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      : « : ed aed aaioti . These were the levers whereby tbey night _vght work out their own redemption . ( Cheera . ) Mt Mr R . _____ s , the general -secretary of tho Boiler _-ikeraker . - Association , supported the motion . De _jjjjsedEged leave to inform the meeting tbat the united _ililerdler makers el Great Britain and Ireland bad not _eeu _iieo idle ou this occasion . The amount of the con-[ Kb _ .-- _ . i- _ s received _« p to four o-l «* tbat evraing mm im the various lodges of _thtorderwasiilOl _loi . _bo-HSheeiheers . ) He had also received a letter from * n inuientitential lodge , containing »«««» h * 0 ,, _fLii 2 ' « sideeide other letters , showing that they should yet _» . thatotter

      iive tire upwards of £ 20 more . He hoped . _-adead-s wouid take the hint , and act _•*««*» _£ lann-umer . The stonemasons of the town had already ¦] _-H ec-llectedabout £ l _ 0 , and other subscriptions were Mingling on . Let all trades make the cause war own . _eetfJetOem consider what their feelings would be . if uer ner were dragged from the bosoni of their famdiw , _liianaian-cled _. putin prison , brought before the mam * _, ¦ i atesates , committed for trial at the assizes , wrongfully i ] invi _» nvicted , and at last taken before the Queen ' t _eenclench . AH this "fas bard enough and lamentable noupough ; but how much more bard and lamentable fnnltnnlditbc . if .- "hen tbus treated in a cause which

      i ivohvolved the interests and the rights of all working _i en , en , ther were witbout -friends to sympathise with _I id sid support them . Thanks , bowever , to their own meknety , and to those who had so nobly come forward _II asi assist them , thej were now free ; and be hoped i tat Iat the cause would be fought out gloriously , and i iat tat they would show tha . whea tyrants combined to i -shush working men , working men -would combine to id ad and assist each other . ( Great cheering . ) Let Jl il trades henceforth , instead of depending upon _sselfeelf , _andeach generally falling a victim to this _isoi tio : tion ( unite into a grand Trades' Union throughout i ie ae country , and they would soon rise up as a whole ¦ _-gtvgreat , glorious , aud free . ( Cheers . )

      M Mr Doxovas , a haudloom weaver , supported the i lotiotion in an excellent speech , in the course of which ie ge gave a brief narrative ofthe case of the Newton i leclechanics _, showing in a striking point of view , the i ijujjustiee practised upon them , and the grounds for _lelielieving that the verdict was uneqHivocallj bad . lie ( e co-tended thata . working man who was tried ; y ay a middle class jury , on a charge involving the in-¦ _jrerests of middle class men , could hope for justice , i , ndnd called on them to demand the right possessed by i thither classes , of being tried by men of their own i irdirder . Unless they secured this right , even a na-I ioiional combination of trades would fail to secure

      hahem from oppression . It was sometimes said tbat hehe working classes clamoured for equality , and _iveveryone knew what use was made of that charge . _JuJut the word was an unsuitable one ; it did not _exireress . their meaning ; tbey wanted , not equ-itj , but qcqaity—equity in the jury-box , equity in legislation , lecerfect eqaity in ail tilings . ( Cheers . ) Trades minions were said by masters to be the relics ot a bar * a > arousage . It must be so . Let the day of equal _osostioe come ; let employers cease to trample on and rcru-h the working classes , and then the working -glasses would surrender their right of union and _opposition . ( Cheers . )

      ' Tbe Chairman then put the _reeolution , which was ¦ atarried unanimously . ; Mr Job- Rowiiksok moved the second resolu _*

      - Cion : — That it is the opinion of this meeting , that the attempt if if Messrs Jones and Potts to infringe npon the rights and nlntercstsof operatives engaged in the iron trade , ought -0 * 0 call forth from the working classes of every other . trade a spirited and strenuous determination to unite ¦ visith them in resisting such aggressions ; and tbat this mmeeting now desires to give expression to its deep feelirings of sympathy withthe ' vi .- _intof" the Newton _straggle , and its gratitude to those trades who have already 660 nobly responded to tbe invitation to co-operate .

      Hesaid that the spirit of the trades' unions of tbis ccoantry , and he knew something of them _. was not , as vwas sometimes said , a destructive ' spirit . The _ggeneral feeling and conviction was , let the employers ihave their rights , and nothing more—the employed . their rights , _--dnothinglfss . ( Cheers . ) The whole Ihistory of the labouring classes of this country was : a most powerful argumentin favour of union amongst it-em . Owing to the want of union , the wages of the -men of Nottinghamshire had been reduced from 28 s . _i _« r 303 . to 5 s . In Sheffield , owing to union , the . 'hours of labour had been reduced from sixteen te i eight per day , aud they bad more wages for working i eight than they had for working sixteen houn a day . ( Cheers ) The speaker than alluded to some

      of the prosecutions which hare been got up against working men on the most trivial pretences , particularly in 1 S 18 , again . * t some handloom weavers of _-Manchester , and said that the noble conduct of those men entitled them to the respect of all trades . Why should handloom weavers be looked down upon , because they only earned 6 s . or 8 s . a week ? They would take more if thej could get it ; and the _prej udice and ignorance that opposed union with such men onght to be scouted out of society . ( Cheers . ) The speaker proceeded most earnestly and eloquently to advocate union amongst all classes of working men , citing quotations from Malthus , Brougham , _M-Culloch . Dr Bowring , and the Bishop of Oxford , to show that capital was immutably opposed to

      labour , and contended that tbe only means of enabling labour to struggle successfully with its gigantic opponent , was a general union of all trades . This general onion would enable them to effect a reduction in the hoars of labour according to the work in the market , and then the mechanics would not have , as in 1842 , to spapd thousands of pounds in the support of tbeir men who were oat of work . They ( the mechanics ) had now a fund of £ 25 , 000 ; bat he should not like to see it spent in keeping men who were without employment , If thej could not do after the reduction of the hours of labour , then thej must fly to Feargus O'Connor on the land . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr T . _Whkisbos , member ofthe Engineers * Asso ciation , seconded the motion .

      Mr John B _ b _ . es supported the motion , enforcing tbe same views as the preceding speakers . Hesaid that it was quite useless for them to complain of oppression . That oppression was not the fault of those who persecuted them ; but it was the fault of themselves in not uniting together as tbey ought to do , to resist that oppression . ( Cheers . ) _MrWu . _Cbeigbtok , chairman of the Committee of the Engineers'Society , said , that there was nothing in the executive council of that body that would foster an angry , vindictive , or dictatorial spirit toward-tbe employers , So long as the employers and employed could co-operate together , that was what they wanted . Atthe present time , all _ hat thej wanted was justice and reason ; and he

      believed that their eauae would ultimately triumph , and that their accused brethren would beeventuallj liberated from the charge brought against them . lie showed that the journeymen had tried to settle the affair with the masters in an amicable and friendly manner , but that all their efforts had been unsuccessful . Mr B-5 _ air , member of the Engravers' Association , also supported the motion . He lamented that there ; had not hitherto been that brotherly feelings between different trades which there ought to have been , but he trusted that it would henceforward be exhibited in such a manner as would enable them- to

      defy the efforts ofanjbodjofmen who wished and attempted to oppress ( hem . Let there be acordial onion amongst all ; and if the poorest man in _existenoe was tyrannised over , let the rich and powerful trades stepinaad say , " That shallnot be . " ( Cheers . ) He eulogised tbe ability and devoted-ess of Mr W . P . Roberts , their solicitor , aud said that the name of that gentleman was now a terror to all wrongdoers amongst the employers . He hoped that that sight would be the commencement of a new era , and that their next meeting would be one for forming all the trades unions into a great national body . ( Cheers . )

      Mr NoaBuar , though he gave the speakers great credit for tbe best intentions , thought that too much lime had been devoted bj them to the subject ofa national _unic _ ,, to the neglectof the immediate bnsiness for which thej had been summoned . Whilst he was speaking , Mr P . Roberts , Esq ., solicitor of the defendants , who had promised to attend the meeting and explain ihe present state of the proceedings in the Queen ' s Bench , entered the ludl ( at half-past 9 o ' clock , ) aud wasreceived with vehement applause . The motion whioh was then under discussion , having been put and carried unanimously , J _ r _Rob-bis rose amidst renewed cheers , on the gabsideneeof which he proceeded thus : —I think I need hardly saj that I am happj at all times in

      meeting a bodj of working-men , and on the present occaeion I am more _thanasuallj happy , became my duty is to record progress , to convey information , and to ask a body of men , who , I believe , will respond honestly , what thej mean to do . In the straggles which have occurred with the classes which call themselves above us , there has throughout been one difficulty which all the men in my position have felt greater than anj other . We have felt no difficulty in obtaining hearty answers , enthusiastic replies ; but , generallj speaking , all that has been said has _tnrnedouttobemeresmokeand vapour . Bat I believe I am now addressing a body of men who hava come forward noblj andmanfullj , and thus far , victoriously ; and I thank God that I have been allowed to help them in doing that which will _aloneserv * tha interests of working-men , namely—instead of

      calling on this , that , and the otber classi to help them , putting their own broad shoulders to the wheel ofoppression , witha determination to lift it from them . ( Cheers . ) I am here _tocongratolatejou , not so mueh on the progress you have made , as on the spirit hy which that progress has been obtained . Ihave known as great progress made informer ¦ times ; I have made as great progress myself , and excited as much enthusiasm on other occasions as on thu ; but I have found it worthless , or rather worse than worthless , for , whilst the parties failed to keep up the show of strength and spirit which they had displayed , they opened the eyes of their enemies to their weakness . Whilst desiroustbat , where right , thepeople should succeed , I have been sometimes -rather anxious thatthe contest should be postponed until tiie people were really prepared to take advantage of it ; and Ur Selabj , a ____ a _whoai I honour ,

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      a who is deserving of all honour , knows very well + _^ t mv great fear has been whether this _struggleof _ r _ batnot come too soon—whether , in reality , yoa I „ determined to take your stand uponyourposition , _determined to maintain it ; for that - is the question . If von are not determined to maintain your position , most assuredly you will be dislodged from it . ( Hear , hear . ) Most _asmredly , the position you have taken at the Liverpool Assizes is one which the class opposed to jou will not raffer jou to maintain without a struggle- The magistrates , ia their impudence , think that jou aredebarredtheprivilege whicheverj ether class claims to itself—that whilst deputations may go to the Duke of Wellington or Sir Robert Peel , the working classes , forsooth , nre not to be allowed to speak to a brother in error , or ono going

      to commit an error . It is no matter to me that our deputations were called picquets : the real thing Messrs Lyons and Stubbs declared that thej would nut down was , that you should go and ask some other men not to do something that thej were going to do . Thit was tbe whole thing . The power was worth nothing when jou did not use it . _Nobod j contested it when you were silent—so long as you opposed injuries with violence , who cared for your right to persuade ? It required no chainB to chain you when you chained vourselvcs ; it required no ' straining of the laws against you , when you broke the laws which were in existence . So long as you willingly offered yourselves fo three months'imprisonment and hard labour : so long as your proceedings were

      characterised by violence—violence which assuredly brought punishment , punishment which assuredly brought terror , and terror which assuredly destroyed your _enthusiasm ; so long as cause and effect progressed in tbat wav there was no need to strain the law against you . Tou were then asked whj jou had not recourse to persuasion , why you did not use peaceable and amicable meanB , why jou employed violence ? And then , when you did nse peaceable means , persuasion and argument , the master class found out that the weapon which was powerful with them was omnipotent with yon . ( Cheers . ) I , for one , care not whether the struggle is to be considered as won . or whether we are to stand up and fight it out . I _feelmvself young enough to grapple with the foe and

      beat him half a dozen times . ( Applause . ) I should be better pleased , Heaven knows , in my position , to _lookuponjou gloriously _andlpeaceablj enjoying the victory we haveobtained ; but , if it shall be that that victory is to fall as others have fallen ; if rt is to . that that victory is only to have the effect of opening your masters * _ejes , and enabling them to forge other chains ; if it is to be tbat jou are to be thrown down , then I . for one , will help jou to get up again . ( Great cheering . ) And I feel myself , as opposed to those men whom Ihave to grapple with , whatever their power , h « wever high the seats in whick they sit , however big tbeir talk , however impudent their Ianguage , however strong their vulgarity , 1 feel the utter contempt for them all , that I have no doubt ,

      whenever the people ef England unite , or wnenever a section ofthe people of England unite , if they are honest and true toeach other , we may whiBtle . off all _theiropposition like chaff before the wind . ( Cheers . ) I believe that your position has been obtained greatl j by your own virtue—partly , ( why should we deny it ?) by some accidental means , but which accidental means were the result of your virtue—partly , I grant , from the accident of our having a straightforward , clear-headed , honest judge . ( Hear , hear . ) Still the fact is , that that position is so impregnable , so omnipotent , so certain to truimpb , that unless yeu all getdrunkagain —( laughter)—unless you will have recourse to violence again , you are sure to succeed . There have only happened within the time that I

      have been here , three occurrences on which the magistrates haveproponnded the doctrinethat , although the working classes have a right te meet and agree together , thej have no right to persuade each other . This was perfectl _y absurd ; for when men met together it was almost impossible that they could all be of one mind , and yet how were they to agree if persuasion was inadmissable * The first time that this doctrine was propounded was at Ashton-under-Lyne , when some men ventured to persuade some other men working for Pauling and flenfrey . On that occasion , he used tbe same arguments as before Messrs Lyons and Stubbs ; but tbe men were committed . No effort was made on their behalf by the working classes—not 6 d . was collected ; I debated

      with myself what was best to be done , whether it was not better that they should be tried and sentenced to something that would not break their hearts , so as to rouse working men to a sense of their duty . However , when the case came to trial the prosecution was withdrawn . Since then the case occurred again at the same place . A man named Duff , a carpenter , brought a charge against twenty men of having sent a letter to Mr So-and-So , ( John Knobstick , or some one , ) stating that his company was unpleasant , and that if he did not think proper to retire , they should . The men were all committed . Then , for exactlj the Bame cause for which , if I asked £ 20 , 000 , £ 30 , 000 would come , and which excites so much enthusiasm

      and determination . , Leas than two years ago tbere was no excitement at all , and only the sum of about £ 100 was collected by the carpenters . We were bailed out tb appear to answer any indictment which might be found at the assizes ; and I did then as I have done on this occasion . I at once applied for a writ of certiorari , which means that any case which is removed by that writ is to be argued before the Queen's Bench ; and when you say you mean to argue before the Queen . Bench , you give a strong proof that you are determined to get right if jou can . When I went to the assizes I passed Mr Duff and the policeman with the indictment , and I went to Mr Shuttleworth , handed him the writ of certiorari , and never heard any moreabout the indictment .

      I thought we were going to have no struggle now , but the indictment has been gone on with , and a glorious indictment it is . Thej were sometime ago advertising for fresco paintings to adorn the House of Lords , but if their lordships wanted something to adorn their walls which was extremely curious , though it might not be very ornamental , tbey had better send for our fifty-seven yards ef indictment . As far as my youthful reminiscenses would allow me , I have made a pretty accurate calculation , and I find that 150 couples might safely dance the Polka upon it . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Well , this indictment has been found , and a glorious blow it has already struck at oppression . In our profession we are clad to witness tbat the mere length of tbis

      indictment , granting tbat rt is true , ana _emDodies an offence , has elicited from every one who has had to speak of it an expression of condemnation . The judges say that snch monstrous things ought not to be permitted—that their mere length , the mere fact ofa man being called upon to answer a charge which he cotdd not comprehend , was an oppression . In ' Westminster Hall ever *; person who spoke of the indictment made it a point to say that he could not understand it , and tbat he should be ashamed to understand it . The judge told the jury that he could fiot understand it , ( cheers)—thathe must either be guilty of the justice efonlj putting a very little bit | of it to them , or of the still greater injustice of puttine the whole to them , and then leaving them in an

      utterly inextricable mass of confusion . ( Cheers . ) Thus much for the indictment ; butl mnst now go back for a moment to tell you that the real question mooted by Messrs Lyon and Stubbs was this , that a portion of the defendants are charged with doing nothing except one thing , which has become immortalized in the annals ofthe law . _ If any one . should hereafter write a book on the principles which prevailed amongst the magistrates of England at this period , they would have to state that in the glorious year of 1840 , two magistrates , neither of whom were chickens , pronounced that walking ap and down , a __ d speaking to people , was an offence against tho laws ofthe kingdom , and that they were the asses to believe that the men whom tbey asked to believe tbis

      would actuallj take their word for it . Whj , it is true enough that they must have found some musty doctrine of tbatkind in books a hundred years old , and in men a century backwards ; but could thej expect that a body of men who had the pluck of chickens in their hearts weuld assent to a doctrine whioh went to destroy their power to speak to a friend in the _etreets , if they had a friend on their arms at the Bame time * For if a thing was illegal for twenty to do , it is illegal for two to do . That doctrine was propounded with regard to about seventeen of tbe men . There were afterwards twenty-six tried . With regard to a number ef the others , a greater mass of perjury I never heard in mj life than at the court in Liverpool . One man , who when

      before the magistrates at Warrington , swore that one of mj men said , " we will wait for you at the station , " swore before the judge that the words were , " we will lay wait for them at the station . " Where bad that man been inthe interval ? I do not saj that he had been dining with Messrs Lyon and Stubbs ; but I do think that he had been taking beer with Jones , the constable . With regard to nine of the men , it was sworn that thej used some words of violeaee . There was no donbt that the men who had been tutored , and screwed , and bribed to swear against them before Messrs Lyon and Stubbs , would , if they were screwed and bribed a little more , and peppered afresh , be willing to swear the same , or a little more , when thej went before the judge . Now , there is no donbt tbat using threatening language is an offence against the laws of England , and I , for one , hope that it always will be an offence . I saj that

      no cause can triumph , or ought to triumph , or shall triumph , so far as I am concerned , which feels it necessary te have _recoups to violence of _ene sort or another . There was a third class of defendants , amongst whom were Mr Selsby and Mr Cheeseborough , who were sworn to have encouraged this violent ' language . We all knew that if the judge chose to put it to the jury that they had connived , they would be of course found guilty ; but we believed that the charge against Messrs Selsby and Cheeseborough could not possibly be strained to that extent . But the most mischievous , the most dreadful offence was that with which the 17 were charged—the men who threaten destruction to the class interests and dominion ofthe masters—tbe men who walked up and down , and talked to the people . Well , we had them at Liverpool , and , notwithstanding the moral influence of Lyon and _Stubbe , the judge declared that these non

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      had committed no offence at all . _ h _» master , connected witb Lyon and Stubbs had come to the con-Tiction tbat they have gained a loss—that thej stood much better before , than they do now . I admit that the point is still liaWe to argument , that there is a real deal of law tbe other way ; but , when I take into account the circumstances Ofthe year in which we live—that all things now' move by combinationthat nothing is done in England now but by a conspiracy to do it—I had a perfect conviction that , whatever the judge might « ay at Liverpool , I ' should in the Court of Queen ' s Bench get as much law for the poor as for the rich . Although the decision is thst of a single judge , yet still itis law until contradicted , and woe to the _majiitrate who ventures to commit a man for walking up and down in Newton ,

      or any other place . Then what is the position in which we stand ? With regard to the 17 , and the principle involved in the case , that is decided . But we feel that whatever the other men did , they _, did it of themselves , as individuals , and not as conspirators , to impoverish _Mi « re Jones and Potts . Do you recollect the masters lately conspiring aot to engage any man belonging to the union ? ( Hear , hear . ) And tho Manchester Guardian , day after day , congratulated the publio that the men were being starved out . Why this was literally doing' what we are charged with ; ifc was an attempt to impoverish the working classes . _Workiag men came to me and asked me to indict the masters ; they asked me whether it was not a conspiracy , and offered me large sums from the union if

      I would take it up . I said , " No ; this is . a good game : I shall have to play at it myself some day . " I told them that if they used the doctrine of conspiracy against the masters , they wonld but fortify tho hands of the masters , if ever the latter thought fit to put it in operation against the men . Then , with regard to the nine _rasn , we feel convinced that there was no conspiracy at all * , and , backed by the mechanics of England , of who ? e confidence I feel proud , prouder than of any other honour which the earth could give , I will fi _$ ht it out . They feel that the battle is not won while an inch of ground remains to be contested ; , that , whilst a great blojr has been struck at tyranny for ever , by the _deoision . at Liverpoolthere is still another contest , nnotherblow

      , to be struck ; and they say , strike on , till yoa can strike no longer , against tyranny and oppression of every sort . ( Great cheerinsj . ) And does there remain no other tyrannny and oppression ? Is a big , bloated constable , rolling in the fat whioh is the result of drink , to go , with the master or the master _. brother , into a house , against which he has no warrants _, defjing the law which he is placed to administer , calculating not onlj oh pardon and protection , but on the praise of those who ought , in their high places , to check : him ; caleulating on all that , he goes . without any warrant , and breaks open the boxes of any person be chooses . And is that a thing whieh the working classes of England are prepared to sit by and see done , without resentment and punishment ? ( Cries

      of "No , no . " ) If so , the phrase ot the world would be that you deserve the tyranny ; but I say that you would deserve fifty times worse . Until a spirit is aroused that looks on an injury offered to one man as an injustice committed upon the whole body—until that is the prevailing spirit of all England , you are not ina fit state to grasp your rights , or to enjoy them if you could grasp them . I say that the conduct of the mechanics has done them immortal honour , in determining , notwithstanding that a victory has been obtained oa the large principle that the validity of the indictment itself shall be the question—that they would ask the Queen ' s Benoh for this , if no more ; for , if there is nothing else against theindictmont there is this—and

      it is a curious thing , too , in itself—that lor the first time in England , we . when we come up . for judgment , shall ask for a new trial , upon , the ground that tho judge told the jury that , he could not understand the charge . ( Cheers . ) . _;! We will gay , by counsel , that that is a very ( m _gwtiad for asking for a new trial , and fer no trial at all ; that if the charge was unintelligible tothe judge , it must have been so to the jury ; that the jury could not bare pronounced a true verdict when thej said , "' guilty on every count , " the judge not having read one to them . ( Cheers . ) It was the duty of the prosecutors , having got their verdict against these nine —and it is a verdict which will take considerably more difficulty to shake than that against the

      seventeen—thej ought the next hour to have been prepared to give every man notice that he should surrender , in discharge of his recognizances , the first day of the next term . During the first four days of term , we shall ask the Court of Queen ' s Bench whether they would like to have the motion for anew trial brought on then , or postponed until we are brought up for judgment ? The Court of Queen's Bench are cunnin g fellows ; they know that a verdict is sometimes obtained in an inferior court , when the parties who obtained it never intend to press for judgment ; and tbey will at once grant the motion for postponement , till the prosecutors choose to bring ns up tor judgment . Now , we are at the prosecutors' mercy ; they can call us up when they like ; but

      I must Bay that they have shown a remarkable want of vigour in that respect . If they feel content with the licking they have had , and do not want another , I think we ought to allow them to retreat . ( Laughter and cheers . ) On the 8 th of this month the term ends . We can only be brought up during the term . We shall wait till the term is over , and on the following Monday I shall publish my account of the trial , because a long period may elapse before we are called up for judgment . We cannot be called up before the 22 nd of May , and judgment cannot be pronounced before the first week in June . The prosecutors have power , during twelve months , to call us up during term ; after twelve months thej oannot do so without giving ns reasonable notice . A short

      time ago the prosecution of these men would have been one of infinite peril . There would have been enthusiasm for tbe trial , and money would have been collected for the the trial ; but after the trial the enthusiasm would have died away , no money would have been collected , and the prosecutors would bare rested on their oars till they saw that our apathy had left us unprepared , and then they would have called upon us to go to the next stage of the struggle , when we must have yielded to their own terms . I am told by the mechanics employing me , that a fund wili be reserved applicable to this contest only , come where and when it may , ( Cheers . ) So far this is satisfactory . The rod will remain in pickle ; it will be kept readv for our oppressors , se that when the proper

      time comes thej will meet with the same determined opposition wbich we have hitherto had the glory and satisfaction of showing them . Still I warn yqi * that your prosecution is one of immineat peril . Yon cannot obtain such a victory without exciting the attention of the classes above you to your position , I have no donbt that in next session of Parliament a hill will be introduced , in some shape or other ,, to coerce the working classes ; and whether it will fail or not will depend entirely upon the rigour of the people in resisting , or their slavish apathy in yielding to it . ( Prolonged and vehement applause , ) Mr Thomas Nobb _. r _.. —If the verdict is obtained against us in the Queen ' s Benoh , can we go any further ? Mr Ron-Hi-. —Yes ; and we mean to go farther .

      Mr John _-town-iso * _- —In the event of Jones and Potts not pressing judgment , can we prosecute for false imprisonment and breaking open of boxes ? Mr Roberts . —Yes ; and we mean to do so . Mr Nobbuht . —How far can we go ? Mr Roberts . —Only to one court after tho Queen's Bencb . Mr Roe , member of the Engineers' Association , proposed the third resolution , as follows : — That tbe great , splendid , and peaceful victories achieved by W . P . Roberts . Esq ., whom we regard as every working man ' s _Attorney-Gcneral , bave honour _, ably earned for bim the entire and unlimited confidence of the working classes throughout the British Empire . He spoke of the great talents which had been manifested by Mr Roberts in this and other eases , and said that the present contest between the masters and the men exceeded all former ones in its-magnitude and importance .

      Mr Samuel F-- TCHEB seconded the motion . He said that it was highly desirable that , the _working classes should ascertain the amount of their electoral power , and that if possible they should return men who wonld place the working classes in the same position as others with respect to sitting on juries . Mr W . Cbeightom cordially supported the motion , which was carried unanimously , and followed by three times three hearty rounds of applause , given upstanding . Mr Wu . H-uu proposed the fourth resolution , which ran thus : —

      That the but thanks of this meeting are due , and are hereby given to the proprietor and editors of the Northtrn / Star , for the able and spirited manner in which ths rights of labour are constantly defended in tbtir columns , and especially for their noble _adrecacy of the cause of the Kewtcn men , In thtir late struggle with unprincipled and selfish employer-He spoke briefly but warmly of tbe great benefits whioh the Northern _Sktr has conferred upon the working classes , and pointed out several instances of its bold and straightforward advocacy of their cause . Mr David Schofield setonded the motion , whioh was carried amidst loud applause . A vote of thanks to the chairman was then pasted , and the meeting terminated at eleven o ' clock .

      Thjg Northern Gjar ., May 8, 180' *I -¦'...

      _THJg NORTHERN _gJAR _., May 8 , 180 ' * i - ¦ ' *__ - " -- '"; .-: ¦ .- '"' .. ¦ ' _. " - ¦ ' _. _"•¦ ' '? " ' . ' f ' ¦ ¦ ' i V -.. ii - n" - i _ ii i _| ig ! "i ¦ mi ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ __ in * _. i i _^_ _iii-N _»» - ¦ _¦»_ . _¦¦¦» — , _. _ . _ _., | ¦ .

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      Tbb Lam Murder at Dbbbt . —Dbath or Mrs _Osborhb . —Mrs Osborne , who was so savagely attacked by the murderer Cross , after he had perpetrated the horrid murder on his wife , died on Thursday morning . The wound in her neck had healed up , but she was troubled with a violent cough , which no doubt hastened her end . The murderer cut her fingers so badly , that mortification of one of them took place , and she had it cut off about a month ago , an operation which she bore with great fortitude . Dabiko Bubolabt . —The promises of Mr Gogorty , optician and philosophical instrument maker , No . 72 , Fleet-street , have been burglariousl y ontered , and a Jar , ** , quantity of valuable gold and silver spectacles , gold eye glasses , & o .. carried off . The house is at the comer cf Crown-court , from whence the burglars affected thek entrance _.

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      UNOASHIBB . * ¦ _,. Lrm . QD _ .-TH _ _Irmh _^ V _^ _- _^^ _tt ST ' ing notice was issued , on . Tuesday , in thr Under * _, writers * Rooms , Liverpool :- " steamers landing from Ireland , whioh take _paMengers , will have to proceed to the quarantine ground , to be inspected by the medical officer in charge , and any of them suffering from fever , or other oontagious disease , will M removed to tho _laxarettos . "

      TORRSHIRB . Extensive _Sjiugq-IKG _Tbansactioi * . _* -A few days ago upwards ofa ton of tobacco was found buried about a yard below the surfaoe of the earth , in a field near _Wilberfoss . Previous to that digcotery a reward of £ 200 had been offered , it being supposed that the tobacco had been brought up the river Ouso and landed on the New Walk , in the suburbs of York , from a schooner called tho Ark . Mr Chalk , superintendent of police , with Mr Wright , of Hull , and Mr Gardener , of Manchester , collectors of customs , have been _actively engaged in tracing out the matter . Nothing _particular , however , transpired until a few days ago , when fte seizure took place . Subsequently the solicitor of Her Majesty ' s Customs was sent down to York to _exftmineinto the evidence prior to other proceedings being taken _..- ; This examination was , of course conducted privately , and after it had been concluded , writs were _issaed for

      the apprehension of certain parties who were implicated . Accordingly on Monday last , Mr Chalk aad Mr Wright proceeded to put the warrants whioh had been obtained into force , and in tho course of a very short time fire persons were ia custody , viz ., Mr Terrill , of tlie firm of Labron and Terrill , tobacconist- * , York ; Mr William Briggs , landlord of the Three Cranes public-house , Thursday Market ; John Thwaite- * , carrier between York and Beverley ; Isaac Kilner _, carter , Aldwatk _, and John Stead , a rally man . T _ ose individuals were afterwards conveyed to York Castle , and we understand that on the 8 th of May they will have to appear before the Barons ef Exchequer iu London , * to answer touching certain articles , wherein they are impleaded by informations lately exhibited against them before Her Majesty _ Barons by the Attorney-General , forthe forfeiture , as to each of them , of three several sums oi £ 3 , 0 . 2 7 a . 6 d ., or a total of £ 9 , 12 ? 2 _« . 6 d .

      HO-. 1 NGHA-3-IRE . SraoiDB . —Mr Dupler , of the firm of Dupler , Potter , and Huger , has wmmitted suicide owing to the aspect of his private affairs .

      80 _FIOL-. Alum-d _Mubd-b op a Gebman Girl . —An inquest was commenced at Ipswich on Tuesday upon the body of Elizabeth Eager , It was proved that the deceased travelled the country in _company with an English girl : the one playing a tambourine , the other a " piano , " which , whilst in use , was supported by a thick rod of wood . They had _becnamusing with their rude music some men in a tap room at Ipswich , when a drunken listener , named George Barker , took possession of the piano stick , and when the girls left the house refused to give it up . Be followed them to their lodgings , and mado proposals which were refused . The poor German attempted to persuade Barker to restore the stick , saying that " her master would make a row about it ; " but he obstinately refusing , she attempted to seize it , when he struck her a blow on the head which caused her death . When taken into custody , the accused said , " I gave her a blow , but she'll be all right in the morning . "—The inquest was adj ourned . .

      KHB--- _WB-BB . _S-spbctb _. C-Ild Murder . —The inhabitants of this retired and romantic inland watering-place have been " disturbed from their propriety" during the past few day ., in consequence of _namours that a young farm servant had destroyed her illegitimate child at an inn in the town . It appears that a young woman , named Caroline Owens , left her service at the adjoining hamlet of _WooSetton , and came to _Tenbnry last week , where she remained in lodgings at the _hoftac of a woman named Cumdall . From thence she moved

      to the Red Lion Inn , in Tenbury , where she delivered herself of a fem & le child , which was found dead in bed by her side , with marks of violence on its throat . An inquest was afterwards held , when , after hearing evidence , they returned the fallowing verdict : — " That the ohilt died from injuries on the neok , arising from pressure of a violent nature , but whether inflicted by the mother , Caroline Owens , in the agonies of labour accidentally or designedly , there is no evidence to satisfy us . " The inhabitants are not at all satisfied with the result of this investigation , and it is said that the matter will not be allowed to

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      ESSEX . Thb Siarvino Shirtmaker" charged with attempting to poison her child and herself was examined on Monday , before the magistrates at Newport petty sessions . It appeared from the evidence that thc life of theprisoner was saved in consequence of vomiting being induced by the excessive dose of laudanum she hail taken ; a less quantity by remaining on her stomach would probably have caused death . She was committed for trial on the capital charge . n-.-D . _ T .

      Alleoed Dbath of a _Gir _ buom _Bruiah _Vio-¦ _ ekce . — An inquiry of several hours' duration took place before Mr T . Higgs , at the Baldfaced Stag , _Chaseside , near Hadley , touching the death of Sarah Garrett , aged thirteen . The evidenee taken was very voluminous , and the principal part is totally unfit for publication ; but tbe main facts of the case were as follows : —The deceased was the daughter of labouring people , living at the above house , and enjoyed a very excellent state of health until the beginning of January last , when she suddenlj became very weak and exhausted . A medical man was called toher , but notwithstanding the _remedieeadoptedshe continued to get gradually worse . On the 29 th of February she was placed under the care of Mr _Asbury ,

      the parish surgeon ot *_ n __ eld , who discovered tnat she was labouring under peritonital inflammation . The proper remedies were used , but she continued getting worse . About the middle of March _shs made a statement to her mother , charging a man named John Campfield , a blacksmith , living in a cottage adjoining , with a rape , attended with brutal violence . Her statement was as follows : —That about ten days after last Christmas she was coming along tbe back garden of her parents' residence , when Campfield overtook her , and threw her down on the ground in a secluded part of the garden , where , by using great force , he succeeded in effecting his piirpeso ; but , not content with what he had already done , he then took a stick lying on the ground , and with it abused her person in a most brutal manner .

      The reason she gave for not stating the above facts « arlier was the dread she felt of Cam-eld , who bad t-reatenedto kill her if she told any one . Mr Asbury , who examined her person , confirmed her statement in a measure , by stating that the capital offence had beea committed , which caused the apt * prehension of Campfield , who was committed to prison on the capital charge . Everything was done for the deceased , but she sank and died on Thursday lost , since which a earful post mortem examination ofthe body haa since been made by Mr Asbury , who was of opinion that her death was the result of scrofula and extensive chronic peritonitis , from natural _oauses , and not caused by any violence . Verdict , "Died from scrofula and disease of the bowels , from natural causes . "

      CHATHAM . _Forobrt Br aSoi-isr . —Thomas O'Brieu , a young man belonging to tho 9 th Regiment of Foot , quartered ia Ghatham Barracks , was brought before the county magistrates at Rochester on Monday , charged with uttering a receipt for a Pest-office order , with intent to defraud the Post-office authorities . The prisoner , a native of Dublin , and who was described as having had the _advantage of a good education , joined the regiment about nine months since , and was soon afterwards appointed a clerk to the depot . Ob the _lfth of March , in the absence of Colour-Sergeant Lynch , who was at the assizes at _Maidsti ns , the prisoner waa deputed to distribute the post letters for the officer , and private , of the regiment , a custom enforced by the orders of the commanding officer ,

      Colonial Weare . Amongst the letters was one for Aaron Randlo , a oomrade _, contained a Post-offioe order for 15 s ., of which the prisoner at once possessed himself , and having forged the signature of Sergeant Lynch , whom he knew to be in the habit of signing such documents as a guarantee of their _orrectness , he proceeded to the Post-office at Chatham , where he presented the order , and having there attached to it the signature of Aaron Randle _, obtained payment and absconded with the money . The prisoner w . s afterwards taken at Gravesend , brought back to barracks , and placed on a Court-martial for absenting himself , and was committed to the district military prison at Fort Clarence _. from which he . wasliberateden Monday morning , and delivered over to the civil power on the charge of forgery . He was committtd to Maidstone Gaol for trial at the next assiMs .

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      Hobmbie _Inpamioides . —A horrible tragedj has occurred on Wednesday at Llanybyther , ia this county , involving no less than three murders , which are rendered mere appallingly dreadful by the fact that the perpetrator of the fatal act is the mother of the three innocent victims . The wretched mother , Mary Hughes , with her three _children , resided with her sister-in-law , also named Mary Hughes , who keeps a small public-house on tho road to Llansawel , four miles from

      about Llanybyther . She had been residing with her sister-in-law for the last month , her husband having left her about that period in order to geek for employment at the iron works at Nantyglos as is the custom of numbers of the peasantry in time of scarcity of labour in the agricultural districts . On Wednesday , about twelve o ' clock , the sister-in-law left tho house in order to _. go to Llanbyther upon business , and upon her return ait seven o ' clock in the evening waa surprised to find the door locked and the key placed under tke door . Sbe opened the door ,

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      however , and finding n 0 ' one'in the house upon a cursory inspection , she proceeded to the residence of a neighbour , distant about a hundred yards , to whom she stated that she had suspicions , in consequence of her sistewu-l & y _« absewe , that something bad gone wrong . The neighbour advisee ! her to see if her sister-in-law had gone to bed , and _upoa her return to do . so , she was horror-stricken at perceiving ths three children , aged respectively one , three , and five . years , suspended by their necks to a beam in the roof and quite dead , apparently having been so for some hours . Their mother was nowhere to bo

      found , _fhis dreadful erime must have been-perpetrated with considerable coolneis and deliberation , inasmuch as two children wci-e hung to one part of the beam by two handkerchiefs tied together , and one to another part by two other handkerchiefs . Suspicion , of course , could attach to no one but the wretched mother of these ill-fated babes , and it is supposed tbat she could not be otherwise than insane at the period this dreadful offence was committed . It is conjectured that she has either taken her course towards Merthyr to join her husband , or that she has committed suicide , as she has not been since seen in the neighbourhood .

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      De-Htmion Ir» The Hion-Anm.—From The Fir...

      _De-Htmion ir » the _Hion-ANM . —From the First Report of tbe Central Board of Management ofthe Highland Destitution Fund , we gather some important statistics regarding the extent of the destitution . The most destitute districts consist ot the western parts of Ross and _Inverness-shires , part of Argyleshire , and nearly the whole Hebrides , containing a population of 115 , 2 . 3 , three-fourths of them , or 86 , 430 people , being totally destitute . Shetland and the parish ofStromne _? ., in Orkney , contain

      a population of 33 , 3 . 3 , with severe destitution . The northern and eastern Highlands , with a population of 152 , 911 , have received partial relief . The fourth district comprises the greater portion of Argylesbire , with a population of 88 , 063 , and considerable destitution . The funds subscribed amounted on 10 th April to £ 138 , _* 74 _. ls . 9 d ., of which £ . 6 , 000 has been ; received from the British Association . Tbe disbursements amount to £ 16 , 701 16 s ., leaving on hand £ 122 , 043 5 s . 9 d ., which is considered insufficient to provide food for the destitute till next harvest .

      Thb S-ORM . —The Perth Courier states that during the late" gale , as two gentlemen were proceeding t-TOQ _ kthA _# < -, •& . f _GttUjjaYictoo-, in a close carriage they became apprehensive that the vehicle would be upset from its tearful rocking to and fro . Accordingly they alighted , and had scarcely done so , when the hat ofoneof them was blown from his head . Both gave chase as fast as their legs could carry them , but tke hat had by far the best ofthe race , and was last seen describing rapid eyrations round the angles of the road , to be dashed into some unseen ravine below . Retracing their _steDS , they missed the conveyance , but observed something high in the air , which , when it reached the ground , _proved'to be the door they had so hastily opened , literally , torn off its hinges .

      Further on they found the carriage overturned in a deep ditch , and thedriver engaged in tutting the traces to liberate the horses . It waB sadly mauled , although not destroyed . The Rutherford _Monuksnt _, Anworth , _Stimjcb . bt Liohtsiko . -r Advanced ai the season now iB , electrical commotien has been common for more than a week over the whole south of Scotland ; and so late as Sunday last , the 2 nd current , a thunder-storm , in crossing the Boreland Hill , near Gatehouse , struck the Rutherfurd Monument with such violence , that _, it toppled , from its basement , and is now a mass of ruins , scattered on all sides , painful to contemplate . It was a noblo column , in the form of an obelisk , which beautifully beseemed its alpine position , and \ was seen from great distances , particularly on the English side of the Solway , over a large section of the coast of Cumberland . In addition to the pious

      purpose for which it was reared , to commemt rate the talents and virtues of a faithful minister and eminent scholar , who flourished more than two centurieB ago , the tall piller was endearingly useful to mariners steering from the Frith of Clyde to the isles Fleet , or while returning from still longer voyages . An accident so inopportune and unexpected has excited deep feelings of regret , not only around Gatehouse , but over a wide extent of country—feelings which will be shared and warmly reciprocated wherorer Gallovi _. ians congregate at home and abroad . The foundation stone of the monument was laid more than seven years ago , and the erection completed A . D . 1842 . The tablet and inscription have received scarcely any injury ; and , as building material abound amidst what appears debris , the obelisk , we doubt net , might be reconstructed at less than half the original expense .

      Novel Mode o _. Q ,. B __ m- a Riot . —A few days ago there were upwards of 100 Irish navvies on board the Kirkaldy ferry steamer during one of her afternoon trips to Newhaven , and , about the time the fare was oolleoting , conducted themselres in a very unruly manner , and refused to pay their fare . On being remonstrated with by the captain , thev became still more refractory and riotous . Captain Barker , finding that further remonstrance and threatening ot legal proceedings against them only made matters worse , attached a flexible tube to the escape-valve ofthe en * gine , scattered a quantity of steam amongstthem , and threatened to continue it if they would not give up their disorderly conduct . This aot being speedily complied with , the captain , by the application of the tube , gave them a copious cold shower bath , which ¦ oou had the effect of reducing them to a state of subordination , and they wero allowed to land at Newhaven . Some of them , however , wero take into custody by the police on returning to Kirkaldy .

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      The papers are teeming with short paragraphs about the unparalleled distress from famine and pestilence in Ireland , whereas they fill thoir columns with endless lamentations over the illness ol one man —a nobleman and lord-lieutenant . Thus they tell us : —" The deep anxiety with which the public mind had been seized when the noble earl ' s danger _hsd been publicly announced , is hourly on the increase . The number of persons who call each day nearly doubles that of the preceding , and the interest they feel , in making inquiry about the illustrious patient , is manifest in the anxiety impressed on the countenance of every visitor of every shade of opinion . " Until the fawning sycophants can pay their court to the neat man , who plants his foot on the coffin of his _predeoessor . Meanwhile , the sympathy of the press is so exhausted by its illu'trious subject of _commisseration , that it can spare none of its hireeloquence for cases like tho following - . —

      U-STBR . It is melancholy to read the accounts from the provinces , detailing the spread of famine , and its concomitant—typhus fever . Even in this province where the condition ofthe peasantry is better than in the south and west , fever is making dreadful ravages . In Belfast , the union workhouse and hospitals are all full , and still the patients are increasing . The workhouse was built to accommodate 150 patients , but it has , by means of cramming , and the erection of sheds , been made to afford some sort of accommodation for about 500 ; but an order has been issued against the admiaaion of more — indeed , it would have been unsafe to admit more . Tbe General Hospital has also been used , to its utmost capacity .

      The following was its state on Monday : Fever patients , 96 ; dysentery ditto , 72 ; small-pox ditto , I 38 ; medical and surgical cases , _U ; total , 250 . Arrangements have been made for sixty patients , in addition to the above , which is the greatest number that eould be accommodated . Tho reception of dysentery patients has ceased , since Thursday last , in _to-sequence ef the wards hitherto appropriated to them being occupied with fever cases . That fever and djsenterj are increasing , and will increase , there is too much reason to fear , or rather no reason to doubt ; and , under such circumstances , and without sufficient hospital accommodation , dreadful suffering and extensive death among the inhabitants , high and lew , might be reckoned upon .

      cobk . Two thousand one hundred and thirtj persons died in the Cork workhouse in less than four months , from the 2 _? th of December last . The state of Cork city is absolutely that of a city of the plague . Several dead bodies , principally of children , are to be found iu various parts of the city . Hundreds of wretohed objects lie about under sheds , withont food or coverin ? . Yet ** food " continues to pour . in at Cove in immense quantities . In the course of this week , fifty-nine vessels laden with provisions arrived at Cove . ' .. "'"' No fair estimate of the ravages committed by famine and pestilence among the population of Cork and the rural districts can be formed by the

      statements ia the local journals . Not a tithe of the misery is chronicled , _whils in the districts west of Cork no tongue could express the awful condition in which the entire prpulation is plunged . The Cork _ , _„_ mtner ef Monday says , " Interments at Father Mathew's cemetery , free of burial charge , from Sunday , tbt 25 th April , to Sunday , 2 nd of May , 256 . _Thfe return shows a frightful increase of mortality . " Sms of thb Woa __ o _. SB . -Total admitted during 1 , „ _o'J 16 - _^* rth 8 ' ° 5 number at - _*« e _ d oflast week , 3 , 89 .-4 , 009 . Dis _c harged , 132 ; died , 78 ; de-, ? rt ni ? 7 Q 2 _i 3 ' . _Remaining , 3 , 797 . _Numbirin Hospital , 395 ; extern patients , 1 , 016 -1 , 411 . The number of deaths in this return are fewer than hare occurred for a considerable time , and exhibit a great reduction in tlie proportion ofthe _previoue

      week

      m _n _GA-WAT . Tns Ravages o _* p Fbvbu . —Fever is making frightful progress , sweeping off , with impartial hand , not merely the poor labouring under the effects of destitution , but the wealthy also , among the latter , John Nolan , Esq ., of Ballinderry , in the county of Galway , and a clergyman , the Rev . Edward Nixon , Rector of Castletown , in the diocese of Meath . Queen ' s CeuNiv . —Frightful distress prevails in the c » lliery district of this county . The * ' Rushes Colliery" has beea abandoned ( it was the property of

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      an English company ) , and abcut 300 men _wmTT _conicquenoe dismissed on Friday last . Tha m J * works also cease , and will dis emploj a _rasuS _" The prospects arising out of such a state of _tM . * are really melancholy . _***» The out-door relief system ia coming but v _< w slowly int . operation , and where tried has oocasioiwi nothing but murmur and discontent . The n _Uaj _* J ** ani quantity of tood giren out are both alike „»? tested against . _" _* Ehniskil-bn . —Fever still continues to race _*!• __

      nnabated malignity in this town and neighbourhood * Several respectable persons are _suffering from th * epidemic at present . Scarcely a day passes bat n . _! bers are stricken down , who , a few days previously were in the enjoyment of excellent health . The en ! suing summer will be fraught with evil consequence to this unfortunate eountry . * " ¦ •"¦ _Nbwbt . —Mr Byrne , the new master of the _werfj . house , has taken _ferer , and that sickness still eon . tinues to prevail very much amongst the paupers " The medical officer , Dr Davis , has been able to r * .-sume his duties after his severe indisposition .

      A BECORD or TBS _f AMISS _TXAR . The Repeal Association lately , when the funds were low—very low , and no prospect of a rise , pro . _mulgated the patriotic resolution of providing a golden book , wherein to inscribe the names of all persons who subscribed to the . rent during this year of difficulty . The Roman Catholic Bishop of Dorr * and his clergy have borrowed this idea , and turned it to a-. thM _pvwpo-e , having recently resolved to keep parochial registries of all deaths , commencing from Saturday last . The registry books to be rolled in black crape , and to bear this inscription : — " The records ofthe murders ofthe Irish peasantry , perpa . trated in a , » . 1846-7 , ia the 9 th and 10 th Victoria , nnder the name of economy , during the administration of a professedly Liberal Whig government , of which Lord John Russell was the premier . " Some _, thing more rational was certainly to have been ex . pected so far north as Derry .

      THE LAW IX IIS ... MUNI . Amid the general distress of tlie _ceuntry there is one profession which may be considered as profiting by the evils in whieh we are involved . The legal pro . feasion was _nevermore busily engaged , and there is no laok of attorneys to carry on the warfare . But for fear the pestilence should carry off some of them , and the country might suffer thereby , no less than one hundred and fifty-six gentlemen have given tbe necessary notices of applying , during the present term , to be admitted to practice as attorneys in the Court of Queen's Bench . There are alio eighteen notices from parties for a renewal of their certificate and eight have been admitted by Judges' orders making a total of 182 . '

      THE EFFECTS OP FAMINE . Shocking Mubdeb is Cure . —A dreadful murder has been committed upon a man named Edmund Doogan , at Doon , near Broadford . He was fired at from behind a ditch by two men , and when he fell they fractured his skull in several places , and cut his throat , nearly severing the head from his body . The cause assigned for this savage murder is , that the deceased two years since purchased a reversionary lease of some land , the title to which expired thia May .

      _Airrajpi-i * M _. _hdbr and Sei _. _ori fob _RiNr . — Last week , as Hugh Singleton , Esq ., of Hadewood , was proceeding to his property , Clountra , near Cul . lane , in this county , in order to meet some tenants , who would not be permitted by the "legislators" to pay him rent , on his way near _Dangan-gate he saw a man inside the wall who ordered him to return , at the same moment firing a shot whioh struck Mr Singleton ' s horse in the shoulder and eye . Mr Sin . gleton promptly drew forth a pistol and returned the fire , adding , that if they thought to intimidate him , they bad the wrong man . He then prcceeded to Kilkishen , and having procured the tax cart of the high-sheriff , with two police , reached Clountra , where he drove and impounded all the stock ofthe

      refractory tenants , and returned home in safety . Piracies on the Irish Coast . —A communication has been received in town from Captain _JamesM'Faiv 1 __ . ofthe schooner ; Christian , of Glasgow , dated Westport , the 23 rd ultimo , from which it appears that the piratical proceedings on the Irish coast are still being continued , The Christian , while on her _Sassage from Liverpool to _Wesport , with a cargo of ndian corn , was boarded on Tuesday , the 22 nd , about seven or eight miles abreast of Broadhaven , by tbree boats , each containing four men . After coming upon deck , the boarders demanded of the master what was the oargo , and upon being informed they immediately broke open the hatches and carried into their boats thirty-three bags of corn , _( _weiehina

      about 2 . tons , ) upon whicli thej left the vessel , offer _, ing no turther violence . On the following day the master again observed three other boats approaching with eight men in each , but being forewarned of their intentions , he determined to resist their attempt to enter the vessel , and , accordingly , armed himsell with a fowling piece , and tho crew with handspike * and hatchets . When they came within ten yards distance from the vessel , the master informed them of the danger of their further approach , but as they still persisted in pulling forward , he presented his gun with theapparent intention of firing . Upon seeing this , the boats , which were unarmed , gave up the chase , and pulled towards the shore . It is also men . tioned , thatthe misery in this part of the country is

      . _Athlow , _*—Attempted Murder . —A most horrible deed was enacted last night , Monday , within ten miles of this town , at Mr Kelly ' s , of Scregg , county of Roscommon . Mr Kelly invited an acquaintance to come on a short visit to Scregg . The invitation was accepted , and last erening before they retired , an argument arose between them ; bowever , when the _fuest thought all were at rest , he proceeded to Mr Kelly ' s room , where he and his wife lay in bed , and , having armed himself with a razor , inflicted severe wounds upon their necks . He then proceeded to abed in whioh Mitt Kelly was sleeping , and perpetrated a similar deed of blood upon her . By this time the servants were alarmed , and ran to tbo

      rescue ; the first man who attempted to disarm him , by taking away the ra _* r which he was flourishing around his head , was _fereciously attacked by this person , and moBt severely wounded , the other servants not daring to go near . After this series of bloody deeds , he ran off , and threw the raior away . Three countrymen , who saw him , pursued him , finally captured him , and handed him over U tho police . Further particulars I bare not learned . Another correspondent , in giving aa account of the affair , Btates that Drs Harrison and O'Connell were in attendance on the family . They have pronounced Mr Kelly ' s wound as very serious , but those inflicted on Mrs and Miss Kelly of no material con sequence . It ia supposed that mental aberration was the immediate cause of these fearful acts .

      public works . By the stoppage of all but a very few ofthe publio relief works , the distress of the country has been greatly aggravated . For the most part , those works were ofa totally useless nature , while in many cases thej were downright mischievous . The local gentry , tome are unable to relieve the poor , some are unwilling to do so , and some are totally indifferent as to their fate . Their position is a false one , in erery sense . Those who hare heartt to feel for the poor hare not tho ability to gire succour ; while there are _toomaay who think everything about the " rights " of property and are wholly indifferent as to its "duties . " The noble charity and comprehensive munificence of the American people , ought to make our landocracy ashamed , and goad them into a per * formance of their duties . But the day of retribution , however long delayed , _willassuredly come at last .

      eviction of tenantry . The Cork _hammer contains a detailed statement of the eviction of a number of tenants from an estate in the vicinity of Ltsmore , county of Waterford . It appears that tho property was , some years since , a barren waste ; but large tracts had been improved by the occupiers , who were to have the land free for sereyears , and then were to pay a graduated scale of rent . All went on well until the failure of the potato _Otop , when the tenantry became unable topay their rents . The landlord insisted on the rights , and it is added the wretched occupiers agreed to pull down their houses on receiving a small sum of money each , after they had left the district . Tht whole case appears to be one of extreme Lardship and suffering .

      Ammptep Suicidb From B -Ackfriars-D-Img....

      AmMPTEp _SUICIDB FROM B _-ACKFRIARS-D-IMg . — On Wednesday morning , about half . past one o ' clock , Inspector Everest , of the Thames Police , whilst on duty with his boat ' s crew , near _Blackfriars-kridge _, heard the screams ofa woman ia the water , and ob pwoeedmg towards the piles which support the _steam-boat pier , he discovered a woman cliBging to one oi than and dragged her into his _gallej . She appeared to bo quite insensible , and with tho aid of * _»• _wwpolioemen on the bridge she was conveyed v ? i -r er _' s Arm 8 P _uWic-house , in Water-lane , blackfriars . Mr Hutchinson , a surgeon , was immediately Bent fer . who ordered the woman to be out

      into a warm bath , and applied the usual moans te restore animation , whioh happily proved successful , and some hours afterwards she was removed to the union poor-house . She is likely to recover from her . immersion in the water . She was observed by the persons on the bridge to throw htrself into the river from the recess on the eastern side of the bridge . The tide carried her towards the piles , and sho clung to them with great tenacity , and screamed as lorn as sho was able for help . Her name ia Elizabeth Shields , of No . 35 , Fulweod _' s rents , Ilolborn , and it appears that a lovo affair caused her to make the attempt on her life .

      Shocking and Fatai . Accident to a Chiid . —On Wednesday evening , about seven o'clock , a fatal accident occurred in Fetter-lane , to a fine little boy , named John _Goodge , aged three years , whose parent * keeps - " _^ Northumberland Coffee-house , Little Newstreet . The child was attempting to cross the road , whenaoart belonging to Mr Edwards , wine merchant , of Holbom-hill , was passing , by which he waa knocked down , and the wheel paused over his head , killing him instantaneously . The driver was taken into custody . __«_ _, _ _,,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 8, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08051847/page/6/