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      gL ^ SS- MADE . LAWS BATE MADE THEIR TICIIMSj EBT US ENDEAVOUR TO REXSASB THEM . ysLXOW-woKKise JLes , —When I sent the ady& $ Bsmen $ to be published , -which has appeared foi gia last few "weets , and "which states that 2 will giT £ jonr jhillings to the Execntive and one ahTTling to the fictim PHBd * ntof every one hundred pounds weight of beverage ; I say , my friends , at that time it struck bib very forcibly that the Tictim Pond stood much seed ofaugmenting , and I think so still , as yon maj ^ — " ' *' " " ¦ ' - ¦ ¦ ¦ - i ¦ . — ¦— - . . .. . . ' ¦ ¦

      aee l > y thai letter ; and I also think , I if may jndge from sppeanmce , that the country evinces but little disposition to snpport the cause of Chartism throngh tie jxBenrjve , inasmnch as neither myself nor Messrs . Crow and Tyrrel have liad mncb to add to their funds jar some ireefcs past . I therefore propose that ¦ the ¦ whole of tbe five shillings per one hundred pounds be presto the Yjc&bb * Defence Pond , and it shall appear M before in Mr . Cleave " * Subscription list weekly , ungl t&a assess are orsi , -when we can make fresh smcwenienlB as the times may require .

      Bow , my frienda , it remsinfl -withthe people , -whether those men who hare been made -victims for no other ( jjjue than that ef demanding justice at the handB of cm oppressors be left to the clemency of a mercfless judge and & txme-serviru : jury , or whether they shall isTB funds suSdenOy supplied which "will secure to tie © justice ; -and -wemust remember that there is only a lev "jreels to raise the mosey in , and we should also THEgmber that we that are at liberty are only so because the ls"w has not got hold of us ; bnt that we perhaps may have said and dene more towards the floTOfaBef tyrants than those whom it is our duty to jspport * 3 now leave the matter in your hands , and only have to ay , that I pledged myself in 1819 never to rest until ts trere free—1 never have nor never wiB . Roger Pi 5 dsb , Hu 1 L

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      BBI 5 TOL . —At a meeting in Bear-lane Chapel , on Inesday evening , tie following vrere nominated iosndii Mr Campbell ' s accounts , Messrs . Wheeler 3 Dxtai , 3 PGrath , Bnfey ( Ridley , and Watkins . -SMTH . —The plaa of organisation , as proposed ij Hr . Cooper has been agreed to here . iiisiSDEix , Vais or Letes . —At a meeting Jgdhereon Saturday last , it was resolved to erect iEEW Hall , for a church , school house , and other paiSc purposes . Sodib Shields . —Mr . S . Eidd , nf Glasgow , lectured here on Tuesday night .

      Sebdes Bbidgs . —A public disensaon took place in ihe Democratic Chapel , on Mon d ay . The discosson'was between Ur . Wra . Blackburn , Hebden Sridfrfanes , and Mr . J . West , from MacelesBeld . Blackburn undertook to prore that a repeal of the Corn Laws , under existing circumstances , would be » benefit to ihe hoiking classes of Eogland , and Vest that a repeal of the Corn Laws would not benefit the working classes under the present system of ?**«« legislation . Cotesibt . —Mr . John llasonlectured in the AssdojSob Room « n Friday evening , and Mr . R , G . Gammage , of Northampton , on Sun day evening .

      JfOTTIItGM&XB ., —OPEBATTTES' IdBRABY AKD Pucb op 2 &KEznvG . —A meeting was held in the Democratic Chapel , Bice-place , on Tuesday evening , to cenadtr the best means of carrying ont the above object . Mr . B . Humphries -was called to the thai * . Mi . B . T . Morrison said that in consequence of ike exclusion of works of the greatest interest sod importance to the working classes , from the larger libraries , they had long seen the necessity of liTiBg libraries under their own { management , in which , either political , theological , or any other -works ipproTed of by the members , would be admitted . It gsre Mm great pleasure to sea them possessed of Sat independence and soundness of judgment , - which had made them determined to consider subjects

      T&iea so much affected their -welfare—to carry out 2 n 3 , libraries had been established by men of fruiter view 3 , and there were now several ^) f these Bsrsnes which agree in these particulars , and have sisiliT rules j now as each were originally estab-Mea to give to persons holding ihe same liberal ^ jjmaojiB , line advantage of reading books to them all -if they " » ere to carry out still further the principles upon vrhieh they all originated , and after connecting men together of amilar opinions , for their Bmtrovi good , were now to connect libraries together nponths some prinriple- ^ -they wonld give to each lumber of the separate libraries , the benefit of the whole . —( hear . ) Be believed that the jeason this had not been accomplished sooner was from the want

      of a practical and equitable plan to effect it . There was at the present time 3 * 300 volumes in these libraries , and if they were tbns connected it would soon become she most valuable library in Nottingham . ; though if unconnected , none of them could attain each a position . They had also the resources to obtain a braiding and place of meeting . He concluded by laying down the outlines of a plan for feat purpose . Mr . B . Enjnphrie 3 agreed both with the remarks and plan proposed , and as ihe object was so desirable , he hoped they would all exert themselves to carry it ont . The meeting was unanimous In their approral of it , and a committee cansistmg of Messrs . B- T . Morrison , B . Huml &ries , Skerritt , Pletcher , W . H . Molt , Braley , W . Korman , and J . Bogers , was appointed to

      conferwiih the various librariess , and further -consider - ua plan to carry it oui ^ and then report tiie same toifetnre meeting . A Tote of thankB -was then prowsaiand carried to the chairman , and 10 Mr . R . * Horrison , for Ms services in preparing the plan . UnGHios . —f Omitted in our farf . > - "A public B& 3 held at flie ^ 3 ap of liberty , Parliament-street , allonday , January 16 , 1843 , Mr . Trowerin the OBir , Trhen it wasproposed by Mr . Allen , seconded fij Mr . ilowers , ** That the thanks of thiB meeting ce given to the Bev . William Hill , the Editor af the Afei&ra&orjforMsbold , honest , and t conaistent aSroeaey of the rights of the sufferine millions , and

      V 3 Q TF&TSSL IT OURDVTXTO StATE TTTtT TTB KSOW CP 3 DT 0 IE 0 F COXFIDEfCB TS THE EXECUTIVE being J&std Is the Chartists oj Brighton , as alluded by Mr Jma Leach at ihe Conference 7 ield at Birmingham and we are fuDy determined to snpport the Etewig and Norther Stars to tile utmost in their power , and we callnpon onr brethren generally of Ito mdustrionB dases to do the same . " Carried jaaiiimonsly . Proposed bj Mr . Page , and seconded oj Mr . Allen , " That the foregoing resolution be sat to the Northern and Evening Stars forinsersaa . - Carried Tinanimonsly . —Wnjiua Elul , Bab-Secretary . ^^

      ^ roajDPOBD . —On Ssndayla ? t Mr . Smyth lectoed in the association room . Park-lane , en the uareney and Banking Sjstem . ^ bsxkhbkbs of the conncQ met on Monday "OHM , when it im nnanimonsly resolved that Mr . Joseph Aldersoa become agent / or the-Epenrnp Suu , Northern Star , and all Chartist publications for one Sasrter s-half the proceeds to go to the council . " It * ualsoresolved ° That Mr . Ihomas Ibbotsonre-^ n cr edenliBlB as a Chartist lecturer , and the «^ etoj be ins tructed id write the same on behalf « the councfl . " Mr . Cleave received the thanks of tt& council for his offer to the Char&ts of the back JEfflbers of the Circular , and 400 were ordered to ^ . disposed of for the Defence Fund . The meeting * 2 * sraed to Mondaj evening next , at half-past * miu ' eloefc .

      Os Mosdat rvKSiss an interesting debate took g a » on thebest means of obtaining the Bepeal of * toUnion , at ihe White House , Broad Stones , «* w « a Messrs . Jennings , Smyth , Hurley , Flyn , Jaa sereral members of the HepeaJ Association ^ eitepealera declared they were Chartists to a « a , « id moved aTote of thanks to the strang e ^ ' totfl was carried by acclamation .

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      A Hoese Bidden to Dbath . —Cabmabtheb . — «| W eanesaay last , Willism Burnhill , a son of the Pp nior of the county gaol at Carmarthen , appeared f ^ flre iir . 2 . H . Stacy , mayor , and Captain Davies , ** e » er the complaint of Mr . H . Thomas , th © f ^ 7 of the So ciety for the Prevention of Craelty w -ariaais , which charged him with having on the Sj-STen ^ ai ^ beiBwilly , -ffitain the county and f ^^ i oT Carmarthen , wa ^ only and cruelly ill-^ f ^ a ndimprsperiy ridden a certain mare , the S ? F ^» f one Margaret lewis , in consequence of SSv * * Eaid mare ^^ wh « eby -the said Mar-?« U-ewis sastained damage tothe extent of £ 8 or Zzr *™^ Mr . Thomas stated that the charge se out of the the

      ^ following cireanistances : —On the ^^ ent Hon . John aafto Taughan , of JJanl ^ ca , was . « prisoner in Carmarthen connty gaol , ¦ t ^*^ K » 3 to obtain his discharge on that day , r *« rettB amval of the London mail , the defendant jfe f ^ r Jedto go to JJaudflo to obtain the requifea ^ v ? " Ji ^ neeessary that thiB shonld ^ fSf - ? ° ? ** & £ ¦ of the Londonm-ul , as it j ^ ared that if not obtained before then , a de-^ Bugh t arrive by the mail , and Mr . Vsughan ^ ^» prisoner . It would be proved thai Burn-Wei ] I J P ^ ions e of Margaret Lewis about twewfv W » i »«^ tte mare ; at half-past ^ r !!* $ " Carmarthen , anS proceeded to LlanioS ^ . was detained somewhere about an fwZ " -, ^ ?^ Procured the discharce . he started on his

      lettff ^ o return , and witnesses -would featffv ^ . would describe the distressed oondiaact ^^^ nnal , and theTiolentaod wanton « onsareir « ffl-r efeid * ' " wio- eontinBed to nrge on the IW'S ^***^ Aie rgwilly-bridge , where the ^ liisW " ^^ - ' nt *«? y enable to proceed fiaiher , & $ & */ ¥ * ^ deiendant iadV dismoonted , it WlSs , rt ? * a ^ i ^ ortly Afterwaris died on the *> bb ^— TioleDt exeftionsit had been compelled ijS ^ go , and the 21-nsage of the defendant . To J Wi ^ I 4 * ^ AbergwiUj-iridxe is abont ^ aiS-V ^ Baid sthalhe andhisbro-** ^^^ conadered the charge clearly made ftroftfe . ^^ ent was that the defendant pay ** S of ^ T 1180 ^ Jnare ) and the costs , and in de-¦^ obbb df ^ Sf ^ fiTe creeks ' impriBonment in the V 2 a ^ ijf ^* £° 5 * defendant was also fined Sis ' dWi ^ v- """^ y ill-treating the mare . ^ SStS ^ W **» aairt to seW weeks - *« gmti 8 ni a de&nlt of pajiag £ 10 .

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      ^ EBTH . —Pehais Lsctdskb , —W . ehavehadthe pleasare of two lectnres from Helen M'Donaid a yonnglady aged eighteen , in oar Guild HalL upon the neglect of Female Education , or the Bightsof Woman ; in which she pointed out how women were a-t first prevented from speaking in public , showing that it was the first cause of the present system of curtailing their education , aided by bigotry and superstition , to which she applied the-whip pretty smartly . The propriety of giving females a superior education was then ably advocated , and m the course of which a few able remarks were made npon the justice administered in the Senate House , on the Bench , and at the Bar . Spiritual teachers were not left m the baek-gronnd , bnt , -above all , the splendid observations on the evils of War , will not be soon forgotten . She then concluded the first lectore , by advising every young woman , to do all in her power to emancipate her coantrvwomen : W ¦ ¦ i . , . ..--,- ¦ _ . _ . __ _ , j —m ^ ¦ ¦

      second lecture went principally to show the evil ***?** produced by the bad examples of parents , in which the evils of drunkenness were painted inBuch a way as to be worthy of the notice of every one . Her advice to mothers was very affecting , and the whole -wa 3 delivered so as to be interesting to all , and offensive to none . ¦ i i ^ fc

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      ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MB , ED WARD . DBUMilOND , SIK ROBT . PEEL'S PR 1 TATE SECRETARY . ( From Hie Times . ) On Priday afternoon a most determined attempt was made to assassinate Jtr-Drummond , theprivate . secretary or Svt Robert Peel , in Uie open street , and in tbe broad face of day . The motives of the assassin are at present involved in mystery , not the slightest clue being yet obtained to the cause that could have impelled him to the commission of so aggravated a crime . Bnt , -whatever may have been the reasons influencing his mind , it -will be seen , from the subjoined account , that his purpose was carried ont with the most cold-blooded ^ determination , though , fortunately , no fatal results are ' at present expected to . result from the wonnd -which he succeeded in inflicting on his intended victim i—

      It appears , from information on which perfect reliance may be placed , that Sir . Drammond left Downiug-street at abont half-past tire © o ' clock in the afternoon , in company with the Ead of Haddington . They proceeded together as far as the Admiralty , where Mr . Drummond left the Earl of Haddington , and went to the bankinghouse of his brother of the same name , at Charingcrosa . On hh return therefrom , and -when he had pr « - ceeded as far as the space between the Admiralty and the Hoise Guards , he "was shot at by a man -who approached him from behind . The assassin walked np to Mr . Drammond , and , showing a determination not to fail in the perpetration of the fonl deed -which he contemplated , actually pnt the muzzle of the pistol into the back of the unsuspecting gentleman . He then flrefl . Immediately after the piistol was dischargedj a policeman , -who had witnessed the act , rushed np , and seized the criminaL In the mean time he had returned the

      pistol with -which he had shot Mx , Drummond to Mb breast , and had drawn out another loaded pistol from j as same place , and was in the act of pointing it at Mr . I Drammond , when the policeman seized him and pinij onedhia arms from behind . Tha pistol was discharged , ¦ hat the aim of the araassin being thus diverted , the con-¦ tents did not touch ilr . Drummond , not was any other person injured by them . I Mr . Drummond was immediately conveyed te his j brother * * bank , -which , as our readers are aware , is only i a short distance from the spot where the shots were i fired . Here a medical mas from tbe immediate neighbourhood was called in , and he examined the "wound I madtj by the balL He found that the ball badpenetrated I tbe akin of the back , through the coat and under gaij menta , but he could not trace it fnrther , not having . with him at the time the necessary instruments . As , however , lir . Drummond did not Beem too much debili-| tated by loss of blood to bear being removed to lis

      , own Tesidence , he advised Ma being immediately i conveyed there . He was accordingly taken there in a \ carriage . j Mr . -Gutbrie , Mr , Bransby Cooper , the eminent i surgeons , and Mr . Jackson , surgeon and apothecary , i -srere in attendance , and proceeded vzot& fully to examine j the wound . It was then ascertained that the ball had , entered sear the spine , and that it had made a circuit ; either over the hip-bone or under the lower lib , and \ then lodged near | the pit of the stomach under the . breast ; thence the ball was extracted by Mr . Guthrie 1 -without any difficulty , as it lay near the snrface . It was first thought that the wound was of a dangerj onw . character , on the supposition that the ball had : taken serious effect internally ; but , on farther exami-| nation , it did not appear that any vital part was in . : jured . The symptoms exhibited by the patient , after I the ball was extracted , were found to be favourable , ! and there seemed to be no reason then to apprehend that the event would be attended with fatal effects .

      The assassin , on being secured by the policeman , was conveyed to Gardiner ' s-lane police-station , where he gave Mb same as M'Naughlen . He refused to give his place of residence , but it is supposed that he is either a . Scotchman or a native of the north of Ireland , -who had been located at Glasgow . He -was then searched , and there were found on himfwo £ 5 cotes , £ i in gold , and a deposit receipt of a Glasgow Bank for £ 750 , made ont in the name of " Daniel M'Nanghten . " Ihvta the receipt confirmed the statement made by the prisoner with respect to bis same . The prisoner was well , tfeongh-BOt genteely , dressed .

      Nothing transpired that could with certainty lead to ^ knowledge of the motive * "which inonced the prisoner to commit this dreadful act . It doea not appear that he had had any previous correspondence with Mr . Drummond , « r that he bad preferred an ; claim or complaint to the Treasury , or was a disapgjtBted applicant for effice . His demeanour thronghejlwaa cool and col lected , nor did there appear anJSKfilence of insanity . The policeman -who apprehended him heard him say , on his being arrested , " He , " or " she , " ( the policeman is uncertain which } " shall sot disturb my mind any lenger . "

      It is stated that the prisoner had been Been loitering about the public offices for some days previously . On one occasion the office-keeper of the Council-office , who had observed the prisoner staying about the door , asked him what his object vas is so doing , and inquired whether he -was in the service of the polios . In answer to this question , tbe prisoner said that he Was , and that the gentlemen ef the office need not be afraid far their property .

      PUBTHEB PABUCPLAES . On Saturday morning , the prisoner , -who gave his name , in vbto&d Scotch accent , John M' ?? &ughteo , -was examined at Bow-street , before Mr . HalL He is described as a young man , rather above the middle height , having the appearance of a mechanic , and was respectably dressed in a black coat and waistcoat and drab trousers . He is rather thin , has a good colour , and bis countenance betokened nothing ferecous or determined . The statement of the affair given above was corroborated by the evidence of the witnesses examined , and Mr . Bransby Cooper , surgeon , described the process of extracting the hall , and explained Mr . Drummond ' s situation , which be considered sot free from danger . The evidence having been all gone through ,

      Mi . Hall , addressing the prisoner , said , I am about to remand you for a fortnight , and if you wish to say anything in answer to the charge , I am ready to hear you . Ton are not compelled to say anything unltss you think proper . But it is my duty to tell yon , that if you do say anything , it -will be takes down in writing and made use of , if seces&ary , hereafter . Now , having given you that caution , do you -wish to say anything ? Prisoner—I am much obliged to you , Sir , but I shall say nothing at present . The Clerk—Then you are remanded for a fortnight The prisoher | immediatelyileft the dock , aad -was conducted to one of the cells attached to the court , but had not been there more than s minute or two , -when he sent a message to the magistrates intimating that he -wished to say something ; he -was accordingly again placed at the bar .

      Mr . Hall—3 understand yon -wish to say something ; if so , I am ready to bear yon . The prisoner , after a slight pause , said—ThB Tories in my native city have compelled me to do this ; they follow and persecute me -wherever I . go , and have entirely destroyed my peace of mind . They followed me to Prance , into Scotland , and all over England ; in fact , they follow me -wherever I go ; I can get no rest for them sight or day . I cannot sleep at nights , in consequent * of the course they pumte towards me , I believe they have driven me into a consumption . I am sure I shall never be the man I formerly was . I used to have good health and strength , bnt I have not now . They have accused me of crimes of which I am not guilty ; they have done everything in their power to harass and persecute me ; in fact , they wish to murder me . It can be -proved by evidence—that's all I wish to say at present Tae clerk—Is that all yon -wish to say ?

      Prisoner ( hesitatingly )—I can only say they have completely disordered my mind , and I am sot capable of doing anything , compared to -what I -was . I am a very different ™> m to-what I was before they commenced this system of persecution . The clerk—Do yon wish to say anything more ? Prisoner ^—Ohi yeSj I -wish to know -whether I am to be kept in that place ( pointing towards the cell ) for a fortnight ? If so , I am sure 1 shall not live . The clerk—Oh , no , you -will be taken to a proper place of confinement , -where you will be taken care of tin you are brought here again . Prisoner—Oh , very -well , then I have nothing more to say .

      jit Hall—Have yon any objection to sign the statement you have made ? Prisoner—No , I have no objection . The statement having been read over to the prisoner ; it -was handed to him in the dock , when he immediately signed it . He -was then removed from the bar . ( From ihe Observer . J t appears that M'Nanghten had resided for the last sixteen -weeks in the house of a very respectable -widow , named Dutton , residing in Poplar-row , New JLent-road . He had been well knows to that lady for a long time previous . It is nearly three yean since be first came to lodge is hex house , and he occupied

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      st that period the same apartment which be continued to rent up to the period of his apprehension on Friday . He was generally considered by Mrs . Dutton to be of a very quiet torn of mind , and appeared to have no occupation , as he seldom rose before a late hour in the morning , when he left the house , and returned about ten o ' clock in the evening . He remained on this occasion three months with Mrs . Datton , and her general impression was that be was in search of employment The Tent he paid for his apartment was 2 a . 6 d . penreek , and the payments were always regularly made once a week . On leaving Mrs . Datton ' s house he stated that he was going to France , and that lady beard no more of him for many months , -when he returned and took the same apartment He . . _ . .. } . - -. i ¦ . . . . - . i ' - ¦ —

      stopped only three weeks in England on this occasion , and then told Mrs . Datton that he -was about to leave for Scotland . About the first week in October he again returned , and on Mrs . Dutton opening the door to him he smiled , and said , " I see you have a bill in your window . Is it for my old room ? " Mrs . Datton answered , " Yea Sir ; " and M'Naughton replied , " You see I am come back . I said I Bhould do so . ' Nothing particular was remarked in his manner at this time , bat the gloomy temperament which marked his general character was considered to be rather increased than otherwise . He seldom spoke to any one in the house , though always obliging and civil when addressed by any person . He never took meals at home , but on one occasion , about three weeks since , he canghfc a violent

      cold , and Mrs . Datton supplied him during three days in which he was confined to his btd . He was nevei observed to read a newspaper or any other pnblisation , and during the confinement /^ above alluded to , Mrs . Dutton lent him a religions volume , which he appeared to peruse with much interest Mrs . Dutton says , that her impression has always been that he had something on his mind . He was not at all communicative , but on one occasion told Mrs . Dutton that he was in Scotland -when her MajeBty paid her recent visit to that country . He always appeared to be very moderately off , and on his taking up his abode at Mr . Datton ' s on the last occasion , had only one shirt . He purchased a second after the first fortnight , and Mrs . Datton regularly washed them for him alternately . Eis wardrobe , in other respects , seems to have been miserably provided . He had only two pair of socks and a flannel

      waistcoat He had no change of dress , and until within a fortnight , when he purchased a new pair , his trousers were patched and darned in every direction , and full of holes . Abont a-week ago he asked Mrs . Datton if she could lend him a pair of old boots while sis own -were mended , and at her instigation he applied to a shoemaker in the neighbourhood , who allowed him the use of an old pair for a day or two daring the repair of bis own . He had no boxes in his room , or property of any description . M'Naughten " 8 habits were remarkably sober and steady . The room be occupied -was the back apartment on the second floor , and he seldom remained in it , if not labouring under indisposition , af ttr nine o ' clock in the morning . It was his habit to get up about that time , clean his shoes in the back kitchen , and then go out for the day . He seldom came home after tea o ' clock , and sometimes be was earlier .

      On Friday morning he went out about nine o ' clock as usual , and , after being absent from the house a short time , returned and went up stairs for a few minutes . He vent out again soon after , and Mr& Datton heard so more of him nntll she was told that he was taken into custody , iln . Datton states that she never saw much money in bis possession , and her belief was that he -was a young man is confined circumstances . She also says , distinctly , that she never heard him mention Mr . Drummond ' s same , or allude in any -way to politics . It is very difficnltto reconcile the apparent poverty of M'Naughtes , as evidenced by bis landlady , and borne out by his personal appearance , -with the possession of so large a sum of money as £ 788 . ' There can be very little doubt of the genuineness of the check or receipt of the Glasgow Bank for £ 750 , and that fact proves the sum to have been deposited by the prisoner is the bank alluded to .

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      THE EXECUTIVE ACCOUNTS . TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Having been nominated in various places as a member of a committee for investigating the accounts of the Executive ; while feeling grateful for this mark of yonr confidence , I must still reapectfally decline the office . Ab a member of the Executive , pro . ter n ., I have been forced , by circumstances , into the position of an accuser of the Executive , and for me or my brother members of the Executive pro tem ^ to sit on that committee , would bave the appearance of a jury of accusers being the parties appointed to try the defendants . This I am convinced is sot your desire , and I have no doubt you will take immediate Bteps to rectify the error . Youtb , Thos . M . Wheeler . P . S . —Messrs . Dron , Cuffay , and Knight , fully concur in tbe sentiments above expressed .

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      THE PROPOSED ELECTORAL DISTRICTS . TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Fellow Countktmkn , —Yon will , many of you , have observed in the minutes of the late Conference , pnblished in the Northern Sturot last Saturday , that on revising that valuable document , the People's <]! harter , as we there , very happily , had an opportunity of doing ; you will have observed , I say , and those of yon who were present as delegates may do me the honour to recollect , that when you came to the clause which prescribes the number of Electoral Districts , I venturned to move that the number of those districts be 500 , instead of the smaller number , 300 , as it had heretofore stood in the Charter . I contented myself-with simply moving this proposition , without occupying the time of the meeting with a statement of my reasons for bo doing , and my motion was kindly and spontaneously seconded by a brother delegate , -without a speeob , and as quickly disposed of in the negative by the meet *

      I have just been reminded of this proposition of mine , by a neighbour who had been reading the minotes , and to whom I femnd , the proposed advance from 300 to 500 appeared somewhat unreasonable or extravagant . A brief statement of some of my reasons for tbe proposition , seemed to alter , very effectually , the earlier impressions of my neighbour ; and as deem it amatterofvery great moment to the cause we have so much at heart , I now respectfully and earnestly beg your attention to some of these reasons , and venture to hope that you will , in your several meetings , make this proposition of mine a subject of dis-« nssion ; and if yon approve dfft , and if you embrace

      it , as I flatter myself that you will , I hope that you will , on any fnrther revision , or on a confirmation of tie Charter , cause the alteration to be made . PerhapB I was remiss in abstaining as I did , from arguing the matter with my brother delegates . The reasons then present to my mind for bo abstaining were , first , a settled aversion to retard the proceedings of the Conference , by raising a discussion on almost any point whatever , and so to incur any risk of prolonging our sittings over Friday , the fourth day ; and , second , a pretty confident belief that we should have another revision of the Charter , and an opportunity somewhat more favourable of discussing and settling the point .

      We haye now that opportunity . The delegates assembled in Conference , after having , on their part , revised the Charter , and made some alterations in the minor details for carrying its great provisions into effect ; these delegates , ia the honest spirit of representatives , submitted the alterations they have made "to the consideration of the people , " as » proper step previous to its final adoption . To your consideration , then , and to that of your late delegates , I would thus , in a more deliberate manner , submit the alteration I have named . The alteration proposed iB , an extension of the number of electoral districts , from-three , to five hundred ; and , inasmuch as it is wisely designed that each district shall return one representative and one only , so do I propose that the number of representatives shall be five hundred .

      Call to mind , first , if you please , that our CHARTER ^ as its title announces ., is designed "for GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND /* And then say , what must be the sise , the extent , of most of the proposed districts , seeing that each district is to comprise a three-hundredth part of the whole people of the tiro islands . A three hundredth-part , it is true , in the populous cities and towns , will be found within a moderate extent of territory . And bo far , the arrangemente might serve . But snch cities and towns are neither so numerous , nor so overwhelmingly important , as to justify us in adopting our arrangements entirely for , them : nay , in every point of view , whether of justice or policy , we ought , as I shall perhaps make manifest , to adopt our scheme rather to the security and due representation of the agricultural districts , from whence must come all our strength , and all

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      • , ' , .- —~ - ¦ ~ ^ I' . * . . — the means of comfort and happiness . And consider , I pray toh , how junwieldy and how impracticable for any honest o * beneficial purpose , In matters of election , must ; thetnral districts throughout the two islands be made , if each be to comprise a threehundredth part of the population . It is a matter of little or no moment which of the deoennial tables of population we refer to for this purpose , Beeing that the propositions in each of them will be much the 6 ame . But I will here take the last census , in : which I find that the population of Great Britain and Ireland is 26 fi 56 j 28 , a threehundredth part of which is 89 520 . ^ -i _ " ¦— ' ~ ' - . , ¦ ¦¦ — ~ . 'Hi ^ I' ,

      Now , thiB is a number so large as , in England , to be nowhere congregated together , save in each of the six Metropolitan boroughs , in the city of London , and in the five large boroughs , Manchester , Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , and Sheffield . In Wales , there is , of course , not a single community approaching this number ; Scotland can furnish us with only two compact bodies of people of this amount , namely , Edinburgh and Glasgow ; and Dublin and Cork , would b . e the only solid Electoral Districts to be found iu Ireland . So much for the cities and boroughs , as Electoral Districts . And now a few words as ; to the counties .

      We have three entire counties in England , namely Huntingdon , Rutland , and Westmorland , and nine or ten , out of the twelve counties of Wales , not one of which would , of itself , form one of tbe proposed Electoral Districts . And Scotland , out of her thirty-four counties , has , I see , only twelve that are , each in themselves , possessed of the requisite number of people to form Electoral Districts ; so that we Bhould have to lay counties together , forming the Districts so large that no man of modest merit , however qualified by his wisdom and public spirit to preserve and to benefit his country , not

      solon himself , unless possessed of vast estates , could become known and appreciated through a District so extensive , The elections would , it appears to me , under such an arrangement , generally fall upon high and wealthy aristocrats ; as our county elections ever have done ; or on active and noisy and unprincipled pretenders . So that , through an error on this single point , all our labours and sufferings for the establishment of the Charter might be thrown away , and our country continue to sink as it has done , even since the late abortive Reform .

      The desirable thing , it appears to me , is to have the Electoral Districts as compact as may be . To have them within euch a compass , that plain and worthy and sensible men , rather than the great wealthy and the showy , should be selected as representatives ; that the electors should have an opportunity of becoming well acquainted with the persons , the acquirements , and the character and conduct of the man presented to them ; a matter which is scarcely ever to be accomplished in districts so large as those under contemplation . Towards the accomplishment of the desirable object I have just named , the smaller the eleotoral districts and the more effectual ; and , were I not restrained by other considerations , I should recommend a division of the kingdom into many more districts than the number which I proposed .

      But this number , namely , five hundred , was not , originally , of my suggestion . It was suggested by my excellent , and chosen examplar , the late M ^ jor John Cartwriqht , in one of the notes to his admirable " Bill of Rights awd Liberties , " published in 1817 . The worthy Major , in the note which I refer to , is arguing against the existing number of th « House of Commons ' , namely , 658 . Some writer haa observed that so great a , number is fitter for the purposes of a mob , than for those of a deliberative assemb ' y . And the Major says , " It were far better that the number should be reduced to about 500 ;" and he adds . " An assembly of 500 , supposing

      attendance to be secured ( as under a Reform it doubtless will ) would be more than sufficient for mere consultation aad argument ; while yet that number of representatives for carrying to the Common Council of the realm an accurate knowledge of the condition , the interests , and sentiments of their several localities of a great kingdom , and watching over their welfare , might not be thought too many . " With these words of the learned and venerable Major , I be ^ to recommend the subject to your seserious attention . There are other more weighty recommendations ! than those I have here named , for the adoption of the larger number of electoral districts . Tnose recommendations I may submit to you on another occasion .

      I remain , brother Chartists , Faithfully yours , Thomas Smith Liverpool , Jan . 17 th , 1843 .

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      DESTRUCTION OF A VESSEL BY EXPLOSION . On Tuesday , accounts arrived at Lloyd ' s of a melancholy catastrophe having occurred on board the schooner New Times , belonging to London , while on her outward <; passage to the coast of Africa , by which the Vessel was totally lost , aad all handB on board , consisting of her commander , Captain Alexander Rowe , and a crew of twelve aeamen , met with a frightful death . It was occasioned by the explosion ^ of nearly 100 barrels of gunpowder , that were stowed away in the magazine of the ship , hut iu yrh&t manntT they ignited is wholly unknown . The particulars below detailed are extracted from a letter furnished by Messrs . Halton and Sous , the owuerB of the Bohooner , who received them ou Tuesday from a gentleman in the service , and who witnessed the ead calamity . The letter is as follows : —

      , " Badagry , Oct . 18 , 1842 . " When I left Cape Coast on board of the New Times , with her valuable cargo , I was calculating on a successful trading expedition down the coast ; and of returning to Cape Coast in due time to perform the pleasing duty of acquainting you with the result of my exertions , and little did I expeot that alt my hopes and prospects would be in a sudden aad extraordinary manner cut off by a painful dispensation of Divine Providence , which has at one stroke deprived UB both of the 76 Bsel and her cargo . To acquaint you with the distressing catastrophe now becomes my painful duty , and , I assure you , I do it with feelings of the deepest anguish and distress . M Thureaay morning , the 6 th inst ., we arrived

      and made a safe andhorageoff thia place , Badagry , and I went ashore . We landed no eargo , ana after Wednesday morning , the 12 th , had no communication with the New Times ;; bnt , as Captain Rowe was on board , we , of course , calculated on all being well , both with tbe vessel and her « rew . At one o ' clock p . m . the following day , Thursday ( the 13 th , ) we were alarmed by a tremendous explosion , and on looking in the direction of the beachjsaw an immense volume of black smoke rise immediately over the spot where the vessel was anchored . As I knew we had a large quantity of gunpowder on board , I instantly suspected the destruction of the ship . The shook was terrific , and must have been heard at a threat distance . Although the town of Badagry

      ia situated about two miles and a half from the sea , and the ground so low that the hull of a vessel in the roads cannot be seen , yet the concussion was distinctly felt , and every house was shaken . I , with others , immediately hastened to the spot , and discovered that the masts had disappeared . We lost no time , and crossed the river to the beach , and I regret to say that en our arrival there we could not Bee a vestige of the vessel or any person to give us the least information respecting her . I can form some idea > of the distress which you will feel on the receipt of this sad intelligence , and deeply do I sympathise witfcyoH in the heavy loss you have sustained . I wish I could add some information relative to the captain and crew of the vessel , as the means of alleviating in some measure

      tbe grief which you must feel ; but I fear the worst , and must add to the foregoing sad event my conviction that every soul on board of her perished . " To form an idea of the cause of this sad disaster is impossible ; none of her crew being spared , it must for ever remain a mystery , j At the time of the explosion I was busily engaged taking stock with Captain Parsons , from whose stores we could have seen the smoke had the vessel been on fire previous to the explosion ; and , moreover , had such been the case , the crew would certainly have had sufficient time to take to the boats and to two large canoes which were lying astern of the vessel . This proves that the explosion was instantaneous . Half an hour at least elapsed after we heard the report before we

      reached the beach , at which time , as I have already stated , not a vestige of the vessel could be seen . 1 , nevertheless , got a canoe launched , and with the assistance of tbe two canoes , that were lying astern of the vessel , and which had broken loose , search was made for several miles distant for the poor Buffererers , but we returned at dusk unsuccessful . " Shortly after we reached the beach we perceived something in the water where the unfortunate schooner had been anchored ; which , on examination proved to be the jib-boom , windlass , and Bpritsailyard . They are still stationary , and are a little above water ; and not having seen any portion of her hull , with the exception of a piece of coppered plank about a foot sauare . which was picked up in

      the bottom of one of the canoes , we conclude that the stern of the vessel was blown out , and that she had sunk at her anchors . Whether her decks onnasts are blown out we cannot say , but it Is evident that the , principal part of the cargo ; has floated out of her asiu two hours after the accident the , sea wascovered with the tattered remnants of cloth , pieces of puncheons , cases , butt-ends of muskets , &o . In consequence , of there being no other boats at hand , we were utterly unable to save anything . " Besidea the original crew , the vessel snipped three others at Cape Coast . I have kept a sharp look out for many miles along the beach ; but , as yet , none of the bodies of the unfortunate creatures have been washed ashore . ¦

      "J . H . AKHURST . " The New Times was con&idered a fine sailing craft , about 120 tons burden . She left London about the middle of June last with a cargo consist-

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      ing of cases of muskets , cloths , gunpowder , and a variety of other goods . She was , we understand , fully insured . The names of the the crew who have perished are a 9 follows : —Captain Alexander Rowe , Mr . Henry Hall ( chief mate ) , ' Mr- Samuel Whitmore ( second mate ); William Johnson , Matthew Lynn , John William Holland , [ William Calthorpe ( late of the Medusa ) , seamen ; Thomas Grey , John Sherlock , Marr , apprentices ; and two black Kroomen . Captain Rowe and several of the crewhave left widows and large families to lament their terrible death . j The loss of the vessel and cargo is estimated at several thousand pounds . ¦ i . ¦ i . ^ i i i i

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      ^ ~^ GKEENOCK . IMPORTANT TO SEAMEN . A public meeting of the seamen here wa 3 held in the Harvil-lane Hall , at eight o ' clock in the evening of the 17 th instant , to hear addresses from Messrs . M'Donaid and Bailie , seamen from Dundee , on the necessity of having the Merchant Seamen ' s Act either amended , or , if possible , repealed altogether . In the course of his address Mr . Bailie mad ? it appear that there are upwards of lone hundred thousand pounds sterling exacted annually from the seamen employed in our merchant service , under the pretext of assisting them when disabled through accidents or rendered incapable of going to sea through old age , while it is notorious that this enormous sum is directed to other purposes , and

      expended none of those from whom it is taken know how . Every seaman , he said , in the merchant service was compelled to pay one shilling per month into what is called the " Seaman ' s Fund , and yet when a seaman dies a natural death , no matter how long he may hare paid into the fund , his relatives receive no benefit whatever from jit . Associations are now being formed in all our sea-ports , for the purpose of having the present Merchant Seaman ' s Act either so amended that those who are plundered by it shall have a hand in the future management of the plunder , or have the Act entirely repealed . Mr . Bailie , who iB a genuine specimen of tbe hardy British tar , concluded his rough-spun , yet perfectly intelligible address , amidst the warm and hearty plaudits of the auditory . ;

      Mr . M'Donaid then addressed the meeting in a very frank and animated manner , on the necessity of Greenock doing something in order to have this glaring grievance made known { throughout the empire . It was well known , He affirmed , over the whole globe that were it not for her seamen , Britain would not j be valued a single straw by other nations , and that if they knew their own value , no Government in existence would long refuse to redress their wrongs . He read a well written address by the seamen of Dundee to tbe seamen of other places , urging on them the necessity of forming Associations in every port in the Kingdom , to . have the Act complained of either amended or repealed . In the course of bis address Mr . M'Donaid took occasion to depict , in glowing terms , the former inhuman cruelties of the fiendish

      press-gang . How they used to tear the mariner from his wife and little ones , force him into the navy , and not unfrequently crimson the green sea with his blood . These cruelties , he said , were once familiar to the British seaman ; and he had no guarantee that they would not be familiar to him again . At the conclusion of Mr . M'Donald ' s affecting address , the following resolutions were moved , seconded , and ably spoken to by several persons in the meeting , and agreed to unanimously : — Resolved , — " That this meeting consider that the Act of Parliament enforcing the ' { Merchant Seaman ' s Fund , ' ia a violation of our civil rights as citizens of a free nation ; and , further , that we believe it to be unwarrantable , and that we shall agitate unceasingly till we obtain its amendment . "

      Resolved , — " That , m order to carry out the foregoing resolution , this meeting do immediately form itself into au Association to effect as speedily as possible tbe specified object . " The meeting , principally consisting of seamen , carpenters , riggers , &c , then proceeded to nominate a committee of twelve , who instantly entered into preliminary arrangements for calling another meeting of tbe whole seamen of the town and neighbourhood at an early period , to form an association ia accordance with the resolutions they had passed . The meeting , which filled the Hall tojthe door , was

      presided over by one of the most notorious obdurate Chartists iu this locality . In the course of the proceedings , he stated that he had been to sea for a short period in the early part of his life , and that he could never forget the hellish mode of maintaining subordination practised on shipboard , i He most cordially concurred in the objects of the meet ins , and hoped that while no stone was left unturned in their endeavours to have this infamous piece of classlegislation exposed and done away with , they would never for a moment forget the one thing needful , the People ' s Charter . i

      Mr . M'Donaid intimated that they intended to visit Liverpool in the course of the present month ; and the newly formed committee agreed to postpone their intended forthcoming meeting till they returned . The meeting then broke up . ; Ship Building . —The business on which the great body of our population depends , has been for several months past all but annihilated , that is to say there are no vessels on the stocks at present , and those who live by rope-making , ea \ l-making , block-making , rigging , painting , &c . are all , or nearly so , idle . Our foundries also , which sometime ago employed such an immense number of hands in all the various branches of steam-engine making , are ] likewise all but closed ; and from the stand-still state of these

      two professions , the working people here are in a deplorable plight indeed . From a statement respecting the present destitution amongst us , which appeared in one of our tool journals the other day , signed by the chief magistrate , we Jean * that there are from six to seven thousand idle starring persons in Greenock at this moment , and it is expected they will be on the increase for months . Of these six or seven thousand from four to five thousand are supposed to livesolelv on the rations which they receive at the soup kitchen . These rations consist of an English pint of transparent skilly , three ounces and three-fourths of an ounce of coarse bread , and four ounces of oatmeal to each individual per day . the expense of which is fivepehce a-head

      per week ; and the committee who manage the relief fund declare that all the money in hand will not enable them to continue even that beggarly pittance for above a week longer . We I must by no means , however , forget that provisions in Greenock all the while are neither scarce nor costly . Prime beef and mutton , with the same quality of bacon , we have ticketed in our fleshers' and grocers * windows at fourpence per 1 b . Good butter at sixpence , and excellent fish , fresh or salt , as cheap as you choose ! Oatmeal at sevenpence a peck , and the best dry mealy potatoes we ever had the'p leasure of eating , at threepence per stone . Clothing , likewise , whether necessary or ornamental , was never seen so moderately priced in Greenock as now . From

      all this , then , it must be pretty plain that those who are blessed with fixed salaries , and ; those who have high-rented , substantially-let shops and dwelling-nouseB , must be in aa comfortable circumstances as mortals can well be . forming a most unchristian contrast with those who eagerly gulp the transparent skilly and exhibit the hideous effects of class-legislation . Of those in Greenock who enjoy fixed salaries and regular incomes from well-let property , &c , it is supposed there are about fifteen hundred , and from their manner of living it is conjeotured they support about double that number of tradesmen , shopkeepers , Sea ., bo that Greenock at this point of time may be said to be a perfect sample of what class-legislation is naturally intended to

      effect . Five thousand rational oreatures subsisting on the least possible quantity of the coarsest kind of human food doled out in the most insulting manner ; to these is a devil-loving black coat stationed in tbe soup kitchen to terrify the shivering recipient . While on the other hand there are five ! thousand of our population who principally owing ; to classmade laws and not to any merit of their own are enjoying every temporal comfort which nature or art can provide . But thiB iB not the horrible and provoking state of Greenock alone . What ia now oommunioated respecting Greenock may with much propriety wa . hear be applied to every large town in the empire . Subordination we know is visible and accessary throughout the universe of ( God , but

      that the industrious portion of the crertion should perish for lack of bread , while the very feculence of humanity possess more than they can use , is a gross insult to the majesty of Heaven . : Owing to the aforesaid stagnation of business here , and consequent want of employment , the ] Charter agitation has rather subsided amongst us of late , more especially since our delegate returned from the late Birmingham Conference . One of our leaders , however , is getting up a concert , which it is understood will take place in our Mechanics' Hall , on the evening of Tuesday , the 31 st current , when it is expeoted the cause will receive a frerh impetus ; We were told the other day that Acland , the Corn Law lecturer , is about to visit Greenock again , but he need not put himBelf to the trouble . The working people of Greenock hold that the Corn

      Law Repealers are only throwing dust iu the people ' s eyes . Men consider that a repeal of the Coin Laws without other accompanying measures , would be one of the greatest curses' our working population ever : saw . But supposing it were otherwise , is it reasonable to believe , that our class-legislators will repeal the Corn Laws to the detriment of their own incomes , without making themselves a handsome compensation ? We know how they acted towards the west Indian planters , when the negroes were half-emancipated , and if . twenty millions hardly satisfied them then , one hundred millions would be but a poor equivalent for the loss they would sustain in repealing the Corn Lawa . We would therefore advise Acland , the sophist , to ponder , on these things , and try some other community than ; that of Greenock with his blarney . We will nave none of it .

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      O'CONNOR AND ACLAND . Mr . Editor —I have just seen In the Northern Star , that Mr . Acland , in Scotland , has charged F . O'Connor , Esq , with falsehood , in stating that he Mr . Acland did not say at Halifax , that tbe masters -were going to stop thefr mills . My Dear Sir , I sat as joint chairman at the discussion between Mr . Acland and F . OCennor , Esq . ; Mr . Martin Bat for Mr . Acland , I for Mr . O'Connor ; and eftsr the discussion -was over , Mr . Acland inclined himself towards Mr . O'Connor , and told him

      that either the Charter wonld become the law of tha laud , or the Corn Laws would be repealed , and that in a very ahort'time . Mr , O'Connor said how ? The reply he received was jnst word for word as stated in the Star , on Saturday , tbe 21 st I thought it my duty to the character ef our worthy friend , to make this statement , as well as to rebut the falsehood of this hired tool of the League . I have no more to add but my good wishes and snppoit unto onr glorious cause , in which I have been a sufferer and defender for the last twenty-stveo years . Benjamin Rtjshton . Ovenden . January 25 th . 1842 .

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      -4 »> . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —I am a middle class man , bat had the satisfaction of signing tbe drst " National Petition" for " the People ' s Charter , " aud of subscribing in snpport of the movement . No doubt thera have been , aad are , false and violent Chartists , jnst as there aie false and violent " physical force , ' * compulsory "Act of Parliament " Christians . ' Bat that is do reason \» by undisguised an 4 upright men should be ashamed of the name of Chartist , more than of that of Christian . And , therefore , why do Mr , Sturge and his friends shrink at the name of Chartist , and slink away from discussing the Charter ! But , though thoroughly a Cbaxtist , 1 bave

      after leading the Charter , as revised at the late Con * ference , thought it might still be amended . I would submit the following suggestions . The Charter contains no enactment against the intimidation or the treating of voters . It does not assert , define , and secure the people's right publicly to meet and discuss . It sets forth no mode for trjiiig controverted elections . It omits one most effectual provision against bribery ; that of always tendering the oath against bribery and treating to all candidates and their agents . It constitutes the retnrning-officer of * q electoral district , also tbe returninsr-officer of his own electio *; should be , after serving three years , seek to be rechosen . I Would also render cabinet ministers

      ineligible as members , but give to them , and to tbe lawofficers of the Commonwealth , seats in both bouses , without votes , by virtue of their offices . And might it not be useful to levy ou members daily fines for nonattendance , to be deducted out of their salaries at tbe end of tbe session , except when absent unavoidably , or by peimissiou from a given cause ? I own also that thinking we cannot be too jealous , and with theJesaona before us in history , of Annual Parliaments having enacted themselves into Triennial , aud of a Triennial Parliament having stilt further treasonably prolonged

      itself by enactment into a septennial . I think it net unwise to enact that , in case any resolution or motion or proposal oi . any kind to prolong the duration of Parliament should pass either House , the Parliament then sitting shall be , ipso facto , dissolved- I am also disposed to enact that tbe Parliamentary candidates shonld be at least twenty-five , if not thirty , years of age , that we may not be legislated for by boys . I am not sure also that it would be improper caution , or unjust , to enact that all electors should be , twentyfive years old and able to read .

      I will not trench on your valuable space by arguments in support of these suggestions , some of which , it seems to me , every sound representative constitution should comprise ; but if you honour and oblige me by inserting this in the British " Polar Star , " you may again hear from A Christian Commonwealthsman . Pontypool , Jan . 20 th , 1843 .

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      At St . Peter ' s Church , Leeds , on Tuesday last , Mr . William Brown , cloth-fuller , Hunslet , * to Miss Jane Lawson , Holbeck . On Thursday , at Todmorden , by the Rev . J . Cowell , incumbent , Mr . John Butterworth , innkeeper , Rochdale , to Harriet , eldest daughter of Mr . George Stead , joiner and builder , Dalton , Yorkshire . On Sunday last , at the Collegiate Church , Manchester , Mr . Ashton Ashton , weaver , Hollinwood , to

      Miss Elizabeth DavieB , milliner and dressmaker , of the same place . On Tuesday , the 24 th inst ,, at Grimsby , Mr . Thomas Marshall , cornfactor , &c ., to Miss Catherine Babb , both of that place . On Monday , the 23 rd inst ., at the Superintendent Registrar ' s office , Utley , Mr . James Claphsm * gardener , to Miss Ann Pattison , both of Otley . On Sunday , the 22 nd inst ., at Fewaton , near Otley , Mr . Jame 3 Whitaker , tinner and braaier . Addingham , to Miss 5 . Beunington , of the former place .

      Cn im /\ <) nn a l > Ala a CnfvAinmiAnflAnt Lj nn > af » n te ' s * Same day , at the Superintendent Registrar ' s office , Otley , Mr . I . R . Hill , of Yeadon , to Miss J . Winterburn , of the same place .

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      DEATHS . Death o » a Patriot . —It is with ho ordinary feelings of regret that we this week record the death of that veteran , philanthropist , and patriot , Charles Brooker , Esq . The deceased passed the entire of his lonff and honourable life—extended to upwards of seventy years—in the agricultural village of Alfriston , East Sussex ; but his name and manly virtues were things " familiar as household words" to every inhabitant of his native county . Having by his industry in early life accumulated a comfortable competency , still further increased by the demise of a tejative , Mr . Brooker devoted himself , heart and soul , " to rescuing the labourers of

      Sussex from the physical and mental thraldom in which they had been so long held by their local tyrants . Hia untiring opposition to the " coarser food" New Poor Law system , seenred for him the grateful attachment of the down-trodden " chopsticks ; " and , as a matter ef course , the enmity of Bquires , parsons , and " bull-frog farmers . " Mr . Brooker speedily perceived that he was fruitlessly wasting his energies and fortune by attacking tha effect of bad legislation , eo long as the cause continued in existence ; and , therefore , became as zealous an advocate of Chartism , as he bad been an antagonist to the Poor Law Amendment Act . An avowed Chartist , be stood two or three contests for the Borough , of Brighton , affording the liberal electore , on each occasion , an opportunity of recording their suffrages at the poll . Mr . Brooker also

      represented the Brighton ChartiBtB in the recent Conference at Birmingham , when he gave hia , unfortunately , last testimony of fidelity to the Chartist cause , by recording his vote in favour of William Lovett ' s amendment . As an evidence of tbe high regard in which Mr . Brooker was held by the Chartists of Brighton , we may instance the-fact , that whereas a strong contest ensued for the election of his colleagues to the Conference , yet Mr . B . himself was the chosen of every party . Of Charles Brooker , indeed , the worst ever uttered against him by either Tory or Whig , was , that he was an " honest enthusiast ! " The Chartists of Great Britain , however , will require no other eulogy tha . u this one from their foes , to convince them that death hasj in . Charles Brooker ., bereft ihe world of a true friend to humanity and liberty . May heaven call . forth many such honest enthusiasts" !

      On Thursday , the , 19 th instant , at Kuaresborougb , Georgiana . Frederick , the lady of Edward Strangeways , Esq ., of that place , and daughter of the lata John Walker , Esq ., of Walter Clough , near Halifax .

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      DEATH OF MB . DRTTMMOND . ( From the Evening Star . J With feelings of unaffected Borrow and regret it ia our melancholy duty to announce tbe death of this highly respected and most amiable gentleman . Mr . Drammond expired at his residence in Crrosvenor-street , on Wednesday morning , at about half-past ten o'clock . We understand that the eminent medical gentlemen by whom he was attended , had but little hope of his recovery from an advanced hour on the evening of Monda ? -. but at ten o'clock un Tuesday night , what

      little remained to induce the contaauance of that hope had fled for ever . It is stated In the morning papers that the departed gentleman experienced but little pain . We understand , however , that this is not exactly the fact . Mr . Drummond is stated to have suffered most acutely during the last twelve hours of his existence , bnt bore those sufferings with that calmness and resignation which religion alone can inspire . He was sensible to the last , and died in the presence of his afflicted famDy .

      Marriages.

      MARRIAGES .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 28, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1197/page/5/