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ftived 5 « . for the Democratic Committee for Poland ' Be * e »« ition , ' wntributed by « h £ Chsrtitt « of BiUton-« n 4 fcrwirted bj Jowph LmnejkndThaniM Hammenley . - _ ; ¦ ; . ' :. . '; . j .. ' -: ; ¦ ; ¦ :. - ¦ . " ' j . Yotog aw > Othem—Itwonldbe quitefaapowible to ^ give emplonnenttoont inerery fifty , * ho apply to me rtrwork . The joiner * ' work is all contracted for , fc » U the parish it out of employment , and being a ghnehoWer will not induce me to employ any one * homl do not require . —Feabgps O'Coksok : jgBM M'AiXis . mar Glasgow . —If his plan for balloting watftdopted , we could notpurchase oneestatein three yon . Tnepresentmodeofballot isby far the most ^*^^^ = « i « d 5 « . for the Democratic Committee for Poland * t >__^ - —u .. ' ~_ . Mhn < iu 4 t > r ... » rn . i :.... ftiii .
beneScsalto thecnmpanj that could be denied . A Lote * of FAttPtAx—I have stated before that I tate nothing todo with , acd that the Land Company bat nothing to do with , Mr Stallwood ' s Benefit Societv : » nd at to its beta * headed , "ArxiLUM to ihb National Iajid fompajtt . " I h « Te no control oyer advertisements , nor am I responsible for their contents . —Feasgcs O'Comkob . Ditto Sheix . —Mr Doncombe ' * address is "Spring Gardens , Fall-mall , tondon . " fit We beg to remind oar readers of the notice which appeared in the Star of April 18 th . respecting a tea-tray embellished with a titw of O'Connorville and other
ernunents pnt op for public billot at Bilston ; the proceeds to be applied for the btnefit of the veteran patriot ? , and widows and orphans of the political ¦ victims of class-usurpation . The generosity of the donorof the tea-tray and the patriotic exertions of theBilston Democrats should command an equally geaeraus and universal response on the part of the Chartist public . JB « BA 1 A 0 T fO * THE O'COKSO&TIUE TtA T * AT , On behalf of the Widows ' , Orphans' , Veterans ' , and Ticinns' Fund . —To tie Chartist TutHie . —Friends : We earnestly implore yon to consider the object to which the proceeds of the above ballet are to be applied , and
we f < el confident but little argument nil ] be necessary to induce yon to give it your support . What true D& . morratbut would frel ccxsolation and pride in having done his share in plaeing those who hive suffered , and are still suffering , for the active part they or their relatives have taken on the battle field of liberty « _ -f comfortable ( nrcamstaccrs , and beyond the reach at tyranny and oppiession t . How small an effort is necessary to accomplish this desirable object ! The small sum of 6 d . from each Land member and Chartist ( who can afford it , ) would yield a sufficient amount to place these victims on the Land , where they would enjoy the fruits of their o * n labour , and possess that freedom which ihey hstvelahrared to win for us . We
« re sony to say the abovenamed pr .-gect , although responded to by several individuals , has not , thus far , been taken up by any locality . This unaccountabk apathy in to meritorious a cause we deeply deplore , and earnestly brg of the leading men in each locality to place it prominently before their meetings , anJ s < nd in their united subscriptions to Mr Linney , High-Street , Bilston , as early as possible . Thomab Almssd . Secretary to the Ballot . E . S . —The time of balloting is fixed for the 10 th o June . Tbe following subscriptions hare been received np to May 10 : —G . CWflliams . London , 3 snkcription *; Wm . Hallam , Single ; , 1 ; John Youn ? , Elmarnock , 5 ; F . Keud » ll Brad ' ord . * ; A . Smith . Heywood 3 ; M . Dangisr !
Ely . 2 ; Thos . Gffl , Wakefi-ld , 2 : H . Plumb , Lambley 2-Jis . TurnbulL Wigton . 7 ; Wra . AUnutt , London , 2-Hsntiab . Stone , Dunkirk , 1 ; Elias Hitchen , Hebden Bridge . 5 ; Geo . Hollo-ay , Kidderminster , 6 ; Wm . BrinVbnrn . Smethwick . 1 ; James Donglas Dundee , S BJehard Hamer . Raicliffi : Bridge , 8 ; Geo . Si-nmock ' Srijhtoa , 6 ; G . J . Harney , London , 5 ; Geo . Shaw ] ne « r Ieede . 4 ; W . Bcnnet , Wotton-nndfr-Bdge , 5-fieorge Starless , Winchester , 2 ; William Crabtr . el Derby , 6 ; John Dibh . Dewsbur ? , 3 : Francis Van l : at > , 1-feiyool . 1 ; A . Cameron Paisler . 5 ; T . Z 22 Birstall , 1 ; t \ O'Connor MKay , 2 : J . Andrews Hinder , Rut , 2 ; Jimes Roaald , Paisley , 8 ; W . Stevenson , SpiUby , 2 ; John Sidaway , Rouen , 6 ; i . Street , Hottinshara , 5 . —Thosus Aimond , Secretary to the Ballot .
J&s Eiiis . —The eddress of this " victim" is " Ejjma EUU . Grange lane , Cobr idge , Staff . trdshire Pottmrt . " XoncE . —Ptrsons deiiroas of gratuitous novice ( I-gal or otherwise ) will oblige by paying posase , or other incidental expenses , attending the transmission of their communications . On « parcel from Chichesttr arrived this week , pj railway , with a . charge of one shilling and twopence . In future we shall return all unpaid letters and parcels . Toskshou :. —All the Sub-Secretaries of the National Charter Association of the West-Ridinjr of T .-rksture will greatly oblige by forwarding their addresses to Wm . Lacy , Cleckheatnn , West-Biding Secretary . lift S . Jaquxs . Bank Top , DarUn Rton _ W e had not a copy left Answer to question : —He was not . G . Foclkes , WrlUnston , Silop . —Ou Wednesdav , the trial was postponed till Saturday next . HrE . TsAtE , Bristol—We had not one left , or should hava sent it .
UrJ . SEEVisGToif . Longhtoroush . —Four shillings snd sixpeace is the charge to ' subscribers . This has been announced repeatedly . Mr J . Lowht , Carlisle . —Ton are not to blame for the delayuf the coloured plates . Wehare not jet been able to keep pace with the demand . We trait we shall be mble to rapply most of the orders on hand during next week . The DEXonrsATioir to 0 'Cowhwvu . le . —Allfriends inttndingto visit the People ' s First Estate < ra Whit-Monday are informed that the several aliottees will be happy to supply hot water , tea , salads , < tc , ata moderate charge . Poor Mas '« Gbardian Society . —Press of metier compels the postponement of a notice concerning this useful institution . ~
T . Oekesks , —Received . Thanks . To thb Edixoi c * the So » . THttx Sta » - —Sir : We have been directed to acknowledge the sum of one pound sineteen shillings and sixpence , r . caved of MrWm . Rjder , Aori&ern S ; ar Office , handed to him on the partbftheWest-endDistrict London Bootmfcktrs , by Messrs Park and Joaes , of tbe Vntnal-Assistant Asso . dation . Tae money , according to the kind wishes of the humane donors , has been forwarded to Ireland for the relief of those who ara miserably suffering there not to any of the aristocratic committees bavins a Marqais or an Earl at their liead , with well-paid depnties under them to discharge those duties which they nominally assume , and so preventing a great portion of the funds generousl y contributed from finding its way to the cabins of the hunger and pestilence-stricken people , but to one in the south , whose whole life of
charity , and wonderful efforts to raise his prostrate fellow-men , eonvincas ns he indeed would rather add than diminish—we allude to th « Very Rev . T . JIathew . We have also chosn in the West another almoner above suspicion—the Very Ret . James Hughes of Claremorris . Mayo , a gentleman who long previous to the receipts of any sums to enable him to relieve his famished parishioners , parted with his horse , his fur . nitore , and wwables . To such men we fearlessly entrust whatever we caa collect for the unsheltered , the hungry , and the diseased . We gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity of returning you our best thanks for your kind notice of oar proceedings—for Mr Ernest Jones ' s powerful appeal , in MHtoa-street Theatre , ii favour of our subscri ption—and for your confidenceinthus confiding to oar care the montj entrusted to you for distribution .
We are . Sir , your obedient S-rrants , GB 06 GE A « CHDE ACuli , \ _ ' . J . S . EGAH , / Secretaries . Finsbury Irish Relief Committee Rooms . Prince Albert Coffee-house . Hilton-street , 9 th May , 1817 . H ~ 1 " ^ &i ! need fca Mend indeed . » -0 M Aaage . ]—Fnends of Humanity , —In addressing tho « e whom I thus denominate . I restrict mysdf to Ijepub . iica ^ s , Kadicals , or Chartists , asit would befmitiess to seekthe aid of the adherents of Faction . I am fully ^ S ^* ! ^ ^ 00111 law L * a £ nehave so far sucl f $ ZL m i y nboodlI « aepcopleas to leave a dear and a Uttle loaf upon the labouring man's table-much less and much dearer than at the commencement of their campai-n ; yet there * re those amongst us , still able to succour the needyand helthe helplessWe
, p . have been maligned , by the greatest adept in vitupera tion , as bluing an inveterate hatred—a - Saxon" antipathy—towards our Irish brethren . I deny our ever having evinced such hostile feeling It cannot find an abiduig-place in thebosomofa true Chartist . Itis rt * pngnant to our nature and inimical to our faith . W « believe the whole human race to be as one common family , and "the worid as one vast city , " and wecare not whether a suffering brother pine in England street in Erin alley , or on Sberia waste : our ^ ynipathy can wing its -way alike to alL Iblush to own that England has been , forages , disgraced by ruling factions—Ride and Tye men—who tave made ns appear before all the nations of the earth m the character of a plundering banditti . Robbery , carnage , desolation , and death , have ever followed in
Uh ^ SL £ * 5 ! wtaprang " English . Happy would > J 5 ^ . ftrthe People oftheTeast , the wist , the aorJh . s . ndtlie south , had England been a blank on the S ^ SC . ' S&SSgffi ^ S . S : SS 3 sSF' ? = S 2 Bsa : s : c Bmmjmwi cries aloud for help . finaine . ^ M ^ n ! r ! f- i ^ S its horror * , stalks aMghT rtrff ^ Sr lirothersin bondage who thusperish -Let ^ 5 , ! eonr morselwiftthedying . "ItisnoSifltttoS ft ?; toreedre . " God forbidthatwe shouldSSS ? jS ? ents , and so circumstanced as the poor of Ire ! and now are . . 0 ! that ! could prevail upon one now sick , hnt
aias : possessed of a petnfiedjheart , to do his duty _ i mean one who was raised to might—one who vxu idolized—one who was fed with fat tirincs and wine on the lees , like toe brazen idol of old . Asa legislator , be certainly understands the Funding system . He and his satellites have had much practice in the Funds . They hare raised the Funds to an enormous amount , which has proved a "sinking" fund to " the finest Pisantry in the world . " It has sunk their last potato fflto a nonentity . Ireland now calls upon him , in thunder-tones , to practice the system not yet attempted . Shi caUs upon him to RE-FOfiD . Should the « Iiberator '(!) disgorgea portion of the very many thousands < S pounds so eagerly swallowed from , the cotter ' s teacher he would , douhfless , confer tbe greatest boon liscountry ever yet received from his hands . But as tneltward has notchauedhis snots , northe Ethiouian
ins sion , as the lion cannot yet lie down with the lamb , letpoorKfin help poor men . It is a noble example set hythe *«* JSndLBoot and Shoe-makers . They have gggSS ? WSESMfASS
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J . M'Cxae , Dundee . —Received . Tour wishes shall be at . . tended to . Send-the inscription on the "box "' and other particulars . .. . J . M'Kihnis , lBlbarchen .-- The Petition Sheets have bf * n received and will be banded to the Executive . We cannot say when the Kational Petition will bepresented . bnt we doubt not that the subject issn"" Rag ing the attention cf the Executive . ' " Wk . Gkakdisoh . —Recemd . Thanki . T "f-ir Pntiflrr TTrrrh-fl Tmnrlrhn-hnll In u .... ' -.... . .
iisit . Johjc Kikdek , Stockport . —Send me the copy of vour gr . ndfcthM » « will , andl shall tkea be able to advise yon what to do . A BaisroL Chabtist . —A . can seize for the rent owine by B . notwithstanding B . ' s tenants nay have paidhlm ( B ) . B . should either satisfy his tenants that he has paid his r . nt to A . , or allow them to pay their rent to A ., or at least so much as may be due to A . R . B —If the debtor dul y pays the debt according to the Judgment of the abolished court , no fresh proceedings can beinstitntedagainstMmin any court
. WuuakPabke * . Manchester . —Th » farmerhadnoright to use the hay : under the conditions of sale he might have re-sold it If he refuses to do you justice , you must proceed against him ; and under the circumttances of the case . I think it will be . the best to proceed onl y for the recovery of the deposit money , and which you must do under the Small Debts Act . S . B ., Liven—If your society has conformed to the provisions of thelOthGeo . 4 , c . ip . 56 , it cannot be dissolved , without the Totes of five-sixths in ealue of the members , and the consent of all persons receiviug relief from the society . See section 26 .
Ebeatch im Last Number . —J . Cook , Ilkeston , Derbyshire . —For ' Mortgage Deed ( Principal , ) " read " Mortgage Veht . " NOTICE . —Mr Ernest Jones not having time for per tonal interviews with clients , begs that they will , in the msT instance , send him their cases in writing , drawn up in as plain and concise a way as they can .
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LAMBETH . —Lots and ^ Attehpted Suicide , — Martha Hill , ayoung woman , ' was charged with attempting to commit self-murder , by swallowing a quantity of laudanum . ' It was stated that the prisoner had , a sWt time since , been about to be married to a young man , to whom she was much attached , but the match from some mnezplained cause had been broken off , and this circumstance so operated on net mind that the present was the second attempt she had made at self-destruction . The prisoner's mother , a respectable-looking woman , was on Monday in attendance , and not only promised Mr Elliott to t ake her danRater . home , but to look closely after her . She was given up , after a severe ad . aonltfon from the bench . - !
A Vest Sihgblab Dibcoveby or A , Notorious Hoige ai »» Gig Stsales . —Henry Baynton , a middleaged man , fiho was said to be connected with a highly respectable family , was charged with stealing several sifts and horses from the keepers of livery stables ia Berkshire snd Oxfordshire . Sergeant Morton , an active officer belonging to the P division , has been engaged for some weeks in endeavouring to secure the prisoner , but it was not until the night before that he succeeded in Wb object . From his own statement , it appealed that while watching the home No . 9 , Willism . street , Lock ' sfields , where he suspected he was concealed , he distinctly saw through the wmdow-blhids the figure of a man answeriiig his description , and hhving satisfied himself of this fact he knocked for admission . The door was oprned by a female , and , on getting in , he searched the home thoroughly , but could not find the
object of his search . Feeling perfectly confident that he saw a man in the house a fewmotnents before , and feeling equally certain that he could not have made his escape , he ( Morton ) insisted that three females , wbo were in the same bed , should get up . Tbry very reluctantly did so , and on turning over the bed and mattress , he discovered tl : e prisoner underneath ,, lying on tbe sacking . Fn finding himself deteced , the prisoner exclaimed , " Wdl , you have got me at last ; it ' s now allup with me . " The officer produced the " Hue and Cry " containing the various robberies committed by the prisoner , and said ha was in a situation , or would be in a day or two , to bring one offence , namely , that of stealing a horse and gig of the value of £ 50 . froir Mr Colli ? , of the White Hart Tapi Newbury , Berks , on the 9 th of March last , home to the prisoner . The prisoner , who declined saying anything in defence , ' was remanded to a future da v . " . ' .
THAMES . —EXTBAOBDIHiat CniRQI OF MORDER . — Gilbert Macdonald , a ship-joiner , about forty years ol age , was charged with the wilful uimder of Agnes , his wife , whojdied in the London Hospital on Monday morning . The case mas involved in some mystery , and the magistrate had a difficulty in getting at the facts , in consequence of the ignorance of the policeman who had charge of the case . The prisoner , who has thenppearance of being a very dissipated man , lived with his wife , in Raymond-place , Green Bank , Wapping . The aeceatrd * atnlso a person of dissipated habits , and lived very unhappily with her husband . They rcptaie 4 ly quarrelled , and she wa * in the practice of taunting him and using very provoking language , for which , he frequently beat her . - A woman named Sarah Gray , whn lived in the room underneath thepartiei , had often
interpo « i : d dnring their quarrels , and protected the deceased from the violence of her husband . This witness described the priconar as a mest violent man when he was inebriated , but on the contrary , when sob : r , he was particularly harmless and quiet , and had more than oner requested her and others to keep him away from his wife when ho was tipsy , for she was a very bad woman . He had repeatedly said that he would bo hanged at Newgate for his wife , and that she wasted his hard earnings . The quarrels , of the prisoner and his wife had lately been more frequent . Three weeks ago the prisoner beat his wife severely , and said she had spent all his money . On Saturday , the 1 st inst , the prisonw and his , wife again quar-elled , and she absented herself from home , and did not return until Friday , assigning as the r « ason , that she had spent all her , husband ' s money , and was '
afraid of him . The husband periaaAed her . to come home on Friday night , but on Saturday morning , at one o ' clock , either through caprice on her part , oir owing to some threats on the part of the prisoner , she left her own room and came down stairs to the one occupied by her landlady , in which there was a mangle , and crept under it . She remained there until her husband left home after breakfast on Saturday morniaff . On the afternoon of the same day , about half-past two o ' clock , the deceased was in her landlady ' s room , when tii-r husband returned home . He was rather inebriated , but knew what he was about , and after some friendly conversation with his landlad y , he began to converse with his wife , and in a jocular t « ne said he had had his spree out and should go to work again on Monday , and bring up his lee-way . His wife commenced abusing him , and
although her landlady requested heruot to kickuparovr , she taunted her husband in a very foolish strain . ' The prisoner said that his wife ' s slanderous and provoking tongue caused all the trouble and the rows between thect . After a while the i risoner said he had money enough for a drop of gin , and invited his wife to accompany him to a public house elope by . They left the house together , and proceeded to the Anchor and Hope in the adjoining alley . Neither the landlady nor Mrs Gray saw tbe man and his wife return home , or heard any more of them until about 5 o ' clock in the evening , when Mrs Gray hearing some one moan , ' opened . her room door , and found the deceased on the landing , at the top of the second flight of stairs , and closa to her ewn room , weltering . in her blood , which was flowing profusely from her month , nose and ears . Mrs Gray raised tbe woman . from the floor ,
and she faintlj articulated "Don ' t let him come near me , I am dying . " , Mrs Gray asked what her husband had hem doing , and she said he had kicked her and jumped on her breast . The deceased was assisted into her landlady ' s . room . She appeared greatly disfigured . Her clothes were torn and very bloody , aud there was a severe wound on the side of the head , from which the Wood was flowing copiouily . ' It would appear , however , from the evidence of the landlady , that the excessive hemorrhage which took placearose from another cause , and it is supposed thatsome internal bloodvessel was ruptured by a kick , or by the prisoner trampling on his wife . She was removed on a poliee etretcher to the hospital , where she lingered till Monday morning , when death put an end to her sufferings :. Directly after the deceased was found in the sitntition above described , Mrs Hookbam , the
landlady , and Mrs Gray , went into the prisoner ' s room They found him lying on the bed , and informed him that his wife was very seriously injured . He treated the matter with some indifference , and on his way to the station house said thathis wife would not appear against him , and that she had fallen down stairs .: There conli bs no doubt the deceased received the wound on her head , and other injuries , before she left the room , as ao part of her bady . was upon the stairs when she was discovered by . Mrs Gray . The prisoner ' s son was in the room when the quarrel took place between his parents . He is only eight years of age , and with very little intelligence . He was called up on thebench . and some questions were put to him by Mr Yardley , but he professed hit ignorance of a future state ; and on being asked if he said his prayers , he replied that he did sometimes , but only to
please his father . His replies generally to th « questions pnt to him were such , that the magistrate did not consider it safe to examine him as a witness ; and It appearing that he bad no relatives , or any one to take care of him , Mr Tardley directed that he should be taken to the workhouse , where he wouM receive some instructions to qualify him to . tnke an oath . The magistrate inquired of Sheehan , the police constable , if he had made search for any instrumint by menns of which it was probable the wound might have been inflicted , and he replied in the negative . He was also asked if he had examined the stairs and the room fer the purpose of ascertaining if there were any steins of blood discernible , and he said he had not , and excused himself by saying there was no light . He was then asked if he had examined the prisoner ' s dress or his boots , and he said he
had not thought of doing so , and knew very , little of the affair , although specially directed by his inspector , to make tke necessary . inquiries ., ; Mrs Hookham , who exhibited moire tact and discernment ' tban the police constable , locked the door of the prisoner ' s ' room after he was taken into custody , to prevent any one entering the apartment . Some time afterwards sho procured a light and examined tbe stairs and the landing , on which she discovered . a great deal of blood . It was quite fresh . She also stated there was a " clod of blood " oh the floor by the side of the bed . She thought the wound on the deceased ' s head had been inflicted . by a kick , and that the prisoner wore very heavy boota . MrTardlej directed Roche , the gaoler , to remove the prisoner ' s boots from his feet , which was immediately done . There were stains of blood on both sides of the right boot , just above
the sole ; The prisoner appeared to be wmewbut stag , gered at this discovery , and be said there was no blood on his shoe , that his shoes never touched his wife at all ; but Mr Yardley said there could bs no doubt of the fact , and Mr Ross , a surgeon , who was present as a witness , said the stains on the boots were certainly those of blood . Mr Yardley expressed his astenuhtnent at the neglect and ignorance af the police-constable Sheehan , who had neglected to do all thoie things which he ought to have done , in a oase of very great importance and involved in some mystery . He asked the policeman if he had traced any blood upon the stairs or in the room , and the . excuse he got was that it was dark , and that he bad no light . The old woman Hookham , appeared to have acted from the dictates of common sense , a quality which the police man did not possets , and the had done just what the constable ought to have done . . Tarious other things ought to have suggested itself to the policeman , who had
done nothing , and made no inquiries about ' tbe affair . Mrs Hookham was then farther questioned by the magistrate , and she stated that the believed the prisoner had kicked his wife , and her reasons for thinking so were , that he was always very handy with hii feet—very , indeed . All tke deceased ' s clothes were torn but her chemise , and she complained a good deal of tome pains about the abdomen . Mr Yardley asked how loHg it was before the deceased was sent to the hospital after the was found bleeding on the top of the stairs ! , Sheehan replied an hour or more . Inspector Bilston asked the police constable if he did not issue orders for the woman to be removed to the London Hogpital Immediately , be beard of the affair . Sheehan-Yes , Sir . you did . Inspector Bilston said that dirtctly he understood the case was a very serious one , he ordered four men to convej the woman to the hospital on a stretcher , which wah done without delay . Mr Yardley-Perhaps the constabte means It wa » an hour after she received the wounds
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PER MR O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . SABEf . Mottram „ ] £ 016 0 Hul .. .. £ < i 8 0 Cockermouth .. 10 0 Leicester , Freeman 0 3 6 Halifax .. 12 0 Nottingham , per SntUin-in . Ashfield 18 6 Sweet ' .. 0 4 6 John Farrow M 0 . 2 0 Ifewport , ' Mon-Greemricu .. 0 5 8 month , .. 0 S 0 F . Sale — 0 10 0 Merthyr , Morgan 2 6 6 Westminster ., 0 3 0 Worcester „ 2 5 0 Ashton „ * 1110 RadJord .. 0 4 0
Bury „ .. 515 0 Glasgow „ 16 8 James - .. 0 5 0 SowerbyLongroyd 012 0 James Moore .. 0 t 0 Newcastle-upon-Thomas Moore . 0 2 0 Tyne .. 0 4 0 Canibenvell .. 0 2 6 Eccles .. „ I 16 8 Whittingtonand Cheltenham „ 0 7 6 Cat « .. 0 4 6 Birmingham , per Manchester .. 1 16 0 Goodwin .. 0 4 2 Birmingham , Ship 0 16 Huddersfield .. 0 18 0 Macdtsfield „ 7 0 0 Ashton-under-Salford .. 10 0 Lvne „ 1 4 C Dunferailiue .. 15 6 Critff „ „ 0 9 0 Truro .. ' „ o 15 0 Somers Town n 0 8 0
£ 41 10 0 SECTION No . J . m ~** Mottram „ 2 it o Newport , Mon-Halifax „ 12 0 mouth .. 010 0 Sriford „ 10 0 Worcester ., 5 2 4 Elland „ 010 6 Radford .. 0 0 6 Birmingham .. 1 0 0 Hyde . „ 1 2 0 Greenwich .. 1 7 0 Rochdale .. 0 8 6 James Hill .. 0 12 0 Glasgow .. 2 4 6 Westminster - Oil 0 Sowerby Longroyd 0 12 Central Kosendale 110 0 Kewcastle-upon-George Martin .. 0 10 Tyne . 4 18 Ashton 5
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^ M ^~ r ed » ie - hospttal .,. The .. prl 9 oner- asked Mrs Hookham If Ms wife didiot return home Weeding mIv . ^ i « t "!* <> toun-Ho ; no ; no » uch thing , f I ft « ny one see her return home ' wlth h . r husband ! _ Mri Hookham ^ No one ; Sir . Sheehan was the . called « pOn to relate a VonTersMion which took J ™' V . » t «« on-bouse . but be did It so Imperfectly thatMr Yardley called upon Inspector Bileon , who > M sworn , and he stated that , after taking the charge and reading It over to the prisoner , he said , "I itruok her . but she fell down stairs . " Witness then que . Honed tha lad , who saU , « He did jump upon ^ her . V saw my fathw jump upon my mother and kick her . " The prihef and uiLL tL . " * , ? l ===:=== aS ! == g = aa oeiora ( oe reui'lmd ??¦ u . i »_ . mt . --t _ -j
soner again saH , . « ^^ l 8 track ^ , j down stairs . " The . prisoner , in defence , iaid his ^ wife : fell down stairs as she was returning to her room in his company , and that after he went to bed sho was contlnu . ally passing up and down stairs . She abused him very much , and was very tipsy , and she ' was always abusing him . Mr Yardley said this case was not so clear as It might have been if the police constable had only displayed commoa intelligence , and that all the witnesses whe could throw any li ght on the traasactlon must be pro . ductd at the next examination . He should remand the prisoner on the charge of wilful murder until Mondaj next . ..- ¦ •• • ¦ . ¦ ¦ . . •¦ . ¦ .. > .
MARYLEBONE . —Stealiko a Diamom » Ring . —On Tuesday John Simpson , and Ann Simpson , his sister-inlaw , were placed at the bar before Mr Rawlhuon , charged with havta * been concerned in the robbery of a diamond ring valued at SO guineaR , theproperty of a lady named Caroline Dawson Bruce Wetherilt , describing her-» elf as tbe authoress of a paraphrasij of the "Pilgrim ' s Progresa , " and other works , and who resides at No . « Seymour place , Bryan 8 tone . 6 q . uare . It appeared that on Saturday last the male prisoner delivered at the houie some coals , and some time after he was gone prosecutrix missed the article from a tray in her parlour . Information of the loss was given to the police , and handbills were alto circulated principally amongst '' the pawnbrokers in the district . On the mowing of Monday Ann Simpson went to the shop of Mr Thompson , corner of
Easustreet . Mnnehegtw-squnre , and offered a ring for pledge , when the foreman , Collins , not being satisfied with the account she gave of it , detained her until the rrival of the proiecutrix , forwhomhe immediate !} sent . She came down accompanied by Beii ' elline of the D division , and on the ring being identified as the oht stolen , she ( the female priBonerl was conveyed to the station house . The officer subsi quentlj * took the male prisoner into custod y at the shop of his master , within a short distance of ' proEecutrix ' s dwelling . Joliri Simpson on being asked whst he had to say , admitted hating taken the ring and given it to his brother ; and , the female prisoner said that the brother , her husband , hart given it to her to pledge . They were both' committed ,
Attempted Suicide or a todnq Femaiebt Pohon —A well-dresRed young female , named Maria Poultori , was charged with attempting suicide . B . Traite , odb of the RcgcntVpark constables , deposed , that ou the previous evening , he saw the young womnn reclining iipon a seat In the "Broad Walk . " She seemed unwell / and he told her she had better get up and make the best of her way home , as he must shortly close' the gates , upon which she remarked to l-. im that she was unable to rire / at « he had taken tixpennjworth of laudanum , which she had purchased at three different places ; Witness then took her to a surgeon near at hand ; and subsequently to the University College Hoipital . Her father , who bad been standing by . his unfortunate daughter during ' the recital of the above facts , and who' seemed much
dintressed at her unhappy situation , was briefly addressed by Mr Rawlinson , who said , " I will not distress either jou or her by putting any questions as to the motives by which your daughter was actuated in this melancholy affair . You wish me I dare say , to 4 el \ v . r her up into your charge . " The father said that that was what he most earnestly desired . Ah Ex-roLicEHiN in Tsouble . —William Jones , nn ex . police constable of the Thames division , was charged with obtaining £ 3 from Mrs Lydia Cherry by . means of a forged advance note for seamen ' s wages . The prisoner cohabited with a youni ; woman who lodged kt the house
of the prosecutrix , Palmer ' s Folly , St 'Geprgv . in . the > East , He requested of the prosecutrix to advance £ 3 on a ataman ' s note purporting to be made pajablo by Sit Jehn Vaoder Rumpte Johnstone , 27 , . Grosvenor-equare . Having with some difficulty raised the amount , she handed it to the prisoner ; but when the note became payable , it was found that Sir John had no connection whatsoever with any shipping department . Finding that she had been imposed upon , she gave Jones into custody for the fraud . The prisoner , who seemed to make very light of the matter , said he would leave his defence in the hands of the counsel whom he should employ . He was committed to Newgate for trial ,
" MARLBOROUGH . STREET . —Dauino IIobbeiy . —W . Cox and Eliza Smith were brought before Mr Bingham , charg « d with having committed the following daring rebbery . Sarah Ann Tanner , the wife of an artist , lirinj at No . 9 , Llojd ' s-place , Brompton , said she bad been to see her niece ' home on Monday , and was retiming to Brompton , through Hyd « Park , when she met with two < vomen and two men , who entered into conversation with her . When they got out of the Park she was induced to accompany the four persons , who were strangers to her , into a public-heuse , where sbe partook of some beer . The small quantity that she drank had such ' nn effect on her that she became giddy , and soon loBt all recollection . When she recovered her senses she found herself in a cab with her four companions , and on inquiring : where she was , she was- informed she was in the Haymarket .
The cab stopped , and she got out . Some one Immediate ly pushed her down , and Smith snatched her shawl from her shouldtrs worth £ 2 and ran off . She gave an alarm , and soon afterwards she saw her shawl at the station-house , and the two prisoners who had robbed her of it . A boy named Hatton , said he was in the Haymarket between one and two o ' clock on Tuesday morning . He saw five persons get out of the cab , one of whom was the complainant . He saw one of the men give the complainant either a blow or a push , which knocked her down , and he then saw a woman snatch' h « r shawl off aud runs-way . Witness immediately went in starch of a constable , arid gave him information of whn ' t he hnd seen Police-constable Caught , C 140 , snid , on beiog told that a robbery had been committed In the Haytnar . ket , he ran into Orange-street j and saw four persons in company together . He followed them , and on finding ha was noticed , and that an attempt ' was about to be made by the party to escape , he ran forward and seized the two prisoners . Cox struggled violently , and cot
away . Smith threw a shawl away , which was afterwards picked up and identified by the complainant , As witness was taking the prisoner Smith to the station-house / a man came up to them and said to the prisoner " Keep it dark , Liz , and all will be right . " Witness immediately knew the man to be . the prisoner who had made his eecape from him " , and he accordingly took him Into custody again . The prisoner Cox said the constable had made a mistake . ¦ He bad not been in the Hnjmarket that . night , nor had he been in the company of the prosecutrixat all that night . The prisoner then gave a circumstantial account of his novements on Monday night . He was a supernumerary at the Lyceum Theatre , and bad played in the Wood Demon on the evening in question . The prosecutrix said she wbb quite positlv « the prisoner was one of the persons with whom she had been in company at the public-house . The constable was also positive of the prisoner * * identity . ¦ ' ¦ ' The defence of Smith ¦ was , that ; she saw the shawl fall from the shoulders of the prosecutrix , and she merely picked It up . Both prisoners were committed .
HaMMBRSMITH . —Bahlbd Hoi-ei . —Four Irish , two men and two woman , from the county of Cork , whp had only baen at Kensington a week , from' Ireland , wcr « brought by the parish officers to be passed back to Irelaud . They appeared very anxious to return , and f aid they thought there was plenty of work to be got in England , but they found there was not . They said that with a great many more , they had money given them to come over , by a gentleman , vho was a sea captain . One of ibe parish officers told the reporter that the two females , who ware good-looking young women , twenty years of age , when-asked in the workhouse to do some needlework , said they had never sewed in their liveo , and when told to assist in the washing , they declarud they did not know how to do it , aa all they bad ever done was to milk the cows . . ¦ ' !'
. BOW STREET . —Silhng Obscene Books , — On Wednesday , Thomas Blacketer appeared upon a sum . mons before Mr Henry , to answer a complaint preferred against him under the 1 st and [ 2 nd Victoria , cap . 88 , sec J , for having , ou the 8 th inst ., exposed for sale to public view in his shop window , in Wych-street , certain obscene publications . Hr Pritchard , solicitor to the Society for Supprusion of Vice , attended to support the complaint . A young gentleman , named Bhort , having seen a book iu defendant ' s window , the print and titlepage of which left no doubt on his mind that the contents were equally abominable , watted at the Society ' s Chambers in-Lincoln ' s Inn-fields , and gave information of the ciroHmstance . He then returned to the shop , accompanied by the secretary ' s managing clerk , and purchased it from the defendant . Mr Pritchard said that it
would be unnecessary to call the defendant ' s landlord to prove that he was the occupier of the premises , as he had already admitted such to be the caee , in addition to which the shop was well known to the society for a considera . bletime . In answer to the charge , the defendant said that he never sold' the book produced , as he had a private mark ^ npoa every work of { the kind ho disposed of . MrRobertNeal , managing clerk to Messrs . Pritchard and Cjllett , proved that the defendant called at the chambers en Monday , and informed witness that he had been summoned for selling gome publications , that he did not wish to go into court upon the subject , having formerly been in respectable circumstanceo , and if the society would forego the present prosecution he would clear his shop . Witness told him he could not entertain such a proposition , and that he could not forget his
having made largo seizures at the same shop , and that on every occasion he had faithfully promised to abandon such an abominable trade , at the same time referring him to the secretary , wbo tola him that he was bound on behalf of the public to proceed with the case . The defendant then examined the print and title-page in front of the book , and again requested that the prosecution would be dropped , at the same time admitting the facts . Mr Henry said there could be no doubt or the obsceno character , both of the- picture acd the title-page , and as sufficient warning had been given by the seizures made under the directions of ttie Commissioners of Customs , which seemed to be totally disregarded , lip saw no reason for any miti gation of punishment for such an offence , and tbe defen-lant should bp committed tp hard labour for three months .
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igfeed to call a iee ' tiitf of the body- and other trades atthe earliest . day the lecturer could attend .. BARRHEAD . —A public meeting of the trades was held in the Free Kirk School Room ; a Bprinkling of the female powerJoom and other workers were present , when Mr Jacobs entertained them with a lecture fraught with facts conducive to their well-being . A committee consisting of spinners , printers , ' weavers , shoemakers , tenters , smiths , moulders , miners , and other trades , was formed to organise their bodies in the Association . GLASGOW , Saturday , Evening . —The district ommittee met and agreed to commence a series of cistrict public meetings , to enable the lecturer to dfurther publish the plans of the Association .
NETHERTON . —Mr J . W . Parker reported , that on Monday he attended a meeting of the horse nail-makers and blast furnace-men , at the Dog and Duck , Darby Hand , to explain the principles iind objects of the Association , which he did after hia usual manner . A deputation attended from the rice-makers of Dudley , who expressed themselves highly BatisBed with the National Association , and would , on their return to their body , use all their inluence and persnaHion with a view to their joining immediately . They were exceedingly anxious fora general meeting of the trades of Dudley being called , as they were assured that every trade in Dudley would unite themselves with the United Trades , were they made acquainted with the glorious objects ; but the
engagements of Mr P . prevented him from fixing a time , but referred thorn to the central committee , who would eladly comply with their wishes ia sending nn ageni ; for the purpose . BROMSGROVK-Mr Parker also attended a meeting of the nail makers on Tuesday evening at the TownHall . The Rev .- Villcrs , the vicar , a relativeot Sir R . PeePs , was at the meetiug . likewise the high bailiff , and several of the gentry and tradesmen , of tho town , also / a great number of females . The Rev . Vioar is interesting , himself with others of thetown , in preventing children of an early age being . apprenticed to the nail trade , many of whom , at the age of fourteen , become journeymen—thus creating early marriages and otherwise militatinc against
the improvement of their mental faculties , and creating a numerous progeny . On his advising the nailers to abstain from apprenticing their children , at so early an age , he was met by tho statement , that the wages they received ( the maximum being twelve shillings per week ) prev . mted them , in fact , they were not able , to support their children out of snch wages , therefore were corapell « d to put them to the nail trade , in order to enable them to support them . The rev . gentleman was astounded at the statement , and declared that there must be something wrong in society , that such a state of things existed , and assured them he deeply sympa *
thised wi ; h thcm . aml would do all he could to alleviate and improve their condition . The nailers promised to take into consideration the views as set forth by the worthy vicar , and carried a vote of thanks to him amid loud cheer . Mr Parker was then called upon to state the principles of tho National Aasocia * tion , which he-did at i-reat length . Votes of thanks were passed to T . S . Duricombe , Esq ., M . P ., the Northern Star , and the Missionary ' , aHd a resolution , approving of tho United Trades' movement , and their determination of suyperting-it / to the utmost of their ability . After a vote of thanks to the chairman , the meeting , a very interesting one
, was dissolved . : MANCHESTER . —Mr Parker attended a meeting of thei district committee and was appointed one of a deputation to wait upon Mr G . B . Clarke , of Hope Mills , Pollard-street , who , three weeks ago , reduced the liand-mu ' e spinners and the self-acting minders 10 per cent , and , since a lurther reduction to the extent of 35 percent ., the latter reduction will affect the self-acting minders at the following rate : —• The price they have been receiving was seventeenpence per thousand hanks , now reduced to thirteenpence ; they , can spin twenty-one thousand hanka per week , which will make a difference of seven shillings per week in ' wages . The reduction of the hand-mule spinners is to one and ninepenceper
thousand hanks , the amount originally paid being two and sixpence—bring a redaction of ninepence pec thousand . The amount , usually spun in a week ig twenty . two thousand , making a reduction of sixteen and sixpence per week . In some cases where these men are employed at two off pairwheels . thereduction will effect to the extent of double the above anwunt . The spinners in the " above dspartment have , to employ a certain number of piecers and scavengers , who receive their wages from them , not the millowner , therefore they would be compelled to reduce the wages of the piercers and scavengers also , . were they to submit . Mr Parker and another sent in a respectful note on Friday , soliciting an interview with Mr Clarke , who conceded it . On meeting that
gentleman , they stated their object : he wished to know if they were in his employ , ; on being answered in the negative , he asked by what right they presumed to interfere between him and his hands . They endeavoured to reason with hia , but it was no avail ; he said if the United Trades did not like the price ho could afford to give his hands , let them , the United Tndes , keep them ; he would have nothing to do with the United Trades , nor would recognise any such body . The deputation tried their hardest to persuade him to forego the reduction , but he would not listen to them for a moment . When he informed his hands of the intended reduction , he made use of these words— " You have done it how
I am obliged to reduce you , because you have been signing petitions at the corner of the streets for the Ten Hours' Bill , it nail your own doings and Lord Ashley ' s ; you see what it has brought you to . " This millowner was not compelled to reduce his hands oh account of a heavy stock , or the high price of ootton , because he has sold out all that he has made ; but his hatred to that beneficial measure , the Ten Hours ' Bill , induces him to wreak bis vengeance upon the poor factory workers . ' . Mr Parker will resume his labours in Sheffield on thelfthinst . .. " . . ' One thousand of the spring-knife trade have paid their first month ' s levies as their adhesion ; one of the results of the former visit .
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¦ .. *• - TRADES' MOVEMENTS . Rochdam Cahd-Roou Operatives . —The follow , ing is an extract from an Address issued by the Rochdale branch of the Card-room . Operatives' Association , of the Northern Districts , to the public : — " We are induced to address you in consequence of the position taken by J . Tilling and Sons towards their hands , endeavouring to compel them to sign a vile document against our union , in order that they may with ease reduce our wages to the lowest miserable pittance . The hands knowing that a reduction would be the result , refused to " sign ; " the consequence is , they are driven to walk the streets ; ' we , therefore , deem it the duty of every humane being to pour in their support for those who have fallen a sacrifice . — - Friends , we earnestly solicit the support of the shopkeepers and gentry of Rochdale . Parties contributing to our support are cautioned against giving to any but those who have the word " Justice" stamped on the collecting Books . " By order of the Committee . "
To inn Journeymen Boot and Shob Makbbs of CnATiiAM , Rochester , and Stkocd . —A special general meeting of the above trade will be held at the Rose , IligU-street , Chatham , on Monday , May 19 th , at eight o ' clock in the evening , to take into consideration the propriety of joining the United Trades ' Association . The Darmstadt Factories . —The Second Chamber of Darmstadt has decided that children under nine years ofage shall not be allowed to work in the manufactories ; children of from nine to twelve may be authorised by the police to work for a period not exceeding eight hours each day , and those between twelve and sixteen may work ten hours . In the course of the debate on the measure it was stated that there are more than 10 , 000 children employed in the manufactories in the Grand Duchy of HesBe-Darmstadt .
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AlXBGED COWAUDICE OF THR AMERICAN TsOOPg in Mbxico . —The Niw Orleans Topic gives a very explicit statement of the cowardice of portion of the Indian aregiments at the battle of Buena Vista ;—> " While the enemy ' s cavalry bad been pressing iU way around the mountain , and just aa they were ready to attack the Americans in the rear , the Indiana regiment turned upon its proper front , and commenced an inglorious flight . The efforts of Col . ftowies to bring it to its position were in vain , and over hills and over ravines they pursued their shameful career , to the great delight of the enemy , who rent the air with shouts of triumph . Several officers ot General Taylor ' s staff immediately dashed off to arrest , if possible , the retreating regimentand
re-, store it again to . reputation : and duty . Major Dix , of the Pay Department , ' formerly of the 7 tb / Infantry , was the first to reach the deserters , and seizing the colours of the regiment appealed to the men to know whether they had determined to desert them . He was answered by three "" oheers , showing that though the men had little disposition to become heroes themselves they were not unmindful of an act of'distinguished gallantry on the part of another . A portion of tho regiment immediately rallied around him , and was reformed by the officers . Dix then led them towards the enemy , until one of the men volunteered to take the flag . The party re
turned to the field , and though not in . time to repair the disaster which their flight had caused , to retrieve , in a Blight degree , the character of the state . " At anotherstage of the battle , it is said that the Arkansas oavalry roda at full speed to Saltillo . and reported General Taylor in full retreat ; and during the very hottest of the fight , " says the correspondent of tbe Topio , " wliilo every effective man was wanted in tho fields , r hundreds , some aay thousands of volunteers had collected in the rancho , with the waggon train , whom no efforts or entreaties could induce to join their brethren / neighbours , andfriei ) d 3 » then in the last struggle for death or victory .
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FOR THE PRO ' TEOtlON ' op / iNSDTJSrRT . 11 Phion for the MMo * . » f In another week fr ~ { he day on which this nJSnSi'f " ; Of our AssociationVmemberswho are elected as delegates to represent their respective branches at the ensuine Confe r ™^ to beiheld at Birmingham , on WhSondtStt inst , and following day , will have proceeded from their . homeron that important duty , and others will cannot generallbe to
y expected see any remarks which might be made on their approaching duties in next weeks paper . Under these considerations ' we shall steal a march upon time , by calling the attention of delegates , to the subject , in the present number . Far be it from us , in the capacity we now exercise , to suppose that our numerous members are likely to act inconsideratel y in the selection thev make of representatives , by electing delegates who require instruction from us to fit them for the dischargeof the duties they are appointed to perform ; on the contrary , we hope that every branch of our Association has seen it their duty to select , as far as their capabilities would permitdelegates possessing
, the essential qualifications of intelligence , philanthropy , integrity , discernment , and general good feeling—men whose object in res ponding to the call of their fell qw-members is not to gratify their own private feelings , bntto promote the utility of an institution which is founded on principles of philan-& '» ¦ !? u ks " benefit not onlyits own members but the whole human race . But - while we de-HK . TE ^ ° dictatOrlal ^ aracterl we bear in 'S hiSSw C a -f I »» tfwl ? few persons who TJZ te W ^ ° vedfrom their usual occupations and required to ; consider and decide or
numerous complicated and interesting subjects , with which they are not practicall y famiifar , and which are of , such importance as to merit the " serious attention of the many thousands of persons composing our Association , and who , on considering the serious consequences and bitter reflections that mi ght result from ah erroneous . decision on any important matter , at such critical juncture as the present , when the Association , though yet in its infancy , is attracting the attention of numerous persons in various classes of thecommunify;—we say that there are comparatively few persons who , under such
circumstances , would not feel in a great measure overcome liy a sense of the great responsibility they had incurrfd by their , appointment , and perhaps be led to entertainfearsof their inability to discharge the duties of their delegated trust w ' ith equal credit to themselves and satisfaction to their constituents , and to the ultimate success of the Association . A conference composed of delegates of this character are likely to arrive at correct decisions , as their deliberations may reasonabl y be expected to be calm and dispassionate , and their decisions the result of
conviction , after all requisite points have been impartially . heard , and duly considered . However inexperienced some may be on matters of public business , if they ardently wish to promote the great objects of our Association they will , by the exercise of good feeling and patient hearing of the statements that will be made during the proceedings , and a common-sense view of the subject , - will be prevented from . going far wrong in the discharge of their duties ; It will be requisite for them to bear in mind that while much good that has been attempted by the Association has been effected , and has ¦ exceeded in results the expectations
of the Executive Officers of the Association , that such success has not attended every effort that has been made . Some cases have been attended with circumstances of such a character as to prevent the same results that have followed in others , and some Of the circumstances were unforeseen . In all such leases , however , the delegates will require to remember that mortals cannot command success , even though they may do their utmost to deserve it . The Conference is the legislative assembly of the Association , and the central committee and agents are its executives . A certain degree of discretionary power is necessarily vested in the latter , and all they can do in the exercise of that discretion is to be
guided by the best of their judgment , taking nil circumstances concerned into consideration . It is also the duty of the delegates in Conference to take all circumstances into consideration , and to give the executive officers credit for having done their best , according to circumstances . By the exercise of those feelings any unsuccessful results that may occur from the proceedings of either the Conference or the executive officers will at all times be turned to good account , as the circumstances which ptoduce disappointment will ever operate as a caution in future proceedings , and , unless such feelings be exercised , the good that the Association is capable of effecting would ever be subject to be retarded , as
no proceedings could be pursued vigorously and satisfactorily if the parties moving therein were to be subjected to unpleasant reflections should success not attend their efforts , or should they not receive credit for the best motives in their proceedings . We hope these ^ brief remarks will have the desired effect , and those delegates who from inexperience in public business , or from excessive sanguine expectations , may be led to consider that uninterrupted success should attend all our proceedings , will not be discouraged , or be led to use any useless or painful reflections in cases in which the results have not been followed by ordinary success . We deem these remarks necessary as a precaution / not that we anticipate any manifestation of recriminatory feeling in any of the unsuccessful efforts to which we allude ,
but , knowing as we do that some may be appointed as delegates who may , from not being practically familiar with the difficulties attending public business , and knowing the success that has attended our efforts generally , be led to expect more than is possible to achieve , and finding that some cases have not been so successful as others , may be led to the use of useless reflections thereon , which , while they could do no good , might do much harm . Our Association is yet in its infancy ; it has been instrumental in doing immense good , and doubtless it will do all that is intended , if the proper means are adopted ; hut patience , and good feeling , and forbearance , in cases of disappointment , will ever require to be exercised in our Association as in every other institution .
The central committee of the above Association held their usual meeting on Monday , !' . S . Duncombe , Esq . M . P ., in the chair . The minutes of the previous meetiugs were read and confirmed , the financial accounts read and received . An immense number of letters were . read , amongst which was one from the members of Davytowu respecting the proposed reduction , and the men would be out in a few days . The central committee resolved to send down Mr Williamson to mediate- between the men and their employers . The central committee have since learned that Mr W . succeeded in effecting an amicable arrangement .
The delegates elected to serve on the Conference of the United Trades' Association are respectfully informed that they are requested to deliver in their credentials , andreceive admission cards , at the Hall of Science , Lawrence-street , Birmingham , at ten o ' clock on the morning of Whit-Monday . The President will take the chair at three o ' clock in the afternoon . SCOTLAND .-GHEENOCK .-On Monday
evening a public meeting of the coopers of this town and Port Glasgow was held in the Free School-room , when Mr Jacobs delivered a lecture on the National Association , for the purpose of confirming the new members , and converting those that remained isolated . , A vote of confidence was passed in the Association , and a number of members entered . A vote of thanks to the Lecturer and the Chairman , and the ineeting adjourned to Thursday , to elect delegates to the Conference .
DALKEITH . — On Tuesday evening a public meeting of all the trades and working classes generally was held in the Public Hall , to hear a lecture on the National Association ' s means of protecting . and enriching the Labourer . The missionary , Mr Jacobs , thoroughly expounded the question in all its bearings , in an interesting manner . A vote of approval of the plan was carried unanimously , and a provisional committee elected to organise the town . The usual votes of thanks were passed , and the meeting separated in revived spirits .,
GLASGOW .-On Wednesday evening a public meeting of the carpet weavers was held in their room , at . Tradeston , tohear-the plans and progress of tbe National Association explained , A vote of confidence was passed in tke Association by this branch ; the question of strike amicably arranged ; "iiTnv" *" * , membir 8 bSS been effected ' JiU&Ul , —The missionary attended the officers of the block printers , representing 300 members , who , after the explanation given by Mr Jacobs ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 15, 1847, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1418/page/5/
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