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      _Kmmmmm _mmaeamssss _^ _-EiRAND _SOiKEfc IN HONOUR OF , T . S . DUNCOMBE , M . P . COaOa Wednesday _erenin g a puttie tea party and ' rtreilrei was held at tlie Crown and Anchor , in the rratuaad _* , to do _hoaonr to the hon . member for _jmsbasbnrv , for his unceasing advocacy ef the rights ] lab labour , and for his services in the people ' s cause . . iie he large room was filled to overflowing . Even the __ tfe _ tfonn had to be removed and converted iuto seats tctd fod UV . cs . At six o ' clock Thomas Wakley , ALI ' ., _ititentered the Hall , accompanied by Feargus _O'Con-¦ _nr , ir _, Esq ., and were greeted with the most hearty ! i ! mo ! mon 3 lratioas of wclconw . Shortly after , T . S . uiincuncombe , ALP ., entered , accompanied by W . D . hhriiiristie , ALP . for Weymouth , when the whole audi-1 ice ice rose and welcomed them by waving of hats and _^

      _iiniJanukerdnefs . ,, 1 Ti The chair was taken by Air . Wakley , supported by hhe he guest of the evening , and Air . Cunstie . TJ The teaaudceffee having been despatched , and bbc tie cloth removed , . i . ;„ *~„ Ti The _Chaibjux stated that ith-d _baenthe intenuiouion of the committee not to proceed to he specia _tnsiusiness of tke evening fall _«^ _d * k ; bnt m con _^ _ttquence of the crowded state of the roon , ithad « _aei _«_ n resolved to begin it row . thong * ? f ? tZ _^ __ Z SL time of tb / hour lie : On _££ _j « _Jf £ comommittee were _^ _vpow _ledmmT _^^ _eentenca olseveral gentlemen who hadbeen _™»* _W _Ihathat letters of excuse for _absence had been received uauai , _^ - _" _p , , _n-ckens _, Air . Douglas Jerrold , Lnariea u . 9 » _*** .

      rr orrom Mr . _ . .. .. . ' S _chther were now assembled would he introduced o toTiber notice formally in the course of a few miimhutes but the occasion of doins _; honour to Air . _Duut onxmib e had been properly siezed by the committee for ihe he purpose of introducing to their consideration _iaoiose princip les which ought never to be forgotten vav a people seeking for their rights . ( Cheers . ) On : jisjis occasion the committee had thrown their views iitato a series of resolutions , or toasts , or sentiments , ir t whatever they might be called ; and the first of _tuehese , which was as follows would be spoken to by _irir . M'Grath : —

      T The People ! the only legitimate source of political _10-nower : may they sp . « _diiy attain to that position in tha tatate which would enable them to apply their legislative : manctions to the welfare and protection of the nhole com-: lnaunity . 3 Air . M'Grath then spoke to the _alme sentiment ' . Iele was proud that the absurd custom of toasting first ' . hehe _irell-beins of Royalty had not been followed on ' . hehe present occasion , because he believed , in accordi inincc with the words of the resolution , that the people ¦ revere the legitimate source of all political power and _h-hat , therefore , they should on all such occasions nb-• aiain the precedence . ( Cheers . ) He believed that hhe Queen was made for the people , and not the peo-¦

      _slolefor the Queen . ( Cheers . ) He skould tike , _however , at the outset to ask what was the meaning of " " the people ?"—what they understood by the various _BiBignifications which were attached to the word ? TThere were some who would not admit that the g _* great body of the working classes constituted the ppeople . They heard only ef the aristocracy and the _lilanded gentry forming the people . When her Alajesty c called a Parliament together , she was said to appeal t to the people ; but to whom did she in reality apipeal ? To a mere fraction of the community—one . seventh of the whole male adult population—while t the other six-sevenths were not understood to come _i within the meaning of the word " people . " ( Cheers . )

      . They were merely the rabble , the cawrilk , the off-! scourings of the human race , the swinish multitude . ' . Now , he wished it to be clearly understood what that ] _meeting meant by " the people . " He believed that ' the people composed the whole human family—per-: tons of every condition , from the possessor ofthe gor-: geous palace down to the tenant of the straw-thatched - _cottage , lie believed that from Queen Victoria down to that poor son of misfortune , the victim of injustice , who was last Sunday arrested at Marylebone for begging a few pence to get bread for his dying wife and five _starving children , all came within the meaning ofthe word " people . " ( Applause . ) Now , whether they reviewed the people in their political or social

      position , they found innumerable subjects calculated to excite sorrow and commiseration . He would not particularise instances of distress , but would bring before them the testimony of Sir James Graham , who thought that it was a legitimate use to make of the seals of office to break open the seals of other people . Sir James had told them that one-tenth of the people of Great Britain were steeped to the chin in poverty , and eating the bread of pauperism ; and as soon as Sir James Graham made the announcement , up got the great Sir Robert Peel , and said that this was a necessary consequence of advanced civilisation ( hear ) , while ministers of religion were not alow to tell them that all this povertv wa 3 permitted by Heaven as a

      punishment for their sins . ( Hear , hear . ) He must especially direct the attention of the meeting to the state of poor , _distressed , and persecuted Ireland . They had been assured by a commission from the House of Commons that 2 , 300 , 000 ofthe people of Ireland were getting their living by begging ; and they had now the testimony of whig and Tory papers , and of the Catholic as well as the Protestant clergy , that famine was at that moment threatening the people of that country ; and yet , while this fact was conveyed by all evidence , the available produce was conveyed away by every tide to supply the luxurious table of the absentee oligarchy , or to maintain the arrogance

      of the griping middlemen . 2 _*« ow , they had read in the history ef Ireland that St . Patrick had exterminated all the obnoxious reptiles that infested the laud of his adoption . Wonld to God that some St . Patrick would arise in the present day —( great cheering )—morally to exterminate the noxious monstrosities still existing . He must also call the attention of the meeting to the political condition of the great body of the people of this country . They were allowed to have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ; they had nothing to do with the taxes hut to pay them ; they were nothing more than the HeScts of Greece ; they might go to an election , shout , and ton np their caps , but they must return to be hewers of

      wood and drawers of water for their _tyrannical taskmasters . He aszribed this to that > y-t « n of class misrule which was destroying the couutry . He was decidedly of opinion that the hope expressed in the sentiment would be realized , and that the working classes would be put in posses « ion of what was thtir tight , and what they ought to have by the theory of the constitution ; without this there was not the slightest hope of effecting an amelioration of the people ' s condition . Te obtain this every ore could , and should , assist . And if every man did what in Mm lay to accomplish the freedom of his country down would go this monstrous injustice . ( Cheers . ) The _Chaib-us now came to the toast—the special toast of the evening . ( Cheers ) : —

      Thorns * _Slin'sbjr Duncombe , Esq ., the eloquent , untiring _, ani incorruptible advocate of universal justice may his life be long and happy , and his fame immortal . He must , in the first place , be allowed to return thanks for the distinguished honour conferred upon Mm by asking him to preside on that occasion , and for the manner in which the meeting had responded to tbe recommendations of the committee ; and he most also be allowed to state that Ms gratification did not arise from any feeling , or from any idle formality connected with any public spectacle or meeting , hut because he presided in the performance ofa solemn and imperious outy _, due from every public man . and wMch , when called upon , he ought to

      execute with a glad and hilarious feeling , and because he came to bear his personal testimony with reference to the conduct of Air . Duncombe in Parliament . ( Cheers . ) Nothing could afford him greater gratification than to state to the Meeting that , at ali events , they had in the House one bold , sincere , faithful , and _unflincbing advocate . ( Loud cheers . ) They had adopted him in Parliament as the head of their cause . Por himself he , as one member of the Houso , was a humble and willing follower in his colleague ' s footsteps —( cheers)—and-would most cordially _snd cheerfully second the choice they had made . They could speak from experience ot the conduct of Air . Duncombe : it was not a matter of doubt . Thev had had

      specimens of what he would do ; he had beea tried , and had not been found wanting . ( " So have you , " and cheers- ) It had been the misfortune of the people that they haa not been united ia reference to auy specific object . He knew , however , that every cause * must have a head ; they ought to have some one in Parliament whose mind would reflect the image and the will of the people ; and if the people would but make known their views ami determination , and if those ¦ views were only enunciated , by oue man of ability and faithfulness , like Air . Duncombe , the cause of the people could not fail . ( Cheers . ) Hitherto the people of this country had only been , as it wcre , a rope of sand , as untied sticks cast along the _length

      and breadth of the land ; but , if they were united for one just and legitimate object , where was there a man who would dare to assert that their demands should be refused ? ( Cheers . ) Tiiey had seen Air . Duncombe under trying circumstances neither blenching nor quailing under the attacks with which he was assailed , —they had seen him in every circumstance displaying great-energy , and that energy rising with the emergency of the occasion —( cheers );—ihe more he was opposed the more he fought—nay , he was such a glutton that thty could not take the courage out of Hot . Hut bo . dness was only one of the high qualities of Air . Dunconibe ' s mind , —he had a heart which was ihe home of every generous sympathy ; he loved the people for their sat- * . * and

      it was from that love that he desired to do them good . One meeting or two , nay ton , could not accomplish their object , but it must be a general movement . The committee who had dene them the honour that night of getting un that sple .-idid meeting , if they would only ramify their _oxorticiis and extend them over the face of the country , might soon see their benevolent objects _couiiileieiy trinmphant . Mr . Duncombe , throughout the whole of his Parliamentary career , so far as he had the opportunity of witnessing it , had gone in the right direction , and erery additional step he had taken had been towards the people , and not from them . ( Cheers . ) Now , weuld they be suceesiiui in their efforts under bis auspices I That was a question

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      whiciithe people themselves must answer hy their own exertions , because those _* h ° were profiting by the possession of exclusive privileges _^ re not the ! _> e » onTto give them ' up , ( Chee rs . ) _ThaVwaa not the thing they were to expect . _TjW _^ . _W _™* comfortable , because working with the rights and _arivileges ofthe people , and it was the duty of tho people to make the foe uneasy and uncomfortable . They have shewn that they would have no difficulty in prying into their secrets , if they had any ; and wh y not make them feel uneasy too ? It was hoped in the address before him that Mr . Duncombe would

      vet be a Cabinet Alinister . ( Cheers . ) Ay , make him Postmaster-General , to be sure . ( Laughter . ) Let him have the opportunity of opening Sir J . Graham ' s letters , and discovering whether , when out of office , Sir James Graham entered into any treasonable correspondence . ( Laughter . ) He ought to have that o pportunity , and it was not unlikely that in a short period of time he might possess it . ( Great cheering . ) _ffiJh these remarks he would conclude bv introducing Mr . Dunning to their notice , after which he should have the extreme gratification , of introducing Mr Duncombe . ( Cheers . )

      Air . _Dcxsixg said he had the honour of presenting to Air . Duncombe an _address from this Association , from the United Trades , and , indeed , from every uncompromising patriot present . That address would set forth the high virtues of Air . Duncombe , but he was in a position to speak of liis peculiar attention to the welfare of the working classes . As president of the Association for the Protection of Industry , and also in connexion with the Association for the Protection of Labour and Alanufactures , Air . Duncombe had manifested in a striking manner his desire to serve the people . All honour to him for his Parliamentary duties and for his public exertions

      in behah ofthe people ; but he had known him sit in the above two « ommitteesfor seven hours , attending to the details of the voluminous correspondence and general business of those committees ; and in this lay the great secret of success—that untiring perseverance which led a man forward in the proset-utirn of whatever duty he undertook . ( Cheers . ) It was this perseverance , this assiduous activity , that led Mm to discover the espionage of the Postoffice , to oppose and destroy the Alasters and Servants' Bill , and to make known to the legislating class the claims of that class they were accustomed to regard as servile . ( Cheers . ) Air . Dunning then read the following

      address;—TO T . S . D _1 _TXC 0 MBK , ESQ ., M . P . _m Honourable Sir , —Wc take this opportunity of testifying our high approval of , and great thanks for , your manly and untiring exertions on behalf of the industrious of all classes ; while we pledge you eur cordial support in ihe future struggles whieh labour will assuredly be called upon to make for the assertion of its rightful privileges . Sir , while we have asked you to defend our rights , the rights of the unrepresented , and _consequently unprotected , we have never asked you to assail those rights and privileges ofthe other orders of _sosiety which do not operate destructively to the interests of the working classes , as well as to the interests of all other classes of society ; for , sir , we hold it to be an impossibility to preserve the rights of capital if the rights of labour and industry are broken down .

      In you , sir , we recognise , England recognises , and the civilised world recognises a true and uncompromising advocate of all that is good , and that should remain of onr institutions , as well as the bold exposer of wrong , _theeloquentdenouncerof injustice . While those who know us not , sir , and consequently cannot understand our motives , would characterise you as the proclaimed leader of vulgar opinions , as the champion ofa mere mob , we beg to assure you and them , sir , npon this , the eve of what promises to be an eventful session of Parliament , that we require at yonr hands no mere than the continuous struggle for those timely concessions which all men , save fools , admit must be _svoner or later conceded to the improved mind ofthe age .

      Sir , it is impo _^ ible to contemplate the great and mighty changes taking place throughout the civilised world , and especially hi this our own country , without coming to the conclusion that tho promoters of that change will seek their fair share in the increased wealth _which it produces ; and we know of no meaus by which tbis our rightful object can be achieved , and permanently secured , except by the possession and the unfettered right to use a vote which wiii transfer from the inconvenient multitude to honourable men like yourself the responsibility and honour of making laws for the maintenance of the rights of

      ali that shall not trench upon the rights of any . Sir , it is the glory of Englishmen , and should be ihe pride ofthe electors of finsbury , that you go to the Senate House unfettered and untrammelled , and that your free advocacy of the rights of labour , in consequence , entitles you to our gratitude , as flowing _spontaneously fkom your own patriotism and love of justiee . Sir , in the estimation of a large majority of your countrymen you stand p : e-emineut ! y high . We honour you for your courage , we respect you for your talent , we admire you for your eloquence , and we love you for your principles .

      When tyrants hoped to chain the mind and entomb public opinion within the dungeon walls , you dared to arraign the unjust Judge , the tyrant justice , and the cruel gaoler ! And above all , sir , who of his class , but Duncombe , so far sympathised with and honoured the captive by visiting him in his lonely dungeon ? You , sir , were neither afraid nor ashamed to beard the oppressor , and to thunder the wrongs learned from ths captive lips into the tyrant ' s ears . Not only at home , sir , but also abroad throughout the nations of Europe , your hallowed name has been

      wafted npon the wings of the press . When the sons of Italy were basely butchered through the treachery of oar rulers , your voice was heard thundering the fierce denunciations of patriotism iuto the ears of the _letter-opsutug spy . When Ireland ' s adopted chief was in the Meshes of the law , you rallied English sympathy around hiui . When Ministerial aid was enlisted on behalf of capital , for the subjugation of labour , who but the assertor of labour ' s rights dared to attack , defeat , and finally overthrow the united forces ef capitalists and the Government ?

      Sir , however the press may withhold from the ears ofthe great the knowledge of our affections and love for you , lest by its promulgation your power should becoui- too great for resistance , believe us , sir , when we tell you that a large majority of the people of England wouid die rather than desert you and thu standard which , _through disasters and fearful odds , you have so nobly upheld as the rallying point for free opinion . In conclusion , sir , we rejoice in rallying round our indomitable chief once more , upon the eve of the great battle ; and we also rejoice in being able to convey to you what monarchs would be proud to learn—renewed assurance of our affection for your person , and reverence for your principles .

      Air . T . Duscombe roseto return thanks , and was vehemently cheered . Upon ordinary occasions he could assure them that nothing gave him greater gratification than to stand before large bodies of his fellow-countrymen , whether it were for the purpose of sympathising with their sufferings or of co-operating with them in their endeavours to obtain redress for the many grievances of which they had to complain ; but when he looked around and saw himself not ouly surrounded by so many men distinguished for the love of liberty and ot their country , but when he saw that large room crowded with the honest sons of industry and toil , who were collected there for the purpose ol conferring honour upon so humble an individual as himself , he confessed that he felt overwhelmed wirii

      anxiety and fear , for he felt that he possessed no merits , and thathe had not rendered such services to the cause as would justify them in confer , ing so much honour upon him . ( " Yes , yes , " aud cheers . ) He rejoiced that his hon . friend and colleague presided over them that evening . ( Cheers . ) He felt most grateful to Mm for the kind maimer in which he had expresed himself , and he was glad at his presence , because they had fought t < gether for the maintenance of tlie same principles , they had struggled together iu defence of the same rights , and together , as he trusted , they would eujoy the honour of the triumph . ( Loud cheers . ) There was no voivipllinent and no honour which could be paid to himself which must not be equally extended to him . ( Cheers . ) He thought , however , that he iniaht

      assume his hon . colleague would agree with him in saying that on the eve of-the meeting of Parliament " it would be better for the people to meet in a public assembly without reference to any individual , and not for the sole purpose of paying unmerited compliments . ( Cheers . ) He thought their purpose _sliould rather lie to discuss the stato of the country and to agree upon the measures which they required for their own protection . ( Cheers . ) j _\ V . v , they knew well there was astroiig impression abroad in the country that they would learn great things from the _Queeii ' s speech _to-nn-rrow ; if any present participated in that expectation he believed thty would be wofuliy disappointed . ( Aluch laughter . ) His own past experience would lead him to a very different conclusion . Queen ' s speeches and _Aliiiisterial explanations were generally mysterious rather than elucidatory ; they generally rendered _coufusiou wor » e confounded , and the next few davs would not

      prove any exception to ihe general rule . ( Cheers . ) Some individuals in town were at that moment in possession of the speech ; but , as those present wcre not Tories , to be asked io the Ministerial dinners , and had not made _toiiuiioln of themselves , by "• _uttiiu . * on swords and _bag-wi _^ s for the purpose of hearing the Queen ' s speech read by the Ministry , who had already agreed to it , they could not tell its _eonieuU ; but they _mijr ' it -. _' _uessa little how it wouid be _coinpnaed . It was diiu ' _.-ult to prophecy , but , if he might judge from his experience , —having heard a _sr _.-atnumberof Royal speechesduringtheU » years he had been in Parliament—in all probability her Majesty would begin by tei . ing the llou *> : s of Lords and Commons that her Majesty had _passed a very agrceble ; tittii " fliii , that she had tai : eu a very agrecble continental trip , that the continental Powers of Europe - . _vcie'iueoiuuion-y civil ; but that America had grown rath-r rude of kte . ( Great laughter aud cheers . )

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      Then , in all probability , her Alajesty would go en to Bay that the potatoe crop in Ireland had been , destroyed ( laughter ) , and that-the potatoe crop an England was vlittle-belter ,-thoughstill indifferent . Her Alajesty would also express her regret ' that the agricultural and manufacturing interests had gone to loggerheads , and that there had been a great deal of bad language passing between the Anti-Coru Law _League and the Agricultural Protection Society ( iaughter ); and then her Alajesty would look with confidence to the wisdom of Parliament to adjust all these _jdifierences . ( Loud cheers . ) _TMb would probably be the substance of the speech _frun the throne ; hut persons might think that Sir It . Peel ought to make some

      allusion to Ministerial chops and changes , aud the goings out and comings in that had taken place during the last few weeks ; but he thought that her Alujesty would be of opinion , and so would her Ministers , that the least said of these _absurdities the better , and her speech therefore would be perfectly silent on that subject . Explanations , however , there would be ; explanations would be called for from Aliiiisters , and explanations would be given by them in their places in Parliament . He doubted much whether they would get the honest truth . He remembered two or three years ago that there was an individual int his country who entertained the laudable desire of learning what was going on in the Palace—he alluded to the boy _Joucb . ( Cheers . )

      That individual would not rely upou the public press * , he said he would see with his own eyes , and hear with his own ears , what was going on in the P . _-. lace ; and if he wcre present , he would no doubt tell them that something of this sort had taken place . lie would say that one morning Sir Robert Peel most unexpectedly called upon her Majesty , and informed her that there had been a sort of row in his Cabinet . Her Alajesty would naturally say , "What about ? " to which Sir Robert would reply , " 1 tried to make them believe that there was a famine in the country—I tried to make them think the potatoe crop was so b . td that something must be done , and that all political consistencj ought to be banished from their minds ; but I cannot bring the Cabinet to

      take the same view ofthe subject as myself , so I advise your Alajesty to send for Lord John Russell . " Of course her Majesty , having the greate * t confidence in Sir Robert Peel —( laughter)—sent for Lord John ltussell . Well , Lord John Russell , after a week or ten days , during which he had accepted the government , returned to her Alajesty . Of course her Majesty expected tbat all things were satisfactorily arranged , and that he brought her the names of a Cabinet who were to obtain the respect of England and Europe , and to make America tremble , ( iuite the contrary , for Lord John Russell says , " Aly team is more awkward than Ptel ' s ; 1 can t bring them together atall . " ( Great laughter . ) " Weli , " says the Queen , " what am ito do ? " " Why , " replies Lord

      John , " 1 advise you to send for Sir Kobert ; " and so Sir Robert , good * _Conservative as he is , returned to office , if not to power . ( Cheers . ) In the annals ot the country there had never been such attempts at a change of government , or any which had displayed so much imbecilitv . Hehad been in the country during these shillings and changes , but he understood they had caused great excitement in tlie metropolis . He must be forgiven if he was not imbued with that excitement which he understood had existed in some of _thoir breasts , but which he hoped had now subsided . Well , there was Sir Robert Peel back again with no difference in his Cabinet but that Air . Gladstone had succeeded Lord Stanley—Mr . Gladstone , whoretired from the Cabinet this time last year . He

      heard him on that occasion speak for two hours , and so did the hon . chairman and Mr . Christie ; but no _oi-. c could tell , after all , why he resig ned . ( Laughter . ) It would not take him long to toll why he had come in again . His explanation , on tliat point would be verv short , and , no doubt , very satisfactory to himself and Sir Robert Peel . ( Laughter . ) Nor would it take much difficulty to tell why he was not returned for Newark . ( Laughter . ) Did he tell the truth , as a Cabinet Minister , he presumed , always did , he would simplv sav that the Duke ot _Newcastle would not allow him . ( Cheers . ) _Kow , was this not trifling with the interests of a great nation—was it not high time for the people to step forward and take the power into their own hands , aud show to the

      Governiuentand tbe world that the English nation would no longer be trifled with ? ( Cheering . ) What would be the measures introduced by Sir R . Peel it was iiupossib . e to say . Great hopes were entertained by the Auti-Corn Law League that he was immediately going to abolish the Com Laws , but he did not believe he would ; he believed that all he would do would be to relax protection a little more , to make the screw a little loose , so loose that it would inipercep tibly fall out —( cheers and laughter );—that is , the thing would be so managed as to let the couutry gentlemen fall down quietly , it they wouid let themselves fall quietly , for he must say that , of all the language he ever heard among those who were called the great unwashed , he never heard such language as had been

      passing between the _agriculturists and the manufacturers . ( Hear . ) Worse Billingsgate than had been passing between the dukes and the manufacturers he should be ashamed to hear any person in that room make use of . ( Clivers . ) He wished that the Corn Laws should be iustantly repealed . _Durii'g the whole time he had been in Parliament , he had voted against that monopoly , as he had done against ali other monopolies , and he would continue to do so ; he should , indeed , be delig hted to give it one kick more . ( Cheers . ) That the Corn Laws would go , there could be no doubt . It was only acuestion of time , and therefore those gentlemen had better allow Sir R . Peel to let them down quietly . He did not believe that any ofthe evils they predicted would

      take place on the Repeal of the Corn _' Laws . Ou the other hand , he thought the advantages to be derived from their Repeal were greatly exaggerated . ( Hear . ) Depend upou it , the people would have nuicL to do so soon as those laws were abolished . There were two great questions shortly to bo settled when the Corn Laws had been repealed , and he hoped they would seon be repealed , in order to make loom fur those two questions—he meant the question of the rights of labour , and the question of the franchise . ( Immense cheering . ) What was the great complaint among the working and labouring classes of this country , in all districts , agricultural or manufacturing ? Their complaint was this—that they did not receive a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work .

      ( Cheers . ) They complained that they did not get their fair share of that wealth which they creatednor did they participate sufficiently in those comforts which by the sweat of their brow they dispensed to others . ( Cheers . ) These were the great complaints ; these questions must be met , and there ought not to be contentment iu the land till something was done for the toiling millions . ( Cheers . ) Air . Dunning had alluded to two associations over which he ( Mr . Duncombe ) had the honour to preside The committees to which he referred were appointed at a conference of delegates sent from the different parts of England and Scotland during the

      last spring . Those _delpgates represented the working classes . One association whs for the protection of industry , and its great leading feature was—not , as had been represented , to create disputes between master and man—but to create a good understanding between the employers and employed . ( Cheers . ) And as to the duties of that committee , which sat in Loudon , those who subscribed to the association having always their council to refer to when any dispute between masters and men took place , in consequence of any oppression of which the latter had to complain , they would be prevented from rashly and heedlessly running into any strike , which could only end in mortification and defeat . Ou such occasions

      this committee would give them their best advice , aud arbitrate , as it were , between the masters and men ; but if the former should not iisu-n to reason , but persevere in oppression , then , if it was the opinion of that committee that oppression was committed , they of their own accord would recommend a strike , and that when the men were on strike they should be supported by tho sympathy and purses of the working classes . An association , conducted by men elected by and eman ; . tiiig from the working classes , was one means of relying on themselves by combination . He believed it to be a perfectly legal and proper combination , and he believed that if such a combination had existed iu 1 S 42 those scenes ol misery and persecution which then existed would not

      have taken place in the manufacturing districts a . regarded the working ebsses . lie believed that they would have been able to excite that sympathy in their behalf throughout England tbat would have put to shame , and prevented some of those wrongs whieh , to his own knowledge , were perpetrated a gainst the honest and industrious on that occasion . ( Cheers . ) It was time for the working classes to begi n to look on their improved condition and intelligence , and to Bee what they could strike out for their own protection . The greatest of all the objects they ought to have in view was the franchise . It was the ouly means of protecting themselves , and he and his hon . colleague Lad on every occasion when an opportunity presented itself expressed in the House oi' Commons

      _tUe necessity ot _extending the franchise to the working millions . ( Cheers . ) And when these questions that were now agitating the public mind were disposed or , he trusted that the intelligence of the country would be exerted , not among the working classes only , bat that the middle classes would enter upon the question of the franchise with the same spirit whieh thty now showed in the cause of cheap bread . ( Cheers . ) ' In the address which they had been kind enough to address to him , they asked him to continue in the same course lie had ever pursued since he had been in Parliament : and he iiad

      just to say , that if it was possible for a man to know himself , he would continue to follu _# that course _during his whole political career . ( Great cheering . ) He assured them , whether his career should be ot long or shoit duration , the rent aud only remuneration to which he looked for his services was to i , { able to carry with him to the close the same esteem aud < iood Oj _inirm ot which they had j : iveii him that evening so flattering an assurance . ( Cheers . ) In conclusion , allow him , at the commencement of a new year , to trust that it might not on ' y bo a year of unalloyed prosperity and happiness to all , but that ; at the close they might bu able to congratulate each

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      other on the _possession at least of an extension ol those rights which , as . freemen , they knew it was their ; duy to demand , and which as Englishmen _^ be maintained , it . was their birthright to enjoy . —( The hon . gent (' email resumed his seat amidst tumultuous cheering . ) The Chairman said that the next resolution was—The I ' _-oplo . Charter : tl . e lever by wliich alone a prostrate nation can be raised to prosperity and happiness , because alone it insures to all tho _libsi'ty which must prove a security against wrong . Mr . T . Cukk Tose to speak to this sentiment . This was tho glorious charter for whicli many had suffered , and for which all were striving , and which , if carried , must be hy the exertions of the working men , for he did not expectafter the Corn Law

      , was repealed , that the working men would receive any assistance from those who met to subscribe their £ GO , 000 . He recollected that Air . Cubden , when that sum was raised in a room at Manchester , distinctly told the middle classes that the League had no ulterior object beyond the repeal of the _Csrn Laws . Ho did not mean that Mr . Cobden himscll would not vote for the people ' s franchise , but the object of the middle _classes was the same as tho aristocracy . Why did those classes wish for the franchUe ? Because it was a good thing for them . Then why was it not a good thing for workmen , who were equally affected by taxation and legislation ' ' . lie was not opposed to tlie repeal of tlie Corn Laws . Ho wished them repealed , hut let the working men persevere by themselves in obtaining the franchise for themselves . They ought not to be prevented

      from _pressing this as well as the . Corn Laws , for they all recollected how they were told , on the Reform Bill , not to press minor points , and they must all recollect how they had butm deceived in any expectation of votes under that _bi'l . Nov did he d < . spair of obtaining votes in their favour even from those who had hitherto opposed them . Lord John Russell , Lord _Alorpeth , and Mr . Fox Afaule , had all suddenly changed tlieir opinions on the subject of free trade . Lord John , in ofKce , had opposed the Ten Hours ' Biil , for which he voted in opposition , and he had a hope that , even in giving the peopie a right to vote , the noble lord would be found at last to vote for the objects of the charter , which would confer a vote on all but knaves and lunatics —( cheers )—and perhaps it was bucause they did « xclude _knnYCS and lunatics that they met with so little sympathy just now within the walls of Parliament . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Robson spoke to the next sentiment : —

      The National United Trades Association for tho Protection of _Industry and _theliinplo . vmeiit of Labour : _maj their efforts to improve the _erudition of the operative bv crowned with success . He complained of the evils endured by the workmen from the excess of labour iu the market . In his own trade it was a known fact that there were thousands in this metropolis who wcre making ladies' shoes at Gd . a-pair , and slippers at oil . ( " Shame , shame !" J With such a surplus of labour strikes wcre useless , and the only mode of getting over ths surplus of labour iu the trades' labour-market wasto remote the men to the unreclaimed lands of this country , giving them a fixity of tenure , and enabling them to provide food for themselves , and become good customers to the workmen who were left in trades . > Air . T . AI . Wueblkr proposed the following resolution : —

      The Chartist Co-operative Land Society ; may the _success that has hitherto attended it mark _iis tuiure career _. He stated that though scarcely six months had elapsed since the society commenced , it had now from 5 , 000 to 0 , 000 members , possu' _-. siii" 6 , 000 or 7 , 000 _sharw , and had accumulated a fund of nearly £ 5 , 000 . Air . J . Skkltos proposed the following resolution : — Our Parliamentary guests : may thtir sympathies be in accordance with the aspirations of tluir unrepresented brethren , their efforts to serve tho people in the Commons House of Parliament result in the destruction of class U _^ islation , and may tliey ioiijj lire to enjoy their reward in the gratitude nnd kindly feeling of millions whom _thtir patriotism shall have contributed to emancipate .

      The speaker lamented that so few members of Parliament were present on so interesting an occasion , and passed an culogium on Air . Christie , M . P . for Weymouth , for the honest and patriotic discharge of his Parliamentary duties . He also referred to the literary labour * of Dickens and Jerrold , whose writings had the effect of creating sympathy forthe cause of the working classes , and laying the foundation , oven l hough but in sympathy , for tho common work which would fall to be done when the working classes _resolved to trample iu the dust that giant _niouopoh which now excluded them from their just rights . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . Christie , M . P ., said he was sorry , also , there were not more members of the House of Common * present , on whose behalf to return thanks , lie could assure ihem that it gave him great pleasure to receive the invitation to attend that meeting , and hr felt very grateful for having been honoured with that invitation . He came there to do honour to him whom in their invitation they had appropriately named the people ' s champion ; and perhaps they would permit him , . is well as their hon . chairman , t < _- tell his experience of their guest . He had now for four years had the _» pportunity of observing Mr . Duncombe ' s conduct in Parliament , where he tried to judge of men and measures for himself ; and he always / bund him foremost in defending the rights

      of the people , aud trying to extend the people ' s power and privileges —( cheers)—always ready to protect tin poor and friendless in in oppression ; always ready tt assist any other mem ber of the House of Commons in his endeavours to achieve any object which it wa _> desirable to attain —( cheers)—giving always an ex ample of energy to the apathetic , of courage tothe timid , and _single-miudcdneas to tho trimmers . Special allusion had been made to his recent memorable exertions against that power whieh , In would not say was possessed , but wliich was _exereiaed by the Secretary of State , in examining _theii correspondence . There was a letter read that night from an individual of whose great virtues he couk speak from personal knowledge . That individua

      came to this couutry , driven by tyranny from hih native land , and he hoped to find refuge from the _oppressor . But he was mistaken . He found , tt . his surprise , tbat ail his secrets were made known tthis oppressors in his native land through the power exercised by the Secretary of State in opening his _lettfi'S , and detailing them to that foreign State . ( Shame !) When he found this , ho went to the hon gentleman ( Mr . Duncombe ) , as any one who was oppressed would go ; and they all remembered his exertions in Parliament on that subject .. ( Cheers . ) He regretted that those exertions were not atteudeti with success . But the fault was not his , and the disgrace lay with the government which retained the exercise ofthe power . ( Hear . ) There was another thing in wliich lie sympathized wi ' . h the hon . member for Finsbury , aud in which he went along with him , —he meant his views as to amending the state of the representation . He agreed with the lion .

      gentleman , who spoke very ably , that the result oi tiie Reform Biil was a mockery and a cheat ; and he hoped that the hon . member for Finsbury would give an opportunity in the earning session for at least attempting to obtain more power for the people iu the choice of their representatives . ( Cheers . ) He did not come there to give pledges but he might say that he was prepared iu the House of Comiuons to endeavour , in th . words of the resolution , to destroy classlegislation ( great cheering)—tv destroy class-legislation by giving more power to the people and less to the dukes in the elections—by __ having larger constituencies , a much wider distribution of the franchise , and giving the poor voter , whose circumstances might n . ako him dependent on thu rich and the great , the protection of the ballot . ( Great cheering- ) Air . C . Dor _ E responded to the next sentiment : —

      A speedy restoration to John Frost , Zephaniah Williams , William Jones , WiUiam Ellis , and all other political exiles , to their country , their families and t ' riei . 'is . lie complained that the working men had n _<* t done their duty with respect to these men . Even if they had done wrong , humanity would dictate to the Government , tothe Parliament , and tothe people , tho necessity of restoring these _nit'ii to their country . The Queen had granted a free pardon to the rebels of Canada , the legal gentlemen had restored Mr . O'ConneU to liberty , and he thought her Majesty would be equally justified in extending liberty to Frost and all other politieal offenders . lie recommended that private memorials should be signed by the people , and be presented by the members present to the Government ; and Sir iubert Peel , who was as fond of popularity as any _otht-r man , might be induced to listen to their _di'inano ' s .

      Air . T . CoorKR responded to the next sentiment : — The men of intellect and heart—Charles Dickens-Douglas Jerrold , _Eugent Sue , Thomas Coop « r _, and others who have given free ntutance to the aspirations ; . nd thi thoughts that vibrate in the minds ofthe many who have , with the eloquence of truth , aroused attention to tinwrongs and the sufferings endured b y their fellow men who have denounced clearly and emphatically all who art leagued to do a people evil , ami who have evoked in many a hitherto apathetic breast , an earnest desire to promote the accomplishment of justice , or to aid the advancement of knowledge and of truth . >

      He felt it an honour to have his name associated with the names of Jerrold , Dickons , ami Sue but perhaps his presence was more appropriate on the present occasion than even those greater men when he could return thanks to Mr . Duncombe -is the friend of bin ., a pn _^ _uei-, _yiho obtained from the bpeakcrthe important declaration that noono had the right to withhold uiry man ' s petition , not even a prisoners . His presence was aUo perhaps more appropriate than that of other * , because if ho wero tl c UKrtatW he was _ds . thc _seiW-lc-itid . _£ - maker . ( Cheers Uo was proud that he had belonged to a class that did nut live _usete-siv- _U-w proud to belong to the class of _Sbiiki _^ oU _^ J -and ii ho were asked for the discretion , an £ tion , am good sense , to _oititle him to tte _franS . he would ask , wcrootiicrchis . es _su very mine it j ' , '

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      discretion and good sense ? There was now a literature that made tiie people think for themselves , and for the- authors of that literature he thanked the meeting . for their cheers . It was time to speak out , it was the age of light and of knowledge , though it was but its dawn ; it was not now the song of war , or tho song of " See the conquering hero comes , " that was popular , but the preachment of every prose writer who was popular was to honour rather the Howards and the Bernard Gilpins . Despised Chartist us he was when he came from prison , Douglas Jerrold and C . Dickens were the first to take him by the hand , and to them he ought to add tlie honoured name of William ilowitt —( cheers ) , —who had promised himself to write a petition for Frost and Williams . ( Loud cheers . ) The G ' nMuMAN next gave—Faargus O'Connor , Esq ., the f . arles 3 assertor of labour ' s rights , the uncompromising denouncer of its ....

      wrongs . On Mr . O'Co . ViVOB rising' to respond , the audience started to thoir feet , and made tlie welkin ring again with tlieir loud acclaim . At least ten minuteti elapsed before he could proceed , the cheers beinj ; again and again renewed . When it had somewhat subsided , he said : He knew ic was customary at public meetings to say the present was the proudest moment of his life , and he could very truly say ho never knew a moment of greater importauce . Several speakers had regretted there were not more members of Parliament present ; he was . pleased to find so many . One speaker , lie believed Mr . Wheeler , had warned their opponents of the volcano . He much feared they would not learn this fact until too

      late . ( Hear , hear . ) This was a good opportunity to make Parliament acquainted with our sentiments . The members of the honourable House present , will have sc . n the officers and goodly army of Chartists , hut that army is not inclined to form a portion of the militia . We will not fight for Poor Law bastile ! , nor for rattle-boxes , nor a cormorant church , or a bench of bishops , nor for national debts , nor for a landed aristocracy . Thus will they learn the cause of the under-growl . We have progressed in knowledge most wonderfully ; wc have given up all our notions of physical force ; but they are now taken up by the government , as tliey are desirous of getting up a militia force , and he hoped the hitherto base , trashy , and venal press , would convey our sen

      tiiu « _nts to the world , lie did not deal gently with those gentlemen , for he was independent of them , bYing himself a national gazette . ( Loud cheering . ) If he could not give labour a holiday , he invariably _ijavc the gentlemen of the press one , immediately he _appeared . When the doors of his prison were closed , Duncombe braved the prejudices of his order , and visited him ; he also visited poor Lenney , iu the _Penitentiary . ( Great cheering . ) The address said , they would die rather than desert Mr . Duncombe . Lis was not fond of dying , but should he take the tit , and do it , then would he say he looked for a merciful verdict at the hands of their chairman . ( Loud laughter . ) However , he had occasionally been placed in trying circumstances , and he did

      think he could muster courage enough . It gave him great pleasure to see in the chair the able and successful advocate ofjthe Dorchester labourers , likewise of his clients the Glasgow cottonspinners . ( Loud cheers . ) He was at a meeting the other night , at which a man declared it would be dangerous to put a musket in the bands ofa working man . Our principle is " No vote , no musket ! " ( Loud and long continued cheering . ) If ever we fi ght , it iiiust be for something for ourselves . Let us have the vote , and the musket to protect it , and then , Hhould an invasion take place , nolle WOVltl fly with greater alacrity to the cry ef " the cottage in danger " than would the Chartists . Wc are frequently told we are not united ; I say we are .

      I ask , can it be ? And a voice responds—Union and Liberty ! We are also told we lack knowledge , but if we did , our enemies would grant us the franchise instantly , for ignorance is the tyrant's best protection . Attend a meeting of our opponents , and dulness and in--ipidity prevail , hut in ours the fiist of eloquence . Mr . Duncombe has given you au outline of the Queen ' s speech , but he forgot the Estimates , which he would be bound her Majesty would not forget . She would doubtless talk of foreign powers , but would she mention America or Prussia , where thev

      arc making a demand for a constitution ? If he had valued his own importance sufficiently he should not have listened to the abuse of the landed aristocracy to-night , as he bad a visit from a special messenger of the Duke of Richmond , offering him terni 3 to join the landed aristocracy against the League . ( Roars of laughter . ) But not all the money the landed aristocracy or the League , or both combined , could raise , would induce him to say or write one word against tho interest of the working classes . ( Tremendous cheering . ) Mr . Stallwood having moved and carried the motion that Mr . Christie do take the chiir , proposed the last sentiment of the evening .

      Thomas Wakley , Ejq _., Finsbury's other able representative : long may he live t _» witness the p « oj > Ie free from bone-crushing Poor Law Unions , and many thanks to him for the efficient niann . r in which he has presided over this meetin _* j _. The Chairman briefly returned thanks . He complained that the franchise was not valued as it ought to be by the electors . There were complaints made of the House of Commons ; was it not a law-making manufactory ? Then why did the people send in such workmen ? The men they had heard speak that nfeht were luminous compared with the dull pated legislators sent to the lower house . ( Laughter . ) The fact was , property and interests alone were

      represented , and the social condition ofthe people was entirely neglected . In 1837 he had endeavoured to get a reform of the representation , by an amendment on the _address , and if he had ever given a vote against the interests of the working roan , he wouid not have had the impudence to appear there that evening . The somce of all the evil was , that the working men ivcie not represented , and they would never have their _t-iglits till they were represented in the Legislature by peoplo of their own class . ( Cheers . ) The meeting , which had been most fully attended throughout , separated , afier three cheers for the Charter , and three for Duncombe , Wakley , and Christie .

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      Ten Houns' Bill.—A Deputation From The C...

      Ten _Houns' Bill . —A deputation from the _Canfr-il Short-Time Committee of the West Riding had an interview on Wednesday , at Doncaster , with Mr . E . 8 . Dcnison , M . P ., on the factory question , previi us to ) the hon . member ' s having Yorkshire for his Pailiamentary duties . Tub Russian Nuns . —Tiie Frankfort Journal having published a letter , dated Warsaw , the 15 th ult ., supposed to have been written by an old officer of Napoleon ' s army , denying the existence ofa Basilian nunnery at Minsk , and throwing doubts upon the tortures inflicted upon its superior , Mieczyslawsks and her companions , M . Leonard Chodzko addressed the following letter to the Paris Globe : — " 1 was bom in the diocese of Minsk , the spiritual _aovemment of

      which was confided from 1796 to 1815 to the Bishop James Ignatius Dederko , my graud uncle . As such I declare that the alleged correspondence of a pretended officer of Napoleon ' s army is apocryphal in every point-that its contents are a tissue of absurdities invented fovaparUcuhiv object—that tha Basilian convent ot Minsk has existed for the last three ecutunes , having been founded by Prince Leo Sapiehathat the superior , Mieezyslawska , is a native of the former nalatiijate of Froki , in Lithuania-that the martyrdom of the hol y nuns of St . Basil is an unquestioned and unquestionable fact-and that thi * declaration ol mine wiU be confirmed by all the Polish exiles born or educated at Minsk or in the neighbouring districts . "

      Fatal Accident at the Railway Tkbmkus at Southampton , on Friday Last . —A youth , about fifteen years of age , named Bull , emploved as an engine-cleaner , while cleaning the wheels of a tender upon a side rail , _ was unfortunately killed b y the want of caution in four men , who were pushing a waggon of coke en a cross rail , not giving the usual signal of " look out . " Before the poor _bov could « ct out ofthe way the buffer of the _wn-igon caught him upon the head , and literally smashed it to pieces . The body was immediately taken to _Radlev Railway Hotel , ami a coroner ' s inquest summoned , which met on Saturda ;; , when after a verv searching investigation , a verdict of " AeeidcntnlDeath" was returned and the four men called into tho room , when thev wcre strongly censured by George Corfe , Esq coro ' -

      ner , tor their want ot due caution in not _lookima-head before moving the waggon . ° BltEAKINO UP Oi' A GA . _NO OF MuitDEREKS AND RoBBKns . —Committed to Ncnagh gaol , bv John Gore Jones , Esq . R . M Phil . Maker , for the murder ot 1 nomas Shanahnn , Process-server , near Borriso Iwgh , on the 21 st of October , 1834 ; Ednvond llvan " Joiin Conway , . lhonias Divyer , and John Kennedv ' o Bawn-thc latter a respectable farmer ' s son , ami the person who brought the party to _lloaan ' s hou-e Urn gang were connected with several other perl ma and were engaged to go in all directions in tl _e North Riding oi J _ipperary _. _committing out , _'J . " , ; . i

      niBMer . & ince tlieir arrest several bad charactcn have absconded . There is most _satisfactorv cv _£ le against the persons _arreattd , and the brenl £ _™ ot such a gang is looked on as one of the most ; imnn ? ant events that could have occurred for SS SJ " Uneo theganghas _turnedapprover _. anditjffni t _iac the perpc rators of all the outrages i » tl . is Ruling will be shortl y brought to justice . _IIou-owat ' s Ointmen t and Pilio- _" ' _'ivi . _« n bed and walk . ' _* -Mavv RouV _^ _iTn . . ? P th woSul _Slf _^ 1 g thc Wood b _- _»« _aM of those 3 S 1 tt ! i ' e ° J « intment _, she was 2 _" _! ? tor w « A » . Femaies ought not wUm _ao * otaer mediciae than these purifying

      Disastrous Colliery Explosion. | Fcutheu...

      DISASTROUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION . | fcutheu _l'AMlCUUlW . ] This distressing and awful catastrophe occurred about eight o ' clock on Wednesday morning , but a short time after the men had descended the pit to work . The colliery , called the Black Vein Pit , is _sitaatcd about three-quarters of a mile from Riscabridee , on the Machen side , opposite Risca . On descending the shaft , which ia 144 yards in depth , levels branch off in opposite directions , the one going under Machen mountain , and known as the "Mountain Side , " and the other running under the river which flows down tho valley between tne two lines of hills , and known as tho " River Side . In each level , fifty or sixty men wcre at work , and those on tho river side were out of danger , as were also several who were between the bottom ot the shaft and the spot where the fearful explosion took place , on the mountain side . It _ar-pear . that all those within the ranee of the scorching and withering . _v ,.. . _cmn / _llTO fill 1 IW 1 _JV L'VOlnClnv

      _blast—tliirtv-fivc in number-were killed ; one was burned to such an ex tent as almost to destroy tne human lineaments ; ar . d three or four others but _uli'ditlv The others were suffocated , except onea hd named John Crook , who was killed by a cartibse dMcendiiig on him , while the poor fellow was gasping for existence at the bottom of the shatt . lhiee hones wcre kiiled-one _btirued to ashes . . f _hedoors of the stalls were blown down , and much mjuiy dene to the works . About eight o clock , a noise as of an explosion was heard by the men on * Jf " _^ _"J * dense sulphureous vapour ascending the shaft , soon disclosed that the destroying , agent-t- * co im a blighting curse-had _bovn doing the work ol death e So _« i after the operations were commenced for taking out tbe bodies , no pen can depict , no language exaggerate , Ihe appalling scene around the entrance of this cavern of horrors ! and no one that has heard them can ever forget thu wail of the widow , the

      soul"iven groan of the bereaved lather , and the scream of frightened childhood , as it clung around its hopeless mother , whilst body after body , with diversified death tokens , " Piurt ' ma mortis imago , " was revealed to the view of their distracted kindred . Eleven were found ciose together ; and it is supposed tiny must have ran tothe spot from some distant part ofthe level , but tbat having fallen downm sullbcation , they died where they were found . . The eorpses were brou . ht out , five and six at a time , and moved immediately from the fatal spot to the homes of their sorrowing relations—some on trams , others on hurdles and pieces ot timber , borne on the shoulders of their late fellow-workmen . Death , in factwas almost in houseand m two or

      , every , three instances as many as four bodies were bewailed by their bereft families . Here we may mention a Jew affecting episodes whieh have been dwelt upon to us with unpretending , though real pathos . An old collier , who had been actively and usefully employed in forwarding the means of recovering the sufferers from the works , had the heart-rending trial of finding , after a short interval , his two sons , who had gone to their toii in the morning full of manly vigour , and rejoicing in health , now victims of thc explosion . Tbe elav was put into a tram , into which the old man was assisted , sobbing out , "O Duw ! O _Duwlyr mechgin anwvl ! " Another pour fellow , running from the _tceiie of dea th toward the bottom of the shaft , found a bov endeavouring to reach thc same

      point of safety : lie humanely laid hold of the struggling youth , _tind when he was enabled to identify the object of his kind solicitude he found that it was his own son ' . aud both , we areliappy to say , were ultimately saved . Another , of a melancholy feature , may be marked . It was the case of an unfortunate young man , named John Danks . a person of irreproachable character , who , we understand , on the day previous , had been engaged in the good work of soliciting contributions for erecting a house of worship to his Creator . This poor fellow was to have been married in a short time , the banns having been published in thc parish church : he was found prostrated some distance up the heading , having his cap stuffed into his mouth , apparently with the intention of preventing the effect of the deadlv _ttas . He must have made a

      great effort to escape , but finding himself gradually overpowered by the noxious vapour , he sunk down in liis last struggle tor existence—Monmouthshire Merlin

      Bankrupts;, $Ci Bankrupts.

      Bankrupts ; , $ ci BANKRUPTS .

      (Trora Tuesday's Gazette, January 20, Ls...

      ( Trora Tuesday ' s Gazette , January 20 , _lSiBJ William Ward , Manchester , auctioneer — Thomas PrentisIIawley , now or late of _Drunswick-parade , Harasbury-road , _Islington , _eheuvmonger—William Baldwin , _Borland-road , KottingJiill , victualler--Sir John _lioss _, Knt ., _York-road , _Lwubstli _, banker— Jolin Henry Banks , Grent Newport-street , engraver—Francis Glass , Basinghail . « tr . et , woollen-factor — Tlionia » Dean , _Cheniesstrtfet , _Totteiiliaui-cour ' _-rys' ! , victualler — Victoire _Suiaauc _Ursule Lencrraaud , _Rvgent-. treet , milliner—Jolm _Hicketta , Gosport , _a-rocer— Henry Fricker _,

      Southampton , innkeeper— _Cliristuplier Blaekmore , Cork-street , tailor—David Marks , _Houndsditcli , peii-ruaiiufaciurer—William Griffin , CornliiU , jeweller — John Jarvie and James Rowky , Manchester , silk-manufacturers—John _lUribone , Alcester , Warwickshire , broker and cordwaiuer —llichard Paris , _lUv-lnntl , Monmouth , innkeeper—John Denbigh , Bradford , wool merchant — John Bainton Gillet , Bradford , dyer—Robert Agars , _Kingston-uponllull _, woollen-draper— Robert Kirpatriclt and James Smith , Liverpool , rope manufacturers—Dauiel Wynne , Colwyn , Carnarvonshire , innkeeper .

      BANKBUPTCI _AXMl'LLXD . John lewis , Tipton , Staffordshire , grocer .

      ¦ DIVIDENDS DECLARED . J . Ashharry _, Holm Lacy , Herefordshire , farmersecoud aud final div . of lid ., auy Friday , atlir . Whitniors ' s , Birmingham . T . Wriglit , jun ., Newcastle-upon-Tyne , _shipownerfirst and final div . of _} d ., on ( Saturday Jan . 24 , or any subsequent Saturday , at ilr . Wakley's , N » wcastle-upon-Tyne . W . Turner , Manchester , cabinet-maker—first div . of 3 s . " d ., on Tuesday , Feb . 3 , or auy subsequent Tuesday , at Mr . Pott ' s , Manchester .

      DIVIDENDS . Feb . 13 , B . Ling , _Fure-street , _Liraehome , timber dealer —Feb . IS , It . White , _lVrismouth , surgeon—Feb . 10 , G . and W . Noel , Jerinyn-street , bootuink » rs—Feb . 12 , _GPayne , Kins-street , Cuvent-garden , tailor—Fob . 10 , 6 . Haywood , Luton , Bedfordshire , bricklayer—Feb . 18 , C , Norman , Cumberland-niews , _Edgeware-roaa , coach builder—Feb . 17 , G . _Saw . _ver _. Lewcs , Sussex , tailor—Feb . 24 , J . R . King , Bath , druggist—Feb . 17 , J . Dowle , Chepstow , Monmouthshire , wine merchant—Feb . 17 , J . W .

      hraddick , Bristol and Sorlbury , tanner—March 3 , J . Grainer , _Storehouse , G . _ocesttidiire , dyer—March 3 , T . F . Shillarn , Dudbridge , _Glocestershire , woolbroker—Feb . 19 , J . _Hughes , Manchester , provision dealer—Feb . lt > , H . P . Priee , Holywell , Flintshire , linendraper—March 10 ( mstead of Feb . 5 ) , F . Meredith , Liverpool , linendraper—Feb . 10 , F . Snoade , _Chester , timber merchant—Feb . 13 , K . Nicholson , Stockton , Durham , bookseller—Feb . 13 , J . Jolpill , lh ' shops Wearruouth , Durham , draper—Feb . 12 , W . J . Coop _» r ; and J . Beattie , North Shields , drapers—Feb , 10 , J . Driver , Slawstun , Leicestershire , victualler .

      _C-HimricATEB to bo _iyrai ! t « d _unlesi cauia be * hown to the contrary on the day of matting _. Fob . 12 , G . Payne ,, Kiii _{** -street _, Covent-garden , tailor —Feb . 12 , J . Wake , Silverstone , Northamptonshire , timber merchant—Feb . li , T . Mortimer , East-lane , Walworth , victualler— Feb . ll ) , J . Thomas , Bristol , marblemason—Feb . 13 , J . Joplin , Bishops Wearmouth , Durham , _drsper-Feb . 12 , J . Hulme , Manchester , paper dealer—Feb . 12 , J . Butterworth , Manchester , plumber —leb . 14 , II , Rose , Blackburn , _drysilter . _CEM-mcATiis to b « granted by the Court of Renew unless cause be shown to the contrary ou or before i ebruar * 10 .

      T . F . _l'iptr , Cheapside , Bisliopsgate-street-without _, aud elsewhere , wholesale stay manufacturer—J . Harvard , Brook-street , Bond-street , lnmpmakcr—J . Tunks , Kensington , market gardener—J . Mortimer , Adelaide . & treet , West Strand , books . Her—T . B . Yaughan , _Poultou-cuni-Spittal , Cheshire , fannir— M . Bavues , _Woodbvidge , Suffolk , _cliyii . ist—F . V . _Si'irle , Adelaide-terrace , Chelsea ,

      _cheesemongcr-PAKTSEltsntPS DISSOLVED . Willi " , f J' _£ ; , slt ' * ' ' '' llam > « ' « rket _gardeners-G Tln « x f ° f " ' JaMB ' ' _? - 'wt . _VTcstmiUr , woollen _*»»« , _; as tar as regards J . Pesttrre-T . G . PioiSOn J . Cane , and S . C ; Ue , _Radwell-mills _, Hertfordshire _nnUur .-J . Ba , k « _-r and it . It . Henderson Stockton , Du IZ 11 . ? , , 0 UCer 8 -T - nud W - ««' . « m » l * _y , Staffordshire , and J 11 TJ * ' ' v _f * " ' _« _" - •**¦» - _«• Moore and J II . Morley , Newark _upim-Trent , Notf . iiBhanisbiiv fitters * 7 T _£ ) T ' ' " C _0- ' *» - < $ _T _^ fxxTJr _^ _- ) ' _! f tS Md W - T ' « . Manchester , .. _lors-Gist and _Luscombe , Devouport , maltsters- / I _S i , _!! _" ' " J ° _>***^ _reet , St . Sepulchre ' s ,

      _oTsMr , l 0 UW aW' J" _LutfU ' _Sawington , _Northampumshne , Umber _nu' _.-ch-e . _it . _v-Baker ami Davis , Kings-M .. 1 * , * * Wre . btiuy millers-Salmon and Son , Ch lmsfonl , _builders-E . D . Murray , A . Smith , jun ., and . _" . * * u w Liverpool—W . Affleck and E . Frazer , High Wycombe . urnpcrs-Tuiley and Cooper , Leeds , stockoiokers—Fo _. vler aud Maliiuson , _MeiUshain , _Wiltshire—«• ami 11 . Daniel , _Stoke-upou-Trewt , china and earthen _, wire manufacturer ** —J . W . C . Clothier and R . linpey , Somersetshire , _tantiei-r—Spat-ding and Ilumniell , Conduit-street , _Bond-street , tailors—llollius and Co ., Manchester—J . Darby am ! J . Priest , _liuwlvy Regis , Statl ' ordshire , coal masters—Wells and Claxton , BimUside ,

      Southwark—T . and W . _Nottage . Worship-street , livery stable keepers—Clarke and Currie , Ne > _Tnian- ]) iiS 3 ilgC , Newiuaii . street , St . _JlaryUho-. ic , tall _.-w inciters—Fetch and Knight , Shad Tlmines , wharfingers—T . Lowe and Co ., West ! leigh , Lancashire , colliers—Novelll , Watson , and Seaton , commission merchant !** , London—W . _Beyiion and W . Woods , Mitre-court , Midi-street , Birmingham , Sheffield and foreign warehousemen—( J . Magnus and W . llol ' man , Gravel-lane , Southwark , cap makers—W . Fox , C . Bailey , and E . Fox , _Feui-luuvli-sii-tet , merchants—1 . Robinson anil E . Thornton , Snddleworth , Yorkshire , dy . 'ra—J . Pinuiger ami 1 [ , Weslmavott , John-street , Bedford-row , * Utonries—Wilson and Seliorield , Sheffield , saw maim _, ¦ aeturcrs— 'f , Jordan and J . W . Smith , Liverpool , stock _, brokers .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 24, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_24011846/page/6/