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W 4 TKIJTS LEGACY TO THE CHARTISTS . IJXTCBE III . — CHBISTLOUTT a > D CHABTISH . " Jesus cf Nazsxetti "who went about doing good . " Abont this time ,, some eighteen centuries ago ( last Christmas ) , ¦ was born the mast memorable man that ever lived , Jesus Christ ! the author of the Christian Bsligion . If ever there -was a good man , if ever there was a great man , a man of genius and of virtue , it -was he ! Again , if ever there -was a my » of sorrow , of snfferm ? , and of sacrifice , it was he ; and mark ! it was his very goodness , Ms very greatness , his very genius and virtue , Uiat brought on him so much sorrow and suffering and sacrifice . Yes , it was his very worthiness , hia truthfulness , that exposed him to so much * vil , privation , and persecution . His attachment , his adherence ^ his self-devotion to the interests of justics and humanity ; the true , the real interests of all men , made those who seek their individual or party
interests , exclusive of , or to the destruction of the- ; general interests of mankind , made all usurpers , all ; jnonopoVz&B , and all oppressors , Mb bitter enemies , ! kis inveterate opponents—yea , they hated him because ! he loved them too well ; they domed him to misery because he "wished to render tfiem truly happy ; and j because he sought to Bare them , they destroyed him . \ He was the gentlest , the most generous and best of beings ; and yet what was the treatment he received— j what " was his fata ? He lived , as he himself says , { scorned and rejected of men—he had not where to lay j his head—he was driven from place to place , hunted like a wild beast , and at last , this good man , this I gracious gentleman , ( for he was a gentleman in the true ! sense of the word , ) was hung np like a murderer , not for taking life , bnt for saving it ; hung on the cross , where he died with these tender words trembling on his tortured lips , " Father forgive them for they know not what they do . " . i
Jesus Christ w&s the vietim of the vices of others ' ( he had none of his own)—wicked men took his life ; because he was a good man . What ignorance and prejudba he had to contend against 2 What privations \ and positive afflictions he endured ! What patien » e I w&s his amid all his pain 3 ! He did not appear in S public Kfa till afcer he was thirty years of age , sad hia j ministry listed only some three years—yet in that j short period ages of labour , ages of trial , ages of tor- ; tore were compressed—and after doing and suffering so much , ha was at length betrayed into the kands of i his cruel enemies by one of his own disciples—denied by another when all else had forsaken him—mocked , I seonrsed , crucified—followed when bearing his cross , I when fainting beneath the weight of a wicked world , followed with taunts and jeers of an unthinti . g crowd , >
• who had been instigated to hoot their scorn , to howl ! their hatred , to buffet , to spit upon their best , their ' only friend , to abuse him when about to die for them— j instigated by those who had ever been their worst enemies , who had made them the dupes of their bigotry , the slaves of their tyranny , the victims of their - cevetousness , their avarice , and their ambition . But I the ignomiDous , the agoirzing death that was meant : to extinguish the shining , the useful life of Jesus Christ only made it blsza the brighter—burst forth the wider , for , like the Phoenix , his fame rose from his . ' own ashes—the very TiUains employed to execute him caught newness of life from his death—they thought that there must be something supremely excellent in ; those principles which could enable th 9 possessor to
pass through such a terrible ordeal , ts stand such a trying test , that that man must have been a good man , who , dying under such shameful , such shocking cir- j cumst&nces , eould still exhibit so much fortitude , re- ' sign&tion , and marvellous benignity , so much cheer- ' fulness—for all the tortures inflicted on him , extorted no groans , no curses , extorted nothing but forgiveness Irom him- And il Hie very -villains who wera employed ' to execute him , and who had been prejudiesd , promoted , and paid , to do the damned deed by the authorities , if these villains , common executioners , were converted by his sufferings , and convinced of hia integrity , ' what think yon mass have been the feelings of his own beloved disciples—of those who had been witnesses of the blameless purity of Lis past life , of those who had
imbibed the same principles , who were actuated by similar zeal , what must they have felt on witnessing his untimely , his unmerited , Ms most barbarous fate ? They did just what they aught to have done—what he ¦ wished them to do—they did not Epend their time in useless lamentations in making a parade of sorrow— . they did not content thtmselvea with meeting together on the anniversary of his desth to drink his memory in solemn silence—no , tfcey revenged him—revenged him in the noblest sianner—they went and promulgated his doctrines—they spread his principles—they devoted themselves to doing justice to hia motives , to his conduct , to Ms character , and with a z ; al second only to his own ; nothing daunted by his fate , nothing dismayed by the difficulties , nothing deterred by the
distresses in their way—they followed his eximple , they lived over his lif-j , and , indeed , they were faithful even unto death—aye , even to a death snch ai his , the most dreacfal , the most cruel that tyranny ever yet devised te torture freebsrn man . Blessed martyrs ! this was the way to make your principles £ buri * b ; thus proselyWs were gained , thus converts were siade , and Christianity was thus promulgated , was thus propagated , iHi throned emperors , crowned kings , sceptred powers , sworded piincipalites , began to notics it , began to be swayed by it , and at length from persecuting they fJl to patronising it : ah , patronage more fatal than their persecution ) for the pure and spotless virgin of the church when wooed fcy the state , was won by it . Alas !
Chrisanity was seduced , it fell into the embraces of pomp and power , and became a prostituted harlot Church and Slate—from that unholy alliance , that adulterous ; connexion spinag the ba&tsrd progtny of bishops , abbots , popes , monks , friars , and ail the rest of the Bosian trumpery , black , white , and grey ; who by : false prophecies , false miracles , ani false pretences of i all kinds , made a grand handle of Christianity and ; used , it not to gain heaven with , but to win j the world withal—not to ameliorate the condition of the people , but to sink them into a stats of double ' vassalage;—in fact , Christianity has been perverted ; from its true path—it has altogether gone out of the \ w&y—it has been turned , as it were , against itself , and j made to commit suicide . A system has b 6 in built on j the foundation of Christ , worse than that which ha ; died to overthrow , which he died t « rebuild , and such a horrid—such an abominable use has been made of his
name , that I verily believe , if be could have foreseen the atrocities , the fiendiike act 3 committed in it , hs would have gone silent through life , and never bars suSsxed his name te have been known at alL Now these demoniacal deeds ¦ were not confined to the Catholics—the Protestants have had-their full share in them : nor were they things of former times , gone by with bygone times ; no , they exist at present—they are acted en even now—only in an altered or modified form . Yes , there is as much villany—as much col ^ -blooded crneltj practised in the name of the blessed Redeemer as ever , and the mitred bishop 3 , the shovel-hatted deans , the white-banded parsons , who support , the present system , and who profii by it , are as unchristian in so doing—are as anti-Christian— -as inhuman , nay , more so , thin the heathen , than those whom we civilly term av&ges , than the Caribbees who drink human gore , asd feist on hnman flesh .
Jesus Christ , while he lived , was sneered at , alighted , and contemned ; bat after his death , and when Ma prectp : s and example began to take effect , began to operate a cnarse in men's minds and conduct , then it was asked—What is a Christian ? Who was this Christ ? Enquiry begsn to be mace into all the particulars of his lif =, slid it wa 3 found by tradition and contemporary testimony , that he had been born of poor parents , in circumstances of great humiliation , at the coldest season cf the fear , in a manger , ( fat his mother could procure
no better lodging , not even in the hour of nature ' s sorrow—of nature ' s extremity , ) that his parents were obliged to flee with him , while yet an infant , to save his life from an Indiscriminate massacre decreed by Herod ;—that after wandering from country to country , proba&y in search cf work , they finally settled in >* azarctb , where the &on followed his father ' s trade of a carpenter , till be went forth to preach—that his fiist companions and converts were poor flshernisB , and so on as narrated forty years affer his death by the Evangelists , and as preached by the apostle Paul and others . ( To be coTtduded is our nexl . J
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Bbotheb . DehocbaTS , —By the time you will have E&ea this letter , the greater number of you will have registered your votes for the five individuals who are to manage your afiairs for the next twelve months . The term of ofice for the old Executive will then be nearly txpired . When I calmly look back to the four months I acted as your representative on the Provisional , and the twelve jaonths on the permanent Executive . I feel proud that I have contributed my mite towards mating theAssoeiation what it is at present . When I became Secretary , there were about sixty or seventy places registered in our
Association ; now there are nearly 400 . There had been Hvsxiy 10 , 800 cards issued ; during the last twelve months there has been 35 , 000 issued . During our term of cMce , from the letters I have received , every satis ^ faction has been given ; and the Association now wonders tow tre have accomplished so mnch with bo little means . We have never had an angry word in our body ; members of the same fsmiiy could not agree better than the Executive have done . Every subject that was brought before us was calmly examined on its own merits or demerits , and adopted or rejected according to tha dictates of our reason .
But if much has been done more remains for the Chartists to do . Although the Association hss now upwards of 40 , 000 members on its books , —is that number enongh ? No ; nor a tithe cf what ought to be enlolled . There is not a county , city , borough town , or hamlet , into which our principles should not be introduced . Now I ask of the national Charter Association to take such steps as will enable its Executive Council to send- lecturers into the agricultural districts , and if possible arouse that portion of tte labouring classes to a se ^ se o ! their own worth and dignity . Every engine must be set in play to arouse the masses to declare in a voice of thunder , that they are determined to have evenhanied justice meted out to all parties .
We have one tiling in particular to be proud of ; camely , that the trades are declaring for the Charter . Let the united trades of this great nation but avow openly and determinedly , that they insist npon the People ' s Charter becoming law ; sod will any govern
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ment dare refuse them their just demands ? I unhesititingly answer No . The Chartist carpenters and joiners of Manchester , already number a hundred members ; the fustian cutters a hundred . The mechanics have also joined the National Charter Association . This week , it is expected that the bricklayers and smiths will be induced to imitate their worthy example ; immediate steps will be taken to wait on the shoemakers , calicoprinters , silk and piece-dyers , and spinners , to prevail on . them to come out fer the Charter ; and there is not the shadow of a doubt on my mind , but before six months , we will have the whole of the Manchester
trades with us . London also is doing its work ; aad when the trades of London and Manchester have unitedly decided on agitating for the Charter , they will give a tone of confidence to all the tradea in the united kingdom . - I now call on yon as men , as fathers , as husbands , as patriots , and as good , true , and sterling Chartists , to bury at once and for ever any little petty grievance that may have existed amongst you . Do not allow the disputes of leaders to divide you . Tell them if they will dispute with each other the consequence will be on their own heads . Let us act unitedly Without union we are powerless ; with it we are everything .
| In conclusion , I would entreat of those parties who owe for cards , to pay off the debt -Tis really too bad to have so many cards out without being paid fer . I did" expect that the new Executive would have come into t-ffise with clear books . I am now afraid such will -not be the case . Hoping that during the next twelve months the cause will progress even more rapidly than it has done for the last twelve , I rsmain , your brother Democrats , John Campbell . Salford , June 6 th , 1342 .
P . S , As the polling will be concluded on Monday night , June 14 th , I shall expect all the returns to be forwarded to me by Saturday the 18 th . It will be impossible for me to receive any returns after that date , as I have to be in Yorkshire on the 19 th , 20 th , 21 st , 22 nd , and 23 rd . The polling lists must be forwarded to the Star office before I leave home , in order that they may sgpear in that paper on the 25 th of June . Tiiere is sufficient time given to each sub-secretary , and if not forwarded in time , the fault must not be laid at my door . I wish also to request that parties who write to me would be very careful how their letters are directed Lately I have had to release several letters that cost me twopence each ; whenever I am written to , the parties who write such letters ought to prepay them . The postage is sufficiently heavy without having to pay doable for letters .
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TO THE EDIT 9 B OF THB N 0 BTHER . N STAB . Sib , —It is sgraid on all hands that great distress at present exists throughout the trading world . Of its cause , a multiplicity of opinions are afl ; afc . Perhaps , amongst the many , you will allow me to give mine-It is well known that Juring the protracted war with France , under the reign of Bonaparte , the landed interest , or aristocracy of England , " pledged their lives and fortunes" in support of our Government . How was this pledge falfiUed 7 Why , they created a fictitious capital , which said fictitious capital enabled them to doable , yea , tnKe their rentals . At the conclusion of the war , they procured the enactment of the Corn laws , by the operation of which they have contrived to retain those rents te this day .
Bat while they passed the Corn Laws to protect themselves , they also passed measures to restore the old standard of money ; or , in other wordff , to greatly curtail that " fictitious capital" which had trebled their rent 3 , added to the salaries of our officers of state from the reigning monarch downwards , and affected the prices of produce and all existing contracts , to an almost incalculable extent Now , what effect had those measures upon the manufacturing and commtrcial interest ? for , mark , the landed interest , i . e . the landlords , had protected themselves from the consequences of their own acts by the Corn Bill of 1 S 15 , enacted for the purpose of keeping up the produce of the land to war-prices . What
effect had their measures upon me , for instance ? for my case was the case of thousands , and it will fully illustrate the confiscating nature of the measures then passed . I had at the time these measures were determined on , upwards of £ 120 , 000 value in mannfaciured cloth and in wool ; while I had another £ 80 , 000 sunk in mills and machinery . What did all this property sell for ? Less iton £ 80 , 0001 i J Here was confiscation I Here was a sweeping away !! " Upwards cf £ 120 , 000 silently , but effectually , filched from me , — one individual , —by Acts cf the Parliament l Mine was but the case of thousands : judge then of Urn alteration made in the value cf property by the measures of our lawmfiktrs , affecting the standard of value !
Let it be borne in mind , that all articles of wear are now disposed of at ona half the prices they -wore forty or fifty years age . I challenge any one to disprove these facts ; and I ask , Sir , if this btj the way to administer justice with impartiality and to give equal protection to the commuiuty ? I am , Sir , Yours tru'y , Willuji Hirst . Leeds , June 6 th , 13 * 2 .
F . S . Was not the wool duty laid on for the benefit of the laaded interest , and kept on for years , till the foreigners began to manufacture for themselves , ana undersell the regular manufacturers in the London market ? Then the duty was altered ; and at the time this measure was passed I had by mo 500 , 000 lbs . weight of wool , for which I bad paid about £ 14 , 000 duty I ' . When the measure was passed , I applied to Government for redress ; bnt none could be afforded . ' That measure took out of my pocket upwards of £ 20 , 000 . ' ! ! W- H .
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ANOTHER PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY . XO THE EDITOR OF THE SOBTHEBN STAB , SIR , —It is now some few months since I requested thefaycur of your giving publicity to a flagrant case of interference with the liberty of expression , iu the person of Mr . Charles Southwell , Editor of the Orac ' e of Reason , arrested at the instance of a Bristol magistrate for blasphemy . ' He was tried and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment , and to pay a fine of £ 100 . He is now undergoing his sentence in Bristol Gaol .
Tha editorship of the work , upon his confinement , devolved upon Mr . G . J . HolyoaJce , a Social Missionary , who , on Thursday njght last , between eleven and twelve o'clock , was arrested at Cheltenham by two policemen , without a warrant , and confined in the Station-houss for the remainder ef the night , charged ¦ with nsing blasphemous expressions at the conclusion of a lecture delivered by him on Home Colonisation , on the Tuesday week previously , in the Mechanics ' Institution . In the morning he was committed to take his trial at Gloucester , at the ensTiing sessions , to the ga&l of which county he "was conveyed hasdcvffed , and would have been compelled to walk from Cheltenham to Gloucester , a distance of nine miles , but for the interference of hLa f .-itnds .
The msjorit 7 of the public papers are so shackled by class interests as to renfier them entirely useless for the defence of an oppressed individual whom the strong arm of bigotry seeks to crash , for the advocacy of expression of extreme opinions , however honestly expressed . And I simply state my feelings when 1 say , that the honest workiDg men cannot too highly appreciate the jonrEal which has been found the impartial advocate of equal freedom of expression for all creeds and shades of opinion . I remain , Yonrs , &a , W . J . Chilto . n . Birminghara .
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —In the report of the Nottingham election meeting held on Tuesday last , it is stated " that Sir . O'Connor is a member of thirty-four Associations , and has taken out a card at Nottingham to entitle him to vote for the election of the new Executive . " Now , O'Connor , I presume , has tiken out thirty-five cards of membership of the National Charter Association ; he has joined the Association in thirty-five different towns ; and , if they are to be called Associations , I should like to know where the nationality of our Association will be found ? In your remarks on Mr . Philp ' s letter , you eay there can be but one General Council , neither can
there , in my opinion , bs but one > ational Charter Association . It 'was not necessary for Mr . O ' -Connor to have taken one his card at Nottingham to have entitled him to vote for the Executive . It matters not where a member takes out his card , so that it is taken out according to ths fifth rule , which says the card shall be Tenewed half yearly . If Mr . O'Connor had renewed his card ONCE only -within the six months , whether he lived in Manchester , Brighton , or Nottingham , npon producing his card , he wonld be entitled to vote . PersoDS in the habit of travelling from town to town , and renewing their cards at every place , create a false impression , without adding one more member to the Association .
Hoping tfe&t Mr . O'Connor will take this in good feeling , " I remain , Faithfully in the cause of Chartism , Nathaniel Morling , Sub-Secretary to the Natisnal Charter Association . Bii ^ htoD , June 6 th , 1 S 42 . [ Mr . Morling is right . There is bat one National Charter Association ; and if a man hold Sfty cards he Btiil is but one member , and can have but « ne vote in its proceedings , which he might have , though he held bnt one card . We wish all efUcera and members of the Association would take as much pains to understand its constitution as Mr . Morling seems to have done . We should br . ve tewer blunders , less trickery , and a better spirit amongst us , —Ed . N . S-2
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SHEFFIELD . —Mr . Brophy lectured to an out- dour meeting on the site of the Old Sugar Houses , top of Sheffield Moor , on Sunday afternoon last . The assemblage was numerous and respectable . Two or three O'Connellitcs interrupted Mr . Brophy with their abuse , but their disgraceful conduct found no support with the great body of the meeting . Mr . Brophy lectured again iu the evening , in the Figtree-lane room ; hia statements of tho deplorable state of the different districts he haa recently visited was listened to with deep attention . Thanks were voted to Mr . B . fer his zealous services in the democratic cause .
Mr . Dufpy lectured in the Figtree-lane room , on Monday evening , giving an account of the state of Lancashire , Derbyshire , Staffordshire , and other parts of the country , showing the miseries &" -d ¦ wrongs engendered by class-legislation . At the conclusion of his address , Mr . D . excited the astonishment and laughter of the meeting by exhibiting to their wondering gaza what he called " the coat of a free-fcorn Englishman , " an article he had picked up in the neighbourhood of Hebden Bridge , and certainly such a scarecrow we h& 7 e seldom Been . It was indeed a fine specimen of " things as they are , "—proclaiming " trumpet-tongued" the blessings of clasalegialation .
Woodhovse . —Mr . Samuel Parks , from Sheffield , preached at the Market-cross , Woodhouse , on Sunday evening last A laTge and deeply attentive audience listened to the truths propounded by the preacher , illustrative of the harmony cf Christianity with the principles of liberty and equality . BACUP . —A meeting was bold here on Friday evening last , in the Chartisi Association room , which was well attended , especially by females , when they formed a Female Association , and the evening was passed in recitations , songs , &c ., after which dancing was kept up to a late hour .
NOTTINGHAM . —On Sunday , Mr . E . P . Mead , from Birmingham , preached two Chaifcist sermons , on the Forest , to a concourse of several thousand people . The speaker gave to the millocrats , shopocrats , the foreign mission-mongers , and the worshippers cf mammon a severe castration . - ¦ On Monday Evening , in the Democratic Chapel , Rice-p . ' ace , the same gentleman delivered another lecture upon priestcraft ir . fla ' -ace , which lasted two hours . Scrro-N-IN-ASUFIELD . —Tho Chartists of Sutton-in-AsLrk-ld , meeting at the Old Trooper , Lave resolved to spend their Sundays in spreading the principles of Chartism in those villages i . i the district where
Chartism is unknown , and on Sunday list fourteen of that body went to South Normanton , in Derbyshire , where a numerous meeting wa 9 Boon got up , and Mr . Simmons delivered an able aud impressive address on the stata of the country and the principles of Chartism . The greatest attention was manifested throughout and ufc the conclusion an Association was formed , and twenty members enrolled themselves and strongly requested Mr . Simmons to attend on thiru again , which he agreed to do in a fortnight . The distress in this village amongst the colliers iB almost unparalleled , and several declared that some families had not tasted bread for three days , and others five . The same party intend visiting Pioxton on Sunday next , where Mr . Simmons will deliver an address at five o'clock in the afternoon .
tiEITH . —A demonstration was held in I / jith Links , on-Sunday last , in favour of those expatriated victims , Froit , Williams , and Jones . The meeting , which was very numerous , was addressed at considerable length by Mr . John M'Crea , in a very affecting and eloquent speech , in which he made a feeling appeal in behalf of the above-named patriots ; after which Mr . John Tankard preached a st-Tiiwn to an attentive audience , from the fifth chapter of James , 4 th and 5 : h versea— " Behold tho hire of the labourer , which have reaped down your fields , which is of you kept tack by fnud cAAh , and the cries of them which have rasped are entered into the cars of the Lord of
Sabaoth . Ye hava lived in pleasure on the earth , and been wanton ; ye have n&urisbei your hearts as in day of slaughter . " Mr . Tankard expounded his text ia such a feeling mariner as must have pierced the hearts of his audiencs , -which coxild not be less than 3 , 000 , among -whom was a great many of the upj > er classes . A collection tras made , which amounted , after paying expences , to £ 1 2 s . 6 d . A few of \ he friends fruin the country , and u fuf ? of the Committee and members of the Leith Charter A ss-ciation then adjourned to Mrs . Watson ' s Teetotal C&ffee House , and had a comfortablo tta party j after which a variety of addresses were delivered , each speaking in his turn , and the evening was spent in the most harmonious manner .
CROTDOM . —A public meeting has been held in the open air , in the above locality , to consider tba propriety of the inhabitants adopting the People ' s Charter , as the best means of removing the misery and degradation of the working cl .-vsses . The chair was taken by Mr . W . Hedges . Resolutions for the People's Charter , and expressive of thtir determination to hold aloef from any ether agitation than the present one wera proposed , and ably supported , by Messrs . Brown , Raiusley , J . C . Taylor , Esq ., tho anti-Cora Law lecturer , Mr . Fairbay , and several other gentlemen , ai » d carried unanimously . Several members were enrolled .
HEBDEiv'ERiDGS—A numerous and highly respectable meeting was held in a large and commodious room , at this place on Wednesday evening , June 1 st , when Mr . Abraham Marshall was called to the chair . Mr . Beesley , district secretary for North Lancashire , gave a fchort report of the proceedings on tha presentation of the National Petition , and a asvere lashing to those who eljle themseltes tho Bight Rav . Fathers in God , who are receiving such enormous sums of money , whilst there are thousands who are starving by being plundered by such avaricious beings as these . Sixteen then came forward to join in the glorious cause for freedom . The meeting separated , highly delighted with what they had heard . .
The Council met here od Thursday last , when the following resolution waa unanimously paBsed : — " That any lecturer wishing to visit this place must correspond with the sub-secretary , and wait his answer , or otherwise he "will not be accepted . All letters must be directed to James Belli well , in care of Mr . Abraham Marshall . :
OEWSBTJiiY . —District Council meeting . — A district council meeting was held at Batley , on Sunday , when delegates were present from the following places : —Djwsbury , Dawgreen , Birstal , Potovens , Bitley , Wakefield , Earlsheaton , Eist Ardsley and Littletown . The accounts given in by the various delegates were cheering in the extreme , as fat as regards the prosperity cf this our glorious causo ; and the good feeling that is now animating the . Chartists throughrut the whole of the district , by the eloquent and talented lectures of Mr . West , which fc . ave done
much good , besides adding numbers to our ra / ifcs . After the financial business of the msetiDg bad been transacted , it was resolved that 169 . be sent to tb-e Executive , and 10 s . for carSs ; and tbat the delegate ? , of the next Council meeting do bring 2 id . per meir , bf . r levy , for the lecturer ' s fund . It is requested that those places that do net send a delegate do stud tt . eir Muota , by letter , to Mr . Robshaw , district t ^ asu \ cr . The next council meeting was ordered to ba held at Wakeflald , on Sunday , the 19 tfa inst ., at Mr . Alfred Lancaster ' s , top of Kirkgate , at eleven o ' clock ia the foreafloa .
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_ BATMBY CARR . —A few friends of the Dewsbury Charter Association assembled at the House of Mr . J ° f ? £ J > ay > * " «« eBteJt' 8 . Arms Inn , Batley Carr , to establish a new association . Messrs . Bobsbaw , Lord , and several other friends , addressed them on the present state of the country , and the remedy for their grievances . Ten naw members enrolled their names and took their cards . James Fox , secretary of the Dewsbury Association , acted as secretary , and volunteered to serve them for three months , until they got more organised . The landlord ^ Mr .: Joseph Day , was appointed treasurer . A vote of thanks was . given , to the worthy landlord for the use of the rooia . The meeting separated highly pleased .
OSSETT . —On Friday evening last , Mr . West lectured here to a very attentive audience . Nearly thirty enrolled their names , and received their cards of membership . A committee was formed to engage a proper place of meeting , when the people cheerfully retired ; to their respective habitations , highly gratified witn the evening ' s transactlone . BAUNSLEY . —Mr . P . M . Brophy visited this town on Monday evening , and delivered a lecture in the School-room under the Odd Fellows' Hall . The greatest attentions was paid to the lecture throughout .
STOURBRrOGE . —A public meeting was held in the Association room , on Wednesday evening iasc , Mr . Cassidy was unanimously called to the chair , and after a few remarks introduced Mr . G > White , who , in a speech of about an hjur and a half duration / exposed the present rotten system of Government , and depicted the blessings which would be Bhared by all classes of the community in the event of the Charter becoming the law of the land , and earnestly exhorted all parties to aid and assist in the glorious . struggle' for freedom . He gave the highest satisfaction to his numerous audience . Several j oined the association . A Chart is ? Tea-Party and Ball was held in the National Chartiat Association room , on Monday , when upwards of fifty sat down to tea , after which several excellent sentimaats were given , which were ably responded to by different speakers .
MA . NCH 33 TBH . —A public meeting of the trades of this town was held in the Carpenters' Hall , on Friday evening , to hear a lecture pii trades' unions , by Dr . P . M . M'JDouail . The meeting was called for eight o ' clock ; and notwithstanding the charge for admission and the day of the week , the large room was : nearly filled with ' an intelligent and ~ enthusiastic audience . Shortly after eight o ' clock , Mr . M'DomU entered the Hall . He was received with loud and long-continued cheering . Mr . Whitaker , a working wan , w ? is called to the chair . He opened the meeting by a few remarks to the trades generally upon the necessity of their joining in .. the movement for ' their political-. rights , and a brief account of his delegation to the mechanics ; and he was proud that the result of that delegation was the coming out of the mechanics for the Charter whole and entire . Mr . M'Douall was received with rapturous ) cheers , and delivered a long and excellent address , for which hi received the thanks of tha assembly .
Hol . lingw . 6 rth . —The Key . W . V . Jackson preached three sermons in an empty mill , PddQeld , on Suuday last , which were very numerously attended . The sum of £ i 1 $ . 4 ^ d . was collected . Glossop . —The Rev . W . V . Jackson lectured here on Saturday evening to a very attentive and delighted audience . A large number of hew membera were enrolled . Hawobth . —Mr . Doyle If ctured h ^ re to the Chartists of Haworth , on Monday , Mny 30 th , and at Keighley , on Tuesday 3 Ifit , and Bingley , pu Wednesday , June 1 st .
Eccles ;—We had a glorious meeting on Monday night , for both numbers and enthusiasm . The Rev . W . V . Jacksou gave us a soul-stirring and talented lecture this evening . Tho subject was " a remedy for the national distress ;"' which he handled in such a manner as repeatedly called forth the approbation of his numerous and delighted audience . The Chartists of this place have voted thanks and confidence in the Executive severally by name . LEICESTER . ^ The Sbaksperean Chartists now numbers 1 , 800 : we enrolled 105 lust Sunday alone , after three discourses by Mr . Cooper ; and pur additions during the week amount to thirty per day on an average . An eventful battle was fought iu our Amphitheatre , last Monday night . Mr . O'Brien appeared to
deliver his second lecture , but consented to answer Mr , Cyoper ' s questions before be began . The question was then pus , " Win ; is not Mn . O'B / uen a mesiher of . iue National CHAiiTEif . Association ? ' \ Mr . O'Brienoccupied an hour and twenty . minutes in reply . First , he intended to become the editor of < i newspaper , and he would lose his character for ' impartiality , if he beldngpd to any ono society ; it would fetter him , and prevent him from exercising the ir . fluenca desirable on the public miud . -Secondly , the Government sought his life , but they could not take it so long as he ( Mr . O'B . ) was responsible for his own acts only ; each member of the National Charter Association ' . ' .. was responsible for the acts of other members of the body ; the Star itself had shewn that ; ha bad suffered for other men ' s offences ,
and he did not want to suffer for them again . Letters had been sent to htm previous to tke Newport outbreak , of the jaost atrocious character ; one of them began , " We do not thick it advisable to begin by firing the town-ut that end ; " plots of the most diabolical kind had been devised to draw him into danger . So long as lie was not a member , hei could not thus be brought into danger . Mr . Cooper hail said it was inconsistent in tim ( Mr . OB . ) to go about the country telling working men tbat they Ought to become members of the N ational Charter Association while he ( Mr . O'B . ) was not a member ' himself ; but ho ( Mr . O'Brien ) never hati insisted on any working man becoming a member of the association . Working men he ( . Mr . O'B . ) knew were / often in danger
of losing their employ , and even thoir bread , if they became members . They were sure to be persecuted , and their very lives might bo in danger . Ho hnd said , " if you become niember 3 of any association let / it be of this . ' But he had nevor insisted on it peremptorily . Aud , how , what must he say about inducements to become amember ? When there was less quarrelling and bickering—when the niembers ceased to devour each other , and to attempt to destroy each other ' s reputation , then he ( Mr . O'B . ) might be induced to btcome a member ; but could not otherwise . Mr . Cooper , iu reply , askod who would be a sneniber c . f the . ^ rational Charter Association it ' they took Me * O'B ' s . advice' Whsre would the leaders of ChartiBm
be , if every uian acted on Mr . OB ' s . judgment ? Was not each and ( -very man in danger if Mn O'Brien wsa in danger ? Was not he ( Mr . C . ) in danger ? and yot ho avowed ht 8 meiubtrehip , and defied persecution . Might not letters ba sent to him , ( Mr . C ., ) and would it not be easy to put them into the fire , if they ^« e dangerous ? ' Did it require more than the brains of an infant to perceive that thai was a ready way of prew ; : itih- 'j their mischief ? Had not other Wen suffirod f-r tlie offjucea of ethers ? Had not O'Connor suftbreil for the offence , as it wss called , of a man who stood on that very stage at that moment—aud yet , did this cither incite O'Counor to conduct hirn ' aelf' spitefully towards that man , or £ o say He ( O ' C ) would not be a member of the National Charter Association ? Was
ho ( Mr . C . ) to say , because he happened to be publishing his little Commonwealthsman , " O , I cannot be a member of the National Charter Association ? the public will ' say . " -I am not , impartial . " Why people would laugh at him ; and Mr . O'Brien inuet know that working men had more brains thin to bo'ieve that a man of first-rate intelligence would put forth such a reason , in sincerity . Mr . O Brien ' s argument had been one continued insidious attack oil- the Charter organisation ; it waa one purposed and connected contrivance to persuade working men not to belong to it . What elsa meant the vociferous cheers of the middle classes to-uijjht , numbers of whom hail come to hear Mr . O'Brien , although they would not come to hear O'Connor ? These gentry hr . d cheered Mr . O'BrL'n in
every part of his argument which bore hardest on the National Charter organisation , — -and why ? ' -be ' cati ' suthey knew Mr . O'Brien ws playing their gnme . It ¦ was time for every man to stand ¦ without ; a mask . There stood Mr . O'Brien : let the working classes judge of him . But Mr . O'Brien was opposed to denunciations , he could not join the organisation because the rnembera were always quarrelling and practisinc detraction . 0 no ! Mr . O'Brien never quarrelled f He never praetisud detraction ! There was a pamphlet in existence . He ( Mr . Clheld it in his hand . Dili it come from Mr ; O'Brien ? it began " Brother Chartists , —As one cf your body , "—Rather a strange sentence for Mr . O'Brien to commence with ; and it contained also this sentence : — "I repeat , and pledge . ihyself to prove , that there is
not a particle of truth inycur account of the proceedings of the late Conference , so far as I am concerned , and very , very little truth so far ns others are concerned ; and that the whole is a base concoction of O Connor , yourself , and others , to discredit me with , the Chartist public . " Mr O Brien , who hated detraction and quarrelling , could write that sentence ; and yot he knew that the Star had -. merely .. - . copied- its account of the Sturge Conference from the Nonconformist and British Statesman . And , to conclude , Mr . O'B , had appeuded to his pamphlet the " description of a demagogue , " by Mr . Henry Vincent ; and that description was intended for a portrait of O'Connor I Yet this was tha Mr . O'Btien who could not become a member of the Natisnal CS&vter Association while there was so much detraction among its members . < He ( Mr , C . ) stood there unflinchingly to proclaim that the
once great , intelligent , and patriotic O'Brien , > vas no longer to be regarded as heretofore—tbat he had yielded to envy and jealousy , and now appeared as the insidious fbo of the Chatter ovganizitibn , and tho sly advocate of middle class schemers . He called on workiog men to say , by holding up their hands , whether they approved of a proposition he would now put to them— " That this meeting having listened to Mr . O 'Brien's reasons for not being a member tf the National Charter Association ; and , regarding those reasons us so many couohed and insidious attacks on the Charter Association , hereby declare that they have no longer any confidence in Mr . O'Brien . " Tha vast majority of the assembly , being workiea , threw up their hands in a . moment ; and , when O'Brien appeared again , ha wa 3 met / with hooting and derision ! Let any " New Mover" come to LeicesterJ ^ -tUfl Sbakspewwfl will teacb blra what is what
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TUNSTAM .. —Mr . W . S . Ellis , of Burslam , delivered two lectures in Tunstall Market-place , on Friday evenings , May 27 th mi June 3 rd ; to large and attentive gndiences . Sixteen members were enrolled . \ ' IiEAWINGTON . —We are acquiring a large accession of strength every day from the middle and trading classes , and many are with us in sentiment who do riot appear prominently as the champions of our holy cause . Moreover , we are resolved that Leamington shall presently take a vary high place in the list of Charter localities ; and , to effect this object , we have made arrangements for the delivery of lectures during the summer months , and have already engaged the services of Mr . Bairstow for two lectures , on the evenings , respectively , of Wednesday and Thursday in the next wt-ek . ¦ *
BIRMINGHAM . —State of the District . — ; The towns surrounding this former hotbed of political agitation are getting on gloriously . Meetings are being held in the colliery district in the neighbourhood of Dudley and StourbriUge , and new towns are being added to the glorious muster of the great National Charter Association every week . At Brierly Hill , Lye Waste , Sedgely , and a number ef other places , the people attend in thousaads to hear the Charter explained . Messrs . White , Mason , and Linney have been visiting those districts lately , and tbe good cause is progressing rapidly . It has bean determined to hold open air meetings in various parts of Birmingham , in order t 9 arouse the people , and a deputatien are tusi ' y engaged in trying to secure a large building for the accommodation of the members , the want of which has been felt to be a serioos loss to mre fcaiase in this
town . A now spirit seems to aminate :: the members , and those who Were formerly apathetic are now cpnnng forward with renewed yigtur . A conference of all the members i 3 'to-be held this evening ( Tuesday ) to draw up plnns and make arrangements for giving a fresh impetus to the cause , and there is every prospect of Bitminghani being brought into that position which is so essential to the success of our cause . Oven AirMeeting . —The usual meeting was held in the open air at the railway station , Duddeston-row , on \ tonday evening last , and the advantage of those assemblages are bow being felt and acknowledged ; for it is far more healthful and pleasant for men and . women to assemble in a field on a beautiful summer ' s evening , than being crowded in a room . The nieeting 3 have
fcepfe increasing every week , and on tne .-ta ' . occasion a goodly assemblage wore congregated to hear an . address from Mr . George White ; he has continued this practice since his return from the Convention , s'iid intends continuing it as long as-. ; the weather permits . Mr . White addressed the meeting on Monday evening , on the real cause of their poverty , and pointed out the mode by which all men might be made comfortable , had they the means of applying their labour to the resources which nature had provided for man ' s sustenance and comfort , and referred them to Mr . O'Connor ' s pamphlets on tho land , and its capabilities , as n . proof of his assertions- He described the villanons emigration system , and the modes which were devised in the British Colonies to keep working men the continual slaves of capitalists . He exposed the eiioruiou 3 robberies perpetrated in Birmingham , iu the shape of local rates , and held up the police Bystom to public odium , declaring that those vile , instruments of a corrupt
government , were employed more m the capacity of Bpies than preservers cf the peace , as a proof of which , he stated that two or three of them wera then in that meeting in disguise , and had orders to attend every Monduy evening . This caused a little excitement ..: . -Mr , White then explained the various plans-which were resorted to for thq purpose of dividing the men of Birmingham , and gave a report of the result of the deputation who waited on Mr . Douglas , of the Journali from which it appeared , that through lack of other matter to fill the columns of that pre-eminently htapid print , the Editor had recourse to the miserable plan of concocting badly-written and foolish letters , and publishing them in his " Catch Penny , " as the production of some supporter of Mi . O'Connor . After exhorting the working meflt to union and determination , he enrolled twenty-four persons as members of the National Charter Association , and gave notice that he would attend again on the following Monday evening .
Astonstrket Meettngs . —The usual meeting was held at the Chartiist ltdom , Aston-street , on Sunday evening last— -Mr . Staart in the chair . Mr . John Mason delivered a short and interesting address , in which he described the ill-usage he harl received from a stupid constable at Sedgely , while delivering a lecture there last week ; after which the tried vttoran , Mr . John Williamson , made his appearance after a severe iliuess , and delivered an animated address . Mr . George White then addressed tho meeting on tho necessity of each member exorting hnnsolf to extend the organization' in Birmingham ; after which the meeting separated . The directing council afterwards met at the Ship Inn , to arrange for the conference on Tuesday evening . Monday EVE . MNG .--After the open . iir meeting a
number of tho members of tho Association attended at Aston-street , for the . trasaition . of the usaal business Mr . Welsford was appointed chairman , and tho members proceeded to the nomination of persons to fill two vacancies in the council , and Messrs . WliUe , Bough , and Orme , wore placed in nomination . Short addresses were delivered by Mr . White , Mr . Peter Henl 6 y , and Mr . Sounders , and the chairman gave notice that all members of the Association would ba exnseted to vote for m 9 mber 3 to the Executive Committee , by the f iliowing Mondav . He then vead the list as published in the Northern Star of Saturday last , after which the meeting separated . CvifcNE . —At a numerous and respectable eamp
meeting , held on Sunday last , on the top of Pinna , iie : tr C : irlS <) n , tha following resolution \ vaa unanimously P'issed : — " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the present alarming and destitute condition of tho working classes of this country , calls alou « i for reneweii exertions on the part of every humase md benevolent mind ; and in order te disseminate information amonsjat the people , aiid creale that unauintity and firm resolution which is absolutaly necessary , this uaeuticg suggests mid recommends to the friends of the people , and more especially the raymbors of the various Ghivrtist Associations throughout the country , to hold camp meetings in their own localities every Sunday , when the weather will permit ''
GLASGOV 7 . —Tolcross . — A meeting was held in tbe Chartist bivll , on Saturday evening hist , Mr . Cielland in the chair , to hear addresses from Mr . Browu , of Bridge ton , and Con . Murray . -Mr . Browji—Subject—t " Luw cf Primogeniture and entail ; " the injustice and in humanity vf which he exposed in a clear and mas'terlr ' style . Cou . Murrfty—Sulgect— " Past history , pres-nt poyition , aad future proaparity of Chartism . " Tfac lecturer dwelt parfciculirly on the conduct , of what is termed the " new-move" men , and more especially on that of Mr . C . Pattison , as Tolcross and West Aiuir , ( tho latter containing 600 inhabitants , and whieh sent Mr . Pattiaon to . tho last Scoltish Convention ) lying coiitigious , was for many weeks previous to the meeting of the Scottish Convention , the field of bis < Mr . l . ' s ,
oyerntions , and his well-known uenunciatioria <> f F . O Connor and tiio Northern SUtr , was the uie ^ ns , for a time , of prejudicing the inhabitants of this important district Tolcross- —against the people ' s mott disinterested and best friend . Con went on to shew the inconsistency of th « " new-move '' gentry , or Glasgow synod , in reference to the question of the R ' . 'paal of the Legislative Uniun between Great Britain and Ireland , they , the " nawniove" men being the bhter opponents . of that measure , ^ iid contrasted this w ith tho mi *>; uiUetl followers of Daniel O'Counell , who ' . look upou KL-peal us Wing the only panacea for Ireknd's manifold -wronga . He proved to his audience , that the foundation stoDS of " v . ew rflovism" in Gla 3 gow , was neither moro nor less than a deta . imiiied enmity to O'Connor ; md tho Northern Star . He proved , to -. . then entire satisfaction , tn . a . t a union founded on such a basis , and supported by vituperation
and intrigue , would not bd of long sta ididg . The men of Tolcross thouijht so too , ; ind gsve expression to the Hflost enthusiaatic bursts cf applause in approval of the speaker ' s sentiments . He concluded by calling on tbe uieeting to go on , till such time as they were able to procure five or sixmillions of signatures to a . iS ' ational Petition ; when \ he had io doubt , if then njacted , something else , might form tb « nia'e rial ingredicjits of the next petition , ' The meeting , which was crowded , having expres&ed their hearty and unanimous thanks to tUe two gentlemen and their worthy chairman , quietly broke up . [ We give this report just aa we received . it . ; because particulaily requested to Uo w ; but we do wish that pur friends wbula find better eccupation for their time ; that they would lot tha ¦ " K- ^ . w iujve " alone in its littleness , and not bestow upon it unnocesaarv notoriety . — Ed 1
DSRBY . —A delegate infettng was held on Sunday , June 5 th , 1842 , at the Chnxtr } t Association Kooms , Willow-row , Derby . Prosent—from Derby , Fearn and Briggs ; Balper , Vickers anil Wheeldou ; OUibroke , Thomas Taylor ; Ilkiston , EUIb Lathbury ; Burton , Taornas Taylor ; Bowarath , William West . Letters were read from various places , stating thaaecessity of having a lecturer , and their willingness to do their best to supporthim . Mr , Vickers was appoiated chairman , and Mr . Thomss Briggs secretary to this meeting . It was determined that a lecturer be engaged for six weeks , nnd that Mr . West be requi'Sted to accept the post . The lecturer s salary was fixed at 30 a . per week , and hiai travelling expences .
New MiLiS . —A public lecture wa 3 delivered here on Monday , in the Uhartist Association . xooiii , by Mr . John Campbell , SecxetaTy ts the Executive , to a most numerous audience . ¦
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Ghartjisx Beverage . —The foilovc-mg . sums are due t (> the Executive irom tiie sale of Messrs . Crow and TyrrePs Chartist bevexage , tor the week ending June 4 th : —¦ ¦ ; ¦ -. ¦ ¦ ¦ r - " . -- '¦ . - ' . ; ¦ - £ 3 d . ' Mr . Higb , Chartist Provision Store , HawJek , Scotland ... ... I ) 6 0 Mr , Hey wood , Manchester , ... 0 --5 3 Mr . Biird . Boltoii ... ... ... 0 39 Mr . Giilespip , BoitonJe-Moor ... 0 3 9 Mr . Brook , Leeds ... ¦ -. 0 3 0 Mr , Yates , Stafiurdshire Potteries 0 3 0 Mr . Sweet » Nottingham ...... .. ... 0 1 6 Mr . Johuson , i : ioke , Siaffordshire 0 1 6 Mr . ThonjpsoD , Stockporti ... 0 1 0 Mr . Skevirigton , LouKhbro' ... 0 1 0 " CharterAssooiauou , Hull .., ... o 1 6 £ 1 12 . 3 .
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The "Imme 2 * 3 b Concebs" Manu . —It 13 a pro- ' vailing insanity among shopkeepers . of the preseqfc day to be at the head of an immense concorn , anp it is a malady which , in almost every case , finishes with a fatal result , not only to the individual wha is the immediate subject of the complaint , but to thos ^ Who may happen to be _ bitten in the interim . It generally sefz' 3 the proprietors of iineadraper ' s ehops , and , like the bito of the tarautula , Bet 3 ; them cutting the most extraordinary capers , in the course of which they start off with a most lively gatpp ^ &nd conclude with a pasY not of the most graceful kind , iivtheCourt of Baukruptcy . An " immenso concern generally begins in a single house , and the diseasa first developes itself in a stiong iiching to take the
next door , which , vvhea onca accomplished , is soon , folio wed by an eccentrici resolution-to add the words " and Co . " to the name of the proprietor . The next stage is an eruption of largo placards , conveying incoherent hints about " giving away , "" selling undor prime cost , " and otner un accountable acts of generosity , which the patient professes to practice ; while , by degrees , he &rows bolder in the tone of his tickets , and sundry commodities are placed under the public eye , inscribed with mysterious aliusion 3 . to " an alarming sacrifice . " The breaking out upon , the goods shortly flies to the windows themselves , whicii are soon covered with enormous posting-bills , in which the words " Extensive Failure " are extremely conspicueus ;¦ and there is a desperato effort to arrest attention , by thruj-ting goods almost into the street , with a printed invitation to the public to 'Look at this , " and a most uncaled-for allusion . to the ' - " di&tregs of the Smtalfield weavers . " . The
disease how becomes convulsive : enorcious piles of drug&ets are deposited outside tho shop , in bold defiance of the Paving Act , carpets dangle from the upper stories , blankets float in the air , and pieces of calico flutter in the brefz ^ , while straw bonnets are dashed recklessly iut . o the window , with aa intimation that there is a choice o !' 25 , 000 , all at a pries net even wort . ; . mentioning . - Biocks are dressed up in cloaks to look like custoraers ; dresses that have been lying in the waveroom since , last year , are labelled as ^ Q , ute hew , and jus * imported ;" Every ., thing is i marked at aii astoundingly moderate price ; but , by . some sirauge accident , there is not a ticket , but what has slipped from one thing to another , if any one wants to purchase the labelled article . After- these very active symptoms , the disease comes to its termination ; the '" immense concern " dies a natural death , and the _ proprietor amuses the public by a scries of confessions to the Commissioner of Bankrupts , or gratifies a spirit of
enterprise by " bolting "to America . Mortality at Hampstead—Disease in a most virulent form has made its appearance lately in a family at . Haverstdck-hill , Hampstead . The son of a . nurseryman at Hainp 3 tead was first visited by a medical man on the 18 ib " of May : he was labouring under symptoms denoting scarlet fever , and died on . the sama day . "The eldest daughter was next attacked , and on the return of the . party from the burial of tho eldest son , she was found dead , and two other children were in a dying condit ' on . Between Wednesday and Saturday , four members of this devoted fumily perished ; two were rertioyed to an hospitaland ano'lier daughter ( the wife of a
, publican at Woolwich ) , who had visited her sick relatives , was taken home ill . Situated nearly in front , arid within ten or twelve feet from the door of the cottage where this fearful mortality occurred . is a stagnant pool , whence water had been taken for the purpose of irrigating the nursery-ground , and tho highway tank communicating with this pool wa 3 furnished with a pump . The tank and pool appear to be supplied with water from the surface drainage of the road ; henco , after a heavy tall of rain , the filth from the road and houses on the higher ground has been washed into this reservoir . This nuisance has existed during 17 or 18 years ; and has frequently been complained of ; yet it still remains . —Sun .
Twelve Houses Cohsvued . —Bedford , - . Jc ' . ve 4 . ^ -Yesterday afterjioen a fire broke Out at Clapham , a romantic village , situate about two milea distant from tbis place , and burned . with suck fearful violence , that within two hours altar it commenced no fewer than twelve houses and other premises were levelled to the ground . It was discovered between two and three o ' clock in the a t ' . rnoon , raging oa the spaeious homes toad the property of Lord AshburtonjOccupied by a gentleman uamed . Grant , and is supposed to have originated near a ftack of straw in the rick yard ; adjoining ; two . / expansive ; barns , which ' . had ig'iited , and soon were burned to the ground ; - The flatne 3 were almost immediately after tlieii- outbreak observed by the inhabitanta at
Bedford , who , with great promptitude , proceeded with all possible haste to the scene of c ' evastation , and two powerful ' engines- ' connected with the town , but by the time they arrived the fire had gained an alaraing ascendancy , havicg extended over the entire farm / Soon afterwariis it was discovered that several houses in the village ^ upwards of half a mile distant , had caught fire , in consequence of soniibiirning material failing upon the rcpfe , when a B \ O 3 t . painful sight presented iUelf < in consequence of tho cbrifusioh amongst the occupiers ^ who chiefly consisted of poor labouring ¦ ' fa-mihaa . .. 'Wuhin a quarter of an hour after the . 'flames had communicated to four other houses , while a . t tha homestead
where it -originated . ; the farnviion ?!? , a fine oldfashioned substantial briick bu-ldiii ^ , fca ; i iali ^ n a sacrifice to the devouring element * Great appfotiensiona were now entertained for the safeiy of ¦ -. ' entire village , for Us destruction bourne imminent , five other houses having been attacked while the firemen and others ' were unroofing others in the hopes of checking its pro ^ resf . Fortiinst-ly additional engines and assistance at this moment anived ; w : en , after two hours' incessant exertions the fire was mastered , not until , however , the whole of Lord Asiiburton ' s homestead was destroyed , t ^ ether with twelve houses in the village . Tns amount of tho propcity destroyed is not yet ascertained .: We regret to say most part of it is uninsured .
Witchcraft . —An extraordinary instance of superstitious credulity and ennning knavery came under the attention ot" ths magistrates at Newtoa Abbot , on Tuesday . -A joung woman of Dcnbury , haying been taken ill , her friends gravely came to the opinion that she had been '' witched , " and took her to a man named Thomas , of Ttignmouth , bytrade a shotmaker , but . by professiou a " white witch , " or witch fender . This iuiooftor confirmed their fears , and insinuated that the mischief had been doae by a poor woman , their neighbour , afc Denbiiry . One of , tho lil . oaiis which he directed-to couiitevact the ovil , was to lako the girl into a " , field and ex&i-eise her violently il-r ivro hours by running rovmd if , takir , " caro to j ' . im . p' iie ' r a ; -d shake her ' about well at tha four-comer ' s . This tiio .. poor
creatures p' -rt ' ormed with such zeal that-in a few hours af ; er the girl died . Tho feeling v . ow arouf od in tho v ' illage against the pyor oUl wouian , falsely accused-, - was -. ' such that . she was--pbli < je'j . t . ovapply : to the raagistrittes - ' fpr protection . They ipsiicd a warrant for tiia immedi ^ tj " aypreh ; cpi >'< n of Thomas , ¦ w l ' -o was accordir . o ; iy brought before G . Garrow , E ; q ., and '— Monro Er : q ., on tho following day . Evuien . ee having been heard , with tho JVar : of the tr » -adn ) Ui befor 3 his eyes , b . cijig qucftinned with muoh tact by -Mr . Givrow , with th « -. coolest c ffrontery aelcnowJedged that ail iris protended charms were imposi lions— much to-the - ¦ . surprise , find vvq hepe to the edification of hi . * : former-. pativiits , sorce of ' whoni . were present , and clamourously do ; . Raiided restituiioirof money paid iu the purchase of them . The-ca . se ended in the man ' s dismissal . — Western
Times . Shocking Affair- —On Friday : meriting ; - , abc . ut halt' pas 6- nine o ' clock as Serjeant Fmjey ami Hay- ? ward , of -the G division of Polic * : , were pacing through . Clarejice-street , near the City-road , they were called into the house No . 3 > . > rh ' t ; re anatteinpt at murder and suicide had just been - . made- by a younpc , woman named ¦ Csrp ) i . ;» e Boys «' orth , but who had lodged there for a consider able tiaie in the Kama of Just , passing as the wife of a young man &f that name , a brass-founder , with whom fha cohabited They had a'fomate child about a yearauct nine mouths old , but Just , it appear ? * has another wife elssv / here , and was about to tske ilia infant to her , a : id to withdraw-. himself froiu its mo' her , - The unfonunata
woman in consequence determined on murdcv and suicide , which shq proceeded- to carry in . 'o ' -cifc-. ct by putting t ) 2 e child hit <> a pai .. of ' water . -. When tho cessation of the child ' s ttruggles . ' induced her to balievo it was dead , siie took the poor innocent , out of the pail , and laid it out on the bed which they occupied in the frcaat parlour , and thea , mounting upon the table , suspended herself by a sold from a nail in the room . The weight , hovre ? gr ,. when she threw herself ofi' sbo table , bruke dowa the pail , and she fell upon the iioor ; and she lhe ; i tock the cord and with it suspended herself ' a secead time , ia tha back kitehen , and had been hanging JbeVe some time , when ilis . Long , a lodge ? . hajvpoiiedto discover her . Mr . JXaok .-at sursep ' u , 'being sent for succeeded , after
a cousiJerable time , in restoriug . the unhappy c ' rcafa ' re to cohsciousness by bizeding and othermeans . Tbe attempt that she had made to drowa the infant had . in the meantime , been discovered . The poor child , although motionless when laid upou the bed , was not dead , and in a short time bc' « an to revive , and the surgeon fouiad it in strong cpnvuK sibns . The vret clothes betas taken off , and restora » tives applied , it , as well as the moiher , now appears likely to recover . Oa Saturday , the unforivihate womaxij who appeared to be in a dreadtul state of agitatign' and exhaustion , was examined before the
Alasystra't-fi" at Worsbip-street . On being asked by MivBroughiou ,. whether she had auy ? hipK to fay in answer to the charge of attemptinK * ^ destroy her child , she replied , that she had cot-:-. M . i . 'Breu ' ghtoa said the case on the part of Just Avas one . of hc-artless villauy , but as the charge against her ; had been , proved , he must commit her for trial . Tr . e pi-iso . ner fell back in viplent hysterics , and was taken out of Courti Just was then placed at th . e bj ^ on chaige of stealing two table spoons beloaginj ; to . his paramour , and was rcmandod until Wednesday . The prisoner in a reckless manner said , he wished tqi be traosporced , as be had . &e 8 no . cce before ;
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NOMINATIONS TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL . CABBINGT ) N , NEAR NOITIKGHAJI . Mr . Wm . Grundy , lace-maker . Mr . Richard Hankin , framework-knitter . Mr . Matthew Walker , labourer . Mr . George Upton , laoe-maker . Mr . Abraham Widowson , lace-maker . Mr . Benjamin Harvey , lace-maker , Union-street , sub-Treasurer . Mr . Samuel Daft , lace-maker . Factory-street , sub-Secretary . MEBTHYR XYDVIL .
Mr . Wm . Gould , grocer . Mr . David John , smith . Mr . Matthew John , do . Mr . Wm . Miles , miner . Mr . Wm . James , do . " ^ Mr . Evan Rees , do .. Mr . David Rees , do . Mr . John Bailis , confectioner . Mr . Henry Thom , cooper . Mr , David E'lis , weaver . Mr . Morgan Williams , do . Mr . John Thomas , Eub-Treasurer . Mr . David Daris , smith , sub-Secretary
STROUD . Mr . Samuel Nissow , New Town . Mr . Samuel Paul , New Town . Mr . Wm . Iud . New Town . Mr . Thomas Hampton , Norfolk-street , sub-Trea surer . Mr . Francis Moyer , Parliament-street , sub-Secre tary .
DUHHAM . Mr . Hugh Richmond , tailor , Claypath . Mr . Michael Coyne , uailor , Elvet . Mr . John Dreghom , carpet weaver , Crossgate . Mi . Robert Harrison , cordwainer , Millburngate . Mr . William Craig , cordwainer , Millburngate . Mr . John Mowbray , attorney ' s clerk , Framwell gate . Mr . John Bray , cooper , Framwellgate . Mr . Benjamin Hill , labourer , do ., sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Jones , tallow chandler , Claypath , sub Secretary .
BULWELL . Mr . William Morris , framework-knitter . Mr . William Green , ditto . Mr . James Cliff , ditto . Mr . James Handley , ditto . Mr . AbramGofF , ditto . Mr . William Hicken , ditto , sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Cliff , ditto , sub-Secretary , care of John Pearson , near to tho General Baptist Chapel , Bulwell .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 11, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct892/page/7/
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