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      DTJBIalH . IMPOBTANT MEETLNtJ . rTbe following report reached ui last week , bat for xea-* « obb stated is oar l&sfc anmber , we were compelled topostpone its insertion . —B .. KS . 3 IneoMeqnedce of ita having : been advertised in the a ^ ly and weekly papen as well aa placarded thronghcnt the city , thai a motion -would be brought toward at the Irish Universal Saffirage Association , on Sunday , the 5 th inst , fet the purpose of efFecttng a reconciliation Jbetween Jlr . O"ConneIl and Mr . Feargtu O'Connor , the eitJaens attended in tart Bombers . At half-past one o'clock , the honr adrertired for

      taking ibe chair , -ibere conld not have been less than SOOOpeisoM present . The luge room was crowded almost to suffocation . Every spot waa-occnpied . The yard * nd lane were both densely thronged . Toe greatest order and regularity prevailed . The order , regularity , and good behaviour of this great- meeting « u highly creditable to the citizens of Dublin ,-especially those who laboured under the delusion that the Chutists are the enemies of the Irish people . Several members of the " detective" police force were in attendance . Some dugnlsed in frif 23 coats ; others dressed like tradesmen ;/ bat they ¦ were all well known , notwithstanding their attempt at deception .

      At half-past one o ' clock Mr . Henry Clark wag called to the chair . The Chairman said that he felt highly honoured by being oiled upon to preside upon the-present occasion , She newspapers and placards had already announced to bis fellow citizens the object of the meeting . He "Was very proud to see such' a number of bis fellow tffiTtmx Their presence upon the present occasion proved to him , if proof were -wanting , that they were all advocates of peace and good will— ( hear , heat)—that there was no good end—no practical object to be achieved by keeping up envy , hatred , and ill will between those who sought to-achieve the same ends , although by different meana . The immediate object of the present meeting was to endeavour , by all the means ,

      except an abundonment of principle , at the disposal of th » Irish Universal Suffrage Association , to effect a sincere and hearty reconciliation between two great and powerful men : the one at . the head of , and the powerful leader of a great nation , the acknowledged leader of the great majority of the Irish people ; the other thosen to represent and advocate the political ereed of Tbseb millions , Pjte httndskd Thoxj-SASD HALE IXHJU 51 TAHTS OP QHSaT BfclTAIN—( hear , hear } . The " object of the resolution was a holy one . 'Why should the soral aid of 3 , 500 , 000 Britons J > e rejected because 2 &T . ( XCozmell acd Mr . O'Coiator had Boms dispute , of which we know nothing ? He did not wish to say anything in favour of the one more than the otberY bnt strict and impartial jostioe

      demanded of him to aay tbat , inhisopimoa , lor . OOonneTl was the party mast to blame for keeping up this unfortunate dispute—{ cries of no , so ) . Well , how does It happen , then , that when Hr . O'Connor came forward in Xondon , and paid his subscription , of one pound to the Repeal rent ; that by an order direct from tie Com Exchange in ^ Dublin , Mr . O'Connor ' s money was ordered to be returned to him , and that he ¦ wou ld sot be allowed to speak in favour of Repeal at a meeting of Irish Repealers in London ?—( hear t beat- ) ? Who was to blame for that ? We do not wish to kring forward these matters now . Our object is conciliation but £ o compromise of principle . —no Whiggerj—no Toryism—but a cordial union of the plcsdered , hard-working , honest , people of Great Britain

      and Ireland . Our oppressors are united ; why then should we not unite morally , legaDy , and constitutionally for ftp attainment of these just lights whieh were basely ind perfidiously filched from us—( hear , hear ) . The Secretary would read toe rules and objects of the Association . It would be seen by the rules that none bat members eooia . take a part in the debate , or rather proceedings ; bat in tke preeent case that rule would be relaxed so as to allow every one , who wished it , to speak , or move an amendment to the motion ; hi short act as if they -were members—( hear , bear ) . He was jfttrethat he should have but little trouble in ^ prescrving order in the meeting . Every one should have a fair liearing . The fhniT "" '" returned his seat amidst loud applause . :

      Mi . Byott having read the rales sad objects of the Association , and letters from Norwich , Leeds , Brighton , london , Dungaonon , Kewry , Belfast , Armagh , Balljshannon and Sligo , proceeded to read the order of the day , and through the chairman called upon Ma O'Higgins to proceed -with the motion of which he had given notice on the previous Saturday , Mr . O'Higgina rose , and was received with loud cheers . He addressed the meeting for nearly an hour aadaltaif , and was listened to in breathless silence . He explained the views and ftwafajpt of the English Badical Beformers from . 17 S 2 down to the present period ; and- proved , to the satisfaction of every th * 3 "th 7 t" at ** " > meeting , t > i « t the British Radicals w / ere the consistent frknds of civil and religions liberty

      all OTer the-world—thai the document known-as the Peoples Chxrxeb was merely as embodiment of the principles of the old Radical Reformers . He very forcibly reminded his audience of the triumphant and fjorious reception which the Radicals of England and Scotland gave to Mr- O'Connell in 1834 , when h « was persecuted , by the Whigs . He satisfied every one of the gross injustice of attributing to the C&artista of England the crimes of their and cur oppressors . He shewed that the Chartists of Great Britain were as much opposed , to the unconstitutional suppression of the public * i" > ctTT \ g at Clontarf -as "Mr- O'Connell himself -conld be . He maintained that the Government had no right to stop the meeting . It would be seen , soon after the mftftting of Parliament , that notwithstanding all the

      abuse and vituperation whieh have been heaped upon the devoted heads of the English Chartists that they would to a man resent this flagitious attempt to crush public opinion in Ireland by military despotism—theari—and as they did in 1834 , when they helped Mi . OConneli to obtain a triumph over his Whig persecutors , they would come forward bow to the aid of Ireland and help her to punish the Minister of the Crown who ordered tbe Euppressiun of the Clontarf meeting by military force . He then , at great length , and with his usual clearness , explained the advantages which both countries would derive from a cordial union between the Chartists and the O'Connellite Repealers . He was obliged to make this distinction between the Repealers , as all Chartists are Repealers , whereas the O'Connellite

      Bepealers are not Chartists ; they profess to be whatever Mr . O'Connell wishes them to be—[ hear , hear , "that' s tmB" ) . The offer therefore for conciliation should come from Mr . O'Connell . Mr . O'Connor made the first step towards conciliation by paying his subacription to tb » Repeal Fond . The money and the aid which ha effered-were both rejected ; and for what ? because Mr . O'Connor is a . Chartist as well ass Repealer . The onus is surer ; thrown upon Mr . O'Connell to show why , as a Repealer , he rejects the aid of half the male population of- Great Britain in farrooz oliOB own darling project . II hs thicis he can get it-wliboirt Jiu conaent Or aid »! Bogland , it is satexal enough that he should like to have all tbe merit and all tbegloryto himself ; but His not becoming in him as a Christian to keep up and perpetuate enmity and hatred between himself

      and Mr . O'Connor . We here are desirous to see peace and good wfll established on a firm footing between the people of Great Britain and Ireland , which cm be achieved in the course of a few days , by Mr . O'C-mnell inviting Hi . O'Connor to a friendly disc&ssion of their respective views , la the Conciliation Ball . If both parties were united for one common object neither Whig nor Tory , nor both together , could withhold thejost rights of the people . Let every lover of peace and goodwill RTrmngrt men en earth not only vote , for this conciliatory motion , but make up his mind to use every effort is his power to carry it into effect Was there a man amongst them who would not like to see Mr . O'Connor and Mr . O'Connell shake bands , t »> rt make np their dispute in the Conciliation . Hall ? ( Hear , hear , and "We Would all like to ese thai . " ) Does any one know what has 2 L& . O'Connor dose to Mt O'Connell ? It

      fthonld be known . But no matter what he did , a settlement of their -quarrel would effeet an immediate ssion between the O'Connellite Repealers , and the Chartist * , Sorely no honest Repealer can blame the Chartists for dpmwfUng more than Repeal . What harm would Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , and Tote by Ballot do -to the Irish people 7—{ czies of " no harm , bat a great deal of good . " ) Then , in the same ofXJod , let this resolution , which is a good beginning , be unanimously adopted . Mr . O'HIi ; sinB-con cluded by morag— "That , hi order to effect the speedy { accomplishment of the Repeal of the Union , to render nugatory and unavailing the combined opposition ef Whig and Tory to that great and important measure , and to make the Gokciliation Hall be , in

      reality , that which it professes to be ; all personal disputes between Mr . O'Concell and Mr . Fear ^ us O'Connor should beitt once and for ever sacrificed on the altar of tfesir coamoq country ; that Mr . GConneU should not for » moment allow any private plgoe or personal iparrel to stand as a harder between xhe ^ p ^ moremeat and toe aid and moral ci-oper ^ iion of 3 ^ oo ^ oo British eubjects in favour ef that measure ; Iflat U ^ et ^ re 2 dr , O ^ Conndl is imperatively tailed JP « to . aiTBe MfcPeBigiui O'Connor toDubliB , a-din ^ £ ^^^^^ J ^ T ^^

      Mr . DjoOoidhe had en asny occasions spoken in ibatxoonvbut he never roae with greater alacrity or proceeded to address than with greater plSthan on tha present . occasion , when he conk asMst in bearing the olive branch of union and peace into the Tanks of dissentient reformers . It was the greatest mistake in iepealersJ to suppose Biat they , the contenders for Universal Suffrage , were not friendly to the cause of Repeal—( bear ) . Self-government , a system of

      legislation in which every man ' s voice weuld' by real . representation be btard in the national connsats , was the fandMnPT **? Mem nf that political ezeed : U « ecb ao equitable and righteous system were once adopted , the TJnion weuld he at once repealed—{ hear > Already 3 , 5 D 9 , W 9 am lad pledged themselves to that—they vere BngBshmen sad Scotehmen , artisans , manufao teaesV and h ^ boorers , who were themselves nsjustly 4 Xftlnded-AsHn the- pale of the Consfitufion , and natu > rally , felt for thBr-Irish brethren in suffering and in ataray—Jbe « r , hear / . Was it ; not ihen Tnsnfaffll in - » i 7 parly fa ) qpprobrioa 3 ly reject the proffered assistance 3 * . Rcb a powerful Md 4 oa of politica reformers ? It

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      was for the people , whose interest was so deeply affected by this unlucky railing out of men who , were oste fast friends , to good-naturedly coerce them into reconciliation— ( tear ) . He therefore Implored the peat body of Repealers who , thronged the Exchange rooms to influence their friends , and express their desirei to Mxv O'Connell , that an amalgamation of all Btdical Reformers should take place . Their worthy president had informed them rightly that the Chartist colour is green ; under this livery of nature , and chosen emblem of Erin , the working classes of the two countries should unitedly war with the system which crushed them to the earth ; and under that banner , with steadiness in the ranks and unanimity amongst their leaders , the people should ami would succeed—( loud cheew ) .

      tut it not be thought for an instant that In thus advocating conciliation , he ( Mr . D . ) for one moment abandoned Ms conviction that nothing shert of the Chartez fully acquired would ever do for the laborious classes . A Repeal of the Union would give them , to be sure , the semblance of self-legislation ; but its substance they would never have till the people In reality elected the House of Commons—in a word , till they had Universal Suffrage —( hear , hear ) . It was his misfortune to have been bom and fostered amidst Conservative predeliotions of the bitterest cast ; but nature having formed within him an enquiring mind , he read and reflected , and ultimately arrived at the conviction that it was a grievous , a diabolical system which had filched from the poor the . birthright of freedom and thrown political

      protection around wealth and rank alone ; and thinking so he had resolved to devote whatever his humble abilities or influence could effect to the cause of human liberty , civil and religious , in the widest and most comprehensive sense —( cheers ) . It was his firm conviction that aristocracy—founded on the doctrine of the inevitable degradation of a great majority of mankind—was a practical blasphemy against the deity , who had given the poor generally finer physical forms , and not unfrequectly superior intellectual powers than he bestowed on the rich—( bear ) , —and though not a member of the Bishop of Ardagh ' s church , he would take the liberty of indorsing his Lordship ' s sentiment regarding aristo crats , for whom he entertained the heartiest contempt —{ cheers ) . There could never be contentment for the masses or security for those called the " higher" classes , till the name of freeman ceased to be a distinctive appeliatisn . Rome had to . arm her slaves ; Greece did it onoe to her own imminent peril ; and would the

      Government of this country , if a foreign enemy were on its coast , feel secure in arming the men wh « were , through political disfrauchisement , as veritably serfs and slaves I as if they wore the badge and collar of feudal servitnde ? the only distinction being , that in those barbarous days the slave was as well-fed as the hogs he tended , while in these enlightened times the hogs were fattened and the mechanical slave was lean , pale , and hungry —( hear and cheer *) . They knew their condition and its cause intimately—the monopoly of legislation by the " master class , " as Mr . O'Connell had well called it—( bear and cheers ) . Mr . Dyott continued to dwell at great length on the necessity of union at this crisis , on the friendly disposition of the working dssses of England , and concluded by saying that though he had been as he considered most unfairly denounced himself by Mr . O'Connell on religious grounds , he was yet willing to wave all personal considerations , and lend his humble assistance in bringing about a reconciliation . He concluded , amid loud cheers , by seconding the motion .

      Mr . O'SuUivan said , though he was not as yet a member of the Association , yet he hoped that he might take the liberty of making a few observations . He , like many others , had been greatly misled respecting the character and principles of the Irish Universal Suffrage Association . The Impression which the speeches against them in the Dublin papers , had made upon his mind , was that the society was unlawful ; that it was composed of a low gang of unprincipled men in the pay of tha Tories—( hear , hear ) . Now itnot only was a shame , but an act of gross fraud upon the subscribers and readers of any newspaper to misrepresent and calumniate such men as those who had spoken there that day . Were honest men to be traduced , vilified , and run down in a Christian country like this , because they

      demanded more political rights than others have either the manliness or the honesty to seek for ? He ( Mr . O'SuUivan ) looked upon the principles of the Association to be sound and just , principles which would be adopted and cherished by every honest man in Ireland if be knew them . What right has a press , which professes public liberty , to suppress the public proceedings of an Assodatisn like this ? He ( Mr . O'Sullivan ) had read in the columns of the Freeman ' s Journal , the Register , and Piloi , that this Association was unlawful ; that its members were bound together by unlawful oaths ; that they had secret signs and pass words . Have those papers made any atonement for these calumnies 1 He could assure the meeting that the people in his

      district , would much rather read an act of justice , such as he ( Mr . O'Sullivan ) had mentioned , than all the prosy , stupid balderdash called " leading articles" in the Freeman ' s Journal during the last two yean . He knew something of a little smattering of the classics—a liule of the fashionable languages ; bad made some proficiency In science ; but he could declare , before that meeting , that it was with great difficulty be could at any time discover what the articles In the Freeman were about He had heard more sound political principle enunciated that day than he bad read in the Dublin papers for years—( hear , hear ) . He hoped that the admirable resolution which was so ably introduced , and so eloquently supported by its seconder , would be pissed by acclamation .

      Mr . Thomas Baun—I oppose the motion —( hear , hear , " Are you a member ? " ) No ; but I oppose the motion . I have my Repeal card , and we can get Repeal without the assistance of England . What do we care for England ? Mr . O'ConneU said , on the 23 rd of October , that we -would have Repeal in six months , that is , that the Parliament would be sitting in College Or sen on the 22 nd day of April , 1844 , or he would suffer his head to be cut off—( hear , hear ) . Now , what more do ye want ? Haven't- we Mb word for it 1—hasn't he pledged himself to it , provided we are all peaceable . I move an amendment—that tha motion be rejected . It is a motion against the character of our Liberator ; a cheer for him—( great cheering ) . The Chairman—The amendment is not seconded . A Voice—I second it

      Mr . Woodward—I had hoped that the advise of Mr . O'Sullivan would have been taken , and that the motion ¦ would have passed -without a single dissentient He could not see what was in the motion against Mr . Conn ell-Mr . O'Brien supported the motion . Mr . Doyle—I am not a member . I cannot join you , though say heart is with you ; but I recommend the mover of the amendment to withdraw it for his own sake , before the debate is closed by the reply . If lie knew as much as 1 do he -would take my advice . The Chairman having asked if any other person wished to speak , and having been answered in the negative , :

      Mr . O'Higgins rose to reply—He said that he had no arguments to reply u > . He regretted that any amendment had been proposed . The obvious meaning of the amendment was , " that there shall be no conciliation ; tb&t diseord must reign amongst us . " The amendment reminded him of the conduct of a certain black gentleman who envied the happy state of paradise . Mr . Dann—I -withdraw the amendment . Let the resolution be carried unanimously . I am bat a young speaker , I did not see how far wrong I was —( hear , hear ) . Mr . O'Higgins—Then there is no necessity for any farther observations . He Bhould leave the resolution hi the hands of the meeting . The resolution was then put and carried with three hearty cheers , and one cheer more . After which three cheers were given for the Irish Universal Suffrage Association , three for Mr . O'Connell and three for Mr . O'Connor .

      When the immense mass of people got together in the street , some one proposed a cheer for the Charter aud Repeal , ' which was loudly responded to . Thus terminated the largest and most important meeting that has been held since the formation of the Irish Universal Suffrage Association .

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      The Diet m Mjlbtlbbohe Wohkhousk . —We hava lately been favoured wi tb . several no very eavoury scraps of meat which had been offered to the poor in our -workhouses , by the Guardians , under the authority of the Commissioners at Somerset House , as a means to satisfy the cravings of their hungry stomachs . Small in quantity , God knows , was each man ' s dinner ; sad worse or as bad in quality as that which is not unfrequently given to dog 3 , or manufactured into prime beef « ausage 3 at 4 d a pound by the London purveyors . We can do no more for the poor creatures who are thns inhumanly treated , then m * de known throngh the medium of the Dispatch * their miserable half-starved

      condition , inhe hope of directing the attention of the kindly disposed , and those who caa feel and sympathise with others in misfortnne , and , in defiance of the Poor Law BashawB , rouse a sufficient energy among the authorities to crush the fiendish spirit that now prevails , and which cows and crushes the poor to the earth j renders them spiritless ; and makes them feel as the most degraded of human beings . Let ns come to facts . A few days ago , the Marylebone Vestry assembled for the purpose of considering a petition , and a very reasonable one , of the workers in their stone yardB for an increase in the portion of bread ! The ; did not ask for meat , or cheese , or beer ; they merely asked for a liule mere bread ! They alleged , but did not even remonstrate , that their porridge was miserably thin .

      What the effect of dilated oatmeal has apoa paupers , let the mortality * f the Bridgwater ¦ Union say . Tnese petitioners asked at the hands of the most opulent district In Europe , whose rental Is the income of almost a Monarchy , that their ration should be increased to that of the worst felons iu the jails , or rather to something below it . They stated that ten ounces of bread per day m so very little for men who are employed at hard labour , ihat their hunger JS ? f *^ ^ °° nBun » i * »* one meal . Ten abont t ^ ^ V ? * "" 1 a *™> Penny loaf , and ^ S ^ p ^ ff Sffe « ? r asssras iM ^ tfj&s Lmon . Fow , meagre as those diets afef there S few where the aUowance of bread fa less tht " a pound and a half a day ; in mjiJ « j bte « 7 aS

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      twenty ounces are delivered ; in the jails twentyfour ounces . In Marylebone , with a rental of not much less than £ 700 , 000 or £ 800 , 000 , these wealthy , these Bordid Governors give their hungry labourers less bread than those receive who live in the most distressed hamlets of Dorsetshire and ; Wiltshire . Can we wonder , after this , if disaffection prevailsthat the standing army is not large enough for the demands upon it—that insurrection breaks out in Wales—that discontent and danger abound everywhere—when this increasing army of destitution meets as at every turn , unemployed but craving for the boon of labour , and at length it finds employment , bnt on a ration bo meagre that life is scarcely maintained by it , and this by the decree and with

      the sanction of the largest parish of the Metropolis 1 There is scarcely a workhouse in the Metropolis , in whieh the poor are so well fed as the felons confined in Newgate or the Compter . In both these places , sufficient food is allowsd to satisfy the wants of the inmates ; and moreover , it is clean and wholesome , and not dished up Itke so much carrion , -as we observe it" in bnr workhonse jails . We have alwayB ~ maintained the rights of the pbor to a sufficiency of good and wholesome diet-Every man who falls into decayed circumstances , is justly entitled to an asylum and relief . All his life he has been paying to a joint stock fund , and he ought

      not to be ashamed to cros 9 the threshold of a workhouse when poverty overtakes him . In the purchase of a penny loaf , an individual clearly contributes to this fund , seeing that , if the baker had no cesses to pay he would be enabled to sell his bread cheaper . In fact thepublic , by a thousand ways , is continually adding to the stock ; and men ought sot to be beneath demanding support if they become destitute ; nor ought they , on account of poverty , which is now considered more in the light of a crime than a misfortune , to be fed upon coarse innntritious food , as we find they are in the workhoaees , or receive an insufficiency of it . —Weekly Dispatch .

      An Anti-Maxthcsian . —Died recently at Murton , near South Hetton , Mrs . Jaue Watt , the faithful progenitor of thirteen sons and daughters , fortyfour grandsons and daughters ; total progeny , one hundred—Durham Advertixer .

      PARR'S LIFE PILLS . Let fortune bless with honour , fame , or wealth ; Yet , where ' s enjoyment if devoid of health ! The old philosophers agreed in this : — That " health alone is man ' s imperial bliss . " Who has not heard of venerable Parr , Whose long existence spread his name afar ? In health and strength he trod life ' s busy stage , And closed his journey in a green old age . He liv'd to welcome six-score opening springs , And own'd the soeptreaiOf successive kings .

      While others fell , ho journey'd on his way , And liv'd aaif impervious to decay . Bnt why should Father Parr be honoured bo \ Was he endowed with epeoial favours !—No ! He sought the wholesome herbs that oloth'd the sod ; And we may follow in the Btep 3 he trod ; For on his dying bed he left behind A legacy to benefit mankind . His will disclosed a healthful balm—and we May taste the virtues of hia recipe-r Extend our lives to seasons distant far , And end our healthful days like aged Parr !

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      DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS . Loss of Four Vessels . —Lloyd ' s . Nov . 11 . —We regret to state that the accounts received yestexday from the Cape of Good Hope contain the most sad Intelligence of » dreadful » torm b&viiig occurred on the night of the 26 th of Aognat , in and off the c > ast of Algoa Bay , by whieh four valuable ships , estimated at between £ 30 , 000 and £ 40 , 000 , were lost , as also several lives . . Loss thb Elizabeth Row ell . —This vessel was a very fine barque , the property of the Hull Shipping Company . She was almost a new ship , having only been built in the year 1839 at Sunderland , and was three hundred and twenty tons measurement . It appears from the information received , that she managed to weather the storm for several hours , but early on the following morning she was driven ashore in Algoa Bay by the violence of the hurricane , and in less than twenty four hours she went to pieces , her commander , Captain Wake , and his crew , having saved themselves by means of the long boat . Her cargo was rather a valuable one . of a miscellaneous character .

      Loss of the SEAQctL—Sixteen Lives Lost . — This deplorable event occurred about midnight , when the storm was at its height She was seen to make for the Bay , aud ultimately got in , where she suddenly foundered . Apparently the crew feared the catastrophe and were in the act of lowering the boats when the ship went down , and every soul on board perished , including the captain , Mr . Mahay . The Se&gnU was also a barque of 239 tons burthen , and was launched at Mootrose in the year 1841 . It is supposed she was insured . We are informed , and regret to state the fact , that ten widows and twenty-four children are left completely destitute by this shocking calamity .

      Loss of the Delhi . —This ship was 276 tons burthen , built at Shoreham fa 1838 . Her loss happened within a few miles of the spot where that of the Elizibeth Rowell took place , through being driven ashore , when she soon went to pieces . The crew providentially wero saved by the aid of the ill-fated vessel's boats . Bhe was the property of the commander , Mr . Byron , who it is believed insured her . LOSS of thb LiVBJk . —This unfortunate vessel was lost , with the whole of her hands , ia Algoa Biy , during the raging of the hurricane . She went ashore on a bard , sandy soil , the sea running completely over her ,

      and dashing her with great violence on the beach , where , in a few hours , she went to pieces , the poor fellows perishing with her . She belonged to her illfated commander , Mr . Crockley , and was 184 tons burthen , of the port of Chester , where she was built in the year 1824 . None of the bodies of the unfortunate crews had up to a late date been washed ashore . The accounts conclude by atatlng , that the shipping suffered severely along the coast from the violence of the storm , and it was sadly feared that many other vessels were lost during its existence , but as the intelligence was despatched on the day after , there had not been time to collect the most authentic particulars .

      Secrecy.—Succesful Treatment.

      SECRECY . —SUCCESFUL TREATMENT .

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      2 THE NORTHERN STAR \ ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 18, 1843, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct508/page/2/