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    • THE tfOJITHEBN STAR SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1845.
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      • _MASSIOS-nOUSE . . Mo _* _miT . —Collision os the Bivxk . —Captam _Wimain Xing , the commander of Xo . 3 , -Watermeu ' s s _^ _-If * _£ was summonedbefore the Lord Mayor , hy John rate tbe owner of a wherrv , for having caused the swamping oftne wherry , thus endangering the lives of seven V _&^ - _£ * t _eompliinantstatedaiaton _Tuesdaylast _, asHe _^ was taking some passengers down the river from _BlacMriars _^ the steamer , which was passing _S-yan-stanrs , went ng _« _mto _thewbeiy _. sunkher , and all _onboai-d ( five men , awoman , wul a cMld ) , wereimmersed in the water . Hewas convinced that tie accident was occasioned by the improper management of the steam-vessel . —On his cross-examinationly ao solicitor to the eompany , the witness stated that the two persons who rowed were not free watermen . They were passengers , but they were experienced men . The damage to the boat , and the loss incurred , amounted to sixteen shillings . —W . Serle stated thathe was one of

      the persons-nio rowed . The steamer came down upon fhe boat at once , and swamped her , and a boatman , of fhe name of Norcott , extricated those who were overturned . — Henry Dansell , a fellowship-porter , stated that he was not a waterman , but he knew all about tt , and'that he also ¦ ass rowing . He could row as well as the waterman who made the complaint . The captain of the steamer did not ease the vessel an inch . —Thomas Collins , a passenger in the wherry , stated tbat they had not time to look about when they -were run down . "Witness jumped overboard and swam ashore . If fhe captain had stopped the way of the steamer , the occurrence would not , in his opinion , have happened . —Thomas Norcott , a waterman , stated thathe rescued the people . He aid not know how the boat got under the steamer ; hut those on hoard that vessel threw Mm a rope . —The solicitor to the steam company said tbat fhe defence was , that the persons who were rowing the

      wherry had not the necessary skill ; that the complainant would , if he bad been rowing , hare prevented the accident , instead of running into the jaws of danger ; and that tbe defendant had done everything in his power to save the boat . The steam company would , if a complaint of the find , with all its accompaniments , likely to engage the sympathies of thepublic , were successful , without proof , besubjectedto perpetual charges . Thc complainant , too , was at the _igne under the influence of liquor . —Morris 3 _fathews , fo * j _^ _na--tmaii , of No . 3 Waterman , stated tliat he was ob board , and caUed out to those in the wherry . The wherry , however , went to the wroDg side , and one of the passengers jumped from her into the steamer , and then the wherry swamped . It was not by any means the fault of the steamer . —Captain Guthrie / the master of a collier , stated that he had been forty years at sea , and was iu the steamer at the time of the accident . The defendant did

      all he could upon the occasion , but the wherry most improperly came between the steamer and the shore . If the wherry . had been properly rowed , nothing could have happened . —After hearing further evidence , the Xord "Mayor said that he very particularly inquired into all cases of this description , as he knew that wherries had no chance when coming in contact with steam-vessels . Here , however , the owner bad two circumstances against him . He was not sober at the time , and two men who were not watermen were rowing . TT _» _g Lordship said he considered that the two men who rowed were bound to indemnify the complainant for the loss he had sustained , but the case was dismissed as to the defendant . —The two men who thus by rowing endangered the lives of seven individuals have subjected themselves to heavy penalties under the Watermen ' s Act , audit was stated that it is the intention of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen to proceed against them

      CLERKEXWELL Tcesdat . _—Embezzlement _axu Attempted _Suiciue . — _Ur . lteuben Wright Da _\* is , a respectable looking middleaged man , _agent to fhe Liverpool Reform Association , and residing at Queen Anne-street , York-buildings , Liverpool , was charged with embezzling £ 10 , the property of the above association , and attempting to destroy himself . —At one o'clock on the previous day the prisoner went into the chemical shop ofMr . Lye , of l ' enton-place , Pentonville , and asked for six pennyworth of poison . Mr . Lye , perceiving him to be in a hi g hl y excited and agitated condition , refnsed huntlie poison , and sent for a constable .

      _Toliceconstable 33 Cr came , arrested , and conveyed him te the station . He admitted that he intended self-destruction , aud said bis aunt , Mrs . Stevens , lived in Camden-villa , Camden-grove , Peckham . Inspector Penny sent him thither with the constable , when it was found he had made a -falsestatement , no such person as Stevens residing there . He was then taken back to the station-house , and , when about to be locked up , he said I may as well tell the whole truth . I am agent to the Reform Association hi Liverpool , and have robbed my employers of £ 10 , whlehl spent since Friday last , when I came to London . —Mr . Combe directed the police to communicate with the association and with bis wife , and remanded fhe prisoner for a week .

      ' SODTHWAEK , Tdesdax . _—Dabtsg asd Bbutal Bobbert . —Caroline Watson , a girl of the town , was charged with being concerned with two men , notin custody , in a robbery , attended with violence , on the person of Mr . James Henry Hawkins . —The complainant stated that on the preceding night , about ten o ' clock , as he was proceeding homewards , in walking along the _BIaetfi-5 ar " s-road the prisoner came np to him , and entreated hhn to give her some refreshment at a public-house , which she pointed out at the comer of Cross-street . As the girl seemed to require that wluch she asked for , it being an extremely cold night , complainant assented to her request , and they accordingly walked together towards the public-bouse she had previously pointed out When they arrived near the corner of Crossstreet , two men came behind tliem , one of whomimmediately struck complainant a severe blow under the right

      ear , which bad fhe effect of momentarily stunning him , and rendering him incapable of exactly knowing what was doing : but when he recovered himself , on turning round to look at his assailant , he perceived the two men were gone , and theprisoner also , and he atthe same time found that he bad been robbed of a purse containing ten sovereigns and some silver , wluch was taken from his waist _, coat pocket . Observing thc prisoner running with great speed in fhe middle of the road , he pursued her , and oa coming up with her accused her of robbing him of his purse and money ; but she declared she had not , and said -that she knew nothing of the men by whom he was attacked . The complainant added that he had a valuable gold watch in the other pocket of his waistcoat , but that it was not taken . He , however , held the prisoner , who made exertions to get away , until a policeman came to the spot , into -Whose enstoct _^ - lie gave lier . Tiie purse aud its contents have not been found . —The prisoner was remanded .

      THAMES . Tuesday . —A Max's "Findixcs" sot ms _"Ow-s . "Kve Irish ballast-heavers , i , amed Burke , Scully , Euckly , Sullivan , and Grady , were this _dayfisally examined and committed to Newgate , charged with stealing a plate chest , containing plate to the amount of £ 100 , and a gold watch valued at 3 u guineas , the property of Mr . llichard Gardner , a gentleman residing at Brentwood , in Essex . The chest was lost by the upsetting of a wherry in October last , _ovrflig to the swell occasioned by two steam-boats , ahd , as it appeared from the evidence , was carried down from Waterloo-bridge to where the prisoners were at work below London-bridge , where it was taken up about ten days ago in a ballast bag . The greater part of thc property having , according to one of the prisoners , been disposed of for £ i 10 s to some house in the city , the case was remanded for the purpose of discovering what the worthy magistrate called " one of the most wholesale cases of receiving that ever came under bis observation ; " but Inspector Evans , after the strictest scrutiny , not being able to obtain a clue to the place , the prisoners were committed for trial .

      BOW-STREET . Mosdat . —The Infamous Cant . Cos . Case Again . — A respectably dressed middle aged woman , named Eliza beth Ann Absalon , appeared in answer to a summons _, charging _iier with having insulted and annoyed Mr . C . J . Fox Bunbury , the son of Sir H . Banbury , of MildenhaM , Suffolk . The defendant , who was rather a plainlooking woman , had a female child in her arms , and was represented by her solicitor , Mi * . Wontner . The transactions ont of which fhe present case arose have lately appeared in thc report of an action brought against fhe complainant by the husband of the defendant , who , it will be _PecaHected _. wasi'epresent _^ _aslia'rin'jori' _- _^ herself to Mr . Bunbury as a ' Miss . Francis , '' but afterwards , upon the marriage of that gentleman , appeared as the faithless wife of fheinjured Mi * . Absalon . —Mr . Jennings , solicitor , attended for the complainant . —Mr . Bunbury deposed iHat he was walldnrj in the Strand one afternoon

      last week , when the defendant approached lum , and commenced abusing Mm in the most violent language . He endeavoured to avoid her , aud with that view turned into Somerset-house , but she followed him closely , and , pointing to a child which she held in her arms , accused him of brutally neglecting to support it . He threatened to give her into custody , but she only became the more vehement , and " dared" bun to adopt a course which would be enabling her to show liim up to the world . He then called a cab , and was getting into it , when she struck him on the shoulder and tore his coat all up fhe back . Upou this he went to a policeman and thought of giving her in charge , but seeing such a large crowd of persons collecting round hirrvhe abstained from doing so , and got into the cab , in which he was driven away . Mr . Bunbury said he had no derive to have the woman punished , but only wished to be spared the annoyance of another attack of tliis kind in the streets . —In reply to questions put by Mr . Wontner , Mr .

      Bunbury denied that he had any knowledge of the defendant being a married woman during the time he was acquainted with her . She gave him to understand that the reverse-was the fact . —Mr . Hall objected to theiutroduction of any matters irrevelant to the present inquiry , as it was _no-pavtof his duty , as amagistrate , to judge of any former _undei-standuigs between the parties , or of any supposed claims arisang therefrom . —Mr . Wontner wished to shew the provocation whicli liis client bad received , from the treatment of the complainant , after such correspondeuce between them as that which hewas prepared to produce . — Mr . HaU could not go'into that subject , and reminded Mr . Wontner that the law did not sanction violent and abusive conduct in the streets under any pretence . —Mr . Jennings said nis worship might probabl y recollect that with regard to any imaginary - ' claims" that liii _^ lit be

      asserted on behalf ofthe defendant , that matter had been entirely set at rest by the action iu the Court of Exchequer , which Mr . Baron Piatt denounced as a most disgraceful affair—an opinion ia which Mr . Serjeant Jones , who opened the case for the plaintiff , bnt gave up his brief on being made acquainted with the facts , entirely coincided . Mr . Wontner , however , was not the solicitor on that occasion . —Mr . Wontner did nut tliink the wife should he held responsible for any steps Mr . Absalon might have taken , influenced , as he no doubt had been by feelings of indignation . He was bound , therefore , to press the claims of Ms client upon Mr . "Uunbury , who was a gentleman of great wealth aud rank , whilst she had been reduced to the utmost dish-ess . —At the suggestion of the magistrate , tbe complaint was ultimately withdrawn , on the defendant ' s promising not to repeat the

      annoyance . WOHSHLP-SIREET . " _Mosuat . —Odtkaoe axd assadit . —A man named William Dorgan _, whose person bore evident marks of severe chastisement , was charged before Mr . Broughton with the following scandalous violence upon the wife of a "labouring man . named Shaw : —It appeared from the evidence of-the prosecutrix ( whose face was shockingly disfigured with cuts and contusions' and another witness , that at five o clock on Saturdav afternoon a poor woman was carried in fits into the ' shop of a Mrs . Hughes , in George-yard , Whitechapel . and laid in that state upon the floor . The prisoner shortl y after entered , and , using a

      _togUStmgeialhef , saidtliatif the fainting woman was his wne be would soon punch holes in her bodv for _"shammwg . Mrs . Hughes protested against such brutal expressions , and the prisoner not only loaded her with the with f _^ S _^ . _^ , ets ' but accBSed ner of taeontinence wan a negro , Tue prasecutrj _^ wllo wag _p , _^^ _awfi _* f _& s _* _fc _* - _*» _£ _s _etmZn _& _wmwaas otter . _Tht-mL _^ t _^ _SZ

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      came insensible , and was so carried into hep . own house , whence upon her recovery she was led to the hospital , where her wounds were dressed , fhe surgeon remarking that she appeared as if she had been kicked by ahorse . The prisoner ' s conduct excited such iudignatioa in those who had witnessed it , that both he and his wife were set upon by some of the neighbours , and so severely handled that he was obliged to go to bed , from which he was taken by a policeman , into whose custody he was given by the prosecutrix ' s husband . —The prisoner denied part of the - violence imputed to hhn , and attempted to justify the other by the beating he and his wife had themselves sustained , but Mr . Broughton characterised it as an outrageous act of violence , and ordered him to find bail to answer the charge at the sessions .

      MARYLEBONE . Monday .- "* _-Uobbert and Singuxab Recovebt of a Fiftx-Pound Note . —Ellen Purcell , serv to Mr . Lyne , a dyer , in Wimpole-street , Cavendish-square , was brought up in custody of Wyness , 43 D , and placed at fhe bar , before Mr . Rawlingon , charged with having stolen a Bank of England note for £ 50 , fhe property of Mr . Henry Smythe , a gentleman holding a situation at the Stamp Office , and a knife belonging to her master . It appeared from the evidence that on Friday last Mr . Smythe , who occupied apartments at tbe house above referred to , left in his bedroom a tin bos containing a £ 50 note ; the said box was loeked . but the key , which formed part of a bunch , remained in the room . On the following morning he missed

      the jiote , and apoliceman , who was called in , made search for it ,, but without effect ; but a knife belonging to Mr . Lyne was found in the prisoner ' s possession . The case was at length put into the hands of Wyness , the officer , who vesterday morning , after the prisoner had been searched by a female , found in a crevice in the wall beneath the safe a small parcel , which he contrived'to pull out , and in it was a - £ 50 note ; it was wrapped upiu a piece of paper and linen ; the latter had been torn from a duster which the prisoner was in the habit of using . It was further shown that Wyness found in a pocket belonging to tbe prisoner two kuives , one of which had been missed by Mr . Lyne afew days previously . The prisoner was , in order to afford time for the attendance of other witnesses , remanded till Wednesday .

      LAMBETH . Mondat . — _Pbize-Fiqht , — John Linney , alias the " Cowboy , " a well-known pugilist , and William Thome , were charged before Mr . Henry , the former with being the second , and fhe latter fhe bottle-holder , at a prizefight , which took place at eight o ' clock , near the Nunhead Cemetery , Peekham Hye . Mr . Henry said that the practice of ' fighting for money was highly improper , and should be put an end to , and ordered the prisoners to find bail for their good behaviour . - Before the closing of the court they were admitted to bail on their own recognisances and discharged .

      Death Of Mr. Samuel Russell, Comedian.—T...

      Death of Mr . Samuel Russell , Comedian . —This once celebrated actor , famous for his performance of Jerry Sneak in the Mayor of Garrett , expired on-Wednesday , the 26 th ult ., at the house of his daughter , in Gravesend , at the advanced age of 70 years , having "been born in 1766 . Mr . Russell ' s name , as an actor , is associated with the brightest period of the Enriish drania , when John Kemble , Charles Kemble , King . Lewis , Elliston , Fawcett , Dowton , Munden , John Bannister , Emery , H . Johnson , Mrs . _Siddons , Mrs . Jordan , Miss Duncan , Mrs . Bland , Madame Storace , and Miss _O'Neil shed the lustre of their talent nightly on the boards of our Royal theatres . On the retirement of his old colleague Dowton from

      the stage , Russell played Jerry Sneak to Dowton a Jiajor Sturgeon , at the Italian Opera , in the year 1840 , and much interest was excited by the appearance of the two theatrical patriarchs acting together once more . His own . farewell benefit took place at the naymarket in the season of IS ® , on which occasion lie appeared as Jerri / _Sneaky and der liveredan address . The proceeds of that night were lodged in the hands of a large discounting m _* m well known , through whose insolvency a short time afterwards Mr . Russell lost the whole amount . Hewas not attached to the Dramatic Fund of Drury-lane , from a mistaken notion that he would never require its aid . Mi-. Russell was twice married , and had a number of children by each wife .

      The late Mueokk at _Hamtstead . —important Discover y . — From the . particulars which have already appeared with regard to the late horrid murder of James Delarue , it has no jdoubt been perceived hy the public generally that one grand link in the chain of evidence against the prisoner was wanting , viz ., the production ofthe implement with wliich the fatal blows were inflicted . The subjoined statement , obtained , as will be seen , from authentic sources , will throw further light upon the transaction . It appears from what has transpired in reference to the affair , that on Saturday week last ( the day after the murder ) , a boy , named Taylor , in the employment ( as also his father ) of Mr . Rudd , Park-road , Regent ' s Park , wasscntoutby his master to deliver some poultry at the houses of

      customers at Hampstead , and that on his return he passed over Macclesfield Bridge , Regent ' s Park , whenhe saw a stick lying beneath the coping-stone of the said bridge , and whicli must have been placed there by some one who had introduced his hand through the iron railing of the bridge alluded to . He ( the finder ) took it home to Ins father , and although ithad marks of blood uponit at the time , no particular notice thereof was taken ; it was washed and laid by , and for a time nothing more was thought of it . On Thursday afternoon last , the sister of Taylor ' s father called upon Nathaniel Neale , No . 10 , Great Barlow-street , near Marylebone

      Police-court , and related to him the whole of the particulars . He ( _Neale ) came to the court , and was introduced to the chief clerk , Mr . Fell , who immediately after the closing ofthe court called at the Albany-street station-house , at which he _^ a ve all thc information he was in possession of , - and which led to the stick before referred to being placed in the hands of the police . Inspectors Shackell and Gray came yesterday to the court shortly before the closing thereof , bringing with them a blackthorn stick ; it had upon it a large knob , and although it had been washed , there were still discernible upon it marks of blood . The stick has been identified ! as one belonging to the prisoner .

      Suicide at Clakemoxt . —On Thursday morning week , Edward Sio _* ry , keeper of the lodge atthe _principal _^ entrance at Clarcmont , belonging to the King of the Belgians , committed suicide by cutting his throat . After breakfast , apparently quite well , he took hot water into Ms hed-roora for shaving ; in a few minutes his wife heard a noise overhead as of some one stamping , and on running up stairs she found her husband on the floor in the agonies of death , having cut his throat with a razor so as almost to separate the head from the body . Charge of -Maxsla-cghtbr against a Policeman at Liverpool . —On Saturday last , a coroner ' s inquest was held on thc body of Thomas Matthews , nineteen years of age , who , according to the evidence , was in October last struck with a stick , by police-officer No . 538 , Roger Charnley , during anangry altercation with the deceased and two other young men who were at the time more or less intoxicated . In a few days after , the young man was attacked with a swellingin

      the left thigh ; he wastakentothe Northern Hospital , and died there on Thursday last . The jury , alter a brief consultation , returned a verdict of ' ¦• nanslaughter" against officer 538 , who was accordingly committed to Kirkdale to take his trial at the approaching assizes . East Kent Election . —Canterbury , MoNnjiY . — The election for a member for the eastern division of Kent , in the room of Sir E . Knatchbull , took place to-day , on BarhamDown , at eleven o'clock . During the whole proceedings the rain and . snow fell in unwelcome abundance . The High Sheriff , Sir Moses Moatefiore , having opened the court , Sir E . Deering said he had great pleasure in nominating Wm . Deedes , Esq ., of Sandling Park , as a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament . Sir Brook Bridges seconded the nomination . The High Sheriff having called upon any elector to . nominate another candidate , no other candidate being proposed , the High Sheriff declared W . Deedes , Esq ., duly releeted .

      The Tfojithebn Star Saturday, March 8, 1845.

      THE _tfOJITHEBN STAR SATURDAY , MARCH 8 , 1845 .

      Spottiswoode Md His Paper Money Advocate...

      SPOTTISWOODE MD HIS PAPER MONEY ADVOCATE . We have a favour to , crave at the hands of some of ourfriends : can any of them furnish us with acopy of the Operative newspaper , as far as it was published ? They will greatly oblige if they can . Spottiswoode and Go . have organised themselves into a society for " Emancipation of British Industry ; " and the means of their " Emancipation" are immense issues of in-con vertible Paper-money , that _juices may be raised " COMPATIBLE with men taxes AND OTHER

      BURDENS TO CORRESPOND ! I" In other words , to enable the Minister to draw from the lifc ' sblood of the nation the means of paying the interest of a Debt never contracted by the nation , and which said debt amounts to a greater sum than the whole " money" of the whole world would liquidate ; to enable that same Minister to obtain the means of paying , in "full-tale , " the hordes of idlers and prostitutes quartered on the public , through the pension list , the half-pay list , the retired-allowance list , the sinecure list , the dead-weight list , and the highsalaried list . It is to enable the Minister to maintain " high taxation , " that these "OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND" maybe firmly and

      securely fixed on the _sjiouldcrs of the people , that Spottiswoode and Go . propose to violate every existing engagement ;—to disrupt the entire of commercial transactions—and to ROB every creditor of one-half of his just debts !!! These are the purposes ofthe " _EfcoxvEniiBLE Paper-money" gang , and such are the effects to which their nostrums would inevitably lead ; and itis for the purpose of exposing the gross injustice and inherent _nefariousness of the whole scheme , that we wish for the assistance of our " old friend" of the Operative . In the columns of that paper we remember there were inserted , from the pen ofthe Editor , a series of papers "showing up , " in ferocious style , "the Jews and job-

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      bers , and all the unholy spawn ofthe infernal Papermoney system ;"—and an explanation of some ofthe jargon of the Stock-Exchange , particularly of the terms "Bulls" and " Bears" —was given , together with an explanation of the _caxtses whieh operate on the rate of foreign exchanges : and it would notheamiss , _/« _5 * noiv , to reprint some of those articles as an answer to the specious and sophistical reasoning ushered indirectly into the world by Spoitiswoode and Co ., to prepare the public mind for the perpetrat ion of an act ofthe grossest injustice and downright palpable ROBBERY , —an act only to be equalled by the monster theft committed by Peel ' s Bill ! 1

      Contrary to our usual practice , we did not file the numbers of the Operative , as they appeared * , a circumstance we much regret , as the articles we speak of would have been of essential service just now , against the horrible schemers who are endeavouring to " raise prices" to a point " COMPATIBLE with HIGH TAXES and OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND ! ' _*~ instead of . pursuing the plain , the simple , and the only honest course in relation to this subject—an equitable " adjustment with the " National Creditor , " and a reduction of taxation to a joint compatible to the nation ' s wants and its ability to pay .

      _SroiiiswooDB and Co . are going most insidiously about their work . They do not appear in their own proper persons . At all events what they do directly has little effect on society . True , they are organised into a confederation-designated by the highsounding and catching title of the " Society for the Emancipation of British Industry . " True , also , that they have published , and thrust into circulation—by means of the butter-women and the trunk-makersa serieB of tracts , to demonstrate the benefits that must accrue from the more firmly fitting . on the vitals of the producing-niass the insatiable

      cormorants ot annuitants , dividend recipients , deadweight men , pensioners , sinecurists , and over-paid jobbing officers of state . True , they have done this , and been . laughed at for their pains * and now , therefore , they have gone more secretly and more insidiously to work . We know that they " beat about ' _, among the "friends ofthe poor" —those who had the ear of the Working Classes—to see if they could get hold of a man who , from Ms already acquired character as a " champion of the rights of Industry , " would be listened to , while he plausibly and insidiously endeavoured to make it apparent

      that the perpetuation ofthe infernal system of stockbrokers , gambling speculators , jobbing-Jews , by means of an INCONVERTIBLE paper-money , and its consequent high _i-rices to make it " COMPATIBLE with high _taxatioji and OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND " would . be a benefit _U We know of many whom they tried for this purpose . We know that they beset Mr . Oastler , for instance , and laboured hard to bring him to an advocacy ofthe " saving faith" —the saving of the Jews and moneychangers—but without effect , as Mr . Oastler had always one unvarying answer for them , that "he

      did not profess to understand the currency question . " We know others whose aid was sought j and we know too that the party did at last succeed in getting hold of one ofthe soi-disant "friends of the people "one whose wants probably induced him to listen to the golden reasons of Spottiswoode and Co . " : —for we take it that the pay for sueh services as were required of Mm would neither be offered nor accepted in " inconvertible Paper-money , " notwithstanding the xow mutually-received and advocated doctrine , that " GOLD , * as a standard of value , is a rude device of ignorance and barbarism ; " and we well remember that sueh _wAsw-eanght advocate of the blessed rule of Jews and

      jobbers"HIGH-TAXATION AND OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND " -was sent out on a . tour through the country to prepare the way for the reception ofthe new doctrine of relief to the ' natioti by the more firmly booting the evil disease ! We remember also that bundles of the Emancipators' ( of-the-Jewsfi _* om-the-peop le ' s-fna 6 _i' % -to-pay ) tracts were sent down to those of the 'Advocate ' s friends that were deemed likely to aid him in his new occupation ; but they , not having to look through the golden spectacles , could not see the great benefits to be derived from the advocacy of immense issues oi "inconvertible Paper-money" to cause " high trices " that a "COMPATIBLE HIGH TAXATION

      AND OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND !" might bemaintained ; and they were therefore quiescent . And we further remember , that it was deemed by the queer sort of Emancipators that the time had come when an experiment could be tried on the public mind ; aud that accordingly a public meeting was called in the " National Hall , " Holborn , when thc former denouncer ofthe Jews and jobbers and all the " infernal system of paper-credit , " appeared as the advocate for the continuance of that system , as the most sure and certain means of tho Nation ' s

      Emancipation ! We remember also that Mr . George Rogers , a maa who understood the nature of the questionwho knew what the meaning of such " Emancipation " was — " spoiled the sport" of the Spottiswoode gang , by moving tho Charter as an amendment to the Paper-money resolution , and carrying it , to the great chagrin of the new-born advocate of Emancipation through HIGH TAXATION ! Since then thc tactics ofthe "BURDENERS of British Industry " have ken somewhat ' changed . They have not come out before the public in public meetings : but they have established a newspaper in " the centre of

      the three kingdoms" to experimentalise how far they can tamper with and use the public mind in aid of their queer scheme of _Bumcifatios I The course pursued by that journal has been crafty and insidious enough . It did not at first come out as the advocate ofthe Paper-money party ; but it cautiously Inserted papers and pamphlets reasoning on the monstrous injustice perpetrated by Peel ' s Bill , * and on the " rude device of ignorance and barbarism infixing on GOLD , or other money of intrinsic value , as a standard of value . Then the Editor " called attention" to such papers , and such reasonings : " they

      were deserving of much consideration , " Ac . < fcc ; every week the language becoming more and more decided ; until , at last , wo have it fairly out , that the emancipation in store for this plundered nation is , " more of Paper-money , and the abolisluncnt of GOLD" as a standard of _yaluc , that "we may have " moil viuces , and . possibly high wages , " to enable as to pay a "COMPATIBLE HIGH TAXATION , " and bear "OTHER BURDENS TO CORRESPOND !!! " It is to answer the present advocate of that doctrine that we wish for the copy of the Operative ; and wc shall be greatly _indebted to any friend who can furnish ns with it .

      O'Connell And The Land. There Is No Adag...

      O'CONNELL AND THE LAND . There is no adage more true than that one man may steal a horse , while another dare not look _oyci the hedge . " In the Nation of last week we have oiw of the most sweeping justifications _, Qf QUI' L a _se policy , that could he suggested even by a hired advocate . Mr . O'Connell never suggests any political changes or social improvements . It is , on the contrary , his practice first to recommend , and then tc

      adopt such suggestions of others as are likely to create a fresh excitement . Hence Mr . Grey Pomer , Aid . Bon , Dr . Maunseu , Shaiiman Crawford , and others of less note , have been flattered from time to time by the "Liberator ' s" fascinating approval and recommendation of their measures . True , the " prize that Mi * . O'Connell has placed before the Irish people was so valuable and easy of acquisition , that he lias failed in securing national competition for any of the minor stakes .

      The subject of our . present notice is an elaborate proposition of Sir James Murray , for the wholesale improvement of " Ireland and the Irish . " The Whigs , in their day of tribulation , created so many "Knightsand Baronets / ' that we do not know to which tribe Sir James belongs ; while we are free to confess that his adoption of our principles —( for in every good line we recognise not only our policy but our words)—entitles Mm to much higher honours than any that monarchs can bestow . In our sixth page

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      will be found an abstract of Sir James Murray s plan , as far as" it has appeared ; and to it we recominond the reader ' s attention . It will be seen that the principles of the paper in question were recommended by Mr . O'Connell to the consideration of the manufacturing-emp loyment meeting at the Royal Exchange on the 13 th ult .: and from this we presume that it is Mr . _O'Connell's intention to enforce its practice upon the Irish mind ; a practice , in the extension of which had allthe money filched from the Irish people for the last twenty years been expended they might now have been living under a system which , in tlieir present temper , we fear they will receive but as a poor substitute for the great blessing ao long promised : a system , however , whieh must be resorted to before " Ireland can be for the Irish . "

      In the present posture of the agricultural interest of this country , —committed to the "faith , " the " care , " and . ' "trusteesMp" of Sir Robert Peel , — there is no hope save in the dread of that " RUIN " which must inevitably follow the destruction , of a class , who for years , nay , centuries , have been the disposers ofthe country ' s fate . The Report of the Devon Commission leaves us little hope of correction

      from without ; while the ignorance of Parliament on agricultural questions leaves us as little from within , The manifest , the injurious , and admitted injustice practised by the Irish landlords , until unopposed custom _^ had become law , justifies every crime that has been perpetrated , and would sanctify a _revolution if the guilty only would suffer in the conflict . Unfortunately such is the view that we are compelled to take of the several grievances imposed upon society , by a selfish , bigotted , ignorant class , possessed of power to sanction , If not to justify , theii

      atrocities . atrocities . If the landlords alone were to feel the effect of Sir _Rouebt Peel ' s free trade policy ; if they alone could be made to suffer the penalty of tlieir own misdeeds , we should not be over nice in apportioning their just meed of punishment . 'However , when we consider the vast amount of power possessed by this body , together with then * ability as individuals to oppress , and as a community to resist correction , we confess that we do feci a difficulty in dealing with them : because on their fate depends the fate of millions , to

      whose neglect and destitution , a class , if possible , more griping and oppressive , look as a God-send . The English mind , weaned , as it were , from agricultural pursuits , is not even yet prepared to see in Landed monopoly the foundation of every national woe ; and , therefore , to Ireland , as an agricultural countiy , we look with some hope for the application ofthe best portions of Sir James Murray ' s plan , as the means of rescuing the labouring classes from tliat state of unparalleled misery and destitution so heartlesslv admitted in the _Devojt Report . '

      Thc essential portions of Sir James Murray's plan have been recommended and enforced by Mr . O'Connor in Parliament , the Northern Star , and other publications , for the last ten years : and , therefore , to recapitulatethem here would be a mere waste of time . We cannot refrain , however , from a short calculation ofthe good that might have been effected for Ireland had the proceeds of the Repeal Rent been applied to the practical working of some such scheme as that to which Mr . 0 ' Connell has given liis assent . Not by any means approving of that comparative state of prosperity to which Sir James Murray would elevate the half-slave , half-freeman , we shall , nevertheless , content ourselves with taking the » position in wMch he would place a working man in preference to that wliich he now occupies . Sir James

      says-Ordinary districts valued at 10 s . per acre , and twenty years' purchase , would be £ 10 , price paid for the fine or cost of each acre , or £ 1 , 000 for every allotment of 100 acres , which would be sufficient for eaeh single location of poor , because it is more economical to spread these humble plantations at convenient distances , so that the men might be _. near farmers , to work for them when it can be obtained , and when work is scarce , to have their own small holding near at hand to employ tlieir time .

      Now land that would fetch 10 s . an acre in Ireland is by no means waste , barren , or even bad land ; but , on the contrary , is of that quality . which , by moderate labour , „ might be made worth 30 s . per acre in three' years , and thc price of which , to be bought out-and-out , we arc told would be £ 10 . If , then , we estimate the amount of Repeal rent paid witliin the last two years at £ 100 , , and the . price of an acre at £ 10 , we find that this great "national" maw has in two years swallowed up as much as would

      give ene acre of land to each of ten thousand families : and if we estimate each family at seventhat is , a man , his wife , and five children—we learn that a set of lazy , idle , spouting "gentlemen " have received as much in two years as would provide permanent happiness and employment for T 0 , 000 human beings !! We tliink , then , that however others may deplore and censure the heartless treatment to which the Irish people are subjected , our " friends" of the Conciliation Hall should be the last

      to murmur . The Nation , from which wc have taken that portion of Sir James Murray ' s plan that we publish , appeal's to approve ofthe project for its simplicity , and supposes that it must h _^ ve suggested itself to many minds before . and adds that it now appeal's" for the first time in a plain , practical , business-like shape . " Here wc beg to correct our cotemporary , who should haye said , '' we have first seen it in a plain , practical , business-like shape . " Even then we should-have doubted our friend ' s veracity , inasmuch as we know him to be a reader of the _iVm-i _/ _iOTi Star _; and there the

      same principle has been enforced and repeated in a more full , plain , practical , business-like shape . However , as we are not churlish of aid in support of measures that can tend to elevate the working classes , we allow our cotemporary the full privilege of conferring authorship upon any whose name is capable of giving effect to the proposition . We shall anxiously await the remainder of the plan , and as anxiously look for any light that thc Nation can throw upon it j and more anxiously still to see the degree of support that it is likely to receive * from thc Conciliation Hall Regenerators !

      The London Master Printers And Compositors.

      THE LONDON MASTER PRINTERS AND COMPOSITORS .

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      the spottiswoode mode op securing high wages " compatible with _inon TAXES AND other BURDENS TO _CORKESF-OND ' . ! !" In our several comments , as well on the "Royal Prologue" as oh the " free Trade" measures of Sir Robert Peel , we have always said that the especial objects of theBJght Hon . Gentleman ' s tenderness , care , and solicitude would have ,, for THEIR SHARE of " prosperity" the ¦ bare bone , after the represented middle-classes had picked off the meat . Every proposition submitted to Parliament , even the Allotment scheme of Mr . Cowper , tends to convince us that the

      " outward and visible" sign of improvement only is intended for the labourer , while "the inward and spiritual grace" is conferred on his employer . All these anticip ations may be assigned , cither to Q UI ' contempt for Parliament , or bur doubt of its capacity to legislate in thc right direction between the parties electing that body and the parties on whose labour the electors live . In the dispute now raging between the Master Printers and the Compositors , the correctness of Mr . _Dbury ' s opinion , and of our conviction , is irrefutably established : that is , that the power of the Capitalist is more dangerous than the power of the Law !

      As it has evcrbecn our course to take part with every branch of Labour , whensoever and by whomsoever oppressed , we deem it our duty to bring the case of the 'London Masters and ' Compositors before the public , in the hope that such a sympathy for the aggrieved may be aroused as shall enable them , — using their own language , — " to fight the battle of right against might . " In the outset wc shall state the case of the dispute , leaving to our readers the task of judging for themselves . A certain scale of prices for composing a description of work termed " Appeal Cases ' has been established for more than ten years ; the rate paid being eightpencc per 1000 letters : a standard which has not enabled the Compositors to hoard

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      much ! after living . Thc Master Printers , for reasons assigned in the resolutions which appear underneath , propose to reduce thc rate of wages to sevenpence , or a reduction of more than twelve per cent . A Mr . M'Dowall has been selected by the Masters to try the foul experiment on the pliancy of his men ; and the following resolutions must be taken as thc best reason that thc Master Printers can assign for the projected reduction : — At a General -Meeting off lie Trade of Master Printers , Md this day , at Anderton ' s Coffee-house , ANDBEW SPOTTISWOODE , ESQ ., IS THE CHAIR , Thefollowingresolutionswere putand seconded , and carried

      by a very large majority : — . Uesolved , 1 . —That this general meeting of the Trade , having heard read the minutes of the committee of the Master Printers' Association of the 51 st ult ., and the 7 th and 24 th inst ., negative the alleoed custom m the Trade for paying Appeal Cases at 8 d . per 1000 ; behevnig that the majority of those houses whicli have paid 8 d ., have done so upon the representation which has been made to them , that such was the practice of certain offices m the Trade . ... _ ..

      2 .-That , when they consider that Master Printers are perhaps the only class in the trading community who have not called upon their journeymen to diminish the _scgie of prices established during the war , when the quartern loat was at ls . 7 d ., except as to reprints ; when the Masters reflect that they have greatly reduced their charges to their employers , notwithstanding the expenses of carrwng on their business have greatly increased , they consider this not the time , when the quartern loaf is at 7 ia ., to sanction an increase in the charge for any work beyond

      the war prices . ' _, . , 3 . —That they can see nothing in Appeal Cases which should entitle them to be paid at a higher rate than other Parliamentary printing , and certainly not at a higher rate than 7 d . per 1000 , which is the maximum price the war scale recognises for a species of work attended with all the inconveniences which the shortest Appeal Case can present to the Compositor ; therefore , they entirely agree with the decision ofthe Committee ofthe Master Printers Association , that the proper mode of casting up Appeal Cases is at 7 d . per 1000 , and that the side-notes be paid ad valorem , according to Art . 12 of the scale . the the

      4 . —That they highly disapprove of course Compositors have adopted in the office of Mr . M'Dowall ( the Honorary Secretary to the Association ) , as shewn by his circular of the 24 th instant , rath the view of compelling him to pay for an Appeal Case Sd . per 1000 , and 5 s . per sheet for _side-notes _, which he states to consist only of the word ' * Appendix" at the shoulder of each page . 5 . —That , to evince the determination of this meeting to support the decision of the Committee , such of the members present as may have Appeal Cases in hand in their offices ,-and who may hitherto have had them composed onthe establishment , or at 8 d . per 1000 , will immediately give them out to Compositors on the piece at 7 d . per 1000 ; and that those who have no Appeal Oases to give out will take a portion of Mr . _M'Dowall ' s _, and give it to six Compositors on the piece in each of their offices at 7 d . 1000

      per . . „ t . „ G . —That , should such Compositors in any of their offiees refuse to go on with the Case at 7 d . per 1000 , the master of that office will not give them any other work , but will supply tlieir places by taliinjj fresh apprentices , and immediately communicate the fact to the Secretary , who shall thereupon summon the Committee . 7 . —That the members present at this meeting pledge themselves to adopt such further measures , even to giving the Case to their whole office , as the Committee may recommend . Let us have a word on these " resolutions . " The first leads us to a knowledge of that sweeping facility possessed by Masters to NEGATIVE ax alleged custom , and to establish a new one upon its ruin .

      There is no mention of cightpence being too much for the labour performed ; while the fact of that rate liaving been paid for more than ten years establishes such a title to ,-as requires more than the " simple representation" of Master Printers in meeting assembled to set it aside . The second resolution fully establishes the fact , that thc " omnipotent Masters " are resolved that the Working Classes shall not have any portion ofthe benefit arising from " cheap food ;" while the concluding _sentence Ls hypoeriticatty intended to convey the notion . that the Masters are RESISTING an increase in the _charge of work , instead of _attempting a reduction of more tha / n

      twelve per cent . ! ! The third resolution is a still stronger proof of the very slight grounds on wMch this most tyrannous act can he justified but it must be understood that in the original compact , the mode of casting up " Appeal Cases" with side notesconstituted one whole question ; and thc side notes being very indefinite , and not regulated by scale , were paid for extra ; and the cightpence per thousand was considered no more than a fair price for the body ofthe work , without the side notes . The fourth resolution assures us that "the Masters highly disapprove of the course adopted by the Compositors . " We can very well understand disapproval coming from sucn a quarter _; but we cannot understand how the word " appendix , " constituting the side notes in one sheet , can be assigned as a justification for annulling an agreement where thc probability , or indeed frequency ,

      of such an occurrence must have constituted a portion of the original contract . The fifth resolution confirms the melancholy fact that the success of the masters must always depend upon the disunion of the men : but we trust that those employed on the " establishment , "—for that ' s'the mastera' _^ _nain reli ance , —will not be found so foolish as to strengthen the hands of tlieir oppressors . The sixth resolution is confirmatory of that despotism by which capitalists are enabled to compel obedience from the employed . Thc assembled masters state that on refusal to comply with their terms , they will immediately communicate the fact to their secretary , who shall thereupon summon thc committee . They should -have added , and "they will / ort _/ _uvi ' _tft proceed to damn , blacken , starve , or otherwise destroy , every working man who refuses to submit to our tyranny . "

      Such are the resolutions passed by the masters ; resolutions conceived in injustice , and , i f not met , will be earned out in vengeance . Wc have great hope , however , that a society so firmly bound together as the Compositors of the empire , will make a firm _stand agaixst mis proposed act of TYttANHY . Let us see how the " artful and designing , " thus attempted to be robbed of one-eighth of thoir wages , meet the machinations of the enemy . The following short but pithy document , with the accompanying resolutions , inspires hope , and will be read , not by Compositors alone , but by every class ' of labourers , with that attention and respect that it merits : — _national _typogiuphical association . Falcon Tavern Gough-squareFeb . 271 S _15 .

      , , , Tho Committee , in laying before the members of this society a copy of the resolutions agreed to at a special delegate meeting onthe _IOthiust , and likewise that passed at a special meeting of the Committee this evening , express their unanimous hope that the trade , in this instance , will act firmly and prudently to the resolutions here appended assured that upon their firmness and unanimity the issue against 7 d . per 1900 for Appeal Cases becoming the law" of the trade will alone depend . Iu these resolutions , the Committee have drawn out the course for each man to pursue who may have offered to him this description of work atthe reduced price , viz ., 7 d . per 1000 ; and state , if such a course be strictly complied with , the Committee

      will be fully prepared to take each member ' s interest into their consideration upon the terms expressed in the -50 th rule of the National Typographical Association , the Executives of that association having decided upon " supporting the London Trade in maintaining the price of 8 d . per 1000 for Appeal Cases , in opposition to the Masters ' Declaration . " Thus , the trade will see that the Compositors of London are in a position to oppose such attempted reduction , it being sanctioned by the District Boards of the three kingdoms , and the unanimous approval of a Speei : il Delegated Meeting . The Committee ' s words are to the members— " Act honestly and truly to the resolutions they have subjoined , and success must attend the labours of the trade , and also those of the Committee . "

      Resolutions resolved upon at a Special Delegated Meetino , on Wednesday , theVJth instant . " 1 . That any man , on the piece , accepting any disputed work upon the establishment , shall , if a member of tliis society , be immediately excluded , and only re-admitted by and with the consent of a delegate meeting . If he be not a member , his eligibility to become so shall be at * the discretion only of a delegate mecting . --" 2 . That any turnover , not under indenture , accepting employment upon any kind of work that is in dispute , shall not , at the expiration of his servitude , be eligible to become a member of tliis society without the consent of a delegate meoting . "

      Resolution of the Committee of the 27 _( 7 _i February . lles . olved— " That every Compositor , on the piece , who may have offered to him the composition or _making-up of an Appeal Case at 7 ( 1 . per 1000 , ( lo , upon his own responsibility , refuse the acceptance of the same ; and if be be refused work that lie can , consistently with the accustomed price of the trade , compose , he do immediately give a fortnight's notice , and write to the Committee , through the . secretary , for further instructions . " By order of the Committee . The reader has now the plain and simple case of the respective parties before hini ; and ih order to adjust the diiference , the Masters have proposed to submit the case to arbitration .. Now , at the first blush , such proposition carries with it the semblance of "fairplay * " but when the men remember that

      on every occasion when their case has been submitted to arbitration they have been wheedled out of their rights , they naturally enough pause ere they submit the decision of thoir cage to the representativesof a party whose determination to persevere is SO unequivocally stated in tlieir own published resolutions . We feel no little , pride in publishing thc following resolution , passed by a " chapel" ( as a meeting * of the Printers in an oftice is technically termed ) , at our own printing office : —

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      That this " chapel" ouite approve of the course now being taken by the Trade _' to oppose the attempt on the part of the Masters to reduce the wages of the Compositors ; and will hold themselves ready to adopt any course the National Typographical Association may deem expedient . They also venture to express a hope that the Trade will never swerve from their recent determination . The following resolution lias also been passed at H " chapel" of the " great _cosBPinAToitV' office ;—March 1 , 1845 .

      At a " chapel" of Mr . M'Dowall ' s office , held ou Friday , Feb . 28 , it was moved , seconded , and carried _luianlmousl y , " That , in the event of any individual being called on to go on with the Appeal Case in dispute in this office at 7 d . per 1000 , and , on his refusal to do so , it be intimated to him that he shall receive no other employment , tliis' chapel recommend each member individually to give u fortni ' -ht ' _s notice . " ° * _. C i , . March 3 . In pursuance of the ahove resolution , and the Case bavin ** this morning been tendered to sk persons , u , nhole of the members of the chapel immediatel y gave notice . Owing to the refusal of s ome ofthe Compositors to take the work at the reduced price , the xriiok of the men , at the following offices , have given notice to leave : —

      Mr . M'Dowall ' s , _Pembenon-row , Gou _;* n- _; _-qiia _« . Mr . Cla y ' s , Bread-street-hill . Mr . _M'Intosh ' s , New-street . Mr . _Bentley ' s , Shoe-lane . Mr . Ki . vdbr's , Green Arbor-court . Messrs . Tyleb and Reed ' s , Bolt-court , PieeUt raet . Having thus plainly , impartially , _ar . d _diKpassioaatcly submitted thc case of both parties ,, v . e ask if the men—who , be it observed , do not dema ,,. _; _$ nincrease BUT MERELY RESIST A REDUCTION of « . _* _, . ;•;• are not

      entitled to something more than the - -ynipath y o the Trades and Working Classes of the Empire ? The Compositors are a compact and _well-oi- _^ mised _hoAv , They arc a small body comparatively speaking , and are peculiarly fitted for ihe _positiov . ikey bave assumed —that is , if their brethren rally round them and support them in their struggle . Tlieir contest is not like the Miners' _coatee , where the parties requiring support were too _nuuiCiOUR and too widely spread to be managed byany , the' most compact machinery .

      We learn that the majority , _indccil nearly tlic entire of the Masters , arc _i-hee TB . ADi-. nb ; -md . there fore we are induced to make a calculation oi' tlieeffeet that the proposed reduction would haw upon their work-people . , Gompositorsengagedatthcworkin _qut- « tion , could earn about 40 s . a-week—supposing them full y eraployed . A reduction of twelve per coat , would amount to £ 13 a year ; and at * £ 2 Ss . id . a quarter , the proposed reduction upon each man ' s _wagea would purchase six-quarters 0 f wheat ; so that hy this means it will be seen that the rich employer , [ " lie " free _trahe" anti-monopolist , secks . to Monopolise aHthc advantages of" cheap bread , " " cheap sugar , " " cheap glass , " and " cheap cotton-wool" ior bis _owx " sole use , behoof , and benefit ! " There is one such

      glaring falsehood in the second resolution , that we cannot refrain from calling especial notice to it , It says , '' the Masters have greatly reduced tlieir charges to their employers , notwithstanding , the expensed oi carrying on their business have greatly increased . " Now this " fact" is a * ' great lib ; " inasmuch as nearly all the expenses of carrying on their business have been greatly reduced . Paper has been greatly reduced ; machinery has been greatly reduced ; type has been tremendously reduced . Thc duty oa glass an article'jn extensive use with them , is to be swept away . All articles of food , and clothing for themselves and families have been reduced ; while _these ASTi-monopolists would deprive their hands of any advantage in ihe several reductions that have' _Jjeen made , by a still greater reduction in their wages .

      It is rather ominous that the Chairtnm of the Masters' meeting to reduce the wages of ciie Cora ; positors , should have been the very rami who is "top-sawyer '' hi the " Society for the Eiuxcri _.-iTio * of British Lidustry , " by means of inconvertible papermoney issues , that " high prices may he securedand possibly high wages—compatible with HIGH

      TAXATION _ANDOTHEllBUllDtiNS TO _CORRESPOND ! ! ! " It- is a strange mode of enabling the producer to meet IIIGH TAXATION _,-renderod doubly oppressive through the operation of Pezi ' _s Bill , as SroniswooDE and his Society hold , —to reduce his wages ! Queer Emancipation , thas ' , D ( KS not this simple fact let out another " great pact ?' that Spottiswoode and Co ., in seeking for rt «> sort of Emancipation , seek for men pi-ices for chemselues and LOW WAGES for the workere ? Does not their conduct prove this ? and can all tlic hired advocacy in the world show it to he different ?

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      3. Styeet Acknowledges The Receipt Of Th...

      3 . _Styeet acknowledges the receipt of the following sinus , foi' _lllQ Local Victim Fund : —Prom Carrington , _Jfe , ill , ; Arnold , ls . 3 d . ; Basford , Is . 2 d . ; The Shoemakers ' Locality , 2 s . Cd . ; Byron-ward ditto , Is . fid . ; St , Ann ' s ditto , Is . Cd . ; Mr . Gregory , Is . Mr . S wect lias also received , for Mrs . Ellis : —From the Seven Stars , Nottingham , 2 s . _;» James Sweet , Gd . Mrs . Jons Duncan acknowledges the receipt of £ 1 from Alva , by Mr . Glavk -, £ 1 < _5 S . _M . from Tillicoultry , by Mr . Monteith ; and £ 1 from Markinch , by Mr . Kidd . of Dundee . *' A Subschibeb , Skelmanthokpe _, should enibodv * the whole facts of the case in a complaint to thc postmaster general , who will cause an inquiry to be instituted into the case ; and if it should turn out tliat the letter has been opened by the party orparties lie suspects , the examp le of Sir James Graham will not saw ten oi * them from the consequences of their _ille- ' . il act , Let

      the complaint contain nothing hut a statement of /• *• ' _<* —facts such as our correspondent and his friends believe themselves to be in a condition io prove . Don ' t trouble the postmaster-general with any opinions or Comments . Those Will best apply _when ihe _investigation that is almost sure to follow his complaint is over , S . C . S ,, _Peterborough . —To the first question , "No . " The rent , exclusive of rates , must he i _* 10 to confer a vote . To the second question , "Yes , * ' provided that the lodger have a street-door key , and be able to enter the house at any time he pleases . John Dawson , _Coalsnacouton . —Refer to : hc Ko-tkm Star ofthe 13 th of February . B . "W . Sale . —Received twelve postage sta' _** i > s . Peter _Stratuebn , Dundee . —His letter is in type , "bnt obliged to be kept over till next week . / Thomas _Wrtn , Oldham . —Mr . Hobson regrets 'hat _& is obli ged to decline the kind invitation to bo present a ; the opening of the Working Man ' s Hall ; but his engagements will not permit of his leaving town on that

      occasion . James _Iteming , Stockport . —If the room in question is in his take , undoubtedly he has a right of entry to it ; and he would be justified in breaking down any obstruction to his free course . On his other _rpr-if-Hon we think the present landlord cannot euforec payment of the former arrears . They are not due to hhn . E . Mitchell , Rochdale . —Wc beg to assure hii » tiiat ill What we said last week there was no intention to disparage him . On the contrary , we fe . wd H _* aPi >! _*'"

      cation regarding the resolution was dictated by a captious feeling to find fault with , perhaps , Jlr . Slitchcll himself ; and we were not disposed to encourage it : so gave for answer that which was intended to exonerate him altogether . "WM . Bell ,- Heiwood . —We have not the Acts he na _»« s "by us ; but will try to get a sight of them before am week , and give him an opinion , D . Potts , _Uirmingha ji —We did not publish the resolution , because the names of parties were mixed uy in it to whom the amende honorable had been made : an <*

      they would indeed have had cause to complain hid v _< e not withheld the publication of such matter . As _ih-Patts well observes , the expose has been made ; and , therefore , there is the less necessity to recur to it . J . Lord , _Lahcaster , —The property must descend stfcovdiug to the will of the deviser . Any other disposition of it will be unlawful , and may be set aside . It . Kidd , Dundee , desires us to say thathe has received from Markinch , per William Melville , the sum of £ 1 ; and from Brighton , per _WiliiamTlower _, 5 s . ( 3 d ., for Mr- ' John Duncan . More "I ' ruits" of Lord John Russell ' s _KoN-Eupior-- jient of Spies . —Another victim is very likely to ft " before the Moloch of aristocratic and class power * - poor old Booker , who has never recovered since his incarceration in the black hole of "Northallerton , < j '' 50011 , according to all appearances , have to follow in

      the death-wake of Clatton and IIolberrv . He is no _« confined to a bed of sickness , aud has nothing to depe _* _" upou for his and his wife ' s support , except _thetfJ _* ' _** charity doled out by the hands ofthe saints in the shape of Neio Jfoor Law relief . A few friends of that g lorious but much injured cause , Chartism , have collected *"""' for him in his horn * of need ; and I am requested by Booker's wife to send this acknowledgment to the _S _!'' _* ' that she has received 7 s . 8 id . ; for the satisfaction _«' those who hate contributed , and as an induecmont for others to imitate the _m-aple . _' R . Oil" ** - * - The Colliers' Prize Song . —It will be remembered that during the Colliers' . strike in thenorth , Mr . Robertsoeforedaprizeof twoguineasfov thehestsongon Union , to the tune of the , " Brave old Oak , " that should be produced byany one engaged in , or dependent on , colliery _W ' bour . The prize has hcen awarded to Miss _JnnoS' _< _11 _, _* _,

      _lateofsacriston , _; , James Watts , Tonbridge . —He must be rated at i ' a year before he can havi > the house licensed .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08031845/page/4/