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      A. Few Strange Tenures

      A . FEW STRANGE TENURES

      . A farm , at Broad-boose , in the pariah of Peniston , ^ k county of York , pays yearly to Godfrey Bosp ^ e , a snowball at midsummer , and a red rose at \ Jaixtmas . . - WjUiam fe Albemsrle holds the manor of Loston , "I the service of finding for our Lord the King , two * nwrs , and one loaf ofoat bread whenever he shall ^ at in the forest of Eastmoor . : Join Compeg had the manor of Finchfield given ™* bj King Edward III ., for turning the spit at his CD «« wk ) n . yeofir Fnnnbrand held sixty acres of land in nj ngfodd , in tie county of Suffolk , for paying T 68 " ? tooor Lord the King , ixmvshite doves . 1 " * onld , says Fox , a tax devise , " -J ^ hich shaD not fall on me ; i&en tax receipts , Lord North replies j Jor timse you never see .

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      So . 1 . TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND . , Qiow ^ oraTBTMEK , —If ever you were serious , ^ jo now . Thejubjectonwhicilarn aWto ^^» you , u indeed momentous . The chains of QM ^«*« TO ** J « »! W 21 you ^ rear them ? ^^ Emgwithta / i ^ e man ' fTbice and resolution ^ fyae power ^ hichTrdQld first dmdB you , and is ^^? inplfi n P ° JOPr-Jftmwnrihgii ^ rtB . Nothing mor « certain , than that flifi « uuaentiBgiitatii » a »

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      of this country . cannot long surriTe , if the mere party contentions , which have of late years agitated the nation , be not very soon , somehow or other , brought to a close . I have , as you are aware , appealed to the fathers of the people , to the nobles of the land . To them I hate appealed in vain . They are fast asleep in the arms of Infidelity , and have forgotten that " Christianity it part and parcel of the late of England . " They are bunded by the spirit of darkness , which tells them , and they believe it , " that labour and poverty are ordained by God to be for ever united" ( Melbourne ; J—that '' to make any legal provision for the poor , is attempting to overturn the original decree of the Creator of the universa" ( FitziciUiam ;)— nay , even that , " charitable " ^ " — —— -

      views are most ruinous in a Government ; ( Haddington . ) Being resolved , if possible , to avert the dreadful state of anarchy , which a government , acting on such diabolical and WHConstiturionalprinciples , mutt , if theyj persist , as they are now doing , to embody them in practice , inevitably produce . I turn from the Infidel peers of a Christian nation , to the people , who have not yet swallowed the contents of the "poisoned chaHee of Infidelity , believing that they will listen to me , whilst I endeavourfreely and boldly to assert the Truth ; and whilst I call upon them , to awake their fathers out of their death-like dream . The names of Tory . Whig , and Radical have so long ranged the people of England under party flags , that the National Union Standard has been laid by , as athingforgotten . The interests of thejpeop / ehave oeen merged in the emoluments of partisans ; the principles of the Constitution have been overturned

      by the expediency of her enemies , the national rightold-fasbioned English feeling has been banished from our breasts by the rancour of party , and we Jiave ceased to feel for each other as brethren . VTeare no longer a band of patriots , as our forefathers were : we are disjointed and distracted , we are broken and ™ f ] w -are enfeebled and well nigh destroyed ; and shall become ( ifwe do not soon discover our error , ) aneasy prey to that power ,-which has caused onrdisunion for the purpose of consuming our strength , —to that power , which has alone gained by the ruin of mxOioiis . The poweb I allude to is neither Tory , » nig , nor Radical . It has insinuated itself into evert / party , —nay , it boasts , at this moment , that all me leaders of each political sect are its votaries : and thus , to advance its own interests , and to delude the people , it marshals the one party against the other in hostile array , —taking care , however , that the close of every conflictshall find itself advancing in station , and bear witness toits own progressive advance , influence , and strength ; whilst the people , with the constitution , are gradually sinking into slavery and decav . J

      m Ask you what that power is ? See it enthroned in jraxce— established on the miseries of millions ! supported by the bayonets of hundreds of thousands pi mercenaries j—and dazzling , at this moment , a ^™ o ° / M T ' ^ th the * lorie * of * n African conquest J ! In England you will find it in the ? £ 2 ? Z ° 2 ^ ministry , estranging the aristocracy Irom the people—teaching the people to despise their consfatuaonal rights and pnvilegespoisonmg the minds of the agricultural and manufacturing employers against their respective labourers and servants—and compelling the latter to recognise an enemy in the very man under whom te ^/^ "dailv bread ; '_ p lacing a barrier between the people and the monarch , whose young and guileless mind they attempt to occupy with I ceasele ^ -ronnd of empty and heartlesspleasures . You may read it m the midnight assassin statute , empowering Ministers to s = ourge the land with wwconsututional metropolitan police : in the nr . rnr «^

      * . ew i * oor Law ; and in the intended establishment ol a rural police , wLIch waits only for a favourable Ki ^ n ' tode 1 P ri y ° ^ vouriatt remaining r * i f c * JZ ? ^ k the name of t ^ monster ? Go to the Stock Exchange , and read it in every forehead It is covetousness ! It is Ijjfideuty ! wnich grasps at power , that it may obtain wealth ! which laysits fangs as remorselessl y , and as surely , on the aristocrat , ihe farmer , the old fashioned tuglishmerchant , the manufacturer , and the shopkeeper , as it does on the humblest labourer ! Its cunning enables it to do this , by exciting the jealousies of-each against thevther , and by keeping them in a perpetual war , about Tory , Whig , and Radical , whilst it—unnoticed by any—robs and enslaves tnem all . ' "This power or spirit—monster or demon , call it by whatname you will , is entirel y forei gn to every English , to every Christian feeling and to everv mtriJir

      principle . It takes every form—arrays itself in every colour , and assumes every disguise . Its object is to confound and to mislead , in order that it may destroy —its cnes are ever , " Give , give , " —" more , iiore , ' — - more labour for less MOXET , "— more good ? for l&SS C 3 / SI 1 . _ The old English tradesman is already banished by its influence ; the "lire and let live' * principle is extinct . That feeling of good-will between the jjovernment and the People—between landlords and farmeis—between fanners and labourers , and manufacturers laid mechanics , -irhicft teas formerly the glory and the strength of Exglaxd , has been supplanteil by jealousy and her sister haired ; and each 0 D «! ^ Vi only ^ teemed b y another , in the exact ratio tnat he can be made conducive to the acquirement of wealth .

      The spirit of which I speak may be seen personined m our manufacturing towns , in every foreign mercantile establishment , instead of our old English Christian merchants , who really wished the native manufacturers to thrive , we now see a race of foreign Inndels , ? isurpi ? ig their places , whose only desire , and wnose ^ interest it is , to feed upon the spoil of our workshop 3 . _ In every town you may jtee this spirit embodied m " Cheap Shops , " established by it ? votaries of the " Slaughter-house system , " who avail themselves of the miseries and the misfortunes of our manufacturers , and buy up , at half cost , the stocks of our insolvents ; and , by selling them at reduced pnees , prevent the fair trader from entering the market . ? ' The Slaughter-house establishments "

      have dnven our old merchants from the home market , as the foreigners , now settled in England , are fast dnvuig them from the markets abroad . The race of old Jvnghsh shopkeepers is well nigh superseded by the flashy dealer , who dazzles and decoys by the tempting glare of ticketed , showy , cheap goods . _ This anti-English spirit has been lately exhibited in the exportation of pur improved machinery , and of our yam ; thus giving foreigners every facility to spin their own yam , and in the meantime fumiahing tuem with our yarn to weave *—whilst our own weavers arem the last stage of destitution and despair y&j , this is not enough ; the monster power has opened our ports to our foreign rival manufacturers , who are now allowed to compete against ourselves .

      in our own markets . . You may trace the murderous steps of this monster in the famine , which" is produced by its influence , amongst our Highland brethren , thousands of whom have been forbidden bylaw to avail themselves of nature ' s spontaneous gifts , which are cast by the waves on the Northern shores . Thus , as the lamented Sadler once assured me it would do—has it deprived them of their " daily bread . " The spirit alluded to has insinuated itself into all our manufactories—the object of our manufacturers no longer being to make a nsefnl , good , substantial article—but as showy , as cheap , and consequently as deceptive and flimsy an article as posrible . The labourers ' unittersully find this spirit overpowering tf ¦ 4 u

      _ « ' " ~ — — — . j- — «~» w s % t . them—in longer toil , and in less-wages ; or , by being thrown altogether out of employment . The cowardly but deathly grasp of this demon pwwrisfelt by the poor white English stares , those industrious children of the poor—the Factory Children ! Its grasp 13 embittered too , in their , case , by the fact , that in very many instances , the hand , which pretends to lead them in the path of Christianity and of useful knowledge , is the same which is secretly striking the poisoned dagger to their hearts . It deludes them wiih tales of woe about the heathen and the blacks—and betrays them into a slavery more bitter and

      more hflary than that , whichinothers , they bemoan . It leads them the shortest , though the rougbest way to death , while telling them of Jesus ' love to little ones I Oh it is a crueL lying , deceitful poweri - Perhaps , however , its last measure is its bloodiest —the Poor Law Amendment Act!—An act of Charity forsooth!—To force the poor to live on coarser food—or leave the land of their birth ! To dissolve ma marriage , the parental ' and the filial bonds' ! To imprison the poor , that in charity , in secret , it may poison them by hundreds ! A Law ( 1 ) forsooth to trample on the prerogative of the monarch , and to destroy the right of the subject !

      Sometimes it is the interest of this monster to assume the garb of patriotism , and prate about liberty . Then yon find it rousing and exciting the people against the aristocracy , calling them tyrants , borough-mongers , and I know not what : then treason is loyalty ! and rebellion is patriotism ! -But no » oner have the people answered its "deceitful ends by helping it to humble the aristocracy than it turns to the terrified peers , and assures their lordships , " that they , will loss their estates , if they do not plunder and oppress thi poor . " Then the people are insulted in the ears of the aristocracy by the very man , who , but a few weeks before , bowed down and worshipped the " mob . " They are by him called "idle , lazy , and dissolute , and are judged , vdthvut hwmng-been heard in their oten defence ^ to be 'unworthy of a home in England ! Thd-jsoane mouth-wnitip « antserfto-emancipate them , doomed thenxto slavery and death !

      Nay , so'deceitinl is this spirit , -that it sometimes assumes the plaintive strains of humanity . It was thus that it pilfered twenty millions from the labourers of England , under the pretence of releasing eight hundred thousand human beings from slavery , but , in reality , its only object was tofill the pockets of its votaries—ihe mortgagees and owners of slaves ! . "No tithes , "—" no church rales , * ' are sometimes its war cry , and still , the people are required to aid ; but , when the battle is ended , the gains of church plunder are not given to the poor , they are indeed for the moment pretended to be distributed amongst tae landlords , the real motive being , however , to

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      secure the mortgages of its votaries on the landed estates of the entrammeHed aristocrats . The blind-Sit that tLe y have gained by ? ffi 2 ^ J H * ey soon fc ^ * ° their cost , that the feSfor ^ hurch a ? ° . * e poor , is ^ not win ^ il JJ ^ ' ^ V ffiat ifc " --W wanted * o 3 £ n ^ rf ? ™ of - ^ estate 8 ^ ** security of « ilSSf ^ ' ' ¦ tpPgrataW to the grand infliction of Sf ' b ^ fK . 8 to "fcare the amounts advanced to vnem by the money dealers . TaLS ? . ^ T . W ' 6 ' ^*! ' FlTZWlLLIAM a ll his 7 * g ? neg , all his treason , for having . « in ;« w : - o + n > n j ii i ii mi

      2 * ' ^ dthdi * they have ^ cc ? ededfor STd ^ STrt ^ ^^ tete ^ b y robbing me clergy and Plundering and murdering the paupers , it u not intended to allow them to pocke spirit which they have fallen down and worshipped , requires that "the Corn Laws shall be repeated / les , f ellow-conntrymen ! when the morteagees W ^ entirely 89 C nred themselves , by sSing Ae church and the poor , then they ' will Uugh at the any propnetors , who have aided them in robbmg ihs popr and the clergy , and will demand that the people shall be fed upon' cheap / orej £ n corn . The consequence will be , that rents win be immediately reduced at least one half ; thus will nine tenths of the landlords be at once reduced to pauperism , the " out door relief to the Tjensinn « r «

      must then be withdrawn , and we shall have Lord iiRouoHAM at ihe nead of a host of " idle , lazy , SSn ^ " ^ 1116 " > wjwa * rt » . driven into the ¦ n et » . < hete to enioy the reward of their own Jillany , feeding on" skilly , " and dying of Asiatic ( ' ) cnoiera . ihe landlords will deserve it , no one can , or will , pity them : and , if the gain were appropriated to the working millions , no one would rejoice so ^ much as I , being perfectly sure , as , i am , that the people would restore the plunder of the Church . I know , nowever , that the selfs ame sp irit , which shall succeed iri this robbery will , if not prevented , take care that the labourers shall receive no benefit . Their labour will be still pnprotected ; and , until they can succeed in

      obtaining a legal protection for their labour , which their forefathers had secured to them by law , it is absolutely impossible that they can be behefitted ; however cheap corn may be , their labour will be equally , if not more cheap . This the freetraders know full well , ' more labour for less money" is all they aim at . The ploughboys will be driven by thousands into the workshops , and destitutioniwill still be the " test" for all . « More goods for less money "—will be all the benefit , either to the manufacturers , or to their workmen . But let it progress ! let the end come I'then will the Aristocrats , the manufacturers and the working millions know , that their interest is all one and the same . Yes , fellow countrymen , I do believe that It 18 impossible to touch the pride or the honor

      ot a race of nobles , who are willing to become the slaves of their own creatures—the Poor Law Commissioners ! of Lords Lieutenant , who can allow their rights to be invaded by the tramping servants of three commissioners ! or of magistrates , who think it no degradation to obey the mandates of a hired menial ! Their honour is fled ! their national pride is extinct . But oh , they are still sensitive , —they are still vulnerable in their pockets . They are now assailable m that one point only ! So , people of England ! have at them ! and , in order to open their eyes , demand foreign corn . This will as effectually wind up our state affairs , as " payingno more taxes ;' and it is proposed by the selfsame person . But , take care , fellow countrymen , that in the mean time , you not bound

      are hand and foot by a rural police . The spirit of the age knows , that that force will be required for the completion of his scheme . Dissappoint him there , and , when the Corn Laws are repealed , the game will be once more in your hands—and then , may God give you wisdom to restore safely and comfort to the cottage , the mansion , and the palace , by taking care that a settlement of our national affairs be then made on equitable terms Then , it will be just , and , if you resolve to be ho more deluded , it willbe « wy to place yourselves in a position , in which . " Free Trade" may not be injurious to any of you . With our heavy taxes , our expensive establishments , our ponderous national debt , itis impossible that we can maintain a " Free

      Trade" with foreigners , unless we are content always , as at present , to sacrifice all the comforts of our labourers and mechanics , at the bidding--of that Demon , which , has already ground them down so severely . Never mind , however , Fellow-countrymen , —the game ^ is worth trying . The Aristocrats have disinherited the people—and now , my Lord Fitzwilliam has told them , that the price required for their temerity is " Free Trade IK CoRTf . " Once more I say—have at them ; bat keep your eyes wide open , and resolve to die , rather than to submit to a Frenchified Rural Police . If you once permit a Rural Police to be established , the power to take advantage of the Free TradeJuggle , will no longer be in your hands , and

      you wm men assuredly nave to fight for your rights , t > TXG ~ nibmitto !> 4 timer . - — : ..--. .. . . ; TeUow-countryinen , —I have endeavoured to explain to you the causes of' your sufferings ; to disclose the secret power , which is the main spring of all your party bickerings . I know that there are honest patriots in all parties ; but they are bewildered and led astray , by those designing men , who are in reality all of one creed ; and who know that it is needful to carry different colours , and to adopt different watchwords , in order to mislead and betray the whole people . I have said that the leaders of every party are the votaries of this anti-English , anti-Christian spirit ; that they are all the Apostles of one creed ; and that their battle is against land , manufactureand

      , labour . If you still resolve to follow them , their victory will be gained , by alternately waning with one party against the other . The Parliamentary leaders of every party are Malthusians ! They are worshippers of capital ! In their eyes the farmers , manufacturers ^ and labourers , are only valuable , so long as their produce can be turned to the profit of the money change ! It matters hot to them what misery and distress overwhelm the producers , goad them on to unnatural and unbearable exertions . Theystand idly by , withmoneybagsin band , and claim and obtain , at the price of honor and of life—the whole profits of the industrious community . Their creed is , " that labour and poverty are ordained by God to be twin sisters ; " " that nature has only

      provided for no many persons as the wealthy require ^ for their comfort and convenience ; " " that the people have no natural , no constitutional , or legal right to dwell in the land , and be fed . " " That thepresenceqf thepooris only enduredbysufferance ] and that patriotism requires that they should either emigrate , or be imprisoned , and deprived of every comfort ; nay , that it is charity to seem to feed them with slow poison . " This is the creed of them all ; Whig , Tory , or Radical ; Churchman , Roman , Catholic , orDissenter , itmakes no difference ; by Malthus they swear , —hisaccursedprinciplejthey adopt : —they defy God , and they dare to murder his poor . . You see I speak quite out—it is time to do so . Our religion and our country are the stake . These men may perhaps considerthemselves safe in acting as thev

      please ; they may deem themselves to be a sort of " chartered fibertines , " wearing / different dresses , and avowing different creeds , who are at liber ty to do what they like . Still , however great the snpport they may ^ receive , and however great my snffenngs in opposing them—nay , however unsnccessral my efforts may be in exposingwhat I consider to be their villany , 1 will never be deterred from the fearless performance of what I believe to be my duty . Some of yon may hitherto have trusted in Melbourne or Russell , Radnor or O'Connell , others in Brougham or Hume , whilst many of you have no hope in any but Peel . To me tney are all alike—they are all of one creed—all sworn on one book , the book , of Malthus ! . which rives the lie to

      the book of nature and to the word of God . Many of you , my former friends , who now call yourselves "Conservatives" will perhaps start when I include a Peel in the anti-Englisnlist . Sadler hadnot a more determined foe . Never did Peel support that benevolent and patriotic Christian Statesman in any _ of his measures . Nay , I knovr that thousancU of Sir Robert ' s dopes hate him : many a "Conservative "has told me , " that Peel had done more harm than any other man ; " but , still they follow him , —still they toast him , ~ thongh still they suspect , andconspquentlyd ' ifferfhim . . " Consenatives ' . " ye , who were once proud to call yourselves Tories , I address myself now more especially to you . . I have suffered much in your cause

      I have a right to Your attention ; I-now claim it . Who , to increase his own fortune , notwithstanding the warnings of his venerable father , ^ ruined thousands of industrious landlords , farmers , ban kers ^ manufacturers , tradesmen and labourers , by his insane cash payment bill , " unaccompanied as it W 8 & , by an equitable adj ustment ? It was Peel , who , after having sworn to defend the Protestants Church * basely betiajjred her ! and delivered her , bound hand and foot , into the bands of O'Connell ? It was your pet Peel ! And who , seeing that the New Poor Law . can never be enforced without a rubal police , has declared his ' wiflingness to assist the Whigs in establishing that tor-constitutional forcer ^ I ask job , is it not rBEt ? Nay , who , knowing the unpopularity of those two

      measures , Is ijow waiting ( and this , more than any other act proves Wf meannest \ cowardice ) and treachery , ) to aid bis political oppone ' nt * to'establish them , -before he kicks , them out , and takes their . { daces . ? I ask yon again , is it pot " your present eader Peel ? Then we shall have ihe Peelites restored to office , with the nation bbund hand andfoot by the Whigs ; and Peel will reply to all our grumblings ** These are not my measures ; thej are Grey ' s and-MELfiouRNE's , " or perhaps he will'leid off the . Tories of his own creed , ( and sorry Tories they have been , ) and , unite the Whigs , and , the . "Conservatives , " agamsttheold Thries and ^ the people , and hen endeavour ' to enslave-them botb , ' . — -The latter is most probable .. Lwtrittosee . - _ ¦; Was ever anything more ' shabby , ' more ' thimbleriggy' than Sir Robert ' s conduct the other night on

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      fc ^ i ? Ht ^' 8 inotion , respecting the Factories ' v ^ fa w ? tVi a ° harra ^ the Government , he t& ^ ° AsHt EY , but he told the House , ^^ f ; opposed to the principle of Lord Ash-SSiKrS' Sf P ^^ ded forsooth , * that it was desirable to settle the question . Why then did he S ^ R ^ ° ' Vhen H " » ® Mce ? Ilis father ; old & « ^ Robert , was the first man . who proposed Ash-K fS ? " *? 1 ?™ Parliament . Then Peel sapported hw fether ?; measure . Since then , it has been proposed _ by Sadler , when Peel was in power , bnt when Sadler rose to speak on the subject , PEBLnsed tonge and leave the House , I have often heard & 1 DLKR complain of this . But now . for & «*«* at |

      , „ purposes , he can trte with Ashley ^ and the same tome ^ protestagainst his Lordship ' s principle ! lories tnends ? I have known you , when ^ y ou wonllhave - ^^^ tssffltos ^ ^ m ^^^ is ^ rst a , ^ ttStSi fe baclt f ?™ - * ° "" ' «« " i need to be afraid of speakin ? with vnnr Pn » S

      i ^^ ffi ^ S Parliament , and a lQng time in offiSndlrTEE ? had scarcel y ever ^ opened his mouth in the . House I knew this gentleman to be a very se 3 w talented man , but I had fancied , although £ fonld spealr well and ' Gently | 3 that m ^ ftc he could not speak . At lengtfi , it Z happened , . that he , offered lumself to representla populous borough . During the contestf he was obliged to address large bodies of people , and of con stituents . I then found that he wai really a verv supenor public orator . Being acquainted with Ms rotneri

      D , expressed my surprise to him , and said , " How is it that Sir J . . should have been solone in Parliament , ^ and never have spoken , except on one question , and that only two or three times f How is t £ v cied r l he was no speaker , —and now I find , that , if he had been practised , he would have _ been as able a debater as Sir Robert Peel . " My friend answered-. " . My brother , you know , was ( mentioning his office ) , and the business of that omce is seldom introduced in debate , —and it is Sir Robert 8 plan to keep his svps back , and never to allow them to speak , sav e on matters relating to their own particular departments . ' I rejoined , That explains to me why the Whias , with 8 car « . iv talent

      any , should be able to beat the Tories in debate , m spite of the overwhelming ability of the Tory benches . They push their young men forward -Sir RoBEVrkeeps his back . " I saidmuchmore ; but now , "Conservatives , " what say you to your leader ? . The above anecdote is true ; and I am sure that the Baronet I speak of , would . have been a much greater statesman than Peel , if he had not been tethered and tongue-tied by his master , whose only proof of greatness has been displayed inhavitigstmk his ownparty , which was , before . he became its leader the strongestpartyin the State ! He has succeeded in doing what the Whigs in vain attempted—he has destroyed the party which had ruled the nation for more than nfty years ! Tories , task you seriously , what has Sir Robert

      Peel done for you ? Tell me one measure that he has proponed whicli has served your cause . He has divided you and . sunk you , and made you ashamed of your name , and that is all which Peel has done for the very party which worship him . It is useless to ask whatigood he has done for the nation ! I need not ask the Marquis of Chandos to fellhovr wonderfully Peel has befriended the agriculturists ! nor the Earl of WiNCHELSEA how bravely he ha s defended the Church ! Tell me , then , ye Conservatives , who are now the fools—who the madmen ? For my own part , I would not give a pin to chuse out of the whole seven I have named ; they are all MALTHU 8 iAKST-disguise themselves as they may They are the enemies of land , of manufacture , and of labour j-J-they are the foes of Christianity—they are the curse of England . If Meir creed be the riiUTH , the wisdom of all our former Statesmen and Divines is /< % . Then the Bible is a lie : and the Book or Nature is but a blotted scroll Of

      blunders ! _ So far I have briefly but correctly , and I hope convincmgly , sketched the chief causes of our general decline , our common and wide-spread misery and national degradation . Fellow-countrymen , think upon them , muse awhile , and deeply ponder them whilst you pause , I am preparing to propound the remedy . ; , I am , fellow-countrymen , Your mostfaithful friwnd and servant , ... RICHARD OASTLER . Fixby Hall , near Huddersfieid , July 13 th , 1838 .

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      To Her most Gracious Majesty Victoria , by the Grace of God , of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , Queen , Defender of the Faith . i ¦ ¦ The Petition of the Loyal and Independent Inhabitants of thft Borough of Oldham , in the County Paiatlne of Lancaster . May it please your Majesty , —? We , your Majesty ' s faithful and loyal subjects of Oldham , have on this day of your Coronation , assembled for the purpose of shewing our firm attachment to your Majesty , and to those laws , and to that constitution , according to which it is rio less your Majesty ' s pleasure than your duty , to govern the Kingdom of England .

      Viewing , as we do , with joy and satisfaction , the ascension of your Majesty to the throne of your ancestors , we deeply regret that we cannot join with those of your Majesty ' s subjects who now celebrate that ascension with all the outward show of unmin gled satisfaction . However much we may rejoice and we do most sincerely rejoice , that your Majesty is our Queen , our joy is saddened and embittered by our firm conviction , that the rights of the Crown and the rights and liberties of the people , are trampled in the dust ; by . corruption anf treachery . In such a state of things we consider it deceitful and disloyal to offer your Majesty any soft of congratulation . Being thus painfully situated , feeling , that we oughtnottolet this day pass unnoticed , but feelinc

      at nie same time that we could not join in the rejoicmg , real , or pretendeid , or otherwise , ' withont doing violence to our sense of duty : we have come to the conclusion , after mature deliberation , that it would be most con « onant with the circumstances of thecase ; with oui feelings of dutytoyourMajesty and to our fellow-subjects ^ and we doubt not with your Majesty ' s feelings also , that we should in thebest manner we may ^ a able , ley before youTmajesry one of the most unconstitutional , oppressive , and cruel of the manifold grievances under ' which the crown and the people of this once glorious arid happy , but now . degraded and miserable kingdom of England , labour ,: trusting to the goodness ,, and 1 wisdbni of iMajcaujruuuci

      j ™ , ; me uicsBiug pi rfoviaence , to bring to yourself and your faithful people a speedy and happy deliverance . We therefore beg most humbly to submit to , your Majesty , that it has been the undoubted right of Englishmen , from times to which the knowledge of man extendeth not to the : contrary , to live in reasonable ease and comfort upon the soil on which it has pleased God to put them ; that all the property and privileges of any of your Majesty ' s" subjects are founded upon , and subject tq this right , that even the allegiance and obedience which are undoubtedly due to the Crown and to the . laws of England are so due , and due onl y upon the ; condition , that that crown and those ' iaws wiir afford ftiiVTwMWtinT ; + «

      the people iri ^ the ehjoyment of this inalienable right ; that this right haskeii most grossl ^» . Wickedly , treacherously , and cruelly ^^ . violated j contrary to the peacessecurity , honour , and glory of your Majesty * your crpwni and y » ur dignity . That it is notorious that this unheard of wicRednessihig'been perpetrated b / tbreepersons sittin g in Soiri 6 t ? et House , iaitJie c >^ -rTrJ ? ^^ ^ " ' and known ; by tie , style and 1 « f i ¦ e ¦ or La ^ 9 Prnmissi ( mCTs for England and Wales ; 'that these infamous persons , pretendmg to act . iinder the authority' and by ^ direfction bt an actpassed in the fourth and iifta years ' of the reign of your M ajesty s laraehjed . ' predecessbr , ' haye issued rules ,, orders , and regulations concernirig the relief of . the poor ; that under these rules , orders ^ and regulations , poverty has been treated as a crane ; your : Ma | esty ' s loyal and dutiful subjects have been cpntned in prisons , as a pu ^ hment . jfof their : nna ^

      voiaaDje migiortunes ; . ;• husbands have been separated from their wiveV and children from their parents ; that m this their state of imlawfoHrnpmonment y ^ uT . Majest yJ 8 subjects . hayebeenffl- ^ eati ^ jabused and lirenlte ^ , ^ and . thjBt ^ in very many , instances ; par- I tidularly by means or food lnsuMcient id quantity and pernicious in quality * whereby great nxanbefs of you * M ^ esty's subjects liava beeW brought-t 6 ' ptemature deaths ; 'tiiat' ydut Majesty's ' petitioner / afe ' axnYiiicea ifthese hbtribjfe . atrocities ^ Vi ^ t put an « i"l ^ towrthoutloss , of ' time , the . bonds of society , can not much longer hold together ; and thatt eveia the ,. stabikty . of . yonr Majesty ' s ihxow will . be en-/ T-heyi tbereforey mostihumbly and ' earnestly pray ^ 7 ??? M ajesty wiU lje , graciously pleased tooider that suchCommission dp cease to exist , and that the threewick 6 d « 6 mfamots persons aforesaid , bebanded over to receive such > punishmiBhts for their wicked act . 5 . hy the layfs of England , in that case providedjjiand as to your ' Majesty ' s ' wisdom may seemmeeti - . y J

      And your petitioners , as in ¦ duty bound , will ever pray . GOD SAVE THE QUEEN .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Thursday , August 2 . Several Bills were brought from the Commons and read a first time . A message was also brought from the Commons , requesting a copy of the evidence taken before the committee of their Lordships appointed to inquire into the operation ot certain parts of the New Poor Law . There was a conference with the Commons on the subject of amendments which had been made by ftejr Lordships in the Sheriffs' Courts ( ScotlandJ . Bill , and from which the Commons disagreed . Th *

      managers for the Lords announced that the managers for the Commons had left with them their reasons for disagreeing from the amendments . Lord LONDONDERRY again brought under the notice of the House the conduct pursued by the Irish Government in the appointment and dismissal ° l "J 8 ?* 81 ™ 168 ! and moved that there fee laid before the House a copy of the proceedings atNewry , on the 18 th October last , against Mr . Trevor Cony , and of any correspondence on the subject between the Irish Government and Mr . T . Corry . After short discussion , the motion was agreed to .

      The Registration of Electors Bill was read a second time . The Recovery of Tenements Bill went through committee . The Insane Persons ( England ) BUI was read a second time . TheLoan Societies ( Ireland ) Bill , the Fisheries ( Ireland ) Bill , and the Public Records Bill , went through committee . Lord GLENELG laid upon the table copies of the papers moved for on Tuesday respecting the kingdom of Oude . His Lordship stated , in answer to a question from Lord Ellenborough , that the 2 nd treaty which had been entered into between the Gorernor-General and the King of Oude , after the latter had been placed upon the throne , would not be produced , because the Home Government had refused to ratify it .

      Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed , that such a refusal was so extreme a measure as to call imperatively for some explanation of the circumstances of thecase . The House adjourned till Friday . Friday * August 3 . After the presentation of a few petitions , Lord MELBOURNE moved that the ( Tithes ) Ireland Bill Bhould be committed . His Lordship ' s speech was short and unimportant . He was answered by Lord BROUGHAM , who objected to the measure in a very long , very elaborate , and very eccentric speech .

      . Lord FITZGERALD did not oppose it generally , but recommended its adoption With the exclusion of the clauses relating to the opening of compositions already made under the faith of an Act of Parliament ; urlieu of which clauses he afterwards moved the insertion of "the clauses which had been on two former occasions proposed in place of the clauses to which he had referred as having before been expunged by their Lordships . " ^ After further speeches from Lords . Wicklow , Mansfield , the Bishop of Derry , Lord Lansdowne , and Lord Melbourne , the House went into Committee , when

      Lord FITZGERALD moved and carried the omission of clauses 13 to 25 inclusive . The majority was very considerable , being 77 to 38 . Lord FITZGERALD then moved the substitution of a clause allowing the period of six weeks for the appeal . On the suggestion of Lord Melbourne , the period for allowing the appeal was extended to the 1 st of October . The clause was then inserted . Lord FITZGERALD next moved the insertion of a second clause , empowering parties complaining of tithe commutation to apply to the Lord Lieutenant

      in Council for the appointment of one or two persons to revise it . i The clause , slightly amended at the suggeition of the Marquis of Downshire , was agreed to . The remaining clauses of the Bill , with the preamble and title , havingbeen agreed to , the House resumed , and the report was ordered to be received oh Tuesday , it being understood that the amendments should be discussed on the third reading . , Several Bills on the table were advanced a stage , and their Lordships adjourned at half-past eleven o ' clock .

      Saturday , August 4 . The Royal assent was given by commission to several bills . The Custody of Insane Persons Bill , and the Liverpool Clergy Endowments Bill , werereada third time and passed . , The reasons of the Commons for disagreeing from the Lords' amendments in the Municipal Corporations ( Ireland ) Bill were communicated at a conference , and on the motion of Lord Melbourne , it was ordered that the reasons be printed and taken into consideration on Tuesday . , The Irish Tithes Bill was reported , and ordered to be read a third time on Monday . The Copyright Bill went through commiiitee ^ and was ordered to be reported on Monday . The County of Clare Treasurer Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on'Mbnday .

      Monday , August 6 » Several measures were brought from the Commons , and read a first time . The order of the day for receiving the report of Lord Brougham ' s Copyright Bill was ; discharged . The Clare County Treasurer Bill , and the Fines and Tlecognizances ( Ireland ) Bill , went through committee , and were ordered to . be read a third time onTuesday . . - ¦" ¦' - ' ' ' / " : - : '¦¦'¦¦' : ' >¦ "¦ ' ¦¦ ¦¦ - : - ' - . . : Lord Glenelg was much pressed by Lord Brougham Lrf

      ana > ra tJJenborough to produce the subsidiary treaty which had been entered into with the present K ^ ngv , Oude , bnt be ; again refused , on the , ground that it had not been ratified . . f The third reading of ^ ^ the Irish Tithes BUI was postponed tiy . Tuesday , in consequenpe , itrwas understood , of , the , absence of Lord ' Fitzgerald ; and Vesey , wholias somejurther amendments to propose . ; jruyei ^ le . ' Offenders' Bill . was read a third time and passed , the amendment moved by Lord LYNDinrRST on a former day having been made ¦ ¦ ¦

      lnit . - ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ ' ? ¦"¦ : - ;; ¦¦'¦¦ •¦¦ .. ' ¦ ¦ " ¦ " ¦ ;¦ ¦¦••¦ ¦ The Constables on Public Works' Bill and , the Mails on Railways' Bill were read a second time and ordered to be committed , the first on Tuesday : and tbie latter on Thursday .: , G ¦ TThe Prisons' Bill was thrown out , on the motion thptrfcbe cornmitted ^ by a majority of 1 , the janmbers b ^ ing 32 and 33 . ; ' . ; ¦ . .- .-:. ¦ .--. .- ¦ . . - ¦ . ; . „ -X , On ; tiae motiojpi pf Lord Brougham , an address to ^ ib Crown , similar to that which was presented by the ^ ' Commons in May last , relative to the slave trade

      , wasagreedtoi ' j The PriBons ( Scotland ) Bill , and the Trading Companies' Bill went through committee , and were orderedtobeteported on Tnesday ^ LordBRouGHAM I fave notice that he will oppose the last-mentioned ' The Registration <) f Electors' Bill went through committee , and several amendments having been made n it , on the motion of Lord LynIdhurst , the rapOTt WM ordered to be recewed on ThurBday . ^ The House adjourned at a quarter-past six o ' clock .

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      HOUSE OF COMMO ^ S ^ 77 > ursday , August 2 ^ -The LORD ADVOCATE brought up the report of the committee appointed to draw up reasons for diiagreeing from the amendments of the Lords ia tb . e'Sheriff ' s Courts ( Scotiand ) Bill , and the Learned Lord and others were deputed to communicate them to Ae Lords at a Conference . - The forms bf Pleadings Bill , the Slave Trade Treaties . ( Sicily ) ^ Bill , the Slave Trade Treaties \ Tn cany )_ Bill , . the Transfer of Funds ( War-office ) ^ ti ^ Self * ^ ' ^ read a ( Ireland W ^ S ' ^ ™ uatioh of ^ Lands W , ^| ^ b 1 ^ oi ^ S ' ^^ B ^ were read a second tbne , and ord ^ S ^

      Nearly the j whole of the remainder of the nieht wa . s occupied . witii the discussion of the lS Aniend ^ nts m the Municipal CorporationT'SL . ^ The Pensions Bill was read a second time and the committal of the Spirits Licenses ( IrelandVBm was posiponed till Friday . ' ^ , Mr . FOX . MA'ULE obtained leave to brine ih a bill to facilitate the establishment of district rourt * mboroughs . ¦ Ottthemotion of Mr . RICE , leave was given to bring in a bill to revise and continue an act passed in the first andsecond years of his late : MajeaJy , to enable , her Majesty to make leases arid grants of

      lands and hereditaments in the Duchy of CorhwalL ^ . «• ^ nder t 0 Parliament an annual account . 1 he Right Hon . Gentleman also obtained leave tobring in another bill relating to the revenues of th » same Duchy , founded with certain exceptions , da the principle of the Nullnm Tempus Act . ' V ' ** & ^ MERSTON obtained leave to bria > in a bill tocontinue an act passed in the first year of Victoria , to enable her Majesty to carry into eflfect any order m Council for the abolition of slavery dunng the recess of ParKament . » f ^ aveiy pf , _ and the House adjourned at a quarter past one

      Friday , Augusts . In the House of Commons among the petitions presented was one by Sir De Lacv Evans , " from the inhabitant housholders ; of St . Paul ' s , Covent-Garden , praying that the powers of the Poor Law Commissioners to let parish property without the consent of the overseers may be diminished or alto gether repealed . " ' Mr . ELLIS complained of the " omission of an important passage in the second report of the Irisk Railway Commissioners . "

      Mr . RICE professed ignorance , but promised to make inquiries upon the subject . . On Mr . Rice's motion for the commitment of the Pensions Bill , some compliments were paid by Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell to the conduct of- the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police . _ Mr . HUME then moved that the bill be taken into consideration that day three months . After some expression of surprise from Mr . Rice , and > long speech from Mr . Harvey , the Hetnse went int » Committee on the Bill .

      On the first clause granting £ 136 , 000 for the annnal payment of Pensions . Mr . HUME asked whether the pensions granted during the reign of the Queen would be binding on the present Sovereign only . ¦ Mr . RICE said , that the Civil List of her Majesty had been settled wholly apart and distinct from the List of Pensions . That was the recommendation of the Civil List Committee , and that was the principle on which the late committee had proceeded . In respect of pensions granted by her Majesty , he could tell the ; Hon . Member , that in case of a certain melancholy event s to which he would not more particularl y allude , they woald again come under consideration . But those pensions to which th © present bill referred had no connexion with the Ufa

      of her Majesty in any possible respect . The several clauses of the bill were agreed to , the House resumed , and the report was ordered to be brought nr > on Monday . On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL for resuiningtjie consideration Of theLords' amendments to the Irish Municipal Bill , Mr . BALL " objected-to that , part of the amendments by which charitable trusts were to continue tobe vested in the present corporators during their lives , or until Parliament shonld otherwise determine , " and moved that the committee disagree front ttiat amendment . This led to a long discussion . The dispute was at length settled by LofdMprpetli proposing to alter the clause thus : ^ " No person , except members of the church ,, shall be appointed ! by the Lord Chancellor trustees for trusts connected with the united church . " . r ,

      This amendment , after some conversation , was agreed to ; " :: ; . The ^ pother ^ cUwwekup to 161 inclusive were airree 4 to ; after which " several new clansea were propwtso . by Lord Morpeth , for the purpose of giving power to certain towns , not included in the act , to apply the provisions of the act ' of the 9 thiof George IV .-This led to a smart discussion , but tie clause * were ultimately agreed to , after a division and a , majority of 19 . ¦>¦ : - After ^ sonie further discussion , " a committee ! . wa appointed to draw up reasons for dissenting from the Lords' amendments , which were ordered to bestated in a conference with the Lords . " - : ; . .

      On the order of the ; aayfor going into the Committee of vv ays and Means , Sir F . TRENCH moved for a select committee to mqinre into those cases in which the Irish Government has offered rewards for the apprehension or conviction of offenders agansst the laws , and in which such rewards or any portion of them have not been paid after such apprehension or conviction , and . into the causes why they have been with held .

      Lord MORPETH defended the system , and the motion was withdrawn . , In the committee on the Customs Act , Mr . RICK proposed certain resolutions , ''>¦ which he had stated to > the house on a previous night , for the reduction of the tin duties in Cornwall to 15 s . , per cwtu prior tobringing in a bill to that effect . The resolutions also provided that compensation should be madefrom the Consolidate d Fund for any loss which , persons , now connected with those duties , might sustain . ' ' .. .. .-. ' : " ' . ¦

      The Affirmation Bill , which extends the exemption from taking an oath to all those who had everbeen at any period of their- lives Quakers or Moravians , was , after some discussion and opposition , passed through a ' committee . The Oaths Validity Bill went through a stage , The Irish Spirit , Licenses Bill was opposedby Mr * SHAW , and suported by Mr . O'CONNELL . It was committed by a majority of 5 , but nothing waa done m committee . ' ' Mr . RICE obtained leave to bring in a bill to re peal the . four-and-a-half per cent , duites . . The other orders of the day were then disposed of , and the House adjourned at a quarter past two o'clock . ,

      Saturday , Augusts . The Bank of Ireland Repayment BJH-tiae Pension * Bill , and the Militia Pay JBilJ were reported , and ordered to be read a third tiiie on Alonday . The ^ Affirmation Bill was read a third' time ana paiged . The Slave Trade Treaties Biil . was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on Monday . The resolutions of the committee of flie whole House on the Duchy of Cornwall'Tin Duties were brought up and agreed to . AbilLfoundeduponthera was "brought in by . Mr * Rice , read a first time , ordered to be read a second time on Monday , iwd to be committed on Tuesday . ;¦; •' ¦ The Consolidated fund Bill and the Exchequer- , bills ( Public Works ) Bill were read a first time , and , ordered to be read a second time on Monday . ' ' '" The House adjourned .

      Monday , August 6 . The Lords' amendments in the Irish Fisheries Bill , in the Recovery ef Tenements Bill , arid , in the Haclney Carriages ( Metropolis ) Bill weraagreed to . : ^ .. i .. _ , ; :- The order of the day for the second reading ^ of the ' District Courts Bill was , discharged . The Slave'Trade Treaties Bill went through cotomifteei The Exchequer Bills , ( Pnblic Works ) KB ^ the County Treasurers ( Ireland ) BilL the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster 3 ? ul , ' andrth ' e Tin- Duties / Clo niwall ) Bill were readasecoii ^ tfajiennd ordered to be committed . The Stamp Dies , Billi the . Valn ation of Lands . ( Ireland ) Bill , t ^ e Banlc of Ireland RepaymeDt Bill , and the' Militia Pay Bill were read ¦ ¦¦

      atniMttme . and ^ aase < l ; iv ^ ' • ¦ - : ¦¦• ¦¦ ¦ ¦> ' i ^ i ^^^ mm ^ ' m ' *> - . Mr . O'CONNELL ^ said ; ^ e wisned the passing of theBUI to be deferred ^ tai Tafesday , iri order thathemighthaye / . an oppprtunity ; , of bringing un adauuft " ^ VitW * L ^ d y . Westmeatn ' s pension . Mr . O ' , Con-¦ 0 . 411 ; however , did not press ihd point , and the Bill p ^ sed . On 7 r- - . --, :- , ; , ^ ,, " :: ¦ : .. - »• ¦ ¦ . > ¦ . : . - ¦ ¦ Inl ??* -Iwty ^^ faeo t tsiin ^ he Benefices ^ nijalitT .-Bill were considered , arid some of them wete agreed toj and others disagreed to . & . comimttefei was " apf poiniied torconfcr . withfthctords on the subjegt « f . thejatter . , ' : ¦ ' ' -. ¦ : . ¦• ¦ •;• .. • .:. ¦ :. " ; ' . ¦ ; The Duchy of Cornwall Possessions Bill was

      withdrawn nil next session . < ; . ^ '; : : ¦ ' ¦' : ¦ '"¦ ' iThe . Spirit License * ( Irejand ) Ball went through , committee with amendments , and was orderedtp Be reported on Tuesday . ; ' * ¦ : : r r . , u ¦¦ : ¦ ¦ ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ ;• : On the motion of Mr . O'CONNELL , it was ordered thatjhe minntes of evidence taken before the Is ^ st Dublin Election Committee be printed . ! : The Honse was'Counted but at ten o ' clod :, o » * motion made by Sy- IL CODRINGTON for " a retunrof thegrounds on . whicu Cpimsai ^^^^ y ' * Mr . Boyce , late rotgera , and Mri'R . Mflaer , I »^ i Lieutenantin the navy were deprivedof iheir r » mt and half-pay , " C "

      Original - Correspondence.

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      THE LONDON DEMOCRATIC ASSodlATION . hew * ' ¦ ZVQP ° ^? , Council of this Association , TnrJL ^ Mwket Coflfee Rooms , Smithfield , on SSterT * ' July ? » T ^ mas Ireland in the gJJJ thejollowmg resolutions were passed unanir < Moyed by Mr . Williams , and seconded by John Sfew . ' - . 1 at we v ^ w withheartfelt pleasuS ai ^^ enthusiashc hope , the stead y progress ^ of the aTS * 5 P *^ ' . Pnncipallv orlglriated and con ducted by the Birmingham Pofitical Union : and we hereby , i ^ thenameand on behalf of the association , offer to the men pf Birmingham our fraternal co-° P « rat } on ln ^ e Present holy , jUgt ^ and _ glorious struggle , for the attainment of Universal Suflraee . _ Moved by John Dymmock , and seconded by John Turner . - . 2 nd . —That having well considered the

      merits of a certain document promulgated by the Birmingham Political Union , known by the title of the _ " National Petition , " and having for its objects the attainment of Universal Sufirage , No Property Quahfication , Annual Parliaments , Payment of Members , and the Ballot , we hereby adopt the said petition m the name and on behalf of the London Democratic Association . _ Moved by John Turner , and seconded by Joseph Fisher . 3 rd . —That we hail with unfeigned pleasure the march of democratic organization throughout thecountry , as evidenced in the formation of Radical Associations by our Scottish brethren , of Workine Mens Associations in the West of England ' and last , not least , m the progress of the Great Northern Union . A nd we hereby , in the name of the associatioPled

      | n , ge our hearty support and co-operation to qll&ndwith all who honestly and energetically struggle for the salvation : of our country . . _ Movedby Charles Neesom , and seconded by Joseph Fisher . 4 th . —That the thanks of this association are pre-eminently due , and are hereby given io the proprietor and editors of the Northern Star for their untUnching defence of the interests of the unrepresented millions , their untiring advocacy of the universal rights of man , and lastly for their patriotic assistance in the establishment of this association bv the publication of its addresses in their valuable journal . In conclusion we decree , in the name of the association , that the Northern Star shall be considered as its principal provincial organ in communicating with bur brethren in the country . By order of the Council . GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY , Secretary .

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      _ 3 &B . BOX-W' Kent Theitbe , at Kensington , Las b ^ n sold for 1 , 100 guineas . Ik " CTntBEBLAKD Ae wages of haymakers are otIt 9 d . a day . The Steam-ship Tiger , built in Hull , recently performed the forage from that port to Hamburg ja tbirty-nve hours and a half . Chastret has nearly finished a fine statue of the late "William Roscoe , to be placed in the Townball of Liverpool .

      It is said that Mk . Speirs of Elderslie , will be the new Lord-lieutenant of Benfrewshire ; Sir John Maxwell having refused the appointment . Mb . Hkxby Coopeb has been appointed Judge of the Colony of South Australia , in the room of the late Sir John Jeffeoit . A DxuuKEJf Wosta * - threw her son three jeax 3 of age out of a second itory window , one day last weekj iQ Ihrur 7 1 < aiie > Itis e ^ P ^ 1 ^ tlle cMid Will die . The Totjndaticck tob a Statue of Dr . Johnson , intended to be erected in the Marketplace , Iichfield , was recently laid with appropriate ceremonies by the Severesd Chancellor Law .

      At the hau-ybarly Meetik g of Shareholders in the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , held on Wednesday week , a dividend of 4 % per cent , for tie half year was declared . - Chesteb Tow ^ -CoTJKCii ..--At a late meeting of the Chester Town-Council , it was proposed to convert the Corporation kitchen into a lock-up house for the night police . EtJTLAXB . —Rutland must be a pleasant county to live in . At the Assizes last week , there was not a single prisoner for trial , and only one cause at the Xisi Prius tar .-A test handsome Siltih Cup has been presented to Mr . R . Blackford , of the Eing ' s Arms Inn , Malmesburj , by the Sunday-school teachers , for his exertions in favour of education .

      A Tike Ostbich in the Manchester Zoological Gardens , last week died from the effects of some foolish person having given it a half-penny , to test isa fabulous powers of digestion . At C HASiTOX , in the county of "Wilts , in the year 1 S 37 , six people were interred whose united ages amounted to 5 t / years , namely 80 , 85 , 73 , S 2 , 95 , and 92 . The number of burials in the yeaT 14 . "We hate heard that the Clergyman of the Established Church at "Wallsend , haV recently refced to inter in the burial ground of -that place , three children , on the ground that they were baptized by Dissenters . Thi 8 is Disgraceful .

      The Crops . —The accounts of the crops and prospects of the harvests were favourable , generally , last week ; but a season of warm dry weather seemed to be almost universally anticipated , and in the place thereof the rain has fallen abundantly . Glasgow Coilege . —The Dean and Faculty « f Glasgow College have elected Mr . Edmund Law LushiDgton , Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , to the Greek chair in the Uniyersiry , vacant by Sir Daniel JSandford ' s death . Expense of Maxtsg Rah / wats . — The expense of making the Binninghani and London Railway , will average about £ 45 , 000 per mile , the Midland £ 20 , 000 , the Birmingham and Liverpool £ 20 . 000 , and the Birmingham and Derb \ £ 1 S , 000 .

      The Sirius , belonging to the St . George ' s Steam Kavigation Company , and recently trading . from London to Xew York , on Saturday , sailed for St Petersburg , with many passengers . This is the first attempt to go from England to St . Petersburg by steam . Doctor in Medicixe . —It is with great pleafare we leam that George Pyemont Smith , son of Mr . Saml . Smith , sen ., surgeon , of the Leeds General Infirmary , had , on Wednesday last ( after pasfdng the usual examination in Jnne ) the diploma of Doctor in Medicine conferred upon him at the Univereiry of Edinburgh .

      In thereign of Louisthe 15 t \ of France , a meeting was held at Toulouse , on account of the scarcity of bread . The president made a fine speech on " the subject when a note was handed to him , which said , The belly has no ears ^ hunger has no loyalty ; and harrangnes are to no purpose . " A Sunday school teacher happened to be summoned before a -clerical magistrate , not ien miles from Hollinwood ; the magistrate finding the defendant had an attorney to manage his case , dismissed it ; but , haringaii antipathy to the defendant , he then asked him , " What place ol worship did you attend on Snnday last ? " "I -was at * ehooL both

      forenoon and afternoon . Magistrate— " I say , ¦ what place of worship were yon at last Sunday ?" The man answered as before . Magistrate— " I contact you in one shilling and costs , for neglecting to sitod &ine service . " The costs were 8 s ., penalty Is , trmVnig 9 s . As there was no summons in this case , nor any witness to support the accusation , how v& « the expense made into 8 s . ? And how has die Thcfte 9 s . been applied ? Bitix g Off a Boy ^ s Ear . —At ihe Guildhally onThursday week , Thomrs Brockston , a labourer , in Messrs . Galloway ' s fotmdrv , in "West-street , Bleu , his daughter , and Catharine Hennessy , were charged with being concerned in an Irish row ,

      a which a poor boy had his ear bitten off . It appeared that Mrs . Hennessy had been drunk and qnarrd 3 ome during the afternoon , and wa 3 confined for a short time in the watchhouse . Being released « seven o ' clock , she met Mrs . Brockston and her daaghter , and called them into a public-house , on Holbora-hill , to treat them with some beer- "While they were drinking Mrs . Hennessy let sh ' p some imputation on the morality of Mrs . Brockston , and a fight immediately ensued , in which Ellen joined . Mrs . Hennessy ' s boy singled out Ellen for -an opponent

      , and she , after receiving a few blows , screamed oat forhei lather . The father , who was preparing his tea , ranfown stairs , and eatching hold of the boj , lit Ms ear oSl Other : parties were engaged in the affray . Young Hennesi 7 s ear was afcersrards fitted oa ; t 3 old position and sewed to his head ; and that the chances of an union may not be lost by Ms appearance as a witness , he is for the present detained hi St . Bartholomew ' s . The prisoners were ranaaded till a satisfactory certificate of the boy ' s recovery is forwarded by the surgeon of the Hospital to AHennan Lainson .

      Attempted Suicide . —On Thursdaj morning week , & young gentleman , named Andrews , who has 'waidy arrived in London from Birmingham , made a most desperate , attempt to commit suicide by injjjetiBg a . frightful gash in his throat with a-razor . The unhappy youth has been living with a female at * house of ill-feme in the "Waterloo-road , and on fese visits to the gamingTiells ( in the Quadrant and Lactster-square , lost npwards of £ 300 . He has received several remittances of money by letter , and ** 0 U ; for a further « um on Saturday week , bat received an answer to the effect that his mother was

      opposed to be kid on her death-bed , and that no more money would be forwarded . In a short time > &erwards he was found in an out-honse in the state * i «> Te described . The nearest surgeon was sent £ > r , who promptly attended and sewed up the wound , Tiich he pronounced not to be so dangerous as was » J first anticipated . There are several streets in ' wer ioo-road , and every house in them is occupied % girls of a certain description , and scarcely anight puses without persons being robbed , after partaking of drugged spirits , &c ., and which i */ doubtless , the cmse of many suicides ,

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      A ugtjst 11 , 1838 . THE NORTHERN STAR . - " ' ' ' ' ^ - - ¦ ' " - " " - ¦ ¦ - - : ; - :: ^ . " Z :-:

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 11, 1838, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1018/page/3/