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      Heartless Tyranky

      HEARTLESS _TYRANKY

      no smToa or ins no & _thexs ita ?* . Sis , — An set of tyranny has been _perpetrated in tbis town ( Stockpart ) b y aa agent of the Lord of the Manor , Which is in its way as _uo ' _ati and opprecsiTe as any that has taken place under that class of oppressors , the Irish landlord * . A respectable and benevolent man _occupying a fira ' _under Lord Vernon , being desirou 8 of alleviating the miserable condition of a aumber of his poor neighbours , sub-let t quantity of his land for that purpose , whioh the poor fellows eagerly prepared , and in ninny instance , bad manured the land and planted some of tbeircrops . Their hopes , however , were soon blasted . The venomuus pen ot some unknown wretch let the

      agent know that the poor men were working the land npon SrO' Connor ' s plan , and for themselves too . This was toi much fer the _pampered and bloated menial of a feudal baron—he must put a stop lo such work . In vain did the poor fellows represent their misery , and the hardship it wonld be to them to bs deprived of tbeir alletaents , after having purchased manure , seed , and agricultural irap _le-nentg ( many of them stinting their _Btomacht for that purpose ) ; { all was to no purpose , the _migfety menial declated tnat the nuisance should not _Tse _tol-rated under him , so thatthe poor men wtte _compelled to give up their plots . It is but justice to state , that the farmer wbo sab-let it has done all in his power to compensate the a « i for their loss . Yours faithfully , Thohab Webb .

      M The Editor Op The Northern 8tar. Sit,—...

      M THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN 8 TAR . Sit , —We _rtjolcs to Inform you and the members of the Land Compaay _generally , that a number of as bave formed ourselves Into a co-optratiTe association called ih « _* _K'nt ! stott _Ca-4 _pfrative Gardeners Society , our object being to hire land in our neighbourhood ; and to accomplish _, such , we bave commenced subscribing in shares of 2 s 61 each ; any person eligible to become a member no matter what creed cr _politics . Oar object Is to prove tbe value ofthe land in our own localities and the practicability of the Lsnd Plan , as a means to au end of ultimately redeeming the working classes from their at present degraded _position , to free men , free in thought , and free to ac * . _Trusting the public notice through the medium of the _St . ax , will attract the atteation of other localities , we at the same time unitedly bope , * and most earnestly wisb , [ bealth and long _lifettojour benefactor and friend , Hr _Feargas O'Connor . I remain , dear sir , Yours respectfully , R . AKDEasoN , Secretary , P . S . Any localities wishing for a copy of the rules ran have thera , by applying to the secretary . I l £ arch 7 th 1848 . I

      The Jtational Petition". To Thb Xdiiob O...

      THE _JTATIONAL PETITION " . TO THB XDIIOB OP THB NORTHERS STAB . Sis , — Seeing tbat the National Petition is to be presented to the Sbas » of Commons by oar champion , Hr O'Connor , on the 16 th af April , I think I shall uot he doing my psrt , havim : a vote for the borough of Mary . _Itbone , if I neglected sending to the two members , requesting them to give the petition their support , or no vote frora me at the nest election . Hoping all Chartists having votes will do the like . I am , yours , John _Stefbcks , an old Cbartist .

      To The Esiiok Of Ths Robthebii 6tab. 8ie...

      TO THE _ESIIOK OF THS _ROBTHEBIi 6 _TAB . 8 ie , —Ic would appear by tke conduct of some of the employers , that they look on the _workins man as an engine created for their especial use , to be employed so _toag as jt salts their fancy or Interests , and then to be thrown aside as ra much Immj lumber , having no longer say right to live upon earth . This , or something like ir , must be the idea of the mea who show such antipathy totbemenin their employ trying to make provision against a time of age or destitution .

      I am induced to trouble you with the foregoing remarks , by the conduct of ray employer towards me . _Bs-ing a successful allottee in the Land Company , I had aatarally _b-ignn to congratulate myself on my good for . tune—whtn , it having come to my master ' s ears , he put damper on my rejoicing by an abrupt dismissal , telling me , at tha same time , that , had he been aware of my in * tentions he would have _dismissed mfe four months ago . I appeal to you , a » a public joarnalist , to say whether it ft just ta the working ; man thus to punish bim for Hs attempt to provide fer his future _cemforts ! and it is _certia ' that if there ii any class which hu need to do so . it is & eiaeeraakers—as Mr Langford , my former employer , knows that no man caa obtain employment _afttr he has passed the meridian . Therefore , to punish him for trying to provido for his latter jedrs , is tyranny of the worst Mnd . I am sir . Tours _respeetfally , Jakes Homes , KewLentoD . Karch _13-h , 18 * 8 .

      Oufl Exile3. The Following Utter Has App...

      OUfl EXILE 3 . The following Utter has appeared ia the Cobkwall _CEiosiCLK . published in Van Diemen ' e Lind ;—

      To the editok or the cobrwall _chbojicle . SlK , —In lo * king over a recent copy ot yonr journal , cry attention was attracted to an article on the subject of prison indulgences , which opens a wide field of _oblervation , and one ia which , if you have the moral Conrage to proceed , yon may render the most essential _fisrvice to taany really deserving characters—for amongst fits heterogeneous mass _composing the prison popals-&» _, it mast be admitted there are some of that description _, and I would , without further _prefaee , draw your attention to one whose cs . se presents the strongest eJaims that can be arced upoa the notice of the _gsvernsestal authorities . Z-phaniah Williaas , tbe _compatriot cf FroBt and Jonei , who has , for ft considerable tune , resided in this town , end in reference to whose general character it weald be superfluous to allude .

      sore than by Esyiog it is that of unwavering rectitude , _Bjjright integrity , and stern , unbending probity ; but , passing by the deserts of irreproachable conduct , he his performed one ofthe moot _meritorious actions on record and , should he never receive any advantage from fts performance , at the hands of tbe constituted author ! . 'tats , it is hut right that the press should blatoa it forth , corroborated , as it is , by the unreserved and honourable attestation of T . _Maton , Esq ., the police _msgistrats , Urn * showing , beyond the possibility of douht . that there essnot be anything of collusion about it . The _meritonsnFaction Iallade to is this : —The inmates of Hew _Sorfalk Lunatic Asylum had banded _themselves _togetter is a conspiracy ; had armed _tbemielf _es with _Kadjeons , asd threatened to burn down tbe asylum , threatening to kill any oae that tame near them . The

      paid keepers were afraid to approach tbem , as were also fee _eotwtables . At length Williams was applied to , and , as tee risk of his life , he went in amongst them , and was _ultimstely successful in prevailing en tbem to reliru o = aIsh . their weapons , aad retire eaeh to his cell _, gfl here omitted to state that tbis occurred on the _Stod & y aeraing , an 4 the whole of the prisoners em . _ptoyed oa public works , were actually called eut of _* _crc * a to assist , and what the array of physical force _& il « d to effect , Williams accomplished with a few kind _Tsardj . This took place in June , 1 S _46 , and at the Cms Williams we » _induced bythe solicitation of friends _fensemorislise for en indulgence . The _lata Governor , Er E Wiltuot , forwarded the _raemorial to the home go * _ssrament ; and in course of time Williams received the

      _fallowing very laconic _Gladstonian reply to his applleatarn , a copy of wbich I _eaclose . A writer in year _jourssl ef September Itt , signed * Ksgs . es , ' very truly _obeesres , that , in most cases , it has happened tbat tbe Bast sea have met with the worse fate . It is literally exemplifitd in the case ef poor Williams . But Barely it is tise that the specious fraudulent trickery , tjrhich h * S been eo long and to often practised , and which has only tended to advance and _rewsrd villany , B & _oold be superseded by a mora judicious bestowal of indulgences - and I verily believe tbat in no instance is it more richly deserved , or would be more highly _appreersted , than ia the case of the political ezile _, _"Smtaias . Z am , sir , yours truly , P . .

      COM OT SlrLT TO _APPLICATION . Mehjbakdch . — The Lieutenant-Governor has _reesrred a despatch frora ths Stent Honourable the Secretary of State , in which . Hr Gl & dsone intimates , tbat her _JfsjMty kas not been pleased to _epproTe of s Ticket of Eeave being granted to 2 . Williams , who was recom . mended by his _Bseelleney . TT . Kara * , OeaiptreUer ' s Offioe .

      Bust Eiwe.—At A Meeting Of The Bury Edge...

      Bust EiwE . —At a meeting of the Bury Edge _Rational Charter Association , on Sunday , March _& h , the _foiloTrtlng persona were elected as rsembers of the council for the ensuing year , _vir : — Aathiny Scorer , Joseph Simt { S _? n , George Summersea , Joseph Saint , George Young , John Maugban , treasurer ; Robert Carr _, seoretary . Exeter . —At a _meetingof tha National Charter Association , oa the 10 th ins tas t , Messrs Webber , _Havili , sad O'Brien were appointed to arrange for a pablic _meeting , oa Saturday , the 18 th instant , for the adoption ofthe National Petition ; also , to apply fe » the Teignaouth , Tiverton , Coiluapton , _"WellingtBOyTauaten , Bridgewaler _. and Barnstaple localities 6 ? skHb securing the services of a delegate to tbe fbrtbconiing Convention . All _esmmunicationa to be _rsut to the secretary , P . J . O'Brien , 49 , _Holloway-Ekeet ,

      Cidhah . —On Sunday last Mr J . Leach delivered two lectures in the Working Han ' s Hal , to a very _Expectable ' audience . At the close of tbe second lecture an address wss unanimously adopted to be presented to the _Demoeratte government ; of France , _eocgratnlating the people of that country on the glorious victory they hare obtained over their despotic tyrants . _Kswhiist . —Oa Tuesday afternoon . ' March 7 , s _^ abhe meeting of the inhabitants of Keighley waB _fisle m the Market-place , to congratulate the French _laeon oa the _glorwuB victory they haye gained oTer _JrirST ° _S re 8 s _- ° a- Mr Weatherhead and others _vSdfSt _^ _fc _* _«**«« , but _press of matter _^ _ftherStL . " re 2 Wt ' _^ _^ **

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      LOOK ON THIS PICTURE . ( From the Preston ChronUle ) . FEARGUS O'CO _. _NNOR'S NATIONAL LAND

      SCHEME . PV 3 BLIC TBA PARTY AHD BALL . On Tuesday _evening last , a public tea parly and ball was held in the rooms of the Corn Exchange , in honour ofthe location of six of the Preston mombers ofthe National Land Company . Among the persons announced to address the meeting waa Mr _Feargua O'Connor , M . P . for Nottingham . The room waa crowded—about six hundred persons , of both sexes , being present . An excellent tea was served up ; and , after the tables had been cleared , a temporary platform was erected , from which the different speakers addressed the assemblage . At one end of the room , a piece of white calico , surrounded hy a red border , was nailed to the wall , _having upon it the words Feargus O'Connor , Esq .. M . P ., tbe founder of the National Land Company ; ' and , and at the other end was a similar piece of material , bearing upon it the words . ' The ecience of Agriculture is only in its m-

      Mr James Fbakklanb having been moved to the chair , Baid—Ladies and gentlemen ( though it would be , _perhapa , more appropriate to say working men and women ) , he accepted their call to preside with the greatest pleasure , for he held it to be a privilege to be allowed to take a conspicuous part in bo praiseworthy a movement as the present one . It was a movement which had _forita object , ultimately , the salvation of onr common country : and , immediately , the amelioration of tho condition of suffering humanity . ( Hear , hear . ) There was , to him , in contemplating man ' s return to his legitimate possession ot the land , something pleasing and sublime ; for then he would not be wholly dependent on trade ,

      nor would he be the victim of sordid man ' s injustice . ( Cheers . ) We might , in the present day . look on every hand , and behold steady , would-be industrious , and deserving men , Unwilling idler ? , whose pallid cheeks proclaimed aloud the want of the common necessaries of life ; and many of those men preferred the streets to their homes , in consequence of the destitution ef their families-such families being barely kept alive at the expense of others . The con dition of these men was but a shade better than our own when the land in this country was comparatively unproductive , from the want ot labour . ( Hear , hear . ) He would aefy any man to walk ( as he had done yesterday ) _throaeh the vale from Chipping towards Preston—which might be rendered as beautiful a

      place as ever tbe sun shone upon , and wss now literally a heap of rubbish—he would defy any man to walk through that vale without feeling forced to acknowledge that the land was lying waste for the want of labour ; and at the same time hundreds of labourers were being thrown into the nnien _bastiles through that want of labour . ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) Who had not seen , when he had travelled into the country , a field on the one side teeming with ? lenty , and oa the other side comparatively barren ? f we asked ihe farmer what was the cause of thiswhat made this field ou the one side teem with plenty , and be on the other in a barren state , he would tell them , ' The landlords , and the want of capital . ' We might then ask him how , when he carried out

      improvements on the one hand , they were net productive of benefit to a certain extent on the other hand , and he would say , ' He had neither the capital nor the disposition , when he held his land on so fickle a tenure as at present ;—when he dared not tread on a partridge nest ; when his boy dared not keep a dog to assist him in protecting the sheep , if such dog was ever known to have disturbed a hare or a pheasant ; and when he had effected 8 ny improvements in the land he conld be turned off it at a moment's notice , and have all he had expended sacrificed to the caprice of a tyrannical—an unprincipled landlord . ' He ( the chairman ) had been told oa Sunday evening last , by a practical tatmer , that in a _oertain township in Lancashire the land was worth from 15 s . to 20 a , per acre

      less than it was fifteen or twenty years ago The land bad been allowed to deteriorate in value ; and yet , at the same time , this township was much pressed with poor rates . It was scarcely possible that such things could be allowed to exist , and yet tbey were at present in existence . The present meeting was a Eocial tea party , to congratulate their friends who had been allotted land , aud who were soon to be located according to the principles ef the Land seheme ; but were it a political gathering he might indulge a little , aud say that tbere were other reasons , besides exclusion from the land , which had tended to bring about the present deplorable state of things . He might tell them that even their ' own darling Land Scheme , ' as it had been termed , would

      never be curried to a successful issue until the government found it to be their duty to repeal that monstrous law known as the law of primogeniture , which left all to one individual in a family , and burdened the rest of that family upon the community at large . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Were they not met upon another object , he might go into the history of the past few days , which had brought vengeance upon an unprincipled tyrant ; which had freed a noble people from their bondage ; and which , in all probability , had changed the destinies of Europe . ( Cheers , ) He trusted that the happy day might arrive when all persons should , by their own industry , be made happy , and when they should be allotted and located on the fruitful land . He looked forward ,

      also , to that happy day , when man , by his own industry , _ghould be able to maintain mimself and those _Pravidence had made dependent upon him ; when he should labour willingly , from early morn till dusk ; when his wife should have time to attend to the internal arrangements of ber house ; when he could sit in converse with happy , social , sober friends , to talk ef his duties and his rights ; when he should educate his children— ' teach the young idea how to shoot ; ' and , when bis labour and industry would qualify bim to retain his position as a happy _citizen of a free and glorious Republic . ( Loud applause . ) However , it would ill-become him to detain them any longer . Be knew of what that meeting was composed ;—he knew it was composed of a _mixturejif the grave and gay ; some seriously disposed , and others

      itching fer other amusements ; and he knew , also , that they had present among them a tried advocate of the peeple ' s righto , and the fonnder of the Land Seheme—Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., member of parliament for Nottingham , and no thanks to the powers that be . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Knowing that , he thought it would not bs his duty , as chairman , to occupy any more of their time ; and he would sit down by thanking them fer the orderly manner in which they had listened to the remarks he had made ; and , if there was any person present opposed to the principles they advocated , he hoped they would give to them that calm and dispassionate hearing for whieh a British audience was so highly famed . ( Load applause . ) The chairman _coneladed by calling en Mr Brawn to propose the first resolution .

      Mr James _Baows said that tha duty which was imposed upon him that evening , was one which can Id not require much energy on his part to perform ; and , as there were several strangers present , besides their esteemed friend Mr Feargus O'Connor , who were desirous of addressing them , he would not detain them long . Hs held in his hand a resolution to propose ; but before he did so , he would beg their attention whilst he endeavoured to express the feelings which naturally arose in his mind on an occasion like the present . They were not met to celebrate any great battle ; they were not met to triumph

      over the fall of any dynasty ; but they were met for an object as great , if _nst greater , than if they had beea met for such purposes . They had had to contend , since the establishment of their Land scheme , with a foe more formidable than any ofthe armies whieh had at different times over-run 'Europe , and that foe waa tbe public press . That press had thought it its duty , from the commencement of the struggle , to impede their progress by every means possible , unprincipled , and dishonourable ; and they wero now there together that night to proclaim that they had vanquished the press . The resolution placed in his hands to move was as follows : —

      That this meeting—assembled for . the purpose of ra . _joicing at the successful and proud position to which the _Hstional Land Company has attained , and in honour ef the loe & tion of sis of the Frcstoa members of the comptny who are going te he taken from tbe miseries naturally attendant upon the present artificial laWr market , and placed in a position for a fair developemeat of ths capabilities of lsbour when applied to the _caltir & _Hoa of the n & tioaai resonroes of this countryconsider , that if generally carried oat , the principles of tbo _National Land Company would teed to promote the political and social regeneration ofthe working classes of Great Britain .

      _MrWu . BERRr seconded the motion . ! The GHAIBHA . N - . Our friend _MrFeargau _O'Coanor will speak upon this resolution . ( Loud applause . ) Mr _Feaesus O'Cbhnor , M . P ., then came upon the platform , and was received with tremendous cheering . He said _; Mr Chairman and my friends , after a lone absenee from your town , I assure you it gives me no ordinary pleasure to meet you upon the present occasion ;—upoa an occasion to commemorate a great event , namely—the release of six of your townsmen from _absslate bondage to positive freedom . ( Cheers . ) But there _^ _ia a circumstance connected wiih this night ' s gathering which gives me still greater pleasure . I have laboured long , and now find that I have not laboured in vain , to create a _scnad ; mind among the working classes

      of this country ; and I may truly say that I have beea ampjy rewarded to-night by the sound , rational , and sensible speech delivered by a man worthy of the name of _Frankland . ( Cheers . ) It has been my fortune on several occasions to attend both large and small gatherings ; and without attemoting to pay a compliment on the present occasion to that gentleman , I can say thst I never heard a speech more replete with sound _common sense . ( Cheers . ) Jt is more valuable to me because it was evidently unstudied , and was the creation of his own mind , impelled perhaps by the scene before him . There is an error , however , whioh my friend Mr Brown , who moved the first resolution , has committed , though perhaps a trifling one , and made with a good aad kindly intention . His has told you that the press _exposed ths Land Piaa ircra duty : but tbat is aa

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      error . The press havo _opposed that Plan from _intereat , _syoophnney , depravity , and corruption . ' A great portion of my business through life has been to give to that press the power to do good when it is inclined to do so , and to pare its claws when it is inclined to _domiBchief ; and perhaps there is . no country in tho world that can boast of so great ft triumph as we can over the lewdness of the press . And why ? Because here am I a stranger standing before you , and standing before the representatives of the press , and 1 defy that press to destroy the mind that I have in a great measure created . ( Loud applause . ) There was a time when the press was all _powerful , because the press was like a veiled prophet , and every man thought that a newspaper

      was a bible , and everything that ho saw in it was a Revelation . But now every man haa learnt different , a- d haa learnt the truth . He now knows that an editor is but a portion of the property ofthe plant belonging to those who sell the paper . He knows that an editor is paid for what he says , and he knows , also , tbat like other manufacturers , he makes his wares for the best market . ( Cheers . ) And now , my friends , I have a great moral to this tale , and have to request of you to doubt me when the press praises me . The press of this country has done more to destroy liberty , and has done more to produce the present disorder among all classes of society , than all the other classes put together . The _pretss of this country has ever been foremost

      in supporting the power of those classes who are moBt opposed to labour . And why ? Because labour , being most unproductive , and the labouring classes not belonging to the advertising community , and most papers living on advertisements alone , they are obliged to pander to the want of principle and 'depraved tastes of the advertising clasB—no matter what opinions they may themselves entertain . I thank the press for having opposed the Land Plan ; for if they bad riot opposed it I should have doubted its stability . ( Laughter . ) For instance—imagine a poor little editor sitting in his cock-loft , writing for the parties employing him that matter only which will _gell—writing ' about the capabilities of the soil , and borrowing ideas from other subjects ; and

      in which we have many opportunities of seeing the ignorance of that class from whom we are taaght to receive , knowledge and learn the literature ofthe day . There is now a great change coming over the spirit of the times ; In a country not many miles distant frord _-feurs—notwithstanding that its tyrant monarch was firmly seated on the throne , the people have been victorious against him , and he has been compelled to seek a safe asylum in England . As described by your chairman in his escellent illustrative speech , we have a tyrant turned upon the State ; and in all likelihood we shall be called upon to contribute to his maintenance and to the _maintenaace of his family . It iB not at all to be doubted that the working classes may be called on to support another king . They already

      contribute immense sums te the support of the King of Belgium , to whom they gave £ 50 , 000 per annum . They contribute also to the support of the King of Hanover ; and I should not be at all surprised if we add another to the list ot pauper kings living on the labour of the people of thiscountry . But no w I have done with the raDble of the press , and kings , and will come to the more important subject before me , namely—these six children coming to live by their own free labour upon the soil . ( Cheers . ) I venture to say , notwithstanding the opinion ot the press , that all the land purchased is clay land , all the houseB damp houses , and all the allottees discontented and starving—still I venture to assert that no power , no seduction , no ignorance , no representations , no

      entreaties will be able to seduce these six children from their own castles as seon as they are partakers of the sweets of their own labour . ( Cheers . ) It is true that when I first _established tbe Land Plan , it was a novel question to the working man , who was accustomed to the drudgery of artificial life , to the depression of wages , and to act according to the caprice and wishes of those who employed him . He then never gave it a thought that his breakfast was produced from the land ; that his dinner was produced from the land ; that bis supper came from the land ; and that in fine , bis hat , coat , shoes , stockings , and every article upon him was produced from the land . ( Cheers . ) Every article is produced from the land , every object which he lies upon and which are above

      him , is produced from the land ; and now the people know that they look npon the land as their own , and from which tbey may gain their own redemption and salvation . ( Applause ) As a matter of course , the object of the Land Plan is to boy ever the labour market for industrious men—those who live in poverty and who over-stock the labour market—the object is , then , to buy over the labour market for tbem , for the purpose of making good the losses In trade . It is no wonder , when the government tax industry to the sum of £ 6 , 000 , 000 in the shape of poor rates , from which the idle alone receive the full benefit , it is no wonder then that they should wish to take the surplus labour out of the market , that they might thereby increase the value ofthe land .

      h , very man in his senses knows tbat for some years past trade and commerce have been falling off . Every man knows also—although there has been an increase iu the price of the raw material and a great decrease in the price of the manufactured articlethat the capitalists would oppose the Land Scheme . It is no matter what the priee ofthe raw material is ; it is no matter what the price efthe manufactured article is ; the men who command the money , and , thereby , command the labour , make up the deficiency in the profits out of a deficiency in the wages . That is the reason why these men are opposed to the Land Plan , These men know about as much about the land aa an Irish pig knows about geometry , ( Laughter . ) I would take a hundred free traders ,

      or a hundred political economists , who write about the land , and I would locate them on an estate ; or I would take a hundred editors , and what a thing that would be . ( Laughter . ) How I should like to see a hundred editors located on an estate;—( laughter )—what a menagerie that would be . Well . I would take a hundred editors , long-headed as they think themselves , but ignorant as they are—idle as they are—and unless they were like Nebuchadnezzar , and could live upon grass , every one of them weuld starve . ( Loud cheers , and laughter from the reporters . ) They would soon find out how much they knew about the land ; and if they produced anything at all it would be geese , because they must bave a goose quill ; and , therefore , they would

      preduce _eeese , if they could produce anything . ( Laughter from the reporters . ) That this Land schema of mine should , _oonse-Jueotly , be opposed by the press and by capitalists , am not surprised ; but let any man take a walk with me ; let him look at the land on which my friends have been located ; let him see the improvements which have already taken place on it ; let him look atthe countenances of those located on it , and see the once pale faces turned into a good blush ; let him see the woman who , s _, short time ago , was obliged to rise at the dawn of morning , to throw the sucking child from her breast , and hurry off ta her work ; let him see her in her own castle , sitting by her own fireside , the mistress and empress of her

      own household . ( Loud applause . ) But , my friends , I believe the press and the capitalists are Christians , and , therefore , I will give them scripture . God tells man that he must live by the ' sweat of hia brow . ' God tells man also that the husbandman must be the first partaker of the fruits of the earth . God does not tell man to live by the sweat of another ' s brow , but he tells him to live by the sweat of his own brow . God gave you the land , and told you to cultivate it ; and to make you labourers he made natural labour , but the devil made you artificial labour . ( Cheers , ) The husbandman and the labourer have as great a right to . enjoy the fruits of their own industry aa any man wbo lives upon ha own land . ( Cheers . ) In the present state of trade , in the present state

      of commerce , when there is a speculation and traffic in all other articles of life , why are men opposing others respecting the land ? God gave man a sufficiency to apply to his own sustenance and support , aad one man has as much right to labour on the land and support _hitriBelf by his own industry , as another has to take a shop if he wishes to beeome a shopkeeper . Therefore I have shown yoa that God created man an agricultural labourer , and told him to live by the sweat of his own brow , and gave him labour wherewith to maintain himself ; bnt he created none ef those speculations wherewith labour might be speculated upon and trafficked with . ( Cheers . ) Some of our opponents ssy that two acres are not enough ; that three acres are not enough ;

      and that four acres are not enough to support a man upon . If tbat is the only objection , it could soon be disposed of ; for if they are in a position to say that four acres are not enough , then let them say wbat will be enough-. I ask them to fix the standard , and if four acres are not enough , to say what ia . I would not wish you to cultivate one acre of land , for never has there been a man born since Adam was a little boy who could cultivate one acre af land up to the highest state of perfection . The manufacturers of Lancashire thought it a hard > hip when they were obliged to send their twist abroad , declaring that the greatest profit lay in the greater necessity . I have , therefore , to complain of the manufacturers for opposing the Land Plan ; because in the same way the greatest amount of labour mast be applied to make the land most profitable . Ou Thursday night

      next I bring my measure before the House of Commons , and then I shall , from their own words and by reading their own statutes , satisfy them ; because I have it on record , from au aet passed by the House of Commons , that no man in Ireland having a quarter of an acre of land is intitled to relief from ' the poor laws , because he ought to live on that quarter ef an acre . ( Cheers . ) Therefore , if I am able to satisfy them from their own words , and from their own mouths and journals , then I say tbat I have silenced the press gang _« nd the opposition of the House of Commons . I told you in the first instance when I established Tjy Land Plan of the difficulties with whioh it wonld be surrounded ; and I was told that it was impossible to find an acre of land whieh I could purchase , for the landowners would not sell us the land . But as soon as I purchased the first estate then these gentlemen had the gilding taken off their gingerbread . There is no more of that now ; for if

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      _fKorfliflaneatatetobeBoldin _© ngland _.-the _pwaons _SS-fitlooko _^ T ara able to _eive more , than any other Ln for it . Every morning my table is _« j * d with notes from landed proprietors , _com" _^ _IS Si ? , I have a splendid estate to offer yon _wTfj thot operatives , tailors , shoemakers , weavers , _£ « rauld never dig I have had them now en one j £ _^ o 3 ? SS "W" ¦ ¥ _»*¦?•> _« Bd every man _Ifn it savs he is able to work with any agricultural _K _erln the parish . It was thought an _extraor-BErTS ! _*&* **• the immense time of seven dinary _w » " _6 _js , _tom a ta ; ior whea tbat _Oneereat and important thing with regard to the ? _nJPlwi that we are doing away with the old Lfl fm of farming which has descended from gena-B ?? _K _^ 3 on . and which haa caused men to

      _reserve the old hedges , forests , and fences , which _Eoaebed upon the land , and _^ hicfc their grandfathers bad adopted years before them . We nre now _ntroducing an entire new system into the soienee or agr culture ! and we are bringing all the mechanical skill of the country upon the land , thus forming : a complete set of labourers . In _P « t _^* _£ a j * Worcestershire , where onr colonies have been located we have had men who have been farmers all their lives come to _these _. novices to learn agriculture , and they have been astonished at the improvements effected in the cultivation of the crops . This is a _S _fact-a greater fact thia free trade . ( Cheers . ) Th ! 5 not a great fact , but is rather a great he . When I waa in parliament before , I tried what par . •;» m « r , E would do , and I proposed several measures .

      One has been alluded to _to-nignt . yne was a dm aeainst the present _ouioua tenure , which gave the tenant the soil , but prevented bim from applying his capital upon it . If the tenants were to . have the entire benefit from their own exertions they would rise at dawn of morning , and work not till noon , but till moonlight . The people have a r _. ght to the tenure of the land . Another thing which I proposed was , a different system of Pef Laws for Ireland : that they should be supported by premiums from the higher classes ; and lhat is the same tow that I would _propoBS for England . I am opposed to any description of Poor Lavr whatever , and am in favour of a law-not a pauper law-but one to provide relief for the aged and infirm , who , in their youth , have not been able to } ay by enough to _anD _* J ort themselves in their old age . ( Cheers . ) My _ninr _, would effectually get rid of idling , for I am w

      favour of unwilling idlers , and if my plan was carried out . when the realjy industrious found a willing idler Dressing on their industry , that idleness would become a crime , and the idlers would be sent to prison . That is the principle which my plan would establish . But perhaps the press have told you that you are all my dupes ; aad perhaps the press have told you that this plan has been adopted for my own benefit . I say that this plan is the most remunera ting one ever yet adopted for tbe working clauses , and why T A man pays £ 5 4 s . id . He does not get hia location at once , but as soon as ho gets his location , that very moment his £ 5 4 s . 4 d . is increased to £ 160 . If that is se , then tbiB man cannot be a much injured man , but he is placed upoa

      his farm , and does not press on any other class like the manufacturers , who speculate in labour , in the hopes of getting a market for it in other countries . Then again , when I place a man upon a farm , I 8 hall have taken that man out of the labour market , and thereby have increased tbe wages of those who are left . There is a class of poraonB—a bigoted clasB—an ignorant class ' of industrious men , who have as great an interest in the welfare ef the labourer as the labourer has himself . These are the class _poaeessiug a vote ia : the country—the shop _, keeping class—and I ask those of Preston if , where tbere are 10 , 000 men in a district , whether they would sooner have 10 , 000 men earning £ 2 per week , or _SOjOuOor 20 , 000 earning 15 s . per week ? I should

      like to know which ef the two would spend most money with the shopkeepers . The more the labourers the greater the benefit to the shopkeepers . Therefore , as I have shown youa thousand times , all parties ought to support each other . Every man displaced by machinery , or by any other means , presses hardly on the industry of other classes . What is the duty of government ? Is it the duty of government to sit upon the treasury benches to vote away the taxes , and to send out bayonets and police to collect them ? If that is the duty of government , then we have the finest government that ever lived . I consider it the duty of government to see that no man who is willing to work wants for food , ' and it is the duty of government to find

      work for those men ; That is the first great principle introduced by the new provisional government of France ; and I see that everything valuable in their proclamations has already been proposed by me a thousand times over . . They have got a working mau upon the provisional government , and they have declared it the duty of the . state to find labour for those who need it . Now , this , my friends , is all that I ask , and it is the duty of gov ernment to find out every source of employment . ( Mr O'Connor then commented upon the increased value of gold in this country ; thought tbat every man should be allowed to be his own producer and his own consumer . ) _Fi _© m north to south and east to west , in this country , there was not an acre of land

      cultivated to one-twentieth of its capability . The gentlemen who had , by their calculations , endeavoured to show tbat the Land PJan was impracticable , ought to constitute a council to be Chancellors of tho Exchequer . He admitted that the men could not be located as fast aa he could wish ; but there was no Company in the world wliich had commenced operations as soon as thiB bad . By mortgaging the land , however , he could locate them faster ; but that was a dangerous proceeding . He now thought he had convinced them by plain arguments and _faess that he could locate the people according to his Land Plan , and that proceeding would greatly relieve the labour market , and , consequently , benefit all other classes . We paid , at present , £ 6 , 000 , 000 per annum for poor

      rates ; but , by having £ 1 , 000 , 000 of that for the relief of the poor , by giving £ 3 . 000 , 000 to locate the poor , and saving tbe other £ 2 , 000 . 000 , they would confer a great benefit on the country . The location upon the land would give the people a degree of freedom , independence , and health , and a degree of pride also , to be enabled to live in hia own _eaatle and consume his own produce . It would be cheering also to see his children not idling about , but being willing to assist him as soon as they eoald put their hands even to weeding a garden . The tithes of this eonntry belonged to the people , and not te tbe parsens . They were for educating the people , for supporting the people , for remunerating tbe working clergy , and not for the purpose of paying a million of

      money altogether to keep one idle pauper in every parish . He had told the ministry the ether night , that the very thing which had produced the _Freneh revolution we were doing now , and that the people of this country would no longer bear it . ( Cheers . ) He had showed the Chancellor of the _Exchequer the sources frem whieh we were entitled to expect a large reduction of taxation , instead of aa inere < tse . Let the government locate the people on the laud ; let them disband the greater portion of oar army ; let them relieve the landlords , and improve the condition ofthe manufacturers and shopkeepers , and then £ 4 , 000 , 000 per annum would ba more than ample to keep up all that would be required . It took now from £ 11 , 000 , 000 to £ 12 , 000 , 000 for the army ; but

      let every man ' s castle be his sentry box , and then there would be _trnoh a National Guard that we Bhould have no fear of invasion , though , _perhaps , we might have cries of' The throne is in danger , ' ' The church is in danger . ' ( Cheers . ) _During the last quarter of a century he had been agitating , and during that time be had attended more publio meetings , and addressed mare assemblies , than any man living . He had been a farmer , and was consequently acquainted with agriculture ; he had _bsen a great fox-hunter ; he had been fond ofthe _oard-table ; he had been a barrister ; he had been a journalist ; be had visited the mansion ef the lord and tne commoner aad the hovel efthe poor man , and ho had de . rived his Knowledge more from bis labour among the poor than from school , college , or any society among the higher _elasses . ( Cheers . ) He remembered the time when the people of Preston did not know that

      there wero _suou places aa Paisley or Bristol , and now every portion of the land was printed in the Sun , as having contributed towards the Land Plan . He was sorry , however , to have to tell them , that they were themselves the cause of a great portion of their slavery , because the existence of the government was tho prima facie proof of its adoption by the peopie Tbey had it in their power to say to the government that the taxes and impositions npon the people were unjust , and therefore they would have no more of them ; and government must go about its busi . _ness . But they must be all united ; be all of one mind , and muss all declare together aad cry aloud for « peace , retrenchment , and reform . ' The free-traders promised them high wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do . Had they got it ? They must be all united , for it waa utterly impossible , however , for one man to accom plish everything .

      * As well might the lamb with the tiger unite , The lark with the hawk , the dove with the kite . ' If they looked for anything short of the whole six points ofthe Charter , then would he have done with them . Ho would takeno less , and if . they gave up one prineiple then would he then give them up , He had told thera , in 1835 . that the time would , come when Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel would bid against each other , and the time would eome when he would be'the auctioneer and would be read ? to knock them down . Lord Chesterfield said .

      ' Every mau has his price , andean be bribed . ' He ( Mr O'Connor ) had his price , and the very moment tbat price was bid he weuld sell the people . Directly his terms were bid he would _, hneok them down at one blow . They must not mistake him , for he had often told them , and he had also told the gentlemen of the press , that as yet the Land Plan was only a miniature portrait , but they must look for the full ' . length , and then the Charter would make it a national plan . —( Cheers . ) They must not say tbat he had deceived them , for he had put none of their money iato hia pooket , but had spent every

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      farthing he had in the , adv « K * c y . oUkeu _£ _&*& _£ » . could assure _thenithaiTelad _ttewr heen so , much fwtoBisired and surprised As whet * he saw what tne present House of Commons was cowposed of . lney had upwards of 2 _d 0 new-men in the house , and tbongh © er tainlyithey did ' want some new blood infused into it , he conld confidently state that a more corrupt parliament never sat . As Mr John Bright told Lord John Russell , — ' There never was a House of Commons who so totally disregarded the wishes of the working classes of thiB country . ' He ( Mr O'Connor ) had been dowa atthe Potteries last Bight , in the middle ef & procession a _naile long , and no less than 1 , 600 persons had sat down to tea in a covered market . It had been said that he _had'besn mad

      with them , and perhaps he might become a lunatic once again . They had been prosecuted and persecuted , and like the French , they were prepared for the complete freedom of the people , f hey had not been allowed to discuss reform , and an _Smeute and revolution _cwne upon them , The present revolution , however , had not been accompanied with the butcheries of 1783 . But even that time itwas English money sent over to France by William Pitt , and wrung from our pockets , that had led to _suea butcheries . We now had the pauper king come over to this country , to live on our labour , who was a short time ago the greatest monarch in the world . God forbid , however , that we sheuld have bloodshed jn England , and that we should ever see one

      set of Englishmen opposed to another set in deadly eonflict . He himself , had never been the cause of one drop of blood being shed , but he had laboured long and hard , and as he had sought the lion ' s share of popularity , he had been contented to take the lion ' s share of persecution . He had been invited and had come down among them , and he could assure tbem tbat he felt more honour in addressing that meeting than he felt in addressing the House of Commons . And why 1 Because he had learned all that he knew from them . ( Applause . ) Mr O'Connor then Bpoke at some length on the _inSaence ofthe women , and urged on them to persuade their _kusbando to adopt his principles . He then related an anecdote of a man who had been compelled to

      enrol in his Land Plan , because his wife pinched his legB in bed . ( This anecdote , being highlj ihtellectual and amusing to the meeting , wag of course received by them with much laughter . ) After advocating , tbe principles of Chartism to some further length , he oaid that Lord Glarendon , the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , had said that , Feargus O'Connor ' s Land Plan was the only thing ' which could be adopted to benefit Ireland . ' What would be thought of thatf The great Irish Mentor—the great Lord Clarendon , and there was something in the name ofa lord ; though the Lord deliver him from such lords , was all he had to eay—the great Clarendon had actually said that the Laud Plan waa the best thing which could be adopted . —( Cheers . ) Last

      week there had been Chartist meetings held , and attended by 40 , 000 or 60 , 000 persons , which had not been reported by the gentlemen ofthe press to tho length of his finger ; and yet there had been meetings of the middle classes , where only forty or fifty attended , upon the question of the ineorae tax , wbich had been reported at full length . The press sheuld do justice to the people , and if anything serious waa to occur in consequence , the press wonld not be blamed for withholding the opinion of the people . He remembered the time when he had forced a whole body ef dragoons to return to the streets before he would leave the streets . He had last Saturday week published a letter in the _Norxhbrh Stir , in which he placed the patriots in the late

      French revolution iu their proper light . M . Odillon Barrot , said Mr O ' Connor , created the schism , but he did not know what it would end in , and , therefere , he skulked away from his own fire , and allowed the people to be butchered . The people , now they have gained their object , will not have this great champion , and they are quite right . A similar sort of thing had taken place yesterday in London . There Mr Charles Cochrane—* person whom I do not admire , because I believe him to be but a Tory in dis » guise—tbis gentleman called a meeting yesterday in Trafalgar-square ; but when the time came for " Its being held , the authorities discovered that it was illegal to hold a public meeting within a mile of the _Hcuea of Commons during the sitting of Parliament .

      They informed Mr Cochrane of this , and Mr Coch > raue wrote down , calling on the people to disperse , aud telling them that it was not to be held . This note was sent down just at the time the meeting was about to commence—in faet _, the people had begun to assemble , and what _rraa tbo consequence ? Why , the people , when they ieund that their meeting was to be suppressed , went through the streets , and destroyed lamps and windows , and were about attacking the palace itself , when the dragoons came up and drove them off . In consequence ol this another rising is apprehended . I myself will be ho party to what others de , and if any men are led away by false representations , they are not my soldiers ; but I believe tbat my Old Guards will take very good care not to

      be led into any false track . ( Cheers . ) Another thing that has also occurred is an imeute at Glasgow . I will not say thatthe people there were betrayed , but tbey bave revolted , and have turned out in _thousands ; and there is now only the electric telegraph lousy that all the rails hare been taken up in tbe neighbourhood , and God knovrs how this may end . This much I will tell you , that I will be no parly to anything which has not for its object the accomplishment of the Charter , and what is necessary for the Land Plan . People who wish to go with mo must strike out their legs to step on my heels . The people are entitled to all that I now ask for , and even mote , and they could not show hira men who would go farther than he would , Tou must follow my

      discipline , and if I lead you into error , I shall remain among you as a hostage , and blame me if ever I attempt to deceive you . I owe tyranny a long arrear , and so do my family , of which I am now the last . My family has beenrnore persecuted than anv other family I believe who have ever lived , fer I have an uncle now in his 50 th year ef banishment , for having declared the very same _ principles which I am now advocating to the meeting ; I have been persecuted myself , and have been for sixteen months cast into a felon ' s cell , aad my private letters opened by tbe governor of a gaol before Ieould receive them myself , ( Hear , hear . ) They have attempted to make mo feel ashamed of myself , but I can defy them to point out one single dishonourable or ungentlemanlv act ,

      ungenerous er unjust , which I have ever committed in the whole of my life . ( Loud applause . ) I have besn chosen by tho people of Nottingham to represent them in Parliament ; but I have been petitioned against , and well was it that that petition was withdrawn . If the committee had been sitting on Saturday next , I would have shown _thara such a Nottingham as they have never seen before . I have before fought in Nottingham , when I had no purpose of my own to serve ; and , if this petition had not been _withdrawn , God only _fertows what would have happened . The people of Nottingham , to the number of 20 , 000 , eame to a resolution , that if I was ousted on petition , that they would form in procession and march ap to Loadon to the House of Commons , and

      irustmo into the house as their representative _, 'hroaghout the whole course of my life I am thank * ii that I have . not been the cause . of one drop of hutan blood being shed . The people have been told by the ress and others that I am a confirmed drunkard , at I wish ie * € rod every man wa _^ Jno more a drunkrd than myself . Notwithstanding what has been eolared by the press , I can truly say that from the ay I was born to the present moment , I never was lore drunk than 1 am uow . . ( Cheers . ) It has been lid that I was born a drunkard ; but I believe that o man was ever born a thief , nor was any man ever ore a drunkard . Every man has bean born with _rinciplee whieh might be turned into _vieas or vir-163 , according to the training he has received . We an reclaim a drunkard * , we can reclaim a thief ; we

      oan reclaim a liar— -though that is difficult ; but we never ean reclaim a cruel man . If a man is cruel , his cruelty has been born with him ; and for my part , I caa say , that I never inflicted punishment even on a dumb animal . Therefore , you will see at once that mv movement is to deyelope all the good qualities of man . Idleness is a crime , when a man has it in his power to obtain labour ; and that is one ofthe cede of laws whioh I _wouldintroduee . Men of Preston , and my Friends , before takingmy leave I would ask you to keep j oar eye upon social reform , upon the Charter , and upon the means of freeing yourselves from the bondage whioh you have for so long a time endured , and aot to he « d what the venal , prostitute , and corrupt press say . When the press praise me , then you

      desert tae , for then shall I be going wrong . I ask for nothing for what I may do and hvre done , but when I have spent my all io trying to regenerate you . 1 trust that when I shall ride about among the fat-as upon which you will have been located , I shall Snd not one of ray children who will not give me a night ' s _lodging and a supper . When I have accomplished my aim , from that _msrneut I shall never again enter the House of Commons , but will beeome your minister of agriculture , if there ' s any possibility of paying . Samson was a strong man , and So . lomen was a wise man , bat neither of them could pay money if they hadn ' t it . It has been said that I have beea making a good thing out of ' this Land Planbutl

      , have devoted all that has fallen into my _hande to its legitimate purpose , while nearly £ 1 , 000 has gone out of my pocket in the shape of travelling expenses . I don t Bay this boastfully , but I say it in answer to _thoao who endeavour to disturb the affection and confidenee which you have in me , and-to prove the po-« rL t ° ougllt * ° _* avaoa S you . ( Cheers . ) When I see the fruits of my labour and your confidence , then will I walk among you and seethe hard-Working people , the happy mother and the _contented little children ;—aud , _seeiBg peac * , happiness , and prosperity reigning around them , thon will I walk among you like the great Peruvian , whe said , ' Thi * this is my work . '

      LMr O'Connor then retired , amid loud applause having addressed the meeting for about one hour and a half . The above is art outline of hia speech we haye abridged several portions of it ' . ] The resolution was then put and carried . Mr Bbbbt , of Farrington , then moved—That we , the working _claasag 0 f Preston , do _herebv pledge _oareolves never to abandon our olain to _self-

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      _SMMtgZ _& k -M _» . _JmrntP _^ _s-rhmby . _resolvs _k _^ _TT the petition for the People ' s Chartor _, as the < mi * w _" by which _justlcs can ba done to the _lndastrlo J J _J _^ other _olasses , and by which otrrglorlous Land ni .. _^ be made useful . ' ' PUa Osy Mr Wbbster , of Burnley , briefly _secondarf _« . solutien .-Agreedto . am «• ra , Mr Liddkll then moved , seconded by Mr D 'Resolved , —That this meeting bega re 5 p 5 ctln ! T 3 IK leader to Feargus O'Coanor , Esq ., M . P . _jtg h "' to _gsatUude for the manner ia whicii he has ' 6 ehn _* _*?***& rights of labour during the course of along lif _< . I _*« ticularly for tfie establishment of , _aadthe _^ _a _^ _0 _^ _t _p _5 _* _' graJuitom manner in which he has carried o ut th "' ° _* ciples of , tho National Land Compaoj . ' ne Pr _« B .

      Agreed to . Mr F . O'Coiwob briefly replied , and c onch ** ** u _ moving a vote of thanks to the chairman ; _^ Seconded , and carried with applause . The _Cuimuiu responded _atsomelenntb . Mr Brown briefly moved a vote of thanks t _« « . Mayor for the use of the reoms . t 0 _^ 9 Mr F . O'Connor seconded the motion p The room was then cleared for _dancing _K was kept up to the lively strains of tl _^ wZ cellent quadrille band till an early hour on fc _^ day morning . on _"« _"" _»

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      AND _OST THIS . ( From the Preston Pilot . ) CHA . RTIST ' IAKD-JOBBIN _& ' TEA PART ? . Oo Shrove Tuesday a tea party , got up by _« _, _««« points gentry of tbis town , was held In the Corn _v _ehange-room , to celebrate the location of sir _indivld _^ u from Lancashire on the Land bought by a _CornDi the above _persous , according to what is aet _^ Jt _^^ LaudScheme / The party was certainly _%£££ and among them were the hundred Chartists of tcJXX ' of the most rabid breed , linked together , of coarse _i » the « bonds of fraternity . ' One reason , perhaps , ' . l ! _numsroui a parly w _, 8 congregated together was in con ¦ sequence of O'Connor , tbe land-jobber , and a- he _styks

      himself In his own paper , the _Nobthebn ST _4 a ' contrac tor , architect , engineer , _ourreyor , farmer , dun _' ma k * r cow and pig jobber , _mllkaan , and memb er of parlio ! _msnt , ' having beea announced to be present at the meeting , and deliver an address , He did deliver an ad . dress , which _conniited of his _uiusl blarney an ( J bamboos _, ling . In a towering _spesch , in whieh he endeavoured to make himself appear the v « y paragon of perfection as an honest and an upright man , ho denouaced the press as vile , absurd , and unchristian . in factj a lis _ tener , who had naver heard anything of the speaker before , would almost have heen persuaded tbat there was at least one _sinlass man in the world , ( according to his own showing ) and that man was O'Connor

      The Miners' _Attornsy . _Geaeral , Roberts , should also have been present , as well as others of a similar character , bnt they were son est inventus , and we think that for oace In their lives they acted with prudence and good eense , in refusing to attach themselves to the Char . tiat principles as proposed by O'Connor . We _congrsta * late them upon tbiB staying swsy . The addresses of the speakers wero of the most infiam _. _mstory nature . Had we space at command we perhaps might have given a specimen of the substance of sons ofthe speeches , of which the boasted Land _Scheaie _forratd but the merest fractional part , h certainly „ alluded to , ond of _course O'Connor himself praised it to the very Okies , observing that by It _everybody would be saved from the workhouse , and would live in a state nf

      ease and comfort , and the 'hard-hearted overseers and relieving officers' weuld bs no longer a terror . If fog people would only join themselves to the LaBd Society in process of time they would receive a certain number of acres of ground , when they might sit at ease ever afterwards , and hare ths _plsasing satisfaction ef witness ! ing everything around them growing spontaneousl y and ia the most abundant manner . We wonder when Feargus dies , whether all the laud he has bought will hs legally bequeathed to tbe working classes , as be says it will be . We heard some Individuals in the room mutter * I wish we may get it , ' In a late number of this Webkh Dispatch there is tho following : —• New w «

      _suspsct that long before Feargus O'Connor is called to his account , the Land Company will be in tbe condition of the corporation described by Lord Thurlow , which had neither a body to be _kiebsd nor a soul to bo damns * In two _jenrs from thia period the Land bubble will have exploded , _leaviag a wreck behind . ' We will say no more , respecting this democratic 'demonstration' and this political Upas , who has alwsys been notorious for poisoning and tainting the air around him , and infecting thegre « a tree of libertj itself . The party , after the speech mak . ing , consoled themselves with indulging at the shrine of Terpsichore for a few hours , after which all dispersed , without a breach ofthe peace !

      We cannot do better tban recommend te the especial notice of tha subscribers to this notable scheme , the following paragraph from the _LivsarooL _Mraccnr of Tuesday last;—' The _Lsnn _Scasvs . —In the last number of the 'Labocbes , ' a monthly publication devoted to the advoeaey ' of the Land Schema , Mr _O'CoDnor states that ' the society now numbers one hundred thousand heads of families ;' out of all that number only one hundred and sixty had found refuge upon tbe O'Connor estates . The remaining 88 , 818 ' heads of families , ' with thele wives and families , still remain outside , waiting till

      cottages have bsen provided for them . As the company has bow been about three years in operation , tha business of location must go on fifty times faster than it is doing at present , if this grand scheme for improving the condition of the poor is to be dealt fairly by all . Bat * While the grass grows the steed starves . ' Of the one hundred thousand _msmbsrs of the company , who subscribed their weekly pence to Mr O'Connor , the great majority will be dead , in the ordinary course of nature , lost ; before they can have the slightest chance of _beinj placed upon ths Land , as a very slight knowledge of arithmetic may serve to convince them . '

      Dreamm, Suicrde By A Gbhtiibha*F Ot Fobt...

      _DreaMM , SuiCrDE BY A _GBHTIiBHA * f OT _FOBTURB . - On Thursday week the inhabitants ofthe town of Cardigan were thrown into a state of considerable excitement in consequence of the suicide of Morris Morris , E ? q ., who , it was found , had cut his throat in & most frightful and determined manner . It appears that the unfortunate gentleman , who was of a somewhat eccentric disposition , had been for two or three days previously in a very unusual and excited state , but from what _enuse produced has not transpired , and on the day of committing the dreadful act he had not left his bedroom . Attention was first

      attracted by the inmates of the room ; below his bedroom finding some drops of blood falling from the ceiling , and on tbe alarm being raised , Mr Thomas , of the Red Lion Inn , instantly proceeded to the bedroom , on entering which he found the unfortunate gentleman lying on tha floor or tbe . room , with his head nearly severed from his body . Medical assistance was immediately procured , and Mr Koot , _asr » goon , promptly attended , but the _deceased was beyond the reach of human assistance , he having entirely divided all the principal arteries and cut hia throat completely to the bone . On lifting him from the ground , his head fell back as if completely severed from the body . It appears the deceased committed the act with a penknife , which was found under him when he was raised from the ground . On Friday an inquest was held on . the body , which fully established tbat the unfortunate gentleman was < k unsound mind . Tbe jury returned a verdict that ' The deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of _temparary insanity . ' He was in hia 46 th year .

      Strange Discovery of a _Boro & ab . —A gentle man , named Dutton , _jaged 80 , of the Brynne , near Wrexham , Flintshire , was listening in his bed to his clock striking the hour of twelve at midnight , when to his surprise the kat six strokes sounded much louder than the former . The old gentleman naturally supposed that a door had been opened ; upon listening , he heard the jingling of keys , and to his astonishment he was but too fully convinced tbat an intruder had entered his bedroom , and waa about to take the contents of his bureau . He immediately jumped out ef bed , and clasped an individual having on a fustian coat ; he held him tightly , and called lustily for assistance . The thief earricd the tearless

      old gentleman through two rooms when his son-inlaw and wife arrived , who succeeded ia capturing the burglar , who is now safely lodged for trial in the county gaol . It appears the scoundrel had only beea dismissed from the service about three weeks . The recent stormy weather has done considerable damage to the Plymouth Breakwater . One tenth of the entire police force in Ireland is stationed in the county of Limerick . It is said that the greatest destitution prevails in the German territory of SileBia . and that 600 , 000 persons had bean reduced to starvation . The Kolnische _Zsitumo states that in Moscow there is now living a lady who is in her 168 th year , and who was married to her fifth husband when she was 121 years old . The American government haa ordered that _choloroform shall be used in surgical operations in the military hospitals , aud haa sent a supply oi that drug to Mexico .

      A _Bingular and ingenious specimen of an ancient deck , made by Isaao Habrccht , in the year 1689 , for Pope Status V ., is at present exhibiting at a shop in Fleet-street . As an old woman was lately walking through the streets of Paris at midnight , a patrole called ont , Who goes there V ' It ia I patrole ; don't be afraid !' was the answer . A country actor , the other day , refused to plav the part of Paris in « Romeo and Juliet , ' on the plea tbat be had not been engaged ( or the French chara / stera _. -

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 18, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18031848/page/6/