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      THE INHABITANTS OF LEEDS AND ITS VICINIT * ARE RESPECTFULLY APPRIZED THAT A GRAND CHARTIST DEMONSTRATION , IN HONOUR AND SUPPORT OF THE EQUITABLE AND JUST FSINCIFLES OP THE PEOPLE'S CHABTEB , Will be made in the MUSIC HALL , ALBION STREET , on MONDAY , ( he 19 th of DECEMBER , 1842 , when a SO I REE WILL BE OITJBN TO T . S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ . M . P . The Presenter of the National Petition , signed by 3 , 500 , 000 British subjects , to the House of Commons and which will also be attended by * FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ , CHARTIST ADVOCATE . The following Gentlemen have also been invited , ; and are expected to be present : — J . T . LEADER , ESQ ., M . P , JOHN GULLY , ESQ . Ackworth Park . CA . PTAIN WOOD , of Sandal . MR . JAMES LEACH . Manchester . MR . J . R . BAIRSTOW . Leicester . MR . WILLIAM JONES , Liverpool . A Party of Glee Singers will be in attendance , and take their part in the proceedings of the Evening . Doors open at half-past Five ; Tea on the Table at half-past Six . Tickets , Is . 3 d . each , may be had at the undermentioned places : —The Star Office Mr Brook ' s Kirkgate , Corner of Vicar-lane ; Mr . John Cook ,. Naws Agent , Dewsbury-road end ; Mr . Robert Entwidtle , News Agent , Sweet-street , Brawery-field ; Mr . Samuel D « nn > Temperance Hotel , Kirkgate ; Mr . Fisher ! News Agent , West-stret ; Mr F . Phillips , Hair Dresser , Kirkstall-road ; Mr . William Scon , N « S Soott-Btreet , Woodhouse ;_ Mr . Henry Ruder , beven Stars , Dock-street ; Mr . William Masen , Granthani Arms , Dyer-street ; Mr . Edward Farrar , Ordnance Arms , North-street ; and at the Times Office

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      ibsi and : parts of the adjoining counties , passed rtrong relations on the subject ; that tbeBe resolutions were published in the Northern Star _ t the tone ; and that the Executive thought propar to reply to them in a high tone of mock dignity , demurring to the right of the delegates to investigate the correctness of the Balance Sheet , and refusing to afford a single word of explanation to them . Weeoold not admire the conduot of the ExecatiTe on that occasion j and yet we regretted the course taken by the Leicester Delegate Meeting We thought thai t courteous , private communication

      Slight possibly hare induces those explanations which were refused when publicly demanded . Our readers will perceive from this day ' s paper , that we did not entertain these opinions singly ; they will see that they were hold en by tbe Councillors of Hull , and Tery probably by those of many other places . We request that they will read carefully the correspondence of the Hall Councillors elsewhere recorded . We refer them especially to the first letter of the Councillors to the Secretory , dated July 13 ih . They will find that letter just what we think the circumatanoes of the case required ; courteous in its

      expression , kindly in its tone , neither containing , nor even insinuating an offensive charge of any description ; bat Amply asking fm information respecting Bome points of the Balanea Sheet , and effermXj in the most respectful terms , certain suggestions for the consideration of the Executive . It seem * that the reply of Mr . Campbell to this most mild and courteous letter was not entered by the then sub-Secretary in the minute book of the Association , but was preserved as a substantive document for after reference when needed . Mr .

      Gbassbt , the the then snb -Secretary , being one of the ** proscribed , " made himself scarce , and his wife destroyed all his papers , from a very natural womanish fear that some of them might be seized , and used against him , this letter being amongst them . We hare , however , a perfect recollection of the letter , and of its contents . As a member of the General Council , it was seen and read by the Editor of this paper , and its tone was certainly _ ot that which a public functionary onght to hare adopted -towards hu constituents under such d umstances .

      While it afforded explanation of some of the matters enquired about and excises for ¦ others , it was simply waspish and insolent . Hus , however , did not drive the Hull Councillors to the course , which they might very properly bave adopted , of publishing their letter , and Mr . Campbell'srsply ; of fairly aoalizing the balance-sheet by a comparison of all its items with the rules of the organization ; and of leaving the Executive , in the pretty figure which it must then hare cut , to be dealt with as the members thought fit . They might have done this , and had a right to do it ; but they

      considered not what they had a right to do , but what might beet serve the cause . They knew that some members of tbe Executive had been eminently useful in their personal serrices to the cause % they were fearful lest any public notice of the matter might be detrimental to the cause , either by causing thoB ^ o withhold these serrices hereafter , or by caosiigfihe people to appreciate them less highly , or by furnishing a handle to the enemy , n such aa exposure of the mismanagement of our funds and the misconduct of our public officer . For all these reasons , the uncalled for ill-manners , and ill-temper of the

      Secretary ' s letter were passed by , and they still confined themselves to the private and kindly admonition of their second letter , dated July J 7 th . To this letter , the Executive , as a body , never condescended any reply . In this unsatisfactory etate stood ike matters of the Executive and their accounts an til the Rational Conference on the 17 th of August . That Conference was , as we always understood , called for the very purpose of entering into a full investigation of the whole conduct of the Executive . -Circumstances to which we will not further now allude , prevented the business of the Conference from

      being even entered upon , and the Executive had tor that time an escape . There being , however , a- delegate from Boll present at the Conference , and also a Hull Councillor delegated from another place , Dr . M'DorAii took the opportunity of publicly stating jW the matter of which the Hnll Councillors had complained had received tbe attention of the Executive , and should be remedied . This was understood , we Believe , not only by the Hnll Coaneilior s then present , bnt also by CannaillftM from various other

      places , to be a distinct pledge , for himself and his coadjutors , that thereafter the plan of Organization should be adhered to . It was believed to be given in good faith , and it was therefore naturally expected that when the next Balance Sheet of the Executive should appear it would be a dear distinct statement of accounts , showing to what purposes the hard-earned pennies of the people had been applied , in strict accordance with the Organization , which , we repeat , is the one duty of the Executive to enforce and carry out .

      It is impossible , therefore , to make any excuse for them now . They have not been taken by surprise . They have had warning and remonstrance enough in all conscience ; and the plain duty of the people now is , not to make the matter a subject of noisy altercation—not to suffer any considerations other than those which arise out of the plain printed rales of the Organixation to influence them—aad to show by their votes upon the next election of Executive Committee , their opinion of the manner in which their dearly and hardly-earned pence have been appropriated , in defiance of their clearly defined doty and the printed rules of the Organization , by these men .

      There is no concealing the fact that these men have set aside tbe Organization—that they have acted in open defiance of their own principles as Chartists—that they have erected themselves into an oligarchy of the very worst kindand that under the name and pretensions of democracy they have been long practicing pure despotism ; that they have done thiB knowingly and wilfully , and hare persisted , after being repeatedly admonished and ; tminded of their principles . It is

      for tbe people , after all this , to say whether these men be at all fit for the cfBee they bold , and which we think they disgrace , and have—some of them , at least—long done so . As a portion of the people , we have a right both to hold , and to express , ah opinion on tbe subject ; and onr opinion is , that if tbe people 8 £ ain elect these men witbont , at all events , requiring from them 3 distinct pnblic and individual acknowledgement of their past errors , and a pledge for their tnture conduct , they will deserve to be robbed ad libitum .

      We cannot leave the subject without again ad « ¦ verting to Mr . Campbell ' s lame letter of last week-In endeavouring to account for the enormous sum of eighteen shillings a week put down as postage and stationery , he complains of receiving many letters unpre-paid . We do not believe it . We think it probable that tbe c&rrcspondence of this office will be quite as extensive as that of the Execntive , and we do not receive , on an average , three letters in a week that are anpre-paid . The ; talk about

      prepaying cards by post is absurd . If it be done to any ^ uch extent as to form a serions item in the shape of postage , it only proves that Mr . Campbell is utterly un qualified for the very simplest duties of his office ; while the effort to eke out the item , by referring to heavy correspondence at the period ot their accepting office ( that period being bejond the date of the balance Bheei ) would be really laughable , if it were not that the fan of it is spoiled by the recollection that the

      money in question has been literal * lifted from the half filled dinner plates of starving men . We tell Mr . Campbell fairly , that we suppose the greuer part of the poor fellows who contributed this sum of money will regard this item as of itsdf , in the absence of much more explanation than be has yet given , sufficient evidence of gross and plain "jobbing , " such as ought not to have be « n practiced by the Secretary of a Chartist Association . We imagiaa that not a man in the whole conntry will believs thai that sum has been expended fairly in

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      the postage and stationery of the Association . We regret much , for his own sake , that Mr . Campbell , after the many warnings he had , did not think preper so to keep his bx > k 3 as to be able to satisfy tbe country of tbe aocaracy of his accounts , even in bo trivial a matter as postage and stationery . Bis appeal to the other members of the Executive to explain their own share of the expenoes is still

      farther evidence of the utter slovenly and unbusinesslike tray in which the affairs of the Association hare been managed . It seems from his letter that Mr . Campbell has constituted himself Treasurer as well as Secretary to the Executive ; and it was his duty not to pay any money to any body without knowing how > nd why , and for what it was due , and being fully satisfied that he was warranted by the rules of the organization in paying it .

      Mr . Cambelll ' s mode of explaining his own personal expenees is amusing . He singles out one item , and says respecting it : — u I must now-allude to one item in my own travelling expences , viz . £ 2 IO 3 . from Manchester to London , for railway fare . The country can satisfactorily judge why the extra 10 s . was charged" 1 Why th » question is not about the extra 10 s ., but about the whole sum of £ 2 10 s . Od . ! Mr . Campbell forgets to show why the country should pay any part of this , or what right he bad to charge it at all . He does not show that he was going to London _ t

      that time on Chartist business at all ; or that he was not going on his own private affairs . It is Mr . Campbell ' s duty , as secretary of the Executive , to be in Manchester . Manchester is the appointed place of sitting—settled , as Mr . Campbell very well knows , a * .-the National Delegate Meeting , whioh amended the Organization ; and is it not monstrous that because Mr . Campbell chooses for his own convenience to live in London , that he may keep a bookseller ' s shop , and because Mr . Leach remains in Manchester ,

      as he ought to do , that therefore every time these gentlemen wish to consult with each other tbe country should be charged with railway travelling from Manchester to London !! And then the whole face of the accounts displays a laxity and vagueness , which if it had been intended to eover fraud could not hare been more adroitly managed . The only items in the whole list to whioh a distinctive character appears are those of wages and cards printing ; all the rest are left floating in a mist .

      The Organization gives no authority to any member of the Executive to charge a single farthing for travelling expenses , save when employed as missionaries ^ and then only under statedjsnd restricted circumstances . The organization contemplates the Executive as a fixed body , sitting for a fixed purpose , in a fixed place : it does not contemplate that they shall live one at Manchester and another at London , and another somewhere else , and saddle the country with their travelling charges every tima they come together . The country would be much batter without such an Executive than with it ; for its only use would seem to be to waste the poor people ' s pence . The more we look at the whole thing the more completely are we sickened with it .

      We must , however , pay some attention to Mr . Bairstow ' s explanation , which we are sorry to find very little more satisfactory than . Mr . Campbell ' s . He says , in reference to his receipt of wages while lecturing : — " I deem , of course , that employed in the West of England , where the defection of the ' Sturgites' from our movement left a wide gap in the agitation , none will object to weekly receipt of £ 1 10 s . for wages . "

      This 13 rather a cavalier mode of digmifl * ing the matter . It Is news indeed to us to "hear of the West of England being classed among the new districts of » Chartism . Either the Chartists of Bath , Bristol , Cheltenham , and Wiltshire did pay Mr . Baibstow for his lecturing serrices among them , or they did not . If they did , he haa no right to charge his wages to the general fund ; if they did not , it is a shame that these old and able localities should hare a lecturer provided by the country , while such districts as Doncaster , and the East and North Riding of Yorkshire , North Lancashire , and Leicestershire , where the people are much poorer , not only pay their own lecturers , but are also , it seems , to pay the lecturer for ' the West of England . This is too bad .

      Mr . Bazsstow ' s explanation or the £ 2 16 a . © d ., cWged for travelling from Manchester to Bristol , is a little curious ; it seems he went over to Loughborough to see bis sick wife , and thence to Bristol . Now , . we are sure that there is no good Chartist who will not giro Mr . Baiastow credit for the manly feeling which took him home by the first conveyance , under such circumstances ; but we cannot for the life of us discover how Mr . Baibstow makes out that he has any more right than any other man to charge the country with the expenses of such a journey Upon this principle every Chartist who being from home receives intelligence that bis wife is sick should hasten to her by railway , and send in his bill for travelling to the Executive . Mr . Baibstov says ,

      " The first journey , after my election on tbe Executive was from Bristol via Gloucester and Birmingham , to Manchester , to our first sitting , and was performed on Sunday evening and Monday morsing ; the sum stated was expended in bare coach hire and railway fares . " We fancy there is some small mistake here . We believe that that journey was not exactly to a sitting of the Executive , bnt to the Manchester Conference , where we recollect that Mr . Baihstow stated himself to be the representative of two hundred thousand Chartists , and we think it a little too bad that those two hundred thousand ChartistB should saddle the cost of their delegate upon the various other localities who sent and paid their own delegates . We like to see fair-play in all things , but we see none in this .

      The fourth section of Mr . Baibstow ' s letter describes certain jonrneyinga to and from ; but for what purpose , and what business , he does sot say . One thing however is , in our opinion , perfectly dear respecting them ; and that is , that they are unauthorised by any rule of the Organization , and that Mr . Baibstow has no right , therefore , to charge them to the country . The plea of hi 9 being a fngitive is no plea at all ; npon that principle every other fugitive should also send in his bill for travelling to the Exeeutive , and have it paid . Mr . Baibstow says , in this same article : —

      " The ' agitating expenoes , ' Sept . 3 d , were paid me aa aone-half of my incidental expenees for the previous two months , the localities in which I laboured having always paid me the other half . " The I 8 ih rule of the Organization clearly decides this to be an illegal charge ; as he acknowledges that the localities had always paid him all that by the rule he is entitled to . His explanation on the last £ 1 03 . is equally unfortunate , for the same rule show 3 that if paid at all , it should have been paid by the localities , and not by the general fand . The whole result of the whole matter is that the

      more the whole thing is looked at the more glaring it appears , and the more the explanations given are examined and the more perfect is the certainty that the Executive have calculated upon their influence with the people to govern without regard to law ; to do whatever they pleased , without either rebuke or inquiry ; of which we can have no better evidence of than the statement of Mr . John Campbell , that they expected , so far from any objection being made to it , that the whole country would be delighted with the naked , open , robbery perpetrated in the matter of M'Douall ' b

      wages ! The people may be delighted with it if they please ; but we shall , at least , seeing that all other means have failed , do our dnty in giving it its own name , a more wanton and more flagrant system of jobbing and living out of the people than has been practised by these men we never saw ; if the people like it , and choose to permit its continuance , they have a perfect right to do so ; but if they do , they have no right ever again to complain of the despotism and spoliation of oligarchic rule . We ought not to conclude , without doing justice to Mt . Mobgam Williams , who seems to have had little qt no personal part in these transactions at all * His , situation

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      obliging him to remain principally at home , where doubtless his evenings and leisure hours have been devoted as well as those of other parties , to agitation in the good cause , he has not ohosen to smite the country for wages while attending to his own affairs and living by his own business , though we can see no role by whioh he had not as great a right to do bo as any body else .

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      Jt will oe seen oy the advertisement in another column , that the Soiree to T . S . Dpncombb , Esq ., will come off" on Monday , the ISth oi December . The Committee are actively at work to make the affair that which it should be , an honour to the judgment and taste of the working men of Leeds , and to the cause of Chartism whzch they have so universally espoused . The tickets are now issued . We advise an early application . The room is but small compared with the recent place of meeting in Manchester ; and t here hundreds had to depart from the doors for want of accommodation .

      The limited number of tickets the Committee have issued , will , no doubt , soon be disposed of : and fortunate will be those who obtain them . The proceedings of the evening will bo important . The men of Leeds will have among ? t them for the first time another member ef the aristocracy , who has preferred the advocacy of the cause of the poor to the honours and blandishments of bis own oircle . To honour that man for his honourable conduct is the Soiree given ; and this is a proceeding of no ordinary interest . By the advertisement it will also be seen that other gentlemen are invited ; several of whom are confidently expected to be present . Their letters in answer to the invitations hav « not yet come to hand ; or the

      fact of their acceptance or non-acceptance should be stated . In addition to the gentlemen named in the advertisement , the committee addressed a letter of invitation to Charles Watebton , Esq . of Walton Hall ; a gentleman who proved his devotion to the Chartist cause by traveling from Walton Hall to Leeds , for the express purpose of signing the National Petition . His letter , in answer to that invitation we subjoin ; and regbkt , along with the writer , that ill-health will prevent us From having the pleasure of his company . The working mon , who are bearing the heat and burden of the day , will be cheered by his expression of sympathy with their labours . Here is Mr . Waterto . i ' s letter : —

      Walton hall , Ner . 1 « , 1842 . Sir , —I request you will make my best respects to your committee , and ay how much I feel honoured by their ki&d i _ vitatir , n . 1 regret that I shall not be able to avail myself of it I have had three very severe attacks of dysentry within tbe year . No trifle . You may naturally suppose that a fourth attack would be productive of considerable alarm . In order to avoid this , I am ordered by my medical adviser to keep very quiet , and to avoid crowded rooms , lest I may catch cold . Thus you see it will be impossible for me to attend the public tea which is about to be given to Mr . Buncombe . I remain , sir , very respectfully , Tour most obedient servant , CHABLES WaTERTON .

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      The Executive ' s Defence . —At the Tery last moment before going to press , we reoeived a long document signed James Leach and John Campbell . It is impossible to give it this week ; bnt in justice to the writers and tbe people , we set forth its purport . It aays not one werd of the " Agitating Expenees . " It says not one word of tbe " Travelling Expenees . " It says that in reference to Postage and Stationery they have no more to say than Mr . Campbell has said . It seems to express great astonishment that anybody should grumble at M'Douall ' s extra ten shillings a-week ;

      but offers no justification for it beyond the opinion of tbe Executive . It occupies several pages in asserting what nobody has denied—that the Secretary is a permanent officer , and ought to nave permanent wages . It occupies 8 me pages in abusing Mr . Hill personally , because Borne twelve months ago , a resolution from Merthyr Tydvil , dissenting from the policy of tbe Executive , appeared in the Star , under the head , " Executive Sop . " It eulogises Dr . M'DouaH ' s patriotism , and Mi . Leach ' s eloquence ; and affirms that the attack

      of Mr . Hill on the Executive is in malicious revenge because they defended il r . Philp . Of course we snail give the document next week , when onr readers will see that these are the only points it tenches . We should hare been happy to hare had it in time to give it this week ; for we thick the sooner tbe whole matter is settled by the peeple the better : but it was received here at half-past three o ' clock in the afternoon , and our time for being at press is four . The machine is now standing for this short notice .

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      ^ F Mebthtr Tydvil Chartists . —Their resolution is somewhat singular : it views with regret our remarks upon a subject upon which tee have made no remarks . We have not said a single word about the £ 10 to APDouall to fiy with ; though we think every other man who has been obliged to fly for the same business has just as great a claim , and some perhaps a much better claim . Ouseborn Chartists . —Their second resolution is altogether outside the mark : the eighteenth rule of the Organization does not say a word upon the subject ; but the seventeenth does say , tk The General Secretary shall be paid for his services £ 2 per week ; and each other member of the Executive £ 1 10 s . per week , during the period oF their sittings . " J . K . —We have no room this week . R . Huxkiw and Mtsticus Secrbtub must lake the

      same answer . A Co . vsrAjrr Reader must stand over for the present . J . Alexandeb writes us a long letter on the B .-lanc e ' sheet , containing many excellent remarks . We have not room for its insertion . The hand-book is much wanted , and shall be published immediately . G . Bell , Norwich . —No . S . Biggs , Waiford—We are sorry to trouble him ; but we cannot decipher the names of the gentleman he has sent us as comprising the General Council : he has also omitted their addresses . J . Bishop , Campsie . —/ fts acrostic" is declined . W . SiRLB . —His letter shall appear . John Nut-tall —On newspapers to the United Stales of America a postage of twopence is charged . They go free to the following places if posted before eight days , old : —

      Antigua Denmark Montserrat Bahamas Daminica Nevis Barbados Prance ] Yew Brunswick Berbice Gibraltar Newfoundland Bermuda Grenada Nova Scotia Brazil Greece Peru Bremen Halifax , N . S . Quebec Bogota Hamburgh Spain Buenos Ayres Hayti St . Domingo Cinada Heligoland St . Kitts Caraccas Honduras St Lucia Columbia Ionian Islands St Vincent Corfu Jamaica Tobago Coxharen La Guayra Tortola Demerara Malta Trinidad .

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      J . Stives , France . —The parcel has been sent to London as directed . T . S ., Sowerbt . —Refer to the Star : it would . be entered aa seat A . NICOL , TiLLicoui / rftTi . —Ths pa * ctol of Plates w& « enclosed in Paton and Love ' d parcel , which left here on the 12 th , as did tbe parcels for Edinburgh and Dunfermline . Parcels for Newcastle , Sunderland . Halifax Sheffield , Bamslby , Huddersfield , and Nottingham left on the 14 th .

      FOR THK NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ . B . u From the Masons of Orlingslury , per J . Roddis ... ° 5 ° .. a few friends at Chard ° * 8 „ the first division of City Women ' s Men , meeting at the Grapes , to which the Red Horse has contributed nothing ... ... ... 0 3 4 _ a few friends at Grosport , Hants ... 0 10 0 . » spoor woman . 001 „ the Chartists of Leeds , per B . Gt . ... 0 1 0 „ a few friends at Heckmendwifce , per Mr . Penny ... ... ... — a * * _ John Horsefleld , spinner « A .. a friend , Honslet , per Longbottom ... 0 2 0 ^ Diniel Whltaker , Wortley Lane End 0 2 fl „ the Chartist Shoemakers of Sheffield 0 12 9 „ John Lowery , C « unty Mayo ... ... ° «

      FOR MR . ELLIS . From a friend , Keighley •» ° 10 ' -JJ .. the Chartists of Holme Lane , Tong ... e 4 0 The humble offering of a Brewood student , schoolfellow of several of the "Staffordshire Grand Inquest" at the late Special Commission , who riaws with admiration the stand made by an aristocrat in blood , and a noble by nature , on behalf of tbe poor , — oppressed by an upstart son of a mechanic and grandson of a pedlar m 0 2 e

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      FOR MB . MASON . From a friend , Keighley ... ... ... 0 5 0 FOR THE DEFENCE OP GEORGE WHITE . Fromafriend , Kelghley ... ... ... 0 2 fl

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      LEEDS . —Da . COFFiN .- ^ Thia gentleman , who has recently taken np his residence in Leeds , has during thelast few weeks delivered a course of ledtureB at Armley and Wortley , upon the diseases incident to humanity ,- and the remedies best adapted to their cure . The lectures are the same in substance as those which he delivered in this town twice during the last Bummer . The people of Armley have been so much gratified by the knowledge thev havn dAriv «< l

      by Dr . Coffin s lectures arid the benefit some of them have reoeived by bis advice and medicine , tha * at the close of the lecture on Friday evening , the 18 th mBt ., they presented to him , through the medium of the gentleman who presided on the occasion , a beautiful gold nug , as a token of their respect and gratitude . And in order that the occasion might not lack * c / a * , the Armley teetotal band volunteered their services on the occasion , and escorted the Doctor from and to Providence Chapel , where the lectures were delivered .

      *« EEpS .-0 n Tuesday last , a young lad , named Samuel Davy , of Armley , was charged With having on Saturday night , broken into the dwellinghouso of Mr . Oates , of that village , and stolen a quantity Of Children ' s wearing apparel . The property was seen safe on Saturday night , and on Sunday morning the kitchen window was found to have been broken open , and it was gone . The prisoner was suspected , and the stolen property was found in a well in his rather s house . He was committed for trial . Stealing Horse Hair . —On Monday last , two lads , named Wo . Wise and Wm . Riley , who had been for about three years in the service of Messrs . Bentley aud Sons , in Water-lane , were charged before the sitting magistrates at the Court House . with

      having stolen a quantity of horse hair the property of Messrs . BeDtley . Mr . Bentley was in attendance , and said in taking stock they had missed about sixty stones of hair ; he had no reason to suspect the prisoners before Saturday , when having missed some hair after they had gone out , he charged Wise with the offence , and held out a promise not to send for the police if he would confess ; this he did and implicated Riley , on which they were both given into castodv . and three or four pounds of hair was found to have been sold by them at Mr . Peter Gaily ' 8 , in Kirkgate . In consequence of the promise which had been the means of the confession , the magistrates decided they had no evidence oa whioh to ensure a oonviction , and discharged the prisoners with a reprimand .

      Sunday Evening Robbery . —On Sunday evening last , the house of Mrs . Lupton , in Rock-street , Burmantofts , was entered by means of skeleton keys , during the time Mrs . Lupton and her family Were at chapel . One of Mrs . Lupton's eons returned home about half-past seven , and found the street door wide open and the house in confusion . On examining the premises , the following amongst other property was found to have been stolon : —A silver pint marked I . M . L , six silver teaspoons marked I . A . L ., a pair of silver Bugar tongs marked I . A . L ., two silver salt spoons marked E . F ., one silver teaspoon marked I . H ., four silver table spoons marked 0 ., and sixteen silver teaspoons not marked ; a quantity of table and bed linen , marked I . E . L ., two crimson leather pocket books , and » half-sovereign . We are sorry to say that hitherto the thieves have remained undiscovered .

      Kobbery . —On Friday , a young man named Frederick Gilbertson , was committed , at the Leeds Court House , to take his trial at the next sessions , charged ( with stealing on Wednesday night week , two parcels belonging to Mr : John Cooper , carrier between Leeds and Bradford . It appeared that Cooper , on the day in question , had reoeived the paroels from Messrs . Cattanea and Co ., of Leeds , to convey to Mr . Simpson , of Bradford . Having placed them along with other thing 9 in bis cart , he proceeded on his journey , and having reached his destination at Bradford , when he came to examine his goods he found the two parcels missing . Cooper had , however , not left this town above half an hour , before the criminal party was in the custody of the Leeds police with the parcels in his possession , the one containing a gross of small embossed tin plates , and the other two dozen brass snuffers .

      Stealing from an Employer . —On Monday last a man named Benjamin Atha , who has been in the employ of Mr . Eascwood , auctioneer , was brought up at the Court House , on a charge of stealing money and other property belonging to Mr . Eastwood . The prosecutor has a shop in Briggate , in which he is disposing of a miscellaneous stock of hardware , glass , < fec , by auction ; and the prisoner was observed by a person who was attending the Bale , to take an opportunity , whilst giving change to purchasers , of secreting money in his band , whioh be aftewards

      conveyed to his coat pocket . Information of this was given to Mr . Eastwood , and the prisoner was given into custody . On searching him , about 28 s were found , and on proceeding to his house , in Holbeck , a largo quantity of glasses , knives and forks , chimney ornaments , &c , were i ' ouad , and amongst them , a cruet-stand without a handle , which Mr . Eisirroad W&S able io identify ; but though he had no doubt of the other property being his , he could not swear to it . The prisoner was therefore committed for trial for stealing the cruet-stand .

      Suicide . —On Sunday last , an inquest was holden at the Woodman Inn , Sweet-street , Holbcck , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the body of Rachel Foxcroft , 44 years of age , who terminated her existence the same morning by strangling herself . It appeared from the evidence of Mary Hardy , that the deceased had for the last month resided with four children in a Cellar dwelling in Moore-Btreet ^ and that she had been labouring under severe indisposition , mental as well as bodily ! The witness had been attending on her , and sat up with her until a little after four o'clock on Saturday morning , when deceased persuaded her to lie down ( on a bed in the same room ) and get some sleep , saying she herself felt comfortable , and could probably rest when the house was still . Mrs . Hardy fell asleep , and on awakening again , before five o ' clock , found that her patient had tied the ends of a silk handkerohief together round the bed post , and was laid with her

      neck in the handkerchief , her feet on the bed , and all her weight thrown on the handkerchief , with her face downwards and . quite dead . She immediately alarmed some neighbours , and a man came and cut her down . The Jury returned a verdict of u Temporary Insanity . " It was stated in the room that the deceased had not heard anything of her husband for nine years , it being that time since he left her : that she had been for some time without anything to do , except sewing a few sacks , and shat she was dependant on the earnings of two of her children , who , when they were fully employed , got about 9 a . 6 J . per week , but that latterly they had been on short time , and had not earned so much . She had no relief from the parish , and had herself and children to keep out of this Bcanty pittance . She was desoribed as a careful managing woman , and it waa thought that want had preyed upon her spirits , and induced the malady under which she laboured .

      DEWSBUR ? . —Meat Burning . —On Monday last , tea sheep were burnt in the Market-place , belonging to a Gainsbro' butcher , which had been seized by the constables as tinfit for human food . BIRMINGHAM . —State of Trade . -- The working population of this town were never in a more distressed condition than at present . Hundreds who were comfortably situated this time last year , are now enduring all the horrors of absolute starvation , and what is worse , thore seems to be no prospect of amendment .

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      Forgeries and Embezzlement of Savings Bane Funds , by a Militia Officer , at Richmond , Surrey . —During the laat four or five days , a strong feeling of excitement has prevailed throughout the neighbourhood of Richmond , Surrey , in consequence of tbe discovery of most extensive embezzlements , and several acts of forgery having been committed in the management of the funds deposited in the Richmond Savings Bauk . It appears from the inquiries which have been instituted into the matter , that the delinquent is a Captain Belstead , the Secretary of the institution , a gentleman highly connected , who , besides holdlug other appointments , is a Captain in the Surrey Militia , and who has hitherto maintained the highest character for probity and

      gentlemanly conduct . On the fact being correctly ascertained , a warrant was issued for Captain Belstead ' s apprehension , and during Friday and Saturday last , the local magistrates were each day engaged in investigating the charges against the accused . Two cases of embezzlement and one of forgery were only gone into , upon each of which Captain Belstead was fully committed for trial at the next Surrey sessions ,, and shortly afterwards was conveyed in a chaise to Horsemonger-lane gaol . In order to allay the excitement occasioned by the defalcations , the trustees of the savings bank have issued a number of placards , assuring the depositors that their demands will be met with promptness , and pledging themselves to make good the various sums abstracted by the secretary .

      Remarkable TsNACitr of Life . —On . Wednesday morning as the workmen were digging up the rubbish caused by the late fire on the premises occupied bj Messrs . W . S . Ramsey aud Co ., 154 ,, Upper Thames-street , they heard the mewing of a cat underneath some portions of a cask , which had fallen across her body , and rested against the wall . On removing these , poor Grimalkin issued from her hiding place , having been incarcerated for nineteen daya , during which period Btte could not by any possibility have tasted food . She was immediately supplied with milk , and , though thin , appears likely totecover .

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      Mysterious Case at Duckmanton , —On Friday , the adjoun ed inquest , with regard to the poisoning of the family of Coopers , at Duckmanton , took place before Mr . Hutchinson , at the Wbite Swan . The body of the elder Cooper having been exhumed , the surgeons proceeded to analyse the contents of the stomach , and much interest has been felt to learn the result . Tke facts of the ease are these;—The mother sent a girl , of eleven years of age , for a stone of flour . No one touched the flour which she had in her bag , and the mother makes that same flour into paste on the following day . She makes a dumpling , and the three individuals who partook of it were immediately taken ill . She then madesomehot cakes , and the three men who partook of them were suddenly taken ill , but some of the cakes left were eaten by some of the attendants of the suffererers , who sat up with

      them , and no bad effects were produced on them . The old man died , but the other sufferers got rather better , and two of them , during the illness of the father , went to Mr . Thorp ' s , a distance of two miles , for medicine and advice . They were again seriously attacked . The son , who is worse at present , was enabled to walk aboat for a fortnight , and looked like a person who bad had a long illness , and again grows suddenly ill . The family still labour under the effects of the disease , although it is now nine weeks since this occurrence took place . After hearing the evidence of Mr . Thorpe , of Staveley , and Mrs . Mary Cooper , the jury returned a verdict that " ¦ From the evidence before them the deceased had died by poison , but they cannot tell by whom the poison was administered . " — Derbyshire Chronicle .

      J &Ore Footing Ij^Trtotg.

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      The daughter of Mr . George White , born whilst he was in Warwick county Gaol , has been registered Jane Holoerry White . Bora on the 13 th of March , and duly registered on the 20 th , Feargus O'Connor Hall , son of John Hall . Taylor Hill , Huddersfield . Lately , the infant son of John and Isabella White , of Leeds , was duly registered in the name of John O'Connor White . Registered at Glasgow , the infant son of Peter M'Inni , Parliament-road , by the name of James Moir . Christened at the Primitive Methodist Chapel . Chapel-row , near Bishop Aukland , on Wednesday , November 2 nd , John Feargus O'Connor Thompson , the son of Daniel and Isabella Thompson . Christened at Shoreditch Church , Nor . 13 th , by the name of Thomas Sliogsby Donoombe , tbe son of John and Frances Tagg .

      On Sunday , the 13 th inst ., at St . Mary ' s Church , Oldbam , the son of David and John Charlesworth was baptised John Francis O'Connor , by the Rev . Edward Hogan , Catholic Priest , of tbe abore ohuroh .

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      Oa Wednesday , the 23 d inst ., at St . Mary ' s church , Bisbophill Senior , York , Mr . George Carbutt , engineer , to Miss Elizabeth Young . On Tuesday , the 22 nd inst ., at St . Michael ' s church , New Malton , Mr . William Ellett , cattle drover , of that place , to Jane , eldest daughter of the late Mr . William Bielby , of ths Marishes , fanner . On Monday , the 21 st inst ., in York , Mr . Georga Morley , farmer , Acomb , to Miss Eliza Morley , of Bramham . On Snmday , at Scnlcoates church , Hull , by the Rev . W . H . Wawne , Mr . George MiddlebroHgh , joiner , second son of Mr . Edward Middlebrough , corn metor , of Hull , to Miss Martha Carnell , formerly of Sheffield .

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      DEATHS . On Friday week , at New Malton , aged 38 , Sarah , the wife of Mr . Daniel Brown , jun ., of that place . On the 21 st in 3 t ., Ellen , the wife of Mr . William Bell , painter , of Spring-street , in this town . On Monday , ths 21 st ., Mr . Thomas Sellers , of East Moor , Wakefield , innkeeper . . On Sunday , at Ripon , much respected , aged 82 years , Colonel Johnson , of BorrageJbjMte ijat this Same day , aged 81 years , j ^ MWjlSShfewn , letter carrier , Barley , near Opej ^^ £ - * q ) ** On Friday , the 18 th inat . ^ ^ VrW ^ ilfwbl £ Thomas Sellor , Heslington , nf flJnMJJMJijQjjTK ?" in the 94 th year of her age ^ iJ ^ P ^ gj ^ F ^ I " 3 g lanttads : ^ — * TS ^^ Hrti

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      The Leeds Chartist Demonstration.

      THE LEEDS CHARTIST DEMONSTRATION .

      Chartism!

      CHARTISM !

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      Z THE NORTHERN STAR . V

      The New York Line Of Packets Sail Punctually On Their Regular Days From

      THE NEW YORK LINE OF PACKETS Sail punctually on their regular days from

      Marriages.

      MARRIAGES .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 26, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct914/page/5/