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      ON TIIE DOWNFALL OF POLAND . 0 , Sacred Truth , tnj trimnpli ceased awhile , Aad Hope , thy sister , ceasM with thee to smile . "When lcagu'd oppresiion poured to northern wars Her whisker ed pandoors and her fierce hussars ; "Waved her dread standard to the breeze of morn , Pealed her loud dram , and twanged her trumpet horn ; Tumultuous horror brooded o ' er her van , ErcMginj wrath to Poland—and to man ; TFanaWs late champion from her height survev'd , Vide o'er the fields , a vasts of ruin laid ; " 0 Heavens , "he cried , " my bleeding country save I " Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ! Yet , though destruction tweep these lovely plains . Rise , fellow-men , our country yet remains . J $ v riiat dread name we wave the sword on high , And swear for her to lire—with her to die !

      He Eaid , and on the rampart ' s heights arrayed His trusty warriors , few , but undismayed ; linn-paced and slow , a horrid front they form , Still as tlie breeze , and dreadful as tbe storm ; Low , murmuring sounds along their banners flj , Kevenge 01 death—the watchword and repl y . Then pealed the notes , omnipotent to charm , Aad the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm . In vain—alas ! in vain , ye gallant few , JVem rank to rank tout yollev'd thunder flew - 0 , BloodiestjntAttie in the book of Time , Sarmatia fell , unwept , without a crime ; Found not a generous Mend , a pitying foe , Strength in her arms , nor mercy in her woe ! Dropt from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear , Closed her bright eye , ana curbed her high career ; Hope , for a season , bade the world farewell , And freedom shriek'd—as Koseiusko felL

      The inn went down , nor ceased the carnage there—Tumultuous murder shook the midnight air-On Frague ' sproud arch and fires of ruin glow—His blood-d yed waters murmuring far below , The storm prevails , the rampart yields a way—Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay ! Hark , as the smouldering piles with thund er iall , A thousand shrieks far hop « less mercy call : Earth shook—red meteers flashed along the sky , And conscious nature shuddered at the cry . O , righteous Heaven ! ere Freedem found a grave , 'Why slept the sword omnipotent to save i yfbete was their arm , 0 , Vengeance ! where thy red , That smote the fbesofZion and of Cod ? That crashed proud Asuaon , when his iron car "Was yoked in wrath , and thundered from afar 1 "Where was the storm that slumbered till the host Of blood-stained Pharoah left his trembling coast , Then bade the deep in wild commotion flow , And heaved an ocean on their march below S

      -Departed spirits of the mi ghty dead , !?« that at . Marathon and Leuctra Wed , Friends of the world , restore your swords to man , Tight in his sacred cause and lead the van ; Tet for Samatia ' s tears of blood atone , And make her arm puissant as jour own . -Ob , one * again to Freedom ' s cause return , -The Patriot leU—the Brace of Bannock-Dura . CAHPBEIX

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      SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . SO . X . FALL , TYRANTS , FALL ! The trumpet of liberty sounds through the world . And ths universe starts at the sound ; Her standard philosophy ' s hand has unfurled , And the nations are thronging arennd . How noble the ardour that seizes the soul ! How it bursts from the yoke and the chain ! What power can ihe fervour of freedem control , Or its terrible vengeance restrain ! Fall ! fall , tyrants , fall !

      These are the days of Liberty . Prond castles of tyranny , dungeons , and cells ! The tempest shall sweep you away ; From the east to the west the dread hurricane swells , And the tyrants are chilled with dismay . "The slave , ou whose neck the proud despot has trod Sow feels that himself is a man ; "While the lorilj usurptr , who ruled with a nod , Hi . es his head ' midst the servile divan . Fall ! fall , tyrants , fall ! &c Poor vassals who crawl by the Vistula ' s stream , Hear , hear the glad call and obey ! Sise , nations who worship the sun ' s sacred beam . And drive jour Pizarros away . tEhe crod dominion of priestcraft is o'er , Its thunders , its faggots , and chains : Mankind will endure the vile bondage no more , While reason eur freedom maintains .

      Fall ! fail , tyrants , fall ! &c The trumpet of liberty sounds through the world , And the universe starts at the sound ; Her standard philosophy ' s hand has unfurled , And the nations are thronging around . Shall Britons the trumpet of Liberty hear ¦ With a cold and insensible mind ! 2 * o ! the trumpet of Freedom eathBriton shall share ; And contend for the rights of mankind ! Fall ! fall tyrants , fall ! Death to our bonds of slavery

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      53 ~ Want of time and room again compels us to omit our usual reviews . We shall try to bring up arrears nest week . Our FEIST OF THE POETS will appear in the Star of the Easter holiday week . All poetical contributions must be at the office of this paper by Monday , 6 th of April .

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      The Misfoeibsis of Fortcke . —The following colloquy is related by the Journal da YaUenga to iaye passed a few days ago between a gendarme and a thief named Fontaine , whom he had arrested at Trevieres { Calrados ) : —Gendarme : "Foolish and wretched man , how could you , at your advanced age ¦ of 71 , commit a crime for which yon mast make up . your mind to pass the rest of your days in prison f Jontainei " 1 am not so unfortunate as you think . I have been a thief for sixty years , and this is the first time I was ever arrested . " Father Fbaxcis , A Catholic Phiest , was killed at Muodkee , whilst attending a regiment inaction , in the fond hope that he might assist the wounded and soothe the last moments of some expiring soldier . Loxdos am ) Liverpool . —Taking the young and old together , it is found that twenty-six years is the -average age at which people die in London , and seven * teen in Liverpool .

      Jsrssx Schools . —A subscription for the benefit of Jlr . Wilderrpin , the unwearied promoter of infant schools , has been commenced at Wakefield . Facilo t is the Adaptatios op Words . —We remember an old lady in Somersetshire , who , whenever accosted with an inquiry after the " rheumatics . " < tc ., invariably replied— " Thankee kindly , sir , I ain ' t a « better nor no worser , but very much the same as tuefvil . " Death of the Hox . W . 3 f . Ridlet Colbokxb , H . P . —We have to announce the death , at a prematoreage . ofthe Hon . W . Nicholas Ridley Colborne , M-r ., who expired on Monday afttrnoon at Lord -CtJbome ' s residence inflill- > treet , inthe 32 nd year of his age . The deceased was only son of Lord " Colboine , and was b jrn ihe 24 h of July , 1 SU . He was elected at the last general election for Richmond , ¦ ff filch bv his death becomes vacant .

      . AccousiODATios . —A contemporary speaks of sleeping on a fence rail with two yards of tape for a covering . Some people ' s accommodation is rather short , truly . —American paper . ISTEODCCIIOX OF CaUCO-PrISHXO 1510 E 5 GLAHD . ~ Calico-printing was introduced into England in the year 165 © by a Frenchman , who in all probability was a refuse , and who established a small printing ground on the banks of the Thames , at Richmond . A large manufactory was soon afterwards established at Bn , m ! ey-hall , in Essex , besides several others in the neighbourhood of London . About 17 ( 53 it was carried into Lancashire .

      Eabli Vsoetatios . —Vegetation is aoout two months earlier than it was la t spring , and the young grass and rye , and vetches and wi :. ter barley , have sow more feed than there was at the commencement of May hut rear . Had not the turni ps been topped , they would in many places have been out in full flower before tl . is time ; and so mild hasthe weather been , that when they have been pulled up and thrown In Leaps , they have continued to push out their seed stems , and it is a veij difficult matter to preserve them from king exhausted of their nutritious qualities . Feed is now most abnndant , and hundreds of acres of good turcip 3 could be had for nothing . A great part of the e « es have now brought forth , and the increase in lambs will , we think , be as great us usujOi . —Ikrkshire Chronicle . Ebcftioxs . —A quack doctor , in praising his medicine as a care lor eruption , said it would cure the eruptions of Heck

      An Uxclauied Letter 13 now lying at the Blackburn post-office , with this address : — " My dear grandmother , Blackburn , Lcnkishur . " The Win is Isma —We have obtained leave to copv tiie following rortion of a private letter lroin an cHccr whoconunai . dvd one of the regiments engaged in the . severe three dajb' tattle on the bank tf the Smi-. j : — " Camp Hurrei-ka Ghaut , on the left bunk < . f the Suilt-j , 15 th January . —God only knows how this desperate war will terminate . Our loss in killed ai . d woradid lias ken aimost three thousand . Ocd oulv knows how 1 escaped . I commanded the —Xn on thclStli , at the dise nf that battle- am 1 coiMnandcd fc il ! e battles of the 21 st and ^ ud My .-iraocharger was sisoton the night of tre * 1 st " while in square-. Lord Fitzxoy Somerset ' aVn receivnl 1 : if uoatE vom . ii 111 the isiiks oftl- e 50 th he was a noble and esltent soldier . " * '

      JvJamee . —At Ujsssow a companyh ^ s L-een formed whose object is to niake sowers to rxnvey the tuS < . f fsie city to a distaisce , aiid ihcre to , be aciiimulattd in a l « n : e reservoir , wheiicc it is to be taken and jjieparod as a nirjjuie for aiiricujtural purj'Oses . The cui » itai to be raihtd is Ml ) JJfy ) .

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      THE CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF MANCHESTER . . The Address of the Central Association of London Trades , published in last Saturday ' s Star , will 1 ^ informed our readers of the origin of the great turnout of the buildingtradea in Manchester . Thestrike was commenced by the carpentew and joiners ; the same day the bricklayers quitted their work ' [ The masters ascertaining that the slaters , plumbers , glaziers , plasterers , and painters , with their labourers , were nobly supporting the men on strike , gave notice to the menin those trades to leave their employment , and those trades accordingl y ceased to work at the termination of the week . The number out of employment is about 4 , 000 . Such is the tyranny practised by the ereat mastersthat ther havn not

      , only turned out the workmen in the whole of the building trade , but they hare also tried to intimidate the small masters , by stating that if they would not turn out their men and join the masters' union , they would prevent them from having work at any jobs they might have anything to do with . It will be seen , therefore , that the masters are determined to cvwslv the men , if possible * , but it is to be hoped that the working classes of ever }* trade will at once contribute their pecuniary aid in support of the trades of Manchester ,, and thus foil the tyrannical intentions of the despotic masters . The men have nothing to fear if their fellow-operatives will keep out of the town , and not be allured from their homes by the placards which the masters have circulated through the country , for " 4000 men at good wages . " They only want them as tools , to enable them to crush the men whose sweat and toil have made them

      what they are . As usual , the press is arrayed against the operatives—the great Lancashire Liar , the Manchester Guardian , being foremost in the unholy work of calumniatin ; the men . An article , full of the grossest misreprcsentatioiis , appeared in that journal , directed against the men ; bet when the men desired the fairplay of being permitted to defend themselves , their reply was refused admission except as an advertisement . The following is th » reply of the men which also embodies the principal misrepresentations replied to , and for inserting -which the Manchester ffuardfancharged and plundered the men of £ 2 . We re-publish it without money and without charge : — To ike Editor of Hie Mandiestcr Guardian . Sib , —Tour publication of Saturday last contains

      an article headed " The Joiners' and Bricklayers ' Strike , " which , for gross falsehoods and slander stands unparalleled in our experience . As I large body of tradesman , we have a right to demand of yon , ai a public journalist , the same means of rebutting those charges as you have afforded space for making them ; but we do denounce emphatically the system pursued by you , of publishing a party statement in favour of the employers , without inquiring on both sides of the question ; for we are prepared with the most incontrovertible testimony , to prove that the statements you have made are directly untrue . We deny , in the m 03 t unqualified terms , that we ever attempted to impose restrictions on our employers , either as to the mode of carrying

      oa their business , or as to whom or who they should not employ ; and you unhappily cite the case of Messrs . Pauling as an instance , a case which must be fresh in your memory . Mr . Pauling required every man in his employ to work 105 hours more every winter than any other master builder ever did ; hence the dispute with Mr . Pauling—and so much for your selection of an illustration of our present position . But it would seem that no stene should be left unturned by you to place us in ft fake position with the public . We deny that we ever interfered with our employers as to the number of apprentices they should have . We deny that we ever extorted the reluctant consent of our employers to shorten the hours of labour ; the time that we now

      work , taking the year round , is the same as it always has been . You , sir , state that the old hours were , during the winter , from six o ' clock to six , and from the 17 th of November to the 2 nd of February , to light up and work until seven o ' clock in the evening . This , sir , is directly untrue ; and never was such a rule acted upon in Manchester . The working rule , prior to last autumn , was , from the 17 th of November to the 2 nd of February , to commence work at half-past seven o ' clock in the morning , and leave off at seven in the evening ; and from the 2 nd of February to the 17 th of November , to work from six o ' clock to six , except Monday and Saturday , when we commenced at seven o ' clock on the former , and left off at four o ' clock on the latter . Now it must be

      obvious , that before the 17 th of November , and immediately after the 2 nd of February , there are several weeks we cannot seethe whole time ; this has been unpleasant alike to the employers and operatives , and also to the public . In order to allay this unpleasantness , we submitted two propositions to our employers—the one to adopt the half-holiday , by commencing at six o ' clock in the morning and working until six in the evening , the year round , except Monday and Saturday , to commence at seven o ' clock on the former , and leave off at twelve o ' clock on the latter ; and the other , by commencing at the same time and working until half-past five o ' clock , and leaving work ; . t four o ' clock on Saturday afternoon . The former proposition was

      unanimously adopted by the whole of the master builders , with one exception , and was forthwith acted upon , each party considering they had neither gained nor lost by the alteration . This change took place in October last . Now , mark the dishonourable attempt on the part of the employers to filch from us the halfholiday , which is due to us until October next , in consideration of the time we worked extraduring last winter . We ask the public , is this fair and honourable dealing ? Give us the half-holiday which is our due until next October , and we are then willing to re-consider the subject of time . All we require at our employers' hands is fair and honourable dealing . We deny distinctly that double time is charged by us after having worked two hours overtime . Double

      time does not commence until after ten o ' clock ac nLht , and this was made for doing away with ni ^ ht labour . Tour remarks respecting wages in London , Liverpool , and other towns , are also untrue ; the wages in the two former being 2 s . more than you have stated . After other remarks respecting a few individuals ruling and over-awing the mass of the men , and other equally untrue statements , you assert there are 1 , 700 men out of work . Here again , sir , you stand convicted of falsehood . The number taken from the books was , last week , 1 , 002 ; and you further state they have to depend on the miserable pittance of from 5 s . 6 d . to G « . per week . This , again , is untrue . Every man who answered his name for the first three days , received

      7 s . 6 d ., the bouks being made up to Wednesday night according to rule ; and every man last week , on strike , received a full week ' s strike pay ; so much for the state of our funds . In fact , the whole paragraph is , from beginning to end , line for line , a tissue of gross falsehood and calumny , published with the evident intention of prejudicing the public against a body of working men , endeavouring to raise themselves in the scale of society without injury to any party . If a public journal be of any moral use , it ought to be the medium through which correct information should be conveyed to the public , especi ally in matters of dispute ; and not , as in this case , the means of slandering and calumniating a body of workmen for the interest and gratification of their

      employers , calcul-ited only to excite the worst passions of men , and widen the gap of friendly intercourse which ought to exist between the employer and operative ; and which you , as a public journalist , ' ought to be the foremost to cultivate . In palliation of your statements ' , you may contend you have made them upon wrong information ; but it wa * your duty , as an editor , to have consulted both parties , and then yon w » u ! d have arrived at a more correct report . It may not generally be knovn what wages our employers pay : but we will set the public right upon this point . We take the seven principal employers , and in them we find 16 men receiving more thai 2 Gs . per week ; 219 at 2 Cs . ; 92 at 25 s . ; 103 at 24 s . ; and 152 receive less than 24 s . ; so that the public will

      see that our wages do not average more than 24 s . Gil . per week . You taunt us with dictating to the men when they shall work , when they shall strike , what wages accept , and what offers mfuse ; which is altogether untrue , as there are more than sis hundred of our members at work . But can anything equal the tyranny of the master-builders going to the small tradesmen , and threatening , il ' they do nut turn their men out and join their union , they will withdraw the whole of their trade from them . Again , you state the good workmen are mainly dispi sed to return to their work at the oiler made . This again is untrue ; foi * it is the best workmen who want rewarding for their talent . We also de » y that we ever borrowed from , or stand indebted

      to , any trade in any town , as we have so far been able to pay our way . The whole of the charges we have denied , we are prepared to prove are untrue ; and challenge either yourself , or the roasters' union , by deputation , or otherwise , to meet before tkemayor , or any civen number of arbitrators , and incoutestibly prove thuy ave directiy ami unqualifiedly hilse . And now , sir , lor the whole matter in dispute . It was agreed last autumn that we should ask < ur employers for au advance of Cd . per day on our then rate of wages ; and , at the coninieiicement of the present ye-tr , each employer was served with a formal notice to that tffect , —the notice terminating on the 2 nd

      March -, and \ so ctnnv ' entfy appeal to the public whether our demand is unreasonable or not . Glance at the . iron trades , and compare their wages with ours , without taking into account the amount of money it takes to furnish ourselves with tools , and a constant expense for the wear and tear of the same , that 1 : 0 other trade is subject to . This , then , is the whole of the dispute , unconnected with any otlwr T \? m ? ; " 1 S ) ailU thia aloi 'e , that caused Mr . D . Bdlhouse to summwi the makers to » ether to form their Meant uiuoii ; and the justness of our demand we shall leave to a generous and impartial public . Ly order ol the Caipentm and Joiners .

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      Saiwjw- Stmkb at Hum , Thtf sailors of Hull having baen foull / mali gned by an anonymous calumniator , signing hinu ' eK " a Shipowner , " in the mockliberal paper , thoKuU Advertiser , ne haT « received ths Mowing reply from tha men . The brave fellows have our hearty sympathy , and we trust will * ucceed in their struggle . No class of men stf i worse treated thau British seamen , but i t " they unitodly insist upon justice , no clan could moro easily emancipate themselves : "A letter having appeared in the / TitR Adi'ertiter of Friday , the I Stb of March , animadverting on the strike of the sailors of this port , we , the seamen of the port of Hull , deem it rig ht and just to contradict the false statwnont * therein contained . It is true we are striking for £ 3 10 s . per month , owing to the partial employment of about seven iX ' Sr ^^^

      or eight months in the year . Tiia ' Shipowner * w' we are paid more than the Sail » M in auy other port in tU 9 kingdom . ' We r . fer lain to Sunderland , Shield * , Newf astle , and the small porls iu Yorkshire ; He says that ourpartial employment is our own fault ( if he looks » t the number of ships in tht . docks that will eontradict him ) , for there is the coasting trade . the year round' Wa ask , will that employ all our seafaring men t Also , be sajs , 'there is the trade to Hamburgh iixd Holland , Thare are eight small vessels employed in the Rotterdam trade , averaging about five able seamen each and frequentl y some of them are laid bye . As to Hamburgh , there has beonnomore than three English steamboats running there , and a small sailing vessel occasionally . H « sajs , J tkere are many shi ps sailed to the

      Mediterranean , South America , aud the East IndisS . ' Tim owners of these ships have given £ 2 5 s . or £ » 10 s . per mouth , and most of them will not allow half-pay on hors . How is it likel y that a married man cau leave his family for such a long time without something to subsist upon ! aud where the half . pay is left , what , is £ 1 2 s . fid . per month for the support of a family of seven or eight chiluren , and three parts of the seamen of this port are married , and hava families ! This is the reason why strangere are allowed to take our berths from us , the most of thembsing single men , or those who have run away from t heir wives an d families , leaving them on the parish . These men can get berths before men who wish to support their families decent and respectable . The Shipowner further says , that ' the seamen of this port

      will not go to sea in the winter . ' This is false . How often do we sigu for half . pay during the time the ships are frozen up in all parts of the Baltic , and other pl » c » s , where we do the sama work as if we wer » on full pay ; and when we come home we are sometimes in debt to the owners , not having beon allowed sufficient to make us comfortable during such severe winters . Also , when we arrne home in the month of June , all the American ships «• gone , and we are obliged to pick up with any short trade we can . This is proof that we will go to sea in the whiter if we can . He ( the Shipowner' ) asks , 'is our demand just or reasonable 5 ' We ask him , is it anything but just and reasonable » Is £ 310 s . per month an unreasonable charge far working botb night and d » y ? Freights have rissn one-third , while we want no more

      advance than one-sixth of our wages . He says , 'it is well known that many men would go J » r £ 3 per month , but they dare not sign articles , or go on board , fearing the lawless proceedings of a s « t of idlers , who night have had employment all the winter through . ' We tell him thil ii false . At our meetings resolutions have passad not to touch the half man , or stubbed sheep , that would undermine us and rob his own and our families of a bare subsistence . He calls us 'lawless fellows ; ' w * askjbim to seatch the Hull calendar , and see what number of seamen have either been hung or transported , or paid our creditors with one shilling to the pouud , nithiu the last twenty years . Our most particular business before the magistrates 13 , in general , some lawful claim for wages , from individuals desirous of taking advantaee of

      us . He says , 'ha cannot compete with the foreigner , when they are paying only from twenty to thirty shillings per month . ' These men ( the foreigners ) are kept on all the year round , and they carry double the number of men that our ships carry , and arc allowed everjthin ; requisite , whilst we are paid oil ' as soon as the ship arrives , and find our own stores . He » uya that ' tU « onlj remedy is to allow them to buy foreign ships , ' and employ foreign men , to make us sensible of our situation . ' We wish he would man the navy with foreigners to protect his property . We can assure him we are sensible oi our situation , and are not as seamen were fifty years ago . Ths Legislature has dona a great deal to enable him to compete with the foreigner , and the Legislature has done much for us . We are allowed by Act of Parliament a

      proper allowance of everything . How ofton does it happen that we are half the voyage without vinegar , sugar , lime juice , and only half the quantity of meat and bread which is allowed by government , ytt on our arrival home have passed it by , and not brought it to law 1 But for the future we wish to inform this and other shipowners of our determination to enjoy tliosa bencfiti which ths legislature has seen fit to grant us . And now to conclude , we , the sailors of Hull , think , that as the gentleman ' s ideas refer principally to timber and deals , bis head must be made of the same material ; and we hope he will go ou his knees and pray to God to give him grace to speak the truth ; for ii people of sense read the letter , th « y must think the same as we do , that it is nothing but a composition of senseless trash and falsehood . —The Mbhbsbs 01 the Mawnibs' Unios . "

      TuiENnLT Societies . —The bill of Mr . Buncombe to attend the act of the 4 th and 5 th William IV ., relating to friendly societies , has been considerably altered in the committee . It wai printed on Saturday with fifteen clauses , instead of three , as originally issued . It bears the names of ilr . T . Buncombe and Mr . Hawes . Furposts for which friendly societies may be formed are declared , and all existing societies , for which rules hav , j beon sanctioned , to be deemed to be within the provisions of the recited act from the allowance of such rules . Mr . Tidd Pratt is to be paid a salary equal to the net average amount of fees received by him during th » last three years , tor certifying the rules of friendly societies , after

      deducting the necessary expenses of his office , ifcc . He is to be styled the Registrar of Friendly Societies in England , and the registrar hereafter to be appointed in Englaud is to receive not more than £ 800 a-year . In case the fees are insufficient , then the remainder for salary and expenses , to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund . It is declared that after the passing of the act the barrister or advocate appointed to certify the rules of friendly societies , shall be styled the Registrar of Friendly Societies in England , Ireland , and Scotland respectively . Bispu ' . ea are to be referred to the registrar ; and when a trustee is absent from England , bankrupt , insolvent , &c , the registrar may order the stock ofa society to be transferred and dividends paid .

      Tcen-out of Fakm Laboobebs at Ihck . —We hear the farm labourers at Ince have not been working for the last few weeks , having struck for an increase of wages from 12 s . to 15 s . per w « ek ; some of them , we understand , are trying to obtain employment at the new works of the Liverpool Docks , and oth « r places in the town . — Liverpool JUrcury . Lascashibe Minebs . —William Grocott most thankfully acknowledgesanother donation of £ 10 for the miners of Lancashire ( who have been compelled to leave their employment ) from the miners of Holytown , per William Cloughan . The miners of Bolton and its vicinity are still out . Monies stnt for them will be thankfully received and duly acknowledged by William Groeott , No . 1 , Can , H . lini-buildings , Mount-street , Ancoats ; or Mr . Charles Meadoncroft , Astley-street , Dukinfield , Cheshire . Mr . Charks Meadowcroft acknowledges the receipt of £ 2 6 s . frcm Kewcastle-on-Tyne , per John Hall .

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      THE STOCK 1 NGERS . TO THE ED 1 TOB Of THE NOBTHEB . V STAB . SlK , —You would much oWige the stockingers by inserting the following letter , addressed to the editor of the Times , but which has been refused insertion . March 21 th , 1816 . Thomas Wintebs . To the Editor of the Times . "Stockingers areuufortunately , by the nature of tteir employment , doomed to a perpetual place in the rear of enterprise , and the lowest class of rewards . They arc parsons who stana still while all the rest of the world are niuving on . Their trade admits of little or no improvement in skill , capital , or power of production . But it is easy . It scarcely requires a week ' s apprenticeship , or amomenfsthought . "—The ZImej , March 16 th , 1810 ,

      Si « , —In reading tho above extract , I could scarcely forbear smiling at the idea of an editor of the first journal in the world becoming a stockinger , or , at least , to write on a subject upon which he was so little informed ; for , I am sure , had he been practically or even theoretically acquainted with the system by which the trade is governed—the skill required in its several departments—the improvements in frame machinery—tile increased power of production—the thousands engaged in the manufacture—the accumulation of eapitalby the manufacturers at a time when the workmen were getting poorer , he would not have written such fallacies , or libelled the skill and ingenuity of so large a class of artisans as the stockingers , by designating thein " the Pariahs of manufacturers . " They are not unsusceptible of skill .

      or are they the intractable portion of society 1 They are a class sunk in the depths of wretchedness and toil , through the cruel systim by which the trade is governed , or the local customs to which they are subjected . They are governed harshly , and despitefully U 6 ed ; jet they are loyal and peaceable . They are the lambs under the wolf ' s care , to be fleeced at their will , or the will of those who dictate aud measure the terms of remuneration fur labour . They niny be ignorant of their strength and value to society , but they are not ignorant of those who dail y inttsct injury upon them . The enterprising capitalists may bo termed their best friends—such friends as employ them for the s ? . kc of large profits , as they would by employing any other animal ; and when labour tails , or old uj ^ o creeps on , tkat they become useless , are sent to other fields for grass . The golden , though unchristian theme

      « . f the political economists , of "buung cheap and selling i utiir , " is too much acted upon—in * fact , it is not buying labour , but offering a price which the workmen dayo not ! refuse . ^ They labour from morn till eve for others gain— ] not their own . Hosiery goods ih the market realise good prices - , wages in the lauuur market will not allow this operative to live-onl y exist . The wealthy manufacturer accumulates his thousands , while the workmen drag out a miserable existence on an average of 5 s . Cd . per weik . Tbey haveriscu . as it were , from the dunghill to the heights of opulence . They comm ence business with little conscience , and end with nune , determined to get , " no matter in what form or at . wl , at cost . A case , was brought before the Leicester magistrates on the lC . ih of January , 16 1 C , for aujudicatior , , wuure a „„ ,. „ .,. ot . uUcte , i from a workman ' s wages Us . lid . out of ils . 2 d . earned , fur what they were pleased to term frame rent , Ac The magistrates dismissed the cas » , as they stated "it «« s

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      touchy ' ™! ' *'? formerl J «> e rule for Jack Sheppard ! « & ! £ , Plunaw i iUl n ™ « " rule to get it in rent , S . I , ? " 7 ™ conYe » ient to * » suc 1 ' « frame mendml „ . n l " giviDg out - *•«»? . in , turning , fro n h ? ' ZTr ' ^' lig '" ' P rofit » ' - " > be dedu <^ wo k iiuf i Iabour ' «« " » ti" « ° * ° * half well totI ' n ' or lttUe - T 1 ) e « toekta «! w may S . U . 5 « T "' " ^" 1 UBh Amenta and hrfringe-« e " C 8 e 'i" 1 ? " ^ bS the mi" > ufrcturers and au . tho * imP ; OvemS S ^ 8 to ? k » 'Ser Ending still , and no ^?™ U made no fc" than 146 inventions ton luveuuuns nait

      T . hoon om . i :. 1 * ., ™» ¦ " « Sb S t l ° Cltine frame and " "' anulacture , manuS , ** " * ° mV is maile "M * " "" » the ™; ' Ctte Of locking * shirts , drawer ., piecos , and rZ « f " ofhosier y ; »>** -I think is sufficient to P me that great progress has been made in the hosiery manufacture . The stockingeris required to be as skilful iu his occupation as any other artisan ; he is necessitated to understand as complex a pieco of machinery as most trades , aud keep it in a workable condition . The frame is composed of move than 100 parts , whioh , should even

      one remove trom its proper position , he caunot manufacture stockings in a workmaalike manner . The mure moving of the machine is certainly monotonous ; so is the movement of any other machine ; hut manufacturing an artiste is widel y different . It is easy for a person to work a printer ' s press , butitis not so easy to arrange the type , and prepare it for the press . There is a greater difterm . ee between the simple prooess of moving the frame and manufacturing the article . It is not easy learned . It may be easy for a boy to hold a pen , but not so easy to make a figure ; or either is it so easy to make a stockiug . The business of a stockinger is one of a peculiar construction , and needs the whole human frame to be m action at the same moment . He cits on a board , moving both hands and feet , aud is compelled , iu wide and fine guagss , to watch from 1000 to 2000 loops , which move in quick succession . Thousands have been apprenticed , and never could make workmen ; and now there is

      scarcely one who understands it in all its ramifications . It is divided into branchas and sections ; such as stockings , shoes , shirts , gloves , caps , cravats , 3 hawls , coats , cloaks , pantaloons , drawers , mitts , &o ., &c . The Stockingors , and others connected with the trade , amount to 150 , 000 ; they are the most wretched of all classes ; despined , illused , ill-treated—cheated by their masters—wronged by the press , but have a heart to feel the injury inflicted upon them . All we wantis justice , a fair day ' s wage for a fair quota of labour , and our proper share of the benefits arising from increased consumption , which hitherto wo have been deprived of . I am , sir , your humble servant , Tiioaus Wintkis , a Pramework-knitter . 15 , Eaton-street , Leicester , March 17 th , 1846 .

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      FURTHER PARTICULARS OF TIIE " CONSPIRACY" case of the Belfast shoemakers . TO ins EDITOB OF THE NOBTIIKBK STAB . Sib , —It has already been made known to your readers that a charge of " conspiracy" has for upwards of two months now been hanging over tho heads of some six or seven of the journeymen shoemakers of Belfast , though on what foundation thi 3 charge has been really got up has all along been , and is still , a profound secret . It has merely transpired that the offence is to be proved at common law—this " common" law being just such an uncommon nondescript as tho judge himself may best pleasa to propound to the very loarned auditory of a jury box , taking , as it may ba made to do , every camelion-likts hue— " now this and now t ' other . " Well , then , as

      almost every action of life , where poverty is brought into contact with power , may , in this way , be construed as an "indictable" action , so , I suppose , there is no help , and the still unnamed aud unnaineuble law must , in proper legal phraseology , "take its course . " It is a fact , however , that this ' course . " is evermore most cross-grained whenever there is alack of the ntcenary fuc-nienoy to pay for an such " common law , " for it is then , indeed , a most " uncommon " . prize to catch . To the poor who claim it , the attorney is deaf—the magistrate is ueatthe judge is deaf ; and in proof that such is the case , I may just here state that the thoughtless Belfast shoemakers took it foolishly into their heads the other

      week to try if they could not , in turn , indict their masters on a charge of " conspiracy , " at common law , theso sume masters having , in the first instance , combined amongst themselves to discharge from their employ , at almost a moment ' * warning , between tivo and three hundred men because they refused to give up their trade society—their only protection ; and next , for having followed many of these , their unemployed victims , from time to time , throughout the neighbouring towns ; uud vrlieruvur tho ; found any of them had obtained wvrk , to such new employ cr or employers at once to go , and by such representations as tbey judged best for the purpose , to get them discharged again ! And yet no " common law" could be had for the protection of the sufferers in this case .

      On Friday , llarch 6 th , Mr . Hitchcock , an attorney in Belfast , brought this couuter-charge in behalf of the men bofore the "impartial *" of the bench , alleging in his statement , as given in the Banner 0 / Ulster of the Tuesday Jollowing , that they , the masters , had " entered into a resolution that they would not give work to any uinn unless he would quit the society . " This they would not do , for they were supported by it . They were , us he hud said , thrown out of employment , and obliged to lunvc Belfast . If the vengeance of the masters had stopped even here , their case , perhaps , would not have looked so

      ill as it now did , for these poor men , whom they had thrown upon the world at that inckment season , might have procured work somewhere . But the masters' society were not couUnt with what they had already done , they sent deputations from their body to other towns , mid even to Scotland , who solicited employers from whom tliu Belfast men had obtained wotk to turn them off ; aud in this object they succeeded in many instances . U he succeeded in proving these acts against the wasters , he submitted that he should have established a sufficient case to bring home to them the charge of conspiracy , aud ol having acted in concert .

      He did not , however , succeed—there was no " common hw" for the common man !! Ann , then , as if to make the decision still more unholy-looV . ing , soon after , a second conviction was obtained by the employers against four of the men on another charge of " conspiracy , " as to be proved at the assizuain virtue sf this same must convenient " common law . " These assizea are now over ; they commenced ou Tues .. day , the 17 th inst ., and on the next day these strange shoemaker revelations were to be put to the test ; and lo ! what has been the result ? Why , just this , as I copy uiy information again from the Banner of Ulster of Friday , the 20 th : —Air . Dix , as counsel for the prosecution , reaii an affidavit sworn by the attorney for the prosecution , to the effect that the combination entered into by the journr > men boot and Bhoeraakers of Belfast against the masters was extensively supported by the trade generally , and in erder that a system fraught with such injurious consequences might be fully and lairly exposed , time was

      required to make inquiries in regard to its workings in various parts of the three kingdoms , and particularly in London . Meanwhile the parties might be nllowed to stand out 011 bail as formerly . Mr . Moore , on the part of the . defendants , objected to this course of proceeding , and to the affidavit put in , as not being made by either of the parties who had originated the prosecution . In the exercise of his duty to those for whom he appeared , he felt bound to say that the course proposed had a tendency to perplex the trarurstr ? , aud entail upon them great expense . They had feed counsel at considerable cost , and had been called on to plead to an indictment , which deserved to be called a monaterindictmentas much as the celebrated one so called . Instead of the plea tor postponement made by his learned friend , he would suggest that the prosecution should be entirely abandoned , lnfornmtiuns had been taken as early as the ( Kit of January , and the natural result of keeping the charge pending for t-ucli a length of time , would bo to exasyeratu those against whom it was directed .

      This objection , howevor , of Mr . Mooro , on the sido of the defence , was of no use , for tho trial was put off to thu summer assizes . "This course , " writes the editor of the Banner , in some comments which ha make » upon the case under notice , " necessarily mvolvcu the pnrtlea charged in great additional cost and inconvenience They are all poor men , depondent lor their weekly living ou their weekly earnings ; and although they may be purfectly innocent , yet this delay inflicts , iu their case , very severe punishment . Tl | e proceedings agaiKSt them were commenced more than two months ago . They liavu been from that time undo ? arrest , although they were admitted to bail on slight recognisances—two , of live pouwte

      etu-h . These securities , however small , they may apiKsr , arc considerable for men in the position of life occi' 4 > ied by the prisoners . We could suppose journeymen shoemakers being unabl * to find two good securities evisn for five pounds each , Uut we can scarcely supposu tlkat tlw Crown anticipate the possibility of , establishing qavtuiug very serious ugaiast these men , wben tbey me avowed to be at large on tiit-se trifling si-etmlies . If tinmen were uuable to find them , they must be exposed to . She evils of imprisonment , and their families , if they lavt any , to , the hardshi p of want for six months , in u&iiuon to ilv » time that they already have been in sutpeaie , iu order .- iu enable the Crown to make v . y it * ease . "

      Surely it is impossible that society tan go ou long thus ! IllEltE MUST UU A CHANGE I And tllBdu men propose to n . akc a commencement towards this c ' aaugetliej : « e about to voik ^ or thtmsciwa . Yours , very truty , Editor w the " Coiii > vjuM : its' C-jjii-anion . " A ' "idon , Slardi IHth .

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      ' illfi ni ' u'UDElt OF TI 1 K 1 OUCE GOSS . TABLE AT DlU'TFuitu . — On Monday the nujouniet ! . inquest on the body of James llastie , the police voiistablc , wli « was so brutally maltreated on the cv-ning of Friday , th 20 th ult ., iuTinuerbox-alley , J ^ ptlord , wasr « miii « d . The only uihiifumal evidence . giver , ( , n this occasion was tlmt ot' Timotliy id-isco . 'j , one of Hie men taken into custody on thu chargo . . Jt wait to show that t !> e rni'ii chine d wi ' -h the Usenet . ( Sullivan , r . iouon , and Collin-s ) wtnt home soo ' rt * fov i \ ivy wit tlieliodney , in his . company . j \ tucartliv , another of the nuni charged ^ lie ( Unscoli ) tticl not sou after hall-pusi clevui o ' clock , ' . l . 'lm coroner , having gmio through the evidence , mcsi , minutely * umnieil up . it considerable k-rujtil , and tho jury ' retire ! to consider tlu-ir verdict . Alter nn absence of iii-wartis of an lumr ; tisny murnal " into court with a wrtlict cf Wilful ; Murder sigaip ^ Oollinsi , buUivan , Bro-on ulLu ¦ 0 Ivuiltv sum Msieavthy . Tim coroner issued , hi * wamuit iu * . liiccoiunutUilol ' tue accused to ^ YgiUe ,

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      THE POLISH INSURRECTION . THE MASSACRE . IN GALUCIA . | To the Editor of tltf Times . ] Sib ,- ~ 1 b » g ltave to enclose f- > r jvw perusa' H » b trans , lation of a letter which I received ydbterdaj iV no . ral U—— , residing at Frankfort , containing some" striking facts respecting the massacre of'ther'nobilit / in Gallicia , as reported by an eye witness . I have the honour' to be , sir , Your obedient servant , 10 , Duke-street , St . James ' s , March 18 . ' C . SV Fhaskfoki , March 12 . —At a time when , thougb separated , wo mia « leour tears over the calamity that has recently befallen our country , it is our sacred duty to clear before the world the erimea which , as a trap , hare been provoked by the Austrian government ; but a free prew , like that of England , can alono serve as an echo to the many innocent and horribly-!! i " l er ! ™ h 'i ' / ou , thereforeI appeal to THE POLISH INSURRECTION .

      .. , . , use your influence that the names of those whowero obnoxious to the bloody government might be sesnin their proper light . In order to shorteD the necessity of writing I enclose an extract from a journal published here , in French , giving an account of the atrocities coa « - iuuted by the peasants on the numerous noble lanuhes in Gailicia . But the picture would be incompleie without some particulars furnished by an eye-witness of these harrowing erents * On Sunday , the 8 th instant , there arrived here a brother of General S in company with another countryman , who both left Crac&w in the night of the 3 rd instant , when all was drawing toa close . The tormer commanded a detnehment of cavalry on the r i w ? I- ot tlie Vistul >> . > n the environs of Bochnia and Wiehczka , and saw the desert into which have been turned the dwellings ot the noWlity in the circle ot iarnow . His narrative is as follows : —

      The Austrian government having heen iuformed of the approaching insurrection , and the proposed gutiiering of tho peaBantg to make an attack on Tarnow , hu » r « olve ( l ta foster , through the captain * of the districts , the most intimate relations with the peasants , whom it has deluded by representing to them thtit the nobility intend to rise for the suk « of re-imposing on them the ancient yoke with all its horrors ; and iu order to accomplish tint , the masters invited tlum to join it uiiuur another pretext . The government , feigning great anxiety for ths lato of the peasants , but unable to offer them any assistance , 1 u . b pointed out to them a means—viz ., that when once on the spot appointed lor their meeting * with the nobility , they should rush on the latter , aud , having put to death every one of them , deliver the bodies to the authorities . Bositles the nuthorities promised , for every dead body brought to them 10 florins , and for a living one 2 & florins , It is easy to imagine how the greedy peasants , preferring 41 ) florins to 25 fl'irins , have increased ihe number of the

      victims , 'i'lie whole of the country presents a most melancholy aspect . The mansions of the nobility have now assumed the character of mins—the furiiittire , broken to pieces , is stiil 6 tained with the blood of the proprietors . The barns and other buildings belonging to tl » .-farms , the granaries , have buen reduced to ashes . A picture of desolation equal to tiie massacre of Pluumu oilers itself to the eye , which seeks iu vain for a human creature on this scene of bloody caruaee . I must add , that , according to th < t statement of S < , 500 parsons have already tiillen a prey to this iusutiublu horde that still continues to ravage by going from one village to another , and by perpetrating the most cruel enormities , to which the government would now willingly put a stjp . From all this jou can infer of what paramount interest it was for the Austrian government to > tute , through its influential journals , that the massacre in question was on act of revenge on the part of the peasants against their masters .

      LATKR News mom Guucu . —In the eastern districts , with the exception of a very small number , the peasants have not obeyed the order given them to lay . down their arms aud retire totheir 1 iom . es ; on the contrary , they continue their acts of plunder . In a word , they have taken such a position that it will require the greatest efforts to re-establish complete tranquillity in the country . The insurgents had already promised them the abolition of the c « ru « e » , the exemption from certain duties , but they will scarcely obtain any concessions from the government until they lay down their arms . A large body of troops wiii occupy the whole of the country , so as to be able to dominate the peasants . A number of insurgents from Cracow sought refuge in Gallicia , buc those belonging to the nobilit y , or to the better classes , have either been murdered or given up to the Austrian authorities , whilst the insurgent peasants have b « en received as brothers by the peasants of Gallicia .

      Vienna , Makch 11 . —Twenty-nine Catholic priests , who took an active part in the insurrection , have been arrested in Gallicia . The Archduke Ferdinand d'Esie arrived on the 9 th at Pudgorzo , to consult with Counts Lnsztmsky and Zolefsky concerning tlm measures to be taken as regards the peasantry , and to confer with Count Wrbna as regards the military occupation of the country . The above-named councillors have received instructions from Vienna . Tho archduke deems the present number of troops sufficient to establish order . It has , nevertheless , been decided to send a division of 10 , 000 men under the orders of Count Wrbiia , to commence disarming the country .

      Gkbmas Sympathy . —According to accounts from Cologne of the 15 th inst ., on the 14 th inst . all tho posts were doubled , a . d the eight companies of the 16 th regiment were not all-wed to leave their barracks . Many pmons attribute this extraordinary measure to the 1 ' olish insurrection . During the last few days many leaders of the iiisurrcction ° are > aid to have passed through the t-.-wn on their way to Belgium , by the railway . Thk Polish Jews . —The Courtier do la Moselle publishes a letter dated Cracow , ISth ult ,., communicated by a Russian Israelite , who lied to France in

      consequence of the last ukase of the Emperor JN'iciiolas , and which gives an idea of the enthusiasm with which the insurrection was h : tilcd by the I ' oiish Jews . Tho following is the substance : — "The young men studying iu the Rabinical school at Cracow enrolled themselves voluntarily iu the insurrectional army . They belung to pious and affluent families . Before their departure the Grand ltnbbi gave them his benediction , and in an animated discourse ho told them to follow the eximple of their ancestors , who buried themselves under the walls ot Jerusalem , rather than fall into tho hands of the enemies o ' t their nation . "

      GitACow . —The Augsburg Gvzette of the l ^ h inst . states , that after a conference between the Generals commanding the Austrian , Russian , and Prussian forces in Cracow , it was determined that the Austrian troops under the command of Count VVrbiza should occupy thu city , those troops to consist of three battalions of infantry , two squadrons of cavalry , and a battery of artillery . The Russian troops are to occupy Mogila and Ivrzctz-jwire with twobattalionsand 300 Cossacks . The western part of the territory is to be occupied by one battalion and two squadrons ef Prussian troops . The provisional govwiiMu-ni is composed of civil and military agents , of whom Count Castigliene is tho-head , There is likewise a cummission appointed to try tho prisoners .

      Later Nkws fkom Cuacow . —The city is obliged to lodge , feed , aud entertain the troops quartered there at its . o * n expense . The Kutbiau trucks consist of Cossacks , Kurdes , KirgUen , and Mussulmcn . These bitrkimiis coimuenccil by robbing and plundering tlw houses , and it was found meussary to turn them oils of the town to pvuvwit - . ; j ; mrai pillage . Since the 15 th inst ., the prisoners arc iu solitary confinement . Wolf , Uiobanke : ' , who ; ictoil as minister of finance during the revulutiouary administration ,, is kept a ciow inisoner iu his liouso , not owing , merely to his participation in tliu iiiMtm / utioii , Imti iilai .- > because they hold him responsible tor tiie suiys

      oS money tnkeu ifiom thu AustrUtns ai Wieliuui . A- « tuunber of woman have been at vested . Owing 10 au agreement between the tlivue powers , General Ciuni , ' sYrbna has been appointed ( provisionally ) C ;> mninat < ier ! of the tree citj ot Cracow for . the three years A'Uvn Uhe protective powers arc to noiuiuaus ; i military governor . According to this treaty of the Jj . t ' li o £ March , lS&t , any pttison guilty \ ti ii' . o erinus ut " , hia . \ i treason cannot Unit au asylum tu Russia , Prussia , " or Austria . The three courts are Imuul 10 grea . ' ui » . M \ y such parson on the ik-maml ol ' lhu po . ver intiuTStfU , but thsre is no existing treaty as regards tbc-ivp ^ blic of Ci'axinw .

      TkeEmperor-ot' Russia lm vublialittCptiiotollowing ¦ ukase : — " Whereas iHdisposcd persons have attiysmjtji'iito overthrow the legitimate authorities in tlw- Ircti city u { Cracow , ami in somo parts of Gallicin , w « Iwt ,- ik-i-nnJd U necessary ta tnl <« cwtsiin uruciuiiouga ) sawitiiires U > uuiiHtiiin tranquillity in tlie governments ou V . m iY < nit » r ; Jiiul wo orditin that tliu khigsioiii of lVhrnvi , as alstv the Oistrictit of VdIIijiuu aud l ' ui ' . uiia , ^ 'e ticuiiivi il in h , si » te ul siege , mid ] ilnved uinier the ulllvrs uf i'iellt l ' .: » rsliill I ' rineo l ' asktwitst'h ti'Uviviui . ( Siijnutl ) "JJnu'L-rorSiciKiiAS . "

      pAliiS , f KIl > AY . The question of the Polish insurrection was once * more agitated in the CL . " . inbert » f LVir . s on ThuivJas , 011 tho occasion it' ti : ccch in tiie Chamix-i' in l '} oiiiilU' !> . Although lm entertained hi : * fiirmcr oiii ' . iwu Uud nothing could l-e dune at pim-nt by ' mio 1 mu ; cIi government against the tmuios lot tiiuv » i'i ! E : ou ol Poland , he still repeated tl . ai France -waaxrih u , t ; ivo an asylum to iU I ' uiys rvi ' usr-jts , ami u \ Wn \ thcmjassisUnec . It is , > m . r ,:. > vcr , « ssuru : < i that ih « hiighshauu rronch jjoven mints have mauY a inini application to tho three c . iitiiicnt .- iL powers , m . ui ::-meniiinj ; tiioiK to isa ; , as fur a . * Itay wuiuvi ilnA il possible , every leniency towards tim lUuiiU'iiU . 1 ' Mtis . Sa ! u :: i ; . \ y .

      lhc dei « atc in the Chamber ui V ' eers on lho liili ! ur the Secret ijvryieu Money w > :, s a . uain eViiveuu ou trtday by various Sjieucm- . a on U . c condition of I olaiid and ihe iatc insurrection . M . Yiltemahi wxs pre-eminent nmungsi , tl ' . c ^ i . 'a !; ers . Tho Bill w . thu bt-cret Service Mimr * w ; iS > , asseii by w , vui c < ^ . twemy-iwo ,

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      Tub Riot at Touiousb was not quite put down on the lfth , but there was only a few more cries , and au assemblage of young men in the streets . Public tranquillity was almost entirely restored . The Saturday ( Paris ) journals contain certaift sxtracts from prbate letters from Germany , which state that the peasants who had been employed or induced to masacre tho nobles had successfully re « suited the troops sent to disperse them . ins I ' luuiCH Ministry ano ' - Poland .- ^ From thtf Correspondent ol the daily Mjww . i-England , whose i . 'isular position detaches her from the continent , may be permitted to witness with less emotion than any other nation the iniquities of which a people may Secome we victims . But France , united to Poland by a frai * 1 " 11 " / <» »« "ns and civilisation—Fi-an < u » - T .. Rtox , x To- wM not quite put doWtt

      whsse interests are necessarily affected by any diatwbanco ol ' u . « c continental equilibrium , has neither thtf liberty fl . vtJ < fi wm to remain indifferent . You cannot form i'ny idea of the indignation excited in the public mint . ' by t } ie speech of M . Guizot , which the Chamber oi " pepe'ties suffered to pass unan ~ BHererf . This indignation has already buowii itself in aove ? aJ popular ebulliwons , particularly in that which toakvplace at Toulouse , Uut you will find themost striking proof in i ' Mo scene presented for tlie three days it » tlie Chambta' of Peers , that peaceable Chamber where the © ppo ^ itiou scarcely nnmbera from fivc-and"twenty to- thirty supporters . Poland has supplied She subject fer . o'iscussion on the bill for tho secret serwee money . Legitimists , ministerialiats , members of the Onpositio « even Prime

      Minist « F 3 > have protested againsfcthe policy ol the government . It was * not witkout emotion that M » Viliemain , whose- intellvct seems to have Quite * recovered from the rude shocks > vhich compelled him to retire from the Ministry , was ? . heard to utter at magnificent and sound specchin favow ai the rightswhich treaties have preserved to Poland . In a word , such haa beon the unanimity of the Cbaviber , tlu . & the government , modifying its first position , has thought ) , it prudent to > reircat . Compare the Jarguag « o 5 M . Guizot in- tho Chamber of Peers wiiii that winch he used in the Chamber of Deputies ei « b . t days belore , and the difference : *¦ most striking At tne Palais-Bourbon , the Minister saade the apologV ot Austria—ho refused , to invoke treaties whose scandalous violation the Chambers recall every year ' he even coniplicitly blamed-those protests ,, under the that

      pretext they kept up . illusions and . vaia hopes At tho Luxembourg , he declared that the government had reserved , and would reserve , tlra rijjkte resulting trom : treaties ; in a word , that lie would , defend Polish nationality , as if he ould stilJ . invoke the stipulated guarantees of ISloj without exciting what he , himself ,, called vain hopes and illusions . Tims , the Minister who opened this questios by at ^ apology for oppressors , oudud by . adhering to the sympathies which the oppressed , inspire .. The government has , in spite of itself , been brou Ru * back to that system of protestation , against the conduct of Russia and Austria , which it triad to avoid . After having scorned at public opiiron , it has biun corstrained to submit and pay humug « to it . It Isarns finally , at the expense of its considetation , that , ttven in a period of . universal apathy ,, tliere are popular sentiments which cannot be " braved with .

      impunity . Piscsi Tuisim . Tho National quotes a . private- lettur stntiu ^ , " i he Austrian Government is- inoauablii uf puttinc down th& movement which it has itself uxcited ,. and which has 63-sumud a mom menavin / upiiuariiuci ! . ArmeJ bauds are organised , which overrun the environs of Tarnuw , Lipnickur , Tymbouk , and Liechow .. Detiwhmeuts of troops on horseback have been sent t * dLspri-se tiicm , and tbey have , in rencontre , faced the niuslutry , imii wounded several soML-rs . 1 ' rcsh forces hare hi-cn 6 » nt against them .

      A lettur from Hungary states ,. that «¦ : i b-a ; v of rasurgonts had shown themselves in . the Carpathian . Mountains , between Moduli and Liblau . It then approached Torra , aud the iocal authorities- instantly dei-padied oouiiers to Kpeins to demand troops . The in .-ar ;; eut 8 , warned by the inhabitant * , whom tl >< -y found Iio 6 pit : ibla and . sympathising , then proceeded ' towards MeUowieza . " The Polish committee , which- was organised in Taris £ few years ago , has been revived ' ,. under tha presidi-ncy of M . le Cointe Charles Le Liwtejrw , deputy . St . Cutrone is appointed secretary , and SI ' .. Vavin , deputy ,, is- treasurer .

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      GRAND FESTIVAL IN AID OF THE . FUNDS OF THK EXILES' UESIOKATIOK . ( JUiU MITTEE . Thia Festival took place at tho Vanlti-nium , 72 , St . Miinin ' s-lane , on Tuesday evening , March'&rh . Alaiga number having partaken uf tea , cuti ' ee , Jtc . ( wiuuli , tu thscredit of ilr . Palmer , the worthy host , we fed botsiui to stnta , we never yet wiwessed . sarved-up- mure pito . Ueely ) , the tiiblns > ver < : clunrai , and Mr . Ftai-jjus O'Uunuur ,, in the iibscnce of T . S . Duncombe , ILL ' , ( who was detained l > y pi'c-SB of Parliamentary business ) , was unanimously culled to tin- I'liafr .

      The Chaibhan said , ho was happy to find that whilst they were nt home they did not foiget the poor exiles , and in works of this description the women appraredi to be the best putviots , in fact , tlu- grey mare xvaa- tlit betUr horau . ( Cheers . ) Some appeared tu think that tho lattt temporary defeat in tho House of-G' > nim .. ns had doue iiijory to the cause uf which they wttre thu advocates , by bringing down tl \ e mttwutl syletn uni viiupication t * the iiouse on the devoted heads of the Welsh martyrs ; but not so , for it had givi'ii . to-the country . a k « ov . ie » jgtf of the present i >] iini » ns of the members uf : iiat house , an& further , it shewed an iucre » se ,, nnd t'oal a lar ^ e . om-, ia thsir favt . ur , for on the first division there only- uuueared four members and two tellers in-, their favour ; anil mi tha reci-nt occa > ion theru were tliirty-uuu members vottd , and two tellers , in tlitir favuur >— ( chetT ^)—liusiil-ss tlia

      country nt large being made acquainted , with thu " grtat fact" that thr .-o niillums ^ tfiiierAonc- ha * i esproso < -il tiieir ^ dMireforthen . 'tuinoftho .-umuch-iiijured . iiifii .. d'JSiceiA . ) He had hoard all the evidence that could , be : uiiiuc ; d against Prost , Williams , . mid Jones ,. at thuir .-trial ; hu lud iilsoattendeiiin the Spi-akor ' . s gsilory on tt . e ¦ ntvuit debate , and heard the uvidencu ugain , and he rtill contended that tha wrdictuuglit to havo been i > ivw ! . in ihtir favour . ( Hear , hear . ) , Mr . l ! abin-ti ) ii llavauii'r , th « Whig member foe Bdinburgh ,. ini his . speeoii on tlw mutioii , lmd dragged in the iiiiiiuiinl pcitti ii ai il fiilseiy ileclai ' ud . that the pctitioaurs wanUd to c . mtiM a »«;» . he land and other property . Jfmv , they . did no sucli > h : ' .-g ; un tiitt contrary , they declared that the luud hail , li-. ^ n i . iUea . from its riglnful owners and . wnsaiuw made ; i . ¦ Aon npiilj ' of for the ben » : tit u ( the fat . ; andi U * d uoi his . viottrine-.

      sinue the presi'iitatiou uf that i otition ,. botn . . 'cjiiiu and again advocated ' both within aim whuuiu T iifl walls ot that house ? ( Jiitarj heur . ) . Mr . UuHuisuU'e , on the presentation of tluti'tt : tion n « vl tins motion , sonftequrnt upon it , its nell as on -. his recent uiutioii ,. liail ; nndu most judicious and temperute sj ) eeclu's ,. but iiua'k fcj ; e contract- * . Air . Elliot Yoikx- , a l ' ruteetiomst inembir . for Cainbriilgishire , had last , night ,- . on tlio-deliatu of Siu-livi'L-t t l ' eu / s . Com Bill , preseuteiliipstiiiuui ' rom « ha :. ha wss j >! l-bsi « I to term a body . oil iutulligiait . men , antli in . tim cout-.-e of that debute bud read a ittlCKfrom . oni . ' of , ^ . upclitiiiaerf » who said that , shouldSiiv Kobeit E « ei' 5 » a * a « urc }» ss , thu agrictlSsrists were rtady for , iusuRvi . vtam , aivd this tri > : i > ouablc language win met witJi l . jiiti ana &tuer : iL shouts oE- " heacl'f ¦ N e » . hiiii . ili ' .. D < mQ' > - ; abB ;> tvsun ;< . iL such a oeiiliuu , it wotlJ have been . uuo . tiwd . iV «« ^ h *

      house , aadhini . vll'denotiuceii t ' or . iurcsf . niijy it . I'Cheers . ) He hi ; d-taken cave to furnish . iiia- ^ i . i » j . 1 !» « itli jiist of tlu division on Mr . ] i « iicombe ' i . in ' . ii , 'j « i rchnixc 10 t-u !? nxileiiJiitttuds , and lie lv . nl no . dount , ! ' . t ti « consul ) ,- ekc » turn , their prxavut uppuuonu' . 'fears-wuuia tii-si . «» Tith t' .. a should ot' " t ' l'o . st . WiiUani ! -,.. iaiX . Juiifei . " ( tiv . av ln-: v >> AI : jut oltvcu moiitiiSJtgo the GUar . ii . y . -l ' o-oi ^ l-jlip .-u l ^ ml S « iW ^ &pvw \ ; A wtio AjiWhrtWftiTj . iUBU ^ wy MiKia , d iVav" ' , v ; itli . ttut ( me MiigH-. sbiUiiig bfiiD ^ sjjtsain advrrfr" y . ^ , or ^ ti . Singof any stA-ijuheii . tl ' . *; CoiiKmciii-u 11 m . 1 r . in ' . uh , KgtiCe , he shoulil have to . rs-povt . tlvo jio ^ sestviu i / seven ' . lUatisand puu \ i ^ sjut > sc . ribi : d in , ijj&'Mii' of » ii 4 ' r iSV-ci— - VjrjcatehceriiiO' —and . wPii . it nof . » ift ;! .-iii ^ t « '< . > ... A that

      they already yi > s « o- < sid i ;« e , est ; i&S ; pu : vliii »* d fi / j * ij ; c r UiVii mone ) Ti ( Jieaj ,, Uvm' . ) , 1 ft' jwi ^ evMio i «« ci : iuiis , «» u ! d aeeot : ; ijHsli tliU t . ini ^ l ) t sft 4 sinv , l :. « ¦* . jH .. " -ii-. e : crt usei tions rtiiwr . B tlieii ' i ) : i ! violiK ;! f , tslUi ! fiivtUii .- , tc triisii : * , tho Welsh aiartyis ?• Mr . . O ' Cwissur thea ji f ,, j , so , iha fulloniiij ; seiitjiiseiiV and lftsUiWtui hi :, s- ; , t ; uM tht > most raj ) Vin » u » aj > i > ViiiSL-: r-=-- 'SVLbiuusAUav , <; , i .-nncsi . te and TIuvmias Wakitj-, ihu air / er ami jji- n ^ v , ; u \ -. i tl . u thinyit-it : niembi-v ^ . ct' wli . ij ] & . wwe oi tun' n-. iiis ' wl-. ii »« ii - VOitid Jhe motion , foil an , udtivesB to h » r J ; -. U'm \ , vrinul " her lo . ixieud , \ yv . uu-ruy . ia rt \ v jjwv O jj , ' -n-. u- ' ^ , ' t ! .-i Wclsii . nmr . tyrs , is-. u ' i " >» J ti . * v , biii-Usu '< j t ! i < .,., . ¦ , ! , _ CWJ . tints * their- exertioiu wiM their ge ^ um v ! . \ , i in ; CT ' . ViHed With Ml ifBl-ii . ' i

      Jlr . Vhilw-: *« . b . vsi ^ ri . » i >« nO . - j ^ , sa ? . i—tla Oi . rtiiiilly agi'iM-d with : hc- s-.-ntiiiivtic \ r , rVi t . . - „ } , ; ,- . |) tmcotnb \ he djil xws . i ( Vt » k u mm . . i > -i . ^ v ; -, ; , ,, . ; ,,: i ! a pVOplu Uitildtl bt : foailli . . WhelKVO ! \ ' nv . -, „ , ' -,. !¦ : ¦ :. .- S wanlcil an auvoratu , \»! i < ther vi ti . ii ; ., > « -, > \\ y -, ' no house , he was L \ ev :: « ii . iiy tu l-. v . iou- ^ , ^ gj .. , ..,,. ^ •! .-i . il ewers . ) Viwi <» . wl ) e * as so w ; U : vAuT 1 , 1 , ' i . ' d " i- ' k-i . ' oi-d , that it w : ts uf . ! i < . ( . vssHV , v for liisu . - ^ , -. ; . 11 : l ; l ' ^ I .,..,,,. g » Orl , grcUt ,. > . VtUOUSt »> u > nob ' loia >; i | , g , — ( ii . ; i ! ,. , ;) aliM' 1 'liOuia . B . WnkWj «• " $ i » os ; -itSjiir diV \ 'lii \ l \ I '• .: ' . t TO lun , and HJiey wer « gn-iitlj iiniiji ,. ^ . «/ . . ! . ; t \ .. tU :-.: ' u 3 jr bringing fovwaru in the d « Jt ; ., j « M ) l ' ,. ,, ' ., ^' . , " ' . WAticvkl i . tfi ; vu .. \ -1 v , io « uf the M .-i , J : ' .. ' I . " .. "' : ' . '" i ^•¦•¦ v > i . ^ f ( »^^•«¦ .. > tii \ jii \*\ tun < t ; 4 > f i ,, i , . * /

      chfL- » . i Tl « t ; , ncwaj ^ y ^ W ^ "t ^ Zu ' i ^ Ui , mt-. st ngaiti avs > e : iri'iitli . husvuir . _ .,,., ( ic ^ ..,. :: ,: ., - ofullpiod UiC- ! llopre « .- < foi \ VbV > vi i , ' i , 4 h . i :. i i ' i , ' - ' > " : t-.. i ; * . ! i « tthciii i-iiinn .-i tlit i-htto ^ , tv „!; , |\ , ' , " , , . ' , " . . , ; " , ' , ' ..-. ! : ivuuv : ible lo the letiiiu i > i ill , i . ^ jij . -, - ?¦ . v '' .. ' ; ' . ^ Vi-s ' isur to ihe candidate ,.. I llU , . ! _ .. lt . ' , ., ; . Ui .-iv duty , and we ^ hall if _ ... ;„ ) u : il . ' ; . ; . C ' :- ; - ' . ' : U » uUi ! wilt ! , ' v .. ictsitdv ,. L-a . ir ^ - ,., lv ^ llfiill ., , ,.. , ^ amijustict ' , in ; heir ow :. rnV , „ iuV , d ,: ! ll !» ,. i ; ,, ; . ; , " ,, „ , ; eiiteiiui ; . ) Onthc » iutii , nofMc » s 1 « . l ' : « k = :-.-. -., l W : \ . n ' :- ¦ ., > ,, ic OlUliUlliS \\ i , S littiiltiv ! .- I ) , .- ^ cl ; .:,..-. ; . :-. f , -Hi J \ v ,-: -7 lor hi , s-.-1-vic . s iu - . „« lilairj lu ri __ .. _ . . .. ! c _ MIl'llUlll . : i

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      SritANtJi- ; Suu-iou . — ' 1 he Cciti-itii'ioi'nel * : r . ' c \ llialu jottag miUiucv in vhc l-V . tilvu-. j : ' ' . io ^ i : ¦ ¦ ¦ .-.- , in coustnucucu i . t tlie iaituk ^ -i . tss ci h . i i-. i , lalcly cowiiuiy ^ i ? \ uujilo by un .: \ . iu ^ "• n ' - » i \ k s i » v « brandy .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 28, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1360/page/3/