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      m igbt occupy columns in detailing ii 8 atrocities committed on the men who stupidly believed in his professions , and blindly gave themselves up to his despotic domination . His slaughter of Morsj , PiPiSj and AuBim ) mnst be fresh in the recollection of < nxr readers . His wholesale hatcheries of the people of Paris , Lyons , jce 3 cannot he jet forgotten . But as individual examples must t > f necessity be more imprfsaTfi than mere generalities , however awfnl or d ia b oli c al , we beg the attention of our readers to the following list of atrocities committed to maintain this man on his blood-cemented throne , We extract them from a pamphlet published a few years ago , gfring &n account of the trial and brnial treatment of an English gentlemen , named Arthur Jabes BEAmwfT , "who became involved in one of ~ — ..

      the Republican conspiracies' formed to rid Francs of the rale of thi 3 traitor of the Barricades : — The »" iocities committed fcy the French Government , ¦ nnder the plea of necessity , commenced on the 14 th . July . 1 S 31 , the anniversary of the takingof tie Bastlle b l ood wss spilled on the place de la Recdtttion ; many of the CJS& 3 BS Trers pierced" -with the t ~ ayonet ; andsoms time after it " *» officially jrjved , by the verdict ef a j aiy , tfcat rpies , disgBiied as workmen , had baen eml » died to mnrdei all the yonnj ; men who wore a red loop , the cross of July , on a white hit The 2 ialional was indicted for asserting these facia ; they were prrved in

      a court of ja » t'ce to be facts—and the National was » c qniited . 0 illon Birrot , in the Clumber of Deputies _ ifcgD styled tlie n-o ~ e of pacification Inveated by thb ' GoTern-nert a human ftial ; this was in 1831 . The police mar-dew are called oy tbe name of " ABsomewrr . " At Eor feanx , on the 13 ih Seet-mbei , blood was made to So * , Enlnnmber » were sacrificed to the allied iKcssity of quelling the di ^ taibanca . At Paris , on the IS'Ji and the 19 th of the sama month , pnblic opinion aunTer e V itself In favour of Poland , which was about to peri-hi this public opinion was replied to by stabs with the bayonet and charges of cavalry .

      In 1832 ,, disturbance * wars alleged to have taken pUc ? on tte 2 aa AprD , in the pruon of St . Pelagie . The prisrasTs Treis firecl upon Witt oni framing , and c na oftluni . the young Jacobens , & journeyman printer , vu shot in the back ic 3 fell dead . What was this bat asssssin&tion ? At Greroble the crowd was hunted into a street , and hummed in by the soldiery ; from tbs two opposite adES of the Btreet , saj » the Danphinois , a comDany of lieht infintry , sspportel by otbera en

      eAelo n from behind , char ge d t h e peop l e at the point of the bayonet ; they tried in Tain to escape ; aiiven back fity were Biurdeied with the bayoner . "Women ana children were trodden under foot and stabbed upon the ground ; and this frightful "butchery continued tni the -windows of the shops offered an asylnm to the citizsn * . Oa the 5 th May , at the foot of ths colnm n , whither the old friends of the Emperor had repaired to deposit some garlands , many y o un g men were first sabred down , and then murdered on the groun d .

      A month afterward s , on the 5 th of June , at the dose of a solemn hemage offered to the memory of a great Captain , the insurrection bunt out in Paris , and bai-Bcadces were erected in the eentre of the capital . To subdue it tie government caused the cannom to pout forth grape sb » t against the Liberals in SU Mery , and purchased a dear victory . To give an idea of the violence which the ministry &i that time encouraged , I need onl y r e c a ll to m i nd that a Ministerial paper , Le Umllisle , reported with approbation that four individuals , statiened on the pla t form of t he P o r t e S L M artin , had bsen seiixJ by the y atioual Guard and shot on the Boulevard—as matter of amusement—trial was out o ! the question . Six hundred persons thus perished on the mournful days of the stk and 6 ih of Jane .

      in a house , r » o- 12 , at the Rue Tra&snonain , fourteen murden were committed . An infant four years old , a young woman , an old man , and « everal honest and peaceable trorkmen fell Ticiinu to an error of p \ fttic OTdei . They Were basely aUogbtered , basely Mssan&ted , beams it was thought that » gun had been fired from the fourth story of the house . No other excuse was ever offered for this massacre , and some of the men who committed it have since been decorated .

      At lyons these violences were stall more sanguinary than at Paris . Daring six mortal days that tewn resounded wiih the report of cannon , the rattling of Butqufetry , and the melancholy sound of the tocsin . Barning , ma ss acre , and devastation , from the troops of ths line , it Buffered all Use scourges of civil war in six days . Need one be reminded of the . pregnant women bu ' etiered ichiie in the ad of imploring the soldiers' pit y for iheir husbands ; the children Idled ai the breasts of iheir Bothers ; Oie old men shot in their beds ? Heed one be reminded of the victims who found no EB&tuary even ai Ike foot ofiht attar ? of the prisoners via flaw & « sse ?» es up and xctrtpat Jo Ihe sword in the abicdi o / SL JSamxosjciare ?

      Xeed one recall to mind the fate of the woitman , who framed of ois danger by the cries of his brother whom they "srere murdering , sought to hide himself iH ths flae of a chimney , where be was burnt in the fllines of a straw-bed , set on fire by the soldiers ? 2 f eed one recall to mind the words that Canssidire £ nag in the teeth of M . Gasparin— "My son , mark me , SL Gasparin fell with sixty-four bayonet stabs and three muiguet balls , at the foot of the altar of the Cordeliers . He was assassinated together with one of his comrades . ' * Listen now to some of the depositions of the witnesses kefore the Chamber of ~ P * en .

      Hear ¦ wh at says the widow Jeiuier—I was in my house along with my husband , when the soldiers fcmrst in upon us . My bnsband had out child in tis arms , in infant of two months . Tkej took hia , the f at her , ihry dragged him violently into the alley . " Listen to ffie , " ' said he : they would not listen to him , they tilled frim A child , fens years old , -sras dragged from the taeea of its father . A . vomaa strove to save him—bs w » 8 . her husband . She flung herself on her knees , suppli- ; ated , -wept , and shrieked piercingly with agony . Twas of no avail—they murdered him . —Evidence of 31 . Chimier .

      An oli man , named Dagoux , aged 92 \ was sitting * a tranquilly in his house as his state of health would i permit—ke was paralytic They Jmocked at his door , ' he was unable to open it : the door was burst open , and the unhappy old man who had not opened it , who was j usable to open it , who was paralytic and 32 years old , i ¦^ m assassinated I They fell upon othtr wretched Tic- Shw , they tortured them , they riddled their bodies ; with stabs of the bayonit ! A pregnant woman received nine in the belly . A young man lay expiring — * rwas horrible J I see him still . ' I ran for a but- { feon . "Sacecur th ' s unhappy being , 1 pray you . " The : surgeon came—he was already dad i— itidemx of Car- ; rier . sSiJjcaa . :

      These are but a few of the atrocities—the merest fraction—of the damnable acts esacted in France ¦^ iihin the last fonrteen years , to maintain the rule j of ibis Xing of the shopocrats . We pass by , for : ihe present , the Fieschi laws against ihe press ;; the atrocions measures against the right of meeting ' and associating : the infernal spy-system , by which ; pr incipally hi 3 rule is maintained : and thatabomin- ] ^ ile Jpgiibtive system of which he is the head and chief , which consigns the fate of thirty millions of ; People to some 200 , 000 shopecrats . For the pre- ; Bent we cannot afford room to dilate on these topies . ;

      There is one point , hoireverj on which , bad a ? ions Tsiisfts 13 , his < sonduct contrasts favourably with that of onr own precious Government . In the French news onr readers irfll perceive that the French King , determined to signalise his visit to this country , had issued a Hojal ordinance before his departure from France , Tiberalmp a number of pofi- 'icc / prisoners confined in ihe dungeons of Mont Su Michel : among them , M . Dcpotct , late Editor of the Journal du Peuple , who was condemned in the month of December , 1841 , by the Conrt of Feers , to imprisonment for five years , for the crime of ^ tnoril complicity , " in the affair of Quembset , who fi « d a pistol at the late Dake of Obleass . This

      we say contrasts favourably with the conduct of our own Government , who , though Qaeen Vjctobu has paja a Tisit to Yizaa& , and had the visits of innnmerable scions of Royalty , not forgetting herannnal benelkction to the country of a prince s > t Pro cess , jet has not rendered memorable any one of these "joyful events" by a like act of mercy extended to English politial prisoners . No . Sir James uiiHAH , in his R'hoffraphed answers to all-appeals for the Welsh Martyrs , has still the unvarying * &swer that it would not be consistent with his duty to recommend an act of mercy to onr " gracious ^ n . " In this point of -new , even the King of " * Barricades" contrasts favourably with onr " lovely asd beautiful" and roost merciful QaeenJ

      -Btit while ire give all dne credit to Lons Fhi-^^ sfor the present set of amnesty ^ we must not fwgei what has been the hellish treatment of the heroic men , a portion of -whom only have cow been ^ berated—some of their compatriots having long E ^ cs sank under their punishment 1 others gone Ea <*; and others committed Enicide to escape the * W&res to -which they were subjected . Oa ihis POUit we beg to reqnest the perusal of the following ^¦ Meii we eprint from , the Stars of M 3 j ll . h aad ^ ane ^ hliBi ; - ^

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      HPBXIBL ? TEBATMENT OF TBE REPmLIflAN P » ISOKEHS . —the Hailonai , alluding to S , «» eeeb of M de Tocqueville , in the Chamber of Ikputies on iuf Priwn Ref o rm Bill , in which he stated that the political prisoners s . t Mont St . Michael had beea treated with unnecessary rigour , aad that the effect of this rigour had been not only injury to thai * bodily health , bat also iramity , sayB : — " We Will now give a list of the victims of this rigoar . Stenble cut his throat with a razor ; Bez ^ nat hanged himself in his cell : Jarasse ..-- . — — . — . — .- —— ¦¦

      twice attempted to poison himself ; Austen vent mad ; Bordon , mad ; CUari . es , mad ; Boudin , mad . Others have not ye * sank , but the injnry which they have received will afflict them for the rest of life . Tha diseases which they contracted in this frightful prison wonld have destoyed them if they had sot been taken from it . Thus the Government itself has been ob-Vised to transfer Barbes to Nimnes : Petremann , Tidocq . sod Fomberteau to Doullene ; Diibonrdtax to Bordeaux ; Dafour to Paris ; and Hubert , first t o the hos p ita l , and then to St . Pelagie . "

      I The Republica > Pbisoxebs . —We have received j-from Douellens , says the national , a long letter announ-I cing ths death of Jouve , one of the political prisoners , ] who has sunk under a frightful disease of the chest , I caught in the central prisons in which he was at first j placed . Jonve was sentenced to five years' imprison-¦ ment , as an accomplice in the pretended Republican

      : conspiracy at Marseilles . He was first s&nt to Aix , next I to Etnbrun , and thence into ths prisons of the depart-; ment of the Nord . When he was fir ^ t confined he was ] in robust health , but the regimen he has undergone has > killed him in less than three years . He is the fourth \ who has fallen under the B&me disease—namely , Jeanne i in 1837 , Mirey in 1 8 39 , Buiason in 18-13 , and now Jouve ) in 2844 . These victims are to be added to those of Mont St . MicheL

      \ Alter the above , we need add nothing to show ; the claims Locis Philippe has on the courtesy , hospitality , and homage of every lover of freedom in this country . ! Next week we aay return to the subject . In ! the meantime , to every oppressor and every supporter of oppression ; to every sycophant , charlatan , ; and willing Slavs , we say— " Welcome the King of the French . " Throw up your hats , and let the ! srelMa ring with yonr dastardly { cheers : | for , in him you may behold the most cunning , crafty , and remorseless foe of liberty : the scourge of a nation —the betrayer of Republican principles—^* tramp ler on the Rights of Alan I

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      Bat now a word for the more promising and hopeful future . Every man who has read the pro * oeedin ^ g as far as they have gone , must feel inordinate contempt for the Coroner , and surpassing disgust at the conduct of the witnesses ; especially Mr . Foster , It would appear from the Coroner ' s refusal to allow Mr . Matthias Dckn to visit the pit , a t the resquest of those who are to bo doomed to work in it hereafter , that Mr . Fosteb and his coadjutors had only to point out a course , and Mr . Attorney-Coroner was sure and certain to follow their commands . It does not appear once to have struok hia - — ' z——— - r ^~~— : _— , . T - .... . , . _

      Coronership , that Foster and Co ., wet e ( he wrong doees ; the defendants ; and the publio and survivors the plaintiffs , between whom he was the judge This consummate puppy , with Mr . Foster , his friend , have hitherto had all their own way in the course of the " ii << iuraT ; " but , alas ! the tables are now turned , and the public is to be satisfied as well as Mr . Fostbb and the Jury . Our readers cannot have forgotten the frothy rage of the insignificant quill-driver , when he threatened to * ' turn Mr . Roberts out of Court , " for the mere discharge of his duty to his clients and the publio . Mr .

      Robebts , however , succeeded ia forcing his Coronership to an adjournment till Wednesday last ; and , as the result will show , not without strong promise of Igsod coming out of evil A 3 soon as the Court—or rather the "Viewer ' s parlour—was adjourned , Mr . Roberts instantly slatted for London to lay the whole case before Sir R . Peel , the Premier . That Right Honourable functionary being at Brighton , Mr . Robehts followed him there : and subsequently , after such an interview as a gentleman may expect , and ought to expect , from a Minister of the CroiFn , —Sir Roberis expressing himself feelingly alive to the

      awfulness of the " visitation" and the necessity for a full , free , and fair investigation , —he directed that itco skillful and scientific gentlemen should attend the remainder of ihe inquiry , and watch the PROCEEDINGS for the satisfaction of the Government , and on the part of the friends and relatives of the deceased . The matter being thus taken up by the Government , and a check being imposed on the ** scientific" presumption of Mr . Foster , and on the insolent conduot of Mr . Coroner , we have some hope that the lives of the poor honest Col iers will be better protected and their " accidental ' deaths , when such do occur , calmly and dispassionately enquired into .

      We trust that noifMr . Mathias Dunn , and our good and honest friend Mr . Mather , will be allowed to make their report ; that if it appear that neglect or inattention , or indifference , has been the cause of the accident , a h eavy deodand will be imposed on the owner ; that " scientific ' Mr . Foster will be reexamined ; that the Coroner will be censured and dis * missed from an office which he has neither knowl edge , temper , nor manners to discharge ; and that the survivors will have the satisfaction to know that at least their poor fellow-labourers , have not died in vain , if their " accidental" death procures something like " security" for the future .

      In Belgium , Sweden , and France ; in all the mining countries of Europe , except England , —the greatest mining country of all , —there are Inspectors of Mines , and scientific institutions for the instruction of overseers , as well as national sobools for the Miners . Is an English Miner of less value to his family , or of less importance to his country , than a Sweede , a Belgian , or a Frenchman ?

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      THE AMERICAN REFORMERS AND THE SHEFFIELD CHARTISTS . In another column will be found copious extracts from the Working Men ' s Press of New York , detailing the advance of the good cause of real Democracy , the progress of which we commented on in our last . In our present number will be found some additional particulars of the late monster demonstration in Rhode Island ia behalf of Governor Dork and" Free Suffrage , " together with many important items in relation to the Anti-Rent War , and the March of Agranianiem . We have now to call attention to the following article from the New York Working Van ' s Advocate of the 31 st of August , which , as will be seen , is a comment on tho glorious proceedings at Sheffield on the 29 th of Jnly last : —

      THE GREATEST MOVEMENT OP THE AGE IN ENGLAND . REPEAL OF THE UNION AND THE RIGHT TO LAND ADVOCATED AT A MONSTER UEET 1 NG AT SHEFFIELD . As some of our speakers have predicted , the American Movement in favour of the Equal Rig ht to the Land is reacting on England , &b it will on every other country in the world where men are allowed to make the soil a subject of traffic . At one of the greatest meetings ever held in England , including the entire working population of the populous city of Sht fii : ld , assembled to do honour to Mr . Dancombe , M . P ., 'who .

      thouah a descendant of the aristocracy , haa espoused the People ' s Cause , a strong resolution was passed in favour of the Right to Free Discussion and Assemblage , the Repeal of the Union , and tbe People's Charter ; and what is still more important , in an Addiesa adopted , a formal declaration was made of tbe right of tbe people to the soil ! Tats declaration of tbe Engli sh w o rk i n g men la of tbe h ighest possible importance , not only to tbe people of England , but of tuia country and of every other country claiming to be civilized . We have before expressed the opinion , and we a re more t han ev e r confirmed in it , that it only needs that the people of Great Britain

      ( the soldiers included ) should be informed , as the working men of Sheffield appear to be , that they have an equal right to tbe soil of the kingdom ; tbat tbe land of tbe British Islands contains abont eleven acres for every family , or , according to known methods of cultivation enough for ten -times the present population ; tbat every man ( including soldiers ) may have hU farm or his / of ; let all Hub be perfectly understood , and tbe thin g will be acc o m p lish ed , as i ( by magic ; and thus will the rather selfish and ill-founded fears of our " native " friends of too great an influx of foreigners

      be removed . France , Germany , and other European countries , too , whose laboring populations are almost in " rebellion , " will catch the glad tidings of liberty , and learn the true way to overthrow tyranny of every hne . A European Agrarian League will soon be ( he result ofthi Sheffield movement , and ilie Right to the Land ¦ trill be the raUying erf of Labor all over the world . The Resolution , which , we give below , was adopted at the great meeting , in the Haymarket , in front of tbe Corn Excha ng e , and the Address was presented , with seve r al others , by the Chartist body , at an adjourned meeting at the Theatre in the evening .

      Here follows the resolution and the address presented to Mr . Duncumbe , together with a portion of tbe article in the Star of the 3 rd of August . We said at the time that this Sheffield Address might yet prove " the beginning of the end . " Our readers will now Bee that that Address has been published on the American continent , a w akening t h e hopes of all good patriots there—hopes that the " land of their great forefathers" may yet become the home of the happy , tho isle of the free . Let the ChaitistB of Sheffield then see to it that they do their

      duty . Let the Chartists of England see that they do theirs . The eyes of the American Reformers are on them , and their best wishes accompany every effort made by their British brethren to redeem themselves from slavery . To the Sheffield Address wo shall return again at some future time , and omit no opportunity to reiterate and illustrate the glorious principle therein enunciated : feeling assured that only upon the adoption of those principles can be based real liberty , the prosperity ot each individual , and the greatness and glory of our fatherland .

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      Pbkston—Our Preston friends had best app ly direct to Mr . Roberts j that gentleman ' s addreBS is—W . P . Roberts , Esq ., No . 11 , Royal Arcade , Newcastle-on-Tyne . Ebratum . —In the report of the Northampton Cordwainers' meeting , which appeared in our last , a Mr . Moore was spoken of as reducing the wages of his workman . It should have been Mr . Faulkner , and not Mr . Moore . A Native of Dumfriesshire—His lines on the daughter of Barns do him much credit for tbe noble feeling -which dictated them : we are Borry , however , to add that their poetical merit is not such aa to warrant their publication . D . GREIG . —Judging from fhe specimen Bent , vre are g oiry we cannot encourage him to publish his " poem . " We should advise our friend to stick to plain prose , as we tare serious doubts of his capabilities for a poet .

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      Thomas Carrdthebs , CARLiSLE-Tbe report of the meeting about which he writes was published juat SJK ^ laBWted e' « y wOrd sent , and snonW have done ao had the report been longer . JOHN GRIME—W « don't know Mrs . Frost ' s address . TO the Newcastle Chabtists . — Mr . O'Connor's Observations ; in last ( reek ' s Star , relative to the few good working men . were meant for the Chartist Association , and especially the present council . Mr . O'Connor ' s remarks w <« e intended as complimentary to the Chartiat body , and condemnatory of those who would thwart them ir they had the power . This explanation will render the publication of the resoutiona sent unnecessaarjr . Miss Susanna Inge . —Miss iDge had much better send her letters to the Bishop of Exeter at once , as we f * ar , if published in tbe Northern Star , they ' - —— ., — — . . — ¦> ^ - _

      would escape the Rt . Rev . Prelate ' s notice . We feai be does not read the Northern Star . If be did , be would be a wiser politician , and a better man . MR . Skelton . —We published the proceedings and resolutions connected with the meeting to which he refers in our subsequent number , and deem the repetition unnecessary . Moreover , we have , and sh a ll , achere to one thing at a time . Chartism first j and then , if incomplete , » nd any other ism should emanate from it , well and good ¦ but we shall not condemn tne principle by proclaiming Its incompleteness aa a , political project . Lat us break up the hoatUe community of money-moDgera , before we devote attention to the formation of a more perfect system , in which the principle of individualism must be maintained in all its entirety , and afforded all fairplay by the adoption and complete establishment of the no less important and necessary principle ot

      PROTECTION . B . W ,, Dundee . —The report h « speaks of arrived late on Thurai a y afternoo n , a Mrne when we batdly expect to be able to get anything in . Ab it was . we gave all that was sent excepting the memorial , which could aot be composed in time for post John Franklin , Surveyor , Hyde . —ifc would be best to embody the whole facts of tbe case in a memorial to the Home Secretary , and pa rticul a rly as to Berry ' s sta t e of he a l t h a t pr e sent , in the hope that the feeling which induced the Judge to reduce the sentence from fifteen years transportation to two years

      imprisonment may induce Sir James Gniham to remit the period of imprisonment still unexpired . A Consiant Subscriber , Balmngton . — We know nothing of the parties or constitution of the " Benefit and Pr > vidtnt Society "—and therefore cannot say whether i t w o nld be " safe " to enter or not . Our subscriber should make inquiries of tbe Secretary , and then exercise hia own judgment . We cannot stand sod-rather to all Mho advertise with us . Peter Fulton , Bolton , will find the information he wants in the notioes to correspondents in last week's Star .

      Several Communications stand over till our next The Northampton Chartists appeal to their brother Democrats to come forward one and all in support of the Executive , as they pled g e themselves to do . We cannot find room for in tbe address , but hope that the example sot by our Northampton friends will be universally followed . James Hague , Attercliffe . ~ W 6 fear that he will have to p iy the quarter ' * rent , and even give a quarter ' s notice : i . e . , he will have to pay six months ' ren t in the wh o le , taking cure to give notice in writing at the p . - oper time . The best course for him tu pursue is to occupy . William Lord , Wilsden . — The rules sh o uld be s e nt to Tidd Pratt , and onu guinea inclosed f « r bis fee . That is tbe Whole charge the Bairister can make . If

      tbe ru le s a r e n o t within the s co pe of tbe Act , be will return tluni , and the money . Address TJdd Pratt , Es-q , Certifying Bairlater of Benefit Societies , A Northampton Poet bad better send hiB song to the Nation , as it smells too strong of blood and thundei for us . F . Lefever—We know nothing of tbe letter . A Loutu Chartist . —The Rev . J . R . Stephens was elec te d to t he " General Convention of the Industrious C l asses '' which assembled in London in 1899 . Mr . Stephens was elected for the city of Norwich , but did not take his seat in consequence of bia arrest - previous to the meeting of tho Convention . —2 . Mr . O'Connor was convicted of a libel on the Warmlnster Guardians , but was imprisoned sixteen months for a " seditious libjI , " consisting of other men ' s speeches published iu the Northern Star .

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      MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'CONNOR . EXECUTIVE . From a Friend , as his reply to Mr . Wheeler ' s letter in last week ' s Star , aud for the splendid articles on Ireland and Repeal 5 0 0 From Mr . Hewitt , Manchester ... ... 2 0 0 Proceeds of Mr . O'Connor ' s lectures at Lieds 112 0 Fi-om Bradford ... 0 12 0 RECEIPTS BY GENERAL SECRETARY . SUBSCRIPTIONS . £ b . d . Wakefleld ... 0 5 11

      Holbeck ... 0 2 3 Littletown ... 0 1 6 Stockport ... 0 10 0 Halifax ... O 3 9 City of London 0 2 9 Lower Wailey « 1 ( ij 8 omera Town ... 0 6 0 Hebtlen Bridge 0 6 0 Brorapton and Bradford . Cen . j 0 3 IiJ Koightibridge 9 2 0 Sowerby Long-Mr . * . Cam- royd 6 5 C berwell ... 0 1 1 Brighton ... 0 3 0 Crown * Anchor 0 2 0 Mansfield ... 0 10 0 Tavintock ... 0 5 6 Birmingham ... 0 10 0 Oldham ... 0 7 7 Orayford ... 0 1 6 Manchester ... 1 10 0 Greenwich ... 0 10 0

      MISSIONARY FUND . 1 £ B d T . Hitcben , Hollinwood 0 10 Wakefleld 0 11 4 Littletown , Two Friends 0 l 6 Brighton 0 2 0 CARDS . Manchester 15 0 Crayford ... ... 0 16 Mi . * , Caiaberwalt ... 0 0 3 Northampton 0 7 « VICTIM FUND . City of London 0 10 Mr . *— , Camberwell ... ... ... 0 0 3 Southampton 0 3 0 Bri ghton - ... 2 6 MINERS .

      Brighton ( fourth subscription ) 0 2 0 Lower Warley , 0 3 1 Halifax ... 0 6 0 WIDOWS AND QRI'HANS OF THE LATE MURDERED COLLIERS . Blue P o st s , Rupert-strett , ... 0 2 0 Shop 50 , Grftmatn-ktteet 0 16 Brother Chartists , —The publication of my private letter to Mr . O Connor absolves me from the paiuful Btcessity of adverting to the unpleasant situation in ¦ which tha apathy of the body bos placed us . I am gratified in being able this day to publish a list of 8

      UhBcriptiona showing that the body ate determined that those whom they have placed in a situation of responsibility sbalf be enabled to carry on the agitation with that sp irit and determination which will be in accordance with tbeir own feelings and tho character which the Chartist body ought to maintain . I would point out to those who have not yet responded to the call niade by the Editor of the Northern St a r , the necessity of following tbe good example set by the various localities included in the above list . Fmuat slao apelogizw to tbe enthusiastic men of Carrington for the non-appearance of th e ir la s t two sub s cri p tions , owing to the absence of Mr . O'Connor from town . —T . M . Wheeler * Name mislaid .

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      Terrific Fire . —Throughout the whole of Wednesdat night aud Thursday morning the village of Northfleot , near Graveeend , presented a scene of tho utmost alarm aad consternation , in consequence of { he outbreak of a most extensive fire upon the premises of Mr . Mace , farmer , residing in Parrystreet , about one mile this side of Gravesead . The premises in question occupied an area of ground of near eight acres . That part in which tbe fire commenced was the homestead . The fire was first pre * ceived about ia quarter to nine , raging ia two distinct places in a riok of beans . An attempt was made to extinguish it , but it defied the exertion of all present , and very-speedily the rick presented ons immense sheet of flume , which was wafted right and

      left by the high wind that prevailed into three other stacks , two of wheat and one of beans . The flames next extended to several other staoks , to a large building upwards of 100 feet long , by 50 wide , and filled with grain , then to a number of pea-ricks , from thence to the piggeries . The fhmea by a quarter past ten were ascending into the air several hundred fee * , and large flakes of fire were wafted into the stables and cart-bouses , all of which were blaz ' ng away in a manner truly awful . The reflection of the flames on the eky was distinctly seen at Blackfriars bridge . Engines were immediately started from London , but on their arrival they were found comparatively useless by the want of water . Tne fire was still raging on Thursday

      morning . Shipwreck . —Stobnowat , Sept . 19 . —The sloop Delijjht , of S ornoway , Capt . Win . Robertson , in making for the harbour of Lochmaddy , on the night of the 8 th August , carried away her foresail , and tbe wind blowing a gale at the time , she was obliged to bear away for Collar . When near tho entrance of that harbour , owing to the darkness of the night and a heavy sea running at the time , she struok upoa the rocks of Flodda More , and became a complete wreck Mr . Macdonald Balronald , factor for the island of North Uist . cn hearing of the situation of the vessel , with the most praiseworthy exertion of himself , and about ten boats' crews of the natives in that quarter , immediately repaired to tho spot , and succeeded in getting the cargo of slate on shore , and also the whole of the materials of tho vesEel . Although the whole of the c&rfo and materials lay on the shore for several days and nicht , ? , not a single article was missing . —Ross-shire Advertiser ,

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      Fatal Accident . —Mr . Hughes hey an inquest at the Red Lion Inn , Powick , on Friday the 4 th , on the body of a man named Smith , a waggoner , in the employ * of Mr . Cresswell , of Newland , Worcestershire , who died on the previous Wednesday . He was found lying in Che road on the Monday evo&ing , near tbe Swan , ac Nowlaad , having fallen out of his cart , the wheels of which had passed over him . He was coaveyed home , and on the following morning a woman who lived with him cb . ained an order from Mr . Danoocks , the parish officer , for the attendance of Mr . Meears , the Union' surgeon , upon the de . . — . — . . .. L ..- ¦¦ -..-. — .

      ceased . On going to Mr . | Meears he gave her some powders , and said he could not attend then , but would come between eight and nine o ' clock in the evening . Tha deceased died at seven o ' clock on Wednesday evening , Mr . Meearanot baring set-n him at all . The jury returned the following verdict : — " That , the deceased died from injuries received from falling from a cart in which he was riding and the wheels of which passed over him , and we think it proper to add our regret that the medical ( fiber ( Mr . Meears ) did not attend the case when called upon , as professional assistance might possibly have alleviated the deceased ' s sufferings . "

      Fatal Accident . —On Monday morning , at about a quarter before ten o * clock , ) Rachel Holmes , of Chipfield , Bury , weut into the foundry of Messrs . Nowbold , Paikand Co ., Paradise-atreet , with a pint of beer for hor husbaad , and when returning she nvssed her way , when her shawl was caught by an upright shaft , which took her several times round , dashing her against an iron pillar , taking off her right foot , and breaking her left arm in two places ; she was conveyed to her own house , and attended by medical assistance ; but died about ! a quarter after twelve o ' clock the same morning . She has left five children to lament her loss . :

      Fatal Accident . —Mr . W . Payne held an inquest on Monday evening , at the Red Lion , Pearl-row , Borough-road , Southwark , j o& the body of Anne Etmes , aged bix years , fit appeared that on Wednesday the 25 th utt ., the deceased was playing with other children in Union-street , Borough , when a dray passed laden with beer , belonging to Mr . T . Bay le y , Wyndham-road , j Camberwell . The poor Child waB seen to climb on the hind barrel , and before the dray had proceeded many yards , sbe fell off , the off wheel passing jover her foot and knee . She was taken to the hospital , where she remain rod a fow days , and waa then removed by her parent .-. On Saturday last she was attacked with spasms , loc k jaw set in , and sbe expired in a few hours from its effects . Verdict , accidebtal death .

      Wakefield . —Child Drowned . —A little boy , about three years of age ^ son of Mr . Harrison , bu t cher , Westgate , was accidentally drowned on Saturday last . \ Awful Occurrence . —On Monday evening last * a joiner , of the name of Thomas Jiraieson , a native of Ayr , was married at Stirling , an d o n T uesday the coup le , accompanied by Elz » beth Jamieson , a sister of the bride g room , drove to Callander in a drosky , where t hey met with another joiner , James Tayloi , a native of Stirling , but who ha 3 resided for some time at CauBewavhead , and was working at jCallander , While there , they bad a desire to visit Bracklinn . Tfie party * et off unknown to Taylor , bu t j he su s peotln g wh e re t h e y h a d g one , followed briskly , and unfortunately came up to them just as th y were about to enter upon the bridge , ¦ which the young woman , Elisibetb Jamieson ,

      was objecting to do , when he seized ber ia mere wantonne s s t o place h e r on t he giddy p a thway , which is a wooden structure scarcely two feet broad , with a railing upon it , and stretching ' over a yawning chasm of most gloomy and forbidding appearance , upon wh i c h but to look thrills tbe nerves of tbe hardiest not accustomed to such scenes . She , in her endeavours to avoid tbe disagreeable object , fixed ber bold upon the railing , which gave way , when both were precipitated into tbe abyss below . Every one ; who knows the place can easily form an idea what the consequence must be . Tbe body of Taylor could cot be got at the time , h aving been carried away by the stream , and must have been dreadfully mangled ; white the girl was found with the life still in her , but with little prospect of surviving . At four o ' clock yesterday afternoon , when our informant teffi , tbe woman was ; still alive , and the body of Taylor had not been found . —Stirling Observer .

      Fire . —On Saturday morning last , between two and three o clock a fire broke ! out at the wool warebouse of Mr . O : ikes , Flanshaw-lane , near Wakefield . Alarm was given to tbe firemen , and every effort WaB made to stay the raging flames , but iu vain . The building , with the exception of the waits , was bu r n t to the ground . Fifty-eight ; packs of wool , however , were got out uninjured . The damage is estimated at between £ 800 and a £ 1000 . Destructive Fire at ; St . George ' s Market . —One of tbe moat destructive fires tbat have occurred In the Metropolis since tbe burning of Topping ' s wharf o ccurred on M on d a y ev e nin g , shortly before eight o ' clock , and which has resulted in a loss of property to a very serious amount . : The scene of its operation

      was a large space of ground behind the London-road , So nthwark , on which was erected a large number of shops , occupied by various tradesmen , and known as St . Georges Market . The exact spot on Which tbe fire commenced could not be with certainty learned . One of tbe inhabitants said that whilst he was passing through the market his attention waa suddenly directed to a stable in the occupation of a Mr . Bennett , a carcass bu t cher , situate on tbe south-east corner , by j perceiving one immense sheet of flame breaking through the roof . He immediately raised an alarm ; but before any persons had t ime to get out o f the i r b o uses , tbe flames extended to a long range of butchers' shops on tbe west side of tbe » aroe row , all of which were : speedi l y enve lo ped in tbe

      destructive element . Tbe flre next reached three or f o ur t a ll h o uses on t be opp r s te side of Butcher-row . The different brigade eng ines , nnder the superintendence of Mr . Braidwood , and Mr . Henderson , the district foreman , promptly arrived , and so did the West of England and County engines , un <" e : the direction of Messrs . Connorton and Q r -vt o i . Some time was lost in waiting for water ; but as soon as that coud b 9 obtained the engines were worked with fall vigour . Owing , however , to tte firm bold the flimes bad previously obtained , a long time elapsed before tho least impression w is made upon them . Meanwhile it continue d its course with great fury , destroy i n g in i ts progress sundry other stables , sheds , and tl . ughtethouses . It next attacked a ln > ge wareheme belonging to Mr . Fioyd , in Market-street The scene towards half-past eight o ' clock was indeed awfully grand , myriads of sparks were sent flying in every direction , and falling

      upon the houses in tbe vicinity caused the utmost alarm and consternation to prevail j throughout tbe neighbourhood . The flames next broke through the windows of an extensive house belonging to a chair maker , and owing to tbe very itflimmable nature of tbe stock containe d t her e in , the building ' was , in tbe almost incredibly brief space of ten minutes , one complete burning mass . Notwithstanding tbat the firemen Were beset oa every side by tfee continual falling ot tools and heavy beams , they worked without the least ; intermission until nice o'clock , when it at last became apparent that tbe flimea were yieldJDg beneath tbe power of the antagonist element they were casting upon it . In the course of another half-hour ^ all further danger of tbe fire extending waa dissipated . Tbe total number of buildings destroyed cannot at present be ascertained , but at a moderate calculation they must amount to upwards of thirty . Same wete certainly in a very ruinous and dilapidated condition .

      Dreadful Railway Accident . —Every Tuesday morning , at five o ' clock , a special train leaves tbe Brandling Junction station , South Shields , for the convenience of tbe butchers attending Newcastle cittleinarket . This morniDg the train left as usual , but bad not proceeded far when an engine was seen coming the contrary way at a great speed ; tbe engintsman on the latter immediately reversed j his power , and proceeded back , but as the othur engine was proceeding at such a dreadful rate , tbe rngineman seeing the danger leapod from the passenger-train , and melancholy to state she ran off without any one toj manage the engine , and bad it not been for some carriages on tbe way , and

      impediments at the station at Shields , Bhe must have gone ovsr the wail at tbe terminus nearly twenty feet nigh . Scarcely a passenger has escaped : one poor man , Mi . Brown , is dead , and several others have legs broken aad other serious bruises . No doubt every inquiry will bo made into the accident , ss nothing can palliate fcr the conduct of the engineraan leaping from tbe engiue , and leaving the lives of so many ! of his fellow-creatures to destruction . Amongst the auffsrers are Mr . William We a th e rel l , Mr . Y o ung , Mri Gamble , Mr . T . Gvllon , Mr . Dautbwaite ( nephew of j George Douthwaite ) , Mr . Burrell ( seriously Injured ) , and many others taken to their respective homes . —South Shields , Tuesday , October 8 . I

      I Further PARTicuLABS .- ^ -It appears tbat instead of one only , two of the unfortunate passengers have lost i their lives- The following is a correct list of the snf-| ferers : — John Brown , drover ; and John Bnrroll , i butcher , Thames-street , both ! of whom have died ; a young man of the name of jLiddle , who was slightly icjured , and a little l a d , apprentiae to Mr . Reed , Market-place . Of those who jumped off : —William Greenwell , was picked up with hia hip and ancle dislocated . Gaorge GUnible , with a serious contusiou of tbe head , the frontal sinus opened , the bones of the uoae broken , and his jaw and palate injured : he is not expected to recover ; John Yeung , with an mteinal injury , i a now lying in a precarious state ; John Douthwaite , with his shoulder blade pat out end the muscles of bis thi gh injured ; Thomas Batty , with the bones of his noao broken , and otherwise seriously hurt . Of tbe thirty

      passengers who were in the train , not one escaped without injury . Every attention was paid to tbe sufferers by the medical men of the town , whose prompt attendance and humanity , cannot be too highly reeommended , every resident practitioner having baen on the spot , and in the shortest , possible spaee of time . INQUEST . —An inquest was held on Wednesday , at the A dam and Eve lnn S ou t h Shield s , on the bodiss of John Brown , and Joseph Barrell , before — Farvtll , Esq ., and after ja lengthy investigation the following verdict waa returned— " That Joseph Brown died of a fracture of the skull , caused by the engine N-isou , With a deodand of £ 300 upon the engine . " Mt . Roberts was retained on the part of Burdias , the engineer of the Nelson , who wae in custody , jbat that gentleman beinn engaged on the inquest at Has well , one of bia clerks waa in attendance . |

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      Another Collision on the Dover and Crovdok Railway . —On Monday night , shortly before nine o ' olock , as the Dover mail train was leaving the terminus at London Bridge , the Croydon train had just arrived , and was abont to turn eff the points , when unfortunately the ergine of tbe latter came In close COO * tact with the Do-vet train , and smashed tbe lower parts of tfae carriages to pieces , literally catting off all the steps on that aide . Oae of the ticket collectors , named Gardiner , had a very narrow eacape of having his legs cat off by the collision . Ho was staudicg oa tbe steps of one of the carriages at the time , and had the presence of mind to precipitate himself into tbe carriage , to the astonishment of the passengers , who were much alarmed fer his safety . The overland mail was being conveyed by the Dj 7 er train , and owing t o th e above accident and stoppage s on the l i ne for p ilot ^ — . . . — - — - — — — " ~_ T" --w- *^ ,

      engines to assist them up the inclined planes , the train did not arrive at its destination until half an hoar beyond its time . The coustqaencs was that tbe steamvessel bad started , and a vessel » as specially engaged t o convey t b e mail across tfi e C aa nn el , the expenss of whick will fall h ea v i ly o n t h e C o m p any , as t hey may be compelled to convey the mail to Marseilles . Fire at Stratford— The neighborhood of Highstreet , Stratford , waa on Monday morning , at aa tatty hour , aroused from its usual state of quietude by tha outbreak of a most destructive fire , which was nearly attended with a frightful loss of human life . Tha scene of the fire was a grocer and cheesemonger ' s shop , No . 28 , in the above thoroughfare , near the Yorkshire Grey Tavern , and belonging to Mr . Ho ' trtforth . The proprietor and five of his children with difficulty made their escape . The proprietors of the adjoining

      houses suffered some los ? . Miraculous Escape . — Laat week , two persons , walking through tbe pleasure-greunds of Methvea Castle , on tbe romantic banks of the Almond , cauio to a spot opposite Cromwell-park , where the banks rise precipitous to considerably above 100 feet . The person who was gaidiug them pointed out a very steep place , dowa which , s ome years ago , a party of pooch era made their escape from the keepers by plungiog dowa the precipice . After viewing the place very attentively , one of tbe strangers exclaimed . " Well , I -would rather

      have been taken than run the risk of such & fe&tfal leap . " He had no sooner spoken , than the bank en which he waB standing , being loosened b y the late rains , gave way , Bad he was precipitated along with it into the river . His frieud , ekng with the guide , ran to another part ot tbe bank ; cltectntied to tbe river , a n d hur rie d to the spot , expect ; n ^ to find only a maagled corpse , but to their turprisa found him just extricated from the mass of e&tth which had accompanied him in his fall , and only slightly bruised , notwithstanding his rapid and perilous descant . —Perth Courier .

      Dreadful Fire and loss op life . —Wells , Oc t . 7- —About one o ' clock this afternoon a fire was discovered in an outhouse contiguous to the residence of W . G . Hayter , E q ., M . P . The city engines were immediately in attendance , but owing to the shortness of the supply of water and the awkwardness of tbe situation , they were of little avail ; consequently , tbe flames being unchecked , proceeded with great and awful rapidity , and fears began to be manifested for the fate of the noble mansion adjoining . At this juncture it Was deemed advisable to demolish a high wall ¦ which stood between the outhouse and the road , and which prevented tbe engines from throwing any considerable , q lantity of water on the fltmes . But whilst this was in progress tbe fire reached the extremity

      of th e outh o use , and immediately caught bold of tba mansion , amidst the shrieks of thousands of spectators . The engines had by this time got into play , but not * withstanding taeir efforts , the fire proceeded with fearful rapidity , and threatened destruction to the entire building . Messengers were despatched for two neighbouring engines , but before they had arrived tbe roof over the servants' bed-room , in which lay an invalid , fell in with a tremendous crash . Tbe fire now raged with redoubled violence , and workmen wsre busily engaged in removing the furniture that still remained . A b o ut three o clock , the two engines arrived , but nut

      before the greater part of the building was laid waste . O wing , however , to the active exertions of the firemen , tb& devouring element was subdued by balf-past four 0 , 'clock , when all further danger was banished . Tbe firemen then proceeded to view tbe ruins , in search of the servant who lay ill at the time the fire broke out , wbeu awful to relate , af t er o n h o ur 's diligent search , they discovered the missing body burnt to asbeSi and still smouldering beneath the ruins . Her remains were immediately removed to ihe Globe Inn , not far distant , there to await the inquest . Sbe was about twenty-five years of age , and was her surviving parents' only support .

      ABDLXriON AND SUICIDE — StRETTON-UPJN-DuNSmore . — In the spring of the present year the papers contained an account of the abduction of a young lady , Darned Jane Page , from the boarding school of Miss Kimberiey , at Warwick , and the subsequent apprehension of the parties at an hotel in the Isle of Man . . The young lady , lwho is the daughter of a h ighl y respectable farmer , at Strettou , tram only about thirteen years of age ; while George Gardner , tbe young man with whom she decamped , was some years above twenty , and , like the girl whom ho enticed from school , was also most respectably connected . On their return from the Isle of Man , Gardner , after a lengthoaed examination , was Jcommitted to take his trial for the folony at the last Warwick spring assizts , but ia consequence of the

      intimacy which had existed between the families , and from other ciuses , a compromise was effected , Gardner pleaded guilty , and the Jadge passed upoa Map a mere nominal puuisbraent . He was ordered to enter into his own recognizance in the sum of £ 509 towards Mr . Page and hia family . Nothing more waa heard of Gardner by the publio until the end of last week , when it suddenly transpired that he had poisoned himself in the house of Mr . Page , during that gentleman's absence . The following evidence taken before Mr . W . H . Seymour , coroner , of Coventry , at the Royal Oak , Dunemore , will explain the strange circumstanoes under which his death took place : —Miss Jane Pa « e ( aged 13 ) deposed that she bad known the prisoner about throe years ;

      that he had been away for sometime past , in consequence of the result of an investigation some time ago , in consrquctneo of his having decoyed her away from Bohool . About one o ' clock on Wednesday morning last , he contrived , by means of a hurdle , t » effect au entrance into the bedroom of witness and her sister . He seemed dull , and after remaining there some time , during which he spoke very little , ho went into an adjoining room . About eight o'clock , Mr . Page ( her father ) left home to go to Southam fair , and witness then informed her mother of deceased ' s being in the house , and about bine o'olock witness took him up etairs some coffee and toast ; on going up stairs , about half-an-hour afterwards , witue 33 observed deceased had not finished his coff .. e , and smelling somo'kigg strong

      aud different from the flivour of cofiV , she asked biai what it was , and he said , "Nothing . '' She left deceased , but soon afterwards went up again ; perceived then that he had not partaken of his toast , and saw a small bottle lyiug on the table empty . Ho made no reply to her inquiries as | to what the bottle contained , but appeared to roll his eyes about , and staggered . Yfatnasa advised him to go to bed , and he did so ; she went up to him again about twelve o ' c l ock , when ho was lying on the bed on his back , with his mouth open , and his eyes shut-, but sometimes snored . She called up her mother , and tbon told her of the extraordinary smell sho had noticed when he was taking his coff-. e . Previous to going to bed he had washed and shaved himself . Before he laid down he said he should like

      to die on the bed . No one could have gone up stairs to the deceased without wituesa seeing , though her mother might have gone up , for they were busy washing that day . Her mother was much shocked , aud proposed Bending for Mrs . Q , iinney , a nurse ia tho village , but did hot send for a Burgcou , being afraid , because her father was not at home . Mrs . Quinney , witness , and her mother , put the hurdle under the bed , deceased having pulled it into the room with him . Mrs . Qiinney washed his face , and was then sent for away . Witness remained iu the room with the deceased all day , leaving him occasionally , and in the afternoon tried to administer to him soina milk , white of egg , and water , according to Mr ? . Qainney ' s recommendation , but he could not

      tako 11 . In tho coarse of the morning , deceased told witness that he came from the Eu « by station , and walked ; she told him she wished he had not come , as it would cause some unpleasantness with her father , and this was the reason why she had not told her father of his being in the house . She also knew he was bound in rccoguizances of £ 500 not to disturb the family ag 3 in . He died whiie witness was gone to fetch Mrs . Qainney a second time , between six and seven o ' clock in the evening , just at which tima her father returned from Southam fair . Miss Ei z bath Pagd corroborated her sister ' s evidence as to the appearance of the deceased in their bedroom . Mr . Page and some char witnoj 33 ea ware examined , but their evidence was not important .

      Mr . Culvert , surgeon , ef Woolstou , deposed , that oa being called in to deceased , he found him lying oa the bad with his clothes on , except his neckerchief . There was no external mark of violence on the body . The vessels of the head were full of b : ood of a dark colour . Examined the stomach , heart , and bowels , but iu ncuc of these organs found sufficieac disease to cause death . The stomach contained about half a pint of darkish thick fl . tid , which did not indicate any poison from tho smell . The riuht 8 idoofth 8 htart . contained moro blood than usual , and of a more fl lid character . than is often seen , but witness did not find sufficient there to aaase death . Ho should , therefore , suppose that deceased died from a deDres 3 » d state of the ntx ^ -s . which sta ^ e might bi produced

      from sedatwe poioou without , leaving o , i y trails of it . He had , seen the small phial produced , iLd ,.. ; re was no doubt there had been poison in it . Ho b-lieved tha deceased died from opiuin . The Jury found a verdict of felo de se ; and at the samo time decjarad '^ ' ^ th ^ m : clvrod ivniiiioj ^ usly of opinion , thai- A ^ o ^ ji *^ - : . d " ci of ^ j ra . Pa . i ; e towards deceased duriast f jajB l 6 ' " . /' he s ?^> ia a cij-iiis ; stato waa most unt ' e ^ Iiu ^ t « %$ •/? ,- * chris : i » u , a-vc desired the coroner to coavSjj ^ SSf ^ I-: > . "' the atroDgest censure 011 h 3 r conduct . Th ' % & 1 ^ w ^^/ . ' , ' might be expected , haa caused conaidordoim - K ^ fia ^ ) -, ' tUo aaighbourhood . JM . V | J ¥ - < rr- 'Vv . ' ' ' ~**\ < yr ^ r

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      THE HASWELL MURDER . Thb Inquest , —( if the investi gatio n n nde r t be direction and management of the glib apologist of the Coal Sings deserves that samo )—has not yet terminated ; and therefore the reasons that induced us to withhold observation on the case last week still exist . However , without prejudging what the effect of the one-sided evidence may be , when sent by the flippant Coroner to a flippant jury , we may be permitted to offer a word or two of comment on that portion of the past which is not an unimporttant feature in the present enquiry , as w ell as an observation on the future good likely to result from the reeent most melancholy event .

      It unfortunately happens that the parties who are alone subject to such " visitations" as that by which JoxETT fivs livea have been sacrificed , are the most isolated portion of Bociety ; and are , by the very nature of their employment , cat off , as it were , from the sympathies of the ** upper region , " except when some horrid convulsion takes place . If one man is killed above ground , by accident or carelessness , the sympathies of all around are excited ; but if one , or even ** half-a-dozen" poor eolliers are harried from existence into eternity , it is & u casually ? »

      H visilalion , " an ** accident , consequent on the very nature of their employment , and one against which , — if we believe Mr . Yinrer Yosissl . —no humun foresight can provide a remedy ' . When we have the whole of the scientific knowledge of the interested witnesses before us , we n&y be better able to decide whether any , and what , remedy can be applied for the prevention of such awful catastrophies ; but in the absence of such information , we may point to that remedy , or rather compensation for risk , which the Colliers of Northumberland and Durham themselves pointed out .

      Our readers , who have been well instructed in the whole cause of dispute which led to the recent strike , will not have forgotten , that one of the principal points urged by the men was the dangerous nature of Iheir employment , and they insisted on the justio of a provision being made by the employers for the widows and orphans of those who were sacrificed while risking their lives to heap np riches for the Master class . This wa 3 not , howe v e r , meant by ¦ what * waa called smart money . " That fuud meant a provision from -which those who met with accidents which rendered them incapable of working should be naintained . And who will mow say that such a demand was unjust 1 And who can forget that the Misters Press raved against the strike aa if it was a mere

      strike for an increase of wages alone , keeping out of sight the fact just narrated 1 Had the claims of the men been soberly and righteously entertained by the insolent and pnrse-proud Coal Kings , instead of being met vntb the uever-to-be-forgiTen atrocities of imperious Vain LoxDDNDEBsy , and the torrent of misrepresentation and abuse which flowed through the channels of the Northern Press into the minds ef the " upper" and middle orders ; had those claims bee n attended to , and conceded where just , i n all probability every one of the murdered sinety-five would now have been living , hale aad strong , the jeopardy and " visitation" to which they have been so fearfully subjected being possibly averted by the means which the men then desired to be employed to render tbeir ealliDg more secure ,

      In the Colliers' Petition , presented to the House of Commons by Mr . Dt . ncombe , the men prayed for the appointment of Inspectors . They also prayed for tbe appointment of disinterested Magistrates , before whom all Colliery eases might be heard . They also demanded to bs paid weekly , and for what they produced , and no more . We contend that all those dejllnds wkre right aad JCsT : nay , when measured by the unparalleled dangers to which a Collier is momentaril y subje ct , they were moderate . Hence do we now , as we e ^ er have done , justify the recent strike ; and we now , more than ever , regret its

      failure . Had the men succeeded in obtaining the " cohp-jssatios claim" from tbeir employers , the * ' scientific" Mr . Posim wonld very Bpeedily have erected " stronger dams" which his subordinate tells us might have prevented tha visitatio . v" ! He would have taken care that the seven " wastemen " v ere not al l absent , at one and the same lime TTHES THEIB PR £ SESCB WAS MOST KEKDBDl He would have taken care , if his employers had been liable to be compelled to pay for his neglici , that

      sharp-smelling and active wide-awake men badl > een employed at the "fly doors . " He wonld have taken care that too much " gas" did not accumulate ia the " goaf . " He would have taken care that the superincumbent stone should have had pillars more than capable of bearing its weight . He would have soon discovered that there were known means by which the pit might have been " better ventilated . " But why speak thus ? Has it not been ascertained , and strorn to . that this very Haswell Colliery was

      the very besJ , ventilated and best managed pit , in the whole coun-ry ! ; nd that Mr . Foster was the very » est and most scientific of -viewers ? Suppose we were to admit tui \ Haswell w& 3 the best venfila * ted and best managed pit , what a sorry look out for those whose lives are consigned to the protection of the worst ventilated and worst , managed ! It happens , curiously enough , that i it is invariably the very "best managed" pits thai \ are most liable to those " vieitatioss" ! One hdm-J dbid a . >* d two lives were lost at Wallsend colliery : j and it wa 3 tbe " very best managed pit . " Fjrrr !

      ¦ were killed at St . Hilda by a similar " viAtation "; bnt it toD was M the very best managed . " So at Harrington , when tortt were murdered : it also ] was " the very , very , best managed one" ! and Has- j well was " the best of the best managed" ones , and ; will remain so until another " visitation" at Borne ] other place ; and then that , in turn , will create j astounding wonder and sensation ; for it will turn ; out to be managed on the improved precautionary < plan of Mr . FcsrEB , the most " scientific" of all the j scientific viewers in tbe two counties 1 Terily it is strange that all ihe " best ventilated" and "best managed" pits should be the first to explode 1

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 12, 1844, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1284/page/5/