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      ( Continued from our Sixth page . ) them , and I un not the person against whom your Tirtnons ir . disnation should be directed . I shall distinctly prove an al i bi , aod will show yon that I could not have been in the street when the- witnesses said I was ; and there was , yon will observe , a good deal of ev&sioD in their answers as to my identity . You will renseir > ber , G-ntUmen , that I "was a stranger in this part < f the country , and that it must kav ? been difficult at that hoar of the night to sweai to my identity . G = atlemtm there ij another source of prejudice which may enter your minds , arising frem trie comments of the press , in . coupling my name

      with th ? se transactions . I can only sp-sk as to ¦ srkat I saw in the Morning Chronicle , and I don't fcnow -whether yon would be likely to be swayed by these remarks or not . —I remember reading in the Morning Chronicle , two Jay * sf : er the loth August , a length =-Dcd leader , in ¦ which nay name occurs six or seven t nies , and where I am called " tho incendiary CooDer , " a-d th ^ t " these things hid not occurred until be had entered the Potteries . " Now in the same paper , a week previously , there is an account of an outbreak st Burs ' nm & = 2 t ] em £ n , I trasr the ln-zzhsd Juige iriii allow me to tell you the reasons of the prejudice

      existine aenirst d » m the mind of the proprietor of the Morning Chronicle who represents Leic&ster . Poor and burcKc s » 1 am , 1 contended against bis there as the Univ ^ rwl Suffrage candidate , and I happened to have the ttu-x of hands against him . This Tras likely to create a sore in his mind . Bat this was pot ali Daring the time I resided at Leicester , I bavs endfa-Tonrtd to give rsirnction Jo the Cbartisu , and have had five hundred men present ¦ whom I have been instructing in reading and ¦ writing , 1 have lectured tbesi on geography , history , phrenology , geclogy , acd othtr sciences . I have endeavoured to humaciza and . cm ! : ze them ; I never saw a gun , pike , ur dagger among the Leicester Chartists . I never bad arms of my own , and never let off a pistol in my life , nor do I think I could do so . I have recommended

      ChartiHn until at one time there wcre from two to three thousand persons calling themselves Chartists . It began to spread among the electors , who . called themselves Complete Suffrage men . The spreading of those principles caused Sir John EastLope to give cp the registration of electors , and abandon the Idea of ever btiirg returned for Leicester again . He nevtr fcn be returned again , and he must get into the House for Tcwktfsbury , or some other small borough . He knows that the humble Chartist Cooper has done this , and the Henourabie Baronet , with purity en his lipi , -whiie spending thousands in corrupting the e . ectors of Leicester , has for this called me an incendiary , and denounced me , I . therefore , G ~ iit ! earen , call on you to dismiss from y * -ur minds all comments which you may have seen in the public papers with regard to me . I

      shall now , Gentlemen , narrate to you britfly the events of my humble life . I was feorn at Leicester , and my mother was in . her -window-hood when I had attained a very early age . She retired to her native county , and by the labour of her own hands supported me . I have known her , Gentlemen , to eive me the last bit of bTead sha had that I might not surra . [ The prisoner here appeared to be much affected ] I have frequently known what it is to go without shoes , to wear ragged clothing , and sometimes to want bread . My constitution was enfeebled from illness , and this , prebably not from any peculiar turn of mind , it was that induced me to turn my attention to reading and dra « iig . My mother encouraged me , and has frequently given me her last penny to buy a sheet of paper , ot a black lead pencil I had also a strong attachment for music , and read everything that came before me . I was afterwards sent

      to learn the trade of a shoemaker , and worked at the last . I remained there till I was twenty-three . years old . and during that time I read s memoir of Samuel Lee , professor of Hebrew in the . University of Cambridge , b y whic h I w as a n i m ated to prosec u te m y studies with increased ardour . I commenced learning Latin and Greek , and made a resolution to commit to memory Milton ' s Paradise Lost , and the seven best plays of Shatspeare . Unfortunately , amongst my other reading , I hsppsned to read the works of Paine , Voltaire , and Rossesu , by ¦ which I became imbued with deistical principles . My best friend , John Hangh , who is since dead , gave me good books to read , which were of infinite strviee to me in re-establishing religious principles . Tiie prisoner then proceed to detail , at some length , the conrse of his studies . He learned Latin , Greek , Hebrew , and French—studied the evidences of Christianity , a n d r ead Scott ' s and Byro n's ¦ works . He never earned more than lOi . a week at

      h is trad e , and his poor mother died at the advanced age of seventy . After bis working hours , during the winter , he pursued his studies , and read the works of "Warburton , Hooker , Bentley , and Bishop Ball , and became acquainted with some of the most gigantic minds the country had ever produced . He feared he \ res tiring them , but he wished to shew to the Jury that he had not turned his mind at any time to acts of ¦ violence , and was not likely to recommend such procefcdii . EE . Ee subsequently went to Gainsborough , after a seTcre illaeES , and established a school , and bore testimony to the kind and Christian cencinct of the curate , who save him many good books to read ; amoBgothers the liie of Henry Martyn and Paley ' s Evidences , by ¦ which he was recovered fron Deism , and Lad never since then doubted ihe great truths of Christianity . He

      then west to Lincoln , and set np a school there , and became acquainted with one or two perons who proposed the establishment of a choral society , of w hich he w a s secretary for three years . He became enthusiastically devoted to the strains of Handel , Beethoven , and Mozart , Slid opened classes at the Mechanics' Institute of Lincoln , of which Lord Yarborongh was patron . He subsequently furnished a report of some lectures on chemistry to the Stamford Me > airy , and became connected ¦ with that paper as Reporter , at a salary from £ 20 to £ 40 , £ 60 and ultimately £ 100 per annum- He then went to London , relying opoa the promises of a literary Baronet connected with Lincoln , and remained there without employment seven weeks . He feared the literary Baronet had told him a fearful falsehood- After Euffrrinz man ^ privations he obtained some employment

      from Mr . Lumky , the bookseller , of Chancery-lane , who employed him in making extracts from works in the British Museum . He ' also wrote occariocally for the magazines , but wa 3 badly paid , receiving soms times only one sovereign when he had earned five pounds . He lived in that manner in London until all was spent , but then again he was rescued unexpectedly . He eot an offer of a situation as ' Eaizor of the Greentcicft 2 Iercu / -y , at a salary ot £ 3 a ¦ week . Ee had given notice to leave that situation , ¦ when a letter was Bent to him stating that a reporter was wanting for the Leicester Mercury . He went there , having had an at : achrnent for the place of his birth , and very naturally . He reported for that paper until the month of February , 1 S 41 , from the previous November . He then first heard a Chartist lecturer in

      his capacity of a reporter . He approved of thoEe principles , and wrote awhile in favour of them . Then first he bes ; an to learn the circumstances and extreme poTerty of ths people , ana oo * erre 3 the great contrast between them and the people of the agricultural districts of Lincolnshire ; then he began to see the struggle between the people and tieir masters , the one ground down to the earth in poverty , and suffering , and oppression , while the others built large factories and mills , and amassed large fortunes : it "was that which strengthened his feelings in favour of the rights of the people . The prisoner then detailed some instances of extreme poverty and distress that had corns toi his knowledge , and concluded as follows : —My Lord , and

      Gentlemen of the Jury , I do not think it necessary to occupy your time further . I protest to you most Bslemnly that I -was never out of the GeoTge and Dragon tiil twelve o ' clock , or a little after it , that night ; and may the thunders of heaven consume mo at this m oment , and that is a solemn oath , if I was . I am innscant , so help me God , of being in the street , of having any notion or intention of recommending acts of violence or ef having seen spark , smoke , or fla me tha t n ight , and I cannot help thinking , that when the witnesses are produced to establish the alibi , men like yourselves cannot find me guilty upon both the counts of the indictment , a lthough , perhaps , if you'find m = guilty ot one , it is do more than I can expect . ¦

      Mr . Lee here rose and said that the prisoner was ¦ under a mistake , supposing that he was indicted for a riot as well as for the demolition of ths bouse . The prisoner then proceeded—Gentlemen , any felonious intent I had not , and never entertained . I had no wicked intention . I had no malicions intention . I could not have it . My -whole life was opposed to such ideas and intentions . I never recommended violence , —I could not do so . It so . happens , however , that when men indiscreetly mix themselves up with these transactions , they do not feel the danger to which they are exposing themselves ; and although I do not tell you that I shall cease to be a Chartist , I tell yon that I shall take care , if God Almighty , by his p r o v ide n ce , delivers me from this danger , and-that I remain in this country , which I long hope to do , I shall take care never to be found under circumstances w her e v iolence is ena ct ed , or likely to take place . I

      have rot wilfully or wicKedly counselled violence ; and how then can I be said to have wickedly an * , feloniously assisted at the riot , or advised the destruction of property . This I am told is the charge , and of this I am not guilty . Gentlemen , I trust I shall have your verdict of not guilty , because there is nothing to Ehsw that I committed any riot or recommended it . Having said this much , I shall leave myself in your hands , feeling assured Utat yon will act like honest men , like conscientious men , like men of feeling and humanity ; and , although you may feel the wrongest indignation against ttie destroyers of properry , remember th » t I did not destroy , I am not the person who incited them to destroy ; but , on the contrary , advised them not I now leave my-» elf in your bands , and in the hands of his lordship , and I thfijiy you for your kind and patient at ten-Boa .

      The public may form some judgment of the astounding effect of such an address . His acquittal proves it . His friends hope that lie -will be bailed to-morrow . Mr Muffin , from London , and I think Mr . Beasely , from Leicester , both wealthy gentlemen , are expected here to-morrow for tkat purpose . A great uproar and alarm were created last night , amongst the ' friends of the Chartists sentenced to transportation , in cons e quence of a number of transports having been suddenly ordered down to the railway station , to be conveyed to London . It was supposed by the friends of Xr

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      Ellis , acd the others , that they -were the transports thus so suddenly ordered off . But , happily , s u ch was not the case . The transports that were conveyed to London lar t n : ght were men sentenced at the last assizes . ( From tJie limes J

      LIVERPOOL-THURSDAY . Ocr . 13 . ( Before Lord Abxnger . ) On the opening of the Court , The Arroa >' . kY-G . EKEB . 4 L replied in the case of Dy = on Townley , and other ? , indicted yesterday for conspiracy to stop workmen from pursuing their lawfnl occupations , contending that the witnesses for the prosecution could not be mistaken as to the identity of the . prisoners . Lord Abisgee , in summing up , observed , that an attempt hao beer , made to make out a case of alibi but an alibi must be proved sMictly and have no s u sp icion abou ; it ; and he left it to the Jury to say whither they were satisfied with the evidence that had been produced . The Jury after retiring for a short time to consider their verdict , found the trhole of the prisoners Guilty , but recommended James Taylor to mercy on account of the good character he is ad received .

      The Attorki . Tl General paid , he was disposed to extend to James Taylor the utmost ienieucy , aud wjnld be satisfied with his own reco ^ nizmces to appear when called upon to keep the peace . Lord Abikge& siid , the prisoners had been found guiity of a conspiracy . They had assembled wifh o : hers in vast multitudes , in order to turn cue all workmen engaged in their lawful occupations . That the country should be exposed , even for a single dayto such unheard-of ryranny , was almost without example . They might feei some compassion for workmen who , oa the inveLtion of new machinery , endeavoured to take vengeance on what they supposed to be the cause of the Je = 3 of their labour . People migh :, feel compassion for these pcrsonb , though , they acted undoubtedly , with great culpability ; but that workmen should conspire whether , march through the country , aiid suspend all labour , was a thing altogether new ; and how any men of common understanding and feeling could lend themselves to such

      proceeding , it was not easy to conceive . He had reason to believe from his experience in that and a neighbouring copty , that many unfortunate workmen had been misled by designing men . The sentence of the Djurt on David Taylor , Dyson ; and James Smith , was , that they be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year . With respect to Townley , the defence he made tended co aggravate his crime , but considering his youth , and linking that that defence had been concocted not by himself , he was disposed to pass a more lenient sentence on him than he otherwise should . The sentence on him was , that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for ten months . Wiih respect to James Tayior , as he had received a good character from the ]> rosecntor , wso had also described his intellect as not very strong , the Court would treat him with great leniency , and he would be discharged on entering into his own recognizances to the amount of £ 100 to appear for judgement when called on .

      John Bell , A . Sheerer , George Grimshaw , E . Williams , A . Brand , Wiiliam Forest , John Too : ai , Thomas Hodges , Edward Boardman , and John Eccles , prisoners who had previously pleaded guilty , were placed at the bar . Lord Abikgeb said , the prisoners had been indicted for conspiracy and riot , and had pleaded guilty to the indictment . He was willing to accept that plea S 3 a token of their contrition For the ofiVnce they had committed . Uuder these circumstances , and prompted by the suggestion of Her Majesty's Attorney-General , he had thought it his duty to examine tho circumstances of these particular cases ,

      with a disposition on hi 3 part to make , as far as he could do se consistently with what was due to public justice and the peace of the country , some mitigation in tha punishment of their offences . The sentence on the prisoners Tootal and Forest was , that they be imprisoned for nine months in the House of Correction and at the expiration of that time that they enter into f uretips to keep the peaco for two years , themselves in £ 100 , and two sureties for £ 25 each . The sentence on the prisoners Sheerer , Bell , Hodges , Williams , Eccles . and Grimshaw , was that they be imprisoned for six months , and enter into the like sureties , and continue in prison until the sureties were found .

      The Attornet-General here intimated that he would not pray for judgment on Brand and Boardman , if they entered into recognizinoes to appear for jndgment when called upon . Lora Abingeb said , the course taken on the part of the Crowu was one of great leniency , and he trusted the prisoners wonld conduct themselves henceforth as good and peaceable subjects . Should they break the peace , or commit any offence like that for which they had been apprehended , they would be brought up and receive judgment on the present indictment . They would now be discharged on entering into recognizances of £ 100 , and two sureties of £ 25 eact , to appear for judgment when called on . Thomas Holt , aged 35 , was charged with conspiring to &top the working of mills in the parish of Rochdale , on the 18 : h of August .

      Thn Attobney-Genkbal stated the particulars of the ca 3 e , which were fully borne out by the evidence . The prisoner was among a lawless mob , which went about stopping mills , and had Etruck a magistrate who endeavoured to disperse the mob & severe blow with a stone on the forehead . This wa 3 the reason , the Attorney-General observed , why this case was singled out , but had there been any disposition to press the case against the prisoner , be might have been indicted for felony . The object in all these prosecutions had been to exercise the greatest leniency consistent with public justice , and to prosecute the wors ; individuals in each district . From the number who had been engaged in these lawless transactions , it was quite impossible to do moro than generally to "vindicate the law ; and let it be thoroughly understood that excesses of thi 3 description could not be repeated wi ; h impunity . The prisoner baing found Guilty ,

      Lord Abikger sentenced him to imprisonment and hard labour for two years . Jobn Ward was charged , with others not in custody , with conspiring , on the 10 th of August , to prerent workmen pursuing their lawful avocations and for riot . It turned out , in the course of the evidence , that the ' prisoner had been mistaken for another person of Ihe same name , and he was consequently discharged ; but the circumstances of the case are worth stating , as showing the regular system in which some of the turn-outs carried on their proceedings .

      The Attoh > "et-Gemebal said , the present case was distinguished by some peculiar features . After tke mob had established itB authority throughout a grest part of the country , a sort of committee of public safety was established , which took on itself to moderate the laws of the mob , and to grant permission to persons to work under certain circumstanc-es . He thought the species of concert aud order and government in these arrangements presented a feature of an alarming kind , which had induced the law advisers of the Crown to present this case to the attention of the Jury . It would be clearly proved , that a person of the Dame of Ward was concerned in riots which took place about the 7 th of August , and down to the period when a sort of committee of public safety was established in the

      neighbourhood of Stalybridge . A witness of the name of Jamieson , a tai l or , carrying on business at Stalybridge , w o ul d p r ove th at he h ad h is m en turned out , but , being desirous of having some men to make up a suit of mourning , he applied to the committee of public safety , which dispensed these indulgenoies and permitted , under special circumstances , ihat the dictates of the mob might be violated for a short time ; allowing persons , under the authority of a written warrant , to pursne their lawful callings fcr a limited time . The certificate granted in the present ca ^ e had been either lost or destroyed ; but he should be able to prove that it was to this effect : — " August 11—This is to certify that Peter Jamieson ' s men shall have liberty to make some clothes for mourning . The Operative Committee . " After

      granting this certificate there arose , it appears some suspicion , that under the pretext of making clothes for mourning , Jamieson was carrying on his tegular business , and several persons c&me to his shop and ¦ wanted to see what he was doing . Jamieson resisted , stating he had the authority of the Operative Committee to work . They said that was nothing to them ; and as he would not permit hi 3 premises to be searched in order that it might be ascertained whether he was making mourning or not , a mob came again about noon aud insisted ou seeiug that he acted in obedience to his licence , and only made mourning clothes . He ( the Attorney-General ) confessed that he did not think open violence so alarming

      as this species of order and arrangement , this affectation of the rules of regular authority in granting dispensations . He considered it far more dangerous than mere tumult , which did its mischief , passed away , and subsided . There was evidence that a person of the name of of Ward had been engaged in riotous assemblies , and was a party to the granting of these licences . It was very difficult to eoneeive that an offence of this son fell mucn Ehon of the highest crime which the law knew , and undoubtedly the exercise of authority , coupled with any acs of violence &t the time , would scarcely haveleuany choice to the law officers of the Crown as to the character of the offence they must have presented to the Grand Jury .

      . . . Evidence was given of the fact of the prisoner being concerned in . a riotous assembly , in the county of Chester . Pe ; er Jamieson deposed—He first saw the prisoner on the 9 th of August . He came with forty or sixty persons , who wanted to know whetner witness's men were at work , and wanted to have them out . Witness reasoned wiih the mob , and they went away . They came again on the morning of the 10 th of August . The prisoner was with them ; and with seven or eight persons entered witness ' s shop and wanted to hare the men out . They said they would not allow witness ' s men or any men to work nntil the Charter became the law of the land . Witness turned

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      his men out for fear . His men were satisfied with their wages , and could earn fronr 20 . 3 . to 24 s . a-week . Witness ' s house was in Chester . Witness remembered getting a certificate to allow him to work . The prisoner had nothing to do with that ; it was another Ward . The Attorney-Genebal here said that , in consequenoe of wUat had just fallen from the witnes 3 , he could carry tho case no i ' urther . Lord Abisgeb . direc ed the Jury to acquit the prisoner , as neither offence with which he was charged could not he sustained , ali the rioting having occurred in the county of Chester . There was another indictment against the prisoner for a similar offence , which could not be sustained , and the prisoner was Acquitted .

      Several other pnsoners pleaded guilty , and were ordered to enter into recognizinces to appear ior judgement when calied on . When all the cases iu this court had been disposed of , Lord Abinger , addressing the common Jury , said ha was nappy to inform them that tkoy were now discharged . He expressed himself satisfied with the patient attention they had given to tho several cases , and concurred iu the propriety of ali their verdicts . It must have given them great pain ro witness th 9 delusion which had prevailed among some of the induairious < iaSies ; and he couid ; : ot conclude wi . hdut saying , that , thca ^ a the Crown was un- 'cr the necessity , for the sake ot the pub ' ic safety , of bringing the unfortunate offenders to jusdee , the prosecutions had been conducted with as much leniency and forbearance as possible , consistent with public justice .

      CROWN COURT . ( Before Baron Alderson . ) Twenty or thirty prisoners , previously convicted of r iot , conspiracy , and attending unlawfnl meetings , w ere this day put forward to receive sentence . Mr . Baron Aldeeson , in passing sentence on them , said , you have ail been convicted , on very cleat evidence , of having been engaged in riotous attacks upon property in the town of Manchester ; and undoubtedly tbo offence which you , and others like you , have been guilty of , is one of a very serious nature , involving consequences of the greatest possible alarm towards those who are possessed of property , but involving much more serious consequences aa regards those who are not possessed of any property save that of labour . Those things were not for the first time heard of in the world .

      and if people would but attend to what has previously taken place , and see what consequences follow , and have followed in former instances , all attempts of this kind , even when partially successful , they would eee that the working classes do themselves the greatest injury by entering into enmbi lations and conspiracies ¦ which end in those riots cf which vf e have had so many cases here Let . us look a little to the history of matters of this nature . In a neighbouring country , not many years ago , there was an insurrection precisely like the recent one here ; I mean in the manufacturing town of Lyons , in the kingdom at Prance . In the year 1831 a large body cf workmen in that town insisted upon gbtting particular wages , which it was impossible in the opinions of the masters to give . They published what they called a tariff of wages . They were successful : what was

      ths effect ? Head , ma ; k , learn , and inwardly digest ! The working classes in 1831 at Lyons , resolved upon a general turn-out , in order to obtain a uniform Bcale of priceB for their labour , and before three years were passed their " tariff" proved to have been Iea 3 than the improved state of trade enabled the masters to offer ; but it was hardly promulgated , -when the leading houses in Lyons finding it impossible to pay the prices , came to a resolution to stop their work , —the consequence was , that thousands of looms were left without employment . What then follows ? Bitterness , anger , strife , resentmen t , and insurrection , in tbo year 1834 ! Those who had besiun this state of things by the saccssaful tariff of the workmen in 1831 , ended it in open insurrection in the streets of Lyons , in which the authorities were put to flight ; the Prefect ( who held a Bimilar office to the

      mayers of this conntry ) was taken prisoner ; 10 , 060 troops were brought into the town j the mob were successful , they beat the soldiers back—and what was the end ? Within one weik after the principal insurgents were begging for work ; the leaders quittsd Lyons , leaving their families to starve ; all parties concurred in replacing the authorities : and this was the end of all the miseries which began with the " tariff" of 1831 ; it ended in a successful insurrection in 1834 , leaving the parties who originated it the most miserable of all the rest . All this would happen if you were permitted to be successful in this country—worse , indeed , would happen in this country , for . the population , where we are more confined together and thicker , and therefore they would suffer much greater privation and misery . It becomes ntcessary , under these circumstances , for the sake of yourselves and persons like you , that the law should interpose a remedy , in order that , by the

      weapons of reason and authority , as well as by the terrors and soverity of punishment , we may endeavour to suppress those crimes of which you stand convicted on the preBent occasion . His Lordship here proceeded to comment upon the enormity of the several offences of which the prisoners had been found guilty , seutencing William Lee and James Sheridan for an attack on the police station , the former to fifteen months imprisonment and hard labour , and the latter to twelve months ; and the latter having been found guilty upon anoiher indictment was sentenced to an extra six month g' imprisonment George Turner and Joseph Shaw for tutnisg out workpeople , received nine months each and hard labour . ' Richard Stacey , John Abbott , John Smith , aud John Sutciiffe , -were also sentenced to nine months imprisonment and hard labour ; and Hill , Gillibrand , Walker , and Johnson , were sentenced to fifteen months aud hard labour .

      SENTENCE ON THH SECRETARY OF THE DYERS UNION . John Tear , the Secretary to the Dressers' and Dyers Union of Manchester , was next brought up , and his Lobdship , addressing him , said—As to you , John Tear , I nave reserved your sentence to ihe last , because yours was incomparably the worst case of the whole . You have been convicted twice for having led on a mob , end ynu did not diminish your cffuca by the nature of the defence you set up , because , though I am willing to believe your witnesses may have mistaken the day , and given their evidence under the impression that they were speaking of the right day , yet I cannot acquit you of a design to deceive the Court But it is to the nature of your defence that I desire to look more particularly . Yon -were the Secretary for a Trades' Union , a body congregated for a particular purpose , and in that capacity you purpose to regulate the business of trade You published a placard which pretends to speak of "Peace , law , and order . " I say " pretends , " because .

      looking at the time at which it w . ia published , as well as the circumstances , it is childish to suppose t&a : those who pretended to wish others i « keep the peace were animated by any other motive than that of rank hypocrisy . Why do you begin with saving " Uaionis strength , " at a time when tho people were using their strength for the destruction of the property around them ? Why begin to tell them of thuir strength at such a time ? Cin any man deny that it was to induce them not to be afraid ? To publish such a placard at such a time shews that you did it in wickedness , and under the contemptible mock of hypocrisy . You cannot deceive the world by such tricks as these . Neither the people to whom you addressed the placard nor the persons to whom it came can for a moment be deceived , neither did you intend that they should be . The Learned Judge , aftsr these observations , sentenced the prisoner to two years' imprisonment and h ° rd labour , and at the expiration of the term of his imprisonment , to find two sureties in £ 59 each , to keep the peace for two years , and himself in £ 100 .

      His Lordship nest sentenced Morns Burns to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months ; Lynch , Scott , Berks , the two KearnanB , and Fitch , to imprisonment and hard labour for twelve months ; and Campbell and Collins to imprisonment and hard labour for six months , for being concerned in riotous proceedings at Granby-row , Manchester . He sentenced James Matler , convicted of having been concerned in a riot at Hindley , to twelve months'imprisonment and hard labour ; and Tootle and Birch , the former to four and the latter to six calendar months ' imprisonment and hard labour , for having been concerned in a riot at Entwisle . He concluded by expressing a hope that all the prisoners would remember that the law was strong , that good sense must ultimately prevail , and that the things they were endeavouring to do eould be productive of no good , and must be productive of the greatest possible evil to every one , and especially to themselves .

      John Hunt , Thomas Wild , and Robert Whitebead , pleaded " Guilty" to a charge of conspiracy and riot at Manchester , and were discharged on their entering in t o their own recognizinces te keep the peace . Richard Hardman pleaded Guilty to a charge of riot and conspiracy at Rochdale , and was discbarged on entering into his own recognizances . James Hardaber , Thomas Bottomley , Alfred Butterworth , David Minns , Abel Dnke , and Henry Hindley , also pleaded Guilty to charges of riot and conspiracy , and weie discharged on entering into their own

      recogmiBinces . James Jones , William BelJ , Ambrose Hunt , and Samuel Yardley pleaded Guilty to a charge of riot and conspiracy , and were ordered to be imprisoned at Kirkdale for six calendar months , and at the expiration of that time to enter into their own recognizances in £ 100 , and two suret es in £ 25 each , to be of the peace and good behaviour for two years . ThU being the last of the cases for trial before Baron A lderso n , his Lordship discharged the Jury , and lef t the Court at twelve o ' clock .

      MAGISTRATES' ROOM . ( Before Mr . Justice CnssrceU . ) Joseph Hitchens , Joseph Mills , Ralph Wolfenden , and Jehn Wright , were Indicted for a riot and conspiracy at a place called High Crompton , near Oidham . The Jury found the prisoners guilty , but in consequence of the previous good character of Wolfenden and Wright , they were allewed to en >' er into recognisances to appear when called on . Kitchen was severely admonished by his Lerdship , who observed , that it was in consequence of individuals of a meddling and turbulent disposition , such us the prisoner , that

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      such disastrous cone . q . i ^ c 3 ensued as hud t .-jrtn placo dunujr the late riots ; und ho should betray his duty to the public if he passed his offence over lightly ; and as to the prisoner Mills .. he . hart sho * n himself to be a williDg tool in the banae of designing meu . The sentence was , that both prisoners should be imprisoned twelve months , and thnt Hitchens be bound over to k : ep the peace for two years after the termination of his imprisonment . John Mr-rcroft was indioted for beinij present at a riot at But ' -erworth - B mill , in Spotland , on the 18 th of August last . It appeared tha prisoner , together with a number of other persons , went to the rail ! in question to get the hands turned out but the employers at the mill , from previous information -which they had received , stopped thoir works . The mob , ho-wevur , Insisted op being ' admitted . Marcroft was at the place , and appeared to be exciting the rioters , aud was heard to call out— •¦ Break open the gates . " He was soon afterwaros epproht-iided .

      The Jury ianiied-aU-ly found the prisoner guilty , and he was sentenced to six months' iniprisonmeut . Isaac Hoyle , William Booth , TUomus Otjden . John ChiS 8 ah :: ll , and John Wolstwici-ofc , were charged with unlawfully conspirins ; together to impede , by threats and intimidation , th » carrying on of the trade and manufactures of the ouutry . Chisenhall and Wolnteueroft pleaded guilty , and the rest not cuilty . . Mr . TVoksley conciuctocl the prosecution , and Mr . Matthews the defence . Mr . Wortley KAid , ttie three prisoners were Indicted for conspiring together , with other persons , one of whom was indicted for a m-ire serious offence . —for conspiring together to effcet some purpose of their own , either for procuring the Charter , or some other alteration in tho laws of the country , and preventing others from following their lawful employment . Evidence haviDg been called lor the prosecution .

      Mr . Matthews addressed the jary for the prisoners , contending that the great object which the pwtiea hail in viow in the present case was not to prevent the people from working , but the obtaining the Charter . It may have baen a good or a bad measure—thas had nothing whatever to do with it—that was not the question which they had to try . The only question for the m to ca n sider was , ¦ whi ther the object which the prisoners had in view was the turning out of tho bands . His Lordship summed up the evidence , and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty .

      The Learned Judge , addressing the prisoners , said , they had been found guilty of a most dangerous consp iracy , and whether they had intended to involve themselves in one of a still more dangerous description it was not for him to say . There could not be anything in the ordinary scale of offences so disastrous to the community as the one of which they had been found guilty , as they bad been the meacs of causing many hones t , indwatriouB , sukI Btri-ving men to quit their occ u pa t io n s , as well as inducing them to give their savings to the advancement of their illegal designs . He hoped the ignorant people whom they had succeeded in deluding wonld take warning by the example which the prisoners bad afforded them . The sentence was , that they be imprisoned for eighteen months , and at the expiration of that time 6 nter into sureties , themselves in £ 25 , and two other in £ i > 0 each , to keep tho peace for two years after the term of their imprisonment had expired ,

      Chisenhall aud Wolstenotoft were allowed to enter into recognizinces to appear when called upon . Thomas Ashcroft . 1 homas Marshall , and . Joseph Fletcher , charged with riot and conspiracy at Asbtonunder-Lyne , were then brought up , and his Lordship having examined a witness as to their character , and b&in . c of opinion that they bad not been volunteers originaiiy in the unlawful assembly , with which they h a d been charg e d , sentenced them to six months'imprisonment and hard labour . His Lordship then thanked ths jury for their attendance , and hoped they would not have to meet again on a similar occasion . The conrt then broke up at three o ' clock . The above cases concluded the business of the special commission , the interest of which was very much diminished iu consequence of tho postponement of the trials of OConuor and the other leaders , who have travorsed .

      RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSION . THE SENTENGES . Fifteen Years' Transportation . —Ed . Walsh , Patrick Mooney , Patrick Feous , Tho m aa T iaa n , John Galvert . . Seven Years'Transportation—Rowland Davies , William Cash , Jeremiah M Cormick , William Reed , John Platt , Edvvarl Kuowles . Eighteen Months' imprisonment . —Jas . Sfo"Hdan , Morris Burns , James Ashley , Isaao Hoyle , Wm . Booth , Tho mac Ogden . Fifteen Months' Imprisonment . —William Lee

      One Year ' s Imprisonment .- ^ Jamea Kelly , Ja m es Dolan , John Manloy , Georgo Edge , another Jauies Dolau , John MCaiin , Giles Peter Hardman , Jamen Hardman , James Gorton , William Hill , Joseph Gillibrand , Wiiliam Walker , Frederick Johnson , James Mather , J ohn Hickey , Hugh Cavanr . ab , Matthew D » lton . James Tweedale , George Thornton , Joseph Webb , James Melbourne , John Cannon , Joseph Harrington , G e orge H nn t er , Joseph Mills , Joseph Hitchen , Abel Motley , John Ingham , Thomas Morris , John Ha ? ue , John Leylaud , Thomas Ashcroffc , Thomas Marshall , Joseph Fletcher , J o seph Bo w e r s , Jauies Harrison , Richard Sterndale , Joseph Andrews , Rober t Allen , Joseph Thomas , John Oidham , John Edwards , Edward Hall , James Richardson , Michael Clarke , John Le v er , John Holmes . John Hoyle , Robert Taylor , William Marsland , John Travis , Rowland Beatley , William Gartside , Robert Warburton . Michael Lynch , Thomas Scott , Job Berks , Bryan Kearnan , Francis Kearnan , John Fitch , Thomas Dyson , Da v id Ta y lor , James Smith . '

      Ten Months' Imprisonment . —Thomas Townloy . Nine Months' Imprisonment . —George Turner , Joseph Shaw , Richard Stacey , John Abbott . John Smith John Sutclifff , Samuel Sigloy , William Harrett , John Too t al , William Forrest . Six Months' Imprisonment . —Thoma 3 Ashcroft , Thomas M a rshall , Joseph Fletcher , Aaron Tiiorpe , James Robii : son , Jaines Jones , William Bell , Ambrose Hunt , Samuel YarUley , Richard Warwick , Patrick O'Brieu , James Hayley , Joseph Webb , Thomas Whitehead , John S t ones , John Fallon . EJw . ird Mitchell , Bury Collins , Joan Campbell , John Collins . J : ib ; z Birch , Andrew Sbearcr , Jahn Bell , Thomas Hodffts , Ed ward Williams , John Marcroft , John Eccles , Geo Grimsbaw . Four Months . —William Tootal . Three Months' Imprisonment—Wm . Hughes , James Sexton , John Olegg , Joseph Turner , Thomas Clone .

      Acquitted . —Jane Carney , James Du n n , John Dobson , William Fairmough , John Crowlher , Thomas Jones , Joseph Le v ens , John Rylands , Johu Burden , William Walmaley , Richara Warwick , John Ward . Discharged upon Recognizances . —Ralph Wolfeuden , John Chisenhall , John Wolatencroft ,-John Wri ght , Israel Crook , John Galvin , John Hunt , Tnos . Wild , Robert Whitehead , Richard Hardman , James Hardaker , Thomas Bittomley , Alfred Butterworth , David Morris , Abal Duke , Henry Hinde , Charles Turner , Alexander Hutchinson , Patrick Agnew , Joseph Bailey , William Collins , James Pitfleld , Alexander Brair , Leonard Bsardman , Ja m es Ta ylor , JoflnBrieriey , Robert Foden , Thomas Cheethara .

      Traversed 10 the next Assizes . — Fea r g u s O'Connor , the Rev . James Scholefield , the Rev . Mr . Hill , Bernard Mecartney , James Leach , Christopher Doyle , John Campbell , Richard Otley , George Julian Harney , Robert Brook , John Thornton . Thomas Brown Smith , John Allinson , Samuel Parfce , Thomas Rniitan , William Scholefield , ( son of tbe Rev . J . Scholefield , Richard Pilling , John Durham , Ja m es Fenton , Wm . Stephenson , John Crtssley , Albert Woolverdeu , George Inraan , Thomas Storer , William Woodruff , Thomas Pitt , Frederick Augustus Taylor , Jokn Massey , and John Wilde .

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      TALES-- WRITTEN EXPKi ^ SLY FOK IS " NORTHERN STAR . " BY CHARTIUS . NO . HI . THE EMIGRANTS . —Part n . Time was when Richard R tbinson rose early and worked chetrf uliy , in Ihe assured hope of receiving the pleasure that springs from profit ; now he slept to avoid the burthen of tbo day . His wife's good cheer was wont to refresh his spirits ; but now her liveliest efforts failed to animate him . With heartfelt sat'ffaction ha had observed his children clevtr and good ; but now he grieved as much for the absence of ths ono as ho felt pained at the disgraceful presence of the other . His old mother wos unconscious of these evils , but she was no lefs an object of pity . The only being that Eei-uifd ta enjoy itself was his faithful dog ; and ; f ever Richard forgot his criefs it was while receiving tho grateful caressos of this attached domestic .

      Times were indeed sadly altered ; Richard now pat down to 8 : >; h when he should have risen to work Every esertion hart become a trouble to him , and every trouble entirely unmanned him . The great crosses that had happened to him seemed to have passed from his memory ; but auy little thwarting eircumsti > nc « rnaiie him weep in very vexation of spirit . Gro-. vn petulant and irritable , he regarded all things as cosi&piriug Bvainst his p-ace . Hn seldom spoke , and did his work doggedly , muttering to himself . He was careless in his bargains , as if he did not care what way tliiuga wont ; aiid whereas formerly he had been kind to all , ha was now ill-natured , even to his good dame . Thin did not last long : the heart must eithtr bri-ak or bend , and Richard ' s harshness gradually gave way to melancholy , which softened his temper , but at tho same time so weakened it , that he became incnp « ble of resolution .

      Those moody thoughts that might have maddened him seeme-. i to have been exorcised from his mind , but they bad ltfc a v- 'cartcy there which apparently uought else could fill , aud he was in danger of sinking into more fatal apathy . Sometimes , however , tho genial delights of returnine Spring bad their usual influence over his reanimated frame , end tit each times ha would cheerfully acknowledge tbe goodm-ss of God , that made him not think of the evil man had done to him . But at other times a supernatural gloom overclouded his spirits ; tho world appeared to hSm aecene of " chimeras dire , " and life a thing of four and pain , entwifited by some demon enchantment . He felt the darkness ¦» itboutthe dullness of mortality . Whenucdertho influence of these dismal dreams , be was tempted to self-destruction j but nature recoiled , and he resolved to fortify his mind against the- recurrence of s u ch impulses , lest thoy should prow too strong to be resisted .

      The natural effects of Richard's hypochondria soon became visible . The crop on his farm failed through lack of management ; the stock decreased for want of due attendance' ; and apprehensions of poverty , t hose fearful apprehensions that rouse the most heedless , awoke the despairing farmer to a last consideration of his circumstances . With anxious and bewildered gazo he saw the earth was becoming a wilderness to him , and his fellow-citizens aliens . Though he cared littla for his in ( lividual 8 elf , yet , when he looked at his family , and thought thai they too must becoma vict ims , then the tender ties of relationship thil Lad wound round hie heart like its own strings tugged with violent energy as if to rend it piecemeal .

      What was to be done ? Richard ' s small stocE of money had been expend , d in the vain endeavour of procuring his son ' s release ; the depression of his spirits co-operating with tha pressure of the times was unfitting him to turn his farming stock to account . He had hitherto always paid his way , and was Benniu-Jously txict upon this point . The dues of his parish in particular ,- and of the country in general , he had discharged without much murmuring . They were like drops of sweat , produces 1 , by hard labour , which had not exhausted him in healthful prosperity ; hnt now he felt them like an effusion of blood that weakens the vitals . When paying tha highway cess , h » would exclaim against the injustice of having to bear Each a disproportionable part of the expense of repairing the roads . " The gentry , " be wonld aay , " who drivti their carriages fer luxurious pastimo are much lighUr charged than I who drive my cart for a livelihood . " When paying the poor-rate , he would say , " I shall bo

      teggar .-d with keeping the poor , and then you'H have to freep me . I labour to keep myself off the pirish ; let those vrho do not labour ire « p them that are on ^ ' But the payment of tithe grieved him most . In the vexatio n of his ho n es t hea r t , he would attribute all the evila that had befallen him to the parson . " What signif y , " said he , "his mystical words that no on » understands ; they neither produce good works in himself nor in other * . . He seldom preaches ' good will to man , ' and never sets the example , or he woaW not , as magistrate , have committed my poor lad to prison . He never preaches against seduction , or my silly lass might not have been ruined . He never preaches thixt the poor shonld be fed , or surely the rich who mak » them poor would not ssnd them empty to juo . He never preaches against war , or such aa I wouM not have to bear the fjurthen it has brought upon t ic country . He ' s rich , tut I ' m poor . I'll pay him his tithe , however ; but I'll not goto hear his mock wry "

      To Richard ' s independent mind , the dread of debt was worse than death—the loss of credit was lifcelosing life to one of his upright staudiog . He had toi ' -e < A i . fcc a slave but still ho vcr . s free— loss of personal liberty seemed to him equivalent ; to being given up to tlu , co ' :--mentors . Were he in debt his meat "would < lo h ' . m no good ; be know his conscience would not let hit" * - 'j"i ' the things ' that belonged to another , and terrible t > li ;> idea was the fact tlwt then his very raiment , bed a : 0 food , would be stolen goods . Should he k-. ep out of debt and a prisou , he must beg . or enter the \»> rkh « v . s . ; To wantk-r forth a prey toc ' uld , disease , and tuu ^ er—tj bt constantly tantalized with the sislit of y > leiity , 7 * t not be ullowert to touch it—to behold wistefui txtr : vagance and to fool the want of the commonest necwasii-ievs —to implore the ira . iiieuS pittance as tbe greatest boon , and to budenifcii or given 10 the chargo of a poHca ; a ; in —to held with the vilest wretches iu the lowest inh" ; i 7 —old nee coming orisnd ssich u prospect before

      himno , no ! he ttwxt , his tyos and his bean ached bi ' . U My . Bat if he coiild not bear tho wif a when singly e < jr > t-- ; iiplated , how wero his pangs multiplied when In : c jv .: ' - dered his family as exposed to similar pyivjf '' ' With haggard e } us Ii 9 viewed his age < l pirent tiioui ?!; -.-lessly doting on the comforts ha b ^ 'd carefully surrounded her with—he turned to liia wife , wha "aa rtl *\ ijs striving * to-make bud butter—he marked his dau ^ Utir . nursiug the babe of her disgrace , andthounh he du > - iiJtiO distress would be but retribution for her sin , yiX list infant that was artlessly smiling on bar lap—oh ! the sij-bt of that unconscious innocent marked his ' teiKiefitt fceliDgs , and then it was he most keenly acltiiowifrtfe ; : tha hard doom of being cursed with poverty . A" f'uhimself be was thankful that bo much of hw jounK-v through life was p « si but thin guileless tbina : was ju-t entering on thu rugged road , r . nd excruciating wiis th- ; thought that evils would grow with its growth , and str ? ncthen with its strength .

      Yes , poverty I thou art " Kehama ' s" curso—all com forts , all conveniences , every tequisite of life f- ^ e thou and know thue and fly thee , and thou art doomed to wander forth in an atmosphere of plague , pestilence , un > i f . unine—without defence , witho u t sh e l t e r , without nuecour , without pity . Thou art the demon that tempted Job and made hitri doubt Providence . Richard saw that there was no longer any liviiig fcr him iu the land that gave him life . How must he avoid the workhouse- —that union of all evils f An acquaintance advised him to open a shop of small ware , but his line of life had unBuitcd him for that kind of business , and it was too luta to learn . Besides he hat } felt an

      aversion to it ever since a respectable tradesman who had cheated him in a bargain for'some cheeses , hud told him tbat it was impossible in these times to live and be honest Neither could our farmer stoop to any servile occupation—he possessed an independent spirit , and if he must descend , it should be in another country where his pride would not be hurt by the fall . Accordingly he resolved to sell his stock and emigrate to A m erica , where if he should not meet with prosperity he would at least not be scorned for adversity . The indignant pride ot & vnaiVyx BtaeBgbttiened Richard ' s painful resolution of self-exile , and while preparing for his departure he evinced more alacrity than he had for a long time been accustomed to , The aale of his stock brought him a sum aufficient to clear the way for a settlement ; as for his passage , Government .-hart offered a free one , just as it freely pays the passage of all convicts to Botany Bay . The light of hope again shone upon Riebard aud made his heart revive . Oil if it were not for that never-setting star which leads os

      through tbis world and lures us to a better , we should sit down in tUe darkness of our despair ana-perish miserably . But all Richard ' s new-fouud fortitude forsook him when the hour of his departure drew nigh . He snrvtyed tho littie farm where " he had lived , and -where be wished to die—every nook he knew—there was not a spot fiee from his labour , and must his t a sks , his improvements , ali his wishes , and his feelings go for nought I He entered the quiet cottage in which be had been bom—his aged mother , with the aid of spec ta cl e s , was poring over the large letters of her Bible—tbe sight smote him with sudden pain—it would be like taking her out of htv grave—and the baby , too , tbat was to be cast out like a foundling , to the mercy of the winds and waves—his own hard endeavours for a honest livelihood rendered vain by conscious injustice —after performing for bo many y ^ ara the part of a useful citizen to be neglected at last when he moat needed protection—not suffered to remain and have bis bones laid beside his father "*—where else could they rest in peace } .

      Ah ! ye landlords , who live Idly on the labour of your tenanU , bat will not let them live—ye capitalists , who are so well supported by the farmer that he cannot support himself—ye sportsmen , who bad rather wildfowl subsisted on the land than your fellow-countrymen —ye men of all classes , who are fed and clothed by those that starve ! we beseec h you one and all to promote your own interests and the interests of our country by promoting ths interests of the husbandman . Let not a generous horse be overloaded because it is willing to work beyond its strength . Ye legislators , who assemble after dinner and dessert to make a down-dinner of your country ' B distresses , if ye felt the grievances which ye pretend to deplore , yon would encourage the patriotic efforts of honest industry , and would sot let these men who , as fellow-creatures , as subjects , and as labourers , are the best , the most loyal , and the . most useful , be driven away by the ignominious scourge of oppression .

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      If ye knew tow cioai their unsopli / b : i . ; : it < id le-i . ^ tp cliu- - t > the spot wheie thi-y have i : ?;; ii , movta . - a . d baa th-ir being . " the play-pace of their utrly days "the sphere of their lives—if yo knew ibfse thing * , ye could not encuro that they should be torn liko a tree from their native land , ev-ry fibre claspi * e , the soil which nourished it , unwilling to be forod from ih ir mother-earth and trarsplanttd into a foreign soil , wht-re they must perforce exis % repugnantly , if they do not untimeiy wither , and die . Richard Robinson is an ua common nor v . i . s > r&vated instance . How many hardworking formers , by unequal burdens have been

      ran-Otrgd unable to procure brfad , though tho earth yw'ds her increase in due season ; a large fan : Sly too depending upon them ; perhaps paralysed by ai'e , disaasje , or accident Aht 3-, tad best suffer the wor ^ t ; the mos' deserving are the "k-ast rtquiu- < i . But shall this statt .- of things continue ? shall the wt-ariei 1 son of toil bt incapacitated I > y hnxitsty fruin ' taking ueetffui rest ? shall virtue be rnsde the vifii-im of < aw ? oli hum&u tits be turned to tortures , because on austere Cr . ' vt r ! imfint re / ips where it lias not » uwn ? Must E . 's-Wu -. lie barren r » nd Eiglichnun ilmi their own country a monster reudy to destroy tutm ' unl , as » t-f t'j escape acrosK th < - Atlantic ?

      V iituly ( should I :- ; : deavour to " . import" to others the fi-t-JJngB thiit rftukfii the old fnvnu-r ' s y . ni-uin ^ hi-art , when tbe time of ¦ lira df ^ avLute arrived . Hart iae r . ' -. adtr beheld liim , —the phnnit s . s < i hi . s ancierit at . re denoting ibe simplicity of his ) i ;? . n ! . erfi -LIs framo liont with toil—his Vi-a ' . htr-l-. eaU-a Jo ti : «« tspiessivi- of integiiiy ainl bcuevo ' Mice— h >» pi « y ) rckk-. fl \ alicg in the -pind—had he beheld hirii dash uway a tear fr < -m his boiicst- eye , as if resolved to be resigned—swallowing til * . ^ HioCi ' .-ns which rose to tuftouate him— -he would navo acbr . ow ! edi ; ed that it was a piteous t > ij ; Ut , and lamented ibe fata : policy that co' -deiuned sucli a one to uatuuriiaii grief . All the pi&t iushed into the pre . iEojt aim ovBi <; har ^ e ;' S bis hesrfc with feoJ'iig . There was the pathway to school—the lovws' walk where ho han courted his wife , a m-iBiibouriup farmer ' s uauuhi . jr .

      Ke spofee not , fur hits be » rt ahv . ofct choked him with its eweiiirig—every Ix-at of his w . tch in ;« 1 n it throb in union . It seemed as though ha wuuiri have to be i ' orced from h . is hold of a decayed tree upou wLich he had enrveri V > s rame when a boy , nn < 5 with which he could fain- at this timo have identified hinifftlf . He silently bade farewell to every inanimate Wcllkiiown object , ' as though they were friends wksm he ¦ was r . ov 6 t inoioto sea All tbe way as lie went he kept constantly turning to look at tho dotted cot , as if ho expected it would follow him , but on the contrary , it seemed to recede like one that turns away to weep . When be reached the lust point of view he paused—the rays > .. f ths Butting nin were peacefully resting like God's'blessiiig-on the scene —Rnd muat he go?—bis h < = art bled—he gave such a look—but you should have seen him .

      Our emkras-ts were shewn their ship by a wealthy stoek-jobber who w ; isnot ashamed to enjoy his tax fed and oiaaa-la-w luxuries the mo . mc-nt after—nay tbo idea that part of a starving population were leaving the country added zest to his enjoyments . An idle profligate passed his joke upon them , and Richard constrained himself to ans w er , but bis ineffectual attempt at mirth only made his misery more apparent . " It ' s plain , " he said , "that they do not consider us worth caring for ; but you , poor thiuKsl Icr . re for y « u . " Stveval attempts-were made to txtort money from him by imposition which his un-Busp ' .-xtiug nature rendettd too successful . His ochiug heart might have bern spared these nddithnul throbs ; but the unfeeling make the feeling fi . el .

      Tue vessel that bore the nival virtues from the land made n gallant show and proudly breasted the waves as though . Bbc were invincible to their migbtist assaults . I prayed that her itimateB nright-so surmount the troubles that had beset them in their passage through this stormy life and arrive safe in tbe haven of heaven at last . None cheered tbe disconsolate emigrants , whose hearts sunk as the laud receded from their earnest gaze , and a wild waste of waters received them . In an element aud way of life totally repugnant to that they have always bee ^ v habituate-i t » , how will their sensations be inverted by novel dn-ad and sickness—anil after their ps-rilons voyage is past where shall thty E ' . ek comfort if they find it uot in the land of their premise—if they who have been ruined lure and are

      deceived there ? ' Rememier , Americans , that yourfathers were strangers in tho lRnd , und even for the sake of their memories receive tbe exiles with huspitii'ity . Richard ' s farm was immediately let to e new tenant —at an increase rather tban a decrease of rent—for ny-w comers are always horeful end never take warning from those who have gorso ' nf-iyte . Tiitjnew tenant has a great mUavce upon his better luck and superior skill , till experience bave . tai 2 . ciit him a different U * son ; l > ut the rage for taking farms in those who have been bred farmers and know not vi hat else to take , Reives greatly to allay the fears of landlords that their farms wiJl not let , or that a reduction of rent Must take pince . In the meantime the land is cropped to exhaustion and English soil is becoming as poor as those that till it .

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      BAIL FOR THE VICTIMS . TO THE EP 1 T 0 U OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Siis ., —Siting in our paper of yesterday , that Mr . John West is a prisoner in Derby Gaol for "want of sureties , I sit down forthwith to state that I am free , sibia , ami ' willing to saive him and tho people fey giving bull to the amount of £ »(> . If tfc-ree others c : in be procured to act in cc-ncuvt , with myf «) f ; and if my presence is required there I will endeavour to attend . I have been confined in our county gaol three months m last year because I hu . d cot bail . * God ODiy knows what laup . lh our base opDnwors are to rue . I fancy we

      shall have them give up -tr . vio shortly . Well knowing the ( iesptrratr ! menus they had recourse to . so as to arrest the a'llvocc . tts cf truth , end most anximis to baye them at liu . 'Vt . v , I' hereby promise to assist » ny other jvlvocfits , should our friend , Mr . Wtst , have found aiffiuient friends . .. , Sir , A Chartist , and a Io ? er of the r > r : me . Yours respectfully , WllXIAM COCPER . Wesdon ,- frcithamptonshSre , Oct . I 61 I 1 , 1842 .

      [* Wi ! have omitted a line or two from our correspondent ' s letter ; thn publication of which might have pubjfc : ?

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      NOTTINGHAM ; MONDAY , OcT- 17-( From our Correspondent . J The work of Justices' justice has commenced here , bi { ore Colonel KuUeston , M . P ., Thomas Nixon , Esq ., J . S . ' -ervrin , E-q ., Rav . R . Rowe , W . H . Barrow , Ejq ., W . F Norton , Esq , and Capt . Salmondy . 'Tiw- ' following were sworn for the Giand Jury : — J : hii Marshall , foreman ; Thomas Buciei-, Joshua -Mein , It b .: rkar Barker , William Sanday , Tfcoinaa Smith , K .: Mai- ( 5 Greenbaljih ,. Robert Sutton , 6 K H .. C <» ie , Wmi Maiti . y , Thomas Wolsteiiholm , Anthony Wend , Thos . Ga * -c ™ t ; ne . Henry Houghton , Francis BeaOiey , W . $ . D t : ;' . ns , William Fox , William Marshall , Hemy Hebb , D . aiid Jer . Bon , and John AHcock . .

      Colonel Rolieston , in arldrtssiug the Grand Jury , after reniaiking upon-some of the cases of felony , aud making a few remarks upon the new Constabulary Act , saW . that he wiiihe ' . J to make some observations in reference to that class of prisoners who rvbro committed for tbe late disturbances ; and though he regretted that they had taken place , it was a matter of congratulation that in these parts there had not been such desperate acts corriiiiitted as had t » ken place in some other parts , thoug h we had been visited by itinerant agitators , who promote such scenes for the furtherance of their own objects . And , as always happens , the most active have endeavoured to escape the penalties which attend such conduct : but though it has not been so violent ,

      yet it was such as to call for interference , and he hopprl they would perform their duty with steariir . rss anrt firmness . It appeared to him from tb < - - depositions tbat the evidence was clear , and that they would have little difficulty ; but he would give a sfeort outline . On the 18 th cf August there was a meeting of persons called Chartists , and a resolution was passed for a total cessation from labour ; that meeting was adjemmed till five o ' clock the next morning , a n d the magistrates thought it necessary to disperse it ; but though it was dispersed , it was not final , for they went up Toll House Hill in large bodies , and , as would appear , they proceeded with great violence and threats to turn out the hands from factories ; they then

      proctfcded to Basford , Biddie , Birktns , and other factories . Ou Saturday they again assembled at the same place , audpitccrdeti to tha collieries with like intentions , and itwasfoumi necessary to take effectual measures to suppress teem . On Monday they went to Arnold , and on Tuesday assembled in larger numbers than ever , ar . d were joined by other large bodies from the country , and the whole' proceeded through different parts of the county in a juost lawless .-. nd riotous miinBtr ; audit might be better for him to state , that all those who were there vrere equally guilty in the eyes cf the law , e v e n t hough t hey had not taken any active part , but they had made a selection of those who were most active ; and though it was legal for persons to aesembleto

      consider either their grievances or imaginary grievances , yet it was not lawful fer them to proceed to other places tban where they were assembled . It was certainly a blessing that tbis faction had not effected greater misc h ief , for " if death had . taken place , they wonld have been tried fora very serious offence ;" .-but either on account of rsturnlng good sense , or the efficient means that was taken to suppress them , this had not been tne eise , and he concluded by again reminding them that in disturbances all who ire present are principals , though they bad not committed any act of violence , for if one person only committed violence , yet they were all considered guilty , unless they could show that they were innocent .

      To parties acquainted with these occurrences , snob an exaggerated account wonld bave appeared rattier ludicrous , if it bad not been for the effect -which it might have upon a cmintryjury ; tor there w&s not a pane of glass . broken , the least injury done to property , or violence offered te persons . Half-past Six o'Clock . —True bills are found against all ibe twenty-nine prisoners .

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      LONGEVITT IN ** MAN AND JBEAST . "—Mr . Hill , farmer , of . Cheddar , aged ninety , attended the late fair , ridiug a mare thirty-six years old ; the united a ^ e of the man and horse amounted to . 126 years !—Cambrian .

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      Lord Stanley is to be elevated to the Peerage before the meeting of Parliament , to take the ministerial lead in that House . Manchesteb " Squanders . "—Now , I say , there never was a greater abu 3 e of any word in the English language than tho word " bank . " We have had in this town the " Northern and Central" squander ; we have had the " Imperial" squander ; we have had the" Commercial" squander ; we have had the " Manchester and Liverpool" squander ; and , as if thfatown had not been sufficiently diegraced , we are called together this day to testify to the Manchester" squander , which , though last , is , I am sorry to say , not the least . —Mr . Grefg ' s speech at the Bank of Manchester meeting .

      Offended Dignity . —We have received several versions of the affair of which Lord Kimbolton , of the Grenadier Guards is the hero . It appears that a recruit , out in his uniform , for the first time , on Sunday , the 25 th ultimo , was looking at the wild fowl in St . James's Park , when that hardly more experienced soldier , Lord Kimbolton , passed , and , as the poor man had not eyes in his back , was nnsaluted . For this offence his Lordship had him marched a prisoner to the barracks of the Foot Guards , when he was after wards removed to his own barracks in custody . It was not , however , convenient to Lord Kimbolton to prefer bis complaint nntil the poor recruit had been in custody three days , when

      he attended to vindicate hiB dignity . As , however , he pleaded ignorance of the presence of so distinguished an officer , he waB released . We wish that officers of Lord Kimbolton ' s rank and temperament would remember , in vindicating their own dignity , not to forget that of the service to which they belong . Had the oversight of which he complained been committed to his Colonel , instead of to himself , a mild reproof , if reproof were called for , accompanied by an injunction to be more careful another time , would have been all the punishment inflicted . It is not the persons who are most deserving respect who are usually most fastidious in resenting a supposed want of respect on the part of their inferiors , —United Service Gazette .

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      ^ _ THE NORTHERN STAR . 7

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 22, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct621/page/7/