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Knavery o * all Sides , —A clergyman said to one of his parishioners , •* You have lived like a knave , and you will die like a knave . " ** Then , " aid the poor fellow , You will bury me like a knave . " Sicrets . —A sect ?* is like - silence—you cannot talk about it , and keep it ; it is like money—when once you know there is any concealed , it is halfdiscovered . " My dear Murphy , said an Irishman to . his friend , " why did you betray the secret I told yod ^ " Is it betraying you call it ! Sure , when found I wasn ' t able to keep it myself , dida ' t I do well to tell it to somebody that could V
Addiso * and Steels . —A gentleman , who was dining with another , praised very much the meat , and asked who was the butcher . " His name is Adcison . " " Addison ! " echoed the guest ; " pray ia he any relation to the poet 1 " " In all probability he is , for he is seldom without his sted ( SleeleJ by his side . ' Editorial Troubles . —The editor of the Keic York Commercial Advertiser makes the following apology for the non-appearance of its usual commercial remwk 3 and market intelligence : — " During the week many of its were detained from duty by » evere indisposition . One who . attended to the advertising department was detained at home by
this cause ; the person who attends to the marine department was kept away by having three of his family down with the scarlet fever , one of whom die-1 . On Saturday morning , one of us who attends to the stocks and money matters was confined to his bed daring the dsy . The one who takes care of the office as usual , at nine o ' clock , was called away to take leave of his father , who was supposed to be dying . Another , who left his family , as he sapposed , ¦ well , early in the morning , was notified at nine o ' clock that ; siuce he h 3 d left home his infant child had died . In addition to this , four compositors were absent on account of illness . "
Q . ueex Abelaidk draws £ 101 , 000 yearly from the jacket of J « hn Bull , which vave rise to the following parody by Mrs . William V , Sankey : — \ 7 IU ^ UVLu A < lvluhtu Cut ¦ with a Bharp blade A slice out of John Ball ' s pie ; She put in her thumb , And pulTd ont a pivm , * And » id , " What a good Queen am L "
• A plum signifies £ 100 , 009 . A Legislator . —The Claremont ( N . H . ) Eagle py ? , that while the yeas and nays " were calling " in the House of Representatives , on Wednesday of last week , on some qaestion , Mr . . Brown , of South Hampton . " an odd chick , " did not answer to his Dame . When the vote was through , he rose and addressed the Speaker as follows : — " Mr . Speaker , 3 ri ^ e to let yon know that I did not dodge this question . I only squtlted a little , in order to take a better view on the subject , and now I say * no' to the criuer . "—Xev York Sun .
Effects cf Wine accounted for . —When Noah planted the first vine , aniretired , Satan approached and said— " I will nourish you , charming plant J ' He quickly fetched three animals—a sheep , a lion , and a hog , and killed them , one after another , near the Tine . The virtues of the blood of these three animals penfirated it , and are EtiU manifest in us growth . When a man drinks one goblet of wine , he is then agreeable , gentle , friendly—that is the nature of the lamb . When he drinks two , he is like a liou , and says , " Who is like me 1 " —lie then talks of stupendous things . When he drinks more , hi 3 senses forsake him ; and , at length , he wallows in the mire . . Need it be said , that he then resembles the hog IISchardson .
THE WANTS OF ADTERTISERS . " I know of no cure so good for the vapours , Aa reading the wants that appear in the papers . " So signs John Perry , and with as much truth as wit . The columns of a newspaper are the outlet for all the crotchets and whims of individual in this most crotchety of nations . What a person would not think of communicating in confidence to his most intimate friend he goes and publishes to all the "world in the new . paper . Bat then he is hid beneath an impenetrable veil , and has the pleasure of seeing his want" fuDy advertised without being taunted with the singularity or unreasonableness of it . Men let their most violent prejudices have full play in this open field , and the bigot appears in full bbz 9 of glory as an advertiser . Does the reader want a ** case V The crammed columns of the Time's fcrnish cart loads ef them dai y , but , to save the tronble of reference , we we will take one from last Wednesday '? : —
** Wanted , as good cook , in a clergyman ' s family , a person xcho values religious privileges . No kitchenmaiu kept : no dairy . It' any lady can recommend such a person she will oblige the advertiser . " A " cook who va l ues religious privileges ! A cat thai can play on the fidJ'e . ¦ The religious privileges of a cook are to scold the scullion , snub the footboy , and sell the dripping ! The former are personal rights flcwing from the importance and sanctity of her occupation—the latter is the tithe which she exacts from all the world—that is , all the wond that have dinners ! Cast your eyes a little lower down , and we come to a new vrs . ui : —
"Nurserymaid . —Wsnted , a youcg woman , about twenty-three Tears of age , in the above capacity . Sbe mass be able to work well at her needle , and be a member of the Established Church . Xo followers allowed . " Here ' s a test of religion and morals ! A member of * the Established Church , and no followers ! li ' s plain Inese conditions wouldn ' t suit themodest young woman hard by , who wants a situation " as good plain cook , where a footman is ke ^ t ? This i ? certainly a very wise and necessary provision where no followers are allowed ! What would Malthu- * say of the respectable widow who warns " nurse-children ? ' What will romantic joung Iadie 3 and gentlemen « ay to this : — ** If Louise will return immediately to her friends in London she will be kindly received , and all that has passed will be forgiven . April J 4 . "
How fall of mystery—perhaps of misery ; and how iQAny tears may have been shed before this dernier resort—* public advertisement , to brinj ; back an erring child , or wife , or mother , was resolved on ! No pang , however , we imagine , accompanied the two following intimations : — " If Miss Ruih Hail , of Neweastle-npon-Tyne , does not fetch away her bjxeSj left at J . Yerrv ' s 18 , Eastcheap , Cny , in fourteen days from this dat « ( April Ut . li , 1841 ) , they wiii be sold to defray al expences . "
" 1 hereby give notice , tLat unless John Stratfon Best , late of Denham Mount , in the parish of Den bam , Backs , Esq , pars my demand , and remove ; within fourteen days from the date hereof , thre greyhound puppies ( one dog and two bitches , lefi with me on the 3 rd day ot September las by his servant , George Hencher , they will be sol to defray my demana ; , and the espeuces aticndin the same . Cooper E . wn , DenhamBucksApri
, , 10 , 1541 . " What outrage against the delicacy of Miss Rm Hall—what inhumanity towanis the puppies of Jot Stratford Best , Esq . I—Brighton Herald .
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JOSEPH GOULDING AGAIN ! ( From our London Correspondent . ) WORSHIP-STREHT POLICE COURT , 8 i . TtiaDA . T , April 17—Mr . William Drake , a respectable shoemtker , carrying on business on bis own account , in Brick-lane , Spitalflelda , appeared to a summon * obtained against him by the notorious Goulding , whose participation in th » memorable Bethaal Green meeting has been already made known to the readen of the Northern Star . The charge was this : —On the Sunday evening previous , Goulding was present at a lecture given at the Hall of Science , City Road , where be \ tu seated on the platform , in company with the Reverend Richard Carlile , his son , and the lady who lectured on the occasion , whom Goulding described as " Mrs . Carlile . " The defendant was also present , in
the body of the meeting ; in the course of the evening , he advanced to the platform , and , addressing the audience said , " Are yon aware you have got a Government spy in . the room ; the fellow who betrayed the Betlinal Green Chartists , and sold poor Boggis . " When the defendant said this , he was close to Goulding ' s elbow ; the audience arose , and a momentary confusion ensued ; Goulding addressing them , and assured he was not the character he had been represented to be , by which means order was restortd . and nothing else transpired till the andJenee were separating ; when a young man mot the defendant ) addressing Goulding , said " I should like •" " Like what 1 " inquired Goulding . " To run a hole through such a vagabond as you ; " replied the young man referred to . It tras in consequence of this , that
the present defendant was summoned . The complainant swore that he went in continual bcdilyfear . and handed in to the Magistrate a letter from the Reverend Mr . Carlile , denouncing " the mad and mischievous Chartists , " and wishing Goulding success , aa he ( the writer ) " knew him to be engaged in a good eause . " Strange to say , Mr . Broughton read this letter , \ which could not possibly have anything to do vith the case , ) while he continually and repeatedly protected the " fellow" ( as defendant ' s solicitor termed hiiiii Goulding , from giving any answer to questions relative to the Bithnal Green spy job , out of which Mr . Drake ' s denunciation arose .
»•¦ ~ rilv to Mr . Broophton . as to the complainant ' s credibility on bis oath , Goulding Bwore that he did not believe Jesus Christ ever existed as a man , thotigb he believed in his Divinity , and in a future state of rewards and punishments . He first described himself as a shoemaker , living at 173 , New North-street . Castle-street , Finsbury ; and afterwards stated that he was entitled by law to be ca led Reverend , as he had taken out a license for preaching as a Protestant Dissenter . He went in fear ot" personal violence , as he had no doubt tiiat the " low , ignorant fellows among the Chartists , ¦ who' talked of burning houses and stabbing policemen , would not mind murdering him , "
Mr . Hunt , a solicitor , appeared on behalf of the defendant , and contended that , though Goulding had gone thronzh the form of taking an oath , it was plain there was nothing in the Holy Gospels , which bad been put into his bands , that could at all be considered binding on his conscience . Mr . Broughton overruled the objection , inasmuch as the complainant had declared kis belief in a state of future rewards and punishments , anil tbis was deemed in law sufficiently binding on the consciences of persons giving evidence en oath . But even if lie were an infidel , or an atheist , that was no reason wJby he should be denounced to a public meeting , and be rendered liable to be torn in pieces . '
Mr . Hunt then proceeded to cross-examine Goulding . Most of the questions , however , which tended to elucidate the share he took in the Bethnal Green affair , were refused to be answered by the witness ; in which Mr . Broujhton upheld him , ou the ground that , even if he hsd armed the Chartists , and even if he were a spy , he was there under the protection of the law . Guiilding swore positively that he hud nothing to do with the arrest of Boggis , and that be knew of the circumstance ordy from nadivg il in the paper $ ! He did not wear a short blue cloak whsn Boggis was taken , nor was he near the spot that morning . He never advised a person named Spencer , nor any one else that he recollected , to take arms . He had known Mr . Drake , the defendant , about two ytars ; and had bad no dispute with him , it his knoudtdyt ; they might have had vords , but he did not believe they ever quarreUed .
An eccentric-lootini ; personage named Wuby , who described himself as a schoolmaster , came forward to support the eomphinant ' s allegations . In reference to the person who propounded the experimental desire to dri ! l a hole in Mr . Goulding's boiiy , the witness ilid not suy he was drunk , but thought he was ment'jjty excited . He didn't beiirre there tctre / our Chartists in the room . When the ciefe : iu : uit sakl , "Are you aware tiiat you have a Government * pj- in the room , " erery body knew he me-ait Guulding . John Brett , a cabintt-maker , also supported the complainant ' s charge : in his cr iss-exaniination , he said , when Drake first made the allegation , there was great disturbance and noise , some talking one way and some another ; there was , however , plenty of time to cool , and they were cool enough afterwards : for GuuHing got np and made » speecn , but the defendant had left the meeliuj then .
Mr . Hunt then addressed the magistrate on behalf of the defendant . These parties hw \ been CMimtcUd together in some transactions -which involved the complainant in circumstances of more than strong suspicion : from some motive ( perhaps a very substantial one , for he was better off now ) , Guuklini ? had separated from the Chartists , when ke bad trepanned them into an illegal meeting , and information ha 1 ' , been given sit ¦ WiS believed by Goulding himself i to the higher powers . But where was this alleged bre * eh ot the peace , with which the defendant -was charged , committed ? According to the complainant's own statement , it was at a time and in a place when and where no respectable person would ventcre to be present They Were hearing
a lecture , on 5 Sunday evening , from a woman whom Goulding had sworn was Mrs . Carlile ; but of whom the less that was said tho better . The defendant had used no threat , even by implication ; he hail merely asked a question , whether the meeting " were aware that they had a spy among them ? ' True ,. Goulding had Evrorn that he went in bodily fear , but bis actions contradicted it , for he asserted that he euinc funrard and tatUfifd the meciii . j , because he urn better liked than Drake . Were he Uhesolicitori to go into other matters , the fellow Goulding would not look so pleased as he did then . On the whole , be contended it was not such a case &s colled for the interference of the masis trate .
Mr . Bronghton said , there could be no doubt that the complainant was entitled to the protection of the law , -whatever be mi ^ ht once have been . If he hml gone to the Court of Queen ' s Bench , he might have exhibited articles of tbe peace On his own affidavit , ¦ srithcut any investigation taking place , as was usml before a magistrate . As to his political or religions fancit-s—whether he chose to connect himself vrith the Char : u < ts or with Mr . Carlile , —whom he ( the magistratei thought fitted far another great building in the neighbourhood , ( St . Lukes , i than for a Hall of Science —• whether he choose to convert tbe Saviour into a mere spirit , or to take any otber fancy , he ( Mr . Broughton ) had nothing to do with it : any one wbo held him out to be A SPY was guilty of a serious offence , and answtrabJe far any violence that might ensue . He should tberefoTa require the defundant to find two sureties in £ 30 each , and enter into his own recognizances in £ 40 , to answer any ir . oActmeut that might be preferred against him at the Sessions .
The sureties were instantly entered into , and the defendant was liberated . [ To those readers of the Star who may re member the cirenmstances which came to light be / ore the committee of the Working Men ' B Association , appointed to inquire into the conduct of Goulding relative to the Bethnal Green spy-concocted meeting , it may not be uninteresting to know , that , since Mr . Gv > uldicg borrowed a few pence of Mrs Neesora to psy for a little soup , and represented himself to ba in a state of pecuniary destitution , Fortune has been more liberal « in her dealinga with that gentleman . He appeared in court , on this occasion , attiredon the mO 3 t fashionable manner , -with a costly watch-equipage ( if not a -watch ) , a massive gold ring on the little finger of bis right hand , a siap-up cane , and all the paraphernalia of a . West-end " swell" Mr . Drake was attired as small tradesmen usually are ,
neatly but homely . Altogether , no « no could look at the complainant ( who described himself & % a journeyman shoemaker ) and the defendant , ( who was stated by the policeman that served the summons on him , to be " a respectable jnasttrr shoemaker , who had been for some time in his present house , "} without coming to the conclusion that jottrseyjrian-snobbing is a much better trade than master snobbing . *• Never judge of a man by his dress , " is a trite but true axiom . Still , however , great credit is dne to such indcstrt as that of Mr . Goulding , by means of wbich so much has been accomplished in so short a period ; and that , too , without neglecting his tei / e and family' W& wish ali honest journtymen shoeujafcSrs csuld " cnt the pnggy " to the same tune as their brother Crispin does , by minding their own busifieu , and ktlisg other people ' * atone , man
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Foetitcdk is Children . —A very alarming accident lately elicited much fortitude in two little girls . One evening last week , Mr . John Neale , the son of the landlord at the Mure Tavern , at Portsea , was uking his two young sisters home from school , through the New Forest , in a cLaise-carc ; when part of the harness snapped , the horse was frightened , and tho cart was upsei . All were thrown out . Mr . Neale bad his hip broken and his ancle dislocated . His sister A ^ nes , who is ten years of age , was scalped from the forehead to the back of tbe
head ; and Adeline , tae other sister , a year younger , had her arm broken . The young man was quit * insensible ; and the little girls , iu spite of their sufferings , managed to draw their brother to the roadside , and then set out in search of assistance . After wandering in the Forest for about an hour , they found thts house of one of the keepers . Here the eldest sisier remained , beir . g quite exhausted , the other guided the keeper to the place where Mr . Nr » 'e lay ; and he was carried to the Crown Inn at Lyndhnrsr , wfcero he remained in a state of considerable danger .
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--i . i--. j ., u .,.-- ¦ - - r rn « ¦ « i * « »» - *• <¦ " ** THE EASTER RECESS IN THE POLITICAL WORLD . ¦ ' , The Easter recess passes away with unequalled quiet In the political world . Tbe closing of Parliament used to entice the Members to exchange the arduous struggles of either House tor the lighter oratory of political meetings throughout the country , affording an agreeable diversity of excitement , and enabling each party to renew the interest of its adherents ia the provinces This season there has been nothing ot tbe kind . Members have not sought their constituents , to commune with them on pending measures ; because there are no measures pending—none expected or intended to passwhich any constituency cares about Members have not run down to their homes , to revive the interest of political questions among their local supporters , because
there is no interest to revive : interest in the party questions of the day is clean gone ; Members feel little themselves , and have no motive for effort They know that the people see through tbe stale counterfeits , Whig , Tory , Radical ; and they can no longer spur themselves to the bootless office of simulating a Eeal which no one feels . It is too much to go even a mile from the snug country house merely to say that they wish this or that party to draw the salary of office ; asd that Is all they could Bay . So they just stay at home , resting after the aimless and irksome labour of walking in and out of the lobbies to divide . In this universal negation , we see tbe character of the time : even professed busybodies and dealers in public meetings , the most indefatigable of political traders , are worn out with the tedium of carrying on sham contests .
Nevertheless , there must be some show of action when Parliament meeta again ; and tbe daily broad sheets , which must be filled in the holidays as in session-time , nave been pointing to ths future with a make-believe of preparation . Nothing newer promises at present , however , than a return to the great showfights of the past half-session , on the Irish Registration Bills and the New Poor Law . The party journals occasionally blow s note or two , like minstrels of old , carrying on the battle-song while the combatants are resting : the Ministerial Chronicle sings tb * wrongs of msh electors , to v > raco up the nerves of Lord Morpeth and his retainers ; the Times chants the tricks of Whig Registration schemes , to fire the fury of a Stanley , ot the iniquities of the Poor Law , to keep up the effervescence of a Wakley . —Spectator .
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AGAIN LORD CARDIGAN . The following statement has been addressed to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle , by " An Old Soldier : "" You will , I hope , allow me , through th « medium of your columns , to call attention to the following plain statement : —A private of the 11 th Hussars was drunk on leaving the barracks , at Brighton , and was subsequently tried by a district Court-martial , and sentenced to corporal punishment . His trial took place on Thursday , and the approval of the Court-martial was received , at Hounslow , on the Sunday morning . On Sunday , the 11 th Hassaia were raaicae * into the Riding School , for divine service . Prayers were read , and a sermon was preached . On the conclusion of divine
service , the trunipet-major was ordered to make things ready for corporal punishment . And in this Riding School , and on a Sunday , where not an hour before the whole regiment were engaged in prayer , Private Rogers , of the lltb Hussars , was tied up and flogged , receiving one hundred lashes . I trust , for the credit of the service and tbe country , the matter will be brought before Parliament , and a full inquiry instituted . The general public , I am sure , will agree with roe , without entering into the question of flogging , or whether Private Rogers deserved it or not , that on no account could tbe commanding cffic » r of the 11 th Hussars be justified in carrying the punishment into effect on a Sunday , and in the place appointed that day for divine worship . "
How the character of the man is marked in this proceeding . The approval of the sentence arrived on Sunday morning , and so eager waa tbe noble Colonel for the execution of it , that he could not wait even till 'Monday , but the Sabbath must be desecrated by a punishment after prayers ! What a sequence to the voice of prayer the sound of the lash !—the scourge after devout supplication —the groans of the sufferer after the lessons of mercy 1 The Bishop of London has counted the boats that have passed under Fulham Bridge on a Sunday . Did they profane the holy day more than a hundred Iashe 3 ; and what will the Right Reverend Prelate , who has borne such loud testimony against the sins of green-grocers and pastry-cooks , say of the desecration of the Sabbath by the noble Colonel of the Eleventh 1 Ia keeping open a stall a less scandal than flaying a human back \ Is pl y ing the butcher ' s trade less allowable than plying the cato' -nine-tails ?
Lord Cardigan ' s defence will probably be that the rich man is aa much entitled to his pleasures ou the Sunday as the poor man , and that ho sees no mote reason why he should forego one ministration to hit * enjoymeut than another , and that the work of the hands that wield the cat-o ' -nine-tails must be as much al his command as that of his French cook . One appetite , however , can wait , though the other cannot ; and , for tho sake of public decency at least , Lord Cardigan must learn to postpone his gratifications in the way of punishments for forty-eight hours , when the approval of the sentence happens to arrive ou Sunday morning . We have hitherto opposed every bill for the bitter observance of the Sabbath ; but as we are far more hostile to the introduction of bitterness in the
violation of the Sabbath , than to the introduction of bitterness in the observance ot it , we will promise to £ ive our best aid in support of a bill to prohibit iloKKUii ; in the army on the Sabbath day . I t may be remembered that wo lately showed that the severities of Lord Cardigan had first been exercised on tbe privates of his regiment , and that , when chtcked in that direction by Sir C . d'Albiac , they were transferred to the officers . From the present si ^ n wo infer that the officers have a respite ; it would be too imprudent to open fresh quarrels with them just now , so the men are to have their turn again , and to mark the eagerness for the punishment , by suffering or seeing the infliction of it oa the Sabbath . — Examiner .
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CHARTIST MEETING IN MANCHESTER . We Lad a spirited and overflowing meeting on Sun-Oay evening last , in the Tib-street Chartist Room , to hear Mr . C . Connor and Mr . C . Doyle , two Irish Chartists . Mr . WHEHLER , after making a few preparatory remarks on the progrtss of the cause , introduced Air . Connor to the meeting . Mr . Connor rose and said—He was willing at every opportunity to vindicate the rights and liberties of men of his own order , and would , he trusted , ontinae to do till they were possessed of those rights and immunities which justice and the laws of God and nature entitled himself and thorn to . ( Cheers . ) He -would not have needed to be there if the parsons of this country ( of course he made some few honourable
exceptions ) had followed out the precept and example of their Lord and Mast « r , and defended the poor agaiutt the rich , and against tyranny of tvery description . ( Applause . ) He had been taking a walk that afternoon , and he saw a brick-yard with a large quantity of new-made bricks in it ; and he thought a better way to illustrate the valuo of labour he couid not adopt tban the one which struck him at the time . When ho looked at the clay itself from which the ** bricks had been made he found that it waa of no value whatever ; but -when men have been employed in digging it out of the earth , it then began to be of service . Why , because labour had been applied—and so it was under every operation , tbe-working of it into bricks and burning , and indeed every additional part of labour gave it additional value
— ( hear , hear )—thus proving that labour is the foundation of all wealth . ( Cheers . ) If such is the case , why is not labour protected ? or why is property protected to the exclusion of labour ? He had seen a notice put en the gable end of a buiidinjf , to the effect that if any one was caught posting bills against it , he should be prosecuted according to lavr . Tiien you sse the building is so far protected as to prevent even a single Billffrom being pasted against it , while the labour , blood , bones , and sinews of the labouring classes are not protected . ( A voice , " True , " ) For example , a cotton manufacturer , or any other capitalist , can come into the factory when he pleases and tell his hands that he is about to take a shilling from their wagea each , and they , the hands , have not the least power to resist such an unjust aggression , because if they did they must bo
tnrnea into the street to starve , they having no other appeal . Then again the capitalist can any time lock up his factory and turn ont fuurteea or fifteen hundred hands into the street . One man has the power to do this , and the hands mast submit to it , because they have no powec to hold him accountable for his conduct . ( Hear , hear , and shame . ) But he , for his part , was independent of tbese wretches although he was a slave . He neither looked to the Government for sympathy , nor to the working classes for support He could get his living , such as it \ ras , as well in one town as another ; therefore , he was from under the tyrannical grasp of the cotton lords . ( Voices— " I wish I was .- > The law
would protect a pig of an aristocrat , while the working men , politically speaking , were dead : they had no life : nay , they were no more than a piece of household furniture , at the mercy of the law-makers , liable to be brought , or rather forced , out to Bght in thd Held of battle for Queen Victoria or her Ministers , yet were not protected by the law , because , not having a voice in the making of the law . All they , the woikiug people , had to do with the laws was , according to Whig logic , to obey them ; and ah they had to do with the taxes -wras to pay thtm . ; Hear , hear . ) Did they expect , f < Jr a single moment , that the present House Of CJinmoiis would grant them Universal Suffrage J If they did , he thought they would be very much mistaken . His
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1 ' ' advice wm , that they would tinlte , organise , and agitate , till roch time aa they had a sufficient powe * b * bta 4 the Uw to be stronger tban the law , then they would hava the Suffrage ; in short , when they were prepared by moral means to take their rights , the Government would be glad to give them without resorting to physical force . ( Hear , htar , and applause . ) [ Mr . Connor here read a speech delivered by Oliver Cromwell , when he went to clear the Augean stable , which he ( Connor ) said was very applicable to the present House . ] ( Laughter . )
He continued , we want Buch a man at the present day , tot the better part of them were a set of mercenary wretches , who care no more for the sufferings of the people , as fully exemplified in their conduct , than they would for a dead dog . tShame , shame . ) There were , he was willing to admit , good men In all societies . There were good men among th « middle class ; but those men , whoever they may be , who wish to carry their designs into effect , contrary to the expulsions , feelings , and wishes of the majority , are no more nor less than traitors to their country . ( Hear , hear , and loud applause . ) He was sorry to say this was the case in fearfully numerous instances . There were too many whowanteito carry their own pet measures to serve their own purposes , who , at the same time , would not care what became of them , the working classes . Here
Mr . Connor lashed the press , and denounced it as one of the greatest enemies to liberty , and the labour of many niillioned helots of this Queendom . The press , the lawyers , the parsons , and others who live by the industry of others , had formed a foul conspiracy against the rights of the industrious working men ; the parsons teach the people to endure the wrongs and cruelties which they suffer quietly . They must respect the Queen , pay the tithes and rates , and come to the church . And , above all , they must keep away from those discontented and wicked individuals , the Chartists , or otb . er . wise they would be ruined and be &ent to hell . where they would remain for ever . ( Laughter . ) This is the doctrine which is taught at the present day , and the very men who are continually preach ing this doctrine , are living upon the fat ot the land , enjoying
every luxury , visiting the gambling hells , and forsooth would hnv « the deluded to believe that they are the real followers of the meek and lowly Jesus . ( Shame . ) Mr . Connor then drew the attention of his hearers to the laws of primogeniture . If a nobleman , to use the slang phrase , had two or three sons , according to this law , the first took the property , and the rest had to be pensioned upon the public . If he had any daughters he endeavoured to accumulate as much property as he could , in order to set them up with a husband wbo had plenty of money , and , of course , well provided for . Then , as for the other sons , if th * re was one more valiant and cruel tban another , if he could fehoot rats , kill hares , and such like with pleasure , that was a sure token that he would make a good man butcher , and be must have a commission in the army or navy .
The second perhaps would exhibit symptoms of being subtle , crafty , and roguish , and would appear likely , by a little training , to make black appear white , and vice versa ; he would be sent to be educated for a limb of the law . The third would not be so well calculated for such enterprising and important situations , a dunce , a thick skull , and fit for none of the ordinary situations in life which require any talent or qualities of an extra kind . The father concludes that he will make a most excellent Bishop , and he sends him to a College . ( Convulsive laughter . ) He always liked to look after the parsons , to see if they fulfilled their situations , as they ought to do as leaders of the public mind ; they were mere cyphers , and we > re biassed by the purse of the capitalists . A short time ago , he ( Connor ) was speaking at Oldhani , and he took an opportunity of shewing up
tbe tricks of some of the parsons , and the next Sunday two or three of them made it the theme of their sermon to warn the people against Socialism and Chartism . He supposed they , would tell their hearers how wicked it was for them to expect their rights , or how odious it was even to ask for them . ( Laughter and cheers . ) These men declare that crime is on the increase , and the way to stay it is to build more churches , and to carry out which project , as a panacea for the stopping of crime , they were about to build ten in the town and neighbourhood of Manchester , although those which were already built were not above half filled . He ( Mr . Connor ) would have these men direct their attention to the real cause of the misery and poverty in the land , a prolific source of the crime which class legislation produced . He would net give any
man credit for the professed love he might wish him to imagine he had for his soul : he w « uld not believe that any man wished to save his soul if he would not do all in his power to make his body comfortable in tbis world . ( Hear , hear , and " > V * H done , Connor ! " ) He could liken the parsons to nothing better than a cow , which gives an excellent can of milk , and afterwards kicks the can over : these parsons could give good advice , but many of them never practised what they taught . He ( the speaker ) was against all sorts of monopoly . The suffrage would do them no good unless they could get in possession of the land , in order to make it subservient to the wants and wishes of the people . He wanted to see that state of society where every man would have his acre of land to fall back upon , so that he might have bis pigs , and poultry ,
ice . dec , and whore he would enjoy his' health , ami keep his body in that state of vigour which Oad and nature intended it should be . ( Hear . ) He , for his part , preferred living in a state where tbe linnet would be warbling upon the bush , and the lark fluttering over his head ; where he could see the driveling streams and the running brooks , tke fertile fields with their blooming flowers ; and where he could see nature decorated out with all its beauty and splendour . In a state like this , we should should see the labourer ca ^ y a hearty and healthy constitution . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) How much happier was such a state to the one in the manufuci . uriog districts , where they bad to creep out of bed at half past five o'clock in the morning , to go into a cotton factory , to be confined in that unwhoh some , poisonous , and contaminating
atmosphere , till eight at night , which destroyed evory faculty bodily and mental , which filled our streets with tviisted limbs and star-like countenances , every one being under the controul of a horde of petty tyrants , and which made the life of the factory band one of misery , slavery , and drudgery , and just for what was scarcely capable of keeping body and soul together , —( a voice " very true , ";—aad , to fill up the figure , after he has toiled and sweat till the system has made such inroads upon his constitution , that he cannot turn off aa much work as one who may be young and in good health , he is turned into the street , where he must starve or be consigned to on infernal bastiie . ( Cries of " Shame . " ) He waa not going to humbug the people with fallacious statements like those made by the Corn Lavr lecturers .
They impudently asserted that the land of Britain was not capable of maintaining iU present population . But he would take a sentence of O'Brien ' s and read it f . ir their c onsideration : — "There are 77 , 000 , 090 of statute acres in the united kingdom , about 47 , 000 , 000 are iu a state of semi-cultivation , two or three millions of which consist of parks , pleasure-grounds , shrubberies , & . C ., &c , for the gratification of the rich , rather than the support ef the idlers . There are as many millions more ai-res allotted for pasture grounds , for idlers ' horsea . The remaining 30 , 000 , 000 lie comparatively ¦ waste ; although 15 , 000 , 000 of them , at least , are susceptible of cultivation of the highest order . Here are from eighteen to twenty million acres of land , which -are at present useless , are capable of being turned to a profitable account Out of the whole 47 , 008 , 000 of
acres now partly cultivated , not more than Uve or six are appropriated to the growth of -wheat . Is it not manifest , then , . that if a larger proportion of these 47 , 000 , 0 0 acres were appropriated to tillage , that if the eightitn or twenty millions of uncultivated wastes , of which 1 have spoken , were cultivated , and if the wheat lands were made to encroach on the parks , pleasure-grounds , and barley lands , ( whose produce goes chiefly to the manufacture of poisonous drinks , under the names of gin , whisky , Ac ., 4 c . ) the soil of tha united kingdom would far more than suffice to maintain its population in abundance , even under its imperfect state of cultivation . Mr . Connor said he would not assist for a He peal of the Com Laws iu order to extend a system which had broken down su many constitutions , and produced
bo many twisted limbs aa tbe Factory system had . ( Cheers . ) He did not agree with these half starved mushroom politicians who were perambulating about the country with their a wallow-tailed coats—the pretended friends to the working classes—who -wished to give them as they said , a large loaf , but who at the same time would not extend the franchise to them , to throw the mantle of the law over them , to prottct the loaf when they had got it . ( Applause . ) The present system was fraught with injustice and misrule to the many , which had been caused by class-legislation—one patty living in the greatest splendour , whilst the other were starving . He could not believe that God ever intended that one man should live out of the sweat of another . He who is no respecter of persons , has never declared that one of his creatures should mock , scourge ,
and enslave the other . He did not , never had , ner ever would , lay the charge upon God for the wickedness and inconsistencies which existed at the present time . He was aware that there sheuld be distributions of wealth , and that they were useful in their place ; but he wanted those men to be suhject to the majority of thepeople . He did not approve of a system Which either directly . or indirectly robbed the working man of eighteen shillings out of every pound which be earned . The working man had to labour for the aristocracy , the mill-ocracy , the army , the navy , and the pensioners and paupers , and the prostitutes , and every other class of persons whs consumed but brought nothing back as an equivalent to society
for the food they eat or for the clothes they wear . The man who was kept to feed and look after the idler ' s dog , was equally as useless as the dog itself . ( Laughter . ) There were two contending parties at the present time falling out about which sheuld have the privilege of plundering the working classes—what lie called two thieves falling out which got the greatest share of the booty—he meant the cotton lord and the landlord . The landlord robs the people of four shillings and sixpence iu every pound , and the cotton lord was . content to lake only seven shillings and sixpence . ( Laughter . ) Sir . Connor isdd he bad now touched upon the parsons , the cotton lords , and tbe landlords , likewise the distributors of wealth ; now he would tell the people if they would only agree and become united , they might starve
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th « ae classes into compliance . Nene of these « oold till the land , make thei * shoes , or « pat « , or any thing else towards producing what they consume . ( Hear . ) Here he drew a picture of a savage state of society , aid contrasted it with the one under which we live in a free country ; and when put in jaxta position to each other , the latter ialls into the abadea . Tbe savage could go oat and have access to the fish in tbe water , or the fowls of tbe air ; but man in England was excluded from a look over the hedge ; and what was even worse than that , while the warehouses were full of clothing , and the granaries were full of corn , the working man who had produced all these had to go only half fed , and half clothed . ( Cheers . ) He-wou'd again tell them that he absolved God from any blame on the collective wicked meni ( Cheers }
He was not one of those who would exhort them to be content under all this misery , nor would he lead tbeni astray by persuading them to look to the middle class for their emancipation , for he believed they would see England one vast channel house before they would concede to the people the Charter . Mr . C . then referred to what he called a mere remnant of mortality—Daniel O'Connell , and his conduct in Ireland towards the Chartists—a cheat and fungus of a politician . ( Hear , hear . ) Here Mr . C . told his hearers that during the last agitation , they began to talk about physical force before they were prepared to carry their threats into execution . He hoped they would not do so again , until they were able to do it successfully and effectually ; and then they might go at it hammer and kings . ( Hear , and cheers . ) He then
remarked that Robert Peel , who had obtained half u million of money from the people ' s industry , admitted th « people ' s right to the Suffrage ; but objected to their possession on the grourfd of their ignorance . The speaker then declared that accusation was a false one , aud brought emphatic illustrations of men who are now in the ranks of the working classes , and men of the greatest talents at former periods , who have risen from the same class , such for instance as Cobbett , Franklin , Burns , < Stc , &c . Mr . C . said he gloried ia the present movement , because it was educating the -working man , and enabling him to meet the capitalist on the same stage , and combat every argument brought against the rights of labour or the Suffrage . ( Hear . ) He denounced the plan set forth by Lovett and Collins , ace , and said it was calculated to split us up into sects
and parties , and said that Roebuck , Hume , and others were at the bottom of it . He believed—and he hoped he should be Bet right if ho was WTong—that each of these men voted for the New Poor L <* w ; ior bis , ( the speaker's ) part , he would neither walk up Repeal-oft / ie-Union alley , nor follow the Corn Law humhugs , nor blow the Russian horn . ( L nghter and cheers . ) He believed that every man that was not with them was against them . He exhorted his hearers to look well ; ifter , and watch every step of pretended friends , assuring them that such characters by once gaining the confidence of the people , and then betraying them , did more injury than their most inveterate enemies . ( Hear , bear . ) He felt proud thai Chartism was now taking root in Ireland , the land of his birth . ( Loud cheers . ) Feargus O'Connor ' s letters to O'Malley had been , the
n ; eans of opening the eyes of some of his fellow countrymen , together with sending the Northern Star . ( Cheers . ) He hoped that every sincere Chartist would continue to send the Star to Ireland , and likewise all the cheap publications , and let the land be inundated with them ; and let every one who had friends there , give them to understand what the people of England and Scotland really wanted—that while they advocate a vote for themselves , they at tbe same time extend the same privilege to Irishmen . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) He ceulu like Chartism to spread through Ireland , and -when the people of that country saw that the principles were the same as those tor which their patriots had shed their blood , and lost their lives , they would be brought to embrace them ; and when he spoke of Irish patriots , he did not mean those who were living now , and were driving through the country -with their
livery servants , dec . &c . ; he meant an Emmett , a Fitzgerald , and an Arthur O'Connor . ( Enthusiastic cheer * ing . ) When the Irish fully understood the matter , they would not mince it either for a Daniel O'Connell , ot his tail . ( Hear , hear . ) The speaker was not one ef thwse who wished for a Catholic government , any more than a Protestant one , unless they were under the controul of the people . Catholics were as big tyrants as Protestants , and vice versa ; only instance France and Spain . In conclusion be would observe , that he had always been , and should be , at their command , and never refused , and he pkdged himself never' to relax , come weal , come woe , come persecution , prosecution , adversity , or prosperity ,-even to the forfeiture of his liftf . He thanked them for the patient attention wbich they had given him , and bat down amidst the loudest plaudits of the meeting .
Mr . Wheeler said that he kad great pleasure ia introducing his esteemed friend Christopher Doyle . ( Loud cheering . ) Mr . Boyle said that it was with a degree of pleasure that he stood there to address them that evening . He had thought of giving a lecture upon the Corn Laws , but as a discussion waa shortly to take place upon that subject , be would say but little about it to them . He was delighted to hear bis countryman , Mr . Connor , expose the laws of primogeniture , and the rest of the subjects upon which he had treated . ( Hear , hear . ) He would , however , say a few words in reference to Daniel OContell . He found , by the Star , that ho had been making a speech in Ireland , in which he called upon the police to put down Chartism : he had been denouncing the Chartists ,
and endeavoured to persuade his countrymen from joining us . ( A voice , " He has ! *) He knew , however , very well , that he was telling a falsehood ; and yet , after saying all this , he came forward and said that the Chartists were asking for the same as himself , only in one instance , namely , he was for Triennial Parliaments instead of Annual . Upon this he was very pliable ; "for , " says he , " when we get a Repeal of the Union , we -will have Triennial Parliaments . '' Mr . Doyle said be wished be had a Repeal , and he wished the people of Ireland hud a Repeal ; , but they never would so long as they allowed Dan to traffic—so long as they depended upon a man like bitu , who would take a penny from the poor man , a halfpenny from the ragged man , and a farthing from the starving man . Point me out ( said he ) what he has given out
of the £ 200 , 000 he has received from the poor of Ireland . They could not shew , in . any one instance , where he had dune one charitable act for the poor , but he put the money into the bank . ( Hear , hear . ) Then , again , he Bald the Chartists are for Household Suffrage , and so , was he . Now he knew when he said tfcat we , the Chartists , went for Household Suffrage , he was telling a barefaced lia But that was the way he had always carried on ; he was continually cajoling , cheating , and humbugging the people , and all the while taking money oat of their pockets . ( Hear , hear . ) He had been told that he was an enemy to Daniel O'Connell , but lie would foke that opportunity of telling them , that if he -was an enemy to the conduct of O'Connell , he was not his personal enemy . He was one of the best friends he had in this country ,
until he found him out upon the Factory question . Daniel O'Connell said that was a question of blood and murder , and promised to advocate the cause of 35 , 000 factory children . He professed to be a friend to tbe factory children , but afterwards sold them for one thousand pounds . Then he ( Doyle ) found out he was a dishonest man , and therefore he could put no more trust in him . He voted for the Aew Poor Law , which the Whigs brought forwards , those whom he called base , bloody , and brutal , after calling it unnatural and unscriptural . Who- was an enemy to Trades Unions ? Daniel O'Connell . Who got the Glasgow Cotton Spinners transported ? —Daniel O'Connel ! . And Feargus O'Connor laboured more than all tbe other men put together to obtain their freedom . Who was it that offered 500 . 000 men
to put down Chartism in England ?—Daniel O'Connell . Who boasted of Sergeant Daley at Newport , for shooting the Chartists?—Daniel O'Connell . And now he wanted the police to put down Chartism in Ireland , and to stop all correspondence , so that they might still remain in ignorance . Who waa it that persecuted Lowery and W array ? —Daniel O'Connel . Jin Doyle wished the principles of Caartism to spread through Ireland , and when the people come to have a proper knowledge of the principles , Dan ' s influence would cease . It had taken a long time for him to rise , and of course it wauld take some time to remove the prejudice of the people . ( Hear , hear . ) Dan was a middle-class
man , and one of their patrons . He had no respect for the working man . Mr . Doyle said he knew he had enemies : in Manchester , and some of them had challenged him to fight , but he would not resort to such ft blackguard practice , only through compulsion , and then stand in his own defence—( cheers)—and would continue to speak his nind fearless of consequences . ( Hear , hear . ) - Mr . Doyle made a few more remarks , and sat down after thanking them for the kind attention which had been paid to him during the time he had addressed them . H « was glad to see the nesting so crowded , He then sat down amid the most vociferous cheering .
A person rose and said if any thing was calculated to give the lie direct to Dan ' s assertions , namely , that the people of England have not sympathy for the people of Ireland , it was the manner in which they the people had sat and heard two Irishmen address them , only interrupted by cheers . Tile CHAIRMAN gave out the regular notices , and votes of thanks were carried by acclamation to the two spe&keis , and the meeting broke up highly delighted .
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TO THE LEED'S " BRONTERRE O'BRIEN TRIBUTE" COMMITTEE . Brother O'Biuenites , — -With pleasure did I read in the Star of February 2 oth , your appeal to the country on behalf of that unflinching patriot , James Bronterre O'Brien ; I feel satisfied that , with a , little exertion , and a pecuniary sacrifice of quite a small amount , -we could place Bronterre in that position that ce might laugh to scorn the anathemas of any reprobate government and their underlings , be they Whig , Tory , or sham Radical . My friends , the " Tribute" is not a new thing to me ; ten mouths since I sent a plan for the collection of ^ 60 » for O'Brien to the Northern Star office ; that plan 1 now send to you ; it may be amended , but , as a ground-work , as a foundation , - whereon to commence the collection of a " National Tribute , " for one of the must talented , most honourable , and virtuous , ytt
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moat persecuted , slandered , and vilified of om k * d » - thafeplan is sufficient for all purpose * . Wewut » collect the money by tbe time that O'Brien ' s imprW ment expires ; from the 24 th of the present momi / h ! will hare just six mratbs more to drag on a weary' ^ cruel incarceration . Now , I would recommend to i the adoption of my plan ; publish it fa the $ iar- « 2 there be a fixed time for the dosing of all proving accounta ; say September 1 st Then the cemmitS , sittiBg at Leeds will have three weeks to square ^ t their accounts . If the country does not adopt m I plan , or one similar , it is not what I take it to k ? ThepfaB , as Ieallit , isasfoUows : — * — _ _
PLAN . The following town * and districts to subscribe » h . sums I have appended to them , and more if tS choose ; and others , that I may have inadvertently ] 2 out , could also subscribe , by recommending to nj Central Committee " tbe appointment of a tream ^ - for their town or district : — ^ T Brighton ... ... ... f : Portsmouth , PortBea , Chichester , &c . ( C i i « ' Isle of Wight ( C . ) ... ... .. \' Southampt « n ( C . ) ... ... " - lQ I iondon ( C . ) ,.. ... . ''' 68 I Bath , Trowbridge , and neighbourhood ... 20 I Bristol and neighbourhood ... ,. 15 I Wotton-under-Edge ... ... 5 I Carmarthen , Llanidloes , Newport ,-MonU I gpmeiy , Merthyr Tydvil , and Welsh 1 districts fi 0 I Cheltenham ¦ "
... ... „; Ipswich ... ... ... , " ' Plymouth ... #€# . Stroud ... ... ... ... s Birmingham ... ... _ 3 () Bradford ... ... ... _ " _ ,. Carlisle , Cumberland , and districts ( 6 " 15 Coventry ... ... ... -t- 1 () Derby ... ... ... # >> g Durham County ... ... % \ l 0 Exeter ... ... ... " . Halifax ( York ) , , , '
Hull ... ... . {' Liverpool 1 & Leeds and neighbourhood ... m % > ^ Manchester and ceighbeurhood ... 3 S Nottingham and neighbourhood ... jo Newcastle and neighbourhood ot Sheffield ... .... .. ' ... ;;; 2 j Truro and County of Cornwall ... jq Worcester ... ... . '" 10 York ( City ) ' . ' . ' . s Scotland ... ... ... -p > 6 () Ireland ... # 2 D _ £ 610 Those places marked with a ( C . ) were , I belfo " represented by Bronterre in the late " Convention " ' I would recommend that public meetings take pl » I in all the towns I have mentioned above , and oth-B also , for the purpose of appointing treasurers , cq&B tors , && , and that they be confirmed by the " CertaB Committee '' sitting at Leeds . 8 My friends , as I said before , that plan I sent to 5 8 Northern Star office , some eight or nine months sirs 8 it was rather long- * then than now , and owing to 5 8 length it was refused insertion in that paper . I do a 8
wish this as a censure on the Star , far from itappreciate mnch the exertions of that talented it fearless advocate of the rights of Englishmen » " Tribute" was THE * to give O'Brien the power 1 bringing sut " a Southern Star , " for dark indeed « ft political atmosphere of the South . You have ft Northern Star for the North , ' we want a Southern Si for the South ; then with the brave O'Connor in 4 North , and the unflinching O'Brien in the South . \ wight soon defy the power of the n 7 erf of thena vile of Governments that ever swayed the ueatbia i Britain .
My friends , as Secretary to the " O'Brien Fund"i Brighton , I csn answer for the men of Brighton si scribing their quota ; when I say that they have , & the past nine quarters , elected me their sc& Secretary to their Political Association , surely I 3 take on myself the duty of answering for their cosa forward in so noble an undertaking . ' My friends , 1 must conclnde by subscribing mtf your fellow disciple of James Bronterre O'Brien , NATHAhlEI , MORLIJISecretary to the Brighten National Charter Associate March 5 th , 1841 . 22 , Albion-street , Brighton . P . S . Since the foregoing was written , I have 1 st that Mr . Woodward has received a latter from ;* Committee ; I shall see him this evening , an&Wtl con over its contents . N . 5 L
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Bigamt . —At Hatton Garden Police Office j Saturday last , George Jukes , a gardener , resi ^ at Ball's-pond , Islington , was placed at the fc , charged by Ellen Bansgrove , a prettv- looking jpjj woman , with having intermarried with her wfcj his former wife was living . The prosecutrix hsq been sworn , stated that she resided at North *; Harrow . The prisoner , about twelve months it introduced himself to her as a single man , and m his addresses to her , and they were married , anda result was the birth of a child . The prison deserted her and the infant ; and she was am wards informed that he was a married man , witi family , and was living with his wife at Ball's -pea
Islington , when she came to London and gave ' a into custody . Police -constable , No . 13 , N diviai proved having taken the prisoner into cust&Jr when , prior to being informed of the charge , he as " I know what you want me for ; I can ' t keepnn of them . " The prisoner did not deny the cha ? but said that the prosecutrix had a husband a ! w when he married her . Prosecutrix—Yes , ' bms . husband was transported for life , and I am d aware that be is alive . Mr . Combe told the prison tbat-he was not warranted in marrying the proses trix , and he should commit him for trial . Auk point of law might be raised upon the Euhject , bud would be left lor tho consideration of the Jua before whom he would be tried . I
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From the London Gazette of Friday , April 16 . BANKRUPTS , Ball , W-, Paternoster-row , bookseller , April 2 S at half-past one , May 28 , at twelve ; at the Court Bankruptcy , Basinghall-etreet . Attorney , Lewis . lam-buildings . Arnold , T ., Paternoster-row , bookseller , April J ! , two , May 26 , at twelve ; at the Court of Biiikrrcs Basinghall-street Attorney , Lewis , Verulain-te
ings . Elphick , London-wall , licensed victuler , April : at one , May 21 , at eleven ; at the Court of Bd ruptcy , Basinghall-street . Attorney , Bow-lane , CUi side . Wakefield , F . and C . G ., Old Broad -street , broi * April 28 , May 28 . at eleven ; at the Court ofBtJ ruptcy , Basinghall-street . Attorneya , Egan and w Essex-strand . Bedingfield , Susannah , Needham-market , Si £ * yarn-manufactur * r , April 39 , May 28 , at twpive , ^ Crown and Anchor Inn , Ipswich . Attorneys , Mj »^ Suffolk ; anA Jones and Co ., John-street , Bu& * row . , Bedingfield , J ., Stowmarket , Suffolk , surgeon , iP 30 , May 28 , at one , at the Crown and Anchor I 4 Ipswich . Attorneys , Gudgeon , Stowraarket ; * Walter and Peniberton , Symond ' s Ied , Chsse ? lane .
Price , J ., Purdy , J ., and Price , J ., jun ., Teovil , * ersetshire , linen-drapers , May 3 £ and 28 , at ekTBthe Bull Inn , Bridport Attorneys , Batten , jun ., 1 vil ; and Clowes and Wedlake , King ' s Bench-w Temple . Hepper . C , Liverpool , hotel-keeper , May 7 , 2 Sj one , at the Clarendon-rooms , Liverpool . Atto » j Howard , Drnry-lane , Liverpool ; and Baxter , LindH inn-fields . I Nicholson , J ., Cheltenham , brewer , April 26 , j 28 , at eleven , at the Royal Hotel , Cheltenham , A < neys , Babb and Long wood , Cheltenham ; and Ho ? j Co ., Lot&bury . I Halliwell , W ., Manchester , cotton-niann&sj May 4 , 28 , at eleven , at the Commifsioaers ' -r-j Manchester . Attorneys , Hitchcock , ilancheataii Johnson and Co ., Temple . I
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP . J W . and H . Leathara , Liverpool , builders—B . sn < i , Gledhill and G . Hepworth , Hndderfield , ** cloth-manufacturers-G- E . and W . H . Staff . - ^ neid , cnUers—J . and J . Priestley and J- ^ Bradford , Yorkshire , worsted-spinners ; as » regards J . Smith—J . TompkinsandJ . Ashton . ^; pool , printers—H . Moor house and S . B . Sniitb , ^ field , Yorkshire , table-knife cuUers--B- T .-W and T . Cross , Kingston-npon-BuU , corn-fa « to »
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From ihtGiuetU of Tuetdmy , Apr * 2 » . James Francis Edgley , wine-merchant , filar * ,. City , to surrender April 39 , at two , and Ja »^ eleven , at the Cjurt of Bankruptcy . Gil *« n , * J assignee , Basinghall-street ; Frethflelds , •*«* "¦ buildings . ¦ ¦ & *» & Edward Ledgard , oil-crmher , Mirfleld , Y < 0 £ April 27 , and June 1 , at two , at the Conunis ^ Rooms , Leeds , Watts , Dowebury , Yorkshire ;^ Battye , and Edwards , Ely-place , Holborn , Lotf ^ j William Freeaian Coe , ironmonger , Csmbii a ** ^ 26 , at eleven , and Jane 1 , at ten , at the Bull Ii * ^ , bridge . Hall , Brunswick-row , Qneen-s quaie , vr
bury , London ; Fosters , Cambridge- -, ^ 1 Lawrence Thomas Brown , innkeeper , a' $ Gloucestershire , April 28 and Jane 1 , »* »* , jt George Inn , Newent . Wiltons , Gloucester ; . ^ Newent ; CreeandSon , Verulam-buildings , Gj «' London . John Berry , banker , Liverpool . Thomas Barnard , merchant , Devon . Radford Potts , wool-broker , Leeds . James DieksoD , draper , Neweast le-upot-Tyns . John Hicklin , printer , Nottingham . Henry Smith , wine-merchant , Doncaster .
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POWER OF REIUSNING OFFICERS USDEB THE NEW POOR LAW . The following questions by the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall trere put to Mr . " Erie , Superintendent Assistant Poor law Commissioner in Ireland , on the 2 G : h of March last . The answers speak foi themselTti _ Q- Are cot the duties of returning officer such as t < give him great icflaence in the election of Guardians ? A . The powers are very greai ; and impartiality " ii the exercise of them i 3 of great importance . Qr Therefore , if the returning officer acts improperly he has great power to return whom he chouses L Guardians ? A . Undoubtedly . Q . 1 believe no one has power to overlook the votini papers he receives . A . >" o one except the Commissioners . I say this LOWeVer , without consideration .
Q- Does n-A the Act of Parliament make the de- i osion of the returning officer fi ^ y ¦ A . It does . j Why , then , impose a heavy eipence upon the rate- j piyers of this or any other miscalled Union , pntai large -sum into the pocket of the spy of the Com- miBsioners , miscalled the clerk to the Guardians , -who ' is by them appointed the jof course , as he lives and ! moves by tho system ) partial returning officer , andj keep tbe inhabitants excited for weeks together , I merely to fleece , mock , and insult them ? They profess i to count tbe votes , but before they produce them to 1
any one , ( and often they do the thing by themselves , ) thsy have thsm cooked , and ready for their own ends , j and no one can by possibility check the Toting papers-1 they are hurried through ; they "have had the voting j papers in the hands of their minions to deliver and ! collect ; they can change papers from filled to blank , ! and from blank to the bastilo candidates ; they can shuffle them like cards , and conat them that suits their ' purpose over an < l over again , and again . In Hudders- 1 field and Aldmondbnrr , as well as in other t owns , the majorities "were immense , bnt hocus pecus swindlers did the business , and Mr . Rookery said his skilly candidates were returned .
Ttt with all the ruffianly proceedings , there is a rebellion in hit cxmp , f ^ r Mr . Ex draper MaxSeld told the G-asrdLins on >" ri Jay that if thty would stand by him , they -would throw the three Dsvil Klcgs OTerboaid , and take their affairs i » to their own bands . Tbi * harrah for the good and wqrcitul law , the < 3 rd oT Elizabeth , and down with the bastiles and the whole ' akQly crew . : The farce "which has been acted ia in the press , and i ¦ peeafly will be published , au < S probably , will have a ! place in the Star of neit "Week . j
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6 THE NO B T H E RN STAR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 24, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1106/page/6/
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