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uu Sarcrday next , we shall gire the portrait or Ensue ; . ; to onr Yorksiiire « bscriber 3 ; on the foUovriag Saturday , to those of Lancashire ; on the Saturday after , to those of all other places Price of Paper , with Portrait , 6 ld . . THE ilONMOUTH PLATE . Specimens of the above splendid Engraving are now in the hands of our general Lancashire Agent , Mr . Heywood , from whom the other agents wiil receive theirs as usual ; ia the hands of Mr . Guest , Midland Counties Agent ; and in the hauds of Mr . Cleave , our general London Agent . Specimens shall be sent to our other Agents , with their Plates of Emmett . We request the particular attention of onr Subscribers to this jnagDificieni Engraving—the most splendid ever given -wiin a nevrspaper .
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jiuious to make ill circumstances conduce to the facilitation of the means necessary for ensuring it through ; he latter medium . The greatest step towards this which has been yet taken , is- the unseating of the Whigs . Whipped from the mess , the hun . gry wolves will howl most ravenously ; and though JirssEii and a few others similarly gorged with Church and people plunder , may prefer political extin ction to the chances attendant on the recognition of right principles , there are not a few , on whose backs the hair grow 3 more thinly , who will be ready enough to swallow pledges of any character , trusting to the chapter of accidents , to furnish
excuses for their violation . To make these the unwilling instruments in the accomplishment of their own professed intentions , we maEt have thirty or forty borough-going Chartist Members in the next House ; more than that we may hare , if &e people do their duty , and the dissolution eomes not too hastily on hb j and these will bo bold the balance of the nation ' s power is to make the nation ' s -will to be respected in its own House . For the procuring of this band of reterans to battle with the factions , every means must be instantly put , and incessantly kept , in operation , to eonvir : « the ten-pounders that their
holding of the franchise is a trust , and that their personal interest will be best serred by the honest and faiibfal discharge of that trust . Let bat the people learn to know their friends itnd to avoid their enemies , and they have done jonch towards the attainment of their object . Nothing , however , is well done , in which anything ¦ which might have been done is left undone . The people must not only see to the exercising of their just influence over the ten-pound voters now on the register , but they must see that the law be made to do every thing for which
faction has not utterly incapacitated it towards their own enfranchisement . The next register must b&Te npoa it every taoroogh-goaag Giartist , -who by jay fair fcoastrnenon can succeed in preventing the factions and their paid agents from depriving him of the power to vote . We ffluBt have done with all fastidiousness about " rates" and " shilling" paying , pay anything ; submit to everything to get on the register , and so to obtain the means of fighting the people ' s foes with their own weapons . As useful sad necessary instructions for this purpose , we have copied the following from a cotemporary , and recommend i ; to the attention of our readers : —
" EOT 10 EXTEKD THE SCPFBlGE . u Every person , who is in the occupation of any house , mthome , ceaEting-hoase , chop , workshop , stable , ibbl , « othex building , worth £ 10 per year , is entitled to be on toe register of voters for the city or borough in -which it is situate , if fie has been in occupation of Buch premises from the 31 st of July last ' 1840 ) , or in several such premise * , is succession , in the same city or baroagb . " It is necessary that it should be clearly understood ¦ wiat tbe revising barristers hold to be ' Houses , war » - bocses , 'conntisg-boases , shops , and other buildings , ' which are as follows , viz : — " ' Hoist . —A house is a separate dwelling , approached by a door from the open air . '
" Any person therefore occupying apartments , and h » viE £ CDntroul over the outer door , is held to be a holder , although he may allow others the use of such door . As some misunderstanding has existed on this suhjret , it should therefore fce particularly observed that the possession of a separate door is only necessary for those who claim for a house , ud not necessary for the occupiers of warehouses , counting-nouses , shops , 4 c " ' Warehouse . —A warehouse is a store-room for merchandise at goods used in trade . ' " CcusHtt ^ -Tiovse . —A counting- house is a room in which a person in trade keeps his books and accounts , whether it be a separate building , or only s room in s house for that purpose . '
• ' * Shop , —A shop is a place for tbe sale of goods , or a room in which manufactures are carried on , as a ¦ workshop , ¦ which may be either 3 detached place , or a room in a house used as such : bq that a tailor , shoem&ker , < fcc , holding an apartment or apartments , and working in one room -worth 4 s . per week is entitled to be on the regisler . * " Other Buildings . —May be a stable , shed , storehouse , stall , separate building nsed as an office or school , hot-toflse , cow-honse , ' < fcc . Any person , therefore , occupying any such preicises &s above d&ser&ed , -worth -a . -per-week , and not rsied for them , should immediately claim to berated , U the Bsfdnn Act requires all persons either to be ated or to have claimed to be rated .
" The overseers do not alvrajs consider it necessary to alter the rating where the landlord pays the rates , more especially for shops , ic , being part of houses ; but if the party claiming should be rated , he can deduct the smaaat tram his rest . " No form of claim to be rated ii absolutely necessary , & verbal application to an overseer being sufficient ; bat the following may be adopted : —
X CLAIM TO BE BATED . " To the Overseers of the parish of " 1 hereby give you notiee , that I oecnpy a , at So . , in street in your parish , and I claim to fee rated to the relief of the poor in respect of such premises , in order that 1 may be entitled to Vote in the tZeaioa « f Members of Parliament for the city of Westninsigr . D&tsd iliis day of 184 ( Signed ; of " Instructions . —Insert the name of tbe parish , and the nature of the preniises , as house , warthouae ,
countmg-hcrase , shop , workshop , stable , shed , or as the case any be ; and the name of the street , court , &c .,- pnt in tbe d&te , and sign ttia names of the claimant , aad his place of residence , a * , full length . Give this claim to an overseer , and carefully preserve a correct copy ; the person who serves the claim should immediately ¦ write on the ccpy to -srhoin the claim -was delivered , and tbe day of the month . If any poor ' s rate be due in respect ofthe premises occupied by the claimant , tender the amount . IjoniiUedfrom the Hsl of raters oa the 31 rf o / July , claim ft fc rojiiicrtd mi or be / Di * ihc 2 bih o / Awjus L "
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AiEEOiTH . —Mr . O'ConiiOT tcdl have much pleasure in accepting the invitation of his good friends QJ J-tLtocIL upon the conditions formerly named . iUBTflrs Ttdtjl . —Mr . O'Connor acknowledges the receipt of theletter from Merlhyr trilh inexpressible joy ; thirteen thousand signatures for the Charier and the Repeal of the Union , if a ban-^^ quet worth going to ! Xbx Ch a rtist Seats . — We have received a long , d ' jle . aud salh-faciory opinion of Counsel , with vXnu ' . e ins ! ruciia > is for our guidance as to details , i 7 i the recovery of the Edinburgh , Newc-asiie , Xoryich , and Sunderland seats , note usurped by ihe enemy ; ichich ice shall lay before our nade ;* i , exi vecek . Mr . O'Connor has
undertaken lo furnhh a legal and formal draft of petition , ichichmu&t be presented zrithin fourteen days afur PaT : iament meets . For the present tie can or ^' y asiure our hearty readers thai , according to tin : opinion of Counsel , the teats will 0 e recovered . Ms . O'Coxxos appears in a great fury with us , and tee mits : gay very unreasonably , for having inserted a nolic-e of hi * health being drank by an Orange Society , at Norton . We thought Mr . O Coru . or haa too extensive a knowledge of the people of England io have been led into the error that the ierm Orange implied anything like ihe Tecognif . CiU of Irish Orange principles . Is he not aware Mta ; 0 ranee is the Re form colour in
i or&ihire , aud many other parts of England i and : nai the Orange Society was a "Reformers ' °% * ¦ ' We -r «* ' &at this explanation will be a svjT'ttent apology to Mr . O'Connor for withholduig hiifunom leUer on the subject . -lss i-ist ^ s-x r . GENTs should say immediately the Key i heir p me * are to be sent . Tltose near can fore t \ eirs ly call . ng at l ? ie office during next trees , or Ly snying how they are to be forwarded Uhjous Po £ Z 2 CaL Favocks ere declined . tr " £ 0 f > 1 >' - ~ V / lS ^ * e >< d his exact address , us vi .. communicate icith him on the means oj conveying kL " strange intelligence" to the pnper quarter . ^ -Husons m ^ s- stand over for awhile .
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V . Clabke , Jot . — Be are sorry not to have his approbation , but cannot help it : tee think he takes a too rtstrxcted view of the sut < ject . We have no doubt there art some individual localities vn which , at the late elections , the Ballot might have served , io some extent , the people ' s cause ; thai , however , is not the question . The question is , whether it would not ., as a general practice , militate against us in the present stale of the franchise—and tee are decidedly of opinion that it would . J . Starr . — We think his present song not sv good as his former one . \ . Membeb op the Wesletan Society sends us a
letter to the Wesleyan Methodists of Manchester , from which we give the following •— " / teish our ministers minutely to examine Mr . O ' Connor ' s letters io the Irish landlords ^ especially that in the Northern Siar of July 2 ith . Now , what I irish is , that every preache r of cur society ( especially the present conference ) would examine that letter , and either plainly and candidly refute , and point out its , errors ( if there are any ) , or otherwise candidly embrace , and -use all their influence to accomplish its object . In my opinion , it points out a full , complete , and ordy remedy for our present temporal national calamities . And this I do , and must , and will believe , till I see it fairly refuted , I wish all
the minisUrs of Christ either to point out Mr . O'Connor ' s errors , or otherwise to embrace them as important trutlis , and use ail the means in their power to accomplish the same . And I beq respectfully is tell them , that if they intend to be made cxien&ivety useful to the souls of men , they must now begin by manifesting far more regard than they Iiave done for tfieir poor , pined , naked , backs , bellies , houses and bodies . Indeed , the best way of doing good to mens savh is to " heap coals of melting love upon their heads , " by doing good to their bodies . Brethren , some of you have read Mr . O'Connor ' s letter : I advise you all to read it : and as you have a majority of our preachers among you at present , pnt it into
¦ their hands , and aik their candid opinion upon the same . " W . H . Croni >" , of Neieport , has written us a long letter in contradiction to ihe statements contained in the letter qf Wm . Edwards , inserted in our last paper . Mr . Cronin denies that Mr . Edwards was proposed at all as a Jit and proper person to bring the principles of the Charter before thejnibhc—such motion never being put at all ; but , on the contrary , the meeting were unanimous in favour of Dr . Price , —it being , however , understood that in the event of Dr . Price declining to come forward , Mr . Edwards rras then to be invited . M ^ r . Cronin asserts positively , that Mr . Edwards did promise , not only
to support the Doctor , out to nominate him at the hustings . Mr . Dickenson , he says , was not asked to siFpport Dr . Price . Mr . C , after sonte lengthy remarks upon Mr . Edwards ' s cotiduct , says , addressing him ;— " You say , If the Doctor arrived at Monmouth before the Court opened , you would n » l allow yourself to be put in nomination . Now , Sir , I ask you , what did you leave Newport for ? was it not with an idea of putting yourseif in nomination 1 I ask you again , what length of time the hall tras open before I announced to the people that Dr . Price , the Chartut candidate , teas cornel If you answer true , you wilt say , not ticenly mir . utes . You know there were different applications made to the
M ^ ayor of Monmouth , requeuing him to admit Dr . Price as a candidate ; you know I sent in a printed bill to the Mayor , which contained Dr . Price ' s name , giving the Mayor to sec that there was a candidate in the field ; but no answer came back . But you were a little more kind when you wert applied to , and sent the following answer : u You must do your own work yourselves when the lime comes . Now this proves the time teas not come , though you say the Doctor was not there in time . You then go on lo say that a friend of the Monmouth electors , who was with you at ihe time , asked you if you would have yourself put in nomination 1 to which you replied , 'yes , as there was no one else . Now , mark , there were no Montnoulh electors there
with the exception of Mr . Buttery , icko accompanied me [ to the Inn . Let Buttery answer this . The question was never asked by Buttery , or any o' } ier ,-in my hearing , relative to you being put in nomination . I told you . in the presence of Mr . Buttery , that Newport decided in favour of Dr . Price , and thai you knew it . You then said you had nothing to do -with the Newport people : that it was ihe Monmoulh people you had to do with I asked you if you were going io put yourself in nomination 1 . You answered * Yes ? I told you the doctor was coming , and you were to nominate him . You said you wou'd not nominate any man unless he uere present to explain our principles to the people . I then remonstrated with you for your conduct ; when , at last , you consenJed to propone him if he came in time " J . L ., ilA £ Kl > CH . —His stanzas next week .
A Reader , in Drogheda , is informed , that the tracts he mentions , with any others , may be ordered of Mr . Oeave , London , through the medium qf any bookseller . As Engineer , at Bath , may send all his papers by post to any body in Ireland , and they will go free . He may address them to P . M . Brophy , 4 , Wormvood-pate , Dublin , or io Joseph Mac Donald , 122 , High-street , Netcry , or to T . P . Broady , 13 , Crosshali-slreet , Whitediapel , Liverpool , ' who is the secretary te the committee for sending Northern Stars to Ireland , and who will , doubtless , dispose of them to advantage . W . L . Fishes . —We admire the patriotic spirit of his letter , and are sorry that we have not room for its insertion . J , W , SaLISBUBY . —His address mat week : too Inte for this . We shall be glad lo Jind room for his reports regularly .
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S . S . L ., Tunhridge Wells . —Direct io ihe office will be ihe most certain . Thomas Drake thanks those friends who sent the letters to him in Beverley vt hell , " and must be excused answering , as the Governor only informed him of their arrival ; but thought it ad--viseable not to deliver them . A Lo > 'do > ' Subscriber . —If he will favour us trilh his name and address , and name the person he
receives his paper f 7 om , he shall have an answer T . j lSfwcAm . z . —The whole of the Papers for the Newcastle district were posted last week at half-* past one , on Friday , Jive hours before the departure of Ihe mail lo Normanton .- they should have arrived at Newcastle on Saturday after-710071 , same as the previous week . How they came to be delayed till Sunday ire cannot tell , hut suppose they were sent io Manchester . We have applied lo the Postmaster-General respecting the delay .
FOB THE WTTBS ASD FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED CHABTISIS . £ . s . d . From a few Chartist masons at WoWerb&mpton , per T . Bronghall ... 0 4 8 FOR RICHARDSON , MANCHESTER . From Mr . Cook , Dackinfield 0 10 _ a friend near Wakefield 0 15 0 POB A PBE 35 FOR J . B . O " BBIi : ?' . From Ihinfennline , per J . Drysdale ... 0 6 4
FOR KRS . FROST . From G . Elliss , Leeds 0 0 3 „ ' the nociety of slop * ntters , meeting at the Sieve , Little Minories , London 6 6 0 „ a few friends at Stannigton , near Sheffield , per W . Ludlam 0 6 0
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to THE EDITOB OF THE ITOBTHEBN STAR . Sir , — -Could you prevail upon any of the Chartist leaders -to give lectures on this subject , we are of opinion the circulation of the Star might be doubled , and the canse strengthened in the same ratio . If those valuable letters of Air . O'Connor , npon Agriculturej could be pushed into every Irish cabin , we might calculate upon the assistance of a goodly number of the frieze coats in favour of our principles .
> Ve consider zt to be the duty of every man , more especialJy Irishmen residing in this country , to send a Star to Ireland , to ) ei the labourers know their r ^ hts , and knowing them , unite with the workies of this eountry in demanding Universal Suffrage . Had this plan been adopted betore Lowerv went to Dublin , he would in ail probability have been heard , and inEtead of groans we should have had cheers for ihe Chartist 3 . How can we expect men to be Chartists who never heard of the Charter 1 Our principles being founded on universal justice , have oniy to be seen to be at once adopted . But they mast be sent into every cottage betore "we can count on a majority in onr labour . JLet every Chanist become a missionary in the good cause by sending a Star , or other democratic paper , and success wili most undoubtedly attend onr efforts . Yours , William Tatlor . Howwood , 2 " 2 d July , 1841 .
Six copies have been sect to P . M . Brophy , 4 , Wormwood-gate , Dublin , and six copies to Mr . Jos . M'Dbnald , Chariis ; Secretary , 119 , High-street , Xewxj .
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JiEEDS . —Charge of Rape . —On Monday last , William Carter , adecent looking man from Holbeck , was charged with having committed a rape on Ann B&rtlifie , an unmarried woman , on Thursday night last . The woman was found oh Hunslet Moor , at eleven o ' clock at night , by a watchman , in a state of exhaustion , and with evident marks of ill-treatment . From the information she gave , the man was taken into custody , but when the ease came to be heard , it appeared that she had been drinking with the man and some others , at a public-house on the DewBbury road , and she not wishing to say that she made any resistance , or any otrt « ry , the / charge W&B dismissed . ' - •¦• The Beewster Sessions . —We are given to'enderstand , that the Brewster Sessions for thft borough have been fixed to be held on Monday , the ' 3 dth of August next .
Rewabds to Police Officers . —On Friday last , at the weekly meeting of the Watch Committee , a reward Of £ 3 was awarded to Sergeant Hepworth , who has been for some time acting as inspector ; and a reward of 30 s , to policeman Sotheran , who is acting as Bergeant . Fireworks . —On Monday evening , Mr . Hadfield , of Sheffield , gave his promised display of fireworks in the yard of the White Cloth Hall . The evening was at first highly favourable , bat a threatened shower at hear eleven o ' clock had the effect of rather curtailing the exhibition . The principal pieces , however , and a very considerable number of minor oaes were let off , and these fully sustained Mr . Hadfield ' s previously obtained and well-deserved colebrity . We are sorry the company was not so numerous as it ought to have beea to have remunerated the artist .
Sudden Death . —On Tuesday evening , an inquest was held at the house of Mr . Spinlc , Black Bull , in Lsnd's-lane . before E . C . Hopps , Esq ., on the body of Francis Stubbs , a book-keeper , late in the employ of Mr . Pearson , carrier . He was found dead in bed on Monday , and rumours were spread that he had taken poison ; These rumours were set at rest by a post mortem examination , which showed the entire absence of any thing wrong , and proved that he had died from natural causes alone , and the jury returned a -verdi « accordingly . The deceased w&b 35 years of age .
WOLVEHHAWPTOK . —The working men of this place , have acted with . a degree of spirit , and in a manner which must prove to the " education mongers" that they , at least are not without intelligence . They viewed with disgust the conduct of an official named Castle , who , some weeks ago , was charged with an indecent assault upon a young female , and being determined that their sentiments should be known , they got up and presented tbe following requisition to the constables : — " Gentlemen , —We , the undersigned inhabitant householders of Wolverhampton , hereby respectfully request you to convene a public meeting of our fellow townsmen , to take into consideration the propriety of addressing the commissioners under the Wolverhampton Town Act , upon the subject of the conviction of R . Castle , inspector of police , for an indecent assault upon a young female , named Mary Warner : —
Robert Willcock , tin-plate worker , B . Walton and Co . ' a , Old Church-yard . James Sully , tin-plate worker , B . Waltonand Co . ' s Dudley-road . Benjamin Rowland , tin-plate worker , B . Walton and Co . ' s , Temple-street . William Smith , jappanner , B . Walton and Co . ' s , Poutney- street . William Laws , tin-plate worker , H . Fearncombe ' s , Poutney-terrace . William Dalton , tin-plate worker , H . Fearnoombe's , Dudley-road . Richard Tyrer , japanaer , H . Fearncombe ' s , Vauxhall . William Mogg , baker , Mogg ' s Temperance Coffee house . Snow-hill . Samuel Bryan , tin-plate worker , E . Perry ' s , Merridale-street . Edward Banks , japanner , E . Perry's ,
Graiseley-Btreet . William Williams , warehouseman , E . Perry's Merridaie-Btreet . Ben . Purshouse , coffoemill-maker , William Corns ' s , Bloomsbury -street . Samuel Parkes , coffee-mill-maker , William Corus'a , Tanhouse-lane . Thomas Honon , warehouseman , Walton , Walker , and Co . ' s , Snow-hill . John Marsh , brassfounder , Walton , Walker , « t Co . ' s , Cleveland- street . James Manning , iranfbunder , T . and C . Clark's , Park-street
Adam Stanley , warehouseman , T . and C . dark ' s , Horeeley-fields . James M'Connell , warehouseman , T . and C . Clark's , Horseley-fields . Heary Bigot , stock-taker , Chillington Iron Works , Portland-place . Charles Newton , millmaE , Chillington Iron Works , Gough-street . John Jones , engineer , Chillington Iron Works , Etting £ h&ll-l&& 6 . Benjamin Cox , puddler , Chilliogton Iron Works , Bilston-street Bridge . Edward Tudor , blast furnaceman , Chillington Iron Works , WalsaH-street .
In compliance with this requisition , Mr . R . S . Walker , one of the constables , to his credit be it spoken , convened a meeting , which took place at the public-offlse , Wolverhampton , last Tuesday evening . Mr . Wilcock , a working man was called to the chair ? after which , so numerous was the attendance , an adjournment was made into the open air , where the * " workies" showed their majesty . It was no political meeting , but was called to prove whether society was to be outraged and industry insulted with impunity ; and if an official of the town was to ride rough-shod over the feelings of the mechanic and the artizan . There were eight resolutions proposed , and carried unanimously , seven or eight thonsand stalwart arms and blistered hands being held up for each . The speakers were all of
the working class , but all their names we have not been furnished with ; amongst them » however , were Messrs . WUcocb , Mogg , Manning , and Candy , who did themselves great credit . The principal resolution was to the effect , that if the Town Commissioners do not immediately dismiss Castle , the meeting , as rate-payers , would not pay the townrate ; and pledging themselves , should any ratepayer be distressed , to support him ia any expence which might be incurred ia resisting that rate . Votes of censure were passed on the magistrates before whom Castle ' s case was preferred , aud on the proprietor of the Wolverhampton Chronicle ; after which , the meeting having liLSied lor nearly four hours , dispersed , after a hearty vote of thanks to the chairman , and to Mr . Walker , the constable-.
RICHMOND . —An Extraordinary Circumstance . —A Cheviot ewe , the property of Mr . Ralph Fen wick , of Ga 3 'les , near Richmond , lambed a single lamb on the first week in May last , and after an interval of ten week ? , she produced another lamb , which she is now suckling , and has quite discarded her former one . BRADFORD . Female Lecturer . We perceive that a lady named Chapelsmith is to deliver two lectures on Monday and Wednesday evenings , in the Social Institution . She professes to grapple with gigantic evils , and to discuss their remedies . The first lecture is to be " on the present condition ot our country , the Charter remedies ; progress of machi p ery and competition ; proofs that our foreign trade is lost never to be restored , and that a change in the arrangements of society is necessary and unavoidable . In the second lecture she proposes to consider the Corn Laws and the National l ) ebt .
Dreadful ajtd Fatal Occident . —On the night of Thursdav week , Mr . Peter Layoock , of this town , spirit-merchant and brewer , was killed under very extraordinary aud painful circumstances . Our Bradford readers need not be informed that he had lately built a magnificent building at the top of Ivegate , for the sale of spirits , which might justly aspire to be called a gin palace . A large portion of the stone for the building had been quarried out of the site , aud the excavation formed into cellars , as deep as the building was high above the ground , viz ., three stories . Behind the building this deep quarry lay uncovered . At the bottom water had been bored for , which ascended into a hoe in the bottom two or three yards deep , and rilled it with
water . Mr . Laycock had begun to build some rooms on the back part of the dram shop , and had gotten them a little above the ground , and laid a number of deal battens a foot broad , and about an inch and a half in width , edgeway as rafters or supporters for the floor . This floor was covered with planks , aud loaded very imprudently with an immense quantity of stones , &c . On the night in question , Mr . Lajoock went upon this floor about six o ' clock , with one of the masons to view the work-As he was returning the floor gave way , and he was precipitated to the tremendous depth below into the holeiilled with water ; besides beingfollowed by the stones on tho floor : the battens in giving way had
twisted sideway , and brought down upon him a large qnamity of the newly-built snperincumbent wall . Very prompt assistance was obtained , but it was about an hoar Defore the stones could be removed and he could be got ont of the water ; of course , we need not say quite dead . It is believed that before he reached the water , he fell with his head against a projection of reck , as it had hair and blood on it , and would therefore be killed on the spot . He was conveyed home on a door covered with a sheet , and accompanied by hundreds of people . His wile ( a second one } was near Preston at the time , but was sent for . He has left four children by a former wife . No accident that has occurred in this town has caused such a sensation .
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KOttPOIiS . —Mobe Blessings op the Bastilbs . —A correspondent at Norwich has handed us the following , which he requests may be added to the black catalogue of atrocities perpetrated under the sanction of the Whig-cbnooOted starvation law . The statement is in the handwriting of the unfortunate victim , who , at the close of a long and industrious life , nnsullied by any other crime than poverty , is doomed by the irresponsibles to worse than death . Our correspondent says : — " William Marjoram , « iged seventy-seven years , was ordered by the humane Governor of the Swainsthorpe Union House , Norfolk , to work in the gravel pit ; being unable to do such work , he withheld from the unfortunate man the tea and sugar allowed to the aged . Tbe case having been referred to the surgeon , he ordered
that he should be allowed it . Marjoram was then ordered to the pomp , which workwaa also too hard for him . He went into the house the 31 st of March last year , and upon inquiry found from his age that he ought to bo allowed beer and tobacco , as there were younger men allowed those articles who did not work at all . ' After enduring this specimen of Whig mercy for fifteen weeks , he applied to the Board for beet and tobacco , who informed him that they had nothing to do with It , and that he must apply to the Governor and surgeon He did » o . They sent word by the nnwe there would be no more allowed but to those who then had it The next morning he refused to go to work , as all the young men were doing nothing all daylong ; his tta and sugar were taken from him for this , and be was left no other drink during the severe winter but cold watar . " Truly .
Man ' s inhumanity to man , Makea coustlets thousands mourn . " OLDHAttL—Mr . Hill preached two sermons in Grosvenor- street Chapel , Oldham , on . Sunday last , to very numerous and attentive congregations . WAKEFIEXJ ) . — Railway Offence * — On Thursday last , a lad named Philip Douse , from Ossett , was charged at the Police Office , before J . HoldBworth , Esq ., M . P ., with placing a piece of iron called » chair , " weighing about 28 ibs ., upon the raiis of the Manchester aud Leeds Railway , near Healey Mill . It appeared from the evidence of a lad named Joseph Holroyd , aged fourteen , that he , along with his younger brother went with' the defendant on the previous evening to the railway , and the defendant put the iron on the rails , and
asked witness for some band 00 tie it ; he did not give him any , but told him to come away , as he was doing wrong . Witness ' s brother , aged thirteen , corroborated this statement . They went away , leaving the iron on the rails . An engine driver deposed that he was going on the up line , when he discovered the iron upon the down line . He immediately stopped the train , and took the iron off . It was fixed as firm as it could be . without being tied . They passed the down train at Cooper Bridge . Mr . Holdsworth , addressing defendant , said it was a most serious and awful offenoe , and he felt it his duty to punish him ; he should fine him £ 5 and costs , and in default , of payment three months' imprisonment , and he hoped it would be a warning to him and others . The defendant was committed .
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MR . R . J . RICHARDSON A 1 SD HIS APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC AGAINST THE CHARTISTS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE . TO THE CHARTISTS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE , AND , THWOUGH THEM , TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UMT £ D K 1 NGU 0 U . Feliow Labourers i . v the Cause of Truth and JUSTICE , —Wehave seen the Northern Star of July 17 th , in which ia a letter , signed K . J . Richardson . In that letter your honesty is questioned , and a foul libel attempted on your character . It is oar anxious desire thajr evea-handtnl justice be meted out to every man , we , therefore , attended at the Advertiser office , and procured a correct statement of the matter alluded to in Mr . Richardson ' s letter . The facts of the
case are as foHews : —The amount of the whole debt brought against Mr . Richardson , on behalf of the Manchester Political Unien is £ 16 16 s . 8 d . Mark , out of this sum there were £ 5 5 s . paid for printing 1 , 000 reports of the first Kersal Moor Demonstration . This was a private speculation of Mr . Richardson ' s own , and now he brings this debt of bis own against you . There is in the account £ 3 for printing 1 , 500 cards of membership for the Manchester Political Union ; those cards were sold at 6 d . each . The amount of the 1 , 500 cards , when sold , nnd sold they were , is £ 37 10 s . Now , mind the £ 5 5 s . of his own speculation the people have nothing to do with , and deduct tbe £ 5 53 . from the £ 16 16 s . 8 d ., and you have left j £ ll lla . 8 ., and to meet this t xpense there ought to be £ 37 10 s .: bo
that this might be comfortably paid , and a balance of £ 25 18 s . 8 d . left . Mr . Richardson knows very well that when be was remonstrated with by the working men in Newall ' s Buildings , on the unnecessary and extravagant cotpenees be aud his party were going to , Mr . Richardson hitutelf replied ) "Never miad tbe money matters ; there is enough of that You get up the people ; we will see that the money is right . " By whose authority , or for for whose benefit , were 1 , 000 reports printed ? Where are the books of the Union ? Who were the money stewards , auditors , treasurer , < kc ? Where are tbe minutes of the Union ? Let these things be produced , and we hesitate not to say , but the working men of Manchester aud ita
vicinity will pay every just claim made upon them , when fairly brought forward and clearly proved . The reading of Mr . Richardson ' s letter might lead people to believe that he was unjustly treated by the working men of Manchester for his services in the Convention , and that he made great sacrifices by attending that body . The answer to that part of bis letter is , that ho received £ 5 per week , besides travelling expences ; aud , as to him attending the Palace Yard meeting , at his own expence , it is utterly false . The fact is , there was money collected , and his expencea paid to and from London on that occasion ; so that you have a plain statement of facts ; and , if others are required , we assure you they shall be forthcoming . As such you must judge for yourselves .
Joseph Linnev , Chairman . James Wood , Secretary . Thomas Heames . Paul Fairclough . Samuel Chamberlain . Henrv Nuttall . James Wmkeler . James Harrison . National chartist Association Rooms , Tib-street Manchester .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Dear Sir , —I am rejoiced to inform you , and , through you , the country , that London is shaking off its sleep , and will soon arise '' like a giant refreshed . " In sp ite of tbe backward-move men , there is a revival of Chartism in London ; the associations in the different localities are being re-organised , and they will , in future , take especial care to avoid the sunken rocks which broke them up before ; ia a word , they will be aware of the Lovettites . Tbe leaders in London nave libelled the men , to excuse their own supineness ; but the men are now awaking , and will shake off all intimidating and treacherous friends " as dew-drops from a lion ' s mane . "
But what I am moat rejoiced to tell you is , tbat tbe trades are coming out The masons ( all honour to them !) have led the way ; the coppersmiths have followed ; the tailors are likely te be the next , and we shall have all the rest in their turns ; with the exception , perhaps , of the carpenters , as they are most under tbe benumbing influence of Lovett aud Co ., the London torpedos . When the trades are all out , they will carry London , and London will carry the Charter ; if not , tbe country will without it We shall soon have a trade wind , and then we shall sail merrily on to the harbour where the full tide of tbe people will roll in and fill up the measure of conteat to all . I &m also happy io Inform you that a Female Chartist Association is being formed in London , so that if the men won't lead , the women will , and then see if the men won't follow .
Our greatest perils are among " false brethren ; " we have bard work of it ; but we shall " reap in due time , if m faint not . " I am , dear Sir , Your fellow atriver in the cause , John Watkins . 9 , Bell-Yard , Temple-Bar , 28 th July , 1841 .
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FROM OUR LOiNDOU CORRESPONDENT . Wednesday Evening , JvXy 28 < h . The utter stagnation in politics , affords to the scribblers of both factious time for speculation , as to the probable issue of events , whether Sir Bobert Peel shall have the rein 3 of Government , or the Whigs , by some desperate coup de main continue to hold office ; indeed , it appears tbat from Lord John ' s city manifesto , tbat the present Ministers intend to be politely kicked out of office , and are only waiting for the foot to be placed to their seat of honour , so as ' to enable them to fall down gently after receiving another quarter's pay , the receipt of which they are determined to have . Though both parties are shewing that they are hungry and poverty-struck , there is much to hope from the gradual yet sure steps which the friends of Chartism are taking , and the activity which begins to be exhibited here in London , and which 1 hope will soon assume a more bold and determined front .
Tower Hamlets . —The members had two meetings in this borough on Sunday evening last , one at the Charter Coffee House , Brick-lane ; the other at the Freemason ' s Arms , Korth-strtet , Whitechapel . Saint Pakcras . —The members residing here met on Monday evening list , at tbeir room , the Feathers , Warren-street , Mr . Henwood in the chair . Some new members were enrolled , and the meeting , after some entertaining discussion , was dissolved , _ \ £ ^
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Borough of Marylebone Elec tion Committee . This body held its meeting last Monday evening , Mr . Goodfellow in the chair . Mr . Beck inoved , and Mr . Humphries seconded , That a supper be given to W . Villiers Sankey , Esq ., our late candidate , and the electors who supported him . " The motion being c irried , a committee was appointed to conduct the getting up of the supper and ihe meeting separated . Tower Hamlets . —Registratiohf Committee . — Upwards of 500 olaims to berated aavebeen made by this body , which is working well .
HoxioN . —Oa Saturday evening last , a meeting was held for the purpose of opening a new room in this district , in ¦ Plumber-street , City-road . Mr . Hall Was called to the chair } after an animated conversation , members were enrolled , and the meeting was adjourned to the Tuesday evening ; when there was another meetiug . Mr . Watts iu the chaw . Mr . Wall attended and addressed the meeting at Borne length . City of London . —A concert was given here on Monday evening last , in aH of tbe election committee fund . Many patriotic songs were given , and the company separated much pleased with the evening ' s amusement .
Trades' Hall . —A public meeting to forward the building of a London Trades' Hall , was holden on Tuesday evening last , at the Social Institution , Whitechapel . The anniversary of the Martyrs to Russian despotism of the year 1826 , was commemorated on Monday last , by a meeting of the most democratic portion of the Polish , Italian , and German refugees , at the Archery Room , Bath-plaoe , New Road . Mr . Worzell was called to the chair , over which were placed the nameB of " Pestel , " "Bastuzly , " " Muraview , " Ryleier , " « Kochsyski , " the five martyrs . Mr . Lucas moved the following
resolution , " That this meeting of the democrats of the various nations , believing in the rights of nations and the rights of individuals , declare that the memories of the martyrs put to death by the Emperor Nicholas , in 1826 , are dear to every friend to liberty , whatever may be his country ; that their cause is the cause of humanity , consequently , the cause of man , and declares itself to repudiate the doctrine of non-intervention . ' * The resolution was seconded , in French , by a gentleman from Hayti . Several gentlemen addressed the meeting in French and German , and Major Benowiski in English , after whichk toe meeting broke np .
Ball . —The ball in behalf of Bronterre O'Brien will take place on Monday , August 2 nd . at tho Working Men's Hall , Circus-street , Marylebone . Tower Hamlets . —Through an unavoidable circumstance , Mr . Wall was not able to reach the Tower Hamlets until a late hour on Sunday last . ( iis lecture was postponed until Sunday next , Aug . 1 st , at half-past seven precisely . Lecture . —Mr . Spurr will lecture at the Freemason ' s Arms , North-Btreet , Whitechapel , on Sunday evening next . .
Election op delegates for the Middlesex County Council . —At the last meeting of the members of the Charter Association , held at the National Charter Coffee-house , Brick-lane , Spitalfields , Mr Newby in thtJ chair , it was resolved that she Social Hall , 81 , High-street , Whitechapel , be engaged fo the eleotion of delegates on Tuesday , August 3 d . r The following bill was theu agreed to : — "A public meeting will be held at the Social Hall , 81 , High-street , Whitechapel , on Tuesday , August 3 rd , 1841 , for- the purpose of electing delegates to carry out the views of the permanent Executive ot the National Charter Association of Great Britain . "B . New by , Chairman . "E . Thirkell , sub-Secretary . "
St . Pancras . —A public meeting will be held on Monday evening next , at the Feather ' s 'JL' avem , Warren-strcet , Tottenham Court Road , to elect delegates to the Middlesex County Council . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . J Ji J 1 ¦ ii , 11 1 t 1 m . m ¦ . ^ ra n m m
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THE WHIG REFORM BILL . No matter who may murmur at the recent triumph of tha Tories at tbe hustings , the Whigs have no right to complain . They bad the manufacturing of the Reform Bill , and tbe effect of tbe measure has been that in nine years it has given the Tories an overwhelming majority . The Whigs , however , do complain , and bitterly complain , but defeat has not improved their understanding . They are compelled to acknowledge tbat they have been driven disgracefully from many places where they were heretofore thought omnipotent , bat they refuse to admit tbe true cause of their discomfiture . They are not unpopular—if we are to credit themselves —it is only the people who are apathetic Had the Reformers who are entitled to tbe franchise registered their votes a glorious majority for the Queen and her
ministers would have been the sure result- How is this difficulty to be overcome , and Whig ministers , who will do nothing for the country , secured in their occupation of Downing-street' The Morning Chronip . lt is ready with cut-and-dry plan which will doubtless meet witn due consideration . Tbe liberal electors , it seems , will not take the trouble of attending at the Registry Courts to seek the right ot the suffrage , and tbe Chronicle recom mends tbat tba wealthy and titled should exert their influence to urge their dependants to come forward , and even contribute to defray the expence of registration . This done , tbe Chronicle is confident
the Whigs must be restored to office in a very short time . " The battle must be fought at the Registry , " will now be the cry ; but it will quickly die , without ever putting much money in the pockets of barristers and attorneys . There are throughout the country millions of disfranchised persons anxious to obtain tbe suffrage , and from whom it is unjustly withheld . What would tbe Chronicle tbiuk of conferring it upon them 1 Ah t here is tbe point tbat bothers tbe Whig , and exposes him as a hypocritical and empty pretender . He would make vain professions of liberality ; but is nevertheless as unwilling as tbe Tory to extend the constitutional privilege of the people . — World , Dublin paper
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At Ddrhah , on Tuesday , Mr . Crawford ' , son of the late Member for the City of London , obtained a verdict of £ 150 damages against the Durham and Sunderlaud itaiiway Company , for injuries received while travelling on the line on the 3 rd of November last .. His cheek-bone was broken , and forced into . the socket of the eye , arid though he had not a grey hair in his head at the time of the accident , within a mouth after , the whole hair became perfectly white . . Finding the Body of a Man under Peculiar Circumstances ' . —On Monday night list two . men , brothers , named Tubbey , were employed to empty a prtvv need by the workmen io : . th $ London Docks , but the soil of which . js outeWa the dock wall ia Pennington-street .. ' Itj revnoiyjng a large flag , stono which covers the cesspool , ifteipickaxe of one passed through some substa « ce fto&tiog on the top ot the soil , and which ihe / ioeaftook to be A bundle of iags .
On looking at it more closely the men . discovered it to be the body of * man , bat in so advanced agitate of decomposition that not a feature was discernible , arid it presented a frightful spectacle . It Jwa& t ^ ken up , and a shell being procured it was removed to the bone house of the parish of St . John , Wappink , to watt the coroner ' s inquest . It is' impossible from the construction of the building on the dock aide of the wall that the deceased conld have fallen among the Boil , and there is little doubt that became by his death by tumbling into the hole on the Pennin ^ ton street side two years ago , when the place Was ' last emptied . The deceased , judging from his havink an old pair of canvass trousers on , appears to have been a sailor , but what his age was it would be quite , impossible to conjecture . Information of the circumstance has been forwarded to Mr . Baker , the coroner ofthe district , in order to an inquest being held on the body .
Release of Mb . Medhubst from Prison . —This person , whose case has lately acquired renewed interest in the eyes of the public in consequence of the erasure ofthe name of Mr . H . Moreton Dyer from the commission of the peace for the county of Middlesex , was on Saturday last * released from his confinement in the House of Correction , Coldbaih-fields , upon an order sent down from the Home-office . It appears that for some time his health has been on the decline , and that since the interference of Mr . Dyer in his affairs the symptoms of an internal disease , the early stages of which . bad previously manifested themselves , have been greatly aggravated To such an extent had these symptoms increased that it was found necessary to call for the advice and
assistance of an eminent physician , whose opinioa was of a nature to induce the visiting justices of the prison to forward a certificate as to the state $ f tha patient to the Marquis of Normanby . Subsequent visits tended to confirm the original impression of the medical attendant as to tho danger of the attack , and further certificates were sent to the Noble Marquis , describing the character of the disease , accompanied with the expression of a conviction , that unless Mr . Medhurst were set at liberty Ihe worst result was to be anticipated . The excitement created in the mind of the prisoner by the recent proceedings , arising out of the alleged proposition of the ex-magistrate is supposed to be the cause to which , his present condition may be attributed .
Failure of the Totnes and Ns . wton Ban ^ ks . — The utmost consternation and gloom were spread through this town by the failure of these banks . Many an honest yeoman who came to market comfortable in mind and pocket , went away almost broken-hearted . On Saturday afternoon , and during Monday , the town was crowded by people , who caine in to inquire , ia most cases , atter their lost all . It was painful to hear the numerous cries of sudden distress into which hundreds of honest and industrious persons of all classes have been thrown . In many cases this has been rendered more severe from this being the time the dividends on the funds are paid . —Devonshire Chronicle . Extraordinary Escape fbom Pbison .
—Plymouth , Sunday , July 25 . —Thia morning , when Cook , one of the town-sergeants , took their breakfasts into a cell where three men were confined , one of them , named Randell , who is under sentence of transportation for fourteen years , snatched the prison keys from Cook ' s band , and with them iiiflicted a violent blow on his forehead , which knocked him down and stunned him . He then produced a kuife , and using threats , he stripped off the town-ser ^ eat ' s trousers , and put them on himself ; be pocketed two sovereigns and twenty-shillings in silver , and Cpok's watch ; he took a frookcoat From a fellow-prisoner , and having with cords lashed the town-sergeant on the prison bed , with his face downwards , he took a bundle of spare clothes under his arm , and made his escape . It was 8 ota 0 time before the police , who are in another part of the building , heard the disturbance . On their reaching the cell they found the other prisoners unfastening the cords trom Cook ,
whowasobligedtobeputtobedinhisownappartnient One ofthe remaining prisoners is called Martin ; he is under sentence of transportation ' fox seven years ; the other is undergoing an imprisonment ior sis months . They both declare they were afraid to interfere in consequence of Randall's threats . ' The escaped convict , in the year 1837 , was sent to the hulks for seven years , for a robbery , inconsequence of good conduct he waa freed after four years' imprisonment . He had only been at liberty sixteen days when hfi stole a . cheque for £ 40 . or £ 50 from the master of a ship lying here . For this robbery he was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation % tour last assizes , about three weeks since . He is a native of Harbury , in Warwickshire , about twentysix , vears of age , five feet six inches high , . stout built , sallow complexion , freckled , oval visage , dark eyes , and hair and eye-brows , light brown . ¦ He is & butcher by trade , but assumes the manners of a sailor . . . ,. . '
MysTERious Cask . —By particular request , we readily give insertion to the following , singular , particulars : —About three-weeks ago , a fema > e nearly twenty years of age , and apparently well brought up , who oalls herself Amelia Parsons , was detained by the authorities of Plymouth , having been wandering about tbe quays at midnight , without any means to procure a shelter , and being , as she alleged , juat arrived from London . She refuses to give aproper account of herself ; and the only > information "which has beon incidentally obtained from her 13 , that she deserted her father ' s house eighteen months since , and went to London , where she procured s livelihood by working for a bazaar m Parliament-street . She quitted her employ in consequence of a quarrel with another female with whom ebetiivedy * nd left London about two months since with £ ' 2 ils .- , and can assign no reason for coming to Plymouth . She is the youngest of six children ( two sons and four
daughters ) , has no mother living , was educated at a > boarding school , and can speak French . She appears to have resided some time at Brighton . She per * sists in a determination never to discover / ber father ' s condition , placeof abode , or the cause which led her to desert her friends . She will attain the age of twenty on the 28 th instant ; she is well made , and her height is five feet one inch ; hair dark brown , and worn plain ; eyes dark brown ; features oval ; complexion dark , freckled , and small ; teeth good , and white ; expression agreeable ; voice pleasing and deportment easy . She is dressed in a mouseelindo-laine gown of red , blue , and drab colours , a light mohair half turnover , and a email black silk bonnet , lined with white , and her linen is marked "A . P . I . As it is most earnestly wished that she should be restored to her friends , such information as may lead to a discovery of them is solicited by Mr . William Truman Harris , Governor of the Corporation Guardians ofthe Poor , Plymouth .
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George Feargus O'Connor , son of George and Ann Beswick , of Sheffield , was duly registered on the 27 th instant . On Tuesday , July 20 th , was duly registered , JameB Robert Emmett West , son of John and Mary West , of Union-street , Dams , Macclesfield . Lately , in Selby , the son of Joseph and Sarah Jordau waa christened ia the name of William . Henry Tinoent . On Sunday last , in the Abbey Church , Selby , the son of Richard and Mary Mabbot . was ; christened Feargus O'Connor Mabbot . Prior to the ceremony of sprinkling , Mr . Amen , a little , ; aleepy-looking pigmy , whose altitude does not exceed four feet * squeaked out "What is the name ! " Tbe sponsor
then handed to him the name written on paper , oa reading which his pigmyship looked iwonderful things , and with a sigh and sob , thus addressed hisearthly mastei , — " FeaTgus O'Connor Mabbot , Ot what a shame for working people to call their children so many names ! " " Yes , " answered his Reverence , " I suppose they want to have the child hanged . " He then asked the trade of the father ,, and where lie was employed , which none need marvel at , as the holy man . declares it to be " thoduty of all Christians to do all in their power tostrangle . democracy , which , he is sorry to say , ismaking rapid progress . " Poor fellow !
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On Monday last , at Dewsbury , * J tne Rev . Thomaa Allbutt , vicar , Mr . Wm . Ward , clothier , otOssett , to Arabella , youngest daughter of » e > late Mr . John Gosnay , butober , of WakeSeld . On Thursday last , at Harrogate , Mr . James Wilman . mill owner , to Miss Mary Ellis , bo * hof Bailey Carr , new Dewsbury . r Same day . at Leeds parish chnrob , Frederick Calder , Esq ., ' B . A ., of St . John ' s College , Cambridge , and one of the University Masters of the ¦ J West Riding Proprietary Sehool , to Jana ^ youngest daughter of Mr . Thomas Wade Appleyard , of this town . ;
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EXTENSIVE FAILURES . Glasgow , July 24 . —A great sensation has been created in the commercial circles in this city , and over the west of Scotland , by an extensive run of bankruptcies which have taken place during the last three days amongst the shawl-manufacturers and shawl-merchants of Paisley . We extract a notice of the occurrence from one of tho local papers , but , in addition , our correspondent of Glasgow writes tbat the leading causes of tbe disasters m business which have for some time been going on in that city have been principally the extensive connections that have been formed with America , the crippling of trade from the embarrassment in that country , owing , in a special degree , to the restrictive pro-Visions of the British commarcial code , whieb prevent the Americans from meeting their
engagements by the transmission of' the superabundant grain on that continent , an article which was at the time much wanted by the suffering manufacturing population in Scotland . The embarrassments which have now burst out at Paisley , to the consternation of all whoareacquainted with the town , as we have just stated , took their origin in those of America , in 1837 . Since that time most of those who had been in the American connexion have been carrying on business under great difficulties ; and in too many instance . ? , we are sorry to state , they have been making goods and effecting sales more "with the view of meeting former engagements , than with the intention of realising profits , The great object seems to have been with many just to effect sales , that , with a run of new bills , at whatever cost they could be obtained , they might tnrn their hand , and remove those running , as they fall due .
It is almost needless to state , that a necessary consequence of such a system of doing business has been to drive houses with real capital fairly out of trade , or , at least , to make them temporarily suspend their transactions , which to a great extent , has been the case in that quarter for sometime past , and thus a limited and unhealthy market has been left almost entirely in the hands of persevering speculators , whose principal means of existence was the sacrificing of the property of those who have been so simple as to trust them with it .
To such a reckless length has this practice been carried on in Paisley , that ia the present ran of failures there are several instances of young men , who within these few years were well known to have commenced without capital , and who have now gone down—the lowest of them for upwards of j £ 5 , O 0 O , and some of them for as much as £ 25 , 000 . The current paper of one shawl merchant in that town , who failed this week , is said to be in one bank no less than £ 50 , 000 , and in aHOther £ 30 , 009 , independent of smaller sums in the other banks ; and a considerable part of the bouses in this range of connection which has gone to the wall , have paper afloat to the amount of from £ 20 , 000 to £ 40 , 000 .
After these statements it cannot but be obvious that the banks are greatly to blame , by their first encouraging speculation in thus discounting to so enormous an amount , and next , as is clearly understood to have been the case , in suddenly withdrawing their support , regardless of tbe result , and from no better motive that can be discovered than the whim of thoao who direct secret affairs in the bankers ' parlours . In addition to the circle of failures at Paisley , rumours , which we are afraid are too well founded , are this afternoon afloat , of some extensive failures
in this city ( Glasgow ) likewise , which are quite certain to bring down a great number more . Indeed , such are the surprise and consternation , and stich is the uncertainty of what honses are really down and what bouses have merely suspended payments , combined with the reports against others that are perfectly solvent , that we conceive it unsafe to comment further on these affairs in this communication ; but , us soon as the result i'j more fully known , we shall not fail to lay it boibre tbe public . Neither shall we fail to trace to its source and expose what may appear to be the c » , use of such an unwholesome and improper state of things , in this or any other commercial country . —Morning Chronicle *
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DEATHS . On Tuesday morning , in York , in the 86 th year of her age , Mrs . Turner , relict ofthe late Mr . John Turner , of Selby . : On Saturday morning last , at Grove Terrace , ia the 67 th year of his age , after a protracted illness , borne wi th pious fortitude and re&ignation v John . Wolfltenholme , Esq .. Alderman , of York .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1841, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct560/page/5/
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