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resources to sappress it , rarely , mutctiis mutandis , and-by a parity of reasoning , we have now a justifiable dtmaad upon , tie Preach Exchequer , for the purpose of suppressing £ he same spirit in England ^ wiieh if not sleneed would set a "bad example to Jrauee and to the -world . All the bickeriags and jealeusy as to the right of search , hostile tariff ^ Spanish marriages , insulting gasconade , murdering of a mere fisherman , Portuguese commercial treaty , and sach like trifle 3 , are but matters of miror detail ¦ when compared "with the xoaiing thunder of the popular Toice , now tmiTersally directed agaiast
Engcraft ^ Priestcraft , and Class Legislation , and by tv-oico Kingcraft and Priestcraft hare been so long upheld . It ia -well known that for the last fifty years England has been in a state of Bankruptcy l > roBj > bt abtrak by her over-Mud interference in the policy of other nations ; and all with a viev ? of holding America in subjection , and upholding the Bourbon title to the throne of France ; whereas , if the sums squandered in those two fruitless endeavours had been , expended upon the cultivation of onr domestic resources , we should now hare been
independent t > f Loms Phiuppe and the Chelsea Pensioners ; of American Tariffs and Portuguese Commercial Treaties j of French restrictions and Spanish revolutions ; of Russian pride , Chinese markets , and the Gates of Somnauth : in fact , we should have been in & position to hare given battle to all who dared to invade onr shores , our liberties , or our lights ; instead of , as now , our weakness making us & prey to all who choose to insult us , and our dependency placing as at the juerey of & 0 who will condecend to traffic "with us . Who will venture to assert that the invasion of
Ireland by * an army of Frenchmen , may not be at the present moment matter of diplomatic consideration } Sir Robert Pkkl has very wisely and very prudently abstained from the sse of physical force for the Euppressibn of the Repeal agitation . We have said it before , and we repeat it here , that Sir Bcssbt Pekl is very far from being a camel or a bloodthirsty man , bnt , cui bono , if his temperance and forbearance « an be overawed by the cunning of Louis PhiuppEj and the pliant subserviency of < ztnz 3 X , who in all things is ready to obey the injunctions of Ms wily master . Gmzor is a Tory of the olden school ; professing much liberality , of which , however , he and his party must be the dispensers . "With him and them it is notlwhat shall be done , but
who shall do it 1 And the question with both will be , how CCoxkzll can be subdaed , and how Ireland can be preserved & 3 the draw . farm of England , upon condition that Spain should become the Poland of France 3 As we stated last week , if the Tiat of her Majesty and her Ministers to Lotus Tewutts and his Ministers should take any political turn , Loxns will take care to play Spain against Ireland ; and , as if onr Ministers were determined to be ready to cover the stake without hesitation , they have , ance we last wrote , recognised the legitimacy of the present ruffian Government of Spain , whose policy it is to proclaim a little creature of thirteen years of age as Queen of a country whose Government has , for scores of years , baffled the sagacity of the wisest statesmen .
Tiie abandonment of the anti-Repeal demonstration by the Orange usurpers of Ireland , in compliance with the mandate of Loxdosdeebt , the brother vf the memorable Casilerea « h , must have been * consequence of some Cabinet secrets , communicated by the Noble Marqnis to the Earl of Kodes , head of the Orange faction- We can well understand the effect which something like the following note would have : —
Mi dejlb . Rodbs , —In my forme * communication tinted to you that the Bake nad a grand itroke of policy in contemplation . Ton are aware that ¦ with him , ilthongh slow to speak , yet it la ever a -word and a blow , execution rapidly following design . Should you still persevere in holding the contemplated meeting on the 7 th , yon will arm the enemy , and disarm our friends . Though I fdt rather sore about Durham , yet these are not times to stick at trifles ; and -when I wonld abstain tram , embarrassing Peel ' s administration , you may guess that it Is for a-wise purpose . There are circamstsnces now in agitation , which I dare not even bint at , but of which you will be abartfj pat in possession ; and nothing could more tend to frustrate what I am sure you
anxiously desire than a perseverance in the determination to hold the Anta-Bepeal meeting upon the 7 th , _ As Bowerer , you may probably require some feasible pretext fir its postponement , I have written a letter concocied bj- , and which has received the eoncsxrenee-of the whole cabinet , taking the responsibility upon myself , and 'which yon are at -perfect liberty to jjnhliih . Roden , remember how we won our estates ; Jet us be cautious how "we run the chanoe of losing them . Trusting that you will see the wisdom of the course suggested in my letter , 1 am , dear Roden , Ever yours , Tase lojsdotoeket .
Kow , whether the Noble Marquis did or did not write any such letter as the above we cannot come to other conclusion thaa that his pnblished letter to Ropes was a stroke of Cabinet policy j nor can we think otherwise thaa that Bodes wonld have required some stronger inducement than any contained in that letter to prevail upon him to abandon his long-talked of project . Meantime , however , we cannot for the life of Q 3 see % ow thev are to reach
CCokteixby sword or statute . He is too strong for the former , and too sage for the latter . How , then , we cannot help asking , is theRepeal Agitation to be suppressed ; or wherein are we to have the first evidence that her Majesty , notwithstanding her express determination , is more powerful than O'Cosimr ) Indeed we never have been able to discover that royalty gives strength j and therefore her
Majesty ' s Ministers should have thought twice btforc they made her Majesty say , that she would do , what in all probability , she may not be able to effect O'Coxxell laughs at them the while ; and instead of relaxing , actually hurls defiance ; and in the very teeth of the annihilation speech he literally proposes the very strongest measure ever yet propounded for weakening the Queen ' s prerogative . We mean the election of Arbitrators who shall henceforth
constitute the Executive of the country . We , who have always contended for the right of the people to appoint their own magistrates , and who have always desirwi to de ? troy the trade of fieecing attornies , hail this new move with pleasure and delight ; because it is a step in advance ; a aneaEnre'with which the pnblie mind will be familiarized , by the time that the People ' s Charter will
render it perfectly legal to adopt it . If the Rodess and the Loxdoxdeebts , the Wextjsgtons and the Grazers had been wise , they wonld have tried the self-consuming system , in the hope that the Repeal agitation would have exhausted itself ; while they may rest assured that the Tery first act of tyranny against Ireland or O'Cccekexx , will rally around iim an amount of sympathy , strength , and determination which all the crowned heads > in
Europe wonld attempt to resist in vain . There are many , very many , who now look upon the struggle without taking part in it , bat who nevertheless , although slow in joining , will be sore to take the right side . There 13 something so truly lndicj ° bs in onr mode of government that we cannot ** oid kgjag forcibly struck with the contrast which the Irish Anas * Bill and the thandering reception of her Britannic Majesty furnishes . In Ireland the Possession of & pocket pistol is prima facie proof of trea £ on against the possessor ; while monarchs
cannot meet to indulge in the common eonrtesies of life "Ri&oai being enveloped in clouds of smoke , and "wmedby the noise of those arguments by which ^ ej hold their role . W « cannot avoid directing the especial attention of the starving operatives of & 9 forth to the load and flattering reception which ° 5 * Queen has met at the hands of the King of the Barric * de 3 ; nor can we refrain from thinking that those operative * will contract their present condition "with what it might be nader a system of cheap fOTerninenJ .
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?« npieted , it has this week been transmitted to ^ atlSdd . Id accordance with the Charter , the burf ^ -k ft hasieen prepared , and will be publifhed on We * . a of September . The list whmjus abont 5 , 300 *** <*> -& » && Independent *
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E . Rilst , City Shoemakers , has sent us notices of two meetings , and h «« neglected to say on what evenings they were to be held . AKY . Locai / itt -wishing to engage the Old Commodore , may communicate their wishes to him by letter , { pre-paid , } addressed—Mr . E . P . Mead , Mr . Prankland ' s , Printer , How Street , BaraJey , Lancashire . ¦ All COSHUNldTJOSS intended for David Rosa , late of Manchester , must , for the future , be addressed to him , at his residence , Victoria-street , Hnnslet-lane , Leeds , Yorkshire , WiiiiAM JOBXSOJJ , cooper , Market-place ,
Gainshro ' , wishes to correspond with W . West , if that gentleman will favour him with his address . The Addbzss of the "WWUbaven Colliers was received too late for the current publication . The Mule Twjstebs op Bradford have sant us a letter in which they return thanks to Mi . Binister for having advanced their wages 3-8 th * s of a , penny per lb ., or abont 3 s . per -week . Mr . Turner , of Brighouse , they say , has followed his example . The Editor's Absekce from his desk , during the present -week , most be an excuse for the
nonacknowledgment of a variety of correspondence . Rebecca is the Count ? op Durham . —A corres-- pondent informs us that Rebecca made her appearance in EaUae on the 28 th ult- She appears , he rays , to be a lady of principle , for no sooi er had she made her appearance than she ferretted out some unprincipled blacklegs to the colliers' society , and wreaked her vengeance on tber treacherous heads . It wonld appear that she was not well acquainted in the locality , for instead of avenging herself on the old known blacklegs , she discovered some new ones , ¦ whom the has punished .
Mb . Stefkes ' s "was tried at Chester , before Mr . Justice Pattison and a Special Jury , on Thursday , the 15 th of August , 1839-OjiE O 7 THE "VVORIUIiG CLASSES . —We Shall BOt lose sight , of the object of his letter ; we do not see , however , that he advances anything new . P . Mac C . —His letter was received . W . Das jells . —Write to Mr . Moir , of Glasgow , who ¦ will either procure you the acts you want , or put yon in the way of obtaining them .
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V POR MR . RICHARDS , WHO IS I * STAPPOBD GAOL . s- d . From London , per J . Bousa ... ... 4 o VICTIM FU > 'D . From 4 persons at KnaTesbro , per Dooker 0 4 From the Chartists of Kensington , London 10 0 Me . Roberts , Derby . —Should hav « . sent his order Booner . Wm . Bllloch Biggar—Send Is . for each large plate and postage ; and 6 d . for each small one . Ralph Darlixg . —Post stamps will do .
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Mt dear Fmesds , —Once more landed on the shores of " Merry England , " you will be looking to me fer same notice of my " journeyings" in ** the land o'cakes . " You will be wanting to know what the land looks like "—what is the aspect of our cause —what the people ' s opinion ef our prospects—and what my own opinion of the people where I have been . We have " held chat together" so long that many of yoa have identified yourselves with me in a kind of personal friendship ; you get interested in all that appertains to me , and wait anxiously for my detail of " adventures , " " incidents of travel , " and all the etceteras of a friend's ramble among friends ; and a still greater number of you , debarred from all chance of travelling yourselves , like to learn something , from parties whom you can trust , about places which yon cannot see . All this is a very proper and a reasonable feeling , and I devote this letter to its gratification .
My tonr was to have been one of combined " agitation" and recreation ; in the hope of serving to some extent the cause , and of reinvigorating , to some little extent , my shattered constitution . The latter end has been served , far beyond my moBt sanguine expectations ; 1 am worth more by half for the field now than when 1 started ; and I hope that the cause has received no damage from my tour . But the labour pretty effectually absorbed all the " recreation " , and converted my rapid gallop through the country into what , if my heart had not been in the work , might have well passed for " a toil of a pleasure " . Posting from place to place as fast as four horses , a steam-boat , or a railway carriage could rattle along , seldom stopping beyond a
night or so in a place , lecturing somewhere almost every evening , and two or three times on Sundays , together with the " long chats" of scores of frieDdB who in every place crowded to my lodgings , left me precious little time for " sight Beting " . 1 can tell yon very little , therefore , about the ** lions" sf the different places which I visited : I had no time to iook at them . But I can tell you of that in which you will , 1 am persuaded , feel at least an equal interest ; of the state , aspect , and prospect of Chartism ; and something of the condition of the people . The general complaint , which met me is almost every town , was " The agitation 18 dead " . The enthusiasm of the people seems to have greatly gone down , every where . Great demonstrations ,
expensive and numerous processions , and Sag * , banners , music , and hurraing noises are by no means so plentiful ; it is even difficult to get the people out to hear lectures . All this ha ? , to some parties , a discouraging aspect . They interpret it as evidence of apathy , and of declension in our cause . To my mind , it conveys altogether different information : 1 rejoice to see it . It is evidence to me of onward progress of the only character likely to be lasting , and therefore worth anything . It shows me that the people have ceased to be the creatures of passion ; that they are less easily effected by sudden gusts of feeiibg , and more addicted to habitudes of thought . The best evidence that thi 9 is so (; and that the quiet , sober demeanour of the people 13 not from apathy is
the fact , that however "dead" Chartism may bain any town , I always find , upon inquiry , that nothing else can live . Let bat the factions , either , or any of them , take the field fairly ; let them but venture to give room for the expression of opicion , and they soon find out whether Chartism be " dead . " This was the universal cry throughout aU Scotland . In almost eTery place 1 came to , my first question was— Well , how stands Chartism ? ' And the answer wasrt Why , we are all dead here . We can gel & meeting upon any great occasion . If the enemy take the field , the people will turn out . If an anti-Corn Law meeting vfa 3 to be held to-morrow , with bnt slight notice , and discussion allowed , they would muster
strong , and carry all before them . Any other party never thinks of it . Neither Tories nor Whigs , merely a * such , would dare to hazard any appeal to the public voice . They will turn out , too , upon extraordinary occasions to our own meetings . If a siranger . who is mnch respected , come ; or one from whom they expect to learn something ; we shall have a good meeting for instance , to hear you ; bnt , generally speaking , there is a great slackness about the people . They require some excitement to Htir them up . They seem tued of lenumng , and tired of the agitaiion altogether . " . Now , I am well pleased with this . I rejoice 10 sue the " agitation" giving place to a " determination , " cool , noiseless , and unostentatious , but ready , whenever wanted , to
shew that principle sinks deeply into honett hearts . It is to me the most pleasing feature of the times ; worth ali lie " great demonstrations , " all the processions , all the flags , banners , and music , and expensive iole pageantry which erstwhile made our '' agitation" as puerile as it was conspicuous and imposing . These things wera useful tnen , and they were necessary then ; they had tbeir work to do ; and there are districts of tke country in which there arts still like uses for them . When the public mind is but indifferently informed , and when its judgment is to a great exitnt tmiormed , it is necessary y > enlist the senses , and to claim attention by external disp l ay , that you may form that very character which is now in process of devel pment . Tne people
co not ** ag : taie now , because inej have learnt the vaiae of "agitation" ; they have discovered it to be the froth upon the surface of the good liquor , and they now blow the froth aside and dnuk the liquor . They do net , in the old culiiva > ed Chartist districts , come oat to hear lectures ; jutt because they know all that the lecturers can tell 1 hem . They havt ; heard tfce old story over and over again till they are tired of it . They are quite aware that " Gofi a . Dd nature did not make one man with a saddie on his back and anoihtr with a pair of * pur = on his heels "; that " no man was born with a pen behind his ear and an jakhom at the tip of his nose "; they know that all the points of theCharter are poime oi" righteousness and trutb ; tbateveiy man has aright
to ihe vote , and that no man has a right to morc votes than one j that each has a right to be represented , and lhai all should be represented equally ; that no man has & right to coerce or control another in the exercise of his vote ; that intelligence and honesty should qualify a mante represent his fellows whether he have " property * or not ; that " short reckonings make long friendships " , and tnat " the labourer is worthy of his hire " : they know all about t&ese things ; they know that they are all true and that no good argument can bo broagh ; against them ; they hare heard them stated , proved , and argued 1 > y all sorts of lecturers in all sorts of ways : they find
that , though each man may have a -different way of telCng it , they all do tell the same story ; and , as they know the story off by heart , they don't care to hear it told any more : and hence the appearance of apathy and carelessness which so dispirits unreflecting minds . It does not dispirit me in the least degree . On the contrary , 1 rejoice in it . Bat there is one feature connected with it which i 3 not so pleasing to me , and which J hope to see instantly corrected . The same feeling of con » cion » intelligence which indnRes the peopie 10 cease " agitating' , and to "lie on their oars" waiting till SBcceaHve caHs for energy may eoae , has
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induced them also to become careless , to a great extent , about organizing . In the absence of any effective National ; Organization , the several local Organizations , having been identified with the '' agitation " , have been , neglected ; and . thus in many of the very best Chartist districts there is no Association—no Committee—no " pnblic body" of any kind although , individually , there are more Chartists than there ever were . 1 have many letters by me stating the anxiety of Beores of Chartists in different places for me to visit them , but stating that they cannot" invite" me in the terms which I require ; because I had publicly declared that I
would not accept individual invitations , and there was no "public body from whom , as a body , the inyitation could come . This I do regard as matter of regret . Without Organization of some kind , the people , however intelligent , are powerless . And no National Organization can exist , save as the aggregate of local bodies . The people must see to this ; and at once . : They must keep together . This is not more necessary for the concentrating of their powers than for their increase . They have a formidable enemy to cope with : and they need the moral energies of all their brethren combining with their own .
A large mass of society is yet uninformed , _ and can never be informed , upon Chartist subjects , until they , who do know them , send out missionaries , which they can never do individually : they mast , for this purpose , act together . I have endeavoured to point the attention of the people where I have come to this subject ; and to shew them the difference between the uses of Organization , and those of " agitation . " Each has its uses . Those of Organization are permanent ; while those of " agitation " cease when the people become enlightened and their opinion fixed .
I trust that I have not handled this subject vainly ; that the plan of Organization which is being adopted by the Conference at Birmingham , while I am writing , will receive , when it appears , all due and careful attention ; and , if sinv ple , efficient , and legal , as I hope it will be , that it will be at once universally adopted , and acted on . Scotland has no delegates at Birmingham ; but the Scotch are not therefore " apathetic" as to the labours of the Conference . They are looking to them with great snxiety , and will , i believe , heartily co-operate in any plan which may , in their opinion , have these three characteristics . Whether they do so or not I , do tru 6 t that they will at once see that Chartism shall have in every place not merely " life " but have
" A local habitation and a name , " a formal front and bearing which shall make them known , not merely to the friends of faction round them , but all oveb . I never saw Chartism more prosperous in any place than I think it to fee just now in Edinburgh and Leith . They are choice spirits ; the Chartists there ; and though comparatively few of them hold together ; though they have no regular place of meeting publicly in Edinburgh j and though they are the subjects of foul vituperation and petty annoyance by quondam . " leaders , " they are , almost to a man , intelligent , deep thinking , sober-headed , far-see ' ng , honest men . They are sound at tin core . They look to principle and to that only . They will natter no man's vanity , cor suffer themselves to be hoodwinked . They walk on their own feet and borrow no Btilts . They are . a sound , healthy , hearty , set of fellows , to whose warmest affections the best and only passport is honesty and truth .
To any Chartist friends who may visit Edinburgh I commend the Coffee House of Mr . Cranstoun , 128 , High-street , as an abiding place . It is the resort of the Chartist friends . They will find there the elite of Chartism for companionship ; and accommodations as comfortable , and charges as reasonable , as any man can wish . And , while upon this subjeot , I may say as much , and with great propriety , for the Odd Fellows' Arms , Queen-street , Aberdeen , kept by Mr . Bain : ; and the Temperance Coffee House , at Hamilton . I forget the Landlord's name , at Hamilton—he is a bookseller ; but at both these houses I found everything ia the way of comfort , civility , and kindness that any man could wish ; and I think it due to my English friends to tell them where they are to be had .
In Aberdeen the movement stands high . There are here two distinctbpdies ; the Church of which Mr . Lowery is pastor ; and the Democratic or Chartist Association , meeting in their own Hall . They both muBter pretty well for strength , and they work cordially together , There has been less ot " bickering" in Aberdeen than ia most other towns- A beautiful spirit of friendly fellow feeling seems to be now prevalent among them ; and , 1 pray God it may long continue . In Montrose a few gallant lads have determinedly made head against the storm , and under many difficulties still " man the ship" and keep her afloat .
In Dundee the Chnrch has kept Chartism alive . It has been long the only prominent form in ( Which it could be recognized . The Democratic yoancil — a few choice spirits — kept themselves together ; they kept up "Me'" in the thiag , to be sure ; bnt it was a disembodied spirit ; while the Church supplied to it flesh and bones , and sinews . Such is their condition now ; and I have great hope that this united spirit and body of Chartism will derive new strength from the pastor who has just gone from England to reside among them . The Yale of Leven is like situate . The spirit of Chartism is diffused throughout the whole population ; the Church is the form in which it appears , and the school IB the means of ensuriag its continuance and
progress . The pulpit and the school desk are ably occupied by Mr . Roberts . Of Glasgow , I may tell about the same story as of Dundee and of the Yale-There are a few fine fellows ; Moir , Cplquhoun , and a few others , who may perhaps be called non-Church Chartists ; not that they oppose the Church , or that they place themselves in conflict with itn leaders , and vituperate them for being " Church Chartists , " or " Bible Chartists / ' or " Temperance Chartists "; they have more sense . But they do not identify themselves with the Cffhrch ; they advocate Chartism separately and distinctly from it . fiat though these excellent men are " in themselves & host , " the strength and power of Chartism at Glasgow is in the three Chartist congregations of the
City , Gorbals , and Ander&ion . The O'Connellite Repealers muster very strong in Glasgow . It waa thought exceedingly desirable , if possible , to effect a junction between them and the Chartists : an effort was made for it at the end of my lecture , as 1 told you in my last letter . It failed ; and I advise that no more such efforts be made . Leave the O'Connellites alone . Let them go their own way . At public meetings , when " the Repeal" is the matter of discussion , give them your assistance by the assertion of your opinion on that question abstractedly and on its own merits , and independent of any other consideration . If they have the manly honesty to act similarly by ns , let us at public meetings receive their assistance cheerfully ; if they do not ; if they join with the " League" and with the enemies of freedom to suppress us , let us pity them : let our
warfare be merely defensive—never offensive—against men who are struggling for liberty . In no part of Scotland did I find Chartism more pleasing in its aspect than at Hamilton . Here in the midst of a very poor population—chiefly haiidloom weavers—I bad a Church full of as intelligent and honest looking faces as 1 ever saw . Temperance , intelligence , and industry—all the best qualities of individual character combine to give the Chartitis of this place the stamp of superiority . I was delighted with them . Campsie is a spirited little place , and there are some good men in it . Of the other place * whioh J visited , I have not much to particulars £ e ; I wa 3 well received by all of them ; and the general description above given of the " dead agitation" but tne lining principle of freedom may well enough describe all of them .
The thine most gratifying to my mind in the Scottish Cbarti 9 ts is the cool-bearing and discretion of ths people . They have very lilt e of the blind trustfulness of the Irish or of the hotheaded , unreasoning enthusiasm whioh characterizes many of the English ; and hence , though they have enough of dissension among " leaders , " the people do not let the cause be damaged ; they coolly kick the brawlers overboard . I have no doubt that when the news came of my separation from the Siar ^ and efmy difference with O'Connor , which induced it , the ecamps who live and feast upon disunion were in high glee . Io fact , 1 know they were . They thought * ' Now , we shall have a feast ! " The jackaia of faction were in like expectation ; and some of them attended my soirees
to * " look out . " At Glasgow , one of these eavesdroppers came big with expectation ; pencils , notebook , and all prepared , to make the most of the *• expose " ! Well , the " expose" came ; and the scamps tound that they had miscalculated ; they had mistaken their man ; they had nothing to feed on ; and the poor feilow gathered up his " traps "—pocketed his pencils and his books , and went away grumbling . " D d cautious spe « ch ; that ! " No ; do 3 The rogues will get no quarreJiing from me . I am no * in the habit of makiug the peoples' cause to beax every blow aimed only at my own head . Let my head take care of itselt "; and if 1 cannot keep it above water , I will not ask the knaves who are disappointed at my "D d cautious speech" to help me .
After I had left Edinburgh , on » y first going there to the soiree , » gentleman of some sort , who described his self as * a delegate to the Jate Conference at Birmingham , " pnt out great bills , announcing a lecture on " the tkeachehy of the late conductor of the Northern Star , & . o . " and invited diBCHS-6 ion . Some of my friends attended and civilly told him that they thought him no gentleman at all . Another gentleman , a friend of the firBt gentleman , spoke somewhat largely abont some mighty matters of accusation which he had in pickle , but which he would tell to nobody till lie shonld have me at a public meeting to answer theta . Some of my warmest friends advised me very btronaly not to notice the matter at all ; the more especially as no communication had been made to me by the parties , and I had no means bat cofotaon rumour of knowing that my name was
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being : thns : : » taken in vain . " However , I determined to set my foot upon the thing . I think no man stands so high tut to justify him in despising any other man as an enemy . I am desirou 3 not to make enennes , but to remove causes of enmity ; and hence I wrote to the party , and I suppose the result 01 the correspondence is to be a public meeting in Edinburgh ; in a few weeks time-when I can return thither , tor ; the purpose of calling me to acoount for fu * r ° / ray sayi ' n « 8 and doings while Editor of the Northern Star . And , though I do not think that anyot the ^ matters of complaint are at all fit subjects for public discussion , or such as any man has any right to require public answers to , beyond those which have Mxeady been given . I have no doubt that the
explanation I shall give will remove much misunderetandiBg . and therefore do good ; and it ia on this account solely , that I submit them ; and not merely for the purpose of gratifying the gentleman ' s pMsion for a djsplay of gladiatorship ; though I do not like to inflict disappointment upon any man if 1 can help it . I like , as far as I can , to " give to everyone that asks , " I Bhall return therefore to bcouand very shortly , when this gentleman shall be grattaed , and , I hope , satisfied , with my public explanations . At the same time I shall take an opportuni ty ¦ ofvisiting several places to which I was invited while there , but whieh I could not go to ; my routes being previously fixed , and my engagements at Hull compelling me to keep to the time .
I have already written more than I purposed , and perhaps as much as space can be afforded for ; I must therefore here conclude , and subscribe myself , ;
Your faithful friend and servant , _ ' - William Hill . Leeds , Thursday , Sept . 7 , 1843 . P . S . I will be thankful to as many of the genuine good men and true as choose to write to me now and then from any and every place , telling me "how things go . " I have not now the means of information which I formerly had from the correspondence of the Star ; but I phould still like to know "how matters no . " Let each man who writes to mo send his address , so ; that I may write again , if necessary . Any letter addressed for me at Hull will find me . Will Mitchell , of Stockport , send mo bis address ? W . H .
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Committal of a Notorious Prostitute . On Monday last , a Doted prostitute , named Amelia Kay , who has been on the town ever since she was about twelve years of age , was committed for trial by the magistrates at the Leeds Court House , on a charge of having robbed a man named James Carline , of two half-crowns . Tbo prosecutor said he was going along East-street , on Sundivy night , when he met the prisoner , who seized him round the waist ; he distinctly felt her hand in his pocket , and immediately missed his money , upon which he gave her into custody . She denied having any money at all about her , but on searching her two half-crowns were found in her bosom .
Juvenile Delinquency . —On Tuesday last , a precocious youth named James Smith , 14 years of age , was brought before Henry Hall , and Griffith Wright , Esqrs ., at the Leeds Court House , charged with a criminal assault on two little girls of the respective ages of eight and six years . The little rascaJ was caught with the children in afield , and the offence was so clearly proved that the magistrates Sued him £ 5 , and in default of payment sent him for two months to Wakefileld . Odd Fellows Funeral . —The members of the Earl of Durham Lodge , No . 405 , of the Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows , held at the house of Mr . Broughton , Bay Horse Inn , Briggafce , Leeds , accompanied b y the District Officers , and other visitors amounting to nearly 500 members , walked in procession on Sunday last to tho Cemetery , the officers of
the Lodge carrying splendid gold and silver regalia , for the purpose of paying their last tribute of respect to the mortal remains of their : lamented Brother , P . Y . G . Robert Hunt , who has been many years a sincere advocate of the cause of Odd-Fellowship , and in whom the members of hie Lodge placed the most unbounded confidence for honesty and integrity Robbery . —On Saturday night , last , & man of the name of Isaac Bradshaw , residing at , New Wortloy , near Leeds , who proonrod a livelihood by hawking blacking , and other articles , was returning home about eleven o ' clock ; when about half-way butwixt Newton Bar , aad the Smith's Arms , on theGelderd Road , he was stopped by four men , and robbed of his watch and 18 s . ia money . The villains so illtreated the poor man , by beating him * that he lies in a very precarious state .
Fatal Accid , eht from Machinery . —On Friday , an accident , in which two persons lost their lives , occurred at Holling ' a Mill , near Sowerby Bridge . A woman was ia a room employed sorting rags , and an upright shaft which connected the machinery in the rooms below and above , passed through it . A little girl of the name of Bates was sent an errand into the mill , and she , from curiosity , went to see the woman sort rags . No one being in the room but the two parties , what transpired afterwards
must of course be conjecture , but from the position in which they were found , the probability is that the girl's clothes had , by some means or other , got entangled by the shaft , and that the woman , in endeavouring to release her , got entangled also , and wheu they were , round both of them were quite dead , the girl folded fast in the woman ' s arms . An inquest was held on the bodieu at tho Friendly Inn , ou Monday , and a verdict of u Accidental Death" returned , with a deodand of £ 5 upon the shaft . Wo understand that this is the first fatal
accident at Holling b Mill , which , until June last , baa been run more than half a century by Messrs . S . and J . Waterhouee , and thai the parties who have taken the mill had a box making for the shaft whioh has hurried two feljow creatures so suddenly into tho presence of their Maker . Fire . —About six o ' clock on Sunday evening a fire broke out ia a small room in a mill situate at Chapel Hill , HuddersfieW , occupied by Mr . Bannister , and formerly occupied as a wood turner ' s shop . It was speedily extinguished by the populace , who assembled in great numbers , and lent every assistance in their power . The fire originated in consequence of the diversion of the old flue into a new one which bad just been built , and the flue beiug left open on Saturday uinht ignited the boards immediately above it . The damage done is very trifling , but had the fire happened a few hours later , in all probability the whole mill would have been destroyed
. Suicide—Qa Saturday night or early on Sunday morning last , ft man named Francis Mason , by trade a butcher , and well known in Bradford , committed suicide in a cell at the Court House , by strangling himself . He fad been found in the street drunk , and was locked up by the Dolica . Tho Coroner ' s Jury considering thai he was insane at the time , returned a verdict of "Strangled himself while temporarily deranged . " He was sixty years of age . Seizure of Meat . —On Saturday morning , the
constables of Bradford got information that some bad meat wasiu the town , and in consequence Mr . In ^ ham went to the shop of Mr . Thomas Jackson , in the market , and there feizjd a quarter of a carcass . He then proceeded to a house in New Leeds , and in a chamber there found a quantity more . On their return they searched Jackson ' s house , in George street , and there lound nearly another quarter , in an upstairs room . Ail the meat was handed over to a jury of butchers , whe condemned it , and it was sent to the Gas-house to be command .
An Expert Thiif . —A man named John Ibbetson , was taken betore the Halifax maMisirates , last week , upon numerous charges ot * robbery . The prisoner has been in the habit , as appeared from the evidence adduced , of frequenting publio nouses in the neighbourhood of Halifax , lur several weeks past , and when opportunity off . red , of makiug off with whatever he could lay hold on , such as copper kettles , brass pane , irons , wearing apparel , spoons , &c . Though many oases might hire ueen proved against him , n was deemed sufficient to take two of the more recent ones , on both of which , he was committed for trial at the ensuing sessions .
Coach Accidents — On Wednesday afternoon , as one of the Leeds coaches was on its way to Bradford , when opposite the Sun luu , at Sui > ningly , it ran into a phaeton , in which was Mr . Haigh , of the Bottoms , Halifax , and another ^ gentleman , and injured it so severely that it will require extensive repairs before it can be travelled in agaiu . The coach was also nearly upset , and the horses taking fright at the time , aii things seemed unpropitious , but , fortunately ^ with the assictauce of the inhabitants of the town , further miac ' iief was prevented . Several of ihe passengers got off , and refused to proceedlurther on the coach , and waited until anotfier coach cjme up . The coachmau alleged that Mr . H . was on the wrong side the road , while that
gentleman bl&uied the- coachman , and said he was driving so fast that it wa 3 impo > s . blo to get out of the way —Last Tuesday , as oue 0 ' the coaches was going past Northowram , a boy of the name of Barrett got up behind to ride , and when gctiiug down his trowsers caught hold of some part of the coach , and da sttetchiog out his leg > & got it loose , it became entangled in the wheel , and was broken . He might have been killed had uot one of the pas senders seen his perilous situation , and called out to the coachman to stop ; he palled up immediately , aud no further injury was done . The boy is recovering . Such an accident , and so narrow an escape from death , ought to be a warning both to himself and others , against the practice of riding behind coaches .
Advance or Wages . —On Saturday last Messrs . Craven and Harrop , manufacturers , Thornton , advanced tbte wages of their hand-loom weavers 6 d . per cut . on some sorts , and 3 d . on ethers . Many of their weavers reside in Clayton , and as soon aa the workmen received the advance , they made the case known in their locality . It soon got to the ears of Mr . J . Tempest , manufacturer , Clayton Height 9 , aud he advanced 3 d . per cut .
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Wages . —Two meetings have been holden in Barnsley within the last fortnight relative to a dispute concerning wag ^ s with a newly established firm , Messrs . Norris , Brady , and Co . The first meeting was held on Tuesday , the 29 . h ult ., F . Mirfield in the chair , when the following resolutions were unanimously approved of : — "That it is tfee opinion of this meeting that , in a town like Barnsley , depending entirely on linon manufacturers , it is the true interest of both masters and workmen that a uniform rate of wages should be paid by all manufacturers engaged in making that fabric ; and this meeting pledges itself to use its utmost endeavours to maintain the present ; rate of wages , as contained in the manufacturers' arranged list . " — " That this
meeting having learned with regret that Messrs . Narris , Brady , and Co . | have paid a less rate of wages for certaia kinds ] of work than the rest ot the manufacturers in Barnsley are at this time paying , this meeting is of opinion that it is an unju .-t and cruel attack upon the wages of the poor weaver , and ought to be resisted by every lawful aad available means . "— " That every weaver employed by the above firm do give up their work as their pieces are finished , and withhold their labours until such time as they will pay according to the priated list . "' The meeting then adjourned to Monday the 4 th inst , at which time they again assembled on Mayday Green as before . Mr . Mirfield opened the business of of the meeting intimating that there was a
probability of some men employed by the firm in question refusing to give up their { work , and he , along with the committee , was afraid to an extent which might prove injurious to arriving at a successful issue , in the result of the strike . J . Shaw , J . Grimshaw , and others followed on in the same strain , and recommended the meeting to reconsider , aud only strike the mea who were under-fpaid . To this the meeting seemed unwilling , fearing that it would at no remote period lead to greater encroachments . The meeting was then addressed by R . Garbutt and John Harper , who areued at some leagth ; he
necessity ef more strenuous' exertions , and the more especially as some respectable houses had already declared a reduction of wages would be of no benefit to the trade ; but that should Messrs . Norris be allowed to pay under the general list , they should bo compelled to lower in tho same ratio , aud thus the list of prices would ; be virtually destroyed ; a circumstance that would prove perplexing to the masters and injurious to the mea . It was then agreed to increase tho number of the committee from five to twelve , and grant them additional powers in order that all may be done that is possible to secure justice to one and to all ..
Boy Dbowned . —On Sunday afternoon last , as two boys were playing in some empty boats lying at the coal wharf on the Rochdale Canal , Manchester , one of them observed something floating on the water , which was soon recognised to be the body of a boy . Information was given to some boatmen who were near , and after a short timo the body was taken out ; and , from the decomposed state in whioh it was found , it could not have been in the water less than three or four days . The same afternoon it was identified as the body of a boy named James Hibbert , aged six years , who had left home a day or two previous 1 the last time he Was seen alive was near the aqueduot on the canal . An inquest was held on the body on Monday , before Mr . Chapman , borough coroner ; and , after hearing the above statement , the Jury returned a . verdict of " Foaud drowned . "
A CmtD s Ear Bit ; off bv a Pig . —Matthew Brady ^ and his wife Catherine , two genuine specimens of the rougher portion of the Irish peasantry , were brought up at the borough court , Bolton , on Saturday last , for an assault upon Elizabeth Clayton . It appeared that the Bradys live at Newtown , and , after the fashion of their country , keep a pig " to help them a bit in the winter time . " At night , the Animal is accommodated with Judging under the same roof as its master , and in the day time it is turned out to ramble ia the neighbourhood . Now , it appears that this pig had acquired a peculiar antipathy to children , and bad bitten nearly every child in the street ; and when boy of their parents
complained , Pat very coolly told them to keep their children in the house ! Thus matters stood , the Bradys and their pig being the terror of the neighbourhood , when Mrs . Clayton ' s child was seized by the animal and thrown , into the channel , and the savage brute bit off part of its ear before it could bo extricated . The mother , alarmod for the safety of her child , ran out with a hammer , and threatened to kill the pig ; wheu Brady came up , sn&tohed the hammer from her , and knocked her down . —Mr . Harris said , he had had several complaints from parties whose children had been bitten by this pig . —The defendants made a terrible uproar in the court ; aad Mrs Clayton being afraid oft farther annoyance , they were required to find sureties to keep the peace and
pay exponcea . . Deficient Weights and Scales . —At the Bury petty sesdions , on Friday last , Mr John Warburton , inspector of weights and ] measures , summoned ( he following persons , who ^ yere convicted ia the snms named : —John Wood , Rook-street , Bury , a pair of small soales for weighing sugar , a quarter of an ounce deficient , caused by having a piece of lead hung on one of the scales ; Georga Moscrop , grocer , Old Market Place , Bury , Small sugar scales a quarter cf an ounce against the buyer , caused by having paper concealed under oue end of the scales . Mr . Thomas Grundy , solicitor , ! appeared for the defendants , on the grounds that the profits on sugar were so small that the grocers were obliged to use the
above , or similar moans , to recompense them for tho paper which they used to wrap the sugar in ; and that an inspector had no right to seizo any scales on any pretence whatever , not even if he found them deficient . He then called Mr . Andrews , the late deputy-constable , who stated , that it had been common for tbo last twenty years for grocers to wci ^ h the paper with sugar , or to haro the paper under the scales . —Mr . Warburton , the inspector , contended , that if persons must be allowed to put their scales out of balance , either with paper or lead , there would be no safety ); and , according 10 the 28 th section of the 5 th and 6 ch William IV . the parties so doing were liable to a penalty of £ 5 — The magistrates said , they could not sanction the parties having the scales ! wrong on any grounds whatever ; and , if the profits on sugar were bo small
that the grocers could not jdeal honestly , thoy had the same power to raise the price of the article as they had to reduce it . Mri Wood was convicted in the penalty of 20 s ., and Mt . Moscrop 5 s . and coats , —Henry Barnes , Pits-o-th ' -Moor , for having scales similar to the above , was fined 63 . and costs . Alice Yat 8 s , green-grocer , Huntley Brook , for one illegal lead weight , a quarter of an ounce deficient ; , dismissed with a caution to mind better in future . Lamber Walkden , green grocer , Free Town , for a four-pound weight three quarters of an ounce , and a one pound a quarter of an ounce deficient : ordered to pay costs . William Barnes , beer-seller and green grocer , for one four-pound weight half an ounce deficient , and two half ' -poundj weights nearly a quarter of an ounce each deficient ; dismissed on forfeiting the weights . j
Seizure of Apples , Onions , &c . in Bolton Market . —On Saturday last , complaint having been made to Mr . Fogg , inspector , by a party who had bought two baskets of apples considerably under weight , he went round the ! market and weighed ali the appleB , pears , onions , & . ? ., that were put up for sale , and a considerable quantity was seized as under weight . Two or three of the parties appeared before the Mayor , at the Borough ! Court , with various excuses , but the property was declared forfeited . Leavijs-g Wobk without , Notice . —James Rudd was charged before the magistrates of Wi ^ an , on Friday last , with leaving the employment of Messrs . Johnson and Ainsvvroth , without giving the notice required in his agreement . ! This was tho second
charge of the above nature ] pr < ferred by the complainants in the coarse of the week . They said , in consequence of a number of hands having absented themselvrs without a moment ' s notice , they were constrained to make an example . The bench discharged the defendant , on condition that he returned to his work , and ordered him to pay the expences . Serious Assault . —At the ) Borough Court , Stockport , on Saturday , a young man , named Joseph Bibby , was charged with having committed a most serious assault , upon Arthur ] Sheridan , by striking him on the head with a hammer , and thereby fracturing his skull , and placing his life in jeopardy . Mr . Hudson ,, solicitor , appeared for the prosecution , and Mr . W . Vaughan for tho defence . It appeared
from the statement of Mr . Hudson , and the evidence of a number of witnesses , that on Friday , the 18 h August , the prosecutor and prisoner were engaued in repairing the mill formerly occupied by Mr . Cephas Howard , near Portwood Bridge , which has for some years been untenanted . At the end of the day ' s work , several of the mea assembled in the warehouse , and began to dispute about a clock which had been clandestinely taken from the engine-house ; and the prosecutor stating that he had seen the case in a room of whioh the prisoner had the charge , the prisoner ) called him a liar , and said if he repeated the assertion , he would knock his bloody Irish brains out . 1 Prosecutor repeated the statement , when the prisoner struck him on the face with his left hand , and immediately afterwards
struok him a violent blow on the left , temple with a hammer 2 b . 3 jZ . in weight . I The blow inflicted a contused wound aa inch long ^ causing a depression of the skull , and the displacement of the temporal bone so much as to allow a little finger to pass vuthin the skull . The prosecutor has been an inmate of the Stockport Infirmary einca the occur renoe , and is not yet considered out of danger . Prisoner was apprehended this night of the occurrence ; and , after being kept in custody a week , was admitted to bail to appear when called apon—The magistr » £ es , having heardUhe facts of the case , committed the prisoner to take his trial on the charge at the next Chester jassizes . —Application was made for his liberation on bail , till tUe assues , but u was refused . i
Calico Pbinters , Kilmabnock . —The briskness still continues , and every manufacturer io town ia fully empUyed .- Kxlmurnotk Journal . Calico Pbinters , Kilmabnock . —The briskness still continues , and every manufacturer io town is fully empUyed .- Kxlmurnotk Journal .
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Illegal Appropriation of Upwards op £ 900 . — A good-looking youth , about seventeen years of age , named George Highfield Morton , was , on Satorsisy last , placed before Mr . Rushton , at the Police Court , Liverpool , on a charge of having gone r-Sf with £ 909 7 s . of his employers' monev . Police constable Kehoo stated , that , from information whiol ? he had received , he proceeded , on Thursday after noon , to Chester , in search of the prisoner ; and r ,. Friday morning found him at the shop of M's . De Silva , in Watergate-street , in that town , who keeoa a genteel lodging-house . In the handbills , the prisoner had been described as having the initials of his name marked in Indian ink on the left hand , be . wean the joints of his fing ? r and thumb ; aad the
witness , on apprehending him , found his hand bleeding , from an attempt to obliterate the first letter . He brought him back to Liverpool . Th < 5 prisoner was remanded . On Monday ho wan aami brought up ; and Constable Kehoe further deposed , that , on Saturday afternoon , he was informed that ho was wanted at the bridewell . He went there , and saw the prisoner , who said , " I am goiog to Chester with , you , to show you where the money U . We' shall have to go beyond the bridge , to the other side of the Dee , and the money will be fonnd in a hedge . Witness said , thai they accordingly went together to Chester that day ; and , after passing the bridge , the prisoner , about six o'clock in the evening , pointed out to him , at the bottom of a hedge , or
fence , a hole ; and , on searching in it , witness found a bag , in which there was a pocket-book , In the book he found eight £ 100 notes , one £ 50 note , seven £ 10- notes , three £ 20 notes , and five sovereigns ; . making in all £ 905 . The prisoner , who wore a new suit of clothes , similar to those of a gentcd apprentice in the merchant seaman's service , told witness , that he had purchased them in OldhaH-street , Paradise-street , and other things at other phces in the = town , which accounts for the residue of tho money . The prisoner , on being asked for his defence , with the usual caution , declined to say any thing . He was committed for trial . The prisoner was in the service of Messrs . Musgrave and Vance , ootton-brokers , Exchange Buildings . —Liverpool paper .
The Force of Conscience . —Oa Monday morning last , a man , who stated his name to bo Moses Wood surrendered himself to the police , at Manchester , stating that he wa 3 a deserter from the - Sikh Regiment . He was brought before the magistrates on Tuesday , at the Town Hall , and still persisted in the statement , and said that about twelve months ago he had been apprehended for being a deserter , but there being no proof of his desertiou in the depot whither he was tak'D , he had been discharged . Mr . Maude then told him the serious consequences of any one , without cau ^ e , giving himself up as a deserter ; to which the prisoner replied , " I wiih I could say I was free . " It was his conscience , h- ; said that made him uneasy , and give himsf If up . Orders were given for inquiries to be made into the truth of the above statement , and a communication to be addressed to the War office .
Ireland— Anti-Rent War . — " On Sunday last , " says the Carlow Sentinel , " about 2 i ) 0 persons , men and women , principally strangers , from tho county of Wexford , assembled on the farm of Patrick Marphy , of Bally lean , ' near Ballon , in this county , and cut down and carried away upwards of ten acres of o * ts . The crop was not under seizure , and the object of cutting down and carrying away the corn on Sunday is supposed to be for the purpose of evading a distTeas for rent , which it is said Murphy expected on the following day . The Ballon police were present and identified some of the parties , bat could not interfere ,-Murphy's daughter having stated that it was cut down with her father ' s consent . "
Murder op an Infant by its Mother . —It ar >* pears by a report of a coroner ' s inquest in the Cork papers , that Mary Hill , an unmarried woman , was delivered of aa infant last week , and that she threw it immediately after it was born into a deep well at the rero of the premises of the house in which she was at service . This inhuman parent confessed that the child was born alive , and that she threw it into the well to prevent exposure and detection . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder . Two Mew Suffocates . —On Thursday week , as two men , of the names of John Dawson , of Hampsthwaite , plumber , &c , and Wm . Habjshaw ,
mechanic , were employed by J . Greenwood , Esq ., of Wreaks , near Ripley , Yorkshire , in descending a well for the purpose of putting down a pump , they incautiously descended without adopting the usual method of testing the purity of the air , and consequently both fell victims to their imprudence . Dawson first commenced the descent , aud was soon followed by Habishaw , and they had not gone more thtin five or six yards before they were unable to retura , by inhaling the carbonic acid gas , when they both fell suddenly to the bottom , a distance of fourteen or fifteen yards , and were taken out quite dead .
Important Disco very . —Imperishable Bread . — Wednesday we were present in the Mayor ' s private room , at the Town Hall , Liverpool , during the opening of a box of bread which was packed ' at Rio de Janeiro , nearly two years ago , and which proved as sound , sweet , and in all respeots as good as on ths day whan it was enclosed . It appears that , as regards the staff of life , at least that sort thereof required for ship or oiher stores whioh it is desirable to keep a long time , we shall have no reason in future to speak of the bread that perisheth , " seeing tha * Mr . Gilbert , Claude Alaird , a Frenchman , has discovered a mode of making biscuits , on which time
effects no deterioration . This bread is manufactured of a mixture , in certaia proportions , of rice , meal , and wheat flyur , and it has other important advantages in addition to that very material one already named . For instance , the coarsest quality of flaur may be used , and will produce bread uot inferior to that made of the finest description of fl . iur by the ordinary meih p d . It is also , we are informed , extremel y nutritious very beneficial to the system , and a certain antiscorbutic . Ik is asserted by M . AJzard , that the bread would keep two centuries without the slightest alteration . The discoverer of the process has secured the right to manu f acture it in this country by patent . —Gore's Advertiser .
Liverpool , Iuesdai Evening—The steam-ship Caledonia , which nailed this evenii shortly after six o ' clock , carries out eighty-five pa 8 sev . « jr 8 , amongst them Mr . Macready , the actor , Mr . Edward Gibbon Wakefleld , aa American manager , and others connected with the theatrical profession . The arrivals to-day have been confined to a few vessels from Dm ' z ' c aud Smyrna . No arrivals from the United States . The incoming packet of the 19 th is anxiously looked for , though nothing baa transpired respecting her whereabouts . The winds have bet-n favourable for her of late , but light , and , as she has new been out upwards of seventeen days , she may be looked for daily . The present state of the cotton market , which is still very firm ,
though the sales have only reached 6 M 00 tales to-day , is one of the primary causes why intelligence from the other side of tne Atlantic excites , at the present moment , so much interest . Seizure op a Manufactory of SPURrocs Tea . —From the Dumber of crises of retailers of spurious tea that have lately come before her Majesty ' s Court of Excise , and in which eonviciions of the parties in large penalties have invariably followed , the officers have been strictly on the alert to endeavour to bring the wholesale producers or manufacturers to justice , especially aa the poorer classes are , in most instances , tha purchasers of this trash , to the injury of their health and the loss of the revenue From information
received , Meaera Spurgin and Bowlanriaon , supervisors of excise , proceeded to prevniseB ia Anchor Yaid , Oi'lstreet , St . Luke ' s , where , after some troublo , they succeeded in obtaining an entrance . On going into the " tnanufactery" they found it fitted up with , large stoves , pans for drying , plates for the oual process of drying , colouring matter , and drugs , besides a large qujqtity of tea , ' black and gieen , ready for sending out , wich eorne only in progress from black to green , — the whole amounting to nearly a ton in weight The place v / as fitted up in the moat extensive manner , suitable for carrying oaa large trade , as was evinced by the
large sz * of the stoves , and the stock of coke found upon the . premises . The whole stock of " tea" consisted of spent leaves , re-dried and coloured toj-epresent black or green , according to the demand . The apparatus appeared to have been recently used , bnt no person was fonnd upon tfee premises ; they havini ? , it was supposed , made their escape during the entry of the officers . A van having been procured , the whole was conveyed to the chief office of the Board of Excise , in Bread-street , wbere the circumstances will bB adjudicated upon by her Majesty ' s Commissioners . —London Paper .
the Queen ' s Visit to France—Among the numberless questions to which her Majesty ' s visit to the Continent baa given -rise , not a taw bive been mooted respecting the supposed incapacity of the Qu « ea to leave her Bdtish dominions without the sanction of an express act of Parliament . Some persona ( apon what grounds it is difficult to conjecture ) have maintained that the Prince of Wales , and not her Majesty , is the person affected by thin restriction . I a order , therefore * to remove all doubt upon the subject , it is right to mention that the third clause in the Aet « f Sattkment , which , enacted " that no person who shall hereafter come to the possession of this Crown shall go out of tba dominions of England , Scotland , or Ireland , without consent of Parliament , " was repealed vexf soon afterwards , in the first * year of G < sor « e I . ( 1 st George I . c . 31 ) , " whose frequent joarneye to Hanover , " says Mr . Hallam . " were aa ubust . of the graciousness with which the Parliament consented to annul the restriction . " . ,
Reduction of Rewt jn Wales . — Earl of Cawdor baa announced that he will deduct 20 per cesfc . out of his last Lady Day ' s rents , to thoBe tenants , who pay fall ' rests , bat not to the valBabJe | jJ ^^ fe *» te ^ His lordship , we are informed , deairdM y ^ Mrn ^ ri ^ r ^ y the Golden Grove estate to' come to bAg&ktffi&ytgy . V 3 attention to ail that was said by thenjE ^^ tewl ^ NS / - ^ Q told them , that a reduction £ 0 toe amo ^ fijW £ « WR ptttfe * fJ ¦« £ be made . Under similar clrcumstance ^ apg ^ KffJSIWSiSr * i * T most be adopted by others . -Mr . Cfa aw ^* r * f 7 ^ 8 P ^ j W ? t intends to return to the agrfciUtara ^ tirtfc ^ gZKtf ^^ M , cent ost of their rent * at his next ^ Wj |^ 3 || j / MS iloyd , Brynog , Cardiganshire , at b igj&i ( m ! BaHacL "S allowed all his tenants andleaaehol 0 etM ^ S ^ WES \ - :: B- and 5 per cent— Welshman . * \ jNj- »^ « P
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct498/page/5/
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