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    __ JL ~— ^— - """" " - ' = T ^ * " CHELSEA . ? U 8 Ur- tviEETlKG A * - A public metting ** s held to friday ^* — wstt * Assembly Rooms , New Road , ChelK *> \ o tatpiae into the cause of the distress existing 1 & the couiitry » Tfes room iru densely crotrded ; tt 1 b confidently rtwrtfed that at least 1 , 000 persoia went sway being finable to procure admission ; Mr . Ford was called to the chair , and briefly opened Ike business of the meeting , and requested for each speaker a fair and impartial hearing .

    Rtiffet Ridlet moved the first resolution . He said , Mz . Chairman and fellow-countrymen , never in the page of history , if we trace it from its earliest and remotest period , did a nation stand in a similar position to that -which -we occupy at present . We find the industrious classes , by aid of machinery , are yearly creating wealth to the enormous tsIdo of eight hundred millions of petmds , and yet oar condition proclaims to the world the monstrous anomaly of the producers of more wealth than any nation of modem times can boost of , existing in the direst poTerty , actually starring for want of the common necessaries of life , whilst a class who produce nothing , and earn nothing , are wallowing in luxury and ease , are the panders to every vice which disgraces and degrades human nature . I

    ask of yon , is this fair , or jnst , or honest ? Can these two extremes much longer exist ? [ Feargus O'Connorj Esq . here entered the room , and the very roof rung ¦ with the echo of rapturous applause ] After the cheering had subsided , Mr . Ridley continued . I have doable duty to perform this evening , having alsoto attend a meeting in London ; as our worthy champion has arrived , he who has so beneficially employed his talents in our behalf , I shall not longer detain yon ; bat I again ask you , is it jost that we , the producers of this wealth , should be turned adrift to starve , in order that they who tyrannise and oppress us may riot in luxury ? They tell you that this is occasioned by our being over-populated ; that we cannot produce sufficient corn to feed our population . Never was a grosser falsehood ottered under the canopy of high heaven . We have dared these men to prove their

    position . We have dared them to discuss the subject ; and they have ever shr ank from the challenge , well knowing that truth would prevail . Our millocracy and our factory lords are now calling aloud for cheap bread . They have oppressed and ground down their workpeople to the very verge of starvation , and now using the j £ ea of humanity , they desire to give yon a cheap loaf , that they may bring your wages to the continental level , and thereby compete with artizons of foreign nations . We desire the repeal of the Corn Laws , and every other law which presses upon the industry cf man ; but we are well aware this can never be effected until we are truly represented in the British Senate . We therefore proclaim to the whole ¦ world , thnt we will never rest satisfied until labour is placed side by side , with capital in the British Houses of legislature . I beg leave to moTe the following resolution in which 1 heartily concur : —

    " That in the opinion of this meeting the great and ¦ farming distress which now prevails throughout the country has been caused by the bad laws and wretched mismanagement cf our legislative bodies ; -and that the only safe and efficient remedy which can be adopted to restore trade to a safe basis—to ensure prosperity to the producer , and safety and protection to the capitalist , is contained in the document called the People ' s Charter , and this meeting pledges itseif to agitate for . that measure , and never to cease in its exertions until the rights of labour are fully represented in the Commons ' House of Parliament" i Great cheering . )

    Feaegcs O'Coxxoe ., Esq ., on rising to second the resolution , was received with great applause . He said —My friends , did you ever hear a man speak in his sleep ? I have had little for three nights , and none last night Yesterday I addressed two meetings in Leicester , and travelled all nigut to have an opportunity to address yen : being so exhausted , you must bear with me if I am a little prosy this evening . On rising I beard some one say " a Socialist . " I dont knew if he meant me ; if so , I tell him he is in error . If firmly to believe in the existence of a God—if to believe that the poor are the special charge of the Almighty—if to hope for future rewards for the advocacy of their cause , is to be a Socialist , I am one . iGre&t cheering ) I have great pleasure in seeing this resolution : it

    exactly expresses my sentiments ; it informs you of the cause of your distress , and points you to the remedy . As my address must necessarily be brief , I shall not waste one word in declamation , but go at once to the point It is a subject -which claims an interest in every breast Yon are all old enough to have observed tke onward march of science and of the arts—to have remarked the many scientific improvements which are sid to have made Britain the envy and admiration of the world . Yen can remember when there was no railroads—when the wonderful power of steam was almost unknown—when there was no Reform Billwhen a heavy duty was paid on newspapers and on letters . You can all remember when Britain was a ruder , rougher nation than at present ; but you then

    enjoyed more of the comforts of civilisation than _ at present Yen have seen the various improvements which have raised your character for skill and ingenuity bo high in the world—you have had all the benefit of the Reform Bill , which was to turn this mighty power of creating comfort and enjoyment to yonr advantage . Now , then , turn round and ask where is yonr share of these great improvements ? What have you benefited by them ? Where is the man can say that they have proved advantageous to him ? Has " machinery , or steam , or gas ensured your comfort or prosperity ? On coming to this meeting , when I turned from the aristocratic palaces splendidly lighted ' -with gas to the wretched , dark hovels " of the artisans , I felt that you had derived no benefit from that Yon have got

    cheap postage , the last great boon of the Whigs . Of what-bensfit is this to y » n ? Yeu never write-to say " your mother ' s out ; " you scarce write a letter in the jear ,-you have no good news to send to your friends . But-4 he Barings , the Ashworths , the great merchant princes , they save' their thousands a year by it , which is wrong from your bones and sweat in the Bhape of increased taxes . Of what bentit is it to you that iin- ; provemsnt after improvement is treading on the heels : of its predecessor ? You have been deprived of every one of these scientific inventions by the influence of class legislation . What right , then , have you to be in love with this legislation ? Seven years ago , I predicted ! that the day of auction would come . I f they bid the Charter for us , we will let the lot be knocked down : if

    they bid less it shall be a reserved lot , and we will buy it in ourselves , until it will bring the full price . „ Now you have got the millocracy , who have made their . thousands , not &y your labour , but by machinery , telling yon that the landed aristocracy are the party who oppress you , and that they alece are striving for your interest ; this is a strange picture . When the mouthpiece of this party , the Whigs , were in office , they would scarcely believe in the existence of distress in the the land ; it was only the necessary consequence of the fluctuations in trade in a great commercial country . Bat r . o sooner were they on the point of leaving office , than they made the important discovery thai the distress was general , that it was-great and unparalleled , and begged not to leave their office until they provided

    a remedy . For ten long years they ^ ould " not admit its existence ; bat to ensure a continuance of office , they would even attempt a remedy . Peel has been now six months in considering the drugs -which he shall put in the bolus which is to cure yon . Although he has taken up his diploma at Tamworth , yet he seems too modest to practice his profession . Russell was a much better 3 > oetor ; be did administer bis Reform purge . Never was there bo much distress in England Einse England was known , and never was there so ranch money spent in speculation of every description . If America wants twenty millions of money for gambling speculations , England can furnish it . ' . If twenty millions is wanted at home for railroad speculations , the money is immediately forthcoming ! IfthedeBpoticruIerofFranceTrants

    money to build a wall to enclose his subjects in Paris that he may the easier'tyxannizs and subdue them , he has only to come to England and there is the money j all the wealth is in the pockets of the few—all the poverty on the side of the many . The poverty is on the side of the men with no votes , while the wealth is accompanied with the vote . Is not this contrast enough to force U 3 to make love to them by wholesale—to induce us to put our arms round their necks and say we love you , and we will instantly be married to yon ? The votes have done so mnch for you , surely they will benefit us . In America , the case is different , there if the bank fails who are the sufferers ? not the people but their representatives , who are now begging in the streets of Washington for their salaries . If Peel ' s salary

    depended nponyonr having a good Saturday nights , depend upon it that yeur interest would be well attended to ; this is the meaning of the Charter . Do not be " gammoned as you were at the time of the Reform Bill . They tell ns we are delnders . Bid they not delude us with the benefits we were to derive from that measure ? We were to have pigs ready roasted running about with knives stuck in them , asking us to eat them ; all was to be happiness and plenty . We ask for no more than they promised us , that taxation and representation should be co-extensive . At present there is no bid for us in the auction mart ; Peel has got his majority of 123 , and he cares more for them than for the whole people . The Whigs will not bid a fair price for ns . Give us the Charter , and we will not have three words about the Corn Laws ; we will not have one word : if we have the Charter , on Saturday night , away goes the Com Laws on Monday morning . Would a mason go to work without his hammer , or a gardener without his

    spade ?—Yet the men want to repeal the Com Laws without having the necessary tools ; want the end without-having the means to accomplish it Give the vote to every man aged twenty-one years , and instead of a minority of 123 , we should have a nnaniraou * vote for free trade with the whole world . The Whigs know E ^ L ^ f " * £ H * " ¦** aey c ** " * drto * eel from office , but we will not be made tools of ; we -will have our fingers in the pie , et we will not exert the prepare & > m witnoufc We know the treachery of the T ^ "SL ^ T- ^ «« " »• - *« "frteen months did I endure ttefa-cham ; but I know that if a straggle did SE ^ m S ^*^ ** * ' * ey ^ 5 raw ^ the screw stall tighter . They would aise me up in the I ^ uh ^ T ^ me out to dry for the benefit of mybealtb . If I hate the Whigs I hate the Tories five S ^ TTi , * t £ * V *** ** ri ± tfce Tories are -dsvSsui hell ; .: bat as far as your interest- is concerned , taere is no difference between teem ; all of them pfc upon the profits of yonr labour , and they - ¦ wffl

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    Jupport any -v ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ tb 5 ? ffl , ^ _^ of their teUn f *^ ; ^ tU idvotai *! C ! the League in \ he Hue and Cry- I aave Wtvtinually endeavoured to find them out but they continue to hide their heads , to flee before me . At Nottingham , I addressed a meeting of from forty to sixty thousand people . At Darby , we also had an immense meeting , not standing room , in the Theatre . At Lonznborough , last night , I addressed a meeting of 10 , 000 persons of all classes . At all these meetings , I explained my opinions on the Corn Laws , and drove the opinions of the League before me . If the Corn Law * were repealed to-morrow , yon would not be able to perceive the difference between the repealed and the unrepealed loaf ; the flour factor , the miller and the baker , will monopolise all the benefit When the duty was repealed on leather , was the manufactured article cheaper to the purchaser ? If the Com Laws were repealed to morrow , and one hundred fold more of

    British goeds were required in the foreign market , in seven months t ime mor e machinery would be created than wonld manufacture more than two hundred times the quantity of goods Jtqaired ; and again would the markets be glutted . Artificial labour would then even more than displace human labour .. Are you not suffering severely enongh from this cause , that you wish to snffer still more ? Are not the men from the North coming up to compete with the men of London ? So long as the masters hive a reserve to fall back upon , so long will you be short of employment and ill remunerated . I hope if there are any shopkeepers here they will pay attention to the statements of working men , they are wiser on this . subject than I am . I want the Charter that the working class may enlighten the middle class . I want to know whose interest the shopkeeper should lost to , the aristocrcy or the working men . I can show to you that their interest is completely opposed to that of the manufacturers , they have the whole of their raw materials from other sources ;

    they go not to the shopkeeper for a single article , while the working man lays out his whole earnings with them . If you go to a town and see the cottages empty you may depend upon it , that the shopkeepers are in distress , their customers being unable to purchase their goods , yet these men cry out cheap bread ! cheap bread ! The uncommon fools do not know that cheap and dear are relative terms , that it is as hard to buy a loaf at Id . if you have not got the penny for it , as it is tobuy it at 6 d . If they got their measure to-morrow they would ask " what do those noisy fellows want bothering about the Charter , have they not got the Corn Laws repealed ? We want the Charter not so much to repeal the Com Laws as when they are repealed to direct the advantage gained

    by their repeal into its proper channel , the stomach of the people . They ( the Corn Law Rspealers ) are squabbling about moonshine , are caviling about two million quarters of corn , worth about £ 4 , 000 , 000 money . Tkey say nothing about the £ 10 , 000 , 000 swallowed up by the church , about £ l 5 . 000 , 000 by the army and navy ; not one word about the power of the middle classes ; not a syllable d » they say of the -working of machinery , or the extravagance of our Government ; no , they are too interested in these monopolies , they only want their younger son * and brothers to fill the places now filled by the other faction . If you got the repeal it would raise my Lord Denman ' s salary from £ 8 , 000 to £ 12 , 000 ; it would raise the salaries of all sinecurists and placemen , and men of fixed incomes one half . Let

    us see how it would affect us . If you earn twenty shillings a week now , and pay thirteen shillings out in taxes , you -will still have seven shillings to live on , but if tho Com Laws are repealed , and you had cheap bread , and got fifteen shillings per week , and the expenditure of the Government "was the same , namely , thirteen shillings , you would only have two shillings per weJk . It does not want the brains of an Isaac Newton te understand this subject , yu can understand it , y"u are not so thick-skulled ? s the aristocracy . If the Chancellor of the Exchequer could raite money no way , and was forced to put a tax upon brains , they w&uld come round to the working class with their brain gage , and would tell you what beautiful heads you have got , bow largely you hsve cot the bump of intelligence ,

    &c , developed , and they ¦ would go to the aristocracy and tell them what great dunderheads they -were , that they had no brains at alL I am proud to tell you of the great triumph we had over the League at Sheffield I have heard that yon had a similar triumph at the Egyptian Hall , that you turned them into Egyptian mummies . I am more proud to hear of your triumph in my absence , than when 1 am present ; it shows to your opponents that you can depend upen your own resources , that you rely cniy upon the justice of your cause , and not upon any leader . The League are now in the position ef the two gents who -went to fight a duel , the one asked his second to persuade the other to make an apology , but was told he would not The damn'd obstinate rascal , try him again . Still

    it was unsuccessful . Well , then , if the obstinate fellow won't apologise I must " This was our present position . We had been paying too dear for our whistles We have to maintain too many kings and queens . By the bye , he had the honour to announce that her Majesty was again in a condition to present them with another royal prince . You have now the pleasure of supporting three kings and three queens : you have King Albert , King Cumberland , and King Leopold , with their enormous pensions ; you have then Queen Adelaide , with £ 109 , 000 a year . ; 1 b it not disgraceful that this should be fo when so many thousands are starving . You havo Queen Victoria and the Queen Mother , the Duches 3 of Kent Can you wonder that you are in destitution when you have a quantity

    of royal blood preying upon you ? Jf any one from the Home Office is here , as I have no doubt there are , let them eaxxy it to their masters that I say , 'when the cottage totters the palace will falL It is impossible that the mason can be kept up when the cottage has fallen ; it is impossible that a starving people can be loyaL Let , the Qaeen be loyal to the people by properly causing the laws to be administered , and the people would be loyal to her , not as a woman , but as the head of the Executive . We wish to see the laws like a lamb , and the Executive like a lion . If the laws are violated , those who violate them should suffer ; but they should be administered equally . At present there is more danger to the peasant who shoots the squire ' s hare than the squire who shoots the peasant ' s head . We

    want a more equitable administration of our resource ? . We do not want , as our enemies assert , an equal distribution , but an equitable one , each to be rewarded—not equally , but according to their work . If a poor man is fined a day ' s wages for being drunk , an aristocrat should be fined a week ' s salary . He wanted laws to be equally administered . Not when a Lord committed murder to acquit him upon honour , and with less than this we will never bs satisfied . We look to the Charter as a means to create a union among all classes . If the power was to be vested in one particular class , it had ought to be in the industrious classes ; for it is their interest to advance the interests of every class of society . If they legislated for their own interest , they must also vote

    for the interests of the capitalists . But we wish all to have an equal power to that which we claim for ourselves . There are only two classes of men I would deprive of a vote ; they are these men who , having the vote now , would deprive others of it , and those who have net got it , and will not exert themselves to procure it . Mr . O'Connor then entered into the question of a Repeal of the Union , and commented in strong terms on the conduct of the Irish shooting Church . If the only want of the Irish is a Parliament , we will give them our 658 already cut and dried . I will never rest until the bargain for the people is struck one way or other . If you are sold , it shall be with your eyes open .

    I have spent many hundreds every year in this agitation , and I have never received one farthing from either party . I will stand fast by my principles . I will nover abandon this agitation . Beware of promises from the Anti-Corn Law factions . There will be no hope for the people until they get the Charter . When that measure is attained , I will abandon public life for ever . It shall never be said that I gained anything by the movement I would rather receive £ 500 a-year as a jadge for administering the people ' s laws than £ 20 , 000 a-year from the Exchequer . Like Cincinna ' us , 1 will retire to my plough and profession , and while life lasts , I will never be a tool in the hands of either faction . ( Tremendous cheering . )

    Mr . H . Leigh then addressed the meeting in support of the resolution ; and , in a speech of upwards of an hour ' s dnration , completely demolished every assertion made by the League , and rivettsd the attention of the whole assembly by his thrilling eloquence , and was greatly applauded . The resolution was then put , and unanimously carried . Three cheers were then given for Feareus O'Connor , for the Charter , for the Star , and the victims .

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    pur 36 S 6 Is ftgovenment if it is not to protect the people ? The Premies has declared that he cannot find a remedy for the dlitiws of the nation , well then it was high time we aWpted his previous advice , namely , take our own affiirt into onr own own hands—( loud cheers )—the Ctottists had been roundly abused by the press , this had sot made them love the Charter less—( hear )—oh the contrary they were determined to adhere to it until it was enacted as law—( loud cheers . ) Was it likely those who lived upon their industry could ever be their representatives ? We have now arrived at a crisis , the anti-Corn Law agitation had proved a

    complete failure , because they had not the people at their back . ( A voice " Wby don't the Chartists join them ? " ) Yes , bnt upon what terms ? they hid not kept faith with ub , we will have a firm guarantee first . He for his part wonld not go with them unless they would go for the whole Charter , and that first—( rapturous applause . ) They professed to be friends of the people , then let them come forward and help the people to obtain political power—( cheers . ) As to repeal , suppose it obtained tomorrow , what contronl have you over the House to prevent its reenactment the next day—( cries of " none , none . " ) Then let the people be determined not to be humbugged , and success is certain—( cheers )

    Mr . Ruffy Ridley seconded the resolution . It gratified him to see his fellow-men so anxiously and perseveringly seeking their jnat rights . They were determined to be galled no more . He was the advocate of the liberties of all , without distinction of sect , creed , cast , or colour—( cheers . ) He was for fair discussion ; hear all men , and judge for themselves There are now at this time three meetings being held in this metropolis for the same purpose . He had been to one , and left their champion , Feargus O'Connor —( great cheering )—addressing them . This was a sign that the working classes were bent upon obtaining their just rights—( hear , hear . ) I ask you , one and all , be you what you may , have I not a right to have a voice in the making of the laws by which I am governed ?—( hear , hear . ) We had the Whigs—they gave us a Poor Law : we had the Tories—they give us the police . The

    quack doctor had his trial , and put six of his family in fat births Let him go on longer , and you will have gagging bills ; but if you allow the present state of things to be - continned you will deserve the name of slaves . He was snre they agreed that all men bad equal rights . If the Corn Law repealers would pnt the Charter on their banners along side repeal he would go with them—( loud cheers)—but we have been deceived by their class . We will not be deceived again—( loud cheers ) The Charter gave the right to all—( hear , hear )—and they were determined to accept nothing less ( great cheers . ) The order of indnstry had been issulted , grossly abused and calumniated ; but they were not to be deterred . Portugal had proclaimed the Charter without spilling a single drop of blood . Then be you firm—act aa men—let English , IriBb , Scotch , and Welsh firmly unite , and Buccess is certain—( loud cheering . ) .

    The resolution was put and carried unanimously . Mr . C . F . Goodfellow was highly gratified at the unanimity that prevailed , and much delighted that the National Petition had been passed with such cordiality . A working man was their president—thus justice prevailed . What a contrast to the Hampstcad-road meeting , where the middle class chairman converted a large majority into a minority . They were accused of being bribed by the Tories . They were not paid by any

    faction ; the obtainment of the Charter was the only reward they sought—( cheers . ) Captain Rous had declared the people possessed comforts , —such as beef iteaks for supper , two pots ( t beer to wash it down , and a quartern of gin to keep it warm . They knew there was no truth in it ; but this was a specimen of class-legislators— ( cheers . ) The late expensive royal christening was one cf its results ; let us obtain the Charter , then we shall have justice for all—( cheering . ) He moved the second resolution , which was as follows :

    " That this meeting declares its determination not to assist or countenauco any agitation that has not for its object the enactment of the six points of the Charter , as from past experience we feel confident there is no hopo of justice for the people from any other class or party in existence , they therefore resolve to depend on themselves alone . " Mr . StaI-lwood supported the resolution in a long speech , during which he was loudly cheered . Dr . M'Dolall said Mr . Chairman , I will not detain you loDg having been quite hoarse from addressing the large mee'ing in Bermondsey , where I regret to say a portion of the place fell down from the immense

    pressure of people —( sensation)—but I am happy to say that no one was much hurt . ( Leud cheer * . ) At no tune was the spirit of the ^ ople more tried , their advocates have been immured in gloomy cells , and borne it without shrinking . The people have been frowned on , calumniated , abused , and threatened with loss of employment , still they are firm , —( loud cheers )—and when splendid allurements aro helded ( u ' , it is the duty of every advocate to caution tbe people against the false delusive baits , and call on them to stand firm to our sacred principles now made glorious by ytur support —( cheers . )—He made a long speech ; and concluded by seconding the resolution , which was put : ind carriee unanimously .

    Mr . Jobdan rose to move that a committee < f five , draw up an address to her Majesty , fouodtd on the foregoing resolutions , also including a prayer for the Immediate restoration of Frost , Williams , aud Jones , and that it be forwarded to Feargus O'Connor , &qr ., for presentation , seconded by Mr . Spokes , and carried unanimously . A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman , and tht meeting quittly dispersed .

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    GLOUGE 5 TER , SOMERSET , AND WILTS . " ¦ y :- ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' ; ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ : - : ¦ ¦¦¦/ V . f ' :: | : : - ^ v-¦ ¦ ¦¦ > ' ¦ ¦¦¦¦ ' ¦'¦ ¦ ' . "¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ : * - - " ' i - ' - ; S- ; S' £ ¦ ... : ¦¦ ¦ . . ¦ - ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ - ¦ s-J - vv 9 . - ~ S ; o ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ _ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ; . ¦ ¦ .. ... -& , ¦ ¦ : . fi % « : in : , p Bristol Trades ... .., 52 52 0 0 0 Bath ' ¦ ;; . ... ... ... 95 51 45 11 5 Cheltenham ... ... ... 107 123 38 0 0 Bristol ... .,. ... 29 34 0 S 3 29 The Deyerills ... ... 45 45 0 0 0 Trbwbridge ... ... 47 49 12 3 1 Stroudwater ... ... 27 36 0 9 0 Frome ... ... ... 39 39 0 0 0 Bradford ... ... ... 17 17 0 0 0 Yeovil . * . ... ... 35 35 0 0 0 Salisbury ... i ... ... 7 8 1 0 0 Wotton-under-Edge ... 15 17 7 7 0 Melksham ... ... ... 25 25 0 0 8 Kingswood ... ... ... 33 25 3 0 18 \ 593 578 106 83 53

    CORNWALL , DEVON , AND DORSET . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ . ; ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦> !» j ' £ ¦ , ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦! . Plymouth ... ... ... ... 24 0 Truro ... . ¦ .... ' ... 1 24 Camborne ... . .... ... 0 46 ¦ ' ¦ - ¦ ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ : . . ... ¦ ¦ '¦ ' . ¦ ¦ 25 70

    MIDDLESEX , ESSEX , SURREY , AND . ' KENT , ,.:. .. Chatham Votes . Dr . P . M . M'Douall 497 20 Ridley ... ••• ... 233 26 Parker — ... ... 168 0 Stallwood ... ... ... 156 25 Fussell . " . » ... 133 8 M'Grath ... ... ... 115 2 Watkina ... ... ... 87 1 Kaight ... ... ... 86 0 Tlenhow - ... ... ... 59 0

    Barmby ... ••• 45 0 Roberts h ... ... ... 40 0 Balls ... ... ... 32 0 Fox ... ... ... ... 6 0 Rainsley .... ... ... 2 © Robson ... .. ¦••• 1 0 It will be seen , according to this , that Dr . M'Douall , Ruffey Ridley , and E . Stallwood are at the head of the poll , of course Mr . Fussell can correct me if I am wrong the Chatham correspondent states he did not know where to send the polling to , and he sent it , to me .

    According to the returns the following persons are to be brought forward to public meetings , and elected to serve in the forthcoming Convention : — Northumberland and Durham—James Bronterre O'Brien . Yorkshire—F . O'Connor , L . Pitkethly , and Geo . Binns . ; Lanoashire- ^ -J . Leach and W . Beesley . Cheshire—Christopher Doyle .: Norfolk , Suffolk , aud Cambridge—J . Campbell . Derby , Leicester , and Nottingham—No return as yet . ¦ : . ; . ' . ' ¦' . . •>' ¦ ' ,

    Staffordshire—J . Mason . Warwick and Worcestershire—G . White . Monmouth , Herefordshire , and Wales—Mr . Williams . Devoii , Cornwall , and Dorset—Mr . Powell . Gloucester , Somerset , and Wilts—R . K . Philp and W . P . Roberta . Hants , Sussex , and the Isle of Wight—N . Morling and W . Woodward . Essex , Middlesex , Surrey , & Kent—Dr . M'Douall , R . Ridley , and E . Stallwood . . Cumberland and Westmoroland—None . Northampton and Oxfordshire—None . John Campbell , Secretary .

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    The'Time of Youth . —Idleness is the most pernicious habit that ' youth can acquire ; the early years of life are the parts of a volume too valuable for even asinglo day to appear a useless blank ; and each page should present to recollection some commendable action , Or knowledge attained . —Parley ' s Penny Library !

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    RECEIPTS FOR THE EXECUTIVE FROM THE FIRST OF JANUARY UNTIL THE FIRST OF MARCHj 1842 . £ . s . d . London , per Wheeler ... ... 2 0 0 Nottingham ¦•• ••• •¦• 14 2 Ryde , Isle of Wight ... ... 0 2 0 Per Doyle ... ... ... 0 9 0 J Salisbury ... ... ... 0 11 0 Plymouth ... ... ... 0 5 0 Chowbent ... ... ... 0 8 6 Toduiorden ... ... ... 1 10 10 Oxford ... 0 7 6 Sutton-in-Aehfield ... ... 0 10 0 Hunslet ... ... - 0 10 0

    Ovendeu ... ••• 0 42 Sowerby ... ••• 0 9 0 Bradford ... — — 2 17 0 Rochdale , per Leach ... ... 1 4 0 Do . per Featherstone ... ... 0 3 0 Oldham Females ... ... -0 3 0 Huddersfield ... ... ... 15 0 Southampton ... ... ..... 0 4 0 Chelmsford ... ... ... 0 2 6 Kettering ... ... 0 5 0 Leicester ... ¦•• ... 4 0 0 Miles Platten ... ... ... 0 2 0 Stafford .. 0 11 6 Acrington ... ... -0 3 4 Star Office ... ... 4 4 fj Bilston ... ... . ' - 0 16 8

    Banbury ... ... '¦• ••• ¦ 1 0 0 Lees ... ... ... .- 0 5 0 Merthyr Tydvil ... .. 2 0 0 Salford 0 10 0 Staleybridge ... ... ... 0 10 Birmingham , Steelhouse-lane ... 0 10 0 London , Salmow ... — 0 2 0 London , Lefevre ... 0 5 0 Bacup ... ... 0 6 8 Delph — ¦ .... — 0 9 0 Stockport Youths ... ... 1 6 8 Dukcnfield ... -. 0 8 2 Abardare ... ... 0 15 0 Openshaw ... .... 0 2 0 Tavistock 0 10 0 Halifax ... ... 0 14 11

    Wacisworth-row ... ... v 6 6 WarJey ... ... 0 3 8 Mytholmroyd ... . ... 1 2 10 Mixeuden ... ... 0 2 0 Arnold ... ... 0 6 0 Lynn ... ... 0 6 6 Canterbury ... ... 0 7 6 London , Marylebone ... ... 0 16 8 Preston Youths ... ... 0 8 4 Per Lowe ... ... 0 1 2 Greenwich ... ... 0 5 0 Sittingbourne ... ... ... 0 13 Thornton ... 0 17 0 Brighton ... ... ... 0 15 0 Daventry .... ... ... 0 5-0

    Manchester Youths ... ... 0 2 6 Wolverbampton , per Mogg ... 0 16 0 A Shoemaker , ditto ... ~» 0 3 0 Wellingborough . 042 Long Buokby ... ... ... 0 3 0 Bristol Youths ... ... 0100 Stoke-npon Trent ... ... 0 15 0 Per Griffin ... ... ... 0 0 6 Rippondeu ... ... ... 1 14 6 Liverpool ... ... ... 1 13 6 Chorley ¦ : ... ... 0 12 0 Preston ... ... ... 0 9 0 Nottingham , per Thatcher ... 0 10 0 Hanley , per Richards ... ... 1 3 4

    Bath ... ... ... ... 1 0 0 Durham ... ... ... % 12 0 London Tailors , per Mr . Cameron 0 15 6 Bingley ... ... ... 0 8 4 Colne ••• ... I 0 ¦ 0 Bristol , per Simeon ... ... 1 10 2 Holmfirth ... ... ... 0 10 0 London , St . Pansras , per Polling 1100 Kendal ... ... ... 0 5 0 Hanley Females ... ... 0 6 0 Boston ... ... ... 1 0 0 A . L . ... ... ... 0 5 0 Loughborough ... ... 0 18 0 Females ... ... ... 0 2 0 Walworth ... ... ... 0 5 0 Glossop .. . . . . . . . 0 8 4 Lambly ... ... ... 0 3 4 London Hatters , per Kelsey ... 0 10 0

    Spilsby ... ... ... 0 2 6 Longtott ... ... ... 0 15 10 Honley ... ... ... 0 1 0 Miln-row ... ... ... 0 5 0 Salford Youths' ... ... 0 2 0 Walsall ... ... ... 0 10 6 Warmiri 8 ter ... ... ... 10 0 Hyson Gteea ... ... ... 0 2 , 6 Leicester , per Markam ... ... 0 8 4 London , Chelsea ... ... 010 0 London , Bermondsey ... ... 0 10 0 LondonjjDIeave ... ... 2 2 8 Bristol Trades ... ... 0 16 8 Sfcjegby , ... ... ... 0 4 0 Kingswood Hill » , ... 0 6 0 London . Females , Tower Hamlets 0 15 0 Marple ... : .. ; ^ ... y 0 6 , 0 — ... .... ... 0 9 0 - ——— — ¦¦ ¦" ... •• : '¦ ¦ ¦• .., ' ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦ . . "¦ ¦ : o ' " 8 "' -4

    * I cannot call to mind by whom the 9 s . above has been sent ; the 8 s . id . has been paid to Mr . Laach , and he cannot recollect by whom . Mr . Smith , of Plymouth , will see that the 5 p . omitted In the last account , is inserted in this . Mr . Polling , of St . Pancras , will see that the 10 s . to acknowledged .

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    The following are the debts of ' the Association , _ at near a $ I possibly could make thent out . The Sub-Secretaries ought monthly to forward to me fhe number of pat / ing members in their Jo-. . ; . caMeSi ~* ' ¦[ . ' ; ¦[ ' : ¦ ¦ . ¦; . " ' . >; ' :. /; v-. ' ¦ .: : ; / ' ¦ 7 ¦ : ' . Mem- Mon- . , . ' . .- ¦ ¦ - ; , ' ; . ' . ; ¦¦ - . : " . ¦ "' .. ' beia , ifchs . :: . - ' ¦" ¦'"¦ ¦ .:. ' . .. ¦ . ¦ ¦ : " . . •" ..-. ¦ ¦ - - " . 120 2 Manchester , Redfettt-stteefc . i . 1 0 0 60 2 Manchester Gsneral Counoil 2 0 0 60 2 Contributions , Ashton 0 10 0 60 3 Contributions , 37 cards ;

    Stook'¦ . ¦ ' . ¦ : pOrt ... . .. '' . .... . ¦ ' . ' . ' . . ¦ ' ' : *¦ . 1 . 2 60 2 ContributiQns . Wingate Grange Colliery i . ; ... 0 10 0 40 2 ditto , and 40 cards , Chorttott 0 13 4 Sutton-in-Ashfield ... ... 0 £ 0 90 4 ditto , Eooles .. * .. ; 1 10 0 30 2 ditto , and 24 cards , Middleton 0 9 0 120 2 ditto , and 100 cards , Bolton 1 IS 8 40 2 ditto , Warwick ... ... 0 6 8 300 1 ditto , and 180 cards , Bradford 2 15 0 40 2 ditto , Northampton ... - " ... 0 6 8 20 2 ditto , Brampton ... ... 0 3 4 90 2 ditto , Rochdale ... ... 0 15 0 90 7 i months'ditto , 148 cards , Oldham ... ... ... 3 17 5 200 1 Contributiojs , district of Hudfield , ... ... .. > 0 16 8 24 2 ditto , Southampton ... ... 0 4 Q 20 2 ditto , and 12 cards , Rooden Lane ... ... ... 0 5 4 30 2 ditto , Market Weightori ... 0 5 0

    50 2 ditto , Barnslsy ... ... 0 8 4 60 2 ditto , and 90 cards , Bishopwearmouth ... ... 1 5 0 40 2 ditto , Warrington ... ... 0 6 8 30 2 ditto , Stockton ... ... 0 5 0 18 2 ' ditto , and 19 cards , Penyame 0 6 2 30 2 ditto , and 52 cards , Newport , Monmouth ... ... 0 13 8 150 2 ditto , and £ 2 balance due to the 31 st December ... 3 5 0 30 2 ditto , Astley ... ... 0 5 0 120 2 ditto , Leeds ... ... 1 0 0 40 2 ditto , and 12 cards , Miles 1

    . » Plattin ... ... ... 0 8 8 60 2 ditto , and 60 cards , Mossley ... 1 0 0 40 71 ditto , Mottram ... ... 1 5 0 30 2 ditto , Holbrooke ... ... 0 5 0 80 2 ditto , Bishop Auckland ... 0 5 0 24 4 ditto , artd 24 cards , Worcester 0 12 0 100 1 and 100 cards , Sheffield Polilitical Institute ... ... 1 5 0 100 7 ^ and 80 cards , Sheffield , Figtree- > lane ... ... ... 3 15 10 60 6 York ... ... ... 1 10 0 30 6 and 50 cards , Scarboro' ... 13 4 72 2 with 12 a . Id ., balance due 31 st Dec , Pollors Simpson ... 14 1 120 2 Richards ... ... ... I 0 0

    72 7 ^ Derby ... ... ... 2 5 0 30 6 Brom 9 grove ... ... 0 15 0 30 6 Darlaston ... ... ... 0 15 0 50 1 Bingley ... ... ... 0 4 2 100 4 Colne ... ... ... 1 13 * 4 30 6 Yeoyil ... 0 15 0 30 6 Cardiff ... ... ... 0 15 0 60 6 Macclesfield ... ... 1 10 0 90 4 Cheltenham ... ... 1 10 0 30 4 Holmfirth ... ... ... 0 10 0 90 4 Sunderland ... ... ... 1 10 ' 0 30 6 Carlisle ... 0 15 0 80 1 and 20 cards , Kendal ... 0 5 10 72 74 Dewsbury . . ... , ... 2 5 0 40 ll Belper 1 50

    30 2 Truro ... 0 50 30 2 Chester ... 0 5 0 30 6 Kidderminster ... / ... 0 15 0 30 2 Wisheach ... ... . ' ... 0 5 0 60 3 Abergavenny ... ... 0 15 0 24 2 Newport , Isle of Wight ... 0 4 0 30 lh Pontypool ... ... ... 0 18 9 30 3 " Skipton ... ... ... 0 7 6 40 1 Glossop ... .. . ... O '" 3 4 30 6 and 50 cards , Wigan . ... 1 3 4 20 120 cards , Longtoa ... ... 1 0 0 20 2 Northwich ..: ... ... 0 3 4 20 2 New Mills ... ... ... 0 3 4 72 1 and 72 cards , Holbeck ... 0 18 0 60 1 Milnrow ... ... ... 0 5 0 30 4 Millbottom ... ... ... 0 10 0 24 3 Ratcliffe ... ... ... 0 6 0

    50 2 Sabden ... ... ... 0 12 6 30 3 and 25 cards , Heywood ... 0 11 8 60 2 Norwich .. ... ... 0 10 0 90 3 and 60 cards , CHthero ... 1 12 -6 12 Ih Accriugcoa ; ... ... 0 7 6 400 b " and 300 cards , Bilston ... 7 10 0 40 3 Banbury ... ... ... 0 10 0 30 2 and 50 cards , Failsworth ... 0 13 ' 4 30 6 and 36 cards , Gloucester ... 110 30 3 Lees ... ... .,. 0 7 6 30 4 aud 60 cards , Howden ... 1 0 0 100 7 * and 100 cards , Hull ... 3 19 2 60 . 2 Hebdeu . Bridge ... ... Oil ) 0 30 4 and 50 cards , Congleton ... 0 18 4 120 3 and 00 cards , Newcastle-upon-Tyno ... ... ... 2 0 0 50 2 Balance due to 31 st Dec ., 1841 ,

    Salford ... ... ... 1 11 4 30 4 and 60 cards , Wigton ... 1 0 0 30 2 and 50 cards , Stalybridge ... 0 13 4 30 4 and 50 cards , Bury ... 0 18 ¦ . 4 100 7 i Birmingham , Freeman-street 3 5 10 30 2 Bacup ... ... ... 0 5-0 120 2 and 100 cards , Aberdare ... 1 16 8 30 2 and 20 cards , Openshaw ... 0 8 4 30 2 Stom-hiiiige ... ... 0 5 0 20 2 Batley ... ... ... 0 3 4 50 2 and 20 cards , Ipswich ... Oil 8 100 2 Tower Hamlets ... ... 0 16 8 100 2 Maryleboio " ... ... 0 16 8 100 4 Burnley ... ... ... 1 13-4 ¦ ¦

    24 ¦ 7 * and 36 carda , Gloucester ... 110 30 2 and 30 cards , Barnstaple ... 0 10 0 50 2 an d 120 cards , WolvertiamptoD 18 4 24 2 WellonboroUgh ... ... 0 4 0 30 2 and 32 cards , Long Buckley ... 0 10 4 30 2 and 10 cards , West Auckland 0 6 8 50 cards , Stoke-upon-Trent 0 8 4 120 2 Liverpool ... ... 1 0 0 50 7 i Lancaster ... ... 111-3 75 74 Blackburn ... ... 2 6 10 72 1 Chorley .. ... ... 0 60 90 1 " Preston ... ... ... 0 7 6 50 7 | Newton Heath ... ... Ill 3 50 1 and 50 cards , Leicester , All

    Saints Open ... ... 0 12 6 70 3 Barnoldiiwick ... ... 0 1 / 6 60 cards , Cockermouth ... 0 16 0 24 cards , Carnborne ... 0 4 0 30 4 and 24 cardsV Stroudwater ... 0 14 0

    £ — 0 0 Outstanding debts ... £ 135 10 « ¦ Brother Quartists : —I have charged the aaiount as near the mark as I could . I hardly knew how to act . I cannot get the Sub-Secretaries generally to inform me of the actual number of paying members monthly . Were I to charge according to the number of members who have voted , the Association would bo much more in debt than it is . I hope thai . immediate steps will be taken to pay off the debt , and enable the Executive to go to work in earnest ¦ v In the column to the left I have inserted the probable number of paying members , in the next column the number of months , that the contributions should be paid for , with tho number pt cards unpaid for . If I have over charged , or under charged the Association , the fault is not mine . ' : \ ,..: : ~ .

    On the 1 st Saturday in March , a balance sheet of the income and expenses will appear . , '' .. ¦' . ;¦ .. " . It is too olten the case , that the Society sells the cards , aud devotes the money to its own ; purposes , leaving the Executive to pay for their printing as beat they can . .. '¦ . ' - ¦ ¦ ; ¦ . ¦ ' '¦ _ . ¦; . ' . . ' . ¦' ¦ ;; , • . ' : . The thanks of the whole Chartiai body is due to the Halifax district , to Todmorden , London , the Potteries , Nottinghanishii-e , and other -. places , ''' , who havo done their duty so well . Had it hot been for them , the Executive would have been placed in very awkward circumstances ; indeed , the Bristol friends also , have done their duty nobly . Hoping that the good cause will prosper even more rapidly than it does at present Youra in the cause , John Campeell , Secretary . ¦ !¦'¦» i < Jin * i 11 » 1 ^^ # i ^* # ^ ' ^ W ^^^^^^^—t mi * V 4 \ 0 \ 1 ' t *\ * t m f'lf ^ - ¦

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    Aw Old Prisoner . —There is now residing ifl the Fleet Prison a man named Jeremiah Board , who has been a prisoner ever since 1815—no less than "twenty-seven years . " Board was committed by the Court of Chancery for contempt , and no proceedings under the Insolvent Debtors' Act could be prosecuted until the present act came into operation , when a pro vision was made , enabling creditors to adopt compulsory proceedings against debtors . A vesting order was obtained against Board , and a seizure made of property , by which money and

    securities wereibiind on his person , some of which was secreted in his shoes . The matter remained some time , and a recent application was made respecting about £ 1 , 600 which was in the hands of the assignee who had obtained the vesting order , and which sum it was thought had better be paid into court . The commissioner ordered , from the extraorflinary nature 1 of the case , that creditors should be sought after : j and advertisements have appeared in the newspapers , calling on persons who have any claim to come forward , before farther orders were giviBn respecting the money . ¦ ; : ;;' ., '• . ;

    A Lamb Buried in the Snow " Nineteen Davs . r ^ A one year old lamb belonging to Messrs . Sutton ^ i ^ * Tn » b ? baw Farm , was missed on the 13 th of Jaaaary , during a heavy fall of snow , and was not . found again until the first of the present month , when it was discovered in a ditch , standing in an tprfght position , having been nineteen days enveloped in a snow drift , by which ifc had been reduced to a mere skeleton . When brought into the fresh air , it conld neither stand nor wait ; but by the judiciousToaro and treatment 1 of Messrs . Sut * ton ' s old shepherd , Joseph Jenkinson , it has now quite recovered the effects of so long a deprivation of nutriment . —Stafford Advertiser . - :

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    THE OPERATIVE STONE # A 8 ONS LATELY EMPLOYED Al ' THE ^ NEW HOUSES OF PARWAMENt ^ NELSON'S kONTJMBNT AND WOOLWICH DQCSYARDi TO THE

    TRADES AND THE PUBLIC OF GREAT BRITAIN ^ ' ; - : ¦' ¦ ; :. ¦' ¦ i ^ y- / ' ' / i ^ " / - '¦ : Bbothbr Operatives , —Gratefullyacknowledging the handsome and noble manner in which you have already contributed to our aid , circumstances of an urgent : nature compel us to solicit your further and . immediate assistiace . Grissell ana Peto , Johasoa and the llayjor Granite CbmtfSny , ine Government , a&d a ho 3 t of other capitalists , have manifestly leagued themselves together , hot only with a view to defeat the object of " the Masons" in resisting the cruelty of Allen , but as it has been openly stated by the Tory Mayor of Norwich , To defeat the combined efforts of-the trades of the British empire in their , " as he was ¦ pleased to term it ,

    " attack upon the rights of capital . " . To neutralize the evil machinations of this arrogant , rapacious , and " unholy alliance , " which , insensible to all generous feelings , revel in affluence at the cost of suffering humanity , a coalition of the energies , and concentration of the means of the trades and working community of the '' Britisk empire" is essential . To enforce for the working manaright beyond that of toiling a given number of hours for a : certain rate of . wages—to enforce for him the privilegeiheld sacred to all other classes of tbe community , that of attending the . dying moments of "the ¦ - ; wife of his I bosom "—tand the last obligation of a son to a revered but deceased mother , that of beiug present at ier committal to that place , - ' . - . - . - : , ¦;';¦ . ' ¦ :.. "; :: . '¦ ' - . ' . ; ::-r - ; : ' : - 'v ' . " v ; . ; "

    "From whose bourn no traveller returns , " without , on returning heart-stricken to his employment , experiencing such acts of consnmmats cruelty as those unto which we have been subjected by the fiend-like Allen . ; : These , friendsi are the Chtistian privileges for which , in a Christian country , we have been so long contending , and in support of which we again solicit with hope and confidence your immediate and liberal Support . : ¦'' ; ¦ ' ¦ : ' ' - ¦ ' . ' :. ' .- '' " .. ;' : ' " v' ' " ¦ ; ' ' . 1 The result of our previous , and the nature of onr present movements , will be found in our donation sheets . Our operations are necessarily extensive ,

    which , as a natural consequence , make onr expenditure heavy . We have delegates in various localities , combatting , with singular success , the agents , "the gold" and the influence of the enemy . To prosecute with firmness and decision these operations ^ an income : of / wd hundred pounds per week-is necessary ij . and . as the inhuman abettors of the atrocities of Allen are now nearly idle for want of stone , without any probability of an early supply , . <« e trust we . shall-, not be compelled to forego the advanced position we have attained from the want of means to hold it . ' . '¦ . ' - ¦ ' ¦ "' : . . . ¦ ¦ ;• : .. V ' - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ,::-. ' - ¦ ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ •' .. ¦

    In conclusion , We beg most respectfully to remind youj that if we are defeated from the want of support after the publicly asserted determination of the trades , &c . &c , in our favour , it will clench another rivet in that chain of slavery with which we ate already too tightly bound . ; ; The reproach of such & catastrophe would not fall exclusivel y on the Masons—others than they would feel its consequences . The common foe would exultingly declare itself triumphant , despite the united efforts o _ f the trades of Britain , and wreak their vengeance indiscriminately on all . Butt , afford us the " united means and energies of the trades of Britain , " and defeat canfiot—sAntf not—occur . ¦ ¦¦¦ ' ' ' ¦ ' . ¦ .- . - > ' . - 'V . ;' : . ¦ ¦ ' ¦' - ' : '¦¦ ¦ ' -:. ¦¦ '

    Sanguine that au early response will be given to this appeal ; : We remain , respectfully yonr ' s , The Masons' Society , London , March , 1842 . Thomas Shortt , Sec .

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    LONDON-Silk WEAVERS . ^ -An adjourned public meeting of the Spitalfields silk weavers : was held to hear the report of the relief committee , who ac their last meeting , bad passed resolutions , stating that the meeting which Mr . O'Connor addressed at the Crown and Anchor , Bethnal-green , was not composed of ; broad silk weavers , pu t of shoemakers , navigators , fee ., and that even the chairman was riot a weaker . At about nine o'clock , the place wa 3 crowded , arid Mr . J . Pickersgill was called to the chair , but no committee made their appearance , for which conduct much : disapprobation was expressed . Mr . Thompson moved the following resolution : — "That this meeting hereby call upon the relief committee to resign , and that they / appoint a . committee

    of six unemployed operative weavers to superintend their interests . " The word •' unemployed" was afterwards withdrawn . Mr . Carey seconded the resolution , which was supported by Messrs . Rod well , Wright , Slater , Franks , and others . Mr . Wilson moved as an amendment , ¦* * That a public meeting of the trade be called on that day week , ( Saturday , March 5 tb ) , and that the committee be called upon to attend . " He wa 3 not satisfied that they should merely be called upon to resign , but that they should be severally censured for tho conduct , and for the base manner in which they had misrepresented the late public meeting , addressed by Mr . O'Connor . " Mr . Finnett Beconded the amendment , and many

    others , all weavers , addressed the / meeting , condemning tho conduct of the committee . During this interval , Mr . Claisse , the secretary of the trade , and of the committee , entared the room , and replied to questions , which were put to him , in a candid manner . Mr . Claisee then pledged his word to the meeting , that , as secretary to the trade , he woald call a BQeeting on Saturday next , by handbills , of the whole trade , and that he would attend and reguest the attendance of the committee / who , he believed , would resign . The motion and amendment were then withdrawn , and after Ruffy Ridley had briefly addressed ^ the meeting , stating hisintention to meet tho committee , the business was adjourned .

    ASHBUETON ( Dfiro . v . ) -The woollen trade here is in a dismal state . Hundreds are out of work aud in a state of starvation , with no sign of any improvement . Many clever artizans are driven to emigra . te to America , through the want ef employmeat . If a change does not take place soon , we fear the result . ¦¦ ..-.-. "

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    VotuNiARr Attempt at Starvation . —A girl named t iaville , living at Felsted , Essex , had been missing for twelve days prior to the 9 thinst ; On that day some men found her nearly in a dying . state ; She gives 110 satisfactory account of why she voluntarily atienVpted starvaiion , but she says sho was in the wood ten days and nights , with no other covering than the clothes she bad on , nor any protection from the inclemency of the season than a few leaves she had collected together to lie on . She had seen no one during the time , nor had she eaten anything whatever or took any sustenance further thau sucking some water from the brook through a reed . She is still in ^ a very precarious Btate ^—BuryPost . ¦ ' . ¦' . " . " . V . ''• ¦• ¦ . - ¦'¦' . ' r ' :: r-- ' - ; .. - . " , ::. .-

    Robbery of £ 2000 from the Manchester and Blackbubn Coach . —On Friday evening woekj a leather trunk or box containing 1500 sovereigns and £ 500 in £ 5 notes , was forwarded by Messrs . Cunlrffss , Brooks , and Co ., bankers , Manchester , to their house ia Blackb / urn , by the Perseverance coach . Two suspicious persons were outside passengers , and who , after going as far as Bury , or a little beyond that place , got off , and with them took the trunk and its contents . £ 100 reward is offered for sneh

    information as will lead tpthe detection of the thieves . On Wednesday morning . Mr , Beswick , the active police-officer , succeeded in obtaining a clue , by which he apprehended a person who there is little doubt was one of the party , namely , a person named Thelwall ( not the Mr . R . Thelwall , whose premises mte robbed of jewellery to a large amount some twe or three months ago , but his br other , ) on whose person : it is said 200 sovereigns were found . He was brought before the magistrates at Manchester , on Wednesday , and remanded for a week .

    The Hounslow Powder Milxs . ^ -More Explosions . — -We understand that" Peter Thomas and William Colvins , the two survivors of the late dreadful explosion of a corning-miU on the premises of Messrs . C . B . and T . Curtis and Harvey , gunpowder manufacturers , which occurred on the morning of Saturday , the 12 th ult ., are still going on well , and fast advancing towards convalescence . Scarcely , however , has the excitement occasioned throughout the neighbourhood of Hounslow by the melaucboly occurrence begun , to subside , before we have to announce two other explosions on the works of the same firm , which have , however , been unattended bj fatal eonsequence 8 . The first took place on the afternoon of Saturday last , about twentv minutes io

    three 6 clock , in a powder room near to the scene of the previous explosioii . Two men , named John Irish , about twenty-two yeara of age , and Wm . Fox , about the same age , both in the service of Messrs . Curtis and Co ., were sent in to sweep it UP * and while so engaged , from some cause at present unexplained , except that they neglected first to damp the floor , the loose powder exploded , by w " force of which- the windows of the ftnilding * ' broken and the men injuredj Irish being dfeadfoUj burnt about the head and face , so as to be temporarily deprived of Bight ; and Fox , who jump ® 4 through one of the windows into the mill stre&Oj was burned about the hands and arms , &c . Bo tQ to

    sufferers wer 6 promptly ^ sonveyed their residences at Hounslow , and were immediately attended DJ Mr . Frogley , Kurgeon , of that town . Both are . ^ wo un-derstand , doing well , arid likely to recover ^ Taa Second explosion took place on Monday morning , about half-past eight o ' oiock , when the inhabitants of the country around , - for a radius of four or-. fiw miles , were alarmed by a loud report , which on inquiry was found to have occurred at other worka belonging toi the sameifirm , situate at Hatton , nf * f Bedfont , about four miles from Honnslow , by wnioli the roof of a green charged mUl was , it is s ^ . fl blown off , but without any person being either killed orinjqred . " - '" " ' ' ¦ ^ V '¦ ¦ ¦ : " .- ¦ : . ' ¦ . ¦' : ¦ ' ' . '¦" . . i " ' . "' " ' ..-. ¦' .

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    GREAT MEETING IN ST . PANCRAS TO ADOPT THE NATIONAL PETITION . On Thursday evening , Feb . 24 th , the Training Institute , late Royal Clarence Theatre , Liverpool-street , King * Cross , containing a spacious Hall , two spacious galleries , and two side Blips , and large platform—all of whieh were crowded to suffocation—iras the place of meeting . Mr . Potser , a working man , was called to the chair , and expressed bis regret that a more efficient person was not called on to preside over so large a meeting . He congratulated them on the symptoms of

    ' union , exhibited at the many meetings that bad re-; cenUy taken place . He trusted they / would hear everybody that presented themselves patiently —( cheers . ) He would call on Mr . Ferris to read and move the adoption of the 1 National Petition . The Petition having been read , Mr . ! F . said it speaks for itself . It was drawn up by a i Council of working men , and baa already received an j immannA amount of signatures . Althaugk this is the V first public meeting convened in this parish for its adoption . He would therefore more ifc—( lond cheew . ) Mr . SEAL seconded it It was then put and carried ananmoualy , amid loud cheering .

    Mr . FAB . &EE . moved the first resolution as follows .- — " That in the opinion of this meetiog { the declaration of the Prime Minister with regard to the distress of the country , renders him totally unfit for the office , and shows to the people if another argument was wanting , the necessity of the document called the People ' s Charter being passed into a law without deduction or ¦ iteration . " Mr . Chairman and fellow men , 7 think there is so one here but will agree with the resolution . For what

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    RETURNS OF THE VOTES FOR THE CANDIDATES FOR THE CONVENTION . LANCASHIRE . I » 3 i « < 1 * S -5 £ ft Manchester , Browu-street 67 71 5 3 Burnley 22 8 67 3 Manchester , Miles Plattin 22 29 1 r ? Clithero ... ... 0 0 166 0 Harwood ... ... 0 0 100 0 Colno ... ... 0 0 180 0 Lancaster ... ... 0 0 75 0 Sabden 0 0 50 0 Accrington ... ... 1 0 63 0

    Biackburue ... ... . 38 53 69 6 Preston 75 61 18 2 Bacup ... ... 0 0 150 U Barnoldswick ... ... 0 0 70 0 Chorley ... ... 21 20 33 67 Ashton ... ... 60 59 2 2 Oldham 52 56 2 2 Homngmod 17 17 2 2 Lower Moor ... ... 19 19 0 0 Rochdale 11 0 0 Waterhead Mill ... 38 40 2 0 Lees 38 38 0 0 Warrington ... ... 30 32 9 7 Milnrow ... ... 27 21 2 4 Bury ... ... ... 0 60 0 60 Delph ... ... 20 21 0 1

    548 606 1066 165 YORKSHIRE . »> : K . « J OK S K g S" H - * m S O >* m ss X -A O " 1 « 55 . O P o o ^ PQ m p * Yew Green ... 12 14 4 6 0 0 Lepton 30 30 . 0 0 30 I ) Sslby 37 0 16 28 29 33 Scarborough ... 29 0 1 28 17 27 Pocklington ... 23 9 6 17 20 15 Knaresborough ... 13 2 8 13 0 13 Malton 26 0 18 23 0 22 Doncaster 40 0 26 28 45 38 Beverley 16 0 0 0 16 16

    Leeds 67 14 28 62 37 40 Home , Spalding Moor 18 0 1 18 18 17 Hull 85 5 60 63 82 39 Rippouden 29 1 25 22 0 6 Ovenden ... ... 17 2 9 7 0 0 Hunslet 23 0 10 18 20 36 Idle , Little Horton G 3 0 18 28 39 41 Upper Wortley ... 15 3 11 14 1 13 Midgley 19 4 7 19 0 14 York 29 0 1 31 29 30 Bradford 491 7 240 380 101 320 Bingley 18 0 2 16 3 15 Huddersfield ... 158 121 69 115 0 37 Hebden Bridge ... 45 0 33 24 18 19 WadsworthRow ... 35 2 12 29 , 4 23 Barnsley 35 0 18 19 13 30 Thornton 0 0 30 49 59 61 Sheffield 82 4 57 29 53 26 Rotherham ... 37 2 12 27 . * 28 10

    Sowerby 113 66 102 13 108 45 Halifax 92 2 92 97 0 0 Warley ... - 17 3 13 12 0 0 Mixenden 10 3 6 4 0 8 Political Institute , Sheffield ... 27 1 22 12 27 2

    1741 295 957 1252 877 976 STAFFORDSHIRE . 3 it-. a pt Bilston ... ... ... -560 4 , Walsall ... ... ... 50 0 Darleston ... 68 0 Shelton ... ... ... 96 5 Longton ... ... ... 1 133 Hanley ... 2 216 Stoke-upon-Trent ... ... 82 1 Stafford ... ... ... 8 11 Wolverhampton ... ... ... 35 64 902 434

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 5, 1842, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct974/page/6/