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« Worf « tret ! iingi , » f tdjtgaillfo > p © fhik ' F « HlHg—like dew—boob a thought , produces I That which makti thousands , petbapn mUHoni . * «**• * Brio * , j THE * POWELL PLOT ? ' Bbothi * Peolxtasunb , Thecurtain hwjustfallennpoBanother * et oftit , aram » which commenced with the incarceration of Ebwst JfosMand his fellow sufferers , for the' crime 6 f open and advised denunciation of the oppression committed by the rich upon the poor . A much more temble doom hasbeen warded the victim * jnrt disposed ef . ' Imprisonment for two year * under the easting gaol regulations , is a severe punishment amounting , in fact , to a deprivation of life for that
term- Consider the position of a man of active bodily l » bita , restless and untiring intellect , eager ofapeeeh . « a » d posseadngarientaffeetionsforhomeand friends , —think of moha man condemned to solitary confinement , or the horrors of' the silent system , ' denied the Privilege ofTOfingmateriala , and restricted tomerely wsang hu family for half an W oucein thru months Tim man . cut off from the life of the world and the fire-aide affections of his own home , is in reality deprived of two years of bis existence , with the additional punishment ef being too fully conscious every hour of each day , and every minute ot each hour , of the Sneering livteg death to which 'the law has doomed him . Snch is exactly the position of Ebhkst Josm and many otters . Their panishmenr , too , wili not cease with their imprisonment . At the close of each viebra ' a . term of incarceration he is to be gagged fora number of years , to ensure his 'loyalty * and obedience to the laws . ' A patent mode of making men loyal and contented ! ^^
But howmncliinore terrible is the doom , of the uufwtnnatemen whowloDg prenwdHatedsacrificowu consummated on Saturday last ! The weary days and nights of two yean' imprisonment will come to an md , but poor Cotfit and bis fellow victims are doomed to know no end to their snffmnra but the I ?™ * SteKntewserf TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE u a sentense of life-long slavery and miswy , with no alleviation of hope to sustain the sufferers . I may be asked , is my pity lavished only upon Ctofat and his fellow * eonspirators —have I n « ne for those who were to be the victiow of that ' cob-Bpiraey' had the' plotf succeeded—that is the police , the soldiery , the government , * 3 ? -Ianswer , no « uch victims were possible . It is true the Attorney General has said : — ' Were not eleven men found at the
Orange Tree armed with knives and with combustible balls in their possession ? ' ' Were not thirteen Bren also found at the Angel with pikes , pistol * , & 3 !' Eteyen and thirteen makejusttwenty-fonrtnen , who "banning withSeven Diat- * ere to take London ^ totm ! Thais too ridiculous to wply fo ; it £ " «* *«« » t »*¦ own answer . The twenty-four Sf . ™ 5 S holy ¦ " * of' « P 6 dala' -the taneh £ 23 TEf ? ^' " ' Th ^ eftha ^ MMter fcf 2 L 2 ?^ ^ ™ l ^ P ?*? 1 ^ teen P « P «^ g government agents , and the hour of ' rising ' r t ! f ^ 5 ^ - ent "F ie 8 - Even a chM would see ttattueha 'levjineof war * hall bosh The ' eanspoMy ' ii ., manufactured by government spies , and from the very outset theonly victims designedwere the poor fellowg who have fust been
, BBnteneed to TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE . « nd various terns of imprisonment . The chief Jtojswis active from the very commencement of tte secret meetings ; busy day by day , and night by Bight , ib stimulating and dragging his victims to ( heirdoms . Other fiends in human shape lent their Kd . and every falsa and hellish devibe was employed fiypefeselfconfeoed siscreants , tosedoee , ensnare , tnd guide their victims to destruction . No man ' s fife or property was perilled by tie proe « diBgs of Cotfat and hu friends , nor was the peace of the metropolis menaced for a single moment . Tte soealled' conspirators' were mere puppets in the hands of the government agents . The ' plot ' might have wen nipped ia the bud three months ago , and would nave been , had the government really believed there
waaany reason to apprehend danger to the peace , property , or fires of the pnblie ; but nothing of tbe kmd was imagined , the sole intention of the real ooncoctenof the ' plotr wasto plot away thepersonal liberty of the honest-hearted bat thoughtless men whom they designed to victimise . The attempt made by Powscz . to entrap the honourable member - ^ 'JlSb MJ , shows tbas the real conspirators aunea at Vas destruction of men much more ohnoxi ^ . totne fwrernment than Cms ** and his friends . Unfortunately for the Whigs , the Chartist leaders ' were not ; fc > be cajoled by the blandishments , nor awed by the threats of Powm and his accomplice ? , in spited persecution and black-hearted treachery , re 'PH . * . wan « ng men te face the vile Whigs wpon the hustings , and bring them to account when tae day of reckoning arrives .
Although the Whi gs were beKeved to be bise enough for almost anything , it was hardly anticipated that tbe Attorney General would unblushingly defend the employment of spies , and still less that such horrible immorality would lave found countenance on the judicial bench . On tbe trial of Dowuxg , the Attorney General said;— ' He hoped it would be a lessen to persons who conspired together , that they could not do it without having traitors among them to expose their designs ; , and it teas a we dispensation of Proviienoe fkattMs should he the ease . ' This will remind the reader of WordswoBTsft ' pretty pedigree for murder-: '— 'Carnage is Cod ' a daughter / If there is any reality iu tbe offence called ' ¦ blasphemy / it is too bad feat tue Attomei
ixeaeral should « 9 capeita penalties . Imagine'Providence' inspiring a set of wretches to earn each hu * thirty pieces ofdlver * by eeducbginoooent , and entrappiBg imprudent men to their destruction . Imagine this done , tea for the special benefit of Sir Jobs Jxavn and his coUeagufla , who hopeio escape that public contempt their official imbemty hu se well earned by making a great show of ' vigour in' puttog down * a bubble plot , blown by tfieir own dirty teelsandunKrupoloui mercenaries ! 'OhLiberty 1 said Madame Rolasd ' what crimes * re committed in % name . ' Change Liberty'to 'Providence ' and * crimes' to * blasphemies , ' and we have words which too toily pictare the mingled hypocrisy and at&dty of the Whig Attorney General .
The head of the bar having claimed for Powell the sanctity of divine patronage , Mr Justice Eble foUewed up the goed work by lauding tbe civic virtcea of that model patriot , and claiming for him the thanks of the honest part of the cemmnmty . The judge eald : Powiel ' s own explanation was that—He < Bd not enter Into tfcU confederacy for tbo ^ mrpoc Of lecdving « r eatrapplay « ny one , and tfact he was Ktuated oaty by aloro of bis coratry . If that were so , be thtgght that instead of being called a traitor and a spy , the honest part of the commas ! ty ihoald ratbtr expreta their thanks to him . The reports of the judge ' s address vary in words though tbe same in substance . Does Mr Justice Erle really admire patriotism and love of eountry epch as Powiii confeaed to in the following adaiesioDB when under cross-examination ?—
I did not pren mys « lf forward . I was desirous to ge into their oonfiienee graAuH y in order that I mlgbt betray them the more seeardy . Gorney teld me to get nme paper aodpowder In order to make cartridget . I expected they were to be used stgainjt the Queen ' s troops and the police , bat yet I assisted him to obtain them . I do not know whether fids was patriotic or not . I always indignantly repudiated the charge of being a « py . I speke to two men about 'firing * the houiesaad premiMB , ndoaeof them agreed to doaal decired , but tbe other did sot appear wQHsff , I fbQOgbt I was tamd to carry out the resolution of the committee , tlat eacadekgate sboold engage tome men forth * purpose Of firing houses , or else I should have been suspected .
I know James Bennett , a ihoemaker . * I teUera I have said to c ! m that I had been making aoBfl fctB&grenades that would go half way through an iaeh Soar * . * It was not trua that Iliad bten ttaUivhu&gnuaies , Ionty saM so for talHkg take . * I also told them how I made the grenades , that waa a lie too . HrBaliantlne : ARd an you sot called * lying Ton ?'—Hot to my ftee . Mr Ballantine : How were these grenades made , did yoa say !—Witaets- . Why , I teld them that gunpowder must bt put Into an Ink-bottle with an explotita cap , and I daresay I did taj that It would be a capital thing to throw among the polioe if it had somenaHiinifc . I beBeTe I did say to a man name ! Carter that I wanted four desperate men who woald do any kind of work .
[ Mr BallauUn * here handed a small iron instrument , With a spike is it , calenlattd to lame a htrse if thrown 00 the roadotr ptTtmsnt , and he asked the witness if lit had cm seen such an one , and be admitted he had , and that he had made It ] Here is another aade on a ifmllar plan , expecting this would be produced . These art t&a only two I made . I ma £ e them to ascertain tfeatttey Were making those thln £ i at Cartwlghi'i . I threw it down on the ground and the table . I expected that tome WoaM be produced at Cartwtight ' a like this . Mr BaDan-Hoe : Ton did it for a trspt—I did it to detect the parties . Baron Platt : Did yon do it for * trap . to dL ' t-COTer the partte « who were mahtBg thtm ?—I did to , my lord ; that is the solemn position lam placed in . ( A hugb . ) I said at tie same time that I had a large quantity at home . Mr Ballaatine : Wastkat true or falsa?—False . MrBallantine : Ton seem proud of it ?—1 wish to speak the troth , and say what I have done . Mr lallantiae ; Ana that waj soother falsehood!—It was .
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Mr Ballaatine : Have jou formed an idea of the numtar of falteboofc y « u hare toU in tbe course of then pro . e » 6 to i » WI dare laj I hate told itnral . ' These are bat a few of the gems' that abound in the confessions of the patriot Pcwul , who , Mr JustweEra says . deserves the thanks of thehonestpart oath that Powmx had advised him to go armed to the Kenmngton Common meeting . Mark what follows :- 'I said I had no arms . Be advised me to g rwd a hufeup sharp , and if a poKceman interftred j vnthmt totUck it imJwtJeU y , and he would not [ wantattcondstab . ' HadWaisohactedonPowm ' s ! advice he would have been hanged , and the Attorney General and the Thus would have gloated over what they would have called * AChartist Murder . ' IuBUch a case Mr Juatiee Eats would doubtless have de »>^ : ta 1 . i « .. < i . rfft , niA |(
manded a cme crowa for Powbix . That precious ¦ ample of English law- ' the greater the truth , the greater the libel , ' is now outmatched by the Hew reveisssissss" ^* " ™*" "'" * *' srGKSsyeatawra counsel forthedefence said , 'There werehnndreds of men-aiid it was right that those who entered into xUejal combinations should know it-there were hundreds of men who would give information in the came way as Davis had done . ' If this statement is mt a horrible falsehood , if it is indeed true that there a » hundreds of spies prowling about , or if it be true that there veevea hundreds of wretches whom the Attorney General can calculate upon as ready to betray their fellow men ( qaery-with JudaVs or La-JURTBrfs 'kiss of life ' ?) , what a state of society dees such a fact-if fact it be—reveal !
• We ' ve neither safety , milty , nor peace , Far t iie foundation ' s lost of common good . * And whai an unprinoiplcd , disreputable , rotten U «« fern must ttiatbo which props itself with such vile instruments ! Here I may remark , that if Powkl , Davis , and Co ., are such good patriots , it is passing strange that out of the Old Bailey bo one will do homage to their patriotism . On the contrary we find these' patriots ' confessing they have to be guarded by the police , and kept out et the way to protect their lives . Davis owns that on the men suspicion of being a spy be had lost hit trade , the people of Greenwich refusing todobudnenwithhim . Farther proof ii not necer * stry to show that—happily for the honour of the English aame—there is no likelihood of the people
acknowledging the ' patriotism * of a Powtxt , even though vouched for by a judge . Mr Baron Putt when about to pass sentence on the convicted prisoners , reproached them that they had ' chosen to call that which the enstitution of the country had branded as felony , patriotism . ' The prisoners might have retorted , that that judge ' s' learned brother' bad chosen to call that which the common sense and right feeling of all men , in all ages , had branded as viliaay , patriotism ; an error—to use the mildest term of censure—much more worthy of indignant reprobation . Of coarse I have not space at command to allow of the reproduction of all the damning features ef this memorable trial , but after the confessions of Powell it is only fair tlat I should give a specimen of the candid avowals of Davis , who said : —
' I was not a Caartist , but merely joined them for the purpose of obtaiaing information . I wished to ingratiate myself with these people on purpose that I might betray them . I waa not employed at a spy by any oae , but I created myself a spy . ' This respectable shopkeeker' confessed that he secreted himself in a room adjoining to that in which certain ' Confederates' were meeting , and that the conversation he overheard he reported to the superintendent of the Greenwich police . When a proposition was made to dissolve the Greenwich association , he opposed it , and by abasing the supporters of that proposition as ' cowards' strove to pie his vio ims to illegal courses . Worthy patriot ! Wor thy , ' aa Mr Justice Eblb would say— ? worthy
of the thanks of the honest put of the communit y ! ' 1 The characters of these worthy patriots , as described by thu 6 whs have known thtm too well , teflect credit oa the taste of their patrons . Powhll stands out from the common herd , a man of mark , 4 a bright , particular star . ' lie has been ' a sort of sporting man , ' everybody knows what that means . He adds with artless candour i * I know what the thimWerig' means ! ' Six witnesses who have known Mister Powell for three , seven , ten , fifteen years , &c , swear that they would not believe him on iia oath ; no , net evea were he on his death bed ! For their reasons I must refer the reader to their evidence as given in the report . It would appear
that in bygone days the ' Welsh Novice' ( very like a novice !) waj somewhat heterodox both in his polities and his theology . Witnesses swear that he has been in the habit of abasing both the Yirois Mabt and Queen Victoria in terms so impious , disgusting , and ( ffepsive , tbat the reporter ? , who are in the habit of dishing up the abominatbns revealed at the police offices for tbe mental repast of maid ? , wives , and widows—even these ' not very nice gentlemen shrunk from recording the frightful expressions imputed to Fowxu , by a host of witnesses . Some men adopt enrious methods of attaining notoriety ; for instance , Martin , who set fire to York Minster , desired to emulate
* The tool who fired the Epheilaa dame . * Powill takes Jtjoas for bis model , not without a hope of being able to outstrip that worthy . Righabb Psskill gmog evid . ence . ujB , 'He wonld not believe Fowxu . on his oath , became he had heard him say , ' So help him God , * that he would swear anything if he got paid for it . « • He called the disciples the greatest scoundrels he had ever heard of , and said that' Jtjdas was the best fellow of the lot . He got paid for bis work ; but he ( Powxu , ) would have done it for half the money !' 'fa think tbat England ihonld owe its safety to , such a Ctrsncs ! Fer bad it not been that Powell jumped info the Chartist gulf for the purpose of fishing up its terrible secrets , preparatory to his jump into that lower deep , thegalf of infamy , * this unfortunate metropolis '— 'this unhappy city / as Mr Baron Putt says , might have been turned upside down ! The Roman-like devotion of Powell cannot be to » highly commended !
The other 'Queen ' s Evidence' da no discredit to their leader . One of them confessed to having been a convicted thief , although in the exercise of his prigging propensities his acquisitive genius does not appear to have as yet soared above a quartern loaf , and a pewter pot . No doubt he will yet reach higher grades in his profession . Indeed , I should be very terry to witness the abolition of capital panusbmentl until these gentlemen have previously been elevated to the full height that , doubtless , their merits will yet entitle them to .
A remarkable circumstance should not be lost sight of—the regard for ' moral force' avowed by tbVCrown witnesses ;^ It maybe anticipated that the slimy brood of sham Radicals who call themselves ' moral-force men , ' will eeize upon this trial to attempt to excite odium against the men whom they are pleased to denounce as ' pbjeical-force Chartists , ' by representing the object ! of their hatred as responsible for the fate of Cujtay and the other victims . Now let this not be forgotten , that while Davis represents himself as no Chartist at all , Babbitt says he joined the Emmett Brigade as 'a sincere moral-force Chartist . ' He now came forward to give evidence 'for the goad of society . ' Todxh who will' not be ashamed to take anything the government may give him , ' says 'He joined the Chartists as a moral-force matii * * ? He waa always determined t » betray the physicalforce movement . ' Lastly , Powill is tie 'moral ' man , for example : —
Powitt . —There are straoga characters tbat go to CartwrigbVs , who would astonish any moral man . Mr BuiiwrncE . —You are a moral man , are you not ! Powell . —I am . These ' msral' and ' moral-force * men remind me of the celebrated Doctor Em , who is reported to have lately delivered a speech at the National Hall , in which , applying his words to 'insurgent mobs , ' he said : ' Had I the command of an army , I would ¦ weep the streets . with cannon as coolly as I would cut down cucumbers in my garden . ' Brutus was an honourable man , and Powin is a moral nan . Dr E ? p < is the champion of ' moral force , ' and so is Txldm !
The conduct of Cuffat throughout his trial was that of & mm . A somewhat singular appearance cettain eccentricities of manner , acda habit of unregulated speech , afforded an opportunity to the euckmug * reporters , unprincipled editor * , and buffoons of the press to make him the subject of their ridicule . The 'fast men * ot the press—the frequenters of Coger ' s HaU / the Coal hole , ' and the Cider-cellan , ' did their best to smother their vietim bsneath the weight of their heavy wit , and the filth of their dirty diatribes . They succeeded in driving him into the meshes spread by Powell . Yea , in a great measure . Cotfat owes his deatraotion to the Press-gang . But his manly and admirable conduct on hu trial afforded his enemies no opportunity either to sneer at or abuse him . flia demand for a fair trial by his peers , ' according to tbe prineiplea
of Magna Charta , ' and his protest from first to last against the mockery of being tried by a jury anima ted by dass-resentmenta and party-hatred , showed him to be a ranch better respecter of' the constitution' than either the Attorney General or the Judges on the bench . Coffai ' b last words should be treasured up by the people ; ' 1 ash no pity—lash no mercy . I pity ike government and the Aoanea Gaural for convicting me by means of such base character * . * * Every good act was set aside in Parliament-every thing that was likely to do anygocd to the working clauea was either thrown out or set aside , but a measure to restrain their liberties could be passed in a few hours . ' In passing tbe cruel and vindictive aentanm « f TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE on m « 1 os sessing-as the Jud ge acknowledged-feelings of manly energy and independence , Sir Baron Pirn
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went out of his way to lay to them : ' What right had ypn to set np ybnr understanding against the xpenenca of . mankind , and the result of ancient wisdom ? ' This offensive interpellation was easily put to men who were not permitted to reply . The only reply I shall deign to offer , is to ask ' bis lordship' whether he considers snch language befits the dignity and impartiality which should be his attributes as a Judge ? The ' impartiality' of our Jadges ii all on # * e tide , witness the offensive remarks permitted to be addressed by the Attorney General to Mr Kknialw , and the manner in which this last named gentlemap was put down by 'the Court * whenever he attempted to give the government functionary ' a Rowland for his Oliver . ' Again , MrPABRY proposed to aek a witness , ' whether the class-leaders of the National Charter Association were not appointed upon the same principle aa in the Wesleyan Connexion ? ' ' wlll | iifclI , hIlliilii . ! . , , tt
Mr Baron Putt said fae was of opinion such aqaea . tien comld not legally be asked . /( fesd nolMny ( 0 do vit \ the matter . Immediately following this ' opinion' the Attor * ney General delivered a fierce tirade against the National Charter Association , whioh he desoribed as an illegal confederacy . A short time before Mr Pabbt attempted to put the question above stated , ' the Court' permitted the following :-Daniel Burn , witness far the defence , under cross * examination :-, I know nothing about olais-leaders , but I have heard there are such persons connected with tbe Chartists . I belong to the Land Company also . The Attomit 6 ehbal . — 'When do you eipset to get yoor share of the land 2
Wiikms . — Oh , I am quite satisfied with the Land Scheme . It hu been much misrepresented by tbe preir . This most irrelevant question—this ( lap at the L * nd Company—this back-handed blow at Mr O'COBROB , was not checked by ' the Court , ' though it would have puzzled Mr Baron Putt to have shown what the Land Company had 'to do with the matter ' under investigation . On Monday last , Joswh Ritohti . another of Powell ' s viotims , who . by pleading « Guilty , ' saved the Attorney Geperal the trouble of prosecutine , was sentenced to TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE . Several of the accused were discharged on theirown recognisances , and the remainder sentenced to imprisonment . The * men discharged were acknowledged by the Attorney General to be innocent
, yet to the disgrace of the system the law awards these men no compensation for the six weeks imprisonment they have unjustly suffered , to sty nothing of lots of employment , and the misery and anxiety of their families . Amongst the prisoners sentenced to the severest terra of imprisonment , bacanse fonnd with arms in their possession , was Hugh Cobwat , who was armed (?) with * pike head . Now note how Cohway became possessed of this pike head . Charleb Baldwissok , one of the' approvers " who gave information to the police ' about three o ' clock in the afternoon ot the 16 th of August , ' said , when under cross-examination , ' He was taken into custody with the others , and had a loaded pistol in his pocket at the time . He had a oike head a short
time before , bnt he gave it to Coiway to take care of , and it was found upon him when he was taken . ' In fact , Baldwinson gave the pike head toCoNWAT that it might be found on the person ef his victim when arrested . Is not the sentence passed upon this man immeasurably and grossly UDjust ? Of course Baldwwkw is « an honourable man , ' and , like Powell , deserves the thanks of the honest part of thelcommunity ! I must here direct the attention of the reader to the extraordinary denunciation ot a witness for the defence , by Mr Baron PtAtr , who insinuated that Chabms Goodfkllow , the tailor , whom Powbll tried to entrap , under pretence of meeting him at the Orange Tree on the evening of the 16 th of
August to measure him ( Powsix ) for a coat , was u y « oae of the guilty parties . ' Supposing even that Mr Baron Plati may have evidence ef which the pubho are ignorant , and . on whioh he grounds his doubts u to Goodtkllow ' b innocence , still such a display is most unseemly on the part of a judge who might be required to try the person singled out for this denunciation . Imagine that the government arrested Goodfeixow , and that he was put on his trial before Mr Baron Putt ; could the aoouaed m . \> ° . £ public at large , have faith in a 'fair trial ? If the laws are to be respected and obeyed . Jud ges cannot be too jealous of Baintaining aoiaflied their character for impartiality .
I will nst trust myself to comment on the speech addressed by Mr Baron Piati to Mr Johh Shaw , who , convicted of « sedition , ; has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment , to pay a fine of £ 60 to the Queen , and to find security himself in £ 100 , and two sureties in £ 50 each , to keep tht peace for five years . When John Shaw ' s speech is contrasted with , the violent orations delivered by Sir John Jekvu ' s faction when ont of office , and the incitements to assassination , insurrection , and overthrow of ' the aristocracy * delivered by the spouters of the League , and when we see the rewards achi eved by Whigs and Free Traders in place and in parliament , and contrast with those rewards the punishment meted out to Johh Shaw in the dock , there needs no other answer ( though volumes of answers might be written ) to expose the fallacy of the Judge ' s declaration , that the law makes ' no
distinction between rich and poor . The very virtues of Johh Shaw are made the pretext for his punishment ; because being himself in comparatively comfortable circumstances , he strove to Uubj hit fellow creatures from tbe slough of muery ; because , himself possessing political franchises . he laboured for the emancipation of the helots of his race , therefore , he has been condemned to " ^ . wael Pow ? ament . If , on the other hand , self-satisfied with his own . position he had viewed with indifference the miseries of his fellow creatures , he would have been oomplimenUd as « a good citizen . ' H he had taken a special ' s bludgeon in his hand to help the government to make the starving he down and die he wonld have been praised as 'a W «? &' » ¥ v A W «> d an opinion that paned for a highly respectable nun . ' 0 times !
A truer man than John Shaw never trod the streets of this metropolis . His time , his purse , his services , were ever at the command of his political fjfirt f r » Shame oa thosa « e « ° 8 « they allow his business toperuh and his family to Mrt- ' Jomf ^; a antecedents demand for him something more than lip sympathy JESuSi f P ^ ? n notaB fapicableas their rulers—the families of Cotoay and the rest of ^ ^ Wf" ^ ^ looked to - Although u " doabtedly . Chartism has been injured by this affair nevertheless , let the Chartists Eurtoe " nfS tunate . Out of the pale of poverty there is no allowance made for the errors of the poor , nor sympathy felt for their sufferings . Let poor men have chanty , pity , and aid for each other . This letter is not very lengthy , but the importance and vaitness of tbe subject would justify a still lengthier commentary , - In taking leave of Powell , Davis and Co .,
' Tbeir couatry ' s curse , their children ' s shame / it is a difficult matter to restrain one ' s pen ; but the creatures are not worth wasting words upen ^ Da . nunciation cannot deepen the blackness of their guilt . They have attained the acme of infamy in this woild , and can have no hope of redemption in another . ' Heaven cannot make them better , nor hell worse , ' But what must be said of those who employed Powili , and his confederates in crime ? * The Artful Dodger' who steals your pocket handerchief , or the 'Bill Sykes * who breaks into your house or breaks open your iknll ; undoubtedly deserves the execration and punishment due to ruffianism -, Jot both the thief and the house-breaker are respectable characters compared with the * Fagin' who employs them . The parallel will suggest itself to the reader . The political Flows stand self . nnmuked , ' With all their blushing honours thlok upon them . ' IMmi du Pbuple . Thursday , Oct . 5 ; h , 1848 .
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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS . CHARTIST . Dbwcbtjry —A district delegate meeting will be held in the Chartist meeting room , on Sunday , October 8 th , to enter into arrangements for the intended visit of Mr O'Connor , when delegates from each locality in the district are requested to attend , and bring the district levies with them . Chair tc be taken at eight o ' clock , p . m . The following persons are duly authorised to receive subscriptions to de'ray the expenses of the demonstration on Mr O ' Connor ' s visit-vfc ., the secretaries of the Land and Charter Associations , and Droid ' s Arms , Spinet well , Dewabury ; Benjamin Bromley , F . W . Chappell , Batley ; Frederick William Sncksmith , Biratal William Lacy , hair-drewer , Cleokeaten ; Abraham Scbofield , E . Cleg * , the secretary of the Charter Association , High Town ; and the district secretary , Henry Sannnerekill , ocoper , Heokmondwike .
Locghboeodoh —A Chartist meeting will be held on Monday , the 9 tb , at eight o ' clock in the evening , at the Wheat Sheaf . -Halifax —A district delegate meeting \ n \\ be held at Nicholas Temperance Hotel , Broad-street , on Sunday afternoon at two o ' clock . All localities in the district are expeoted to send a delegate . NwriHBHAu . —The council representing the Chartist body of Nottingham and the surrounding districts are particularly requested to meet at the Seven Stars , Barker gate , on Sunday next , October 8 , at two o ' clock , p . u ., on particular and important business . Each locality will be expected to send their representatives punctual to timewithout delay .
, S'TjTH LoHDOir Chabtbt Hall . —Mt Shorter will a * liver a lecture on Sunday evening next , October 8 th , al ; eight o ' clock . Subject : ' The social position and influence of weman »
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THE IRISH TRIALS FOR HIGH TRKASON . The special commission appointed for the State niais , in Ireland , commenced its formal proceedings on Thursday , the 28 th ult ., at Clonmel . A vefy large number of persons assembled at an early hour in the neig hhourhoed of the Court-house , anxious to be present at the proceedings . The
Attorney General applied that Mr Smith OBnenand the other four prisoners included in the same general indictment should be brought into court and called on to plead—James Orchand , Denis I e ' Ai ? alrick 0 > Donn e » . and afterwards Mr Smith 0 Bnen were placed at the bar . He looked in excellent health , and appeared in much better spirits than on the occasion of his last appearance in the same situation . When he had taken his place at the front of the dock , the Clerk of the Crown wan about to indict him in the usual terms , when
Mr Whiteside , Q . C ., ro 8 e . The application he had to make was that the prisoner should not be called on to plead , and that his trial should be postponed until such time as the court might deem right and sufficient to enable him to prepare his defence in a complete and satisfactory manner . The short question to be discussed was , whether Mr O'Brien was entitled , under the acts of Parliament now ap . plied to Ireland in cases of hi gh treason , to a copy of the jurors * panel , and a list of the witnesses to he examined on the part of the crown . It was very extraordinary that living , as they ( the people of Ireland ) were said to live , under laws equal and similar to ttoae of England ( a prisoner tried in this country skould be denied the advantage of a privilege which every Englishman enjoyed , and which went to the very root of the offence . In England parties tried
for high treason were allowed to have a copy of the panel , and a list of the crown witnesses ten clear days before the day appointed for the trial to take place ; and it was for the court to decide whether Mr Smith O'Brien should not enjoy the same advantages ( being tried in Ireland ) which he would obtain as a matter of right had he been tried in England . The learned counsel drew attention to several acts of parliament—especially that . of 57 Geo . III . —and to authorities bearing on the point . If their lordships entertained a doubt on the subject he would respectfully call their attention to the rule of law now generally adopted in all cases of doubt arising in courts ef criminal judicature , viz ., ' that it should be rejected were it made against the prisoner , and be received if likely to prove favourable to his defence . '
The Attorney General submitted that the prisoner was not entitled to be furnished with a copy of the li st of jurors and witnesses before he was arraigned , It was conceded that at common law no such right existed . The only question was , whether there was a statute in force in Ireland entitling a prisoner to a list of witnesses or a jury panel ? The present indictment was altogether framed under the statute of Edward . The section of Geo . HI . merely applied to a new treason and not to the old class of treasons under ths statute of Edward , and inasmuch as the present prosecution was under that statute , he contended that the application should not be granted . After some further arguments on both sides , the court ruled that the prisoners should at once plead to the indictment .
Mr O'Brien then pleaded Not Guilty in a clear and audible voice . Mr Whiteside then asked , as a matter of favour , that Mr O'Brien ' s counsel should be furnished with a copy of the jury panel for a few hours before the commencement of the trial , in order that they might have an opportunity of looking over it . To jubtify the reasonableness of his request the learned counsel cited some English trials for high treason where the prisoners had been allowed a copy of the
panel one day before the trial was appointed to take place . These cases occurred , he said , before the act of the 7 th Will . III . was passed , and , therefore , showed that even in England it was the custom at that period to allow the prisoner a copy of the panel at least one day before trial . He , therefore , submitted that the same favour should be extended by an Irish court of justice to prisoners tried for the same crime in Ireland , although they might not be entitled to it as a matter of right .
The Attorney General opposed the application . He said he could not perceive any line of distinction between the present case and the ordinary cases in which men were tried for capital offences . The Chief Justice observed that whilst the Attorney General withheld his consent , it was out of the power of the court to accede to the application . The Clerk of the Court then called over the jury panel . The jurors upon it were , for the most part , persons of property , and were taken , some from th town of Clonmel and the remainder from the county at large . The attendance was most numerous—201 jurors having answered to their names out of a panel of 288 .
Mr Fitzgerald put in a challenge to the array , which was to the effect that the act of parliament required the clerk of the peace , within a week after the commencement of last October quarter sessions to deliver a precept to the high constables or collectors ot grand jury cess , requiring them to make out within a month a true list of persons qualified to serve on juries ; the list so made out to be returned by them to the clerk of the peace to be laid before the justices at quarter session for their signature and from the list signed the jurors' book was to be made out and delivered by the clerk of the peace to the High Sheriff . The prisoner challenged the array upon the ground that the clerk of the
peace for the county of Tipperary had not within the proper time , or at any time delivered the precept to the high constable or collectors of grand jury and other cess , nor was any jurors' book made at present pursuant to the Btatutable provisions , nor had the High Sheriff returned the names of the Jurors from the books of the ' county for any year . The next gronndof challenge was that the panel was returned with reference to the religion of the jurors , to his ( W . S . O'Brien ' s ) prejudice . The several panels which for three years had been , from
time to time returned b y respective sheriffs to serve upon juries had consisted of 380 persons duly qualified to serve as jurors ; out of said panel not less than one-third consisted of persons professing the Roman Catholic religion , two-thirds of them Protestant , and of the jurors returned , not more than oneeighteenth were of the Roman Catholic religion , and the residue ( 17-18 ths ) were professors of the Protestant religion . The prisoner further stated that the panel had been partially and unindifferenily arrayed to injure and prejudice him upon his trial .
The crown counsel then ( half-past one o ' clock ) retired to their room to consider the replication to the challenge , and did not return into the court until a quarter after three , when The Attorney General handed in a replication to the challenge , in which he set forth that the panel ought not to be quashed , because there had been a jurors' book prepared in the current year for the county Tipperary , and because the jurors' hook was still in existence , being then in fact in the town of Clonmel . On these grounds he submitted that a challenge to the array of said panel should not be sustained , and that the array of said panel should be considered as having been well , equally and impartially made in the jury book , by the high sheriff , according to the duties of his office ,
The counsel for the prisoner then received ' permission from the court to retire for a short time , ' in order to consider what rejoinder they would make toj the foregoing resolution . On their return into court , Sir Cohnan O'Loghlen stated that the prisoner ' s counsel had decided upon joining issue with the crown , and requested their lordships to nominate triers to hear the evidence , and find a verdiet on the issue . Mr Whiteside suggested that the court should not nominate the triers from the grand jury panel . The court could see no reason whatever for adopting the suggestion ) and recommended that the two first persons onthe grand jury panel should be selected for the required purpose , namely , the foreman , Lord Suirdale , and the Hon . Cornelius O'Callaghan .
Lord Suirdale begged that some other grand juror should be selected in his stead , on the ground that having acted in the capacity of high sheriff during the previous year , it was not at all improbable but that he might be examined touching some of his own official acts . Sir Colman O'Loghlen suggested that the second and third names on the grand jurors' panel should be taken in lieu of the first and second , which course was accordingly adopted , and the name of the third juror in the list , the Hon . F . A . Pritties , was substituted for that of Lord Suirdale .
Mr Whiteside then briefly stated the questions which the triers had been appointed to decide . The first question was whether the jurors' book had been made for the current year , pursuant to the Act of Parliament . The second was whether the panel had been fairly and impartially arrayed between the crown and tko prisoner . Tbe learned . CQuogei
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having recited the provisions of the 3 & 4 Wm . IV . cbap . 91 ( tbe substance of which is contained in the challenge made to the array above given ) , pro . ceeded to contend that the October sessions men . tioned in the act of 3 & 4 Win . IV ., c . 91 , a . 9 , were the same sessions which were mentioned iu the 4 th sec . of said act . If this , construction was the true one , he was of op inion that their lordships would decide that the Clerk of the Peace should have issued his precept within one week after the commencement of the October sessions . This course the Clerk of the Peace had not taken , having in fact issued his precept in tbe month of July , a course that was altogether contrary to the Act of Parliament . The learned gentleman then contended that the jurors' book was issued in July , and not in Octoberas the Act of Parliament required .
, G . P . Prettie , Esq ., Clerk of the Peace , examined . Had been served with a subpoena that day to produce the precepts and lists ; could not produce the precepts , as the high constable did not return them to him , but could produce the jurors' lists as revised by the magistrates ; the lists were generally affixed to the precepts ; the former were returned to him , the latter were not ; produced the lists of two ba . ronies , one the 12 th August , 1847 , the other for 1848 , bnt it bore no date ; produced lists for other baronies , all of which were received before October ; did not issue any other precepts . —To the Attorney General : The lists were revised by the magistrates at a special session last December .
The Attorney General drew the attention of triecourt to the points at issue between the ' crown and 'he prisoner ' s counsel which are set forth in the challenge and replication . The crown bad not taken issue upon the allegation that no precept had been issued a week after the October Quarter 5 easions , but they had raised an issue upon the existence of a properly constituted jurors' book , and were prepared to produce it . The learned gentleman contended that the proper time for issuing the precept was in July , and not in October . The Solicitor General followed on the same side . Samuel M . Going , the sub-sheriff . —Produced the jurors' book which he got from the Clerk of the peace in December last .
Mr Fitzgerald then argued in support of the challenge . He contended that there was not a jurors book according to the acts in that case made and provided , inasmuch as the jury lists were returned prior te Octoher . The Chief Justice then addressed the triers . The panel was taken from the names found on the jurors ' book , which was proved to have been delivered by the Clerk of the Peace to the Sheriff of the county before October , 1847 , that it was made from lists revised at the quarter sessions , and that the lists were returned prior to October , pursuant to the precept issued before August . The question there raised , was whether or not the precept issued
before the October Sessions , was issued pursuant to the acts in 'that case * made and provided . It was alleged , on behalf of the prisoner , that the precept should have issued after the October Sessions , and not at an antecedent period . It was his duty to tell the jury that it was not necessary that the precept should have issued after the Octo * ber Sessions , and tbat the Act of Parliament did not contain a syllable justifying the construction which had been put upon it . The objection to the panel was , therefore , untenable , and he would direct the jury to find against the challenge upon the first count . The jury found accordingly .
Mr Whiteside then addressed the jury of triers upon the second question—namely , whether the panel had been fairly and impartially arrayed be . tween the crown and the prisoner . His . client , Mr Smith O'Brien , was then on his life , and , to speak very shortly and simply his opinion in the matter , he believed that if he was not tried by a fairly and impartially selected jury , it would make little differ , ence whether the crown tried him with such a jury or took him out of court and shot him through the head upon the-high road , The court would tell them there must be no management or contrivance with respect to the concoction of the jury panel ; and that if there was , it would be an unfair , partial ,
and unconstitutional panel : And if the triers were of opinion that preceding sheriffs of that county had not fairly discharged their duties between the crown and the prisoners ' to be tried , ' during the last three years , it was impossible for them to say on their oaths that the present panel was an impartial one . On all former panels arrayed during the last three years , there was a certain proportion ob . served by the High Sheriff who returned the panels ( which proportion was considered to be a fair one ) —namely , two-thirdB had been invariably returned during the last three years of the Protestant persuasion , and one-third of the Roman Catholic persuasion . However unequal that proportion might appear to be it gave satisfaction .
Evidence was then given on this point , in the course of which Mr Pennefather , High Sheriff of County Tipperary , stated there were several names which had been omitted at the instance of tbe per . sons themselves . Did not leave off any one becauBe he was a Roman Catholic . Did make a difference in the construction of the panel . He always did so at special commissions . At the assizes he summoned only one-half of the riding , while he summoned the whole county at special commissions , which enabled him to leave off a great number of names , which he put upon the panel when he summoned only half of the riding . There mi ght be the omission of Roman Catholic names , but on his oath they were not left off for their religion ; three Roman Catholic gentlemen of respectabilit y had sent apologies and were left off tbe jury ; could not tellhow many Romas Catholics were on the panel .
The Lord Chief Justice then addressed the jury of triers at considerable length . He reviewed and commented upon the whole of the evidence adduced , and iu doing so stated his opinion that there was nothing in any part of it which in the slightest re . Bpect proved that corruption or partiality had been evinced either by the High Sheriff or the Subsheriff in the discharge of their several duties , in relation to the preparation of the panel . The jury found against the challenge upon the second question , as they had already done upon the first . The court was then adjourned to ten o ' clock on the following morning .
The Lord Chief Justice Blackburne , Lord Chief Justice Doherty , and Mr Justice Moore , took their seats on tbe bench at ten o ' clock on Friday morning . The court was even more crowded than on the previous day . The Attorney General , the Solicitor General , Mr Scott , Q . C ., MrSausse , and Mr Lynch , appeared as counsel for the crown . Mr White side , Q . C ., Mr Fitzgerald , and Sir Colraan O'Loghlen , for the prisoner . There was a very full attendance of jurors ,, and when the reading of the panel had concluded , Mr Whiteside applied to the court on behalf of Mr William Smith O'Brien to select the jurv by ballot . : ' '
The Attorney General said that if he consented te the application , it would infer that he acquiesced in the imputation of partiality sought to be proved against the Hi gh Sheriff . The Chief Justice said that as the Attorney General did not agree to the application , the court could not consent to its being , granted . The Clerk of the Crown then informed the prisoner tbat he could challenge twent y persons pe remptorily as they came to the book to be sworn , ' and before they were sworn , and as many others fo cause' as he could sustain .
Counsel for the prisoner having availed himself o / this right , and the prisoner exhausted his ri ght of challenge , having set aside twenty jurors without cause , Mr Whiteside claimed for him the ri ght of challenging fifteen additional jurors peremptorily upon his behalf , and cited the 9 th Geo . HI ., c . 54 . The Attorney General , in reply , contended that the 9 th Geo . IH ., in amending the administration of the criminal law in Ireland , specifically stated that a prisoner on his trial for high treason should have but twenty peremptory challenges . The court disallowed the challenge , and the jurors were accordingly sworn .
The following is the jury sworn to try Mr O'Brien : R . M . J . Mansergb , Greaane , foreman ; E . C . Moore , Moore ' s Fort ; R . Gason , Richmond ; J . Going ' Birdhill ; J . Lloyd , Lisburn ; S . Perry , Barrona ; J Lussell , Ballydavid ; E . Pennefather , Marlow- T * Sadler , Ballingarry ; J . Tuthill , Rapland ; R . ManI acr , Gralla ; C . Going , Castle Cranna . The Clerk of the Crown then read the indictment against Mr Smith O'Brien . Mr Fitzgerald applied to the court to oblige the witnesses for the prosecution to leave court . The Attorney General wished to know if it would be necessary for Hodges , the government reporter , to leave the court ? He was there , to take a report of the proceedings , and would also be examined as a witness . Mr Fitzgerald said , he had no objection to Mr Hodges remaining . The Attorney General next said , that he saw Mr O'Hara ia court , He was . o&c of those that bad
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LAND . BiBumoHAM —The members of the Land Company meeting at the Ship , and the friends of Chartism , are requested to meet on Sunday even ' rajc next , Ootober 8 ; h , upon business in reference fo the fature policy of the Chartist body . ' LitiLKTOffN near Leebs . — A special meeting of Land members will bo held at Charles Brook ' s , on Sunday , Ootober 8 th , at ten o ' clook in the forenoon , on business conneoted with the Conference , when every member is requested to attend . Stotjrbridqk . —Mr Feargus O'Connor will deliver an address on Monday evening , October 16 th , at the Theatre-Royal , at seven o ' olock , on the subject of the Land Plan , when he . will propound his views of working it under its amended form . On this ( Saturday ) evening , attendance will be given at the Crown reopiB , at eight o ' olcck , to receive the monthly contribution and levies whioh are now due . Kbighlby . —A meeting of Land members will be
held at seven o ' clook on the evening of Monday nest , in the Werkiog Man ' s Hal ! , when it is hoped that all the members of the branch , including those of Bingley , Culling worth ,. Harden , & 3 ., will attend . Bjuibdby . —A general meeting of this branoh of the Land Company will be held at the Batchers ' Arms Inn , * t half-past seven o ' clock , fer the purpose of nominating a delegate to the forthcoming Land Conference . Sialybridob . —A delegate meeting will take place on Sunday afternoon at ten o ' olock in tbe Land Company ' s meeting room , Cross-Btreet , Springstreet , when the following places are requested to send delegates : —Ashton , DookinfieU , Hyde , and Mottram—to take into consideration the propriety or sending a delegate to the forthcoming Conference —A meeting ef the members of the Stalybridee branoh will take place in the afternoon at two o ' olock .
Newcastle toon-Tub . —A general meeting of the Land members will be held in M . Jude ' fl long room , on Sunday afternoon , October 8 th , at four o ' clook , for the purpose of discussing the propriety of tending a delegate to the Conference to be held in Birmingham on the SOth of Ootober . Pbbstoh . —A general meeting of Lacd members will take place on Monday evening . at eight o ' olock , in Mr Frankland ' s Room , Lune street , to ornke arrangements for the forthcoming Conference . The secretary will attend to receive the weekly subacriptioHS for the sharei and aid fund . Abirdkin , —The quarterly general meeting of this branoh of the National Laud Company will be held
in Mrs Baine ' s HaU , 63 , Castle-street , upon Monday evening , 9 th inst ., at eight o ' clook , when the quarterly report will be submitted to the meeting , and effioen elected for tbe ensuing quarter . Dokinheld . —The members of this brunch of the Land Company will meet on Sunday , October 15 , at the house of Charles Hurst , Old Hall , Dakinfield Hall , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , when all are requested to attend , and those who are back with their levies are requested to come and pay them . ' Mahchmtbr . —The monthly Meeting of the Land 'members will be held in the People ' s Institute , on Sunday morning , Ootober 8 th , to eleot delegates for the forthcoming Conference . Chair to be taken at nine o ' clook .
Hun— A general meeting of Land members will be held on Tuesday evening , October 10 th , in the Wilberforce Rooms , to decide on the delegate to the Conference , and to elect officers for the eneuise quarter . Coyebtrt . —The Land members are requested to attend & meeting at Mr Pritchard ' s Coffee-house , Gorfordstreet , on Tuesday evening , Ootober 17 th , at seven o ' clock , on important business , when all levies ^ due will be expected to be paid . Bury . —The shareholders of this branch are requested to meet on Sunday evening next , in Clarkestreet . The quarter ' s aooounts will be brought forward , and officers for the ensuing Quarter elected .
Bristol . —The Land members are requested to attend at Mr Riohard Castles . MilLatreet , on Mon . day evening next , b > take into consideration the eleotmg a delegate for the ensuing Conference . NoinNaHAM .-iThenext meeting of the Land membars will be held at the New Inn , Carrington , for the DUfpftae of devising the best means ot looating the poorer members , and iransaoting other business , on Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock . -LquoHBiRocsH . —The Land members of this
branoh are requested to attend a general m « eting , to $ ? o ££ !? : Kte ' ¦» - * - * A SwcKpaRT . —A meeting of this branoh will take place on Sunday next , Ootober 8 th , at the hall of the Iijoenm , Welhngtea-street . at two o ' clook in the atternoon . " BiB MHGHAM .-The Lund members , resident in Birmingham , are requested to meet in the People ' s Hall , on Wednesday , the 11 th instant , upon buiireTaestTCtS' ^ *"** """^
RcoHDAiB . -On Sunday afternoon , at two o ' olock , £ . " $ ? " m ? ?^ L 4 ¦»•¦*«¦ will take place th « h ! ^^ - ^ ' . Yorkshire-strflet , to consider the best means of sending a delegate to the forthcoming Conference . to ^ rf J T £ * '"? rl ' and members are requeuted £ . ? Dd S ' " ^ tanPWMce House , Buxton-K ' . ° f Saturday evening next , October Utb , at S , ' ? S en ook consider the propriety of n ? to 4 i **! * ' * * ° *• Conference , and to nominate and eleot a proper person , should it be decided to send one . Biwio » . -Ata meeting of the Bilaton branoh it was considered neceBaary to hold a delegate meeting ( at the house of Mr Josesh Linney . the
jnait &&ovel , Bilston , to nominate delegates to the t-inference , the meeting to be held on Sunday , the l&h inetant , at one e ' olooh precisely . The following places are requested to send their delegates :-Bir « mingham , Smethwiok , Oldburf , Dudley , Wednei . bury . Walsall , Wolverhampton andBiliton . mvbbpool—A speoial general meeting of Land members will take place at Mr Farrell't , 62 , Riohmo 5 " "L *' on Monday evening . October 9 th . Sabject : The consideration of the new laws , and to give Instructions to Delegates going to the
Con-Hydb . —The quarterly meeting of the Land membersof this branoh was held last Sunday , when ofncera were appointed for the next three months , after whioh it was resolved That thiB meeting approve of holding a Conference at Birmingham , as KCOminended b ; the diregtors , '
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lit ? SSSr ? ^ the Shi p loe » JohnFnLn ¦? lTO * . » P * ke | Pips their townsman , brDavin ? S ' Omtlle J degrad Uonofoilkani P"W « " ? oy paying the fine , and have forwarded dEl for that SB to S * 'S ? "n ^ W OtoStfiK SMSSn * ? •""¦ PkttA not to trespass SameHm ^ } ^!}^ 3011 ^ " ^""^ . At tbe Committee ! B" WM . 8 iven tothoVictim b 9 N hK M ' ~ . °° nnty dele *» te meeti ° 8 * iu konSfit Z W ? , i > ? otobM 9 tb » « the SLl v ^ 1 0 tby ' « ° n- « treet , near the 'IK * X ) rth » n | Pton » » t ten o ' olock in the fore-XnVn . fA ? urpoM ? " doPtinB some efficient KM * »*? ««"" t ! on ° f the trades of the ojunty in the National Association of United Trades , when delegates from the following places are ex neoted toattend : Dayentry . Towceirter . LongBuckby , Wellingbqronsh , Hi « hamferrers . RMhI 7 BiH mt ^
Kounas , the * lin b of Northampton , and the Basket makers , are invited to send delegate * . ltaS e Nl ^ > TBMpfB ? Hotel « 16 ' Broad - ottt ° Sj'nday forenoon , the 15 th instant , at ten i ^ t ^ zr ******™ ^ Mdirtt Sht'S ShS VMim Fn ' P T ^ ied ; the L Profits to go to the victim Fund . Tickets may be had at the above plaM , orofanyoftheOhartfat Councir TemS 7 , » nT . of £ eChartl 8 t 8 are Mi at * ° e JKeiSWs ? "" ' " ¦» SMd " NatS p " « w « k—The members of the toattaS Co - ° Pe . ™ tiw Benefit Society are requested to attend a meeting on Monday evening fWnii . * o h .
at seven o ' clock , at Mr YateV , MileS Bank , Shel i ! fT d ? * " . " ^ becoming members m » y US ? Mr IatM on Sat Md » y and Monday evening ; , N woMiutDPO ! f . TiMH-Mr John West will lee-2 Iu m »??' M Jud ^ . toll *' * » on Sunday , October-8 : b , at half past six o ' olock . M . m *^ —* & S ^ oWoton ^ ll deliver a lecturein the Working Man ' s HalL on Sunday , the 8 th inst . Doors open at six o ' clock , lecture to commence at half-past . ... South Shields . — A district delegate meetine will be held in the house of Mr Vf . Gilroy , Crosa Keys , West Holborn . on Sunday , Ootuber 8 th , at two o ' clock in the afternoon .
Mr Wasi ' s Rohtk for the Nexi Wejk . —Swallwell , Ootober 8 th , at two o ' clock in the afternoon ; Newcastle , Ootober 8 th , at half . past six in the eiening ; Berry Edge , Ootober 9 th and 10 th ; Winlaton . October 11 th ; St Peter ' s Quay , October 12 th ; and Felling . October 13 th . Mr DoKOVAH ' g ReciE for next Wbbk . —War . nngton . Ootober , 9 th ; Sfc Helen , 10 th ; Liverpool , llch ; Boltonl 2 th ; Middleton , near Manchester I 3 tb . The members of the Chartist councils in those localities are requested to attend to the getting up meet , ings in the different places named above . The object
of Mr Donovan ' s viBit is to explain the condnot of different parties in cemxtion with the arreits in Manchester , and to make arrangements as to the beit means of preparing for the defence of those men that are threatened with persecution ; MincHB . mB .-Mr James Leach will deliver a leoture in the People ' s Institute , on Sunday . Oot . 8 ± , on Co-operation . Discussion invited . Chair to be takes at eix o ' ekok in the eveaitiR . —A members ' meeeing of the National Charter Association will be held at two o ' olock in the afternoon . —A female members meeting will beheld in the antiroom of the above Institute at the same time .
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Itof October 7 , 1848 . THE , NORTHERN STAR . & i ' , " . ' -L
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 7, 1848, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1491/page/5/
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