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Thinkme that a brief and succinct account of the Ore gon question , exhibitingithe dahns of Hie British andAroencan Governments to the disputed territory will be welcome to eur readers , > re give the Mowing article fromlfot talented contemporary , the Brighton Sffald . The Iferald' s article is , we believe , perfectly correct and impartial , and as it saves us the labour of preparing a similar statement , we take the liberty to pass the " appropriation clause : "—
WAR WITH AMERICA—THE OREGON . The journals , the politicians , and tlm statesmen of Europe , are speculating on the probability of a war bet ween Great Britain and the United States of America . , For the reasons we briefly stated last week , and many others might be assigned , we do notyet believe in the probability of this event . At the same time , we are aware that in former years wars have broken out—as that with Spain about the Falkland Islands — with less consideration than the Americans and the war-party in Europe , including that of England , seem disposed to pay to the grounds of this dispute ; and it therefore becomes our duty to lay the best accounts we are able to obtain before our readers ; and this shall be done as briefl y as the subject will admit .
BISCOVEHY OF THE 0 BEG 0 K TERRITORT . It is supposed ( and it is a mere supposition ) that Drake caught sight of the coast , in lat 48 deg .. in 1590 . He certainl y saw it to latitude 43 deg . But England made no use of the discovery , whatever it
• was . This coast then remained unvisited for nearly two centuries . But in 1774 and 1775 , Bncareli , the Viceroy of Mexico , sent two persons to explore it . * Perez left the port of San Bios on the 24 th of Jan ., 1774 , and on the 9 th of August he anchored in Nootka Road , being the first European to do so , which the Spaniards called the port of San Lorenzo , but which Cook , four years afterwards , called King George ' s Sound . The next year ( 1775 ) Heceta discovered the mouth of the river Columbia , and called it the Entrada de Heceta . " I possess " says Humboldt , " two very curious small maps , engraved in 1788 in the city of Mexico , which gave the bearings of the coast from the 27 deg . to the 58 deg ., as they were discovered in the expedition of Heceta" ( or Quadra , who accompanied him ) . ( Humboldt ' s New Spain : Black ' s translation , vol . 2 , p . 31 G to 318 . )
Captain Cook , 1778 , partially examined the coast from 44 deg . to 59 th , and after his death the crews sold at Canton some furs which they had bought of the natives . It was these furs that gave a sp « r to the trade on ibh coast ; and the English and Americans prepared to work for it ; but the South Sea Company having exclusive privileges in the Pacific , and the East India Company in China , the English adventurers generally sailed under foreign flags . Meares , an English officer , left Macao for Nootka Sound in 17 SS ; but could not discover the river St . Roque or the Columbia . In 1787 , and fivefollowingyears , Captain Gray , an American , ventured into . Txootka Sound , and on the 11 th of June , 1792 , he ran into the Entrada de Heceta , crossed it , and entered the Columbia , which he allied up fifteen miles . It was he who ohan » eu the name of theriver from St . Rogue to the Columbia , which it still bears .
In 1791 Captain Vancouver was sent by the British Government . By the law of nations no private person , like Meares or Gray , can establish the right of a nation to new discovered land . Vancouver could not find the river ; but meeting with Gray , who gave him the necessary information , he sent Lieutenant Broughton in a small vessel—the Chatham—which crossed the bar . but finding the coast dangerou ? , Broughton left the vessel , ami rowed up in his cutter 100 miles—nearly as far as it is navigable . Those are the main points as regards the discovery of this coast by sea . The first who penetrated by land was Sir A . Mackenzie , in the service of the North West ( British ) Company , in 1793 . He crossed the Rocky Mountains in about 34 deg ., discovered Eraser ' s River , descended it 250 miles , then struck off in a westerly direction , and reached the Pacific in 52 de . 20 " min .
In August , 1895 , the American Government despatched Lewis and Clark to the territory overland . They crossed the Rocky Mountains in 44 deg ., discovered the southern heads of the Columbia River , floated GOO miles down it ; on the 15 th of November , 1 S 05 , they arrived at the mouth , and built some huts , in which thny wintered , and returned to the L niicd States in 1 SC 6 . This is the only time the Rocky Mountains were ever passed by persons acting in a public capacity . In 1 S 06 Mr . Eiasar , acting under the orders ofthe North West Company , crossed the Rocky Mountains , and established a trading post in Eraser ' s River in 50 deg . i mln . In 1811 Mr . Thomson , another agent of the above company , discovered the northern heads of the Columbia in 52 deg . This is the whole amount of information as to the question of discovery . The Spaniards discoved it first , bat made no settlement .
Broughton , under Vancouver , penetrated furthest j but made no settlement . Clark and Lewis , representing the American Government , built huts ia 1805 . All three powers—Spain , England , and Americaset up claims on the grounds of discovery ; but none of them are clear or satisfactory . The Americans rest their claim ( see the negociafcions in 1824 and 1820 ) chiefly as regards the sea on Gray . But this argument will not hold water . Gray acted as an individual adventurer . The Americans argne absurdly also on another point . They say that the discovery of a river entitles the discoverer to all the territory drained by such river . No European jurist will admit such a ' doctrine as this . But whatever the pretensions under Gray , it is clear that he is driven out oi Court by Humboldt's maps . Lewis and Clark only discovered what had been discovered before—ihe month of the river .
Tho British claim is little , if at all , better . Drake merely saw it at most . Neither Cook nor Vancouver had sees it till after Heceta ; so that the title , as far as discovery goes , is with Spain ; but settlement as wcli as discovery is necessary to confirm a titie .
claims nr settlement . By the Lvw of nations , it is not sufficient , in order to give a title to new-discovered land , that its discovery has hcen made by a private individual . To establish a valid claim , it must be made by an official person—by some commander representing the sovereignty , whether monarchical or republican , of his nation ; and even when such a person has made the discovery , if the nation that he represents take no further notice ofthe matter ; if it never direct a settlement to he ffiifiblished on such land , it loses the right it might have claimed of discovery . " The law of nations , " says Vatiel ( book 1 , cap IS ) , "¦ willnot acknowledge the sovereignty of a nation over countries except those in which it has formed settlements and of which it makes actual use . "
" Prior discovery , " said the American Minister of 1 S 2 G , Mr . Gallatin , " gives a right to occupy , provided that occupancy take place within a reasonable rime , and is followed by permanent settlements and cultivation of the soil . "—( "Negoelations on the Treaty of that Tear . " ) It was precisely in this spirit that Queen Elizabeth , in her conversation with . Mcndoza , the Spanish Minister , denied the right ofthe Spaniards to exclude the English from making settlements in the New World . " Because they had touched here and there
on the coasts , ' said the British Somiramis , "built cottages , and given names to a river and cape , * * they could not hindei-other Princes from transplanting colonies into those parts thereof the Spaniards inhabit not ; forasmuch as prescription without possession islittle worth . " We showed in our List that the possession of the Oregon , so far as the right of discovery goes , unques tionably bournes to Spain , as it was discovered by Heceta in 1774 . Humboldt ' s map , on this point , is decisive .
By the treaty of Florida , dated February 22 , 1 S 19 , Spain ceded all her rights in the Oregon tomtom * in the following words : — "His Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States all his rights , claims , and pretensions to the territories east of the said line ;" ( meaning the 42 nd parallel of north latitude , commencing at the head-waters of the Arkansas and running west to the Pacific , ) " and far himself , Ids heirs , and successors , renounces ad claim to the said territories for ever . " Here , then , is a clear transference of whatever right Spain has over the Oregon territory to the United States of America . If , as we feel confident , our authorities are good , there can be no doubt on the point . But Spain never made any settlement in Oregon . She never established her right of discovery , and consequently she neither has nor could transfer anv right whatever over Oregon to the United States of America .
The right of settlement by Great Britain is not much better . it is true that she muted a charter to the Hudsons Bay Company to trade exclusively with the * ' Indians oi ail sueh parts of North America to the northward ofthe westward ofthe territories ofthe United State , as snail not form parr of anv British provinces orol the territory of an vEuropean ' powc-r ;" hut in this charter there is no tittle of power given to taat Company to "form any s . t & emenu . " It has neither power to hold or grant land . Its sole power is to trade with , the Indians . These remarks do not apply ts the charier granted to that Companv in 1670 , which gives them the land on ths Ucd River , extending { ana Canada across the continent to Vanes *™ '' - ^ nt ninety miles on and above the mouth ofthe Columbia . Ontsf the Hudson ' s Bav Companv a sub-Company nas been" formed , called Pugei ' sBav ftSSW *' : zc . ' ' ltb a «* P * » tal of its own , separate 1 aZ » k / 1 ^ Uu < Ws Bay Company , tracles in tauo ^ hid es . & c , which the last-named Companv
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. eanhot ' 'db ^ ' ^ ntTthi s ( P ^ sei ' s Company ) , though it has stockades on the ' north of the Columbia ( as the Americans have on to south ) , trades in those articles between Vancouver and the Straits of Fuca in the Pacific , and even this trade , according to Mr . Wyeth , who himself is a fur trader , is scarcely worth carrying on . America has as little claim to right bv settlement . In 1811 a Mr . Aster , a wealthy citizen of the States , fitted out two expeditions at his own expense ; oue to make for the mouth of the Columbia river round Cape Horn ; the other overland . The particulars of these expeditions have been beautifully written by Washington Irving in his work called " Astoria . " Both expeditions failed entirely . The Americans reached the mouth of the river ; built a fort ; and
called it Astoria ; but it was taken by a British force ; its name changed to Fort St . George , and this is the only case in which any part of the Oregon territory has been occupied by any person under the authority of the British government . The treaty of Ghent provided for the restoration of all places taken by either party ( British or American ) during the war ; and on the 6 th October , 1818 , Astoria was restored to the American government , the British flag struck , and the American hoisted . This , again , is the only instance in which any person authorised by the American government has occupied any part of the Oregon . But Astoria itself was subsequently abandoned by the Americans , and is now reduced to a more lo < r-house , in which a clerk of the
Hudsan s Bay Company resides for the purpose ol keeping iip a communication between Vancouver and the mouth of the Columbia . It follows that no nation has exercised sovercipty over the Oregon territory , and the disputes about it have been gladly adjourned from time to time by both governments , which , at last , came to an arrangement by which the territory is occupied by the subjects and citizens of both Great Britain and America , but which occupancy may be terminated by either party on giving the other twelve months' notice . The American government has been threatening to give that notice ; it sets up claims to Oregon founded on the treaty with Spain ; and hence all the talk of late about war . Tkreeproposkions have been made .
1 st . By Great Britain , to settle the dispute by arbitration . 2 nd . By America , to let things remain as they are for twenty years longer . 3 rd . And most recently , by Mr . Webster , that both governments shall abandon their rightsof sovereignty and government over the territory , and leave it to time and the future inhabitants to decide what government they will have . The population of the territory at present consists of about 10 , 000 whites and about the same number of Indians , who in these negociations seem to be no more considered , either by the Americans or the English , than so many wild buflaloes .
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Portrait Of President Polk. He Is Short ...
PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT POLK . He is short in stature , thin and bony in frame , and somewhat awkward in his carriage . His iron grey , wiry hair is brushed back from his temples , and on the summit of his forehead bristles up stiffly . His brow is hig h , but narrow , and beneath it are two deeply-set greyish eyes ; the nose is short and thick , and the mouth thin lipped and compressed ; he is dressed in plain black , and looks like a stern , obstinate man . There is no dignity , no suavity about him . He appearsas if it wouldbe painful for him to look pleasant , and as he reads his speech , his voice sounds harsh and husky , and his manner is ungraceful . Such is James K . Polk , who , in appearance , does not belle his character . He keeps himself up in a garment of selfsufficiency , which he loosens not , though advised to do so by his best friends . He relies on no one ,
and distrusts everybody . His own breast is the sole depository of his secrets , and his cabinet possesses no key with which to unlock it . Cautious to an extreme , he suspects where no ground for suspicion exists ; nnd possessing only fifth-rate talents , he refuses to avail himself of the counsels of better and more able men than himself . It will be well if his obstinacy about Oregon does not end in mischief Yet , with nothing but disaster before his eyes , he is not a man to forsake a course which he has once determined to adopt . He will proceed in a wrong course because he will . Having been unexpectedly made President , he seems determined to have his own way in everything , and as he is not considered to be very far-sighted , his own friends tremble for the results . Mark that striking looking man near him , with an abundance of white hair floating over his fine forehead , and half liiJimr
his coat collar , and whose dark , piercing , lustrous eyes are bright with the fire of intellect . His face is highly coloured in consequence of some cuticular disease , and his frame is very spare , but he walk ' s the marble floor with the dignity and grace of a monarch . What a contrast does this tall , commanding , form present to the little pinched up figure of Mr . Polk . That is Geo . M . Dallas , one of the soundest scholars and ablest lawyers of the United States , of which he has just been chosen Vice-President . Mr . Dallas has long been one of the leading members of the party to which he belongs , and enjoys the esteem and respect of even his political opponents . He has long been engaged in public life , and , although holding so high an office in hia native land , he still practises in the United States Courts . He is a beautiful speaker , and very effective in his addresses —iu short , he is in all respects , with the-exception of his political opinions , the very opposite of Mr . Polk .
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SINEWS OF WAR . [ From the Tunc Mercury . ] Three events , very curioas in themselves , and very significant in their way , have just occurred in three distant quarters of the globe . In Circassia , the Russian invaders , under Woronzow , have been " beaten into bench-holes , " as the saying goes , bySchanryl . In Morocco , the French Marshal Bugeaud , able , audacious , and unscrupulous as he is , has been foiled , and is now thrown into utter confusion by Abd-el-Kadcr . Whilst , last and worst , afashionable Colonel , named T > esparu , with whiskers and moustachoes , we'll be sworn , as big as bird-nests , has been shamefully routed by a body of Neiv Zealand savages , under a warrior named " Keki /' and a third of his troops ( British troops !) cut to pieces ! This is an
instructive lesson , if certain sages had the wit to apprehend it . It seems , then , that mercenary bayonets and discipline are not all —that in war , other elements mingle—that body is not the whole , and spirit nothing . This , it seems , must be so ; or how come the undisciplined Mountaineers of Circassia to have baffled the automaton-serfs of the cruel tyrant Nicholas for so many years ? Or how comes it that so severely has this invasion of Circassia recoiled upon the heart and head of the Muscovite Nero , that he is actually wandering in Italy and Germany in a paroxysm of terror and despondency , afraid to go home for fear of assassination ; and afraid to stay , lest his baffled troops and discontented generals and nobles revolt in his absence ? Ah ! how comes all
this , and how has it happened ? It is thus because these brave Mountaineers have everything to make their country dear to them , and nothing to disgust them with it . They are free as the air of their own mountains ; and make the simple laws under which tbey live . There is in Circassia no such thing as a rural police—no such thing as an urban police . There are no union workhouses in Circassia ; nor guardians like those at Andover ; nor philosophers to preach " surplus population , " and the duty of starving the poor . Circassia , strange to say , has no national debt ; still less one borrowed in paper , worth seven shillings to the pound , and payable in gold , at £ 3 . 17 s . 103 d .- the ounce . There are no excisemen in Circassia , for they are all " free traders ; " and not even a customhouse was ever seen by them except one set up by the Muscovites , but now ( thank God !) burned down . Having neither excise , customs , nor
stamps—neither have they any income-tax—and taxes being nil , no standing army have they . No . When their country is invaded , or war is to be made , every chief aud his followers of all ranks must , at their own expense , bear arms : and , from first to last , there has never been a Circassian flogged for deserting r ' jor getting drunk . Here is the mystery . Does anybody suppose these Circassians would have fought thus for the preservation of union workhouses , Windsor elections , rural police , Jew magistrates , national debt , commissioners , excisemen , tide-waiters , jailers , union masters , guardians , pensioners , privy councillors , and post-office spies ? Poh ! Nonsense ! Had they been "blessed" with these "institutions , " they would have welcomed even a Russian army as a " God-send ; " and as for aa American or a French one , they would have perfectly hugged them . Such is our theory of the " sinews of war . "
" What constitutes a state ? Sot lofty battlements , nor laboured mound ; But men—high-minded men—That know their right .- nnd , knowing , will wkmh {«»» i "
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Railway RonnsniES . —In the last week Dame ] Garrett was removed from the Penitentiary to the hulks at Woolwich , preparatory to being sent abroad , and on Tuesday the vessel sailed , which will convey him to his destination ; the other eonviet , Maynard , goes separately . The former , whilst he admits a greatnumberof cases , exceeding twenty , within the last few months , and some of them after Maynard was arrested , and discloses information as to property , has not divulged any thing as to his associates in such a way as telbenefit the public , although he resolutely
insists that he was not the original taker , and that more than one railway person is concerned , A novel proceeding took place on Saturday with reference to him : the Secretary of State , on the application ol Mr . Nash , against whom , with others , actions have been brought , directed that Garrett should k brought Up for private examination as a witness ill those actions , which is now allowed by the recent ael of Lord Denman , and he was submitted to a foui hours' examination before one of the Masters of the Court of Common Ffcas . The evidence will not hi published until the iriaL
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LONDON ,... ,, QUARTERLY ACCOUNT , , Of the income and expenditure of . the Veteran Patriot Fund , and Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund for the first quarter , ending Sunday , Dec . lth , 1845 .
, ; • IXC 0 ME . Money aubseribed for the two lunds jointly . , " ... ....: ¦ , ¦¦ £ s . d Mr . Cooper ' s half-yearly subscription ... 1 0 0 Collection at public meeting in the City Chartist Hall , Turnagain-lane , September 15 , 1845 ... ... Il l Donations ; Mr . Dunnage , Is . ; Mr . Westrey , Is . ; Mr . Brewerton , Is . ; Mr . Caughlan . Is : ; Mr . Whitfield , Is . ; Mr . King , 2 s . Cd . ; Mr . Stratford , 5 s . 0 12 C Leicester friends ( being a subscription , orig inally intended for Mr . Cooper , but refused by him ) ... ... i , 0 17 3 Donations : Mr . Rogers , Lambeth , 2 s . Gd . ; Mr . Bradley , Leicester , Is . ; Mr . Miller , 2 d . ; Mr . Sweetlove , 6 d . ; Mr . Skelton , Is . ... „ . 0 5 2 Collected by Mr . Dear , Fleet-lane , Old
Bailey ... ... ... 0 11 8 i Collected by Mr . Overton , 2 s . 3 d . ; by Mr . Shaw , 18 s , Cd , „ 10 9 Collected by Mr . Wheeler ( being contributions from Mr . Ingram , of Abergavenny , and other friends ) ... ... 0 6 6 Second donation from Mr . Ingram , of Abergavenny ... ... ... ... 0 2 0 Collected by Mr . Rider , od . ; by Mr . Harney ( from Sheffield ) , Is .... ... 0 1 5 From Mr . Harris , Mile End ( being a contribution intended originally fov the Miners ' strike ) ... ... ; 0 6 0 Collected at the Henry Hunt Supper ,
Bethnal-green , Nov . 5 .. 0 6 0 Collected by Mr . Garrett , Is . 8 d . ; by Mr . Reynolds , 7 s . 3 d . ; by Mr . Warren , 5 s ; lOd . ... ¦ . , ... 0 14 0 Donations : Two Teetotallers , Bradford , Wilts , Is . ; Son of Crispin , Rotherhithe , Is . ; Mr . Gray , Goodham , Burnley , 5 s . ; Mr . John Stevens , Trowbridge , 5 s . ; Mr . G . Mansfield , Bradford , Wilts , 6 tl . ; Mr . Whitfield , per ,. Mr . Stallwood , Gd ., ... - . 1- . 0 13 ) 0 An Enemy to Oppression , per Mr . Cooper 2 0 > 0 Collected by Mr . Livesey , 3 s . Cd . ; by Mr . John Bell , 2 s . ; by Mr . Dear , 4 s . 3 d . ; by Mr . Reynolds , 3 s . ; by Mr . Garrett , 5 s . 5 d . ; by Mr . - Overton , Cd ... ... 0 18 8
£ 10 18 9 * Making £ 5 8 s . 4 jd . for the Veteran Patriots' Fund and £ 5 8 s . 4 id . for the Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund . Income ofthe Veteran Patriots' Fund continued : — £ s . d . Brought forward from the joint account 5 8 4 Major Beniowski's donation 0 10 0 Collected at the democratic supper , Angel t , Webbev-street , Blacklriava-road 0 1 10 Friends at Bradford ( being the remnant > of a subscription originally intended for Mr . Cooper ) 0 5 0 Donations to make up round sums , b y the Committee ; "A friend to liberty , " Bid . ; several members , 7 d . ; Mr . Cooper , 3 s . 9 id ... 0 4 1 $
£ G 9 10 Income of the Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , continued .: — £ s . d . Brought forward from the joint account 5 8 41 Balance of receipts of St . Paneras' Vestry Public Meeting , for the Exiles ... 0 4 8 J £ 5 13 1 EXPENDITURE . Veteran Patriots' Fund .-Half rent of City Chartist Hall , Tnrnagain-lane , for public meeting , September 15 th , 1845 ... ... ... 0 5 0
Half expense of 1 , 000 circulars ... ... 0 7 0 Half expense of-minute and raimorandum books ... ¦ 0 3 6 Mr . John Richards : Oct . 1 st , £ 1 , - Oct . 15 th , 5 s . ; Nov . 12 th , 5 s . ; Dec . 2 nd , 10 s . ... ... 2 0 0 Mr . Thomas Preston : Oct . 1 st , 10 s . ; Oct . 15 th , 5 s . ; Nov . 12 th , 5 s . ; Dec . 2 nd , 10 s ... ; ... 1 10 0 Mv . Al ' . aiv DevoTiport : Oct . 15 th , 10 s . ; Dec . 2 nd , 10 s . 10 0 Mr . Thomas Ravnir Smart ; Nov . 12 th , 10 s . ; Dec . 2 nd , 10 s ... 10 0
\ £ 6 . 6 0 EXlMis' widows' children ' s fcnd . Half rent of City Chartist Hall , Turnagain-lane , for public meeting , Sept . 15 th , 1845 ... ... ... . „ 0 5 0 Half expense of 1 , 000 circulars 0 7 6 Half expense of . minute and memoradumbooks ... ... ... 0 3 6 Mrs . Ellis ; Oct . 1 st , £ 1 : Oct . lath , 15 s . Nov . 12 th , £ 1 ; Dee . 2 nd , £ 2 ... 4 15 0 £ 5 11 0 Total income of the Veteran Patriots ' Fund ... ... ... .... ..... 6 9 10 Total expenditure of ditto ... ... ... 6 6 0 Balance in hand ... ... £ 0 310 Total income of the Exiles'Widows ' and Children ' s Fund 5 13 1 Total expenditure of ditto ... ... 5 11 0
Balanceinhand £ 0 2 1 Owing to severe indisposition I could not attend to read over the above account at the quarterly meeting last Sunday , but sent it to be read over . It was then in an imperfect form , but I have since corrected it ; and , as no auditors wore appointed to revise it , I hero present it to the public , and beg that anybody , or everybody , will point out its incorrectness if they be able . I trust the informality of not appointing auditors will be excused ; when a secretary is ill ( which he cannot help ) business is unavoidably neglected . After all , the best auditorsare the public .
Mr . Thomas Martin Wheeler forwarded me a letter from Bradford last week ; but the signature ofthe letter was torn off . As an answer to the inquiry made in it , I beg to direct the attention of tho writer , whoever he may be , to the foregoing account ot income and expenditure , where he will find os . placed to the account of Bradford . 1 trust that none will take offence at my refusal of monies , or at my application of them to benevolent purposes , Mr . Shaw begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums towards the second quarter : —Mr . Brewerton , Is . 8 Jd . ; Dr . Bowkett , Is . ; J . Watfcinson , Is . ; W . Ellis , 6 d .
I also beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following Slims towards the second quarter ;—Collected by Mr . Sinims , 7 s . 6 d . ; by Mr . Wavren , 3 s . 8 d . ; by F . S ., a Chartist seaman of Stockton-on-Tees , Gs . lid . Can any friend inform me of the circumstances of Mia . Roberts , With Of the injured Birmingham exile ? I have written twice into Wales , but can goi no information relative to the wives and families of the exiles from Newport . Any information relative to individuals eligible to receive relief from either of the above-named funds , I shall gladly receive , on behalf of the committee . I regret to observe , that Mr . Llewellyn is considered as not coining within the regulations under which the " National Victim Fund " was established . Is Mr . Llewellyn sixty years of ago , so that wo may consider him as eligible to receive some small assistance from our fund— "Tho Veteran Patriots ? " A suffering man ought not to be neglected .
Let me earnestly entreat all real Chartists , 'in conclusion , to exert themselves in the great and good work for which the "Veteran Patriots' Fund" and "Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund" were established . Thomas Coor-ais , Secretary . 134 , Blackfriars-road , London .
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City Chartist Hall . — A general meeting of tho shareholders of this institution was held on Sunday morning , December ? th . Mr . Walker , a member of the board of directors , was unanimously called to tliC chair ; and after a long and animated discussion , ill which Messrs . Stallwood , Simpson , Salmon , Dear , Bagley , John Sewell , Edwards , Fiude , Overton , and the chairman took part , it was unanimously resolved , " That the vote come to at the last meeting , relative to tho meeting of tho ' Metropolitan District Council's' meeting in the Hall , be rescinded . " Consequently that council will meet in the Hall as usual . It was also resolved , "That the secretary be hereby henceforth authorised to let the Hall , or committeerooms belonging thereto , to the National Victim Fund Committee , the Veteran Patriot Fund , the Exiles ' Widows' ami Orphans'Funds , or any other similar committee , for the sum of one shilling each sitting . " Messrs . Stallwood and Wyatt were appointed auditors , and Messrs . J . Wyatt , Waller , Dear , Fludo , and Bagley were duly elected to fill the vacancies in the board of directors . Mr . Overton was unanimously elected secretary for tlie ensuing three months . A vote of thanks was given to the chairman , and the meeting dissolved . City Locality . —The quarterly meeting for
examination ot the accounts behnvjwg to the veteran Patriots' Fund , and Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , was held last Sunday afternoon ; and in the absence of the secretary , from illness , the financial statement was read overby the committee to the meeting . Thft two eommittees were re-appoin ted for the second quarter , with the exception of Mr . Bolwell ( removed to Bath ) , in whose place Mr . Ovcrtoxj was elected . The financial account , with notes by the secretary , will bo found in another part of our paper . In the evening , Mr . Walter Cooper ( Socialist lecturer , and a true-hearted Scotchman ) , delivered a very efficient and instructive address on the genius of his immortal countryman , Robert Burns . Mi-Thomas Cooper , author of the "Purgatorv of Suicides , " being again unable to lecture from ill-
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ness . ^^ r ^ p . iwe ] hear , i ^ 6 wever ^ wbetter , and expecfalo take Ins usual post in tlnVCity Chartist Hall to-morrow ( Sunday ) , evening , when he intends to devote abortion of'his lecture to . Burns , and the remaining time to the subject appointed tor theevening— "The Life , Character , and Novels of Sir Walter ' Scott . " These lectures continue to be attended by crowded audiences .
BOLTON . Lecture . —On Monday night last , Mr . O'Connor visited Bolton , and the large Temperance Hall was crammed . to receive him ; whenhe entered the hall his progress to the platform was followed by one continuous cheer , loud and long . Mr . Blinhorn , a veteran Chartist , was appointed to the chair ; and after a few well-timed observations , atid announcing that discussion was . not only invited hut courted , he introduced Mr . O'Connor , who addressed the meeting upon the subject published in the bills , "The Land , " for nearly two hours , showing also what the effect of a repeal of the Corn Laws must be , and what was the duty of the working classes . As soon as the lecturer had concluded an address that gave unmixed
satisfaction , the League , who mustered as streng as they could , started a puppet in the gallery to question Mr . O'Connor relative io fifty pounds he had given to Mr . Dewhirst , of Bolton , when he . Dewhirst , was sent to Monmouth as a deputation , to O'Connor . The meeting was not inclined to permit this kind of cross-firing , - but Mr . O'Connor insisted upon the speaker being heard ; and after Mr . O'Connor had replied , the person who put the question came to the p latform to expresshis satisfaction at Mr . O'Connor ' s answer—not so , however , with the less sober portion of the free trade gentlemen . A chemist , of the name of Morris , next staggered upon the platform , and indulged in a tirade of free trade stuff that made the meeting almost split with laughter . The purchase
of land for the benefit ofthe working-classes was what appeared most to annoy the chemist ; but when he had concluded , Mr . O'Connor turned him into such a laughing-stock as really made his own frjends ashamed of him . Next , the well-known Finnigan , the ManehcsterfreetradeTORN-sriT , mounted theplatform , amid the most uproarious squeak lot' the " corn creaks . " He repeated his free trade lesson for about half an hour , and when he had concluded , Mr . O'Connor , with as much precision as if he had taken down every one of his points , went through them , one after thei > thev , and turned the laugh against the unfortunate volunteer , llealiy , said Mr . O'Connor , 1 have a right to object to him , kept here , for two hours after my lecture , to speak upon subjects foreign
to the object of this meeting ; but , nevertheless , I would atay for two hours longer lor another half hour of such fun as Mr . Finnigan has afforded us . ( Roars of laughter . ) When Mr . O'Connor had replied to Morris and Finnigan , he then turned to the pair , who sat upon his left , and addressed them in such a strain of hearty ridicule , conveying advice and instruction for the future government of their conduct , as made the whole audience , free traders and all , literally roar with laughter . When the proceedings were over , a vote of thanks was given to Mr . O'Connor , and another to the chairman . Mr . O'Connor started between eleven and twelve for Manchester—a large concourse of people ' fallowing Wm through the town and cheering . It was a glorious sight for Chartism and the land .
. ' . MANCHESTER . GRHAT Pontic Mkmi . vg . —It being announced that Mr . O'Connor would address the working classes in the Carpenters' Hall , on Sunday evening last , that spacious building , capable of accommodating over o , 000 persons , was crammed in every part long before the time l ' or commencing proceedings . Since the great excitement in 1842 , consequent upon the League revolution , there has not been so large or so spirited a meeting in our town . One of tho council presided , and after a few preliminary observations , introduced the members of the Executive , who severally addressed the meeting , and appeared to give unmixed satisfaction upon the subject of their mission connected with the laud plan . When Mr . O'Connor
arrived , he was greeted with the most rapturous welcome , and upon presenting himself to the audience the applause was actually stunning , Well , aaid he , hero ' s the Pratieman , where is the starch and skilly nian that said he Svould again show himself in the north ? ( Cheers and'knghter . ) The speaker then proceeded iu the most lucid manner to point out to the working classes what the inevitable effect of a repeal of the Corn Laws must be , and , at the same tinie , lay down the rule which should guide their conduct . He knew that when people were crying for broad , at any price , how unpopular , inhuman , and offensive it would be to say starve , in order that you may 'fri ghten more out of your hard task-masters ( Cheers . ) No , what he said was , look on , make Lord John bid again , and Peel bid again . ( Cheers . ) The
thunder . is not ours , but we will have our share in the noise and in the triumph , whatever it may be . After- speaking at considerable length upon tho Covn laws , the lecturer . then went on to illustrate the land plan in a most familiar and satisfactory manner , and concluded a speech . that gave unmixed satisfaction , by assuring the shareholders that ; before the 1 st of May , the first draft of 100 free men would be led out ofthe house of bondage , ' and located on the promised land . Tho speaker concluded amid rapturous applause ; after which the work of enrolment and paying up shares was proceeded with , and many new members were added to the list of subscribers . Upon the whole , the meeting has inspired the working classes with fresh " vigour for the approaching struggle .
STOCKPORT . v Mr . J . Williams addressed the people of this town last Sunday evening , in the Chartist Institution ; Bonibersbrow . Several questions were put to him , to which ho reolicd satisfactorily , and received a vote of thanks . * . .... .
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: . SeSMSO ' - . lSPAST IN A BiSKEI TO THE LIVERPOOL Female Onr-ius Astlcji . —Between the " hours of six aiid seven o ' clock ' on Friday evening last , two respectably attired females met a lad of the name of James Burrows , in Back Berry-street , and , handing him a basket with a handle to it , told him to take it to the Female Orphan Asylum , Myrtle-str eet . They said that , as it contained glass , ho was to he particularly careful not to break it , or knock up against any person in the streets through which-he passed ; and for the trouble ho was to have in conveying it into its destination , they gave him a piece of money , which he put in his pocket , and which thoy said was sixpence . The lad proceeded on his errand , and , on being admitted at the institution , the basket was
opened , and , underneath a pile ot children ' s caps , petticoats , handkerchiefs , and socks , there was found a very fine , healthy-looking female infant , fast asleep . By its side was lying a bottle filled with milk , and a paper written in a good female hand , of which the following is a copy : — - " Christian friends , pray take care of this dearlittle orphan . I will send you " a stun in a few days . " The inmates of the institution were , ' of cour .-e , much surprised : tho lad , perhaps , much more so than anybody else . lie could only give the explanation which Ave have already given , that lie received it from the females , and was told that it was glass . lie stated , that the statement proved correct , that he resided at No . 3 , Back Berry-street , the street in which the baskets as handed'to Mm ; and that one of the females appeared to be old anil the other young . The elderly female , he said , was dressed in a black cloak , light gown , and black velvet bonnet ; and the younger ono , who most
probably was the mother of the infant , in a black mantclla , and white straw bonnet , lie did not omit to mention that they had given him a piece of money for his trouble j hut , on putting hue hand m his pocket and drawing it forth , it turned out , not to be a sixpence merely , as they informed him it was , but a half-sovereign . All subsequent search to discover the females has proved unavailing ; but tho child , wc need scarcely say , having been once received within the hospitable doors of the institution in question , is sure , oven if they should never be discovered , to have all its wants supplied . The basket which contained the sleeping innocent was new , and had apparently been bought for the purpose . It was composed of a soft substance , something like matting , and was about two feet ill length and nine inches in breadth . It-has since been scut to the commissioner ' s office , together with tho milk bottle , caps , petticoats , & e ., in order to enable the police officers the better to trace the females .
Diseased Potatoes . —Imfohtast ExrEKlMBNT . — We are authorised to state that tho simple method of rendering diseased potatoes available for human food by boiling them iu two waters , the first being thrown away when it has reached the boiling point , has been tried by Major Beamish with complete success . He purchased , we are informed , last week 100 weights of so called diseased potatoes , at the current depreciated rate of 2 d . per weight , for the purpose of giving them to cattle , conceiving , with the seller , that they were fitted for no other purpose , and had already applied many of them to that use , but after seeing a \
statement in the public prints , he had a portion taken indiscriminately from the heap , and boiled according to the prescribed directions . The result was in every respect corroborative of the first experiment . The whole ofthe black acrid matter , which in few cases extended beyond the skin , was completely extracted by the first water , and the potatoes , when served up to tabic , after the second boiling :, presented as sound an appearance , and were as dry and palatable as any potatoes of the kind under the most favourable circumstances . Thoy were the common white lumper or horse potatoe , and were cooked "in their mckcts . " Cork Beporter .
Romanism versus Pkotestastissi . —Tire Qbkstiox Skttlkd . —Two labourers , a Humanist and Protestant , held the following colloquy : —1 \ An'd ' vemaue to tell mo that the Catholic is the only true reli « ion » ¦ -R . C . Faith , an' I do . D' yo believe in thcEpis ' - ihles of the Aposthlo Paul , ar-d lint ? - ! , of ewrse -R . C . Arrah , tlun 1 have ye sure . D * ye mind the ' Episthle of Paul to the Romans ? An' was ye iver after hearine of inny Episthle to the Protestanta * ' There are fifty vessels , with corn and provisions from this port lor the English markets , wind bound in tlie river Shannon , by adveise weather . —Limerick Chronicle .
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, IMPORTANT TO-THE MINERS . - TO THB EDITOR OF THE H 0 BTHEBUN BUR , Respected Sir;—Will you be so kind as to insert the following letter , signed by ;" . one of the coa trade" which recently appeared in the Liverpool Mercury together with a lew remarks thereon , and you will greatly oblige the members of the Miners Association in the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire : —
THE COLLIERS . TO THE J 5 EITOBS OF THE LtVEBPOOl MEECCRV . Gektlemen , — A large amount of public sympathy has been exercised towards that useful portion of our fellowmen , -the colliers , in consequence ofthoriskincidentto their occupation—hence the general advance in the price of coals , which took place two years ago , was cheerfully acceded to with a view to afford them adequate compensation for their dangerous toil ; and that the coal masters having a better price for their coal might realise a sufficient return for the heavy capital invested in their works when the produce of their mines was lessened by the abridgement of labour attendant upon an advance of wages .
Now , however , tho sympathy is called for in another direction , for it is evident that ths insatiable demands and indolence of the organised miners will entail upon the poor , already alarmed for their food , aggravated misery , by an unprecedented scarcity of coals , and by the advances in price which continued scarcity or severe weather will render inevitable . The colliers are banded together in a powerful union , theutUity of which they are sadly abusing . They pay a legal adviser handsomely to keep them clear ofthe law , and act upon the advice "Jtestrict your labour , then
you may command jour own price for it . " Their moral condition , to the shame of the Christian philaathropists , is such , that when their animal desires are gratified they are generally content , and so easily is this now accomplished , that the amount of coal now produced is only onehalf of what is required , and not half lis they might produce by working eight hours regularly per day ; instead of this they can now idle * way entire days , or they will work two or three hours per day , while the masters must empJoy as many weekly hands and as much machinery , as if a whole week ' s work was done . Moreover , they will not work with colliers who are not in the union , and if a
member of the union send wore than a prescribed quantity of coals per day , his comrades fine him heavily . It follows that the trade and consumers suffer great loss and inconvenience . Boats . ire detained at our collieries , ships are detained in our docks , the coal masters cannot supply the trade , nor the trade the consumers . Large orders ior export are daily refused ; and new customers with money in their hands are turned away ; yet with tht coolest indifference tlie colliers are demanding a further adronce , which , if obtained , will enable . them to take li still more easy , while their arbitrary monopoly and restriction of labour inflict upon their poorer countrymen
a heavy tax when they are least able to endure it , These explanations I have thought due to the public , that the onus of the scarcity and high prices may rest upon thu right shoulders . Jib workmen might be butter paid than the Wigan colliers at present , if they would only work as thoy call . Thift monopoly can only he broken -up with competition . Perhaps government might find it profitable to teach the able-bodied criminal to raise coal instead of transporting him , or maintaining him in unprofitable confinement . But I must not theorise here . Should this not he deemed too lengthy for your crowded columns , its admission wUl greatly ablige yours ,
Ose of the Coal Tiude . The unblushing effrontery with which " one ofthe coal trade" promulgates the niost infamous falsehoods against an honourable and industrious body of men , renders it necessary that the public should be made fully . acquainted with the real state of aftairs , and as to that , the most direct and unqualified contradiction should be . given to the foul and slanderous imputations thrown out with no sparing hand against the objects and principles of the Miners' Association . This task I have undertaken to perform , not by writing a long string of mere contradictions to the charges made , but by bringing forward a number ot plain , broad , unequivocal truths , such as will bear the . most rigid scrutiny , or open investigation . I
shall not occupy my time with commenting upon the charge he makes against the miners having a strong predilection for the gratification of their passions , but will leav e him and the Christian philanthropists upon whom befalls foul in the course of his remarks , to solve the problem as best they can . Still I do protest against the blame being , charged upon the Miners * "Union for either the nearness or scarcity ot coals , and I prove the union is not to blame , from the fact of there being at present , several hundreds oi able-bodied miners out of employ who would gladly accept of work at a fair remuneration . Will " one of the coal trade" inform the public why they are r . ot employed ?; Would not the . concentrated amount of coals brought to bank , - as the produce ol the labour of several hundred men , be more
than sufficient to dissipate the evil so frightfully depicted by our anonymous scribe . Would there : not be a sufficiency to furnish both the boats , at the collieries , the ships in the docks , and ; the new customers with money , in their hands , with more than a supply ? Until these questions are answered , I think he will have som > - difficulty to persuade the discerning portion of the public that the operative coal miners , merely because they only work a limited number of hours per day , are inflicting ahe avy tax upon their poorer countrymen . No , 4 be members oi * the Miners' Association have no such object ; by restricting their labour , they are solely desirous of slightly improving their presen ! very inadequate wages , so that they may be better
prepared to encounter the miseries likely to emanate from dosed ports , dear bread , and rotten potatoes ; and also , if possible , furnish with employment hundreds of their brethren who are suffering the most severe privations . Oh , but the colliers with the coolest indifference are demanding a further advance , which if obtained , will only enable them to take it still more easy , ( really one would think the gentlemen shuddered at the idea of a miner having anything like a cessation from toil . ) Well , as he has not told what is the nature of the advance , I shall make bold to do so , and call upon him to contradict me if he can do so , without more deeply implicating himself as a man regardless of the truth , when it does not suit his purpose . In tho district of
Pembe ' rton , near Wigan , the masters arc offering the men an advance of iiinepencc per score , but which scow , let me inform the public , consists of twenty-six baskets , which will average , I believe , from five to six cwt . each . These baskets they have advanced to the public at the rate of twopence per basket , which where the twenty-six baskets to the score are sent to bank , is four shillings and fourpence per score ; deduct ' ninepence , which I ' may call the men s share , and there is a clear profit of 8 s . W ., per score for those paragons of perfection . These are facts which arc irrefutable ; and I ask whether my opponent has succeeded in throwing the onus of high prices or scarcity upon the shoulders of the operative miners , or rather , docs not the
responsibility still rest with the coal proprietors arid their agents ? These questions I leave the public to answer , and by public decision I nnd the miners arccontent to abide . A few words upon tho infamous proposal to supersede the holiest miner bv teaching convicted felons who are sentenced to banishment , to work in the mines , instead of being sent out of the country , aiitl'Iask what sort of feelings must a man possess , who could cooll y propose a measure fraught with so much wretchedness to the unhappy bein « s whose multiplied crimes'have rendered them unfit to mix with society ? t What , to be driven from those denaot immorality called gaols , to hilx ' with , and be instructed by , tho honest miner ? docs he of the coal trade imagine for a moment that a workm <» miner
would be found so base as to give his own and his children ' s bread to a convicted felon ? And if not what would become of the poor unfortunates , knowin nothing of the nature of the work , and totallv unacquainted with the dangers to which they would bo exposed . It is sickening , it is disgusting ; the painless extinction system oi Marcus is puritvitsolf , when contrasted with tins cold-blooded scheme of wholesale murder ; and the m ; m who could deliberately propose such a scheme ought to bo scouted from soeietv as a monster , fit only to . pi-owl with the ' tiuer of the forest . I have now done with one of the coal trade
tor ohe present , and shall conclude by a few words of advice to tlie colliers themselves . Let neither calumny nor threats induce you to abandon restriction our employers hate it—you love it . They wish j ou to abandon it ; you be determined to adhere to it move closely , it is the mighty leve-r which will effect the entire antehoration of your condition . The letter upon winch I have been commenting is a proof uiU 2 : tIjen «} ' »& to ^ vith still greater tenacity , antllet ^ vour cry be « u „ i 0 D i restriction ; " and an expression ot yow determination not to work with , or instruct , or allow vour children to work with , convicted felons , should they ever be brought into the pits . I remain , very respectfully , Wm . Giiocoit .
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Bilston MiSBUB .-. ThB various lodges of the district arc requested to send delegates to a meeting to rlS at M n" ? ' ' White HoRie > High-strect , wlw ° ? eceinb , / Hth , viz ., Bilston , BariMton { Srhfr Wednesneld-heath , Wednesbuvy IVallsall , Bloxwich , Great-bridge , Westbnaawicb and ' . Upton . ' Natioxal United Trades' Association- for the lnoTKCTiox ok Industry . —A meeting of the central committee was held at the Trades' Office , 30 Ilvdcstreet , Bloomsbury , on Monday , December Stll Mr Dunning boolcbiniler m the absence of the , nresident ( I . S . Duucombe , M . P . ) , was called to £ ? £ Communications of a very , encourage clescrfr ^ on irom
was reau inc Manchester district tho t » I . „ i-Bristol , the tailors and ~ Sm Tof r JSV * miners of Ilolytown ( adding m £ t L v S ' - number of member !) , thf . ZlSStSTS Wimsloe , the bobbin-makp v * nt ir „ J , i li , -nd ri ^ n » k «» , of n 3 ^ f . iS ' ^ g" ^ ma ) , tlie paper-makers . of Maidstono th * «» # " ^• " ¦^ afisKaawi
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number of ; members ) , ? and . others . - Several !^ tions reported that they had waited ' on trad ™ * S had not yet given in their adhesion , with ver '' ^ success , and they had every reason to belini ** % several very influential trades would send ; ^ adhesion in a few days . At the conclusion"J " * central committee ' s business , a mutual mCpr tl > e the board of directors of the Association for i | of ploymeiit of Labour , and the Central Conim iT * ^ the Protection of Industry , was held , when it to ( resolved , " That a properly organised and > Ta ? getically pursued system of personal visilg f * r . »' - Soeietius , at their own time and places nfw ? . ^ ' uuoiomui , « . ~ cu uv , u u . u « . -uu r ' nWO 01 hlPoC number nf . mfimhersV' nnrl . nftin »> o _ 7 ~^^ " ^
be adopted throughout the United Kingdom' » 6 was announced that several additional shares taken up in the Association for the Emplovm PJ Labour . All communications for this as 5 oci-ir f must be addressed to Mr . J . Harris , scm-It a Trades' Office , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury ; •» Successful Termination or tub Stiiikk ' p HousE-SAiMfAKEKS OF Belfjir . —The gratif yin » tenigence has been received at the office of" /?" United Trades' Association , that the above str iv has been brought to a speedy termination ; and Ji , is better , the terms required by the men hav e bi fully acceded to . A similar advance ( 10 per centi of wages has been also acquired by the horse-uaii makers of Worcestershire . ' "
LouonuonouoH Shoe-makehs . —On Monday cven ing , December 1 st , the shoe-makers of this place lvSi a dinner at Mr . Cox ' s , Talbot Inn , to commemorate their victory in the late strike . After partakin » f the good things provided by the worth y lio < , t Ml i hostess , Mr . J . Skevington , who , though not of the craft , had been invited to attend , was called to tta chair , when the various toasts were heartily responds to , and tlie evening was spent in a very satislactopv manner . On the day following the wives , d'c , had a tea party at the sama place . The evening was spent in dancing , Ac .
The Framework-knitters . — A meeting of delegates representing the framework-knitting trade was held at the Odd Fellows' Arms , Kegworth ' Leicestershire , on Monday , Dec . 8 th . The mcetini was called for the purposeof adjusting the statement ' s preparitory to laying them before the manufacturers . This having been done , Mr . Thomas Emmerson , of Arnold ; was appointed to superintend the printin g and distribution of the wrought cotton hose branch , and parties not present were requested to make early application for the number required , at therate of one halfpenny each , and forward the money at thg same time . It was resolved that Joseph Johnston , of Leicester , be intrusted with the care of providing statements for the wrought woollen hose branch , ior
all guages below twenty-four , and that James Taylor of Loughborough , and Joseph Warner , of Sheopshead be appointed for the same purpose , for allguagesfronj twenty-four upwards , with power to call to their aid persons to assist them in the fulfilment of this important duty . After a long discussion on the subject of wide frames , and the injury sustained by the work , men , from the spurious articles produced from them , it was resolved that each delegate present uie his best endeavours to induce the frame-smiths neither to make nor repair any more wide frames , as such frames equally affect frame-smiths and frameworkknitters , in depriving them of labour , and reduce the price thereof . A vote of thanks was given to Mr . Levers , for his untiring energy , and his brother
trame-smiths who have gtood forward to restore the trade to a system of wrought productions . It was recommended by the delegates that a delegate meetingbe held at the Bull and Butcher , Bulwell , t > n Monday , the 15 th inst ., at ten o ' clock in the forenoon . It was then resolved that this meeting stand adjourned until Monday , the 15 th inst ., to be held at the sign of the Pheasant , Bridge-street , Derby , to cons mence at nine o ' clock in the forenoon . The questi on respecting the outstanding debt was brought forward , but not one delegate was prepared with an instalment , and thus the parties to whom it is due are kept out of their just rights . Let the franietvoi-kknitters consider , and ask themselves what must the public think of them for thus treating their servants .
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BANKRUPTS . { From Tuesday ' s Gazette , December 9 , 1815 J Robert "Watson Shepp & rd , now or late of Bnsham , Ox . fordsliire , innkeeper—Uharlcs Kendal Luce , of Southampton , merctr—Henry Gamble , ofGrhnstorie , Norfolk , grocer —Thomas JRatnett , of Cambridge , tailor—John Poultoii , jun ., of Luton , Bedfordshire , straw hat manufacturer-Arthur Southcombe Tucker and George Muriel Uitlwell , of Melcombe llugis , Dorsetshire , grocers—John Dyer Williams , of 2 , 3 * ewc ; i 5 tle-strcctt Farringdon-sti'GGt , City , blacking manufacturer —Thomas ' Mortimer , of Eastlane , Walworth , victualler — Kohert George Sptdding , late of 59 , Queen-street , Chenpsid * ,-and Uush-laua , Cannon-street , City , sine manufacturer—Williim Lewis , of Carnsley , Yorkshire , tobacconist—Frederick Sampson , ol Manchester , woollen draper—Charles lies , of Jiristol , grocer—John Pope , formerly of Bristol , but now of Stapleton , Gloucestershire , lime burner—William Oekleston , of Liverpool , hide merchant—Theodore Ihiedlauskey , of Uirr aingiiaui , chandler — Thomas Mager , of . Holboru-hiil , City , awl Coventry-street , liajmarhet , poulterer .
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DIVIDENDS DECJUBED . John Can- Tetrie , of JJedlington , miller , third dividend of Od . in the pound , payable at 57 , Grey-str * ct , Newcastle . upon-Tyne , on tuiy Saturday after December 10 . John 1 'isb . er and Eiizabath Fisher , of Jlaghull , wine dealers , first dividend of 3 s . lOd . in the pound , payable at 1 , Liver-eourt , South Castle-street , Liverpool , on any Monday .
DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED . III the Country , James Bryan , of Bristol , chemist , January 2 , at eleven ; at the Court of Saukru . ntoy , Bristol . . Cebtificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of nieetuur . John Breakenridgc , of Liverpool , tailor , December 30—Thomas Hodgson , of Greta-bank , Yorkshire , brick makvr , January 8 . Certificates to he granted by the Court of Review , unless cause bo shown to the contrary , on or before December : jfl . Stephen Davies , of Somerset-Wharf , DailliSidO , S 0 Utll « wark , and Times-wharf , Wilton-road , Pinilico , coal nier . chant .
PARTXERSni ? 3 DISSOLVED . John Percivall and Anne Clarke , of Uirmingham , ac . eountanls—John Potter and George Harrison , of Leeds , share brokers—Henry Hickman and William Croft , of Rock-ferry , Cheshire , joiners—David Dudinan and James Kemp , oi' 51 , lted Lion-street , Holborn , publicans—Wi '« liam Taunton and Joseph Adams , of Coventry , appraisers —William llenry barker Blackburn and John Lee , oE Leeds , stock brokers—Brown and Co ., of Helbeck and Gildersome , Yorkshire , flax spinners—Elizabeth Jeftery , Richard Jcifery , and Thomas Jefiery , Of Puckitlgton ( SO tar as regards Thomas Jeft ' ory)— Thomas lloltbby and J . Barnes , of York , horse breakers—William l ' richard , sen ., and Lewis Williams , of Cardiff , Glamorganshire , wharfingers—Benjamin Jones and Joseph Brown , of Cardiff , Glamorganshire , bomleu store merchants .
Extraonnixanr Case.—The Court Of Assizes...
ExTRAOnnixAnr Case . —The Court of Assizes ofthe Bas Rhin was occupied on the 29 th and 30 th ult . with the following extraordinary case . In August In & t , two soldiers , in garrison at Strasburg , named fschupp andBigallet , crossed the frontier into Baden to pass the day . On their return , and when on a bridge , Tschupp said toBigallet , who was nearlv intoxicated , " Como and sea how-strong the water run ? , *' Bigallet wont to the slue of the bridge , and having leaned forward to look at the water Tschupn suddenly laid hold of him , and threw him in ; then , supposing , as a matter of course , that tho man must bo drowned , as the current was strong , and he was not in a state to help himself , hurried to Strasbure ;; and entered his barracks , before the sates were closed .
1 rovideneo , however , had willed that this atrocious act should not remain concealed . The bridge is built on boats , and the fall of Bigallet was broken by one of the cables'by ' which they arc fastened together . Aftev h-Uimvaw ' sioift , vfhich completely cured him of his intoxication , he ' caught by this rope , am ! , after struggling for a great time , his cries were heard hy some boatmen , just as he was sinking from exiiaustion , and they saved him . The dismay of Tschupp was very great on the following morning when he saw living the man whom he supposed to be dead . Bigallet made his declaration , and Tselmpp Wis nmstoh At first he declared that he had not been in company with Bigallet ; but several witnesses , who had seen them drinking together during the day , having come
forward to prove this fact , the prisoner was confounded . Still , however , ho refused to confess his crime , which was unaccountable , as the two soldiers were supposed to be friends . When Tsehupp l | iul been in prison ior seme time , he resolved to avow hi 3 guilt , mid declared that lie had been induced br the wile or a man who keeps the canteen , whose name is Capluot , to commit the deed . This woman , in whose service he was , had , he said , told him that Bigallet , her tanner servant , and with whom she had entertained criminal relations , was constantly extorting money from her on a menace of apprising her husband of what had taken place , and that she was therefore resolved to get rid of him . She told the prisoner that if he would take Bigallet out for the day ,
and m the evening throw him into the river , she would reward the act liberally , and she gave hmi HMrancs to spend , iu ovdev that he might so w « - power Bigallet with drink as to render him incapable ot resistance . Tschupp said , that he objected to commit the enme , but the woman told him that if lie re * . used she would stab him , and that therefore , partly from tear , and partly from the hope ofreward , he at last consented . The woman was taken into custody , and both were tried for the attempt to commit m « r « < ler . Tlie ' evidence on the trial fully corroborated the statement of Tschupp as to the woman , and they were both found guilty by the jurv . Tschupp was condemned hartl
, to twenty years' imprisonment , with labour , and exposure on the pillory . The fenw » prisoner was condemned to ten vents * imprisonmen t , with hard labour , but without exposure on the p illory-—Galignani ' s Messenger . PoisoxiKG . —Mary Evans , domestic servant to a gentleman residing in Brooke-street , Birkenhead , attempted on Wednesday last to destrov her illegitimate infant child by administering to it red precipitate powder ; but she was detected in the act , aim t \\ M immediate death of the child prevented by the prompt exhibition of a vomit . The child , however , is in a precarious state , and the unnatural mothei : a in custody , awaiting the event ,
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Citation
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 13, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13121845/page/6/
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