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      Profosep New County Prison. — Atthe Mary...

      inform yw that *»»» Jg 2 Jtts * he haa aatiafied « nd anxious w > " ** £ ^ JKnd to jastify bis ad-W ^ l fl SSrfffifiSB * l sUi pardon . *»»«! " * ^ Ldo « d But while he has arrived ¦^ S ^ AKi *^ of aUthe do-* - * £% fhfewssession , comprising very material ^^ rSffiKwe traripired skee the em ^^ 1 ? JGeSe Grey feels bound to add , that he 25 SaSWSfW the verdict of the jury SwarrS by the facts proved at bis trial ; and SJS to now believes Mr Barber to have tan geTkm any guilty palpation in ^ frand . of £ tlh ho was mads the instrument , he thinks that reater prudence and caution on hia part would have exem pted him from the suspicion to which Jna conduct in the transactions is question naturally exposed him . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , 6 . CoasswiLL Lkwis . —A . Stevenson , Esq ., w , EsStreet Strand

      sex , ; _ _ . . Dsath op a Faults PBH 9 NiB .-On Saturday last an icqieat was held in Horsemonger Lane gaol , on the body of Mary Ann Hayna , aged thirty-nine . Ihe de ^ esssd waa in custody awaiting her trial for having attempted to murder her husband , Robert Hayne , compositor , by stabbing him with a table knife . She bunt a blood vessel in a fit ofosngnmg which caused her death . Verdict accordingly . Fatal Ratxwat Accident . —On Saturday night Ust an inqueife was held on the body of James Cap-Mr , ared thirty-eight , who , incautiously erodin g the rails at the Minories station , was knocked down 5 y a train and so much injured that , after lingering some days , hedied at the London Hospital . Verdict "Accidental death /

      Of The Northern Stab. , Noyembbb 18, 184...

      THE NORTHERN STAB . , Noyembbb 18 , 1848 ,

      The Cholera. On Saturday Last The Board ...

      THE CHOLERA . On Saturday last the Board of Health received infor & aticn of the following ; new eases : —Stepney , 1 , fats !; Lambstli , 3 . 1 fatal ; Soutawark , 4 ; Camberwell , 2 , fatal ; Greenwich , 2 ; Hackney-read , 1 ; Hsniton workhouse , 1 ; Edinburgh , 25 , 14 fatal ; North and Santa Leitn , 15 , i fatal . Total new eases , 5 i ; 22 fatal . On Monday the following eases were reported to the Board of Health : —St MarylebDne , 1 ; Stepney , 1 ; Lambeth , 2 , 4 deaths ; Soatbwaik , 6 , 4 deaths CambErwelL S , 2 deaths ; Greenwich , 3 , 1 death ; Stamford Bill , 1 fatal ; Soutkwark , 1 fatal ; Edinburgh , 14 , 4 fatal ; Leith 7 , 1 fatal-Total , 39 aew eases , 18 deaths .

      On Tuesday the Board of Health received reports of the following new cases : —Stepney , 1 ; Lambeth , 1 ; Southwark , 3 , 1 fatal ; Battertea , 1 ; Edinburgh , 13 . 2 fatal ; Leith . 6 , S fatal . Total new cases . 25 . 6 deoths . The Registrar General ' s report , issued on Ties- ' ay , states tbe total deaths from all causes during last week to have been 1 , 105 , the average ben , ' I f loi Oa Wednesday the following aew cases were reported to the Board of Health : —Stepney , 1 fatal ; Lambeth , !; Cambetwdl , 2 fatal ; Edinburgh , 19 , 5 fatal ; Leith , 7 , 1 fatal ; Haddington , 1 fatal ; Brechin . 1 fatal ; total new oases , 32 . 11 fatal

      MniBiNK Fsisoh . —On Saturday last , Mr Bedford held en inquest in the Millbank Prison as to the death ol one of the convict ? . The particulars , though gainful , were interesting . The deceased iras taken to the prison early ia this year , and there was a special report sent with . him to the following effect : — 'That he stated to the governor of the prison where he was sent from , that his brother ( also in the Millbank Prison ) and a man of the name of Wicks ( abo there ) had ' split' against him in many barglaries they had been engaged in , aad he would ' serve them out' if ha had the chance . Ths governor of tha county gaol advised he should ba kept from his mother and Wicks . ' This was done . The 1 risoner was taken ill , and confined in the infirmary , where he had every attention from the medio ? 1

      officers , but lutimately died of dysentery . Tho brother was examined , andsaid everything , he believed , had been dene for the deceased . The Coroner : Have you any request to make ? Ton oan apeak without fear . The brother . —I should like to make ene request . —What is it : HI have the power it shall be complied with ?—To follow my brother to the grave . —I cannot mak « an order fer that ; I have no power : No doubt the officers of the prison will attend to your wish . —Dr Bay ley , tho physician , and the Rev . Mr Penny , the chaplain , said the request of the prisoner should certainly ba complied with . —The Coroner asked whether the cholera had left . —Dr Bayly replied , that in all the cases of cholera the patients were oonvalesent . —Have you been able to discover

      whether the cholera took placs in any particular part of the prison ?—No ; we nave five pentagons in the prison ( these are the angular buildings from the centre ) and fifteen eases of cholera , and it is a most smgaiar fact that three have come from each pentagrrn . —Perhaps tha wind had something to do with , it ? mi cannot answer that question . —The jury returned ft verdict of ' Natural Death . ' Bsoulet —On Saturday last , Mr Garman , surgeon , of Bromley , reported to Mr Baker , a death from Asiatic cholera . He waa called on Friday , about eleven a . m ., to attend a man of the name of Samuel Daan , a pipemaker , who lived in ihe neigh , bonrhood of Mill-street . The usual medicines were prescribed , but without effect , and the man died the eame night about ten o ' clock .

      SrocKwnH , Lxscolhshibe . —There have been at Stockwith , two decided cases ef Asiatic cholera , both of which hsva terminated fatal j . BticEFHUBS Roab . —Oa Monday night Mr W . Payne , the Coroner , resumed and concluded an inquiry atthe Crown Tavern , Blaekfriar ' s Read , into the death of Edward Nash , aged fifty-eight , a horse jobber . The deceased was a person of very depraved and intemperate habits , aad , though a married mar , he had been for the last Sve years living with a person named Sarah Walker the keener of the house in

      winch he died . Deceased had bean in his usual health , when therremonifory symptoms of cholera pet is . He died on Friday , audi as he had positively stated that he believid that he had been hooussed , a post mortem examination had been made , Dr Gelding Bird , the minent physician of Gny ' s Hospital , deposed that he fonnd no appearances to lead to the conclusion that any deleterious drug had been ad . ministered . He was certain tbat death had resulted from pestilential er Indian cholera . Verdict Tea h fromciiolera . '

      EBrsBCEOH . —Ia some families the epidemic has been attended with distressing fatality . In the Canongate a mother and four of her children were attacked with it , and died a short time afterwards ; and in Loanhead , four sisters , belonging to the paper milis there , lay dead in the same house at one time . About forty altogether have been seized at this village , and the fatality amouta to about the half . It first broke ont amongst these belonging to file paper nulls in that vicinity , and has been chiefly eonfinsd to them , aad not , as we were led to believe , among the colliers , very few of whom have been attacked by tha epidemic . There have been eighteen cases reported in Portoballo since the commencemeat of the disease . There was tone fatal ease at Cockpen on Wednesday ; and on Friday the keeper ofTyuecaaUe toll-bar died of cholera after an illness Of a few hours .

      Loan Cabdigak Asd Thb 11th Hussars.— The...

      Loan Cabdigak asd thb 11 th Hussars . — The John BuB has published a staetment relative to Lord Cardigan , founded upon a case , the alleged eircumstances of which are briefly these ; a short time since the Hon . Gerard Noel , a captain in the corpl of which Lord Cardigan is colonel , having been late at stables reported himself , expressing regret for his breach of discipline . He was at once placed under arrest by the colonel , and the arrest remained ia force until the regiment left the town , on which occasion Captain Noel marched ont in the rear of his troop , without his sword the usual course adopted towards officers under arrest . Soon after . Wilds C & ptain Noel waa again placed under arrest

      , for not returning to his duty during the Easter holidays , the rule , however , being that officers in the army , who are also members of the legislature , may at any time absent themselves from their regimentwithout the necessity of obtaining leave of absenceto attend their parliamentary duties . Prom this arrest , ao soon as is was known , Captain Noel was released by the general of the district . Not long after his liberation from the second arrest , Capt . Noel , not being exactly oa the spot where at the moment he ought to have been , Lord Cardigan peremptorily called ont to him . 'Capt . Noel , goto your troop , sir ! ' To which order the captain replied , « I am with my troop , sir ; ' being immediately answered by

      his lordship , 'Yeu are not , sir ; none of your London manners here ! ' Hurt by the colonel ' s words , he asked for a private interview , at which he asked Lord Cardigan why insulting language had been applied to him on parade , in the presence of bis troop ? The answer received was , ' 3 et out of my room , sir ! ' Thereupon Capt . Noel laid the whole matter before the Commander-in-chief , who , after a considerable coirespondence with the parties , directed , through the Adjutant-General , that Capt . Noel should apologise to Lord Cardigan , a direction with which Capt . Noel , in the presence of the Adjutant-General , Lord Cardigan , and other

      authorities , refused to comply . The Hon . Captain Noel is member for the county of Rutland his father , the Earl of Gainsborough , is a supporter of the government , though the captain himself is a Conservative ; his maternal uncle is Sir G . Grey , the Home Secretary , and his stepmother is lady of the bedchamber . Capiain Noel writes to the commander in-chief , expressing his , wish 10 obey his grace ' s commands , but praying in the first instance , for a court of inqniiy . The Duke of Wellingten refuses the court of inquiry upon principle , and a court martial is impracticable , for before such a tribunal Lord Cardigan must prefer bis charge . Here the matter rests .

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      Wandsworth.—Apacra* Souoox..—Mr R.Vronat...

      WANDSWORTH . —APAcra * Souoox .. —Mr R . Vronat , aged 29 , the broth * of and aulstait manager to Mr Bartholomew Druet , tho proprietor of an extentlva eiu bUihment at Lower Tooting , for the reception ef p » nper children , belonging to the metropolitan unlona , was placed la the dock before Mr Beadon , and charged vrith capitally assaulting MirgaretDswley , lata aa In . mate of that eitablhhment . Tuaproiacntton had beta lnatitutedr -y tha board of guardians of the above-men . ttoned union , in consequence of tha statamsnta made to them by the girl Dawle / , wh » wa « one of their pauper children , and had b « n « farmed out' al Mr Dfau « t »« eslabUshmaat . Margaret Dawley . I » no w an Inmate of the Ksnalngton workhouse . Oa tha 12 th of May , UtT , waigenttoHrDrouat ' aeatabllBhnKut at Tooting-, an *

      UftoathsSJod of Hay , 18 * 8 . Knows Mr Richard Dronet , tfceprUoner . He waiundtr-mastar toMrDroaet whilst she was in that eitablUhnwnt . Was during Ihe laBtthreemonthBofherramainlngthera parlour maid , that is , bad to wait npon Mr Drouet and his family . Oa a Sstorday night abont thrae weeks before she left Tooting , went to call Mr R . Drouet to supptt ; he waa in the lodge , and he told her to go and call Miss Day , the onder-Ejatron , who was in tbe other home . She did so , and was coming ont of the garden , whon the prisoner , who was behind tbe gate , rushed ont npon her , eaught hold of her , and drew her into a little room called the dissecting room . She tried to scream , bnt he pit one hand over her mouth and succeeded in perpetrating ihe cff . no * . She straggled as much as she could , hut to no

      iffect . She afterwards west as fast as she could to her work , bnt finding she was too ill to doit she got another girl to take her place , and weat to bid . She told this girl she felt-very ill , bnt nothing mere . She did not know whether Miss Pay passed while She WBS in the diB > secting room . The 000 k and several girls slept lathe same room as herself , but rbe did not say any thing to them . On Sunday she told the nurse she was very ill and she gave her some medicine , bnt she did not say what had made her 111 . She lay in bed the whole of that day . On Monday she was too ill to work . Mrs Ksnnally the washerwoman , gave her some tea , and told her to go Into the hot roam ; she there saw Louisa Watts , another girl , who asked what was the matter with her , and she told her . Soon afterwards she went Into the

      school-room , and after sitting there a shore time Miss ShwabUr , the aehcol mistress , told her that Louisa Watts had isformed her abont Richard Drouet taking indecent liberties with her , and asked her if il was so . ComBlatoaat answered that he had ; and she and the governess ' * assistant , Sarah Goat , said he was a very impudent man , and she ought not to have got in his way . She did not tell Miss Shambler or Hiss Goat that the prisoner had criminally assanltedher . Complainant never made any other complaint until she cams to Kenling ton . Neither Hlis Shambler nor Miss Goat asked her any further queitions about it . Two or three days after she wentto Kensington she mentioned thesubjeot to a Mrs Jaivis , when she asked her how tke children were getting on at Tooting . She then told her that the

      prisoner had taken iniecent liberties with several of the girls , as also with her , Catherine Barley , and Sackewon , to whom he had given a pair of gold sar . ringf . Jarrls did not take any farther notice at the time . The n > . xt occasion on which she alluded to the assault was when Catherine Cormack was telling the other girls how the prlionsr used to roll them on the grass , when her sister Anne , who had two children at Tooting , came to her , aad she then told her that she had been assaulted by him , and she told the master of the workhonse . She did not tall any one till last Monday tbat she bad been criminally assaulted , when she told Mrs Gerandam , who said she had two elderly girls there , and she wonld take them away . She saw the prisoner several times after tbe occurrence had takea place , and he

      nsed to speak to her , bnt never relative to it . — Louisa Watts stated that she was eighteen years of age , and belonged to the Strand Union , Some years since she went to Tooting , and had left on last Christmas eve . She knew the last witness , and thinks she did make a complaint to her la the hot room , abont Hr Richards taklog indecent liberties with her . She did not pcroeiro anything the matter with her . She did not speak ( s Miss Shambler or Miss Goat . She did not tell wltnesr that he had done anything else . Witness did not hear that he had done the same to other girls . She knew a girl named Barley . Had never heard anything said of liberties taken with her . —The complainant was here recalled , and in answer to a question from the bench , said the prisoner had token liberties with her for months

      before he assaulted her , and she told her of tbat aa well as the assault . She also told the governess Shambler , on both occasions . She did not know whether it was before or after Christmas the first ocsaeion . On that occasion ehe merely nodded her head ; on the second occasion she sent for her . —MrBeadon said his opinion was , that the complainant had committed gross peijory ; she had sworn she had teld Watts of the assault , and that witness had left mentha previously . He wonld , however , pr & ceea with the investigation , —Catherine Burley stated tbat she was thirteen years of age , and belonged to Ken . siagtoa parish , She weat to Tooting on the Sth of December , She knew Dawley . On the Sth ef May , Daw . ley was taking some Unseed and mustard into the mas . ter ' s ward , when she asked her to let her go and see her

      brother and sister . The prisoner said she should take it herself , and she did so . As she was gelog np the stairs , Mr Richard put his hand np her clothes . She nearly fell down , and he went away . When she came down , she told Dawley of it . He had never spoken to her nor troubled her since . —The witness Barley said , ia her cross-examination , the assanlt on her occurred a fortnight after she had been at Tooting , She told the governess whro they were in class , wee made no answer , and she did not know whether she heard her . —Miss Sarah Jane Day was next called . She waa under-matron at Mr Dronet ' s ; she left his establishment on the 7 th of March last fer Margate , for the benefit other health , and did not return till the 27 th of Jane . —Mr Drouet wished to observe that the room alluded to as a dissecting roem

      by the cemplauunt was nothlng ^ of the kind—It was used as a store , and always locked . —Miss Sarah Shambler , tha governess , positively swore . that the complainant asvif spoke to her abont Mr Richard Dronet , nor had the witness Barley ever made any complaint to her . She had had a great deal of trouble with Dawley . Witness had been seven jesrs the jrovernew , —Susan Jarrla said she was in the Kensington Union ; that hearing Cormack speaker the liberties that were taken with the girls at T ooting , ehe asked . Dawley if it were true , and she then said it was not only true , but that Richard Drouet had assaulted her against her consent . The witness detailed the facts much as the complainant had herself stated . Witness added she had made the same statement to the Guardians ; she did not know Dawley to be a bad

      behaved girl . —Mr Beadon repeated his conviction that tbe complainant and the girl Barley had perjured themselves . What motive these girls eenld have had to get np such a charge It was Impossible for him te say . He conld believe neither the complainant nor Barley , an 4 the case most be dismissed . —Mr Roberts said a report af a man acting as hts client wbs alleged to have dons was ruin to him , unless it was satisfactorily shown to the public that not the slightest imputation rested on his character . —Mr Beadon : I can only state tbat from that which is before me , I disbelieve the girl ' s statement entirely . —Mr Dronet said he was most happy to court tha foUestpublic Inquiry Into the management ef his establishment ; and on his first hearing of the charge he hid riven the authorities every assistance in Us power .

      SOUTHWARK . —Stamiho . —E . Malcabywasbrought bafore Mr Cottingham npon the charge of having stabbed 5 , T . WaUington with a clasp knife . —The complain ant , who appeared to he in a very weak and exhausted condition from loss of blood , stated that on the preceding night , about a quarter before twelve o ' clock , hs , in company with his wife and a man named Dooley and his wife , were returning home together , when , in walking aiOBg Bankside , they encountered the prisoner . Tbe latter was standing near the Phoenix gas wsrks , and as they passed him he made use of some very coarse and disgusting language , upon which Dooley remonstrated with him , and an altercation occurred between them , which ended in Dooley walking away , and complainant ' s party proceeded onward nndtr the impression that It was

      auaver , and that tbey would hear no more abont the prisoner . They , however , had not walked many yards when tbe prisoner eame running after them , and Dooley being in advance , the prisoner ran up to complainant , and standing before bim so as to Impede his progress , he exclaimed , addressing complalnanr , - There , take that , •—— Westminster , ' and immediately plunged the point ofa clasp knife Into Ms sii « , and then ran away , leaving the weapon sticking in the wound . Complainant , finding he was stabbed , called ont , and Deolej pursued tbe assailant . The knife Was here produced , vrith Hood upon the blade of it , and was one of those large clasp knives which are in general use among labouring men . The complainant added that hehad given the prisoner no provocation whatever , and that the angry words whioh had previously occurred were between the prisoner and Dooley . —Dooley confirmed the complainant's account of the ontrage , aad said that when he pursued the prisoner ,

      the latter , npon his coming up with him , resisted very ranch , and tried to make his escape . —Mr Odling , surgeon , stated that the wonnd was situated between the seventh and eight ribs . It was three quarters of anlneh in depth , and bad not the point of the weapon CQUie ( u contact with the rib , in aU human probability it would have entered tbe large intestines . —The prisoner , in his defence said that he bad jast left a public hoase when he met the partial , and that tbe complainant and Dooley began to those him , and then strutk him , and he defended himself as well as he conld , until at length he re ' celved ' a severe ' , blow on the bridge of his nose from one of them , and in his excitement he did not know afterwards what he did . He admitted that the knife produced belonged to him . There were marks of his having been strnok on the nose . He added that he was a labourer , and bad been three years in ons employment . —Com * mitted .

      A Rornm . — James Sullivan , a rnmacly-lookfag fellow , was charged with wounding Mary Goldsmith under tbe following circumstances : —The complainant , wing to the nature ot the injuries Inflicted npon her by her brntal assailant , had the lower portion of her face strapped np with adhesive plaster , and being incapacitated from giving her oral testimony In consequence of an extensive gash running along her upper 1 / p . and most other teeth knosked out , she therefore gave in a written aceoant of the ctrcumstiraces attending the ontrage . Mr Cottingham read the statement , by which it appeared that the complainant had been living with the prisoner in the Mint for the last two sears , and by

      Wandsworth.—Apacra* Souoox..—Mr R.Vronat...

      her labour assisted iaMs support . That oa tbe preview night he earns horns , and sht was preparing some fried bacon for hia sapper , when , witheut bsr havisg given him aay provocation , he ael » d tha frying-pan off the fire , and , aiming a blow at her head , struck her on the lower part of tbe fees with the edge of it , the belling fat running down her head aad neek . Hot contented with this aot of brutality , when she remenstratid with bim , ' he ruthid upon her , aad with his clenched fists struck her ' right and left in the face , until , as she expressed 1 » , * she vii one gore ; of , blood , aad fell senseless at bis feel . The clothing she wore during the attack was prodnced , and was completely saturated with blood . —A young man named Ooombes , who was present , confirmed tho complainant's written statement of tbe facts , and when ashed by Mr Cottlagbam why he had not interposed whin he

      witnessed the prlionsr almost murdering the woman , his reply was that Sullivan was such a desperate character that all ia the house were afraii of bim , and tbat he , witness , dared not interfere , under the apprehension that he wonld attack him , and that the prisoner would , In a moment , use any weapon that was at hand when hs was in a passion . —Mr Cottingham said , that the witness had disgraced himself for bsiag an idle spectator of sach an outrage , and that he was not worthy of tbe name of man for such conduct . The magistrate then , addressing the prisoner , asked bim what he had to say ia answer to the charge . —Prisoner : I was in a passion at the time , and am now sorry for it . —Mr Cottingham said tbat was a pretty exense for half murdering tbe woman , and that instead of deallag summarily with such an offender he shonld send him befere a jury . —Committed .

      GUILDHALL . —Ah unconscious Thikf , —An elderly gentleman , who gave his name as John Cross , residing at No . 31 , Duke Street , Drury Lane , and who represented himself as a teacher , at schools , of the French and German language * , was charged with stealing some knives and forks from the premises of Mr Field , 129 , Holbora , eoffee-heuse keeper , —It appeared from tbs evidence , which was very slight , that be went into the house and ordered a cup of coffee , when be was observed to have placed something In his bag , and it was als » notlced that he had bis hand on two table cloths . His bag waa at onos seaished , and , besides seme books , the knives and forks were discovered , although of tr . rling value , f here were atse some newspapers found is bis possession , bnt no owners for tbem . —Alderman Glbbs ; Well , prisener , what have yen to say '—Prisoner : I did not do it ; if I did my hand mui ; have done what my mlad was unconscious of , ( Liughter . )—Aid , Glbbs ; Bnt other people were conscloas of whatyou did . —Prisoner :

      Bat I am not conscious that I was there at all . —Aid . Glbbs : Ah , but they are . —Prisoner : Tbe fact is I had a little porter with some friends , and they most have put some opium into It , which had the effect of causing some confusion in my cerebral apparatus . .. ( Great laughter . ) —Alderman Glbbs * . Will you tell me what yon are!—Prisoner : I am a soioolmsster , and teacb , aot only the German and Preach languages , but Greet also , — The prisoner here spoke in very good French , to jastify his assertion , —Alderman Glbbs asked if tbe priaomr was sober when tn custody !—The prosecutors and the officer ¦ aid that he was net . —Prisoner : I hope yon will not send me forth again In the world as a despicable beggar , for I shall not be able to get a situation if I am sent to prison . —Alderman Glbbs ; lam' willing te take the case upon yonr own showing that yon did not know what yon were doing , and shall , therefore , fine yon Si ., or seven days' imprisonment , —The fine not being paid , he wss conveyed to gaol .

      LAMBETH , —UMunv Orjiiiox . —Rehert Jones , a well-dressed man , residing at No . 29 , Canterbury Street , Lambeth , was charged with the following outrage ;—It appeared that on the previous evening , Mrs Sarah Batey , a respectable married woman , who was on her rstura home , baring taken leave of some friends residing on the Middlesex side of the tint , the having to leave town the next day for Newcastle to Join her husband , on reaching the pay place on tbe Middlesex side of the Hangerford Bridge , and while paying the toll she dropped seme halfpence , which a female friend who ascompacted her stooped to pick it up . While so engaged the defendant came up and caught hold Of ths latttr female by her shawl , and pushed her to the ground with great violence , Mrs Batey followed the defendant on

      the y bridg * and asked him how he conld be guilty of such an unmanly and violent assault npon her friend , when he exclaimed , ' Woman , don ' t iasnlt me , ' and at the same instant atrnck her a violent blow with a stick on the left cheek , and inflicted a deep wound , He then threw the stick over the bridge and tried to get away , but ehe seised hold of him , and managed to keep her hold till a policeman heard her cries , and took him Into custody . Mrs Baley ' s evidence was confirmed by her friend , and Mr Norton said , a more cruel aad unmanly ontrage than the defendant had bsen guilty of had never been brought before him . He shonld fine the defendant in the fall penalty of £ * for each assault , and in default two months' imprisonment on each cnarga . The money wca Immediately paid .

      BOW STREET . —A SaeXT HoMEfxeoH . —John M'Neil , a ' llthographie printer , was charged with saving luteraiarried with Eiissbeth Mary Boncett on Monday morning last , his wife Emma belsg then aud still alive . —The prosecutrix , who might be termed a fine young woman , stated tbat she resided at 31 , Greek Street , Seho , and was married oa Monday morning by banns to the prisoner , at St George ' s parish church , Bloomsbury , at which time she was totally igaorant of his having another wife , and from information she received shortly aftxr the ceremony was performed , she gave him into cBStody . —Evidence of the first marriage having been given , the prisoner was called on for his defence , and said tbat his wife was not only given to drunken habits , bnt that she was unfaithful , and when he accused her of it , she admitted her guilt , and gave him permission to get married . —Remanded .

      WESTMINSTER . —A Footiun ik T » odbeb . — Wll . Ham Smith , John Thomas Sedgemore , and Edwin Smith , three hoys of the respective ages of eight , nine , and fourtem years , were charged with stealing a number of geraniums and other plants , aad Thomas Prater , a foo tman in the service of Mr Ashford , oi 81 , Cadegan Place , was charged with Laving unlawfully received a porMa of the stolen property . —At abont six o ' clock on Mfnday evening , Henry Fells , 279 A , saw William Smith and Sedgemsre enter the grounds of Mr Tuck , florist , Csdogan Place , and leave there in about five minutes afterwards , when be took them Into custody , Sedgemore having brought « root of thyme with him out of the ground . Iu consequence ot information he received , the constable then went to the honse of

      Mr Ashford , and asked Prater If he bad any geraniums , to which he at first replied 'No , ' bnt afterwards admitted tbat be had some which hehad purchased ofa boy . The constable then fonnd two orange trees , thir . teen geraniums , and three sots ef stocks in the house and garden , and Prater stated that he had purchased them of Edwin Smith , The latter was thin apprehended , and six more plants in pots were fonnd at the house of bis psrents , where he resided . —A boy , named Huntley . livlog in Doyley Street , Chelsea , stated that on Tuesday evening he saw Prater give the boy WillUm Smith a penny . Smith then came up to witness , and Inquired whether he wanted any flowers , to which witness replied ' Yes , ' and asked where he got them from . Smith said out of Tuck ' s grounds , but teld witness not

      so say anything te the footman . Witness afterwards said te the footman , ' What a boy that young Smith is ; he goes into the grounds and gets tha flowers . ' When the footman replied , * I shouldn't think a little boy like him would be such a thief , ' —In defence , W . Smith said he did not know any thing abont it , but the prisoner Prater gave bim a penny . Edwin Smith , who , when first taken into custody , denied that he had sold any plants to the footman Prater , bnt who subsequently , at the station , admitted that he had said that he was with the footman when the latter told him to get some flowers . The footman afterwards asked him where he got tbem from , and he replied from Tuok ' s , and then the footman went with him , and remained outside while he ( the prisoner ) went into the ground and got ten gera .

      nlums and an orange tree . —The boy ' s statement op . peered ta create some nutation through the auditory . —Prater , who commenced Us defence by observing , ' I think this boy is speaking false / declared tbat he had no idea where the boy got the plants from ; In conse . quence of the death of a feUow-servent , who bad been left in charge of the honse with him , be was therefor some time alone , and employed the hoys to run of er . rands for him , and gave them peace now aad than , but not for flowers , and they gave htm a few plants , bnt little did he ( Prater ) think where he got them from . —Ms Sroderip said be had not the slightest doubt that the boys had been induced to commit the offence hy tbe prisoner Prater . There was , however , nothing in the Aot 0 ! Parliament under whioh the prisoners were charged

      which touched a person for receiving . He was , there . fore , reluctantly compelled to discharge Prater and conld only say that his conduct had been so reprehtnslble , that if he were in his ( the Magistrate ' s ) service , he should not continue so for another lour . He could not think of putting the law in force against the children , bnt shonld hand them over to their parents for suitable correction . He should commit the prisoner Smith for fourteen days , and as be bad before st ated , was reluctantly obliged to diioharge Prater . —Mr Ashford as he was abont to retire , said that it was bnt jnst ' ce to Prater to state , that he had been in his service for some time , had been left alone in the house , in charge of the plate and Other valuable props * ty , and had v »« n found extremely hoaest .

      THAUES .-D » MH 0 Hiohwat Boamr .-Margaret Lynch alias Meg Daly , Ann Brim , aud Caroline Archer , three desperate l « oking yonng women , who have r ^ en the terror of Ratoliffe Hi ghway , were brought np charged with the following outrageous robbery , the cbfcnmstanceB connected with which were somewhat slngalart-Abontfonre ' clockln theofternoon of Friday fortnight Forde beard that a man had been knocked down and robbed in Palmer Street , Shadwdl . He hastened to the place , and saw a man named Harrington Robaon lying on the ground , with his trowaws torn , and a number of people abemt him , who said he had been

      robbed , and pointed out tha prisoners and another woman , who were mak ' ng off at the time , as tbe persons who did it . He pursued them to a house In Palmer ' s Folly , where he locked the baok and front door . He then searched for them , and fonnd Lynch apparently busily engaged over a washtub , whilst the other two were endeavouring to escape from the windows . Ho second them , and tras conveying them to the statlcn house , but on tbe way he was so surrounded and bustled by a moa « f thieves and prostitutes that the woman Lynch made her escape , and quitting her usual haunts went to some place of concealment , Brlen and Archer wars brought before Mr Billantlne at this conrt ,

      Wandsworth.—Apacra* Souoox..—Mr R.Vronat...

      when Seme evidence was goat Into , and they were re . manded until Friday WMk to allow the police an opportunity of reosptnring Lynch . Oa Friday , however , the prosecutor did not appear , Lynch had not been cap . tnred , and tbe prisoners Brlen and Archer were dls . charged . On hearing tbey were at liberty , Lynch csaseont cf her biding place , and showed herself triumphantly in her usual peats . Her triumph , however , was but of short duration , for she and her two asssclates were again taken into custody that same evening , ths constables baring In tbe interim made arrangements to secure ths attendance of the prosecutor and the witnesses . When they were brought np on Saturdsy the prosecutor stating that be was making tbe best of his way boms about four o'clock on Frldsy

      fortnight , when hs was seized by four women , who hustled him about . A short time previously he had changed a sovereign at the bar of a public house where there were a number of women , and thocgb he had drank something he knew he had 15 s , < r I 61 in his pocket , for he had his hand on the money when they hustled him . Oae of the women thrust her hand Into his pocket , and In the straggle which easued he fell . His trousers were torn , and the woman sacseeded In wresting the money from him . — T no boys , named Dodd and Clarke , confirmed the prosecutor ' s statement , and described the robbery as a most bare , faced and Impudent one . One of tbe prisoners held down tbe prosecutor ' s legs , while another stopped his mouth to st ' fie his cries ; and Lynch pnt her hand in his pocket and tore away the money , — Lynoh : I hope yonr worship is not agoiu' to believe what these little boys says . —Mr Ballantine : They swsar to what thry say . —

      Lynch : To bs sure they do ; bnt alnt my word better than their eath any day ! ( Laughter . )—Police Consta . ble Potter said that when ho took Mog Daly . — Lynch ; That alnt my name . My name 1 » Margaret Lynefc , bought and paid for . Who took yon to the ohareh when I was christened !—Brlen : Ha , ha ! — Archer : Well , Master Charley Potter , good morning to you ; You said you'd send as many of us as you conld out of the conntry ; bnt may be your tarn would oome first , Charley , and God knows it weold be a happy riddaace . We won't ask for a lock of yonr hair , Charley . ( Laughter , )—Potter went on to say that whea he arrested Mog Daly , alias Lyneb , she made qnlte light of the matter , saying the case had been dismissed , and there would be no more of It . —Mr Ballantine , however , viewed the matter in a different light , for he ordered the depositions to be taken , and the prisoners , who still continued to depart themselves with the most barefaced tffcontery , were

      committed to Newgate for trial . » WORSHIP . STREET . —JovairiiB Thief Catchws —Two stout yonng fellows , George Mason , alias Joseph Hodges , alias Whitehead , and Thomas Jobson , alias Whitehead , and a young woman named Ann Kelly , were charged with stealing two nieces of oatice from the shopdoor of a draper iu Church Street , Balhnsl Green—The prisoners had been seen in company , and when the robbery was oemmltted the female took off her shawl to corer tbo stoles properly , which tbe prisoner Oeorge Mason carried usder his arm . They were observed , however and followed by three boys , one of whom , a boy fourteen years of age , named James Brooks , ran np to the prisoner , and , laying hold ef cne of the pieces of calico , exclaimed : ' You have stolen this from my aide . '

      The prisoner looked ronnd end instantly dropped tho piece that had been laid hold of , and ran off with the other ; but the other boys still pursued him for three quarters of a mile , when one of them caught hoU of the remaining piece of goods , and called ' Stop thief I' upon which a milkman and another man laid hold of the prisoner The latter , however , made a most desperate re * sistance against them and a police constable , and when be was at length subdued , it was found necessary to strap him down upon a stretcher te convey him to tbe atatlon . hoaao , and he was then so completely prostrated by the violent excellent hs bad nsed that the police surgeonlwas sent for , and upwards of an hour elapsed be *

      fore the prisoner was sufficiently recovered to support himself . Since then , howtver , he has mads several desperate attempts at escape , —Tho two pieces of calico were produced , and identified by the tradesman from whose shop they had been stolen . Tbe male prisoners were recognised as brothers , of the name ef Hodges . They had been repeatedly in custody , and only liberated from ' prlson about a week bifore the occurrence , ana * another brother had already been transported . —Mr Hardwick remanded all Ihe prisoners preparatory te committal , and was so plowed with th « courageous henesty of the boys whe bad caused their apprehension , that he at once gave them a pecuniary reward .

      The Edinburgh Chartist Trials. More Weiq...

      THE EDINBURGH CHARTIST TRIALS . MORE WEIQ BLUNDERS , —ATHHnONMBNT 0 ? TUB FR 0 SI

      OPTION Of MB JAMES CUMUISO . Edinbuboh , Wkdhesday . —The High Court of Justiciary met today at ten o'clock , in order te ' procoed with the trial of James Camming , shoemaker . As anon as the judges had taken their seats en the bench , The Lord . Advocate wee , and said , that after due consideration , he had come to tbe resolution to abandon the case against the prisoner , who was accordingly dismissed from the bar . It is understood that the LosD-Annci ?* was reduced to the necessity of taking this course from the imperfect way in wiiih the case had been got up by some of the officials . One of the principal charges in the indictment was , that Camming had taken the chair at a meeting held in the Trades' Hall , Edinburgh , for the enrolling of a National Guard . It has now transpired that the Gumming who was in tbe chair at this meeting , waa not the prisoner , but a near relative of his ; and the mistake of con *

      founding one with the other , arose from the circumstance that the officials had , by some singular oversight , omitted the important step of allowing tbe policemen ' to identify the prisoner . Seeing that , without this material point , it would be difficult to establish a case that would be sufficient to obtain a verdict against the prisoner on such an indictment , the Lord Advocate , with a wiae'discretion , resolved to desert the diet altogether . This bungling must have been rather disagreeable to his lordship , when it is considered that a severe legal discussion of two days' duration had previously been undergone by himself and the other Crown counsel , in order to establish the relevancy of the indictment . The other charge against Gumming was that he had written a letter to a person in Glasgow , whioh , by some mistake , had fallen into the hands of another party , giving an account of the clubs in Edinburgh , the number of arms that they had got , and the warlike spirit which animated them .

      Chartist Forthcoming Meetings. Scnday, N...

      CHARTIST FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Scnday , Nov . 19 ihv— A meeting will ba held at the Branch Offiee , baek of the Three florae Shoes , Merthyr Tydvil , at aix o ' clock . —At R . Bromley ' a , New Street , Batley , near Dewsbury , at two o ' clock . —A special meetin g of members , at the Temperance Hotel , Blanket Row , Hull , in the evening . —A general meeting of members of the Globe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commercial-road , at eight o'clock . — A meeting to elect a council , at the Ship Inn , Steel * house Lane , Birmicgham . at seven o ' clock . —Mr J . West will lecture at tho People ' s Institute , Heyrodstreet , Manchester , at six o ' clock . —Mrs Theobald will lecture in the Odd Fellows' Hall , Todmorden , at two o ' clock , and half-past six o'clock . —Mr Watson will lecture at Newcastle on-Tyne , at iialf-past six o ' clock . * Monday , Nov . 20 ih . —A discussion on the Chartist Organisation , at No . 6 , John-street , Caldewgate , Carlisle , at eight o ' clock . —At the Brunswick Hall , Ropemaker ' s Fields , Limehouse , at eight o ' clock . Tubsday , Nov . 2 lsx . —At Mr Richard Castle ' s , Mill Street , Bristol , at seven o ' clock . —A public meeting at the Artichoke Inn , Brighton .

      Forthcoming Lakd Meetings. Saturday. Nov...

      FORTHCOMING LaKD MEETINGS . Saturday . Nov . 18 th . —A meeting will be held in the People ' s Institution , Mill Street , Congleton . at seven o ' clock . —At the Red Lion , Regent Street , Eooles , at eight o ' clock . —At the Friendly Inn , Church Street , Halifax-, at eight o ' clock . —In the Temperence-room , Chaple Street , Accticgton , at seven o ' clock . Sondat , Nov . It . —A meeting will be held at Nov . 6 John Street , Oaldew Gate , Carlisle , at two o ' clock . — At the Coaeh Painters'Arms , Circus Street , New . Road , Marylebone , at six o ' clock . —A yearly general meeting at Nurton ' s Commercial Coffee : House ,

      Blackburn , at two o ' clock—At Stockport , at two o ' clock . —In Butterworth Buildings , Bradford , at one o ' clock . — A meeting of the No . 8 Branch , at John Coute ' s , Butcher Lane , Bury , at two o ' clock—A special meeting in the school room of the Working Man ' s Hall , Oldham , at t we o ' clock . —In the meeting room , Cross Street , Spring Street , Sialeybridge , at two o ' clock . —At the branch office baok of the Three Horse Shoes , Merthyr Tydvil , nt Six o ' clock , —At tb * Bailey Mow , Old Betonal Green rV > ad , near Elizabeth Street , Shoreditch , at seven o ' clock . —At the Ship Inn , Steelhouse Lane , Birmingham , at seven o clock . —A meeting will be held at Mottram , at tvi o o ' clock . . .

      Monday . Nov . 20 th . —A meeting will bo held at Swindon . —At the Jolly Forgemen , Rolfe Street , Smethwiek , at seven f ' cleok , —At the Pelican , Pelican Street , New Radford , at seven o ' clotk—In the Prince of Wales Lodge room , Malt-shovel , North Church side , Huli , in tha evening—At tho Royal Oak , Horn Lane , Sunderland , Tuesday . Nov . 21 st . —In the Chartist room , Stanley Street , Macclesfield , at eight o'clock . —A general quarterly meeting at Mr Farrell ' a , 62 , Richmond Row , Liverpool in the evening , —At the Globe and Frienr ' B , Morgan Street . Commercial Road London . "VVepnbsday . Nov . 22 nd . —Iu D . Marsden ' s long room , Ellard , at eight o ' clock . Fbiday . Nov ; 2 ith . —At St Thomas , Exeter , in the evening .

      Lieut, Munro, Late Of The Blues, Who Suf...

      Lieut , Munro , late of the Blues , who suffered 12 months' imprisonment for the fatal duel with Lieut . Col . l ' awcett , of the 55 th Regiment , is , it is said , to be appointed riding-master , of the 7 th Hussars . i

      "Te^Organisation Of Chartism. The Xxzcvt...

      "Te ^ ORGANISATION OF CHARTISM . THE XXZCVT 1 VB CMflttTTBB . In accordance with the instructions of the Birmingham meeting , recently held at tbe Ship Inn , in tbat town , the first meeting of that portion of the Executive Committee residing in the metropolis was held at the rooms of the National Land-office , 144 , High Holborn , on Friday evening , November 10 th . Present-Messrs Kydd , M'Grath , T . Clark , E . Stall wood , W . Dixon , and Julian Harney . Mr W . Dixon having been called to the chair .

      ihe resolution , constituting the Executive , as passed at Birmingham , was read , and the following persons added to the Executive Committee—J . Leach , Manchester ; J . West , Macclesfield ; R , BurreJJ , Greenock ; H . Ross , London ; T . Boiwell , Bath ; R . Brcok , Todmorden ; T . Tattersal , Burnley ; E . Rouse , Reading ; J . Self , Isle of Wight ; Ingham , Abergavenny ; A . J . Fussell , Birmingham ; and Sturges , Winchester . On the motion of Messrs M'Gra . th and Clark , it was resolved : —

      Tbat the secretary be instructed to write te the West Riding of York delegate meeting , to request tbe coeperatien of the West Riding la the work of reorganisation , On the motion of Messrs Harney and Stallwood , it was resolved . 'Tbat at onr next meeting the plan of organisation he discussed , with a view to its revision .

      VICTIM COMMITTEE . Mr Clark moved i—Tbat the resolutions passed at Birmingham—namely , that all Victim and Dtienoe Funis shonld be national , that the Execntivs Committee form the National Ylctlm and Defence Committee , and tbat tbe claims of Messrs Jones and M'Doaall , and other victims , be referred to the General Victim Fund—be confirmed ; Mr Stallwood seconded the motion . Julian Hakney asked for a statement of the reasons on which the resolution relating to the families of Messrs Jones and M'Douall , bad been founded and adopted . ! Mr Kydd gave a statement of the reasons advanced at the Birmingham meeting .

      Julian Habnky declared himself not satisfied with the explanation gives by Mr Kydd , and there fore moved the following resolutions : — 1 . — That the resolution referring the claims of the families of Messrs Jones and M'Douall to the General Victim Fund , be provisionally rescinded , 3 . —That Messrs Jones and M'Douall accepted office In tbe Chartist Executive on the faith of receiving a oertain sum w « Wy— that while in tbe performance of their doties Messrs Jones and H'Dousll have been subjected

      to persecution and Imprisonment — that the Incarceration ot Mi sirs Jones and M'Doaall , has deprived their families of the means of support which they wonld enjoy were their natural protectors at liberty—that therefore , while confirming the resolutions adopted at Birmingham appointing an unpaid Executive ( with the exception of tbe secretary ) for tbe future , this com . mltteo is of opinion that the families of Meiers Jones and M'Douall , are end led to receive tbe salaries paid to those victims before their incarceration .

      In support of the above resolutions , Julian Harney said : He regretted he felt it his duty to oppose anything that had been done at the Birmingham meeting , as with the general proceedings of that meet , ing he was well satisfied . He cordially approved of the appointment of an unpaid Executive ; it was a principle he had long advocated . It was well known that he was no favourer of class-distinctions , and least of all such distinctions in the ranks of the

      Chartists . But he measured every act—private and public , social and political —« by the principle of justice , and he maintained that the resolution passed at Birmingham , was unjust to Messrs Jones and MDouall . Were all tbe families thrown on the Victim Fund , the distribution of assistance should be based on equality , but he insisted that the families of Messrs Jones and M'Douall ought not to be thrown on the Victim Fund . There was a broad distinction between the situation of men whose

      services as Chartist speakers and leaders were voluntarily given , and that of men who , elected members of the Chartist Executive , were placed in a position of danger , and compelled by the duties of their office to brave that danger by constantly takingthe lead in public agitation . From the moment Messrs M'Douall and Jones were placed in office , they ne . cessarily became marked men—and more liable than they had previously been to be run down by the agents of tbe government . When tbe people placed men in a situation of danger , they were bound by every principle of justice to afford special protection to such men—or , at least , to their families . Did any one suppose that paying the families of Messrs ]

      Jones and M'Douall the salaries previously paid to those victims , was anything like a compensation to the families for the loss of their natural protectors ? He thought not , but to withhold that assistance he thought an injustice . The men had gone to prison believing that their salaries would be continued to their families , and even af . ' er their sentence , the members of the Executive at liberty had ( as he understood ) passed a resolution to the effect that the salaries should be continued to the families . If Messrs Jones and M'Douall had accepted office as members of an unpaid Executive , the case would have been different . He knew that Mr Jones had sacrificed a certain income , derived from his connexion with the Nobthern Star , at least fully equal to the salary of a member of the late

      Executive , that he might give his whole time to the service of the movement as a member of that Executive . It had been said that a sufficient reason for throwing the claims of Messrs Jones and M'Douall upon the Victim Fund , existed in tbe fact , that money was not supplied to pay the salaries . In spite of this , he said that if it was the right of Mrs Jones and Mrs M'Douall to receive the salaries formerly paid to their husbands , that right ought to be maintained , and means ought to be taken to procure the money . He again urged that men placed by the people at the head of the movement , should have the shield of popular protection thrown over them . These views induced him to propose the provisional rescinding of the resolution passed at Birmingham , ¦ with a view to its re-consideration by the men who constituted that meeting .

      Thomas Ciark would most strenuously and decidedly support the resolutions agreed to at Birmingham . He did not believe that Messrs Jones and M'Douall were arrested because they were members of the late Executive Committee—if such were the case , then the other three members of that body would also have been arrested . Nor did he believe that it could be shown that either of the gentlemen had been arrested in the execution of any particular duty which had been assigned tbem by their colleagues j if tbey had , let the duty be pointed out , and the manner of its performance stated . But adopting that they were now , suffering because they were members of the late Executive Committee , or for

      the performance of some specific duty , at the instigation of their late colleagues , then , in neither case could the maintenance of their families be imposed upon the funds of the present Executive , seeing tbat the existingjCommittee was an emanation from a body whose decisions were based upon a practical repudiation of the proceedings of the National Assembly , which had appointed Messrs Jones , M'Douall , and their late colleagues . The present Executive could not in any shape take cognisance of the defunct Executive , and for his part he was most unwilling that it should ; but especially was he unwilling tbat the present Executive , at the outset of its labours , should by

      any vote or decision commit itself to even a seeming approval of that course of policy with which the public mind associates the names of Messrs Jones and M'Douall . He thought that , the decision at Birmingham was highly proper , and as one he was prepared to do his share to make the Victim Fund as large as possible , so tbat the families of all belonging to the movement should ^ have a fair share of support . It ought to be borne in mind that very shortly a large addition would most likely be made to the list of victims , owing to the extensive arrests which had been made in the north of some of the oldest , truest , and best Chartists . He was strongly against the resolutions of Mr Harney .

      Messrs M'Grath , Stallwood , Kyhd , and Dixon also supported the proposition for confirming the Birmingham resolutions . Julian Harney expressed himself not converted from his own views by the arguments of the other members of the Committee , but his resolutions not finding a seconder , of course fell to the ground , and the resolutions adopted at Birmingham were confirmed . m On the motion ot Messrs M'Grath and Clark , it was resolved- 'That the secretary purchase and fi-e a copy of the Northern Star weekly—as the organ of the Chartist body . '

      The secretary was also instructed io prepare an address to the Chartists and Democrats generally of the British empire , calling for their co-operation and support in the good work of political emancipation . Messrs M'Grath and Kydh were deputed to ' Wait on the London Victim Committee , and Messrs Donovan aud Sutton on the Manchester Victim Committee , to request those bodies to tt & Mei their

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      powers , m accordance vrith the Birmingham rZ / tions . ^ hi It was resolved that the Committee meet Friday evening at eight o clock , and the Com , !^ then adjourned . ^ "" ^ ee

      Address Of The Executive. To The People....

      ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE . TO THE PEOPLE . Fellow Countrymen , —That principles a ,,-destructible , is a truth supported by the eviden ages . " Thrones may be shaKen-states destroy !^ peoples annihilated—patriots sacrificed—ri ch i 7 become barren heaths—seas change to lands j lands to seas-but principles remain in their entSr » unchanged and unchangeable , undestroved » nf- destructible . ' and "i-You , who have raised the standard of ** .

      »™ *« " •> " » upyuoiHuu ucspunsm and wm « have struggled nobly and heroically , often meetins , verses—bearing social and politieal pe rsecution struggling on in the quiet solitude of your own can " sciences , in a manner and with a spirit alike bono able to yourselves and creditable to the character ^ the cause you have espoused . But you , who hav so struggled , have not conquered . And why thfc sad result ? You have worked , and the many haw looked on . Had the masses of your fellow coantrr men—whe bare , with you , the same common inJ ' rest—given to your endeavours the support and co ! operation that the necessities of their cireumst » tes and the interests of their country demanded v this day would have been in the ascendant , and British interests and honour would have safely is , posed upon a pedestal of true national greatness having for its basis the suffrages of tbe majority o { the male adult citizens ol tbe land in which we live .

      Despair not . Force and fraud may conquer , but cannot for ever rule ; and at a time when the basag Ministers have hired the basest tools to do tbe foulest deeds that ever were done by men ruling in a land that is mockingly called free—and whea these same Ministers exultingly outrage decency , and glorify themselves , fiend . like , upon the prey they hold—at a lime when social and political chaos threatens to envelope all iu ruin , and leave to armed myrmidons a mighty nation ' s spoil—we who are of the people , for the people , and with the ' people , once more baud ourselves together in com .

      pact phalanx , and take the initiative in a great na . tional movement , having for its object the political and social emancipation of the masses—respecting the interests and duties—protecting the lives an ! properties—and conserv ng the liberties and securities of every member of the commonwealth . Ost success or failure rests with you . If unsupported our failure is certain , and the triumph of despotism sure . If , on the other hand , you give to us your aid and undivided co-operation , the cause of hamanity and the people will rule , and restore safety to all .

      Intelligence and organisation are as essential to success as are numbers and display . The few go . vern tbe many , not because the few are ever able to rule , but because the few are intelligent and organised for a defined object . Look around , we beseech you , and see that in every hundred and borough , i few busy persons of no great mind , but firmly banded together for party purposes , sway the election o members of town councils , boards of guardians , and return deputies to serve in parliament- in moat cases , too , in opposition to the will of the majority , And what is the secret power that enables them so to do ? It is organisation . Look from your own doors and windows , and see that little boy drive a

      herd of twenty oxen , each of which is ten times stronger than he ; and what is the power that enables him to drive three huge animals at will ? It is intelligence . If the oxen were as wise as their driver , they wouldriilehim . Thus it is tbat a few ounces of intelli . gence , directedjwith a purpose , control many pounds of untrained and undirected instinct . If the people in this country agreeing with tbe principles of the People ' s Charter were organised , local power giving strength to the national will , and national decision giving activity to policy , no organised faction in power could withstand the demands of tbe people for a day . They might then , in justice and verity , exclaim , * Vox Populi , Vox Dm' ( ' the voice of the people is the voice of God . ' )

      To beget and direct this intelligence ; to gather together , and control the elements of this organisation , ^ and shall continue to be , the only object of our existence as a political body , and it is with pleasure that we assure you that we have received many promises of support . The report of our meeting at Birmingham has kindled hope once more in the hearts of many good and true men , and we doubt not but eur call will be responded to by the brave men of

      Yorkshire and Lancashire . The horny-handed and stalwart miners of the north of England hare not yet resolved to hug their chains to the hour of their dissolution ; nor will our Scottish brethren , whose truthfulness and patriotism have won for their country a world-wide fame , rest contented to beg for death , and leave to their children no heir-loom but the name of departed glory , associated with living misery and want .

      The Birmingham delegates expressed a wish that the local Defence and Victim Fund should be in « corporated into one national ' Defence and Victim Fund . ' In following out tbe spirit of this instruction—we wish it to be distinctly understood , that the Victim snd Defence Committees , now in existence , will not be dissolved ; on the contrary , it seems ad * visable that their numbers be extended , so that their powers may be more efficient for the collecting of information and funds , and also to aid in a proper and equitable distribution of monies collected .

      The object aimed at we think desirable—to wit , that the circumstances of all the Whig-made widows and orphans shall be known to one central board — so that , as all suffer from the same common cause , all may be supported in a like degree , If , hoyf ever , any of onr friends dissent irom this proposition , such dissent will be met with no opposition on our part—our object is not to op « pose but to conciliate ; we look around us and see friends in distress , and desire to aid them in their day of trial and trouble . The wives and families of our incarcerated brethren command our sympathy and we hope all will give liberally , proportionate to their means , and in that way which their judgment deems best .

      In our present attempt to work out what we ia our souls believe to be the salvation of our country and the emancipation of mankind , we address you in no spirit of party intolerance or political intrigue —our objects are clearly stated , and well understood . Our principles are not exclusively fitted for one grade or class , they are universal and for all . If you agree with us , give to us , and without delay , your full and hearty support . If you be opposed to us , we respect you not the less . but court from you a manly and honourable opposition , convinced that , with full , fair , and free discussion , truth will triump h

      over error . With these views , then , do we confidently call upon the Old Guards of democracy to bestir themselves , and provide us , without delay , with the arras and ammunition necessary for this war of reason against brute power . Let the local councils now existing , and private friends in districts where there are no such councils , send us the means necessary for an efficient agitation , and we will issue tracts and addresses forthwith that will be read in every house aud repeated in every market-place , making our motto ,

      'THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER / the household word of every heart and home , and unfurling the flag of freedom from every city gate and castle wall of the United Empire . Signed on behalf of the Executive of the National Charter Association , by the members resident in London . Philip M'Grath , .- —IZ ^ a . Thomas Clark , .-....- William Dixon , Edmund SrALLweon , Henry Ross , G . Julian Harney , Samuel Kydd , Secretary .

      N .V , Xv . Married. , , . , On The Uth ...

      n . v , xv . MARRIED . , , . , On the Uth , nst ., at St Chad ' s Church , Rochdale . j > I the Rev . Mr Grant , Abraham Greavis , to Alice , tM youn est daughter of Richard and Anne Partington ) Mobs Hill , near Kochdale , DEATHS . L ... On Sunday last , Mr Jaraos Shirron , late deleg ate to w » Convention and Assemhly . Helms lefts widow in tbeia stage of pregnancy , and a . young child . ,,. , On theSth instant , Wl'llam Timmis , of Eastwood > m Hunley , aged fifty six years . Ho was a Demo « ° ' sterling worth , and a subscriber to the Sia » ffein commencement .

      Printed By William Kider, Of No. 5, Macclesfield ; *Tr«Et W The Parish Of St. Anne, Westminster, »

      Printed by WILLIAM KIDER , of No . 5 , Macclesfield ; * tr « et w the parish of St . Anne , Westminster , »

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      tna fritting Uface , 16 , Gre » t YfindurilUtree ., upmarket , to tho City of Westminster , for the fVoprieW j FEARGUS O'COSNOB , Esq ., M . P ., and publish " by the said Wiliuk Rider , at the Office , in the saffi « Street aud Parish , —Saturday , November Mb , ®*» -

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 18, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18111848/page/8/