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      "— " " - ^ '" ¦ * . - '' - - dated union . These were tbe levers whereby they might work out their own redemption . ( Cheers . ) Mr Roberts , the general secretary of the Boiler Makers * Association , supported the motion . He begged leave to inform the meeting that the united boiler makers ei Great Britain and Ireland had not been idle on this occasion . The amount of the contributions received up io four o'clock that evening from the various lodges of theorder was £ 10116 s . 6 d-( Gheers . ) He had also received a letter from an influential lodge , containing a contribition of & 10 . beside other letter * , showing that they should yet receive upwards of £ 20 more . He hoped that other trades would takthe hintand act in a similar

      e , manner . The stonemasons of the town had already collected about £ 130 , and other subscriptions were going : on . Let all trades make the cause their own let them consider what their feelings weuld be , if they were dragged from the bosom of their famine * , manacled , put in prison , broug ht before the magistrates , committed for trial at the assures , wrongfully convicted , and at last t aken before the Queen ' t Bench . All this was hard enough and lamentable enough ; but how much more bard and lamentab ' e would it be , 'if , "hen thus treated in a cause which involved the interests and the rights of all working

      men , they were without friends to ssm ^ athisaviUS and support them . Thanks , however , to their own society , and to those who bad so nobly come forward to assist them , they were now free ; and be hoped that tbe cause would be fought out gloriously , and that they would show thas whea tyrants combined to crush working men , working men iwould combine to aid ahd assist each other . ( Great cheering . ) Let all trades henceforth , instead of depending upon itself , and each generally falling a victim to this isolation , unite into a grand Trades' Union throughout the country , and they would soon rise up as a whole —great , glorious , and free . ( Cheers . )

      Mr Donovan , a handloom weaver , supported the motion in an excellent speech , in the course of which fee gave a brief narrative of the case of tbe Newton mechanics , showing in a striking point of view , the injustice practised upon them , and the grounds for believing that the verdict was unequivocally bad . He contended that no working man who was tried by a middle class jury , on a charge involving the interests of middle class men , could hope for justice , and called on them to demand the right possessed by

      other classes , of being tried by men of their own order ; Unless they secured this right , even a national combination of trades would fail to secure them from oppression . It was sometimes said that the working classes clamoured for equality , and every one knew what use was made of that charge . Bat the word was an unsuitable one ; it did not express their meaning ; they wanted , not equality , but equity—equity in the jury-box , equity in legislation , perfect equity in all things . ( Cheers . ) Trades unions were said br masters to be the relics oi a

      barbarous age . It must be so . Let the day of equal justice come ; let employers cease to trample on and crust tbe working classes , and then the working classes would surrender their right of onion and opposition . ( Cheers . ) The Chairman then put the resolution , which was carried unanimously . Mr John Rowukson moved the second resolution : — That it is the opinion of this meeting , that the attempt of Messrs Jones and Potts to infringe upon the rights and interests of operatives engaged ia the iron trade , onght to call forth from the working classes of every other trade a spirited and strenuous determination to unite with them in resisting such aggressions ; and that this meeting now desires to give expression to its deep feelings of sympathy with the victims of the Newton straggle , and its gratitude to those trades who have already so nobly responded to the invitation to co-operate .

      He said that the spirit of the trades' unions of this country . and he knew something of them . was not , as was sometimes said , a destructive [ spirit . The general feeling and conviction was , let the employers Save their rights , and nothing more—the employed their rights , awl nothing less . ( Cheers . ) The whole history of tie labouring classes of this country was a most powerful argument in favour of union amongst them . Owing to the want of union , the wages of the men of Nottinghamshire had been reduced from 28 s . or 30 s . to 5 a . In Sheffield , owing to union , the hours of labour had been reduced from sixteen te eight per day , and they had more wages for working eight than they had for working sixteen hours a day . ( Cheers ) The speaker than alluded to some

      of the prosecutions which have been got up against working men on the most trivial pretences , particularly in 1818 , agaimt some handloom weavers of Manchester , ana said that the noble conduct of those men entitled them to the respect of all trades . Why should handloom weavers be looked down upon , because they only earned fa . or 8 s . a week ? They would take more if they could get it ; and the pre" ndice and ignorance that opposed union with such men ought to be sconted out of society . ( Cheers . ) The speaker proceeded most earnestly and eloquently to advocate union amongst all classes of working men , citing quotations from Malthus , Brougham , M'Culloch , Dr Bowring , and tbe Bishop of Oxford ,

      to snow that capital' was immutably opposed to labour , and contended that tbe only means of enabling labour to struggle successfully with its gigantic opponent , was a general union of all trades . This general union would enable them to effect a reduction in the boon of labour according to the work in the market , and then the mechanics would not Lave , as in 1842 , to spend thousands of pounds in the support of their men who were out of work . They ( the mechanics ) bad now a fund of £ 25 , 000 ; bnt he should not like to see it spent in keeping men who were without employment , If they could not do after the reduction of the hours of labour , then they must fly to Feargus O'Connor on the land . ( Loud cheers . )

      Mr T . Wnstssos , member of the Engineers'Association , seconded the motion . Mr Jons Barker supported the motion , enforcing the same views as the preceding speakers . He said that it was quite useless for them to complain of oppression . That oppression was not the fault of those who persecuted them ; but it was the fault of themselves in not uniting together as they ought to do , to resist that oppression . ( Cheers . ) Mr Wm . Creighxon , chairman of the Committee of the Engineers'Society , said , that there was

      nothing in the executive council of that body that would foster an angry , vindictive , or dictatorial spirit towards the employers . So long as the employers and employed could co-operate together , that was what they wanted . Atthe present time , all that they wanted was justice and reason ; and be believed that their cause would ultimately triumph , and that their accused brethren would be eventually liberated from the charge brought against them . lie showed that the journeymenhad tried to settle the affair with the masters in an amicable and friendly manner , but thatall their efforts had been unsuccess ful .

      Mr RssKor , member of the Engravers' Association , also supported the motion . He lamented that there had not hitherto been that brotherly feelings between different trades which there onght to have been , but he trusted that it would henceforward be exhibited in such a manner as would enable them to defy the efforts of any body of men who wishe d and attempted to oppress them . ' Let there be a cordial union amongst all ; - and if the poorest man in existence was tyrannised over , let the rich and powerful trades step in aadsay , "That shallnot be . " ( Cheers . ) He eulogised the ability and devotedness of Mr W . F . Roberts , their solicitor , and said that the name of that gentleman was now a terror to all wrong doers amongst the employers . He hoped that that

      night would be thecommencement of a new era , and that their next meeting would be one for forming all the trades unions into a great national body . ( Cheers . ) Mr Kobbubt , though he gave the speakers great credit for the best intentions , thought that too much time had been devoted by them to the subject of a national union , to the neglect of the immediate business for which they had been summoned . Whilst he was speaking , * Mr P . Roberts , Esq ., solicitor of the defendants , who had promised to attend tbe meeting and explain tbe present state of the proceedings in the Queen ' s Bench , entered the hall ( at half-past 9 o ' clock , ) and was received with vehement applause . The notion which was then under discussion , bavin ? been put and carried unanimously ,

      Mr Robbbts rose amidst renewed cheers , on the subsidence of which ha proceeded thus : —I think I need hardly say that I am happy at all times in meeting a body of working-men , and on the present occasion I am more than usually happy , because my duty is to record progress , to convey information , and to ask a body of men , who , I believe , will respond b . onestlv , what they mean to do . In the struggles which have occurred with the classes which call themselves above us , there has throughout been one difficulty which all the men in my position have felt greater than any other . We have felt no difficulty in obtaining hearty answers , enthusiastic replies ; but , generally speaking , all that has been said has tnrnedout to be meresmoke and -vapour . Bat I believe I am now addressing a body of men who have come forward nobly and manfully , and thus far , victoriously ; and I thank God that I have been allowed

      to help them in doing that which will aloneserve the interests of working-men , namely—instead of calling on this , that , and the other class to help them , putting their own broad shoulders to the wheel of oppression , with a determination to lift it from them . ( Cheers . ) 1 am here to congratulate you , not so much on the progress yon have made , as on the spirit by which that progress has been obtained . I have known as great progress made informer times ; I have made as great progress myself , and excited as much enthusiasm on other occasions as on this ; but I have found it worthless , or rather worse than worthless , for , whilst the parties failed to keep nptheshowofstrengthand spirit which they bad displayed , they opened the eyes of their enemies to their weakness . Whilst desirous that , where right , the people should succeed , I have been sometimes rather anxious that the contest should be postponed until the people were really prepared to take advantage of ft ; , and Mr Seisby , a roan whom I honour ,

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      . „ j 4 , 1 ,-i , deserving of all honour , knows very well ttStiSK *«» Mto tUi struggleoi lourshasnot cometoosoon-whether , inreality , you ar e determined to take yoarstand upon yonr position , determined to maintain it ; for that is the question . If you ate not determined to maintain your position , m ostassuredly yon will be dislodged from it . ( Hear , hear . ) Most as-uredly , the position you have taken at the Liverpool Assizes is one which the class opposed to you will not suffer you to maintain without a struggle . The magistrates , in their impudence , think that you aredebarredtheprivilege which every ether class claims to itself—that whilst deputations may go to the Duke of Wellington or Sir Robert Peel , the working classes , forsooth , are not to bo allowed to speak to a brother in error , or one going to commit an error . It is no matter to me that onr

      deputations were , called picqnets : the real thing Messrs Lyons and Stubbs declared that they would put down was , that you should goandask some other men not to do something that they were going to do . Thitwasthe whole thing . The power was worth nothing when you did not use it . Nobody contested it when you were silent—so long as you opposed injuries with violence , who cared for your right to persuade ? It required no chains to chain you when you chained yourselves ; it required no straining of the laws against you . when you broke the laws which were in existence . So long as you willingly offered yourselves to three months * imprisonment arid hard labour : so long ag your proceedings were charac tensed by violence—violence which assuredly brought

      punishment , punishment which assuredly brought terror , and terror which assuredly destroyed your enthusiasm ; so long as cau se and effect progressed in that wav there was no need to strain the law against you . Ton were then asked why you bad not recourse to persuasion , why you did not use peaceable and amicable means , why you employed violence ? And then , when you did use peaceable means , persuasion and argument , the master class found out that the weapon which was powerful with them was omnipotent with you . ( Cheers . ) I , for one , care not whether the struggle is to be considered as won . or whether we are to stand up and fight it out . I feel myself young enough to grapple with the foe and beat him half a dozen times . ( Applause . ) I should

      be better pleased , Heaven knows , in my position , to look upon you gloriously and jpeaceably enjoying the victory we have obtained ; bnt , if it shall be that that victory is to fall as others have fallen ; if it is to be that that victory is only to have the effect of opening yonr masters' eyes , and enabling them to forge other chains ; if it is to be that you are to be thrown down , then I , for one , will help you to get up again . ( Great cheering . ) And I feel myself , as opposed to those men whom I have to grapple with , whatever their power , however high the seats in which they sit , however big their talk , however irapndent their language , however strong their vulgarity , I feel the utter contempt for them all , that I have no doubt , whenever the people of England unite , or whenever

      a section of the people of England unite , if they arc honest and true to each other , we may whistle off all theiropposition like chaff before the wind . ( Cheers . ) I believe that your position has been obtained greatly by your own virtue—partly , ( why should we deny it ?) by some accidental means , but which accidental means were the result of your virtue—partly , I grant , from the accident of our having a straightforward , clear-headed , honest judge . ( Hear , hear . ) Still the fact is , that that position is so impregnable , so omnipotent , so certain to truimph , that unless you all getdrunkagain —( laughter)—unless you will have recourse to violence again , you are sure to succeed . There have only happened within tbe time that I have been here , three occurrences on which

      themagistrateshavepropounded tbe doctrine that , although the working classes have a right to meet and agree together , they have no right to persuade each other . This was perfectly absurd ; for when men met together it was almost impossible that they could all be of one mind , and yet how were they to agree if persuasion was inadmissable f The first time that this doctrine was propounded was at Ashton-under-Lyne , when some men ventured to persuade some other men working for Pauling and Henfrey . On that occasion , he used the same arguments as before Messrs Lyons and Stubbs ; but the men were committed . No effort was made on their behalf by the working classes—not 0 d . was collected ; I debated with myself what was best to be done , whether it was not better that they should be tried and

      sentenced to something that would not break their hearts , so as to rouse working men to a sense of their duty .. However , when the case came to trial the prosecution was withdrawn- Since then tbe case occurred again at the same place . A man named Puff , a carpenter , brought a charge against twenty men of having sent a letter to Mr So-and-So , ( John Knobstick , or some one , ) stating that his company was unpleasant , and that if he did not think proper to retire , they should . The men were all committed . Then , for exactly the same cause for which , if I asked £ 20 , 000 , £ 30 , 000 would come , and which excites so much enthusiasm and determination . JLesa than two years ago there was no excitement at all , and only the sum of

      about £ 100 was collected by the carpenters . We were bailed out to appear to answer any indictment which might be found at tbe assizes ; and I did then as I have done on this occasion . I at once applied for a writ of certiorari , which means that any case which is removed by that writ is to be argued before the Queen's Bench ; and when you say you mean to argue before the Queen ' s Bench , you give a strong prosf that you are determined to get right if you can . When I went to the assizes I passed Mr Doff and the policeman with the indictment , and I went to Mr Shuttleworth , handed him the writ of certiorari , and never heard any . more about the indictment . I thought we were going to have na struggle now , but the indictment has been gone on with , and a

      glorious indictment it is . They were sometime ago advertising for fresco paintings to adorn the House of Lords , but if their lordships wanted something to adorn their walls ' which was extremely curious , though it might not be very ornamental , they had better send for our fifty-seven yards of indictment . As far as my youthful reminiscenses would allow me , I have made a pretty accurate calculation , and I find that 150 couples might safely dance the Polka upon it . - ( Laughter and cheers . ) Well , this indictment has been found , and a glorious . blow it has already struck at oppression . In our profession we are glad to witness that the mere length of this indictment , granting that it is true , and embodies an offence , has elicited from every one who has had

      to speak of it an expression of condemnation . The judges say that such monstrous things ought not to be permitted—that tbeir mere length , the mere fact of a man being called upon to answer a charge which he could not comprehend , was an oppression . In Westminster Hall every person who spoke of the indictment made it a point to say that he could not understand it . and that he should be ashamed to understand it . The judge told the jury that he could not understand it , ( cheers)—that he must either be guilty of the justice of only putting a very little bit of it to them , or of the atitt greater injustice of putting the whole to them , and then leaving them in an utterly inextricable mass of confusion . ( Cheers . ) Thus much for the indictment ; but I must now go

      back for a moment to tell yon that the real question mooted by Messrs Lyon and Stubbs was this , that a portion of the defendants are charged with doing nothing except one thing , which has become immortalized in the annals of the law . If any one should hereafter write a book on the principles which prevailed amongst the magistrates of England at this period , they would have to state that in the glorious year of 1846 , two magistrates , neither of whom were chickens , pronounced that walking np and down . and speaking to people , was an offence against the laws of the kingdom , and that they were the asses to believe that the men whom they asked to believe this would actually take their word for it . Why , it is true enough that they must have found some musty

      doctrine of tbatkma in books a hundred years old , and in men a century backwards ; but could they expect that a body of men . who had the pluck of chickens in their hearts would assent to a doctrine which went to destroy their power to speak to a friend in tbe streets , if they had a friend on tbeir arms at tbe same time * For if a thing was illegal for twenty to do , it is illegal for two to do . That doctrine was propounded with regard to about seventeen of the men . There were afterwards twenty-six tried . With regardto a number of the others , a greater mass of perjury I never heard in my life than at the court in Liverpool . One man , who when before the magistrates at Warrington , swore that one of my men said , " we will wait for yon at the

      station , " swore before the judge that the words were , " we will lay wait for them at the station . " Where had that man been in the interval ? I do not lay that he had been dining with Messrs Lyon and Stubbs -, but I do think that he had been taking beer with Jones , the constable . With regard to nine of the men , it was sworn that they used some words of violeaee . There was no doubt that the men who had been tutored , and serewed , and bribed to swear against them before Messrs Lyon and Stubbs , would , if they were screwed and bribed a little more , and peppered afresh , be willing to swear the same , or a little more , when they went before the judge . Now , there is no doabt that using threatening language is an offence against the laws of England , and I , for one , hope that it always will be an offence . I say that no cause can triumph , or ought to triumph , or shall

      triumph , so far as 1 am concerned , which feels it necessary to have recourse to violence of one sort or another . There was a third class of defendants , amongBtwhom were Air Seisby and Mr Cheeseborougb , who were sworn to have encouraged this violent language . We all knew that if the judge chose to put it to the jury that they had connived , they would be of course found guilty , but we believed that the charge against Messrs Seisby and Cheeseborough could not possibly be strained to that extent . But the most mischievous , the most dreadful offence was that with which the 17 were charged—the men who threaten destruction to the class interests and dominion of the masters—tbe men who walked up and down , and talked to the people . Well , we had them at Liverpool , and , notwithstanding the moral influence of Lyon and Stubbs , the judge declared that these men

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      had committed no offence at all . The masters connected with Lyon and Stubbs had come to the conviction that the y have gained a loss—that they stood much better before , than they do now . I admit that the point is still liable to argument , that there is a great deal of law the other way ; but , when I take into account the circumstances of the year in which we live—that all things now move by combinationthat nothing is done in England now but by a conspiraev to do it—I had a perfect conviction that , whatever the judge might say at Liverpool , I should in the Court of Queen's Bench get as much law for the poor as for the rich . Although the decision is that of a single judge , yet still it is law until contradieted , and woe to the magistrate who ventures to commit a man for walking up and down in Newton ,

      or any other place . Then what is the position in which we stand ? With regard to the 17 , and the principle involved in the case , that is decided . But we feel that what ever the other men did , they did it of themselves , as individuals , and not as conspirators , to impoverish Messrs Jones and Potts . Do you recollect the masters lately conspiring not to engage any man belonging to the union ? ( Hear , hear . ) And the Manchester Guardian , day after day , congratulated the public that the men were being starved out . Why this was literally doing what we . are charged with ; it was an attempt to impoverish the working classes . Working men came to me and asked me to indict the masters ; they asked me whether it was not a conspiracy , and effered me laree sums from the union if

      I would take it up . I said , " No ; this is a good game : I shall have to play at it myself some day . " I told them that if they used the doctrine of conspiracy against the masters , they would but fortify the hands of the masters , if ever the latter thought fit to put it in operation against the men . Then , with regard to the nine men , we feel convinced that there was no conspiracy at all ; and , backed by the mechanics of England , of whose confidence I feel proud , prouder than of any other honour which the earth could give , I will fight it out . They feel that the battle is n ot won while an inch of ground remains to be contested ; that , whilst a great blow has been struck at tyranny for ever , by the decision at Liverpool , there is still another contest , another blow to be struck ; and they say , strike on , till you can ttrike no longer , against tyranny and oppression of every sort . ( Great cheering . ) And does there remain no other tyrannny and oppression ? Is a big ,

      bloated constable , rolling in the fat which is the result of drink , to go , with the master or the master's brother , into a house , against which he has no warrants , defying the law which he is placed to administer , calculating not only on pardon and protection , but on the praise of those who ought , in their high places , to check him • calculating on all that , he goes without any warrant , and breaks open the boxes of any person be chooses . And is that a thing which the working classes of England are prepared to sit by and see done , without resentment and punishment ? ( Cries of " No , no . " ) If so , the phrase of the world would be that you deserve the tyranny ; but I say that you would deserve fifty times worse .. Until a spirit is aroused that looks on an injury offered to one man as an injustice committed upon the whole body—until thai is the prevailing spirit of all England , you are not in a fit state to grasp your rights , or to enjoy them if you could grasp them . I say that the conduct of the mechanics has done them

      immortal honour , in determining , notwithstanding that a victory has been obtained on the large principle that the validity of the indictment itself shall be the question—that they would ssk the Queen ' s Bench for this , if no more ; for , if there is nothing else against the indictment there is this—and it is a curious thing , too , in itself—that for the first time in England , we . when we come up for judgment , shall ask for a new trial , upon the ground that tbe judge told the jury that he could not understand the charge . ( Cheers . ) We will say , by counsel , that that is a very fair ground for asking for a new trial , and for no trial at all ; that if the charge was unintelligible to the judge , it must have been so to the jury ; that tbe jury , could not have pronounced a true verdict when they said ,

      ' guilty on every count , " the judge not having read one to them . ( Cheers . ) It was the duty of the prosecutors , having got their verdict against these nine —and it is a verdict which will take considerably more difficulty to shake than that against the seventeen—they ought the next hour to have been prepared to give every man notice that he should surrender , in discbarge of his recognizances , the first day of the next term . During the first four days of term , we shall ask the Court of Queen ' s Bench whether they would like to have the motion for a new trial brought on then , or postponed until we are brought up for judgment ? The Court of Queen ' s Bench are cunning fellows ; they know that a verdict is sometimes obtained in an inferior court , when the

      parties who obtained it never intend to press for judgment ; and they will at once grant the motion for postponement , till the prosecutors choose to bring us np for judgment . Now , we are at the prosecutors' mercy ; they can call us up when they like ; but I roust say ; that they have shown a remarkable want of vigour in that respect . If they feel content with the licking they have had , and do not want another , I think we ought to allow them to retreat . ( Laughter and cheers . ) On the 8 th of this month the term ends . We can only be brought up during the term . We shall wait till the term is over , and on the following Monday I shall publish my account of the trial , because a long period may elapse before we are called up for judgment . We cannot be called up

      before the 22 nd of May , and judgment cannot be pronounced before the first week in June . The prosecutors have power , during twelve months , to call us up during term ; after twelve months they cannot do so without giving us reasonable notice . A short time ago the prosecution of these men would have been one of infinite peril . There would have been enthusiasm for the trial , and money would have been collected for the the trial ; but after the trial the enthusiasm would have died away , no money would have been collected , and the prosecutors would have rested on their oars till they saw thatour apathy had left us unprepared , and then they would have called upon us to go to the next stage of the struggle , when we must have yielded to their own terms . I ara told

      by the mechanics employing mo , that a fund will be reserved applicable to this contest only , come where and when it may . ( Cheers . ) So far this is satisfactory . The rod will remain in pickle ; it will be kept ready for our oppressors , so that when the proper time comes they will meet with the same determined opposition which we have hitherto had the glory and satisfaction of showing tbem . Still I warn you that your prosecution is one of immineat peril . Tea cannot obtain such a victory without exciting tbe attention of the classes above you to your position . I have no doubt that in next session of Parliament a bill will be introduced , in some shape or other , to

      coerce the working classes ; and whether it will fail or not will depend entirely upon the vigour of the people in resisting , or their slavish apathy in yielding to it . ( Prolonged and vehement applause . ) Mr Thomas' Nobbubt . —If the verdict is obtained against us in the Queen ' s Bench , can we go any further ? Mr Roberts . —Yes ; and we mean to go further . Mr Jobs Rowlinson . —In the event of Jones and Potts not pressing judgment , can we prosecute for false imprisonment and breaking open of boxes ? Mr Roberts . —Yes ; and we mean to do so . Mr Nobbvrt . —How far can we go ?

      Mr Roberts . —Only to one court after the Queen ' s Bench . Mr Rob , member of the Engineers' Association , proposed the third resolution , as follows : — That the grest , splendid , and peaceful victories achieved by W . P . Roberts . Esq ., whom we regard as every working man's Attorney-General , have honourably earned for mm the entire and unlimited confidence of the working classes throughout the British Empire , He spoke of the great talents which had been manifested by Mr Roberts in this and other cases , and said that tbe present contest between the masters and the men exceeded all former ones in its magnitude and importance .

      Mr Sauusii Fletcher seconded the motion . He said that it was highly desirable that the working classes should ascertain the amount of their electoral power , and that if possible they should return men who would place the working classes in the same position as others with respect to sitting on juries . Mr W . Crmohioh cordially supported the motion , which was carried unanimously , and followed by three times three hearty rounds of applause , given upstanding . Mr Wh . Hbuu proposed the fourth resolution , which ran thus : —

      That the bast thanks of this meeting are due , and are hereby given to the proprietor and editor * of the Xwt & ttn Star , for the able and spirited manner in which the right * of labour are constantly defended In their columns , and especially for their noble advocacy of the cause of tbe Ifewtca men , in their late struggle with unprincipled and selfish employers . He spoke briefly but warmly of the great benefits whioh the Northern Star has conferred upon the working classes , and pointed out several instances of its bold and straightforward advocacy of their cause . Mr David Schofield seaonded the motion , which was carried amidst loud applause . A vote of thanks to the chairman was then passed , and the meeting terminated at eleven o ' clock .

      6 The Northern Star May 8, 1847.

      6 THE NORTHERN STAR May 8 , 1847 .

      The Late Murder At Dbrrt.—Death Of Mrs O...

      The Late Murder at Dbrrt . —Death of Mrs Osborne . —Mrs Osborne , who was so savagely attacked by tbe murderer Cross , after he had perpetrated the horrid murder on his wife , died on Thursday morning . The wound in her neck had healed up , but she was troubled with a violent cough , which no doubt hastened her end . The murderer cut her fingers so badly , that mortification of o » o of them took place , and she had it cut off about a month ago , an operation which she bore with great fortitude . Daring Burglary—The promises of Mr Gogorty , optician and philosophical instrument maker , No . 72 , Fleet-street , have been burglariously entered , and a largeqaantity of valuable goldand silverspectacles , gold eye glasses , < fcc , carried off . The house is at the corner of Crown-court , from whence the burglars effected their entrance .

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      Liverpool-Tab Irish I **™™™* : " ? } !? " ?! me notice was issued , on Tuesday , in the Underwriters' Rooms , Liverpool :- " Steamers landing from Ireland , which take passengers , will have to proceed to the quarantine ground , to be inspected by the medical officer in charge , and any of them suffering from fever , or other contagious disease , will bo removed to the lasareltos . " TORKSHIRB .

      Extensive Smugqhno Transaction . —A few days ago upwards of a ton of tobacco was found buried about a yard below the surface of the earth , in a field near Wilberfoss . Previous tothat discovery a reward of £ 200 had been offered , it being supposed that the tobacco had been brought np the river Ouse and landed on the New-Walk , in the suburbs of York from a schooner called the Ark . Mr Chalk , superintendent of police , with Mr Wright , of Hull , and Mr Gardener , of Manchester , collectors of customs , have been actively engaged in tracing out the matter . Nothing particular , however , transpired until a few days ago , when fte seizure took place . Subsequently the solicitor of Her Majesty ' s Customs was sent down to York to es ^ nine into the evidence prior to other proceedings being taken . This examination was , of course conducted privately , and after it had been concluded , writs were issued for

      the apprehension of certain parties who were implicated . Accordingly on Monday last , Mr Chalk and Mr Wright proceeded to put the warrants which had been obtained into force , and in the course of a very short time five persons were in custody , vis ., Mr Terrill . of the firm of Labron andTerrill , tobacconists , Yerk ; Mr William Briggs , landlord of the Three Cranes public-house , Thursday Market ; John Thwaitep , carrier between York and Beverley ; Isaac KUrier , carter , Aldwark , and John Stead , a rully man . Those individuals were afterwards conveyed to York Castle , and we understand that on the 8 th of , May they will have to appear before the Barons tf Exchequer in London , to answer touching certain articles , wherein they are impleaded by informations lately exhibited against them before Her Majesty ' s Barons by the Attorney-General , for the forfeiture , as , to each of them , of three several sums oi £ 3 , 042 7 a . 6 d „ or a total of £ 9 . 127 2 s . 6 d .

      NOTTINGHAMSHIRE . Suicide . —Mr Dupler , of the firm of Dupler , Potter , and Huger , has committed suicide owing to the aspect of his private affairs .

      SUFFOLK . Alleged Murder op a German Girl . —An inquest was commenced at Ipswich on Tuesday upon the body of Elizabeth Eager . It was proved that the deceased travelled the country in company with an English girl : the one playing a tambourine , the other a " piano , " which , whilst in use , was supported by a thick rod of wood . They had been amusing with their rude music some men in-a tap room at Ipswich , when a drunken listener , named George Barker , took possession of the piano stick , and when the girls left the house refused to give it up . He followed them to their lodgings , and made proposals which were refused . The poor German attempted to persuade Barker to restore the stick , saying that" her master would make arow about it ; " but he obstinately refusing , she attempted to seize it , when he struck her a blow on the head which caused hex death . When taken into custody , the accused said , "I gave her a blow , but she'll be all right in tbe morning . "—The inquest was adjourned .

      TENBURY . WELKS . Suspected Child Murder . —The inhabitants of this retired and romantic inland watering-place have been "disturbed from tbeir propriety" during the past few days , in consequence of rumours that a young farm servant had destroyed her illegitimate child at an inn in the town . It appears that a young woman , named Caroline Owens , left her service at the adjoining hamlet of . Wooffetton , and came to Tenbury last week , where she remained in lodgings at the house of a woman named Cun dall . From thence she moved to the Red Lion Inn , in Tenbury , where she delivered

      herself of a fern le child , which was found dead in bed by her side , with marks of violence on its throat . An inquest was afterwards held , when , after hearing evidence , they returned the following verdict : — "That the child died from injuries on the neck , arising from pressure of a violent nature , but whether inflicted by * . he mother , Cfttuline Owens , in the agonies of labour accidentally or designedly , there is no evidence to satisfy us . " The inhabitants are not at all satisfied with the result of this investigation , and it is said that the matter will not be allowed to rest here .

      EBSEX . The Starving "Shirtsiak . br" charged with attempting to poison her child and herself was examined on Monday , before the magistrates at Newport petty sessions . It appeared frona the evidence that the life of the prisoner was saved in consequence of vomiting being induced by the excessive dose of laudanum she had taken ; a less quantity by remaining on her stomach would probably have caused death . She was committed for trial on the capital charge .

      KADIAT . Alleged Dbath op a Girl from Brutal Violence . — An inquiry of several hours' duration took place before Mr T . Higgs , at the Baldfaced Stag . Chaseside , near Hadley , touching the death of Sarah Garrett , aged thirteen . The evidence taken wa « very voluminous , and tho principal part is totally unfit for publication ; but the main facts of the case were as follows : —The deceased was the daughter of labouring people , living at the above house , and enjoyed a very excellent state of health until the beginning of January last , when she suddenly became very weak and exhausted . A medical man was called to her , but notwithstanding the remedies adopted she continued to get gradually worse . On the 29 th of

      February she was placed under thecareof Mr Arouvj , the parish surgeon of Enfield , who discovered that she was labouring under peritonital inflammation . The proper remedies were used , but she continued getting worse . About the middle of March she made a statem ent to her mother , charging a man named John Compfield , a blacksmith , living in a cottage adjoining , with a rape , attended with brutal violence . Her statement was as follows : —That about ten days after last Christmas she was coming along the baek garden of her parents' residence , ' when Campfield overtook her , and threw her down on the ground in a secluded part of the garden , where , by using great force , he succeeded in effecting his purpose ; but , not content with what he had already done , he then took a stick lying on the ground , and

      with it abused her person in a most brutal manner . The reason she gave for not stating the above facts earlier was the dread she felt of Camfield , who had threatened to kill her if she told any one . Mr Asbury , who examined her person , confirmed her statement in a measure , by stating that the capita ] offence had been committed , which caused the aj £ prehension of Campfield , who was committed to prison on the capital charge . Everything was done for the deceased , but she sank and died on Thursday last , since which a c & rfulpoit mortem examination ofthebody has since been made by Mr Asbury , who was of opinion that her death was the result of scrofula and extensive chronic peritonitis , from natural causes , and not caused by any violence . Verdict , "Died from scrofula and disease of the bowels , from natural causes . "

      CHATHAM . Forgbrt by a Soldier . —Thomas O'Brien , a young man belonging to the 9 th Regiment of Foot , quartered in Chatham Barracks , was brought before the county magistrates at Rochester on Monday , charged with uttering a receipt for a Past-office order , with intent to defraud the Post-office authorities . The prisoner , a native of Dublin , and who was described as having had the advantage of a good education , joined the regiment about nine months since , and was soon afterwards appointed a clerk to the depot . On the l 9 tb of March , in tbe absence of Colour-Sergeant Lynch , who was at the assizes at Maidsti ns , the prisoner was deputed todistribute the post letters for the officers and privates of the regiment , a custom enforced by the orders of the commanding officer ,

      Colonial Weare . Amongst the letters was one for Aaron Handle , a comrad e * contained a Post-office order for 15 s ., of which the prisoner at once possessed himself , and having forged the signature of Sergeant Lynch , whom he knew to be in the habit of signing such documents as a guarantee of their correctness , he proceeded to the Post-office at Chatham , where he presented the order , and having there attached to it the signature of Aaron Randje . obtained payment and absconded with the money . > The prisoner was afterwards taken at Gravesend , brought back to barracks , and placed on a Court-martial for absenting himself , and was committed to the district military prison at Fort ClarenoBjfrom which he wasliberated on Monday morning , and delivered over to the civil power on the charge of forgery . He was committed to Maidstone Gaol for trial at the next assizes .

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      Horriblb Infanticides.—A Horrible Traged...

      Horriblb Infanticides . —A horrible tragedy has occurred on Wednesday at Llaoybyther , in this county , involving no less than three murders , which are rendered more appallingly dreadful by the fact that the perpetrator of the fatal act is the mother of the three innocent victims . The wretched mother , Mary Hughes , with her three children , resided with her sister-in-law , also named . Mary Hughes , who

      keeps a small puDiio-nouso on « ne roaa TO LUinsawel , about four miles from Llanybyther . She had been residing with her sister-in-law for the laat month , her husband having left her about that period in order to seek for em ployment at the iron works at Nantyglos as is the custom of numbers of the peasantry in time of scarcity of labour in the agricultural districts . On Wednesday , about twelve o ' clock , the sister-in-law left the house in order to go to'Llanbytber upon business , and upon her return at seven o ' clock in the evening was surprised to find the door locked and the key placed under tke door . She opened the door ,

      Horriblb Infanticides.—A Horrible Traged...

      however , and finding no one in the house upon a cursory inspection , she proceeded to the residence of a neighbour , distant about a hundred yards , to whom she stated that she had suspicions , in consequence of her sister-in-law ' s absence , that something had gone wrong . The neighbour advised her to see if her sister-in-law had gone to bed , and upon her return to do so , she was horror-stricken at perceiving the three children , aged respectively one , three , and five years , suspended by their necks to a beam in the roof and quite dead , apparently having beense for some hows . Tbeir mother was nowhere to be

      found , ibis dreadful crime must have been perpetrated with considerable coolness and deliberation , inasmuch as two children were hung to one part of the beam by two handkerchiefs tied together , and one to another part by two other handkerchiefs . Suspicion , of course , could attach to no one but the wretched mother of these ill-fated babes , and it is supposed that she could not be otherwise than insane at the period this dreadful offence was committed . It is conjectured that she has either taken her course towards Merthyr to join her husband , or that she has committed suicide , as she has not been since seen in the neighbourhood .

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      Defliitoiiok Ik The Highlands.—From The ...

      DEfliiTOiioK ik the HIGHLANDS . —From the First Report of the Central Board of Management of the Highland Destitution Fund , we gather some important statistics regarding the extent of the destitution . The most destitute districts consist ot the western parts of Ross and Inverness-shires , part of Argyleshire , and nearly the whole Hebrides , containing a population of 115 , 243 , three-fourths of them , or 86 , 430 people , being totally destitute . Shetland and the parish of Stromness , in Orkney , contain

      a population of 33 , 343 , with severe destitution . The northern and eastern Highlands , with a population of 162 , 011 ,. have received partial relief . The fourth district comprises the greater portion of Argyleshire , with a population of 88 , 063 , and considerable destitution . The funds subscribed amounted on lOtb April to £ 138 , 745 . 18 . 9 d ., of which £ 66 , 000 has been received from the British Association . The disbursements amount to £ 16 , 701 . 18 s ., leaving on hand £ 122 , 043 5 s . 9 d „ which is ^ considered insufficient to provide food for the destitute till next harvest .

      This Storm . — The Perth Courier states that during the late gale , as two gentlemen were proceeding through tbe glen ef Cullyraucldch , in a close carriage they became apprehensive that the vehicle would be upset from its fearful rocking to and fro . Accordingly they alighted , and had scarcely done so , when the hat of one of them was blown from his head . Both gavechase as fast as their legs could carry them , but the hat had by far the best of the race , and was last seen describing rapid gyrations round the angles oi the road , to be dashed into some unseen ravine below . Retracing their steps , they missed the conveyance , but observed something high in the air , which , when it reached the ground , proved to be the door they had so hastily opened , literally torn off its hinges .

      Further on they found the carriage overturned in a deep ditch , and the driver engaged in cutting the traces to liberate the horses . It was sadly mauled , although not destroyed . Thh Rutherford Monument , Anworth , Struck bt Lightning . — Advanced at the season now is , electrical commotion has been common for more than a week over the whole south of Scotland ; and so late as Sunday last , the 2 nd current , a thunder-storm , in crossing the Boreland Hill , near Gatehouse , struck the Rutherford Monument with such violence , that it toppled from its basement , and is now a mass of ruins , scattered on all sides , painful to contemplate . It was a noble column , in the form of an obelisk , which beautifully beseemed its alpine position , and was seen from great distances , particularly on the English side of the Solway , over a large section of the coast of Cumberland . In addition to the pious

      purpose for which it was reared , to commemorate the talents and virtues of a faithful minister and eminent scholar , who flourished more than two centuries aqo , the tall piller was endearingly useful to mariners steering from the Frith of Clyde to the isles Fleet , or while returning from still longer voyages . An accident so inopportune and unexpected has excited deep feelings of regret , not only around Gatehouse , but over a wide extent of country—feelings which will be shared and warmly reciprocated wherever Gallovidfans congregate at home and abroad . The foundation stone Of the monument wag laid more than seven years ago , and the erection completed A . D . 1842 . The tablet ' and inscription have received scarcely any injury ; and , as building material abound amidst what appears debris , the obelisk , we doubt not , might be reconstructed at less than half the original expense .

      . Novel Mode op Quelling a Riot . —A few days ago there were upwards of 100 Irish navvies on board the Kirkaldy ferry steamer , during one of her afternoon trips to Newhaven , and , about the time the fare was collecting , conducted themselves in a very unruly manner , and refused to pay their fare . On being remonstrated with by the captain , they became still more refractory and riotous . Captain Barker , finding that further remonstrance and threatening of legal proceedings against them only made matters worse , attached a flexible tube to the escape-valve of the en * gine , scattered a quantity of steam amongstthem , and threatened to continue it it they would not give up their disorderly conduct . This not being speedily complied with , the captain , by the application of tbe tube , gave them a copious cold shower bath , which soon had the effect of reducing them to a state of subordination , and they were allowed to land at Newhaven . Some of them , however , were take into custody by the police oh returning to Kirkaldy .

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      The Papers Are Teeming With Short Paragr...

      The papers are teeming with short paragraphs about the unparalleled distress from famine and pestilence in Ireland , whereas they fill their columns with endless lamentations over the illness of one man —a nobleman and lord-lieutenant . Thus they tell us : — "The deep anxiety with which the public mind had been seized when the noble earl ' s danger had been publicly announced , is hourly on the increase . The number of persons who call each day nearly doubles that of the preceding , and the interest they fee ) , in making inquiry about the illustrious patient , is manifest in the anxiety impressed on tbe countenance of every visitor of every shade of opinion . " Until the fawning sycophants can pay their court to the neat man , who plants his foot on the coffin of his predecessor . Meanwhile , the sympathy of the press is so exhausted by its illustrious subject of commisseration , that it can spare none of its hired eloquence for cases like the following : — •

      ULSTER . It is melancholy to read the accounts from the provinces , detailing the spread of famine , and its concomitant—typhus fever . Even in this province where the condition of the peasantry is better than in the south and west , fever is making dreadful ravages . In Belfast , the union workhouse andhospitals are all full , and still the patients are increasing . The workhouse was built to accommodate 150 patients , but it has , by means ot cramming , and the erection of sheds , been made to afford some sortef accommodation for about 500 ; but an order has been issued against the admission of more — indeed , it would have been unsafe to admit more . The General Hospital has also been used , to its utmost capacity .

      The following was its state on Monday : Fever patients , 06 ; dysentery ditto , 72 ; small-pox ditto , 38 ; medical and surgical cases , 44 ; total , 250 . Arrangements have been made for sixty patients , in addition to the above , which is the greatest number that could be accommodated . The reception of dysentery patients has ceased , since Thursday last , in sonsequence ef the wards hitherto appropriated to them being occupied with fever cases . That fever and dysentery are increasing , and will increase , there is too much reason to fear , or rather no reason to doubt ; and , under such circumstances , and without sufficient hospital accommodation , dreadful suffering and extensive death among tbe inhabitants , high and lew , might be reckoned upon .

      CORK . Two thousand one hundred and thirty persons died in the Cork workhouse in less than four months , from the 27 th of December last . The state of Cork city is absolutely that of a city ' of the plague . Several dead bodies ; principally of children , are . to be found in various parts of the city / Hundreds ot wretched objects lie about under sheds , without food orcovering . Yet "food " continues to pourlin at Cove in immense quantities . In the course of this week , fifty-nine vessels laden with provisions arrived at Cove . No fair estimate of tho ravages committed by famine and pestilence among the population of Cork and the rural districts can be formed by the statements in the local journals . Not a tithe of the misery is chronicledwhils in the di

      , stricts west of Cork no tongue could express the awful condition in which the entire prpulation it plunged . The CorJt Examiner « f Monday says , " Interments at Father Mathew ' s cemetery , free of burial charge , from Sunday , the 25 th April , to Sunday , 2 nd of May , 256 . This return shows a frightful increase of mortality . " State op thb Workhouse . —Total admitted during the week , 115 ; births , 0 ; number at the end of last week , 3 , 894-4 , 009 . Disharged , 132 ; disd , 78 : der ? rte l' h £ ' Remaining , 3 , 797 . Number in Hospital , 395 ; extern patients , 1 , 016—1 , 411 . The number of deaths in this return are fewer than have occurred for a considerable time , and exhibit a great reduction iu the proportion of the previeus

      OALWAT . ins Ravages of Fevek . —Fever is making fright ' tul progress , sweeping off , with impartial hand , not merely the poor labouring under the effects of destitution , but the wealthy also , among the latter , John Nolan , Esq ., of Ballinderry , in the county of Gal way , and a clwgyttvwa , tha Rev . Edward Nixon , Rector of Castletown , in the diocese of Meath . Queen ' s County . —Frightful distress prevails in the colliery district of this county . The " Rushes Colliery" has been abandoned ( it was the property of

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      an English company ) and about 300 men were fa consequence dismissed on Friday last . The public works also cease , and will disemploy a vast number " The prospects arising out of such a state of thingB are really melancholy . B The out-door relief system is coming but very slowly into operation , and where tried has occasioned nothing but murmur and discontent . The quality and quantity of food given out are both alike protested against . Enniskillev . —Fever still continues to rage with unabated malignity in this town and neighbourhood . Several respectable persons are suffering from the epidemic at present . Scarcely a day passes but numbers are stricken down , who , a few days previousl y , were in the enjoyment of excellent health . The en * suing summer will be fraught with evil consequence * to this unfortunate country .

      Newrt . —Mr Byrne , the new master of the work , house , has taken fever , and that sickness still continues to prevail very much amongst the paupers . The medical officer , Dr Davis , has been able to re * sume his duties after his severe indisposition .

      a record of the famine war . The Repeal Association lately , when the funds were low—very low , and no prospect of a rise , promulgated the patriotic resolution of providing a golden book , wherein to inscribe the names of all persons who subscribed to the rent during this year of difficulty . Ths Roman Catholic Bishop oi Derry and his clergy have borrowed this idea , and turned it to another purpose , having recently resolved to keep parochial registries of all deaths , commencing from Saturday last . The registry books to be rolled in black crape , and to bear this inscription : — ' * The records of the murders of the Irish peasantry , perpetrated in a . d . 1846-7 , in the 9 th and 10 th Victoria , under the name of economy , during the administration of a professedly Liberal Whig government , of which Lord John Russell was the premier . " Something more rational was certainly to have been expected so far north as Derry .

      THE LAW W mxLEMEKT . Amid the general distress of the country there is one profession which may be considered as profiting by the evils in which we are involved . The legal profession was never more busily engaged , and there is no lack of attorneys to carry on the warfare . Bufe for fear the pestilence should carry off some of them , and the country might suffer thereby , no less than one hundred and fifty-six gentlemen have given the necessary notices of applying , during the present term , to be admitted to practice as attorneys in the Court of Queen ' s Bench . There are alio eighteen notices from parties for a renewal of their certificate , and eight have been admitted by Judges' orders ' making a total of 182 .

      THE EFFECTS OF FAMINE . Shockisg Murder ut Clare . —A dreadful murder has been committed upon a man named Edmund Doogan , at Doon , near Broadford . He was fired at from behind a ditch by two men , and when he fell they fractured his skull in several p laces , and cut his fhroat , nearly severing the head from his body . The cause assigned for this savage murder is , that the deceased two years since purchased a reversionarylease of some land , the title to which expired this May .

      Attxmpibd Nvrdbr and Seizure for Rem . — Last week , as Hugh Singleton , Esq ., of Harlewood , was proceeding to his property , Clountra , near Cul lane , in this county , in order to meet some tenants , who would not be permitted by the "legislators" topay him rent , on his way near Dangan-gate he saw & man inside the wall who ordered him to return , at the same moment firing a shot which struck Mr Singleton ' s horse in the shoulder and eye . Mr Singleton promptly drew forth a pistol and returned the fire , adding , that if they thought to intimidate him , they had the wrong man . He then proceeded to Kilkishen , and having procured the tax cart of tha high-sheriff , with two police , reached Clountra , where he drove and impounded all the stock of the

      refractory tenants , and returned home in safety . Piracies o . v thb Irish Coast . —A communication has been received in town from Captain JaraesM'Farlane of the schooner , Christian , of Glasgow , dated Westport , the 23 rd ultimo , from which it appears that the piratical proceedings on the Irish coast are stair being continued , The Christian , while on her { assage from Liverpool to Wesport , with a cargo of ndiau corn , was hoarded on Tuesday , the 22 nd , about seven or eighfcjmiiles abreast of Broadbaven , by three boats , each containing four men . After coming upon deck , the boarders demanded of the master what was the cargo , and upon being informed they immediately broke open the hatches and carried into their boats thirty-three bags of corn , f weighintr

      about 2 J tons , ) upon which they left the vessel , offering no lurtherviolence . On the following day the master again observed three other boats approaching with eight men in each , but being forewarned of their intentions , he determined to resist their attempt to enter the vessel , and , accordingly , armed himself with a fowling piece , and the crew with handspikes and hatchets . When they came within ten yards distance from the vessel , the master informed them of the danger of their further approach , but as they still persisted in pulling forward , he presented his gun with theapparent intention of firing . Upon seeing this , the boats , which were unarmed , gave up the chase , and pulled towards the shore . It is also mentioned , that the misery in this part of the country is

      excessive . Athlow . —Attempted Murder . —A most horrible dee * was enacted last night , Monday , within ten miles of this town , at Mr Kelly ' s , of Scregg , county of Roscommon . Mr Kelly invited an acquaintance to come on a short visit to Scregg . The invitation was accepted , and last evening before they retired , an argument arose between them ; however , when the guest thought all were at rest , he proceeded to Mr Kelly ' s room , where ho and his wife lay in bed , and , having armed himself with a razor , inflicted severe wounds upon their necks . He then proceeded to a bed in whioh Miss Kelly was sleeping , and perpetrated a similar deed of blood upon her . Bv this time the servants were alarmed , and ran to the

      rescue ; the first man who attempted to disarm him , by taking away the rasor which he wat flourishing around his head , was ferociously attacked by this person , and most severely wounded , the other servants not daring to go near . After this series of bloody deeds , he ran off , and threw the razor away . Three countrymen , who saw him , pursued him , finally captured him , and handed him over to the police . Further particulars I have not learned . Another correspondent , in giving an account of the affair , states that Drs Harrison and O'Connell were in attendance on the family . They have pronounced Mr Kelly's wound as very serious , but those inflicted on Mrs and Miss Kelly of no material consequence . It is supposed that mental aberration was the immediate cause of these fearful acts .

      PUBLIC WORKS . By the stoppage of all but a very few of the public relief works , the distress of the country has been greatly aggravated . For the most part , those works were of a totally useless nature , while in many cases they were downright mischievous . The local gentry , some are unable to relieve the poor , some are unwilling to do so , and some are totally indifferent as to their fate . Their position is a false one , in every sense . Those who hare hearts to feel for the poor have not the ability to give succour ; while there are too many who think everything about the " rights " of property , and are wholly indifferent as to its " duties . " The noble charity and comprehensive munificence of the American people , ought to make our landocracy ashamed , and goad them into a performance of their duties . But the day of retribution , however long delayed , willassuredly come at last .

      EVICTION' OF TENANTRY . The Cork Examiner contains a detailed statement of the eviction of a ' number of tenants from an estate in the vicinity of Lismore , county of Waterford . It appears that the property was , some years since , a barren waste ; but large tracts had been improved by the occupiers , who were to have the land free for seven years , and then were to pay a graduated scale of rent . All went on well until the failure of the potato crop , when the tenantry became unable to pay their rents . The landlord insisted on the rights , and it is addled the wretched occupiers agreed to pull down their houses on receiving a small sum of money each , after they had left the district . The whole case appears to be one of extreme hardship and suffering .

      Attempted Suicide From Blackfrwh8-Bridqr...

      Attempted Suicide from Blackfrwh 8-bridqr . --On Wednesday morning , about half-past one o ' clock Inspector Everest , of the Thames Police , whilst on duty with his boat ' s crow , near Blackfriari-bridw . hsard the screams of a woman in the water , and on d ' , . *»« " *>«» P"es which support the S'fe pier ! , ^ d , B T ? a woma » clinging to one of than , and dragged her into his galleyf She appeared to be quite insensible , and with the aid of ! Jf £ / i - C ? 1 non *^ e bridge she was conveyed Bi „ iw - lMier L r ra 8 PubUchonse , in Water-lane , Btackfnars . Mr Hutchinson , a surgeon , wasimmediately sent for , who ordered the woman to h * „ k

      into a warm bath , and applied the usual means to restore animation , which happily proved successful , and some hours afterwards she was removed to the union poor-house . She is likely to recover from her immersion in the water . She was observed by the persons on the bridge to throw herself into the river from the recess on the eastern side of the bridge . The tide carried her towards tho piles , and she clung to them with great tenacity , and screamed as loud as she was able for help . Her name is Elizabeth Shields , of No . 35 , Fulwood ' s rents , Holborn , and it appears that a lovo affair caused her to make the attempt on . her lifo .

      Shocking and Fatal Accident to a Child . —On Wednesday evening , about seven o ' clock , a fatal accident occurred in Fetter-lane , to a fine little boy , named John Goodge , aged three years , whose parents keeps the Northumberland Coffee-house , Little Newstreet . The child was attempting to cross the road , when a cart belonging to Mr Edwards , wine merchant , of Holborn-hill , was passing , by which he was knocked down , and the wheel passed over his head , killing him instantaneously , The driver was taken into custody .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 8, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08051847/page/6/