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      On The Birth Of My Son Bt &0be2.T Dibb, ...

      ON THE BIRTH OF MY SON BT _& 0 BE 2 . T DIBB , _WHABrOALi POET . _JBl-hsB ! my yoxrag and beautiful atv « _wn—my cherub boy ! X greet tie * wiih a parent ' * lore ; Aad with » father ' s joy , I gaae upon thy lovel y face . _Tii _izinereace meet sweet : Ok I ii there use that weuld aot share Thy jure and heavenly & leep ? X \\ a » i _i 5 the hope of future jean ; Th * _brightaesa of a dream ; ~ W hie * breaks the _ddraoess or the past , With _aae delightful gleam 1 1 trace ia thee , the mother ' s pride ; And eh ! may _Heav _' n improve Thy _yoathfol _atepe—aad le & d thee forth la _raerey , peace and lore !

      Jul sail ! all hail—my darhng boy ! Fear not the _tempeft wild ; Fer e ' er thy couch—thy mother _aangt Aa _4 _j » xe » on her child ' . Oh ! she wiii guard th y little form , Aad press thee to her breast : Bat thou _naroancioag of her lore , la slaaber deep shall rest ! AD hill !—my _yaang and beautiful Mj own —my cherub bey ! I gre * t _ilice _iriti aji » re » t '« 1 * t _« ; Aad with a Uiher » joy , I _gazs _apon th y lo-rel y face . Tu ianoccace rao * t _aweet ; - © a ! u there ont that weuld aot _ahare , Thy - » ure aad beav ' _aiy _aleeo ? _£ l -H _wrh 1 & 39 .

      A STATE . What _-eo-wtitutej a state ? Xot _higVraked battlement nor _Ixbsor'd monad , Taick wall or _moated g * te ; _)»• _: eirie * _^ r » ud with _. pin-s and _tarrefa cr _« wii'd ; Not h » y »» ad _broaC-armed ports , _Wbere , laughing at the storm , rich nvriea ride ; Hoi Marred and ipacgled courts , Where low-bred baseness wafts _ftfrftuae to pride . NO—Men , _high-mindei _rflea , * ff 1 th powers u far above dull brutes e & daed In _foreat , brake , or den , A * _keasts excel cold rocks or brambles ra _& e ; lien wbo know—their _dutie * know , Who know their _rirhts , and . _jtnowias , dare _moataiTi

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      The Pbksext Kino Of Pkksia Dttri-Hg Is L...

      The Pbksext Kino of Pkksia _dttri-hg IS LlFS or THE LATE Schah . —Prince Mamed MeerxA j eldest son of the iate Prince _Roval , is I think " I haTe told you , the worthiest of all e numerous descendants of Futeh Allee Schah , rricaiarl y in point « f morals and private character _, _e is religious and conscientious in tbe discharge of 3 duties , unstained by many of the grosser Persian ce * , aad disposed to justice and good government . l ttient his claims may not be very high ; but there ¦ e few of his family now living , wbo much surpass n in natural _abilities , while in military affairs he di fair for competence at least . Tate him for ail i ail , as a prince a _^ d a kajar , he is a rarity in ersia ; and it is devoutly to be hoped that the _kins

      y eonarca tae expectations already entertained appointing Mahomed Meerzi to be his successor tbe throne . In appearance the prince has less w ¦ ommend him than many others of his very handsi e race . He is stout—rather too much so ; his . tares approaching coarseness , bnt well provided th tbat marking lamily attribute the beard . He sis thick , and , as one might be apt to think , Bewhat affectedl y ; but his tone is p leasant , ana at lea--: _fonnd him gracious and _smiliag in hi *

      _acer void of all that _blattering assumption of , _ritaeiS which is so offensive in many of . the royal oily . I believe , _iadeed , it is the prince ' s naturebe gracious ; bat at this particular time it was _biuret to conciliate the English ; and though I cartiy avoided aud _disclaimed ail _pretentions to aa icial _character his knowledge that I had brought : de * patcbe _? to tbe envoy , and was soon to return _Eaciand , rendered him naturall y desirous to show e favour . _Beeejvine me at all , indeed , under all

      _cirauttuces , alter a fatiguing march , with tne _busiss of the succeeding day to arrange , and a march 23 mile * in prospect for the morning , was a strong oof of bis good will . Tbe audience was unusually _2 | , although , as tbe prince entered on no topics of _l-: _^ s _** , the subjects of interest were limited ; and , fact , bis rapid manner of utterance rendered it . tier di : _5 ccit for a stran ger to follow him , and I ej nore ; ban once forced to pnt hishi ghness to the •"• able of repeating bis words . He inquired much » nt the members both of the late and present _adiniscaDon in England , particnlarl y about the ' s t * of "Wellington , and what be was doing ; of : e _jKJwers of Europe how tbey stood with each other ; _fiuewa .-in Portcgal and Spain . He praised tbe roThce of Korean entered into a sort ef discussion

      ¦ _egaruiBg its « upenonty to Axermjan and . lrax , rhich I rather questioned , and in short ha did what i prince fo p laced mi ght do to support a conversation rkieb paucity of subject on tbe one hand , and dr-ferfice _, combined with a lack of facility in expression a the other , tended to render heavy . At last , Ja- _'knesi baving closed in , the hour of prayer came » bis relief , and he dismissed me , saying that he mast retire ta his devotions . He bad very little state ; was plainl y dressed ; seated in as plain a tea : ; surrounded , as is the custom with all ef the royal famil y , with red _terperdahs , or screens , that had evidentl y seen no nnall length of service . "When I _raured , be was writing ; and on one side lay an English writing-case of _^ Russian leather ; on the etas- wis a book , I believe the Koran . _—Froser ' s Wbder Jeurnev to Tehrmn .

      ?*Okszxsb.—A Gentleman , Being Asked To ...

      _?* okszxsb . —A gentleman , being asked to g ive * at £ - . i : i _3 n of nonsense , replied in the Johnsonian s _» _jve , •¦ sir , it is nonsense to bolt a door with a boiled carrot . " Scotch Shrewdness . —A Highlander wbo sold brooms went into a barber ' s shop , in Glasgow , to get shaved . Tbe barbeT bought one of his brooms and , after having shared him , asked the price of it . " Ti ppecce , ' said tbe Highlander . " No , no , " ? _iaver ; " I'll giTe you a penny ; if that does not satisf y you take yonr brown again . " TbeHigblusirr took it , and asked Strap what he had to pay . _** ' A p * nrjy , " says Strap . " I'll giTe ye a baubee , " _ffiys Duncan , " ' and if that dinna satisfy ye pit en _mvWa-rf - _srrv _' n *'

      _^ A Good Shot .--Two passengers coming down _^ - _Mississi ppi in a steam-boat , were shooting birds _^ * hore from the dfek . Some sportsman convere _sa _^ ed . One remarked that he would turn his back *¦ so man in killing racoons , that he bad repeatedly _* ot fifty a dav . il What o' that ? " said a _Kectseiia _ a ' ; " I " make nothing of _kiUing a hundred " _cpon a day , or _' nary luck . " * " Deyon know Cap-: Sf-ort . " of our state ? " asked a TenDessean

      » . naBiier , he , now is something like a shot . A _^ paired cooai why , be nefer pints at one without s : * i-- _z him . He " never misses , and the ' coons _tso-r * it . T ' other day be levelled at au old ' nn in a - _^" b tree . The varmint looked at him for a minute , l then _ijawied out , * Hallo , CaVn Scott t is that _^ a " ' Yes / was tbe reply . * "WeH , don ' t shoot , ' _** Tiht , « it ' s no use ; hold-on ; I'll coma down-1 _'U give in V which be did !" ' It is unnecessary to di " that tW _« was the last bunting story .

      _* * _SYiKG ths _Dkad . —A poor Irishman , r _' -ssi tg through a village near Chester , saw a crowd * _J * ople approaching , which made him inquire what n tbe matter ? He was answered * " A man was _f" _^ to be buried . " " Oh , " rep lied he . « I'll stop _¦^ _» e that , for we carry them in our country . " _Su perstitions From Bennett and Truman ' s ? e J »? e round the World . —The chief-mate told us _*« oa board a ship where he had _aerred , tbe mate » fer ordered some of the youths to reef a _maiB-** - _*& . "When be « ot up he heard * strange voice

      ¦ Jhig " it blows-hard 1 " The Jac Ber _oowu m a _**<* , told bis adventure , and a _aeeoni was sent up , *•¦• m speedil y came down , declaring tbat an _K _^ tnbi y _-rwee had whispered iti his ear , " It blows 2414 '¦ " Another went , j > . ud another , bnt came s e ** _ith the same tale j at kngth the ma , te went , _^ heard tbe same words , " It blows hard 1 " ' A ? i ay , " _saya _^ » old one but , blow it ever ao _^ _i * e mast ease the earrings for all that , " and _^ - _^ g _rosad j , espied a fine parrot perched on one ¦ _V _^ elaes , which had probably escaped from some _*^ _* s » el , and had not been discovered till he had

      v _j _^ _AiiE DB STAEL AKB _TaL-uETBAKD _, — J _**? * de Stael _' _s daughter , tbe Baroness de _j _^ _T-S j * as an extraordinary beaary . Her charms j *** _» ach an impression en Prince Talleyrand , that , _^^^ splating them , he was often deneient in his _^• ° hi a her hi ghly g ifted , mother . One day , j _? _S ° _s a party of pleasure on the water , she deter-M j _f-to confound him , aed pnt this question : — _j v , ** vessel were to be wrecked by a etorm , 5 _^^ n * _woabi y » u strive to save first , me or my _Tg _^? " '' Madam , " _instan'iyreplied _TailyerandB _w *" _^ many talents and acquirements youposj _^ _^ _-woald be an a ffront to yora to su ppose that _^^ _a & ot swi m ; I _^ _hould therefore deem it my _"~ ttTe the _Pirniooi first . "

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      _Attendi . nu bt _fa _^ xy . —A _treui-n priest , _« ho had usuall y a rery small audience , was one _day preaehing at tbe church in his _village , when , the doors b » ing open , a gander and several geese came stalking up the middUs aisle . The preacher , availing himself of tbe circumstance , observed , that he coald no longer find fault with bis _distrk- t for mnattendance ; because , though tbey did not come themselves , they sent their representatives . Botany- Bat _Theatricals . —Some years ago , one of the male convicts in Botany Bay wrote a farce , which was acted with great applause in the theatre , Port Jackson . _Barriagtoa , the noted pickpocket , furnished tae prologue , which ended with _"hese two lines * . — " True patriots we , for be it understood , Yfe left our country for oar country ' s good . "

      A 1 atb . im . oki . ii . Quarrel . —A clergyman was reproving a-married couple for their frequen * : dissensions , wnich were very unbecoming both in tbe eye of God and man , seeing , as he observed , that they were both one . "Both one ! " cried the husband . '' Was your reverence to cone b y our door _simetime ? , you would _«? rear we were twenty . " Ikdi * k AeuTI . sess . —Soon a . ter the settlement of . New England , Governor Dudley , taking a waik , met a stout Indian begging , and saying he could get no work . The Governor told bim to go to tis _bouie and he

      , would give him work . " But , " « its the negro , _"^ K-hy you no work , _miSSa ? " " 0 , " said the Governor , " my _bcid works . " He , bowever , turned out an idle good-for-nothing fellow , apd his master _fouad it necessary one day to have him flogged . _Wita . thi * view he gave him a letter desiring him te Cdrry i ; to tbe keeper of the _workl _iouse . _^ The negro , suspecting it ? content * , committed it to the care of one of his comrade * , who got a sound _whipping for hi * trouble . Ihe Governor having learnt this , aaked _Mungo why be did so ? * ' 0 , _BiaAsa , " said be , _" heud work . "

      Thi Garden of Eden . —A Scotchman maintained that the _^ araen of Edna was certainl y place d in Scotland . * 'For _, " Maid he , " have we not , all within a mile of one another , ' Addm ' . * Mount , ' the ' _Klysium Fields , ' ' Paradise Place , ' and the city ef c _£ aen ba . _^ h _, ' " A Simils . —Sir Thomas Overbnry say * , tbat the man who has illustrious aBcestor _^ , is like a potatoe the oniy good belonging to him is under ground . Sancho and thb Planter , - _'" _Saneho , " _s-iid a dying planter to his slave , " for your faithful services , I mean now to do you arr _honour , aud I leave it in my will that you _aadlt be buried in our _laurly grouud . _'" " Ah , _massa ! " replied Sancho , * ' Sancho po good to be buried ; Sancho rather have de money or de . freedom , besides , il the devil come m de ddrk to look for ma _< _sa , he ma } mistake , aud take de poor ui _^ _aar man I "

      The Bbagpon . —A _dragoan in Dublin was shot fur desertion , and bis horse and accoutrements taken away at toe same time . Vr ' _den oh his trial , aa _officer asked bim " what could _indui .-e turn t « take away his horie ? " Te _wsuh he replied , " He ran * war with me . " " What , " said ttie officer , '' do . _voudo with the money you sold bim for .- "' ' ihat , " said the fellow , " pleaseyour honour , ran away too . " _Instructions to Adthors . —The following note was written b ) a booKSrller in Germany to one of his authors : — " I have iu . < t received half a

      _d'lzsn of lean octavos , which you must fatten up to as many _quartus , for tbe Leipsic fair . 1 send vou a large quantity of paste and a new pair of scissors . The Ruling Passion . —A gambler , on hia death-bed , hav _. ng _»> eriou ; i y taken leave of his _pnyaiv-ian , who . told him that he could not live beyond ei ght o ' elock next morning , exerted the small _str # ugth be had left to call the doctor back ; whieh having aecomplished with difficulty , for he could hardl y exceed a _whimper , "Doctor , " said he , "I'll bet vou five ruineas I live till nine . "

      Blessings of Providence . —At a city feast , one of the company was _expatiating on the blessingof providence . "A y , " said the late sir vYuliam Currii , smacking hia li ps , "it is a blessed place , sure enough ; we get all our turtle from it , " _Jxjvbnilb Docility . —A school-master asked one of bis boys , on a _nbarp wintry morning , what was Latin fur cold ? The boy hemated a little — "What , _> irrab , " _* aid he , "¦• canunt you tell ?" " Yea , ves , " replied the bov , " I have it at mv finj i , ' - _tfer _f-r > M .

      _Spanish Gallantrt . —Queen Elizabeth _baviD--taken notice _» f the Duke de Villa ilediua ' _s _gallint _DeQanour at a tourndment , told him one _diy tbat she wou'd ab _?« olutel y know who his mi * tre _» s was . Villa Medina excused himself awhile , hut at last yielding to her curiosity , promised to » _end ber p : _» - _ture . Ti . e next morning he sKHt ber majr .-ty a _packet , wherein the _quceB , finding _riothint : but a small _lookicg- _^ lass , _preseatly undtr-tood the S p aniard ' s meaniug . It must needs be _confessed thai thu was a = very ingeuiou 3 contrivance ; ar . d there ' s no question but the queen , who was so well p leased to be accounted beautiful , was -well enough _satisfied ar rhw _rinmri df _? fla . r « . rinn nf _lnv _^ .

      The Fiddle's . —A _pt-or blind fiddler , passing a narrow bridge , dropped into the water hi * _fio'die and case . He waa bewailing his loss to tbe bystanders , and relating tbe distress it would occasion to his poer family , when , a gentleman gave him a shilling , and told him _ tbat he sincerely pitied his case . "Ah , sir ! " replied tbe man , "if I could but get my fiddie back , I should not care about the case . " Distribution op Prize Monet , "When the British ships under Lord Nelson were _bearini ;

      down to attack the combined tleet on iratalgar , the first lie _^ _teuant of tbe RevcRgc , on going round to see tbat all hands were at quarters , observed one of the men devoutly kneeling at tbe side of bis gun . So very unu-ual an attitude in an English sailor exciting hi * surprise and _caririsity , be went and asked the mau if be was afraid . " Afraid ! " answered the honest tar , " no I wan onl y praying that the enemy ' s sbotrmay be distributed id tbe same proportinn as prize-money—the greatest part among tbe _ogk-ers . _T-hr Gallant "Writing Master i . aa VTAi . i . _A _.- _< _x _rianiBK hia sj . cn . . » writing-master , in Islington , having eneaped the affections of a female scholar , with a fortune of £ 29 , 000 , led her to the hymeneal altar . A few days previous , he had been asked by her guardian bow miss came on in ber writing ? To this tbe ma « ter gravel y replied , "Vastl y well , indeed , sir , I shall soon have her in joining-hand . " Bir » s of a Feather . —Lord Erskine and Dr . Parr were considered , even b y tbeiT personal friends , to be tbe _vaiaest men of the age . The Dr . said to the Ex-chancellor , in odb of their social meeting- - , " _Erskine , I mean to write your epitaph when you die . " Lord Erskine replied , " Doctor , it is almost a temntation to commit suicide . "

      The Soft . Place , and a softer one . Tbe Duchess of _Kicfr-ton , in ber day , was licentious and eccentric . She once appeared at a highly fashionable ball in a flesh coloured dress , which almost eonveyed tbe semblance of nudity . _Kjng George II . was present , and attracted b y thfe levity and accessibility of the Duchess , ventured to impress his finger on ber bosom , at the same tame wbisperiDg , "How delicious , how soft a place !" "Do you think so ? " said tbe _Duubess , "if your Majesty will concede me your hand , I will put it oa a yet softer p lace . " The King did so , and the T ) nr > h _**<< _laid it nn h \ g own bead .

      A Barber Shaved by a _La-tvybb . — "Sir , said a barber te an attorney , whe was passing his door , " will you tell me if this is a good sevenshilling piece ? " The lawyer , pronouncing it good , deposited it in his pocket , adding , with gravity , " If you'll send your lad to my office , I ' ll return the four pence . " Stylish "Walks . —A young lad y was accosted by a clergyman , in a lane , when going to church , wbo asked her why she did not go across the fields ; np » n which Bbe " replied , tbey were too srile-ish fer VlOl "

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      13 IT THE RIGHT AND DUTY OF THE PEOPLE TO ABM ? & c , Sec & o . The following are the document and extracts from the Morning _ChroHicle , presented by the _Committee to the Convention , arid which were referred back for reconsideratioa . We invite the closest attention of our readers to the opinion of the Chronicle as to tbe right of Englishmen to arm individuall y for ihe general protection : — T » e _arincioles and motives of the Chartists hav .

      ing been misrepresented ana maligned by the Morning Chronicle , aad a general charge of violence hiving been made against thern , onl y _because some of them bad acted upon the Constitutional ri ght of individuals providing themselves with arms , —Dr . Ma . edou . iU , delegate for _Ashtoa-under-L yae , moved ia the General Convention ot the _indnstrioiu classen _, for permission to uubra ' u certain extracts from that journal , _completely _justifying the Chartists iu the _course thev had pursued .

      In introducing the subject to the Convention , Dr . _Macdouall forciol y pointed out the h ypocritical and _UDpriasi p led nature of the Chronicle ' s attack upon tbe Chartists . He stated it " was ant the habit of Radicals , " to recommeud oa one day a particular _ceurse of _proceeding , and to retract that reco .-nmendarion on another . ( Hear . ) It had alway * leen tbe custom of good men and good patriots to speak to their _countryman in the name manner , and recommeod the same course of proceedings , at all rimes , aud under all circumstances , whenever the cause of Liberty happened to be assailed . If such had been the course pursued by hsriest men , by what name should they _designate that editor of a

      newspaper who , safe behind his desk , and backed , as he . thought , b y the vast majority of the people , then advised tbeiu to arm ; but who again , at another time , the circumstances being almost the same , in the very same paper , and with the very same pen , denounced the doctrine which he had formerl y industriousl y propagated . Must not this editor , who affected to lift his learned hands with horror at the very whisper of an _dllunion to physical force , prove himself either a fool or a knave by such a contradictory course of proceeding—a fool for _advising

      that which he dare not carry ont , or a kuave if he _advices it for mere party purposes ? The extracts which bo ( Dr . Macdouall ) was about to read , were taken from a work b y _Fraucis Mac _.-rooe , entitled " Defensive Ins tructions for the Peo ple , " containing the new and improved combination of arms . 1 bat writer , the professed instructor of a popular science of arms , thus speaks in his preface of thtremarks of the Morning Chronicle * . — ' * The clear and _wuperabuodant demonstration of the ri ght of all _Englishmen to carrv arms , and to use them for their

      protection _agatcst political , clerical , or any other robbers , in the manl y _exhortations addressed by the editor of the Morning Chronicle to tbe _saSerint ; people , are documents of interest at the present moment , as they set the _que-tion on which tnes treat satisfactoril y at rest . In the following pages 1 bave endeavoured to condense into a * small a couipa-s as I possibly could , with any regard to _intelligibility , the principal means of arms , disposition , and contrivances , through which a people may contend successlull y against tbeir euemies . Mv two letters , extracted from the Morning Chronicle , will -sufficiently develope my inteutious . " He

      ( Dr . Macdouall ) tben proceeded to extract from the Chronicle , first premising that he wouid not , as Dr . Blaci bad done , give garbled extracts to suit his _purees ; but he would give the whole to show that , before the Reform Bill , tbe Chronicle had sounded the loudest trump which called to arms . He would unow them is the extract tbat the _edi-. or _taught , though it may not be lawful for bodies to _associ _ite for the purpose of bearing arm * , that each individual was competent to do so , and that b y tbis plan uf Macerone ' s each single man could support _nirxself _against cavalry or infantry at the expense cf ten _shillings .

      _Referring to the French Revolution of 1830 , the Morning Chronicle expresses its approbation of the conduct , of tbe artizan * and labourers of Paris in the following laudatory terms : — "Tbe _people , the labourers , the artizans—the _unwashed artizans , tbe journeyman printers , the journeyman tailors , and other _anizins , formed tbe muss which took th _» cannon , defeated tbe artillery , beat down the Lancers , routed tbe Royal Guards , (• 22 . O _. ' 0 strong ) and raised the siege of Pari * . "M _« rnin £ Chronicle . _Autrust 6 . 1830 .

      It another passage ( Morning Chronicle , Nov . 12 , 1831 . ) tbe editor recommends Col . Macerone ' s _jiia-n of arming , on account of its cheapness . It rlac _ofu _^ tn _^ *¦

      " Without tbe consent and authority of Government , it i * not lawful for citizens to form armed _lu'sociaiion * . It was our opinion that Government mi _^ ht derive national assistance from armed associations of citizens at this conjunction ; but if Government do not share this opinion , tbe people must _abstain from all attempts at arming in bodies , ecause the first duty of a ciiizen is to obey the law . But an hiijuiry into the most efficient mode of arming violates no law . As the subject is one possessed of much interest , we are anxious to lay before our readers a plan , by Colonel Macerone , ci-devant aide-de-camp of the King of Naples , Murat . The expense may be material when an army is already supplied with every thing ; but the cheapness of the plan , only ten shillings a man , is _ifs p _reat recommendation . "

      Two days afterwards , Nov . 14 , 1831 the Chronicle _modified the foregoing declaration , and sets itself right with its readers , by affirming , in the strongest and most _unqualified language , the ri ght of individuals to provide themselves with arms : — " Our declaration , that it would be madness , to arm without the authority of Government was meant only in resp * ct to arming in bands . It is well known that every Englishman is entitled to have arm =. And our public writers do not hesitate to grate that tbe object of the laws which _recegnise this right , is to enable the people to avail themselves of their natural ri ght of resistance , when the laws are _insufficient to secure them against oppression . It is well known , lor instance , tbat the late

      Ministers were making preparations for keeping down tbe people by forcible _aeans—indeed the evidence of their intentions are in existence . When any set of men sets at defiance the opinions and feelings r > f a whole nation , and attempt to govern by force , tben , to use tbe words of Mr . Fox , " _Resistance becomes a duty . " Ministers are of coarse well aware of the injustice of the p rinci p le which refused to towns what it granted to Squires—tbe yeomanry—but their hand' * are tied . However , let us do what we can , though we cannot do all that we wish . Vfe are all b y law entitled to arm ourselves , and we ought to avail ourselves of the p _rivilege . We can unite , though we cannot arm ; and if a time should come when it is necessary to unite and to arm , we shall not be caught unprovided . "

      Morning Chronicle , . Nov . 18 , 1831 . — " We publish a full report of the Birmingham meeting ef the Political Council of that towD , held on Tuesday iast _^—the great parent stem cf all the other _Political Associations . We regret that a mw-statement which appeared of their former meeting last week , erroneously stated our intentions of converting the Union into an armed Association . No such proposition was contemplated . This great political combination for the accomplishment of reform , and thtfinal overthrow of the boroughmongers is too discreet to travel outside tbe circle of constitutional law . Tbe Council , in the projects of unions and combinations , are well aware that no Government

      could allow armed associations Bot commissioned or empannelled by the Crown . They distinctly confine their project to organization . Subdivision of labour and sectional arrangements are the vital spirit of all societies and combinations , _wbethsr public or p rivate , in their views and objects . There may be , or mi g ht be , laws te prevent such political unions from arming their members—there are none and cab be none —( yea , not even manufactured by the Boroughmongers _orjthe craft of aSir Robert Halfway)—which can prevent Britons as private individuals from purchasing , possessing , and independentl y enjoying tbe custody and use of arms ; all our great charters of liberties—all our ancient usages and _eustoms , invest Englishmen with the ri ght of arms . Columns of ancient lore might be quoted to prove this _trreat constitutional axiom and principle ; from

      the most ancient law writers , to the period of _Blackstone . It was among other tyrannies the particular invasion of this national privilege , which drove the Stewarts from the throne of their ancestors . The Bill of Ri g hts , according to its 7 th article , guarantees to the nation , among its ancient ri ghts , as follows : —That the _snbjects wbo are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their condition , and as allowed by law . By the 20 th Edward the First , all who possessed forty libratus terra" bear military arms , but the whole law and sp irit of onr _Censtitation is founded on the natural princip le that whoever has property ought to be in a condition to defend it . " Now he ( Dr . Macdouall ) would observe that the labouring man has no property but his labour , theYefore why not have a ri ght ro defend tbat property as well as the aristocracy ? " Harrington considers that in every free country

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      mere ou _^ _uc _.. o army , dim a cavalry ot notmity and gentry , aad an infantry of the Commons . But in Eagkud , _« our boroug hmongers hare managed it , the arms are in one set of hands under their pay and influence , and the property in another . There is but one safety—we mast conneot once more the civil md military power . Every Reformer able to bear and _ootain arm * ought to possess himself of those necessary articles . We must sleep on our ( inn * , and wake to the sound of the trumpet and drum—or ths enemy will break up pur camp . Sir William Jones , in his admirable essay on the legal means of suppressing riots , proves that the Constitution does not forbid , but enjoins theme of arras . Votes without arm- —the right of resistance without

      the power —are as useless as artillery without ammunition . " Tbe article concludes with these emphatic words " The gates of the temple of Janus will he shut only when the base boroag hmongers _ceise to make war on the liberties aad properties of their countrymen . Union— arms- — reform . " Here terminate the extracts from the Morning ' Chronicle , which place beyond question or dispute the people s rig ht to provide themselve s with arms . The Chartists have hitherto strictl y confined them-¦ _lelves to the constitutional right of individuall y providing arm * ; but events have _racentl y occurred in _ci _« Common * ' House of Parliament which the Chronicle declares " sufficiea t to have sent the tamest _ipanieU to thu throats" of the Members of " the oligarchical L _*( rislarure . "

      " f be Cora Law debate , says the Morning Chronicle , _Tuesday , March 19 th , t ( has been ohiraoterised by outbreaks of personal insolence not u >> ual in civilised society . The question has bseu treated , not as an appeal to be heard , but aa an impertinence to be _pnt _> doivh > In the first instance , evidence was refused on the ground that the majority was sufficientl y informed ; and then consideration wa * refused on the ground that the majority had irrevocabl y decided . The _triumphant orators—triumphant onl y in the anticipated strength of _unreaso : ng numbers—seemed to think but one interest _deserviag of a _thonght—the interest , nominall y , of the

      industrious cultivators of the soil ; really , of THg IDLE _RECIPICNTS OP THE "PRODUCB . They held it enough to lecture the struggling industry of the country—the source of its prosperity and _greatness , on the vanity of human expectations . They _assumui that , in Great Britain , humanity only _exists to eat tbeir corn , pay their impost , and -uUtuit to their rebukes . Never was the complaint of a _suffering people treated more cavalierl y , or di * - _ia . _'s- < ed more Hummtrily . The landlords have enacted tne Van _Amburgh of the British Lion , and administered kicks , cud ' s , and wanton insolence , _suf-F _1 CI 8 NT TO HAVE SENT THE TAM 6 ST SPANIEL TO THKIH . THROATS . "

      I ' ne _Chartists are not " tame spaniels ; " and are , therefore , not disposed to fl y at the throats of the Member * . The Chartists are honest and industrious meu determined to put an end to a syitem of injustice and oppression , and to establish , by all constitutional means , the rights of the whole people . Toe passages above quoted from the Chronicle , demonstrate the ri ght of every man to provide bnncelf with arms . When the time shall have arrivtd in which the people shall feel themselves juvtified iu using them , no man can tell , nor have the Chartists ventured to make any declaration on the subject . In _concludisg this statement , however , the Convention would refer the reader to the two following constitutional declarations of Lord" Chatham and Camden . The first is from the great Lord Chatham , whose noble and emphatic declaration is as true now as it was when _originally made : —

      " Tbe liberty of tbe subject is invaded , my Lords , not only in our distant provinces , but at home . The people are loud in their complaints ; they demand _redress ; and until the injuries they have received are _redressed , they will never return to a state of tranquillity . Not 9 _UOHT rHgy ; for in my judgment , my Lords , and I speak it boldly , better were it for them to perish in a glorious contention for their ri ght * , than to purchase a _davish tranquillity at the expense of a single iota of the Constitution . " _-Btlshaw s History of E'igland , p . 297 , vol . 5 . The next quotation , which will be the last authority we deem it necessary to adduce , we earnestly recommend to the serious consideration ol all classes of the communitv .

      Kings , Lords , and Commons , " said that great constitutional lawyer , ohief Justice Pratt , arfterwards Lord Camden , " are grand and sounding name * ; but King , Lords , and Commons ma y become _TVRANTS AS well AS OTHERS . Tyranny iu one or more is the same : IT IS AS LAWFUL TO RESIST THE TYRANNY OF MANY AS OF ONE ; this hai been a doctrine _kuown and acted upon in tbis country for ages . " When the famous Selden was a _» ked by what statute resistance to tyranny could be justified , his reply was , " It is to be justified b y the eustom of England , which is a part of the law of tbe land . " - —Belshavi ' s History of England , vol . 6 , page 101-2 .

      Thb "W B8t London Radical Association He...

      Thb "W b 8 t London Radical Association held its weekly meeting in the Angel and Crown , "Warwick-street , Golden-square , Mr . Pelling , a working man , in the chair . The meeting was well attended , and £ 2 were voted to the National Rent , and the following resolution unanimousl y agreed to : — "Thatthis association considersthe introduction of the Metropolitan Police Bill as a blow aimed at the rights and liberties of Englishmen , which demands not only the most prompt and energetic resistance on * the part ef the people , but also the impeachment of the ministers who would dare to propose its adoption by Parliament" An address to the - " forking men of London was also proposed and agreed to , which in due time will be laid before fVom _Ourrter .

      Eathbb Hard Names . —Let mm wno noias with Juliet that a name is of no importance , go and bid for the following estates in the counties of Waterford and Limerick , which are to be sold next week " The Kncakaleglown , Bogadoon , Kilgobonet , Coolnasmeare , Ballynetty , and Killndangan estates . " Here s rare "upper and under jaw-work for vow money , as tbe men wbo « U nuts in the stree ' _ti sav . An auctioneer , with an impediment m bis _ppeecb , should put up tbe lot . One syllable at a tin * would be enough ,-in all conscience ,

      Felling Democratic Festival (Abridged Fr...

      FELLING DEMOCRATIC FESTIVAL ( Abridged from the Northern Liberator . ) On Saturday evening last , a public supper was given b y the spirited democrats of this district in honour of Thomas Doubleday and Robert Blakey , Esqrs ., as a tribute to their unflinching advocacy of the people ' s rights . The festival was held in tbe large room of the Mulberry Inn , which was crowded to inconvenience . Upwards of one hundred hardhanded productives were present , and the number wonld have been doubled had an unlimited number

      of tickets been issued . We were particularl y struck with the very respectable appearanceof the company , and were it not for the substantial simplicity of tbe viands , and an ex p ression of worth and honesty tbat beamed in the intelligent faces around , orje would have imagined themselves among tbe " _honourables" of ths land . At seven o ' clock Mr . William Cook took the chair . The cloth having been removed , the Chairman gave * ' The People , the only source of legitimate power , " prefacing it with an appropriate speech . Drank with great enthusiasm

      . - The Chairman then gave " The Queen , and may her throne be based on the affections of tbe people . " The next toast fram the Chair was , " The health of their respected friend and talented advocate , Thomas Doubleday , Esq ., and may he long enjoy life and health to advocate the cause of the working millions . " The Chairman prefaced the toast with a very eloquent speech , _ealogistio of Mr . Doubleday ' _s public career . Tbe toast was then drank with customary honours , amid loud and eft-repeated cheers .

      Mr . _DoUBLEDAsr , in responding to the compliment , observed , that if education and outward circumstances had exercised the ordinary'influence upon his mind , he should—instead of standing in the presence of an assemblage of working men , and advocating the rights of universal citizenshipbe a Tory , surrounded b y , and acting with , those who made it the business of their lives to keep the people in a state of moral and political degradation . He eulogised the British constitution , if maintained in its purity by the " _principle of Universal Suffrage , and contended that it was not inferior to a Republican form , provided every man of twenty-one years of ace had the right to vote . He adverted to the

      American constitution , in which the British was closely copied by the founders of the great republic , having a President : to _represent the King , a senate to represent onr Honse of Lords , and a Congress resembling onr House of Commons . He then compared the respective governments of Prussia and England , showing that the former , though a pure despotism , screwed from iu people hardly a fifth part ef tbe taxes which are extorted by the latter under the name and semblance _» f representation . If yon nod in your travels , said Mr . P ., a constitutional monarch who can do no wrong , a splendid Houge of Lords inheriting legislatorial wisdom b y right of birth , a Bouse of Commons elected openly

      and freely in counties aad boroughs , and if you find that in this same country the holiest feelings of nature are outraged by an infidel philosoph y , that charity is called a vice , and the poor and hel pless starved to death , then be sure that , whatever be its name such a government is a tyranny , and ought to be destroyed . ( Loud and reiterated cheering . ) Mr . Doubleday went on to comment upon the " fruits of ashes" whieh _werebwne by the Reform Bill , and to assert that where protection and support were denied the people , allegiance was at an end , and men had a ri ght to fall back upon the resources of nature . Mr . D . spoke for upwards of an hour , and was loudly cheered throughout . ,

      The Vice-Cbairmak , ( Mr . Andrew _xauie , } then gave "Robert Blakey , Esq ., and happiness and prosperity to him in his attempts to ameliorate the condition of the ¦ oppressed people of this conntry . " He ( the iVice-President ) need not remind them of Mr . _Blakey _' _s devoted , and _nnslnmbering opposition to the _acouraed-of-God Poor Law Amendment Act , it had rendered his name at oace dear to tbe working people , and hateful to their anti-Chri ? - tian oppressors . When , too , the lamented Mr . Mr . Beaumont was about to relinquish the Northern Liberator , Mr . Blakey stepped forward and told

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      cue | worK . i . ig _uk-u of cue _piortb tnat tae r c _* _..-. _- should not wane an advocate , * nor _themselves want an organ through whioh they could proclaim . their wrong * . ( Loud cheers . ) Mr . Blake ? , in returning thanks , alluded to the misery that was brought upon the country'by the New Poor Law ; they had one remed y , however , for this and every otaer evil , and that remed y was Universal Suffrage . ( Loud cheers . ) Without Universal Suffrage , happiness or peace would never again visit the shores of England . Mr . Blakey went on to prove from his own -experience in electioneering affairs—Munici pal and Parliamentary—that there was no man who exercised the franchise with so much _independence and virtue as the working man . He said , tbat his connexion

      with the press bad not been _withuut its use , it was but a few weeks since that he had exposed the inhuman treatment of the poor in the Morpeth workhouse , the consequence was , that the dietary was changed , and now the wretched inmates were allowed a sufficiency of food and drink . Whilst upon the subject , he could nut forbear to add , tha : these unfortunates ast _* er » bled every night in their prison to offer up their prayers for bis ( Mr . B / s ) welfare . ( Loud _cheers . > Let who pleased sell _themselves to a base government and tarn against the people , whom they professed to befriend , but in this artless testimony of the poor , ha received a _greater reward than all thatthe powers of corruption could bestow . He had come forward _tosupport their press , he had sunk between £ 1 700 and . £ 1 , 800 in tha Northern Liberator , he trusted to- the good

      sense of the people —leaving gratitude wholly out of the _question—to support a paper , which , whilst it remained in existence , would advocate their _esuse whether they supported it or not . ( Loud cheers . ) ( Mr . W . Parker then gave the " Three champions of the people , O'Connor , Stepheus , and Oastler , and may Heaven uphold them in life and health to witness the triumph of their gigantic exertions in behalf of the oppressed , plundered , and degraded millions . " Mr . Parker commenoed b y describing the travel * and labours of Mr . O'Connor when endeavouring to rouse the people , the wild Irishman who went through the country telling them of their grievances , and pointing out the remed y in Universal Suffrage . They had many great men in the country —there was Lord Melbourne , Lord John , and every other Lord , among them these were great men , but in what did their

      greatness consist r" Why , m robbing the poor , and plundering and desolating the land . ( Loud cheers . ) Not such was the greatness of their patriotio friend , Feargus O'Connor . His aim was not to plunder the people , but to restore tbem their ri ghts ; not trample upon them , but to raise them to the rank of freemen—( loud cheers)—and when Eraser , Duncan and Taylor were humbugging the people with moral force nostrums , Mr . O'Connor was telling them that their best reliance in the day of trial was tbe firm heart and the brown musket . ( Loud cries of " Hear . " ) He doubted not that the bloadr

      handed aristocracy , which surrounded their little Quoen , would be well inclined to treat him ( Mr . _IfC-. ) to a halter some fine morning , were they not afraid of the right arms of the working men . ( Loud cheers . ) Stephens came next , the good , the persecuted Stephens , who had proclaimed to the people that God ' s own book laid down a pure system of Democracy , that the people had a moral and religions , as well as a constitutional ri ght to wrest their country from the fangs of the oppressor ; that if _starviag were unavoidable , as the dunderheaded Malthusians said it waB , then let the great ones of the land come in for a share of that

      starvation which they said God had entailed on humADicy . ( Loud cheers . ) As for Mr . Oastler , it was said he was a Tory , but still he ( Mr . P . ) could trace very little resemblance between him and a _Lyndhurst or a Peel . Mr . Parker went on to eulogise the labours of Mr . 0 « stler in defence of the factory _jhildren , and his resistance to the damnable New Poor Law . He concluded by denouncing individuals who , when they visited Newcastle in tbe garb of friends , Were plotting to destroy the onl y Radical journal in the _neighbaurhood , and to _strengrhen the foes of liberty by sowing dissension among its friends . ( Loud cheers . ) The next toast was the "Convention , and may they go on zealously and perSeveringly till Universal Siirfratre becomes the law of the _lahd . "

      Mr . John Rtjcastle , in responding * to the toast , contrasted the strai ghtforward , manly , and orderl y proceedings of the Convention with the shuffling , dishonest , and disorderly proceedings of those who usarp , for the present , the legislation ol the country . When the treacherous Whigs were struggling to get into office , they promised to redress the grievances of the working meD . Had they done so ? ( No , no . ) No ; they could stifle , with martial law , the groans of unhappy Ireland ; they could vote twenty millions to the ruffian planter * in the West Indies ; they could transport the Dorchester labourers ; th < -y could pass a law to famish poverty and old age in union bastiles ; but

      they could pass no one measure for the good of the people , upon whose shoulders they were borne into office . ( Loud cheers . ) They had a long account to nettle with both Whigs and Tories , and how was tbat account to be properly settled ? Why , b y supporting tbe Convention . ( Lond cries of "hear , hear . " ) He did not _recomawnd any overt act of violence ; but he did recommend them to arm themselves , as in that alone the people wonld find safety ,. "Think you , ( said Mr . R ., ) if the men of Lancashire had been armed in 1819—if one hundred thousand armed men had been ready te demand vengeance , would ever the human butchery have

      been perpetrated at Peterloo ? ( No , no and loud cheers . ) Arm yourselves , then , and wait the result iu tranquillity , " Much had beeu done to rouse the _people from their apathy ; much yet remained to be done ; ' even now , their delegate , Mr . Lowery , was stirring up the extreme borders of Cornwall , where a few days ago , they h * d never even heard of the Charter . This battle was the battle of all English men and all Englishmen must take their part in tbe encounter , if a man took away his ( Mr . R . ' _sJ property wrongfully , he would ask bim to restore it peacefull y ; but if it was net restored peacefully _,, he would take it by force . ( Loud cheers . )

      Mr . Joseph Stuart , with a few brief remarks , gave " The Northern Liberator and the Demooratie Press ;" Mr . Blakey , in returning thanks , said , that such was the corruption of the newspaper press , taken in the aggregate , that it weuld be the _greatest blessing to England if it were sunk into the bottom of the sea before twenty-four hours . If the people were left to the exercise of their own natural sagacity , they would soon find ont tyranny and destroy it . Mr . B . cited an instance where the Times newspaper received 375 guineas for g iving one putt to a fraduient speculation , got up in London , for the nuroose of fleecing the public . . _^¦ _Bk .

      Mr , Charles Parkinson S _^^^^ H memory of Augustus Harding _Beaurnsnt _j _^^^^^ _B tal hero of democraiy , and may bis arde _|^^^^ Hd determined zeal still live in the breas _^^^^ _Haople of England . " Mr . P . offered a gl _^^^^ _Wost tribute to tbe memory of Mr . Bea _* _amoq _^^^ Bncluded by repeating the toast , which was d _^^ Bn solemn silence—the whole company standin _( j _^ HP Mr . Blakey gave the health of Toe Chairman and Viee-Chairman . The Vice-chairman returned thanks . Several other toasts were given and responded to , and the company broke up at half-pant «>| pire-n __

      Poor Law Murder On Thursday An Adjourned...

      POOR LAW MURDER On Thursday an adjourned inquiry , which lasted nearly all the day , was instituted before C . J . Carter , Esq ., coroner at the Five-Bells' Tavern , St . Mary ' s Cray , Kent , for the purpose of ascertaining the circumstances connected with the death of William Burges , a pauper , aged 43 . The inquest first sat on Monday , for several hours , in the committee-room of the _nnioh-house at St . Mary ' s Cray , and was adjourned in consequence of the serious charge alleged against George Harding Palmer ; , the relieving officer of the Lewisham union . Lord Sydney examined * .: I am ehairman ef the Board of Guardians of the Bromley union . On Friday last the deceased came to this house during the sitting

      of the Board , between one ana two o ' clock . A letter was presented to the Board by eur relieving officer , the purport of which was , that the hearer , William Burgess , of Lewisham , was thought to belong to the parish , and that he- was forwarded without an order . The letter wa » taken into consideration , and the Board thought that they were net bound to- accept the man . In the first instance , a person who brought the deceased was had before the Board , and he demanded ; payment for convey ing tba deceased hither ; but the Board ordered him to

      take back the deceased , and ordered the clerk to write a letter to the relieving officer of Lewisham , stating that under the circumstances , they could not accept the deceased , and had therefore seat him back . Subsequently one of the guardians went down stairs and saw the deceased , and on his return he reported that the deceased was not in a fit state to be removed . Afterwards I saw the deceased myself . He was in a very weak and bad state . I ordered that be should be taken care ef until he was in a fit state to he removed . The man who bronght

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      toe tleceasvd s _; _iu h ; tuew _astning abut . to */ natter _beyond having _received the order ( a bring him <* ver » The _deee-wed ' s wife was able to walk , but Barges was not Well enough . The letter of the relieving officer was not » legal order of removal . If notice h * d been given that a man belonging to thin aniMk was at Lewisham , and we had made enquiry-and satisfied ourselves ef the fact , we should have takes the man upon the mere suggestion , and without aa order . To the best- of my knowledge , no « ' «¦ notice was-riven .

      Alfred Weale , assistant-surgeon to Mr . Smith , of St . Mary ' s Cray , ' deposed —I was called in ox Friday to attend the deceased , and I saw him sitting in the wash-house . He was very low _,, an 4 coald scarcel y articulate . He was perfectl y sensible , but could hardly answer any questions , ai he had , in great measure , lost his power of speech , and was in a dangerous state . I ordered him a _littla warm beer , and afterwards some . broth , or beef _tesw arid desired that be , should not ' be removed ¦ antil after I saw him a second time . I , visited him ag & _ia in two * hours , when he appeared rapidly _sinkings be eonld not take any . thing . Mr . Thomas H . Smith , examined—I saw him on Friday evening

      when he appeared to be d ying ; he was varjenmciated y and looked more like sixty than forty years of age . Since bis death i have made a past mortem examination of the body , anil find that th * deceased laboured under . strong chronic disease of the mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes , whick had evidently existed some time . There was also acute disease ef the substance of the lungs ( pneumonia , ) including all the hangs nn tbe right side , and partiall y an the left . He died of tne score disease , and this would probabl y , supervening _neojathe previous chronic disease , have terminated fatilljv under any _cireumetances ; but bis death was , in my opiuion , clearly accelerated by removal in an ope *

      Francis Harris , of Loampit-hill , Lewisham _^ labourer , deposed that be was employed by Mi-. _George Harding Palmer , the relieving officer _« f Lewi-sham , to bring the deceased and his wife tot St . Mary ' s Cray in a cart , for which he wa- * to ca » ceive 3 s . 6 d . The deceased was able to walk down stairs , but eonld not get into the cart . Margaret Burgess deposed that she bad been mar ried to the deceased between seven and eight yean . On _Tburxday week he was taken ill « ith a _sorathroat , and she persuaded bim to go to Mr . Brown , a surgeon , which he did , and Mr . _Brewn gave th » deceased an emetic and some pills . Mr . Brown sawv niia again oa Sunday ' mc-rniag , and examined hiss throat minutely , and when he again called he foundr that the deceased was out and appeared to bv much better , so he discontinued his visits . On

      _Wednesday witness applied toMr . Palmer , the _relieving offieer , who came to their lodging , and made _inquiries as to their settlement . She told Mr . Palmer that she had once before been passed from _Plaoutead to Coodharo , and he replied that the parish _cooM do nothing more for tbeur than pass tbem to _Geadbam ; . but , as they were in want of temporary relieJL he had no objection to give _tacin a four-pouni loaf . Between one and two o ' elock , the same _dav they Bent and received the loaf . On the _Tuesda-jr evening witness went again to Palmer to know wha she should do with her husband and Palmer told . her tbat tbey must go over to Coodham . He offered witness- Is . to assist them on _tberoad , and gave her a letter to the relieving officer of Coodham .

      Witne * s informed Palmer that her husband could nofe walk » o far ; and he then told her te get a _horseaai cart as cheap as she could . After they left Elthana the deceases complained very much of being brought to St . Mary ' s Cray , and upon arriving there hat was lifted out of the cart , when he fell down , and h * was removed into the kitcheu of the Poor-houne , and a medical man attended him . The deceased died _, about nine o ' clock the same night . They certainl y should not have come here had they not thought that _, they must obey Mr . Palmer ' s orders . By the Coroner : —She did not appl y to Mjt , Palmer for any further assistance between the Wednesday and Friday morning , nor did she inform hint . of her husband ' s illness , or ask him to proeor mi _. r *' f > nl _nuuiut-anr * A .

      Mr . Robert Booth Latterj Clerk to the Bromley-Union , produced the u friendly" order , as it wast termed sent with the deceased b y Mr . Palnwr , foe the removal of paupers . ' It was not a legal ordernor such a one aa the officers of any parish cool * be compelled to obey . The Coroner then asked Palmer if he wished tm say anything , and cautioned him not to criminal himself . Palmer then observed that he eertainl y _shooldr . not have removed them , if he had been aware off the deceased ' s illness , but that it waa not _inea'it * neA

      to him . , mr did Mrs . Burgess ever request medical _assistance for hira . He used nothing like force j but ,, on tbe contrary , both the deceased and hie wife were desirous of being removed . Th * "friendl y" order he was in the eustom of _using in such cases , and other parishes did the same ,, inorder to save expense . ( He here handed that Coroner a bundle of papers to prove his assertion . _^ The Coroner summed up ; after which the juryroom was eleared , and the jury delivered a verdic _* fc of " Manslaughter" against George Harding Palmer . Mr . Cartar then made « ut Palmer ' *

      commitment to Maidstone Gaol , and the witness were bound over to appear and give eviden t * _Rcainut him .

      Poor Law Practics.—We Have Often Drawa, ...

      Poor Law _Practics . —We have often _drawa , the attention of our readers to the brutal _saiuafeeliHg conduct of the Morpeth Board of Guardians , and to individual ca _* _es of hardshi p _ani oppression , practised upon the poor _unfortuaatsr paupers , both in and out of the Union _Workhouses We did tbis , in the hope that the unequivocall y expressed indignation of the public , would detet those wretches from perpetrating such _enormitiasia future ; it hat bad no such effect . They appear to be led on by a blind fatuity , regardless alike of the demoralizing effects of these acts , or the loudly expressed execrations of their fellow men . W _«> lately had occasion to allude to the treatment of

      the inmates of the Workhouse , where not less thxaten poor unfortunate people have been , by their starvation system of diet , consigned to an untimely grave . We have now to allude to an aet of am equally atrocious kind , towards an unf * rtunat » female , who latel y gave birth to an illegitimate child ; and which the father , taking advantage at tbe inhuman bastard y clause , refused to _supports This young female ,, upon making application , fee the support of her child , was first subjected to sat . examination by the clerk , and afterward * hefbt * the Board , the Rev . W . H . Parry , in the ehair _j where the questions pnt to her were of such : st brutal and indecent kind , tbat we forbear to _oubliahv

      them ; after which ordeal , she was- told she eautdfc have no relief out of the Workhouse ; and for what reason does our readers suppose ? Because Amcould bring no- corroborative evidence of the facts ' Now , we would ask , can anything be more _demota- _* lizing , or more calculated to . destroy the fine aata delicate feelings of the female mind , than by -rahjecting a young girl to such an indecent examination _^ , or b y _subjecting her to the contamination . £ th * Union Workhouse , destroying every _independsat feeling , and pauperizing her , as it were , let life . ? We wouldhave thought thai the wish of any eetof mea . having the common feelings of humanity , would hav * been to . nlace this female in such cireumstaneeft a *

      would have the effect of reclaiming ber to the path * of virtue ; and in her case there Was every prospect ; of it being done , a * the famil y with wham _shf'IfaaV lived for some time before her misfortune , were e * - _tremt-ly anxious to take her again into their sernee _^ provided she could , get her child supported . Boar this would not suit the Morpeth'Board , who appear to rejoice , with a fiendish satisfaction , over the-Misfortunes of their fellow-ereatnres ; and to gloat witk delight over snch indecent examinations , so araefet . in accordance with the impurity of their own minds . Bnt let us bow examine tbe effects of their " _**»• . Here is a young girl , twenty years of age , of -rery prepo 3 _ses 8 _tog appearance , withont parents _^ thrown upon the- world with her child to support ; now , it requires no . very grave stretch , of imagination , te _UUDDOSe that she . in _nrdur to _RntiarV _ihovMlt _nt"k _*

      child ,, and : her own cravings , of hunger , may W induced to become the read y victim of some wealth y practised-libertine ; or perhaps , to imbrue her Bands ) in her child ' s innocent blood—a crime for whieh * qta _* nation has , since the passing of the Bill , _rectim _* an irrecoverable notoriety . And these are _theeneeaa of that Act , which its advocates say is to _raiss the condition of the people of England to the tnaVsc p itch of moral excellence , but whose direct effect * are to fill the land with lamentations of the poer—t * cause our towns and hamlets to become the _abttUit of pros _titatioB , and the once happy cottages of England to resound with the shrieks of infanticide k But the day is not far distant when the perpetrabw of these horrid cruelties will find , to their sad experience , the consummate folly and danger ot outraging the feelings , and trampling upon the righto a _*** dhbcEties of a great and enlightened peowle .

      — " Ke » t awbi ' _e—Children of wretchedness ! mure groan * maatriw _* Mors Mood _mo » t stream : < re _\ onr wrongs bt _fiilX _* Yet w tbe day of _retributioa nigh . ** _f _? i _* _rthj > wn T . _ihM-fitnr _.

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 6, 1839, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/nss_06041839/page/7/