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      Fisbbuary 21, 1846.; The Northern, Stak, ^^^^^ 3

      Fisbbuary 21 , 1846 . ; THE _NORTHERN , STAK _, _^^^^^ 3

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      MONDAY . The Oligarch ! . —We have always _saewn that the weakness of the well-fed , stalwart , _agricultural interest , consisted in the feet of its members being thinly scattered over the country , _vhila the strength of their opponents was manifest if the facility with which their adherents could be called together by placard , advertisement , or _rirgof beU . __ The confidence of the country party _consisted mainly , indeed altogether , in their _Parliamentary strength ; and while the tenants knew _s ~ d felt that the links which bound them to their _Irfds wcre oppressive , and so many restrictions up * n industry aud capital , yet , nevertheless , the old feudal system still prevails to sneh a _desree that tie tenants with leases were

      VOLUNTEERS , coerced by anomalous conditions to fight the repugnant battles of their masters , while tenant farmers , which means tenants at will , were pressed into tie same force from the fact , that although their tenure was uncertain , and might be destroyed at will , nevertheless such course inevitably entails the breaking up of estabtisUments ; tho necessitous _, and therefore ruinous , disposal of stock ; as veil as the surrender of any little improvement that might hare been made , and the forlorn hope of the realisation of distant anticipations , with the still _strongertie which binds man tea home . Now , these 107 , 001 ) tenant slaves at will constitute more than a fourth ofthe county constituency of England , numerically speaking , whilst , in reality , this slave-class

      holds the balance of power , inasmuch as thev are the ready , tbe never failing reserve of the tvraut lords , to whose will they are bound upon the day of elec tion . The country party—that is , the old / hanging , tortur ing , crucifying , ducking , transportjng , cruel , church and King party , are now perfectly aware of this latent strength ; and we learn from the numerous Protectionists' meetings , that they have at length , resolved to bring the country muscle and sinew , to bear upon thc enervated frame of the exhausted operative , rather than abandon their power without a struggle . Now , this is precisely what we have always predicted —that the landlords would create a bloody revolution rather than abandon that political power

      which has so long preserved lor them all the channels of corruption as sustenance to feed their young broods upon the taxes of the country , while * their elder children monopolised the land of * the country , and made population press too hardly upon the means of subsistence , ' ihe operatives , however , if Weak in body , are strong in mind , and have leaders who have led them in the moral fight , that will head them , if necessary , in the physical resistance ; while we beg to remind the bull frog yeomanry , that when the people petitioned for a repeal of the Corn Laws _m 1 S 1 U , before machinery had achieved the sole dominion of trade , and when the removal of the restriction would have conferred essential benefit upon the . nianual operatives , npon the respectable old

      handloom weavers , the bull-frogs cut them down , and ¦ trampled upon them like so many dogs on the field of Peterloo . This oligarchical interest , this land monopoly , bound together by political power , is the nightmare that has long pressed upon society—the demon that the waking country has resolved upon dashing from its breast . But yet we will foster even that demon , in the hope of using it , rather than accept the simple measure of free trade in corn , without those collateral changes which must of necessity place the country interest in antagonism to the unrestricted use of machinery and uuopposed power of capital The landlords , shorn of their monopoly , must , of necessity , drop into the school of labour protection , and agricultural improvement ; and it is

      therefore that we will hail their last moan witn gratitude , or receive their tardy co-operation with gladness , if not with respect . The ball is up , aud how we play the game depends upon the dexterity , ihe courage , the energy , aud the prudence of the working classes ; for the owners of machinery , thc arbitrators of wages , and the possessors of capital may rest assured that an OLD DISTINCT andloug "united party will not sanction disruption without having a blow , and a heavy one , at the despoiler . Lord Ashlet axd the Tes Hours' Bill . — * ' With the blessing of God . '"—to use Lord Ashley ' s words—the noble lord has resolved npon retiring from a hopeless contest for the representation of Dorset shire , as well as from the leadership of the Ten Hours' Bill ; nevertheless , we still impress upon all

      who would still pick their own blemishes out of Sir Robert Peel ' s free trade measure , the necessity , the Dressing and increasing necessity , of testing _thedyimj Ilouse of Commons upon the question of Short Time ; and , above all , we remind them that Russell is still grasping after ofiice , and that he is pledged to the support ef the measure , while the Protectionists will gladly purchase a hustings toleration , and election support , by joining with them ; while the very opposition ofthe League will furnish the strongest grounds and mest cogent reasons for giving to it their support . We would impress , with all our weight , upon the friends of Short Time , that it is just a question , nay , just THE QUESTION , to test the present house upon , and that it will not be a question to be so prudently submitted to a new Ilouse of Commons .

      The Reform Bill—Everybody knows that it is a high breach of privilege for a peer of Parliament to interfere with an election , yet we find that a few noble dukes have contrived , despite of " the Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , " to retain possession of so many pocket boroughs as to give them an undue and dangerous influence in the House of Commons . We look confidently to tbe day when neither the peer nor the son of a peer shall be qualified to sit in the Ilouse of Commons ; when members ofthe gorernment and their subordinates may speak , but shall not rote ; and when the measures of the Commons shall be submitted , not to hereditary dotards , but to a senate of grave , wise men—none tinder thirty-five years of age—elected by the country ,

      and whose mature wisdom will be a check upon the enthusiasm of the younger branch of legislation . This was a portion of our constitution , propounded in 1534 , and published and eulogised in "Cobbett _' s Register" of the same year : a change which , amongst many others , we hope to see , and at no Tery distant period . In fact , we are tired of peers and their sons' governments and their creatures—old women in pantaloons ; old ladies in wigs and lawn sleeves ; army officers and navy officers , all looking for promotion ; baronets , knights , merchants , bankers , manufacturers , stockjobbers , lawyers , and bull-frogs making laws to circumscribe genius , to coerce labour , to regulate wages , levy taxes , and squander thea upon their creatures , their pimps , their w _s , their bastards , their crippled offspring and useless menials , while the toiling slave is but allowed the remnant that remains upon their plate to feed himself and his

      industrious family upon . Who dared to write like this in the good old times of Church and Jung , and what power can now resist the liberty of speech that we have wrenched from the griping tyranny of the law ; or who can obstruct that knowledge that flatters upon every passing breeze , and whistles the necessity of repentance and change , or obstinacy and destruction ? Monet axd Share Market . —We have no hired City slave ; however , we can read the signs of the times , and were the first , by many weeks , to announce the fact that Peel would endeavour to prop the funds by the railway deposits , pending the discussion of his great commercial measure , and we were the first to proclaim the disastrous results of this cunning poliey . Now , let us sec how the daily press , that lags immeasurably behind the people ' s " PIONEER , treats the subject now . We take the following few lines from the Times of this ( Monday ) morning : —

      SOME APPREHENSION IS FELT THAT THE INJURIOUS INFLUENCE OF THE PAYMENTS FOlt RAILWAY DEPOSITS WILL BE MADE _MANIFEST SHORTLY AMONG TRADERS OF THE LOWER CLASS THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM , AMONG WHOM THE MANIA PRINCIPALLY SPREAD , ANU "WHO _AltE 501 TS A _POSITION TO OBTAIN ACCOMMODATION IN THE PRESENT STATE OF THE DISCOUNT MARKET . If our warning note has failed to alarm the confiding , will not the above extract from the Thunderer awake s . just suspicion ? The Railways and the Lawyers . —Very many months ago , in partitioning the spoil ofthe confiding dupes , who had paid their railway deposits , we announced that the "gentlemen of the long robe " would not be found amongst the minor recipients ;

      in confirmation of this assertion , we ean now state that THREE HUNDRED AXD FIFTY _THOUSAND ACTIONS , all arising out of railway litigation , have been instituted ; and allowing that tbey proceed no further than the service of writ , entering of appearance , consultation , declaration , and plea , and allowing the small sum of twenty pounds cost on each action , we have the enormous sum of sevex iiiiiioxs of railway deposits , orfundsfrom depositors , In some shape or other , modestly appropriated by the craft ; and happy is the man who escapes with this small taste ol * legal knowledge . Now , of all money in the worid , that most unprofitably spent , indeed thrown away , is that wasted in litigation . It does Bot return in any profitable way to society ; it is hoarded up as funded property , or lent on mortgage to the aristocracy .

      Trade . —The same cause that has had the effect of propping the funds , has also had the effect of crippling trade , as we learn from all quarters that there is a delicacy to increase stocks until the result of Peel's measure is known and understood . Tbe ( 3 or 5 Tbabe . —The hope ef famine induces the philanthropic farmers to keep up grain for the famine squeeze ; while , nevertheless , the dread of Sir fiobertPeel ' _a measures is having tbe effect of keeping prices down , as millers are unwilling to speculate _ieyoud tiie mere hand to mouth supply . IRELAND .

      Famine . —Still the cry of hunger ring 3 through ihe sea-bound dungeon , while the wretched hovels of the peasantry are deserted at night by the miserable occupants in search of food or reckless vengeance upon those whose laws and monopoly have been the cause of starvatioB and want It is a sin , that while pestilence and famine are raging through a fertile and productive country , that the poor inhabitants should be driven , to exasperation and crime , while

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      theirrepresentativesarenightlydi ghvinijthe b - attle of their respective orders . ; ;' , "

      TUESDAY . The Great Question . —The resumptioR of the debate on the great question last night , has this week , like the last , stripped the papers of ail interesting matter ; indeed it would appear as if _society at large entered into a contract to suspend its ub'ual pranks until the Commons had closed their jabber However , the tedium of the long-protracted debate in the Commons was a little relieved by a few shots from the Protectionist outposts in the Lords . We must repectfully request our friends to keep sternly before them the reasons we have assigned for approving Peel ' s tariff of 1 S 42 , as well as hispresent measure . Now these two changes must be taken as a . whole , and cannot be separated . In 1841 in our

      , letter read by Mr . Wakley in the Douse of Commons , and published in the daily press , we designated the tariff of that year as a precursor-Chartist measure . We relied upon it as the wedge to break up the old ohgarchical factions , and we asserted that it would be followed by other measures , which would lead to the complete aud entire overthrow of what is called the constitution of the country . We predicted that the funds would be attacked ( they have been reduced by a quarter per cent . ) , we prop hesied that the Church would not escaoe themawling hand ofthe paralysed agriculturist ; we prophesied that a party wholly distinct from commerce and agriculture would spring up , who would see not only simplicity

      but beauty in Chartist principles : we even said that many of our colonies would be given up , or would throw off the yoke , and that a minister of agriculture would be added to thc cabinet . The history of a country is not like the history ofa family ; a fact or two mav constitute the records of the one , while thc other consists of innumerable incidents . Let us now go to the progressing proof ef our predictions . In the Ilouse of Lords last night ( Monday ) Lord Beaumont moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the burdens on real property ; and in considering- tlie question , the supporter ofthe Poor Law Amendment Act is now compelled to speak ofthe poor iu the following terms : —

      The support of the poor was a national object , just as much as the maintenance of justice and the uational defences ; nor did the orisinal Poor Law ever contemplate levying these rates from one particular class of property . He then attacked the operation of the jPoor Law with respect to the Law of Settlement : — To that law he had an unalterable objection , as being injurious in the extreme to the agricultural body , and useless to the manufacturer ; while agitating for free principles in the com market , thev should secure the

      same ADVANTAGE IS THE LABOUR MARKET , tAWd the first step to this would be to DESTROY ALTOGETHER THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT . * * * In his _opinion , it was impossible to estimate the loss of protection , and he would defy the most ingenious calculator to arrive at a _satisfactory result . Here , then , we have the title of the poor involuntarily forced upon the consideration of the indolent , _thoughtless lords . In explaining the mode of doing away with the Law of Settlement , Lord Beaumont

      said—That he differed from Sh * James Graham ' s five years ' industrial residence , for he thought that the poor man was entitled to settlement and relief WHEREVER HE HAPPENED TO WAXT IT . Xow , wc ask the pettifogging brawlers agaiist our encomiums upon

      THE ALL-MIGHTY MEASURE , whether that one single avowal of itself docs not characterise Peel ' s measure as worthy of more praise than even we bestowed upon it ? Lord Dacre said tliat the country laboured under an enormous weight of taxation , and tbat it was most important that justice should be done to landed proprietors , tenant fanners , and householders by the remission or _equalisation of their peculiar burdens . Yes , Lord Dacre , we have told you for the last thirteen years that the way to adapt taxation to the

      exigencies of the State was by making the LAN - . MAKERS the TAX-PAYERS ; and as soon as this change is effected , then children will laugh at the notion of a people crying out against famine being called upon to pay over fifty millions a-year for manbutchers , and sailors , and your younger sons , and your royal w s , and bastards , and placemen , and pensioners , quartered upon industry . When you have to pay for royal prostitutes , you'll see crime in prostitution ; when you have to pay for war , you'll see virtue in peace .

      Lord Stanley was anxious to enter his protest against the opinion put forth by Lord Beaumont . The tithe was not a peculiar burden on land ; on the contrary , he apreed _iiilli Lord Brougham iu thinking that the land tax and tithe wero burdens upon land IN THE SENSE OF WHICH THEV WERE NOW TALKING OF BURDENS . Yes , yes . Lord Stanley , you'll talk of burdens now in a very different sense when you have to pay them yourself . He continues : — If the land were unprofitable the rent fell , but the

      elaira of the , titlieoivner was undiminished ; and being undiminished , must be added to thc price actually paid for the production of corn . Nor was the case altered by commutation , for if after tbat commutaion the legislature lowered thc price of the article produced , and insisted the producer should pay the same amount for his commutatiuu , it was an increased and ADDITIONAL BURDEN . In conclusion , he could not agree with Lord Beaumont in thinking- that the abolition of protection was already settled , though he concurred with him in his desire that the opinion of the country should be deliberately taken on the question .

      Xow , here we have the very highest Churchman meditating an attack upon tithes , while we have the rec -id of the Northern Star , of 1810 , showing precisely the advantage that free trade , unaccompanied by a _' tithe adjustment , would confer upon the Church . In fact , we assert , without fear of contradiction , or without the pusillanimous dread of being thought egotistical , that we have analysed , for live years , every argument that is now brought to bear upon the question of free trade . As to Lord Stanley ' s threat of a dissolution , and liis opinion that the question of protection is not settled , it but confirms us in the belief that Stanley and the old Tories will die hard , and « ive thc Church a kick in their last throes .

      House of Commoxs . —The Duke of Richmond s eldest son , Lord March , and who has no earthly business in the house , spoke first and said nothing . Mr . M'dncr Gibson said , * with respect to America , it was notorious that the price of labour was nearly double that in England . " A good reason , we think , for enforcing the principle of restriction , because the good wages in America is a consequence of the paucity of hands in proportion to the work required to be done ; aud when we can weed the rattle-box and the sweating-room of their exotics , we shall have double wages to that paid now for labour . Mr . Gibson continues : — The question was now in such a position tbatitceuld not be endangered . It was carried , indeed , already—not , indeed , by this Parliament , or by politicians in either House oi Parliament , but by tlie force of public opinion out of doors . There was no truer barometer of public

      opinion than Sir Ite-bert Peel . If they wished to know what the people out of doors were thinking of , let them look to what Sh * Robert Peel was doing . If . Mr . Gibson means that free trade in corn , without the collateral measures , is carried by the force of popular opinion , he ' s grossly mistaken ; for , we tell him , that , notwithstanding an approval of the whole measure , as a wedge to split up the block , we would , nevertheless , resist to the death thesinglemcasure of free trade in corn ; while , we are ready to confess that Sir Robert Peel isagood barometer of publicopinion , but it is of Chartist opinion—not free trade opinion—Chartist opinion , which he hopes to erush by timely j concessions , but which he . inevitably fosters , aa the principle can neither be killed nor arrested . " Air . llalsey wished to know , if the price of English wheatshouldfall , ON WHAT PRINCIPLE SIR ROBERT l'EEL WOULD SETTLE THE TITHE COMMUTATION ACT V

      Of course Sir Robert Peel did not answer ttiat question ; but we will . He will settle it upon the principle of dog eat dog ; pull baker , pull devil ; pull landlord , pull parson ; and the devil part the couple . Sir Robert Peel dwelt most extensively ou the threatened famine in Ireland , and for the purpose of strengthening his position , he read A series of letters received by the last two Irish mails from Sir D . Roche , Lord Stuart de Decies , and various other gentlemen in different parts of that kingdom , giving the most appalling description of the scarcity of the potato in Ireland . One-eig hth of the crop was always wanted for seed ; and if that quantity was not saved from

      consumption as food , Ireland would have to struggle with famine in tlie next year also . It was impossible to supply that quantity of potatoes _Jo m any foreign country-, and the govern ment therefore proposed to get * be seed potatoes into its keeping by giving other food iu exchange for them . Now _. in that case , would it be possible for him in May next , with a duty of 17 s . on the i mportation of foreign corn , to caH on the people to pay such a duty for the food to be distributed to the people of Ireland to save thtm from starvation ? _Sttpposu-0 fttinin _? then to ensue , would Vie aristocracy be able to btar the odium of saying " We will throw on tlie goecnitiient Vie respmikttii" _° f mPP _& n 9 tlie people of Ireland with food , but one iota of tlie Corn Laws we wiU notpartwith . "

      Now , in simple justice to ourselves and the Executive , we ask the reader to hold the measure ofthe Executive in one hand , and the last passage of the above paragraph in the other hand , and askhimseli whether the burthen of tliat message was not that , if FAMINE CAME , which Sir Robert Peel asserts WILL COME IN MAY , the Chartists were prepared as a body to resist a measure , the intention , it not the effect , of which was to arrest pestilence , starvation , and famine . Were wo not ready to hazard our policy upon this point alone , and was it not unanimously acquiesced in ? Did we not declare and reiterate that wc would not jeopardise the character and the very _existence of the Chartist party , by resisting a measure which , if stopped by our obstruction , would have afforded the League tue opportunity of saying- " HERE IS FAMINE : we would have

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      arrested it , but your friends opposed ' us , and is not a hungry man susceptible ef hopeful impressions when those in want have built so much upon the cry of cheap bread ?" . Yes , we assert , without the fear of contradiction , that , UNDER EXISTING CIRC UMSTANCES , a successful resistance to the measure upon onr part would . have given to the League the undivided confidence and support ef the working classes . We believe that scarcity—that is , even greater scarcity than Ireland is periodically visited with , has already come , and we cannot too much rejoice at having stopped tbe League and O'Connell iosvl of " OU , THE RASCALLY CHARTISTS STA . RVEDYOU ' . " Peel proceeds : — He _rsuiinded the Ilouse that in November last he had advised , and three of his colleagues had supported , the suspension of the existing duties oil coin by an order

      in council . In _November last , wc used the following language — "If famine threatens Ireland , and if scarcity threatens England , why doesn't Sir Robert Peel , without waiting for the meeting of Parliament , open the ports , and trust to the people for an indemnity against his accusers . He goes on : — That portion of his measure which related to the Corn Laws might be rejected , and tbe other portion accepted , or vice versa . He wished it , however , to be considered as a whole , and rejected or accepted as such . It was also the intention of the government to adhere to its own proposal . He stated this , however , distinctly to the house

      —that if the agricultural body should be of opinion that immediate was preferable to deterred repeal , and if by uniting with the Anti-Corn Law League they placed him in a minority , he should only consider what course he ought to take to give effect to the law so amended at their instance . He would do alt lie could to carry th « proposition of the government . He preferred it , He did not pretend to say now what effect success in the House of Commons might produce elsewhere ; but his opinion that it was necessary to procure a final adjustment of this question was so strong that he should prefer immediate repeal so carried against him to the chance of throwing the country into confusion by _postponing for six months the settlement ofa question which was now paramount to all others .

      No _. Sir _RobertjWC _won'thave thefree trade fat without our own bone ; we'll have all or none . And then , if you choose to take that responsibility which must inevitably follow the settlement ofthe question , without the three years' adjustment , why , wetland good ; we must only see how wc can scramble the people ' s share out of the mess-trough : We now come to the conclusion of the Prime Minister's speech , and we give it verbatim , that wc may luxuriate in another bit of self-adulation : — Those times may recur ; the years of plenteousness may pass away , the yean of dearth may _succesd ; and , if they do come , and if it should be our duty again to express sympathy with suilering , and again to exhort to fortitude , I do ask every man who

      : hears me to commune witli his own heart , and ask himself this question—If these calamities do occur , if we must express sympathy with sufieriug , if we must repeat the exhortation to fortitude , will it not be a consolation that we have relieved ourselves from the heavy responsibility of regulating the supply of human ibed ? Will notour expression of sympathy be more consolatory , our exhortation to fortitude more impressive , if we can at the same time say , and say with pride , in that time of comparative prosperity , urged by no necessity , yielding to no clamour , we anticipated this difficulty , and removed every impediment to the free' circulation ot the bounties of creation ? Will it not be a great and lasting consolation to us to be enabled to say to a suffering people , " These are the chastisements of an all-wise and

      beneficent I _' rovidcuce , sent for some great aud humane purpose , to abate our pride probably , to convince us of our nothingness , or to waken iu us a sense of our dependence upon God ; they are to be borne without murmuring ; " and _* ve shall then be able to tlimk that the dispensations of Providencehave not teen aggravated by human institutions preventing to the people the supply of food ! Those are Sir Robert Peel ' s words ; now mark ours , delivered a thousand times : — " How conies it to pass that if famine falisupon the land the industrious alone are the sufferers ? Why is it that those who tamely bear all the pangs of hunger arc to lie satislied with roval and aristocratic sympathy , or to brave

      the law ' s oppression if they . complain ? lou murmur now , and murmur justly ; when famine falls unequally , you are bearing all the honors , but if every man had the means of working out his own salvation , and if famine came upon the land as the dispensation of au all-wise Creator—if the Queen , the peer , aud the squire , suffered a comparative diminution in the comforts , you would be cheerfully reconciled to an abatement in your necessaries of life . This is the reason that 1 complain , and I will complain until I see an attempt to remedy this crying , this unnatural disparity . " Now , where is the Chartist that has not heard that passage twenty times over ?

      Nomixatiox tor Westminster . —Our express has just brought the overland mail from Covent-garden , by which we learn that the General beat the Captain in the show of hands . We trust to-morrow he will beat him by a show of tongues ; however , they are both pledged to vote for thc restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones , so that our dearest cause will have a friend in either . Fiiost , Williams , asd Jones . —It will he seen with delight by every man in the kingdom , that Mr . Duncombe has named Tuesday , the 21 th , as the day for presenting petitions , and moving an address to the Crown for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones . Now , Chartists , you have a week from this dav ( Tuesday ) , three days after you have read

      the Star , and if ever you delved , spun , or wove for three days and three nights , delve , spin , aud weave as you never spun before , for the short time allowed you , and we firmly believe , that as the time is named , more will be done in three days than would have been done in three years . Sign , scribble , scrawl away ; send vour petitions both ends open , double tied with a piece of string , addressed to T , S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . l \ , Ilouse of Commons , London , and heaven will bless every man , woman , and child that joins in the righteous demand , and every tongue will hoot and hiss every candidate who refuses to swell the cry for their restoration . Oh 1 what a day for England when those three men land . Money Market . —Still Consols are going down .

      IRELAND . Free Trade . —The Irish . Protectionists who have not got anything near like their legitimate share of plunder and patronage , and who have not got the safety valves of commerce as a substitute for protection , arc beginning to muster all their strength to oppose reel ' s measures ; but , like tlieir English brethren , they'll fail . Why didn ' t they read our letters , written from York Castle , apprising them of the coming storm , which they now vainly hope to resist . Just think of those usurpers , those descendants of Cromwell ' s soldiers , crying out about their privileges and protection , while TllE NATIVE

      IRISH ARE STARVING . Mr . Gkeoort and his Coxstituexts . —The hon . Conservative member for Dublin , Mr . Gregory , has been served with notice to quit by his constituents for supporting Sir Robert Peel ' s policy . O'Connell v . O'lliccixs . —Elsewhere will be found a communication from our Dublin correspondent , by which it will be seen that a county grand jury oi landlords threw out the bills against O'Higgins , while the grand jury of shopkeepingcits found them , after a wrangle . It will also be seen that the trial is removed by certiorari to the Queen ' s Bench , so that , in the language of our reporter , it bears the aspect of a great State trial .

      FOREIGN . By a reference to our foreign summary it will be seen tbat oppressed Poland has at length resolved upon rising as one man to lace the bayonet , the musket , and the cannon of the tyrant autocrat . AH that we can say for the present is , may the Lord strengthen their arm in defence of liberty , and may they sweep every vestige of the tyrants' power from off the lair land of Poland 1

      WEDNESDAY . Tho debate and the Westminster election are the all-absorbing topics of conversation , and all news not connected with those two topics is rejected as trilling , until the issue of one and the result of the other is known . True , the _wearisomencss of the debate is a little relieved by the novelty of some of the preliminary skirmishers;—for instance , petitions against the embodiment of the militia were presented by Mr . Trelawney—three from Cornwall ; from the southern division of Leicestershire , by Mr . Parke ; from a large body of inhabitants of Bristol , by W . F . 11 . Berkeley ; from 3 , 001 ) ofthe inhabitants of Leicester , by Sir John Easthopc ; from Monmouth , by Mr . Blewitt ; from various parishes in London ,

      by Mr . Duncan ; from 7 , 900 inhabitants of Salford , by Mr . Brotherton -from the West-Riding of York , by Lord Morpeth ; and similar petitions from several places , by Mr . Hume . OUR MAN presented a petition in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill , and also obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the Friendly Societies Act , which was read a first time and ordered to be read a second time this day week ; thc reasons ofthe hon . member for introducing the bill will be found in his clear and explicit speech , which wc give at length . It is really a very singular thing that a person who is neither lawyer , clergyman , manufacturer , _jiost-master , nor officer , should be able to make himself so minutely acquainted with all the technicalities and practices of those several prolcssions .

      Mr . O'Connell introduced his measure for relief to Ireland , and concluded by humbly thanking the Saxon Parliament , in his own name , and in the name of the Irish nation , for the patient and indulgent Manner in which thc honourable Saxons _•^ descended to hear him . He didn't mention the threatened coercion ; neither did Sir James Graham give any pledge as to the future course to be pursued by government , beyond some temporary relief to be administered to the starving people . Not a word about the Landlords' and Tenants' Bill did Sir James say ; aud thus the Irish have come off with a withdrawn motion by the Liberator , aiidnow they are to depend

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      upon the tender mercies of their tender-hearted Saxon , rulers . Lord John Manners , son of the Duke of Rutland , opened the great debate , but said very little / Sir Charles Napier , a joll ; old sailor , and a capital good fellow , amused the house by describing the mode in which he has improved a farm of forty acres of bad laud , which formerly grew only four or five quarters of oats , peifacre but now produces eleven quarters , and on winch , alter losing £ 200 for the 'first year , he now , by drainage and SPADE CULTURE , taught him l > v a . _Iiuiuble nei ghbour , realises a CONSIDERABLE PRO * IT . The gallant admiral also stated , that it the gentlemen opposite would do with their land what he had done with his , that tliey need not be afraid of foreign competition , as England would

      soon become a great corn exporting country . And when the Protectionists laughed at tlie jolly admiral sailor ' s little patch of forty acres he gave them a broadside , in the assurance that what was true ol forty acres would equally hold good aa to 400 , 000 acrc 3 , and that his land was of the very poorest , coldest , and impoverished description , and he now realised a handsome income by it . Well done , jolly old tar ! and may you long live to puce the greensward—it is better than pacing tho deck oi' the " wooden walls of old England . " Friend Bright , after a regular Covent Garden fling , contended , that under our existing policy the agricultural labourers received tho SMALLEST SHARE of the produce of the soil . Now , we should be glad to know what share of the produce of his mill those who work the machinery make ?

      Lord Duncan moved the adjournment of thedebate till Thursday next , so that we are to have another coil of the snake before we have done with it . By St . Paul ! its the slowest cookery for those that are _waiting for a breakfast that we have ever heard of . The Irish are starving and the English are beginning to get hungry , the Prime Minister , announces tho certainty of famine coming before May , while we see an equal , if not a greater certainty of the debate lasting till the end of June . It is ' good for another week iu the Commons , it is good for three weeks in the Lord * , it ' s good for a month in committee , and , with a fortnight ' s Easter holidays , brings us to the middle of May ; and thisi » burring accidents that may happen outside and changes inside .

      Sir RonEin Peel ,- —It is confidently stated by Sir Robert Peel ' s most intimate friends , that in the event of his measures being carried , he will abandon ofiice , and leave to his Whig successors the precarious inheritance of swing them carried into ctl ' ect . In sueh ah event , however , the people would now insist upon having their say ; and _wit-li Peel ' s measures once earned , whole and entire , we safely affirm , that without a bold , a sweeping , and _coaiprehensiye Short Time measure—not a Ten Hours' Bill , though we'll take that first—but sueh a bill as will so regulate tiic working of machinery as to render the existence of a competitive labour reserve impossible , but that . the hours of labour shall be governed as well by the improvements in machinery as by the _antount of population requiring work . Unless wc see such a measure as will make . ' . ' machinery MAN'S HOLIDAY ,

      INSTEAD Of MAN'S CURSE— " and mind , those were our own words , enunciated at Stockport eleven years ago—unless we see such a measure as that , with Lord Beaumont's Law of Settlement—that is , that the poor man shall receive relief IN TllE SPOT WHERE HE SHALL WANT IT , wc would rather see a military , despotism in this country than a government of LEAGUE WHIGS . The time , we believe , is come , when the whole question of PARENT and CHILD . ( LABOUR and CAPITAL ) , must be taken into consideration and legislated justly upon ; and , as we prefer obedience to the fifth commandment to obedience to the commandments of political economy , we shall honour the PARENT in preference to the CHILD . " If the people do not now bestir themselves for a Ten Hours' Bill , we hope they may be fed in tbe Unions upon bones for the remainder of their natural lives .

      Mosey Markkt . —In spite of the best endeavours to keep the funds up , a considerable re-action has taken place ; and well would it have been for the Huts if they had given ten guineas each ibr a copy of the _lVortucrn Star , and had profited by our timely

      warnng . Court Ciecular .-J 0 YF 0 RTHE MILLION ! - Providence always takes care of the poor , and in its mercy promises them another DEAR ROYAL BABE in April next , though the ill-natured political economists would dash our loyal aspirations , by deferring the joyful event till May ; but her Most Gracious Majesty takes , we are sure , too lively an interest in the happiness of her most loyal subjects to be any party to such a disappointment . Oh , dear ! oh , ' dear ! what a tribe of royal paupers the royal couple threatens us with ! Is there no parson Malthus to relieve the ROYAL PARENTS from tlielNFLIC TION ofa large family ? We wonder what the Malthusians would say if the female operatives were as fruitful in industrious children as Queens and Peeresses are iu idle ones !

      Ireland. Poor Seery.—This Poor Fellow, W...

      IRELAND . Poor Seery . —This poor fellow , who was found guilty on his SECOND TRIAL , at the Commission held at Mullingar , was MURDERED on Friday last , and from a perfect consciousness of his innocence , his remains were escorted to the burial . ground by 00 , 000 of his insulted countrymen and women . We have read the evidence upon which he was murdered , attentively , aud we have no hesitation in saying that nojust man would "hang a dog" upon such evidence . The Irish priesthood , how ever they may be reviled by those who havo despoiled them of the right . of administering monastic property to the poor of their Hocks , are not just

      the men to sanction murder , or to withhold from the murderer , or the attempt at murder , that censure which justly belongs to him . Such is the confidence of the poor in the only pastors Chat have never deserted them , through torture , lingering punishment , and death , that we would as soon believe that we were now walking upon our heads , as that Seery would die with tho guilt of falsehood upon his soul , and the crime of withholding his full confession from his pastor . Neither would all the money in tke English Exchequer induce so many pious priests to join in the lamentation over his murder , if they were not convinced of his innocence . Sir Francis Hopkins lives , so does Bingham Baring , but

      Cooke and Seery lie in the cold tomb . We cannot envy the feelings of the two living murderers , nor those of their coadjutors upon the two juries . Those upon the lirst who held out against the judgment of tho majority , and _thoso upon the second , who were awed into an act of murder from a dread of the treatment their predecessors had received . It is hard to write on cold-blooded murders committed upon the defenceloss Irish people , in legal phraseology , but if " great libels" are the bust correction of great crimes , then would we ransack the catalogue of stinging , branding , damning woids , for epithets to stigmatise thc murderers of this poor but honest peasant . We rejoice to find that his

      own class sympathise with his widow and his orphans , and that , though stripped of their protector , vengeance will not bo satiated by an offering of more victims . Subscriptions have already been entered into for the support of Seery ' s family . Wc shall send our mite to Mr . O'Higgins ; and if ever wc were justified in making an appeal to the English Chartists , for a humane and charitable purpose , it is an appeal on behalf of this murdered man ' s family . Wo shall be happy to receive anything that will betoken Chartist abhorrence of cold-blooded murder , and to transmit it to Patrick O'lliggihs , Esq ., who has taken a lively interest in the family of poor Seery .

      Coercion-. — Not A Word Has The Liberato...

      Coercion-. — Not a word has the Liberator said about the threat of Irish coercion since he came to Saxon land . Here his waitings are as plaintive as a sucking dove , while he roars away in his letter to Conciliation Hall , " Hurrah for Repeal ! " Now , we tell him , and the Irish people will very soon discover the virtue of our policy , that his course , instead of thanking the Saxon Parliament in his own name , and ia the name of the Irish people tor hearing him , would be to demand ef the Prime Minister a full development of his intended Coercion Bill , and then , in reply , to say , " I call from this snot uwm

      every Irish member to join me in resisting the commercial poliey of . the government , if Ireland ' s store is to be coercion . If he has fifty followers , whose seats depend upon obedience to this , just call , thev would break up the _administratis , aud the Irish will soon find that tlieir strength consists , in the policy of OBSTRUCTION , and that their greatest weakness is manifest in the prostitution of their representatives to the support of measures wliich may entail toleration or patronage .. Fifty Irish members standing together would be able to snap any government that was hostile to thc interest of the people , but the fellows forget country , and look to self , the very moment they enter the House of Commons .

      FOREIGN . From ever y country in Europe each posi brings intelligence of the struggle being now made for tho overthrow of _despotism , and the establishment of democratic principles . The great Chartist petition of 1842 has _awakened the spirit of liberty throughout the continent 'of Europe ; the next , signed by five millions , will establish its temple . Switzerland , almost in the heart of the Italian serf states , presents to the slaves all the beauties of republican institutions . ; while France , ready to assist the Austrian despot , _fcavf . to encounter the wrath of Switzerland ; the heart of . Poland is beating high for liberty , and Prussia ' s _despot is cowering before the united voice ef a people looking for a constitution . Belgium , with her agricultural constitution ; Switzerland , with _hcri-ep- _nblio ; Saxony , with her small farms , stand undist _** urbed in thc midst of the European volcano . Land is the , basis of the constitution of those three littl' i countries : while those based upou king-craft

      Coercion-. — Not A Word Has The Liberato...

      large enough to swallow them up , are awed into quiescence from the dread of democratic infection and the agricultural mania .

      _THURSDAY The Cur of _Wkstmutsmsb without a _Repiiesestaiive . —This is a ! curious fact , but nevertheless true , even as regards the electoral body . General Evans and Capt . Rous unitedly polled C 641 , and there are 14 , 01 * 1 electors in the city , leaving 7 , 402 , or nearly 10 UU of a majority , unpolled . This is sucn an abuse of the vote held for others in trust , that we coul _.- ! not possibly urge a stronger reason for restoring , the trust to those from whom it has been so lons withheld .

      Gkeenwicu . —We confess ourselves , though not easily astonished , to have been literally flabbergasted last night ( Wednesday ) , on entering the great Lecture Room , which the Greenwich Chartists had , with a spirit peculiar to that indomitable body , ventured to lure lor a meeting on behalf of Frost , Williams , and Jones . The building is a magnificent one , fitted m the style of an Amphitheatre , with great taste and elegance , and was . not only filled ,, but in some parts , aud especially in the angles , was literally wedged . _Three-ibur ths of tho meeting consisted of the middle and higher orders , aud never wa » there an audience belonging to those classes that did themselves moro honour than did those gentlemen last night . They not only paid attention , but like an

      audience at a theatre , nearly every _person present had a copy ofjtho new plav ( the Charter ) in his hand , which was very prudently distributed gratuitously at the door . As if the working men were capable of rising according to the emergency , wc never hearsl them make half so good speeches , though' we havs heard them make many good ones , as they made last night . Finding sueh an audience , instead of simply confining themselves to the mere cry ot the-restoration of the exiles , they entered into a statesmanslikc view ol the times and circumstances that led to their conviction . Doyle made a most _^ powerful

      speech , embracing tiic questions of poverty . ' -crime , ignorance , unjust distribution , diunkenness , 'disregard-of , the superior classes , and many other evils flowing from class legislation . We were not fortunate enough to hear the speech of M'Grath , which is always good ; but for ourselves , the _oticr speakers , the Chartists of Greenwich , and the cause itself , we return our best thanks to the audience for their excellent and praiseworthy conduct , while wc cannot sufficiently congratulate the people upon the impression tlieir principles are now making when auvoeated by lecturers who have a sincere desire to witness their progress .

      _Moxi-Y Markkt . —Again the funds are very , verj Hat , and the share market partakes ofthe epidemic ,

      IRELAND . _-,, _ , , SlK FbA . _VCIS HopKISS AM ) THE MuitDEBED SeKBV . —It will be remembered that Mr . French , the stipendiary magistrate , swore upon the . trial of Seery , that Sir Francis Hopkins had-not ' nieutioned . his ( Seery ' s ) name in the first information he _tendered . iVlr . French swore this oisTi . _Ncm" , and now tliat poor Seery is dead and gone , his prosecutor writes a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal for the especial purpose of meeting the evidence of Mr . French , and which he concludes thus : — It was sworn on the trial ( but this fact has not heen commented on in your jounialj , by a constable of ths Bysiirtpolice station , distant six miles from Mullingnir , that he had reeuived a written order at five o ' clock in the morning to arrest Seery . Tlie first informations were sworn at 11 a . m ., six hours subsequently . 'This should satisfy most persons that tha name of Seery had been mentioned before the first informations were sworn .

      Now , so far from this fact establishing the credit of Sir Francis , it will convince any reasonable man ofthe correctness of Mr . French ' s evidence . Nay , it is the strongest confirmation that Sir Francis Hopkins , at five o ' clock in the morning , was in doubt as to Seery ' s idvntifcy , and that at eleven , he was satistteu that he was mistaken . Now , here is tinplain analogy of the last paragraph . Sir Francis Hopkins sends to arrest Seery at nve , to have a peep at him ; he sees him at eleven ; swears informations ; and the stipendiary magistrate swears that he did not mention Seery's name , neither does the paragraph we quote state that the Dysart police coustable had received the written order -to arrest Seery

      trom Sir 1 * ramus Hopkins , though we give him the benefit ofthe presumption ; neither can he expect to shake the sworn testimony ofthe stipendiary magistrate by the white-washing letters wliich he " says he subsequently received from tlie Crown Solicitor and Sub-inspector of police . He says— " The public can now fairly judge between Mr ' . French's testimony and my own . " Yes , the public will judge , and the judgment is that Mr . French is right and you arc wrong . It is a very easy way for the Baronet to get over the murder of poor Seery ( wlio has not the power of judging between him ana Mr . French ) , by riding off on a squabble with tho stipendiary magistrate .

      Westminster Election. A Public Meeting W...

      WESTMINSTER ELECTION . A public meeting was held in the large hall of the Partfieiiium , St . Martin ' s-lane , on Sunday evening , February 15 th , to consider what steps the democratic party should take in consequence of tke vacancy caused in the representation of Westminster by the appointment of Captain Rous to fill thc place of one of thc Lords of the Admiralty . Mr . James Grassby was unanimously called to the chair . Mr . Thomas Clark said , although a resident , lie came under the denomination of a non-elector . He had placed in his hand the following resolution : —

      " lhat . in the opinion of this meeting no Parliamentary election should take place without the working classes manifesting their opinions relative to the merits of the various candidates , and enforcing their claims to that full measure of representation contained in the People ' s Charter . " Mr . Clark then lucidly reviewed the qualifications , or rather tho want of qualification , in thc two candidates who had presented themselves for the suffrages of the electors . He said the people throughout the _ceiultry were raising tlieir voices loudly against our huge win *

      establishments and against aggressive warfare , yet both candidates belonged tothoseestablishnienis—the ue to the army , the other to the navy ; aud , consequently , both hail an interest in upholding the present state of things , and were both , thcrctore , unfit to become the representatives of a people who boasted of their civil institutions , and their desire for freedom . ( Loud cheers . ) Neither were advocates or supporters of the People ' s Charter , and hence neither could hope for the support of the toiling and much oppressed work ing classes . ( Loud cheers . )

      Mr . Humphris seconded the motion , and it was carried unanimously . Mr . Souter , in a few words , moved the following resolution : — " That in consequence of the very brief time intervening between this and the day of election not permitting the democratic party to take such steps as would be _necessary to ensure success foi / a candidate holding their opinions , this meeting is of opinion that it will not be advisable to take any part in the present contest ; but this meeting hereby pledges itself to use every means in its power to secure the return of a candidate , or candidates , adv _. * cating the principles of the People ' s Chaster at the ensuing general election . "

      Mr . T . M . Wheeler , in seconding the motion , neminded the meeting of the words of Thomas Wakley at the Crown and Anchor— "That the working-man never would be efficiently represented until such time as men of their own order were sent into thai , house" —( loud cheers );—and regretted that they were not now prepared for the contest , lie said , susely , if in the early days of Henry Hunt the democrats of Westminster could nominate a candidate and procure thc votes of eighty-four gallant men , iu tha present day , when democracy had made such ghinUiko strides , they might with equal facility obtain the

      support of thousands for their principles . ( Loud cheers , j He therefore suggested the propriety of their taking immediate steps to prepare for the forming of a powerful committee . Let them besatislied with _nothing less than a committee of _threehundrcdelcctors _. and non-electors , and with such , a committee ,. iuuL attention to tho register , success , must and would crown their efforts . ( Great cheering . ) Tho resolution was carried _unanimoMsly . A committee of thirteen , with power to add to their number , was appointed . A vote of thanks was given to the chairman , aud the meeting dissolved .

      Tue _NoMiNAiios took place _on-Tuesday ,, but as-the working classes had no representative on thchustmgs , we need not take up our valuable space in narrating thc particulars . There was a great crowd assembled , sufficiently uproarious to do honour to a Covent Garden nomination . Mr . Joseph Carter Wood proposed , and Lord Francis Egerton seconded the nomination of Captain Rous . Mr . Bowvcrie proposed , and Dr . Bainbridgc seconded the nomination of General Evans . The candidates then spoke at great length , and amidst great uproar . On the show of hands being called for , only a few comparatively were held up for Captain Rous , the rest being held up for his opponent . The nomination was therefore declared to be in favour of General Evans . A poll was then demanded on behalf of Captain Rous , and thc assemblage dispersed .

      The Polling * commenced on Wednesday morning at the usual hour , and from the commencement General Evans took thc lead by some hundreds , which he kept throughout the day . On Thursday the official declaration of the result ofthe polling was made , when the High Balill ' announced the numbers as follows : — For General Sir DeLacy Evans 3 S 13 For Captain Rous 21 ) 00 Majority 937 It wns his duty , therefore , to declare General Sir De Lacy Evans duly elected . Thc successful candidate then thanked the electors , who were also addressed by Captain Rous . The proceedings then terminated .

      A Spot Is Now Traversing The Sun's Disc,...

      A spot is now traversing the sun ' s disc , wliich is estimated to be 26 , 000 miles broad , and to cover ar . area of l , 0 o 2 , 282 _, 00 « square miles—more than tr fe times as large as our globe . ~"

      A Spot Is Now Traversing The Sun's Disc,...

      MURDER OF A FAMILY AND _TSLICiDE . _CF

      TIIE FATHER . Shortly after seven o'clock on Monday morning , the nei ghbourhood of Southampton-street , Camberwell , ; was alarmed by tiie frantic screams of a woman who had just made ' her escape by the back-door of No . 5 , Wellington-place , a small cottage residence , only one story high . The first person who repaired to the . spot was Mr . Pratt , a sun-eon , who resides at ' 'No . 4 , and who upon entering was horror-struck at the scene , which presented itself . In an upper roi / in , upon the floor , Jay the lifeless bodv of M . Phillaretc Horeau , a Frenchman , aged fifty-three , with his throat cut from ear to car ; on the bed , " liis son , aged thirteen , quite dead , shockingly . mutiiated about the throat ; and in a lower room , another son , _a » ed

      eleven , with his throat ' cut , & wound on th « cheek , and his hand much lacerated , who was at lii » t supposed to be dead , but afterwards showed sonic symptoms of life , though unable to articulate or give the least account of the dreadful catastrophe ; and in a short time afterwards , a female child , aged eight months , was found dead in & water-butt which stood in the garden , but having no wounds whatever about its person . Upon- investigation , we find thatthe unfortunate man had resided at No . o for nearly the last twelvemonth , supporting his family as a , teacher of languages ; but this mode oi existencehad been su" precarious , that for some time pasfr they had- suffered extreme privation ai . d great pecuniary embarrassment . M . 11 oreau had been in

      tlie habit of risins about _, scven o'clock in the morning , and usually took " a own stairs with him »» e of tue twin infants ( a boy and a girl ) , who slept in the same bed as he and the mother . This morning , upon dressing himself , ho did thfrsanie thing , taking toe female child with 'liim , and leaving the male infant in bed with the * mother , In i \ few minutes the mother was alnvmed by a loud shrieking , which she at _iM-st attributed to * Jhe two elder buys quarrelling , and ; therefore took no further notice of the' matter fonalew moments , b _»* i the shrieking , being continued ' , she _wwitto the room , and upon opening the door was met by the younger boy , who immediately ran bleeding down stairs' , at the bottom of which he fell down

      apparently htefess ; and , on entering the room , Mis ; lioreau saw her unfortunate husband in the aot of cutting his own throat , and before she could interpose he ¦ had fallen down a corpse . On looking farther she discovered her « ldest son dead in tne bed , but could not perceive auy trace other infant child , who was , however , shortly afterwards discovered . to have betn drowned in the rain-butt . There is nodoubt whatever bnt that the unfortunate father proceeded-to the garchni instiiirtly on leaving his oed-. voom , and , having'drowned thu child , then ascended to the children ' s room , where he afterwards perpetrated thc other murder , committing suicide themoment an alarm was raised .

      As no Vital organ has been severed , hopes are entertained that tlie yvunger hoy ' s file will be saved _,, although , of course , _tkti-e is _grsat _danger that he will notwirvive the shock . The widow of the unfortunate Frenchman states , that on her husband _gstting up she noticed no parti--cnlay change in his manner , lie-took _bis-inl _.-int son , William , in hw arms , aud kissed it very at & _etiimately . ' He then departed , as _ ut supposed , to the _bedroom occupied by the boys , but instead _af so doiug he must have walked into the back yard ,, and piunged the infant into the water-butt , and _thon _h-we kept it under _* ater till it died . She _states-that she never heard him go down _staiia , nor _hcard-the least noise whatever ,, until aroused , by the cries of lieu two boys .

      She then , jumped out of b _* id and ran up . stairs , where she ibuiid her husband standing over- her _tfhtest son , the bed literally , deluged- with blood . She immediately shouted to liim , biit he _appeared . not to hear her , or itlse to pay no- attention to her cries . Sne , therefore , ran out- and gavo a further alarm . The only thing that can account for her husband having destroyed himself and two of his children is the ihet of ilis- having of late betn in exceedingly distressed circumstances . To suahastate have they all been reduced as to frequently want the common _necessaries-of life . Upon searching the place nothing , whatever , in . the shape of feud was t & be fouiid ,. iieiihe * - _was-tlm-e _anvthins

      in the house that could haw been sold- to _> purchase as much as a breakfast . Tiie widow further states thaVs ' _r _. e believes it was her husband ' _sMutesition to havit murdered her and all the children before he destroyed himself , which h _& douotless > would have done , had it uot been for ihe screams- of her son _Phillarote . Sueh precaution !* had lie taken , tliat the dwor-chain was found so twisted that _sli 8 could noc have opened tne street door to escape , _liad-lw made an attack upon her life . Site says _uiat she has been _, married nearly'twenty year .-,, _thiit the deceased was formerly a schoolmaster at Leicester , but had of late-been obtaining a scanty subsistence for his lamily . by teaching the French and Italian languages .

      Mr . Docary , landlord , of tlie Lion , Wellingtonplace ( next door but two to- where tlie dreadful tragedy was enacted ) , says ; that whilst , standing in his bar his attention was suddenly arrested by hearing crifes of murder proceeding from Catherine-cottage _., lie proceeded , _thitheir when b % saw Mrs . _liotvau standing * iuJim * night _dms in the garden . She begged of him to come in-to her assistance , as her husband was murdering , hsr children . He told her to open the door , to which . she _replied-thatitwas so- fastened that she could not . He then lollowed her through the _csach-house , and on . entering the house found thc place in darkness . Having opened

      the shutters and obtained a light , he found the man lying in a pool of blood on thu fioor , with , his head nearly severed from , his boil *** . Behind the headboard ot a crib bedstead , ha found the boy liclvetius with his-throat cut _ii-om ear t _» ear . The other lad , Phillareie , was also-bleeding at the neck , and one of liis _fiiigaiB was _iieui'ly . cut from _his-l _.-and ,. showing that he must have struggled with his fathor . Seeing that one of the injured children was alive , he immediately sent for a surgeon ,, and Mr . Pratt came and sewed up the wound in the child !*} - neck . He then went in search of tlio infant ,, and _* , atlur some considerable time , is was found , in . tha : water-butt _, q itedead .

      A baker in the _neighbourhood states , tliat he has known tlie eldest boy to purchase on many occasions a single penny loaf tor _brealilast ,, and t ! ui & he came for ono on Friday last , Jiavin « -only threafiutliings to pay for it * * The Rev . Mr . Moore , of . Camden Chapel , upon _, being made acquainted with Uhe distressed condition of the poor widow ,, very humanely sent her a sovereign to assist her in tha-present _emex-genev .

      INQUSST . ON TJi : BOniESi . On Wednesday an inquiry took place- before Mr . W . _Caitar , at tbe Bricklayers' _Ai'iua Tavern , Southampton-street ,. Cambecwell , as to , the deaths of M . Philarct Houreau , _amLHelvetiua-aad William I'loreau ,. liis sons , who were murdered by him on Monday luorniug ,, previous _tt > ids own suicide . The jury having been , sworn , and a foronm . cuosun , they _proccedudy accompanied , by . the coioi ; e : _i ,. to view the bodies ,, whicli _weai lying side by side of each other on a _matti-ess , in the first Hoor back sown of Catherine-cottage . Tho infant , appeared a * if asleep , but the deceased man and _bojspi'csented . afrigiitfui spectacle _,, their heads being nearly _sovtjrud from the bodies . Throiiglwuhthe house , a _vcry-respectable

      residence _,, uot a particle oli _turuiture-was observable . Mis * W . A . C . Horcau ,. tlii ; widow ,. deposed as follows : t-The family retired to bed on Sunday about eleven , llelv- 'tiusandhis- brotlie' _- _^ who is- now going on wull ) slept up » _tairs , where the bodies were lying . Her husband aud she ,, with two twin _children , slope in the parlour below . Her _husband go * up about seven , on Monday , taking one cf ; 'dm children . ( the deceased William ) wish him into , the garden ,. In about an hour she heasd a _scre-iaa , anil _afterwards went up stairs to thei * sons' room . When she got thera her husband , was- in the _a-jn of cutting his _.-own throat , aad holding . Helvetia * ,, who had also his throat cut , down on the floor . She instantly ran down stairs , but _fwjnd the chain so fastened that she could not open tho front door ; and having got into tho garden , gave an ahum , when several persons came . When she got bach to the kitchen she found another sou . ( _JL'hilatixA standing np , anu he

      liau also his throat cut . ilia infant ( William ) she ; t afterwards discovered had _besn drowned in the wa-. -. ter butt . She had no doubt these deaths were the- i act ei" her husband , and thai they had been caMsed . L by _g-ieat irritability of his mind , _causeiby extxemei e , want . He was often unable to _supply the children n with food . He had been a teacher oC languages in . _« . the country , but lately had had no p- _nfessioual ' iivo-t h ctvtions _, aud that caused his extreme _destitution .. _n _ They had pawned and sold everything they had to to procure food , ami the la < t article , tliey bad was . as .. pawned on Saturday . She was _'iatisliedi this had id . produced a state of temporary insanity . —Tho- jury ry returned the following verdict : — '' We tkd a _vevdicticU of wilful murder against Phiiaret _Horeiui ,. as _segards . _-ds . i the death of liclvetius and Willi am lioreau _,, ami wwos find that the said Phiiaret Hon .-an desttoved _hiiuscllicllii while in a state of temporary insanhv , produced by by * extreme privation and want .

      Bankrupts. [From The Gazette Of Frmy, Fe...

      BANKRUPTS . [ From the Gazette of Frmy , February 201 / 1 . 1 A , Trebout _, jun ., _Stewanlstree _*' , _Spitnliields , silk-mamai nutacturcr—J . Harris , _LeadenhalUiarkut , butcher—11-111 JJockcr , Pall-mall , oilman stud _wax-chandler—C . Collinslinss Kidderminster , _Worcestushire , nnd King Willhiin-streuUreutt and _Adelaide-plaoe , City , yarn and com in issiou-ajf ent—litll H . Blacker .- and C . _Baritli , jun ., _Gresham-street , CityOityy warehousemen—J . Daltou , Wandsworth , grocer am anai _cheesemonger—J , Knox , Black Horse-yard , Isond-streetreetl c « rpentetv _ K . _Kiuipton , Cresetmt , _Jemn-atriut , _Cripplepploe gato , jcveller—T . M . Taylor , _Noncastle-upoii-Tyne ' ynee _merchant—J . Birkett , _Cockgrinouth , Cumberland , tan taun ncr—I . Phillips , W . Hague , and S . Hague , _Mauchestctstcii cottar j . spiimers—C . Collins , Kiddirminstcr , _yaru-dealeealee and ' yarn-agent—3 , C . Chambers , Ipslry , _Wnrwickshirohirci _ner dl _« manufacturer—3 . Minner , Stourport , Yr ' orce « tiiE « t « i ! i _st ' . irc _, innkeeper—E . Hoiire , Oharlield , _Gloucestershirehirci f . lothier .

      We Learn From Ijic Tailors' Aovocate, Th...

      We learn from iJic Tailors' Aovocate , that _theaueaut nual conference of this numerous and useful body tdy tt men will commence ac Lends on the 2 nd ot March , ch .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 21, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_21021846/page/5/