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London, England, 1844-01-01 00:00:00

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LOWAY'S PILLS !—Mrs. Johnson, a lady of fortune, re-
siding in Regent's-park, had been for the last seven
years in a very low, nervous state, with a derangel
stomach, sick head-aches, and loss of appetite. She had
consulted the first medical men in the metropolis, but
got no relief. She is now, however, by the use of these
wonderful pills, restored to as high a state of health as
she ever enjoyed. These pills should be taken by all
persons of sedentary habits, or whose constitutions have
been impaired by foreign climates, or the baneful
use of calomel. Sold at Professor Holloway's establish-
ment, 244, Strand (where advice may bi had gratis),
and by almost all respectable medicine vendors through-
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THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.--Our Christmas
this year has been accompanied by extraordinary mild-
ness of weather. The country continues to wear the
spring-like appearance we formerly noticed. Flowers
are in bloom in many gardens, and a fire is felt to be
almost oppressive in a small parlour. All agri-
cultural operations are, of course, advanced,
and the young wheats promise well. As respects
markets, we have little to say. The prices
of corn, meal, and provisions here, remain
much the same as they have been for two or three
months, with the exception of a slight advance on some
choice parcels of grain. As a proof of the mildness of
the season, it is mentioned that apple trees at Grant
Lodge are in full blossom. A fine lamb, seven weeks
old, and weighing about six pounds per quarter, was
killed, on the 21st, at Elgin, reared on a farm occupied
by Mr. Lawson, banker. In Ross-shire, the sowing of
winter wheat is completed, and the frosts have been few
and slight.—lnverness Courier.
INCENDIARISM.—On Tuesday morning, about three
o'clock, it was discovered that a barn filled with valuable
grain was on fire, belonging to Mr. Slack, relieving-
officer of the poor-law union, at Bishop's Cicero, which
there can be no doubt was the work of an incendiary.
On the alarm being given, the engine of the Phoenix
Company, under the direction of Mr. Goodchild, started
with the utmost promptitude; the town engine followed
immediately after, whilst the parish engine of Cleeve
had previously been brought to play on the burning
mass. The stillness of the night aided in confining the
flames to the barn, which was entirely destroyed. About
twelve months since a haystack belonging to Mr. Slack
was burnt in the same manner.—Cheltotham Examiner.

" On their return, a public meeting, convened by ad-
iertisement, was called and held in the large room at the
Corn Exchange Inn, to receive their report. At that
meeting, and nut at a private one, I deplored the alarm-
ing discontent which existed, not only amongst the
working classes, 'who were suffering very severely, but
amongst a class of men (shopkeepers) who, upon all
occasions, had been ready to lend their assistance to the
authorities in the preservation of peace and order.
"To illustrate and explain more positively what 1
meant, I stated, that upon asking a shopkeeper for a
donation towards the expenses of the deputation to Lon-
,don, he replied, that he would not object to subscribe
to a fund for the purpose of shooting Sir Robert Peel."
When we apply the term " formal" to this contra-
diction of the calumny alluded to, it will be seen that
the phrase is inadequate to express the absolute demo-
lition of Mr. Ferrand's fabrication, which it effects.
The writer of the letter is the very individual to whom
the expression, so ingeniously perverted to the pur-
poses of falsehood, was addressed. It was by him re-
peated, not at a private meeting, but at "a public
meeting (of the League) convened by advertisement."
Mr. Heywood concludes his letter in the Standard
with these words :—" This, Sir, is a plain statement
of the case ; and was no more connected with the
League'. than you are." No one not abolutely
blinded by private fury and a wish for revenge, ever
do-übted for a moment but that Mr. Ferrand's story—
supported and vouched for though it was by the
Standard-j-would turn out to be 'a mean and.despicable
invention—the product of an imagination over which
truth exercises no control, and shame fails to restrain
from the indulgence •of the most' unscrupulous ex-
cesses. It too seldom happens, however, thfit the
means of vindicating the reputation of Maligned
parties are so promptly afforded as in the present
instance. Mr. Heywood% letter leaves no room for
the most ingenious malice to suggest a doubt upon
the subject. The Premier-assassination story of Mr.
Ferrand and the Standard is thereby proved to be an
entire falsehood. It may now be asked, not what
will these worthies, this par nobile, think, of them-
selves—they have long since ceased to feel as ordi-
narily constituted minds would feel under such cir-
cumstances--;-but what will every honest -Mind, no
matter what its party predilections may be, think and
say of them ? The Standard has, we admit, made
some atonement by publishing Mr. Heywood's defter ;
and has thus become the herald of its own shame.
The reparation is, however, in harmony with the
original offence. The calumny was blazoned forth
with all the aids which conspicuous type; and pro-
minent position on the page, could effect :. the
unwearied allusions to, and • comments upon, . the
allowed assassination plot, were displayed with equal
pc p of print, that they might attract the eye,
and impress the mind with due horror for the in -
cipient assassins. The letter which confutes the
cherished lie is printed in very small type, and. thrust
into an obscure corner. But this is Standard mo-
rality !—another practical exemplification tof , those
claims to superior honour and conscience in the con-
duct of a public journal, which the Standard is wont
to put forth, with characteristic modesty, in its own
behalf! What atone:lit-1A Mt.:-Ferrand will nialCe re-
mains to be seen. Unless he can disprove the facts,
or rail away the effect of Mr. Heywood's letter—
neither of which is likely to be achieved, even by his
proverbial ingenuity and courageous use of the powers
of speech—his future efforts in furtherance -of the
cause to which he has devoted his appropriate mental,
moral, and physical faculties, will be worse than use-
less. He must be content to lie under the imputation
of being what every honourable mind will deem him
to be, but which it would disfigure our columns,
without a periphrasis, to describe.
STANDARD.—Mr. Abel Heywood, whose letter
to the Times appeared in yesterday's, Standard,is hot
an accurate reasoner. Mr. Ferrand had stated, in a
letter to the Times, that a certain atrocious proposi-
tion was made at a private meeting of " the League "
at Manchester. No, says Mr. Abel Heywood, the
atrocious proposition in question was not made at the
private meeting of the League, but reported by me at
another meeting—not a meeting of the League, co
nomine, though doubtless composed of Leaguers: Now,
every one must see that there is no contradiction here ;
that the witnesses depose to totally differC.nt
transactions, and that both may therefore tell the
truth, as we very confidently believe they : do.
Mr. lleywood heard the proposition in one plane,
Mr. Ferrand's informant in a second, the Rev. Mr.
Bailey heard it in a third; and the Members of the
House of Commons, we may add, heard something
very like it hinted at from /the lips of the great
Leaguer himself. Upon a view of the whole matter,
indeed, Mr. Abel Heywood's statement confirms
instead of contradicting the statements of Mr. Fer•
rand ;• for Mr. Heywood testifies that what they re-
ferred to was talked about by, the, persons whose
connexion with the League it is impossible -to
doubt, though at the time they did not, perhaps,
sit as, Leaguers; the Rev. Mr. Bailey tells a similar
story_ with reference to what was, we suppose, a
bona fide Leaguers' meeting. The great Leaguer
launches his menace in the House of Commons, • evi-
dently pointed in the same direction—proofs that the
minds of the Leaguers were filled with the project,
and proof, therefore, of the great probability that
Mr. Ferrand's informant told nothing but the
truth. There is no jury', we think, which, satisfied
of the separate and distinct declarations of the same
purpose of a conspiracy, made by different members
of the conspiracy at different times and places,
would hesitate to believe an unimpeached witness,
testifying to a fourth declaration of a conspirator
to the same effect, and more particularly
after the purpose had been (in the attempt)
cruelly realised. A thousand witnesses like Mr.
Heywood will, by their multiplied evidence, only
prove the extent to which the execrable feeling of
which Mr. Drummond was the victim pervaded the
bOdy of the conspirators. It is much, indeed,' to be
wished that more such witnesses as Mr. Abel Hey-
wood may present themselves; perhaps some of them
may enlighten the public as to the party.i)y whom
M`Naghten was prompted. Let us not be misunder-
stood ; we have a very bad opinion of every Leaguer
without exception, because we see them all embarked
in a conspiracy which deals out nothing but lies,
slander, and sedition, and tries to take in as much
money as it can get, and which is therefore a treason-
able or a swindling confederation, or both ; but with
all this, very bad opinion of the Leaguers, we are from
saying that every Leaguer is an assassin—strong as
are the testimonies that many Leaguers have sug-
gested assassination. Some Leaguers are merely
greedy oppressors of the poor, some mere harmless
swindlers, and some few, perhaps, simple block-
heads ; but though we are far from saying that all
Leaguers are assassins, it is, perhaps, not too much
to infer, from the evidence before us, that all who
have a hankering after assassination are either
Leaguers, or likely, to become Leaguers. Since the
time of the late Mr. Ings, one of the parties who par-
ticipated in Mr. Thistlewood's " misfortune;"
they call it in Ireland—from the time of Mr. Ings,
who waxed the handle of his knife that he might
operate more steadily in cutting a Minister's
throat, nobody has talked of summarily
disposing of his fellow-creatures in the same cool
and business-like tone as the Leaguers. These men
made their proposition with the easy freedom from
reserve which men employ in proposing matters of
course, and proposing matters, for the proposition of
which they fear no rebuke, and in effect they appear
to have met with no rebuke. From all we know,
either the project offered was prosecuted, or, if laid
aside, laid aside solely on the ground of. expediency.
No one seems to have thought assassination, abstract-
edly, wrong. •

SALE OF A WIFE.—On Saturday last a brute in
human shape, from West Hallam, named Hart, sold his
ife in Nottingham market-place for ls., to a fellow
named Smith, with whom the woman had been living for
several years. A rope was tied round the woman's
waist, and, on the bargain being completed and the
money paid, it was given to the purchaser, who carried
off his prize. All parties seemed satisfied.—.Nuttinyh«m
Journal.

The Dublin Evening Past jaz,tly remarks :—" Whilst
the Government, in Lord Eliot's circular, are denouncing
the practice of opposing applicants on religious or politi-
cal grounds, the polico force, under the orders -of the
Orange magistracy, are practically and effectually neu-
tralising the directions of the executive."
The Cork Examiner thus rep rts progress from the
East Riding of that county :
"Notwithstanding the indignant expression of public
opinion, as ivell as the severe animadversions- of the pub-
lic press of' all parties, at the conduct practised by the
Solons' of the West Riding, assembled at quarter ses-
sions at Macroom, a few days back, when they mcon-
stitutionally, if not illegally, denied the privilege of
holding arias to free men on the plea of their being
repeal wardens,' their brethren of the East Riding have
not failed to follow up the worthy example set than as
far as in them lay ; whether they are determined to go
the 'whole hog' Hill be seen anon. It will be recol-
lected that prior to the Opening of the sessions for the
West Riding,, a meeting of the magistrates oh' that Riding
took place in Bandon, from which meeting the press was
exe:uded. It is now a matter too notorious to be doubted
that the object of that meeting was to disarm one portion
of the peaceable public, with what view it is not necessary
to say ; but that such was the object of the meeting, the
conduct of the bench at Macroom, in a few days after,
fully establishes. On Saturday last a meeting of the
East magistrates took place in Fermoy, at which
a reporter from this establishment attended. Mr. Ge-
rard Barry moved Captain Collis to the chair, which
motion being seconded by Mr. i)enis O'Callaghan, and
unanimously agreed to, the chair was taker: by that gen-
tleman. The Chairman, on taking his seat, observed
that there were reporters in attendance, and as he un-
derstood that the meeting was to be a private one, he
should request of them to withdraw while the meeting
would discuss the propriety of their admission. The
reporters then withdrew, and were followed in about five
minutes:Al** the Clerk of Sessions, who announced
to them that it was the unanimous decision of the meet-
ing that the press should not be admitted. So far have
these gentlemen imitated the conduct of their brethren
assembled at Bandon; it remains to be seen if they will
go to the extreme and unconstitutional length to which
the Macroom bench go when thvy assemble at quarter
sessionv."

MURDER IN THE COUNTY OF CORK.—We regret to
state that a fearful murder was committed in the neigh-
bourhood of Cloyne, back of the Deer Park, Castle
Mary. The unfortunate victim was a young girl named
Fitzgerald, a servant in the employ of an officer residing
in the vicinity of Cork, and she was returning to her
friends in Cloyne, to spend tke Christmas holidays with
them, when she was met by some men, who, it is sup-
posed, murdered her ; for she was found dead on the
road, her face disfigured, most of her clothes taken off;
and with marks of violence on other parts of her person.
An inquest was held at Cloyne on Monday, but we have
nct heard the result.--Cork Examinei%
MURDER IN TIPPERARY. •
The following account of the last murder in Tipperary
is from a correspondent of the Packet:—
" Borrisokane, Dec. 27, 1843.
" It is my painful task to inform you of another
dreadful murder perpetrated at Finnoe. Yesterday even-
ing, as John Ardill. a poor Protestant man, was return-
ing from his work at Rodeen House, when crossing a
field within a hundred yards of his own dwelling, he was
attacked by a number of men (unknown for the present),
and his skull smashed by blows of some blunt instrument.
Ile was one of the best-conducted men of the parish, and
has left a wife and six orphan daughters, who have
nothing but beggary and starvation-now before them.
I offer no comment on this state of things, but merely
relate the fact as it occurred, to prevent any misstate-
ments that might be made, as I was almost an eye-wit-
ness to the transaction, which took place at half-past
seven o'clock in the evening, within five minutes' walk of
the glebe house ; and I was on the ground in ten
minutes after the murder was• Committed. If some
prompt, vigorous, and active measures are not speedily
adopted, there will not be a Protestant left in this
district."