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      To The Unrepresented.

      TO THE UNREPRESENTED .

      « These Are The Times To Try Men's Souls...

      « These are the times to try men's souls . " j , r £ D _Fbiesds _asd Slaves , —The dark cloud . _jjjj _sionsoverehadowedthepolitical world is being ,-I _gfled by degrees , and there is presented to us , _^ _„ _j lieinist , thest _^ ttcredjnembersof that faction hose dismemberment cost 113 so muck woe , and an-* ; SJJj nnd sorrow , and tribulation . Whiggery , like the _hroicn worm , is now struggling for a union of all its , _> a and if united by ties more dear and extensive

      than those oi a political character—the ties of a _plating commerce—will be strengthened by the weld . _# tUc _Wm _S » who attempted to achieve _politij _^ l power by moulding the franchise to their accemm 0 jaii ° ' _liavc discovered that their a doption of free trade _iirinciplea -will accomplish for them what the Reform U " faiIeu _*» secure , docs it not follow , as a matter ° f course , that henceforth they _vtill rest their claim _&> power upon the adaptation of laws to the p rinciples of free trade rather than upon extended representation ? :

      fhe several admissions of Lord John llussell , as to f ge meaning and his owx construction of the Itcform I 5 HL , precludes all hope of progression from him . His deei ara ' tlon ' tliat the object of the Reform Bill _tias & g l _- ve _^ preponderance of power to the landlords , _together "with his assertion that the bill was to be taken as a _msaIiMEAsbre , is not reconcileable with Ms adhesion to a party whose avowed _olgect is to destroy that very landlord class , for the preservation of whose yaatr ifa ' _.-MoMe lord tells us the Reform Bill ivcu meted- I _"write thus pointedly , to show you that a _politieal party , struggling for power , - will select those means forTits accomplishment which promise the

      least possible amount of change , _; and the largest practical amountof popular frehzythat 13 compatible with their own safety and the safety of their order . Lord John-Russell and the Whigs would much prefer accepting office upon the chances of ahorse racei if those chances were equally fevourable _, to accepting it even upon the conditions imposed by the iree trade party . And yet the noble lord has not the honesty to confess that he , as the "Whig leader , and Lord Morpeth as a faithful follower of the loaves and fishes , have been forced into their present humiliating position by the electoral power said to be acquired

      by the League , through the fabrication of free trade voters , especially in that district , to r epresent which once more is the darling object of Lord Morpeth . True he tells us— " / less than ever anticipate anyp > ro _laUe renewal of a political connection between us ; " and again he says— "Iwrite tfds without concert or consvltation with any one else" Sow , if the noble lord had not made those two unnecessary statements , we might have inferred the conclusions to which he seeks to lead us ; but the very assertion of them proves that Lord _Jdorpeth was just then thinking of " areneival of that political connection _, " and that he was acting iii concert , and even in consultation , with Lord Jons

      _ltrssEIi . There are few men who do not reco " ect the extensive promises ofthe _Rjformers . There are few who do not recollect the treacherous manner in which their every pledge has been broken—their every promise violated . There are also few who do not xow approve the policy of placing professing Liberals in opposition to a Tory Government , in preference to placing them in power with a strong Tory _opposition ever ready to co-operate in deeds of oppression , and even to contend for a full share of the responsibility consequent upon failure or public disapproval . The "Whigs xow rest their claim to office

      upon the foolish pretext that the Tories thwarted their measures while iu opposition , and carried them when in power , wholly forgetting that they only experimentalised upon those measures when they were weak , and upon the eve of departure , and that they , as a party , resisted them when they were strong enough to carry them . This fact I give you as another instance of the lagging policy of all politieal parties . And , as they will achieve office upon the _slightest possible pledges , so , after having made the most extensive promises for its acquisition , will they fritter them away to the smallest possible amount of performance .

      I have now furnished you with an easy and familiar guide by which you may unerringly estimate yonr share in anv triumph consequent upon this new coalition . Indeed , that portion of the Whig press which gave its earliest support to the principles of free trade , openly and _nndisguisedly informs us that the only ulterior object of the coalition is to achieve its purpose with the slightest possible disturbance of existiu" socul axd political auiuxgements—in

      Other words , that the leaders of the new-born Liberal partv , now afraid to call themselves Whigs , will use vou with jnst that amount of moderation that you will tolerate , and that may be necessary for the accomplishment of their own purpose . The question , then , is , how far you are once more prepared to be used i first , as whips in the hands of others , and then to bewhipped by them as soon as your moderation shall have tested vour subserviency and their power .

      As the great national party , wre fought the League and the Whigs single-handed and unitedly . We beat them ; the one into silence , the other out of existence , and vve waited patiently for that time , when a general election would develope to the world the improvement that the national wind had undergone since wc last met the foe upon thehustings . If another struggle is cunningly urged upon us before wc are prepared to meet it ( and that is a great object of the coalition ) , we shall not be prepared to develope our progress . The haste with which contested elections come upon us , at a time when we are least prepared for the _strussle , has been the principal cause of the

      postponement of our principles . Can you , my friends , anticipate a greater national calamity than the restoration of our old prosecutors and _deadliest enemies to power ? Have not our songs , our jokes , our mottoes , and our resolutions , one and all , gone to commemorate " the tall or _Wuiguerv , " and are we now to turn resurrectionists , and raise the dead from their tombs ? Arc we to forget coercion , starvation , and the dungeon ? Are we to forget the sabre , the bullet , and the law 1 Are we to forget the promises they made , the hopes they held out , aud the manner in which thev fulfilled and realised them ?

      Already has their press and their champion tauntingly invited you and me to the renewed struggle . The * Chronicle sneeringly asks where is Chartism ! and Cobdcn savs no _rouxoa *« will now venture into + he manufacturing districts . To the Chronicle I answer , that Chartism is stronger than ever ; aud to _Cobden 1 reply , the Potatoe man is ready to meet you . "The Potatoe man will be at Manchester , in the Carpenters * H » ll , at half-past six , on Suuday evening the northern bees

      next in the midst of 5 , 000 of , and he invites vou , Cobden , and your party of no _roiATOEMEX , of starvation men , to meet him there , where your strength lies . The Potatoe man dares vou to call a public meeting outof doors upon Sunday or holidav , in any populous district of Lancashire or _loikshirc . The Potatoe man will meet you at Bolton on Monday evening next , at Manchester on Tuesday evening next , at Wigan on Thursday evening next _, and in _^ _hton on Friday evening next . Here , then ,

      are the centres of industry for you . Here is a repetition of my old challenge to you , and from the result of those meetings the Morning Chronicle shall have a fuller and more complete response than that yet received by " locomotivesand extraordinary expresses . " My friends , there never was a single period in this country ' s history more promising or more threatening than the present . If you are true to yourselves , every promise will be realised ; if you are false to your order , the threat will fall upon you with horrid severitv . You must make no difference between the

      simple expedient of opening the ports and the repeal of the Corn Laws . You must look upon either " as the achievement of power by a party who , if _uncontrohed , would use you worse than beasts of burthen . You _rnu & t not be tickled by the fascinating argument of cheaper bread , but you must take into calculation , firstly , the reduced means to procureit : and secondly , the increased power of touii masters to withhold it altogether . You must bear in mind that while

      Cobden and the League have been drawing pictures ot national prosperity , of cheap food , and high wages , that , at ihe same time , there was a tax of seven mil lions annually raised oil ' your industry to .-import surplus paupers , whose number , in the hey-day of prosperity , Sir James Graham estimated at one in ten of the population . Bear these things in nii . id , and _tki-H ask yourselves what ihe amount of _sti );! iis labour would b if panic , apprehension , _exjuiicncy , or _Weessiiy threw a large portion Ol the 1 .. ™ of _Eng-

      « These Are The Times To Try Men's Souls...

      land out of cultivation , and threw its disinherited slaves into your market ? This is a subject upon which you must be thoroughly instructed , and to that end I will remind you , leaving expediency and principle out of the question , of what apprehension or panic may of themselves effect . When Sir Piobert Peel , by his tariff , ad nutted live stock and cured provisions into this country at a mere nominal duty , without waiting for the legitimate result of the measure the panic stricken holders of stock glutted the market , and thus created a panic surplus while there was actually a real deficiency of the commodity in the country . Again , we have now witnessed the anomaly of a frightful scarcity of potatoes , simultaneously with great waste and glutted markets , ; all arising from panic or apprehension , and I use those two figures to

      illustrate for yon what , without reference to thee . r pediency or the principle , the inevitable result of a repeal of the Corn Laws must be , The result must be such chaos and confusion , for at least two or three years , as would completely paralyse agricultural industry . And during that chaos and confusion you , who will be least protected , would be the greatest sufferers , and this is the secret of my desiring that you should posses s such an amountof _p / ower as would render you liable to no mors than year share in ' cmy calamity that may occur in the outset , as well as yoitr full share in any prosperity that may result from the change . Y ou must bear in miEu that the worst calamity could only impose the negative evil of living upon their ready money—upon your masters , while upon you it would entail the positive infliction of living without money _.

      I have now for the one thousandth timeput you in possession of my views upon this " great fact . " I am still ready to persevere in the struggle of right against might , and I am anxious to discover whether yon are prepared to do your part in tliose times that will try men ' s souls . Ever your faithful friend , and uncompromising servant , Feargus O'Conxor .

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      And National Trades' Joumal.

      AND NATIONAL TRADES' JOUMAL .

      - ' - : _ Vol Jx. No. 421. London, Satur...

      _ VOL JX . NO . 421 . LONDON , SATURDAY , DECEMBEB 6 , 1845 . _^ _^ _glJg _^ _^ . '

      Tiie O'Connell Tribute. To The Lovers Of...

      TIIE O ' CONNELL TRIBUTE . TO THE LOVERS OF LIBERTY ALL OVER THE GLOBE . It is impossible to give even an idea of the brutality and tyranny which are put in practice at the doors ot the Catholic churches and chapels , on the Sundays upon which the O'Connell tribute , as it is called , is collected . There are thousands of Catholics who do not go to mass at all upon tribute Sunday ; first , because they have a conscientious scruple against paying money at the chapel doors for the purposes—the profligate purpases—to which the money is applied ; and , secondly , because they do not like to encounter the sneers aud scoffs of the ruffians who infest the doors as collectors , bullies , spies , and informers .

      When a man or woman is shamed or coerced into paying a pound , or five pounds , as the case may be , the collectors cry out in a sort of chorus , " God bless you ; you were always a patriot and a good Catholic . " On the other hand , if they do not pay , they are assailed with the most opprobrious epithets— " Enemies to their country , bad Catholics , presuming to go to mass with a rankling hatred ofthe Liberator of their countrv in their hearts . " From the period of the collection of the first O'Connell tribute in May , 1820 , ( upon which occasion I subscribed £ 10 to it ) up lo the year 1 S 37 , 1 contributed my annual mite , with the full conviction in my mind that Mr . O'Connell was justly and honestly entitled to an ample tribute from his country . But

      I did not till then learn , or ever hear of , the purposes to which the money was to be applied ; and felt often offended at being told that 1 was a dupe ; that I was collecting money lor a banker , a brewer , and an **** _, which the following placard will more fully explain . This placard was enclosed to me by the '' penny post , " together with the subjoined pithy correspondence . Had it not come by post , I might have never seen it . I take this opportunity of thanking Air . Thomas Arktns , the City sword bearer , and learned clerk of the corn table , for having transmitted the precious document to me . Let every true Chartist and pious Christian pin it near their beds , that they may see it the last thing when lying down at night , and the first when rising up in the morning : —

      " Show tbis infamous document to the laberator . " To Thomas Arkins , Esq . " " 3 fo _, I won't , you miscreant . " " To _Tatrick _O'lliggins , Esq . "

      COLLECT THE _O'CONNEL TRIBUTE ! At tbe doors of tlie Catholic chapels make panders of the priests , aud receptacles of their churches for the wages of prostitution !! _O'Connell ' s adulterousprogenymust be supported , they cannot live on rotten potatoes . Holy fathers ! help to pamper the ilansfiehls , the _il'Keevers , tlie Courtneys , the O'Keefes , the O'Briens , the Armstrongs , aud their greedy mothers , while virtuous mothers and honest children starve ! How this resembles the Apostles !

      For the life of me I cannot discover -why , or for what reason , Mr . Arkins could send the foregoing placard , and the anonymous note which accompanied it , to me . The placard , however , contains some of the reasons which have influenced me , and thousands of other Roman Catholics , against contributing to this unholy fund . And these reasons appear to have been filchedfrom apamphlet which emanated from the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , and is sold by Cleave , No . 1 , Shoe-lane .

      I have not subscribed to ihe tribute since 1837 . In the month of August of that year , Air . O'Connell presented himself to the citizens of Dublin as the Whig Government candidate . He , a pledged Repealer , sworn , as far as words and vows to heaven could go , to oppose any administration but one that would make the Repeal of tbe Union a Cabinet measure , coming before the Repealers of Dublin as the candidate of a Government solemnly pledged to a civil war , with all its horrors , in preference to a Repeal of the Union—I refused to vote for him unless he would renew the Repeal pledge , give it to me in writing , and support the Repeal candidates at that general election . Instead of

      complying with this reasonable and consistent request , be put out a placard , signed "Daniel O'Connell , " and printed by Richard Grace , of Capel-street , stating , that " any elector who would demand a Repeal pledge from any candidate at the present general election , was au enemy to his country , and in the pay of the Tories ; that the pledge should be the Queen and the Melbourne administration . " I _refused to vote for the Whig candidate the last Dublin election ; and from that time to the present i have been the victim of the bitterest and most unrelenting persecution . Repeal was abandoned . Repealers became a sort of mongrel politicians under the name of Whig Radicals , and ultimately the worst and lowest sort of Whigs . O'Connell lost , but he got in return £ 1 , 000 a-vear for his son-in-law , Alr . Fitzsimon ,

      now in the pay ofthe Tories , hor his son-in-law , Chas . O'Connell , ex-Ilepeal member for Kerry , £ 900 a-year . For Mr . French , another son-in-law , £ 900 . For his son , Mr . Morgan O'Connell , ex-Repeal member for Aleatli _, and the best of the lot , £ S 0 O a-year , paid now by the Tories . For six of his nephews £ : j 00 a-vear each in the policeor detective force , paid also by the Tories , and £ 28 , 000 a-year for himself from his duped , deluded , starving , half-naked , but confiding countrymen . When I saw- all those things , when I saw how my poor countrymen were sold , how could I vote for the salesmaster , the _pledge-breaker , the violator of the Repeal vows repeatedly sent up in mock solemnity to heaven ' s tribunal ? How could I pay tribute when once 1 discovered the infamous purposes to which it was

      For refusing to go with the tide of madness and folly I am the victim of persecution ; calumniated , slandered , vilified , pointed at as a bad Catholic , the tcit of Catholicism being slavery to O Council . Well after all , I am a Catholic , a Roman Catholic , and what is more , never had a _Frotestant relation , even In the remotest degree of kindred , though my name is to be found in the annals of my country even before the Christian era , and a thousand years before tlie name of O'Connell was known m the land . And although I would sacrifice my life sooner than give up one iota of that faith which I believe to be true ,

      yet it is well known that I do not feel enmity against anv man on account of bis religion . It is due to my own character to make this public declaration , as m > unscrupulous assailants represent me at one and the same time as a bigot and no Catholic . But they ston at nothing to acccomplish their object . It might be " _sunposed that a man living in a country which toasts * of free institutions , would be permitted to enters house dedicated to _religious worship without molestation ; but no , ihccaseis otherwise , lie canliut , as he should do , enter upon that which every Christian considers a mwt important rcliuious duty , _eabnW sad _seisaely . The d-jors are surrounded , a

      Tiie O'Connell Tribute. To The Lovers Of...

      clamour is kept up , he must submit , or be pointed at , scoifed , and hooted . The fast is , that the O'Connell tribute , and the Repeal delusion ( for delusion it is as far as O'ConneU Is concerned ) have evoked a more spurious race of unprincipled _rassah _* than any one could have imagined were . containcd in ah' Ireland . On every tribute Sunday , from 1837 to the present one , the lCth of November , 1815 , 1 braved the storm at the chapel door , bnt did not hear mass with that awful , quiet solemnity which I do upon other

      occasions . On the present occasion something came over my mind for which-1 cannot account satisfactorily even to myself . I did not go to mass on tribute Sunday . It was the first time I ever absented myself from that sacred duty ; I did not like to" encounter the scoffs , sneers , and brutal observations w'itli which I had been annually assailed for the' last eight years . The day was gloomy , wet , and stormy , still something or other impelled me to go out and walk in the direction of the Dublin and Drogbeda railway . ; . The ten o ' clock train being ready to start , I took a seat for Makihide , got a boat to put me across to the long-range of high sand-banks at the opposite side ofthe estuary , a wild sequestered spot , the banks stretching along the seacoast a distance of between two arid three miles .

      The estuary lies west ofthe banks , and exiends about four miles into the country , and across -which the Drogheda Bail way runs at a distance of about a quarter of a mile from the sand-banks . The islands of Lambay and Ireland's Eye stand out in the sea about four miles from theso sand-banks , the one south-east , the other north-east . Upon the toy of one of these banks , facing the open sea , between the two little islands , I knelt down , took off my hat , raised my hands towards heaven , blessed myself "in the name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , " and thence , on the top of the sand-bank , I went to mass on the tribute Sunday _, the 16 th of November , 1815 . I prayed heartily and fervently . It was impossible to avoid feeling a little dejected and melancholy . The idea of being an outcast in my native land crossed my mind—an outcast , forsaken by mankind , left , as it were , to die alone and unheeded—to be buried in the sand .

      Having finished the " prayers at mass , "'I then prayed to God to relieve my country from the odious tyranny by which she is oppressed ; from her present degraded and prostrate position ; from the openly-avowed and soul-degrading system of espionage to which she is a victim , and to boast oi" which , hollow-hearted , money-grubbing , professing patriots , are not ashamed , but , on the contrary , lay peculiar claim . Accidentally casting my eyes upon my two faithful dogs , Duck and Glunthn , their anxious looks indicated sympathy . Poor faithlul creatures I they would not forsake me , nor turn round with base ingratitude . Those feelings which are . well-known to give relief to a mind harassed and surcharged with contending emotions , came to my aid , and were soon succeeded by a calmness—a firmness , which have , 1 may say , assured me that my prayers on the sandbank were , in a measure , _acceptable to the great Author of my being . Patiuck O'Higoixs . Dublin . November 20 th , 1845 .

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      France. Axmversary Of Hie Polish Revolut...

      FRANCE . Axmversary of hie Polish Revolution . —Saturday being the 15 th anniversary of the Polish revolution , about 1 , 000 members of that nation assembled at the Church of St . Koch to celebrate the occasion . The Vigie de VOuest announces that tranquillity has been perfectly restored at Dinan and the neighbourhood . The Journal des Bebats , of Monday , in a long article , takes a view ofthe Oregon question , from which it may be inferred that the French Government is indisposed to accept the office of arbitrator between the British Government and that of the United States of America , if offered .

      ITALY . TnE Tyrant Nicholas . —A letter from Palermo , dated the Mtli ult ., says : — " The Emperor _^ Nicholas is still at the Villa Olivazza , livingin ab-olute privacy , and wishing to he looked on only as General Romanoff , His Majesty has not received the foreign diplomatic corps , and has refused all the honours and fetes which have been offered him . Prince Albert , oi Prussia , and five or six other persons , are alone admitted to his table . The evenings pass quietly over , without any very animated amusements . The Emperor yesterday invited the King to a breakfast on board the Kamschatka steamer . The Emperor arrived there first with the Grand Duchess Qlga ,, to receive his royal guest . The King , accompanied \ by

      the Countess d'Aquda , proceeded there m the royal barge . The Emperor , in a ; cuirassier ' s uniform , stood waiting for the King at the top ofthe accommodation ladder . When the King stepped on the deck , the Emperor embraced him . The Kamschatka is to proceed in a few days to Genoa , to bring to Olivazza the Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , the sister ot the Emperor , who is to remain there during the whole of the stay of the imperial family . The day of the Emperor's departure is not yet positively known , but it is supposed that it will be the 24 th instant . * fter a sta y ol font days at Naples , he will proceed to Russia , by Rome , Florence , Milan , Vienna , and Warsaw . Tho Empress has caused to be distributed , during her stay at Olivazza , 7 , 000 francs a-month to the poor of Palermo . "

      SPAIN . Letters from Barcelona of the 23 rd ult ., state that the drawing ol * tho conscription at Figueim having ben attended with some disturbances , the Captain-General had repaired thither from Girona , at the head of a column of troops . Martial law had been suspended at Barcelona during the elections , which were considered likely to terminate to the advantage of the Opposition .

      POLAND . Poses , Nov . 13 . —To-day again several persons of consequence have been arrested . Besides this , other arrests have taken place , so that the number of our inhabitants , who arc now lodged in our prison , is nearly forty ; we say nothing of _thejiersons arrested elsewhere , who are daily brought in . To-day a detachment of infantry , consisting of two officers and eighty privates , arrived from Genesen _. to reinforce a garrison , especially to strengthen the several ports . The citadel is now closed against everybody at ten o ' clock at night .

      The Cologne Gazette quotes a letter from Posen of the 19 th instant , from which it would appear that the numerous arrests which have taken place originate in a secret attempt to restore Poland to its original nationality , and that the clergy are deeply involved in that attempt . Three Catholic priests had been sent from _Kalisch to Warsaw . At Ostrowo the troops had been supplied with extra cartridges , and the military posts doubled . On the evening of the above date the courier had the greatest difficulty in making his way through the Polish peasants who had assembled in the streets . The citadel had been closed , and it was said that the garrison would shortly be changed .

      _ THE RIVER PLATE . Liverpool , _Tueshay . —Letters from Buenos Ayres to the 21 st of September , per Maivaretha , arrived at Hamburgh , announce that the blockade of the city had been determined upon by the allied Powers .

      ALGERIA . The Paris papers of Tuesday are filled with despatches received by the Government from the Governor-General of Algeria . Marshall Bugeaud ' s despatch is dated from ths bivonack on the Riou , between _Guelleb-ell-Oued and Kreueg-el-Ketta , the _ilth of November , and gives an account of lite march in the mountains of the Matmatas , in search of the absconding tribes , and his endeavours to punish the monntaineers , who had taken part in the revolt . His progress appears to have been much impeded by natural obstacles , and in several skirmishes which took place the Arabs offered a vigorous resistance . The French were , however , victorious in all these affairs , and they succeeded in taking a few prisoners

      and a quantity of cattle . It appeals by a report ol Lieutenant-Colonel Itepond , dated Orleansville , the 16 , that in a series of affairs with the troops of Bou-Maza he had 100 killed aud wounded . The hostile Arabs fought desperately , and frequently attacked the French . Thev lost a great number ot men , and also the Khalifat , of Bou-M ; . za , who was found among the slain . There is a report of more importance lroni Colonel St . Arnaud , dated the 22 nd ult ., from lonez , for lie states in it that he had received positive information that Abd-el-Kader was atLohha , near _Iw _^ where he had been joined by all the population . 1 he colonel had been compelled " to abandon his operations near Tenez , and return to Orleansville , in or * . er to be _p-eparcd for any event that might occur .

      India And China. London, Satubbay Mousin...

      INDIA AND CHINA . London , _Satubbay Mousing , Dec . 6 t ' . i . —By the usual monthly arrival from Bombay we h Ave received the following intelligence : — Summary . — The Governor-General xias arrived at Agra , and alter making a brief stay he will , it is believed , proceed via Delhi to Meerut , and there meet the commander-in-chief . Sir Henry ' s journey was a very rapid one , and he arrived at " i t 3 tcrini' ' atK , li four days earlier than was expected . Op inions an still divided as to the probability of Wnr or peace , bin _judging from the arrangements ' ir v ro « ress , it seem .-in the highest degree likely thr hostilities will cr <

      India And China. London, Satubbay Mousin...

      Ion ? be -resorted to . The Governor-General lias himself _i all along preserved the strictest secrecy on the subject , and there appear to have been ni |* leakingg out" of official confidence . The Piijjaub , mean while , seems in a somewhat quieter state . The administration of affairs is conducted by the Ranee or Queen Mother , Rajah uolaub Singh not having yet acceded to the airangement proposed for elevating him to the post of Vizier , Rajah Lall Singh , the commander of the forces , shares with ,. her the _caresand responsibilities of the state , _l'lie Dusserah—a sort of Indian carnival , fir ! 8 SOraet , hnes the season of tragic as well as mirthful _occurrences—appeasra to have passed over without any disturbance . '• ¦; The Lahore Vakeel at _fcerozepor e is said to have been detected in giving a pass for a transit across theSutlei of stores and

      ammunition surreptitiously . obtained from the British magazine . There is little news from Scinde . 1 _Sick-- !? _<^ _Utterly somewhat _increased at Shibarpoor and ,. 5 hajvnqnr , but in the lower _distwsts the troops contm _^ 8 || eaJth y . The 25 th N . I , : have-returned to the _lTeaiq | h _| y from Kunachce . - _SVe a ? _s-sorry to hear , _thatvfjjiparty of the men of this fine carps have disgraced themseives \ by . brutallymurdoringanunfortunate sepoy of the 8 th N . L , with which regiment they appear to have had for some time _ssrious disagreements . -1 -, "he Nizam ' s dominions are still in a most _unpromising condition , and it is generally _conceivzd that a crisis is approaching . From She Southern Mahratta countrv wo hear of the execution ofthe noted freebooter , ' Soobanah Nickum , at _Koiapore , on the I 3 ' th ult . Colonel Wallace has returned to

      Belgaum . We have advices from Hong Kong to the 30 th of September , but they contain nothing of _striding importance . Trade both at Canton and _Victoria was extremely dulJ , but less inactivity prevailed to the northward , particularly at Shanghai . Our _iojnl intelligence comprises an _account of a large and destructive fhe which took place in the native Itown on Tuesday night last , occasioning considerable loss of life and property . Fifteen persons in all appear to have perished ; a hundred and ninety houses were burnt , and the value ofthe property destroyed is _estimated at £ 70 , 000 .

      Foreign Miscellany. Dn. Pfvfpeb.—A Lette...

      FOREIGN _MISCELLANY . Dn . Pfvfpeb . —A letter from Lucerne says that Dr . Pfyffer has been set a liberty , and th _* seals have been taken off his papers . Mr . James Richardson , the _Tratielmir . —On the 13 th ultimo this enterprising traveller was still at Ghadames , whence it was his intention , h >> about a moDth or six weeks to proceed to _Soudanr _ancHBarnou and if possible also to Timbuctoo . His- route will be a new one , via Ghat Aheer , Aghadez , and _Dansergon _, a road no Christian has a 3 yet _undertaken . He is obliged to act as a doctor , attempting to- cure all manner of diseases , the people running after hfm in the streets , while the little boys and girls were frightened at him and ran away . He foresees much _dauuger , but writes in sood spirits . —Malta paper .

      Tub Hudson Bay _Compakt has a settlement about 700 miles north of St . Peter ' s , the population of wMch amounts to about COO persons . In consequence ofthe execution of a Chippewa Indian , at this settlement , for the murder of a white man , the Chippevras have resolved to commence hostilities' against ihe settlers . Disease ox _inE Coast of Africa . —A letter from Antwerp of the 2 Gth has the following : —In the course of last month the Kniphausen Einigheydt arrived in our port , after having lost half her crew in the voyage from the western coast of Africa . The vessel , crew , and the portion ofthe cargo supposed to besusceptiblc of contagion , were sent into quarantine , and subjected for a fortn igh t to numerous fumigations .

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      THE POLISH REVOLUTION . On the 29 th of November List , at seven p . m ., the Polish exiles assembled at the Union Tavern , Johnstreet , Oxford-street , to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of tlieir last glorious , though unfortunate revolution—a revolution , in the success of which , the whole of Europe took the liveliest interest , and which was rendered irresistible , even had the Poles abandoned all idea of national independence , by tho in . tolerable and incredible oppressions of the Emperor Nicholas , whose system of government is the very realisation of everything that is abhorrent to an enlightened- and liberal mind . Without " bating a jot , either in lieart or hope , " they rallied beneath one of their old revolutionary banners of 1830 , ' and

      still equally alive to their rights and their duty , aud not insensible to the incredible barbarities they have experienced , during the last fourteen years , at the hands of the gore- dyed Nicholas—they first solemnly proclaimed their imprescriptible right , —which they mill never renounce—to national independence— -then denounced the atrocious dismemberment of tlieir beloved country by the despoilers ol Europe , Russia , Austria , and Prussia ; and then unfolded the unheard of pcisecutions practised upon their countrymen and countrywomen , by the recent unparalleled barbarities inflicted upon the nuns at Minsk , in Lithuania , with the account of which the whole civilized world remains still hoi _.-or-stricken .

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      THE TORY . —MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS . EXAMINATION OP CAPTAIN JOHNSTONE . Tuesday afternoon at one o ' clock , alter the disposal of the night charges , Captain George Johnstone , the the master of the ship Tory , from Hong Kong , who preferred an unfounded charge of mutiny against seventeen of his crew , three weeks ago , and who was subsequently taken into custody himself , was again brought before Mr . Broderip , at the Thames Police Court . He stands charged with the wilful murder ol William Rambert _, chief mate , William Mars , second mate , and Thomas Reason , able seaman , during the

      voyage from llong Kong to London . Long before the arrival of the magistrate , more than 300 persons had collected iu the street opposite the court , who were all anxious to obtain admission ; but strict orders had been given to the police not to permit any one to enter the court , except the reporters for the public press , until the prisoner was placed at the bar , at which time the court was filled , but was not over-crowded . Towards the conclusion of the proceedings , which lasted five hours , the court was crowded to excess , and the heat was almost insupportable .

      The prisoner Johnstone , who has been in custody a fortnight , and is afflicted with erysipelas of the leg , on which account his examination was postponed last week , was brought from the Westminster Bridewell in the police van . He was in a debilitated condition , and unable to walk without assistance . He was lifted out of the van by two police-constables , and carried into the gaoler ' s room . On being brought into the court , two hours afterwards , he was accommodated with a seat . lie appeared to be very ill , and has become much thinner since his apprehension . __ The first witness called was Julian Cordlviallo , an Italian seaman , who was given into custody at Deal , brought to London in irons , and charged with mutiny , when the captain excepted him from the others , and lie was immediately liberated . Ou being sworn , he

      was desired by Mr . Symonds , the chief clerk , who conducted the examination , to confine himself to the circumstance attending the death of Reason . After a good deal of rambling , he stated that lie saw Tom Reason sitting on a sofa in the cabin , and the captaiii was asking him about a mutiny . Reason was hurt before this , and some physic was administered to him . The witness here began muttering to himself , in broken English , about his determination to tell the truth , and that he would not tell a lie for £ 20 , 000 . With some difficulty it was elicited from him that the captain had cut Reason with a sword , and that was the cause of giving him medicine . That

      was when the ship was crossing the line . On the last occasion when Reason was wounded he was very prudent and quiet , and the captain asked the boy Jemmy fov a bayonet , as the sword would not do . The bayon « t was brought to the captain , who immediately hit Reason with it on the chest , but witness could not recollect whether it was the larboard or starboard ? , idc . The man soon died . He did not li _* e above a quarter of an hour after he received the wour _. d with the bayonet . The corpse was hauled an dec _' x . The witness here began rambling again w a strange manner about his own country , English iaws , li ' . s poverty , and other matters , and the _magfesratc ' jireeted hi 111 to . stand down .

      William Dunn , the cook , was then called nnd sworn , lie is one of the men originally charged by the prisoner with mutiny , and brought from . Deal to London in irons . He said be could not lecollect dates , and then deposed as follows : —I was in the ' cabin when Reason was called down , about ha _& pasV twelve o ' clock one day , and saw the captain , with a bayonet in his hand , standing over Reason . I heard a noise , as if the captaiii was sticking the bayonet into Reason ' s head , and he was calling out for mercy , to which the captain said he would slimy him none at all . The boy Glover then came iuto the pantry where 1 was kept , and told me the captain hall killed Reason . 1 was sent up for some water , and when I came down into the cabin again Reason was ly ins on the captain ' s sofa . The captain had his hand on Reason's loft breast , and he told me Reason was dead . The captain took his hand off bis breast , and I saw two wounds which had been _liuuie with a bayonet , lYonl which the blood was oozing . I told tho captain he htid butter get some cotton to be put

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      on the wounds , the body of Reason was then taken out and laid at the pantry door , and five men were called to take him upon deck . The captaiii then ordered the body to he kid out on the forecastle . Next morning the body was sewed up in some canvas , and Spence , ( one ofthe . _apprentices ) read the funeral service , and the body was committed to the deep . Franklin Tucker , " one of the seamen who was brought from Deal in irons , said lie knew no more about the death of Reason , . except thathe saw his corpsebroughtupondeck . Iles . twhimgointothecabin alive about three-quarters of a . _i hour previous . He was then in a dreadful state , an J bleeding profusely from several wounds on the hc _^ d . The deceased was in the . cabin in the early part' of the evening ; witness did not then see any wounds or other injuries on his person . The deceased told him the captain had cut bim ..

      . David . Johnson , another of t ? . e _unfortunate seamen who . were put in irons at Deal , and _faSsety charged with mutiny , deposed , that on / She evenMig Reason went down into the- cabiu he came to aie , . in the forecastle , with a deep : cut across Ms browv I heard Julian iCordiviallo , ' the -: Italian , ' come _forward- _itod call Reason by-name to wait upon j & e > . captaa » in the cabin . Reason immediately left _me-and _wehSdown . When 1 saw him again he was _dotad , and flvo of the handsvvere carrying the body a loSg _thedec !{> Barry Yelverton , the apprentice , _# Jio has Seen

      erroneously described as tbe grandson' of the celebrated Lord _Avonmore , in one _morning paper , She Times , Wft « - next called . He is a _verf intelligent youth ; _a-nd on being ordered to state all' he knew relating to the death of Mara , the second _afrate . said I was in the cabin when the captain sent for Mars , and I saw lm cut at him . 1 now allude _ib > the last day—the day he died . lie was down _sevarftl days before that . J saw a large piece cut off his }* ead by the captain . 3 cannot tell how many days tliat was before he died .

      Mr . _Bioteip ' , About how _wiway ?—veconet _^ onr self . Witness s I think it was the day before—the - -mght time . I saw no more of Mars _ttie'day following ihat on which the piece was cut off life head . The _itfst day he was called into the cabin tflie captain cut * at him a good deal with a cutlass , W sword . At _tSkut itime Mars was all over blood . I _aould scarcely sea ] his face for blood , Mr . Symonds : Was he at liberty _^ oirin any way [ confined ? . _^~^^ _- : _^ ' Witness : _Ilehadfeeninjronsbefoi'a'thati I car * n _» t exactly say whether heV ' _hadxthevAandcuH _' s o ; t when he last came into- the' cabin , ' but hi ' _fi hands were _ini such- a position before his : body _thjft ) I have no doubt they were confined , Mara could not stand at

      thev _time , and one of She boys and Juil _™ tied his _liande up . to a beam , while the captain cu _4 at him ; Iga _? e Julian a wink to take the man down out of that . Mars was so weak- » t that time _heasuld not hold _Ji-is head up . He was taken down , rind lay _gaspinj on the cabin-floor tor a short timc _,. ivatil the captain ; ordered him to be taken upon decft . The captain koked at him and said , "Look at ths murderer , don't lie look like one ? " I can't ss ? who took hint' on deck , , but I heard the captain say , " Squeeze him , squeeze him , or I will squeeze you . " He was ta _& en on deck , and shortly afterwards * some one came down into the cabin and said Man ? was dead . Tl > e captain told me So go upon deck ,- and ascertain i ? he was dead . I went upon deck , and saw him _lyiag dead , abreast of the main-hatch > on the lavboarA aide , James _Glower , a boy , who said he acted as stewcnl ,

      was next sworn . He was examined last time n % - \ o the death of Efeason . He was now directed to ccafinc himself to- the death of Mars . He said that Maw was repeatedly called into the cabin , and _cvh by the prisoner with a sword , and that ho died ths same day . The deceased was cut about the head . When Mars was called into the cabin on one occasion he liad no _ltandcu _% on . On other occasions when he was called into the- eabin and cut he had irons on his hands , and could not have made any resistance if he had been so disposed . Julian _Cordivialls- was recalled , and appeared to have cooled down a tittle . He was directed to state what he knew about the death of Mara . He said the captain repeatedly ealled Mars " Brute , brute , brute , " and cut him with a sword . The last time he saw Mars was at the time the captain was gcttiug his dinner .

      Mr , Broderip : Where was he cut ?—Witness He was cut any way , any way wherever you could name , on de breast , de face , over his head , and all his fingers were nearly cut _ofl' ( sensation ) . I respected my officer just as much when be was in irons as if he was _* _. n duty . The captain ordered us not to call him any more Mr . Mavs , but call him Mars . He told me and the boy not to touch him with our hands , but to prick him up with the bayonet , and make him * to stand up . Then lie says . "Are you and Harry not able to make him stand up ? " and I said , " No sare . " " Well , then , " says he , " make him fast with a rope

      somewhere or other . " There was a cleet run into the deck , and there was a bag ot seizin ( old rope ) underneath the table—so he told us to make fast to this cleet . So we make fast to both Mars' hands , which were in irons together . We did it by the captain ' s orders , " or else , " said he , " you and the boy , little Harry , shall be punished together , " and we were afraid of him . While he was fastened up to the elect the captain struck at him with a sword , as if be was a porpoise . The witness here described the sword as a spad , and Mr . Symonds being at a loss to understand him .

      Mr . Broderip said : He is thinking in Italian , and endeavouring to explain himself in English . The Italian proceeded , and was told to use the English word for the cutlass . The captain while at dinner kept throwing the sword at Mars , and sometimes it stuck in one place and sometimes in another ; and when it fell he told little Harry to pick it up and throw it at him again , for he meant lo stick him all over . ( Great sensation . ) Well , then , after he had done so , and all the blood came from his body , the captain say , "Take that brute away—take him away —squeeze him . " The captain ordered him to he

      taken on deck , and the body was very heavy . The captain said , " What for don't you arm yourselves ? Go and call all hands to squeeze that brute—that rascal , or else I'll squeeze somebody else . " The captain sent mc up to tell all hands to squeeze him , but not for me to put my arm on him . 1 took Mars along with the rest to the main hatch , with the bayonet in my hand , but did not touch him . The captain sent for me back into the cabin , lie asked me if that function was done—if they had squeezed the man , and I say , " I don't know ; , sir . " At the time the boy came upon deck with a p istol in his hand . Mr . Humphreys : Which boy does he mean ?

      Witness : Barry lelvcrton , sir ; he came and said he was dead . The captain said a single twine is enough for him ; don't use so much twine . lie meant the canvas and twine to sew it up to bury him . Before Mars was squeezed up he asked for some water , and I brought him some . That ia all 1 know , sir . William Dunn , the cook , was recalled to state what he knew relating to the death of Mars , and he confirmed all the horyible details as related by the Italian and other _witnesses , but he save a mere

      distinct accou & k as ta what occurred when Mars was first called into- the cabin after the captain came aboard from Fayak aboafc the 25 th of Septum her . The captftjn ,. on his return to the vessel , then oil' tha island , sent for Mai's aad spoke to hinv asd immediately _sti-uek . haw with the cutlass , _audcuii his lacs , and he then told him to jump out of the stern windows of the cabin . Mans said' he could , 11 st , and was sent cat of the cabin . __ In a few miawtcs ho _vwi again scut for , and again _sut , baton , this occasion with more _severity . lie was _th-aa seat _forward t ( tho _-ftiracasfcite .

      Mil :. _Brcdenpi Whese was he- eat ? N » w ,. _bs _coanect . Witness . v The- first gash was . _acuess his _-ahislievs , c-Hi _bhe-right _sidfc of his- race—a _dreadful eat . The captain same upon dc « k with his . cutlass ia his hand after Mars went iato tho forecastle , and shortly afterwards he went below into th * cabin and went to bed . JSext morning the captain sent for Mars again . In tbe aftewioon J saw Mars in the cabin in handcuf & . The captaiii sent for Wm several times that evening ,, and cut him every time he , came down . The cap-tain s _* nt for him on the Mowing afternoon , andhe asked to be released form hishandcuft ' s . Thecaptain ordered the carpenter to take oft' the handentis , ami then took bim into his own cabin ( an inner one in the principal eabin ) . I heard a great _noisein the captain ' s cabin , ami then heard Mars breathe short and thick as if he was strangling . Then all was quiet . In .

      minute I heard a noise again , and heard the captain tell Mavs to jump out of the cabin window . Mars said he eonld not , and that he wished to be tried bj tho laws of his country . The captain said he should not , but should have board-of-ship law . Mars was then brought out of the captain ' s cabin into _tht other . lie was then bleeding , his eyes glared , ant be could scarcely speak . A few moans was all thai could be heard to issue from him , He was pm in irons , and sent on deck and laid on the mail hatch . In about three-quarters of an hour he wa : again brought down , cut with the sword , am again sent on deck with the blood streaming fron him . He was sent for to the cabin several time that evening , and cut up by the captain . His finger were cut to piece ? , the- joints wore hanging down and tln > hone was sticking out of his little I _' m _^ cr . 1 ; the middle watch that nighti ! 1 was sent " bv _tli

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      1 captain to tell the carpenter to put the best bowe anchor shackle on his head . His neck wis bared W let the shackle go over it , and the carpenter put iC on him . Mars complained that his neck was too sore to bear it ( the shackle , it ought to be stated , is of oOlbs . weight , made of iron ) . In the morning i sate the captaiii continually heaving n sword at mm while he was at dinner . 1 went down into tbe cabin , and Mars was groaning and bleeding . I » aw ths captaiii repeatedly heave the swore ? at tlie dy ing man . The sword frequently rattled against the cabin door , against which Mars was standing . The captain said

      he would cut him up in inches . The cabm door was opened , and 1 saw Mars with his head »» one side * dying . The captain ordered the hands to get a rope and haul him on deck and squeeze him , an * if they did not he would hare their Jives . Mars was-taken to tiie main hatchway , and a strand was put- J _> oun * I his boriy , but whether the men hove upon it I cannot say . He asked for a drink ot * water anil he ' . _vas given one , and a worm came up out of his throat- I went down into the cabin airnin , and shortly after- ' wards a man came into the cabin and told tliccapta _' tt he was dead . The body was sewed up in canvas , an _* taken to the gangway . * I read tlie pravcrs over liimy and he was buried .

      Franklin Tucker was a'again sworn and examined relating to the death of _Mai-3 , and he confirmed the last witness in all the material points of his evidence . Tucker was called into the cabin by the captain alter Mars was wounded , and the captaiii exclaimed . " Look at the brute , see what he has brought upon himself , don ' t touch him with yonr hands , get a rope ' s end and haul him upon deck . ' / 'Die caplain als _» ordered Mars lo be squeezed , and said if he was not well squeezed the witness should be . Tucker also stated , in _addition , that the savage order of the captain was obeyed , and that Julian _Corfifiallo-srast

      sent upon deck , to see if it was done effectually . A rope was made , taut round the body _ofthetHifortunate creatsre / and Tucker and _Jnmss Blaekdcn hove upon it as- hard as they eonld , White the mater was undergoing this horrible torture , She witness pa * his hand on h ' face and found he - was ik > ad . He went below ' and reported the fact to the _captain , whoasked if ihe mate had beesi \ vell _'* q , uee ; reti . ' Witness replied & _ast he had , and the captain _expressed his _satisfaction and ordered _Jhe irons So be removed _, from the bedy , and then buried . _iS _^ _JSymoadsT'JWdyou exnminchjs tody _?~ Witness I

      _didi-Mr .- _Symoiwte : ¦ Hew many _bounds _?"^ Witnc . « s : I _can't-aay Jmw amny _Wosiids-there were upon his b _«' y , for it was cut tar pieces . There Was hardly aniicfe of'it wiihout a wound . David Johnson was _agavn called , and said Hint her was callsd into i _& c cabi * with Reason and M . _irs _^ aad he was-so cut up that lie could scarcely crin Iter h : » berth ; Mr . ¦ _Broierip :- ' &> u wer \ y cut ' . Who by '—Witnew : By _Owjitnin Johnstone , sir .-Mr . Broderip _r-Whsre were you _WoiHlded ?—Witness : ; About _fthe head _and handfe , sir . bdlso received several wountib on-ths _shoulder . . Next morning I founth Mais- in * irons ; -and the _Mptain called for a sti-an & and a -braver , a ' ni made _a > kind of bow-string

      of it , and hove i . ' Maut round my neektilH'was nearly choked , and he called _a-rr . annamei French , and told him to put me in irons , : « nd said I'wjis-iniplio ' ed with Mara ; Mam was-titan sitting on an em Vf ~ spirit _cash . French , by the- direction * of the c .: pta _n-. took a sword , bent _st the _pcint , to the grindstone , 10 make the point straight and sharp . French brought it down again , and said that was-the sword vw rlie straight poi ' st : _The-oapta-int ? 5 _ien"took-th ' esv ; _rtf' aid cut Mars cvot the heed with Vs , and the blood _gusiied iWth very fiercely .- indeed . I'Was then ordered upon desk to my duty . Tha witness then gave-a _descrip--tttm of the terrible- _scsjieswbieJi took- place in ther cabin and upon deck , similar te » _the evidence-of the-Other _witnesses _aud-saii the body of Mars was

      shoeking : 5 o behold . Ihe head and breast ol * Mars were in suck a state _tlwit _it-waj impossible to lay a linger upoa _> the body without putting it upon a wound . The _witustt then proceeded to describe the intimidation _practised by the captain _Awards tl . ve crew to compel them to-torture poor Mars . Julias Gordiviallo told the _niiji it' they d _* l not _sipm' / . e _Mawa-nd _lfea-ve- upon the strand round ids body , the _cnptiBir would kill all ban lis . French was armed with _a-sward and a brace of _pistol , and Sinclair the carpenter , and the _apprentice-were alscarmed ' , to ovcrawa the crew , and compel them to pu'Jin execution the s : vmge orders of the captain .. When Mars was being squeezed- he looked very ghastly ... and the breath was not quite out of hifl-body . but he died soon -afterwards .

      _Stcphca Cone , an able seaman , with wounds on his ' person , who had _bees grievously mninml by tho prisoner . Ilia evidence jvas short-but expressive . Hesaid I _wacrin the cabin before tlie dealli-of Mars ? I saw the _csjitain imuconccut _at-his head with a sword , and he took off _apiece that size , your honour . { _iThe witnc _» placed o > : s-h < -indon the other . " denoting that the prisoner cut a-piece off the head of Mars-half the size of h : » hand . Mr . _Lrodaritu ' - Did-you" see- the p _^ nsonev do that , Cone?—» I < did , sir ; , he cut a pivee right 1 ofif hitt licad , and ' he-then slabbed him on difocmVnaTts of his bod } ' .

      'Jlhomas _Craip , a _seaman ,. whose _caso-bas excited so much _commissM-a * hm , ne : ct appeared "in the- witness boiv Tim paw- fellow ; it- will- be recollected , was mutilated in a allocking _manner-by tab-prisoner ; and _pistes loaded only- with-powderwere _discharged in his face by the _captain ' s _opaersr- _His-fivee- was much disfigured by _siuipowdoiv and his _fweheitd' said chee ' _JS were covered withi adhesive _gkwters . The muchdnj tired man was asked ' only-a f ew _' giwstions ; and statedithat he _was-cut'bytlss-captain , and- Jbat _hesawdim wound Mars while he . _vas- in irons ; ..- '¦ Mr ; . Broderip ah en asked Inspector _Etutis ifth ' erc were any more witnesses-J—Inspector- _l-. _vnns-snitl there were _several more in attendance ,, besides- ; the wounded man on board the hospital ship : \ Mr .. Broderip said ho hai >! Jeen sitting for nearly eight hour * , ind _thatr he co-aid 1 not' go ii > r : Her- into _, the case- thac nigbft . lie should _romaiKiithe prisoner until _Lwnorrow

      Ihe aivsoner , who leant his head upo ;> the edge of the doefe during the greater part ofthe _anamination , and _wliOj . when lie did-loo & up , seemed to betray _, much indifference to the appalling _recoils made by . the witnesses , was then led away from the dock by . two po ! 2 bemcnhi attendance-. The people in front of tW court remained till the police -aid left , when they set up a trcmeuuour yell . _TJUHOD EXAMINATION OF CAPTAIN _JOHNSTONE :. The "HvestigatlbH . relating , to ¦ tlie murder- _on-board ! the ship . Tory ,, from . Hong _- Kong , waa- _resumed on Wednesday , at tho _Thames-Eolico Court : Tho-prisoner , S- ' corge Johnstone , still , continues in- a- very . " weak _scafca ..

      The _ivitncssos-axainincdton _. _foi-mei'OGoagionshaverelated tlie _cii-cimstances- attending , tho _liDi-rible _murdcivs- of William Mars-,, the- seaond mate , and , Thoma > Reason ,. able , seaman ; . and those cases-have been very clearly , established prima facie .. On Wednesday the _witrossesexwnined . _ooi'fincd themselves chiefly to the _ciroumstnuies . _attending the death ofi Willir-. ni ] 2 it « iboiit , the chief mate , in Stsptember . _Jast _* when _the-ship was-near tho _Islamhuf Ascension . Stephen _Gons _^ vlioAVi _* _examined on 'lWdiiy , wn » again called ., llo-doposod as- follows-:: Ii \ n \» . put in , irons on the 2 / _il-d'of lasth . Septen : iter ,. for what rensca 1 knew not . It was bv Cnptais . _j ' _bhnstoso ' s _ordci-s _* Thomas Lee _Mid'TJiurattts- _Reason were _p-jt into irons at tliosaino _fcano ; _Wa-ivora _.-ill _. _eoiifihod on the main hatches .. Or , tho 2 £ _ta ,. ih > tho-a-.- _< aning . _Swns-putJhto the ship ' s mkon ton .

      Mr . Symoads-:- _lXil ymi ; _diirShg that . time , observe anything _dano to _RiHiihevfr _^ -W . _itiws * . _- .: Y . es , _» ir ; during the aightrof- the _astll _. _oi ? - Sente . mber 1 _sauv the ca p tain cub ltninbciit-, who . was . chief officer off the ship , with il- _outbids- on liis . _lioad it , _severei . _places . Humbert _w-.-is-pn _filie _qparton-dcok at the tiiso . Ml " . _Uradonip :: Was he in _irons-Ihcn ?—Witness 1 _TScs , sir ; : he bad a pair of : small handcuffs on . I saw the _japkun _CU _{ _, _j _* nn _wlwn he- wsv * " m _ivoiis _, and . when _hi-was _Irae . 2 slioaW" f _hiafc this , w is _lielVu-e twelve o ' hloalli at » ightt . _Atftes _twelxs . 0 ! alack the _Icaptaia- came- to- me whilo I : was- _lasted in double irons-Tn . _fchc _miaon top . He w . _3 s . _quiia soho !> at the time . . . and lis stabied rae in sevomu _placus knout my ! _body ami oi » my _ioatl ; sir . _"ftitih . tke loss , of blood ndbho ! at 1 !

      , a _-g- * pain _sjitt ' _i-r . cd _,. Ii knftw i _, bii . fur some _, _tiiiae quite _ihseasibte in , the ship ' s mizen , tap . After-1 _recove-t'ed ( " _? think it was _aitoti ! j touji in the . _roorn ' _iBg _,. a & ncitr as . I can . judge ) , 1 saw thecaptain oa ihe _tjuartcivd _' _OGlt . with 9 , au , ilass in . his hand ,, running after _RainlWEti _, _aacL he _jumpeth _overboard—oveir ihe sluip ' s _s _^ _ai-hoaici _qpwtcr . At * the same- _4 ime ss _ttaaibtrt _Ramped ? ovcaboard , the ? , ship was running before ths- wjuol ,, _widfc the y . rids _stifuave . We did not tower- _aay _btaA _,. ea- offer to _« et , any boat out is . pick the chief ? oftker _iuj .. _Miv-. _Bi'odeivp , _* Was naming tl > re . _wuTover to _5 » in . ?? no _hcBr-coop , or any thing ? w \\* iUiess . j Noth _^ g . ati all , si * : _TflBshipwas hiifrd _fcooa KUI & _, _justsuSfcicnti to shake the studding sails , awl thea she kev _& away her eourso .

      Two _J ' emale passengers on board i _& e Tory ,, named / Masy Blewitt and _Catherine Thompson , \ iewi nevh examined , as were also Thomas Glover , _seventies-Thomas Lee , seaman ; Thomas Gair _, seaman ; audi David Johnson , seaman ; all be ) on _^ in < j to Hie Torv . 1 heir evidence was tho same ill substiwice as tbat " off Unc , but ot winch _revolting _stateroenls we have already reported more than enough . The pvismiep was a _« iun remanded until Tuesday next , when tho evidence of the wounded man Morris , who lias up to . this time been lying dangeronslv ill i _>« hoard the Dreadnought hospital shin , will be taken .

      J He Mi;Mw.N At Nkwixoion. — On Wednesda...

      J he Mi ; mw . n at _Nkwixoion . — On Wednesday orenoon Mr . Carter , the coroner , and the jury who had been empanelled to inquire into the circumstances attendant upon the death of Daniel Fit / . - _sierald , re-assembled ivt the _I'eiveot-U public-house , High-street , Ncwington , for Ihe purpose of further prosecuting their inquiry . After hearing the evidence of Mr . Allum , Air . and Mrs . _Quennell , and sonic other witnesses , the jury returned a verdict of ' * Wilful Murder" against Samuel Quennell . The coroner 1 hen bound over Inspector Carter to prosecute , aid also the . _utuwses to give evidence m'a ' iiit the prisoner at the ensuing session of the Central _Criminal Court _*

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 6, 1845, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_06121845/page/1/