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      j 2 B PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PETITION , AND THE MOTION OF MR .

      dttncom . be . « It ¦ sra * borne to tha House on the shoulders o ! ^ riiteen " ' fastian jackets , '" who performed their duty ^ a—preceded by & procession of the members of the Convention , and other leading Chartists , amidst the < ja £ eaicg shouts of congregated thousands . " northern Star . Hark to the cause of liberty ! Tte dead" are awaten'd again ! Ths roice of the people is heard to bt free 0 er mountain , and valley , and plain . Fa ^ l nobly , they stir them to save The exil'd , and prisoners dear ; Onee more , their petition has gone for the brave , And liberty gives them a cheer ; For tfce " fustians" have sworn , in the power of their might , To ' « ia them their freedom or die 5 n the fight .

      Full boldly they enter the hall , Their escort all gallant and gay , "With the shout of thai people -whom Whigs -would enliiral : Tis the voice they are oall'd to obey ; Each senator rush"d to the spot , Impelled by a magical fear , Tie " prayer" of the people ¦ whose claims are forgot , To b = hold in its grandeur appear . Then Duacorabe obedient directed its way , And bravely our " fustians" the summons obey . In the House the " petition" ' s unf orl'd , And there is it treated with scorn ; The hopes of the millions—the pride of the world—Again axe insulted and torn . The logic of fools is displsy'd ,

      Their multiplied follies to screen ; The baseness of faction , of justice sfraid , All" mercy" ascribe to the Queen . "VTiib n . aiice and subterfuge bolting secure The dungeons our patriot-hearts must endure . Oh , where is the justice of old ? The spirit of Alfred the great ? Ere tte throne was debas'd by corrn jtion and gold ) When the people were one with the state ? lis gone 'with cur freedom to vote ; Ti 5 under each despot's controul ; And bow , e ' en tha right to petition is mught ; A fjxee and a mockty the whoie . O shide ci the honour'd and patriot king , Tfcj "ii-nile o ' er modern royalty llirg !

      Bet jr-y to the " fustians" who sizn'd : And joy to the gloricus " eighteen : " An'j' 7 bi to him in whose heart we ' re enshrin'd , Jkongh z barrier of bolts is between ; For time on its quick-paced ¦« ing , The might of the future shall tell ; "When down to the dust the biss factions we'll bring , And destroy the corruptions of helL For the law of each country oui Charter must be , Till all ends cf the earth « h * H be happy and free , " William Hick . Leeds . June , 1 S 4 L .

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      THE FBIENUS OF TEE CHAKTER , GOD BLESS 'Zil . Tr > 'E— " The King , Gtd lless hi : n . " Slay the bright sun of liberty lighten that iky Xow usjkened by slavery ' s gloom ; Hay the nation arise as a lion from sleep , And resolve upon tyranny ' s doom ; The people now groan ' nesth the weight of their wrougs , Bn : our rulers will never redress ' em Till we carry the Charter . Then here ' s t » the health Of the friends of the Charter—God bless ' em .

      Long , long have we boasted that ours was the land Of the noble , the free , and the trave , While the half-famish'd artisan gives for his bread More labour than Africa ' s slave . Then away with vain boasting and let us be free , Assert cur own rights , and possess ' em ; Our word be the Charter . The Charter alone , And the friends of the Charter—God bless ' em . But , oh , in our struggle in liberty ' s cause , Let this be remember'd by all : — TJ > "ITED—no tyrant or earth can prsvail ; Diyiped—the people mast fail , Then aritate ! agitate ) po-rt cnt yonr wrongs , But our rulers will never redress ' em , Tilil we carry the Charter . Then here ' s to the health Of the friends of the Charter—God bles 3 ' em . J . R . K .

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      TEMPERANCE . The roses of aauca are sweet to the eye , Te : ia winter their besaty and Si ^ rance is 2 own ; But I tnow a flower that never cj ) die , It has sprung from the garden of Eden alone , It will bloom in the sunshine , and blow " mid the storm , Its blossom time ' s pitiless hand cannot blight , Tis temperance ; g ^ zs on its be autiful form , And gather this emblem of peace and delight The pearls of India are fair to the sight , Te : them , but the rich asd the great may possess , But there is a pearl transc-endingly blight , That will thine in the cottage , an ^ l banish dis tress , No perilous direr ha 3 brought it op shore , Fjr it grew in a region of heavenly Miss , Tis temperance—spurn the rich treasure no more ; Oh , tier * never was treasure bo listing as thii

      The mi 3 er may gloat on his ID-gotten hoird , The victor be proud of his laurfcl-wreath fame , Let but temperance reign round tLe cjttater ' s board , Aiid k = ncTtj need blush for i : is country or name . Oh , temperance , Nature ' s best gift to the poor , ilty tiiy Hun never darken , thy glory ne'er fade , And tiaie ' s rolling hand but engraft the * the more , See the hearts that now riot in joy thon hast made . John A- Ljwso >' . SbeEeld , Mst , isil .

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      THE DRUNKARD'S GRAVE . ( FE 03 J F-& . C 1 . ) I knew him in life's morning , ¦ srhaa his heart 'was light and gay , His future hopes were openifag then in pleasure ' s brightened ray ; A father ' s pride , a mother ' s hope , beloved by every friend ; Could fortune ' s widest scope , more bounteous blessings send A lovely , pure , and spotless maid , to crown Iiis earthly Miss , Became Ms bride , and life seem'd made one round of happiness . Ee quaffea of pleasure's brimming bswl , nor knew a born to crave , None ever dreamt his earthly goal would 'fee a drunkard ' s jraTe .

      I aw him late , but , ah , how changed , the hsppy smile was gone ; From peace , and loTe , and joy estranged , and haggard , P-iie , and wan ; The " wretched crew that madly haunt the bloated tapster ' s den , Were now bis only friendE , Mid want and misery knew him then ; Hi » starving offspring wildly taunt his more than ridow'd wife , For th * t she had no power to tract the sustenance of life ; Oh , had he shunned the tempter ' s snare , he had not lived a slave , And now we would not seek him where he fills a drunkard ' s gr ^ ve ! JfiHX A . LiTTSOS .

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      THE FLEET PAPERS . London , Pavey , 47 , Holyvell-srreet . Sirind . Kos . 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 . Tor seme weeks past we have made no allusion to tie Fieet Papers . It does not follow from hence tnat they have escaped our nonce , for we have perused them wi : b pleasure . Whether attacking Poor L » w atrocities , exposing the hideous abominations of tie Factory System , or layiEg bare tfce flimsy sophistries and cold-Wooded / peculations of Anti-Cwa Law Lcssufcrs , Mr . Oa ^ tler is equally at Dome 'Wit h his poweriul and eloquent pen . His sympathies With the labonrirg classes generally and the factory ™ ldieD , are as broad and deep as are his antipatflies jowards the grasping miilocrat and the selfish Kistocrai .

      ^ p . 19 , althongh an old oce , we cannot pass over , to it coBtaics a most pathetic and touching narra-? ve respecting poor Lieutenant Edwards , vrho died » the fleet , and h is turned to a good purpose Wueh . wiil be best explained by & perusal of it : — " You know , Sir , that one reason wby the accursed new J * oor La-sr trss enacted , was said to be because ' ' wlf * " " W 6 re d * Toi ( i oi natural affection . ' Never was * ° Kaaer lie invented ; but it served the purpose of ««* e who planned the slavery of the people , and thus Goth ' s bw wrs passed . '

      ) ' The poor have no natural affection ! ' Thus aver ™ a rich accusers . But how of yourselves , Sii ? i ^ enteajLnt Edwards was of an eld and wealthy family : " ** father is said to have possessed a very large estate irS ' - * ' ItaTeitfronj one connected by marriage "uatiaVi , if justice had been done him , wonld eow Mve hada rent-roll cf £ 15 . 000 a-jear . His mother is SiUniLiiiid , tat enjoys , as 1 am told , a jointure from

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      Edwards' father , of £ 1 , 200 a-year ; kis brother is in commission in the army ; his sister ' s husband is a Colonel in Jamaica . Edwards was god-son to King William , and , when a enild , was a royal favourite ; but ke died of neglect and want in this prison , a cast-off , forsaken by his kindred , too proud to tell his tale , when the charity of his prison friends might have saved him " About three weeks before his death he was at church ; afterwards I walked with him in the raqnetground . He told me of the Sunday habits of his Governor , " and spoke of former days ; they had been days of joy , and gaiety , and splendour . He told me of his trials , too , but not of his extreme penury and want

      " -1 urged him to intercourse with his friends . He shook " his bead : he did not sigh , but he made the sign of sorrow , when he smothered it He pulled up his person and stretched himself , ss prosd men do when they will not moan . He said to me , that he thought it hard that all the Euffering should thus fall upon himself . They should remember , * he added , ' I was only in my tttns when they placed me in a very gay regiment . I had plenty of money , gpy companions , and a young head . ' It is hardly fair to punish me in this way . But I am expecting the Rev . ¦ who left the prison a few days ago , will see mj ' Governor , " and make all right . " " I did not know that he was in want Afterwards I did ; but , then , it was too late ! Talk not of ' want of natural affection in the poor . ' There , Sir , there you have it in your own ' order , ' even unto death !

      " Edw » rds was a remarkably mild-tempered man ; but it setms that his spirit was too proud to bend to charity—his friends too crnel to relieve him ; and so he died ! He died of want in prison ! " Trifling circumstances of ten become important after death , Edwards' cell looked on to the entrance to the prison . He once said to me , ' What a number of friends you have , Mr . Oastler , and how courteous you are to them . I have s&en you go nine times this morning with them to the gate . " You are a pretty fellow thns-to watch me ; I shall be taking you for a Government sp 5 , if you watch me so , " was my joking reply . He added , ' I generally sit looking at the gate out of my window . " I knew not , then , the pang that expression give him . ' Ah ; poor Edwards ; and there he has sat , day after day , week after week , month after month , looking for the face of a friend , till fcope expired , despair overwhelmed , and hunger murdered him ! But Edwards wiil no more sit looking out of that cell-window at the gate , hoping in vain to see a friend .

      " Tfcank God . ' fcis last linys were tranquil , soothed by the kindness of two brother prison friends , and a kind prisoner clergyman . He rests in pence . ' " Never " shall I ferget my feelings , when one cair . e to sie , the <\' aj before he died , to barrow mr Prayer-book and my Bible ; his own were pawned ! Sbanie on your order ! The god-scm of a King , a British warrior ( for he told me lie had tought in India in the Bunnes 9 wan , an English ari .-tccrr . t . forced to borrow your prisoner ' s Bible and Prayer-book , on his death-bed , because his own were pawned . ' S ! : ame , Sir , I say—eternal shame on your order ! We -will hear no moie about' the want of n-. tU'al . affection in our panpiT 3 ! " " " The statements put forth by the " Plague , " respeoiir . g ' the money pock ?! ed by the landlords in consequence of the Corn Laws , are thus summarily refuted : —

      j " 1 have not tuought it worth while to dwell on the ; ridiculous nonsense of Mr . Syih . ey Smith—the subject i is much t-co serious to la dealt with in a light mood ; I else il wonlcJ have been easy to hare laughed at the j foliy of the anti-Corn L 3 W Leaguers , when they caught j themselves in their own craftiness , and miscalculated the intellect of Englishman , by hiring and paying such I * bor . cit lecturers' to p ; . -r £ : isd 3 Englishmen that these j who L ; -. Te ail the money'' are forced to mortgage their i tstEt- - ^ . "'—that ' the aristocracy have robbed the

      couat- / o : £ 75 , 000 . 000 a year oy tha Corn Laws , ' when , ' in : 1 S 35 , the -whole cos : of wheat-was only £ 31 , 4 u # , u 0 e , ! and , even in 1 SS 9 , £ 56 . 533 , 0 ( 0 ! '—that ' if th « C ' jrn I Laws were repealed , wages ¦ would riss "—that' Irish ' , labourers , who only earn 5 d . or Cd . a day for nine ; rninths , and who are the thrte remaining months begj gnrs , are-not worse eff than the Devonshire labourers , | who can earn 9 s . a weeic '—remembering , at the same , time , that ' Ireland is : he uuirt-st cor . ntry in the world . ' " ; —that ' . millions upon niiliio :: s of woollen pieces are ! rotting iu tha ¦ warehouses !"—that 'if the Corn Laws i Wire repeiltd . there would be r , o need for the women i and children to go iato the factories ' . '—that ' the agricultural population is only one-fourth , compared with , the manufacturing population !'—that ' Lancashire 1 does not grow 1 , 000 quarters of grain . '" ic Ae . " i The assertion about England cot being an a ^ ricnli taral country is deals with after the foiloiving i fashion : —

      "Sir , I believe not in the dogma of the Free-Trade-Anti-Corn- Law-Lragcers , ' that God never designed that England should be an agricultural nation . * 1 utterly Tcject the insane notion « f the same school , that * England would not he poorer if she did not gr * w one grain of com . " 1 otlieTe that England was designed fcr agriculture ; and I am snre that she could not maintain her independence one day if she were to cease growing corn . Seeing , then , that my faith differs so widely from theirs , you cannot be surprised that my works should differ also . I know of no greater fallacy than to Suppose that wisdom would dictate the neglect of agriculture . Manufacture and commerce are both very well in ifceir places ; but the well being of England depends upon the prosperity of her agriculture first , " and then , as a consequence , her manufactures will prosper .

      " So long as we have a single acre of land uncultivated , and a single pair of hands unemployed , if we import tie corn which those hands and that land mighs have created , whatever price we give for that corn , as a nation , we Jose the whole amount It is because our governors have for many years imbibed the doctrines of free trade , that our laboureis are reduced to such an a ^ jret state of misery . Were three times more labour einpioyed in agricultural pursuits , instead of talking about importing corn , we should be an exporting nation— instead of mourning over a losing trade , we should command a profitable one . It is the fallacy of free trade which has separated the labourers

      from the aristocracy , and -which has imbued the lattei with the unchristian notion that the labourers have no right to live upon and out of the soil ! Hence your accursed Xew Poor Law ! Toe system of free trade has aireacly mai : e large strides ; it has robbed labour to its nus "; it has starved it » o the bones ; it has , by law , disinherited it . '—it can do no more barm to the labourers—death would be preferable to their life' —to them it has indeed done its vtry worst : —and you , the landlords , Lave aided the cruel monster ! >' ow , it is your turn—it demands your rents , it envies you , and c&TcJs your tstates ! and , if yon will not relent , and once more take the labourers by the hand , it must overcame—it will destroy yoa . "

      Protection to the soil and labour forms the text of the 22 nd number . Thii description of the sort of commercial condition to which the free traders tempt the countrj will be read with painful interest and carry some lamentable truths home to the bosoms of many of our readers : — " There was a time—1 am old enough to remember it —when an English merchant was a honest , honourable man , incapable of frauel . He was then too high-minded to take EdvanUge of the poverty ai ; d ignorance of those wivh whom he dealt >' , the case is quite reversed , and nothing is so common as to hear persons engaged in trade declare— ' It is impossible to gain a livelihood , if we do as we would be done by . '

      " And -who are the persons who have thus changed the character of our merchants ? Look over the list of your freetraders , and at the very tcp you will read their name ! Judge then of thtir jnotivts by their actions . It is they who , not content with one branch cf trade , nsnrp the' whole . They are like birds of prey hovering over the carcasses of our ruined manufacturers in every market They think it no dishonour to buy of sinking men as cheap as they can , knowing full well that they are thus robbing the : r creditors , and are ' greedily gaining « f their neighbours by extortion , having forgotten God and his commandment , to do unto others as we would they should do unto us ; " entirely forgetting that ' He wiil smite his hand at their dishonest gain . " These men t » ploy their harpies to seek up those who are in

      difficulties , and , taking advantage of their necessities , they buy their ' stocks' at half their value . Thty then sell these stolen goods to the shopkeeper at a very low price , compared with their real value ; and thus tbey reduce the price of every article , and compel the respectable shopkeepers and manufacturers to lo-wer their wages , until it is impossible to allow the artisans such remunerations for their excessive labour as will enable them to live . The manufacturer is then driven to make deceptive goods;—hence the reason wby noic it is next to impossible to buy any article , even down to a skein of silk or thread , which is not worth using . Next follows the bankruptcy of the shopkeepers . Many will read this letter , who from ead experience know that all this is true , but who did not before know that the freetrade nrinriple was the cause of it

      " I remember once hearing , from the lips of one of the most respectable manufacturers in Yorkshire , the following anecdote , showing how these thieves commenetd their operations some five and twenty years a ; o . He told me that he was then in London , when an acquaintance of his said , ' Mr . , you understand the quantity of woollen goods , and can spare , £ 5 , 000-out of your concern ; I will put £ 5 , 001 to yours , and I will show you how to make money by wholesale' My informant asked his plan , and he was answtfted— ' You shall go with Hie into the city tonight , and I will show yon how it is to be dona ' They went in the dark to one of the streets running from - Cheapside—( in those days the harpies were

      ashaaied of their trade : now , they sin in the face of day , and boast of their prosperity in Parliament!)—tbey entered a warehouse—there was the poor manufacturer with his bale of goods—my friend examined them , and declared that they were cheap at the invoice price . The poor manufacturer was in distress—the bale of goods was worth £ 145 ;— £ 70 must be had next morning , or a prison would have been his home . The ' wholesale money-maker , ' satisfied himself of the just charge . He took his pen , and wrote at the foot of the invoice , ' By fifty per cent discount for eash , £ 72 10 b . ' Then h i din g the document to the te : sb ! ing manufacturer , he said , 'I dont want the m o ' i—yen want the money—you can have the amount in V e morning—I « r- ? n give Fno more . ' The result

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      was , that the offer of one-half the value was taken ; and these goods were afterwards sold to the shops , and were shown to other manufacturers , in order to reduce the prices of their goods . My friend said , as he went a way , Is this the way you -wsuld teach me to make money by wholesale ? I would rather take a pifltol and turn highwayman ; hia business is honourable and gentlemanly , in comparison with such cowardice , meanness , and cold-blooded cheating as I have Been to-night' I need not say that my informant resisted the luring bait The other followed the unholy gain , got rich , and now calls himself an English merchant . ' My friend , who told me this fact , was then worth at least £ i » , 0 # 0 ! Honesty , industry , and capital were unable to stand against this free trade monsterhe lost all—took refuge in the Gazelle— and since then , a broken heart has lodged him in an untimely grave ? But the wholesale robber has been in Parliament !"

      Who can read such recitals without deeply and sincerely trusting that the day when England shall be made a manufactnring nation , subject to the tyranny and influence of the capitalists in the manner above described , may never , never come ? If it do come , farewell to the hearty old English character , farewell to old England ' s green fields , farewell to all old English customs and feelings—aud welcome to the duplicity of the commercialists , welcome to smoky districts and dingy town " , and welcome to all the vices , all the deteriorating influences oi " trades' unfeeling train . "

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      "BRITISH OPERATIVES— Mason's Journal . " This is another of the almost innumerable tribe of cheap periodicals to which the intellectual spirit of the age has given birth—published alternately at Birmingham and Glasgow—under the management and auspices of workiug men entirely , and very creditably got up .

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      GrliASGOW . —State of Trade . —The March OP MlSEBY AMO . NG THE WORKING CLASjES , THElll DEVOTION TO FEARGUS O'CONNOR , AND TUB TRIUMPHANT spikit of Chartjssi . —The stadc of trade in Glasgow , at present , ia in a most deplorable condition , with very little prospect of its speedy revival . Hundreds of all trades , but more particularly the hand-loom weavers , are out of employment , while thousands are only panially employed . The condition of thehand-leom weavers when out of work , may be more easily p , uessed ' than described , for even when in fall employment , it may be said , li * . * val ! y speakiug , that they ure subjected to a system of Blowmurder aud lingering starvation . Friday last , the

      28 : h of May , being term day , or what i = generally termed iiitiing day , the whole city nr . d suburbs appeared to be in one general move ; never wereso mauy removals witnessed at any former period . The awful amount of domestic misery , exhibited in our streets at noonday , was truly appalling and heart-rending . The aged , the bedridden , thecick , and the dying were carried along from one place to another , by their neighbours aud relalivta , while virtuons and industrious females , surround * J with their ragged and starving offspring , were seen with hanging heads , and in many instances the silent tears of mi ^ ory rolling over their cheeks , dragging along the miserable remains of their former wellpleaished homes ; their drawers and well-furnished

      beds , which the Scotch lasses delight to display when they get married ; their iable 3 ; their good man ' s arm chairs ; and even their bit ; family bibles , wherein were inserted the births and deaths of their relations ; all , all had vanished to satisfy the demands of their Jaudiords , or their own immediate wauts , and left o : ily a miserable wreck behind . Mauyroup . * , or sales were announced , by greody landlords , but nobody purchased the poor man ' s furniture . One individual , a handloom weaver in Bridgfton , and one of the first individuals who joined me Chartist Association there , having hitherto struggled against adverse circamrtance 3 , at last ftll a sacrifice , iike thousands before him ; he i ^ ot in arrears with hi 3 landlord ; the sherilfa' officers paid him a visit , and commenced to sequester his household goods , while he and his wife viewed with mental agony their progress , until the officers arrived at the portrait of Feart'us O'Connor . He could stand it uo longer : of

      aud , in the iau ^ uage remonstrance despair , he exclaimed , " For God ' s sake , m < n , take my all , and peace be with yon , bat leave me the portrait of that persecuted patriot . " The hearts of sheriffs' officers , every one knows , are not made of the softest stuff ; however , in this instance , they relented , and granted the request of their victim . This is no solitary instance of the devotion of the working classes of Glasgow to O'Connor . No ; by them ho is almost universally esteemed ; they know ho is devoted to them , and that he is honest ; they despise his calumniators , and detest hi 3 enemies ; and they have shrewdness enough to perceive that he , like the Roman General , has crossed the Rubicon , and dared not return aud de = ert them . The spirit of Chartism is triumphant , the public steam is rising up to the highest pre » 5 ure at the approaching dissolution of Whi ^ gery ; and , by the tims of the election , the Whigs may expect to meet a fifty thousand Chartist power to drive their election machinery .

      CARLISLE . —State of Trade . —Never , we believp , in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant , has trade in general been in such a state of depression—all classes are feeling more or less the severe presssire of the times , and the middle classes are now begmuing to feel an interest in the deplorable and wretched condition of thousands of their fellow-creatures , whom they have hitherto looked upon as dissatisfied and diaconsoiate without a reason . The empty tills of the shopocrats are fast convincing them of th ^ absolute necessity of a sweeping change . The cotton trade , in which some thousands are here engaged , is unprecdentedly dull , and the masters say they have little or no demand for their goods , and would almost as soon stop their

      works altogether until things undergo a change for the better . The hand-loom weavers , whose extreme privar . on has now become proverbial , are in a state of utter destitution , having little work , and an extreme low rate of wages . The cotton spinners have got notice of a most sleeping reduction , which will amount to from twenty to twenty-five per rent ., which , if they j-ubmit to , will make a difference iu their weekly earnings of from seven to ten shillings per week . . Nearly the whole of the masters have given notice of the above reduction , which is to take place a week hence . The workmen held a public meeting of their body , at the Turf Hotel , on Saturday evening last , when it was resolved that the masters should be waited upon , with a view to prevail upon them to make the reduction less

      sweeping . We are afraid they will not Bucceid , for their employers are a set of overbearing and overreaching men , whom nothing can satisfy but the most barefaced plunder . They are building and purchasing most costly mansions , rolling in splendid equipages , and buying up the land wherever it is to be sold ; yet they never cease exclaiming against the selfishness of the lauded aristocracy , who are not half se grasping as themselves . Such is the wretched condition to which they have brought their workpeople , that they are scarcely able to exist . Many have sold off all their furniture , and left their native country for America , leaving , ( iu many cases , ) their wives and children to the tender mercy of the administrators of the cursed New Poor Law .

      EXNDXiE?!—Cucrch Despotism . —It has long been a custom in Hmdlcy lo hold vestry meetings every Easter Monday , to choose a churchwarden , lay a church-rate , dw . Laiteriy the rate has become very obnoxious . In ] i ] 40 the Cnurch party were defeated by a show of hands ; they demanded a poll , and were defeated in thai also , on which occasion Mr . Alfred Penington strenuously opposed the rate . On the 12 th of April last a vestry meeting was held , on which occasion the Church party avowed their intention to forego the rate for the present year , and try the voluntary principle , and collected various sums of money from individuals , principally dissenters . This not answering their purpose , they posted a notice on the Chapel door , dated May 14 th , for a meeting to take place on the 17 th , to lay a churchrate , at which meeting they were defeated . They

      called another meenng on the 24 tb , and they were defeated again ; they 1 demanded a poll , which took place on the 26 th and 27 th , but the strenuous opposer of the last year ' s rate suddenly turned round and supported the rate , and being a large miliocrat , combined with the other two , to carry their point by all aud every means in their power . Tkey accordingly stopped their mills during the two days' poll , to force every hacd who conld vete by intimidation and otherwise . The ino 3 t unblushing tyranny ever witnessed was practised toward the hands to force their vote for the rate . By these means they obtained a majority ; after which , they formed a procession , with a band of music and flags , headed by the three despots , in which order tLey marched through the village , thus glorying in their own shame .

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      vPunishmext cf Death . —The bill for taking away the punishment of death in certain cases , as amended in committee , has been ordered by the House of Commons to be printed . It exempts from capital punishment the following offences : —Embezzlement by servant of Bank of England of note , bill , bond , Sec , belonging to the Company , or relating to Irish or other annuities transferred to the Bank ; embezzlement by servant cf South Sea Company of similar notes or bonds ; secretly using stamps or dies for deeds , or sold and silver plate

      to defraud her majesty ; and the riotous demolition of churches . By the bill the first class of offences is to be punishable by transportation for life , or for a term not lees lhan seven years , or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years . " For the last , riotous demolition of churches , the punishment is to be transportation for seven years , or imprisonment for three years . Rape , and another capital offence , are also exempted , acd are to ba punished by transportation for life . The act to commence and take effect on the 1 st of October , 1841 . ^

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      Thrsk more Deaths have taken place among the Woolwich convicts . n . n ^ AV ! D WitKiE « s engaged , at the request of tha Pacha , in painting his portrait . M . Riboulet arrived at Portsmouth lately , with nye giraffes , which he caught himself young in Abyssinia . The Hanover Gazette announces the opening of a great part of the railroad from Berlin to Dresden , by which the distance may be traversed in twelve hours . The Emperoh of Russia distinguished the day of ms son ' s marriage by discharging the debts of fortyhve prisoners , which amounted to 30 , 000 silver rouoles . The Converted Jew Deutz , who betrayed to the police the hiding pkca of the Daches 3 de Berr , at Nantes , has committed suicide by throwing himself into the Seine .

      A Letter from Italy says— " Joseph Bonaparte , wno has obtained permission to reside in Genoa , has hired a splendid palace , which many persons apprehend will become the rendezvous of all the adherents of the Bonaparte party . " New YoRK . —The ship St . James , Sebor master , from New York , for London , left on the 3 rd instaut , passed up the channel on Saturday , all well , having landed her mail and _ three passengers . Business was gradually improving in America . The best understanding exists between ths numerous English and French workmen employed at the Rouen and Paris railroad . They have organised a kind of language whioh is neither English nor French , but by means of which they are enabled to converse with each other .

      His Belgian Majesty grants the sum of 4 , 000 franc 3 ayear to Mr . J . Linden , a Belgian botanist , lor the time which ho will employ iu the scientific expedition which he intends to take iu the equinoxial regions of the new world , and especially in Columbia . As Mr . Womdwell's menagerie was about to proceed to Uctoxeter , the keepers discovered that one of the lionesses had produced four fiuo cub 3 , which is remarkable , as she had previously littered Jhis year , fivo oil the 1 st of January , at Canterbury . Railways in Great Britain and Ireland . — From a paper very recently read before the Statistical Society , o _ t the number aud length of-railways in Great Britain and Ireland , it . appears there are suvejuy-one lines , forming a total length of 20 , 191 miles . Of these fifty-threo are open , eigliieeu partially , aud ten are not yet opened .

      Summer Circuits of the Junur ; s . —Northern Lord lioiimau and J . Wightmau . — Home : L . C . J . Ti ! i .. ' al and J . Bo . ^ anquet . —North Wales : Lord Abinger . —South VVah-a : ' J . Erskine . —Midland B . Parko a'id B . Guvncy . —Norfolk : B . Aldorsou and J . Williams . —Oxford : J . Coleridge and J . J . Coitman . — Western : —J . Maule and B . llolfe . — Home Jud ^ e at Cha mbers : Mr . Justice Pattesou . Duration of Parliaments . —The average duration of each of tho six Parliaments which liave been elected , from 1826 " to 1837 inclusive , was not more than abouc two years and four months ( under two years and a half . ) The pres >; .-. t Parliament , if dissolved , as is expected , in a Week or two , will not havo lasted four years ; it haa sat during four sessions , including the present one .

      The Thunder-stohm which visited tha Metropolis , on Thursday evening week , extended over a largo space in the surrounding country , and wa . a even more violent at a distance . In tho Forest ol Berkshire , huge hailstones fell amidst terrific thunder and lightning , and injured several mansions . Accounts of the storm have been received also from Plymouth and Brighton . In the metropolis , William T : iylor , a hair-dresser , was struck speechless by a flash of lightning , while sitting at his shopdoor .

      Birmingham has been alarmed by a disastrous fire , it broke out ou Thursday , tho 27 th nit , at a coach builder's , where somo men were " ringing" a carnage wheel with a red-hot iron tire . The stock of timber and the premises wevo destroyed ; and several of the adjacent buildings were injured . So alarming a fire , it is said , had never occurred in Birmingham except at the riots in 1791 and I « o 9 . Death from Drowning . —An inquest was hold on Friday , on the body of a young man who was drowned whilst bathing in the Serpentine river during the terrible storm of Thursday week . There were between 2 , 600 and 3 , 000 bathers then in tho water and on the banks of the river , although a storm of thunder and lightning was raging with the most appalling fury , and the rain was descending in torrents . It transpired , in the course of the inquiry , that the number of bathers in the Serpentine at present averages , in th > evening , 2 , 000 every quarter of an hour .

      We have the painful intelligence to communicato of the total destruction by fire of Tetcott House , the property of Sir W . Molesworth , Baronet , on Friday afternoon last . The house , which was built about seven years since , cost upwards of £ 9 , 000 in its erection . A report was spread , ascribing the fire to be the work of an incendiary ; but it has been ascertained to have been purely accidental , resulting from an accumulation of soot in a crack of the flue taking fire . The furniture and papers were saved . — West oj Enq ' and Conservative .

      Sandhurst . —The thunder-storm of Thursday was accompanied , in the vicinity of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst , by a violent fall of hail , which in a few minutes completely destroyed almost every pane of glass in the extensive front of the public buildings of tho college , along the whole fine facade of above 900 feet , as well as the front of the professors' houses , twenty-six in number , and the south face of the governor ' s house . We are sorry to learn that the damage Ihus sustained by the buildings of this national institution is estimated at above £ 800 . — London Paper .

      Thames Office . ( Saturday . ) Murderous Assault nv a Brothel Kf . eper . —Mary Johnson , a big Irishwoman , the keeper of an infamous house , at No . 25 , Vinegar-laue , Sun Tavern-fields , St . George's , was charged with attempting to murder an unfortunate girl , named Sarah Maria Green , and breaking her head with a poker . It appeared in evidence that Green was a lodger in tho prisoner ' s house , and , in consequence of her having given notice to quit five weeks ago , the prisoner had frequently abused her , and had made a threat that " she would do for her , aud take herb y life . " On Thursday morning , tho prisoner began drinking , and got herself into a state of furious excitement ; the abused the prosecutrix for some time , and said

      she was determined to finish her before the sun weut down . The girl said she wanted to have no words with her , and the prisoner , after beating her , left home , and got more drink . She returned in a violent passion , and went into the room where Green was , and took up a black-handled knife , and made a thrust at the girl ' s breast with it . Another female , named Thodey , who was present , took the knife from her , and Green escaped from the prisoner ' s reach . In the ovening , Green and Thodey were taking their tea in the same room , when the prisoner sent out Thodey on an errand , and , during her absence , she called to Green at the bottom of the stairs , and said she wanted her to come down and take a pinch of snuff with her . Green went down stairs , and had no sooner reached the prisoner's room door than 8 he received a dreadful blow on the head from a puker , winch Johnson had concealed under her apron ; The girl fell down , and she

      received another blow on tho head , which rendered her insensible , and she did not recover for some time . When she came to her recollection she found herself bleeding profusely , and the blood , to use her own words , " was gushing from her head like a fountain . " Thodey made her appearance at the window just ' as Green received the blow , and called upon the prisoner to open the street door , which she refused to do . Thodey broke the windows , and attempted to force an entry , when the prisoner flung a knife at her , which stuck in her hand and cut it . When the prisoner was taken into custody , she told the policeman that she had smashed tho girl ' s head with a poker , and would do s 6 again if she could get at her . Mr . Ballantine said he should send the case before a jury , and make the prisoner answer for tho dreadful assault she had committed on the girl , whom she had attempted to deprive of life . He wauld hear the evidence of the surgeon on Monday , and then send the prisoner for trial .

      Guildhall , London , Saturday . —Robbery and the Knife . —John Connor and Patrick Murphy , two of a gang of notorious thieves , who infest the neighbourhood of Smithfield , were oharged with assaulting and stabbing George Coleman . ^ - The prosecutor stated that ho was a compositor by trade , and resided in the Borough . He was passing through Smithfield with a friend , between 11 and 12 o ' clock on the previous evening , when they observed the two prisoners , in company with several others , deliberately rob a man , and divide the spoil amongst them . He gave information to the police of the robbery , but in the interim the person who had been robbed went away . The two prisoners followed witness , and asked him what he meant by giving the information , and almost instantaneously he was surrounded by the whole gang , and knocked down . A woman , who was of

      the party , struck him on the head , and Murphy drew a knife , and stabbed him in the thigh . The police came up at the moment , and the prisoners were taken into custody . Complainant ' s friend , who gave the name White , corroborated this evidence , and stated that the whole gang had behaved towards him in the must brutal manner . Police-oonstaDlc Morris , 327 D , stated that the prisoners were the most desperate of the gang , and it was with great difficulty he secured and took them to the station-house . He produced the knife , and tho trousers of the prosecutor , which were saturated with blood . They were both well known , and bad frequently bean in custody upon charges of felony . Tho prisoners , who , during the whole investigation , tehavod with the greatest levity , and denied the charge , were fully committed to Newgate for trial .

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      The Ministrt . — Crushed Lumps . "—Since their last dieastrons defeat on the question as to tho reduction of the duties on sugar , Ministers hare received the significant cognomen of" crushed lumps . ' ' The above facetious idea being communicated the other day to a waggish ycung gentleman , he very smartly rejoined , " Yes , and I understand the duties are Very soon to be taken off them . " Alleged Murder and Suicide . —On Saturday morning a good deal of excitement was created in the neighborhood of Seal-street , Bpthnal Green , by the commission of self-murder by a man named Freeman , during the prenediDg night . It appears

      that for some time past Freeman had behaved with great brutality towards his wife , and some recent illusage brought on premature labour , and ultimately , as it is alleged , caused her death . His brutal conduct towards his wife was well known to many persons in the neighbourhood , and the circumstance of the death of the latter being generally talked about , they reached the ears of the parish beadle , who felt it to be hi 9 duty to forward them to the Coroner , and an inquest was expected to bo holden . The husband , fe-iriug , as it is supposed , the consequences of the inquiry , terminated his own existence by hanging himself on Friday night , and was found quite dead .

      The Packed Anti-Corn Law Meeting at Manchester . —The Manchester Chronicle of Saturday has tha following short and pithy article relative to the recent " -jp . « W « i / " meeting m Manchester to assist Ministers in their fraudulent free-trade agitation : — ' The Packed Meeting .- —In the proceeding * , at the Police Commissioners' meeting , our readers will find ample confirmation of tho statements made as to thu packed meeting of last week . With regard to the attendance of police iu Such formidable strength , we learn that the Mayor certified Sir Charles Shaw that he apprehended a riot J What ground , we a ^ k , had the Mayor for this outrageous insult to 'the inhabitants \ Id he a lit person to entrust with the command cf the hall , if ho can trump up such calumnies as these lo procure an excuse for shutting the public out ?"

      A Haunted House . — ' On Wednesday afternoon , the ancient house of Bargarrau , famous in the history oi' Scotch witchcraft , was struck with lightning . After striking the top of one of the vents , displacing the cope stones , aud tearing-up a portion of the roof , tho electric fluid descended the chimney , and broke to pieces a Carron grate in ouo of the rooms . Mr . William Houston , a farmer , the occupant , was sitting in this same apartment at the time , and was so much stunned with the shock , that considerable time dapped before ho recollected himself . After this damage , tho subtle iiaid ran along a passage ,

      and appeared to have got communicated with iha same staacasro along which the famous maid of liargarran was represented as being carried by the invisible Mi » ggy Lang , without touching : he steps . In this pashuge of the electricity one of the steps was broken . As was to be expected , Mr . Houston ' : ) family anu the neighbourhood have been greatly alarme i , and as the superstition of their forefathers is not yet altogether eradicated from the minds of tho people of this district , a glimmering fear thac the event is connected with older deeds has passed over more minds than either one or two inErskino parish . —Gluspow Chronicle .

      Aj . armi . ng and Destructive Fire in Birmixgham — BiitHiiXGiiAM , Friday , May 28 . —A most alarming and disastrous conflagration took placo in this town last night . About five o ' clock p . m . the inhabitants of Broad-street , one of the busiest thorouusifarca and most manufacturing districts of the town wore suddenly disturbed in their avocations by a . report that a fire had broken out upon the premises of Air . W . Iliff <> , an extensive coach-builder , carrying on business in lhat locality . It appears , that about the hour above mentioned the workmen in Mr . Ihfi' / s employ were engaged in a yard betv / ceu tiio front show-room and back workshop in " ringing , " as it is termed , or fixing the tire of a carriage-wheel , and tho fire at which tho tire wa 3

      heated being unusually high , communicated with a quantity of timber in a yard immediately adjoining , belonging to Mr . Bolton , a highly respectable and very extensive timber merchant . Seeing that the coniined situation of Mr . Bolton ' s yard prevented tho efficient working of tho engines , it was determined to destroy a long outer wall fifteen feet high , and every description of " battering-ram" was used tor this purpose . Unfortunately , after a protracted assault , the wall ,- contrary to expectation , fell outwardly , aud several of the police were Boverely injured . The damage done to dwelling-houses , factories , tho timber-yard , and other property , 13 estimated at from £ 12 , 009 to £ 14 , 000 , the greater part of which is insured , but many parties will be very heavy sufferers .

      Learned Dogs . —A meeting of the Zoological Society was lately held in Leicester-square , and a Frtnch gentleman , named Leonard , was introduced by Mr . Yarrell , with two dogs of the pointer breed , which ho had trained so successfully that he could make them do almost anything they were bidden . M . Leonard proceeded to give some specimens of the education of his canine pupils . Ho holds that they have intelligence , reflection , memory , and comparison . One is called Philax , and the other Braque , and they performed such feats a 3 would make all the * ' learned pigs" of the universe " hide their diminished heads . " A variety of things were placed

      upon the floor , such as a glove , a handkerchief , &c . ; and the dogs , on being shown a corresponding object , would bring it to their master , or take it to any part of the room they might bo desired . The numerals from one to nine , were al ? o placed on the floor , and having been shifted in any direction , the dogs would bring in their mouth any number mentioned . They would lie down in a passivo and chagrined state , or bound about the room with every demonstration of joy , according to the bidding of their master ; and they would obey the commands of persons they had never seen before , provided they were addressed in the French language , and received their master ' s permission .

      The Metropolitan District in 1840 . —No less than 70 , 717 individuals were taken into custody last year , arid according to the returns in tho police sheet , there were—labourers generally , 18 . 105 ; artisans , 121 ; bakers , 141 ; bookbinders , 218 ; bricklayers , 908 ; brassfoundflrs , 287 ; brokers , 91 ; brushmakers , 14 f ) ; butcher .- - , 754 : buttonmakers , 10 ; carpenters , 1 , 523 ; clerks , 405 ; coach and cabmen , 1 , 319 ; coachmakers , 273 ; corkcutters , 92 ; curritrs , 151 ; cutlers , 159 ; drapers , 138 ; dyers , 220 ; engineers , 101 ; lishmonsers , 202 ; French-polishers , 709 ; gardeners , 523 ; glassmakers , 155 ; goldbeaters , 88 ; green-grocers , 85 ; grocers , 247 ; hairdressers ,

      142 ; hatters , 196 ; jewellers , 178 ; lawyers , 29 ; laundresses , 1 , 040 ; medical men , 72 ; milliuers , 1 , 091 ; musicians , 69 ; painters , 1 , 111 ; paper staincrs , 431 ; pawnbroker * , 71 ; printers , 509 ; sailors , 1 , 681 ; 6 awyers , 246 ; s ; iddlers , &c , 181 ; servants , 2 , 5 t >' 3 ; shopkeepers , 107 ; shoemakers , 1 , 967 ; smiths , 1 , 143 ; soldiers , 40 ' 4 ; sweeps , 300 ; tailors , 2 , 043 ; tinkers and tinmen , 418 ; toolmakers , 56 ; watchmakers , 203 ; watermen , 280 ; weavers , 740 ; and persons professing no distinct trade or occupation , male and female as above , amounted to 25 , 220 . The above table also shows the degree of instruction of each person so taken into custody . Tho = ! e who could neither read nor write amounted to

      23 . 938 ; those who could read only , or read and write imperfectly , were 37 , 551 ; those who could read and write well , 8 . 121 ; and those of superior instruction , were 1 , 107 : thus showing , that in proportion to education , crime diminished . Ireland . —Another awful Assassination . —This country is disgraced by another horrible murderanother inoffensive gentleman has been sacrificed ; the blood of Mr . Hall ; snot dry in Tipperary , when more innocent blood is shed in Wexford . I regret to announce that Mr . Robert Butler Bryan , of Wexford , has been murdered . At five o'clock , on Thursday cveuicg , ho was riding in the woods which form part of his demesne , formerly the see lands of the suppressed bishopric of Ferns , which

      he held in perpetuity under the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , when he was waylaid and brutally assassinated . He had but a few minutes previously parted from his steward , when that individual hea-d a shot fired , and saw his ( Mr . Bryan ' s ) horse running without his master . Suspecting that some accident had happened to Mr . Bryan , he went in search of him , and soon found his lifeless body , two balls having passed through it . Besidos him lay the envelope of a letter addressed to him , but not containing any writing in the interior , which gives rise to the suspicion that the person who perpetrated the revolting deed was a stranger , and resorted to the stratagem of delivering , as it were , a letter to Mr . Bryan , to b « 6 ure of his identity . Who was Mr . Bryan I is a question naturally suggested by the melancholy event . Was he what agitators call a Tory and an . Orangeman ? No , he was what they

      also call a Liberal in politics , connected with Mr . Evans , member of Parliament for the county of Dublin , Lord Talbot , and the Putland family . Ho was also one of the honorary secretaries of the Royal Dublin Society . What was his offence 1 He found it necesfary to dispossess two or three tenants who held leases under the late Bishop of Ferns , and refused to renew with them or surrender the land they held . He was compelled in his own defence to bring ejectments against them and dispossess them . He was one of the best landlords in Ireland , the prop of hundreds of labourers , the benefactor of numerous families , expending , as he did , between £ 50 and £ 60 a week in labour alone ; he was amiable and inoffensive . His sole crime was to dispossess refractory tenants , and thus protect his property . —— Correspondent in the Murning Herald .

      Musder near Dublin . —On Wednesday , the S 6 ih ult ., at r . oon , Mr . Hall , a merchant of Dublin , was murdered in the vicinity of his own residence , near Borris-o ' -Kane . Mr . Hall is declared to have been of excellent private character , and very popular with the people on account of his Liberal political principles . An excited state of the popular feeling , arising from a recent adoption of the depopulating systvm by certain landlords in the district , has been the only cause suggested for the crime . Mr . Hall , however , is not alleged to have been ia any way concerned with these proceedings .

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      New Interpretations . ——Treadmill- —A . retired place for the accommodation of those addicted to appropriation . Misery—The life of an ill-requited editor . Independence—A strong determination to place yourself where you are not wanted . Tempest —Something which comas to married people after the honeymoon . . Merit—That which rsceives no praise . Gratia—An ugiy hole in the ground , which lovers and poets wish they were in , but take uncommon pains to keep out of . Modesty—A beautiful flower that flourishes only in secret places . Sensibility—A , quality by wliich its possessor , in attempting to promote the happiness of other people , loses his own . , 4 Young Man of Talent . —An impertinent scoundrel who thrusts himself forward : a

      writer of execrable poetry : a person without modesty : a noisy fellow : a speech-maker . Lawyer—A learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemy , and keeps it himself . My Deur ^ -An expression used by man and wife at the commencement of a quarrel . Increasing Power-ob the Chartists .- —We never denied that the Chartists had a perfect right to arm themselves , or that , under certain circumstances , they would not be justified—according to tho theory of the Constitution—in having recourse to physical force ; but we always considered , and late experience has proved that we were correct , that so numerous and powerful a body could exercise a moral force sufacicut to obtain all their just demands . We suggested that the Chartists should employ their money and numerical power in getting a Parliamentary influence . The press had effectually served them , and two or three members scut into St . Stephen ' s we were . aware would have been worth one

      hundred useless demonstrations . They havo lately acted upon our advice—have not beeu idle at the hustings , and their exertions have ¦ already told in Parliament . Upon tho division the other night for tho liberation of tho incarcerated Chartist ? , the Ministers had to borrow tho vote of the Speaker to carry their point , the numbers being even , notwithstanding that Mr ., Attorney-General Pigott and Tom Wyse voted that political offenders should be treated as felons . The Whigs have since liberated a number of their victims ; but after such a division , and with professions of liberality upon their lips , will they keep 4 single Chartist in his dungeon ? No , no ; we cannot think so meanly of them as to imagine them capable of such conduct . They have surpassed the Tories , who never put a political offender upon tho tread-mill , or obligrd him to herd with felons ; and let them now not be ashamed to make some reparation for practices 50 much at varianca with thoir avowed principles . — World .

      aovel Combat . —Most of those , in the hahit of visiting Pittville , ate aware that the state-y ]> u . ir of Swans inhabitingthe lake , have recently been blessed with a brood of cygnets . The care of she parent bird over the young ' ones was strikingly fkuroplided on Sunday List—a gentieriian visiting the gardens with a lar # : Newfoundland dog , the anicml either in sport or with some evil designs against tho pea < io of the infant brood , jumped into the water and began making his way towards them . The old birds , seeing tho approach of such a dangerous enemy , proceeded to convey their family away from the scene of action , the male bird , however , with becoming galiautry ,

      bringing up th « rear . Encouraged by this apparent flight , the dog mended his pace , till the old swan , seriously alarmed for the safety of his mate and infant progeny ; faced about , and by one dextoi-ous manoeuvre , sprang from tho water and perched hiuiself on his abiailant ' sbacfe , completely sinking him , till the dtg seeing nothing else for it but flight , dived to a considerable distance , and on regaining the surface made the best of hi ^ way * o the bank , and across the hedge home , regardless of the whistle of hi 3 mastor ^ . Satisfied with the success of his prowess—the beautiful bird arched his neck , and sailed majesticalfy to where his convoy had retreated . Cheltenham Examiner .

      The Bulletkd Skull of an Old Soldier . — We have just inspected a skull , bavin ;; no less than eight or nine swau shot , or their remains , imbedded in tho forepart of the head . But the most singular feature which this curiosity presents is , that iu the internal part , forming the concave of the apex , and far from being-opposite' to the external bullets , are portions of projecting metal , aoparontly lead , favouring the presumption that they aro shot of some dimensions , which havo been received externally at the same time . The , * knll was dug up by the SiXton in Tarporloy churchyard ., during the progress of excavation , about six weeks ago . The probability is , that the person to whom this relic of antiquity belonged was a volunteer , from . Tarporlcy , and was engaged

      during the siege of Beeston Castle , in the reign of Charles I ., about the middle of the 17 th century . That so many large shot should have been found in a skull is not matter of so great surprise ; but that the individual who received them should have lived so many years afterwards , ( as is demonstrated by all the sutures of the head being nearly obliterated , ) is singularly wonderful to the anatomist , as well a 3 to the ordinary observer . Accurate drawings have been made by Mr . Musgrave , a native artist , beautifully representing a side , as well as a front view , of the subject of this paragraph . We hopo the above rarity will be deposited in some museum , for the purpose of preservation . May we name the . Chester Water Tower , as the nearest in this locality ?—Chester Chronid'e .

      Sudden Death of an Officer in the Guards . —On Monday afternoon an inquest was held at tho Burlington Arms , Old Burliugion-street , on view of the body of John Bolton , Esq ., aged 32 , a major in tho 7 ch dragoon guards . It appeared from the evideuoe , that about six o ' clock on Friday evening last , deceased engaged a room at the Burlington Hotel , where he andsevbralof his friends were weil known . Deceased went out to the club ( 'he United Service , ) to dinner , and returned to tho Burliugton Hotel about eleven at night , when he immediately retired to rest , desiring not to be called in the morning , as he would ring the bell when he wanted any attendance . The chambermaid not knowing this , but conceiving by the door being unlocked that the

      deceased had quitted bis room , went in about eleven in the morning to make his bed , but immediately left the room again , seeing that deceased was still in bed , and , as she believed , fast asleep . She went up again about three in the afternoon , and finding deceased in the same state , she called the waiter , who instantly ascertained that deceased was dead . Medical aid was procured , and the surgeon said that death had taken place many hours previously . It had been caused by pressure of blood on the brain . The jury , being fully satisfied upon this point , returned a verdict that deceased "Died by the visitation of God . " The inquest-room was crowded with the brother officers of deceased , by whom he was highly esteemed and respected .

      Double Suicide foe Love—We some time since gave an account of tho murder and suicide of a young man and a Spanish girl , of whom he had become enamoured . It was said that he had entered her room and killed her with a pistol , and afterwards shot himself , but this proves not to have been correct . The father of tho young man , whose namo was Henry Gocural d'Arcy , has written to the journals to state that no murder had been committed by his son . That the deaths of both parties was the work of theif own hands , agreeable to an arrangement , in order that , as they could not be united in this world , they would not be separated . The following is the letter written by the young man to hi 3 father , just before committing the fatal deed : —

      " Paris , April 9 , 1841 . —Forgive me , my good father , the grief which the receipt of this letter will give you . The love , or rather the sentiment of frenzy , " ' hich I feel for a young Spaniard named Soleda Quesada ; the jealousy , the fear of seeing her in the arms of another , are tho causes which prompt us to commit the act ' which we are about to do . Judge of my feelings for her , when I tell you , that I , only yesterday escaped fighting a duel for her with a rival . The reading of this letter ¦ will be so painful to you , that I wish to abridge it as much as possible . I have a few debts , of which I give you a list below . I set out with Soleda for probably a better world , and where we shall live for each other . What a happiness . We die by each other ' s hand . Adieu 1

      my good father , pardon me once more . '—This letter was put into the post about an hour before tho act was committed , and was written with a steady hand . Napier and th& Electors of Marylebone . — An attempt is now being made by the ministerial party to return Poor Law Napier for the borough of Marylebone , and , for this purpose , they are engaging all the pot-house saloons , both in and around the said borough , in order that he may " address the electors , &c , " and solicit their support . On Thursday , the 20 th inst ., he commenced his campaign by " addressing " (?) tho electors , < fcc , of Marylebone at the Yorkshire Stingo , New-road ; tke " gallant admiral" was received with the most terrific yells of disapprobationbeing defeated by the middle

      , class electors themselves . Napier and his party betook thnmselves to the forlorn hope ot soliciting the " suffrages " of those very " ignorant , " ?» unwashed , " and unenfranchised labourers , &c , they had hitherto endeavoured to avoid coming in contact with , and for this purpose they announced a public meeting to takoplace in the saloon of the King and Queen Tavern , Paddington Green , on the following Monday , at 7 , p . m . ; in the meantime the friends of the Tory party ( Mr . Young , &c . who promises to aid in repealing the atrocious Poor Laws , liberating the Chartist victims , and extending the Suffrage , &c , &c . ) " billed the town" with superior printed placards , telling the electors of Marylebone , &c ,

      that they wished for a continuation of the damnable bastile system , to give Admiral Napier their greatest support . Wednesday , the 26 th , another meeting was held in Paddington , ( Royal Oak , Pickering Terrace , Westbourne Road , ) at the same time aa the former , viz , 7 o ' clock . The Admiral said he would support the present Poor Laws to the utmost extent of his power , —( disapprobation)—as they were just » nd equal —( renewed , disapprobation ) ;—and although he had been absent four years , and was not personally acquainted (?) with one man in that borough , he knew the people of Marylebone were delighted with them ! This assertion , of course , met with a perfect yell of "No's , " hearing which , the Admiral said , " WeU . I only hewd of a . "

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 5, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct709/page/3/