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      8 The Northern Star. . : , ' . _. ..- .....

      8 THE NORTHERN STAR . _. : , ' . __ . ..- _.. ¦ ¦ _-. - September 23 , 1848 .

      The Polioe Murder At Ashton. Ashtoj* . M...

      THE POLIOE MURDER AT ASHTON . Ashtoj * . _MoSdat . — The persons charged --ith the murder ot Bright , the policeman , were this dsy examined before J . _Jowett . J . Lord , J . _Grisuh'w _. S . H . gginbottom , and J . _Ha-rop . E qrs . The names of tho prisoners are Joseph _Ba-clifF * _, X . C _. nsteraine , J _Seddon Thomas _Kenitorthj , Thomas _Tastaker , Jonathan Walker _Wll-Ham _Wintebotiom , James Scott , William _Elward-, and John Lees . . _ , .. t _.. _« . Mr Newton _Saperintendent of Police . —I _charts the _firet four p _riaea-ra with _bstog principals ia this murder , the next two with being _principals in a second degree , - _feing present at the tune of tie murder . William Wint * rbottom ie _charged with _btirg an _accessory after the feet and James Scott as as accessory btfbra the fact . He tben asked she magistrates that _THOMAS LATTIMORE WILLIAM PARKER , THOMAS WINTER . BOTT 05 _I . and JAMES WRIGLE _' Z migRt ee _diseftarjed for tic purpose of giring evidence , which wat at once ; _ranttd . He also asked that Edwards an ! _laes should be renJMsded . Tho _follo-rlng is the substance cf the

      evidence _tnst was then taken — _Svhcu , Surra . —I _a-a a constable ot the h-rough , Oa rhp night of tbe li : h _oijAmrujt las ! , b * ari-g a noise , I went to ihe top of _Bjutisek-strcet ; It was about tv _^ _n'y minutes t 6 twelve , I saw Samuel Llngley . He _levelitdaguast we , and gsid , * D——n yonr eyes , If jou do no- , go away I will Mow your — brains oat . ' James Milligan cried ont , * Now , Sara , have more sense , * and with his hand pnt the gun dorm . Abont a _hundred persona were _standing hy _11-lUjan who bad _pikca bangis g over their should era . I only saw the gna that Llngley had . Milligan th-. n said , * Leave the corner , or join the ranks end take an active part in the proceedings that are naw going oa . ' I went home . Soon after I heard the _report of a gun or pUtol , and immediately after the EC-asm of a female . John Warren came op to me and said . ' They ' ve shot Bright , and he lies in the street , and mho dares go near him ? ' He showed me his band , which rraa bleeding , arid aaid it _had been cat with a pike . I went bom ; and pat my coat on , aud walked np to Stone ' s timber-yard , where J stayed till morning .

      _Ctoss-eiaitiBed by Mr D 6 Ian * . —The people were in single fi > . I could only rt-co & nise those two . L ' ngley WB 3 the enly man _ftat I saw with a _gntt . Johk Warben . — On the Hih of Au * ujt , abont halfpast eleven , I wae out seeking two of ray children . I was in B _nftne ' s street . I saw forty ot * oity petBons ; they bad pike ; , and were marchlcg two deep down tbe street , I _walked on the path beside them . Bright cams np at Old-street , fi } said' Titer ? . ' I walked on end left tbem . In a little time I turned round , end saw a number of men with pikfi round Bright . He said , * Lads , what bare I done at yoa S * I went to bim , whra tbere waa a shout stt up . _Abost forty or fifty ran

      down Stamford-street after a man . I thought he was s constable . I teller * tbree stayed befeind , at tbe _ccrnsr of St & _mfsrd-streot . I heard oae or two sheta fired in Stamford-street . I aaw a man come op to Bright , wi ; h a pike , wbieh he thrust at Win . I lud hold hold of the pike . Two or three persons wera about three or four yards oS , Oae of them nreda a stab , and I thought it was for me . I went towards Stamford-street , and about two yards and a half from him I saw ona person raise his hand and shoot . Bright fell , and ths men ran away . I westhorae . I only saw one woman on my way . I could not identify anyone of ths persons .

      Betti WixD . —On the 14 th of July , at night , heard a _soise , aad went up stain . Looked 03 t of the window aad aaw men with _p'kes on their shoulders . Af : er the ; had _pass-. d our dsor . Bright went by . I heard tha rattling of their pikes . I heard a shot fired . Saw the flash an j the smoke , asd beard a woman scream . Aa soon as the shot was fired I saw two men run from the erowd _, and get over the big doors leading to the Chartist room . I ran to the back of my house to see where they were going . They got over the midden and ever the yard wall to oar _back-dosr step . Icgnldnottell the men again .

      _Thohas Lattihobe said : I have lived in Ashton several years . On the Mch of August I went up to Hodtan ' s , New Inn , _Hossly-road . I left about seven in the evening , and went to Jobn _Lord ' s , 0 _ddtellows' Arms . I was there about an hour with Mr Paiker , John Lord , aad several other chaps . William Parker and I went horn e . I found a lot of men in ear bouse . None of the prisoners were _thtre , I went oat again at about tea o'clock with Wa Parker and walked up and down the _Itrsef , _WcjmetamaniiamedSEddon , wbo said he would pay for a _gallon of ale . We went to Downs ' , the Oddfellows' Arau . It was then near eleven . S . Llngley , Joseph Conacerdine , and James Soott were there , and afterwards Milligan said something , but I did not hear what it was . I went ont to John Lord's , bat found the door locked , and on coating back the company were

      all ? oce James Wrigley and William Parker were with me . We all three came out again , and weat to James Wild ' s tho comer of Bentincks '; _rjet . While we steed there a great parly of men came up . I saw _Jaraes Bright _aiandteg ar the corner . Consterdine , Llngley , and Ratcliffe , and some I did not know , came round him , when the three named seized hold of Bright by the jacket . Tney took him r little way , and then left go . Soon after a gun was fired . Bright said , 'What have I done ? _Batcliffs then Tan at him with a pike . Another then went np , and also ran at him with a pike _. Bright said , * Spare my Ufa , ' I do not know the second person who ran the pike at him ; he bad light-coloured clothes on , and a round jacket . I then saw _Jtatellffj pull a pistol out of his pocket , and fire at Bright . At tbat time I saw Consterdine at tbe left

      hand of _Batclifie . Llngley also was there , and had a gna . Bright got hold of a pike with his hand . After the pistol _wa 3 fired he fell . At the time they shot him he was staggering . There was an alarm given to retreat , when the great body went down Bentinck-street , I caw twj women , wbo shrieked out when the report was made . At the time Bright was shot I saw Kenworthy and Walker walMcg with the crowd . Ken worthy had a iron , Walker bad a pike and a pistol . They went down _Baitiack-street after Bright waa shot , and I _follswed ihem t > _DackenSeld Brow , at the entrance of Hr Hindlej _* * park , where they stopped about three-quarters of aa hour . They then went to the top of the brow and drilled their men and called over their names . They called over fifty . They talked abeut fetching the

      _caason ont of the park . When we were in _Downes' boose MilEgan came in , having a gun , Seddoa took some bottles from his pockets . Some asked if he had got them ready , when he said he had foot or five , and wanted more . Scott ( the prisoner ) said he had more at his _honss : he went to fetch tbem , asd I did not see him again . I am so Chartist . When going home , Seddoa said we most go with him , and if any man left ha would shoot him . I was afraid he would shoot me . We were then la the New Square . I , Wrigley _, and Parker were there . Ha had nat a gun with him . I sever had a pike or a gun . We were afraid , and that was the reason why we watched them np to _Ducken . field . I cannot tell how many guns they had . I saw fsnr . After the _cross-ezanunaUoa of the witness ,

      James Wbig iet was called and gave similar evidence . He saw about fifty people with pikes going towards Stamford-street , Consterdine , Seddoa , and Llngley were there . Seddon bad an aze ; they three , and _another man whom I cannot swear to , got hold of Bright , who was cemlagdowa tha street ; they said , 'We will take 30 a as onr prisoner . ' Llngley had a gun . One of the mm ran at him with a pike , aad he staggered back . Somebody shot bim , and he fell in the street . The party were ordered to retreat , and they went dowa _Baatinek-atreet , Parker and Thomas _Latttreore went up Stamford-street and down Portland-street , and -ansa we got t-j Park street , the men with the pikes with L ' ngley were coming down Hill-street towards Portlandstreet , and , crossing the bridge , near Hr Swire's bouse . Tbey went along the canal to tbe turn-bridge . They

      stopped at the top of the road . Heard them say tbey were waiting for ths Hyde chaps coming up . A woman ¦ aid they had put gone op towards Brighton ' s house . Lingley then ordered them to proceed to Dackenfield Brow ; and after that to Hundley ' s park . _gates , where they stopped , and Llngley gave orders for soma of them to fetch tha cannon . Fiva or six went with their pikes , and after trying for a quarter of an honr , they came back , and said tbat tbey could not move it with _, cut a horse . Lingley then ordered them to march towards _ChapeUdil , Dackenfield , He told them to _pre--asre- for cavalry , when they pnt their pike-ahaf is down oa the ground , aad paked out their pikes . Lattimore , Parker , myself , and Crook sat off home , and slept at Crook ' s house . Prisoner Walker was on the

      Ducken-SeldBrow ; he had a pistol aad a pike wheal saw him at Wood-end , and he gave it to another man , and said ha had a pistol that wonld do far him . I am oae of the guards , and had been about a fortnight . I had a pop-bottle giren meat Lsttimora ' _ahouse . I was a Chartbttai tbat night , bat when I taw Bright shot , I had enough of it then . I had no arms , nothing bat a pop . bottle . We ware to cany them for Seddon . I do not know what they had in . I asked Seddon what tbey were for , bat he went away ; we threw them into the canal . I reckon Seddon as ear master , and he said if any oae ran away he would shoot bim , I waB not _ancai . Never was in custody before . . Wasapprehended last Wednesday week . Have heard people talk about the rt ward . Don ' t know how mnch it is .

      Wiuuv j _TAmatahad attended the Chartist room two or three times . Am not enrolled . On the evening of the llth August , went with him to John Lattimore to his house . Thomas Lattimore , James Wrigley , and William Man were there . None of the prisoners were there . Heard John _Lstlimore say that all the towns in Eagland weald rise that night . Afterwards Thomas Lattimore , Wrigley , aad I saw a party of mea with pikes coming down Bentinck-street . Saw ( _Tonsterdine and _fcitdiffegetholdof Bright , and say , 'We'll take you prisoner . ' ' They took him a little way down Benfdnek . _atreat , aad then let him go . Bright said he kna w some of them , when Batcliffe . - turned back with a pike , and at him wi

      ran th it . Bright _stoopea down aa if ta step it , and said , 'Ky good fellow what have I done to you ?' Directly after that the shot was fired , aad he fell about five yards torn Stamford _^ _treet . Two or three females were present and screamed ; I heard some one call out , « _Betajat / and the men ran away in different directions . Could not swear who fired the shot , but am sure that _Coiitferdfne and Bitolifia wera close by . We followed them to Dackenfield and ths park-gates . We all went aad slept at Crook ' s house . I am not , aod never was a _Sattonal Gaarf , Seddoa had a pistol with him when in _tnaXew-jqaare . Have _nsver spoken to any one abont gWng _eridenof _. At _thUpoiattaa oourt _adjo-mi ,

      The Polioe Murder At Ashton. Ashtoj* . M...

      _TresoAT . _—Hst-ar Taiiob was tbe first witness called . He said I am a constable in the Ashton ; police . On tbe night of ( he llth of August ! was on duty in the neighbourhood of Bentinck- street , about half-past eleven o ' clock . I saw a large body ot men with pikes on tbeir shoulders marching down the street . One of th : m saU _, After bim / I ran off , and was followed by a largo number . Heard several shots fired , witch I thought were at myself . Do aot know any of the party . Wk . BaoAMEsi . —Lives in Dukinfield . Kiew five of the prisoners , BatclirTi _) , Consterdine , _Tassaker , Sed . don , and Winterbottom . I have attended the Chartist meeting-room , seen _Tassaker and Seddcn there . Rat . cliffs and Consterdine ara captain * of what are catted National Guards . _Ratcliffe over the fifth division , Consterdine over the first . A man named HiWgaa was commander over tbe whole district . EiwardPlannagan was captain over the third division . I saw him on the Uth of August . Tassaker and Seddon belonged ta _Flannagan ' _a division . I know Lingley . He was captain _ovsr the sixth division

      Cross-examined . —I was a lieutenant in the National Guards , and had twenty-three men nnder my command . Was not in Ashton on the night of the Htb , but in Dakiofield . I carried a pike tbat night , but no thing else . Some of my company carried _plk-s ; but we had no orders , and ao Igave none . I have drilled my company as I was directed . Have beea in custody a fortnight . I am so still . On the n _' ght I was taken , thought it my duty to give _evideace against my comrades . I was a Chartist same time ago , bat am a turncoat now . I did net stab the poor constable , nor was I there . Have turned Qaeen _' _a evidence , on my own account . Have got nothing for it . Have seen the reward offered , but don ' t

      want it . Have aot been offered anything handsome . I know nothing about what arms any men had beyond pikes . I was aot to take tbe cannon at Dukinfield , nor was I to stop a _messenger . I was not there at all . Did not offer for a certaia sam to blow London up . Abont a month ago 1 told Hui _' _gan I could do so . I said I wrote to the Duke of Wellington for a place , and that I _wou a bring ap 2 , 000 men , I wrote to his grace for a plase , and he answered my letter , but I will not tell what he said . It is a private matter , I could Mow up any town in a very short time . I said ao to the Dake , bnt I will not tell what he said in his letter . Hy wife burned the letter .

      Johr _Pdatt . —Uvea in Dukinfield . Oa the night of thelim of August was In _Kewton-street , and heard that Bright had been shot . Soon after twelve I saw two mea come frora tbe direotion of Ashton . They were Seddoa and Tassaker . I had seen them before at tbe Cbariist-rooms . They bad their jacket collars turned up . I asked them if Bright had been shot . Seddon _eali , 'Ay , and we don ' t know how many more . ' He had the same jacket that he haa on now . He then went to speak to a woman . Tassaker said to me that the Daklafialdpeople _wereasstof— -for not comln-up , that the men who attacked Bright were a _weak-hearted

      people , and had only half done their work . He said he went np to Bright and touched him . I asked him why he did not go home ; he said he durst not , because his hands were bloody , I saw his hands daubed with something like blood . Seddoa then came back , aad they went away . They said they were going to clean themselveB . _IsawHUUgan at ' the _Chartlat-room on the Friday before . Lingley was there . Milligan said they must give orders to the men that were not present to gat into houses as near where the police were _atationed as possible , and when the honr was given oat they mast rash oat and disarm them , aad if they made any

      _reslsance , shoot them . Cross-examined by'Mr Hawaii ,. —I am not a National Guard . I waa a mere inspector of the whole matter . I am not a Chartist , and never was one . I was not present at Bright ' s murder . Haver bad a pike or gun in my possession . I bad a pistol , but sot on that night . I do not know how to use one . They gave me one in the Chartiit-toom . They went round aad asked who was armed and who was not . I went there eniy to look abont me . I sometimes paid to enter , but waa not a member of tbeclab . Hy name was not on the roll . I don ' t know exactly whan the pistol was gives to me . On tha IS th they asked me if I bad any _cartridges or pistol ? I said I had not . Winterbottom said he wonld get thlrty . slx balls . I did not _beloog to the third division , I went to Winterbottom ' _i house , and bis wife gave me tha ballets . I had no appointment . Never thought of using the bullets , Kever showed the pistol or bullets . Was apprehended a fortnight yesterday , and hare been In ousted / since . Have had no promise of reward . I would not have it

      . Thomas _WniEuoireK , one of the brothers of the prisoner Winterbottem . —About two o ' clookonthe mornlag of the 15 th August some men came to my house . I got up and let them in ; they were my brother , _Batollffe , Lingley , and John Lattimore , my brother had a gun , Ratcliffe a pistol , aHd Lattimore a gun aad bayonet . Lingley hai no aims with him , he said he had agon , hat had left it with a yoang man at _Buklnfield . Did not hear Bright ' s name mentioned that _morning . I went to bed , and went to work next morning . At eight o'clock I returned , and found the same people there . I did not hear their conversation . They mentioned Bright * a _aame amongst themselves , and said it was a bad job that he was shot . Did not hear them Bay who shot him . Batcliffe and Lingley staid at my house till tba following night , till between nine and ten o ' clock , rV & triiffe went away in a jacket belonging to my brother . j It was like the one he has oa now . Hy _bro-I tber and ha changed eoats before they left , I took a

      note from Ratcliffe to his brother . He told me to tell ' his brother to go to his father and ask for money to go off with . His _brotherwenttohlsfather'sinHanchester . He eame to our honse the same night . I also took a note from Llngley to his _auat , who returned with me , and brought some clothing , which Lingley pat on , When they left I foand some ammunition , Tbey gave me seme balls , which I threw into the garden . There were fifty or- sixty balls . The gang were taken to a sizing house . Oa the evening of the lath my brother asked me if I knew wbat was to take place . That night ha said all the towns in Englaad were going to rise . I said I woald have nothing to da with tbem . Abont eleven I went to bed . Soon after I heard a bell ring , en which I went to Brighton ' s house . I saw abont twenty mea with pikes ran by me towards Dukinfield Hall , aod soon after abont forty passed me from Dukinfield with pikes . I afterwards saw my brother on _DuWnfield-brow . He had a gun with him ; others had pikes and gnns .

      Cross-examined by Hr _Halsaw : Have Been in prison about a fortnight . I did not know whether I should be called on or not . I do not knew that I am to bave any reward . I do not know If I shall be discharged , and don ' t muoh eare . I never carried a pike or pistol in my life . Kever attended a Chartist meeting . Dr LSI then described the wounds of Bright , Inspector _Maidih said that being in Liverpool some time since , he searched several vessels , and amongst others the Ocean Monaroh ; and on it found the prisoaer Batcliffe , He was in the hold of the vessel , concealed amongst some timber . He said his name was Jenes , He katw nothing about Ashton , Several polios officers gave evidence as to the arrest of some of the prisoners , after which Hr _Hslasll addressed the beach on behalf of the prisoaers Kenworthy and Batcliffe . Hr De Lara and Hr Brooks on behalf of thereat .

      The magistrates tbea retired for three quarters of an hoar , On their return , Mr Jowett sail that , after a careful consideration of the case , the magistrates bad decided to commit , as _principals in tha murder of Bright , Batcliffe , Consterdine , Kenworthy , and Walker ; Winterbottom as aooessory after the fact ; Stott accessory before the fact ; and Tassaker and Seddon for unlawfully _asaenbliag and _rioung , and for being drilled , Lee aad Edwards were remanded . It was past eight o ' clock when the proceedings terminated .

      Flbeb.—Loss Of Ln?B Ahd Sbvkbaii Psbsoks...

      FlBEB . —LOSS OF Ln ? B AHD _SBVKBAIi _PsBSOKS SEVERELY Bdbsed . —On Saturday morning last a fire broke out , shortly before 3 o ' clock , on the premises of Mr A . F . Watkinson , astay maker , No . 45 , Whitechapel-road . With the aid of the polioe , the residents were made sensible of their danger , but the fire , by that period , had obtained possession of the shop and staircase , eo aa to cut oS all mesas of escape except from the upper windows . Messengers were instantly despatched to Aldgate-pump , for the escape belonging to the Boyal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire . In the meantime , a ladder having been procured , Mr Watkinson was enabled to effect his retreat . The moment the flames shot through the hatters , the draught thereby given to them forced them into the apartments where the other parties

      were standing . Mrs Pitts and her daughter , a girl about nine years of age , were both pulled oat ef the biasing _buildiagmoit frightfully burnt . The daughter died shortly after . A youth , named Samuel Pitts , was unable to effect his escape , and perished in the flames . With as little delay as possible , the parish aud other engines arrived , and succeeded in extinguishing the flames , bat not before the house was destroyed . As soon ae the rains were sufficiently cool , search was made and the body of the unfortunate boy was found and removed to Whitechapel workhouse to await an inquest . An inquest was held os Monday at tbe London Hospital , before Mr Baker , the coroner , on the bodies ef Samuel Taylor Pitts , aged thirteen , and _Priscilla Pitta , aged nine years .

      a number ot witnesses were examined , but their evidenoe did not show from what eause the fire originated . The jury , after an examination of some length , returned a verdiot that the deceased were burnt to death , bnt how the fire originated there was no evidence to prove . A New Police Babback—On Monday extensive premises situate in Northumberland-street , Strand , were occupied by the Metropolitan Commissioners as a barrack for the A division of police , the station recently erected in Bung-street , _Westminster , „ afc a cost of £ 5 , 000 , being insufficient to accommodate the 209 who have beea added to the A division . The total increase ia all the divisions , up to the present fame , amounts to 640 .

      Mb O'Cohhob , M . P . —In seme parts of Derbyshire , a regular practice is now made of carrying about and burning effigies , caricaturing the Northern Stab , its editors , and readers .-Abu * Guardian . — [ WeahoHldbegladto know , for theinformatiiBof our readers , in what dark part of Derbyshire this regular practice is carried on , or whether It ia only a ptajitaimsgoria which occupies the benighted head of _thoGtJABMAN editor . Perhaps , onr Derby friends will inform us . —Ed . N . S . l

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      Tbe Chartist Trials. The Central Crimina...

      TBE CHARTIST TRIALS . The Central Criminal Court opened on Honday , Sept , 13 when tho Recorder charged tbe grand jury at some length . Tho calendar , he said , " although only a Bhort time had elapsed since the last session , contains the nomas of 176 prisoners , and that number would in all probability be increased to 200 before the termination of their labours , aud it would be his duty to mako some remarks upon a few of the cases , and also with regard to some statutes that had recently received the sanction of the Legislature , the object of whioh was to remedy detect * that existed in the administration of tbe criminal law , and particularly to the aot passed for the better protection and security of the Crowa , as he understood that thirty-one persons , were committed to take their trial for an offence committed under that act . Among the _aots which had recently become law was one which gave

      additional powers to justices ot the peace oat of session , and enabled them , ia cases ef aggravated misdemeanors , to commit the accused party for trial without ball . There were some other alterations with regard to tho powers of justices , bat as he was informed tbat none of the gentlemea forming the grand jary were in the commission of the peace , he did not think It was necessary to call their atteation to the subject at any greater lengtb . By another statute a very important alteration was mads ia _reference to the reservation of points of law arising in criminal oases . No legal provision formerly existed upon this _snbjeot , and when the presiding judge , upon a criminal inquiry , felt that any legal point wbioh was raised during the ttlal was deserving of further consideration , it had been the custom for htm to take upon himself to respite the judgment , and to submit tha point to a sort of

      domestic quorum ol the judges , by whom he was advised ss to tbe coarse that should be pursued , and no regular judicial _inqalry took place . By the recent statute , however , a speoial power was given to the judge ia any criminal inquiry , to reserve any point that might arise in order that it might ba argued before tbe judges in a formal manner , and this he considered a very satisfactory alteration for all who were concerned in the administration of the criminal law . His lordship then referred to the statute of the llth and 12 th Tio . cap 45 , which he said placed accessories before the fact in exactly the same position aa the principal felon , and gave a power to punish _thsm iu preoisely the same manner ; and this he said waa an important alteration , in connexion with the provisions of the act to wbich he bad referred , for the better security of tho Crown , as by that act certain

      offences wbich formerly amounted to the crime of high treason , were placed among the category of ordinary felonies , and this statute would , therefore , apply to cases of that description . Tbis brought bim to the consideration of tbe act in question , and to the cases of the persons who were committed for felony under that act . By tbat aot , it was enacted that none of thoJe offences which formerly were held ta amount te tbe crime of high treason , should any longer be so charged , except the objeot waa alleged to be the actual destruction of , the Sovereign , or to imprison her , or te do her some bodily harm tending to death , and all the other offences which formerly no doubt amounted to high treason , were declared henceforth only , to amount to felony , and were to be dealt with as ordinary oases of that description were disposed of . The third section of the act recited the

      offences coming within tbe latter _deacriptien ,. aBd which were exoluded from being charged as high treason , and among thera was the offence af compassing and latending to levy war against her Majesty , In order by force and constraint to compel her Majesty to change her councils . The expression ' compass , imagine , intend , and devise' was rather a quaint one , but it waa made use of in all the previous , statutes relating to this description of _offanee , and would bo well understood by a reference to those statutes . Lord Hale stated that compass and imagine were _Bjnenlmons terms , indicating a purpose of the mind , evinced by some act ia furtherance of the intention ascribed to the party accused ; and this was , no doubt , the principle of law applicable to the oases that would now be brought before the grand jury . The result of the alteration of the law

      la reducing the character of the offence was important in two points ; first , the punishment const quent upon a conviction was not ao overwhelming ; aad secondly , the mode of making out the charge was much more simple ; and while all the ordinary rules of evidence were strictly enforced , all the _eabarrasing forms that were required to be gone through ia charges of high treason were no longer necessary , and the charge was dealt with In the aame manner as an ordinary case of feleny . The grand jury woald observe that the Intention ta levy war and pat constraint upoa the Crown , was tbe gist ef the charge Against the persons whose nameB appeared on the calendar , aad upon this point Hr Justice Bayley , in the case of Watson , whioh was a charge of high treason , and in which one of the overt acts was alleged to be the levying of war , laid it down tbat it was not necessary

      to support that portion of Ihe Indiotment , that there should be regularly organised foree , or tbat the persona should be proved to have marched in military array ; and that if there was insurrection , wbich meanB the assemblage of large bodies of persons to carry out some purpose contrary to law ,. It would amount to tha levying of war . There were several cases bearing apon the point . In one instance , where large bodies of persons assembled for the purpose of putting down brothels , their avowed object being not a private one , hat to effect a _general reform , held that Bueh a proceeding waB 11 * legal , thatitamoanted to high treason , and was a levying of war The same role was laid down where crowds assembled for the purpose of putting down meeting houses , although the avowed objeot was to support the established church . In the case of Lord George Gordon

      also , where the objeot was eaid to be te pat dowa Popery , tbe same rule was laid down ; and tbere was no doubt tbat the principle whioh was aeted upon in these cases was , that snoh proceedings took away frem the Crown and the government those functions which legally were alone vested in them . Ur Justice Bayley had laid thia down as the deliberate decision of the judges , and there was no doabt that this was the law as applicable to the charge of levying war , as it was termed . In . the oases that _wouldnewbebroughtbefore them , it waa probable that the defendants would not be oharged with aotually levying war , but with conspiring , that was , intending to do so , ana this , of course could only be inferred from their aots being of auch a character as to leave no reasonable doubt thatthe intention imputed to them aotually existed in their minds , and tbat their objeot was to

      endeavour by force te compel her Majesty to change her councils , and to . carry out some object of their own by violence and force . That intention would be established by overt acts of the parties , by which wbb meant , acts alleged to have been committed by them in furtherance of the objeot they had in view . His lordship tben referred to the charge made to the grand jary by Lord Chief Justice Abbott ia reference to the case of _Thlstlewood , la wblob that learned judge stated that the law required the intention _shoold be clearly manifested by some aot being done , tending to the furtherance ef the criminal object in view ; but he also laid it down that if parties were proved to have met constantly" together—that they held conferences—that they gave eaoh other mutual assurances of support and assistance in carrying oat their illegal object—that they endeavoured

      to induce others to join tbem , andthat they provided weapons and came armed to themeetlngs , tb 6 se were all evert aots to prove the . inteatlon of the partiea _accused , and every one concerned , although eacb might have taken a different share in the transaction , if their object was in furtherance ef the original design , was equally guilty , the act of _ene being , under such circumstances , the act of all . ' The Recorder went on to say that he might have quoted much more largely from the speeoh of the learned judge to whom he had referred , bat he thought he had laid enough before tbe grand jary to enable them to understand tbe nature of the charge that would be brought before them . He should follow tbe coarse tbat was adopted by the learned judge on that occasion in not giving any details of the statements that

      appeared open the depositions , in order tbat the accused parties might not be prejudiced ; and he would merely state generally that , if they should be satisfied that the prisoners assembled together—that they were armed , that arms were found at the residences of some of them , and that they openly announced defiance to tbe law , and their intention to oppose the pablio authorities by force and arms , and by aots of aggression upon the pablio , it woald be for tbem to ssy whether each aots did net make out an intention to defy and levy war upon the Crown , and to endeavour by force to overawe _^ , the legislature , and to compel the sovereign to change her _coonolls . His lordshi p then prooeeded to refer to some of the other cases tn the calendar ; after wbioh tbe grand jury retired to tbeir room .

      TRIAL OF MR JOHN SHAW . Oa Wednesday , John Shaw , 41 , undertaker , surrendered in discharge of his bail , to take biatrial upon a charge of misdemeanor , and he was plaeed in the dock . The _AixoBHBt-GaNEBAi , Mr _Wstsar , Mr Bodbih , and Mr Cibbk , appeared for the crown ; _MrPARBi was for the defence .. Mr Pabbt applied to the court ; to allow the defendant to stand npon the floor of the conrt , instead of remaining at the bar . . Mr _Juaiios Erik having conferred with the officers of the court , said there appeared to be a difficulty with regard to the manner in whioh the Jury should be summoned in the ease of _ defendant wbo surrendered being allowed to stand on the floor of the court , and said that if it were permitted in thia instance , it might be urged that it was amis-trial

      . Mr Pabbt said , it would be a convenience to him ithe had the opportunity of conferring with the defendant , and that he should be placed in a position to enable him to do ao . _* The Aiiobnbi . Gxnebai _, said , he had no objeotion to the course suggested by the learned counsel , if the court considered it would be legally adopted . Mr JusncB Erk aaid , the defendant was in the custody of the sheriff , and if it was done , it most be upon hia _respontdblity .. Mr Under-Sheriff Fhahcb said , he did not feel himself authorised in removing tbe defendant from his positionin the dock . Afr Pabbt said ,, that after the consent given by the . Attorney-General , he could not help thinking this was rather an ungracious proceeding oa the part of a subordinate officer .

      MrFBAKOBsaid _, the sheriff was absent at thai moment , and he did not feel justified in taking any other course thaa he had done .

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      The _Atiobnbt-Gbkbrai , then briefly addressed the jury , and then explained the nature of the oharge against the defendant . The indiotment contained two wants , the first charging him with sedition , and the _seoord with being present at an unlawful assembly ; and with regard to the latter charge , he observed that all person ) who were present , and who took an active part at meetings where violent and inflammatory addresses were made , were equally guilt ; iu the eye of the law . As to the ether portion of the oharge , there was no magio in the term sedition and it waa perfectly well understood . The offence of sedition consisted in a person addressing a violent and inflammatory address for the purpose of creating exoitement , and in opposition to the constituted

      authorities , and it was important for the jury to distinguish between tbe honest _expression of opinion at a publio meeting , and the aot of parties who mad * that right merely a pretext for exciting their hearers to outrage and violenoe . The defendant , he was instructed , waB a person who filled a respectable position in Boeiety , and his position was therefore the more dangerous , and he had no right to complain of being plaeed in his _pressent position , but should havo paused before he acted in the manner that rendered him amenable to the law . The Attorney-General then said that the meeting at whioh tbe speech in question was delivered was held on the 28 th July , at the Milton-street Theatre , the day following the circulation of the report that there was an

      insurrection in Ireland , that some of the railway stations had been destroyed , and that the troops were disaffected ; and under these circumstances , when the greatest exoitement prevailed , the defendant made a speech to a meeting , composed principally of the lower orders , comprising a great many Irishmen , smarting under real or imaginary grievances ; and when they bad heard that , speeoh he apprehended they would not entertain any doubt as to the objeot for which it was . delivered . He then read the speeoh at lengtb , of whioh the following ara the more material portions . The meeting , it appeared , was convened by a placard beaded ' Is Ireland up V and the defendant occupied the position of chairman , and commenced his address to the persons assembled as follows : —

      ' Friends , yoa have placed me in rather a responsible position to-night . However , I obey the call with alacrity and with pleasure to myself , beoause I believe you are all assembled hero for the samo good and religions purposo that I have been Induced to attend here fer , ' The _^ defendant then read tbe bill oonvening the meeting , and proceeded , My friends , I waa aboat to say , I rejoice to think , and I , verily believe it , that Ireland Is up . _Notnlthstandlag tbe garbled reports that we receive oontln'ally , day by day , and every express that arrives , in order to delude and deceive the people of this oountry , I believe sincerely that Ireland is up , aad I believe that Ireland will do its duty ., to itself . The time has now arrived when it Is too late to mince the matter—the time has uowarrlred that both Englishmen and Irishmen

      should be up to do their duty . I bave just reoeived intelligence whioh . I deeply deplore—that Is , that our worthy , patriotic , straightforward , indomitable friend , Fatriok _O'HIgglns _, has been taken into custody on a charge of high treason , and as soon as over the government are prepared to _arrestyour indomitable champion , Smith O'Brien , they will serve him the same . However , I am glad to think that they have not got him yet , and I da believe that they will havo something to de to take him too . While Smith O'Brien is surrounded by one hundred thousand brave Irish hearts , the government will have something to do to _ahop' him , I be . Have they , say that he carries a brace of pistols about him . Now , these things , perhaps , ought not to be Indulged in by a publio meeting like this ; but I sincerely

      hope to Cod snoh is tbe faot ; aod the first ditty finger , be it a policeman in bis own uniform or otherwise , that lays a hand upon Smith O ' Brien , er any other man that dares to _vlndioate the rights of his country , I trust that —— . ' Here ( said the Attorney general ) the defendant stopped , and , after observing that there were govern _, ment _shorthand-writers present , he did not finish the sentence , bnt there was no doubt that what hejntended to have said was , that any person who attempted to ap . prehend the persons to whom he referred , should be shot . The defendant then prooeeded , — 'Is Ireland apt I would like to answer that in an Irish method practised in this oountry , by putting another question , ' Is England up !* I trust we are up ; at all events , we are up tbis night , my friends , to listen to and be advised by those

      gentlemen who will presently address you . I do not believo tbere Is one man who will address yoa tonight , bat who are your best friends ; consequently they will give yoa no bad advice ; at the same time , I think It Is the duty of every man here to register a vow to Heaven that he will never rest until both Kngland and Ireland have obtained their rights . ' The defendant made another speech , after some other speakers had addressed the meeting , in whioh he said' Friends , the veteran Waddlugten has alluded to petitioning . I merely mention tbis faot to put tbe meeting to rights , that it is not the Intention to petition any more . I believe so . The next petition ( and that is open and ad . vised speaking , reoollsot ) I hope and trust that you will present , eiery man will be prepared with hieownpetltten , I have no patienoe with this set of rapscallions . I have no allegianoe for suoh abuses . I never took tbe oath of allegiance . I hold no allegianoe to either Queen , Lords , or Commons that woald do these things . # I hope and

      trust that Irishmen will not be satisfied , and that English _, men will also fraternise with them , not going simply for a _Bspeal . of the Union , but that they will sever rest satis _, fled until tbey cry out with one thundering voice , ' Republicfor ever . ' I do not wish the Queen to visit Ireland , and yet I would not wish to see a hair of her head injured . I have no personal animosity to the _Qieen , but I declare myself now and in the presence of this meeting , and would to God the noble and valiant field _mar-hal her husband was here to hear me , I should , to his teeth , aad to Lord John Russell ' s , too , express my unqualified opinion thatthe sooner we throw off these tram _, _mels the better . I am a Republican . My friends , we can bear this no longer ; and would to God that every Eng . _llshman and Irishman would shake hands , as has been recommended— every man armed to the teeth . ' The defendant _cbnoloded this portion of his address by saying : — 'Mind , I am not recommending you to aradecidedly not . '

      The _Atiobhky-Gbnbbal read some other parts of the speeoh , and he concluded by stating that when the jury had the evidence before them it would be their duty to say whether the speech oame within the scope of fair honeBt discussion , or whether it was not , as suggested by'the indictment , intended . 'to operate uponthe persons who heard it as a meanB of ex . oiling them to aots of violence and disorder , Mr Jambs White , the government shorthandwriter , was then called as a witness , and he also read fromhis notes the speeoh delivered by the defendant , ahd he also read a portion of a speeoh made by another sneaker , named Wilson , at tbe same meeting , in which he said , in reference to tke report of the insurrection in Ireland , that he hoped

      it was true : and if it should prove to be so , all they should have to do in England was for 100 . 000 of them to meet occasionally , in order to occupy the attention of the government , and keep the soldiers from Ireland . He also desoribed the proceedings of the 10 th of April , as a sort of moral agitation , whioh it would be necessary to repeat ; and said that if 100 , 000 strong working men' were to meet at Trafalgar-square _, or Borne other place near the Houses of Parliament , it was all that would be necessary , and if the report of tho rising in Ireland should prove correct , the people of England wonld soon be ' up' also , and he agreed with Mr Meagher and Mr O'Brien that the time for speaking was at an end , and that it was time to do something more .

      Mr Pabry addressed the jury fer the defendant , with great energy , and at considerable length . He said he felt assured that , under ordinary _oironm-Btanoes , the jury would never think of _oonviotiag the defendant of the orime with which he was oharged , and he was sure that the Attorney-General only relied for a oonviotien upon the prejudice that prevailed in the minds of gentlemen in their position in life against the _olass of persons known as Chartists and Irish Confederates . He begged tke jury to endeavour to overcome that prejudice . He was aware that it would require a great effort to do se , but he called upon them to make that effort , for if this prejudice were not removed , be felt it would be impossible for them to do equal justice between

      the prisoner and the Crown . The Attorney-General was there to-day , aa it were , flushed with viotory . He had succeeded in obtaining a conviction ia every oasa of the same charaoter that he had submitted to a jury , and he oame there now relying upon the feeling against persons professing Chartist opinions , which he was quite aware prevailed in the breasts ol the jury , and on that ground felt assured in his own mind that he should obtain another conviction . He called upon the jury , however , to disappoint thr Attorney-General in that expectation ; and he believed that if the ; looked at the case dispassionately and exerted themselves to overcome the prejudice to which he had alluded , that they would acquit the defendant . The learned counsel then proceeded to

      urge ugonthe jury moat of the topics that were introduced upon the former trials for sedition , and complained that proceedings Bhould be instituted by the government against a poor man like the defendant , when persons in a muoh higher Btation , who , during the excitement of the Reform Bill and Corn Law agitation , had made infinitely more violent speeches , were net only not proseonted , but actually rewarded for what they had done . The learned counsel then prooeeded to comment upon the different portions of the speech , and endeavoured to show that they bore a muoh more innocent interpretation tban waa put _uoon them by the government , oonoluding by stating

      that if even the meaning of the defendant was doubtful , he was entitled to the benefit of that doubt , and ought to be acquitted . Tha _Aiiornbv-Gbneral _, in bis reply , said that the learned counsel fer the defendant had repre . seated him as coming there that day abashed with viotory ; but he could assure them , that the task of conducting these prosecutions had been a moat painful one , and nothing but a strong sense of duty , and a feeling that if he had noted otherwise would have been detrimental to the public interest , and endangered the pnblio peace , induoed him to institute them .: He then referred again to the speeoh made by the defendant , and said that nothing would give bim greater ' satisfaction thaa to find tbat a jury , who

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      after reading it and considering it . with attention , could come to the conclusion that it wbb of the inno-1 oeat character represented by the eounsel for the defendant . . If that should be their opinion they would acquit the defendant ; but if , on the other hand , they should bo satisfied that the objeot of the defendant was to . create excitement and endanger the public peace , it wonld be equally their duty to find him gnilty . Mr Justice Eblt * summed up very briefly , and the jary almost immediately returned a verdiot of ' Guilty' upon both counts . The defendant was then removed from the bar , the judgment being respited . At half-past six o ' clock , the grand jury came into eourt , bringing true bills , for felony aad misdemeanour agaiost all the Chartist prisoners ? The _Aitobney-Genbbaii applied to have the trial of ten of the acoused persons fixed for the following morning .

      Mr Pabbt said he was retained to defend some of tho prisoners , and his learned friends , Mr Ballantine and Mr _Huddlestone _, who were not present , he believed , were also retained for others . He considered it wonld be impossible for them to be prepared to oonduot tbe defence aa soon as the following morning . , For his _onn part , he certainly could not , at suoh short notice , undertake the task , and he therefore prayed the Court to ( . rant more time . After some discussion , the Court ordered the trial to stand for Friday morning .

      CUFFAY AND OTHERS . APPLICATION IfOB OOP ! OP _ISDIOTMSNT _RBFOSBn . On Thursday , Mr Batjantine applied to have a copy of the indictment furnished by the Crown to the prisoners for whom he appeared . Mr _Huddlestone and Mr Eihdbblb ; made a similar application on behalf of other prisoners . Mr Justice Ebms said the trials of the prisoner * were for felony , and it appeared to him that they should be conduoted in the aame way as other cases of felony , and that it would be improper to make aoy difference between them by furnishing the parties with copies of the indictments . The depositions with which the prisoaers were supplied would give them full nformation as to the charge whioh they were called upon to answer , He did net thick it right that any other facility should be afforded to tbe prisoners except that which was allowed by tho law . APPLICATION FOR POSTPONEMENT OF

      TRIALS . On Friday , at tea o ' olock the learned judges , Mr Justice . Erie and Mr Justice Williams , took their _seatBoa the bench , and immediately afterwards the following prisoners , acoused ef treasonable practices , were placed at the bar . Joseph Ritohie , 42 , bricklayer ; Alfred Abie , 23 , porter ; William Gurney , 42 , shoemaker ; John Shepherd , 31 , tailor ; James Snowball , 32 , joiner ; James Richardson , 30 , ditto ; George Greenslade , 30 , shoemaker ; Henry Small , 31 , joiner ; Edward

      Scadding , 28 , brass turner ; William Burn , 44 , shoemaker ; Philip Martin . 45 , newsman ; William Lacey , 38 , bootmaker ; Thomas Jones , 39 , shoemaker ; _Charlesloung , 38 , ditto ; WilliamDowling , 24 , artist ; and Henry Argue . 23 , shoemaker . The Attorney-General , Mr _Welaby , Mr Clarkson , Mr Bodkin , and Mr Clerk appeared to prosecute on behalf of the orown . Mr Baixaniink applied for the postponement of the trials of Rilohie , Able , Gurney , Shepherd , Snowball , and JontB , to the next session .

      Mr _Huddlksiokk , with whom was Mr Metcalfe , made an application of the same character on behalf of Richardson , Scadding , Small , and Martin . Mr Pabry also applied for a postponement of the trials of Argue , and _Touag . Greenslade and Burn were ready to take their trials at once . Upon the Atior » _bt-6 bnsbai , saying it was not his intention to produce any witnesses from Manchester , Mr Justice Eble consented to postpone tbe trials to Monday next .

      TRIAL OF DOWLING . Mr Kbnealby requested that the indictment be read slowly three times , but Mr Justice Eablb deoided that it should only be read once , in accordance with the usual form , The Attorney-General prooeeded to address ths jury : This was the first case of the kind that had been brought forward in an English oourt of justice under the act which had just passed the legislature , The offence with which the prisoner was oharged , was conspiring to levy war against her Majesty , and endeavouring by constraint to induce her to change her measures and counsels ; and secondly , with conspiring to depose her Majesty , and deprive her of her Royal style and title of Queen of the United Kingdom ; after alluding to the insurrection in Ireland , and stating that several documents were found in the prisoners' possession , and a letter addressed to his aunt , the Attorney-General prooeeded to detail the case .

      C . F . Chubb proved the handwriting ef the prisoner . Thomas Powell , examined by Mr Bedkin , made a similar statement to that which he gave before the magistrate . On his cross-examination , Powell said—I have been partly living lately at the expense of her Majesty , but I used to live better before . Money Ib given to me for my subsistence . The _AiroBNar-OrBWERAL aaid , he did not consider this was a matter at all relevant to the inquiry , but he had ne hesitation in saying that the witness was paid £ 1 _a-week for his subsistence .

      Cross examination renewed . —I did not press myself forward . I was desirous to get into their confidence gradually , in order that I might betray them the more securely . I spoke to two men about 'firing' the houses and premises , and one of them agreed to do as I desired , but the other did not appear willing . A man named Donovan proposed to flend a messenger to Limerick , in order to obtain a true version of what was going on in Ireland . When _MullinBsaid , 'May the bitterest curse of God rest upon any man who wonld betray any of us , ' it waa not addressed to me , but I thought a good deal of it . I have aot made so muoh by being a spy as by carpentering . _Obablis Tildrbn deposed that he waa a member of the Chartist body , and attached to the St James '

      Club . Cuffay was their class leader , and he heard him give orders about cartridges to fire upon the police ; and in June he heard Cuffay jay that the time would soon come . Witness told bim he had no gun , and he replied that ho could break into the gunsmiths and get arms . The witness spoke to other conversations with Cuffay on the subject , and he also saw a pike at Cuffay ' a lodging , whioh he wished him to sharpen , but he refused to do so . On another oooasion , he saw him in the aot of casting bullets from old type . Witness told him he knew a person who had prepared some gingerbeer bottles filled with rough pieces of breken iron and powder , and Cuffay said they _were very good , and would do for the Chartists' wfves to oast from the . windows on the police , whilst their husbands were fighting with them in the streets .

      This witness was cross-examined at some length , but nothing material was elicited . Thjmas Barry gave evidenoe of a similar character . A number of police superintendents and constables were then examined , and their evidence went to show the circumstances attending the apprehension of the different parties . The _Attobnbt-GbsbrUi intimated that this was the case for the prosecution , and the Court adjourned at ten minutes after ten o'olock .

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      Destructive Firs at Dbpiford . —Depiford , Friday . —This morning a fire of a most serious _oharaoter , attended with a vast destruction of valuable property , breke out in the spacious premises termed the Anohorand Crown Tavern , New-street , Flagonrow , Deptford . The tavern , with ita contents , was totally destroyed , and several of the neighbouring houses severely injured . The whole of the sufferers , it is understood , wera uninsured . Thb _SERpaNiisE . —It will be gratifying to those interested in the Balubrity of the air of Hyde Parkand who of the inhabitants of the metropolis are not so interested ?—to know that Sir John Ronnie commenced hia survey of the Serpentine on Monday morning last . The first step having at length thus

      been taken , there iB now hope that ere long the bed of that river will be oleafed ofits pestiferous filth , and its waters restored to their wonted state of sightliness and purity . ThiB is the more desirable , threatened as we are by the approach of oholera , and stagnant water being invariably mentioned by ail medical authorities an . evil to be specially avoided as an evil in the case of that frightful disease . Accident at Saw Mills . —On Wednesday after _, noon , a most severe , and probably fatal , accident occurred at the North Green Saw Mills , situate in North-street , City-road . A boy named George Castles , about fourteen years of age , who was employed there , by some means got entangled in the machinery attached to one of the saws , and was slightly cut in the hand , and while endeavouring to disengage himself , he unfortunately fell with one of his legs againat the saw , whioh out instantly through the centre of the thigh , completely severing the limb from the body . Suoh surgical assistance as could be '

      had on the spothaviug been obtained to stop the effusion ef blood , he was conveyed to St Bartholomew ' - ) HoBpital . Departdbb op _CoNViora _jtob Nbw South Waies —The Eden , hired convict-ship , left her moorings , opposite the Royal _Agonal ,, Woolwich , on Friday afternoon , with 300 conviots on board from Milbank Penitentiary and the Model Prison at Pentonville . Fibb in OHWisitt ' _fl-Iim . —On Tuesday afternoon , between the hours of twelve and one . flames weie ob * served issuing from the windows of No . 12 , Clement ' sinn : an alarm of fire waa instantly raised , and on some men _pre-oeeding thither , it was found thatthe whole of the upper part of the passage and staircases was on fire . With great exertions , however , the flames were kept under until the arrival of the engines of the London Fire Brigade and others , wbioh succeeded in preventing the spread of tbe damage , and ultimately is extinguishing the fire .

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      LATEST NEWS FROM IRELAND . THE BPBCIAL C 0 MMIS 8 IOW . Clonmel , Thursday . —The Speoial Commission opened this morning . At five o ' clock p . m . the fore _, man handed down to the Olerk of the Crown true bills for high treason against Wiliiam Smith O'Brien , T . B . _M'Manus , James Orchard , Denis T yne , and Patrick O'Donnell . It ia confidently stated , says the Dublin Hhbald , of last evening , that at the next commission in Green-street Mr Duffey will be tried , but whether on the indictment already found against bim for felony , or on a new one for treason , does not appear to be determined .

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      LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . FRANCE . Paris is in a very agitated state . The certain return of one of the ' Red' Republican candidates has struck the bourgeoisie with dismay . Large masses of' blouses' tilled the streets on Wednesday .-Thursday . —The official declaration of the poll was completed tbis morning at half-past eleven . Tha numbers are : — Napoleon 110 , 752 Fould 70 . 891 Raspail 66 , 963 PROGRESS OF DEMOCRACY IN PRUSSIA .

      The Nbw Rhenish Gazette of the 19 th instant , states that a popular meeting of Beveral thousand individuals waa held on tbe 17 th instant in tbe neighbourhood of Cologne . The entire assembly , with one dissentient voice , voted for the establishment of a Democratic and Social Republic , and it was resolved , on the motion of M . E . Dronke , that an address in thatsenseshould be presented tothe National Assembly at Berlin . The assembly likewise recognised « _ie Committee of Public Safety established afr Cologne . INSURRECTION AND LOSS OF LIFE AT

      FRANKFORT . _Sbpt . 18 . —The resolution of the majority of the-National Assembly to ratify the _truco with Denmark immediately oaused a violent explosion of Indignation , on the part of the demc _oratical unions and societies of this city . At a great popular meeting yesterday evening , the most inflimmatory _spncheg were delivered by some of the watoia . The meeting passed a resolution to the effect that the majority of the National Assembly were traitors to Germany and the German people . Tha attitude taken yesterday by the democratic party induced the authorities to despatch couriers ia various directions requesting military aid without delay . Austrian and Prussian troops soon arrived .

      and una morning they ranged themselves all around the Paulus Kirohe . the place where the _Natioaa Assembly meets . In the forenoon , the populace began to erect barricades in numerous streets , and from 1 till 5 pm ., the conflict between the military and the democrats continued with little intermission . The barricades were obstinately defended , and from houses shots were fired upon the soldiers , particularly upon the Prussian troops , who are very unpopular . Foremost amongst the _oombatants are the people of Sachsenhausen ( a sort of _Whitechapel suburb of this city , ) and they are nearly all well armed . Several shops oontaming firearms have boen broken epen . An enormous barricade was erected at an early hour this afternoon in the Dingesgasse , and at the present time there are not less than thirty in different parts of the city . An unsuccessful attaok was made by some Austrian troopaon the above giant barricade

      , which was surmounted by a red flag . Towards half-past four a heavy firing was beard in the Zsil ( the leading thoroughfare ) , which was chiefly occupied with Prussian troops . Some members of the Left endeavoured to pacify the insurgents ; but , although the former bore white fUg 3 , they were fired upon by some of the latter , and Prince Lychnowski was shot dead . The majority , however , of the insurgents accepted a one hour ' s truce , their demand being that the troops should evaouate the oity before the barrier Bhould be removed . Herr Von AuerBwald haa been seriously wounded . It appears that the Vicar of the Empire is willing to allow the troops to retire , but that he is overruled . Up to this hour , a quarter past seven , the great majority oi the barricades are still in the possession of the insurgents , and oannon are fired on the _Zzil . Among the insurgents are many democrats from-Mainz , Hanau , Cologne , and other places .

      CRITICAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN VIENNA . Sbpt . 15 . —Events have taken a most serious turn to-day . All are under arms .

      DUTCH EAST INDIES . * * INSURRECTION AT 8 IAM . A fearful insurrection took place at Siam on the 19 th of March . After terrible conflicts and frightfa ! massacres , the insurrection was quelled .

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      ' Our Own Cobbespoudents . '—On Tuesday two suspicious-looking characters were captured by the police at Balmoral . They were found ensconced on the branches of a high tree in the grounaX ' of the castle . The result of their examinations has nob transpired , but it is supposed that they were there merely to gratify their curiosity about the Queen and Prince Albert . Miraculous Escape . —A man named James CoI « Una . a miner at St Blaz ay , whilst picking nuts at a distance from St Blazey , on an old burrow mine !

      known by the . name of St Blasey Consols , _overreached a bush hanging over an old shaft , seven fathoms deep , and Fell to the bottom . Having providentially escaped serious injury , he resolved to _exeroiBoevery effort to extricate himself ; and hia only means of escape was by climbing up the shaft * Heat once set himself to the task , whioh he happily accomplished in about ten hours , from eight , a . m . * . till bix , p M , As the place was at a distance from the publioroad , and he was , of course , quite beyond hearing , he must otherwise have inevitably beea starved to death .

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      CORN . _MAaa-uns , Sept , IS . —The trade in wheat has through out the past week maintained a decidedly firm tone , and prices bave crept up abont as per qr . Tbe prices to-day were similar , On Wednesday tbe trade ruled steady at Monday ' s prices * Indian corn continues in good request , and thero ars buyers at late rates ; but importers generally demand ratber more money . There was aa improved demand for oats at fully as good prices as were procurable last market day . Fsicb or _Bbbad . —The prices of wbeaten bread in the

      metropolis are from 8 d to ajd , of household do . 7 d to 7 jd , some bakers are selling from 6 d to 6 _£ d _, and League Bread Company's 7 d per 41 b loaf , weighed on delivery . Liverpool , Sept . 19 . — The weather continues exceed _, ingly favourable for the northern harvest , and the crops are being rapidly secured . There has been a fair sale for most articles of the trade during the week , with very slight variation in prices . Ddblik Cobn Exchange , Tnesday . — Our market today was firm ior all descriptions of grain , and oats and beans were 3 d to Sd dearer . There was no improved demand for Indian corn a reduction of Is to 2 s having been submitted to ,

      TEA , Thk Tba Tradb , Sipt . 18 . — The quantity of tea delivered last week from the London official warehouses was 493 , 00 _slb . The market bas been ratber dull . COTTON . _Livkmooi , Wr , nNE 80 AT .. —The transactions to-day are about 3 , _« 00 boles , mostly all to the trade . Tbe market is steady , and full prices are paid . IRON . The steady home demand fer manufacturing purposes continues unabated , and within ths last fortnight it bas been deemed advisable , in one instance , to declare an advance , of 10 s . per ton upoa nail-rods , by a house of tha first standing , in order to- prevent too great an accumu . lation of _ordersjsince tho nail ironmongers of the district , after having been induced to abandon an attempt at reducing the wages of the ' r men , are now rather freely endeavouring- to supply themselves with rods . Very con . siderable orders bave lately arrived from various parts of the . 'Continent ; la the pig trade prices are also well supported , and a brisk demand prevails .

      STATE OF TRADE , Manchester , Tuesday . —We have again to report a depressed market . Little bas been done during last week , and today there was no _dispositioa to purchaw on the part of buyers . Tho weather is most favourable , and for some days has continued so , but it has failed to inspire conflduuee . Euces _gauesauy may be said to be drooping ; Borne cloth _-printers and a few other * remain firm . The return of the state of employment is not so _tavourableaa last week . _Thereara 513 fewer hands at present at work , a decrease of 510 working fall time , and of those working short time _fifty-sevea . Last week tho . ? . ? _K HUmb ? . at work was 4 l _»* 6 _* i 'bis week it is only _„;*^ i' work , n 'J ful 1 '" no Wat week 38 , 539 , this week 37 , 959 ; short time last week 2 , 605 , thia week 2 , 682 .

      Deaths, At Sheffield, On Tuesday, Mrs Booker, The Widow Of Wm. Booker, Aged Sixty-Iune Years. I

      DEATHS , At Sheffield , on Tuesday , Mrs Booker , the widow Of Wm . Booker , aged _sixty-iune years . i

      Ua Veanesaay, September 2otb, Mrs Parry,...

      ua veanesaay _, September 2 otb , Mrs Parry , agent for _theNoBTHERN Stab , Cheapside , Derby . When , eleven or twelve years ago , three persons bad been thrown into prison , andother means of terror were made use of to prevent the sale of the 'unstamped newspapers , * the doceased courageously-took upon herself that mission : and from that to tlie present time continued the sale of the democratic organs . Both in her private life _, aad her relations with the public , the deceased _exhibited an example of virtue and honour worthy of universal imu tatien . The love of her famU y-the affection of her _friends-and the respect of her townspeople , words cannot properly describe . Her departure from this life Is deeply lamented . by her afflicted family and the many friends who knew and appreciated hor sterling werth . aM

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      _...., _» g OUO _OUWi UUU _XUT 1 SU , _IUT tUI . . _£ ~ ruUHI » - FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., M . P ., and _juMcfced ' by WiUiam Hewitt , of Ho . lv , Charles-street , Bnt don-street , Walworth , in the parish of St . Mary , Ncn _. ingtoa , inthe County of Surrey , at _thaOfflce , No . UK Great _WmdmlH-street _, Haymarket in th _•> Cityot'Wegtg i minster . —Saturday _September 23 rd , _1848 &

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_23091848/page/8/