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      SCBAF 3 FOB RADICALS . ^ -XIX 1 . T . CLAKCT . fHE MOUNTAIN KYMPH , LIBEBTY . jly Honntaln Tfymplrt » bI 6 oBilBg ~ gW , Her charms like crescent beams are shimng ; Sffisrea locks , and teeth xjf ; j > eai 3 , SBlmsny agayliOthatiD "pining 2 er bosoirt as ambrosial bed , An Flora queen offlowers reigns o ' er it : jherecouldliestiny drooping bead , Her halcyon heart "would soon restore it . 35 iere budding roses tempt the eight ; But Hiy fell riT&I * iaHi placed o ' er tbem jwof sentinels as black as night , IVho shoot st all that stand before them . Tben to tbB charge 1 tho 1 may iaD » _ Paint by my "wonndslnfreedom's trenches : S ain if condensed might drown us all ; Bnt scattered mists can only drench us 3

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      POB TKBEDOM ! FOB GOD I ! AXD POB BIGHT I i 3 XX . Yes , thfi dungeon , lath chains for the patriot mind , T 2 io' eoiairons and gloom with him dwell ; His heart ' s Trith theiree , tho * Us will be confined Eren for life , in oppressions * damp cell : ¦ jTben captive to darkness bis son ! can impart To his vision aiadianee of light ; A bright lamp » f vengeance 1 to cheer up the heart jicm the dull dreams of slavery ' s night j gjonldEBchbe myjKirtion of * lave-making lairs , Were 1 doomed to tits prison this night , Hy voice to ye bondsmen is * ' on in the cause " On , for Freedom 1 -fer God 11 and for Bight 111

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      IMPROMPTU . XXI . Tro Q ! iaiBrs once in Conference elate One trcra his hat the other sat without it To prove the hypocrite , sham friend , complete —; "What two could go a better way abontit ? Odb loTed his spotless tals , and "would not doff The emblem of his creed ; he feigned no barter ; 31 je other lesspoKiely scampered eff— ; Xesi his broaa hrim should cradle up the Charter * Tyranny . + Church ana State .

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      INSCRIPTION FOB A SCIENTIFIC IECTTJBE BOOM .- ' ^ 3 he ^ bright celestial ^ Goddea * w 6 rahip'd here , Is Science , to our hearts and souls so dear . She needs no priestcraft to uphold her came , Hot blood-stained altars to support her fame ; If or tithes , ; nor taxes , from the poor she draws , 2 ? or ficfioD needs she to support her canse ; As man ' s best friend , she freely lends * hand To build his house or cultivate hia land . Then 3 ei xa raDy Toand ~ lier radiant shield ;

      Her eoeonsrJBS £ estber"d -weapons let na -wield I Her duald is truth , her "weapons are our pens , Lst"i rouss with these the tyrants from their dens . That cruel tyrant , Ignorance oft doth bind , Toe reasoning members of the darkened mind ; And stubborn prejudice Hke evening shade , Obscures the rays that science bright fr **>» spread . Then 1 st ushope-when "with her friendship blest , To lise and soar , above the -vulgar mist , Of custom , prejudice , and such like things , B ? v to theliord . but fear not jriests er kings . T . Rajtkts .

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      GLOUCESTER Ixdeptdest Obder of T ! xrrn > BaoiHSfis , Ii-hctstkr TJsrrr . —On Tuesday ireek , a Lodge in connection "with the order opened « Gloacester . being the second , in tha * WWH » On Wedaesdar , ( the ness day ) another was opened at Cheltenham , on Trhich occasion twentj-tniee persons vere initiated .

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      Thiktees Chttbchs have been built in Manehesier during the last seven years . The Bishop gp Lojcdos has received £ 5008 from a anonymous donor , to- be expended in building a tlrarcbin . London . Miss PHJiirps las ^ iven the munificent donation rf £ 10 , 000 . to the Welch Society of Ancient Britons , ¦ which supports np" ! 7 ards of two hundred uphans . Thbee Mss "while K dredging ' for shrimps on Briscow Banks , near Bolton-1 &-Sands , were over-Tfidmed * by the tide , on Thnrsd&y evening , and vere drowned'TriiMn a short distance from flie store . .

      Dr . MiBns , fhe chief surgeon © f the Naval Hospital at Malta , was shot ^ ead by a sentry of the £ 8 ih Segment , as he was stepping out o [ the ^ ioor of Bear-Admiral Sir John Louis , where he had been B » a professional visit . Ko cause is assigned for ihe * cu The Tows CororctL of Glasgow , by s majority of Bghteento thirteen , haye passed a vote of censure e Sir James rCampbell , fee Lord Provost , for - pnntely negooating with Ministers to have the eitj jl » ced under . » ^ stem of police regnlated by Goisnunent , and obnoxious to the inhabitants geneal 2 j .

      to WjED > T 5 DAT xisr , a steam-eBgine boiler fcrst at the furnaces of Messre . Morris and Son , J 5 pton , whereby trae man lost Ms life . The boiler T » s torn from its bed and carried to a distance of Jrarteen yards , and was rent into shreds . Il "Was Stateb , in the Insolvent 3 > ebtors * Court ajiarsday , by Mr .- ^ rttelot , lately a hair-dresser 1 S Eegent-street , that Hsr insolveacy was attributed v lie recent changai > f fasMon in ladies' hair . The lets ( he said ihe most

      a . ^ ) were profitable , and the pa . elands introduced by her Majesty were the ruin i Jm . * r-dresseijgjif-Ii has bea ^ piiiBated by Dr . Thomas Dick that inee the" ereafion of the world fourteen thousand fiffions * ~ ii beiegs have faflen in the battles which an has waged against hi 3 fellow-creature—man . f . tne fore- fingers only of these beings were to be * d in a sii "aigct line they wonld out-reach more ian 600 . 000 tides , T > eyond the moon .

      L 02 D de F * "ETSs ha 3 becom 9 an exterminator . j&ording to i . \ e Roscdmmon Journal he turned a S of people near Loughlin booseleSB upon the world ^ "week . T"bs t -abins of the sftetches have been iised Xo ihe gr . " > nnd . These cases of hardship featthbBied tobis Lordships ageats . Heiimself Jtecribed as a hum . " * ne man . . The sra of two-pei "^ ce is levied on each pede 3-^ a wh o may walk "along his Grace of Buo-** 0 £ i 3 splendid pier , i "& Graaton . A Gentleman ^ D B importuned near i ^ e shore for alms , hastily ^ Keg , No , no , I hare ^ ° st given my last penny * use Date of Bucclengb ., ' " * Ah 1 ( replied the men-^ aat ) , is he upon the tram V too *"

      " xisBPOKD . —The difficulty of collecting ttepoor ^ ecoannnes . There was an . 'eeting of the authors ob Saturday , when it w . " « agreed that the ci ^ ary should not be called o ^* ^ assist in the sieefcMi . A large number of Ga ^ Itier men armed £ a st ; cfcs paradedtbroughthestrv " « ts of the city on ^^¦ J , but without breaking the > ^ eace « Jh e bodt op the Poob-Law collet * ° of Bnleek , Jtie coanrj-Of ileath ,-was fonnd on Saturday in jctco in the naghbonrhood of that ullage . He « been stoned to death , and a conadei * hle ^^ of * &ej wa 3 found npon hi 3 person—so th ** pj ^ der ^ wdenfly not the object of Ms murde , ~ ere . He ^ a ^ person ofexcdlen ; character . —Dubh ^

      Even-BiiBxaocs Mtbi > eb is Tjpp 23 ubt . —The Nl ** & ^¦ shdi gives the following particulars ol * j ^ t anrfer Bear that t own : — " Even on the * T wiassffla , and at the conclusion of that for \ ~ \ £ * nding , an atrocious and brutal murder hi g perp = trat&d in our riding ; The cabin inTvhici . ' t&i ! t " ^ done is verging the road side , s ^ aieb was its appearance that at first sight we ' g ° 5 ed it to be a liovei for pigs . Into this den the i 5 ?^ j Patrick Tiernevj entered , for the purpose tx ^ " ^ P ipe ( as it is represented ) . The woman 'w house , her two small children , and a girl J ^ Grady , aboat eieren ye ^ rs of age , were »^> i 0 W 31 er of the house was out to visit . « 3 fnbo ; u . After cmno + ? mo a-wniiTior man named

      ^© U jlinng abont twenty perches distant—enters ^^ a—smokes with the devoted Tierney—and ^« nres . Almost immediately after a number of £ *_ rame into aie cabin , ordered Tierney on his ^ S Tl roke ^ ^ sia 11 ' ffiai stiote , . stones , and jTrr \ The anfortunate being ' s forehead was , 2 ^ . and his brains burst out . The woman /*» that she im and Md herself and her children J ^ ias bed—that she did not hear the mnrderers fc »» 5 ? ° ea s ^ y anything beyond , Tierney / go u ^ tnees , and * 1 am ofiV- -r TVnat -was the crime ^^ Me rnej waa Eacnficed l On the ^ 5 th olt ., fe ?* ^ d * t ( as he swore ) within one hundred » t wlich he his hatand for

      S ^ SOK **** subsequently met his ^^ balls perforated ; -thai ^ Sp « a his ^ U fe two men , named Michael LarMn , W ^^* 5 &leeson , wer * committed to stand theii Ji ^^ Present asszss . On Ibis day the Bighi tea i ™ iefroy viSL Tisit KenasK foi the pmfei ^ l ^ P ^ njg the commission ; and ^ it mnst appeal * £ "ppg to his lordship inat , on the Tery eie of the ^ J ^ T oemg Eworn , abarbaTons murder shonld W ^ V a v "" ^ nn a few miles of onr connty * Jro 4 ^ r 5 " ^ t j too , ibr the purpose of invalidating ^ iZ 011 ™ Jte 7 i ° R and attempting U > shoot t 8 b ^^ was held , and a verdict of wilful murder

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      "Who will claim them ! —The morning after Valentine ' s Day two letters were delivered from the Post-cffioe , Warrington , to ' ihe lettercarrier . One was addressed to ^ The - uglies t woman , " and the other to " The prettiest girl , " in Penketh . The postman must have found , himself in" a fix . " He wisely Teturned them , afBrmlng that there was nono of the former , and that as to flielatter ,. there were so many ha did not know to wMbh of them the valentine ongbi properl y to be delivered . The AaMOBicAHf" of Brest stateB . that aooDviot

      named Lambert ,, has invented a machine by whioh m case of accident , the carriage of a railway train may be instantly detached from the tender and stoppedjwhaiever be the speed at . wMoh they are travel ling . This ; conviot had previously invented a speak ing trumpet , jqonstructed on an entirely new system , capable of-conveying sound even in the midst of the noise of a sea fight . In conseqnence of lambert ' s good conduct since his confinement at ihe galleys , tne king has been pleased to commntehis sentence of pBTpetual imprisonment to five years of the same punishment ,-

      Thb Lease op a Towklahd , the property of Count de Salis , in the county Limerick , had expired . Count de Salis refused to receive any man as a tenant unless he bound himself , in the strongest terms , to remove . none of the existing tenants who were solvent . Lord Gmllamare , one of the largest landowners in the connty , _ beeama tenant to the -entire tract , much to his own inconvenience , and has announced to the occupying tenants that they will have the holdings at Ma own rent . Honour to the heart of Standieh O'Grady . He wants no title to ennoble him . He ennobles the title . His own words , assigning the reason for his conduct , speak more for Mm than a volume , I regard the small farmers of Bahin , " said his Lordship , *• not as tenants , but as friends and neighbours , the comrades of my youQi .

      Ii is asserted that the apparently Utopian project of aerial Bteam-vessels is not impracticable . The Atlas sayB , "by glancing st the petitions presented in Parliament last week , it mil be seen tbatldr , Laboncherre begged leave to bring in a bill to enable the Aerial Company to purchase the patent light from Benson and Co . Tnlsso far proves the truth of onr former avowal ; and to further attest the fact wMch we then made known , we believe we shall be enabled , at the end of the present month , to furnish not only an account of the apparatus , but illustrations also of the machine in its progress through the air ; its interior , and its general form and structure . " As Paddy sajs , nothing beats the invention of man , barrin' the bees . "

      The toixowisg curious instance of the ferocity of the rat occurred in' Erkaldy the other day : —Some pigeons had-alighted in a back court , when one of them having stepped on a stone perforated with five or six holes 5 8 ths of an inch in diameter ( covering a small drain or sewer ) , some rats beneath got hold of one « f its toes , and pulled its legs throngh one of the" holes close up to its body . The owner , observing from one of his windows the bird fluttering oa the ground , ran down to ascertain the cause , when he found its leg held hard by the vermin bereath , Onjulling . it up , the whole fleshy parts of the thigh were found entirely eaten away , leaving nothing bat ike bare sinews and bone .

      At Walton , near Chesterfield , the other day , as a farmer was in the aot of devouring an apple pudding , made by the servant-maid , he suddenly discovered that he had something in his mouth more difficult of mastication than boiled apple : it turned out to be the head of a mouse , which had been boiled with the pudding . The girl , for her mischievons propensities , was chastised with the end of a rope . On the following day , the master went to his dinner , as usual , and asked what she had cookedi She told him " to look in the pot . " He did so , and saw nothing bnt the rope ' s end ! " I had it for dinner yesterday , " said the girl , " and it is now only fair yon should have it to-day . "

      As we Anticipated , an attempt was made to exclude the . gallant Commodore Napier from the Senior United Service-CIab . The ballot took place on Tuesday last , when there appeared no less than thirteen black balls against his admission . It is known that one black ball in ten excludes the candidate j sad ft therefore follows that the gaUant officer must have nine times the thirteen balls , and over , in order to neutralize the efforts of the hostile elique^—that is to say , he . must have had 118 white balls . For the credit of the club , we are glad to state that he was hailed on the occasion by an approving salute of 195 wMte balls . —Observer ,

      Nrv ? Method op Makisg Ttpe . —A patent is about to be taken out for producing printing types on a new principle , inthont the necessity of casting . The amalgum of the metal will be different to that now Bsed , being harder , consequently more lasting , and better adapted for m&cbine-printiBg . The co 3 t , it 13 expected , Trill be rather lower than at present ; but fcbe principal economy will be in its durability . With the aid of the electrotyping process , some ingenious practical men in London are realising money by supplying small founts , and what are technically termed lines , sorts , and fae-similes , at very reduced puces . —JLfaonjsine of Science .

      Longevity . — "That which establishes on good grounds a hope for prolonged existence , will ever be welcome to the human mind ; for notwithstanding the trials , Texations , and difficulties incident to this life , the love of life increases with our years ; it is one of the innate principles of our nature , apd cannot be explained away by any of the subtleties of the sophistj nor overcome by any assumed dignity derived from a false philosophy . We therefore pay to those who are suffering from ill health from whatever cause 5 to those ¦ who sre approaching "what is now called old age : to those who are sinking from premature decay , make trial of Parr ' s remedy , which has never jet failed , —which is as certain to cure as the sun is to rise , —wMch from the innocence of its composition can never injure ; to each and all we again say try , and you will soon look upon Old Parr not merely as a curiosity on account of bisgreat age , but as a benefactor to- the hnman race , in leaving this invaluable remedy to the world . "

      Disaster at Sea . —On Monday last , the Providence , one of the Newlyn fishing boats , landed at PeDZince , Captain Lancaster and three of his crew , who sailed from London for Gibraltar and Barcelona in the Hops , of Hull , a short time ago . It appears that the Hope encountered a heavy gale of wind off Cape Finisteire , and was thrown on her beam ends , when the mate and one man was washed overboard ; the latter fortunately reached the vessel again and was saved , whilst the former , whose name was John Tincent , met a watery grave . Ultimately they were

      under the necessity of cnttmg away her masts , which had the desired effect of righting her , and a jurymast having been rigged , after beating about for some days ,, they fell in with a French vessel fifty miles west from the Land ' s-end , bound to Newfoundland . Finding their vessel was making water rapidly , the crew abandoned the Hope ,--and--gotf ^ on board the Frencnman by fastening a line "which was throivn to them round their waists and jumping overboard . The fishing boat fell in with the Frenchman shortly after the men were taken on board- — West Briton .

      The late Awful Eabtb quake ih thb West Isdies . —It is a remarkable circumstance that , about forty-eight hours preceding the appalling earthquake wMch visited Gnadaloupe and other West India islands adjoining , a terrific hurricane snddenly broke out in the British GhjBnel , wMch lasted several hours , and . wMch exUhded over a considerable space , both of sea and land . There was also a very sudden and heavy fall of snow , wMch happened about the same time , in England , Scotland , Ireland , France , Holland , &c . Rapid changes of the meteorological instruments were also observed , simultaneously , in various parts of the country , accompanied with extraordinary variations of the temperature . These phenomena were generally noticed at the time . From ihe commencement of the year various extraordinary meteorological appearances have prevailed , among wMch not the least was an eruption of Mount Etna , which occurred in January .

      Total Loss op the Ship Cobjtobia . —By the Acadia steamer , which arrived from New York on Tuesday last , accounts were brought ever respecting I the total wreck of the splendid first-clasa packet-\ sMp the Cornubia , Commander Mr . W . Bell , belonging to Liverpool , during a heavy gale of wind , ¦ while on her outward passage to the United St 3 tes . The passage after leaving Liverpool appears to have been exceedingly severe , the ship encountering a series of terriffic gales , and being more thsn once , in crossing th ^ Atlantic , nearly crushed to pieces by 4 minense icebergs . Ail those difiicnlrie 3 having be « D o vereome , the crew were in high hope of gaining tn -mt cestination , Maranham , in safety . But , alas fa ' vJfal doom awaited the ship . At about two o ' clo * k on " tiie morning of the 11 th of February she miles west of Ata

      becaiL ^ wreck , abont seventeen - calema Lighthouse . Directly the ship struck , the crew ex ^ rt « d every nerve to get her off , bnt the Bea and wint . » w&ich were tremendous at the time , prevented th ( yia ' an < ^ B ^ soon commenced to break up . The comm- ^ wter , Mr . Bell , remained on board as lone as he pt vably could . He had previously had the ship ' s boa . * * hoisted overboard , and ^ finding there were no hopes <* preventing the destruction of the vessel , he left he . " ? * the mercy of the tempest . In making for the sh «« i & » *»»* which he was in ^ apsked , Ind the whoi > « f th <*» «» her would have inevitably perished but' £ * * $ » promptness displayed by the ship ' s crew in * # other boats . By the tame they were picked up Mm »«« al-nost exhausted . Upon the British Coiu ^>« Bg *™™ ± . J- ^ 4 i £ « t ap . is forthwith dire & 4 Her Majesty a

      steamfrigate Arden to proceed to « £ wreok , m order , n possible , to sarea portion on" # 0 . materials ; but on itaarrival , snchwaithej > OBia ^ jn which the sMp lay , that it was dangerous to jjo ne » aer « f " . Sin , it is said , the velsel had gon * to pieoesand disappeared . Her cargo was a mC& valuable one , consisting-of merchandise and goods of erery desc ry tlon , and ib stated to have been worth from fi ^ WO to £ 15 , 000 . Mr . Bell , the commander , **** re& at Liverpool by the Acadia on Tuesday . The * total loss is not far short of £ 20 , 000 . The ship and C * rgo are reported to be fally insured .

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      A Uegbo so Person !—Judge Morrow , of Mi 3-sourij has lately decided . * ' that a . negrb ' slave could not . commit forgery , as , by the constitution and Jaws of the country , negroes aie notrecognised as persons , any more than any * other animals . ?'—Anti-Slavery Reporter . ' Slavery ih America . —We copy the following announcemeut , as disgusting aa it is atrocious , from tbe VicJcsburg Sentinel and Expositor for the 31 st of January - . T-V . For sale lot of about thirty negroes , consisting of thirty women , boys , and giris , all raised together , and not bought tip for speculation . They

      may be seen at the ferry landing , on the Louisiana side , opposite Vicksburg . For further information apply at the Glidewell Honse , ? '• . ' .., ' Extikctjon op Peebs . —During the past year three peerages have become extinct , thirteen have descended to their respective heirs ( of whbmtwo have cot yet attained their majorities ) , while one English bishop and one Irish representative peer have died Two peers who previously had seats in the House of Lords , have succeeded to higher titles , and the four Irish bishops are changed in the customary annual rotation .

      How to Find Odt the Owner of a Dog . —At Chelmsford , last week , a tax-gatherer stated that there were 5 , 000 dogs assessed in his distriot . It was very difficult , he said , to find out the ownera'of several dogs j " nobody , knew anything of them . " But lie had succeeded in several instances , by giving a dog a cut with his whip , in passing . The dog howled . H How dare you whip my dog ! " cried the owner . And thus the secret came out . A clever dog , this same tax-gatherer . Treatmekt of Criminal Ltjmaucs . —At a meeting of the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital on Friday , Sir Peter Laurie , the President , being in the chair , it was moved by Lord Shaftesbury , and agreed to unanimously , that when visitors went through the wards , &o ., the attendants be ordered not to mention the name of any patient even if required to do so by the visiter . * All the criminal lunatics are dressed alike , and ho distiotion is made in the treatment

      As Mx . Cook , an extensive cattle-dealer , living at Newnham , near Tenbury , was on his way home through Bewdley Forest from Birmingham market , his horse was shot dead under him , and falling to tbe ground with the animal , he was instantly surrounded by a gang of four or five rnffianB , who , after most cruelly and grossly maltreating , him , plundered him of cash to tbe amount of seven hundred pounds , and then made off with tbeirrioD booty , eluding at present all trace of discovery . Extraordinary Economy . —We find the following announcement in a London paper : — Weunderstand that an order has been forwarded to the Police Commissioners by the Home Secretary , directing that ; the fires in Police Courts and the prisoners ^

      waiting room shall be discontinued from this day forward . " There is not much either of humanity or economy here . As the financial affairs of the nation are by some people considered at zero , we presume the Home Secretary is desirous of reducing the atmosphere of the police courts to the same point . We should like , however , to Bee him strike at higher quarry . Why confine his attentions to the miserable wretches who dance attendance at Bow-street ? The cooling process should be tried upon a host of plethorio vultures who infest the publio offices in almost all departments , who for their own sakes , if not for that of the publio revenue , might properly undergo the operation of blood-letting .

      A return has been laid before the House of Commons , showing the amount of gold , silver , &c , con tained in letters which have been consigned to the dead-letter office , in London , " Edinburgh , and Dublin , during the five years ending 1841 , and which had been opened because the parties to whom they were addressed could not be found . The amount in gold , bank notes , aad silver , found in such letters , for the five years , was £ 28 , 898 for London , £ 696 for Edinburgh , and for Dublin £ 2 , 830—total , £ 32 , 424 . The total amount in bank post-bilis , bills of exchange , promissory orders , A . c , exclusive of money , was £ 2 , 053 , 341 . The amount restored to the owners ¦ vras £ \ 67 , 179 , an 6 that paid into the revenue £ 134 ; but it is necessary to state that the bills had all been restored or destroyed by the authority of the owners , and the Bums recovered to the owners for the two lastyearscannot be . stated , as the ** dead " letters had not remained three years in the office .

      Scpposed MiniDER at Readisg . —Much excitement ha * been occasioned in Reading during the last few days by the mysterious circumstances attending the death of an aged man named Samuel Steers , who was fouud drowned in the Kennett , with his legs tied , and one of his pockets turned out , on Tuesday night . Deceased was a carpenter , and had lived in Reading nearly the whole of his life , Ms sober and industrious habits , as well as his general good . character , having rendered him much respected . At about seven o ' clock on Tuesday evening he left home , previously telling his wife he was going to Mr . Ing ' s , a collector of pew rents , to pay for tbe last quarter ' s sittings at Trinity Church , which amounted to 10 s Sd , and of which he then had a bill in his hands ; he

      added , that he should also call oh one of the offieorB of a benefit club , of which he was the auditor , on his way , but be should J > e back in time for supper . A few minutes after seven he called at the Globe Inn , Horn-street , where the club meetings were held , and after waiting about ten minutes , went out again , appearing in good spirits , as usual . He was afterwards seen by a third party near Katesgrove-lane , at the bottom of the street , g&ing in the direction of Mr . iDg ' s house . A few minutes after nin « o ' clock , however , the same evening , be was met in Mill-lane , by a man employed at the mill , who states that he was then going towards How-street . From this time he was never seen until taken out of the water ( at balf-past nice ) , near Victoria wharf , about halfa mile distant from the mill-stream , where he was discovered by some bargemen in the employ of Messrs . Drewe , floating in the water . On being taken ont and examined by Mr . Houlton ,

      superintendent of police , he had nothing in his poekets ,. one of which had been turned inside out , and his legs were tied together with a piece of tar twine . There were no external marks of violence , except a slight bruise under the left eye , a small cut under the dun , and two Blight grazes inside the upper and lower lips , occasioned Un the opinion of the surgeon ) by their being pressed - against the teeth . Early on Wednesday morning a labouring man discovered the hat and apron of deceased concealed in a dunghill near the Jack of Newbury public-house , on the side of the mill-stream . The apron and string were cut asunder , and some blood stains were on the former . On the ground , near the dunghill , some other spots of blood wore found , and also several screws and keys which had been in the old man ' s pockets , and some halfpenoe . — Globe . _

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      EARTHQUAKE IN LANOASH IRE AND CHESHIRE . It has been . already'mentioned , * that the shock of an earthquake had : been felt ion Friday week last , about twenty miwutea past eight , -o ' clock in the morning , in tbe neighbourhood of Blackburn , Rochdale and the district to the north-eastwaid of Manchester , and that it apparently had for its centre the chain of hills which separate Yorkshire from Lancashire . It appears not to have caused the slightest damage ; but it was remarkable ^ as having been the third which has been experienced in the same : range of country within the last few years . The first took place on the 20 th of August , 1835 , and the second on the 11 th of June , 1839 .

      Webavenowto mention , that another and a ; more violent shock , or rather shocks , for In most instances two were felt , occurred a few minutes before one O ' clock on the morning of Friday last , and that in Liverpool , Manchester , Lancaster , St . Helens , Preston , and , in ahert , in almost the whole of Lancashire and Cheshire , from which accounts have yet reached , either onoor both was generally experienced ; they followed each other In such rapid succession that to many they appeared to be simultaneous . In Liverpool and the neighbourhood they were very distinct , an interval of

      from ten to fifteen seconds having elapsed between each . Several who had retired to rest , slept so soundly as not to have perceived the convulsion of the earth ; bnt others felt it so strongly as to create in them considerable alarm and apprehension . It was preceded by a rise in the temperature and a dimness of the moon ; and the effects in all cases , appear to have been similar in many respectu ^ -namely , an agitation of the floors , windows , and furniture of houses , and a lifting up of the beds . Subjoined are the particulars of the visitation in several parts of Lancashire , derived from various

      sources!" \ Ve have , " says the Liverpool Standard , " heard the deBcriptionB given by Individuals who reside in different parts , but the most connected and Intelligent we have been able to obtain have been , famished to as by the town-clerk , Mr . Radcliffe , who resides in West Derby , and by Mr . Whitty , the head constable , whose bousa adjoins the central police station between Qeorge ' s and Canning docks . The town-clerk stated to us that he hod been writing in his room till half-past twelve o ' clock , when be retired . Be bad been at rest a few minutes , when he was startled by the bed shaking , and the furnitnrd being agitated with considerable violence . This lasted for a period of six seconds , or somewhat longer ; flnd it was followed by an apparent

      rumbling from beneath , and an indistinct noise in the drefiaing-room arijoiuiug . Some alarm was of course excited by these unusual circumstances : ; and Mx . R . RadcHffe , his son , * having experienced exactly the same sensations , tbe conclusion was at once arrived at that it was the shock of an earthquake . The noise which followed the shock ; for none was observed to precede it , appeared to the town-clerk and his son to proceed from north to south ; but there was neither time nor opportunity for marking the direction with accuracy , and it is probable there may be a mistake in this respect , as it does not correspond with the accounts from other parts . No damage has been done at West Derby . is

      The narrative of M ^ Wbttty more In detail , and from his situation at : the time will probably be found on a comparison of ; all the accaunts to be the most generally accurate . He was in tbe parlour of his house taking a cup of coffee , when , exactly at rive minutes to one o ' clock by the police time , he suddenly heard and felt a violent agitation of the wimdows of the whole house , aad of the floor in the room in which he was sitting . Being accustomed to hear loud explosions from the works in Albert dock , now being excavated , which is at no great distance , he was not much surprised at tbe noise ; but at the same time he observed to Mrs . Whitty ; that he thought the excavators had purposely caused the explosion to take place underneath his windows . In less tbau a minute

      afterwards another shock followed , infinitely more violent thon the first ; the house here shook from top to bottom , and a violent rumbling soiae was heard under the booBd-, just as if a dczsn railway trains had been running through a tunnel . The shock and the noise were so loud and violent as to awaken all the family who bad retired , and , if by consent , they assembled on tne stairs in a state of great alarm . Saving quieted them , Mr . Whitty went into tbe atreet , and the policeman on duty at St . George ' s Dock bridge told him that he was leaning against one of the pillars there , when suddenly he thought he heard a carriage run rapidly across the bridge , and the ground rumbling and shaking all around him . This officer perceived two shocks . The policeman on duty at the north end of Canning Dock was next questioned by Mr . Whitty , and he stated that he first heard

      some casks , which were lying on the quay , move as If they were alive ; they tumbled and shook , he added , as if some men were concealed in them . After this the house was examined , and it was found that the windows on the second floor ( French ) had been forced open by the shock , and some furniture had received a trifling displacement , but no damage was done , and the alarm soon subsided . Mr . Whitty added that the shook appeared to him to proceed 1 from east to west , and that nothing could be more distinctly perceptible . The first shook lasted from three to five seconds , tbe second from seven to ten seconds ; and at first it appeared as if the towor of a church , at some distance , had fallen down atone crash . Mot the least remarkable circumstance was the agitation of the horses in the stables throughout the town , particularly in the south Aivialon . No damage has been done to the buildings in any part of the town .

      " In Deane-street , Kensington , and the district adjoining tke Botanic-gardens , two shocks were distinctly felt . * ' In Kirkdale , and especially at the Houso of Correction , the shock was very distinctly felt Mr . Amos , the governor , was up at the time ; and he states that ten minntea before one o ' clock the porter ' s lodge , and several parts of the gaol , shook and trembled greatly . The difference in point of tine of tbe shock being felt here and at other places is probably owing to the variation of the docks . The house of Mr . Appleton , whioh adjoins the Court-house , felt the trembling of the earth in a still greater degree .

      " The shock was felt with considerable severity on the Cheshire shore , opposite to the north part of the town , and extended ( more particularly as far as we can yet kear ) over the surface in the Wyrall Peninsula , on its east side , contained between Wallosey Pool and Now Brighton . This includes Seacombe , Egremont , Liscard , the Magaaines , Wallosey , &c- In Liscardand Egremont , it was distinctly feit by many persons , nearly or precisely at the same time ; namely , ten minutes to a quarter before one o ' clock . " Mr . Matbie , a gentleman in the employ of Messrs . Qibbs , Bright and Co ., and who had before witnessed several earthquakes abroad , was awakened by the shock

      at a quarter to one o'clock by bis watch . He heard the Internal rumbling noise that generally accompanies such phenomena and sensibly felt his bedroom shake . The crockery ware on the wasbhand-stsnd made a considerable rattling . The house , ¦ was not , however , shaken so us to crack the walls . There could , he says ,, be do doubt but it was an earthquake . He got up and dressed . Several persons in the neighbourhood also rose from their beds in alarm—the greater part not knowing whut to make of it The windows and doors of many of the houses shook and rattled . ; A young lady in one house was so alarmed that she ran from her own bed Into that of her sister-in-law .

      • ' Mr . Giball , in the Customs , says he was asleep at the time , but his wife , who was awake , sensibly felt it and awoke him . She went to the window , and their first impression was that some accident from explosion had taken place at the Magczine . More than a dcz ? n respectable gentlemen in the neighbourhood felt the Bhock in a nearly similar manner . " In Mulberry-street the shock appeared to have been felt severely . It L $ in the highest part of the town . It was alBO felt distinctly in Abercrombysquare , in the same neighbourhood . "At the police station in Brick-street ( south put 0 / the town ; , tee resident keeper , David Wilson , who was above in bed , became so alarmed that he ran down stairs , where it had also been felt by Samuel Tuck , of the police , who thought the building waa shaken by the cart thai sometimes comes to the station .

      " We have the names of many highly respectable gentlemen residing in various parts of the town , as well as in Liscard , Egremont , < Scc . ; but we do not deem it necessary to furnish them .: From their concurrent testimony , no doubt can exist but that a commotion of the earth took place in this locality about the time stated . Happily it was not so severe as to injure buildings or endanger their lives ; yet , taken in connexion with the recent slight shocks felt in this country last week to the north-east of Manchester , as well as with the fearful and destructive earthquakes in some of the West India islands , it has certainly created great Interest in some , and apprehensions , never , we hope , to be realized , in others . Earthquakes of fatal effect , in this island , are not , we believe , to be fo » nd on record . "

      ( From the Liverpool Albion . ) We find , by the papers which reached this town on Saturday , that the shook has been felt , with precisely the same characteristics , over a large extent of the neighbouring counties . Though it is observed , that individuals who were up and in motion were generally unconscious of the . occurrence , yet to this there * are some striking exceptions . In one or two instances , the guards of railway trainsi and atage-coachea were distinctly sensible of an unusual motion . The extraordinary sensation felt on the Holyhead and Chester mail caused much alarm to tfee guard and passengers . It appears that the shock was very generally noticed in Wales . The Liverpool [ Chronicle gives the statement of a correspondent , who slept at Holy well on the morning in question , who overs that his bed was violently shaken , as if a strongman had suddenly exerted his strength upon it We have also heard from another source , tbat tbo agitation of some houses in Holy well was so great as to cause the bells to ring for

      several seconds . : The accounts from Manchester show the phenomenon to have been experienced with precisely similar characteristics to those which marked it here . The variations as to time are the same , and the general evidence is the more strikingly jopflrmatory from the very fact of its acreeroept even in discrepancies . Some persons who

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      were up , awake , and doing , beard nothing to make them aware of tbe visitations ; others only remembered to have noticed something extraordinary when told afterwards of the occurrence . Many heard a strange noise , but felt not the vibration ; while others both felt the shock and heard the noise , though in various degrees of intensity . The Manchester ' Guardian of Satnrdfty says— 1 " We have not beard of so many peraans experiencing ihe shock in the centre ol the town as in the suburbs ; which , however , may be accounted for by the fact that comparatively few persons ' who would notice the phenomenon reside in the centre of the town . We have received some accounts , however , which coincide in every respect with what was felt and heard in other localities , and which leave no doubt that Manchester

      as Well as the suburbs was subject to this visitation . We find that various police constables in the C division , though they felt no Bhook , heard the violent rattling and shaking of the windows and doors ) of houses in Ardwiek , New Islington , Robert-street , F ^ irfleld-street , Upper Brook-street , &c , and in several instances listened , suspecting thieves were inside ; but they seem to have experienced nothing which led them to suppose it an earthquake . In some instances thai inmates roso in fright , dressed themselves , and walked in tbe street till morning . In Plymouth-grove some of the residents asked the policemen if they had heard a loud noise tike the report of a distant cannon ; but the policemen had not . A gentleman in Lower Mosley-street was awakened by the shock ; and two gentlemen in Quay-street , in different houses , also experienced it' j

      At Strangeways , Broughton , Eersall , Prestwich , and the outskirts north of Manchester , the Bhock seems to have been very distinctly perceptible ; and it is stated tbat there was scarcely a house in BtWghton-lane in which the shock was not felt . At Suspension-bridge a lady , terrified from an apprehension that | thieves were In the house , opened the window and called the police . A policeman , who was near , assured her that she need feel no alarm as to thieves , as it was only an earthquake I At the Woodlands , Higher Broughton , one gentleman , awakened by the shock , sprang out of bed , which he describes as swinging gently to ( and fro , from side to side , as if slung on ropes , the direction of this lateral motion being about east and west After this swaying or swinging of the bed , which ! continued a

      few seconds , had subsided , it was succeeded by a very rapid , though slight , tremulous motion ' , which soon ceased . This gentleman found the time to be about five minutes before one o'clock . He could not at first comprehend tbe cause , and threw up tbe "window to see what was the matter . He noticed that there was a slight breeze from the south-east , and that the moon was partly obscured by a passing cloud ; but it was quite light ; and all without seemed still ; One of the servants was up sewing ; she felt hsr chair rock under her , and heard the stairs and furniture creaking ; and , becoming alarmed , she opened the window , but saw or beard nothing more . At Kersall-moor the shock was

      felt by several residents , one of whom ) was thrown into a perspiration by the strange and unaccountable sensation , while another , awaking , and finding himself shaking very much , concluded that it was an attack of ague , and took physic-to ward off what ; he supposed was the approach of the disorder ! At j Prestwich , a gentleman was awakened by tbe shock , and experienced sensations similar to those descried , which at the time he ascribed to an earthquake ; bat , as no other member of the family had seen , heard , or felt anything , be attributed it to imagination , till he reached Manchester , and found the earthquake the topic of conversation . 1

      At Ardwiek , Longsight , Plymouth-grove , and the districts south of Manchester , the shock was felt , according to the accounts , with somewhat less violence . A gentleman in Smedley-lane felt the ; floor vibrate , and next morning he observed that the dust was in a heap in the centre of tbe room , as if drifted together . It does not appear that the shock materially damaged any of the buillings in Manchester or the vicinity . ! Ttie Manchester Guardian , in the account it gives of the earthquake , makes the following remarks on the state of the atmosphere as well as of the barometor abont the time the event ojecurred : — :

      " Almost all the persons who noticed ( the time concur in stating that it commenced from { five to three minutes before one o ' ciock yesterday ( Friday ) morning , and in one or two Instances , we have heard of a sensation being experienced for an hour previously of an oppressive heat and closeness in the atmosphere , There was but little wind , and that from tbe southeast . So far as we can learn , the barometer exhibited no remarkable fluctuation . Mr . Ronchetti , who resides in Salford , found bis self-registering instrument , at eight o'clock the preceding evening , to indicate 29 90 ; and , after reading till about two o ' clock in the morning ( and he never felt or heard anything of the shock ) be set the instrument before retiring to rest , and it was then 29 70 . We also learned that De . Dalton ' s bwometer showed no unusual variation ; and : all the Instruments of which we have heard appear to have

      gradually fallen during the night One circumstance we may notice , which may or may not be connected with the earthquake . About an hour previous , } we observed that the moon , 'which was fall at sis o ' clock on Thursday morning , although shining unclond © d , presented a dull and filmy appearance , as though a thin veil of cloud was drawn over her whole disc , j In connexion with this fact , we may also mention , that perhaps an hour before the e . irtbquake which caused so much alarm in the town in Saptember 1777 , occurring about eleven o'clock on a Sunday morning , and causing the people to rush affrighted out of the churches and othei places of worship , the eun , though shining in a clear unclouded sky , was observed to be so dim as to be looked Rt steadily with the naked eye without dazzling the vision , and immediately after the earthquake the sun shone ont again with great brilliancy . '

      The rumour mentioned in one of the papers of Saturday last , that several houses had been thrown down in Preston , is destitute of foundation . It appears evident , by the accounts from that quarter , that the chock was somewhat more violent there than here , and it was felt about the same time—namely , a few minutes before five o ' clock . Its approach was intimated by ' an unnatural buzzing noise , gradually increasing louder and loader until the moment when the subterranean convulsion passed a given point , and then the sound and the effects produced on tbe instant became very alarming ; windows and doors rattling , nay , the very houses apparently staggering to their foundations . The watchmen of the town and the public < fficsrs on night duty describe the sensations which it excited as awfully appalling , the ground appearing to them to be sinking under them , and themselves feeling as though they were descending to a great depth . The bells rang in several houses , and great alarm was experienced in many families .

      The phenomenon appears to have been felt generally with greater severity in the north than here . At Kirkham , Blackpool , Poulton , Fleetwood . j Wbitehaven , Kendal , Ambleside , and K'swick , the shock was very sharp , and seems to have caused considerable consternation . ' The shock was experienced at Turtofl , near Bolfcon , and its neighbourhood , ¦ with considerable force . We have not heard of it having been pc-rceived to the southward of ABbton-under-Line ; but a correspondent at Ashton states , " Whilst awake in bed I felt four distinct oscillations , or rockings of the bed * , from east to west" j From the . following paragraph , whioh appeared in the Blackburn Standard , it will be seen that the shock on Friday week was folt at Slaidbarn , a village situated about eight miles to tbe no th ward of Clithero : —

      " About eight o ' clock , on the morning of Friday last , a person who was working in Siaidburn church was suddenly alarmed by perceiving tbe ground under him to be shaken , and at the same time hearing the cracking of the roof ; while the whole fabric of the church , with the pews , seemed to be trembling together Tue chandelier in the ceuU ' tj of the church was so much agitated , that the chain was heard to rattle from which it was suspended . This was preceded by a noise outside the church like tbe rattling of carriages ; and the workman at first supposing that it arose from this cause , actually ran to tho door to see if any were patsing . The effect lasted for about half a mhmte , and was probably a slight shock of aa earthquake . The workman , on hearing the ruof crack , and seeing the trembling of the church , was apprehensive , as the church ia a very ancient structure , tbit it was giving way , and that the whole fabric was' fulling to the ground . "

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      THE [ EARTHQUAKE IN W ^ STilOaELA JTD . On Priday morning last , the 17 th instant , at twenty minutes Ipast one o'clock , the inhabitants ot Keudal , in Weatmoreland , were thrown into the greatest dismay by an alarming earthquake , the effeote of which were distinctly felt throughout the town and neighbourhood . On the previoua evening the air was sultry and the clouds lowering , and the night was so unusually dark that to speak in comparative ternis it might be likened to a total eclipse of the moon , although a full moon rose at four minutes , past seven o ' clock on the same evening . After the shook the darkness still continued , and there was a . yellowish blaza in the elements ,

      accompanied by a strong rush of wind . The violence of the shock was so great as to cause the inhabitants to suppose they were rolling out of bed , and all agree in the testimony that the doors and windows of their habitations rattled as shaken by a whirlwind , and the farnitare of the rooms , especially those of a light brittle description , were so agitated by the collision of one piece against another as to be truly alarming . Numbers of persons simultaneously arose from their beds , who bad become suddenly awakened by tbe rumbling of the earthquake , and the tremulous motion of their bouses , and many lay in profuse perspiration from the greatness of their alarm . About two miles from tha

      town of Kendal , and at a village called Sedgwick , are extensive powder mills , and several soothed themselves with the calamitous consolation " that it was only tbe powder mills that had blown up ! " an occurrence which is by no menxiB nnfrequent According to the inquiries made on the subject , the following will be found the leading facts connected with the awful visitation , leaving out all which seem to be exaggerated by fear or a taste for the wonderful . A highly respectable medical practitioner avers that fa * felt a slight shook about half-past tea o ' clock on the previous evenins ; , and when he retired to his bed the thought of it prevented him from aiuking into repose before the geeond shock occurred , so that he was fully alive to the cause of the alarm he then felt He describes his

      situation thus—that bis bed moved longitudinally three or four inches several times , and gave it the ' swiuglng motion of a hammock , and tbat was momentarily succeeded by a tremulous motion of the house , attended by a loud rumbling sound . A scientific meteorologist agrees with this , and says he feit the precise motion , and describes the rambling as of a loaded waggon , bat too short in its duration to be mistaken for it , and immediately concluded that it was the shock of an earthquake . At the King ' s Arms Hotel several of tb © inmates became bo alarmed as to make a sudden egsesa int » the street , and when the canse of their fright could not be ascertained were seized with the -utmost fear and dismay . At the Nelson Tavern the proprietor * nd family had not retired to rest , and when about

      locking up the shock caused the greatest terror . The decanters and wine-glasses which were on the shelves began to dance and knock 0 ; e against anether , causing % jingling discord , to their deep consternation . At several of the other Inns the belts were suddenly rung to the discomfiture of the family who bad retired to rest A policeman says , tbat he was standing neat to a large carpet manufactory at the northeast end of the town , when he heard a rumbling noise at first resembling very distant thunder , which immediately assumed a louder tone , when the ground began to snake b-neath him , and tbe rumbling then died away , like the cadence ot a large drum The glass of the windows of the manufactory v / os agitated , and the noise created by it might have been heard at a great distance . At an extensive Enm , called Oxen Holme , about a mile and a half south-east of the town , the

      shock was felt most severely , and the' inmates rose en masse . But here , again , the consolatory thought passed their minds " that it was only ttie Sedgwick Powder Mills that bad blown up . " The machinery of a large woollen manufactory at tbe southern extremity of the town was set in motion by the shock throwing it into gear . In a shaft time after the earthquake bad subsided , many of the streets in Kendal " p ' resented a semi-illumination , from tbe chambers of the Inhabitants becoming lit up . 6 a the following day groups of people were to ba seen in the streets , conversing about their previous alarm , which became mote intense from the circumstance of the news having arrived of the truly awful visitation which bad befallen the West Indies . There is no historic il fact to show that the town of Kendal was ever visited with so streng and bo alarming an occturrsnee of the kind . The weather since tbat time has been calm and serene .

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      MR . FKRRAND AND THE HALIFAX BOARD OF GUARDIANS . ( From the Halifax Guardian ) On Monday , Mr . Ferrand moved in the House of Commons for , returns of the proceedings at the Halifax Board of Guardians on the 1 st instant , when it will be remembered that a resolution iu condemnation of tte Honourable Member ' s remarks was moved and adopted in presence of Mr . Clements , the Assistant Commig-Bioner implicated . The motion shared the fate , however , of its predecessor ; and for tbe same reason , viz .,

      that it involves a question of breach of privilege . la vain did Mr . Ferrand assure the House that if hia motion were carried " he would take no steps to bring Mr . Clements to'the bar of the House * " The House and the Government would run no such hazard : and the question fell to the ground . We are no sticklers for Uie " pr ivileges" of the House of Commons , which ate , too often , rather a scandal to it than otherwise . But as Mr . Farrand distinctly disclaimed any assertion of privilege we regret his ill-success , since the papers could have done harm to no one , and mi ^ ht have elicited tbe truth on this most mystifying subject

      Mr . Hume and Mr . York made some pertinent allusions to the instructive coincidence , that the introduc * tion of a " wheel" and the exclusion of the press , were simultaneous resolutions of tbe Board .: "Under such olrcuHiBtances , " Baid the former member , " inquiry became incumbent" And the latter acknowledged that the exclusion of reporters of the public , presa , combined with the eviden ^ symptoms that the Boardmeeting of the 1 st of March was a packed ene , and tbat the resolution had been previously concocted , induced him to vote for Mr . Ferrand ' s motion ,, though on the former occasion he had voted the other , way . Mr . Wallace , Mr . S . Crawford , and Mr . T . Duucombe also supported the motion as one of necessity ; but the Hon . J . S . Wortley suggested another form of motion , to whioh the Home Secretary promised his acquiescence . The return to sneb a motion would , however , have been nil ; and it has not therefore been made .

      One feature in the debate we cannot omit to notice ; it is so instructive an evidence how ' party debates are carried on in the House . We last week noticed a similar feature Jn the foxmer debate ; to which we will flrsfc refer in proof that we were not then too candid and fr ^ nerona to tbe accused Assistant Commissioner , . In that debate Mr . Clemeuta was the party implicated in 2 Ir . Ferrand's censure . Mr . Ross , therefore , thought it necessary to defend his friend ; and did so in a style perfectly satisfactory to the House and to himself , but by no means complimentary ts Mr . Ciemente . We last week candidly declared that we disbelieved Mr . Ross ' s representations . Mr . Ross , on Monday , " apologised to the House for having been perfectly wrong Ja what he had said about Mr . Clements the other Right . "

      On Monday night tbe main object of attack was the Board of Guardians and their intended " in-do . or test " This " rotatory wheel , " said Mr . Ferrand , in effect would not only be panishment to the sinews , but hazirdous to the lives of the in-door paupers . Something , therefore-, must be said in reply . Mr . Gaily Knight gallantly undertook to say . that something . " He had had a conversation with Mrf Clements , " he Baid . " the day before ; and Mr . Clements told him that there was neither , a tread-mill nor a tread-wheel in the union ; bu there teas a hand-mil / ,, which had not then been introduced for the first , time , but had been thero for severe ! years . The labour at it teas by no means severe , and it was found to be the . _ best mode qi employing able-bodied pr . upers , more especially as it was difficult to find Labour for them which , would not interfere with out-door employment . " " y

      Well said , Mr . Gaily Knight . Well done , Mr . Clements . If Mr . Ferrand lifts his bead in Parliament again after this straight-forward and complete contradiction , he will indeed be invulnerable . There Is no miW treadwheei—no modern rotatory wheel—only *• a handmili" which bod been there "for several years . " And as for the hardness of tbe labour , ho such thing could be complained of— " it was by no means severe " —nay , " it was found to be the best mode of employing able-bodied paupers . " All this may do very well in London , Mr . Clements , All this may . tell upon the House of Commons , Mr . Gaily Knight . But we can . tell you . both very candidly —it won't do in Yorkshire . It wou't doln ttto Halifai Union . The fact is , Mr . Gaily Knlght 4-Indeed it Isthat all this statement from Mr . Clements is it

      humwe use that word iff preference to any other trisyllable ; and because we are witling to believe that Mr- Clementa is on this , as well as on other subjects , most ignorant . The fact is , that there ia no handmili in the workhousethat consequently there Is no labour at it—tbit therefore there can be no superlative excellence in this nonexistent mode of employment j and the whole of the statements of Mr . Clements in this respect are therefore altogether , utterly , and entirely fa ^ ee . Some years since a hand-mill for grinding corn was introducad , but "It was foa&d to p $ theyrortf / mti&ot employing able-bodied paupers , " and was therefore ^ mcyed ont of the : workhouse , and now rusts in deserved neglect at the Police-office , except when the keeper of the Vagrantofiico meets with some tramps whom he thinks proper to put to it ' . . . ¦ . 1 s .

      Looking at these mistakes and mf ' -: tatements we cannot help regretting , for the Bake of the Halifax Board itself , that Mr . FoiTahd ' s motion was rejected . As to the tread-wheel , or rotatory w ' teqi , It must be borne in mind that it was only In con ^ mp latJpn—npjt actually introduced . And after these two debates in Parliament we ate inclined to think , it never will be introduced . If it bs not , the poor of Halifax will have to thank Mr . B . Ftrraad for theit deliverance torn it

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      The Isle of Man . —Casilktown , March , 17 . — This morning , at a quarter to one o ' clock we experienced a smart shock of an earthquake , lasting about five seconds . The undulation appeared to pass from southwest to north-east , accompanied with a load rumbling sound , somewhat similar to a tempest of wind . We have not as yet heard of any damage sustained further tban the falling ; of plaster from cejlinga , though considerable alarm waa felt from ttie visitation .

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      THE WELSH COLL 1 E 11 IES . Abehdare , March 17 . —In my last communication I stated that I should proceed to Aberdare . On my arrival I fonnd that the Scot ' s Greys , having made a demonstration in the neighbourhood , returned to Cardlfly under the advice of tha magistrates . In Monmouthshire tbe whole of tbe colliers still continue on strike tothenumber of about 5 , 000 . and continue meeting Jn various parts of tbe hills . In GalmorganBhire tbe works on strike were Mr . Powell ' s of Gelley Gaer ; Mr , Beanmonfo , Gelly Gaer ; M * . Hensell's , of Pont-y-Preed ; the Duffryn works , and two others . The strike in Monmouthshire having now continued for ten weeks , a number of tbe Monmouthshire colliers , to the number of about 700 , came from Monmouthshire , and having crossed the Taaf Vale Railway , they compelled the men of the Doffryn Aberdare works and the Gelly Gaer works to strike , and from this the strike extended itself tothe ether collieries . In this stage of things

      considerable alarm , of conrso , spread throughout the county , and meetings of the magistrates , &c were held for the preservation of the peace , and the proprietors of the Gelley Gear and Duffryn Aberdare works procured men from DiwlaiB , who wsre willing to work , and placed them at the collieries . This , however , not suiting the refractory colliers , they , on Wednesday proceeded t « the works , headed by a number of women { under the supposition that the women might break the law with impunity ) , and proceeded to drive tbe -workmen from the pits and levels . The agent having remonstrated with them , his life was threatened nnless he immediately discharged the men , and showers of stones were thrown . Shortly after , odo of the police having taken a man into custody he was immediately attacked ; he , however , succeeded in retaining his prisoner . Under these circumstances the Scots Greys were sent for , and the 73 d Foot , stationed at Dowlais , were ordered to hold themselves in readiness . No farther actual outbreak took place .

      Some ot tbe men having subsequently gone into work , a deputation of the Monmouthshire colliers came over , and a meeting was held yesterday at Lmvabon , were about 400 colliers attended . After a long discussion , the Monmonthshire men reproached the ethers with & breach of faith , and the meeting ended angrily . Alarg 9 meeting was also held at Cross Penmoer , Monmouthshire , on Tuesday , -when they were met by Mr . Owen , attorney , of Monmonth , . who promised to lay a representation of their grievances before the magistrates , aad after addressing them for Borne time , advising them to be peaceful and orderly Mr . Owen . adjrarned to' the inn to await the deputations from the

      several collieries , ibrty-iwo in number , who were to draw npa list of grievances , bo the same day , some " volunteers" had b- 'Jenprocured by Mr . Powell from the neighbourhood of Dowlais , but on their arriving at the Duffryn Aberdare Works they were met by theinen and their wives , and attacksd in a violent and riotous manner -with stones , Ma ., and driven off the ground . Warrants having been obtafreti sgainst some of the ringleaders , Captain If apler , chief of the county constabulary , proceeded the same night to apprehend three of ttie men and two of tbe women , ' trho are now in custody and will be brought before a special meeting of the magistrates at Cardiff on Saturday , wiJuincei shall forward you a report of th « ir examination . 1 understand Mt Owen has accepted a general retainer i > om the co !« iera and will attend on their behalf . —Times .

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      FtEETWOOD-ON-WERE , MARCH 17 . This place was visited last night by two shocks of an earthquake , the former at eleven p . m . being so slight as to be Ecarcely heeded , but the latter ; which took place at fifty minutes after midnight ; , { being so violent as to cause considerable alarm and to ind nee several persons to quit their houses nt that late hour . During the whole of yesterday afternoon the sky presented a gloomy and lowering appearance , so as to call forth'the observation , ¦¦ Bow like the approach of an earthquake ;'' the air was unusually close and a dense ha ?; hung over the sea to the N . W . At the

      commencement of theshocfr last mentioned'the watchman at the lower lighthouse heard a rumbling noise ' from the east , which soon appeared to approach the spot , and was immediately succeeded by a considerable ] vibration from below . A sound resembling subterranean thunder accompanied the tremulous motion of thegronsd , which lasted several seconds , with whioh the J houses of the inhabitants were so shaken as to wake almost every inmate , and cause every wine . bottle , &c ' ., to fall from the shelves . The upper lighthouse In particular , a high isolated column , was felt to rock quite sufficiently to alarm the llghtkeeper . !

      The sea rose unusually high , and the Prince of Wales steamer , whioh was on her voyage from Belfast to Fleetwood at the moment of the shock , encountered a suddenly boisterous sea , for which the captain could not account , as the shock was not otherwise felt on board . The day is now extraordinarily fine , and the tempera ture has risen ten degrees since yesterday ; , as will appear from the following extract from a register kept on the spot : — 1 Temperature . i deg . m . i Barometer . " " March 16—Noon ... 45 0 ... ' ; 29 985 9 p . m . 5 « 2 ... ; 29 895 March 17—9 a . m . 49 0 ... 28 831 Noon 55 0 ... 29817 . "

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 25, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct474/page/3/