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      MAVO 82 &TS& . 3 " 3 E NATIONAL HOLIDAY DISTURB--AtfCES—ATTACK OF THE KEW POLICE ON THE PEOPLE—TWO POLICEMEN STABBED —EXAMINATION AND COMUITTAL OF THE LEADERS . On Honi&r last , a conriderabre wamber of perterns assembled &t an early hour in the morning , and -ptfftdei in procemon , with flajr * , banner * , < fcc , ttnmgh the principal streets . This circumstance waa no « ooB 8 i known to the new police ( who are defeated in the town ) than the head constable , ^ Berwick , wjtb a strong force of his bl » dgeoo men , meccmpanied by a formidable e § ccrt of the military , ¦ aBwd forth , and made a most -wanton and ronoB . s attack on tie unoffending » f eple , taking possession

      • f their flags and tanners , * nd beating some of them most gererely . Tfie leader , wb > carried the £ r * t iMmner , a standard , on which wu the cap of liberty , fought most bravely , but waa overpowered by nnmfeers , and taken into custody . The military and the police , with their cntl&sse * , paraded the town 4 unng the greater portion of the day ; and it it aeediess to say that their presence and their conduct leaded greatly to exasperate the excited populace . Daring the day several conflicts took place between * Le people and the psHce , at which the lormer were worsted , asd several of them taken prisosers . On i « occasion the prisoner ' s van , containing twentytwo prisoners , was upset , and a great number of thorn were enabled to effect their escape . la th «

      •• dy part of the morning , a number of persons went iscnd to the miJs , and turned the hands out—tkii ¦ was carried on to some extent and saecea in the neighbourhood of Gothome , and th « police falling oddenly on the people , a conflict took place , in which one policeman wpg stabbed in several parts of kit body , and is now lying at the Infirmary in a dangerous state . On the same morning a policeman was stabbed in Xiale Lever-street . Doring the day , a report leached town that 60 , 000 men were on their march from Athlon , " but subsequent accounts us form us . ¦ that thef were intercepted by the military and 'tamed back . It is said in Manchester that there hau been some roagh work , al A 3 b . t 0 n . ~ and that a deputy constable has been killed , la the course of .

      Jdondaj , the military withdrew , aad at sight a large concourse of people assembled in Ancoat * -street , a * err densely populated part of the- town , and at the end of wtich is a cotton mill , at the present mosaent Tised-as & temporary barrack * . Towards insk , it became eridecrt that the military were about " nV ^ y another display , acd a cry wu set up to JBftet at the Reservoir , abost half a mile from the town . Tbither the crowd wended * heir way , and bout 30 , QM people were soon collfcted together . A . oamber of persons still remained in Ancoatg-» treet . At "in * o ' clock , it waa currantly reported skat several mills wonld be set fire to in the course of the - night , and the troops were immediately rdered out under Col . "Wemyss , and detachmen t *

      • were statioBPd at different parts of the town during ibsxagbt The examinatiofi * of the prisoners took jlace os Monday and Tuesday . ilosDjY . —At the Burocgh Court , Beswick , the ie » d constable , said that at half- past fire o ' clock , he received informatisn that a nnntber of persons were - # oing from *»» ^ to rmH and turning out the hands at . « otk ; in . cooseqtieDce he took "wiiJi Mxa abvnt KXtyof rha police force , aad in approaching ifr , littsay ' s Tn'P , he saw about 200 men , headed by tfee prison *» Wiliiaju Barker and Frederick Davidson ; he heard the prisoners demand the doors to he opened , or tkey w jcld break them open . They saoceeded in taking tke prisoners into custody . JJorker fought desperately and stabbed a policeman « e feral tittes with the dagger ha produced . The -policeman was lying in a dangerous state at the

      -Jniirznarj . ( The digger wu then shown in Court . Jti » about 16 inchealoag , has an iron handle and aba formidable weapop . ) Beswick —« id that policejub M'M alien was struck at seTeral times with a jsaaHar dagger , but the blows were parried off . A woman , whose name did not transpire , came fcrward to state that Mr . Shotty '» mSL , sear to Mr . Muary s had l » eea visited shortly before , and the parties required that the engine should stop . The Eagme ; r deposed that a great number of ¦ people came to the mill , and demanded that the « itgzae should stop . He asked them to ( top till Mr . Shotty came , but they insisted that the engine shonl i t ± of > * n d r + " > men tamed out . Me iksu stopped the atpne , and the people damVexdd over the vails is to ~ Mi . Massey ' a yard . He did sot see either oftae vrisooerg among them .

      Mr . Higginbottom was next sworn . He raid he was manager at Mr . Manden ' s mill . Abov . sii 'dock in the morning he saw a great cumber of people coming from the Albion mill . Thf y came sp to him » "g said they wanted the engine to stop , ¦ sd they would have the hands out . Soon after tihea the police came up . He did not stop the TlfTTt ° . Mr . Maude— Were yon . stabbed ai all lfMoiles ? M'Mollea—^ No Sir , but aereral blows were aimed at Be with a dagger . Barker was then committed to take his trial at the Liverpool Asfizet—tha magistrate * stating that Ju stood charged with a capital crime . FURIOUS ATTACK ON THE PEOPLE , b A working man named John Helmet was next

      put op . Berwick ttated that about WTen o ' clock in tie morning he was informed that a procession was walking tbroBgh the streets . He went with a strong Ibody of police , and accompanied by the military to JLaeo&ts-lane where he found 1 , 000 people marching ¦ with banners and flags , and headed By the prisoner , who had a flag , on which was inscribed— " The earth is the right of man ; he that does not work ooght not to e » t ; " and on the top of the flag was fbe cap of liberty . After a desperate struggle , they took the flag and tie prisoner into enstody , and Aspersed the crowd . Piitols were fired on the •• ceasion . The prisoner said they bad only been to "fiw or six mills . He was committed to Liverpool Asdzes . The prisoner said that > hs flag wagput lnlo laa hsais to carry , and tke ctkss was remanded til ] the following day .

      STABBING A POLICEMAN . JL man named Lockray was charged with stab-¦ fcing a policeman in an encounter in Little Leverstreet . It appeared that policeman Ta . ck . aley and aoother were endeaTonring to take him , when he tabbed the former in the belly and ribs . Inspector Xipset came np atthstime , aad Tackerley cried oat , "Oh my God , be hi ? stabbed me twice . " He -m t&kan to the Infirmary , and the prisoner was scared . The weapon which the prisoner used wa » similar lo a shoemaker ' s knife , and the rargeon from the Infirmary niid that if tbe ribs had not resisted the iastrumeat , the woand would hate been morUL He was committed to take bis triaL

      SEIZURE OF FIRE-ARMS . Tbree raen Burned Harvey , Fliilen , and Leech -were ch vged with haying three gvnj in their posjet man . The case was remanded .

      TTHIG ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE . — THE RIOTS ON MONDAY * N ANCOaTSSTREET , &c At die Boroogh Conrt , on Taeaday last , Gtarge Jtooth and Mary Holme * were charged with being concerned in the dutarbancei on the preceding day . There was no subitandal evidence to rapport the ¦ fctr&Li , > "gfe * y respectable witsesses were callwi , ftaH was taadaed , and the parties wen liberated . Wirt Grindy and Corneliiu M Kirk were charged with attacking ths police . M'Kirk was committed to the Sessions , and Grindy ordered to find oredea .

      Edvmrd TVrighi , John TaUlener , Peter HeUerU aad John Hardg were charged by Io 5 pectorS » ph . enmb witk attacking the police . He said he received instructions from the magistrates , at tsrelva o ' clock , t » proceed with a body of police to Kennedy ' * M 31 , which was being a ' ttacked by the mob . He ¦ went with sixty men . asd on arririnr near the place , &e foaud thousands of people collectad together , and the police were obliged to iight their way through , the crowd , who hissed aad pelted them with sc » Be § . Hardy was one ef the fonmatt . Another poaeeman spoke to Hebbert thrawiag stones . A third policeman ipoke to Tabblener knocking bis wito

      sat oQ , a noe , ana cutting his head ; and othei poKeemen sword to the others . Tbe Mayor—What hare you got to say , Hardj ? Hardy—I dii not leai the mob on ; but was going peacaably to my work . Tabbleten denied haring struck the policeman with a hoe . He said he had beea Qi the lait tweJre months , and not able to do any work . A highly respectable taaa named Benson , a ¦ travell&r , cams forward to speak for Wright . He « aid he was staaiing near him when he was seized . aad 1 m was doing notkiag at the time . Mr . Maude—Then what caused the police to iater ^ re ?

      Witness—That I don ' t know . The crowd shouted aad hwssd , aad there were * ome stones thrown , but * et by tfee prisoner Wright . Mr . Smith ( a Magistrate )—Did yoa see hi ™ all &i time ? Witnes *—Ye « , all the time I was there . Mr . Smith—fVhy there i * evidence to prove that he teas throwing stonet ! ! This sapient Magistrate , Smith , whe sesm « dtaroos of crimiaating at all time ; , did not sneeer d in thia in < Dance , lor chs Mayor cried ' SO ' NO ! rmd aS ths other worthies oa the bench responded > TO . ' HO ! there U no such evidence ! I , ' Tfee M * jor—Will yon srear that he wa » not taking an actire part ? Wl »* ss —/ mil twear thai he u-a * not .

      The Mayor— fVe tee no reason whatever to alter « wr determination to fine Wright £ 2 , tr to be rwmimned ' or tun month * .

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      Hardy wan ordered >« tfiati two surettw in £ 10 «« tck ; ' labblerer and tbeothers were ot € ered to do itia ! im » . ESBP ?^ David Be&trit , / ftlHb * BesincA-. John Fatrorother , asd A / 'i « foi /» , weTe c \; Wgf d viih & sSmi \ aT offence , and tbe evidence « u « qnally nncondBBive . Tbes ? orisoner * aoved ia a respectable sphere of life . Witresgf s came forward , but the Win * M « gis ^ at « 8 ntber fined them , or ordered them to find scretieB to keep the peac « . All the dedsioo * g * re great dis ^ atisfactjon . At tbe New Bailey on Tuesday , a man was charged with having a qsantity of bullets , gunpowder , and ball cartridge in his possession , and was remanded .

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      PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE CHARTISTS . The Chartists are gaining immense strength , not from numbers , tad certainly not from riolence , but frota the justice of their cause , and from the exewme absurditiet and injustice on the part of . thair enemies . The trials will be of great u * e to the Chartist cause . The members of the body ^ that nrypd rioleccp , and the comaistion of all crimes , skulk out of the crisb , and leave th » honest men to suffer . The proceedings of the public fonctioDsries are exceedingly disgraceful . At Manchester , for instance , Use men are arreuted , and in the most offenard way possible . They are taken out of their beds at four o ' clock in the morning , torn from their families , and treated shameful . y , when there i » not a single p ' . ea for ruca proceedings . For example , with respect to the fire men to whom-we allude . I t IB

      said that Tariooa papers and one gun were found amongst them . Is this a reason for thus violating the liberty of the subject ? The subsequent charges are , that the ^ men attended large and rnmulrooas meetings , and wed language calculated to excite the people to disaffection . There is no offence in this : we should rather say it is a cue of merit . Every man u bound to excite an xnach disaffection as he possibly can against the present ayttem of representadoa , and it must be a dwloyai snbject , a bad parent , and an an worthy individual , who dees not strive to create such disaffection to the Tery utmost in his power . Another charge if , that the partiet excited people to procure anas . There is nothing illegal is this—ere > 7 Englishman hasalegal right to possess arms—and to arrest and confine a

      man fer having advised his ntighbour to do so , is as unlawful a ? to hang a man for having told his neighbour to provide himself with a qnarte rn loaf . To this scandalous maltreatment ot the ChartWtB wo hare a few addenda , at once distressing and amusing . We are told that the Mayor thus addieratd the prisoners , for they were of coarse to be prisoners , wheiber ( hat crjred against them were true or false , criminal or not Therewa * apredetennination to commit them : * Mr . Mwde * 44 r «»< 4 tks priwoera atcofctidarable length on tii » foil / of the eooraa which they were inciting the ¦ people to adopt , aad which , he p baerred , would end id the utter ruin of tho » e wio WloweS either their advice or example . He anarrd them that the magistrates with whoro he acted , and he believed the wealthier ela » ae « of ciety , w * r * fuUj * w » re of the extent of miiery and dIatreM to which maur

      thousand ! of the poor were reduced , ana that their tympaYbT for them was is extennrs aa it wag puaible to he ; and if they ( the working cl * i * e «) coald point out any feaaible tebeme by which thrr could issjst them , he was sure they would be glad Co d « to . " Thisi * a sweet morceau . The wealthier clauses of course are fully aw * re of the miseries of the poor , and their Frmpafriea for them are wotderfolly extensive andprolifie , and they waat the Chartist * u > point out feasible fchemesby which ttey can be relieved . The Chartists hare done all this ; they require that their class of society Bkould be admitted i ito the representation , in order that their want * should be duly considered in legislation . This is a feasible scheme , perfectly legal and acknowledged to be so . The bail demanded of these men « ai

      most shamefull y high , and one ef the dirtiest a * well as mo » t criminal proceedings of a magistrate , is the trick of exacting heavy bail . Mr . Jackson was held to bail to appear at the next Liverpool Asrtiteit , himself in £ 300 , and two snretitfs of £ 150 each ; and Smith , Tiihnan , Linney , aad I > oylo , themselves each io £ 150 , and two » uretiej of £ ib ^ ach . It is defeating the very object of bail when the demand is so exorbitant . In France they have a National Guard , and every man is entitled and required to provide himself with arm . « , and why ihaald there be sach a dread of trusting arms in the hands of Englishmen ? At&osie of tbese Charti't meetings the speeches axe deserving of great attention * At a Manchester meeting , for inataaoe , we have the following report : —

      " The first molanoD , whieh was moved by a Mr . Batterworth , wa « to the rflVet that tb « i * oplr ihou'd cse errrj mea . ni to protect their lihertir * , and at the Bime time they should i » v ? ° ^ ' * aothonti'i . In merisg this re * olnti « n , the speaker drew the attention of the meeting to the poainon in whkh the ChanisU now itocd ia the ejeiot tn « eiuntry . He eomidered that ( he Chanuu of iKJ 9 were the Whip o ( 1832 , and the VFhig » of 1 S 39 were the Tone * of 1832 . The W hi 5 ^ of 1 & 32 had been store nolrnt i « their eendoct than the Cfcarti » U aow were . ' In thoM dajt , ' taid the » p «» ker , ' the W'hijr * called a meeting ai Leedi , * t which Baine * , tbe srtat liar cf the Norta , not anly propo * ed thre * gmMt for tar Qjrtn . but tnsceated liat the Qoeen shonM be put in

      breectiet , aad the King iu petu « o » U- The W higi , alas , at then m ? etiBg » ( whieh were to obtain th » Reform Bill ) , exhibited wood-cnta , nne representing the Crown uptride down , and the other the Queen » head rollbtg through tke ftreeta . Such ( , c » Tjtir > utd the speaker ) were to be the tffreU if the Reform Bill w » J oot paoed ; aad jet the Whigs wtre the rerj men who pnnithei the Ch » rt ;» L » for pursuing a coarte whictt Wai by no meam vo ricJent ma that of the Whigao * 1 S 32 . H » wwuld like to know , if it wu ) e ? al ia 1832 to nor ) the Q aeen ' t head thionjU the ttreeit , if it wa > not eqnaily u legal for th « peop ' eof 1339 to throw through the aireets the hexit of tbo ** partiri who would th ^ m hare dune the wu to the head of Her Majotty . ' "

      It is impossible to deny tbe correctness and sonnd senao of this harangue . The Chartists of ' 39 are the Whigs of ' 32 , and there is no Chartist meeting at which language more violent has been tued than what was poared forth by the Whigs , and by their organ , the Time * , in the former year . Lord John Russell greatly commits himself . I a his letter of July 31 , tie speaks of the crime of threatening \ o injure shopkeepers if they do not support the Chartist cause . His word g are as follows : — " Having b ** n informed that in some paria of the kingdom attempt * -hxre lately been made to obtain moaej fr « m ihjpkeepcrt , hoti » eholAer » , asJ others , by meant of iutimidtt-Uon , ( aa by thr < - » ieiusg thesa with pr-raonal daager , or with Iom of buaine «» , or ihreaieaicf to mark them down , and

      report them aa en'uv . es , and by Tarions other mega . 1 toean » , ) aad that person * have bees combining and efldearearing to h . jcre fhopkeepen , householders , and others , ia their lswfal bniioeti , representing them as enemies to the people , and pv .- » n »^ iny others to Jea re oS trading with them thereby to yrrjtidice them in their business ; haring been also informed that per » 9 Di , in pnrsnaneR of an ill ^ fal combiastjon , hare gone among the working el » t *» of the people , exsitiog and endearouring to persuade them todeiist frsmw . rkins , and ia dsaerc Hxezr enploj-er *; 1 deem it to be xbj duty to call upon the magistrates to uae ? th * ir muno < t eadeAronrs to repress an 3 put down « acb . miaehierons practices , whieh are contrary to law , injurious to trade , irabveraive of good order , and dangerotu Co the peace of the country ; and to apprehend and bring tbe offender * to jnjiiee . I advise the Magistrates U > proeees againii peraoAS gniiry at $ ueh illegal practice * , as for a misdemeanor . '

      L « t a * ask whether there i * a general election , or a boroBgh election , in which these practice * do not take place ? Is not all this the very essence of our electioneering system ? In every contest for a . t&-t « m of a Member to Parliament the system of intimidation is punned , and the Tories are very justly denounced as the enemies of th ^ peop le . But what is there illegal in endeavouring to persuade the working cl&ss- 'g to desist from working , and to desert their employers ? It is perfectly right that the working classes should do so if they can thereby benefit their interests , a point npon which they alone have a right to determine . Lord Wilton made a curious motion upon this subject on Monday night He stated that thousands had taken possession of the church of Bolton—that is to say , that they had entered the church for whica they paid , aad behaved themselves there with perfect propriety . But his Lordship was dreadfully alarmed at the following resolution , at which we feel no alarm whatever , for it is sensible and legal : —

      " Resolution cnanimouslt AORixn to by the Gbsb&jlj . Coxyextzox , Wzvxisday , July 10 , 1839 . " That this Convention has read with feelings of inexpressible indignation the statements said to have been last nigbt made in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for the Home Department , relative to the necessity and propriety of employing the Metropolitan Police Force in various parts of the couatry for the suppression of pablic meetings of the people peaceably csndocted ; and farther , the approbatory remarks of the same Minister of the

      bkwdy-imnded and atrocious assault made upon the people of Birmingham by » portion of that ¦ unconstitutional and obnoxious force ; and this Convention is of opinion that wherever and whenever person * assembled for just and legal purposes , and cenductiag the . mselveg without riot or tumult , are so assailed by the police or others , they are justified upon e * ery principie of law and self-preservatioa in meeting force by force , even to the slaying of the persons guity of snch atrocioDS and lerocious assault * upon their rights ana persons . " By order of the Committee ,

      " James Taylor , Chairman . M Robert Hartttell , Secretary , P . M . " What rational man can doubt these rights , or the propriety , or even necesrity , of urging them ? Lord Melbourne , with reference to this placard , said" With rrspeet to the placard part ef which the Noble Earl had read , bs must say it wu not new to him ; he had read itbeforr , and he wao sure their Lordships w « nld be of opinion with him that it was very artfully warded . It stated , that if any unproToked' attack was njade on the pesple assembled in the exercise of their e » n » titotionat rights without rioter

      tumult , it was right in them to resist such an attack by force . Sew he did not exactly know what was to be said in opposition to that proposition , though h » admitted its objf ct was to urge resistance asd » violatioB of the peace . He , b * werer , also begged leave to ttaerve , that with th « leg » l pow « r » wtich exi « t , and which belong to every individual in the eoantrj , wito the right of fre * sketch and free discussion which belonged to evrry man , in order to excite te the ntmort violence it was by no means necessary to break tie law—that ir » i to say , that the internal breach and violation of the law to be creaded was the use , or rathnr the abu > e a >* puihing to the utmost tb » se powers and privileges which is ia * t tfee people legaU / p « SM * sed . The Noble £ ul * rged to

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      the Govemneat to take stronger measures th » i \ had b # en already takpn by his JJ"We Tneni ihe Secretary for tin-Horn . ) Department , but he ( VUetunt Melbourne ) did not know wfcst stronger meauarea , under the preseat eircoms tane ^ s , ( has those which bad been adopted b ; the Government it was possible te take . The Military force in that part of tke country had b « en considerably reinforced and augmented . " . We see no instance of artful wording , and it i s absurd to « aj that the law allows a freedom of speech to each individual ia order to excite to the ntmost violence . The statement is foolish , bat were the law in so scandalous a condition how criminal woald be a Pane Minister that did not do his utmost to altsr it . Some of the Chartists , in defending themselves , have shown great talent , and yet these men are prrfectlr without the pale of . the

      Constitution , whilit the counsel employed against them "were , or h&difce n Membert of Parliament , the latter exhibiting little probity aait lev oi intellect . Judge Lutledale is prWrbial jot « mercy , bat hi * conduct on these trial * do not sustain hiA reputation , not do they give him any claim * to even common aense . The following passage rt ported from his speech aeomi increaible from its absurdity : — " The Learned / oo ' ge kavinffpnt em his head tha black cap , said— ' You , Jeremiah Howell , Francis Roberts , and John Jones , have been convicted of a capital felony . An Act was passed about tw » yean ago abolishing ( he capital punishmentis many eases , but this , I regrei , did pot form one of the exceptions . It still remain * a capital cfltnee . 1 nee no srosnds upon which I can recomjnpnd you to mercy , and I hope the example 1 am about to make will produce beneficial fiffeeta . "

      A Judge , speaking of the old atrocities of oar criminal code , a&d of it » reforms , regrets that t ) ii offence for which these unhappy men are convicted ,. is still called a capital felony , and having > xpressed this regret , h > 3 uses no-gtcuuda oa which he can save the persons from a law which h * acknowledges to be bad , and from which he has an absolute and easy power to save them . What beneficial effects can arise to society from a Judge hanging mea ty a law which he regrets is in existence ? This is a combination of absurdity and mBrder on the part of the Judge . Justice Littledale could not have been compos mentis . When Lorett and Collins , on receiviug sentence , requested to be confined npon the debtors , instead of the felon * ' side of the gaol , he said , " J have no power in the matter . I am afraid you must apply to the Secretary of 7 State for the Hutae Department . " This i » an i » decen | ., attack , oh tke Home Secretary . Why should the Judge have any fear on the subject ? In Lord John Russell

      sach a tyrant as to make even , a Judge at AssiztJ express a fear or regret that an application for jus * tice rau . < l be addressed to him ? 'Letua assure Judge Littledale that hanging scarcely ever produces a beneficial t-ffact ; bat , on the contrary it always produces the reverte , in the utroHgeM degree . If these three men are executed , they are mnriered under the fiction of law . On tbe principle ! of terrorism , the effect of which the Judge speaks could not be produced by a thousand executions . Lovett made an excellent defence , n : > r did he break down a ( tb « goint at which The Morning Chronicle says that he failed . Questions of degree admit of a variety of opinions ; but all persons acknowledge tna . t the representation is faulty and fraudulent in the extrome , and although taoT © may be differences us to the point to which it OBght to be fixed , there is no difference an to that of its being at present fixed improperly . We see no hope whatever of procuring justice for the people , but by the system of agitaiion pursued by the Chartists . —Weekly DUpstch .

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      MR . JACKSON'S FAREWELL SERMONS . Mr . Jackson , according to annauncement , preached his farewell sermons at the Carpenters ' Hall , on Sunday last . The large Hall ww well tilled by a respectable and attentive auditory . Is the morning , the Eev . Gentleman took / for hii text the latter part of the 3 rd verse of the xvith , chapter of Matthew . The services commenced by singing a hymn . Tht Rev . Gentleman , in his morning ' s discourse , took a view of the present state of the natioD , acd referred to its future prospects , and commending tbe people to put their trust and coundence , at this critical period of their affairs in an all wise and superintending Providence . If they placed their dependance on his strength , and obeyed his will , they might feel assured that they would be relieved

      from their present difficulrie * , wid from the yoke of their oppressors . It was gratifying to observe the number of the wives and daughters of working men . In tbe afternoon there was a very large attendance , and the Rev . Gentleman to * k h . s text from tbe -riii Psalm , tbe 4 th and following verses—• ' L « rd , wbat is man , Slc . " The sermon was a just , able , and amply merited cwtigation of the unrighteous deal ings of the rich oppressors with the poor oppressed , exhibited by the whole contour of the Arrangements and institutions of society . Towards the close of tbe discourse , he made some allusion to his own particular circumstances , and stated , that if be was not put upon his trial by next Sunday , he should again address them . Tha cervices concluded by siugiag and prayer .

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      CHARTIST PROCEEDINGS . Oa Saturday eveniHfc last , a m ? eling convened by placard , took place at Carpenter ' s Hall , Manchester . At nine o ' clock , tbe Rev . Mr . Jackson entered tUa Hall , and was loudly che red . Some disturbance occurred in cossequence of the people ' s recognising a person of the name of Jejferson % who , it was stated , was one of Mr . Berwick's clerks , and who had appeared as evidence against the Chartists at the Borough Court After the excitement had in some degree subsided , Mr . Bancroft was proposed to tha chair .

      Mr . Luti ( from Bolton , ) said , that at thin momentous p * ri » d , he was not surprised at seeing a comparatively small attendance . At a lime when the people were deprived of thmr leaders , it was sot a matter of surprise . They owed a debt of gratitnde to them , aad ought to stand by them-ag long aa life remain-d . It was clear they had no class te look to but themselves . They cenld not look to those who had been their leaders in 1832 . Uuder th « present state of representation ^ there was no security for the working classes . Still there was no cause for despair . Justice might be banished from the land , b&t their principle .- could cerer die . ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) They ought to make principle their God , and not men . ( Loud cheering . )

      The speaker then made some reference to the N acionai Holiday , and to the address of Mr . O'Connor en that subject . Ho regretted that he must dissent from Mr . O'Connor '« opinion . No man respected Mr . O'Connor more than ha did , bat he thought the people were in a state of readiness for tho holiday . At Bolton , where he same from , a majority of them were prepared not to go to work . He mu * t say that th : people were a little disappointed at Mr . O'Connor . He stood in jeopardy himself . Ia hw town , thrre were ) warraau out far eight or ten , bat they dart not t&ke them by daylight . There mast be a sufficient ttrength exhibited oa the 12 th of August . The people must know whether they can be supparted . Thin experiment must not , and as far as

      he was concerned , should sot fail . ( Hear , hear . ) He would ask them to leave no stone unturned till they had obtained their rights . He felt confident that their freedom would ba obtained shortly . ( Loud cheers . ) While they had good men , there was na fear for the cause of the people . It almost seemed thai natBre had made these men whe are imprisoned to be the leaden of the people , and Providence wonld sot allow her Jaws to be alterec—Providence would mak « our enemies cone their God , and go to toe d L The cause of the peopla is « . cure—^ the people of Great Britain last year had received such a po . itical education as weald eventually enable them t * recover their rights ; and although the National Holidav might not realize all their

      expectations at that tune :, he felt convinced it would do no eventually . ( Cheers . ) Affairs were now drawing to a close . A revolution , more deadly than it was horrible to conceive , was progressing among the people . He wanted a revolution , but he wanted it peaceably and bloodlessly . ( Hear , hear , and loud cheering . ) The speaker then alluded to the spies whom he believed to be prowUsg among them . There was no character m society more contemptible than the spies . Perhaps there was th « Curie of Cain or the brand mark of this murderer on their brow . ^ Hear , hear . ) A modern spy was like the devil himself . He pitied them , particularly when he saw the smiln of youth covering the heart of corroding blackness . tVhen he saw tuess things he was almost inclined

      to think that God was unjust not to send down his lightning ! on them . Before he concluded , he would warn , them on Monday morning not to allow magistrates , either Whig or Tory , soldiers or policemen , to drive them from & peaceable duplav of their strength . Ha felt confident that the Russell gaag had not power to frustrate the wishes of the people . The schoolmaster was abroad aad h * had acquainted the people with the just rights . ( Hear , hear . ) He believed that there wax a quenchless fire between Whig and Tory . He thought that the reign of faction was nearly , at an end . He felt anxious that the people should act more than they had done for them . < elves . < The Rev . Mr . jACKsoKn'xt addressed the meeting

      and waireceived with loud cheer * . He wwhappythat he had an opportunity of meeting them . He watt the man that wonSd never fail to defend the rights of the people . He had been much defamed by the Whig and Tory nrees . There is a paragraph in the Guardian , ana ne begged leave to teil those who pat that paragraph in that paper , they were ignorant or liars . Ho never was turned out of any religivOS body in the course of his life . He called on the reporter present , ( not for the Guaraian , he hoped , ) but if so , he called on him to do him justice Althoofh imprisonment be not pleasant , he coald assure them that he never * pent four happier days than those ia Kirkdale G aof . He must say that Mr . Beswick has acted as a gentleman ; he wished the reporter to tell Mr . Fez , of Deansgate , through the

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      press , , that ho is a liar and a hypocrite . He ( the speaker ) never advocated the efcstroction of property—he never advocated the use of offensive weapons , but bad recommended the use of defensive weapons . ( Hear and cheers . ) Te-morrow woulrt be hiH farewell sermon , and he would speak the truth—he would give the right hand of fellowship to all who advbeate the canse of the poor . ( Loud cheers . ) He might not have been apprehended if Ib .-tnagiilrates had not seen his placard la » t Saturday , but beshoild Mate to-morrow what he then intended to saj , and he hoped Mr . Berwick wonld como and hear him . If he were imprisoned , the day he came out he would again advocate the rights of the poor . Loud ebeers . ) Three cheers were then given for the National Convention , three for Feargus O'Connor , three for the Suffering Patriots in the cange , three groans for the Manchester Guardian , three cheers for the Northern Star , and the proceedings terminated about eleven o ' clock .

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      TO THE WORKING MEN OF BOLTON . M t Frien D 8 , —I find by a letter from M r . Warden , that you have evinced great displeasure at my Address upon the Sacred Month . To your opinion I shall ever bow . I may deserve your censure for » moment , but T shall never merit your reproach . I nhall now briefly state the injustice of your charge against me . An act waa committed b y the Convention , by a majority of one . Your charge aaainst Ministers has ever been a hanging upon email majorities ; and upon so important a question , upon ho small a majority as one , I moved that ( be whole Convention should be summoned for the 31 tt , in order that a wise conclusion might be come to . Subsequently Mr . O'Brian ' s Resolutions were

      passed , wmch left the matter wholly m your hands , tie Council being appointed to make such suggestions as evidence from yoa might warrant . In the course of receiving such evidence th » Council came to an unanimous vote , embodying the spirit of my Address , which I wrote upon my own individual responsibility . Injustice , then , whether should you have challenged my act as an individual , or the act of a responsible body ? Again—The Birmingham correspondent recommended three day # , the course which 1 recommended—the Manchester Council did tha same . The evidence from nioe-tenths of the kingdom went to show that the people could not , without organization , enter upon the proposed holiday . I had the manliness to point out the danger ,

      aad you receive mea m the A B C © f pohucs , against one who hag taught them the alphabet . London was stated-ta ' tje ready . Would to God von could be judges of that readiness , And was I to lose a week , and tameljr ait by , while every Member of the Council in language , which , for condemnation , could not be surpassed , were daily and hourly regretting the position into which tha people were hastily brought ? .. Letns now argue the question soberly . If you were prepared , would my letter have stopped you ? If you were not prepared , should I have been honest to have withheld the i truth ? What could you do in a month , that yoa coo Id not equally effect in three days ? Audif I were wronz , w ; iy not show youi

      auger to all who werft wrong ? I wiU tell yon ; because , as I have _ often told you before , no man has so many enemies a << I have ; and in . doing my duty , I calculated upon the opportunity which I afforded many of creeping out of a hole . Observe how many , vrho previously professed themselves opposed to the holiday , will now suddealybecome enamoured of the disappointment , and gain your affections by the fortune ef the moment . I am ever among you , and will remain among you till the work i * done ; but no hunting for fiilse popularity shall ever make sae pVaco you in a wrong position . For eeven long years I have been at my post , not seeking for leadership , but doing my duty ; lor evert act I claim credit ; but above all . for that

      which you would hastily condemn , and for whica I shall live to receive ^ your th anks . Suppose I was wrong , in your opinion , do you think that so old a friend should not be Mowed & fwtl ? What hat bsen nay invariable complaint aga nst you ? It has be « n , that while Whigs end Tone * magnify the virtues , and suppress , the vices , of their friends , the Radicals magnify the vices and veil the virtues of their friends . Hn . ve I ever shrunk from facing you ? No : and if tht » Council had not imposed double-dnty npen me , I should instantly have proceeded to Bolton , to jmtify my act , and to argue , itd propriety with you . How can yon expect juxtice , who deny it to other j ? How can you ask for liberty , who deny me the liberty of addressing you ? Three men are now under sentence of death ; under your reproach I shall lie until I do my duty t ? them , by night and

      by day , to procure their release ; then I will appear before yen upon the very first opportunity , of which my accusers shall have complete notice ; and then , and before you , I will receive your censure or pr * ise , according to the facts of tha c » 8 ' » . Is not my life a kell upon earth till Universal Suffrage is accomplished—nnd why revile if I try to remove all obstacles ? I tell you again and again , that so help me God , I would rather go to battle than incur tho moral responsibility of having recommended a Sacred Month in the present unprepared state of oar pdrty . While opinion is fluctuating-, I tha . ll remain as a rock in the midst of the ocean , steady to vay purpose , unswerving in my resolution , and fixed in my determination to die a frcenan rather than live a slave . I will work for you in spite of ail our enemies . In proportion as I am abused , in such proportion am I valuable to you . Your ever faithful and obedient friend , Feargvs O'CeNNon . Conncil-Room , August 10 th , 1839 .

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      GLORIOUS MEETIN G * OF DELEGATES IN GLASGOW . Oa Wednesday , the Hth , fifty-seven delegates appointed atpnblic m-etings , convened for the purpose in their sevfral districts , was held this » Uy in the Univ ? mliBts' Cbapel , Mr . John Duacan , of Edinburgh , in the chair . Tha seats * nearest to the pulpit wero allotted to the delegate ? , and the remaining space of the large building was crowded to suffocation with anxious spectators . The preliminary business commencei by Mr . Gillespie , the Secretary r . ading ovjp > the credentials of the several delegates . A little after twelve o ' clock , Mr . Feargvs O'Connor , entered the Chapel , and was received with enthusiastic applause .

      The Chairman opened the procesdings in a man . terly and concise manner ; when respective delegates severally ronorted an to the fttate of their districts . The length of which precludes any possibility of giving more thaa a mere outline of tbe proceedings . The resolution to have Universal Soffrageformed part of the declaration of each delegate , while very little difference seemed to exist as to the mean * required Tor carrying it out , by oar report , which will appear at length next week . Jt will be found there was a perfect unanimity upon the following subjects : — Firstly , That not one district out of the fifcyasv ^ a waa prepared to carry out the Sacred Month . Secondly , Tb-ftt the proceedings at Birmingham ,

      and the subsequent pf rsecution of the ChartiBts , have increased Radicalism one hundred fold . Thirdly , The unanimous determination to support tho Convention . Fourthly , Toe want of systematic organization throughout the whole of Scotland . Fifthly , The recommendation to abstain from any mention of either moral or p bysicnl force , as , if required , the physical force would come more effectively by not talking about it . Sixthly , Toe great share which exclusive dealing and run upon tbe banks have given to Radicalism iu Scotland . Aad lastly , The determination to have Universal Suffrage at all hazards . Nothing could surpass tbe decorum and order which , prevailed during the whole time the delegates were engaged in deliberation .

      At five o ' clock the report was completed , when an adjournment to seven was carried , with the view of deliberating upon the resolution which should be founded upon the reports . We never attended a more glorious meeting . Deputations from about twenty of the principal towns of Scotland have requested Mr . O'Connor to attend public meetings , most of which he has accepted upon condition that neither time nor money shall be spared in getting up addresses for the pardon ofthe three men under sentence of death in Warwick g&ol , as that , he states , is his principal business in Scotland ; and in furtherance of which a large public meeting will be held to-morrow , in the Bazaar , in Glasgow .

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      MAGNIFICENT MSETING OS SAINT PETER'S'HILL , LEEDS . The factions have fairly overshot their mark : and the abominable persecution and tyranny to which they have subjected every man of mark who dared to agitate for the Charter , is now promoting the good cause to an extent quite nnlopked for even by its warmest friends . It is to this oauBO alone that we attribute by far tee greatest meeting held in Leeis since the days of the Reform Bill , which took placa on Thursday evening last , on St . Peter ' s Hill , Leeds , to take into consideration the state of Birmingham , to petition her Miijesty t » dismiss her present Ministers , &c . Ac .

      A requisition , signed by sixteen inhabitant hous » holders , had been presented to James Holdforth , E « q Mayor , to call the meeting in question but that officer , who ii a Catholic , declined ; thua showing , however loudly he may have formerly baw led for religious liberty for himself , ( and to the exertions of the working classes in that cause he owe « the pririlege of acting as Chief Magistrate of Leeds , ) he has not the ibo * t rejnute idea of contributing to insure the civil liberty of others . On what ground did this Magisterial buot refuse to call this moot-

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      ing ? He could not pretend that he anticipated riot aud disorder ; for th > moral constancy of the Chartists baa always been displayed fit their meetings at Leeds ; and oflate they have suffered the bludgeon-men of the Government throughout ; be kingdom to batter their sculls with impunity , rather than , even by appearing to resist tbe lav , give their tyrants an advantage over them . Besides , at seven o ' clock , at which time the chair was taken b . vMr . J . Joaec , not a policeman wan to be seen throughout the meeting , which mast have consisted of at leaat 10 , 000 persons . This was another proof , if any were indeed wanting , that tho chief magistrate anticipated no disturbance : and warrants

      us in tbe assumption that the refusal of Mr . Mayor to call the meeting was a purely gratoitOBS insult towards bis poorer fellow-citizsns . TheCHAiKMAN , in opening the bnsinejs of the meeting , said , that a » he had been appointed to prenid » over that great meeting , he wonld solicit their s » rious attention , in the first place , to whatever the several speakers should advance to them ; and secondly , that they should each and every one consider themselves as special constables sworn in to protect this special privilege of her Majesty ' s subjects . Tho Chairman then read the requisition caliiog the meeting ; and afterwards the following address : —

      To ( he Queen ' * Most Excellent Majesty . We , the Inhabitant * of the Tonn of heeit and it * Vicinity , in pabVia BowstinR assembled , b (> R leave moiit respectfully ia approach your Msjasty , and to # xpre « onr feelings witB regard to two Bills aa * before the Home of Common * , whither they have been brongkt by your M » je « ty'a Advueru—one for a great anxmenUtioa of the bunding Army , th « other tot ihe establishment of aa armed Police . , We beg renpactfully to assure jour Maj ? aty that , though actuated at all times by feelinpn of loyalty towardt voor Majesty ' s parson and office , we cannot bat view these twomea-8 urt * e » alarming , great , and daring inroads upon the Con-• litudon ol these Realms , which your Majesty has sworn to preserve . It is , as yo * r Majesty past doubt well Jtnovr ? , an established insx ' ra ef the Euglitth Constitution , tVat a Standing Army ia time of prefonnd peace , is a thieg abhorrent to it— subversive of the liberties of the tmbject , and unworthy of the

      Throne , which professes to be founded upon the affections and not th « foars , of the people . VVe mu * t further beg to t-xpr <^ s to yourMaJeaty , enr stroBg fwlinge Bgtiinst the establishment of an-armed Palice—a thing unknown to onrfbrefatben , and hitherto cherished only by . Government * or S «»« rei « n » . reigning despoticaily , and ia cuntempt of the feelings and affections of their people . We beg most earnestly , but most datifally , to assure your Majrtsty , that the « i " . two measurei , if persisted in , so far from being calculated to add strength or Hfcurity ' to your M » je « iyV Throne will _ nn . donbtedly , "»¦ your memorialist * pinion , have a directly contrary effect , viewed aa they are , not only by jour memorialiiftn , but by the people at laiae . with snxpicion , ilano ,

      and deep , indignation , as An uatrarrastable violation ef all tke leading principle * of the English Constitution . Under th ; 8 ficircumstances and impressions vre prayycur Majesty not to give yoor absent to thtxie' two bills , aannred that by so doing year Aitjtttr irill take th # roost certain tray to secure to your Threneand Government , tbe affections of aloya \ and dutiful people . Vf eoamcaUy entreat that your M ^^ tty will forthwith dismiss from your Conncil your present Ministers , and call thereto honest and respectable men , from whom measaret of Universal Jimico way be expected . We further request your Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct that all pemonan ^ w m custody tor political offence * maybe liberated .

      Mr . F . UEWRinsT then came forward to rnova tho Moptiob of the addreps . It -was their rigkt , as workinf men ^ to do all in their power to relieve themselves from the deplorable situation , ia which they were then placed . tl <* had been at a distance of N » venteen thousand m ^ es from the place whe re he then stood , and had al wayx observed that where the people were petoefnl tbey stood a better chance of obtaining their rights . He had been at many public meetings , but had never y » t se «> n a real honest Radical break tbe peacs or her Majesty . A real Radical scorned to break the peace— -h ; had another end in viw , the attainment of his just rights . He wanted the necessaries of life , food , clothing , < fec . He aid not look to the present moment only but to a fature day , and not only to a future day , but to t-ternity . He was new getting an old man , and was not in the habit of speaking mucV ; bat one thing he woald Ray dearly and distinctly , and that was , that at Todmordtjn there were thousands who had not a

      morsel to put into their month * . ( Shame , shame . ) He had been in the habit of visiting Burnley , Padiham , Blackbnrn , Chorley , Bolton , die , and tkou-Hftnds of hand-loom weavers there were obliged to do six pieces a week for 3 s . 9 i . —( shame , shame ) ; and he had been credibly informed tbat eono of the pieces contained thiity yards . Thus they had to work from sun-rise to tun-set for 71 d . Suppose tkey had rive children in a family , and paid 13 d . a week lor rent , what would remain ? There would be scarcely sufficifor left to bay water-gruel . In Leeds people pleaded poverty , but many ot them could ' get a good joint of meat for their dinners , while the people in Lancashire were starving . Mr . Dewhirst concluded by moving the adoption of the address . Mr . John Sow den would merely observe that in

      consequence of there being many friends present who were anxious to address the meeting , he should content himself with cordially supporting the motion , Mr . J . Stan field came forward to support the motion , and was received with great applause . He said he would beg their sincere attention that night , and he sincerely trua ; ed that meeting would be a peaceable one ; and that it wonld hurt nfmau ' tt property—hurt no man ' * person . ( Cheers . ) It would appear that misery and distress had become the portion of the working classes . Wherever they- turned their attention , they found the poor deeply sunk in the horrible pit of destitution , and their feet fast bound in tyranny and oppression—as if distress and midrry were to become the glory of the people of England . They lived in a Christian

      country , and as professors of Christianity , they were in duty bound to believe in the ministerial creed . He believed in the existence of a queen , and ha believed that queen received £ 1000 per day for her pension . ( Cheers , and criea of " Shame . " ) He believed , likewise , in all unjust , all unmerciful , and all unfcriptural sinecures and pensions . He believed , too , in the existence of an accursed Corn Law , co-existent with a still more accorded Poor Law , with all its hiitoas train of ills—and ail it « glaring scenes of wret chodness and destitution . The y were likewise bound to belu ve that misery wa 9 their portion , and hb ? rty removed far from them . Allow him to ftate what was the causa of their present snfterings . It was this . There was the great landed Aristocracy keeping ap tbe price of pruvisions by

      their accursed Corn La <* s . Then there w » s the great factory , moogvrs pulling down the rate of wage * , while the others were keeping up the price of provision * . ( Hear , hear . ) The working classes thus sank clown between vwo burdens too intolerable to be borne . They were likewise bound to believe in the National Debt ; and let them seek the reason why it was contracted . 4 l To protect property " would be the answer of the great Aristocracy . Well , then , he would reply , if it was contracted in order to protect property , let men of property come lor ward and pay the debt . ( Great laughter and cheering . ) He thought the proposition a perfectly just aad right _ one * ( Hear , near . ) Another circumstance , which was partly the csnse ofthe present distress , wan the notorious unfaithfulness of the

      Ministers of the Gospel . ( Tree , traei ) The Ministers of the Gospel were called to be laithful , and wherever they found crime to preach against it , and strike at it j root , whether in kings or people , princes or beggars . Such a man was John , the forerunner of J *» as Christ . He did not hesitate to rebuke the king for living in adultery . Bat instead of the Ministers of the Gospel of the present day being faithful , they diligently searched out the brass knockers of the great —( laughter)—they delighted in the velvet cushions of Aristocratic luxury , and had a marvellous instinct in finding out the bouses where tho bottle most freely circulated . ( Hear , hear . ) Thus they made their belly their god , aad away went puf e religion undefined and siogle-mindednegs to the winds . ( Cheers . ) All Radicals wer » treated

      as cattle , beasts of burden—they were called the rfcam aad oftscouring of all things , and designated as torch-light and phyaijal-force men- , but let them tell their opponents they only p ut in a claim as poor subjects ot the realm , and so long as the law made a claim on their pocket * , so long they had a right to claim » voice in the making of that law . Nothing could be fairer than this principle—no taxation without representation . J t was generally stated by the Aristocracy , when they wanted to put down the claims of the working classes to representation , that the people had not wisdom enough to exercise the Suffrage beneficially . Bat let them tell their tyrants that , poor as they were , and covered wita tke rags or poverty , they would find men in their ranks possessing as much e « nae as the Aristocracy . Did

      the possession of bricks and mortar bestow sense ? for that was the only qualification for aa elector possexsed by many in the present day , who were so privileged . He begged to call their earnest attention to the last war , and would ask every candid mind who it was that filled up the bloody gap ? Was it the poor , despised working men , or the princes and nobles of the land ? It was the poor and despised who saffered ; and therefore he thought that if , poor ag they were * they werj called upon to fill up this bloody gap , they ought to have a voice in the making of the laws . ( Cheers . ) He thought this by no means oujust : and he therefore entirely approved of the addrea they were about to forward to her Majesty , beaeechinherto look

      g especially to two measures before the House of Commons , one of which wai for tbtf increase of the > army . Increase the army ! For why ? The idea wu ridiculous . The people wanted no disturbance . They were for peace . They wanted no more pensioners to keep for nothing , when they could not keep themselves . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Then there was to be au augmentation of police . Wbyythey had already more police than they knew what to do with . ( Great laughter . ) As LharUats they were willing : to protect ttie Queen ' s person , aad to maintain her rights against loreign enemies ; but the accursed starvation laws enacted m ^* narnu tkey never could or would stand . Tkemotioti for the adoption of the address , was t en p « t bj the Chairmau , who declared it carried nth tbsee 4 J « sentieiits .

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      Mr . Thojia 8 fiLfcrs then camo forward to move the following resolution . He said he would not detain them with any remark ? , as thf ro were persons to come after him better , calculated to de it justice ;~ 7 ; ^ ; ' / , ¦ " ' ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ -. . " That we deeply sympathise with oar mn . ch « in » juwd and oppressed brethren in Birmingham , who hare so , nobly and gallantly , at all timrc , advocated the ORUfe of liberty and the rights of man ; and who have been so unwarrantably and bra tally , attacked by the unconstitutional and hired band of ryffian London police , whereby many were most seriousl y injured ; and whose proceedings emanated from the base Government of the rabid Tories and imbscile Whigs , which ha » precipitated the country upon tha

      bnnk , nay , into the terjr jrulf , of rain . " Mr . WrtttAii Roberts came forward to second the resolution with mingled feeKngs of pain and pleasure . Pain , that there was a > ecesrity to propose such a resolution , and pleasure to see so many thousand persons present . The Whigs need only to look aroaad that meeting to see that the day of retribution was fast approaching . Nothing gave him more pain than fce present condition of tha working classes . He wonld rather meet his foe , hand tohand , on the field of battle , than witness the ragged f orms and destitute condition of his snffrring fellow countrymen . The present state of sodirty was rotten at the core . On the one hand they saw the money-monger rolling iu wealth and luxory , whfleon tae other they saw numbers of their fellow-beings dying bymchea for wont of the common necessaries of life . It was f » H ti « e they did somethinr to

      remeay iae manifold evils nnder which the coaotrr groaned . He most cordially seconded the resolution . / Cheers . ) . Mr . Joscth WBSTwoon , of Birminghain , next addressed the meeting in support of trie resolution , in an excellent speech , for which , we regret , we csnnofc fiad room , he vehemently denounced the renegade Muntz and his fellow-corporators of that newly-fledged , borongh . He told them an amiuin * anecdote of this bewhiskered gentleman , to tha ettect that , when he was angling after popularity in that town , the magisterial bench of which u now polluted with his presence , he one day met an old barrow-woman m the street , aad wheeled it up the street himself , giving the old lady-kalf a-crowfl , and tellia ? her the day would shortly arrive when he would cause the laws to be altered eo that poor old goals like herself would hare no further occasion to work .

      Mr . David Black then supported tbe resolution m a powerful and energetic speech , of which tke reporter could not take notes , as it had now becom quitedark . ' ¦ ^ The Chairman then put the resolution , and declared it to be unanimously carried . Mr . Hctton then moved that the address to her Majesty be forwarded to Fefirgtu O'Connor , with a request that he lay it befoTe the Convention , that that body may decide on tke most fitting manner for its presentation . ^ ° . Mr . TEMPtB seconded the motion , which was then . pat , aud carried . . Mr . DAvrp Bjuck then moy «> d that a memorial be drawn op to the Secretary of State , on behalf of wft unfortunate men now under sentence of death in Warwick Gaol .

      Mr . Joseph West-wood seconded the motion . - The Chairman , in ptittin « r the qneftW observed ! v / T , e PPP 0164 wemorial mast leave Leeds-on the following afternoon , and that it woald lie for signa ture * , till than , at Mr . Hobson ' s and-Airs . Manns . : A . vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman who briefly acknowledged the compliment . » hree most ; . 'deafening cheera were given for White and Wilson , incarcerated for their opinions in « t m j j " o ' . Three « roan » * ere then proposed for "Neddy Barnes" but the proposition wis rejected amid mea of "No , no , he ' s not worth it "— "Treat htm with contempt , " Ac . &c ; and "Neddy Baines " was treated with contempt accordingly . Tkre « j 2 « roafterwards girenfor FeargusO'Connor and tke Convention , and the meeting dispersed . ' I l' HI It 1 ^^^^ II - - ¦ --

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      TO THU EDWORS O * THE NOBTBERN 8 TAB . Sirs , —As much nisunderstanding has arises in some of the constituencies respecting the rwolotion of the Convention , recommending the poitponemeat ef tbe National Holiday , and the resolutions subsequently published b y the Council , and unw » rth y motives having been imputed to that b » dy in the step which they anauiraoual y agreed in , I consider it to be my duty , both to tbe country and the Council , to state the reasons which indueed the passing such resolution . Ia my official capacity , I have received reports from twenty constituencies , detailing the state of tb « people , and their preparedness or unprepared » eB « to carry but the Holiday , and- what is the rurali ? six

      teen out of the twemy , including several of th « more violent , have unequivocally declared tba » they are n » jt ready , acd require more time , aad a more perfect organ zation j and of the remaining four , three of them speak dubiously on the matter . In this state of the country , could there remain a doubt a » to the course it was the duty of tlo Council to tak e ? or could the most recklew advocate of violent measures date to awert that the people ought to have bteu prostrated before the wheel * of the bloody car of the present political Juggernaut , and sacrifice , perhaps fer a generation , all hope of the political salvatiou of the country ? P . E . Smart , , . Becretary to the CouaeiJ . Aruadel , 12 th August , 1839 .

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      Saturday Morning , August 17 th . We agaia stop the Press to announce that Howell , Roberts , and Jones , have been reprieved . Thanks to the . omnipotence of Public Opinion I t The Morning Herald of Tuesday , has an excellent article , in which , after announcing the above fact , he-gives- toe Attorney General a severe , but wellmerited cwitigation , fop the indecent and bloodthirsty haste he evinced in putting the men on their trial for the Capital Offence , when comwiflerfonly for a misdemeanor ; it also states , that « there

      is evidence to show tiiati , two of the men were not in tbe riots at alii" same a * we have stated in our Leader on the snbjeet . Amd yet , in the teeth of this evidence , the M ruing Chronicle , the " bloody" organ of tbe « bloody Whigs , " coolly >» y » , "none will now regret the transpertatioa of the Birmingham rioters from their couutry . A oouvictship , and not the gallows , is their proper destination . " It remains for public opinion , which has already saved the men from tke " Gallows , " to say whether a " convict-ship is their proper destination ;" or whether the evidence , above named , shall be thoroughly sifted , and ifborue out , whether the 1 eouvict-shi p" or the « gallows , " should not be graced with the persoBs of those who have procured their unjust , condemnation . Let not the people , therefore , relax iu their efforto , now that the men are merely saved from the " gallows . " It is as necessary to va-ve them from the " convict ship" as from the " gallows , " if it i * true" there is evidence to show two of them were not in the riots at ail !"

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      O'CONNOR , Esq ., of HammernBith , County Middlesex , by JOSHUA HOBSON , at hi * Printing Offices , Nos . 22 and Id , Market Street , Briggate an « Published by the said JocBUA Hobson , ( for the said Fkamvi O'Connor , ) at hj « DweHiug-hosse , No . 6 , Market-street , Briggate ; an internal Cemn »> - nieation existing teeiween the said No . 6 « Market Street , asd the said Nos . 12 , and 13 . Market Street , Briggate thus constitunng tb « whole of the said Printing and Psblishinf Offlc * one Ppmiaee . AU Communications must be addressed , (* <** - paid , to J . Hobson , Northern Star ( WW Leeds . ( Saturday , August 17 , 1639 . )

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      STAB OFFICE , Friday Evening

      o WUI . OP 8 TSFBE 1 TS . CHESTER , TnvasDAT ErENiNQ , 9 o'Clock . ? % w 3 i *« press toannonace che result of tha trial of ; Mr . Stephens thin day , at Cheater . The trial commenced at a little after nine o ' clock , and continued till nearly eight o ' clock without any intermission , except about ten minutes . Stephens ; made a noble defence , which Jotted fire hoars within five minutes , and for which he wa » hi

      ghly complimented by the Jndge . The Attoraey-UeneraL wat gavago beyond measure . The jury , after deliberatiDg ^ out half-a-minnte , returned a verdict of GUILTY , and the Judge sentenced tlie bravo and inimitable advocate of the people a nghtg , to be Imprisoned for Eighteen Months in the Houie of Correction at Knutsfcri , and afterwards to n > d two sureties in £ 250 each , and to enter into his own recognizance in £ 500 , for his good behavionr for FIVE YEARS \ !! A verbatim report of the trial will be furnished next WMk . • ¦ • ¦ ¦ - .

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      % TH 35 NORTHERN " SJAB . ';• ; , ¦¦ " "' , . ,: , /; j ^ mm ^ 17 ^ IS 39 :

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 17, 1839, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct531/page/8/