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      HBAETLBSS TrRANJfT . TO XDIK * OF THE HOXTHMW «« . R . t An Wt Of tyranny *»• been perpetrated in this S S to i « way a * uBju » t and oppress as any that £ ¦ taken place under ibatdau of oppressors , the Insb taoterS . A nipectabta m * benevolent man aeeupj-Jo-a f ^ a ' anderLord Vernoa , heiag desirouB . of allevia . tine the miserable condition of a fiumberof his poor neighbors , sub-let a quantity of his land for that purpose which the pocr fellows eagerly prepared , and in many tartances had manured tbe land and planted some of theircrops . Their hopes , however , were soon blasted . let the

      The Tenomous pen of tome unknown wretch agent know that the poor men were working the land In Mr O'Connor ' s plan , and for themselves too This « u too much far the pampered and bloated menial of a feudal baron-he must pat a stop to such work . « »« J > did thepoorfeUows represent their misery , and the hard , ship it would be to them to be deprived of their allot . aeHts after having purchBsea manure , seed , and agnenltnral implements ( many of them stinting their stomachs for that purpose ); fall was to no P urpose , fte inigMy menial declsied Wat the nuisance should not t » tolerated under him , 10 that the poor men were compelled to give up their plots . It is but justice to state , that the farmer who snb-Iet it has done all in his pawer to compensate the men for their loss . VonrsfaUkfolly , Thohus Webb .

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      50 I 3 E EDITOB OP THB KORTHERN STAB . Sis , —TTe rejoico to inform jou and the members of fee Land Compaay aeaerally , that a number of as have formed onrselveg into a co-operative association called tte | Kingston Co-operative Gardeners Society , our object being to hire land in our neighbourhood ; and to accomplish such , we have commenced subscribing in shares of 2 s . 63 . each ; anj person eligible to become a member ao matter what creed or tudltlno . O » . oy ~» l < . t * r » ara « i « « . te , of me land in our own localities and the practicability of the Land Plan , as a means to an end of ultifrom their at

      mately redeeming tha working classes present degraded position , to free men , free in thought , and free to act . TniBtinff the public notice through the medium of the Snx . will attract the attestion of other localities , tro at the same time naitedly bope / and most earcestlj wUh . fiiealth and long lifeitojour benefactor and iriead , Mr Peargus O'Connor . I remain , dear sir , Touts reipeetfolly , E . Akdsksoh , Secretary . P . S . Any localities wishing for a copy of the rules eanfesve them , hy applying to the secretary . ITarch 7 th ISiS .

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      THE KATIOKAL PETITION . TO IHB EDITOR OP THB KOKIHEBH STAB . Sre , —Seeing that the Kstional Petition is to bo pre . tented to the Houss of Commons by our champioa , Hr O'Connor , on the ISth of April , I think I shall not be doing my part , having a vote for the borough of Mary . lebone , if I neglected sending to the two members , requesting them to give the petition their support , or no Tote from me at the nett election . Hoping all Chartists having votes will do the like . I am , yours , Johh Steebcks , aa old Chartist ,

      TO THE EDIIOS OT THE KOSTHESN ETAB . Sis , —It would appear , by tfee conduct of some of the employers , that they look on the working man as an engine created for their especial nsa , ta be employed so long asitsnttE their fancy or interests , and then to be thrown aside as e » much living lumber , having no longer sny right to live upon earth . This , or something like it , mast be t&e ides of the mes who show such antipathy to the men in their employ trjing ta make provision against a time of age or destitution . I as induced to trouble you with the foregoing resarics , bj the conduct of ay employer towards me . Being a tuccessfal allottee in the Land Company , I had naturally bignn to congratulate myself on my good

      fortune—when , it having come to my master ' s ears , he put s damper on ray rejoicing by an abrapt dismissal , telling me , at the same time , that , had he been aware of my intentions , he would izaTe dismissed me four mouths ago . I appeal to you , as a public joarnalist , to say whether it is jut to the working man thus to punish him for bis attempt to provide fer his fatare comforts ! and it is certaiB _' ttat if there Is Eny class which hze need to do so , it is the lacensakers—as Mr Langford , my former employer , iH 8 trs that no man can obtain employment after he has passed the meridian . Therefore , to punish him for try . iBj » to provide for ais lattetyears , is tyranny of the worst kind . I am , sir , Yours respectfully , - JlXZi HOLHKS . Sew Lentou , Maicb . i 3 in , T& 8 .

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      OUB EXILES . Tie following letter has appeared ia the Coehttall € esqkick , publiihed in Yan Dieraen's Land •—TO THE EDITOE OF THE C 02 HWAL& CHEOjflCtB . 5 » . —In locking over a recent copy of yonrjoHrnal , Eyatttntion was attracted to an article on the subject ef prison indulgences , wbich opens a wide field of observation , and one ia which , if you hare ' the moral csarage to proceed , yon may render the most essential eerie © « o raauy really deserrfng characters—for amonglt fite keterogeneous mass composing the prison popula-£ e , itnnst be admitted there are come of that descrlp-Sob , and I would , without further preface , draw year E&setian ta one whose ttte pretests the strongest e&ets that can be urged upoa the notice of thegevern-¦ Ryritai authorities . Zephaniali Williams , the compatriot ef Frost and Jones , who has , for a considerable

      fine , resided In this town , and in reference to whose fS&sral character it weuld be superfluous to allude , sere thaa by saying it is that of nnwevering rectitude , Hjtright integrity , and stern , unbindiag probity ; but , pesisgby the deserts of irreproachable conduct , he has gcrfbnaed one of the most meritorious actions on re-9 on 3 , and , should he nsver receive any advantage from fte performance , at the handB of the canjtituted authorife » , it is but right that the press should blacon it forth , esroborated , ss it is , by the unreserved and honourable ettestation of T- Mason , Esg ., the police magistrals , fera ehowing , beyond the possibility of doubt , that tore eaanot be anything of collusion about it . The meritOb £ cs * action I allude to is this : —The instates of Kew Bxftlk Lunatic Asylum hid tended thenuilves togeii « riB a conspiracy ; had armed themselves with .

      Ha&eoiis , and threatened to bnrn down the asylum , & ? ettenrog to kill any one that tame near them . The £ s&keeperi were afraid to approach them , as were also { hs constables . At length Williams was applied to , and , Bt fee risk of hit life , he went in wnoHgit them , and w « BltiBjste ] y successful in prevailing en them to relin . § s * h their weapoas , and retire each to his cell . £ § S haTo omitted to state that this occurred on the SsBdey aerninj , ani the whole of tho prisoners em > ^ syed on public works , were actually eallet eat of sSares to assist , and what the array of physical force &Qsd to eSset , WilliamB accaapUshed with & few tins cords . This took place in June , ISiS , and at the ttoe TTilliams was induced b y the colicitation of friends &aeniorialig 9 for an indulgence . The late Governor , Sc S . Wilaiot , forwarded the memorial to the home

      gorcrnment ; andzu course of time TTilliims received the £ l ] 2 atrio {» reSJ laeonie Gladstonlan reply to his sppltea-&s , a copy of which I eeclote . A writer in your jonrsal ef September lit , signed 'Hagaes , ' very truly oh-Bares , that , in most cases , it has isppened that the fest sea hare met with the worse fate . It it lite . eEy exemplified in the cub « f poor Williams . Bat Rsefy it is time that the specious fraudulent trickery , ¦ B&ieh Iise been so long and so aftea practised , and Biic& has only tended to advance and reward viilany , sSouia be superseded by a mora judicious bestowal of fefulgeaoes ; tsd I verily believe that in no instance is &Eoro richly deserved , or would bo more highly appreeiU « , th&a ia tae cue of the political exile , T &niSSLS . I am , sir , yours truly , P . — .

      COPT « EBItT 10 ArPUCiTIoif . KrajElSBDa The Lieutennnt-GoTernor has re-6 Btve < J » despatch from tha BUhtHeaosrablo the Secre-&rjsf State , in which * Mr Glads'one intimates , that her E&jeity kss not been pleased K > approve of & Tieket of leas * being granted to Z . Williams , who was recem-Beaded by bis Ezeellency . W . Naiek , Cemptreller ' s Offlos .

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      LOOK ON THIS PICTURE . ( From the Preston Chroniele ) EEARGUS O'COiNNOR'S NATIONAL LAND SCHEME .

      pr / BLIC TEA PARTY AND BALI . On Tuesday evening last , a public tea party and ball was held in the rooms of the Ctfrn Exchange , in honour of the location of six of the Preston members of the National Land Company . Among the persoas announced to address the meeting ww Mr Feargun O'Connor , M . P . for Nottingham . The room was erowdfld-about six hundred peraons , ot both sexes , being present . Ah excellent tea was served up ; and , after the tables had been cleared , a temporary platform was erected , from wbich the different speakers addressed the assemblage . At one end of the room , a piece of white calico , surrounded by a rert border , was nailed to the wall , having upon it the words Feargua O'Connor , Esq .. M . P ., the founder of the National Land Company ; ' and , and at the other end was s similar piece of material , beann g upon it the words . The science of Agriculture is only in its infancy'

      . ... Ms JiUfcs Fa&SKLAKB having been moved to the chair , said—Ladiea aad gentlemen { though it would be , perhaps , more appropriate to say working men and women ) , he accepted their call to preside with the greatest pleasure , lor he held it to be a privilege to be allowed te take a conspicuous part in bo praiseworthy a movement as the present one , It was a movement which had for its object , ultimately , the salvation of our common country ; and , immediately , the amelioration of the condition of suffering humanity . ( Hear , hear . ) There was , to him , in

      contemplating man ' s return to his legitimate possession of the land , something pleasing and sublime ; for then he would not be wholly dependent on trade , nor would he be the victim of sordid man ' s injustice . ( Cheers . ) We might , in the present day , look on every hand , and behold steady , would-be industrious , and deserving men , unwilling idlers , whose pallid ctieek 8 proclaimed aloud the want of the oororaon necessaries of life ; and many of those men preferred the streets to their homea , in consequence of the destitution ef their families—such families being

      barely kept alive ao the expense of others . The condition of these men was but a shade better than our own when the land in this country was comparatively unproductive , from the want of labour . ( Hear , bear . ) He wonld aefy any man to walk ( as he had done yesterday ) through the vale from Chipping towards Preston—which might be rendered as beautiful a place as ever the Bun shone upon , and was now literally a heap of rubbish—he would defy any man to walk through that vale without fueling forced to acknowledge that the land waa lying waste for the want of labour ; and at the same time hundreds of labourers were being thrown into the unien baatiles through that want of labour . ( Hear , hear , ani loud cheers . ) Who had not seeD , when he had travel ]? d into the country , a field on the one side teeming with

      plenty , and oh the other side comparatively barren ? If we asked the farmer what was the cause of thiswhat made this field on the oneside teem with plenty , and be on the ether in a barren state , he would tell them , ' The landlords , and the want of capital . ' We might then ask him how , when he carried out improvements on the ope hand , they were not productive of benefit to a certain extent on the other hand , and he would say , ' He had Heither the capital nor the disposition , when he held his land on so fickle a tenure as at present;—when he dared not tread on a partridge nest ; when his boy dared not keep a dog to assist him in protecting the sheep , if such dog was ever known to have disturbed a harp or a pheasant ; and when he had effected any improvements ia the land he could bs turned off it at a moment ' s notice .

      and have all he had expended s&cnhced to the caprice of a tyrannical—an unprincipled landlord . ' He ( the chairman ) had been told on Sunday evening last , by a practical farmer , that in a certain township in Lancashire the land was worth from 15 a . to 20 s . per acre leas than it was fifteen or twenty years ago The land bad been allowed to deteriorate in value ; and yet . at the same time , this township wa « much presHed with poor rates . It was scarcely possible that such things could be allowed to exist , and yet they were at present in existence . The present meetiDg was a social tea party , to congratulate their friends who had been allotted land , and who were soon to be located according to the principles of the Land scheme ; but were it apolitical gathering he might indulge a little , aHdsay that there were other

      reasons , besides esolnsion from the land , which had tended to bring about the present deplorable state of things . He might tell them that even their ' ewn darling Land Scheme , ' & 3 it had been termed , would never be carried to a successful isBue until the government found it to be their duty to repeal that monstrous law known as the law of primogeniture , which left all to one individual in a family , and burdened the rest of that family upon the community at large . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ' ) Were they not met upon another object , he might go into the history of the past few days , which had brought vengeance upon an unprincipled tyrant ; which had freed a aoble people from their bondage ; and which , in all probability , had changed the destinies of Enrope . ( Cheers . ) He trusted that the happy day might

      arrive when all persons should , by their own industry , be made happy , and when they should be allotted and located on the fruitful land . He looked forward , also , to that happy day ,-when man , by his own industry , should ba able to maintain mimself and those Frdvidence had made dependent upon him ; when he Bhould labour willingly , from early morn till dusk ; vrten his wife should have time to attend to the internal arrangements of her house ; when he could sit in converse with happy , social , sober friends , to talk ef his duties and his rights ; when he should educate his children— ' teach the yonng idea how to shoot ; ' and , when bis labour and industry would qualify him to retaia Ms position as a happy citisen of a free and glorious Republic . ( Loud applause . ) However it would ill-become him to detain them any longer . He knew of what that meeting was

      composed ;—he knew it was composed of a mixturejof the grave and gay ; some seriously disposed , and others itching for other amusements ; and he knew , also , that they had present amocg them a tried advocate of the peaple ' s rights , and the founder of the Land Seheme—Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., member of parliament for Nottingham , and no thanks to the powers that he . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Knowing that , he thought it weuld not be his duty , as chairman , to occupy any more of their time ; and he would sit down , by thaakiag them for the orderly manner in which they had listened to the remarks he had made ; and , if there waa any person present epposed to the principles they advocated , he hoped they would give to them that calm and dispassionate hearing for which a British audience was to highly famed . ( Loud applause . ) The chairman concluded by calling oa Mr Brown to propose the first resolution .

      Mr Jausi Brown said that the duty which was imposed upon him that evening , was one which could not reqaire much energy on bis part to perform ; and , as there were several strangers present , besides their eateerced friend Mr Feargus O'Connor , who were desirous of addressing them , he would not detain them long . Ha held in his hand a resolution to propose ; but before he did bo , he weald beg their attention whilst he endeavoured to express the feelings which naturally arose in his mind on an oeeaiion . like tho present . They were not met to cele . brate any great battle ; they were not met to triumph

      ever the fall of any dynasty ; but they were met for an object as great , if not greater , than if they had been met for such purposes . They had had to contend , since the establishment of their Land scheme , with a foe more formidable than any of the-armies which had at different times over-ran ^ Europe , and that fos was the public press . That press had thought it its duty , from the commencement of the struggle , to impede their progress by every means possible , unprincipled , and dishonourable ; and they were now there together that night to proclaim that they had vanquished the press . The resolution placed in his bands to move waa as follows : —

      That this meeting— assembled for [ the pnrposa of rejoicing at tbe sHcceisfal and proud position to wuicb the Rational Land Company baa attained , and in honour ef the location of six . of the Preston members of the coapany who ars going ta be taken from the miseries naturally attendant upon tbe present artificial labour market , and placed in a position for a fair derelope . ment of the capabilities of labour when applied te the cultivation of tbe national resoursss of this countryconsider , that if generally carried ont toe principles of the National Land Company would tend to promote the political and social regeneration ef the working cl&si&a of Great Britain .

      MrWu , Beret seconded the motion . The Chairman : Our friend Mr Feargus O'Connor will speak upon this resolution . ( Loud applause . ) Mr Feaesus O'CasNOH , M . P ., then came upon the platform , and was received with tremendous cheering . He said : MrChairmaa and my friends , after a long absence from your town , I assure you it gives me no ordinary pleasure to meet you upon the present occasion ;—upon an occasion to commemorate a great event , namely—the release of six of your townsmen from absslute bondage to positive freedom . ( Cheers . ) But there ^ is a circumstance connected with this night ' s gathering which gives me still greater pleasure . I have laboured long , and now find that I have not laboured in vain , to create a sound mind among the working classes

      of this country ; and I may truly say that I have been amply rewarded to-night by the sound , rational , and sensible epeccb delivered by a man worthy of the nameofFrankland . ( Cheers . ) It has been my fortune on several occasions to attend both large and small gatherings ; aed without attempting to pay a compliment on the present occasion to that gentleman , I can say that I never heard a speech more replete with sound common sense , ( Cheers . ) It is more valuable to me because it was evidently unstudied , and was the creation of his own mind , impelled perhaps by the scene before him . There is an error , however , which my friend Mr Brown , who moved the first resolution , has committed , though perhaps a trifling one , and made with & good and kindly intention . He has told you that the press opposed the Land Plan from duty : but that is an

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      error . Tha preaj have opposed that Plan from interest , sycophancy , depravity , and corruption . A great portion of my business through life has been to give to that press the power to do good when H is inclined to do so , and to pare its claws when it is inclined to do mischief ; and perhaps there is no country in the world that can boast of so great a triumph aa we can over the lewdnessof tbe press . And why ? Because here am I a stranger standing before you , and standing before the representatives of the press , and 1 defy that press to destroy the mind that I have in a great measure created . ( Loud applause . ) There was a time when the press was all powerful , because the press was like a veiled prophet , arid every man thought that a newspaper was a bible , and everything that he saw in it was a

      Revelation . But now every man has learnt different , a d has learnt the truth . He now knows that an editor is but a portion of the property of the plant belonging to those who sell the paper . He knows that an editor is paid for what he says , and he knows , also , that like other manufacturers , he makes his wares for the best market . ( Cheers . ) And now , my friends , I have a great moral to this tale , and have to requeat of you to doubt me when the preaa praises me . The press of this country has done more to destroy liberty , and has done naore to produce the present disorder among all classes of society , than all the other classes put together . The preB 3 of this country has ever been foremost in supporting the power of those classes who are moBt opposed to labour . And why ? Because

      la-Don * , being most unproductive , lad the labouring elasses not belonging to the advertising community , and most papers living on advertisements alone , they are obliged to pander to the want of principle and depraved tastes of the advertising olaag—no matter what opinions they may themselves entertain . I thank the press for having opposed the Land Plan ; for if the y had not opposed it I should have doubted its stability . ( Laughter . ) For instance—imagine a poor little editor sitting in his cock-loft , writing for tbe parties employing him that matter only which will sell—writing [ about the capabilities of the soil , and borrowing ideas from other subjects ; and in which we have many opportunities of seeing the ignorance of that class from whom we are taught to receive knowledge and learn the literature of the

      day . There is now a great change coming over the spirit of the times . In a ' country not many miles distant from ours—notwithstanding that its tyrant monarch was firmly seated on the throne , the people have been victorious against him , and he has been compelled to seek a safe asylum in England . As described by your chairman in his excellent illustrative speech , we have a tyrant turned upon the State ; and in all likelihood we shall be called upon to contribute to his maintenance and to the maintenance of his family . It is not at all to be doubted that tbe working classes may be called on to support another king . They already contribute immense sums te the support of the King of Belgium , to whom they gave £ 50 , 000 per annum . They contribute also to the support of the Kins of Hanover ; and I should not be at all surprised if we

      add another to the list oi pauper kings living on the labour of the people of this country . But now I have done with the rabble of the press , and kings , and will come to the more important subject before me , namely—these six children coming to live by their own free labour upon the soil . ( Cheers . ) I venture to say , notwithstanding the opinion ot the press , that all the land purchased is clay land , all the houses damp houses , and all the allottees discontented and starving—still I venture to assert that no power , no seduction , no ignorance , no representations , no entresu ties will be able to seduce these six children from their own castles as sson as they are partakers of the sweets of their own labour . ( Cheers . ) It h true that when I first established the Land Plan , it was a novel question to the working man , who was

      accustomed to the drudgery of artificial life , to the depression of wages , and to act according to the caprice and wishes of those who employed him . He then never gave it & thought that his breakfast waa produced from the land ; that his dinner was produced from the land ; that bis supper came from tbe land ; and that in fiae , his hat , coat , shoes , stockings , and every article upon him was produced from the land ( Cheers . ) Every article is produced from the land , every object which be lies upon and which are above him , 13 produced from the land ; and now the people know that they look upon the land as their own , and from which they may gain their own redemption and salvation . ( Applause ) As a matter of course , the object of the Land Plan is to buy ever the labour market for industrious men—those who live in

      poverty and who over-stock the labour market—the object is , then , to buy over the labour market tor them , for the purpose of making good the losses in trade . It is no wonder , when the government tax industry to the sum of £ 6 , 000 , 000 in the shape of poor rates , from which the idle alone receive the full benefit , it is no wonder then that they should wish to take the surplus labour out of tho market , that they might thereby increase the value of the land . Every man in his senses knowstbat for some years past trade and commerce have been falling off . Every man knows also—although there has been an increase in the price of the raw material and a great decrease in the price of the manufactured articlethat the capitalists would oppose tho Land Scheme . It h no matter what the pries of the raw material is ;

      it is no matter what the price of the manufactured article is ; the men who command the money , and , thereby , command the lebour , raake up the deficiency in the profits out of a deficiency in the wages . That is the reason why these men are opposed to the Land Plan , These men know about as much aboat the land as an Irish pig knows about geometry . ( Laughter . ) I would take a hundred free traders , or a hundred political economists , who write about the land , and I would locate them on an estate ; or I would take a hundred editors , and what a thing that would be . ( Laughter . ) How I should like to see a hundred editors located on an estate;—( laughter )—what a menagerie that would be . Well , I would taka a hundred editors , long-headed aa they think themselves , but ignorant as they are—idle as they

      are—and unless they were like Nebuchadnezzar , and eould live upon grass , every oBe of them would starvo . ( Loud cheers , and laughter from the reporters . ) They would soon find out how much they knew about the land ; and if they produced anything at all it would bo geese , because they must have a goo « e quill ; and , therefore , they \ fould prednee eeese , if they could produce anything . ( Laughter from the reporters . ) That this Land scheme of mine Bhould , consequently , be opposed by the press and by capitalists , 1 am net surprised ; but let any man take a walk with me ; let him look at the land on which my friends have been located ; lot him see the improve meats which have already taken place on it ; Jet him look at the countenances of those located on it ,

      and see the once pale faces turned into a good blush ; let him see the woman who , a short time ago , was obliged to rise at the dawn of morniner , to throw the Bucking child from her breast , and harry off to her work ; let him see her in her own castle , sitting by her own fireside , the mistress and empress of her own household . ( Load applause . ) But , my friends , I believe the press and the capitalists are Christians , and , therefore , I will give them scripture . God tells man that he must live by tha ' sweat of his brow . ' God tells man also that the husbandman must be the first partaker of the fruits of the earth . God does not tell man to live by the sweat of another's brow , bathe tells him to live by the sweat of his ownbrow . God gave you the land , and told you to cultivate it ; and to make yon labourers ha made natural labour ,

      but the devil made you artificial labour . ( Cheers . ) The husbandman and the labourer have as great a right to enjoy the fruits of their own industry as any man who lives npon his own land . ( Cheers . ) In the present state of trade , in the present state of commerce , when there ia a speculation and traffic in all other articles of life , why are men opposing others respecting the land ? God gave man a sufficiency to apply to his own . sustenance and support , and one man has as much right to labour on the land and support himself by his own industry , as another has to take a shop if ho wishes to become a shopkeeper . Therefore I have shown you ( hat God created man an agricultural labourer , and told him to live by the swoat of his own brow , and gave him labour wherewith to maintain himself- bat he

      created none of those speculations wherewith labour might be speculated upon and trafficked with . ( Cheers . ) Some of our opponents Bay that two aores are not enough ; that three acres are not enough ; and that four acres are not enough to suppert a man upon . If that Is the only objection , it COUld 800 Q 08 disposed of ; for if they are in a position to say that four acres ara not enough , then let them say what will be enough . I ask them to fix the standard , and if feur aeres are not enough , to say what is . I would not wish you to cultivate one acre of land , for never has them been a mas born since Adam was a little boy who could cultivate one acre of land up to the highest state of perfection . Tbe manufacturers of Lancashire thought it a hard > hip when they were obliged to send their twist abroad , declaring that the greateat profit lay in the greater necessity . I have , therefore , to complain of the manufacturers for opposing the Land Plan ; because in the same way the greatest amount of labour must be applied

      to make the l » nd most profitable . On Thursday night next I bring my measure before the House of Commona , and then I shall , from their own wordB and by reading their own statutes , satisfy them ; because I have it on record , from an act passed by the House of Common ?; ihat no man In Ireland having a quarter of an acre of land is intitled to relief from Ithe poor laws , because he ought to live on that quarter ef an acre . ( Cheers . ) Therefore , if I am able to satisfy them from , their own words , and from their own mouths and journals , then I say that I have silenced the press gang and tLe opposition of the House of Commons . I told you in the first instance when I established 'ny Land Plan of ihe difficulties with which it would be surrounded ; and I was told that it waa impossible to find an acre of land which 1 could purchase , for the landowners would not Bell us the land . But assoon as I purchased the firstestate then these gentlemen had the gilding taken off their gingerbread . There is no more of that now ; for if

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      there is an estate to be sold m England , tho persona aelling it look on me as the best purchaser , beoause I am able to give more than any otner man for it . Every morning my table m crowded with notes from landed proprietors , comrnencing- Sir , I have a splendid estate to offer raa for sale * Another great disadvantage we ware told ot was that operatives , tailors , shoemakers , weavers , S . could never dig . I have had them now en one estate for only six or seven months , and every man noon it says he is able to work with any agncu tural Xurer in the parish . It was thought an extraordinarr thing to require the immense time of seven vears' apprenticeship to become a tailor , whea that tailor in seven months could dig or stick a cabbage . with to the i i

      One great and important thing regard Land Plan is , that we are doing away with the old system of farming which has descended from generation to generation , and which has caused men to preserve the old hedges , forests , and fences , which eneroaolied upon the land , and which their grandfathers had adopted years before them . We are now introducing an entire new system into the science of agriculture , and we are bringing all the mechanical akill of the country upon the land , thus forming & complete set of labourers . In Hertfordshire and Worcestershir e , where our colonies have been located , wo have had men who have been farmers all their lives come to these novices to leaf a agriculture , and they have been astonished at the improvements

      effected in the cultivation of the ,, creps . This is a great fact—a greater fact thi& free trade . ( Cheers ) That is not a great fact , but is rather a great lie . Whea I was in parliament before , I tried what parliament would do , and I proposed several measures . One has been alluded to tonight . Ope was a bill against the present odious tenure , which gave the tenant the soil , but prevented him from applying his eapital upon it . If the tenants were to have the entire benefit from their own exertions they would rise at dawn of morning , and work not till noon , but till moonlight . The people have a right to the tenure of the land . Another thing which I proposed waa , a different system of Poor Laws for Ireland ; that they should be supported by premising

      from the higher olasses ; and Ihat is the same law that I would propose for England . I am opposed to any description of Poor Law whatever , and am in favour of a law—not a panper law—but one to provide relief for the aged and infirm , who , in their youth , have not been able to lay by enough to support themselves in their old age . ( Cheers . ) M y plan would effectually get rid of idling for I am' ia favour of unwilling idlers , and if my plan was carried out , when the really industrious found a willing idler pressing on their industry , that idleness would become a crime , and the idlers would be sent to prison . That ia the principle which my plan would establish . But perhaps the press have told you that you are all my dupes ; and perhaps the press have

      told you that this plan has been adopted for my own benefit . I say that this plan is the most remunera ting one over y « fc adopted for the working olasses , and why ? A man pays £ 5 & 4 d . He does not get his location at once , but as soon ss he gets his location , that very moment his £ 6 4 a . 4 d . ia increased to £ 160 . If that ia S 9 , then this man cannet be a much injured man , but he ia placed upon his farm , and does not press on any other class like the manufacturers , who speculate in labour , in the hopes of getting a market for it in other countries . Then again , when I place a man upon a farm , I shall have taken tkat man out of the labour market , and thereby have increased the wages of those who are left . There is a class of persons—a bigoted

      class—an ignorant class . ' of industrious men , who have as great an interest in the welfare of the labourer as the labourer has himself . These are the olass possessing a vote in the coantry—the shop , keeping class— -and I ask those of Preston if , where there are 10 , 000 men in a district , whether they would sooner have 10 , 000 men earning £ 2 per week , er 50 , 000 or 20 , 000 earning Ids . per week ? I should like to know which ef the two would spend most money with the shopkeepers . The more the labourers the greater the benefit to the shopkeepers . Therefore , as I have shown you a thousand times , all parties ought to support each other . Every man displaced by machinery , or by any other means , presses hardly oa the industry of other olasses .

      What is the duty of government ? Is it the duty of government to sit upon the treasury , benches to vote away the taxes , and to send out bayonets and police to collect them ? If that is the duty ef government , then we have the finest government that over lived . I consider it the duty of government to see that no man who is willing to worh wants for food , and it is the duty of government to . find work for those mea : That is the first great principle introduced by tbe new provisional government of France ; and I see that everything valuable in their proclamations has already beea proposed by me a thousand times over . They have got a working man upon the provisional government , and they have declared it the duty of the cUte to find labour for those who need it . Now , this , my

      friends , is all that I ask , and it is the duty of government to find out every source of employment . ( MrO'Cennorthen commented upon the increased value of gold in this country ; thought that ever ; man should be allowed to be his own producer and iiis own consumer . ) Ft cm north to south and east to west , in this country , there was not an acre of land cultivated to one-twentieth of its capability . The gentlemen who had , by their calculations , endeavoured to show that the Land Plan was impracticable , ought to constitute a council to be Chancellors of the Exchequer . He admitted that the men could not be located as fast as he could wish ; but there was no Company in the world which had commenced operations as Boon &b this had . By mortgaging the

      land , however , he eould locate them faster ; but that was a dangerous proceeding . He now thought he bad convinced them by plain arguments and facts that he could legate the people according to his Land Plan , and that proceeding would greatly relieve the labour market , and , consequently , benefit all other claeses We paid , at present , £ 6 , 000 , 000 pe « annum for poor rates ; but , by having £ 1 , 000 , 000 of that for the relief of the poor , by giving £ 3 000 , 000 to locate the poor , and saving the other £ 2 , 000 , 000 , they wonld cofifer a great benefit on the country , The location upon the land would give tho people a degree of freedom , independence , and health , and a degree of pride also , to be enabled te live in his own castle and consume his own produce , It would be cheering

      also to see his children not idling about , but being willing to assist him as soon as they could pat their hands even to weeding a garden . The tithes of this country belonged to the people , and not te tbe parsens . They were for educating tho people , for supporting the people , for remunerating the working clergy , and not for the purpose of paying a million of money altogether to keep one idle pauper in everj pariah . He had told the ministry the othor night , that the very thing which had produced the Freneh revolution tre were doing sow , and that the people of this country would no longer bear it . ( Cheers . ) He had showed the Chancellor of the Exchequer the sources fram wbich we were entitled to expect a large reduotion of taxation , instead of an inerease . Let

      tie government locate the people on tha land ; let them disband the greater portion of our army ; let them relieve the landlords , and improve ttiooondition of the manufacturers and shopkeepers , and then £ 4 , 000 , 000 per annum would be more than ample to keep up all that would be required . It took now from £ 11 , 000 , 000 to £ 12 , 000 , 000 for the army ; but let every man ' s castle be his sentry bar , and . then there would be such a National Guard that we should have no fear of invasion , though , perhaps , we might have cries of' The throne is in danger , ' ' The church ia in danger . ( Cheers . ) During the last quarter of a century he had been agitating , and during that time he had attended mere public meetings , and addressed mere assemblies , than any man

      uviag . He had been a farmer , and was consequently acquainted with agriealture ; he had bsen a great fox-hunter ; he had been fond of the card-table ; he had been a barrister ; he had been & journalist ; ho had visited the mansion of the lord and the commoner and the hovel » f the poor man , and he had derived his knowledge more from his labour among the psor than from school , college , or any society among the higher olasses . ( Cheers . ) He remembered the time when the people of Preston did not know that there were such places aa Paisley or Bristol , and now every portion of the land was printed in the Siiti , as having contributed towards the Land Plan . He was sorry , however , to have to tell them , that they were

      themselves the cause of a great portion of their slavery , because the existence of the government ¦ was the primafaeie proof of its adoption by the people . Tney had it in their power to say to the government that the taxes and impositions npon the people were unjust , and therefore they would kave no more of them : and government must go about its business . But they must be all united ; be all of one mind , and must all declare together and cry aloud for * peace , retrenchment , and reform . ' The froa-traders promised them high wages , cheap bread , and plenty to do . Had they got it ? They must be all united , fer it waa utterly impossible , however , for one man to accomplish everything

      ' As well might the lamb with the tiger unite , The lark with the hawk , the dove with the kite . ' If they looked for anything short Of the whole six points of the Charter , then would he have done with them . He wonld takono leas , and if they gave up one principle then would he then give therq up . He had told them , in 1835 , that the time wsuld come when Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel would oid againBtcaco other , and the time would come when he would be the auctioneer and would be ready to knock them down . Lord Chesterfield said , 1 has hia

      Every man price , and can be bribed . ' He ( Mr O'Conoor ) had hia price , and the very moment that price was bid he would sell the people Directly his terms were bid he would knock them [ own at one blow . They must not mistake him for he had often told them , and he had also told the gentlemen of the press , that as yet the Land Plan was only a miniature portrait , but they must look for the lull " . length , and then the Charter woald make it a national plan . —( Cheers . ) They must not say that he had deceived them , for he had put none of their money into his pocket , but had spent every

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      farthing he had in the advocaoy of their causa . He could assure them that he had never beon so much astonished and surprised as when he saw what the present House of Commons was cotapoBed of . They had upwards of 280 new men in the house , and though oartainly they did > &Bt some new blood infused into it , he could confidently state that a more corrupt parliament never sat . As Mr John Bright told Lord John . Ruggell , — ' There never was & House of Commons who so totally disregarded the wishes of the working classes of this country / He ( Mr O'Connor ) had been dowa at the Potteries last inighti in tbe middle of a procession a mile long , and no less than 1 , 600 persons had sat down to tea in a covered market . It had been said that he had bean mad ' r in . i I i lni tt

      with them , and perhaps he might become a lunatic once again . They had been prosecuted and persecuted , and like the French , they were prepared for the complete freedom of the people . They h&d not been allowed to discuss reform , and an jmeute and revolution came upon them . The present revolution , however , had not been accompanied with the buteheriea of 1793 . But even that time it was English money sent over to France by William Pitt , and wrung from our pockets , that had led to such butcheries . We now had the pauper king come over to this country , to live on our labour , -who was a short time ago the greatest monarch in the world God forbid , however , that we shsuld have bloedshed in England , and that we should ever see one

      set of Englishmen opposed to another set in deadly conflict . He himself , had never beea the cause of one dro p of blood being shed , but he had laboured long and hard , and as he had sought the lion's share ef popul arity , he had been contented to take the lion ' a share of persecution . He had been invited and had oome down among them , and he could assure them that he felt more honour in addressing that meeting than he felt in addressing the House of Commons . And why f Because he had learned all that he knew from them . ( Applause . ) Mr O'Cennor then spoke at some length on the influence of the women , and urged on them to persuade their husbands to adopt his principles . He then related ao anecdote of a man who had beea compelled to

      enrol in his Land Plan , because his wife pinched his lego in bed . ( This anecdote , being liighlj intellectual and amusing to the meeting , waa of course received by them with much laughter . ) After advocating the principles of Chartism to some further length , be said that Lord Clarendon , the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , had said that , Feargus O'Connor ' s Land Plan was the only thing which could be adopted to befiefit Ireland . ' What would b e thought of that ? The great Irish Mentor—the great Lord Clarendon , and there was something in the name of a lord ; though the Lord deliver him from such lords , was all he had to say—the great Clarendon had actually said that the Land Plan was the best thine which could be adopted . —( Cheers . ) Last

      week there bad been Chartist meetings held , and fittended by 40 , 000 or 50 . 000 persons , which had not been reported by the gentlemen of tho press to the length of his finger ; and yet there had been meetings of the middle classes , where only forty or fifty attended , upon the question of the income tax , which had been reported at full length . The press ohould dojuatice to the people , and if anything serious was to occur in consequence , the press would not be blamed for withholding the opinion of the people . He remembered the time when he had forced a whole body of dragoons to return to the streets before he would leave the streets . He had laat Saturday week published a letter in tho Northers Star , in which he placed the patriots in the late

      French revolution in their proper light . M . Odillon Barrof , said Mr O'Connor , created the schism , but he-did not know what it would end in , and . therefore , he skulked away from his own fire , and allowed the people to be butchered . Tho people , now they have gained their object , will not have this great champion , and they are quite right . A similar sort of thing had taken place yesterday in London . There Mr Charles Coohrane—a person whom I do not admire , because I believe him to be but a Tory in disguise—this gentleman called a meeting yesterday in Trafalgar-square ; but when the time came for its being hold , the authorities discovered that it waa illegal to hold a public meeting within & mile of the House of Commons during the sitting of Parliament .

      They informed Mr Cochrane of this , and Mr Cochrane wrote down , calling on the people to disperse , and tolling them that it was not to be held- Thi « note was sent down just at the time the meeting was about to commence—in fact , the people had begun to assemble , and what tob the consequence ? Why , the people , whea they leund that their meeting was to be suppressed , went through the streets , and des troyed lamps and windows , and were about attacking the palace itself , when the dragoons came up and drove them off . In conaequenceol this another rising is apprehended . I myself will be ho party to what others do , and if any men are led away by false representations , they are not my soldiers ; but I believe that my Old Guards will take very good care not to

      be led into any falne track . ( Cheers . ) Another thine that has also occurred is an tmtute at Glasgow . I will not say that the people there were betrayed , but they have revolted , and have turned out in thousands ; and there is now only the electric telegraph to say that all the rails hare been taken up in the neighbourhood , and God knows how this may end . This much I will tell you , that I will be no party to anything which has not for ita objeot the accomplishment of the Charter , and what is necessary for the Land Plan . People who wish to go with me must scribe OHt their legs to step on my heels . The people are entitled to all that I new ask for , and even more , and they could not show him men who would go farther than he would . You must follow my

      diseipline , and if I lead you into error , I shall remain amosg you as a hostage , and blame me if ever I attempt to deceive you . I owe tyranny a long arrear , and eo do my family , of which I am . now the last . My family has been more persecuted than an ? other family I believe who have ever lived , fer I have an uncle now in his 50 th year ef banishment , for having declared the very same principles which I am sow advocating to the meeting : I have been persecuted myself , and have been for sixteen toonths cast into a felon ' s cell , aad my private letters opened by the go . vernor of a gaol before I could receive them myself . ( Hear , hear . ) They have attempted to make me feel ashamed of myself , but I can defy them to point out one single dishonourable or ungectleraanl ? sot ,

      ungeu 6 ? ous er unjust , which I aavo ever committed in cho wholeof my life . ( Loud applause . ) I have besn chosen by the people of Nottingham to represent them in Parliament ; bat I have been petitioned against , and well was it that that petition was withdrawn . If the committee had been sitting on Saturday aexfc , I would have shown them such a Nottingham as they have never seen before . I have before fought in Nottingham , wben I had no purpose of my own to serve ; and , if this petition had net been withdraws , God only knows what would have happened . The people of Nottingham , to the number of 20 , 000 , came to a resolution that if I was ousted on petition , that they would form in procession and march up to London to the House of Commons , and

      thrust me into the houss as their representative . Throughout the whole course of my life I am thankful that I have not bean the cause of one drop of human blood baing shed . The people have been told by the press and others that I am a confirmed drunkard , but I wish to ^ God every man wasjao more a drunkard than mjaelf , Notwithstanding what has been deolarcd by the press , I can truly say that from the day I waa born to tha present moment , I never was more drunk than 1 am now . ( Cheers . ) It has been said that I waa born a drunkard ; but I believe that no m&o was ever born a thief , nor was any man ever bora a drunkard . Every man has been bora with prinoiples which might be turned into viees or virtues , according to the training he has received . We can reclaim a drunkard ; we can reclaim a thief ; we

      can reclaim a liar—though that is difficult ; but we never era reclaim a cruel man . If a man is cruel , his cruelty has been born with him ; and for my part , I can say , that I never inflicted punishment even-on a dumb animal . Therefore , you will see at once that m y movement is to deyelope all the good qualities of man . Idleness is a crime , when a man has it in his power to obtain labour ; and that is one of the cade of aws which I would introduce . Men of Preston , and my friends , before taking my leave I would a 9 k you to keep jour eye upon social reform , upon the Charter , and upon the means of freeing yourselves from the bond « age whioh you have forao long a time endured , and not to heed what the venal , prostitute , andoorropt press say . When the press praise me , then you

      deaert me , for then shall I be going wrong . I ask for nothing for what I may do and titve done , but when I have spent my all in trying to regenerate you . 1 trust that when I shall ride abeut among the farms upon which you will have been located , I shall Snd not one of ray children who will not give me a night'B lodging and a supper . When I have accomplished my aim , from that msraeiit I shall never again enter the House of Commons , but will beeome your minister of agriculture , if there is any possibility of paying . Samson was a strengman , and Solomen was a wise man , but neither of them could pay money if they hadn ' t it . It has been said that I have been making a good thing out o {; this Land Plan butl

      , have devoted all that has fallen into my hands te its legitimate purpose , while nearly £ 1 , 000 has gone out if my pocket in the shape of travelling expenses . I don ' t say this boastfully , but I say it in answer to those who endeavour to disturb the affection and confidence which you have in me , and to prove the position which I ought to hold among you . ( Cheers ) When I see the fruits of ray labour and your conndence , then , will I walk among you and seethe hard , working people , tb . 9 happy mother and the contented little children ;—and , seeing peace , happiness , and prosperity reigning around them , then will I walk amongyou like the great Peruvian , who said , ThU this is my work . '

      LMr O'Connor then retired , amid loud applause having addressed the meeting for abauE one hour and a halt . The above is an outline of his speech : we liave abridged several portions of it . ) The resolution waa then put and carried , Mr Berry , of Farrington , then moved—• That we , the working classes of Preston , do hereby pledge ourselves neve * to abandon our ol « Om « o aelf .

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      government ; and therefore , we hereb y resolvo ta «| , _ tho petition for the People ' s Charter , ag the only » by which justice c » n be done to the Industrious and ¦ a otbor olMBoa , and by -nmch our glorious Land plan m be mada useful . ' ^ ma j MrWsB 3 TER , of Burnley , briefly seconded tha ** . solution . —Agreed to . ai » Mr LiDDBti . then moved , seconded by Mr JWg « Reaolved , —That thh meBtto £ begs respectfully ^ tender to Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., it 9 heartfd ! gratitude for the maaner ia which he has defended th rights of labour during the course of along !* , - „ , bHtpj Z ticularly for the establishment of , and the zealoug and gratuHovw manner in whioh ho ha » carried nut the nrln clples of , the National Land Compaaj . ' - - '" - ' "' I'l ^ NMTr

      Agreed to . Mr F . O'Connor briefly replied , and concluded |» moving a vote of thanks to the chairman . ™ Seconded , and carried with applause . The Chairman responded atsomelenetii . Mr Brown briefly moved a vote of thanka to the Mayor for the use of the reorns , Mr F . O'Commob seconded the motion —Carried The room was then cleared for dancing , which was kept up to the lively strains of Haslaro ' se * cellent quadrille band till an early hour on Wednea day morning .

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      AND ON THIS . ( From the Pmton Pilot . )

      CHARTIST ' LAND-J 0 BBINQ' TEA TARTY . On Shrove Tuesday a tea party , got up by the'five points ' gentry of this town , was held in the Corn Exchange-room , to celebrate the location of sis individuals from Lancashire on the Land bought by a Company of the abore persons , according to what is designated t ha ' Land Scheme / The party was certainly numerous , and among them were tbe hundred Chartists of Prestos of the most rabid breed , linked together , of course , ia the ' bonds of fraternity . ' One reason , perhaps , why eo numerous a party waa congregated together was , in consequence of O'Connor , the land-jobber , and , as lie styles

      himself in his own paper , the Nobthern Stab , ' contractor , architect , engineer , surreyor , farmer , dung mafcsr , cow and pig jobber , milkaan , and member of parlia . merit , ' h&Tiog beea announced to be present at the meeting , and deliver an address . Ho did deliver aa ad . dress , wbich consisted of his usual blarney and bamboos . ling . In a towering speech , in wbich he endeavoured \ q make himself appear the very paragon of perfection ag an honest and an upright man , he denouacad the press as rile , absurd , and unchristian ; in fact , a lig . ten » r , who had never beard anything of the speaksr befero , would almost have been peranaded that there was at least one sinless man in the world , ( according to his ewa Bhowing ) and that man was O'Connor ,

      The Miners' Attorney-Geseral , Roberts should also have been prenent , at well as others of a similar character , but they were non tit inventm , and wo think that for once In their lives they acted with prudence and good sense , in refusing to attach themselves to the Chartist principles as proposed by O'Connor . We congratu . late them upon this stajing away . The addresses of the speakers were of the most inflam . mfttory nature , Had we space at command we perhaps mfgbt bare given a specimen of tne substance o ! somo of the speeches , of which tbe boasted Land Scheme formed but the merest fractional part . It certainly was alluded to , and of coune O'Connor himself praised it to the very Okies , observing that by it ever } body would be saved from the workhouse and wonld liva in a state of

      ease and comfort , and the ' hard-hearted overseers and relieving officers' would be no longer a terror . If tha peeple wonld only join themselves to the Land Societ y , in process of time they would receive a certain number of acres of gronsd , when they might sit at ease evar afterwardB , and have the pleasing satisfaction ef witness * ing everything around them growing apoataueously and 1 h the most abundant manner . We wonder when Fear * gus dies , whether all the land he has bought will bs legally bequeathed to the worktng classes , as he says it will be . We heard some individuals in the room mutter , ' I wish we may get it . ' In a late number of the Weekw Dispatch there is tho following : — 'New w *

      suspect that long before Faargus O'Connor is called to his account , the Land Company will be in the condltlsa of the corporation described by Lord Thurlow , wbich had neither a bod ; to be kicked nor a soul to be damned In two years from this period the Land babble will h&vs exploded , leavlBg a wreck behind . ' We will say no more respecting this democratic 'demonstration' and ttm po . Htical Upas , who has alwajs been notorious for poisoning and tainting the air around him , and icfeoting tho green tree of libertr itself . The party , after the ep « ch making , consoled themselves with indulging at the shrine of Terpsichore for a few hoars , after wbich all dispersed , without a breach of the peace !

      We cannot do better than recommend to the especial notice of the subscribers to this notable scheme , the following paragraph from the Livbbpool Mraccar ef Tuesday last : — 1 The LiWD Schiks . —In . the last number of the ' Labocbeh , ' a monthly publication devoted to the advoeaey of the Land Scheme , Mr O ' Connor states that ' the lociety new numbers one hundred thousand head * of families / out of all that number only one hundred and sixty had found refuge npon tbe O'Connor estates . The remaining 99 , ' heads of families , ' with their wives and families , still remain outside , waiting till

      cuttages have bsen provided for them . As the company has aow been about three years in operation , the busU ness of location must go on fifty times faster than it is doing at present , if this grand scheme for improving the condition of tno poor is to be dealt fairly by all . Bat While the grass grows tha steed starves . ' Of the one hundred thousand members of the company , who subscribed their weekly pence to Mr O'Connor , tho great minority will be dead , in the ordinary course of nature , long before they can have the slightest chance of being placed upoa the Land , as a very slight knowledge of arithmetic mav serve to convince them , '

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      DkEADFOIi SutCTOB BY A GbKTLEMAN OF FOBTCTJE . — On . Thursday week the inhabitants of the tewn of Cardigan were thrown into a state of considerable excitement in consequence of the suicide of Morris Morrie , Esq ., who , it waa found , had cut his throafi in a most frightful and determined manner . It appears that the unfortunate gentleman , who was of a somewhat eccentric disposition , had been for two or three days previously in a very unusual and excited state , but from what cause produced has not trans , pired , and on the day of committing the dreadful aefi he had not left his bedroom . Attention was first attracted by the inmates of the room below his bedroom finding some drops of blood falling from the eeiling , snd on the alarm being raised , Mr Thomas , of the Red Lion Inn , instantly proceeded to the

      bedroom , on entoring which he found the unfortunate gentleman lying on the floor ot the room , with his head nearly Eevered from his body . Medical assistance was immediately procured , and Mr ftoot , surgeon , promptly attended , but the deceased was beyond the reach of human assistance , he having entirely divided all the principal arteries and cut his throat completely to the bone . „ On lifting him from the ground , his head fell back aa if completely severed from the body . It appears the deceased committed the aot with a penknife , which was found under him when he was raised from the ground . On Friday an inquest was held on the body , which fully established that the unfortunate gentleman was of unsound mind . The jury returned & verdict that 1 The deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity . ' He wsb in his 45 th year .

      Strangk Discovery op a Bokglab . —A gentle man , named Dutten , jaged 80 , of the Brynne , near Wrexham , Flintshire , was listening in Ma bed to hia clock striking the hour of twelve" at midaight , when to his surprise the last six strokes sounded much louder than the former . The old gentleman naturally supposed that a door had been opened ; upon listening , he heard the jingling of keys , snd to his astonishment he was but too fully convinced that aa intruder had entered hia bedroom , and was about to take the contents of his bureau . He immediately jumped out of bed , and clasped &b individual having on a fustian coat ; he held him tightly , and called lustily for assistance . The thief carried the tearless old gentleman through two rooms when his son-inlaw and wife arrived , who succeeded in capturing the burglar , who is now safely lodged for trial in the county gaol . It appears the scoundrel had only been dramiaaed trom the service about three weeks . The recant stormy weather has done considerable damage to the Plymouth Breakwater .

      One tenth of the entire police force in Ireland is stationed in the ceunty of Limerick . I « is said that the greatest destitution prevails in the German territory of Silesia , and that 600 , 000 persons had beon reduced to starvation . Tae KowiscHB Zkiidso states that in Moscow there is now living a lady who is in her 108 ch yew , and-who was married to her fifth husband when she was 121 years old . The American government has ordered that cholorotorm shall be used in surgical operations in the military hospitals , and has sent a supply of that drug . to Mexico . A singular and ingenious specimen of an ancient clock , made by Isaac Habrecht , in the year 1689 , for Pope Sixtus V ., is at present exhibiting at a Bhop in Fleet-street .

      As an old woman was lately walking through the Btreets of Paris at midnight , a patrole culled out , Who goes there V ' It is I patro ' . e ; dou't be afraid !' was the answer . A country aotcf , the olher day , refused to play tie ? u l u a ltl ' Iloraeo and Juliet / on the plea tttat he had not been engaged tor the Freuoh characters .

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      ABKitNETliY ' s Pile Powdeks were specially prepared as an adjunct to the 0 xtern . 1 l application of ' Abernethj ' s Pile Ointment' for every variety of piles . The use of powerful apeneuta teuds groatly to destroy the beneficial eSectseftbo outward application and to increase rather than diminish the disorder . It is too much the custom with the afflicted to have resource to Btronp purgative medicine in cases of this complaint , and in almost evety such instauue the patient is materially injured and the disease greatly aggravated . Where the bowels are tenfined , the ' Abernethiun Powders' have the effect of ramoving the obstruction , and of allaying any inflammation thatesints , They cool nnd strcngthon tho bodj and render thoroughly efficient tha use of the Ointment .

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      Bcst Edge . —At a meeting of the Bury Edge I&tional Charter Association , on Sunday , March £ & , the following persons tvere elected ss sambera of the council for the ensning year , viz : — Jjath / my Scerer , Joseph Sim gson , George Summer-E 3 E , Joseph Saint , George Young , John Maughan , treasurer ; Robert Carr , secretary . Exstes . —At a meeting of the National Charter JlESOCiaSien , on the 10 ; h instant , Messrs Webber , Eavill . and O'Brien were appointed to arrange for a public meeting , on Saturday , the 18 th instant , for file adoption of the National Petition ; also , to apply to the Teignraoutb , TivertoD , Collumpton , "Welling . fojs , Tanaten , Bridgewaf er . and Barnstaple localities 6 > aid in securing the services of a delegate to the forthcoming Convention , All eammunications to be sent ta the secretary , P . J . O'Brien , 49 , HoIIoway-Etreet .

      Oldhax . —On Sunday last Mr J . Leach delivered tea lectures ia the Workiis * Man ' s Hall , to a very JSepectable audience . At tbe close of the second feetnre an addres 3 was unanimously adopted to be gresented to the Democratic government of France , ewgratukting the people of that country on the gwmouB victory they haveohtained over their despotic ijrants . RHQHLBx . -On Tuesday afternoon , 5 March 7 , 25 Sfti * n ? l the "habitants of Keighley was ISf a ? J £ aX * i - ' pkce « to congratnlate the French iskon on the glorious victory they have gained over fflsrtas ' asrirsfKS 'asstesssr K £ Kt - tatSs » ss

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 18, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1462/page/6/