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tl Wported for life . _•»<^^ JjffllfaU a _andai-ioMMMideratWjsud _to _^ 1 _^^ ?« J 5 _fflJ 3 K But while he _has arrived t Smento toThis _possesaon , _ccmprinns very material _^^™^ i _^* _vtar _t » have transpired sinoe the
con-« _uT » reason todonbtthat tbe verdict onne jury ! was warranted by the facts proved at his trial ; and j _dthough he now believes Mr _Bsrbar to have been i free from any guilty pacticipatiori in the frauds of ' which he was made the instrument , he thinks that I greater pi udenee and can tion on his part would have t exempted bim from the suspicion to which his coni duct in tbe transactions in question naturally exi posed him . I am » Sir , your obedient servant , G . Corsrwau . Lswib . —A . Stevenson , Esq ., 19 , Essex Street , Strand . . . .
D £ Ara op i Film , -- Prison **** . —On Saturday last an irquest was held in _Horsemonger Lane gaol on the _bwy of Mary Ann flayne , aged thirty-nine . The deceased was in cuitody awaiting her trial for _having attempted to murder her husband , Robert _Hayne , compositor , by stabbing him with a table knife . She burst a bloodvessel in a fit ofcsughing which _cansed her death . Verdict accordingly . Faiai _Rahwat Accident . —On Saturday night last an inquest wa 3 held on the body « f James Capper , aged thirty-eight , who , incautiously croising the rails atthe Minories station , was knocked dawn by a train and eo much injured that , after lingering lome dav _? , he died at the London Hospital . Verdict "Accidental death . '
Fatal Acchust * oi thb South Wssteru Railwat . —On Friday _morumg , as the 0 . 40 a . m . goods train from Nine Elms was nearing the Barnes station on the Richmond line , the engine-driver perceived what he atfirat conceived to be a stuffed figure to re * present a msn leaning against the wooden fencing ofthe line , and abont 130 yards from the station , aad pointed it out to Waters , ths gawd , who ordered the immediate steppage of the train . Upon going to the spot they were horror-struck at finding a human being lying in a pool of blood , and not only deed but partly frozen . Theblocdwas easily traced in a direct Una to the up rail . The deceased was ascertained to be Jehn Sharp , a hawker of _crsckerywareand living in the
Hammer-, smith Bridge Road . The body was removed to tbe nearest public-house to await an inquest . Oa Friday another accident attended with fatal consequences , toofc p lace oa the South Western Railway , near the Richmond station . It appears that a ballast engine had been improperly moved from a riding tothe main line jast as the 5 36 express train from Londcn was approaching . The consequence was that _acollision took place , and an unfortunate man . belonging tothe ballast train , and who was riding on the engine , waa so jammed among the works that it was impossible to extricate him alive . Fortunately , however , the whole ofthe passengers escaped withont a broken limb , although _»*« ™ Twoof
mfered , neoasarilj . _yenBeyere _conluaonB . the directoii , Mr Read and Mr Laoy , M . F ., were passengers by the express train . So far as can at present ha ascertained , the moving of the ballast engine from the siding appears to have been an act of the most extraordinary recklessness and _incantioa on the part of iti driver , aa the express train was at the time two or tbree _oiuubes overdue , and its arrival mnst have been momentarily expected . Both the driver and the fireman ofthe ballast engine are in custody awaiting an inquiry , and tbe company are resolved to investigate this unfortunate occurrenoj in the fullest manner , in order to enable them to adopt the most effectual means for the prevention of such accidents for the future .
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*—THE NORTHERN STAR . November 18 , 1848 .
The Oholera. On Saturday Last The Board ...
THE OHOLERA . On Saturday last the Board of Health received information of the following new oases : —Stepney , 1 , fatal ; Lambeth , 3 . 1 fatal ; _Santhwsrk , I , * Camberwell , 2 , fatal ; Greenwich , 2 ; Hackney-read , 1 ; BanitOD workhouse , 1 j Edinburgh , 25 , 14 fatal ; North and Sooth Leith , 15 , i fatal . Total new cases , 54 : 22 fatal . On Monday the following oases were reported te the Board of Health * . — 'St Marylebone , 1 * , Stepney , 1 ; Lambeth , 2 , i deaths ; Southwark , 6 , 4 deaths ; Camberweii , 8 , 2 deaths ; Greenwich , 3 , 1 death ; Stamford Hill , 1 fatal ; Southwark , 1 fatal ; Edinburgh , 14 , 4 fatal ; Leith 7 , 1 fatal—Total , 39 new _8 _aes , 18 deaths . _ _
On Tuesday the Board of Health received reports of the following new cases : —Stepney , 1 ; Lambeth , 1 ; Southwark , 3 , 1 fatal ; Battersea / 1 ; Edinburgh , 13 . 2 fatal ; Leith , 6 , 3 fatal . Total new cases , 25 , 6 deaths . The Registrar General ' s report , issued on Tuesday , states the total deaths from all causeB during last week to have been 1 , 165 , the average herns 1 , 154 . On Wednesday the following new cases were _reported to tha Board of Health ;—Stepney , 1 fatal ; Larabath , l ; Cambetvrell , 2 fatal ; Edinburgh , 19 , 5 fatal ; Leitb , 7 , 1 fatal ; Haddington , 1 fatal ; Brechin . 1 fatal ; total new cases , 82 11 fatal .
On _Thnrsday , the Board of Health received reports Of the following new cases ; Stepney 3 , 2 fatal ; _Lambeth , 2 , 1 fatal ; Soathwark , 1 fatal ; _Bsrmond-¦ ey 2 fatal , —Edinburgh 14 , 6 fatal ; Leith , 10 . 3 fatal , * Glasgow , 2 . 1 fatal ; _Cramond 3 fatal : total new cases , 37 , 19 fatal . On Friday , the new cases _xepBTted to the Board of Health were : — -Lambeth 1 ; Islington , 2 , fatal ; Camberweii , 1 . fatal—Edinburgh . 9 , fatal 4 ; Leith , 2 , fatal ; _Gla-gaw , 1 , fatal ; Dumfries , I , fatal : total sew cases , 17 ; fatal , 11 . - MniBiNK Pbeoj * . —On Saturday last , Mr Bedford held sn inquest in the Milibank Prison aa to the death of one of the convict ? . The particulars , though » ainfal , were * interesting . The deceased
was taken , to the prison early in . this year , and there was a special report sent with him to the Mowing effeot : — 'That he stated tothe governor of the prison where he waa sent from , that his brother ( also in the "Milibank Prison ) and a man of the same of Wicks ( also there ) had ' split' against him in many burglaries they had been engaged in , aad he wonld _'Ecrve tbem ont' if he had the chance . The governor of the county gaol advised he should be kept from hiB brother and Wicks . ' This was done . Tne prisoner was taken ill , and confined in the infirmary , where hehad every attention from the medioal officers , bnt ultimately died of dysentery . The brother was examined , andsaid everything , he believed , hadbeen done for thedeceased . The Coroner : Have you any request to make ? Ton can spe » k without fear . The brother . —I should like to make ena
request . —What is it : If I have the power it Bhall be complied with I—To follow my brother to the grave . —I cannot make an order for that ; I hare ao power . No donbt the officers of the prison will attend to your wish . —Dr Bayley , the physician , and the Rev . Mr Penny , the chaplain , said the request of the prisoner should eertainly be _eomolisd with . —The Coroner asked whether the cholera hid left . —Dr Bayly replied , that in an the esses of eholera the patients were _convaleseEt . —Have yoa been able to discover whether the cholera took place in any particular part ef the prison !—No ; we have five pentagons in the prison ( these are the angular buildings from the centre ) aad fifteen eases of eholera , and it is a moBt ¦ an gular fact that three have eome from each pentagon . —Perhaps the wind had something to do with it ? —I cannot answer that question . —The jury returned a verdict of ' Natural Death . '
Oasx a Bkbwicb . _Strbm , Oxtoim _Sragir . —On Saturday lass , the verdict of a jury , which sat upon the body of Emma ( iinn , aged twenty . _seveo , wife of an army tailor , a woman of intemperate habits , died frcm Asiatio oholera , brought on by excessive drink-fig . _Broiubt—On Saturday last , Mr Garman , _sur-Sm _. ef Bromley , reported to Mr Baker , a death m Asiatio cholera . He was called oa Friday , about eleven a . m ., to attend a man of the same of Samuel Dean , a pipemaker , who Uved in the neighbourhood of Mill-street . The usual medicines were prescribed , hat without effect , and the man died the same night aboat ten o ' clock . _SiocKwrra , L » coi ** sh * _bb . —There have been at Steckwith , two _decidedcasea ef Asiatio eholera , both of which hare terminated fatally .
_BucsrauBa Reji * . —Oa Monday night Mr W . Payne , the Coroner , resumed and concluded an inquiry atthe Crown Tavern , _BiackfriaVs Read , into the death of Edward Nash , aged fifty-eight , a _herse jobber . The deceased was a person of very depraved and intemperate habits , aid , though a married man , he had been for the last five years living with a person named Sarah Walker the _kaeper of the honse in which he died . Deceased had been in his usual health , when the premonitory symptoms of cholera pet in . He died on Friday , and , as he bad positively stated thathe believed that he bad been accessed , a post mortem examination had been made . Dr folding Bird , the eminent physician of Guy's Hospital , deposed that be found no appearances to lead to the eondosioa that any deleterious drug bad been _administered . He was certain that death had resulted from pestilential er Indian cholera . Verdict' Death fromokolera . * Glasgow . —Another ease of cholera was reported en Monday afternoon .
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Thiers , C * rAS £ 'AB * a * - B , and Bcseavd hare beeu named by several journals as candidates for the Presidency , but all three havo declined the contest . Neither had a chance of election . Thiebs is too much hated by the worlds ** classes ; _CBaxe-nsiBB _, though a Royalist , ia too little known even to the fow-gtoi-ic ; and BcarATJD is too well known . The exterminator of the Arabs , —the hero ofthe butchery in the Rue Transnonain , has retired from tbe struggle in favour of JEtttr' Special Constable 'Buoxapabik ; an additional reason for all true Democrats holding the candidature of the said'special constable ' in horror , and for doing their utmost to prevent bla _electioa .
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WANDSWORTH . —APa cpm S _« Hoot . —Mr R . Drouet , aged 29 , the brother of and assistant manager to Mr Bartholomew Drnet , the proprietor of an extensive eaUblisbmeat at Lower Tooting , for the reoeptlon ef pauper children , belonging to the metropolitan anion * , waa plaoed ia the dock before Mr B « a 3 on , and charged with capitally assaulting _Mtrgaret _DswU y , lata aa inmate of that establishment . The prosecution had bem Instituted Vy the board of gusrdtanj of the above-men . _tioned onion , iu consequence of the statements undo to thorn by the girl Dswley , who was one of thefc pauper children , and bad bsen ' farmed out' at Mr _Dronef * _establlshmaat Margaret Dawley . Is now an Inmate of tha Kensington workhouse . Oa the 14 th of May , 184 T , was sent to Mr _Drouet ' s establishment at Tooting , and
Wtoathe 22 oi of May , 1818 . Snows Mr Richard Drouet , tbe prisoner . He was under-master toMrDroaet whilst she was in that establishment . Was during the last three months of her remaining thero parlour maid , that is , had to wait npon Mr Drouet and his family . On a Saturday night about three weeks before she left Tooting , went to caU Ur R . Drouet to supper ; he was In the lodge , and lie told her to go and call MUs Day , the _under-matron , who was in the other hoate . She did so , and was coming out ofthe garden , when the prisoner , who was behind the gate , _rushsd out upon her , caught hold of her , and drew her into a little room called the dissecting room . She tried to scream , but he pat one hand orer her mouth and succeeded in perpetrating ihe offence . Sbe _struggled as much as she oould , hut to no
effect . She afterwards weat as fast as she could , to her work , but finding sbe was too ill to do it she got another girl to take her plaoe , and weat to bed . She told this girl she felt very HI , but nothing mere . She did not know whether Miss Day passed while ehe was in ths dissecting room , Theoookand several girls slept In the same room as herself , but rhe did not say any thing to thera . On Sunday she told the nnrse sbe was very ill and she gave her some medicine , bnt she did not say what had made her 111 . She lay in bed the whole of that day , Ou Monday the was too ill to work . Mrs _Ktaually the washsrwoman , gave her some tee , and told ber to go into the hot roam ; she there saw Louisa Watts , another girl , who asked what was the matter with her , and she told her . Soon afterwards she went into the
school-room , and after sitting there a short time Miss Shambler , the _sshcol mistress , told her tbat Louisa Watta had informed her abont Richard Drouet taking iadecentllhertieswUh her , and asked her if it was so . Corns lainaat answered thathe had ; and ehe and the governess '* assistant , _tlarah Goat , said he was a very _irapodeBt man , and she ought not to have got in hiB ray . Sbe dfd not tell Uiaa Shambler or Hits SfoaS that the prisoner had criminally assaulted her . Camplaitaut never made any other complaint until she csme to _Kentingtcu . Neither Miss Shambler nor Mies Goat asked her any further questions about it . Two or three daysafter ahe went to _Kensington she mentioned the subjeot to a MrsJaivi * , whea she asked her how tho children were getting on at Tooting . She thea told her that the
prisoner had taken in _jeceat liberties with several of the girls , as also with her , _Catherine Burley , and _Secker-on , to whom hs had given a pair of geld earrings , Jarvis did not take aay furtb-r notice at tbe time . Tho nut occasion on which she alluded to the assault was when Catherine Cormackwas telling the other girls how the pri-oner used to roll them on the grass , when her sister Anne , wbo had two children at Tooting , came to her , sad she then told her that she had beea assaulted by Mm , and she told the master of the workhouse . She did not tell any one till last Monday that she had been criminally assaulted , when sbe told Mrs Gerandum , who said she had two elderly girls there , and she would take tbem away . She saw the prisoner several times after _tr-e occurrence had takes place , end he
used to speak to her , but never relative to it . — Louisa Watts stated that abewas eighteen years of nge , and belonged to the Strand Union . Some years since she weat to _Tooting and had left on last Christmas ere . She knew the last witness , and thinks she did make a complaint to bar in the hot room , about Mr Rlcharde taking indecent liberties with her . She did not ptrceivo anything the matter with her . She did not speak ts Miss Shambler or Miss Cbat . She did cot tell _wltnesr that he had done anything else Witness did not hear that be had dose the same to other girls , Sha knew a girl named Barley . Had sever heard anything said ot liberties taken with her . —The complainant was here reoalled , and in answer to a question from the bench , said tke prisoner bad Uken liberties with her for months
before he assaulted her , and sha told her of tbat aa well as the assault . She also told the governess , Shambler , ou both occasions . She did not know whither It was before or after Christmas tha first ocesston . Oa that occasion she merely nodded her head ; on the second occasion she sent for her . —MrBeadon said hia opinion waB , that the complainant had oommltted gross perjury ; she had sworn she had told Watts of ths assault , and that witness had left months previously . He would , however proceed wi > h the investigation . —Catherine Burleystated that she was thlrteeB years of age , and belonged to Kensingtoa parish . She weat to Tooting on the 6 th of December . She knew Dawley . On the 8 th ef May , Dawley was taking some linseed and mustard into the master ' s ward , when she _saked her to lot her go and see her
brother and slBter . the prisoner said she shonld take it herself , and she did so . As she was galng up the stairs , Mr Richard put bis hand up her clothes . She nearly fell down , and he went away . When she came down , she told Dawley ofit . He had never spoken to her nor troubled her since . —The witness Barley said , In her cross-examination , the assault on her occurred a fortnight after she had been at Tooting , She told the governess when they were in class , whe made no answer , and sbe did not know whether she heard her . —Miss Sarah Jane Day was next called . Sbe was under-matron at Mr Drouet ' _s ; sbe left his establishment on the T ih of March last fer Margate , for the benefit of her health , and did not return till the 27 th of June . —Mr Drouet wished to observe that the room alluded to asa dissecting room
by the cemplalnsnt was notbing _' of tbe kind—It was used as a store , and always lockei . —Miss Sarah Shambler , ths governess , positively swore that the complainant sever spoke to her about Mr Richard Drouet , nor had the witness Barley ever made any complaint to her . She had had a great deal of trouble with Dawley . Witaess had been seven sears the governess . —Susan Jarvis said sha wasin tha Kensington Union ; that hearing Co-mack _epcebef the liberties that were taken wftb the girls at Tooting , sha asked Dawley if it wero true , and _shethen said it was not only true , but tbat Richard Drone * had assaulted her against her consent . The witness detailed the facts much as the complainant had herself stated _. Witness added sho had made the same statement to the Guardians ; she did not know Dawley to be a bad
behaved girl . —Mr Beadon repeated hia oonviction that the _oamplainaat aad the girl Burley had perjured themselves . What motive these girls ceold have had to get up such a charge itwas impossible for him te say . He could beliere neither the complainant nor Burley , and the esse must be dismissed , —Mr Roberts said a report _afamanaotiogashisclient wag alleged to havadone waa ruin to him , unless it was satisfactorily shown to the public that not tha slightest imputation rested on his character . —Mr Beadon : I can only state that from that which is before me , I disbelieve the girl ' s statement entirely . —Mr Dreuet said he was most happy to conrt the fullest public inquiry into the management ef bil _eillblUTament ; and on hit first hearing of the _charge he had _giventhe authorities every assistance in Us power ,
SOUTHWARK . —Stabuks . —E . Mulcahy _wasbrought _bsfore Mr Cottingham upon the oharge of having stabbed S . T . Wailington with a clasp knife . —The complainant , who appeared to he in a very weak and exhausted condition from loss of blood , stated that on the preceding n ! g _" it _, about a quarter before twelve o ' olock , he , in company with bis wife and a msn named Dooley and his wife , were returning home together , when , in walklog along Bankside , tbey encountered the prisoner . The latter was standing near the Phoenix gas works , and as they passed him he made use of some very coarse and _dlsg-uting language , upon which Dooley remonstrated with bim , and an altercation occurred between them , which ended in Dooley walking away , and complainant ' * party prooeeded onward nnd _> r the Impression that it was
all over , and tkat they would hear no more about the prisoner . They , however had not walked many yards when the prisoner came running after them , aad Dooley being in advance , the prisoner ran up to complainant , and standing before him so as to _impeda his progress , he _eiclalmed , addressing _compiafaant _j * Th « e , take tbat , ¦ Westminster , 'and immediately plunged the point of a clasp knife Into his side , and then ran away , leaving the weapon _eticklng in the wound . Complainant , finding he was _stsbbed , called oat , and Dooley pursued tha assailant . The knife was here produced , with blood upon the blade of it , and was one of those large clasp knives whioh ara in genersl use . among labouring men . The complainant added that hehad given the prisoner no provooatioi whatever , and that the an gry words which had previously occurred were between the prisoner and Dooley . —Dooley confirmed the complainant ' s aoconnt of the outrage , aad said that when he pursued the prisoner ,
the latter , upw bis coming up with him , resisted very much , and tried to make his escape . —Mr Odllng , _snrgaon stated that the wound was situated between the seventh and eight ribs . It was three quarters of aninch in depth , and bad not the point ofthe wespon come in contact with ihe rib , in all human probability it would have entered the large Intestines . —The prisoner , iu bis defence , said that he had jast left a pnblio house when he met the _parties , and that the complainant and Dooley began to abuse bim , and then strock bim , and he defended himself as well as he could , until at length he received n severe , blow on tbe bridge of bis nose from one of them , and in his excitement he did not know afterwards wbat he did . He admitted that tho knife produced belonged to him . There were marks of his having been struck on tbe nose . He added that he was a labourer , and had been tbree years in one employment , —Com * mitted .
A RurriiH . — James Sullivan , a _romanly-looklng fellow , was charged with wounding Mary Goldsmith ander the following circumstances : —The complainant , awing to tho nature ot the injuries Inflicted upon hor by her brutal assailant , had the lower portion of her face strapped up with adhesive platter , and being Incapacitated from giving her cral testimony in consequence ot an extensive gash running along her opper Up , aud most of her teeth knotked out , she therefore gavd in a written account of the circumstances attending tho outrage Mr Cottingham read the statement , by which It appeared that the complainant had been lining with the prisoner In the Mint for the last two years , apd by
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ber labomr assisted in his sappart . That ok the previous night he came home , and she waa _preparing some fried bacon for bis sapper , when , _wlthant bar _havlsg given him a ay provocation , he seized tfae frying-pan off the fire , and , aiming a blow at ber head , struck her on ths lower part of the face with the edge of it , the belling fat running down her bead aad neek . Mot contented with this act of brutality , when sha remanstrated with him , ' be _raihud upon her , aad with his clenched fists struck her * right and left In the face , until , as sbe expressed it , ' she was one gore of blood , and fell senseless at his fest . The clothing she wore during the attack was produced , and waB completely saturated with blood , —A young maa named Coombes , who was _pressnt _, confirmed the complatnant ' a written statement of the facts , and when asked br Mr Cottingham why he kid not Interposes when he
witnessed the prisoner almost murdtring the woman , his reply was that Sullivan was such a desperate character tbat all ia the house wire afraid of him , and tbat he , witness , dar « d not interfere , under the apprehension that be would attaok him , snd that the prisoner wonld , in a moment , use aay weapon that was at hand when he was in a passion . —Mr Cottingham said , that the witness had disgraced himself for _bsiag an Idle spectator of such an outrage , and tbat he waB not worthy of the name of man for such condaoe . The magistrate then , addressing the prisoner , asked him what he has to say iu answer to the charge . —Prisoaer : I was in a passion at the time , and am now sorry for it . —Mr Cottingham said that was a pretty excuse for half _murdeiieg the woman , snd that instead ol _dealleg summarily with sack an offender he should send him beforo a jury . —Committed .
GUILDHALL . —Ak _Unoonioiocs Thief . —An elderly gentleman , who gave his name ib John Cross , residing at No . 31 , Dnke Street , Drnry Lane , and wbo represented himself as a teacher , at schools , of the French and German languages , was charged with stealing some knives and forks from tbe premises of Mr Field , 129 , Holbora , coffee-heuae keeper . —It appeared from tbe evidenoe which was very slight , that he went into the home and ordered a cup of coffee , when he was observed to have placed something lu his bag , and it was _alse no . tlc-d that he had his hand on two table cloths . His bag was at onoe searehed , and , _bttldet seme books , the knives and forks were discovered , although of trifling value . There were alia some newspapers found Ib bis possessioB , but no owners for tbem —Alderman Glbbs : Well , prisoner , what have yeu to say ' —Prisoner : I did not do it ; if I did my band musvhave done what my _mlad was unconscious of . ( Laughter . )—Aid . Glbbs : But other people were conscious of what you did . —Prisoner :
But I am not coasqious that I was there at all , —Aid . Gibbs : Ab , but tbey are . —Pr isoner : Tbo fact is I had a little porter with _aome friends , aad they most have put some opium into it , which had the _effeot of causing tome coufmloa io my cerebral apparatus . ( Great laughter . ) —Alderman Glbbs : WUl youttll me wbat you are!—Prisoner : I am a _sckoolmastor , and teach , not only ths German and Preach languages , but Greek also . —The prisoner here spoke in very good Preach , to justify his assertion . —Alderman Gibbs asked it the prlaon . tr was sober when ia custody!—Tbe prosecutors aud the officer said that he was not , —Prisener : I hope jou will not send me forth again in the world at a despicable beggar , for I shall not bs able to get a situation if I ata sent to prison . —Alderman G 4 bbs _: lam willing to take the _caio upon your own showing that you did not _koow what you wera doing , and shall , therefore , fine you 5 ' ., or seven days' imprisonment , —The fine not being paid , he was conveyed to gaol _.
LAMBETH . —UttiuvLT _OoiaAoE . —Robert Jones , a well-dressed man , residing at No . 29 , Canterbury Street , Lambeth , was charged with the following outrage : —It appeared that on the previous evening , Mrs Sarah Batey , a respectable married woman , who was on her return borne , having taken leave of some friends residing on the Middlesex side of the river , she having to leave town the next day for If ewoastle to join her busband , on reaching the pay plaoe on the Middlesex side ofthe _Huogerford Bridge , and while paying the toll she _drepjwd seme halfpence , which a female friend who atcompanled ber stooped to pick it np . Whila so engaged the defendant csme up and oanght bold of the latter female by her shawl , and pushed her to the ground with great violence . Mrs Batey followed the defendant ob
the bridge aad asked him how he could be _guil'y of such aa unmanly and violent assault upon her friend , when he exclaimed , ' Woman , don ' t insult me , ' and at the same instant ( track h 6 r a violent blow with a stick on tbe left cheek , and Inflicted a deep wound , He then tarew the stick over the bridge and tried to get away , but she seised hold of him , and managed to keep her hold till a _pottccmaa heard her cries , and took him into _coswdy . Mrs Batey s evidence was _conntmed by her friend , and Mr Norton said , a more cruel and unmanly outrage than the _defsndaat had bten guilty oi had never been brought before bim , He shoald fine the _defeodaat in the full penalty of £ S for eaoh assault , and in default two mmtbs * imprisonment on each charge . The meney wta Immediately paid _.
BOW STREET . —A _Snaar HouimeoH . —John _M'Nell , a _llthographte printer , was charged with haviBg intermarried with Elizabeth Mary _Boncett on Monday morning latt , his wife Emma beieg then and still alive . —The prosecutrix , who might be termed a fiae young woman , stated that she resided at 81 , Greek Streat , Soho , and was married oa Monday-morning by banns to the prisoner , at St George ' s parish church , _Bloomsbury _, at which time ihe was _teUUjr ignorant oi his having another wife , and from information she received shortly aftxr the ceremony was performed , she gave him into custody . —Evidence of the first marriage haviog been gives , the prisoner was oalled on for his defence , and said that his wifo was not only given to drunken habits , but that she was unfaithful , and when he accused ber of it , ahe admitted her guilt , and gave bim permission to get married , —Remanded .
WESTMINSTER . —A _FooiKi . _** itt _Taocacs , _—Wil-Ham Smith , John Thomas Sedgemore , and Edwin Smith , three boys of the respective ages of eight , nine , and fourteen years , were oharged with stealing a number of geraniums and other plants , and Thomas Prater , a footman in the service of Mr Ashford , ol 81 , Cadogan Place , was charged - with having unlawfully received a portiitB of the stolen property , —At abont six o ' clock on Monday eveniBg , Heary Pells , 279 A , saw William Smith and _Seigemare enter _thegrounds of Mr Took , florist , Cadogan Place , and leave there in aboat five minutes afterwards , wben be took tbem into custody , Sedgemore having brought a root of thyme with him ont of the ground . In _aonseqatnee oi information he received , the _comtabls then went to tke house of
Mr Ashford , and asked rrater if he bad any geraniums , to which he at first replied 'No , ' bat afterwards ad . mltted tbat be had some which he had _porobased of a boy . The constable then found two oranga trees , thirteen geraniums , and three pots ef stocks in the house and garden and Prater , stated that he bad purchased them of Edwin Smith , The latter was thsn apprehendod , and six more plants in pott were fonnd at the house of his parents , where he resided . —A boy , named Hnntley _. livlng in _Doyley Street , Chelsea , stated that on Taesday evening he saw Prater give the boy William Smith a penny . Smith then oame up to wi ' _-ness , and inquired whether be wanted any flowers , to which witness replied ' Yes , and asked wbere he got them from . Smith said out of Tuck ' s grounds , but teld witness , not
lo say anything te the footman . Witness afterwards said to the footman , _< What a boy that _ycuog Smith is ; ha goes Into the grounds and get * the _fUwers . ' When the footman replied , * I shouldn't think a Hills boy like him would be suoh a thief . '—In _dsfenoe , W . Smith said he did not know any thing about it , but the prisoner _Pratar gave him a penny , Edwia Smith , who , - -hen first taken into custody , denied that he had sold any plants to the footman Prater , but who subsequently , at the station , admitted that he had said that he was with tke footman when the latter told him to get some flowers The footman afterwards asked him wbere he got them from , and he replied from luck ' s , and then tbe footman weat with him , and remained outside while he ( the prisoner ) went into the ground and got ten gsra .
niums and an orange tree , —The boy ' s etB , temtB _, t ap . _peared ta create some sensation through the _, auditory . —Prater , who commenced his defence by observing , ' I think this boy is speaking false , ' declared tbat he had no idea where the boy got the plants from ' . In consequence of ths death of a fellow . serve . nt , who had been left in charge of the house with him , he _was _^ there for some time alone , and employed the boys to ran of errands for him , and gave them peaos now aad then , but not for lowers , and they gave him a few plants , bnt little did be ( Prater ) think where he got thera from , —Mr Broderip said he had not the slightest donbt that the boys had been induced to commit the o & nce by tha _prisoner Prater , Thera was , however , nothing in tbe Act of Parliament under which the prisoners wero charged
whlob touohed a person for reoelving . He was , there _, fore , reluctantly compelled to discharge Prater , and oould only say that his conduct had bean so reprehensible , that If he were in his ( the Magistrate ' s ) service , he should not continue so for another hour . He could aot think of putting the law in force against the children , but should hand them over to their parents for suitable correction . He should commit the prisoner Smith for fourteen days , and as he had before stated , was reluctantly obliged to dliehargo Prater .-Mr Ashford . as he was about to retire , said tbat it was bat juBt ' oe to Prater to state , that he had boen in his service for some time , had been left alone in the house , in charge of the plate and other valuable property , and had been found extremels hosest .
THAMES—DAiwo High wat Robbsb . t Margaret Lynch _oltol Meg Daly , Ann _Brhn , and Caroline Archer , three _detpcrate l _. oking young women , who have been the terror of Ratcliffe HI-hway , were brought up charged with the following outrageous robbery , the _circumsances connected with which were somewhat singular :-AbontfoD , o _' 0 iock in the afternoon of Friday fortnight Porde beard that a man bad been knocked down and robbed in Palmer 8 tmt shadwr . il . He _haetemd tothe place , and saw a man named Harrington _Robaon lying on the ground , with his _trowstrs torn , and a number ot people aboat him , who Bald he hadbeen robbtd , nnd pointed out the prisoners and another woman , who were making off at the timo , as the persons who did it . Ho pursued thorn to a house in _Palmei ' _s Folly , where ho locked the back and front door lie then searched for them , and found LjnoU apparently busily engaged over a _washtuB , whilst tha other two were endeavouring to escape from the windows . He seourod them , and was conveying them to tho station
houso , but on the way he was bo surrounded and hustled by amok ef thleveB and prostitutes that the woman Lynch made her _e-caae , and quitting her usual _httUIltB Went tO SOme place Of cones & lmcnt . Brien and Archer _wore _. brought before Mr BslUtntlne at this , court ,
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when some evidence was gone into , and they were remanded until Friday week to allow tba _poliea an op . _portuuityofre-oaptoringLynob . Oa Friday , however , tbe prosecutor did not appear , Lynch had not been cap . tured , and tbe _prlsoBors Brien and Archer wera dis . charged . On _hesrlng they wereat liberty , Lynch oame out of her hiding _piaos , and showed herself triumphantly in her usual beats . Her triumph , however , wss but of short duration , for she and her two _BBs * olates were again taken into custody that same evtning , tha _coastaHss having inthe luterisa made arrangements to secure tbe attendance of tbe prosecutor and the witnesses _. When they were brought up on Saturday the prosecu tor stating that he was making the best of bit way home abont foor o ' clock on Friday
fortnight , wben he was solztd by four _wamsn , who hustled him about . A short time previously he had changed a sovereign at the bar of a publio house whore there were a number of women , and thongh he had drank something he knew he had 15 s , cr 16 i in bis pocket , for he had his hand on tbe money wben they hustled him . Oae of the women thrust her band into his pooket _, and in the struggle which ensued be fell . Ills _troMBera were torn , and the woman sueteeckdin wresting the menoy from him , — _Ttroboye , named Dodd and Clarke , confirmed tbe prosecutor ' s statement , nrn _desorlbed the robbery as a most bare . faced and impudent one . One of the prisoners held down the prosecutor ' s legs , while another stopped hi- mouth to stifle his cries ; and Lynch pnt ber _faaad in bis packet and tore away the money , — Lynch : I hope your worship is not agoin' to beliere what these little boys says . —Mr Ballantine : Tbey swear to what th-y say , —
Lynch : To be sure they do ; but alnt my word better tban their eath any day } ( Lsugbter . )—Police Constable Potter said that when ho took Mog Daly . — Ljach : That alnt my name . M / name is Margaret Lynch , bought and paid for . Wbo took you to tbe obareh when I was _ohrlstened !— Brien : Ha , ha ! — Archer : Well , Master Charley Potter , good morning to yon ; You said you'd send as mtny of us as you could out of the country ; but may be your turn _wrald oome first , Charley , and God knows it weald be a bappy riddance . We won't ask for a look of your hair , Charley , ( Laughter . )—Potter went on to say that whea he arrested Mog Daly , alias Lynob _, she made quite light of the matter , saying tho _oaso had been dismissed , and thera would be no more ofit . —Mr Billantlne _, however , viewed the matter in a different light , for he ordered the depositions to be taken , and tbe prisoners , who still continued to depart _thomselveB with the most barefaced effrontery , were committed to Newgate for trial .
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CUTIOH OF MB JAMES CUMMING . Edinburgh , Wsdmbsday . —The High Conrt of Justiciary met to-day at ten o ' clock , in order to proceed with tbe trial of James Cumming , shoemaker . As soon as the judges had taken , their seats en tbe bench ) The Lord- _Advocath rose , and said , that after due consideration , he had come to tho resolution to abandon the oaso against tbe prisoner , who wag accordingly dismissed from the bar . It is understood that tbe _Lobd-Adtccatb was reduced to the neeessity of taking this course from the imperfect way in wbioh . the case bad been got up by somo of the officials . One of tbe principal _charges in the indiotment was , that Camming had
taken the chair ata meeting held in theTrades Hall , Edinburgh , for the enrolling of a National Guard . It has now transpired that the Cumming who was in the ohair at tbis meeting , was not the prisoner , but a near relative of his ; and the mistake of confounding one with th * other , arose from the circumstance that the officials had , by some singular oversight , omitted tbe important step of allowing the polioemen to dentify the prisoner . Seeing that , without this material point , it wrmld be difficult , to establish a case that would be sufficient to obtain a verdict against the prisoner on snch an indictment ,
the Lord Advocate , with a _wise'discretion , resolved to desert tbe diet altogether . This _bangling mu _* t have been rather disagreeable to his lordBhip , when it is considered tbat a severe legal discussion of two days' duration had previously been undergone by him self and the otber Crown counsel , in order to _eatabliah the relevancy of the indictment . The other charge against Cumming was that he bad written a letter to a person in Glasgow , whiob , by some mistake , had fallen into the hands of another party , giving an account of tbe clubs in Edinburgh , the number of arms that they had got , and the warlike spirit whioh animated them .
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CHARTIST FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . Sunday , Nov . 19 m . —A meeting will be held at the Branch Office , back of the Three Horse Shoes , Merthyr Tydvil , at -six o ' olock . —At R . Bromley's , New Street , Batley , near Dewsbury , at two o ' clock . —A special meeting of members , at the Temperance Hotel , Blanket Row , Hull , in the evening . —A general meeting of members ot the Globe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commercial-road , at eight o'olock . — A meeting to elect a council , at the Ship Inn , Steelhouse Lane , Birmingham , at seven o ' olock . —Mr J . Weat will lecture at tha People ' s Institute , _Heyrodstreet , Manchester , at six o'clock . —Mrs Theobald will leoture in the Odd Fellows' Hall , Todmorden , at two o ' clock , and half-past six o ' clock . —Mr Watson will lecture at Newcastle _on-Tyne , at _kalf-past six o'clock . Mosday , Nor . 20 ih . —A disoussion on tbe Chartist Organisation , at No . 6 , John-street , _Caldawgate _, Carlisle , at ei _^ ht o'clock . —At the Brunswick Hall , Ropemaker ' s Fields , Limehouse , at eight o ' clock _.
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FORTHCOMING LAND MEETINGS . _Saiursat . Nor . 18 { h . —A meeting will be held in the People ' s Institution , Mill Street , Congleton _, at seven o ' clock . —At the Red Lion , Regent Street , _Eoeles , at eight o'clock . —At the Friendly Inn , Church Street , Halifax , at eight o'clock . —In the _Tempsrence-room , Chapla Street , Accvington , at seven o ' clock . S » ndat , Nov . 1 $ . —A meeting will be held at Nov , 6 , Jobn Street , Caldew Gate , Carlisle , at two o ' clock , —At the Coach Painters' Arms , _Cirous Street , New . Road , Marylebone , at six o ' clock . —A yearly _eeneral meetinr at _Nnrton ' s Commercial Coffee House ,
Blackburn , at two o'clock—At Stockport , at two o'clock . —In _Butterwerth . Buildings , Bradford , at one o'clock . —A meeting of the No . 3 Braneh , at John Coute ' s _, Butcher Lane , Bury , at two o ' clock—A special meeting in the school room of the Working Man ' s Hall , Oldham , at two o ' clock . —In the meeting roum , Cross Street , Spring Street , Staleybridge , at two o'clook . —At the branch office back of tbe Three Horse Slues , Merthyr Tydvil , at six o ' clock . —At the Barley Mow , Old Bethnal Green Road , near Elizabeth Street , Shoreditch , at Beven e'olook . —At the Ship Inn , Steelhouse Lane , Birmingham , at seven o ' clock . —A meeting will ba held at Mottrara , 8 t t « o o'olooki
Monday . Nov . 20 th , * -A meeting will be fleid at Swindon . —At the Jolly Forgemen , Rolfe Street , Smethwick , at seven "' clock , —At the _Palioan , _Pelioan Street , New Radford , at seven o _' clotk—In the PrincB of "Wa ) e 3 _Lodge room , _Malt-BhoYel , North Churoh side , Hull , in the evening . —At the Royal Oak , Horn Lane , Sunderland . Tuesday . Nov . 21 st . —In the Chartist room , Stanley Street , _Maecleaiield , at eight _o'clbok _.- —A general quarterly meeting at Mr Farrell'a , 62 , Richmond Row , Liverpool in the evening . —At the Globe and Frienda , Morgan Street . Commercial Road London .
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A Land Balloting Society enrolled by Tidd Pratt . — -Emigration to America . — -A lecture was delivered on Monday at the White Conduit House , by Mr W . Coates , in explanation of the Potters . ' Emigration Society's plan for providing employment for our surplus labour . The lecturer , a working man from the potteries , commenced by reading the prospectus of the society : ' the operative potters of Staffordshire offers to their fellow-workmen of the United Kingdom twenty acre farms and an efficient means of protecting the value of their labour without resorting to ruinous and expensive strikes . Contributions to be payable sixpence per week for each share of £ 1 ls 6 d ., giving the right to a ballot for
priority of transmigration to a twenty-acre farm at the cost price of £ 5 10 s ., the sura of £ i 8 s 6 d , being advanced from tbe society ' s funds , together with the migrating expenses of each member and family to the firm , the cost of erecting the log house , breaking up and fencing five acres of the land , and sowing the same with wheat and Indian corn . Credit to be given for twelve months' provisions . The whole of the sum thus advanced to be repaid iu ten years . ' The lecturer said that from the ruinous consequences to the potters and all other trades from strikes and combinations withiu the last eighteen years , ail of which had ended in their being compelled to submit to their employers' terms , attention had been turned to the purchase of land abroad , aud it was found that in the United States of America
they could get possession of twenty acres for the cost of one acre in England . A code of laws had been formed , approved by Mr Tidd Pratt , the society enroled , and , notwithstanding great political and general opposition , they had at length succeeded in purchasing _, to commence with 1 , 600 acres in thestate of "Wisconsin : the estate was named _Pottersville , and upon it fifty families from this country were already located j these families , previously without a sixpence , and who had the workhouse staring thera in the face , were in good health and doing well ; their latest letters stated that they never wished to return to England . Of fifty of his friends who had emigrated two or three years since , not on-j had died , or had any sickness , but enjoyed hettex hea , Ul " . than iu tbis country ,
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i —¦——————* _-- — ------- _—¦¦¦¦* "" _uE-ORGAMSATION OF CHARTISM , THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . In accordance with the instructions of the Birmingham meeting , recently held at the Ship Inn , in that town , the first meeting of that portion of the Executive Committee residing in the metropolis was held at the rooms ofthe National Land-effiee , 144 , High Holborn , on Friday evening , November 10 th . _Present-MeBsrs Kydd , M'Grath , T . Clark , E . Stallwood , W . Dixon , and Julian Harnev .
Mr W . Dixon having been called to tha chair , the resolution , constititing the Executive , as passed at Birmingham , was read , and the following persons added to the Executive Committee—J . Leach , Manchester ; J . West , Macclesfield ; R . Burrell , Greenock ; H . Ross , London ; T . Bolwell , Bath ; R . Brook , Todmorden _; T . Tattersal , Burnley ; E . Rouse , Reading ; J . Self , Isle of Wight ; Ingham , Abergavenny ; A . J . _Fussell , Birmingham ; and Sturges , Winchester .
On the motion of Messrs M'Grath and Clark , tt was resolved <—That tfae seeretary be instructed te write te the West _RldiBj * of York delegate meeting , to n quest the coeperatien of tbe West Riain a - in the work ot _re-organl-atlon . On the motion of Messrs Harney and Stallwood , it was resolved : — Tbat at oor next meeting the plan of organisation be discussed , with a view to its revision .
victim committee . Mr Clark moved : — That the resolutions passed at Birmingham—namely , that all Victim and _torienoe Funds should be national , that the E « _ecutlvo Committee form the _NatioaalTictlm and Defence Committee , and that the claim- of ileests _Job-s and M'DoaaU , and other victims , be referred to the General _Yictim Fnnd—ba confirmed . Mr Stallwood seconded the motion . Julian Harney asked for a statement of the reasons on which the resolution relating to the families of Messrs Jones and M'Douall , had been founded and adopted . Mr K ydd gave a statement of the reasons advanced at the Birmingham meeting .
Julian Harney declared himself not satisfied with the explanation g iven by Mr Kydd , and there fore moved the following resolutions : — 1 . —That the resolution referring tht claims of the families of Messrs Jones and _M'Domll to the Genersl Victim Fond , be provisionally rescinded . 2 . —ThatM . _es _* r _» Jones and M'Douall accepted offioe in tbe Chartist _Execntive on the _foith of receiving a oer . tain sum _weeklj—that while in the performance of their duties Messrs Jones and M'DouilI hBve been subjected
to persecution and Imprisonment — tbat the Incarcera tion of M _.-B _9-B Jones and M'DoaaU , has deprived their families of ihe means af support which thty would enjoy were their natural protiotors atliberty—that therefore , while confirming the resolutions adopted at Birmingham appelating an unpaid _Exseutive ( with the exception of the secretory ) for the future , tbis com . mittee Is of opinion that the families of Keisrs Jones and M'Douall , are entiled to receive tbe _salarlupaid to those victims before their incarceration .
In support of the above resolutions , Julian Harney said : He regretted he felt it his duty to oppose anything that had been done at the Birmingham meeting , as with the general proceedings of that meeting he was well satisfied . He cordially approved of tbe appointment of an unpaid Executive ; it was a principle he had long advocated . It was well known that he was no favourer of _class-distiactions , and least of all such distinctions in the ranks ofthe Chartists .. But he measured every act—private and public , social and political — by the principle of justice , and he maintained that the resolution passed at Birmingham , was unjust to Messrs Jones and MDouall . Were all the families thrown on the
Victim Fund , the distribution of assistance should be based on equality , but he insisted that the families of Messrs Jones and M'Douall ought not to be thrown on the "Victim ¥ und . There was a broad distinction between the situation of men whose services as Chartist speakers and leaders were voluntaiily given , and that of men who , elected members of the Chartist Executive , were placed in a position of danger , and compelled by the duties of their office to brave that danger by constantly _takingthe lead in public agitation . From the moment Messrs M'Douall and Jones were placed in office , they necessarily became marked men—and more liable than tbey had previously been to be run down by the
agents of the government . When the people placed men in a situation of danger , they were bound by every principle of justice to afford special protection to such men—or , at least , to their families . Did any one suppose that paying the families of Messrs Jones and M'DoHall the salaries previously paid to those victims , was anything like a compensation to the families for the loss of their natural protectors ? He thought not , hut to withhold that assistance he thought an injustice . The men had gone to prison believing that their salaries would be continued to their families , and even af : er their
sentence , the members of the Executive at liberty had ( as he understood ) passed a resolution to the effect that the salaries should be continued to the families . If Messrs Jones and M'Douall had accepted office as members of an unpaid Executive , the case would have been different . He knew that Mr Jones had sacrificed a certain income , derived from his connexion with the Northern Star , at least fully equal to the salary of a member of the late Executive , that he might give his whole time to the service of the movement as a member of that Executive . It had been said that a sufficient reason for
throwing the claims of Messrs Jones and M'Douall upon the Victim Fund , existed in the fact , that money was not supplied to pay the salaries . In spite of this , he said that if it was the right of Mrs Jones and Mrs M'Douall to receive the salaries formerly paid to their husbands , that right ought to be maintained , and means ought to be taken to procure the money . He again urged that men placed by the people at the bead of the movement , should bave the shield of popular protection thrown over them . These views induced him to propose the provisional rescinding of the resolution passed at Birmingham , with a view to its re-consideration by the men who constituted that meeting .
Thomas Clark would most strenuously and decidedly support tbe resolutions agreed to at Birmingham . Hi , did not believe that Messrs Jones and M'Douall were arrested because they were members of the late Executive Committee—if such were the case , then the other three members of that body would also have been arrested . Nor did he beliere that it could be shown that either of the gentlemen had been arrested in the execution of any particular duty which had been assigned them by their colleagues ; if they had , let the duty be pointed out , and the manner of its performance stated . But admiting that they were now suffering because they were members of the late Executive Committee , or for
the performance of some specific duty , at the instigation of their late colleagues , then , in neither case could the maintenance of their families be imposed upon the funds of the present Executive , seeing that the _existing _' _jComraittee was an emanation Irom a body whose decisions were based upon a practical repudiation of the proceedings of tbe National Assembly , which had appointed Messrs Jones , M'Douall , and their late colleagues . The present Executive could not iu any shape take cognisance of the defunct Executive , and for his part he was most unwilling that it should ; but especially was he unwilling that the present
Executive , at the outset of its labours , should by any vote or [ decision commit itself to even a seeming approval of that course of policy with which the public mind associates the names of Messrs _Johps and M'Douall . He thought that the decision at Birmingham was highly proper , and as one he was prepared to do his share to make the Victim Fund as large as possible , so that the families of all belonging to the movement should ( have a fair share of support . It ought to be borne in mind that very shortly a large addition would most likely he made to the list of victims , owing to the extensive arrests which had been made in the north of some of the
oldest , truest , and best Chartists . He was strongly against the resolutions of Mr Harney . Messrs M'Grath , Stauavodd , Kydd , and Dixon also supported the proposition for confirming the Birmingham resolutions . Julian Harney expressed himself not converted from his own views by the arguments of the other members of the Committee , but his resolutions not tfnding a seconder , of course fell to the ground , and the resolutions adopted at Birmingham were con . firmed . On the motion of Messrs M'Grath and Cl ark it was resolved— That the secretary _purcba- an ( j file a copy of the Northern Star _weeVW-- as the orgau of _ths-Charlist body . '
f he secretary was also _instructed t 0 prepare an address to the Chartists and Den \ ocrats generally of Ihe British empire , calling for trje ' j r co-operation and support in the good work of _Political emancipation . ; Messrs M'Grath and t ;< ydd were deputed to wait on the London Victi _, Committee , and Messrs Donovan and Sutton on Cue Manchester Victim Committee , to request those bodies to transfer their
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powers , in acwrdance with the Birming ham resni , It was resolved that the Committee meet ev Friday evening at eight o ' clock , and the Comrail _^ then adjourned . _^
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ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE . TO THE PEOPLE . Fellow CouNTRYMEN _. —That princi ples arei destructible , is a truth supported by the evidence t ages . Thrones may be shaken-states destroy- _^ peoples annihilated—patriots _aacrificed—rich Sa become barren heaths-seas change to _landslip lands to _seas-but principles remain in _theirentw unchanged and uuchaneeable , _undestroyed ami destructible . ' inii _* _- You , who have raised the standard of freedom and right , in opposition to despotism and » ron _» have struggled uobly and heroically , often meetintr » verses-bearing social and political persecution struggling on in the quiet solitude of your own consciences , in a manner and with a spirit alike hon "
our able to yourselves and creditable to the character of tbe cause you have espoused . But you , who have so struggled , bave not conquered . * And why this sad result ? You have worked , and the many have looked on . Had the masses of your fellow country men—who have , with you , tbe same common info ! rest—given to your endeavours the support and co ! operation that the necessities of their circumstances and the interests of their country demanded , you this day would have been in the ascendant , and British interests and honour would have safely reposed upon a pedestal of true national greatness having for its basis the suffrages of the majority ot the male adult citizens of the land in which we . live .
Despair not . Force and fraud may conquer , but cannot for ever rule ; and at a time when the basest Ministers have hired the basest tools to do ( he foulest deeds tbat ever were done by men ruling in a land that is mockingly called free—and when these same Ministers exultingly outrage deceney , and glorify themselves , fend . like , upon the prey they hold—at a time when social and political chaos threatens to envelope all in rain , and leave to armed myrmidons a mi ghty nation ' s Spoil—we , who are of the people , for the people , and with the people , once more band ourselves together in com .
pact phalanx , and take the initiative in a great na . tional movement , having for its object the political and social emancipation of the masses—respecting the interests and duties—protecting the lives and properties—and conserv _i ng the liberties and securi . ties of every member of the commonwealth . Oar success or failure rests with you . If unsupported our failure is certain , and the triumph of despotism sure . If , on the other hand , you give to us your aid and undivided co-operation , the cause of _hurnanity and the people will rule , and restore safety to all .
Intelligence and organisation are as essential to success as are numbers and display . The few go . vern tbe many , not because the few are ever able to rule , but because the few are intelligent and organised for a defined object . Look around , we beseech you , and see that in every hundred and borough , a few busy persons of no great mind , but firmly banded together for party purposes , sway the election oi members of town councils , boards of guardians , and return deputies to serve in parliament ; in most cases , too , in opposition to the will of the majority . And what is the secret power that enables them so to do ? It is organisation . Look from your owa doors and windows , and see that little boy drive a
herd of twenty oxen , each of which is ten times stronger than he ; and what is the power tbat enables him to drive the « e huge animals at will ? It is intelligence . If the oxen were as wise as their driver , they wouldrulehim . Thus it is that a few ounces of intelligence , directed with a purpose , control many pounds of untrained and undirected instinct . If tbe people in this country agreeing with the principles of the People ' s Charter were organised , local power giving strength to the national will , and national decision giving activity to policy , no organised faction in power could withstand the demands of tbe people for a day . They might then , in justice and verity , exclaim , ' Vox Populi , Vox Dri' ( ' the voice of the people is the voice of God . ' )
To beget and direct this intelligence ; to gather together , and control the elements of this organisation _^ , and shall continue to be , the only object of one existence as a _pulilical body , and it is with pleasure that we assure you tbat we have received many promises of support . Tbe report of our meeting at Birmingham has kindled hope once more in the hearts of many good and true men , and we doubt not but our call will be responded to hy the brave men oi
Yorkshire and Lancashire . Tbe horny-handed and stalwart miners of the north of England have not yet resolved to hug their chains to the hour of their dissolution * , nor will our Scottish brethren , whose truthfulness and patriotism have won for their country a world-wide fame ,. rest contented to beg for death , and leave to their children no heir-loom but the name of departed glury , associated with living misery and want .
The Birmingham delegates expressed a wish that the local Defence and Victim Fund should be incorporated into one national ' Defence and Victim Fund . ' In following out the spirit of tbis instruction—we wish it to be distinctly understood , that the Victim and Defence Committees , now in existence , will not be dissolved : on the contrary , it seems advisable tbat their numbers be extended , so that their powers may be more efficient for the collecting of information and funds , and also to aid in a proper and equitable distribution of monies collected .
The object aimed at we think desirable—to wit , that tbe circumstances of all the Whig-made widows and orphans shall be known to one cental board — so that , as all suffer from the same common cause , all may be supported in a like degree . If , however , any of our friends dissent from this proposition , such dissent will he met with no opposition on our part—our object is not to op « pose but to conciliate ; we look around us and see friends in distress , and desire to aid them in their day of trial and trouble . The Wives and families of our incarcerated brethren command our sympathy , and we hope all will give liberally , proportionate to their means , and in that way which their judgment deems best .
In our present attempt to work out what we in i our souls believe to be the salvation of our country * and the emancipation of mankind , we address you : in no spirit of party intolerance or political intrigue 5 —our objects are clearly stated , and well under- - stood . Our principles are not exclusively fitted for r one grade or class , they are universal and for all . I . If you agree with us , give to us , and without delay , r , your full and hearty support . If you be opposed d to us , we respect you not the less , but court from you _: U a manly aud honourable opposition , convinced that , it , with full , fair , and free discussion , truth will triump h ih over error .
With these views , then , do we confidently call ill upon the Old Guards of democracy to bestir them-aselves , and provide us , without delay , with the arms cos and ammunition neoessary for this war of reason on against brute power . Let the local councils now * . *? existing , and private friends in districts where there ; re are no such _councils , send us the . means necessary try for an efficient agitation , and we will issue tracts eta and addresses forthwith that will be read in _everysry bouse and repeated in every , market-place , making ing our motto ,
'THE CHARTEH _ANDflO _SUffifflUDBR _/ ' the household word of every heart and home , _andjnd ! unfurling the flag of freedom from every city gate-ate : and castle wall ofthe United Empire . . , _,, Signed on behalf of the Executive of the _Natioasbas ! Charter Association , by the members resident w . wi London . Philip M'Grath , Thomas Clark , William Dixon , Edmund _Stamavaod , Hbnry Ross , G . Julian _Harne * -, Samuel Kydd , Secretary .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 18, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18111848/page/8/
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