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      Victed Avid Punished For Offences Commit...

      -made—and Lord Jons " declined" it , _makingaMERir of his then conduct to cover the infamy of his other SPY _ti-ansactions . We have deemed it _nccessaiy to give this explanation of the matter here , knowing that much snnnl . se " has Deen indulged in , as to ie 7 io _, the party could be who lad made such " offer . " Several parties have been named : but the facts are as above narrated . They came to our knowledge at the time , and were then inserted in the Star . Lord Jonx Russell intimates in the above extract , that there is no choice between letter-opening and the employment of SPIES . He seems to say we must have eith « r the one or the other . Under his Government wc had _Botn . under an honest one we should have neither .

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      Ha. Thomas Cooper Asd Mr. O'Coxxo ***..—...

      Ha . Thomas Cooper asd Mr . _O'Coxxo _*** .. —In relation to the statement made by 3 Ir . O'Connor at _Jlanehester , affecting lit . Cooper , we have received the following frem 3 fr . O'Connor : —Ever anxious toluaRe atonement where I have committed error , even under justifiable apprehension , 1 lose not a moment in testifying my sorrow at having done an injustice to ill . Cooper—an injustice arising from error , and not from any desire to give him even a moment ' s paiu . When I stated the substance of alerter ( written hy Cooper to Mason ) , to lhe _^ ilanclies ter Council , I was not then aware of the fact that Cooper ' s hostility to me was based upon misrepresentations made to him from without ; and tliat Ms desire to "destroy my influence" arose from the feet of his being led to believe that , but for me ,

      Sharman Crawford ' s motion , to stop tlie supplies , would have _xt-ciaved universal support , which would have eventuated in the success of the people ' s Charter . _Theses and many sneh representations , very naturally created a hostility in Cooper ' s mind , whieh I am now more tliau willing to ascribe to a sincere devotion to principle , rather than personal hostility . I know the sufferings ofa mind , firm in principle , while subjected to the agonies r . f . incarceration . I acknowledge the perfect right ami justice _^ nay , the absolute necessity , oi using every endeavour to "destroy my influence , * " if an opinion is entertained that that exercise has been used injuriously to The democratic principl _. ; : and I can only say , that so far from now entertaining any , Hie _slightest , ill-will towards Mr . Cooper , I feel for

      bim an increased affection and attachment ; and , according to the good old Catholic custom of paying restitution to the injured , I beg to put my name down for £ 1 towards tlie Cooper Testimonial ; and further to state , that I shall have great pleasure in meeting liim at _liie door of his prison npon the day of liberation , there to make a personal apology , audio ask pardon for any pain that I have caused him . I trust that he trill ' receive this apology with morepleasuro , as it has not been sought for hy any party , but has been induced hy rimimstancei * communicated to me , of which Mr . Cooper is not cognisant . Feabgcs 0 'Coj . sob . "Ms . D . Ross , Ma . . Tons Watkiss , asd the "Faib Plat ** Mas or Lloyd ' s Weekly Neicspoper . —The

      following letter in relation to the gross personal attacks « reefc . y wad ? _l _< y the malignant and _venomous John _Vatkin ? , was addressed to the Editor of Lloyd ' s Weekly Nuespoper , by Mr . David Ross of Leeds . Its publication was declined , « n the ground that " the columns of tt < i < _pai » cr ivere never intended to he made the vehicle of mere personal controversy ! nor could the Editor permit them to become such" 1 ! Mr . Ross _jbas * uscc sent the letter to ns , with a request that it may bo published in the Star . That request we dieerfullv comply wiih : thanking 3 Jr . Ross for his bold and plain out-spokeuness : — To the Editor of Lloyd ' s _Ifeelly Paper . —Sir , since yon have to abundantly proved your 'liberality , '' by publishing the letters and addresses which have from time to time

      _( _maualC'd from •* . party _calline themselves " the Independent Chartists , " I am led tobopeyou will , in justice to aU parties concerned , allow me to express my opinions on certain subjects , to which the said letters and addresses refer . I may preface my observations by declaring myself a Chartist : one in whom the love of principle is stronger than the pleadings of party . Up to this period I have suppressed every painful emotion which the perusal of those letters has awakened within me ; but believing that their anther is in reality a foe to Chartism—forwhothathasreadhisiindictive epistles candoubiH?—I am anxious to let tbe publieknow somewhat more of " _Lic-tor , " whose diatribes have so often figured in jour columns . This omnipotent dictator , when _Gripped of his disguise , is none other than '' plain

      John _VTatkins , " better known as " Pious John Waikins . " At one time lie professed to be the devoted friend of Feargus O'Connor : now he is his vengeful and vindictive foe . Soman save himself could invent such nngentlemanly epithets as he from time to time applies to that gentleman . Sneh is the refinement of his vocabulary , that thief and _swismir are the terms he most frequently makes use of . He must either lave associated with very low company , or have very little respect for good breeding ; or he would not thus wfllinglr degrade himself in the eyes of an unprejudiced public Truly he is an extraordinary character ; and thus may , therefore , merit some little

      consideration . I am not- about to become Mr . O'Connor ' s _apologist . Those who know him best will judge rightly _between hint and the huge CflZujnniator - but I mean to put the . Chartist public in possession of certain facts which Mr . "Zfefor" may digest if he can , or deny at his leisure . In the firstplace I mean to tike this Hercules by the beard , by telling him that the whole of his political _career has been remarkably absurd and ridiculous . I know that he ought not to be censured for this— 'tis _, hit , nature , or infirmity . His mind is so corrosive , that he might have been fed during childhood on sops stoeped in vinegar , Minds so constituted are ever " snowa to

      " -Wither at another ' s joy , And hate that excellence tliey cannot reach . " This will account for many of his remarkable inconsistencies , to a few of which I now inrite the attention of your readers . "Richard , Duke of Glostcr , " must hav _* been the model which _"Xictor" has copied through life . likehis prototype , he affected tobemost austere ; and actually undertook a pPgrimage to fork ' s venerable city . Doubtless you expecthe went to visit some of the saints ; but , in truth , his visit was one of _condo-Tenseto O'Connor . ! Thus commenced the first act of his political life . Those who have read his rhapsodies published at tliat time , will remember bow extravagant were the praises he lavished on the "lion of Chartism i " praises lavished simply because he had an object

      in view . When it was said that 3 Ir . _O'Gonner was making rides out of the Star , Watkins undertook to defend him . , denying on his own knowledge that sueh was the fact , Tiic . * e iluugs arc matters of history ; and cannot be doubted now . At that time he literally worshipped the man whose destruction he has once panted for , audstruggledso earnestly to obtain . In 1841 , this specious dissembler was fearful that he was abwt to die . Nothing was heard of then but sympathy for the Chartist saint . He was so grateful to those he now calls tlie O'Connorite Chartists , that lie wrote six sermons , which 3 ae _* be < _jtiea . thed as a " legacy U tiie people " _H-m he died -then , many would Lave believed in his political integrity , who have since been compelledtoconsiderhimadisappointedadventurer . In

      bis sermons he spoke largely of brotherly love and christian charity ; both ofwhich virtues he has since practised about as much as his prototype " Dick , " whose policy lie seems to have adopted to the letter . Amongst other things , he has accused Mr . O'Connor of wanting to sen the Chartist prisoners of Lancaster . I was one of the Shy-nine tried there ; and I have the gratitude to thank Mr . O'Connor for the extraordinary exertions that he then made to save the movement on the one hand , and reseueihe prisoners on the other . Doubtless Mr . "Xictor" would have dramatised the thing , had some twenty followed the -Welsh patriots , out of whose sufferings he managed to wring a penny or two , by _dramaiiang their sufferings . Is he disappointed thai be could not make merchandise of our connections ?

      _"Uctor" has never told the public what first induced him to assail 3 fr . O'Connor . Say , more , he has no wish to tell it However , _M tell it for liim . Sometime in February , 1 * 13 , whilst the Lancaster trials were pending , J !* . _Watldns wrote a scurrilous letter against the Executive . The following week 3 Ir . O'Connor announced that no more of WafMns ' s phillipics should be published in the Star ; and from that moment Watkins has been distilling his very blood in venom in order to injure O'Connor . Trior to this there was never a more _txme-seri : hvj , co > dea > ptMc sycophant , than this Watldns , in connection with the cause of Chartism . I do not wonder at Ms _urgency in wanting to get rid of O'Connor . " He may well" iinpeach him , and bid him be gonebecause O'Connor ' s very presence must be a

      con-, tinual reproach to him . He knows how much he has ¦ striven toi . Mure Mm : and to fcnow that the object of his envy , and the Star , are fixed in London now , chafes hhn to v = a . biess . He has forgot hiscantingand praying now , and liis whole existence is spent in seeking to gratifv malicious revenge . He a Chartist i—he would _am-nllr-v . .- it to-day , if be could » y so doing destroy the Star and O'Connor . A word in conclusion to tlie " _Independent _Ch-irrists . " Think not that I am opposed to you , or vour opinion ? . If your desire be , as you say , toputdouiimeousistency , _rsgiaby "putting down " your own Jan « s- { aced omde . If yon love Chartism , do not allow Watkins any longer to defile it . ne is no Chartin . Xature never made him oue . It were much ** _an * T to make a parson of him uian a patriot . The

      hitler must be possessed of a generous heart and a _virtuous mind : your leader is devoid of both these _Sualitte-. . He isnot even just , nrwva less honourable _lle voaia banish O'Connor , simply because he is an _^ man . How very recently he has called to miud a « IJ _arewnstance . ' "Also is * he , however , tliat he _slwdil _laiM anv or ..-1 1 would _liilia' any evil befell Chartism iba _,, 7 ua , j si _,. iUid be compelled to consort with stu ? b a man for bad he bnt the power be pants to ik-. ss . s 5 . _jj t wcaJ ( i _ j ; :. . -, _jjs _proiot-ypc " Biehar'l , " pt-. y the tyrant -. . _^ h - _vi-n-rtsmec . _Ev-as now he is so _hatvtv . ; , ' - " "a' - hi * . _Jiairihes "" iiavt i « _appear u " - **•••• a « i . i . itt * mat , w ]) 0 _jj u ,-, VlC : _^ a » _-i \> v . ! i the _vaniiy of tosh in _. _"cU-t V-. _ivWJi-i- y _, _\* -. " _ixxblv . s ' let Mm touik :- - i _;^ _--. - -:, _^ . . --pi , - ; . ¦ _> - ; _- _, _" . .=-icl .. * ' * _-. _t-. d ** _ThTO he

      Ha. Thomas Cooper Asd Mr. O'Coxxo ***..—...

      is tired , let bim repeat of his . past offences , if heaven can bequeath so much grape to sueh an unaccountable sinner—I ain yours , David Ross . Tue Members ok the Ge . vj- . iial Council Reside ; . -- ? in 3 _Tanchesti * r . — To the Chartists of Great Britain and Ireland . — . Brethren , —Having seen in the Northern Star of Saturday last several resolutions agreed to at various meetings of Chartist's , thanking us for the part wc took iu the late investigation ofthe charges preferred against _feavgus O'Connor , Esq ., by Dr . P . M . M'Douall , we hereby cordially acknowledge the sam « , receiving them , not so much as tokens of gratitude for auy service rendered by us , as an expression of your opinion , in unison witli our own , on the facts and statements laid , through us , before you on that unpleasant occasion ; hut although we do _nt't consider any thanks due to us for doing only what duty and a strict sense of justice demanded , yet we do feel _oui-selves encouraged and stimulated by vour recorded opinions to a still more

      ardent perseverance in ourpursuitof justice and liberty for all * , notwithstanding we may , in our course , in addition to the sufferings inflicted by our oppressors , have our _feeUngs wounded by the necessity imposed on us of unmasking and denouncing the pretended or apostate friend , whom we bad perhaps , too longlookcd upon , loved , and cherished as one of our chosen champions in the life-and -death struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor . Brethren , hoping that the petty obstructions which ever and anon rise up in our line of march , will only have tlie effect of increasing our energy and determination to move onwards till we attain the goal of _fl-eeuom , we remain , yours , in the cause of true democracy , The Members of tlie General _ComicU of ihe _National Charter Association , residing in the locality of Mandicsier . Thomas Rankin , Chairman . _IViiliah Smith , _Sub-Sccrctary . Council-room , Carpenters' Hall , Manchester , February 24 , _181 _S .

      Ma . Hamek , Oldham . —\ Y e cannot have any orders sent to the office , by any persons , except they also pay to the office - _. those vvlw pay to Ilr . Heywood , must order iheir papers of him . If auy of his agents order additional papers , which are sent , their letters are invariably forwarded to > lr . Heywood , after -they are attended to , and sueh a mode of doing business is not very convenient . Jons SinowAT , Roues , France . —A letter has been sent by post , answering all his questions . James _JHonteith , Tillvcoultrv . —The address 7 he will see has been mainly anticipated by the letter of Mr , . Melville , but it shall appear next week . Keighlby Woolcombees . _—Sext week . Pcteb Stbatherx , Dundee . —The address shall appear next week . John Stabkie , Maschestee . —We will notice your

      communication next week . James _H . VLLnvELi , _Hejtonstau .. —What is the nature of the vicar's rate 1 How is it laid 1 On . whom is it assessed ? Who has collected it before ? and how has such collector been appointed ? We need information on alt these points , before we can advise on the matter submitted . Mh . Peplow will see thai tbe publication of his note is rendered unnecessary . 1 aM £ s White , Poktsea , _sbould correspond with Mr . W . _Hamer , Heslop ' s Temperance Coffee-house , Oldham , and leam from bun the particulars as to tlie mode of erecting a Hall for Chartist purposes . EM 3 U ,. De » bt . —If tlie house was taken yearly , mid no special agreement as to notice entered into , six months ' notice is required , to end on the last nay of Hie year of tenancy . r _WooTES-nNBER-EDGE . —The husbaud of the deceased is

      _entitled to the legacy . ilK . _O'CONNOC will attend the Tea-party at Carpenters ' Hall oh Good Friday ; and will address the people of Salford on Saturday , the following evening . Alex . M'Clemekt _. —The claim of ihe parties on whose behalf he seeks advice is lost hy the Statute of Limitation . _Gibvak . —The whole of the Truck . Act has been published in tlie _NorQtern . Star—the system ef paying in " truck" instead of in money is fttegal ; and all monies that have been thus withheld maybe recovered from the employer . _Saucel Clt . sc , RocnDALE . r—We cawnot comply with bis request . The * ' copy' in such cases is not preserved . Most likelv the reports he speaks of have been

      rewritten at the office—they not being fit for insertion when sent . Wm . Hameb , Oldham , akd S . _Tavloh , Hots-ton . — Once for all we state , that in remarking on the published strictures of Messrs . Hell and Hirst on the Executive , we did not say anything that could , by the . most yewerse and ingenious mind , be tortured into an attack on tlieir " character ; " and we cannot but think that tlie attempt to misrepresent us , so industriously made by somebody , bespeaks anything but a fair intention . The "Head PAcincAToa _!*"— -Beauties or Tom Steele . —We take the foUowing from the Dubliii Monitor of Monday last : — " Our readcrsmay be awarethat'O'Connell ' s Head Pacificator of all Ireland , ' the renowned Tom

      Steele , has been for some months on a mission of pacification through some of the districts in Ireland where Iiibbonism is most prevalent , and where murders and outrages are of rather too frequent occurrence . Were such a mission likely to be productive of beneficial results , we should most sincerely rejoice in it , and most heartily commend it . But the very contrary appears to be the effect of _thcHead Pacificator ' s presence in the various localities . We do not say that the object of liis mission is not to pacificate—but we do say ihat tho language be employs—that his personal bearing and g-. 'ncral conduct , has a far greater tendency to increase crime than to repress it . To make good our assertion , and illustrate _oilfmeaning , we beg to make one extract from a speech ,

      reported hi the Tipperary Vindicator by Tom Steele himself , as spoken by him at a public meeting on the _HiU of Portrue , on Sunday week last : — " There is , you all know , an _unsanctined vagabond in _Scnagh , called Kcmpston , the editor of theNenagh Guardian , a journal stupid , vapid , and wicked , for as far as its puny efforts could attempt it , it tried to throw ridicule upon the _ui-ertions of my friend , Mr . _Lenihan of the Vindicator , and _myself for the restoration of peace and order , and the securing human life and private property in the county of Tipperary . Sine groans for Kenipston , and for Lord de Grey , ilie late Lord Lieutenant , and the other signers of the projected Clontarf massacre proclamation , and for Ogle , and Brophy , and Parker , of Shinrone . ( Continued _groanings and

      hootings . ) And now , my friends , I have news for you—it is , of course { as jou all know ) quite certain tliat Kempston , of the Guardian , can have no chance of salvation , but there is no possible danger of his eternal perdition , and for this reason : when he dies , his soul is in such a state of _floisorac , carrion . pidrefaction , fhat the very moment U shall first hiss in tfic fire of the place to which it must descend , the smell of it will be so loatJisomely inodorous ( I use the word for the sahe of euphony , instead of _haviug recourse to a coarse word of one syllable , ) that the Devil , feeling remorse for lhe first time , vM not aggravate Hie tortures of the _dtcetters in his torrid kingdom , but will take a pitchfork _* nd fling Kempston ' s soul out of the fire , and stuff it into a _dungltill , its resting place for eternity , during seeula seculonvm . '( Tremendous shouts of laughter . )

      ' Now , not being on such intimate terms with the Sovereign of the "Torrid _Engtlom" as Mr . Steele professes to be , wcshallnotquestionhisinformationabout the ultimate destination of " Kempton ' ssoul ; " but , having some little knowledge of human nature , we , in ail sober earnestness , asH Mr , O'ConneU , is it with his sanction that Steele is perambulating the disturbed districts of Tipperary , and using in his harangues to the people such language as this ? Talk of " restoring peace and order , " indeed : —talk of " securing human life and private property , " when an incendiary of this sort is permitted to range at large , using language the

      direct tendency of which is to mark men as prey for tbe midnight assassin . More atrocious language wc never read . We put it to Mr . O'Connell—does he sanction it ! Steele is the paid official of the Repeal Association , and reaUy tliat body should exercise some control over his actions , and seek to keep bim within the bounds of common decency . As for Steele ' s mission having any beneficial effect in " seeming life and property" in Tipperary , it is utterly absurd to imagine sueh a thing , when we find him inciting the peasantry by the use of such diabolical language . Security , indeed : —we would just as soon espect to promote " security" hy sending a bomb-shell into a powder-magazine .

      Comnial Information . —Thomas Wilson . —For the information you require , we must refer you to the office of _Messr _*? . Simmonds and Clowes , 18 . Cornhill , London —an office intended , and established for the purpose of concentrating the commission and agency business for the Colonies ; giving extended publicity to business announcements * , procuring anil communicating authentic information in regard to tlie sale and purchase of lands and merchandise , home and colonial ; facilitating the departure of passengers and the transmission of small parcels ; providing outfit * , effecting marine and life assurances ; and furnishing to tlie next of kin , from

      intestate estates , administration of the real and personal property of such deceased persons , together with other busineo ? , which is transacted on a moderate commi g . sion to all parties interested in , or proceeding to , the British Colonies and foreign possessions beyond the seas . We doubt not but tliat at tlie above office our correspondent may be furnished with explicit and satisfactory answers to his queries . A Cobbettite , _Tbesion , asks— "Is the Thomas Preston , the author of the ' plan for renovating public prosperity , ' « fcc , tlie same man who , in the terrible days of Sidmouth and Castlereagh , was known by the name of ' Preston , the cobbler V "—Yes .

      If-IosncA Stowell , who lived in Ashton-under-Lyne , in August , 1812 , who was one oi the sis delegates , and removed to Carlisle , from thence to Wigton , and who is now supposed to be in the neighbourhood of _Newcastie-v . pon-Tyiie , will correspond with James Heaton , pawnbroker , CHQieroe , lie will hear ofsomethingtohis advantage . Mn . Tattj ; ksall ' s Testimonial Committee respectfully acknowledge the following sums received fi om various localities <—A few friends from Xew Ground Top , Is . Td . - Oswaldtwistle , per P . Rigby , ICs .: _Haslingdeu , per J . Holt and Henry Taylor , 3 s . fid . ; Millwood , near Todinordm , per Enoch _Hc-isfall , 10 s . 6 d . ; Hng-* gat , _\ por Dfliiicl ilt-lman- 10 s . Old .: Mr . Buchanan , _Cni'dsh _* , is . _Roeeut Bcitnr . LL . —We have no room ihis woek . E . F' . ff . D _Uomkowj . _—NcToom .

      Monies Received By Mr. O'Connor

      MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'CONNOR

      FOK THE _J-XUCUTlVE . -C s- d . From Mr . . Tames Moir , Glasgow _« 11 rt From Yale of Leven , by asixpenny levy upon the members .. " ; " .. .. 100

      1 > _EFENCE _FUNJl . From J . Gillies , llutberglon . .. .. ., .. o 0 il BUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL . From Lundy , Hull .. .. - . 0 1 _loj RECEIPTS PUR , GENERAL SECRETARY _, s ubscui moss _, s . d . -1- ' •• Southampton .. o : 1 o Mussley •• ° •* ° Emmctt Brigade .. o % 0 Watcrhead Mill .. « *• <» Sheffield .. .. o 12 G Tavistock .. .. 0 5 S Manchester .. .. 1 ir > g Hull .. - _„ U 5 Q Rochdale .. .. 090 Truro 0 1 0 Oldham .. .. o 7 7 ACCOUNT BOOKS , _& C . Chelsea and Pimlieoo 4 0 _Maeelfsfield .. 040 Longton .. .. 040 Truro , cards .. Oil Hauley .. .. n 4 0 VICTIM FUND . Wadsworth-vow 0 7 0

      MHS . _LLL 1 S . Southampton 0 2 0 THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER . The Sub-secretaries of the different localities are requested to observe , tliat all nominations for the Executive Committee must be sent to the General Secretary previous to the llth of March * , and that the ekfltion of delegates to tlie ensuing Convention must take place between the 29 tb of March and the 16 th of April .

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      O.Ve Law For The Rich And Anomer For Tii...

      O . ve Law for the Rich and anomer for tiii * Poor . —Case op Miss OsBonsE .--Our readers will remember the flagrant case of Mrs . Tyrwhitt , a fashionable lady , who a short time ago was charged with having stolen a microscope ; a charge whieh was fully and unmistakeably proved by the evidence on the trial , but on whicli charge she was nevertheless acquitted by the base middle-class jury before whom she was tried . It will lie remembered that on that occasion the Clerkenwell Sessions Court was crowded with a gang of fashionable drones and plunderers , who hailed the acquittal of their worthy eomrogue with loud applause . That "lady" _stofc a microscope , but as the base jury were convinced that she

      did not steal it with a . " felonious intention " sho was acquitted ' . This premium fov aristocratic thievery has not been unproductive of its natural result ' s . Another " lady" has been charged with a lihe offence , stealing a pot of " potted meat . " This " lady" is a daughter of a Sir John Osborne , Bart ., who , wc believe , enjoys the privilege of legally plundering the nation through the medium of an office in the Customs . ' True to her caste instincts , and no doubt fired with the ambition to imitate the lady-thief Tyrwhitt , Miss Osborne walks off with the grocer ' s " potted meat . " The "lady" is rrcsted and locked up for * a day or two , and then forthwith we have the most sentimental of bowlings given publicity to inthe papers at the shocking hardship of a " lady" being confined in a

      prison . Miss Osborne was next let out on bail , a privilege which , though _noimnallyopen to all classes , is as practically and completely denied to the poor , owing to their poverty , as if hy statute the privilege was confined to the rich . On the 15 th of February the " lady" was re-examined , and the magistrate committed her for trial on the charge . On that occasion Mr . _Clarkson acted as counsel for the accused , and , quite irrelevantly to the case , entered into a long rigmarole shewing tlie excellent way in which the " lady " liad been brought up—the religious avid moral training she had had . In the eyes of all just men , this only makes the matter ton thousand times worse . The poor wretch , who , born in the purlieus of St . Giles ' s , who , through life , has been the victim of the most

      _homblccircumstances—a famishing , shivering , homeless , untaught creature , surrounded by the worst examples , and driven , as hy a resistless fate , to the commission of crime ; for such a being—and there are thousands—sueh a counsellor might well plead that the circumstances , sneh as we have spoken of , were if not a justification , at least a palliation of the criminality of the accused . Hut in the case of Miss Osborne , her " excellent taring" can only be regarded as an aggravation of her oftenee . This lawyer , Clarkson , had the daring impudence to characterise such offences as that laid to the aeeount of Miss Osborne , as being , in her ense " little eccentricities . " The hungry man who takes a loaf of bread is run down as a "thief ; " Miss

      Osborne , who wants for nothing , but because she wants . for nothing , takes a fancy to other people ' s " potted meat , " she , forsooth , is to be regarded as only chargeable with "little eccentricities" ! Well , "lad y " Osborne was committed for trial to the Middlesex Sessions , and on Tuesday last the trial should have come on , bnt in the course of the day the prosecutor informed the Assistant Judge , that he could not carry the bill before the Grand Jury , as the principal witness for the prosecution was missing ; and he did not know where he could be found . The Jud ge said the witness must be found , upon which says the reporter . *— " The prosecutor then left the court for the purpose of collecting the witnesses ; but , so soon as he had left , hispoliceman , who 19 also a witness , went

      in search of the prosecutor , and so on throughout the entire day—one going in search of another , until at last there was not one witness to be found , with the exception ofthe policeman . " At eight o clock the grand jury entered the court with the last bill found . The Judge said that it was most extraordinary that the witnesses in Miss Osborne ' s ease were not forthcoming . An officer ofthe court said there had been one in court " a short time since , but he was half drunk . He went away again , and said he was going to look for some other witnesses . —The Judge : It is an extraordinary proceeding . Let the whole of their recognisances be estreated , with the exception of the policeman ; and the prosecutor can , if he likes , press the indictment at the next session . "Yes ; the prosecutor can , if he likes , press tho indictment at the next 'session ; but wc would wager a

      tvifllc he never docs . How will he press the indictment without his principal witness ? The whole thing is a down-right fraud . The prosecutor goes to look for the witnesses , they go looking for the prosecutor . One of the witnesses appears in court drunk , and the principal one is smuggled out of the way , bribedundoubtedly bribed—not to appear . And this is British justice ! This is the way the " majesty of the offended law" is " avenged ' . " Where has there been an instance where tlie like fraud lias been permitted to save a poor offender ? Is there not one law for tlie rich and another for the poor ? What will the Weekly Chro . niclemansay tothiscase ? IIow will Mr . GeorgeSanning Ward , M . V ., get over this additional proof of " Hie natural and inevitable war of the rich mid the 2 > oor" ? There is that war . Not we , but the rich , the law , the law's executors , tlie system , and the system ' s supporters , are the war-makers , and the warupholders .

      •¦ Laws grind the poor , and rich men rule the laws , " But a day of right and retribution is coming , when justice shall no longer be trafficked with in the shambles of class-made law . 1 _CAFinnE of a Smugolixo Vessel at Liverpool . —Police Court . — Tuesday — William Pascoe , captain of the Ardent , from Flushing ¦ William Short , mate ; John Drain , John Bathgate , anil Griffith Parry , seamen belonging to her , were placed at the bar of the court , charged with smuggling tobacco . The ease , from its novelty and imp ortance , excited great interest . Mr . Brook , solicitor , attended on behalf of the Customs . Lieut . L . 0 . F . Walker , R . N ., inspector of the River Mersey , said , that inthe course of his duty on Monday last , the

      24 th Feb ., he boarded the Ardent , as she lay at the Sloyne , having arrived the same day . He pulled up alongside of her , and hailed her , and was answered by William Short , the mate . Witness asked where she was from , whether coastwise or foreign , and the mate replied from . Sligo , with a cargo of oate . Witness inquired when she left Sligo , and the mate answered , " Last Saturday week ; " upon which the witness observed that it was along time to be occupied by a voyage ironi Sligo . He then went on board , and he ordered the main hatch to be taken off , and , whilst his boatmen were so employed , the mate said , " She is a prize , and a good one . " Upon the hatch being removed , there was a strons smell of tobacco _.

      and hiany hundred half bales of foreign manufactured leaf tobacco were discovered , made up in canvas of about sixty-two pounds each , such as were called in Kent , " smugglers' packages . " The bales were about two feet in length . Mr . Brook produced the vessel' s register , with Captain _Pascoc's name regularly endorsed as master , and the magistrates ordered all the prisoners to be remanded until Saturday next . Mr . Brook , in reply to a question from the magistrates , stated , that tliere had only been two other instances during the last twenty-three years , where seizures had lieen made at Liverpool , at all to be compared in point- of magnitude with the present . * - .

      Fall or a C _* ur _* p . ~ CnoMEH , Feb . > 20 . —Early on Sunday morning last an extensive fall of the cliff took place at the signal _atation-hUi , near the light-house , spreading itself far and wide upon the beach , and covering an area of at least five or six acres . The cliff at this spot attains an elevation ef about 250 feet , and is composed of _unstratificd white and yellow sand , resting upon clay . Hundreds of persons have been attracted to the spot to witness its huge intermingled masses rent into lofty pinnacles and deep ravines by the overwhelming pressure'of the subterranean waters collected ; n the caverns ofthe cliff , and -presenting the idea of an earthquake , but happily without its concomitant horrors . — Norfolk Chronicle .

      Cuim . Cos . —Itis understood t ) m the suit instituted by Lieutenant Hill against Lieutenant Magan , for the seduction of his wife , has been compromised , and , therefore , thatthe public car will be spared the < _llselosmtf of some very disgusting particulars . It is said that the , defendant cancels a bond for £ 1 , 200 which he holds _against Mr . Nil ! , and that-an additional balsam will " bu applied to tlio injured husband ' s wowu ' . s , by a bonus of £ 600 . Mr . M .. » an is the gentleman who was sometime ago accused as'liaving _Iji-c-n concerned in the _voasting to death of an _unfoi - f unate Uliot named Flanagan . —Dublin World .

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      Inn . Fatal Poaching Affray at _Ckoome . —Wokcestkr , Monday . —Oil Satin-day the seven men who na _^ ft already undergone private examinations before the Worcestershire magistrates on the charge of the _lllUl'der of the gamekeeper , Thomas _Staitc , were again examined . Their names , it will be recollected , _*»' Joseph Farney . Samuel Turvey , William Bloomhold , George Brant , William Freeman , John Cooke , and _1- raneis Ferris ; and tlio whole ( with tlio exception of the two last-named , who have been discharged from custody ) were again remanded for further examination to Wednesday . Three others have been

      apprehended , and these were also examined oh Saturday , and remanded with the rest . Their names arc _Geoi-ge Lippitt , Thomas Hooper , and Thomas Collins . The examinations arc all conducted with the strictest privacy . Including the three men already committed for tho murder of the ill-fated Thomas Staitc ( two under the coroner ' s warrant , and one by the magistrates since _^ , there arc no less than ten prisoners now in the Worcester county gaol , charged with being concerned in the above shocking transaction . The wives and families of several of the accused have gone fo the union .

      CojiMimi . op Nine I _' _oaciiet . s . _—Woiiohestkii , _Wkusksbay Evkxix . _-- . —The result of to-day ' s final examination of the men mentioned in my last communication to tlie Morning Herald , as having been remanded on the charge ol'the murder of tlie gamekeeper , Thomas Staite , at Oroomo , was their full committal for trial at the Lent _Assizes . Narrow _Escam :. —Fivi : Lives _Savkd . — - On Tuesday afternoon , about three o clock , as a waterman , named White , was conveying six passengers in his boat by the Old Swan Pier , hear London-bridge , tlie WatermaR Steamer No . 3 , being about to embark passengers upon the pier , took White ' s boat in the starboard quarter with her larboard sponson , and immediately tlie whole of White ' s passengers , one of them being a woman with a child in her arms , were immersed in the river and struggling for life . The excitement on

      the shore was indescribable , as one of the male passengers swam to land , whilst the other fivo alternately sunk and rose in the water , the woman with the child clasping her infant in her bosom , holding it above the eddy with all ¦ a mother ' s instinct . Thos . Norcott , a waterman belonging to the Lower Tunnel Pier , Wapping , with great self-possession , though at a considerable risk , shoved his boat astern of the steamer , and by great and praiseworthy exertion succeeded in rescuing the whole party from impending death . lie . first turned his attention to the woman with " " lier child , whom , together witli another , lie placed safely Jn the head of his boat ; but , whilst picking up the others , he narrowly escaped swamping , as the water , several times flowed over the gunwale . Great credit is due to Norcott for the bold manner in which , at his great personal hazard , he rescued five fellow-creatures from a watery grave .

      _TiiAssronTATiox op the Convict Dai . mas for Life . —Our readers may remember that we some time back gave the full particulars of the respite of the above convict , who was found guilty . of the dreadful murder of a female on Battersea-bridge , with whom he was on terms of the greatest intimacy . While under sentence of death at Horsemonger-lane Gaol , Dahniis was reprieved during her Majesty ' s pleasure , but was afterwards removed to the Millbank prison , previous to his transportation for life . Orders were given to scrutinise the prisoner _' s conduct , and lie was to remain for a month in the prison , under medical surveillance . It now appears that the convict is not

      altogether to escape punishment , for since his admission into the hospital of Bethlehem , the medical « entlenien of that institution have doubted his insanity , * in fhet , they have stated that since his residence in that establishment , now about eight or nine months ago , he has exhibited no symptoms of insanity . This extraordinary _circuinstance has uccn duly reported to the Secretary of State , and the consequence is that Sir James Graham has issued an order for his removal from Bethlehem to his old quarters at Millbank prison , previous to his commuted sentence being carried into execution . The prisoner will now , consequently , be transported for life io one of the penal settlements .

      Finn at _Newingtox . _—Shortly after twelve o ' clock on Sunday morning , a fire broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr . _rlawbone _, oil andltalian warehouseman , Frances-street , facing St . Mary ' s Church , _Newiiigton . The engines of the parish , London Brigade , and West of England Office promptly attended , but by the time they arrived the flames were bursting forth through the windows and doorway . The Lambeth water works furnished an instant and abundant supply of water , from which the engines were worked with full vigour , but the firemen were unable to subdue the conflagration before halfpast one o ' clock , and not before property to the amount of several hundred pounds was consumed .

      A Foriijxate Recovery . — On Saturday afternoon , Mr . Hawkins , clerk to Messrs Mills , Thome , and S 0113 , brewers , Nine Elms , stepped , by mistake , on board the Putney steamer , at Nine Elms , and on discovering his error attempted to regain the pier , though the boat was under weigh , but he stepped short , fell into the river , and was saved with some difficulty , having narrowly escaped getting under the paddle-wheels . When taken out of the water , Mr . Hawkins ' s first exclamation wa 3 , " Where is -my bag ? " When he fell into the river he had in his hand a bag containing £ 900 in gold , silver , banknotes , and cheques ; and this bag had gone to the bottom ! A reward of £ 20 had the effect of

      _settimto work a good many persons , consisting of wherry _, men , Thames policemen , and others . The watermen acted in concert , having agreed tliat' all should share alike whoever might be the individual finder . The search was continued all the afternoon and during the night , with drags , boat-hooks , < £ sc ., and even by diving , and the lucky bag was at last fished up , at ten o ' clock on Sunday morning , by a man named Maynard . The- £ 20 were paid and honourably divided . Had the lost treasure , been carried out ti ) sea by the current , Mr . Hawkins's predicament would have been most painful in more senses than one , as he might have been subjected to an unjust imputation that the money had been otherwise disposed of . .

      Melancholy Event . —A melancholy and fatal event took place in the village of . Rodoret , in T'ieilniont , last month , by which the Rev . Daniel Ruffa , the clergyman of that place , and his family lost their lives . During the night an avalanche fell upon his residence , situated on an alpine steep ; his parishioners , alavmed . at the heavy -noise ofthe fall , hastened to the relief of their beloved young pastor , several hundred men were engaged for five hours before a passage could bo cleared through tlie snow , and when they had obtained an entrance into the liouse , a most distressing scene presented itself . The clergyman , aged 29 , his wife , aged 20 , and their infant son , were discovered quite dead . A servant shared the same fate . A favourite dog alone survived . This sad catastrophe has occasioned a mournful sensation tliroughout the Protestant valleys . The funeral oi the devoted family took place on the 20 th ult ., and was attended b y nearl y nil the inhabitants and manv ofthe ministers of ricdmont .

      Dabisg Hiohway Robbery near Leeds . —One of the most daring highway robberies that has happened in this neighbourhood for a number of years past , was perpetrated on Saturday night last , on the Leeds and Wetherby turnpike road . A man named Robert Wliite , who resides in a yard in Briggate , Leeds , is in custody . He was brought up before the West Riding magistrates on Tuesday last , at the Courtbouse , when the following evidence was adduced * . — Thos . Richardson stated : I am a grocer , and live in Leeds with my father-in-law Mr . John Kaye , whose servant I am . On Saturday night last , I was returning in a gig from a ' journey of business , and when 1 was getting towards Shailwell , on the other side ofthe Wellington Inn , I saw the prisoner walkinji

      towards Leeds . 1 was driving rather slowly at the time , and when I got opposite to him , he came off the footpath and took hold of the horse's head . I said , "Hollo , what do you want ? " He replied , "Your money or your life - " and running his hand along the reins , came - to tho gig where I was seated , and again demanded my money . Some parleying ensued , during which the witness offer ed him a few shillings , which the prisoner refused to take , and gcttiug upon the second step of the gig , he presented a pistol at the prosecutor ' s head , saying , "lour purse or your life instantly . "—Witness : ! told

      him the purse was not mine , and before I would part with it I would part with my life . Prisoner replied , "As the puree is not yours , if you'll give me two sovereigns and your watch , I'll let you go . " I told him I had no watch , but 1 would give him ono sovereign if he would go away qdictly . Prisoner declared , " I'll either have two , or I'll blow your brains out instantly . " The witness gave him two sovereigns , and he got off the gig , when prosecutor set off at a gallop . The prisoner then went towards Wetherby . _—Thewltncsa spoke positively as to the _ideutity ol the prisoner , both from his appearance and the tone of his voice . The prisoner was remanded .

      " Swell Mob . _"—Serioi ; s _Robbbr-i at Leeds . — On Tuesday morning last , four individuals ( two men and two women ) , having the appearanco of what is vulgarly denominated " _reg'lur swells , " were brought up at the Court-house , the women charged with robbing Ml'S . Ciarksim , green-grocer , in Kriggate , of tilG sum of £ 2 o 10 s ., and the men with being accomplices . The men , who have been known as * ' black-legs" and constant attendants at fairs and races for a period of from ten to fifteen years past , are each osHes . ? ed of ahorse and gig , with whieh it appears they and their '" ladies" travel from place to place in the exercise of their vocation , the nature of which may be casiiv

      opined , ihe names give :- m _. by the _p-utics are-\ Viii . Birch horse , clipper , Kdgeware _, Middlesex ; llouert Hugh * -, horse clipper , Oxford ; Hannah I uinpiirey , from Lincolnshire ; and Jflio . be Keatloy , Northampton . ' About _fouvo ' clovk on Saturday afternoon last , the female prisoners went to the shop ol idrs . Olarkso'j , and _botu-lit some oranges ami another ' trifling article . While they were in tin ; Sl ! 0 !> Mi ' s , 0 . hail occasion _w _. i . _- . _o-oj ) dinvn , and whilst m the bending posture she felt- a rubbimr against her person ; she immediately turned and looked at the prisoners , out saw nothing-to excite-her _ssuspifiion . Un _roMlmllUi her iWm « - position , she experienced

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      a similar . sensation ; but deceived by the respectable appearance ofthe parties , she thought they , must have come against hoi * accident . }* . Soon after the women rather hurriedly loft tho shop , and turned round the _cornerleadiiigtotlieshambles—alongwhieli they proceeded at such a rap id pace as to attract attention . Mrs . Clarkson , not long after their departure , discovered thatanurse had been abstracted from her pocket , containing twenty-six sovereigns , one half sovereign a spade guinea , a French coin , and a shilling ot old date . Information was given of tho robbery at tho police-office , when police-officers Slubbs , Cordukcs , and Kell , went in search of the prisoners , and aftorimich trouble and perseverance , found that the parties had been lodging at the Junction Inn New Road End , from Thursday until Saturday morn ! ing , when the landlady , not being satisfied with the manner in which , they conducted themselves , refused to entertain them any longer .. From the Junction

      it was found they had gone to the Black Bull , in Ifunslet-Iane , wliich place they left on Saturday uight . From information obtained , the chief-coiistable ( Mr . Read ) ordered the above named officers to proceed on the road to Wakefield , and on doing so soon discovered they wens in the right direction . On . Sunday , they learnt that tho prisoners had slept at New Miller Dam , about three miks from Wakefield , on the rand to lianwley . From _jN _' cw Miller Dam , it was found thoy had gone by a cross read to Doneaster , at which place they were apprehended . Thoy were found at a public-house called the Marquis of Oranbv . On the person of Humphrey was found £ 10 I is ; on Keatley £ S Us . Id ; one 'Birch two halfsovereigns and Os . Gd . in silver : and on Hughes lis . and a French coin , which Mrs . Clarkson win identify , as well as two marked sovereigns found _. upon the person of Hannah Humphrey . Tlie prisoners were remanded .

      Bnr . _AvrvL Fmi : in _Oueapmde . — N . \ nno \ v Escave ok a _iviiolk Family . —Or Thursday morning , shortly after one o ' clock ,, tiie immediate -vicinity of _Cheapside was thrown into a state of tho greatest alarm and excitement in consequence ofthe sudden outbreak of a most serious lire upon the extensive range of premises belonging to Messrs . Courtould and Taylor , crape-manuiaeturers , situate at No . 42 , . Gutter-lane . The first' discovery was made by policeconstable Gormon , who succeeded in arousing Mr . Taylor , his wile , and three othor females , who all made their ' appearance at the second-floor front .

      The fire by that time bad obtained sueh a firm hold , and the smoke was ascending in sueh dense bodies up the staircase , that none of the inmates were able to descend by the usual means . The police having opened thejumping-sheet ofthe London Fire Establishment , three females precipitated themselves from the second floor , and _tvere received iu safety Mow . Mrs . Taylor and another female effected their escape by sliding down the ladder . Tho firemen were unable to extinguish the conflagration until past two o ' clock , and not _ncfore the flames bad reached almost every portion ofthe three lower floors ofthe building .

      _AnniTioxAL 1 _' ARTicoLAits . —The five in Chitter-lane was attended by a serious accident to one of tlie inmates . ' 1 he premises in which the lire commenced were'in the occupation of Messrs . Courtold , Taylors , and Courtold , crape and silk merchants . They were five floors in height , with a frontage of considerable extent . The inmates consisted of Mr . P . A . Taylor , jun ., his , wife , and two female , servants . One ot the latter , Caroline Norris , a young woman about 25 , was so severely injured , that lor two __ hours after the fire was extinguished she was insensible . It appears that she jumped from the second Hoor , intending to fall upon the sheet lire escape , which several persons were holding underneath . The flames , however , _buvsting through the warehouse window with

      violence , they drove some of the parties back , and instead of falling into the centre of the escape , she fell at the side , and from thence on to the stone ment . The house-keeper was saved by _thi- _^^ herself into the escape sheet . The damage d _^ Messrs . Courtold , Taylor , and Co . ' s property _l ° no mated at near- £ 10 , 0 ( 10 . * _s ® 1 ' _EsoAru _pbom _Pprso _. v . —In calling the atten * i ° " of our readers to tlie many and melanchol y instances of _nnsnceessfid escape from poison , it necessaril rejoices our hearts to be able to make mention of the escape of a whole family and their friends from the deleterious results of systematically administered arsenic in soup and coffee . Tho party were all seized the nextmorning with severe illness , and some kept their beds lor three days . Tliis happened about a week ago in Connaught-terrace , and the rector of St . Mary ' s ( the llev . Dr . Dibiiin ) had nearly been in tlie number cf tlie- victims . The amiable host and hostess may be

      said to have very narrowly escaped from the poison inserted in the coffee , The next morning the papers told the talc of a gentleman and his lad y , ofthe _nams of Montagu , having been poisoned by tea . We can make little doubt but death walks abroad in this shape ( poison , b y some means or other ) in a variety _fif undiscovered instances . The chain of evidence is difficult of unravelling _^ Meantime some means should be adopted by the _legislature to regulate the sale of poisons by chemists . The _AluanER ir _IlAiirsiEAn , ( continued from pecje 6 . _)—Adjourned . _Ixquest . — Mr . Wakley , Coroner for Middlesex , Mr . G . J . Mills , Deputy Coroner , and tho jury empanelled to inquire- into the jircumstanccs connected with the late nuirdci * near

      I _' rimrose-hill , re-assembled on Thursday morning at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern , Hampstead . Tho / irsfc witness ' examined was Mr . Perry , the surgeon , and his evidence having been read over , he added the results of the postmortem examination . He found various bruises of the scalp and other smaller injurics . On examining the under surface ofthe scalp , he found it much bruised and blackened from repeated blows . The left temporal muscle was much softened and exceedingly black , and-on removing the skull cap , the brain , was found to be quitehealthy , and no effusion of auy kind upon it , and there was no fracture of the , skull . . There was no extravasation of blood ; in fact , as he had already said , the brain was quite healthy . He ascribed

      the death to concussion of the brain , from repented blows . The other parts of . the bodv were not opened . They were not such injuries as " could have been inflicted by a fall , —Mr . Ferry requested that he migjit be allowed to . eorrect a mistake he had fallen into m the course of the last examination . He had stated the _, n that the injuries were inflicted by a blunt cutting instrument , * he was now of opinion , from closer examination , that they were inflicted by a heavy weapon , as a stick or crowbar . —Edward Scottney , 21 I , then examined upon oath : I belong to the Hammersmith station of police . 1 took Thomas Henry Hocker into custody on suspicion of

      being concerned in the murder of the late James Delarue . 'lhe witness proceeded to detail the circumstances of the prisoner's arrest ' ( which will be found in another part of this paper ); but the coroner stopped the _proceedings , objecting to receive evidence touching an absent man ; and it appeared there were some difficulties in the way of producing the prisoner , who is at present in Clerkenwell gaol . The coroner commented at some length on tlie alleged obstacles put in the way Of tllO execution . of _llifl duties , wliich lie ] nt ! matc 3 would be made subject of discussion in a higher quarter ; and after a consultation with the jury the inquest was again adjourned to Saturday morning-, at half past nine ,

      itonBERY at _Kkiv CnuRcii . —On Sunday morning last , Kcw Church ( wliich stands in the centre of Kew Green ) was entered by some thieves , who earned away a box which contained the parish registers , and a book , in which was entered a list of charitable bequests belonging to the parish . The object of tbe robbers was probably the . communion plate ; but that is in safer keeping . There is at present no clue to the offenders ; the police , however , arc duly on the alert . _l'lrnnopiiont . * . by iuk Bite of a Healthy IIonsE . —A strong hostler , aged thirty , never bitten by a dog , hut three yours ago a healthy horse , to which he was giving fodder , bit him on the left fore-arm , but the wound healed by itself without any perceptible scar .

      Now , after a restless night , the patient was found labouring under all the symptons of h ydrophobia . He did not complain of particular pains , but of inexpressible anguish , by which hewasforcedto throw himself about constantly , to move the limbs violently , and to scream out incessantly . His consciousness was unaffected , he showed no tendency to bite , aud could controul himself sufficiently . The conjucliva was highly congested ; the pupils contracted ; respiration accelerated anil difficult ; the skin moderately warm and moist . The patient _sgat frequently , and expectorated a tough scanty mucus , the pituitons membrane of the mouth being very red and dry . During the whole disease neither stool nor urine was discharged . The pulse was small and irregular , and a bright light increased the patient ' s" anguish co _.-is-dorably . He was dead in nine hours after tbe commencement of the attack . —Medical Times .

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      _HuRRiu * eou Peel's TAareF!—Another Reduction * is the 1 Tans-loom Weavers' _WAOEs .-Mnotlier reduction has taken place at Blackburn , in the Hand-loom AVeavcrs' miserable wages . On Saturday last , a weaver took three cuts in , the week ' s work oi two weavers , expecting to receive Gs . 8 d . per cut ; hut , to bis gi'eat surprise and mortification , he only received 0 s ., or 18 s . instead of " 20 s . for the whole : This 3 _, $ tlie second reduction of Sd , per cut since last summer , on this fabric of cloth . '

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      1 ower Hamlets . —Mr . P . M'Grath will lecture at the White-horse , St . . Mary-street , Whitcohapel , on Sunday evening next , at half-past seven o ' clock precisely . Th < _T monthly meeting ol" the General Councillors , residing , in the Tower Hamlets , . will be held at the White Horse , St . Mary-stvcet , Whilechapel , on Sunday evening , at six o ' cloak . I > ETiis . _* j > i 5 UK _* _EN _* . —A lecture will be delivered by Mr . V . M'Grath , at the Whittington and Cat , Church-row , on Sunday evening next , to _CotttUWSUfttj at-nine precisely , _iiAMM' _-nsMU'ir . —A iaeetii 5 . ij-. vlll ' - > _i- ' , - , . at tho _Dun-C-jw _, _ljrook-yecu-kne , on : Tuesday ; . ; ing next , at eiriio o ' clock .

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      City or Lo . vihw . —The adjourned discussion _* ' be resumed at the Hall , " I , Tuviuigain-lane , on Sunday morning nexr , . March -Jin ! , a *; half-past ten . The-Metropolitan l . i _.-ii'iet Council will meet in the afternoon at three . o'clock . Camuerivk / x _Axn-W . _iL-ivonrH .- —\ meeting will be held at the Montpclicr-iuvoni . Walworth , on Monday evening next , March . ' . nl , at . eight o ' clock . Emmett Brigade . — A meeting will be held at the Rock-tavern , Lisson-grove , Marylebone , on Sunday evening , at eight o'clock . * Westminster . —!! , meeting will lie held at fhe Clock-house , on Sunday evening next , at half-past seven precisely . _, ; _, _,. Someus Town * . —Mr . : ' - 1 '' - kinder will lecture at the _Bricklavoi-s ' -Arm ? , Tonbrid _^ e-street , _Cromerstreet , on Sunday evening next , at half-past seven o ' clock precisely .

      St . I _' ancbas . —1 meeting will beheld at she _Feathei-s _' -tavcrn , AVarrcn-strect , Tottciiham-courtroad , on Monday evening next , to consider the propriety of forming a Benevolent Chartist Ih . _namic Society ; chair to ' bo taken at eight o clock , Coiimerciai .-ro . vi > . —The District Committee , formerly meeting at the Marquis of Granny , ltatcliS' _- cross , mo requested to inert on Thursday , March Cth _, at the Gloucester-Arms . Gloucester-street , Commercial-road , at eight o ' clock , p . m . Chelsea . —I _' _ost-oki'u . _'i : Kshonaoe . —A . meeting ofthe Chartists of Chelsea , I'inilico , and _Bronioton , will be held on Sunday evening next , at eight o ' clock , at the _Cbeshire-C-hecse , Grosvenor-row , to fake , into consideration the recent debates in the iffi' _-se of Commons on the Post-oliice spy system . Mr . i aiiaii Harney is expected U > attend .

      Duncombe Testimonial . —The central committe will meet at the Farthcninm Club-rooms , No . T 2 . St . Martiii _' s-lane , on Wednesday evening next , r . nd every succeeding Wednesday evening . Chair ' : r . k « i at half-past eight precisely . BiBMiNRiiAit Tailors . —A most important meeting oi' the tailors of Birmingham was held on Wednesday evening ; upwards of one thousand of the _tra-io attended . We have been promised a full report for the Star of nest week . . *\ _. jj * _...... ¦ -ifflf _^*^~

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      Life _ofA'oltaire . —Lord Brougham is _preparing a-Life of Voltaire . He is writing it in English and in French—and the work is to be brought out- ir : the two languages , simultaneously in London ana in Paris . —Mr . Macaulay , it is understood , intend - . * devoting his leisure for the next two years , to the completion of his History ofthe llcvelution of IGSS—and in consequence , the Edinburgh will be deprived of his contributions during that period . _Foreion * Cattle . —A fatal cattle disease has just broken out at Laekcn , a few miles from Brussels . Twenty head of cattle have already perished . 'The veterinary surgeons designate the disease vjphw charbonncux . In connexion with this fact we may state that the Commissioners' of the Customs have

      received a hitter worn . My . _CavdwcU , one of the . secre taries of the Treasury , to the effect that he was commanded by their lordships to state to the board , that information has been received fi-om various quarters ofthe prevalence of an infectious disorder mnong cattle in . several parts of the Continent , and to * ic- » ire that they would give directions to their officer . ' - " - "efully to examine any cattle imported bito this country , and in the event of their appearing to be infected with any disorder , not to permit them to be ' aaded without inspection and report as fo their soundness by some competent person , and to report the _o-ircura-. stances and their actual condition immediately so the board .

      Heaths. At Bath, On Monday Night, Februa...

      HEATHS . At Bath , on Monday night , February 17 , Kv . J . Twite , in _thesixty-iWi'thyoar ofhisago . His remains were interred on Monday last , followed to the grave by his bereaved widow , his several sons and daughters , and a number of bis ? political friends ar . d admirers . Mr . Twite was a democrat of forty years standing , and joined the Chartist ranks at the com tnencement of the agitation . He was for sevesral years , and up tothe time ol * his death , tr easurer to

      the Bath Chart isis . In private , as in public life , he was respected by all who knew him , anil has departed this life deeply lamented by a largo circle of friends . Death of the lli : v . Syrxky Smith . —AV ' cregret to announce the death of the-Rev . Sydney Smith . w : ; i ' _, after an illness of some weeks' duration , expired alius residence in Gr een-street , shortly before eleven o ' clock on Saturday evening . Dr . Holland and Mr . Ilibberts ( sons-in-law of tlie deceased j were both in attendance on tlieir lamented relative at the time of his death . Mr . Smith had attained his 74 th year .

      At Holbock , in the boroughjuf Lends , on the 25 th ult ., David Thomas , the youngest- son of Richard Thomas , a firm and _iimleviatiwr _advo' _-aie of the rights of the many . ' " _¦« .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 1, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_01031845/page/5/