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      Monday. Fkee Trade.—-Tlie Protectionists...

      Thb Irish Miller . —If laws are to be made to _,-tal the faces ofthe poor , we don ' t see way the _^ llcr should not grind those who execute the laws _; _Jt _all events , we give the following attempt at the pr actice : —* in cur lastwamentioned the search for unregistered _sftns on the _premises of William Badly , tho miller , at nsllvclongndufF ,. _iiiilwe haTe been lamUhed with the _^ . ... _' _-ring pardcalaw by an _eye-wituess .-Sub-inspector fallen having got information that Bnckly had a _quan-,-. ? of arms concealed in lus mill , _provided _himself _wth 1 Van-ant and proceeded to Mo-iC , ordered head conc » ble Green to torn ont a certain _number of the

      _constavgisrv under his command , and marched at their head _: , _i Balljclong hduff , where , dispersiu _; the men , so that « _0 one coald escape , lie proceeded tu _ilu-rhlj' s house , and th i wring Win the warrant , _aslsed liim _xo give up the double-barrelled gun and the otiii ; r ar _. ns mentioned in fye _irarrant . Baddy replied if the }> : _>! : & _, were _draivu _pff he would surrender _tUeau This Jlr . Fall mi refused lo di , and on findinf that the head-constable and four psl . ee were on the water-wheel _searching it , be cried out jn his son to lift the slaica and drown them all . This vann . ; rascal proceeded to do so , and was in tbe very act of erT _. _-cting it , when one of the _police ( sub-constable _IVanell ) sprang forward , and , placing his carbine « t his

      fcK ast , swore he wonld drive the contents of it through him if be did not desist . Had _this diabolical attempt tacceeded , it wonld have caused the deaths of nead-conetable Grcea and four rn . cn with Aim on ihe whed , where the arms were found . What ' s sauee tor tre Goose is _Iacse tor TnE _Gaxoer . —Tir e '" _Xatio . v" axo the _Arroxaev-Gesekax .. —The Saticn saw no reason why Patrick O ' Higgins should not he served up to the O'Connell repast with sediuon sauee , bat now that " the - Va / w * is served up with _ihes-ime sauce to the Attorney-General ' s table , there is tremendous bowling . It appears that Jonathan _Hena , the very ablest advocate at tbe Irfch bar , was retained by the Crown for the prosecution of Mr . Ujily before the informations were sworn , aud upon Mr . Daffy

      avrfying to retain Afc . Uecn , that _geutienian announced the fact that he had bsen already retained by the Crown . Now , great as our hatred is of ail prosecutions and persecutions fer the _exvii-es-iion of opinion , tie aver , without fear cf contradiction , that but for the servility of the Irish press , and but for its baseness and prostitution when the English _C-iartists were prosecuted , the law of sedition , or rasher the whua of authority , would now be an obs dete _tiling , a mere remnant of ancient absurdity . _O'Couuell and the Irish press ferretted us out for praseeuuon , _laughed -at our suffering- ? , and denounced us as _trait-irs . Tbey have each in turn _na-i a taste of tiie sauce and 110 W DO THEY LIKE IT NOW : * Xu : a word about all the ablest counsel _beimr retained _asaiiist the

      Chartists . Not a . word ab _3 ut packed juries and "bloody-minded judges . No , no . it was all ri ; bt then , bat now 2 that tbe fox bas got amongst tne Irish geese , Mr . Dairy _iella us that nothing ever lus been done or ever can ba done for the liberty ofa country _excentbvthe _publication of seditious libels . Well , then " , whv did'nt Mr . Daffy publish Patrick O'Higgins * seditious libel , especially when iie had the opinion of tbe LibJrator that it was the very MOST SEDITIOUS PUBLICATION he had ever seeu . We _mustpresuins , aewrding to Mr . Daily ' s mode of _arguimr , the _greater the sfriition the greater the benefit " to Irish _Iferty . A _^ ain , tueu , we ask , why did he " not publish it ? Two _jo-ml ; Sheers tw <» oi thc most noble spirits that Ireland ever gave birth to , were hung in 1 T 0 S—

      Who fears to talk of " 93 . By the brutal law of Edward it required two witnesses to prove an overt act of treason , the father of those two young men , bursting with loyalty , brought a bill iutothe Irish liouse of Commons to make one wituess suni-ient , andscarei'y was the lloyal assent dry upon the parehuieut , _wuen the two sons were dragged from the dock to the prison , aud there hung , _emtowelied before they were . < le * d , then beheaded , and after death _tbeirbodiesdifided into four _quirtcrs , according to the law made by their own father . Moral ; If men will dig pits for attars , or assist tyrants in making laws , when ihey fall into tbe oue , or are entrapped into the other , tuey bave no one to _MameTwt themselves , aud should iie withoat murmuring in the bed they have made for others .

      The persecution of O _' Uiggiusis bat a paw return for the manly indignation of tbe English Chartists at the prosecution of O'Connell , Daffy , _( xwy , Barrett and Co . Three of those worthies have ihe management , we were about ta sar the command , of newspapers ; and the other Has the coutroul of the liberal press , and yet not one has dared t-j _iiieiuiou tbe name of _O'lligguis except to damn him . Mr . Dany has printed three columns in the Notion upon h ' s own case ; if he had printed one u : >; m O ' Uig / ms' we would publish every line of his , but be mast be just before we aw generous .

      TUESDAY . Freb Th _ h _» e . —Still die war rages between tbe land and money glare-drivers , . _ieJ in order to show tiiat the Protectionists are resolved upm lighting the League with their own _wetp « s , _wt give the following _advertisemeat , duty free , from a protectionist journal : — The _iliifCFAcrcaiSG of Votes . —Under this title ths Sussex Express of Saturday has lhe : ii _ lo . ring : —" The Anti-Corn Law League have c jraaicaccd their laoours of _purchasing freeholds in Susses . Taeir plan is to iurest any person who will pay tfaein £ C 5 with a county vote .

      We , however , are _inaposiuou to _sajyly _rrotrctiomsts with tne _qualiScra-jn for £ _S-l , b _ £ 3 less ; and therefore any person who may be _ausia-is to becjine a voter for East Sussex cau _atta-a his abject by remitting us that amount , with his _proper na- __ _ i <_ and address . We beg it ta be perfectly understood taat we have no connexion whatever iu _thtsunlertiJciiijr nith auy suciety ; fcat tbrongh private srrua _£ « i-ne _ it , _aa-1 _a-jtii a _leKr-niuatlon to meat _hieLxtgns With their own weapons , we have placed oursJves ia the _pjsitiusl of _securing to any _IVoiectionist-, for the sum named , tbe right * of a county vote . "

      That's what they call in Ireland shooting a man with his own gun . Now we ' ll make a bit of a prophecy about this question of free trade , ; i"d we won ' _, take so long a time as the _Tuttzs did for the fulttlt ment of its prophecy , we take shore of a week , _andwe prophecy thatthe freetraders will ba marvellously nettled at Peel ' s version of free trade , while the landlords won't nibble at the bait . Tbe landlords appear to have made up their minds that tbe free traders are to bave a bite out of their * ' haunch , " and inat in return the landlords are to have another gorge ou the _bellits cf the poor—tliat is , that the poor ' s relief fund is to be transferred from the rates to the consolidated fund . The squires , however , thiuk that

      the relief would be bat Irish saivarioo , as they'd have ts contribute their proportion t _> that augmentation of the consolidated fund out of wbich tbe support of the poor was to came . Du * as we cannot dismiss this _srajecr with a mere commentary in our summary , we _willcontentoarseivesat present by merely observing that Protectionists and _Anti-mouopoli-ts would agree , without a murmur , t- > doom the last remaining _vestage of the privilege of ths paupers , was it not from fear of that vengeance which the poor oppressed will one day * a uredlj take upon the rich oppressor . We shall wait with feverish anxiety tu see what part the poor are to be made to act iu tuis new protection drama .

      Tas Cons TaiDE . — -We have no change to notei siuee yesterday's comment under this bead , with the j exception of the terrible denunciations which appear ] in this morning's papers , by the farmer--, of the I suborned coaijutore of the plunderers of labour . Corn i continues to tumble like " _rolley policy" ou the wall , j and all the _Qjieen _' s subjects , ami all the Q , _ueen ' s I men , won't make " rolley poiley right again . " I Mosex M \ a _& ET . —Worse aud wor »* is all that we have to note in this department of jobbery . There is , in spite of ministerial _cuuSdeuce , the Timet _assurance andthe League ' s effrontery , some evil genius presiding over tbe pockets of the grubbers . They all _appear to be buttoned up , and it will take a slashing tailor to _? pen them for a bit . " C _v _-r " _* : scrf _. « . —The Queen and the royal babies v "¦ . " > " , ¦' ¦ ' ,- _--, ' _.-.:-. > ' ' j . :... " - - **? " t »« rnval

      - ' - ) _-i ! - .: ; - - '¦ - _" . 3 - ' • ' ' u ;*" _* V . " * ¦ _¦ ¦ ¦ - '¦ 1 ? ' _'j-ieeil _^ _* iVa _^ - . _jV-i- ;; ' ' .. ~ < V * . i ' ; _.-:.. ' . ' A < J : i ' K W _:.: ¦ _^ _W if i'i 2 " ~ > v :. - _^ _r-. v : _2 C < li _^ _:-l _tc-1 : «« ia _.-. _>« oi - _' . _i : _vhil-Uvi ' ' _~' _u-- _'' _:-u-jii _<> f iK : fi . " al _Hizhhi _^ tit *;* _t _' _- _'iiwe _« V " _* _!» s fo- thi _Ditby of ' Cornwall lias yrwenfed n ¦ i . *•; . " j oi £ _J ) 0 to ilie _Rtysl College oi Cbyiaistry .

      i » _t ' _ _a . f ? . . , K _** _"' I ' aA _*** " * _IfiAis . _—Whata magical effect the _kue ' v _ar . d rc _^ rauon of "lit * John" had upon the iri =- -. _i-arpuv ' s . _Not a word wad hear * . a __ wai lit '; Majesty and alt tbe diseases with which he _wa-: wiog - _^ . sumed when tha Whig * cam e aacfr w ? o ver sad tue jobbers hoped tc come _baca . zo _patr & n _^ o ; a _^ . now that it is all up with them , tue _bor , ; j _rzu _.-a Committee continue to receive the most frightful accounts ofthe relapse of his Majesty . These _philanthropista no longer confine themselves to a fourth or a third or a half loss , —we feara now that threefourths of the family is dead aad rotten ; and if money does not come at once for the employment of the poor , all Ireland will be a wilderness . _Qatre , — Will any ofthe Committee starve ? -Musha , uor the devil a'one . _

      Foreigx . _—Ciubiism ix * Pscsstt . —In one of Mr . O'Connor's letters after his return from the Continent , be stated the fact of the Prussians , through their several incorporated bodies , having demanded a constitution from the King abjut six years ago , and that the mover was laughed at . Two years subsequently he brought it funvard again and had a decent minority ; after the Chartist petition was presented , _Cbaixlsm in Prussia made a rapid progress ; and when the same proposition was recently _propounded the mover had _alargem-jorityin it * _faronr , and upon the _reaaons being submitted to the Aut > - _oas , lie condescended to vouchsafe the following reply , through his representative , the Ilerlin State Gazette : —

      THE KIKG OF PKCSSU AKD _HI 3 PEOPLE . The Btrlia State Gazette g ives the following as the replies made by the government to fhe demands addressed to it hy the _Dlst ofthe province of Prussia : — " 1 . Partiripationoftbe lay members of religious _com-ZBinities in thi _discsssiens and resolutions on _ecclesiasti-

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      _£ tf 7 ? ti _fI e fr rnraent , ' _' iakead _J * _ww that laics should be called to torm pa * of the fi _4 , synod whic . lS shortly to be convoke d . M it h _^ s b determined not to accept any prop * _r _tition oll th ( J cW to beintnancea into the _organisal" wn and constitutio _° the Protestant church except f fom tto ecclesiastical authorities themselves , itcanuot decide ani . _„ rc ] at _- toibe future organisation ofthe _provincial synods , before having _lieard the _propointions 0 f the general svnod _*>* Ameriorauon of the revisionbf . thecodt ; s ana . lleintro _* Ju * _uouof _thejury _.-Ueplj * : Co , _isidering _^ he importance of the question , preparatory st , ldies ot * greate £ tent Jlre re _ quired , and _tiiey are not ye tenninated . The Diets are therefore recommended * _« _, Wait _w 1 tU confidence tIle result ot tne _deliberaiiorxs of tUe commuut aulhori _ ties 3

      . . Meeting of the States-General , und proclamation of a 6 _ousiitatio _ i for _tbc whole hin dom . —Reply The Diets , in tlieir address of March 10 , 1 _SJ 5 , having expressed theic confidence in the promise which we made in 1813 , velaave to ths devaopmc-. it of their constitution , we do not see why they make mention of tbe _petifeons addressed to them on tliis subject We thank 4 ke minority for having showu the inutility of such a . _^ roceedia ; . 4 . Publicity of the discussions in the _Siets , within certain limits . —Reply : We refuse to comply with the prayer of this petition . 5 . To communicate to the Diets at least six weeks before the opening of the session the propositions whieh the government wishes to _hriiig forward . —Iteply : We shall com . municate to the Diets such propositions as we please , and when we thiuk it advisable . 0 . To reduce the amount of ten years of territorial possession , required as one of the conditions « i ehg ibilitj * for the representatives of tlie towns in the Diets , and iu general to increase the circle

      of eligibility in towns . —Ueply : Peremptory refusal . 7 . Eeform ofthe legislation relative to the press , and less severity in the censorship . _—limply : The complaiuts of thepetitiouersareaDyUiing but well-founded . The press , ia fact , needs an amelioration , but only to preveut in a more efficient manner the transgression of the limits which are imposed upon it , iu the iuterest of publie order , and of the reputation of _private individuals . S . Emancipation of the Jews . —Reply : The government is busied with a general system of _lagislniion fir all thiugs relating to the Jews ilka civil as well as a reiigious pointof view . 9 . To replace the duties on the gritidittg of corn and tlie killing of cattle by a direct tax . —Reply : Xot at present ; but the government will see if it be possible to lower by degrees tbe amount of those imposts and to prepare a general moditieatiuu . 10 . The Diet pronounces against protective duties , aud demands the frc-e entry ot iron iuto tho province . —Reply : In the changes which are to bs effected in the tariff , the government will take into consideration the interests of the

      whole kingdom . As to the free entry of iron , it caunot be granted . " This _tliauking of _jthe minority reminds us very mueh of friend Sturge ' :. abandonment of the chair and _conference at Birmingham , dcelariug that the minority had all the wisdom and justice on their side . However , be that as it may , the Auto .-rat of Prussia may rest assured that men witli anus in their bauds , are net going to be governed by the Bidin State Gazette editor , with a goose-quill in bis band ; for , as sure as the sun rises and sets , so sure will tbe enlightened miud of Prussia give to Europe tbe next signal of constitutional advance , unless , _indeed , our Charter twinkles in the firmament before .

      _Axotheii Roxai , TvftAsr . —We give the following specimen of the terror that ever haunts the guilty mind . Cromwell was afraid to sleep two nignts in the same place , and the tyrant Nicholas , as will be learned from the tbllowing sketch , fears least the very walis of his roam sliould bear his dreaming grunts for blood aud cruelty . There is great hope for genius aud justice when tyrauts treiublc before their thrones , while there can be but little respect amongst foreigners for the _Eusrlish , who allowed the

      same devil to be feasted in thkii : und white _thvir owa poor were starving . Iiut it was the press , the base , bloody , aud brutal press of England tbat brutified tbe English miud whilst smothering tbe moans of Poland , and thc waitings that were only heard iu the desert , _because their creator was the guest ot ocr Q'jeex forsojtfa . We rejoice that this tyrant cannot sleep quietly in bis lied . We wish , from our souls , that the ch-. 1 rub 31-1 u-. 1 id or lacqueys had poked bim iuto the leather bag , and sent lum as a welcome otferiug to the inhabitants of the wilds of Siberia : —

      The _E-M _?* iB 08 of Russia . — " A letter from Venice , ' says the Co . _utitKttOiW-: ! , " . < peak * of the extraordinary precautions taken hy the E : u ;> _eror Nicholas to escape all _attempis that might he made agaiust his life . On . his arrival at Padua lie himself visited the apartment in whiea he was to slee ; i , striking tiie walls of his bedchamber nitii a hammer . He -lien caused the mattresses ofthe bed to be removed aud replaced by a leather mattresses , whieh was filled with hay under his eyes . The £ ui :. eror refused to taste anv of the dishes prepered for

      liis supper , aud called for his travelling case , uutof which he took a ho tie of Alalaga wine aud a cold roast fowl , which he shared with count Oilnif . At Venice the public expected him with much impatience at the tiieatre _, but he remained iu the b jt- . om of the box , and ould scarcely be seeu . Count Orloff satin the trout ; attired iu a rich uniform . When the play was over , four carriages drove up to the gate , aud nobody could cell which w . is the one intended for the Emperor . The same precaution was , obserred when he- left Venice , and uo one could teli whether the Emperor repaired by s _« a or land to Trieste . "

      Thank God for that . What honest man would live au hour it he was _obfued to hammer tiie brains out of the wails for fear he should tail * : of his own misdeeds iu his sleep . Mons or ine _Amiauiutt of tub "Phi" of the English Press . — ' * The Emperor _Nicholas eft Vicuna by the Olmutz road , in the luurniug of the 2 nd inst . lie had a conference of several hours with Prince . Mettentichou tiie 1 st , and dined in tlie evening with the Imperial family . His ilijesty paid , on the 1 st , a visit to the Duke of Kordeaux , who bad just arrived from Frobsdortf . Our own private lettens refer to ( in Russia ) a _nust extraordinary

      proceeding . It appears that the brother ot Midamo Kissiliff , lady of the Russian Minister in Paris—a man of immense wealth and influence—had been exiled " towards" Siberia , by order of the _Emperor _, liis sister _( Midame Kissiliifj , when she heard of the outrage pcrpetratcl on her brother , remonstrated so forcibly , tbat she received an order to join and accompany him in his exile ! Immediately ou hearing these facts , M . Kissiliif sent orders by express to arrest tlie culprits ( if we must so call them ) on their route , aud release them from a punishment so odious . ' Further , ' says our correspondent , ' we know not of this unique affair . '"

      WEDNESDAY . Free Trade Agaix . —The Times , trae to its calling , and determined to have its " baily Bread" whoever shall fail short , belabours the Dukes of Richmond and Buckingham even more sordidly and vulgarly than Cobden and Bright were wont to receive chastisement from thc Thunderer . Tbe article of tbis morning is so truly descriptive ofthe conduct of a taorough-paced bawd , after she finds that out and out prostitutiou is to constitute her future stock in trade , tbat we should like to place the w 8 before our _readers , bat for her iui . nen « e length . There is one passage which so bespeaks the virtue of patriotism tbat 'we caunot avoid quoting it . The Times says , * ' Once let everybody in Euglaud get his mouthful of brand , and there is an end of our glorious constitution , wliich it now appears was trained with the

      express intention of preventing so horrid a consummation . " We woulda . sk the _Ti-nes , who is as _hopelessly ignorant upon the subject of free trade as Joe Hume is of arithmetic , whether thc free trader * , with the commanding power of machinery , are just thc men to allow of such a catastrophe as tliat of the constitution _bi-ing overthrown or even weakened by no dire a calamity as that of every labouring lntn having enough of bread . Ths Thuudcrer argues that the measure of free trade will not rcc- 'ivo opposition _, from the Lords _because all the old " fogies" are not to be found upon the public _huntings . This is purely Timet reasoning , for we might with equal propriety argue that it would not receive much support m the 1 Commons , as we Hud its advocacy on the hustings I confined to Cobden and his fiddle . By this day week I wc shall be able to have a hearty laugh at Great Jooe ' ' . _vlicii ' - ! ¦ iu ..-. - mvavfrom hi . ? own Thunder .

      M . _xst _rt _ A ! . __;« _ r . _—NijtYvithsu-. ndiug thai the Gor _j-ri .. _nent Couiiii : _ . _*•{• __ _£ r - - ' .. j : continues to " operate "' spo . _-t i . 'e _p-iiient , the d _. _^ . se . 1 but little abated , ar . * . ' _spt . j . _toir , s < 'f decline have become mote and more nutai . _eat . The rea- _ ous . it is true , . ire now [ ii : epitii ; out . is Parliament is about to meet , and whea they caw . _ i . v much longer be concealed , and when , not-K'itiistandiflg the polite reserve of the "foiciucitiny j >* i 2 .. ' - ' > r ' * and chief bookkeeper , the miiiur clerks on ' Cl _» : ;' -earebegi _; fi ; iig to " smell the rat" as he ' comes to tie _racoth ofthe hole , long a « the tunnel may be . Texa .- aud . Mexico , then , art ; the rat-holes , and _Republivsnbai is the great rat ; but of this under its proper ne ? . l . * Pkixce _AuiEST asb ins _LAvntoiins . —We tike the following paragraph fi-om the Times .-

      —We are authorised to give the most express contradiction to the statement put forth at the late vestry meeting at Windsor , that the late King George HI . and his successors uniformly paid rates for tbe Flemish Farm , such being directly contrary to the facts . It is true that when this farm was let to a tenant the rates were paid in the , _yual course , but since the tenant quitted possession , in 1 * 50 , thefarm _^ _has uniformly been in the hands of the Crown , aud no rates have ever since been paid . We liave every reason to believe th _ t when the memorial agreed to st the vestry , disclaiming the le _; al h ' _ability , has been presented , it is his Royal Higlmesi / s intention to pay a sum equivalent to tbe rates , as no question touching the Prerogative ofthe Crown can now arise

      _fcow _, was there ever such rubbish as the above ? What , then , if members ofthe lloyal family purchase a whole parish , tbe result must be thatthe paupers in that parish _losa their title to relief . We are told that wheu George the Third held Flemish Farm he paid no poor-rates , but when a tenant subsequently took it he ( the tenant ) paid poor-rates . This admission may be nude to serve a double _purpos » _, lirstlv , one of the principles of political economy , and secondly , tke principle of royal dependence . We are told the population already presses hardly upon the means of subsistence . No wonder , when the Prince steals the paupers' land , and feeds pheasants where peasants should be allowed to feed themselves . SeconJiv _, it

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      will open the question whether the Royal Family ought to hold any land , or whether thev should not rather , as the principal paupers , be dependent upon an annual vote of supply . Now , we contend for it , that a monarch has nu right whatever to any particle of property beyond what is annually voted by a House of Commons , representing the whole people ; and small as the sin may bc of refusing to pay poor-rates upon one farm , is is to tlie surrender of all the Crown Lands precisely what the defence of Uattoa and Old Sartira was to the Reform Bill . These minor questions are thc first peep into thc show-box , and presently the astonished gazers , when tbey see the vast possessions of the Crown aud the _aristocracy—the race-courses , thc deer-parks , the preserves , the forests , the sheep-walks , the exercise grounds with

      mansions tor horses , thc Commons enclosed , and all the rest o £ the embezzlement , —will exclaim " Ell ! dearee me , why ever should we go to America to Poland to the Baltic and all tliem there places ' for our DAIL 1 BREAD , whe n we could have it at homo bur , for all them there kings and lords and squires , and b shops aud parsous , and guardians and gamblers , and tat horses and dogs , and deers and pheasants , ami rabbits and partridges , and even _varmin—that all by G—d , is better protected by law nor we poor devils be , that all is talking so feeling _loikeabaut . Eli ! d , 1 if it baint better for wo to havo laud ourselves , and see if we baint better wi tne laud and wi _' owt them there tomfoolery than wi owt the land and all that there rubbisn "

      I erhaps sueh change as is referred to above may be also referred to in the following squeak , which we take from the Morning papers : — _-VfoxnuR Sig . v . —At the Gloucester sessions , on Tuesday last , Mr . Craven Berkeley , M . P . fer Cheltenham , objected to au increase ofthe expenses of the comity , on tiie ground that " a great change was about to take place iu the agricultural interest ; " and Earl Fitzhardiugo observed , that *• they could not shut their eyes to the fact _thatsoTiie great change would take place . " Possibly Uarl Fitikardinge does not care how soon .

      _IilKL .. _S . CoxciUATiox IIat . i _ _JuaoL « iiT . —Look here , my friends—you see that plain sheet of paper ; tliere * look at it , it ' s what thc clumsy old jugglers used to turn into my lady ' s table , my _lady ' s _bed-tead 4 now you see it ' s an arm-chair—now you see it's a fishing boat , to go a fishing iu—now it's my lady ' s nightcap , now it ' s a baby's cradle . Now , ladies and gontlemeu , tliis here Was the old rubbish that them there old pickpockets waa in the habit of deceiving houcst folks with—but sec here , you see that ? No . Law , Mr . Showman , what is it ? _E-i , my little dears , it's nothing at all yet ; but look now , there ' s ould lieland I Oh dear , how _bcautisotne!—there's Catholic emancipation ! there ' s justice to Ireland ! There's the Repeal of the Union—there ' s the Precursors ' Society , to see if we ean do without it . Tiiero's a Jury law ; you see twelve men thore upon your right , that won ' t find no Irishman guilty _wiiatsomever he

      dew . There ' s a great sight for you—there a the " glorious , pious , and immortal memory , " in a _glast of tho Bores Water . There ' s Federalism . Eh , whatever is that ? Musha . but that's a quare thing ! And there , ladies and gentlemen , there ' s a great sight for vou—there ' s tbe " Holy Protestant _Alliance ! " And is that all , Mr . Showman ? No , mj little dears , one more . Look here ! Oh , how _oeau tisome . What ' * that , Mr . Showman ? THAT'S THE HINT , M 1 LITTLE DEARS ! . Well , 10 Dan has actually offered to merge the Repeal into the Holy Protestant Alliance , though , of course , h « says in the outset , that he never will abandon Re peal ; but then he'll join the Holy Protestant A . lianc _« for ould Ireland ! Oh , you humbugging old ra » - cal !—is it t « get rid ofthe Holy Protestaut Alliance that the brave Irish have been struggling for centuries !—and but for you they'd have done it iu 1 S 31 , in 1332 . or iu anv van * from that to 1816 !

      The Yobxg Liberator . —The second Daniel , it appears , is to be returned for Dundalk upon the Repeal interest . In 1 S 34 we had 43 Irish Repeal members , a staff that could have shaken tyranny from its throne , and could have carried every beneficial measure for Ireland , even to the Repeal . Let us see , now that another- Repeal clect ' on farce is to be enacted , what has become of the Master Quill * in the Repeal wing . Dan has been sitcnt and has said that it is treason to mention the subject iu the Ilouse . His son Maurice says ditto . His son John echoes it . His sou . Morgan has a snug place for life and dare not mention it , and gave up the county of Meatli for the bone . Ilis son-in-law , Fitzsimon has a very snug berth and gave up the county of Dublin for theftit .

      His son-in-law , Charles O'Connell gave up Kerry county for his share of the pickings . His brotherin-law Finu , the best of the lot , resigned Kilkenny county for " a consideration . " Carcw O'Dwyer evacuated Droghcda upon a like INSULT . Sir Nicholas _Fitzsimon _, tha _potbrdiy police justice , abandoned the King's county tor his share of the dripping . All the others who would not answer for the tool box have either been denounced as the greatest enemies of Ireland , or whipped to the Conciliation Hall , to whistle in chorus with the groat juggler—to live in hope for the _ncx-t day ' s sale . Now this is a picture so faithful and true , with the names of the traitors who deserted for pelf , that no mortal man can cither deny it or justify it .

      Duffy a . \ o the Saxon * L . vw . —Dan didn't open his lips upon Duffy ' s sedition at Conciliation Hall , lest he might be answered with theory of "Musha , be gorra , but its worse nor Paddy O ' _Higgins ! " The grand jury were to find true bills of indictment against Mr . Duffy yesterday . We say t «« re to find them , for the business ofa Saxon grand jury is to find true bills against every 1 lishman that goes before them . This reminds us of rather a curious anecdote . In 1 S 32 , when the Liberator enrolled the Irish Volunteers , and exacted a guinea each " smart money , " instead of giving " bounty- " honest Jack Lawless and Feargus O'Connor were amongst the first who enlisted ; and npon the same d _» y Mr . Lawless dined with Mr . O'Connor , when Lawless , shoving his fingers through his hair , as was his custom when anything amused him , exclaimed , with an oath , "By G— , O'Connor , this is the funniest thing lever heard . The Colonel of the Irish Volunteers has

      registered a vow m heaven NOT 10 _MGHT ; and by G— , I think the Colonel of the Irish Volunteers should fight every m in that asks him . " It is the duty of an Irish grand jury to find bills against all Irishmen . Ob , if the _A' ation bad dealt fairly , justly , and honourably , by our Chartist friend 0 lliggins , what sympathy Mr . Duffy would have had fronfthis side of the water ! What resolution * , what meetings , what addresses , and what leading articles We would have adopted his sedition , and thus tested the difference between PURE Saxon law based upon bold opinion , and Saxon law emboldened by the subserviency of the Irish press .

      THK . GttunBi . ns . —The Irish grubbers are to meet at Conciliation Hali before thev come to London in a body to give the POOR LiTTLE FACTORY CHILDREN cheap bread . The Rest for the week was . £ 16 * 1 ; many districts having refused to contribute anything iu aid of government prosecutions . _^ We rejoice that the Irish people are at length beginning to open their eyes . UoitniBiK axd _Bni _/ TAL AnKM ' pr op Molly Maocirb to Dbstkoy Homas Lin * . — "A moat diabolical and wicked attempt to murdor a highly respectable family residing in tiie city of Oxford waa made on the night of Friday last , between the hours of ten and eleven o ' clock , but most providentially frustrated . It appears that the policeman on duty

      on the above evening observed at a distance something attached to the front sitting-room window of Mr . Samuel Quarterniaine , who resides in Alfredstreet , High-street . He immediately went to the window shutter and took it down , when be discovered that it was of a combustiblo nature , lie then took it into the house , and to the horror and consternation of the family it proved to be a petard , containing three and a half ounces of gunpowder , bound very tightly round with paper forty folds thick , uud covered with string which bad the appearance of having been dipped in turpentine , the whole weighing eleven ounces and a half . It was attached to the shutter by an awl similar to those used hy harness-makers and shoe-makers , having the mark of wax-thread rouud

      tne ! ia . ia _ e ; ? . r _ d upon further investigation it was discovered tLat the fusee bad beeu light-oil and had partially burnt the shutter , but fortunately , owioa to the __ r _ at « 'ials being damp , it < iid not explode . If it had , the consequences must have _baen dreadful in tho extreme , as . Mr . Q , uartoaaaine bad ali ins family < _w a friend at his house that evening , who were sitting in the front parlour , fitmsolf aud daughter v . _* i _* r _* _ occupying seats ckwe to tho _wiiido-v , an _' l , had tho explosion taken place , thay could not have _possiWy escaped wilh their lives . A reward " of xiOrt has been offered for the discovery of the Piiscreanr , and we hope org long that he will be brought to _cundiL'n punishment . Mr . Quarterniaine is a highlv _respc _' l

      able livery-stable-keeper , and is woll-known in the sporting world . " We * wall / beg Mrs . _Maguire _' s pardon ten thowand times . We extracted the above from the Times newspaper of this morning , and from the base assassinlike attempt , and from seeing it in the lime * , we Sr esumed that it must have been perpetrated by Mrs . laguire or some of her numerous family , but looking over the paragraph again we find that it occurred in the very seat of science , literature , _civilization , Christianity , and the arts ( Oxford ) -it was a lark of tome of the _higlirspiriled Collegians . We would recommend the heads to make immediate application for a strlvgest Coercion Bill .

      _Forbios . —Spam—Thb Ow _BLOOwiouxn . —Naryaei was compelled to admit ix bis speech , as a legislator , that he had acted illegally , but that _necessitv , the tyrant ' s prolific , plea , bad rendered it _Bccessafy w . , P » nwh the editors of tbe Clamor Publico . We wish that we had a Narvaez in Ireland to nerve the arm of our Irish _cotemporaries . The same tyrant has banished Princo Don Henrique from the kingdom for having written a _iibcral address , but the Cortes _sejra perfectly satisfied with every act of the devil ' s tyranny , upon being assured that his Holiness the Pope had written a loving letter to the . Queen of Spain , in which he addressed her , as— " My beloved daughter . " There is one portion of the tyrant's speech so funny a . id so characteristic of that ascendancy which tyrants think they hoid over nature herself ,

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      that we cannot forbear publishing it . In talking of the Queen ' s marriage he says , " Her Majts _. y _luts not as yet signified her desire to _eonlraetmatrimony . Ministers have not thought it necessary to awake in her bosom any such sentiments . " We would recommend Gcucral Narvaez to pass an act for the destruction of Cupid and all his darts and arrows . Upon the ahovo _announcement the folks in the gallery instantly struck up tho following national anthem to bs sung to the Queen at the approaching festival : — Do you ever b * thinking of young men Confess the truth I charge ye , for if yo do Its a _torrilile sin .. Tou should think of none but jour clargy . _Tfhsn under tho _dothus you are going to repose And find wicked notions intruding , The virgin invoke , give your stomach a stroke It ' s as good us any charm .

      when sulking to rest be these last words express d Queen or Angels between us and barm . America , Frascb ano _England—So , then , wo were not far wrong after all , when we asserted that Oregon was in the back ground of the belligerent group and that the non-intervention ghost stood prominently in the foreground . It now appears and it would not appear now if it need not appear in the Queen ' s speech _otThursday next , that the annexation of Texas is after all to be the casus belli , ( the cause of war ) between Monarchical Europe and Republican America , Elsewhere will be found the correspondence

      between M ; Guizot , tho French minister of war , and his deputy at Washington , and the assurance of Lord Aberdeen , that communications ofa like nature hud been made to his deputy at the game place . The raising the English militia of 40 , 000 and an American militia of 200 . 000 , is now perfectly explained , but still there is a difference between the order to raise militia and the doing of it—The mind of this country has undergone a tremendous change _sinco men allowed themselves . to be baliotted for like slaves , mercenaries , and cut-throats to fight for the privileges and properties of their oppressors . We trust that the cry of

      NO VOTE , NO MUSKET _, will fly through tlw land like wildfire . We early announced the importance to America , and to tho democratic force all over the world , of the non-intervention policy . No doubt the Autocrat of Prussia will be very glad , " _hsoer _kxistisg circumstances , " to join the league of Kings against tho league of People . Upon the Queen ' s first visit to the King of the French , we announced the real intention of that visit to ba the formation of such a league for the preservation of thoso silly privileges and dangerous powers which wisdom and knowledge are now attacking on all sides , and before wliich thoy must , sooner or later , "drift as . snow beforc . the wind . " Af . Guizot _' s deference to the wish of thc raaioritv is very

      statesmanlike . He says that although France and England will consider their wishes RESPECTFULLY , yet they wont tolerate their fulfilment ; and , knowing that they cau "ofkratb" upon the breeches pockets of Mr . Houston , the President of Texas , M . Guizot , in bis practical love of democracy , i 3 satisfied to consider hira as a MAJORITY against the Republic of America and 'iiexas . The . cuuning minister would arouse our sympathy by persuading us that it is altogether a question of the slave-ownors of the Southern States , but he appears to havo _forgotten that Lord Palmerston baldly and truly declared in the House of Commons last session that the whole press of Franco was in tho PAY OF THE SLAVEOWNERS . Now then we shall have a rumpus , and no mistake . So , hurrah for

      • * No killee , no havee , Massa ;" So Vote , ho . Muskkt , Masia ! THURSDAY . _FiiEE Tradk . —The mice had a play of their own last night , at Covent Garden , as the cat was away . Cobden , we presume , was starring it . in the provinces , or rehearsing his part in tho new piece to be performed at St . Stephen ' s . The fiddle was also absent , and consequently tlie proceedings were deficient in fun and interest . Cobden is certainly the _bsst actor in the company , and Bright , within himself , comprises the estimable qualiiies of the useful man , who combined the heavy and the light by bringing on a trunk and taking off a letter . We are uot awave that we ever mentioned the gag put npon Bright's mouth by a shoemaker at the Northampton meeting . " See , " says Bright , " whatimpracticable people the Chartists are ! They have their six

      points , which I will compare to six waggons ; and they want to drive these six waggous through a gateway together , while we find it too narrow to get one waggon through . " ( Great cheering from the League . ) — " D—n thee , iboQ fooile , why doesn ' t thou help us to make gate wiie enough to" send an through together ? " ( Tremendous laughter and cheers followed this trite observation , which literallv flabbergasted poor Bright , when he was driven to the necessity of teaching the meeting how to make bread out of iron ; when a nailor again stopped him with , "Why , mon , our guts would all getrmty ! " )—Upon the whole , we have a notion that " Cobden and the fiddle arc beginning to look from the moral to the political of free trade—from _thebigloaf of theoperative to the loaves and fishes of Downing-street .

      Trb " Times" _aso its New Masters . _—TIic Times of this morning evinces the truth of the old proverb , that it is impossible "to servo two masters . " We really long for Wednesday , in the hope of seeing a refreshing journal from the pens of Jerrold and Dickon ? . The Thunderer , in its attempt to keep up the free-trade clash , is absolutely piling rubbish upon rubbish until it is difficult to tell whether its notions uponagricultural and political economy arc drawn from Virgil , the Bible , or Arthur Young : but one thin" is quite certain , that in the attempt to prop the free trade building the architect is dilapidating , nay , pulling down tbe old temple of political economy . It is a favoured maxim of the League that population presses hardly upon the means of subsistence , while

      the Times assures us that deficient popvutwx ail over the world will preclude the possibility of furnishing a surplus of food . - Perhaps the Times , or the political economists of sixty years ago , would have enforced the impossibility of producing a surplus of cotton stuffs , and of the fallacy of supposing that tha manufacturers of them could be waked in the midst of their 0 vn production . The Times does not understand a single particle oi tho science of agriculture , _* we no , and we now tell the writer of this newspaper " stuff , " that erelong the improvements in machinery will set the disinherited operatives thinking as to how they can get the land , and when they do acquire it _. England alone , with her now surplus population , cracking stones , picking oakum , and crushing bones

      within the walls of the unions , would _product in England , which is not the most highly favoured wheat growing country , an annual surplus of over twenty million quarters . Now , not justifying the non-consumption of wheat by the Irish people , and supposing that all tho oats grown in the country , as well as the potatoes grown , was consumed at homo , which would he a vast improvement upon the present diet , what does the Times think of the answer that the Irish export of wheat gives to its folly ? The Timet commits an _egregrious blunder when it presumes the incapacity of a farmer increasing his production from twenty to thirty quarters—not that we mean to say that this ratio ot progressive improvement could proceed ad infinitum : but , we do contend that the aub ' ption of tile-principle laid down by Virgil , which we do not forget having read in our schoolboy days , namely , the dibbling and

      afterculture of wheat would ensure a four-fold product from the amount of land usually devoted to that crop . What we assert is this , and no booby with a goose quill in his hand can refute it , that there are not ono hundred acres of land in one lot in England , Ireland , Scotland , or Wales cultivated to one-tliird ot their power . We beg our contemporary to confine his remarks to a _comparison of the valuo and weight of the oratory of the individual belligerents , allowing him the full privilege of alternately praising and bespattering Richmond and Cobden , Arthur Lennox and friend Bright ; but , in the name of common sense and decency , to abstain from . strictures , comment , or guess upon the capabilities of the soil , because the ignorance displayed upon this subject may , and probably will , lead to the conclusion , that the Thunderer ' s noise is not from Jupiter , but from behind ihe _scstin . i of that theatre at which the Times

      way nave tin _cigagenirnt . " f _. n Pons Tim ) ... —We learn from this morning ' s ¦ rtyorls from ail _parls oi' the . country , _wjtjioui _exeep' . _>*>; . ¦ _, Uu . ! , the . _nillers aro bitten _with the so stock m . _* . n ! .: snd merely buy from hand to mouth , waiting h ;_ - i _* :. " _'r ! tiationfrom St . Stephen ' s corn-mart . Everv sp .: * - _riM of grain "rules" lower , and is more difficult to 'in ;; , even nt the reduction . The farmers are _frfiiiiii . _* , the landlords are rabid , tho _freo-iradoi _** are fruiting , and the Minister ia quaking , as . we learn that _ai-other Mack sheep has expressed some so _icamishness iu the Cabinet .

      _ The -Stock Ey . cH _ 4 . voB . —As tho time for min * n . tcriai development approaches , panic appeal * :- t « increase in a geometrical progression . AJi in / latter than yesterday ; while Exchequer-bills , which ahove all other descriptions of scrip denote ministerial strength and confidence , have partaken of thc prevailing epidemic . Again the Government Commissioner has beeu operating , but the breeches pockets of the patient remain tightly buttoned . Oh ! what a day we shall have on Thursday n » xt , when the Peel balance-sheet makes its appearance on 'Change ; for , mystify it as he may , theshrewd arithmeticians there will see much more in tho indefinite term , _sundrios , than all the rest put together .

      Court _Cnicuun . —Her Majesty walked alone in the preserves , for the purpose of rehearsing her part in the new drama , entitled BREAD or NO BREAD tobe produced at St . Stephen ' s on Thursday next ' . Sho got _amongBt a clump of trees , and addressed them as " My lords and gentlemen . " "We trust that she will use the expressive and characteristic words of her august grandfather , George-the Third , on Thursday next , and address them as ** Mv lords and peacocks . " The Q , uecn , Princo Albert , and the Court have had ntire . new Court dresses from Moses and Son for tho occasion . The DEAR little babes were taken tlieir accustomed airing , and went as fatas Flemish Farm , where they wero met by a group of starving paupers from Windsor . Wc are told that the Queen ' s stock of potatoes are running low , and

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      that orders bave been issued to lay in a store of Irish oats as a substitute . Prince Albert axd thb Paupers o » "Windsor . — Common law is based on cu stom , and nothing but the subserviency of a people can ever constitute bad common law . The truckling , authorities of Windsor have had the baseness to forego the claims of the poor to their right divine rent from Flemish Farm , and have accepted as a gracious _oifi that that was a just , and holy , and _letral claim . The paltry

      lickspittles , we suppose they dine with the palace _scub lions now aud then , but we trust to the independent spirit ofthe kitchen boy and shoeblack , that they will ask them how they came to compromise thc poor ; and we trust to tho poor themselves to call them to an account for having received as a _geaeious royal gift , what was theirs by _hioht _divisi , and to which they had n better title than Prince Albert or the Queen herself ? It is melancholy to see how the poor are bought and sold like cattle at a fair . Oh for tlie vote , to make every man his own overseer !

      The I < _AMtSB . —On Wednosday next Sir Robert Peel gives a full dress dinner party , to which 200 of his turnspits havo been invited . The Queen ' s speech will be r ehearsed there , and the two gentlemen nominated as mover _tnd seconder . We understand that a positive order has been issued that no potatoes should be served up , lest the mover and seconder should get an untimely cholic . We long very much to see this speech ; we suspect that it will he very much like the old gentleman and his ass .

      Tub Railways . —The frightful accidents that have recently occurred upon several lines from the negligence of the companies' servants is likely to become subjects of parliamentary interference . It is a rule with the directors of the several companies not to allow certain newspapers to be sold at their stations . Two vendors have been threatened with the loss of STANDING for haying so far outraged all deceney by offering the _iVbiwrn Star for sale . How we pity the ' poor devils who thus reject knowledge , and luxuriate in their ignorance .

      irtMATO . Moat ahd nun _Cuildrun . —By St . Paul , Molly is an admirable recruiting sergeant , anil will soon have as large and much braver a militia than the Government . The news from Ireland is altogether so interesting , that wo cannot afford . to curtail it by a word . In debating the state of Ireland before the Reform Bill , Sir John Cam Hobhouso . said , " You may _tranquillise Ireland when you have a ropo round every man '» peck , or a soldier with a fixed bayonet behind every man's back ; " and , from the _neeeisity of distraining for rent and tithes with police and military" aid , as noticed in our report , we are inclined to believe that one soldier to each Irishman would

      not be sufficient to insure tranquillity . When Lord Dunfermline was auditor , to the Irish estates of the Duke of Devonshire , his grace requested him to procure the best information of the grievances of Ireland , and to suggest tho most likely _remedies . Hb lordship , theh plain Mr . Abercromby ,. proceeded upon a tour of instruction , _accempanied by the late Mr . Swanston , a driver to the duke , an excellent man , and a Scotchman ( a neighbour of our own ) , who did more to improve the country than half tho resident landlords . After a month ' s tour tho noble lord was lost in a sea of conflicting representations , and said to Mr . Swanston , we havo heard a load of grievances , but I seo no remedy , do you ? Yea , mon , replied the Scot , I ken

      it a' . What is it says his lordship ? Easy enough was the reply , and itcanna fail whenevor an outbreal ; takes place , I'd hang the nearest landlord , the _naarest parson , the nearest attorney , and tho nearest _agent _^ on the nearest tree , and you'd never again hear of a squabble in the district . General Sir John Lambert was requested by government to furnish his notion of remedies I ' or Irish grievances , and the gallant general declared that Ireland never could be tranquil until there wero milestones on every road , the names of the owners painted ou every cart , finger-posts at every cross road , and until tho parish beadles wore cocked hats and earned gold-headed canos . Now , we say that Irelaud never , can be tranquil , never

      ought to be trauqn . il , and we hopo never will be tranquil-, until every man of twenty-one years of age has a vote and a musket , a lease for ever of his holding , tithes aboliWied root and branch , the magistrates appointed by the people , the bishops removed from the House of Lords , mother church allowed to stand upon her own bottom , the lawyers and barristers sent to the plough , am ! , the Bank of Ireland restored as the senate liouse of the nation , its members elected by tlic free voice of the whole people , and , if necessary , separated from English connection , that has operated as a drag-chain upon Irish industry , as a corrupter of the Irish press , and as the foul upholder ofa devastating church .

      The _Poiice and Peasantry . — The Packet contains tho subjoined particulars ofa desperate recontre between the peasantry and tho police , iu which the latter were repulsed . : — " On Friday , thc 9 th inst ., Mr . "Williams , contractor , had a number of labourers from Uoosfcey to work at _Carnudg-bi'idge , on the Shaunon , the labourers in that riciuity not being so expert at such work as the Itooskey wen . Iu consequence of some information that opposition ivould be given , 20 police , under tlie command ol Constable Balfour ( whom I mentioned to you in ray last report ) , arrived early in the day in Ciirnadgto protect tho labourers . As soon as this was perceived , scouts wew sent off in all directions , and about tivo o'clock p . m . « mob of over COO Molly "Jfaguires arrived at Carnadg and commenced an attack on the labourers and police , all oi

      whom were forced te retire . Unfortunately one ofthe _polico was severely injured , nnd now lies in a dangerous state , his jaw-bone being broken in two places , and eight of his teeth being knocked out . It is fortunate that Constable Balfour used such forbearance under such trying circumstances , else the consequences must have beeu awful . And itis now the surprise of every one in tlie vicinity how tliey got off so safe . On Thursday , the Sell , a party of the 3 t ! i Hussars , ivit ! i a imigistrate and some constabulary , accompanied Mr . George Knox ( agent to the Crown ) to the lands of Hallykilcline , to protect him and liis bailiffs while serving some law notices . And on the same day Mr . John It . _Mulone , Sub-Sheriff , had 11 party of _policfe and military to protect him in making a

      seizure for rent , under an execution at tho suit of a Mr . Roc against Mr . Little . A meeting of ten magistrates , Mr . W . Lloyd , D . L . and J . P ., in the chair , was held in _Sti'okestown , on the 7 th inst ., to take into consideration the propriety of having a new police-station formed near Hill-street , to protect Mr . Church , whose new house was levelled at night a short time since . The majority of the magistrates were of opinion that it was more necesary to reinforce the present stations , wliich have only a few men , wholly inadequate to the state of the country ; the original question war . therefore lost , ond so the matter ended—Mr . Lloyd receiving a vote of thanks for his conduct in tlic chair . Such is the sttito of this part of the county . I cannot help remarking-, that if any _English comity were in such a state of insubordination . I think Sir It .

      1 ' e . il would not bo no tedious 111 taking steps to . restore tranquillity . Tho Government are much to blame for their supincness . " Murder in the Coontt or Limemck . —A correspondent of the Evening Post says :- — "On Sunday evening , a man named Leahy , a tenant of Sir Matthew Harrington . Bart ., was shot dead on the lands of Drumbanny , county of Limerick . " To which may be added the following : — "Limerick _CAroii ' _ck-o-Hee , Jan . 12 th . To the _eatsilogu _** of agrarian outrages detailed in Saturday ' s Chronicle , we

      have to add that the Amiaody police party , while , su patrol last night , encountered an armed band of about twenty _Boekites , near Aherne , the scat of General Sir Richard Burke , when a conflict took piace , and shots were exchanged , by whieh two policemen wore wounded , on < : severely , and some of tho Hockites , who retreated . Ali the city of IAineriek police left this last night for the eceuo of outrage , and to protect the Annaody _poliet brunch , —P . a . The military force returned to this garrison on Saturday night from JCnockscuiry _, the estate ol Sir C . _Molyneux , with three prisoners . "

      _Bxrcosios o » Board a Yacht . —Ahout two o ' clock this morning an explosion of gunpowder took place on hoard the Bplendid yacht tlie Flower of Yarrow , the property of tho Marquis of Conyngham , now lying in thc _^ Custom-house docks . Tho vessel immediately took _Srtin several parts , and but for tlio prompt attendance 01 the natch on duty , aided by the plentiful supply of water , would have been speedily rcdaced to a heap of ashes . # y half-past three o ' _clock the fire was completely _estiiinuished , but uot before a vast deal of damage had been done , tu the amount , it is supposed , of from £ 500 to £ 1 , 000 . 1 bave _Ittaril it : _iir .. _ad Hint tbe accident occurred front a _package nfbUiollgkti huviug ignited and communicated with a canister oi _gnniiowOrr , which \ i \ _ew-n _* . with such violence thai a iti : ut and boy on .. " . in . _ivi-. . ; literally blown out of tlit . ii * berths , _-.. iihout , however , :, \\ _ilering any material injury . ' How the Times bawls for coercion !

      _itonEMN _.- —War being an _uiipro'ittiblo thing Jim now , tlie 7 i _* w « recommends that l ! _-. _* iR * nil _iN ' _arvaez , whom the Thunderer . informs us _lui _*> _-loiie so _iiuioh for constitutional liberty in Spain , should _pvotteu to Mexico , as tlio rallying point : _i-, » ia _$ i America _:, interference . We guess , _hoivcvur , > : ' ... t . the _ffiillani ollieer has quite as much iipoii hi . : * - _iiiiiid . _* . ; _is will confine his operations to his own country 0 _sphtre fur a bit . The fact of the matter is , that the American struggle against European intervention is thc contest of-the new world of science against tlie old world of exploded ignorance . Princes are trembling upon their thrones from the just thunder of popular knowledge , directed towards a searching investigation of lone-established tyranny and misrule .

      The Cloud in the Whst . —As the time approaches for Ministerial development , the butter is coining out of the stirabout , as the Irishman says . Horace says that the first blow is half the battle ; and from tho following it will be seen that Sir Robeit is of the same opinion as the great satirist . A Callao letter , of November 1 , posted in tlie Liverpool Underwriters' room , says , " The admiral , in her _Majfsty's ship Collingwood , 80 , is at the Marquesas ; her Majesty ' s _tbip Modeste _, 18 , and tho steamer Salamander , ave in company * , and , after having made the round of the isiand , he will proceod , it is said , to tlio Columbia river , whero he will be joined Vy her Majesty ' s ship America , 50 . " This intelligence is in some degree confirmed _ban e __ truct from the A _' _etu York Sun , which says , " Our private advices from Monterey , Upper California ( Monterey is about GOO miles from thc river Columbia ) , to tlie middle of October lust , came to hand yesterday , The in-

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      telligence in important . A British ' fleet ; destined-for Oregon , was passing up tho west coast , of which oui * correspondent at Monterey says— ' The pionear of this fleet , the British ship of war America , touched here somo timo ago , and the movements of her- commander , Captain Gordon , aroused our suspicions at the time . He refused to give any news , saying men-of-war did not carry news . He also refused to cany a circular letter to the United States' Indian agent at Oregon city , remarking that ba was not sure of going to Columbia river . I have ascertained that Lord Aberdeen , the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs , had a brother on board the America , and one of Sir Jtobert Peel ' s sons was also an ofiicer _orpasssngar . Y » e wero all very glad that these distinguished visitors had every facility extended to them for collectiug facts ill this vicinity . '"

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      Notions About Free Tltade In The Far Nor...

      NOTIONS ABOUT FREE TltADE IN THE FAR NORTH . "We find the following letter in the Montrose Standard : — I am no politician , and seldom address editors of newspapers ; but my attention has been drawn to what is passing around us by seeing a letter , which has been for some days on the table of our Newsroom , addressed by our worthy member for this district of burghs to " The Provost of Forfar . " This circumstance leads me to believe that both the member and our respectable chief magistrate court publicity to the document .

      After acknowledging the receipt of a memorial on the subject of Free Trade , and giving a hint to our democratic constituency as to what " the people " ought to do , Mr . Hume proceeds to give his views and opinion to the blow-up of the Whig cabinet , —if such a name can be given to the late abortive attempt to form a Ministry . He writes to the l'rovost as follows : — * « * " I may mention to you , that one ofthe chief obstacles to Lord John-Russell ' s forming an administration , was lhe refusal of Lord Grey to act in any Cabinet wiiere Lord Palmerston was Foreign Secretary ; and Lord P . would not take any other ofliee . I objected to the war policy of Lord Palmerston , especially to bis attack on Syria ; and I should have been sorry to see his Lordship again in that ollice , with tho power of making war , as he had formerly done , by a toeaJj ministiy . "

      "lam fov peace and free trade with all ( fa _toorW ; and there is no place in this kingdom would benefit moro by them than Forfar . "If I can live to seo theso blessings , I shall die contented . Believe , yours , sincerely , ( Signed ) " Joseph Home . " I sincerely hope he will long live to see his country prosper under a good and just Government . But tliere is one thing which I hope Mr . Hume will explain . Is his "Free Trade" the one-sided Trade which abolished every protection to Agriculture , and continues restrictions on all other necessaries of life ? If the Government could want the taxes—if they could want tbe means of maintaining the State , the army , and paying the national _creditor—I say let us have " Free Trade with all the wtfrld . " But let us

      be just as well as generous . " Do not ruin one industrious class and continue restrictions for the support of ; others already abundantly wealthy . Let us have a total and immediate repeal of all duties on every necessary o life . But let not the agriculturist be crushed while we maintain high import duties to protect the Manchester manufactures—Leeds broad cloths , shoe ? , hats , and stockings—and Birmingham buttons , Such ¦ " Frco Trade" is like a carpenter ' s hatchet , all on one . side . Abolish , therefore , every tax on the necessaries of life ; but before doing so , point out in what way the Government are to meet the country ' s engagements , and support the National Faith ? Are we to wet the sponge ? Shall wo play the gatne of Pennsylvania ? These are serious considerations ; but they are based 011 equity and honour .

      Our Corn Law totcric in this burgh are iu their own view men of shrewd penetration . Many of them are so . Others , who arc the loudest , are ofa class who never heard of Adam Smith , or , it they did , never saw his book . They know a hawk from a hand-saw ; and a few can tell a cow from a colt . These ave the men who think themselves entitled to clamour and _insist on the government taking their dicta to regulate the measures of the state in one of the most difficult parts of political economy ! To such injustice Mr . Hume ' s srnse of honesty and long experience aa a politician must prevent him from lending the sanction of" his name . Tiic prospect of a new election may weigh iu these advices to " the people , " but the intelligent part of his constituents are not t 9 be swayed by any clap-trap writing or illogical

      reasoning . I may have a few words to say to Mr . Hume on other matters , and I shall probably write you again ; but I avoid mixing up any other subject with this communication . By the way , thc country should vote a statue to Lord Grey tor keeping Lord Palmerston out of the Foreign Oflicc . Friends and loss consider lum little better than a firebrand , who , were he Foreign Secretary , would , in a few months , set the world by the ears . He is , moreover , a political turn-coat _* -but this is the affair of his party . An EquiiACLi * Free-Trader . Forfar , January 6 , 1810 .

      Ministeria L Arrangements. We Have Much ...

      MINISTERIA L ARRANGEMENTS . We have much pleasure in confirming a rumour which was current on Wednesday , to the effect that the Hon . G . A . Smytho has been appointed Under Secretary of State for Foreigii Affairs , jn the room of Lord Canning , who has been for some time anxious to retire from the onerous duties of an office which he has filled with much ability and most exemplary attention . Mr . Smythe will now have ' an excellent opportunity of obtaining an Insight into pablic ' business , and we trust that the applause which his brilliant success in Parliament has excited will not induce hiin to neglect those less showy acquisitions without which no Minister can in these days hope to succeed in obtaining the confidence of the public . — - Times . Lord Canning retires from the Foreign-office ; but , instead of succeeding Lord Metcalfe , as _ it was rumoured he would , wo understand he will succeed Lord Howard do _IValden 113 ambassador at Lisbon .

      The Standard says—We have every reason to believe that it has been proposed to Lord pathcart to succeed Lord Metcalfe , and thus unite in the same Hands the civil and military govcrnhient of Canada . The report of Lord Granville Somerset's retirement from ofiice is altogether without foundation . The rumour is revived that Lord Lyndhurst is about to resign the Great Seal , for reasons _uuconnecEOil with Ministerial policy . It has been strongly rumoured in Westminster Hall that Mr . Peinbortou Leigh ha 3 resisted most earnest solicitations from the Premier and the Duke of Weliington to succeed to the Woolsack ; and tbat , inconsequence , the following arrangements are contemplated : — . Sir Edward Sugden to be Lord Chancellor , _* Sir F . Thesiger , Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; and Mr . James _JVortley to be the new Solicitor-Genera ) , lhe present Solicitor-General becoming , oi ' course , Attorney-General .

      ¦* . —--__^ Poaching Afkuat.—On Tuesday ...

      _¦* . — -- ___^ Poaching Afkuat . —On Tuesday last , January 13 , the magistrates of Worcestershire _^ sitting in petty « es 3 ions at Worcester , were occupied some time in investigating a charge brought by William Mann , a gamekeeper of Lord Sandys , who resides at Ombevsiey , in that county , against it labouring man named William Dav , for cutting and wounding him , wilh l | j . eiit to do ' liim some grievous bodily harm . The < ySe , as laid before the bench on the part of the prosecution , was briefly as follows : —On Saturday , _viie 8 tii of November last , the gamekeeper , while patrolling a certain portion of his Lord-ship ' s preserves , called _Gardoner's-coppicc , encountered _^ the prisoner l ) ay , iii company with his companions , uamed Woodward and Curuock , busily engaged in

      laying snares for game . On the parties catching sight oi" the gamekeeper they approached him in a menadng attitude , and Woodward and Day set upon the keeper with heavy sticks or bludgeons while Cuvnock kept the keeper's dog at bay . The keeper attempted to defend himself , but was overcome by numbers , and the poachers succeeded in knocking dowu Mann and rendering him insensible from the effects nf two -r- --. _ilp wounds , the v . ic . _vks _ of which he -wived to she Com *' . On recoveriiu : his .-ccies : ' . «* Keeper _l ' _mimi hiftiscif' . ilo . ie , _-ind saw _ftf . li . fi . j mc . _rt _: of ¦ is _assaii _.-iftls _'>';'¦¦'' hi **! wt' _-k _, wheu Day was . _talfE _ai-tl . e _iin-. ise 0 : hi :. !>; , ; . '<> .. _ nt Wfl . ' Ujy Lady Ai , iou . r . ' huiii . en _jjiiie _.-. iron . Omber _.-ii _* . _' ,.. . Woodward , t . > e 3 _cos- < l of the _pi _.-f . _cjtii _, was tneo . at _ti _^ l ast

      Worcester-hire Quarter _Scions ( last _woek _) ot . _? charge u sk _' r . liug il vvais . li . oat ; , ' . \ _Vort-. _*; . r . » _i-, a ;) d . be . 2 ,. ; -iqnnd . . _; _iiijiv , _wasfionreiiCtKl to 'lucemontlis' iiuprisoniutl _' _--. ec . lie _cxpiraiior . of wiiioh time he riil lie taken hefi / j'ft liu * m _ tg . __ . ' . lutes an tbecwirgeof _alfaskinjj M » sn as above- _lU-a _' _criU'd . Ouruock , it _seoms _^ uas left the countiy , _iicYCi * _isiivinu' beeu seen or lieayi ' t of sine * the . above transaction . Both the complainant and the defendant were supported by legal advisers ; Mr . Hide , of Worcester , appearing for tlie prosecution , and Mr . Brampton , of the _sanic . city , for the accused . Ou behalf of Day a bold defenco was set up , Mr . Urampton being instructed to plead an alibi . To substantiate this , two witnesses were called , viz ., the mother of the accused , and a young woman owning the euphonious name of Martha Huggins , with whom

      it would soeni that Day is " keeping company . . Mrs .. Day deposed that Uor son left home at 9 oclock on the Saturday morniug with Martha Huggins to goto Worcester , and returned atll o ' clock with her . Martha said that" Bill Day " went with her on the _Satiirdav morning to Wuiccster . Both left White Lady Aston at 0 o ' clock , and she positive y swom that he never left her company until 9 0 ciocK tne same evening , 'fhe attack at Oinbersley , live or six miles from Worcester , was stated to have taken place at 4 o ' clock in the afternoon . After patiently hearing both sides , the magistrates decided on coninu > ting the prisoner to take his trial ' _^ sizes on the charge , when the W the vald . ty of the defence set up . l

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_17011846/page/5/