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      Apgpsr 16, 1851. The Northern Star

      APGPsr 16 , 1851 . THE NORTHERN STAR

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      i jiiDES' VNIOSS AW ) PROTECTION . [ Glasgow Sentinel J Vb . EBrroB . —In the Court of Assize at Stafford , t jse has just been tried of the highest possible ? £ rek , not only to working men , but to all men ' f every class who wish to understand the dispute jLt divides the capitalist from the labourer all ta Europe . Diplomatic disputes , Papal aggres"; j colonial quarrels , Jew disabilities , are all as rotting compared to this . It is the most active Lgredient in the bubbling cauldron of European pities-it interferes with the imperial dreams of Vapoleon—it alarms the Pope in the "Vatican—• J ^ the tyrants of Austria and Prussia , and kzzles the . respectable manufacturing and shoptee ing potentates of England ; and although it is

      p , denounced , and cursed , and punished , it will not yfce itself away , but insists upon remaining , to the jjjuoyancc of all friends of order—demanding ex-^ jnatton and settlement . The workers of Europe £ e > at this moment ,, in ail countries , with almost one voice , demanding wh y they are as they are ? They wish to have those social arrangements jarong h which they suffer explained , aud , if possible , justified , and if not justifiable , altered or sbohshed—they wish to know why multitudes of pen willing to work are doomed to idleness and tarsed with misery—they desire to understand why industrious working men should be rewarded little better than if they were thieves or beggars—why the fields of honest labour should be battle-fields .

      where masters and men , as Mr . Justice Erie observed , in Stafford , " had a jfoftt to promote their own interests , " and where , as he might have added , the poor worker is mercilessly slaughtered by the well-armed capitalist , who , in this fearful Contest , has all the advantages upon his side , the law included ? There is no doubt that there are clever passages in the books of political economists to explain how this is , and to show how it ever B , ust be so ; and it is beyond doubt , that if the working people would -fee advised by their friends , the manufacturers , and read in the right spirit the books of the political economists , accepting tbem as the true voices of destiny—the unalterable and irrevocable decrees of Providence—the evangels of tbe future , that much uneasiness would be avoided—rags , hunger , and soualbr decreed by Providence may be quietly borne with ; hut the Bame things decreed by stupid governments , and

      justified by learned ignorance , are not to be borne with , but are to be resisted unceasingly , aud fought against to ibe last , by every sincere and honest man , be he hard-handed worker or strong-beaded thinker . Iu Great Britain , up to the present time , this dreadful social malady Las sot taken the form of street revolution . The working men of Scotland , England , and Ireland , can die hunger-bitten or p lague-smitten : but they have no stomach for barricades . Within the last ten years tbey have proved fo tbeir government how much they can suffer ; and if fair play was given , they could also prove how much , in a peaceable way they could do , if their governors were wise enough to observe their : fldustrial and social tendencies , and remove such jegal obstructions as prevent the peaceable combin ations of quiet men , seeking quietly tbe promotion -jf their interests as citizens of the state to which they belong .

      The case to which I wish to call the attention of yonr readers this -week , is one which all working nien ought to consider with the greatest care—it is one form of the great European riddle—it is the position of the great question as it presents itself in England , and it will be well if all thinking Englishmen try to understand it . It seems that in Wolverhampton there is an employer named Perry ; he is in the tin-plate and jappaning tr . ides , and employs a tolerably large number of people . Between Perry and the people in his employment a misunderstanding arose in relation to the prices he wag paying for the description of work on which his men were employed . This was the commencement of what Justice Erie calls

      the fight by which industrial interests are settled . The men belonged to a trades * union , and their trades' anion was a part of a larger organisation , called the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour , the secretary of which , as a party interested by his position , in all matters of difference between tbe members of the society to which he belonged and their employers , wrote to Perry to inform bim that a deputation would waiton him relative to abookof prices , stating , at the same time , that they did not " presume to visit him in an offensive spirit of dictation . " In accordance with this announcement , the deputation waited on him , and after some conversation he told tbem he would consider the matter . He took ad «

      vantage of this delay to go amongst his men and bind several of them by written contracts to remain with him , and having done so , when the deputation waited on him the next time , he said to them that he would have no third parties interfering between himself and his workmen . Now commenced active hostilities on both sides—the men left their work , and Perry sought for others to fill their places . He sought for them through England , France , and Germany . He succeeded in bringing some from France under contract ; but when the men arrived , and found how matters stood , they sought the aid of the magistrates to annul their agreements , and ultimately went home , no doubt by the aid of the English workmen . Finally ,

      Perry , having refused the arbitration of the Mayor , appealed to the law , and charged a number of men with conspiracy and intimidation ; and a special jury of the right kind ( working men are seldom jurymen ) found them guilty , and they now await such sentence as the law in its mercy may pass . It is not said here that this finding was contrary to law . I'do not know exactly what is the law in cases of this description . It may be said , however , in the plainest possible way , that justice has had nothing to do with it These men are not incendiaries ; their whole conduct was such as might be looked for from decent , peaceably disposed men ; in fact , nothing conld be more praiseworthy than the proceedings of the men during the whole of

      this struggle ; whilst the conduct of Perry was that of dogged stupidity and ignorant self-will . The JfonwMf Cftronicte takes advantage of this circumstance to utter its sentiments on the general question of trades' unions , especially in relation to their bearing on the free trade policy , of which it is a most eloquent champion . It would be loss of time to take notice of what it says on tbe facts of the case ; they are quite plain , and need no gloss . AU who read with unprejudiced eyes must see exactly how it stands . What I wish to refer to more particularly is the lecture delivered by the Chronicle to trades' unions on this

      free trade question . The writer of the article , who seems most anxious to enlighten the darkness of the poor deluded working people , states that " trades' unions are inexpedient in an economical point of view , " and that even as far as " the interest of the operatives themselves is concerned it would be better if trades' unions had never been heard of . " " Every strike is directed not only against the employer , but also against the consumer , that is , against society at large . " " It is the interest of society on the whole , that all things should be produced as cheaply as possible ; and ! the limit is practically ascertained by competition . "

      To understand the fearfully anarchical doctrines propounded here by one of the acknowledged advocates of order , it is only necessary for a man to open his eyes and look courageously at that which presents itself to view in any corner of this much landed empire , daring any hour of the twenty-four between sunrise and sunrise at any season of the year . Speculators , bookmakers , and dreamers may hug themselves with the delusion that they have the settling of this question , and that tbey can settle it by criminal judgments , and leading articles ; bnt they are seriously mistaken . Before they can succeed , they must take from the working men the ability to distinguish between right and wrong ; they must blot from his heart all consciousness of his own

      dignity , and all sense of his own and his children ' s sufferings ; they must teach him to be satisfied with the minimum of human life , as well as the minimum of human comfort ; they must get him to forgo and forget the hopes that lift him from the condition of tbe brute , and . stamp his manhood on him , proclaiming his relationship to the past of his race , and his fitness to aid in the bringing of that great future which cannot as yet be comprehended by the narrow-hearted , huxtering calico-maker , or the dry-hearted spinner of senseless theories , which the g reat living world is every moment crushing into dust , as it rolls torward into the broader sunlight of the newer dayr . So I be it known to all these theorisers and newspaper writers , that the worker is , notwithstanding his rags , his frequent privations , and his rough uncouth exterior , still a man , with all the necessary that

      life apparatus , heart and brain included , and he reaUy will feel if he be hurt , and bleed if he be pricked ; and that he , having g iven some thougnt , in his own way , to his own condition , and his connexion with others , will , however presumptuous it may be thought , have is own say in the matter , will shape his own acts , and will not leave his fate , and the fate of his children , to be settled by dandy politicians , and quack philosop hers . Well , what says the experience of the working man in relation to trades' unions!—coking at them , it is to be hoped , as temporary modes of meeting evils that are not to bc . eternal . His experience tells him that in manufacturing England , for the last forty years , except at very short and very rare intervals , labour has always been superabundant , and must always remain so , as Ions as there is manufacturing enterprise ,

      coupled with the ability to increase our manufacturing power to meet large and occasional demands . This , at ordinary times , must leave us with many who

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      cannot get employment , and who , in consequence , must be in competition with those more fortunate than themselves . That this , where the desire amongst the manufacturers must ever be to produee cheaply , that they may take possession of the market , by selling cheaply , will have a tendency continually operating to reduce wages , nobody will deny who knows anything of the manufacturing districts of England and Scotland . The working men have in tbe present state of things , no means Of meeting this , but by trades' unions . The manufacturers in then * encroachments , act more effectually when they act singly and separately , and , by private bargain with their men ; whilst , on the other hand , the resistance of the men must be by concert , mutual aid , continual watcbings , and occasional strikes . This the law calls conspiracy and intimidation , and punishes , as such , handing the labourer over to the manufacturer , bound hand and foot , mocking him , at the same timewith hollow

      , phrases about legality , and liberty , and right , which , although tbey may be meant to satisfy , only serve to insult and torture . But the Chronicle insists that trades' unions are an injury to the operatives themselves . No doubt it has better opportunities of knowing than the operatives can have . It tells them that it is " the interest of society that all things should be produced as cheaply as possible , and that the limit is practically ascertained by competition . " Practically a > certained by competition ? Tes ! such is tbe decision of this best of all possible instructors . Moses and Son practically settle the price at which clothing should be produced ; and , that Moses and Son may do this practically and well , they gather together men whom , we are told , are made by God , with immortal souls in tbem , and , we say it deliberatel y , murder them ; work tbe wretched lives out of them , that society may have the advantage of cheapness in coats and waistcoats .

      Society wants cheap shirts , and competition furnishes them , by fixing the price of making tbem at two shillings and sixpence per dozen , covering the streets with prostitution , and filling the graveyards with . poor heart-broken creatures , to whom death is a welcome refuge from that inhuman commercial competition that is the best agent for limiting the cost of preduction . Society wants cheap calico , and the men are thrust ont of the factories , to idle in the streets , that their wives and children may take their places , because they can work cheaper than men . Society must have cheap calico ! What matter is it if fiftyseven per cent , of the children of Manchester die before they complete tbe fifth year , and that the average life of the whole working population of the manufacturing districts is not more than half the

      average of that of the nation at large ? What does it matter if men , women , and children , are starved and poisoned , and smothered by stench , until they rot from the earth , like diseased sheep ? the price of the things which they produce must be fixed by competition , and competition cannot afford them any better than the beggar ' s life , and the brute ' s death . Bnt suppose trades' anions , and all their restrictions abolished , and everything left to competition , as it prevails where there is no check on it , and that society got everything it needed , in the same way it gets slop-coats and shirts , and that all who produce for society were lifce the people who are left completely to the action of unbridled competition , who would reap the gain ? the

      working people ? Ao ! The rest of the trades would follow into slop-land ; no concert amongst working men to regulate or resist , where regulation or reaiatance was necessary , what amillenium for political economists aud Jews ! What a murky tophet , what a maddening despair ! What a rotting misery for the working people ! No , no ; not that ; anything rather than that " painless extinction" for all the infants of working women ; rude , readyhanded extinction , by the axe or rope , in the fiercest pain , for all working men and women , rather , at least for all of such as are surplus . This , however , has not come yet , and it is to be hoped that this will never come , although it has our parliament , our press , laisser faire and Beelzebub to help it .

      The writer in the Chronicle goes on to say that •' Trades' Unionist artisans are the only practical and successful Protectionists still existing in England . " Now the writer of this could not have been considering what he was doing when he penned it . The fact is , that industry is tbe only thing that is not protected ; the working man has no protection but what he gives himself . Every trades' unionist knows that one of his greatest difficulties is to resist the attempts that masters make to bring unskilled labour into competition with skilled labour , that the price of skilled labour may be reduced ; there is no Jaw against this , nor do I say there should he . Is this the case with the professions ? Can any man go into a court of law and practise as

      a lawyer ? No ; because the lawyer has protection bylaw , the lawyer may turn tin plate worker or mechanic if he feels so disposed , but the tin plate worker or the mechanic cannot turn Lawyer . The lawyer is not even allowed to sell his services as cheaply as he may wish ; there are protective prohibitions which prevent him . In fact , every profession is protected , organised , and regulated . The government , the bar , the church , the army , and navy , they are all regulated as to services and payment , and yet the writer of this leading journal has the impudence to tell working men that they are the only practical Protectionists , because they refuse to put themselves unorganised at the mercy of manufacturing Jews , and shop keeping

      huxters . The working men must look at these things soberly and thoughtfully ; this trial ought to convince tbem how poor a chance they have of protecting themselves by trades' unions ; such conviction , however , ought not to make them despair of union , but rather satisfy them that there is a better and higher union possible amongst them—a union of their capital for the employment of their own labour , like that of the brave working men of Paris and the associations in London , who , in these

      particulars , are teaching them lessons they would do well to learn . The workers in tin , and the workers in iron , are men who can do much if they will , the day may come when their strength will be gone , and in such day the Perrys and special juries will do with them what they like . In a future letter , I will explain how this may be done by working men of all trades . If working men cannot manage their own affairs , they mnst be content with such management as the Perrys and special juries , and such like , give them . Chomweix .

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      Tab Convict Poole . —Poole , the railway guard , who was transported with Nightingale for the mail robbery , committed on the Great Western Railway , has written to some friends of his in London . He is in Bermuda , filling the situation of deputy guard over the prisoners there , and endeavouring to regain his character . His conduct , from the time of his leaving England , has been most exemplary . When placed on board the convict ship , he was chosen by the surgeon-superintendent as chief officer over the prisoners , and he aays— " I entered on my duty with the determination to do the thing that was right towards the surgeon and my fellow prisoners , but I very soon found ifl pleased my fellow prisoners , I must displease the surgeon . I therefore preferred the ill will of the prisoners to that of the latter .

      I got the ill will of my fellow prisoners to this day by doing my duty towards the surgeon . On one occasion a prisoner made a savage attack on the surgeon while in the execution of his duty . I immediately collared him . and with difficulty prevented that injury which must othewise have been tbe consequence . The prisoner appealed to the rest for assistance to beat our brains out , hut we prevented further mischief by putting an iron gag in his mouth . He was tied up on the spot , and received four dozen lashes on his back , and he was kept in irons and band-cuffs during the remainder of the voyage . After this , I was the means of exposing one of the most horrid crimes man can be guilty of ,

      and the perpetrators met with a severe punishment . The surgeon promised to do all he could to get my sentence mitigated . " He complains of the treatment he met with on his trial , and says that the whole of the witnesses swore false , and that the authorities did not act right in refusing him a copy of the depositions taken on his first examination ; but for this , he says , he should not have been transported . He seems thoronghly sickened of a convict's life , but expresses a determination to work well while he is obliged to submit . His situation is one of some responsibility . He does not mention Nightingale ' s name , but in former letters he has expressed much disgust towards him .

      Thb Commissioners of Woods and Forests have issued orders for a new uniform to be worn by the gatekeepers and constables belonging to the Parks and Kensington Gardens . The hat is to be tbe same as that worn by tbe Metropolitan Police , with a gold band , green frock coat , with gilt buttons , and the letters V . R . on the collar ; and black trowsers , with a broad red stripe . They are all to be numbered , and when a charge is given there will be no difficulty in finding the same constable when required . The Standard of Monday calls upon Protestants of all denominations to subscribe towards the erection of a church , as a monument to the Protestant martyrs of the sixteenth century , to be erected on the site of the stake in Smithfield .

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      As AwFDixv Bad Leg with Fifteen Wounds in it CCBED BY HoiiOWAT ' s OCJTMEliT AKD FllH , —Extract Of a lptter from Mrs . Sarah Eastment , of Haselbury , near Creirfcerue , dated April 16 , 1849— « To Professor HoUo . war —Sir , —About six years ago certain unfavourable rnnntoms mainifested themselves in my leg , which proved to be scrofula , or King ' s evil ; and at ene time there were fifteen wounds in my ankle . For four months I was in Cheltenham Hospital , and there pronounced incurable ; from CI went to King ' s College Hospital ; there also they failed to effect a cure , and I was obliged to return home a complete cripple . In this state I commenced nsnTgyour ointment and pills , which have perfectly cured my leg . '

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      inn . nriA liUSK AHD THE CHOPS . The accounts from tbe provinces respecting the present state of the various crops are , with the exception of some g loomy rumours of a partial failure of that ill-conditioned root tho potato , most satisfactory . The hay harvest is secure , and from nearly all quarters local report speaks . favourably of the wheat , barley , oat , bean , and pea crops . The following are returns from some important localities : — Lancashire . —The Preston Guardian of Saturday

      says—Harvest weather has fairly set in . During the week we have had a prevalence of easterly winds , with a clear summer sky , the sun shining most brilliantly , ripening the crops and fatiguing tbe pedestrians . Some few patches of wheat have been cut ; amongst other places the tract of excellent wheat land between Poulton and Fleetwood . Should the fine weather continue we may expect next week that all forward crops will be placed under the operations of the sickle , and late crops finally disposed of .

      Yobkshibe . —Harvest has partially commenced in the neighbourhood of Retford on the lighter sandy soils , and we have much pleasure in stating that the crops generally are very good , especially tbe wheats , which are well topped and remarkably fine . A sample of new oats , . which have been housed and thrashed , is now before us , which were grown at Bellmoor . This , too , is of excellent quality . —Lancaster Gazette . Sedbrrqh . —We have had very fine weather during the present week , aud the greatest part of the hay in our immediate neighbourhood is secured . The grain crops appear to be very full , but not so early as in former years . The potato crop promises favourably , and we hear nothing of the disease which has for the last five years been so destructive to that valuable esculent . —Kendal Mercury .

      Bast Yorkshire . —A small field of oats , situate near Howden , was cut on Monday last , but the barvest can scarcely be said to have commenced in this locality . The powerful influence of the solar rays now contributes , however , to ripen the various sorts of grain , and should we have a few more warm sunny days , harvest operations will be general in this district in the course of a week . — Eastern Counties Herald . — "Trent Side , — 'A . COU " tinuance of warm sunny weather is now much required for ripening the wheat and other corn crops , especially as it is laid prostrate in many places by the rains . We hear that a farmer at Epworth intends to start reaping next week , as he invariably commences not later than a certain day . We believe the wheat harvest will commence in about ten days or a fortnight throughout the Isle of Axholme . —Hull Packet .

      Staffordshire . —The fine weather which we have bad during the week has made harvest operations more general and extensive than was anticipated ten days or a fortnight ago . Oats are much later than they were last year , and barley is promising . We fear there is reason to suspect that the potato decease is not entirely eradicated . Potatoes gathered within , the last day or two in this neighbourhood appear to be slightly affected ; and we have heard of an instance in which tho tops have emitted that offensive smell which accompanies the disease . —Staffordshire Advertiser . North Derbyshire . —The corn crops are approaching maturity . Harvest must , however , be later this year than last by ten or twelve days . — Derby Reporter .

      Cumberland . —Subjoined are paragraphs from the Carlisle Journal . —Mr . James Creighton , of Scotby , has commenced cutting a seven-acre field of barley . A sample of it has been sent to us , which appears to be well grown and in fine condition . Mr . J . Forster , of Longthwaite , commenced to cut a field of barley on Tuesday morning last . It is of excellent quality , and fully ripe . ( Lake district . )—The weather of late has been remarkably fine for the crops . The hay harvest is pretty nearly brought to a termination . The grain crops are looking remarkably well . The present fine weather will hasten grain forward very much . Potatoes are being taken up ; and in some places they are slightly tainted with disease . Turnips , mangoid-wurtzei , & c ,, look extremely well .

      Essex . —The past week made a great change in tho appearance of the wheat crop , and the brown and ripened appearance of the ear inviting the sickle , the harvest has commenced generally in this vicinity , with the most satisfactory prospects as to the weather , and plenty of labourers at command . Peas in many districts are cut , and a few fields are already cleared . On the whole the crops are spoken of us good ; in the Roothings they appear fine and heavy , and though tbe wheats in some parts of the county are here and there laid by the late heave storms , they do not appear to have suffered to any great extent . — Essex Herald .

      Gloucestershire . —The wheat crop in the district extending fifteen to twenty miles round Gloucester will be a full average one in quantity ; but most of those fields , the heaviest in straw , are much laid by the late heavy rains , and will suffer in the quality of the samples , if not much in the yield , from this cause . Reaping has but just commenced . Barley is in general bulky in straw , and promises a good yield ; but owing to the heavy rains , a considerable part is expected to prove of rather coarse quality , Very little is yet fit for cutting . Oats are grown here to a very limited extent ; but this crop is expected to prove a good one . Winter beans are generally well spoken of , and the spring ones are expected to prove an

      average crop . Peas are generally good , where grown for a field crop . The Bristol Gazette says : —The wheat plant has made considerable progress , and reaping has commenced in some of the forward situations , and will be pretty general towards tho latter end of next week , should the weather prove favourable . The wheat crop has in many places been much laid by recent heavy rain ; but it never looked better than at present . —( Tewksbmy . )—The wheat in general promises a fair crop in quantity and quality , except where laid by the heavy rains . Barley is also likely to prove a fair crop , and on the whole better than last year . Winter beans are very good , and ready for cutting , and the spring ones are a fair crop . Reaping has just

      commenced . — ( Cirencester . )—xhe wheat crop m this district is a fine one , and promises well for a good yield . The early-sown barley is very promising in most instances , but the late sown is very thin . The oat crop is good . Some beans are very good ; others are , on the contrary , rather blighted . Peas promise a favourable yield . Of potatoes there is some little complaint , but taken generally they are as good as could be wished . Wiltshire . —The potato blight has made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Westbury , with great virulence , and scarcely a piece of potatoes in the district has escaped ; but its ravages have

      hitherto been principally confined to the haulm . Last year it was first seen on the 15 th of July ; this year it was not at all generally observed till Wednesday , the 31 st ., probably caused by the dense fog of that morning . Scarcely a field of potatoes , if carefully examined , after Wednesday , however luxuriant they might appear , but contained the fatal spot , apparently newly formed . The present dry weather may be considered very favourable in checking the spread of the disease from the haulm to the tuber , the rot in the latter producing the greatest mischief in wet soil and after much rain . — Salisbury Journal .

      North Nottinghamshire . — Owing to the unsettled state of the weather in the last month , the wheat has been retarded in ripening , and where heavy it has been badly laid , which will very likely affect the quality , Still no great damage has heen done ; and should August be fine an average crop of every kind of grain may be safely anticipated . The late rains have done a great deal of good to the potatoes , which in general now promise well for a crop ; very little disease has as yet attacked them , this being now about the time of its appearance ; and the weather lately has been favourable for its development . The farmers at Sawley are beginning to cut oats and barley . — Nottingham Journal . Somersetshire . —It is agreed on all bands that our harvest of wheat is good , and this appears to be confirmed by the test of cutting , which commenced about a week since . There is a little rust in the late wheats , and the burden is far from heavy ; not

      more than an average crop is expected , but quality better than usual . Barley mostly good . Oats and winter beans good , and , with very few exceptions , fit to cut . Exceptions to some extent as regards the spring sown . Potatoes have gone off very fast lately , and from present appearances greater injury will be sustained by the crop from the blight than last year . . Carnarvon . —The grain crops , excepting those sown upon cold wet lands , present a luxuriant appearance in all these districts . The Swedish turnips have in many places suffered so much from the ravages of the fly and wire worm as to require a great breadth of land to be replanted , or sown with common turnips . In several places we are sorry to find that the potato haulms have , during the last week , presented an appearance which indicates the existence of the blight , which in former years proved so destructive to that valuable root . —Carnarvon Herald

      . . ... Glamorganshire . —The cold wet weather winch prevailed during some parts of the month of June tended to check the growth of vegetation , and , consequently , to delay the general commencement of the hay harvest , so as to make it about nine days later than the average time . In this district the hay harvest could not be said to have generally begun before the second week in July . Though wheat has been later in coming to ear , it looks favourable ; but none that we have up to this time seen is yet fit for reaping . The general observations which we have made in reference to wheat apply to oats and barley . In green crops the sowing of late Swedes was much delayed by the early June rams ,

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      !? £ 5 ? , . ot «> mPh > ted this operation before the first week in July came upon them . They , 5 S 2 ? thriVing and nealthy .-e * «/ an « a IJ 7 A \ T l , ^ f <>^ ' <> ri'Avon ) . --l find the Tt ™ S ? be bad in «» 8 neighbourhood . K « ni „ L been toa m ^ et gardener , and he has shown me some very bad indefd , about one quarter g K S , ™? ofo » r wheat crops are ready for the « „ iiS ! 7 ? re beaten < h >™ badly . I think , if fine weather sets in , we shall have a pretty good crop aIZJ . L „ Many farmers wil 1 be 8 » e « ™ ek . W „ ? are good , and will be ready to begin cutting next week . Some oats are cut , and will be a fair crop . Barley will be good , if there be fair weather to get it . Some crops nearly ready for

      CAMBaiDOEsniRE .- ( J / a „ ea )_ Reaping has commenced here . One amateur has cut , thrashed , and dressed his entire cropping , and has ploughed his farm for seeding . —( Cottenham . ) Some few farmers have commenced cutting their corn during the week , and the greater part commence on Monday next . The crops generally are a good average , both as 3 q y a d < luality .-Ca » i 6 « Wff « Chro-HuKTINODOSSHIRB . -Harvest comes very fast now , and cutting will be very general on our high land , in a few days if fine and hot , as at present . New peas are m the market , but they are neither dry nor good at present ; the next parcels will be better conditioned The wheat crop in the fens is now very ill spoken of , but I have no proof of it , further than report . 1 do not think the crop is a large one any where , but must think it is a good average .

      Buckinghamshire ( Wendover ) . — The crops are looking remarkably well in this locality , and tbe helds seem to speak of plenty . The potato blight has made its appearance in this neighbourhood , and has spread for miles round ; and although both the haulm and the bulb are affected , still there is reason to hope it will not be so bad as in former

      years . Salop . —With a continuance of tho present fine weather , we shall soon be able to commence the harvest in many places round this neighbourhood . Neither the wheat nor barley at this time appear likely to prove over an average . Both the peas and potatoes are unusually promising for an abundant crops . The turnips are not so good as could be desired in many places . There is a deal of hay still out in the fields , in a bad state . ¦ Cardigan . —We are sorry to find that the potato blight has this year again appeared about Cardigan in a most malignant manner . From a large pail full of nearly full-grown potatoes , which we Saw this week , not one-half of them were fit for use . It is remarkable that the blight hitherto confines itself to gardens in the town and immediate neighbourhood , and from every information we can collect , this valuable edible hitherto in the open fields assumes a most healthy appearance .

      Scotland . —The Scotsman of Saturday has the following general statement respecting the crops in Scotland . Tho accounts from all quarters in reference to the wheat crop are in general satisfactory . Some of the forward sorts will be ready to cut next week in the Lothians , although tbe bulk of the crops will not be ready for fourteen days . The same accounts reach us as to the lateness of the harvest from the Oarae of Gowrie , Ayrshire , Berwickshire , and Roxburghshire . Barley is in some instances late , but , upon the whole , the crop will reach , if it does riot exceed , an average . Several fields will be cut next week in East-Lothian , and in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh one or two small patches are already in the stock .

      0 : tts are much improved , but will be below the ordinary bulk , particularly upon stiff cold soils . In upland districts of the southern counties , as well as in the northern counties , they will be decidedly under an average crop . They are represented as thin on tbe ground , and short of straw in the Garse of Gowrie , Fifesuire , < fco . An occasional field of the more early varieties will be ready next week for the sickle in East-Lothian . Beans are variously represented ; in the carses they are said to be bulky in the straw aud well podded , while in tho eastern districts they are represented as being in general deficient in straw , and they will not upon the whole exceed an average . Ireland . —The agricultural reports from nearlj every county in the four provinces speak favourably as regards all kinds of crops , with the exception , in several instances , of potatoes and turnips .

      There are also complaints of the appearanceof blight in the former , and the latter has suffered severely from the ravages of the grub or maggot , but not beyond hope of recovery . In Wexford it is said that there is no doubt whatever of tho disease having attacked the early sown potatoes , but as yet the main crops remains intact , and the virus of the distemper is much less malignant than in recent years . The blight has also shown itself in several localities in Kerry and tho west of Limerick , where "it is daily extending and assuming a more virulent formi" From other parts of Limerick the accounts are more cheering . From the two ridings of Tipperary the intelligence is most satisfactory ; not a word of the blight in cither district , and tbe crop reported to be productive and healthy in every part of the county . In the King ' s County the prospect is equally healthy .

      Mlutarv Fobce In London And Vlcimtt.—The...

      MlUTARV FOBCE IN LONDON AND VlCIMTT . —The following are the regiments and battalions at present quartered in the metropolis and its environs : — Cavalry . — 1 st Regiment of Life Guards , Albany Barracks , Regent ' s Park ; 2 nd ditto , Knightst bridge Barracks , Hyde-park ; Royal Horse Guards ( blue ) , Windsor ; 1 st Royal Dragoons , Barnet , 4 th Light Dragoons , Hampton Court ; 8 th Hussars , Kensington and Hounslow ; 17 th Lancers and Royal Horse Artillery , Woolwich . Infantry . —lst battalion Grenadier Guards , Windsor ; 2 nd battalion ditto , Penitentiary ; 3 rd battalion ditto , St . George ' s Barracks , Trafalgar-square ; 1 st battalion Coldstream Guards , Tower of London ; 2 nd battalion ditto , Wellington Barracks , St . James' Park ;

      1 st battalion Scotch Fusilier Guards , Portman-street Barracks ; 2 nd battalion ditto , St . John ' s-wood Barracks , Regent ' s Park ; 2 nd battalion 23 rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers , London and Canterbury ; 88 . h oitto Connaught Rangers , Canterbury ( 7 th Royal Fusiliers 48 th ditto , and 95 th ditto , Portsmouth ); 1 st battalion Rifle Brigade , Dover ; 2 nd battalion ditto , Kingston and Canterbury ; Royal Foot Artillery , Royal Engineers , and Sappers and Miners , and Royal Marines , Woolwich . Besides the above are the enrolled Chelsea out-pensioners battalions , who can always be called out if required , within twentyfour hours . The tranquil state of the metropolis during the"Grand Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations , " will not require after this month more than the usual number of troops in the vicinity of

      town . The Ruins op Memphis . —On Monday the Minister of the Interior presented to the French Assembly a bill for a credit of SO . OOOf ., for the purpose of exploring the Temple , of Serapis , in the ruins of Memphis . This temple , which has been covered with sand ever since the time of Strabo , and has since remained almost intact , offers much greater temptations to research than those monuments which have been ransacked by barbarians . The building is a mixture of the Greek and Egyptian styles of architecture , and the worship to which it was consecrated was a fusion of the Greek and Egyptian faith . The very slight soundings in the sand which have been hitherto made have brought

      to lig ht curious statues and bas-reliefs , and amongst other things , very curious portraits of Greek philosop hers . English Swindlers . —Extraordinary interest has been excited in the English circles at Pau by the trial , a few days ago , of an English married couple on the charge of swindling . The husband represented himself to be son of a colonial in the English army , and of a Neapolitan princess ; the wife took the title of lady , and represented herself to he the daughter , of an English general . Both pretended to be allied to the families of the Dukes of Norfolk , Leinster , ; and Devonshire . On the 18 th of February last they ! arrived in a postchaise at the Hotel de France , accompanied by several servants , and they

      lived iu the style of persons of the highest rank . They ran up a bill of 6 , 000 f ., and , as tho landlord declined to give credit for more , they took a chateau , which they caused to be fitted up in a costly way . Tbey paid 2 , 500 f ., on account of the rent ; but ran deep into debt with butcher , tailor , dressmaker , grocer , carpet-dealer , and domestics . The lady , , who affected to be very pious , incurred 895 f . with an adbe for masses . An English lady , who arrived from Brussels to give evidence , stated that her husband had paid 50 , 000 f . to release them from the debtors' prison at Cologne . She , however , added , that she believed that they were what they

      represented themselves to be ; but other witnesses threw doubt on this point . It was shown that they had received letters from Lord Grey , the King Of Holland , and other distinguished personages . The tribunal , after hearing all the evidence , decided that the accused had made use of false names , and had been guilty of swindling . It accordingly condemned them to a year ' s imprisonment and 200 f . fine . On hearing the sentence the woman uttered a piercing shriek and fainted in her husband ' s arms . He , with apparently great affection , paid her every attention , andshe soon recovered . They were then removed to prison .

      Tub General Board op Health . —On Monday two acts of parliament were printed confirming certain provisional orders of the General Board of Health . On the 17 th of September next " , elections for local boards of health are to take place at the following places -. —Morpeth , Bristol , Beverley , Sherborne , Bridgen , Bryn , Mawr , Norwich , Gateshead , Doneaster , Margate , the borough of Weymouth , and Meloombe Regis : Newmarket , Romford , Tenby , Kingstou-upon-IIull , Hartlepool , Hastings , and at West Oowes on the 4 th of September . By the second act the provisional order for Great Yarmouth in Norfolk is confirmed .

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      TRIAL OF JOHN WINDSOR FOR THE MUR DflR OF HIS WIFE .

      ( From the Milford ( Delaware ) Beacon . ) The trial of Captain John Windsor , a wealthy citizen of this county , is now terminated in our Court of Oyer and Terminer at Georgetown . Captain Windsor is a man of wealth , and jealousy was the cause of the murder , as will bo seen by the testimony and the admissions of the prisoner . The Attorney General opened the case to the jury . He enlarged upon the grave character of the case , and the enormity of the charge—defined the crime of murder , and said that it was justly punishable with death by the laws of God and man . He then stated the leading facts of the case as they would be proved by the prosecution . On the 1 st of May 1850 the defendant deliberately wrote out

      , , a paper referring to his wife and the contemplated crime . On the next day he loaded his gun , went abroad , and returned , saying to a person , if he should hear of anything serious happening at his house not to let it disturb him . He returned home , went to the garret where his wife was weaving , told her that he had often said to her that the time would come when she would tremble in his presence bid her prepare as her time was short , drew out a pistol and shot her mortally . He soon after said that he had contemplated this act for many months , ; and if he bad found another person whom he had been searching for , he would die content ; that he would die in a very short time , as he had taken laudanum , not meaning to become a public example , by going to the gallows . The Attorney

      General referred to the defence of insanity , but would not anticipate it , except to say that it was a defence to be made out by the prisoner , and must go to the extent of establishing incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong . James Stuart , sworn —On Wednesday morning May 2 , 1850 , about seven o ' clock , I heard from my wife that Captain Windsor had shot his wife . I ran over to his house and saw him standing in the yard with a gun in his hand . lie was pointing it at a man who was passing . I said , "Captain , what ' s tbe matter ? " He said , "I have shot my wife ; go up stairs and see her , if you choose . " I went up and saw her lying on the floor , very pale , a child nine months old sitting by her crying . I spoke to her ; and she Opened her eyes with an expression of

      gladness : begged me to carry her down stairs , as she would die in a few minutes , and said that her husband had shot her . She said she was in the other room weaving for him , and he came into the room presenting a pistol , and told her she had but a short time to live—that he was going to shoot her ; that she fled and got where she then was , and he shot her . I went down stairs , and found the prisoner in his store . He refused to let me come in . I pushed the door open , and found him still standing with the gun in bis hands . I demanded the gun , and he refused to give it up , and I took hold of it to take it away , when I smelt laudanum , and said to him , " You old dog , you aro not satisfied to kill one , but have been killing yourself . " He suffered me to take ! the gun , and asked me not to shoot him .

      He said he had taken half a gill of laudanum , and would soon be dead ; that he had intended to kill Joseph Osborne , then his wife , and Alexander Elligood , and Milford Saunders ( negro ) , if they interfered with him . Ho told me a long story about his grievances . Mentioned a letter . Asked me to correct the spelling and grammar without altering the sense , and to have it published at his expense . Told me to go to the desk and get money to pay for the publication . He handed mo the key , and gave me also a list of judgments . The laudanum soon began to operate on him ; but before this he told me he did shoot her , and shot to kill her . Before she died sho sent for him , and he went up to her . She desired to be lifted in her bed . and said to him ,

      "Take care of the children . You have said they were not yours , I have but a few minutes to live ; before God , on my dving bed , they are yours , and I want you to do a father ' s part by them . " She called him to look at her wound , and he began to cry , and said he would not have done it for a thousand worlds , and then left the room . In the course of the day prisoner said be had intended this for some time . He gave as a reason tor taking the laudanum , that he did not mean to be hung . That he would not be made a public example . He walked about violently until he became weak , and sat down and then fell . He asked me for more laudanum . I said I had a quantity at home , enough to fix him off . He begged Dr . Fisher for poison . Mrs . Windsor died about three o ' clock that afternoon .

      Tho letter referred to is as follows : — " I have set down in great distress , both in body and mind , to think I married a woman that I love , and in four weeks after 1 married her , sho should commence a criminal correspondence with such a worthless man as Joseph Osborne , that has a wife and five children ; that she took the money out of the store belittle at a time and gave it to him ; and I could not leave the house ; if I only stayed fifteen or twenty minutes , and came in , I would catch him in the house or just going away . On the 14 th of April , 1847 , I oarae to the house and found it fastened up . I thumped at the door and called quite loud ; received no answer . Walked round the house to

      t ' other door . Osborne was just stepping out at the door . I walked in . Found Nancy very much confused . Asked her how the door became fast . She denied it . I told her she and Osborne was shut up together . She denied it . On the 2 d of April I ordered him not to come to my house any more . After that she would meet him out at the stable , the old copper shop , behind the smokehouse , of nights . You might see where tbey stood , and the tracks where they met . I found I lost 12 dols . 60 c . that she took and give him . I don't know how much more , and from thirty pounds to fifty pounds of pork at one time to Elligoud , a family that kept a watch for them and carried news to each other

      privately . He had Milford Sanders employed to conjure lor them , also Alexander Elligood and daughter . They furnished her with some poison stuff that she would put on my clothes and head , that would almost distract me . I had had to hire my washing from home , and quit ^ sleeping with her , to keep her from filling my clothes full in bed . The life she leads me—I cannot describe it . Her children are not mine . Joseph Osborno is the father of them both , andshe is now with child by him . * * * If she should live , if it could be so , I think that that would he a sufficient proof of all that I have said concerning the life that she and that man has led me . I believe there is persons that know of their criminal correspondence , but they keep it from me . They may come out after 1 am gone . If not , the two children will speak for themselves ; their favour will be as good proof as

      those acquainted with him and the family will want . I don't know according to the marriage contract and my will whether my estate will have them to raise up to seven years old ; if the law should compel my administrator to raise them two illegitimate children , to that age , I wish him or the county to put them to good masters , as I disown them as being children of mine . If they were it would be a great consolation to think my labour and industry should go to my offspring . What I have here wrote is the truth ; the Lord is my judge ; and I wish it published to the world , as it may perhaps bo of service to some people . The Great Jehovah I hope will pardon me for what may hereafter take place . If it should be printed , I hope it may be put in good form , " Jso . Windsor , and correct the bad spelling . Wrote May 1 , 1850 , ( Endorsed)—I hope that some friend of mine may have this made public . " Jno . Windsor . "

      Second Dat . ' Jambs Downing , sworn—Was sent for to s ? o to prisoner ' s soon after he had shot his wife . 1 found him in the store walking about , much excited , sweating freely , but in other respects much as usual . He held out his hand to me , and said , " Oh , Mr . Downing , I have shot my wife ! " He then said he had taken his gun that morning to shoot Joe Osborne , but missed him ; that Rollins or some one gave Osborne notice by a sign ; that be returned , put away his gun , took a pistol and bowie knife , intending to kill his wife with the bowie-knife ; that he went up in tbe garret where his wife was weaving , and said to her , " Nancy , you are going to die , your time is short . " She said , " Yes , Captain Windsor , we are all to die , and our time is short . " He said he then went down

      stairs and got his best pistol , the one which was surest of fire , and went up again and said to his wife , " Nancy , I have told you that you would tremble at my appearance ; " that she ran out of the room and hallooed " murder ; " that as she ran there was a line hanging across the room with some bags hanging on it , aad as she raised her arms to send the bags from her head he fired , and she fell ; that he walked down stairs , went into the store , and took from half a gill to a gill of laudanum . He said he should not live twenty minutes , he was certain , from the effect of tbe laudanum . He then said he went with the intention of killing Osborne that morning , that then he intended to kill his wife , and then destroy himself with laudanum . He said there were five or six he should like to kill , and he would then be satisfied— viz ., Milford Saunders , Aleck Elligood , Aleck's daughter , Jos . Osborne , his wife , and himself . He then showed me

      where his key was ; said he should be here but a very little time , as the medicine was operating . Told me to take care of that key and hia papers until John Windsor came . By this time he became very sick , and making an attempt to sit down , he fell down upon the floor . I went to him and raised him in the chair , persuaded him to go in and lie down on the bed . He said , " No j" would not lie down on the bed ; that they had too much poison stuff there for him ; that he would go in the parlour and lie down on the sofa , 1 went alongside of him , and James Stewart on the other side of him . He got to where his writing desk was on the counter , opened it , and took ont a pocket pistol . Stewart took hold of it , and said he could not have that . He said , "You might let me have it ; 1 do not want to hurt you nor any one else ; " but he gave it up to Stewart , and went in with me and laid down on the sofa . He Ihen became very sick and vomited'from laudanum ; and after that he said

      Mlutarv Fobce In London And Vlcimtt.—The...

      " Mr . Downing , I am afraid there is not enough remaining in me to kill me , " and asked me lo give him more . I told him he could not have any more . He said , '' Oh , gire me more , I want to die , and I will die—I never intended to be a public example . He then became calm and still , and I left him and went up-stairsto see Mrs . Windsor . She said Captain Windsor had shot her . I returned to Windsor , and stayed with him nearly all day until the officers cmne . IJunng the time Mrs . Windsor sent word she wished to see bim . Ue went up , took a seat by herside , und 1 went into the next room , leaving several with them . lie did not stay more than a minute or two , but went

      down stairs and I with him . He lay down on the sofa again . In about an hour his wife sent for him to go up again . He refused to go , saying he felt too weak . I advised him to go , and led him up-stairs again , tie sat down by her bedside , and took hold of her hand . She said , "Captain Windsor , you have often said these children were not yours , but belore God a » d all these people they are yours , and you ought to do something for them . " "Ah , " said lie , " Nancy yon need not talk about these things now . " Still holding her hand , and rising , he said , " God bless you , " and left her . She called him back to look at the wound , ho said no , he was not prepared to see it then , and he went down to the sofa again .

      The above is all the testimony in the case which has come to hand ; but the trial has been concluded , the prisoner has been convicted , and sentenced to be hanged . He is about sixty years of age , while the victim of his jealousy was only twenty-lour .

      Brutal Murder At Manchester. An Inquest ...

      BRUTAL MURDER AT MANCHESTER . An inquest was held at Manchester on Tuesday before Mr . E . Herford , the coroner , upon the bedy of a young man named Henry Ellis , whoso life had been taken by a blow on the head from a hammer , inflicted by a shoemaker , under circumstances showing little , if any provocation . James Macnamara , the man charged with this serious ofience , was not before the court , having been taken by the police before tho borough magistrates and remanded until Wednesday ; and the proceedings at tho opening of the inquiry had reference to the still pending dispute between the coroner and magistrates as to the power of tho latter to withhold a prisoner when demanded under a coroner ' s warrant .

      Jons Cocker , a dyer , said . —About ten o ' clock on Saturday night , tho 12 th ult ., I went into Ann Oldfield's beerhouse , in Queen-street , Ilulrae . Deceased was there , in company with a man named James Macnamara . Deceased was there sitting in a corner , and seemed to have had some drink . He said he had had some bother with Macnamara , who is a shoemaker in Moss-lane . Macnamara came in and deceased offered to shake hands with hfm , and Macnamara did so , and deceased gave him a glass of beer . He tasted it , and then went out , followed a minute or two afterwards by deceased . I heard shouts in the street and went out . Macnamara was running after the witness Catherine M'Garry , and saying he would serve her tho same way . He bad something in his hand , but I could not distinguish what it was . Before he ran after tbe woman I saw deceased lying on the flags on his

      side , Miles Crook appeared to bo keeping Macna * mara off deceased . Macnamara went on running towards Moss-lane—towards his home . I helped deceased up from tho ground . He had a bad cut on the back of his head , from which blood was issuing copiously , and there was also blood on the ground . Ho was taken into John Lane ' s house , and wo washed his head . I and Holyoak , and Miles Crook , then took him to a druggist ' s , whence ho was brought here to the Infirmary in half-anhour . I came with him in a cab . His head was dressed , and he was taken borne again . I did not see him afterwards , till I saw his body here this morning . Macnamara did not appear to be affected by liquor when he shook hands with deceased in the beer-house . It was a short thing that Macnamara had in his hand . There was iron to it , because I heard him rattle it against the flags .

      Emanuel Fogabty said . —I was coming home , and saw Macnamara running quickly out of the Prince of Wales beer-house , and I followed him . He lives in Moss . lane , some distance off . I saw him get his hammer off his bench , and bis wife asked him what he was going to do with it . He told her to mind her own business , or he would give her a knock with it . Ho then ran out with the hammer in his hand , and I followed him back to Oldfield ' s , When ho approached the house ho put the hammer in his pocket , and then went in . I heard quarrelling insido , and deceased came out about a quarter of an

      hour afterwards . Micnamara followed , and tripped deceased down , with his foot , on the pavement , about five yards from tho door . He then hit him oa the head with the sharp end of the hammer . There was a great crowd round the spot . When Macnamara had struck deceased once , he ran after a woman now present , who bad told him he would hurt the man . He then ran away , and I did not see him again till half-past eleven . I was standing at our own door , which is about thirty yards from Old . field ' s . The hammer was like the one now producedi I am sure Macnamara was sober .

      Catherine Fox , tho wife of a founder , said . —AS I was crossing the street from my own cellar I saw deceased coming out of the beer-house and goingtowards another house of the same description . I then saw Macnamara coming as if from his own house towards where deceased stood , with something in his hand . He came up to deceased and drew his hand back and struck him on the side of the head . Deceased staggered back and then came , forward . Macnamara then hit deceased again with , what he had in his hand . I asked him if he knew what he was doing , when he replied that he would serve me the same , and ran after me . He then went back again .

      Wii , mam Skinner , house surgeon at the infir . mary , said—Deceased came here about twelve at night on the 12 th July , having received a scalp wound on the left side of the head . It might have been Caused by either end of the hammer now produced . He sa ' id , or some men who were with him said , that be had been struck with a sboraaker ' s hammer . I saw no other injury . I have no parti , cular recollection of seeing him here more than ouce . He attended as an accident patient . He was admitted into the hospital on the Ctb . He was insensible . I attended him till he died . I have made a post mortem examination this morning , by tho coroner's warrant . Corresponding to the wound before mentioned there was a very slight

      fracture of the skull , and a softening of the bone , as if it had been bruised with the same violence which inflicted the wound . There had been inflammation of the membranewhich had extended , and a quantity of pus was secreted over the whole of the left hemisphere . There was a small abcess on that side towards the base of the brain . There is no doubt that the abcess was caused by the inflamroi tiOn produced by the external violence . The chronic inflammation of the brain , caused by violence , was the cause of death . Such a result would be a probable consequence of such injury . The fits spoken of would no doubt result from the same cause . 1 should think a hammer more likely to produce it than a last .

      Several other witnesses were examined , aftet which the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against James Macnamara . James Macnamara was brought up on AYednesday morning at the Manchester Borough Court for further examination . Tho evidence was substantially the same as that given before the coroner , except that Ann Oldfield , the keeper of tho public house in which the quarrel took place , asserts that deceased struck the prisoner first . This agrees with piirt of the prisoner's own statement to the officer who apprehended him . Tho prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes .

      Conveyance Of Troops By Railway.—The Mon...

      Conveyance of Troops by Railway . —The Moni ~ tear states , that the commission nominated ia March last , under the presidency of General Oudinot de Reggio , to examine and set forth the services which railways may render to the country in tbe event of a war , offensive or defensive , has reported that it is important in a military and economic point of view that corps and detachments shallcontinue as before to go on foot , hut that railway materiel

      after certain modifications not of an expensive character , may be immediately employed in tbe con * veyanceof troops ; that to convey troops by rail-Way is an easy operation j and that such conveyance may have great strategic importance , and add considerably to the force of the state . Tbe committee have submitted a scries of regulations on the subject to the Minister of War . It also dwella on the military importance of a railway round Paris .

      Immigrants and Liberated Africans . —On Mor > day was printed a parliamentary ,- paper , showing the number of immigrants and liberated Afrioana admitted into the West Indian colonies and the Mauritius during the years 1849 , 1 S 50 , and 1861 In the three years the total to the West Indies numbered 12 , 515 , and to the Mauritius 18 600 Some were landed at Jamaica direct from a ' canl tured slaver ™ Femalb Emigrant Socvm . -IIer Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her fK- ° « - bject ? f th 0 Britisu Ladies Female Emigration Society , by subscribing £ 100 to its nuid The ob ject of this association , as - stated o cL T * ' < . n 0 t l ? P romote migration , but ™ l S * A mor al treats of Wleemi-£ t al- especi ally of y ° ung women going . .

      » i . f t LlND —The United State * papers state i n enny Lind arrived on the 20 b ult . at Niagara * alls , on a private visit , having previously »* Rochester received a party of six 0 jibbew » 7 Indians , who , at her request , sang some tjg ¦ war songs , and were repaid by the . WfSg ;^ warbl „ g the Echo and Bird *^{ 3 g $ Rg £ tended , after giving a few ^ ^ rpooC ^ if embark about the 16 th instant foi . *•* * ^ - New York . y :

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16081851/page/7/