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Mr. Thomas Attwood has left town to attend the great meeting of the Birmingham Political Union, which is fixed for Monday next. There are said to be twenty other Political Unions in the North wait- ing the result of this meeting. Mr. Attwood has add' e sed an letter to his "dear friends and fellow countrymen," the- Unionists, the pith of which we extract.
° The Ministers whom we carried back to power npon the shoulders of the People have ben ayed our coldidence. We have given them a Mir trial, and they have griev- ously haled. They have done nothing it hieh they ought to have dine, nod almost every thing which theyought not to have lone. They give us slavery for !rebind. and poverty for Englaad ; they give ns internal misery and foreign shame. • ° ° There is no hope for um- country so long 3S these men continue in puwer;' I he People cannot flourish under the blighting, blast Mg influence or their domiuMn. The People must assemble in peaceful, legd, ROIl maiestic masses. They must luv t heir coin- plabe aull their -vier:owes at tile foot of the throne. Our gtod King listen to their prayers. 'The unjust Ministers will be dismissed ; and t he pi esperii y of the People will be yet restored. Come, then, my friends. once mo.e iu 3t,ur countless masses. Come with the hearts Millais. but with the gentleness of Iambs; nit-et me again :tt Newhall 11 ill, on Monday the 20th or May, and give moor once nun, hat ytin know 3 our rights ; and that, know log tiles!). on ate determined to defend then:. There must be no violence, no mirage, uo insoleuce of any kind. Peace, law, order, loyalty, and union, these are our mottoes. These are the weapons by the use of which we have gathered up our giant strength."
Captain Henry J. Winnington, the Whig candidate, has been re- turned for West Worcestershire, by a majority of 112, over Mr. Pak enham.
A duel was fought, on Friday week, between Sir John W. Jeffcott, Chief Justice and Judge of the Admiralty Court of Sierra Leone, and Dr. Hermis, a young Irish physician, resident at Exeter. Sir John was paying his addresses to a daughter of Colonel Macdonald, a grand- daughter of the celebrated Flora Macdonald: every thing was arranged for their marriage, and the bride cake was bought, when Dr. Hennis showed the Colonel a letter containing reflections against Sir John Jeffeott's character. Sir John was consequently dismissed. Having discovered the interference of Dr. Hennis, he called upon him to sub- stantiate or retract the charges, neither of which the Doctor would do.. A meeting then was arranged. Dr. Hertnis was accompanied by Cap- tain Halsted, and the Judge by Mr. C. Milford, a banker. Dr. Hen.. nis received his antagonist's hall just above the hip, and fell without tiring his own pistol. The Judge made off for Plymouth, and has since sailed for Sierra Leone. The seconds also decamped in baste. Dr. Bennis is in a state of the greatest danger. He also was on the eve of marriage.
Forty-seven persons were killed, and many others seriously hurt, on Thursday week-, by an explosion in one of Lord Ravensworth's coal- mines, hear Wreckington, in the county of Durham. The mine was considered to be unusually safe, and was worked with candles till the morning of the explosion ; when some symptoms of bad air being ob- served, the under reviewer ordered the safety-lamp to be used. No evidence of the particulars of the accident was procured. There were only twelve adults among the killed ; the remainder were boys. The
pit in which the explosion took place is 126 fathoms deep. ,
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