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      KTEIUffiXT OF THE LATE POLITICAL MAltTYlt ALEXANDER SKAP . P . The funeral of this unfortunate victim to classrule , took place on Sunday , the 23 d ult ., and not-Trithstandmg the extreme wetness of the morning , a Taatcoufiovasft of pevsons attended from all parts ofthe metropolis and its environs . At half-past two o ' clock the mournful procession started from the rendezvous of the Cripplegate locality , ( 28 , Golden-lane , ) for its destination ( the Tictoria Cemetery , ) conducted by Mr . Fowler , as marshalman . The following was the order of procession : —

      Marshal banner hearers earning the Finsbury tricoloured flag , —inscribed on " either , side with the following inscription , taken from the Sun newspaper of the Thursday evening , the 20 th of September . — " We cannot term it otherwise than something very near a kin to deliberate assassination" ; eight men with wands ; a plate glass manufacturers van , which formed a raised dais , on which . was placed the coffin containing the remains of Alexander Sharp . The coffin being covered with a pall of scarlet velvet , having a satinette double border of white and green , thus forming the Chartist tri-colour . On cither side ofthe van was inscribed in large black letters , on a white

      ground" He asked for freedom with his breath , Merciless tyrants gave him death . " And at the back ofthe van in similar characters , was the inscription— " Neman should be a felon for his political opinions . " On cither side of the van were men with the batons of office to clear the way . The van was followed by twelve friends of the deceased , bearing the wands of office ; immediately behind them was the magnificent flag belonging to the " Bmmct brigade " emblazoned with the harp of Erin , and inscribed— " What is life without liberty . " This was followed by several cabs , bearing the widow , orphans , and other relatives of the deceased ; the rear was brought up by a long line of political friends , walking arm in arm , four and six

      abreast . The route was different from that observed on the occasion of Williams' funeral , on the previous Sunday : leaving Finsbury-square by way of the Pavement , Moorgate-street , passing the Bank of England , the Royal Exchange , < fcc ., and proceeding down Comhill , Leadenhall-street , Aldgate , White chapel , through Mile End-gate , down the Dog-row , Bethnal-green , to the Tictoria Cemetery . Just as the mournful calvacade was about to start , the rain —which , had for hours previously came down unceasingly—ceased , and the weather continued fine during the time occupied by the friends in traversing the whole line of route , which—in consequence ofthe immense concourse of persons—was rather more than two hours and a-half . The roads—from

      iheextreme wetness ofthe mormnir—were standing pools of mud and water , consequently the walking procession was not so long as that which followed the remains of the martyred Williams , the people evidently preferring the broad pavement to the road ; nevertheless , the roads , windows , and balconies were h ' ned with sympathising spectators , who eagerly purchased the splendid article re-published from the £ anofthe 20 thinst ., which was offered for sale by numerous vendors . On arriving at Whiteehapel , the immense width and length from Aldgate to Mile End-gate , presented a forest of densely crowded human beings . The Hog-row and Bcthnal Green-road , were equally crowded . The

      policeas on the previous Sunday—were cwu , quiet , and respectful , and at fhe gates of the cemetery , lent their assistance to facilitate the entrance of the eager claimants for admittance , who rushed in thousands to the scene . We have it on the assurance of an inspector of police , that there could not have been less than 30 , 000 persons in tho cemetery alone . The grave being reached ( the same in whieh the remains of the martyrs , Hanshaw and Tvjlliamslie interred ) , a circle was formed , in whieh the widow , orphans , and other relatives of the deceased , took their stand , and around which a dense wedge of human beings placed themselves , to listen to the orator as he pronounced the last few words over the grave ofthe deceased patriot .

      Mr . Hemes' addressed the vast assembly as follows - . —Friends , hut one short week has elapsed , and you are again called together to pay the last tribute of respect to another martyr to a corrupt system of class misrule . I would much rather some more efficient person had been selected for this solemn duty—some one more intimately acquainted ¦ with our lamented friend than I am . Personally , I knew little of Mr . Sharp , but this we all knowthat he was a true democrat , who had the honesty and straightforwardness of heart to speak what he thought , and fearlessly expose the many wrongs ¦ which yon are exposed to ; and for thus acting he has fallen a victim in the cause of human progress . This is indeed a proud sight to see ; the thousands

      assembled around the tomb of the young martyr speaks , truinpet-tongned , that the Charter is not dead , and at least that you appreciate the virtues of our departed brother , and the principles for which he laboured , suffered , and died . I repeat , that in my opinion , Mr . Sharpfell a victim to unjust treatment , treatment alike opposed to justice and humanity . It is true the jury returned a verdict of "' Died by Asiatic cholera , ' * but was his death not accelerated by the treatment he received at the hands of the prison authorities ? It is true that the doctor of the prison said before the jury , " that six days ' solitary confinement in a cell , on one pound and a

      quarter of brown bread with cold water , did not injure his health , or predispose his system , to receive the attack of that fell epidemic . " But , my friends , is this assertion not at variance with the opinions of , and advice given hy the most eminent medical men throagh tbe press and otherwise ? Have they not one and all declared that the best preventative Is generous diet , warm clothing , and moderate exercise ? If , therefore , these opinions be correct—and we have every reason to believe that they are—then 'what can we think of a man who could deliberately say before the jury , " that a sudden change from full dietand plenty of exercise to a damp cell , and bread and water did him no harm ? " lint the

      fact is , in my opinion , that he whose loss we now deplore , was sent to his grave prematurely hy the treatment he had to undergo in Tothill-ficlds Prison ; a treatment , which in common humanity , ought not to be inflicted upon the most desperate * ' felon , " at a time like the present , when this awful scourge was not only prevalent in the metropolis , tut actually raging " within the walls ofthe prison ; hut how much more atrocious in the case of our departed brother , whose moral character was without a stain ? He had done nothing beneath the dignity of a man . He saw his country groaning beneath the evils arising from misrule and classmade laws" Jfot that he respected the Law less , Bat that he loved his country more . "

      And for this love of country he was sent to prison , for having been guilty of what they term sedition , ¦ which means anything whieh has a tendency to awaken the mass of the people to a sense of their wrongs , and the means to adopt for their redress . For this crime he was sent to prison ; but in the sentence there was nothing said about labour . It merely required that his person should be kept in safe keeping for a certain length of time , and not that any other punishment should be inflicted beyond his loss of liberty ; but because he would not submit to the labour of a " felon" —because he would maintain the dignity of his mauhoood—he is subjected to a punishment which ended in his death . My friends , this sedition is not a new offence—for I will not call it a crime . It is no degradation to be

      persecuted lor sedition ; the best of men have been called seditious . Tbe Saviour of Mankind was called " a seditious fellow , and one who stirred up the people , " and so is every one who endeavours to remove abuses . My Lord John Russell should tememher that one of his own family had his head cut off for endeavouring to do tbe same thing . Seditious language had been used hy many men now in high places . When the Whigs were seeking power they used very hard language against the Tories—language much moreviolent than the two martyrs who now rest from their labours in this tomb around which we are assembled . Oh I in -what colours they painted the blood-thirsty doings of Sidmouth and Castlereagh ! The conduct of those

      monsters in human form , will never be forgot so long as a Fitzgerrald , an Emmett , and the victims o * f Peterloo are remembered and revered bv the people Of this country . But the aristocratic Whig is just as bad as the aristocratic Tory . Thev are not free from blood-guiltiness . ~ So , Ilolburv , " Clayton , and Duffy in ISiO , and in 1 S 4 S Hanshaw , and in 1849 Williams and Sharp . And the cries and groans and prayers of their widowed wives and fatherless children , ascend to Heaven for a just retribution on the system and its supporters that has robbed them of those they so dearly love . Let us improve then by ihe present calamitous circumstance , and endeavour for the future , at least , to be honest with each other , and never say at a public meeting what you are not prepared to carry out afterwards ; for onr friends were led by you to believe that yon were as determined and as honest as themselves , and that you meant what you said . Let therefore this foolery

      have an end ; and now at the altar of our common country , at the " Tomb" of our martyred friends , renew our fealty with each other , and swear to enforce the princi p les for which they died , by every means to which justice points and prudence dictates . In conclusion friends , let me remind you that it now becomes your duty to be husbands to the widows , and fathers to the fatherless . Remember they have lost then- all in your cause—their husbands fell in tbe struggle for your emancipation , and therefore they have a just demand upon you forsupport ; they have lost that prop to which the loving wife clings as the I jy clings to the Oak . And oh ! let me imp lore of you' not to let them in addition to the irreparable loss they have already sustained , be subject to the cruelties of the Poor Laws , but set to work at once , and put them in the way of "ettin « "i livelihood for themselves and little ones ° Mr ^ SSni ^ V ° ^ or the occasion by Mr . Joan Areott , of Somers Toiro , were sun * over

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      the grave , the vvliole audience harmoniousl y joining in chorus : — Tune . — " Canadian Boat Song . " Williams and Sharp , from pain set free , Leneath this sod we now may see ; They struggled long , in Free dom ' s cause , And Victims fell to Class-made laws . Let us here now as one , agree , Resolv'd to gain our Liberty . Two Martyrs to one grave consign'd , Oh ! horrid thought to each thinkins- mind ;

      For teaching what they knew was just-, These Patriots slumber in the dust . Chorm . —Let us here now , |& c . They saw this land o ' ev-vun with knaves , Despots and serfs , tyrants and slaves ; They felt their wrongs , the truth they tell , And , lo ! they starve in a felon ' s cell . Chorus . —Let us here now , & c . As toiling slaves , we will not be Content in want and misery ; ~ Vfe will , as men our rights demand , Joined in an adamantine band .

      Chorus . —Let us here now , & c . Jfo longer cringe at tyrant ' s nod , When all are equal made by God-Submit no more to vile abuse , " vTlicn we , the wealth , for all produce . Chorus . —Let us here now , & c . TTe will not see ourselves despised , Oppress'd , degraded , pauperis'd ; "We will not kiss and bug our chain , United , we can Freedom gain . Come , Brothers , come , let all agree , Resolve , as men , we will be Free .

      After these lines were sung Mr . Stallwood declared the proceedings closed , at the same time exhorting the friends to depart in peace , aud to pass out of the gate slowly , and as it were in processional order , that each might have the opportunity of dropping their subscriptions into the boxes . This advice was promptly acted on ; the ground gradually became cleared ; and many , many thanks to those patriot Chartist women , who , despite the inclemency ofthe weather , so ably did their duty as collectors . Wc are happy to announce that a very considerable sum was raised , much exceeding in amount even that of the preceding Sunday . Thus closed the funeral rites of our two latest Chartist martyrs—a lesson to tyrants , a grateful salve to all who struggle and suffer for freedom , and a voice proclaimingfromihe tomb : — " Though victims may fall , Chartism is not dead , — "Liberty shall yet triumph . "

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      THE POLITICAL PRISONERS . . MEETING TO MEMORIALISE FOR A GENERAL AMXESTY . A very numerously attended public meeting was held at the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Tottenham-court-road , on Tuesday evening , September 25 th , to memoralise her Majesty for the immediate release of all political prisoners . Mr . William Lhxox was unanimously called to the chair , and said , the chairmanship of working men ' s meetings was invariably a sinecure , and he hoped the discussion to-night would he conducted with temper , discretion , and prudence ; Mr . Clark would now read some communications he had

      received from friends , who were earnestly with them in sentiment , but could not attend . Mr . Clark stated , that Mr . M'Grath was prevented attending hy severe indisposition . He had also received letters from William Lovett , Thomas M ' Enteer , of the Parliamentary Reform Association , and Thomas Cooper ( the latter of whom had , by his eloquent appeal , raised a considerable sum for the victims on Sunday evening , in that Institution ) , all breathing the purest devotion to the cause , and promising their assistance upon any and every occasion in which circumstances would permit , and regretting their inability to attend on the present occasion ; he had also received the letter he now held in his hand , from G . Julian Harney , which would speak for itself .

      9 , Queen-street , Bromptoa September 25 th , 1819 . Dear Sis , —I regret I cannot attend the meeting this evening , called to memorialize the Queen for the liberation of the political prisoners . Ill health is the cause of my unwilling absence . Within the last few days I have been compelled to refuse invitations to address public assemblies in the West of Scotland—including Glasgow , ICilmarnock , & c , & c . I , however , made it my business to meet the leading democrats in Glasgow and several other places , and I strongly urged upon them the necessity of pursuing the course intended to be taken at the meeting in John-street this evening . 1 have reason to believe tliat the men of Glasgow arc at this moment engaged in taking steps in behalf of our persecuted brothers , similar to those being taken hy the London friends .

      It is , perhaps , superfluous for me to express my sincere sorrow for the deaths of the martyrs—Williams and Sharp —and my earnest desire for the safety of the surviving sufferers . Though unable to attend the meeting I hope , through the press , to perform some service in furtherance of the holy object yourself and compatriots have in view . lam persuaded that a national effort in behalf ofthe prisoners , if made at this moment , cannot fail to he crowned with success ; hut to ensure that consummation the effort must be national , and must be made at thisparticvlar time . Salute otFraternite , G . Julian IIabset . To the Chairman of the Meeting , literary and Scientific Institution , John-street .

      Mr . 6 . J . HotvoAKE moved the first resolution as follows : — "That while this meeting emphatically depreciates all attempts to accomplish political reform in this country by violence , holding that enlightened public opinion is the safest and soundest agency for effecting the salvation of nations , it at the same time considers that the expression of thought upon all parts of our civil polity should be free and untrammeled ; this meeting is , therefore of opinion , that the incarceration of men for expressing their honest convictions upon political subjects , is contrary to that spirit of freedom said to be inherent in the British constitution ; and is further of opinion , that the tyrannical and persecuting spirit of our sedition laws call upon parliament for their

      liberal revision or immediate repeal . Mr . Holyoake said , he thought with that resolution the most fastidious could not disagree ; it was painfully notorious to the people , and sjnonimously so to the government , that the laws under which politicians were convicted were of the most unjust kind . ( Hear , hear . ) In reference to the precise object which had called them together—the death of Williams and Sharp—was clear and distinct reasons why we should interfere , as other prisoners might meet with a similar fate . He bad written to Mr . Lavies , the surgeon of Tothill Fields Prison , to acquaint him of that meeting , and to ask him for the precise instructions he gave relative to the late Mr . Williams . He had received a note in reply ,

      but it was marked private , although , injustice to that gentleman , he must say he could see no reason why it should have been so . He respected the courage of the men who had so heroically resisted the degradation attempted to be put upon them . ( Loud cheers . ) In these matters he spoke from expevier . ee . When he was in Gloucester Gaol , the authorities attempted to degrade him by applying the prison uniform , but he told the governor that it would require all his spare turnkeys to dress him . ( Hear , hear . ) He , when in prison , was in a bad state of health ; and he had mentioned the circumstance to the turnkey , with a view to the obtainment of a change in his condition ; the turnkey referred him to the surgeon—he thanked Mm for

      his information ; the surgeon referred liim to the visiting magistrates—he thanked him ; the visiting magistrates referred him to Sir James Graham , the then Secretary of State for the Home Department . He thanked them all—( laughter)—and then set about writing to him . Sir James Graham told him he never did any thing without it was on the recommendation of the visiting magistrates . The meal they had in prison was ( he supposed facetiously ) called Ala-mode , but he ( Mr . Holyoakc ) called it Leather-mode . ( Loud laughter . ) When Dr . Bissel Hawkins visited him in prison , he told him that the surgeon was alone responsible for his life . " Yes , " he ( Mr . Holyoake ) replied , " I know it ; but then I must die first before he will be made

      to feel his responsibility . " ( Hear , hear . ) Bransby Cooper , brother of the late Sir Astley Cooper , one of the visiting justices , had also made the same remark ; and he ( Mr . Holyoakc ) immediately replied , " Yes , but the surgeon dare not prescribe without your ( the visiting magistrates ) permission ;" and Bransby Cooper , though a brutal man , was candid , and said— " Certainly not ! " There then was an illustration of the treatment received by Eolitical prisoners ; and unless the surgeon was a umane and bold man , ready to risk his situation , there was no chance for a political prisoner . He knew , there were some men who were the inhabitants of prisons , without principle , and for this class these iron rules appeared to be made ; but those rules fell heavy indeed on the men of principle . He thought what the men had already suffered was amply sufficient to expiate any offence they might have committed ; and whilst he repudiated violence ,

      he thought we ought to have the most perfect liberty of speech . On the ground of political justice and common humanity , they ought to be unanimous in calling for the immediate liberation of those men who were now suffering for giving vent to those feelings for grievances whieh they had felt too intolerable to be borne . ( Great applause . ) Mr . yirao , in seconding the resolution , said Mr . Holyoake had tho advantage of him , as he could speak with experience of a prison . At the time Williams and Sharp had spoken , the Gaggin" -Bill was ui force , and anything then was sufficient to call forth a prosecution for sedition ; and be it remembered , that at that time contincntial thrones were tottering and falling . He had thought perhaps as strongly as those men did ; hut the last eighteen months experience had convinced him that things obtained by moral means although much slower Si their obtavnment , were much surer and more duraolethan those obtained by physical convulsions .

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      ( Hear , heor . ) He thought the best way of show m our respect to our departed martyrs , was by endea vouring to better the lot ofthe living victims , and hv an earnest endeavour to amend or repeal tne llwtvSive to sedition . ( Hoar , hear . ) He know St some said the Whigs would not release the 2 S ho believed that they liked the reputation fTmercv ; and the two men having died from chotoa , he thought they would have the good sense to make this their excuse , and comply with me prayers of the people . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . O'Cokxor , on rising , was received with several rounds of applause . He said that it gave him no small pleasure to discover the truth of his old maxim , that" the folly of the day is tho wisdom of the morrow" from the resolution just proposed . He entirely agreed in the denunciation of madness contained in that resolution , whilo he was sorry to think that the Chartists who had departed—and those who were still suffering incarcerationwere the victims of then- own credulity and the enthusiasm of madmen . ( Cheers . ) How often had he told them that moral potior was the deliberative quality in each man ' s mind , which teaches him how to reason , how to endure , and when forbearance becomes crime ; and should that fail to achieve for man all those

      rights and privileges to whieh ho is justly entitled , and should physical force bo required—which God forbid—it would come to the aid like an electric shock ; while the man who marshalled it destroyed it , and the man who recommended it would be either a coward ov a traitor , and he first to desert it . ( Loud cheers . ) Now , nothing was more fascinating to a dissatisfied people than the assurance of their power ; hut mark , whenitcame to the point , how wore they prepared to exercise it in a moral , much less a physical sense . Every hardship that they endured was a consequence , not of bad government , or of stringent laws , but of then own weakness , based upon their own jealousy . ( Cheers . ) The proposer

      ofthe resolution had amused them with a sketch of the prison discipline to which he had been subjected in Gloucester gaol ; he had described tho power of the turnkeys , the governor , the visiting justices , and the Home Secretary . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) had also had a taste of gaol discipline ; but he did not so tamely submit to its rigour . When he was taken to York Castle , the governor told him ho should be washed , and wear the prison dress . He replied , that "he was a very clean man , and did not want washing ; and if they attempted to attire him in the prison garb , he would knock down every turnkey and official in the gaol . " ( Loud cheers . ) So much for the turnkeys and governor . As to the

      visiting justices , Sir John Key—a very loose cha * ractcr—one of the visiting justices , brought four suspicious-looking ladies to the "Lion ' s den , " to exhibit the "Lion , " when he ( Mr . O'Connor ) told him " that he should have sent up his card , to know if he was at home before he entered his house , that he begged to inform him that he was not at home to such visitors , " ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) The morning after , his arrival , he was taken into a narrow passage to breakfast , with murderers and thieves of every description , all law-made thieves . There was a black earthen pot with gruel in it , a wooden spoon , and a bit of bread placed before him . The under-governor said grace ,

      and his ( Mr . O'Censor ' s ) response was , " What the devil does all this mean ? " He left the passage and never entered it again . ( Cheers . ) That was his mode of contending against arbitrary prison discipline ; while they should bear in mind , that those parties for whose release they were that night met to memorialise , were placed under a more degrading and hum iliating discipline ; and they should also bear in mind , thafc they were not more the victims of the law ' s vengeance than of their own faith in popular enth usiasm . ' ( Cheers . ) Now what was the law ? There was one law for tho rich and another law for the poor—the spirit of tho law for the rich , and the letter of the law for the poor . ( Hear , hear . ) A

      legal quibhler could enforce a verdict of acquitta 1 for his wealthy client by the judge ' s partial construction of the law , and the jury ' s partial verdict for one of then own order . There was more danger to the peasant who shot the squire ' s hare than to the squire who shot the peasant ' s head . ( Cheers . ) Lord Mansfield , a celebrated judge , had given the best definition of the law . His son came down to breakfast one morning , when the noble lord said , " Well , my boy , what have you been doing ? " " I have been studying , father . " " What havo you learned , my boy ? " " I havo learned to make right right , and wrong wrong , father . " "And you a lawyer ; pooh , you booby , go back to your study , and learn

      to make right wrong , and wrong right , and then you' 11 be a lawyer . " ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) Now that was the true definition ofthe English law ; and that definition was not so much arrived at by judicial and governmental power , and tho law ' s flexibility , as by the people ' s treachery and treason to themselves . ( Cheers . ) Ah ! they cheered it , but they ought to he ashamed of it . Now who was the sufferer from these incarcerations , in a pecuniary sense ? and what had the mourners over Williams and Sharp done to preserve them from an untimely grave ? They were subjected , not bylaw , nor by sentence , but by strained prison discipline , to pick oakum . The Press reported that their relatives had paid the prescribed smart money , to

      relieve them from this toil ; while the real fact was , that neither friend , relative , nor mourner had paid one siuclc penny , while he ( Mr . O'Connor ) had paid between £ 70 and £ 80 out of his own pocket . ( Cheers and cries of " Shame . " ) Yes , it was a shame that one man should do a nation ' s work , and still bo subjected to the ingratitude of the nation . ( Hear . ) Ho paid by the month , £ 5 a month . His clerk ( Mr . Rider ) paid it punctually for 14 months , and when called upon during that month in which it was not punctually paid , his exchequer was empty ; and as soon as tho fact came to his ( Mr . O'Connor's ) knowledge , he went to the Land Office to Mr . Clark , gave him the money , and told him to go instantly

      to the prison and pay it , and ho did so without a moment ' s delay . ( Cheers . ) The cholera was the disease which was now affrighting the black slugs and pampered shepherds , not for love of their flocks , but from dread of the pestilence , owing , in a great measure , to their own gormandising brutality , which caused the people ' s incapacity to bear up against even a less frightful scourge . A right rev . father in God ( . the Archbishop of Canterbury ) had been selected to compose a prayer to the Almighty , to spare them from the further ravages of the scourge , and in that prayer he had the presumption and audacity to admit tho unjust and unholy manner in which he and his tribe had treated the poorer

      and more dependent of God ' s creatures ; he presumed that a sudden twist in his guts —( hear , laughter , and cheers ) — had brought all his iniquities , and the plunderings of the poor by his order , to recollection ; and therefore lie made his confession ; and to what do you think this right rev . father of God ascribed the pestilence ? Why , to the FIERCENESS of his Maker ! What do vou think of such a term being applied to the Creator of the Universe ? It was not to God ' s fierceness , but to Church and capitalist plunder , that this scourge was to be attributed . ( Cheers . ) Could there be a greater anomaly than their present Church system exhibited ? Sect ranged a gainst sect in deadly The

      hostility . present system of religion , established by the adulterous , incestuous Harry the Eighth , who , because he could not got absolution for his unpardonable sins and crimes , put his subjects to bed as Catholics , and made them rise the next morning as Protestants ; everv divine , with a very trifling exception , becoming proselytes , accepting the new creed upon condition that their salary should be increased by the p lunder of their flocks . ( Cheers . ) They went to bed Catholics , and got up Protestants , and , to-morrow , if the perpetuation of their plunder was based upon another change of faith , they would abandon not only their creed , but their God ; and would worship vipers , adders .

      crocoaucs , or the Devil himself , upon tho one stipulation , that they might still continue to live upon the sweat ofthe poor . ( Loud cheers 1 This was not the first time that he was called upon to join in sympathy for the slaughtered ; they , no doubt , recollected the llathcormac massacre of 1834 , when over thirty peasants were slaughtered in honour of God , at the command of Archdeacon Ryder . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) had preached the funeral oration over his slaughtered countrymen , while surrounded hy three regiments of infantry and cavalry , with drawn swords and fixed bavonets . He had also attended that inquest , nnd without

      his professional fee for a fortnight , and got a unanimous verdict of " Wilful Murder" ag ainst Archdeacon Ryder , Capt . Hagley , another p ° arson and another magistrate . He left the House of Commons to attend the spring assizes to prosecute the parties upon the finding of the coroners inquest also without a fee . The bills were sent before the grand jury ; the widow Ryan , whose homestead was the scene of bloodshed , and whose son was slaughtered before her eyes , was the only witness caltcd before that grand jury ; alio was sneered and jeered at . As if by magic , the bill ofjndictmeut was ignored hy tho grand jury . SmitU Bam , an

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      Orangeman , was the foreman ; Baron Foster , a priced Orange partem , was the judge ;; the foreman announced that they had ignored the bills . T is counsel , asked in what form they had done iVnevcivlied , that they had written ignoramus on tha back of the bill . Then , said I , " Take it back Sd an V to it , make it IGNORAMUS'S , and there never was a truer finding . " . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Now that was the definition of the law for the rich ; and the reason why freetrade agitators were not prosecuted for much more violent speeches than were ever made by Chartists , was because they would have the spirit of the law , and the clemency K ^ iW ( L aughter . ) Well but in such cases there is a presumed appeal to tho House of Commons ; he ( Mr . O'Connor ) gave . notice of a session ...

      motion upon the subject , in the louowmg , he could not get a sing le member to second it , and Mr O'Council asked him to withdraw it lest it might hamper the Whig government which had just then displaced tho Peel administration . ( Hisses and shame . ) Now that wasthe way the slaughtered Irish were treated by the law , and by parliament . There was a general exultation now that Chartism was dead . Plain John Campbell made the same assertion some years ago ; and before parliament met a « ain he promised tiicm that another Chartist breeze should be created throughout England , Scotland , and Wales . ( Laughter and tremendous cheering . ) For although the Chartists were perfectly satisfied to join with the middle-class Reform

      Association , for the achivement of four points of the People ' s Charter , the working classes may rest assured that they should ' nt be juggled this time , nov did he believe that it was the . intention or object of their new associates to deceive them . ( Hear , hear . ) And for this most cogent of all reasons , because thoy had now discovered that all reforms save those which would confer a benefit upon the industrious classes , were a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . ( Cheers . ) Let them not suppose that it was from sympathy for their order that the middle classes joined them , they had never sympathised with them when they were satisfied themselves ; and if they were satisfied now they would havo laughed at the sufferings of ihe poor ; but as a

      fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind , they now fraternize with you as the only means of bettering their own condition , and I fraternize with them as the only means of bettering yours . ( Loud cheers . ) Give us the four points of the Charter that they have adopted , and we will soon have Annual Parliaments , and Payment of Members ; and then your representatives will bo your honourable servants instead of as now , your tyrant masters , and then the House of Commons will be very different . ( Cheers . ) He wished he could describe the comic performances in that House . There is Peel and his staff representing their toadies ; Russell and his staff representing thoir toadies ; the Poor Protectionists and feudal lords , without a staff to represent them . They will

      respectively occupy night after night in eulogising the governor of this colony , and denouncing the governor of that colony ; they will tell you what kind of eyes , nose , and mouth he has , and what a sound politician and pure philanthropist he is , while not a single colonist is satisfied with his rule . And then Sir John Cam Hobhouse , amid thunders of applause , will indulge the House with a description ofthcmannerinwhichLordGough gave the English invading butchers orders to massacre the Sikhs on their own native soil , and how every sword and bayonet was fleshed to the hilt . But this is not the description of legislation and mummery by which the English people will be deluded as soon as they have connuerod their bitterest and their ' greatest

      enemy—their own dissensions and jealousy , ( Cheers . ) That cheer told him that they admitted the fact—the fact which ho had often repeated- — that the well paid labourer , who received £ 2 or 30 s . a week , looked with scorn and contempt upon the destitute man earning but 10 s . a week by harder work . ( Cheers . ) Did they ever picture to themselves the horror of a kind father rising from his loathsome bed of straw strong , able and willing to work , hut unablo to procure labour , with his wife and family , as dear—and perhaps dearer to him than the Queeh and tho royal babes are to Prince Albert—weeping , moaning , and perhaps dying around him for want of food , while he is willing to work but unable to procure labour . ( Hear , hear , and shame . ) Is it wonderful in such eases that tender and affectionate fathers and mothers should be driven to insanitv , and urged to the commission

      of murder upon their own children , to save them from the horrors of starvation ? ( Hear , hear . ) The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Shepherds were offering up prayers to arrest the progress ofthe devastating pestilence , while the Sewerage Commissioners wero trying to dispel it by partial cleansing ; while , upon the other hand if he ( Mr . O Connor ) had his will , he would remove every individual from the back slums—the unhealthy lanes and alleys , and the inviting gin palaces—and place them as free labourers upon the land of their birth . ( Loud and continued cheering . ) Before he concluded , he must call their attention to the probable result of tho present movement . During the great continental convulsions which had taken place , Russell and the Whigs merely retained office upon the fears of tho feudal lords ; they said if we have a change of government , we shall have a revolution here ,

      therefore" It is better to keep the ills wo have , " Than fly to those vie know not of . " This was the basis of Russell's power ; the feudal lords , however , are now tired of his policy ; and Russell , as he ( Mr . 0 'Connor ) predietcd many years ago , must bid for the popular voice , as the only means of overpowering feudal ascendancy : and , therefore , he has promised a largo increase of suffrage . ( Loud cheers . ) He had been an agitator for over twenty-seven years , and he would hold himself unworthy the name of man and their confidence if his ambition or folly induced him to be a stumbling block in their road of progress . ( Cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel taunted him in the House of Commons

      with tho declaration that he did not care whether the Pope , the Devil , or the Pretender was upon the throne , provided the throne was based upon the will and the voice of the people , instead of upon . the caprice of tho aristocracy ; and that the power behind the throno was greater than the throne itself . ( Loud cheers , and " That's it . ") Let them , however , bo of good heart . The Queen's visit to Ireland has done great tilings for that country—( laughter)—why should they laugh ? Did she not banish the potato bli g ht while she was there—but they have all rotted since she left . ( Laughter . )

      There is greatmagic in the royal breath . They are going to build a palace for her ; but mark her knowledge and -hcv power . You are here to-night to memorialise her , whilo the probability is that she never heard the name of Williams , Sharp , or Jones . Now is not that a farce ? ( " Aye , it is . " ) Ho would now conclude , with tho exhortation to their order not . to allow any interested agitator to offer any impediment to tho union now being formed between tho veritable middle , and the veritable working classes . ( Loud and long-continued cheering . ) Tho resolution was then put and carried unanimously .

      Mr . T . Clauk read , nnd moved tho adoption of a memorial to her Majesty—praying the release of all political prisoners , ' and said they had in thoir memorial adopted tho tone usually employed on such occasions ; and he thought it the most appropriate—especially after the lamentable death of their two friends—they had , if their proceedings were conducted prudently great hopes of success—men in high quarters wore lending their aid . Ho knew that differences of opinion had prevailed amongst themselves , he hoped for the future that unity wonld prevail . He had recently seen Ernest Jones , he was in good spirits ; he had also seen Vernon , and from a conversation he had with Mr . Pownall , one of the visiting magistrates he found they bore a ( rood

      character in the prison . He trusted their memorial would be unanimously adopted—that their efforts would be crowned with success—and the men restored to their families and society . ( Lou d cheers . ) Mr . RicuAun Mooire , in seconding the memorial said : He thought canvassing what those men said and did a year and a half ago , was quite beyond the question , and could be of no avail . He was perhaps not SO sanguine as others , as ho knew what the Whhjs had done in times past , and henoo , ho did not expect much . He thought it marvellous ihat move men had not fallen victims to prison discipline . ( Hear , hear . ) He could not quit that platform without paying a compliment to the courage of Williams and Sharp , in resisting the degradation

      attempted to ho foisted on them . He had felt it his duty to remonstrate with Mr . Williams occasionally for what he deemed his impudence ; but he thought it due to that martyr ' s memory , to say , ho had know him for many years as a constant attendant atpubhc meetings , and that ho believed he was an ar dent , honest and consistent man . ( Loud cheers ) T «© iii Attwww , Esq ., barrister at law , rose , amidst great cheering , to support the memorial , and said ; He attended there that evening at the request of the committee who had got up that meeting , and he did so to show the interest he took in tho matter , anil which ho thought every man of feeling must do . ( Cheers . ) Perhaps it might bo thought strange that a man of his class should raise his voice amongst them , but it was pregnant with bono for

      the tuture , and- he trusted the two classes would I now progress together to tho ono common goal , the elevation of the people . ( Loud cheers . ) When men who had been proscribed , oppressed , and traiiipclicd on , feci their wrongs , it was only reasonable to expect them to speak out , aud he said " Honour to them , and success to tho object they had m view ' ( Loud cheers . ) It would bo a black page in tho history of civilisation , a disgrace to our government , if the Minister did not lend a willing car to their prayers and grant a general amnesty Much applause . ) Ho observed , that ono whose language had nearly lit the sparks of insurrection mthe sister country , had received a remission of SIT "; lc \ tllcQuccn ^ g »*« 4 to m £ Mitehcl ,- ( troniond 0 iis checring ) -power to reside In iffi nh ft- ploi 5 ' Provfdodhfldidnotreturn to lwhv . ul-. this . was done on tbog . nyu . nd of ill health ,

      The Political Prisoners. . Meeting To Me...

      Well , if the Queen had granted such a prm ego to Ml * . Mitchell , how much more reason wasj there to grant liberty to other political offenders ? ( Hear , hear . ) He was here to night to indicate his right as a man , and he did not intend to turn either to his right hand or to the left . Surely , if he had allowed his mind to be prejudiced by a perverse 1 rcss , it was the more honourable that he should come torward and say so—they had both heen in the wrong —( creat cheering ) -and when both classes thoroughly understood this , and firmly united , there would be an end to all misgovernment . ( Loud cheers . ) He believed that end'could be beat attained by that means alone which adorned and dignified human nature reason . ' ( Great cheering . ) ^ -m-n : cn .. r \ .. „„„ 1 , „ , 1 - nmniaA oiinh . 1 TOlvileSO to

      We go shortly for an interview with Sir George Grey , that is Sir 5 . Walmslcy , Richard Cobden , and myself . This interview was arranged , and therefore he was full of hope . He hoped that intimidating language would not be used , but that their efforts would he confined to reason and persuasion . It would he well fov the authorises to remember that their erring brothers had been allowed to proceed without being forewarned , and that they had been stimulated by spies , as was proved to be the case , at Liverpool , by a ruffian who was now undergoing sentence of transportation for his misdeeds . ( Hear , hear . ) If the government wish a good feeling to preva 1 , and respect to be held for our institutions , ihoy would grant the prayer of that memorial which

      was so temperately and eloquently worded . ( Great applause . ) .,.,,,. ,. . Mr . Inmv Jokes saui vfcnau given mm very great pleasure to witness the reception of the resolution and memorial . Xn those you tell the government that moral convictions shall henceforth alone guide you ; and it was but pain to ask ; at the time of the convictions , did not excitement prevail not only amongst the Chartists , but also in the jury-box and on the bench ? and were not longer sentences inflicted than would otherwise have been the case ? ( Loud cheers . ) The Chartists , since that period to which he alluded , found that their most secret proceedings were known ; and that all , and more than tue

      all that they had ever dreamed ot , was tola to authorities . ( Hear , hear . ) He ( Mr . Jones } contended , that unless the people possessed the knowledge of how to use their rights , although they might possess physical power to obtain , and did so obtain them , they would be useless to them . He wished to see the people elevate themselves , and then they would soon rise above the calumnies of the newspapers . Present the memorial in a proper spirit , feel as if you were the men suffering—and depend on it , you will act as become men—and your object must be obtained . ( Cheers . ) The memorial was then put , and unanimously adopted .

      Mr . H . Ross moved , — " That Tindal Atkinson , Esq ., and Mr . Thomas Clark be a deputation to convey the memorial to Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., for presentation to her Majesty . "' Mr . Stall wood seconded the motion , which was adopted by acclamation ; as was also a vote of thanks to the chairman , and the meeting quietly dispersed .

      The Late Meeting At The Hall Of Science,...

      THE LATE MEETING AT THE HALL OF SCIENCE , CITY ROAD . The following is the Memorial adopted at the meeting held on Thursday , the 20 th instant , in favour of the immediate liberation of all political prisoners , and which , or a similar one , we hope will bo adopted and forwarded to the proper quarter from every town , city , village , and hamlet in the United Kingdom ;—TO TOE qtfEEX ' S MOST EKCEMEN'T JfAJESTT . The Memorial and Petition ofthe Inhabitants of Finsbury , isc , in Public Meeting in tbe Hall of Science , within the Borough of Finsbury , assembled , Siiewetii , — That Joseph Williams and Alexander Sharp were , in 1848 , convicted of political offences , and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment . That with the exceptiou of these political offences , committed during a period of unparalleled political excitement , tho said Joseph Williams and Alexander Sharp were men of otherwise irreproachable character . That the said Joseph . Williams

      and Alexander Sharp have recently died of cholera in your Majesty ' s Gaol at Tothill Fields , inthecounty of Middlesex ; the said Joseph Williams leaving a widow and six children ; and the said Alexander Sharp leaving a widow and three children , to bewail the loss of affectionate husbands and fathers . Tliat both the deceased were in good health when they entered the gaol on the 12 th of July , 1848 . That the sentence passed upon the said Joseph Williams and Alexander Sharp did not include hard labour ; hut , nevertheless , their relatives were required by the prison authorities to pay , and that they did so pay , the sum of 5 s . each per week to the governor of the prison for then" exemption from the degrading labour of picking oakum . That such money was paid regularly until the 11 th ult ., when the extreme poverty of the relations of the unfortunate deceased precluded its further payment . That the deceased were thereupon ordered to submit to the aforesaid dejn ' iiding labour of picking oakum ; but , bearing in

      mind that their sentence excluded them from such labour , they declined compliance with that which they deemed , and which your Majesty ' s memorialists also consider , an illegal order on the part of the prison authorities . That the prison authorities thereupon caused the said Joseph Williams and Alexander Sharp to he confined iu solitary cells , and to receive no other aliment than bread and water—the hrcad allowed them being limited to the insufficient quantity of one pound and a quarter per day . That such sudden change from full diet and plenty of exercise to solitary confinement in damp cells and an insufficient supply of mere bread and water—whilst cholera existed in the prison—did predispose the said Joseph Williams and Alexander Sharp to an attack of that fatal disorder and consequent death . N That your Majesty ' s petitioners have been informed

      that several other ofthe political offenders now confined in your Majesty ' s gaols are at this time suffering from sickness , consequent , as your Majesty ' s petitioners have reason to fear , upon the severe treatment to which they have been subjected . That your Majesty ' s petitioners have heard with grateful pleasure that the sentences passed upon several political offenders have heen mitigated . Your petitioners therefore implore your Majesty to he graciously pleased to extend yonr royal mercy to tiie political offenders now enduring incarceration in your Majesty's gaols , and by remitting the remainder of their sentences , restore them to their families and friends , and thereby enable them to participate gratefully in the profound peace , happiness , and tranquillity , with which your Majesty's dominions are now blessed . And your Majesty's petitioners will ever prav , ice ., & c .

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      Newcastle.—At The Usual Meeting Of The C...

      Newcastle . —At the usual meeting of the Chartists of this branch on Sunday last ; Mr . Morton Rolson in the chair—the following resolutions were carried - . —Moved by John Brown , and seconded bv John Hamblin , " That the secretary be instructed to invite Mr . O'Connor to visit Newcastle in his intended tour . " Moved by Mr . Judo , and seconded by Mr . Hamblin , " That the Chartists of Newcastle and Gateshead be appealed to in behalf of the political prisoners now confiined in the caols of this

      country . " Moved by John Hudson , and seconded by Mr . Jude , " That a district delegate meeting be held at Mr . Gillray ' s , Cross Keys , West Holburn , on Sunday , October 7 , at two o ' clock , for the purpose of settling the affairs of the district . " Moved by John Robinson , and seconded bv Joseph M'Farlanc , " That John Hudson be the ' delegate for the Newcastle branch . " Moved by John Hrown , and seconded by John Hudson , " That the discussion be renewed on Sunday evenings , and that they commence on Sunday evening , September SO , at seven o clock .

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      Bradford, Yorkshire. —A Meeting Of The M...

      Bradford , Yorkshire . —A meeting of the members of the National Land Company was held on Sunday , the 23 rd of September , in the Land Room , Hope-street—Nathaniel Iloylc in tho chair ; when it was resolved , " That the thanks of the members be given to Mr . O'Connor and the other Directors , for seizing the crops of the allottees who were about to rob the society . " Thanks were also given to the allottees at Sni g ' s End , for their determination not to allow any allottee to defraud the Company ; and we also request that the allottees on other estates will follow their example . Business of importance havmgbccn discussed , the meeting adjourned to tho following Sunday , when the members are requested to attend .

      Edinburgh . —An adjourned meeting of this branch of the Land Company was held in the Hall Society Close , Netherbow , on Monday last . Mr . Chestncy was called to tho chair . The Secretary read a scries of questions addressed to the Directors , for the purpose of eliciting information as to the practicability of the plan ; and whether ov not the fault lay with the allottees , in not being able to meet the demands M the Company ; a copy of which has been sent to the Mrthern Star , for insertion . A discussion followed , on tho best mode of assisting tho wives and families of the Chartist Victims . It was resolved to confer with the Chartist Committee and the Democratic Tract Society , with the view of gettin g up a grand musical melange ; the free proceeds to be devoted to the English Victim Fund .

      Tim Bbkmoxdsky Mubdeh.—Manning And His W...

      Tim Bbkmoxdsky Mubdeh . —Manning and his wile were again brought up at the Southwark Police office , on Thursday . The depositions of Mr . istevens , stockbroker , wero read over to him and signed ; but in consequence of the illness of two witnesses the prisoners wero remanded until Friday week . No fresh evidence was produced . lllE ClIEUKNUAM PoiSOHISO CasE .-VeUDICT OV Vfarvh MuKDER .-At the conclusion ofthe inquiry on lhursday the jury returned a verdict of '' Wiilul Murder against Emmawuel Barnett , " who was committed to take his trial at the next Gloucestershire assizes . The prisoner ' s wife was released irom custod y . The ltKiiitxs of the Registrar-General show that there is mEngla rul one illegitimate child born to every fiitceii bovn in wedlock , and that in every -138 of the population there is one illegitimate

      ,, . It has been decided tliat ministers of the Church ot Scotland are liable to be assessed for poor rates on their manses and glebes . About 180 tons of ivory arc used in Sheffield annual . y . It is supposed thatlS . 000 elephants are killed yearly to make up . the supply ,

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      Corn. Mark-Lane. Monday, September 2-T.—...

      CORN . Mark-lane . Monday , September 2-t . —We havc had hr „ arrivals of wheat , barley , and outs , from abroad sinrcttfday se ' nnight , and a good show of wheat samples « i - morning from Essex and Kent . The market fur wheat wn , not so brisk as on Monday last , and the best qualities nr new barely supported that day's prices . The demand fl foreign wheat was very languid , having hut few county buyers , hut no material reduction wis submitted to f «• good qualities . Tor flour we have had less demand unW at lower prices . New barley continues scarce , and iorei ™ for grinding , met rather a better sale at our iaSt „„„ ? " tions . Malt very dull . Fine new beans were more uCi M and rather cheaper . New peas , both white and ™ , "" held much the same . Oats were duller sale , omVto ti , » large foreign supply as . well as arrivals coastwise , and ev . " n the best sorts with difficulty maintained WerTOic . Foreign rye met a very limited sale . Linseed cakes in , „ demand . Fine new carrawaysced scarce . In rapesucd v « little doing . The current prices as under : — u *

      British . —Wheat—Essex , Suflolk , and Kent , red new iia to 42 s , ditto white , 37 s to 48 s , Lincoln , Sorfolh , and y „ l shire , rod , 83 s to 37 s , Northumberland ami Scotch , WS 32 s to 3 Gs , ditto red , SUs to 35 s , Devonshire and Somerset shiro , red , —s to —s , ditto white — to _ s , rye , 22 s to "iT barley , 24 s to 32 s , Scotch , 23 s to 25 s , Angus —s to _ , ' Malt ordinary , —s to -s , pale , 52 s to 55 s , peas , grey , , J ' 27 s to 20 s , maple 20 s to Sis , white , 24 s to 26 s , boilers ( new ) 27 s to 30 s , beans , large , new , 24 s to 2 Gs , ticks 2 CS to % - harrow , 29 s to 32 s , pigeon , 32 s to 34 s , oats , Lincoln aU ( i Yorkshire , feed , 15 s to 21 $ , ditto Poland and potato 17 s to 24 s , Berwick and Scotch , 17 s to 25 s , Scotch feed , 17 s to 23 s , Irish feed , and black , las to 21 s , ditto potato , 17 s to 24 s , linseed ( sowing ) 50 s to 52 s , rapesced Essex , tow , £ 27 to £ 30 per last , carraway seed , Essex , new ' 28 s to 34 s per cwt , rape cake , £ 4 to £ 4 U ) s per ton , im [ seed , £ 9 lUs to £ 10 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per sack of 2801 b ' ship , 28 s to 303 , town , SSs to iOs . " '

      Fobeic . v . —Wheat , — Dnntzig , iOs to 4-9 j , Aniialt and Marks , 34 to 42 s , ditto white , 38 s to 44 s , Pomeranian red 3 Gs to 41 s , llostock SSs to 44 s , Danish , Holstein , and Friesland , 30 sto 33 s , Petersburg !! , Archangel , and Ufa , 32 s to 31 s , Polish Odessa , 32 s to 30 s , Mananoiu . U , ; uvl bw . dianski , 30 s to 31 s , Taganrog , 3 US to 33 s , Brabant an < l French , 34 s to 36 s , ditto white , 3 Cs to 42 s , Salonic . i , 30 s to 33 s , Egyptian , 23 s to 26 s , rye , 20 s to 22 s , barley , Wisniar and Rostock , 18 s to 22 s , Danish , 18 s to 22 s , Saal , 22 s to 24 s , BastFricshmd , 15 s to 17 s , Egyptian , 14 s to 15 s , Danube , 14 s to 15 b , peas , white , 2 Cs to 28 s , new boilers , 28 s to 30 s , beans , horse , 24 s to 2 « s , pigeon , 30 s to 32 s , Egyptian , 22 s to 24 s , oats , Groningen , Danish , firemen , and Friesland , feed and black , lis to 16 s , ditto , thick and brew , 15 s to 23 s , Riga , Petersburg , Archangel , and Swedish , Hs to 17 s , flour , United States , per lOClbs ., 21 s to 23 s , Ham . bui £ 20 s to 22 s , Dantzig aud Stettin , 20 s to 23 s , French per 2801 b 9 ., 32 sto 35 s . Weekly Avebaoe for SEPTSMBEn 15 . —Wheat , 43 s 9 d ; barley , 27 s Id ; oats , 18 s Cd ; Rye , 2 Gs 7 d j beans , 30 s 8 d ; peas , 31 s Id .

      Agoeegate Avebage of the Six weeks . — Wheat , 45 s Id ; barley , 26 s 4 d ; oats , 18 s lOd ; rye , 2 Cs bd ; beans , 31 s 3 d ; peas , 2 » s Cd . Ddties . — Wheat , rye , barley , peas , beans , oats , and maize , Is per quarter ; flour , 4 | d per cwt . ; clovcrsed , as per cwt . Cork Exchange , Mark-lane , "Wednesday , September 2 tJ . —With very short supplies of grain and flour , our market is very firm to-day for every article , at Monday ' s prices . Arrivals this week - . —Wheat — English , 870 quarters ; foreign , 1 , 610 quarters . Barley—English , 90 quarters ; foreign , 2 , 840 quarters . Oats — English , 400 quarters ; Irish , 200 quarters ; foreign , 2 , 860 quarters . Flour-7 Du sacks . BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from GJd . to 7 d .: of household ditto , 5 d . to Cd , per 41 bs . loaf .

      CATTLE . SjnTitFiELD , Monday , Sep . 24 . —We had an unusually large time-of-year supply of home fed beasts on offer this morning , viz ., upwards of 5 , 000 head . With very few ex . ceptions this is the largest number on record for the month of September . The general quality ofthe boasts was by no means first-rate . As might be exjiected , the beef trade ruled excessively heavy , at a decline in the prices of Moil , day last of from 2 d to 4 d perSlbs . ; the highest figure for the best Scots was 3 s 8 d per Slbs ., and at which a dear , auee was not effected . The number « of sheep were a ^ am

      extensive , and of full average quality . The heaviness in the beef trade had considerable influence upon that of mutton , which ruled dull , and pricess suffered a fall of 2 d per Slbs . The best old Downs were quoted at only 4 s per Slbs . At the close ofthe market a large number of sheep was turned out unsold . The " season" for lamb having heen brought to a close , we have discontinued to quote that description of stock . We had a fvdl average supply of calves on show . AH kinds of veal were heavy , at barely last week ' s quotations . Neat small porkers were held for rather more money . In other kinds of pigs very little was doing .

      Head op Cattle at Smithfielp . — Friday . —Beasts , 842 ; sheep , 12 , 000 ; calves , 882 ; pigs , 310 . Monday . —Beasts 4 , 900 ; sheep , 30 , 800 ; calves , ISO , pigs , W 2 . I « eivgate and LEADESiiAtL , Monday , Sept . 24 . —Inferior beef , 2 s Cd to 2 s Sd ; middling ditto , 2 s lOd to 3 s Od ; prime large , 3 s 2 d to 3 s 4 d ; prime small , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Cd ; large pork , 3 s 4 d to 3 s 8 d ; inferior mutton , 2 s 10 d . " to 3 s 2 d ; middling ditto , 3 s Id to 3 s Cd ; prime ditto , 3 s Sd to 3 s lOd ; veal , 3 s Od to 3 s 6 d ; smalt pork , 3 s lOd to 4 s 2 d ; Iamb , 3 s lOd to 4 s 8 d per Slbs . by the carcase .

      PROYISIOXS . Londov , Monday , September 24 . — -The arrivals last week , from Ireland , were 7 , 421 firkins butter , and 272 hales bacon , and from foreign ports 0 , Jv ) 3 casks butter , and 302 boxes and bales bacon . We have to notice a further improvement in the butter market ; tbe demand very good during the week , and prices have advanced from 2 s to 4 s per cwt ., the finest mild descriptions and Corks being , in most request , and realising the greatest advance . Best Butch has also advanced Cs to Ss per cwt . The supplies offresh cured bacon are barely sufficient to meet the wants of the dealers , and meet a ready sale at full prices on arrival . Fine hams and lard in demand , but middling sorts move very slowly . English Butter , Sep . 24 . —In the past week our best weekly butter has improved in price 4 s to Cs per cwt . ; but fresh is lower to-day , aud farther improvement is checked . Upon stale and middling butter there is not the least advance . Dorset , fine weekly , 92 s to 94 s per cwt . ; ditto stale , 68 s to 74 s ; Devon , 70 s to 80 s ; fresh , !) s to lis per dozen .

      hops . BonocGii , Monday , Sep . 24 . —Somewhat more activity L > noticeable in our market than at the date of our last report , and the finer descriptions ofthe new arrivals have been mostly cleared off the market . The dutv is called £ 80 , 000 . Sussex pockets , 126 s to 140 s ; Weald of Ken ditto , 140 s to ICOs ; Mid aud East Kent ditto , 150 s to 220 s . t SEEDS . Lontos , Monday , Sep . 24 . —Tiie upward movement in the value of Canary seed continues , and the sales made to-day were at enhanced terms . In other sorts of seed there waa little passing , and quotations remained nominally unaltered .

      FRUIT ASD VEGETABLES . Satubday , Sep . 22 . —Hot-house grapes , peaches , and nectarines are plentiful . Pine-apples have not altered in price since our last account . Filberts and foreign walnuts are abundant . Oranges are scarce . Lemons moderately plentiful . Amongst vegetables , turnips may be obtained at from 3 d to 6 d a bunch . Carrots the same . " Cauliflowers are less plentiful . Green peas fetch about 4 s per bushel . Potatoes have not altered since our hist account . . Mushrooms fetch from Is to is Cd per pottle . Cut flowers consist of heaths , pelargoniums , gardenias , bignonia , vemwta , tropicohiiiis , fuchsias , and roses .

      "WOOL . Cm , Monday , Sept . 24 . —The imports of wool last week included 3 , 179 bales from Port Phillip , 104 from Bombay , 1 , 352 from the Capo of Good Hope , 42 from liermany , l . li ' J from Sydney , 244 from Spain , and a few parcels from Jamaica . < Ssc . The public sales are going oft' steadily , a . very small portion having been withdrawn , and prices appear to be rather fuller in some instances , though no decided alteration can be noticed . Diveotool , Sept . 22 . —Scotch . —The arrivals of all kinds s of Scotch of the uevf clip is on a fair scale , and rather more business has been done iu laid Highland , at about t our quotations , if anything rather in favour ofthe buyers , i . White is not much inquired for . There is only a moderate i demand ibr crossed and Cheviot wool , at our quotations .

      Laid Highland wool , per 24 lbs ., 7 s 9 d to Ss Cd ; White High- ii . land do ., 10 s to 10 s tid ; Laid Crossed , do ., unwashed , 1 , 9 s Cd to lis ; Do . do ., washed , 10 s Cd to I 2 s Cd ; Laid Cheviot ot do ., unwashed , Ms to lis ; Do ., do ., washed , 14 s to to 18 s fid ; White Cheviot do ., do ., 20 s to 22 s . —Imjwri n for the week , 1 , 7 » 7 bags ; previously this year , 9 , 970 bags . • Foreign * . —As is visual whew the public sales are pro- "Ogressing in London , we are never very active here , most Ml of the trade being up there . Imports for the week . —2 , 492 hales ; previously tliU iU year , 37 , 641 do .

      TALL 0 " v 7 . Mosdat , Sept . 24 . —Owing to the increasing stock , oiu ' mi ' market still continues heavy . During last week , upwards nls of 9 , 000 casks arrived chiefly from Russia , and the supi'Iyq-iy in warehouse is slow—34 , 079 casks . Prices to-day rnlediled from 3 d , to Cd . per cwt . lower than on Monday last . ast . P . Y . C . on the spot is selling at 37 s O'd to SSs ; and for for-furward delivery 37 s , per cwt . Town tallow , 87 s per cwt . net net cash ; rough fat , 2 s Ud . per Slbs . Letters from St . Peters-ersburgh represent tho trxde there as very inactive . HIDES . Leadenhaix . —Market hides , 061 b . to C 4 lb ,, li , d to 0 d ptl } W lb . ; ditto , G 4 fl ) . to 721 b .. lid to l * jd ; ditto , 721 b . to SOlWOlb . 2 ttt » " iju ; ditto , 301 b . to 8 * 81 b ,, 2 . ' , dto 3 d ; ditto , SSlh . to . n Ofiib ., 3 d to 3 Jd ; ditto , 901 b . to " l 041 b „ 3 dto 3 jd ; ditmlitto 1041 b . to 112 lb ., 3 | to 4 d ; Calf-skins , each , 2 s to 5 s ; LamLam ' shins , Is Sd to 2 s bd ; Horse hides , < s Gd ; Shearlings , Is 6 , 1 * 6 to 2 s 2 d .

      OILS . Linseed , per cwt ., —s to SSs Gd ; rapesced , EnglisiglU ' vehncrt , SSs 6 t \ to 3 S > s ; brown . 37 s Cd ; Gullipoli , per tov to ! 421 . ; Spanish , .. -141 . ; Sperm , 801 . begged Sit . ; South Soli Se 321 . to 3 tt . ; Seal , pale , 36 ? . ; do ., coloured , 331 . ; Cos C * 27 J , 10 s , ; coco nut , per ton , SSI . to 402 . ; Palm , 301 . HAY . Smitoheld , Sept . 22 . —At per load of 30 trasses . sscs . Meadow , old , 45 s to 72 s : clover , old , GOstoOasjsUwstru 02 s to SDs .

      COLONIAL PRODUCE . Lon-dox , Tuesday Evening . —Sugar , —The public sab sal have been far too large for the demand to-day . They Miey c sisted of 400 hhds . West India , 4 , 300 hags Mauritius , >> M •' , bags Bengal , 4 , 000 bags Madras , and 500 hhds . of Poif l ' o Rico ; and although a decline of Cd . was very gcuerneuerii submitted to , scarcely half found buyers . 880 hhds . W . s . YY ludia sold , chiefly in the private contract market , ' et . ' refined market has been dull , but prices have brve I ) supported . Coitee . —700 bags ordinary native Ceylon sold , in puVi yu sale , at 39 s . ; a few lots at 39 s Cd , which was a sh a sli under last week ' s currency . 1 , 200 hags , and 130 cnsfccnsl * plantation kind were also ofteved . A large portion rtion bought iu to sustain the market ; and the remainder aider < at a decline of Is to 2 s . Rice has heen steady , but no alteration in price c » bc cai quoted . Taliow continues to weav a downward appoa « u ' w > avav there tire no sellers at 37 s . Tat , —The prices remain the same as at the late piate pi stiles .

      Ith Printed By William Rider, Of No. 5, Macclesfifld-Sfield-Sl Sl

      ith Printed by WILLIAM RIDER , of No . 5 , Macclesfifld-sfield-sl sl

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      m the parish of St . Anne , Westminster , at tne rw > » office , 16 , Great Windmill-stveet , Haymnvket , in thein theie of Westminster , for tin-Proprietor , FEARGUS O'COiV » 'CO > A : Esq . M . P ., and published by the said Wmi-Ui R « % Riww the Office , in the same s ' tt'cetinu parish . —Satu-SatVtt September 20 nd , 1819 ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 29, 1849, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29091849/page/8/