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Agnsefces . But the Government are too r- fljr stricken to concede to such a fair proportion . They say they hate the feeling of the Ijge majority of the people with them against a jese innovations upon civil and social tee&om ; they avow their full conviction that the stopp age of the mails will inflict incaleu-Isfcle loss , injury , and suffering , upon the bulk f the community ; but , notwithstanding ^^*^**™\*^ V" ^
^ , Bse admissions , tney dare not act upon though convictions of duty and justice . They gac cumb to a small party of canting fanatic and allow them to trample on the liberty of nineteen ont of every twenty persons in the jang dom , in order , that under the pressure o ^ inconvenience , obstruction , and injury this measure will cause , the community at iaree jnay be roused to do that which the Government ought now to do for them .
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MONIES RECEIVED For ihb Week Esddjo Thorsdit JtSE 20 th , 1850 . THE HOIeTtY FUHD . ^ ^^ iJ ^ SSSS ^ iSt Received bj John Absote . —Cheltenham , per John Hemnun 2 s . Keceivedby'W . BMer _ .. i s 8 Becerfed ovJoon Arnott .. 0 2 0
Total £ 15 8 FOR DR . M'DOUALL . Hecaredby W . B jdeb . _ B . F . H ., Oldham 6 d-Bising JraJMfendar-jai ^ Mooifidds , proceeds of Mr . Preston' ! fcttnre 10 s « -J . Harding , Worcester 2 s 6 d-From M . P . ? $ r \ / nend ' iowton 2 s 3 d-Col ! ected by J . Oafces , Lash 2 s 7 d-A few Democrats , Leigh 8 s 2 i-Cheltakam , per Thomas Wiileyls 6 d . Recuved by John tooiE .-Royton Chartists , perJ . B . HorsfeU 16 s 6 d-A . Welchman Is—Cheltenham , per J . Hemmin 2 s od—New Badfard . per S . Saunders Ss 8 d-J . T . per Sir . Harkhall , M-John Carter , per J . Grassby 6 d-Staljbridge , perw ! Hffl H-HaUfex , per J . Cnlpan , jua . U 12 s-I « n&borongh . ? er J . Taxzow ( as acknowledged in last week ' s Star for tfce Tictim Fund , ) 2 s 2 d—Mr . Bider U 7 s 10 i
FOR MRS . FUSSELL . Received by W . Hmnu—E . F . H ., Oldham ed—Alex . fidls . Aberdeea 6 d . llecefred by John Absoit—Mr G . W . M . Reynolds 21 . WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by W . Hides . —Coventry , Mrs . Moiling , perT . Biekard ls-Coventry , J . Gilbert , per T . Bickard 2 s-Cheltenham , per T . Willey Is . NATIONAL VICTIM FUND . Keceeeived I > y Johs Assott , Secretary . —Mr . Brett , per E . MaDtrood Is—Miss Shugeon Is 3 d—Miss Brown Is 3 d —MriXewley la 3 d—Miss Simmonds Is 5 d—Whitdngton and Cat , per Henry Bloomfield 3 s 6 d—Cheltennam perJ Hemmin , 2 s 5 d-J . T ., per Mr . Markall Is-J . Carter , per J . Grassby 9 d—i ! r Rider , as per Star 4 s . —Total , 17 s 1 Q&
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LOSS OF THE ORION STEAMER .
rne Onon , a regular packet , running between Glasgow and Liverpool , sailed from the latter port on Monday afternoon , and was wrecked on the rocks off Portpatrick . The crew numbered between twenty and thirty , and about seventy-five passengers were booked at the office of the agents , Messrs . Martin and Co ., but , in addition , a considerable number of cabin-passengers are known to have gone by the vessel , whose names were not recorded at the agents' office , while the names of the steeragepassengers are not entered at all . The impression is that at least 200 souls were on board . We extract the following details of the melancholy catastrophe from the papera received on Wednesday night : —
( From the Glasgow Cmttitutional . ) The greatest consternation was excited in town on Tuesday afternoon in consequence of news arriving of the total loss of the Orion Steamer , on her passage from Liverpool to Glasgow . About two o ' clock Mr . Fleming , of Stirling-square , one of the survivors , came into the Exchange , and gave the first public tidings of this most melancholy event . It appears from hk statement , and what we could otherwise learn , that between one and two o ' clock on Tuesday morning the Orion struck on a sunken rock off Portpatrick , and almost immediately went down . The passengera and crew rushed to the ooat 3 , two ofwhich . it is stated , at once capsized , owing to the number that crowded into them , and
almost all perished . The number lost is unknown » t present , as the accounts vary from fifty to 100 , but it is believed that the smaller nnmber is nearer the actual loss . The weather was fine ; bat the mate said that a sli ght fog prevailed at the time , * hllst some of the surviving passengers state that it 'as clear weather . As one-half of the funnel is above water / the -depth at the place where ahe has Sunk may be from five to six fathoms . _ The only name mentioned as among the drowned if Dr . Burns , Professor of Surgery in the Univer-Slt brother of the Messrs . Burns , the owners of the yesseL H 13 body had been washed ashore before we survivors left the scene of the catastrophe . It 13 Jerjed that a number of those who have met a Eatery grave belong to this place , and , in consequence , the excitement has been ever since most
niteote . The number of passengers on board is supposed to have been 112 , but no authentic lfet « u be procured until the receipt of a telegraphic J tespatch with the names of those who had booked "& * berths at the Liverpool office . Of those who tod taken their places on board no accurate record p be had atjsresent , as the onlv complete list it jost in the Tesseij jo attempt to account for the «* 3 of thig noble vessel oh a fine night , on our own snores , within a short distance of the land , where wery stone should be familiarly known to those in jprgejis at present impossible ; but we have so jjontit the most searching investigation will be made ? J the owners into a casualty which has eventuated & such an awful sacrifice of human life . The rock J& which the Orion struck is some distance from we shore , and passed through the vessel principally to her midshi p compartment , breaking the engines *> pieces ; and , within less than ten minutes from the tune she struck , the Orion was at the bottom .
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General Post-ofhcb , June , 1850 , —On and 'ram the 1 st of July next , the following regulations * w come into effect : —1 . All letters posted at ™ F rural receiving office for places within the > w ted Kingdom must either be prepaid by stampi , , be seat unpaid , as money pre-payment for inland J « ttrg posted at such offices will be abolished . 2 . «* postage of foreign and colonial letters may be «™> in money at all rural receiving offices , in * t- 'fUBg those where no money pre-payment has £ *?* been allowed . 3 The letter boxes at the J ~* f receiving houses will in no case be dosed r * " within ten minutes of the time fixed for the ^ Mch of themaiL j j * iBi-drinking match took place at Seacombe ^ Jeek , and the woman who won the prize dis-*™ n < A no fewer than nineteen cups . ' nif *** Esoush vessels are now carrying tea from gg ?* to Ainerica-thanks to the repeal of the
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^ ssbssssw tS ° At : ^ zt ^ National Charter Association , was held ^ n Monday evening , the ifth of j ££ " i ? EdwabdMius was called to the chair , and said rt was tune that the people dec ] ared holdly and unreservedl y whatley required t 7 ^ T l ? ^ ° miserable stinted modicum of middle class reform would suit them . No ' they required rights political and social for all . ' ( Loud cheersj Not on the ground of any shuffling expediency , as to peculiar fitness for SSSSf ?* ? ?^' . ? «** OT house holding , but in the ri ght of the £ manhood , ( lureat applause . ) 1 ^ ^
J ? ' ^ ' ^ - retkolds came forward to move the following resolution ;— " This meetrag is of opinion that the system of reform advocated Dy the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association , is based upon unjust pnnciplea , and conceivedonly for thebenefitof ^ . ^ ^ jaWs apon the working classes of the United Kingdom neither to aid nor assist them m any of its schemes , but to stand by and upheld those principles which are advocated by the Executive CommU . te « « f « , «
Aational Charter Association : and this meeting also pledges itself to me its best endeavours to make the Charter the law of the ^ J ^ 8 aid he was flighted that the initiative had been taken in opposing the mise rable modicum of reform offered by the Par liamentary and Financial Reformers , and which , so-called reform could , at best , be only regarded as & beggarly instalment —( hear , hear )—and even this had not been put forward
until several revolutions had swept over the continent , like a wbirlwind taking away thrones , monarchs , princes , and pope in their trains ; then fearing the people , the wealth producers would take their affairs into then own hands , they stepped forward with then empty , plausible , delusive bait , which , if carried to-morrow could not effect the leaBt good for the -working classes ; but , for its purely Bhopocratical bearing was well calculated to
perpetuate the slavery of th e masses . ( Loud cheers . ) Truly the middle class had as great aa interestin keeping down the working class as had the aristocracy , for did they not live by the toil and sweat of the masses ? ( Loud cheers . ) Of what use was a mere extension of the suffrage with the ballot , especially as no provision was made for payment of members , and , consequentl y under such arrangements no honaf . de working man could become a representative . If they wanted a specimen of how the other classes represented them , they had only to look at the conduct of
Lord Ashley —( hear , hear )—who had declared before God , in as solemn manner as it was possible for man to do , that he would stand by the Factory Act , a 3 obtained by the late patriotic and revered JohnFielden —( cheers )—yet had he , at the bidding of SirGk Grey , given up the Act , and sacrificed the interest of the Factory operatives . ( Shouts of " Hear , hear . " ) Then , wasit not clear , if they wished to ameliorate their condition , their only way was to depend on their , own exertions , and , in their own united wisdom and mi ght , obtain the People ' s Charter in its entirety . ( Loud cheers . ) He asked why it was , with all the appliances of wealth and power , that the condition of the wealth producer vras not
improved \ "Why Bhould the people be plunged into such a fearful abyss of destitution and misery ? ( Cheers . ) Surel y it was only some powerful lever like the People ' s Charter that could lift them ouj of this "Slough of Despair , " —( hear , hear )—and the bright hope of social rights was the onl y medicine that could inspire the unfortunate with confidence sufficient to induce perseverance to obtain those ennobling objects—the full rights of man . Well , then , it must be clear that the poorest of the poor were those who most required the protection of the franchise . ( Hear , hear . ) The Parliamentary and Financial Reformers appeared desirous of confining the vote to those who were housekeepers , or rated to the poor , which led to the inference that it was
then : interest so to do ; and that , by so doing , they were only carrying out their principle , aamely—that of " buying labour in the cheapest , and selling it in the dearest market ; " and they afforded a further illustration of this principle when they refused that great social reformer , Mr . GL J . Holyoake , admission to the council , notwithstanding his willingness to subscribe the ten guineas qualification ; and their determination to adhere to their pernicious principles was much more fully evinced when , at the Conference , they refused to alter
the " rating'fora " registering"qualification ; yet some of those pseudo-reformers will come on Chartist platforms and glibly say— "We are as thorough Chartists as you are , but it is not the time to advocate Chartism ; ' * to which he ( Mr . Reynolds ) replied—no , no , it never would be the time , even should they live for 500 years , if they placed or left their interests in the hands of the middle classes . ( Cheers . ) But onl y let the working classes show that they are in earnest—be determined that Chartism shall spread in every direction—their influence would then be felt—their interest would
predominate , and , being most powerful , government weuld deem it prudent to concede , and the Charter would become the law of the land . ( Great applause . ) He believed that , should another Kennington-common meeting take place , that the middle classes , true to their brutal instincts , would again take up the baton , become special constables , and attempt to put down the working classes . He ( Mr . Reynolds ) had not yet resigned his seat at the Council Board of the Parliamentary Reform Association , but he should attend its meeting on Thursday next , and ascertain
if they still determined to adhere to their stand st ill policy ; and if they did , then should he ( Mr . Reynolds ) there and then , resign his seat , and throw himself into hostility to their policy . Their Chairman had alluded to the recent meeting in St . Martin's Hall ; he ( Mr . Reynolds ) had conceived that such a meeting afforded a fair opportunity of the oppressed and oppressors meeting face to face , and he had , in conjunction with many of the working classes , embraced it ; desiring to state , in respectful language , to the Premier , the aristocracy , and clergy present , what were the
wants , wishes , and desires of the proletarians , whom they had met professedly to serve ; but immediately he attempted to do so , the pious Lord Ashley—forgot all his humility—started up , much more like a ferocious animal than a devout and lowly Christian man , and protested against his speaking , on the ground that he was a non-member , and at the same tune refusing to receive his guinea , and allow him to become a member . What he ( Mr . Reynolds ) wished to have shown was , that the good " The Society for improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes" was doing , was only
hire a drop in the ocean—that the evil was rapidly increasing , and that such me asures as that society , however good its intentions mi ght be , could never stem the tide—and that such a deep wound required a radical cure which could only be found in a full measure of political and social rights . ( Loud cheers . ) Whenever the people now attempted to ameliorate their social condition , they were met with the Combination Laws ; but these same laws were never enforced against the capitalists ; why ? because they had a sort of tacit understanding by
which they managed to regulate the wages of labour throug hout the kingdom . But it was said , " oh , the working classes have the right of public meeting and petition ; " to this he demurred , f < jr no sooner did meetings become formidable , than government raked up some act of parliament , and placarded it all over the town , to put down public meetings , by proclamation ; hence it was only by sufferance they held meetings . ( Hear . ) The Protectionists had , at a recent meeting , boldly declared that if government did not grant protection they would fight for it ; bat M to used such strong language u
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rz SSSarv ^^ ste ai ^ fSfcsss ssssBus . aujdtSSS SStt ^^^ S ^ SfhSrt ttl ? fi 1 " 0 ? 3 ™^ time for recreation fomU ? , r rootlonof ; and enjoyment with , wives K nLn ? h ° Veniment had ^ their t ^ on k « ° * - S « ? nfi mm l ' done a 11 itcould *«> ^ ep the 5 ? S- ^ T ° ?? t of such matters ; but the mind IT- fnH Sedt 0 b ? 8 hackl <* l-it burst its bonds asunder , and pressed onward to the goal of freedom ¦ SmSr ^ - WOUU ' ^ ail trSSs , # 2 KS i . y hlWe - £ ot freedom - ( Applause . SJ LS ^ - 8 Slng , inference 8 itwa 9 verycreditaoie to the working clasBea that tW k . ji « t « f
perseverence , had achieved such a Targe ' amoun wh ™ genCe as tha tbey now possessed ; and , when any man comes forward and tells them that Sow A * telli S ? nt enough to exercise the franchise , depend on it that man feels that the Srifif J ! T ° . ^ tel , hgent to be used lop «» purpose ? w , f lsh 1 ed , observe . He also knew that aristocrats mwht be found who would sayth ? few ° " L as 8 e 8 are beg S " . living ujon the labour wegive them outof charity : they have no Property . andan not entitled to the franchise ;" « Tf Jo e n h JS h ' sPi » te < i working men would reply l If we are beggars , it was the middle and upper f ™ T * S Q r ! duced . us t 0 mendicancy , amf we tZ * J I ? rag 0 in - order that we «» y J » aw the power of adjusting society and giving to every man his full measure of political and focial rights . " ( Cheers . ) If they referred to the first Chapter of Genesis , they would find it therein written— "That bod had given the land to the whole human race ;" and he believed that it would tend materially to the benefit of society that the land should again be nationalised . Now , masses of the people were starving in the midst of p lenty , but were the land properly cultivated , and fairl y applied to the benefit of all , peace , plenty , and prosperity would pervade the whole globe ; but before any such beneficial measures had existence depend on itthey must
, , possess the People ' s Charter . The People ' s Charter was the great lever by which social ri ghts must be Obtained , and he looked on the man who opposed the advocacy of social rights as being either actuated by sinister motives or as an ignorant man , in either case totally unfit to be the teacher or leader of the people . It was pleasing to know what an advance the knowledge of social rights had made in France , and that it was powerful enough in that country , and that its progress was so certain as to insure to France a glorious future , and place her In the proud position of standing forth a bright and glorious beacon to other nations . ( Applause . ) Ho appealed to . them to perpetuate and extend their
puoiic meetings—to jjerseyere in temperately advocating their princi ples until the people were thoroughly convinced of their truth and justice-the government succurabed-and the Charter was the law of the land . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Mekbiman said : He would rather he had not been called on to second the motion , for , perchance , the counsellor who mi ght be employed to-morrow against him mi ght make an handle of it , and say he wished to turn his little notoriety gained by the bt . Martin s Hall medting to profitable account . He perfectl y concurred with the resolution when the Parliamentary Reformers first came out to courtpublic favour ; they stated their principles were progressive ; he had at the very onset omitted that the property qualification for members of council was opposed to princi ple , and on making that
suggestion he was informed that the matter would be brought before the Conference for its consideration , and on this pledge he had renewed his subscription ; but when Mr . Reynolds had submitted his propositions to that body , he was told the Conference had but one object in view—he supposed it was that of raising funds . The working classes were charged with intemperance , but , he believed ,- " they appiied to the landlords , Boniface would tell them that the middle classes were their best customers . He exhorted them to persevere , and did not doubt that their efforts would be crowned with success . . . The resolution was then put , and carried unanimously , as was also a vote of thank 3 to the chairman , which was duly acknowledged , and the meeting quietly dispersed . .
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Corned Bbep and Cabbage . —The Edinlurgh Review says , " that cabbage contains more muscle-sustaining nutriment than any other vegetable whatever . Boiled cabbage and corned beef make fiftytwo aa good dinners in twelve months as a man o m eat . " It is stated that the new Solicitor-General will be Mr . Cockburn , Thjg will cause a vacancy for Southampton ,
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SOUTHWABK .-Fnnious Drivino .-R H-itton thewptain of * vessel lying off Rotherhitho , was charged with riding furiously along the streets on horseback , find endangering the lives of the passengers , two of whom he rode over . —a lad named Hawkins stated , that on Saturday evening last , he was crossing the Bermondsey New-road , ' towards the Grange-road , when he saw the prisoner coming towards him on horseback at a furious rate , an 3 urging the animal on by whip and spur . Before witness could get out of the way , the horse knooked him down , and the prisoner struck him with his whip and rode away . He got up and pursued him , and saw him knock a man down , when the animal was stopped , and the prisoner was given into custody . —An elderly man , with his right arm in a sling , stated that he saw the horse coming
along at a frightful rate , and before he could reach tho pavement he was knooked down , find his ri ght arm trampled upon by one of the animal ' s fore foot . - Ho got up and laid hold of the horse , when a policeman came up and took the prisoner into custody . The horse was a very spirited animal , and seemed much fatigued at the time . The prisoner was intoxicated . —In defence , the prisoner said he borrowed the horse from a friend , and not being in the habit of riding he could not govern the animal properly . He went safely along till he got into Bermondsey , vrhen some lads frightened the horse , and ho ran away with him , and he did all he could to stop the animal . —The witnesses were recalled , and positively asserted that the prisoner urged the horse on with his whip , and made no attempt to stop . —Mr . A'Beckett said ho should fine him 20 s . for furious driving , aud oydeved him to compensate the parties for the injury inflicted on them .
LAMBETH . —Extraordinary Charge of Bigamy . —Mr . Henry Page , a master bricklayer , was placed at the bar , on a charge of bi gamy —Mr . Henry Clarke , No . 10 , Joiner-street , Lambeth plasterer , deposed , that he had known the prisoner for the last twenty or twenty-five years , and to within these two years past they had been intimate friends . Within the last two years his ( witness ' s ) wife had been in the habit of absenting herself from hor home for a night or two at a time , and on one occasion as long as three weeks . On Wednesday week sho left her home , and he did not see her again until tho following Friday , when ' she returned quite mad , and it was with some difficulty that she could be restrained , and when she became more composed she burst into tears and said , " You may
thank my uncle and Henry Page , for this . " A doctor was called in , and on Sunday night , having become a good deal better , she called him to her bedside , and said , " I have got a great burthen on my mind . 1 was married to Page at Poplar Church , on the 10 th o"f February , 1848 , "—Mr . Elliott : Do you think that your wife was in a state of sanity when she made this disclosure to you ?—Witness : I do , your worship , she was quite ri ght in her mind at the time . —Donald Brims , 120 M , said that about ten o ' clock on Monday he took tho prisoner in charge , and went to the doctor who is attending the prosecutor ' s wife , and learned from that gentleman .
that Mrs . Clarke was labouring undertho effects of some poisonous substance taken by her . He subsequently saw Mi's : Clarko , and she told him that she had been married to the prisoner , who , she said , had given her some poisonous substance in some tea at a coffeershop near Newington Church . She also expressed her willingness to attend and give evidence against the prisoner , but was in too weak a state to do so . —The prisoner , who is a married man , and whose wife iB living , when asked . what he had to say , declared that the whole statement was untrue , and that he had not seen Mrs . Clarke for months . —He was remanded .
BOW-STREET . —Charge of Embezzlement . — W . Smart was charged with embezzling various sums of money , amounting to upwards of £ 156 , the property of Mr . Samuel George Ford , solicitor , of No . 8 , Henrietta-street , Covent-garden . Mr . Ford deposed that the prisoner was a clerk in his employ , and was in the receipt of a good salary . Witness ' s son conducted the business , and he was in the habit of giving the prisoner cheques and other monies for the disbursements of the office , that duty having been appropriated to the prisoner , who kept a cash book ot his own for that purpose . Witness produced the cash book , which was in the prisoner ' s hand writing , and read several entries therefrom—on August the 5 th , 1840 , in the suit of Bruce v .. Walker , paid for brief , £ 2 4 a . 6 d . ; consultation and fee for clerk , £ 178 . August 6 th , a similar sum wa 9 paid in another Suit . There were other entries in which the
prisoner had set forth that he had paid Mr . Parker , the barrister , various sums as fees for a motion in the suit of Bruce v . Walker . Witness had made inquiries and found that none of these fees bad been paid The discovery of the embizzlement had been made by the examination of the prisoner ' s cash book , and the one belong ing to Mr . Ford , jun . The prisoner had paid £ 7 Us . for folios of writing , and had entered the same in his book . The amount had been entered in Mr . Ford ' s book , and . the prisoner had afterwards altered thefigure seven to nine . This led to a further examination nf the accounts , ' and it was proved , after a hasty calculation , that the prisoner had appropriated to his own use the sum of £ 156 . Witness said he sent for the prisoner and gave him into custody , and he offered no explanation to the charge . He merely said that the difference in tta books respecting the folios must have been an error .
—The prisoner said he was unprepared with his defence , as he was on ' y taken Into custody on Monday night . —Mr . Ford said the books had not been thoroughly examined ; and * hen they were so , he expected to find numerous other cases against him . ~ The prisoner was remanded for a week . Robbery by a Mkdical Student . —Massey Lloyd Poad , who desoribed himself as a medical student , and the aon of a purser in her Majesty ' s navy , was brought up on remand before Mr . Jardine , charged with stealing a pistol from the armoury of the United Service Institution , Whitehall-gardens , and a nautilus life preserver , from a tin case , in the same institution . The pistol was missed on the 4 th inst ., and tho life preserver on the 11 th .
Information of the robbery was forwarded to the police at Scotland-yard ,. and the property was traced to have been pawned by the prisoner at the shop of Mr . Dickers , Lower Marsh , Lambeth . The prisoner was apprehended in the pawnbroker ' s shop , and when taken into custody he at first denied that he had stolen the articles , but afterwards admitted that he had done so , for the purpose of keeping up his appearance . It was ascertained that the prisoner s family were highly respectable , and that for some time past he had been leading a " most profligate and abandoned life , and that he had stolen considerable property froifi his iather ' s residence . — The prisoner , who was represented by a solicitor , was fully committed to take his trial on the charge offelony .
MARYLEBONE . —Railway Robbery . —A man , who gave his name Thomas White , was charged with the following robbery : —On tho 31 st ult . 100 loaves of sugar were sent from Messrs . Shroder arid Co ., Christian-street , St . Georges-in-the-East , by Pickford ' s van , to be forwarded by the London and North-Western Railway to Dakin and Co ., Wolverhampton . They were ' delivered at tho Camden station by the carrier , butJfc turned out that only ninety-seven of them reached the parties to . whom they were addressed . It was further shown , that on the night of the 1 st inst ., Carley ,-37 C S , met the prisoner in Caniden-town , carrying upon his back something which was evidently weighty / and on
stopping him . and asking him what he had , he replied that it was some sugar whioh he had brought fiom Hampsfead and was going to take to the Grange-road . The officer expressed his intention of going with him to ascertain if his story , was correct , when he offered to give him ( witness ) money to say nothing , more about the matter . He suddenly threw down his load , which proved to be one of the loaves of sugar consigned to Dakin and Co ., and made off , but was pursued and speedily captured . —Upon the application of Mr . Humphreys , the prisoner was remanded , and will bo brought up next Monday , upon which day it was expected that one other charge / if not more , will bo gone into against him . .
. WESTMINSTER , —Frauds upon the Public-Mi * . Deacon , of the firm of Wimbush and Deacon , extensive job-mastevs , Halkin-street , Belgravesquire , " waited upon the magistrate with a view of protecting the public against a gross imposition which is being practised by a person going about and fraudulently using their names . —Mr . Deacon said that in consequence of having learned from a lady residing in Cumberland-place , and a baronet in Selgravc-square , that a person had waited upon them with a petition purporting to hare been si gned by Messrs . Wimbush and Deacon , with a donation of £ 5 , and haying overy reason to believe that other sums , upon faith of the genuineness of tho signatures , were being collected from the kind hearted public , he had , ' with a view to protect those benevolent individuals who were always ready to relieve real distress , felt it his duty to make the magistrate acquainted with tho circumstance , with an earnest
hope that through the medium of tho press a stop might be put to this nefarious proceeding . The petition , which purported to bo signed by Messrs . Wimbush and Doacon , alleged that uio bearer , who , in one of the instances stated , had represented himself as Mr . John Handscombe , horso dealer , of Cawbridge , Glamorganshire , and in the other as a person named Cannon—there being no doubt , from the description , that it was the same individual—had shipped a number of horses from Yorkshire , which were to be exported to Germany , but in consequence of jiho vessel being wrecked the whole of the cargo was lost , and he was completely beggavea . Upon faith of tho name attaohod to the petition being genuine tho lady in Cumberland-place gave £ 2 , and the baronet £ 1 ; and how many others had been imposed upon it would , of course , be difficult to say . The person going about with the petition was a smart middle-sized man , with sporting boots and 1 dress sustaining the character , about forty 1 'eava of
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age , of fluent address , and specious manners—so specious , indeed , tbat the baronet alluded to could scarcely belieyo that he had been imposed upon . Messrs . , Wimbush and Deacon know nothing whatever of tho person who was going about fraudulently using their names , nor his petition , and applicant , in conclusion , repeated that he had considered it his duty to wait upon the magistrate , as he felt that publicity alone would have the effect of preventing the benevolent being further imposed upon . —Mr . Broderip said that the public were muoh indebted to Mr . Deacon . It was a most pernicious fraud , which , like others of its olass , had the effect of turning aside the course of charity from those who were really deserving . lie was proud to say the press was always eager to assist in sheltering the public from fraud of any description . lie had no control over it , but he had no doubt that with its usual zeal for tho public welfare on such occasions Mr . Deacon ' s application would meet with that publicity which he desired .
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Tub Late Lieutenant Buockman .-Souiq months ago we announced the discovery of the remains of a human body near the village of Busseean , and the circumstances which led to the supposition that they were the remains of the late Lieutenant Brockman , of her Majesty ' s 50 th Regiment . Recent inquiries have confirmed the supposition , and there now remains but little doubt ; that tho body found is that of the unfortunate young officer . It appears that a Thug had been seized by the authorities at Loodianah with a view to undergoing the punishment of his crimes , and after much cross-questioning and denial of guilt , the man was threatened with transportation , and subsequently admitted as an approver , upon which he determined at once to make " a clean breast of it , " and
promised to tell a true story , which was to the following effect — that the day bfifore the battle of Moodkee , when our troops were on their march upwards , this man and some other Thugs were sitting behind a well , when an European , walking alone , left the road and came towards the well . They immediately rose and set upon the man and strangled him ; they found some money in his possession , which they took , and then buried tho body in a field . At first but little credit was attached to this story , but from the fact of Lieutenant Brockman being missing , and the Thug offering to point out the spot where the body was buried , further inquiries and a search were ordered , the result of which was the discovery of the human remains alluded to . From inquiries that have been made ,
it seems that Lieutenant Brockman was going up with her Majesty ' s 29 th to join his own regiment , the 50 th , which corps was a little in advance , and that on the very . day mentioned by the Thug he started from the- camp at Busseean in the hope of overtaking it by a double march ; but from tho timo he left camp the unfortunate man was never heard of . The only discrepancy between the story of tho Thug and the other reports of poor Brock « man ' s disappearance is , that the former stated the murder to nave taken place rather later in the day than the time Brockman was known to have been at Busseean , and his stoutly maintaining that the deceased was not going in the direction of Perozepore , but , on the oontrary , returning : curiously enough , however , that which seemed afc first to throw a
doubt on the Thug ' s story proved its strongest confirmation , for on further inquiry it has been elicited that the ill-fated young man had started with a party from Busseean , had gone some short distance beyond that village , had then missed a cane and gone back alone towards Busseean to look for it , and from that time was never heard of again . He is said to have been last seen sitting beside , i well near Busseean , but the eye-witness to this fact is not forthcoming . It is also stated that the forage-cap belonging to the deceased was found in the well , but owing to the time that has elapsed since the foul deed was perpetrated , the parties concerned are all so scattered about—the 50 th having gone to England—that there are but slight hopes entertained of obtaining any further clue to the sad
business , especially , as no one knows from whom the information originally came . —Delhi Gazette . Tohnado in the Bahamas . —The following is an extract from a letter dated Nassau , New Providence , Bahamas : — " Since the date of my last letter we have been visited by a most awful tornado . On the 30 th of March , about noon , a heavy fall of rain , with much thunder and very vivid lightning , passed over the island , the wind rapidly veering from one point of the compass to another . Suddenly there appeared in the south-west a densely black cloud , the intervening atmosphere assuming a very remarkable appearance , alternately green and livid . There was then a momentary calm , succeeded by a mighty rushing of the elements , as if set in motion from every quarter at tho same moment . These
were , however , but the precursors of the tornado itself , which bursts with such tremendous fury over the adjacent villages of Grants und Baines Town that it carried thence into the sea everything in its way—houses , trees , stone-walls , &c , Within a very few minutes 150 dwellings , or orchards , or gardens , were wholly or partly laid waste by it ; eight persons were killed on the spot , and many injured . One singular feature is , that the damage was confined to a space of about fifty yards in width and a mile and a half in length . These villages were occupied either by liberated Africans or country-lorn negroes . Some of tho wooden houses of the poor were literally taken up from the ground on which they stood with their inmates ( who , in some cases , escaped wholly uninjured , ) and moved
for some distance- others were dashed to pieces , and swept away to distant parts of the island . la fact , the roof of one house was found on an island thirty miles off . One poor African woman lost her husband and all her children , house , clothing—in , fact , all she had on earth to lose , save her own life . Poor woman ! J have never seen the silent anguish , of deep affliction more strongly depicted than on her oalm , submissive countenance . Anything so sudden or so awful in its effects I have never before seen . Subscriptions have been set on foot , and the Legislature have voted £ 700 . This is a very poor colony , however , and we look anxiously to England to extend her munificent kindness to our suffering population . It is little that we can do among ourselves to repair the effect of so serious a visitation .
Poor as we are , however , I may mention that this colony , sympathising with their suffering brethren in lrelnnd , exerted themselves to the utmost , and sent £ 500 to tho fund for their relief during the famine there . Directions are given for an account ; to be opened at Messrs . Barnett , Hoare , and Co . ' s , Lombard-street , where money may be paid to the account of W . H . Hall , Esq ., for the Babama Relief Fund ; ' he is the cashier of our public bank here . We earnestly look to the mother country for sucoour in our extremity , and pray that we may not be disappointed . " A suttee ( female immolation ) has recently occurred not far from Bombay , of which a correspondent of the Telegraph writes as follows : — " The suttee occurred at a village about twenty miles
from the Cutcherry . The husband was an old man upwards of sixty years , and the unfortunate woman , quite young , say twenty-two or twenty-three . The patell of the village came in to the collector to give information that such an event was to be apprehended , and expressed a wish to have a guard sent with him to prevent the sacrifice . The guard was given to the man at once , who returned im mediately and with all despatch , but found on hia arrival at the . village , that the woman ' s object had been effected in his absence , and all that remained was a heap of ashes . All who were known to have been present at the suttee were apprehended and tried by tho district judge . Nineteen or twenty were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment from ten to two years . I heard the whole caseand
, blame could be attached to no one . The scene of the tragedy is an out-of-the-way place , and the patell did all in his power to prevent it . No one seems to have advised the woman—it was her own act , dictated and carried through of her own free will . The parties were all of low caste ; the hus . band of the women was a spurious Brahmin , and by no stretch of the Hindoo law , or rather traditions , could have been entitled to such a sacrifico on the part of his widow . " Judges' Salaries . — According to a return to parliament , the salaries of the fifteen judges in 1815 amounted to £ 62 ^ 500 , and at the present period the salaries of the twenty judges amount to £ 120 , 000
a-year . In 181 s the salary of the Lord Chaneolloi ! was JE 5 . 000 , and now it is £ 1 & , OO 0 , with £ 4 , 000 in , addition as Speaker of the House of Lords .. Feei and emoluments were considerable in 1815 , but they cannot be ascertained . The salaries of the other judges havo been increased since 1815 . The puisne judges have £ 5 , 000 as salary ; their duties have increased of late year 3 , and besides an expense of ab out £ 340 on each of two circuits a , year , they have , when ill , to pay a fee of 300 guineas to a sergeant-at-law for officiating in their stead . The judges are called upon , to contribute towards providing apartments in Sergeants ' -inn for the transsaction of chamber business .
The Game Laws . —A Bhort time since Samuel Short , cottager , of Leeds Gate , was convicted at Horncastle of trespassing in pursuit of game ,, and was fined for tho-offence . He was then surcharged , for not having a certificate ,, the whole expenses amounting to about £ 8 . Not being able to > pay the amount , the assessor proceeded to levy a distress , broke open his dwelling , and seized a $ d removed all his nutaikure and farming implemwts . On the 7 th instv they were sold by auction at the Castle Inn , Coaingsby , leaving the man . and his family wholly destitute . The hdian Times describes a now mode of curing the cholera whiob . has been adopted by the civu surgeon of Howrah , in every instance as yet with complete suooess . The treatment consists ia making the patient inhale a certain quantity of oxygen gas . About fifteen European Beamen , wh » had been brought into the hospital in various stages of the disease , hayq ken perfectly recoveredTby tfumma .
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The influence of the same pernicious sect jnanifested itself as usual , on Wednesday in therejecnon of a moderate measure for theex tension of the Scottish Parochial School sysfcm , to suit the altered circumstances of the ag e . There is nothing these bi gots dread so much as the enlightenment of the people g-hey want to drive nsbaci into the barbarism and darkness of the middle ages , m q ^^ ^ restore the supremacy of the church and the aristocracy . But , though in consequence of { he feebleness and decrepitude of a divided irresolute , and incompetent MiniBtrv , they may rule the roast for the time being , letthem beware . They have yet to come info direct collision vith the whole people , backed by a Press which , though far below vhat it ought to be , is yet a very different antagonist than previous Praise God Barebones * have had to grapple with .
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The renewed attempt to include children in thehst of those who are precluded from labouring in factories before six in the moraine or after six at ni ght , was defeated by a m £ j orrty of only one . The Lords will have little dufcnlty in dealing with such a vote as that Iflrd John Masters * proposition for a real Ten Boras Bm vas beaten by 39 , the Noble Lord having been deserted by Lord Ashley , and other waverera , notwithstanding the former Parliamentary leader of the Factory Movement said , after Sir Geobge Gbey ' s refuBal to include children , that he washed his hands of the compromise into which he entered without authority from his clients !
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The prmoplB of Mr . Sotheros's important Bill for Legalising and Protecting Friendly Societies , hitherto placed without the pale of the Constitution , received a hearty and nearly unanimous assent on Wednesday In its main provisions the measure seems wed calculated to promote the object in view but ss the hon . member proposes to introduce ' new clauses , when the Bill is committed pro forma , we shall reserve any analysis and comment nntu the amended Bill is before us .
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LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTI TUTIOjST , JOHN STREET .
On Tuesday evening , June 18 th , another full meeting , convened by the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association , was held in this hall ; Mr . Lewis in tho chair , who briefly introduced Mr . J . B . Leno to move the following resolution : — w That this meeting hails with delight , the determination of the Excutive Committee Of the National Charter Association not to countenance or support any set of men or measures , that advocate or propound anything short of the principles contained in the document known as the People ' s Charter .
It also expresses its admiration of the truly progressive-policy of the 'Executive Committee' in boldly and emphaticall y declaring in favour of « Social Rights , ' viz .: —Nationalisation of Land , Mines , Fisheries , &c , &c . ; the extension of credit to all , a just and wise system of currency and exchange , together with a sound and comprehensive system of secular education , arid a humane provision for the destitute poor . "—Mr . Leno said -he people of England had beeen called an intelligent people , but he conld not perceive any great amount of wisdom they might possess , or why . should they neeed to pass such resolu '
tions ? ( Hear , hear . ) In speaking of " credit and exchange" ignorance was displayed , for things had hitherto been valued , not for the amount of comfort or happiness they might produce , but from their scarcity or demand . This said little indeed for the wisdom of the past . They sometimes had comparisons instituted between instinct and reason , but he , ' himself , thought thebalancewasmuch in favour of instinct , for the birds , beasts , and insects had provided for themselves and young , whilst the family of man had been neglected . ( Loud cheers . ) The resolution spoke of supporting nothing less than the principles
contained in the People's Charter ; and he could not see why anything less should either , meet with , countenance or support . ( Hear , hear . ) In America there was an approximation to Universal Suffrage ; but the present pernicious s ystem allowed many to bp badly off even there ; and he much feared it would be so everywhere , until social rights were established , and competition abolished . ( Cheers . ) He ( Mr . Leno ) believed that the Creator gave the land to all—hence , he waB in favour of the nationalisation of land . The resolution very properly recommended national education and a provision for the destitute poor . He trusted every one present
would do their utmos t in spreading the truths contained in that resolution . For his part , ho would do his utmost , and could also promise , on the part of the Democratic Propaganda Society—of which ho had the honour to be a member—that nothing would be wanting from that body . ( Cheers . ) Mr . J . J . Bezer , in seconding the motion , said he fully agreed that the Executive Committee were entitled to great praise for going the " whole hog . " ( Cheers . ) The resolution was a most excellent one—it spoke plainly out for political and social rights ; and he had no doubt that not only all present , but that every Democrat in the united kingdom , would fully concur in that resolution . ( Applause . )
Mr . G . W . M . Reynolds , amidst tho most rapturous applause , came forward , and said , the resolution had been moved and seconded by persons who were not members of the Executive Committee , in order that the sense of the meeting might be fairly taken on the principles laid down for the guidance of the Chartist body . Should that resolution be passed , it wonld be an approval of the Executive , and a condemnation of all short-comerSt ( Loud cheers . ) The middle class reformers must be aware that even their modicum of reform would not obtain the sanction of the aristocracy—( hear , hear )—and if they believed theirs to be a popular movement , whyjflid they not throw themselves into the arma of the people ? ( Cheere . ) He ( Mr , Reynolds )
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¦ ¦ - ¦ . . ¦' . ¦ . --™ t £ v U h « me that an end should be l \ L f h ^ bug ' > and J » : knew of no better £ Sf d 01 Dg i 4 thm by the declaration of STT ? contain ed in the admirable resoluspeaker rt ^ ^ f S' ( Applause . ) The speaker then reviewed the proceedings of the late Keform Conference , andalluded to the courteous and kind manner the Reformers had mvariab y been treated by thelworkintrclasses . l .,. tL . .. ¦¦ .
ana said , had they possessed the good sense to nave reciprocated the feeling , they would have expanded their little Charter , and made it to have embraced all . . ( Cheers . ) Some persons to whom the people had been in w . ^ j * ° Poking up to as leaders , nad said that , were the Chartists to add social rights to their proguamme , it would frighten the timid , and keep otbers from joining them . He thought they must be timid indeed who would be alarmed at wisdom , humanity , and justice . ( Cheers . ) He did not like , the idea of the majority of the people being kept continually at work to sup . port the lazy and profligate . ( Hear , hear . ) me destitute poor , whom circumstances had
rendered unable to work , should , of course , be humanel y and properly supported ; but , when he found strong drones like Lord Harrowby— ( cheers ) -who was able to give him a shaking ( by the bye , no easy matter ) , then he wanted to know wh y they did not strip off their coats , go to work , and earn an honest existence . ( Much applause . ) He was sure he need not ask that meeting which they would choose—doubtiesss , it would stand by the National : Charter Association . ( Loud cheers . ) He trusted that they would persevere , extending a knowled ge of whole measures , until all mockeries were annihilated , and the sovereignty of justice had triumphed over tyranny and oppression . ( Vehement cheering . ) i
After a few words from Messrs . Arnott and Grassby , _ Mr . Walter Cooi ? Eii came forward , greeted with much applause , and said , he had been so subject to abusethat he had got used to it , and did not mind being numbered amongst " Atheists and Republicans . " The late Henry Hetheringtpn , had been pelted with mud , on account of hia principles , although they all knew what an excellent , merry , harmonious fellow he was ; and as all good and great men who were in advance of the age in which they lived , were subject to similar
usage , he repeated , he regarded it not —( Loud cheers )—but when he heard an intelligent , working man stigmatised for buying a second hand pair of trowsers ! he exclaimed , w hat , stigmatise a man for his poverty ! Oh shame . He was not ashamed to avow that he had been steeped to the very lips in poverty , and that it had caused him to possess dire thoughts , and vow vengeance against the ystem that oppressed them . It was their duty : to hasten the advent of that good time when " right not might" should rule the world . Talk not to ¦ » him of
of Exhinition of Works of Art . Man himself was the noblest work in creation , and the time was coming when he would stand erect and , in all his manliness and intellectuality , enjoy the existence of his being . ( Hear , hear . ) He had said at their last meetine , that the man for the time . was he who diffused knowledge . ( Hear , hear . ) , He balieved there was much work to be done , and that more good could be effected by
love than by force . ( Hear , hear . ) ' He repeated he did not mind being called infidel , for he was faithless to all that was rotten and corrupt in the present state of society . Neither did he . mind the taunt of Socialist and Republican . He aTowed his Socialism , because he- could not see the difference between a Lord and a man ; he had been twitted for not using the usual courtesy in de-• gnating a lordling who had been to their place of business—but he replied , you must excuse it , as he could not see the difference for
" Nature stamps all men , Equal at their birth , . Virtue alone the difference , ' Makes on earth . " Again , he was a Socialist because he did not think present circumstances were the very best that could be desired . He did not see why there should be Belgravia for the one class , with its spacious squares and crecents . and CowCross , with its dirty lanes and alleys , for another class . ( Loud ckeers ) He did not like the idea that fellows like that lord Mr . Reynolds had called " ferocious "—( loud
cheers )—should live on the labour of others much more worthy than themselves . ( Hear , hear . ) Cobbetthad said , that when men grow wi 6 e grass will grow in Regent-street ; but Robert Owen had improved on this , and said , when tho people are wise there will be no such streets as Regent-street . He conceived that God had created the earth and all that therein is for all . ( Loud cheers . ) ' And ~ he did think man would awake and find , yet , earth a paradise . He knew there were ¦ those who said , "Paradise is beyond the grave—this is a vale of tears ; " he should be inclined to put some
faith in this doctrine if those who preach it would take the "tears , " arid leave their " paradise " for the " world to come ; " but as they did not , he could not help regarding them as the real infidels . ( Cheers . ) He was a Republican because he looked on crowns , mitres , ' and sceptres as the badges of a nation's childhood—( loud cheers)—mere glittering toys that amused the infant mind ; and when people grew wise all this ' gew-gaw would disappear . ( Hear , hear . ) He thought America not true to her Republicanism , or she
would not allow Slavery to darken her fair fame ; but , nevertheless , he admired her system of government , because when her people were wise , they had the means of at once being what the / pleased . He also admired Rome , when under the rule of . the glorious Mazzini ; ) ut no sooner had priestly rule been re-established , than the dungeons of the inquisition re-opened , and they were filled with victims . Again , he said , press forward and fear not , that truth and justice shall prevail .: ( Loud cheers . ) ¦ The resolution was then put , and carried by acclamation , .. . ¦ £ > .. A vote of thanks was given to the Chair ? man , and the meeting dispersed .
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STRIKE OP P 0 WER-L 00 M WEAVERS . The hands of Messrs . Barkers and Messrs . Stansfields have been on strike for the last six weeks to prevent a reduction of their wages to the amount of 6 s . per week , and to all appearance they are as far oft from an agreement as ever . From a balancesheet I have in my ' hand it appears that they
have received £ 20 ls ^ Id . in all , and paid to 126 weavers Ss . each ; this does not speak very well for their fellovr-workmen : a more determined and efficient support ought to be given to them , or else we are afraid they will have to succumb to the grasping tyranny of their masters . ' The masters are free-traders ; one of them , Barker , was the chairman of tho branch of the Corn Lnw League held in Todmorden , and used to say , "that free trade would give high wages and plenty to do ; " he
has forgot the first part , but is anxious that the latter part should be literally carried out . The hands appear to be in good spirits , and , to all appearance , are determined to remain out until they accomplish their object . During the last week six weavers went in at the reduction , but as no more went in , the mill was closed again on Friday . On Monday the hands went through the town in procession on their way to Bacup , where they have been liberally supported ; as £ 8 out of the £ 20 was subscribed there .
All the mills in this nei ghbourhood , comparatively speaking , are either running short time , or stopping occasionally , which is the same thing ; Todmorden has suffered severely . ¦ R . B .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 22, 1850, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1579/page/5/
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