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      Mbhicipai . Elecuos—Htoslbt Wabd . —A meeting of taeirargesses of this Ward was called bj pla-&r < 2 , to be held on Tuesday night , in the large room of tiis Exchange Ibq . At the time for holding the B « tiB £ the room was crowded to excess . Mr . Pybu s moved that Mr . Joshua Barnard , a stanch old Chartist , should take the Chair . This was carried on aaimoaslj , Thn Chairman then read the bill calling the meeting , fie then said that the burgesses ou ^ ht to be Tery careful as to whom they El ected as councillors ; for & very great addition of power had been Tested in the itnds of the Town Couneil by the passing of the New ImproTement : Act ; and eoncludsd by calling npon any person to nominate a Dereon to represent this Ward in the Town Council . ^ Xfrww » r » * T P . TVflTAV—aHTTVffT . TtT \ rV 4 TJT * — A mnni ^

      Hr . Thomas Beaumont then came forward and said it -was high time that working men took their affairs into their own hands . Tke Whigs bad acted a treacherous part towards the people . Ha alluded to a conversation he had with a middle-class man of thai place , wherein he said that the working classes were fools ; they did not use the power they possessed . If , said he , the working men united in supporting their own men , we the middle classes , would be quite powerless . Mr . Beaumont called upon them to unite in supporting the man he had to propose ; he believed him well qualified for the office of town councillor , and one that would confer a lasting benefit to the working mea of the borough if he was returned . He concluded by proposing Mr . Jo shua Hobson , as a fit and proper person to

      represent the burgesses of Hunslet , on the 1 st of November next , in the town council . Mr . George Pybus then mads a few observations on the necessity of su pporting , by heart and hand , the election of Mr . Hobson . He concluded by seconding the proposition . Mr . Baron supported it ; bis speech " was one unvarnished statement of facts , and appeared 10 have effect with the meeting . Tie Caairman then enquired if any other gentleman had any one to propose ! After waiting a few minutes , and no one offering to come forward , he put iie proposition to the meeting , when it was carried unanimously , not a single hand in opposition . It , was then announced that Mr . Hobson would address the men of HunBlet on Wednesday night , 28 th Sept . in the same room , and all were solicited to come .

      Thanks were then given to the Chairman , and the meeting separated . The men of Hunslet have begun well ; they have quite alarmed the Whigs and Tories . When the polling day comes we should hope they will not shew themselves fools any more , but come boldly forward and sn pport the man of their own choice ; they can carry him triumphantly if they work as they onght to do . Let them every day canvass the voters ; let them have everything ready before the day come 3 ; and let them be determined to win . Don ' t let any doubts trouble them ; they have every reason , from the meeting on Tuesday night , to indulge in the hope of certain triumph . They must now sacrifice a few

      hour 3 every day previous to the 1 st of November for the good canse . To the Burgesses in the other wards we would say go and do likewise ; they have a glorious example before them ; in many of the Wards there is every chance of carrying men of the people , if properly gone about . Let all be on the look out ; meetings for the nomination of candidates are now being held in most of the Wards . We hear of a rumour that the Whigs and Tories have agreed to unite and Bnpport Mr . James Thompson , Wopdhonse-hiH , an old Whig . The honour of driving the Whigs and Tories together will belong to the men of Hunslet .

      SUICIDE BY A SOLDIER . On Taesday afternoon , an inquest was held before John Blackburn , Esq ., at the house of Mr . J . W . Johnson , the Barrack Tavern , on view of the body of Joseph Bird , a private in the 17 th Lancers , now stationed at Leed 3 barracks , who committed suicide by blowing his brains out with a horse pistol , on Monday evening . The appearance of the remains was shocking in the extreme ; the charge of the pistol , ( and a very heavy one it must nave been > , having parsed from under the chin carrying away the left side of the face , disfiguring the right side , and entirely blowing to pieces the Ekull , scattering the brains in every direction . The Jury having viewed the body , which had been removed -to the dead honse at the barracks , the following evidence ¦ was heard : —

      Mr . Wm . Hall , quarter-maEter of the 17 th Lancers , deposed that the deceased had for five or six years been his servant ; be had been in the regiment about twentyore jears ; be last saw him alive about a qoarter past ten yesterday morning , anel had observed for the last few ¦ weeks , more particularly , symptoms of something like insanity ; fee had been given to drinking , and seldom ¦ we nt on parade without great appearance of ner-TouEness . The witness could not assign any cause for the deed ; he had been his servant , always paid his monthly bills , and with one exception had found nothing wrong . He considered frim an honest "">"

      -John Gough , sergeant schoolmaster in the 17 th Lancers , said that he saw the deceased about half-past ten o'clock on . Monday morning ; he went into the Quarter Master ' s store-room at that time , in consequence of bw "" g a report that the Quarter "Master himself had been shot ; the door he found locked ; and whilst trying to effect an entrance the deceased opened the doer ; there was much smoke , and deceased said he iad been firing his pistol through the window . The report was an unusual one ; the pistol had evidently been leaded with ball . The marks of two bails were afterwards found on the wall ot his room , and 3 ball which had been fired was found in the room . The

      ¦ witness had not observed any change in his manner , and always considered hi ™ of sound mind-Martha Eastwood , servant to Mr . Hall , the Quarter Master , who resides in Bnslingthorpe-lane , deposed that she saw the deceased abont half-past twelve on Monday ; she saw no more of him ; at half after three in the afternoon , she heard the report of a pistol ; she had heard several reports during the day and took no notice of it ; but about bix had occasion to go into a hay-loft on the premises , to fetch some wood , ¦ when she saw the deceased laid ; she gave information to other parties , and a boy went up ; had net observed any thing particular in hi * manner .

      Wm . Britton , son of a private in the regiment , deposed that he went into the hay-loft , where he found the deceased laid on the floor on s sack ; he was withoutcoat , waistcoat , and shoes ; he had a pistol in his right hand . He w » s quite dead . Thomas Spiers , policeman , was sent for , and found the deceased laid in the loft as described . He had the pistol , which had evidently been discharged , in his right hsnd , with his finger on the trigger . At his right side there was a rszar laid . His cap had been shot through , and there were portions of the skull in the cap . His brains were scattered about the room . Trcm the state of the room it appeared as if the deceased had been burning some papers . Martha Bird , the wife of the deceased , said she had not seen him alive since about els o ' clock yesterday morning ; he had been low-spirited for some time , particularly since the death of Mrs . Hall , the wife of thb quarter master , in whom he always said he had lost a good mistress .

      The Jury retired for a few minutes , and returned a "verdict that the deceased shot himself whilst labouring under temporary derangement . HUSSHHSF 122 X 03 . —Magisterial Law . —A poor man was heard to be rather noisy tbeing intoxicated ) in the presence of several officials during the ! ate excitement ; he was taken before the magistrates , who ordered him to pay fifteen shillingsa sum he could not pay , so was set at liberty , under the promise that he would pay . Failing to do so up to last Monday , he was placed in the stocks for the debt . If those who are so strennous for sobriety were treated in a similar manner when intoxicated , tbe rtocks would generally be engaged .

      SHEFFIELD . Chaege of Aesok . —On Tuesday week , John Harst , Abraham Cook , and " William Gil pin were brought up at the Town-hall , no suspicion of having set fire to Smith ' s wheel , ( a notice of the fire appeared in last week ' s Slur . ) The police deposed that they captured the prisoners in the neighbourhood of the wheel a few minutes before the discovery of the fire . On searching them , they found upon . Hurst , a wheelband and a small saw . On Cook was found a large key , and en Gilpin vras fonud a bunch of small keys-. The most material witness against the prisoners was George Howe , a fork grinder . Howe deposed that the band produced was his ; he spoke quite

      confidently to it by two defects . He left the band at the wheel on Monday . When the fire was extiiK guished , he went to the wheel and found that hi 3 bands and about five gross of forks that he had to j grind were gone . The prisoners were remanded . ! On Friday they were again brought up . The wit- i ness , George Howe was not forthcoming . After the i examination of several witnesses , the prisoners ] were again remanded . On Tuesday last , the pri-Eoners were again brought np . No additional ; evidence was p roduced , but the magistrates decided on committing them for trial on the eharge of arson , at the same time consenting to take I aU ; each of the defendants , himself in £ 80 , and two sureties of £ 40 each—requiring twenty-fonr hours' notice .

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      Skdgwtck . Powdeb Mills , sear Kem > al . —A serious explosion took place at these mills about a quarter before two o ' clock on the morning of Saturday last . No idea can be formed as to the occasion of the accident ; but , at the time mentioned , the watchman , who had just been bis round and found all right , had returned to the watch-house , which he had scarcely entered ere the first blow occurred , and sent in after him the door whish he bad closed the moment before . The extent of the damage done cannot be very accurately estimated until it has been

      repaired ; but four mills , with their contents , were destroyed ; and many widow 3 in the neighbouring cottages , with several panes in Sedgwirt . Honse , the residence of J . Wakefield , Esq ., one of the proprietors , were shattered . The grinding mills—in which the explosion occurred—are erected in pairs , one water-wheel turning two pairs of stones ; and the two pairs of mills blown up were separated by an interval of about twenty yards . Fortunately , do life was sacrificed , and no personal iajcry sustaiaed by any one . —Kendol Mercury .

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      THE PATRIOT COOPER . The spirit with which this indomitable patriot "bears up against a load of woes , " may be in some sort estimated by the following extract of a private letter to her , kindly furnished by Mrs . Cooper : — ' ¦ Stafford , Monday , Sept 19 th , 1842 . ? *?**«• " Well , I still look forward with a calm and intrepid hope , not that I shall get out of these toils unscathed , but that I shall be able , undauntedly , though with the modesty of a man , to speak the truth , and fear not ;' and then that I shall be able to meet and endure my sentence as becomes one who has so often displayed to assembled thousands tho high and holy example of Xatimer , and Raleigh , and Algernon Sydney , and all the worthies of Old England . I will hope the best , but meet the worst , as it becomes those to do who have embarked all their hopes and feus—who have thrown their whole being into the struggle for truth .

      "A fortnight from to-day , and the Judges enter Stafford for our trials ! How rapidly the time will pass away ! and then comes the effort . How exoltingly I shall go up to it ! I used to feel proud te go out on the Sunday evenings , to take my stand in Leicester Market Place , to deliver truth ; but how much more proudly tChM I proceed to this trial ! My heart will be the lightest in Court that day . It shall be a day in my life , depend on it . ' "

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      ^ THE MANCHESTER PACKER . TO THE EDITOB OF THE NOSTHEBN STAR . DEae . Sib ., —Having seen in your paper a resolution passed concerning me at Manchester , allow me , through yotiT means , to tell those gentlemen that I think it wculd have been the fairest way if they had sent me a line or two first , and then they could but publish me after . >!/ conduct , since I have stood forth in this cause , will bear the strictest scrutiny ; and I know when those delegates are better informed of my actions , they will come to an opposite conclusion . To enable them to do so , I Ehall feel much obliged to every locality where I have lectured to sen 4 their opinion of my conduct and abilities to Mr . Cartledge , 34 , Lomasstreet . Bank Top , Manchester , before the 16 th October , when , if I am at liberty until then , I shall meet ary one who c" bring the smallest charge against me , and let all that are strangers to me suspend their judgments until then ; and to my friends , let them examine my condoct and report accordingly .

      You are , no doubt , aware that 1 have been lecturing in London ; but perhaps you are not aware of one thing , that at every lecture I had the attendance of police spies in plain clothes , and sometimes men were sent in to disturb the meeting , and cause a breach of the peace ; but it was " no go . " I have now passed through Wakefield , where the authorities would not allow me to lecture in the open air , so we were obliged to go into a private house , where we h ad a very comfortable party . I proceeded on Tuesday to East Betford , Nottinghamshire , -where I found some thousands waiting my arrival , and the police called out , ready cut and dried ( or boned ) , to put me down . When I came up to the Corn Market , and was just beginning my lecture , Mr ,

      Foljambe , the mayor , came up to me , with some more of the " powers that be , " and the blues bringing up the rear , and te ld me I must not lecture on Chartism in that ' town . I told him I would go to the outside of the town ; but he said he was a county magistrate , and he would put a step to the meeting if held in the county anywhere within the reach of his power . I then aiked this doughty magistrate what reason he couia giTe for such tyrannical conduct . His reply was , « I do not ofaoeae to tell my reason- - I then announced By intention to lecture in a private honse , which was received with three hearty cheers : and when we got a very large room in a house belonging to one of the right sort it was filled to suffocation , and thousands bid to stand outside with the policemen , who walked

      sentry . I have to meet Mr . . ColliM , the » new-move" advocate , this evening , Wednesday , in Doncaster . I expect we shall not agree : and if he dont go the whole hog straight forward , he may expect little quarter from me and the Doncaster trumps . The Tories are drawing it rather tight ; but its all for the best Yours , for ever , Thomas Dic 5 I > 'S 0 S . East Bedford , Notts , Sept , 20 , 1842 ,

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      AMERICAN OPINION OF O'CONNOR AND TBE CHARTISTS . We extract the following article , expressive of public opinion in America , with regard to the Charter , from this Plebeian : — " No greater evidence of a great and powerful mind can be furnished to the world than an unshaken and firm adherence , amidst repudiation , reproach , and obloquy , to its principles . Their eventual and nltimate success and adoption is the sure and Invariable test of their truth and soundness , and the proadert triumph of "

      the wisdom whi ch devised them , and the indomitable perseverance which secured their practical adopt ion . Many instances are to be found in our political history , wherein the community , after having tot yean been misled by artful misrepresentations and rash conclusions , have been induced by the sober second thought to sift the true merits of a disputed question , to acknowledge their errors , and yield a cheerful , though late , sanction to measures and to men identified with their vital interests , and with the great cause of humanity .

      " And , perhaps , there is no stronger existing evidence of the truth of these observations , than the fact of the present agitation in England of the great and patriotic O'Connor . We see him undismayed amid the scorn and threats of his adversaries , still persevering in the glerions cause of liberty—still energetically maintaining his high position in the hearts of Englishmen . The day is not far distant when the Charter , the principles of which we , as good Republicans , cannot but commend , will become the great moving force of political action in our mother country . "

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      THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK . TO THE EDITOB OF THE MOBNING CHBONICLE . Sib , —I am requested by His Highness the Duke of Brunswick , to apprise you that the extract published by you in your paper of to-day , as if taken from the Lancaster Guardian , containing some statements in which his Highness is made mention of , ia wholly untrue and without foundation , and would seem to have resulted from some malignant purpose . The editor of the paper first publishing the statement complained of , exposes himself obviously to the suspicion of being aware of the falsehood thereof . I trust , therefore , you will see the expediency of publishing a denial in accordance with this intimation . His Highness has directed legal proceedings to be instituted against the promoters of the scandal .

      I am , sir , Your obedient servant , Baron Audlan , Equerry to his Highness . 38 , Bryanstone-square , Sept 20 , 1842 . [ We have copied the article above alluded to from the Lancaster Guardian , and did not receive the contradiction until too late to withdraw it , that portion of onr paper having been tome hours at press . We , however , give the above at the earliest moment—Ed . NS . 1

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      Cbow akd Tykbkll ' s Bevebage . —The proceed due to the Executive from the sale of Messrs Crow and Tyrrell ' s beverage , from the 3 rd to the 17 th of September : — s d . Mr . Joshua Hobson , Norther Star Office , Leeds Wholesale Agent for Yorkshire ... 16 6 Mr . Simeon , Bristol , and wholesale agent for the West of England 12 0 Mr . Haigb , Hawick 6 0 Mr . Jacob's , Bristol 3 9 Mr . Brook , Leeds 3 0

      Mr . White , Birmingham 3 0 Mr . Sweet , Nottingham 1 6 Mrs . Smith , do 1 6 Mr . Robinson , Derby 1 6 Mr . JohnsoD , do ... ... ... 1 6 Mr . Jones , Northampton 1 6 Mr . Roddis , Kettering 1 6 National Chartist Association , Hull 1 6 Mr . Cavill , Melton Mowbray 0 9 Mr . Barraclough , Nuneaton 0 9 Mr . Griffiths , Worcester 0 9 Mr . Dawson , Daventry ... 0 9 In cash from Mr . Cavill , Melton Mowbray ... 0 9 £ 2 18 6

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      SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEAVE . POLITICAL VICTIMS AND DEFENCE FUND . £ S . d . Previously acknowledged ... ... 5 3 2 Shoemakers , Star Coffee-house , Golden-lane 0 13 0 Teetotal Locality , Waterloo-road ... 0 1 3 Mr . Lawrence ... ... ... ... 0 2 6 Friends , per Mr . Smyth ... ... 0 1 2 Members of N . C . A ., Davenport ... 0 6 0 A few friends , Devenport , per Mr . T . Gin 0 3 0 Mr . Weadow ... ... ... ... 0 10 Friendfl , per Mr . W . M'Cormack ... 0 6 4 Chartists , Ship Inn , Steelhouse-lane , Birmingham ... ... ... ... 0 10 0 A few inhabitants of Battersea unconnected with Chartism but yet indignant at despotism ... ... ... 0 10 0 Female Chartists , Tower Hamlets 0 3 0

      T . B .... ... ... 0 0 6 John Willen ... ... ... ... 0 1 0 Friends , Elm-place , Fefcter-lane ... ... 0 1 0 Monday ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 An operative mason ... ... ... 0 1 0 Wife of ditto ... ... ... ... 0 0 6 Two children of ditto ... ... ... 0 0 6 Hucknell Torkard , Nottinghamshire ... 0 10 0 Flint Society of Cord wainers , Wolverhampton ... ... ... ... 0 10 0 Members of N . C . A ., Northwich ... 0 10 0 £ 9 15 5 g g » An order for 103 . has been received from Bttfield print works , near Rochdale ; will the party who got the post-office order send his name ?

      LONDON MEMOBIAL DEMONSTBAT 1 ON . £ s . d Ladies' shoemakers , Manchester , per Mr . Brew ... ... ... ... 0 5 0 g . white ' s defence . Friends , per Mr . Hunt ... ... ... 0 1 6

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      RECEIPTS OF THE EXECUTIVE FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPT . 20 th , 1842 . £ 3 d Bath 0 10 6 Newport , or Viatnor , Isle of Wight ... 0 3 0 Manchester Hammer men 0 1 11 Miles Platting 0 3 4 Ditto , Atkinson s Beverage 0 5 10 Oxford 0 11 7 London , Buck ' s Head 0 2 0 Boot-makers , Wilkins 0 2 0 Shoemakers , King and Queen ,

      Foley-street 0 5 0 _ Bloomsbury 0 2 0 Females , Marylebone 0 1 0 Star , Union-street ' 0 1 0 Wandsworth 0 10 Working Man ' s Hall , Shaw ... 0 6 0 Crucifix-laie 0 2 0 ~ City , Salmon ... 0 4 6 Kettering 0 8 4 Warrington 13 4 London , Stuff-hatters 0 2 0 J . Campbell , Secretary .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NOBTHEBN STAB . Sib , —I take the liberty to request you to give publicity to the two inclosed letters , accerding to the priority of dates , either in this or the next week ' s Star . They relate to , what I consider to be , an unjustifiable attack upon iny character , by a magistrate , while acting in his judicial capacity . By complying with the request you will greatly eblige , Youis truly , Peteb Bbown . Failsworth , Sept 19 , 1842 .

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      towards me to deter yoa from proving the Terity of your charges T Yon must have known , that justice to yourself , and to society , demanded that yon abonld do ft , particularly when called npon by the accused person . Have you the confidence to imagine , now that yon have been required to produce yonr evidence , and have shrank from doing bo , that people will not say that you could net prove the statement * yon made—that yoa uttered slanderous falsehoods . Why is my word not worth a farthing ? Havel deceived peopfe by pretending to what I am not ? Have I promised , in order to deceive 7 Have I made false statements ? Have I made serious assertions against the honour and probity of an indivldual , as you have dene , and , when urged by the " —^— 1

      person whom I have traduced , to produce proofs , have been silent ? Do I fear , think you , the whole of my past conduct being ripped np , Bcrutinised , and contrasted with your own ? What ! is it because I do not shrond myself with the mantle of religious hypocrisy ? Because I express my opinions on political sntijecto openly and candidly ? Because I am williBg to do justice to all ? Because I advocate the cause of the oppressed against their oppressors , the canse of truth against that of falsehood , that my word is " not worth a farthing" ? Ask the inhabitants of Failsworth and Newton Heath , npon whose integrity they would sooner rely , Jonathan Mellor ' a or mine ; and I have the confidence to think that I should have no reason to Dinah for the answer .

      Your conduct , in this matter , prompted , as it appeared to me to be , by a vindictive feeling , was highly culpable . It is exceedingly culpable for any one , however low hia station , to mate an assertion against another ' s honesty without proof . How much more , then , must it be for a Magistrate , while acting in his judicial capacity , to be guilty of such an offence ? You were not required to give your opinion relative to the rectitude of any one , nor were you surrounded by circumstances which could extenuate yoor language . I , and those with me , did not appear t 3 fore you on account of moral dereliction or for any infraction of the laws . AH that you had to do was , to consider whether our pleas against being sworn in as constables were such as you could legally admit or not , and to act accordingly .

      As you hare set an exampZe by making assertions against my character , it cannot surely be considered unreasonable if I follow it by making one against yours ; but I promise you , that I will not go the whole length of your precedent I will not , when called upon , hesitate te come forward to prove it It is that you acted very uncoarteously and unbecomingly at the Bull's Head , on the 15 th nit . Yon spoke as if you were speaking to slaves ; In short , your conduct , in my opinion , was more like that of a thoughtless , uneducated boor , than of a reflecting , intelligent , and urbane gentleman j and I Bhould not be doing my duty to society wera I , after publishing this letter , to remain passive —were I not to write to the Secretary of State for the Home Department , to acquaint him with the whole ufFair , and to request that he will call upon you , either to prove She truth of your words or acknowledge your culpability ; or , on the other hand , to erase your name from the list of magistrates . I am .

      Worshipful Sir , Yours , Peteb Bbown To Jonathan Mellor , Esq .. Oldham .

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      TO THE EDITOB OF THE NOBIHEBN STAR . Sib , —The authorities here are still doing duty in searching for all persons suspected of taking part in the late riots . The vigilance of the magistrates is in active operation in the different districts of the Potteries . Mr . Ellis was tried on Monday , the 12 th inst , and the Court House , NewcaBtle-under-Lyne , was crowded to hear his examination . After hearing' of the evidence , and the cress-examinations , whicli lasted five hours , he was committed for high treason . The Hall was adorned with a beautiful pieee of artillery inside . A county meeting of magistrates have decided on having a horse patrol for the County , and have already commenced their dntiea in the Potteries .

      Persecution for opinions has reared its hydra-headed influence to put down every honest , industrious , and sober-thinking man , who may happen to entertain opinions different from those of his employers , as the following facts will show : —Some members of the Chartist body have been found to read the Northern Star in their own houses , which has come to the knowledge of the masters . For this some of the poor men have been discharged by their Tory task masters An many as Beventy at a time have been discharged , suspected of being Chartists , before the time of their mutual agreements had transpired . These are the class who administer the laws , and are the first t * break all laws , moral and political . Will our local press take np this monstrous injustice ? No . It will still worship the god , Mammon , and allow the masses to be trampled on by its influence .

      Reehabite societies have been wholly dissolved by means of being threatened to be prosecuted as secret orders by the influential part of the community . I suppose this will be called the " suppression of vice . '' 1 must here claim , Mr . Editor , your indulgence for a little space ia your columns . The " Whig 1 ditor" of our local press , it appears , has felt the severe castigation of my letter of last week , headed , " Whig Conspiracy against Chartist Principles . " A whole column of Billingsgate hrs been lavished on me iu his last week ' s Mercury , such as " sneak , " &c , which I treat with contempt , but , for the satisfaction of every honest and true Chartist , I must here deny the foul lying of this " Liar of the North . "

      He says , in his last week ' s Mercury , that when at bis office " I Bald I belonged to a different lodge to that ef Messrs . Richards , Ellis , & Co . " I made no such statement ; these were my words , That every member of the Chartist body was responsible for his own acts , and not the body . " With regard to the resolution on the 16 th of August , passed on the Crown Back , I took the same views as the Northern Star on that subject , believing it would split up the cause , and consequently did not act any part in them . I spoke myself on that occasion in favour of the " People ' s Charter , " not cessation of labour . I left my fellow Chartists to please themselves ; but the Mercury says I did . He is a liar , and like the devil , the father of lies , from the beginning . He says I did not sanction Cooper ' s lectures . I said I did not attend them for the above reasons . Mr . Cooper neither moved , seconded , nor supported , any resolution .

      As for J . Richards , Ellis , & Co . being my companions , I acknowledge them all as genuine friends of freedom and pure Chartism ; not what the Mercury makes it , namely , riots , incendiariams , &c . I believe that my compeers are not yet guilty of such charges , and psrhaps , as in a late case with one of our Members , good counsel , and good evidence , which I believe can be had , will prove it . Then the "Liar of the North " will be chop-fallen . Let our friends not desert tho fallen , when the harpies of the law are stretching the law beyond its dne limits . Yours in the cause , : MOSES SIMPSON . Hanley , Sept 15 , 1842 .

      P . S . In the introductory remarks to EUis ' s examination , in the Mercury' of the 17 th . it ia stated that Wm . Ellis was Chairman for Mr . O'Connor ' s lecture , at Hanley , on May 21 st Such a- falsehood should not pass unnoticed at a time like the present The truth is , it was not Ellis , but another young man , a resident of Hanley , of very promising talent , and whose character is unstained by any immoral act . Ellis took no part whatever in the lecture . It is said , too , by the same Whig Editor , that Mr . Ellis said " M'Douall was a base fe . low . " I have received a comruunicatisn to say it is a foul lie . I have no doubt this ia done to stop Chartists from giving him their support , pecuniary or otherwise .

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      ARREST OF MB . JAMES MITCHELL , OF STOCKPORT . TO THE EDITOB OF T ^ E NOBTHEBN STAB . Sib , —Permit me to lay before our friends and the public , the particulars of my arrest at Churchtown , a village near Southport ; a c ?* e whioh has not only caused hundreds to sympathize ' .. with our cause , but one whioh has brought down the vengeance of the Liverpeol press—the Mercury for instance—upon the heads of the authorities of North Shields , for the brutal and inhuman conduct towards myself and Mr . . Gregeon , a gentleman in Churchtown , who for no other offence than merely allowing the use of hia Room for the delivery of a lecture , was- cast into prison , fined in the sum of £ 5 with thirteen shillings costs , and bound in the sum of £ 50 himself , and two sureties in the sum cf £ 25 each , to appear at the next Liverpool sessions , to answer the same charge . The particulars are as follow : — '' "' — ' ' ¦¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ "

      On the first instant I visited the place above-mentioned , and at the request of a number of the inhabitants I promised t » deliver two lectures on the state of the country ; and , being aware of the excited state of things , my object was to steer clear of all opposition , from the authorities and ess where ; I drew up the following notice : — . " The public are respectfully informed that Mr . Mitchell , of Stocfeport , will deliver two lectures , one this evening , and another to-morrow evening , on the present distressed state of the country . Mr . Mitchell will show the real cause of the distress which exiata amongst the great body of the middle and working classes , and will also show the only peaceable means by which permanent happiness can be restored to the millions . All classes are respectfully requested to attend . " .

      This notice I presented to Mr . Singleton , the police officer for that district , for hia approval or disapproval , and requested his attendance at the lecture . Mr . Singleton gave me his consent , end so far signiSed his approval of the proceedings that when a Mr Thompson , who had promised tho use of his room for the occasion , drew back hia agreement , he ( Mr . Singleton ) ' ordered the bellman to continue crying the Meeting , and stated that if a room conld not be obtained , the meeting must be held in the open air ; however Mr . Gregsou afterwardB kindly volunteered the use of the room , in which the lectures were delivered . Tbe first lecture was delivered , and a more peaceable and orderly meeting I never addressed in my life . Not a word of objection was raised from any quarter , not even by Mr . Singleton , who was present the whole of tnetlme .-

      On the second night , just before tbe lecture commenced , Mr . Gregson informed me that a policeman had ordered him to turn out the people and lock up the room . I asked why they had given him aach order , and he stated to me that he did not know , but that so long as the proceedings were legal and peaceable ho should allow the lecture to go on ; and I also stated that if the authorities had any objections to ray lecturing , or if during any part of my leoture they would request me to cease , that I would that instant break up the meeting . I commenced speaking , and continued for about an hour and a half , during whioh there were

      four or five police officers , and , I understand , a magistrate and an attorney present , no one offering a word of opposition to the meeting . But at this part of the business a Mr . Jarvis , sergeant of the police , requested me to dissolve the meeting , saying that he considered it illegal . I obeyed the order at once ; the meeting separated as peaceably as on the tint night , and I heard no more until the following morning , when I was arrested by Mr . Singleton and conveyed to the Southport lock-up , where I was confined until the next day , without knowing any thing of the charge that was to be preferred against me .

      Mr . Gregson was arrested also on the Sunday morning , and kept till Monday , when he was brought up and fined in the sum of £ 5 for merely lending his room ; but the magistrates finding , after three day ' s consideration , that they either did not know the law , or that they had stretched it too far , very kindly returned the £ 5 back again to Mr . Gregson , but still kept him under bail for his appearance at the sessions . I was brought up on the Monday , under a charge of using seditious language at an illegal meeting , but tho evidence of Mr . Singleton not being strong enough to convict , ( for hewas the only witness against me ) , I was remanded until the Thursday following , when I was again brought up , but such was tbe state of my health , in consequence of my treatment in the dungeon , of whioh I shall give you a description hj and by ,

      that I was not able to stand during my examination ; But the novelty of the thing ia here , Mr . EJitor ; on this day fresh evidence was brought against me . Another policeman was found who could say something in the matter ; and what do you think the subject of his evidenca was ? It was this . I told tbe meetiDg "that Lord John Russell , previous t > the passing of the Reform Bill , declared th * t no man had a right to obey a law that he bad hot a voice in making . " On this evidence , and that of Mr . Singleton , the policeman who ordered tbe bellman to cry the meeting , and who invited a number of his friends to attend the meeting , I was ordered by two magistrates , one of whom bad been at tbe lecture and listened to me an hour and a half before he knew the meeting was illegal , to find bail for my appearance , if called on , at the next Liverpool sessions .

      I will now just give you a description of the dungeon in which I wns confined . It is a cellar , the bottom of ¦ which is about six feet below the surface of the earth ; it is Bituated under a new house , in which Mr . Jones the sergeant of police , resides ; the eizs of it is about five yards by four and a half . The wall on one side is so damp on some occasions , that the water runs down to the bottom . On another side of the place is a form which serves for a bed and a seat at the same time , one half of it being wet with rain , which runs down the wall in rainy weather . ' There is no fire . no stove , no hot air of any description by which the place can be dried or heated . In another part of the place was a tub or bucket for the convenience of prisoners ; to this there was no covering ; and I'll leave you to judge what kind of smell must be continually under the nose of the inmate . This I had with me three days without being emptied at all .

      When I firsc entered the place I had to grope my way to the seat although it was nine o ' clock in the morning . The length and breadth of the hole through which the light is allowed to penetrate , is about nine inches by two and a half , over which is placed a grid of iron ; and taking off tbe thickness of iron of which the grid ia composed , it leaves about three inches by two of pur ? light From the morning of my arrest and confinement in this place , I was forbidden the privilege of writing , even to my family . I was not allowed to apply for legal advice ; I was not allowed to send for , hear from , or write to any person . My diet was one meal each twelve hours , and that of an inferior quality ; my bed was the wet form of which I have given a description ; my eoveringat night was an old potato sack , with an old coat for my pillow : there was part of a horse-rug , in which I sometimes wrapped my feet This was the whole of my store ; and in this state I was kept from Sunday morning till the Thursday following , without the consolation of a single friend being allowed to

      see me . On the Wednesday morning the keeper camo to see me ; and finding that I was shivering with cold , and almost speechless with the effects of confinement in such a place , allowed me to come out and sit by his kitchen fire , chaining me at the same time te the handle of hia oven door for safety . In an hour I was again placed in the dungeon , until four ia the afternoon , when 1 was obliged to betaken out a second time under Bimilar circumstances . - At half-past five I again retired to the regiens below , and at nine o ' clock I was again allowed to warm myself at the fire for one hour . On this occasion I begged hard for a g ill of warm beer at my own expance : I tkonebt it would wake me sleep a

      little in the night ; but it was no go . Prisoners were not allowed to have drink of an intoxicating nature . I asked if I was under the same regulations as the common felon ? " Yes , " was the answer , " there is no difference . " However , the next morning , it was seen that another day would have almost finished me , and finding that they had got a bad case in hand at the same time , they tried te raise my spirits by singing , " Cheer up your heart , my lad , and never bo daunted , " &o . &c . Tke kind magistrates pitied my case also , and allowed me to sit during my examination . Sir , I shall make no comment . I have given you the simple facts of the case , { shall leave you and the public to judge and make your own comments . Yours in the canfle until death . ¦

      % " . •"'¦ J . MITCHELL . [ The above statement Is one that should go to the heart of every working man , and , indeed , to the htart of all of every class who are not entirely dead to the calls of humanity and of justice . Mitchell has here told his own tale , and we feel that comment upon it is unnecessary , and only tend to weaken ita effect . We once more ask , where shall be the end of these things ? Mitchell was told that he was to fare the same as the common felon : and thus is all distinction between various classes of offence annihilated . Bnt ; Mitchell had committed no offence t he is clearly one of the victims of Sir James Graham's new doctrine of tho power of the police . Bat let the system work . It is coming to a clos »;; and the time is not distant when the renegade BaroBAt and his police spias will alike be consigned to oblivion by an indignant people . Mltcbell has been treated as a felon ; but we enter our solemn protest against even a felon being se treated . The hellhole at Southport is clearly unat fer any human being to occupy . J

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      The Tcrnoo t . —This promisea event is n » v ? being fulfilled . The spinners , whose notices expire this day , are ceasing labour as they comp lete their week's work . Four hundred spinners , affecting fire time 3 that number of other descriptions of hands , wiJ be onfc . The noticer of sixty-four other spinners will expire next Saturday . This will produce a frightful amount of distress in the borough , unless steps be taken to bring aboat an amicable settlement ot tae dispute ; and we sincerely hope that all the wellmeaning among both operatives and employers will do their utmost to bring about such a conclusion . Seventy-four spinners are workin g at theadvaucc demanded . . One concern conceded the advance yesterday , and two otheraareexpectcd to give it wniiout a strik . e .. -flotaw Free Press of Saturday ,

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      SAMUKL MUKD 1 N , THE CHARLMST PRISONER . At the close of the meeting , held at the Associations' Hall , Old Bailey , the case of Samael Mundin , the Chartist prisoner , was brought tinder the consideration of the Council , as one of the utmost and m < rcfc pressing necessity , involving the prospects and liberty of the man . [ It will be recollected that Mundin , who is a boot and shoemaker , was one of the individuals taken up by the police , rather more than three weeks baok , at the Chartisf meeting of the Marylebone district , held near the terminus of the Great Western Railway ; since when he has been incarcerated for want of the reouired bail ] ^^ — ¦ . , - " ^_

      Mr . Waddingtoa said that this was a case of the greatest hardship ; the unfortunate man , who wa 3 remarkable for his industry and good conduct , and who has a wife and two children dependent for their support on his exertions , was at that moment without the means of defence , and his trial was fixod to come on on Monday next . Ho ( Mr . Waddington ) had received a letter from , and sought an interview with him , on the subject of his defence , but was refused to see him . Ha had twenty-five witnesses to character , in the prisoner ' s case , and had ( as he was understood ) , offered bail in ¦ five instances for him , but the authorities had thrown every obstacle iu tho way , and refused tho bail tendered . There was no

      time to oe lost in getting up the poor man ' s defence ; council and attorney wera yet to be employed . Th © members of the Chartist body should "put their shoulders to the wheel , " for if this man should be lost for want of proper exertion , h would bo an eternal disgrace to the Chartist body . ( Hear , hear . ) The man ' s wife has been allowed to . see him once in prison j but she was poor , and unable to do anything to serve him . She was reduced , tvon , by the incarceration of her husband , and her consequent inability to pay her rent , to leave tho place where he carried on his business prior to his incarceration , — namely , Mnrket-streot , Edgware-road , and the blow which has come upon , him waa rtiin to him .

      Mr . Salmon said that a committee of delegates had been appointed to look after Mu ! idm ' seas 3 . Mr . Waddington—Then that oommittee has dona nothing ! ¦ Mr . Gardener , an operative , eaid he was present when Mundin was taken by ihe police , who knocked and pulled him ( Mundin ) . about in a most violent manlier ; and he ( Mr . Gardener ) knew , from experience , that tho authorities would do every thing in their power to convict the poor man if they could . Exertions should , therefore , be at once maae to get up his defence .

      Mr . Gardener ( who said that Mnndin ' s only offence was , that he sard— " 1 adjourn this meeting ! " ) then narrated that he was himself taken up on the occasion in question , and subjected to three weeks' imprisonment for no othor causa than having been present at the meeting j ( "Shamo ! " ) in addition to whioh , he had been Weated with the greatest indignity at the station house—stripped even to his boots and stockings , and searched by the police , ( renewed murmurs ) After some further disou-sion , it was moved by Mr . Overton , and seconded by Mr . Sumner , that Mundin ' s case be brought before the council of Delegates on Sunday ( to-morrow ); and Mr . Waddington pledged himself to get some subscriptions among his friends towards the expenses of the defence . ; The meeting then separated .

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      The infant son of William James and France 3 Constance Fox was last week christened , at the father ' s residence , North-street , Bethnal Green , by the name of Frederick Feargus Fox . Registered , on the lSih instant , in High-street , Marylebone , Emily O ' Connor , daughter of John and Maria Randal , of James-street , Manchester Square . Baptized in tho Christian Chartist Church , Innerleven , Fifeshire , on Sunday , the 4 ; h of September , by Mr . M'Innos , Chartist preacher , B'eargus O'Connor Paton , first-born of David and Margaret Paton , Windygates , Fife .

      Bapt > sed on the 18 th " of September , at the Catholic Chapel , Cobridge , by tho Rev . Mr . O'Higgin , Edwin Fiiar ^ us O'Connor Maddox , the Bon of Thomas and Aim Maddox , of Shelion .

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      «¦ DEATH OF MR . G . M . BARTLETT . TO THE EDITOE OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Southampton , Sept . 19 th , 1842 . Dear Sir , —I have just received a letter from Bath , which communicates the melancholy and afflicting intelligence of the death of my brother ( your reporter ) , Mr . G . il . Bartlett . The sorrowful event took place at his residence , 19 , Gloucester Road Buildings , Lower Swanswick , on Sunday morning , at one o ' clock . In him the csuae bag lost a valuable supporter , and his friends a social and agreeable companion , whose loss will be long lamented and deplored . I cannot but imagine him to be another on the list of the victims of

      Whiggery . He has frequently : said he never should recover the injuries he sustained bf hia confinement in Ilchester Gaol . His health has been gradually declining ever since ; and bis exertions , latterly , in attending public meetings have accelerated it He was most industrious in his application to hia duty ; unceasing in his exertions to improve his mind . Solely , by self culture , was be able ; not only to arrive at a knowledge of hia own language , so that he might write it correctly , but also to a sufficient knowledge of the French and Litin , as to be able to read and translate them with propriety ; and this fry perseverance alone , without the aid of a master .

      As regards his uprightness and integrity of hearthia love of principle , and his firm determination to stand or fan by the truth , nothing tan more Illustrate it , than his late exposition of sosas of his friends for their vadlating and sliding policy . In this 1 believe him to be upright , honest , and just . The love of principle nrgad him to do hia duty , and by loving principle , be hated and detested expediency . He was a kind and affectionate brother , a dutiful son to bis parent * , whose chief support he was . Incessantly he laboured for their welfare an » j happiness , and found great comfort and happiness himself by doing so . Not an idle boor has he sp- ^ nt for the last seven years of hte life , the whole of - which time has been entirely devoted to the cause 0 ^ ' democracy , for which he was ever an advocate . He lived and died in its faith—an honour to himself , an honomr to the cause , and an honour to mankini j Tbe insertion t ) f this , or a notice of the same from yourselt , wouf . be esteemed a favour , by bis Afflicted brother , 8 . Bartlett .

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      . DEATHS . On Sunday last ,. aged 27 years . Mr . George Morso Bartlett . He was distinguished for his inflexible and unvarying attachment to the people s cause ; for an enlightened benevolence of heart ; and for his zeal in extending democratic p rinciples , both , by tongue and pen- He was one of tne first who i . lantad Chasiism in the West . The series of letters

      which appeared in tbe Western Vtndtcalor were from bis pea . He . was one of tbo victims of Whijj persecutions in 1839 , and underwent nine months incarceration in Ilchester Gaol , in pursuance ot the sentence passed on . him by ^ order Jardine , at the Bain Quarter Sessions , Deo . 30 th ,, 1839 . Hia loss will be longaodstverely felt , and his memory cherished by those wbo knew him . Ou Saturday last ; at Bndlington , aged W , Mr . John Holiday , formerly a veterinary surgeon . On Friday last , aged 73 , Mrs . M £ e » . « " * ° { MrM'Leanof York shoemaker . She was one of

      . . , the oldest members of tbe Independent church assembling in Lendal chapel . \ e e »» . Same day , aged 41 , Mary , the beloved w . fo of Mr . Richard Barns , of Bolton . t ^^~ r m . On . Monday last , aged 9 years , Wf ^ rtt ^' ¦ Johu Holme , batcher , Norton , ne jV £ ^^ A ^ ¦ On Saturday , tbe 17 th inst ., SSKSSSSK S . Stapylton ) house , Biaabeih ^ rfgKgteS * t «? . § r \ Mr .-TomIin 6 < H » . « f Blakc-sSreeCi ^ . ^ . jf ' - ^ % \) yi K . ' . *¦ ¦;¦ ' • i"V-. r ., y £ l year ? , # Jfe ** r "?' r « C ^ * orton , neaW / yl w ^ AvJv i inst ., a £ K 4 | B i ^ beth 1 ^ $ ^ ' # t $ r \ &r \ c-s £ re eCW »» - ^/ r 2 W £ Z&c '

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      MAHRIAGES . On Tuesday , the 20 th inst ., at Burneston , by the Rev . R . Anderson , vicar , Mr . Newbould , of Golboarn Park , Lancashire , to Anne , the only child of Mr . Sleddle , Carthorpe , in this county . Same day , at High Harrogate . by tho Rev . James Charnock , Thomas Clifton WilkiVnn , K- ; q ., of Winierburne Hall , in Craven , to J'llia Jemima ,, second daughter of . tho Honourable Henry Butler , and niece of the Right-Honourable tho Earl or Kilkenny . ¦ _ ' . „ ., ;

      On Monday last , at St . Paul ' s church , Hcslmgton , by the Rev . Josiah Croi ' w . M . A .,. Mr . John Holborn . farmer and grazier , of Hcslington , to Mrs . Rachel Dyson , of the same plase , and formerly . of Scrayingham . On Friday last , at the parish church , Halitax , by the Rev . W . Smith , A . B ., Mr . Thomas Crossley , dyer , to Mrs . Elizabeth Farrar , both of Oveaden . On Thursday last , ' at the parish chu rch , Leeds , by tho Rev . Walter Farquhar Hook , DD , Francis Coverley , Esq ., of Burlingtoi * , to Miss Nicholson , of Chapel Ailerton . . ¦ , ,, Same day , at the parish ehurch , Halifax , by the Rov . W . Smith , A . B ., M ? . Thomas Robinson , of Deighton , near -HudderBSe .- - ? , farmer , to Mrs . Hannah Naylor , daughter » f Mr . Ruius banderland , farmer , Hipperholine .

      On Wednesday last , at Bradford , Mr . Georgo Wood , butcher , of Gri&Mand , to Miss Ehzibeih Sykes , daughter of Mn Joseph Syuesj clothier , of Huddersfield . . . _ , ,, ' On Monday last , at . ihe parish church , Bradford , Mr . John Parkinson , id Miss Elizibcth Cuswortn , both of Great Horton ' .

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      Failsworth , Sept 19 th , 18 * 2 . Wobshipful Sir , —Three weeks have passed over since I called upon you to come forward te prove of what heinous crimes , and grave immoralities , I am gailty , which cause my word , as you asserted , to be " not worth a farthing . " I told you , before the magistrates of Oldham , tbe day yen made that assertion , that I would caU upon you publicly to prove it ; as well as that " I acted in an Insulting aud unbecoming manner , at the Bull ' s Head , the preceding day , " consequently you have had ample" time and warning to produce the proofs . Why have you not done so ? Yeu have not surely aU . o ' wed any cqUqu of kininess

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      Failsworth , August 29 , 1842 . ¦

      WORSHIPFUL Sib ., —As the excitement consequent ou the turn-out has nearly subsided , you will now be at liberty , I hope , to forward your proofs for the assertions which you made against me at the Town ' s Hall , Oldham , on Taesday , the 16 th instant ; also to assign satisfactory reasons for the language you used in reference to me the preceding day , at the Ball ' s Head , FallsworUi . That you may have no rational plea for refusal , I am willing to meet you at Oldham , and to allow the gentlemen , before whom the allegations were made , to decide between as , provided I be permitted to have two friends present I have witten to tbe magistrates of Oldham npon the subject ( a copy of the letter I enclose to yon , ) and left to them and to you the appointment of the time of meeting , trusting that it will be before the expiration of a fortnight . I am , Worshipful Sir , Your obedient servant Peikk Brown . To Jonathan Mellsr , Esq ., Oldbam .

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      A few days ago . the wife of a workman residing in the Rue St . Victor was delivered of her 32 nd child , at the age of 58 years I—Paris paper . Natal Hero op Bumble Eawk . —Died here lately , Mr . George Gray , at the advanced age of « 2 years . For considerably upwards of ihirty years he held the situation of a tidewaiter in the Customs and a few years ago was superannuated , receiving a retiring pension for his long and faithful services . At an early period of life he served in the n v avy ' ?? f 0 Q 8 ht onder Admiral Hyde Parker , in the gallant action of that distinguished officer with the Dutch fleet under Admiral Z ^ ntman , off the Doggerbank , on the 5 ih of August , 1781 . He after-A — . . .. _ .. . _ _

      wards served in the grand fleet , under Lord Howe , when sent to the relief of the garrison of Gibraltar , in September , 1782 ; and in th 8 partial action which took place between the British fleet and tbe combined fleets or France and Spain , on the 20 th of Octobwfollowing , our hero ^ then on board the Gohah , ti , was disabled from farther service to his country in the line of bis profession , having lost an arm by one of the last shots which were fired . Although far from obtrusive , yet , when the subject of the action off the Doggerbank was introduced , be entered into it with . great spirit , and seemed to feel a pride in having shared in the glory of that memorable engagement , of which , it is believed , he was the last survivor . —Aberdeen Herald .

      EiHGRi . ? fTS in America . —We learn that within the last week from seven to eight hundred emigrants have arrived in this city , and that their sitnation is truly deplorable , friendless and without the means of sustaining themselves from abject suffering unless they can procure work . They could not have come to our shores at a more nnpropitious period ; whatever may have been their condition at home , it was superior to that they are forced into in a season like this ; it is criminal to delode emigrants to come to this country at the present time , and we trust the IriBh press will place before the people who may be about to emigrate , the true condition of those who arehere already ; without work or even the prospect of it , they must in a short time be reduced to the most melancholy Btraits to procure subsistance .

      Cannot something be done to relieve the friendless and lonely lot of those who are here in this situation ^ W , e think an effort should be made at all events , to direct aud council them in their forlorn condition , and if possible procure for them some means to protect them from the sufferings a stranger without money in a strange land , must feel . —Bos / on Pilot [ Our attention being called to the above extract , we cannot but give it a passing remark . From other sources we have learned that thousands of emigrants are in a most deplorable condition , at which we marvel not . The large towns areliterally crammed with those who have left their father-land in quest of an asylum from tyranny ' s fell dominion . These emigrants having had barely sufficient means to convey them across the Atlantic , are compelled to remain where they are set down , consequently there

      must be a redundancy of operatives and much distress . Emigrants must either carry their friend in their pocket , or endure privation , for they may rest assured that hospitality to strangers is as scarce a commodity in America as in any other part of the world . America has its aristocracy and its profitmongers , maugre its admirable constitution—the tares are there plentifnl and require eradicating ; and we think it more praise-worthy and patriotic in Englishmen to stay at home , and labour in reforming the abuses in our own country , rather than to self-expatriate themselves under the vain hope of meeting with a Whittington ' s fortune among strangerB . We therefore advise all to stay at home—to set their own hou » e in order by clearing away the rubbish which faction has heaped together , ^ always remembering that England has , within herself , the material to make all her sons comfortable and happy . —Ed . N . S . ]

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      HOW TO CATCH THB CHARTISTS . * We invite the attention of the Chronicle and the public to the following sample of Cotton Lord honesty : —On tbe 17 th of August , Mr . James Leach , of Manchester , the dread of the Cotton Lords , was arrested in bis own house under the folio wing circumstances : — A messenger came to his house , between ten and eleven o'clock , with an anonymous letter , purporting to come from the Secretary of a secret Association sitting at Oldham , and deliberating upon the best means of carrying the Charter , by destroying life and property . Mr . Leach was not at home when the messenger arrived , and Mrs . Leach saw him . Leach returned , when the letter was handed to him , aud instantly the- messenger began to stamp with his feet as loud as he could . " What ' s * the matter with you ? " inquired Mrs . Leech . " O , " said he , " my feet are so blistered from walking that I cant keep them quiet ! " " Hold , hold , " said

      Mrs . Leach , " you'll disturb the neighbours . If your feet are sore , I'll give you some linen to put to them . " Leach , in the meantime , was reading the letter , and having concluded , and shrewdly suspecting that it was a trap , he tore it in small pieces , tbe messenger still continuing his stamping most outrageously . On the sudden , Beawick the constable and man of all-work of the League , and the authorities , rusbed in , looked at the letter , shoved tbe assassin out of the room , apprehended Leach , put him into a coach , and drove him off to prison . Tke moment that Beswick had started , > i'Mullen , another of the police gang , rushed into the house , ran up stairs , and gathered up every fragment of the torn letter , tied it up with cord , aud took it away . Now there is a plain story , on which comment would be an insult to common sense , aud proves at once the means to which the League , tbe masters , the authorities , and their jack alls will resort , to establish their hellish dominion upon the rui&s of Chartism . —Evening Star .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR . 5 " ¦¦

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 24, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct906/page/5/