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    • — ' ; WHIG LOYALTY A> ~D MORAL FOECE,
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    • IHE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1839.
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      Thb principal character in our last weeks performance under this tide , wu Mr . Edward BRINES , who » we took occasion to introduce to tie notice of our readers as " aprincipal" performer from toe Theatre Loral , Mercury Office , Leeds , where he has undertaken the leading business for some twentv years last past , and ha * greatly distinguished himself in the capacity of Gboajjer in OsJinarr ct the Qubin .

      We trust our readers hnve beceStted hy the exhiiriSon thos far- ; hat it occurs to as that some fasti-^ i « a critic might feel disposed to carp at the verr versatility of our STiau , question the soundness of his pretensions , remark upon his plentiful lack of iisereoon , observe the liberality of his warmth in the matter of temper , and then look out for some ad-TMtitioTM cause , wholly independent of his own xoerits or demerits , to account fjr his standing in the profession before the eves of the paWic . We knowit "would ^ be in vain to urge upon any soch-critic , fiat

      " All tie w « rid- 's a stag * , Aad on * maa in Ms time plajg nan ; paru ;" Sot our critic might immediately retort upon us the consolation of the lelf-eompl&eent ilalWdo , that -whilst "Su n * are born prat , some ' cciiVr * create *** , SOME fii ^ E 6 EEAWESS THRUST CPOX THIM ;' and it is even here that we must take our stand , in < 5 e £ ance of all merely captious criticism . Mr . Idwaxd BirsEs has had " greatness thrust upon tia : " he is a unit of that class , of whom a voice far more homely , but aot less true , than , the high sounding voice of philosophy is wont to sav , well is

      it for him that hig father was born before him . " Mr . Baixes , the M . P ., was really born before Mr , Edwakb Baises , the Qcesx-gboa-ssb ; and the influence of the very same artful rac which has raised the senior to wealth a&d dignity , in spite of originally untoward circumstance ' , has suSeed to place and maintain the junior in the station he occupies in spite of a head the most Shallow , . vanity tie most preposterous , pretensions ihe-masfc extravagant , a temper the most vile , and a demeanour the most offensive . That Mr Baises , the senior , we have now the honour to introduce , for tie purpose of making his bow before our . audience .

      We have already intimated that the worifly circumstances under whieh Mr .. Baises entered public life , were of untoward character : the manner of his first appearance , and the nature of his first employ meat in Leeds , clearly indicate so much , "bat we are so fer from urging thii to the prejudice of Sir . Baines , that we really think it the oily poin , t in . his life upon which he ought now to look "back with perfect complacency , inasmuch as it is not the possession and the use , but the abuse only ¦ of natural powers , which onfrhj to rife set man

      cause for compunction or remorse . Of Mr . Baixes ' s previous life , it is Ttry remarkable that ve know so very little ; and the source to which we owe that litde is not less remarkable in it-elf . In a ¦ work entitled " The National Pobteait Galibey of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century '—a work to which we shall have occasion to re&r again in a subsequent portion of oar remarks—we find a portrait of that

      most ' escijtest ! and ' jUJLCSTSiors" ' Personage , ' ' Edward BilKiS * Esq ^ M . P ., ' » d a memoir , irhichiafoms-ttsaailie ^ wasbtirnin 1774 , " that " at the age of iecenteen ' he was apprenticed , " but that u befm - &e expiration of his apprenticeship , ' he removed to Leeds fo ? improvement . "' How it happened that this very late apprenticeship ended so very early And prematurely , we cannot tell , and we are not going to make either heinous or

      hix-HorsK coBjcetsre * which , possibly , might lead to bo legitimate result . TTith whatever degree of znxiety the " ilk * trioni" young printer may have looked behind him from time to time in the course of his j > edestrixn tramp from Pretton to Leeds , ineumbered as he was , and so fer lew fit for flight in aay sudden emergency , by the weight of all his worldly possessions at the end of * sock over his shoulder , most certain it is that he has never looked behind him since ; for it was not ro vain that he " removed tc Leeds for improvement / ' and it is the means , only , by which that 41 improvement" was achieved , that we now propose to examine .

      Some men it has pleased God to endow with wisdom ; others are endowed with a most devilish cunniagj which far ootstrips mere wisdom in worldlj affair * . The man of wisdom looks to principle as Mr guide , in every action of his life ; the man of cunning hots to expediency only—the expediency of consulting his own particular interest in every , thing , and in every practicable wax . Where the mac

      of wi » dom balances the interests of others , the man of cunning thinks only of his own ; and whilst the former may remain or become poor in everything save conscience , the latter gets rich without any nescience at all . True it is that these two close ' s do not include all men : Mt . Edwabd Baines , for instance , is neither wise nor cunning , yet is he rich « aprosperous ; but we must always bear in mind that " his father was born before him . "

      These general considerations will carry us a long way into the mystery whereb y Mr . Baixes has been enabled to try all things , and hold fast that whieh is good—for himself , amidst all the various shapes and Eh&des he has assumed ia Religion , in Politics , or in Literature . "When he first made his appearance in Leeds— " for improvemeHt "—we understand he belonged to that peculiar sect which the German Jews here have since discovered to be the least offeitsive form of Christianity , and have therefore encouraged by their presence for want of a regular

      synagogue proper ; but h « had not been , long resident ere he found out that "it is not good that man should be alons ; " and to " Petieoat-goverEment "—gboak not , Master Ed-¦ wab d— is usually ' ascribed the remarkable coincidence of his convention from the Unitarian to the Independent faith , just within the period of his marriage . For our parts , however , we are not disposed to ascribe the remarkable conversion altogether to this influence . -Conscience , of course , had just as much to do with the one faith as with the

      ether—we wul not be so illiberal as to deny that ; but when we look upon the tools which that conversion gave Mr . Baines to work withal—the CiAPHAHS , the Rawsoss , and ctht-r ; of . Hke breed-

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      men possessing most enlarged and liberal views of Religious toleration in the abstract , qualified only by the simple exclusion of all wh » might differ from themselves in general , and a most damnable spirit ef rancour agaiustUnit&rianista in particular ; men whose well cherished " grievances" have served as tbe ladder to his ambition , and who have either feathered their nests and flown , or are now already well nigh cast aside to pine out the remainder ef their no longer useful existence in vexation and disappointment—we cannot imagine for a moment that a far-seeing , cool-cakulating man like Mr . Baines would everlook so important an item in the catalogue of reasons for conversion .

      Thus have we brought anotheT principal per . former before the curtain , and fairly launched him in his carew- of ** improvement . " He ought , indeed , to have been introduced as the principal performer ; but as oar " Picture" represents tbe particular Queen-croaking point of time , it became necessary that the QtsEBK-oaoANBU himself should stand fiwt ; imtf bo it came to pass that the son took precedence of the sire . Whilst , however , we have these subordinate characters in the grand scene before us , we may as well dispatch them at once , and thosooTisolidate our narrative an we proceed .

      "We might have some difficulty in pointing out each particular individual -of the ? e subordinates in our ' * Picture ; " for , to say trath , the likenesses are not so distinct as we intended them to be . Our Artist excuses himself on the ground that he wat unfortunate in . his choice of material for transferring tbe sketch : when he came to that part of the wood

      where the heads were to appear , he found it quite poxesy—rotten . " We receive the excuse more in sorrow than in anger ; for , certainly , it is the most sensible and diicriminating block of wood we « ver heard of in our lives . The characters , however , are all there ; and all we can do if to request our readers , by the help of a lively imagination , to pick them out as thev best mar .

      George Sawson , Esqutre , was Chairman at the grand " Demonstration " of Whig-Loyalty and Moral Force , on the 14 th of May , 1832 , which produced "Three Gboass foe the Queen , " amidit the display of Iron-Pie rs , black crape , and an executioner ' s Axe . How George Rawsok happened to become an Esquire , we can no more explain than the Esquire of Don Quixote could understand how windmills became transformed into

      laay-devourers . But where is George Rawson , Esquire , now ? And echo answer * , Irish-fashion , whkre ? , Certain enjditors of a firm from which George Rawson , Esquire , retired some fifteen years ago with a very handsome fortune , asked the same question in a remarkably short tiro « after that event , and- got no better answer . All we can sav is , that Geort . e Rawson , Esquire , enacted the part of a pure patriot , aad a conscientious dis 3 enter

      of the Independent persuasion , for a great number of years brfore the public , with considerable eclat j that he has since retired to the enjoyment of h \» otium cum diptitale y and , we haye no doubt , is now pulling faces under a " shocking bad hat , " somewhere or other , for his own particular amusement , and by way of pleasant reminiscence of by-gone glory , further deponent sayeth not , touching said George .

      John Cla ' pham , Esquire , is a magistrate , and is therefore entitled to rank as such—his amiable meekness and strict impartiality of judgment in the ease of Bridget Cone , to the contrary , nevertheless , -and notwithstanding . As a pious Deacon of an Independent Church , he is remarkable for bis celebrated work " Every tnan hit men parson persecutor . " Forty years did he expend is painful experiments upon different parsons—first at

      aalem-Chapel , then at " White-Chapel , then at Queen-street Chapel , ere he established the truth , and brought the great work to perfection . But at length the Scales were turned , and the parson rebelled : tbe Deacon was turned out of the church by the members thereof , and was left to set ¦ ap for himsvlf in Byron-street Chapel , where he now reigns , supreme head of hi * own new Church-Establishment : — * \ JOHN BYROXEUS . . Yet has Mr . John Clafhajc been an ill used man . As a Whig politician of tbe first water—blessed with a temper so fiery > thai the Old Gas Company find the use of it dirt-cheap at eight-and-thirty and six-pence a-week , for the matter" of a mere occasional flare-up whith neither requires nor brooks retort— he ha « ever pursued the even tenor of his own way , liberal , tolerant , nay even kind after his own peculiar fashion , towards all who implicitly submitted to his guidance , and

      only remorueles * towards others who have had the illiberal audacity to question his infallibility . How such a man could submit to perform the office of ladder to Mr .. Baines all this time , might be thought an inexplicable mystery , had we not the f * ble of the Fox and the Peacock before us ; but the Fox was cunning—so is Mr . Baines ; and the Peacock was rain—so wai Mr . John Clapham . As next in importance to tbe political and religious liberty of having his own way , and forcing every body else ts follow it , Mr . John Claphah has always regarded such a measure of Municipal

      Reform as might secure to himself the acquisition of long-desired but long-denied civic dignity , as a " BOON" of -the first magnitude . At length came the Municipal Reform Bill ; - Mr . John CiAPHAM already fancied himself Mayor of the Leeds Ntw Corporation an ! prepared himself accordingly . But , alas ! for the vanity of human expectation—more especially when it resides in the breast of a man with a head so strong aad so vain —the first Mayor chosen was not Mr . John Clapham ; nor the second , nor tbe third , nor even the FOURTH and last ! The result of this

      last Election has at length opened the eyes of Mr . John Clapham to his real position : he sees the ingratitude of men for whose advancement he has spent a life of turmoil and agitation , and who thus treat him with seglect and contumely in return ; he is at length convinced of the utter helplessness of hb case , and has submitted to the final defeat of hii long-cherished hopes in moody silence : he has withdrawn himself from further Civie strife , and is ALDERMAN Clapham no longer .

      We have already occupied as much space as we can well afford to this subject for the present ; but next week we shall resume our examination of Mr . Baines as a public character—Religious , Political , and Literary . Our object is to show the working classes the utter hoDowncss of all the dependence they haTe hitherto placed upon his pretended zeal for their interests ; and , before we have done , we shall also have something to say to the Tories .

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      Notice —Our lastweVs engraving beinga localcw , tctll not be of any trtf eresi to our readers at a distance W e are sorby that the address c / the brave men uf of Bristol and of Tillicoultry , have been obliged to be taken out of the form till tiert week—they shall thai appear . John Horsfall next veek . Ocr Table is Loaded xcith communications of rnrious kinds , vhich space precludes us from enumerating , ft e must crave indulgence tf all . Some of them mil be inserted next week—some must wait longer , and some tee eannot insert at all . We hope none will lake the rejection of Qieir articles amiss . Only consider our pwtion , if ice should insert all the communications u-e receitv , tee should jieed fix or { even S tars a-iceek .

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      TKEtlMERCUBT ' IN ANOTHER MESS : — THE " BLOODY " "WHIGS CRYING

      " PECCAVI : "—THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS—THE DAMNABLE BOOK , AND THE SYSTEM OF CHILD MURDER , A damkablb book has now been printed and circulated through the country some momtha , in which it is deliberately and undisguisedly recommended that , for the better restricting of population , tvery third , or , at the very utmost , eveby FOURTH CHILD shall be MURDERED AS SOON AS bork . Mr , Stephens , ia the course of his sermon , last Sunday week , told his congregation , that

      he had seen this b ;> ok , and told them of its horrible contests : the effect was what such a xtatement night be expected to produce on an audience of British fathers and mothers , not being Whigs : a thrill of horror , perfectly indescribable , was succeeded by a feeling of the most perfect detestation of u The horrid crew , thrice doubly damned , " —by whom such worse tlian Egyptian wickedness could be countenanced ; and Mr . Stephens very properly gave vent to his feelings ia some of the strongest language we have ever * een ascribed to him .

      " A correspondent , for whose respectability the Mercury can vouch , " sent'him an account of this portion of Mr . Stephen ' s sermon , and the astonished Mercury forthwith exclaims : — " Is it not high time to inquire whether this man is not a fit tenant for a lunatic asylum ? He says distinctly that /(* has seen such recommendations as the above in a printed book ! Now , either he roust be stsrk mad , or he must be desperately wicked . It wnld be as easy to sicalloto all Pharaoh ' s pyramids as to sic allow Stephens ' s fiction . It must be either the hallucination of a disordered brain , or the invention of a man horribly malignant and depraved . "

      Mr . Deegan having also mentioned this book in one of his speeches , the Globe makes himself very merry with the monstrosity of the fiction , and beseeches the Tories not to hang themselves for vexation at being outdone in the art of invention . Now , we can readily conceive tbat this infamous book was never intended to have a iery extensive circulation ; but it will be very hard to convince us tbat the Mercury and the Globe were ignorant of its existence . It is matter of public notoriety that the book has been published some month . " . Oar excellent coutemporary , the Northern Liberator , had an article on it on the 29 th of

      December , in which he gives the following account of it : — It in entitled " The Possibility of Limiting Popnlowne&t , lr MiiTcn * . LonJon : John Hill , Black H ,. u » e Cnurt , Kleetstreet , lNit > . " The Editor give * the fullowinir » naly « i § of thi » lo » t ! i » ome system of yrupowd wholesale murder : —fhi » work u-1 very elaborate piuinnlut , of uearly one hundred cloftelr pri itedp « n <** , dividVd into diopters and t ' aeie iguin into sections . Theyix / of liis extraordinary performance i » to ( hew , lirnv , tliat )* oj , u \ ouKues > 3 mutt be limited by » ome means , vr mUiTT to society lmul go on increasing ' Ho argue * that no moral cheek * , i > uch an prolonged or ealire celibacy will ever Ire fooad to be effectual to tUe t-ud proposed . Some fiirtiier mt-animujt , then , be taken ; and thu , he maintain * , ii

      t-. befi / und in the "EXTINCTION" of « certain nuiniitr of infants as toon as Lorn ! He te ^ mi to think that the parent * » liould be deprived of erery third infant a * soon a * brought forth ; that th * greaier part uf these , if not all , should be put lo dealh ; and he arguu-a , at great length , that we have a mural ri g ht to commit thu »< jri of murder , and that all we have to fee caietu \ aoout ii , llm it be a "puinitti extinction !" Thu , he »» t » , may be effrcted by a certain " gat" being used , probably meaning carbonic acid gat , thonghbe doe * not ntatc thi * explicitly . We » hall now quote tone of hi * own word * . Talking of the number el living chiidnn that any conple at any time * huuld be ailowed to have , he uy « : — " We may at tuo « t plac * the vhird thild as a Urminut not ijuite to he leached , and ' oerer to be exceeded . With this extent of

      liberty it u to be hoped that ca * e 8 of total privation will be rare ; and will \ xt imputed by the aflliftrd one * aot to any tyranny in the hnimui law , but towmc inscrutable ordination from akoTft . "—P . S . After aligning , howerrr , " the third child a * a termtftu * '' nevrr to be parsed , a new difficulty * u # t » Tip . Hereiti * . " Chayter 111 . Section VU 1 ., p , 16 . There remai n * to le tM » de an imp ^ orUut Correction in our hypothetical hans , anfl that correction trill call fora still rurtherpro-Titiottef riaki Of all the uV . ea of ir . orUlHy , tho » ef « rtfc . e city of Ca * li » W ! ( and they ha * e b « en Uken fuT tbe above com-Tmution ) pre « tmt the hi tfhe » t degree of health and longevity . But in an improved state of * ocietv , how much wilUhe general health « urpa * i that of Cirfisle , or any other now existing city ? And whera are we to iind the quantity of ri » k

      thus unexpectedly required ? lir thU conaiJeration we shall be dnren as a last resource , to deal out with a still more sparing hand tbe permission for rearing th « third child , f . )» n « to visit transgression , if we cannot with penal severity , yet with all poMible discouragement and restraint . " The system ben . g thus laid uum in outline , we now come to execution and our philusoper naturally s ^ kr , » Chapter IV . Section IV . p . 2 ) . > oraied thus the executive machine , who shall be the operativi-s or executive per * onn ? " ' Those wtofeela KensibU ^ pleasure in the contemplation of happiness in srneral' . " The next point " is to shew that an infnut lias , in ( aet , m > tort ' of right to tire ! We read ia Tristrim Shandr th » tit m * . iaidriiu of taw tbfct " a mother i » not akin to her pirn child : " Hwe is & le «» i bositkm inst as knottv . " Chan .

      ter IV . fappendtJ ) Section U . p . 6 . He has not a real right fol . Te , bcrause ttnas nevsfr Uren given , bequeathed or conferred , in any legal way , or by an «• principle of natural justice , eqniraleat to formal legality . ' The next argument is ketterwill . "It is not a real ri gnt ; because to constitute a donation , an original right of any kind , there must hat « Wen a consent of two parties , the giver and acceptor ; and the thing now in question , thangh offered and given by force , unot accepted , i ' ot let us suppose a pnwer which may r « pre-•• uitthe in / aiit interest . Would he aot re . fuie and reject a uaretin to which nnhappin . 'S * and insufficiency were , by original contract , inseparably coupled ?'—Well : the iulant having neitheTrieht to live nor wish in Hve ( if he knew what

      was wnat : ) now for themean * of ridding it of the fatal rift of existence . Here it i « , good reader ! Theory of Painles * Extinction , P . 21 . A gat not itself nauseating or provocative in any way , but simply nongtimulant , slowly suiiulanU the aimomhenc ur , and gradually submerges the mouth and nostnla of th « sleeps . In that sanit slepp are invoWed all remembrance , of death and dang . r , of dread and recret . ThMe might suffice to arou * - the victim did he but dream suspicion . But they seem all passirrfy to conspire to one e ? 7 ^ P " ? ™* dissolution !"—Lest the astounded puklic Uould imagine that this is some hoax or imposition , w « leave tne pamphlet for inspection at the office of this paper It is m the power of any one to ascertain for himself that this ii a grave bfma fid * proposal of wholesale mard « r . "

      This game " Theory of Painless Extinction" was denounced , so long ago as November 24 th , by a London daily paper which we happen to know is regularly taken at the 3 fercKry-office and at the Gfoic-ofrlce too : it ii therefore highly improbable that the Editor * of those papere ebould * be unaware of it * existence , maugre all their efforts to appear incredulous . The recommendation is highly worthy of Whig parentage , aod , no doubt , the mhereanfc } are incensed at the usefulness of the book being thng prevented by exposure .

      The Mercury says that Mr . Stephens ascribe * tbi » devil ' s book to the authorship of a Poor Law Commissioner . If he did so , we have no doubt that ^ e has evidence of it . Stephens is not the man to make such an assertion unadvisedl y . We cannot undertake to gay whether the devil Marcus be a Poor Law Commissioner or not ; but we can think of few suppositions more likely . The three Commissioners at Somerset House , the Devil-Kings' head quarters , have disatowed it for themselves individually , but they do not say whether it

      has been written by Borne of the deputy-devila , the Assistant-Commissioners , under their command . On this htad we are left to draw out own conthiiong , and we have no doabt that if Stephens did say that a Poor Law Commissioner was th « author of it , he said that which he knew to be fact . At all eveau , we Tecommend the Mercury to prepare his capacious jaws with all possible speed for the gulphing of the " Pyramids , " for no fact was ever more true than this itatement of Mr . Stephen £ ' s which he calls a " fiction . "

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      Leeds . —Leeds has aot escaped the dreadful violence attendant on th 6 hurricane of Monday , the effects of which have been felt throughout the country . About three o'clock on Monday morning , tht storm began to assume a serious aspect , and to excite the terror of the inhabitant * . We have no t met a single inhabitant of the town who was not disturbedby the roaring of the wind and the falling of materials from the roofs of tbe houses in which they were resident , and who did not consequently apprehend danger to their lives and property . Most of those with whom we have conversed , have stated

      that while in bed they felt themselves rocked about as if u a cradle ; while many were eeriously ilarraed in consequence of the continued noises occasioned by the falling of materials from the roofs of houses , and other buildings . In many places , as our readers will perceive , the most melancholy consequence , have been experienced from this most unparalleled hurricane ; the loss of life has been very serious ; and we are sorry to have to state that , in this respect , Lesds has sot escaped . Early in the morniug , the chimney of the manufactory of Mr . Davies , machine raaksr , Wellington road , was blown down , and falling upon the roof , broke it through burying beneath the ruins an engineer

      named "VYm . Emmet , who was killed en the spot . Fortunately the poor man was not married . An inquest wa » beld ever his remains on Tuesday morning , when a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned . This though a melancholy case , is the only one in whieh the loss of life has been experienced . There have been , however , several most providential escapes which will no doubt furush tales of wonder for the Arc-side during many after years . In Briggate a parapet wall , reaching about a yard above the top of th « premises occupied by Mr . Townsend , druggist , and Messrs P . and E . Mallet , hosiers , was partly blown down just at the very moment when a m * u was walking along the street

      immediately beneath . A stori « weighing some cwts . fell so nearly beside him as to graze the brim of his hat as it descended . The man was so astonished at his narrow escape , as for a short time to be almost deprived of his senses . At tbe Hopti Inn Yorkroad , a stack of chimneys falling en the roof burst it through , and fell into a room in which the landlord and his wife were asleep . The noise roused them from their slumbers , when they found a mass of rubbish lying between the fireplace and the bed , from which , it would appear , they had merely escaped with their lives . Considerable alarm was also experienced in the house of the Rev . T . Scales , Independent Ministerresident in

      Camp-, place , by tbe falling of some chimney * on the roof . The Rev . Gentleman was awakened by the noise , and having two sons sleeping in another room , bad scarcely dragged them out of bed , when a considerable portion of the roof fell in , burying the bed in a mass of rubbish , which covered every part of the room . The house of Mr . J . H . Ridsdale , Parkoquare , was also visited with the effects of the hurricane in a similar manner , a stack of chimneys falling upon the roof with such violence as to break it through , and damage a considerable portion of the furniture in their sitting rooom . Fortunately , this gentleman and his lady had left tbe room a short time before the accident happened , or

      the consequences would most likely have bet n fatal We are informed that they took shelter in the house of Dr . Williamson , who reside * within a door or two of their residence ; but the violence of the storm was such that it was with the greate * t possible difficulty that they reached the residence of that gentleman . Some other chimneys were blown down in the Vicarage , by which the house of Mr . Jennings was considerably damaged , aad the inmates obliged to seek refuge in the bouse of a neighbour . In Albion-street , the roof of the house of Mr . Sigston fell in , and a servant girl slee ping in an upper room was for some time buried beneath the rubbish ; but the rafters forming a sort of arch over

      her prevented her from being seriously injured . We are happy to state that , by the vigilance of some of the police , she was extricated from a perilous situation . Two girls residing in the house of a Mr . Eyres were also injured rather seriously by the falling in of part of the roof ; but their injuries are not liktily to prove fatal . In addition to those narrow escapes from death , the owners of property have sustained considerable damages , and many of the public buildings in the town have been more or legs injured . About two yards of the spire of St . George ' s Church , Mount Pleasant , were blown down upon the roof , which fell through , breaking away a portion of the gallery , and a number of the

      ¦ evrs , descending even into the vaults beneath . The damage sustained at this edifice will probably amount to £ 4 or £ 500 . The Catholic Church at- the top of Park Pow , likewise sustained serious injury . The Cross , arid about a yard and a-half of the * pire , fell upon tbe roof , and destroyed the pews in the organ gallery , and also some " of the pew * in the lower part of the ckape'l . Several of the ornameuts pertaining to this building were also thrown to the ground by tbe violence of the storm . Three of tbe pinnacles of Christ ' s Church , Meadow-lane , were also thrown down , and falling through the roof , did considerable damage to the organ , and several of the pews . Such was the

      violence of the wind , that several of the strong iron hoops by which ths steeple of Trinity Church i « secured , were literally snapped in two , and the greatest alarm was excited lest the steeple should come down , —that building being situated in the very centre of tbe town , surrounded by shops , warehouses , &c , and where the damage to life ivnd property might have been very Berious had the steeple fallen . St . Mary ' s Church , Quarry Hill , suffered but little ; being principally confined to the windows , and the blowing off a few slates . The several dissenting chapels in the town have also sustained partial injuries , but nothing in comparison with the churches . Oxfird-Btreet Chapel , Brunswick , Belgrave , St . Peter ' s , and a number of others , have sustained damage , by the roofs being partially stri The done to

      pped . damage private property is also considerable . A large chimney , belonging to Messrs . Chorley and Uppleby , in Park-lane , was blown down , and fell upon the roof of the adjoining premises , occupied by Messrs . Sorby , Sherwood , and Co ., carrying it through into the dry-housa , where a large quantity of Cloth was deposited , which was very much damaged . Serious mischief was caused to the machinery in the mill of Mr . P . Fairburn , New Road End , by the falling of the chimney upon the roof , which was carried through nearly to the ground-floor . At the iax manufactory of Messrs . Foster and Davy , Hunslet , a man narrowly escaped being crushed to death by a similar accident . The man had not advanced many yards from this building when tbe gable end gave way with a tremendous cash . Had ifc fallen a

      minute or two sooner , he must have been killed on the spot . A mill , in the course of erection at Larchfield , the property of Mr . John Wilkinson , flaxspinner , and which had reached its fifth story , was nearly levelltd with its foundation . A similar devastation attended a machine manufactory also in process of being built , by Mr . Harker , at St . Peter's Hill . The principal chimney belonging to the foundry of Messrs . Fenton , Murray , and Co ., was blown down upon tke roof which it forced through , causing considerable damage . At the mills of Messrs . James Brown and Co . Bagby ; Mr . James Holroyd , Carltcm Hill ; Messrs . Marshall and Lumley Water-lane , and Mr . Edward Halliley , Low Close Mill

      , the chimneys were blown upon the roofs , and much injury and inconvenience experienced . Other mills in various parts of the town hare experienced damage , but we are happy to say that , upon the whole , the workpeople will suffer but comparatively little loss by the interruption to labour . The injury sustained at private residences is scarcely less extensive . There is scarely one of the houses in Cobourg-street , and many of the streets adjacent to it that has not sustained considerable damage . The stacks of chimneys blown down it is impossible to enumerate . The damage done to stacks of hay and corn is very considerable . At Wortley , Mr . Ash has lost many tons of the former , and had eight stacks of corn partially destroyed ; and the damage of this kind at Harewood and its neighbourhood has

      been very extensive . A little before six o ' clock the windows in the extensive range of warehouses at the crown window gl&g » manufactory , at Hunslet , belonging to Messrs . Joshua Bow « r and Co ., were blown in with a most tremendous crash , taking in their way a large quantity of tables of crown glass in a manufactured state , breaking the whole literally into at « m ? , and occasioned a loss in glass alone of from £ 200 to £ 300 , independent of the damage done to the premises , as there was not a single building but what was injured tol a serioua extent .- The mischief done at the farm and colleries at Middleton near this town , belonging to the same firm , was also very considerable , swelling the amount of loss sustained by them to from four to five hundred pounds .

      Halifax . —On Monday last , this town was visited by a most tremesdous gale of wind , which for a short time threatened to drive all before it . The inhabitants in various parts of the town were aroused from their state of slumber , and filled with the most fearful forebodings of the danger that

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      seemed to threateH them . There appeared to be no safety for property of any description , and eren life itself waa not spared in the devastating influence which was produced . Betwixt four aad fire o ' clock the chimney of a new house at Green Hill , PeUoalane , waablowadown , which struckin the roof , and endangered the lives of two families . Mr . Tnoroas Jennings , a cabinet-maker , together with his wife and infant child , who were in bed , were covered completely over , and for a time buried in the ruins which fell upon them , and such was the force that it broke one side of the bed , and Bent the feet through the chamber floor ; whea the rubbish was sufficiently cleared away , that they could get to

      them , each was found a lifeless corpse .. In tbe next houBe tbe grandmother and child had nearly met tbe same fate , who were sleeping together , but on approaching them the grand-daughter was enabled to get up , and the poor old woman ia so m « cb injured , tbat she has since been despaired of and not expected to recover . At Highroad Well , a chimney iell , and hurt a little child belonging to a person of the name ef Turner . The roof of Mr . Sleddin ' s barn , and part of bis hay-stack was blown away , and the spouting from the back part of the houses at the reservoir , together with tbe frame-work and glass in the green house of Mr . Merchants , which iu close by , was also destroyed . In Gibbet-lane , tbe work

      of destruction was carried on and houses sustained considerable damage . ' Mr . Matthews ' s new houses had tbe spouting taken off aud Mr . Bates had & chimney Blown down , and part of the slating taken off Mr . Oatson ' s house the next door . The Catholic Chapel , which is not yet finished , has sustained some slight injury . Mrs . Booth ' s house , situate in Cabbage-lane , bad the chimney blown dewn , and the roof sent in , which endangered the life of Miss Booth , who received a cut a little above the eye , but is said not to be much worse . The Odd-fellows ball , which is now building , is said to have received about £ 40 worth of damage . Mr . Lewis Alexander , attorney , King-Cross-lane , was at breakfast betwixt six and

      , seven o ' clock , when the chimney belonging a small kitchen attached to the house , fell in , bringing the roef along with it , and jeopardizing the life of both himself and the servant girl , who was near the fire at the same time . Both have received injnry , but the girl was the more seriously hurt . Other damages have been done at King Cross , but of no very serious amount . The stalls in the Market-place , were all blown down , and some of them which were fastened to the ground formed no impediment in the way of the destructive element . Pine-berry Hill , Southowram-bank , felt the serious effects of tbe gale , twenty yards of speuting was taken off uorae new 'buildings , and carried into the plantation above , and the inhabitants put into that state of alarm at four o ' clock in

      tbe morning , as to leave their houses and fly for refuge elsewhere . Five out of seven of the houses have left entirely , and at the top of the Bank at the Manor-bouse inn , the iron palisading in the frost of the bouse was swept away , and the large stones in which they were fixed , are broken to pieces . One man , it is said , was taken completely off his feet , for the distance of eighteen yards , and then thrown into a gutter , which required other two men to help him out again ; and another man was thrown on his face to the ground , which struck him senseless for a short time . Hay-stacks , hats , &c ., were blown away without ceremony ; their respective owners following for their capture , but in vain ; and what may b « the probable amount of damage done is not yet ascertained .

      Wakefield . — Wakefield has sustained a full share of damage with the rest of the surrounding towns , from the violent gale of wind which arose at an early hour on Monday morning last , and continued with almost unabated fury during the remainder of the day , with the exception that no lives have been lost . In Thornes' -Lane , tbe new part which has lately been added to Mr . Gosnay ' s malt kiln , was completely thrown down , and considerable damage done to the roofs of other buildings and dwelling-houses . Kirkgate and Westgate were in many places literally strewed with tiles , bricks , and chimney pipes , which had been forced off by the fury of the storm . At St . John ' s one of the trees in the

      church yard was completely thrown down , and a quantity of lead guttering , which ran along the lower part of the roof of the parsonage house ,, was torn up and left hanging over the front . The house of Thomas Barff , Esq ., was almost unroofed , and other property iu tie neighbourhood suffered severely . Many squares in the Court-House windows were broken , and in one or two instances , the windowframes in private houses were quite driven in . Messrs . Harrison and Swallow , cloth-manufacturers , have suffered from the roof of their press-room , in Hack-lane , having been partially blown off , and Mr .

      Haslegreave has sustained a loss by the breaking of glass in his projected zoological garden ; Mr . Walker , surgeon , abo suffered by the breaking of glass in his stoves . On the roof of Kendall ' s house ( lately occupied by Mrs . Lumb ) , is laid a strong built chimney , which still holds together , and has the appearance of having been purposely laid in its horizontal position . Another chimney was blown down in Robson ' s Yard , Westgate , which broke through the roof and two separate floors ia the house . The roof of Mr . Holdsworth ' s ( surgeon , ) house , in Westgate , is considerably damaged . Indeed it is almost impossible to enumerate the amount of

      damage done in the town . On Westgate Common several trees were blown down , and considerable mischief done to houses , &c . At Alverthorpe , a great part of the stone-built wall , to the back of the old Hall , iu the occupation of Francie Maude , Esq ., was completely levelled ; it had , however , for a long time been considered in a dangerous state . A number of hay and corn stacks were also blown down . We should have stated that some alarm was felt , in the course of Monday , for the safety of tbe church spire at Wakefield , which has few to equal it in height , in consequence of its constant rooking with every blast of the bsisterous element . It has

      once more , however , withstood " the angry shaking of the winter ' s storm , " as we hope it will for many years to come . Several of the pinnacles on the lower battlements were , we are sorry to say , thrown down and broken .

      Hudoersfield . —On Sunday night and Monday this town and neighbourhood suffered severely from the tremendous hurricane by which the chimney of Brodley mill was blown down on the body of the building , crushing in the roof and floors and severely damaging the machinery it is supposed to above £ 1 , 000 . Also tbe chimney of Messrs . Eastwood , of Folly Hall , but no serious damage done . Also

      the chimney of Mr . Crossley , of Lindley , which fell upon one corner of the mill , and seriously damaging it . The long chimneys of Mes-rs Frost and Moody , of Clegg-lane , were all blown down upon tbe dyehouses , doing a great deal of injury to the materials . Tbe lead was blown from the roof with some of the slates off the Chapel Hill Chapel , and numerous chimneyg in almost every part of the town and neighbourhood . The new Parish Church did not escape ; hay and corn stacks were strewed iu all directions , and some entirely lost . The Bath Hotel at Lockwood , has suffered very much from the fall of the chimneys breaking in the roof and damaging a great quantity of furniture and bedding .

      Hull . — -On Sunday night and Monday last , this town was visited by the most terrible and destructive storm we ever remember to have witnessed , and the lose of life and property has been considerable . Two of the pinnacles of Christ ' s Church were blown down , and one of the pinnacles of the Holy Trinity was in considerable jeopardy . The top of Cato Mill was blown off , and one or two other miljs almost destroyed . Stacks of chimneys fell in several places , but though there were many narrow escapes , we have not heard of the loss of life on land . On the river , the destruction has been more fatal . Several vessels went down , and the hands perished of the

      Some bodies have bean washed' on shore . None of the packets left the port on Monday , except the New Holland Packet , which made one trip to fetch the mail . A Bloop , called X . L ., was seen from the pier , in distress , and several gentlemen offered liberal sums to the captains of some of the river steamers , to induce them- to attempt the rescue of the crew ; several declined on account of the state of the river . The task was , however , undertaken and accomplished b y Captain Falconer , of tbe Laurel , Barton Packet , who , with bis brave crew , ventured out , and brought the distressed mariners safe into port .

      Sheffield . —During Sunday night last , a roost terrific storm of wind arose , which has done fearful damage to property in almost all parts of the country . The following are Borne of the particulars : — St . John ' s Church , in the Park , has been considerably damaged . The top of the spire was blown off , and in falling , broke through the roof at the westend , where tbere gallery is situated , carrying one of tbe principal beams , the joists , and tbe whole of the ceiling at the end of the church , before it . The slates were carried to considerable distances from

      the church in all directions . —The roofs of several houses near the churoh are broken their chimneys having been blown upon them . The Cholera Monument was Been braving tho fury of the element

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      up to half-past Jive yesterday , but before davhW . a gxeat . portioH of the top part , abont sev « n or eight yards , was whirled from its situation with at r « - mendous crash , breaking the palisading and the steps beneath . —Tke nous * ef the Rev . Mr . Henley Wesleyan Minister of the East Circuit , top of South Street , Park , has also been injured , and the pall sades in front thereof , - lifted from the wall upon tb footpath below . ' Ab « ut five o ' clock in tbe morning , the stone chimney at the top of the house was blown down

      , and some of the stones broke through the roof a ( e \ V P 0 B the J ^ J fr <« n which the servant and the children had arisen and gone down stairs . Par of the wall at the entrance to the Hyde Park-Cricket Ground was blow * down , and such was tkviolence of the " wind here , that the thick bar rf wood which fastens the large gate , was snapt ia two . Ine reofii of four newly-erected houses i » < iranville-gtreet , Park , wen blown off and the fe % * * - ^' " * Mii » g ^ --ThB chimney belongin £ to Messrs . Svkes and Son . ha * « J » , 1 ml

      fallland ^ ; ° *» J ^ B of the top his fallen and has done considerable injury to the ei-EtT ^ H ^ 'oof of the wheel / a , alTbein that thi T m T fWe . We are informed that the stone . work alone , at the top of thischimney , weighed seven tons . Mr . Clayton's hous « S 8 ^ 3 " 5 ^ 2 * i P let el I proofed ; X the roof of another kouse in Silver-street , and several m Leicester-street , in Upper AiUm-rtwet , have been broken through by the chimnies fS on thetops of them . The chimney of the Yorkshire District Bank , in Haymarket , fell thronri * the roof , and caused some damage . An engine chimney m the Wicker , beUngiug Messrs . Kenven

      and Co ., was bwiught down by the wind , about six o clock , the bricks broke through the roof * of aa adjoining bouse , and the whole came down on the bed . Happily a few spars fell in such a slanting direction , that meanj of escape were afforded to th * couple who were therein . A stack of chimnies belonging ^ to Mr . Briggs , awl-blade maker , Solly-Rtreet , fell on the warehouse , and broke all down together . A large quantity of lead , said to be 240-feet , on tbe roof of the Methodist Chapel , Bridgenouses , was rolled up and carried with great force against a strong stone cottage , 60 yards distant * the bouse was completely shook bv the concussion .

      and 40 panes of glass were thereby shattered . The iead on Mr . John Pearson ' s house near the Mount , about four tons weight , was carried off the roof . Ine lead was torn off two of the porticos in front of that handsome row of houses adjoining the toll-bar on the Glossop-road , and several panes of glass in the chamber windows were broken . At 8 o'clock yesterday morning , the front of Mr . Chumbly ' s shop , in High-street , received a severe shock from the violence of the hurrieaae . The door posts and the door was completely shattered . Kays booth , which since the fait has been .. fixed in the New Haymarket , was blown down and broken to pieces . Althoughwe have not beard of any loss " of life , several severe accidents have happened , and the destruction of nrn .

      pertyis very great . Trees , stacks , hay-ricks , and chimneys have been , laid prostrate throughout the neighbourhood , in every direction , the wind in some quarters sweeping all before it with the violence of a tornado . Towards evening , we had some sleet , since which the wind ) ias moderated , and all is again calm and frosty .

      Richmond . —^ -On Monday morning last , the inhabitants of Richmond were visited by one of the most tremendous hurricanes that has ever been remembered by the . oldest inhabitant of that place . On Sunday night , about nine o ' cock , a thaw took place with a light wind , which gradually increased till between one and two o'clock on Monday morning , when it blew a complete hurricane , and was most terrific , about four in the morning ; when daylight appeared tbe effects of its violence were seen on every side , houses were partially unroofed , stacks of chimneys thrown down , window * demolished , and the streets covered with slates , bricks , &c , but there loss

      happily was no of life , though some very narrow escapes occurred . Two female servants ,, belonging to Mrs Wilson in the market-place , were sleepingin the attic story , and being alarmed by the violence of the storm , left the room , ia a few minutes afterwards a stack of chimneys fell through the roof upon the bed which the females had just quitted , and crushed it to pieces . The damage and loss in the country around , by the destruction of stacks of hay and corn , is very great . On the property of the Earl of Ze * and alone about one thousand trees were torn up , and tbe whole neigboarhood of the town is strewn with large and valuable trees .

      YonK . —We abridge from the York Coward the following particulars of the storm in York : —Last Monday merning this city was visited by a hurricane , which for duration * and violence , audits disastrous effects , has not been equalled by anything within therecollectiGn of the oldest inhabitant , and we much doubt whether the oldest records can furnish it * parallel . _ We have been informed , though we did riot ob «« rve » t » that on Saturday evening , some flashes ol lightning were seen ; however , Sunday morning was fine and frosty , but towards afternoon there was a slight fall of snow . In the evening the air became * much milder and seemed to indicate a thaw . At eleven o clock the High . * was fair and calm , and so it continued until

      about a quarter to two , when a heavy ram began to descend , the wind blowing frem the N . \ V \ , but not immoderately . About three the gale increased , and each . successive gnst seemed to add to its furr ; at four it blew a perfect hurricanethough it had not yet arrived at the climax of its violence , which was nor till between five and six o clock , when the scene of devastation and disaster which , we shall here attempt to describe began to take place . . . In ttootham Ward considerable damage has been done to property . Iadeed , scarcely any portion has encaped ecuhleu , if we except St . Leonard ' s Place , where the houses are new and strongly built , and have thus proved almost impregnable to -the weather . ' ' " "

      The houses in Bootham have many of them beea partially unroofed , and at ten minutes to six o'clock the stack of chimneys at the gable end of an unoccupied house , fell upon the roof of the house , and also upon that of Mrs . Foulis , adjoining , where it broke through into the servants' room and the drawing-; oom , in which it destroyed much of the valuable furniture . The roof from the front to the back was" ntirely uncovered , and the servants happily escaped with their lives , by having left their bedT some rim « oefore the occurrence" took place . The yard which separates the two houses , as well as the rooms , contamed _ a very large quantity of rubbish , which shows the extent of destruction to the premises . In the garden behind the house , oak , elm , and fruittrees , to the number of sixteen , were destroyed , and we have been informed that the amonnt of damage cannot be less than the sum of £ 400 or £ 500 . Mrs , Leetall ' s public-house is very much shatteredparticularly the roof , which was in a very decayed BLcLLc * ¦

      _ In Gillygate , the stem has effected great damage . Between nix and seven o ' clock , a stack of chimneys en the house occupied by Monsienr De Meurdn , the-French teacher , fell « u the toof ,-which they broke in with a tremendous crash . Immediatel y on hearing the noise , Mons . Meuron proceeded to examine whether all the family were safe , when , on going tothe-attic , in which the servant girl riept , he found it fastened inside . He called for assistance , and somemen in the employ of Mr . Walker , confectioner , immediately hastened to the spot , and broke open the door , when they found the girl laying in bed completely covered with bricks and tiles ' which had fallen . They soon extricated her , which will not be thought a very easy task , when w » . t » t *" . » i .. t » iw »

      rubbish was four feet thick , and that from her weight ( being a stout girl ) and her approaching state of insensibihty , it required the strength of two men to lift her out of bed . She was at first nnable t » speak , but afterwards stated that had she remained a few minutes longer , she wonid have been snffocated . Mr . Alien , who resides next ; door , promptly afforded medical assistance , and we are happy to state that at the tune we write the unfortunate sufferer is out of danger . We Understand her parents reside in the Groves . The next most serious damage in thia street has been done to the workshop of Mr . George Meek , joiner , which is shattered in every paTt , and almost entirely destroyed . The donblebnck wall ia front u broken down , and a large tree torn up" by . the roots .-- . In Walmgate the damage done to buildings isseriouB . Some of the old henseit have been stri pped * and it is surprising how-the inmates have escaped

      in many dwellings where the rafters across the roof are go thin and rotten as scarcely to afford protection from the violence of even an ordinary storm . In a house of this description we are sorry to say life has been sacrificed . It is situated on the left hand side , near the bar , and will be best known by our stating that the sign of "T . Brown , grocer , " & over the door . This dwelling was occupied by a family named Wis « , who , fearful ofthe effects of the Btorm , had gone down stairs early in the toorning for shelter and protection . About eight o ' clock however , the roof fell throogh the floVr ? ^ 4 ith a tremendous ^ crash , burying four tnildreri ^ nFiwo found that one of the former was dead ; and the other * were removed to neighboring houW ? where SESteS ^ : ***««* W . aSbrded ? and "I covery ! 7 We n 0 W " * * & ] Way of re-. yahngate Bar is slightly mutilated , but it will teined ? Ulre g Wpen * to repair the injury sus-A ten-stall stable , situated at the bottom of the * ive Lions , public-house yard , in Wahngate , was

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      S&ery &AXGASHIK& Purchaser of the JTOSTHSB . N STAB of THIS » A"Sr Will be presented with a M * 9 ** ecuted ENGBAYINGILLUSTRATIVE OF " WHIG L 0 YALTT ' XKD " MORAL FORCE . " fTAe Engraving is separate , and distinct from the Paper . )

      As the Enjrraving is purely of a local character , of so interest beyond Yorkshire and Lancashire , we shall not present it to our readers out of those two Cauxtie * .

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      Ihe Northern Star. Saturday, January 12, 1839.

      IHE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY 12 , 1839 .

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      ^ SCOTTISH PATRIOTISM . "We can but briefly direct attention to tbe invigorating report of the soiree in our eighth page . Our readers will see that Scotland is still herself . - m

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      — " ^———THE NATIONAL CONVENTION . "We have been astonished at not receiving any account of the proceedings of the meetings of dele . gates at Manchester on Monday last , nor yet of the public meeting in Carpenters' Hall . We cannot think our friends would neglect to send reports , but suppose they must somehow bave miscarried .

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      Me . J . L . "Ward- -Our readers will perceive on referenee to his advertisement , that this celebrated gentleman has added another most astonishing and well-authenticated cure of cancer in one of it * most distressing forms , to the many previously I noticed . r J i

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 12, 1839, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1040/page/4/