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      Monday. Free Trads.*—Tiie Protectionists...

      The Lush Maun . —If laws are to be made to grind the faces of the poor , we don 't see why the miller should not grind those who- execute the laws ; stall events , we give the following attempt at tha practice : — In our last w * mentioned the search for unregistered arms on the premises of William Buckly , the miller , at _BaUycloutrMoff , and « _va hare been furnished with the following particulars hy an eye-witness : —Sub-inspector _FaUon having sot information that Buckly had a quantity of arms concealed in his mill , provided himself with a warrant and proceeded to Mute , ordered bead constable Green to turn out a certain number of the constabulary under his command , and marched at their head to Ballyclonghduff , where , dispersing the men , sd that r . o one could escape , he proceeded to Buddy ' s house , and showing him the warrant , ashed him to give np the double-barrelled gun and the other arms mentioned in the warrant . Buckly replied if the police were drawn off he would surrender thein . This Mr . Fall jn refused J _^ _. t _t _^ _^ _-Kb _** l _^ ii _ t 2 _&&

      to do , and on finding that the head-constable and tour police wcre on the water-wheel searching it , he cried out to his son io lift the sluice and drown them all . This young rascal proceeded to do so , and was in the very act of _efectiog it , when one of the police ( sub-constable _i ' ennell ) sprang forward , and , placing his carbine at his _i-resit , swore he would drive the contents of it through him if he did not desist . Had this diabolical attempt « 0 Meded , it would have caused the deaths of _hcad-constaolc Green and four men with him on the wheel , where the arms were found .

      Whats sauek pob the Goose is _satjse for the _Gaxder . —The _"Sxtiox" axd the _Attoeset-Gexebal . —The Nation saw no reason why-Patrick O'Higgins should not bo served np to the O'Connell repast with sedition sauce , but saw that the Nation is served np with thesanie sauce to the Attorney-General ' s table , there is tremendous howling . It appears that Jonathan Ileun , the very ablest advocate at the Irish bar , was retained by the € rown for the prosecution of Mr . Duffy _bzfore the informations were sworn , and upon Mr . Duffy applying io retain Mr . ilenn , that gentleman announced the fact that he had been already retained by the Grown . Xow , great as onr hatred is of all prosecutions and persecutions for the expression of opinion ,

      we aver , without fear of contradiction , that but for the servility of the Irish press , aud but for its baseness aud prostitution when th * English Chartists were prosecuted , the law of _seditioa , or rather the whim cf authority , would now be an obsolete thing , a mere remnant of ancient absurdity . O'Connell and the Irish press ferrctted us out for prosecution , laughed at our suil ' _erings , and denounced us as traitors . They have each in turn had a taste of the sauce and HOW DO TIIEY LIKE IT XOW ? Not a word about all the ablest counsel being retained against the Chartists . Not a word about _ packed juries and bloodv-minded judges . So , no , it was all right tlten _.

      but now : that the f » x has got amongst the Irish _seese , -Mr . _DuiTy tells us that nothing ever has been doae or ever can be done for the liberty ofa country except bv the publication of seditious libels . Well , _taea , whydid ' ntMr . Duffy publish Patrick _O'Higff as "' _sed ! tioasiH » L especially when he had the opinion of the _Liberator that it was tho very MOST SEDITIOUS PUBLICATION he had ever seen . We must presume , according _to'Mr . Duffy ' s mode of arguing , the greater the sedition the greater the _bsnaSt to Irish liberty . Again , then , we ask , why did he not publish it ? Two young Sheers , two of the most noble spirits that _Irelaud ever gave birth to , were hung in lT * . _^—

      • Who _feara to talk oi 'S 3 . By the brutal law of Edward it required two witnesses to prove an overt act of treason , the father of those two young men , bursting with loyalty , brought a bill into ' the Irish House of Commons to make one witness sufficient , aud scarcely was the Royal assent dry upon the parchment , when the two sons were _dragged from the dock to the prison , and there hung , _emb-jwelied before they were dead , then beheaded , and after death their bodies divided into four quarters , according tothe law made by their own father . Moral : If men will dig pits for others , or assist tyrants in making laws , when they fall into the one , or are entrapped into the other , they have no one to blame but themselves , and should lie without murmuring in the bed they have made far others .

      The persecution of O _ilygins is but a poor return for the manly indignation ofthe English Chartists at tae prosecution of O'Connell , Duffy , Gray , Barrett 3 nd Co . Three of those worthies have the management , we w er e about to say t he command , of news papers ; aud the other lias the coutroul of the liberal press , and yet not one has dared to mention the name of _O'lligguis except to damn him . Mr . Duffy has printed three columns in the Nation upon Irs own case : if he had printed _oue upon O'Higgins' we would publish every lino of his , but he must be just before we are generous .

      TUESDAY . Fsse Trade . —Still the war rages between the Zand and money slave-drivers , asd in order to show that -: Ue Protectionists are resolved upon fighting the League with their own weapons , we give the followin ; advertisement , duty free , from a protectionist

      joum : — The Mi > _TFACirsiSG or Votes . —Under this title the SxssiV Express of Saturday has the following - — - "The Anti-Cora Law League have commenced their labours oi _purchasing freeholds in Sussex . Xaeir plan is to invest _asypsrsdu who will pay _tham £ 63 with a county vote . We , however , are in a position to supply Protectionist * wi : h _tae qualification for £ &) , being £ 3 less ; and therefjre any person who may be anxious to become a voter : _A > r East Sussex can attain his object by remitting us dnt _saount , with his propar name and address . We on it to be _perfectly understood that we have no _consa-i _. ia whatever in this undertaking with any society ; eut through private arrangement , and with a deter . librarian to meet the _League with their own weapons , we have placed ourselves in the _position of securing to any _l"rorectioai--: , for th * sum named , the right * of a county vote . "

      That ' s what they call in Ireland shooting a man with his own gun . Xuw we'll make a bit of a prophecy about this question of free trade , a » d we won ' take so long a time as the limes did for the fulfill ment of its prophecy , we take short of a week , audweprjphecy thatthe freetraders will be marvellously settled at Peel ' s Tersion of free trade , while the landlords won't nibble at the bait . The landlords _apnsar to have made up their minds that the free _triers are to have a bite out of their "haunch , " and that in return the landlords are to have another _sop * e on the bellies of tha _poor—thatis , that tha poor ' s kief * uud is to be transferred from the rates to the

      C 0 _"n 53 lidated fund . _Thesquires , however , think that the relief would be but Irish salvation , as they'd liave _ts contribute their proportion to that augmentation of the consolidated fund out of which the support of the p- ? or was to come . But as we cannot dismiss this _suujzci with a mere commentary in our summary , we will content ourselves at present by merely _observia » that Protectionists and Anti-monopoli-ts would agree , without 3 manaar , to doom the last reniaiu-\ ig _vestagc oi the pririlege . of the p aupers , was it not from fear of that vengeance which the poor oppressed will one dav assuredly tak « upon the rich oppressor . We shall wait with feverish anxiety to see what part the poor are to be made to act in this new protection

      crama . . , . , Ths _Cokv Trade . —We have no change to note since ve _^ terdav ' s c o mm e nt under this hea d , with the excep _t ion of the terrible denunciations which appear in _tiiis morning ' s papers , by the farmers , oi tne _subonied _coadjutors ofthe plunderers of labour , ooru coatiaues to tumble like " rolley poiiey" on the wall , aad all the _( iucen's subjects , and all the _Queen * men , won't make " rolley poliey right again . - _\ _Lxst MiitKET . —Worse and worse is all that we havo to note in this department of jobbery , lhero

      K in sidte of ministerial confidence , the Timet assurance and the League ' s effrontery , some evil genius Dreading over the pockets of thegrubbers . lhey all _appear to ba buttoned up , and it will take a 3 _iasuing tailor to open them for a bit . ' Cna CmcciJ * . —The Queen and the royal babies h % ve had a difference as to the terms of the royal _soes-h , the ladies of the household have _bnwg h _; wbui a mutiny in the nursery , and the Queen says that she'll havea HEADACHE _onthe 22 _ndu toe _apeeii is not modified to the taste oi the childreu . the mice ol

      Tae Council of His K / . yal _Highnes s I ' TVak * for the Duehy of Cornwall has _presentedIn _dwauffli of £ 10 il to the Royal College ot _Onymistri . Ki > s Pratie AGAU .-Whata magical eh xt tlie fetter and restoration of "tittle John" had upon tlie Irish Murahv ' a . Not a word was heard ao , ut lii = » ibjesiv and all the diseases with which he was _hcing _WEsani _' ed when the Whigs came back to power ami the- ji . _Voers hoped to come back to patronage ; nut , now that it is all up with them , the tori * eralioii Canon-tee coutinue to receive the mostj _fnguuoi ateouaa of the relapse of his Majesty . Ihese phiU . itLroste no longer conliue themselves to a wartn » r a third or a hall' loss , —we learn now th-u tureefmriUi of the family is dead and rotten ; and it nmsev does not come at once for the emp loyment oi tlie _p-xt , all Irelaud will be a _wilder-icss . V «** . — Will any of the Committee starve i Musha , nor tat devil a"

      one . . .. -.. _Fokeios . _—CiunTiiM in Prussia . — In one o . _m-O'CouiWs letters alter his return irom the toutaast _, he stated the fact of the Prussians , _tlinwish _tueirMveralincon . _aratc-d bodies , having _deiiiauueu a _tecstiiution from the King about sa years ago , auc that the morer was laughed at . Two years su _isei-ueatly he _brought it forward again and had a detect miuoritv ; after the Chartist petition was presented , Chartism in Prussia made a rapid progrcs * and when the same proposition was recently pro-P * _c « _u the mover had a large majority iu it * favour , _a » _-u-joii the reasons being submitted totlie Aut _*> _- "a * -, he condescended to vouchsafe tin ? followm _* ** M , through his representative , the Berlin . _«•*<<

      -THE KINO Or _PBCSSU AS !) HIS _PEOPlfc . _^ _H-Sirfhi State Gazette gives the _followimg as the _reiser i _ _iae by the government to the demands addressee to it 1 y the _llict ofthe province of Prussia : — ' 1 Particivation ofthe lay members of religious _comoaai-ieiiu ihe discussions and resolutions oa _cccleiiast :

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      _ealaffiura . —Reply ; The government has already decided that laics should be called to form part of the first general synod which is shortl y to be convoked ; But as it haa bean determined not to accept any proposition on tho changes to beintroduced into the organuatioa and constitution of the Protestant church except from the ecclesiastical authorities themselves , it cannot decide anything relative to the future _o-rganisatien of the provintial synods , b » foie having heard the _propoiitioas of the general gynod . 2 * Amelioration ofthe revision ofthe codes and the introduction of the jury—Reply : Considering _^ the importance of the question , preparatory studies of great extent are required , and they are not yet terminated . The Diets are therefore _recommenced to wait yrith confidence the result of the deliberations of the competent _authori-^ . tf _^ _-T _^ _T- _^? r b _»^^ t ¦

      ties . ... Meeting of the _Statas-Geunral , and proclama tion of a constitution for the whole kiugdom . —Reply _TheDieti , in their address of ilarch lo , lSio , having expressed their confidence in ths promise which w « made in 1 S 13 , relative to the development of their constitution , we do not see why they mako mention of the petitions addressed to them on this subject . We thank the minority for having shown the inutility of such a proceeding . 4 . Publicity of the discussions in the Diets , within certain limits Reply : W » refuse to comply with tha prayer of this petition . 3 . To communicate to the Diets at least six weeks before the opening ofthe session the propositions which the government wishes to bring forward . —Reply : We shall com . municate to the Diets such propositions as wc please , and when we think it advisable . 6 . To reduce the amount of ten years of territorial possession , required as one of tho conditions of eligibility for the representatives of the towns in the Diets , and in general to increase the circle

      of eligibility in towns . —Reply : Peremptory refusal . 7 . Reform ofthe legislation relative to the press , and less severity in the censorship . —Reply : The complaints of the petitioners are anything but well-fouuded . The press , in fact , needs an _amslioration , but only to prevent in a more efficient manner the transgression of the limits which are imposed upon it , in the interest of public order , and of the reputation of private individuals . S . Emancipation of the Jews . —Reply : The government is buried with a general system of legislation for all things relating to tha Jews in a civil as well as a religious paint of view . 9 . To replace the duties ou the grinding of corn and the killing of cattle by a direct tax . —Reply : _Xot at present ; hut the government will see if it be possible to lower by degrees the amount of those _imposts and to prepare a general modification . 10 . The Diet proneunces against protective _duties , aud demands the free entry ot iron into the province . —Reply : In the changes which are to be effected in the tariff , the

      government will take into consideration the interests ol tbe whole kingdom . As to the _frea entry of iron , it cannot be granted . " This thanking of ' the minority reminds U 3 very much o f fri e nd _Stur ge ' s abandonment of the chair a nd conf e rence at Birmin gham , _declaring that the minority had all the wisdom and justice on their side . However , be that as it may , die Autocrat of Prussia may rest assured that men with arms in their hands , are not going to be governed by the Berlin State Gazette editor , with a goose-ouiil in his haud ; for , as sure as the sun rises and sets , so sure will the enlightened mind of Prussia give to Europe the next signal of constitutional advance , unless , indeed , our taarter twinkles in the firmameut before .

      _A-voiheu Royal Tyrast . — W e g i ve t h e followinc specimen of the terror that ever haunts the guiltv mind . Cromwell was afraid to sleep two nights iii the same place , and the tyrant _Meholas , as will be learned from the following sketch , fears least the very walls of his room should hear _hia dreaming grunts for blood and cruelty . There IS great hope for genius and justice when tyrants tremble before their thrones , while there can be but little respect amongst foreigners for the English , who allowed the

      same devil to be teasted iu _iheik laxd while their own poor were starving . But it was the press , the base , b lood y , and brutal press of England that bruti . tied the English mind whilst smothering the moans of Poland , and the waitings that were only heard in the desert , because their creator was the guest of ouk o . £ ek . v forsouth . We rejoice that this tyrant cannot sleep quietly in his bed . "We wish , from our souls , that the chambermaid or lacqueys had poked him into the leather bag , and sent him as a welcome offering to the inhabitants of the wilds of Siberia : —

      The _EupEsoa of Russia . — " A letter irom _, \ _enica , ' says the _Constitniionnel , " speaks of the extraordinary precautions taken hy the Empuror Nicholas to escape all attempts that might be made against his life . Ou big arrival at Padua he himself visited the apartment in which he was to sleep , striking the walls of his bedchamber with a hummer . He then caused the mattresses of tbe bed to be removed and replaced hy a leather mattresses , which was fiiied with hay under his eyes . The _Emperor refused to taste _axy of the dishes prepered for

      his supper , aud called for his travelling case , out of whieh he took a bo-tle of Malaga wine and a cold roast fowl , which he shared with couut Orlotf . At Venice the public expected him with much impatience at the theatre , but he remained in the bottom of the box , and could scarcely b : seen . Count thiol ? sat iu the front , attired in a rich uniform . When the play was over , four carriages drove up to the gate , and nobody could tell which was the one intended for the Emperor . The same precaution was observed when he left Venice , and no oue could tell whether the Emperor repaired by sea or land to Trieste . "

      Thank God for that . What honest man would live am hour if he was _obliged to hammer the braius out of the walls for fear he should talk , of his own misdeeds in his sleep . More of iite _Amiaboiiy op thk " Vet" of the English _Pnuss . — " The Emperor Nicholas left Vienna by the Olmutz road , in t h e mornin g of the 2 n d inst . He had a conference of several hours with Prince Metternichon the 1 st , and dined in the evening with the Imperial family . His _Mtjesty paid , on the 1 st , a visit to the Duke of Bordeaux , who had just arrived from Frohsdorff . Our own private letters refer to ( in Russia ) a most extraordinary

      proceeding . It appears that the brother of Madame _Kiss i liff , lady of the Russian Minister in Paris—a man of immense wealth and inSuence—had been exiled " towards" Siberia , by order of the Emperor . His sister' ( Madame Kissiliff ] , when she heard of the outrage perpetrated on her brother , remonstrated so forcibly , that she received an order to join aud accompany him in his exile ! Immediately on hearing these facts , M . Kissiliff sent orders by express to arrest the _cutyrits ( if we must so call them ) ou their route , and _release them from a punishmentso odious . * Further / says our correspondent , ' wa know not o f this unique affair . '"

      WEDNESDAY . Fkee Tran s Agaix . —The Times , true to its calling , and determined to have its " Daily Bread" whoever shall fall short , belabours the Dukes of Richmond aud Buckingham even more sordidly aud vulgarly than Cobden and Bright were wont to receive chastisement from the Thunderer . ___ The article of this morning is so truly descriptive ofthe conduct of a thorough-paced bawd , after she iiuds that out and out prostitution " 13 to constitute her future stock iu trade , that we should like to place the w e before our _rea-lers , but for her im . aeuje length . There i s one passage which so bespeaks the virtue of patriotism that we _ciHiuot avoid quoting it . The Times say . - ; , " Once let everybody in England get his mouthfniof bread , ami there is an end of our glorious constitution , which it now appears was framed with the

      express intention ot preventing so horrid a consummation . " We would ask the Times , who is as hopelessly ignorant upon the subject of free trade as Joe Hume is of arithmetic , whether the free traders , with the commanding power of machiuery , are just the men .. to allow of such a catastrophe as that ofthe _cjnstitution being overthrown or even weakened by so dire a calamity as that of every labouring m . wi having enough of bread . Ths Thunderer argues that the measure of free trade will not receive opposition from tha Lords because all the old " fogies" are not to be found upon the public hustings . This is purely Times reasoning , for we might with equal propriety _anrue that it would not receive much support in the Cuiiiuions , as we find its advocacy on the hustings confined to Cobden and ilis fiddle . By this day week wc shall be able to have a hearty laugh at Great Jove when he runs away from his own Thunder .

      Moxey _Maiikht . —Notwithstanding that the Government Commissioner still continues to " operate " up » n tho patient , the disease is but little abated , and svmp _tomsof decline have become more and more manifest . The reasons , it is true , are now peeping out as Parliament is about to meet , and when they cannot much longer be concealed , and when , notwithstanding the polite reserve of the "fascinating _-n / uicier" and chief bookkeeper , the minor clerks on _'Cliaii" _* are _beg innin g to '' smell the rat " as he comes to the mouth ofthe hole , long as the tunnel may be . _Texis and Mexico , then , are the rat-holes , and Republicanism is the great rat ; but of this under its proper head . PiascE _Auskkt axd his _Laxulords . — We ta k e t h e _ioilowing paragraph from the 2 Yi _«« - _" —

      Wc are authorised to give the must express contradiction io the statement put forth at the late vestry meetin-, at _Windeor , thatthe lute King George II and his _XLerz uniformly paid rates for the Flemish Farm _suchTeiug _directlycontraryto thefacIs . Itu true that when this tarm was bt to a tenant the rates were paid in c _uial course , but since the tenant quitted _possessioi . _K _^ _Uie form has uniformly bee" in _* e hands of the Crov ' _n andno rate , tare ev _. r since been paid Wehare _U-o * .. n , aim" - ' . memomiagreed to Ht m : _Ttufh \\ _7 oyal _SihJL * intention to pay a _Prcro- ' auve ofthe C . owacan . iowar . se . _w wis there ever such rubbish as the above ? _wut _' tS ifmenibersof the Royal famiy purchase _yJSiSB . tta result _niust be . that the paupers i

      • Yw _ii-iti-di lose their title to relict . _» _<»«** _- ' ¦ ; tVi SS G _« the Third held Flemish lam he th ? i _I „ _noor-ntes , but when a tenant subsequently iM i » ! Sc ™ 2 nt ) paid poor-rates . This adm . sl ? _t Iv £ made to _sVrve a double purpose , _hnatly , Sl _1 f the _Siiiles of political economy , and secondone oi tne _pnnwi - i j _pnnruiencc . We are told b the _W _^ g _^^^^ _fteBeM . u e _population already p « _£ _* . _^ P _^ _SSiD _^ _t _eta _ItolY _* . _Seemly , U

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      will o p en the q uestion _, whether the ; Royal Family ought to hold any land , or whether they should not _rathtr , as the p rincip a l p au p ers , be d ep endent u p on an annual yote of supply . Now , we contend for it , that a monarch has no right whatever to any particle of p r ope rt y b eyond whatis annu a lly vote d b y a Hou se of Commons , ' representing the whole people ; and small as the sin may be of refusing to pay poor-rates upon one farm , it is to the surrender of all the Crown Lauds precisely what the defence of Gatton and Old Sarum was to the Reform Bill . These minor questions are the first peep into the show-box , and presently the _astonished gazers , when they see the vast possessions of the Crown aud the arstocracy—the race-courses , the deer-parks , the preserves , the fo- * > i inn

      rests , the sheep-walks , the exercise < Touads , with mansions for horses , the Commons enclcsed , and all th e re s t of the em b ezzlement , —will exclaim , " Eh ! dearee me , why ever should we go to America , to Poland , to the Baltic , aud all them there places for our DAILY BREAD , when we could have it at home but for all them there kings and lords and ' squires , and bishops and parsons , and guardians and gamblers , and fit horses and dogs , and deers and pheasants , and rabbits and partridges , and even varmin—that alt , by G—d , is better protected by law nor we poor devils be , that all is talking so _leeliii " _loikealuut . Eh ! d d if it baint better for w » to h ave land our s elv es , and se e if we b ai nt b etter _wi'tho land aud wi ' owt them there tomfoolery than in owt the land and all that there rubbish . "

      Pe r h ap s such ch a n g e as i s r e ferred t o a b o ve m ay be also referred to in the following squeak , which wc take from the Morning papers : — Another Sigx . —At the Gloucester sessions , on Tuesday last , Mr . Craven Berkeley , M . P . fer Cheltenham , objeeted to an increase of the expenses of the county , on the ground that '< a great change was about to take place in the agricultural , intere 3 t ; " and Earl Fitxhardiuge observed , that ' they could not shut their eyes to the fact that seme great change would take place . " Possibly Karl _Fitzhardiuge does uotcare how soon .

      IREUXB . _Coxciuatiox Hall Jugglbrt . —Look here , my friends—you see that plain sheet of paper ; there " , look at it , it ' s what the clumsy old jugglers used to turn into my lady ' s table , my lady ' s _bedstead ; now you see it ' s an arm-chair—now you see it ' s a fishim ; boat , to go a fishing in—now it ' s my lady ' s nightcap , now it's a baby's cradle . Now , ladies and gentlemen _, this here was the old rubbish that them there old pickpockets was in the habit of deceiving honest folks with—but see here , you see that ? JS o . Law , Mr . Showman , what is it ? Eh , my little dears , it's nothing at all yet ; but look now , there ' s ould Ireland Oh dear , how beautisome . ' —there ' s Catholic e mancipation ! there ' s justice to Ireland ! There ' s the Repeal of the Union—there's the Precursors ' Society , to see if we « an do without it . There ' s a

      Jury law ; you sec twelve men there upon your right , that won't find no Irishman guilty whatsoniever he does . There's a great sight for you—there's the " glorious , pious , and immortal memory , " in a glass of the BoTXE Water . There ' s Federalism . Eh , whatever is that ? Mu 3 ha , but that ' s a quare thing ! And there , ladies aud gentlemen , there ' s a great sight for you—there ' s the " Holy Protestant Alliance ! " And ia that all , Mr . Showman ? No , my little dears , one more . Look here ! Oh , how beautisome . "What's that , Mr . Showman ? THAT'S THE HINT , MY LITTLE DEARS ! ' . Well , so Dan has actually offered to merge the ltopeal into the Holv Protestant Alliance , though , of _cuuree , Im says in the outset , that he never will abandon Repeal ; but theu he'll join the Holy Protestant Alliance for ould Ireland ! Oh , you humbugging old rascal !—is it to g-pt rid ofthe Holv Protestant Alliance

      that the brave Imli have been struggling for centuries !—and but for you they'd have done it in 1831 , in 1 _S-K 2 , or in any year from that to ISiO ! The Youxg Libsrator . —The second Daniel , it appears , is to be returned for Dundalk upon the Repeal interest . In 1 S 34 we had 43 Irish Repeal members , a staff that could have shaken tyranny from its throne , and could have carried every beneficial measure for Ireland , even tothe Repeal . Let us see , now that another Repeal election farce is to be enacted , what has become of the Master Quills in tlie Repeal wing ., Dan has been silent and has said that it is treason to mention the subject in the House . His son Maurice says ditto . His sou John echoes it . His son Morgan has a snug place for life and dare not mention it , and gave up the county of Mcath for

      the bone . His son-in-law , Fitzsimon has a very snug berth and gave up the county of Dublin for the fat . His son-in-law , Charles O'Connell gave up Kerry county for his share of the pickings . His brotherin-law Finn , the be s t of the lot , resigned Kilkenny county for " a consideration . " Carew O'Dwyer evacuated Drogheda upon a like INSULT . Sir Ni ch ol as Fitzs i mon , the potbelly police justice , abandoned the King's county for his share of the dripping . All the others who would not answer for the tool box have either been denounced as the greatest enemies of Ireland , or whipped to the Conciliation Hall , to whistle in chorus with the great juggler—to live in hope for the next day's sale . Now this is a picture so faithful and true , with the names _rf the traitors who deserted ibr pelt " , that no mortal man can either deny itor justify it .

      Dcffv and tub Saso . v Law . —Dun didn't open his lips upon Duffy ' s sedition at Conciliation Hall , lest he might be answered with tho cry of " _Musha , be gorra , but its worse nor Paddy O'Higgins ! " " The grand jury were to find true bills of indictment against Mr . Duffy yesterday . We say were to find t h em , for the business ofa Saxon grand jury is to find true bills against every Irishman that goes _b- _'fore theni . This reminds us of rather a curious anecdote . In 18-32 , when the Liberator enrolled the Irish Volunteers , and exacted a guinea each " smart money , " instead of giving "bounty , " honest Jack Lawless and Feargus O'Connor were amongst the first who enlisted ; and noon the same day Mr . Lawless dined with Mr . O'Connor , when Lawless , shoving his fingers through his hair , as was his custom when

      anything amused him , exclaimed , with an oath , " By G— _, O'Connor , this isthe funniest thing I ever heard . The Colonel of the Irish Volunteers has registered a vow in heaven NOT TO FIGHT ; and by G— , I think the Colonel of the Irish Volunteers should fight every man that asks him . " It is the duty of an Irish grand jury to find bills against all Irishmen . Oh , if the _A ' ation had dealt fairly , justly , and honourably , by our Chartist friend O'Higgins , what sympathy Mr . Duffy would have had from this side of the water ! What resolution ** -, what meetings , what addresses , and what leading articles ' We would have adopted his sedition , and thus tested the difference between PURE Saxon law based upon bold opinion , and Saxon law emboldened by the _subserviencv of the Irish press . _»

      Thk Grubbebs . — T he Iris h grub be rs a re to meet at Conciliation Hall before they come to London in a body to give the POOR LITTLE FACTORY CHILDREN cheap bread . Tub Rest for the week was £ lti 4 ; many districts having refused to contribute anything in aid _ofgovernmcit prosecutions . We rejoice that the Irish people are at length beginning to open their eyes . Horrible axd Brutal Attempt op Molly _Maquirb to _DBsinor Humax Life . — "A mos t diabolical and wicked attempt to murder a highly respectable family residing in the city of Oxford was made on " the nig ht of Friday last , betweeu the hours of ten and eleven o ' clock , but most providentially

      frustrated . It appears that the policeman on duty on tho above evening observed at a distance something attached to the front sitting-room window of Mr . ° Samuel ( Juarteriaaine , who resides in Alfredstreet , High-street . He immediately went to tho window shutter and took it down , when he discovered that it was of a combustible nature . He then took it into tho houso , and to the horror and consternation of the family it proved to bo a petard , containing three and a half ounces of gunpowder , bound very tightly round with paper forty folds thick , aud covered with string which had the appearance of having been dipped in turpentine , the whole weighing eleven ounces and a half . It was attached to the shutter by

      an awl similar to those used by harness-makers anil shoe-makers , having the mark of wA . \ -tXread round the handle ; and upon further _investigation it was discovered that the fusee had been lighted and had partially burnt the shutter , but fortunately , owing to the materials being damp , it did not explode . If it had , the consequences must have been dreadful in the extreme , as Mr . Quartermainc had all his family and a friend at his house that evening , who were sitting in the front parlour . Uimsolf and daughter were occupy ing seats close to the w ' ukIoav , and , had the explosion taken place , they could not have possibly escaped with their lives . A reward of £ 100 has been offered for the discovery of the miscreant , and

      we hope ere long that he will be brought to condign punishment . Mr . Quartermaine is a highly respectable livery-stable-keeper , and ia well known in the sporting world . " , „ , We really beg Mrs . Maguire's pardon ten thousand times . Wc extracted the above from the Times newspaper of this morning , and from tho base assassinlike attempt , and from seeing it in the Times , we presumed that it _liiust have been perpetrated by Mrs . Maguire or some of her numerous family , b ut look i n g over the paragraph again we find that it occurred in the very seat of science , literature , civilization , christiauitv , and the arts ( Oxford)—ft was a lark of some " of the high-spirited Collegians . We would recommend tho heads to make immediate application

      for a sTiuxuEXT _Coerciox Bill . Fokeiox . —Simix . —The Old Bloodiiouxd . —Narvaez was compellvd to admit in his speech , as a legisl a tor , that he had acted illegally , hut that necessity , the tvrant ' s prolific plea , had rendered it necessary for him to punish the editors of the Clamor Publico . We wish that we had a _Narvaez in Ireland to nerve the arm of our Irish cotemporaries . The same tyrant has banished Prince ' Don Henrique from the kingdom for having written a liberal address , but the Cortes seem perfectly satisfied with every act of the dcvi s tvrannv , upon being assured that his _Holisess the Pone had written a loving letter to the Queen o Spain , in which he addressed her as- " My beloved _daughter . " There is one portion of the tyrants speech so tunny and so characteristic of that ascendancy which tyrants think they _Jiold oyer nature herself ,

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      I that we cannot for bear * _onMi « i ,: _»^ the Queen ' s iiiam _^ _hPaffi _' _W - , / _" ? _diking of las yet si _gnifiedher _deslretoeontrJ 5 _'y _^ , m noi ters have not _thowMit _^^ ' _^ _- _^ _y- _^^ _- bosom any _mffi _, » T iT in A « _- General _Narvaez _Ksst fl _. M' T 1 rec _<»™ e ad Cupid and all his dariS » llor _^^ tion of _wnonn cMnenti _^ Stei ! - ? _^ abov 8 up the following _natSai _a » t > 5 , 7 _^^ M ™ _- _* Queen at the _apShing ffS £ b m ' _» _^ Do you ever bethinking of young men Confess the truth I charge w Korifyedoits * terribleSh > ' You should thiuk of none but your elargy When under tho clothes you are going to repose Aud find wicked notions intruding , P The virgin invoke , give your stomach a stroke it s as good as any charm . When _siiiking forest be _fhesoln ., 1 words _express 4 ueen of Angels between us and harm . America , Fbanob axd Exglaxd . —So then wo S and E _, fh _^ n k B mi of tho _Mligerent group ana that tho nun-intervention ehost stood _& _™„ M ntl _? m tho ft" *™** - I' iw _appearsH K J _^!? . L _A PP" 2 »««' _tf it «** not appear in the ku i 1 """

      _™« , _Bueeen 0 I _iiursuay next , th a t th e a nnexation ot lexas is after all to be the casus belli , ( the cZe of war ) between Monarchical Europe and RepubS America , Elsewhere will be found the correspondence Sr _/ 1 _^ th 6 Freuch raini _3 t » r of waSd _Ai _^ r _' ? , ' ! * _h"W *«! , andt ! _j 9 _trance of Lord Aberdeen , that communications ofa like nature had been made to his deputy at the same place . Too raising the English militia of 40 , 000 and an American militia of 200 00 d , is _nowiperfectJy explained , but still there is a diftorenco betweeu tho order to raise militia and the doing of _it-The mind of this country has undergone a tremendous change since men allowed themselves to be ballotted for like slaves mercenaries , and cut-throats to fight for the privileges and properties of their oppressors . Wo trust that the cry of

      NO VOTE , NO MUSKET _, will Hy through the laud like wildfire . Wo early announced tho importance to America , and to the dem ocra tic force all over tho world , of tho _non-interveution policy . No doubt tho Autocrat of Prussia will be very "lad , " uxdeb _bxistixo circumstaxcss , " to join the league of Kings against the _league of _» u _tT Upon tho Queen ' s fir s t vi s it to the Kin g of the h rer . ch , we announced the real intention of that \ _-j sit to be tho formation of such a league for the proservation of those silly privileges and dangerous powers which wisdom and knowledgo are now attacking on all sides , and before which they must , sooner o r l ater , " drift as snow before tho wind . " M . Guizot s doforence to the wish of the maioritv is verv

      _statesmauhke . He » ays that although France and _fcnslaiid will consider their wishes RESPECThULLi , yet they wont tolerate their fulfilment ; and , knowing that they can _"opbratb" upon the bneches pockets of Mr . Houston , the President of Texas , M . Guizot , in his practicallove of democracy ia satisfied to consider him as a MAJORITY against the Republic of America and 'Mas . Tho cunning minister would arouse our sympathy by persuading us that it is altogether a question of the slave-owners of the Southern State 3 , but he appears to have forgotten that Lord Palmerston boldly and truly declared in the House of Commons last session that tho whole press of Franoa was in tha PAY OF THE SLAVEOWNERS . Now then we shall havo a _ruuipui , and no mistake . So , h urrah for

      'No _killea , no _havee , _Masaa ;" So Vote , wo _Musset , _Madsa

      THURSDAY . Free Trade . —The mice had a play of their own last night , at Covent Garden , as the cat was away . Cobden , wo presume , was starring it in the provinces _, or _rehearsin _, !? his part in tho new piece to be performed at St . Stephen ' s . The fiddle was also absent , and consequently tho proceedings wer # deficient in fun and interest . Cobden is certainly the best actor in the company , and Bright , within himself , comprises the estimable qualiiics ofthe useful man , who combined the heavy aud the light by bringing on a trunk and taking offa lettor . We are not aware that we ever mentioned the gag put upon Bright ' s mouth by a shoemaker at the Northampton meeting . '' See , " says Bright , '' what impracticable people the Chartists " are ! The y hav e their s ix

      points , which I will compare to six waggons ; and they want to drire these six w a _gg ons through a gateway together , while we find it too narrow to get one waggon through . " ( Great cheering from the League . ) — ' * D—n thee , thou fooile , why doesn 't th o u hel p ua to make gate wide enough to _sond all through together ? " ( Tremendous laughter and cheers followed this . trite observation , which literally flabbergasted poor Bright , when he was driven to the necessity ol teaching the meeting how to make bread out of iron ; when anailor again stoppod him with , " Why , nion , our guts would all get rusty ! " )—Upon the whole , we have a notion ihat Cobden aud tho fiddle are beginning to look from the moral to the _politioal of free trade—from the bi g loaf of the operative to the loaves and fishes of _Dowmiig-otreot .

      Ihk " _Iimks _AXDrrsNi-ff _Mastkrs . —The 2 i '» _ie » of this morning evinces the truth of the old proverb , that it is impossible "to servo two masters . " We really long for Wednesday , in the hope of Hceing a refreshing journal from the pons of Jerrold and Dickens . The Thunderer , in its attempt to keep up the free-trade clash , is absolutely piling rubbish upon rubbish until it is difficult to tell whether its notions upon agricultural and political economy are drawn from Virgil , the Bi b le , or Arthur Young : but one thing is quite certain , that in the att e m p t to p r op the tree trade building the architect is dilapidating , nay , pulling down the old temple of political economy . It is a favoured maxim of the League that population presses hardly upon the means of _subsistence , whil e

      the JY » n _** assures _hs that _dkiicikxt popuutiox all ovkr tue world will preclude the possibility of furnishing a surplus of food . Perhaps " the Times , or the political economists of sixty years ago , would have enforced the impossibility of producing a surplus of cotton stuffs , and ofthe fallacy of supposing that tho manufacturers of them could be waked in the midst of their own production . The Times docs not understand a single particle of the science of agriculture ; we no , and wenow tell the writer of this newspaper " stuff . " that ere long the improvements in machinery will set the disinherited operatives thinking as to how they can get the land , and when they do acquire it , Eng l a nd alone , with her now surplus population , cracking stones , pi ckin g o akum , and crushing bones

      within the walls of the unions , would produce in England , which is not the most highly favoured wheat growing country , an annual surplus of over twenty million quarters . Now , not justifying the non-consumption of wheat b y the Iri sh peo pl e , and supposing that all tho oats grown in tho country , as well as the potatoes grown , was consumed at home , which would he a vast improvement upon the present diet , what does the _jTi ' _ine * think of the answer that the Irish export of wheat gives to its folly ? The Times commits an _cgrcgrious blunder when it presumes the incapacity of a farmer increasing his production from twenty to thirty quarters—not that we moan to say that this rati » ot progressive improvement could proceed adinfinitum : but , wo do contend

      that the adoption of the principle laid down by Virgil , whi c h wo do n o t f o r g et havin g re ad in our schoolboy days , namely , tho dibbling and afterculture of wheat would ensure a four-fold product from th e a mount of l a nd u s u a ll y devoted to that crop . What we assert is this , and no booby with a g oose q uill in hi s han d c a n re f ute it , that there arc not ono hundred acres of land in one lot in England , Ireland , Scotland , or Wales cultivated to one-third of their power . We beg our contemporary to confine his remarks to a comparison of the value and weight of the oratory of the individual bolligerents , allowing him the full privilege of alternately praising and bespattering Richmond and Cobden , Arthur Lennox and friend Bright ; but , in the name of common sense and decency , to * abstain from strictures , comment , or

      guess upon the capabilities ot the soil , because the ignorance displayed upon this subject may , and prohublv will , loud to tho . com > lu » ioii , thut tho Thunderer ' s noise is not from Jupiter , but from behind the scenes of that theatre at which tho Times may have an engagement . Thk Cons Trade . —We learn from this morning ' s reports from all parts of the country , without exception , that the millers are bitten with the xo stock mania , and merely buy from hand to mouth , waiting for information from St . Stephen ' s corn-mart . Every species of grain " rul e s " lower , and is more difficult to quit , even at the reduction . The tanners arc frantic , th o landlords a r e rabid , the free-traders are funking , " and the Minister is quaking , as we learn that another black iheep has expressed some _squeamishness in the C . ibinet .

      Iii :: Stock Exchange . —As the time for ministerial development approaches , panic appears to increase in a geometrical progression . All is flatter than yesterday ; while _Exchoquer-bills _, whicli above all other descriptions of scrip denote ministerial strength and confidence , have partaken of tho prevailing epidemic . Again the Government Commissioner has been operating , but the breeches pockets of the patient remain tightly buttoned . Oh ! _wl > at a day we shall have on Thursday next , when tho Peel balance-sheet makes its appearance on 'CIiiuirc ; for , mystify it as he may , the shrewd arithmeticians ther'd will see-much more in the indefinite term , _sKudru-s , thau all the rest put together .

      Court Circular . —Her Majesty _walled alono in the preserves , for the purpose of r » hc _»** . sing her part in the now drama , entitled BREAD 0 _"CjS ! 0 BREAD , to be produced at St . Stephen ' s on . Thursday next . She got amongst a clump of tress , and addressed them as " My lords and _gentlmneji . " Wc ti _* U 6 t that she will nse the expressive - and characteristic words of her august grandfather , Georgo the Third , on Thursday next , and adaV _.-3 s them aa " My lords nnd peacocks . " The Qucpjn , Prince Albert , and the Court have had entire new Court dresses from Moses and _Sonfortheoccu ' sion . The DEAR little babes were taken their av customed airing , and went as far as Flemi s h F a rm , where they were met by a group o ! starving pauper ? , from Windsor . Wo are told that Uw Queeu ' s s _^ , ck of potatoes are running low , a _, p . u

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      thijt orders have been issued to lay in a gtore of Irish oats iv ? a substitute . PrihC * Albbrt axd thk Paufkbs * ot Windsor . — Common law" based on custom , and n o thing b ut th e _ubserviency of a people can ever constitute bad common law . The truckling authorities of Windsor have had the baseness to forego the claims of the poor to their _nionT divixe rent from Flemish Farm , and have accepted as a anutiow gift that that was a j ust , and holy ,, and legal claim . The paltry

      lickspittles , we suppose they dine with the palace scullions now and then , but we trust to the independent spirit of the kitchen boy and shoeblack , that they will ask them how they came to compromise tho poor ; and we trust to tho poor themselves to call them to an account for having received as a gracioiw royal g ift , what was theirs by bioht divjxb , and to w h ich they h a d a better title than Prince Albert or the Q ueen herself ? It is melanchol y to see how the po or are bou ght and sold like cattlo at a fair . Oh for th e v o te , to make every man his own overseer !

      • _Thb Famish . —On Wednesday next Sir Robert Peel gives a full dress dinner party , to which 200 of his turnspits have been invited . The Queen ' s speech will bo rehearsed there , and tho two gentlemen nominated as mover and seconder . We understand that a positive order has been issued that no potatoes should be served up , lest the mover and seconder should get an untimely eholie . We long very much to see this s pe e c h ; wc s u sp ect that it wi l l be ver y much lik o th e old gentleman and his ass . Thk Railways . —The frightful accidents that have recentl y occurred upon several lines from tho negligence of the companies' s e rvant s i s lik e l y to btcome subjects of parliamentary interference . It is a rule with the directors of the several companies not to allow certain newspapers to be sold at their stations . { _KSfe have been threatened with the loss of SI ANDING tor haying so far outraged all decency by ottering the Northern Star for sale . How we pity the poor devils who thus reject knowledge , and luxuriate m their ignorance .

      IRELAND . Mollt axd her _CniLDnux . —By St . Paul , Molly i » an admirable' recruiting sergeant , and will soon have as large and much braver a militia than the Government . The news from Ireland is altogether so interesting , th a t we c annot aff o rd t o curtail it by a word . In debating the stato of Ireland before tlie Reform Bill , Sir John Cam Hobhouse said , "You may _tranquillise Ireland when you have a rone round every man ' s neck , or a soldier with a fixe d * bayonet b e hind every man ' s back ; " and , from the ne ce ssit y of distraining for rent and tithes , with police and military aid , as noticed in our report , we are inclined to believe that one soldier to each Irishman would not be sufficient to insure tranquillity . When Lord

      Dunfermline was auditor to the Irish estates of the Duke of Devonshire , his grace _requested him to procure the best information of the grievances of Ireland , and to suggest the most likoly remedies . His lordship , then plain Mr . Abercromby , proceeded upon a tour of instruction , accompanied by the late Mr . Swanston , a driver to the duke , a ' n excellent man , and a Scotchman ( a neighbour of our own ) , who did more to improve the country than halt the resident landlords . After a month ' s tour the noble lord was lost in a sea of conflicting representations , and said to Mr . Swanston , we have heard a load of grievances , but I sen no remedy , do you ? Yea , mon , replied the Scot , I ken it a ' . What is it says his lordship ? Kasy enough was the reply . ' and ifccsnna fail whenever an outbreak

      ta k es place , I'd hang the nearest landlord , the nearest p _awon , the nearest attorney , and the n e ar e st ag ent , on the n ea re s t tre e , and you 'd never aga i n he a r of a squabble in the district . General Sir John Lambert was requested by government to furnish his notion of remedies for Irish grievances , and the gallant general declared that Ireland never could be tranquil until th e r e wer e mile s tones on ever y road , the n a m e s of the owners painted on every cart , finger-posts at every cross road , and until tho parish beadles wore cocked hats and earried gold-headed canes . Now , we say that Ireland never can be tranquil , never j ought to be tranquil , and wc hope never will be

      tranquil , until every man of twenty-one years of ago has a vot e and a mu s k e t , a lease for ev er o f his hol d in g , tithes abolished root and branch , the magistrates appointed by the people , tho bishops removed from the Houso of Lords , mother church allowed to stand upon her own bottom , the lawyers and barristers sent to the plough , and the Bank of Ireland restored as the senate house of t h e nat i on its memb e r s ele c ted b y the free voice of the whole people , and , if nec e ss a r y separated from English connection , that has operated as a drag-chain upon Irish industry , as a corrupter of the Irish pre 33 , and as the foul upholder ofa devastating church .

      Thk Police and Peasantrt . —The . Packet contains tho subjoined particulars ofa desperate rccoutra between the peasantry and the police , iu which the hitter were rupulsed : — " On _i ' riday , the 3 th inst ., Mr . Williams , contractor , had a number of labourers from Itooskey to work at _Carnadg-bi-iilge , on the Shannon , the labourers in that vicinity no * , being so expert at such work as the Itooskey men . In consequence of some information that opposition would be given , 20 police , under the command of Constable Balfour ( whom I mentioned to you in my last report ) , arrived early in the day in Curnadgto protect tlie labourers . As soon as this was perceived , scouts wcre sent off in all directions , and about two o ' clock p . m . a mob of over GOO Molly Maguires arrived -at Camadg and commenced an attack on the labourers and police , all of

      whom were forced te retire . Unfortunatoly one of tho police was severely injured , and now lies in a dangerous state , h ' u jaw-bone being broken in two places , and eight of his teeth being knocked out . It is fortunate that Constable Balfour used such forbearance under such trying circumstances , else the consequences must have been awful . And it is now the surprise of overy one in the vicinity how they got off so safe . On Thursday , the 8 th , a party of the Sth Hussars , with a magistrate and some constabulary , accompanied Mr . George Knox ( agent to the Crown ) to the lands of Bnllykilcline _, to protect him and his bailiffs while serving some law notices . And ou the same day Mr . John It . Muloue , Sub-Sheriff , had a party of polico and military to protect him in making a seizure for rent , under an execution at the suit of a Mr . Roe against Mr . Little . A meeting of ten magistrates ,

      Mr . W . Lloyd , D . L . and J . P ., in the chair , was held m Strokestown _, on the "th inst ., to take into consideration the propriety of having a new police-station formed near Hill-street , to protect Mr . Church , whose now house was levelled at night a short time sinco . The majority of the magistrates wcre of opinion that it was more necosary to reinforco the present stations , which have only a few men , wholly inadequate to the state of the country ; the original question was therefore lost , and so the matter ended—Mr . Lloyd receiving a vote of thanks for his conduct in the _ohair . Such is the stato of this part of the county . I eannot help remarking , that if any English county were in such a state of insubordination , I think Sir It . Peel would not be so tedious in taking stops to restore tranquillity . The Government are much to blame for tlieir _snpineness . "

      Murder in tue Cousty or Limerick . —A correspondent of tlio Evening Post says : — "On Sunday craning , a man named Leahy , a tenant of Sir Matthew Harrington , Bart ., was shot dead on the lands of Drumbaimy _, county of Limerick . " To which may bo added the following : — "Limerick C _*/ iroiiic !« -officc , Jan . 112 th . To the _catalogue of agrarian outrages detailed in Saturday ' s Chronicle , we have to add that the Aimaody police party , whilo on patrol last night , encountered an armed band of about twenty _Itockitos , near Aherne , the seat of General Sir Richard Burke , when a conflict took place , and shots were exchanged , by which two policemen wore wounded , one severely , and some of the Rockites _, who retreated . All the city of Limerick police left this last night for the scene of outrage , and to protect the Annaody polico branch . _—P . d . The military force returned to this garrison on Saturday night from _Knocksonlry , tbe estate ol Sir C . Molynuux , with three prisoners . "

      Explosion on Board a Yacht . —About two o ' clock this morning an explosion of gunpowder took placo on board the splendid yacht the Flower of Yarrow , tlie property of the Marquis of Conyngham _, now lying in the Custom-house docks . The vessel immediately took tire in several parts , and but for tho prompt attendance of the watch on duty , aided by the plentiful supply of water , would havo been speedily reduced to a heap of ashes . By half-past three o ' clock the tire was _completely extinguished , but not before a vast deal of damage had been done , to the amount , it is supposed , of from £ 300 to £ 1 , 000 . 1 have heard it st . i ted that the accident occurred from a package _cfbluelights _having ignited and communicated with a canister of gunpowder , which blew up with sueh violence that a man and boy on bourd were literally blown out of their berths , without , however , suffering any materialinjury . How the Times bawls for coercion !

      Mn . Duffy . —True bills have been found against Mr . Charles Gavan Duffy , by a Saxon , graad jury , forthe publication of a malicious aad . seditiouslibe _'> published in the Nation newspaper . > ¥ 1 IY _DID'A' _!' HE DEFEND _O'MGGIKS ? Foreio . v . —War being an _unprofitable- thing just now , the Times recommends that General NarYaez 1 whom tho Thunderer informs us has- done so much for constitutional liberty in Spain ,, should proceed to Mexico , as the rallying point against American interference . We guess , liowcver , that the gallant officer has quite aa much upou his hands as will confine his operations to his own coantry s sphere for a hit . The fact of the matter is , that tho American struggle against European intervention is the contest of the new world of science against the old world of exploded ignorance . Princes are trembling upon tlieir thrones from the just thunder-ofpopular knowledge , directed towards a searching investigation ol long-established tyranny and misrule .

      _Tiik Cloud is ure Wsst . — As the time appro ac hes for Ministerial d evelopment , the b utt e r i s coming out of the stirabout , as the Irishman says . H o r ace sa ys th a tthe first Wow is h a lf the ba tt l e ; and from tho following it will be seen that Sir Robert is of the same opinion as the great satirist . A Callao letter , of November 1 , postod in the Liverpool Underwriters' room , says , " Tho admiral , in her Majesty's ship Collingwood , 80 , is at the Marquesas ; her _Majestv _' _-s ship _Modcste , 18 , and the steamer Salamander , are \_ company ; and , after having made tho round of the _iiiiand , he will proceed , it is said , to the Columbia rivor , 1 'Where he will be joined Vy her Majesty ' s ship America ,

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      _*» 0- This intelli gence is iu some degree confirmed bv _» n extract from tha Ne * York Sun , which snvs . "Our private advices _- . from Monter _< y , Upper California ( Monte-Ztlll ¦ ' b " last ' came t 0 Iia _»« yesterday . Tho in-O . S « _wn ! . 0 r { ant - A _' _BritWiW destined for 3 _Z Tm " " the wust c ° _^ . of _wliich our cor-I Ilriti I _» , 0 , P , tC _' ' _- _^ s- 'The pioneer of this fleet , _ms not sure of going to Columbia river . I have as , " , tamed that Lord Aberdeen , the British _Secretaiy ti r * _roreign _Aflaim , had a brother on board the America . art one of Sir Robert Peel ' s sons was also an officer or pas _sengsr . We wero all very glad that these distinguished visitors hud every facility extended to thorn for _colleetiu- * facts in thi 3 vicinity . * '' "

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      NOTIONS ABOUT FREE TRADE IN THE FAR NORTH . We find tho following letter in the Montrose Standard : — I am no politician , and seldom address editors of newspapers j but my attention has been drawn to what is pa-sing around us by seeing a letter , which has been for some days on the table of our Newsroom , addressed by our worthv member for this district of burghs to " The Provost of Forfar . " This circumstance leads mo to believe that both tlie member and our respectable chief magistrate court publicity to the document . After acknowledging the receipt of a memorial on the subject of Free Trade , and g ivin g a hint to our democratic constituency as to what " the people " ought to do Mr . Hume proceeds to give his views and opinion to the olow-up of the _Whiif cabinet , —if such a name can be given to tho late abortive attempt to orm a Ministry . He writes to tho Provost as

      fol-* * I may mention to you , that one of elie chief obstacles to Lord John Russell ' s forming an administration , was the refusal of Lord Grey to act in any Cabinet where Lord P . iJmerston was Foreign Secretary ; and Lord 1 _» . would not take any other office . I objected to the war policy of Lord Palmerston , especially to his attack on Syria ; and I should have been sorry to see his Lordship again in that otlicc , with the power of making war , as he had formerly done , by a weak minis _, _tty . " " lam for peace and free trade Kith all tke world ; and there is no place in this kiugdom would benefit more by them than _t ' orfar . " If I can live to sec these bluss ' _mss _, I shall die contented . Believe , yours , sincerely , ( Signed ) " Josbki _IIitms . "

      I sincerely hope lie will long live to see his country prosper under a good and just Government . But there is one thing which I hope Mr . Hume will oxplain . Is his " Free Trade" tho one-sided Trade which abolished every protection to Agriculture , and continues restrictions on all other necessaries of life ? If the _Govcrmnsnt could want tlie taxes—if tiiev could want the mews of maintaining the State , the army , and paying the national creditor—I sav let 113 have " Free Trade with all the world . " But let us be just as well a 3 generous . Do not ruin one industrious class and continue restrictions for the support of others already abundantly wealthy . Let us have

      a total and immediate repeal of all duties 011 overv necessary of life . But let not tlio agriculturist be crushed while w o m a int a in hi g h im por t du t i es to protect the Manchester manufactures—Leeds broad cloths , shoes , hats , and stockings—and Birmingham buttons . Such "Free Trade" is like a carpenter ' s hatchet , all on one side . Abolish , therefore , every tax on the necessaries of life ; but before doing so , point out in what way tho Government are to meet the country ' s engagements , and support the National Faith ? Are we to wet the sponge ? Shall we play the game of Pennsylvania ? These are serious considerations ; but they arebased on equity and honour .

      Our Corn Law coterie in this burgh are in their own view m e n o f s h re wd penetration . Many of them are so . Others , who are the loudest , are ofa class who never heard of Adam Smith , or , if thoy did , never saw his book . Thoy know a hawk from a hand-saw ; and a few can tell a cow from a colt . These are the men who think themselves entitled to clamour and insist on the government taking their dicta to regulate the measures of the state in one of the most difficult parts of political economy ! To _« ucli injustice Mr . Hume ' s sense of honesty and long experience as a politician must prevent h ' im from lending the sanction of his name . The prospect of a new election may weigh in these advices to " tho people , " but the intelligent part of his constituents aro not to be swayed by any clap-trap writing or illogical reasoning .

      I may have a few words to say to Mr . Hume on other matters , and I shall probably write you again ; b ut I av o id mix i n g up any other su bj ect with t his communication . By the way , the c o u n tr y shoul d vote a st a tue to Lord Grey for keeping Lord _Palmerston out of the-Foreign Ofliee . Friends and foes consider him little better than a firebrand , who , wcre he Foreign Secretary , would , in a few months , sot the world by the ears . Ho is , moreovor , a political turn-coat—but thi 3 is the aftair of his party . A _> - _Eijuitablb _Fueb-Thaber . Foriar , Januarv 0 , 1 S 10 .

      Ministerial Arrangements. Wo Hav E Mu C ...

      MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS . Wo hav e mu c h p le a sure in c on f i rmin g a rumour which was current on Wednesday , to the effect that the Hon . G . A . Smythe has been appointed Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , in the room of Lord C a nnin g , who h a s b ee n f o r s o m e tim e anxi o us t o retiro from the onerous duties of an oilicc whicli he has filled with much ability and most exemplary attention . Mr . Smythe will now have an excellent opportunity of obtaining an Insight into publicbusiness , and wo trust that the applause which his brilliant success in Parliament hits excited will not induce him to neglect those less showy acquisitions without which no Minister can in these days hope to su c ce ed in obt a inin g the confid e n c e of th e ' public—Times .

      Lord Canning retires from the Foreign-office ; but , instead of succeeding Lord Metcalfe , as it was rumour ed he woul d , wo understand he will succeed Lord Howard de Walden as ambassador at Lisbon . The Standard says—We have every reason to-believe that it has been proposed to Lord C . itlicart to succeed Lord Metcalfe , and thus unite in the same hands the civil and military government of Canada . The re p ort o f Lor d Granv i l le Somer s et ' s retirement from office is altogether without foundation . The rumour i s r e viv ed th a t L or d L yndhurst is about to resign the Great Seal , for reasons unconnected with Ministerial policy .

      It has been strongly rumoured in Westminster Hall that Mr . Pembcrton Leigh has resisted most earnest solicitations from the Premier and the Dulse of Wellington to succeed to the Woolsack ; and that ,, in cons eq uence , the following arrangements are contemplated : — Sir Edward Sugden to be Lord Chancellor ; Sir F . Thesiger , Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; anil Mr . James Wortley to be the new Solicitor-General , the present Solicitor-General becoming , of course , Attomoy-General .

      Stcebdotal Assass.Aatiox.—A Lettcs-Lrom....

      StCEBDOTAL _AssAss . _aATiox . —A _lettcs-lrom . _rNaploij . states that the sacristy of the church ; Die Girolamini , ' in that city , has j ust been the scene ofa crime unparalleled in recent times , and which has excited _general and profound indi _.-jiiiition . A . priest , it appears _, had coollvcut the throat ot a brother ecclesiastic with a raanr . The murderer- was caught in the act , and apprehended . The-sacred host oi the church was immediately carried away , and will not be replaced until the sacristy has been purified bv an expiatorv ceremony . ' _Extraction ok Nbkdlks fro » thk _l-. _ussihr-fl . striking illustration of one of this class ot _casos has occurred in Sheffield in the _conree-of this _week \ _iuo subject in this instance is a female servant , 111 tlio family ot" Mrs . Heppenstallof Uppcrthorpe , and

      , about twenty-one or _twentv-two years of age . It seems tho young woman was Decently under the cave of a medical man , whoso treatment woduccd salivation , subsequently to wliich she " fancied that needles were slowly progressing from her left shoulder tothe ami , at some depth _ia-, thc muscular substance . On Monday the pain became excruciating , and presentl y one , aud soon afterwards three small needles were extracted from tho fleshy part of tho arm ; and on the following morning two . more , with part of a thisu ! Thev made their appearance partly above and _pavtly below the elbow , and seem perfectly _bris ; ht and uncorroded . Mr . John Heppenstall , who himself drew out tlse _lattu * portion of the needles , says that thev did not bv any

      means easily come away ; aad that no . blood followed from the puncture * Next in . interest to the curious fact of the undoubted _extraction of so . many needles under the circumstances , is the question , as to how they got into the young _TR-oman's llcsh ? Of this she can give no account , having no recollection of ever having cither swallowed them or received them into her body from any external accident ; but she says that sometimes she has felt the pricking of needles in her chest , while their progress down her arm was quite perceptible . She states also , that seven years ? since , or when about thirteen years of age , she recollects not fewer than lifry similar needles , and pieces of needles , being extracted from one of her fingers in the course of a fortnight . —ShelMd _Ma-cury .

      The Magdeburg Gazette publishes details of a horrible drama , whicli occurred in a village near that town . A m a n in a fit of in s anitv ki l led his wif e a n d h v o children , and then set lire to his house to conccaUns crime . He next inflicted on himself two wounds 111 the neck and chest , and presented himself to a surgeon of Magdeburg , declaring that ho had been at . tacked and thus injured by the individual who haa committed this series of crimes . , Tne _authoritiw « onco proceeded to the hou se , and found ne ar _fr . eve ly thing consumed , and the bodies calcined . Iho man afterwards acknowledged that it was he Who _Uatl done all himself .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_17011846/page/5/