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      IRELAND .

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      I or the poor by that detestable law , which , it is to be hoped , will not be permitted to camber the statute-book another session of Parliament The political world is remarkably quiet . There are a few rumours of changes at the next e lection , and intending candidates are already putting forth preliminary puffs and feelers . The Registration Courts seem to have attracted very little attention , and certainly have excited no interest . It is felt everywhere that the whole machinery of thehambng called the Reform Act is cumbrous and useless , and , ere long , even the lawyers and agents to whom the system of chicanery created by it has given emp loyment , will find the game " no go / ' People will not par for so dull and wretched a performance as that which usually takes place before Revising Barristers ;

      Colonial Antr Fovtisix Stobieto*

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      A terrific hurricane at . Newfoundland , which has occasi oned a great destruction of life and property , and a farther account of the continued sufferings of the Cape of Good Hope colonists , and the continued jjhmSeta of their incapable governors , constitute jlte colonial intelligence of the week . As regards the Capef ^ e have some hopes of being in a position to announce , in a few moaths hence , the commencejnent of a better state of things ; the incapable governor having been superseded by the appointment of Sir Henry Pottinger to the Governorship of the C ape of Good Hope .

      The French journals seem to be at length tiring of the Spanish marriages' question . The concluding acts of this infamous drama we have reported in another column . We may take leave of the subject by copying the following portrait of Louis Philippe , from Tatts Magazine ¦ — Louis Philippe is a roi bourgeois in a very different sense from what his flatterers atttribute to him . Be I « its upon France as 3 farm , upon his kingly office as a lucrative appointment ; lie is bonperede famiUe ; he will do nothing that can bring him to rob shoulders with the gallows ; he will m ike money or every means that < 30 not make him incur the risk of being sent to Coventry he ttHI settle bis daughters well , and set up bis sons in a goo 3 way of business . His every thought centres in

      self ) aadin his children , because they are part of himself . He onlj differs from a tallow-chandler in having to do frith ministerial portfolios and national accounts , instead of country orders . Petersburg invoices , and the ledaer and datbook of Melt , Drip , and Co . He has put off a daughter on his neighbour the King of the Belgians ; he las got one son a footing in Brazil ; and he is bent on setting another in a way to get npon the throne of Spain . louis-Phflippewith Ms homely , friendly wajs . uas the smirk of a mercer or man-milliner showing off his ¦ wares ; and , with his plain pot-luck dinners to all who comes across him , of a Xord Major who thinks a good feed is everything . No wonder that he ; is such a fa . Tonrite trith the Lord Mayor of London ; he is , in fact , the Lord Mayor of Paris .

      Louis Philippe , finding that there were invincible obgUWes to the marriage of bis son with the queen , so plavedliis cards that he has forced her into a marriage trim a man who can have no hope of offspring , and ma . SMUvres lo mrrry his son to her younger sister , the next in the order of succession . There is a callousness of feeling in this procedure , a moral filthmess , a recklessness of consequences , that is revolting in the extreme . All the moral aberrations which doubtless await the unfortunate young woman who has been the victim of flheseplots , may fairl y he charged npon Louis Philippe . Sis conduct is tainted with some profligate abuse of natural impulses ; the same disregard of the sanctity of the marriage connexion that stained the Court and

      noblesse of France before the Evolution , Louis Philippe is a moral mania his femily circle , after the fashion of old George III . His queen is a pious lad ;; fastidious on the score of her female acquaintances ; a great patranness of missions to the Heathen , —ice to sensual affections , of a seraphic glow of devotion . The young Duchess of Montpensier will be brought to a home of the purest sentiment , —a facsimile of the V : carage of TVake-£ eld . She will there be taught , in Christain charity , to hate her sister , as that pattern-woman , her mother-inlaw , hated the Dnchess de Bern , and to be equally unscrupulous in the means she takes to lay bare that sister ' s weaknesses to the world . Aad -when she and her husband mount the throne from which her sister has

      been—removed , Louis Philippe and his queen will say , with the unction of a brace of Tartuffes , Thus God re-\ fards purity and continence . And , perhaps , the pair of shams may not have enough of nnperverted conscience left to feel that the whole shame and criminality of the transaction is theirs , and that their motives have been of the lowest and most sordid character . Theirs is the true morality of a Genlis , the decorous mistress of Egalite , who lived in the family with his wife , teaching his children to mouth moral precepts aBd be externally decorous . Prance never can tolerate a king with a Pare mi Cerfs ; but neither can that dynasty be permanent which is merely moral in externals , and tampers with the voluptuousness of the former one , not from p assion , but as a mercantile speculation .

      We agree with the writer in Teat , that the awfully critical state of Ireland much more demands the atiention of English statesmen than do the filthy intrigues at Paris and Madrid . The ordinary session of the Dutch Legislature vas opened by the king in person on Monday last . The speech contains nothing Tery remarkable , merely speaking in general terms of the prosperous state of the country . We hwe elsewhere commented on the state of a 5 aira in Switzerland . It was remarked in Paris , on Tuesday , that the liberals ef Basle-country had attacked the liberals of Basle-city , with what results was not stated . On the other hand , Friburg is arminz to resist the liberal Cantons . The London

      Globe ( Whig ) , like the Morxixo Chromcle , gives a sort of half adhesion to the new order of thing 3 in Geneva , and says : — " The fact Is , that , as in Paris in 17 S 9—92 , there is in the lowest depth a lower deep ; and the insurgent militia of St . Gerrais are better fellows to deal with than the grimy faces and hard hands behind them—such classes as came to compose , in Paris , the cannoniers of the National Guard , and completely altered the original orderly composition of that body . This Whig chuckling serves to strengthen our fears as to the intentions of the new government ; we hope , however , that the men of the " grim faces " and " hard hands " will sot allow themselves to be humbugged by the new , any more than by the old government .

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      The Professor ol chemistry at the above-named establishment . Dr . John Ryan has been engaged during ' the past week , in delivering a series of lectures Endiometry and ventilation , as applicable to buildings , dwellings , and ships . Public instructions on matters SO important to the health of the community atlarge ought always to be received with satisfaction . We are quite assured that no one could attend Dr . Ryan's lectures without receiving so much condensed information as to enable him by means of the usual apparatus to ascertain the purity or impurity of any atmosphere in which he miuht be placed . The varieties of eudiometers were all care fully explained by the learned gentleman , and the proper formula ; for calculating the amount of oxygen as well as a watery vapour and carbonic acid were most simply communicated . The principles of ventilation , recently so warmly contested , were also Tery carefully and philosophically explained so as to Meet the comprehension of the most ignorant among the audience . We trust these lectures , so well adapted for the instruction of the numerous class of visitors who visit this truly admirable Institution will be continued for some time .

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      Besevolesce op the Late Premier . — The folowlng instance ( says the Suffolk Chronicle ) of Sir fiobert Peel's unobtrusive benevolence was mentioned by Mr . Wilderspin , in the course of his lecture at the Ipswich Mechanics Institution , on Tuesday evening . We give it in the speaker ' s own words ;—" Some of you have heard of Haydon , the painter , and , eo doubt , yon have heard that Sir Robert Peel , the late Prime Minister of England , sent that man £ 30 in his distress . It ought te ^ be inown , by my moving about the country in this manner—and I never thought of self , for I always lad faith that my countrymen would not allow me to die in a union , and that the Almighty would not

      allow me to ask for the commoa necessaries of life—* hat 1 had spent all my money . I -was at last reduoed to the utmost extremity . I wanted a crust of oread , yet I kept the secret within my own breast I set out for an obscure village , where I thought I would end my days . A friend called npon me . And "when I had not a single shilling in my house , when I lad nothing to offer him , for 1 felt I should degrade my cause by running into debt , when my poor dog was as tain as my children , £ 50 came from the Prime Minister of England , Sir Robert Peel . Thus 5 ou see there are two men whom he has benefited . One is now in the eternal world , and the ether Is the humble individual who stands before you . "

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      The first section of the above flourishine Institution , consisting of 6 , 000 members , is now complete the members in it hold , among them , nearly ten thousand shares , upon which they have paid £ 13000

      CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . SHARES , £ 2 10 s .

      ,. The second section advances rapidly towards completion , it numbers at present four thousand members , who have subscribed upon their shares £ 2 , 000 . ¦ Thus , although the society has been hut fifteen months in existence , it has enrolled ten thousand membera , and created a capital of £ 15 , 000 . lhe following are the benefits which the society guarantees to its members ; holders of one share , a house , two acres of land , and £ 15 ; holders of a share and a-half , a house , three acres , and £ 22 10 s . ;

      holders of two shares , a house , four acres , and £ 30 . Leases for ever will be granted to the occupants . The society affords facilities for enabling members to purchase their allotments , and thus become freeholders . The rent of the allotments will be moderate , asit will be regulated by a charge of 5 $ cent upon the capital expended upon each . The society having been called into existence for the benefit of the working clssses , the rules enable the poorest to avail themselves of its advantages , as the shares may be paid by weekly instalments as low as threepence .

      Meetings for enrolling members are held as fol lows : —

      SUKDAT EVESTSO . Soutli London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blackfriars-road at half-past six o'clock . —City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane : at six—Somers Town : at Mr . Duddrege ' s Bricklayers * Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , at half-past seven . —Tower Hamlets : at the Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , at six o ' clock precisely . —Emmetis Brigade : at the Rock Tavern , Lisson-grove . ateighto ' clock precisely . —J / aryfe&OMc ; at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circus-street , at halfpast seven . Grant ' s Inn Hood , Mason's Arms ,

      Britannia-street . —Hammersmith : at No . 2 , Little Valeplace , at ten in the forenoon . —Newcastle-upon-Tyne : at the house of Martin Jude , Sun Inn , Side , from seven till nine . —Leicester : at 87 , Church-gate , at six . — Bradford : Woolcombers' Arms Inn , Hopestreet , at five . Westminster , at the Assembly Rooms , S 3 , Dean Street , Soho , at half-past seven . —Red Cross Street , City , at Cartwright ' s Coffee House , at eight o ' clock . —Belfast , Ireland , at Mr . Walker ' s , 7 , Bradley Court . Shankle Road , at ten o ' clock in the forenoon . Winchester , at Air . Sturgess ' , Hair Dresser , Upper Brook Street , at seven o ' clock .

      MONDAY EVENING . liodiester .- at the Victory Inn , at 1 alf-pift seven . — Caml&wdl ; at the Moatpeliei * Tavern , vValworth at eight o ' clock precisely . — Kensington : at eight o ' clock , at the Duke of Sussex . —Limehouse : at the Brunswick Hall , Ropemaker ' s Fields , at ? o ' clock . Leicester : at No . 17 , Archdeden-lane , at seven o ' clock . — Chepstow : at the Temperance Hotel , Bank Avenue , at eight o'clock . — -Armley : at the house of Mr . William Oates , boot and shoemaker , Armley Town-gate , at eight o ' clock . —Liverpool : at

      eight o'clock , at Mr . Farrell ' s Temperance Hotel , 4 , Cazneau-street . —Helper : at the house of George Wigley , the Dusty Miller , Field-head , from seven till nine . —Bristol : at No . 16 , Horse-fair , at eight o ' clock in thei evening . —Darlington : at John Moss ' s , No . 24 , Union-street , at half-past seven . —Chorley Wood Common : at Mr . Barbor ' s at seven o ' clock . — Richnansworth : at the Cart and Horses , at seven o ' clock . —3 Iil c End : at the Golden Cross , at seven o ' clock . Wolvefhotmpton , at Mr . Allen's , Russell Street , near Merridale Street , at seven o ' clock .

      TUESDAY EVENING . Greenwich : at Mr . Paris ' s , Cold Bath , at eight o ' clock . —Chelsea : Cheshire Cheese . Grosvenor-row . at eight o'clock . Wldtechapd : Brass Founders ' Arms , Tuesday evening at eight o ' clock .

      WEDNESDAY EVENISG . Aberdeen : the office-bearers mec-t at half-past seven , at No . 1 , Flour Mill-lane Hall . —Brighton : No . 2 , at No . 3 , Charles-street , at eight o ' clock . Old Kent Road , Sumy , at the Eagle Brewery , Neat Street , Coburg Road , at eight o'clock .

      THURSDAY EVENING . Shoreditch : at Chapman ' s Coffee House Churchstreet , at eight o ' clock . Old Kent Road , at the Bee-Hive Tavern , Cobourg Road , at eight . Haslet as » Sheltow—The weekly meeting of the Chartist Cooperative Land Society will be held in future on Friday evenings , at seven o ' clock , at their usual meeting place « . The shareholders are requested to pay their levies for directors and local expeneea , that the secretary may make up bis accounts with the directors .

      Bradford . — On Sunday , the members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society and Chartist Association will meet in their rooms , at Butterworthbuildings , at two o ' clock in the afternoon . Nobth Brieblt . —A public meeting will be lu £ d in theJar ^ e room of the Fa int Revived Inn , North Brierly , near Horton Bank Top , on Sunday , ( to-morrow , ) at five o ' clock in the evening . Mr . ( Thomas Mann , the proprietor , has kindly offered the use of the lodge room , on Sunday evenings , to the Chartist

      and Land Associatiens . The Northern Star , O'Connor ' s Work on Small Farms , will be read every Sunday evening . Mr . Smith and others will attend the meeting . Lectures on various subjects will be delivered during the winter . Carrisgtos Co-operative Land Society . —The members of the above branch are requested to attend , at the New Inn , on Saturday next , October 24 th , ateighto ' clock , on business of the utmost importance . "We meet every Saturday night , at eight o ' clock , for the purpose of enrolling members .

      Bradford . —The members of the National Charter Association are requested to meet , in the large room of the Woolcombers' Arms , Hope-street , on Sunday next , at five o ' clock , on business of great importance . The members of the Land Society will meet in the same place , at the same time , as above . Haijfax . — Mr . B . Rusbton will lecture in the Working Man's Hall , on Sunday ( to-morrow ) evening , at half-past six o ' clock . West Riding Delegate Meeting . — A Spesial West Riding Delegate Meeting will be holden , on Sunday , November 1 st . in the Working Man ' s Hall , Bull Close Lane , Halifax , on business of importance , when each locality are requested to send one dele gate , to commence at one o'clock precisely .

      Hum ,. —The members of the Chartkt Association are requested to attend , at the Ship Inn , Churchlane , to consider the means to be employed in getting up a meeting for the adoption of the National Petition , precisely at two o ' clock in the afternoon of Sunday , the 25 th instant . The members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society hold their weekly meeting , every Tuesday evening , ateighto'clock , at the above place . Bristol . —Messrs . M'Grath and Clark will lecture in the Mechanics and Scientific Institute , BroaJmead , on Tuesday , the 27 thInstant , on " The Land . " Cliair to be taken at eight o ' clock . A public meeting will be held on Wednesday , the 28 th insfc ., for the purpose of adopting the National Petition ; Messrs . M'Grath and Clarke will attend . Robert Norris , Esq .. has consented to take the Chair .

      Macclesfield . — The Chartists ot this locality have taken Mr . O'Connor ' s advice by opening their room in Stanley-street , as a news room . The Northem Star , Douglas Jerrold ' e newspaper . Manchester Examiner , and all the democratic periodicals of the day are taken for the use of the members . Mutual instruction classes meet every Wednesday , Thursday and Friday evening . It is in contemplation to establish a debating class . Mr . West has promised to superintend it . There is also a well selected library belonging to the Association . Mr . W . Benton was appointed librarian last Sunday evening , with instruction to prepare the books for circulation as speedily as possible . The Chartist Council meet every Sunday evening to enrol members , at eight o ' clock . The committee of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society meet every Monday evening , at the same time and place , to enrol members , and receive subscriptions .

      Glasgow . —Forthcojiixo Confbrehce . —A public meeting of the . 'inhabitants of Glasgow , will be held in Murdoch ' s school-room , No . 27 , St . Andrewssquare for she purpose of nominating delegates to represent them at the forthcoming Land Conference . Members are particularly invited to attend . [ Our correspondent does not say when the meeting will be held . ] The Chartists of Gorbaw are requested to meet at the Wheafaheaf , Great Clyde-Terrace , onTuesday night , at 8 o ' clock . REABixo .-Meetings are held every Wednesday evening at 8 o ' clock , at Mr . Turner ' a , Temperance SCs , WesVstreet when a te . on in connexion with the land takes place , to which the public are respectfully invited . Masciiestbb . —The adjourned meeting ' of Shareholders of the People ' s Institute , will be held on Sunday , ( to-morrow , ) the 25 th mst , at two o dock in the afternoon .

      L 1 VERP 00 L .-A mutual instruction class has been formed here . Mr . Win . Jones will lecture on Sunday evening . October 23 , at Mr . FarraUs , Temperance Hetel , No . 4 , Carzenau Street . Chair to be taken at seven o ' clock . Htodebsfield . —Mr . David Ross from London , will deliver a lecture in the Hall of Science , on Sunday evening ( to-morrow ) , Oct . 25 , 1846 . Snbject—The Land . The sext General Delegate Meeting op Lanca .-shtbs Misers will be held on Monday , the 2 nd of Nov ., at the housB of Mr . Jamea Ormrod , sign , of tt . e Four Gates , Westhoughton . Chair to be taken at 11 o ' clock in the forenoon . There will also bo a p' iblic meeting ( should the weather be favourable ) 'which will be addressed by W . P . Roberts , Esp ., ar . d several other gentlement . Chair to be tvken at three p . m .

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      THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER ! PUBLIC MEETING In " BERMONDSEY TO ADOPT THE NATIONAL PETITION . A Public Meeting in support of the Central Registration and Election Committee , and also to adopt the National Petition , was held in the large room of the Ship Tavern , Long Lane , Bcrmondsey , on Monday , October 19 th ; Mr . James Knight was unanimously called to the chair , who in a few brief emphatic and appropriatesentenccs introduced Mr . Samuel Kydd . to move the first resolution , aa follows —

      " That this meeting is of opinion that the present system of registration is exceedingly unjust to the working classes , inasmuch as it entails on them great trouble and loss of time , as well <\ s exposing them to the contradictory opinions of barristers , whose dictum so far as they are concerned is final , whilst Parochial officers , and the more wealthy classes , having funds at their command , employ legal talents , thus escaping personally such petty annoyance , and if needs be " gets a case and thus obtains a decision in the superior courts , this meeting , therefore , emphatically calls upon the working classes to csmbinc , end by their Co-operation enjoy those advantages , now monopolised by the middle and upper classes . "

      Mr . Kydd said , the resolution put into his hands complained that the present system of registration was unjust—true , it was . There was no House so lax in its morality or more profuse in words , than the present so-called reformed House of Commons , ( hear , hear , ) and the consequence is , that Acts ol Parliament are so mystified that no one can understand them . The Reform Act based the Borough franchise on a rental of £ 10 a year , but the taxing clauses , and the want of clear description as to what constitutes " Douse or other Building , " so mystified it , that an appeal to the Barrister became necessary ; and what was law and equity with one Barrister was anything but law and equity with another , ( hear , hear , ) consequently amendment after amendment

      was proposed , until it reminded him of the childish story of " The House that Jack Built , " so imbecile were the laws that were formed . He could not help thinking there was a purpose in all this , for if laws were plain and simple , as they ought to be , no Barristers would be required —( hear , hear . ) Those lawyers forcibly reminded him of two dogs quarrelling over a bone , they did not appear to care which won , aa grist came equally to their mill —( hear , hear . ) He repeated , the laws of a country should be written so plain that everybody could understand them . He would have them like the notices to vagrants , stuck up at the entrance of provincial towns , and these were so comprehensible that you never or rarely found mendicancy carried on within the reach of a

      beadle , constable , or policeman . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution spoke of the system being an injustice , it was unjust ; for time was money to the working man . It was also a rude annoyance to ask you , do vou pay a rental of £ 10 per annum ? have you paid your taxes ? It was literally a turning out of your cupboards , and shewing to the world that you have neither jam nor jelly , that you are in point of fact a { mere brown bread sort of man . ( Laughter and great applause . ) The present state of things was well adapted for keeping colonial offices , church livings , and all other slap up pickings , for the younger branches of aristocratic families . ( Leud cheers . ) Labour deserved protection , seeing that it is the most valuable of all property ,

      producing , as it does , and rendering useful every other description of property , ( Great applause . ) The Reform Act was , from beginning to end a mere farce , but he remembered the time , when if you had ventured to doubt the Patriotism of its authors , Lords Grey and Russell , you would have stood an excellent chance of being ducked in a horse pond , or being tarred and feathered , ( hear , hear , ) but the delusion was now manifest , the errors of the Reform Act was acknowledged on nil hands . ( Oeers . ) The principle on which the Reform Act was based , was the vicious one of money ; thus a wealthy shopkeeper might at night go to bed comparatively wealthy , and consequently an Elector , but during the night a barrel of turpentine or oil takes fire , his

      shop orwarehou-e is burnt down , his property is destroyed , and with it his intelligence , for the morning finds him poor , and consequently too ignorant to give a vote . ( Great cheering . ) The resolution called on them to combine , co-operate , and '' centralise" their power , but in the letters of Richard Oastler in the Northern Star of Saturday last , he perceived that the principle of" Centralisation" was condemned , now he told Richard Oastler , and them , thai , it was not " Centralisation" that was bad , but its misdirection . ( Hear , hor . ) He would illustrate his arguments ; under the New Poor-law , wealth and power had " centralised" for the oppression of the poor , this was undoubtedly bad —( hear , hear)—but on the other hand , the Operative Coal Miners of the North , had combined and " centralised" their power , and had thereby been enabled to employ their

      attorney , Mr . W . P . Roberts , who by his legal acumen , ability , and perseverance , had thrown down oppression , trampled on injustice , and upheld the juat rights of Labour ; this was undoubtedly good . ( Immense applause , ) Again , the Clmraists had " centralised" their power in the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , they had subscribed their pence , which grew to pounds , until in its aggregation it now amounted to the noble sum of £ 16 , 000—the result of which was the pretty state " O'Connorville , " and the once degraded , despied Chartists , were now admitted to be a portion of the landed proprietary of this great empire . ( Vehement cheering . ) Believing that the adoption of the measure asked for in the resolution , would tend to the comfort , convenience , and happiness of themselves , their wive 3 and families , he had much pleasure in moving its adoption . — ( Great applause . )

      Mr . John Gathard in seconding the motion related the trite anecdote of the musician and the organ blower . The musicians said . "Did we not perform that piece of music well ? " " Tes , responded the organ btower , we did . You said the musician , what had you to do with it . On the next occasion when a fine magnificent piece of music was to be performed all at once the organ ceased , in a most difficult portion of the music , the musician shouted out most lustily , "blowup ! " The organ blower coolly put out his head and very quaintly said , " then shall it be we ?" ( Loud cheers . ) Now , he thought they had been organ blowers to the aristocracy long enough , and that the time had arrived when we should let them know that the industrious portion of the people are somebody . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution was carried unanimously . Mr . Edmund Stallwood then rose to move the second resolution as follows : —

      Resolved , That whereas the system of representation as established under the Parliamentary Act of 1832 , commonly called the Reform Act , excludes from the rights of citizenship six-sevenths of the male adult population and whereas such exclusion is not less injurious to the best interests of the community than unjust in principle , this meeting considers that right and eound policy combine to demand a veritable radical reform of the representatire system at present existing , therefore this meeting resolve to petition Parliament for the enactment of the People ' s Charter a measure which embodying Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , Vote by Ballot , No Property Qualification , Equal Representation and Payment of Members , will restore to the people the active exercise of their inalienable rights and thereby afford them th « means of correcting all grievances and enacting all necessary measures of lleform .

      Mr . Stallwood said the resolution embraced the principles contained in the People's Charter , and as those principles had been explained so frequently in that portion of the metropolis , he apprehended they were tolerably well acquainted with them ; but it was nevertheless but right to suppose that there was something like one-fourth of a meeting like that , that might not understand or even have heard of them Jexcept from the tongue of slander —( hear , hear)—and as the Anti-Corn Law League had carried their measure by the iteration and reiteration of their principles , he would venture to enter into an exposition of those great principles . Mr . Stallwood then lucidly explained the principles of the People's Charter , evidently to the satistaction and deljght of the meeting , as evinced by the attention paid and the applause elicited .

      Mr . Ernest Jones then addressed the meeting at considerable length , setting forth the necessary tendency of class-government , as leading to the gradual declension of the working and shop-keeping classes , and establishing a numerous body of rich paupers , living on the industrious , while it fills the workhouses with daily increasing numbers of their victims . Mr . E . Jones then expatiated on the form of government best calculated to ensure a just system of legislation , and proved that the Charter was the document best calculated to produce sueb a result . Mr . E . Jones then set forth the advantages which would follow the adoption of that measure as the law of the land , and demonstrated by the clearest argument that it would heal all those wounds under which our body politic was now suffering . The most marked applause was bestowed on . the speaker during his address , which he concluded amid the reiterated cheers of the meeting .

      • The resolution was put and carried unanimously . Mr . William Hkwitt read and moved the adoption of the National Petition . Mr . SrRATioN , in a few words shewing the advantages of united efforts , seconded its adoption , and it \ f aa carried unan imously , A committee was then formed . A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman , and the meeting separated .

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      OLDHAM . On Sunday last , Mr . Robert Wild delivered a very truth telling address , in the school-room of the Working Man ' s Hall ; the address was listened te with great attention and general satisfaction . . ^< *

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      MESSRS . M'GRATII AND CLARK'S TOUR . CHATHAM . The Land ! The Land !!—On Thursday evening , a public meeting of the inhabitants of the three towns of Chatham , Rochester , and Stroud , was held in the largeroom of the Five Bells Inn . Rochester , to consider the objects and means of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . At the hour for commencing business , Mr . Paine , a working man . was unanimously called to preside , and after making a few prefatory observations , introduced Mr . P . M'Grath who explained the nature of the land plan in n clear , lucid , and eloquent manner , and much to the satisfaction of the numerous meeting . —Mr . T . Clark followed , and proved berond the possibility of a doubt that the Chartist Co-operative Land Society wasqnitcequal to the accomplishment of the object , which io contemplated—He quoted some of the most eminent agricultural authorities , showing that the amount of land , which the society proposed to give was amplysufh'cientibr the ' maintenance of a moderate family . Both speakers appeared to give the highest satisfaction .

      SECOND MEETING . ADOPTION OF TUB NATIONAL rKTITIOJf . On Friday evening , at eight o ' clock , a second meeting was held in the same room as the previous night , and was more numerously attended . Mr , Paine again occupied the cliair . A resolution condemnatory of class legislation , was agreed to , havine been ably and eloquently supported by Mr . M'Grath , who was rapturously applauded during his lengthy address . The National Petition was proposed by Mr . Willis , master tailor , seconded by Mr . Williamson , and supported by Mr . T . Clark , who propounded the theory of Chartism in a manner -rvhicli convinced all present of the benefits which would result from its embodiment in the form ofla > v . The petition was unanimously adopted . After winch , three cheers were given for the Charter ; three for Mr . O'Connor and the Northern Star ; and three foi Messrs . M'Grath and Clark .

      SWINDON . Glorious Meeting . —On Monday evening last , ihe "Odd Fellows' Hall , " was crowded to hear Me 3 srs . M'Grath and Clark deliver addresses on the benefits to be derived from joining the Chartist Cooperative Land Society . Mr . Clark first addressed the meeting and was listened to with breathless attentipn , all seeming anxious to learn the particulars of this labour redeeming Institution . Mr . M'Grath supported his colleague in one of his usual and effective speeches . At the close of the proceedings several questions were put and satisfactorily answered . Mr . D . Morrison proposed a vote of thanks to both speakers and in so doing challenged any man to come forward and discuss the question with him . The vote of thanks was carried by acclamation and the meeting separated .

      BATn . On Tuesday evening last , the large room of the " Porter Butt Inn , " was crowded to suffocation to hear the Land plan of the Chartists explained by Messrs . Clark and M'Grath , two of the directors , who had come from London for that purpose . Both gentlemen delivered lenghty addresses which were loudly applauded . A second meeting is to be held to-night ( Wednesday ) for the adoption of the National Petition .

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      GREAT MEETING AT NOTTINGHAM FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE NATIONAL PETITION . On Monday evening a meeting was held in the Town Ha'l of this town for the purpose of adopting the National Petition . The Hall was crowded to excess-• On the motion of Mr . Sweet , Mr . Charles Roberts was called to the chair . He opened the meeting by reading tlie handbill convening it , and * requested a fair and impartial hearing for all who might address them . Mr . J . Barb 9 r proposed the first resolution : — That this meeting is convinced that the elective franchise is the natural right of man and therefore considers the exclusion of six-sevenths of the male adult population from the rights of citizenship to be grievously unjust ; and determines that every legal agency shall be immediately put into operation to effect such an organic change in the constitution of the Commons House of Parliament as shall guarantee to every adult male inhabitant of this empire , of sane mind , a voice in the election of that body .

      He said , —It had been affirmed that when the Whigs were in office the Chartists cemmencod an agitation , and when they were out , the Chartists were still . This was not true . He thought there had been as much agitation during the administration nf the Tories as during tl . » administration of the Whigs ; but suppose it was even so ; what did it all amount to ? Why to this—that the Whigs were the professed friends of the people—the professed friends of an extension of the suffrage , while the Tories were the avowed enemies of all reform ; and , therefore , the people were justified in commencing agitation during the administration of the Whigs , in order to show to the country , that the Whigs arc not really the friends of the people . He was , in opinion , opposed

      to petitioning . He would not petition if there were any other means by which { the people could make themselves heard in the House of Commons ; but as there was not , he was willing to give up his opinion for the general good . He believed , that if the whole of the working classes were to sign petitions to Parliament , the Government would take no notice of them . Why ? because they were not powerful , they were not wealthy , they were not capitalists ; and , therefore , their petitions were treated with contempt . Wealth , now-a-days , is power . There had been an illustration of that during the last session . The Anti-Corn Law Leage forced the Government into a compliance with their wishes because they were wealthy . lie contended that the working

      classes , if they were well informed—if they were united—would produce wealth for themselves instead of for those who used it to oppress them , and then they could force their claims upon any Government . This was a land of Bibles and parsons . There were whole armies of parsons going forth to teach man his duty to his fellow , yet the greatest amount of misery and destitution existed . If the parsons were sincere , why did they not set about in real earnest to bring about a better state of things ? why did they not Bet about remedying the social condition of tho people ? They preached against worldly riches ; but they take the , " dangerous stuff themselves , and leave the heaven tor you . " If the- people had political power , they would not have bishops with their tens of thousands a-vear comwiHin ? prayers for the

      people to offer np to Almighty God , to avert a famine they themselves had created . It was said that property would be- insecure if the people had the franchise , Tlii 3 \ vas all nonsense . In democratic states property was as secure as in England . He thought that if the people had political power all classes would be banished . Mr . Gregory seconded the resolution . He said , that truth was mighty—it was all powerful ; truth was making rapid strides , and he was confident would ultimately prevail . The people were becoming more sober , more thinking ; a better spirit existed among them . He wisked they would forsake the publichouse . He did not like kings , but he should like to seeFeargus O'Connor king for one month , in order that he might level the " gin palaces . " Mr . Sweet proposed the second resolution : —

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      That it is the opinion of this meeting , that the BUI entitled the People ' s Charter is an embodiment of thoprin . ciplcs of equal representation , with details for securing their beneficial operation ; this mooting therefora agrees to the presentation of a National Petition , praying Par . , liament to render the document aforesaid a statute ol this reahn . He said , — -We have met en an important occasion Petitioning is the only means by which wo can mak < our cause known . All understood the 7 . ' eople'i Charter ; but if there should be some who did not he trusted they would before they left tb / j meeting

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      The Whigs formerly advocated the same principles which we now advocate ; we had carried them to power when they were driven out during the agitation of the Reform Bill . They had promised if we would support them , if we would strengthen them while they had got their pet measure—till tJicy got the wedge in—that they would , when they had got the wedge fairly in , take care it should be driven ™ y » f ; but when they got in what did they do ? Why , they gave the people bullets and cold steel , and to Ireland a Coercion Bill . It wa 3 the duty of every honest man to oppose the Whigs ; for his own part , he would oppose them t- > the death . We ought « h o ., M - i ^ + UP M the , atlvocacy of our opinions if lit ST . «?—*• fcl . edun K ! ° n ™ d the scaffold . The right of eitjzeu » hip ought not to be witl . hni , i fmm

      . uiy man It we are deprived of the right of citizen ship , we have no right 10 be called upSn to perform citizen ' s duties . . He would now read to them th " op . n . ons ot tho judges of the lm in reference to the People s Charter . Mr . Sweet here read the opinions ot Baron Rolfe , Judge Alderson , and others , comnientmg on them as he proceeded ; and lastly , the opinions of O'Connell , who said , that one who vas not a Ghiirtist was either a knave or a fool , lie believed that twelve months was long enouuh to keep a bad servant . As to Payment of Members—why it any one , when we had got the Charter , could clo without his salary , he could give it to the poor of the parish , it there should be any poor at that time , lie would advue the people to rally round the nmrnhRr *

      tor 1 < insbury . Let them support them . Let them send at the next general electiou twelve staunch men to support their own Diuicomoe , and then lie imagined we should be able to do something in the House ot Commons ; then we should be able to drive in the wedge ourselves Our Duncombe , with his gallant band , would be aWe to stop ail business , if the Government did not attend to the desires of the people , ihey would be able to move amendment after amendment ; each speaker might occupy six or teven hours , audit the other members did not like it they might goto bed . He advised the people to keep out of the alehouses , and buy land wnu the money—to join the National Chutrist Uo-opcrative Laud Society , and then we should soon be in a position to bid defiance to our enemies . Mr- Tophara briefly seconded the resolution , which was carried unanimously .

      Mr . Souter then came forward to m-ve the adoption ot the petition . lie had made a solemn vow nover to petition again ; but circumstances compelled him to petition once more . The Barons of Runnymede petitioned with their swords in their hands ; he did not wish to advise the people , to do likewise . fie believed that the people could gain their object , without any auch means . The bishops and parsons told them to put their trust in God , while they rooued . The press could do much for them , if it werehunest ; if the press would advocate the cause of the people , we should not be long withuuS tho Charter .

      Mr . Woodward then asked , whether the petition emanated from a National Convention , or from only » 7 j Uo 1 ? f tlle P P le ' representatives . Mr . Woodward . also made some observations relative to some remarks made by Mr . Barber about the Stoekingers Ticket Bill of last session . Mr . Barber , in endeavouring to show the hurrying sort of legislation lor the working classes , made remarks about the bill and its inefficiency . Mr . Barber , in reply , said , that if the petition did not emanate from a Convention of the whole people it waa their own faults , as they might Have sent delegates it they would . The petition was no less a

      national one on that account . It was before the whole people , and therefore was , in the truest sense , ; v national petition : the whole people had the power if they had the will , to sign it , With respect to the licket Bill—if the Government had received proper information , it only showed the more their incapacity to gov .. rn . Tho Ticket Bill was like all other laws , it required hundreds of lawyers to explain it . If the people had the power to make laws , he had no doubt they would be plain and easy , and would not require any vampires , such as lawyers are , to explain them . There wa 3 the greatest good feeling towards Mr . Woodward .

      A vote of thanks was then given to the mayor for the use of the hall , and one to the Chairman ; three cheers were giveu for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; three for F . O'Connor and the Northern Star ; and three for Dunoombe . The greatest enthusiasm prevailed during the proceedings . We never had a meeting better attended in this place , though only addressed by our own townsmen .

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      liare been made to float the Great Britain having Failed , the general conclusion seems to be that tho total loss of this splendid vessel is now inevitable . Lieut . Gabriel of the Royal Navy , is , however , dif-Icrcntly impressed . He thinks she may be released from her present position . Having taken an active part hi the rescue of her Majesty ' s steamer Gorgon , the opinion of this officer is entitled to respect . ' There can be no doubt , " hesnys , in . 1 letter to the Northern Whig , " in tho minds of any scientific men , but that she may be saved , and that without

      trusting to the treacherous spring tides . Every person who has visited her has expressed his doubts as to her ultimate fate ; and the general opinion appearing to prevail is , that she may be give imp as a total loss . From the fiisfc moment I was made acquainted with the exact position of the Great Britain , I stated that she could be got off ; since which , my opinion has not boen altered one iota ; and the more I see , the more I am convinced , that it it is the general wish of the parties concerned in her fate , she may be again afloat , My plan of proceeding with respect to thi 3 ship is founded on purely scientific principles . "

      Storm in 1 « rakce . —The Marseilles mail of the lGth arrived in I ' aris one day later than usual . There was a violent storm on the evenings of the lftli and 18 th , and the rising of the Loire carried away the suspension bridges of Saint-Just , d'Andrezieux , and Montroad . Several houses were washed down , and it is said that many peisons perished at Andrezieux . The communication was interrupted ; it lielbigny ( on the road from Paris to Marseilles ) and the plain of Forez inundated . Suigibe . —On Tuesday , a middle-aged man , name unknown , ran down Robert Street , and deliberately plunged himself into the water in the lock at the north end of the Prince ' s Dock , Liverpool . lie was taken out almost immediately and conveyed to the receiving-house , where he died in the course of halt an hour .

      Burglary . —Between eleven o ' clock on Tuesday night and seven o ' clock on Wednesday morning , a daring burglary was committed in | Bird-court , Walbrook . The robbery was effected by opening the door of the room on the second floor , in the occupation of Mr . Needle , the landlord of the house , which is let out in offices , and the thieves succeeded in carrying off a brass bound mahogany writing desk , upon which was a brass plate , engraved with Mr . Needle ' s initials , " W . N . " , and which contained notes and gold to the amount sf £ 300 , as also valuable memoranda . It is supposed thnt the robbery has been effected by some persons well accuainted with the premises . Unfortunately , the numbers of the notes have not been at present ascertained . OLDHAM . —On Sunday , ( to-morrow , ) Mr . Daniel Donovan will lecture in the sehool-room of the Working Man ' s Hall , at six o ' clock in the evening .

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      THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION . The weekly meeting at Conciliation (!) Hall was very thinly attended , the chair was taken by J . M . M'Donnell , Esq ., M . P . for Mayo . ; Mr . John O'Connell submitted the usual letter from his father to the meeting . It requested " My deaf Ray" to add to the subscriptions of the week £ 1 for himself and his three sons ; urging the necessity for the national committee in Dublin , which he regretted had not been taken up by the landlords ; and gave the usual cut at the Young Ireland party . The Hon . Mr . Lawless then defended himself ,, in reply to certain charges levelled against him by Mr . O'Neill at a former meeting . After which Mr . O'Neill made a speech ,. declaring his perfect satisfaction with tho explanation of Mr . Lawless . The two worthies then went through the farqe of shakmg hands . The rent was announced to bo MM . ]

      P 02 CLAR DISCCWUKJJT . Dublin , Oct . 15 . — -The proceedings of a baronial sessions held this week in the countiy . of Wexi ' ord furnish another instance of the difficulties which beset even the best intentioned proprieters , and Wexford can boast of a more than a \* arage share of such , in thair endeavours to atneliovatft the condition of the peasantry * At the'sessions in question a sum of 130 , 000 was passed , half of which far works calculated to aford immediate employment , and tho remainder for- drainage . Liberal wages wore promised , and all went offsatisfaotorialy until the day ' s business , had concluded , and magistrates and otber gentleoien assembled had gone away , when , says tho report in tho local paper , —

      A number ' ji poor men who remained became loud in complaining , of tlieir privations , and desiring to know from ther / ublic officers what had been done for their relief . O-. io man spoke at some length , mingling menaces with expressions of disappointment . They were not , he s « . id in a condition to wait any longer for employment . 1 liey had no food for themselves or for their families . They were honest men , and were willing to earn the price of food , if they could get it for earning . But , if they could not get it for earning , ttaoy must take it where they could fiud it . The gentlemen were now gone , without havingdone anything to afford them support for this day or the next . But they could follow them , and tell them that they must have support in one way or anotherthat , unless they « ok it for their labour , they must Have it at all events . Mr . Doyno was now gone ,

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      »» rsKSiss . iippea away M ° to ^' v iC 0 > We must eo t 0 them - and bri "B them ^ . r ™™ :: r ' , s , ;; i ; r ,, j ^^ ira T KEfc&a , : * as 2 j ^ h 5 £ ^ £ :: sri ! - could find employment their wages ' are not sufficient J provide food for those depending on them . ne was him self working for 5 d . a-daj ; but lie would give thit ud " He got a bit to eat , to be sure ; but what could an , , „ .,,, ' who had a wife and children to provide for do with 5 d a-day , particularly ns prices were now \ '

      Captiiin Dyer . —\ ou say , my frieml , that you have only 5 d . a-dny . Now , I ; im hajipy to tell you that , after a fuw days more , we will be able to give Is . fid , a-d ; iy to evciy man who is able to do a good day ' s iiork . The government are doing all in tlieir power to provide fur you ; and if you have patience only n few days , you will have plenty of employment , and nt good wages too . The man said it was hard for them to have patience while they were themselves starving , and saw tlieir wives and children starving around thorn . They exiieetodth . it the gentlemen would have done something 'or them that day ; bat now they were told they must wait longer . How could they wait ? Gentlemen who knew noiliing of hunger might easily tell the hungry man to wait . Hut if he waited in hunjjer , it must bo only fur denth . They would not ivait . The gentlemen oughi to liavo done something for them before they went awav .

      Jxr . Fakrell , — . The gentlemen are doing : « H in their power . We are doinR as much as we are able , anil moi a than you are aware of . Thai »( mf , lems , n ( Captv . iii Dyer ) neither wunt to boil nor closed his eyi-s the night before last , and I slept but two hours this morning . We are doing everything that men can do for you ; and , if you can only have patience forune week or ten dajs , you will get both work and wages to support y , y . A Voice . —II " we wait forten ilnys there will not be a grain of corn left in the country ; all will be sent to Wexford or CastlebriOge . The man wlio hud spoken first exclaimed that they would not ullow tile corn to bo taken out of the country . Tiled—I a grain n-oulil they let go : and they would go now to look for footl where it was to be had . If they grotwoik they were willing to earn ; but they must hare footl whether they g&t work or not . They all then left the room .

      It must not be supposed thattlio . se incitements to discontent are only to be l ' mind in tho letters or speeches of the priests ol' Mayo and Cork . In precisely a simitar spirit is oonceivefl an article which , appears in tlio Cusllelav Teltyraph . Lord John Itusstll , your advent of power is indeed an unhappy one for poor Ireland ; far different was ths treatment of your rlear-siglitvd predecessor , Sir Robert Peil . II sought not the aid of 11 party in the time of Ireland's starvation In tlie yearjust past ; he saw at once that , as the first adviser of his Sovereign , he must meet ttie crisis like a man , and , though upon ( eveiul occasions we took exceptions to his procteilings , still we must do him justice by sayhiir he sent us food , and he kept the Dragoons to himself ! Lord John lluiseli , you liavo acted a far different part—influenced by such men as

      Lord [ iucan , a bigotted Tory , to gratify them , you send us tho dragoons ; but yuu keep the food from the starving people . What are the Irish to think of that government who prearh plenty to the poor while they close their stores upon starving millions ? What are we to think of those who have leftths country dependent upon speculators for food , while they permit food to be carried oft to France and Holland , and by this suicidal act raise ths markets in the very depots from which our merchants were to draw their supplies ? Pshaw ! the Whigs wmu ever the enemies of Ireland—and evir will be , no matter what their profession may be . Of two evils we would choose the least , and by all means give us Sir Robert l ' eel , a statesman of courage and action — a statesman , whoknows how to take the nation out of its present ditfi culties —a statesman who will not Keep the luoa 01 " « iu

      poopla under look and key while the poor aro left to dia by the ditches along the highways , or else have recourse to plundering their neighbour ; , by killing their cattle to uso them for foor . Such tinkering as fhis was noo known in Sir Robert Peel ' s days—it was reserved for Lord John and his co-partners . We regret being obliged omake these remarks ; they 111 a forced upon us by beholding the poor actually staggering in our streets for want of food , and crying for work , which they are not -stting ; while we behold Sappers and Miners ( hurried t rom England at the dead hour of night , so pres ^ iug was he emergency considered ) walking up and down our streets , as if they had no other business but to divert the hunger of starving Paddy by gazing on them as they pass by . Again , we are favoured with the presence of those

      line men , the Enniskillen Dragoons , who have been sent here by the Whiggoveniment to assist tut . . armersto eat up their grain crop . They are brave-looking men , and we fancy the heroes of Waterloo , if any of them still grace the troops in Mayo , we find it not altogether the part of a noble bearing on the duty of men who shed lustre on England ' s banners on the 18 tl of June , to stain their blades with the blood of a starving populace . Again , we behold troops passing through ouv streets , and billettcd upon the inhnbitauts , on tlieir route to other localities in Mayo ; this warlike preparation while the agents on estates are holding ottices in the town for the collecting of rents ! And all this , as we before hay stated , while the people are kept idle ! While the people are left to die ! Oh , fatal humbug—oh , unstutesmanlike delusion !

      The Lvmenck Examiner sings to the same tune , though in notes somewhat le : S harsh than its western contemporary : — However unpalatable it may he , we are beund to repeat our loudest condemnation of the manner in which the emergency of the moment has been met . The first extraordinary baronial ses .-ions under the 10 th of Victoria , for the county of Clare held at Broadford on the Xith of September , now one month ago ! At those sessions it was considered necessary i . i pass a number of presentments , amounting to £ ' 40 , 000 . Up ta tho beginning of this week not a man had been set to work in that district , and when 3 few were employed , they turned outagainAtthe 8 il . a- < lay , which thpy said , and said truly , wasiio more than half sufficient to buy food at the present rates . The same story may be justly told of the

      entire country , Whilst the tidious and irksome forms which imperial legislation and centralisation impose ni ' e being e&mplied with , the starving labourers of the different localities can with the greatest difficulty be restrained from committing acts of outrage , violence , and plunder . The engineer must report . The Board of Works must consider and deliberate . The results of the wise saws of Sir Randolph Kouth and Go , must be trans , mitted to the Treasury . These voluminous communications must be yawned over by some Irish-hating , Irishcursing pampered official . * This gentlemau is in no hurry , and returns the correspondence perhaps to amend some form , fill up some blanks , or make a verbal alteration . Is not this all literally true , whilst the frame '

      work of soi'iety is rocked to its centre by tumultuous assemblages of peasantry * And yet we are accused of making ungenerous , inflammatory , and baseless attacks , * because we are impelled by public duty to condemn the imbecility of those who have the control of public affairs ! Yes , we repeat our expressions of indignation at the clumsy , and inefficient manner , of transacting the public business with which the V ? higs at e chargeable . We believe they arc not equal to the alarming emergency which has arisen , and we consider that it would be a blessing to the nation if Sir Ruben Peel were at tho helm ' to guide the vessel of state through the difficulties and dangers that surround us . In making this declaration we but mirror the opinions of the great majority of the population .

      Tho following is from' another southern authority , the Cork Examiner : — Whilst we write we have before us accounts fearful indeed , 'and appalling to the stoutest hearts . Baath is striking down the people , and careering orev the J « nd with lethal strides . How many children and stricken women die awav in the remoteness of inland districts , in tlieir mountain home , unknown , uncomforted , and unpitiert , save by some bereaved parent or husband , it is impossiblo to tell ; but wlu-n strong men yield up their spirits in the face of the public , ami beeomu stiffened in death from the most fearful of all visitations , it is high time to cry out against the tariiy and mucking t fforts of those in high places , who plan , or philosophize , while hunger is doing its work . We give ti > -day the iWaths from starvations , of one man in Skibberten , of t «» in C . istle liavcn . of one in Maerooni , of one in the county of Ciare ,

      and the letter of the Rev . Mr . M Hale , detailing accounts of numerous deaths from alike cause in Mayo . Where , in the name-of God and humniity , are the i-uporteil provisions for the peop le—the wages of labour to feed tho crying wretehes in their -dark hovels , wlio lift tlieir frarful and eadaverous &ees to heaven for Sl ; j > t mercy tlenifd them hereby their rulers and natnruLjjunnluMs and protectors r We are sink of listening t » all the details of a tnichisery , that is to be , for procuring food—nf non-interference with free -trade in pvovisious—of the slang of cnginsening masfcincts—1 ^ roving commissioners who i 2 o nothing—of ignorant or inettu-ient boards who write voluminous letters—and tho qti / ickery of governmental isr individual wisdom , whiuli , stt down in good set terms , meet the public-eyeanil engage the public ear every day ; while all the timo rain and stavvntton sire allowed to run riot among thcpop . ulntiwi , am \ death in its most hideoua

      forms liiys low its victim . Under tho head of "State of the country / 1 " and tho first in order of a series of extracts detailing tho progress ol' distress in tho j . rovinecs , tho PlLOT gives the following instance of tho effoeis of the famine : Phillips-town , Tuesday , Oct . 13 . —This day I was : 'l « formed , ou the authority uf several crcdiblo and respectable persons , of a fact which strikingly manifests the awful destruction to which the food of man , as well as of the birds of the air , has been subjected . In the neighbourhood of Bally Wney , between this town and Edenberry , there is a grove of large trees winch *« . * .. ti »«««»•

      immen oriai has bun the reS « gplace •'•» number of crows ; last nig ht the people of the locality numoer u" h conti ,, uous cnea were alarmed aim kepi a ^ . in . 0 « . > , inm wtxsvuRii Y 5 J vj and screaming of these birds ; and at daybr | o ^! & , | 3 Ai morning ( Tuesday ) many people repaired to tfieplace ^™ - ascer afn the cause of the disturbance , when 3 $ f { &b / MM astonishment and alarm , they beheld large ^ numberft-of » dead crows lying upon the ground , whioh , Y on , ; * ; being _ - , ; . ^ V exnmined , appeared to have been reduced ^ OBkelatons . : " jfe by hunger , ana to have been actually starvedto-d « atJ » , 'j '" ' ^ H r ^ fe ) mf

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      RENE WED AGITATION FOR THE OUUTER IN SCOTLAND . MR . DOYLFS MISSION .

      LANARK . Oil fuestlay the 13 th , a numerous and highly re-? 5 S ?? M ? i i ? . held in theTown """ . Lanark , 1 ^ nf ^ ' Ch ™ t » ijher Doyle expound the principles of the Lund Society . Mr . James Scott lilled the chair , and opened the business in a brief but impressive speech , and then called upon Mr . Doyle to address the meeting . The lecturer ' s speech occupied an hour and a half in the delivery , and was listened to with carneat attention at the conclusion he received the hearty applause oi his hearers . We believe Mr . Doyle ' s addreus will be productive of much good in the town of Lanark . 1 here was given three cheers for Mr . O'Connor and three for Frost , Williams , and Jones .

      HAMILTON . Mr . Doyle delivered a lecture on Monday the 12 th insfc . tea most respectable audience on "The Rise l » -Jl " "I ?! f Oliarti « t Co-operative Land bocicty . lliekoturer elucidated the principles of the above society , in a masterly and eloquent manner , shewing it to be the only plan under existing circumstances for bettering the condition of the industrious classes . The lecture occupied nearly two Hours , at the close of which several questions were put aud answered in the mostsatisfactory manner .

      EDINBURGH . Mr- Doyle addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting of the Edinburgh Chartists on Monday evening last , with the best results ; a « reat many of the democracy , old and new , having joined the Chartist Association . We have had the promise of a lull report of this meeting , but up ti the time of going to press , the report has not come to hand .

      Eoyal Polytechnic Institution.

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      October 24 , 1846 . THE NORTHERN STAR .

      The Great Britain.— All The Attempts Which

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 24, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1389/page/5/