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      dosn such sentences in shout hand as appeared to him the most proaiinant , an-i his leftiraony would bf corroborated by another , who attendtd frr a siiniiav pnrriosa . He apprehended there wnnld be no d . ffi enlty in proving the offence . lie beferrd one ot" tin highest privilege ofthecovtitation wss that vthiib allowed open and public speaking—calm , fair , le it ! - rsate discussioa—and he , like every Englishman . SI ) cot wish to take away one iota of that impnrtuni privilege . No class of persar . s csu ' . d Ionk upon tbe events that had occurred in the metropolis in anyother light than that of severe coodeir-natioo . lie feltnodonbt tha jury in this case would do their duty . Mr Richard KeuuH , examined by Mr Wflsby — I * Cro ^ n Solicitor of Ireland . Produced the tecor . i oi conviction of Joan MUcbel , for fdocy . ( The ersmintd coav was put in . )

      Frederick Tows Fowlkr was then examined bv Mr Bodkin * . Ila said , I have been in the habit for some years of attending to report paHlie meetings . I renumber attending a m ? etin £ which was held on Clerkenwell-green , on the 29 : hof May las ' . 1 took place about half-past gix o ' clock in ihe evening . I saw the defendant Fusssll there . He was in a van , in which taere wera about twenty persons . Al together there were about 3 000 persons present . The fir 3 t person who spoke at the msstins was a person named Williams . I to k a sste of part of what he said , bnt cot all of it . I merely took such portions of it as were necessary for a newspaper report . ( The witness then read the part of the speech c ^ ramenciGg , The bloody aristocracy has done it * work , '

      which , was read is the openia . ? addrass . He then read extracts from the speech of M'Cartbv , who was the next speaker ^ FusselJ , the present Aefeni&at . tfeen addressed tee meeting . lie said , the government had succeeded in convicting honest Jchn Mitchel . and then went on to say , ' how hsr a they accomplished Jit ? Why , by packed juries and partisan judges . I tell Lord John Russell I have no sympathy with his damnable government . If the Queen does not recognise the people , the people must forget to recognise the Queen . If Joha Mitchel is Bent out of this country , every Irishman must rise and revenge the intuit , or they will no longer ba worthy of tbe name they bear , The government is not worth the support of any

      honest man . It is too contemptible to ba recognised , and yon must n « e your besfcesdeavonrs to ovriurn it . And now I wish to impresa upon yon ono safe way of getting rid of onr badruleR , who forget their duty to their country . I openly avow that I recommend private assassination . What made the Emperor of Austria fly ? Why , tho fear of assassination ; and it is by that meani that we mutt get rid of our bsd rulers . I wonfa disown any one of my own snns who would not assassinate any one who was instrumental in bmishing me from my country . ' Williams then ssked the people to fall into marching order , which they readily did . The procession then went along

      Ay ' esbury-street , St John ' e-street , Old-street-road , to Finsbnry-square , where it remained for about a quarter of sn hoar or more . The people then proceeded through Long-lane to Smithfiald , and from thence down Snow-hiH snd along Holborn , to the L * m& and Labour Bank of O'Connor , where they gave three cheers . They then went to Leicestersquare , snd froai thence to the Chartist Assembly Room near Sohr . iquare , where I ieft them . There were abant 3 , 009 people altogether when the proctssion started . The procession appeared to create a great deal of fear and terror in the minds of the pco p ! e along the line ef march ; many shut np their Shops and closed their doors .

      Cro « s exaained by Mr Sergeant * llek—I was on tie waggon . There were three speakers , and the whole epeskJDg did nat occapy more than twenty minutes at the ontside . My note is in abbreviated long hand , and is my usual mode of taking do ^ n ranches to be inserted in the newspapers . ( The wHneis here handed in his note 3 to the learned eouneei , and pointed out to him the latter passage ef Fusseli ' t speech . ) Thirty or forty of the best reporters on the London pres 3 take note ' s in that way . I have been emi loved on all the London papers . I have beeo employed on the Times . I attend meetings on my own account , and send in my reports to the different newspaper ! , and if they use them they pay me for theint I have commanicated with tha editor of the

      T . BTKS penanaily with resoect to taking reports of nettings . I do cotfenow that I have ever spoken to the editor himself , bat I have sten him d zens of times . I B * Te bsen a reporter sis or sevenyears , and BOine portion of the time was editor and reporter of the Rulwat Telegbath . 1 have never streamed a police office as a reporter , bat about thirteen year ? age I attended a police court as a defendant , for having run away from my master , to whom I was an apprentice . I have also been charged with felony at & police court , in consequence of an action I had against the Mohsikq Chronicle . I was charged with putting the iwaof a HghWdciyar into the letterbox of that newspaper , and tbe case came before Mr Haii . at Bow-street who dismissed me , because there

      we * 9 no ground * for the charge . I commenced an &cti : n against the Morsixo Chhokiczk for £ 48 , but not having sufficient evidence to substantiate the case I abandoned it . There was a cas 9 of arson in » h'ch I was a party in relation to the Sun Fire Offioa . I wm insured for £ 500 , and the touse was burnt dowH . I claimed £ 410 , but never got it . I ha ^ : heard it said by eoaEsel that I h . 2 d b ^ en guilty of :. ; gon , bnt I never pay any attention to what they ssy . ( Laughter . ) I never absconded lor hai : 3 g defrauded Messrs Spicer , the paper dealers . I Sin aot aware whether I owa them anything . I * sa « editor of tha Thb 4 tric * l Chronicle , but not

      the proprietor . I never bought £ 40 or £ 45 worth of paper from thea on the understanding that it was for '; i 3 t paper , and then sold it next day for £ 10 . I have been a bankrupt , but obtained my certificate imtaedia ' . ely , and handed in my assets to the . amount of £ 300 more than my debts , I report for all the pape . s , and eend copy on the chance of its being ingsrrcd . I am paid by the line . I never was in the employ of the Blackwall Railway . I attended nearly all the Char . ist meetings , and reported some of tb ? m . I was engaged by th ? Express to repon the meeting en Kennington Common . I never seri to papers when they have their own reporters pre ^ nt .

      R ; examined . —If I send to a paper what is not fcre-s , ene may send for yeara without having a line ia . liiNRt Poiieb was nesfc examined by the Atiob-SBr-ijEsssiL-I am a reporter , and report for ali th- jaily papera . I report in shorfc-hand . I atfeu a rd the meeting on the 29 : h of May . I arrived ther- a few minutes before seven o ' clock , 1 was on the > an . Afc the commencement of the proceedings I sL uld say there were about 2 . 000 or 3 , 000 persons prt :-nt . I took a note of part trf' what was said at the aeetiDg . ( The witness here read the notes he hadiskenof Wiiiiams'spetca ; alsa the not € 3 of M ' - ' arthy's snd Fussell ' s , which were quoted by ih > Att ;; ney . Genera ! in his opening . ) The people then fell ; 3 to marching order at the request ot Wiliiam 3 . Tn ^ witness then described the progress of tha process : cnw Deau-stteet , Soho , as detailed by the last witr . ess .

      Crws-esiniined by Mr Sergeant Allsx—I was not : ruaied by any paper to attend the meeting . I h&fb lived in the sane house with the hit witness sicr c rae b .-ginning of tae year . I did no ! see any otbe ¦ " reporters as the meeting . I was induced to go the ^ yn the chancB of getting my account inserted iu r - newspapers . The speaking altogether occupie about fort / minutes . Fotvlerand I acted as par- : iers . It " I sent false reports to any of the newspaKrs I have no doubt that my reports would not bs ins ? -red again . I retired with Fowier alter leaving the rnsttmg . We did not compare Estes , but he wroi : one portion of thea , and I another portion . I r _ a ' c exactly say now which part I wrote . Tb /'" j was a very great noise st thB meeting . Th * bole that I wrete waa put into the Moenikg Vekosicle . I s ^ es . r I never compared notes win . rowler .

      ii ::- _ icE iLvEvzT . policeman , waa next calUd and essssined by Mr Clarke—Attended the meetieg on Clerkenwell green on the 20 : h of May . A man iuni ? i Williams firsi spoke at the meeting . I have the ^ t-. swithraethatltookofhiBtpauch . I left the rr-esung for a short time , aad when I returned Fus ^ -II was speaking . The people were then cheering T-. iy Bauch . When Fossell had done speaking W ' iii ' -sm ? said . ' Now frieeds , fall in , lour abreast . ' I B&-v Williams in front ef tae prcce 3 > ioj as it went tfrrcvrii Camp ton-street . lie tsid , adtfresaiDg the peor . 'i -, taat if they were friends to tha c ^ use they wov , "j fill into ths precession . Tfce wituesa then detail ' -a ihe ^ rogrea of the _ proce 3 « ion to Drac-street , and : J * ' j the route it took in returninsr back to

      Smithfield . On returning , opposite the Dispatch office in Fie . u :-4 Yeet , some of the leaders cried out , ' Let us Bisa-ii ii in ; ' bat they did not carry out the threat . Ww- t-tity got to the corner of Bridge street , Bla ^ kfrien , R ' - 'me suggested that thsy Bhould attack the T ih ~ 3 effice . They then went through FaTingdongtrec-t to Smilhfield , aBd from thence to Redcross-Etr £ r : t . where Williams addresaed tiia people from a coff •? iiiop window , lie sud they had had a meeting inej / irfl of' a ' aality Jack , ' ( meaaicg Liid J . H . ussuj 1 } , and this they wuuld continuo meeting until their Irish Brethren had o&taised their liberty , whatever iai fe " - "t Jd said by Lsrd John and the other members efu- j Government . M'Csrtuy a ' . so fpokc from ihe vrins-. w , and toW the people they wcuid ' do it * i > mcrr-. n' , and adiked them to come armed with guas and ; -S :-j : s . Some one in ih « crowd said , ' L- . ad us OB , r : < 1 we will do ic to nigkt . ' 'fho City p 3 iiC 3 ther interfered , and dispersed the people .

      Ti . 3 wiiness was criias-exannned by Mr Allen , with- - . it , however , eliciting any material { act that had ¦ : 'i been already givea ic evicience . Jau = 6 Colliks , of the City police , examined by Mr Wehoj—Oa the 29 ; h of May last , ray division " was ord ; ; : d w so io Kedcf * ES-.-treet , There Kere betwt-- ^ 8 000 and 4 , 000 people assembled opposite Car " w . fjgiit ' a coffee shop , frem a window of which Kai = oce was addressing them . We had orders to disseise the siob , » hi « h we did , without usiug our trucchsocs , but Eiany of them assembled again in Golden-lane . I there had a brickbat thrown in my Ikh . There pare four policemen woandad besidea

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      niyfelf . Several Metropolitan policemen came to ( . heir atsiftattce . Hot water was thrown at aome o t > i 9 p : * ii : o from the windows of tha houses , and . ^ o ; r-. m tome of ( he courts in the iane . Jam-a Tkrrt , a sla ^ s maker in St . John-street , * si » theni examined by the AttorooyGeceral . My . ^ hnp i , gituatud close to the Green , and I could see persons goi&j ? io the meeting on the 29 th May . I was not akrmtd myself , but my family were , and rar . ny o ' niy neighbours , I shut up my shop . I saw thB procf-.-sion turn out of Aylesbury-street . I think thira w- re about 600 peraons pre . ent . That is al' I ^ aw . I cannot say whether there were more . J-. i . sni'A I ' leasant , shatter , residing in Aylesbnry st ' ect , Ck-rktnwell . said on the day in question he so ;! his fa mil / wvre much alarmed at the number otp ? -olo pa eit . g , They saw the horse troop pass , and ( if coiise they were alarmed . —( Laughter . ) He coiisiqiiontlv fiiilowed the eS 3 ruple of his neighbours , and shut u » his ghop .

      Cfo a ixnhlneo . by Sergeani Allen : Tfce people f . irm ' iKi : the proctssion were of the worst cIsbb , and m co . ^ tquer : c « ot their proceedings , serious injury \ v ; h drao to h ; s br . siness . B- Chief Justice Wiide : I do not know the names of the speakers ; but they were of thd werat possible c ; a * s . ( Lmishtcr . ) Thisc ucludeu the case for the prosecution , and tSe j ury re > ired Lr a few minntes for refreshments . Ma tho retura ( if thejury , Mr St-raennt Allen took some onjectJess to the

      mdieimei . i , « liich he submitted wasnoticftonformity w'th the evidence as te the wcrda spoken , is two or three instances . Iu one of the speeches ,, where it wna gaid tbat Irishmen would not deserve the name , ii » Lt ^ did » 6 f nib to a man to rsreiigs tte icsalt put u- ^ oij them b . v the transportation of John Mitehel . the evidence wa « thnt the word ' yos' was UBed rastead of they , ' which he submitted rendered the paragraph tofaliyunh'tellJaJble . Iu the othe ? hstance , ia-the p ? . « s ? . ge rela-uns tathe Queen , the vrord' neglecfwas on tbe indictment , whereas , according . to the evidence , Ik * word actually nsed was 'fsrget . '

      The Chief Jcjtich , after conferring with his teamed colleagues aLd referring to tile indictmeat , ruled that ttiese portions cf it , should * not ba relied upon , but tiiat the rassshoatd v , o to too jury upon ttiat pin of the e ' ewgo in which tire defendant ? was aliped to have recommended privets [ absasaiQation . Sergeant Allks then addrraaed the juryt He said ' that tie really : clb a difficulty in knowing tiow toBhape his defenco on account of there being charges againBt the defendant which he consi&rad were estirely dia-9 inular , and which would require a separate line of defence . Chkf Jpstice Wilde here interposed , ami Baid he was of opinion that the learned sergeant need not direct his attention ' . o the ccuns charging a riot .

      Sergeant Alun proceeded . He was obliged to his lordship for thfa intimation , as it relieved him frem a porftnn of the difficulty nnder which he laboured , lie had iioi ? ti addie . s himself to the obarge f being present at an uniawiul assembly , and if the ehsrgrt of Ho- ; fell to the ground ; he apprehended that this muni alsa . There v ^ as no proof of any unlawful object in caliicg the meeting together a ' nd it reaily eeempd as it it h ad no other object than the ^ ne etatfd in the course of the evidence , that they were determined to hs * e the meeting oa that occaeioD , becau ^ Finality John badp ? evented theia from meeting on the 10 th of April , and- he submitted tbat there was nothing to show that tbia waa ia the first insanr" an ualawful assembly . Then , a 3 to the

      ciiargv of sedition . The Attotncy-General had done him no ir-ore than justiee , wLen be said bo weft sure hs would n » t attempt to justify thft speech alleged to have been made on the accanan in question , in which the defendant was represented to have recommended private assassination . He felt equally the odious ckaracter of such a recommendatien wi-h any' gentleman present , and his defei : ce was that no Euch statement wag made by the defendant ; snd he should chow , by satisfactory evidence , that tha reference to a- 'Saatication was never iiilenf ' sdi in the scwe in wbica it" was » ow represented . These were-, no doubt , most csciting times , and i : was very natural for men ia their position to hok very unfavourably

      upon any attempt to create disturbance and alarm , and to excite tiie multitude , thereby endangering the liberty and seenrity which th * -y enjeyed ; but he entreated ihem net to allow their feelings to influence their minds in the present case , snd that they weuld , so far as was possible , endeavour to ascertain wbat was the r <; al effect of the speeches that were madeon this occasiofj , aud to consider what would have been the conclusion they would have come to respecting them , it' they had been delivered at a time when there was an utter absence of tbe present political excitement The learned sergeant thm proceeded to comment upon the speeches that had been given is evidence ; 2 nd he argued tiiat in ipeakisg of the government with contempt , the speaker had sot ext

      ceeded the bounds of tair discussion , and he said tha t if a government was not liked by any portions of the people , they bad a right to say so ; and , if they pleased , say , as in thi 3 instance , that they looked upon it with contempt . What was the Heading of the word government ? Did it nuan all the constitcted authorities of the country ? Certainly not . It only referred to ihe persons holding the executive authoriw , snd who raUbt be removed any t ' ay by a rota oi tbe Eause of C mmons . Sack things were constantiyfcaid and he did not knnwthat even mem * bers of tbe House cf Commons had not said the same tning . Tbe learned sergeant processed at somelength to comment upon this partot tue evidence , and thea went on to refer to tbat part of the case in which the defendant was represented to have said , that if the Queen forgot her duty to the people they had a right to forget her , and he asked whether it was a new doctrine in this cmncry that the people

      had a right to expel the sovereign , if tho sovereign did wrong ? Why , the very' liberty which they now enjoyed and the present constitution of the country was owing to the glorious revo ' ution of 1688 . The very laws under which they lived , the liberty of which they boasted , were obtained by banishing irom the . country a . sovereign who went beyond the law . Couid it , thereforei ba denied that such a subject was cot a matter for diecussioH ? . He felt eatiafied it could not . . He believed tbat bufc for the state of political excitement that prevailed , no notice Wuald bare been taken of the matter , or that if a metubsr of parliament had made suoh atatementB to his constituents at a public Eeetiujj . they would have been passed over without any notice . The Attorset-Gf ^ eh 4 L here ru ? e and said that if such a speech had been made by any person , no matter wha : his statioa was , he should have felt it his duty to presecute him .

      Sergeant Allen proceeded . —No > withstanding this , he believed that he was perfectly justified in the observation he had made , a : > d-that . this portion efthe speech did not amount to the offec . ee of sedition ; and he agaio asserted , that if tho peopie imagined tbat the sovereign abused the law , they had a right to meet to discuss the propriety of expelling a sovereign who co aoted , and ne deolsred his opinion that but for the excitement that prevailed at the time , the present prosecution would ce » er have been tea ? d of . As to expressing contempt for the uoTernment it ? elf , surely there was nothing in that , for it was done every day . aud in all manner cf places . ' It might , for all he knew , be a V 6 _ ry excellent government—he wou'd not give an opinion upon

      that subject—but it certainly appeared to him to pressnt very much the appearance of a la . me man upon crutche ? , ani who was obliged to besr continually upon one side or tha other , and to rely upon tbe two extreme * entirely for support , and under Iheas circumstances , he considered chaS people mighS very well consider theraselve 3 justiQed in meeting to discuss the propriety of attempting to get rid of such a government . lie then proceeded . to comment upon that portion of the charge which he admitted was of the must eerious character , namely , the recommendation to commit private a&a&iaation , and he said tbat he wa 3 instructed by the defendant to deny most positive !? that he tvar made use of such an obieivation . and that he shou'd be able to show by evidence that it wa 3 never uttered . He urged the improbability that a man , who he bhould show enjuved a respectable

      position in society , should have made such au odious sia ernent , and he said that tha witnesses for the prosecution must hava misunderstood him , and that at all events , if tha allsged speech was not altogether atabricati'n , that the witnesses must have niisunderasood what the defendant really said . The learned Sergtsnt then remarked upon the expression " base , brutal , and b—— Whigs , " being brought forward in iho evidence , to prejudice tho caen , when every one knew that it was only a quotation ; that it bad been used by an eminent individual , a member of the House of Commons , in speaking uf the Whig Government , who was not only not pro-ecuted for using the expression , but actually had an offer from that very government , of one of the highest ofh ' cea in the State . In ounciuaion Be called upon the jury t < j acquit the defendant , and by that verdict show their determination not tu upho : d one law to the rich and another to the poor .

      Witnesses were then called for the defence . ' Stephsk Blacksiose , examined by Mr Huddlestose —He ! aid he was a earpecter , and that ho was at tiie nieniot . ' , and was near enough to hear ths addre £ 3 ei 4 delivered . He heard the wh . Is of the uddress of Mr Fassell . In speakiDg of private assassination , he aaid the Emperor of Austria had been compiled to fly from ftar of it . lie did not use tho words in the s ? nse imputed to him . He said he hsd five sous , and if they did not avenge his ( Fussell's ) wrongs , he would disown them . He mzdi nse of the w ( rtis * private assassinati . jn' once ,. and only then iu His sensu ha iiad stated . Tue report of his speech in tho next day ' s paper wa 9 incorrect ; its inp . c .-uracy was impressed upon him tiie moment he saw it .

      Cross-examination by the AiionuKY-GKNERAL . — Ha belonged to the- South Lyndon Hall district ' of Chartiste . He was enrolled a member of that suciety London was diWded into d ^ tricta . . Notices of meat . ' iug are distributed by tha secretary . Handbills are ofton distributed for tha purpose of infarmine tho members where and when the meeting * are held . He

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      went to the meeting in question in consequence o f seeing a placard in the streets , ' Meet at all hazards . ' He believed some of the districts had captains . Was in the van at the meeting close to Fussell . There might haYe been 4 , 000 at the meeting . There was applause , but sot much noise . Mr Fus ? ell , in Bpeak ing of private assassination , alluded to a paragraph in the newspapers with" respect to the Emporor of Austria . In speaking of the government , he said he and otherB wished to lee the system ef things

      changed , as the taxes pressed heavily and oppressively upon them . Ha said a great deal more , but he oould not recoliect all * Did not recollect even tbe substance of what Fassell said with reBpeot to the Queen . He thought he Bpoke in favour of the Queen . ( Laughter ) He said John Mitchel was a persecuted man . Did not hear anythingsaid about the duty of Irishmen to rise and avenge their iDJnries . Was atruck with the words , ' private assassination , ' because he thought at the time if those were his sentiments that he ceuld not countenance him as a fellow-Chartist . Shonld

      say there were not more than 40 , 000 in the crowd ; they took three-quarters of on hour to pass . Did not see either Vernon or Williams . Michael Weedon said he lived in Hatton » gardep , and that he heard Fussell speak at a distance of bix or seven yards . He could not say whether he said thsword ' avenee' or ' revenge , ' when he spake of his five sons . He agreed with the laat witness in all respects as to what he said in reference to private assassination . He spoke of the Emperor of Austria , and said he Hi bsen driven from his dominions in eonseqaenoe of the fear ef private assassination , and

      t&at however strong » government might be , it Bight easily be rendered" weak if it did n&t exiBt in ths affections of the peopla . Eoward Siosss . a jeweller , residing i » Spenserstreet , Clerkenwell , said ths defendant Pussell had been" in his emptoy six or ae 7 en ytarp , and bad always borne an essellent character . He always considered him a sober , peaceable , and inefftjneive mas . Cross-examined 5 ) y the Attobket- General . —Had beard tbat the defendant waB tried at Warwick assizes in 1839 , for being engaged' in some Chartist disturbances .

      John Brittaik said'he had knows him four ysars , and always considered- him a pe&eeable man . This being the caae for tbe defence , The ATTORNET-GuNasur . then replied . The Cnrs ? Justice Bammed up , and explained'at considerable length tho state of tfcelaw with regard $ o illegal asBembiiea aad sedition . He said it was certainly a most important privilege possessed by tbe eople of this country to meet and discuss polities ]! grievances , But at the same time it was equally important , for the pfotectioa of them all } that the right should not be abused , and that public zssetings Bhould ' not be made use of by designing pereor 3 to influence the minds ofthe lower orders of people , who perhaps might ba at the raoment , from particular

      oauBes in a state of distress , and peculiarly liable to baacted upon by exciting addressee and thereby induced to unusual acts of violence , aod'eadanger tbe public peace . Tniswas the-question at issue ontbopresent occaBico , and the jury were the proper arbitdH of it . After some further observations upon the earns subjsct , the learned' judge said , that the doctrine advanced by the learned sergeant ia his speech for the defendant , tbat if the erown did nob perform the duty which the people thought they were entitled to receive st- the hands of the croirn , they had a right to meet io discuss the propriety of expelliBg the sovereign , was a& entirely new doctrine to him . The learned Sergeant bad founded his assertion on the circumstanceaof the revolution of 1688 , but he forgot that the

      great lawyers and tho great statesmen of' that day decided the doctrine of the existence of any person to remove the Sovereign , and the constitution aanctioEed tha prinoiple that the- Crown could do no wrong . Tie Crown only aoted by its advisers , and if wrong was done the instruments were- alone answerable , and not tha Crown itself , ^ here would it end if the people had the power of discussing whether the Crown had dono wrong ? Who waa to decide tee question ? T 7 as it to be discossed by such persona as appeared to have assembled on the present occasion , and under such circumstances ? Could such a subject be safely left in their hands ? It was impossible they could do so ,, and if such proceedings were permitted , they could only produce anarchy , confusion , and tyranny .

      Th&Jury retired , and after deliberating aboufr a quarter-of an hour , they found ' the defendant Guilty upon thoso counts of tho indiotment charging him with sedition , and attending an unlawful assembly , and acquitted him of the count charging a riot . The defendant was immediately ordered into the custody of the Governor of Newgate . Judgment waa postponed . ( Continued to the EigWh page . )

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      • ENGLAND'S COMING REVOLUTION . * The above ia the title of a pamphlet bearing the impress of havisg been written by & middle-claaa maa . As it has neither author ' s nor publisher ' s name we cannot say where it can be obtained ; we will , howaver , give a fow extracts , that our readers may have some idea of its contente . WARNING TO TBS ABI 8 TOCSACT . Let not Aristocracy lay the flattering uuction to its palpitating heart , tbat because tho people havo not seized arms , and piled up barricades , they a fill willingly bend their abashed heads and branded hands to the galltag yoke of class legislation , of political non-entity , oi unmitigated toil , sf insufficient feod , of aged pauperism , af workhouss insults , and begrudged : ravo !

      POPDXAE LEADEE 9 . The glorious field of patriotism and tternal fame opaned ir . France will make many ambitions men bid for lQadcrsbip In England ; but ths people must be waryif of the middle clasn , let a long career of in ^ ejeiclence ba tho test ; if men of the press , see that their writings have been on the people ' s and virtue ' s Bide : these are the most dangeroui aspirants—many reckless of political honour or honesty , who paadcr to morbid tastes , and send ibrth their moral poison from streets watched by Vice Society men—yet withal possessing talent , they are the most subtle and the most to bo avoided . The work ing class ar « these chiefly to ba relied npen . They know tho wants , the wishes , the sufferings of the millions ; and we can prove the most brilliant talent of the country has sprung from thtlr ranks . THS TBDCDLEKT ' HUES . '

      The baseness , falsehood , and truculency of the leading paper in England , in hoodwinking the aristocracy and foreign powtrs as to the real feeling , determination , and power of the English people is criminal . It can no more stay the ascendancy of the people than it can hide tbe rising son . Hence , all 6 ught to prepare for the now era , and not hav 6 it arrive bo suddenly os to wrock them in an unexpected confusion . . * * * This paper also preaches of the happiness of the people of this country , and joy which they ought to feel in having such a blessed and excellent constitution ! This in tho face of daily examples of law and justice being antiigon : B ; icl In nearly whole counties being individual property ! In houses or cabiaa of the people being destroyed , and their psrion » , in God ' s iraBge , being cast on the highways to perish and to rot ! In the faco of nine millions beiDg

      r ; quired for poor rates , and daily , hourly exhortations to private charities ! In thousands homeless , outlaying in the public thoroughfares ! In almoit daily deaths from Starvation ! In the moat industrious people in tfao world feeing in rags , in ignorance , in want ! But this paper is also notorious for it 3 tergiversation : should it sea the face of power becoming pallid , its monopolising grasp becoming weak , it would rush upon the dying monster , and assist in its destruction . It uuy on the morrow become as farious in demooracy as it has been before ; and its advocacy of brickbatism be as loudly proclaimed , aad as glowingly advocated . If it continue ; o distort facts , to preach what is falso , to hide popular movements and expressions of tbe people ' s will , disgrace trill recoil with vengeance on ita own head , ond misery on its truiiim . unthinking disciples *

      THE FOTO&E . It is expected Russell will resign ; that for a time a piny rie a ? C -Men will t ! un be called to power , and reform fs > l . ow < tform . CoWen ' s reforms will abolish primojoneuro iiD'i tntflil ; the church will be divorced from tho state ; t ' M ; civil list reducod ; the army and navy be lesflui . ei . an 1 ndvaucrmeatainthem bo the result of merit , not of wealth and birth ; tbus , the rising , juvenile aristocracy vMU bo thrown upon tttuir parents , not tbe country , jor choir F . nppirt . — . Ttiis is the piciuro of tho future drawn tj t \ n middle class . But the people look more for a pi'vuunuut possessing tho estendod views of tbo French republic ; nod should uny chance affair occur , either of o : htrs or their own creation , it might bo again TOO LATE and Cobden , like Barrot , be shoved asido for sterner hoavier metal . It u this that the aristocrooy hate most especially to f

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      The Cholkra . —Letters from Bunharest , of the 16 th ulfc ., announce that political sff * irs are suspended , on aeoount of tbe cholera , which haa raged here with virulence for tho last five days . Sinoa the 7 th of June , about 1 C 0 pevaona are attacked daily , of whom fi ty are oairied off by death . A general panio prevails amoDg the inhabitauta , and all who aro able to make their escape to the mountains , hasten to foreign ports . All the public tribunals ara cloafld . Eight cases of cholera having uccurred among the royal household , 9 onie of the female attendants in the royal nursery wore B 6 ized yesterday . The Princess act off this morning for the mountains nooompanied by her husband . In Constantinople , also , according to our Ia 3 t reports , dated June 14 th . the cholera had again increased , and carried off > i' 3 peraons in the course of a week . The cholera is also wing in Russia . ° *

      A Sensible Youth . —Mr John Moore , of Norton , netr Stockton , an active , temperate young man , who has not jet completed his first century , but will do so ma few months digs and cultivates his own garden , aad says he shall be glad to live bo loug a 3 he has health and atrenath , bat'hasno wish to live to an old age . Mr Moore iaa wise sou ^ bk e ? . He knows that man my be juvenile at a lj Uudredi and old at twenty . Think of this , ye « j ast young mfm , ^ GixHthtad Observer . '

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      FRATERNAL FESTIVAL . On Tuesday evening last a number of the members of the society of Fraternal Democrats , together with a number of the members of the German Working Men ' s Association , assembled for the purpose of taking farewell of Carl Schapper , who had returned to London , and was about to leave again fsr Germany , taking his family with him . A substantial supper had been provided , to which ample justice was done . After the cloth was removed , Julian Harney was called to the chair . The Piesident ' s Beat was surmounted by the bonnet rouge .

      In the course of the evening the following toasts were duly honoured : — ' The Proletarian Martyrs of June , 1848 , and speedy justice on their murderers . ' ' The health and prosperity of Carl Schapper . He carries with him the fraternal affection of the English working men . May he in his native land nee the speedy establishment of veritable Democracy . ' ' The English Chartists , and may Ernest Jones and the other persecuted patriots enjoy a speedy triumph over their persecutors . ' < Health and Happiness to

      Mrs Schapper and family . ' ' The Working Men's Associations of Germany—may they accomplish their object , the Sovereignty of Labour , based upon the ruins of Kingcraft , Lordcraft , Priestcraft , and Shopcraft . ' ' The brave Armand Barbes , and all the true democrats ef France ; and victory to the Real Republic . ' 'The healths of Carl Marx and Frederick Engels , and success to tbe New Menkh Gazette . ' 1 Prosperity to the great organ of English Democracy , the Northern Star /

      Eloquent speeches were delivered by the Chairman , Carl Schapper , John M'Crae , Samuel Kydd , and Henry Bauer . The songs of the evening included the Marseillaise , the Carmagno le , and Mourir pour la P'atriv .. On Wednesday morning friend Schapper ieft London with hit * family , by the steamer for Cologne , carrying with him the earnest good wishes of his brother democrats , both English and German . We fear it will ) ba long before we- shali have his like again .

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      THE FMT 1 SNAL DEMOCRATS TO THE WORKING MEN OF © HEAT ? BRITAIN AND IRELAND ;

      EftUABFTTi EiEiERTY , FllATERNrrY . Bhkthren , —Duty commands hs- to address you in vindication of our brethren , the proletarians of Paris ,, the victims of traitors , assassinsy and oalumniiitors . The- Parisian I / mrgeome have had ; ' the battle they longed for . They hate slaughtered the founders of the Republic . They have murdered women and children ; They have indulged in the luxury of vrtiole&ale assassination .. A-ud , now ,, having isteblished a reign of blood and terror—having ' made a solitude , and called it peace '— they exultmgly shout to their worthy camrogves of other lands : ' Order-mnni in Ptstis !'

      The Press-gang liars and calumniators have ex < - ceeded their usual mendacity , in their attempts to disguise the causes of tjie insurrection of the 25 rd , 24 ih , 25 lb , and 26 Ui of June . The causes of th&t heroic outbreak are plain enough to all who have watched the march of event * in France-since February Ia 6 t . The Provisional Government , immediately on its installation , proclaimed that ' The Revolution having bebm accomplished bx toe People ,, ought to be accomplished , eou the Pbopls ; ' which proclamation was followed by a decree guaranteeing ' existence , through- labour , ' to every citizen . But ,, beyond the establishment of

      the badly-managed ' National Workshops , ' nothing was done towards carrying out the pledges given to the people . The Ministry of Labour , demanded by Louis . Blanc , waa refused by the Assembly , and the refusal accompanied Hy the grossest insults . Day by day the- profitmongering villains , of the Press and the Assembly calumniated the men of the Workshops , whom they denounced as ihleves and disaffected Miens , Lastly , the intended closing of the Workshops was announced ; tbe betrayed ouvtiers being offered the alternative of entering the army , or submission to absolute starvation . This fiendish treatment of the working men drove them to revolt .

      Louis Blanc prophesied the revolutuin of Turnjw ; Paris has witnessed the insurrection of hunger , and that insurrection has been nearly a revolution . You are told that , with Universal Suffrage , insurrections cannot be justified . But , we assert , that misery will jdstify war against tbe authors of tbat misery . under any circumstances . Three revolutions have sanctified the fight of resistance to oppression . The misery oi the Proletarians is the proof of oppression . The government had violated ' the right of existence through Jabour ' which it had guaranteed to the people ; and , therefore , each man of the starving thousands , finding no protection from the social compact , had a right to defend personally his natural rights against the iniquitous system which doomed him to hunger and wretchedness .

      The rights of every man are sacred ; and if majorities cannot abdicate , or be despoiled of their rights , neither can minorities . ' Inequality and oppression are synonymous , ' and the victims , whether the majority or the minority , the many or the few , have a right to rebel against oppression . The working men of Paris found themselves betrayed , their hopes blasted , the promises held out to them falsified—their leaders thrown into dungeonstheir petitions mocked at—their associations put down by brute force —their right of public meeting invaded by the atrocious law of the 7 th of Juneand , lastly , in a state of half-starvation , they found themselves threatened with total abandonment to destruction by hunger ; therefore , they revolted ; therefore , they took up arms in

      « Tho holiest cause tbat tongue or sword Of mortal evi-r lost or gained ' - — —the cause of Labour ' s rights against the plunderers of Labour . They went to battle with the cry of

      ' LABOUR , OR DEATH I They fought , failed , aud fell—as the assertors of justice have fallen many a time . True men in every land will glorify their heroism , and heap curses upon their conquerors . The skill and bravery of our unfortunate brethren and the unexampled heroism of their wives and sisters , must command the admiration of their order throughout the world . After the battle , and when the hourgeoisie had their heroic enemies at tbelr

      mercy , they took fheir revenge by shooting som » hundreds of them . This massacre of imarmed , fettered prisoners , has b . een the daily pastime of the bourgeoisie since the suppression of the revolt . The hypocrites who raised the howl of ' terror' against Barees aud the Clubs , have themselves established a reign of terror against the liberties and lives of the working men . Freedom is dethroned , and military despotism reigus supreme . 'The Republic is lost , the brigands triumph !'

      Certain stories are told by the French and English journals of cruelties committed by the ' insurgents . ' It is asserted that five prisoners belonging to the Garde Mobile had their throats cut by the defenders of the barricades . It is asserted that other prisoners were found hanging in the Pantheon , and that others were mutilated ; very horrible if true \ But bavin j looked on that picture , now look on this : According to the conquerors' own account , some hundreds of the ' insurgents' after they had laid down their arms , were fired into by the Garde Mo bile and one hundred of the unfortunate men fell dead . According to the correspondents of the Lendon papers nine hundred prisoners were shot in the course of flionday evening and Tuesday morning , June 26 th and 27 th ! Women were shot and beaten to death with the butt-ends of muskets . The

      atrocities committed by order of the Algerine favourite of the middle-class must also be taken into account . The shelling and blowing up of houses necessarily ensures the destruction not merely of armed combatants but also women and children . Imagine a house rained and suddenly rent to pieces , with tho heads , arras , legs and mangled bodies ot ita inmates shouting into tbe air 1 Imagine a bombshell falling upon a house and exploding in innumerable fragments , each the executioner of a horrible death ! Why do not the 1 ' ress . gang launch their thunders against the bombardors of St Antoine , the slayers of women , and the butchers of unarmed prisoners ?

      It is asserted Wiat a number of thieves and criminals took part in tho struggle . Very likely ; such characters are never absent from such conflicts . There were many in the revolution of February . " But criminals are the natural productions of theprei sent state of society against the abuses of which the Democrats took up aims . They desired to put an end to crime by putting an end to social injustice the great creator of crime . Had the working men been victorious , poor plunderers would have found no more countenance than rich robbers . Both , would have been stricken by tbe sword of justice . We must add that in the recent insurrection there could have been no crimisals sq b . « e as those wh o

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      had robbed the people of the fruits of their victory in February , and thereby rendered the insurrection of June inevitable . . Another calumny levelled against the working men of Paris is , that they were fighting for the Bourbon Henry . or Joinvillb , or Louis Napoleon ; which of these ' pretenders , ' the calumniators have not yet decided on . It is said , too , that amongst the prisoners taken were men with their pockets filled with moneyand that men were arrested m

      , the act of distributing money . It i » possible that in the ranks of the insurgents there were agents of the pretendera above named who hoped , in the event of the working men achieving the victory , to turn that victory to the profit of their employers . But the masses fought not for royal pretenders , but for Bread , Labour's Rights , and a Veritable Republic . The cries of the ' insurgents , ' and the inscriptions on their banners , proclaim the object of the insurrection :

      ' LABOUR OR DEATH !' ' BREAD OR DEATH !' LIVE THE DEMOCRATIC AND SOCIAL REPUBLIC !' But , it is said that < fire , ' ' pillage , ' and ' violation , ' were the ends sought by the ' insurgents , ' and the National Assembly has not scrupled to sanction these horrible calumnies . The answer i 3 easy . The only incendiarism was committed by General Cavaignac and the ' defenders of property , ' who rained red-hot shot upon the Faubourg St Antoine . Not a house was pilfegtd nor a woman injured by the ' insurgents ; ' but tbe people have been robbed of their arras , and women have been murdered by the partisans of ' order V .

      _ . The calumniators of the working men pretend tbat the' insurgents' proclaimed war against society and civilisation . A lie of course . But if they had proclaimed war against society , what then ? Society wars against them , and why not they war against society ? We frankly avow that we have no respect for society as at present constituted . ' Civilisation ' means ill-requited labour , starvation , gaols , and baatftlea for the masses . To the millions civilisation is a huge lie , an organised hypocrisy . Perish such civilisation .

      The French labourers and artisans grow corn wEich they must not consnme , rear cattle which they roust not eat , weave cloths and silks , and make endless articles of dress and luxury which they miwtnct enjoy ; they build palaces and mansions but not for themselves . They live on tbe coarsest foodr wear the meanest clothing , and dwell in the moot miserable habitations . The working men of Paris , having within view Elysian-like enjoyments , are surrounded by a hell of woes . They are mocked by the words ' Libertt , Equality , Fraternity ? but their 'Liberty' is the

      rule of the sword ; their * Equality , ' to die of hunger whilst idlers revel in every luxasy - and when unwilling to perish tamely they declare their resolve to live working ,, or die fighting , ' they see ' Fraternity' illustrated by red-hot ahot , cannonballs a ^ bomb shells t Better bo Where the extingutihcd Spartani » 4 ill ore few ,. In their proua charnal of Theymopyloe , ' than live tbe wretched slave * an 4 victims oi a stale of society which , whether it ta&es the names of Monarchy or Republic , ever despoils and slays the children of industry .

      The flag of the RedRepublic is the Q&g of tbe Proletarians throughout Europe . The time has gone by when the masses might have been conciliated by political phrases and nominal political rights . Millions of working men in France ,. England , and Germany , now understand that tho best of paper con * stitution& cannot include all the Rights of Man , nor the most important of those rights . The red flag , struck down in tbe Faubourg Saint Anteine , is not conquered . The faith of which that flag is the symbol , is . not confined to Paris , but lives and grows in every hive of human industry ; and not one , nor fifty defeats , will prevent tbe triumph of that foith .

      In &pite- of treason , massacre , proscription , and calumny—4 Labour ' s battle occe began , Bcijaoathed by bloediog lire to son , Ths' baffled nowih . e . tt ' yttbt won . '

      G . JULIAN HARNEY , Sec . Approved of , and signed in behalf of the Working Men ' s Associations of Germany , by—CARL SCHAPPER , and CARL MOLL . London , July , 4 th , 1848 .

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      Disturbaxces in Ebineurqh . — Edinburgh has been the scene of an eccleaiaatical riot . The city clergyman are paid by a local impost , called the annuity-tax , which is levied on the tenanto within certain limits , the lawyers being excluded . This burden has always been unpopular , and , as a meana oi avoiding public display , the ordinary course with recusants has been to arrest bank deposits ; but two defaulting upholsterers having apparently taken meapa to avoid tbia course , their furnhnre was ad . Tertised for sale a few weeks ago , but tke crowd collected together was so nnmerous and noisy , that no auction could take place . Too proceedings were de novo announced io iako place to-day , and rumours having gone abroad that tbe police and military

      were to back the legal authorities , a large crowa assembled at Mr Darlington ' s premises , in Frederick " street , whose effeots were first to be sold . Besides the cramming of the shop , a noisj multitads assembled outside , and the tumult was such that no sale could be carrier ! on . The auctioneer was jostled on his way out > and bad his faco cat , bnt by the aid of tho police , he got off in a cab . Hanover-street , which is adjacent to Fraderick-street , and like it , runs off at right angles from Frincea-atreet was the next rendezvous of the spectators , who proceeded thither in such numbers that all orderly conducting of Mr Sword's sals ( the seoand defaulter ) w » a out of the question . Shortly before the advertised hour the sheriff , sheriff substitata , sheriffclork , procurator-fiscal , superintendents of city and county police , attended , by a large police force .

      made their appearance . The sheriff had the Riot Act ready to read , but did not appear to read it throughout . After much confusion Mr Sword ' a rooms were cleared of the inmates , and an area opened in the street , which was maintained with some difficulty . A company of soldiers then arrived , and tho area being kept free , the aala went on . The auctioneer and pnrchasew were All from Glasgow , and , after the sale waB over , a second compaay of dragoons arrived for the purpose of escorting the goads in carts , to the station of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway . Great uproar was caused by the appearance of the cavalry , and one of the oarter ' s howoa being more than ordinarily mtiva , a clotb was put over his eyes , and the cavalcade was tlwn enabled to proceed , under the guardianship of the military , and , amidst the yells and hootisgs of tho multitude , was dJRpatohed to Glasgow .

      Suicide of a Prisoner . —An inquest wag held by Mr G . J . Milla , in the board-room of the Houso of Detention , Clerkenwell , on David Thomas Gibson , alias David Collett , aged 55 , on ? of tbe parties orrested last Saturday for tbe robbery of & bag of silver at the bank of Messrs Cooka and Biddulph , Charing Crosu , who hanged himself in his cell . Edward Gin . ger , a fashionably dressed young man , and de ceased ' a accomplice , sworn : lie knew nothing of $ ho dtoeaaed . He never saw him before Saturdays-Coroner : You ceed not say anything to criminate youreolf . —Witness : He would Bpeak the truth . While he and the deceased ware ia the cell in Bow . street , deceased said : ' I am about being B * nt from all that ia dear to me . I would sooner destroy myself than bear that privation . If I had anything I would

      destroy mjeelf . I have baen once transported , ' and sooner than enduro again the horrora of trans-Donation I would destroy myBelf . Take my advice , do not downu ; for if yoa do , be assured it will j cometo this . He then complained of his loins , and exclaimed : 'I have a child as old a 3 yoa- don't commit crime . 111 plead guilty on Wedneeday . 0 God ! what pains I endure ! This morning 1 met a Mlow transport in Piccadilly , whom 1 was aSut knocking down ; had I done so I would have eaS this . I am out on bail for 4 > 5 Q . Witne ™ t £ m nh served to tamed that it wu a £ fa » Tfft ntTeal mnit i thought thst the bag contained sovereigns , otherwise I should not havo atolen it I would rather Buffer death than a Sain enduro it hJrr ^ S fc

      tramportatjon / He told hi , addrew , but w tne » SRS ^ r * " ™** «» Wll if to uorrora ot tranuportatwa were better known , for tUen per-K 2 ZS" ^ ° " !» " pose th em eT 4 to K . te £ iJsiS * , d dau * ' . ^ o were moat respectablj attired , and were overwhelmed with < rief ami bore most excellent characters , presented them , selves . n the mquest room , but tho urj ? unanimH , Inspector 3 h ftokel and Sergeant Watoher of the detective force , proved that the deceased and Gingor were well known memberatf the sw ell mob .-vfrdiet , " Deceased destroyed himself whila labouring under temporary insanity . ' souring , Sf 5 f AKK lU V * ' - 'V 8 Mr Matthew Lloyd , a well known angler , was v >\ fm his orafton tke riv ^

      wwiai , near Wanrafon , one day last week , hh progreati was arrested on seeing a snaka stretched across a brid ge which he was attempting to pass . Ha retreated a low paces , snd snatohing up a Btone from t&o road , threw it at the unwelcome visitor , knocking it . into tae river . but , singular to Bay , tho reptile had nosooner reaohed t "e mountain stream purling below than , the jaws of & very large eel , measuring between two and three feet ia length , received it , « sd it was no more wa ^ Carnmim Herald ,

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      WE 3 TMINSTEB . —Jobn Ha * riB , an ill . looklng fel !» ir , thirty jearn of age , was finally ctamincd , charged with tbe following dailng highway robbery . —Mr » Ellen Day , an agod female , stated that , at about half-past aixon Saturday evening , tbo 2 ith of Juue , she was crossing over the Queen . strcet p& 9 t North . streot , Cbelies , when she suddenly fait a violent tug at a bag she had on htf left arm , and on turning round saw the prlganer eade& * voaring to pull it away from her . She caught hold o the b » g with her tight hand , la Grdef to retain positi . sleuofit , but the prisoner pulled it oo violently th&t , la tbe atraggle , the wig thrown down on the ground tirice , and tbe prisoner , having ultimately succeeded in forcing ths bag away from he ? , ran off with it . Tha proiocntrli

      was bo seriously injured by the falls , tbat she was con . 8 ned to her bed for some days , and nsablo to appear against the prisoner until to-day . —Evidence was alien to prove that ( ho prisoner was pursued and cupiared bj Mlckael Wallace , 25 B , who found tho bag , which con . talned a £ 5 note , £ 5 ia gcl . l and silver , s handkerchief , and some other articles , on bis porson , Tha accused said nothing in defence . Mr Bruderip coma Utcd bim for trial at the Central Criminal Court . \ \ MANSION . HOUSE . —On Tueiday a master baker wss brought before the Lord Mayor , charged with b&ving » t . tempted to commit suicide . —Mueard , a Qorael ; d « itn waterman , aaid that he and another waterman beard a splash in the mer , and soon after observed the defendant floating through the second arch of the bridge , Tbey packed him up > and carried him . to tha Swan

      public-houso , and tbe ; balieved tho aot was the coaie * OjUtDce of intoi ! catioD , Tbe surgeon by whom he had boon examined ia Suj ' a Hospital said the man was drunk at the time . The complainant ' s wife aaid there aever had b ; cn tbe slightest migundersssnOiag between her husband and horaelf , and he had never been before , since hU marriage , ot all in liquor ; on tho contrary he was a must sober and hard-working mtm . The Lord Mayor . —You must procure two sureties to answer fer your good bBtmiour for six months . If yeu have any regard fur you * life , or for your own wife , I would ad . vise you neve * to drink again . Bail was immediately procured by t ' m defendant , who could scarcely be prevailed up os tobslieve that he b&i been upon tbo brick ofoternliy .

      Ma&ylebxmh : —William Davidson w » 9 charged with having committed an outrage upon Poliee-conatabls Clouting , 166 D , who , In coaeetj'iouce of the iujjwy inflicted upon him , has over since the occurrence ,. ¦ which took placa upwards of a week , ago . been itkoapablo oi doing duty . It appeared that on tbe 27 th alt ., thb prisons * ws » fi ^ htiag in Salisbury-street , Portman-market , and that on his being token into custody , owing to hiaasisy behatloer and refuting to go . away , he struck th * officer a trezaendoui blow wits bis fist , and nearly strangled him by thrusting his right band between his ( tbs officer ' s ) stock and bis throat » in addition theralo , he kicked him with all his foree on tbe lower part of the stomgek , Tha prisoner was at length secured , priacipMly through the assistance of M » Aldersoa , Undlotd of tha Royal Champion ; and , after much rosUUcao , he was canveysd to th * station-house . He was fined in the fu ! i peanlty of £ 5 ; in default pf payment , two months' io » prisonment .

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      Coal ra Explosion at Wbdnksbhry . —Our oor < respondent at Birmingham writes us that another exploBioa took place on Monday toorawg , in ft coalmine occupied by Messrs Russell and Son at Wednesbury , the consequence of which waa that aix men were wry seriously injured It seonis that the men had been down tho pit about two hours when the explosion took place . Previous , however , to their commenoinsj work , some of them took the safety-lamp and tried the pit with the doggy , tha latier remarking that t&tre were only about two or three inohes of fire-damp in the rooi Of an old working , and that ' it would not hurt . '

      The men accordingly proceeded io their employment . About eight o ' clock a quantity of rock accidental !? fall from tho rot ) f of tho pit , carrying with it tha combii 3 lible matter , this waa ignited by th& oandlo whioh a man named Meake waa UBing , thereby causing thoexulosion . The doggy . ThomeaDollroani ia very much injured , Joha Dollman , T . Bolhrnh J . llorrington . T . Walker , S . Gccdwin , and J . Meake , are ail f ery much burnt , acme of them not boing vxpected ta recover . The works are blowo to Rtoms , so thut the proprietors muat sustain considerable damage . As usual in t ^ ese cases , which srfl beoouiinsj of almost daily occurrence , no cause is »*• signed for the accident .

      Dukadpl'l Omnibub Accidsst . — Abaut half-pa *} nine o ' clock on Tuesday morning , as one of Adams Waterljo omnibuses was proceeding down Waterlooroad , and oppoiite St John ' s Chuich , the diiver waJ observed to fall from his Beat en the f ' outboarJ . TlU poir fellow was in a fit , and tho reins fell nverbfl ' tweeu the horses' leg .-, wheu they becana restirt snd darted off at a fearful rate . ' Fortunately W liursea were stopped ntar the Hero of Waterloo tavern , and tho driver ssnd an outside nvil « pai-senge ' svb . ob . ad unwisely thrown hune « if from tb « rod . wera removed to Dc BrookeB shop ; there it was" f t ' cartained . that the driver was injured severely by tM kicking of 6 he horses , and ths passengor to dread ' fully wounded also that they were instantly convened to Guy ' a Hospital , with little hope of racorer / lor either . It appeared that the driver bad been subject to fits , whieh accounted for his being strap * pel to tho seat , olherwiie he must have falMil b © twe « n tho torn * nod beea iaaUatl ; killed .

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      THE IRISH CONFEDERATES . The fastest anskly prevails aa to tho remit of th trials The infamous conduct of the Whigs in persec ,, ting the leaders of the people has dono moro to dr 8 ff th | ' bond of fraternity [ more firmly between tho Caarti , , snd Confederates than anything tbathfli taken pi 808 since ih « commencement of the agitation . Thb Theobald Wolfe Tohe Cmjb —A crendtd meat > lag of Ihia club w * b held an Sunday last , in the Urg 8 room of Cartwrighi ' s Ci . ffse House , R ^ derom-street , Mr Denis Drains In the chair . Several gentlemen » iBj addressed the meeting , and a subscription to tbe Drftno Fund was entered into and the meeting then adjourned , Johjc MitcuelOiuii —A crowdedmeettag of Confe r rates and Chardses waa le ) & on Suadaj at ths Croi » a , Gravel-lane , Sout&wark . Mr Carry in tho cbair . Tb < , meeting liberally subscribed to the © . fence Fun 4 . ,,, _ - _ , ,

      Me etings wtro also held tho same evening at Greenwich , B'rmoDdaey . arid Kensington , which were weli attended , Tdb Davis Cldb . —A crowded meeting was heU oa Monday evenin g hit , at the A ^ emhly rooms , DWn . street Mr English in the ch » ir . Mr MManas mado » statement respeciing the attorney eogsged to defend th . patriot Lonney , who had token umbrage because tho committee baa retained Mr Kenealy u . " un " 1 f <* MrLooney : be ( the attorn * j ) s . nt in his bill and th » charges were most enoro-ous , amonnsinsf in tbe whole to J 627 93 « $ 1 ' The various items werethtn read out and received with cUrlsive o . aeero , —Mr Sturgeon read alette to the meeting from MrLooney , it breathed t&roaghoBl nlih Aa most pure , patriotic democratic feeling . -. A diiCU 88 lon ensued wifa respect to the exclusion of « r Looney from tho General Defence Fond , whan Mr J ,

      Lindsay stated that It was the express wish of Mr Looney to be defended by his brother Confederates , there being no blftm ® whatever to be attached to tbe Chartists , f 8 . Ve ? ftl Of WilOm Jiart come forward » n < J aabscrlboii to thfl Defence Pund of that gentleman . —A . Gtn . tlemas whose name we could not caicb , said , that the Ghartilt Defence Committee were ruady to assist Ut Looney in aDy way it may be required of them to do . Mr Peargns O'Connor hod made inquiries regarding Mr Loonsy and that gentleman was fully Batibfied with tho explanation made . —Mr 7 ernon , who had entered durlaj the discussion , ihen addressed the meeting , but aa he had another meeting to attend , hl » » tay wa » short . Tht mating vehemently ohesred him on his departure—Mr Maker . iidthira wa « one journal in London , end that w i

      the Ko » t 3 e * k Sxa » , wWch devoted a portion of its co . lumas ts their proceedings . He had great pleaaors Iq moving a vote of thanks to that truly detncK-ratic j « ar . d&u—* That the thank ? ot thi » Mteting are duo , « nd hereby given , to the No » tbe *» 8 tab , for ite able adro . oacy of our rights . '—Mr GlaBgow , in seconding the abOYO rate ot thanks , said , ho boro his bumble t * stimony to wkai had falUn from his Wend who had preceded him , It was the duty of every Irishman who hai tho leui 8 parkof nationality in his breast , to give all tne support he could to thit journal . —The resolution was thea pasted amidst loud acclamations . —Mr T . O . Mahoaej , in aa eloquent appeal , oalUd on all present to rally for Ireland ' s redemptien . —Mr Barry alto addrjsjed ths meeting , urgiDg on all present to subscribe to the Dafewo * Fund . —SeTOral subscriptions having been handd

      in , the meeting then separated . Hobiet Emmbtt Gum . —Large meetings of this Club were held at the Temperance Hall , Cable-street , W » p . ping , « n Monday and Tuesday last , at which lereral elo . qutnt appeals were made , and subscriptions freely en < tered into for tho Defence Fund . The meetings brake up , giving cheers for the Whig law-mado victims , for the Charter , and Repeal . The second annual ball of the Davis Confederate Cub will ba bold on Monday , July 10 th , aC the Assembly Room « , Dean-street . Tickets oi admission la each , th « proesadi of tho ball to go to the defence of Francli Looney , and tbe support of hie family . Meetings for the ensuing we * k . Sunday evening , * Druids Arms , ' 6 freenwlch . ' Crown , Gmtl-Une , Southwark . 'Fountain and Still , ' ( Joldvnlane . D . cny'ii Coffee-house , Great St Aadrew . strtet . Cartwright ' o _ G ffae . house , RtdcroBB-street . Jennings . building * . Ksnviogtea .

      Monday , Tuesday , and Thursdoy evenings , Washington Temperance Hall , Cable-street , Wapping . Wednesday evening , Assembly Booms , 2 > ean-str 8 et . LlviBPOOL . —A meetiag of tbe Confederates of thlt tows was held on Tuesdoy last , at the School Boom , Circus . street . Messrs Rsynolde , Someri , and O'Dennell , addressed tbe meeting . It was stated that there were thirty-three clubs in workisg order , and that before i month there would bo a hundred ; and that they would number 30 , 000 men . Urge meetings has been held at Birmingham , New . c *» tle-on-Tjne , BUalon , fil&Bley , Bradford , Ashten Southampton , Manchester , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Paisley , Aberdeen , < Sco .

      Mr Vebnok addressed the Chartists of Westminster , nt the rooms of thd ¦ W&llhca Brigade / Strutton-groimd , Westminster , on Sunday evening last .

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      6 THE NORTHERN STAR __ ___ jg ^ "lL

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 8, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1478/page/6/