Vistula during the hue war in Poland , Prince Paskewitsch is said to have given orders for numerous arrests at Warsawand in other parts of Poland . The people of Warsaw are in a state of apprehension difficult lo describe . The troops are confined to their barracks , and sleep in their uniforms , with their arms by their sides .

      _MANIFESTO 01 " THE POLES TO THE PRUSSIANrBOPLE . Mes of tue Prussian People , Your masters have ordered you to be ouv- - _tiemies . Let us , however , address you in the name of that which man holds most dear—in the name of his family , of his pleasures , and of his duty . In the name of national honour , whose noblest attribute will always be that of being intrusted with the defence , at the price of our blood and our fortunes , of the rights given us by nature on our native soil , but without ever failing to coiiscieiitionsly respect them in others ; in the name ofthe faith , wliich sees in the events of the history of the world the hand oi au _etcniiil Providence , without whose infinite wisdom and power the sublimest thines would , even under a

      terrestrial point of view , be but a frivolous jest and a contemptible gain . Your masters have ordered you to be our enemies 1 Have you well wei _ghed why and for what und ? Have they done this with a view to your welfare , your honour , your position amongst _nutions at the present time and hereafter ? Well , join us in looking back seriously and without prejudice on the event * of the last seventy-five years , and say yourselves if a _crying injustice and without parallel , if a revolting infraction of all immortal mid itiiprcscriptable national rights has not been committed with the only object of making away , by the desf ruction ofa noble people , who , forw many centuries , by _glorious battles , served as a rampart to all civilised Christian Europe against Asiatic barbarism , to tlie Mogul power which it restrained , towards nn easv subjection of

      alt the inst . since that , under the reign ot leter the First , Kussia joined the European system , the only aim of its policy , as shown by every page of its history , has been the subjection under its sceptre of two parts of the world ; and where she could not conquer by force of arms , she sought to obtain by the baneful tortuous cunning of her diplomacy , or by the intimidation of tho Slates it hose weakness or blindness gave them up to her mercy . On thesouthshe advanced by _mcksuredslepstowanUtheeonquest of Persia and Turkey , and there it is that she presents to fascinated Europe the spectacle of an aggressive war against au Unvote _vacc of _Xiwwitaiviwvs , a * _kbt in which she is prodigal wiih an equal indift ' erenee of the blood of friends and of foes . Poland stopped her way on the east . You are acquainted with what took place .

      Hussia would not suffer any barrier to exist between her am ) Europe ; Prussia and Austria , with a blind egotism , sacrificing the safety and the advantage of the future to the delusive advantages ofthe present , fell into the snare , overthrew the barrier which "dickered them from their natural and most powerful enemy , and Poland was torn to pit _cus But so that tin-re might not be ' any doubt as to the real meaning ol" this banditory act , the partitioningwas so made that Russia was alluwed to take to herself a part out of all proportion of the iniquitous booty , whilst the others were compelled to be satisfied with crumbs whicli fell from the muster ' s table . If the crowned robbers had , after accomplishing their nefarious deed , acted towards each other according to the rules of common equity , every one of the three powers ought to have had a third ofthe whole booty . Quite the reverse—Prussia obtained by the first partition , in 1772 , one-seventh of the

      plunder ; by the second , in 1793 , one-sixth : and by the third , in 17 i )* i , one-fourth . At the second , Austria was even wholly left out . Now , this inequality , which already meant enough , became still more remarkable when , in ISIS Kussia took back from Prussia and Austria a large portion of that which she had yielded to them , in return for the assistance they had given her , so that Prussia now scarcely possesses one-thirteenth . part of Poland . Hear ye this , one-thirteenth part of Poland : but as the infamy of robbery cannot be divided , _Prussia ( Iocs net the . ess bear in full the opprobrium uf having been an accomplice in one of the greatest politieai crimes recorded iu the history of nations , Yor _' , and tlit Prussian _Cahinec did Out add to the weight of its crime when it participated in the stcoud partition , after _having given the most formal u . ssuninces ofits assistance against every attempt _aji . -. inst tht- ri ghts which it had so solemnly _recoj-niscd to Poland .

      It has been _pretended to be maintained that the Prussia of the last century , as _beiiiy a stale but ill its _iufam-y , was to _Ictik only to its aggrandisement and extension of territory ; besides which it wns , in fact , too weak tn resist such au art as the partition of Poland , oven though she had felt the meanness and injustice of it , so that she had no other alternative ihi . n to see the booty pass into the hands of others , aud take a share thereof for herself . This mode of arguing constitutes a sophism so much the move pitiful that it proupposes that , with the altera- tion of the policy of Prussia in respect to Poland , the _> system of the Prussian alliances could , in other respects , , be wholly maintained . If Prussia , faithful to its en- - _( ragriuents towards Poland , bed dtclared war against t Kussia , it would have had to abandon the coalition i aL' . _-iinst the liberties ami independence of l ' _l-am-r , of f

      which she tormed a parr , and then , supported "y _i-ran _. c B and Poland , sh <> would not only have been victorious over- _.-Ilussia and Austria , but . she would have escaped the $ shame of defeats . It would have placed _hcrsi-lf half a i century sooner at the head of the German _natioual unity , , without the French llcpublic ever being _ablv to beiome b an invading aggressive power . The victories gained by v France over a coalition , to which Piussia belonged , after r Poland had been partitioned , and its parts had increased d the . strength of the _respective allied Powers , ihow the e truth of tins assertion ; which , _huweuer , is to _oe drawn n from the principle , thut u political injustice is not only a a crime , but also a fault ; and that the situation of Prussia , a , for founding the Get man unity , i » so closely a uiou ' . oitstsi nature , that nothing less than so erroneous and _iniqui-iitous a policy as that of Prussia towards Poland couidldl prevent il , before already half a century , from taking _pos-JS--session of so glorious a position .

      Whatever may be the real weight of such an _apologygyy for measures taken under tiie inilueiiee uf pa _> i _evellts _^ S n w ) : iir . is certain is , that under existing circlllUHuiiCCS il ill destroys itself . _lii'i'iiity can never create a ri ght . Pi _ussiti , who in thdi « _lSili eeiuury laid the weight on her conscience of _particik-ii _. patiug in the rubbery committed in Poland , does no lesssss in the Wth than continue her crime , when , in violation oi ol ! a neutrality called for no less by tlie precepts uf a wisiisu policy than by the principles of national equity and of aian enlightened huniaiuty , she gives _lu-v assistance to a _tyvauau-inieal and barbarian power to oppress a people wlu . se oiiljnl "" _Cl'imu has been , in the defence of thu most _xit-vttu _righti ' _itu trampled under fuot _, the hating had recourse to t \ ut \ w supreme remedy of nations and kings—to the strength oli 0 ) arms . In its servile zeal for the Kus > ian despot , Pi ussissij _; ( to quote only one example out of a thousand ) , in iS _* j . S _* jj . and 1 SB- ' went so fur , at Elbing and at _l- _'icbau , as to lirlirr on poor Polish soldiers disatmed under a yoke wliichicH

      they hud thrown oil ' . Then llmved the blood of uuhapp , pp ) refugees—on whose head is it to rest 1 And , 10 shoiioil you the consequence to which the suiisetvieiicy of th tin Prussia- * cabinet to views exclusivel y Russian , we as' as ¥ you , for whose benefit has the treaty buwecii Ilussia an am Piussia , relating to tiie giving up of deserters , been ra r « newed 1 Mutual , as if a Prussian soldier could ever hr bb mad enough to desert his colours to give himself up tip tt the _Utissiiiu knout!—as if . iu comparison to the miserserr attendant on Russian _slavc-rv , the hard labour at _Spandaidar were nut an enviable existence . Thus the whole benenietii of the treaty is on the side of Kussia , from which sh slu derived her means of increasing the weig ht , t her _chamamn on her victims , aud Prussians they were who _obtaineinee the honour of acting as gaolers for Muscovite _barbarit-rityy Your mas ters have ordered you to be our enemies , an am seek to make vou friends of Kussia . Is Prussia then noi nom still so weak thatshe must , for the sake of her own _preiei-ien ration , adopt a line of conduct averse even to hercoicoii seii'iiee and _fcelimrs of honour ? Dots she at thistimtima [ For remainder ofthe _Folishnews , see our eighth _pagWQM

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 14, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14031846/page/5/