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TgS Portrait OF T . DP 5 C 8 MBE "will be giTen to all our Subscribers on November 19 th . They \ rill be in the hands of all the Azents by November 16 th ; aad by abont September 2 ith , \ re-shaH have sufficient of Dancombe ' s printed to supply those Agents who desiite to have both Plates in ona psrce L The cha r ge fo r the S t ar o n t he d a y the Portrait of I > uneoinbe is distributed will be the same as the charge for it on the day the Petition Plate is delivered . 52 E P etition Plates are not yet ready for cur I ^ ncashire Subscribe rs ; but as soon as recei ved tie ? sill be forwarded , fhose for all the other ^
Asenis have been forwarded . The price ef the Star when each Snbscriber receives hia Plate is is ., and no more . The Agents are allowed a per eentsge npon bsth the Paper and the Plate , to cover carriage expenca : they can , therefore , n » t have any excuse for charging more . .--. i * ,-All Ags >" ^ o ^ received their accounts" are requested to send the amount due by return of pott . Patx , Paeihajl—Five Shilling * . Chai ^ hshs , I ^ - —CkU at Drmnmond's for Plites . Jos . v PHIL ? - — Call at same place . BULZT a > "P So >" , Cockebsiouih . —Enclosed to Axttnr . Carlisle .
2 Holbrook , Abkbgatesnt . —We cannot tafce post stamps for such earns ; if he wishes to do without past-dice crder , send half & sovereign . - The pbtes are forwarded to Monmouth . ¦ j y . "Wilkissos . South Shields . —Send them by post to this tfflee . 70 S THE "S-iTIO >' AX DEFEh'CE FC > "D . £ s . d . From a few friends at Wellington Foundry ... 0 15 a Radical , Leeds 0 0 6 Z the Chartists of Leeds 1 10 0 ~ the C hartists cf Birstal ( light half" sovereign ) ... .. 098 G . H ., Leeds 0 0 6 D . Fryer , Halton 0 10 ~ the Chartists or Holme Lane , Tong ... 0 4 0 " * a few frknds at a mill in
Heckmondwifee 0 1 B _ Xittletown .... 6 5 0 ~ the Chsrtiits of Hnnslet 0 10 0 Z the men of Eliand , per E Clayton ... 0 3 0 Z the Chartists cf Yew Green ... ... 050 Collected at Lockwood , by D . Gledhill ... 0 ^ 6 0 From three frie : da , Hndderaflcld 0 0 10 „ the Bristol Tonths 0 5 0 Z F . Gibson , Bristol 0 10 Z Stockton , collected by J . "Umpleby ... 115 3 Z a few wcrking men st Burton Mills ... 0 2 0 ~ Kettering 0 9 0 ~ a few friends , Dnnfermline 0 10 Z a few friends of democracy , Torquay ... * 0 6 6 Z the ChiKists of Briton . 0 10 9 " Cheprtow friends ... 0 A 0 a few Chartists . Tonbridge Wells ... 0 10 0
FOB THE EXECUTIVE . From Mr . Colinson , Castle-ttreet , Hull ... 010 _ Ch-pslstr friends ... 0 4 0 FOB COOPEB ' S DEFESCE . From John ilare'and 0 0 6 FOB THE DEFENCE OF GEOBGE VHIIE . Frem Esbert Xewhall , Jan ., Hawkk , a de a f and dumb boy , educated at Edinburgh , —a regular subscriber to the b ' orihern Star , and a grea t ad m ire r cf its Proprietor and Editor . ... 0 1 6
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Income Tax . —In Kendal the number of blank forms is so limited that the commissianers cannot Enpply the town . One part of the population have had their billet doux for three weeks , while another part hare not yet received tbes « soft expressions of the Premier's regard ; and what is more amusing , the number of applications for forms , declaring that i their income is below £ 150 per annum , is so great i that any snpply of papers hitherto received is wholly inadequate to the demand . We have heard Eeveral parties state , that with their best desires to ; fill np the returns consistently , they really cannot understand them . Both Whi £ 3 and Tories are altogether out of humour with this dose of the state physician . —Ker . dal Mercury .
A Letteb from Cologne , 21 st inst ., says : — " The town of Rhembach , which forms part of cur district , wa =, two days zgo , the theatre of a great calamity . A fire broke out in the morning , and , owing to a deficiency of water , it soon raged with sneh fury , that before the evening half the town was in ashes Fortunately a heavy shower of rain fell at about four o ' clock in the afternoon , and arrested the progress of the flame 3 . More than one hundred families are without an asylum . "
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THE CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT . —ENORMOUS FRAUDS TTPOlf THE REVENUE . When it is remembered how well the country remn-CErates the chief officers of those departments of the Etate to whom is delegated the collection of dnties , and more especial ' y these appertaining to the receipts of imposts urcn foreign and colonial produce and manuf ac t ures , the j-nbiic are entitled to have as their servants tfce most istdligent and most attentive , and , without prejudice io any one , the most honest individuals . It will be for the public to express an opinion if , when we sha ; l have brought before its notice the mscy laxities , the frauds , the instances of favouritism , the attempt to screen really guiltj parties , and the immolation of their dnpes , the functions of the CoHnnis-Eicners of her Majesty ' s Customs at the head department have or have not been fully and satisfactorily
administered . The enormous frauds now in daily pro- gress of i n vesti gation are not , i n the aggregate , confined ; to tens oi thousands , but hundreds of thousands oi i pounds , Irdeed , it is said in some quarters that the revenue has suffered to the enormous extent . of near ' y a million sterling . From the series ; of notices it may be necessary to devote to ; this important snbject , names ol parties high in : commercial circie 3 must be deemed requisite to be given . The name * of firms which are known to have i connived at these frauds with the landing waiters are : in our possession , with all the leading facts and line : of examination in support of participation , as given in evidence before the Court tf Inquiry , now sitting spon this subject . Bat , independently of the non-perform-1 ance of their duties by the officials at the Custom H ouse , In protecting , by dee diligence and ample con- trol the revenues of the kingdom , there is another con- j
siderction , arising ont of the long-continced practice of fraud , which involves the interest and . prosperity of i the really honest merchant and trader . It must be j clearly apparent that if four traders are carrying on j business in the ssHie line , thjee of them paving their j duties honestly and openly on foreign goods" imported , j while the fcurth , by a connivance with any officer of \ Customs , gets his placed in warehouse without the outlay cf the duty , or by paying i- , finitely less through j the medium ef false entries ( hereafter to be fully illus- j t » tedi , it must be apparent that the former cannot '< compete with the latter , and though they strugcle ever so hard to maintain their position , thongh they make scrifices to tff . ct Eiles , in order to keep their j customers together for a time , still , in the . long run , : wholesale losses must be en tailed cpon them "by the j Tuinona and fraitles-s competition induced . I
It is pretty v ell known , tha t as resp e c t s t he frauds now the subject of investigation , many of the landing waiters have been implicated ia them . The enties of the lancing waiters are but little known to parties un- ' connected with tride , c . mmerce , and water-side busi- ' ness . It is , therefore , proposed to illustrate the facts and circumitarcri hereof ur to fce laid -before the public , , by giv-lEg a cssLiiptitn of their dnties , their emoluments , ic . 'Xtc principal business of this functionary is pei > oiai ] j- tu sttind the landing of goods at the docks and legal quava . For this purpose he is furnished with a " htpiT . r g-boik , * denominated under its respective ; clsss , •¦ rti . ur bJue , " the issues of which take place ; from the rtgiitrar ' s cifice , and contains certain copies of entries previously pissed of imports for merchandise aboa : to be v ; siehonsed cr at once delivered . These
entries are of three classes , 1 st , the " warehousing Efctr ?)'" for g j ods intended to remain iB bond ; 2 d , the ] " m e cluj , " which stipulates for the immediate ; delivery cf gooes , tha duty having heen paid ; and , i Sd , the ' £ igat entry , " the object of which is to assist the merchant in Kises where goods arrive consigned ; to L : m TriU-out previonB advice , when he is permitted to hav = the packages npon the declaration that their , cccleiits are " ucknown . " It may be here necessary , ' with the view to carry the case out in all its bearings , to observe the opV-T ' jinity these two descriptions of entry afFl-rd to these i £ cers , if they are not persons of i Etrict and unimpeachable integrity , to deceive and laliifv the returns ¦ which , as emp l o ye s oi the customs , tiey are appointed to make of the veight of and duty on miicLaadise landed at their respective stations ; the interference cf the landing surveyor , their superior , being required enly in the settlement of taxes , o r in th « approval cr otherwise of the value put upon goods paying at the ad valorem rate . of
Havir-g row n ^ dnly stated the duty a landing Waiter , it is nteessary to add that the body is divided into trx . classes , with proportionate salaries . The first class numbers 20 persons , with £ 400 per nnrnmi each ; the 2 d class 20 persons , with £ 350 per annum each ; the 3 d class 20 persons , ¦ with £ 300 per annum each ; the 4 th class 30 persons , with £ 250 per anntini each ; the 5 th H »«» SO person * , with £ 200 per annum e » ch ; and the 6 th class SO persons , -with £ 160 per amr&ta each . As in the cenrse of the Investigation into these frauds It has ippeared that more than one of "the landing
waiters implicated have also filled the office of " r che r , " the duty appertaining to thatdepartment must also be illustrated . The " searcher , " to use the technicality of the department , " m akes shipp e d , " the packages destined for shipment at bis station ; it is a part of his duty personally to examine the packages , notisg their correspondence with the original description in the cfScia ] papers , and ihonld suspicions irise of any exchange cr fiacd connected with the shipment , they have the power cf Eeznre and of bringing the matter before the beard for irquiry and investkation . The sepsrats duties of these efficers being , as is trusted , clearly defined , the ni ; de in -which tie irre
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gular and falsified entries kave been concocted , involving such loss to the revenue , will no doubt be understood in the cue * of fraud hereafter to be brought to the notice of the public . The first illustration we offer to the notice of the public is in respect to the importation of silk already under the notice of the Board of Inquiry , bat the charges cf participation in fraud alleged against the several parties are so numerous , that it would be difficult to define them in distinct order in the present notice . It is , however , sufficient to say that that the one above alluded to will clearly prove to the public how easily and successfully they have been carried on for s period said to extend over a series of ei gh t or nine years .
T&e mode which u alleged to have been adopted In the wholesale smuggling of silks , was for the parties connected to send to the legal quays a case of toys , boo k s , or any other French import of low ralue marked and numbered , S 3 y [ A ] No . 1 , fsr shipment coastwise , which , however , instead of forthwith being put on board , it was understood should be allowed to remain on the quay . When the French packets arrived , a " sight entry" was taken out for cases , marked and numbered precisely the same as those prepared as befere stated , the contents being declared to be " unknown . " The packages were then landed at the same quay , for examination by the landing officer . Immediately this was the case the former package was recalled , by an order to re-deliver , when the cases by the French packets , which really contained silk were substituted to the parties applying , and the packages of books , ic , examined and returned for , duty in lieu of the cases of silk , the ship ' s manifest merely describing the case brought over a « merchandize , and thereby being ne check upon the fraud .
The investigation into these irregularities in the Customs D-partments have already ocenpied many weeks . The results , we believe , will fully bear ont the correctness of our introductory remarks , and in our next report facts and names will be fctated in corroboration . —Evening Star .
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ROnHBAT . t ! P OLICE OFFICE , FLY 1 SG SORSE . ( Before William Chadvnck and Henry Kelsall , Esquires . J ] James Ashley , a Chartist speaker , \» as charged with using seditious language at the meetings daring th « turn out in this town , and exeitinj ? the people to riot Ashley said , your worships , I should request before the proceedings of the Court commence , that tha witnesses retire , and come in one at a time when called upon ; second , that I should be supplied with pens and paper , to take notes of this case . They were granted , and a seat at the table .
Howarth Raby deposed—I live at Facit , by trade a mechanic . I remember the 12 th of August ; it was on Friday ; I work for George Hardman , cotton-spinner , at Facit ; the mill is within a hundred yards of the turnpike road . A Mr . Whitworth ' s cotton-mill is on the right side of the road , near to Bacup ; it is within sixty yards of our mill . I stood at the road leading to our mill . Betwixt seven and ei gh t o ' clock that morning I S 3 W a body of people come from Rochdale ; there were about 6 , 000 as near as I can tell . [ The witness was asked to point out the prisoner . I think it is this man that sits here . ] A part of the main body turned into our road . Ashley was not there . He was in the turnpike-road , betwixt the mills . I said they did not need to go ; there was no one working . They turned back to Whitworth , a small village . I steod at the top of the lane ; a second body came from the body of the people ; they were about five minutes betwixt . They went dewn to our mills , and dre w t he
plugs . I did not go down , nor did I see them draw them . The crowd was standing still in the turnpikeroad . I saw the psople come back from our mill , and join the crowd ; the main body had started . I saw a number of the people go into Mr . Whitworth ' s mill ; my master told me to go and see if I could tell any of them again , and I followed them to Bacup . [ Here one of the witnesses came into conrt , and was quickly fonnd ont ; the Bench ordered him to be taken out of the room . ] I did not see any that was at our place When I got to Bacnp , the people were assembling together at a meeting at the bottom of Union Square . I saw Ashley there , in th e ca rt w here t hey spoke ' from . I did not get near to hear all . He said he wanted nothing but a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s labour . I heard it said from the cart that they were to go to Newchurch and to Todmorden ; it was not Ashley that said so . I did not see Ashley when the people went away . The people had sticks with them .
Ashley cross-examined this witness—He said , I did not hear you s ^ y any thing bad ; I thought it was a go « d speech ; I was not alarmed . Ely Greenwood—I am an engineer and steam tenter for G-eorge Kardinan and Company , at Facit I remember the 12 th of August I wa 3 at the factory that morning ; I remember Eome people coming down betwix : seven and eight o ' clock ; cannot tell how many came , I was standing at the fire-hole place ; the people came up to me , they came from the turnpike road ; two or three rushed past me and knocked tha plugs eut of tte boilers ; they went back to the people in the roaJ , and joined them ; there were 6 or 700 ef them ; they wer * going quietly away towards Bacup . I did not see Ashley there .
John Stott—I live at Mount Pleasant , Proctor-street , by trade a wheelwright ; I rememer Thursday , when the mob came t o t his t o w n , but not the day of tha month . The mills were stopped on that day . I went twice that day to a meeting at Cronfcey Sbaw . At night , bet w een six tnd stven o ' clock , there were upwards of 3 , 060 peopie present . There was a meeting , and speakers in a cart The prisoner , Ashley , was there . I heard him speak that night . I do not remember what he said . He said something about his fellow-brethren , that they kad been stopped from work by the people of Ashton and Oidham , and they must adopt some plan . I saw him take a show of hands . He talked about the distress cf the country ; and he would show them whether the Repeal of the Com Laws ; or the Charter , would benefit t he lo w er classes the bes t A m o t i o n was pu t , and
carried unanimously forthe Charter . He spoke of meeting a t fi v e o 'clock next morning , on the same place , to adopt some plan . A motion was put and carried to that effect I went to a meeting on Saturday , on t he sam e p lace . It was held at nine o ' clock in the morning . Ashley was there . He said , if all manufacturers had behaved &s well as they had done to them at Bacup , they should have had no occasion to turn out . He mentioned a Mr . Mimn , who had showed him his books ; and he found they paid the same wages they did b ! x years ago . I did net stay till the conclusion of the meeting , I went up at night to a meeting . I did net stay many minutes ; I cannot say that Ashley was there—( the witness stood thinking ); I thick he was there , and spoke and commented on the wages question ; that night it was mentiened that they should meet next day ( Sunday ) , on the same spot and hold the
same . Ashley—Did yen hear me say anything against the m as t ers ? Stott—No ; you said it was time thai something should be done fer the people . Ashley—Will you swear that I put a motion from the cart ? Stott—Yes ; the sense of the meeting was taken by yon ¦ whether they should stop for the repeal of Corn Laws or the Charter . Ashley—Were my speeches exciting and alarming to the minds of the people ? Stutt—No ; I did not hear yon say anything to disturb the minds of the people ; feut to the contrary , you advised the people not to injure any person , nor do any harm to life or property , and to respect the laws .
Committed to Kirkdale , on a charge of misSemeanor ; Bail was allowed him ; himself in £ 100 and two sureties in £ 50 each .
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DISCOVERY OF A SPY . Tow eb Hamlets . —Ames Treadwell , alias Jones , a member of the National Charter Association , and a member of the General Council , having been openly denounced by a shopma t e as a sp y on t he m o v emen t s of the London Chartists , a Special Council meeting was held on Monday evening , the 12 th instant , and continued by adjournment on the Wednesday following , for the purpose of instituting a rigid inquiry as to the truth of the soul- degrading imputation , and likewise to give the accused a fair opportunity of exonerating his character from odium if innocent Treadwell was present during the investigation on Monday evening , but failed to make bis appearance on Wednesday . When asked why he was absent he replied matters were so fciack arainst him , that all he could say or do would
not prove his innocence . These meetings resulted in the unmasking of as vile a wretch as ever figured in the annals of espionage . A starved viper that lurks in the grass awaiting an opportunity to inflict the envenomed wound—a base sordid thing , that for filthy lucre barters the moral dignity ef man for the degradation of the spy ; a perfidious villain who , under the guise of friendship , worms himself into men ' s favour and confidence , and then attempts to sacrifice them on the sanguinary altars cf Tory fury—a wretch who , in the language of Curran , weuld not hesitate to dip the Evangelists in blood in order to secure the reward of his infamy . Such is the light in which the Chartists of the Tower Hamlets now view the heretofore apparently active , persevering , and zeal 6 ua Amos TreadwelL The following ¦ were the charges against Treadwell , which were borne oat by evidence so conclusive as not to leave the shadow ef a doubt on the mind of any one
pre&enw Firstly , that he \ reat to an Inspector ol Police , whose name , for prudence , we most withhold from print , and gave him a mass of information ( false no doubt , ) respecting the Chartist movement in London . Secondly—That he has been conTeyed by tht said Inspector to Scotland-yard , where he remained for several hours . Thirdly—In consequence of Treadwell ' s information , warrants have been made out against seven individuals . The Insp « ctor has promised to obtain for Treadwell & large reward , saying at the same timo , that > f they hs . d half a dczjn men , men as Treadwell they would soon extirpate Chartism from the metropolis . Another charge made against this miscreant was that he had concocted , and endeavoured to put into execntion , a plot to Ctiiver D .-. lA'Douail into the tanas o £ Gov > . iument , and thereby ofcUin the fcuaar . 4 peaces , ± e
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the price despotism has set npon his head . This charge came like a thunder-dap on the degraded tool of tyranny . His embarrassment , prevarication , and insole nt r eplies , clearly showed the workings of a guilty conscience . The evidence adduced in substantiation of this charge was circumstantial , but so powerful as to famish the strongest presumptive testimony of th « neferioas design of the villain . TreadweU writes a letter to Dr . M'Dooall , - which he takes to Mr . Campbell , requesting that he would for"ward it . Mr . Campbell ' s suspicions being awakened , opened the letter , and finds that Treadwell earnestly requests an interview with the Doctor , or that he would communicate with him by a letter , a s be is the depository of information which would be of the highest importance to the Doctor under present
circumstances . He likewise informs him , that he has a sum of money to pay over to him , which at the present moment may be very acceptabla Now , on being asked what was the important information he had to com municate ? he said that , returning late one sight from a Chartist meeting , he . was accosted by a stranger , who told him that he came from Manchester , and that those persons who had Dr . M-Douall ' s entire cenfidence in Manchester were about to sell him . On being asked how he could promise to pay Dr . M'Douall the 19 s . 6 d . he owed him , being out of employ the last five weeks , and borrowing money from all his acquaintances , he said he had written to his friends in Bristol for money , which would enable him to pay
the Doctor . He underwent a severe examination by the different members of the council , but every answer tended only to make his criminality more glaring . The following resolution was then proposed , and unanimously carried : — " That this meeting having carefully considered the charges alleged against Amos Treadwell , and the evidence brought forward in sappo rt of the m , are decidedly of opinion that he is a base and fligitious spy , and therefore deserves to be sceuted with execration from the society of all honest men . The said Ames Treadwell , alia s Je n es , is a native of Bristol , a spare thin person , clockraaker by trade , stands about five feet four inches in height , age twenty-two , fai r co m ple x io n , slightly pockmarked . — Evening Stir .
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MID AND EAST LOTHIANS COLLIERS ' STRIKE . A POLICEMAN KILLED . — MILITARY CALLED OUT . Saturday , Sept . 24 th , 4 P M . The colliers strike begins to assume a serious aspect . I have just been informed by thou « n whom I can place the most implicit reliance that a policeman has been killed by the colliers , and the military sent for from Jock's Lodge . The particulars , as far as I am yet able to ascertain , are as follows : — It appears that a number of colliers was met by a policeman at Edgebead , near Daikeitb , the colliers carrying a sack containing potatoes , they were stopped by t he polic e man , who insisted to know from whence they obtained the potatoes . They refused to tell him ; from words they came to blows . A dreadful scuffia eusued , which ended by the policeman being left for dead . The whole of the police in the district were soon on the alert , who succeeded in apprehending one man a t h is ho u se , whom they placed in irons , a n d w ere
about to convey him to prison , when lo ! the news had spread , they were surrouuded by colliers , the policemen beaten off , and the man carried off in triumph , chains and alL To those who have watched the progress of late events , this will not be at all surprising ; the men on strike have been taunted and grossly insulted both by the coal-masters and magistrates . The following proclamation will Bhew tha readers of the Star the way in which the brave but much-injured colliers have been treated , and I ask if a greater insult was ever given to working men ? A few potatoes are Btolen , ( which is the case every year , when there are no strikes , ) and the colliers are charged with stealing them ,- it in then I repeat no wonder that the exaspera t ed m e n , and the police should come into deadly conflict
The following is the precious official document above referred to : — ^ reclamation by the Sheriff of the County of Edinburgh . Whereas , extensive depredations have been recently committed upon potatoe and other cropB , now upon the ground , in certain parts of the county of Edinburgh ; and whereas there is every reason to believe that those deprad&tions were committed by those misguided persons , who , choosing to abstain from their ordinary calling , illegally endeavour to support themselves without working by plundering the fruits of the skill and industry of others , who do choose to labour for t hei r br e ad , contrary to law , and to the great injury of individuals and the public . Notice is hereby given , that arrangements have been made by the Sheriff and by those exposed to such depredations for the detection and punishment of any persons who may be guilty of such offences in future . Geahau Speirs , Sheriff .
There ' s for you ! whit think you of that ? I make no comment—it will tell its own Ule . Add to this : a placard comes out during the week from the coal masters , in which it 1 b stated that " sobei and industrious" men could earn from 3 s . 6 ii . to 4 s . per day ! A greater or a more wilful lie was never told . Yoar correspondent has not the least connexion with colliers ; bnt I have it from most respectable individuals , who have every means of ascertaiuig the truth , that the average wages of these injured men does not exceed 10 s . per week ! Farther down this same placard , the men are called " idlers" and " unsteady workers" 1 This is an old worn-out tale used by tyrannical masters , to prevent their men from receiving the sympathy and sHpport of the public . Pharaoh , of old , said the same of the children of Israel
It would appear , however , that the black-hearted coal tyrants have been but too successful in preventing the men from receiving the support of the public A great part of the shopkeepers of Dilkeiih depend upon the colliers' wages : a deputation from tbe men went round to collect what they conld from those inclined to give , and hew much do the readers of the Star think they collected ? Why , the extraordinary sura of 153 . from the whole of the shopkeepers of Dalkeith , w hose incomes are derived from the hard-earned wages of these celliers , while the poor Chartists of the district collected them upwards of £ 3 at a social meeting ! This will teach them who are their friends , and who are their foes ; and , I think , should shew them the necessity of starting Co-operative Stores , when they get again into work .
If any farther facts come oat on Monday , I will transmit them to you . MONDAY MOKNING . The policeman is not dead , bnt it is said cannot live . Another policeman is badly beat Horse and foot soldiers continue to arrive ; all is confusion—the paor colliers who live in tbe master ' s houses are this day to be turned out by the soldiers , their mouth's notice having expired . The horse soldiers galloped at that furious rate from Jock's Lodge , that one was thrown frem his ho r ae , and seriously hurt ; it is said bis shoulder is dislocated , and one of his arms broken . —Correspondent .
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TO THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM . In beginning a cemplete exposition of the present system of legal spoliation and" plunder , we address you , asnot only the most numerous portion of the working population , but also that portion the most usaful to society . The first great necessary of life ia food , and without your daily and ever-recart ng aid , society , fro m t he want of this important article of existence , wonld soon cease to be . In proportion , therefore , to the value and importance of your calling , as well as from your great numbers , are you entitled to the first consideration in this attempt to analizs the wrongs ot society , towsrds the application of an efficient remedy for its evils .
Agricultural labourers , you have suffered much from the present system of class-interest and class-legislation ; none more so . Step by step have your comforts been abridged—your privileges abrogated—your old constitutional landmark s removed ; and yet you have hitherto paid but little attention to the causes whence these growing evils have arisen . You have not been politicians , but the too-willing tools of rapacious landlords , in their crusades against your more active and thinking fellow-countrymen , until , not only their liberties have been sacrificed , but your own ancient and constitutional rights have been swept away , and you now begin to see as through a glass daikly , the origin or your downfall , with that of yoar suffering Tellowcountrymen . You are awakening to a true perception 0 ,,. f , ^ ondltion of En-land question , " especially the political bearing of this great subject . So , to assist you in your deliberations , to fortify your judgments , strengthen your resolution , and encourage you onward in the path of political inquiry , do we address you at the present time .
It is said that men pay most attention to those questions that are connected with their social interests aid weekly subsistence . A 8 an cannot comprehend the t r ne va l u e of abs t ra ct principl e , the tangible and matter of fact must be therefore connected and conjoined , that the latter may be shewn to depend intimately on the former—in which case conviction respecting the real value of that which otherwise might be looked upon as a mere baseless speculation is sure to follow . Upon this plan do we intend to proceed . Our motto is—Universal Suffbage , and No Surrender—the entire People s Charter . And , as at present , misery and privation are the lot of toiling industry , and wealth and luxury the reward ef idleness , ; While under nprighfc institutions industry and comfort would be synonymous , and privation only wait upon tho profligate and idle , we intend to ahew the intimate connection of these two states of social being with the present system of class legislation on the one hand , and the adoption of the People ' s Charter on the other .
Agricultural labourers , your own history furnishea an admirable commentary on our text . You have been the victims of this remorseless spirit of class-intereets and party . And to show how this process has been going forward , how the small comfortable farms of your forefathers have been heaped together for the modern bull-frog farmer , the manufacturer of corn , " you ? cottage pulled io'sn , your commons and wastes enclosed and rendered the private property of aristocratic burglars , your right to subsistence on tha soil denied , with the other manifold evils under which you groan at present—to skow these in as clear and concise a mann er as possible , and their intimate connection with the great question of Universal Suffrage , is the task we have undertaken in the present address .
Ycur true condition has been well indicated in the following extract from a speech of an old and departed friend ; one , who though attached to a somewhat obsolete and bigoted political creed , had yet a heart to feel for y o ur w ro n gs , and an eloquent and willing tongue to plead your cause . Michael Thomas Sadler , i n a speech o n a g ric u l t u r al distress , delivered in the House of Commons , Oc t ober 11 , 1831 , says , " The system of demolition and monopoly , whioh has , in the emphatic language of the inspired volume , ' laid house to house , and field to field , that they may stand alone in the earth , ' has left no place for the poor ; none for the little cultivator ; none for the peasant ' s cow ; no not enough in one case in ten for a garden . The best of the cottages have been
demolishedspurned indignant from the green , ' as the loveliest of the poets of poverty , Goldsmith , sings . The lonely and naked but into which they are now thrust , for which is exacted an exorbitant rent , is destitute , both without a n d w ithin , of all that formerly distinguished their humble abodes , is often unfit to stable even qaadiupeds , and frequently so crowded by different families , as to set not comfort merely bat decency at defiance , and render morality itself an impossible virtue . Thither , then , the unhappy father , when employed , carries bis wages , 'which , with the exception of a few short weeks in t h e year , are utterly inadequate to supply the necessities of a craving family . Wages did I say ? Parish
pay ! He is , perhaps , sold by aution , as is the case in certain parishes , and therefore reduced to the condition of a slave , or driven to the workhouse , where he is of ten treated worse than a felon . Labour , meant to degrade and insult him , is uften prescribed to him ; or , wholly unemployed , he sits brooding over his miserable fate ; winter labour , whether foi himself or his wife and children , having bean long since taken away . Perpetually insulted by false and heartless accusations , foi being a pauper , vrben his accusers have compelled kim to become such ; for being idle , when hia work has been taken from him ; for improvidence , when he can hardly exist , he feels these insults barbed by past recollection .
" The very sympathies of his nature become reversed : those who would once have constituted his comforts and p leas ur es , hia ragged and half-atanred offspring , ( who cannot stray a pace from his hovel without becoming trespassers and being severely treated as such , ) and their wretched mother , increase bis misery . He es c apes , perhaps , from the scene of his distress , and attempts to lose the recollection of it and of himself , in dissolute and dau ^ erou 3 courses . Meantime , had some peculiar calamity , so m e ins c r u table visitation of Providence reduced him to this condition , perhaps he might have sustained it with composure of sp irit . But he knows otherwise . He can trace his sufferings and degradation to their true source . He knows by whom they have been inflicted upon him , and he feels what would be their cure , and can calculate how little it would cost others , to make him and
his supremely happy . Meantime , the authors of his sufferings are those thut insult him with demanding that he should be quiet and grateful , that he should be contented and cheerful under theml ' They that have ¦ masted him . require mirth ! ' Not only * ara the falsest accusations levelled at him , but even the jfeelings commun to nature are imputed to him as an offence ; his marriage was a crime ; bis children aie bo many living nuisances ; himself is pronounced redundant ; and after having been despoiled of every advantage ha once possessed , he ia kindly recommended as his best , and indeed only course , to transport himself for life , —for tbo good of hia oppressors , and to die unpitied and unknown in some distant ¦ wilderness . And this , sir , is the condition , at the present moment , of thousands—of tens of thousands—of the labouring poor . "
This is no ov e rc ha r ged p icture , but much under tbe mark , and adapted to the tastes of the assembly he was addressing—parties always exceedingly fastid ious , and unprone to overcolour anything connected with industrial distress . As the results of the " enclosnre" and large farming systems , and of tha downward progress of your condition , we need only refer to tho state of a few of the agricultural counties , which may be taken as a sampie of the whole . . The report of a committee on inclosures , in 1808 , stated , that the results which were the subject of examination in a tour of sixteen hundred miles , made for that purpose , proved that they had been clearly injurious to the poor . An intelligent witness informed another committee , namely , that on the high price of
provisions , that he had himself been a Oommisioner under twenty in closure acts , and stated his opinion as to their general effect on the poor , lamenting that he had been thereby access 3 Ty to injuring two thousand people , at tbe rate of twenty families per parish . The reply of a poor fellow to Arthur Young , the great advocate of inclosures , ( though under regulations which would indeed have rendered' them a benefit to ell parties , ) recorded in one of his agricultual surveys , ia true , to a more or less degree , of every industrious labourer in England , wherever these improvements have taken place . To hia query as to whither the inclosure had injured him , he replied , " Sir , before the ioclosure I had a good garden , kept two cows , and was getting on ; now I cannot keep so much as a goose , and am poor and - wretched , anil cannot help myself ; and
still J 6 u ask me if the inclosure has hurt mo I " Ano t her , and a still deeper injury which it has also perpetrated , etill remains to be noticed . Not only has the little farm been monopolised , the common right des tr oyed , the ' garden in many instances seized , but the cottage itself demolished ; and the ploughshare now drives over many a little plot where once stood tbe bower of contented labour . Suffolk , has , in the course of one hundred and twenty years , increased in population , including tbo great increase of some of its towns , as much as eighty per cant ., and rather more . What has been tut > increase in the accommodation for tha poorer part of the population ? Why , in 1690 , these were forty-seven thousand five hundred and
thistsseven houses in that county ; in 1821 , then , there oaght to have been at least nicety thousand houses . But there were in the latter year only forty-two thsnavnd seven hundred and seventy-three inhabited howes , tbe absolute number being eleven per cent , fewer than one hundred and thirty yean before . The whole of six counties so selected , exhibited a result , in this respect , not quite so appalling , bat sufficiently distressing , however regarded . Their population had , from 1701 to to 1821 , advanced upwards of sevens-five per cent , but the houses for ita accommodation lesa than twentyfive . It is unnecessary to remark oa what class the misery of such a state of things would be made to rest . Even in counties supposed by tha Committee free from this state of things , " th'infection works . "
In a letter referred to by Mr . Sadler , in tbe speech alieatiy quoted , a Vicar in ona of these connties gives the following picture of rural felicity in his parish : — "' During the last forty yeara , ' says the reverend gentleman , ' four cottages only have been bnilt by ? • * , and even these in lieu of the same number taken or fallen down . The accemmodatioa for the poor is far lUvi'tf confined than it was some years pasl
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The old parsonage ; which I rebuilt when I came to the UvLig , I found inhabited by four paupar families . There w . sre also , a short time previously , five pauper families in two farm-houses , now occupied again by farmers . The want of room , therefore , has created ! he greatest » -tiffieultiea to the overseers , and has rendered their office peculiarly painful . For several weeAs they have been compelled to quarter a poor famifr at the publio-houso , two of the young men being unvier the necessity of Bleeping in a barn . In some of the co \ tages the poor are so huddled together that the sight is msst distressing , and the efteot , of course , very demoralising . The following is a specimen : —
No . Families . Persons . Accommodation . 1 2 10 1 ground floor , 2 bed rooms 2 ...... 2 8 ~ .... 1 room only , 12 feet square 3 2 7 ...... I room ground floor , 12 ^ fe et square . Two fefrla obliged to sleep on the ground fl-. or . 4 ...... 1 ...... 9 1 room ground floor , 1 bedroo m 5 1 7 1 rcom only , 12 feefc square 6 ...... I 11 1 room ground floor , 2 bed ' rooms 7 0 11 ...... Different individuals , all females , except a youth of eighteen , and a youui ! boy . 1 room ground floor ; 1 bed room . 8 0 ...... 9 Different individuate . '
Ho goes on to say , "Most of these cottages ate In a sad stataof repair ; and all , with the exception of the two last , which are parish houses , belong to the lord of the monor . " He S 3 ys that he made application to the nonresident proprietor ( to whose iutentional benevolence , ho w e v er , he bears testimony ) , and to his agent , but could obtain no redn sa of this grievous state of things ; as the latter bad come to the determination ( a very usual one ) that not an additional cottage should be built—of course giving the orthodox reason for the refusal . " : The consequences of this neg lec t , and the huddling of human beings together , is drawn by Mr . Sadler in the following forcible and eloquent language : —
" Not onJy early and general depravity , but crimeB of the most fearful nature are . thus generated . ( Here the Honourable Member related a case of the most appalling kind , which he hoped would not be communicated through the usual channels of information . ) But not ta dwell on this horrid subject , what , I ask , must bo the usual consequences , when different families are thus thrust into the same hole as a sleeping apartment ; and , immorality out of the question , how can decency be preserved , especiall y u nde r certain ci rcum s t a n ce s , in the family , in such cassa ? But , Sir , I will pursue these revolting descriptions no further . Hurried away by my indignation at this cruel and indecent . usagu of the poor peasantry , I had almost forgot one revoking feature of the system of oppression to which t'usy are now subjected . For these accommodations , w'f , titciiud as they ure , the most exorbitant rents—exorbitant in
reference to what they are worth ( that is often , lHtrully speakicg , nothing ) or for the little patch of garden ground , when they have any , are exacted ; a fact which has been fuily verified , both by agricultural reports and surveys , and by witnesses before yoiu own Committees , and ia fully knowu and undisputed . Indeed , it has necessarily happened that the more the cottages h ' live been diminished ia number , the raoie have their rents been increased ( a oonucquence which the economists themselves will allow to have been inevitable ) , till they have at length , compared with every other species of property , become exorbitant , compelling the wretched tenant to reaort to the parish for the means of payiog them ; le av ing hi m , the r efo r e , the disgrace of being a pauper , but depriving him , at the same time , of the raiief he should receive as such .
" I now come to another principal branch of the subjec t , namely , that which concerned tbe wages and employment of the poor . But on this point , important aa it plainly is , time will compel me to be sort . When the improvements , as they have been called , ( and might have been rendered ) in the agricultural . system , took place , and the labouring classes were deprived of their little holdings , tbeir commonage , and often their good gardens , they were told that the demand fur tbeir labour would be bo gieat y increased , and its wages consequently so much advanced , that they wsuld be infinitely better off under the new plan . But it admits no longer of a dispute , that while they have thus been deprived of their independent labour , th&t which they yield to others is renc ' mred us far a ^ possible less necessary and worse remunerated . In summor or harvest , as I have before shown , their work is indeed demanded ; but it is to the winter , the trying season to the poor , that I am now about to advert : —
" Fu-st , the altered practice of hiring servants by the week , instead of , as was formerly the case , by the year , has had a pernicious effect on the winter employment of the poor . The report I have so eften alluded to , when referring to the Northern counties , as those in which tbe condition of the poor is still comparatively comfortable , should have stated , ( had the committee known it , ) that this practice still prevails in tbe border counties of England , to the equal comfort and advantage of all parties . Secondly , the thrashing machine has , as far as possible , « ispensed with a great part of the winter employment of tho labourers , ana ail the incidental expences duly considered , wi t hou t , as far as I have been able to calculate , any advantage whatever to the farmer , or to the public . I speak not thus as a n apolog ist for the attacks that have been made upon this description of property , far otherwise ; but with the hope of inducing the agriculturists to count well the costa before they sanction , ( where it is unnecessary , ) that ¦ which "will inevitably diBtress and pauperisa the poor .
" . Lastly , and to this particular I weuld draw the attention of the House , as of infinite importance in any view of the causes of the distress of our rural poortbe improvements of the machinery of this country , and the consequent transference of the simplest processes of tnanufaclura to the large towns of Eugland , have had the inevitable result of depriving the female part oi tbe cottager ' s family of that profitable employment which presented itself , indeed , at every vacant hour throughout the year , but which secured to them a constant occupation in the winter season . A late Flemish writer exults in the
circumstance of tbe winter cottage labour m that country being still preserved in a great measure ; and he attributes to that fact the comfort of their rural population . That is no longer the case in England , nor perhaps can ever be again . Let us , t hen , be the more anxious to consider ho w vr e Kay compensate this great and necessary class of the community , f-sr this connected aeries of deprivations and misfortunes which have occasioned the misery which now overwhelms them . Thus , then , have our rural poor been successively deprived of every advantage which they formerly possessed , and of every chance of improvement which they once wero so eager to avail themselves of . " AH acquainted with agricultural pursuits and disposed to a fair consideration of tho subject , will at once agree with Sadler , at least respecting tho proximate causes of the distress stated—viz . the large farm system , the enclosure of wastes and Commons—the introduction of the thrashing machine , and the annihilation of domestic manufactories by the" cheap " system of lajge factfirips and steam .
Respecting the wages paid for agricultural labour , Mr . Porter , in his " Progress of the Nation , " p . 122 , states the following interesting particulars : — " AniODg the questions sent to tho varions parishes in Eng la n d , during the inquiry into the administration and practical operation of the Poor Laws , it was asked ' What on the whele might an average labourer , obtaining an average amount of employment , both in dayw ork an d p iece-work , ezpccS to earn in tho year , including harvest work n : id the valuu of all l : is ether advantages and means of living , except parish relief ? And what on the whole might a labourer '* wife and four children , aged fourteen , eleven , eight , and five , respectively , ( the eldest a boy , ) expect to earn in the year , obtaining as in the former case , an average amcant of employment V
' ¦ £ . . b . d . "The answer to these queries from 856 , give , for tbe annual earning of the man , an average of ... ... ... ... 2 ? 17 10 And the answers from G 68 parishes , give a 3 the annual earnings of the wifo and children aa average of ... ... ,. _ 13 39 10 Annual income of the family ... . ^ £ 41 17 8 " To the further question , * Cauld « u £ h a family subsist on the a {;§ regata tarnings of tha fftitor , mother , and children ; and , if so , on what ia& » ' Auswess were rrturnsd from 899 to the following effect : —7 JL said eirn ^ ly ' No ; ' 212 , ' Yes ; ' 12 , ' ¦ Barely , and with out meat ; ' 491 , ' Without meat . '"
This , account of tbo rate of -wegea paid for your labour may be considered a verj i'avaurable one ; for it ia to be observed , that it is uot what you really do earc , but what you might earn with , an average amount of employment , supposing yo ^ . all employed . Other aceonnta state the income o { agricultural labourers , particularizing Gloucestershire , Somersetshire , Worcestershire , and Wilts , at aa average of £ 22 7 a ., or 83 . 6 d . per week . A corsesy ^ ndeat of the Homing . Chronicle eaya , that few eaxn mere than 8 a . per vrcek , aud that this , allowing Qi . per week for rent , Is . 6 tl , for fuel , 9 d . for soap , candles , &a , leaves 53 . for food , which , for a man and -wife , and four children , is just lOd . a week for each ; ot , allowing them food three times a-day , it will gira something less than one halfpenny a meal . . The above rate of wanes of each olass , be it observed , is calculated upon the supposition that your order have constant employment , vrhioh is very seldom the case .
From the quantity of facts yet at our disposal , for the illustration of this important subject , we most defer the conclusion of tbe article until our next number . The series of articles on tbe Wrongs of Ireland will then alao be ccmmeccsd . —Campbell ' s Penny Democrat .
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On Thursday morning , at St . Ann ' s Cntholic church , Li-ecs , Mr . John Pin&r , of Y' ; rk , to Mii 3 V / ebfter , of Leeds . _ Oa Thursday , the 22 nd instant , at Ivrsy Hisl , near Richmond , by th ; : Itev ; Thomas Hslse , Mr . Edward Parnaby , of Eboi- -House , near Leeds , lo Mias Anna Arrowsmiib , c ? fcewsbam Hall , fiecoud daughter of Mr . James A ? rowsiaith , of _ A : A ' -w . ^ Susie day , at the pasish church , Lambeth , by tho Rev , G . Brandling , Jaeies Gvcsse , E ? q-, to EUeB , the third daughter of Mr . Clay , manufacturer , Wakefield . n Samo day , at Kirkheatcn , Mr . Wa . Milner . of Q'lincey , lltonois ,- » jrth America , to Ehzabetb , youngest uaufch ' er d Mr . Joseph Milner , of Kawthprpneax Hsd'Jessfield * ti
. . _ m _ , _ . Same day , at iho parish chureh , Otley , by the Rev . J . Hart , vicar , Mr . Jerem-.-ih Walker , of the Queen ' s Head , to Mar « aret , youngest daughter ot Mrs . Jennings , of the Malt Shovel Inn , all of Buney , near Otley .
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THE C H A RTISTS OF HUNSLET TO THEIR BRETHREN THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE . Bkother Democrats , —As fellow-workers with us in the cause of right , we call upon you to do all that lits in your power to promote the formation of such a defence fund as shall assure our champions that we appreciate their noble services ; and that by a proper display of our moral and united energies we are resolved to make the tyrants who oppress us tremble , and feel their utter insignificance when opposed to a patriotic and united people . Hundreds of good men hava been dragged from their homes and immured in prisons by tha operation of bad laws , and at the dictum of class-made minions cf pov ^ er , and it the duty of all who wish well to tbeir country , to see that these innocent victims of the hellish system under which we groan , be not delivered over like sheep into tbe taions of tbe wolves who are thirsting for their blood .
We are doing all we can in furtherance of the good cause ; and have , with this address , transmitted 10 s . to tbe Treasurer of the Defence Fund . Nor is this all we intend to do . We , like the rest of our brethren , are poor ; bnt we still keep our subscription books open , and take what the lovers of justice find themselves able t o g ive . We b « lieve that , under tbe blessings of the Gad of J u s t ice , the pence of the poor will yet triumph over the despotism of the rich oppressor . We are resolved to do all we can ; and we expect you to go and do likewise . Si gned , on behalf of the Chartiits of Hnnslet , T . B . SMITH .
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TO THE EDITOK OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —In your " Notices to Correspondents" in the Star of Ia 3 t week , appeared a letaer from a George Clar k so n , a member " of the Political Institute , complaining of a paragraph sent by me , which appeared in the Star of Sept . 17 th . I have only te say that the report of Mr . Gill ' s announcement was taken from the Sheffield Iiis of Sept 13 th , and confirmed by eeveral persons who incidentally mentioned the circumstance to me . I cannot see what right Messrs Ciarkson and Co . have to find fault with me , in copying the " report '' of the Iris , tot I suppose they believe that what " report b » jb" must be true ; at any rate , these sensitive gentlemen , so nice about tbeir own
honour , bat not over scrupalons about other people ' s , might have first corrected their Complete Suffrage friend the Ir i s , before falling foul of the Northern Star —a paper not often honoured with their correspondence . With respect to tbe remarks appended to the above letter , permit me , Sir , to reply , t hat , w hen I am convinced that tbe Political Institute gentry are Cfiartisis , I shall be happy to alter my tone towards ibera . In the meantime I sbEll pursue my o ^ n course , exposing humbug of ever } ueECiiptioi :, and tettijig at dfcfiance those ¦ whom 1 have btforti denounced , vs " tho ' real foes of democracy , and the deadly eneuues of all who honestly acvocatg tfce cause of the pecple . " Your obedient Servant , George- jvuas Harket , 5 fccffi- ;! d , Sst-t £ 7 , 1842 .
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Danger of Ikco . vsidekate Offers . —A geiu «> man in this county , who was much annoyed by wasps , rather thoughtlessly offered a shitLsu , f-ov eve- 'V wasp ' s nsst which could be brou-a : to mm . Aiihauds h > the neighbourhood immediately set to ¦ work , and the unlucky ( zentlemaa bad to pny about £ 40 , there being neatly 8 < JQ nesta ferouKb-V lo hiKi . — Verty Mercury ..
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ParliaitesiI has been prorogued from tka 6 th of October to the 10 th of November next . What is Sedition 1—This is a question which every public man will 6 ooner or later have to ask himself , if the present systematic tfforts to put down the free expression of opinion continue . Sir Robert Peel's powerful position in the Housa of Commons has ' stimulated the magistracy to the most odious exercise of their functions ; and they seem to b 8 fatly conscious that neither from him nor his colleagues need they fear tho least interruption to their barefaced proceedings . Although all excitement has long since ceased upon the part of the operatives , yet every where the police are ordered to put down or take up publio speakers . A Chartist leoturer has pgnetratod to the forest of Doan , in Gloucestershire , and adJressing-tha rustic inhabitants of that Bpot , has been proved to say , " that it was a great shame tho Queen did not maintain her
own mother , as your poor foresters are obliged to do . " Tho magistrates nave been so horrified by this ] angna » p , and so convinced of its-seditious-ten ' dericy , that they have compelled the speaker to give b ail , himself in £ 100 , and tour sureties of £ 25 each , to answer any indio : meut that may bo preferred against him . And should ho b « iudicted , and suoh asinino boobies as these magistrates ou tho jury , he will , without fail , ba convicted and sentenced to imprisonment . Law will not ' assist him , nor others in a iiko predicament . Nothing but tho strong voice of-an enlightened public opinion will impre . sr . tlia magijterial authorities with the prudence of not putting popular patienae to too ^ reat a trial . It is much to be c ! o = ired that pnblic opinion were more active upon this su > jnc : than h has been . Whenever' the people become indifferent to their rights , they stand a very lair chance of losing them . —Evening Star .
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DEATHS . On the 21 st ult ., at Aislaby Hall , near WWftf . in his 58 th year , Watkins , Esq ., father ot air , John" Watkins , of Battoraea . ¦ _ . On Thursday , in the 84 ; h year of jus age , Mr . Jonathan Bland , of Clayton , near Bradford . Oa Friday last , at Moor Grange , near Headingley , after a long illness , Eliza , the only rarwnng daughter of tho late Thomas Wilson , Esq ., of Ielmgton Green , near London . ,., _ ,,.-. Samo day , aged 01 , Mis . Elizabeth Rhodes , of Yeation , near Leeds . , ¦ ' ,,. Sam >; day , at V / oodhouse * Cavr . aged £ 7 , Baihia , wtieof ! Mr . Jaiacs Brayehaw , £ ; id oaughUT oi the ki . c Mr ! . John iNicholB , etai >'" 'i ' . cr , o ? Lttow ¦ Oh Thursday , tho 22 nd ult ., Maria , \ uju oIMr . F . Loiyard , of Mhficlu , solicr . or ^ . Rnd seoond ¦ UaBshter " of £ &-& \ iel Brock , E-c , « TVcsl M ' - " * Hirfield .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 1, 1842, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct981/page/5/
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