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      2 \ ^&E Northern Star. October 21, 1848.

      2 \ _^& E NORTHERN STAR . October 21 , 1848 .

      Y ^^" ^X The Best

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      till Xedicme were at _™ _**** _ * _SjSStai bun . _dredaha & _soan to acknowledge _tftatlAsr-o start _* . jH . j Sred them , and were _*^« tte , J P _£ _*!; tVe Sc at ScUttat-vere coatinuaUy brou _.-Ut h _^ o _* « a _puwii o _SoWnnal good ** Hch _rsultod _fromthw _£ ¦ " _* " * _£ % _ ftme _farand-ride , at this _^ ' _^ _Kd-f country on the face of the globe whjcb _*•»¦?* * wever % _ x benefits , and have sought f <* "f « _* _*^ SJ £ f SSt be the cost of transmission . The United _Stat-s , _SmadaVlnlia , and even China , * " »»»* _"SS'SSX _tSes shipped W _theirre-pective _couatms , an * with tne _MmereCTdtasfa England-UwvBBSAL _»•«• _Heatoeds _?

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      Ihe extensive practice of Messrs li , and L . PERRY and Co ., tho continued demand for .. TT _711 T T-DTBtfn ] . . _U-r ,

      Diaboucat, Attempt.—On The Morning Of La...

      _Diaboucat , Attempt . —On the morning of last _jgaturday a quantity of gunpowder , or other _explore substance , contained within a piece of metal piping " , waa / bund placed near the dwelling-house of _Jlr Alfred Lee , a pafcnt scythe maker , in tbe emp loy of Hr _Thorns Siaiafortu , of _Hwkentuorpe

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      _fAUEB _THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE , _HOLLOWAI'S PILLS . A CASE OP DROPSY . Extract of a Letter from Mr William Gardner , of Hang ing Haughton , Korthamptonthire , dated September 14 th , 1647 . To Professor Holle-way . Sib , — I before informed yon that my wife had been tapped three times for the _drapsy , but by the Westing oi God upon your pills , and her perseverance in taking them , the water has now been kept off eighteen months bj their jieans , which is a great mercy , ( Signed ) William Gam > heb .

      The Powell Plot-Veracity Of Davis.

      THE POWELL PLOT-VERACITY OF DAVIS .

      To Thb Editor Of The Northers 8tar. Pari...

      TO THB EDITOR OF THE NORTHERS 8 TAR . Paris , Oot . 10 ; h . 1848 . Dear Sir , —The following letter was sent to the Tans for _publication , but the editor , for reasons of bis own , took no notice ot it . If you can find room for it , you will _ebligo Your obedient servant , THOMA 8 Dalt . 'Paris , Oct . 1 st . 1848 . ' Sis , —In the Tmi of _Thursday last , under the ke & d ' Chartist Trials , ' I find a statement , made by George Davis , a government agent , which , from its beinzcal misted to do serious injury to a near and dear relative of mine , who in that place ( Oow Cross ) _, and the adjoining parish , has , for thirty yean , given extensive employment to many men , and during the whole of that time hag maintained an honourable position , possessing tbe confidence and esteem of both rich aBd poor , has indaced ' me to take that notice _vrhich otherwise I might not have done . The statement alluded to is the following : —

      And _MuIIIdb then s * _ld it was a shame the prisoners shonld go to prison without a _strurgle to reione tbem ; and ba _t-aid . tbat ss the Chartist prisoners were taken to Csldbaih Fields they would bave to pass through Cow _Cro-s , where a friend ( whom he understood to be Dal ; , } wonld bs ready to lead eat the Irlih to rescue them , The only person connected with that family who has in any way interfered with politics is your _hnmble servant , and I have been ia France since the 17 th of Jane , five weeks before the time tbis honest man ! swears I was ready to lead out the Irish to ths rescue of the Chartist prisoners .

      ' And as to the men whose rescue J waa to have effected , fire weeks after leaving the * country , some ct them I never eaw , —ofthe others I know but little , —and the whole of them , except _Ernest Janes , were mere than suBpected by me up to the time of their conviction . It is therefore impossible that Mullins , of whom I never heard till I _resd of hia _6-xaminatioa , and with whom , or his party , I never had correspondence or communication whatever , oould have made the statement sworn to by that taviour of the state , Davis . ' , 1 know that the Confederates , properly so called , wonld _* _snffer death rather than be parties to such vile conduct as that sworn toby the dirty instruments of government ; for whatever account the Confederates may believe that they have to settle with the preient government , ' whose ruinous and heartless conduot has been subversive alike of property and morals , '

      towards the middle classes of England tbey entertain no other feelings than those of thankfulness and R-atitude for that employment and kindness whioh they could not obtain in their own land . ' I have jast received the Times of yesterday , and I find that that respeotab ' e friend of the government , Davis , has again alluded to me : he says , ' that I and Mr Loohey , with other Confederates , had a private room in Greenwich , ' and this , like all tbe rest , no doubt , is a lie . _Iniver _wrb in any room but the ' ball room ' of the Druid ' s Arms , which w on each of the _oscasions that I attended at Greenwich—for the purpose . of explaining the benefits that would accrue to Irishmen and their sons from the establishment of reading rooms , —crewded to excess ; there was nothing secret or _tsysterious in connexion with the Confederate ? , and the man who would propose any such meeting , no matter who he was , would find himself treated in a manner anything but pleasant .

      ' The _sesecretmeetings were the work of the police , whose infernal system was so ably and so truthfully exposed by you at the time of the brutal murder of the young policeman in Essfx , and Serj 6 ant Parsons ' penury case in connexion with it . ' Hoping that the journals whioh have copied the statement of this Davis will , for the reasons stated in the commencement , give this letter insertion , 4 1 remain , yours , & e „ , ' Thomas Dalt . *

      The ' Powell Plot .' (From The Liverpool...

      THE ' POWELL PLOT . ' ( From the Liverpool Mail ) _Ciffey and hia confederates were charged with an attempt to overthrow the Queen ' s _governa ent . If they had been _charged with an attempt to turn the world upside down it woald not have been more _ridlcnloes , for a jar of terrified _Cookncys would have relumed a verdiot of ' guilty' in either case . Tbat the Whig Attorney _General well knew . Bat the Meekest part of the transaction is that the leading witnesses fer tbe crown were ten _thousand times greater _scoundrels , and _moredarjgeroas m « n , in any atate of society , than the accused and now _cenvicted prisoners . Th ? London movement , which caused so mnch alarm at the lim ; , app ? _-r » to have been en _affair of tho police . The prime mOTers in it were police agent * , hut for whoa there would have been no rising , or arming , or mobbing .

      With regerd to the principles of the Chartist * , so far as we underttatid them , we sea aothing illegal in them . A J ourneyman ehoemikcr or knifegrinder aspires te a seat in parliament , witbout any monej _qualification , and to be paid a guinea a day . And wby not ? Woald cot such a man make as good a representative , if not a mnch better one , than Cobden or _Bright , or a hundred mora we could name t What wss the Manchester League but a body of Cb & rtiaU , * _confederated for a _selfish _purpoie , to rob the landowner and firmer , and cheat their working people under the plea , the specious plea , of high wages and cheap bread ? , . They viola ed ( he law quite _a » openly aa Cuffey did , but more successfully , _becasse at that time they were wealthy , and profuse in spending money apon hired lecturers . and peripatetic scamps .

      * Thib Wi Must Take Leave To Correct. Th...

      * ThiB wi must take leave to correct . The _Caattlsts _bavenothing . _ln common with tbe lying , cheating , leiourrobhise Vre * _Iwder- _.-Eo . N . S .

      * Thib Wi Must Take Leave To Correct. Th...

      O C _nueii ' a _aquation olio _Cjs _« en a uguai : im WCre as ae . ditlous In tbeir objects and operations aa was lhat of Cuffey and his ' _a _** oclate 6 . But the Whi * snever attempted to transport O'Connell cr hang Oabden . If _Guffcy oould have been as useful to tbem in parliament aB Cobden and O'Donnell were , he wonld have escaped in the same way , and moat probably wonld ere now be holding a lucrative office under the crown . The fact is that the really gailty patties In thia (¦ ham Chartist insurrection have been permitted io escape , and bave kern , or will be , handsomely paid for their villany .

      Miners'association Of Lancashire A Publi...

      MINERS'ASSOCIATION OF LANCASHIRE A public meeting of the Worsely , _Streetcar * , and Little Button colliers was held on Monday last , near te Mr John Higham ' s , bottom of Walkden Moor . The meeting was truly a glorious one ; upwards of one _thoussnd colliers were present . Mr Peter Yatea was unanimously called to tbo chair . After the Chairman had stated the objects ofthe meeting , Mr D . Swallow _sddreaBtd the _meeting at great length , pointing out feelingly tho preBen _^ _sufferinRS of the , miners , and proved to the satisfaction of all presents that the masters were not to blatxefor reduoing thy colliers' wages , because the masters cannot put an ; burtheD upon them tbey are not willing to reoeive ; if the men had maintained their union , the masters would never bave attempted to _reduco their wages .

      There are Borne hundreds of oolliers around _Wonely who have not f ot more than five shillings per weak for the last six months . Three years ago wben the men were in the union , a vast many of the colliers had cows and pigs , but since they left the union they have lost thei r cows and pigs , aad , at the present time , are Buffering all the miseries of privation Every ote _ptetent pledged themselves to join the union forthwith , and every colliery promised to appofat each a _deleeate to attend the special delegate meeting , atthe Farmer ' s Arms , on the Thursday following . Iu the short space of three days 251 from Wonely , and sixteen from Dixon Green joined , also Wright ' s men , Grundy ' * men , Harrop ' s men , Nightingale ' * men , and Aitkin ' s . In the Little Hulron

      dislriet tho sooiety is _spreading more rapidly _aroutsd this _neighbDurhood than it did fiveyaars ago , when the society was first _establishsd . After a vote of thanks to Mr S . for bis address , two or three from eaoh pit adjourned to the large room of Mr Higham ' s , for the purpo « e of making the necessary arrangements for the carrying out the objects of the sooiety . Wigan . —A publio meeting of the oolliers of this town was held in the Commercial-room . Cloth Hall , on Tu esday last , October _^ 3 rd . Mr Robert Marsh presided over tbo meeting . _Messr * Dennet and Swallow , agent * , addressed tbo meeting at great length with very good effect , and were often interrupted by loud and rapturous oheers from the hardy sons of the dreary mine . When the show of handwas oalled for by the chairman , every hand was held up in favour of the union . After votes of thanks to

      the speakers , and the chairman , the assembly simultaneously awe , and gave three times three in honour of tbe onion . The meeting was attended by upwards ef 500 . The f ociety is spreading fast in _Wigan and ita neighbourhood . Deak Church District . —On _Welnesday , Messrs Marsh and _Finall held » meeting of the colliers of this district , at the _Uutton Arms , Chowb-nt . The meeting was well attended , aud a very lively feeling prevailed Boer _DistBici . — -A publio meeting of the miners of this district was held on October i h , in Mr Greenhalgh _' s large roam . Bolton-street , Bury . The room was well filled with colliers frora all the surrounding collieries . Mr George Lomax occupied the chair . Tbe benefit of trades' unions was pointed out very strikingly by D . Swallo _* . Every one pres'rit proraised to join u Boon as _possible . Three lodges are alreadv established in tbis district .

      Boltom , October 4 th —A meeting af the miners of this district was held at the B Jar ' s Head , Churchsate . to take into consideration the necessity of sending in statements to their employers for an advance of wages . _Dixos-obehn , October 5 * . b . —Mr Swallow held * very good meeting ofthe colliers of this place , in Mr Pickford ' a large room . They agreed to form two lodges—one for the little coal meD , and one for the man working in the _Osnael pits . Twenty-nice of tha former , and twenty-four of the latter , were enrolled .

      _Halshaw Moor . Friday night . —A meeting of tha oolliers of thia neighbourhood was held in the large room of the Bowling Green Inn . . Mr Swallow addressed the meeting , and Mr Roughly occupied tht ohair . They agreed to form a lo " go . A secretary was eleoted , and several names enrolled . The colliers of Halshaw Moor have formed a lodge at J _« hn _Tonne ' s , sign of the Wool Pack , aad all of them have been enrolled . Meetines have also been he'd at the Bull ' s Head , _RadcliffeBridge ; Queen Anne and Unicorn , Little Lever ; Mrs G- ward ' s , Little Hulton ; Wigan Arms , Soheles : John Croston _' B , Bolton , & c .

      A special delegate meeting of the miners of Bolton , Bury , _Radcliffp , Lever , Halshawmoor , & c , was held at the Farmer ' s Arms , Datnside , Daroy Lever , oa Monday , Oc ' ober 9 : h _, Mr John Lyon in the chair . After the various lodges had delivered in their number of members enrolled during tho fortnight , Mr James Jenkinson proposed : — ' That every member of the association in tho above-named districts should oome to a restriction of labour to 2 a . 64 . per day for eleven days per fortnight . ' Several other resolutions were agreed to , and tbe meeting adjourned to Monday , Ootober 23 rd , at three o ' clook in the afternoon , when itis expected every colliery in the above districts will send a delegate to represent them .

      A great publio meeting of the colliers of the abovenamed districts was held on Tuesday , . 10 ! h instant , on the space of ground near to the ' Unicorn Inn , Little Lover . All the collieries had half a day ' s holiday to attend the meeting . This was the largest meeting held ia Lever for many years past . Mr G . Lomax was elected as chairman , and briefly stated the objects ofthe _meeting , after which he introduced the deputation from _Aspul and Btackrod district , who gave a cheering account of tho progress of the society in their neighbourhood . —Mr D- Swallow next addressed the meeting , piloting out the evils of competition } and Bhowed his audience tbat tbe reason why the working _olassea of this county could not ret elothing to their backs was not because the

      working classes were either unwilling , or could not produce plenty of cl-thin _* _. bnt because there is too much clothing in tho conntry . He asked if it was not an anomaly that a man was compelled to go wi'hout a shirt , simply because there were to j many shirts ; yet this is a faot which meets ub at every torn . The colliers are actually in a state of starvation , snd the only orime tbat oan belaid to their charge is , that they bad got too many coals upon tbe pit bank ; so it it , with every branch , of . trade . Then it follows , as a matter of course , that if tho people wish to enjoy a greater share of the produce of their own labnur . that they must work shorter rime —( restrict their labour)—reeulate the supply according to the demand , so that tbe _unemplo'ed can be called

      into employment , and have an equal share of work ; for so long as there are men out of employment in any . trade , the unemployed always did , and always will , regulate _theprice of wages , and those that are in employment have not any voice in saying what they shall receive for their labour so Ion _? as there is a surplus of labourers . Restriction of labour is a better and safer ; remedy than strikes . Restriction advanced wages five years ago : so long as restriction was observed wages were maintained ; but as soon as it was broken a portion of tbe men were _dis charged , and immediate reduction of wages commenced . Mr S . spoke at great length on several other subjects of great interest to the miners of every district , and sat down amidst the hearty cheers of

      every one present . In accordance with the resolution passed at the special meeting on the Oth , Mr Jenkinson proposed : — That the miners in the above-named districts should _restriot their labour to eleven days per fortnight . ' . A collier in the body of the meeting proposed : — * That on and after the 28 rd of Ootober , the miners shonld oome to a restriction of ten days per fortnight , and 2 i . 6 " . per day , ' the amendment was carried by a large majority . Itwas also resolved —'¦ That every pit or colliery must have a meeting amongst themselves , so that they can make the . necessary arrangements for restriction coming , into ,, operation at the appointed time ' After a vote . of thanks to the chairman , the meeting was concluded , by giving three hearty cheers for ths

      onion . _CHOwBBur , Ootober llth—A largo public meeting was held in , the open air , and listened to a loon and _effecting . _dlBcourse upon their many grievances by D . Swallow , one of the society ' s agents . _Darwinj Ootober 12 th . — ' 1 he colliers of this place held a meeting in the ] a « e room ofthe Commercial Inn . . Themm was well filled , and a glo , SS prevailed in tbe minds of all present : Messrs Marsh and Swallow both addressed tbe _meetir-g , and were loudly cheered . - B ' _Litiu * Holion October 13 . h _.-A meeting of the colliers of this _dtslnot was held at Poor Dick ' s The _meeting was addressed by D . Swallow , Daniei Sixsmith , and . several , other friends . Mr _Jonathan Finale occupied the chair . Numbers are crowding to the standard every day . B

      Miners'association Of Lancashire A Publi...

      THE LONDON STONEMASONS . Bristol . —At a meeting of the operative Stonemasons _. belongingto the general and local bodies , held October 9 th , Mr Riohard Chandler in tbe chair , the chairmaa read the notice convening the meeting , which _wbc , ' To take into consideration the lest means to be adopted to support the Stonemasons in London , now awaiting their trial at the Old Bailey for conspiracy , charged by Mr Trego , a government contractor . ' The chairman said , he was proud to find the men of Bristol once more in the field to raise _FubfcriptiooB _, in ord _^ r to enable their brethren in London to obtain a lair , trial , he being fully aware that it was the duty of every mason in Bristol to give his mite cheerfully and willingly , for they did not know bow soon it might come to their turn to be persecuted in the same manner . , Mr Joseph Ilartney proposed ,

      That it is tbe opinion of tbis meeting , ( hat the present _portion of our brethren in London Is oritical , ana cat ' s fer our utmost exertions , to put down . the baso attempt now in operation to crash trade societies , tbe working man ' s beet institution _. Seconded by Mr Thomas Thelper . Proposed by Mr William Shaw , seconded by Mr Jobn Drew , That itis tbo opinion of tbit meeting , in order te _oarryoutour present _position , we pledge ourselves to contribute , as far , as la our power , towards the _defmas of our persecuted brethren In _Landon . Proponed by Mr David Whyto _, seconded by Mr Henry Johnson , . ' _, ) ( v That this meeting appoint a deputation of six , to " wait upon otber Trade Societies , to lay the case of our brethren in London before thi m . The whole of the resolutions were carried unanimously .

      John Price waa called upon to address the meeting He stated tbat be had narrowly watched the movements of the employers and employed ever since he beoame a member of the eociely , in 1 S 34 _, and was convinced that in nine cases out of ten the cause of strikes was attributable to the overreaching and tyrannic *! conduct of the employer . He had been himself obliged to strike from the same cause . He felt prsud in belonging to thiB society , aod regretted the _lukewarmness of many masons in Bristol and its

      neighbourhood ; he likewise condemned the present system of mea working overtime , while many of their brother masons were without employment ; he should like ' _. to see the golden rule of King Alfred carried out —eight hours to work , eight hours to sleep , and eight hours for recreation . -, He concluded his remarks by expressing-a wish thai ; the sons of . toil _nrimld bo enabled _fucceisfully to beat down oppression , and that the Bristol masons would make a _determined eff rt to assist their brethren of London in the timo _ofie-secution .

      The meeting separated determined to carry out the _resolutions , f _Subicriptions will be received every Saturday evening , parties being employed for that pnrposo .

      Trades' Meeting At S0werby Bridge. Rwysl...

      TRADES' MEETING AT S 0 WERBY BRIDGE . _rWySLW the R _* PP ° n _^ n district of _United Trades , took place on _Sunday , Ootober let ., at Soiverbv Bridge . The report of tho District Committee wag read showing that several _caeea of reduotion , and other species of tjrsnny , had _ptoo attended to . and amicable arrangements been effected with employers through the medium of mediation-that an agitation had been created in the district since thu last meeting , and about 300 members had _jsiried the _Association aa the r « snlt . Ihe report contained several other Hatters connected with tho district , and after bring read wan put to tho vote , received , and adopted unanimously . ,. A » pirittd _oiMUiwu thea took place k 1 « Ut § tf

      Trades' Meeting At S0werby Bridge. Rwysl...

      the £ 60 , 000 fund of the Association , and the ioc al fund of the distriot , when the following reaolutio wm unanimously adopted : — 'That , in _oonsequenc of tht _deoision of Conference , that a fond of £ 50 . 000 bi raised by the Association for the Employment of Labour in Agrioulture and Manufactures , the subscriptions to the looal fund of this districc remain is heretofore ; and that tha Distriot Committee be empowered to take out shares in the above fund , when they find that the surplus of the looal fund will allow them—and that this meeting earnestly call upon the _membets of the district to give effeot to the re . solution of Conference , by taking out shares individually . ' _, ' " _. ' '" Three auditors were then appointed to examine the _acoounts of tho quarter , and , having been found correct a resolution was passed that they be received . . . -

      _ _ _ _...... The oase of Mr Thomas Taylor , of Elland , cotton spinner ( who had been driven from his employmeni in consequence of his master requesting him to work twel ve hours per day instead of ten , find largor piecera for the two hours , and pay them extra wages ) next occupied the attention of the delegates . After some deliberation , it was thought requisite to appeal to the Central Committee of trades , aud draw their attention to the 25 th rule , in order , if possible , to obtain something for his support by being thus _riotimised . A rote of thanks having been given to the chairman , the meeting dissolved , after collecting the sum of 54 . 61 . for the Defend and Viotim Fund .

      The Great Sea Serpent. The Following Int...

      THE GREAT SEA SERPENT . The following interesting report respecting the appearance of the extraordinary animal seen by some of the officers and crow of her Majesty ' s shir _Dosialus , has been forwarded to the Admiralty by Captain _M'Quba * :-Htr _MgjeBtj ' c ship _Dala ' _uj _, Hatno -. 3 , O'tobcr 11 , Sir , —In reply to your letter of this day's dtto rcqair . ing Information as to tbe truth of a etattin « nt _published in tbe Globe newspaper , of a sea eerpent oi extraor _dlnary dimensions having been seen from her _Mtjesty ' _s sbip _Daidalua , under my command , on her _passage from the East Indies . I have the honour to acquaint jou ,

      for the information of my Lords Commissioners o" the Admiralty , that at fire o ' clock on the 6 : ti ot August last , fnlatitude 24 deg . 41 rain . S ,, and longitude 90 dig , 22 minutes £ ., the weather dark and cloudy , wind fresh from the N . W ., with a long ooean swell _fr-. - _. m tbe S . W ., tbe ship on tha port tack beading N _. E . by N _., something very unu ml was seen by Mr _SartArls , mtdehtpmsn _, rapidly approBchini * the ship from btfore tha _benra . The circumstance was immediately reported by him to Ihe officer of the WAfch , Lieutenant BJgar Drummond _, with whom and Mr William Barrett , the master , I wae at tKn time walking the quarter , deck . The ship ' s company were at supper . :

      On our attention being called to the _orject , it wai discovered to be _« n enormous eerptnt with head nnd _ohouldors kept about four feet constantly abovt _. the surface tf the _bcd _, and as nearly as we could approximate by com paring It with tbe length ofwhat our _malntopiall yard w : uld show in the water , there was at least sixty feet oi tbe animal afleur d ' _eait , no portion ot which was , to our perception , used In _propelling it through tho water , either by vertloa ! or horizontal undulation . It passed rapidly , bat so dote under our lee quarter tbat had It been a man , of my _acquaintance t should bare easily _recognised _hlsfeaturea with the nakedeyo ; and it did not , _either In approaching the ship or _afttr it bad _pastud our wak » . devla ' to In tbo slightest degree from its course to the s . 'W _,, which it held on at the pace of from twelve to fifteen miles per hour , _appareatly on Bomo determined purpose .

      The diameter of tbe _serpint waa about fifteen or elstee *! inches behind the hoad _, whioh was , without nny donbt , that of a make , and _nevi-r , during tho twenty minut s that it continued in sight of our glasses , once below > he surface of the water ; its colour a dark brown , with yellowish white about the _tbrbnt . It had no fins , but something like the wane of a horse , er ratber n bunch of seaweed , washed about its bnok . It was 861 . n by tho qugrt-rmaster , the boatswain ' s rcate , and tt < e man at the wheel , In ad Ution to myBelf and officers roovq mentioned . I am having a drawing of ths serpent made from r sketch taken immediately after It was eeen _, which I hope to have ready for transmission to my Lord * CammiiHion _. ere ofthe Admiralty by « o . morrow ' s post .

      I have , ( be ., _Peilb M _QoHfi , Captain To Admiral Sir W . H .. Gage , G . C . H ., Devonport ,

      Horbiblk Circt'mstance. — On Baturday We...

      Horbiblk _CiRCt'MSTANCE . — On baturday week last a woman from the neighbourhood of the Windy G _» p electoral division of _Addaergole , stated at our dfficethat _. a , man in her neighbourhood ( her own _brether-in-law ) h ' ad made aw * y with his two _obildreo ( by bis first wife ) , a boy aged 14 , and a girl 11 years , and buried them in a Ce'd or skirt of a bog , where Ithe bodies were afterwards found by the neighbours , covered with heather and earth . Our foreman _ins ' antly broug ht the woman before Sergeaut Conroy _, of the constabulary , and Mr R . Gallahor , clerk of petty sessions , where phe made the following statement : —The father , stepmother , and children , were in the poor-house , from which they were sent out up nn the out-door relief ; that the stepmother _r-wore

      the children _ahould not live with her , nor _bn partakers of the _lood allowed hy the union j that tbe children had to go away begging ; that they returned to the father ' s houae on Sunday the 4 th instant , when the wife swore a _homblooath that beneath her roof they Bhould net sleep , and the father insisted tbey _Bhiuld remain that night ; the children related these faots to thtir aunt , who told theia to sleep in the house , as it was their fathet ' s _wieb .. Sho _naver ? aw them again alive : and _cext day the father wae Been _' with some bulk in a bag , and a spado under hie arm , going in the direotion where tbo bodies were found .. On the following Thursday or Friday , a man

      and woman were observed by the villagers—the rsan carryin g a bulk in a _bag—giing to the same spot _, fhe man and woman then left the neighbourhood , and went to another part of tho union , where the woman ' s relatives reside . Policemen wero instantly despatched to tho place , and there the bodies were found by them as described by tho woman . On the samo evening the father was arrested , and on Sunday he was brought before Dr Dillon fer examination , ami finally was set at liberty . No inquest bad been hold that we can bear of—nor were there any of the villagers confronted with tho accused . — Castlelar Telegraph ,

      Coikcidbncbs . —It is very singu'ar that so many of our P . inces have died on the Saturday . It would _almbslj seem aa though the Revolution had set the example , the throne having been declared vacant on Saturday , Feb . 10 , 1 G 88 . William III . died on Saturday , March 8 , 1 T 02 ; Queen Anno died on Saturday , August 1 , 1714 : G « orc « I . at two o ' clock on Sunday morning , June 11 , 1727 ; ( what in common parlance is called Saturday nif _/ ht }; Gr _^ _orfiPlI . died on Saturday , _Octobsr 25 1700 ; _Georae III died on Saturday , Jan . 19 . 1520 ; George IV . oo _5 »| ur « i » y , JaueC , 1839 .

      The Labour Question. The Labour Question...

      THE LABOUR QUESTION . The Labour Question is evidently destined to become not only the condition of England question , but the condition of the world question } for not only in the great manufacturing cities of Britain , France , Belgium , Saxony , and Prussia , but likewise in New York , under the Republican institutions of Washington and his compatriots , are the elements gathering of social outbursts like that which recently required for its repression , a military dictatorship and a horrible slaughter . If governments would be guided by the experience of the past , and not tread for ever in the wake of public opinion without overtaking it , such calamities might be avoided . The failure : of the French revolution of

      February last to accomplish the ardent expectations of the brave men who succeeded in establishing it , in spite of the attempt of the imbecile Odillon Barrot to proclaim a regency , and tho present position of the Labour Question in that country , render the subject , at all times interesting to the proletarian class , peculiarly so at the present moment . It will scarcely excite surprise to find that all the most eminent writers on this subject are Frenchmen , when it is considered tbat in France those principles th social reform were first promulgated wbich led ofe worker to look for a greater share of the produce of his labour than he bad hitherto received . Before the revolution of 1793 , Rousseau , Diderot , Helvetius , and _Marel . _' y _, bad paved the way . f or urther inquiries into the nature , production , and distribution of

      wealth ; and when these speculations descended among the people , and met . tbecryof poverty and discontent that thence , aspended , tbe revolution became inevitable . It was the horrible misery of the people which engendered discontent , but it was Rousseau and the Illuminatists who _gave it a shape and a direction , Insurrections ) the offspring of hunger , may occur at any time , but revolutions only happen when knowledge comes to the assistance of the masses , and directs the popular discontent to some defined and practical end . The famishing and oppressed workers of France might have revoltedthere might have been another Jacquerie , and another slaughter of the insurgents ; but without the ideas which permeated society prior to 1789 , there would have been no revoluiion .

      • What has civilisation done for us ? In what is our condition preferable to that of the red Indian ? The savage has his hunting grounds , rivers teeming with fish , and the spontaneous fruits of the forest and the prairie—but what have we ? Nothing—absolutely nothing 1 The soil that we bedew with our sweat , the labour that , gives value to everything , it is not our own . ' Such , from the crowded Faubourg St Antoinefrom the workshops of Marseilles—from the cornfields of Provence—from the vineyards of Languedoc —was tbe ominous cry of discontent that surged upward in sullen roar , and eventuated the revolution .

      While Royalists and ; Constitutionalists , Girondists and Montagnafds , were contending in the Assembly and the Convention , the idea of social amelioration was germinating in the bosom of one man . That man was Robespierre , of whom even Lamartine says , that he alone of the popular leaders _understood the revolution in all its bearings , and its application to the rescue of industry from ibe iron grasp of monopoly and capital , While the Constitutional and Girondist deputies were intent only upon Iransferring the power hitherto enjoyed by the aristocracy to the crafty , selfish , grasping middle class , Robespierre ' s aim was to ameliorate the condition of the worker , and make the many partakers of the fruits of the revolution , instead of conserving them for the few .

      Hence , the trader , the soldier , the pries' - , and the emigrant noble , conspired against hira , and he fell . His mantle descended upon Gracchus Babeuf , the Tribune of the People , ' whose social Republic , contemned by Lamartine , is dest'ned to supersede the Republic of the bourgeoisie , with its military Dictator , and its suspension of the liberty of the Press . Babeuf committed suicide * to avoid the guillotine . His conspiracy was the last struggle , for pure democracy after the fall of Robespierre , until tbe red flag was again raised by the insurgents of June . The aim ot Babeuf and his associates was to lestore the

      Republic upon tbe basis of veritable _Equality , without which Liberty and Fraternity can only exist in parchment Constitutions . His aim . was a grand one—but France was not , and is not , prepared for the actualisaiion of the principles of Communism , in the full ex ' ent of the common family , common property , and common labour , as idealised by Babeuf . Wc must turn , therefore , to later writers upon the Labour Question , for such a solution of it as might be applied as a state of transition to present society ; and next in order of time we come to St Simon , whose formula of _intlust'ial remuneration is ' To all according to capacity , to each capacity

      according to works . ' Louis Blanc has ably exposed the fallacy of this arrangement , in his comments upon St Simonism , in his Histoire de Dix Ans—arxA it needs , in truth , but little reflection * o show that the St Simonism formula is delusive . It accords with tbe demand of the English Radicals for ' a fair day ' s wages for a fair day ' s work , ' which can only be obtained by the labourer working for himself , and never while he is compelled to hire , bis labour to a master . What constitutes a fair day ' s wages , was , for a long time , an undefined point ; latterly , it has been declared to be comfortable lod ging , good food , and clothing , and sufh _' _eient of them , and the means of educating the rising generation of the order of

      Labour . This seems very fair , but it is open to many objections , which may be briefly _' stated—Firstly , the unskilful workman needs all these things as much as the skilled one—the hand-loom weaver and tbe agricultural labourer as much as the compositor and the engraver—and , if all worked for themselves , the produce of their labour would be of nearly equal value ; bub employers will never be brought to g ive equal wages to the classes specified—Secondly , if employers were to give workmen the full value of their labour , they would be compelled to charge it upon

      the public m the price of goods sold , ov work performed , in order to obtain ths same profit as at present—the employer , who now pays 3 s . per day , and charges the customer 5 s ., if he paid the workman the latter sum , would charge the customer 7 s . — Thirdly , its adoption would not relieve the Labour market of the surplus _created by machinery—And , lastly—and this is the most important objection—it cannot be adopted while that surplus exists , for while there are three men to compete for every man ' s work , waj . es will inevitably remain at the

      minimum . Fourier comes next , with his theory of associations on the plan of awarding one-sixth of the profits to the capitalists , two-sixths to talent , and three-sixths to labour . This is a much nearer approximation to social justice than tbe formula of St Simon , and has the additional merit of being definite and precise . It has been adopted to the extent of allowing the workmen a share of the profits proportioned to their wages , by M . Lcdairc , a painter employing a great many hands in Paris , and also on the Northern Railway , and in the printing establishment of La Presse newspaper . Tbere are many practical difficulties in the way of the universal adoption of this principle , except on the plan of association upon which it was based by its founder ; aud the social experiments of the disciples

      of Fourier at Citeau . v , and of the Socialists in Hampshire , prove that it is only a very few of the elite of the working-classes who are prepared for such a change . Even if it could be successfully appl _' ed to every branch of employment , it can scarcely be expected that employers would voluntaril y adopt it , or that a class-elected parliament would give it a legal sanction . The solution of the Labour Question , as Mr O'Connor has truly remarked , would not be _difficult were labour represented ; but even though Universal Suffrage might make even _Fourierism practicable , it must be remembered that , with an unemployed population , high wages is onl y the second consideration , and the means of existence through labour the first . Fourier has only solved this difficulty by his theory of association , which the masses are morally and intellectually unprepared for .

      Considerant is sometimes classed by the press with the CommuniMs , but this classification is unjust to that party , M . Considerant being the author of a work on the organisation of labour , in which he propounds the singular principle , that cultivation gives a right of possession to the soil , and as it has been brought into cultivation b y the present pos-

      * Bibbuf Anl Lis Fellow-Martyr , Darihe,...

      * _Bibbuf anl lis fellow-martyr , Darihe , at ' empled eulcide . On being sentenced to death , they stabbed themselves in tho pr . eooee _» f tbeir jadges , but tho In . 8 ! rumen ' . B of intfndud _eeif-dtstruction broke , and only _inflU'Ied t-ounrir , not death . A'tcr passing a night oi Mtremo _stiffs-ring—dur ! u _# which the blodo ofthe weapon remained turicd in _Bibonf ' a wound , _cleee to his _henrt—tho two _duuntlies Demourat * were | _fulllolln « d . Fifty years _Inro elapsed einoo the ! - - m » rtyrdoa , _tnd now their vuiy n * m" 6 strike _terror to the _htarts ol ihe _tiicrax-i of J « 8 ti : c . _$ 0 ttue it is that JVy never fall who die In a great _oauae , '

      * Bibbuf Anl Lis Fellow-Martyr , Darihe,...

      _sessorg , the landowners have an undeniable right to it in perpetuity , and the landless masses can only claim so much of the necessaries of life as they could obtain in the savage state , while the land remained uncultivated .. He has forgotten to show us the origiH of the right to cultivate , which must necessarily have preceded the ri ght of private posses * sion , which he deduces from cultivation . U pon this principle , a Poor Law like that of England is the utmost that the destitute proletarians of France have a right to expect . Further comment upon his views would be superfluous .

      The hireling and venal journalists , both of this country aud France , class every writer and speaker upon the Labour Question with the advocates of Communism , which with them is but another name for anarch y and universal plunder . Pierre Leroux , I believe , is a St Simoriian ; Cabet and Proudhon are well-known Communists ; but none of tbat school contemplate the preposterous idea of reducing their views to practice in their entirety , sooften attributed to them . They believe the communisalion of goods and works to be the only means of attaining perfect social equality ; they view Communism as the ultimatum to wbich society must eventually come , but they are not so ignorant of human nature as to think that their views can be reduced to practice suddenly and at once , without any previous moral training and educational preparation , which must be the work of more than one

      generation . Undeterred by the calumnies and misrepresentations which Communism has to endure , alike from mere political reformers , and from those whose interest it is _ts uphold the present system of social disorganisation , I avow myself a Communist ; but I believe that Communism cannot be arrived at suddenly , but must be approached with that gradual progression b y which society has passed from savagism to pastoralism ; . from pastoralism to feudalism ; from the feudal state to municipalism ; and through civilisation to monopolism ; every transition

      being more quickly and easily effected as we approach the goal of the moral world . But believing Communism to be impracticable for the present generation in the fullness of its doctrines of common : labour , property , suffrage , and family , I had intended to develope in tbis communication such a modification of the principles of Communism as seem to me a practical solution of the problem of the organisation of Labour , but having already exceeded my intended limits , I must postpone the exposition of ray . views to another communication . Croydon Common . T . Frost .

      Mr Alfred Novello, Of Dean-Street , Soho...

      Mr Alfred Novello , of Dean-street , Soho , revives a suggestion for altering the present inconvenient formulas for registering time ;— ' It has long appeared to me , ; that it would be very convenient to number the hours of tbe day from one to twenty-four , beginning at midnight , as tbe additional words ' morning s 'afternoon , ' ' evening' 'a . m ., ' and ' p . m ., ' at present essential to specify the time , might be dispensed with , and we should then have a distinct name for each hour in a day . This is _becoming more necessary to the proper understanding of railway time bills , especially for the long lines . The

      proposed numbering would take no extra room iaany tables , as four figures are already required for the hours and their fractions . No difficulty would occur even with the clocks , which could easil y have the additional figures placed in an outer or inner circle on the face . In England . I think , tbis change would find universal adoption , if two establishments would agree to adopt it—I mean the Post Office and the railways . The announcement The packet siilsSept . 16 , at fourteen o ' clock , ' would complettly explain the time , instead of saying two o ' clock in the afternoon . '

      ' Napoleon ' s Mother . ' dead ijt Paris . —We condense the following narrative from La DemocnATiis _Pacifiquk : Mad . Ametiger was an o'd sutler to the Imperial Guard . She laboured in her vocation at most of Napoleon ' s great battles frequently showing great intrepidity , and once had the good fortune even to save Bernadotte ' s life . When tbat able general was elevated to Swedish royalty , Ametiger repaired to Stockholm and received many testimonies of bis esteem . She

      returned to Paris and after the fall of the empire she was reduced to great poverty , labouring as a chijfomiiere ( a sort of street rag-picker ) but was still so fond of fighting her battles over again _^ with many a tale of the emperor , that she acquired the name of ' Napoleon ' s mother . ' She took the greatest interest in the election of Prince Louis Napoleon , canvassing for votes , and when she was assured of his triumphant election , she was seized _« i ( h such a transport of joy that apoplexy resulted and she fell dead . Her age was

      _seventy-nine-Hiua Tide—Destruction of _Property . —On Tuesday , the Thames rose la such an unusual height as to cause very great damage to property . At Lambeth , the houses near the Archbishops palace were completely inundated , being several _ieat deep in water , and in many instances the inmatt _s were compelled to make a precipitate retreat from their dwellings . In Fore-street which runs from the end of Bishop ' s-walk to Princes street , Vauxhall , a number of poor families were driven from their smtll habitations until the tide receded and the water had been pumped out . The licensed victuallers at Bankside and other parts were very great sufferers , their

      cellars being completely filled with water , cau ; inj _* considerable injury to their goods . At Vauxhall ,. Battersea , Wandsworth , Chelsea , Millbank , and other water-side premises below bridge , similar floods occurred , and the damage to property has i . een very alarming . The London docks , in some parts , appear to bave been visited , but immediate steps were taken to check the unexpected flood . Towards evening , when the tide was at its highest point , the steamboats could scarcely pass under the bridges _,, and it required great skill in the management of the various vessels to avoid comiug in contact with the stonework . No accidents of any consequence have taken place , although the property destroyed is

      immense . A New Mode of Travklling per Rail . —The servants at the General Station at Dundee have much difficulty in gettiug the cattle put into trucks , particularly Highland stock which have never been under cover . In loading one of these a few days ago , a fine Argylshire stot , after having bis fore legs in , was startled by an engine whistle at his ear , and making a desperate leap cleared the truck and dashed up the line to the General Station . His first mark was a pointsman , stooping with his back toivardsthe animal , which pitched him _fortvards _, but fortunately was untouched by his horns . He

      tben tore onwards to the station , where his approach ' caused great sensation , and speedily every guard , driver , and porter , weTe on the roof of every available carriage . The agility displayed on this occasion was much to the satisfaction of the superintendent , wbo purposes an occasional visit of the same ki nd with a view of practising the servants in celerity of movement . Onward , however , the animal went , passed on to the Scottish Midland line , which he left about a mile to tbe north , and was last seen making for his native hills , with _. foaming mouth and streaming tail , forming no unapt representation of ' Taurus' as depicted on the Celestial globes .

      Extraordinary Feats . —The Fife Herald narrates the antics of a steeple and chimney climber on the top of a chimney stalk at Newton of _Abrtolsball , 136 feet high . He fixed a plank tea inches broad , and projecting about twelve feet oa each side , on tbe top of the chimney . Iu the centre of this plank , he placed a pole sixteen feet hi gh , having a small piece of wood on the top , which he climbed up and stood upri _ght on , holding a flag ia bis hand . After doing so , lie descended to the top . of the stalk , when he walked out to each end of the plank and struck an axe into them . He then turned about towards the centre , and , to the great alarm of the assembled multitude , stood oil his head for some time , and , returning to his feet , he stamped firmly upon the plank on each side of the chimney . He then safely descended _head-foremost .

      ¦ SmrwRECK . —A correspondent at St Margaret ' s Hope sends us the following : — ' On Sunday night , the lst of October , tbe ship Penang , of Liverpool , from Cronstad ti with a cargo of 500 casks of tallow , 100 bales of hemp , and 270 quarters of wheat , struck upon Strose Head , in the island of South Ronaldshay . She had been endeavouring to make the passage of the Pentland Frith , but , owing to a dense fog , she lost the Skerry Lights , and struck at ten o ' clock . In half an hour sbe was on her beam ends . The ciew , consisting of twenty , includingthe captain , and t

      mae , were all saved . Three of them got into tbe Jong-boat when the ship went over , and were tossed about in her until morning ; another swam ashore , and the rest were clinging to the side of the ship , expecting every minute to be dashed to pieces , until ei ght o ' clock next morning , when they were brought off by boats with much difficulty . Whether it was owing lo tlie heedlessness said to be natural to seamen , or to joy at having escaped a watery grave , it was striking to ob . erve the cheerful aspect of the poor fellows when they came into the village of St Margaret ' s Hope . —Inverness Courier ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 21, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21101848/page/2/