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      FRANCE . There is a complete dearth of political news , in the absence of which wemay state that the French _Govern-Eisnt are engaged in ferreting out the hordes oi _jnjicreante , _mm-derers , and thieves with which Paris i » notoriously overran . On _Satrjrday last a _consiacrable military force , placed -under the direction ef three comiuiasaries ofpolice , surrounded two public establishments on the Boulevard du Temple—tlic Gale duPny-de-I ) 5 me and the Caveau-the haunts of malefactors and receivers of stolen good * . TJpwards e 200 individuals were arrested anefmarehed to the prefecture of Police , in hands of twenty and thirh- at i time . PORTUGAL .

      Lisbon , February 4 . —Doctor _Kailev , thc _pcisos who has of late made such a stir in _' the island of Madeira , as a Bible Society Missionarr , arrived here last week from FunehaL The object of his visit , I nE derstand , Kto make personal application to Lord Howard on thc subject of his claim for compensation for the imprisonment he suffered . That claim , there _fc every reason to believe , lias fallen to thc _croiuid . a ? the law-officers of the Portuguese Crown , and the Supreme Tribiuial of Justice , have decided that the _ifiiprisooment was perfectly legal , several overt acts asainst tbe established religion of the country , such a ? tarning its principal doctrines publicly into

      derision _, _navmg been tally proved against hun . Settmg all religious _considei-ations apart , it is a fact much to be deplored—and I have it on the authority of persons "who have lately come from _JLidemi—that Dr K . s interference there has gonefkr to destroy all the friendly feelings which the people of that bland cher ished towards England . Baron Suaree , a French c-fScer , who _^ had served in Don Pedro ' s army , daring tie Miguelite contest , was last week arrested by crder of the _Goveniment , and veiy _uneorcmouiou-Jv _slitmed off for England on board the Royal Tar . M . Jose dc Silva C _' aiTidho , a peer of tin * i _* ealn > , and formerly _Minister of Finance , died _ktf-t night , after £ short illness caused by indigestion .

      WEST INDIES . _^ ci-TiiAMPio . _v , _MoxiiAi . —The Deo , Royal mail _rftam-sbip , Capt . Ilem . sler . arriveti tbi-j < _tay , _,-it one _o * clo ; ii , from tiie West Indies , with the usual mails with the exception of those from the interior of _ftivxico . These , from -some cause or other , had not arrived when the l > cc left Vera Cruz on the 2 nd of Jan - wy- . Then- is no news of importance from -the _WeSl Indies . The reason of the delay in thc _airivai of the Dec is , that oa thc 22 nd ult . she encountered _s _hc-aTj * gale from the W . N . W ., which continued for three davs . A cross » ca struck her and carried awav _bcrT-addlc-floate .

      UNITED STATES . I _r-uwooL , Satchiiav Evening . —The packet ship Yorkshire , under thc command of Captain Bailey , _bas _^ m -red hero this evening froiu 2 f ( fW 1 Orh , WhCnCC sic sailed on tbe 16 th ultimo , and by her arrival we iavcbceuputiiipob _« essionof paper- * from that city iwu days later than those received on Saturday last b r the Stephen Whitney , but tbe new ? they contain _isaeagreand unimportant , in _apoliticaljiointofview , but not so with commercial matters . Tec ( i . _cESTiox or the . _Ajxxexatios of Texas _coiitbued the subject engaging the almost exclusive r-tteution of Congress , with about just as much prospect of the matter beiug settled as on the day it was

      -first mooted . The question appears to have resolved itself into the simple proposition whether Texas shall be admitted as one of thc United States for the purpose of perpetuating slavery , or whether she shall be admitted , and after admission her _territories be equally divided between slave-holders and freemen . _PrcvJousto the 13 th , many attempts had been made tv bring fhe debate to a conclusion , but without effect , arc on that day Air . Brown , of Tennessee , offered a ioht resolution , declaring thc terms on which Texas ijmy be annexed as a state , and it was read twice and committei The house then went into committee ef the whole on the joint resolution reported _S-oni the committee of foreign affairs for the annexation of Texas .

      We learn with _rcgi-ci the death of >» . i . Ilarnden , of ihe firm of _iianideu aud Co ., who died at . Boston . He was the founder of the popular system cf e .-qiressing , and was much esteemed . " Commskcial matters in the States were drawing rapidly to a crisis . Thc New York Herald gives the following as the condition ofthe _coininereial world : — " TLe recent movements in the commercial world , Loth in Europe and America—the fall in thc price of cotton , the vacillations in the position of the banks , arid ihe currents and _counter-cmrents in operation , present every indication to the philosopher aud the _5-iatesman , that a storm is approaching in the _coiujaereial world , partial , perhaps it may be , but springing from the same causes , and producing similar results as the great revulsions of 1837 , 1839 , and

      1 S 41 . There is no use in mincing the matter . when danger is -ahead , and the only way to get through the difficulty is to meet it fully in the face . Let us come to particulars . Our money market reports , for some time past , have given evidence , by their daily _TC'ord of events in _W-dl-strect , that there weiv at work , in the commercial world , some great and primary dements of disturbance . These symptoms Save sow developed themselves in sueh a degree that we are able to trace them to their origin , and to show the causes of anticipated danger . From the great _nTnision of 1 S 37 , up to the year 18 : 12 , efforts wenlaade to revive the trade of this _tountry , but commercial affairs were so mixed up with political matters , and thc conduct of public bodies in the rcpudiatir . g states was much as to prevent any real or

      positive convalescence from talcing place . In 1842 , duri-ag a certain condition of the English market , a _larse number of the speculators and merchants of London , Liverpool , and Havre entered very largely line the export of specie from those countries into thc United States . By this large export they wm * _ecarM to come into tie American -umbels _, and , k a great measure , to monopolise than , to increase tin current prices of the day , and thus _realiseimmeusr rn : 'li ; ,. Dm _* hi 2 tliis movement they availed them selves of the rise of prices produced by the veiy speciv v-likii they exported io this country to get rid of the stocks which they possessed in the old world . This _esirionlinai _*} - rise in thc cotton market , produced by the _aoplieation of immense masses of specie exported te liis country , created life and activity throughout tb ? _nhole southern , western , aud northern countrygave aa impnlst * to the bauking institutions , and

      _ssemed at length to convince persons in commercial life that " _nood times" had again returned . Under tliis impulse the merchants of this country , of all _lii » es , entered into the same movements ; and _Ijelieving that the country was bare of goods , they _ce-n-aenced a vast import of foreign merchandise , even ia the face of an increased tariff , which laid the _foiK-daiion of many of the subse _^ ent effects that are now _begiiining to be felt by mauy of our commercial tion . The extraordinary increase of our foreign hm-rts during ihe whole of ISiS , together with the _increased product of cotton , _occasioned by the M _ , h price-- of ' 42—the immense amount of specie stfll rem-ihang iu thc country , and thereby enabling the _h-jiiife- to extend their circulation—all concurring to-• _re-ia-r , produced a slight over-action in trade and foarnercial affair * generally , which has been the ?¦ _" _- ' dation of the _j-reseni re-action . ' "

      ¦ -: » :-. OF THK _BETriHJC— _-T 1 IZ AMEHlCA ** f _ETJ _OttSU-lxa . _" _JOHtlMi- ? r . OOKE _* _iS OI THE _ASE-SISNX WAR . t . _^ te _c-ftbx _Rkpcblic . — -Wc lave been _requested t ' _-vv-busdi the following letter { extracted from the _. _*¦ ¦ York National Reformer ) , addressed by a citizen o _. New York io a friend in _2 fffwca _= _tIe-ui » Oii-Tyae _. _^ gl _* ind : _- _Vvu have no nution of the _swri : of rivalry—1 will nut _ii- t _. _tj- —that exists among * our _ixslitieiaus . Ali .: _«? st ¦ - Ty oric of them enters thc field with a view to establish hi- _Js 7 _nia-H-rid « : il _^ _rc-itaess . rathcrtha : _; ti-. ; - - ;» _r- > sperity of tir EtpabHc . The reason is obvious . Place and _pt * r < - - . _25 i : _carc _-nithin tlic reach of all ; hesee their incessant struggle for them . Ia England the honest _iScfornier is saV-ected to the wdcal of no such temptation . Tr . _we is . as you ha ve doubtless seen by the late numbers 1- _xytfxortl-ira Si < ir , _mach-jiTong and " oat o * joint , " * in _^ i _; -nintry . The t wi > political _partiei are _amusing the f-- - _; _.. * : Tatliissues of ihe ' . nostfrivolousiv . _rture . The main _h- ' - _--am now thrust _nuder the public nose is , whether we

      " " ¦ - ' - ¦ J lay oarhvlirect t ; c ; ation with a view to revenue , or ' ~ _vitteeiio-i . " Both parties agree thai indirect taxation > _- __ _i 2 _bg mir system of _griading , as it is thc system of _vZ . _iu » _flu-oiLrhont old -lespotisJiis . The only _qiiesr ' . ~ if _UffiM-euce I have stated above . Five _niilliwis of _p - -- -j a year _wouldrujiport a Government such as would ' ' ¦ "¦' ' ¦ ac US ; hat . what between _e-rtrava-jance in oar de-: _-irtr :. ; _7 _m--3 i . e ! lsc practical boanticS to our cotton aud ' _Ji ' . ** . _* _iuaiac-nu-ers , sujpirplanters , isc—and a bite out of -- _~ . _« tbe _sniussrlcr whenever he cau get in his mouth '' - - £ -iur _lautf aud water frontier of fifteen thousand ~ - ~ _Rv that with all theseaiip b ' _ancesthcpeoi-le ot } _W- _?^ pablif pay awav e vt-ry annual swing of thc earth iu J v ' -lit one liiuidredinihlons of dollars , insteaeLof five _w-oensj 1 or thc balance—the ninety-live uiilh _' ous—they ? m _rwlodjin _^ _sajugguiig , corruption , _pi-ie-layhiE- _—rowcy- - _^ fr . ni the lowest to the highest in _degree-flosgiii _; - ? " - •«¦ •» , _anulia- _^ _jnsthan at the _vard-ai-ra trithout judsc -Tv 7- _Xot u ' = ay a word about lynching by wholesale -J _refail , _xiotin-j . and rebellion .

      - ul you , sir , wi- are going down , down , to social and J _^ _-saca -ttrditH , u j _^ d , like other _descendicg bodies , our _f : _*?^ ssion is geometrical . A young female cannot m _» _'t- _** iorkearn , with her needle , " what would pay for her _" _r" ; bi any genteel lodgings . Suicides from this . ' - * - _— ' bave taken place , and seductions _iunuinerable . The _\** W are crowded _tosetber—not fullv ciaployed at thc J - * _M _tiiiH-s-whiki in winter a full half of them arc - _j-I- _* !? 5 slvdestitutcofemployment _Thepauperestablish-~' - ~ - jm Sew Y _„ rk dtv is now _doubtiess as large as was , _„ ' _^ Vpauper _WtablisbiMenlof the _Ueitcd States thirty ; _—» E go ! The bu » s manufacturers ( the jnacluncry _C-Tf _' _* _" - waMng annual dividends of SO to 40 per cent , ¦ v _^ _ifcs contingent funds of clean profits , whilst thc operaarcseudiiur cud

      _^ r their nail of _laincntati-jn from one _>;^? -li . . ut ' - > tlvcother , _l'risoncrs are murderedm _a , _i * A m _-e bach wood-lands . _Liceries are niakuig . _^ _a-j _pcanuitv h _: open dav iu our cities . Society is . - . _-filing an exclusive , stinking , repulsive thing—coiling . ; --. _iip u jiwrf _w-and pressing as a leaden weight upon _i-: .::- - * - * _<* those who , approaching each Other for the jir _* L ! ; * V- a loss toknowwhe & er they belong to the ' vrn - _*?' Wa J i « H : ly converse together . I . repeat it - _^ - _^ ii _^ _tfcl t we are " ' going '' down into perdition , aud _v-h-js ! _5 ' - be irretricvablv " _oor _. e , " if some mighty * * -naoe s :, otimerposeands . _avoui-avalanc hecarcer ' - _»' _.. _i * - " *¦ * - . * - _* _£ _?{ * start ' - " movement in New _„• * _% « _-n . ch , u - ¦ - • _* - _* iild stay our downwardca rt udestabbsh

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      tiie Kepublio on a foundation that could isevm- be shaken _, _ilut the progress of that movement is slow , while the career towards ruin is rapid and ovei whelmin _? . However , we may succeed ; and , if we do , it will be the greatest _success that ever was achieved since thc world began . It will close the account of slavery and the past . It wiU open the account of freedom and the future . What the _Amerk-as Reformers Wast . —Keei ? it _ueiore tue Pcblic— We extract the _followhiofrom the New York Working Jlan _' s Advocate . *—1 . Thc public lands ought to be * made free , and all further traffic in them prohibited , as _propoF-ed bv the -National Reform Association . This would provide for all who might be thrown out of employment by the other measures necessarv to be carried 2 . The

      expenses of government ought to be reduced to ten millions a year , by abolishing or _greatlv reducing the navy ( _keepinc ; up , however , the fortifications . ); bv entirely abolishing the amry ; by reducing about three fourths the 9 , 000 dollars outfits , and 9 , 000 dollars salaries io foreign ministers ; by abolishing tlic _WestiVmt _JSursery ; by reducing the salaries of members of Congress , and all other officers to what the same talents would acquire in ordinary business , and by a general economical regulation of all the departments that would tend , in connection with the first-named measure , to put an ond to office-seeking . . 3 . A mode of keeping the public money in the Lands of public officers should be devised , and all use of it for other than government- purposes should be prohibited . If the public- money is loaned it is insecure , aad , what

      is worse , it gives tbe borrower a privilege at Ihe _expense of the public . 4 . As the reduction of the army and navy should be gradual , as temporary measures , the cruel and anti-repub iieau practice of flogging should be abolished * _, the pay of privates and officers should be more equalised ; the pay of officers as well as privates should be stopped when off duty ; and officers should in all cases be promoted from tlic ranks , or elected by the men . The tariff should be abolished , or a gradual abolition of it should be commenced , but not unless the * land provision is made for the workmen engaged in trades fostered by it , and who might lie thrown out of employment ill _COnSCquCnCC . If tllC land was free , a tariff between one nation and another

      would lie just as absurd as a tariff between one family and another ; but free land must precede free trade . If the tariff should be reduced below- the expenses of Government , the deficiency should be made up ( as * lw . whole amount should lie when the tariff is entire ' v abolished ) by a direct tax ; every man paying in proportion to what he is worth , clear of the world . If forty millions are raised by- the tariff tax , and if domestic products are raised in price for eighty millions more by the " protection" afforded , that is eighty millions ! or about twenty dollars for every family in the union , and as tbe tariff taxes the poor man ' s goods higher than the rich , the probability is that thc poor man now pays about twenty-five dollars a-vear by the tariff tax ; whereas

      if the tax was direct on property , the poor mau would contribute his mite , and the millionaire possibly Lis hundred thousand dollars . Government isjfor the protection of property , and v y should not property pay thc tax ? Air . Rhett , of Styith _Caivlbia _, is the oidy member of Congress wbo halmadc a common sense speech on the subject ; though ;* doubtless , others besides him have advocated directt axation . Direct taxes , too , might be collected by thc same officers as now collect the State taxes , and thus a most expensive and troublesome class of tax-eaters , the Custom llouse Officers , might be entirely dispensed with . 7 . Last , though not least among the measures that I think ought to be earned by the coming Congress , is the adoption of such means as may be in thc power of Congress to abolish slavery . I am

      fully aware that it is just as inconsistent for the northern land monopolist to ask the southern slaveholder to give up his slaves , as it is for the slaveholder to ask the monopolist to givo up his land ; for land monopoly is the root of all slavery ; but the spirit of the age requires that something should be done towards the suppression both of land-selling and bodyselling . If abolationists have been imprudent , * if they have shut their eyes to the white slavery around them ; i . | they have actually upheld white slavery by monopolizing aud trafficking in tbe soil , that is no reason why their sins should be visited upon the blacks . Congress bus power to arrest the land traffic , which was the parent of slavery ; and if it has any power to prevent thc traffic in human flesh , between States or of Iienvise , it ought no longer to lay dormant .

      THE _AXTI-REiSTERS . Some weeks ago wc gave a brief account of the doings ofthe Anti-Renters in the state of New York . VVe have now to " report progress ; " and our readers win see that tliis question of the _Teople versus the Land _llobbei-s , is assuming a serious aspect . On the 5 th of December a large Anti-Rent Meeting was held in the eountv of Otsego ( N . Y . ) . -The meeting was midrcssed by _' _ilajor B . I » . A ' oith , J . \ V " . Reynolds , Ksq ., and B . NL Kemp , Esq . This last gentleman delivered a trul y eloquent speech in vindication of man ' s natural right to the soil ; and the meeting , Jisvimj chosen a committee of nine , adjourned to meet again on the 21 st of December , atthe . village of I . odi . The correspondent of the Working Man ' s Adrvcite prefaces his report ofthe meeting with the following remarks : — " There now appears to be a genc-- "d upheaval ofthe toil-worn producers of Otsego and

      the adjoining counties ; and they arc now casting about lor argument !* and measures to down tilth the nut . There arc many lease-lauds iu these counties , aud of thc worst kind , too ; three life leases , which in mauv instances are expiring . George Clark , a voungnian , lately of age , and a descendant of Lieutenant-Governor Clark in this state in _lf-12 , claims to be the owner of a great portion of these lands ; ami as he claims his title from a grant from George II ., Kin" of England , & e ., he is not- _unfrcqucHtly called King George II . The people here say , * That , _* is the patriots of 1776 , liaving gained their independence , Inadvertently left land monopoly , as a thorn m the _ilesh , to bear down and oppress their children , the _* une spirit and love of liberty which impelled our forefathers to action , now calls upon their descendants to expel this blighting relic of feudal despotism from onr common country / "

      TheAJktm * Aran * of the 17 th of December gives the following from a correspondent , announcing that resistance to * ' the rent" had commenceil In Columbia county : — " On the 1 st of October thc first rent became due , and about that time several emissaries canie fYoni Rensselaer to preach rebellion among the people of this county . This alarmed 110 one , as it was supposed that the condition of things here was too satisfactory on all hands to be disturbed . About thirtv davs passed on , and no rents being paid , distiWwarrants werc issued by t \\ e _guaA'dViiu , _atid put in the hands of the sheriff . * The sheriff made the distress without any opposition , and subsequently the appraisal , but he was then informed that the rents would not be paid , and that the sale would be

      prevented . The sheriff _prooablv did not believe these threats , as he made no provision to repel any opposition , but went with a single attendant to make the sale , lie was met by a body of Indians before he reached the place , escorted to the place of sale , and there , under a threat of personal violence , gave up all his papers , and they were burned in his presence . The sheriff reports that there were on the ground over 200 men in Indian dress , and 1 ,-500 citizen spectators _, called there by the novelty of the occasion . _iViicn ' the papers were burned the whole assemblage gave three cheere , and thc sheriff left thc ground without any adjournment of sale , and there ends thc distress . "

      Another correspondent of the same paper writes as Mows : — "DeDii _, Dor- 10 , l _& L—Dear Sir , —The anti-rent excitement has been on the increase since the election . Under various pretexts it has been started in more than half thc towns iu this county , and ia iaanv of the adjoiniug towns in Scenario , Greene , and " Ulster . Thc organization is most effective for mischief of all _kiuds . It is highly important that onr new executive should be correctly informed as to the real nature and extent of the evil . If he should shrink from the duty of acting energetically in this matter , it will be impossible to foretell the end pf the armed and organized rebellion that is now committing _niitiviL-es and settinsr the laws at defiance in many

      parts ofthe State . " AniiESi of "In-mass . "— On the ISth of December , two of the "Indians , " "Big Thunder" and " Little Thunder , " were arrested and lodged in gaol . Thc Toru _Budget of December 20 th , has the following : — "A * party of thirty of thc ' Anti-Renters , ' dressed in Indian disguise , yesterday assaulted Ah-. Eliiah Smith , ofthe town of Grafton , in this county , not far from Sce-pkee , took him from liis waggon , and wantonly shot him . We have learned no particuhns beyond these , except that Smith and the Indians have had difficulties for some time past . " The New York Neivs confirms thc above :- — 1 » reference to thc murder of Mr . Elijah Smithof Gratton ,

      , bvthe - Indians' of Rensselaer county , the Albany irons learns , that lUehai * d _Knowlson of _Sanilake , had purchased some wood-land in Gratton of Air . 1 . Van Rensselaer ; that timber bad been cut thereon bv trespassers and some carried oil ; tbat Ivno « iso emploved Smith to remove thetimber socut andthe lying on the grounds , toliis nulls ; and that Smith 111 attempting to do this , came into collision with the tepasseri , and was [ deliberately-shot The persons ouiltv of thc outrage were the Indians kept undei _^ pay bv tic Anti-rent Association of K _« Iaci _\ _Sw- in * A letter dated Iludson , _Dectoth , written by an _enemv to the Anti-Ilenters , says - .- "Last _evcimu-

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      a messenger arrived from Albany , informing us that m the 1 noon cars of to-day the Burgess Corps , with 6 m stand of arms , in addition to their own , would come to our aid ; and if we can fetch the 1 st of January , 1 shall- then have full faith in our new Governor elect , as he will probablv at win declare these several counties in a state of ' insurrection , and quarter troops in every infected district " 1 x , _i- _^ ? rk Nati ° _™ l Reformer , of Januarv 4 th , _tefl » iolIownl f ; _t" _£ , _Mr- ' Reynolus , and Ma son , hat e boon arrested m Columbia cotmtrv . The press give brilliant accounts of the feats performed at the . capture of these men . Feats which , if true , show that the authorities are destroying eveiy vestige of law—shooting at men who are running awav for their lives—pinning then- hands to the wainscot'with a bayonet in-order to secure them . In one ease a

      cousin of Mr . Reynolds , against whom no charge even was made , iu running awav was fired upon by the troops , and would have been murdered onlv ho chanced to stumble over a log , ami ielljust as ' the bullets passed over him . In several other cases the sound Of horses' feet was thc signal for discharging vollics at thc _ridei-s . We ask the Executive , are these things true ? Are they sanctioned bv authority ? Are the ( billed companies to exercise the functions of judge , jury , and executioner ? Arc they to take no trouble in arresting men , but shoot them down like wild beasts ? Women , too , arc arrested—Hung into prison—treated with indignity that worild disgrace a Turkoman . For what ? For _nothing under the sun , save that thev were found in the vieigli-I'OiuTiood where some Indians had deposited the # disguises . *"

      The following comments of the editor of the New York Workout Man ' s Advocate , appear in that paper of January -Itu . " Has there been a revolution , or have we . been dreaming , and are wc yet under the government of Great Britain ? Verily , I could hardly believe my senses , when I read in thc papers that troops had gone from Albany and from this city , companies of foreigners , too , to take part in a civil war in defence of feudalism ; but so it is . An Irish company , the' Emmett Quai _' us , ' lias been sent from Albany , and a German company from this city , to arrest and convey to gaol American citizens , whose crime Ls _opposition to the European system of Land

      Monopoly , which has driven millions of foreigners from their native homes . Any foreigner born who will not throw up his commission rather than engage in such unholy warfare , deserves to be pointed at and execrated by every one of his countrymen , and by every honest num . The ease , however , is not so bail as it has been represented to be by the papers . 1 learn that of the two companies , Krack ' s and Heath ' s , ordered to Hudson , but one could muster enough men to go . Of Heath ' s company only twenty appeared , and therefore they did not go when called for , thoustli some of tliem will probably be off before this paper goes to press , as another attempt was to be made tt ) muster the men . "

      The writer adds : — " If men cannot combine and consult together to get rid of an intolerable relic of monarchy , dearly tit v arance with flic _PecI-u-Htioi _* of Indcpeadenef _niu \ tho _i-pim of om * _ftovc _.-imu'iit , without- being bunted and sbi / tat , itis _oVidesJthaf the right of suffrage Leietclbre has been _extrcij'C ' . l to little purpose , and that the time has now come to set all other questions aside at the polls till the question of Land Monopoly is finally settled . " The following are extracts from ' a letter from the "disturbed districts" which appears in the same paper . " _Clavcrack , Col . 00 ., Dec . 24 , 18-1-i . Mr . Editor— -Your paper of Saturday last has just been put into my hand by a friend from New York . You deserve the support of every Anti-Renter for the

      stand you have taken in defence of their cause , more especially as nearly all the papers of the cities have enlisted against us , with a ferocity hard to be accounted for . However , wc shall return the fire . Whole packages of papers that have taken a stand against us and totally misrepresented our motives and actions , have been returned with the word " _stej ) . " We are determined , as the war has commenced , no longer to support our enemies . And we have determined on one thing more : and that is , to cany the war into the enemy ' s camp , and cut off their Supplies . We will not trade , even for sixpence worth of calico , with any city that sends troops to collect rents , and there is no need for troops for any other purpose . * * * * We will defend the

      homes of our fathers , where ( if anywhere ) we and our cliildren have a rite to 'life , liberty , and the pursuit of happhiess , ' ' peaceably if we can—forcibly if we must . ' Our motto is ' Millions for defence , not a cent for tribute . ' We have paid tribute long enough for thc use of the earth on which we were born , to which , as you well say , no man has a just title to more than enough for his use . The idea of one man sticking a flag up in a country , and by virtue of that act assuming thc power to parcel out thc land of that country to Ms favourites and their heirs to all eteruity _. ' . isanabsiu'ditybehindtheage . And astoprctended purchases of the Indians , the Indians here sav

      that' their fathers never claimed anything more than thc use of the land for their day and generation , and the _2 _' . ss of it , they say , was the equal right of all . ' Every man among _thein had an equal right to land for his use , and no one ever thought of assuming the power to sell or rout it . * * _Rest _ag . sured , that thc sending of troops from your cities is a folly that will recoil on thc cities themselves , in the shape of increased taxes . Are your taxes not high enough already ? It is dangerous too . If your young Hotspurs should shed one drop of Anti-Rent blood , our allies , the Indians , threaten to have scalps to pay for it . _hownwith the Rent . "

      "Some people may think , " says the New York Working Man ' s Advocate , " it will be a nice frolic to go to tiie Heidelberg war . " The following letter , published in the Herald , may tend to undeceive tliem : — _"Middletown . Orange County , Jan . 1 ,-1845 . —In the first place , we doubt , in this region , whether Governor Bouck has the authority to call out a single regiment to act against these men ; and nothing will be done , on an extensive scale , until Governor Wright assumes the chair , when a special act will be passed for the raising troops , if necessary—providing of arms , provisions , & c ., _& e . Secondly , there are not organised troops _enousjh in the State to conquer the Anti-Renters , and for this reason . These men know evcry nook and comer and _erpvlee—every by-place—every

      cover and place of ambush within then * boundaries , and to meet them in open fight , upon a fair field , will be impossible . If wc hare war it will be after the manner of the _Semiuoles . Whoever is acquainted with the localities which they inhabit , must see at once the truth and force of these arguments . Again , thev are much stronger , have greater resources , and areunder better discbliiie _tkauUasueenevevthougut of bv those residing at a great distance . For the last three years they have been steadily at- work preparing for _' the storm with which they are now threatened ; and it is said bv those who . know , that they have a . fund of more than 80 , 000 dollars on hand , which thev will know how to use when the moment comes for ' action . This money has been raised by a voluntary contribution of one and a half cents on

      every acre of land on the domain . In the counties of Greene , Columbia , Delaware , Schoharie , parts of Ulster and Sullivan , they can , at the shortest notice , call out an armv of more than fifteen thousand of able bodied and determined men , who , lighting after thc mode at which I have hinted , would make disastrous work _amongst the strongest force which can be sent azainsi them . What then is to be done , supposing that- the worst should come to the worst ? AH that can be done effectually , is to proceed , in open day , to their cleared lands , take away their wives and children to a place of . security , drive awa y their cattle , destroy the implements of husbandry and take other like steps , and depend upon it they will shortly sue for _r-wiee , and come to terms . It Ls useless , m my poor opinion , to expect that these men will ever _oc ¦ put down bv the force of shot and _wnnon-biilis . _. it is attempted many a poor fellow will find daylight shining through his earthly tabernacle before he dreams of it "

      . To this letter the Editor of the Advocate adds : — "Drive awav their cattle , and destroy their implements of husbandry , eh ? Wouldn't that be earning out the principles of liberty ? But- what would the Anti-Renters be doing meanwhile ? The _wrucr , probably , didn't think of that . " Lateb News fbom the States . _—Livebpool , Thursday Mohsixc . — The steam-ship Cambria , Captain Judkins , arrived here this morning , and brings us news from . New York tothe 1 st inst ., and from the various Other quarters to the usual late periods . The American House of Representatives , and also the Senate , arc busili occupied in discussing the Oregon territory question , ami wc find that iu both houses a bill has been brought in fur the actual establishment of a territorial government over that country . The hUls iu the Senate and iu the Hoiise of _Itcpi-csentatives are of a similar character . The hill in thc latter occasioned much debute , in which , among others , Mr . John Quincy Adams has taken part .

      Axxexatiok 01 * Texa ?—The proceedings in Congress acquaint us with the important fact of a joint resolution by the United States llouse of Representatives , annexiu _,, Texas to the United States . The debate on this subject had continued with Utile intermission for three wcetcs . The debate was brought to a close on Saturday , _January 25 , pursuant to tbe understood determination o f me : _<* .-moeratic members composing a caucus on the lltn . result ofthe trials of strength ofthe different P _™!^ " - was the pnssagc , by a majority of twenty . twojotes , 0 the joint resolution introduced some days preuous ey the Hon . M . Brown , a Whig member from the state of

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      ie . mcsic . y _* iith an _aiiieutieieut , _accepted by him , limiting _, th ' e extent of slavery in TeX ! , s ty the territory south of the Missouri compromise line . The resolution , under the title . of "Joint Resolution for annexing Texas to the United States , " as . maided , finally passed Hie House of _Represcnsatives by a vote of 120 to ? S . We defer _publisldng the resolutions at present , as it is extremel y doubtful that the Senate will sanction them . Should they be adopted by that body we will then publish _thciil . A bill has passed both houses directing the election of President aiid Vice-President of the United States hearafter to bo made iu all the states in the Union ou one and thc same dav .

      MEXICO . Ihe news from Mexico , supplied bv the arrival of the Cambria , is most important ; but there seems to be some little doubt as tp its correctness in some points . Santa Anna is said to hare been defeated and captured by Bravo and Paredes , and some accounts state positively that he has been shot . On a careful examination of the various accounts , we nave little doubt but that tbe news of his defeat will turn out correet . This intelligence first reached New York bv way of Tampicoaud New Orleans : but similar views was

      afterwards received via Corpus Christ ! , Oalveston , and New Orleans . It is stated that letters from Mexico , dated the 9 th ult ., nrrircd at Tainpico by express onthe night of the 13 th , giving thc important intelligence that a desperate battle had been fought on the plains of Appan _, between Santa Anna , on the one side , and Bravo and Paredes on the other , whicli ended in the total rout of the former , who was captuved while trying to make bis escape . Five hundred men are reported-to bo killed , and Gen . Paredes had been despatched by Bravo in pursuit of the routed troops of Santa Anna . Bravo himself was on the march back to Mexico , with liis august prisoner *

      Tiik Rkv. Du. Wolf.F.—Captain. Grover : ...

      Tiik Rkv . Du . Wolf . f . —Captain . Grover has received intelligence ofl ) r . Wolff to the 10 th January , at which date he was at Erzeroom , endeavouring- to recruit his strength tbV tllC _jOUVnCJ" _OVCT tnC 11101111 tams to Trebizonde . At Tehran thc Doctor was received in the kindest manner by Colonel Sheil , ' - her Majesty ' s envoy , who sent a government golam to meet hini . lie left Tehran in a tuckrawan ( a . sort of a litter ) , and by easy stages reached Tabris . Here the judicious treatment of Dr . Oaaolani enabled hini . lifter sonic days' repose , to proceed by a similar conveyance towards Erzeroom . On reaching the Turkish frontier , owing to the immense accumulation of snow , he was obliged to proceed on horseback , and after great bodily suffering he reached Erzeroom on the -1 th January , completely exhausted . As soon as her Majesty ' s Commissioner , thc kind-hearted Colonel Williams , R . A ., heard of the Doctor ' s approach , he rode as far cas the last pass "tomcat him , and escorted him into the town . Dr . Wolff is too ill to write to any one , and cannot move from the sofa ; it is , however , hoped that the kind attentions of Colonel Williams , which have _becrf-reall y beyond all praise , will enable him to proceed in about a fortnight to-Trebizonde ..

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      Katioj-'Al Trades Conference Kt Easter N...

      _KATIOJ- 'AL TRADES CONFERENCE kt _EASTER NEST . The adjourned meeting of the preliminary Conference was resumed at the Bell Inn , Old Bailey , on Wednesday evening . February 12 th . There was a very numerous attendance of delegates . Several additional representatives handed in their credentials , Mr . J . Berry ; the representative ofthe Lancashire Miners , was unanimously called to tho chair . The Secretary read letters from the Joiners of Hull and other provincial Trades , announcing their determination to send delegates to the proposed Conference . He also stated that he had seen Mr . Duncombe that day , and had asked hhn , if the Trades wished it , would he attend their Conference , and would he do them the honour of presiding ' over * their humble deliberations ? To which . Mr . Duncombe

      replied , that as far ns > visiting the Conference was concerned , he should be happy to attend as < _"v listener ; but he knew A-ciy little regarding the practical workings of the several Trades . He added that as far as his humble abilities would permit ,, they might , " . command liis services ; and if the Trades thought it would serve their cause ( although he was of opinion that many mechanics , from their practical experience , were much better qualified for the office ) , and the Conference at its assembling made the request , he would preside over Hieir deliberations . The-Announcement was received with marked applause . The meeting * then proceeded to the election of a subcommittee of seven persons , to make the necessary arrangements for holding the Conference . Thc following individuals were unanimously chosen : — Messrs . Dunning and Robertson ( Bookbinders ) , Messvs . Bush and Wartnaby ( Carpenters ) , Mv .. Wilson ( Boot and Shoemaker ) , Mr . Allen ( Tin-plate Worker ) , and Mr . Cox ( Silk Hatter ) .

      The Election of Secretary . —Mr . T . Burrutt ( Corkcutter , and secretary to the Central Association of London Trades ) , was proposed , but declined on'the ground of ill-health and a pressure of public business ; Messrs . Bush and Dunning were then placed in nomination , but from the great feeling of respect in whie Mr . Barratt is held by thc Trades , he was again placed in nomination and unanimously elected in spite of himself . " Well , " said Mr . Barrett , " as you have forced the honour on mc I will not back put , but will do my best to carry out your intentions . " ( Loud cheers ) . Mr . Wakeham , Shoemaker , moved — "That the best thanks of this Preliminary Conference of Trades are due and arc hereby given to the Proprietor , Editor , and Reporter of the Northern Star newspaper , 'for tho able services rendered to the

      cause ot Labour , not ou this occasion only , but on every occasion . " He observed tbat when lie found the parties engaged in the Star taking sueh a warm interest in Trades affairs he thought it the duty oi himself and his brother tradesmen to notice the matter , and let them see that their labours are appreciated . Mr . J . Berry , Miner , who had previously left the chair , and was succeeded in that office b y Mr . Robertson , Bookbinder , hoi _> ed that they would allow him the privilege of cordially seconding thatmotion . Mr . Stewart , Shoemaker , said that as reearded thc Proprietor and Editor , for the service thev had rendered the cause , the best return that could be made them was , to circulate their very useful journal as widely aa possible . ( Loud

      cheers . ) As regarded the Reporter , and he could bear witness to the great service he had rendered their trade ( hear , hear ) , ho was of opinion that their thanks to him should assume a more substantia ! shape . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Barratt said he most cordially concurred with the motion , and as for the reporter , Mr . Stallwood , he had opportunities of knowing that- lie had rendered the Trades a service , not oidy as reporter , but as an individual . ( Cheers . ) Tho motion was put and carried unanimously . Mi * . Stallwood , iu the name of the proprietor , editor , and reporter , said , that he was happy that their humble efforts in the cause of labour were appreciated . They would continue in the same course , zealously and fearlessly advocating right , and

      exposing and denouncing wrong , without other fee or re-ward-than the good opinion of their fellow-men . ( Loud cheers ) . A resolution to the effect- — " That the Conference be held on Easter Monday next , in London , at ten o'clock in the forenoon ; and that the delegates on their arrival , be requested to proceed direct to the well-known Trades' house , the Bell Inn , Old Ba ! Iey , _ from whence they will be conducted to the place of meeting , " was unanimously adopted . A vote of thanks was passed by acclamation to the Lancashire Miner . ; , for their promptitude in taking up the matter , and sending up Mr . Berry , to aid and assist in arranging the necessary preliminaries . Itwas also resolved— " That those Trades who intend sending delegates to the forthcoming Conference be requested tocommunitate witUttic Secretary , Mr . T . Barratt , 20 ( j Greenfield-street , Comniereial-road , East , at their earliest convenience . " A vote oi

      thanks was given to the Chaiiman , and the meeting dispersed , Buiiy . — -The iron trades of this town still continue on strike against the _introduction of thc " quittance " papers . They have now been out several weeks , and are as determined as ever never to subinitto the degradation to which tjie masters wish to reduce them . Nor is this tlic only war that is raging lie tween the employers and employed . There have been several strikes for advauccs in wages amongst the Powcrloom _Wonvers of this town since Christmas , and wc are happy to say that in a number of instances the just demands of the Weavers have been acceded toby the manufacturers . - There ave some , however , who , notwithstanding they have the same market for their goods , will not give thc same wages as their neighbours ; in consequence of which , about -100 bands are walking the streets without _emplovment .

      FltAMEWOnK-KxiIIEIJS' _Dl-LEGATE _MbETI . VO . —At < general three counties meeting of delegates , held at the-sign of thc King George on Horseback , Nottingham , February _St-h _,-18 * 15 , for thc purpose of taking into consideration the Frame-Rent Trial—the Governmental inquiry—and the furtherance of the organization , the Mowing , among other resolutions , were passed . Proposed by William West , and . seconded by Thomas Emmerson — That a committee be appointed to , amalgamate the Nottingham and Leicester suggestions , and that the following

      compose a committee for that purpose—Humphries and Winter , for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ; Thomas Winters and John Wilford , for Lci «> stei * and Leicestershire ; Samuel Corden , for Derby and Derbyshire .. Proposed by B . Humphries , and seconded by Samuel Corden — That when the suggestions have been properly arranged and approved , tliey shall be printed for distribution . Proposed by John Kcywood , and seconded by Samuel Booker—That the number printed be two thousand copies . Proposed by Joseph Moor , and seconded by William West —That thc delegates present inform their constituents that local _ _lecturei-i- have been appointed , and that any locality wishing for their services must give one week ' s . notice to the general secretary . The following persons were then re-appointed lecturers . *—William West , Joseph Laxton , and William _l- _'elkin . Proposed ; by Michael Leverisi ' raincsillitlland

      se-, , conded by B . Humphries — That the _Frnmcsiniths , Setters up , Sinker and Needle Makers , do join the Framework-Knitters in putting a stop to the spurious productions at pYesent manufactured , and that thoy be solicited to join in union with the KnittCl'S . Proposed by Samuel Booker , and seconded by Samuel Winter — That in the opinion of this meeting , the stoppage of Frame-Rent under any circumstances is oppressive and unjust , but more especially so , when one employer has the effrontery to charge from sixpence to nincpcncc per week ' more than another ; and we , the delegates assembled , pledge _oiii-sclvcs to assist the Framework-Knitters of Mansfield and Mansfield Woodhousc in their struggle to put down so infamous a system . Thc accounts wore then brought ) jefore the uicftiug and passed , and the delegates separated at half-past eight o'clock .

      l _OKKSfiiUK . —The next general delegate moctim- ; of Miners will be held at the King ' s Anns Inn , Gildersome-street , near Leeds , on Monday , February 24 th , to commence at eleven o ' clock iu the forenoon . Laxcasiiirk Mixers . —The next general _delegate meeting- of Lancashire Miners will fee held lit tllG house of Mr . Matthew Wortliington . Gibraltar Tavern , Scholcs Wigan , on Mondav _, February 21 th ; chair tobe taken at eleven o'clock . W . P . Roberts , Esq ., will address the Miners of Wigan and neighbourhood on the same day . The levy for the fortnight is ls . 9 d . per member .

      _Di-itm-sHiRE Miners . —On Monday last , the 10 th inst ., a delegate meeting of the Coal Miners was held at thc White Bull Inn , Newthorpe , Derbyshire ; a working Miner , named John Morley ,, was appointed chairman , and William Duro secretary . A discussion took place respecting thc fines levied on the men at Babington colliery , when it was unanimously agr eed that the men should return to work until the flues were repaid .

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      VOL . VIII . NO . 379 . LONDON , SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 15 1845 ~ ™ _"n ™» _« — t _- i - - _' - _' _- _t :- ' . • _ _rjvc _Shillings and _Sixpence per Quarter

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      The Weatukis . —London , Fridav . —The weather vesterday was of a most singular character . The thermometer at eight o ' clock on the previous evening was as low as 11 ) degrees , being-13 degrees of frost , with the wind S . E . At that time the new moon appeared , surrounded by a halo , and there was much furze , although the stars shone / 'ridttiy . As tlio night _aslviuirx-d , a sti'iH ! _£ wind , Veen aw * _]> i" _*'' _-is- ;; , <•• ;> ¦• • . _¦« _£ up from the S ., which continued _throughotu the . night _, 'ihe lowest point of the thermometer during the mghfc was 27 degrees , and at eight o'clock yesterday morning the mercury stood at 29 degrees , with the wind still S . The morning kokc cloudy , with evident appearances of an approaching fall . Throughout the morning the south wind , which was remarkably cold , blew in violent gusts , and about eleven o ' clock a fall of fine snow commenced , which gradually increased in quantity and size of the flakes until about half-past two o ' clock . At twelve o ' clock at noon tho _Ihennomctcr stood at 32 degrees ( freezing point ) , and shortly before three o ' clock a fall of sleet and rain began , wliich froze immediately on reaching thc ground and rendered the streets of the metropolis and the suburbs slippery and highly dangerous . At eight o ' clock last evening the thermometer still stood at 32 degrees , with a strong S . S . W . wind blowing , and rain and sleet still descending , Tliis morning the sun is shining brightly , even warmly , causing a complete thaw , the snow and ice fast disappearing .

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      MANSION-HOUSE . Wednesday . —Happv England !—A man , named James Oliver , who had genuine symptoms of distress about hhn , was charged with having stolen two shawls . —Thc prisoner walked up to a policeman-iu Cheapside , at a quarter past eight in thc evening , aud said , "Have your eyes upon me . " He then went into a shop , and , taking hold of two shawls , returned with them , and was taken into custody . —The prisoner declared that he was in the deepest distress , and that he had resorted to the expedient of visiting the shop in order to obtain relief by being put iu prison , —The Lord Mayor asked the prisoner who and what he was ?—The prisoner replied that from consideration for others he must decline uttering a word about himself . All he would say was that he never committed a robbery in his life , and he did not consider what he hud llOlie ttlO night befOUO was any offence at all . —Tlio lord Mayor regretted to have such a case brought before liim . but said he was bound to commit the prisoner fur trial .

      SOUTIIWARK . Hosdat . _—TiAiusG 11 ot > i > ekt . —WHliain Abbot , a powerful looking young man , was placed at the bar before Mr , Trail , charged with being concerned , with two others not in custody , in stealing from the person of Hubert Roberts , a shoemaker , residing in Ked Cross-street , Borough , about ten shillings in money , 11 letter , and a memorandum-book . —Prosecutor , a simple looking young man , stated that about twelve o'clock on Saturday night , he was returning towards home , through Castle-Street , Southwark-bridgeroad , after having partaken rather too freely of grog . When near Worcester-street , two men and the pr isoner seized his anus ; the former picked Iris right-hand pocket of his money , while the latter held his left arm , After they had robbed liim they van away , but he pursued thc prisoner , who was stopped by a policeman , and taken into eustody . —The officer said that the prisoner was an associate of well-known thieves . —Remanded until Fridav .

      CIiEKKENWEI . Ii . Mo . _N'DAV . —A _Paum-ii's Life . — An able-bodied young mau , named Cvesin , was charged with breaking sixteen panes of glass in the Islington workhouse , of wliich he has beeu an inmate for years . The offence was clearly proved , and the damage done laid at £ 1 . Serjeant Allen , 21 N , deposed that on Saturday evening , soon after the prisoner wa $ . locked up , thc constable , on going his rounds , saw the prisoner hanging in thc cell . Heat once cut him downa moment later aud life would have boen extinct . He contrived to hang- liimself by fastening his neckcloth to the top of the cell . He was closely watched all day on Sunday , and on Sunday night two other prisoners were placed in the cell with hhn . When he supposed they were slumbering be made another attempt to hang himself with his braces , but failed iu it owing- to the timely interposition of his comrades , Committed _for-sis weeks .

      BOW STREET . _Ti'ESDjr . —The Poktland Vase Case . —Tbe young man named William Lloyd , , who was brought before Mr . Jardine on Friday evening , was again placed at the bar for final examination , charged with wilfully and maliciousl y destroying with a stone the Inimitable vase in thc _IJritisii Museum , The vase , which was valued at £ 1 , 000 and upwards , was described as being the property of his Grace the l ) uke of Portland . In reply to the question , what he had to say to the charge , the prisoner said—Only this , that I hud been indulging in intemperance for some davs , from ' the effects of which I had only partially recovered ivhcii I entered the Museum , and being _coiisei / ueutly _i-i a state of nervous excitement , I was afraid of everything 1 met with , and under such impression I acted in the manner I have done , and for which I was then taken into custody ; but I did not commit thc act through any design or evil intciu tion wha _t ever toward .- ; any person , —Mr , Uodkiu said he

      had the honour to appear on behalf of the trustees of the British Museum , upon whom the principal duty devolved in prosecuting ' in the case on the part of his Grace the Duke of Portland , who had kindly permitted the property in question to be placed in the Museum for the luspentlon and gratification of the public . It was much to be rcgrettod that such was the defective state of the law upon such offences , that it was difficult to meet the present charge by anything like an adequate punishment ; however , it was provided by tho _L'f tli section of thc Wilful Damage Act , " that if any person shall unlawfully or maliciously commit any damage , injury , or spoil to , or upon , any real or personal property whatever , either of a public or private nature , for which iio remedy or punishment was therein before provided , every person being convicted thereof before a justice of the peace shall forfeit and pay sueh sum of money as should appear to tlic justice to be reasonable compensation for the damage , injury , or spoil

      so committed , not exceeding the sum ot * 5 . "—Mr . Hawkins proved that the shade , ' which was worth about £ S , thc fragments of which wove lying on the floor with thc fragments of the vase , was the property of the trustees of thc Museum . —Mr . Jardine said that w ' as the most perfect and legitimate course for the trustees to pursue , aud called upon the prisoner to pay the amount of the glass shade , having wilfully and _maliciously destroyed it . —Mr . J .-irdinu I cannot help , in my humble capacity , observing with the Learned Counsel , that thc Act of Parliament providing for such offences is very inefficient , which prevents my entertaining the ease respecting the destruction of the vase against you for the present : but for the destruction of tiie glass shade I shall put the law iu full force , and order you to _pav the sum of £ 3 forthwith , and in default be committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for two calendar months . —Thc prisoner was then removed from the bar .

      Wednesday . — Distiiessing CUsr . — A fine looking young man named James Yomou _, aged 18 years , was placed at thc bar , supported by two of his shopmates , who held hun by the arms to prevent him from injuring himself , charged with attempting to commit suicide hy hanging himself . The defendant ' s father , who is a printer . residing iu Uoram-streot , St . I ' _ancvas , ou entering the witncssbox , was deeply affected . He stated that his son , who had assisted him in his business , kept company for some time with a young female to Whom he seemed much attached , and to all appearances the feeling was mutual ; but on Sunday night last , for some cause , respecting whicli he had uo means of obtaining any information , she threw herself into the river from the parapet of _WatcrhnMiridge _, when she was carried away l > y the current , and thc bodv has uot since been found , although the usual means were

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      resorted to . Thc occurrence was shortly after communicated to the defendant , and sueh was the shock produced upon his _rniud _, that he was almost immediately _deprived _, of reason to such an extent that it was deemed necessary to watch his movements ; but , notwithstanding the vigi . lance of his friends , he continued to evade them , and made several attempts upon his life , the first of which wis bv a sharp instrument , of which he was deprived , and on the next occasion hy strangulation , yesterday , being en"a"cd with his shopmates , he was suddenly missed froVhis work , and search befog-made , lie was discovered in the privv , the door of which the men were obliged to and cut down it with

      break open suspended , bcing was difficulty animation was restored . Mr . _JavOmc asked the defendant what exp lanation he could give of the sad account _L-iven bv his father ' -The defendant , without utter _, _in-ra word , stared at each of his companions , who still continued ' to hold his hands , in a wild idiotic manner evidently unconscious of being addressed by the magistrate , or anvtuing that transpired from the time ie was conducted into tlic- court . Mi * . Jardine directed that he might be _immediatelv conveyed to St . Giles ' s workhouse , and in the course ofthe dav , Mr . Tucker , one ofthe overseers , waited ou the mae-istrate to say that tlic case Had been eutevtained , ami that the unfortunate youth s com . forts Should be attended to . /

      _TlfriiSDAT . —J ) £ STItl _* CTIO . V or the _Poutxand Va « £ . —> _Lmi'ttATios ov tue l ) Etiso . vi : _NT . — 'I'his day a letter was received by Mr . Jiii-dinc . _enelosin _^ - hun the sum _of- & - > heing the amount of fine inflicted upon the young man who gave the niinie of William Uuyd , _tyi * wantonly destroyir . g the Portland Vase . The _magistrate immediately handed the money to the under gaoler , with directions ' that he would proceed to Tothill-ftehls Prison and communicate with the governor , to whom , the fine was to be paid , vnon the receipt of whicli the prisoner was liberated , and walked Willi the officer to the vicinity of the court , when he left him , am ) returned to the European ( _luffec-housc in Long-acre , where he still remains . It appears from the inquiries made that the delinquent , who gave a wrong name , is u student iu thc University of Dublin , where he a short time back entered us a pensioner under tlic tuition of Mr . Atkins , one of the junior fellows , and has also a

      brother of some staiiding iu the same college . He had no business in London but to spend thc vacation and visit the principal places in the metropolis until the approach of his next examination , when lie intends to return , previous to which he should write to his friends for means to take him back , as all liis money was exhausted , liming his short _i-oiilincment iie exhibited a degree of _obstiuaey , which was immediately repressed by the turnkeys , for on his belli ** - urderai at seven o ' clock in the morning with the other prisoners to undergo the usualnl'lvtions _, he appeared dogged , and was about to refuse obeying , which caused the person in attendance to move him on , v . _Uuu he suddenly turned round and struck the . man under the ear , in consequence of which he was immediately p laced in solitary confinement , and was -tci-oiiimcUatud with a pair of handcuffs . Ju this condition lie was tbundwhen the money was sunt for his liberation , and had not liis benefactor

      been so prompt , Ins kail' would bave been cut ou 1 : 1 the course of the day to undergo ( lie punishment awarded him by the court . He makes no hesitation in declaring that , had lie been obliged to remain in the same statu ill prison till tllC ti ' iliO allotted to hini had expired , lie inmld have taken the earliest opportunity to put an end to liis existence , not only on account of the severity of the punishment he hud to undergo _, but the _lvi-iorse * itu '" - -It tor liaviaj f committed ( IF * , _offellCC I ' m- which no adequate reparation could be made on his part , the cause of which was his intemperate habits for several days , without the participation of any compaiiiou . He is of the Ituinaii Catholic persuasion , and while the examination w . _-ik going on , the only

      circumstance that gave him uneasiness was having observed a person in the court taking a sketch of liim , which he ap . pruhumlcil was intended for publication , and might _ultimately lead to his expulsion from college , although he had concealed his right name . The destruction of the vase is another _iiuhjoct wliich seem : ! to cause great uneasiness , for although hcliasbeen convicted of breaking thc gluss shade , he fears he can again be brought up for the greater offence , and be sentenced to a longer imprisonment , and he has engaged himself all the afternoon in writing to his friends in Dublin to remit him means to enable liim to quit London . As to tiie amount sent to the prison for his liberation , he declares his total ignorance of the person who remitted it to the magistrate , and tho persons with whom he lodges seem equally surprised at tlic occurrence .

      LAMBETH . _Wedsbsbay . —Attempt to Commit Suicide . —Sarah Freeman , a \ VOinau about -10 years of age , _apparently uuder the iufluence of nervous excitement , was placed at the bar before Mr . Norton , charged with creating a disturbance in Arlington-street , Waterloo-road , and with attempting to eoiumit .-uicidc by strancr ' . ing herself in . t he cell in whicli -lio iv _. is coutiiied at 'ho iv . _wi » ' _*>¦ , •* , ¦> .. _lii'i _,,.,

      habit of ill-using her , She had been to fetch lum from a public-house last night , and had some beer with him . On their return home he knocked her about , and she ran out ; ofthe house for protection , and unless she had done so he would have murdered her . —Mr . Norton : Hut how could you think of such a dreadful thing as to commit suicide ? —Defendant ; I was not in my right senses . Sometimes I do not know what I am about . My husband does not giv _. e me his earnings . Frequently I do uot get more than Is . fid . a week . I . admit endeavouring to jump off Waterloobridge . M y husband ' s bad temper drove _inc to it . —Mr . Norton directed the officers to obtain the attendance of her husband , and remanded the defendant until he could be brought before him .

      WOItSHIP-STKEET . - _Tgekdav . — The iate Mubder at _Bethnai _,-OBEBJ ( . —• Jamos Tupping , who stood committed for thc _aUeged wE . ful murder of Emma Whiter , was brought up in order that the depositions which had been previously taken might be read over to him ; which being done the prisoner was fully committcd to Newgate for trial . MAUYLBliOKB . l- ' _itiDAT . —Attempted Child Mubdeb . —A very considerable number of persons congregated in the vicinity of this court , in consequence of its having been the day ap . pointed for the re-examination of the female , Anne Wilson , who on Saturday last was charged before Mr . Long with attempting to murder her male infant , two months old . — Mr . Long , iu a most feeling and impressive manner , endeavoured to make thc prisoner sensible of the enormity of her oflence , and told her that , from the evidence which had been adduced , he was bound to send her before a jury . — The prisoner , who declined saying anything , was then . committed .

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      Cm- or _Lo-nso . y—The public discussion will bo resumed at the UaU , 1 , Turnagain-lane , on Sunday morning next , Fcbruaiy 16 'th , at half-past ten . In thc ftftornoon , at three precisely , thc Metropolitan District Council will assemble ; and iu tho evening , at acven , Mr . C . Boyle will lecture . Somers Tows . —On Sunday _ovening next , Mr . C . Doyle will deliver a public lecture , to commence at nine precisely , at the Bricklayers' Anns , Tollbridgestreet , Ci'omor-sti'oet . Tin . Members of the Soniers Town locality are requested to meet ou Sunday evening next , at Mr . _Duddridge's , Tonbridgc-strcct , New-road , at 9 even o'clock precisely .

      _Cambebweli . and Walworth . —A meeting will be held at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth , on Monday evening next , February 17 th , at eight precisely . Hammersmith . —A meeting will be held at the Dun Cow , Brook Green-lane , on Tuesday evening next , February 18 th , at eight precisely _, j _. _Maktlebonk LocALirv . —A members' _meeting will be held on Wednesday evening , Feb . 10 , at the Coachmaker . - > ' Anns , " _Gircus- _^ tWCt , New-road , at half-past seven o ' clock , Chelsea . —Mr . M'Grath will lecture at the Cheshire Cheese , _Grosvenor-row , on Sunday evening next , February 10 th , at eight o ' clock precisely . _Ltcns . —Mr . C . Doyle will lecture in the Bazaar , _Brigcatc _, on . Sunday the 23 rd inst .

      _Sorrn Laxcashiue Meetisc . —Hie next meeting ofthe South Lancashire Delegates will be held oil Sunday , February 23 rd , in the Chartist room , Cliarlcstown , _Ashton-umler-Lyae , at ten o ' clock in the morning . _IIebden * Bkiuce . —Two lectures will be delivered in the Association room on -Sunday evening next , at two o ' clock hi the afternoon , and fci . _v . in the evening , by Wm . Dixon , of Manchester . NoTTi . voifAM . —On Sunday evening next , a public meeting will be held in the Democratic Chapel , at six o ' clock iii the evening . *—The Operative Hall Building Committee will meet at tlic Pheasant , Charlotte-street , next Sunday afternoon , at five . o'clock .

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      a Monthly Publication , containing easy ami pleasing articles on Morals , Science , "Words , arid Objcct 3 . Edited _, by a Schoolmaster . " We have not named one-third of the delightful con tents of the numbers , _whiehmustbe read to he appreciated . No school , no father of a family , should be without tha work ; by its aid the humblest labourer may instruct his children in that real knowledge which the great majority of our fashionable world fail to supply them with . "—• Nortliern Star . London : Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane . Manchester : A , ircy wood , Oldham-street . _Glasgow : Paton and Love Net son-street . Birmingham : 6 ue 3 t . Huddersfield : J , _Hofc son , _Market-wjilfe .

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      WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . A 1 . UOURNMKXT OF THE CHKISTMAS SESSIONS _TOK THE TRIAL OF FELO . VS , & C . VJOTICK is Hereby Given , that the Cihhbimas _Oeke-1 \ raii _QuAnrKR Sessions of the Peace for thc West Hiding of thc County of York , will be holden by adjournment , at Sheffield , on _Tucrsdav , the 27 th day of FelsiiUABT instant , at half-past Ten o ' clock in the forenoon , mid by further adjournment from thence will be holden . at _Wakevield , en Mosbat , the _Sril tlay of Makc _ii next , at Ten o ' clock in the forenoon , _fos the _tbial of felo . _vb AND PERSONS INDICTED FOB MISDEMEANOR 8 , when all Jurors , Suitors , Persons who stand upon Recognizance , and others having business at thc said Sessions , are required to aitend the Court . Prosecutors and Witnesses in cases of Felony and Misdemeanor from the Wapontakes of _Strafibrth ' and Tickhill , Osgoldcross and Stainevosa must attend the Sessions at _Siievfielu - , and those from the Wapontakes ofStaincliffcand Ewcross , Claro , _Ainsty , Agbrigg and Morley , Skyrack and Barkstonasli , being the ' remainder of the West Riding , must attend the Sessions at Wakefield , . G . 11 . ELSLBY , Clerk of thc Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Oflice , Wakefield , 10 th Feb ., ISIS . ' -

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 15, 1845, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_15021845/page/1/