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THBLLEB"3 DEATH WARRANT. CFrxm iis nea vork on Canada.)
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THEJfOETHERN STA&. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1841.
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THE PATRIOT . At , — " la a cottcy * iu * r a « wd . ' Axi bail tb » patriot S ~« nw * "mm S I * freedocL «» dled , mns'd by fame ; 55 10 BglitytWte'tha » ieniK « Dd biaiDll ITsjwy »« dW * btart , aawth-d bit aonl ; iB CCEKiaQBTiitni siiiitmighW Be « ock » thestom , tike And » height - "fflat holy faeHjJf w » tes lit * » oal ! Jit traStfi eternal prtndpU !
chobcs . TesahaQ tb * nobfc patriot I mo The guiding star of liberty . He marfa bis ireeptng country ^ teas , Otwyrtbe vxAce . his scmlrevsrw ; Ibongb rimmded in a dungeon ' s gloom—5 be tyrant ' s plea—the patriots doom , Sis spirit droops not ; if It born , « Tji sot for self , bat those that manm ; Ob < these are aspirations kind , The mirror of a muter mind ! Than h » il the , ic
¦^ ffe » tbdn ?' B he of mortal span , On whose * r * n heart fate writeto . man , Enthroned on blood , by carnage croTrn'd , In murder ' s annali long renowned ? Ti&he , the grea * terrestrial God : though millions tremble &t his nod , The patriot stands ftom terror free , In natorei tone nobility . Then bail the , &c H&th heaven bequeathed those powers sublime , BnE hHng man to Bleep through time ? Ask H&mpden'S spirit—uk tbe braTe Who rest tbe chain * that ears'd the alive ; ObJ they alone of peerless worth , Who spnrn the inglorkms thrones of earth ; Disdaining faction , love the whole , Can lead to freedom's hallow'd goal Then hail the , &c
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SCRAPS FOR RADICALS L . T . C—No . III . Hall my nreet , my gentle lyre , To thee my muse responds again ; Let colder hearts inToke thy fire , ( Jive ma thy Lydian languid strain . Breathe that I may soothe thy sorrow , L&t thy murmurs softly break On Taj heart and from it borrow , Sighs that cannot , dare not speak . Yet , 0 ! yet , my gentle } yre ,
Proudly shall thine echo ring ; ilidst a glorious nation's choir , Whose resurgeum thsy sing . 2 f ot in strains vt smothered sorrow , Bat thy joyoas notes shall break On my heart , and from it borrow , All my soul could wish to speak .
Xo . IV . TO THOSE WHO CAN BEST UNDERSTAND
THEiL Daep are the notes that Nines suigs , And Erin ber memorials keeping ; As from her ebon throne she springs , At midnight hoar when beaTen is sleeping . Amifisi the tombs she weeps for one , In Tain for thrice twelTe years the weepeth For freedom dare not raise a stone . To tell the worth of him who sleepeth ! Siall may she seek that lowly morad , Aad seek in Tain till that bright morrow , When freedom ' s son shall halo round , That sacred shrine of silent sorrow . Till thes no monument we raise ,
Cmr hearts shall fold his tragic story Tis cot yet time to seond bis praise , His worth , his eloaneace , his glory
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A SONG POR THE LADIES . Tone— " FamrtU to the Mountain . " TAiS-wELL to eaeh folly , each loTe-telliDg tals , Tfesgsy hopes of life " mid pleasured sweet Tale , AH so false , all so fair , that my bosom did swell These pleasures are fled , farewell ! 0 , farewell : Farewell - ' far more nsefally time 111 employ , The ranks of the Chartists I'll enter with joy ; Hark ! their voict is resounding o ' er mountain and dell , And ia thunder proclaiming the tyrant ' s death kn « LL JatrweH to each folly , each loTe-tellmg tale , The zay hopes of life "mid pleasure ' s sweet Tale ; Ia no other cause shall my bosom e re swelL Bat the cause of ths people ; farewell : 0 , farewell !
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With me , in the prison , things remained in the same rtate , until a little after one o ' clock , on Monday , when the Sheriff , accompanied by some officers and citizans , entered my apartment , and , with a melancholy shake of his head , handed me a letter from the Governor to him , u Sheriff of the home district : it was , in fact , what they termed there a death warrant ; but was enly an cffidal letter , saying , that hi * Excellency and Council , b&Ting taken into consideration the prayer of the prisoner ' s petition , could see no good reason why he should interfere with the due course ol the law ; and concluded by saying , " You are , therefore , commanded to hare the sentence of the law carried into effect on the body of the prisoner , to-morrow morning , at seren o ' clock . " Aa Alderman , whose same was Dickinson , I think a
saddler , aad master of one of the Orange lodges , begged xny forgiTeness for the insult be had offered me the day I entered the prison . He was the person who had cipieBBod the wish thai I might never come out until the morning when I should be executed . He said he felt sorry for what he had said , and that he had done all be could to atone for it by making intercession for &e—that he would still strive to aid me , and leave Tiffing undone that might aid him in accomplishing Us object . The man was true to his word . I afterwards learned that he was indefatigable in his txertioBS , and , Orangeman as he was , I can say with gratitndi to him and others , advocates ol that , to me , loathing system , that they forgot eyery difference , political and religions , and looked upon me only as their eountryr ^ an , and with suck feeling they joined their Catholic countrymen to saTemy life .
"Would to God it could eTer be thus , that there could be union of sentiment and interest , and that they would be no longer the dupes of designing knaves , who keep them at variance , that they may rule , and ride orer their necks with cars and chariot wheels of their own creation . Seated in my cell , and writing my last wishes to my family and iriends , I wasaronaed by an alarm , the bells rrcging and the drums beating to arms . What could it be ' : Could there be any truth in the report that had b = sQ circulated , that ad attempt would t « luade by the patriots to I&nd and rescue us , or was it like the other ruBoars that had been brought to us every day .
At thia period , rumours of new and threatening aspect had been Bent OTer by the paid spies of the G-iTernroeut , who were placed along the frontier towns of the United States , that fiuring that Tery week a formidable attempt would be made on Toronto , as well for the purpose of gttting the metropolis into their trads , as for our rescue ; and doit , in { .. ptn day , a Ktsa-bost of tha larger class plough ;? her ws v into ths bsy , with th » American £ ag ioitinj at ber topmast *? pesred to them indieativs of tie reality , &cd that Uicredly their hocr of battle was at hand ; sjad ihe troops were roused from their nierrhueni , their grog acd bacchanalian song , to meet their invader * .
The shouts—the wild hurra—succeeded th » discharge cf cannon , after an tour or two passed in corjreturing what all this could amount to , cr -what it meant , my door wu opened , and my friend , James E Small , Esq , came in , whose sghatiou seemed w me te omen something disastrous , " Out -with , it man ; what ia it ; what rasaas thia outcry ; " I deniaad « 3 . 'Nothing , nothing—at least nctLing yet—but it may 1 * turned to advantage , an American vessel is arrived , and m her a your wife , whose reoetiioa by the troops hMbea . eaa : B « iaitfc , asd I hw « brcu tt tet Het * to eeyoa . " He knock&d—the door rj opened—and the objsct a zay icos ; intense aLsiety , my wife , Wis ia my arm 3 I wu no ; a little shocked at her apviarwice . Four martin of snxifctTand mental cistrt .-a haa made sad
ra-Tages ipen her health , and she presented herself before me ail bu : the wreck of L = r fui Ler telf . To ker I sppared equally fockea in Lealih , yet Eat in spirit ; lor although aware cf what I had to expect from my enemies , and that e ? ery thicg ^ pferjCel upon my own ecergiK , nerer lepining , and whistiicg that grief through the crerices of belts ^ nd bars , which Fa ^ iaft teifl " bjfew a aau cp > » ytt tht c ^ nfetj ai , ^ d « lasipticss of et prison wruaght a pale ac ^ sickly ap-P «« ipce . I haa stri-eo to let in my strength cf body loijie last tSari that I might be called to niike for my * rseccia ; but the wtighty chains I wore , th < s want of exercise , and the irtathing pestilence about me , had tide me bioau-d ; and although I was allowed , by the g ^ Tercmtni , bat a pound of bread and a pint of mieer-&--e soap per day , 1 csnfeaj that I had aL the scpear-5 ^ «» ged by the Tory press , ot being " fattened for the gUlows . "
The account which my wife gaTe me cf my family and merds , particularly of the kind attentions cf the latter *? ^^> and their heartfelt sympathies for mj situa tioa ,- * rig soothing to my agitated mind ; asd I -sraa aost grateful to them for the means they were pursuing ~ ^ J * , . ^ i : ili ^ States goremnifent to interfere in ay fcehaif , although , eTea if luccesiful , that interfertnce might come too late . It arp .- ; & that tier bad
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been depending on the representations of John Prince and others ; that nothing would be done with us or the other American prisoners , further than detaining ns until the troubles on tha frontier should « ase , when we would all be liberated . On this account , and , in fact , with the solemn pledges of Tories Mgh In office to that effect , our friends ceased hostilities , laid down their arms , dispersed , aad exerted their influence to restore quiet amongst the enraged inhabitant * of the frontier , who-appearedi-esorred on " carrying the war into A fries ** On * corpt « t iron served n »« n , « ome flye hundred strong , of the brigade of my friend , E- J . Soberts , Esq ., well armed , equipped , and proTisioned fer a campaign , breathing curses upon the necessity , but consentiBs to the policy , disbanded , vai . retained sullenly , to their homes , oa the pledge that erery thing
that could be done on the- , part of the . authorities of the state of Michigan , either , with the powers in Canada , or at tha seat of goveruffleot of the United States , should be doae to effect oar release , and John Prince , and other Tory magistrates , and even Clergymen , on that exposed frontier , were parties to it by consultation , and thefrery men to humbly solicit it , pleading for the patriot ' s mercy . But tbe news of my trial , conviction , and sentepoa , accompanied by a printed copy of my remarks to the Judge , put to flight their anticipations , and the testimony of Prince on the stand , and his lying description of the affair , and of the situation of matters on tbe frontier , in bis place on tbe floor of . Parliament , told them bow false be and his associates were to their pledge , and redoubled their fears that I would be made their victim .
"Under this state of feeling bad Mrs . Theller left ber borne , resolTed to come to me . From the few days yet uneipired , on the receipt of the intelligence , before I was to have been executed , it was feared she could not , by any possibility , reach Toronto in time to see me alive ; but altb » ogh the news had bees received but in the evening , before the dawn of next morning she was on the road , and hurried on night and day by extra conveyances , until she reached Lewiston , N . Y ., where there appeared to be an insurmountable ohstade in the way—the steam-boat Transit tb « only boat running to Toronto , bad just go&a Bat no , tbe American
Bteam-bqat , Oneida , was lying in port , and the noblehearted , generous , and disinterested citizens of Lewiston had no sooner learned wh » Jt was , and the errand she was upon , than that boat was chartered , and she again on her way , under the escort of a gentleman , and lady , and several young gen tierces of that patriotic town , whs had volunteered to accompany ber , and protect ker from insult ; but the latter precaution was unnecessary , inasmuch , as she remarked , that , as my wife , none . dared to insnlt her , particularly in Toronto , where there were regiments of 1 rishmen in arms ; but , nevertheless , words can never repay the obligation we both felt for this unlooked-for kindness .
To continue her narrative—As the boat near « d the port , she was surprised to see the streets lined with armed men , and that they should fire a cannon across the bows of the Oneida , inducing the opfun to stop her , and ran up the American Q . %% . Shortly an offictr and guard came on board , and ascertaining the cause , treated . her with much kindness and politeness ; one young officer telling her he had just seen me , that I was well , and encouraging her by assurances that although the Government would make the attempt to carry their sentence into execution , still the guards would not allow it .
On her landing at the wharf , and its being announced who she was , she was enthusiastically cheered by the troops , as they opened their flies to let her pass , and observing some of the officers approacbiHg to render her some civilities , they became rather loud in thesr whispered consolation . " Dust be cast down , ma ' am ; keep up your heart ; your husband ia our countryman ; and they shan't hurt a hair of his head as long as one of us can hould a bayonet" Cheered by this exhibition of national feeling , she thanked them as my countrymen , and , as the Toronto Patriot , the official paper , said , " turned up her nose , and said that she knew the goTerment dare not hang him , " that she was going to the governor with documents , and was desirous of going forthwith . Many immediately volunteered to go with her , which some discreet friend observing , advised her to lei them go alone , which she did and whilst she was on her way to my prison , they were on theirs to the government house .
A deputation of their own choice presented the petition . The council was called , and alter some time , Sir George informed thtin how grateful her Majesty was to the loyal Irish ; that they had saved the province , and that he wai happy to have it in his power to do an act which would be gratifying to those brave men , who , in the hour of peril , had so gallantly rallied around the government : that as there was a great legal question involved in my trial , it had been decided that 1 should be respited until her Majesty's pleasure should be known-, that at present I should be reserved for her JIajes ty ' s pleasure . Yes , there was a great legal question involved in my trial , and that question was whether , in tbe absence of ene or two more regular regiments , he e » nld carry the sanguinary scheme into effect ; whether he
dared braTe the bold and fearless , volunteers , who did not hesitate to tell him to his teeth , that they would never be passive lookers-on at the gibbetting of their countryman , arraigned as be had been on a false issue , unjustly condemned , and illegally and inhumanly sentenced . Here wu tbe grand secret of the great question involved . The open air threats of a loyal party , and the anonymous letters of tbe reformers to the chief justice and the , members ot the council , carried more terror to the soul of Sir George , t-fiyi . vrould a thousand legal questions to his seared conscience , or the execution of myriads of freemen , to his bloated heart The tyrant , and his minions of the perjured woolsack and the council , knew that they had been tried and condemned , and tkat a conditional sentence was hanging orei their- hesds , from which they must seek a reprieve before tbe rising of another snn .
They trembled lest they toek my place upon the scaffold , and the guillotine be placed there instead of the knout The " legal pbinciples involved , " had already been discussed for days , and finally coldly dismissed , with the assurance that I need not hope for mercy from their hands . That it was fear , guilty , trembling cowardly fear Involved , was made evident ts every rational man who read their official , the Toronto Patriot , the next morning , when Sir George Arthur himself—for none other could so eloquently describe the fcorrers of the wretch doomed to Van Pieman ' s Land , as the late brutal master of that devoted colony —after alluding to the means which had been resorted to to save me from the gallows , painted in glowing colours the doom which still awaited me ; although I was respited immediate &&Xh . —WiUiamsburg Democrat , f American paper . J
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{ The folhtcing report teas received loit teeek , after the papers for Carlisle tcere pouted . ] CARZtXSLE . —Great anti-Corn Law Soiree ob Tea Pabtt . —The League and Five Priists WOBSTXD BY X SOLITABT Ha . ND LOOM WjBAVZB J JOn Tuesday eTening last , there wa 3 a stronsj muster of the Les gue , to hear an account of the mistiou of seTeral priests , ¦ who had been sent by them to tbe Conference at Manchester . Every means had been resorted to for sever *! days previous ( such &s master manufacturers giving their workpeople tickets st half price , &s . ) to make the company a 3 large and imposing as possible . About 240 persons sat down to tea , in the Coffee House Assembly Room ; after ¦ which , Sir Wilfred Lawson , Bar ; ., Peter Dixon ,
Esq ., accompanied by several dissenting clergymen , ana some of the leading members of the League , ascended the platform , oa each aide of "which "naa & sheaf of wheat with large placards , bearing the fallowing texts from Scripture : — " He that with-Ldldeth com , the people shall curse him . " * ' They Jake away the sheaf from the hungry . " " The bread of the needy is his life ; he that depriveth him thereof is a man of blood , " < kc . Sir Wilfred Lawson was caUed on to preside . We were grieved to see him in the company of ihose who have become rich by gdnaing the face of the poor , for we believe he is a good man . The following Rev . Gentlemen severally addressed the meeting : —Messrs . Woiseuholm , Dobie , Chesters , M'Gill , and Carrutherii . ail
of whom , vre understood , had attended the Conference in Manchester . With the exception of the address of Mr . Dobie , which w& 3 a very ' lelirs appeal on behalf of the poor , the whole of the speakers betrajed the grossest ignorance of the subject of which they were the professed advocates . The d 3 ta they laid down wa 3 incorrect , and their reasoning ami conclusions equally erroneous . These men would be much more usefully employed jn performing " their religious duties among their flocks than becoming the tools of a selfish and overbearing set of men , who only seek to benefit themselves at the . expence of ; he working classes . After these Rev . Gentlemen had ranted until they were tired , tLe ChairmjiQ said as ihere was no other person to
address fhe meeting , it wa 3 accordingly dissokea ; on which , a Mr . James M'Kenzie rose and said that he and Mr . Hanson had been sent to the meeting as a deputation from the hand-loom weavers , and if the Chairman would allow him , he ¦ would state , as briefly as possible , the real state of that body . The Chairman wished him to have a hearing , and he ascended the platform . Mr . M'Kenzie then read several statistical tables , shewing tha ra'e of wages a ; the time the Commissioner , Mr . Muggeridge , was in Carlisle , in 1838 , and the great reduction which had taken place since that period . 1 : appeared that a hsjad-ioom weaver cannot now earn more than from three to four shillings per week I He then read sereral extracts from a printed address ,
showing vhe absolute neeessivj of a Board of Trade to siford protection to the workmen against the cupidity ef the masters . He then said , there is no man in thia meeting , more opposed to the present Corn Laws , than 1 am . I marched to put them on at the point of the bayonet ; and 1 would do as mnch to have them repealed , providing I ihought that the working man would receive any portion of the benefit . The master manufacturers have no feeling for their work people ; for iptianoe said he , one of the masters in Carlisle , had Btated to himself and orfcers ; at one time , when they had waited npon him , that if he had any fabrio of work , less paid than the other masters , he would immediately advance it . Bui when thown that this was the case , be cordially replied— " Oh . ' the weavers are now
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doing pretty well , for potatoes are veryrphwp I ( Great confusion and cries of question , question . ) Several members of the League here interfered to put dawn Mr . M'Kenzie , who after making some other observations , quite as unpalateable , was obliged to conclude , when Mr . Joseph Broome Hanson mounted one of the forms , and was proceeding to address the meeting , whan the greatest uproar prevailed . The priests and members of the League were evidently frightened , least Mr . Hanson should be heard , and , they being vastly the majority of the meeting , it was utterly impossible to- hear Mr . Hanson from the discordant yells and clamour which were set Dp . The priests here began to leave ths platform determined , that no one should be
neara in reply to them , thus violating the divine precept which they had been preaching-- Do nnto others , as yon wqald have other ? dounfo yon . ** The priests and their employers here left the rbom amidst the greatest noise and confusion—the Chartists challenging them to discuss the subject of the Corn Laws at a pnblio meeting . Though the Chartists -were few in number , they now had full possession of the place , and as the other party were retiring , three cheers were given for Mr . O'Connor to the great chagrin of the League , whose disgraceful conduct on thfe occasion , will never be forgotten . We shall on some fitting occasion analise the ingredients of wL-ich this body is made up , and intersperse it with a running commentary , which will tend to the better understanding of our analysis .
The Harvest in Cumberland . —Up to the 21 st of the present month , and for ten days previous , the weather has been remarkably favourable , for the pertona&noe of the harvest operations , which have bean going on with the greatest rapidity . The crops are very abundant , and have been very little injured by the late rains . There is every prospect of a plentiful season . CHiASGOW . —The band-loom weavers in Barnside factory , at a meeting the other day , determined upon joining the procession to accompany the " uncaged lion" in triumph to Glasgow . A cornmi tteo has been appointed to make the necessary arrangements , and to solicit subscriptions to enable them to engage a band . Let the men in other factories go and do likewise , and the reception of the incorruptible patriot will be an h « neur to the " Glasgow bodies . "
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Extraordinar y Accusation against a Shipowner . —At the London Sessions , on Saturday , Mr . Alexander Thompson , an extensive shipowner of Shields , was charged with assaulting George Frederick Clement , with intent to excite him to commit an unnatural offeace , aad there was a second count in the indictment for a common assault . Mr . C . Phillips defended the prisoner . The prosecutor stated that he lived at No . 10 , Gravel-lane , and was a shoemaker , and worked as a broker for his father . On the 20 th of August he was coming into the city to fetch some tools and a great coat from No . 26 , New-street . He stopped in Tower-street to look into a picture shop , when the defendant , who carried a walking-stick , came and rubbed his hand against
his ( prosecutor ' s ) person ; he felt confused at such treatment , but not knowing whether it was accidental or not , he moved off to the other shop window . Prisoner then deliberately caught hold of him with one of his fingers of his hand , in which he held his stick , and p rosecutor called him a beaBtly vagabond , and several persons who were present advised him to give the prisoner into custody . He afterwards called the prisoner a miscreant , and upon a policeman coming up he gave him into custody . At the Station-house the prisoner asked prosecutor if he intended to prosecute , adding that he bad children as big as he was . He denied having touched prosecutor , and at the Mansion-house he declared that he was a single man . —Recorder : Are any of the
persons here who saw you givo him in charge!—Prosecutor : Not that I am awaro of . —The Recorder ( . with surprise ) : What 1 you said several persons advised you to give the prisoner in charge . Are none of them here !—Prosecutor They followed to the Sta < ion-house , but it was impossible any of them ceuld see the assault , from the position in which I stood . —The recorder : Why , if you were advised to give the prisoner in charge by the bystanders , it appears most extraordinary that it did not strike you that they would be required as witnesses ?—Prosecutor : Why , I thought the Lord Mayor would hare punished the prisoner , and that the case would not have come to trial . —Mr . C . Phillips : To be sure you did ; that is exactly what you wished . —Cross-examined : He had stated all
his avocations . He was never a potboy ; he had lived at three public-houses , and had been a potman . He did not call that being a potboy , as he was twenty-three years of age . He did not mention this before , because he knew that the counsel would ask him the question . He was not called a " skitlesharp , " that he had ever heard of . He was out until twelve o ' clock on Thursday last , and , when he met a policeman on his way home , he did not tell him that ho was alarmed for the result of the trial ; bnfc , if he bad known the trouble attending it , he would not have had anything to do with it . He told tbe policeman that he went before Alderman
Pirie , and , because the prisoner was engaged in tbe shipping trade , he ( prosecutor ) was not allowed to speak . He afterwards went before the Lord Mayor , and the prisoner was ordered to find bail in £ 200 to answer the charge . —Mr . Phillips , at great length , commented upon the evidence of the prosecutor , and called a number of shipowners and coal factors , who gave the prisoner a most exemplary character . — The recorder summed up with great minuteness , and the Jury found the prisoner sot guilty , and added , that they had great satisfaction in expressing their opinion that the defendant left the court without a stain upon his character .
Grand Dinner to Lobd Mokpcth nr thb Irish Reformers . —A grand banquet was given to Lord Morpeth , in the theatre at Dublin , on Tuesday week . Tbe price of the tickets was fixed at thirty-two shillings ; and the number of individuals who sat down at table amounted to 600 . The most noble the Marqui 3 of Clanricarde presided on the occasion . The cloth having been removed , and Non Nobis Dominie having been Bung , the usual loyal and patriotio toasts were drunk with . , enthusiasm . The chairman then called for a bumpsr , and having in a very neat speech eulogised the services which Lord Morpeth had conferred upon Ireland , gave as a toast , — Lord Morpeth , who has won and wears the gratitude of the people of Ireland . " Lord
Morpeth then said , " 1 am here to night , gentlemen , having filled for a longer period than any of my predecessors the office or chief secretary of Ireland ; and knowing now , by my personal experience , the responsible difficulties and delicate duties which it involves , remembering the feelings of anxiety , and even of misgiving , with which I first entered upon their discharge , and conscious , above all , of the many errors and imperfections which a retrospect of the whole intervening period cannot fail to conjure up before my mind , I own that I cannot fully suppress the thrill of pleasure and exultation with which I iook at this brilliant scene before me , and say as I look at it , ' this is my rich reward . ' ( Loud cheers . ) But , gentlemen , I must not forget that 1
come before you to night as a member not of a standing , but of a beaten ministry ; and although I have happily proved to-day that I am not yet excluded from jour streets , from your places o ^ fublic soucourse , from your halls of pleasure , fr ^^ Thewarm grasp and the friendly greeting —( loud cheers)—from the social board and the flowing wine cup , yet into the guarded precincts of the castle of Dublin I am no longer privileged to go . " His Lordship then adverted at considerale length to the measures adopted by the late administration in favour of Ireland , and the happy results which had followed the adoption of them ; and continued— " 1 am prepared to assen that , viewed as a whole , the state of society in Ireland , giving some consideration to all the
causes which stir its depths and trouble its springs , has exhibited a gratifying and cheering contrast with almost every former period , choose it when you may , and under what circumstances yoa will . Called upon to resign our high trust into other hands , I feel myself entitled to say to our successors—Im prove upon out management , by all means , ta whatever way you are able , avoid such errors aud mistakes & 3 we have not been able to guard againstcarry the fortunes and welfare of the country fuller and higher than we have been aWe to do ; but do not let the Bacred trust be tarnished in your keeping ; avert from it , above all—kuowiag some of the companionship by which you will be surrounded , and the enticements by which you may bo encompassed—the
blighting breatn oi bigotry , keep alivo the precious seed of religioua peace , which , sown yet b « l at rare intervals through the land may , under friendly aud prudent t alture , fill all her J ' urrows with increase , and crown her heights with gladness , and may render a united people great , virtuous , and happy . And now , gentlemen , having been led to say thus much by the peculiar circumstance of the time and the occasion — in taking leave as the member of a political party of those now here with whom I have acted , and by whom 1 have been supported , I hate now to express my unshaken reliance on the ^ trength and advance of the aain links which connect and cement our union . I believe they may best be resolved into an ardent attachment to the cause of civil aud religious freedom , not in the cold letter , bat in the living spin ;—not in the formal homage
of the lip , bat in the deep devotion of the heart . As such , our cause is grounded on immortal principles—and you may be well assured it will bring to its adherents no shame . As for myself , individually , I feel that it is now my painful , yet also my grateful office , to bid farewell to associates , whose prompt and active zeal has lightened the load of business , and shared and smoothed the responsibilities of office ; to friends , whose warm and steady kindness has gladdened the hour of recreation , and encircled the storehouse of pleasant and lasting recollections ; and to the lrif-h people , who will command my respectful attachment , sympathy , and gratitude , wherever 1 may have the means , to serve as long as I have the power to remember . " Several ether toasts haiisg been disposed of , the company broke np at half-gags twelve o ' olock .
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¦ ZteRADIta UVXDZB . AT EsKDALESIDB , NKAB Wsitbj . —It has nevtr before been our painfhl daty to record bo foul and atrocious a murder , committed -nithia the above quiet and peaceful district , aa the one which was perpetrated at the dwelling of Mr . William Robinson , yeoman , at Eskaaleside , on the forenoon of Ta ^ dar last . Mr . Robinson , it appears , left hu home oa ^ tae jaorninjr of that day , for the purpose of attending TEgton fair , and his servants for the harvest field , leaving Mrs . Robinson alone to manago the domestic concerns of the house . At about ten o'clock j Me Hill . v miller , of Tirarndale , made his usual call for orders , when fce found Mrs . Kobinson cheerfully pursuing her avocations * and apparently- in perfeet ' health ; % ishite him flood
morning when he took his departare . On the return of the servants , however , to dinner at noon , a . scene the mos ^ horrif ^ ig presented itself— they discovered tn « r inistress mng npon her fa « e bit fhe floori ' surround « d by a pool of Wood . After they hadin some degree recovered from their alawi , Ikey raised the body and diswyered hw head nearly severed from the trunk , and iff a rigid state , the kitchen floor , on which the deed of darkness was feommitted , appeared to be in confusion , and , on a elofeer « xamina tion , they found that the drawers , &c . » had been broken open and ransacked , the murderers Jeaving traces of their guilt on the various articles of furaf ture which they had touched during their pilfer . Messengers were immediately desDatohed to Mr .
Robinson , atEgton , and to , the polioe at Whitby . we will not attempt to describe the agony of the bereaved husband . -Mr . Wilkinson , tnehead of the Whitby police , accompanied by two vigilant officers , promptly attended , and after examining the premises , and obtaining all the information relative to the foul crime which those around were able to afford , commenced a pursuit after two suspicious characters , who had been seen near the hause during the morning . Some clue to their supposed destination was furnished by the finding of a pocket-book , which was identified by one of Mr . Robinson's servants , and which had been left in safety in his box in the morning . Mr . Wilkinson , having discovered that the men had
taken the road leading to Lyth , immediately proceeded to that village , aud succeeded in capturing them . They proved to be Irish reapers , travelling in search ot employment . On searching them , not any evidence of their participation in the crime could be found on their persons . They stated they were going to tho neighbourhood of Mickleby for work , at which placo they had been engaged last autumn . Mr . W . felt , justified in their detention , and removed them to Whitby , where they underwent an examination before C . Richardson and J . Chapman , Esqrs ., and ( were remanded until after the coroner B inquest , which was then sitting at the Tunnell inn , which , after a lengthened investigation , was adjourned until Thursday morning , at nine
o ' clock . During the whole of Wednesday the town of Whitby and the surrounding neighbourhood were in a state of the greatest possible excitement . The police and the neighbouring farmers were unremitting in their exertions to discover the assassin ; rumour upon rumour was greedily received as fact by tho multitude , and we regret that one name was most unjustly connected with this mysterious affair . Unfortunately at a late hour , no information could be gained of the murderer . Oa Thursday morning the adjourned inquest met , the coroner ( Joku Buchannan , Esq- ) being accompanied by the Whitb y bench of magistrates . The Irishmen were removed to the Tunnell inn , for the purpose of being present at the investigation . We much doubt if any evidence can be adduced to criminate them . They were
recognised by several farmers ; and from their testimony we judge them to be quiet and inoifensivo meo . The deceased was the wife of a highly-respected farmer , and aged about sixty-one years . Though the transaction of the tragedy is as mysterious as it is alarming , we fancy we should deceive ourselves were we to imagine that it had been committed by the hands of a perfect stranger . It is supposed that the deed had been done with a shoemaker ' s knife , one having been found in the fire with the handle burnt off it . There is no doubt but booty alone has led to the crime , although we have not as yet ascertained that more than £ 33 in gold is missing . Up to the time that our account left Whiiby , the jury were still sitting , and we , therefore , are unable to give the result of their patient inquiry . — York Herald of Saturday .
Nothing since has transpired to lead to the discovery of the murderer , but it appears he had concealed himself in an out-house , and removed a tile from the roof to have a full view of the kitchen door . The opinion we ventured to give , that the murder had been committed by no stranger to the house , appears now to become quite prevalent , from the various circumstances which have since presented themselves . Wilkinson , the active police-officer , is still out on the search . Ono hundred pounds reward has been offered to any person not actually concerned in the murder for the capture of the offender . The bereaved husband it is said , has resolved never again to sleep iu the house although hia own , and is about to sell his stock and crop aad leave the premises .
Extensive and Calamitous Fibb at St . John ' s , New Brunswick . —At half-past one o ' clock on Thursday afternoon , the 27 th of August , a fire commenced in the ship-yard of Messrs . Owens and Duncan , ia the adjoining Village of Portland , and before it was stayed , it had extended its ravages over the principal part of that thriving place . The sad catastrophe is said to have had its origin in the firing of a quantity of chips , and sprinklings of tar , at the bows of a new vessel nearly completed in the ship-yard , by a red-hot bolt which fell from the hands of one of the workmen engaged in enlarging a hole in a portion of the ship ' s rigging . The fire immediately communicated from the chips to the bottom of the vessel , which had been newly tarred ,
and soon spread to all parts of the yards and ship , defying every attempt to extinguish it . From the ship the flames extended to the workshops in the vicinity , and from them to th ? dwelling houses fronting on Portland-street , and so rapid was the work of destruction in this vicinity that a great quantity of the contents of the dwellings near the ship-yard were oonsumed in the houses , the dense smoke which tfftse from the yard contributing to prevent all ingress after a short time . From the side of Portland-street , adjoining the ship-yard , the flames crossed to the opposite side , destroying all the hoases oa that side from the house occupied by Mr . Blackburn , tailor , aud others , to the foot of Fort Howe , and extending to all the houses situated
directly in the rear of those last-mentioned , on the side of the hill , and which have their front on the road leading round Fort Howe , in the direction of Jenny Spring-farm . Returning to the place where thefiro originated , it extended up Portland-street to the street running south past the Methodist meeting-house and engine-house , which formed the western boundary , aud consumed everything in its course , reaching back the whole depth of that block . The methodbt meeting-house , the only house of the block in which it stands that was burned , was the last building that canght fire . The wind was from tho south-west , which drove the burning cinders , &c . iuto open fields in rear of Fort Howe , and did not endanger the safety of property so much as
would have been the case had the wind been from any other quarter . One building , however , in that district , the old gun house , on Fort Howe , took fire from cinders falling upon it , and was consumed in a few minutes . The number of buildings destroyed cannot be less than 60 , and among them were many largo three aud four atory houses , several newlyerected dwelling-houses , and a Wesleyan Methodist meeting-hcuse . There was also consumed , a superior vessel of 900 tons , ready for launching , together with all their ship-building took , implements , &o , belonging to Messrs . Owens and Duncan , ou which , wo regret to learn there was no insurance . The meeting-house was insured for £ 600 , and taking the remaining houses generally , wi $ believe wo are safe
in saying that the amount of iusurauce effected is comparatively nothing . The fire companies , with their engines , axes , &c . from the city , were present , as were also the officers and men of the 36 th regiment , and the royal artillery , together with Lieut . Elliot , and the gallant tars from her Majesty ' s brig , Raoer—all of whom were most active to save property and pvevent the extension of the flames . The want of a sufficiency of water was felt durine the whole afternoon , the tide being out at the time . Tearjog down houses was resorted to at last & 3 a means of stopping the progress of the element , and herein , the officers and men of her Majesty ' s brig Racer shone conspicuously . The loss , we are sorry to say , has fallen chiefly upon persons who are quite unable
to bear it . Many of the owners of houses had their all invested in their property , and were supporting themselves by their own honest industry—and th « greater portion of tho tenants were persons in poor circumstances , depending upon their daily earnings for maixt enance . This mistortune , added to the late suspension of work in tho principal ship-yards in Portland , must prove of serious iDjiiry to the industrious portion of our suburbs ; and the distressing circumstances of many of tho sufferers call aloud upon the more wealthy portion of our citizens for temporary relief under this afflicting catastrophe . With this laudable intention in view , a public meeting was called last evening by the High Sheriff of the oounty , at which a large number of persons were present , when eommittees were appointed for collecting funds and affording assistance to those most
requiring immediate aid . JWe trust the benevolent object of the committees will command such success as will enable them to relievs from present want all the industrious people who have been thrown out of work , and are left destitute by this melancholy occurrence . The fire raged without intermission for nearly five hours , and oonsumed property , of the value of which no correct estimate can yet be formed , bat which is supposed to anovnt to £ -25 , 000 . We have been handed the following estimateof the losses , & . C .- . —5 Z houses burned and pulled down , valued at £ 17 , 50 »; Weeleyan chapel burned , £ 2 , 000 ; ship on the stocks , partly rigged , £ 7 , 000 ; rigging , &c , not in the ship , £ 7 , 000 ; furniture , goods , &c . destroyed , £ 2 J 90 ; making a total of £ 3 ( kfi 0 * . 309 families , containing 1 , 150 people , have been turned out of house and and home , 6 * 0 of whan »» y be said to be ia difitreee .
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A Mathematician . — •* O dear , " blubbered out ao urchin , who had just been suffering from the application of the birch— "O my ; they tell me about forty rods making a lUrlong , bat I can tell a bffrger storv than that . Let ' em get such a plaguy lickin ' as I've bad and they'll find oat that one rod make * on ocher . —Neva York American t-A . New Yokk Paper publishes the following , under the head of "London versus New , York" .: — ¦ - - ¦ .. ¦ .. ¦ .-.- { ¦¦ . ' ¦ - '; ¦ ' ¦ ¦ flu- . - / . " /¦¦•• •• In ^ . ¦ ¦¦ ¦¦ ¦ ' ¦ London . New York . Jflurdered , ... ... ... \ - -. a .-. 17 ; Poisoned ... .. -.- ¦ . - .. 6 ... - >; u ; - Killed by accident ... ... 171 .. ; . 83 ; ; Killed in ? ari « u « other ways- ... ' 28 Drowned ... ... ... -76 , . ; ki 86 Burnt to death ... ... 0 : / :.. s ; 53 Suicides ; ... ,. ^; - >;^ 29 ! t .., 45 Tlnknwwn deaths ^ probably l : .
murdered -. ' .. ;< i ..- . ; . ; .- 13 u ... -179 StHl-bora - ... . i . ; . . ^ . ;< 432 ... $ S % < Intemperance ; < .- ... -. ... 1 ^ ... S 3 Total 740 ... 1 , 130 Why is it that the murders committed in New York are seventeen times greater than in London , whilst the population of the latter city is five times greater than that ef the former ! and why are the number of death ? from Other causes above-mentioned so disparaging to our metropolis ! The answer isthere are in New York five grog-shops where there is one in London !
The Unfortunate Ciphbb . —The Marseilles Gazelle , a few weeks ago , tells us a curious anecdote relating to one of the first commercial men of the town .: This gentleman , having a business correspondent on the African coasts , bethought him some time since , that , as some members of Eis family had shewn a partiality for monkeys , he might gratify them by sending for one or two specimens or these animals from Africa . Accordingly , he wrote to his correspondent to procure two or three of the finest and most admired species , and transport them to Marseille * . Chance so ordered it that the merchant , in putting down tho ou ( in English or ) , between the figures 2 and 3 , made the o very prominent , while the u remained scarcely visible .
" What great events from trifling causes spring !" Some months afterwards , a ship-porter came iu all haste to the old merchant , and announced to him that bis menagerie had arrived . " Menagerie 1 " cried the merchant . "Yea , a menagerie ; a whole cargo of monkeys had arrived to his consignment !" The merchant could scarcely credit the announcement , until the letter of his correspondent was put into his hands . In that epistle , the African negooiant , a man of the most uncompromising exactitude .
excused himself very earnestly for not having been able , with all his exertions , to procure more than 160 monkeys , in place of the 203 ordered ; but promised , as soon as possible , to fulfil the entire demand . The feelings of the honest merchant may be guessed , when , on moving down to the quay to satisfy himself on the subject by ocular inspection , he beheld his 160 monkeys , all duly caged and littered , and frinning at him with the most laudable pertinacity . t was a moment when a man might reasonably donbt whether ii . would be best to laugh or cry .
Scandalous Fbaubs . —In consequence of the suspension of payment at Messrs . Hobhouse and Co . ' s Bank at Bath , some persons yesterday took advantage of the railway conveyance to come to Bristol and pass the notes of that firm at shops in the purchase of small articles , receiving the difference in coin . We have the names of three respectable tradesmen who were thus victimised , each in a £ 5 note , by two ladies ; but one of them , by due tact and activity , overtook the ladies at the railway station , and recovered his menty , and the two others coming up soon after , had equal success . One of the iiersons defrauded went in the same train as the adies to Bath , and there traced them to the heuEeof a tradesman , considered to be of great respectability ,
who , on being questioned , acknowledged that they were his daughters . In one part of the city , however ( Redcliff-stroet , ) we believe , several tradesmen were more effectually cheated . A person went to a highly respectable snuff-manufacturer and changed a £ 5 note ; after which he went to two shops in the neighbourhood , and actually had the effrontery to say that the gentleman whom he had just cheated had sent him to them to ask if they could change him a £ 5 note ! The trick , we are sorry to say , succeeded . A linen-draper , in Wine-street , was let " into the secret" by a fine dressed lady to the tune of jBIO . Two young ladies , probably those first mentioned , have also defrauded a respectable grocer at Clifton with a £ 5 note . —Fell * Farley ' s Bristol Journal .
Railroad Rascalities . —The treatment to which the poorer class of railway travellers , in the thirdclass carriages , are subjected upon some of the lines of communication is most insufferable , and must , if continued , have the effect of prohibition , as far as travelling is concerned , to all who cannot afford to pay for the accommodation of the second or first class trainB . Not only are the third-class passengers treated with excessive insolence , and , as regards accommodation , with utter neglect , but every petty annoyance that is likely to render the trains required for their accommodation unpopular , is resorted to . A person travelling from Manchester to Leeds , one day last week , in one of these carriages , says , "A bag of soot was placed among the passengers when
the train left Manchester , and a little further on a dozen of empty flour sacks were thrown very unceremoniously upon tho heads of the people in the vehicle . One young fellow had his Sunday coat nearly ruined by the collision with the bags , and it seems must put up with the damage , because he could not afford to ride by a first class train . About midway between the termini of this line , a large board is placed , with the following insolent and most unnecessary notice , unless , indeed , it be necessary to remind the poorer class of travellers that they are an inferior race of beings . This board says— " The porters are not permitted to wait upon waggon-train passengers V is the insolence of the understrappers of the company to be wondered at , when such an
example is set them by their employers 1 "I have seen ( says a correspondent of a recent date ) a poor but respectable old woman vainly attempting to life her basket into the train , in which she has been , at length , necessarily assisted by the passengers , while three or four brawny porters have stood idly by looking at her , laughing at her fruitless exertions ; or , perhaps , over-busy in assisting a cigar-smoking jackass in the first class to adjust his carpet-bag . " One would think common decency , to Bay nothing of common hwnanity , would have prevented so offensive a regulation . However , such exists , and most probably , if public attention is not vigilantly directed to the conduct of the railroad authorities , other regulations , equally stringent aud
offensive to the second class passengers will gradually creep into practice . The public must arouse itself from the disgraceful indifference it . manifests to the question of the railway monopoly , before it is bound hand and foot , and completely placed at the mercy of those who have taken tbe travelling affairs of the country out of its hands , and appear to be invested with power to impose laws without consulting those who are to be governed by them . Petitions are of little use , certainly , when popular convenience is the subject of them ; but it might be worth while to try the experiment , and pray the Legislature to take into consideration the various codes of regulations adopted on the several lines , aud enact on ? judicious scheme for the protection of the travellers , which should be imperative on the whole .
Bernard Cwanagh . the Fasting Man . On Thursday , this person , in the presence of many medical men , was liberated from his confinement . It was the eleventh day since he had submitted himself to tho custody of a gentleman , who , in the first instance , doubted his powers of abstinence , but who is now convinced , that though there may be some causes , yet unexplained , which enable him to live for so long a period without food or drink , still that the power which he possesses of fasting is extremely remarkable . There were present Sir J . M . Doyle , Dr . Kenney , Mr . Reynolds , Mr . Coulaon , Dr . Richmond , Dr . Brooks , and many other medical men , who questioned Cavanagh without eliciting anything that is worth repeating . He looked certainly thinner
than when he was confined , and this he attributed to want of exercise . The room in which , C « , vanagh was confined is 15 feet by 9 , and 7 feet high . It is a garret , and is situate in the most busy part of Lamb ' s Conduit-street . He wished to havo the window as well as the fire-place sealed , but the gentleman who mado the experiment , fearful of the ill-consequences of shutting up a man in go small an apartment , refused to accede to this request , which he now understands is made a ciuse of cavil . Any one , however , who'knows the locality of Lamb ' d Conduitstreet , and the continual thoroughfare , must be aware that no food could easily have been conveyed to him by the window . However , throwing this doubt overboard , it cannot be denied that this is a very singular case . We are aware that Riteon has given some curious instances ot the power of fasting , and that many others may be found m the Philosophical Transactions , but still we have not of testing the
had for many years an opportunity truth of those who profees to be enjoyiijg such extraordinary powers of abstinence . That Cavanagn may be able to fast ten , twelve , or even fourteen days , we have not the slightest doubt . But the statement that he has fasted five years is what we cannot , in the present state of our knowledge , believe . Before Cavanagh was locked up , he waa entirely denuded of hi 8 clotb . es , shoes , Ac ., and waa searched ^* Dr . Kenney , in the presence of a medical man . He was a&ain on the seventh day denuded in the presence of Dr . Kenney , and several other gentlemen , whose name we need not give , bat who axe well knows ia London . He was then allowed to go to chapel in custody of a p hysician and a solicitor . On his return he waa locked up , and so remained until Thursday . We have at present no remarks to make upon this ease , it being the inteutioa of the gentle man to extend his inquiries further , not being as yet perfectly satisfied with all he had awa . —Tima .
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VIRTUE OF THE FACTIONS . Tax principal iact detailed ia the fallowing pfccard appeared , shortly stated in a portion of oar impression of last week : we now print entire the document which has been put forth by " the lads" of Sunderland , to whom the infamous offer was made , and by whom it was spumed with virtuous indigntion : — " £ 125 BRIBE ! ' -
"To conceal the proceeding * of a pick-poeket , ox permit a Thimble-rigi ^ r to practise hia swindling arts upon bis unfortunate dupes , would , by every man of common « ense and honesty , be regarded as a gross breach of duty , and a virtual participation in thoae crimes . But what is the crime of a pickpocket ot a thimble-rigger to that of the man , or the party , that would buy and sell the right * and interests of a Nation ; destroying all public integrity and patriotism ;
blasting all faith between man and man ; and dooming to endless toil and misery , a poor , because a plundered and misgoverned , people ? 1 What is the crime of a pimp and procuress , educing female virtue to minister to butt ; - compared with ths infamous conduct of these who would seduce the virtue of oar citizens , and indue * them to sell to a b * Be aud plundering faction , that franchise which they are solemnly bound to use for the best interests of the entire people H
"Justice to you requires that those wretches should be exposed , and therefore we proceed at once to acquaint you , that a fellow brought from London , wearing Pickwick spectacles , and « arrviaga huge Aldermanfo care ate , representing bimself as the friend of a friend at Mr . Wolverley Attwood ( mark the fellow's cunning and caution ) did , yesterday , wait upon Mr . George BInna , and make overturns to him , to induce the Chartists to act so as to promote the return of Wolverley Attwood . Mr . Binns , in order to have the fellow's villainous scheme fully developed ,-and witnessed by others , ' appointed a second interview with him yesterday afternoon .
" This interview took place in the presence of Mr . Williams and several others , who succeeded ia drawing him to embody his proposals ia a definite shape , which were , that the sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds would be paid , if the Chartists should act as he desired . " He was requested to eaJU again at eight o ' clock yesterday evening , and in the meantime arrangements were made for giving the fellow a good tarring and feathering ; but , for the sake of the peace of tbe tows ,
the latter ceremony was dispensed with . He came at eight o'olock , -when , having reiterated his promise , aud offering to deposit the monet , he was then suddenly and terribly convinced of the folly , as well as the iniquity , of his conduct He got such a rebuke as he wiil not readily forget , and was told to go and tell Mr-Wolverley Attwood , that the Chartists of Sunderland , though poor , were yet honest ; while he , though a < highly respectable London merchant , ' was yet a most unprincipled scoundrel .
" Electors , and non-Electors of Sunderland ! thfs statement of facts needs no comment . When such deeds can be practised with impunity under our reformed ' Constitution , ' and the man practising snch acts still be recognised as a gentleman , the folly of finality and the worth of a gentleman are evident . Let the franchise be given to all and its free exercise secured by tbe Ballot and virtue only recognised as true nobility ; then , but not till then , will England be free from respectable knaves , and Englishmen be truly happy . "
Now , what will the enemies of an extension ' of popular rights say to this ! Will they dare again to tell us that the people are too ignorant to be entrusted with political power ! or too venal to exercise that power with virtue and genuine independence ! Are the " respectable" merchants , millowners , and shopocrates to be longer tolerated in talking of the sordid corruption of the working meni ! Even could it be shown that a majority of the working classes are as corrupt and as easy to be seduced from the paths of rectitude as their base traducers would represent thtm , still it is most
illjudged in those advocates of moral purity (!) to drag such matters before the public gaza . Suppose the whole of their accusations to be true ; to what would it -amount 1 simply to this , that they have been apt scholars in the scale of middle-class corruption ; and that , if a readiness to be corrupted be a sufficient ground for disqualification , ( and we admit that when ike crime ia proved it ia so , ) a readiness to corrupt is a still greater crime , and ought not * only to disqualify from voting , but to close' the door of respectable society against the rascal who thus deliberately seeks the demoralisation of bis fellow-men and every one who aids , abets , countenances , or encourages him .
But how stands the fact ! Why , the working men who are unfit to be trusted with the Franchise , are yet deemed worth being bribed ; and tha magnificent sum of £ 125 is offered by a member of the respectable corps as the price at which the Chartists ar « to sell their cause ! We cannot but admire the boundless liberality of . thia truly generous offer . £ 125 fora seat in Parliament ! £ 125 for the power to pick pockets according to law !! £ 125 for the chance of realising as many thousands from stout John Bull ! 2 ! Well , this is noble and generous in the extreme and the men of Sunderland must be hopelessly mad not to have caught at the golden bait when they had nothing to do , in order to secure it , but abandon principle , and nothing to lose , but the approval of their own consciences , and tbe approbation of all honourable men !
Again we must not forget to look at the value to the purchaser of the commodity thus sought to be purchased . That commodity was the votes and influence of the Chartists of Sunderland . How why did Mr . Wolverlet Aitwood or Mr . Wolvkrleit Atiwood ' s friend ' s friend evince a desire to purchase ths support of the Chartists of Sunderland ? Because such influence it was known would , if exerted in arour of either of the factions , turn
the scale of the election . This , it was , and this alone which induced the magnificent offer to Mr . B : nns , their influence was deemed to be , nay , was kaown to be invaluable to the party who could secure it ; so the conning-rogues , conceiving no doubt , that the Chartists were but green-horns in election tactics , resolved to come down with a bouaee , and intended topaaa themselves off a * mighty genereoa fellows ; bat found to their discomfiture that the
lads had some knowledge of their own value in the national market ; and , moreover , that not having learnt the M gentle man ' s code of honour , " which would have kept this little affair quite private , they let the thing come out , and raised the hue and cry aboat the ears of their unprincipled seducer . We tell the dolte and foois who go to work to bribe the Chartists , that , in order to succeed , they mnst come down handsomely . Nothing but a promise to do justice to the whole people , by < h « eaactment of the Charter , accompanied with good and
sufficient securities for the fulfilment of the bond , will induce us to move an inch . Let them proceed in that track , and we promise them out warmest support ; we will send some of onr wisest troops talead them on , lest their fgnorane * shoold lead them into mi . ak « s , and we will place bur braveet in the rear , lest in a panic they should be disposed to turn back ; for w hen we have once got them into their proper place , we mean to have no w « h thing aa sounding a retreat . We will move for Universal Suffrage ; that it , for universal right and jaatioe , and we will prevent every movement that is of acoatrary tendency . .
They have tried il 2 i , and fatted . WhemnMrttbe minions of either faction are disposed to offer a bribe to the Chartists , let them multiply the bribe by at least one tfcousand . Let them try u with 413 g , 0 * H and see how they would then soeeeed , ' Onward I onward I aad th * mfngs it woo I
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w Chartists have proved themselves horc ACCtJRATK CALCULATORS THAIC THK MIDDLE CLASSES . Whether THMBu-irofcTRUii . wofti * hate' munrcb MAIXEBS 18 SCn MOW XHS QUESTION { JJST THE UEStTLT HAS SHEWN THAT THEY WEHE CORRECT IK THEIR OtlRIQN—THAT IK THB PBSaENT STATE OP XWt REPEBJSkifTATIOW , IT WAS VAIN TO THLNK OP A RSPXAL O » THJB CORK MONOPOLY . , * ¦ ... ' ' ,. * ¦ . * * * * * ' Political power in this cotiirrB-r , '' thob ' oh ^ it HEStDES IS A COHFABAXIVELT SMALL CLASS , CAJJtOTLT BE EXERCISED BY THE 8 UVPBBAHCB OF THE MASSES . "Morning Chronicle { organ of the- Whig Ministers J , Friday , July 16 th . 1841 . .,, .. ¦¦ .,- , ;¦ .:.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 25, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct722/page/3/
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