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THE NORTHERN STAR . DecemberJI _^ _j _^ *" " ¦ _—^ l ± i I
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Thinkum that a brief and succinct account of the oSSSti w . . _exhibiting _elauns of the British and American Governments to the disputed territory , will be welcome to our readers , we give the following article from our talented contemporary , the Brighton jf _tralil The Herald ' s article is , we believe , perfectly correct and impartial , and as it saves us the labour of preparing a similar statement , we take the liberty to pass ihe " appropriation clause : _'—
¦ WAR _V 1 TH AMERICA—THE OREGON . The journals , the politicians , and the statesmen of Europe , are speculating on the probability of a war betw een Great Britain and the United States of America . For thc reasons wc briefly stated last week , and many ethers might be assigned , we do not yet believe in tlic probability of this event . At the same time , we are _.-iware that in former years wars have broken out—as that with Spain about the Falkland Islands —wilh less consideration than the Americans and the war-party in Europe , including that of England , seem disposed to pay to the grounds of this d spute ; and it therefore becomes our duty to lay the best accounts we arc able to obtain before our readers ; and this shall be done as briefly as the subject will admit .
DISCOVERY OF THE OREGON TKllHITOKY . It is supposed ( and it is a mere supposition ) that Drake caught sight of the coast , in lat 4 S deg ., in 1580 . He certainly saw it to latitude 43 deg . But Englasd made no nse of the discovery , whatever it was . This coast then remained unvisited for nearly two centuries . But in 1774 and 1775 , Bucareli , the Viceroy of Mexieo , sent two persons to explore It . * Perez left ihe port of San Bios on thc 24 th of Jan ., 1774 , and on the 9 th of August he anchored in _Xootka
Itoad , being the first European to do so , which the Spaniards called the port of San Lorenzo , but whicli Cook , four years afterwards , called King George ' s Sound . The next year ( 1775 ) Heeeta discovered the mouth of thc river Columbia , and called it the Eutrada de Heeeta . " I possess , " says Humboldt , " two very curious small maps , engraved in 1733 in the city of _Me __ dco , which gave the bearings of the coast frem thc 21 deg . to the 5 S deg ., as they were _discovered in the expedition of Heeeta" ( or Quadra , who accompanied him ) . ( _Humboldt' s New Sjxtin Black ' s translation . _voL 2 , p . SIC to 318 . )
Captain Cook , 177 S , partially examined the coast from 41 deg . to 59 th , and after his death the crews sold at Canton some furs which they had bought of the natives . It was these furs that gave a spur to the trade on this coast ; and the English and Americans prepared to work tor it ; but the South Sea Company having exclusive privileges in the Pacific , and the East India Company in China , the English adventurers generally sailed under foreign flags . Meatus , an English officer , left Macao for _Xootka Sound in 17 SS ; but could not discover the river St . Roque » v the Columhia . In 17 S 7 , and five _foilowimryeai-s , Captain Gray , an American , ventured into _ _N " ootka Sound , and on the 11 th of June , 1702 , he ran into the Entrada de Heeeta ; crossed it , and entered the Columbia , which he sailed up fifteen miles . It was he who changed the name of the river from St . Rogue to the Columbia , ¦ which it < t \ M bears .
In 17 _' Jl Captain Vancouver was sent bythe British Government . By the law of nations no private person , like Metres or Gray , can establish the right ofa nation to new discovered land . Vancouver could not find the river ; bnt meeting -with Gray , who gave him the necessary information _, lie sent _Lieutenaut Broughton in a small vessel—the Chatham—which crossed the bar , but finding the coast _dangeron- - , Broughton left the vessel , and rowed up in his cutter 100 wiles—nearly as far as it is navigable . Those are the main points as regards the discovery of this coast by sea . The first who penetrated by land was Sir A . Mackenzie , in the service of thc North West ( British ) Company , in 179-3- He crossed the Roeky Mountains in about 54 deg ., discovered Fraser ' s River , descended it 250 miles , then struck off in a westerly direction , and reached the Pacific in 52 de _ r . 20 _min . •
In August , iS _05 , the American Government despatched Lewis aud Clark to the territory overland . They crossed the Rocky Mountains in 44 deg ., discovered thc southern heads of the Columbia River , floated GOO miles down it ; on the loth of November , 13 Qj , they arrived at the mouth , and built some hnts , in which thny wintered , and returned vo the United States in 13 CG . This is the only time the Roeky Mountains were ever passed by persons acting in a public capacity . In ISOfi Mi * . Fraser , acting under the orders of the North West Company , crossed the llocky Mountains , aud established a trading post in Fraser ' s lliver in 50 deg . 4 min . In 1 S 11 Mr . Thomson , another agent of the above company , discovered the northern heads of the Columbia in 32 ueir .
This is lhe whole amount of _imormation as io the question of discovery . The Spaniards dkcoved it first , but made no sctflement-Eroughton , trailer Vancouver , penetrated furthest ; bnt made no settlement . Clark and Lewis , representing fhe American Government , built huts ia 1305 . All three powers—Spain , England , and Americaset up claims on ihe grounds of discovery ; but none of them arc clear or _s-itisfaetorr .
The Americans rest then * claim ( see the negotia tions in _1824 and 1520 ) chiefly as regards the & ea on Gray . But this argument will not hold water . Gray acted as an individual adventurer . The Ainerieaus argue absurdly also on another point . They say that the discovery of a river entitles the discoverer to all the territory drained b y such river . No European jurist will admit such a doctrine as this . But whatever the pretensions under Gray , it is clear that he is driven out of Court by Humboldt ' s maps . Lewis and Clark only discovered what had been discovered before—the mouth of the river .
Thc British claim is little , if at all , better . Drake merely saw it at most . Neither Cook nor Vancouver had seen it till niter Uccrta ; so that the title , as far as discovery _go-. _* s , is with Spain ; but settlement as wtll as dLiouverv is _. leccssarv to confirm a title .
CL _ -: M 3 BY SETTLEMENT . By ihe law of nations , it is not sufficient , in order to give a title to new-discovered land , that its discovery has been made by a private individual . To establish a valid claim , it must be made by an oilicial _person—by some commander representing the sovereignty , whether monarchical or republican , ofhis nation ; and even when such a person has made the discovery , if the nation that he represents take no further noiicc- of the matter ; if it never direct a settlement to 0 c established on such land , it loses the right it might liavc claimed of discovery . "The law of nations , " says Vattel ( book 1 , cap IS ) , " wili not acknowledge the sovereignty of a nation aver eouutric- - except those in whieh it has formed settlements and of which it makes actual nse . "
" Prior discovery , " said thc American Minister of 1320 , Jlr . Gallatin , "rives a right to occupy , provided that occupancy take place within a reasonable time , and is followed by permanent settlements and cultivation of the soil . "—( "Negoelations on the _Tj-eaty of thai Year . " ) It was _precisely in this spirit thai Q . ueen Elizabeth , in her conversation with Jiendoza , the Spanish Minister , denied the right of the Spaniards to exclude Hie English from making settlements in the New World . " BeciaS- ihey had touched here and there on thc coasts , " said the British Semiramis , " built cottages , and given names to a river and cape , * * they could not hinder other Princes from transplanting colonies into those parte thereof the Spaniards inhabit not ; forasmuch as prescription without possession islittie worth . "
we showed in our List thatthe possession of the Oregon , so far as the right of discovery goes , unquestionably belongs to Spain , as it was discovered by Heeeta iu 177-1 . Humboldt ' s map , on this point , is decisive . By the treaty of Florida , dated February 22 , 1819 , Spain ceded all her rights in the Oregon territory in the following words : — "His Catholic Majesiy cedes to the said United States all his rights , claims , and pretensions to tho territories east of the said line ;" ( meaning the -12 nd parallel of north latitude , _commencing at the head-waters of the Arkansas and running west to the Pacific , ) " and far himself , his lairs , and successors , renounces all claim to the said territories for ever . " Here , then , is a clear transference of whatever right Spain has over thc Oregon territory to the 13 nlted States of America . If , as wc feel confident , our authorities are good , there can be no doubt oh the point . But
Spain never made any settlement in Oregon . She never established her right of discovery , and consequently she neither has nor could transfer any right whatever over Oregon to the United States of America . The _ri' . 'ht of settlement bv Great Britain is not much better . It is true that _s-ke granted a charter to the Hudson ' s Bay Company to trade _exclusively- with the "Indians of all sueh parts of North America to the northward of the westward ofthe territories of the United States , as shall not form part of anv British provinces or of the territory of anv Euroneannowcr : "
but in this charier there is no tittle of power « iven to that Company to "form any _settlements . " ° It has neither power to hold or grant land . Its sole power is to trade with thc Indians . These remarks do not appl y to the charter granted to that Company in K » r < ., which gives them thc land on the Red River extending from Canada across the continent to Vancouver , about _ninc-tv miles en and above the mouth o . the Columbia . Outof the Hudson ' s Bav Companv ' a sub-company i , _!« been formed , called " i ' u"et ' s Bav W 3 _S _*?» ' _^ , P ital of its _o _™ . _Wate _tah " _wdf _H _* 1 _^ _'dson ' s Bay Company , trades in __ _Z _^^_^_ wbtdt the last-named Company * Humboldt .
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cannot do . But this ( Puget ' s Company ) , though it has stockades on the north of the Columbia ( as the Americans have on the sonth ) , trades in those articles between Vancouver and the Straits of Fuca in the Pacific , and even this trade , according to Mr . Vryeth , who himself is a fur trader , is scarcely worth carrying on . America has as little claim to right by settlement . In 1811 a Mr . Astor , a wealthy citizen of the States , fitted out two expeditions at his own expense ; oue to make for the mouth of the Columbia river round Cape Horn ; the other overland . The particulars of these expeditions haye been beautifully written by Washington Irving in his work called "' Astoria . " Both expeditions failed entirely . The Americans reached the mouth of the _rivei *; built a fort ; and called it Astoria ; but it was taken by a British
force ; its name changed to Fort St . George , and this is the only case in wliich any part of the Oregon territory has been occupied b y any person under the authority of the British government . The treaty of Ghent provided for the restoration of all places taken by either party ( British or American ) during the war ; and on the Gth October , 1818 . Astoria was restored to the American government , the British flag struck , and the American hoisted . This , again , is the only instance in which any person authorised by the American government has occupied any part of the Oregon . But Astoria itself was subsequently abandoned by thc Americans , and is now reduced to a mere log-house , in wliich a clerk of the Hudson ' s Bay Company resides for the purpose of keeping up a communication between Vancouver and the mouth of the Columbia .
It follows that no nation has exercised sovereignty over the Oregon territory , and the disputes about it have been gladly adjourned from time to time by both governments , which , at last , came to an arrangement by which the territory is occupied by the subjects and citizens of both Great Britain and America , but whicli occupancy may be terminated by either party on giving the olher twelve months' notice . The American government has been threatening to give that notice ; it sets up claims to Oregon founded on the treaty with Spain ; and hence all the talk of late about war . Three propositions have been made . 1 st . By Great Britain , to settle the dispute by arbitration . 2 nd . By America , to let things remain as they are for twenty years longer .
3 rd . And most recently , by Mr . Webster , that both governments shall abandon their rights of sovereignty and government over the territory , and leave it to time and the future inhabitants to decide what government the }* will have . The population ofthe territory at present consists of about 10 , 000 whites and about the same number of Indians , who in these negotiations seem to be no more considered , either by the Americans or the English , than so many wild buffaloes .
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__> PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT POLK . He is short in stature , thin and bony in frame , and somewhat awkward in his carriage . His iron grey , wiry hair is brushed back from his temples , and on the summit of his forehead bristles up stiffly . His brow is high , but narrow , and beneath it are two deeply-set greyish eyes ; the nose is short and thick , and the mouth thin lipped and compressed ; he is dressed in plain black , and looks like a stern , obstinate man . There is no dignity . no suavity about him . He appears as if it would bepainfui for him to look pleas ant , and as he reads his speech , his voice sounds harsh and husky , and his manner is ungraceful . Such is James K . Polk , who , in appearance , does not belie his character . He keeps himself up in a garment of selfsufficiency , which he loosens not , though advised to do so by his best friends . He relies on no one ,
and distrusts everybody . His own breast is the sole depository of his secrets , and his cabinet possesses no key with whicli to unlock it . Cautious to an extreme , he suspects where no ground for suspicion exists ; and possessing only fifth rate talents , lie refuses to avail himself of the counsels of better and more able men than himself . It will be well if his obstinacy about Oregon does not end in mischief . Yet , with nothing but disaster before his eyes , lie is not a man to forsako a course which he has once determined to adopt , ne will proceed in a wrong course because he will . Having been unexpectedly made President , he seems determined to have his own way in everything , and as he is not considered to be very far-sighted , his own friends tremble for the results . Mark that " striking looking man near him , with an abundance of white hair floating over his fine forehead , and half hiding
his coat collar , and whose dark , piercing , lustrous eyes aro bright with thc fire of intellect . His face is highly coloured in consequence of some euticular disease , and his frame is very spare , but he walks the marble floor with the dignity and grace of a monarch . What a contrast does this-tall , commanding , form present to the little pinehed up figure of Air . Polk . That is Geo . M . Dallas , one of the soundest scholars and ablest lawyers ofthe United States , of whicli he has just been chosen Vice-President . Mr . Dallas has long been one of the leading members of the party to which he belongs , and enjoys the esteem and respect ol even his political opponents . He has long been engaged in public life , and , although holding so high an office in his native land , he still practises in the United States Courts . He is a beautiful speaker , and very effective in his addresses —in short , he is in all respects , with the exception of his political opinions , thc very opposite of Mr . Polk .
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SINEWS OF WAR . [ From * the Tyne Mercury , ] __ Three events , very _curions in themselves , and very significant in their way , have just oceinrrcd in three distant quarters of the globe . In Circassia , the Russian invaders , under Woronzow , have been " beaten into bench-holes , " as the saying goes , by Schamyl . In Morocco , the French Af arslial Bugeaud , able , audacious , and unscrupulous as he is , has been foiled , and is now thrown into utter confusion by Abd-el-Kader . Whilst , last and worst , _afashionable Colonel , named Despard , with whiskers and moustachoes , we ' ll be sworn , as big as bird-nests , has been shamefully routed by a body of AW Zealand savages , under a warrior named " Kcki , " and a third of his troops ( British troops !) cut to pieces ! This is an
instructive lesson , it certain sages had the wit to apprehend it . It seems , then , that mercenary bayonets and discipline are not all—that in war , other elements mingle—that body is not the whole , and spirit nothing . This , it seems must be so ; or how come the undisciplined Mountaineers of Circassia to have baflied the automaton-serfs of the cruel tyrant Nicholas i ' or so many years ? Or how comes it that so severely has this invasion of Circassia recoiled upon the heart and head of the Muscovite Nero , that he is actually wandering in Italy and Germany in a paroxysm of terror and despondency , afraid to go _homefor fear of assassination ; and afraid to stay , lest his baffled troops and discontented generals and nobles revolt in his absence ? Ah ! how comes all
this , and how has it happened ? It is thu 3 becauso these brave Mountaineers have everything to make their country dear to them , and nothing to disgust them with it . They are free as the air of their own mountains ; and make the simple laws under which they live . There is in Circassia no such thing as a rural poliee—no such thing as an urban police . There are no union workhouses in Circassia ; nor guardians like those at Andover ; nor philosophers to preach " surplus population , " and the duty of starving the poor . Circassia , strange to say , has no national debt ; still less one borrowed in paper , worth seven shillings to the pound , and payable in gold , at £ 3 . 17 s / lOJd . thc ounce . There are no excisemen in Circassia , for they are all" freetraders ; " and not even a customhouse was ever seen by them except one set up by the Muscovites , but now ( thank God !) burned down . Having neither excise , customs , nor
stamps—neither have they any income-tax—and taxes being nil , no standing army have they . No . When their country is invaded , or war is to be made , every chief and his followers of all ranks must , at their own expense , bear arms : and , from first to last , there has never been a- Circassian flogged for deserting _% or getting drunk . Here is the mystery . Does anybody suppose these Circassians would have fought thus for the p reservation of union workhouses , Windsor elections , rural police , Jew magistrates , national debt , commissioners , excisemen , tide-waiters , jailers , union masters , guardians , pensioners , privy councillors , and post-office spies ? Foh ! Nonsense ! Had they been "blessed" with these "institutions , " they would have welcomed even a Russian army asa" God-send ; " and as for au American or a French one , they would have perfectly hugged them . Such is onr theory of thc " sinews of war . "
" What constitutes a state ? Not lofty battlements , nor laboured mound j But men—high-minded men—That know their right : and , _fcnou . i . _io ' , will maintain . "
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Railway . Robberies . —In the List week Daniel Garrett was removed from the Penitentiary to the halks at Woolwich , preparatory to being sent abroad , and on Tuesday the vessel sailed , which will convey him to his destination ; thc other convict , Maynard " , goes separately . Thc former , whilst he admits a great number of cases , exceeding twenty , within the last few months , and some of them after Maynard was arrested , and discloses information as to property , has not divulged anythingas to his associates in such a way as _faSbenefit the public , although he resolutclv
insists that he was not the original taker , and that more than one railway person is concerned . A novel proceeding took place on Saturday with reference tc him : the Secretary of State , on the application oi Mr . Nash , against whom , with others , actions have been brought , directed that Garrett should be brought up for private examination as a witness in those actions , which is now _allowed by the recent act of Lord Deninan , and he was submitted to a foui hours' examination before one of the Masters of the Court of Common Pkas . The evidence will not bi published until the irial .
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LONDON . QUARTERLY ACCOUNT Of the income and expenditure of the Veteran Patriots Fund , and Exiles' Widows' and Children's Fund J for the first quarter , ending Sunday , Dec . 7 th , 1 S 45 .
IXCOME . Money subscribed for the two funds jointly . £ s . d Mr . Cooper ' s _half-vearly subscription ... 1 0 0 Collection at public meeting in the City Chartist Hall , Turnagain-lane , September 15 , 1815 1 ... 1 . 1 Donations ; Mr . Dunnage , ls . ; Mr . Westrcy , ls . ; Mr . Brcwerton , Is . ; Mr . Caughlan , ls . ; Mr . Whitfield , Is . ; Mr . King , 2 s . 6 d . ; Mr . Stratford , 5 s . 0 12 0 Leicester friends ( being a subscription ±
originally intenciea ior _w . _cooper , but refused by him ) ... 0 17 3 Donations : Mr . Rogers , Lambeth , 2 s . Cd . ; Mi * . Bradley , Leicester , ls . ; Mr . Miller , 2 d . ; Mr . Sweetlove , Cd . ; Mr . Skelton , ls 0 5 2 Collected by Mr . Dear , Fleet-lane , Old Baiiev 0 11 8 i Collected by Mr . Overton , 2 s . 3 d . ; by Mr . Shaw , ISs . 6 d 10 9 Collected by Mr . Wheeler ( being contributions from Mr . Ingram , of Abergavenny , aud other friends ) 0 C 6 Second donation from Mr . Ingrain , of
Abergavenny 0 2 0 Collected by Mr . Rider , 5 d . ; by Mr . Harney ( from Sheffield ) , Is 0 15 From Mr . " Harris , Mile End ( being a contribution intended originally for the Miners ' strike ) 0 G 0 Collected at the Henry Hunt Supper , Bethnal-green , Nov . 5 0 C 0 Collected by Mr . Garrett , ls . Sd . ; by Mr . Reynolds , 7 s . 3 d . ; by Mr . Warren , 5 s . lOd Oli 9 Donations : Two Teetotallers , Bradford ,
Wilts , ls . ; Son of Crispin , Rotherhithe , la . ; Mr . Gray , Goodham , Burnley , os _; Mr . John Stevens , Trowbridge , 5 s . ; Mr . G . Mansfield , Bradford , Wilts , Gd . ; Mr . Whitfield , per Mr . Stallwood , 6 d 0 13 0 An Enemy to Oppression , per Mr . Cooper 2 0 0 Collected by Mr . Livesev , 3 s . Cd . ; by Mr . John Bell , 2 s . ; by Mr . Dear , 4 s . 3 d . ; by Mr . Reynolds , Ss . ; by Mr . Garrett , os . 5 d . ; by Mr . Overton , 6 il 0 18 8
£ 10 16 0 i Making £ 5 8 s . 4 _Jd . for the Veteran Patriots' Fund and £ 5 8 s . 4 id . for the Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund . Income of the Veteran Patriots' Fund continued : — £ s . d . Brought forward from the joint account 5 8 4 } Major Beniowski ' s donation 0 10 0 . Collected at the democratic supper , Angel Inn , Webber-street , Blackfriars-road 0 1 10 Friends at Bradford ( being the remnant of a subscription originally intended for Mr . Cooper ) 0 5 0 Donations to make up round sums , by the Committee ; "A friend to liberty , " Sid . ; several members , _fd . ; Mr . Cooper 3 s . 94 d 0 4 74
, £ 6 9 10 Income of the Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , continued .: — £ s . d . Brought fer ward from the joint account 5 8 4 Balance of receipts of St . Pancras' Vestry Public Meeting , for the Exiles ... 0 4-. . 8 $ £ 5 13 1
_j . _xpusniTi'RE . Veteran Patriots' Fund . Half rent of City Chartist Hall , Turnagain-lane , for public meeting , September loth , 1 S 45 0 5 0 Half expense of 1 , 000 circulars 0 7 0 Half expense of minute and memorandum books 0 3 6 Mr . John Richards : Oct . 1 st , £ 1 ; Oct . loth , 5 s . ; Nov . 12 th , os . ; Dec . 2 nd , 10 s 2 0 0 Mr . Thomas Preston : Oct . 1 st , 10 s . ; . Oct . 15 th , 5 s . ; Nov . 12 th , os . ; Dec . 2 nd , 10 s 1 10 0 Mr . Allan Devonport ; Oct . 15 th , 10 s . ; Dec . 2 nd , 10 s 10 0 Mr . Thomas _liavn-r Smart ; Nov , 12 th , 10 s . ; Dec . 2 nd , 10 s 10 0
£ G 0 0 _EXItES * _WIBOWS' AXD _CniLDBEN ' _s FUND , Half rent of City Chartist Hall , Turnagain-lane , for public meeting , Sept . 15 th , 1 S 45 0 5 0 Half expense of 1 , 000 circulars ... ... 0 7 G Half expense of minute and memoradumbooks 0 3 0 Mrs . EUis : Oct . 1 st , £ 1 ; Oct . 15 th , 15 s . Nov . 12 th , £ 1 ; Dec . 2 nd , £ 2 ... 4 15 0 £ 5 11 0 Total income of the Veteran Patriots ' Fund ... 6 0 10 Total expenditure of ditto 0 . 0 0 Balance in hand £ 0 3 10 Total income of tho Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund ... 5 IS 1 Total expenditure of ditto 5 11 0
Balance hi hand £ 0 2 1 Owing to severe indisposition I could not atteud to read over the above account at the quarterly meeting last Sunday , but sent it to be read over . Id was then in an imperfect form , but I have since corrected it ; and , as no auditors were appointed to revise it , I here present it to the public , and beg that anybody , or everybody , will point out its incorrectness if they be able . I trust tho informality of not _appointing auditors will be excused ; when a secretary ia ill
( which he cannot help ) business is unavoidably neglected . After all , the best auditors are thc public . Mr . Thomas Martin Wheeler forwarded ine it letter from Bradford last week ; but the signature of the letter was torn off . As an answer to the inquiry made in it , I beg to direct the attention of tho writer , whoever he may be , to the foregoing account of income and expenditure , where he will find 5 s . placed to the account ef Bradford . 1 trust that none will take offence at my refusal of monies , or at my application of them to benevolent purposes .
Mr . Shaw begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums towards the second quarter * . —Mr . Brewerton , ls . Sid . ; Dr . Bowkett , ls . ; J . Watkiuson , ls . ; W . Ellis , Gd . I also beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums towards the second quarter?—Collected by Mr . Simms , Is . Gd . ; by Mr . Warren , 3 s . Sd . ; by F . S ., a Chartist seaman of Stockton-on-Tees , Gs . lid . Can any friend inform mc of the circumstances ol Mrs . Roberts , wife of the injured Birmingham
exile ? I have written twice into _AVales , but can gei no information relative to the wives and families of the exiles from Newport . Any information relative to individuals _eligiCle to receive relief from either ol the above-named funds , I shall gladly receive , on behalf of the committee . I regret to observe , that Mr . Llewellyn is considered as not coining within the regulations under which the "National Victim Fund " was established . Is Mr . Llewellyn sixty years ol age , so that we may consider him as eligible to receive some small assistance from our fund— " The Veteran Patriots V A suffering man ought not to be neglected .
Let me earnestly entreat all real Chartists , m conclusion , to exert themselves in the great and good work for which the " Veteran Patriots' Fund" and "Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund" were established . Thomas Coorj-it , Secretary . 134 , Blackfriars-road , London . City _CiiAnnsi Hall . —A general meeting of thc shareholders of this institution was held on Sunday morning , December 7 th . Mr . Walker , a member of the board of directors , was unanimously called to the chair ; and after along and animated discussion , in which Messrs . Stallwood , Simpson , Salmon , Dear , Bagley , John Sewell , Edwards , Fluile , Overton , and the chairman took part , itwas unanimously resolved , "That the vote come to at the hist _meetinjr , relative
to the meeting of the ' Metropolitan District Council ' s' meeting in the Ilall , be rescinded . " _Consequently that council will meet in the Hall as usual . It was also resolved , "That the secretary be hereby henceforth authorised to let the Hall , or committeerooms belonging thereto , to the National Victim Fund Committee , the Veteran Patriot Fund , the Exiles' Widows' and Orphans' Funds , or any other similar committee , for thc sum of one shilling each sitting . " _Messrs . Stallwood and Wyatt were appointed auditors , and Alcssrs . J . Wyatt , Waller , Dear , Flude , and Bagley were duly elected to fill tho vacancies in the board of directors . Mi * . Overton was unanimously elected secretary for the ensuing three months . A vote of thanks was given to the chairman , and tho meeting dissolved .
Citv _LocALiir . —The quarterly meeting for examination of the accounts belonging to the Veteran Patriots' Fund , and Exiles' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , was held last Sunday afternoon ; and in the absence of the secretary , from illness , thc financial statement was read over by the committee to the meeting . The two commi ttecs were re-appoin ted for the second quarter , with the exception of Mr . Bolwell ( removed to Bath ) , in whose place Mr . _Overtou was elected . The financial account , with notes by the secretary , will bo found in another part of onr paper . In the evening , Mr . Walter Cooper ( Socialist lecturer , and a true-hearted Scotchman ) , delivered a very efficient and instructive address on the genius ot his immortal countryman , Robert Bums . Mr . Ihomas Ccoper , author of the "Purgatorv of Suicides , being again unable to lecture from ill-
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ness , Mr . T . C . we hear , however , » better , » nd ex pects to take his usual post in the City Chartist Hall to-morrow ( Sunday ) evening , when he intends to devote a portion of his lecture to Burns , and the remaining time to the subject appointed lor _theevenin < r _ "The Life , Character , and iSovels of Sir Walter Scott . " These lectures continue to be attended by crowded audiences . . . _x ,
BOLTON . LECTURE . —On Monday night last , Air . O'Connor visited Bolton , and the large Temperance Hall was crammed to receive him when he entered the hall his progress to the platform was followed by one continuous cheer , loud and long . Mr . Blinhorn , a veteran Chartist , was appointed to the chair ; and after a few well-timed observations , and announcing that discussion was not only invited but courted , he introduced Mr . O'Connor , who addressed the meeting upon the subject published in thc bills , " 'lhe Land , " for nearly tivo hours , showing also what the effect ofa repeal ofthe Corn Laws must be , and what was the duty of the working classes . As soon as the lecturer had concluded an address that gave unmixed
satisfaction , the League , who mustered as strong as thev could , started a puppet in the gallery to question Mr ! O'Connor relative to fifty pounds he had given to Mr . Dewhirst , of Bolton , when he , Dewhirst , was sent to Monmouth as a deputation to O'Connor . The meeting was not inclined to permit this kind of cross-firing ; but Air . O'Connor insisted upon the speaker being heard ; and after Mr . O'Connor had replied , the person who put the question came to the platform to express his satisfaction at Mr . O'Connor ' s answer—not so , however , witk the less sober portion of the free trade gentlemen . A chemist , of the name of Morris , next staggered upon the platform , and indulged in a tirade of free trade stuff that made thc meeting almost split with laughter . The purchase
of land for the benefit of the working-classes was what appeared most to annoy the chemist ; but when he had concluded , Air . O'Connor turned him into such a laughing-stock as really made his own friends ashamed ot him . Next , the well-known Finnigan , the Manchester free trade _thkx-siut , mounted the platform , amid the most uproarious squeak jof the " corn creaks . " He repeated his free trade lesson for about half au hour , and when he had concluded , Mr . O'Connor with as much precision as if he had taken down every one of his points , went through them , one after the other , and turned the laugh against the unfortunate volunteer . Really , said Mr . O'Connor , 1 have a right to object to him , kept here , for two hours after my lecture , to speak upon subjects foreign
to the object of this meeting ; but , nevertheless , I would stay for two hours longer lor another half hour of such fun as Mr . Finnigan has afforded us . ( Roars of laughter . ) When Air . O'Connor had replied to Morris and Finnigan , he then turned to thc pair , who sat upon his left , and addressed them in such a strain of hearty ridicule , conveying advice and instruction for the future government of their conduct , as made the whole audience , free traders and all , literally roar with laughter . When the proceedings were over , a vote of thanks was given to Air . O'Connor , and another to the chairman . Air . O'Connor started between eleven and twelve for Manchester—a large concourse of people following him through the town and cheering . It was a glorious sight for Chartism and the land .
MANCHESTER . _Gheat Public Mketi . no . —It being announced that Mr . O'Connor would address the working classes in the Carpenters' Ilall , on Sunday evening last , that spacious building , capable of accommodating over 5 , 000 persons , was crammed in every part long before tho time for commencing proceedings . Since the great excitement in 1842 , consequent upon the League revolution , there has not been so large or so spirited : a meeting in our town . One of tho council presided , _~ anu after a few preliminary observations , introduced the members of the Executive , who severally addressed the meeting , and appeared to give unmixed satisfaction upon the subject of their mission connected with the land plan . When Mr . O'Connor
arrived , he was greeted with the most rapturous welcome , and upon presenting himself to the audience the applause was actually stunning . Well , said he , hero ' s the Pratie man , where is the starch and skilly man that said he would again show himself in the north ? ( Cheers and laughter . ) The speaker then proceeded in the most lucid manner to point out to the working classes what tho inevitable effect of a repeal of tho Corn Laws must be , and , at the same time , lay down the rule which should guide their conduct . He knew that when people were crying for bread , nt any price , how unpopular , inhuman , and offensive it would be to say starve , in order that you may frighten more out of your hard task-masters . ( Cheers . ) No , what he said was , look on , make Lord John bid again , aiid Peel bid again . ( Cheers . ) The
tminder is not ours , but we will have our share in the noise and in the triumph , whatever it may be . Alter speaking at considerable length upon the Corn laws , the lecturer then went on to illustrate the land plan in a _moit familiar and satisfactory manner , and concluded a _speech that gave unmixed satisfaction , by assuring the shareholders that , before the 1 st of May , the first draft of 100 free men would be led out ofthe house of bondage , and located onthe promised land . The speaker concluded amid rapturous applause ; after which the work of enrolment and paying up shares was proceeded with , and many new members were added to the list of subscribers . Upon the whole , the meeting has inspired the working classes with fresh vigour for the approaching struggle _.
STOCKPORT . Mr . J . Williams addressed the people of this town last Sunday evening , in the Chartist Institution , Bombersbrow . Several questions wore put to him , to which he replied satisfactorily , and received a vote of thanks .
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Sending ax Infant in a Basket to the Liverpool Fem ___ i _ g OnpiiAN Asylum . —Between the hours of six and seven o ' clock on Friday evening last , two respectably attired females met a lad of tho name of James Burrows , in Back Berry-street , and , handing him a basket with a handle to it , told him to take it to the Female Orphan Asylum , Myrtle-street . They said that , as it contained glass , he was to he particularly careful not to break it , or knock up against any person in thc streets through which he passed ; and for the trouble he was to have in conveying it into its destination , they gave him a piece of money , which he put in his pocket , and which they said was sixpence . The lad proceeded on his errand , and , on being admitted at the institution , thc basket was
opened , and , underneath a pile of children ' s caps , petticoats , handkerchiefs , and socks , there was found a very line , healthy-looking female infant , fast asleep . By its side was lying a bottle filled with milk , and a paper written in a good female hand , of which the following is a copy : — " Christian friends , pray take care of this dearlittle orphan . I will send you a sum in a few days . " The inmates of the institution were , of comve , much surprised * . the lad , perhaps , much more so than anybody else He could only give the explanation which wc have already given , that he received it from the females , and was told that it was glass . He stated , that the statement proved correct , that he resided at No . 3 , Back Berry-street , the street in whieh the basket was handed to him ; and that one of the females appeared to be old and the other young . The elderly female , he said , was dressed in a black cloak , light gown , and black velvet boimot ; and the younger one , who most
probably was the mother of the infant , in a black mantclla , and white straw bonnet , lie did not omit to mention that they had given him a piece of money for liis trouble ; but , on putting his hand in his pocket and drawing it forth , it turned out , not to bc a sixpence merely , as they informed liim it was , but a half-sovereign . All subsequent search to discover the females has proved unavailing ; but the child , we need scarcely say , having been once received within the hospitable doors of the institution in question , is sure , ovou if they should never bc discovered , to have all its wants supplied . Tiie basket which contained the sleeping innocent was new , and had apparently been bought for the purpose . It was composed of a soft substiiiiee , something like matting , and was about two foot in length and nine inches in breadth . It has since been sent to the commissioner ' s office , together with the milk bottle , caps , petticoats , die , iii order to enable the police officers tho better to
trace the icmales _, _Diskaskd Potatoes . —Important : Exp eriment . — We are authorised to state that the simple method of _rendering diseased potatoes available for human food bj boiling them in two waters , the first being thrown away when it has reached the boiling point _, has been tried by Major Beamish with complete success . He purchased , we arc informed , last week-100 weights of so called diseased potatoes , atthe current depreciated rate of 2 d . per weight , for the purpose of giving them to cattle , conceiving , with the seller , that they were fitted for no other purpose , and had alreadv applied many of them to that use , but after _seein- _* - a
statement in the public prints , he had a portion taken indiscriminately from the heap , and boiled accordin " to the prescribed directions . The result was in every respect corroborative of the first experiment . The whole ofthe black acrid matter , which in few cases extended bayond the skin , was comp letely extracted by thc first water , and the potatoes when served up to table , after the second boiling , presented as -sound an appearance , and were as dry and palatable as any potatoes of the kind under the most favourable circumstances . They were the common white lumner or horse potatoe , and were cooked "in their jackets , un * Reporter .
ROMAXISM versus _PnOTESTAXTISM . -TlIE Qcestiox Wed-1 wo labourer * a Romanist and Pratestant , held the _tollowingcolloqiiv ;—P . An' d' vo _m-ine _' T to _^ _ll mc _thattheCatholUthc _onlVtuc _ruJnn —R . 0 . haith , an' 1 do . D' ye beli eve in the Ems-* fi _£ h T T l PW ,, _« lhlt ' - _£ So *™ - v . tl i » _, m ?;„ i J a n * ve surc * & J ' mind thc Lpisthle of Paul to the Romans ? An' was ve iver alter _lieavine of inny _Episthle to the Protestants « ™ S thc _- ' _-Slish markets , wind bound SraS ami 0 " ' admse _weather _.-XfwcrW
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IMPORTANT TO THE MINERS . TO THE EMTOn OF TIIE NOMHERRN _STAK . Respected Sir , —Will you be so kind as to insert the following letter , signed by " one of the coa trade , " which recently appeared in the Liverpool Mevmvy , together with a few remarks thereon , and you will greatly oblige the members of the Miners Association in the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire : —
THE COLLIERS . TO TUE EElTOaS OF THE LIV _ERPOOL MDRCURT .. Gentlemen , —A large amount of public sympathy lias been exercised towards that useful portion of our fellowmen , the colliers , in consequence of the risk incident to their occupation—hence the general advance in the price ofcoalp , which took place two years ajfo , was cheerfully acceded to with a view to afford them adequate compensation for their dangerous toll ; and that the coal masters having a better price for their coal might realise a sufficient return for the heavy capital invested in their works when the produce of their mines was lessened by the abridgement of labour attendant upon an advance of wages . in another
Now , however , the sympathy is called for direction , for it is evident that tlio insatiable demands and indolence of the organised miners will email upon the poor , already alarmed for their food , aggravated misery , by an unprecedented scarcity of coals , and by the advances in price which continued scarcity or severe weather will render inevitable . The colliers are banded together in a powerful union , the utility of which they are sadly abusing . They pay a legal adviser handsomely to keep them clear of the law , and act upon the advice " Restrict your labour , then you may command your own price for it . " Their moral condition , to the shame of the Christianphilaathropists , is such , that when their animal desires are gratified they are generally content , and so easily is this now
accomplished , that the amount of coal now produced is only one half of what is required , and not half as tliey might pro duce by working eig ht hours regularly per day ; instead of tliis they can now idle away entire days , or tliey will work two or three hours per day , while the masters must employ as many weekly hands and as much machinery , as if a whole week ' s work was done . Moreover , they will not work with colliers who are not in the union , and if a member of the union send more than a prescribed quantity of eoals per day , his comrades fine liim heavily . It follows that the trade and consumers suffer great loss and ineonvenienee . Boats are detained ut our _eollierien , ships are detained in our docks , the coal masters cannot supply the trade , nor the trade the cousumers . Large
orders lor export are daily refused , and new customers with money in tlieir hands are tnrned away ; yet with thu coolest indifference the colliers are demanding a further advonce , which , if obtained , will enable tliem to take it still more easy , while tlieir arbitrary monopoly and restriction of labour inflict upon their poorer countrymen a heavy tax when they are least able to endure it . These explanations I have thought due to the public , that the onus of the scarcity and high prices may rest upon the right shoulders . No workmen _mijflit be better paid than the Wigan colliers at present , if they would only work as they can . This monopoly can only be broken up with competition . Perhaps government might find it profit _, able to teach the able-bodied criminal to raise coal
instead of transporting him , or maintaining him m unprofitable confinement . But I must not theorise- here . Should this not be deemed too lengthy for your crowded columns , its admission will greatly ablige yours , One of the Coal Trade . The unblushing effrontery with which " one of the coal trade" promulgates the most infamous falsehoods against an honourable and industrious body of men , renders it necessary that the public should be made fully acquainted with the real state of affairs , and as to that , the most direct and unqualified contradiction should be given to the foul and slanderous imputations thrown out with no sparing hand against the objects and principles of the Miners' Association . This task I have undertaken to perform , not by
writing a long string of mere contradictions to the charges made , but by bringing forward a number of plain , broad , unequivocal truths , such as will bear the most rigid scrutiny , or open investigation . I shall not occupy my time with commenting upon the charge he makes against the miners having a strong predilection for the gratification of their passions , but will leave him and the Christian philanthropists upon whom he falls foul in the course of his remarks , to solve the problem as best they can . Still I do protest against the blame being charged upon the Miners' Union for either the dearness or scarcity of coals , and I prove the union is not to blame , from the fact of there being at present several hundreds of able-bodied miners out of employ who would gladly
accept of work at a fair remuneration . Will " one of the coal trade" inform the public why theyare not employed ? Would not the concentrated amount of coals brought to bank , as the produce ol tho labour of several hundred men , be more than sufficient to dissipate the evil so frightfully depicted by our anonymous , scribe . Would there not be a sufficiency to furnish both the boats at the collieries , the ships in the dochs , and the new customers with money in theii hands , with more than a supply ? Until these questions are answered , I think he will have _sonndifficulty to persuade the discerning portion of the public that the operative coal miners , merely because they only work a limited number of hours per day , are
mulcting ahe avy tax upon their poorer countrymen . No , ihe members of the Miners' Association have no such object ; by restricting their labour , they are solely desirous of slightly improving their present very inadequate wages , so that they may be better prepared to encounter the miseries nicely to emanate from closed ports , dear bread , and rotten potatoes ; and also , if possible , furnish with employment hundreds of their brethren who are suffering the most severe privations , Oh , but the colliers with the coolest indifference are demanding a further advance , which if obtained , will only enable them to take it still more easy , ( really one would think the gentlemen shuddered at the idea of a miner having anything like a cessation from toil . ) Well , as he has
not told what is the nature of the advance , I shall make bold to do so , and call upon him to contradict mc if he can do so , without more deeply implicating himself as a man regardless of the truth , when il does not suit his purpose . In the district of Pembcrton , near Wigan , the masters are offering the men an advance of ninepence per score , but which score , let me inform the public , consists of twenty-six baskets , which will average , I believe , from five to six cwt . each . These baskets they have advanced to the public at thc rate of twopence per basket , which where the twenty-six baskets to thc score artsent to bank , is four shillings and fourpence per score ; deduct ninepence , whicli I may call the men ' s share , and there is a clear profit of 3 s . 7 d ., per score for those paragons of perfection . These
are facts which are irrefutable ; and I ask whether my opponent has succeeded in throwing the onus of high prices or scarcity upon the shoulders of the operative miners , or rather , does not the responsibility still rest with the coal proprietors and their agents ? These questions I leave the public to answer and by publie decision I and the miners are content to abide . A few words upon tho infamous proposal to supersede the honest miner by teaching convicted felons who are sentenced to banishment , to work in the mines , instead of being sent out of the country , and 1 ask what sort of feelings must a man possess who could coolly propose a measure fraught with so much wretchedness to the unhappy beings whose multiplied crimes have rendered them unlit to
mix with society ? What , to be driven from tliosc dens of immorality called gaols , to mix with , and bc instructed by , thc honest miner ? does he of the coal trade imagine for a moment that a working miner would be found so base as to give his own and his children ' s bread to a convicted felon ? And if not , what would become of the poor unfortunates , knowing nothing of the nature of the work , and totally unacquainted with the dangers to which they would bc exposed . It is sickening , it is disgusting , - the painless extinction system of Marcus is purity itself , when contrasted with this cold-blooded scheme of wholesale murder ; and the man who coukl dcliberatolv propose such a scheme ought to bo scouted from sccietv as a monster , lit only to prowl with the _ti-ier o ' f the
forest . I have now done with one of the " coal trade for ohe present , and shall conclude by a few words of advice to the colliers themselves . Let neither calumny nor threats induce you to abandon restriction . lour employers hate it—you love it . They wish vou to abandon it ; you be determined to adhere to it more closely . It is the mighty levor whieh will effect tho entire amelioration of your condition . The letter upon which Ihave been " commenting is a proof of its value ; then cling to it with still greater tenacity , _andlet your cry be , " union , restriction ; " and an expression ot your determination not to work with , or instruct , or allow your children to work with , convicted felons , should they ever be brought into the p \ ts . I remain , very respectfully , Wm . Grocott _.
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_Biisro . V Mi . _VElig . —The various lodges of the district ave requested to send delegates to a meeting to be held at Mr . Linney ' s , White Horse , High-street , _bilston , on December 14 th , viz ., Bilston , Darlaston , W olverhampton _, Wcdncstickl-heath , _Wednosburv Wallsall , Bioxwich , Great-bridge , Westbromwieii ! and Tipton . National United Trades' Association * for thi . I kotectio _*** or _Industht . —A meeting of the central committee was held at the Trades' Office , 80 , Hvdestreet , Bloomsbury , on Monday , December Sth . ' Mr . Dunning , bookbinder , in the absence of the president _( i . b . Duncombe , M . P . ) _, was called to the chair _, _communications of a very encouraging description was read _h-om the Manchester district , the trades oi Bristol , the tailors and carpenters of Leeds , the miners oi llol ytown ( addinc : 400 to thoir nrevions
number ot members ) , the handlooni-weavers oil _Wimsloe , the b obbin-makers of Keswick , the boot and shoe-makers of Holywell ( sending their adhesion ) , the paper-makers of Maidstone , the miiU malvera ot helper ( announcing the termination oi the v V !\ / lieir favQur ) . the framework-knitt ers ol r _Aisuistiwa ( announcing a considerable incrcti ? e in the
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number of members ! , and others . _SeveraTi _^ _ttons reported that they had waited on trariL _^ h had not yet given in their adhesion , with ~ f' 'cli success , and they had every reason to bell 8 tt » t several very influential trades would Knd u _? S adhesion in a few days . At the concl usion S central committee ' s business , a mutual ? , ¦ "n the board of directors of the Association for « ? _"i ploymcnt of Labour , and tho Central ( W . _^ lithe Protection of Industry , was held _iX _?'*/ 01 ' _' resolved . " That a nrnno . rlv nn _ i . ; .. _' .. . _" _Wn _, number of members ! , and n _ . li _ . rc «__ .. _ _7 " _^^^»
getically pursued system of personal _visiis ' tn T _r f _*' Societies , at their own time and places of n _* _***' be adopted throughout tho United _KinadS' % was announced that several additional sharp ' taken up in the Association for the _Employe Wa 3 Labour . All communications for this _o «„„ _-l . 'f must be addressed to Mr . J . Harris _SSP'S Trades' Office , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsburv Successful Termination of the Snt _ _' ' , _UORSE-XAIMIAKERS OP BKLPER The _gratJfyi nJ- telligen ' ce has been received at the office ol A * * United Trades' Association , that the above _sti-v has been brought to a speedy termination ; and « _l is better , the terms required by tho men have I fully acceded to . A similar advance ( 10 i , e ' J !?! of wages has been also acquired by the l t 0 Ke _«¦ ¦ ' ) makers of Worcestershire . " nai 1 _*
_LoughBonocGit _Suoe-siaheks . —On Monday evni ing , December 1 st , the shoe-makers of this place hit a dinner at Mr . Cox ' s , Talbot Inn , to comnicm orat their victory in the late strike . After partakin » U tlie good things provided by tho worthy h ost ° _Ji hostess , Mr . J . Skovington , who , though not of _' tu craft , had been invited to attend , was called to the chair , when the various toasts were heartil y _resuondoi l to , and the evening was spent in a very _sntis _ihctorv manner . On the day following the wives , Ac ., lia , _| * tea party at the same place . The evening was s pent in dancing , dec .
Tue _Fhamewobk-kxitters . — A meeting of _dek gates representing the framework-knitting t raic * was held at the Odd Fellows' Arms , K cgworft ' Leicestershire , on Monday , Dec . Sth . The nieetin _. was called for the purpose of adjusting the statement ' preparitory to laying them before the manufacture !* This having been done , Mr . Thomas Emmerson , c Arnold , was appointed to superintend the printim and distribution of the wrought cotton hose brunch ' and parties not present were requested to male early application for the number required , at thcratj of one halfpenny each , and forward the money at ilij same time . It was resolved that Joseph Johnston of Leicester , be intrusted with the care of _providing
statements for the wrought woollen hose branch , lot all guage 3 below twenty-four , and that James Taylor of Loughborough , and Joseph Warner , of Shcepsliead ' he appointed for tlic same purpose , for _allguagesfroal twenty-four upwards , with power to call to their aid persons to assist them in the fulfilment of this important duty . After a long discussion on the subject cf wide frames , and the injury sustained by the vor ! .. men , from thc spurious articles produced from them it was resolved that each delegate present use his best endeavours to induce the frame-smiths n either t 0 make nor repair any more wide frames , as such frames equally affect frame-smiths and framework _, knitters , in depriving them of labour , nnd reduce the price thereof . A vote of thanks was given to
Mr . Level's , for his untiring energy , and his brother frame-smiths who have stood forward to restore the trade to a system of wrought productions . It w _, _irecommended by the delegates that a delegate meet _, ing be held at the Bull and Butcher , _Btilwell , cD Monday , the 15 th inst ., at ten o ' clock in the fore . noon . It was then resolved that this meeting stand adjourned until Monday , the 15 th inst ., to he held at the sign of the Pheasant _. Bridge-street , Derby , to cod : mence at nine o'clock in the forenoon . The questim respecting the outstanding debt was brought forward , but not one delegate was prepared with an _insta ! . ment , and thus the parties to whom it is due at . kept out of their just rights . Let the frametvoik . knitters consider , and ask themselves what _mustfe public think of them for thus treating their servant ! ,
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BANKRUPTS . ( "From Tuesday ' s Gazette , December 9 , 1845 J Robert Watson Sheppard , now or late of _Enslinm _, Oi . fordshire , innlieeper— Ulinrles Jiendnl Luce , of _Soutlniif ton , mei'c _» r—Henry Gamble , of Griuistone , Norfolk , _j _ rott . —Thomas Batuett , of Cambridge , tailor—John _Toultos , jun ., of Luton , _Bedfordshire , straw hat mnmifacturor-Arthiir Southcoinbe Tucker and George Muriel Jiidwe !! , of Mcleombe _llegis , Dorsetshire , grocers—John Dym * _Wj | . Hams , of 2 , Hewcastlo-strect , _FariMigdou-struct , City , blacking manufacturer — Thomas Mortimer , of Kas . lane , Walworth , victualler — Hubert Gecrge SjmliliiK _, late of 59 , Queen-street , _Clieapsids , and _Uush-kino _, Cannon-street , City , * zinc manufacturer—William Lewis , of Barnsley , Yorkshire , tobacconist—Frederick Snm ]> . sei _ , < : i Manchester , woollen draper—Charles lies , of _liristui , grocer—John Pope , formerly of Uristol , Dut nowof Staple _, ton , Gloucestershire , lime burner—William Ockleston , t _> i Liverpool , hide merchant—Theodore Friedlanskcy , of _liiriiiingliam , chandler—Thomas Magcr , of _Ilolborn-liili , City , and Coventry-street , Haymarket , poulterer .
_BANKBUPTCV ANNULLED . Samuel Thomas , of 21 , Cornhill , bullion merchant . DIVIDENDS DECLARED . John Can * retrie , of Bedlington , miller , third dividend of ud . in the pound , payabl * at 57 , Grcy-strtct _, Newcastle . npon-Tync , ou anv Saturday after l ) ecemb » r 10 . John Fisher and Elizabeth Fisher , of _Maghiill , win . dealers , first dividend of 3 s . lOd . in the pound , pnyaW . at 1 , _Iiiver-court _, South _Castle-stveet _, Liverpool , uu auj Monday .
DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED . Ia the Country . ' James Bryan , of . Bristol , chemist , January 2 , at eleven ; nt the Court of Bankruptcy , _liiiatol . Ceetificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to tta contrary on the day of _niuutinfT . John Breakenridge , of Liverpool , tailor , Deceniber 30-Thomas Hodgson , of Greta-batik , Yorkshire , brick maktr _, Januarys . Certificates to be granted by the Court of Review , _iinksi cause be shown to the contrary , on or before December 3 . Stephen Davies , of Somerset-wharf , Banksidc , _Soiitkwark _, ' « ud Times . wharf , Wilton-road , Pimlico , coal merchant .
PART . _fEnSHZ- _'S DISSOLVED . John Pcrcivnll and Anne Clarke , of Birmingham , accountants—John Potter and George Harrison , ut i . _rt share brokers—Henry Hickman and William Croft , « i Rock-ferry , Cheshire , joiners—David _Dudinun and Jains Kemj ) , of 51 , Bed Lion-street , Holborn , publicans- J ' ' Ham Taunton and Joseph Adams , of Coventry , _appraisr ' —William Henry Parker Blackburn and John Let * , _t-j Leeds , stock brokers—Brown and Co ., of _Helbcdi a ™ Gildersoinc , Yorkshire , flax spinners—Elizabeth Jvfer ; _, Itichard _Jcil ' ery , and Thomas _Jvll ' ery , of l _' _uckiugtoii _i- far as regards Thomas Jeft ' ery)—Thomas Holtboy ; iii » l _*• Barnes , of York , horse breakers—William _I'richiinl , s _« i and Lewis Williams , of Carditt _" , Glamorganshire , iv _' ; fingers—Benjamin Jones and Joseph Drown , of Citi _*" Glamorganshire , bonded store merchants .
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ExTiuoitDK-AnY Case . —Tlie Court ol' Assizes oft- Bas Lthin was occupied on the 20 th and 30 th nit . * _- _v'rf the following extraordinary case . In August ta two soldiers , in garrison at Strasburg , naiad _Tscliupp and Bigallut , crossed the frontier into J 3 aik * a to pass the day . On their return , and when on - bridge , Tscliupp said to Bigallet , who was nearly _^ toxicated , " Come and see how-strong the watei _* ni «; i Bigallet went to the side of the bridge , and Jia _™; leaned forward to look at the water Tscliupp _^ denly laid hold of him , and threw him in ; then , _»»?* posing , as a matter bf course that the man imi » ' ** drownedas tho current was strongand lie wns BS
, , ; in a state to hel p himself , hurried to Strasbunr . _^ entered his barracks , before the gates were trloied . Providence , however , had willed that this atruw _* act sliould not remain concealed . The bridge is bullion boats , anil the fall of Bigallet was broken by * of the cables by which they are fastened _togetht-r . After his immersion , which completely cured Iii "' _™ his intoxication , he caught by this rope , and , alto struggling for a great time , his eries wove heard u ) iome boatmen , just as he was sinking i _' vom cx _> _i-iution , and they saved him . The dismay ot lseW was very great on the following morning when lies ' !
living the man whom he supposed to be dead . W = ' j " let made his declaration , and Tscliupp was _ariw _ At first he declared tliat he had not been in comp _^ with bigallet ; but several witnesses , who ] _}^ ' \ . them drinking together during the day , _having " forward to prove this fact , the prisoner w as L . founded . Still , however , he refused to crjntc 5 ? , L crime , which was unaccountable , as the fciyosol were supposed to be friends . When 'I _' sehupp ' _^ been in prison ior some time , he resolved to avo _« _^ guilt , and declared that he had been induce d _uj j 3 wife of a man who keeps the canteen , whose nai » Caphiot , to commit the deed . This woman , in "' _' _^ service he was , had , ho said , told him that Wi '' her former servant , and with whom she had c -, J ..,:.. _ ,, 1 _™!~! . l .. _ - _ .:... _ ... „( . _ f . v extol ' " vtiumiiu _vta
__ w" _>™ _reiiviiiuns , *» v _ uuaw . " « _j . _yp money from her on a menace of ap prising ' _•« _^ band of what had taken place , and tha t s *«< . _^ therefore resolved to get rid of him . Sw * wi prisoner that if he would take Bigallet out lor ti * _- , and in the evening throw him into the rr » e > _^ would reward the act liberally , and she _gavt 10-francs to spend , in order that he _lm-jht so i _^ power Bigallet with drink as to render him ' » _' ¦ _^ of resistance . Tscliupp said , that he o \ ycct eiuo _^ mit the crime , but the woman told him tny- a , fused she would stab him , and that thcre lore , . t from fear , and partly from the hope ot i * cwav «» _^^ last consented . The " woman was taken into t : i . n _ l hnl . h _ttppo _friml 'Vii- tlio nltpnint tO _COnHim _,.
tier . The evidenee on the trial fully corrobo i a _^ statement of'TscliuDn as to the woman , _amiii ' . _^ both found guilty % the jury . _Tschupp J _»* _,,. _# demned to twenty years' imprisonmen t , _« ' _^ labour , and exposure on the p illory . ] f yt , prisoner was condemned to ten years « m p _»» _-py _, with hard labour , but without exposure _on-nt v —Gcdignani ' s Messenger . , _j 0 » _P ( BS 0 » L \ a . —Mary Evans , domestic _^? _^ , gentlem . au residing in Brooke-street , i >» . _^ ii . atxcmrited on Wednesday last to destrp ) m . - . iiato infant child by administering to it *» - _ . r . d tate powder ; but she was detected m tne . _^ _^ tliis immediate death ofthe child P- _' _^ fwyoVcr . nrompt exhibition of a vomit . Tho cUiW . i _^ i . is in a precarious state , and thc unwawu _* " '•• • in custody , awaiting the event .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 13, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13121845/page/6/
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