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      ( Continued from our Steth page . ) ? v- ™ and I am not tbe person against whom your J rirtaous iridignaiion should be directed . I shall dis-Knetw prove an alibi , and will show you that I conld ^ Ibtb been in the street when the witnesses s » id I ZL . ¦ and there ibi , you will observe , a good deal of Won ia their answers as to my identity . Yon will Member , Gentlemen , that I «< » stranger to this part of the country , and that it mustfeavebeen difficult it that hour of the night to swear to my identity . Gentoa , thsre is another source of prejudice which may enter your minds , arising fram the coasasnti of the press , in coupling my name vith these transactions . I can only speak m to what I saw in the Morning Cfcrwnc / e and I dont know whether yon would be liiely to be swsyed by these reaisrks or not , —I remember reading in the Morning Chronicle , two 6 ay » afser the 15 th Angnit , a

      lengthened leader , in which ray name occurs six or aeven time * , aad where I am called " the incendiary Cooper , " and that " these things had cot occurred until hs bad entered the Potteries . " Now ia the same paper , a week preriously , there ia an account of an outbreak at Barsltm Gentlemen , I trust the Learned Judge ¦» H 1 aiJow me to tell you the reasons of toe prejudice existirg against me in the mind of the proprietor of the Motmng . ChroDide . who represents Leicester . Poor and hiimfele as 1 am , I contended against him there as ¦ the Universal Suffrage candidate , and I happened , to have the show of hands against him . This was likely to create a sore in his mind . But this was ' rjofr all DstiEg the time I resided at Leicester , I havs endeavoured to give instruction to the Chartists , and have had fiTe hundred men present whom I hare been

      Instructing in reading and writing . 1 have lectured them on geography , history , phrenology , geology , f . nA ether sciences . I have end savoured ~ -to humanize and civilize them "; I never saw a gun , pike , or dagger among the Leicester Chartists . I never had arms of my own , and never let off a pistol in my life , nor do I thiiik I could do so . I have recommended Cb&rtkm until at one time there were from two to three thousand persons calling themselves Chartists . It began to . spread among the electors , who called -themselves Complete Soffrage men . The spreading . of those principles caused Sir John Easthope to give up the registration of electors , and ' abandon the idea of ever being returned for Leicester again . He never can be returned again , and he must get into the House for Tewkssbury , or some other small borough- He knows

      that the humble Chartist Cooper has done this , and the Henourable Baronet , with jurity on his lipi , while ipenoicg thousands in corrupting the electors of Leicester , bas for this called me an incendiary , and denounced me . I , therefore , Gentlemen , call on you to < qjKTmca from yeur minds all comments which you may have seen in the public papers with regard to me . I gftcn now , Gentlemen , narrate to you briefly the events of my humble life . I was feorn at Leicester , and my mother was in her windowhood when I had attained a very early sge . She retired to her native county , an 4 by the labour of her own hands supported me . I have known her , Gentlemen , to give me the list bit of bread she had that I mi 2 ' at no . starve . [ The prisoner here appeared to be much affected ] I have frequently known

      » hat It is to go without shoes , to -wear ragged clothing , snd sometimes to want bread . My constitution was enfeebled from illness , and this , probably not from any peculiar turn of mind , it was that induoed me to turn my attention to reading and drawing . My-mother encouraged me , and has frequently given me her hist penny to buy a sheet of paper , or a black lead pencil-I had also a strong attachment for music , and read everything that came before me . I was afterwards gent to learn the trade of a shoemaker , and worked at the last . I r « mained there till I was twenty-three years old , and during that time I read a memoir of Samuel Lee , professor of Hebrew in the Uaiveriity of Cambridge , by which I was animated to prosecute my studies with increased ardour . I commenced learning Latin and Greek , and mad « a resolntion-to commit to

      memory Milton ' s Paradise Lost , and the seven best plays of Shakspeare . Unfortunately , amongst my other reading , I happened to read the works of Paine , Voltaire , andBossemu , by which I became imbued-with deistical principles . My best friend , John Hangh , who is since de 3 d , gave me good books to read , which were of infinite service to me in re-establishing religious principles . Tke prisoner then proceed to detail , at loae " length , the course of his studies . He learned Latin , Greek , Hebrew , and French—studied the evidences of Christianity , and read Scott's and Byron ' s works . He never earned more than lOi . a week at his trade , and his poor mother died at the advanced age of seventy . After his working hours , during the winter , he pursued his studies , and read the works of ¦ Warbnrtan , Hooker , Bentley , and Bishop Hall , and

      became acquainted with some of the most gigantic minds the country had ever produced . He feared he was tiring them , but he wished to shew to the Jury that be had not tamed his mind at any tima to aeta of violence , and was not likely lo recommend such proceedings . He subsequently went to Gainsboreugh , after & severe Illness , and established a school , and bore testimony to the kind and Christian cenduct of the curate , who gave him many good books to read ; among others the life of Henry Martyn and Paley's Evidences , by which he was recovered from Deism , and had never since then doubted the great truths ot Christianity . He then went to Lincoln , and set up a Echool therej and became acquainted with one or two perons who proposed the establishment of a choral society , of which he was secretary for three years . He became enthusiastically

      devoted to the strains of Handel , Beethoven , and Mozart , and opened classes at the Mechanics' Institute of Lincoln , of which Lora Yafborough was patron . He subsequently furnished a report of seme lectures on chemistry to ths Stamford Ms ; airy , and became connected with that paper as Reporter , at a salary from £ 20 to £ 40 , £ 60 and ultimately £ 100 per annum . He then went to London , relying upon the promises of a literary Baronet connected with Lincoln , and remained there without employment seven weeks . He feared the litetary Baronet had told him a fearful falsehood . -After unff-rrrg many privations he obtained Borne employment from Mr . Lumley , the bookseller , of Chancery-lane , who employed him in making extracts from works in the British Museum . He also wrote occasionally for the magazines , but was badly , paid ,

      receiving some times only one sovereign when he had earned five pounds . He lived in that manner in London until all was spent , but then again hs was rescued unexpectedly . He got an offer of a situation as Editor of the Greenwich Mercury , at a salary of £ 3 a week . He had given notiee to leave that situation , Vhen a letter was sent to him stating that a reporter iraa wanting for the Leicester Mercury . He went there , having had an attachment for the place of his birth , and very naturally . He reported for that pipe ? until the month of February , 1 S 41 , from the previous ? Jovembsr . He then first heard a Chartist lecturer in bis capacity of a reporter . He approved of those principles , and wrote awhile in fsveur of them . Then firrt hs began to learn the circumstances and extreme poverty of the people , and observe ^ the great contrast between them and the people of the agricultural districts of Lincolnshire ; then he began to see the struggle between the people and their masters , the one ground down to the earth in Twvertr , asd suffering , and

      oppression , while the others built large factories and mills , and amassed large fortunes : it was that which strengthened his feelings in favour of the rights of the people . The prisoner then detailed some instances of extreme poverty and distress that had ccme toi his knowledge , and concluded &s follows : —My Lord , and Gentlemen of the Jury , I do not th > nk it necessary to occupy your time farther . I protest to . yon most Mlemnly that I was never cut of the George and Dragon till twelve o ' clock , or a little after it , that night ; and nt 3 y the thunders of heaven consume me at this moment , and that is a solemn oath , if I iras . I am innerent , se help me God , of being in the street , of having acy notion or intention of recommending acts of violence or of having seen spark , smoke , or flame that night , and I cannot help t ^' p'Tig , that when " the witnesses are prodnced to establish the alibi , men like yourselves cannot find me guilty upon both the counts of the indictment , although , perhaps , if you find me guilty of one , it is no more than I can expect .

      Mr . Lee here rose and said that the prisoner was under a mistake , supposing that he was indicted for a riot as "well as for the demolition of the hocse . The prisoner then proceeded—Gentlemen , any felonious intent I had not , and never entertained . I had no wicked intention- I had no malicious intention . I eould not have it . My whole life was opposed to S&ch ideas and intentions . I never recommended violence , —I could not do so . It so happens , however , that when men indiscreetly mix themselves up with these transactions , they do not feel the danger to which they are exposing themselves ; and sltnough I do not tell you that I shall cease to be a Chartist , I tell you that I *>>» M take care , if God Almighty , by bis providence , delivers me from this danger , and that I remain' in this country , which I loEg hope to do , I ? aball take care never to be found under circumstances

      Vfcere violence is enacted , or likely to take place . I have Eot wilfully or wickedly counselled violence ; and how then can I be said to have wickedly and felonioasly assisted at the riot , or advised the destruction of property . This I am told it the charge , and of this I am cot guilty . Gentlemen , I trust I shall have four verdict of sot guilty , because there is nothing to sh « w that I committed any riot or recommended it . Having Ea ! d this much , I shall leave myself in your bands , feeling assured that you . will act like honest tten , like conscientious men , like men of feeling t&d humanity ; and , although you may feel the fcuagttt indignation against the destroyer * of property , remember that I did not destroy , I am not *» person « ho incited them to destroy ; but , on fi » contrary , advised them not I now leave my-• eJfinyaur bands , and in the bands of his lordship , aad I thutifr you for your kind and patient

      atten-. The public maj form Borne judgment of the astounding effect of such an address . His acquittal proves it . His friends hope that he will be bailed to-morrow . Mr Muffin , from London , and I think Mr . Beasely , from Leicester , both wealthy gentlemen , are expected here to-morrow for that purpose . A great uproar and alarm were created last night , amengst the friends cf the Chutists sentenced to transportation , in consequence of a number of transports having been suddenly ordered down to the railway station to be conveyed to London . It was supposed by the friends of Air

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      Ellis , and the others , that they were the transports thus so suddenly ordered off . But , happily , inch was not the cue . The transports that wen conveyed to London last night were men sentenced st the last anises . ( From the limes ) LIVERPOOL . —THURSDAY . Otn . 13 . ( Before Lord Abinger . ) On the opening of the Court , The Attobsey-GeneraIi replied in the case of Dyson Townley , and others , indicted yesterday , for conspiracy to stop workmen from pursuing their lawful occupations , contending that the witnesses for the prosecution eould not be mistaken as to the identity of the prisoners . Lord Ablnger , in summing np , observed , that an attempt had been made to make out a case of alibi , but an alibi must be proved strictly and have no suspicion about it ; and he left it to the Jury to say whether they were satisfied with the evidenoe that had been produced . The Jury after retiring for a short time to consider their verdict , fonnd the whole of the prisoners Guilty , bat recommended James Taylor to meroy on account of the good character he had received .

      The A ttorjcky-General said , he was disposed to extend to James Taylor the utmost leniency , and would be satisfied with his own recognizances to appear when called upon to keep the peace . Lord Asikgeb said , the prisoners had been found guilty of a conspiracy . They had assembled with others in vast multitudes , in order to tarn out all workmen engaged in their lawful occupations . That the country should be exposed , even for a single dayto such unheard-of tyranny , was almost without example . They might feel some compassion for workmen who , on the invention of new machinery , endeavoured to take vengeance on what they supposed to be the cause of the less of their labonr . People might feel compassion for these persons , though , they acted undoubtedly , with great culpability ; but that workmen shonld conspire together , march through the country , and suspend all labour , was a thing altogether new ; and how any men of common understanding and feeling could lend themselves to such

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

      John Bell , A . Sheerer , George Grimsrtaw , E . Williams , A . Brand , WDliam Forest , John Tootal , Thomas Hodges , Edward Boardman , and Join Eccles , prisoners who had previously pleaded guilty , were placed at the bar . Lord Abingek said , the prisoners had been indicted for conspiracy and riot , and had pleaded guilty to the indictment . He was willing to accept that plea as a token of their contrition for the offence they had committed . Under these circumstances , and prompted by the suggestion of Her Majesty ' s Attorney-General , he had thought it his duty to examine the circumstances of these particular cases ,

      with a disposition on his part to make , as far as he could do se consistently with what was due to public justice and the peace of the country , some mitigation in the punishment of their offences . The sentence on the prisoners Tootal and Forest was , tha-t they be imprisonedfor nine months ia the House of Correction and at the expiration of that time that they enter into sureties to keep the peace for two years , themselves in £ I 00 and two sureties for £ 25 each . The sentence on the prisoners Sheerer , Bell , Hodges , Williams , Eccles ^ nd Grimshaw , was that they be imprisoned for six months , and enter into the like sureties , and continue in prison until the sureties were found .

      The Attobney- General here intimated that he would not pray for judgment on Brand and Boardman , if they entered into recognizances to appear for judgment when called upon . Lord Azinges said , the course taken on the part of the Crown was one of great leniency , and he trusted the prisoners would conduct themselves henceforth as good and peaceable subjects . Should they break the peace , or commit any offence like that for which they had been apprehended , they would be brought up and receive judgment on the present indictment . They would now be discharged on entering into recogninnce 3 of £ 100 , and two sureties of £ 25 each , to appear for judgment when called on . Thomas Holt , aged 35 , was charged with conspiring to stop the working of mills in the parish of Rochdale , on the 18 in of August .

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

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

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

      neighbourhood of Stalybridge . A witness of the name of Jamieson , a tailor , carrying on business at Stalybridge , would prove that he had his men turned out , but , being desirous of having some men to make up & suit of mourning , he applied to the committee of public safety , which dispensed these indulgences and permitted , under special circumstances , that the dictates of the mob might be violated fox a short time ; allowing persons , under the authority of a written warrant , to pursue their lawful callings fcr a limited time . The certificate granted in the present case had been either lost or destroyed , * bat he should be able to prove that it was to this effect : — " ¦ August 11—This is to certify that Peter Jamieson ' s men shall have liberty to make some clothes for mourning . The Operative Committee , " After

      granting this certificate there arose , it appears some suspicion , that under the pretext of making clothes for mourning , Jamieson was carrying on his regular business , and several persons came to his shop and wanted to see what he was doing . Jamieson resisted , stating he had the authority of tho Operative Committee to work . They said that was nothing to them ; and as he would not permit his premises to be searched in order that it might be ascertained wkeiher he was making mourning or not , a mob came again about noon and insisted on seeing that he acted in obedience to his licence , and only made mourning clothes . He ( the Attorney-General ) confessed that he did not think open violence so alarming as tub species of order and arrangement , this affectation of the rales of regular wuhority in granting dispensations . He considered it far more dangerous than mere tumult , which did its mischief , passed away , and subsided . There was evidenoe that a person of the name of of Ward bad been engaged in of

      riotous assemblies , and wasa party to thegranting these licences . It was very difficult to conceive that an offence of this sort fell much short of the highest crime which the law knew , aad undoubtedly the exercise of authority , coupled with any act of violence at the time , would scarcely have left aay choice tothelaw officers of the Crown u to the character of the offence they must have presented to the Grand Evidence was given of the fact of the prisoner being concerned in a riotous assembly , ia the county of Chester . Peter Jamieson deposed—He firet saw the prisoner on the 9 th of August . He came with fortj or Bixty persons , who wanted to know whether witness a men were at work , and wanted to have them out . WitaeBa reasoned wUh the mob , and they went away . They came again on the morning of the 10 th of Angnst . The prisoner was with them ; and with seven or eight persons entered witness ' s shop and wanted to have the men oat . They said they wonld not allow witness ' s men or any men to work until the Charter became the law of the land . Witness turned

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      his men out for fear . His men were satisfied with weir wages , and eould earn from 20 s . to 24 s . a-week . Witness ' s bouse was in Cheater . Witness remembered getting a certificate to allow him to work . The prisoner had nothing to do with that : it was another Ward . The Actobkbt-Genebai . here said that , ia consequence of what had just fallen from the witness , he could carry the case no further . Lord Abibgee directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner , as neither offence with whioh he was oh&rf-ed could not be sustained , all the rioting having occurred in the county of Chester . There was another indictment against the prisoner for a similar offence , which could not be sustained , and the prisoner was Acquitted .

      Several other prisoners pleaded guilty , and were ordered to enter into recognizances to appear for judgement when called on . When all the cases in this court had been disposed of , Lord Abingeb , addressing the common Jury , Baid he was nappy to inform them that they were now discharged . He expressed himself satisfied with the patient attention they had given to the several cases , and concurred in the propriety of all their verdiets . It must have gires them great pain to witness the delusion which had prevailed among some of the industrious classes ; aud he could not conclude without sfjiafij that , though the Crown was under the necessity , for the Bake of the public safety , of bringing the unfortunate offenders to justioe , the prosecutions had been conducted with as much lenienoy and forbearance as possible , consistent with public justice .

      CROWN COURT . ( Before Baron Alder son . J Twenty or thirty prisoners , previously convicted of riot , conspiracy , and attending unlawfnl meetings , were this day put forward to receive sentence . Mr . Baron Alderson , In passing sentence on them , said , you have all been convicted , on very clear evidence , of having been engaged in riotous attacks upon property in the town of Manchester ; and undoubtedly tbo offence which you , and others like you , have been guilty of , is one of a very serious nature , involving consequences of the greatest possible alarm towards those who are possessed of property , but involving much more serious consequences as regards those who are not possessed of any property &ave that of labour . These things were not for the first time heard of in the world ,

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

      the effect ? Read , mark , learn , and inwardly digest ! The working classes in 1831 at Lyons , resolved upon a general turn-out , in order to obtain a uniform scale of prices for their labour , and before three years ware passed the ! r Ci tariff 1 proved to have been less than the improved state of trade enabled the masters to offer ; but it was hardly promulgated , when the leading houses in Lyons finding it impossible to pay the prices , came to a resolution to stop their work , —the consequence was , that thousands of looms were left without employment . What then follows . ' Bitterness , anger , strife , resentment , and insurrection , in the year 1834 ! Those who had begun this state of things by the Buccsssful tariff of the workmen in 1831 , ended it in open insurrection in the streets of Lyons , in which the authorities were put to flight : the Prefect ( who held a similar office to the

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

      weapons of reason and authority , as well as by the terrors and severity of punishment , we may endeavour to suppress those crimes of which yon Btand convicted on the present occasion . His Lordship here proceeded to comment npon the enormity of the several offences of ¦ which the prisoners bad been found guilty , sentencing William Lee and James Sheridan for an attack on the police station , the former to fifteen months imprisonment aud hard labour , and the latter to twelve months ; and the latter having been found guilty upon another indictment was sentenced to an extra six months' imprisonment . George Turner and Joseph Shaw for turning out workpeople , received nine months each and hard labour . Richard Stocey , John Abbott , John Smith , and John Sutcliffe , were also sentenced to nine months imprisonment and hard labour ; and Hill , Gillibrand , Walker , and Johnson , were sentenced to fifteen months and hard labour .

      SENTENCE ON THE SECRETARY OF THE DTEBS ' UNION . John Tear , the Secretary to the Dressers' and Dyers Union cf Manchester , was next brought up , and his Lobdship , addressing him , said—As to you , John Teat , I have reserved your sentenoe to the last , because yours was incomparably ths worst case of the whole . You have been convicted twice for having led on a mob , and yen did not diminish your offence by the nature of the defence you set up , because , though I am willing to believe your witnesses may have mistaken the day , and given their evidence under the impression that they were speaking of the right day , yet I cannot acquit you of a design to deceive the Court . But it is to the nature of your defence that I desire to look more particularly . You were the Secretary for a Trades' Union , a body congregated for a particular purpose , and in that capacity yon purpose to regulate the business of trade .

      Yon published a placard which pretends to speak ot " Peace , law , and order . " I Bay " pretends , " because , looking at the time at which it was published , as well as the circumstances , it is childish to suppose that those who pretended to wish others te keep the peace were animated by any other motive than that of rank hypocrisy . Why do you begin with saying " Union is strength , " at a time when the people were using their strength for the destruction of the property around them ? Why begin to tell them of their strength at such a time ? Can any man deny that it was to induce them not to be afraid ? To publish tach a placard at such a time shews tbat you did it ia wickedness , and under the contemptible mock of hypocrisy . You cannot Qeceive the world by such tricks as these . Neither the people to whom you addressed the placard nor the persons to whom it came can for a menient be deceived , neither did you intend that they should be .

      The Learned Judge , after these observations , sentenced the prisoner to two years' imprisonment and hard labour , and at the expiration of the term of his imprisonment , to find two sureties in £ 59 each , to keep the peace for two years , and himself in £ 100 . His Lobdship next sentenced Morris Burns to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months ; Lynch , Scott , Berks , the two Kearnans , and Fitch , to imprisonment and hard labour for twelve months ; and Campbell and Collins to imprisonment and hard labour for six months , for being concerned in riotous proceedings at Granby-row , Manchester . He

      sentenced James Matler , convicted of having been con * oerned in a riot at Hindley , to twelve months'imprisonment and hard labour ; and Tootle and Birch , the former to four and the latter to six calendar months ' imprisonment and hard labour , for having been concerned in a riot at Entwisle . He concluded by expressing a hope that all the prisoners would remember that the law was strong , that good sense must ultimately prevail , and that the things they were endeavouring to do eould be productive of no good , and must be productive of the greatest possible evil to every one , and especially to themselves .

      John Hunt , Thomas Wild , and Robert Whitsheaa , pleaded " Guilty" to a charge of conspiracy and riot at Manchester , and ¦ were discharged on their entering into their own recognizances to keep the peace . Richard Hardman pleaded Guilty to a charge of riot and conspiracy at Rochdale , and was discharged on entering into bis-own recognizances . James Hardaber , Themas Bottomley , Alfred Butterworth , David Minns , Abel Duke , and Henry Hindl ey , also pleaded Guilty to charges of riot and conspiracy , and were discharged on entering into their own recogaikances . James Jones , William Bell , Ambrose Hunt , and Samuel Yardley pleaded Guilty to a charge of riot and conspiracy , and were ordered to be imprisoned at Kirkdale for six calendar months , and at the expiration of that time to enter into their own reoognitinces in £ 100 , aad two suret es in £ 25 each , to be of the peace and good behaviour for two years .

      This being the last of the cases for trial before Baron Aldenon , his Lordship discharged the Jury , and left the Conrt at twelve o ' clock .

      MAGISTRATES' ROOM . ( Btfor * Mr . Justice CnsswelL ) Joseph Httehens , Joseph MiHa , Ralph Wolfenden , and Jehn Wright , were indicted for a riot and conspiracy at a place called High Crompton , near Oldham . The Jury found the prisoners guilty , but in consequence of the previous good character of Wolfenden and "Wri ght , they were allowed to enter into recognisances to appear when called on . Kitchen was severely admonished by bis Lerdship , who observed , that it was in consequence of individuals of a meddling and turbslent disposition , each as the prisoner , that

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      such disastrouB conssquenoes ensued as had taken plaoe doringrtbe late riots ; and he should Jbetray , his duty to the public if he passed his offence war , lightly ; aud as , i ? ? ^ L MULl ' had « hown himself jto be a willing tool in the hands of designing men ; Toe sentence was , that both prisoners should be Imprisoned twelve months , and that Hltohena be bound over to keep the peace for two years after the termination of bu imprisonment . .. " ¦¦¦ . .- ¦ .... ¦ ... ¦ ¦ John Marcroft was Indicted for being present at a riot at Butterworth ' s mill , in Spotland , on thel 8 fch of August last . Jt appeared the prisoner , together with a number of other persons , went to the mill in question to get the hands turned out , but the employers at the mill , from previous Information which they had received , stopped their works . The mob , however , insisted on being admitted . Marcroft was at the place , and appeared to be exciting the rioters , and was heard to call out— "Break open the gates . " He was soon afterwards apprehended .

      The Jury immediately found the prisoner guilty , and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment . Isaac Hoyle . William Booth , Thomas Ogden , John Chiaenuall , and John Wolatencrcft , were charged with unlawfully conspiring together to impede , by threats and intimidation , the carrying oa of the trade and aiznafactutea ot the country . ChUenball and Wolstencroft pleaded guilty , and the rest not guilty . Mr . WoRSLEr conducted the prosecution , and Mr . Matthews tUo defence . Mr . Worxley aaid , the three prisoners were Indicted for conspiring together , with other persons , one of whom was indicted for a mere seriouB offence—for conspiring together to effect some purpose of their own , either for proeuring the Charter , or aome other alteration in the la * a of the country , and preventing others from following their lawful employment Evidence haying been called for the prosecution ,

      Mr . Matthews addressed the jury for the prisoners , contending that the great object which the parties had in view in the present case was not to prevent the people from working , but the obtaining the Charter . It may have been a good or a bad measure—that had nothing whatever to do with it—that was not the question which they had to try . The only question for them to consider was , whether the object which the prisoners had in view waa the turning out of the hands . His Lordship summed up the evidence , and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty .

      The Learned Judge , addressing the prisoners , said , they had been found guilty of a most dangerous conspiracy , and whether they had intended to involve themselves in one of a still wore dangerous description it was not for him to say . There could not be anything in the ordinary scale of offincea so disastrous to the community as the one of which they had been found guilty , as they , had been the means of cansing many honest , industrious , and striving men to quit their occupations , as well as inducing them to give their savings to the advancement of their illegal designs . He hoped the ignorant people whom they had succeeded in deluding would take warning by the example which the prisoners had afforded them . The sentence was , tbat they be imprisoned for eighteen months , and at the expiration of that time enter into sureties , themselves in £ 25 , and two other in £ 50 each , to keep the peace for two years after the term of their imprisonment bad expired .

      Chisenhall and Wolstencroft were allowed to enter into recognizmces to appear when called upon . Thomas Aahcroft , lhoraas Marshall , and Joseph Fletcher , charged with riot and conspiracy at Aahtonunder-Lyne , were then brought up , and his Lordship having examined a witness as to their character , and being of opinion tbat they fead not been volunteers originally in the unlawful assembly , with which they had been charged , sentenced them to six months' imprisonment and bard labour . His Lordship then thanked the jury for their attendance , and hoped they would not have to meet again on a similar occasion . The court then broke up at three o ' clock . The above cases concluded the business of the special commission , the interest of which was very much diminished in consequence of the postponement of the trials of O'Connor and the other leaders , who have traversed .

      RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL COMHISSION . THE SENTENGES . Fifteen Years' Transportation . —Ed . Walsh , Patrick Mooney , Patrick Feons , Thom&s Tinan , John Calvert Seven YeAfis Transportation—Rowland Davies , William . Cash , Jeremiah M'Cormick , William Reed , John Platt , Edward Knowles . Eighteen Months' Imprisonment . —Jas . Sheiidan , Morris Burns , James Ashley , Isaac Hoyle , Win . Booth , Thomas Ogden . Fifteen Months * Imprisonment . —William Lee

      One Year ' s Imprisonment . —James Kelly , James Dolan , John Manley , George Edge , another James Dolan , John MCann , Giles Peter Hardman , James Hardman , James Gorton , William Hill , Joseph Gillibrand , William Walker , Frederick Johnson , James Mather , John Hickey , Hugh Cavannab , Matthew Dalton , James Tweedale , George Thornton , Joseph Webb , James Melbourne , Jehn Cannon , Joseph Harrington , George Hunter , Joseph Mills , Joseph Hitchen , Abel Matley , John Ingham , Thomas Morris , John Ha ^ ne , John Leyland , Thomas Ashcroft , Thomas Marshall , Joseph Fletcher , Joseph Bowers , James Harrison , Richard Sterndaie , Joseph Andrews , Robert Allen , Joseph Thomas , John Oldham , John Edwards , Ed * ward Hall , James Richardson , Michael Clarke , John Lever , John Holmes , John Hoyle , Robert Taylor , William Marsland , John Travis , Rowland Beatley , William Gartside , Robert Warburton , Michael Lynch , Thomas Scott , Job Barks , Bryan Kearnan , Francis Kearaan , John Fitch , Thomas Dyson , David Taylor , James Smith .

      Ten Months' Imprisonment . —Thomas Townley . Nine Months * Imprisonment . —George Turner , Joseph Shaw , Richard Stacey . John Abbott , John Smith , John Sutolifffc , Samuel Sigley , William Harrett , John Tootal , William Forrest Six Months' Imprisonment . —Thomas Ashcroft , Thomas Marshall , Joseph Fletcher , Aaron Thorpe , James Robinson , James Jones , William Bell , Ambrose Hnnt , Samuel Yardley , Richard Warwick , Patrick O'Brien , James Hayley , Joseph Webb , Thomas Whitehead , John Stones , John Fallon , El ward Mitchell , Barry Collins , John Campbell , John Collins , Jabtz Birch , Andrew Shearer , Jsbn Bell , Thomas Hodges , Edward Williams , John Marcroft , John Eccles , Quo . Grimshaw . Four Months . —William Tootal . Three Months' Imprisonment . —Wm . Hughes , James Saxton , John Clegg , Joseph Turner , Thomas Clegg .

      Acquitted . —Jane Carney , James Dunn , John Dobson , William Kiirmou ^ h , John Crowther , Thomas Jones , Joseph Levens , John Rylands , John Barden , William Walmsley , Richard Warwick , John Ward . DISCHARGED UPON RECOGNIZANCES . —Ralph Wolfenden , John Chisenhall , John Wolstencroft , John Wright , Israel Crook , John Galvln , John Hunt , Thos . Wild , Robert Whitehead , Richard Hardman , James Hardaker , Thomas Bottomley , Alfred Butterwoith , David Morris , Abel Dike , Henry Hinde , Charles Turner , Alexander Hutchinson , Patrick Agnew , Joseph Bailey , William Collins , James Pitfleld , Alexander Brair , Leonard Boardman , James Taj lor , John Brierley , Robert Foden . Thomas Chatham .

      TRAVERSED TO THE NEXT ASSIZES . —FeargUS O'Connor , the Rev . James Scaolefield , the Rev . Mr . Hill , Bernard Macartney , James Leach , Christopher Doyle , John Campbell , Richard Otley , George Julian Harney , Robert Brook , John Thornton , Thomas Brown Smith , John AlliDson , Samuel Parke , Thomas Rallten , William Scholefleld , ( son of the Rev . J . Scholefieldj Richard Pilling , John Durham , James Fenton , Wm . Stephenson , John Crc ' ssley , Albert Woolverden , George Inman , Thomas Storer , William Woodruff , Thomas Pitt , Frederick Augustus Taylor , John Massey , and John Wilde .

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      TALV . S WRITTEN , EXPRESSLY FOR THE ?' NORTHERN STAR . " by ' chartius . no . m . THE EMIGRANTS . —Part ii . Time m when Richard Rabinson rose early and worked cheer folly , in the assured hope of receiving the pleasure that & orings from profit ; now he slept to avoid the bnrthen ot the day . His wife ' s good cheer waa wont to refresh X * ua spirits ; bnt now her liveliest efforts failed to animate him . With heartfelt satisfaction he bad observed his children clever and good ; but now he grieved as much for the absence of the one as he felt pained at the disgraceful presence of the other . His old mother was unconscious of these evils , hut sno was no less an object of pity . The only being that seemed to enjoy itself was his faithful dog ; and if ever Richard forgot bis griefs it was whtfe receiving the grateful caresses of this attached domeattc

      Times were Indeed sadly altered > Rieiard now sat down to sigh when he Bhould have rrgea to work Every exertion had become a treuBle to him , and every trouble entirely unrfainned him . The great erosses that had happened to unP seemed to have passed from bis memory j but any Ifttle thwarting circumstance made him weep in very vexation of spirit € fro * ° n petulant and irritable , he regarded an things as conspiring against his peace . He seldom spoke , and did his work doggedly , muttering to himself . Ha waa careless in his b&TgairiB , as if he did not care what way things went ; and whereas formerly he had been kind to all , he was now ill-natured , even to his good dame . This did not last long : the heart must either break or bend , and Richard ' s harshness gradually gave way to melancholy ,

      which softened his temper , but at t&e same time so weakened it , that he became incapable of resolution . Those moody thoughts that might have maddened him seemed to have been exorcised from his mind , but they had left a vacancy there which-apparently nought else could fill , and he was in danger of sinking into more fatal apathy . Sometimes , however , tho genial delights of returning Spring had their usual influence over his reanimated frame , and at such times ha would cheerfully acknowledge the goodness of Gcd , that made him not' thick of the evil man had done to him . But at other times a supernatural gloom overclouded his spirits ; the world appeared to him a scene ot" chimeras dire , " and life a thing' of fear nnd pain , entwisted by some demon enchantment . Ho felt the darkness with .

      out the dullness of mortality . When under the itiusnee of these dismal dreams , ' be was tempted to self-destruction ; but nature recoiled , and he resolved to fortify his mind against the recurrence of such impulses , lest they should grow too strong to be resisted . The natural effects of Richard's hypochondria soon became visible . The crop on his farm failed through lack of management ; the stock decreased for want of due attendance '; and apprehensions of poverty , those fearful apprehensions that rouse the most heedless , awoke the despairing farmer to a last consideration of his circumstances . With anxious and bewildered gaze he saw the earth was becoming a wilderness to him , and his fellow-citizens aliens . Though he cared littlo for his individual self , yet , when he looked at his family , and thought that they too must become victims , then the tender ties of relationship that had ¦ wound round his heart like its own strings tugged with violent enargy as if to rend it piecemeal .

      What was to be done ? Richard ' s small stock of money had been expend . d in the vain endeavour of procuring his son ' s release ; the depression of his spirits co-operating with the pressure of the times was unfitting him to turn his farming stock to account He had hitherto always paid his way , and was scrupulously exact upon this point The dues of bis parish in particular , and of the country in general , he had discharged without much murmuring . Tbey were like drops of sweat , produced by hard labour , which had not exhausted him in healthful prosperity ; but now he felt them like an effusion of blood tbat weakens the vitals . When paying the highway cess , he would exclaim against the injustice of having to bear such a disproportionate part of the expense of repairing the roads . The gentry , " he would say , " who drive their carriages far luxurious pastime are much lighter charged than I who drive my cart for & livelihood . " When paying the poor-rate , be wonld say , " I shall bs

      beggared with keeping the poor , and then you'H have to keep me . I labour to keep myself off the parish ; let those who do not labour keep them that are on . " But the payment of tithe grieved him most . In the vexation of his honest heart , he would attribute all the evils that had befallen him to the parson . " What signify , " said he , his mystical words that no one understands ; tbey neither produce good works in himself nor in others . He seldom preaches ' good will to man , ' and never Bets the c-xraipla , or he would not , ns magistrate , have committed my poor lad to prison . He never preaches against seduction , or my silly lass might not nave been ru'ned . He never punches thftt the poor should be fed , or surely the rich who make them poor would not send them empty to me . He never preaches against war , or such as I would not have to bear the burthen it has brongbt upon tho country . He's rich , but I ' m poor . I'll pay him his tithe , however ; but I'll not goto hear his mockery . '

      To Richard ' sindependent mind , the dread of debt was worse than death—tho loss of credit was like losing life to one of his upright standing . He had toiled like a slave but still be was free—loss of person . J liberty seemed to him equivalent to being given up to tbo tormentors . Were he in debt his meat would do him no good ; he knew his conecitnee would not let him enjoy the things that belonged to another , and tcrriblo to his idea was the fact that then his very raiment , bed aud food , would be stolen goods . Should he keep out of debt and a prison , bo must beg or cuter tho workh < use . To wander forth a prey to cold , disease , and hunger—to be constantly tantalized with the sight of plenty , yet not be allowed to touch it—to behold wasteful extravagance and to feel the want of the commonest necessaries —to implore the smallest pittance as the greatest boon , and to be denied or given to the charge of a policeman —to herd with the vilest wretches in the lowest mteury —old age coming on and such a prospect before

      himno no ! he shut his tyes nnd his heart ached bitterly . But if he could not bear the idea when singly contemplated , how were bis pangs multiplied when ho considered bts family as exposed to similar privatio s . With haggard eyes be viewed his aged parent thoughtlessly doting on the comforts he had carefully surrounded her with—he turned to bis wife , who was always strivirg to make bad better—be marked his -daughter , nursint ? the babe of her disgraco , and though he deemed dtatrtss would be but retribution for her sin , yet the infant tbat was artlessly smiling on her lap—ch ! the sight of that unconscious Innocent marked his tendercst feelings , and then it was he most keenly acknowledged the hard doom of b&iug curned with poverty . As for himself ho wan thankful that so much of his journey through life w .-. s p . ist , but this guileless thing waa ju » t entering on tho rugged roid , and excruciating wns the thought that evils would grow with - its growth , and strengthen with its strength .

      Yes , poverty ! thou art " Kehama ' s" curse—all comforts , all conveniences , every requisite of life see th' e and know thee and fly thee , and thou art doomed to wander forth in an atmosphere of plague , pestilence , and famine—without defence , without shelter , without succour , without pity . Thou art the demon tbat tempted Job and made him doubt Providence . Richard saw tbat there wa 3 no longer any living for him in the l 3 nd that gave him life . How must ho avoid tho workhouse—that union of all evils ? An acquaintance advised him to open a shop of small ware , bnt his

      line of life hod unsuited him for that kind of business , and it was too late to learn . B- ^ Mes he bad felt an aversion to it ever since a respectable tradesman who bad cheated him in a bargain for some cheeses , hod told him that it was impossible in these times to live and be honest Neither could our farmer stoop to anyservile occupation—be possessed an independent spirit , and if be must descend , it sbonld be in another country where bis pride would not bu hurt by the fail . Accordingly be resolved to sell bis stock and emigrate to America , where if he sbeuld i : ot nicct with prosperity be would at least not be scorned for adversity .

      The indignant pride of a martyr strengthened Richard ' s paic / a ! resolution ot eelt-exlle , and wbile preparing for bis departure he evinced more alacrity than he bad for along time been accustomed to . The sale of bis stock brongbt him a sum sufficient to clear the way for a settlement ; as for bis passage , Government had offered a free one , just aa it freely pays the passage of all convicts to Botany Bay . The light of hope again shone upon Richard and made his heart revive . Oh ! if it were not for that never-setting star which leads us through this world and lures us to a better , we should sit down in the darkness of our despair anA pevish miserably . But all Richard ' s new-found fortitude forsook him when the hour of his departure drew nigh . He sutvtyed the little farm where he bad lived , nnd

      where be wished to die—every nook he knew—there was not a spot free from bis labour , and must his tasks , his improvements , all bis wishes , end his fe * lings go for nought ! He entered the quiet cottage in which be had been born—his aged mother , with the aid of spectacles , was poring over the large letters of her Bible—the sight emote him with sudden pain—it would be like taking her oat of her grave—and the baby , too , that was to be cast out like a foundling , to the mercy of the winds and waves—his own hard endeavours for a honest livelihood rendered vain by conscious ipjastice —after performing for so many yjars the part of a useful citizen to be neglected at last when he most needed protection—not suffered to remain and have his bones laid beside his father ' s—where else could they rest in peace t

      Ah ! ye landlords , who live idly on the labour of your tenants , but will not let them live—ye capitalists , who are so veil supported by the turner that ha cannot support himself—ye sportsmen , who-bad rather wildfowl subsisted on the land than your fellow-countrymen —ye men of all classes , who are fed and clothed by those that starve / we beseech you one and all to promote your own interests and the interests of our country by promoting ths interests of the husbandman . Let not a geaerpns borse be bverlbad ) Bd becansa it Is willing to woik beyond its strength . Ye legislators ,-who assemble after . dincer and dessert to make a dpwn-diDr . er of your country ' s distresses , if yo felt tbegnevkneea which ye pretend to deplore , you would encourage tha patriotic efforts of honest industry , and would not let these men wba , ' as fellow-creatures , as subjects , and as labourers , are the best , the most loyal , and the most useful , be driven away by the ignominious scourge of oppression .

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      If ye knew how close their unsophisticated feelings cling to the spot where they have lived , m « ved , and had thair being ,- ' ? . the play-place of their early days "the sphere tf their lives—if ye knew theso things , ye could not endure that they should be torn like a tree from their native- lend , every fibre clasping the soil which nourished it , unwilling to be forced from their mother-earth and transplanted Into a foreign soil , where they must perforce exUt repugnantly , if they do not untimely wither and die . . Richard Robinson is no on common nor aggravated instance . How many hardworking forrnors , hy unequal burdens have been

      rendered unable to procure bread , though t' ~> earth yields ber increase In due season ; a large family too depending npon them ; perhaps paralysed by age , disease , or accident . Alas , the besteufftr the worst ; tha most deserving are the least requited . But shall this state of things continue I . shall tbe wearied son of toil be Incapacitated by anxiety from taking needful rest ? shall virtue be made tbe victim of law ? all human ties bo turned to tortures , because on austere Government reaps where it has iiot sown ? Mu » t England lio barren , and Englishmen find their owa coantry a monster ready to dtstroy them unles 3 tbey escape across the Atlantic 1

      Vainly shonld J endeavour to Impart to others the feelings that rasktd the old farmer ' s yearning heart , when the time of bis departure arrived . Had the reader beheld him , —the plainness of his ancient attiro denoting the simplicity of his manners—his frame bent wilh toil—his weather-beaten fe ; . tores expressive of intepriiy and benevaleisee—his prey kck « floating ia the vriud—bad he beheld him eaah array a tear from bis honrst eye , as if resolved to be resigned—swallowing the emotions which rono to suffocate him—he would have acknowledged that it was a piteous sight , and lamented the fatal policy that condemned such a one to unuseriteii grief . All the past itched into the present and overcharged bis heart with fetling . There was the pathway to school—tha lovers' walk where be bad courted his wile , a neighbouring farmt .-j ' s daughter .

      He spoke not , fur his heart almost choked him * ith its swelling—every b ? at of hfa watch made is throb ia union . It Beemed as though he would have to be forced from his hold of a decayed tree upon which he had carved-his name when a boy . and with which he could fain at this tirae have Identified himself . He silently bade farewell to every inanimate wellknown object , as though they were friends wfeem be was never more to see . All tbe -way as lie went he koi > t constantly turning to look at tho deserted cot , as if be expected is would follow bim , but on the contrary , it seemed to lecedo like one that turns away to weep . When he reached the last point of view he paused—the rays of tho setting sun were peacefully resting like God ' s blessing on tbe eceae —and most he go ?—bis heart Wed—he gave euch a look—but you should have seen bim .

      Out emigrants were shewn tb&ir ship by a wealthy stoek-jobbtr who was not ashamed to enjoy bis tax-fed and class-law luxuries tbe moment after—nay the idea that patt of a starring popvsMien were leaving , the country added zest to his enjoyments . An idle profligate passed his joke upon them , and Richard constrained himself to answer , bufhis ineffectual attempt at mirth only madehis misery more apparent . ' It ' s plain , " he said , "that they do not consider us worth caring for ; but you , poor tbincs ! I care for yeu . " Several attempts were mads to extort money from him by imposition which his unsuspecting nature rendered too successful . Hia cching heart might have been spared these additional throbs ; but the unfeeling make the feeling feel .

      The vessel that bore the rural -virtues from the land made a gallant show and prondly breasted tbe waves as though she were invincible to their rightist assaults . 2 prayed that fler inmates might so surmount the troubles that had beset them in their passs ^ i through this stormy life and arrive safe in the haven of heaven at last . None cheered the disconsolate emigrants , whose hearts sunk as the land receded from their earnest gaas , aud a wild waste of waters received them . In an element and way of life totally repugnant to that they have always been habituated to , how will their sensations be inverted by novel drtad and sickness—and after tbeir perilous voyage is past where shall they eaek comfort if they find it not in the lnnd of tbeir promise—if they who have been ruined litre and are

      deceived there ? Remember , Americans , that your fathers were strangers in the land , and ever , for the sake of their memories receive the exiles with hospitality . Richard ' s farm was immediately lut to a new tenant —at an increase rather than ti decrease of rent—for new comers ate always hopeful and never take warning from those who have gone before . ' Tho new tenant has a great reliance upon bis better luck and superior skill , till experience have taught him a different ]< . sson ; tut tha rage for taking farms in those tcho havo been bred farmers and know not vhat e ! ae to take , serves greatly to allay the fears of landlords that their farina will not let , or that a redaction of rent Must take place . In the meantime the land is cropped to ixfir , u = > Uon and English soil is becoming as poor as thosa that till it .

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      NOTTINGHAM , MONUAY , OCT . 17 . ( From our Correspondent ) Tho work of Justices' justice has commenced here , before Colonel R illtston , M . P ., Tnoma * Nixon , Esq ., J . Sher-vin , Esq .. Rev . R . Rowe , W . H . Bjjtow , Esq ., W . F . Norton , Esq ., and Capt . Sa . mcndy . The following were sworn for tho Gr . ind Jury : — John * Marshall , - foreman ; Thomas Butler , Joshua Meln , R . Barker B : irker , WillioHi Sanday , Thomas S . nith , R ' ch&rd Gveenhaljih , Rohert Satton , G M- Colo , Wm . Mslth 7 , Tuoniaa WoUtenholm , Anthony Wood , Thos . Gaecoijjne , Hmry Huushton , Francw Hi-n-llry , W . 8 . Digging WillUm Fox , William Marshall , Henry Hcbb , D-iuiel Jerson , and John Allcock .

      Colonol Rolleflton , in addressing th" Grand Jury , after remarking upon some of the cases of Muoy .. nnd making a few remarks upon the new Constabulary Act , saM that be wished to mukusorue observations in reference to that clnas of prisoners who were committed fur tbe late disturbances ; und though he regr . fed that Ihfy hud taken place , ' it was a matter of co :: gratulat ; on tbat i-: these parts-there had not been such de rerate acts committed as bail taken place in somo ot ti p ? parts , thou | jh ¦ wo had been visited by itinerant agitators , who promote such scenes for the ' lurtDeiauco if thfclr own orijt-ctM . -And , as always ha | ipeni » . the tr . vtt active have endeavoured to efcapo thu penaltivs whiflj attend such . conduct ; but though it has not b . en so violent , yet it was suc ! i as to " call for iuUrf rtncf , ted he hoped t ? iey would perform tfttir c : iry with hteadiness to him from tlititpoiitions

      and firmness . It appeaio ' . u that tte evidence -woa clear , ' aud that thty would have little difficulty ; but he would ,-Rive a short . outline . On tho 18 th of August thore w : ia a r .-. eeting of persons called Chartists , aud a resolution w . t . i r-. sued tor a total cessation from labour ; tbat mesring was adjourned till five o'clock the next morning , and the magistrates thought it necessary to disperse it ; bnt thoui-. h it was dispersed , it . was-n&t final , for they went up Toll House Hill in largo bodies , ar . d , as would appear , they proceeded with great violenco and threats to turn out the hands from . fictories ; they then proceeded to Basford , Biddle , B- ' rkenp , and o < ber factories . Oa Saturday they again assembled at the nanw place , and pT « ce < . ded to the colHcr ' . ss wito ltko intentions , and it was found necessary to take tffecfual measures to suppress them . On Monday tbey went to Arnold , and on Tuesday assembled in larger numbers t ! . s . a ever , and were joined by other large bodies from the country , and of the

      tho whole proceeded tfcrough different parts county in a most lawleBa and riotoui um . iier ; and it might be better for him to state , that . -. 11 those who were there were equsily guilty in the eyes cf tbe law , even though they had not taken any active pait , out they bad made a aelection of thcto -suo wejo most active ; and though it waslegal for pttsons to assemble to consider either thohr grievances or imaginary grievances , yet it was not lawful fet teem to proceed to other places than where they , were aaaeanbled . It was certainly a blessiBg . tbat this faction hid not effected greater mischief , for •' if death bad taken place , tbey would have been tri'd fa a very serious offence ; " bnt either on account of re-iurnmg good sensa , ot tbe tfiieiest means that was taken to suppress them , this ii . -. d net been tne c * 8 e . and he concluded by again reroicding thtm tnas in disturbances all who va present are principals , though tbey had not committed any act of ' ole"ce « for if one person only committed violence , yet tney were rtl considered guilty , unless they could ««>»

      that they were innocent . ' u To parties acquainted with these occurrences , sucU an txaceeratea account wonld have appeared rather ludicrous , « it bad not betrr for the effect whichi it might have npon a country jury ; tot th <» re was not a pane of glass hwken , the least irjury done to property , or violence offered to persons . .... - _ ,, Maif past Six oCiock .-True bills are found aaainst aU the twenty-nine irlsouere .

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      Lokb Stanley is to be elevated to tbe Peerage before the meeting of Parliament , to take the ministerial lead ia that House . Manchester " Squanders "—Now , I say , there never was a greater abuse of any word in the English language than the word "bank . " Wo have had in this town the " Northern and Central" squander ; we have had the "Imperial" squander ; we have had the " Commercial" squander ; we have had the " Manchester and Liverpool" squander ; and , aa if thb town had not been sufficiently disgraced , we are called together this day to testify to the " Manchester" squander , which , though last , is , I am sorry to say , not the least . —Mr . Greig ' s speech at the Bank of Manchester meeting .

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

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

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      *^ BAIL FOR THE VICTIMS . TO Tllfi EDlIOIt OP THE UORTHEJIN STAB . Sir , —Seeing in our paper of yesterday , that Mr . Jobn West is a . prisoner in Derby Gaol for want of sureties , 1 sit-down forthwith to etatu tbxt I am free , able , and willing to serve him and the people \ y giving bail to the amount of £ 50 . If three others can be procured to act in concert with myself ; ? nri if my presence is required there I will endeavour to attend . I have been confined in our connty pool three months In last year because I bad not bail . * Qocl only knows what length our base oppressors aro to tun . 1 f : iucy we Bhall have them givo up tra'le * hortty . Well knowing the desperate means tboy had recourse to , so a * to arrest tbe advocates cf ttuth , and iuhpc noxious to have them at liberty , , 1 hereby promisa t-i sssitt any other advocate , should our friend , Mr . WlsI , have found sufficient friends . I am , Sir , A Chartist , and a lover of t ! ie nnme . Yours reKpcx'ful ' y , William Copper .

      Weedon , Northamptonshire , Oct . 16 , u , 1842 . [? We have omitted a lino or two from cut covespondent ' s letter { the publication of which might have subjected wto two distinct uctiuns for HbeLEd . " MS . ]

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      " VSM ^/ WW ^^ JVV- ^^ T" : . Longevity in "Man an » Beabt . " t- ; Mt . Hill , farmer , of Cheddar , & ^ i . muezji s peeded the late faij , riding a mare thirty ^ ix year * old ; the united age of the man and U 0 T 83 aniouated to 126 years . — Cambrian ,

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      THE NORTHERN STAR . 7

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 22, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct910/page/7/