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      August26, 1s48. The Northern Starf. ,

      August 26 , 1 S 48 . THE NORTHERN _STARf . _,

      The Scotch Chartists. Hia Rumoured That ...

      THE SCOTCH CHARTISTS . Hia rumoured that Messrs Ranken and the o _' . her 'sneers are to be sent to Fort George to await fh _^ _r trials , which , if ' the powers' have tbeir own vrav of it , will not come on fill the middle of No-Tester . _PJTITION OI THE SCOTCH Y 1 CTIH 3 . TJnto the Honourable the _Cocitnons of Great _Brii & _Ifi k _&\ Irel _* _^ ia Parliament assembled , tho Petition of jjenry _Bsnksn , Archd , _Walkrr , _JitneB Camming , John Grsn f . and R-ber : Hamilton , present _prisoners iB the _Cs ' ron _Pa 0 _* of _Eiinbarsh , 3 _amblj _sheweia , —That yonr _p ? tUion _« s r . te at _pressnt confi _& ea in tte Call an Gaol of E _linburgh , on the _phsrgs of high _treason .

      Tfcst wkatever may be tbe result of their trial , it is _erifient , and wast be well _knowa te your hoi oarable ion ;? . Chat \ nEJm \ _-urga , the m = ans oi _j . g ' . _taiion _conarcted with _tre reform _movemfnt _atpreient going on in this country are not _rs _^ _ntially different from what hare b-: £ _H _ustd _throughout England sod Scotland , both _recently _tnd at _fortner remarkable pcrieds of our _political _fciMorv _Os all _? neh _occasions , partite _cbarged with crimeB connect : ' with Eaid _agitat'e-n _? , hive been cot . _Eiltled rn the minor charce of _SfdiiiOH , and consequently admitted to bail until a _jary bad acquitted or declared them _guilty . That this mode of procedure he ? been dep _& Tt ; d from in the c » -e of your _p-riidoners _, _inasmuch a * they _hav _; b _; en com : uitted 01 tto _cspi 1 charge of High _Treason , _sci ' _tly for the v _^ _ii-oc ; _pirpns-a of preventing thero _frome-fttin ? the _ben-fi : of the bail

      Thattnit _& _c'sct _; uca cmacxittal arc , test yonr petitioners Pre _subjected to _sjlt _:-iry concn m ; nt in cold cells —that in twmtT-: ' ocr _hsars _tfeey 3 r . _i ony a ' _ilotvtd hall an hour s _exercise in ti « e open sir— ' . hat _thry are restricedto tte diet of convicted _prisoners ; and , indeed , are po _~ t ' v ly _^ _dsrgo ' . cj punishment ; or a crime _wh _' . ch they declare themselves > _ano : entof , ani which innocence 13 tcaititsined by the constitutional law of the country , until _decided _otherwise by _scompitentjary . That , _es the law holds every person to be innocent _nattlrjwi & _gviutj _. _aud M T _pftitioutrs _feava not _fecec eo convicted , tb ? y would humbly pr-. y ysnr _riononrsblt ton = e tt _cstisc- _inqiiry to he _rnsde into ihe eirenm . stances of committal , and ths de ? cr ; ptioa of _evidence

      _asainst them , with ih _? new that _tney may be _admi-tcd to _bii : ; or , : n the event of that _beirs ; _impraciicsbl ? , _th- _' t ticir conauioo in priscn may be so _aTBtiiornied a ? - . hat _frcyrn-y not _hara _tfleir cons i : mi ~ ni undermine " _, with di ci > se hy a long and severe _irnpriFosra'nt _pre-rious 10 trisl _, Lr . _dthrii 02 _i-nnUhe' _UBjo'tiy _smdiVe _^ il' . y . simply _bocause th -y are wo : k _> _ne men , ami therefor * _ttntW _? t .-contend with t > u local _authorities of _Slinrargh _, vho ( with every _fciY . _ug -f ctf _.-rcace ) yrn- _petitioners be _^ " . o state their _fcelia _iuve overstretched tbe _Ir . w , and thus _caas-dyoar h _^ _n _^ urable hous e to be applied to by ycur _petitioners for protection . Aai _josr _pc-. _iiijners , _a _« in .-uty bennd , will ev : r pray Signed by tbe Five Victims .

      _LlBESiTIO . T < F TUE GjUSENiCK _CnaRTI-TS . —We _Uudernana thst tbe Sheriff ' s _ciSciels of Renfrew _, shire have deemed it their _dtitj- _, _atier mskin _^ thp necessary _rcYLstuatioES . In _liberate _Msss _.-s Barrel ! end Xei ' _son of Greerork , from the prison of Paisley , where they w . --re confined for tbe last three week ? , on the _chsr-ra ot _invicg committed r , political offence . I' ba * _brenE-eTiV _. _oiird ti \ _isitattne Chartist feed ? of Grrenock . in consideration of tbeir _resiect for Messrs _Barrell and _Neilson , took care that the families of _tbf-sT men were cared for in their absence . — _S-r _. freu Aire J _! _form-: r .

      Mr Bum- ;' , vna a led who wsa _itnpnstned with him , were liberated on Friday week lest , on £ 20 baii to _aoDearwhet called for .

      Seign Of Terror. To "H: Vbitoh Of The Ko...

      SEIGN OF TERROR . TO "H _: _vbitoh OF THE _KOHTHSRS STAC . 1 _s _? _cd you a copy of 2 _Mssche .-Ur paper of tni » cay , frcm which you will learn all particulars of ih arrest of s . great Dumber of the _leading Chartists 0 ' _MsLcbestet a _^ . d district , _tr-g = tl , e ? with _stveral of the more urominen * _C-: nfcderatrs , _snd _« ithe swho _hwch ? . d _nothits to do wita _ar . y _uidy . _Taej are _caarj-eo in the _Ungusseot t " r . eindiein : ent , wi ; h— ' _Consipifins : _toscther to _incite _dirers of _hsr _Msjjsfj ' _ssubjdcis itcoran . it _insurrccticc , riots , _tuuiults , unlawful _as-iera b'ies , and breaches of the peace ; and to aim _theen selves for the purpose of thereby _carrying oa the said ir . _snrrections _.-, ifce , and _ots _^ _ructiEp by force the ese cation of the law ? of the realm . ' This charge I believe , from _beginning to end , to be a hugr'fabrication , and _gr-t _np with a view of convincing tte wo : Id , that iiii ths vigilance of certain magisterial and police worthies here of late , hare not been unwarranted . Nothing can _excesd ihe audacity of the

      police minions , from King _Leswtck _downwards ; _taeir conduct is most _des _^ _-oticai . It used to be a popular fallacy at one _tiraa tbat , _exeent in c _-ses of felony , no mzn _c-ou-d be arrested wifhont a warrant ; but Jike maty other _errors of ths _siroo cbaracier , it has _bstn exploded here , at lessr , as _tbepolic ; do not _cunsider the possession of any such dnoanent at all _Eecessar- - _fortJieir _purpose . It is _sufBrient that they me-1 a mac ia tbe _stresi—be is _seized and d _.-arged off Io the Town IlaM , _aa-i when he _inquires ' upon _wr-at _charge te has _baen _drprhei o _fcis liberty , ' Le i ; Tery _ccoi'j told ib ? .- ' he will te inftTmed at some future time' This actually recur red yesterday iu ray presence , in tbe _eate cf Mr Leach , who was treated c-xact ' y as I have _ce-cribed . I was mysel _siresiei with Mr Leach , upon _in _^ pieion of _b- _iina _sotnebc-dy e ' se _, bat _h-Ticg bien _dweorered io bs ayself , I was liberated in the coarse of the evening . A true bill was found against all the men (

      _fortyyx in _natsber ) before any cf tbem were aware 0 ! tbe nature of the cbarge , or of the character of the evidence to be _brought against them . Tne ' Authorities' as they are _called _. sre tryin ? hard to make out a desperate case ; bat if I am _ ni . t QistakeK , tbe sequel of their present _proceedings will realise the old fable , of a certain great _rsoun tain _givine birth to a little mouse . The ' cocspiriters' are to b 2 tried at tte Eext sessions at Liverpooi , _wbfca are to be he'd fome tfcree _oontha _tetjee . The greater _number of those already ir- castody are _lequested to find _bail , themselves in £ 200 _eich _. and two securities each in £ 100 ! for their appearar . ee a ! the _Eessions . The bail is universally regarded eb being _monstrously high—so _hiah _infact , as in man } cases to amount to positive imprisonment for the nest three months . Mr Roberts , who appeared for the _whf-la ef the prisoner ? , tried hard to fee' tke bail _lowered , but with no _tffiCt .

      I saw the whole of the arrested conspirators as they appeared at the dock . They looked like men conscious of tbeir innocence , and contrasted in their bearing and demeanour most advantageously with the poor wretches with whom they are compelled to associate in their present position . We live in strange times ! _Whst these things will _ezd in t ' : me _oziy can _deveiipe . With best respect ? , yours truly , THCM 13 ClAEK . Manchester , Au ; _ust 2-3 d .

      Dcbham.—Mr Wm. Byrne's Route For The Nex...

      Dcbham . —Mr Wm . Byrne ' s route for the next fortnight :-Ua 5 well , Monday , 2 S . h Au _£ . ; Thornley , Tnesdav 29 . a ; _Casaop , Wednesday 3 Qto ; Fire _Ilonses j Thursday 31 « t ; Kellow _, Friday , 1 st Sept ; _Croe-ke , Monday 4 ta ; Towlaw , Tuesday 5 : h ; _WaleiEgham , Wednesday 61 b ; Berry-Edge , Thursday 7 th : Leadgate , Friday 8 : h . Beistol—A meeting of Land members will be held at Mr Charles Clark ' s , Queen-street , Castle-Etreet , en Monday next , August 23 . b , at half-pas ' seven o ' clock , to read the Parliamentary reports . Sr ; TO 2 BLA : a > . —The Lsnd members are _requested to attend a meeting on Monday , August 2 S . h , at J . _Boddoa _' s _R-jbinson-lane , to coEsider the removal of our meetings to a more central part of the town .

      _Wonc £ sr £ _B . —The Land _membsrs of this branch are requested to attend a meeting at the City Arms , on Wednesday , the 3 C * lh of August , ta disca _= s tbe propriety of adopting the propositions of Mr O'Connor , _ss contained in the Stae of the 12 th _instast . Losgto . v , _Wcrkins Man ' s Hail . — The _shareholders of the National Land Company are requested to attend a meeting on Sncday next , tbe 27 ih inst ., at two o ' clock in the _atterno 3 D _, to take into consideration tke _propsjitions laid down by the Directors . Livsep _33 l —The Chartist members of the No . 3

      _lscality , are requested to attend a general quarterly _meetine , on Sunday evening , Augcst 27 th . at eight _" ' clock , " at _Jollej'u Temperance Hotel , 70 . Great _Crt « shall-street . —The _nembers of the L verpoo _Democratic Press Club , sre requested to meet at _Parrell ' s Temperance Hotel , Richmond-row , or _Manday evenin _? . August 2 Sib , at half-past eight , * _= order to arrange with the council for the _wcrkicji of the _prtis , and ta discuss the propriety of reducing the price of the shares . _P-iipcs . _ A meeting of Land members will be held in the old school room , Butts , on Tuesday even-, D _i , the 2 & : h inst ., at half-past six o _' eJcck . to _cod-E ' _-der the propositions laid down in Mr O'Connor's _fctttr : a striot attendance is _rfqueited . _Cusgletos . —A meeting of tie shareholders of this _hranch of the Land Company will bo held in Lion-E _| r _« t _, on Tuesday evening next , at half-past sever 0 _c-ock . a . 1 shareholders are requested to _atter d .

      _SoKTeijir-x-j s — _Adistrictdele . ace _me-tingwiil be l - _^ a . s _> _Munday ' s . _Silver-Ureet . on Monday , Sep _Y-Xrtr the ith , at twelve o ' clock-/ _" _Kroo _' s Koute —Reading , Friday , September _^• 1 st _; Oxford , Saturdav , tae 2 .. d ; Charterville , t- aE ' _^ y , -Le 3 , _< i ; _Binharv , Tuesday , the 5 h ; Wal"fg _or <( _, V _udneEdav , the " 6 th . If the abov « _ar-*" ateeffient be inconvenient to anv of the _districtb _^ _tuted _, thtv will favour Mr Kydd , _bywriticg , I * ' Pest , _f'cRE'M _ district _delegate meeting will ba t , —•» _~ . i ui _& . _iiui _ueiekBie _ujk" _- '* ¦¦••* ~ -

      _" ' a ; Old Shildcfi , Cfcapel row , on Sunday , 10 . h to _v ! ? - A 11 _Ranches in the county _srercqwied " . tc a _ctleaate . AU _branckei that _haie had the mc !! B 0 f Mr Wm _Vrme , the district lecturer , p u - - ¦ _Sbcd their monies for the lecture fund to Mr _^ _uesry Kobinson , draper , Hartlepool district st * HwicK . _—The _Ltnd members of this branch _jj _, l _« sifcd to meet at the home of Mr John _eTtn ? ' J , l ; . Forgemen , Rolf-street , on Monday ? J _™ 6 . at Beven o ' clock , when busineis of great _^^ _tt & nt _« iU be _gttteaitted tq thf O .

      To The Editor Of The " Northern Star." T...

      TO THE EDITOR OF THE " NORTHERN STAR . " The world is suffering so many evils from the want of information on subjects vita ! to the well-being of society , that I am induced to request the use of some of the columns of your widely-read journal , to give , from time to time—with your permission—such knowledge as I possess , to the public , with the view of _preparing the _nvnds of producers and _nonproducers of wealth , for those changes , in principle and practice , which can alone remove the causes which produce the evils with which both parties are afflicted . To-day I send the following , and request its insertion . ROBERT OWEN .

      Robert Owen On A New State Of Human Exik...

      ROBERT OWEN ON A NEW STATE OF HUMAN _EXIKTENTE . BASED ON A NEW PRINCIPLE , ' LEADING TO A NEW PRACTICE .

      Why This General Poverty, Amidst Tlie Mo...

      Why this general poverty , amidst tlie most _abundant means to create universal wealth ? Why this universal ignorance and crime , amidst the most ample means to prevent the existence of either ? Why this universal division among the human nice , when the certain means to create union have been discovered ? Why the wars of mankind , when it is the highest and best interest of all that there should be universal peace ?

      Why the present severe suffering—physical and mental—over the world , when the means exist , in illimitable amount , to remove the causes which create them ? Why the extended misery of the productive classes over the world , and the present insecurity of the unproductive classes , when the causes of these evils are known , and may be easily removed ? Why , when all desire to be happy , should the human race , throughout all its variety of institutions , adopt those the most opposed to its real interests , and _uniformly reject those which would secure the most permanent happiness to all , when the latter would be fat more easily and pconomicallv obtained ?

      The time lias but just arrived , in the due _ordtr of nature , when a ju _^ t repl y to these _questions could be given , without a sacrifice to the individual , of all that the world deems most valuable . And why this risk for declaring to the world the most valuable of all truths ? It is because all men , from their infancy , have been systematically educated in the most gross , and now most palpable falsehood . The foundation adopted on which to construct their minds and entire character , is an error fatal to the after attainment of truth ;

      an error which is the fatner of ail lies , deceptions _, evil passions , and crimes ; and which is also the cause of the _present anarchy of the so-called civilised world , and of the mental l > 'in < iness which now _rifriicts the whole human

      race . This error—this fatal fal-ehood—must now be abandoned by the authorities of the world , ror , fortunately for man , no power on earth can maintain it _longer . It has been , and is . the curse uf the human race , the creator of all their evils ; and why so long permitted to make them most irrational , wicked , and unhappy beings , it is not y et for ninn to know .

      The world , after the experience of tbe unknown period which has passed—after the discovery of so many important facts—is , at this day , in a state of utter mental confusion . The falsehood which has been taught to all , and the facts which have been acquired , are in direct oppo .-ition—and , hence , tlie mind and conduct of man are compounded of the most gross and ignorant contradictions . Under this insane state of human existence _, the authorities of the world profess to require truth , while they continually teach and practise falsehood . They profess to require honesty , while they continually teach and practise dishonesty .

      They profess to give and to require justice , while their entire teaching and practice are to perpetuate the most gross injustice . They require wealth , and profess to promote its creation , while they adopt the most stringent measures to prevent its creation and deteriorate its qualities . They profess to require a right distribution of it , while they adopt the most effectual means to have it distributed in the most unjust and

      injurious manner . They profess to desire to improve the character of the human race , while they adopt the most certain means to prevent its improvement , and to . deteriorate its mental and moral powers . They profess to desire to make those whom they govern good , wise , united , charitable , and happy , while all their arrangements _= ire directly calculated to make them bad , ignorant , disunited , uncharitable , and unhappy ; and to effect these latter results , they have been most successful .

      They profess to desire ta establish virtue in their dominions , but they take the most direct measures to perpetuate all manner of vices and crimes . They know , if they really possess any useful practical knowledge , that man is , to a very great extent , the creature of circumstances existing before and after his birth , and , as these are , so must the individual become , except so far as his peculiar compound of original qualities may influence them—and yet of these original qualities he had no previous knowledge or power—he could not choose or decide upon them .

      With these facts hourly glaring the authorities in their progress through life , they not onlyypermit , but encourage , the most inferior , vicious , and criminal circumstances to be created , and continually reproduced without let or hinderance ; and when these irrational circumstances have produced their unavoidable influence upon the individuals placed within them , then do they most unjustly blame and punish even to death these unfortunate victims , created to be such by the educated _ignorance of these blindly-acting autborio ties .

      These authorities profess to desire to train men to become rational beings , while they adopt the most cunningly-devised measures to prevent , if possible , man ever becoming rational in mind or conduct . These same authorities—the existing authorities of the world—make the individual , whose circumstances and character they form to be accountable t 8 their irrational-m ade whims while in strict _justice these authorities should be made responsible to the individuals for the _^ od or bad circumstances in which they have placed them , and the inferior or superior character which thev have formed for them . Because the isolated individuals were powerless _against the authorities , while the _authorities wire and are . all-powerful over individual * .

      Hence all the ignorance , falsehood , disunion , poverty , crime and misery of the human race at this hour ; hence the anarchy in all countries , with the utter confusion of men s minds , and their present infant helplessness ; hence the misery , and gross irrationality which pervade all nations and people ; hence the disorders of Ireland , of France , of Germany , of Italy , and of the world . I ask , are the au _tWities of these nations , then , to blame for

      these errors , crimes , and miseries—for thisirrational state of the human mind , and insane conduct of all people and their governors ? No' they a'e themselves victims of the fatal falsehood , on which , alone , the human character _lus been formed and society constructed . Thev have been taught from their birth , that thev form themselves individually , and ought to he responsible for their physical mental , moral ' and pr actical character ; while these _ETtaS . and always must be , formed by the

      Why This General Poverty, Amidst Tlie Mo...

      Creating Power of the universe , and by the societ y which has also emanated from the same power ; for , without it , nothing organised can exist . The first germs of nationality in the human mind will make it most obvious , that the physical , mental , moral , and p ractical character or qualities of each _individual , are , in __ every case , formed by nature and society for him , without his will , knowledge , or consent , and to make a being so formed responsible for those qualities to the powers which could alone form them , is the very essence of insanity .

      In consequence , the world has become nothing better than _' a great lunatic asylummade so hy one fundamental falsehood , which has become the father of all lies , and of all the errors and evils of the human race . Having _spent four months in Paris , and quietly observed all their most irrational proceedings in and out of the National Assembly , among all parties ; and hearing , from every division of them , the following pithy saying as they imagine it to be : — " We want no theories—we have had them in endless numbers and contradictions ; we desire to know what is the practice you , or any party have to propose . ' My reply to this " statement has

      been" ON WHAT FUNDAMENTAL rillV CTPLE IS THK PRACTICE YOU ASK FOR TO BE BASED ? " Does the Republic require that the practice must emanate from , and be in accordance with , the old principle of falsehood which has so far governed all the transactions and institutions of the human race , and created the anarchy , disunion , and crime now so prevalent over the world ; or will it allow the practice to be based on an eternal truth , and the institutions to emanate from that truth , and to be always governed in accordance with it ? If the practice is to be based and constructed in

      accordance with the old fundamental falsehood , which ° can only produce insane measures , I _decline having anything to do with such proceedings , they must of necessity be irrational . But if there be now sufficient knowledge of humanity , or of the laws of nature , within the French Rppublic , to openly abandon this principle of crime , misery , and insanity , then will 1 give Jthem the knowledge in a simple form : — First , —To create the greatest amount of the most valuable wealth , in the shortest time , with the least capital , and most pleasure to the producers , and benefit to the consumers .

      Second , —To distribute the wealth so created the most advantageously and economically fyr all . Third , —To form , from birth , a superior physical _, mental , moral , and practical character for all , according to their natural organisation . Fourth , —To govern all beneficially for all without individual rewards or punishments . Fifth , —To gradually supersede all the inferior , degrading , vicious , and criminal-creating circumstances , by those only which are superior for creating and distributing wealth , forming character , and governing .

      Sixth , —To effect these changes without disorder of any kind , or interfering with existing private property or arrangements , or without producing evil or injury to any one . These are the only means to change the present irrational for a rational state of human

      existence . Robert Owen London , 2 lst Ausust , 1848 .

      Social Progress. (From The Hcformc) The ...

      SOCIAL PROGRESS . ( From the Hcformc ) THE CAUSE CF THE EXI 3 T 1 XG ANARCHY OF BUROrE , ANB ITS OSLY _REilEDT . 'All fcviU work their own care . ' When society wa 3 without experience , it _eonld only guess , at _rane ' em , p . _nd without a knowledge of f . ' . cts , respecting : the _ejrto , _themselves , and the elements of nature by which thoy were surrounded , and upon all these subjects it guessed most _erroneously . It was many _aaes before it had acquired sufficient _experience to * know hew to investigate facts , with the accuracy ce 3 es ? ary to enable it to dratv _ratimml conclusions from their investigations . It is _rec in infancy on this subject , for the world is even now governed by the moEt vague and falsa imaginations _, in direct opposition to the milliors of unchanging facta , which continually demonstrate the falsehood and emlless evils arising solely from thote moBt absurd and foolish notions .

      The steady progress of experience has row elicited tbe knowledge of bo many facta in opposition to these old falsehoods , and the glaring absurdities which they hourly exhibit , that a conflict has arisen between these old imaginations , now discovered by many to be baaed on falsehood , and knowledge derived from the investigation of facts which never _chacga . In other _wordB , a conflict of life and death baa arisen between the _ignorance , and falsehood , and absurdities , transmitted from _paat ages , by our savage and inexperienced early ance 3 tors , and the truths tlioited from the new facts and new _pawera which the progress of real knowledge , through the advance of the material and mental sciences , attained within the last hundred years .

      This cotffcfc , between old fa ' _sehoeda and new truths , is the real cause of the present anarchy in the civilised world bo called , and of the discovered state of the human faculties , which are in progresaive excitement to throw off these fatal shackles of false ideas and consequent injurious practices , and to adopt true ideas , and the beneficial practices which will emanate from thera . The old authorities of the world , having the power of prejudices in their favour to enable them , for a brief period longer , to use the ignorant brutal force 0 ? society to continue the contest , will soon discover , that the reign of ignorance , falsehood and fraudi cannot be maintained against Knowledge , truth , and honesty , without daily _Iobb of power and _itfluenco with the mass of the _papulation of the world , and

      that , as they muat , by the lair of progress , soon admit of this cViange for the permanent high advantage of the human race , it will be true _wiadom in them now to endeavour to learn these new truths , and t _» take the lead in making thera fully known to the people , and calmly and _qnietlyto introduce the practice in _accordanoo with these inestimable truths . This practice will well employ all the bow ttnemployed undtr the present moat ignorant and artificial state of society ; and by this employment the idle shall be made industrious , the hungry fed , the naked clothed , the houseless _well lodged , the ignorant _tauehfc most useful and valuable knowledge with good habits and conduct , infl lenced always and only by pure charity derived from a correct knowledge of human nature , the only cause which can produce the genuine feelin _? B of uniteraal charity .

      This practiee will well form the character of all the children of those who will be thus employed , and in such mar . _nsr that they can acquire good habits only , with real knowledge that will be moat valuable to _themiclves and to society . The practical arrangements to ensure this _prontable employment , and effect this great change in the character ot the childrea , will also be the moBt effec _ tire for their easy good government , without any of the evils arising from the present ignorant and most unjust mode of governing on false principles by force and fraud . . ..

      Society is now , by the three days' revolution in Paris , and subsequent events in that city and throughout Europe , divided into two _hoat _.-le parties , ono of ancient prejudices , fearful of progress—tfee other of progress without the knowledge bow to direct it , without violently , prematurely , and unjustly destroying the _exintiDg system , which existing part _es did not create , but of which they are victims . For however bad the old system of tho world may now bo , and I admit it to be theessence of ignorance , wickedness , and gross injustice , yet are the individuals who now defend it to be pitied for being so trained aB to believe palpable falsehood to be unerring truths , _grow ignorance to ba high knowledge , feolish laws in opposition to Nature ' s laws to ba wise and just , although they hourly produce crimes and mi eries without termination .

      ..... It is not by violent opposition , by abusive terraB , by uncharitable criminations and recriminations , or by foolish wars and fighting , that these old errors can be overcome , or the new truths kept down . Both parties in France are in equal error , both are uncharitable and unjust to tfceir _opP _^ _rf both mistake the course which ought now to De ad ltS ; this grievous error on both aides that created the late national conflict in the streets 0 Paris , and if ignorantly maintained will be tne cause of deluging Europe with blood , and for no understood purpose , between brothers thus madiy

      C 0 The _Sreis of knowledge requires that the _oeoole-by which term I include the entire populat _i on of . very country-should derive more permauent and substantial benefits from thia advance than the old Bystem of ignorance has yet permittee SSteattain . The three _days'revolutmn gave be oartv of progress advantages which were too much fa advance for them to use for the general benefit , in thecrude atate of the public mad respecting new

      Social Progress. (From The Hcformc) The ...

      truths and new measures . This parly , by its proceedings , were evidently inexperienced in national subjects , and had but a partial and too limited knowledge to direct the public mind peaceably in a right _course . They had a vague conception that it wan just that men should live and enjoy life through ' - heir own labour , and , _oonstquently , that th 8 unemployed for want of employ meat , should have it found lor them b y sooiety , which -would be bsnefitttd by their _properly-directed industry . So far they were right ; but they were without knowledge of what was required to effect in peace , this mighty change in the condition of society , for employment could not be devised , and made perma _uent for the working _olasa , without creating another

      ( Und altogether different state of society , and for this task tho parties , placed by _strango and _unlonked-for events , were _unprepared . Tbey knew not tbe _science o _£ human nature , the _seienca of the overwhelming influence of ciroumstances over human nature , or the Boience of Bociety ; and without a knowlfidgo of these three _sconces permanent profitable employment cannot be found for tho working classes ; bat _^ _iththis _knowledge _advantageous occupation may always be found for any nuaber of tbo human race , without the evils _arisint ; from the _present over-crowding and apparent over " popu ati ( n in any district or country . The knowledge of these sciences is not yet known to the puhlic , b'it they have to be acquired before the present anarchy and yrationability can be made to subside .

      Tbe party of progress attained the power to advo oate their views openly and fairly , which they never previoudy possessed ; they obtained the power to be governed by universal suffrage . With these advant . _ige * tbey > hould have _remained satisfied , until through those means they could have _enlightf ncd all _parties , after they had become sufficiently enlightened themselves to bo enabled to further enlighten others . The National Assembly wa _* tho true v _^ ice of Ihe _nation , and it fairly exhibits the publio mind ol France , and its powers are the mo 3 t leaal that can

      now ba attained . It is true that it has proved itself to be inexperienced in national practical measures , almost as a child _beginning to learn a new lesaon ; but yet it evinces a great dtaire to advance in political ' vri . ' _-dsra , and tlioso who thought they knew more , would have acted well to bave Drought forward with kindness , directed by _judgment , baeed on the knowledge of tho three _Bckncca previously named , facta frora these Bcience ; which , when _propeily stated , must carry c ; _invic _^ ion to the minds of all who study and reflect upon these , now , all-important _subjects .

      The parly opposed , erred in deciding upon questions which Ihey were wilho . it experience to comprehend . They hastily decided that profitable employment could not b 2 found fur the present unemployed , without knowing the cause of that great rrror on ihe part of the _unproductive and mitielueated c ' asses , who have hitherto had the power of force and fraud under their _control . It h not only possible , but most beneficial for all , that every one willing to work should be profitably employed , nnd thia may be readily done when sooiety can be _sufficiently instructed in these three new scienous . Because , then , it will then perceive the incalculable advantages to be derived from having tociety _hastd on true instead of false fundamental principles , the characters of all well formed , of al ) _beiDg _rationahy and beneficially occupied , and all being justly governed .

      this party _opposed to progress , and to the perma nent employment uf all the working _olasses , are , without knowing , the advooatea for _ignorance , falsehood , poverty , deceptions , divisions , crimeB , and endless evils ; and they also _oppose , without knowing it , the only principles and practices which can _^ ive real _knowledge , true charitj , permanent wealth , cordial union , and a superior character to the human race , that will ensure their prosperity , peace , and _happiness . Le ; these two parties r . ow in the National Aesembly unite their good _intentions for tho benefit of France and of tne wrrld , for both parties have good intei tions ; and let them calmly acd patiently _hivestigate these subjects , and each will soon discover their own enora , & r . d _aee the true path before them . RlBKnTOwEN .

      Committal For Conspiracy At Liverpool. L...

      COMMITTAL FOR CONSPIRACY AT LIVERPOOL . Liverpool , Wednesday . —Thia uay a highly re-Bpectable young gentlemaD of the name ot Martin _Bjshill . who for a length of time has been _manager of the firm of Orr and Barber , well-known merchants of thia port , was olaced at tho bar , before Mr Rushton , the stipendiary magistvate . under the fo'lowinfr circumstances : —In the book found at the _bou'e ct Muri > hy , who was committed ( or conspiracy on Monday last , amongst other n & m _^ _s appeared that of the prisoner , and this circumstance taken in connexion with other information in possession of the authorities , induced them to issue a warrant for his apprehension . The warrant was executed yesterday at tbe _^ office of his employers , in South _Castle-atieet , and he remained in custody until he was brought before the magistrate this morning , when the evidence _against him waa produced .

      Mr Rushton said tbat the prisoner must be committed for trial , and stated that he much regretted to see a young man occupying such a position as he did plated in such _circumstances . lie had been connected with a society which had for its object an extensive and deeply laid scheme of conspiracy . His handwriting had also been spoken to , which proved that he had been a member of the society up to the time he was taken . lie did not doubt that he had been made the dupe of older and more designing men ; but he ( the magistrate ) had no alternative but te commit him for trial , and he did so upon the evidence which had already been brought forward against the prisoner Murphy . The prisoner was then fully committed for trial at the present

      assizes-HVERFOOL ASBIZES . _Treasonable Conspiracy . — In the course oi Wednesday morning the graud jury returned into court with a true bill _aeainat T . B . M'Manus , Lawrence Reynolds , Patrick Murphy , Francis _O'Don nell , _Jnaeph Cuddy , Matthew Somers , Robert Hopper , Edward Murphy , Jamas Latfan , Martin Boshill , Thomas O'Brien , George Smith , Patrick O'Harlan , James O'Brien , James Campbell , and one or two other young men of respectability and standing in the town , _whoge connexion with the Con federate clubs has been traced by _bookB and documents which have been discovered .

      True Bill Against Forty-Six Char. Tists ...

      TRUE BILL AGAINST FORTY-SIX CHAR . TISTS ON A CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY .

      (From The Morning Chronicle) Northern Ci...

      ( From the Morning Chronicle ) NORTHERN CIRCUIT .-Livbbpool , Aio . 22

      Cnown Court. (Before Mr Justice Crerswel...

      cnowN COURT . ( Before Mr Justice _Crerswell . ) In the course of the day , the grand jury came into court with a true bill for a seditious conspiracy against George Archdeacon , Thomas Rankin , George Jo 3 eph Clarke , William Grocott , Edward Clark Cropper , Daniel Donovan , Peter Feeney , James Hoyle , John West , Lawrence Reynolds , _Georga Webb , George White , James Leach , Peter Murray M'Douall . John Nuttall _, Michael

      M'Donough , James Wheeler , William Schofield , John O'llea , v \ _illiam Chadwick , James Downey , William Burton , Bernard Sebastian Treanor , John Nichson , Thomas Roberts . George Webber , Joseph Barker , John Rushton , James Dolan , James Flynn , Thomas Whittaker , Ilenry Williams , II . Ellis , George _Rodgers , Jehu Joseph Finnigan , Patrick Devlin , Michael _Cirrigan , Joshua Lemon , Saauel _liearna , Joseph Spooner , Ernest Jones , George _Ramsden , James Abraham Ball , James Mulligan , Mark Hulme , and William Heaf .

      The foreman , on thia being announced by the Clerk of the Crown as a true bill , said , ' My lord , I wish to Btate , that in finding thia bill the grand jury have been unanimous .

      CHARTIST ARRESTS . ( Abridged from th 8 Manchester Courier , of Wednesday . ) We have to-day to announce the re-capture last night of moat of the Chartist and Repeal leaders who were apprehended laat week , with the addition of _seversl _ others , who thought themselves secure from any interference . At the hearing on Wednesday , at the Borough Court , it waa not thought prudent to announce the exact amount of evidence the police had against the parties ihen in custody , and they were , _therefore , liberated on bail until this day . But though the evidence was not undul y made known , it was in the possession of the police , and at a consultation held

      with the law officers of tho corporation , it was determined to abandon the more protracted process of examination before magistrates , and at once to bring them before the higher tribunal of an assize court It seems probable that by this step it was hoped to show that the authorities were not playing in the mr . tter , but determined to uphold the dignity of the law . and maintain the peace by every means in their power ; and to put an end to the Bightly disturbances that have destroyed the peace of the city . On Thursday , therefore , the Town Clerk , Mr Uerford . the Deputy Tcwn Clerk , and Mr Ili _^ _aoo , the Cierk to the Justices , met , and went very tally into all the reports furnished to Captain Willi ;" , the chief constable , by his officers , or obtained from other

      sources , comprising accounts of all the treason and sedition publicly _ep ken at in-door nnd rut-door meetings since April . The result was the selection of material sufficient to abundantly warrant a cbarge of treasonable conspiracy against not fewer than forty-six individuals , a large number of whom resided in the city , and of courae inoluding those who were arrested last _Tuecdty night , and others with them who had made violent speeches , or been most prominent and active in their connexion with the Confederate clubs . An indictment waB at once drawn up , under the direction of Mr _Uerford , containing the names 0

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      those persons . It is a monster document , measuring nJZ \ f _^ fl yard 8 _> and containing nine counts , Betting forth _treasonable conspiracy in various shapes Such a quantity of writing occupied a conl „ _aIdv for ' 116 eD ? rM 6 _ing ' _" _tteUrtlSSt * m not ready _iorpi-cgc _mation to tho grand jury at Liverpool , until yesterday U was handed in at eleven O ' clock by the law officers , and Mr _Bewick and MrL-ary _, wuu numerous subordinate officers were in readiness to give evidence in proof of xheex parte _cite _. 1 he hearing commenced immediately and the _evidence w . 73 not concluded until about halfpast two 0 clock . The bill was brought into court b -fore four 0 clock , and the foreman in _presentii _? _" it to his lordship said , it waR onlv proper that he _should ir . form the court that the grand jury were unanimous in their determination to find a _tru-3 bill on the evidence put be torn them , agaicet all the persons waned in the indictment . Bench _warranto were in-> tantly applied for , and granted without hesitation by the judge .

      In tho meantime , the police here , in expectation of tho result , had not been idle . Captain Willis bad a list of all included in the indictment divided among the different police districts , or rather the B _, 0 , and D divisions . Assoon as the evidence had been given before the qrand jury , and there was the certainty of a true bill being found , a telegraphic communication was made by tbe Town Clerk to his worship the Mayor , who was in waiting in the Town Hal ' , with Captain Willis , in readiness to act upon any information . The message was received at the Town Hall by three

      o ' cluok , in the afternoon , intimating that no doubt existed as to the result . The bench warrants were brought to Manchester by Mr _Bessick , who left bv the 4 b . 30 . u . p . m . train , reaching Manchester at 5 h . 40 ai . Tho police were instantly set to work , and before half-past ten o'clock the greater number of thoBe named were ia custody at the Town Hall . _Kiich superintendent sent out simultaneously officers who knew tho men that resided in his division , ? o that , as on Tuesday night , there wa little risk of the parties e capmg because of tardiness of movement by the police , or _bucgliup ; arrangements .

      Tho warrants charge them with conspiring , topegether with Others , to incite divers of her Majesty's subjects , to commit insurrections , riots , tumults , unlawiul assemblies , and breaehesof tho _peaoe , and to arm _tffemselvea for tho purpose of thereby carrying on the Baid _inaurrection ? , riots , tumults , unlawful assemblies , and breachea of the peace , and obstructing by force the execution of the laws of the realm . Somo of the parties were _almsst immediately in tbe hands of their captors , and all were much astonished at the re capture of those out on bail , or tbe capture

      of other- - , who had been deemed secure , because hitherto untouched , and ipparently unnoticed . L _?» ch was the first _person apprehended . " Flynn , _onei _.-f the number out on bail , walktd into custody ur . wittingly . He met Mr Beswick iu the _btrcet _, find asked him at what tour he must appear on Wednesday . The chief _superintendent 'didn ' t know , ' but invited him to step wish him to the cilice to aee . Fjynn followed him , : ind when _oneo within the doors , Mr _Bessick informed him of tho warrant against him , made him _prisoner , and consigned him to the ccl ! s below for the night . It was intimated that any beds or clothing that miuht be forwarded from _hemu _wsuld ba received

      at the _oifics and allowed them , to that they might rot have cause to complain of undue rigour in carrying out the warrants . Tue following are tho narnea of the prisoners who were lodged in prison last night . The first , six names r . ra those , of the parties on bail _toaopear _to-day : — James Leach , printer and nowsvendur , Rochda ' . eroad ; Ilenry Ellis , driller , cellar in Jersey street ; Michael Carrigan , groom . Great Ancoats ; Joseph Lemon , weaver , Gas street ; Thomas Rankin , en graver ; James _Doian , labourer , _Long-Btrect ; Edward Clark Cropper , joiner and cabinet maker , 37 ,

      Henristreet ; James Flyno , shoemaker , Beck-street , Saliord ; William Burton , umbrella maker , Oldham-• . trect _, aad House Bank-place , Ch ? ethaui ; Thomas Roberts , labourer . Mount-street , Hulme ; Mark Hulme , smith , Thompson street ; George Webb , t , 'laz ' 'er , _Chestergate , Stockrwt ; William Uc-ao , mechanic , Lion-street , _Ashton-roa . d ; Peter Feeny , _oluthea dealer , Iligh-Btreet ; W . II . Chadwick , occupation and vmdence not given ; George Joseph Clarke , ditto ; Robert _RamBden , ditto ; Jos . Spooner , eabiuet maker , Cotton-street ; Michael Douough . labourer , Addington street .

      Added to the above , the following , who are inc ' uded in the indictment , ate in custody _siaewhere : —Js , _mea _Dowaey , Geo . Webber , of Halifax ; Ernest Jones , banister , of London ; Geo . "White , of Bradford ; and one or two _othere . _ABfaraa we have been able to ascertain , Burton was apprehended at his own Bhop , iu Oldham-street , by Mr _Beawick , and _Inspectors _M'Mullin and Loughlen ; Leach at his own house ; Roberts at Messrs Birley ' s Mackintosh establishment , by Superintendent Taylor , who found in bis possession a kind of pocket _ledger , by whioh it appeared ho was secretary and

      treasurer to the _Chaitist b : dy , and engaged in getting up subscriptions fcr the Defence Fund . Webb waa apprehended at his house in Stockport , by Subinspector Neaves , of the detective force Rankin was taken at his wo ; k , in _Cablo-Btreet _, by Inspector _Chawkley , of the B division . M'Donough was taken at his own houee by Inspector Gilford , of the B division . Peter Feeny _ww apprehended whilst pas sing along Rochdale-road , by Sub-inspector Taylor , of the B division . Mark Hulmo , who is a 6 mith , baa been _engaged in tho _manufactuse of pikes end other weapons , which temade to the order of the prisoner William Heap .

      Ab the prisoners were brought in they were _seveally told that any refreshment brought to them by their friends would be allowed , and such as chose to send for bedding or additional _csverlets for the night were permitted to do bo . Mr Burton , we understand , was bo circumstanced that he had no one to leave in cbarge of hia shop , hia wife aud family all being out of town . The legal power under which these men havo been apprehended is _thot possessed of presenting an indictment to a grand jury at a sessions or assize without having previously brought the parties _aeiUBed before a magistrate . Under those circumstances the trial does not take place at the assizes when the bill is found , but bench warrants are issued , and the

      partiea are apprehended and either held to bail to _answer at the next _assizes , or kept in hold until then , la the present case it is most probable they will be tried at tbe winter assize at Liverpool . The warrant demands their appearance at tho next session of oyor and terminer and general gaol delivery to be holden at Liverpool . The _arreat under this charge , in the case of those bailed out , will supersede the adjourned examination at the Borough Court to-day . They will be brought up there , but no evidence will be gone into ; that ie quite unnecessary _aee ' mg that it haa already been decided by the grand jury there ia a prima facie case againBt them _sufficient to warrant a trial by a petit jury , and the magiB'rates will simply bave to award the amount of bail they will require from each for their appearance at the _assizes .

      We are also enabled to Btate thh , t a Birailar oourse is being pursued in Liverpool . _Ytsterday afternoon , when the grand jury had decided the Manchester indictment , they proceeded with one presented on behalf of Liverpool . We believe it contained the names of some moBt influential individuals . A t first it waa not intended ta name more than six or seven , but , on finding the clean sweep being made in Manchester , they greatly increased the list , and some fourteen or fifteen are indicted .

      BOROUGH C 0 URT . _—WEPNESD 4 T . ( From the third edition of the Manchester Guardian ) The court waa crowded this morning , In consequence of Its b . comiog known tha''a number of apprehensions of _Csartlsts had taken place during the preceding even _, ing and night . The following magistrates were on the bench : —Mr Maude , who presided ; E . _kannh Armitage _, mayor ; and Messrs T , _Townscnd _, C , J , S _, Walker , F . R . Hodgson , w , B . _WatMns _, _Mittbew Kennedy , J ha Sharp , and William Ncild . Captain Willis , chief constable ; _Coptnin _Slieppard _, of the county constabulary ; and Mr _Boardmae , of the town council , were also on the bench . The town clerk appeared for the prosecution and Mr W . V . Roberts for the _prls _3 _ners _.

      The first placed at the bar were those who had been remanded from Wednesday last , Of th « Be , four did not answer or appear . Patrick Devlin ; George Rogers ( who , we believe , wrote from Mottram to tbe pol ! oo , stating that he could not come because of the expense of travelling , and offering to surrender , if money was sent him for hia travelling expenses ) , George Webber ( who Is In York Castle , for trial ot the next Yorkshire QtBizoj ) , and George White ( svho _, we believe , _wtlB lifce _re / ed on bail the other day , at _Birmingham . ) The Town Clerk then stated , on the part of the anthorltiei , that since tbo prisoners at the bar wero last before tbo court , it hud been thought necessary to present

      a bill ef indlctmom against all of them , with many others ( forty . six in all ) , for conspiracy ; and they were all now in custody under bench warrants , under which he believed twenty . _throo _individuals { Including those in the dock ) had been _apprehended . He should not have any _evidence to effor bofore tho magistrates on tbe cbarge on which they had been previously brought up , as _tfeat charge bad been proferred In another and more f rmal shape . With reference to bail , ho would say the prisoners were now standing In a very different _positioa , and hoped , therefore , that the court would tako care to require such bail as would insure the appearance of the prisoners to tako their trials at the next assizes at Liverpoo l .

      Mr Roberts charged tho partita who had brought the prisoner * thero with bad faith , in not fulfilling the promise of Mr Pollock , that they shou ld before this day Know the nature of tho _ehcrge against them . He be-Hevcd the preferring a kill of indictment was for the direct purpose © f preventing thtm knowing tho exact evidence against them . ' Ho asked the magistrates to beer tbis in mind when fixing the amount of bail . Mr Maude said the first course of the bench would be to discharge trie prisoners from their rooognUanceB , ard to discharge their bail . As to tbeir bail on the bench warrants , tho _magtfctrates had better havo a list of their names , _occupMlons _, and condition of life . Twenty . four hours' notice ot tall would be required where the partiea off .-ring were In Manchester j forty . elght hours' notio _? , where the bail was at a distance .

      Cnown Court. (Before Mr Justice Crerswel...

      After _ssmo discussion , it was agreed on bo : h sides , If Mr Burton , of _Oldhaw-street , could find _suroties _satiB . factory to Mr _Beswit k , hi 3 ball should ha taken forthwith , Mr Burton was placed at the bar , and , in answer to _questions from Mr Maude , stated _tsat lie was 11 _manu » ittcturcr of umbrellas and Btuys in _Oldbiim . gtreel , and - < hat his shop was his o _< vn property , and rattd al £ 76103 Hia sureties , Mr Selby Moss , jeweller , and Mr _ Schfileg , draper , both cf Okiham _^ street , were _Accepted by Mr _Bewick ; the amount to be decided by the _magistrates . Mr _Roberts urged that it would save time and trouble if tho nnmo amount of bail una iho _samo _sureties wcio accepted for tho other prisoners ai before .

      The Town Clerk said , the ciroumstances were changed , _Bef'iro _, _th ? ro was nn evidence offered against tho prisoners ; now , a _tiu-o bill had _unanimously been found _arainat them by the grand jury , » fxtr hearing evidence , on an indictment for _conjpiracy ; an 3 th . y _wers taken under bench warrants , The magistrates _ratired into the ! r _private room , about a quarter-past eleven o ' clock , to consider tho . amount of _bf . ; l , nn < 3 on their return at _twiiveo ' c ' ock , Mr Maude _snid _, tbat as Mr Rob _« r ! s appeared for all the _prUon-ra _, _thereof them need not be set np at tha _bsr _, Loohiaif io tbe aggravated _ciiarjfe , wtiicli WES that alone by which thobonch was guided , and the

      _clreurastances of the prisoners , the _couciusiou to which they had come was the following : —Far Mr Barton , two _suretf 8 10 giro bail in £ 200 rmeh ; and he to enter into his own _recognleasco for £ 400 . The following- —viz , _Lsach _, Rinkin , _Fecmy , Cropper , Donovan , Webb , _Chadwick , Roberts , _Doian _, _Fljnn , _WhitSaktr , Finnigan , _Keirns , and _Rmnsden , te And each two sureties In £ 201 eaob , and to enter into their own _reocnUarccs : n ; _£ 200 , fSunsation in the gallery ) Tbene * : included k'D nough aad Ellis , to find two _euratito in £ 50 each , sn .. _i to enter into _the-iv _otvn recognisances in £ 100 . Then _Williamf , Carrigan , _Lcaman , Spo _^ n _^ r _, Hulme , au ! Heap , to find each two surotUsin £ 2 o each , and to enter into their own recognisances in £ 50 ,

      Mr Roberts said , tbat , es to a _ED 2 ib ? r cf those who were to find two sureties cf £ 100 eaob , it would amount to ' unpri ? _o' . imcnt to the next assize ? , bo _hopadthemS " _gisiratte would re consider tho _amoiii-. t ; and , It they remained of iho samo opinion , then that they would accept four sureties in £ 50 _ene-h insteud , being , In fact , a better security than two in £ 100 . Mr Maude _t _.-. id , tho _bsuch waa not prepared to grant that application—at all events , at present . If the prisoners cou'd not obtain the bcil , it _wt . s then open to them to make another application to the bench or to the judge _pitting at the _assizio at Liverpool , In answer to further inquiries of Me _Riberts _, Mr _Maule said that baii could be received here , though the prisoners were _s < _nS to _Kirk-iaio _gso ! . It would be _verj _luconvm _' eiit if the _poliee here were losg charged with the custody of the prisoners .

      Mr Burton _s bail ani recognisances _wsre then sntered into , mid ho was _dlstfinrgeri , the _conditisn being that he _iliould appear at the next session of Oyer and _Terminer to te holden ai Liverpool , The proceedings in cour then terminated . The total number of prisoners who are now in custody unii ; r _; he b _& Ech warrant ; , is 23 ; of whom 13 , _inclufliiig George J _^ eph _Ciarfco and James Spooner , wero taken during tbe evening oDd night , and whoso mimes , & c , are given elsewhere ; and also the following , who sur « rendered on bail cr tbeir own _recognissnees thia ( _Wednesday ) morning : —Daniel Donovan , John Joseph Finnigan , Thomas Whittater , ond Henry Williams .

      ( From the Daily Xcws ) Committal of tbe Political FaisoNEKs at _Livee . _POOL . _—Yesterday Murphy and O'BrieD , who had been remanded on _chargss of conspiracy , wire brought up for re _examination . Against O'Brien further corro . boratory evidenco was adduced , and he was committed for trial . The cvider . ee against Murphy was strengthened by n person who lived opposite to him swearing that he saw him , through his bedroom window , examin . log a number of pikes , This nnd the Other evidence having been gone over Murphy ws 9 also committed for trial .

      Our correspondent , who dates _Ash'on _, Monday , says : —The authorities here bave spent another anxious and _hsrassing night . The military have been under arms , divisions of county police and special constables have _bsen hdd in readiness al tho Town Hall , and armed p ? . tro ' , both foot and _mounted , _haro scoured the _torauga and it ? environs from hour to hour , The nature bi _intetligence in the hands of the magistrates , it is said , will justify the samo precautions and tbe Bamu harassing vigils again to aijht . It is said th < _it on Saturday night , after all tho precautions taken , and all the watching , the C . - . artists or Confederates held a midnight raeRtin > r , but

      it was beyond the mere prccmcto ot tbe town . Accordjag to the information received of it the _meeting took place near _Droylsdenj about three miles from Ashton , and tho same distance from Manchester . Shots Were _heird from time to time _< n various directions again last night , and it ia conjectured tbat these , and rockets which ore occasionally thrown up , are used by the parti s aa signals . Tfee policeman who w < _ra bound over to give evidence against M'Douall , the Chartist leader , and against the four men in custody as implicated in tho _oatrage of Monday nigh , the 14 th inst ,, have received summonses to _uppeai this afternoon before the grand jury at Liverpool _sssiz ? 6 .

      At Manchester the Confederates continue to hold _meitDgs , and at several of tbem the men _appre « hended on Tuesday night , and liberated on bail , addressed the audience _. At a meeting in the _Hesred . street Institution , a building of their own , on Sunday night , one of tho parties , nn Ir . Bbmnn , named Donovan , _repeated a story he had very humorously told several nights before , about his apprehension , and the collision between the police and his wifo , which , he assured his _fludirnee , was shout the warmest engsgement he had 6 ver entertained any Idea they should witness in their struggle for the Charter . Tho police , he said , told him tbey wanted his arms . His reply was that he had a wife ond family , and his arms were necessary to earn bread for _thc-m . They then explained that it was the fire-arms they wanted . ' Oh , the / re arms , ' waa his re . joinder , 'if it was the tongs or poker they were after , they belonged to his wife ' s department of tho household business , ' and sure enough the wife waa not inclined to

      capitulate without making them / rather too hot to handle . He denied that either he or his associates were in any way implicated in or had any knowledge of what was going to take place in Ashton . They had not counselled physical force , nor been privy te its use . He did not deny that the parties to that _Bffair wero Chartists , and fools would always bs found in any agitation . The Man . Chester authorities , however , hod missed tbeir waythere seemed to be a conspiracy amongst the msgistrates and not amongst the Chartis _' _s—and it was a conspiracy against all tho moral force men they could lay their hands upon . He _aeeured bia frienda tbat as eoon as Wednesday ' s examination before the magistrates was over , and they were set at liberty—as set at liberty they _asssuredly would be—not a moment ' s time would be lost in taking steps for an action against their prosecutors for false imprisonment . Up to Tuesday evening all was quiet Is Manchester , nor was any disturbance appro _, handed :

      MORE CHiMim ARRESTED . Manchesteb , Thursday . —Mr Rogers was brought before the borough magistrates under the indictment for conspiracy , and committed to ths assizes . The prisoners committed on the previous day were removed to Kirkdale prison , yesterday , being unable to obtain bail . At _Asut-. n , thirteen were brought before the magistrates , who had been taken under bench war . rants _obtained in the same way . by indictment , at the assizes , as those on which the Manchester Chart ' mts had been taken . James and John Taylor , Wm . Aitken , _JameB and Edward Harrop , William Bolton , William _Macklin , _JoBeph Batty , and Thomas Stowell were apprehended on Wednesday night , and brought up at the _'fown-hall yesterday to give bail for their appearance at the next Liverpool assizes . Samuel Ratoliif > wag brought lo A ah ton on Wednesday evening . Eo is charged _« ith sedition and conspiracy .

      At Bradford , on Wednesday night , the police apprehended James Helliwall . Eli Wilman , _Joeeph Ridehalgh , Thomas _Ibetson , William Wood , Adam Stratton , Thomas Wilkinson , Edward Power , Daniel Lindon , and John Smyth , in the _Emmett's section * room . A number of books and papers in the care of the secretary were taken by the officers . At the _houso of John Smyth , in _Thotnaa-atreet , a number of papera were also found .

      An ' Ibish' Frenchman.—Ia Democratic Pac...

      An ' _Ibish' Frenchman . —Ia Democratic Paci _~ fique tells us , in a recent number , that a mayor in the environs of Paris issued the following : — ' Dear fellow-citizens , —The Garde Mobile is lo arrive here to-morrow : I do not know the hour , but prepare to receive them an hour beforehand ; let us give a becoming reoeption to these brave defenders of anarchy . ' Hanlet Potteries . —The Land members are requested to attend a meeting to discuss the propositions of Mr O'Connor , in the Christian Brethren's Room , Market-street . Hanley , ob Wednesday evon . ing next , at seven o ' clook . Eaob . member must show their subscription book or card on entering , aa the meeting is for members only .

      Sumdbrland . —At a meeting of the Land _membera hold on Sunday , August 13 , William _OviBgton was _eleoted secretary . All further communications must bo addressed to him at 67 , _Burleigh-atreet , Sanderland , Durham . Mrs _Fusseli ,. —We are happy to state that _Mra _FuBueU ' _s benefit which took place at the Albert Saloon on the 16 th instant , was in every respect a bumper . Aberdeen . —A special general meeting of this branch of the Lana Company will bo held in the Union Efoll , _Blackfriats-street , on Friday evening , September 1 st , at half-past seven o ' clock , when the present stato ef the Company , and other matters _* will be submitted to the meeting . Mr Shkphkrd , from Manchester , will deliver a lecture at the Ulobe and Friends , Morgan-street , Commercial-road , at _half-past _seveni on Sunday , the 27 th of August .

      Globe asd _Feihbdb . — Tho Connml will meet on Sunday evening , August 27 th , at six _o ' olook . and the _claaB collectors muat attend with their books _ano contributions by half-past Bix .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1848, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26081848/page/5/