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Jokh Bull ' s idea of his Queen ' s partiality to foreigners is not likely to be removed by the speech . Toe itoyal lacy slightly alludes to attacks upon other nations , and directly threatens a tax upon her own . " ¦ I ' m goiics to ot > cn Parliament , " qnot-h Tictoria to pretty PolL * Parliament is like an oyster , tben —you open ii first , * nd swaJlow it after , leaviag the shells for the people I " A dailt contemporary says , " the appearanee of Prince Albert , dresEed as he " was in a field-marshsj's uniform , with the collar and star of the most noble order of the garter , was most imposing . " There cannot be a doubt , we think , about tbe matter ; Hexbocbk "™ a ^ d Welijxgtos tare become friends and alhes . R-ghteocsneES and peace have kissed each other .
Peixce Albebt fcas appointed four chip ; sins ; this is as it should fce—the provision for the soul rficuld be upon a scale with that of the body . A Prince could not poEsibiy do with less than four chaplains , when we reflect that four chaplains ¦ would eoi lucre than supply ihe spiritual wants of forty ihc-usand ordinary people ! " Shocxd yoa not like to Bee all that ' s going on ' . " asked Victoria -of the learned , parrot , just before settinE cut to open Parliament . "No , " replied Poll , " I am tired of puppet sbowe 1 " Joe Hcke , <> n hearing the people" given at a Reform feast , is said to have decHr . ed drinking it on the score of ils being a "foolish i' ast , " eti <] yet one jaincte before be had drank tbe licyal family . '
The fcilowikg advertisement is copied from a Jfew Jerfty paper : — " To be Sold , one hundred and thirty-one suits at law , the property of an eminent attorney , about to retire from business . Nu : e . — The clients are rich and obstinate . " 0 > e of oca jokers , the other day , en reading the deaths in s ciewn-east paper , and seeing the Ege- ; of many on ihe lizi to be eighty and upwards , ki-A he ccalcn ' t ? ee tow people afforded to lire so " lon ^ at the north—he was bat thirty , and haoVt money enough to hold nut much longer . —Jorvithfin .
Famocs Shoehakees—A correct catalogue of ? bcemakers who ha' ?© in any one Tray or other mace themselves remarkable , would be" a curious thiiig . It is yet among the Ui discoverable mysteries why dusrnien should wear red plush breeches , and as ¦ nnsuccessfni ' have been ail attempts to account for those very peculiar refl&ciive kabirs to which tbe craft of Crispin are notoriously addicted . The mere circumstance-of the reflecting turn presents no difficulty ; more or less it is incident to all sedectary . pursuiis ; i » " especial tendencies in the case of the £ hoeaaker are the great marvel . From the lurbu-3 en ; days of Qcaker Fox , and reformers Hacs Sichs
and Jacob Bwhmen . to the scarcely Ies 3 unruly imes of radicals Hokr » ft and Hardy ' we note , " in this inos ; respectable trade , such a lonjjlist oi religionisms , r&dicaikins , jacobinisms , aad every variety of isms , as we find in no other das ? of men . It was against _ thi 3 tendency , indeed , the old proverb -was launched , a ? far back as rhs age of Appelles . Why is thii ! Caa any one explain it ? Fitnes 3 is the object and endeavjur of the trade . Is there of necessity associated . wi ; h it tbe restless impure to discover in everything else an eternal u / jStness ! We wish we couid consul ; Pailosopiier Square .
—ExWiss of Membeps or Pabuamest . —It appears that ihe custom of boroughs maintaining their representatives in Parliament had not ceased in the early porJcn ' ef las' century . Hall , whose collections ^ erp brought down 10 about 1739 , spiking of Hel =: ci . e . say ; , " This p ' aco and other * in Cornwall axe not 2 tie to mainiain their burgejses in ' Lob don , curing the Sessions , at their own proper costs anU charges { as of o ] d wa ? . accustomed ) in any tolerable
post or grandeur ; but have found that profitable expedient { as many others ; of making country gentlemen : ree of u . eir town , who bear tbe burdui and teat of the day for the honour of their corporation ? , distress their " paternal estates to exalt thsr re ; Tn : ation and perpetuate ihe privileges of a pstty society , 2 oade up of mechanics , tradesmen , and inferior practitioners-of the law . " The saE * - author states tha ; "Padstow , Lc-Jent , and Alarrzion , formerly sent Members to ParliaiLcn ? , Lu : were eseuseu "upon tieir petition on the s .-o ; e uf poTerrv . "
Pasdo . v C-tdek ihe Gktat Seal . — "There ~ h a curious record of pardon ir : the Tower of LondoB , . granted to Cecily Ridgway who , refusing topL .-ai guilty of murdering her husbard a ; J \ oti : Et'bam Assiz ? s , AJD . ISoT , W 25 remanded back io prisen and remained forty (' ays witiicuj su-tenanee , for which , m ' irarulous preservation saeobtaiiipd this par-• don under the Great Seal of England . — Fids AsUet Hecordt of the Totter . Goisg to see as EsEcrao . v . — Bnring the disturbances in Clare , in the -winter of 1831-2 , three
brothers , nam-d Casey , from the neighbourhood of CorofLn , in that eoui-iy , firartd p ? offi ^ niiit ! y in ' . lie arsons aud onsiacgats ot tfia : eventful period . Tw = > of them were concerned i : i the brutal murder of iir . Blood , of Applevale , aad the other ( John ) wss one of the party thai iired cpun , and wounded , ilr . Svnge . It so happened that Jor . n Carey ' s trial , for the latter offence , was to come on the car his brothers paid tne penalty of steir lives fur tiseir o" 5 " -iice = —a maitcz which seemed little , if at all . to affect the in the dock asked bv
prisoner . He was the clerk o : prisoner in tne cock . ± ie was assea oy tnc clerk o : truss of Mr . O'CoLn- ^ U , - much ti . e outaposea Culo ;^ - the crown , in the usual manner , if he was Kacy for ¦ Xapier esprts- » d aloud , w ^ aL ^ . -c'l by uiai . y who did his trial . ** E ' then no I ' m cot , sir , "' was the ri-p'r . > not cive it v ;\ c < i . Vi ' e do no : inquire ; u to the groun-Js to the
** His lor ^ snip wishes know reison . " " Ein . dye hear ? " returaed the " gentlemanin ciEculries . " - " Don't I teli ye , I ' m not ready as all , a ; all . " * ' But , prisoner , why not V reiterated the rcau of law . ~ I'll tail yon that , thin , as you ax ' tLe qiestion , " replied Mr . Casey , and hegricr . ed a trb ^ s-Jy smile , " because my witnesses , an' d—1 take their curiosity , went off wid taemselves to see tlue execution r A BrrcHXis ' s Befescz . —A Tariety-lovisg Hollander , who had married some dczea wives , wa ? tried in England for bigamy . " You say : ) sa-. c the Jud . ; e , " that tbe priest who married yoa to infirst wife , authorised you to take sixteen . " What ca jou pesn by test ! ** Well , " said Has , " be cold me dzt I shanld have four better , fiuTyoTtzr , fo ? : r richer , four boorer ; and in my country four diiaes four aiw _ ys makes sixteen . " Apol ~ gt fou Tobacco . —In . tbe " MaTT *^ - of Coapl-iaent- " ' ( Londcii , 1 C 54 ) , we me : with i soi ; ^ in praise of tooacco , wLich contains as much , peilapij as can be said in its defence : — 3 Ic ; l mcit d&th ginttoar procure Ty fred men -s Iz ' . zs swine ; But he is a fracal man , indeed That wiili a leap c ^ a dine . Ea uesus no mpkia foi Lis hiuds , His finger ends to wipe , Tiat hatn a titcien in ids bcx , His j-oasr meat in a clue .
A Pleasaxi Tiew of t : t 2 Twelvh Mottos . — Ja-uary , fur new year ' s f £ i 5 ' is ; February , : ' i » r j-3 t > - cakes ai-d vai en tires ; March , for leeks in Wait-. ; April , f » . r f ^ uls ; M ^ ay , for milkmaids and their zztlands ; June , for Ereen peas a : ; d maokrcl , b : ir . £ a ii bacou ; July , for hay in the country ; August , for Corn ; Scpt-aber , for oysters ; October , for briwin ; : p > od beer ; . NovercbeT for driukiD ^ i :. A :: cr nu these have pi ^ sec ; , some for work , but all ior m ^ at and d * iak—after ail . ccai ^ s JJeoernber , Tr ; : h ihe barns full of com , the larders fall of beef , : be ovens fv . ll oi Caristmas pies , the pockets fuii of mosey , the masters and . mi ^ tressas fall of charity , and
thyoung men and maids full of play . — Old Almanack . Tee Death-Wood or HAxrDrN . —The firs * accoaiiisof this eveiiViul csj , published by the Parliamentirian ; , cp---, ke with ccsSdenec of taeir prea : champion '; recovery : — " His wound was more likely to b ; a cad ^ e of h ' onoar tbaa any dasher of iiffl . " Bat rhese " hopes were qaickly' dissipated . Ua moving from the sc _ -ti 2 oi conflict , Hampden was first coserved to m ^ ke for » be hen .-e of a relation in the ieigb . bourb . ood . Bat , Kupsrvs civsiry were covering the plain beiwe ? u . Turning bis horse , therefore , be rode back in : he way to Ttame . When he came to a brook which divides tbe piain , he paused a while ; ba ; it was impossible for i ; m , in his wouudea state , to remount , if he had al . ahred , to turn his horse over , he suddenly s-iniinDned Lis strength , clapped spars , and cleared the Ic ^ p . Through such' particulars the recent biographer of this eauneii : person naturally delights to carry bis reader . Bu ; what must have been Harcpcien's thoughts , as he crossed the field of his yoiUhfc ! zeEujmbrsnce ? , staining the greea blades that glittered in ihe sun of a bright morn in May with Ho ignoble blood ! Taer-ahehai first practised his confiding neighbours , and his admiring tenants and serviag-men , in the use of those pikes which they ¦ were to level at the Crown and the Mitres of Eng-3 rnd ; and there tbe avenging ball of tbe royalisx had shivered his vigorous right arm 1 The cause was , to all appearance , declining—the army weakened , and commanded by a cold aud vacillating partisan ; the enemy victorious , and every day gathering new strength ; the Parliament rapialy losing the confidence of the people ; Pym , his great fellow-champion , lying on his deathbed , the mos : seutien ; nerve of freedom , the toughtest sinew in the scroll ! Yet , eould he have looked farther , and "with prophetic eves beheld Kaseby , Carisbrook ,
Whitehall , denied by the b : o ? d of a king and the residence of aausarper , more appalling would have been that contemplation of its triumph . Where 'ff'ould he have discovered tbe laws he had vindieafced ; the liberty , at whose shrine he had sacrificed go much , besides whas wa 3 his own ; or even a free field for that sly but strong ambition , which , more , it may be , taaa he was himself aware , directed the movements of hifl life I In great pain , and nearly exhausted , Hampden reached Thame . The surgeons ivb . o _ dressed his wopnds encouraged his feilowpatriots and brothers in arms with hopes of his recovery ; but Hi 3 own impression from the first was , that hi 3 hart was mortal . li was too true an one . After . ^ -ax days of iatecse suffering , Eampden breathed Ms Ugt ,
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FURTHER REFORM : MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION AT LEEDS . ( From the Spectator . ) " We look upon Universal Suffrage as a right withheld one that cannot safely be withheld much longer ; aisd we consider the question with regard to it to bo rapidly narrowing itstlf to tbe consideration of these two'points—hbvel and tchen V Since the 27 th October , 1638 , when we expressed the above opinion , nothing has occurred to shake , and mcch to strengthen it . Every folly or outrage of a Cbartist has been dwelt upon by the Whigs and Tories as a proof of the badness of the cause : every ioprisonrcen : ct banishment of a Chartist has been . announced as the extinction of Chartism . Still tbe stupid Chartists could not or would not understand that in propriety they oui ; ht to cease to exist , and continued stubbornly to live on . Till at last it has
come to this , tha ; a tolerably numerous body of the mie'die elasfes , having at their head some men of great wealth , eounteiiknced by inflauatial Members of Parliament , bave invited Chartists to appear on the same hustings , with them for the purpose of expressing their common opinions ; and itave most sedulocsly avoided the expression of any sentiment or opinion toat might hurt the feelings of their Chartist allies . The Leeds mectiDg has materially changed the position and prospects of Chartism . The existence of the Chartist body as an influential portion « f public opinion has been solemnly recognised tbe assisiinct of the Chartists has been invoked by a portion of tbe eiifrauchiBed reformers , and only gr ; mted in consequence of important concessions . The difference between the position of the Chartists before and alter tin- Leeds meeting , is the difference between the iiMtk : i : of Ttxa . s or the South American
repnblics before aiid after their recognition as iiidepeTideiit stares by the European Powers . The Mmis " . eri-il and ibe Tory journals concur in tauntirg tlie gentlemen \ vi ; h whom the L-: eds movtv mciit orgicated , as having intended a demonstrati' » ii in lavour ot H' > u > cho ! d Suffrage only , yet having b > -en drawn into a deiconstration in favour of Cmveival Suffrage . It canrrot be denied , that many of those who had a share in ori ^ inaiing the proceedirgs , have betB earned nv . cn further than they intended . Some of them believed that by setting up Household in f-ppoiition to Universal Suffrage , they would Jure jj ^ vjy ti : o foJiowers of the Chartist Iead « r . . Some of tbem g"odDatnredly clung to the vain belief , th ? . t if they couid muster a . sirorur enough body of supporters , they m : . i ; ht mdnce the Whig Ministers to place themselves a-r . their head . Bath have been disa ; jpoint-ed . E-irl Fiuwijham tells them flat—and he speaks tbe sentiniciits ot' his " order , " and those who chug to it—that ha " will not ma ch through Coventry with them . " If the Leeds Association is to go honestiy and firmly on with the work it has taken in hand , it mu .-t make up is mind to break with ilinis " . ' - r 5 . Again , not ouo Chartist has been induc- 'd ti > > av thai be will postpone his claim of Universal Suffrage if the instalment of Household ¦ Sushis be paid in the mean time . The Leeds A > H .= ciat : on , taking upon u .-eif to speak in the name of the advtnjutes of Kr . u ^ eliold Suffrage , ba- met the Cnartist Dai ^ a ' c-s , speakiujf in tte
name of ihe sdvocatts ol" Universal Suffrage ; 2 . nd the t « o pariies have agreed , tljat the change effected up *);; our repn ^ entative > y = tem by the Reibrsa Bill has been fcunJ inadequate to iu $ iire good legislation , and that further constitutional changes are i 2 ec ?> £ ary . The two parties have nut yet come to tbe dL-cn-sion whose piau is to be tried first , or what , mouificaiioa of both , or of either . It is as iikeiy ( lor any thing that has been 5 a ; tJ ur done ) that the rlri-i move wi : l be lor Universal , as that it wal be for Household Suffrage : : isy , inasmuch as all the advocates of Univrival 5 'jffraj ; o expressed distaste of the limited . -- ' ' . ffrage proposed , while the advocates of Uon .-rhoJd S . aVa ^ arfmitrcd the superiority of the other ab . < tnn ? tca ] y considt-red , tlie probability i > , if any thii . g . i .-i favour of unrestricted , unqualified Sanrate .
Much h : ^ s been gained by tbe mere fact that membtri of the niii . die and wcrking cla . ^ e ^* have again co- * ptnted at a great puMic meeting . Men who havu st ' -od Bide by tUle on ibo . ' .-. me fatisti : 1 . 7 s , striving for a common oH-jt . Livr-. v .:- unimportu :::, ha \ e already begun to bi acqu-. intan-. -tt > . The majority of iht- midiilc c-a > s mta at the J . i-t-. ' is ineetiutr wJ ) : tncvforth view ary ur . qtiaL : t . ^' J iv . atk ^ pon tiie CLiri . >'_ s »« pL-rsmvil to tfcsr / iselvrs ; azd V .- ' - t " . artists , vh . o took part in that rne . ting , v . il ., ia lik- uiinritr , fee ! the ::.-e ; Vts caUed np-: n to p . ' . 'r- n :. *^ 'heir L ^ sve-Z'ts ct the ; ai-lfi ; e c ^ a ^ es . 1 ha
Tte psrriticiii-wa . ! ,-Khxh c ^ 'Umsisncvs i run up . between R ?; or . T . e : s > ? : " < : *• va C We : md -svorktr : ^ dust s , is already btsun to " : > s vuilc ! 6 iwd . A vigorous inovrment party is ia the c-iur ? j ¦ ' . .- . ing formed , at the very mojr . t-nt th-ir trc varii > -is f ; - :. ct : yE 8 of the draj partv , ( : or . prrp-i-rfy sp--aki : ; g . there is not , and cannot be , a positire ' ylsVatio : ar ; Tnrty . •¦ .-. m on th-j ev-j of ^ einJ re-combii : e . i . Th-: j . - . ;¦; - . j of uifl ' : res «« Vet wee :: Tork'a , Wr . ic ? . a : > -: Pjr . iamei : i--. 'yR . i-: i !; -ila , arc era ! - b-cociins ¦ mor e irjperceptiV . e ; una n . ucL-i ' f cri' -d CUa .-i 5 sni 5 s hi tht ff . ' . r way of liec ^ Hiir . ? ti : > - ir . icirus srounii "A ' . iicli tlie S : ntt « r » d eleinanU of a popal&r party axa to Kailitr iuto
form and substance . This result will not , as baa alita Jy been observed , r >> immediate . WTitre thert i- cu-o ; crction there mujt be mutual c-i : 5 uciice , and vlia : does not at pres ' .-r . e ^ Vst : co 32 der . ee is a p'av . t o ! bio-w gro"wtb . 1 ^< s d :.--
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cr justice of hid di :-. truEt ; wu cisri-iy adv-. rt to it as a fact , the ts'steace cf wh ; eh is ac ! : n iwle-iged . Tbo uii '! d : e-cla < s politicians ( iistrus : eich i-tlit-r , and tLo wiTrking cla « a 3 dUt-nist ail cf tivi-. u . This ia the necessary constquence of the subs'itutici of •' f-. vitb in the Whigs" ivr faith in prm ^ nxL-. The tullible and the inlertftc . 1 enpporltrs of the YVh ' cs arc ntC : £ sari ! y c ^ c : ccad ed in tie popular estinutiwr ; , V ~ : J ; ere is co txttmal distinguishing mari wberi- > i ; - v > inow the one from the other ; rmd even men -who ; . . ?¦; h ; i : \ the moral C ' -arago to separate themselves from both , aTe , in the unreasoning nnger ef thu vrorhi ; -:, ' r . ' . e ^ ., j-. r . lo-. is ' . y -vrat ^ hfcd , { jt do o : h-.-r reason tb ^ n that tber ' ! -.. not )« .-lo-:: g ro their c ' . ass . It is enly by iceu ' 3 tcvarsc ^ in know-> e- '« of their common iatereit ? , and 1-y r .. - rscverance ir . an irdeper > dfent course of policy , that c ^ . - 'ti tenrt enn be cstabliihtd ; and until it be , theru can b ^ lkiW progress uiiie .
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* So-rr . e iujreriocs arguments have bren use : U > « ho * T ti .. t v . o are uli -wcik ' . nsr rotn ; but thor-- is : ui ^ s ^ nrial al £ '~ Tir . ce between head-work—which ti-ea ;; c-.-::-.: i . : ¦ r »< I hiT : tl- - vrr-Tk—Tcbkh impedes education . T : ; f vo-ki'i ; clssscs fc- ! this , and iriil not , en the stren g th > : i z yi ' ny ii . cn . ¦ K- iiTd .- - . acniit a man to the prjvr ' . rits < f l ^ -Ai " order . " Tbcy don't understs . nl " luttay . hysic-:. "
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THE QUEEN versus ULIRElllXGTuS . JUDSMEXT . The Attc : ; :- "et-Gz : seeal prayed tbe jmlgrccr . t < : * l : s C-: ur : u- js H ^ r ry Httherington , wLo L .: l iift : ; c -Tir . .. ;! dvsri ,. - tV . o si ' . tlags of ihe la « t .. rra of m-Ijil . 2 < -:. ; =: : n . .-: 5 \ .. Ki r-tton , eniitlfcd " Has . » za ' 3 Letter ;
L'i :. ^ v -.. ; ..-. _ .. i > ¦ y . ' . i . nzzicr . s . J . r ? r . r . MiiN I ' .: :: ^ raad the r . iir . ctes of tie tr ::, \ a-d : Ls ; Tiir ^ \ 'L : cj tbe Jury f ^ ULd U be I :..-,. I-t ^ L-.. ^ = : ¦ "¦ . - ¦ > , Mr . Tli < : ; : . or , r-r ^ ' . f of the dcfrrtHnt , vra - - i : > stT-actt ^ . * o :- 'T : V : ; : C-urt in . arr-. st ol jii »; i : u-: it , T for a ru " e : ; . ' .-L-w t - .. ¦ ¦ ¦ "K-ty th-re « . !> . ¦ ' •;' . not V . l > a ti - - . - . - trial . The ground i . n v .-hich he m-. vs . i vr ^ A , thut tit cfTence ! -v : ii ths ir . i : ' ctnit : it referred oniy to that y-rt of the S-. -irt : ; re « c :: ¦ ' ,: ' : ; = O ' -d Tisizrr . ' . nt , s :-d there ' never vai s c ~ " of an ir- lictueni ^ a ; : ; ht a putli ^ lion ¦ v rij ; ch ' .-iscu . ' std nnttv ? i relive to iLu Old ' Testa ^ ent ci \ l 7 ; it , vas i . cx a " , of / - r . co -vrhich vas junis ' iiable c : . common ; a ^ . AltLov .-Ji not t ^ actly t-e * -r : ng or . thtcase , he troaUl re :: ;! : ^ : t ' ue Court cf the ol > serva ! i < jn made by the defendant at tbe trl . l , that the doctrine of Christianity be : rg r . arcel rf th ? iaw cf tb . ^ iand originated in a niirtrar .-: r , t : cr . ( . ! ' :: cc ? e in the Y- _ ar Book in the Zi and 4 th Henry VI , . v ; i that error had been copi&d into a ' . l tbe Euc : ee < V ::. jj cases . He trou'd now refer the Court to th-i judgr .-. ent cz Chief Jus-ice Halo , in tho case of the f : ; r . r irirch-s ¦ who hn . l beon hance'l in the reirn of Jana-3 tee First . tli :: t L urnc-d Judge asserting i ; it there was r . o ( i ' _ ub : cf their ixistenca . -The Ccurt was a- ^ arc- that darln s the reign cf Junes the First , vrhen the lavr orig-initc-J , there -sras no end cf the legal murders that took p'oee under the charges of -witchcraft and b ' . a ? ph * n-. y . Ite ir . vr certainly could sot bo traced further lact , and fc-d its origin in religious or political ar . in : ositi £ S , -B-hen Judges -were "fcacd to carry into effect tl : e \ rithes of persons in po-srer or aathority . In the case of tht K . nz v . Woolstone , -Rho -vraa trie ! for a libel , impugning the miracles of Jtsus Christ , ths objection was taken that it -was not an offence indi ; tab " e at c- 'inrr . oa law , b'at tbe obj-. ction -sra" overmle-i by the C -urt , on tlie ground that the Christian religion was part cf tr . e la ' -w of tlit * land . The Learned Counsel then referred to the cases of Jacob , Peter Anuott , Wilks , ax-I the K ^ ng and Williinii ; in the latter casj the Court heM that the libel tt ? j ir . diet ^ Ue tt common la ^ , because th ^ libel denit-d the authority of the Hcly Scriptures , zrA that the Christian rc-ikion wss part and parcel of the law of the land . In all these casys the divinity of Christ , and the authority of the Scriptures generally , -were questioned ; but h " - submitted that where the Old Testament only was calicd Mo quesUon , the rule laid doiivrj in these casts did sot apply , as it did not call in question the gr-. af truths of the Christian religion . He ¦ vrcul . l now refer tue Court t j the able "work ef the Archbishop of Dublin or the eu ! jict , in -which he referred to the Old Testament as a great historical narrative , and , in a great measure , distinct from the Christian religion . Bishop Taylor also said that there were so many errors , mistzkts , and mis translations of the Old Testament , that it vris open to the discussion of any party . The Caurt \ rou . ld see , from the 32 authorities , that there -was ri license glvea to persons to discuss mature contaictd iu the Old Testament ; and to that portion of the Scriptores csij did tbe libel of the defendant refer . He believed there was no case on record -where a party had been tried in that Court for a matter "which had no reference to the Christian religion . Another objection was , that the Learned Judge bad put it to tho Jury to
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MEETING AT SHAW , IX THE BOROUGH OF OLD HAM , 10 jIEMOKIALFSI-: THE
MAGISTRATES TO EXEMPT THE TOW . WSHIP FROM THE ASSISTANCE OF THE KUHAL POLICE , OH COUNTY CONSTABULARY FOKCE . The constables of the township called the meeting in compliance ¦ vrith a requisition , s ft'ned by forty ratepayers , among-which . wtr « the names of some of the principal ones , anio : ;; huth Turks , Whips . ; in < . ! Ridicrtls . The n . i ? eting w , is bch ! on Friday evenhitj , Jar . u-. ry COth , 1 S 41 , in ( . no of ti . e Urge r . ; oi : w of tbe Ntw ; . i ;! 1 , Di-ii'Ti ^ -inc : to A . - . ne Milnu and Huns , of GreenrkM , Shaw . Tiio intetins was ciiii fly toinpo ^ cd of wurkiMi ; people . On t ) , e p ' a'form vr-. m some of the req ^ isuii- . i-. ists , chii'lly consistmj of the iupporlers of . Messrs . Ficlden and Johnsou . Mr . Juhii Hauler . ' ¦ a ¦ Jy ;>¦ ' ^ ed that Joshua ? ili ! ne , E ^ q ., took tho Chair , wLich . - £ i ;> i ' ositiun having betn seconded , was cavriii' .
Tlis Ciiathman conin ;* r . ?« . 'd th' ^ proc-x-diu ^ s by obscrvine tha : tbe in ) . y ><; taati ffercc :: !! til upon toexpnss tlir-iy oj-inioii of tbe Itu :: ;\ Police , now amo-ngst theai . He iras glad that the r-quisitiujiists couM « t ' .-vi of nu-u airorg all p . rties av . i ! profits .: r . s in tl' . e tovvii . vhii ) . Ke took the i-h : iir "withoat a- ^ y > , hj . < : tijn . becau .-ro he considtred it tybe his duty to il . ) ail J : t ? coaid to r ' u ' tho couety of so fxp'T . sive a-. i estab ' . isliiiier . t Ikasked for a patient hvaric ^ for ell tho persons wh-s wmild addre-sa them , nnd requesttd that the Bpi-akers woald cotaae theinselvea eatite ' . y to tho olj _> ct « . f tlie matting , and not allow the feelings of ubhorre ' nee and disgust which such a subjtct w ; us likely to create , to lead tlitm astray . He wcnld call upon
Mr . Nathan Stott , who s . ; id , Gentlemen , it dovolvcs upon nie , I si : f pose , to iti'iru that the tfuuas tiates ba memorialised . ( Cries of " What for ? ' ) Will any one s-cond it ? ( A voice ir . the body of the nii'tt-:: ig " me . " j Stott continued " It ' s moved avtd . scc-. irmtd thr . t tbe njapi ^ trates be memoriaiised , tbo ^ o that lliink sj will" —Thu speaker vras hf-re told tlat this t ' . uty devolved upoa the Cbairmau , he e-. t ' ' -o " .-r ., and JIt . EaCXa'CD "Ward , an active n : ; -. n unions tue Cburtistr , rose and said , Mr . Cl .: viini :-. ii a-. 'd G T . tlenicn , I think that it is incumbent upon jier >\ i :, s v . ho niovu resjlutions at public mceting 3 to stut ; - their nature and purjsort , and I call u »; on the last speaker to do bo .
~ H . r . Natiias Stott arain ros- ^ , somewhat excited , and e iid ' ihut he did n ; t think it vras at all nc < cesi-ary to v . vwte th-3 tir . ie of th" meeting , by sayir . 3 ttnythiug . TJiey all knew wLr . t they were coli ^ ctul together for , and li « would not waste thtir time by saying anything mere tl : in wh . it be hsd done . Tho CHAinMAJf exp ' .-tintd the nature cf tbs resolution , ail' ! Mr . John iS : iiith supported it ia a speech of Ciii' . siiit l'Ab' . e Iriiuth wid er , ergy . Mr . C . vr . NAUo Waiid said , Fullow-mcn , I consratu-Int .- -sou-- ; -.. - , 1 c . ) Dgratu : " -. -e you that y ; iU have our C .. r . rnim r . uii Mr . William Taylor once ; iu > rs in the &-ld . Yts , I cungrr . tulata you on having thus ' . men one- more in the field . ( He ? . r . ) II : wI th . y r ' nue tbeir ;' ir . y % vo should have Lad no ooais-op to
ni ? cth .-rt . The working men , tho poor workii . 'c i ; : m i .-d " . Hthty cnuM to prevent this county having . 1 rural rolice f-i-l-. hiUli ^ . The ¦ working men ha « . i called lDcfth-i ^ upc : nj ' . e'ing—had printed bills—had waiUid time ¦ . : ~ . cn timu upon Messrs . Milne and Taylor , wL-jin ch « y had be- n ieii to believe wero their friesiiis , but ali : ; no usp . N-. - . T ,: ey iike others said , " The polite :: t (; rtip . lied . you wi-h to rob us—you want to riivi'ic r . ; . _! ty . \ Y- n- . ust Lavo the police , or our persons a-- ; T-r .-p- :-ty v .-L : l < . t i : rj tafe . ( The Chninnuu d"nied r , : s . 1 Vi'h ; r , oz assist us to prevent their i : ttroducti < in ? 0 : i ... i- ' . - . nci- c ; : ' prevr : ui ; n i- > better than a pound of cure . T ~ e ; :.:. r . v . r .: c ; nrer . ^ ; : -. vc introduced the pulice , and now : ¦ ; : ¦ - ; . - v- . - ini to entrcp ' . h- pu ' T . ic into tLo Klief th . it they Vvre - . vi-hfu ! tJ do ; iv .. ; y withtl . tiin . Let the public bo
I ' . ware , it - * -. s e e ' .: ;> iT 7 Ljp ; all tb < -y wanted was U < throw tl ;' . f- ^ ivuco oii tic couuty-rate into the £ en . ral : ax .. " -. Jn th .- cuUy-r ^ - . n . property paid its qnr . f . v ; hv . t If .-t \ h ' ¦ -.- ! : ) :: eu tuc . vod in yelling the expence < jf the ;¦ ' : ; . co tbri .-. ^ i into th-j s ( .- " . tral tuxes , and , then , every .-.:.. n wo ; : -: . 1 ; ve to pay , not accoruiog to tbe araount of his p- ' ptri ; . - , but according to their consumption cf raxed articles . Now , then , ( continued Mr . Ward . ) let the po ' . ice be paid as at present , fcr if tbe amount of t ' . eir burden had been on the bacVs oi the working classt . - -, wo should never have heard of this meeting frcm the parties who had got it rp . Tho poiico Lad been introduced by them to put us agl ' u-tors <' own—to protect property—and let them pav . One oHect had I > rea attained , for which
tuese buttorit- ' .- 'ip b' . ue Tagab-. i :-ds vrere V . rcniht l < ere for , namely , to ^ v ,-e the people into a quist submission of a reduction cf war ; es ; and , hr-. vinp : eif . cted this , they now wanted to turn tluir bavks upon their friends . This was nn ^ nfr / 'ts . — [ Tho speaker was Iiere interrirjted by the Oh . i : r ; nan anri Mr . Taylor , both of whom denied that the remarks wvre applicable to them . ] Mr . Ward con \ ir . uv . d—GentUn ; en , m a working man , I have not had a chance of a Culiege education ; and though having had no edncatiou , only v .-liat could be attained on trie loom , I did not intirrupt those men wLen they spoke . The moment I begin to speak , they continue to interrupt mo . Is this fau ' It" these remarks are net app . icable to these gent ! e :: ien , let them stute to this meeting that they neither connived at ,
or encouraged the introduction of the Rut . iI Police into this county , and I will belitve them , and apologise to this nivtting ; and till then I canntt retiac :. ( Hear , hear , hear . ) T ? : ry have annealed to the public , and to the public they ought not to fear appearing , and have their conduct investigated . I am a poor man , but shall not shrink from my duty , though my only :-rj . mmar be that of Shoie-ei ^ e , ( Mr . B . ' s residence .: [ Interruption followed from Messrs . Milne snd Taylor and some few others , the bulk of the iaoctino ; remaining neutral ] Again , continued tho speaker , I say let them stand before this meeting , and say they did not connive at their introduction , and I will ajologise . ( Mr . Taylor know fabrica
. You yon are ting one lulf of what-you say . ) I know that if our pretended leaders had not shrunk fro-n their duty , we Bhould not have had the police . [ Uproar , in the midst of which Mr . Milne said , U r . t if the meeting thought Ward ' s remarks were app ' . ieahlo to him , he -was unfit to sit in t " u ; : t chair . He should like to know the opinion of tbe meeting . Jlr . Nathan Stott again came forward and said , without any motion being made , " Those who think Mr . Milne is not guilty of what Barnard Ward charges him with , will hold up their hands . ( A number oi hands -were held up . ) Stott then said , " Those -who think that Barnard Ward aboald not speak in this meeting , again will show the same by holding up their Lands . "
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A number of bands were again held up ; Stott proceeded , -with great haste , " ' to the ' contrary ¦; " no bands held up . He then said , Mr . Chairman , both motions are carried . ] Mr . Ward i here sat down on his seat on the platform , and the Chairman put the resolution moved by Stott , which was declared to be carried . Two memorials , -which had been proposed by two different parties , were then read , after which , ; m , a Mr . William Taylob , of Vale Mill ,. rose « nd said—Fellow-townsmen , —Are there any of the police here ? Will any one inform ma whether there are any in this room ? ( No answer . ) Because if there be , I shall be guarded in what I say . It affords me considerable pleasure , after what has been done , to bo allowed to address yoa . I am sorry that Barnard Ward has token tho steps he has done . ( Uproar . )
Mr . Warp—You deny to mo tbe right to speak , and if I must not reply , I will not be . 'attacked , ( Considerable uproar . ) Mr . Taylok . continued—I am not going to ; attack anybody if you will only be quiet . ( Hear , hear . ) I can say that na man more strenuously opposed the introduction of the police than Mr . Milne and myself , nor has any man done more to render their situation more uncomfortable after they did come than myself . Previous to their introduction , I had two interviews with Mr . Hordern , our resident magistrate , one of them of an hour ' s length ; I did more good by that hour ' s conversation than Ward could have done with all his Shore-edge grammar in six months . I found , however ^ that Mr . Hordern wa 4 like nineteen out of every twenty
who are placed in his situation ; he had made up his mind to go with the stream . He said to me , " The police -will be introduced jnto Lancashire , and this township will have to pay its quota ; would you prefer paying , and not liaro the men ? " I answered ( continued Mr . T . ) " Decidedly bo . If you are determined to rob us , do it fairly ; but do not insult us in the bargain . " 1 know that tho police dread me—that they have their eye on me . I know that they have said , " Wo can associate with all parties , but William Tiiylor ; we cannot tell what to make of him . His looks are so forbidding , that we are afraid to meet him . " This has been brought to my own house . L have made some calculations , and as you know I am bo fond of office , I have had a chance of making them accurately . One
year I was overseer , another year surveyor of the highways , another year I was Boroughreeve —( laughter ) —and several years one of the Belcct vestry . In 18 J 7 we had a great dtul better opportunity of paying the rates than now—last qu-. ' . rter of a year we have to pay more for tue expense of the police than the whole of the county rate amounted to in 1837 . Tho county rate was then one-third of what it now is , or two-thirds less than now . If this state of things is to go on , you will never have the collector off your door . We ar « nil agreed , both Tories , Whigs , and Radicals , rich and poor —no matter whether a man . has 1 i . b six miWa oi his six landed estates—no matter whether he la in receipt of b ' x pounds per week , or six shillings , whether a pauper , or an able labourer , there is but ono mind and
ono voice , viz . — "We will not be strutted over witfi these idle vagabonds . " I congratulate you that this is thy first time in this township tbat there ever was an appearance of unanimity amongst us . Let us not spoil it . Why object to the police ? not bo much on account of tne expense as on other grounds . They are an un-English , anti-Christian force—but not only are they uu-Knglisl ; , but at strict variance with the constitutional luvvs of England . If there be ono tUing more conducive to tho destruction of the rights and liberties of the people than another , it is the rural police . The expense uf maintaining this forco cannot cost the country letsa than £ : so , OOO . a-year . In a short space of thno it has cost this towns ' aip no less than £ 167 17 * . 4 d . — this would amount to 1 , 502 half-crowns ; sinjposin ?
we had 1 , 502 half-crowns at our vestry meetings , bow wou'd it look if , instead of bantering the poor olii people down to an odd sixpence , we throw 1 , 502 halfcrowns to them ? Would it not do move goon than keeping an irresponsible and unconstitutional force to spy out- every uction ? Who sent these men , amongst us ? ( . Mr . Ward—" Tee £ 10 voters . " / 16 is truu the Legislature p . uused a law , but threw the responsibility on the county magistratea The introduction of this po iici .- is only the forerunner of another devil-begotten law—thu New Poor Law . I know from hints that havo been thrown out to mo from head-quarters , th : vt it is probable tiiat an attempt will be m ; ulo to introduce it among us btfore iMarcii is ov > sr . Those vagabond police are the syies—the traitors—the vnsaals of tho Government . No m : m w < mld necept tho ofiko of a county t"M : abul ; irv politemiux who has a drop of English blood
i : i his Ve : au . I hope none of them are natiros of Lar . cr . sMre : I hope they como from Ciiina , or Syria , where we have been knocking out thtir brains . I would advise you not to dirty your hands by touching such degraded beings . Sj far as I am concerned , I would see the man w > : o has tho baseness to become one of this forco starve , and not giva him a bit of breiul ; or tuirst , and gh * e ' uhu nothing to drink . 1 ublior them from my heart . The speaker thon alluded to t ! i « niuir . oriala , iiiiti thought oue drawn up by Smith was the best . Hu continued—I conclude by calling upon you to keep up the present good feeling , and lit , no petty jealou .-y mur our proceedings , but let us !> our utmost to rid- our country of a set of llutseVi-espioiiaiie-is'en . vfhosB duties aru not 80 much to lookaftT crime , as t ) tvtt the base and disgusting c ' . ar ct- 'M of tiuies and trait « jts .
Oa ih * recommendation of tua chairman , a committee was aj > p > inte : l to cuooso cut the best portions of both mtniorUtU . which was agreed to by tho meoting . Tiinnks b& ' ins voted to the diuiry ^ n , the meetingsepnrat ^ t , having occupied about ono hour and a half .- , ¦ ¦ " One singdli . r pnfct of the proceulinga , was that tbe wlmle of tL « Chartists stood aioot" from taking any active part in thu proceedings , and appeared to be mere spectators , excepting Jlr , U . irnard Ward , who it was expectt ( I intended moving an amendment to petition for ihe Charter . Another remarkable feature was , that Stott , who was aluajs wisjalul to be consWfejeiian active radical , should have tsiabliih ! d so tyrannical uhd df s > potic a precedent v . u 10 jnove , second , anil put a resolution debarring a person from * , pe-ai ; iii £ at a public meeting to one of the resolution . 1
Iht ? metting was ridiculously conducted . Had a li . eenn ^ conducted by working mtn been so badly ai ranged—the speakers committing so many glaring and abturu trrois , the wholo of tbe Wuig-rudical press would hnvrt pointed the finger of scorn at the conductors , and asked " aro these won fit to have a voice iu ciioi si :: g a representative in the Commons' House of P ; iihaiut . ut . " St : M all thes * men were thu voiers of a Whis-Ktviicul parliament . No meeting of the working classes Wd evti- atteiidtd cut so truly ridiculous a , figure as t ' . iis one . Mr Tayhir spoke ia ^ t , but kis foeliisg ofien ran away with his ( u ^ retion .
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Attrmp ? to f ' scwi'K fiiom CJoal . —Four prisoners in Krkiiiie « a « . , ixade au attempt to e .-iapo oa 'i ' : ; i . i :.- ( ia . y i : irii . ' or i '' : i' < :: y morutuj ; , thd 1 ' JAi . < Jvm i ? tii . iri na ; .: il ' ii < :-holi , managed to snw a . hole , in iiirict ;!! coor , nm ui . vk ^ a lea d key , by which lie lot l-u .-.-. v- 'h ' ; uid t'O ! :: r : i ^ e out . of their cells ; but being b .. iil U . 1 thoir ati ^ iupc to escape , by want of meati ^ , t ; . iy u ^; . ;* : i to try tin-ir ; -oiseiac a » : nn nexj ui ^ hf , aiiu ) . )} - . ¦ : ' at \[ vfn < pi ^ .-oo ' . iin ; . ; to act the turnkey , and lork tli' -i oriivrs i .: > titans , wijen hid iuad key broke . T ! iey «\ -re ui ' ¦ . sir : ; ¦ i ' nui . i by tho turnkeys outof l-i ' i .-U ' ci-il . " , ui : d ti : i :- ; .: rirn'ot was detected .
Kou : ;!> g Ft , - !{ . v :. « ii :. u Loi ; gi . \ g ;; — CuvoT-na CUtb ' . v ^ e , : * ¦! ar ' re ~ .-. , w . i- chari ;< . o ' , a- Laini : >; -tii poiico ( AWc , v . 'i-l ' . aiculiiii : iVui » her rcjidy-furui .- ; : 'f < d iod ^ - in .- ' . s u . iur ^ . - qn ; = n'"iiy oi" bi'd-cloLhiu ^ and oilier an . e ' . cs , v . ; n ; -. £ 'i , i \\< : pyo ! . i .-rr . y of Agnerf Kurr . Thu pr cojv .-r ! i , i : i bo' ;; : cisi ( .. it ' by her connection . " , w ) io wi . T :- ti ' . ' .- ! { : ; b . mi" tl :. j li ; ;! icst i " ' . ' ! pt cr . al ) ility , ou acc . ; m : r . of h-. r ; pr ; : tiii < otio ! i fur t . hd B ' . i )^<; . Want of t . l . e means .- > i'livini , ' , wai snid co bo t ! . e cauHO . Tho prison ; ::- v ;; :. s fu !; y coinm i u-id f . r trial , aud vras l&kim out of ei ' . ns i ; : . " vn' ; i- ' convulsions .
Thu Loxn i . n Police . —bw / . MKV-uL Cask ov Kxtoktiox . —A towiisiiiEM from Bury til . Ktimo' . cl . i , vv / io now reiul-3 ii N-.. iv Lcod . ; , Br . idford , Yorkshire , sf : « t for h's wife , by way of London to Bradford , thy { . ' 3 "i / ti oC Bary S ; . Esmond ' s having ajjrefid eo i-ivo her £ i towards doi ' rayitiK her expunce . s on the jourii . y . u . i ;; ri-iv : n ;; in Loiiuoii , a port-cr very actiommoda ' . in ^ ly i ; fl ' -: rtd ins etrvices , and kiudiy took her box , to relieve iho poor wuutau of &uc ' n a burden ; she , thinking' is would sjifi'ly arrive at the placo it was inttmitd -t « m < to . Tho porter , under ihe preteuco of dccc . tr . iy t . u-ppiny a ^ lde to ationd to a call of . nature , told the woman co walk forward whilst , hu mads water , as ho politely . termer ! it ; sho
of course , thinking him . an hoacot ino . ii , aii ; ved forward , and the porter not returning as t = oon as she thought ho miglit havo done , nioJestiy fcui-jt-d round to look for her bos , but , the porter and box were both missing . The woman made hor case kuowu to the police , and the b ' . uo bottlo imp took ha to tho Station-house , to make a shaia show of investigating tho aft ' iir , and faiLr . / j to restore the Dux , which conld not bo expected to come without searching for , charged the pour woman 5 .. Gj .-f oc vrjlkiug a few yards throu ^ n the streets . Thu [) uur confuiing creature lost her box containing ; ' wearing apparel aiid other articles , as also the 5 .. ( iJ ., which those viilaina extorted from hor .
The late Inusd . vtion at Brestfoud —Ths adjourned inquest on one of the sufferers by tins dh ; :=-trous occurrence was continuei ou Wuduosuay week , and a number of witnesses were called , who deposed to the various circumstauces ; which had cumy under their notice . The only important point , however , which has not been already several . times before tliu public , was , that a breach , hid taken place intlie walls of the Kingsbury rusei'voir , belo .-i ^ ing to ilu-Rogant ' s Canal Company , ' throHsh which a vast body of water was poured into , tho Brent . Tha
reservoir itself , as it was stated , covers upwards of 140 acres of ground . jind tho walls by -which it was enclosed bains insufficient -to resist bo immense a pressure as that thrown upon thoai by -the-thaw , cud tho consequent influx of water from the country , tha flood both overtopped the walla and forced a passage through ons part , by which a considerable volu : iji reached the Bront , and , as it is supposed , tended in great measure to produce the calamity at Brentford . Tho inquiry continued- until nearly eigln o ' clock , and the Jury 'being thcu bound over in the usual recognizances , the iiiqaest was ac'jouraed until Wednesday ks ; .
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The Law ! the Law !—In the Court of . Queen's Bench , last week , Stone Mann , formerly a purser in the navy , obtained a mandamus to compel th < vCommissioners of the Navy to pay htm the sum of £ 500 , being due to him as wages aud emoluments . Ie appears Mann had been a purser in 1824—5 '; .-bnt had been cashiered in the latter year . Since that timo , litigation as to the validity of the Court Martial , and with Lords of tho Admiralty as to the sum he claimed , had prevented him obtaining a settlement of ht 8 claim . So much for the " glorious uncertainty of the law !"
Another Sample . —In the same Court as the above , an individual , who was indicted for perjury , and who was acquitted , because the tenth . of ten counts , and an immaterial one , too , in the indictment , broke down , obtained a verdict for defamation of character , with £ 800 damages . A rule was , however ,, applied for to set aside the verdict , which course of proceeding led the Judges and applicant to fix the damages at £ 250 . The case now as . 'ain camo before tho Court , on tho ground that the-Master , in taxing the costs , had disallowed the plaintiff ' s expences for all those parts of the declaration in which he hod failed ; and , after a long and able discussion of the matter , in which all the Judges took a very earnest interest , the Court took time to consider their decision .
A Silesian Chronicle states that the winter of 174 f ) was so severe in . tbat part of Europe , that whilst the stove in one part of a room was red hot , water placed near tho window was frozen , and water thrown from a third floor bocame ice before it reached the ground ! It was impossible , says the chronicler , to walk a hundred yards in the ooen air against tho wind witiout tho face being frozen . In Bohemia and Moravia all the ponds were frozen to the buttom , and the fish died ; domestic animals were frozen to death in tlioir stables , as were the birds in tho woods and the gnmo in the forests . Three thousand persons are said to have died of cold in Sweden , and 80 , 000 head of horned cattle were frozen to death in Hungary .
Grandmam . v " at it" again !—A few wroks ago , the Tunes received an extraordinary foreign express , whioh caused the publication of that morning's paper to bo jnte ; whereupon the Morning Hprald , having published at , its usual time , as Boon as Tlie Times appeared , presided to have received an express also , and out camo a second edition ! ! The trick , however , was too soapy ; the merchants and bu-iiiess-men generally , s : iw-through the unworthy artifice , and tho Herald crmght nothing but od'uca for its dexterity . On Monday last , Grandmama tried her hand at a similar same with the Chartists and their Jato "demonstration" at Leed ? . In an article , professing to be furnished from Leeds by its own correspondent , the following passage occurs : —
" At this most-stale and unprofitable muster , a new publication , called the * English Chartist Circular , ' was put forward , in which was giv ^ n a libt of the ' patriots ' , ' , or lately , in durance vile . * * Making inall 443—ainoug whom there is one surgeon ( P <; ter Murray M'Douaii ) , one barrister ( Feargus O'Connor ) , one schoolmaster , one magistrate ( John Frost ) , aud about half a dozen licensed victuallers , the remainder are , wieh very few exceptions , all ignorant and uneducated nn-i ! . " All this would doubtless havo . been very passaUie to the readers of Grandmama ; but , uufovtuna ' . fly for its Lirds correspondent , the publication which is stated to have
been " put forward" at tlie " gathering" there , was not put into " chas-e" till four o ' clock in the afternoon of Friday , twenty-four hours afterwards ; and the printer is reaoy to testify , on oath , thai it wag not composed , even in li ^ iips , " till after the meeting must have separated . Clever Grandiuama to keep Leeds correspondents , who rusticate in tin ? " Old Globo Hatol , " S . ' : oc-lane , and to cill forciui expresses from over the c ! i : ; nnel whenever a contemporary nets a "fa ; bis" worth filching . But " what a falling off is thoro , " when the poor old lady is reduced to the necessity of tilling a palpable lie to screen a piracy from a halfpenny Chartist paper !
The Akm-tbong Liver Pills are recommence . ' ! , as au anti-biliau . s roefli / 'i- ^ e , to every puffrrer from bilious complaints and in .- ' ijg » stion , or frcm an inactive liver , and are procurable . at all druggists , and at th 1 . ! Northern Star ofli-jo . ' It is only necesr-ary to . ° ee that the stamp has " Dr . John Armstrong ' s Liver Pill" engraver ! on if . in whito tettcrs % and to let r . o ono put you off with ftiy other piliw . N . B . —The b . - ) 5 :. s in inTrblod p .-ipcr , and m ? rk « d B ., aro a moro active preparation than the othrrs , and are particularly and universally prained . They arc admirably adapted fcr = poT ' sn \? n , agriculturists , men of business , naval and military men ; as they contain no mercury or calomel , and require tieichsr confinement to the houso nor restraint in < iiet .
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nm > of thk middle a : ; i > wonxiNa classes . TO THE EUITOR OF THE NORTIIEIt . N STAR . Siu , —A very sensible , pithy and opportune letter appeared in your invaluable paper of Saturday las * , from tho pen of 'fciy friend , William Hick . He n < , t only depicts tborein-tho true diameter of tte ffentoeracy . fiistinsuished in the political arena by the soubriquet i . f " Th ¥ Fpxiiaa . J > O ()^ o . Clu ?> , ' but very cogently points out t to inttirttiiti&'dte * inisdiief Wtbh-whioh an amalgamation of Chartism -with the sophisms of these pseudo . Liberals will be fraught . Tho propriety < , f Mr . Kick ' s warning none can tiisputo , yet his fears may have taken too wide a ran ^ e . Th ;» principles of Chartism ar-i noi only invulnerable to tbe attacks of the already van ^ qutshed troops of the " household " annv , but thev are
niadti of matsna ' . s which will stand unimpaired amid " tho wreck of nature and the crush of -worlds "—they have their foundation in truth which endureth fer ev ^ r , and there ia not one fustian jacket , blistered hand , or unshorn chin , connected wit ); a heart on which thos ; principles are impresssd . tiiat cau abandon the sacreit cause , ar . d tight under the kumer or in any w 5 s » count < nan ? . e , the movements , of this doubly base , doubly brutal , and doubly b ' . oody fvapment of n f ^ ct oii . Political advtJnturers , trading p .-.-iiticians , the Ji : n Crow fratfrnity . end a fow aoft-handed i ^ o ] itical spouters , with " Wha wants me ? " iu . scribed on their foreheads , may form an alH'incc- -with tha cradc-skulled brotherhood , but tho Iosb of such will be this cain of our cause , and such an accession to the ulub ( if it can boast of entityl will be lik « tho Irishman ' s victory—they will win a defeat .
Tho Chartists of Great Britain know full well the fncfilcu ] r ; b ! o benefits the cause has derived from tlio uhni < st superhuinau exertions , and the peerle ? s powers of lmnrt , evinced by thuir now cell-bound chiefrtvin , Feargus O'Connor ; and tljny never can abandon their loader to fo ' . lu ' . v in the train of a disguised foe . The Northern Star has guided their footsteps , anfl led them into tho j'Sithway of pure political truth , and they -will not now follow the ignis futtius Generated cither in the boss of Ireland or the marches of Water-lane . Yf . t still an attempt will be made—yea , and no-w ia making , to r-eiluce ami bewilder tho unwary , nnd no exertion ought to be sp ;\ r « . > d to frustrate tho in ? idioxis de < ij , 'ns of tho execrable sqiiiid who coil round tho V , \ z B-. 'f ^ -irman , iind sustain an ephomeiai txistei-. te by licking up his stereotyped venom , and vomiting it upoii the uncompromising advocates of equal rights .
On Satnnvty last , tho pipmy Doctor who compounds l ! . o incretlij- nt . s for that weekly dose of delusion , yclepc . ' tHo Leeds Times , has administered tohips ^ ongy-brniued li . itif-uts ( for , God knows , they are patient " to endure his stuff ) a ho ' . tle of smota , impregnated -will ) a few 'Ircps of huiiil'uir , a little fulsome , softso-. p . and a few lunir-s of ppeeiiily-dissalved falsehood . He has 2 a ? i « ilecl ¦ ' . is phial thus : — " Tho Lesson 3 taught by tho Grca * Leeds JIoet ; nfif . " The Leeds Meeting certainly triu ^ ht scir . o very : ; al " . tary lPssons , which the concoctors of the "FiStiv :: ! " will not soon forget ; but Mother Goose should not p-. 1 ni the nonsense and fictions of h < . r own cobweb brain as the veritable " lessons taught " at Marshall ' s now school . Teachers of a superior order took their station on that evening , ond scholars fruin u higher n « ideniy made their appearance ., consequently , Mother Goose's horn-book was thrown under tho desk " ; ; i ditftitent syst-. iu of toachinjy was propounded ; anil tl : e whole of tlio originally intended process of tuition was a-rranced .
As Mother Goose pans the " lessons" which she dreamed were " taught by the Great Leeds Meeting , " in tlie form of vsrsos . in order , I suppose , that ht-r vis : ens of tha night may pass as gospel , I will correct her errors by the sanio . method . By that meeting we are taught , First—That Mother Goose has no power in her tail , and no more influence over the peop'a than she ought , which is just none at all . Second—That the Fo :: and Goose Club are powerless and insignificant . They are like burning and crackling thorns under a- pot—then make a momentary blnze and a discordant noise—they vanish in srnoko , leaving only a few worthless ashes behind , which tho most geatle br > f za of Chartism may scatter into oblivion ' s tomb .
Third—That tho mighty one of Erin has fallen from his once proud eminence—thatlii 3 " occupation ' s gone . " He is irrecbitiiably lost ; and cannot even serve tho purposes of . Mother fioose , the last of faction ' s dying clique . Fourth—That King Humbug is dethroned , and cannot be reinstated—a sure nnd certain sign that the Messrs . Marshall , Stanafeld , and Co ., must speedily commence some other line of business than that of twaddle-spinning—such stuff being too fragile to hold the tottering sjslem together . Fifth—That the Chartists of the West Riding of Yorkshire know their rights ; and , kaowiDg , dare maintain them . Sixth—That the Chartists are proof against the cant , sophistry , jugglery , craft , deceit , aad fraud of tuo w ' iole tribe of Associated hypocrites .
Seventh—That tfee Chartists are all-potent , and can , with tho greatest facility , vanquish their oppor . enl ' s , even upon their , own dunghill , and in spite of their hest-contvived stratagems . And E ' ghth— The " lessons" teach that the Cbnrtists hive attained that elevated position * from which no power ' on e ^ rt ' a can dislodge them , save intestine brtils .
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Now , Sir , the chagrined Doctor is aware of all thh , yet ho has racked his poor brain to deviae a coveting for his bow unmasked coadjutors ; and what ia tbe covering ? Why , one of the most flimsy things iraafinable—it has neither warp nor woof—it has not even tbe shadow of a suado of substance . He has laboured , but in vain , t « identify the fox « s and geese , and alao the Anti-Corn Law agitators , with the Chartists . God help the p ' or fellow ! he nrast be hard up , when driven to attempt the amalgamation of such opposites . Mat * vel not , should he affirm , in bis next lucubration , thai the arms of her " most Christian" Majesty , Qoeen Victoria ,, and those of the Celestial Emperor , are not employed against each other , but that they are employed as " a new . manifestation " of peace and amity . The Doctor ' s extraordinary discoveries are announced to the little world to which is oracle speaks , in the foK lowins conundrum-like manner : —
" What is the Leeds Association bat a new manifest * ation of Chartism ? " And , sgain , " What ; are the Anti-Corn Law agitators but Chartista nnder another name ? " - I shall not trespass upon your space , or on the pntience of your reader * , by any prolix commentary on the Doctor ' s new discoveries , because it is unnecessary I always thought that Chartism bad Universal Sof « frage . as its fundamental principle , and , if my eyes deceived mo not , the organs of the association have , in tho emanations of their master-minds , declared Universal Suffrage " impracticable ; " they have repudiated il fltid inscribed Household Suffrage upon then ? , banners Now , what affinity there ex ' sts between animate , rational , reflecting , and feeling man and inanimate bricks , mute mortar , and nnfeeling stone , is a problem I leave for the Doctor ' s solution , which I opine will be a novel " manifestation * ' of his inventive faculty .
As to the Anti-Corn Law agitators being Chartists under another name , " allow mo . in a word or two , to point out the objects of esch . That of the Chartists is , to obtain the enactment of such laws as shall guarantee to the working man " a fair day's wage for a fair day ' s labour / ' and to abrogate those despotic laws which militate against the accomplfshment of such objects . The object , of the Anti-Corn Law agitators Is , ( when bared of all the rubbish they rake into the question ) to obtain a Repeal of the Cam Laws , that the price of bread may be reduced ; and for what purpose ? To
increase the comforts of tke operative ? No ; not a leaf of that tree . It is to enable the millocrats , merchants , or slaughter-house gents , to compete with the foreign manufacturer , which they find they cannot do without reducing their profits , or the wages of tha labourer . The former they cannot brook , and the latter is impracticable , beine-already screwed down to the starvation point ; therefore , their scheme is to reduce tho price <> f bread , that the " workey" may get his morsel at a cheeper rate , and the grinder be thus enabled to turn the wage-screw a little lower .
And this is " Chartism under another name ! " Tbe Doctor must be either ignorant , completely ignorant , of the principles of Chartism—subjVct to fifs of mental aberration , " or ambitious of aping the " thievish God . " If the first , I would advise him to place himself under the tuition of some fustian jacket , and vacate hit Editorial , chair , until better qualified to give " lessons * on politics . If the stennd , I would give his connections the hint to place him in some lunatic asylum ; and , if the latter , f would suggest to him tho propriety of throwing away his mask , and openly avowing himself the rival of " the Grwit Liar of the North . " In another pirt of his dirty racj , . is a paraijraph rep ' . ete with falsehood and scurrillity . He states that tho Charti . 'rfs wevs supplied with money , during the recent demonstration , by the Tories , which is a LIB . The lists of subscribers witl settK " . that point .
Ho speaks of the placards which were issued , aud which portrayed tho character of his fallen friend Dan , . is being slanderous a : d false , yet he has forgot to > show wherein tho slander and falsehood consisted . This he could ¦ not do , cs every reader of the placards kn * v ? s that not a twentieth part of Dan ' s treachery , profligacy , deceit and fraud , was hinted s . t . It would bo impossible to drpicfc the true character of that arch-impostor , or to chronicle one-half of the black deeds within the limits of n thousand posters , and It is not in the power of the Doctor to clear so that political leper , as well might he essay to change the viper into a " sucking dove . "
He concludes the paragraph I allude to , by soaping Messrs . Moir , Collins , and Deogan ; but I mistake these man if they placo any value ou the congratulations of this unfledged plural-unit , since tho Chartists full well Icnow that his pmise-is censure , and hia censure praise . This , in part , verifies the opinion of Mr . Hu-k . yet , depend upon it . the old birds are not to be caught by such worthies ch-. ff . Chartists ! beware—keep your " eyes open . " Yours , truly , William Rider . Leeds , Feb . 2 nd , 1841 .
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WAKEFIELD HELL . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOHTIJKBN STAR . Sin - —I-think my last letter will satisfy your readers as to the cleanliness of the pest-house I am endeavourinc to show uj > in these Utters . I might cite several other instances of the extreme filthincss of the place , did I not think them too disgusting for publication ia the " People ' s P . iptr . " I will , therefore , proceed to that part of the ' Kules , " which orders scales and Aveightsto Vie kept for tho purpose of weighing the prisoners'bread .
The prisoners are served -with a half-pound loaf three times a-day , in the following manner ;—A person called Thomas , ( one of the most overbeoriu !; tyrauts in tha place , ) who has the management of the bread and " skilly . " places a large ba& ]; et , . fail of loaves , in tha hnnds of otie of the prisoners , who walks backwards , bttween the forms on which tho prisoners &re seated , at a stnart pace , whilst Thomas , with a scorr . ful grin , ia throwing the morsels , rinht and left , to tho halfstarved wretches who are anxiously awaiting them , heedless wlirtiier they fiill on the dirty floor , or intoihe haud 3 of the prisoners . A goodly portion of the loaves thus thrown about are badly baked , and several of them ' are nut above six ounces in weight . Well , let us see Iww tlw " Rulea" are carried out . I Lave seen
several mejn stand up in their places with a , little ill shapen thing like a cinner between their fingers , which had been given to them as eight ounces of good bread ; they have stoo ; l in this manner for an Lour or more , and were then compelled , through lutense hunger , to sit down * nd cat it . I have watched a man , whose number was 345 , stand up for an hour and a half , in order that'his bread snight be weighed , and nebody wyiit near him until tho prisoners -were marched off to bed , when . lie received another iu eschar . ge , which seemed no larger thau the first . I "havs several times taken notice , of the in : ir , ner iu which a foppish " officsr"'treated an idiot , Xo . 289 , who bad been sentenced to tarto years' i ; npris muxent . Oao morning , ia particular , he i > tuod ur > , with his bread ia his hand ,
which ia the signal that , they required it to be - ^ sighed ; the abovo -mentioned f ^ p weat to the basket and fought out the snial' .. s ! i loaf ho could find , and gave it to the , p . x > r idiot ; r . fter which he ordered him to sit down , and then turned round and laughed heartily at his humane exploit . This will sufficiently prove the value of that part of the ruies coucerniug " scales and weights ., ' . ' and fully bear me out in my fotmer assertion — "That the whole is a brutal mockery and farco -with regard to the prisoneis , and a gross imposition on . the public . " I could give tcores of uibtances of the tyranny iind brutality , to wljich tho prisoners in that filthy den arc subjected ; but , as 1 intend attaching hereto a balance sheet of the money received ior supplying the Chartist prisoners with ii uilc-I , 1 must conclude for the } iese : it and . . subscribe iuv .-: eif .
Yours , truly , Ckorge " White . . PS . —I understand that my esteemed-friend , William As' ; ton . of . B ^ rnsiey , tan writ-tea Ms last monthly letter to me , but that the humane Gover ;;» r has detained it ! I-dou't kiiow ' by -what autholity . Wo saall see ! ¦ < d . coo o o o io - > s = > < r . ih o ** t o 9 ~ i c > o e > i ¦ ooo towea 053 a f o t- n i-i 'xo r-t i ~< rt ^ oo oco on :::::::: : : : : ¦ ¦ *• ¦ ¦• ^ o o £ * - • ' ¦ £ ^ e » • *> ¦ « - { " 3 s ; o o g . i : M ::::: £ ^ . : : g - aa g : t , rf o ft ' . I u ? S £ « : : : : - - 2 . § . : n "C ' -o w rj d A jz - ~* £ aj *> 2 liiiiitii m " I ? m J a £ •« 3 3 g d § gSSo mm si * * , 1 hI ^ i i ! lip I O 33 S 33 O h S ° a a 655555 ^ 1 % &&& I \ iiiiii it Mi I s ! i Ill ^ il V
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say whether the publication was a libel npon the Christian religion , although the libel had'no reference whatever to that matter . Now , inasmuch as the law proceeded on the ground that the obligations of civil society were injured and loosened by bringing the Scriptures into contempt , jurors and witnesses being sworn upon the New Testament , any controversy upon matters contained in the Old Testament , which had no reference whatever to Christ ( the Christian religion btinc altogether independent of the Old Testament ) , could not be said to come within the rule laid down in these cases .
Tbe Court did not think there was any ground for the rule . There w » s that connection between the Old and the New TesUinent that one part of it csuld not be assailed and vilified without reflecting upon Christianity generally . It was their duty to take the law as it was laid down in tho ttatute-book , and thera was nothing in tbe s-3 statutes to take the case before them out of the ordinary rule . It hid always been considered an offence of the highest magnitude to make attacks of that sort upon the Christian religion , and the Jury had found that the publication in quettion was a libel of that nature . Affidavits , in mitigation , having been put in and read ,
Mr . Hethebi . ngton applied ts the Court for leave to address it in mitigation , which being assented to , he said he could first rely upon the fact set forth in the affidavits , namely , that it was a common practice in tho trade to insert on the title page the name ef a publisher like himself for the purpose of serving him , that had been done in the present case—bis name had been put to the titlf-pago without his knowledge or consent , and he cou ! d safely assert that he had never read a lino of it until be Lad been informed that the book contained a libellous passage . It was clear from that , that there ctiuld be no criminal intent in selling the book , as he bad ihtrdy done so in the usual course of his business When truth was the oVject in discussions of this sort , he fully agreed that decurum and respect for the feelings of others should be observed , and he avowed that he did not stand there as the apologist of the passages
contained in that puoiication . hay , the author had given a citndid admission of his error , in having withdrawn thesy offensive p . isssses in a recent edition . How , then , could the Court punish him for tho sale of a work of t '; e contents of which he was ignorant ? He admitted thai loyally ha vras th-V publisher of the work , but th « statfiiient th ; . t his name was to tho book went to the Jury unaccompanied by the explanation that ho was not the original publisher . Mr . Heywood had , at a trial in -Manchester , pleaded cuilty to being the original publisher , tmd ha-i been discharged , after giving bail to appear when called upon . All he asked was , ihst the same punishment might'be imposed upon him , nnd he felt confident they would never have to call upon him . He humbly trusted the Court would not take him from his home and his family in a case where there was in absence of ail criminal intention , aud he left the case in their hands .
The attorney-General said it was for the Court to siy whether the prosecution vr . is not one which ought to have bten instituted . It -was only necessary for him to refer to some of the passages in the libel to show their mischievous an-. t blnsphtmous tendency . Mr . Hetherington had not in his affidavit stated that when he ascertained the libellous n : itura of the pubiic : ; - ti-.-n lie J . a I withdrawn it from publication , and h : ul ceased to mil it "Whatever had been dofee in the cane of Mr . Hevwood ^ fcs no precedent fur their Lordships ; they wer < « to juii ^ ft of the facts which cam o before them , and il wub for the ' . n to say "what punishment ought to be inflicted on the defendant fur tUu ^ ublication which had been laid before ihem .
The COLKT laving cois'jlttd for some time together , Mr . Justice hliTLLUALE preiioa :: ced the judgment of the Court , wh'u-h wks , that the defendant be imprisoned iu the custody of the Marshr . l of the Marthalsea fur tue tpac « of four lnonvus .
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g THE NORTHERN STAR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1095/page/6/
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