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      Johk Btrii ' s idea of his Queen ' s partialiiy to foreigners it not likely to be removed by tbe speech . Tbe Koyal lady slightly allude * to attacks upon other nations , and direeilv threatens a fa * upon her wn . u * GOixe to ot > en Parliament , " quoth "Victoria to pretty Poll . tt Parliament is like an oyster , then ¦—y on open it first , and swallow it after , leaving the hells for the people !" A da ily contemporary ssyg , " tho appearance of Prince Albert , dressed as he was in a field-marshal ' s uifoim , with the collar and star of tbe most noble order of tbe garter , was most imposing . " There nnot be a doubt , we think , about the matter : Melbouekk and Wbiaingtoh hare become friends and allies . Righteousness end peace hare kissed each oiher .

      Pluses Albebt has appointed four eh » plains ; this is as it should be—the provision for the * oul hf / nld bo upon a scale with that of the body . A Prince could not pcwibly do with Jew than four e > . » p a ' : ns , when we reflect that - fonr chaplains would not more than ropplj the spiritual wants of forty thonjand ordinary people ! " Should you not like to see all that ' s « oin ^ on !" asked Victoria of the leaped parrot , just before ettina out to open Parliament . "No , " replied Poll , " I am lired of puppet shows !" Jos Hraa , on hearing " tbe people" given at a fit-form feast , is said to have declined drinking it on the score of its being a "fooliih toast , " and yet one ¦ ninute before be had drank tbe Royal family ! The fcixowikg advertisement is copied from a Stw Jersey paper : — To be Sold , one hnndred and thirty-one suits at law , tbe property of an eninent attorney , about to retire from business . Note . — Che clients are rich and obstinate . "

      Oisb of orR joker * , the other day , on reading tbe TeaihB in a down-east p » ptr , and seeing the ages of Sumy on the list to be eighty and upwards , said he eoafon ' t see how people afforded to lire eo lor . ? at the north—he was but thirty , and hadn ' t money enough to hold out ranch longer . —Jonathan . Famous Shoehakebs—A correct catalogue of shoe-Bakers who have in any one way or other made themselves remarkable , would be a curious thing . It is yet among the nudiscorerable mysteries why dustmen should wear red plueh breeches , and as wu-uccesifnl have besn all attempts to account for those very peculiar reflective habits to which the rait of Crispin are notoriously addicted . The mere circumstance of the reflecting turn presents no < hffi-• uitj ; more or less it ib incident to all sedentary

      pursuits ; its especial tendencies in the case of tbe Shoemaker are the great marvel . From the turbulent dajs of Quaker Fox , and reformers Hans Sachs and Jacob Bohmen , to the scarcely less unruly 'imes of radicals Holcroft and Hardy , we note , in this * jos : r& * peciab ] e trade , eucq a n > ug list of religionism-, radicalisms , jacobinisms , and every variety of kms , &S we Had to . ao other c ' ass of mea . It was against this tendency , indeed , the old proverb was launched , as far back as die age of Appelles . Why is this 1 Can any one explain it 1 Fitness is the obj- ^ t and endeavour of the trade . Is there of necessity associated with it the restless unptitee to dia-• over in everything else an eternal tmfitness ! We Tish we could consult Philosopher Square . —EmmmSner .

      Wages o ? Mkmbees ot Pabltaickkt . — It appears thai tie custom of boroughs maintaining their representatives in Parliament had not ceased in the emrly portion of last century . Hall , whose collections wer « brought down to about 1739 , speaking of Bektone , says , This place and others in Cornwall are nut able to maintain their burgesses is London , during the Sessions , at their own proper costs and barges ( as of old was accustomed ) in any tolerable post or grandeur ; but have found that profitable expedient ( as many othens ; of making country gentlemen free of their town , who bear the burden and heat of the day for tbe honour of their corporations , disu-ess their paternal estates to exalt the reputation and perpetuate the privileges of a petty society , Bade up of mechanics , tradesmen , and inferior practitioners of the law . " The same author states » at M Padstow , Lelent , and Mxr ? iion , formerly ect Members to Parliament , but were excused ipoa their petition on the score of poTef ty . "

      Paedojt u . ydsb thb Gr&at Ssal . — " There h a oroas record of pardon in the Tower of London , framed . to Cecily Kid ^ way who , refusing toplcaa guilty of murdering her husband at Nottingham Assizes , A . D . 1357 , was remanded back to prison and remained forty days without surtenaDce , for which miraculous preservation she obtained this pardon underlie Great Seal of England . — Vide Ast . e ' t Records of the Totcer . Goi 5 G to see ak ExECtmon . —During the disturbances in Clare , in the winter of 1831-2 , three brothers , named Casey , from the nei ghbourhood of Corofin , in that county , figured prominently in the arsons and onslaughts ot' that eventful period . Two of them were concerned in the brutal murder of Mr . Blood , of Appievale , and the other ( John ) was

      one of the party that fired upon , and wounded , Mr . Synge . It so happened that John Casey ' s trial , for the latter effeaee , was to come on . the day his brothers paid the penally of their lives for their offences —a matter which Beemed little , if at all , to affect tho prisoner in the dock . He was asked by the clerk of the crown , in i he usual manner , if he was ready for his trial . "E " then no I ' m Dot , eir , " was the rep ' y . * His lordship wishes to know the reason . " ** Eira , dy ' e hear V remraed the " gemlemanin difficulties . " "Don ' t I tell ye , I ' m not ready at all , at all . " " But , prisoner , why not ! " reiterated the man of law . *• I'll tell yon that , thin , as you ax the quea-Mon , " replied Mr . Casey , and he grinned a ghastly ¦ mile , ** becanse my witnesses , an' d—1 take their euriosity , went off wid themselves to see the t » ecu ~ Honf

      A Dutchman ' s Dctkscr . —A variety-loring Hollander , who had married some dosen wives , was tried in Englaud for bigamy . "You say , " Raid the Judge , " that the priest who married you to tbe first wife , authorised you to take sixteen . What do you mean by that \ Well , " said Hans ,. "he dold Be dat I shonld have four better , four vorser , / our richer , four boorer ; and in my country four dimes / mtr always makes sieleen . " Apoi ^ gt fob Tobacco— In the "Marraw of Compliment" ( London , 1 S 54 ) , we met with a song in praise of tobacco , which contains as much , perhaps , a-s can be said ia its defence : — Much meat delh gluttony procure To feed men * s fit as twine ; Bat he ia a frugal mas , indeed That with a LEAF can dine .

      He needs no napkin for lua hands , Hi * finger ends to wipe , Tfeat bath a kitchen in hh box , His roast meat in a pipe . A Pleasant View ot thk Twelve Moths . — January , for new year ' s gifts ; February , for paneakes and valentines ; March , for leeks in Wales ; April , for fools ; May , for milkmaids and their garlands ; June , for green peas and mackrel , beans and bacon ; July , for hay in the country ; August , for orn ; September , Tot oysters , * October , for brewing good beer ; November for drinking it . After all these have passed , some for work , but all for meat and drink—after all , comes December , with tbe barns full of corn , the larders full of beef , the ovens full of Christmas pies , the pockets full of . monev ,

      the masters and mistresses full of chanty , and the youn ;; men and maids full of -play . —Old Almanack . The Death-Wot ^ d ot Hampde * . —The first ac-• ouuts of this event ! ul day , published , by the Parliament iri&ns , spoke with confidence of their great hampion ' s recovery : — vi His wound was more likely to be a badge of honour than any danger of life . " Bat these hopes were quickly dissipated . On moving from the Eceue of conflict , Hampden was first observed to make for the house of a relation in the Heighbourhood . But Rupert ' s cavalry were overiug the plain between . Turning his horse , therefore , he rode back in the way to Thamc . When he came to a brook which divides the plain , he paused a while ; but it was impossible for him , in

      hi 3 wounded state , to remount , if he had alighted , to turn his horse over , he suddenly summoned his strength , clapped Fpurs , and ckared the leap . Through such particulars the recent'biographer of this eminent person n&uirilly dtligkia to carry his reader . Bat What must have been Hampaen ' s thoughts , as he crossed the field of his yojithful remembrances , staining the green blades that glittered in the sun of a bright morn in May with no ignoble blood I Tnerehehad first practised his confiding neighbours , and his admiring tenants and erring-men , in the use of those pikes which they we » to lerelat th * Crowa and the Mitres of Eng-Irnd ; aad there tbe avenging ball of tbe royalist had shirered hit rigorous r ight arm I The cause

      was , to all appearance , declining—the army weakened , and commanded by % cold and vacillating par tisan ; the enemy Tictoriorra , and every day gathering new strength ; the Parliament rapidly losing the confidence of tie people ; Pyni , bis great fellow-champion , lying on . hit deathbed , the most entient nerre of freedom , the ionghtest sinew in the scroll . 1 Yet , « ould he haTe looked farther , and with prophetic eyes beheld Naaeby , Carisbrook , Whitehall , denied by the blood of a king and the residence of an usurper , more appalling would have been that soatesaplation of iu trinmpn . Where

      would be have discovered the lawi he had vindimied-, the liberty , » t whose shrine ha had sacrificed 10 , much * , besides what was his own ; or ejen a free Bete for that sly but strong ambition , which , more , it nay be , thaa-be was himself aware , directed the movements of his life t In great pain , and nearly xhaastdd , Haapdsn reached Th&me . The surgeons wbo dressed his wounds encouraged his fellowp % triois and brothers in arms vr , t > : hopes of his recovery ; but hi 3 own impression from the first was , ^* t his hurc was mcrtai . It was too tree as . one . J ^ er six days of intense suffering , Hampden kfe&thed big last .

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      FURTHER REFORM : MEETING OF " THE

      ASSOCIATION AT LEEDS . ( From the Spectator . ) " "We look upon TJniTersal Suffrage as a right withheld—one that cannot w / ety be withheld much longer ; and we consider the question with regard to it to be rapidly narrowin ? itulf to thd consideration of these two" point *—bin * 1 and uhen 1 " Since the 27 th October , 1838 , when we expressed the above opinion , nothing has occurred to shake , and much to strengthen it . Every folly or outrage of a Chartist bas been dwelt upon fey the Wbigs and Tories as » proof of the badness of the caase : every imprisonment or banishment of a Chartist has been announced as the extinction of Chartism . Still the stupid Chartists could not or would not understand

      that in propriety they ought to cease to exut . and continued stubbornly to live on . Till at last it has come to this , that a tolerably nnmerooB body of the middle classes , having at their head some men of great wealth , countenanced by influential Members of Parliament , have invited Chartists to appear on the same hustings with them for the purpose of expressing their common opinions ; and nave most sedulously avoided the expression of any sentiment or opinion that might hurt the feelings of their Chartist allies . The Leeds meeting has materially changed the position and prospects of Chartism . The existence of the Chartist body as an influential portion of public opinion has beea solemnly recognised : the assistance of the Chartists has been invoked by

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

      Some of them believed that by getting up Household in opposition to Universal Suffrage , they would lure away the followers of the Chartist leaders Some of them goodnatoradly clang to the vain belief , that if they could muster a strong enough body of supperters , they might induce the Whig Ministers to place themselves a > t their head . Both have been disappointed . Earl Fitzwilliam tells them flat—and he speaks the sentiments of his " order , " and those who cling to it—that he " will not ma'ch through Coventry with them . " If the Leeds Association is to go honestly aad firmly on with the work it has takes in band , it mast make up its mind to break wiih Ministers . Again , not one Chartist has been induced to ray that he vrill postpone his claim of

      Universal Suffrage if the instalment of Household Suffrage be paid in the mean time . The Leeds Association , taking upon itself to speak in the name of the advocates of Household Suffrage , has met the Caartist Delegates , speaking in the name of the advocates of Universal Suffrage ; and the two parties have agreed , that the change effected upon onr representative system by the Reform Bill has been found inadequate to insure good legislation , aad that further constitutional chaDges are necessary . The two parties have not yet come to the discussion whose plan is to be tried firtt , or what modification of both , or of either . It is as likely ( for any thing that has been Baid or done ) that the first move will be for Universal , as that it will be for Household Suffrage : nay , inasmuch as all tbe

      advocates of Universal Suffrage expressed distaste of the limited suffrage proposed , while the advocates of Household Suffrage admitted the superiority of the olber abstractedly considered , the probability is , if any thing , ia favour of unrestricted , unqualified Suffrage . Much has been , gained by the mere fact that memben of the middle and working claasev * have again eo-eperated at a great public meeting . Men wbo barre stood aide by aide aa tbe same hustings , striving for a common object , however unimportant , have already begun to be acquaintances . The majority of the middleclv-i men at the Leeds meeting will henceforth view any unqualified attack upon tbe Chartists as personil to themselves ; and tbe Cbartista , wbo took part ia that

      me-ting , will , in like mvmei , feel themselves called upon to patronise their associates ot the middle classes . The partition-wall , which circumstances had run up between Reformers of the middle and working claoaes , ia already begun to be pulled down . h . vigorous movement part ; ia in the conrse of being formed , at tbe very moment that the variou * fractions of the drop party , ( for . properly speaking , there is not , and cannot be , a positively stationary party , ) seem on the eve of being re-combined . The shades of difference between Tories , Whigs , and Parliamentary Radical * , are daily becoming more imperceptible ; and much-decried Chartism is in the fair way of becoming the nucleus around which , the scattered elements of a popular party are to gather into form and substance .

      This result will not , as has already been observed , be inuiudial * . Where there is co-operation there must be mutual confidence , and that does not at present exist : confidence ia a plant of slew growth . Tbe distrust of Mr . O'Connell , which the ouupoken Colonel Mapier expressed aloud , m shared by many ¦ who did not give it voice . We do not inquire as to the grounds or justice of hi * distrust ; we merely advert to it as a fact , the existence of which i » acknowledged . The middle-class politicians distrust each other , and the -trorking classes distrust all of them . Thia is the necessary consequence of the substitution of " faith in

      the Whigs" for faith in principle . The gullible and the interested supporters of the Whigt are necessarily confounded in tbe popular estimation , for there ia no external distfnguiahiag mark -whereby to know the one from the other ; asd even men who have had the moral courage to separate themselves from both , are , in the unreasoning anger of the working men , jeal ously tratched , for bo other reason than that they d » not belong to their class . It is only by men ' s advance in knowledge of their common interest * , and by perseverance in an independent course of policy , that confidence can be established ; and until it be , there can be little progress made .

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      Some ingenious arguments have been used to show that vre are all working men ; but there is an essential difference between head-work—which it educatien , and hand- 'work—wldeh impedes education . Tbe working classes feel this , and will not , on the strength ot a play upoa "words , admit a man to the privileges ot their " order . " They don't understand " metaphysics . "

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      THE QUEEN versus HETHERINGTON . JUDGMENT . The ATTeanBT-QzsEBAL prayed the judgment of the Court upon Henry Hetherington , who had been convicted daring the sittings of tbe last tern of selling a blaspht-mous publication , enVitled " Haslam ' a Letters U the Clergy of all Denominations . " Lord IXemujt having read the minutes of the trial , and the pMsages which tbe Jury found to be blasphemous libels , Mr . Thomas , on behalf of tbe defendant , was instructed to more the Court in arrest of judgment , or for a rule to show cause why there should not be a nrw trial . The ground on -which he moved was , that the offence laid in the indictment referred only to that part

      of the Scriptures called the Old Testament , and there sever was a case of an indictment against a publication which discussed matters relative t » the Old Testament only ; it vra * not an offence which was punishable at common law . Although not exactly bearing on tbe case , he would remind the Court of the observation raarie by the defendant at the trial , that the doctrine of Christianity being parcel of the law of the land originated in a mistranslation of a ease in the Tear Book in the 3 d and 4 th Henry VI ., and that error had been copied into all Kie succeeding « sea . He would now refer the Court to \ b& judgment of Chief Justice Hale , in the case of the four witches who had bean hanged in tbe reign of James the First , that Learned Judge asaertin ;; th&t there was no -doubt of their existence

      The Court wsi aware that during the > reign of James the First , when the law originated , there was no end of the legal murder * that took place under the charge * of witchcraft bji 4 blasphemy . The Uw certain ^ could not be traced further back , and had its origin in religious or political animosities , when Judge * ware found to carry into effect the wishes of parsons in power or authority . In the case of the King * . Woolstone , who was tried for a libel , impugning the miracles of Jesus Christ , the objection was taken that it was not an offence indictable at common law , but the objection was overruled by the Court , on the ground that the Christian religion waa part of the law of tbe land . The Leaned Counsel then referred to the cases of Jacob , Peter Annett , Wilka , and the King and

      Williams ; in the lattucaee the Court held that tbe libel was indictable at common law , because the libel denied the authority of the Holy Scripture * , and that the Christian religion waa part and parcel of the law of the land . la all these case * the divinity of Christ , and the authority of the Scriptsrea generally , were questioned ; bat he submitted that where tbe Old Testament only waa called into question , the rule laid down in these eases did not apply , as it did not call in question the great troths of the Christian religion . He would now refer the Court U the able work * f th * Archbishop of Dublin on the subject , in which be referred to the Old Testament

      aa a great historical narrative , and , in a great measure , distinct from the Christian religion . Bishop Taylor also said that there were ao many errors , miatakee , and mistranslations of the Old Testament , that it wu opes to the discussion of any party . The Court would see , from these authorities , that there was a license given to persona to discuas matters contained in the Old Trttamenl ; and to that portion of the Scriptures only did tbe libel of the defendant refer . He bel- ' eved there mm no case on record where a party bad beea tried in that Court for a matter which bad no reference to th « Christian religion . Another objection was , that the Learned Judge had put it to the Jury to

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      • ay whether tke publication was Ubel upon th « Christian religion , although tbe libel had no reference whatever to that matter . Now , ina « maea as the law proceeded on tbe ground that the obligations ef civil society were injured and loosened \ j bringing the Scripture * into contempt , jurors and wttneaiea befog a worn upon the New Testament , any controversy upon matters contained in the Old Testament , which had no reference whatever to Christ [ the Christian religion being altogether independent of the Old Testament ) coold not be said to come within the rule laid down in these case * .

      The Court did not think there was any ground for the role . There waa that connection between the Old and the New Testament that one part ot it c « nld not be assailed and vilified without reflecting upon Christianity generally . It was their duty to take the law as it was laid down in the etatute-book , and there was nothing in thesa statutes to take the ease before them out of the ordinary rule . It had always been considered an offence of the highest magnitude to make attacks of that sort upon the Christian religion , and the Jury had found that the publication ia que » Hon was a libel of that nature . Affidavits , iu mitigation , having beea put in and read .

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

      contained in that publication . Nay , the author had given a candid admission of bis error , in baring : witbdrawn these offensive passages ia a recent edition . Hour , then , could tbe Court punish him for the said of a wi rk of tbe contents of which he waa ignorant ? He admitted that legally he was the publisher of the work , but tha statement that his name was to the book went to the Jury unaccompanied by tbe explanation that he was nut tbe original publisher . Mr . Hey wood had , at a trial in Mancheater , pleaded guilty to being the original publisher , and had been discharged , after giving bail to appear when called upon . All be asked was , that the same punishment might be imposed upon him , and he felt confident they would never have to call upon him . He humbly trusted tha Court would not take him from his home and his family in a case where there wu in absence of all criminal intention , and he left the case in their hands .

      The Attokney-Gei . ehai . said it wbb for the Court to say whether the prosecution was not one which ought to have Wea instituted- It was only necessary for him to refer to some of th& passages iu the libel to show their mischievous and blasphemous tendepcy . Mr . Hetherington had not in his affidavit stated that when he ascertained the libellous nature of the publication he had withdrawn it from publication , and bad ceased to sell it Whatever had been done in the case of Mr . Heywood was do precedent for their Lordships ; they were to judge of the facts which came before them , and it waa for them to say what punishment ought to be Inflicted on the defendant for the publication which had been laid before them .

      The Court having consulted for some time together , Mr . Justice Littledale prenouDced tbe judgment of the Court , which waa , that the defendant be imprisoned in the custody of tbe Marshal of tbe Martbalsea for tbe space of four months .

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

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

      Mr . Nathan Stott , who said , Gentlemen , it devolves upon roe , I suppose , to move that th © magistrates ba memorialised . ( Cries of" What for ?') Will any one second it T ( A voice in the body of tbe meeting ' me . "; Stott continued " It ' s moved and seconded that tbe magistrates be memorialised , those that think so will" —The speaker was here told tbat this duty devolved upon tbe Chairman , he sat down , and Mr . Barnard Ward , ss active man among tbe Chartists , rose and said , Mr . Chairman and Gentlemen , I think that it is incumbent upon persons who move resolutions at public meetings to staro their nature and purport , and I call upon the last speaker to do so .

      Mr . Nathah Stott again rose , somewhat excited , and said that he did not think it was at all necessary to waste the time of the meeting , by saying anything . They all knew what they were collected together for , and he would not waste their time by saying anything mere than wb&t be had done . Tbe Ciiairmah explained tbe nature of the resolution , and Mr . John Smith supported it in a speech of considerable length and energy . Mr . BabnaBD Ward said , F * llow-men , I congratulate you—yes , I congratulate you that 70 a have our Chairman and Mr . William Taylor once more in the field . Yea , I congratulate you on having these men once more in the field . ( Hear . ) Had they done their duty we should have bad no occasion to

      meet here . The working men , the po » r working men did all they could to prevent this county having a rural police established . Tbe working men bad called meeting upon meeting—had printed bills—hod waited time upon time upon Messrs . Milne and Taylor , whom they bad been led to believe wera their friends , bat all to no uae . No . They like others said , " The police are required , you wish to rob us—you want to divide property . We must have the police , or our persona and property will not be safe . " ( The Chairman denied this . ) Why not assist us to prevent their introduction ? One ounce of prevention is belter than a pound of cure . Tbe manufacturers have introduced the police , and now they want to entrap the public iuto tbe belief tbat they were wiabful to do away with tbein . L « t the public be

      aware , itw » s a clap-trap ; all they wanted was to throw the exptnee off the county-raU into the general taxe * . In the county-rate , property paid its quota ; but let these men succeed in getting tbe expence of the police thrown into tbe general tax « s , and , then , every man would have to pay , not according to the amount of his property , but according to their consumption of taxed articles . Now , then , ( continued Mr . Ward , ) let the police be paid aa at present , for if the amount of their burden had been on the backs of tbe working classes , we should never have heard of thia meeting fruin the parties who had got it up . The police bad been Introduced by them to put us agitators down—to protect property—and let them pay . One object had teen attained , for which

      thaso buttoned-op bind vagabonds were brought here for , namely , to awe the people into a quiet submission of a reduction of wages ; and , having effected this , they now wanted to torn their backs upon their friends . This was ungenerous . — [ The speaker wa * here interrupted by the Chairman and Mr . Taylor , both of wbom denied thai the rematks were applicable to them . ]—Mr . Ward continued—Gentlemen , aa a working man , I have not had a chance of a College education ; and though baring had no education , only what could be attained on the loom , I did sot Interrupt those men when they spoke . The moment I begin to speak , they continue to interrupt mo . Is this fair * If these remarks are set applicable to these gentlemen , let them state to his meeting tbat they neither connived at ,

      or encouraged the introduction of the Rural Police into this county , and I will believe them , and apologise to thia meeting ; aad till then I cannot retract ( Hear , hear , hear . ) They have appealed to the pnblie , and to tho public they ought not to fear appearing , and have their conduct Investigated . 1 am a poor man , but shall not shrink from my doty , though roy only grunmar be that of Shore-edge , ( Mr . B . ' s residence . * [ Interruption followed from Mesarr . Milne and Taylor , and some few others , the bulk of the meeting remaining neutral ] Again , continued the speaker , I aay let them stand before thia meeting , and say they did not connive at their introduction , and I will apologise . ( Mr .

      Taylor . You know you are fabricating one half of what you say . ) I know tbat if our pretended leaden had not ahronk from their duty , we should not have had tbe police . [ Uproar , in the midat of which Mr . Milne said , that if the meeting thought Ward ' s remarks were applicable to him , he was unfit to ait in that chair . He should like to know the opinion of the meeting . Mr . Nathan Stott again came forward asd said , without any motion being made , " Those who think Mr . Milne is not guilty of what Barnard Ward durjes him with , will "hold up their hands . ( A number of hands were held up . ) Stott then said , " Those who think that Barnard Ward should not speak in thia meeting , again will show the same by holding up their hands . "

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      A number of band * were agaia held up ; Stott proceeded , with great haste , "to the contrary ; " no hands held up . . He them aaid , Mr . Chairman , both motion * aW '( jarrled . ) \ Mr . Ward here sat down on bia seat on the platform ; and the Chairman put the resolution moved by Stott , which was declared to be carried . Two memorial * , which had been proposed by two different' parties * were then read , after which Mr . William Tatlob , of Yale Mill , rose and said—Fellow-townsmen , —Are there any of the police heref Will any one inform me whether there are any in tbi * room f ( No answer . ) Bucaose if there be , 1 shall be guarded in what I say . It affords nte considerable pleasure , after what has beea done , to be allowed to address you . I am sorry that Barnard Ward ha * taken tho steps be baa done . ( Uproar . 1 air . Ward—You deny to me the right to apeak , and if I must not reply , I will not be attacked . ^ Considerable uproar . )

      Mr . Taylor continued—I am not going to attack anybody if you will only be quiet ( Hear , hear . ) I can say that ne man more strenuously opposed the introduction « f the police than Mr . Milne and myself , nor has any man done more to render their situation mere uncomfortable after they did come than myself . Previous to their introduction , I had two interview * with Mr . Hordern , our resident magistrate , one of them of an hour's length ; I did more good by that hour ' * conversation than Ward could have done with all hi * Shore-edge grammar in six month * . I found , however , that Mr . Hordern wm like nineteen out of every twenty wbo are placed in hi * situation ; be bad made up bis mind to go with the stream . He said to me , " The police will be introduced into Lancashire , and tbi *

      township will have to pay it * quota ; would you prefer paying , and not have the men ? " I answered ( continued Mr . T . ) " Decidedly so . If you are determined to rob us , do it fairly ; but do not insult us in the bargain . " I know that the police dread me—that they have their eye on me . I know that they have said , " We can associate with ali parties , but William Taylor j we cannot tell what to make of him . His look * are so forbidding , that we are afraid to meet him . " This has been brought to my own bouse . I have made some calculations , and as you know I am so fond of office , I have had a chance of making them accurately . One year I , was overseer , another year surveyor of tbe highway * , another year I waa Boroughreeve—( laughter )—and ¦ sveral yean one of the select vestry . In

      1837 we had a great deal bettor opportunity of paying the rate * than now—last quarter of a year we have to pay more for the expense of the police than the whole ot the county rate amounted to in 1837 . The county rate was then one-third of what it now ia , or two-third * Ies * than now . If thia atate of things is to go on , * you will never have the collector off your door . We are all agreed , both Tone * , Whigs , and Radicals , rich and poor —ne matter whether a man has his six mills or hi * < ix landed estates—no matter whether he is in receipt of six paumls per week , ot six ahiUiaga , whether a pauper , or on able labourer , there i * but one mind and one voice , via , — "We will not be strutted over with those idle vagabonds . " I congratulate you that thia is the first time in this township that there ever was an

      appeatance of unanimity amongst us . Let u * not spoil it . Why object to the police t not so much on account of tbe expense as on other grounds . They are an ua-English , anti-christian force—but not only are they un-English , but at strict variance with the constitutional lawa of England . If there be one thing more conducive to the destruction of tbe rights and liberties of the people tban another , it is the rural police . Tbe expense of maintaining this force cannot cist the country lesa than £ 30 , 000 . a-year . In a short apace of time it has coat thia township no lesa than £ 187 17 s . 4 cLthia would amount to 1 , 402 half-crowns ; supposing we had 1 , 602 half-crowns at our voatry meetings , bovr would it look if , instead of bantering the poor old people down to an odd sixpence , we threw 1 , 502

      halfcrowns to tbem ? Weuld it not do more good than keeping an irresponsible and unconstitutional force to spy our every action ? Who sent these men amongst us ? ( Mr . Ward—" The £ 10 voters . ") It i * true the Legislature passed » law , but threw tbe responsibility on the county magistrates . The introduction of tbia police is only tbe forerunner of another devil-begotten law—the New Poor Law . I know from bints that have been thrown out to roe from head-quarter * , that it is probabla tbat an attempt will be made to introduce it among ua before March is ov « r . These vagabond police are tbe apiea—the traitora—the vassals of the Government . No man would accept the office of a county constabulary policeman who ho * a drop of English blood in * his veins . I hope none of them are natives of

      Lancashire : I hope they come from China , or Syria , where we have been knocking out their brains . I would advise you not to dirty your bands by touching such degraded beings . So far as I am concerned , 1 would see tbe man who has the baseness to become one of this force starve , and sot give him a bit of bread ; or thirst , and give him nothing to drink . I abhor them from my heart . Tbe speaker then alluded to the memorials , and thought one drawn up by Smith was tbe best He continued—I conclude by calling upon you to keep up the present good feeling , and let no potty jealousy mar our proceedings , but let ua do our utmost to rid our country of a set of Russell-eapionage-men , whose duties are not so much to look after crime , as to act the base aud disgusting characters of spies and traitora .

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

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

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

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

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

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

      Thb late Inundation a * Bbbntfobd . —The adjourned inquest on one of the sufferers by thia disastrous occurrence was continued on Wednesday week , and s camber of witnesses were called , who deposed to the various circumstances which had come under their notice . The only important point , however , which has not been already Beveral times before the public , was , tbat a breach hid taken place in ; the walls of the KingBbury reservoir , belonging to the Regent ' s Canal Company , through which a vast boar of water was poured into the Brent . The

      reservoir itself , as it was stated , covers upwards of 140 acres of ground , and the walls by which it was enclosed being insufficient to resist so immense a pressure as that thrown upon them by the thaw , and the consequent influx of water from the country , the flood both overtopped the walls and forced a passage through one part , by which a considerable volume reached the Brent , and , as it is supposed , tended in great measure to produce the calamity at Brentford . The iuquiij continued until nearly eight o ' clock , and the Jury being then bound over in the usual recognizances , the inquest was adjourned until Wednesday last .

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      TaS Law !; TH « Law !—In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , laet week , Stone Mann , formerly a parser in the navy , obtained a mandamus to compel the Commfteioners of the Navy to pay him tke sum of £ 500 , being due to hint as wages aad emoluments . It appears Mann had been » purser in 1824—5 ;; but had been cashiered in the latter , year . Since that time , litigation as to the validity of the Court-Martial , and with Lords ot the Admiralty as to the sum he claimed , had prevented him obtaining a settlement of his claim . So much for the " glorious uncertainty of the lawj "

      Another Sample . —In the flame Court as ^ the above , an individual , who was indicted for perjury , and , who was acquitted , because the tenth of ten counts , and an immaterial one , too , in the indictment , broke down , obtained a verdict for defamation of character , with £ 800 damages . A rule was , however , applied for to Bet aside the Verdict , . which course of proceeding led the Jndges and applicant to fix the damages at £ 250 . The case now again came before the Court , on the ground that the Master , in taxing the costs , had disallowed the plaintiff ' s expenoes for all those parts of the declaration in which he had failed ; and , after a long and able discussion of the matter , in which all the Judges took a very earnest interest , the Court took time to consider their decision .

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

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

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

      been " put forward" at the " gathering" there , wa 8 not put into " ohase" till four o ' olock in the afternoon of Friday , twenty-four hours afterwards ; and the printer is ready to testify , on oath , that it was not composed , even in " slip ? , " till after the meeting must nave separated . Clever Grandmama I to keep Leeds correspondents , who rusticate in the "Old Globe Hotel , " Shoe-lane , and to call foreign expresses from over the channel whenever a- contemporary gets a "fat bit" worth filching . But " what a falling off ia there , " when the poor old lady is reduced to the necessity of telling a palpable He to screen a piracy from a halfpenny Chartist paper !

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

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      THE WISHED FOR UNION OF THK MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASSES . TO THE EDItOa OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sir , —A very sensible , pithy and opportune letter appeared in your invaluable paper of Saturday last , from the pen of ray friend . William Hick . He not only depicts therein the true character of the gentocracy , distinguished in the political arena by the soubriquet ot " The Fox » n « i Qooae Club , " but very cogently point * out the interminable mischief with which an amalgamation of Chartism with tbe sophisms of these pseudo-Liberals will be fraught . Tbe propriety of Mr . Hick ' s warning none can dispute , yet his fears may have taken too wide a range . The principles of Chartism are not only invulnerable to the attacks of the already vanquished troops of the " household " army , but they Are

      made of materials which will stand unimpaired amid tbe wreck of nature aud the crush of worlds "—they have their foundation in truth which endureth fer ever , and there is not one fustian jacket , blistered hand , or unshorn chin , connected with a heart 00 which thdae principles are impressed , that can abandon the sacred cause , and fight under the banner or in anywise countenance , the Biovementa , of this doubly base , doubly brutal , and doubly bloody fragment of a faction . Political adventurer * , trading politicians , the Jim Crow fraternity , and a few soft-handed political spouters , with " Wha wants me i" inscribed on thoir foreheads , may form an allhnce with the crack-skulled brotherhood , but the loss of such will be the gain of our cause , and such an accession to tbe club ( if it can boast of entity ) will be like the Irishman * * victory—they will win a defeat .

      The Chartista of Great Britain know full Well the incalculable benefits tbe cause has derived from the almost superhuman exertions , and the peerless powers of mind , evinced by their now cell-bound chieftain , Feargus O'Connor ; and they nevar can abandon their leader to follow in the train of a disguised foe . The Northern Star has guided their footsteps , and led them into the pathway of pure political truth , and they will not now follow the ignis fatuus generated either in the bogs of Ireland or the marshes of Water-lane . Yet still an attempt will be made—yea , and now ia making , to seduce and bewilder the unwary , and no exertion ought to be spared to frustrate the inaldious designs of the execrable squad who coil round the Big Beggarman , and sustain an ephemeral existence by licking up hi * stereotyped venom , and vomiting it upon the uncompromising advocates of equal riahta .

      On Saturday last , the pigmy Doctor who compounds the ingredients for that weekly dose of delusion , ycleped the Leeds Times , has adminiatered to his spongy-brained patients ( for , God knows , they are patient to endure bis Btuff ) a bottle of smoke , impregnated with a few drops of humbug , a little fulsome , soft soap , and a few lumps of speedily-diseolved falsehood . He has labelled his phial thus : — " The Lessons taught by the Great Leeds Meeting . " The Leeds Meeting certainly taught some very salutary lessons , which the concocton of the " Festival" will not soon forget ; but Jfother Goose should not palm the nonsense and fictions of her own cobweb brain as the veritable " lessons taught " at Marshall ' s new school . Teachers of a superior order took their station on that evening , and scholar * from a higher academy made their appearance , consequently , Mother Goose ' s horn-book w& 3 thrown under tbe desk ; a different system of teaching was propounded ; and the whole of the originally intended procesa of tuition waa arranged .

      A * MolW Goose p « n 8 the "lessons" which she dreamed were taught by the Great Leeds Meeting , " in the form of verees , in order , I suppose , that her visions ot the night may pass as gospel , I will correct her errors by the same method . By that meeting we are taught , First—That Mother Goose has no power in her tail , aud no more influence over the people than she ought , which is just none at alL Second—That the Fox and Goose Club are powerless and insignificant . They are like burning and crackling thorns under a pot—then make a momentary blase and a discordant noise—they vanish in smoke , leaving only a few worthies * ashes behind , which the most gentle breeze of Chartism may scatter into oblivion ' * tomb .

      Third—That the mighty one of Erin has fallen from hi * once proud eminence—tbat hi * " occupation ' * gone . " He 1 * frreclaimably lost ; and cannot even serve the purposes of Mother Goose , the last of faction ' * dying clique . Fourth—That King Humbug i * dethroned , and cannot be reinstated—a sure and certain sign that the Meero . Marshall , Stanafeld , and Co ., must speedily commence tome other line of business than that of twaddle-apinning—such stuff being too fragile to hold the tottering syatem together . Fifth—That the Chartist * of the West Biding ot Yorkshire know their right *; and , knowing , dare maintain them . Sixth—That the Chartlat * are proof against the cant , sophistry , jugglery , craft , deceit , and fraud of the whole tribe of associated hypocrites .

      Seventh—That the Chartist * are all-potent ; and can , with the greatest facility , vanquish their opponents , even upon their own dunghill , and in spite of their best-contrived stratagems . And Eighth—The "leasona" teach that the Chartiata have attained that elevated position , from which no power en earth can dislodge them , save intestine broil * .

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      Wow , Sir , the chagrined Doctor to aware of itj m yet he ha * racked hi * poor brain to devise a ot ^ for his now unmasked coadjutor * 1 and "what ii 2 covering ? Why , one of the most flimsy thbui Jj ginable—it baa neither warp nor woof—it ha * a ^ Z * the shadow of s shade of robstanoa . He baa hbooJ but in vain , to identify tha foxe * and geese , « Ja ^ the Anti-Corn Law agitators , with the Chartista S help the poor fellow f he mnatr be hard up , when feC to attempt the amalgamation W such opposite *; ' ^ velnbt , should he affirm , in his next lucubration TS the arms of her " most Christian" Majesty , . ( wj Tictoria , and those of the Celestial Emperor , i ^ J employed against each other , cut that they are emptnvj as " anew manifestation" of peace and amity /** The Doctor * * extraordinary discoveries are snootm ^ . to the little world to which is oracle * peak * , inthTJ lowin ^ conmiarttm-iate ~ man «« :- — ** " What is the Leedt Association but a new mitiu ation of Chartism V' And , again , ' —m e * " What are the Anti-Corn Law agitators but Cbto ^ under another name f" ^*

      I shall not trespass upon your space , or on the ,. Hence of your reader * , by any prolix conuneBtnj the Doctor ' s new discoveries , because it I * mineta *!? I alwaya thought that Chartism had Univers » j g 5 frage as it * fundamental principle , and , if my ey ^ T ceived me- not , the organs of the association hthj , the emanations of their master-mind * , declared UtfLj sal Suffrage " impracticable ; " they have repudWu and inscribed Household Suffrage upon their bnnJ Now , what affinity . there-exists between anim ^ J tional , reflecting , and feeling man and inanimate btU , mute mortar , and unfeeling stone , ia a problem I S for the Doctor ' * solution , which I opine will beiiuM " manifestation" of hi * inventive faculty . *

      A * to the Anti-Corn Law agitator * being " Chvtht under another name , " allow me , in a word or t * ah point out the object * of each . Tbat of tbe CbarUnt ' ? to obtain the enactment of such law * as shall gauwZ to tbe working man " a fair day ' * wage for a fab dm labour , " and to abrogate those despotic laws * fcS militate against the accomplishment of such objecti The object of the Anti-Corn Law agitator * is , ( tw bared of all the rubbish they rake into the qtmt ^ T to obtain a Repeal of the Cora Laws , that the prf ^ bread be reducedand for what

      may ; purpose ? r » increase the comforts of tke operative ? Nom , leaf of that tree . It Is to enable the mOlM * merchant * , or slaughter-home gent * , to compete vjj tbe foreign manufacturer , which they find they aaw do without reducing their profits , or the wages of tfc labourer . Tbe former they cannot brook , and tin latter ia impracticable , being already screwed don fe the starvation point ; therefore , their acheme li | , reduce the price of bread , that the " workey * nur m his morsel at a cheaper rate , and the grinder be tba enabled to turn the waae-tcrew » little lower .

      And thi * is " Chartism under another name V Tin Doctor must be either ignorant , completely ignoring tbe principles of Chartism—subject to fit * of mead ] aberration , or ambitious of aping the " thieviah Qoi * If the first , I would advise him ' to place himself vnitt tbe tuition of some fustian jacket , and vacate h * Editorial chair , until better qualified to give " learnr on politic * . If the second , I would give biiftaaja tions the bint to place him in some lunatic tsrha . and , if the latter , t would suggest to him the propriety of throwing away his mask , and openly aiovia himself the rival of " the Great Liar of the North * In another part of his dirty rag , is a pangnph replete with falsehood and scurrillity . He states tia ) the Chartist * were supplied with money , during U * recent demonstration , by the Tories , which i * * L 1 X The lilts of subscribers will settle that point

      He apeak * of tbe placard * which were issued , nl which portrayed the character of hi * fallen friend Du , aa being slanderous and false , yet he has forgot to show wherein the Blander and falsehood con&tad This he could not do , as every reader of the plaotji knows that not' a twentieth part of Dan ' s tretetaf , profligacy , deceit and fraud , waa hinted at- It votld be impossible to depict the true character of tbat arch-impostor , or to chronicle one-half of the black deeds within the limits of a thousand posters , tad ft i * not in the power of the Doctor > o cleanse that poetical leper , as well might he essay to change th » vipet into a " sacking dove . "

      He concludes the paragraph I allude to , by stuping Messrs . Moir , Collins , and Deegan ; but I niittii these men if they place any value on the congota ]* tions of this unfledged plural-unit , since the Chaituti full well know that bia praise is censure , and ill censure praise . This , in part , verifies the opinion i Mr . Hick , yet , depend upon it , the aid bird * are not ( a be caught by such worthless chaff . Chartists ! beware—keep your " eyes open . * Yours , truly , William Ridbb . Leeda , Feb . Snd , 1841 .

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      WAKEFIELD HELL . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERS STAB . SrR , —I think ray last letter will satisfy your nadea as to tbe cleanliness of the pest-house I am endeawning to show up in these letters . I might cite seveal other instances of the extreme fllthiness of the plaes , did I not think them too disgusting for publicatioa k the "People ' s Paper . " I will , therefore , proceed to that part of the "Rules , " which orders scakiasd weights to be kept for the purpose of weighing th prisoners' bread . The prisoners are served with a half-pound loaf three times a-day , in the following manner : —A penm

      -called Thomas , ( one of the moat overbearing tyiaaa is the place , ) who has the management of the bread ud " skilly , " places a large basket , full of loaves , in tin hand * of one of the prisoners , who walks hackwudi , between the forms on which the prisoners areie&H at a smart pace , whilst Thomas , with a scornful grin , ia throwing the morsels , right and left , to tbe halfstarved wretches who are anxiously awaiting ta , heedless whether they fall on the dirty floor , or into the hand * of the prisoners . A goodly portion of tie loaves thus thrown ab « ut are badly baked , and seven ! of them are not above six ounces in weight Well , let us see how thia " Rule * " are carried out I have wo

      several men stand up ia their places with a little ifl abapen tbisg like a cinder between their fingers , wiM had been given to them a * eight ounces of good brad ; they have stood in this manner for an hour or more , and were then compelled , through intense hunger , to sit down and « at it I have watched a man , whoa number waa 345 , stand up for an hour and a half , in order that hi * bread might be weighed , and n « body went near him until the prisoners were marched off to bed , when he received another in exchange , vbicb seemed no larger than the first I have several timet taken notice of the manner in which a foppish " officer" treated an idiot , No . 2 i » , who had been *»• tenced to three years' imprisonment One morning , la particular , he stood ap . with his bread in his baad ,

      which is the signal that they required it to be weighed the above mentioned fop went to tbe basket tad sought out the smallest loaf he could find , and g » n it to the poor idiot ; after which be ordered him to itt down , and then turned round and laughed heartilj «» hishumane exploit . This will sufficiently prove ti » value of that part of the rule * concerning " scales aad weight * , " and fully bear me out in my former awrtfM — "That the whole is a brutal mockery and farce with regard to the prisoners , and a gross imposition on ttft public . " I could give scores of instances of the tyrtnny and brutality , to which the prisoner * in that filtiiy dea are subjected ; but , as I intend attaching beretoj balance sheet of the money received for supplying tn » Chartist prisoners with flannel , I must conclude for to * present , and subscribe myself ,

      Yours , truly , George White . P . S . —I understand that my esteemed friend , WiBi *" ^ Bbton , of Barnsley , has written his last monthly lnl « to me , but that the humane Governor ha * detained »' I dont know by what authotity . We shall » ee t I Q C <• • • © ** m Noa H * r * " * i © © m © gj do «*« ow <» «» <« 9 SMH ¦ -1 " * . ^ Joooo © * 3 . ........ . - ~ ° • * p ••« . !! ' ' g ? - « * : : « I : : : : | §* I I § » S : fc A O Pt ' ¦ •* b-- : i * I * - -3 i 1 ^ fi ! l « ii |« i f * iHJ ! i * l «» i 2 ¦ ¦ I il " *« a « VK * .. 1 / -M ! " 14 | . -: | 4 JI J * l 3 | S-gAS £ I l l s - - ! Mitilii . iii s | i Ili ^ ss

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct535/page/6/