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WATKIKS' LEGACY TO THE CHAKTISTS . LECTURE III . —CHRISTIANITY AJiD CHAKTISSI . * Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing gooi " About thiatima , some eighteen centuries ago ( last Christmas } , w&s born the mest memorable tputi that ever lived , Jesus Christ ! the author of ths Christian Religion . If ever there -was a good man , if ever there was a great man , a man of genius and of virtue , ii was be ! Again , if ever there was a man of Borrow , of suffering , snd of sacrifice , it was he ; and mark ! it was bis very goodness , his Tery greatness , his very genius and Tirtae , that brought on him go much sorrow and suffering and sacrifice . Yes , it was his very jroitniness , his trutofolnsss , that exposed him to so much evil , privation , and persecution . His attachment , bis adherence , his self-devotion to the interests of justice and humanity ; the tone , the real interests of &n men , node those who seek theii individual or party =
interests , exclusive of , or to the destruction of the geasral interests of mankind , made all usurpers , all i monope'Uzara , and all oppressors , hia bitter enemies , j bis inveterate opponents—yea , they hated him because j he loved them too well ; they doomed him to misery i because he wished to render them truly happy ; and ! because he sought to save them , they destroyed him , j He was the gentlest , the most generous and best of . beings ; and yet what was the treatment he received— [ what wa 3 his fate ? He lived , as he himself says , scorned and rejected of men—he had not where to . lay his head—he was driven from place to place , hunted S lite a wild beast , and at last , this good mans this i gracious gentleman , \ for he was a gentleman in the true i sense of the word , } -was hung up lika a murderer , not for taking life , but for saving it ; fenng on the cross , where ha died with these tender words trembling on his tortured lips , " Father forgive them for they know not what they do . " . \
Jesus Christ was the victim of the vices of others I ( he had noae of his own }—wicked men took his life j because he was a good man . What ignorance and J prejudice he had to contend against ! What privations ; * nd positive afflictions he endured ! What patien «« i was his amid all Ms pains ! He did cot appear in i public life till after he was thirty years of age , and his j ministry lasted only some three years—yet in that ) short period ages of labour , ages of trial , ages of torfane were compressed—and after -doing and suffering , so much , he was at length betrayed into the hands of ! his cruel enemies by one of his own disciples—denied i by another when all else had forsaken him—mocked ,, scourged , crucified—followed when bearing bis cross , when fainting beneath the weight of a wicked world ,
follewed with taunts and jeers of an unthmKi- g crowd , ' i who had been instigated to hoot their scorn , to howl ; their hatted , to buffet , to Bpit upon their best , their : only friend , to abuse him when about to die for them— j instigated by those who had ever been their worst ' : enemies , whp had made them the dupes of their > bigotry , the £ lave 3 of their tyranny , the victims of their ccvetousness , their avarice , and their ambition . But the ignomipous , the agonizing death that was meant to extinguish the shining , the useful life of Jesns-Christ only made it blaze the brighter—burst forth the wider , for , like the Phoenix , his fame rose from his own ashes-r-the very villains employed to execute him caught ueiniess of life from his death—they thought
that there must be something supremely excellent in those principles which could enable ths possessor to ' pass through such a terrible ordeal , t # stand such a trying test , that that man must have been a good man , who , dying under such shameful , sneh shocking cir- cumstaoees , could still exhibit so much fortitude , re- ' signaiion , and marvellous benignity , so much cheer- ' fulness—for all the tortures inflicted on him , extorted ' no groans , no curses , extorted nothing but forgiveness from him . . V"fl ii the very villains who were employed : to execute Mm , and who had been prejudiced , promoted , and paid , to do the damned deed by the authori-: ties , if these villainy common executioners , were con- ; veiled by bis sufferings , and convinced of his integrity , what t *» Tifc you must have been the feelings of his own
beloved disciples—of those who had been witnesses of the blameless purity of his past life , of those who had imbibed ths same principles , who were actuated by dmilar Z 2 al , what must they have fait on witnessing his ¦ untimfcly , bis 0101166163 , his most barbarous fate ? They did just what they aught to have done—what he wished thtm to do—they did not spend their time in useless lamentations in making a parade of sorrowthey did not content themselves with meeting together on the anniversary of Ms death to drink his memory in solemn siltnee—no , they revenged * iitti—revenged him in the noblest Eianner—they -went and promulgated his doctrines—they spread his principles—they devoted themselves to doing justice to his motives , to his conduct , to his character , and with a 2 ^ al second only to
his own ; nothing daunted by his fate , nothing dismayed by the diflicu'ties , nothing deterred by the distresses in their way—they followed his example , they lived over his life , and , indeed , they wtre faithful even unto death—aye , even to a death such aa his , the most dreadful , the most cruel that tyraivny ever yet devised te torture freebarn man . . Blessed martyrs ! this was the way to make your principles fljurisb ; thus proselytes were gained , thus converts were Bade , and Christianity was thus promulgated , was thus propagated , till throned emperors-, crowned kings , sceptred powers , swordad principality , began to notice it , began to be swayed by it . and at length from persecuting they fell to patronising it jab , patronage more fatal than their
persecution ) for the pure and spotless virgin of the church when wooed by the state , was won by it . Alas ! Chris- anity was seduced , it fell into the embraces of pomp , and power , and became a prostituted harlot . Church j and State—from that unholy alliance , that adulterous , connexion sprang the bastard progeny of bishops , j abbots , popes , monks , friars , and all the rest of the Boaian trumpery , black , white , and grey ; who by ; false prophecies , false miracles , ani falsa pretences of i all kinds , made a grand handle of Christianity and j nsed , it not to gain heaven with , but to win j the world withal—not to ameliorate the condition of ! the people , but to sick them into a state of double vassax 3 re;—in fact , Christianity has been perverted ; from its tree path—it has altogether gone out of the j way—it has been turned , as it were , against itself , and ! made to commit suicide . A system has been built on the foundation of Christ , worse than that which he , died to overthrow , which he died to rebuild , and such ;
a horrid—such an abominable use has been made of his name , tjpit I verily believe , if he could have foreseen the atrocities , the fkndlike acts committed in it , he would have gone silent through life , and never have suSered bis name te have been , known at alL Now tiese demoniacal deads were not confined to the Catholics—the Protestants have bad their full Ehare in them : nor were they things of former times ,-gone by with bygone times ; no , they exist at present—tbey are scx&d on even now—only in an altered or modified form . Yea , there ia as much villany—as much cold-blooded cmelt ; practised in ^ be name of the blessed Redeemer as ever , and the mitred bishops , the shoval-hatted deans , the whixe-banded parsons , who support the present BTBtem , and who profii by it , are as unchristian ia so doing—are as an ti-Christian—as inhuman , nay , more so , than the heaihen , than those whom we civilly terra savages , than the Caribbees who drink hum an gore , snd feast on human flesh .
Jesus Christ , while he lived , was sneered at , slighted , and contemned ; but after his death , and when bis precepts and exainpla began to take tffect , began to operate a ehange in mta ' s aiinda and conduct , then it was asked—WhaS is a Christian ? Who was this Christ ? Enquiry began to be made into all the particulars of his life , and it was found by tradition and contemporary tcitiiiiouy , that he had been born of poor parents , in circumstances of great humiliation , at the c-o-desi season cf the vear , in a manner , ( far his mother could procure
no better lodging , nut even in the hour of nature's sorrow—of nature ' s extremity , ) that his part-nts were obliged to flee with him , while yet an infant , to save his life from an indiscriminate massacre decreed by Herod;—that after wandering from country to country , probably in search cf wc > rk , they finally settled in Nazareth , where the son followed his lather ' s trade of a carpenter , till he went forth to preach—that his first companions and converts were poor Sshermsa , aad bo on as narrated forty years affcer his death by the Evangelists , and as preached by the apostle Paul and others . ( To be concluded ia ottr nezLJ
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF -GREAT BRITAIN . Bsotbes DEMOCRATS , —By the time you will hive seen this letter , the greater number of you will have registered yenr votes for the five individuals who axe to zt 2 E 3 ge your affairs for the next twelve months . Tie term of i-Ece for the old Executive will then be nearly expired . When I calmly look back to the four months I acted as your representative on the Provaional , and the twelve icorths on the permanent Executive , I feel procd that I have contributed my mite towards making the Association what it is at present . When I became Secretary , there were about sixty or seventy places registered in our
Association ; now there are nearly 4 C 0 . There had been naul ? io , OCO cards issued ; during the last twelve months there has been 35 , 000 issued . During cur term tf f £ cd , from the letters I have received , every satisfaction has been given ; and the Association now wonders fco" » -we have accomplished so much with so little means . We have never had an angry word in oth body ; mem . bers cf the same family could not agree better than the Executive have done . Every subject that was brought before Tis wes calmly examined on its own merits or demerits , and adopted or rejected according to tha dictates of ourmson . - .
But if much has been done more remains for the Chartists to do . Although the Association has now upwards of 40 , 000 members on its books , —is that nnmber enough ? Ns ; nor a tithe cf what ought to be entollei There is not a county , city , borough town , or himlst , into which our principles should not be introducecu Now I ask of tie National Charter Association to tske such steps as will ecable its Executive Council to &ena lecturera into the agricultural districts , and if possitle arouse that portion of tfce labouring classes to a se ^ se of their own worth and dignity . Every engine mtst be set in play to arouss the masses to declare ia a voice of thunder , that they axe determined to have eveni ^ n- ' frd justice -meted out to all parties .
We have one thing in particular to be proud of ; ssnifely , tha \ ths trades are declaring for the Charter . I « et tfce united trades of this great nation but avow openly and determin&dly , that tbey insist upon the People ' s Charter becoming law ; and will any govern
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ment dare refuse them their just demands ? I unhesit * - tiDgly answer No . The Chartist carpenters and joiners of Manchester , already number a hundred members ; the fustian entters a hundred . The mechanics have ' also joined the National Charter Association . This week , it is expected that the bricklayers and smiths will be iadnced to imitate their worthy example ; immediate steps will be taken to wait on tha Ehoemakers , calicoprinters , silk and piece-dyers , and spinners , to prevail on them to como out far the Charter ; and there is not the shadow of a doubt on my mind , but before six months , we will have the whole of the Manchester
trades with us . London also is doing its work ; and when the trades of London and Manchester have unitedly decided on agitating for the Charter , they will give a tone of confidence to aU the tradeB in the united kingdom . I now call on you as men , as fathers , as husbands , aa patriots , and as good , true , and sterling Chartists , to bnry at once and for ever any little petty grievance that may have existed amongst you . D j not allow the dispntes of leaders to divide you . Tell them if they will dispute with each other the censequence will be on their own heads . Let us act unitedly . Without union w « are powerless ; with it we are everything .
In conclusion , I would entreat of those parties who owe for cards , to pay off the debt . 'Tis really too bad to have so many cards out without being paid fer . I did expect that the new Executive would have come into office with clear books , I am now afraid such will not be the case . Hoping that during the next twelve months the cause will progress even more rapidly than it has dose for the last twelve . I rsmain , your brother Democrats , Johs Campbell . Salford , June Cth , 1842 .
P . S . As the polling will be concluded on Monday nighi , June 14 th , I shall expect all tha returns to be forwarded to me by Saturday tha 18 th . It will be impossible for ms to receive any returns after that date , as I have to be in Yorkshire on the 19 th , 20 th , 21 st , 22 nd , and 23 rd . The polling lists must be forwarded to the Star ofSoe before I leave home , in order that tbey may appear in that paper on the 25 th of June . Tiaere is sufficient time given to each "sub-secretary , and if not forwarded in time , the fault must not be laid at my door ., I ¦ wish also to request that parties who write to me would be very carcftil how their letters stb directed . Lately I have had to release several letters that cost me twopence each ; whenever I am written to , the parties who write sueb . letters ought to prepay them . The postage is sufficiently heavy without having to pay double for letters . '
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—¦ ? ANOTHER PROSECUTION POR BLASPHEMY 70 THE EDIT 0 B OF THE SOBTBERN STAR . Sir , —It is now some few months since I requested the favour of your giving publicity to a fligrant case of interference with the liberty of expression , in the- person of Mr . Charles Southwell , Editor of the Qya c ' e of Reason , arrested at ths instance of a Bristol magistrate for blasphemy . He was tried and sentenced so twelve months' imprisonment , and to pay a fine of £ 100 . He is now undergoing his sentence in Bristol GaoL
The editorship of the work , upon his confinement , devolved upon Mr . Q , J . Holyoake , a Social Missionary , who , , oa Thursday night last , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , was arrested at Cheltenham by two policemen , without a tcarrant , and confined in the Station-houss for the remainder tt the night , charged ¦ with using blasphemous expressions at the conclusion of 3 lecture delivered by him on Home Colonisation , on the Tu » siiay week previously , in the ilechaBics ' Institution .
In the morning he was committed to take his trial at Gloucester , &t the ensuing sessions , to the gael of which ccunty he was conveyed jia > 'DCLFF £ I > , and ¦ would have teen compelled to walk from Cin . lteniia . ru to Gloucester , a distance of nine miles , but for the interference of his f .-iends . The majority if the public papers are so sliackled by class interests as to rendc-r them entirely useless for the defence of an oppressed individual whom the strong arm of bigotry seeks to crush , for the advocacy of expression oitxtreme opinions , however honestly expressed . And T simply state my feelings when I say , that the honesi working men cannot too highly appreciate the journal which has been found the impartial advocate of equal freedom of expression for all creeds and shades of opinion . I remain , Yours , 4 : a , W . J . Chilton . Birmingham .
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- ?¦ TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOBTHEfiX STAB . Sib , —In the report of the Nottingham election meeting held on Tuesday last , it is stated " that Mr . O'Connor is a member of thirty-four Associations , and has taken cut a card at Nottingham to entitle him to vote for the election of the new Executive . " Now , O'Connor , I presume , has taken cut thirty-five cards of membership of the National Charter Association ; he has joined the Association in thirty-five different towns ; and , if they are to be cabled Associations , I should like to tnow where the nationality of our Association will bo found ? In your remarks on Mr . Pbilp'a letter , you say there can be but cce General Council , neither can there , in my opinion , be but one National Charter
Association . It wa 3 not necessary for Hr . O'Connor to have taken cue bis card at Nottingham to have entitled him to vote for the Executive . It matters not wbersji member takrs ont his card , se that it is taken cut according to the fifth rule , which says the card shall be renewed half yearly . If Mr . O Connor bad renewed his card once only "within the six months , whether he lived in Manchester , Brighton , or NottiDgbam , upon producing his card , he would be entitled to vote . Persons in the habit of travelling from town to town , and renewing their cards at every place , create a false impression , without adding one more member to the Association .
Hoping that Mr . O'Connor will take this in good feeling , I remain , Faithfully in the cause of Chartism , Nathaniel Mobling , Sub-Secretary to the National Charter Association-Bii ^ hton , June 6 th , 1842 . [ Mr . Morling is right . There is but one National Charter Association ; and if a man hold £ f ty carils be still is but one member , and can have bat ene vote in its proceedings , which he might have , though he held but one card . We wish all emcers and members of the Association would take as much pains to understand its constitution as Mr . Morling seems to have done . We should have fewer blunders , less trickery , and a Tietter spirit amongst us . —ED . $£ . }
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NOMINATIONS TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL . CARRINGT ) N , NEAR NOCTINGHAM . Mr . Wm . Grundy , lace-maker . Mr . Richard Hankin , framework-knitter . Mr . Matthew Walker , labourer . Mr . George Upton , lace-maker . Mr . Abraham Widowson , lace-maker . Mr . Benjamin Harvey , lace-maker , Unien-atreet , sub-Treasurer . Mr . Samuel Daft , lace-maker , Factory-street , Bub-Secretary . MEETHTH TTDV 1 L . ' " Mr . Wm . Gould , grocer . Mr . David John , smith . Mr . Matthew John , do . Mr . Wm . Miles , miner . Mr . Wm . James , do . Mr . EvanRees , do . Mr . David Rees , do . Mr . John Bailis , confectioner . Mr . Henry Thorn , cooper . Mr . David Ellis , weaver . Mr . Morgan Williams , do . Mr . John Thomas , sub-Treasurer . Mr . David Davis , smith , sub-Secretary . STROITD . Mr . Samuel Nissow , New Town . Mr . Samuel Paul , New Town . Mr . Wm . Ind . New Town . Mr . Thomas Hampton , Norfolk-street , sub-Treasurer . Mr . Francis Moyer , Parliament-street , sub-Secretary .
DUBHAM . Mr . Hugh Richmond , tailor , Claypath . Mr . Michael Coyne , nailor , Elves ,. Sir . John Dreghorn , carpet weaver , Crossgate . Mr . Robert Harrison , cordwaiuer , MillburDgate . Mr . Wiliiam Craig , cordwainer , MiUbutngaie . Mr . John Mowbray , attorney ' s clerk , Framwell gate . . . . ..... Mr . John Bray , cooper , Framwellgate . Mr . Benjamin Hill , labourer , do ., sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Jones , tallow chandler , Claypath , sub Secretary .
EULWELL . Mr . William Morris , framework-knitter . Mr . William Green , ditto . Mr . James Cliff , ditto . Mr . James Handley , ditto . Mr . Abram Goff , ditto . Mr . William Ricken , ditto , sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Cliff , ditto , sub-Secretary , caro of John Pearson , near to tho General Baptist Chapel , Bulwell .
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SHEFFIELD . —Mr . Brophy lectured to an outdoor meeting on the site of the Old Sugar Houses , top of Sheffield Moor , on Sunday afternoon last . The assemblage was numerous and respectable . Two or three O'Connellites interrupted Mr . Bropby with their abuse , but their disgraceful conduct found no support with the great body of the meeting . Mr . Brophy lectured again in the evening , in the Figtree-lane room ; his statements of the deplorable Btate of the different districts he has recently visited was listened to with deep attention . Thanks were voted to Mr . B . fer his zealous services in the democratic cause .
Mb . Duppy lectured in the Figtree-kne room , on Monday evening , giving an account of the state of Lancashire , Derbyshire , Staffordshire , and other parts of the country , showing the miseries and wrongs engendered by class-legislation . At the conclusion of his addresB , Mr . D . excited the astonishment and laughter of the meeting by exhibiting to their wondering gazd what he called " the coat of a free-born Englishman , " an article he had picked up in the neighbourhood of Hebden Bridge , and certainly such a scarecrow we have seldom Been . Ic was indeed a fine specimen of " things as they are , "—proclaiming " trumpet-tongued" the blessings of class-legislation .
Woodhouse . —Mr . Samuel Parka , from Sheffield , preached at the Market-cross , "Woodhouse , on Sunday evening last . A large and deeply attentive audience listered to the truths propounded by the preacher , illustrative of the harmony of Christianity with the principles of liberty and equality . BACUP . —A meeting was buld here on Friday evening last , in the Chartist Association room , which was well attended , especially by females , when ! hey formed a Female Association , and the evening was passed in recitations , songs , &c , after which dancing was kept up to a late hour . NOTTINGHAM . —On Snnday , Mr . E . P . Mead , from Birmingham , preached two Chaitist sermons , ou the Forest , to a concourse of several thousand people . The speaker gave to the mil ! ocrat 3 , shopocrats , the foreign mission-mongers , and the worshippers of mammon a severe castigation .
On Monday Evexixg , in the Democratic Chapel , Rice-p ' ace , the same gentleman delivered another lecture upon priestcraft influence , which lasted two hours . Suttoh-IN-Ashfield . —The Chartists of Sntton-in-Aslifltld , meeting at the Old Trooper , have' resolved to spend their Sundays in spreading the principles of Chartism in those villages ia the < iiotriet where Chartism is unknown , and on Sunday last fourteen of that body went to South Normauton , in Derbyshire , where a numerous meeting was soon got up , and Mr . Simmons
delivered an able and impressive address on the state of the country and tho principles of Chartism . The greatest attention was manifested throughout and at the canclusion an Association was formed , and twenty members enrolled themselves and strongly rtquested Mr . Simmons to attend on tturn again , which , he agreed to do in a fortnight . The distress in this village amongst the colliers is almost unparalleled , and several declared that some families had not tasted bread for three days , and others five . The same party intend visiting Pinxton on Sunday next , where Mr . Simmons will deliver an address at five o ' clock in the afternoon .
IiBITH . —A demonstration was held : in L ? ith Links , on Sunday lost , in favour of those expatriated victims , Froit , Williams , and Jones . The metfmg , which was verj numerous , waa addressed at considerable length by Mr . John M'Crea , in a very affecting and eloquent speech , in which he made a feeling appeal in behalf of the above-named : patriots ; after which Mr . John Tankard preiched a semen to an attentive audience , from the fifth chapter of James , 4 th and 5 th verses—" Behold the hire of the labourer , which have reaped down your fields , which is of you kept back by fraud crieth , and the cries of them which have reaDed are entered into tbe ears of the Lord of
Sabaoih . Te have lived in pleasure on the earth , and been wanton ; ye hive nourished your hearts as in day of slaughter . " Mr . Tankard expounded bis text ia such a feeling manner as must have pierced the hearts of his audience , which could not be less then 3 , 000 , among whom was a great many of the upper classes . A collection was made , which amounted , after paying expences , to £ 1 2 a . 6 d . A few of the friends from the country , and a few of the Committee and xnembers of the Leith Charter Association then adjourned to Mrs . Watson ' s Teetotal Coffee House , and had a comfortable tea psrt 71 after which a variety of addresses were delivered , each speaking in his turn , and the evening was spent in the most barn-odious manner .
CROTDOX . —A public meeting has been held in the open air , in the above locality , to consider the propriety of the inhabitants adopting the People ' s Charter , as the best means ' ' of removing tho misery and degradation of the working classes . . The chair ¦ was taken by Mr . " \ V . H : dges . Resolutions for the People ' s Charter , and expressive of their determination to hold aloef from any other agitation than the present one were proposed , and ably supported by Messrs . Brown , Rainsley , J . C . Taylor , Esq ., tho anti-Corn Law lecturer , Mr . Fairbay , and several other gentlemen , and carried unanimously . Several members were enrolled .
HBBDENBB . 1 DGR—A numerous and highly re spectabJe meeting was held in a large and commodious room , at this place on Wednesday evening , June l ' Bt , when Mr . Abraham . Marshall was cailed to the chair . Mr . Beealey , district secretary for North Lancashire , gave a short report of the proceedings oa tbe presentation of the National Petition , aud a severe lashing to those who style themselves the Right R < sv . Fathers ia God , \ rho are receiving such enormous sums of money , whilst there are thousands who are starving by being plundered by such avaricious beings as these . Sixteen then came forward to jain in the glorious cause for freedom . The meeting separated , highly delighted witi what they had heard .
The Council met here on Thursday last , when the following resolution was unanimously-passed : —" That any lecturer wiBhing to visit this place must correspond with tbe sub-secretary , and wait his answer , or . otherwise he will not be r . ccepted . All letters must be directed to James Helliwell , in care of Mr . Abraham Marshall-DEWSBU&Y . —District Council Meeting . — A district council meetiag was held at Batley , on 8 nnday , when delegates were present from the following places : —Dawsbury , Dawgreen , Birstal , Potovens , Batley , Wakefield , Earlsheaton , East Ardsley , and Littletown . Tbe accounts given in by the various delegates were cheering in the extreme , as far as
regards the prosperity cf this our glorious cause ; and the good feeliDg that is now animating the Chartists throughout the whole of the district , by the eloquent anil talented lectures cf Mr . West , which have done much good , besides adding numbers to our ranks . After the financial business of the meeting had been transacted , it was resolved that 1 G 9 . be sent to the Executive , and 103 . for cards ; and that the delegates of the next Council meeting do briDg 2 | d . p ? r member levy , for tbe lecturer ' s fund . It is requested , that those places that do net send a delegate do send t '^ eir quota , by letter , to Mr . Robsbaw , district treasurer . The next council mefctiag was ordered to be beld at Wakeield , on 8 unday , the 19 th vnst ., at Mr . Alfred Lancaster ' s , top of Kirkgate , at eleven o'clock ia the foreaeoa .
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^ ° ATIEY CARR .- ^ A few friends of the Dewsbury Charter Association assembled at the House of Mr . ^ v ? i ! - 7 ' F <> rea ^' a Arms Inn , Batley Carr , to establish a new association . Messrs . Bobahaw , Lord , ana several other friends , addressed them on the present state of the country , and the remedy for their Snv *** "x > a . Ten new members enrolled their names ana took their cards . James Fox , secretary of the i » awsbury Association , acted as secretary , and volunteered to serve them for three months , until they got more organised . The landlord , Mr . Joseph Day , was appointed treasurer . A vote of thanka was given to the worthy landlord for toe use of the room . The meeting separated highly pleased .
OSSETT . —Oa Friday evening last , Mr . West lectured here to a very attentive audience . Nearly tkirty enrolled their uanies , and received their cards of membership . A committee was formed to engage a proper place of meeting , when the people cheerfully « t « raa . ! . <)¦ their respective habitations , highly gratified with the evening ' s transactions . BARNSI . EY . —Mr . P . M . BTOphy visited thU town on Monday evening , and delivered a lecture in the School-room under the P'id FeUows * Hall . The greatest attentions was paid to the lecture throughout
s OURBRibGfB . —A public meeting was held in tne Association room , on Wednesday evening last , Mr . Cas 3 idywa 3 unanimously called to the chair , and after a few remarks introduced Mr . G . White , who , in a speech of about an hjur and a half duration , exposed the present rotten system of Government , and depicted the blessings which would be shared by all classes of the community in the event of the Charter becoming the law of the land , and earnestly exhorted all parties to aid and assist in the gloriou 3 struggle for freedom . He gave the highest satisfaction to his numerous audience . Several joined the association . A CUAftiiST ; Tea-Pauty and Bali , waa held in tbe I \ ational Chartist -. Association room , on Monday , when upwards of fifty sat down to toa , after which several . excellent " - sentiments wore glyon , which were ably responded to by different speakers ;
MANCHEBTBK . — -A-public mectifg of the trades of tula town , Was ; held in the Carpenters Hall , on Fxiday evening , to hear a lecture on-trades' unions , by Dr . P . M . M'DoualL The meeting-was called for eight o ' clock ; and notwithstanding the charge for admissien and the day of the week , the large room was nearly filled with an intelligent and '' ' enthusiastic ! .. . audience . Shortly after eight o ' clock , Mr . M'Douall entered the Hall . He was received with loud , and long-continued cheering . Mr . Wbitaker , a working man , was called to the chair . He opened the meeting by a few remarks to the trades generally upon the necessity of their joining in the movement for their political rights , and a brief account of bia delegation to the mechabics ; and he was preud that the result of that delegation was the coming out of the mechanics for the Charter whole and entire . Mr . M'Douall was received with rapturous cheers , and delivered a long and excellent address , for which ha received the thanks of the assembly . .
Hollingworth .- —TheRev . W . V . Jackson preached threo sermons in an empty mill , Padfiuld , on Sunday last , which were very numerously attended . The sura of £ i Is . 4 % d . was collected . GrLossop . —The Rev . W . V . Jackson lectured here on Saturday evening to a very attentive and delighted audience . A large number of new members were enrolled . Hawouth . —Mr . Doyle lectured tore to the Chartists of Hawortn , on Monday , May 20 th , and at Keigbley , on Tuesday 31 st , and Bingley , ou Wednesday , June 1 st .
Eccl . es ' . —We had a glorioua meeting on Monday night , for both numbers and enthusiasm . The Rev . W . V . Jackson gave us a soul-Stirring and talented lecture this evening . Tho subject was " a remedy for tbe national distress ; " which ho handled in such a manner as repeatedly called forth the approbation of his numerous and delighted audience . The Chartists of this place have voted thanks and confidence in the Executive severally by nanis . IiBICEST 2 R . ——The Shaksperean Chartists now nurjbers 1 , 800 : we enrolled 105 last Sunday alone , after thre " e discourses- by Mr . Cooper ; and pur additions during the week amount ; to thirty per day on an average , An eventful battle was fought ia our : Amphitheatre , last Monday night . Mr . O'Brien appeared to
deliver his second lecture , but consented to answer Mr . Cooper ' s questions beforeto began . The question , was then put , v Why jsjj ot Mb . O'Biuen a jiemker op the NationALCiiAKTER . Association ? ' Mr . OBrienoccupied an hour ami twenty minutes in reply . First , he intended to become the editor of a newspaper . and he would lose his character for impartiality , if he belonged to any one society ; it would fetter him , and pre ? eut him from exercising the influence desirable on the public mind . Secondly , the Government : sought his life , but they could not take it so long as he ( Mr . O'B . ) was - responsible for his own acts only ; oachniember of the Natisnai Charter 'Association ' - was responsit'Ie for the
acts of other memborg of the body ; the Star / itself had shewn that ; ha bad suffered forother men's offences , and he did not want to suffer for them again . Letters had been sent to him provlouo tp tkb Nowporb outbreak , of tho most atrocious character ; one of them began , " We donot think it adyiaiblb to begin by firing the town at that end ; " plots of tba moat .- 'diabolical kind had been devised to draw him into danger . So long as he was not . a member , he could not thus be brought into dangor , Mr . Cooper had said it was inconsistent in Mm ( Mr . OB . ) to go about the country telling working men that they ought to become membera nf the National Charter Association while ha
( Mr . O'B . ) . waa not a member hhuaelf ; but he ( Mr . O'Brien ) never had insisted on any working man becoming a member of the association . Working mon he ( Mr . OB . ) knew were of ten in danger of losing their employ , and even their bread , if they became membeTsJ They were ; sure to be persecuted , and their very lives nsight be in danger . He bad said , "if you become members of any association let it be of this . ' Bat he had never insisted on it peremptorily . Aud , now , what must he say about inducements to become a member ? When there was less quarrelling and bickering—when the members ceased to devour each other , and to attempt to destroy each other ' s reputation , then ho ( Mr , OB 4 might be induced to become a member ; but could not otherwise . Mr . Cooper , in reply , asked who would be a Rienibertf
the National Charter Association u they took Mr . O'B ' f . advice ? Where would tho leaders of ChattiBm be , if every man acted on Mr . O'B'e . judgment ? Was not each and every man in danger if Mr . O'Brien waa in danger ? Waa nothe ( Mr . C . ) in danger ? and yet he avowed his membership , and defied persecution . Might not letters be sent to him , ( Mr . C ., ) and would it not be easy to put them into the fire , if they were danKercus ? Di'l . it require more than the brains of an infant to perceive that -that was a ready way of preventing their mischief ? Had not other wren suffered fx the cfivness of ethers ? Had not O'Connor suffered for the offenco , as it was called , of -a man who .-sto ^ d on that very stage at that moment—and yet , did this uither incite O'Connor to conduot himself spitefully towards that man , or to say Ise ( Q ' C . ) would not be a member of the National Charter Association ? Was
lie ( Mr . C . ) to say , because he Happened to bepubliuaing his little Commonicedllhsman , " O , I cannot be a member of tho National Charter Association ? tbe public will sjy I am not impartial . " Why people would laugb . at him ; and Mr . O'Briaa must know that working men had mora brains than to believe that a man of first-rat 9 intelligence would put forth such a reason , in sincerity . Mr . O Brien ' s argument had been one continued insidious attack on the Charter organisation ; it was one purposed and connected contrivance to persuade working men not to belong to it . What olsa meant the vociferous cheers of tbe middle classes to-night , numbers of ; whom had come to hear Mr . O'Brien , although they would not come to hear O'Connor ? These gentry bail cheered " Mr , O'Brit-n in
evtry part of hia argument \ yhich bove hatfleat on the National Charter organisation , —and why ? because they knew Mr . O'Brien was playiug their game . It was time for every man te stand without a mask . There stood Mr . O'Brien : let the working classt-s judge cf him . But Mr . O'Brien was opposrtlto denunciations , he could not joiu the organisation because tho members were always quarrelling and practising detraction . O no ! Mr . O'Brien never quarrelled f He never practised detraction ! There was a pamphlet in existence . He ( Mr . C . ) held it in his hand . Did it ; come from Mr . O'Brien ? It began " Brother Cb&Ttists , —As one ¦ « f . your body , "—Rather a straDge sentence for Mr . O'Brieu to commence with ; aud it contained also this sentence : — " I repeat , and pledge myseif to prove , that there is
not a particte of truth in your account of the proceedings of tho late Conference ) , so far aa I am concerned , arid very , very - liitle truth so far as others are concerned ; and that tlie whole is a base concoction of O Connor , yourselfi and ' ¦ . others , to discredit me with the Chartist public . " Mr . O Brien , who bated detraction aud quarrelling , could write that sentence ; and yet he knew that the Star had merely copied its account of the Sturgo Conference from the Nonco ? ifo ) inist and British Stalesvian . And , to conclude , Mr . p'B . had appended to his pamphlet the " description of " a demagogue , " by Mr . Henry Vincent ; and that description was intended fov a portrait : of O'Connor 1 Yet tbis was the Mr . O'Brien who could not become a member of the Natienal Charter Association while there was so much detraction among its members ! He ( Mr . ' . ' G . ) stood there unflinchingly to proelaim . that the
once great , intelligent , and patriotic O'Brien , was no longer to be regarded as heretofore—that be bad yielded to envy and jealousy , and now appeared as the Insidious foa of the Chatter organization , and the Bly advocate of middle class schemers . He called on working men to aay , by holdiug up their bands ; ¦ whether they approved of a proposition he would now put to them— " That this meeting having listened to Mr . O'Brien ' s reasons for not being a member of the National Charter : Association ; ami , regarding those reaBbns as so many couohed and insidious attacks : on the Charter Association , hereby declare that they have no longer any confidence in Mr . O'Brien . " Tho vast majority of the assembly , being workies , ' :. threw up their handa in a moment ; and , when O'Brien appealed again , he was met with hooting and derision ! Let any " New Mover" come to Leicester ! . ' - « % % - Shakspereaus will teac&iiim what Is what !
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TOMSTAI . I ^ - ^ Mr . W . S . EUis , ofBurslBm , delivered two lectures in Tunstall Market-place , on Friday evenings . May 2 Wh and June 3 rd , to lsrge and attentive audiences . Sixteen members were enrolled . IiEAWINGTON . — -We are acquiring a large accession of strerjgth every d ^ ay from the middle and trading classes , and many are with us in sentiment who do not appear prominently as the champions of our holycause . Moreover , we are resolved that Leamington shall presently take a very high place inthe list of Charter localities ; and , to effect this object , we bave made arrangements for the delivery of lectures during the summer HionthB , arid have already engaged the services of Mr . Bairstow for two lectures , on the evenings , respectively , of Wednesday and Thursday in the next week . - . -. - ¦¦¦ ¦ . ¦¦ ; . ' - ' --
BIHIttlNGHAM . —STATE DF THE DISTRICT . — The towns surrounding this former hotbed of political agitation are getting on gloriously . Meetings are being held in the colliery district in the neighbourhood of Dudley and Stourbridge , and new towns are being added to the glorious muster of the great National Charter Association every week . At Brierly Hill , Lye WaatOi Sedgely , and a number of other places , the people attend in thousands to hear the Charter explained . Messrs . White , Mason , and Liiiney have been visiting those districts lately , and the good cause is progressing rapidly .. ¦ --It . has been determined to hold open air meetings in various paits of Birmingham , in order ts arouse the people , : and a dep ' utatien are busUy engaged ta trying to Becuie a large building for the accommodation of . the niembera , tbe "want of which has been felt to be a serious loss to our cause in this
town . A new spirit seems to animate the jaemcers , and those who wera formerly apathetic ate now cprning forward with' renewed vigcur . A conference ' cf all the members is to be held this evening ( Tuesday ! t ? draw up plans and make arrangements for giving a fresh impetus to the cause , ami there is every prospect of Birmingham being brought into that position which is so esaentiaHo the success of our cause . OPEN Air MEETiNG .- —The usual meeting was held in the open air at the railway station , Duddestpn-row , On VIonday evening last , and the advantage of those assemblages are now being felt and acknowledged ; for it is far more healthful and pleasant for men and women to assemble in a field on a beautiful sumui «' s evening , than being crowded in a room . The meetings have
kepfe increasing every week , and on the last cccasion a goodly assemblage were congregated to hear an address from Mr . George White ; lie has continued this practice since his return from the Convention , and intends continuing it as ; long as the Weather permits . Mr . . White addressed the . me 9 ting on Monday evening , on the real cause of tbelr poverty , and pointed out the mode by which all men might be made comfortable , had they the means of applying their labour to the resources which nature had provided for man ' s sustenance and comfort , and referred them to Mr . O'Connor ' s pamphlets on the land , and its capabilities , as a proof of his assertions . He described the villanous emigration system , and the modes which were devised in the British Colonies to keep working men ' . the continual slaves of capilaliats . He exposed the enormous robberies perpetrated in Birmingham , in the shape of local ratea , and held up the police , system to public odium , declaring that those vile instruments of a corrupt
government , were employefl more in the capacity of spies than preservers of the peace , as a proof of which , he slated that two or three of them were then in that meeting in disguise , and had orders to attend every Monday evening . This caused a little excitement . Mr . White then explained the various plans whioh were resorted to for the purposo of divirling the men of Birmingham , and gave a report of the result of the deputation who waited ori Mr . Douglas , of the Journal , from which it appeared , that through lack of other matter to £ 11 the columns of that pre-eminently fctupia print , the Editor had recourse to the miserable plan of concocting badly-written and foolish letters , and publishing tkcm inhis " Catch Penny , " as the production of some supporter of Mr . O'Connor , Aftev exberting the working men to union and determination , he enrolled twenty-four persona as members , of the National Charter Association , and gave notice that he would attend again on tbe following Monday evening .
AstON-street Meetings , —The usual meeting wa 3 held at the Chartist Room , Aston-street , on Sunday evening last—Mr . SUart in the chivir . Mr . John Mason delivered a short and interesting address , in which he described the ill-usage hehad received from a .. stupid constable at Sedgely , while delivering a lecture there lost week ; after whichthe tried vfctoxah ,. Mr . John Williamson , made his appearance after rv severe illness , and delivered an animated address . Mr ^ 'Qeorge White then addressed the meeting on tha necessity of each member exorting himself to extend the organization in Birmingham , " aftor which the meeting saparated . Tho directing council afterwards met at the Ship Inu , to arrange for the conference on Tuesday evening .
Monday Eves in g . —After the open air meeting a nuuibarof tho membera of the Association attended at Astpn-street , for tho trnsastion of the usual business Mr . Welsfoird was appointed chairman , aud the ruemi bers proceeded to the noininatton of persons to fill two vacancies in the council , and . Messrs . White , Bough , arid Ornie , were placed in nomination .: Short aidressea were delivered by Mr . White , Mr . Peter Henlty , and Mr . Saunders , and tho chairman gaya notica that all members of the Association would ba . expected to vote for members to the Executive Committee , by the fallowing Monday . He then read tlio list , as published in the Northern Star of Saturday last , after which the meeting separated .
CtfXiNx ; . —At a numerous and respectable camp meeting , held von Sunday last , on the top of Pinna , near Carltun , tha following resolution was unanimously passed : — " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the present Alarming and destitute condition of tha working classes of this country calls aloud for renewed exertions on the part of every humane and benevolent mind ; and in order to disseminate information amongst the people , and create that unauimity and firm resolution which is absolutely necsssary , this meeting suggests and recommends to the friends of the people . and more especially the members of the various Chartist Associations throughout the country , to hold camp meetings in their own localities every Sunday , when the weather will permit "
G 1 ASGOW . —Tolcross . —A meeting was held m tbe Chartist bull , on Saturday evening last , Mr . Cielland in the cluiir , to hear addresses from Mr . Brown , of Bridgstou , and Con . Murray . Mr . Brown—Subject—•^ Law of Primogeniture and entail ; " the h < justice and in humanity cf which he exposed in a clear and liiasterly style . Con . Murray—Subject— " Past history , pres . nt position , and future prospsrity of Gbartisia . " The lecturer dwelt particiilrirly on tbe conduct of what is termed tho " new'inovo ' : m « nj and more especially ou tbat of Mr . C . Pattison , as Tolcross sind West : Uuir , ( the laUer containing GOO inhnbitants , and which sent Mr . Pattison to the last Scottish Convention ) lying contisioua , was for many weeks previuUs to the meeting-of the Scottish Convention , the field of his ( Mr . P . ' s )
operations , and his well-known ( lenuaciatiOEsot t . O Conuor and tbe Northern Star , was the niesas , for a tirse , of prejiitUcing the inhabitrvnta of this important district Toici 0 S 8—against the people ' s most ( lissimere * ted und best friend . Con went on to shew the inconsistency of the " new-move" gentry , ordiaagow synod , in reference to the question of the Repeal of tho Legislative Union botweeu Groat Britain and Irtiland , they , ths " newmovo" men being the bbter opponents of tbnt measure , and contrasted this with th « liiisguided followers of Daniel O'Connell , who look upon Repeal as being the only panacea for Ireland ' s manifold wrbng 3 . He provefl to hia audience * that tho foundation atone oi " raovism" in Glasgow , waa neither . more nor less than a determined enmity to O'Connor aud tha j \ 'ori / ter ; t Star . He proved , to tlidr entire fiatisfaction , tuat a mrioh founded on such a basis , ami BMi > poitbd by vitupsTatlon
and intrigue , would not bd of long standing . The men of Tolcross thoaght . bo too , and gave expression to tuo moat enthusiMtic bursts of applause in approv ; ii : of the speaker's sentiments . He oonciudeit by calliUK on tho meeting to go on , till such , time as they wero abie to procure five or six millions of signatures to : i Nation ; il Petition ; when he had no doubt , if then rcjectel , soniething else might form the materialingredie : ita of the next petition , The meeting , which was crowded , having expressed their hearty and unanimous thanks to the ivro gentlemen and their worthy chairman , quietiy broke up . [ Wegivo this report just aa we received it ; because particulatly requested to do bo ; . but we do wish that oar frienda woula find better occupation for their time ; that they would let the " , New muvu" alone in its Httleiiess , and not bestow upon it uuntcessary notoriety . — Ed 1 .:
X > SRBY . —A delegate meeting was held on -Sunnay , Juno 5 tb , 1812 , nt the Charter 'Association Rooms , Willow-row , Derby . Present—from Derby , Fearn ami Briggs ; B . alpsr , Victers and Wheeidon ; GMbroke , Thomas Taylor ; Iltistou ,- Ellis Lathbuvy ; Buvton , Thoma 3 Taylor ; Bowarath , William West . Letters were read from various places , stating the uewsaity of haying a lecturer , and their willingness to do their best to support him . Mr . Vlcker 3 was appointed chairman , and Mr . Thomas Brigj ; B seorbtary to this meeting . It waa determined that a lecturer be engaged tor six weeks , and that Mv . West be requfsted to accept the post ; The : lecturers salary was fixed afo 303 . per week , and his travelling expencts .
New MILLS . — -A public lecture was delivered here on Monday , in the Chartist Association room , by Mr . John Campbell , Secretary to the Exacutive , to a most numerous audience .
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ChabtiS's Beverage . —The following sums are due to the Executive ironi tho . sale of JrlcsstB . Crow and Tyrrel's Chariist beverage , t ' ox the week ending June 4 ih : — ¦ ¦ ¦¦ '¦ ¦ ' : K :- : ' : .. ¦ . . . .. '¦ ' £ ; fl . . d . ¦ Mr . High , Chartist Provision Siore , Hawick , Scotland ... ... 0 6 0 Mr . Heywood , Manchesterj ... 0 5 3 Mr . Bai'd . Boitoa ... ... ... 0 3 9 ' ¦ ¦ ¦ Mr . Grillespio , Bolton-lo-Moor ... 0 3 9 Mr . Brook , Leeds ... ... ... 0 3 0 Mr . Yates , Staffordshire . Potteries 0 3 0 Mr . Sweet , Nottiugham ... ... 0 1 6 Mr . Johnson , Stofco , Staffordshire 0 16 Mr . ThompsoD , Stockpovt i ... 0 1 ( 3 Mr . Skeyhigton , Loujihbro' ... 0 1 b ' Charter Associ&tioulttwU ... ... o l 6 £ 1 12 3
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The " Ijimense Co . vcebw " Mania . ~ I * is a pr > vailing iiisauity amonK shopkeepers of the present day to be at the head of an immense concern , and it is a malady which , ia almost crery case , finishes with a fatal result , not only to tho individual who is tho immediate subject of the oomplaint , but ^ to those who may happen to be bitten in the interim . It generally scizss the proprietors of linendraper ' s shops , and , like the bite of the tarantula , sets them cutting the most extraordinary capers , in the course of which they start off with a laost lively galop , and conclude with a pas , not of the inost graceful k . md , in the . Court of Bankruptcy . An " immense concern generally begins in a single house , and the diseaso hratdevelopes itself ihastronff itching to take the
next door , which , when once accomplished , is soon followed by an eccentric resolution to add the words " and Co . " to the name of the proprietor . The next stage is an eruption of largo placards , conveying incoherent hints about " giving away , " " selling under prime costj " and other unaccouutable acts of generosity , which the patient professes to practice ; while , by degrees , he ^ rows balder in the tone Of his tickets , and sundry commodities are placed under the public eyo , inscribed with mysterious allusions to " an alarming sacrifice . " The breaking put ; upon the goods shortly flies to the windows themselves , which are scon covered with enormous poating-bills , in \ yhich the words "Extensive Failure " are extremely conspicuous ; and there is a desperate effort to arreat attention , by thrusting goods aimoFt into the street , with a printed invitation to the public to Look -at this , " and a most micaled-for allusion to the " dktress of the Spitalfield weavers- "The
disease now becomes convulsive : enormous piles of druggets are deposited outside th 8 shop , in" bold defiance of the Paving Act , carpets dangle from the upper stories , blankets float in tha airj and piece 3 of calico nutter in the brecav while straw bonneta are dashed recklessly iuto the window , with ah intimation that there i 3 a choico of 25 , 000 , all at a prica not even vroxt ? . mentionmg . Blocks are dressed up in cloaks to look like customers ' , dresses that have been lying in the wareroom sinca last year , are labelled as ¦ " 'Q-iito new , and just- imported . " Every thinK is marked at an astoundingly modferato price ; but , by some strange accident , there is not a ticket , but what has slipped from , one thing to another , if any one wants to purchase the labelled article . After theso very active symptoms , the disease come 3 to us termination ; the " immense concern" dies a natural death , and the ^ proprietor amuses the public by a series of confessions to _ the Commissioner of Bankrupts , or gratifies a spirit of
enterprise by" bolting "to America . Mortality at : Hampstead . —Disease in a mosfc virulent form has made its appearance lately in a family at Havcrstock-hill , Hampstead . The son of a nurseryman at Harnpstead was first visited by a medical ; man on the 18 : h of May : he was labourjng under symptoms denoting scarlet- fever , arid died on the same day . The eldest -daughter '; was next attacked , and on the return of the party fi'c-m the burialof tho eldest son , she Was found _ dead , and two other children wera in a dy ing condition . Between Wednesday and Saturday , four members of this-devoted family perished {; two were removed to an hospitaland another daughter ( the wife of a
, publican at Woolwich ) , who had visited her sick relatives , was taken home ill . Situated - nearly In front , and within ten or twelve feet from the door of the cottage where this fearful mortality occurred , 13 a stagnant pool , whonoe water had boeti taken for the purposo of irrigating the nursery-ground , and . the highway tank communicating with this pool was furniehed with a pump . The tank and pool appear to be supplied with water from the surface drainage of the road ; hencey after a heavy fall of rain , the filth from the road and houses on the higher ground , has been washed into this reservoir . This nuisance ha 3 existed during 17 or 18 years , and has frequeutly been complained : of ; yet it still remiiius . —Sun .
Twelve Houses Consumed . —Bedford , June 4 . —Yesterday -af tern pan a- fire broke but at Clapham , a romantic village , situate about two miles distant from this place , and burned with such fearful violence ,, that within two hours after it comEjenced no fewer than twelve houses and other-premises were jeveired to the ground . It ivas discovered between two and three o ' clock in the afternoon , raging oa the spacious homestead the property of Lord Ashburton , occupied by a gentleman named Grants and is supposed to have originated near a stack of straw in the . rick yard , adjoining two extensive barns , which had ignited ; and soon were burned to the ground . The flames were almost immediately after their outbreak observed by the inhabitants at
Bedford , who , with great promptitude , proceeded ; with all possible haste to the' scene ; of devastation ^ and two powerful engines connected with . the town , bufc by the ' time tlicy arrived the fire had gained aa alarming ascendancy , havinj ? extended over the entire farm . ¦ Soon aftcrwa ^ 'iS '' was-- 'disccje ' red that several houses in tho village " upwi , rdg 1 of half a mile distant , had caught fire , ; in con ^ qtienBe of some b ' utning materlal failing ; : « pori the' roof : ? , when a most painful sight , presen ted itself . In cons-rqUence of tlvecorifusjon amongst the occupicrH ^ ' wlTp chiefly consisted of poor labouring famines . ;•; Witttin a quarter of an hour after tho flames had communicated to . four other houses ^ while at tha homestead ,
wh « r . 6 ' -. it . originated j the farni iioune , a fine : oldfashioned . substantial brick building , - . had ' , fallen a sacrifice to the devouring clement . ' Great apprehensions were now entertained for tho safety of the entire-village , for its destruction became "imminent , five other houses having been attacked while tho firemen and others were uhrocfins ; others in the hope ' s of ¦ . checking its pro ^ re .= p . Fortunately additional ensir . es and assistance at this momRnt arrived ; W ; eh , after two hours' incessant exertions the fire was mastered , hot until , however , the whole of Lord Ashburton ' s homestead was destroyed , together witfe twelyc houses in the village ; Tne amouut of the property destroyed is not yet ascertained . We regret to say most part of ii is -uninsured . '
Wit chcraft . —An extraordinary instance of superstitious credulity and cuiinin ^ knavery came under the attention ' of'tha magistrates at Newton Abbot , on Tuesday . A young « -.. man of Dtubury , having been taken ill , her frt ? ml 3 .- "gra ' -v ( - ! y' carae to tho opinion ' that she had been ' w ; tcb « d , " and took her to a man named Thomas , of Tei ^ nmouth , bytrade a shoemaker , but by ¦ profession a * . * white witch , " or witch fender . This importer confirmed . their ; fears ,. ' a ' ad insinuated that the ¦ mischief had been done by a poor woman ' -, their nei ^ hbour ^ at Deiibury ; One of the meaii 3 ' which he directed t © counteract tho evil , iraa to inko . the girl into a field and exercise her violent ty for two hours by runxAvl % round it , taking iaro to jump Iier a ? . d shake her it ' bnut well at the four corht-ra . Thkihe-. poor
creatuvea pcvfovined with , svich z ^ al t a lew hours-after the girl died . The feeling" now around in tho village -againstthe poor old . woinavi i 'iatsely accused , waa such that she was obliged to _ appiy to tho tnusistrates for protection . ' They issued a warrauc for the imniediuti apprchenfion ^ of Thomas , w- 0 was accordingly brought before G . Garrow , E-q .,. aud — Mouro , E-. q ., on tho -fo'iiowing--day ; Evicence having besu heard , with the fta ? of the tread an ! I before Kis eyes , being ; questioned with iijiich tdct by Mr , Garrow , with th » coo ! o » t ' effi'ontcry -aciinowledged x \\ z . i all his pvntev . d-id ; chaiius were i . mposi ' . ious—tauch to the surprise , ' ' and we hopn to the edification of his former patients , seine ofiyht . 'Bi- ' -wcre presect , and-. 'cla . moiirous ' iy demanded reptiiuriori of money paid iu the purchase of them . The case ended in tho man ' s dismissal . — Western
Times . Shocking Affair . —On Friday monrlng ^ abcufc half pa = t nine o ' clock as Serjeant Fiuley a . 'id Hayward , of . . tlie G division of Police , -. were , " .. passing through CUreuco-strtetj near tho City ; rcaoV they were called into the house No . 3 , wherei . aii .-attempt at reui-der aud suicido had jiist been niaiJe by a yomi ^ ' wo man ' -named . " Caroliuu Beysw 6 j-sTi , but whohad lodged there for a considerable time in the name of Just-, passing as the wife cf a young man of that name , a brass-founder , with vyhom she cohabited . They haji a female child about a year-ar . u cine months old . bat Juit , it appears , has another ' wire elsewhere , aud was about to take ilis infant to her , and to withdraw himself from its moiher . ' Th ' o . 'uiifortjih ' atei Wv . v . iin in cou £ equerico . dotetmined on murder aud suicide , which she proceeded to . ' carry into rffect by pmt ' . ug the child into a pau- of . vrater . Wbeu the cessauon of the child ' s s-trugglcs induced her to
believo it was dead , she took tiie poor innocent , out of tho pail , and laid it out on the bed which- ; -they occupied in the front pirtour , and then , Q ouatins upoa the table , suspeiuleti iieradf by a cord from a Dail ' . in-the . room . Tiw weight , hosverer , when she threw herself off cho table , bvoke dowa the nail , and she fell . upon the floor ; and she-then ' - took the cord and with it suspcsided herseit a sccoud fcie in the bacJi kitchen , and bad beta haagin K there some time , ¦ wh * u Mrs . Long , a lodge ? , happo ;; ed to discoyer her . Mr . Alack , a . surgeon , bting sent for ' succeeded , after a con = itlerabio time , in . restoring tiis iinbappy creature to consciousness by bleeding and other means . The aitempt that sue ; had . made to drowa the infant- had in the meantime been discovered . The poor child , although motionless when . laid upon the bed , was not dead , and in a short time besan to revive , and the surgeon found it in strong convulsions-. The wet clothes beins : takeu off , aivi
restoratives applied , it , as well as the mother , now appears likely to recover . On Saturday , the unfortunate woman j who appoared to he in a dreadful state of agitation and exhaustion , was esamined before the Magistrate at Worship-street ,: On being asked by Mr . Broughton , whether she had anything to say in answer to the charge of attempting to destroy her child , she yepiied , that she had not . : Mr ^ Brsv . ^ hton said the case on the part of Just was ono of . 'hum-less villany , but aa tho pbarge against her bad been proved ; he must commit her for trial , Ti e pr-soner iell back in violent hysterics , and was taken out ot Court . Just ' was then placed ; at the bar , on . a charg 3 oi fetealiug two table spoons belpngiflS to ^ hia paramour ,: and was remanded until Wednesday . T ' ne prisoner in , a reckless manner fl »» dv . he ; wbhed tQ be traosporied , as he ha 4 fe §§ B QflC ' d beror ? ,
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TO THE ED 1 T 8 B O ? THB NOBTHERS STAR . Sis ., —It is agra » d on all bands that great distress at present exists throughout the trading world . Ql its cause , a multiplicity ef opinions are aflsat . Perhaps , amongst the many , you will allow me to give mine . It i 3 well known that Juring the protracted war with Frasce , tinder the reign of Bonaparte , the landed interest , or aristocracy of Englaad , " pledged their lives ani fortunes" in support of our Government How waa this pledge fulfiUed ? Why , they created a fictitious capital , -which said fictitious capital enabled them to double , yea , treb ' . e their rentals . At the conclusion of the war , they procured the enactment of the Corn Laws , by the operation of which they bave contrived to retain those rents te this day .
But while they passed the Corn Laws to protect themselves , they also passed measures to restore the old standard of money j or , in other words , to greatly curtail that " fictitious capital" which had trebled their rents , added to the salaries of our officers of state from the reigning monarch down-wards , and affected the prices of prodnce and all existing contracts , to an almost incalculable extent Now , what effect had those measures upon the manufacturing and commfcrcial interest ? for , mark , the landed interest , i . e . the landlords , had protected themselves from the consequences of their own acts by the Corn Bill of 1815 , enacted for the purpose of keeping np the produce of the land to war-prices . What
effect had their measures upon -me , for instance ? for my case was the case of thousands , and it will fully illustrate the confiscating nature of the measures then passed . I hod at the time these measures were determined on , upwards of £ 120 , 000 value in manufactured cloth and in wool ; while I had another < £ SQ , 000 sunk in mills and machinery . What did all thin properly sell for ? Less iftan £ i , ti , W 0 . ' . ' : Here was conjiscation . ' Here was a sweeping away !! Upwards cf ^ 120 , 000 sileniiy , but effectually , filched from me , —one individual , —by Aets cf the Parliament ¦ ' . Mine was but the case of thousands : judge then cf the alteration made in the-value cf property bj the measures of our lawmakers , affecting the standard of value !
Let it be borne in mind , that all articles of wear arc now disposed of at one half the prices they ware forty or fifty years age . I challenge any ona to disprove these fatts ; and I asti Sir , if this be the way to administer justice with impartiality and to give equal protection to the community ? I am , Sir , Yours truly , TViiJ-uir Hirst . Leeds , June 6 th , 1 S 42 .
P . S . Was not tbf ^ wool duty laid on for the benefit of the landed , interest , and kept on for yeaTS , till the foreigners began to manufacture foi themselves , * n . i undersell the regular manufacturers in the London . market ? Then the duty "was altered ; and at the time this measure was passed I had by me 500 , 000 lbs . weight of wool , for which I had paid about £ 14 , 000 duty I ! When the measure was passed , I applied to Government for redress ; but none could be afforded ! Ihitt measure toot out of my pocket upwards of £ 20 , 000 !! 1 W . H .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 11, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1165/page/7/
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