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( Continued from our Seventh page . ) meetiEg , teat the resolutions and address of the mcetteg « r . ly shoald ba published , and no speeches . A resolution was Dissed . tkafc coining sfeonld bfl P : > - liilied but tae resolations and the -address . While h was at that mcsting , a placard like that now prounc / 4 ¦ was produced , and laid on the tibia . Mr . Scbole&ad brought it in , in fee afternoon , and put it on the w ; re-? srj ' s table . Mr . Scbolefield—I did ? Witness—Mr . Scbole 3 eld bro » £ ht In the isfr / rriatien that Tamer , the printer of the ExecntlTe add * e « 3 , had been arrested . Mr . O'Connor eaid , " I hav&gost heard that the prictsr has bsen ftrretted ; " and he-said the propriety of bis rp ' - 'iSj-Vs oa the address , -when , advising them on its i "< --e-ll ; y on the preeedksg evening , wonld now fes - ' - - He contended for bU superior Judgment , * n sheiTT ., that tha address v ? a = i . iegal , and bavin ? pointed it tnt to tfcem . I do sot recollect having heard any answer to that . Tc-frards iba close cf the business
John Campbell asked Mr . Hill if the address from the - Executive should fcs inserted in the Northern Star . Mr . Hill ga-ve no answer . Feargus O'Connor said , that it * honld go in as an advertisement I should do Mr . Hill the juEtioe to say , that that evening , after the meeting , ha condemned it ; said it was a mad thin ? , and ¦ would throw the cause back three years . Mr . Hill is tie editor of the Northern Star j he has reported himself "to me so , fiD < 3 I hiive received letters from him in that chirr cter . Tha proprietor of the Northern Star is Feargns 0 Connor . Tne members of the Executive Committee are Jonathan Bairstow . John Campbell , Peter Murray M'Douai ! ( -who was present at that meeting :, James L--s . ch , and Morsan Williams . James X ; s £ h is represented as the President of the Executive Committee , asd Campbell the Secretary . The alterations ia the proof-sheet are no ; in Leach ' s hand-¦ writino . Mr . B 2 . ANDT — In ¦ whose is it ?
I'll not tell you . Yes , you znmt Then , I think it is James Caitledge ' s ; but recollect , ysu fcrcrd me to tell you that [ The Northern Star -was handed to the -witness , -vrho said it coatsined the resolution pissed at the meeting . ] Mr . Coebett—I submit that is no evidence . Mr . Buam—Tin : is evidence against Hill and O'Connor . Mr . Foster—We cannot exclude it from the rest . Mr . Cobbeti—It may be evidence against the proprietor ; cut I do not see how it can be against the edhor .
Mr . Bba > "dt took it to bs evidence against ail of tie resolution . It was a public declaration in print . that such a resolution had been passed ct the meeting , at Trhich th-: y agreed it sbec-d he published , Sir . Cobbett said it might be an admission by the registered proprietor of its being the itscluticn , so far as it ¦ nss against himself . A 3 against Mr . Hill , he thsn ^ ht it no evidence ; because , supposing ha was tho ecitcr , he "was not fixed except for -what vras hi 3 o- ^ n ¦ writing . The witness conld not prove that this was + v ifi rssolntioa ; cor fras ths paper proved to be that of Sir . O'Connor . The identical paper Ehould be proved to havs been purchased at tha ' Star" cfiice ; and . till that Trere done , tha evidence should not be received at all ]
Examination resumed—I -wrote the address to the delegates for Mr . Hill to lake with him for publication in the "_ 2 \ jithera Star . " I copied it from the manuscript in the hicd- ^ riting of Mr . O'Connor , and I kept a copy for myself ts send to the " British Statesman . " [ Mr . Foster being applied to decided that it was competent evidencs to say , whether or not that was a copy of the resolution or address ] Tha " Northern Star" is the acknowledged organ of communicating the transactions of the Ciartist Association . The witness was desired to look at the resolution of delegates and the address , as published in the " Northern Star . " Mr . Cobbett objected to this , as co evidence ; but ilr . Maude said they were not putting in tha newspaper , and ihe time to oHect "would be then .
Mr . Cobbeit said , the prosecutor might never put in the papers at alL Mr . Brandt—I propose to read them , as evidence . Mr . Cobbett—You are not to put a paper into the witness ' s band , to say that that is the resolution . Mr . Fost . su—It is not to be taken as pro ? ed word for ¦ word , unless the witness says so . Mr . Cobbett—I submit , it is not evidence at all Mr . Foster—Y * s it is , as far as , it goes . Mr . Cobbett—Yoa caiinot prove the substantive contests cf a written document from memory . Mr . Maude—We cannot shut theai out from trying how far the witntss can speak .
Mr . Brandt—H&Tir . g shown the Star to be the recognised ortan of the Chartists , and the resolution that it should ba published , tha proper way is now to produce the Northern Star . The -witness Bays he has no doubfe it 13 an accurate copy of the address . As this is their organ ; that 13 an act done . " Mr . Hill was supplied with tie means of publication ; and he published ifc . It is an act done in pursuance of ths conspiracy euquiri-g into , and therefore admissible in evidence-Witness—This 13 a copy of the Northern Star pnblished at that cfSce . It ia Euffisisnt to me to know it by , from this [ displaying ths paper with some woodcuts in ths first pigs . ] I got s copy of the paper of that day ( August 20 th ) from Mr . Abel Heywood , the agent in MaiiGhestsr , for the Northern Star . 1 had the printed copy of tia resolution given me the nest
morning- ( August 18 th ) by Chibnel Hareresves , shoemaker , Brown-street . He had a nnmber , ' and he gave ma several , and one cf them I gava to Mr . Eiil . I pat it into tha parcel with the address , and told him that it was a copy of the resolution cf the- delegates . The resolution was read aloud at ths meeting twice er thrice . Mr . Hill said he should insert the delegates' address and resolution ; bnt , althom ; h tha other had been ordered to be inserted by Mr . O'Connor , Mr . Hill said to me , " G-rffin , I will not insert the Executive Address . " — £ Mr . Cobbett objected to the evidence , as stating it to bs a printed copy of the resolution of the meeting . A printed copy o £ the resolution being handed to the ¦ witness , he said it was a espy of 'the resolution proposed it the mseting ]—I have no doubt on my mind that that is the resolution that was passed at the conference .
Mr . Cobbett again objected ; and Mr . Foltee . said , that nothing was down that was notJegitimate evidence , scd Mr . Cobbett mkht take his objection when the documents were read . Mr . BR . A 5 DT said he had closed his examination 0 : this witness , and his examination in chief vras then read over . Cross-examined by Mr . Cobbett—The proceedings of the meeting to which I have alluded were opposed by Mr . Hill in a yerj argumentative manner . He opposed the resolution ; spoke last ; summed up tbe
subatance cf every speech ; jmd contended that it was a foolish thing to attempt to pass such a resolution . Tiis discussion was on tha resolution alone . The address followed : he brought forward no objection to the address ; there was bqeib trifling discossion on the address ; and I believe it passed unanimously . That is tL . 3 resolution < a which the address was feunded . Mr . ScholeSe ' . d did not sit £ t the meeting , or take part in the proceedings ; aad , from his passing and repassiug , I should conceive that he was attending to his . business . There is a pasesge through the chapel from the surgery to the tack yard .
Re-examined by Mi . Braxdt—Mr . Hill spoie against thi 3 resolution , He said , that from the reports , he could not come to 0 . conclusion that the Btrike would become universal ; and that success would not attend the str ; ke , unless it became universal . He said , it appeared from reports from various parts of the country , that they had not all ceased labour , and also from reports made by the delegates , and he summed up various places wkich were not prepared for the strike ; an * l he taid , in his opinion , it was a foolish thicg to attempt to pass the resolution on the reports . It was afterwards agreed , thai ths minority should go with the majority in carrying out the resolution . That was at the same meeting , but sfter the resolution and address had bc = n passed . Several pledged themselves
to the meebng , to go into tha varicn 3 localities , and endeavour to carry it out . The giving-in of the reports from the delegates , and the discussion , lasted several hours . I should think they begun about t 3 n o ' clock ; they broke up about half-past three or four o ' clock in the afternoon ; they adjourned for . abcat an honr , as Mr . Scholefieid wanted its chapel for a funeral ; and afterwards sat till half-past six or seven o ' clcci , or even later . I was at Carpenter ' s Hall the previous night , at a meeting . [ Mr . Cobbett objected to this , as not evidence ; and Mr . Brandt s&itl , then he would not go into it , bnt he gave cotica that it wculd be gone into ] The examination beic ^ read over , the witness said it was true and correct , to ths best cf bis knowledge and belief , and he signed it .
The resolution from the printed paper was then rut in and read , to the following effect : * " That , whiie the Chartist body did not originate tha present cessation from labour , tais conference cf delegates from varicus parts of the kingdom desires to express their deep sympathy with their brethren , the working mea » ow on Btrike ! and we Btrougly approve of the extension and continuance of the present struggle , till the People ' s Charter become a legislative enactment ; and decide forthwith to issue an-ad dress to that effect , and to pledge ourselves , oa our return to our respective localities , to give the right ' direction to the people ' s afibrta . - . " Jakes Ab . thcb , Chairman . " John A&kjln , Secretary . Mr . Foster said , he thought tkere to not yet sufficient evidence to warrant the reading of the resolution and address from the Northern Star , and it was accordingly withdrawn .
John Heap—I apprehended B « bert Brook on the 5 th of September , and searched him , and found the papers I now produce on . his person . I am a constable at Todmorden , and I apprehended him there . Some of those placards -were posted there . The hands had been turned out « f the different miila there . I found that book , marked D ; and eoma papers , marked H ( i ) and I ( a ); and the bill of expences marked Q . [ Tiieee pape » "were put in and read bj Mr . Part ] The following ia the substance of the one marked H , and headed " Credentials" : — " Moved bj Doyk , that O'Connor is invited by HUL Moved by Dr . M'Donall , that each delegate give a Email re P- 'rt * 6 > o tte position and itate of thiir diitricti
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A -i joarned U mae to-morrow morning . At the meeting < ailed spedafif , resolved that « ach person hara only one vote . A . t the adjourned meeting- on the 17 th , where many fre « h -delegates ware admitted , it was moved by Mr . O'CoBinor a ^ d passed , that each speaker , when making a motion , should nave five minutes to speak , ! and to reply two minutes . That the addreis be r 6 * d , — moved by Mr . O'Conno * » Bd 8 . H . Baiistow , 20 . persons , ad . appeared desirous to aid all the working men . —Jw . Maasey , of Newton Heath—They were turned oat for wages , bat ha did think that it would ba substantial . Fletcher , of Bradford : 15 , 000 present st ths meeting on Sunday . The resolutions were for the Charter . Tha Todmorden people and ns -were coming into Halifax at the same The Rev . Wm . Hill , Heckmondwike : The people did not wish to connect
themselves with the strike . —Jno . Smith , "Leeds : 80 , 000 people ; the feelings would be against the strike . —Thoa . , Oldham : A division . —Thos . Fraser , Leeds district : The colliers are determined to oar . —Jno . EUiscn . Stoca . port : Resolved not to go to work till ; this Conference ends . At another meeting it was ' . passed , that they should aak for wages , &c Jas . Tayi lor , Ashton-under-Lyne : The masters and shopkeepers : had a meeting ; and the meeting passed , that the Char-: ter fca agitated for . —Jamea Hoyle , Salford : Several i of tho mills have commenced working . —Jno . Thompson , Bolton : A great many Went ia this morning—; Jno . Norman , Warrisgton : If the turn-ont go on ganeraZiy , they will C 3 ine out—W- Clarke : Opposed to connecting the movement with the Charter .
Dewsburv : We turned out on Thursday , and have been cautious for some time ; but now we are determined to go for the strike being connected with the Charter . —John Shaw , of HuddersS ^ ld : The town was in a stite of confusion , and they did not wish to connect themselves with the stri . Christopher Doyie , Manchester : They are determined to staad out until the Charter is adopted . — Jamas Grassby , Hull : Are not expected to take any part in the strike . —Moved by » r . M'Djuall , that there be nothing published but the resolutions . —Thomas Cooper , Leicester : The men will all cease working , if the Conference recommend They want to fight in the Portereys ( Potteries . )—Wm .
Beesley , Lancashire : Never trust thoae who are bent so much on quarrelling . —Feargus O'Connor , Nottingham : They are in a good position . > Halifax—Samuel Parks , Sh ' . fflsld : No connection with the middle classes . Richard Ottley , Sheffield : They do not agree to come out for physical force . —Thomas Rail ton , joiners an-i carpenters of Manchester : They have come out for tha Charter . —James Cartledge , Mossley : They agree to make the muve for the Charter . —Robert Ramsden , Manchester youths . — James Mooney , 22 , 000 persons : They are wishful to join tha present movement for the Charter . —James Arthur , Newcastle : We determine to take advantage of the present move
—B ? rnard M'Curtney , Liverpool : Apathetic Thomas Mayers , Stalybridge : The Charter thrown overboard . —John Leach , Hyde : They are determined to keep out for the Charter . David MoTrisou , Eccles : A good feeling prevails with respect to the turn-out , and I think it wojild be best to go for the Charter . —John Lomax , Burnley : Seme bavo gone in . —Moved by Mr . Biirstow , and seconded by Mr . O'Cancor , that we sympathise with the people , and recommend them to turn the present movement to our advantage . Carried , 29 to 9 .
" Afternoon . —Mr . Arthur , from Carlisle , occupies the chair again . That the address be read ; moved by Cooper , of Leicester , and seconded by Cartlefigc , and passed unanimously . —That a vote of confidence in the Executive ; and seconded by Cooper , of Leicester . — Moved by the Rev . William Hill , and seconded by . All the addresses are carried . Moved by Dr . M'Douall , and Beconded byM'Cartney , and carried , that we abstain from intoxicating drinks . —Moved by Mr . Bairstow , and seconded by . [ Then below ] " Mechanics' Institution , 22 J , Waterloo-street . "
[ Mr . Part said the principal parts were wntten m pencil ] Mr . Brandt—That is the case , Sir . Mr . Colbett ( to the Btnch )—Perhaps you will allow me to put a question through you , Sir , to Griffin . ( To the witness;—Do yen happen to know whea the Conferenco meeting was called . ? Not to a day . Whenakouts it was ? Perhaps a fortnight before , or rather longer . Where did you see the advertisements calling it ? In the " Northern S : ar , " not as a paid advertisement , bnt in the shapa of an address from the Executive . I read it there .
In answer to Mr . Cobbett , who said he had only twelve of the defendants marked down as identified , Mr . Foster said , that the following fifteen were spoken to by the witness Griffin , namely , Leach , Campbell , Jamea ScholeSeld , Daylo , M'Cartney , Ottley , Harney , Thornton , Massev , Brook , Hill , Smith , Ellison , Parkse , and Railton . William Scholefieid was spoken to by another witness , with reference to the publication of the p ' acard ; and the other four , namely , Norman , Arthur , Fletcher , and Rims ^ . en , were not identified . ilr . Bent said he had been retained for Arthur , but , after wfc 3 t had been said , he ahonld not detain the court fey remarks . M'Cartney who had been standing for some time in the front of the dock , then ssked and obtained leave to cro's-ex ^ mine ths witness Griffin .
Griffin , cross-exami . ed by Mr . Bernard M'Cariney—1 am aware for what purpose the meeting was called together ; for the better organisation of the people , and for the advancement of ths movement . The parties first calling it together , or suggesting it , were the monument committee . If I tell the truth , perhaps I was as mnch in it as any other —( laughter and " oh !") Bnt it was not such a conference as that that assembled on the irtk that I suggested ; Jho suggestion of a conference being calJed , I mean . I perhaps was as soon as any other , to suggest a conference on the 17 th , to read the plan of organisation , to make a revision of the plan , if necessary , and to do away with all bickerings amongtt the leaders . I suggested this to Mr . Scholefieid , and he agreed to it . i said it on the monument committee ; not as a member , but as paid secretary .
Mr . Scholefieid first suggested to that committee , vhat there should ba a conference of delegates on the 17 th , and I suggested it to Mr . Scholefleld . [ Another laugh and cry of " Oh ! " ] When I suggested the conference to the committee , I know nothing of tbe strike ; it was to be entirely on different business , business cf a different character altogether , from what was transacted on that dny . My suggestion to Mr . Scholefleld was , I should think , three months before the conference ; but I cannot speak to a day . I made it on Mr . Scholefieid'a premises , in the school-room . I was ordered to write au address , for writing which the EiGnumsiit committee gave me 5 s . and it was ordered to appear ia the " Northern Star , " and it did appear there . I was then working for Mr . Scholtfleld , as a servant ; he paid me according to my a ^ resment . I « us out of employment , and I asked him for a situation , and he gave it me ; and when I had finished , he said he was highly satisfied with me . I told him what
length of time I had been out of employmant , and that I eeuld not get employment at my original trade , of a paicter ; and he gave me employment , to paint and graia his chapel for him , since I left the " Northern Star . " I waa grateful to him , and I have no prfjadice against him . What I shall state is truth . I conceive it just aud honourable to speak tha truth at all times ; and I conceive I am doing my duiy to myself and my country in doing so . I wrote to you , and said I had never received a farthing as secretary to the monument committee , except that 5 s . which is stated in the monuiaent committee book . I wrote two addresats , ona for the British Siaiesmen , and the other for the Star , and I got as . for the t ^ o . I never told John Campbell or Eny other maa , that you were a traitor . Ialwajs had tae greatest confidence in Bernard M'Cartney . I got a summons to attend acd give evidence here . It is datad the 1 st of Ojto ' &er . I was spoken to previously , many tim s . M-Cartney—By whom ?
Mr . Bea :: dt said he would not interpose to prevent the answer . "Witness—By Mr . li-win . The first time is nearly a fortnight 050 ; and I refused him several times . ( Hisses ) Ke sent a party to me , and I gave the conversation which took place between me and the messenger , through the Evening Slar , to show his vigilance in making inquiry . I conceived it to ba my duty to my own party to expose it . What party do you call yours ? The party I reported through the press for , the Chartists . I thought it my duty to expese it to the Caartiats that they wanted infotmation , and I stated' so through the Evening Stir . I have never understood that reporttre are servants of the pnblic ; some are mere servants , not allowed to comment , but merely ni 3 ke reports ;
I wss allowed to make comments . I conceived it my duty then to give information to that party ; and today I come forward to tell the truth , and I am cot ashamed to do what I have done tc-day . I never declared to ? ou or any one , lhat I did not believe in divine revelation . I swear that sokmnly . I was cot in correspondence with the authorities when I called on you in this prison . They had solicited me for information wien I saw yoa leave tha town for Liverpool ; and I had refused giving them all the itformation . I give them a part , and you were included in that information . I felt then , and do cow , a sympathy for your situation in being imprisoned . I have no expectations , and am as poor now as before I gave the information . I have never been promised anything . I was solicited for information . I said , " although U is truth , it is a dangerous step to take ; my living would be lost . No sooner shall I have given it , than I must cut
1 myself off from the Chartists ; and I shall demand my ! expences , and throw myself on your protection . " I I had never been tampered with , directly er indirectly , prior ! to the 17 th of August . I do not conceive it a reward f to receive my expenses and my lodgings . If tha j is a reward , I piead guilty to it . 1 have been I expecting a situation three months under the i " Statesman , " and under the " Evening Star ; " Mr ¦ O'Connor promised it me ; and I therefore demanded i of Irwin , that he should keep me so long as he wanted my services ; and the summons bears me out in de-I minding it . For the last three er four months , I w&s ! out of a situation , writing on speculation to the papers . I have ben a letter retaining me for the " Evening 1 Star . " That letter I received from Mr . O'Connor , proraising a situation , was prior to having any concern with Mr . Irwin . I told t"m that I should request to be summoned—( hisaea ) I give yoa my reasons . I amleftup&B tbe world ; what demand have I against
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Irwin , unlesa on summons ? I will take steps against him , if he doss not pay me —( laughter . ) If Irwin had not acceded to my wishes , I should have told him that I should not come unless he were to force me . I have stated , that if the Chartists had famished me with money to get out of the country , I should have left Manchester long sines . I stated yesterday week , in a public-house , if the Chartists would furnish me with money to leave the country , I should not have been there to appear against them , and that that was the wisest course they conld have taken—( " oh ! " ) There is no trade in giving evidence , so far as I am concerned . If tho Chartists had given me money it would have been for their own sakes . But they never came near me ; they neglected me ; instead of allowing me to quit the country ; I would not have suggested what means they should take to evade the law . It is qaite right to evade the law bnt not to break it if I
pass thronijh Wilmslow to Macclesfleld instead of through Stockport , ( the passage thieugh Stockport being prohibited by law , ) that is an evasion of the law . I will not give an opinion as to whether the prisoners have or have not broken the law . I have no expectation from my conduct to-day that I shall be pretty tidily kept in future . I tell Irwin before the Court , I will bring him up if he does not pay my expencea . I told you I expected protection besides expences . Ifc is current through the town ( as I need not tell you , ) that , if I appeared here this day , I should be assassinated It was told mo last night , that if I appeared here to-day , I should be shot . I am not prepared to say by whom . I expect to be saved , not only from ess&ssination , but any other injury . M'Cartney—Want is an injury . ' Witness—I lay principal stress on protection from bodily injuries . M'Cartney—I shall now dismiss you .
Cross-examined by Thomas Railton—By whom were you engaged as Secretary to tho Hunt ' s Monument Committee ? It was carried by a majority of the members of the Committee , three months ago or more . I have received five shillings for writing that address ; and the Committee promised , when they elected me , that they would pay me for my services ; I told them I would leave it with them . I have cot demanded anything , nor shall I ; I leave it to their own generosity and honour . Mr . Cobbeit then applied to the Court for permission to inspect all the documents found on the prisoners , in order th ^ t he might be prepared to meet any cbarge arising out of them that might be brought forward at the tiial .
Mr . Bbandt said he should allow him to take copies of all those papers that vr ; re put in , but objected to fiivs any others , S 3 they might contain matter implicating parties not yet in custody . Any documents forming part of the evidence , or to be produced in evidence , should be submitted to Mr . Cebbett for his inspection . Mr . Cobbett—I have now to address the court , in the first instance , on the part of Norman , Arthur , Fietcher . and Rimsden . I do not appear for Arthur , but I mention him because , with respect to these four , there is no evidence at all , as far as I can collect ; and therefore I antic ' pue , as a mattsr of course , that they will be discharged . Then the next is Scholefieid the elder . Nsw , with regard to him , the only evidence is , first by Hig ^ ics , who says , that after tho placard was
pnt up by the younger Ssholafield—some few minutes , — I think he said five minutes after , the elder Scholefieid came to tho door , and then went back again . He either might , or might not hava seen the placard . The rest of the evidence against him is by Griffin . Griffin tells you , tbat during the sitting of this meeting , Scholefieid brought in a copy of that placard—the " Executive ' placard , and told the parties there that Turner had been apprehended for printing that placard . He also tells you , that this meeting took place in the chapel ( which appears to be a building adjoining Mi . Scholefield ' s premises ) , and that during the meeting Mr . Scholefleld came several times through a long passage leading from the chapel to his surgery , but that he did not sit in the meeting , or take any part in their proceedings . The rest of
the evidence is as to the calling of this meeting : so far as it affects Mr . Scholefieid , ia that he was a member of a committee which they call the monument committee , appointed , it is generally known , for the purpose of raising a monument to the late Henry Hunt . I do not know whether the witness states that Mr . Scholefleld was a member of that Committee ; but , at all events , the witness himself was secretary to it , and it seems that three months before this meeting took place , the witness suggested to Mr . Scholeftold the propriety of calling together the meeting , which he ( Griffin ) described to you . I forget his description of it ; but , it is < iuite clear that it was not in any way connected with , the late disturbances . Three months before the Conference took place , GriSn proposed it to Mr . Scholefieid , and he proposed it to the committee .
The committee directed him to draw out an address , which , it is stated , was published in the "Star ; " a- d the meeting took place in consequence . Now , it cannot be supposed , that when Scholefieid made thia proposition to the Monument Committee , he could have done so with any , even tha slightest , intention of calling together a meeting to net in concert with persona to turn out tho hands employed in mills , or , in short , to take any part in , er do anything like , what was dor . s during the late disturbances . It would be totally irri . tional to suppose that that was the case . The witness himself—and he ia a witness for the prosecution—states , that this was not the case . Hd states that it 1723 for a different purpose Mr . Schokfirld took up the suggestion from him , and communicated to the committee . That committee ordered an address to be
drawn up ; and through the whoie , it appears that thiB meeting was got up for a totally dietiuct purpose to tbat now charged by tbe prosecutors . Up to that time , at all events , there is nothing to connect Mr . Scholefieid with a conspiracy , supposing such conspiracy to exist . The address was drawn tip by Griffin , the witness , and , as he states , published in the " Star . " That there was nothing in that address , as it is called , which brought these men together , th ; vt could lead to tha supposition that those who ordered it to bo drawn up and agreed to it , had any such intention as is iow stated , is evident ; for , if any such intention were manifested , evidence would be given of it this day . The fair inference i 3 , that there was nothing in it calculated to inculpate Mr . Scholefleld up to the time of the mseting . We have him clear of any connection
with the charges brought against him to-day . There is nothing to shew , that he had the slightest knowledge of what proceedings were likely to take place , or that the meeting was called together for the purpose which it is now said it carried out . Then as to the meeting itself , it is stated by their own witnesses , that he took no part in their proceedings ; that he appeared as far as the witness could judga , to be engaged in his ( Mr . SchoiefieM ' s ) oruinary avocations ; that he went to his surgery bac >* 7 ard and forward through the chapel , that being tha road which he had to go and return from his surgery ; thai he took no part in the proceedings at all . It ia true , lie brings in this placard , with the news of Turner ' s apprehension . But that sureiy cannot be taken as evidence of any guilt on his part . Somebody has given him a placard after Turner
was arrested ; and Mr . Seholefiold brings it to the parties sitting in the conference , thinking they would be interested in the arrest of sach a man . Now , that ia tbe whole of tho evidence Bgainst Mr . Scholefleld . I submit thera is not any rational cause to justify you ia holding him to bail , supposing the whole case to be as represented . With regard to tho younger Scholefieid , you will observe that there is no evidence against him from beginning to end , except that Higgins says he ( Scholefleld ) took a placard , anil put it on tho wall . It does not appear from any notes pro iuced , that his r . ama is in any way connected with a-: y proceedings , eitb . tr of Chartists or turn-outs . There is nothing to show , that he ever attended tho ineeticg . It is not even shown , that he ever entered tho door of the chapel , while the conference w . 13 sitting . There is
uothing at all against him . His name does not even appear on the private notes of the parties apprehended . These is nothing against him , except th ^ t ' ict , that thia lad was seen going from the company of s . ¦ bill-Btkker ifur thai ; r . ppeara to ba the description of tiiii niaa who cimo from ' . he house ) , and puttirg up a p . V . card . Is it reasonable to suppose , that this lad was attending to his father ' s business at this place ? That merely l > ecauso a biii-nticUer comes to the house with billv and this young war . is sten immediately after sticking' one upon the wali , that therefore he is conspiring and »' -oncerting phus , t-jgeth = r with a parcel of other men , for the purpose ef ca . rying out their objects ; namely , breakir . g the pesce and othtr matters ? I sak you , SV , is it rcusoimble to suppose , that that is the case ? If this lad had t ^ . ksn an active jiati in any such proceedings , ia it
possible that his name would not have come out somewhere—tbit he would not have been proved to 1 ave been associating with those parties at other times ? Unfortunately , he was at hia father's hsuss at the time the bi ; l-r . t : c ! rcr came there with the bills ; and this lad puts up one of tba bills on the vraU . What ia more likely than that he should do so , wi-. hout thinking or caring about it ? Who wonld suppose that there was any mischief in each a proceeding ? He has been in the habit of seeing bills , of all sorts and kinds , stuck up every day in the same place ; and it is proved that there were other biiis there at the time . Supposing it to be true , then , that he stuck np the bill in question , it is totally unreasonable—it i 3 forcing evidence feosond anjthing it will bear—to infer , that , in putting np this bill , he had an > thing to do with the proceedings out of which these prosecutions have arisen . I do contend that , with regard to the two Scholefields ,
there is so clear a failure in evidence against them , aa to leave yoa no alternative but to discharge them . I submit that this charge of conspiracy cannot be made out at alL The whole of their own evidence goes to shew the absence of pre-congert It is shewn that these men did assemble there . It U Bhewn that they were brought together for a totally different purpose to that which is stated in the charge against them . It ia also shewn that , being there , they held a discussion upon what was then taking place , and agreed , but not unanimously , to a resolution . Griffin said , that they issced an address : that may be eo ; but we have no evidence of what that address was . He pr&ves that the address was in writing—that there was a copy of it made ; and then we have a newspaper produced . It is sot proved where that paper came from , nor what newspaper it is , except as far as we can judge from the head or tail of it ; and this paper contains a document purporting to have issued from the
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head of that meeting . There ia ho evidence to support tbat address , except that there was an address agreed to , and that there was an original and a copy of it , neither of which is produced . The whole of the prosecutor ' s own evidence only proves tbat the conference were meeting for another purpose totally different to that charged 0 gainst the prisoners ; and then , that they had a discussion about a thing that was then taking place , and that a resolution was agreed to . Now , sir , how can it be reasonably said from that , that these men conspired together ? Tbe resolution may , or may not , be legal—it may be a libel for which those who published it may be answerable ; and , suppsaing it to be brought home to these parties , the meeting may have been a seditions meeting ; but certainly there is nothing in the evidence to make a conspiracy of it
any more than you could make a conspiracy of a meetid # called together for tho purpose of eating a dinner , and where improper acts may have been committed . Then , with regard to Hill , it is shown by the witnesses , that he opposed vigorously , or at all events argumentatively , the only act proved against tbe meeting , namely , the passing of the resolution . Griffin describes him as having done his utmost to prevent that resolution from being passed . He ( Griffin ) certainly says , that one of the reasons he ( Mr . Hill ) gave wes , that , supposing the strike would not be general , it would be a failure . A good reason for a man to give in opposing any thing . " If . you do it , you won't succeed . " Hill oppeses the resolution to the end ; and therefore the prosecutors have proved positively , that whatever act this meeting may have done , Hill took part directly against it . And
surely the man who opposed the act wiil not be considered as guilty as the man wao coincided with it . As to the rest of the prisoners , I contend that there is-no conspiracy proved . As to its being an illegal meeting , a term by-the-bye , into -which I have fallen from hearing it so frequently reiterated , I will leave y « u to deal with that ; but it appears to me that it cannot bear the semblance of such a construction . The resolution says that the strike is approved of . Now , men have a right to strike for wages . Men who sell their labour have as much right as those who - ' sell anything else to say of that which they are selling ,, " We will sell it no longer ; " and the men who are present have a right to declare whether they approve or disapprove of their
doing so . There is no distinction between tee case cf these men approving of the strike , and any set of men approving of the merchants in Manchester holding up their goods , and refusing to sell them- There is nothing in that resolution that goes to encourage or give countt-nance to any breach of the peace , or any illegal act . Mr . Cobbett , having briefly recapitulated his arguments in favour of the prisoners , observed that there was not tke slightest excuse for saying that they committed any conspiracy . He submitted that , at all events , they ought not to bo held to bail on such evidence as was adduced ; and if they were not held to bail on that , they would not on any other charge that might be then trumped up against them .
Bernard M'Cartney , having been asked if he wished to say anything , addressed the Court as follows : — I have much to say , did I conceive that the saying of that much would have a tendency to throw from around me ihi peculiar inconveniences and disadvantages of ray present position . The Court cannot be ignorant of the peculiarity of my case . The magnitude of the inconveniences and disadvantages to which I am subject is great , -when cumpnred with those of others who &ve indicted with me . Lest , however , you should bo ignorant of the peculiarity of my situation , I shall , as briefly as possibly , state it to the Court . I was arre . trd three weeks ago to-night , 1 think on a charge of a nature differing , in some respects from the present . 1 was detained iii the custody of the authorities in this prison within twelve hours of a fortnight I was held to
bail in a large amouut , to take my trial at the forthcoming special assizes at Liverpool . I was liberated on such bail yesterday week , in the evening , from this prison . I was re-arrested , or arrested a second time , on the following Thursday night . I have been scarcely three whole days out of confinement since I was first apprehended . I am now arraigned in this court under a fresh cha-ge ; and I am expected to prepare a . sufficient defence for myself against the forthcoming commission on Monday next . I am prevented from the possibility' of preparing for such defence , by bringing forward witnesses , whe , I am sure , are fully adequate to do away with the charges brought forward against me in this court . I have therefore , to say , tbat tho nature of my position is such as to incapacitate me , who am ignorant of the law , and the technicalities of this and a superior court , from being in that cool , cairn , and reflective state of mind ,
which is so necessary to rally around me those witnesses who would bear me out of this ordeal with benefit and credit to myself . I have only , therefore , to point out to the court , the peculiarity of the disadvantages under which I labour ; that you may understand that it is altogether beyond my pswer to come forward at the tribunal of my country , with such evidence as may be necessary to establish my innocence , either in this case , or the case referred to . Trusting , therefore , to your sense of justice on all occasions , and looking to the position you occupy , as being mere or less Counsel for the prisoner , I hope you wiil take these disadvantages into consideration ; and tbat , in the leniency of tha manner you will deal with me as regards those clogs and barriers that surround me , in the way of bail , you will show yourselves capable of appreciating the disadvantages and inconveniences under which I labour .
T . B . Smith and Thomas Railton , who . were also undefended , were asked by Mr . Foster if they wished to make any statement ; but they said , they should reserve what they had to say for a future occasion . Mr . Foster then made the following observations : —The general nature of the charge brought against the parties who are here under a warrant , has been dearly stated in the opening of the case by tbe learned counsel for the prosecution . It consists of this , that there is no evidence before us , that the recent disturbances originated , in the first instance , from yon or any of you ; but theense laid against you is this , that , after these disturbances had arisen , you mat together , and approved , in the first place , of the strike , and evinced a desire that that strike should be continued , and pledged yourselves further to do the utmost in your
power to promote that object ; and you resolved , that that cessation from labour should continue , in order that it might enforce what you call the People's Charter . Now , that that object was an illegal object , and that any agreement te promote the object by means of n general cessation from labour , or by keeping up the cessation from labour -which had previously taken place—that that wn an illegal conspiracy there can be no doubt . On saying that , I have the concurrence of Mr . Maude that it is ; perfectly clear ; and therefore all we have to decidfc is , whether there is such clear evidence in the case as to show ground for committing you . That is the question before us now . If we look at the resolution pot in proof , wo do not seebow onecan entertain any doubt that that was the object . The passing of this resolution would be a proof of conspiracy , On this
charge there ero four prisoners who are not identified by the witnesses ; and , as to these four , there is no evidence before us , nor are they included in the decision which the Court is about to give . With respect to the elder Sr . holefijld , we find that this meeting was held in his house ; thai he was present during part of the meeting , giving certain information to that meeting ; and that a placard connected with the object of that meeting was posted on his premises . It is impossible to say that he ia not implicated in the charge . With respect to his son , the evidence against him does not go directly to shew liim to be in concert with any of tha parties ; the evidence against him is slighter than peihapa that against any of the others ; but when one finds him there at the time posting this placard , and th * t immediately after , and oa the day that resolution
was come to , one cannot do otherwise than commit him also to take his trial for the alleged offence . With respect to Hill , the ground taken by bis advocate is , that he opposed the passing ef the resolution in question , and so he did , but we have the reason given why he did so ; -but we have also that which is much more material , tbat , though the resolution was carried by a large majority , it was also resolved that the minority should be bound by the acts of the majority , and , after that , several parties pledged themselves to tro to their respective locaiitiag , and carry ont the obj-cta of the meeting . Therefore , William Hill is liabie for the acts of that party vhom he
opposed ; and our judgment is , that the parties have all , with the exception of the four not identified by the witnesses , done tbat which makes it our duty to Bend them for trial . That is the extent of bur duty , and it ia the only question at present which we have to decide . The next thing is to ste what will be the a in cunt of bail which we shall determine on taking for each party . That is a matter for consideration , and which ,-it this moment the Court is not prepared to state ; but we will soon state the result of cur opinins , and in apportioning the bail which will be required from eucV prisoner , as much regard as possible will he had to thO condition of the parties , and tho evidence against
thera . Mr . I ' aiit then said , he wan Instructed to prefer a charge a gainst Christopher Doyle , arising out of an offence committed by him in Marple , in the county of Chester , wVich he ( Mr . Part ) was advised amounted to a felony . It was for pulling down a lock-gate , which effeneo .- by the 7 th and 8 th of George IV . chapter 30 , w ° 8 made a felony . He ( Mr . Part ) was thtn prepared tc go into the case , if the court thought proper , and Mr . Foster cculd hear it , as a Cheshire magistrate . After a few wor , "ls from Mr . Cobbett , on behalf of the prisoner ^ Mr . Foster declined going into the
case . The court having deliberated for some time , aa to the amount of bail wiuch each prisoner should give , Mr . Foster inquired into their respective occu pations , and then declared the amounts as follows : — James Leach , two sureties in £ 200 each , and himself in £ 400 . John Campbell , two sureties in £ 300 each , and himself in £ 000 . James Scholefiald , two sureties in £ 400 each , and himself in £ 800 . Christopher Doyle , two sureties in £ 200 each , and himself in £ 400 . Bernard M'Cartney , two sureties in £ 200 each , end himself in £ 400 . Richard Otley , two sureties ia £ 250 each , and himself in £ 500 .
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George Julian Harney , two sureties in £ 250 each , and himselt in £ 500 . Joha Thornton , two sureties in £ 150 each , and himself in £ 300 . John Massey , two sureties in £ 150 each and himself in £ 300 . Robert Brook , two sureties in £ 200 each , and himself in £ 400 . William Hill , two sureties in £ 400 each , and himself in £ 800 . Thomas B . Smith , two sureties in £ 200 each , and himself in £ 400 . John Ellison , two sureties in £ 200 each , and himself in £ 460 . Samuel Parkes , -two sureties in £ 150 each , and himself in £ 300 . Thomas Railton , two sureties in £ 200 each , and himself in £ 400 .
William Scholefieid , two sureties m £ 100 each ; his own recognizance was not taken , he being only 20 years of age ; and 48 hour ' s notice of bail was required in eech case . Norman , Fletcher , Ramsden , and Arthur , were then discharged . The recognfzinces entered into by Mr . Win . Scholefieid , for his appearance to-day were accepted for his appearance at the Commission , and these being known to be good and substantial , the form was at once gone through , and he was discharged . ~~ Mr . Hill , before the Court ro . 'e made an application to the Bench , to order his watch , money , keys , and other articles , which bad bean tcken from him at Leeds , and which W 6 re of no use in proving any thing against him , to be given up to him . He bud made the application before , aud though the order had been made it Lad not been attended to . Mr . Foster—If you apply to Mr . Walker , he has the order to give you what you seek .
Mr . Hill—They are not in Mr . Walker ' s possession , Sir . ¦ ¦ ¦; . ¦ . - . - ' - Inspector Taylor—I have Mr . Hill ' s property in my possession , Sir ; and with your permission I am ready to give up what he wants . Mr . Foster—By all means . Mr . Hill—Thank you , Sir . I mnde the application because I had been told that the officer dare not give the thioRH up without the sanction of the Bonch . The parties tben left the Couit , and tha Magistrates retired from the Bench having sat for nearly nine hours .
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DUBLIN . —Tho Irish Universal Suffrage Association met on Sunday evening , Mr . Rafter in the chair . Mr . Dyott , secretary , read the minutes of the last day ' " meeting , and , as several strangers were prosent , the objects of the asoooiation . He next read some interesting correspondence , and made a few remarks upon the imiddlc-class movement in England , lie said he hoped it would be iou ;; d compatible with Chartism , to accept of Sturgite support ; but though they had addressed Mr- Sturge , and been courteously and encouragingly answered , they tho Irish Universal Suffrage Association , had no
notion of compromising a single iota of either principle ot organization . If , on occasion of the forthcoming Conference , it would be found that the delegates can agree upon an amalgamation , if the followers of Mr . Joseph Sturge will waive their childish objections to a name , and having adopted the Charter in substance , having given in their adhesion to the Six Points , will not Eeck out of mere caprice to re-baptise the movement—( hear)—he for one should most heartily rejoice . But even should they continue so fastidious as to refuse that tide—Chartist—which had now become so renowned
throughout Europo —( near , )—still , as an individual , he would bo most happy to acknowledge their exertions , and laud their sincerity , if they honestly and energetically brought their power and influence to bear in favour of justice and the people . ( Cheers . ) Such , he thought , was the course pointed ou ; by common sense , while at the same time he entirely agreed in the just exceptions taken by the editor of the Northern Star to the method proposed for constituting the new Conference . It was quite unfair that eectorB , constituting about one seventh of those for whom they claimed on the ground of natural right and political expediency , the franchise , should be reckoned as an entire moiety in the proposed assembly—and the introduction of the Leaguers' question into his address had given just ground to the
opposers , or rather the tuspeotors of Mr . Siurge , to believe chat , after all , the Chartist agitation was to bo made , if possible , subservient to the designs of faction . ( Hear . ) Under all circumstances , . it behoved them to keep a good look-out , and to await the issue in prudent silence .. ( Hear . ) Their address had been put forward before the propositions of Mr . Sturge had appeared—( hear)—and , therefore , could not be construed into an approval of all those propositions . ( Hear . ) Mr . O'Higgins was of opinion that Mr . Sturge was perfectly sincere , while he freely admitted some of his coVcouncillors were men of no political steadiness . / Ie thought they had acted perfectly right in praising the Comple ' . e Suffrage men ( as they chose to be called ) , for adopting the six points : beyond that they had not gone , and
they never would be led by any party or perBou , no matter how influential or specious , to desert tiie Radical flag —( hoar , hear ); the Chartist colours were nailed to the mast , and they would stand by them to the death . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . O'Higgins next read an article from tho Times , and commented on the fact that the factional prints which a while ago affected to treat Chartism with ineffable disdain , and unqualified contempt , were now filled with nothing else—the Thucderer devoted its leaders to abusing it—misreprese ^ itirg its objects—maligning its advocates—and arguing that Universal Suffrage would do them no mere good thaa the Reform Bill . But if that were the case why not give it to the people and let- them by experience have its ineffectiveness proved —( hear , hear . )
There could be no doubt but the present Government was frightened from its propriety by the movement , and as little that it had hired oid Walter — the " whiteheaded boy "—to bespatter the Chartists with filth from his mud magazine , and after distorting the objects of the people in order to excite the bad passions of their opponents , the privileged classes , to kill the giant of his own making with flimsy sophisms , and arguments so shallow and untenable as only to be readable from their eloquence and ingenuity . They might be sure they were making way when they had thus raised the wrath of the bul ! , y of the press —( hear , hear)—but he had great hopes , from the known flexibility of that unprincipled paper , that its great ability and universal circulation , now prostituted to such viie purposes
might yet from motives of self-interest ( the only motives it ever acknowledged ) be made available to the spread of the very views it now—against conscieisce and character—repudiated ( loud cheers ) Mr . Clarke referred to a letter of Mr . O'Connell ' s which had appeared in the Dublia papers ; he said it gave ead evidence of the foundering of that great maa ' s intellect . He had , in imitation of their Association , got up six points , and in verification of their respected president ' s prediction , ( made six months ago , ) repeal had got down to the end of the card , and would shortly , he supposed , slide off it altogether ( hear , and laughter . ) Bnt the best of the joke waB , that Mr . O'Connell insisted that while it was
last it was first too ; for he said nothing conld be done with regard to what went before it , till what came after that had been achieved ( lond laughter . ) Somebody he thought , had sent Mr . O'Connell their political programme , for he found their very language adopted ; " above al ! , and before all , " says Mr . O'Connell , " go for what comes after all . " ( Hear , and laughter . ) This was also a very physical force letter ; it regrets that the repeal organization ^ was not sufficiently complete to enable them to WKp advantage of tho late corn Jaw . J , W > ? g ! ls : ^ - ^"" " ^ it ^ tt ttirtrtfiss
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England is not over yet!—( hear , hear , and laughter , )—and that if they could only get tha three millions of repealers organised , they could make a bargain , in time of commotion , to obtain tneir own liberties on condition of crushing tho attempt of tho neighbour nation to achieve theirs . ( Hear , and shame . ) After all , the main feature of this letter was its attention to the monetary part of patriotism ; " coliect , and get others to collect , " was repeated several times , and in all sorts of emphatic manner : and an assertion was madethai ;
, - . if there was once a repeal warden in every parish m Ireland , that moment the Union was at an end I * Did mortal man ever put forth such fudge !—( Hear , and laughter . ) Why , they could readily have s repeal warden in every parish ; but what nearer would that bring them to repeal !—( hear , hear . ) Mr . Clark continued to expose in the most humorous and argumentative manner this drivelling document , and sat dowu amid loud cheering . Mr Guinnen and various other members addressed the assembly , which did not break up till past ten . o ' clock .
Stockton- iton-Tees . —The Chartists held their usual weekly meeting in the Working Men's Reading Room , Albion-street , on Wednesday evening , After the ordinary business was done , a spirited disoassiou took place between Mr . Umpleby and Mr . Davison , on the present state of the Association in Stockton . Mr . U . proposed the following for discussion for next Wednesday evening " Who , or what is the cause of the routs , riots , and tumults , which are , at present , of almost every day occurrence \" Tipion . —Princess end . —Mr . Froggat preached two sermons here on Sunday , September the 18 th , and lectured on Monday evening , the 19 th , and on Tuesday , September the 20 th , Mr . Thomason , from the "Vale of Leven , in Scotland , lectured here to a crowded audience . On Sunday eveniug , September the 25 th , Mr . Pearson , of Dudley , preached here to an attentive audience . There are about 100 members in the association .
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WEDNESBUR . Y—A meeting for the election of constables was held here on Friday last , in the vestry . The " Lads" were there , and greatly to the surprise and chagrin of the factions , oarried their own chairman , after the chairman first elected ( a Whig ) had refused to submit a list of name 3 proposed by the Chartists for approval . A list proposed by the " nobs" was scrutinized , but tho people knew how to do their work , and they did it . HUpSEaSFIEiD .-OcTOBER Fair . —Tuesday boing our Cattle Fair and- the morning extremely fine and promising , a great number of horned cattla were brought , of an excollent quality , which realized very fair prices . There was a very meagre shew of horses , and tho 3 e were old and half-worn oat . Upon the whole , very iittle business was done .
A Warning . —On Monday last , Mr . Haycock , veterinary surgeon , was dent for to operate upon a horse ihat had emptied a plate tilled with a pieparation of arsenic which w as carelessly 1-id under the manger for the destruction of rats ; great doubt 3 were entertained as to the horse ' s recovery , but we are happy to say by the timely arrival and skilful aid of Mr ; Haycock , the horse is rapidly improving .
Attempt to set Fire to a Workhouse . —On Saturday , a man named William Skipper , who had been an inmate of the St . Faith ' s Union House , wa « brought before the county magistrates , Messrs . John Stracey , John Longe , andR . Gilbert , charged with setting fire to a straw stack , tho property of James Rice , of St . Faith ' s , butcher , who deposed as follows : —I occupy an enclosure of land adjoining St . Faith ' s Union Workhouse , and I had a stack of straw standing about twenty-two yards from the house . I was informed of its being on fire on Monday night last ; I went to the stack , and found ifc almost entirely consumed . -It contained about five tons of straw . I heard the prisoner say that ha set fire to the Rtack that the house might be burnt down , as he did not wish to be there any longer .
George R ' . ches deposed—I am porter in the St . Faith s Union Workhouse , and on Monday last , William Skipper , the prisoner now present , who was then an inmate of the above house , having requested to leave the house , was discharged by mo there about half-past two o ' clock in the afternoon ; and in the evening of the same day between nine and ten o ' clock , I discoveed a straw stack , about twenty-three yards from tha gable end of the house , on fire ; it was almoBt entirely consumed . I looked about , to discover any person whom I might suspect , and found the prisoner on the bleach ground , about Bixty or seventy yards distant . I suspected him , and took him into the house of Mr . Swann , tho master . Thomas Cook Swann deposed—I am master of tho St . Faith ' s Union Workhouse ; the prisoner , William Skipper , had been an inmate of the house for about a fortnight , and was discharged at his own request
on Monday last , between two and three o ' clock ia the afternoon ; between nine and ten o ' olock in the same evtning tho porter , George Riches , brought him into oty room and charged him with setting fire to a straw stack near the house . I did not go out , being at time unwell . I asked the prisoner if he had set fire to tho sta < : k ? He replied , '' Yes . " I then said , " Do you know what punishment you are liable to 1 " He faid , " Yes ; I wish the stack had been nearer the wall of the house that I might have burnt the houEe down . " Philip Lincoln Carman , farmer , deposed—I asked the prisoner how ho came to set the t-tack on iiro 1 He replied , ' I set fire to it in order to burn the house down , that I might be no longer in it , to be fed on bread and water . I set fire to it wich a lucifer match , at the end next the hedne . " The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the next assizos . —Norwich Mercury .
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Leeds Corn Makket , Oct . 4 . —The supplies of Grain to this day ' s market , are smaller than last week . Fine dry New Wh ; at has been b . per quarter higher , but all other descriptions are dull sale , and not much business doiDg in them . Old , in better demand than of late , but no improvement in price . Barley has been in rather better tcmand , prices much the same as last week . Oats a halfpenny per stone , and Beans 6 d to Is per quarter lower . THE AVERAGE PRICES OF WHEAT FOR THE WEEH ENDING OCT . 4 , 1842 . Wheat . Barley . Oats . Rye . Beans . Peal Qrs . Qrs . Qrs . Qrs . &rs . Qw . 4792 287 533 5 329 3 £ s . d . £ s . d . £ a . d . £ s . d . £ s . d . £ b . d . 2 116 | 1105 1 0 5 1 15 0 115131140
Leeds Woollen Market , Tuesdat , C'cr . 4 . — Wo are glad to find that a fair business was done at the Cloth Halls on Saturday and Tuesday last , and that prices are , if anything , a shade better than they were the week before . It is true that the prices are extremely low , and in some instances not remunerative , but it is somewhat satisfactory to know that they are not getting lower . Heavy goods for winter wear are those which have been most in request . The business transactions in our warehouses have been tolerably good during the week . HuDDEnsriELD Market , Oct . 4 , —There was no treat quantity of business done in our hall to-day . Heavy goods are more in request as the cold season approaches . Other kinds of goods were little sought after . The Wool market still remains heavy .
London Corn Exchange . —Monday Oct . 3 . — From Kent there was a good supply of wheat , bat from Essex and Suffolk it was limited , and the quaQ ' tity ef barley , beans , and peas from all these counties was trifling , with a very , moderate fresh arrival of oats from distant . counties of our own coast , Scotland and Ireland ; the importation of foreign wheat since this day week has been large , mostly from the south of Europe , with a few cargoes of oats . The wecther within the last few days has been as favour * able PS possible for field operations . Our millers wtre tolerably ready buyers of prime-English wheat at the rates of'latt Monday , and a clearance w& 3 effected of this description before the market closed ,
with a moderate retail demand for foreign at much the same prices as were taken during the past week Ship flour met a steady demand , and brought quite as much money . The sale of malting barley was steady , the best qualities realising last week ' s quotations . Beans , as well new as old , were insteady request , and without alteration in value . Maple peas declined full Is . per quarter , but white were quits as dear . Prime ma it realised the currency of this day week . There was a fair trade in oats ; the best qualities were taken without any change in value , and inferior old were not so pressingly offered . Linseed and rapesetd brought as much money in limited quantities .
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ANOTHER VOICE FROM THE DUNGEON . THE LAMB } ' APPEAL TO THE WOLF ! A memorial , of which the following is a copy , has been dispatched from the prisoners committed to the Nottingham Quarter Sessions , on a charge of " illegally assembling . " It bore the names of twenty-six out of the twenty-nine so committed . It speaks for itself . Will the Gallant Colonel have the decency to refrain from occupying the judgment seat on the occasion of the trial of these men whose case he has pre-judged ? Will he seat himself there to administer justice , with this attaint upon his im- ; partiality ? We shall see ! and the prisoners will know what to think , if it be so ! To the Right Honourable Sir James Graham , Her Majesty s Principal Secretary of Slate for the Home Department ' The Memorial of the nndersiened ,
Humbly Sheweth . —That your memorialists are committed to take their trials at the ensuing Quarter Sessions for th 6 County of Nottingham , to be holden in the Shire Hall , on the seventh day of October next , on a charge of illegally assembling . That Colonel Rolleston , M . P . is accustomed to preside at tbe sessions holden in the Shire-hall . That the aforesaid Colonel Rolleston , M . P . was actively engaged in the apprehension of your memorialists , and at the time of their commitment said " they " ( meaning himself and his brother magistrates ) " were DETERMINED to make a severe example of some of them . "
Your memorialists therefore humbly hope that you will take these circumstances into your consideration , and direct that thty be tried at the County Assize ; or at least direct that the aforesaid Colonel Rolleston , M . P . do not preside at their trial ; as it is evident he has prejudged their case . He being also a party to the apprehension of your Memorialists , &c . wiil naturally seek to justify auch apprehension ; and his connection with the circumstances ia calculated to prejudice him against your memorialists , however impartial may be his intention . The law directs that her Majesty ' s liege subjects shall bs tried before a dispassionate and impartial Judce . . Your memorialists will ever pray .
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O'CONNOR , Esq ., of Hammersmith , Countf Middlesex , by JOSHUA HOBSON , at hia Print " ing Offices , Nea . 12 and 13 , Market-street , Brig * gate ; and Published by the said JOSHUA HOBS 0 H » ( for the maid Feakgus O'Connor , ) at hia Dwel * ling-home , No . 5 , -Market-street , Brfggatej W Internal Communication existing between the said No . 5 , Marker-street , and the said Ko 3 . 12 and 13 , Market-street , Briggate , thus constituting the whole of the said Printing nnd Publishing OSee one Premises . All Communications must ba addreaaed , ( Post-paid ) to HOBSON , Northern Star Qf&w leed * . Saturday , Ootober 8 , Uts .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 8, 1842, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct451/page/8/
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