The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-10 00:00:00

MORN ING EDITION

THE PEERS AND THE BREAD

TAX.

No sooner does a man enter the House of Lords than
he grows oblivious of all the principles, professions, and
pledges of his former life. To pass into the Upper
House is like migrating into another state of existence.
No sooner does the coronet press the brow of a free-
trader than his head is filled with antiquated dreams
about monopolies and restrictions on commerce. Two
Utstanoes of this kind of political metempsychosis have
presented themselves to the admiring eyes of the
country during the last week. The late Mr. Spring
Rice and Mr. Baring have been exhibiting tham-
selves in their new characters of Lord Mont-
eagle and Lord Ashburton. Tbey have, of course,
come out in opposition to the evidence on the import
duties, and in opposition to their former selves. Tney
speak lightly of such men as Deacon Hume and Mr.
M'Gregor, and, of course, of the late Mr. Rice and
Mr. Baring I Nobody will quarrel with them upon the
I itter score, but some people may doubt whether par-
venu Peers, or veteran Secretaries of the Board of
Trade, are the best judges of questions of ,lommercial
policy. People may be found inquisitive enough to in-
quire how long these noble oracles have entertained
their present views upon import duties. In order
to save the curious in such small matters a little
time and labour, we shall remind them that Lord
Ashburton is the same Mr. Baring who opposed the
Corn Bill of 1815 so fiercely that Mr. Huskisson
charged him with being the author of the riots and
bloodshed that ensued ; he is also the same Mr.
Baring who, in 1825, complained that Mr. Huakis-
son did not go far enough in his measures of
free trade. Mr. Baring was then a merchant, and in
favour of cheap bread ; he is now a landlord out of
trade, and he is for a dear loaf. My Lord is known by
the title of breeche:Tocket Baring! Who does not
recollect the late Chancellor of the Exchequer saying,
in his parting speech, that the Corn-law had caused all
his financial.' troubles? Metamorphosed into Lord
Monte igle, the same Mr. Chancellor Rice will now, in
the natural course of things, become an advocate of the
Co:n-law

The people act upon their knowledge of the incurable
infection that seizes upon the Members of the House of
Peers, and therefore they do not trouble theist with pe-
titions in favour of free trade,—Anti-Corn-law Circular.

LANDLORD AND TENANT IN

IRELAND.

At the last meeting of the Repeal Association, Mr.
O'Connell made a powerful speech on the hardships to
wlecit tee.alts are subjected in Ireland, and the evils of
absenteeism. It embodies also some curious tables, by
Professor Forbes, of Edinburgh, which Mr. O'Connell
adduces in proof of the superiority of his countrymen.
After some introductory remarks, he thus proceeds:—
There must be somethieg dune for the tenant : hereto-
fore, all was done for the landlord—every new act was
made in his favour, and every facility was given him to
possess the property of the tenant, without the slightest
compensation for any improvement he bud made. or fur
capital expended. It i 3 the tenant who makes the land
productive; without him it would be of no value to the
landlord, and something should be done to stimulate him
to make exertions to render improvements permanent,
and the land more fertile. Bnt this can never be done
whilst he is at the mercy of the landlord, to be
turned out a beggar on the world for no cause,
perhaps, but that he does not coincide with him
in politics. Hear, hear, and cheers.) It is a feet
that a great portion of the fee-simple of Ireland is vested
in absentees, and it is equally true that more than nine-
tenths of those absentee rents are spent out of the country.
Now, I want to put a stop to this—l want to have the
rents drawn from the lands spent amongst us, so as to in-
crease our wealth and give employment to the people. It
is calculated that four millions of absentee rents are ex-
ported to England and spent there or on the Continent.
Now, if we had these four millions spent et home they
would give profitable employment to every man able to
work in the country. One of the chief objects of Repeal
is to bring back this money and have it circulated at home
where it was produced; and I repeat again that that sum,
even to the owners of it, could be profitably laid out at
home, and it would not leave a single labourer or artizen
unemployed in the country.—(Hear, hear.) See the im-
mense sums that are taken away wholly beyond the hope
of the producers of it ever getting back a shilling of it
again ; whereas if spent at home it would, in many cases,
find its way back to the original producers, and mul-
tiply, and make the country rich in its progress.
There is the Marquis of Hertford, who draws thirty-
six thousand a-year out of Ireland—the Duke of De-
vonshire, fifty or sixty thousand a-year, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, thirty or forty thousand—Lord Fitzwilliam.
forty or fifty thousand—with various other noblemen and
gentlemen, who all take large sums away to make the
people of other countries happy and prosperous, and to
create a similar number of paupers in Ireland, from whence
that wealth has been derived. This is a state of things
that no good man should wish to see continue; and, if we
had no other impulse to direct us in the cause of Repeal,
this of itself would be sufficient.—( Hear, hear, and cheers. )
It is a remarkable fact that there is no country in the
world of the same extent where there are so few landed
proprietors as in Ireland. I believe the number does not
exceed ten thousand out of a population of upwards of
eight millions. In one district of Holland, which is
only about one-third of the size of Ireland, there are
379,000 actual proprietors of land, whilst. in Ireland
we have only about 10,000, whereas, if we had tise
same proportion of landed proprietors that there are
in Holland, we would have 1,137,000.—( Hear, hear.)
Those would be persons wholly independent of ti:e
landlords—they would be their own landlords, paying
rent to nobody; and, if frugal and industrious, they
would be happy and prosperous in proportion.
If, from 10,000 with large properties, having miserable
serfs under them dependent on their will, we were to have
the number increased to 1,137,000, men living on theer
own properties in a state of happiness and independence,
what a country Ireland would be ! I hope that this is no
dream, but that we shall live to see the glorious reality of
what we so ardently hope for, and what would make our
country happy and prosperous beyond ti,e fondest antici-
pations of her most ardent lovers.—( Cheers.) I know
that there are brighter and happier days in store for the
virtuous and faithful people of Irelend.—(Continued
cheers.) In the letter which appeared in the Morning
Paper alluded to, the writer says that a new society should
be organised to take the subject of landlord and tenant
into consideration. Now, I don't like too many new
Societies, and I think the one we have already—namely,
the Repeal Association—is quite competent for that pur-
pose. and it is one of the objects which is ought to have
in view as auxiliary to the Repeal agitation.—( Cheers. )
We will show the peasantry that they have a deep in-
terest in aiding us in our struggle to obtain legislative
independence for their country, for one of the first re-
su'ts of it would be to put an end to that sys!ern, the
evils of which I have merely glanced at, and which
have pressed so severely upon the agricultural populat on
of the whole country. My intcntion is, that a portion of the
Repeal Association should be dev ,led to this subject ; lh ,t
we should have a separate roll, called Volunteers, whose
duty it will be to watch over the interests of the tenants, and
to endeavour to obtain such a change in the law as will give
them fixity of tenure, and compensation for improvements,
where it is necessary that they should surrender their hell.
ings. These Volunteers will not be physical-force men, but
they will be for the purpose of bringing moral force to hear
against one of the greatest evils that ever efiliete I this or
54j other country. Every man who subscribes 10/., or who
collects 101., will be a member of the Volunteers. That
sum may be deemed too large in amount, but for the pre-
sent we will keep it at that standard, though it may be les-
sened hereafter. Their duties need not, however, be con-
fined to the question of landlord and tenant. They will be
bound to accumulate our funds, by making such arrang
merits as will give permanency and effect to the collectien
of the Repeal rent, which will ba the criterion whether the
people of Ireland are anxious for their legislative indepen-
dence or not. It is melancholy to think that the only coon-
try oa the earth with five millions of inhabitants, 'that is
without a local government, is Ireland.—( Hear.) There ie
hardly one of the colonies or dependencies of the British
Crown that has not its local legislature, and yet Ireland, a
mighty nation, with nearly nine millions of inhabitants, is
to remain in the state of a miserable previece.—( Hea-,
bear.) Canada, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island,
Jamaica, and even Guiana, have all their local Perli
ments, and who will tell me that Ireland is to be without
one ? Even in Botany Bay, where the transports are sent
to, they hare an independent Government, but Ireland is
to remain without a Parliament to legislate for her own
people. We don't want an independent Government ;
are better and more secure bound to England by the golden
link of the Crown ; we are content with a monarchy, and
would be very sorry it should ever be disturbed ; but what
we want, and we will never cease t,ll we have it, is a do-
rne3tic legislature, giving us control over our own money,
and putting an end to that monstrous evil, a perpetual ab-
sentee drain.—(Cheers.) It may he asked why it is that
Ireland, having such resources within herself, and such ca-
pabilities for self-government, should have remained so
long in the condition of a miserable and degraded province,
and that she is the only country under heaven, with such
extent of territory and such a population, that is wit:l-
out her own legislature? It may be hard to account for
it, and I believe the only way it can be rationally accounted
for is by saying that this, with many other misfor-
tunes, of which she has been the victim, are all owing to
dissensions amongst her own sons. There was first the
dissension that arose from the feuds between the English
and " mere Irish," as they were called, whilst the farmer
were struggling for ascendancy over the natives ; and
when both parties became so amalgamated, that the Irish
and English could hardly have been known from each
other ; then came the dissensions and persecutions upon
the score of religion; the English having embraced a new
One, which they sought to enforce upon the Irish by per-
secutiou and penal enactments that were a disgrac to
mankind. That dissension, upon the score of religion,
has been kept up for three hundred years ; and elthouelt
the force of public opinion caused the penal code to e
ere re_
pealed, still private malignity and senseless divni ,ns on
exist with as much force and
account of religion seem to
vigoUr as ever they did ; and, as if to add to the disse --
sension, we have filthy Chartism introduced amongst us.
But that is not worth alluding to—it will receive no coun-
tenance from the Irish people. Let there be no more of
those foolish dissensions which have brought with them no-
thing but misery and ruin to our common country. The time
is come for a universal rally, when Irishmen of every
class and creed should unite to make their common
country prosperous and happy. There is nothing to pre-
vent Ireland taking her proper station amongst the nations
of the world—there is nothing in the constitution of her
people morally or physically to prevent them from en-
joying the rights which every other people on the face
of the earth are in possession of is nothing about
them to render them inferiorto any other country under
heaven. On the contrary,, it has br ly proved
( /
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Age. English. , Scotch. Irish. Be'glans.
15 ... 280 ... 204
16 336 314 ... 236
17 352 340 369 260
18 j 364 360 3i19 280
19 378 378 404 296
20 385 392 416 310
21 392 402 423 322
22 397 410 427 330
23 401 417 430 335
24 402 421 431 337
25 403 423 432 339
" The same relations are bare preserved as in the pre-
iou4 tables, and as, with respect to weight and height at
east, there could be no mistake, the probability that the

" The same relations arc here preserved as in the pre-
vious tables, and as, with respect to weight and height at
least, there could be no mistake, the probability that the
last table is correctiis much strengthened by the confor-
mity in question. The diff rence between the Irish and
Belgians :s immense, the former exceeding the latter in
strength by nearly one-fourth ; while between the Eng-
lish and Belgians there is also a great difference, amount-
ing to 62 pounds. The English, in Peron's table, showed a
lumbar strength equal to about 3671b5., a point consider-
ably below that of the English in Professor Forbes's table.
But we might expect such a difference between students
and sailors, or stout colonists, which latter classes were those
examined by Peron. Between the Scotch and Irish the
difference is small comparatively. It is much to be wished
that the example of the Edinburgh Professor were exten-
sively followed, both abroad and at home, so as to give us
satisfactory views of the relative physical powers of the
different European nations. Such questions, as already
hinted, will be found to bear m ire directly on the prospe-
city of nations than has hitherto been commanly imagined.*
Let those who copy what I have now read, remember
that it is no creation or assertion of mine--that the expe-
riments were made by a Scotch philosopher, who would be
naturally anxious to place his own country in the most
favourable point of view, but who clearly proves that even
in point of physical powers we are superior to any of the
other people of Europe. Our moral superiority and reli-
gious fidelity have been admitted even by our enemi 's—
our physical superiority is here proved by one of the first
natural philosophers of the present age ; and I ask you are
such a people to remain in a state of inferiority, unknown
to any other country in the. world ?—(Cries of No, no.)
No, a thousand times no I we shall not remsio a deerad, d
and pitiful province. We have the giant's strength, and
it is well to know we hate it, and still better to know how
to use it. We will use it against the enemies of the
Queen, and protect Ireland against every invade-. R,
member, I have shown you that in religions fide'i'y, no
country under heaven has been equal to Ireland—the
people of every country generally go with the Government
ioaquestions of religion, but there is one exception, and one
y, and that is Ireland—the Government petoecuted
thu people of Ireland by every meons, even the most
crel that could be devised, in order to make them com-
ply with the religion of the State ; but, as I ha c sail, the
people disregarded that persecution, arid came out of it
more numerous than they went into it. When I was
born, a Catholic could not be a judge, a lawyer, an at-
torney, a recorder of a city, a freeman of a city, a com-
mon councilman—he could hold no situation in any of
the courts, hanks, or public offices—he could not be
even a bailiff, a gamekeeper.—He could not, except by
sufferance, be a private in the army. All, everything,
was given into the hands of the State' religion: a Catho-
lic could not have a horse worth over 51., for if he had, his
Protestant neighbour had oily to offer that sum for him,
and although he were worth 1001. he should get him ;
and if he hid the horse to prevent the cupidity of his
neighbour from being excited, he could be fined in three
times the amount of his value. Yet, all that barbarous
and savage crusade against the religion of the Dish peo-
ple was unavailing—they despised alike profit and rewaad
on the one band, and the most bitter persecution on the
other; they passed through the orde.l faithful and true,
withoutr even attempting to persecute in return on account
o
wr ehenligwionuasrobeltiheef,morosctontrori,:l and faithfultingonesingle,a
swell a
offence3 'Then,the
tallest and strongest people in Europe, why should we re-
main in a state of degrading info iority ? I toll you be-
fore that when the Irish character was assailed in the
House of Commons, Lord Morpeth stood up to defend the
people: he spoke in terms that need not be here repeated
of the purity of the Irish females and the morality and en-
durance of the Irish people.—( Loud cheers.) And much
I ween did they need endurance, for, from the days of
Spenser, down even unto our own, the subject of the hopes
and thoughts of our enemiea has been to crush, degrade,
and insult our country. The Irish of yore were wont at
certain seasons, to take refuge in their fastnesses from fo.
reign invaders, Spen4cr—the inspired Spenser—is was
who said " there is but one hope for crushing thair rebel-
lious spirit." It WftS this—to destroy their itihatr. plan wasvestanrivalalp:
y
—( Groans.) Aye, you may groan
proved of and adopted. Year offer year, in July or June,
when the golden harvcrt teemed with promise, while the
;cla-
d
ill-fated Irish were immured in their fastnesses the spoiler_e
was let loose to scatter famine, wretchedness, and
lion through a " smiling land." For five long yearsrnin n
urn.;
remittingly was the pitiless havoc spiesd, and
from heaven, but from man, overran the land, till, accord-
ing to the detail of an authentic writer, the dead men
were found lying ore their fac:•s pi'ei in the ditches by
the was siale, their livid mouths g:cen from devouring the
grass of the fields in the desperate rage of hunger; and
the child was found on the breast of the dead mother
vainly seeking there for that sustenance which had de-
parted from it for evermore—( Great sensation). Yea,
such was the system devised by Spenser—such the system
to which we have been subj,etei from Spenser down to
Nlorpeth. Yet, what is the nature of the men who have
been thus brutally treated ?—what their tendencies ? Who
would believe that we can exhibit a testimonial of virtue
and moderation unparalleled in the history of nations?
Who has not heard of Father Mathew, and his 5,000,000
of teetotallers, who have immolated their dearest pas-
sions,u sed to "li'LL,have given up everything they once were
without
lips?tholru,t,aday sigh, and scorn to raise the cup
oFfwhluexrurymatthaets:.landlion disciplemany mllio
Five ihrtse

* " We have been informed that the rnt re physical
power of the differcr,t companies of men to whom the
Duke of Wellington was opposed in his campaigns, was
always with him an object of serious consideration."

more will be yet enlist, till all Ireland shall have been
enrolled beneath his sway. Nor is this the only proof we
have on record to the honour of the Irish charecter.
It is a remarkable thing that no nation was ever so
prompt in embracing Christianity as Ireland. A century,
or half a century at the least, was the period which gene -
rally elapsed from the first introduction to the establishment
of Christianity in a nett : in Ireland it took five years to
establish Christianity.—( Cheers.) In five years from the
first introduction of the Gospel, every man, woman, and
child in the sea-girt isle worThipped the true God. And
remember, Father Mathew has been nothing at all like
that period in his holy work. Ere two years more are
over our heads the moral triumph will be complete, and all
Ireland, to a man, will be enrolled in his society. And am
I to be told that such a people as we, with all our plip.ieal
superiority, with all our moral superiority, with all our men-
tal superiority, are alone, of all the world, to be slaves, and
have no will of our own ?—( No, no.) England—our sister
in arms, our confederate, with ell my heare—bound let us
for ever be by this golden link--her bosom friend, her
partner, her companion—these, all these, will we be to her ;
but her slave—NevEa l—( Immense cheering)—no, nor
the slave of any country the sun illumines.—( Continued
cheer:.) Yes ; the words which now I utter I will pass
throughout the length and lir( adth of the land, and
throughout the length and breadth of the land I call upon
every Irishman to come and hear what the Scotchman says
of him.—( Great cheering.) In arts, literature, war, poli-
tics, poesy—in every branch of sublunary knowledge has
the Irishman obtained eminence in every land except his
own. While the Irishman was proscribed, mocked, and
insulted at borne, there was no eminence too high, no
glory too bright for hint not to attain in alien lands.
When Maria Theresa instituted ti.e order of " mili-
tary merit," which could only be conferred on the
soldier while still on the battle- field, out of fifty whom
she decorated forty-two were proscribed Irishmen.—( Great
cheering.) And, with all this high repute with
all this halo of glory, long obscured in the dark, dreary
night of persecution, but now, in pristine beauty, shed-
ding its effulgence round us, and beaming forth as the gol-
den sun bursts through the scattered clouds—is it now, I
ask, that I will despair of the liberty and independence of
my country ? Oh, no 1 I never despaired of her, and,
least of all; will I do so now.--( Loud cheering.) Forgiv-
ing all past injuries, forgetting all past sorrows, merging all
shades of sect and party, and looking forward only to the
future as big with hope and joy to all alike, Irishmen will
yet achieve liberty. Our country will not long continuo a
pitiful province—the time of her redemption is at hand__
the ages of her bondage are over; and I think I may safely
forbode her day of pride and independence corneal
( Immense cheering.)

CHARTIST LEADERS AND
BREAD-TAXERS.

(From the Anti-Corn-law Circular.)
Our only opponents latterly at public meetings have
been certain Chartist lecturers. These men had long
been objects of our suspicion, and we were in poss-li-
sion of numerous facts tending to prove them to be the
hired agents of the bread taxers ; but the disclosures
elicited upon oath before the Walsall Election Com-
mittee, have established the knavery of these men be-
yond a doubt. Our readers will recollect that on the
day before the nomination at Walsall, Nightingale, the
Chartist leader, made his appearance there, and at-
tempted to excite the people against Mr. Smith. We
stated in a former Circular, that he arrived at midnight
in company with one of Mr. Gladstone's party, that he
entered a carriage belonging to that gentleman's Com-
mittee, which was waiting for him at the station, and
that he proceeded straight to his inn at Walsall. We
will now fill up the history of this transaction, from the
report of the proceedings before the Walsall Election
Committee.
Mr. Samuel Patch was sworn, and, in the course of
his evidence, stated that—
" After his arrival at Walsall, and before the elec-
tion commenced, he was sent to Manchester, by the
directions of Mr. Charles Brooks, to bring up a person
named Nightingale, who was a Chartist leader. When
he received instructions about this affair, Mr. Brooks
was et the New Inn. Mr. Wilkins, Mr. James, and
Mr. Basset Smith, were pre(ent. Mr. Brooks told
witness to go to Mr. B irnet about the expense. Night-
ingale kept an inn at Manchester. He found him there,
and brought him to Walsall. When he spoke to Mr.
Brooks about the expense, that gentleman said, If you
will go to Mr. Bernet, he will give you a check for the
amount.' He went to Mr. Barnet and asked for the
amount for which Mr. Nightingale had agreed to come,
and the answer that Mr. Barnet gave was, that he had
nothing to do with it, and that the party who sent for
Mr. Nightingale must pay him, Previous to this he
had asked Mr. Barnet whether he was aware that
Nightingale had arrived, and he said, Yes, I have
given him a ticket to go on the hustings.' Nightingale
stayed at the New Inn until the day after the ciection,
in company with Mr. Wilkins, the barrister."
The reader must be reminded, that Nightingale is
the same man who headed a ruffianly assault upon the
anti-Corn-law deputies at the Corn Exchange, Man-
chester, two years ago, and who took the lead in cre-
ating a disturbance at the public town's meeting on the
19th ult. It should be stated, also, that Mr. Charles
Wilkins, the barrister, has long been the champion and
orator of the bread taxers (or Tories) in Manchester.
We need not offer any comments upon the above
facts, but shall merely add, that we ate in possession
of all the particulars of the bargain entered into be-
tween Mr. Patch and Nightingale, and we know the
exact sum of money for which the Chartist leader hired
himself to be taken to Walsall to assist in returning the
bread taxer.

We have, in this disclosure. an explanation of the
conduct, strange and unaccountable as it otherwise
would appear to be, of other Chartist leaders and mis-
sionaries. It has been a matter of surprise to our lec-
turers to perceive that they have been dogged and beset
in all parts of the kingdom by certain well dressed and
apparently well-fed persons, who, under the pretence of
advocating the people's charter, have, in reality, been
the defenders and supporters of the bread-tax. Theta
men have been ready to take a journey of a hundred
miles at any (time to oppose our lecturers. They have
made their appearance today in Leeds, to-morrow in
Leicester, and the following day in Manchester. An
whatever part of the kingdom an Anti-Corn-law move-
ment has taken place, these men have invariably made
their appearance to take the part of the bread-taxers,
under the pretence of advocating the Charter. Yes-
terday we received a letter from Great Torrington, De-
von, where an active Anti-Corn-law Association is giving
great annoyance to the bread-taxing Squirearchy, in-
forming us that a person calling himself a Chartist
lecturer had made his appearance there, and was trying
to dissuade the peasantry from petitioning against the
bread-tax. In London, Mr. Sidney Smith has been
persecuted by two or three individuals who have fol-
lowed hm, night after night, from Whitechapel to
M trylehone, from Peckham to Deptford, and into every
district and suburb of the metropolis. Wherever he
goes the same faces meet his eye and the same tactics
are pursued of creating disturbances, under the pretence
of advocating the Charter. Again and again has the
question been raised by our lecturers—by whom are
these men paid ? The mystery is solved by the dis-
closures before the Walsall El ction Committee. We
have not a doubt that those Chartist leaders and mis-
sionaries hire themselves out to the bread-taxers after
the manner of Nightingale. They are traitors in the
garb of patriotism, and are playing the same part as
the ()livers and Castles of other days. The spies of
twenty years ago did the work of their employers, by
tempting tlieir deluded followers to commit crimes
which conducted them to the gallows. whilst the Night-
ingales of our day try to inveigle their victinss into an
opposition to the Anti Corn-law party, by which the
bread-taxers are enabled to starve them.

But we Li ill not to an inj•istice by making a sweeping
charge against all who have prominently advocated the
Charter. Our remarks are not levelled at such indi-
viclu,ils as Colbw', Lovett, and Vincent ; we refer more
especisily to those men who are backed and retained
by the conductors of the Northern Star, the principal
proprietor of which • ne.vspaper, when in Parliament,
spoke and voted in favour of the bread t:tx. This paper
;8 one of the most insidious and strenuous upholders of
the food monopoly, and, whilst it is loud in its commen.
dations of those who oppose the a iti-Corn-law cause,
it is equally bitter in its attacks upon all who endet-
your to forward it. Nightingale is one of the heroes of
its pages, and his iitploits at Walsall were the theme of
its loudest plaudits.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday last an in-
quest was held at Sheepstor on the body of a young man
named Bowden, aged 21 years, a labourer at the Granite
Quarries on Dartmoor. From the evidence adduced, it
was shown the poor fellow's death was perfectly acciden-
tal. lie had been standing with some of his fellow work-
men at the bottom of the quarry by the side of a wag-
gon, on which a piece of granite weighing about two tons
was about to be placed ; the stone had been lowered by a
rra?,hine from the top of the quarry (about forty feet
above the ground where the men were standing), and
had reached the hind part of the waggon, when one of
the dogs which clawed th- stone slipped from its place,
and the stone fell suddenly upon the waggon. Frum the
sudden weight the holt which secured the waggon from
tipping, wai so bent that the waggon canted over, rolling
the stone over it,
which fell upon Bowden's side and
felled him to the ground. Several of the workmen at
the quarry immediat-ly attempted to rescue him, hut some
minutes el,ps.ed befole the stone could be taken off. He
died on his way to his tether's residence at Sheepstor.
The Jury returned a verdict of Accidereal Death, and
adjudged the slab to he forfeited to the Crown as a deo-
da:! .Devonport Journal.

'
THE CH ARTIST DICTATOR.—The Scotch
pay fifteen members at the
I?elbrnters' Gazette observes :-._." F(argus O'Connor calls
~,m, his quondam dupes to get up another convention, and
d e directsst
iy p
rthmenl i to
rate of 31)1. a-piece. But that they may be of his own
kidney—all 'up to the mark'—he names every one a
.n
thri ; and thus the groat advocate of the Charter, the
promising rthematithemowniellyto his own bankers,' no-
mighty universal-suff,-age man, would mak,- himself the
greatest boroughmonger that ever crawled."—llull Adver_

tiser.
A highly interesting service took place place in
Whitehall Chapel on Thursday. The Rev. Dr. Vincent
Gomez, the R.v. Adre P. Mello, from Li:bon, and the
Rev Padre di Minna, from the ki,iglom of Naoleq, made
a publ;c abjuration of t'ie faith of the Church of Rome, in
the presence of the Bishop of London and a numerous
congregation.—Tory Print.

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