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8 THE NORTHERN STAR. Septbmbeb 16, 1848,
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MORE CHARTIST ARRESTS. Thine Rev. Joseph...
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8 The Northern Star. Septbmbeb 16, 1848,
8 THE NORTHERN STAR . _Septbmbeb 16 , 1848 ,
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MORE CHARTIST ARRESTS . Thine Rev . Joseph Barker , of Sheffield , was apprefadsaded en Monday _evaning , at Bolfsn , by Police rpeaperintendent Beswick , of _Manchester , and _assistiapt $ , on a bench warrant , issued by Mr Justice _wrjfesswell , at the late Liverpool _asaiies , upon « i metaetmcnt charging him with _foriy-five others with _^ p iracy at Manchester ? Mr J _«^ _, B _«*« _Jjj _oZto Bolton to deliver a political lecture ,-and _jtSth a view to going through the form _•* _addraing efceelect _orsyts . erdayas acandid _^ , fromthehuB . _Sb . _Ofoume . the latter object waa frustrated , _Ss the election at Bolton had been fixed to com . _emenca atten o'clock , the hour at which Mr Barker asras brought before the _magtsttates at Manchester .
'h < fhen brought befere the bench respectable bail was wfendered . and he was set at liberty . On the previous ivlay White , the Bradford Chartist , who had been ikeaken by the Manchester _g-ilice before , but not on a _arrarran t , was bronabt before the magistrates , in-Hd _' Hded in the same indictment as Mr Batker , and was eoi-o held to bail , himself in £ 100 and two sureties ichich in £ -50 . It was stated that he was previously _idtndtr sureties on another _charee of the same nature . A Akoihee _Chahtist Couuo ted —On Monday , berate the sitting magistrates . ' at the Court House , _Bradford , John Smyth . _secretaTyto the Chartist _inouncil in the town , and the priacipal leader of the _h-Jhartists in that locality , was brought up for further _taxamiaatiin . The police produced a number of
_ipapon and documents found in Smyth s home on the igfightof the 23 rd of August , when he was appreenended . which clearly showed his connexion with the SWbartist BOTementsin the _neighbonrhoid . _Aperrnxrn named Michael Flinn , a member and secretary f tf oae of the Chartist Bectisns , proved that Smyth load acted as the secretary of the Chartist council tit Bradford durin g the late disturbances andmedil & ated outbreak . The magistrates resolved to commit mmyth to York Castle for trial at the next gaol _delivery . They refused bail , and he was forthwith seat offto York . The three otherprisoners , namely , ofohn _B-ntley , Nathan Smith , and T . Bentley , were _MSaebatged , there not _bsinganffisientevidence against nthem . _
I ChaBTHT _APPHKHESSIOKS AT SAOOLEWOMH — On _ETaedaynight . aparty ofpolicearrested the following _tejerEonsatSaddlewortb _. on a charge of sedition and l » mf piracy in attempting to create an unlawful as ** 9-anbl > :-George Piatt William Lillie , John Robinor-anTomkins , _Thataaa Wild , John Kershaw , John aHunt , John Posson . James Nield , James Lees , _ftjoraph Ogden , John Walker , and John Farral . Sscosm _Asa-ar of Mb Geoeob White . —On _SSandsy fast , George White , one of the Chartists _inleloded in the late indictment at Liverpool , was apirarekended under a bench warrant , at Rochdale , by ( Superintendent Fowler , of the county constabulary . ) Oa the following _moreinft he was brought up at the _JBcTiUgh Court , to give bail for his appearance at _^ Liverpool . Li answer to questions from the bench ,
* e said he resided in Bradford ; that he had lately _tfxen engaged in _couductinga email periodical in this ( town ; and that he paid £ 1 a-year rent for his house . [ The prisoner was then required to find bail in two _ESBretiea in £ 50 each , and his own recognisances in E £ I 00 . — -Prisoner : I am already under two fifties , and II am not holding such a situation as to warrant such iWl . —Mr Maude : —I have nothing to do with any I _tther charge in any other place . —The prisoner then i applied that the bail might be divided amongBt sei feral sureties . —Mr Beswick said it was ordered at _JEtarpaal , that if the prisoners could not find two I _ir-rettes in £ 50 , four in £ 39 would be accepted . — JMr Maude said if the prisoner could not find the I but now required , it would be open to make an l application for a similar division . The prisoner was _lihea removed .
BnBT . —Ahothib _Ansssr aro _CoMurmL . —On ! Monday last , Joseyh Broker , ef Woolfiald . a _schooli master , was apprehended by Superintendent _Sellan , and taken teforo the Heywcod magistrates , charged with having , on the 13 th of August last , used seditious langnageat Hey wood . He was committed for trial , bnt was afterwards admitted to bail , his _snreths being Mr David Thomas , cloth manufacturer . _Agar-street ; and Mr John Jones , lamplighter ad news-agent , Princes-street . — Manchester Guardim . _Makchestbb . —On Thursday , Patrick Devlyn _, Aunbar and glazier , and W . Grod-tt , included in the monster indictments preferred against tbem , at the hie Liverpool assizes , were brought before the Mancheater magistrates on bench warrants , aud com * aitted for trial at the next _assiaa Bail was fixed by the magistrates , at two sureties ia £ 50 e & cb _, for each prisoner . It waa stated that they were _proiided with bail .
Bradford . —At an early honr on Wednesday _zaoining , I-aao Jefff r _, on , better known by the cognomen of' Wat Tyler , ' was apprehended at a lone public house _nsar Swilling , a few miles from Bradford . Three constables pounced npon bim while he _w » asleep . On Thursday he waa examined before the sitting magistrates at Bradford , and committed to York Castle for trial for seditious _conspiracy . ArtBEsr cr Thirtem Chabtisk at Mossliy . —On Tuesday evening last . Superintendent Grisdale , of _Stddleworth . and a party of his men , assisted by Inspector Hani * n and Sergeant Grinuhaw , with a
posse of the county constabulary , succeeded in _ap--pehending 'he following person * on _cha-ges ef con" piracy , training , and drilling , die : —George Piatt , pinner ; William Lilley . spinner ; Jah _g Robinson TfnViop , alias Radical Jack , ahoemaker ; Thomas Wild . labourer ; John Kershaw , John Harst , John Io > J » i { weaver ) James Neild ( weaver ) , James Leas . James Ogden , James Radcliffe , James Walker , alias Chappy , and John Farral labourer , all of whom were conveyed to Saddleworth , preparatory to their being taken before H . H . _Brooghton , Esq _, of Upper _iSlli . _—li ' _wrporf Mercury .
CdMHHTALOF THE _BbADPOBD CHARTISTS . —The _pritoners apprehended during the past fortnight en * oharge of being concerned in the widespread canswacy throughout these districts , were brought before the magistrates iu tbeir private room as ihe _Coirt-hoUJe on Saturday last . The nine persons apprehended an the evening of the 23-d of Ang . m their club-room , in _Silsbridge-lane , vera first pheed at the bar ; their names were D . Lindon , A . Stratton _, T . Wilkinson . T . Ibbotson , E . Wilman , Ridehalgh , J . Hellawell , £ . Power , and W . Wood . —Police Superintendent Ingham proved that he , with other officers , apprehended the prisoners ia the Chartist Club-room , in Victoria-street , Silsbridgehme ; that E . Power had in his possession several
books , an inkitand , pen acd pencil ; and that in the bosks were entered a ? 'leaders ' the names of Ridehalg h , Power , Wilman , _Wilkiason _. 'T . Ibbotson , Hell-- tweU Lindon and Stratton . —Policeman Wood swore to having seen all the prisoners taking a part in Chartist proces * ionsat various times , particularly on Sunday , the 28 h May , when a precession left the town towards Pudding-hill , where a Chartist meeting was being held . —A person nasied Robert Emmett _, aa engine tender , residing in Victoria-street , _Sils-Tstddge-lane . was the principal witness examined . — Ba stated that he had lived in Bradford six months . He knew all the prisoners except Lindon . They met in the section-room , Victoria-street , _Silsbridge-lane . Power was the secretary , and he had heard him call
Offer the names . They subscribed mraey to purchase pikes . A great many pikes were purchased . Each man took his own pike home . They were to §& ht for tke Chirter with these pikes . They had tailed as to what would be the best plan to ; take Bradford , and sei- ; 3 npon the magistrates and hold thera as hostages until such time as government granted the Charter . The role was to have a corporal for every fourteen men , and a sergeant for erterr twenty-eight , and a superintendent _offiser for etetj forty men . Tbe sergeant , whose name was _TRJson , had absconded . Wood aud Hellawell were both corporals . Witness waa chosen for a superior
cSfcer , to inspect the drilling , to see when they were complete . He had a pike brought to hia house by Wilson , who helped him to put it on the staff . The Re . 1 section , which consisted of 700 , and of which witness was a member , were to take np the gas works sod throw the town at that end into darkness . He hid heard many discussions in the section aa to the plan of taking the town . The plan of taking the town was discussed the week before Bradford sumnerfair . —The prisoners were severally committed fer trial at tbe next York assizes , the bail required of each being two sureties in £ 100 eaob , and themselves ia £ 200 . —The other prisoners in custody were further remanded till Monday .
_Gsaumi at _Bradvord . —On Monday last three men named Benjamin Laycock , Francis Carmedy , _sai Paul _Holds-rortb , and a woman named Martha Hoboes , were brought before tbe magistrates at Bradford , charged with assault and robbery . The _cemphunt arose out of the committal of the nine persons to York Castle for seditious conspiracy . It seems tkat when Robert Emmett , the chief witness against those prisoners , was going to hia residence in _'fletoria-atreet , Silsbridge lane , about ten o ' clock , he encountered a large number of hia neighbours who were assembled for the purpose of giving him a warm reception ia consequence of his having acted the part of what they termed a * spy , ' aad having « received blood money . ' Emmett had no sooner appeared in the street than he waa attacked by several « f the mob . He fought with seme of hia assailants , amidst loud threats against his life , and it waa only
when he declared he wonld drown a person , whom he he held by the aak of the head , beneath the water at tte bottom of Vieteria-sbeet , where he had taken reftee from hia _aaiallanti , that they ceased to attack him . although the more violent were nrged to Mil am . eo the plea that ba wonld know aoae of them , and they weald be pnni . _irW oa a subsequent oocasion . In the attKh _* . a iharp Inatrament was applied te Era-Batt's person , in the _aadeavour to eat Ms pockets way , and he waa thus deprived of hi * pockets , contuning lis . - _£ d _* _. and aerefe _* _* - wounded ia tha _abdo--BBC The prisoners were apprehended oa Saturday afternoon , and an Monday Emmett identified them ia having taken a principal part in the attack and rabbary . They were all committed to lork Castle fer trial at tha next assizes . Several ether partiea see * wanted ; ' bnt _siaea Saturday Victoria-street _, which is a stronghold of Chartism , has been deserted bj ita male inhabitants , no fewer than thirty-six per aBMiaTin _* _absaondad . —ffbea thia canae had beea
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disposed of , three women , named Sarah Lindon , Ann CHtwelLani Rosanna Power ( _wivea of well-known _Cnartist «) . and two of whose _husbandswerecommittcd on Friday } _, and a young man named Joseph Laycock , were also brought up , oharged with threatening the life of Ann Emmett , wife of R . Emmett . They were required to enter into securities for their good behaviour , and were removed to the cells in default of sureties . The police removed _Emmetfs goods on Saturday evening , and he is now living in another part of the town . He is to be removed to Manchester , for there is at present neither peace nor safety for him in Bradford .
ExAHnuTiea or Chartists at _Abhto _** . —On Wednesdsy the men charged with being accessory to the murder ef Bright , the policeman , were again brought up at the Town Hall , Ashton . They are eight in number : —Joseph Constantino , Thomas Tasker , John Sefton , Thomas Eenworthy , Thomas Lattimer , William Parker , James Wrigley , and William Winterbottom . —Mr Newton , the chief constable , not having sufficient evidence against the prisoners , applied for a further remand till Monday next , wben he believed he should be in a position to bring the necessary evidence againBt them . The _prisonersexpressed great dissatisfaction at this application , savin ? they wished tbeir trial to came on as soon as possible , but they were told by the magistrates that
this was not to be their final trial ; that would not oome on till next assizes —Mr John Brooks , attorney , wbo appeared for Wrigley , urged that the further remand of the prisoners was unconstitutional , and contended that tbere was no ev . _denoa against them , as Mr Newton only stated tbat he believed be should have evidence next Monday . He thought that Ur Newton wbb not the proper person to judge what evidence was acceptable in the _csbs , because the ev d ? nce given to him wonld not be on oath , as it would be in court . There was a great difference between evidence before the magistrates and before the chief constable . The magistrates , however , overruled thia objection , and granted the remand applied for .
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THE LATE POISONINGS IN ESSEX . DISCOVERY OF MORE ATROCIOUS MPBDEB 3 . A searching investigation has been aet on foot by the authorities , during the last few days , amongst the inhabitants of Thorp . Kirby , Ramsey , Wis , _Misttey , Braafield , Great Oakley and places _adjacent , in consequence of suspicions whioh had been raised that the system of poisoning which has resulted in the examination of Mrs May , and the committal for trial of Mrs Southgate , bas been pursued to a frightful extent in these parishes , and that a far
larger number of persms than at first suppose ! have fallen victims to the diabolical practices which have prevailed , and' which hare recently been brought to light . Tha Tendering Hundred , in which these atrocities have been perpetrated , contains thirty parishes , and aboat 21 , 000 souls . Tne _parishe ? are yery extensive . The instruction of the poor seems to have been neglected to a most unusual extent . Itis a faot which has been lately advanced , that nine out ef every ten of the children of these parishes receive no instruction whatever beyond the pernicious example of their _ewn parents . . ..
The first discovery made in connexion with tbia atrocious system was that of William Constable , of the parish of Wix . Suspicion having arisen that he bad been poisoned , his body was exhumed . Mrs May his sister-in-law , was found guilty and executed at Chelmsford . It has since transpired that Mrs May had daring her life as many as thirteen children , and it is a remarkable fact that although only two are alive no one knows any thing respecting tbe others . The parish registers show nc record of interment , and the authorities , on makirg the most searching inquiries , express their total inability to gain any in formation as to the manner in which the bodieB have been disposed of .
Owing , it is said , . to a confession made by Mrs May , previoas to her execution , the attention of the authorities waa directed to the case of Thomas Ham . This body waa disinterred , and on the evidence tbat he had been poisoned , bis wife waa committed on the Coroner ' s warrant to take her trial for the murder . By the evidence it was shown , tbat the wife of the deceased ( Ham ) waa married to a man named Southgate a few weeks after her first husband ' s death . From what has since transpired , there can be no doubt that Southgate had been carrying oa a
criminal intercourse with Mrs Ham prior to her first husband ' s death . As it appears tbat when the investigation into tbe cajse of Ham ' s death commenced , Mrs Ham , in reply to an observation from Southgate ( to whom by tbat time she was married ) , Baid , 'Well , John , you know I did it for you . ' The deceased , Ham , had been in perfect health np to within two days of hia death . When he was taken ill he complained of pains in hia body and sickness ) He retched violently , gradually became worse , and died before the Burgeon could see him .
The case to which the authorities are now directing their attention is that of a person named Nathaniel Battoa , formerly a resident in the parish of Ramsey , who died Sept . 30 , 1816 , a few days after the death of Mrs May ' s first husband , about whom seme _suspioion also exists . No suspicion was at the time attached to the death , acd probably nothing would have been heard of it had it not-been for the two cases already mentioned , and from the fact that Mis Button had been * asked in chareh' for another marriage with a man wbo had been lodging in her house , and who , after the disclosures which bad been made , wished the ceremony to be postponed , ' to see whether they wtuld pull Buttoa np . ' It was also ascertained that Mrs Batten was on intimate terms of friendship
with Mrs May and Mrs Southgate . These circurastances coming to the knowledge of the authorities , they ( as before stated , not having the power of _exhnming the body ) have transmitted to the Coroner an immense quantity of evidence , in order that he may take the necessary steps for fully investigating the matter . From this evidence it appears that Button was well until the day before hia death . _ Ue was _seired with illness after partakin g of some food prepared for him by hia wife . Soon afterwards he staggered towards the door , purged violently , and threw up large quantities of matter of a greenish colour . He died in a few hours . - He had frequently been heard to say he was afraid to take anything from his wife , aa he waa convinced ahe wanted to
poison him . When informed that her husband ' s body waa to be disinterred ior the purpose of being examined , Bhe hastily exclaimed , * Well , if they find arsenic in his body . I am sure I did not put it there . ' During the life of Button his wife was criminally intimate with a man called ' Bobby Peck , ' a circumstance which created much jealousy , and was productive of frequent altercations between tke man and hia wife . Almost immediately after the death of Button , Peck also died in a sadden and mysterious manner , since whioh time Mrs Button has become affianced to another man , and" the marriage ceremony bas only been deferred in consequence of the circumstances wbich have oome to light . The next case under examination is that of a
person named Palmer , residing in- Ramsey , who died shortly after Button , nnder somewhat similar circumstances . Almost immediately after his death Mrs Palmer left Ramsey , accompanied by a paramour , with whom ahe had been long intimate . Palmer , it appears , waa a hard-working , industrious man , following the occupation of a farm labourer . Be bad been at hia work until the day before his death , and np to that time had been in perfect health . After partaking of some food which had been prepared by hia wife , he became af ok . He retired to bed , and within a few houre died in the moat frightful agony . The case of Phoebe Reads , one of the witnesses
againat Mrs Southgate , ia also nnder investigation . Thia person was in the service of Mrs Southgate during the life of her first husband . The authorities were induced to make inquiry into the case ia con sequence of circumstances wbich transpired during the inquest on Ham . Reade deposed tbat Mrs Ham ( Southgate ) had had six children , bnt that only one was alive . Mrs Southgate tben pointedly asked Reade how many children she had had . Reade ad mitted that Bhe had had five ] ( all illegitimate ) , but that only one waa alive . From the fact that none of the children have been ill more than a day or thirty henraat the most , the whole of these bodies are to be disinterred .
Mrs Soathgate's children , nx in number , in the language of the neighbours , * dropped off short , ' and were supposed to have been ' white powdered' ( poL sonedby arsenic ) These cases are likewise to an dergo inquiry _. The town of Great Holland , in the Tendering Union , haa also , it is suspected , been thescene- of one , if not more , of these dreadful poisonings . Frora the investigation which haa taken plaoe , it appears that a man named _Brndger died suddenly some time since , in great agony , having been well and at his work _antil within a few hoars before his death . He went out in the morning , and returned home at twelve o ' olock , when he partook of some dumplings which had beea made by his wife . Whilst eating these dumplings , he cat off a slice for the purpose ef giving it to one of his ohildren who waa Bitting
beside him , bat his wife hastily rose , and rushing towards bim snatched it ont of his hand , declaring that the child should not taste a bit of it , because it wonld do him no good . A . few minutes after hia dinner he waa seised with illness , and died in the most excruciating . ferment daring the night . The audden death of thia man caused some talk at tha time , mote especially aa it waa _aUted ia the village that _Bradger _' _a head after he died was as big as a ' bushel measure ; ' bat the excitement gradually wore off . and nothing more was thought of the matter until itarevival , in consequence ot the _discoreriea made respecting Mrs May and Mrs Southgate , with both of whom Mra Brndger waa intimate . The body of tha husband and those of the children are to be exhumed , for the purpose of having tha contents of the stomach analysed .
Two other cases are under consideration—one in the pariah of Tendering , and another in the parish of Bradfield . In the former the keeper of a beer-shop , named Brown , ia tho subject of inquiry ; and in tho
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latter , the body of a peraon named _Goss , who , there is little doubt , waa poiBoned , is to be exhumed , and the contents of the stomach submitted to a medical man _forexamination . In the _inveatigation of _. _these cases , it has been asoertained that most , if not all , owe their origin to the existence of what are in this part of the country oalled' Death Clubs . ' These clubs are composed chiefly of the cUv > s of persons to which those alluded to belong , and the manner in which the business is managed may be thus described . A person , man or
woman , enters one of these clubs , agreeing to pay a sum of sevenpence per quarter , at the same time appointing a nominee , at whose death the subscribing party receives £ 10 or £ 8 , according to the number of persons enrolled . In addition to the subscri ption , each member of the club pays sixpence extra on the death of any nominee . The hope of £ 8 or £ 10 is proved to ba the motive that prompted Mra May to poison her brother-in-law , and jt has no doubt operated as prejudicially oa the minds ef many others whose conduct will hereafter form tbe subject of a
judicial _inquiry . _Mtb Southgate was a member of one of theee clubs . Mrs Button was alio a member , and received £ 8 on the death of her husband . The death clubs seem to have been productive of the most disastrous consequences , and to bave held out a premium to murder which would not have otherwise existed .
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH CHARTIS M AND THE CHARTISTS ? ( Prom Doughs Jerrold ' s Newspaper , ) Modern Chartism , in its original form , is the _offspring ot Whig finality . The spirit of its early principles was a solemn protest against tbe treachery and violated promises of the authors of the Reform Bill . Wbile tbe popular party were struggling to effect the annihilation of rotten boroughs and the enfranchisement of the large towns , they first called the middle classes to their aid , but finding tbis assistance , however powerful , insufficient to carry out tbe measures proposed , they called into existence the political unions ; and to ensure tbeir zealous co-operation , a distinct pledge _iras given to tbe working classes tbat they should receive the suffrage from the gratitude and justice of the reformed parliament . The victory was gained , tbe middle classes shared Hb fruits , but tbe mechanics and artisans were not only forgotten by those whom they bad contributed to raise to power , bat their remonstrances were laughed at , and their
petitions spurned . The _deception tbat had been practised was now transparent ; it was manifest tbat the real object of the movement was simply to elevate Wliiggery on the ruins of Toryism ; tbat the liberty of the millions was never contemplated ; that they were used as tools with a premeditated design to treat them as dupes . It was said of the late Earl Grey that he sbuddei ed on looking at the Frankenstein of his own creation , and as much to quell bis own fears as those of ethers , he solemnly avowed that he would * stand or fall with his own order . ' Lord John Russell , at that time one of bis subordinates ) took the cue from his terrified chief , and proclaimed finality . He resisted the motions of Mr Tennyson D'Ejncourtto substitute triennial for septennial parliaments , und defeated Hr Grote on the ballot Honourable men , wbo respected the faith of promises , _blunhed at the tergiversation of their leaders _; the Whig majority dwindled away to an evaneseent fraction , for their moral power was lost
when tbeir treachery was avowed ; they retreated on expediency , for when men have violated truth , they are not unprepared to equivocate with justice ; they shuffled and haggled ; and , as the last desperate effort to regain their forfeited popularity , proposed to interfere with those Corn Laws w _* sich their prime minister , Lord Melbourne , had just before declared were so sacred thatnone but madmen would venture to disturb their enactment . Amid' thecute . es of hate and the hissings of rcotW _tlwy were hurled from office , and Toryism , wbich the Whigs might bave exterminated forever , once more placed its han i on the helm of State . While these events were progressing , the more intelligent and high minded of those who were the leaders oi tbe political unions , deeply and justly aggrieved at the perfidy of which they bad been the victims , determined to make an effort to obtain those electoral rights guaranteed to them by tbe Wbigs : and with these views tbey _adopted ,
word for word , the principles drawn up by the Duke of Richmond , in 1780 , and embodied them in the document known as the * People ' s Charter . ' When this new move _, ment was first organised , not a syllable was breathed of physical force ; every man relied for success en moral power . But political speculators soon came upon the scene , seeking to turn the agitation to pecuniary profit and personal aggrandisement . Cunning suggested a newspaper as tbe special organ of the new doctrines , and it soon degenerated into an organ of man worship . Every one who disdained to be the tool of a dictator was hunted down ; an agent was appointed in every town to invent false reports ; there was to be no rival near tho throne ; the profits were to be unshared ; and , in the mame of freedom , the _oresa denounced all independence
of thought , all liberty of _aetion . They who founded tbe Charter were disgusted at the intolerance of tbe political mountebank who affected t _* _ae virtue of an _ArisUdas aad the wisdom of a Solon ; they retired from the contest , and l * ft tha game ia the hands of tbe betrayer of the cause . Thea excitement superseded calm reflection , for excitement increased the circulation of the newspaper , and from it arose the hateful doctrine of physical force . The public were told that tbey must chooBe between the leadership of Feargus O'Connor or tbat of Feel or Russell ; and tbe good and wise did aot hesitate to mako a very obvious choice . Thus , as finality gave birth to Chartism , so did physical force organise Conservatism . In both cases liberty was destroyed by professing liberals , the charlatans of politics .
At length the truly Liberal party attempted a new combination , under the title of the ' Complete Suffrage As . _sociatioB- * The excellent Mr Sturge was ita president . It failed , chiefly through the ruffianism of physical force , which rudely interrupted the meetings at the command of a dictator , as it also interrupted tbe meetings of the Anti Corn Law League . Emboldened by success , Chartism braved the law of the laad , and many of these deluded men expiated their offences by imprisonment and transportation . But liberty did not spring from their martyrdom ; they had injured instead of aided the causB of popular enfranchisement ; they had alarmed property , and property called for the enactment of new penal laws , wMch strengthened the oligarchy , and put new weapons into the hands of misrule . This insane conduct has again manifested itself witbin the last few weeks , and what has been the first result of the madness ? Why the polite have been drilled in tbe use of the musket , and now parade the streets with a cutlass at their sides . True liberty mouras over this addition to the standing army , and when it seek * its author , it finds it in physical force Chartism . _Freedsm has suffered mere from its false friends than trom its real foes .
We have seen that Whig treachery organised political disaffection , and that tbe teachings of Feargus O'Connor revived the strength of Tory ism , emasculated by tbe Reform Bill . Wo consider him and Lord John _Bussell 86 the two greatest enemies of rational liberty who have figured since 1832 , albeit their tactics have been very dissimilar . Lord John smote freedom when he destroyed the moral _-jrfjt _^ e of _his own party ; O'Connor aided despotism when he broke up the original _Chartistparty by encouraging physical force , denouncing good men who combined for the national welfare to _maae personal tools of bad men who conspired against peace and order . But we pass from these quacks ti consider ' What is to be done with the Chartists V It is our conviction that the p hysical force gettry are numerically insignificant , and that their real influence ia as insignificant a * are tbeir numbers . We are also _satisfiedthat thev would wholly disappear and no longer
be heard of , if the government merely showed a disposition to act on principles of justice . There is enough of _enlirhtenraent in the country to persuade the great body of the people that their _oalyhopeof political redemption lies in moral power , and it is precisely because tbey have that perception that they so heartily despise the moral obliquity of their rnlerB . It is useless to _diBRuise what is notorious _; the people _hafe no _respectfor parliament , nay , tbey absolutely contemn it , and this , after all , is tne most fearful sign of the times . Tbe mechanics and artisans of Britain have no desire to eat their bread in Idleness , but tbey reasonably expect fair compensation for fair work , and tbat they do not receive . Tbe bulk of the taxes is drawn from their industry , and they have no share in voting or distributing them . When _employmentis eagerly sought for , but without success , the operative is treated aa a _crimimai , thrust into a Union , and separated from his wife and family . In his casa poverty is not a
misfortune , hut a high offence against the State . The government will not accept his proffered labour , because that would violate the rales of a miserable political economy , which , in defiance of the teachings of Christ , says , < Thou shalt not love thy neighbour as thyself , ' and sets at naught the holiness of the Samaritan principle . But tbis very government , under the inspirations of political economy , takes npoB itself to annihilate employment , as in the recent prohibition of railways ; it does so , when it shackles trade by tariffs and forces industry into unprofitable _chaaaels ; it does so when it admits from other countries those commodities wbich we can ourselves produce , and excludes those which we cannot produce ; it does so , when it throw ths labour of conviots into competition with the labour of honest men , guiltless of crime ; it does so , when it limits the amount of legal tender and fixes the price of coined gold . It is tyranny such aa this , trickery such as this , that maddenB a hungry people into
fury , and causes then to bate tne institutions under which they live and hy which thoy aro oppressed . The people know tbat political reform is not an end , but the means to an end . Tbe end sought for is the en . joy ment of existence , so that life may be a blessing , not a curse . Thty therefore demand the electoral suffrage as au instrument by which they may secure to themselves a just share of that wealth which tbeir labour produces . It is false to say that tbey desire the destruction of property ; on the contrary , their complaint is that their own property Ib not respected . They recognise the distinction between' mine and thine , ' and simply demand that they may have the benefit of the principle involved in that _distinction . But bow can thu be if the ) are excluded fr _« m all power in the choice ot their rulers ° Were they ruled wi _> ely and justly , and if their condition bore _teutimony to tbat wisdom and justice , it is very probable they would be content to leave the stewardship of their affairs where It is bow deposited ; but it happens that they are wronged , and therefore is it that they demand redress . We beliere that modern statesmanship utterlv mistakes
the age with which it has to deal . It looks too much at the past , too little at the present . It follows old precedents , fearing to create new ones . When Lord John Russell is driven into n corner , he quotes Fox ; Feet retreats upon Harris , the _assay . _raaster of Queen Aune . Administrative wisdom consists hi conserving property in its transmitted form , regardless of the claims of exist _, ing industry . The principle of progress is admitted , but stationary tactics are acted upon . We inherit a huge debt , and we must keep faith with the public ereditor ; tbat secured , no heed is taken of the public debtor . Taxes cannot be remitted _because dividends mutt be paid , and to give additional security for payment , taxes must be increased to maintain an army and a police , by which _payment may be enforced . Power shifts the weight of fiscal burdens on the powerless ; thetefore power purchases a scat in parliament , and disfranchises those who might otherwise protest against the injustice of the arrangement . We thus arrive at the government of a class , the object at wbich it aims , and the means by which it attains its ascendaacy . Here also we find the fuel _whitb feeds the flame of Chartism .
The _Bejsion of parliament , now drawing to a close , has done nothing to conciliate the disaffected . It has extinguished even hope , and preached resignation in the withering language of despair . It has displayed no other activity than the activity of coercion . Though , in six months , our exports have fallen off to the extent of five millions , indicating a corresponding want of employment among our productive classes , nothing has beea
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done to Invigorate _oommerce , or _restlfy the oitbalanca of foreign trade by promoting the home trade . Lucky is the man in business who can pay his way . None can accumulate , save the usurers , and their gains are taxes on industry . Our burdens increase , while our means _dlmislsh , aure Indications of a sinking empire , under _, mined from within by ministerial incompetency , assailed from without by civic insubordination . - To put down CbartiBm _, we must deal differently with the two sections of which it is composed . Tke strong hand of the law must be brought to bear ou the advocates of physical forces this the public safety demands , as well as the real interests of rational reform , which can never progress or win over friends while the integrity of public order is assailed . With those Chartists who seek for the exercise of constitutional rights through moral power , we must deal in a spirit of justice , and concede at once what oannot be Indefinitely postponed . No sophistry can gloss over the injustice of taxing men who are not represented . _Statesmanship may modify tbe desire of exercising the suffrage , but it cannot deny the
right . It can only modify the desire by making men happy under the infltitutions which govern them , for then obedience is willingly paid . If , then , the oligarchy _tvish to retain in their own hands a monopoly of govern _, ment , they must take on their own shoulders the exclusive burdens of the State . They must substitute direct tor indirect taxation . They may then be as extravagant as they please , for they will have to . draw on their own resources . Perhaps the great body of the people might accept such a compromise , though the bargain would involve political servitude in exchange for fiscal _imma . nities . But of this tbe oligarchy may rest assured , that , in spite of soldiers and police , tbe extinction of their order is not distant unless they can so contrive that every man able aad willing to work shall find employ _, ment at remunerating wages , whatever their pseudopolitical economy may aver to the contrary . Better that revenue should fail than that humanity should parish ; bette r sponge out the debt than exterminate life ; and the loss would not be insupportable , should coronets and mitres disappear , provided men remained . AtiDEIK .
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THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . The Labourer . Noa . XIX ., XX ., and XX [ . A full , minute , and accurate history of the rise , progress , and present position of the National Land Company , will be found in the numbers ef the magazine at the head of this notice . The voluminous evidence taken before the late Seleot Committee ol the House of Commons on the subject , has been carefully and impartially condensed into a readable ab _straot and narrative , which , apart from its intrinsic value as the veritable history of one of the most practioal and comprehensive attempts that haa ever been made to promote the independence of the working classes , must also possess for the thousands who have embarked their little capital in the enterprise , a direct personal interest .
We know of no surer foundation for pnblio confidence , tban publicity to all business transactions ; and in the course of the protracted examination instituted by the Seleot Committee , every possible ramification of the Company ' s affairs was minutely investigated , and the results tally set forth in the evidenoe . The important , and ia one sense invaluable , financial reports of Messrs Grey and _Finlayssn , present an accurate view of the whole of the monetary transactions up to the period they were made ; and wemay safely say that an equal _amount ' ef integrity , er a greater spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice , never was displayed than by Mr O'Connor , as shown by those documents , which it was hoped would crush him for ever as a publio man .
A larse portion of the number for the current month ( XXL ) is oooupied by a lucid and dispassionate review of tbe evidence , and an abstract oi the pro - posals for obviating the legal objections to the Company elicited in the examination . The writer follows tbe evidence step by step , and by an acute analysis of it , places the real questions at issue in a plain and business-like point of view , under the several heads of funds ; formation of the plan ; legality of the Company , and its practicability nnder the separate heads ; of the practicability of the Small' Farm System , and the practicability of locating the shareholders on small farms within a reasonable time . The conclusion of the review deals with the plan in its social and political aspeot as a remedy for existing national _distreBB ; and we oannot give a better idea of tbe style and spirit in whioh the whole question is treated than by extracting thiB part of the review : —
The real government of this country has bean for a great number of years in tbe hands of the diselples of Malthus and Dr Adam Smith , and under their auspices an Industrial and commercial system has grown up ot the most unsound aad vicious description . The energies of the country bave keen tamed into wrong channels , and the great bulk ot the _popalnttoa made dependent on the demand iu foreign markets for manufactured goods , instead of being employed in the _production of the first necessaries of life , Tho ' Manchester School , ' as Hr Disraeli oal ' _s the
party headed by Mr Cobden , have , of late years , exerted themselves vigorously to extend the sphere and operations of this system . The great object of all th « tr efforts bas been to find out new markets abroad , and to render the industrial classes still more dependent on them for work and food . It appears , however , to have escaped the attention of thia party , that there were natural aad political agenolesat work , whioh must Inevitably counteract their _tfforts _, contract the number of profitable markets , and increase the number of competitors In those markets .
It is natural and proper for every nation to develops to the utmost the Industry of its population and its territorial capabilities . Commerce and manufactures are as necessary phases of society as the pastoral , hunting , and purely _agrioaltural stages whioh precede them . To suppose that we should be alio rf ed to maintain exclusive and undisturbed possession of the new productive machinery invented by mad em science , was ridiculous ; and hai been shown _oonolusively to be so by the Industrial bistory ot every nation , especially during the last quarter of a century .
Our old and near customers on the continent of Europe have gradually acquired the power of supplying themselves with many things which they were obliged to take from us at the commencement of the present century . Some of them , besides attaining this point , go farther , and manufacture goods whioh not only compete successfully with ours in neutral markets , but are aotualty Imported into our own markets and drive out the articles of the homo manufacture . The same thing has been _goiag on in the United States of North America ; year by year , tbeir manufacturing capabilities have beea developed , and their machinery augmented , and there is every probability , that , in the course of a comparatively short period , they will beat ui in every market la the world ; they have possession of natural and political advantages against which ie Is Impossible for us to maintain our ground In the long run
The attempts to open new markets by successive free trade measures , have so fat proved a melancholy and complete failure . Bat , even wero ws to saooeed in doing so to the utmost extent the advocates of that policy anticipate , we must ask if we could keep exolu ' live _psssetslon ef these markets ? Oar young rival , with all Its glgantio energltt fresh and unencumbered , would enter tbem along with us . Oa fashionable free tracta principles , it wonld have a right to do so , and it would boat us . Having considered this subject very carefully , and with an anxious desire to ascertain the truth , we have
come to the conclusion that the manufacturing system of Great Britain has culminated , The _newoiroumstancei that bave grown up around ut have totally altered our mercantile and _manufacturing relations to other countries . It will be impossible ia future , by our present arrangements , to _easwe wotk and wages to the operatives in the manufacturing districts . Fitful and brief glimpses of prosperity may occasionally brighten tbe darkness , but the time has oome when it is necessary to look at our position _oalmly aad carefully , and alter our industrial arrangements ia suoh a way as to avert the evils whioh must inevitably result from blindly pursuing onr present course .
We look forward to U \ e decline and ultimate extinction of the _manafactnring system _withoatf-ar or regret ; tbe pulse of the nation has beaten feverishly during the whole of its existence ; the delirium of a paroxysm , or the feebleness of a oollapso , have followed eaob other ia suocession _, and the sooner the country is saved from suoh alternations the better . Bat tbe millions who now depend on that _systom for subelatenae _, must be provided for in time by some other means . In order to do this , we believe tbat oar past polloy must be reversed , and that , _iattead of looking to foreign markets for salvation , _wemuttoreate , develops , and sustain a good Hoki lUiaiT .
Tae Flan of the Load Company aims at accomplish _, log tbis great and Important objeot . Iast « ad * of employing a large portion of oar population in the prodaotlon of _artiolt ' s for which there may be either no market at all , or , if sold , It must be ' at prices wbtoh do not remunerate the labourer , the promofcrs of the Land Company propose to employ those for whom the present syitem fails to provide work aad wages , in producing the first artleles of human subsistence , and in adding to tbe raw material on which manufacturing industry may be afterwards applied . A man wbo bs * . been employed In working ap a bag of American cotton into shirts to be worn at Sierra Leone , Ib by no means in so good a position , or so useful a labourer , as the man who has pro duoed oat of Bagllsh land—Sis own / am—coro , potatoes , vegetables , pork , and butter , to be carried to the neatest market and there sold for the subsistence of his neighbours , after he has first deducted what is requisite for the comfortable and healthy _malntonanco of himself and family .
In tht evidenoe of Mr Revans , and , Indeed , through _, oat the whole of the examination , it _seoma to have been taken for granted that the allottees were necessarily to be strictly confined to agricultural labour alene . This it not the case . Ia Norway , where one maa ia every twenty . two U a _laadet proprietor , and the estates are _nry small , we find tbat agriculture and manufaoturt'S are carried on conjointly . The whole nation , according to the testimony of Ur _Lalng—oae of the best informed travellers—are well lodged , well fed , aad well clothed io their household manufactures . _Lslsure and peace of mind are largely enjoyed by them , and the feverish exoitement whtoh ptrvadea English society under the rei ? n of the Eodaomlati is _uaknowo , Mr Lalng says : — 4
They farm , not to raise produoe for sale , so muoh as to grow every thing they eat , drink , and wear in their own families , They build their own _hoasei , make their © wa ohalM _, tables , j loughs , _oarts , harness , Iron _watk ,
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baiket aad wood work , ia short , except window glass , oast Iron war * , and pottery , _everything about their houses Is of tbeir own faorioatioa . There Is aot , pro . bably in Europe , bo great a population in so happy a condition as these Norwegian Yeomanry . ' Now , although tke allottees of the Land Company have their houses built for them by the Company in the first instance , yet the principle of self-support and domestic manufactures , so described by Mr Lalng to produce snob happy results lo Norway , would , if applied here , be generally beneficial . Every allottee ' s dwelling , during the long nights , and the wet unworkable _daji of
winter , may become a cheerful scene of _Indoor Industry , A tailor or a shoemaker will not lose the ' cunning of their right hands , ' beoause they have learned In addition how to handle a spade . Tbe new position in whioh the occupants of these small farms will be placed will , uo doubt , gradually develops new relations—conjoined with _individuality of possession , co-operation of labour for general purposes and general benefit will spontaneously grow up among them , and the whole be . ng in possession , in the first _instanoe , of the powir of supplying the first mott essential wants of onr naturethere would be a lasting aud -alii fouadatloa laid for national prosperity .
Sucb , we _uuders'and the objeot of the Land Company to bo . It alms at uniting the character of capitalist and labourer la the same person , and to emancipate labour from the shackles of commercial feudalism , and place it in a position to act Independently . In the pursuit of tbis most Important and most righteous object , no doubt errors may be committed , ia consequence of inexperience —unexpected obstructions and unforeseen difficulties may arise In the progress towards the goal . But these are the natural tnoldents to all great undertakings , and they can always be surmounted by union and increased knowledge , arising from Increased axperience . It is a juit , a holy , and an all-Important object , and success will confer the highest and the purest blessings on all classes of society .
That success can only be obtained by the working classes of this _ceaatry rallying round the standard now erected . If tbey are true to themselves , their leader will not desert them . It only requires that they should imitate him ia xeal _, perseverance , and determination , and that , to the tallest extent of their pecuniary means , they should supply him with the _applianoes for realising the object .
Mrs Cuffay. Fbilow Consirymei* , — We, T...
MRS CUFFAY . Fbilow ConsiRYMEi * , — We , the undersigned , make this appeal to you on behalf of the wife of our friend and brother patriot , William Cuffay . Our objeot is to place henn a situation in which she might be able to obtain a livelihood in her old age . Subscriptions received by Mr Thos . Murrell , Republican Tea stores . 5 , _Berwiok-street , Soho _. _and MrH . Ford , Chartist baker , 11 , Berwick-street , Soho . Post Office Orders to be made payable to Mr Ford . Signed by the Committee , H , Fobd , T . Mrj BRBiii , £ . Phillips .
The Unemployed Operatives Of Scotland. T...
THE UNEMPLOYED OPERATIVES OF SCOTLAND . TO THE EDITOR OF IHB K 0 _RIHEB H 8 IAB . Sib , —Permit me , through the medium of your valuable journal , to lay before yonr readers and the publio a true statement regarding tho present condition of the unemployed operatives of Glasgow , some thousands of whom are in a worse condition than they were bafora the publio took up their case in April last . Tho men hare been thrown entirely on their own resources since the 26 th of August , in consequence of the relief oommittee being without funds , and the authorities refuse to allow them to hold open air meetings . _Through tha kindness , however , of the proprietors of the Viotoriaand Demooratio Halls , tbe unemployed have met there since that period , and denotations from the meetings "have waited upon tho Lord Provost and others of tbe magistracy , who said they could do nothing for them , but that they
were to go in search of _harvestwork . We wish the pablio to judge whether men accustomed to in-door work from inf anoy , suoh as mouiders , _cottoa-spinners , cloths-tappers , printers , & c , without a sickle er the means of obtaining one , could work at reaping . But the magistrates say ' Go and offer yourself for half-price . ' A numberlof men did go to a farmer , and told him what the _LnrdProvoatsaid , and offered their services fer their . victuals . Tho farmer said * I would rather give a regular reaper five shillings per day , and tell the Lord Provost , from me , tbat I will give him my servant , who cannot write , to be his clerk , for half of tbat he pays for one . ' Tbe operatives therefore appeal te tbe pablio in their present _emergency to consider what ought or should be done . N . B . The Committee will sit daily to receive donations , clothes , or food , in the Victoria Hall , No . 19 , _Gallowgate-street , Glasgow . Hugh _Fclton .
Forthcoming Meetings. Diw'bort.—A Distri...
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Diw'Bort . —A district delegate meeting will be held in the Chartist ' s meeting-room , on Sunday , September 24 th , when delegates from each locality in the district are requested to attend . Mr S . Kidd will lecture at 83 , Dean-street , Soho , ou Sunday evening , the lfrh instant , at half-past a ven o ' olock . Subject : ' Is the Irish Rebellion put down , and by what means ?'—Mr Kydd will _alsode-1 ver a lecture , on the same subject , at the Sooth London Chartist Hall , Webber-street , _Blaokfrisrs _, on Monday evening , the 18 th instant , at eight o ' clock , when collections will be made ia aid of the Liberty Fund .
South London Chartist mix . —Mr Walter Cooper will lecture in tbe above hall , an Sunday evening next , September 17 th , at eight o ' clook . Subject :- 'The Scottish Martyrs . '—Mr Kydd will lee on Monday evening next . Subject;— ' Is the _rebellion in Ireland put down , and by what means ?' Hull— -A general meeting of the Chartist body will be held on Sunday evening , September 17 th , at the Temperance Hotel , Blanket-row , at seven o ' clock—The National Land Company will bold their meetings in the _Wilberforce-rooms _, every Tuesday and Friday evenings . Li-i ds— 'Mrs Theobald will deliver a leoture to morrow evening , in the large room of the Baziar .
Todmordkn . —The Chartists of this locality will hold a series of tea parties and balls during the fair , viz ., —a ball on Thursday the 23 th inst . ; tea patties and balls on Friday and Saturday the 29 th and 30 th ; tea on the table each evening at five o ' clock , dancing to oommenoe at six . _Newcastle . — -The CbartiBt members and friends of the Newcastle branch are iuformed that subscription-sheets are opened for the Viotim and Defenoe Funds . Subscriptions tothe above funds will be thankfully received by M . Jude , the local treasurer , and forwarded to tbe proper parties .
Ipswich . —The members of the Chartist Association are informed that meetings will be held at the Castle Inn , Lower Orwell-street , every Monday evening , until further notice . —A speoial meeting will be held on Monday next , the 18 th instant , to eleot officers for the ensuing quarter . All members are required to attend . Chartists ! think of the victims . Oldham . —On Sunday next , September 17 th , & lecture will be delivered in the sohool room of the Working Man ' s Hall , at six e ' clock in the evening , by a friend . Lower _Wmom . —A district delegate meeting will be held at Lower Warley , on Sunday afternoon , the
17 th inst ., at two o ' clock , wken all localities in the district are expected to send a delegate . Halifax—Mr J , Snowden will lecture in the Chartist room , Ball Close-lane , on Sunday , the 17 th inst . Doorsopen at six o ' olock , lecture to commence at half-past irix . Towbr Hajilkt 8 . —The distriot oommittee met on _ruesday ereniog , at the Globe and Friends , and appointed J . H . Shepherd secretary tiro , tern . —The delegates are requested to attend at the abore house on Tuesday next , at eight o ' clock . —A discussion will take place on Sunday evening at eight o ' olock , at the Globe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commercialroad .
Nxw Babfohd . —A meeting of the members and friends of the Land and Charter Associations will be held at tbe Raven Inn , on Sunday evening next , at seven o ' clock precisely , when Mr Sweet will address the meeting . _Sohdbrlahd . —A lecture will bo delivered oa the Moor , on Sunday next , at eight o ' clook , by Mr Dickenson , when a collection will be made for tke Viotim Fund . Thb _Newcastli-upok-Tyne branoh of the National Co-operative Benefit Society meet in M . Jade ' s
_loag room , every Tuesday evening , at eight o ' clock _. Persona desirous of being enrolled in the above sooiety , will please to apply to the secretary , on any Tuesday evening , between the hours of eight and ten . Mabyhbokj _* . —A members' meeting wiUJtake place at the Coaoa Painters' Arms , Circus-street , Newroad , on Sunday evening next , at eight o ' olock , when all class leaders are requested to attend . _NkwcasmiB-cpojj-Ttnb . —Mr John West of _Macolesfield , will lecture in Martin Jade ' s long room _, on Sunday evening , September 17 th , at seven o ' clock .
Roohdalv . —On Sunday evening next , September 17 th , Mr Wbittaker of Manchester , will deliver a leoture in the Chartist room , top of Yorkshirestreet , Rochdale . To oommeuoe at half-past six o ' olaok . _Locohborouch . —The Land _membare of this district are requested to meet at the Wheat Sheaf , on Sunday , September 17 , at six o ' clock in the evening . Sombbb Towh , —Mr Merriman will lecture at the Bricklayer * ' Arms , _TonbridgerStreet , _New-road , on Sunday evening next . Subject : 'The Poor Laws and Home Colonisation , ' To commence ateight o ' clook " Thk _Em-ist Jonm _Bbwadx of the Southwark " Branoh ia removed from Kent-street to the Republican coffee-house , 2 , Hunter-street , _Dover-road , where the meetings are held every Sunday , Tuesday and Thuwday evening . The attendance of the working classes of the neighbourhood is _earnestly requested on Sunday , Sept . 17 th .
Latest Foreign News. Pall Of Messina. Th...
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . PaLL OF MESSINA . The important intelligence was received on Wednesday morning , by meant of telegraph , by the French government , from Marseilles , that Messina had been taken by the Neapolitan troops , after a bombardment of the mest frightful kind . It is also announced that the Sardinian fleet hat quitted Venice , and that the Austrian fleet is on its way there . This has produced a report that the government has again ordered a French squadron to sail for that point .
Ireland. Uiair Ihhuieimca. (From The Cor...
IRELAND . _uiair _iHHuieiMca . ( From the correspondent of the ifomin _^ Po _it . ) DoBtDT , Sep * . 15 -The' new rebellion' d _« es not _wem to ' progress / In th . first plaoe , there haa been no mora fighting ; and in tho second , the rebel army is _nowhera to hasten . The Frmwa *'« _Joubhal has the following _:-KiLKJNNr _, Thursday evening . -The _drivsr of tho Clonmel ear , who arrived here at eight o ' clook this evening states that the most perfe > t tranquil _, hty pmailed along tho entire o f his route through . inn * ™ *!? aooou _^ would 'PPe * ih »* tne M »» lull of tho storm . There are other details , however _, irom which one would certainly infer that tbe thine eannot have so totally subsided as these tranauilii * _» g _announcements would intimate .
Mrs Fihsbll. —We Learn That This Law-Mad...
Mrs _Fihsbll . —We learn that this law-made Widow has opened a shop , 15 , Pearl Terrace , Bag . mgge Wells Road , ( nearly _oppasite the Clerkenwell Police Court , ) where she will most thankfully supply her friends with newspapers , pamphlets , periodicals _, stationary , haberdashery , tobacco , cigars , snuffs , die _Thi-Coal _Mwbhs . —The colliers of Ad walton , near Leeds , have opened a lodge at the White Horse Inn _, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament to grant them an Ei ght Hours Bill . They hope every mining district throughout Great Britain will assist in thia undertaking , aBd would be glad to correspond upon the subjeot . Address , Mr Samuel Froughton , White-Horse Inn , Adwaltoa , near Leeds .
On Tuesday M . Veyron-Lscroix was found guilty in the Court of Assise of having published in the PBur-LB _Cokstituani two articles calculate * to excitebatred and contempt againBt the Republican govern * ment . He was sentenced to imprisonment for six mouths , and to pay a fine of 2 _, G 00 f . ( £ 80 ) _LooeHBOBODsn . —This place has continued in a state of excitement ever since Whit-Wednesday last , police and special _constaables having been in frequent requisition . At last tbe late secretary was taken by the p -lice , to see if anything could ba made eut of him . The police boasted they had a warrant for Mr Skevington , but so far thty have had
their labour for their pains . On Monday , September i'h , a public meeting was held on the subject of the Charity Land , when one of the assistant polioe collared Mr Skevington , at the same time using moat abusive language , _beesuse Mr Skevington commented on the conduct of spies , 4 c , the assistant attending in that capacity . Oa the following Thursday , Mr Skevington appeared before the magistrates to prefer his complaint , but the inspector refusing to attend without a _Bummens _, one was obtained , and , although the case was not fully gone into , ( no witnesses being _, called ) , be was fined 2 i . 61 . and costs , to the delight of a crowded court .
ExrruoRBWART Escapb . —The locality of Bradwell and Coggeshall , Essex , has for a very long period been infested by a daring gang of burglary , to the great terror of the inhabitants . Oae of the gang , named Wade , was at the last _assises convicted of burglary , when his confession , coupled with other circumstances , led to the belief that Samuel Crow , a cab driver , at the Black Hone Inn , Coggeshall , wae the ringleader of the desperadoes . It has lately been supposed that Crow was concealed on the premises of the Black Horse , kept by a person named French , and on Wednesday last Superintendent Cook entered the house , after having , procured a sufficient force to surround the place . The first person they met was the landlord , to whom they told the objeot of their visit .
when he positively asserted that Crow was not there , but made some contradictory _statsments as to what he knew of Crow ' s whereabouts . The house an d premise were then thoroughly searched , and some of the polioe remained in charge of the house . About half-past ten o ' clock at night they were induced to go into a room over the granarv , whioh they had frequently viBited during the previous parts of the day . In the ceiling ot the reom they perceived that a hole which had previously attracted their attention was rendered so much larger as to admit a man ' s body . One ofthe constables turned on his light and ascended ' the roof , where he had a _distinot opportunity of viewing the prisoner crouched in a corner , and immediately cried out , ' Here he is . ' Another
policeman , also , had a good view of the prisoner , and ' called upon him to surrender , when he said , ' Don't hit me with your staves , but go down , and I'll follow you like a man . ' The men went down , supposing it was impossible lor Crow to escape from his hidingplace , hut the officers had no sooner _dtacended than their notice was drawn to a loud crash , whioh was * subsequently found to have been occasioned by the prisoner dashing through the tiled roof , severely lacerating one of his hands , and otherwise injuring ; his person . The alarm was raised , and the pursuit commenoed , but we regret to Bay that Crow escaped
by running along the rcof of several houses , and _,, after jumping into the garden cf Mr Hun wick , made his way into Abbey-wood . His route has been since traced for some distance , but without leading to a capture . French and Bome others have since been apprehended . A brother of Crow has also been taken on a oharge of harbouring and concealing him , several articles of clothing , <&* _., and a handkerohief covered with blood , which belonged to Crow , having been found upon him . Active means are being used for getting up the evidenoe against the prisonersalready in custody , and in devising measures for the capture of Crow . —Essex Paper .
Aitbkpi to _Cnvaa Tbaobs' Uxionb . _—TwESTJfr-One _Masoss Ihdicted for Conspiracy . —A crowded meeting was held at the Temperance Hall , Waterloo road , on Thursday evening , September the 14 th , but in consequence of the _la-o period of the week , and _tbe . orowded Btate of our columns , and with a desire to do justice to the masons of London , and the tradesgenerally , we must defer our report until next week , when it will appear in full . Health of thb Town of Glasgow . —We have reason to believe that at present the health of the town was never in a more satisfactory condition . _^ With the exception of partial cases of scarlatina , there is no epidemic prevalent ; and typhus fever has almost entirel y disappeared . As proof of the latter assertion , it may be mentioned that during an official visit , paid last week to almost every close and tenement in High-street , Bridgegate , and the _Wynds , not a single case of fever was discovered . —North British Mail .
Thk Chartist Prisoners in Newgate now awaiting trial have been permitted by the authorities to have the tools requisite for shoemaking and tailoring , in wbich occupation they are daily engaged . The money earned by thera is to be devoted to their defence . —Daily News .
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( From the _Qasettt of Tuesday , September 12 . ) BAKKRUPT 8 . Lawrence Williams Ash , White lioa-street , _Pentonvillscorn and coal merchant—John Croudson , Wig & _a _, _LaacoJ sblre , money scrivener—John Dillon , Hereford , ironraong-r-Christopher Green , Beckford-grcen , Walworthroad , corn and coal merchant—Edward Hammond , Kingston , Surrey , oU crusher—Thomas Keating , St Paul ' s _, churchyard , City , druggist-John Miller , Oxford street , bookseller— _Thomas Rovreti , Hartlepool , Durham , merchant—William Wallace and George Dormaad , Sunderland , butchers—John Yates , jun ., Colwiob , Staffordshirecorn factor .
INSOLVENT . Thomas Wright , Longton , Staffordshire , grocer
INSOLVBNT PETITIONERS . J Applebee , Srnethwlck , Staffordshire , draughtsman-W Atkins , Sheffield , cordwainer-R Barlow , Newcastle . under-Ljne _, hat manufacturer-T Dumolo , Qr _eat-brloirt . l _^ % _^ l re P " dealer-A F Fletcher , Bilstoa Staffordshire , Imtty collier-F _Frasier , G _.-eat Bolton , Lancashire , assistant to licensed victuallers-R Halls Cambridge , tobaccoaUt-G Hallifax . Sheffield , . W mt iVZi * _«** _£ !• , _Bu"bett * _s green , Berkshire / farmer -J Kettle , Cambridge , butcher-J Lee , Walsall , Stafford _, shire , cabinet . maker-W Moody , Ulceby , _Lincolnshire , fM 8 _tBt
_wSf » , » _-W Mouatford _, Tipton , Staffordshire butty colller-G Newall , Appleton , Cheshire , blacksmith _Parkes , Oldbury , Worcestershire , journeyman C 0 _o pe nr , _n- Penklh _' . Wolverhampton , assistant to aKroeer -B Phillips , Wolverhampton , licensed victualler-S ! _£ m _£ . hii _!? ' ?? i . ire ' » _" >» Won dealer-I Reaney , Sheffield , table blade forger-J _Rorvberry , _Pontypool , Monmouthshire , coach proprietor-J Rowley , Manchester , colour inaker-T Sbipman , Liverpool , provision _w _^/ _Tv _, ? 8 _ta _« Iey , Liverpool , blackimitiiij G P Wood , Wolverhampton , tallor-R Woods , Liverpool , iron _, monger . r
SCOTCH SEQUESTRAT IONS . _Wiiium _w «! l _v ' " _"uirpark , _Sciriiognhire , farmer ~ r ! _S- ? " T B ' . " _' » Mulrpark _, Stirlingshire ! farmer —Joan Brown , Leith , oonfectioner—Andrew _Douglo _* _Perrjden , _generalmercbant-VrilliRttEcclesand WUliam Eccles , jun . ) , _Qlasgow , meichanU-John _Mvradeli , _BuiBbargh , Stockbroker-Adam Pope , Tarns , veterinarv surgeon-piamShanks , _Alrdrie , * spirit d « k-S Troup and Alexander Troup , Strathmlgllo , Fife-aire , manufActuren-David Wright , Burn of Cambus , Perth ! shire , manufacturer .
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rriAKWUS _iruoNNOK , Esq ., H . F ., and yublbrhe < r by Wiu . uk Hiwirr , of No . 18 , Oharles-street , Bran . don-street , Wahrortb , in the parish of St . Mary , Nor * ingtoB , in the County of Sumy , at the OSce , No . 16 Great _WindmlH-street , Hayraatket" In tht _CitvofWeit minster . —Saturday Soptetaber lfjth _, l 8 {* i
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 16, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16091848/page/8/
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