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      refused to pay the toll demanded of hnn . The lessee tad constantly the police at hand in these eases ; and whenever any difficulty arose , they threatened to take the parties " before the magistrates and lne them 40 i for obstructing the streets : ihe fact In most cases befog that the carts were only in the streets a Tery few minutes , and the law gave them fine for loading and unloading . There -was & pri-Tate streetj he understood , behind the pnblic-honse tailed No . 2 , ia which carts were sometimes set , when there was not room in the market for them ; asd here It was a constant practice to demand toll , eTen although they only stood there when there was B o room for them in the Croft ; a circumstance which d early did not giro the power , inasmuch as if the market was full it was evident thelessaegofc as much toll asie oonld legitimately expect . He should like to hare the opinion « f the town clerk as to whether ihe lessee had the power to go into the streetB to demand tolL

      . ... ...., _ , __ The Tow * Clctx conld only answer from the impression on his own mind , and that he thought it would not be safe to give . The qnestSon was one of gnch difficulty that he should not like to answer it , without first taking the opinion of counsel . Mr . Hobsos commended the Town Clerk for his cautiousness . He did not blame him for it . They had suffered before by the expression of too hasty opinions . Bnt as the matter then stood , he would tafcfr the liberty of so altering his motion as to giro the Market Committee the opportunity « f taking the opinion of counsel . He had no doubt on Ms own Ejiad on tbe question ; but as doubt had been expressed It vrould be a misfortune If this matter should go off on such a point . The question whicb

      be brought forward on Wednesday l&st had gone off In that way . Since then he ( Mr . H . ) had hid his attention called to a case which settled the Tery * doubt" on which the question on Wednesday went off . He r eferred to the ease Rex v . Starkey , judgment in ¦ which was given by Lord Chief Jnstice Desman . It was an action tried on an indictment for erecting and continuing a stall in a certain Btreet called Church-street , in the parish of Keighley , in Yorkshire , being the lung ' s highway , whereby it was obstructed . The trial took place at York , in March 1836 , but was afterwards removed into the King's Bench , in which court judgment was pronounced , Lord Benman and Mr . Justice littledale saying : —

      " Lpid D £ 5 Xa > , C J . Tuu ia an indictment foi va obstruction : and it appears that the defendant ' s act would be justifiable , except for the supposed remoTal ol the market The question therefore is , whether the market has been so removed as to make the use of the old market , which was proper before the removal , a bnisauce . Now the removal is illegal , if the public have bs ? 8 deprived by it of any right It ia unnecessary to go throagh all the daases of the lease , or discuss the ssveral points which have been raised as to the rights in the soil and market . There is one clause which makes it impossible for us to say that the market has been well removed . A power is given to the lessees to impose rents , at discretion , for the licence and permission of vending , selling , and exposing to sale . There is n » evidence that , in the old market , there was even an / rent for stalls , much less that it was certain , and least of all that there was any payment exacted for exposing to

      sals . That is bo essential an use of the market , that the creation of a discretionary power to -exact payments lot doing it cannot be sustained . I expected that the clause would end with giving the lessees the same poirer , as lords during the term , which the lessor had . Bat here is a discretionary power to impose rests ; and , even as to the stallage , I am not prepared to s * y that , when that appears to have never been paid , a elaim can fee made to it by virtne of the ownership of the soD . A market may be beneficial to the grantee , though there be neither tolls , nor stallage : it may be useful to him isat the public should resort to the place , though withont paying . A right to the market , therefore , does not necessarily give the power of exacting tolls . Conse" guenUj I am of opinion that the removal is not good ; and that no nuisance has been committed by resorting to fee oM market , which still exists till a removal has been duly made .

      iiTTLEDiiK J . I agree in the construction pnt by my Lord upon the clause in the lease . Bat , independently of that point , I own that , if the lord had leased the site , granting to the lessees precisely the same powers which be himself bad , I should have said that the market was not well lemoved . The market mart still be held Tn the soil of Hie lord . It is true that the roil , if boroughenglish , wonld descend one "roy , and the right to the market another : that is th = act of the lawj but the division cannot be made ij the act of parties . When the law creates the difficulty , we must deal with it as -well as \ re can : and the principle of this distinction , between the act of law and the act of parties , has been recognised from Wild ' s Case faj downwards . The hrdistohate the CORRECTION of ihe market : sn BO"W CAS HE HATBTHiT , WHKf HE HAS SOT THE Soil ? It may perhaps be answered thai the lease , subiUaixally , oirts nothing to ihe lessees but Ihe correction But hott ca 5 the pcbiic ks < ~ w that ? the

      lessees iUT 1 > DE £ D BE IJABLE TO THE EASX OF JSCIUJSGTOS TOB . BB . EACH OF t : OTE 5 A ? 5 T : BT * T THE rrBLic cas take so adtastage of it . The language of Bay ? ey J , in llos-ey y . Walker ( b ) shews that the lord must retain the power over the soiL I am of opinion , therefore , that the market was not well removed , the Boil of the place to which it was removed having been parted with by the ownei o ! the franchise . The lord conld not , in * neh case , tne for the disturbance t > f the franchise ; for the consideration which he gives to the public for the market is the correction which he exercises ; and that he cannot exercise where he is sot owner as well ailord . "

      ( aj S Rep . 7 S b . See Co . X-t . 147 b , 165 b . fbj 7 B . and C- 55 . Mr . Hobsos was proceeding to comment on this , and to slrow its bearing on the question , when Mr . Wilsos rose to order . He thought the qfltswon had been decided on Wednesday , and that it was nes competent for it to be again opened then . The Matob thought Mr . Hobson was not strictly in order , but perhaps the Council would' not object to the question being thu 3 temporarily mentioned .

      Mr . Hobsos was sure that , if even he was a little ^ out of order , " the Council would bear whh him , while he was imparting to it such a piece of imobjutjos a 3 that contained in the judgment he had read . That case showed that the claim Bet up by some parties , that the ground of the market was leased because the tol ^ s were leased , was nrserly untenable : for the words of Mr . Justice Lutledale were , " that the soil MUST be in the lord lor owner , or trustee ) for the purpose of cobbxciios : " and how conld that Council , as trustees .

      coaster , if they passed the land out of their hands ? Tb-e whole qufceuon-was there contained : the " land mcst be ia tie lord . " With respect to the collecting of tolls in the public streets , as " doubt had been expressed , he wonld frame his motion so as to provide for the settlement of such ™ doubt , " and ascertain the « xa « ground on which all parties stood with respect to that qaeEtion—the Council , the lessee , and the public . He would , therefere , for that purpose , wiih the permission of Council , remodel his motion a 3 follows : —

      That It be an instruction to the 3 Iarket Committee to ascertain whether the leasing of the tolls of the Kukgate Market by this Council to Mr . Joshua Bower , Jan ., gives him the right to enter public streets , and there exact toll from those whom he may find exposing produce for sale ; and also ascertain how far the pablic have a right to ertct stalls on market days in the public streets ol the town , other than Briggato ;" snd that , if necessary , they take counsel ' s opinions ou these point * . Mr . Jacksos having seconded the motion , Mr . Cur ? referred to some words in the lease alluded to by Mr . Hobson , asked what they were , and why they had been introduced . Tiie lease useif was read at length by the Town Cierk .

      A discussion of some length ensued , during which several instances were mentioned in which the lessee had already iaMnged upon the conditions of the lease . Mr . Siroiier , Mr . Hobson , Mr . Gaunt , Mr . Shaw , While , Cii £ , Lucccck , Graven , Bower , Jacks-od , LnpioB , Barrett , Carbatt , and others took part . Ihe legal part of the question was shirked , and the mfrmguneot of the lease admitted ; bnt It had been iramed according to the conditions under which the market had been let , therefore it would be a breach of faith towards the lessee now to do anything but allow him to go on a 3 he had begun , until theivil complained of should be removed by the

      enlargement oi the Market , which it was expected would be e&cted in a few weeks . The conduct « f the Surveyors of the Highways was calledin question—it haying been stated that they had advised parties standing m the street , not to pay the tolls which were demanded , and that they would Stand between i&em and danger . Their conduct was defended bj Alessrs . Jackson and Hobson , Tvho Baid that ihe iarrejors , as a body , had not taken any steps in the matter at all ; : bat . some of the body iad adviEed pirueanot to pay for standing in the street during th e two fair days , on which days they were certainly free . But that was all they had done .

      The discussion having ended , Mr . Hobson replied at length to the remarks of the various speakers , and the Major having put -the question , it was carried .

      TSS I . T . ASB OP 1 KB TlCiS ' s CBOFT . Mr . LrcoocK obtained permission to bring on , as the next anotion , the following : — "That the Borough Seal be affixed to the lease of tie tolls of KirigatevMarket , from the 24 ayor , AJderniBz ) , and Burgesses of Leeds , to Mr . Joshua Bower , Junior . " Ia moving thiB , Mr . Luccock Baid that the lease , which had been previously read , was strictly in aowrdance with t 1 » terms of letting which had been ] tae basiB of tee contract ' with the present lessee . He * wrew the whole blame of the present proeeedinga « n the Surveyors of the Highways , who seemed to wish the pnbiie to think they were inconvenienced » y the demand of tolls which had been made . ' He iad sever previously heard that the public thought the demand for toll * h-exaction j such demand had * lwav 3 _ been previously paid , sad the preseaV tliffi-

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      culty had arisen entirely from the conduct of the Surveyors , who ;* duty it was to prevent obstruction , and not to go out of their way to ad visa people to do that which was not legal—to interfere between the l * ssee of a public market and the parties selling goods therein ; they should tell them that they bad no right to obstruct tha streets , but they should not tell them they had no right to be called upon to pay toll . The only question now was what weuld they do with the lease . There certainly was » clause is it which gave the lessee the power to prevent public meetings from being held in the market , as he was

      only to use it for market purposes ; this , however , was a point which was not likely to arise again , as he had the authority Of the lessee for stating that he wonld allow public meetings to be heJd , and wogld not interfere with them again . If they bad now the tolls to re-let , beside the inconvenience to which they wonld be put , they would not get one-half the -money for them , by -which the funds of the Borough wo nld materially suffer . These difficulties would be all got over by the lease being completed , aad he therefore moved Mb motion . The motion having been seconded ,

      Mr . Craves moved as an amendment , that the Borongh Seal be not attached to the lease , until a proviso had been inserted guaranteeing to the publio the right to meet in the Croft on days when it was not used ss a market . Mr . Jackson seconded the amedment , and said he would not believe what Mr . Luceock had said about Mr . Bower allowing the nse of the market to the pnbiie , after the sentiments which he had expressed in the letter addressed to the magistrates which had been read last week . Mr . Lrccocx explained that that letter had only reference to the meeting which had been called for Tuesday night , and denied that Mr . Bower had ever entertained any feeling derogatory to the right of the people to meet .

      A long disenssion again ensued , in which the conduct of the lessee was very freely caDvassed , and the various acts of infringement of which be had been guilty- were fairly brought before the -Council by Mr . Hobson , who likewise defended tho Highway Surveyors from the aspersions thrown upon them by Mr . Luccock . The Highway Surveyors had just done that which Mr . Luccock himBelf said it was their duty to do , and no more . They found the streets obstructed , and they issued a Publio Caution , warning parties of the penalties they incurred by causing such obstructions . They did not interfere between the lessee of the market and his

      toll-collecting , further than this . They found that parties so obstructing had an idea , one arising from the representations of the lessee and the conduct of the police , that if they paid the toll tbe lessee demanded , they were justified in their obstructions j and the Surveyors had pnbliely warned them that such was net the case : for to take toll in the public streets at all was illegal ; and it was clear that an Illegal payment could not legaliz ? an illegal act . This was all that the Sarvejors had doDe . It was their duty to do as much , and to cause the Btreets to be cleared , and surh duty they had and would perform , as long as thej had the power , Bpite of all misrepresentation or animadversion .

      Mr . Cbatsk at length withdrew his amendment , as , from what he had heard , he considered it could not be carried out without a re letting of the tollB , and a consequent expeace . Mr . Ltjptos then moved anolber amendment ^ in the terms of the original motion , with the addition of the words , " at the same lime the Council express an . opinion that it is in the highest degree improper to interfere , with the practice of preaching in the Ticar ' s Croft on the Sabbath day . " This amendment , after various explanations and remarks by different members of Council , was also withdrawn , upon which Mr . Craven said he would not withdraw his , bnt would press it to a division . It was therefore , after a few observations from Mr . Alderman Shaw , put to the meeting , and negatived . Mr . Hobsoh moved another amendment to the effect that the lease be referred back to the Market

      Committee , with Instructions to enquire into the condnet of the lessee on the charges of infringment of bis lease , which had been detailed against him in the Council ; and that if they found those charges proved they should use the power reserved in the lease , by giving to him the necessary notice , in order that the Council might take the management of the market , and the collection of the tolls , into their own handB . He charged the lessee with exacting more toll than he had a rightto demand , and more than he had covenanted for in tbe conditions of letting . By referring to tho lease , it wonJd be found that the lessee had covenanted to take those tolls which ixed the Counciland he

      only were by ; contended that if tbe lessee took one fraction of a farthing more than those terms , he clearly invalidated the lease , and rendered himself liable to the ten days nonce provided for . He tben proceeded to instance cases of undue preference of which the lessee had been guilty , and which were also in direct contravention of the terms of the lease . The first upon which he entered was the case of a man named Peacock , who had occupied a stall in the market for a loog period , on every successive market day , and which stall he had got fitted up with gas , ana other things to make it convenient . Circumstances , however , arose which caused him to have to give it up .

      Mr CARBrrr rose to order . The Council , fee contended , could not entertain questions of this nature at all . If there was anything illegal in the conduct of the lessee , he was amenable to the Justices only , and until the / had decided upon it , the Council could have nothing to do with it , as they had no power to enquire into it . Mr . Hobso * thought the objection a very strange one and wondered how anything could be more Etric'Jy in order than what he was about relating . The Matob thought the Council Chamber was a very Improper tribunal ; the Market Committee , if there were any enquiry at all , were the parties before whom complaints ought to be made ; the Committee , be understood , had heard nothing of this , and therefore Mr . HobBon was ont of order . Mr . Hobsos—That decision will be very unsatisfactorv to the burgesses generally .

      Mr . Aid . Lvccock—But the Mayor having decided it was out of order , the Council must support him in such decision . He therefore supposed that Mr . Hobson ' s amendment must fall to the ground on a point of order . The Matob— No ; the amendment iB in order ; it ia only the statements of Mr . Hobson in support of his amendment that are out of order . Mr . Hobsos could not understand the reasons for such a decision . It seemed to him that if he was at liberty to move his amendment , he was also at liberty to make oat a case in Bupport of it . He could not expect the Council to role with hlm unless he showed grounds that would justify them in doing se . But he would get over the difficulty . He would stand

      on his amendment , and if he couldnot mention names , he would " suppose" cases , and put them in that shape before She Council . He would " suppose" that he . was able to prove , before the Market Committee , that a stand in the market was occupied by A , who fitted itTip with every convenience for carrying on hi 3 business . In course of time he had no further occasion for It , and , being his own property , wished to sell the fittings to B , who bargained for them for £ lt and told the lessee that he had done so . The lessee replied—" . No , tbon shalt not have that stand ; C has offered me £ 2 for it ; and tbon shalt not have It except thou gives as much" ! If he could prove that , would it net be a case of undue preference , sufficient to call on them to use the power they had

      reserved ? Suppose again : A occupied a stall on the Saturdays , and the lessee went to demand tho toll , not only for that day , but for other days when he had not occupied the Btall , telling him , at the fame time , that if he did not pay he would take means to remove him , or take the man ' s stuff into his own possession for the illegal demand which he had made : " suppose" he could prove all this "; and suppose there were not only one such ease , but twenty , would not those be sufficient to make it the duly of the Council to give the notice reserved in the lease , and tell the lessee that he was not the party to have Euch a power in his hands * Instances could be adduced where the toll had been quadrupled : and of this he would give them an

      idea . Suppose A occupied a stand in the street two tiaya at the fair . He was not an inhabitant of tbe town , and the toll which was demanded of him for those two days he refused to pay . On Friday morning he went into the Croft and applied to the lessee for a standing , when he was told that he should not stand there at all , unless he would consent to pay for the two days which he had stood in tho street . This the man properly refused to do , as the demand was nothing but an highwayman ' s one ; there not being evenaBhadow of law for such a claim on the fair days . After much parleying , A was at length told that be should not stand there , unless he would pay Is . a day . The man had perishable commodities on hand . He must

      sell . He therefore agreed to comply wilh J ^ aHllegal demand , and arranged to pay Is , a-day . He occupied in the Market on Friday and Saturday ; and oa the latter day a demand of 3 s . was made upon him , although the legal charge was only 9 d . The man remonstrated ; said that he had bargained for 2 s ., and would not give any more . He offered the 2 s . which were taken , and then the agent who had made the demand said to another who was with him : " Thee seize those sticks . " He did so , and they made oS with them together . The man followed , and asked to be allowed to count them , that he might at least know what they had got ; they were counted in the Market-house , and

      it was fonnd that they had taken Bticks worth 53 . at the wholesale price . Those Bticks the lessee still holds in his possession , and refuses to give up unless 2 s . more are paid . The magistrates Bkrald not adjudicate upon the matter . They K > ald afford no Adequate damages for an illegal Rizure . They could only interfere in cases of dispute about the amount of toll , or the place of standiDg j but here the lessee had taken the Uw into his own hands by Beizing property , and the man had been compelled to bring an action-at-law for the recovery of proper and adequate damages . Under these circumstances , he contended that no possible injustice could accrue frwnUhe lef&ee beiDg deprived

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      of his power . The conditions of the lease had been already broken through in every particular : and it was a duty incumbent on the Council to take the entire control , by the appointment of a proper person to collect the tolls under their authority . This was a duty the Conncil owed to itself , for its own character . The lessee pursued these practices because he was placed where he was by tbe Council ; and if he did wrong the Council suffered for it , in public estimation . Indeed he ( Mr . Hobson ) put tho matter on this issue : if the Council perfected the lease , still imperfect , and took no steps to prevent the system of pnblio plunder constantly going on in its name , it would make itself & party to the dishonourable and disreputable proceedings , and would

      be known throughout the country as tbe abettor of fraud . Were the tolls collected by the Council itself through an officer appointed for that purpose , the Council would get juatwhat they were entitled to , and no more . If more was netted now , it was clear it was the proceed of public plunder ; if less , on the system he proposed , tbe rate-payers would have the benefit . An officer , acting on behalf of the Council , and directly responsible to them , wonld have no interest of his own to prompt him to take advantage of the necessities or fears of those who attended the market with produce for Bale : he would only have to carry the market-rules iato due effect ; and thus would justice be done to all parties , and the present canse of mnch disagreement removed .

      After a few words from Mr ^ Bateson and Mr . Cilff , Mr , Luccock replied , and the Mayor put the amendment which was negatived . On the original motion , the votes were recorded . For it , 22—Aldermen Oates , Smith , Shaw , Batason , Pawson , Lupton , Lnccock . Councillors Birchall , Wm . Smith , Watson , Carbutt , Bramfitt , Barrett , Barlow , Yewdall , France , Bower , Arthington , Cliff , Wilson , Strother , and Prince . AgainBt it , 6—Councillors Craven , Jackson , White , M . Cawood , WeddilJ , and Hobson . THE POLICJB AND THE MABICET . The next notioe was by Mr . Hobson , and was as follows : —

      To put & question to ths Chairman ( or other Member ) of tbe Watch Committee , to ascertain whether it is known to that Committee that it ia a constant practice with the police , for some portion of their body ( f enerally a sergeant and a policemen ) to accompany the collector of the Hirkgate Market Tolls , in his tour through the public streets and highways to illegally exact toll from parties they may find making use of such street for tbe standing of carts , or exposures of cattle ; in many instances going nearly to the bottora of Kirkgate ; into Crown-street , in Call-lane ; into Vicar-lane ; into Ludgate-hiH ; into George ' sstreet ; and-several other streets ( even private streets ) in the neighbourhood of the Market ; suca

      Policemen accompanying such Collector for the purpose of more readily ensuring compliance with the illegal demand ; for should any one refuse to pay the illegal loll demanded of him , tbe policemen take him before the magistrates , and prefer a charge against him of obstructing tbe public Highways ; and further to ascertain , that if such practice ou tbe part of the police be known to such Watch Committee , whether such attendance , and such conduct , be in pursuance of orders given by snch Committee , or any portion of it ; or whether any steps have been taken by the Committee to prevent such a flagrant abuse of power , as the presence and aid of constables en duty to enforce & demand for which there is neither law , right , nor reason .

      Mr . Hob ? on said perhaps the Council would consider this question as put , and that some member of the Watch Committee would answer it , in order to save time . The Town Clbrk said he had an answer , which had been prepared by order of the Mayor . This he read ; and it was in substance as follows : — That the Watch Committee had given no suck orders , nor -were they aware of tbe practice ; and that the Chief Constable and Superintendent of Police had been asked if they knew anything of the matter , and their answers had been that they were totally ignorant of such being tbe case . Mr . Hobson then brought forward the following motion , in connection with this subjeot : —

      That the attention of the Council having been called to the practice of the police accompanying the leBsee of the Kirkgate Market Tolls to aid him in the collection of toll in the public Highways it be an instruction to the Watch Committee to instantly prohibit such practice . Mr . Hobson said such practices did exist , whether they were known to the Watch Committee or uot . The police had been seen as described . They had been known to fetch the lessee when parties were placing in a cart goods which they bad purchased ;

      and three instances could be proved where one policeman bad seized , the horse , and another the man , and had held them while the lessee took away the property . He made no complaint against the police being called in to preserve order in tho market , so long as they vrere obliged to have a police at nil : what he complained of was , that they overstepped thek duty in thus assisting the lessee to collect a toll about which there were great "doubts , " and threatened to bring parties before the magistrates if they refused to pay .

      Mr . White seconded the motion , and said that on Saturday morning last , he himself saw a policeman interfere in the manner described , and threaten to take a party before the magistrates if he did not pay toll ; and his cart had stood in the street only a very few minutes , while he got a sack of potatoes which he was taking home for his family-After a short discussion the resolution was put to the meeting and carried unanimously .

      MISCELULNfiOUS BUSINESS . The Boroogh Seal was ordered tp be affixed to contracts between the Maysr , Aldermen , and Burgesses of Leeds , and various tradesmen , for the work 3 necessary to complete the burial grounds at BurmantoftB , Leed 3 , and at Hunslet ; and three additional horses were agreed to be placed at the disposal of the Committee for the better watering of tbe public streets . On the motion of Mr . Strother , a drain was ordered to be made in the township of Chapel Allerton , at an expence not eseeeding £ 389 3 s id . The same gentleman also moved that a sum of £ 1181 103 9 J be expended in a drain in the town * ship of Potternewton ; but a memorial having been presented against it , and there being only twentythree members of Council present , it wa 9 withdrawn until the next quarterly meeting , and the Council broke up at four o ' clock .

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      Fatal Accident at BLACKFRtAas-BRiDOB-At about twenty minutes or a quarter to eight o ' clock on Monday evening , an accident of « most appalling natate took place at the rteam-boat pier , Blackfria » : bridge . It app «« 8 that some boats were aboat to start in a race , from the opposite 8 hOre . and a crowd of gazen , principally composed of nursery maids and children , cr owded to » tha stops which descend to tbe river , and filled : op the floating pier , which at the b * at was never very secure , in such a way as to prevent in a gw » t degree the ingress and egress of passenseM . The persons w&oae duty it w » b to keep tbe passaM clear fonnd tbe ^ task atteriy Impossible , and the pier became crowded to excess * The tide had descended two or three feet , and began to ran down rather rapidly

      , when the timbers which sustained the pier , and which had for a considerable time past been exposed to the actfen of the tide ' s ebb and flow , [ suddenly gave way , and according ; to the most moderate calculation , npwards or twenty persona were precipitated into the river . Several scrambled onfc as they qonld , hat according to the statement of an old waterman who saw tbe melancholy eveiit , the rush of the crowd on the steps to see what had occurred forced three or four children , who were standing on the steps , into the water . As sson as those who remained on the still floating portion of the pier recovered from the first consternation , they bestirred thcmSftlves actively In endeavouring to rescue the others , and a man named Jarae tee , No . 7 , Broad * wall , waB the first to pick np a fine young woman , who

      was removed In a state of great exhiustiop . Inspector Webb , who witnessed the accident from the opposite shore , was on the spot in a few minutes , and with Smith , Reid , and West , of the Thames Police , rendered most effective assistance . On arriving at the melancholy scene the inspector saw a lady and gentleman , both foreigners , clinging by the broken p'or , and clasping each other with the grasp of death . He at once caught at them , and , with tbe assistance or his men , succeeded In rescuing them from tbelr perilous position , though in doing so his right hand was aeverely wounded by ene of the drags , which were at the time in active operation ; Mr , Blomfleld , snrgeon , of Batcliffe , happened to be on the spot when the accident occurred , and humanely tendered

      bis professional assistance , nor was he sparing in hia attempts to rescue all within his reach . By the direction of Inspector Webb , some of the coal-barges with which the place was crowded were removed , and nltimately four bodies were taken up by tbe drags , but life appeared wholly < xtlnct They were removed to the Gh tiers' Arms , near Printing House Square , where three ef them—a fine boy , about five years old , a young girl , of eleven , and a young woman abont eighteen years of age , were recognised as the children of Mr . Bredcott , a butcher in Newgate Market The fourth was tbe body of & woman as yet unclaimed , who appears to have been about thirty-six or thlrty-e ' ght year * of age . On being taken to tbe Glaziers' Armit , every effort to restore animation was resorted to , but without

      effect Mr . Hutchison , of Farringdon-atreet , one of the surgeons to the Humane Society , was promptly in attendance , but owing to the hurry and confusion caused by the accident , tbe bodies bad been too long submerged present any- hope of estoration . The bridge and the vicinity presented a scene of painful excitement snch as we never before witnessed . Mothers were running wildly in every direction calling out for their children , each expecting momentarily to hear of her own bereavement . Others made rapidly towards their homes to see it all were safe , whilst bere and there , on and about tbe vicinity of the bridge , some spectator of the sad event , who barely escaped the calamity , was detailing , with painful chcumstantiality all that he or Bhe had witnessed , scarcely conscious , in tbe turn of the tale , of the interest which

      it excited . Tae most painfal scene . of all was that wbicb took place outtide the Glaziers' Arms , whose proprietor is entitled to the utmost praise far the great humanity , temper , ind address which he displayed on the occasion . Hundreds of mothers orowdeu round the place , all inquiring after their boys , and when told by onr reporter as he came out from viewing tbe bodies , that there was bnt one boy amongst the dead , and that be was recognised , it seemed to afford tbe poor creatures some temporary relief . From the number of boys' caps picked up by tbe police boat , and the various portions of female dress , it will probably be supposed that several other lives have been lost , but after the careful search which baa been made with tbe drags , it is most probable that there are not more than two or three now missing .

      further Particulars . —Tuesday , one o'clock . —Up to this boar no other bodies have been recovered , and the tide is running down so fast , and the water so low tbai the men have ceased dragging , and will not renew their exertions until between : threo and four o ' clock this afternoon . The four bodies found yesterday , together with that ! of Amelia Mundy , aged twelve years , the daughter of toe landlord of the Limb and Lark , Printinghouse-tquare , which was picked up this niorning , remain at the dead-bouse in Ireland-yard . Prom tbe best intelligence , this moment collected from the uurgeonB who were so actively engaged in

      attempting to resuacit&te tbe unfortunate victims , it appear that there is reason to fear that not less than from nine teen to twenty bodies still remain under water . In the confusion that prevailed , the numbers stated to have been immersed necessarily geatly varies , but upon the most correct computation it would seem that thirty persons were at tbe same time struggling for their lives . Tbe excitement among the crowd ol persons on the bridge continues to increase rather than diminish ; and the inquiries at the Gl . tiers' Arms , at the time of writing , are most numerous by all classes of society .

      another Account—The drags were kept at work till long after midnight , but without more bodies being recovered . The labour was resumed at dawn , and about seven o ' clock the body of a girl about nine years of age , waa drawn from beneath tbe barges and conveyed to the Glaziers' Arms , and was shortly after owned , and proved to be Amelia Mundy , daughter of the proproprietor of the Lamb and Lark , Printing-housesquare , who had been missing since the sad catastrophe . The body was ultimately deposited with tbe others at tbe dead house of St . Anne's , Blackfriars , to await the Coroner ' s inquest . Many persons remained throughout the night , some as spectators , and others waiting in anticipation of the recovery of the body of some lost relative or friend . As the day light approached tbe crowd . on the bridge , the steps , and tbe wharf leading to the pier had materially increased , and a dense crowd

      was Bgain formed around tbe Glazier ' s Arms , Among those at the wharf waa a young woman who had remained throughout the night , partly sleeping in a boat , anxiously : waiting in anticipation of a missing sister being fonnd ; she was , however , not disturbed to receive this melancholy gratification . As the tide receded , boats were out , the drags were used , and other attempts made to discover the bodies of missing persons . Ou examination of tbe platform by daylight , it appears to bave been formerly constructed of good sound deal , which -was originally about an inch and a half in thickness , but has been materially worn away , so that at the part broken it scarcely shows an inch in thickness . Tae cross-pieces or beatings beneath ate not very Btrong , and are rather wide apart , and appear so far te differ with the gangway which had been substituted this morning , which has stout bearers placed diagonally , and at right angles with the cross pieces .

      Coroners Inquest— On Tuesday afternoon , at four o ' clock . Mi . P * yne , the Deputy Coroner , with a respectable Jury of inhabitants of the ward of Farringdon Within , assembled at tho Glaziers' Arms , Water Lane , Thames-street , for tbe purpose of investigating the cause of death of Mary Ann Bredcott , aged 18 ; Rhoda Bredcott , aged 14 ; Benjamin Bredcett , aged 4 ; Maria Balstead , aged 22 ; and Aurelia Mundy , aged 10 , the five unfortunate persons who lost their lives by the giving way of the steam-boat pier , the particulars of which are narrated above . The Jury having been sworn , proceeded with the Coroner to view the bodies , which lay in tbe dead-house of St . Ann ' s , Blackfriare , in Ireland Yard ; . On their return the only evidence taken was with respect to Aurelia Mundy , upon whose remains Only the Jury were sworn . A number of witnesses were examined , whose evidence did not materially differ from the statement given above . The Coroner summed np at great length , and said that his

      reason for calling the inquest so early was for the purpose of -quieting the public mind , by taking upon oath the statement of those who bad witnessed the accident , so as to set at rest tbe various rumours which this melaDcholy ocenrrence bad caused . If the persons were passing from the steam-boat to the land at the time of the accident , and lost their lives owing to the badness of the materiola used fox ra&h purpose , then the case wonld have been one of manslaughter ; but in the present case no one , he thought , was to blame bnt those who had gone oa the bridge in spice » f the efforts of the men to dislodge them . The Jury consulted for a short time , and returned a verdict of " Accidental Death , " with a recommendation that some stronger measures should be adopted by the City authorities to prevent children from playing * upon the steps of the bridge or the pier . Tbe investigation excited considerable interest , the Jnry-roem being crowded to suffocation during the proceedings , which did not terminate until half-past nine o'clock ,

      Abjouhned Inquest . —The Jury re-assembled on on Wednesday , at one o ' clock , in the Sfc . Ann ' s schoolroom , Church-entry ,: Blackfrlars . The proceedings were opened by Mir . Joseph Payne , the deputy-coroner . The remaining four bodies , the subject of the present inquiry , were Matin Pdlleston , aged twenty-three , Benjamin Bredcott /; aged four , Mary Ann Bredcott , aged ten , and Rhoda Bredcott , aged fourteen . A number of witnesses were examined . The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death" in each case , and added an opinion that there was no blame to be attached to the pier-proprietors .:

      Fatal Accidents on the River—On Sunday night last no fewer than four melancholy accidents , attended with a deplorable loss of human life , happened on the river Thames , in the first case it appeals from the statement of the survivors , two youths named Henry Tuckton and Alfred M'Evoy , that aa they , with three companions , wen on their return from Richmond , they stopped at the Bed-house , Battersea , where they partook of some slight refreshment They then continued their course towards Hungerford-market , where they had engaged the cutter in which they were . Mr . Thwaites , a brother-in-law of Mr . Lye , master ] tailor , of Great Pulteney-street , taking charge of tho rudder .

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      and the others , —• " »! £ ., his son John , another young man whose name at present is unknown , and the survivors ' pulling . On leaving Lambeth church , between ten and eleven o'clock at night , keeping tbe middle of the stream they observed a steamer in their wake , and pulled towards the Middlesex Shore , in order to get oat of her way . Very few minutes had elapsed before the party ware suddenly precipitated into the water , by the cutter running into a barge moored in the roadstead with such force as to almost shiver it in two . For some time their cries of ¦• Help" could be heard from both shores fot a considerable distance , bnt In consequence of the lateness of the evening , a lengthened period elapsed ere boats oonld be put off to their assistance . M Evoy managed as the boat went from under him to

      grasp at an iron ring that hung over the barge , and Tuckton was afterwards picked np , floating on the bottom of the cutter , by a waterman , and taken ashore to the Brown Bear public-house in a greatly exhausted condition . Of Mr . Thwaites , hia son , aai the stranger nothing was seen ; and there cannot be a doubt that they perished almost at the moment of the occurrence . Mr . Thwaites was a widower , and has left a family to deplore his loss . Up to a late hour last evening none of the bodies bad been I recovered . Abont the same hoar another fatal accident occureed within 200 or 300 yards of the same spot to a skiff , containing seven persons , en their return from Putney . It seems , that on their arriving off Millbank , their craft came too near a barge , and one of the party named

      White got up and was in the act of pushing off , when be overbalanced himself and fell head-foremost into the river . Another of the party immediately attempted to catchholdof White as the poor fellow was sinking , when he fert overboard also . The rest of the crew succeeded , by the help of a scull , in rescuing tbe latter ; and on their directing their attention to White be was found to have disappeared , and it is cleat that he must have perished . His body has not as ] yet been found . The third happened on board the Nymph . Woolwich steamer , in Bog 6 by's-hole , near Blacfcwall Pier to an interesting little child , named Clarke , eight years of age . She had been dawn to Woolwich in company with her parents , and on returning , and while playing about , she acoidently fell overboard from the

      gangway , which waa not properly fastened , and before the steamer could bring up , she had Sunk . It is , however , only right to state , that the captain and ciow considered that the child bad in play withdrawn the bait , and thus caused its own death . The other fatal accident , making the fourth , happened to the mate of a collier , off Rotherhitbe . He had been spending the evening with some friends in Ratcliffe , and was about ; returning on board his ship , when he unhappily missed his bold and fell into the Thames . and the draught of water carrying him under some barges , he was never seen afterwards . Dating the evening another man lost his life under somewhat similar circumstances , but his body was speedily recovered , and now lies in Wapping workhouse .

      Murder near Stratford-upon-Avon . —Great excitement has been caused during the week in Stratford-upon-Avon by a report of J the discovery of a murder committed more than eighteen months ago , at Binton-bridge , near Stratford . ( Thomas Knight , one of the parties concerned , has made - a voluntary confession , from which It appears' that three men , named Thomas Cirelesa , Badenham , land " Sara , ' had been drinking at a public-bouse , when a Jew pedlar was present . On the Jew leavingjthe house they followed him to the bridge , knocked him down , end took away hia box . He cried ont , and offered them £ & to spare

      his life , but they beat him until he was insensible ; and then , having torn away a large stone from the bridge , they tied it with a pitch rope round hia body , and threw him into the deep water . Parsons have bean employed in dragging the river , and it is said that on Friday the drag caught against a bard substance which it conld not bring up , bnt that on a man diving to the bottom of the water he fonnd and brought np a large piece of stone , which , from its appearance , and its correspondence with the stones on the bridge , ia considered to be tkat with which the body bad been sunk . —Birmingham Gazette .

      Attempted Suicide . —On Monday evening , at half-past nine , a young woman threw herself off the suapenaion bridge at the east end of the Z > ological Gardens , leading out of the ; Regent ' s-park towards Chalk Farm , into tbe canal . A by-stander waa happily in time to procure tbe assistance of the police , who were near at hand with drags , and after being abont four minutes in the water , she was extricated , and taken to the Albany Tavern , where medical assistance was promptly procured , and every means adopted to restore life . :

      Bradford . —A ppr ehension of M Cann for the Manslaugtkb of B . Gott . —This person , for whose apprehension a coroner ' s warrant had been issued , was arrested on Monday evening last ; and on Tues day morning was sent to York , heavily ironed .

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      Miners' Conference —Thursday , July 18 —The following resolutians were agreed to : — " That each member of the Miners' Association contribute one halfpenny per week towards supporting the Law Establishment" " That Mr . Roberts is recommended by bbte Conference to engage none but : professional Lawyers in the conducting of those cases wherein he cannot attend himself ; and also whatever business or werk appertaining to the Law E itablisbraent , ! that none but practical Miners be employed to perform . " " That each Cinnty or District draw up a plan for the appointment of tbe routes of the Lecturers , and &ieo , that each Lodge , or Colliery , keep a copy of the plan in their place of meeting , in order that tbe several members

      may know who is going to attend upon tliem . " " That all lecturers in future be paid 'from tbe Central Board , and that each district or colliery , in order to meet this , forward all payments to the ! General Treasurer one month In advance . " " That all payments for general purposes and the law establishment also , be forwarded immediately after the first County Delegate Meeting to the General Board . " That ' each Sub-District Secretary correspond with the Ganerai Secretary as least once a month , informing him of the number of Advocates wanted ; and that they be put up in separate parcels , and forwarded in one to the County Secretary . Those persons sending for Advocates to be responsible for the same , and their accounts to ba settled at least once a month . " "That each Sub-District or County Secretary

      furnish the Executive each month with a balance sheet , with the number of members good and bad , with amount of monies paid to tbe General Fund , Law Fund , Unemployed Fund , and District Fund . " ¦ That each Sub-District or County Secretary send a report , with the resolutions passed nt each of their respective Delegate Meetings , to the Editor of | the Miners' Advocate . " " That each L ctuter be furnished with a copy of the Minutes and Resolutions passed at each Csnference , ia order that he may see that they are properly carried ont" "That the Executive I be empowered to draw up a plan to be submitted to the next Conference , relative to the formation of a fund for tho purpose of supporting those Districts oe Counties who may be thrown out of work by the Masters , on account of

      their connection with this Association . " " That the next Conference take place at WakeSeld , ia Yorkshire , on November tbe 4 th , 1844 . " J " That Mr Jude make ont his bill for Cjala , Gas , &c , due to him from tbe Association , and the same be ; paid . " ' That the project of bringing out the Miners' Advocate , a stamped paper , be carried out as soon as practicable , according to the decision of the Glasgow Conference . " " That tbe names ef the Lecturers and Executive Members be called over at each Conference ; previous to which , each County Delegate Meeting shall investigate the conduct of eaeh Lecturer within their District , and forward to the Conference a certificate of their character . "

      " That each County Secretary report regularly once per month to the Executive Council the real state of affairs in bis District . " " That W . Wood worth be no longer a member of the Executive Council , nor connected in any way officially with the samo . " "That the proposition relative to Che Association obtaining a printing machine , to lay over until next Conference . ' " That members of the Miners' Association are strongly recommended to keep the peace ti any one offending being considered the avowed enemy of the Association . " " That each member of the Miners' Association pay a Jevy of ¦ sixpence per week for the men in the counties of Northumberland and Durham , now on strike ^ until they resume labour . ¦

      Friday , July 19 th . —Theiroll was called , and the minutes of the preceding day read and confirmed ; after which tho Conference proceeded to the election of the Executive Committee , when the members of the late Council were re-elected again , with the exception of Mr . W . Woodwortb , Mr . Clougban being appointed in his place . The following resolutions weru passed : — " That each lecturer belonging to the Miners ' Association pay 5 s . in the pound , out of hia wages , to the men now on strike in the counties of Northumberland and Darham , until such time as they resume labour . " " That the men in North Wales are recommended not to strike until their brethren in the North of England

      resume work , and in the meantime to go on with their organization as speedily as possible ; and the Miners of Great Britain pledge themselves to give them their aid and co-operation as far aa in their power lies . " The thanks of the delegates was then given to tbe Chairman for his conduct in the chair , and the Conference broke up at a little after twelve o ' clock , having Bat in close deliberation four days and a half . The delegates reassembled on Saturday , in order to be supplied with printed copies of the minutes ; after receiving which , they separated to return to their various constituencies , each pledging himself to do all in hiss power , on bis return home , for the men of the North , and likewise for the well-being of the Association generally .

      On Thursday evening , a public meeting was held in the Town Hall , Longton . The Hall , which is capable of holding from 1 . 200 to 1 , 400 persons , was well filled with a reBpeotable audience , f amongst which was a number of the influential gentlemen of the town . The heads of , tbe police were alao jpresent , and fifty of the privates , all of whom were armed , and were stationed outside , A working Miner was called upon to preside . The meeting was addressed by Massrs . Lomax an-1 Dixon . The meeting waB a most enthusiastic one . At the close a vote of thanks was . given to the Chairman and Mr . Dlxon , and the people separated in a peaceful and orderly manner . j

      West Leigh . —A public meeting was holdenona plot of ground near tbe Red Lion , on Saturday , the 20 th of July ; a working Miser ia the chair . The

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      meeting was addressed by Messrs . Dennitt and Holdgate . The meeting was mnch affected while listening to a letter sent from tbe North , showing the cruel treatment of tbe Ddrham and Northumberland Miners . WifiAN . —A public meeting of the Coal Miners of the Wigan District was held on Friday , the 19 th of July , on a plot of ground , called the Orchard , a working Miner , in the chair . The meeting was addressed by Mr . Holdgate , from Yorkshire ; and Mr . Dennitt , of Wigan , A strong determination was evinced to render the men of Northumberland and Durham every assistance . Circulars have been issued , soliciting the aid of the trades of Wigan .

      Miners' Benefit . —On Wednesday evening next , the 31 st inst , a theatrical benefit for the above body will take place at the Royal Albert Saloon , City Rood , when the weavers , headed by a band of musia will march in procession , from the Standard of Liberty , Brick-lane , to the Saloon ; and the coal whippera , from their usual place of meeting , will also go in procession , preceded by a band of music , in order to proclaim their sympathy for the oppressed Miners . Kent—The Chartists of Greenwich and Daptford held a public meeting on Tuesday evening , July 16 th , at the George and Dragon , Blackheath Hill , Mr . M organ in the chair , to receive a deputation from the Miners' Association , whea Mr . Bifcson , from that body attended , and gave a description of the hardships and sufferings of their much , wronged class . Mr . Sawyer , in a neat speech , moved , and Mr . Paris seconded , tha

      following resolution : — " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the tyranny and oppression of the Coal owners of the North towards their workpeople is unbearable , andunjoat , and ought to be resisted by all legal means . " Moved by Mr . Keating , seconded by Mr . Floyd : " That a petition , embodying the above resolution , be sent to Admiral Dandas , tbe Borough Member , for presentation to the Hoose of Commons . At the close of the meeting , a collection of £ l Is 4 d was made for the Miners . Mr . Mellnisb , baker , sent in 2 s ; Mr . Humphrey , broker 6 d . Sum total £ 13 s 10 d . The next General Delegate Meeting of Lancashire Miners will be holden on Monday next , July 29 th , at the Queen Anne , Dean-church , near Bolton . Chair to ba taken at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . A publio meeting will also be held on the same day and at the same place . The levy , including general contribution and law fund , will be Is 6 d per member .

      Sums received bt thk Coal Mirers' Delegates now in London . —Piasterera' Society , King ' s Arms , Ebury-street , P / mlioo £ 8 ; subscriptions from the George and Dragon , Greek-street 8 s lOd ; journeymen steam-engine makers , &c , Easton and Amoa ' s , Great Guildford-street 10 s ; Mr . Jeffries' workman 3 *; Mr . Hawkins ' s silk hatters 3 s 6 d ; Mr . Cook * sey ' s silk hatters 7 s ; working men of GlenqaJl Grove , per Mr . Bowling 93 Td ; painters , Merlin ' s Cave , Margaret-street , Oxford Market £ 1 14 s ; painters , Horse and Groom , Great Portland-street 3 s 4 < i ; Lambeth ironfounders 7 s lOd ; Mr . Rogers ' a book 4 s 3 d ; Mr . Robinson ' s book 2 a 8 cJ ; Mr . Taylor ' s book 2 j ; Metropolitan ( Chartists ) Delegate Council 83 7 d ; Mr . Nash ' s brash makers 2 < 4 i ; Mr . Wills 6 d : Mr . Dyke 2 i : Mr .

      Woodman 91 ; H . B . Is ; Mr . Curtis 3 s ; Mr . Ranated Is ; Workmen of Mr . Whiting , felt manufacturer , Bow , Middlesex , per Mr . Drake Ids 7 d ; collected after a lecture by Mr . Spencer , Mile Ead 8 i £ d ; Mr . Lawrence ' s book Is 6 d ; Mr . Hodgson ' s book 7 £ i ; Tailor ' s Society , Blue Posts , Rupert * street , per Mr . George £ 2 ; Star Coffe-house , Goldenlane , per Mr . Cecil 7 s Jd ; friends per Mr . Bridgetown 12 s ; Mr . Rigby ' s brush makers Is 7 d ; Vitrol Works , Rotherhithe 3 > S ^ i ;[ Messrs . Baker ' s carpenters , per Mr . James Syme , 6 th 17 s 2 d ; Carpenter ' s Society , Q / ieen ' s Head , Acton-street , Gray ' s Inn Road £ 10 ; Skein Silk Dyers , Blaok Swan , Brown ' slane , per Mr . Jus . Edwards £ 10 ; Carpenter ' s Society , George-street , Chelsea £ 5 3 s 6 d ; Lambeth engineers 10 s 8 i .

      Ashton-tjhder Lyne . —A public meeting of the inhabitants was held in the Charlestown meeting-house , on Tuesday evening last , to take into consideration tbe case of the Coal Miners of Northumberland and Durham , now on strike . The meeting was addressed by Messrs . Dennett , Brookbank , Aitken , Dixon , and P . lling ; and resolutions pledging the meeting to raise subscriptions for the support of the Miners of tha North . Gildehsome . —The Miners afc Messrs . Bedford ' s Colliery , GiJdersome , have resumed their employment at the wished-for advanco .

      Sheffield . —The Colliebs * St . hike . —The men of the Tynsley Park Colliery , amounting to 130 , were to resume work yesterday ( Friday ) , at aa advance of three-fourths of all they asked . No man is to give up the Union ; nor is any man to be persecuted for the part he has taken in the strike . The Trades are making redoubled efforts . The table-blade batters on Tuesday presented tne Colliers with seventy pounds . The hair weavers ( women ) have lately got an advance , and determined that the produce of the first week should be given to the Colliers , and on Monday they had a , splendid procession , with several carriages and their hand * some gift carried before them . The case of tho three men who have been " made an example of , " by being transported for . fifteen years is exciting the greatest oommisgeratiou , and active steps are being taken to procure a commutation of their sentences .

      Barnsley . —A wearers' meeting was held in Pickering ' s Room , on Monday night , Mr . Frank Mirfiold in the chair . The auditing committee for Pcckett ' s Strike brought forward the balance sheet , and read it to the meeting . It was unanimously adopted , every one there declaring himself highly satisfied . The miners of Leeds and neighbourhood return their sincere tbaDkB for tbe following snms ;—Howard ' s weaversj la 10 ; lj Hargrave ' s mill , Is 11 £ 1 ; Golden Cock , la 7 £ d ; a few dressers , Ss 3 d ; Pullen ' a foundry , 6 a 3 d ; Hall's Coffee House , U 7 id ; Iawsou ' s men , 5 s 61 ; Middleton , 2 s ; West " pit , 16 ' s ; ditto , burners , 9 j : ditto bleach ground , 93 ; ditto , ditto , ditto , £ l 59 ; do . Forty Yards coal , 13 s ; White House ,

      8 s ; Waterloo Inn , Is 3 ^( 1 ; Ross ' sCoffae House , Is lid ; Leather finishers 4 i la ; Ardilland Pickard'B foundry U 21 ; V . W . Burters 2 s 61 ; Craven Heifer 2 s 4 d ; Dobson's men £ 1 4 i 6 d ; Rock Colliery 14 s 6 i ; Taylor shops 8 s 3 i < 1 ; safe / y lamp la ; Foresters A . nns 5 s 2 d { Fleece Inn " l 9 d ; James Brown a ' . ; d Co . 's , mill £ l 7 a 3 jd ; Senior's Coffee House 3 a 5 ^ 1 ; W . C 3 s 7 d ; Denisoa ' a shop la 3 d ; Thomas Maaton and Co . 2 s 6 d ; from the White Hart 5 s Id ; from Mr . SneU ' a mill 3 s Id ; Mr . R . Bayldon 10 s ; North ' s men 5 s ; J . Robsoa Is 6 d ; Paper Milt 3 s 6 d ; Mr . Lse ' s Foundry 2 s 8 d ; Mr . Dxwson ' a men 2 a lOd ; A . B . 2 a lOd ; Wellington Foundry 6 a 3 jd ; Wright and Brothers 193114 ; friends in Halton 8 j 2 A' 1 ; afew cabinet makers at Rws ' sCoffee

      House 13 s 9 i j Churwdl collectors £ 2 15 * 9 ^ 1 ; Bowera and Wilson's little coal I 63 9 i ; ditto four yards coal 8 s ; ditto deep coal £ 3 Is 7 d ; a faw colliers working ia GMdersome £ 5 6 s 21 ; Marshall's New Mill 613 i ; Sarva-. it and Sykea" MUl 12 i l £ i ; Beeston collectors £ 3 18 a-, Roibweli Fdenas 9 s 7 d ; Baraclough ' s Mill is 64 ; Cuarles Hewitt 2 t ; friends £ & 183 41 . The Leeds Committee have to complain that Aimers from other districts are doing the Leeds Minera a great injury by collecting subscriptions in this town and neighbourhood . The Committee think that the men of this district bave the first claim upon the sympathy and liberality oHta inhabitant *? . No book is legal unlessjmtho rzed with the stamp of Laeda and Halton .

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      Duncombe Testimonial . —Central Committee of Trades , &c , Savitle House , Leicester-square , Wednesday evening , July 24 . —Mr . Rose ( currier ) in the chair . The following reports were received : —from Great Marlow Local Committee , per Henry Stallwood , enclosing £ 5 as their first remittance , and stating that tho collection was still actively proceeding ; from S ^ mers Town , per Mr . Hornby , who handed in £ 2 11 s . 7 d ., and stated that tbe committee was actively engaged in the good work ; Mr . Kelscy reported from Southwark , and the Hatters' Trade ; the latter prosperous body had come to the determination of making a levy of one shilling per head throughout tbe trade , and he had no doubt it would be unanimously adopted . A local

      committee was also formed for the borough of Southwark , which held its meetings at Hockings' Temperance Cvffee House , Blackman-street , at which place a person was in attendance daily to receive subscriptions . Mr . T . M . Wheeler reported that a local committee was formed , and held its meetings at the house of Mr . iFraser , Ratcliffe High Cross , Tower Hamlets . Mr . Wheeler reported that he had received a letter from the friends in Aberdeen , ia which it was stated that the combmakere had already £ 5 in band for tho © bjaots , aad tbafc other trades were equally active . . Mr . Wcedon reported from the Fmsbury Committee , thai the most active steps were being taketi ; men of all shades of politics had joined in the good work ; and no 0 * 00 . 0 $

      existed , bat that Fmsbury would well support their Honourable Member . One pound was received , the subscription of Mr . R . Taylor , common counoilman . Letters wore read , by the Secretary , from Stamford ( cordwainers ) ; from Sutton-in-Ashfield , Notts . ; from Bristol ( carpenters ); from Stinderland ( Chartists ); from Bedford ; frwn-Djver ( shoemakers )} from Norwich ; from Bury , Lancashire—announcing that they had extended their operations to a circuit of four miles round the tbwn &nd were resolved to canvas each factory ; from York ( the trades ) , who had likewise constituted themselves a local committee to receive subscriptions from the citizins generally ; from Cheltenham ( tirades ); from Nottingham , town and country ; from Bath ; from

      Stookport ( Chartists ); from Norwich : ( trades ); from Tiverton ( local committee ) f from Dover ; froia Radford ( local committee ) from shoemakers of Grantbam : all of the most cheering arid satisfactory oharaoter , and in many oases requesting coUecting bookB , & 0 . & 0 . ; in others ' stating the 8 uco « 8 Sfal nature of their progress . Messrs . T . Barrett , F . Fisher , and G . W . Gammas was present from the United Society of Cork Cutters , who expressed their satisfaction at the pwoeedings , and had np doubi delegates would be deputed from their body to act with the Central Committee . Several individuals having banded in' their amounts received by them , as per books , the Committee adjourned . ^ - ^ _ h ^ a ^ u

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      LEEDS TOWN COUNCIL MEETING . A Report by another hand . Our Printer ' s Devil , in the course of his peregrinations np Briggate , the other day , in " search of things natty and fine , " kicked before him ou the causeway , a neatly "done up" parcel , very like a Grocer ' s one , —when near a shop where . " sweets and sugar-plums" are sold . Thinking he had fallen on a prize he pockctted the " affair , " and hastened homeward to ascertain what the contents really were . On opening the "lost , but now found f be was mightily chagrined to find that it was only a well-thumbed Wesleyan Hymn Book , eo far worn as to make it necessary that the Binder ' s craft should be put in requisition , to keep [ the parts of the " Sniveller ' s Vade Mecum "

      together ; and it evidently had been carefully " wrapped up" by some old grandmother or other , preparatory to being consigned to the operative hand of a man of " Pas ^ e and Leather . " When turning over the precious relio , to discover , if possible , to whom it had belonged , a paper containing the following lines dropped out from between the cover and the mutilated title page : and as our P . D . thinks that by their publication the owner of the other "lines" will learn where his " songs and spiritual hymns" are lying , we think it right to humour his fantasy . Unfortunately tbe name of the owner , which once graced the inner-lining of the back , has become , from muoh use , so obliterated , that it iB impossible to decypher it ; else these means would not have had to be resorted to . All that

      can be made out is a large Y . and a double / .- something in this way Y- II ; the two letters I beiag made very thicfc and heavy , as if the writer bad been horribly " feared" of the place of that name . The paper on which the following lines were written , bore no name , no superscription , nor any other mark or sign by which either the author or the owner could be come , at , or guessed at . They evidently relate to the Leeds Town Council business , and are probably the property" of some member of that body : and if their publication have the effect of letting " every man have his own" our object , and the object of our P . D ., will have been served .

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      " It to not my intention to talk by the hour " , Say « the Methodist paraon of " ten asses' power . " Bnt O . » JOHNJJY YEWDiix , we humbly beaeech You'll not by the ?• hour" continue to " preach . " Your fusty old Bermons—so heavy and prosing Set all , except Bablow , quite aleepy and dosing : And be , pions soul , —with bis audible cheer , Closes up each long sentence—by crying "hear , hear . " 11 Friend" Bihchall , with glow'ring eyes and white choker , ( Aa stiff as my grandmethV" best parlour poker ) , Now stares quite amazed—how sweet sugar John Can speak quite so long—with arguments- none . And then see bow fierce iB that Councillor Babbett , With whiskers and watcbguard—as " apiffas a carrott ";

      Whilst winking and pinking at Johnny ' s bad law Site the newly-roade Alderman—Alderman Shaw . Then Alderman Gaunt , whom nothing can stop , Goes off—all at onoe—like a bottle of pap : And no one's more puzz'ing , with nonsense bo knotty Than the } anky-Hmb'd Alderman—T . W . TOITIE . Mr . Alderman Bateson , who talks about charges , On b * tb maiketa and tolls at some length enlarges ; While the debate is enriched , with the fine racy power Of that pink of all Councillors—Councillor Bower , Who , every time that the argument twitches , Shakes h ! 4 wise noddle , and pulls up his breeches ! Then up rises Hobson—and Johnny—poor wight , Now winces—now Bbufflsa—and turnB red and white ; Whilst the rod is laid on with an unsp ' ring band , | And Johnny cuts off—to escape hem the wand .

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      Boftttttf , <© ffienc * & 3 Ettmt « 0 t 0 , fct .

      Stij* Colu'w Ifitofcemcut.

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      Jtjivy 27 , 1844 ; NOBTHEBN STAR \ 5

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 27, 1844, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1273/page/5/