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      HAVE NOT THE JUDGES EXCEEDED TH _ T _ tVElSDiaaoa IK TOT QU » OF PB 08 T , fOKK , AB _ WH , LtA

      __!—COULD A . MAJORITY OF THE FIFTEEN ixrovm __ w ^ w __ t ca ____ a TBare ?»»*» - vkx ! The iboT « ^ aestions are of th » greatest importance , not merely with regard to the __ fortn _ ate prisoners , but with reference to the public at lance . "We haTe no hesitation in asserting , withont qualification or nserre , that the fifteen Judges had no j _ riedi * k _^ q _ al to that claimed and exerted on this occasion ; that the greater number of them could not , according to law and precedent , absolutely decide the fate of the ascused . What is the authority of the fifteen Judges sitting in the Exchequer Chamber

      !—1 st . They eamwt in any case assume an original jurisdiction ; ; hey are never more than a court of appeal to correct the errora of other court ? . No process can issue from the Court of Exchequer Chamber ; it has do officers ; no powers like the courtb of primary jurisdiction . —2 nd . An appeal lies to this coart merely whea it is founded on a trrii of error—which is available only when a mistake in law appears in the faee of the record . Now let us * . bserre—no terit of error lies

      or criminal proceedings as a matter of course ( e _ debito juttiticej but only as a matter of favour ( ex gratia . ) This is one of the worst blemishes in our code , a _ d demands ^ mmediate remedy . In the case of debt and other civil actions any mistake in law appearing on the record may be subjected to the most careful consideration on a writ of error ; in eases of treason , murder , d « - where life is concerned , this boon is denied or left entirely at the mercy of the AtTORSET GeJTERAL .

      We sincerely hope that writs of error will speedily be introduced into Criminal proceeedings , as a right capable of being demanded by the prisoner . HoweTer , on this particular occasion—the trial of Frost , & . c—there could have been no writ of error , even e * gratia , as the mistake was not apparent on the pleadings , but was wholly extrinsic , and dependant upon external proof . This being so the question is at once narrowed to this form—What is the office of the Judges in the Exchequer Chamber , not sitting as a court of appeal , not deciding on a writ of error !

      Ih such a case , they hare no jurisdiction as a Court whatever : they cannot act . They may speak and give their opinions to all eternity ; but they cannot exert any absolute and decisiTe authority . They hay © no commission investing them with such power : the source of their authority is destroyed ; the basis of the whole fabric is the writ of error . All that they can do , under such circumstances , is this— they sit there as professional advisers of the three Judges , PaBXB , TlJfDAL , and "WILLIAMS ; to these three functionaries they give their opinion on the point of law , ( note , merely their OPixio . x , ) and on this the Judges who presided at the actual trial mre to decide . They hare taken the tpinion—they hare decided ; and a majority , two to one , have acouitted Frost , Williams , end Jcwes !!

      That this is sound law according to authorities of indisputable weight , and according to the nature of the Cour ; of Exchequer Chamber , we are ready to assert , and to proTe at all times , and in all places . We shall now merely give a few Enes from Blacksto . te , ( toI . 3 . ch . 4 , ) in confirmation of oar proposition : — " Into the Court ef Exchequer Chamber are sometimes adjourned from the other courts such causes as the Judges , upon argument find to be of great weight and difficulty , before any judgment is given upon them in the Court belott ; that is , in the Court where the trial or action commenced . "

      Thus , then , not the fifteen Judges are to decide but the Judges of that eo ^ ri , where the proceedings actually took plaee , are to hare ths benefit of their opinion , and then themselveB to decide . Let it be also remembered that the Co _ rt at Menmomh gave the prisoners distinctly to understand that they should be placed in exactly the same position in regard to the disputed point , as if it had been settled before the three Judges presiding under the Special Commission .

      On these grounds , then , we demand the immediate release of the three unfortunate men , who haTe been convicted in the most negligent and careless manner , as if life were of little value , as if law were a tissue of error a _ d absurdity . "W e not only rejoice at these mistakes with regwd to the pri-onere , but also as it promise * a remedy in eur criminal process by tha iiitrodaeUon of Writs of Error .

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      THE ROYAL EXHIBITION . The Punch and Judy farce is over . The spectacle has been shewn ; the pageant has passed by ; and the epen mouth of gaping , idiotic , wonderment has been busy all the week parodying the wise exclamation of the idiot witness , " La , how queer 1 " The base hirelings who live vj pampering the lusts of tyranny , have set forth in magniloquent array u the pomps and vanities" of thh " wicked" as well as " vain show" before th « eyes of their besotted and foolish dupes , that the . robbery , the murder , and the heartlessness involved in the whole proceedings , might be lost sight of amidst the senseless clamour excited by the glitter of the gewgaws .

      For this purpose ingenuity , and such eloquence as the " things" possess , have been exhausted . Every trifling and minnte circumstance is made subjectmatter of laborious dissertation and outrageous piiff . The pageant-mongers ehronicle how lords and ladies strutted like dunghill cocks in breeding time , and their accomplices and dupes cry , " La , how grand ! " They expatiate on the splendour of the dresses and the diamonds , the jewels and the gimcracks , stolen from the people , and the respondents answer " La ! how fi _ e ! ' They tell how Punch ogled Judy , and how Judy leered on Punch , and the admiring answer ia " La ! how interesting ! how pretty !"

      We have given on our third page an account of the whole mummery , extracted from the Sun , which is , perhaps , the least fulsome of the ministerial papers on the occasion , and yet sufficiently so to be positively sickening to any well-regulated Christian mind which receilecta , that at the very moment when this idle and wicked waste was being made , thousands upon thousands of honest , and industrious -and respectable men and women , and thousands upon thousands of helplees infants , the born children of our mother soil , were pining , languishing , and dying of cold , and nakedness , and hunger . Who can read , without sickening with disgust and horror , the impious malapprepriation of wealth , wru _ g from the

      bones , and sweat , and marrow of the labouring poor of England , in this trumpery espousal of a beggar lad by a pauper girl , and then read the proceedings of the coroner ' s inquest given on our sixth page , where it appears that an aged nan , whose earlj years had been , devoted to the Berrice a&d defence of monarchy by personal service in the army , expired fr « m mere wa _ t of food and common necessaries ; having left the prison hous « of poverty M because he had eaten all kit bread that day ( which was Friday ) and ke knew that he should not have anymore till Monday !! " Knowing , as every one does , that this is bat «_ e ease out of hundreds such , which are «* ntinua _ 7 __ . pp «_ i _ g !!

      The time has now happily gone by for / fulling the people of tin * country " with meretrieie-e shew . Hunger and want , and psin and wretchedness have : taught many of the people to become reasoners ; , they have compelled thea to look round them and « b # erve ; aad tb * y have fereed out the conviction that as God , and nature , and reKgion regard all men O . a eoBUftoa light that most be wicked and Bnnatnnl which ele vate * isolated indi-TidHals on the ruin and destruction of so many thousands- The conviction , we say , has been forced on them , that the system which does this most be wicked aad uBnataral ! and as those whose lives are spent in toiling for others , have little time to sfedy the nice dtftinetioni of philosophy , we are not «» cb . rerpri » rf . ttSad . SM * jtfilwBrn »« B £ their

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      nnjust indignation at the system , ' in marts of di *> approbation personally directed against thost who profit by it . Henoe , the fun , maugre all his efforts tt gUss ever the Punch and Judy exhibition as an eminently successful" performance , " m compelled to admit that the "actors" were hissed by tht more sensible and discriminating of the " House . " He makes the acknowledgement with a most ill grace j bnt he does make it : — " It is , perhaps , little worthy of remark , that in this most touching scene of happiness and joy , as in Barry's picture of Elysium , there was a small comer occupied by the malignant , from whom a faint cry of tortured envy was indistinctly heard . "

      The Morning Herald is less ceremoaious on the matter . With lets powerful incentives from the dominance of party , he lets out truth more freely , though with true party blindness he ascribes it , knowingly , as we believe , to a wrong source . He says : — " The youthful Qneen , who , in the earliest part of her reign , could not go abroad , especially on a state occasion , without being met and vrelciined by the general acclamations of her people , was allowed to pass and repass between Buckingham Palace and the Houses of

      Parliament last year , sind at the opening of the preeent Session , in profound—vre may say almost Funereal silent *—for an occasional abortive attempt by a few persons to get up a cheer only revealed the more expressively the destitution of popular feeling on the side of royalty . This wm lamentable enengh ; but what we were most grieved to behold on these occasions was , that , the Queen passing slowly -in her state-carriage between dense masses ef her subjects arrayed on either side , none even raised their hats to her . The omission of such an ordinary mark of respect to the Sovereign was certainly very marked . "

      On this part of this subject tee must give our opinion that the Queen was treated more respectfully than she had any right to expect . If her royal ears were not filled with execrations—if the curses of the poor , and the cry of the afflicted , and the wailing 3 of the oppressed , did not render inaudible the dulcet sounds of mirth and Tevelry , and " Turn the joy of pleasance to dismay , " it was because the people showed more regard for her personal feelings and individual happiness , than any of the public acts of her reign have yet shown for them . Never did Monarch ascend a throne under more favourable circumstances than those which

      surrounded Victoria at her accession . Her youth , her sex , her early professions of regard for trnth and justice , her education in a liberal school—in short , everything conspired , had she but chosen counsellors of honest mkid , to confirm and establish the happiness of her reign , and to extend its glories to the ends of the earth and the outposts of timebut she has suffered those advantages to pass unimproved , and she must not now wonder if she find that Royalty is treated by the natural order and fitness of things in much the same style as humanity in other forma .

      ^ VVe yield to none in our attachment to the Royal person ; and we shall best manifest the sincerity of that attachment by respecting to her now , what we Baid to her on the occasion of her coronation , " that the throne is only then secure when it is '' based on righteousness ; and that if she would " indeed reign in the hearts of her people , she must " learn to love mercy , and to do justice she must " learn to put away evil counsellors from before her , " and to study the interest and welfare of her people .

      " Let her turn from the fulsome adulation of those " who poison her Royal ear with falsehood , and " listen to the wail of thousands of her subjects , who " groan under the heavy burden of oppression . " The only means of ^ securing a peaceful and " happy reign is to ' uphold the cause of the "afflicted and the Right of the poor , ' and " this is not to be done by fostering in the lap " of power the most imbecile and heartless faction " that ever wielded the sceptre of Government . " The faction who first excited the men ef Bristol

      " asd Nottingham by the spell of ' Reform , ' and e Dow _ with the Tories , ' and then hung and trans" ported them—who passed a Coercion Bill to put " down the rising spirit of liberty in Ireland—who " raised up the spirit of a dead law , to expatriate " the Dorchester Labourers , that the Unions of the *' people migh t be broken up—who transported the " five Glasgow Cotton Spinners , for the same par" pose—who thanked the Peterloo butchers for their " sertices—who trampled on the citizens of London " i _ Coldbath Fields , when peaceably

      assembled" and who ushered in her own reign by labouring " with abortive insolence to provoke the men of " Newcastle to a bloody eonflict on the day of her "Coronation . " Who have since then illegally put down , by mere force of arms , all constitutional expressions ef the pablic voice ; and who , as they laboured unsuccessfully to usher in her reign with the blood of her subjects at Newcastle , sought equally abortively to introduce the fatal and the bloody gallows tree between the people and her royal nuptials .

      It is not by continuing to uphold in their ascendancy these harpies « f the state that Victoria must hope to see her throne established and her reign peaceful . Where the rights of the peopfe are recognised , their homage to the Sovereign is cheerful and unconstrained . ' But when hordes of public robbers are supported at a nation's cost ; when the interests , the prospects , the rights , the liber ty , and the lives of all , are sacrificed to fhe unjust aggrandizement of a paltry few— distinguished only by imbecility , meanness , or villany , the evil doing of the worthless faction , thus cherished in the sunshine of royal favour , will be -attributed by the undiscriminating to royalty itself \ and

      " This flaws the hearts of all tlxeir loyalties . This matee bold months : Tongues spit their duties out ; and cold hearts fr » ee « Allegiance in them . Their curses now Live when their prayers did ; and none , but Courtiers and fanatic knaves , throw up their cape , And shout God save the Queea . " Royalty should , like an anxious parent , care for all its children ! not draw from their starring penury its very liffc How far Royalty , with us , ap-, proximates either of the aharacters thus indicated , may be judged of from the following table , which , though hastily arranged , we believe to ¥ e correct , of the annual sums paid for Royalty by the hard working , and , in many , cases famishing people of this realm : —

      Queen Victoria £ 386 , 200 Revenues of the Dnchies of Cornwall and Lancaster 44 , 000 Prince Albert 30 , 000 Leopold , King of Belgium 50 , 000 Queen Dowager 100 , 000 Duchess of Kent 30 , 000 Princess Augusta 13 , 000 Do . Elizabeth 13 , 006

      Do . Mary 13 , 000 Do . Sophia ... 13 , 090 Do . Sophia of Gloucester 7 , 000 Duke of Cumberland , King of Hanover ... 21 , 000 Duke of Sussex ... 21 , 000 Duke » f Cambridge 21 , 000 Prince George of Cumberland 6 , 000 Prinee George » f Cambridge 6 , 000 G » rt Pension List 150 , 000 Horee . Guards „ ... 85 , 000 Foot Guards ... ... .. ? ... 192 , 000

      1 , 201 , 200 This expenditure of one milKoa two hundred thousand peunds a-ye&r for royalty is exclusive of parks , palaces , and ** perquisites" of almost infinite variety , which these right * royal" aad " illustrious " personages filch froa . the pockets of the labourer witboat even the form ef asking . In juxtaposition whfc . this shamefel waste of wealth by those , who , nose of them have « ver earned onefar thinf , or done ene Bsefol thiag to saeiety—let Vicroau contemplate the pittance of the wealth producer—the labouring mac , whether mechanical

      or ** ncoltural—the average « f whose wages will certainly not exceed 10 s . weekly . Allowing then to each man , a wife asd three children , which is about the avenge , their weekly expenses for neoesaary matters may be reaeonaWj thns apportioned : — R « nt ... ... ... i 4 Qothes i 4 Firing , Candles , So&p , &c . 1 $ n

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      leaving for the sustenance ef five hsasan beings for a whole week 6 s . < Jd ., which allawmg lhe » to have three meals per day , or twenty-od « meals per week , amounting to something lest than three farthings per meal for each person ! while the original sum of ten shillings is not , on the average , a fourth part of the wealth actually produced by their weekly labour . And when at length his physical frame sinks under the accumulated weight of oppression , and starvation , and hard labour ^ And he is not able to toil for roy alty , he is thrust into a bastile , to be killedp fi after the approved fashion of the New Poor Law ]

      Can Victoria , or anybody else , contemplate these things , and not exclaim with Southbt"When I gaze On the proud palace , and behold one man In the blood-purpled robes of royalty , Feasting at ease , and lording over millions ; Then torn me U the hut of poverty , And see the wretched labourer , wernwith toil , Divide his scanty morsel with his infants , I sickeH , and , indignant at the sight , . Blush for the patience of humanity . "

      To boast of our " Christianity" and of our " civilization , " with these things staring ns in the faoe , is av onoe the height of folly and of impudence . He who , knowing these things to exist , withholds his aid from those moral means by which the great mas of the people shall come to have some control over the spending of their own money , is either a great fool or a great knave .

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      THE SIMULTANEOUS MEETINGS . Oro readers will perceive that we have given condensed reports of the meetings all over England and Scotland to memorialize the Queen on behalf of the three patriots illegally condemned and unjfcstly transported by her ruffian Government . Our , notice of each is unavoidably short , and we have endeavoured to be as impartial as possible . There seems to have been a very general Bpirit of enthusiasm among the people : we pray God that the heart of the Queen may be disposed , in spite of her evil counsellors , to love mercy and to do justice . Thus only can she hope to reign in the affections of her people . _ ..,. .

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      THE LEEDS MERCURY AND THE WELSH

      PATRIOTS . Ws had prepared an article , which want of space obliges us to keep back , on the fiend-like but consistent character of the Mercury ' s assertions , in his lying oraclo of last Saturday respecting F $ ost . We may probably find room to say a word upon it in our next .

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      THE OPIUM WAR . Rkchst arrivals bring news that this disgraceful business is being somewhat vigorously prosecuted . An engagement has taken plaoe between the British and Chinese fleets , in which it ia , boasted by the East India Journals , in the pay of the smugglers , that the Chinese have lost 900 men , while they have lost none at all . The Canton Press , of the 2 d instant , reports that accounts have been received from the West coast , of an affair between Opium smugglers and the Mandarin boats , in which one of the latter was sunk , several men killed , and seven of the Burvivors Bent back with their tails cut off ! This is not calculated to lessen the determination of the High Commissioner , to rid his country of the pestifero * 8 smuggling rascals . - .

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      THE BRADFORD VICTIMS . Wb can only just point the attention of our Readers to this case , which they will find at length elsewhere . The committals are as follow : — Robbr ? Pkddib , William Brook , treason . Thomas Drake , Johh Walker , Joseph Natlob , Joh * Asbtoh , Emamiel Huttos , Johw Rxdijig , Pht 5 kas Smithibs , ud Frakcis RtjshvtobtB , riot and tonspiracy .

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      A TICTIM OF WHIG INJUSTICE . Wahave received a document from Mart Pkjcthorpb , wife to one of the insarcerated Chartists of Sheffield , of a most heart-rending character . We shall publish and have something to ss > y about it nexfcifoek . I * tht * mean time we are give * to understtBtl that this family , are in s . most deplorable state of distress , and that the poor law fiends posi * tively refuse to relieve them . ¦ ' ¦ They live at 75 , Spring-street , Sheffield , and we Iwpetbe Chartists of that neighbourhood will take care of them . ' ' : '' " ' . " ' ; / ¦ ; . <_

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      DANIEL O'CONNELL AND CHEAP LAW . Ik his several popular harangues , whether directed to the attainment of the Suffrage , the Ballot , or shortening the duration of Parliaments , "O'CoHHEia- ' s never-failing cry has been , " But above all , let us have cheap law . " We have not cheap law ; and yet , thwigh lives art daily sacrificed and liberty forfeited because we have it not , thiB same Damiel does not offer one word of remonstrance against the iniquity and injustice of placing individuals out of . the pale , of the law , in consequence of its expense 1 We hare more

      than once complained that two Counsel taken specially to Monmouth , cost the county nearly two thousand pounds more than would have been paid at a regular Assize : and now to prove that the law officers of the Crown use expensive law as an engine to crush those whom it should protect , we have the mortification to state , that the prisoners committed to York Castle for high treasen are not to be tried at the General Assize of the county , but they are to have imposed upon them all the expense of a Special Commission . It has beem decided that after the usual tircuit

      business shall havo been finished , the Judges shall then return to York , for the trial of those charged with high treason , thereby obliging the prisoners to pay special retainers to counsel , or to remain undefended . Against this injustice we solemnly protest , in the name of the . whole nation , ia the name of justice , in Jhe name of honesty and common deceney ; but while we thus enter our protest , it shall not serve as » substitute for defence . No , for—determined to fight the

      ground inch by inch , shoulder to shoulder , and elbow to elbow—we have specially retained two eminent Counsel for the York victims of oppression . Many who flocked to our standard when difficulties were out of sight , have deserted us ; but we have nailed our colours to the mast , and upon them printed " no surrbndbr , " in characters which death alone shall efface ; by that motto we will stand , or by that motto we will fall . Daniel ' s vote of £ 50 , 000 a-year to Albkbt , was another instance of his love of cheap Government .

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      ~ ^ FIRST MONTH OF THE SESSION . Thb first month of the Eighth Session of the Reformed Parliament has passed ; and let no man presume to say , that , however barren all former Reformed Sessions may have been , the country has not had fall value for the first month of the present sitting . The expense to the conntry , taking the twelfth of the year , ( for Parliament directly and indirectly constitutes the whole expense , ) we will set down At . v ' e millions more or leu , that signifies nothing . Fire millions - then ; for the paltry sum of five millions we hare

      made a German Prince an English King , with a present of 430 , 0 * 0 a-yearfor life ; and we have imprisoned two aberifis , one printer , and one attorney , for daring to act lawfully . Now , if any rascally hand-l »« m weaver , or starving operative , shall dare to say that he has not had fall and fair value for his money , we tell him , Hb is a ' s&aitob , and should be hung , drawn , beheaded , and quartered . Moreover , it it not a cheering anticipation for the remainder of the Session ; and may w » sot exclaim with the Irishman , who liked the flavour of the quince in tha apple pie , and said , " MiVshal if one 9 « &o * make * u appl * pit m 30 « d , what

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      the IXtil woald an apple jpie lw if it was all quinces ! " May we not , we ask , in equal eostasy exclaim , " Musha , if one month has been bo good , what will the Session be if made up of fife other sooh montha I" There is nothing like uniformity of practice , and while we have no love for attorneys , and while we consider the incarceration of Mr . Howard aa a great insult to that important profession , yet will we , for uniformity sake , most cheerfully sign petitions to the House of Commons , praying them forthwith to direct Mr . Speaker to

      issue bis warrant for the immediate arrest and commitment of every bishop , parson , barrister , attorney , and magistrate in the united kingdom ; and sure we are , that no circumstance would give more unmixed satisfaction , or so much tend to the preservation of peace . the security of personand property , theadministration of justice , the stability of the throne , and the happiness of all classes of persons without distinction . Masters and men would then speedily shake hands , when the interested knaves who plunder both were in those prisons which they built for honest men .

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      THE BODY SNATCHERS .

      We had an article written last week under the head " The Body Snatchers , " but felt some delicacy about publishing it , lest we should by any expression of our own feelings injure the case of our clients ; aud again , we had some doubts of the fact of any government , even the present , venturing upon so cowardly and disgusting a step as the removal of the Monmouth prisoners at dead of night . What ! is this the strength of the law ! aud , according to the " Bloody old Times , " and other as mortified papew , was not hostility to the act of the prisoners so fiercely expressed , as to

      have raised a sufficient force of the posse comitalus in the middle of the day , of the middle , upper , and lower classes , to have paid homage to the law , and to have registered their disgust of treason , by becoming a guard for the Sheriff . But , was the aot legal ? We say not , because it was cruel , unusual , unnecessary , and outrtgeouB ; and inasmuch , as laws cannot be either the one or the other , the act was illegal . What ! has life become of so little value , and liberty so little worth preserving , that ,

      minute and critical compliance with statutary enactment are absolutely necessary in matters of money to the amount of the smallest sum , while where life and liberty is concerned , no such observance or nicety is required . For a common debt you cannot disturb your neighbour at night . The landlord , with all his privileges and power , cannot distrain his tenant betweea sunset and sunrise ; and in faot , in almost every instance , the law respects the solemnity of night , and awards to its victims that time for repose in security .

      Let us now , for a moment , consider the Whig mode of administering an act of special grace . Lord Chesterfield has said , and said truly , " that some men will refuse a favour with a better grace than others grant it . " The Whigs fiud that they eannot hang the prisoners , and upon the instant torture worse than strangulation is resorted to in the dead hour of the night . They are first awoke , and then aroused to sorrowful reflection , by the clanking of their manacles . They have been partially prepared for death , and are relieved from the anticipation of the ene sudden shook and conclusive struggle .

      by the announcement that life is to be spent in perpetual torture , not only of bodily suffering , but of mental anguish and despair . The wife of the bosom , the offspring of the loins , the associations of youth , the anticipations of old age , all to be bade adieu to and for ever . The delight of home , the society of the partner wife , the prattle of innocent children , flash across the victim ' s mind , and he becomes unmanned . But , worse than all , the country , or whose benefit the awful sentence had been braved , is no more to be trodden by the martyrs ; and upon first breaking silence , - Frost says to his jailors " What is the feeling of the country t is there much excitement in our behalf V In these few

      words there was an appeal more eloquent than pen can indict , or other words convey . Let the country answer that appeal . We tell the people that they have nothing now to expect from the olemency of tae Crown , or the favour of Parliament . Lord SxANHorK has deserted us—Brouqjjam has . deserted us—the members in the Commons , from whom we expected something , have deserted us ; the fact being , that so nice a point as man ' s liberty ; has . been , made a complete party question in both Houses . The Whigs say , , We cannot pardon for fear of Tory ' assault , " while the Tories know full well , that the brutality of their opponents , will secure their overthrew .

      Let the Whigs transport Frost , Williams , and Jokes , and then try a dissolution of Parliament , and let us then see the Whig who shall dare to present himself before an , English , Scotch , or Welsh constituency \ .

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      Can any ob oua readers srll , give , ob . leni TO US , OR PROCURB FOR US , THE " Black Dimr / " for 1819 ? Richard Hoenbr . —The assault was a brutal one ; but as Vie mailer is under judicial notice , tee do not feel called on to interfere tmlets it come before us in the regular way of news . JOHN 8 EAL . ^ -fFe believe Mr . Adand is not the Editor of the Anti-Corn Law Circular ; we believe it is the g ame Mr . Adand vsl » Jffured as as a Poor Law Lecturer at Leeds ami HudderitfeUL The letter of J . S . has been forwarded to the gentleman to whom , it was addressed .

      Walter Thorn . —The resolutions did appear . They are on too Jvrst page of ( he Star for January 18 . Mr . Guest is authorised to pay . Faib Play , Pottehies . —We tamot introduce controversy ; nor can we give anonymously , exparte statements ; particularly such as the present , which might probaWy oall forth nplp , and involve us in a dispute . Circumstances , acting upon ottr feelings and convictions , compel us to be neutral . Archibald Frazer , —Next icee * . H . A . Donaldson . —This letter has been transmitted to Mr . O'Connor ; and of course will receive from thai ffenUeman so much attention as he may deem it worthy of . It is not suited for our columns . TteNorthera St * r is no vehicle Jor . pclemie disputation , which the introduction » f this dUcnxion must necessaril y itmolvtt .

      J . D . —His stanza * wont do . . " A Subscriber . —It is not lawful for B tomarryagain ; her first husband being still alive * He com dmim her as his unfe whenever he may return ; but if she can adduce proofs of his second marriage , she may prosecute , «* d have Mm punished for bigamy . W . 8 . Elliott . —We have no room . R . 6 . Gt'SNERiDSE . —We have m roan . John M'Whirnik . —Apply at the Post Office , aad if no better , write to the Post Master General . They are posted on Friday . We have ml any of No . 109 , nor No . 97 . John Howell , VTatebxoo House , Cahblbon . — The papers haiee been posted every week .

      Thoma 9 Lacv . —Jjspiy to TitusBrook . MRS . Edwards . —We cannot stU may . 3 . SHARPiM shall he attended to . William Brooks will tend as early a $ possible , J . D . Sblbt . —S . Morleg did receive an answer , and it is as well known to him why ihey mre net received t itit fous . J . Y . 9 . —Send by post ; two sovereigns and a half wili will come for 2 d , six sovereigns , with half a sheet of paper , far id . ; that portion of the letter enclosing the meney should be pasted down , Mr . Kay , Burt , will please to give John Auckworth iheporUait of Mr . Frost , if he is entitled toil .

      YINCENTS DEFENCE FUND . £ s . d . From the Kerrimuir PolHieal Union 1 11 2 John Gilchrist ' s letter is in type , but tee we sorry to be obliged tv displace it .

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      Hakley , Potibbibs .- ^ Report cf meeting , received too late , ' ' . ' . ' ¦ . •; '' G . J . Haksby . —We do not etoacMf Imow , nor are um mtoare thai the time hot been anmomeed yet , out we imagine it mtalappear in the LondomGweetfo during the newt week . W . Griffin . —His letter wot tot Me for thUwa / c It shall appear in our nest . _ , Thomas Wilde , Hull , taya the letter in our lost , signed T . B . Smith , is a falsehood . The people

      of Hull will be best able to judge between the two statements . We have already published both versions of the story , and shall not interfere further . Southern Star . —Orders for the Southern Star must 1 be sent to the Office , 4 , Crane'Court , Fleet-street , London , with money in advance , or an order upon some person in town . E . H . Simmons trill see that we have made use of hit communication , for which we thank him . FROST'S DEFENCE FUND . £ . s . d . From Burnley , per R . Duckworths 110 From Elderslie , Scotland : — The Hand-loom Weavers 15 5 Cotten Spinners 0 S 4 j Calico Printers ~ 0 4 6 Creagnefeach Colliers ~~~ 0 10 11 2 4 2 | Etcpences ^^ 0 4 2 | 2 ft 0 From Congleton , per John Burgess * -. 116 The Working Men of Dalkeith Foundry , Dalkeith ~~~ «~— 0 13 8 Stockport , per R . Riley , by a Friend to Vreednm . — , „ ., „„ -. viv ,-. 0 0 6 Bromham , near Devives , WiHt ^ 0 8 6 Mr . H . Cook . AUxster 0 3 C

      The " Northern Star" Portraits.

      THE " NORTHERN STAR" PORTRAITS .

      The specimens of the Splendid Portraits of Oastler , M'Douall , and Collins , are now in the hands of our Agents , and will bear comparison , with any ; i which the art can furnish . The disagreeable £ " . '¦ situation in which we were placed relative to Stephens ' s Portrait has made us cautious , and , therefore , we resolved not to fix the day for the presentation of the above-mentioned Plates until they were at full work , whereby we are enabled to avoid all chances of disappointment . Our arrangements are as follow : —

      We allow till Saturday , the 8 th of March , for receiving Subscribers' Names . Subscribers from that period will be entitled to a Portrait in six weeks ; to a second in two months from the period of giving the first ; and the third after another interval of two months , which is the very earliest time at which they can be perfected . In one month from the last named period we Bhall present to our readers the most Splendid Plate tflat art can furnish of Frost , Williams , and Joues , together with Sir Frederick Pollock ,

      and Messrs . Kelly and Thomas , Counsel for the prisoners . We pledge ourselves that this Plate shall be of the most splendid description . We shall then complete our promised series of Portraits by giving full-length ones of Henry Viacent , William Lovett , aud Feargus O'Connor ; and when the entire is completed , the value of the Star Gallery of Portraits will far surpass the amount expended in the purchase of the Paper . It must be distinctly understood that none but Subscribers will be furnished with Portraits at any price .

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      the 7 th test ., issued from the Excise Office , London , officers of exci aftW g directed to inform all dealers in , and sellers iTWfcje , that it is illegal to Sell coffee mixed with ehJMry ; or any other article ; and that all coffee , fo ^ Ud So taired , will be seized , and traders so offering H will be prosecuted for the penalties incurred . , . ; r | - :: i : ~ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ _' . ii . ¦ i '¦ « . . if

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      ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF PAISLEY TO THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF JOHN FROST , ESQ ., ZEPHANIAH WILLIAMS , AND WILLIAM JONES . Sorrowing Fbllow-beikcs , —With feelings of acute sympathy aud commiseration for the great loss you have sustained in being separated from your dear husbands and fathers , ruthlessly dragged away from you and the endearments of their owa happy hearths—from the sanctuary of their own dear homes , and the loving and kind , intercourse of their kindred and frienA—hurried away from the haven of their own households , to pine in sorrow for the remainder of their days in a far foreign land , the companions of the common felon , could mere

      compassion for your sufferings soothe and console you under your g reat affliction , then might our compassion 8 cothe you—then might the pity wo feel amply reconcile you to this bereavement , and console you for the losses yen have suffered , and the f « arful wrong that has been done you . But you must feel your condition calls for more than this . We ourselves feel that something more is still required to yield you consolation , Hope must aid you in this extreme tnaV of affection—hope must be given you that you may be enabled to bear the injuries that now press' your vexed spirits to the earth . And who on earth can impart that consolatory balm to your oppressed bosoms 1—who can yield to you that sweet and soul-cheering relief ! Who

      more than that people for whose welfare your husbands and fathers have perilled their dear existence 1 Whose power is the greatest to do so ! Whose duty is it more imperatively to yield the aid that hope can yield , and all other assistance your condition requires 1 Whose but the people ' s ! For the people have those beloved relations rendered themselves victims to the soulless tyrants of a base Government—for the people ,, have they stood in the presence of a hated , bloftflggj&ined faction , and boldly denounced them to the wBnd as the worst enemies of their country , of mankind , and of God—for the

      people have they , day after day , expended their time , their money , and the best talents that nature has endowed them with , in battling , at all hazards to themselves , with their country ' s common foe , a debased and corrupt Government—for the people have they passed night after night in torturing anxiety , regarding the heart-wasting misery endured by that people , and the best means of removing that load which renders life to them a night of endless sorrow and prolonged pain . And for the people have they lost their homes , their families , the Kind communion of their kindred , and the intercourse of that Bociety adorned by their presence .

      And now , then , the time has surely come when the people should exert themselves to save those who have ventured so much for them . And we know they will do it . It is this knowledge that emboldens ua to speak to you of home—it is the assurance of this that gives us the power of cheering you in this , dark night of suffering and of sorrow . We feel bound to give you encouragement . England can never sink into apathetic inactivity while her best and bravest are dragged away in the dead of night to be cruelly loaded with vile felon-chains , the fitting rewards of England ' s base oppressors . "

      Scotland can never be a calm , passive spectator of such injustice—of such atrooity . She whose voiceaye and arm—have so frequently been lifted in the days of the famous past , in defence of liberty and truth . She will not , she cannot idly submit to see the brave and patriotic Southerns sacrificed to the despotism of any individual or of any party . And Ireland , backward though she has hitherto been in the movement , yet is Ireland stirring in the good work . Yet will she stand forth ia this great struggle of justice aad humanity . No , no ; Britain ' s millions , oppressed though they b » , are not ungrateful . National ingratitude only finds a home in the bosoms of those , who profit by oppression—those

      whose grasping interest is fed on the blood and sweat of their starred and over-toiled fellow-beings—ia the bosoms of those soullees Iscariots who , with the Almighty on their lips , and fraud and villany in their hearts , pollute the house of God with aa hypocritical mockery of all their sincerity , of all religion . Ingratitude is for suek as those , but not for men who feel that they are bound , and who are struggling to be free . The people know who have been their friends , and willnot now desert them ; and although these friends can never be indemnified for all the sufferings they have endured , and the losses they have sustained , yet they will endeavour to repay them so far aa by liberating them from their present disgraceful thraldom . -

      To you , then , the wives and families of the brave patriot three , John Frost , Zepbaniah Williams , and William Jones , to you , then , do we venture to speak of hope , conscious that the rest of the empire will do as the men of Paisley are determined to do—to use their best exertions to obtain a speedy and entire pardon to the unhappy sufferers . As in the eyes of their country they have , done no wrong , bo it is that country ' s opinion no wrong should be done them ; The shameful partiality of the law , used with the most inhuman rigour against the three most unfortunate prisoners , has roused the indignation of every individual pretending to common reason and to common feelings of humanity . A wide and deep interest in their fate has been excited throughout the whole country . The whole industrious population regard them as mar-

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      tyrs to the muse of sacred truth and liberty , as em * bodied in the People ' s Charter . Are we not the * justified in telling yoa to hope for 4 he speedy return of yourImonmmi ^ mii wdftthgrat . Tell every thingthat the people « ando oyexercisingtheu ;' great moral power—generally irresistible when combined —everything that can be done by anch means will be done . Meeting after meeting * will be heldpetition after petition presented till this object be attained . And when after all these exertions have been made , and if still without success , we pray God that the alternative of more dreadful means be not put into operation , to effect by violence wha could not be gained by moral and peaceful means . .. ..... ^

      For we fear for What an exasperated people may b * goaded on to perform , Bhould those endeavours prove unavailing . Every working man thinks , and evenrworking man freely and boldly says , ' ? Frost and his co-patriots mvst be saved , and we are deter } mined to save then . " And surely Government is not so infatuated as to disregard Buch a determination . Surely it will not , by its further mis guided actions , convert a peaceful people into an infuriated mob * which , roused to desperation , will rush to rescue through all opposition , anihilating all impedimenta , and do much evil to their country , in one furious onset , than could be done in their lifetime by the most" treasonable traitors" that ever an unjust and despotic Government dragged to the scaffold ?

      Wo feel assured , then , that the Government will see , if not tha justice , at least the policy of listening to the loud and reiterated demands of the people , and grant a Free Pardom to those who never should have beta condemned , and return them to their homes , and to their distressed and sorrowing families . This encouragement then we give you for present consolation . Confidentl y hoping o'lrsolves , we wish to give you cause for doing so likewise . Accept then of the only comfort we have now to offer , and endeavour to wait calmly the end of those exertions now making to set the unjustly-bound at liberty , and to restore to their admiring country , the three brave patriots now pining in bondage for that country ' s sake .

      We remain your true and sympathising friends , The Inhabitants ob Paisley . Signed on their behalf , Edward Johw , Secretary . Paisley , Feb . 10 th , 1840 . . " * _____ ? The peeple of Paisley have already sent four petitions to the Queen for the above purpose ^ Three of those , sent by the inhabitants , praying for a free pardon , and one sent by the Town Council , praying for a commutation of the sentences .

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      The operation of the New Postage Regulations , in our case , augments the quantity of Correspondence received to such a degree , that we must beg to the Agents to b « as brief in their communication- as possible . We receive , at least , -00 letters per week ; and t « read and attend to these letters al « ne is no very easy work . What w « i wiBh the Agents to attead te is , to have their letters here in time ( not later than Thursday—aa mueh S 005 BR as they please ); __ d to give . their Orders in some portion of their letter in large figures as b « low : —

      5 OO S-V-EtS FOR JOHN STYLES . If they do this , they will materially aid us . It is rather vexing , when we are ru _ for post , to > have to wade thrtngh three sid * s of closely written foolscap before the Order we seek for can be found . If the Orders ar » not here oa Thursday ^ thhy cahnot be attended to . Last week , letters from the following Agents were received too late : —Walton , Todmorden ; Chadwick , Mill Bridge ; Eeir , Brighouse ; Miller , Frome ; Bateman , Preston ; Jenkins , Idle ; Garnett , Keighley ; and Tinker , Huddenfield .

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      ' ' - tEBBS . * - Disorderly Conduct . ^— On Tuesday , eeverai young men , named , Peter Higgins , Patrick Mann , Anthony Judge , William Wallace , Joseph Mortimer , Joseph Bacchus , and William Canning , were placed before , the Mayor a ^ d Mr . Benyon , at the Court M ° 58 e » on a oaatge of very disorderly conduct , in having , in company , with a very large number of others , assembled m the fields on each side of the road between the . Toll . Bar and the Barrack Tavern , from whence they threw sods , stones , and other missiles , to the great injury of several of the passengers , both in carriages , on horseback , and on foot . The carriage of the £ arl of Hare wood , containing Lord Lascelles , was attacked and broken . The above parties were all identified , and fined £ 5 each , including costs , and in default of payment were committed to Wakefield House of Correction for two months .

      Leeds Catholic Assbmblt . —This assembly , in honour of the Queen ' s marriage , took plaee in the Music Hall , on Monday evening last . Previous to the ball , there was a concert , the parts in which were sustained by some of the first performers of the nei ghbourhood , assisted by the members of the choir of . St . Ann ' s Church . The attendance was very large , and dancing was kept up till early next morning , when the company separated , highly delighted with their evening ' s entertainment . It is also necessary" to state that the quadrille band was under the direction and ably led by Mr . Spenser , a young man of first-rate talent , and well worthy of tha support of the people of Leeds . The proceeds will be given in aid of the funds of the Leeds House of

      Recovery-Inquest . —On Tuesday evening , an inquest was held at the Court House , before John Blackburn , Esq ., on the bodv of a little boy , three years of age named Wm . Ingham , whose parents reside in Olroyd Court , Meadow Lane . The deceased , on Thursday last , was run over by a heavily laden waggon , by which such injuries were inflicted as to cause his death in the Infirmary , on Monday night . Verdict , u Accidental death . " Robberies . —During the night of Friday last , the huose of Mr . T . Benn , clothier , at Low Wortley was

      , broken into and a number of silver tea and table spoons and other articles , were stolen . On Sunday evening , during the hours of divine service , the houae of Mr . Wm . Heighten . Wrigglesworth-row , was entered by means of skeleton , keys , and , in addition to a sum of money , several articles of silver plate werestolen . During the night of Monday , the Saddle House of Mr ; Clayton ; of Kipptx , was broken open , and a quantity of wearing apparel , boots and shoes , a single barrelled percussion gun . and other articles , were stolen .

      Deaths bt Burning ^ -Ob Monday , an inquest was held at Hanslet , before John . Blackburn , Esq .. on view of the body of Sarah Ann , the daughter of Mr . Hardesty , grocer , of that village , who , a few days previouslyj was dreadfully burnt , by her clothes igniting from a lighted coal which flew out of the hre . Verdict—?' Accidental death . "—Oh Tuesday morning , another inquest was held by the same coroner , on view of the body of Rebecca Thompson , six years of age , whose death w _ a occasioned by exactly similar circumstances aa the former , and a similar verdict was returned .

      BARNSUET . Whig and Tonr Lotaltt at Discount . —Notwithstandingthe town being placarded for a holiday for the Queen ' s marriage , the shops were only partially closed during the day , and the night were op « as usual , with the exception of three solitary instances , a beershop keeper , a hatter , and a stationer . The town being placarded for a public meeting to be holden in the Court-House , at eleven o ' clock on Monday , for the purpose of taking into

      consideration the distressed state of the unemployed , at the appointed time no persons appeared , with the exception of three or four individuals , consequently no business could be done , although there are hundreds of poor weavers , starving in the streets So much for the sympathy of the Barnaley gentlemen and manufacturers towards the poor . If trade holds the same depressed position , and manufacturers their faeart-heartednesa' touch longer , God only knows what may be the . regalt , from a people goaded into madne _ s by destitution and poverty .

      . Shockijg D __ TH .-Oh Saturday last , the body of John Woodcock , master sweep , was found dead malime-kjlniiearthistown . An inquest has been held on the body , and a verdict of Died by suffo-« afao _ w _ B _ etnrned . . Bajskslbt Pook Hottsb . —The increase of paupers at this place has been so great for the last two weeks , that the buildinjr is not sufficiently large to containthem . ^~ ¦ Ball . —A fancy dress ball took place at the Odd Fellows Hall , on the day of her Majesty ' s marriage . The characters were numerous and the dresses most splendid . The room was beautifully decorated with ev « rgreens and rosettes of pink , blue , red , and white ; at each end was an enuance arch composed

      of evergreens intermixed with rosettes , and over each arch in large coloured letters were the words Victoria and Albert ; and above each the Crown &c , which did great credit to the taste of Mr . Marshall , under "whose direotion it had been executed . The carriages began to arrive about seven o ' clock , and before nine there were upwards of ISO persons present , at which time the dancing commenced , and was carried on with great epirit until _ ve o'clock , a . m ., when the company unwillingly began toseperate . There was an . excellent band in attendance , under the leadership of Mr . Joshua Wilkinson . The refreshments were not only plentiful bnt of first rate quality , for which great praise was given to Mr . and Mr * Wheatley , the worthy host and hostess of the hall .

      Notice To 4 Gents.

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      Leeds And West-Riding News

      LEEDS AND WEST-RIDING NEWS

      Notices To Correspondents.

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      STAMP RETURN . Return of the Stamps issued to the several Leeds Newspapers for the Six Months to the end December , 1839 , by order of the House of Commons : — Northern Star 879 , 000 Mercury 274 , 008 Intelligencer 86 , 00 © Times SO . QOO

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      Excise General Order.—By A General Order Of

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 15, 1840, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2671/page/4/