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      Johs Bull ' s idea of his Queen ' s partialitj to foreigners is not likely to be removed by the speech . The Koyal lady Bligbtly allndes to attacks npon other nations , and directly threatens a tax upon her Off II ' " I ' m Gonta to open Parliament , " quoth Victoria to pretty PolL * Parliament is like an oyster , then —• you open it first , and swallow it after , leaving the abeils for the people !" A ixuxt contemporary says , " the appearance of Prince Albert , dressed as he was in a field-marshal ' s uniform , with the collar aod star of the most noble order of the garter , was most imposing" There cannot be a doubt , we think , about the matter : Mklbopktb akd Wellington have become friends and allies . Righteousness and peace hare kissed each other .

      Prtsce Albert has appointed fbar chaplains ; this is as it should be—the provision for the soul eiotJd be « p < ra a scale with that of the body . A Prince could not possibly do with less than four ehap ' ains , when we reflect that four chaplains wooJd not more than rapply the spiritual wants of ion \ thousand ordinary people ! " Should you not like to Bee all that ' s going on f ' * skeu Victoria of the learned parrot , just before letting out to open Parliament . "No , " replied Poll , ** I am tired of puppet shows . " JoeHckb , on hearing " the people" given at a Reform feast , is said to have declined drinking it on the score of its being a " / wfisfc toast , " and yet one minute before he had drank the Royal family !

      The following advertisement is copied from a J * ew Jersey paper : — " To be Sold , one hundred and thirty-one suits at law , the property of an eminent Attorney , about to retire from business . Note . — The clients are rich and- obstinate . " One of ottb jokers , the other day , on reading the deaths in a down-east paper / and seeing the ages of many on the list to be eighty and upwards , said be couldn ' t see how people afforded to live so long at the north—he was but thirty , and hadn ' t money enough to hold out much longer . —Jonathan .

      Famous Shokmakebs—A correct catalogue of shoemakers -who hare in any one way or other made themselves remarkable , would be a curious thing . It is yet among the undiscoverable mysteries why dustmen should wear red plnsh breeches , and as unsuccessful have been all attempts to account for those very peculiar reflective habits to which the craf i of Crispin are notoriously addicted . The mere circumstance of the reflecting turn presents no difficulty ; more or less it is incident to aU sedentary pursuits ; its especial tendencies in the case of the shoemaker are the great marreL From the turbulent days of Quaker Fox , and reformers Hans Sachs

      and Jacob Bohmen , to the scarcely less nnruly "imes of radicals Holcroft and Hardy , we note , in this inosi respectable trade , such a long list of religionisms , radicalisms , jacobinisms , and every variety of urns , as we find in no other class of men . It was against this tendency , indeed , the old proverb was launched , as far back as the age of Appelles . Why is this ! Can any one explain it ! Fitness is the object and endeavour of the trade . Is there of neeessity associated with it the restless impulse to discover in everything else an eternal unfitness 1 We ¦ wi sh we could consult Philosopher Square . —E *~ BBlXTtfr .

      Wages op Mkscbkes or Pabuaxext . —It appears that tbe custom of boroughs maint&iniDj ? their representatives in Parliament had not . ceased in the early portion of last century . Hal ) , whose collections wem brought down to about 1739 , speaking of Helstone , says , " This place and others in Cornwall are not able to maintain their burgesses in London , during the Sessions , at their own proper costs and charges ( as of old was accustomed ) in any tolerable post or grandeur ; but have found that profitable expedient ( as many others ) of making country gentlemen free of their town , who bear the bnrden and heat of the day for the honour of their corporations , distress their paternal estates to exalt the repntation and perpetu&te the privileges of a petty society , made up of mechanics , tradesmen , and inferior practitioners of the law . " The Bame author states that " Padstow , Lelent , and Marsrion , formerly sent Members to Parliament , but were excused apon their petition on the score of poverty . "

      Pianos usBKB the Great Seal . — " There is a ear ous record of pardon in the Tower of London , granted to Cecily Ridgway who , refusing to plead guilty of murdering her husband at Nottingham Assizes , A . D . 1 S 57 , was remanded back to prison * nd remained forty days without sustenance , for which miraculous preservation she obtained thi 3 pardon aimer the Great Seal of England . —Fide Agile ' s Records of the Tower . G % > i > c ? to szb as Exectoos . —During the disturbances in Qare , in the winter of 1831-2 , three brothers , named Casey , from tbe neighbourhood of Corofin , in that county , figured prominently in the arsons and onslaughts of that eventful period . Two of them were concerned in the brutal murder of Mr . Blood , of Applevale , and the other ( John ) was

      one of the party that fired upon , and wounded , Mr . Synge . It so happened that John Casey ' s trial , for the latter offence , was to come on the day his brothers paid the penalty ot their lires for their offences —a matter which seemed little , if at all , to affect the prisoner in the dock . He was asked by the clerk of the crown , in the usual manner , if he was ready for his trial . " E ' then no I ' m not , sir , " was the reply . * His lordship wishes to know the reason . " " Eira , dy ' e hear V returaed the " gentleman in difficulties . " "Dou ' t I tell ye , I ' m not ready at all , at alL " " But , prisoner , why not ! " reiterated the man of law . " III tell you that , thin , as yon ax the question , " replied Mr . Casey , and he" grinned a ghastly tmile , " because my witnesses , an' d—1 take their curiosity , went off wid themselves to . see the execution !"

      A Dvtchmas ' s Dz ? E 5 CE . —A variety -loving Hollander , who had married some dozea wives , was tried in England for bigamy . H You Bay , " Baid the Judge , " that the priest who married you to the first wife , authorised you to take sixteen . What do you mean by that \ " Well , " said Hans , " he dold me dat I should have four better , / ourvorser , four richer , four hooter ; and in . my country four dimes four always makes sixteen . " Apology fob Tobacco , —In the "Marrew of Compliment" ( London , 1654 ) , we met with a song in praise of . tobacco , which contains m much , perhaps , as can be said in its defence : — Much meat deth grattonrprocure To feed men as fat as swine ; But he is a frugal man , indeed That frith a LEAF can dine .

      He seeds no napkin for nis hands . His finger ends to wipe , That hath a kftchen in his box , His roast meat in a pipe . A Pleasajtt Yixw op the Twelve Mokths . — January , for new year ' s gifts ; February , for pancakes and valentines ; March , for leeks in Wales ; April , for fools ; May , for milkmaids and their garlands ; June , for green peas and mackrel , beans and bacon ; July , for nay in the country ; August , for corn ; September , for oysters ; October , for brewing good beer ; November for drinking it . After aU these have passed , some for work , but all for meat and drink—after all , comes December , ' with the barns full of corn , the larders full of beef , the ovens

      full of Christmas pies , the pockets full of money , the masters and mistresses full of charity , and the y 6 ung men and maids full of play . —Old Almanack . The Death-Wocto op Hampdeh . —The first accounts of this eventful day , published by the Parliament ariaus , spoke with confidence of their great « hampion ' s recovery : — " Hia wound was more likely to be a badge of honour than any danger of life . But these hopes were quickly dissipated . On moving from the scene of conflict , Hampden was first observed to make for the house of a relation in the Beighbourhood . But Rupert ' s cavalry were covering the plain between . Turning his horse , therefore , he rode back in the way to Thame . When he came to a brook which divides the plain , he

      paused a while ; but it was impossible for him , in his wounded state , to remount , if he had alighted , to . turn his horse over , he suddenly summoned his strength , clapped spurs , and cleared the leap . Through such particulars the recent biographer of this eminent person naturally delights to carry bis reader . But what must have oeen Hampden ' s thoughts , as he crossed the field of his youthful remembrances , staining the greed blades that glittered in the sun of a bright morn in May with so ignoble blood ! There he had first practised his confiding neighbours , and his yhwmwg tenants and serving-men , in the uie of those pikes which they were to level at the Crown and the Mitres-of

      Eng-Irnd ; and then the avenging ball of the royalist had shivered bis vigorous right arm 1 The cause was , to all appearance , declining—the army weakened , and commanded by a cold and vacillating partisan ; the enemy ' victorious , and every day gathering new strength ; the Parliament rapidly losing the eonfideMt of the people ; Pym , his great fellow-champion , lying o » am des&bed , the most ¦ entient nerve of freedom , the tonghtest sinew in the scroll I Yet , ooald he have iooked farther , aod with prophetic eyes beheld Naseby , Carisbrook , Whitehall , defiled by the blood of a king and the residence of an usurper , more appalling would have been that co&texaplaiion . of ito triumph . ~ Where would ha have discovered the laws he had

      vindi-«? ed ; tbe liberty , at whose shrine he had saenficed ¦ o much , besides what was Ms own ; or efen a free field for that sly but strong ambition , which , more , it m * y be , than , he was himself aware , directed the movements of his life ! In great pain , and nearly eahajis ted , Hampden . reached Thame . The surgeons wfe * dressed hit wounds encouraged-his fellowpatriots and brothers is arsis with hopes of his reeoT . ery ; but his-own impression from the first was , thai his hurt was mortal . It was too true an one . A * ex , six- idaya of intense suffering , Hampden breathed hia last . '

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      FURTHER REFORM : MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION AT LEEDS . ( From the Spectator . ) " We look upon Universal Suffrage as a right withheld—one that cannot safHp be withheld much longer ; and we consider the question with regard to it to be rapidly narrowing itself to tbe consideration of these two points—how ? andwfea ?" Since the 27 th October , 1838 , when we expressed the above opinion , nothing has occurred to shake , and much to strengthen it . Every folly or outrage of a Chartist has been dwelt upon by the Whigs and Tories as a proof of the badness of the cause : every imprisonment or banishment of a Chartist has been announced as the extinction of Chartism . Still the

      stupid Chartists could not or would not understand that in propriety they ought to cease to exist , and continued stubbornly to live on . Till at last it has come to this , that a tolerably numerous body of the middle classes , having at their head some men of great wealth , countenanced by influential Members of Parliament , have invited Chartists to appear on the same hustings with them for the purpose of expressing their common opinions ; and have most sedulously avoided the expression of any sentiment or opinion that might hurt the feelings of their Chartist allies . The Leeds meeting has materially changed the position and prospects of Chartism . The existence of the Chartist body as an influential portion of public opinion has beea solemnly recognised :

      the assistance of the Chartists has been invoked by a portion of the enfranchised reformers , and only granted in consequence of important concessions . The difference between the position of the Chartists before and after the Leeds meeting , is the difference between the position of Texas or the South American republics before and after their recognition as independent states by the European Powers . The Ministerial and the Tory journals concur in taunting the gentlemen with whom the Leeds movement originated , as having intended a demonstration in favour of Household Suffrage only , yet having been drawn into a demonstration in favour of Universal Suffrage . It cannot be denied , that many of thoBe who had a share in originating tbe proceedings ,

      have been carried much further lhan they intended . Some of them believed that by setting up Household in opposition to Universal Suffrage , they would lure away the followers of the Chartist Ieadars . Some of them goodnatnredly clung to the vain belief , that if they could muster a strong enough body of supporters , they might induce the Whig Ministers to place themselves at their head . Both have been disappointed . Earl Fitzwilliam tells them flat—and he speaks the sentiments of his " order , " and those who cling to it—that he M will not march through Coventry with them . " if the Leeds Association is to go honestly and firmly on with the work it has taken in hand , it must make up its mind to break with Ministers . Again , not one Chartist has been induced to say that he will postpone his claim of Universal Suffrage if the instalment of Household Suffrage be paid in the mean time . The Leeds

      Association , taking upon itself to speak in the name of the advocates of Household Suffrage , has met the Cuartist Delegates , speaking in the name of the advocates of Universal Suffrage - , and the two parties have agreed , that the change effected upon our representative system by the Reform Bill has been found inadequate to insure good legislation , and that farther constitutional changes are necessary . The two parties have not yet come to the discussion whose plan is to be tried first , or what modification of both , or of either . It is as likely ( for any thing that has been said or done ) that the first move will Be for Universal , as that it will be for Household Suffrage : nay , inasmuch as all the advocates of Universal Suffrage expressed distaste of the limited suffrage proposed , while the advocates of Household Suffrage admitted the superiority of the other abstractedly considered , the probability is , if any thing , in favour of unrestricted , unqualified Suffrage .

      Much has been gained by tbe mere fact that members of tbe middle and working classes' * bave again co-operated at a great public meeting . Men wbo have stood side by aide en tbe same tastings , striving for a common object , however unimportant , bave already begun to be acquaintance * Tbe majority of the middledata men at tbe Leeds meeting will henceforth view any unqualified attack upon the Cbartiate u personal to themselves ; and tbe Chartists , vbo took part , in thai meeting , will , in life manner , ted themaelrea called upon to patronise their associates of the middle classes The partition-wall , which circumstances bad run up

      between Reformers of tbe middle and working classes , is already begun to be pulled down . A vigorous movement party is in tbe course of being formed , at tbe Tery moment that the various fractious of tbe drag party , ( fur , properly speaking , there is not , and cannot be , a positively stationary party , ) seem on tbe eve of being re-combined . Tbe shades of difference between Tories , Whigs , and Parliamentary Radicals , are daily becoming more imperceptible ; and much-decried Chartism is in the fair way of becoming the nucleus around which the scattered elements of a popular party are to gather into form and substance .

      Ibis result will not , as has already been observed , be immediate . Where there is co-operation there must be mutual confidence , and that does not at present exist : confidence is a plant of slow growth . Tbe distrust of Sir . O'Connell , which tbe outspoken Colonel Napier expressed aloud , was shared by many who did not give it voice . We do not inquire as to the ground s or justice of bis distrust ; we merely advert to it as a fact , the existence of which is acknowledged . The middle-class politicians distrust each other , and tbe working classes distrust all of them . This is the necessary consequence of tbe substitution of " faith in

      tbe Whigs" for faith in principle . The gullible and the interested supporters of tbe Whigs are necessarily unfounded in tbe popular estimation , for there is no external distinguishing mark whereby to know tbe ons from tbe other ; and even men wbo bave bad tbe moral courage to separate themselves from both , are , in tbe unreasoning anger of tbe working men , jealously watched , for no other reason than that they do not belong to their class . It is only by men ' s advance in knowledge of their common interests , and by perseverance in an independent course of policy , that confidence can be established ; and until it be , there can be little progress made .

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      Some ingenious arguments bave been used to show that we are ail working men ; but there is an essential difference between head-work—which is education , and hand-work—which impedes education . The working classes feel this , and will not , on the strength of a play upon words , admit a man to the privileges of their " order . " They dont understand " metaphysics . "

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      THE QUEEN versus HETHERINGTON . JUDGMENT . Tbe Attoenet-Genkkal prayed the judgment of tbe Court upon Henry Hetherington , who had been convicted during the sittings of the last tern of Belling a blasphemous pnblication , entitled " Haslam ' s Letters U tbe Clergy of all Denominations . " Lord Desxah having read tbe minntes of tbe trial , and tbe passages which the Jury found to be blasphemous libels , Mr . Thomas , on behalf of the defendant , was instructed to moTe the Court in arrest of judgment , or for a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial . The ground on which be moved was , that the offence laid in the indictment referred only to that part

      of tbe Scriptures called the Old Testament , and there never was a case of an indictment against a publication which discussed matters relative to tbe Old Testament only ; it was not an offence which was punishable at common law . Although not exactly bearing on the case , be would remind the Court of tbe observation made by tbe defendant at tbe trial , that the doctrine of Christianity being parcel of the law of the land originated in a mistranslation of a case in the Ye&i Book in the 3 d and 4 th Henry YL , and that error bad been copied into all the succeeding sases . He would now refer the Court to the judgment of Chief Justice Hale , in tbe ease of the four ¦ witches wbo bad bean hanged in the reign of James the First , that Learned Judge asserting that there was no doubt of their existence

      Tbe Court was aware that during tbe reign of James the First , when the law originated , there was no end of the legal murders that took plaae under the charges ot witchcraft and blasphemy . The law certainly could not be traced further back , and had its origin in religious or political animosities , when Judges were found to carry into effect the wiahe * of parsons in paver or authority . In the case of the King c . Wool * stone , wbo was tried for a libel , impugning the miracles of Jesus Christ , the objection was taken that it vh not an . offence indictable at oommon law , but the objection was overruled by the Court , on the ground that the Christian religion was part of the law of tbe land Tbe Learned Counsel then referred to tbe eases of Jacob , Peter Annett , Wilks , and the King and Williams ; in the latter case tte Court held that the libel waa indictable at common , lav , because the libel denied the aathority of the Holy Scriptures , and that lie Christian religion vas part and parcel of the lav of the land . In

      all then cases the divinity of Christ , and the aathority of tbe Scriptures generally , were questioned ; bat ha submitted that where the Old Testament only was called into question , the rale laid down in tbeas cases did not apply , ai it did not eaU in question tbe great troths of tbe Christian religion . He would now refer the Court to the able work ti the Archbishop of Dublin on the subject , in which he referred to the Old Testament as a great historical narrative , and , in a great mea sure , distinct from the Christian religion . Bishop Taylor alao said that there van so many errors , mistakes , and ini > t ** n *^^ fct ""» of foa Old Testament , that it was open to the ttisensdon of any party . Tha Conrt would see , from these aothoritlaa , that there was a license given to persons to discuss matters contained ia tbe Old Testament } and to that portion of tbe Scripture * only did the libel of . tfae dflfendapt refer . He believed there vai no case OB record where party had been tried is that Court for a matter which had no reference to the Christian nligien * Another objection vas , that the Learned Judge bad . pat it to tbe Jury to

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      say whether the publication was a libel upon the ChrlstUm religion , although the libel had no reference whatever to that matter . Now , inasmuch as the law proceeded on tbe ground that the obligations of civil society were injured and loosened by bringing the Scriptures into contempt , jarora and witnesses , being worn npon tbe New Testament , any controversy npoa matters contained in the Old Testament , which bad no reference whatever to Christ ( the Christian religion being altogether independent of the Old Testament ) , could not be said to come within the rule laid down in these cases . ' '

      Tbe Court did not think there was any ground for the rule . There was that connection between the Old and the New Testament that one part of it wuld not be assailed and vilified without reflecting npon Christianity generally . It vas their duty to take the law as it was laid down in the statute-book , and there was nothing in these statutes to take the case before them out of the ordinary rule . It had always been considered an offence of the highest magnitude to make atUeka of that sort upon the Christian religion , and the Jury had found that the publication ia question was a libel of that nature . Affidavits , in mitigation , having been put in and

      Mr . Hbtheeington applied to the Caurt for leave to address it in mitigation , which being assented to , he said he could first rely upon tha fact aet farth in the affidavits , namely , that it was a common practice in the trade to insert on the title page the name » f a publisher like himself for tbe purpose of serving him , that had been done in the present case—his name had been put to the title-page without his knowledge or consent , and be could safely assert that he had never read a line of it until be bad been informed that the book contained a libellous passage . It was dear from that , that there could be no criminal intent in selling the book , as he had merely done so in the usual course of his business . When truth was the object in discussions of this sort , be fully agreed that decorum and respect for tbe feelings of others should be observed , and he avowed that he did not stand there as tbe apologist of the passages

      contained in that publication . Nay , the author had given a candid admission of his error , in having withdrawn these offensive passages ia a recent edition . How , then , could the Court punish him for the sale of a -vrork of tbe contents of which he was ignorant ? He admitted that legally he was the publisher of tbe work , but the statement that his name was to the book went to tbe Jury unaccompanied by the explanation that he was not the original publisher . Mr . Heywood bad , at a trial in Manchester , pleaded guilty to being the original publisher , and had been discharged , after giving bail to appear when called upon . Ail be asked was , that the same punishment might be imposed upon him , and he felt confident they would never have to call upon him . He humbly trusted the Court would not take him from his home and his family in a case where there was in absence of all criminal intention , and he left tha case in their hands .

      The Attorney-General said it was for the Conrt to say whether the prosecution was not one which ought to have been instituted . It was only necessary for him to refer to some of the passages in the libel to show their mischievous and blasphemous tendency . Mr . Hetherington had not in his affidavit stated tbat when he ascertained the libellous nature of the publication he had withdrawn it from publication , and bad ceased to sell it Whatever had been done in tbe case of Mr . Heywood was no precedent for their Lordships ; they were to judge of the facts which came before them , and it was for them to say what punishment ought to be inflicted on the defendant for the publication which had been laid before them . The Court having consulted for some time together , Mr . Justice Littledale pronounced the judgment of the Court , which was , that the defendant be imprisoned in the custody of the Marshal of the Marehalsea for tbe space of four months .

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      MEETING AT SHAW , IN THE BOROUGH OF OLDHAM , TO MEMORIALISE THE MAGISTRATES TO EXEMPT THE TOWNSHIP FROM THE ASSISTANCE OF THE RURAL POLICE , OR COUNTY CONSTABULARY FORCE . The constables of the township called the meeting in compliance with a requisition , signed by forty ratepayers , among which were the names of some of the principal ones , among both Tories , Whfgs , and Radicals . The meeting was held an Friday evening , January 29 th , 1841 , in one of tbe large rooms of the New Mill , belonging to Anne Milne and Sons , of Greenfield , Shaw . The meeting was chiefly composed of working people . On the platform were some of the requisitionfsts , chiefly consisting of the supporters of Messrs . Fielden and Johnson . Mr . John Hamer supposed that Joshua Milne , Esq ., took the Chair , which supposition having been seconded , was carried .

      The Chairman commenced the proceedings by observing that tbe inhabitants were called upon to express their opinion of tbe Rural Police , now amongst them . He was glad that tbe requisitionists consisted of men among all parties and professions in the township He took tbe chair without any objection , because he considered it to be his duty to do all he could to rid the county of so expensive an establishment . He asked for a patient hearing for all the persons wbo would address them , and requested tbat tbe speakers would confine themselves entirely to the object of the meeting , and not allow the feelings of abhorrence and disgust which such a subject was likely to ' create , to lead them astray . He would call upon

      Mr . Nathan Stott , who said , Gentlemen , it devolves npon me , I suppose , to move tbat the magistrates be memorialised . ( Cries of" What for V ) Will any one second it ? ( A voice in the body of the meeting " me . ") Stott continued " It's moved and seconded that tbe magistrates be memorialised , those tbat think so will "—The speaker was here told tbat this duty devolved upon tbe Chairman , he sat down , and Mr . Barnard Ward , an active man among the Chartists , rose and said , Mr . Chairman and Gentlemen , I think that it is Incumbent upon persons who move resolutions at pabiio meetings to stato their nature and purport , and I call npon tbe last speaker to do so .

      Mr . Nathan Stott again rose , somewhat excited , and said that he did not think it was at all necessary , to waste the time of the meeting , by saying anything . Taey ail knew what Vhey were collected together for , and he would not waste their time by saying anything mere than what be had dona Tbe Chairman explained tbe nature of tbe resolution , and Mr . John . Smith supported it in a speech of considerable length and energy . Mr . Barnard Ward said , F « llow-meu , I congratulate you—yes , I congratulate you tbat you have our Chairman and Mr . William Taylor once more ia the field . Yes , I congratulate you on having these men once more in the field . ( Hear . ) Had they done their duty we should have had no occasion to

      meet here . The working men , the poor working men did all they could to prevent this county having a rural police established . The working men had called meeting upon meeting—had printed bills—had waited time upon time upon Messrs . Milne and Taylor , whom they had been led to believe were their friends , but all to no use . No . They like others said , " The police are required , you wish to rob us—you want to divide property . We must have tbe police , or our persons and property will not be safa" ( The Chairman denied this . ) Why not assist us to prevent their introduction ? One ounce of prevention is bettor than a pound of cure . Tbe manufacturers have introduced the police , and now they want to entrap the public into tbe belief that they were wishful to do away with them . Let the public be

      aware , it was a clap-trap ; all they wanted was to throw the expence off the county-rate into the general taxes . In the county-rate , property paid its quota ; but let these men succeed in getting the expence of the police thrown into the general taxes , and , then , every man would have to pay , not according to tbe amount of his property , but according to their consumption of taxed articles . Now , then , ( continued Mr . Ward , ) let the police be paid as at present , for if the amount of their burden bad been on the backs of tbe working classes , we should never have beard of this meeting from the parties wbo had got it up . The police bad been introduced by them to put us agitators down—to protect property—and let them psy . One object had bean attained , for which

      these battoned-up brae vagabonds were brought here for , namely , to awe tbe people into a qniet submission of a reduction of wages ; and , having effected this , they now wanted to turn their backs upon their friends . This was ungenerous . —[ The speaker vas here interrupted by the Chairman and Mr . Taylor , both of whom denied that tbe remarks were applicable to them . ]—Mr . Ward continued—Gentlemen , as a working man , I bave not had a chance ot a College education ; and though having had no education , only what could be attained on the loom , I did not interrupt those men when they spoke . The moment I begin to speak , they continue to interrupt me . Is this fab ? If these remarks are net applicable to these gentlemen , let them state to this meeting that they neither connived at .

      oi eneouraged the introduction of the Rural Police into this county , and I will believe them , and apologise to this meeting ; and till then I cannot retract . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) They hara appealed to the public , and to tbe public they ought not to fear appearing , and have their conduct investigated . I am a poor man , bat skall not shrink from my duty , though my only grammar be that of Shore-edge , ( Mr . B . ' g residence . ) [ Interruption followed from Messrs . Milne and Taylor , and some tew ot&en , tbe balk of the meeting remaining neutral . ] Again , continued the speaker , I say let them stand before this meeting , and say they did not connive at their introduction , and I will apologise . ( Mr .

      Taylor . You know you are fabricating one half of what you say . ) I know that if our pretended leaden-had -not shrunk from their duty , we should not have had the police . [ Uproar , in themMst of which Mr . Milne said , that if the meeting thought Ward ' s remarks were applicable to him ; - he vas unfit to sit ia that chair . He should like to know the opinion of the meeting . Mr . Natnan Stott again came forward and said , Without any motion being made , " Those vho think Mr . Mllrie la not guilty of what Barnard Ward charges him with , will hold up their hands . ( A number of hands were held up . ) Stott then said , "Those who think tbat Barnard Ward should not speak in this meeting , again wQl show the same by holding op their bands . "

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      A number of hands were again held up ; Stott proceeded , with great haste , " to the contrary ; " no hands held up . He then said , Mr . Chairman , both motions are carried . ] i Mr . Ward here sat down on his seat on the platform , and the Chairman put the resolution moved by Stott , which vaa declared to be carried . Two memorials , which had been proposed by two different parties , were then read , -after which Mr . WiLiJAH Tayiob , ot ? ale Mill , roae and said—Fellow-townsmen , —Ate theie any of the police here ? Will any one inform me whether there are any in this room ? ( No answer . ) Because if there be , t stall be guarded in what I say . It affords me considerable pleasure , after what has been done , to be allowed to address you . I am sorry that Barnard Ward has taken the steps he baa done . ( Uproar . ) Mr . Wabd—You deny to me the right to speak , and if I innst not reply , I will not be attacked , i

      0011-siderable uproar . ) Mr TA ^ IOtt continued —I am not goiag to attack anybody if you will only be quiet . ( Hear , Hear . ) I can say that n © man more strenuously opposed the introduction of the police than Mr . Milne and myself , nor has any man done more to render their situation more uncomfortable after they did come than myself . Previous to their introduction , I had two interviews with Mr . Hordern , our resident magistrate , one of them of an hour ' s length ; I did more good by tbat hour ' s conversation than Ward could have done with all his Shore-edge grammar in six months . I found , however , that Mr . Hordern was like nineteen out of every twenty who are placed in his situation ; he had made up his mind to go with the stream . He said to me , "The police will be introduced Into Lancashire , and this township will have to pay its quota ; would you prefer paying , and not have the men ? " I answered {

      continued Mr . T . ) " Decidedly so . If you are determined to rob us , do it fairly ; but do not insult us in tbe bar-( gain . " I know that the police dread me—that they hare their eye on me . I know that they have said , " We can associate with all parties , but William Taylor ; we cannot tell what to make of him . His looks are so forbidding , that we are afraid to meet him . " This has been brought to my own house . I have made some calculations , and as you know I am so fond of office , I have bad a chance of making them accurately . One year I was overseer , another year surveyor of the highways , another year I was Boronghreeve— ( laughter )— and several years one of the select vestry . In 1837 we had a great deal better opportunity of paying the rates than now—last quarter of a year we have to pay more for the expense of the police than tbe whole of the county rate amounted to in 1837 . The county rate was then one-third of what it now is , or two-thirds

      less than now . If this state of things is to go on , you will never have the collector off your door . We are all agreed , both Tories , Whigs , and Radicals , rich and poor —ne matter whether a man has his six mills or his six landed estates—no matter whether he is in receipt of six pounds per week , or six shillings , whether a pauper , or an able labourer , there is but one mind and one voice , viz . — "We will not be itrutted over with these idle vagabonds . " I congratulate you that this is the first time in this township that there ever was an appearance of unanimity amongst us . Let us not spoil it Why object to the police ? not so much on account of the expense as on other grounds . They are an un-English , anti-Christian force—but not only are they un-English , but at strict variance with the constitutional

      laws of England . If there be one thing more conducive to the destruction of the rights and liberties of the people than another , it is the rural police . The expense of maintaining this force cannot cost the country less than £ 30 , 000 . a-year . In a short space of time it has cost this township no less than £ 187 17 s . 4 d . — this would amount to 1 , 502 balf-croims ; supposing we had 1 , 502 half-crowns at our vestry meetings , bow would it look if , instead of bantering the poor old people down to an odd sixpence , we threw 1 , 502 halfcrowns to them ? Would it not do more good than keeping an irresponsible and unconstitutional force to spy our every action ? Who sent these men amongst us ? ( Mr . Ward— " The £ 10 voters . " ) It is true the Legislature passed a law , but threw the responsibility

      on the county magistrates . The introduction of this police is only the forerunner of another devil-begotten law—the New Poor Law . I know from hints that have been thrown out to me from head-quarters , that it ia probable that an attempt will be made to introduce it among us before March is over . These vagabond police are the spies—the traitors—the vassals of the Government . No man would accept the office of a connty constabulary policeman who has a drop of English blood in his veins . I hope none of them are natives of Lancashire : I hope they come from China , or Syria , "where we have been knocking out their brains . I would advise you not to dirty your bands by touching

      such degraded beings . So for as I am cancerned , I would see the man who has the baseness to become one of this force starve , and not give him a bit of bread ; or thirst , and giva him nothing to drink . I abhor them from my heart . The speaker then alluded to the memorials , and thought one drawn up by Smith was the best He continued—I conclude by calling upon you to keep up the present good feeling , and let no petty jealousy mar our proceedings , but let us do our utmost to rid our country of a set of Russell-eapiouage-uien . wboBe duties are not so much to look after crime , as to act the base and disgusting characters of spies and traitors .

      On the recommendation of the chairman , a committee was appointed to choose out the best portions of both memorials , which was agreed to by the meeting . Thanks being voted to the chairman , the meeting separated , having occupied about one hour and a half . One singular part of the proceedings , was that the whole of the Chartists stood aloof from taking any active part in the proceedings , and appeared to be mere spectators , excepting Mr . Barnard Ward , who it was expected intended moving an amendment to petition for the Charter . Another remarkable feature was , that Stott , who was always wishful to be considered an active radical , should have established so tyrannical and despotic a precedent as to move , sectnd , and put a resolution debarring a person from speaking at a public meeting to one of the resolutions .

      Tbe meeting was ridiculously conducted . Had a meeting conducted by working men been so badly arranged—the speakers committing so many glaring and absurd errors , the whole of the Whig-radical press would have pointed the finger of scorn at the conductors , and asked " are these men fit to have a voice in choosing a representative in the Commons' House of Parliament . " Still all these men were the voters of a Whig-radical parliament . No meeting of the working classes we ever attended out So truly ridiculous a figure as this one . Mr . Taylor spoke last , but his feeling often ran away with his discretion .

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      Attempt to Escape from Goal . —Four prisoners in Kirkdale gaol , made an attempt to escape on Thursday night or Friday morning , the 29 th . One of them named Mitchell , managed to saw a hole in his cell door , and make a lead key , by which he let himself and comrades out of their cells ; but being baffled in their attempt to escape , by want of moans , they agreed to try their scheme again next night , and Mitchell was proceeding to act the turnkey , and lock the others up again , when his lead kej broke . They were of course found by the turnkeys out of their cells , and thus their plot was detected .

      Robbing Furnished Lodgings . —Caroline Clitheroe , an actress , was charged , at Lambeth police office , with stealing from her ready-furnished lodgings a large quantity of bed-clothing and other articles , value £ 7 , the property of Agnes Kerr . The prisoner had been cast off by her connections , who were said to be of the highest respectability , on account of her predilection for the stage . Want of the means of living , was said to be the cause . The prisoner was fully committed for trial , and was taken out of court ia strong convulsions .

      The London Police . —Shameful Case of Extortion . —A townsman from Bury St . Edmonds , who now resides in New Leeds , Bradford , Yorkshire , sent for his wife , by way of London to Bradford , the parish of Bury St . Edmond ' s having agreed to give her £ 4 towards defraying her expences on the journey . On arriving in London , a porter very accommodatingly offered his services , and kindly took her box , to relieve the poor woman of such a burden ; she , thinking it would safely arrive at the place it was intended to go to . The porter , under the pretence of decently stepping aside to attend to a call of nature , told the woman to walk forward whilst ho made water , as he politely termed it : she ,

      of course , thinking him an honest man , moved forward , and the porter not returning as soon as she thought he might have done , modestly turned round to look for her box , but the porter and box were both missing . The woman made her case known to the police , and the blue bottle imp took her to the Station-house , to make a sham show of investigating the affair , and failing to restore the box , which could not be expected to come without searching for , charged the poor woman 5 s . 6 d . for walkiar a few yards through the streets . The poor confiding creature lost her bex containing wearing apparel and other articles , as also the 53 . 6 d ., which those villains extorted from her .

      The laze Inundation at Brentford . —The adjourned inquest on one of the sufferers by this disastrous occurrence was continued on Wednesday week , and a number of witnesses were called , who deposed to the various circumstances which had come under their notice . The only important point , however , which baa not been already several times before the public , was , that a breach had taken place in ; the walls of the Kingsbury reservoir , belonging to the Regent's Canal Company , through which a vast body of water was pound into the Brent . The

      reeervoir . itself , as it was stated , covers upwards of 140 acres of ground , and the walls by waion it was enclosed being insufficient jto resist eo immense » pressure ai that thrown upon them by . the thaw , and the consequent influx of water from file country , the flood both overtopped the walls and forced a , passage through one part , by <\? b . icb a considerable volume reached the Brent , and , as it is supposedjtended in . great measure to produce the calamity at Brentford . The inquiry continued until nearly eight o ' clock , and the Jury being then bound over m the usual recognizances , the inquest wte adjourned until Wed * nesdaylast .

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      Thb Law ! thk Law !—In the Conrt of Queen ' s Benck , last week , Stone lyiaim , formerly » purser in the navy , obtained a mandamus to compel the Commissioners of the Navy to pay him the sum of £ 500 , being due to htm as wages and emoluments . It appears Mann had been a purser in 1824—5 !; but had been cashiered in the latter year . Since that time , litigation an to the validity of the Court "Martial , and with Lords of the Admiralty as to the sum he claimed , had prevented him obtaining , s settlement of his claim / So muoh for the " glorious uncertainty of thelaw ! " .. ' , ¦ -.

      Another Sample . —In the same Court as the above , an . individual , who was indicted for perjury , and wbo vras acgYuttei * because the tenth of ten counts , and an immaterial one , too , in the indictment , broke down , obtained , a verdict for defamation of character , with , £ 800 damages . A rule was , however , applied for to set aside the verdict ; which courgft of proceeding led tbe Judges and applicant to fix the damages at £ 350 . The case now again , came before the Court , on the ground that the Master , in taxing the costs , had disallowed the plaintiff ' s-expences for all those parts of the declaration in which he had failed ; and , after a long and able discussion of the matter , in which all the Judges took a very earnest interest , the Court took time to consider their decision . .

      A Silesian Chronicle states that the winter of 1740 was so severe in that part of Europe , that whilst the stove in one part of a room was red hot , water p laced near the window was frozen , and water thrown from a third floor became ice before it reached the ground 1 It was impossible , says the chronicler , to walk a hundred yards in the open air against the wind without the face being frozen . In Bohemia and Moravia all the ponds were frozen to the bottom , and the fish died ; domestic animals were frozen to death in their stablee , as were the birds in the woods and the game in the forests . Three thousand persons are said to have died of cold in Sweden , and 80 , 000 head of horned cattle were frozen to death in Hungary .

      Grandmama " at it " again !—A few weeks ago , the Time * received an extraordinary foreign express , which caused the publication of that morning ' s paper to be late ; whereupon the Morning Herald , having published at its usual time , as soon as The Times appeared , pretended to have received . an express also , and out came a Becond edition 11 The trick , however , was too soapy ; the merchants and business-men generally , saw through the unworthy artifice , and the Herald caught nothing but odium for its dexterity . On Monday last , Grandmama tried her hand at a similar game with the Chartists and their late "demonstration" at Leeds . In an article , professing to be furnished from Leeds by its

      own correspondent , the following passage occurs : — "At this most stale and unprofitable muster , a new publication , called the ' English Chartist Circular , was put forward , in wbieh was given a list of the ' patriots / now , or lately , in durance vile . * * Making in all 443—among whom there is one surgeon ( Peter Murray M'DouaTl ) , one barrister ( Feargus O'Connor ) , one schoolmaster , one magistrate ( John Frost ) , and about half a dozen licensed victuallers , the remainder are , with very few exceptions , aU ignorant and uneducated men . " All this would doubtless have been very passable to the readers of Grandmama ; but , unfortunately for its Leeds correspondent , the publication which is stated to have

      been * . ' pat forward" at the " gathering" there , was not put into " chase" till four o'clock in the afternoon of Friday , twenty-four hours afterwards ; and the printer is ready to testify , on oath , that it was not composed , even in " slips , " till after the meeting must have separated . Clever Grandmama ! to keep Leeds correspondents , who rusticate in the " Old Globe Hotel , " Shoe-lane , and to call foreign expresses from over the channel whenever a contemporary gets a "fat bit" worth filching . But " what a falling off is there , " when the poor old lady is reduced to the necessity of telling a palpable lie to screen a piracy from a halfpenny Chartist paper !

      Thb AitMSTReNQ Liver Pills are recommended , as an anti-biiious medicine , to every sufferer from bilious complaints and indigestion , or from an inactive liver , and are procurable at all druggists , and at the Northern Star office ; It is only necessary to see that the stamp has " Dr . John- Armstrong ' s Liver Pill" engraved on it in white letters , and to let no one put you off with any other pills . N . B . —The boxes in marbled paper , and marked B ., are a more active preparation than the others , and are particularly and universally praised . They are admirably adapted for sportsmen , agriculturists , men of business , naval and military men ; as they contain no mercury or calomel , and require neither confinement to the house nor restraint in diet .

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      THE WISHEDPGR UNION OF THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASSES . TO THE KDITOB OF THB NORTHERN STAB . Sir , —A very sensible , pithy and opportune letter appeared in your invaluable paper of Saturday last , bom the pen of my friend , William Hick . He riot only depicts therein the true character of the gentocracy distinguished in the political arena by tbe soubriquet of " The Fox and Goose Club , " but very cogently points out the interminable mischief with which an amalgamation of Chartism with the sophisms of these pseudo-Liberals will be fraught . The propriety of Mr . Hick ' s warning none can dispute , yet his fears may have taken too wide a range . The principles of Chartism are not only invulnerable to the attacks of the already vanquished troops of the " household " army , but they ate

      made of materials which will stand unimpaired amid "the wreck of nature and the crush of worlds " . —they have their fonndation in truth which endureth far ever , and there Is not one fustian jacket , blistered hand , or unshorn chin , connected with a heart on which those principles are impressed , that can abandon the sacred cause , and fight under the banner or in anywise countenance , the movements , of this doubly base , doubly brutal , and doubly bloody fragment of a faction . Political adventurers , trading politicians , the Jim Crow fraternity , and a few soft-handed political spouters , with " Wha wants me ? " inscribed on their foreheads , may form an alliance with the crack-skulled brotherhood , but the loss of such will be the gain of our cause , and such an accession to tbe elub ( if it can boast of entity ! will be like the Irishman ' s victory—they will win a defeat .

      The Chartists of Great Britain know full well the incalculable benefits the cause has derived from the almost superhuman exertions , and the peerless powers of mind , evinced by their now cell-bound chieftain , Feargus O'Connor ; and they never can abandon their leader to follow in the train of a disguised foe . The Northern Star has guided their footsteps , and led them into the pathway of pure political truth , and they will not now follow the ignis faluua generated either in the bogs of Ireland or the marshes of Water-lane . Yet still an attempt will be made—yea , and now is making , to seduce and bewilder the unwary , and no exertion ought to be spared to frustrate the insidious designs of the execrable squad who coil round the Big Beggarman , and sustain an ephemeral existence by licking up his stereotyped venom , and vomiting it upon the uncompromising advocates of equal rights .

      On Saturday last , the pigmy Doctor who compounds the ingredients for that weekly dose of delusion , ycleped the Leeds Times , has administered to hisspongy-brained patients ( for , God knows , they are patient t © endnre his stuff ) a bottle of smoke , impregnated with a few drops of humbug , a little fulsome , soft soap , and a few lumps of speedily-dissolved falsehood . He has labelled his phial thus : — " The Lessons taught by the Great Leeds Meeting . " The Leeds Meeting certainly taught some very salutary lessons , which the conooctors of the " Festival" will not soon forget ; but Mother Goo * should not palm the nonsense and fictions of her own cobweb brain aB the veritable " lessons taught " at Marshall ' s new school . Teachers of a superior order took their station on that evening , and scholars from a higher academy made their appearance , consequently Mother Goose ' s horn-book was thrown under tbe desk ; a different system of teaching was propounded ; and the whole o « the originally intended process of tuition was arranged .

      As Mother Goose pens the " lessons" which she dreamed were "taught by the Great Leeds Meeting , " in the form of verses , in order , I suppose , that her visiens of the night may pass as gospel , I will correct her errors by the same method . By that meeting we are taught , First—That Mother Goose has no power in her tail , and no more influence over the people than she ought which Is just none at all . Second—That the Fox and Goose Club are powerless and insignificant . They are like burning and crackling thorns under a pot—then make a momentary blaze and a discordant noise—they vanish in smoke , leaving only a few worthless ashes behind , which the most gentle breese of Chartism may scatter into oblivion ' s tomb .

      Third—That the mighty one of Erin has fallen from his onoe proud eminence—that his " occupation ' s gone . " He is inreelaimably lost ; and cannot ^ ven serve the purposes of Mother Goose , the last of faction ' s uyin * elique . ; . . ¦¦¦¦ :. ¦ „ ¦¦ . * : ¦ - ¦¦ ¦'¦ ¦ . - ¦ ¦ .- - . ¦ ¦ ¦ Fourth—That King Humbug is dethroned , and cannot bo reiMtirted—a sure and certain sign that the Messrs . Marshall , Stanafeld , and Co ., must speedily commence some other line of business than that of twaddle-spinning—such stuff being too fragile to hold the tottering system together . Fifth—That the Chartists of the West Riding of Yorkshire know their rights ; and , knowing , dare maintain them . Sixth—That the Chartists are proof against the cant , sophistry , jugglery , craft , deceit , ' and fraud of the whole tribe of associated hypocrites . '

      Seventh—Tbat tie Chartists ate all-potent , and can , with the greatest ftgBfty , vanquish their opponents , even upon tbeJi « Ajp dunghill , and in spite oi their best-contrived stratagems . And Eighth—The lessons" teach that the Chartists have attained that elevated position , from which no power en earth can dislodge them , save intestine breilsv

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      Now , Sir , the chagrined Dorter is aware of gn \ u yet he hat racked his poor brain to devise a « jJr for his now unmasked coadjutors ; and what fca ! covering ? Why , one of the most flimsy tbinnu ? ginable—it has neither warp nor woof—it hLs nolZ * the shadow of a shade of substance . He has labotl ? but in'vain , to identify the foxes and geese , aa ^ the Anti-Corn Law agitators , with , the Chartista , 5 help the poor fellow ! he must ' be hard up , when ^ J to attempt the amalgamation of such opposites . j ? vel not , should he affirm , in hteuext racnbration , ^ the . anas of her " most Christian '' Majesty , ( w * Victoria , and ' those of the Celestial Emperor , vf 5 employed against each other , but that they are empt ? as " a new manifestation " of peace and amity . ^* The Doctor's extraordinary discoveries are acno ^ to the little world to which is oracle speaks , in tt ^? lowinircoiiundrum-like ' inaaner : — *

      " What la the Leeds Auoelau&n but a new ek * * ation of Chartiam ? " And , ag&in , . ™ "What are the Anti-Corn Law agitators but GhKju under another name ? " 7 ** I shall sot trespass upon four space , or on t }^ tience of your readers , by any prolix comments the Doctor's new discoveries , because it is unnec ^ J I always thought that Chartism bad UniversafS frage as its fundamental principle , and , if my ey * ceived me not , the organs of the association h » v £ the emanations of their master-minds , declared T / g J * sal Suflrage " Impracticable ; " they have repudUtet and inscribed Household Suffrage upon their ba ^ J Now , what affinity there exists between aniini ^ tional , reflecting , and feeling man and inanimate b % mute mortar , and unfeeling stone , is a problem 12 for the Doctor ' s solution , which I opine will be akw " manifestation" of his inventive faculty . - ^

      As to the Anti-Corn Law agitators being " C hvtfc under another name , " allow me , in a word or t- ^ Tl point out the objects of each . That of the Charts l to obtain the enactment of such laws as shall gna ^ tk to the working man " a fair day ' s wage for a faJr ^ labour , " and to abrogate those despotic laws tfo militate against tbe accomplishment of such objeck The object of the Anti-Cora Law agitators ia , foL bared of all the rubbish they rake into ttequc ^ , to obtain a Repeal of the Corn Laws , that the pr >»

      bread may be reduced ; and for what purpose * v increase the comforts of tke operative f No ; y , leaf of that tree . It is to enable the nnUoo * merchants , or slaughter-house gents , to compete tS the foreign manufacturer , which they find they eaq ^ do without reducing their profits , or the wages of ^ labourer . The former they cannot brook , and jj latter is impracticable , being already screwed dowijj the starvation point ; therefore , their scheme ii % reduce the price of bread , that the " workey" may ^ his morsel at a cheaper rate , and the grinder be t&n enabled to turn the wage-screw a little lower .

      And this is " Chartism under another name ! " 5 j Doctor must be either Ignorant , completely ignomt , ^ the principles of Chartism—subject to fits of maty aberration , or ambitious of aping the " thievish flji " If the first , I would advise him to place himself mfe the tuition of some fustian jacket , and vacaie ft Editorial chair , until better qualified to give " low on politics . If the second , I Would give his con * , tions the hint to place him in some lunatic asylu ; and , if the latter , I would suggest to him tbe propriety of throwing away hi 9 mask , and openly a » o » k himself the rival of " the Great Liar of the North . ' In another part of his dirty rag , is a paragapi replete with falsehood and scurrillity . He states tfat the Chartists were supplied with money , during a » recent demonstration , by the Tories , which ia a . US , The lists of subscribers will settle that point

      He speaks of the placards which were iBsuea , a which portrayed the character of his fallen friend Du , as being slanderous and false , yet he has forgot fg show wherein the slander and falsehood conSfei This he could not do , as every reader of tbe plunk knows that not a twentieth part of Dan ' s treachq , profligacy , deceit and fraud , was hinted at Itymii be impossible to depict the true character of UaJ arch-impostor , or to chronicle one-half of the Hid deeds within the limits of a thousand posters , and ft Js not in the power of the Doctor to cleanse that poJitieal leper , as well might he essay to change tha lipec into a " sucking dove . "

      He concludes the paragraph I allude to , by Kapaj Messrs . Moir , Collins , and Deegan ; but I miitti these men if they place any value on the congnhl * tfons of this unfledged plural-unit , since the CluftuU full well know that bis praise is censure , and ill censure praise . This , in part , verifies the opinion << Mr . Hick , yet , depend upon it , the old birds aressttt be caught by such worthless chaff Chartists . ' beware—keep your " eyes open . " Yours , truly , Williak Rides . Leeds , Feb . 2 nd , 1841 .

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      WAKEFIELD HELL .

      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sib , —I think my last letter will satisfy your ratta as to the cleanliness of the pest-house I am endewmring to show up ia these latter * . I might cite serai other instances of the extreme filthiness of ttoplMt , did I not think them too disgusting for publication ia the "People ' s Paper . " I will , therefore , proe «« ik > that part of tbe "Rules , " which orders scaleiad weights to be kept for the purpose of weighing to prisoners'bread . The prisoners are served with a half-pound loaf three times a-day , in the following manner;—A pots called Thomas , ( one of the most overbearing tjrmtiii the place , ) who has the management of thebreftdul " skilly , " places a large basket , full of loaves , ia Hit

      bands of one of the prisoners , who walks bockfflrfi , between the forms on which the prisoners are eatei at a smart pace , whilst Thomas , with a scornful pin . is throwing the morsels , right and left , to the Wfstarved wretches who are anxiously awaiting tbsm , heedless whether they fall on the dirty floor , or info the hands of the prisoners . A goodly portion of tfat loaves thus thrown abeut are badly baked , and Wrail of them are not above six ounces in weight We& , U us see how the " Rules" are carried out I ; have »« several men stand , up in their places with a littfe ill shapen thing like a cinder between their fingers , « i& had been given to them as eight ounces of good I *** they have stood in this manner for an hour or sum * and were then compelled , through intense bunWi to

      sit down and eat it I have watched a man , fibm number was 345 , stand up for an hour and a atfi k order that his bread might , be weighed , and niWj went hear him until the prisoners were marched off to bed , when he received another in exchange , * bfcl ) seemed no larger than the first I have several to * . taken notice of the manner in / which a fop # " officer" treated an idiot , No . 289 , wbo bad been mtenced to three years'imprisonment One mornin | , li particular , he stood up , with his bread in his to * * which is the signal that they required it to be weired i the above mentioned fop went to the basket « d

      sought out the smallest loaf he could find , and g »« It to the poor idiot ; after which he ordered him t »» down , and then turned round and laughed heartily *' his humane exploit This will sufficiently prov »> tl » value of that part of the rules concerning " scales wd weights , " and fully bear me out in my former assert ** — "That the whole ia a brutal mockery and fare * « & regard to the prisoners , and a gross imposition on the public . " I could give scores of instances of tke ty » W and brutality , to which the prisoners in that filthy & " are subjected ; but , as I intend attaching hewto i balance sheet of the money received for supplying" *** Chartist prisoners with flannel , I must conclude fort » present , and subscribe myself ,

      Yours , truly , GEORQB WHII 6 P . S . —I understand that my esteemed friend , WfflW Ashton , of Bamaley , has written his last monthly W » to me , but that the humane Governor has detained " ' don't know by what authotity . We shall sea I -

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct365/page/6/