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E . B 1 LE 7 , City Shoemakers , lias sent us notices of two meetings , and has neglected to say on -what evenings they ¦ were to be held . Akt Locality ¦ wishing to engage the Old Commodore , may communicate their "wishes to him by letter , tpre-paid , ) addressed—Mr . E . P . Mead , Mr . FranJdaEd " s , Printer , How Street , Burnley , Iancashire . Ail CoJiHuracATioss intended for David Ross , late of Manchester , must , for the future , be addressed to him , at his residence , Victoria-street , Honslet-lane , ILeedB , Yorkshire . William Johssos , cooper , MaTket-plsce , Gainsbro ' , wishes to correspond with W . West , if that gentleman Trill faTour him with his address . The Addbess of the Wait 6 haven Colliers ¦ was received too late for the current publication .
THE MCLE TWISTEBS OT BRADFORD have 83 Bt US a letter in which they return thanks to Mr . Banuter for having advanced their wages 3-8 th's of a penny per 1 b ., or about 3 i per week . Mr . Turner , of Brigbouse , they say , has followed his example . The Editor's Absence from his desfe , during the present week , mnBt be an excuse for the nonacfcnowledgment of a variety of correspondence . Rebecca is the Copxtt of Durham . —A correspondent informs na that Rifbeeca made her appearance in Kellae on the 28 th ult She appears , he says , to be a lady of principle , tot no aoo . er had she made her appearance than she ferretted out some
¦ unp rincipled blacklegs to the colliers' society , and ¦ wreaked her vengeance on tber treacherous heads . It -would appear that she -was not ¦ well acquainted In the locality , for instead of avenging herself on the old known blacklegs , she discovered some new ones , ¦ who m she has punished . Mb . Stephen's -was tried at Chester , before Nr Jcstice Pattison and a Special Jary , on Thursday , the 15 th o ! August , 1839 . One op the Work is g Classes . —We shall not loss sight of the objtct of his letter ; we do not see , ho-sPcver , that he advances anything new . P . Mac C . —His letter was received .
W- Da ^ jells . —Write to Mr . Moir , of Glasgow , who will either procure you the acts you want , or put you in the way of obtaining them .
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FO 3 . MB- B 1 CHAHD S , WHO IS IS STAFFORD GAOL . a . d . From London , pe * J . Rouse 4 0 VICTIM FUSD . From 4 persons at Knaresbro , per Dooker 0 4 From the Chartists of Kensington , London 10 0 Mr . Robekts , Dlbbt . —Should have sent bis order sooner . Wm . Bulloch Biggab . —Send Is . for each large plate and postage ; and 6 d . for each small one , Ralph Dablisg . —Post stamps will do .
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My deas Fsiexds , —Once more landed on the shores of " Merry England , " you ¦ will be looking to me fsr some notice of my " journey ings" in the land o ' cakes . " You will be wanting to know " what the land looks like "—what is the aspect of our cause —what the people ' s opinion of our prospects—and what my own opinion of tbe people wheTe 1 have been . We have "held chat together" so long that many of yoa have identified yourselves with me in a kind of personal friendship ; yoa get interested in all that appertains to me , and wait anxiously for my detail of * ' adventures , " "incidents of travel , " and all the etceteras of a friend ' s ramble among friends ; and a still greater number of you , debarred from all chanca of travelling yourselves , like to learn something , from parties whom yon can trust , about places which you cannot see . All this is a very proper and a reasonable feeling , and I devote this letter to its gratification .
My tonr was to have been one of combined u agitation ' and recreation ; in the hope of serving to some extent the canse , and of reinvigorating , to some iittle extent , my shattered constitution . The latter end has been served , far beyond my most sanguine expectations ; 1 am worth more by half for the field now ihan when 1 started ; and J hope that the cause ha 3 received no damage from my tour . But the labour pretty effectually absorbed all the " rtcreation " , and convened my rapid gallop through the country into what , if my heart had not been in the work , might have well passed for " a toil of a pleasure " . Posting from place to place as fast as four horses , a steam-boat , or a railway carriage could rattle along , seldom stopping beyond a
night or so in a place , lecturing somewhere almost every eyening , and two or three times on Sundays , together with the " long chats" of scores of friends who in every place crowded to my Jodgings , left me precious little time for " sight seeing " . I can tell yon very little , therefore , about the " lions" of the different places which' 1 visited : I had bo time to look at them . But I can tell you of that in which you will , 1 am persuaded , feel at least an equal interest ; of the state , aspect , and prospect of Cbartiem ; and something of ibe condition of the people . The gsneral complaint , which mei me in almost every town , vras " The agitation is dead " . The enthusiasm of the people seems to have greatly gone down , every where . Great demonstrations ,
expensive and nnmerons processions , and fbjjs , banners , music , and hurraing noises are by no means so plentiful ; it is even difficult to get the people out to hear lectures . All this has , to some parties , a discouraging aspect . Th ^ y interpret it as evidence of apathy , and of declension in our cause . To my mind , it conveys altogether different information : 1 rejoice to see it . It is evidence to me of onward progress of the only cbaracrer likely to be Jasting , and therefore worth anything . It shows me that the people have ceased to be the creatures of passion ; that they are less easily affected by sudden gusts of feeling , and more addicted to habitudes of thought . The best evidence that th > is so ; and that the quiet , sober demeanour of the people is not from apathy is
the fact , that however '" dead" Chartism may be in any town , 1 always find , upon inquiry , ihat nothing else can live . Let but the factions , either , or any of them , take the field fairly ; let them but venture to give room for the expression of opinion , and they soon find out whether Chartism be " dead . " This was the universal cry throughout all Scotland . In almost every place I came to , my first question was— " Well , how stands Chartism ? ' * And the answer was—** WLy , we are all dead here . We can get a meeting upon any great occasion . If the enemy take the field , tie people will tarn out . If an anti-Cora Law meeting was io be held to-morrow , with but slight nonce , ana ai ~ cuss : on allowed , they would mnsier
strong , and carry all before them . Any other pariy never thinks of it . Neither Tories nor Whigs , merely as such , would dare to hazard any appeal ; o the public voice . They will turn out , too , upon extraordinary occasions to onr own meetings . If a stranger , who is much respected , come ; or one from whom they expect to learn something ; we shali have a good meeting for instance , to hear you ; but , g « .: ierally speaking , there is a great slackness afaoux the people . They require some excitement to stir thrm up . They seem tutd of leetKriDjc , snd tired of the zgita ' ion altogether . " Is'ow , I am well pleased wi ; h this . I rejoice to see the " agitation" giving plic ? io a " en-termination , " cool , noiseless , and nuo-x-ji .-jstjous , but r ^ acy , whenever wanted , to
shew thai principle sinks deeply into honest beans . It is to me the mos : pleasing feature of the times ; worth ai ) the " « reai demonstrations , " all the processions , all tbe flags , banners , and music , aud expensive iaie pageantry which erstwhile made our " agitation" as puerile as it was conspicuous and imposing . These thiBgs wen ; nsefu ! tfien , and they were aeces = ary then ; they had their work to do ; and tin re are districts of ike country in which there are stili iike uses for them . When the pubho mind is but . indifferently informed , and when its judgment is to a great exttn ; imrormed , it is neccissary to enlist , the senses , and to ciaitn attention by external oisp ay , tnat you may form that very character whicn t > now in process of devei pment . Tie people
oo not " agitaie now , because they have learm ihe vaise of " agiiariue" ; thuy have discovered it to be the iroth upon the surftc < s of the good liquor , and they now blow the Iroth aside and drink ihe lignor . They do not , in the olti cultivated Chaitbt districts , come oat to hear lectures ; just because they know all that tbe 3 ectnrcr » can teil them . They kave heard lie old story over and over again till they are tired of it . Tney are quite aware that " God and nature did not make one man v . iih a saddle on bis back a . nd another with a pair of spur » on his heels "; that " no man was born witn a pen behind his ear and an k'khorn ai the tip of his nose" ; they know that all the points of taeCharier are points
of righteousness and truth ; iha > . every man has a right to the vote , and that so man has a right u > more votes than one ; that each has a right to be represented , and that all should be represented equally ; Ibui no man has a light to coeice or control another in ihe exercise of his vote ; that intelligence and honesty should qualify a man to represent his fellows whether he have " proper ty ' or not ; that " short reckonings make long friendships " , and tnat " the labourer is worthy of his hire " : they know all about tha s e things ; tbey know that they are all truo and that no good argument can be brough ; against them ; ibey have heard tbea stated , proved , and argued by
a ) i sons of lecturers in ail sorts of ways ; they find that , though each man may have a different way of telling it , they all do tell the samo story ; and , as they know the siory off by heart , they don ' t care to hear it told any more : and hence the appearance of apathy and carelessness wbick bo dispirits unrefLeting minds . It does not dispirit me in ihe least degree . On the contrary , 1 rejoice in it . Bui there is one feature connected with it which is not so pltasiag to me , and which 1 hope to see instantly corrected . Tne same feeling of couscura ? intelligence which induces the people to cease " agitating % and to " lie on thtir oars" waiting till successive caHs for energy ma * come , has
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induced them also to become careless , to a great extent , abont organizing . In the absence of any effeotive National Organization , the several local Organizations , having been identified with the " agitation " , have been neglected ; and thus in many of the very best Chartist districts there is no Association—no Committee—no " public body" of any kind although , individually , there are m ore ChartistB than there ever were . I have many letters by me stating the anxiety of scores of Chartists in different places for me to visit them , but stating that they cannot" invite" me in the terms which I
require ; because I had publicly declared that I would not accept individual invitations , and there was no public body from whom , as a body , the invitation could come . This I do regard as matter of regret . Without Organization of some kind , the people , however intelligent , are powerless . And no National Organization can exist , Bave as the aggregate of local bodies . The people must see to this ; and at once . They must keep together . This ia not more necessary for tho concentrating of their powers than for their increase . They have a formidable enemy to cope with ; and they need the moral energies of all their brethren combining with
their own . A large mass of society is yet uninformed , and can never be informed , upon Chartist snhjects , until they , whodo know them , send out missionaries , which they can never do individually : they must , for this purpose , act together . I have endeavoured to point the attention of the people where I have come to this subject ; and to Bhew them the difference between the uses of Organization , and those of " agitation . " Bach has its uses . Those of Organization are permanent ; while those of " agitation cease when the people become enlightened aad their opinion fixed .
I trust that I have not handled this subject vainly ; that the plan of Organization which ia being adopted by the Conference at Birmingham , while I am writing , will receive , when it appears , all due and careful attention ; and , if simple , efficient , and legal , as I hope it will be , that it will be at once universally adopted , and acted on . Scotland has no delegates at Birmingham , " but the Scotch are not therefore " apathetic" as to the labours of the Coiifereuce . They are looking to them with jgreat anxiety , and will , I believe , heartily co-operate in any plan which may , ia their opinion , have these three characteristics . Whether they do so or not I . do trust that they will at once see that Chartism shall bave in every place not merely' * life " but have
** A local habitation and a name , " a formal front and bearing which shall make them known , not merely to the friends of faction rouud them , but all over . I never saw Chartism more prosperous in any place than I think it to fee just now in Edinburgh and Leith . They are choice spirits ; the Chartists there ; and though comparatively few of them hold together ; though they have no regular place of meeting publicly in Edinburgh ; and though they are the subjects of foul vituperation and petty annoyance by quondam , " le&dflis , " they are , almost to a man , intelligent , deep thinking , sober-keaded , far-seeing , honest men . They are sound at tin core . They look to principle and to that only . They will natter no man ' s vanity , aor suffer themselves to be hoodwinked . They walk on their own feet and borrowno stilts . They are a sound , healthy , hearty , get of fellows , to whose warmest affections the best and only passport is honesty and truth .
To any Chartist friends who may visit Edinburgh I commend the Coffee House of Mr . Cranstoun , 129 , High-street , as an abiding place . It is the resort of the Chartist friends . They will find there the elite of Chartism for companionship ; and accommodations as comfortable , and charges as reasonable , as any man can wish . 1 And , while upon this subject , I may say as much , and with great propriety , for the Odd Fellows * Arms , Queen-street , Aberdeen , kept by Mr . Bain \ and the Temperance Coffee House , at Hamilton . I forget the Landlord's name , at Hamilton—he is a bookseller ; but at both these houses I found everything in the way of comfort , civility , and kindness that any man could wish ; and i think it due to my English friends to tell them where they are to be had .
In Aberdeen the movement stands high . There are here two diVtinctbodies ; the Church of which Mr . Lowery is pastor ; . and the Democratic or Chartist Association , meeting in their own Hall . They both muster pretty well for strength , and thev work cordially together , There has been less of " bickering" in Aberdeen than in most other towns . A beautiful spirit of friendly fellow feeling seems to be now prevalent among them ; and , 1 pray God it may long continue . In Mcntrose a few gallant lads have determinedly made bead against the storm , and under many difficulties still " man the ship" and keep her afloat .
In Dundee the Church has kept Chartifm alive . It has been long the only prominent form in which it could be recognized . The Democratic CoHncil — a few choice spirits — kept themselves together ; they kept up "life " in the thing , to be sure ; but it was a disembodied spirit ; while the Church supplied to it flesh and bones , and sinews . Such is their condition now ; and I have great hope that this united spirit and body of Chartifm will derive new strength from the pastor who has iust gone from England to reside among them . The Vale of Leven is like situate . The spirit of Chartism is diffused throughout the whole population ; the Church is the form in which it appears , and the school isthemeansof ensuring its continuance and
progrefS . The pulpit and tho school desk are ably occupied by Mr . Roberts . Of Glasgow , I may tell about the same story as of Dundee and of tho Valo . There are a few Rue fellows ; Moir , Cblquhoun , and a few others , who may perhaps be called non-Churcb Chartists ; not that they oppose the Church , or that they place themselves in conflict with itn leaders , and vituperate them for being " Church Chartists , " or " Biblo Chartists , " or Temperance Chartists" ; they have more sense . But they do not identify themselves with tbe Church ; they advocate ChaTtism separately and distinctly from it . But though these excellent men are " in themselves a host , " the streHgth and power of Chartism at Glasgow is in the three Chartist congregations of the City , Gorbals , and Ander&ton . The O'Connellite Repealers muster ^ ery strong in Glasgow . It was
thought exceedingly desirable , if possible , to effect a junction between them and the Chartists : an effort was made for it at ; the end of my lecture , as I told you in my last letter . It failed ; and I advise that no more such efforts be made . Leave the O'Cornellites alone . Let them go their own way . At public meetings , when " the Repeal" is the matter of discussion , give them your assistance by the assertion of your opinion on that question abstractedly and on its own merits , and independent of any other consideration . If they have the manly honesty to act similarly by us , let us at public meetings receive their assistance cheerfully ; if they do not ; if they join with the "League" and with tbe enemies of freedom to suppress us , let us pity them ; let our warfare be merely defensive—never offensive—against men who are struggling lor liberty .
In no part of Scotland did 1 find Chartism more pleasing in its aspect than at Hamilton . Here in the midst of a very poor population—chiefly handloom weavers—I had a Church full of as intelligent and honest looking laces as I ever&aw . Temperance , intelligence , and industry—all the best qualifies of individual character combine to give the Chartists of this place the stamp of superiority . I was delighted with thtm . Campsie is a spirited little place , aud theie are some good men in it . Of the other places which 1 visited , I have not much to particularize ; I was well received by all of them ; and the general descri pt ion above given of tho ' dead agitation" but the living principle . of freedom may well enough describe all of them .
The thing mo . « t gratifying to my mind in ( he Scottish Chartists is the cool-bearing and aiscretion of the people . They have very little of the blind trastfuhiess of the Irish or of the hotheaded , unreasoning enthnrdssm which characterizes many of the English ; and hence , Vhough iney bave enough of dissension among " leaders , " the . people do not let the cause be damaged ; they coolly kick tbe brawlers overboard . I have no doubt thai when the news came of my separation from the Star , and of my difference with O'Connor , which induced it , the Ecamps who live and feast upon disunion were in high glee . In fact , I kuow they were . They thought " Now , we shall have a feast ! ' The jackals of faction were in like expectation ; aud some of them attended my soirees
to ** louk out . " At Glasgow , one of these eavesdroppers came big with expectation ; peucils , notebook , aud ail prepared , to make the most of the " expose " ! Well , the" expose " came ; and the scamps round that they had jniscalcu . ' ated ; they iiad mistaken their man ; they had nothing to feed on ; and the poor fellow gathered up his " traps "—pocketed his pencils and his books , and went away grumbling , " I ) d cautious speech ; that 1 " No ; no ! The rogues will get no quarrelling from me . I am not in the habit of making the peoples' cause to bear every blow aimed only at my own bead . Let my head take care of itself ; and if I cannot keep it above water , I ; will not ask the knaves who are disappointed at my " D d cautiousspeech" to help me .
After I had left Edinburgh , on my first going there to the soiree , a gentleman of some sort , who described his self as " a delegate to the late Conference at Birmingham , " put out great bills , anEonncing a lecture on "the theagheey of the late conductor of the Northern Star , ScoS * and invited 'discus sion . Some of my friends attended aad civilly told him that they thought him no gentleman at all . Another gentleman , a friend of the first gentleman , spoke somewhat largely about some mighty matters of accusation which he had in pickle , but which he would tell to nobody till he should have me at a public meetiDg to answer them . Some of my warmest friends advised me very strongly not to notice the matter at all ; the more especially as no communication had been mode to mo by ihe parties , aud I had uo means bat common rumour of knowing that my name was
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being thus "( taken in vain . " However , I determined to set my foot upon the thing . I think no man stands so high as to justify him in despising any other mail as an enemy . I am desirous not to make , enemies , but to remove causes of enmity ; and TVL wrote to the party , and Isupposo the result ot the correspondence is to be a public meeting in % sl \ l $ I"afew weeks time—when 1 can return tnuner , tor tho purpose of calling me to account for certain of my sayings and dolnga while Editor of the Northern Star . And * though I do not think that any ot the matters of complaint are at all fit subjects for public discussion , or isuch as any man has any right to require publio a&swers to , beyond those which have already been siven . I have no doubt
that tfle explanation I shah give will remove much misunderstanding , and therefore do good ; and it is on this account solely , that I submit them ; and not merely for the purpose of gratifying the gentlemin ' s passion for a display of gladiatorship ; though I do not like to inflict disappointment upon any mau if 1 can help U . I like , as far as I can , to " give to every one that asks . " I " shall return therefore to bcotJand very shortly , when this gentleman shall be gratified , aud , I hope , satisfiod , with my publio explanations . At the same time I shall take an opportunity of visiting several places to which I was invi tod while thera , but whieh I could not go to ; my routes being previously fixed , and my engagements at Hull compelling ma to keep to the
time . . * I have already written more than I purposed , and perhaps as much as space can be afforded for ; I must therefore here conclude , -and subsoribe myself ,
You * fAithful friend and servant , William Hill . Leeds , Thursday , Sept . 7 , 1843 . P . S . I will be thankful to as many of the genuine good men and true as . choose to write to me now and then from any and every place , telling me " how things go . " I have not now tae means o ( information which I formorly had from the correspondence of the Slar ; but I should still like to . know "how matters go . " Let each man who writes to me send his address , so that I may write ; again , if necessary . Any letter addressed for me at Hull will find me . Will Mitchell , of Stockport , eoiu ! me bis address ? W . H .
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Dreadful Death bv Burning . —Yesterday forenoon , a poor ivoman , eighcy years of age , named Clarke , a- widow , residing in Bean-street , York Road , was unfortunately burnt to death . She has had , it appears , sufficient to lire upon , but had a woman residing with her who is in . the receipt of relief from the parish , which , yostorday morning , she had gone to tho workhouse to receive , leaving Mrs . Clarke in the house by herself . On this woman's return , or on some of the neighbours going into the house , the horrible spectacle presented itself
of tho poor creature resting with her arms on the mantel-piece , her body literally burnt to a cinder , and one of her arms laying at her feet . l - would appear that she had been standing by the fire , when her clothes caught the flamos , and ahe thus met with a dreadful and torturing death , for she was quite dead when found . None of the neighbours had heard any noise to alarm them , so that it would appear that so sudden had been the operation of the fire that she had been completely overcome at once , and had not had the power to make the slightest resistance to the attack of the devouring element .
Committal of a Notorious Prostitute On Monday last , a noted prostitute , named Amelia Kay , who has been on the town ever since she was about twelve years of ago , was committed for trial by the magistrates at the Leeds Court House , on a charge of having robbed a man named James Carline , of two half-crowns . The prosecutor said he was going along Eist-street , on Sunday night , when he met the prisoner , who seized him round the waist ; he distinctly felt her hand iu his pocket , and immediately missed his money , upon which he gave her into custody . She denied having any money iat all about her , but on searching her two half-crowns wore found in her bosom .
Juvenile Delinquency . —On Tuesday last ,-a precocious yonth named James Smith , 14 years of aj < e , was brought , before Henry Hall , and Griffith Wright , Es , qrs ., at the Leeds Court House , charged with a criminal assault on two little girls of the respective ages of eight and sis years . The little rasoal was caught with the children in a field , and the offence was so clearly proved that the magistrates fined him £ 5 , and in default of payment sent him for two months to Wakefileld . Odd Fellows Funeral . —The members of the Earl of Durham Lodge , No . 405 , of the Grand United
Order of Odd-Fellows , held at the house of Mr . Brough ton , Bay Horse Inn , Briggate , Leeds , accompanied by the District , Officers , and other visitors amounting to nearly 500 members , walked in procession on Sunday last to tho Cemetery , the officers of the Lodge carrying splendid gold and silver regalia , for the purpose of paying their last tribute of respect to the mortal remains of their lamented Brother , P . V . G . Robert Huat , who has been many years a sincere advocateof the cau « o of Odi-Fellowship , and in whom the membemef his Lodge placed the most unbounded confidence for honesty and in rarity
Robbery . —On Saturday ni ^ ht last , a man of the name ol " Isiac Bradshaw , raiding at New Wortky , near LeedF , who proenred a livelihood by hawking blacking , and other articles , was retuminic home about eleven o ' clock ; when about halt-way brtwixt Newton Bar , and the Smith ' d Arms , on the Gclderd Road , he was stopped by four men , and robbed of his watch and 18 » . in money . The villains so illtreated the poor man , by beating him , that he lies in a very precarious state . Fatal Accident from Machinery . —On Friday , an accident , in which two persons lost their lives , occurred at Holling ' s Mill , near Sowerby Bridge . A woman was in a room employed sorting rags , and an upright shaft which > connected the machinery in the rooms below and above , passed throu&ti it . A little girl of the name of Bates was sent an errand into the mill , and she , from curiosity , went to see
the woman sort rags . No one being in tho room but the two parties , what transpired afterwards must of course bo conjecture , but from the position iu which they were townd , the probability is that the girl's clothes had > by somo moaus or other , got entangled by the shaft , aud that the woman , ia endeavourirg to release her , got entangled also , and wbeu they were lound both of them were quite dead , the girl folded fast in the woman's arms . An inquest was held on the bodies at the Friendly Inn , on Monday , and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned , with a deodaud of £ 6 upon the shaft . We understand that this is tho first fatal accidental Holling ' e Mill , which , until June last , has beeu run more than hair" a century by Messrs . S . and J . Waterhouse , and that the parties who have taken the mill had a box making for the shaft , which has hurried two fellow creatures so- suddenly into the presence of their Maker .
Fire . —About six o ' clock on Sunday evening a fire broke out in a small room in a mill bit . uate at Chapel Hill , Huddersfield , occupied by Mr . Bannister , and formerly occupied as a wood turner's shop " . It was speedily extinguished by tho populace , who assembled in great numbers , und lent every assistance in their power . The fire originated in consequence of the diversion ot the old flue into a new one which had ju » t been built , and iho flue being lcit open on Saturday night ignited the boards immediately above it . The damage done is very tnfling , but had tho fire happened a low hours later , in all probability the whole mill would have been destroyed .
Suicide—On Saturday night orearJy on Sunday momma last , a man named Francis Mason , by trade a butcher , and well known in Bradford , committed suiciUe in a cell at the Court House , by strangling himself . He t ad been found in tho street , drunk . and was locked « up by tho police . The Coroner ' s jury considering thiat ho was insane at the time , returned a verdict of " Strangled himself while temporarily deraugvd . " He was sixty years of age . Seizure of , Meat . —On Saturday morn n £ r , the
constables of Bradford got information that some bad meat was in tho town , and itr consequence Mr , Ingham wout to the shop of Mr . Thomas Jackson , in the market , and there seized a-qu ^ rter of a carcasfl . He then proceeded to a house in Now Leeds , and in a chamber there found a quantity more . On thtir return they searched Jackson ' s house , in George street , and there Jouud nearly anothfr quarter , in an upstairs rooiu . All th-n meat was handed over to a jury-of butchers , whs condemned it , and it was sent to the Gas-house to be consumed .
An Expert Thief—A man named John Ibbetson , was taken before the Halifax magistrates , last week , upon numerous charges of robbery . The prisoner has been iu the habit , as appeared from the evidence adduced , of frequenting publio houses in the neighbourhood of Halifax , tot several weeka past , aud when ' opportunity < fftred , of making off with whatever he could lay ho ) d oh , such as copper kettles , brass pans , irons , wearing apparel , spoons , &c . Though many cases mi ^ ht h&ve been proved against him , it was deemed sufficient to take two of the more rewnt ones , on both of whioh ho w * s committed for trial at the ensuing sessions .
Advance or Wages . —On Saturday last Messrs Craven aud llarrop , manufacturers , Thornton , advanced thte w ^ ges o / their hand-loom weavers 6 d . per cut on somo sorts , and 3 d . on others . Many of their weavers reside in Clayton , and as soon as the workmen received the advance , they made the case known in their locality . It soon got to the ears of Mr . J . Tempest , manufacturer , Clayton Heights , and he advanced 3 i . per cut . Arrival of the Q , ceen at Brighton . —Tho Queen arrived at Brighton , from France , on Thursday afternoon , at about a quarter past three o'clock , having left the French coast at soon after nine in tho morning . Tlw good iolka of Brighton seem to have gene half mad en the otoasion ; too town in tho evening wao illuminated .
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Wages . —Two meetings have been holdea in Barasley within the Jast fortnight relative to & dispute concerning wages with a newly established firm , Messrs . Norris , j Brady , and Co . The first meeting was held on , Tuesday , the 29 ; a ult ., F . Mirfield in the chair , when the following resolutions were unanimously approved of : — " That it is the opinion of this meeting ! that , in a town like Barns ' ey , depending entirely on linen manufacturers , it is the truo interest of both masters and workmen that a uniform rate of waj ? esj should be paid by all manufacturers engaged in making that fabric ; and this meeting pledges itself to use its Htmost endeavours to maintain the present rate of wages , as contained in the manufacturers'larranged list . " — " That this
meeting having learned with regret that Messrs . Norris , Brady , and Co . have paid a less rate of wages for certain kinds of work than the rest of the manufacturers inj Barnsloy are at this time paying , this meeting is of opinion that it is an uiijurt and cruel attack upon iho wages of the poor weaver , and ought to bd resiafced by every lawful and available means . "— " That every weaver employed by the above firm do give up their work as their pieces are fiuished , and withhold -their labours until such time as they will pay according to the printed list . ' Tho meeting then adjourned to Monday the 4 th inat , at which time they ayain assembled on Mayday Green as bdfore . Mr . Mirfield opened the business of of tho meeting intimating that there was a
probability of somo men employed by the firm in question refusing to giva up their work , and he , along with the committee , was afraid to an extent which migtit prove injurious to arriving at a successful issue , in the result of the strike . ; J . Shaw , J . Grimshaw , and others followed on in the sama strain , and recommended the meeting to reconsider , and only strike the men who were under-paid . To this the meeting seemed unwilling , fearing that it would at no remote period lead jto greater encroachments . The meeting was then addressed by R . Garbutt and John Harper , who argued at some leugth the
necessity ef more strenuous exertions , and the more especially as some respectable houses had already declared a reduction ] of wages would be of no benefit to tho trade ; but that should Messrs . Norris be allowed to pay under the general list , they should be compelled to lower ; in the same ratio , and thus the list of prices would bo virtually destroyed ; a circumstance that would prove perplexing to the masters and injurious ; to the men . It was then agreed to increase the n « raber of the committee from five to twelve , and grant them additional powers ia order that all may be done that is possible to secure justice to one and to all .
Bor Drowned . —On Sunday afternoon last , as two boys wroro playing in some empty boats lying at the coal wharf on tho Roebjtfslo Canal , Manchester , one of them observed something floating on the water , which was soon recogniped to be tho body of a boy . Information was given to soma boatmen who were near , and after a short time the body was taken out ; and , from the decomposed state in which it was found , it could not have been in the water less than three or four days . Thfe same afternoon it was identified as the body of a ) boy named James Hibbcrt , aged six years , who had left home a day or two previous : the last time heiwas Been alive was near the aqueduct on the canal , i An inquest was held on the body on Monday , before | Mr . Chapman , borough coroner ; and , after hearing the above statement , the Jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned . "
A' Child ' s Ear Bit ; off by a Pie . —Matthew Brady , " and his wife Catherine , two genuine specimens of the rougher portion of the Irish peasantry , were brought up at the' borough court , Boltoo , oo Saturday last , for an assault upon Elizabeth Clayton , It appeared that tjhe Bradys live at Ne-wtown and , after the fashion of their country , keep a pig " to help them a bit in the winter time . " At night , the animal is accommodated with lodging under the same roof as its master , and in the day time it is turned out to ramble in the neighbourhood . Now , it appears that this pig had acquired a peculiar antipathy to ahUdrent and had bitten nearly every child in the street ; and when any of their parents complained , Pat very ooollyltold them to keep their
children in the bouse ! Thus matters stood , the Bradys and their pig being the terror of the neighbourhood , when Mrs . Clayton ' s child was seized by the animal and thrown into the channel , and the savage brute bit off part of its ear before it could be extricated . Tho mother , alarmed for the safety of her child , ran out with a hammer , and . threatened to kill the pig ; when Brady came up , isnatohed the hammer from her , and knocked her down . —Mr . Harris said , he had bad several complaints from parties whose children had been bitteni by this pig . —The defendants made a terrible uproar in the court ; and Mrs , Clayton being afraid of further annoyance , they were required to fiud sureties to keep the peace and pay expences . !
Deficient Weights Iand Scales . —At the Bury petty sessions , on Friday : last , Mr John Warburton , inspector of weights and measures , summoned the following persons , who iwore convicted in the sums named : —John Wood , Rock-atreet , Bury , a pair of small soale 3 for weighing sui ; ar , a qaarter of an ounce deficient , caused by having a piece of lead hung on one of the scateit ; Gaorga Moscrop , grocer , OJd Market Place , Bury , small sugar scales a quarter of au ounce against the buyer , caused by having paper concealed uuder pae end of the scales . Mr . Thomas Grun < Jy , solicitor , appeared for tho defendants , on the grounds thac the profits on sugar were so small that the grocei's wcrs obliged to use the above , or similar meaasjto recompense them for the
papar which they used to wrap tho sugar in ; and that , au inspector had nojright to seize any scales on any protence whatever , not even if he found tbem deficient . He then called Mr . Andrews , the late deputy-constable , who stated , that it had been common for tho last twenty years for grocers to wei *; h the paper with sugar , or to have the paper under the scales . — Mr . Warburton , the inspector , contende / i , that if persons must be allowed to put their scales out of balauce , oither with paper or lead , thcro would be no safety ; and , according to the 28 : h section of the 5 th ( and 6 th William iV . the parties so doing were liable to a penalty of £ 5 — The magistrates said , they could not sanction the parties having tho scales wrong ob any grounds whatever ; and , if the profits on sugar were so small
that the grocers could not deal honestly , they bad the same power to raise the price of the article as they had to reduce it . Mr . Wood was convicted in the penalty of 20 j ., and Mr . Moscrop 5 s . and costs . —Henry Barnes , Pits-o-th ' -Moor , for having scales similar to tho above , waslfined 5- > . and costs . Alice Yates , green-grocer , Huntlcy Brook , for one illegal lead weight , a quarter of au ounce deficient , dismissed with a cautioa ; to mind better in future . Lamber Walkden , greeni grocer , Free Town , for a four-pound weight three quarters of an ounce , and a one pound a quarter of an ounce deficient : ordered to pay costs . William Barnes , beer-seller and green grocer , for one four-pound weight half an ounce deficient , and two halt ' -pouud weights nearly a quarter of an ounce each deficient ; dismissed on for-Feitiaa the weights . !
Skisure of Apples , ! Onions , &c , in Bolton Market . —On Saturday last , complaint having been made to Mr . Fogg , inspector , by a party who had bought two baskets of apples considerably under weight , he went round the market and weighed all ihe apples , pears , onionai &c , that were put up for sale , and a considerable quantity wasseiz d as under weight . Two or three of the parties appeared before the Mayor , at the Borough Court , with various excuses , but the property was declared forfeited . Leaving Wohk withoOt Notice . —James Kudd
was charged botore the magistrates of Wigan , on Friday last , with leaving tho employment of Messrs . Johnsou and Ainswroth , ynthout giving the notice required in his agreement . This was the second chaiKe of tho above naturae preferred by the complainants in the course of | theweek . They said , in consequence of a number of hands having abseuted themselves without a moment's notice , they were constrained to mako an oxample . The bench discharged the defendant , on opadiuon that he returned to his work , aud ordered him to pay the expences .
Serious Assault . —At the Borough Court , Stockport , on Saturday , % young man , named Joseph iiibby , was charged with having committed a most serious assauk upon Arthur Sheridan , by striking him on tlie head with a hammer , and thereby fracturing hin skull , and placing his life in jeopardy . Mr . Hudson , solicitor , appeared for fho prosecution , and Mr . W , Vaughan lor the defence . It appeared from the statement of Mr . Hudson , and the evidence of a number of witnesses , that On Friday , the 18 . h August , the prosecutor and ] prisoner were engaged ia repairing the mill fornifrly occupied by Mr . Cephus Howard , near Portwood Bridge , which has for some years been uutenanied . At the end of the day ' s work , several of the } men assembled in the
warehouse , and began to dispute about a clock which ha 4 . been clandestinely taken from the engine-house ; and the prosecutor stating that he had seen the case in a room of which the prisoner had the charge , the prisoner called him a liar , and said if he repeated the assertion , he would knock his bloody Irish brains out . Prosecutor repeated the statement , when the prisoner struck him on the faoe with his left hand , and immediately afterwards struok him a violent blow oni the left temple with a hammer 2 ib . 3 jz . in weight ^ The blow iuflicted a contused wouno . an inch long , causing a depression of
the skull , and the displacement of the temporal bone bo much as to allow a little finger to pass within the skall . The prosecutor has been an inmate of the Stockport Infirmary since the occur rence , and i ? not yet considered' out of danger Prisoner was apprehended the night of the occurrence ; and , after being kept in eastody a week , was ad muted to bail to appear when called Hpon — The magistr » tes , having heard the facts of the oaso , oommitted the . prisoner to take his trial on the charge at the next Chester ; assizes . —Application waa made for his liberation on bail , till the assizes , but it was refuaad . 1
Ouco Printers , KiLMARNocK .--The briskness till continues , and every manufacturer io town is illy employed .-Kilmarnock Journal .
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Coach Accidents—On Wednesday afternoon , as one of the Leeds coaches was on its way to Bradford , when opposite tho Sun Inn , at Stanninglyyit rau into a phaeton , in which wa 3 Mr . Hai ^ n , of the Bottoms , Halifax , and another ! gentlem : ui , and injured it so severely that it will retire exteiisiva repairs before it can be travelled in again . The coach was also nearly upset , and tho horses taking fright at the time , ail things seemed unpropi'iov . s , but , fortunately , wifh the assistance of fh" : nbahitantsofthe town , further mi ^ iff was preveDfd . Several of the pas ? oncors got off , and refused ic proceed further on the coach , and waited until another coach came up . The coachman altered that Mr . H . was on the wrong side tho road , while "that
gentleman blamed the coachman , and said he was driving so fast that it was impossible to got out of the way . —Last Tuesday , as one of the coaches was guin ? past Northowram , a boy of the namo of Barrett sot up behind to ride , and when getting down i >< 3 troweers caught hold of some part of ffee coach , and in stretching out bis leg < o get it loose , it became entangled in the wheel , and was bok " u . Hn might have been killed had not ono of ( he passengers seen his perilous situation , and called out to the coachman to stop ; ho pulled up immu ^ iatuly , and no further injury was done The boy is recovering . SuoH an accident , and so narrow an e ? capa from death , ought to be a warning Hth to himself and others , against the practice of ridnig
behind coaches . Illegal Appropriation of Upwards of £ 9 0 . — A . good-looking vouth , about seventeen years oi ago , named Geor » e Hi » hfield Morton , was , on Saturday last , placed before Mr . Rushton , at the Po ! i « e Coirt , Liverpool , on a charge of having gone off with £ 909 7 s . of his employers' money . Police constable Kehoe stated , that , from information whioK he had received , he proceeded , on Thursday after noon , to Chester , in search of the prisoner ; aud -v « Friday morning found him at tho shop of Mr * . Da 3 , ilva , in Watergate-street , in that town , who keepg a genteel lodging-house . In the handbills , the prisoner had been described as having tho initials of his name marked in Iudian ink on the left hand .
be ' . ween the joints of his finger and thumb ; aud the witness , on apprehending him , found his hand bleeding , from an attempt to obliterate she fi .-c letter . He brought him back to Liverpool . The prisoner was remanded . On Monday he wan dst'o brought up ; and Constable Kehoe further dep' ^ - 'd , that , on Saturday afternoon , he was informed - \ ut he was wanted an the bridewell . He went t ! i « re , and eaw the prisoner , who said , " 1 am goiruj to Chester with you , to show you whers the nvjrify is . We shall have to go beyond the bridge , to the o tu ^ r aide of the Dee , and the money will-be found <; a hedge . Witness said , that they accordingly w" \* , together to Chester that day ; and , after pa&siu u ihe bridge , the prisoner , atont six o'clock in tha eveir . ntj ,
pointed ouo to him , at tne bottom of a hed «> :, or fence , a hole ; and , on searching in it , witness fuund a bag , in which there was a pocket-book , In the book he found eight £ 100 notes , one £ 50 note , seven £ 10 QOtes , threo £ 20 nof . es , and five sovereigns ; making in all £ 905 . The prisoner , who wore a naw suit of clothes , similar to those of a genteel apprentice in the merchant seaman ' s service , told wkness , that ho had purchased them in Oldhali-street , Pjra-( Jise-street , and o'her things at ojher places ia the town , which accounts for the residue of the mon ^ y . The prisoner , on being asked for his defence , whh the usual caution , declined to say any thing . He wag committed for trial . The prisoner was in tbe service of . Messrs . Musgrave and Vance , cotton-brokers , Es . cb . ange Buildings . —Liverpool paper .
The Force op Conscience —On Monday morning last , a man , who stated his name to ba Moses Wood surrendered himself to the police , at Manchester , stating that he was a deserter from the 29 ; h Regiment . He was brought before the magistrates on Tuesday , at the Town Hall , and still persisted in the statement , and said that about twelva months ago ho had been apprehended for being a deserter , but there being no proof of his desertion in the depot whither he was takf n , he had been discharged . Mr . Maude then told him the serious consequences of any one , without cause , giving himself up as a deserter ; to which the prisoner replied , ** I wish I could say I was free . " It was his conscience , h * said that made him uneasy , and give himsrlf up . Orders were given for inquiries to be made into the tru ' -h of the above statement , aud a communication to be addressed to the War office .
Ireland—Anti -Rent War . — ' On Sunday last , " says the CarlowSentinel , " zbontSOOpersons , men a . n& women , principally strangers , from the county of Wexford , assembled on the farm of Pairiok Murphy , of Ballyleau , near Ballon , in this county , and cut down and carried away upwards often acres of oats . The crop was not under seizure , aud the . objsqt of cutting down and carrying away the corn on Sunday is supposed to be for the purpose of evading a distress for rent , which it is said Murphy expected on the following day . The Balloa police were present and identified some of the parties , bat could not interfere ^ Murphy ' s daughter having stated that it was cut down with her father ' s consent . "
McRDEB of as Infant by its Mother . —It appears by a report of a coroner ' s inquest in the Cork papers , that Mary Hill , an unmarried woman , was delivered of a a infant last week , and that she threw it immediately after it was born into a deep well at the rero of tbe premises of tho homo in which she was at service- This inhuman parent confessed that the child was born alive , and that she throw it into the well to prevent exposure and detection . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder . Two Men Suffocated . —On Tuursday week , as two men , of the names of John Dawson , of Hampsthwaite , plumber , &c , and Wm . Habishaw ,
mechanic , were employed by J . Greenwood , Esq ., of Wreaks , near Ripley , Yorkshire , in descending a well for the purpose of putting down a pump , they incautiously descended without adopting the usual method of testiug the purity of the air , and coasequently both foil rictims to their imprudence . JJawson first commenced the descent , aud was soon followed by Habishaw , and they had not gone more than five or six yards before thoy were unable to return , by inhaling the carbonic acid gas , when they both fell suddenly to the bottom , a distance of fourteen or fifteen yards , and were taken out auite dead .
Important Discovery . —Impbrisrablk Bread . — Wednesday we were present in the Mayor ' s private room , at the Town Hall , Liverpuol , dursugtho opening of a box of bread which was packed at Rio de Jaueiro , nearly two years ago , and which proved as sound , sweot , and in all respects as good as on tb . 9 day when it was enclosed . It appears thar , as regards ' the staff of life , at least that sort thereof required for ship or o ^ her stores which it is desirable to keep a long time , we shall have no reason in future to speak of " the bread that perishetb , " seeing that Mr . Gilbert Claude A laird , a Frenchman , has discovered a moda of making biscuits , on which time
effects no deterioration . This bread is manufactured of a mixture , in certain proportions , of rice , meal , and wheat flour , and it has other important advantages in addition to that very material one already named . For instance , the coarsest quality of fljur may be used , and will produce bread not . inferior to that made of the finest description of flour by tha ordinary method . It is also , we are informed , extremely nutritious , very beneficial to the system , and a certain , antiscorbutic . It is asserted by M . Alz&rd , that the bread would keep two centuries without iho slightest alteration . The discoverer of tho procesB Has secured the right to manufacture it in this country by patent . —Core ' s Advertiser .
Liverpool , Tuesdax Evening . —Tha steam-sbip Caledonia , which sailed this evening , gbortiy after six o ' clock , carries out eighty-five passengers , amongst them Mr . Macrea » 5 y , tbe actor , Mr . Edward Gibbon Wakefield , au- American manager , and others connected with the theatrical profession . The arrivals to-day bave been confined to a few vessels from Dintzic aad Smyrna No arrivals from the United States . Tbe incoming packet of the 19 th Is anxiously looked for , though nothing has transpired respecting her -whereabouts . Tbe winds Save been favourable for her of late but light , and , as she has new been out upwards of seventeen daye , she may be looked for daily . The p * e » ent state of the cotton market , which is still very firm though the sales have only reached 6 , 000 balea to-day , isone of the primary causes why intelligence from the other side of tne Atlantic exoites , at the present moment , bo much interest .
The Queen ' s' Visit to France —Among the numberless questions to wbich her Majesty's visit to the Continent boa given rise , not a i-. w bave been mooted reapecting the supposed incapacity of the Qusen to leave he- B-itisb dominions without the tst > Dcti .. n of an express act of Parliament . Some persons tupon what grounds it in difficult to conjecture ) have maintained that the Prince of Wales , and not her Majesty , ia the person affected by this restriction . In order , therefore , to remove all doubt upon the subject , it is rigbt to mention that the third clause in the Ast « f Settlement , which , enacted " that no person who shall hereafter come to the possession of tbia Crown stall go out of tbe dominions of England , Scotland , or Ir-land , without consent of Parliament , " wa 3 repealer very soon afterwards ; in the first year of Qdotge 1 . ( 1 st George I . e . 31 ) , "whose frequent journeys ta Uanosor , ' * says Mr . Hallam , " were an abase of tho graciousnesa with which the Parliament consented to annul the restriction . " .
Seduction of Rkpt ik Wales . —The Earl of Cawdor has announced that be voill 20 out of bis last Lady Day ' s pay full rente , but not to ' His lordship , we are informed the Golden Grove estate to attention to all that -was said told them that a redaction to be made . Under similar must be adopted by others . B intendB to return to the cent oat of their rents at hia Ltoyd , Brynog , Cardiganshire allowed all hia tenants and I and 5 per tsal—Wzsllmari . oiil 20
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xesocrces Jo suppress it , surely , mutatis mutandis , jmd bj a parity of reasoning , we lave now a justifiable demand upon ihe French Exchequer , for the purpose of suppressing the same spirit in England ^ which if Dot aleneed wdnld Eet a iad example to Pranee and to the -world . All the bickerings and jealeusj " as to Ihe riehfc of search , hostile tarilj ^ Spanish msrriageSj Insulting gasconade , murdering of a mere fisherman , Portuguese commercial ticaty , and such like trifies , are bnt matters of rait or detail -when compared -with the roaring thunder of the popular voice , bow universally directed agaiasi 35 ngcraft , Priesterafi , and Class Legislation , and fcj -whick Kingcraft and Priestcraft have been so long npheld . It is well known that for the last fifty
years £ n # land ha 3 been in a state of Bankruptcy , ironght about by her over-kind interference in the policy of other nations ; and all with a view of hoi Jiug America in subjfcctionj and apaolding ibe Bourbon title to the throne of France ; whereas , if the gums squandered "in those two fruitless endeavours had been expended upon the cukivaiion of our domestic j esourcesj we shoold now have been independent of Lons Philifpk and the Chelsea Pensioners ; of Americas TanSs and Portuguese Commercial Treaties ; of French restrictions and Spanish levolanons 5 oi Knssi&n pride , Chinese markets , and the Gaies of Sonmauth : in fact , we shonld have been in a position to have given battle to all who dared to invade onr shores , onr liberties ! or our
rights ; instead of , as now , onr weakness making ns a prey to all who cloose io insult us , and our dependency placing ns at the ^ nercy of all who will condecend £ 0 traffic with . us . "Who will Tentnre to assert that the invasion of Ireland b y ^ an army of Fi en chmsn , may not be at the present moment matter of diplomatic consideration ! Sir Robeet Peel has very wisely and very prudently abstained from the use of physical forct for ihe suppression of the Hepeal agitation . We have said it beforej and we repeat it here , that Sir Bobset Pesl is very far from being a cruel or a
¦ bloodthirsty man , bul , cui 6 ono , if his temperance and fort > earance can be overawed bj tho cunning of Louis Phixipps , and the pliant subserviency of Gnzoi , who in all things is ready to obey the injunctions of his wily master . Gri * or is a Tory of the olden school ; professing much liberality , of which , however , he and his party mnst be the dispensers . With him and them i : is notiwhat shall be done , bnt who shall do it i And the question with both will be , how O'Cossell can be subdaed , and how Ireland can be preserved as the draw farm of England , upon condition thai Spain should become
the Poland of Francs ? As we stated last week , if the visit of her Majesty and her Ministers to Xons Yeiixiytz and his Ministers should > ake any political turn , Loins wiQ take care to play Spain against Ireland ; and , as if our Ministers were determined to be ready to cover the stake without hesitation , they have , since we last wrote , recognised the legitimacy of the present ruf&an Government of Spain , whose policy it is to proclaim a little creature of thirteen years « f age as Qoaen of a country whose Government has , for scores of years , baffled the sagacity of the-wisest statesmen .
The abandonment of the anti-Repeal demonstration by the Orange nsurpers of Ireland , in " compliance with the mandate of Loxdoxdebbt , the brother of the memorable Castlebeaoh , must have been a consequence of some Cabinet secrets , communicated by the Noble Marquis to the Earl of E . 0 DS 5 , head of the Orange faction . "We xan well understand ihe efieei which somethipg like the following note wculd have : —
Mi dbas . Rodes , —In my former communication I hinted to you that the I > nke had a grand strofce of policy in contemplation . Ton are a-ware that "with him , although alow to speak , y * t it is ever a -word ana a blow , execution rapidly following design . Should yon still persevere in holding the contemplated meeting on the 7 ih , yon "will arm ifce enemy , and disarm onr "friends . Though I felt rather sore abont Ihirham , yet these are not times to stick at trifles ; and when I "would abstain from embarrassing ^ Peel ' s administration , yon may guess that it i » for a -wi * e purpose . There are circumstances now in agitation , -which I dare not even bint at , but of "which yon will be shortly put in possession ; and nothing
could more tend to frustrate what 1 am sure yon - ously desire than a perseverance in the determination to hold the Anti-Repeal meeting upon the 7 th . As however , yon may probably reqaira some feasible pretext for its postponement , I have written a letter concocied by , and which has received the concurrence of the wholB cabinet , taking the responsibility upon myself , and "which you are at perfect liberty to publish . Boden , remember how "we won onr estates ; let ns be cannons how we ran the chance of losing them , trusting that you will see tha -wisdom of the course suggested in my letter , 1 * m , dear Boden , Ever yc-nfs ,
Take Loxboxdeebt . 2 Jow , whether the Soble Marquis did or did not write any such letter as the above we cannot come to other conclusion thaa thai his published leiter to Bodes wa 3 a stroke of Cabinet policy ; nor can -we think otherwise than thai Bodes wonld have required somt stroDger inducement than any contained in that letter to prevail apon him to abandon his long-talked of project . Meantime , however , we cannot for the life of us see how they are to reach O'Coxszii by sword or statute . Be 13 too strong for the former , and too sage for the latter . How , then , we cannot help asking , is th ? Repeal Agitation
to be suppressed j or wherein are we to have the £ rst evidence that her Majesty , notwithstandius her express determination , is more powerful than O'Coxxeu . 1 Indeed -we never have been able to discover that royalty gives strength ; and therefore her Majesty ' s Ministers should have thought twice before they made her Majes-y say , that she would do , what in aD probability , she- may not be able to dJVct . O'Coksell laughs at them the while ; and instead of relaxing , actually hurls defiance ; and in the very teeth of the annihilation speech he literally proposes ihe Tery strongest measure ever yet propounded for weakening the Qaeen's prerogative . We mean the election of Arbitrators -who shall henceforth
constitute the Execntive of the country . "We , who have always contended for the right of the people to appoint their own magistrates , " and who hare always desir *^ to destroy the trad e of flsecing attornies , hail this new more with pleasure and delight ; because it is a step in advance ; a measure -with which the public mind will be familiarizsd , by the time that the Peopie ' s Charter will render it perfectly legal to adopt it . If the Rode . \ s
and the Lomwitdexbts , the WixLGfGrosB aDd the GrnzoTS had been wise , they would have tried the self-consuming system , in tbe hope that tfce Bepeal agitation wonld have exhausted itself ; while they may rest assured that the very first act of tyranny against Ireland or O'Cossoi , will rally around him an amonnt of sympathy , strength , md determination which all the crowned heads in Europe wonld attempt to resist in vain .
There are many , -very many , who now look upon ihs struggle withent taking - part in it , bat who nevertheless , altbon ^ h slow in joining , will be sore to fate ^ e right side . There is something so truly ludicrous in onr mode of government that we cannot avoid being forcibly Efmek -with the contrast which the Iriib Arms * Bill and the thundering reception of her Britannic Majesty furnishes . In Ireland the possession of a pocket pi 3 tol is prima facie proof of treason against the possessor ; while monarchs
caniot meet to indulge in the common courtesies of life . ¦ witioEt being enveloped in donds of smoke , and ^ wmed by the noise of those arguments by which * ney iold their rale . We cannot avoid directing ^ e ^ pecial attention of the starving operatives of * ke 2 verth to the loud and flattering reception which < " » ftueen has met at the hands of the King of the ' Barricades ; noi can we refrain from thinking that i-oss operatives will contract their present condition \ TiLh -jrijat j t might be nader a system of cheap gt ^ ernment .
T , hs Sbz&ixlb Chabieb . —All the formalities stten aant upon tfae grant of the Charier having been ? eoaipi ^ ted , it has thiB week been transmitted to j Shd&y « . In accordance with the Charter , tfce bur-1 gess list has been prepared , and will be pnblii bed on * h- * % d September . The list eoBtain 3 about 5 3001 MUaes .- _ £ Titfreia Independent , " i
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct818/page/5/
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