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      TJEB FTVEDOSCHESTEB . LABOUBEBS . - - The Mstory t > f these victims of Whig tyranny , treachery , cowardice , ' and rapacity , has been so long anJ so often beforethe public , that It is unnecessary ferns now , in presenting their portraits to our read-* m to do more than to remind them that these are the Wrcbester labourers-and that the Glasgow Spinjrers are now waiting the infliction of like tender mercies , in the Colonies , with those which have been ¦ KMlergoTie by tbe Dorchester -victims , and some slight secouBt of which was given fromXoveless ' s pamphlet , in the first number of the Northern Star . "We sobjoin some other extracts below—in which all working laen are deeply interested—and we beg to repeat that

      every single word of that pamphlet is interesting to 5 and ought to be read and known , by every working jaan in the three kingdoms . On the loth of March , we were taken to the "County-hall to await our trial . As soon as we arrived we were -ushered down some steps into a miserable dungeon , opened but twice-a year , with nly a glimmering light ; and to make it more disagreeable , some wet and green brnshwood was served for firing . The smoke of this place , together ¦ with its natural dampness , amounted to nearly suffocation ; and in this most dreadful situation we passed three whole days . As to the trial , I need

      mention but little ; the whole proceedings were characterized by a shameful disregard of justice and decency ; the most unfair means were resorted to in order to frame an indictment against us ; the grand jury appeared to ransack heaven and earth to get some clue against us , but in vain- ; our characters were investigated from our infancy to the then present moment ; our masters were inquired of to know if we were not idle , or attended publieiouses , or some other fault in us ; and much as they were opposed to us , they had common lonesty enough to declare that we were good labouring servants , and that £ hey never heard of

      any complaint against us ; and when nothing whatever could "bo ruked together , the tinjnst and cruel judge , John Williams , ordered us to be tried for mutiny and conspiracy , under an act 3 * Geo . III .. cap . 1523 , for the suppression -of mutiny amongst the marines and seamen , several years ago , at the Nore . The greater part of the evidence against us , ¦ on . our . trial , was putinto the mouths of the witnesses by the judge ; ana when he evidently wished them to say any particular thing , and the witness would say , " I cannot remember , " he would say , *• Now think : I will give you another minute to consider ;" and hs would then repeat over the words , and ask

      " Cannot you remember . ? " Sometimes , by charging them to be careful what they said , by way of intimidation , they would merely answer " yes ; " and the judge would set the words down a ? proceeding from the witness . I shsll not soon forget Ms address to the jnry , in summing- up the evidence : among ether things , he told them , that if suth Societies -were allowed to exist , it would ruin masters , cause a stagnation in trade , destroy property , —and if they should not find us guilty , he was certain they would forfeit the opinion of the grand Jury . I thought to myself , there is no danger but we shall be found guilty , as we have a special jury for the

      purpose , selected from among those who are most -QnfrieBdly towards us—the grand jury , landowners , the petty-jury , land-renters . Under such a charge , from Bucb . a quarter , self-interest alone would induce them to say ' -Guilty . " The judge then inquired if we had any thing to say . I instantly forwarded the following short defence , in writing , to him : — " My Lord , if we have violated any law , it was not doDe intentionally : we have injured no man ' s reputation , character , person , or property : we were uniting together to preserve ourselves' our wives , and our children , from utter degradation and starvation .

      "We challenge any man , or number of man , to prove that we have acted , or intend to act , different from ihe above statement" The jndge asked if I wished it to be read in Court . I answered , " Yes . " It was then mumbled over to a part of tie jury , in such an inaudible manner , that although I knew what was there , I could not comprehend it . And here one of fiie counsel prevented sentence being passed , by declaring tbatnot one charge brought against any of the prisoners at die bar was proved , and that if we were found guilry a great number of persons would be dissatisfied ; " and I shall for one , " said he .

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      THE LAUGHING HYENAS . "We remember , in the years of childhood , listening with bonified astonishment to divers grave stories of the untameable ferocity and sangninaiy instinct of the hyena , and especially that the agony and Buffering of its victims were regarded by it with a delightful satisfaction , evincing itself in a laugh similar to that of the human species . This , above all the other traits of cruelty detailed of this brute , served to impress us with a deep sense of horror , and to inspire a feeling of self-grarulation , -that in England there were no hyenas . "We felt a sort of intuitive security that whatever hazards might be

      run from snakes , toads , and lizards , we were quite safe from the ravages of the hyena . Alas fpr our childish simplicity 1 which supposed that the genus i ) f this embodyment of cruelty was limited to one species , and that a four-legged one—a " Liberal " contemporary , smiled at our ignorance some vears ¦ a go , and assured us of tie existence of two-legged "h yenas in the House of Commons , who , if any man should be fool enough to bring in a Ten Hours' Bill , wcold instantly " laugh it out of the House . " Having ^ ved , however , to see a Ten Hours'Bill brought into that House , without being " laughed out , " we began to suspect that our " liberal" friend

      ¦ was Bot so great an adept in Natural History as might have been supposed , and had nearly settled flown into our former opinion , that , after all , the ¦ four legged ones were the only laughing hyenas in the world . The Parliamentary proceedings of Tuesday , howerer , have completely settled * the point . They have shown us that the most vicious " and most

      sanguinary of the hjena tribe are the two-legged ones , in the House of Lords , whom some ill-judging persons have supposed to belong to the genus Tiomo . On that occasion Earl Stanhope is reported by &e Morning Chronicle to have presented Beveral petitions for the repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act , ana to have read a letter from a clergyman of the Established Church , detailing some

      instances of cruelty and suffering , induced by the operation of this Act , at which the-blood of every human being , whose nature remains uneontaminated by bestial or infernal lusts , jnust run cold in his reins . B « d STANHOPE aid that in the erent of a « ammttee bemgappomted to inqtme into the working of tie Pcor Law Amwxhnmt Act , lie ^ wooHpToflneebefore it as » mtnesa tie « Jergjnn » ¦* £ <« letter he W x « d , aaa who would prove more cmm of the : crari , uncoMtitationil , ^ a tmchnrtian TOfang of the *? fie * the Bow coda get &xmgh in a fSf ^ L- ^ ^^ i One of these -km tilt of a ibSd who iffled finnadfnr consequence of the treatment he Buffered in tbe workhawe . A coroner ' * jmj brought in » Verdict of tempamy inMoity , but it oagfct to hare been wHfol amrter against Che oppreawn of the poor , who drove the TnaTimwnf . [ Leiy&er . l Another case was that of a yobm-• wonaa who was flogged like a wiaier . J 5

      Now , we defy the experience of the most attentive naturalist ; we defy the most exuberant overflow of fancy in" the most highly imaginative mind , to produce , or to suppose an instance of sanguinary instinct—or of more utter heartlessness and more demoniac gloating upon agonized endurance than is here afforded . Here are wretches who come into possession of the estates , and lands which belong to H # whole people , through the deeds of robbery and spoliation , and fraud and murder , committed by their ares in by-gone times-here are wretches who , many of ihem , are even now wringing - . from the hard hanil , the crippled limb , and sunken eye of poverty , its , very Blood , and smews—whereon to

      gorge themselves vnth . . all the varied luxuries afforded bj the Pensions of .-Ste State—some single families of whom havej within . t £ f : last twenty years , reeved . : nwr ^_ inoney irom < . jthe » jmblie purse , than would support the whole towji qf-Xeeds , allowiag a jjpand a . week , to " every , family . Eere * do these Devils exult in- , the malignity of- ' their * hearts over lie Trees ^ and sufferings and protraeted ' tortures and Jkge ^ . ^ tbs of their unnumbered victims , anaV # &z # A" when . they " hear- that their damned doings hare been ,. productive , in a single district , of "more creel , unconstitutional ,

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      and un-Christian cases , than the House could get through in a session" !!! Their risibility is provoked beyond suppression when they hear that a man has been murdered by the most barbarous and refined of all processes , that of first driving him insane , and then allowing him to kill himself . The idea of a poor man being thus butchered is really so amusing—so extremely funny , that the tickled fancy of the two-legged hyenas relieves itself in bursts of " laughter" !! !

      Do the people of this country need stronger evidence than this to show them that no sympathy ever does , or can , exist between the privileged Aristocracy and themselves ? How many of these " laughing hyenas" were , in point of intellect , upon a par with the brawler of Melton notoriety , or the disgusting brnte who , wallowing the other day in the mud of the public streets and channels , was kindly taken care of by the police , lest his worthless neck might be run over by a cab wheel , and who repaid the kindness of his protector by

      insolence , which , had he been a man and not a Lord , would have well entitled him to a few sound kicks on the unmentionable part of his person . No , matter the creature may be a born idiot , or a practiced brute of the most filthy character , he is " privileged" to insult the dignity of the Magisterial Bench , and " privileged" to "laugh" at the miseries of the poor ! Let them , however , beware that the laugh of insulting tyranny be not re-echoed by the laugh of desperation , and the upshot of their wickedness be speedily brought about . Certainly ,

      no more likely method of accomplishing the utter destruction of the established institutions and present forms of Government—no more certain means of bringing on their own physical , as well as moral and political annihilation , could have been devised by these hereditary hyena Legislators , than thus to " laugh" at the calamities of the poor . Here , too , sit the appointed guardians of that holy religion which consists in loving mercy and ~ in doing goodin " visiting the widows and the fatherless in their affliction , " and in administering to the necessities of

      the poor . Here sit the Bishops , and look calmly on , while their co-workers in the labour of iniquity " laugh" at the cries and mock the calamities of their poorer brethren , inflicted by themselves . We are not told whether " the holy men of God "—the priest 3 of State patronage— " laughed" with the others ; but there is no record of their interference to restrain this ill-timed and infamous levity , and we are warranted therefore in concluding that what they did not reprove , they approved . And these are our governors—these are they who make all the laws by

      which the happiness or misery of the whole people is promoted and ensured—these are they to whose hereditary wisdom the destinies of millions are with confidence consigned ! How long will the people submit to be thus " laughed" at ? How long will they tamely bear that the provision made for their happiness should be just that of the hawk for the sparrow , or rather that of the cat for the mouse , who at once makes her victim serve for the gratification of two appetites , Fport and prey ? "We tell them now , as we have told them often , that so long as they Buffei

      the few to make laws for the whole , so long will the interests of the many be disregarded—so long will the happiness of the many be uncafed for—so long will the miseries of the many be laughed at , by the few . How absurd is it to send their "humble petitions" for redress to those by whom their grievances are considered as food for merriment , when by a beld and unanimous determination , the system may at once be put an end to for ever , and not only redress for present grievances ensured , but a certain prevention of their recurrence ensured also ! Let

      them not be deceived by the tricks of the oppressors . LordWYNFOBD has moved for the " amendment " of the New Poor Law . Does he wish for its amendment ? Not he . He wishes to get rid of the " agitation of public meetings . " He " wishes these discussions to be put a stop tg . " So do we ; but not by the people tamely submitting to be butchered and laughed at . Whenever justice shall be done , then will " discussion " be at an end , and " agitation " be uo more heard of . Again . and again then shall

      our cry be reiterated—down with the hereditary powers of the-laug hing hyenas to legislate for the whole people—down with the monopoly of Legislation by any one portion of the people to the exclusion of another . Let Universal Suffrage be obtained instantly and securel y , and then farewell to legislative mirth at the sufferings of the poor—farewell to " agitation , " " Othello ' s occupation will be gone , " because the monarch shall rule in righteousness and justice , and mercy uphold the throne .

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      We have just time to refer our readers to the spirited meetings of Bradford and Keighley , reported in our present number . We are glad to learn that meetings of a like character are befar , and have been holden in various ofter partg oftte Factory Districts . We rejoice to see that the people . are alive , aad that the determination of the whole factory Population of both Yorkshire and Lancashire deliberatel y expressed at the great meeting in Leeds , last-November , for the settling of the question , is adhered to , that no alteration shall be permitted in the present Act which tends to remove one particle of the advantages secured to the infant slave by its provisions . We

      intended this week to enlarge on the provisions of Mr . FoxMatjle ' s insidjoog Bill , which is to be read a second time on Monday ; bnt we are happy to find this nmply done to our hands in the speeches of the Sev . G . S . BuiJL , " of Bradford , and of Mr . Bedfobd , at Keighliy . "We shall only , therefore , add our confirmation ' to * fce testimony of these gentlemen , that the whole thing is amply worthy of itsparentage—that a more perfect humbug , a more complete specimen of chicanery and trie *—a more wily , and at the same time a more clumsy , piece , of legislative legerdemain has never been produced .-in the annala of even . Whig Woffling , hypocritical , and blundering legislation . '' '

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      TWELVE THOUSAND WOMEN . Whigs , Tories , plunderers , usurpers , tyrants , and under whatever name you live in breeches , look above and tremble . Petticoat government is a thing that yon profess to despise , but to which at length yon must yield . It is with delight we direct attention to the account of Mr . Salt , of the meeting of twelve thousand women at Birmingham . The men of Birmingham fought one battle ^ and thought they had gained a triumph : but it has remained for the glorious women of Birmingham to give substance to the shadow . Thanks , everlasting thanks , are due to Mr . Salt for this new system of warfare . He writes to Mr . Elliott his intention of undertaking a mission , in the cause of the people : let the women , therefore , join with the men in doing him honour in the holy undertaking ; and as the attainment of Universal Suffrage is the object , let the manifestations of the men of Glasgow be worthy of the object . Birmingham , Manchester , Sheffield , Leeds , Newcastle , Edinburgh , Glasgow , andPaisley , form the watch towers ;

      and according to the manner in which the inhabitants of those several towns shall receive Mr . Salt , and evince their determination to co-operate with the women of Birmingham , does the fate of Europe now depend . Oh that we could throw the influence of the capital of our native land into the scale of profitable agitation ; but alas , while Englishmen and Scotchmen are thus contending against oppression is it not melancholy to behold a still more oppressed people , and the bravest upon earth , hugging their chains , and rivetting their bonds of slavery I While

      we are contending for perfect freedom , they are complaining of hunger , and reject the tendered morsel : they call out against religious persecution , while they are casting themselves into its golden net . When will Ireland see through the mist which has so long surrounded her ? When will her people awake from their slumber ? When will they arouse themselves , and say— " For thirty long years hive we been fighting the battles of a traitor , as he toldus , in honour of our God , and now has he handed us over as a prey to that church which he has taught

      us to loook upon as the arch-enemy of our religion , the destroyer of our happiness , and the curse of our country . " And is it possible that hehe who scouted-from the hustings , in . 1832 , all save those who would pledge themselves to the destruction of tithes , root aDd branch—is it possible , we aHk , that this sensitive Catholic has turned round in 182 J 8 to proclaim peace by the ascendancy of the Law Church ? "He would nevei pay more tithe ; he registered the vow in heaven . He was a Catholic , and ought not to be called upon to support another man ' b religion . As well may he be called upon to fee another man's doctor . " Under terror of the

      tow , the blinded millions followed his devotional example . He owes four years' arrears , and the gleanings from the poor man ' s table will discharge his church debt , while the " martyr , " for love of peace and honour of his God , asks those who have given their all to him , to pay their arrears alro , with costs into the bargain ; and to saddle themselves and their successors with the payment of tithes for evermore . Immortal Doyle ! Honoured in your grave , and still green in our affections;—thanks , O , thanks , that you who desired' ihat our hatred of tythes should be as lasting as our love of justice , — thank God you have not lived to see the Catholic faith sold by O'Connell at the Protestant altar .

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      NORTHERN UNION . Ib our eighth page will be found the report of the committee appointed by a meeting of the working men , held at Leeds , for the purpose of drawing up the objects of the great Northern Union , as reported to a second meeting by their secretary , Feargus O'Connor , which objects were cordially and unanimeusly adopted , when many persons , who never before belonged to any association , paid their entrance and became members .

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      " WHO IS THE TRAITOR ?" In our report of the recent trial before the Hudderefieid Magistrates , we made an attempt to attach something like consequence to the conduct of the new creations , hut the Mercury of last week , knowing the difficulty of gulling the good people of Hiiddenmeld , or of making their friends respectable , has , with a malicious malignity , frustrated our kindly intention . In speaking of the judgment , the Mercury tells us what the division was . The Mercury is by no means to blame ; it is just what we or any other

      caterer of new « would be glad to do , namely , to find novelty for their readers ; but then the idea of the bench of Magistrates , ( who tee understand pledged themselves not to mention the division upon thejudgmentj having one among them who could thus violate all semblance of decency , is a matter upon which we must have stronger proof than even the Mercury . A good natured friend ig a dangerous person and no doubt but the traitor will find that we who profess no friendship for the new creation , have been frustrated by the kindness of the Mercury in an endeavour to uphold some one , who , proud of

      his villany was determined to distinguiah himself per fas autnefas ; of course the gentlemen who sit on the Huddersfield Bench , whether Whigs or Tories will investigate the matter , and either decidedly refuse to sit with the traitor , or unanimously declare that the Mercury made a bad guess to gerve the eaute . By the way there was not a word of the Huddersfield case in the Leeds Edition of the Mercury . Now theHuddersfieldpeople wereacquaint edwifli it , and nothing could be more neeessary than that the Leeds readers should have been instructed upon so important a decision ; but it often happens that "ignorance is blis » . " ¦

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      P < i ^ 1 C T ^ Sn ?! C ^ 0 ^ * * received from Robert DibbjD . M . T ., and several other */ We vnU examine and report on them at our leisure C ^ & - ^ ai Ciov ^^ we have received a very temperate letter on this subjeci ^ e ^ 'ng'ome'taiemem ^ uilaztweek , we a , e sorry to be unrilTfrZ , vpnt o £ roomt * give it in our present number It shall apear in ow next . ' »» ' ««*»•

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      I . D . His letter next week . John Beaumont . We are sorry that his letter cannot be inserted at preseht . We have no room . . '¦¦' . : ' ¦''¦ . . ' : .. ¦ . ¦ ''' :. . ¦ .. - .. ' . rhe Leeds Times , and the Dewsbury Radical Association . We fiavi' received a very pungent arti ' clefrom the Radical Association at Dewsbury , relative to some statements of Me Leeds Times of last Saturday ^ about a Vestry Meeting at that t place . The letter should be sent to the paper in which the statements complained of appeared . We cannot interfere . W . S . T . — -We grounded ' our opinion as to the intention . of giving Sir W . Molesworfh a dinner upon the information of some Holbeck men , and our Correspondent mistakes our silence for giving the f act publicity . We think Sir W . M . deserves the compliment . We feel confident that it could \ bedone oh Whit Tuesday , and we shall gladly render our aid .

      Errata .- —In our last letter « f Ralahine , iitstead of Subscription to Mechanics Institute 21 s . per year , 5 s . per week read 5 d , and instead of one pint of ale per day at 3 d—3 d per week read Is . 9 d . per week . . ' ¦• . ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ .. . '¦ . .. - ¦ . ;¦ ¦ ¦ . . ¦ . Bronterre . —Tfe beg to inform our readers that ' ¦ Bronterre ' s Letter did not come tilt Friday evening , cotisequently it was too late for insertion this week . It is an admirable Letter upon the Irish Poor Law , andshallappear-next week .

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      , LEEDS . A Dear PENN \ WoRTfl .- ^ On Monday last , a respectable looking barber , named Richard Morgan , who performs his polling operations in Harper Street , was brought before the magistrates charged with having dared to shave a man , on Sunday morning last . The barber did not deny the charge ; but stated that the man whom h ^ e whaved was one of his regular ; customers , and he had come and begged very earnestly that ; the operation might be performed . He knew not how to refuse him , though he was by no means in the habit of shaving on Sundays . He had a very narrow escape of being fined 5 s . and 78 , 4 d . costs ; but the magistrates taking into consideration that it was the first time he had been brought up on

      a charge of the ki nd , said they would not convict him provided he would pay 3 s . 4 d . the cost of the summons . Thus the poor barber for enabling a man to have a clean face on a Sunday , must shave forty others for nothing ; and , had he been convicted , he would have had to scrape the chins of one hundred and forty nine men for a penny . If the law fined any body , certainly it tshould be the man who neglects to get shaved at a proper time , and not the barber who probably shaves on a Sunday more for the sake of not losing his customers than for the Sunday penny he gets by them . Query . Do the magistrates always shave themselves on a Saturday ?

      night Independent Order of bpDFELLows , M . U . On Easter Monday the officers of the Sovereign Lodge assembled at the house of Mr . Beecroft , Buffalo Inn , Richmond Road , Leeds , for the purpose of opening a new lod ge under the title of " Loyal Hibernia Lodge- No . 1430 . 'V After forty gentlemen had been initiated , the lodge was opened indue form , when the newly initiated brethren and visitors sat down to an excellent supperj after partaking of which , the evening was spent in the greatest harmony . At a late hour the company ^ broke up well pleased with the evening ' s entertainments , and with the order they had joined .

      _ WoRjc for a Dentist . —Francis George Kenny was charged on Thursday last with having assaulted a watchman while in the performance of bis duty . The complainant stated that on the night previous , at a little after ten o ' clock ^ he was called to quell a disturbance between the prisoner and his wife , who were quarrelling . He , the watchman , interfered to preserve the peace but was violently assaulted by the prisoner ^ who , he said had knocked three of his teeth down his throat ( laughter ^ . The prisoner in vindication of himself ¦ . ¦» ai . d that he had discovered his wife to have been faithless ; and that he had even found her , and her paramour together who did not deny the crime he laid to their charge . of this he

      In consequence was so exasperated that he . did hot know what he did ; and probably he might strike the Watchman . The magistrates thought such conduct was a very ill return for the kindness of the watchman in wanting to preserve peace amongst them . And the sentence of the Court was that the prisoner be fined 20 s . and costs or in default of payment be committed to prison for fourteen days . The prisoner finding he was to eo to gaol said he should like to have his ; wife up , for he would never live with her % ain . The poor fellow wept while he said all he had been doing the night before was attempting to get the ring off her finger when she screamed and brought the watchman . The magistrates replied that they could d « nothing for him .

      London Missionary Society . —The Rev . Richard Knill , the eloquent and devoted advocate of missions to the heathen , has been engaged dnring the' week in strenuously pleading the missionary cause in Leeds . On Sundayj he ^^ preached in Belgravei Salem ^ and Queen-street > hapels on Monday evening in Byron-street chapel ; on Tuesday eveningin George ' s-street chapel ; and on Wednesday evening in Holbeck chapel . ^ Stealing i Watch . —On Tuesday , Miles Pickles was brought up at the West Riding Maeisi trates' Office , Leedj , charged with iftViDg stolen a

      wateh , the property of David Strafford . who resides at Churwell . It appeared that on the Wednesday previous , he had ordered the prisone 1 r , who is a boy , to go to his house to havie something to eat . being well acquainted with him ; but while the woman was down in the cellar , the boy opened a chest of drawers and stole the wateh , which had recently cost ^ £ 3 10 s He pledged ^ it for 10 s ., and afterwards sold ^ he ^ ticket for Is . The watch has been found and identified ; When the prisoner wa « apprehended , he admitted having stolen the wateh . He was committed for trial to Wakefield House of Correction :

      Foot Race at Dongaster . —The great foot race , between Drinkwater , of Sheffield , and Farnsworth , of Coniebro ' , for £ 1520 , eame off on the Doncaster race-course , on Tuesday last ; the friends of the former staking £ 70 to the other ' s £ fi 0 . Tie dutance run was six miles , the men starting at a part of ^ the course between the fonrrmile startinepost and the end of the tails . - The race had for Kometime excited a great deal of interest ; and towards noon , the town was bo full pf strangers as to assume almost the appearance of a day at the annual meeting . Great numbers arrived from Sheffield , Barnsley , and the surrounding villages : and oh the pound were a considerable number of horsemen and ?!!!^^^^ ?* whole number of persons assembled esti mated at not

      . . was ^ less than ten thousand . .. Aboutjhalf-pastone , the men prepared them-• elvesfor ttierace . On Btripping , Drinkwater appeared to ^ e m the best condition , being more muscular , and in much better sp irit * than his youthful competitor . They were started by Mr . Lokwood , when ; FarnsArorth toot the lead , and made the running nnbl coming to ; ihekl in the last T ^ A ^ r * ^^^ r who , it \ was evi : dent , had the race ^ in his own hands , advanced , and gamed . ; pn . his opponent at almost iverv step , eventually winning by about 100 yards . The distance was run in 34 minutes 35 seconds . The first two nules were accomplished in 11 minutes 55 seconds ; the second two in 11 minutes 40 seconds and the last two miles in 11 mihute « '

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      Robbery by A Servant . — -On Tuesday , Samuel Schofieldj aged 65 years , who resides at Pudsey , and had been considered a confidential servant for fourteen years , was brought before the magistrates at Leeds , on a charge of having s , tplen a quantity of wool , the property of his employers , Messrs . Lister and Farrar , of the Hiff End Mill , Bramley , near Leeds . It appeared that the prisoner was employed in the willowing and dry-house , that the whole of the wool had to pass in the first instance through his hands in the process of manufacture . In consequence of a great many complaints having been made' pf short weight on the return of the article ,

      they had made a practice of looking sharply about , for the purpose of ascertaining , how the deficiency in the weight of slubbing took place , for when the manufacturers sent similar quantities of wool to other mills , they had on some occasions as much as eighteen pound weight more of the article returned . On Monday evening , the overlooker went into the firing-place , where the prisoner hadplacedabasket with a cover over it , which he brought his dinners in ; the lid was partially open , which disclosed the quantity of woolthat it contained . This riTcumstance led to the apprehension of the prisoner , with the property in his possession . The basket contained

      four pounds' weight of wool . A constable was sent for , the prisoner admitted his fault , but begged to be forgiven , stating that it was his first offence ; but on his house being searched , two sacks containing about three stone weight were found , consisting of a variety of colours , and also some white wool . The prisoner then admitted having stolen the property from his employers , and that he had on previou ' s occasions sold quantities of similar articles to George Tordoff , who resides at Pudsey , receiving for the white wool one shilling per pound . Having secured

      the prisoner , the constables of Bramley went to Tordoff ' s house , and apprehended him in bed , but they had notpresence of mind to make a search for similar articles . The magistrates reproved the constables for gross neglect of diity f knowing the individual to be a , suspicious character , they ought to have searched the ; house , which would have established the man ' s guilt , or have , in some measure , proved his innocence . Tordoff was discharged , but Schofield was committed for trial to Wakefield House of Correction .

      Fraud upon the Leeds Overseers . —On Saturday last , a woman named Cummins , was brought before the magistrates charged with obtaining money under false pretences from the Leeds Overseers . It appeared from the evidence , that this woman ( who represented herself as being destitute , in consequence of her husband . having left her , and she knew not whither he had gone , ) had been for the last eleven weeks in the receipt of 6 s . per week for the maintenance of herself and four very young children , and of 5 s . per week for thirty-six weeks previously . It was proved , however , that her husband

      had been regularly with her , and by the neighbours was never missed scarcely for a single night . She and her husband have been living for several months in Bath-street , near the residence of one of the overseers . The magistrates did not give any judgment on the case , and it was remanded to a future day . They thought there was a question to be decided , first ^ whether the overseers had been strictly attentive to their duty in allowing such a fraud , as it was acknowledged , and indeed , proved , that for several months past Cummins , the husband of the woman , had not attempted to conceal himself ' ? " ' ,

      Friendly Compliments . —On Saturday last , a man named Thomas Wallis , was brought before the magistrates charged with having assaulted a Mrs . Beveirley , of Leadenhall market . It app - eared , from the evidence , that on the day previous the pri * soner was in a yard in which the complainant ' ¦ ' was washing the entrain of an animal lately butchered . Some words ensued between him and the complainant , when the latter took a bucket half filled with water and dung , and thew it into the face and about

      the pefton of the prisoner . He not likingthe salute immediately returned the compliment , and threvr a buffett which hit the back of Mrs . Beyerley , and gave her considerable pain . This the prisoner declared had been done by pure accident , as the buffet was the thing with which he had thrown the dirty water upon the complainant ; The magistrates said , that Mrs . Beverley had been the first assailant , and there was therefore no redress . In addressing the prisoner , they said they could not p * nish him on

      mat account , and the prisoner replied that he was very Sony for it . " { Laughter . ) An Honourable Wound . — On Thursday last , a charge was preferred against a person nanied James Terry , for assaulting inspector Child , in the discharge of his duty . It appeared that on Tuesday night last , theprisoner wasin the tap room of the Turk s Head , in Briggate , and while there was creating a disturbance . The landlady sent for a policeman , and Child being nearest it fell to his lot to clear the house . of the rabble . He had : not been many seconds in the tap room , when the prisoner lifting his fist gave him a blow in the face , which nearly deprived him of his right eye . The mark

      suu remains to prove the force of the blow , and probably will remain for some time . The prisoner was proved to be the assailant , and was fined in the sum of £ 5 , including costs , or to be committed to pnsonfor two months . Ow ENisiur . —On Thursday evening ^^ Mr . Rigby , from Manchester , gave the first of his three lectarea on socialism , which Mr . Owen was expected to deliver , but was prevented from doing , in eonsequence of his having an engagemdnt at Sheffield , lhe audience was eonsiaerably less numerous than on the pre ceding evenings , but * he meeting wax

      more lively . The lecturer dwelt on " the doctrine of circumstances ; " by which he aimed at proving that man was the creature of circtimstances ; He introduced a variety pf anecdotes which seemed to amuse the audience , all illustrative of the position he was desirous to establish . At the conclusipn of the lecture , a gentleman who was either mad or drunk , got up , as he said , for the purpose of asking spme questions , when i instead of questioning he began a violent harangue to the no small arouse ^ ment of the audience . A young Scotchman , whbse name did not transpire , also asked a question or two and made two or three observations . Confusion began to prevail in th « meeting , when Mr . Greie stepped forward , and asked some questions , which were replied to by Mr .: Rigby , Each was heartilv party

      ^^ * r bw jespective ; ; and / doubtle ^ both sides thonght they had the victom Mr ; Ricbv ^« ms second lecture last night , and win give ^ hfa tbi , rd , and last , this evening . / ¦ , . ¦ Dinner " to the Lecturjers a t the Leeds School of MEPiciKE . ^ -Thelecturers and students a ^ ned . on Thursday evening , at the White Horse Motel , when upwards of forty gentlemen 8 at down : lhe dinner was served up in the best style , and the wines were excellent . Chairman- ^ EIenry Giles iisq . ; Tice-Chairman - -1 ^ 00108 Saylej Esq . The ffpeeches . were excellent , ' and the party were highly delighted with the entertainment . Joshua BpUand , ¦* . sq > ^ dehvered . some scientific and highly interesting speeches . . " ... ; '\ ' V ¦ . "

      A Mutual Kindness . . —Rosahna Campbell ; and Ann Murray , ; were brought before the magistrates , . Murray being pharged with having stolen a gown belonging to ; Campbell while Campbell was c r ^* # y ' % paving illegally pledged several articles of clothing belonging to the other prisoner . A policeman ; stated ; that the prisoner Campion had come to him desiring him to take Murray : ntp custody , which , wh'pn be attempted to do Murray , ' gave Campbell intb » custbdy , aiid hot being able to adjust their differences , he brought them both to the prison together . Their differences being adjusted- as well as the case allwed , they were both discharged , * „

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      A Schoolmaster at Fault . —On Monday lastj a person nanied James Bplton , a schoolmaster at Chapeltown , was charged with having unmercifully beaten a girl named Ann Briggs , daughter pf a ; coachman in the service of Mr . Benyon , one of the justices of the peace for this borough . It appeared that on one day during the past week , this young pupil , seemingly about fourteen years old was very refractory , and behaved towards her instructor with much impudence . When told to do a part of her duty relative to cyphering ^ she threw both slate and pencil upon the floor , called hit tea

      cner a great lool , and positively refused tp obey hw orders . This doubtless excited the anger of ^ master ; and , as all ; schoolmasters are Baid to be tyrants , he resented the insolence with several str ipes on the girl ' s back administered with a cane . The marks werie said to be very heavy as a surgeon testified .: A charge of a more serious nature wa » akobrought against him , which was that hehad attempted improper liberties with the girl . That however was proved to be false , and doubtless was originated ' w | th the view of ruining ; the ^ man '» character . -For the offencie of beating the dirl , he was fined 20 s . and costs . 1

      Vaqrancy .---James Seina , a poor cripAe , wag brought before the magistratesj on Monflay last charged with obstructing the causeway fon Leeds Bridge , arid also with exposing wounds , by whicU means to obtain charity . Inspector James , brought him to prison on Saturday night , having then fouad him on the bridge as already described . The prisoner who was dressed in seaman ' s apparel , said he had been a sailor for several years , and had both

      his legs broken while on board a ship . He exhibitei them to the magistrates ; they were fearfully de * formed . After a short consultation , the magistrate * determined to send him to Wakefield for one month . He had a ; daughter with him about twelve years of ; age ; and in answer to a question aa to what would become of his daughter while he was in the House of Correction , he was told that the money which was found upon him / when he was taken , would go to her-support .

      TOWN COUNCIL FARCE . On Wednesday last , the members of this body were summoned to attend a special meeting , for the transaction of certain business . The firat notice on the paper was the laying of a watch rate . The second a petition on the slavery question I the third for the amending of an Act . of Pailiament passed during the reign of the late King , and the fourth and last for putting a vertical light in ; the Council Room . The meeting was summoned for three o ' clock ; but it was nearly four before there were so many members present as constituted a quorum . The requisite number

      being bbtained , Alderman GopDMjiif was called to the chair . The Tovrn Clerk then stated that he had had a notice from Mr . Alderman Wright , stating that the meeting was illegal , inasmuch a « the notice paper was not signed by the genuine signature of ;¦ the Mayor . He , the Town Clerk , was pf opinion- / that the meeting was perfectly legal ; and though the Mayor was not present , in whose name the first notice on the paper was signed , it would be perfectly competent for . anj member who might have been commissioned by the

      Mayor to propose any motion to which the first notice referred . As ^ however , it was a matter affecting the interests ; and the pockets of the in * habitants of the Borough , he should recommend that it be postponed till the quarterly meeting which would soon be convened . A long and irrepi ' lar discussion then ensued as to the iegahty d the meeting ; and the Town Clerk at length sug . gested that passing by the first notice relative to the watch rate , they might pass on to the other business , since it could be of little

      moment , so far as that business was . con < cerned , whether the meeting was legal or not ,: Mr . Clarke then moved that the Council proceed to the order of the day ^ after the first notice on the paper . Mr . Eddison then read letters from the Earl of Harewood and Mr . Baines , acknowledging the petitions from the Council for the reduction of postages on letters , He also read an estimate of the Leedj share ; of the Wart Riding expenses for the ensuing half-year . Mr Priestman then rose to propose his motion relative to the slavery question . He apologised for the manner in which he introduced it , stating that he

      should principally endeavour to establish his claim to the ; support of the Council in reference to hii proposition , on the evidence of documents on the authenticity of which they might . fully rely . ; He proceeded to read a variety of papers containiiiK statements wMch : have been reiterated again sum again on the question , and after a tiresome explana * tion of the matter which fiirnished ho new inforn * tioBj he proposed that an address be sent to the Queen for " the immediate emancipation of the appiea ^ tices , and also petitions to both Housea of Parliiment . for the same purpose , JSever ^ l members took partjn this laudable object , and seemed exceedinglj anxious to make themselves popular by their speeches on the .- ' qae 8 tion . ' . ; It was , however , a complete

      failure , and reminded m 6 f a new debating club o yrhich a number of amateurs were desirous of trying their talents at , speech making before they ventured to cpme forth before the public . Neyo was there a more miserable display of vCorporatipn humbug than on this pccasion . A few sentence * from the speech pf Mr . John Howard may « rre as a . feir specimen ; of the Te ^ tv They are g iveB verbatim , and their accuracy may therefore be relied on . He said—"; Every exertion has been made for to try for to persuade the . planters for tdsladen their hand ; and , after the , arguments that haveibeen laid down , I fear for to trust myself for to speak of the way in which it is that th « v could oppress ft *

      negro . Had ttese gentlemen planters , if it is that they axe to be called so---if it is that they should be entitled to the name ot a ,. man , wHch it is I am prepared to shov it jg not ; but if it is that I under stand of complying with the regulations they are still carrying ' on , I shntild / like to kno > r how , or in ffh » Way , either , the present p 5 r any other bill should eref be wroughtoutb y thesamekaen . " " I wduldnottnat them at : Mf ; . 'W ' R after it is -that they have become saturatedLwith th > i blood pf the negro , they wouW become altogether disqualified to become rolert ) and governors over any other pepple . - ' | t become ustherefprei- fer > to do thing which we . cari-wr .

      , every to accprnplish ithe abolition of sliyery : and ' . 1 *> »| to prpnjise yoUy that the lenergies of the nation am be roused from ita circle to its circumference on tm » important an < l . agitating , question . ( Hear , he ^ J and : roars . of : ilaughterl ) - v That any gentlem ^ in this ? land ' : { of avr— . ) a— a ^— liberty + W ) are subject to the most terrible conditions of oppression . TheplanterB have committed acts whickof violating tfiese a ^ which it Wfor which they are or at least bught to ; be Ranged till they ^ are- dead . ( Hear , neari ' add laughfef ;) ^ ThereJsf not a gent ^; man here VhowbuH flpt do any thijig in hi « p ^ for to ^ - ^ for to ii- ^ for to ^— a ^ - ^— - a- ^*» *

      assist iio ; putting idwo . ^ Blaverr . ( Hear , hear . ) > vrishIwas ' able i § 'lA p ^ stice to tiw subjec ^ -fcr ^ make it to ; sound ' n 6 i ^ nly' ^ tbi ^ ug h the " le 0 ? " ^ brea ^^ ih ^ l ^ iai ^ b nr'M ^ p make it to rwp ^ the ears' of evjeryltine ^ of ttose- Wretched men -c * . those wre ^ chea mfin -who are planters . " Sevtrw ; btheir Memliere IqoV ^ atS in discussingvthe [¦ * & ?* * ¦ the question , % hose ^ 'littie m 6 re wisaoinV " After tnespeechefii were fimsnett which ^ ere Continued for ab outrtwo hours the nioti oB was passed immediately ; afteii ^ whibh two . of-fte ; mejnr . bers took thetrh ' ats ^ ^ andwafted awiy , ' conseq ? 6 " ^ of which there vfah rrpt-a sifBcient nuihh ^ r to carrj on the ; business , and the meeting broke up-

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 5, 1838, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1004/page/4/