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      now in con-t , bat not by the name of Antiil . I don ' t ( fioolleet ubinzkim it he had seen tha Northers Stab , snd I will not swear I did n ? t say to him , that O'Connor was a—coward , for he recommended p 5 iceab ! e measures and that the National As 3 em Dly should bo postponed . I swear I neYersaid to him . that he oi ^ ht to get arms , and that , if all wcrkiag men were prepared as I was , the ? troald soon upset the - gOTerumenS ; or that I offered tog ivehim Rnnpowder , and that he refused to have it , fsy ing that he was a peaceable man . This man did , upon ore occasion , intrude himself into the meeting of die secret committee at Cartwrighi ' s , and was expelled . I swear I did not draw the plan now produced , bat I did cpon one occasion draw another plan , which was " afterwards torn up , I showed my p ' aa to two or three peop ' . e at Cart wri"M ' s , ia order to ascertain what the views of the

      Others were upon the subject cf & proposed assassination of the poSica in tke night acd a sham demonstation at Bonner ' e-fialds . I once had a pair of pistofe , and I exchanged them for another pistol I feaow a man now . in court , bat do not know-his Bams . I never offered to sell him the pistols . I won't swear I did not offer to sell them to him for gix shilling ! , bat lam sore Idid not do so on the 18 thof August . I swear Idid not say that if he would bay the pistols , I would give him half a poand of gunpewder info tho bargain . 1 don't feaow a working-man named Hear ? Green , at least by name . I doa'c think I tver eaid ; hat a man named Douaine was a government spy . I don't believe I ever used such wsrds . I don ' t believe I-ever used such words aa that Btreaine was a milk-and-water moral force , ant slight to ba kicked oat . I won ' t swear I did not make use of such , an expression . .

      Baron Piatl . —Why wsa ' tyca swear you never wed snch wcrds ? Witness—Why , my lord , because men may be put into tMs box to swear that I did Eay it , and my memory may havs deceived me . There are sfcrssge cherictersihatgo to Carttnighi ' * , who would astonish * ny moral man . Mr Bsilaniine . —Yea sre a moral man , sre joh not ? :

      Witass . —I am . I snow a man naQed Westtna ; elsad , bat not by came . The persda brought into court is that man . I once sketched a plan in Ms presence . I mean the OHel formerly referred to . It « ss not the game < plan as that saw produced . The plan I sketched-waa a circle , with dots ia it to represent men ; not particularly Chtrtiets or policeaaa , but merely people in a circle . My memory ia so bad that I cannot give any explanation of the plan I drew out . Mr Ballantine . —! fon do yourself injustice ; yoar memory is really very gcod whea ^ oa choo 3 e .

      Witness . —I knew a person cased Collins . He h ¦ 3 xery noisy desperate character ic thd locality . He ijoes not want acy urging on . Ha is ready enough . i don't remember telling hia tfcat there was going tobeagrandmeetirg , and that none would be admttedbutthoseprepared to fight for their rights . I don t recollect ? 3 aying so . I Taay have siid iceh a thing and forgotten it . I do tot remember that'he told me in reply that he d « not know whet I meant . I never told him that I had a very beadsome dagger which I would give him to keep against the tune he required it . I an auralnever toMSim that the time would come soon when we chonld ^ yerthrow the- — government . I Kmamberseeing him at CartwngbVd on the F 6 : a of August , but ! did not tell hits ' not to bo in a hurry to eo awaj that

      night . I knew that on that night every -delegate was to assemble hi 3 men at CartwiightVhouse , and that they were to mirch thence to tJlerkenwelL 1 know the man net ? Bhown to me . : I did not know his name waB Meilock . I don ' t recollect 6 ayicgto fen en the 14 th of August that -I would serve out those moral iorea — . I won't swear I did not say so . I may ha ? a said it and forgotten it . I now remember thas on this eight I wss- < st Cartwright * s , ' £ nd 1 was secured of being a spy on account of 157 no : going byay right name of Powell . I denied that I was a spy , and accounted' for using the nanepf Johnson , by cay ins that I did "sot wish my friends to know I bsd anything to ^ onritb the Chartists . I know a man named Bryant . Oa the 16 AofAu 3 u ; t , in the early part of tfea -e ? en : np , I

      was standing outside Ozr-wright ' s with acrowd , but I don ' t recollect that he saked me what wes the matter , and that I told hiail thought it was a botched job bytfeezemilkand- « Kiter . I ^ oift remember sjying , on being pjessed for an explanation , that there wa 3 intended tofes a tntn out that tight , and that a signal rocket was to be fired between cine and ten . red ths people were to turn oat . I don ' t recollect it . but I-won't swesr I ^ id not . It is not likely that I said , TLese mffii-aad-water chaps Lave sold the job , ani the delegates must have been nailed in Orange-street' I may have said all this and forgotten it . I remember on this night welkin ? up Chiswell ilrest with tisc game man . i showedhim sixty-eight ball cattridg s . This was between ten and eleven o ' clock at bl-tht . lam eorjII did not tell him that I had get 200 fire balls to throw in » o

      people s bosses . I think I did pull oat a pistol and also a tin box full of percussion caps . 2 hsd a sword in my coat packer , ? I showed kirn llio •¦ handle . I Blight have said , « Yoe s « e I am prepared for them ; arejoa ? ' - . 1 don ' t beiiere 1 did say it- "file same man trsntsi io have ^ keia from ne . 5 bzi tflne things with-aie for m ? own safety , and to protect myself in was : I should be attacked , as iLsuspected thatlwasfesndout . ? I showed the iacdia of the word tonka in pasiusa . I knew the men were betrayed at this time . ? I aeked him to go to the Orange Tree . He wosld not go to the Orange Tree . I gave himiieirders of the previous nigit . Iknow Daniel Bora . : Isnppesahe h a workiugr-man . I have hea < -d & 3 is-something in the caaea- ^ way . I did not show him my pistols oa the lOihocf April lswfarldi¬dosobeforel went to fte Ken .

      ningtenjcomtEoa meeting . I don ' t think-I-showed him a pistol st any time . I swear that 'X-aerer said to Burn that Lwished-th 3 people wnnW assassinate ths police and-fire the houses . I doa'fc believe I said so to any oae , batll won ' t swear that i--did not 3 ay a ? . By the Conrt-41 migfeS have said it my Lord , but I don ' t think I &d . d s ? s always rather afrlend to the police , and-tbat wsa well known . I won ' t be anre I did not make . ma ^ f tuch an ex pression / bat I don ' t ihink ii wss likely . ; By Mr Ballanfce ^ - ^ I den't balieve I e « r -sfeid to iSarn that I hoped to £ ee tte police as ? a 5 sinate < l , and seme good fcres in Lor . dcn . aKd that at the ssma time I showed a oistol , and Eaid that was tha thing-to do for . there ; but I worfc swear to such an oecurreace

      msvtr taking place . : I beSfevs I did say to a-caan aimed Carter that i ^ anted fonr desperate mes-who would-do any kind cf work . I said this in coma-£ aeHce of instrnctioiK I had received at the Orapgs ! Cree . Oa ths Monday niijkfc when I was Eospcc ' ed and ^ darg ed with ireree aepy , I referred to the order gran at the Oraaee Tree , ianight have said I pas la . get-four arm . I don ' t recollecc Carter saying , Chen joa won'fc hsveme . ' £ 4 are eay I showed him thep ! £ n | 2 ia'J msde . I co not knew Goodfeliow ( who was pointed out totha witces ) . I never saw . taa aan a my life . -1 eeser . said I wa 3 going to Australia . rsmd wanted sn outfit . I swear I never asked that msn to eo to the © recee Tree on the n ght « f tha 16 th of August . ^ Mr BaUftntine here handed a-smail iron instrument , with aBpike iu it , cslcukfed tc ^ ame a horse if tarawn on the road or paremeat , and be asked the witness if he had ever earn saea sn oae . and he admitted ha had and that i

      , le had made it ] There were nsetings at Cartwight ' s ea fiie ; 30 thof July and the 4 th of August . Brewster sfcosed teo articles of this description ? but twice as long , st aae of there meetings , and I , suspectiag mi Minion wera made at . Cartwright ' a , Efideoneor teo ; Erswster lold me tiiey were for the purpose of « iaj >! ii ! g the cavalry . % asked him to show me ths actka of them at the meeting in CaKwrightfs on the 4 : h of August . It is throwa on the ground , when it alsraya turns the poiaS upwards the article teing loided with lead . I haw a Eimi ' sr thing in my pocket . 'That produced web lent by me to a Mr Msjne , whoaever returned it . fltie is anotter made on a similar plan , expectins thi ? wouid Ira produced . TheE 9 are the only two I made . I made then : to esctrtew thd ftey were cakisg ihose ih : igs at CntrrkhV . 1 threw it dawn on tbe ground and the table . I expected that some wc-aid'be produced at Caitwright ' s like this .

      Mr Ballantine . —You did it for a trep ?—I did itfo detect the parties . Bson Platt—Did yon do it for a trap , to discover the Dirties who were irakine them?—Idid to , my L'td ; that is the Bolemn position lam placed in . ( Alsugh . ) Idid not lay , ' These are the thingB to tarowaacHg the troops of the bloody government . ' I do rot feelieTe I used the word * bloody . ' I might hava said they wera good io throw amoEg the froop ; . I said at the sime time that I had a large quantity athome , ' Mr BalUistina . —Was that trae or felse '—False . Mr BaliaEtine . —You seem proud cf it ?—I wish t J speak the truth and ssy what I have done . Mr Ballactine . —And that was another falsehood ? —Is wag .

      Mr BaVaniite . —Havdjou formed an idea cf the muster ; f fa ' . sehond * you have told in the ccune of these r * "ire = dii ) ss?—I dare say I have told several . I k » ir : w Gurney . I weat to him in his ceil . I believe Isaidfc him that it he" would confess it would be fcertcrforhis wife end childiea . Baroa PUtt . —Dtn ' ijcu know ? Wh y doyoa say « Ibelieve ? ' Why Coat ' tysu say * I know ?'_ I be lieve I did csetktse wcrda . I den ' t know whether a policeman was standing outside tbe eeU . I did not say to the policemaa m going out * It is no go . ' i beiitve I said to Gurcey that he 2 nd h ? s family would

      ba Ea 3 e comfartabla fcr their HveB if he confessed . I had no authority for saying so . Mr Ball 3 ntir . e —Did you tell him a filseLood , asd enceaTcnr to gtt him tosayjomething ? Did yon iresn to t 6 lray hm Iod ? - He was beirsyed . I wanted him to tell all about it . He would then have been telling the truth , and getting out of a sorape ' :-1 was not requested to go ia at all to see hia . He wjs placed in a cell by himself , bat I don't ktow that this was done in order that I might have him to BjEelf . I have been in England all sy life except ree ttomh ? , when I went about thirteeo years ago

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      With a friend to New York . I did not know my father had money in the SaviBgl-bank . There was no charge against me with respect * te that . 1 did not take my wife or family . I told only a few friends that I was going . I drew oat some money from the funds before I started , I swear it wasoniy my own money that I drew ; it was in ray own name . Iused my own name to got it out . I signed only my own name , ' Thomas PowelL * R ? examined . —When I was at Cartwright ' s on the evasing of the 16 th of August , I knew that the people had been apprehended at the Orange Tree ; it was pretty generally known at that timei and everybody was talking about it . Carter is a Chartist , and I should say not a moral force Chartist . The witnes 3 was under examination nearly eight hours .

      Jtmiaa Heath , the wife of a coffee-shop keeper in Suffolk street , Southwark . —Knew L ^ cey , who had come with some other persons to her husband ' s bouse shsrtly before it was searched by the police ; They had four caps of coffee , and remained about half an hour . That was on a Tuesday . She did not give Lioey any pistols the following morning , nor had she patanypistola for him into a basket . There were three pistols in the house , which belonged to her sisterm-law , to whom she had taken them before Lacey came with his patty . There was one

      powderfhsk . She had said her sister-in-law would sell the pistols , bat they were not Bold . A great many peopfeeawthes . Tnera were also three or four constables' dtavesin the house . These wera for special constables , and had been painted by s yonng man who lodged ia ths house . Her sister-in-law had > een a widow fat two year ? . Her siBter-in law ' s husband used te go on board ship as a sailor , bat for several years latterly had . worked ' in tbe docks . He used to bare the pistols whea he was on board shp .

      Sunerintndent Pearse proved that , on the evening of the 16 ik of AaguBt . he we&t withia body of odb-Btabies to tbe Oracge Tree pubiic-house , Red Lion-Equate . He pio : eedei to % " 6 ist-fl 2 or . room , wbcre wera eleven persens , Ritchie , Gurney , Shepherd , Able , Richardson , GreeB&de , Burn , Scaaaing , Snowball , Martin , . and . Small . On searching the roes &e found three fireballs made of rag * ad tow , asdezie of them had priaticg type tied ! up m it , and theyall appeared to h&ye been Batarateel ' with turpentine . Ritchie was sitting close to tkaislace where hofound the firebslla , and upon Bsarchiog his person hefonsd two knives . Ritth'e ' s hat trad coat also smelled of turpentine . Inspector / Marsh aske < Ritchie where he lived , but he refused to tell him , and he afterwards eaid that he h&tLjust come from France . . The door of the room W £ 3 unlocked , anS when the police went ia all the tE 9 a appeared to ta conversing t 9 gether .

      James ThoiBp ? ea , a sergeant of police , had searched he Icdgicg of Ritchie in Cross-couTt , Russell-c&rt , ) raryTlane , after % itebie ' s arwst on the evening of 16 ; h ef August . He found 11 ? bdl cartridcea , 'four boilet-monids , tour ballets , three combustible balls made of brown-paper and pitch , vita a fusee running into the centra ; a powder-horn ,-and some gunpowder m a quart wtca . boule . Ha found also a bayonet , a adleformehicglead , apieceof lead ^ aquatity of tow , a small quantity ef shot-end percussion caps ; al ? o a piece « t paper , with some pencil writreg on it , and two printed books on ths'Charter . Cross-eEamiced —He searcfeed Cuffay ' s garret , but he did not produce , when ha was before-examined , some papers which he . found'there .. Mr Ballactine requested-tnat they might be produced . The Atterney General -eaid they sbculd all be handed over to the learned eaunsel in the ? ceuree of a short time .

      Mr Hsnry Bowline , nodartaker , hafbeen put in possession Tuesday , Augsst 15 . of the Orange Tree Tavern , in Orange-street , Red Lionsequare . On Wednesday the 16 ih , about a quarter te three o ' clock j a person came to engage'&private roonf for the same evtning-at a quarter before five o ' clock . The parson engaged tfee first fl mr frott room . Two people came at a quatter before five . ? About a quarter or twenty minutes ^ sfter . five they-were all asseeabled upstairs There were eleven of them . They asked for a bagatelle beard . When it was brought they atked for the

      balls . -One ef the men then took a $ iece of ohalk and struct it into the fi * c hole , and tfesn said , T bat i 3 ten—the red balMira , By God , < t 3-nioht . ' The policecBEein abouttwectyminutessfter . Thapeopie in tie room were in a state of quiet&SBS , whispering together . He found a ^ osrd ' the next day under one cf thebeaches , —a card cf the admtsbion of Heoiy SrasU « 3 a member of the William Teli brigadeof the Chartist Association . A paper waa also found denoticg that Greenslade-and Born bid been appointed delegates from the Thorns Paine brigade . Th&coart adiourned-ct seven o ' eksk .

      Wsbnesday . —The trial of Ctffij , Lacey , and Fay was resumed this morning . Scperinletdent Ratt , of the £ division of police deposed-that en the cveoirg of tfce lOth of AnguaS he weat , accompaniedby a body-pf his men , tothe Angelipcblic-hoaee , Wetber-streetS Elackfriara-road . Itwes abeut five , o ' cleck . Taey were all armed . In oceoftha rooms thay found sweral menassem-Ked . 'TJte . v were sitting In a aort of tapjaom . The names- « f the men wete Winspene / IronB , Pront , Conway , A . Corby , Taylor , ; Cox . iTc 3 le , Gibbg , Her ^ bert , Mcrisn , Samuel Corby , and-Stniuel Morgan . . Mr bodkin then proposed to show what was found in tbejocm in Webb » -3 treet-wli £ n these persons wereanpfihended . to

      , - Mr ^ Biiantine objected the reception of tfatc evidence , on the ground that nose- of the prisoners : had fegecsliown in any ftrfc of the-easa to-have had any connexion Lwith the persons- ^ hose names had T jost been mentioned . None of thesa men found in Webber-street were shown to havfrtttended any of the meetings spoke to by 4 fce approver Powell . Mr Pary and Mr ParaeU- 'Werealso teard insoV portoftheobjection . . Mr Metcalfe al 39 conJeaded that the evidence ought nnt to be received . "With-rfgard . to tte OraigeTree apprehensions ,-he said&hat thereK . it . chie ted Gariey who were ^ provedto'have been present at forcer meetings , we * a actnaU ^ prtsent among the persons so aesembled ; . * iut , wi& regard to the . Angel , dier&was no such ewdence . The Coarf ruled that the-evidenoe was admisiU ble , b 3 eap&e ,-according to the-evideaoeof the accom- 'i plice , this-meeting wa 3 in fur&eraneeef the original deaien of the conspirators .

      Tbe wits € ss then Baid that upon the-place and the prisoterg -being searched , he -6 aw cse pike head taken from-nEdor Conway ' sseat . ! lt-waa produced , and appeared to fee about eighteen inehea long , very aharo pointed , and a most formidable weapon . William Cotfetfl ! , police consteble , . proved that be searched Canway , and took two pike-heads from him . Some other . constables proved ibzt itlty found in fte Bamo roora seventy-five ronndsof 'ballcartridges . Upon Wicspere ' a peteon was a picca ^ f iron , forming ascrt of breast-plate , and also a pake-head ; behind the door there was > a sword ; upon Prent < there were fcuod a dagger &nd a pike-head , and also a screw wrench and natfor-tbe purpose of £ zing tke pikekead 3 on to tbe kand ^ es . "Open Cc-x faeta&ta found a card denoting that he was a member of "the Chartist Association . Morgan also had a piko-tead in his left coat pocket and'fifteen ball cartrid-attg .

      Mr Rogers , aa inspector of polic ? , proved that after hU apprebemfca he searched Morg-itfs lodging inYork-sTeet , Market ^ trcet , Southwark . MrsPany objected fotberseoeption of eridesseof anything ftund at MorgafiViodgicg . Mr Bsros Platt said tbe Coart entertained * oce doubt « j ; on the point , acd the Attorney General seid ha would not press its production , at the same time statirjgteat he believed' it was admissible evidence ^ but he should not press the point .: Inspector Heyces proved that he searched the Charter € oSee-house kept by iko prisoner Lacey about nioa -o ' clock at night oa the 16 th of August . The prisoner was at " home- Upoa seatchiDg the c ' ub-room he found a book purportfcg to be a list of names , addresses , and subscriptions , bat for what

      object did not appear . He also found acme cards denoting that the Wallace Brigade ef Chartists held their meetings at Lacey ' d Ceffee-hoasty and there w&s also a list of sobscriptiong to the' brigade , ' which appeared to have been first established on the 7 : h of March in the present year . He likewise foand a list cf subscriptions to the' Victim' Fund , amoantice in the whole to 33 . Id . Varlons other Chartifit papers were also found , and in one of them the batasoe in tbe treasurer ^ hands was stated to be' eightpecce . ' lie inspector also deposed that Jones , who wtsone of the elass leaders for the Stretton ground district , was tsken into custody in the coffee-room of Lacey ' a

      hwiee , and , upon his being searched , two loaded pistols containing powder and ball and primed , a soldier ' s bayonet , twenty-nine piBtol cartridges , and in his hat a pound canister of gunpowder were found . The b ivonet was hidden ucder Jones ' s coat . CrcBJ-cxamined—He found all . the . cooks axd papers in abaxin-the club room . Edward ^ e ^ aU . a . police sergeant , proved that he searched Jones iWgfogg ; at No . 20 , Grey Coat-street , Westminster , and found some lead , Bcme Chartitt cards , part of a broken bayonet fastened on a stick , and ic a cup there were eixty nine pistol bullets . Four tall c&rtrid ^ es were oIeo found in a cnpboaid in theprhocer ' arcorr .

      Sergeast Ttompson prored that he searched Rose ' s house on the 11 th of August , and that he found , among other papers a plan of a portion of the metropolis with marks where barricades were to be erected , which had been spoken to by Powell as having been produced by Roeb at one of the meetings . Mr Eagle deposed that a paper upon which the names ef different streets were written , with marks forbair : cades , was proved to bain the handwriting of Mullin ? . Tie other papers found at Rose ' s were also put in . They npptared to baphnsof different parts of the metropolis , some of them incomplete , and akoa list of ihe members item different kcalitiea . The total nttmteroffignrts appeared to be about 1 , 200 , appareritly intended to be gatheredirom different Chartist brigidesEndlocalities Threereceiptsfcrmakine seme explosive balls were alto produced . . Sergeant Thompson , at . tbe itqueat of Mr Parry

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      produced some other papers that were found at the lodgingof the prisoner Cuffay . Thomas Barratt , a shoemaker , deposed that be wai a Chartist , and belonged to the Robert Emmctt Brieado . They held their meetings at a beer shop in Praed-Btreet ; Paddington , and another in Shouldnam-slTcet , E ^ gewatD-road . He knew M \ iW \ ns , and had heard him addresi them at meetings of their district , when both Chartist and Confederates were present . On Sunday , - August 13 th , he heard him make a Bpeeoh , during which he told tho men they mast prepare for the rising that was coming , and that it wasneceeiary for each man to make a Email sacrifice to aid the committee of progress , and the committee would judge by what they

      did how they were to act in the crisis that was coming . - On Tuesday , the 15 ch , there was another meeting in Shouldham-street , at which about twenty persons were present , ChartiatB arid Confederates . About twenty other persona alBo assembled on the same ^ evening at the' beer shop in Praed-street . They were all waiting for delegates to . give in their returns , and to receive their instructions how to act . The delegates did not come while he waited . On Wednesday , the 16 ft of August , witnes 3 attended » Chartist meeting in Praed-streetf , about eight o ' cloc ia the evening , and 3 fr that'timeiwtween 20 and 30 of the brigade were present , and they , were assembled for the-delegates to come and give tlieir instructions . The subject was not openly stated , but it was

      generally understood that an ' out-break * was intended to take piece . About a quarter before nine , he went to the other meetinz place , and found about thirty persons assembled for the same purpose , and Mullias oame in after witness arrived , and a man named Smith , tapped him ontheshoulder . 'aBdBaid , "My toy , I am eM jou ate come . I wns afraid yoa w 6 re taken . ' MallinB replied , 'They sball only- take me with my life , ' and then went away , 'and-soon afterwards a man came intsthe reom and laid amusVet oa the table , and he also saw two pike-keads and a pistol produced , and Smith gave an order that they should go to Crcwn-street , Soho , and Seven-dials , at ten o clock that night , and their tea&ra would , he said , meet them there . Some'one ' asked how their

      arms "were tebe taken , and the ' reply was—as well as theyconjd . Something was then raid about' toothpTcfc 5 , * -meaniDg pike-s , and there wtfs - an inquiry whether they had got them ready . 'Mollins had liokedintothe room jost before air this waB said . * the party then all deft the henea in partiea of two , three , and four , at intervals between . Witceat went t-j Crown-street wtta one or two more , but he did rfot know their names , and when they arrived at the street in question , be / sr . wa numbsr of the men who had formed the mcetisgs the same night . Cros--exaniined ' by Mr Parrj—WitteES wan firBt called upon to give evidence at the committal of Mullina . He joined the 'Eramett brigade en Whit Sunday , nnd before and since ttiat period lie had worked at his trade as atioemaker . He did so as a sincere moral force Chartist , and he' only agreed to betray them when he ascertained the villanoua part they were-noting . He first began to hettay them abouta tEcnth ago . ' 6 a the 16 ; h of August he did

      not intend to betray 'them , and he wauld -swear he had Eqtxommunicatsd with the police'before tba 16 ' . h . ! He came forward as a volunteer to give evidence for the good of society . ( A laugh . ) Would Bwesri&e had no other motive , and he 'kad not recejv « 2 ^ iny money > 4 xcept for his loss bf time . He might tare received as much bb two pounds since last Tuesday week . He did not knowiPdweH , and never sawhim ontil last Tuesday week , when Mullins was esaained at Bow » otreet , but he had'neaonvettation with him . ' Aboct four years ago / he was tried for tekiag some bread out of a baker ' s shop , which was fions oa a 'dratken spree , ' and was sentenced to he-imprisoned for four months . 'Brforethat he had tsen committed-in Berkshire'for wmonth far poaoh-4 cg . He wasTOver charged ! before- ^ ith having comratted any other felony . Since th&eharge about tbe ^ jread fee had teen accused ofhavinga pint pot ca--lawfully in his possession , and-he"was committed ftc -a month . He might have ' been'twenty years eld

      shen . He is twenty-eight'cow . He knew a person aamed RoberfiRassell ; he never-charged him with Btealing a coat , a coat-cape , « a oapa of a dress . -He once sold a cape for sixpence ; he did not know » h " ose it waE—he did not inquire . ( Laughter , ) He feaad it on the Btarn , at the Priscew Theatre . Neither Mr RussellnorMrs Rutsell , nor ^ Miss Russell / e ? er charged him . with Btealing the ^ cape . ¦ They never Booke to hiraaboat it . He knew a Charles Joces ; Jones never found a handkerchief of hia in hb poesession . IHe had not been often takes to station houBee . Tte bread stealing took place at Willesden . He was not , whilst living-there ; charged-with being in a--wine cellar for an ( " unlawful purpesa . He could net remember how long he had bete out

      of prison' when he joined theEcmett Brigade . He did net remembar ever being induced to urge persons taproocre arms . and ; join -the ' physical force movement of thetlhartiats . 'Henever dM so to a man named Garrett , or anyone else . He-dJd not show a pi 8 tolto a man named < £ irrelfcon tholSth ofAugosb . - "Witness was amoral torce man- ; Did not consider a pistol-morale-force . He-fiaS two pistob with'iim , and he whhed-to explain that he met amaaosvhohad a handkerchief with two pistols in it , and three gross -of ball-cartridgea , as he stated , and he asked , him totakathem-. to his

      house-! as he was afraid the polioe ^ adfoand out that they had beeD making cartridges . -He accordingly toek them to his touse , and left one pistol and the cartridges there , and broaght the other pistol out with him in his pocket , aid be flaw Garrett and showed him 4 hepiatol .. . If hetokl Garrett that he made the cartridges , it waa a . lie . . He could not gay that he did not tell him . Hetokt&im . that a breakout was expected . He will net swear that he did aot tell him 4 bat he had been . making ball - cartridge . It heiid . that , too . was aUie . He didaot ^ sk Garrett to Ro to the Seven sDibIb . . He aeked aim if he would be there .

      [ Mr Parry . —iWhere . Witnesj .-I-do not know where . > He knew a perfo named William New .. He « ave < him a note ^ n Monday last , whan he and about twenty others were laying their heada together and ahaMng their fiBtsat nffie .. IThenote ^ aa read . It . cautioned New to abstain from putting himself forward , as he wac -marked and looked after . There . would a thineaDpear after he ( Barrett ) had got his liberty that would aBtonwh the country . He owned that he was a coward , and was essking his own safety 4 Witness ^ i ^ L ^ Jf ™* J » Wnisslf afeHberly when fawrote that note He is ona

      ^ . ( Barrett ) guarded by the i ^ ri ^ f ^ S * ^^ «*>«« . ** a time . He-fiid not tell New that he waa Roing . to South , ampion . and wjs to < have £ la , week as loss as he Itred . He did say th * t- ! ie was going toSantbSnptoa ; Would swear he did not dothia in order to indace New . aot to come forward and contradictiim . Would Bwear-thathe never . told New that he . didaotin . tend to go to work again s and that his uncle had sent him some money . Re-samined-He retcaied ^ he pistols and cartndges the same nitiht to the person who gave them to him . Ee , was well kntwrcAy the names of fleMre Jackor < geung Bombshell ,

      GeorgeiSavis deposed thafche waB a member of the Wat Tylenbrigade of ChsrtJ 3 t « at Greenwioh ^ nd he was accepted as a delegate . He attended a committee meet-log held at the George . Old Bailey . ¦ This committee t&a formed on . the day of the trial of Ernest Jones in this court , and he waB present at that meeting . Mullins , Rms , i ? ayte , and others were present . JMalliua inquired first whether asy members of tiia . old committee appointed on Whit Monday were present . Witness feaajg one answered ' Yes , ' and Mnlli&s then directed the delegates to go on one side of the room and the committee on the . other , and after a ^ hort consnltation liey assembled irgether again , and Jiullins-then said-it was a shame the prisoners should go to prison without one struggle to ^ rescue them , and he taid that as the Chartist prisoners were taken to < 3 oldbath-fielda they would have topa ? s through Cow-chbs , when a friend , whom he coiisMered to be Daly , weald be ready , to lead oat the troops to rescue them .

      Mr Ptrry put it to the Court whether thte evideuce , which was quite new , srasrealiy . relevantio the present crime . Baron Plart . —Why did ycanot object befote ? '¦ Mr Parry . —We knew nothiDg of the nature cf the evidence . We were quite taken by BurpriBe . . CroEsexamtfiation contioued—I attendedsevet&l meetiDgs , from this time up to the 16 ih of August , at the George in the Old Bailey , and I reported within two hours all that had occurred at eaeh meeting to the inspector of police , and my statement was taken down in writing , aid I signed it . I attended one meeting on the 15 . b , snd the particulars were taken down in writing . ¦ ! Inspector Marks , inspector of the Greenwich diviBion ef police , deposed that he was in communica tion with the last witness , and he ms

      Divis was then recalled , and the Attorney General proposed to pat the papers into his hand to refresh his memory . Mr Ballantino objected , and the witness was ex amiced upon his recollection of the clrcumBtacceB on y . The witne-: B said he watpreeent at the meeting at the Lord Dei mac , in Suffolk-Btrtet , on the night before the intended rising , and he proved that Mullinp , Ctffiy , Lacey , Payrc , Fay , Ailnutt , and Brew-Bter , were preBent at that meetiHg . The Attorney General then said that hb the witness bad omitttd the namea of some persons who were present , thtrefire he proposed to put the paper into hie hand to refresh hia memory . Mr Ballantine objee ' ed to Urn course , and argued that the vjitceis cught not te be allowed to Bee the paper for the object suggested by the Attorney General . .

      After come discussion , the Court decided that this witness might look a ' , the statement taken down by the injector , in order to wfreeb . his aemorj

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      butthat he must speak from hia memory , and not , from what was contained in the paper . - ine examination of toe witness wasihon resumed . Uesaid-I recollect bein at the Lord Denman the » y before the mtanded riung . Twenty-eight o * thirty person s were . present- . Ritoliie was among them , and a person named Johnson ( Ptwtll , the app I 1 l er * likeffi 88 Present . MullinB was chairman at that meeting , and he and Brewstw , Cuffay , Payne andLaoey wentoutaB a sub-committee . . They all returned in about three ouartera of an hour . exceDt

      Lwey , and Mulling saidjthey had come tothe coec ' . uaiontohavean gntbreakon . the followine evening , and that he himself would t » ke the Seven Dials district , and Payne , Brewater , and BaBsett . wero to lead those other divisions . Triooloured bands wera distributed for the laadew , and witness had . two given to him . 'one for himaelf , and another * : for a delegate who could not attend . -The witness then proceeded to give a detail of whafc occurred at thi ? meekinff corraborating the evidence of the approver . He do- ! posed that Ritchie was to command the ' Lumina-T ! L A thefiremenwe " termed , whowereto meet atthe Orange Tree , on the 16-. h , and that the paBSword by which he waa to know them was' Justice . ' « f vJvl . th ata « on-Tvho wa 8 one of the bail ' J ^ , , t ? 1 ° neB * a » a ^ o present at the meeting SSm « ^ n Mu lsna ProP 68 td that each delegate w , Vf f 0 M ? ou wh 0 WMe billing to . fire house ? , and do anything of that kind that mieht b «

      requireuounem , and Cuffay atthe same meetias remarkedthat it waa no nee now mincing the matter for all their necks were in danger , and they migh "" £ ^ » t Plainly . He only ' knew John on by that name , and'he had no idea that he was oommunicatmg with the police until be read an account of hiBexaminBtion at the police coart . He had no dea before then that'he was a spy , and ho waa the laskmnn he should have ' ' suspected . He said that atanotbermeetinesomeperson , who waaa stranger to him , represented that the Irish Brigade-had fall I provrted- 'themselveB with muBkets and several roarrfa of ball cartridges , and they were ready to act in any manner in co-eperation witfe the Chartists . Tte' Visionary President , ' referral to by the witsesB Powell , he said he understood was , in reality Intend d to be a pereon named Churchill , then residing in France ; and all the Chartists in each locality were to pay a farthing a week eaoh for hia support .

      The Attorney General here - asked the witness ' whether at any of the meetioga it wai proposed that men should go round tbe town at night and see what forco the government had-at its disposal ? Mr Ballantine objected to the question . It wsb like asking the witness whether the prisoners were guilty of high treason . Mr Parry . —It was a wandalous question . The Attorney General said , the leara « d sounsel had no ngnt to make such an observation * In the course of a long examination like the present it was impossible always to keep within the strict tales of evidence . ' — ¦ ' v . . ¦ i .

      The witnessthee proceeded to state , that Mullina told 'him they intended to erect barricades from the Seven Dials down Drury-lane toSt Marj ' a Churoh in theStrand i andhe showed him aplan with the barrtcades erected ttpon it ; He also said that Temple Bar'Would mate a good barri cade , ¦ and then they we « s to go . down to the waterside , ana" make sure of Chaplin and Home ' s premises . Another party % as tO'UiJinto the ^ Sity and to take possession of St Piul ' B Church . <( A laugh . ) The witness'said that he attended the meetings as a delegate ' from Greenwich , ^ thd was acknowledged in that ' capacity . ' He said tha ^ be kne w Dowling as the scorrtwy of the Davis Ciub , andI'to knew that he was n Gonff derate , and rayne , MrKhna , and" Brewster were apeoially ap'pointed to'draw up plana for attacking the police and the BOldiers .

      Cross-examined by Mr Ballarjtine . --I was not a Chartist , 'but merely joined them for the purpose of obtaining information . I wished to in | ratiate-my-Beirwith these people -on putpoae th ^ t I might betray them . I was not'casployed as a npy by anyone , but I created myself a ^ py . I had no object ot emolament , tut merely desired to protect life and property . 2 wished t « retire from the business aevefel times , ' but the BaperinteBdentandanBpeotor of police would ent let me ; 5-tio 'not expect to be paid any more remuneration than will make up for thoioBs of trade I have sustained . The government-have not made tub any promise of remuneration . > For the last few weeks , thejpeeple of'Greenwich have

      rsaspeoted me of beieg a-Bpy , and ; I have lost my -ttade in cosaequence ef-it . •! waa notexaained before a magistrate , and I-am sure the prisoners would'have no nieana of knowing what : I waa going to Bay . I carne&ere to-day aa a voluntaryowhness . -1 applied to beexamined , andu-waa not smnmoned or-aubpoesaed . 1 havoheenfaoked to appear aB a witness , buM refused . I came forward iu cansequenco " of what I read m'the newspaper of the oross examination of Powelljsmd aeetog that he made rather a bad ^ figure , and knowing that Buchchargea oouldnnt be brought against me .= 1 thought 'I "would oome forward and Rive . evidenea « f the truth . -I thought the jury would nob belieye hita on'his oath .

      . ; «« ' » antine-rPerh&p 8 after reading what rjou did of him , yw wouW «) t yourBelf believe him . on his oath' ? . WitneBa-iLgkould in thiamatter . tbecauseil kcow be spoke ths truth . iCroBB-examination coctinued- rl iiaed to . c «? ry loadedpistolafor my owa , prriteoMcn . I nevereot « up any meeting my 8 elf . ^ Communicated with the 4 n . spector of police thia morning , and a&cd hia advice whether I should , come-up or not , and by We advice IXHa bo . . . i o -Bythe Attorney Genend—The paper ! Baw was the -Moeniso Awbbhsbb . I read , the cross-examine- ' tion of P , owell , and J irsmedia tely communicated with the police . . jBafore I read the paper I had < no intention to give evidence .

      ? Charles Balikinson depeEed that he . was a class leader , of the Lambeth Chartist locality , whioh . heldita meetinga at tieChartiet Hall ,. W * bberHtreet t He deposed that he wa » present at the meeting ori ; thejloih , and that , the propajition wa ? msde for the riBing to take place on theMowi pg day , and witness and the other olaaa leaders were told they were to bring tiieir men armed the following r . ifihr ,, « nd those who had not got arms were . to be told where the * would get arms . They-would . meet first at . ihe Pea cock , aad then they ^ ould go to the Broadway , Westminister , where they « ffere to ' . m ' eet the Dean-street locahty . Hewaa a ! ep told thai there " were to b ' = three othes divisions sssembledak different parts of the- . tewn . At eight otcloiik oh the evening-of the S 6 th be went to the ¦ Eeacook . . and found Morgan , Conwjy ; pedler , Wicspere , " aad . Cheater there . knH fo

      ± edlar , produced BOme ^ loured ribbbns rtho , de ! eptes . to ^ ear on their arcs , so that their men migbt know them . He also . produced -same gunpowder andmada . cartridjcB withat . AVitueaa had a picto ' witfa hip , and Peaier gave him a cartridge to oha ? jje lt ^ "Sfquehce ol aomethiug the landlady said they lcfUhe Peacock , wid , proceeded to the Angel m Wefeber-straetand abeutthree minutes after the ? potthere , the policecamein . * nd ap . pr . e 2 iended them He added , . that he had giTCn information to the polica about three o ' clock in the afte ' wioon of the 1 d " h . ¦ . i .

      Cros 8-exa . min 6 d .-HeBave n » information to the P ° 'W ^ thatlime . He was taken . iato custody withtheothers . and had a loaded pistol In his pocket at the time . HoMd a pike head a short time before , but he gave it to Cohwsy Wtakecnre of , and it was found upon iim when he was taken . He brought the pike head , and carried it about with him , in order that 4 e « n ? ht not ba suspected by his companions . WitBesa waa tiot examined before the Grand Jury , and tho pruoners had no means of knowing what evidence ike waste give '" ' . J ° ry ^ ° V , " Po'jc ^ enafcsble . depoaed that about halt-taat four o ' clock on the morning of the 11 th . of Auaaathemadea Bea ^ and found a basket containing 280 perfect bailor tridgea , and abauffifty in an nnfiniahed state ' Cross examined .-Hedia aot expect to find this iViTden" ^ ^^ 8 « ' » S !

      ETidence waa then adduced to show , ttat about eight 0 ' clr . ck ontheeyenipEof the 16 Sh of AugS a number ofRersons were Been to leave the beer shoD id Shouldhantstreet , some of themWing armed 3 some werehearlito tell otheraV come Sselves fh ^ r ^ S ? aB mMy ° thelr f »' ^^ withThem aS ' Thomas Hoyle , a police osnstable deosaed tw on the mght of the 18 th of August " a St number z $ IT' haYiD K th 9 a PP e ««> ce ' of iS labnSer tt ^ &S ^ ^!^ sx ^ r ^ tssasaa ftmg ^^ mBmm msmMM

      tionoifZfl « & 1 6 "e evidence as to the composi- ' pr < Seca £ n ^ " * thl 8 *¦* Ctt 8 B *«*• faS *» Attw « t ^^» aorAib 2 ™ & * indulgence ot the Cbutt to allow time to consider the fact ef . that additional Usti < uluujr § ( - . Mr Baron Platt acccdid to . tho application , and jonnS BIX ? ' clcck the trial was again ad : ¦ { Cmtiwtdtotftt&ahftrffM

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      . DEMOCRATIC BANQUET IN PARI 3 . ' important speech op ledbd bolmn , nu \ L 7 ' n 23 il ( 1 iD 8 t ' » a dinD 6 r waB held in the ^ nakt Champs ElyseeB , in cpmraeruoration of the Kfpubno found ed the 22 ad September , 1192 . Tbe guests numbered five hundred , inoluding one hundred of the ' Mountain membera of the National Aeeembly . The Phhsidbh t ( M . Audsi de Puyravkau ) gaidtjin l ,. e teatest honoupthat cm be done to an old Republican ia to be called on in his old age to pte-• t . i j r ban ^ U 3 ti of Damocratio Republicans , asssmb . eifcrthecolebration oftho annivewa ? y of tbe R pub ic w . ich our fathers founded in 1792 . In 1790 I a : ssiated at the federation whioh took place in commemoratioa . of tho takice of the BiiWlos It was a

      federation whioh filled all French hearts with a love of liberty and with a bitter hate against a murderous tyranny . I waa an aotive witnesa of that unparalleled ,, revolution of which fancy itself cannot now reproduce the image . It regenerated our country ; it raised mankind from tbatnlough of Bhame in whioh they had lain proBtrate , weltering , ever sinco men congregated in aocietv ; and it broke the fetters of that Blavery which bad oppressed them for i many centuries . . rit'ZJns ! This revolution waa nst made for us alone . To free the world waa its destiny ; and it is . now ^ accomplishing this neble mission . A cutee on thoBS who cannot rcoogmsa that great truth-But . no—let ub rather pity . them , for they are struck with bUndneBS , and that very blindness will prevent them frem arresting the progress of humanity , marked

      out by the finger of God , whom they misapprehend . The Democratic Republio , that' grand social truth , founded by theievolution of the 24 th of February anfl bused on the victory cf the peoplo , on the sovereignty of all , and en the Baqred docma of liberty , equnlity , and fraternity—that Republic will be eternal ; it will outlast humaait ; —it will not perish aa long as one of I us shall live to defend it . ( Cheers . ) Citizens , let us swear it ; I am the first to swear it , aud I take that ' oath in the presenp . 9 of this assembly , in the preeenoe of men who are voted to the publio welfare . I am sure theywill * notput mo to the blush . Gad blesa the Demooratio Republic ! At ihe close of the banquet M . Ledru Roius rose I and addressed the asfembly as follows : —Citizen , — The anniversary of the 22 nd of Stptember , 1792 . Let I

      ua drink to that memorable day in which the Conven- ] tion proclaimed the Republic in the very palace in whioh on the previous ni « ht it abolished Royalty ! Yes ; ablesaing-on the Republic which our fathers decreed , and whioh we have the vocation to make everlasting , by establishing it on the indestructible basUof sooial ingtitntione . ( Cheers . ) A blessing on the Republic , tbe tutelary genius of the peoples that are groaning for liberty like ourselves . ( Cheers . ) A blessing on the . Republic , tbo avenger of the outcaatB of the great human family who , like ouraelvosr raise the democratic . banner in opppsi tion . to the last representatives of the old' aristocracies . ( Cheers . ) Citizens ! I say a blessing en the Republic consolidated by . social institutions ; for all of us that are here assembled feel that unless the

      lawa are strongly imbued with that spirit we shall again have the . name . without the thing it ? elf . ( Cheers . ) In that me we Etmll be quite as unfortulate aa oar father ? , who were but the prophets , and who never eaw the land of promise which they poirited'oat toua . ( Cheers . ) I kaaw people will isy , ' jourBiUy hopes are but a socialist phantom . ' It ia but the , o ! d qunrrelwhich was made with our pre decessors , and to which they retaliated by gifts which we enjoy to this very day . Socialism ! Was it Sooialinm or waa it policy , when in order to restore to mankind the noble exercise ofall their faculties they thought of abolishing monastic vows ?—when they brought law in harmony with nature by abolishing the- privileges of primogeniture and applying the levelling power of tha law-to the inequality of

      succession—tell me , was that . Socialism or waa it polic ; ? ( Cheers . ) . When . inspiteef the . opp . osition from the clergy and nobility-the equality , of publio imposts waa introduced—was that Socialism . or was it policy ? In freeing , industry from its former bondage by breaking tbe fetters of the old corporations—did they act like Socialists or politicians ? ( Cheers . ) ' And when they decreed an inrlnite'division of clerioat , communal , ' and noble -properties—when . they , parcelled them out to make them so many .. instruments of liberty under the tost of man—was it Socialism ? It wa 8 Republicanism ! ( Cheers . ) What must be the madness of a legislator who would establish a political principle without giving it a firm basis iu social 'institutions ? Is it indeed Socialism when we Bayno republic without & right to labour ? for there can

      be-no sovereign people where society is Dot bound to tender assistance . : ( Cbeei'a , ) No ! it is not Socialism—it is Republicanism ! And when , we pay there mud , ba publio institutions of credit , for without them useless credit , will rat up the earnings of th : ; labourer—is it Socialism ? . No ; it' is Republicanism ? . ( Cheers ) Yea ; it is Republicanism , and the , adversaries of the true Republic arc aware that that Republic if once rooted in the morals of the country cannot be overthrown , It ia for thii reason they eadea ^ ovir to p \ iw \ e the publio by a sleight of ha&d , am \ to act npoistheir fears by confouading two perfectly ( distinct , thinR 8--Socialism and the practical Republic (/ a Kwubligyeieppliquee ) . ( Checra . ) We know th * ir old trickB , Did not the Jesuits at one timo raise a cry against Atheism ; and the 'Monarchists of

      1790 , did they-not bellow against the agrarian law ? ( GheerB . ) I feol a certaiu pleasure in exrosing thia systematic conf ' uBion botwesB Sooialiara and the Republic ,-, which the enemies of the lattur are attempting : tomafc § .. Thiacontir ^ ualmisapplication of terms proves their impotence and the necessity to which they are -jreducad to bow their heads before the will of the people , and to rospeci the very word with which it saluted ita victory of the 24 ih of February . ( Cheera . j ) ThiB .. practioxl Ropublic ,- which •• is to penetrate into < our laws and morals , and which is to produce tor eadh of aa a just equilibriam ; of dignity and co . r . fort—thiB Republic howcan it be obtained ? To wrest it from oureneraieB we want unity , boldness , indomitable resolution . We want devotion that shrinkVnptifr ' om any sacrifice which we may be called

      en to make . ( oheers ); and nothing in the world can ( prevent our obtaining it in reality , since , in spits « f the duplicities , of the corruptions , of tha " accumu'Utted power 8 « f'the monarchy , we have obtained its name . They must , indeed , be mad who would wish to oppose , ua . ; , they cannot have seen the admirable drama pf thq 34 . 5 h . of February , when , the Provisional Government was but the interpreter of the immense voice ef tho people in ' artris . To thoee who appeared to heakale it waosaid , ' Wo want the proclamatioa of the democratic ,, ene and indivisible R ^ pablio . We webt neither , more nor less ; any other word might tend to . surround it with ino . narc ' iical , institutiona l ^ jp , d . . we are sick of being dupad ? ( Cheers . ) Now , what we want ia to' be mindful of the people ' s will of the 24 th of February

      and tofce united , bow , and devoted . By these mean ? the oonntry wijl be groat and tbe Republiqinwiioifel' . ( Cheers . ) Yesiniy brothren . ' we want union . A 4 % *! so did oar fathers sometimes' Let ua beware of that Hanger to our prosperity . 1 am aware , there are la ? gardBca the rqad of progress—men wWbonfide at all risks , aad who are leBB afraid of the' whima sad deviationa of power than of the chances of its being ' shaken ., Their cohvicfcicnB are respectable , for their patriotism cannot be doubted ' , and I know their eyea will one day be opened . Aa for uai who are more resolute , Jet us not slacken our steps : they will soon mer ; d their pace in order to come up with us . Let ua have patience with them , for if they hesitate , it is because people frighten them by directing their attention to the dangers that surround us . Ihnte ^!

      And what are our dangers ? The Pretenders ? The Royalists ? They may be very dangerous to a Ro public that atandaoh a rotten , on aa insincere foundation ; but they will disappear before the breath of tho people ' s will whenever the people wills it . The Pretenders , indeed ! wfiafc can they' psssibly say ? That they want a monarchy ? Why—do you thick they p would dare to aay that to a people who in eighteen yea * a have twice overthrown the monsrohy ? who in 1830 huned down two generatiooa of Pro tenders , and two more generations in 1818 ? Ha . ' not this psoplo Btill the same hearts , the same arma , the same weapons ? No ! they cannot say that , but they will talk to the people of interests sacrificed and of rights misanderatood . ' . Bat if , after all , those rights are sanctioned , if thoR ' e interests are guaranteed by auicere

      a and truly domeBtic Republic , what ran the PretenqVaay then ? What ground has he t 9 atand on .. ? . He cannot but become a simple citizen , and he will be forced to mix with and be lost in the great crowd . Ho will be less considered than others , for ho will cave done less service than others . ( Cheers ) I have now proved to you that there can be no bos-Biblei dancer'if firm and steady hands plant the Ro public . But if the ground is merely touohed wim what'they call tenderness and care , there oan be no spreading of roots , and certainly in such a case there is an ! immifl ' ent danger . Well , then , citizens ! the question which naturally presents'itself , ib , what has been done for the people sinco the 24 . h 6 f ' 'February' ? What has " been done ? It was at first thought that the abolition of the tax upon salt was a Bntistaction due to public opinion , which had been on the point of obtaining it even from Royalty . It waa but a , vain . illusion , for that tax ia now being re-imposed .

      A'i endeavour was next : made of conferring an inoaloulabld benefit upon public health , by abolishing aMgether thV duty pn meat and on drinks , both of which weigh so heavily upon the poor . They are now rp-ihtroduced . ' ( V . ice : ' True ! Very trno !') And thelaboure ^ tho man whoso life passes between tha crusl exigencies of the soil and the still raore crael ones of capital—he whose only connexion with the sjate and its policy ia carried on by the taxgatherer—what is he to thick of a Republio which , in the very midst pf pesco ,, desires to add to lm burden ? . ( Voices : "fjiat ' s tho tbiag ! Yes , yeH ! Vpry jobd indeed . ' ) This , then , is what has been done for tho people since the 24 ih of ' February . 1 . ani ' v / ell . aw ar ^ tliat tb . B people . ' have at tiraea " boon relieved , ; 'that spine ftiiiipip MVobren tossed to ita aJ 8 ery ^ pj ] that such things were ^' alled assiotacoe ; but . hoff . petty doss such relief appear if compared to the ' grand ir ^ stitutioos bf credit and of association , of mutual aBsiatance as an , instrument ofilabonr , . irUcb owght tQ to bW& Med ! ( Cteo

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      i ^^ W ^ M _ I . "y ^™ ' —^ zr ^ mKUMiM ^ w ^^^ } But , no ! There is nothing pranct ; th ? j'e iancthine fruitful ; there is nothing truly llBpubliean . it m always ihe eld leaving of the past . ( Voices ? ' True , true . ' ) And what H the aaaser , cit > js- > n 8 ? Theaisswer ij , that theatfita ia poor . Tao RermbhV cannot RfE .-rdto make suchiour , d > tioua , ( or thereis no men ? , I &m ( kg to confess that I could nevor undaistar . d this objection in ao fertile , so potretfula country S 3 ours ia . I say ihat cur , rcHpurc ?» of wealth are innumerable , and that nothing is wanted butiho skill to dig channels for thimiu order to direct Ultra to the Treasury , « nd thenco to pour them out to the poor . Waa nos tho oountry ruinsti by tho follies of Louis XIV . and Lcui 3 XVI . ? And yet , was the first revolution stopped in the accomplishment of its creat work by monetary consida *

      rations ? After the enormous sacsifices of our re » volutionary wara , we had the Empire , which , by ita forced requisitions , by Us extraordinary imposts for the delencoof tho territory , in come manner exhausted the re £ oarce 3 of tbo country . We tboagbt so , at least ; and yet . wh ? n the Restoration cam © oa , France found 1 , 500 . 000 , 000 to renson ? . herself from the foreigners , and sbovtiy afterwards another milliard waa wrung from France for tho especial benefit of the aristocracy . And thill ifcba nudthat Franco could find sums to an incredib ' e amount to pay for her defeat , to pay for ths cinigrantB—shall it be said that thia same France cannot find money to sustain labour ? ( Cheere . ) No ; ifciBn'i po ; aib ! e ! Money creeps into covoers , and bides iteelf ; but , it I is not wanting— ( ttue)—it onrmofc be waviting .

      Consider that we have had thirty-two years of peaoe , and > in spite of the losses stneo tho 24 th of February , money must be somewhere . ( ' Yeti , yes ! ' j There must , therefore , be some financial poasibility of discovering the place where it hides , when ii skuta itaejfup like a mijer . ( 'Yes , jea !') How now ,. oitizsna ! Should not France have the same resources whioh Ene ' and found to c&rry on warayoiast the blockade of the continent , and to uphold her am . merce ? England could afford to array six coalitions againstus and to pay their wages ; tho raised millions . 1 of men from the oarth ; she vas able to subdue the gCEius of Napoleon , and to drain the laBt urop fromour ve ' ns in 1815 ; and Franco , so abounding in ve&l property , Bhould fail in finding mnney for hot teople of labourers 1 Impossible , and those who tiav bo

      calumniate their country . ( Violent cheers ) Be » lieve me , pitta ms , distress of tto people is our only real danger ; and tha danger a want of labour , tha atrophy of trade , and the want of new and bold er > terpritc 3 , in shcrt , the old haeknied Eohool ot' finances . That ia the weak point of tka qnestioQ . Of course it may change its i&ucj it may turn out » poison , if . France , sincerely republican , wants the geniuB by some grand measure to escape from this fatal whirlpool . A bank for deposits , anticipated imppsta ; in fact , there arc a hucdred ways . Bat the thing is to find out ' -he regret that tbe Republic makes the peop ' . e happy , r-ud the nation greac ; that noUnly it moots domatb dijeomfert , bui ; l > aa also resources to defend ita principles bi fraternity and esnateipation abroad ., Ii this ba not , every shadow

      ot a danger : may grow m size , and jeopardise the Republio . But U is ridiculous to say that it ia eoney that is wanting ; belityeae , the one thing wanting fcr finding the money is an eiiterprhing nod resolute man . Our fAtheri , indeed , lived on expedients ; but such is the life of revolutions , aud what after all does it matter , if they bat Jive and nave humanity . ( Cheers . ) What a number of honest iSnanciera welave bad from Ntcker to Cambon , but they all trod the beaten path of the past , and thus they struggled in vain to confront the cecsssitiea of the revolatien . Camban came ; was ho , indeed , a financier of great reputation ? No ! but he was a great citizen . He kept hia eje on the end , and , having the audacity which the circumstances K quired , be saved tbe Be * publio . Is tkcre to other Cambon ? ( Cheer ? . ) I

      have said that Franco wants resources to uphold amongst her foreign allies her principles of liberty and etaanoipation . Dj not ycur hearts bleed like mine when looking at Italy eiveu over to the hands of her oppressors , and left alono in her helplessness ? Oh , how alow is the progress of humanity , and how greatly we might contribute to quic-kan it ! Abave three centuries have gone by since Macuiavelli , moaning over the wretcliednesis of bis country , spoke of her aa yearning for the advent of a liberator who would atop the devastations in'Lotnbardy , Tas ^ cany and Naples . He prayed to Heaven for th © arm of an avenger to free her from the humiliating and hated yoke of the Qtr&nger . Fraaco might have been that avenger . Iia ' y Lad a right to ro ! y sn her and Fcance haa cot moved her hand to assist . Italy !

      ( Cheers . ) Yes , Italy hsd a right to rely upon our help j for Milan once taken ,. our troops ought t . lav& crossed the Alps . . Milan ia taken , but cur iiiubketa are at rest an'i French vcassk are impassible spectators of the sacking of Messina , 1-3 thia a Rop ' ublican policy , or are we pwbAp 3 wrong iu our Sates ? ( Cheers . ) A 3 for Germaoy , [ cannot understand tfie line of conduct of our govuriimmt . It is t rid « nc that government does not utid / raUnd the ^ iovomesr , now going on on the othtr-s ' . de oftbj Riine ; c ? if it nnderatands , it , it miscenceivej tho interests oi Ftauce . The . Murefit'Oeimatii » tepi € ae-at » id by a . jrtung , ardent , and bold detn ^ cracy thateceaia ths unity of the country the nrnniUa of libevty . Tha unity of Gormany moans tliedumooracy of Comany , and . dsmocraoy meana a : » acquired sympathy for

      Franca . Aakthosowho •¦ ra well informed whsther thisdefinitioHisnot true ? ¦ I am a sate of th&t d& > mocraoy being accused ot plans of iavaewa against ua ; this is but a triok of the o'd aristt-wata to ruin her fair fame in our eye . England ,, espe . eiilly , takea a loading pare in tnis , and yuu 3 ae th& consaquenoe . Affairs in : 6 sraa 8 y are now tying on inauch a manner that for the future we " sha ! lbe placed there in the same ' situation an wo are in Italy . We shsll aot under the influence of England . I oonfeaa Biy _ deep grief at the sore ' s of our internal staie . i'ho miseriea thataarroand us ua all sides Hud wofal echoes ia my soul , but these are but dorm sticgrievances after all ; . we sufier , eo to s » y tn female ; bat abroad we Bee our glesy falling a prey to England * abroad we are threatened by the league of this hostile * aristscraey ; abroad . , we are burdened wijii an alii , ancawith that very government which for ejebtenn

      years haa bo latally weighed dow n up » a sur ir . tereats , This is too much for me . ( Chiir ? . > All tbiis aiuat be remedied ; aosfc of triare old ch > impion 3 of liberty raoBtofua have gsne tbroujfh severe trial ? .. Very we ! , the » , let us double eur « . 1 F . rttt ; let us confoand tho deeper and lighter tints oi Uerublioauisci . Let " us have but one object-, naratly , r . ; ofy , and the intorest of the oountry . Let uo hxn h » a < me 6 eutiment namely . no reat , no trahquiliiiy unvil the RepublicV though thrown out cf its cotuvo fjr a raoiden * . ahail havoretarnedtoitatrue . ror . fi . ( Gboerg . ) ' is o no rest until , calling upon the niprc ' m- of eu ? fathers , we oan say , ¦ ¦ flail-to you , who eruiircned the Repnh . ! ie ! Takeoare ; it we da notbitov their example , it , like them , we are not ard ^ t in devo tion , and of anirou will , then be , . . aurt'o-ir ^^ will ciuse our memory , and they , indeed , w « j t > n % say , ' H ^ ii to the aen of th 82 ith of F . bruar , |' " ( Cu : o / a and cries of Vive la Ripublique Democrat'mie . ' )

      A _ conolu s' ° fc ^ the ba ^ ivitt Mv do Cotmenittand M . Germaia made a collwibn for the ^ iyes and childrenofthetransported ittur cuts , and obuineft nearly 8000 .

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      THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS ' .

      The 22 nd of September , the anniversary of the fouudation of the Trench Republic , 1792 , being also this society ' s anniversary , has hitherto been cetebrated by a public festival . Tlr > ye . ir the impossibility of obtaining a public rorni ' suitable for the occosion ,. toge . ther with other unfuvourablo circumstances , induced an abandonment ofthe usual course of operations ., Instead , a few members and friends of the society sat down to supper in the sanciunt sanctorum of ' L'Ami du PeupleV The place of festivity was not inappropriatel y chosen , it being decorated with the portraits of the martvrs and heroes of Equality , who during the last sixty years have headed the struggles of the suffering iuilliens against their oppressors .

      Julian Harney presided , aud after the plain but substantial supper had been done justice to , gave the first toast : — ' Tin Sovereignty of the People . Responded to in an able address by Samuel Kydd . The following toasts were then given : — The daj we celebrate—tho . institution of the French Repsblio . Viyela ' Rqpubli que , dtmocrutiqwetiociate ! Voltaire anrt Rousesau , tho immortal precursor * of tho Prcnoh RtvolatioB . Thoy prepared the way for mankind ' s mental freedom , aa 3 tho reign of poliHoal and social justice TherlotoMofthtliih of July , the 10 th of August , tha ' three daje of July , ' and | thc > three dajs ' ' of February . May the principles of Equality , Liberty , and Fraternity for ; Rhich tUey contended , become established throughout the world '

      The memories of . ihe mnrtjrs who have jieldtd np their lives for the regeneration of isanklndj including the he roio victims of tbe four dajs of Juno . Rispail , the people ' o cboicc ; acd honour to the tree d . moorats wbo voted for Il . - . Bpsll , Thoie , and Cabet : Louts B ! nno and Caustldiere , tbe guests ofthe Eagllih poopJe . May ihp . ejt , lci ? be cpewdily rostorod to thefe coantry to build . up the Demoeratio and Sooial RepuWlcj Ernest Jones and the impri 6 ouod and upatdated de > tnoorfits of Great Britain and Irel&nJ . The editors of the . Nett Rhekish OiZETTc , and » ao » cess to tbe democrats cf Ct ; rmony . Our tetrsyed brethren of PoUnd ana Itnly-viotew shall vat be theirs . *

      The Agrarian Reformers of Anwrica , Other sentiments were given , and the whele were responded to in able and interesting speeches . The songs ot the evening included the Reveil du Peupte aud Maurirpmr h Patrie .

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      A Dumfries paperdescrlbes . anextraordinarj potato ^ woighio ; a poand and a half , whlc ' i i « so Bbtped as t ® represent with txacceieileform of a cat lua oroiohn-IPSPesturo ., ¦

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      i ¦! ¦ !¦ " ™ BKmBi . glETEMBER 30 , 1848 . ^ THE N 0 RTHERN SjTAR . 7

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 30, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1490/page/7/