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      PEABGUS O'CONNOR AND THE HOTJINGHAM ELECTION . The feUeTniiK correspondence h as been handed to asforpHblie&Ubn . It needs no comment : — $ 0 PEiRGtfS O'COXKOB , ESQ-1 Ifeif Badford , near Nottingham , Joiie 5 tJx , 1 S 43 . £ > ea » Sir , — "We ^ aTB aonB OTEC bss * t ™^ to Sheir source tt » ir . famous © Jumnira that vrere so freely TOcnlattd in Xoitht&asa and its virinity , and bare mcceeded sofer as to leave no donbt ispon oar minds Irom -whence ttEysprnnr / , anfl fbe wrtrortby motive that dictated them ; and also we are happy to inform yon tnat ^ verj one , eyen Qte -very % orst amocgst your talnmniator * have fceea coBpeflca to eat their -owa words , sea confea tbfiBselveslfca propagators ot lies , and that there never -was the last foundation for their Tricied attempts to byare ^ dor character i > y slander , « the following Bcooont teifislKnr : —

      In the first place , yon "Kas charged tod receiving £ 2 S for yonr services it Xr . Stooge's tlec £ on ; but the eneSoB&dlefer-di Mr . ^ Bsss *» B 1 *»> that at resi ; * nd your o \ ro letter to Hr . TEeggB , containing an accocnt of the spproprieSGn of fee £ 3710 s . -will do away with She charge "that yon "received £ 5 for a . gentleman , and only paid Km £ 3 , ard pocketed the other £ 2 . How , Sir , this report arose from the- following cirenmstanee , as -sre-sre informed by Mr Beggs , Mr . H . Cartwrijkt , end tders : —ifc . Mead , to * hom yon paid . £ 3 16 s . * net Mr- ^ iean and thank ed that gen tleman for tlie kindness of the Committee in paying Km £ 3 Mi for bia * xi > = nse 3 ; and then it "was ascertainedjhat in the list jon gsre into the Committee , £ * was swarded to Mm , aaid-yen had only paid him £ 3 10 s . And as tales lose ' nBthing by passing through dirty channels , it had incrssaed to , £ 5 ; "bnt yam ? o » n letter explains that , * nd dees away -with charge the second .

      In the ^ tbkd place , yon was charged with demanding -of Mi- -Jton Bogers , a Tien and respectable hosier , of Kottiaglam , the sum of £ 19 for your services at Mi € ssbonK ? s election , and was told by that gentleman fcefcadro fnedsfor suchpurposes . Well . Sir , weiave aeen ^ MtBojiers , and he anthorised na to say that he sever saw yon bnt twice in has life , ar > d never txjjbsnged a wora wi& yon , or in any way , or through ssny person had he ever held any communitation with yon ; and in accordance with that he has published his contradiction in the UstHxt&uim Merauy .

      2 i 6 Wi Sir , having gone throngh all the charges , and all parties lnNottncham—WhJga , Tories , and Badkals , leing perfectly satisfied of the ntter falsehood of all of them , we hops that the Xondan daily Times , and every other paper that has given publicity to toe above reports , wiD have the honesty to do their best in ondoing the mischief they have done ; for we are of opinion that 3 t is the ctaty of sH mea , and all partdea of men , to caliivate truth , and give to each and every one fair play ; and when sa iignry is cone , to do oar best to repair it , and show to the world that party is rot our sEei , but the spread of truth , and the good of all Therefore , -we are about to follow that umiiTn by explaining what we meant by the postscript we attached to our letter , which you published four weeks since in H&Siar . It xeads ' as follows : —

      "The Whigs don't Eke purity of election , neither do they like a ax point man forced npon them . Ho , Sir , "they tana bear it , and that is the secret of all their lies and xalnmny . " Kow , Sir , tfb here beg leave to state that we do not cI&ESiH who aci wi 2 i the "Whigs in the above censure , for we "know that there are & many gentlemen too honest , and ars too much of gentlemen to practise deception , or in any way to encourage bribery and cormDSonat elections ; we only meant those nasty things amproperly called men , who are ever ready , whea a 25 eb and-corrnpt candidate cSetz himnflf , to distribute some of his mnn * y for ^\\ m la the shape cf -bribery and treating ; and , at the same time , always remembering theix-own filthy selves by keeping a little for their patriotic services in the cause of the devil and the enlargement of ffi » khigdom .

      Now , Sir , having done our duty in tracing this nnplfiasani af&ir to it » authora , and being prepared to give you names if you reqnire them , we think it as well , as they have confessed , to leave them to their own reflections ; but if they let us have any more of their nonsense , the world shall know them ; and a few of the baas trick * and dirty doings of these electioneering snd ready-f or-aaTihing vagabonds shall be brought to light . O , Sir , yon have spoiled them , for they cannot handle the money now : and may yon live to spoil all snch reptiles , and see corruption put down , and purity of election established , together with tbs-establishment « f the'Six Puints of the People * * Charter ; and the inhabitants of our beloved England . Irsland ^ and Scotland * njaying the fruits of their own industry ; and all grades , from the richest to the poorest , living in harmony and peace .

      We remain yours , " With afl aneerity , Jaiies \ Toodhocse , Thohas Weight , JOH 3 BlGLET . P-S . We are bound , in justice to 2 > li . Beggs , to state that be acted like a gentleman , expressed" his sorrow for sot publishing his contradiction sooner .

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      CGGPEB . Onsen's Prison , Socthwaik , iondon , June ^ ii , 1843 . Dear Six . —I have seen s letter from . my friend , Cooper , a few < isys rince , « nd should have written to yon on the subject in the beginning of the wttk , wee I not laid np wiflt an attack ofiz ^ aenz * , bronght on by a severe cold . From the statement ! contained in the letter to which 3 haveallnded , it appears that poor Cooper iB merely on&rgoing a short respite © f -flie hellish ireataent to which he has been salgeeted , to 4 » repeated when the afcafe of his htalth Trill permit . £ e also states that a repetition © f the same UE » e will drive him mad , and ^ equate that something aay be done to deliver iim i ^ Jr B monBtera ^^ ffhoae control ie is at present Spaced , and , for reasons jnot tobe raisteken ) it appetrs . that ihe magistrates h&VBBOfc visited the prison since Jus commitmaittfcereto , nei& » -will he bea 31 oweaio -Ior « rd « pefifitm , OT jnemorial , to the necesaar ^ qnaser . rf

      -JB ^ IS * ?^ cnanEEtances I irert that -the people -wfll . ^«^ thmraiveB . j ^ Sum zsk ^ . ^^ ^• hettx * Cooper Richard . , Capp « , Md others , are to 2 « iw » leredmthfi « meii » imex as the noble patriots , S ° lbi ^* £ L £ - U **** S lect tl&r &S 5 » ow , f Jbdr Wk about ayapathy fcr the ChatiBat ^ ciin » wjHJ ) ejB 8 Sy looked irpon as idle wind . I ^ herefwe trustthatpefifions wiH be immediately for--sr » &d 4 roo « Tery town Md Tillage in the kingdom aa ^ n lck aajweable , and lave do doubt that you irill also « xei 4 your / powers . to save noble-minfitd Cocper , jnd lie veteran Jiie&ardfl from the miseries to wjdeh our Aridui aQvztzamaft iom subjected them . I am , yours truly , Geosce Whitx . '

      P-&—^ In answer ihe enquiries numerous friends , I have to state that I have fctea well attenfieu to t-y my loodon MenfijBiince llste been placed here , and nut ; forgotten by the CbirtiiW of Bttmir . ghf . TO usA Warwicksbire . All persons are gS&vrtd to visit me vxihovt -fe&taisl every asj , Sxmxizj jicicdtd , from tJubi hi ths ioojnjcg u > Bins at nMit « . " " -A *»"'» - -: '' ^ - - ^

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      TO 7 SR . JAMES PENNY ; Sis ., —In answer to your letter of the 15 th >*« requesting a more minute description of the V j ^^ cultivation of my small plot of ground , I beg ^ t , to Bend you the following particulars : — i ibout Uie £ &h July , 1 s » w ttarly Swfc cabbage SBed , in row « eight inches apart ; when Uieffcnts have six leaves prick them oat in rows , right fccbes apart and three inches in the row . In November , I prepare and manors the ground , in the san » i manner as is jjenerally done for potatoes . Abottt ] the middle of November transplant cabbages on Una ridges of eighteen inches apart , or four plant * in &e iquare yard . In March , hoe the ground deep tad earth the plants up close to the lower leaves . As toon as the plants begin to grow , dig the ground batweaa the rows with a spade . Give them another digging in about a month and hoe them well np , ' On the 13 th of May , 1 $ 43 , I commenced cutting the finest lot of cabbages thatl have ever seen .

      A great portion of the plot , No . 2 , will be cleared of cabbages the first week in June . I then plant the same plot with Prince Regent potatoes , in ] the ordinary manner . I have the potatoes cat in two and sprouted about three-quarters of an inch , when I set them . I shall finish planting potatoes on No . 2 , about ths middle of June . Then commence cutting of the cabbages on No . 3 . In the last week in April , sow Swedish turnip seed in the same ToanneT as the -cabbage seed , except pricking them out . Thin them in the rows to four inchts .

      spark As 1 dear Na 3 , of cabbages , I have the ground dog & good depth , and ^ manured and laid in ridges , in the same manner as for potatoes . Then trans plant-it with Swedish turnip plants , at the rate of six in the square yard . I shall finish planting this plot about the first week in August When the turnips ar « full grown , I have the tops cot off as tbey stand on the ground , and give them to the cattle as they axe wanted . In the beginning of November , I have all the turnips gathered off the ground and stored in heaps , covered with straw and earth ; they are thus < preserved for winter food . '

      4 bout the middle of March , No . 1 was planted with potatoes , called early maiza , in the same manner as the other potatoes stated above . By the middle of July , these potatoes will be full grown and fit to take up ; whea this crop is cleared off , the ground is then prepared in the same manner as before stated , and planted with Swedish turnips . I makes lew days variation in the sowing of the tornip seed according as I think it will be wanted ; in fact I sow the « eed in several places on the sides of the walks or where I have a bit of spare ground .

      The forty-seven days labour includes every thing except milking and management of milk and bntter . The twenty quarts of milk per day is the mean quantity for the lorty-six weeks taken at four times of equal periods . Jobs Linton . Ssiby , June 6 th , 18 * 2 .

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      SATUBDAY , JUNE 10 , 1843 . THE . KNUTSFORD ATROCITIES . Is another column , oar readers Will find the mild , temperate , and gentlemanly reply of Mr . Bbowxb , to the fellow , Egkbton , the M . P ^ who took the cowardly advantage of " his place in Parliament , " to traduce an absent Clergyman for the offence of rebutting , honestly , open violations of £ hs law and contempt of humanity and religion , in the treatment of the prisoners and conduct of the Officials of this Hell hole . » JWJV »^ J J _ - _^^^^^^~ if _ - _ -Lj- _ r-Lj- _ rTJ-JT-.

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      REPEAL OF THE UNION . Gektle Header , has it ever been your fate io visit that metropolitan seminary for amphibious youths — that refuge for tart maturity—that asylum for frail old age—that depot of all the variety which the fair sex in Its worth can present ; have you ever bees to Billingsgate ! where the value of a cod-fish is to be estimated not by its sonnd , its liver , or its firmness , bu ; by the length and breadth of its fair owner ' s tongue . Have yon seen the fair proprietress of a rival cod-fish take np the gauntlet in favour of her sound , her - liver , and her firmness \ Have you witnessed ihe delight beaming

      in the eve of those testy old bachelors , who make their morning esJl at the shrine of ugliness and slang , in the hope of seeing their hatred of the sex justified , or of reconciling to themselves that state of unwilling celibacy to which they have been doomed I Have yon , in short , witnessed a real jolly set to between two fat red-faced fish-wives ; and , have you observed the altered tone of the belligerents , and their respective friends , as the chances of triumph alternate ! Have yon , seen the lond brawler , reduced to humiliation by the superior powers of her antagonist ! faintly and

      wearily reprobating all the vocabulary of Billingsgate , and soften into the mildness , of subdned wrath , ¦ wi th a bloody knife in one hand , and the guts of the triumphant cod-fish in the other 1 We cannot ? ead to the hope that our picture may be realised to all ; but the nearest approach to critical resemblance that vre can present is the Lady of the Times newspaper , with the sword of Protestantism in one hand , and the guts of popery in the other , lisping "justice" in mild accents , and sighing in disappointed rage over the triumph that superior power and skill has wrenched from her hand . It

      is not nnamnsmg , or uninstnictive , to see this meretricions journal Bhnddering at the desolation of its otoi part creation , and , coivard-like , whimpering like a child at the danger which now threatens , and which is mainly attributable to the raneorons feeling produced by this church vassal between the Protestant spoiler andsthe Catholic serf . This Argus " defender of the faith" and so forth , that was v ? ont to see and to foresee so far in the c&Im . appeara to be blinded in the storm . Not many months ago we were informed that Ireland enjoyed not the delusive tranquillity arising Jfrom partial government , but the natural calm produced by just and impartial legislation ; by a happy

      blending of constitutional circumstances with national character by a considerate deference to national prejudices ; in Bhort , by a combination of that vrit , -wisdom , wile , and ! policy , for which our Tory rulers are pre-eminently distinguished . More Protestant churches in a Catholic country ; more sectional education ; a stricter observance of the appointment of our own friends to administer our own laws : snch was { the policy of the Times when the weakness of Ireland was relied npon as the main strength of her oppressors , while now , that that nation , like one man , has arisen in its moral might , and proclaimed with one | voice its hostility to this very policy , the same ! paper turns round , and , pleading in meanness for pity ,

      cries" Thou canst not aay we did it " Are natural consequences Reducible-from natural causes 1 And , if they are , what result was more likely to follow the total disregard of everything Irish , than thai combination of Irish mind which has now resolved upon doing for itself , what has not only been denied to prayers , petitions , and implorings , bu ; for asking for which she has been threatened vnih coercion and destruction I The Times may Tmie in that maudlin tone of assumed confidence to suit the Stock Exchange and the money brok « r , but the thinking man nmst langh in scorn at the foolish

      attempt to convince the world that although the very air is redolent of complaint , that yet travel north or south , east or west , neither resident nor traveller can give an assignable reason for a single complaint I Such is tbe logic of our faintipg contemporary ; while , did space admit , we could shew jnst cause of compiaint in every act of England towards Ireland , and complete the picture by painting ! the 7 fr » gl ? wh faction in Ireland , in their several relations , whether prblic or private , and in all of which they would appear as the jailors of convicts , rather tW 88 ihe patrons of their clients . 2 ft > t a daty

      performed , not an tffice dischar ge *! , in which ihe vengeance of the Law Church , the dominion of the hmd shark , or the petty tyranny of the oglcial , is not discernible . Under the law of primogeniture , the eldeBt branches of 'families are patrons of church preferments , held in ; trust as portions for the younger branches pensioned upon the industry of the Catholic slave , their pjower upheld by holding him in subjection . We should be glad to know whether the altered tone of the Times furnishes a fair prospect of Irish improvement , or whether we are to receive it as a hypocritical mediation , while the strong ^ jvernines * is preparing all the

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      l appliances of force to destroy the rising genius &P Ireland . We did not offer one word of comment hastily upon the question . In 1840 , when opposed bf the press of the whole kingdom , we devoted column after column to the support of Irishmen ' s , right to govern themselves ; s ' , ace then the very fact of being drawn into the discussion , and the prospect [ of the subject being revived , has compelled us as a duty to our readers and to the public generally , to inform ourselves upon tha history of that ill-fated country . It is fresh in the recollection of our readers , that we announced some

      few weeks since , the fact that both the Administration and the Irish Executive were powerless for good , and only strong when bent on evil . That the domestic faction , among whose ancestors Ireland has been partitioned by the respective plunderers who , from the dajB of the second Henby to the invasion of the Dutchman , have followed their respective leaders , were too powerful for the Administration or the Irish Executive , or both unitedly . We stated that whatever the intentions of Government might be , the determination of the spoiler was to hold by force what had been gained by fraud . That Ireland has

      been garrisoned by a legalized banditti , no man can deny ; that ; the standard of the Invader is the Church , peculation , professional emolument , and the wages of idleness , upon the express condition that the privilege of the associated band should be used for the annihilation of the Irishman ' s rights . We directed attention to the several articles which apppeaxed in the English newspapers upon the subject of Repeal , and we predicted that all remonstrance , caution , invitation to settlement , and promised forbearance would be lost in the recommendation of the Standard , the organ of the Church

      party . Have events proved the truth of that assertion , or have they not 1 and could the invitation of the Standard to the Protestants of the North to massacre the rebels be moro quickly accepted than it has been by the LOYAL PROTESTANTS of Dungannon , Have they not buckled on the armour of the Church ? havo they not sounded the trumpet of Protestantism ? have they not mustered some 11 , 000 strong with arms in their hands , and not waiting for the technical forms , for the legal requirements necessary for the completion of the disarming bill , have they not anticipated the

      Government , constituted themselves a mob excoutive , searched the ! houses of the Catholics for arms , and demolished and levelled their hovels to the ground ! Is not our prediction then so far verified 3 And while the public mind is lost in thought as to the probable chances of peace or war , of suocess or defeat , and " is in doubt as to the circumstances which may lead to the first outbreak , we will venture upon another prediction ; it is this , that it matters not what the policy of Sir Robebt Peel may be , what his notions individually , or what his intentions , if left to himself might lead to , but the Government over

      which he presides , will force him to maintain and uphold the Union , at the expencs of any amount of Irish blood and English treasure ; that the enactment of the ^ Irish Arms Bill , the proclamation of that measure : and the mode of enforcing its provisions will lead to the firat outbreak in Ireland . It matters not that the Government may intend the measnre as a sword suspended , and to be used only at their discretion . When it is law , it will then become the pleasing duty of the weeded Orange Magistrates , to recommend themselves to their brotherhood by a vigorous execution of that law .

      Under its sanction domiciliary visits will be paid to the Catholic hovel by the infuriate Protestant mob , the peaceful peasant will fly his home , —his house will no longer be a shelter in the dead of night , —and when driven to take refuge under the canopy of heaven , and to take council with his unhoused brethren in the darkness of night , the gatherings of houseless wanderers , thus brought about by the terror of the law , will be construed by its administrators as the nocturnal meetings of Irish rebels ; they will be proclaimed as outlaws and reduced to the sad alternative of either

      remaining at home to answer to the night call of licensed robbers , before whom they must parade their naked wives and children , or they will be compelled from fear to abandon that hovel which is no longer a protection against the intruder , and leave it a prey to the spoiler who will set it in flames , its desertion being proof that it was the haunt of a rebel . While we hear of the perfect information of which Government is in possession with reference to the doings and intentions of the rebels , cannot the far seeing eye of a watchful public discern anything in the camp of the enemy !

      If the Government is watchful , if the Irish people are cautions , does any man suppose that the leaders of Orangeism are indolent and inert ! Can he who grasps the whole question of English policy , Irish feeling , and Foreign intrigue make up his mind upon the issue , without making the present visit of the Sing of Hanover to this country , an important feature in the consideration of the whole question I At any time , but more especially at the

      present crisis , the thinking public expects much of caution , as well as close attention to passing events from public journalists . Fortunately for ourselves , and perhaps , not less so for our readers , we are untrammelled by other restraint than that which reason and judgment may impose upon us . We write for mind , and not for prejudice . We seek to improve , and by improvement to correct ; and , therefore , do we feel bound to assign good and substantial reasons for our every assertion .

      In speaking , then , of the probable result of the great question now at issue between the English invaders , their Church , their possessions , and their administration of the laws ; and the Irish party demanding self representation and release from clerical bondage and class domination , we are bound to consider what the feelings of that party are likely to be towards their head . In this analysis we find it impossible to treat her Ma « estt as head of the Rampant Church in Ireland , with the same amount of indifference with which we would treat her as first magistrate and civil chief of

      the nation . Let us , then , see what the causes of discontent are which have been engendered in the minds of the tithe Protestants of Ireland , by their prints , their leaders , and clansmen . The Robts and the BbadshaVs spoke the feelings of the Irish Orangemen , if opportunity but presented itself of gratifying them . The declaration of Lord Meiboitrne , that his intention was , " to give the Church a heavy blow and great discouragement . " The well circulated rumour of the conversion

      of Prmce Aibset to Catholicism , and more recently the official announcement through the Court journals thatPrince Albert had been commanded by the Queen to announce by his own hand to the anti-Church Minister ( Meiboprne ) the glad tidings of another royal birth } but , above all , the still more recent announcement by Mr . O'Coiwell that the Queen had rebuked Sir Robert Pbel for the presumptuous use made by him of Her name with reference to the question of Repeal .

      Now multiply all theBe causes of Protesant discontent by Protestant fear and Church preferment , ami we shall at once discover the inducements to combination and the probable course of the united Chur . ch supporters . Pbel must either cling to this party / or good or for evil , or he aust abandon them in their madicareer , and leave to ( he Rocunghams , the Gbahaxs , the Suutcbys , and the Fldmtbees the . glory of witnessing the triumph of reason ovea the darkness of prejudice , after a fruit * less and expensive struggle of ignorance against

      knowledge—a * brute force against moral power , That " the Ch arch " should continue always to tread down the ordinary rights of human nature is impossible . As jaind progresses , mea become impatient of it f and , if not remodelled by her own heads upon the" score of justice—which she never wili be—she mvis' tumble , and bury all recollection of her blo ^ &ed intoleraace in the ruins , none but fools can doubt . " and the only question now is , by whose hand the n . * afiic * " *<* welcome blow shitll be-struck . From the . Vfhea of her itemporal pile ,

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      pure , unbiased , unsullied , and uubought , religion will spi ' ing , and the preponderance in favour of an acoar / table creed will bs distinguishable in the sincerity of its votaries and the purity of their lives , rathfer than in corporate wealth or individual intolerance . Iu all these reasons , then , we come to the conclusion that the English Rampant Church party and the Irish Orange faction would willingly depose the present Queen , and with shouts of joy proclaim Ernest the 1 st from the statue of King William decked in orange letters , King , defender of their plunder , and so forth ; while , to avoid such a calamity , the Irish people demand a concentration of all their native powers and long withheld rights .

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      THE TRIALS . So ! the labour of the mountain has at last eventuated not indeed in the birth of a mouse , nor in any birth at all , but in an abortion so utterly beneath contempt , that it is really difficult to write anything about it . We give from Thursday ' s Times the following report of the decision of the Court as to the fifth count : — COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH . Wednesda y , June 7 .

      THE CHARTISTS . ( Sittings in Banco . J ; THE O . UEEN V . O ' CONNOR AND OTHERS , Lord Denman , at the . Bitting of the Court this morning , proceeded to deliver the following decision of the Judges iu this matter : — The Court has considered the case of" The Queen y . O'CDUnor and others , '' with reference to the objections arising upon tho points of venue . No venue is stated in the fitch count , and it ia plain that at common law the couut on that ground is bad . Every material fact must be stated , with timo and place , m order that it may appear that the Grand Jury had jurisdiction to fiud tho bill , and also that it may be known whence the Petty Jury are to come who are

      to try the case . This is laid down in all the books and authorities cited at the bar . Indeed , it was hardly contended on tho part of the Crown that the couut could be supported at common law , as it contains no venue in itself , nor any words oii referenoe to the venue in the margin , to which many facts stated in the fifth couut cannot be referred according to t , ho dibtiuction hereafter to be mentioiied . Recourse is then had to the statute of the 7 th George IV ., o . 64 , s . 20 , which enacts that no judgment after verdict or concession or detaiilt shall be stayed tor want of a proper or per * feet venue , provided it shall appear by the indictment that the Court had jurisdiction over the offence . Now , whether a total omission of venue

      can be considered as cured by these words , or whether the statute must be confined to oases where some venue is stated , though improperly or imperfectly , in either case the condition on which that remedy tor defect is given by the 7 th ticorge 1 Y . is , that it shall appear by the indictment that the Court had jurisdiction over the offence . If this meant local jurisdiction , the fifth count does not show it , for no place is mentioned in the body of it ; and We cannot , as already stated , import into it for that ; purpose the county noted in the margin , as has been done in civil actions . To hold this would be to eay , as was indeed said by the Solicitor-General , that whenever the grand jury of any county whatever has found a bill of indictment for a crime

      cognizable under the commission , a trial which takes place upon it in that county must be good after verdict , though the indictment does not show the Court to have any jurisdiction over the offence , on which condition alone tho defect is cured by the statute . The argument drawn from the 16 th and 17 th of Charles II ., c- 8 , and 4 Anne , c . 16 ' , was , that as iu civil actions the total omission of venue is cured by the first of these acts under the words " for want of a right venue , " so the total omiasion of venue in criminal cases may be cured under the 7 th George IV .,: which uses the words " for want of a proper or perfect venu >;'' but the defect cured in civil actions is not the total omission of the venue , but the introduction of an improper or imperfect vcuuo , aud it is

      cured by the statute of Charles if the case is tried by a jury of the proper county in which tho action is laid . ; Now , the action in every ciril case is laid iu the county stated in the margin , and if the trial takes place in that county , the condition is fulfilled . By tho 4 th of Anne the remedy is extended to the caso of judgment by default ; atl the defects which would have been cured by the statute of Jeof ills in case the verdict of twelve men had been given in such i action being expressly cured by the 2 d fiection of that statute . To bear any analogy to these statutes tho 7 th of George 1 Y . should have cured the defects of venue where the case was tried by a jury of the county in which the indictment was preferred : the venue in the margin may show this , but

      certainly does not make the indictment show that the Court had jurisdiction to try the offence , unless specifically referred to in the body of the indictment . The distinction between ' criminal and civil cases in this respect is found iu the 2 d Lord Raymond , " the King v . Knollys , " Lenthale ' s case , Cro , Eliz ., 3 P . Williams , "the King y , Burridge , " and' ? the King v . Faweeu , there cited , and many other cases quoted at the bar . It has been established in suoh a variety of cases , that it is impossible for this Court to overrule or overlook them . It follows , therefore , that as the Court cannot connect the : venue iu the body of the indictment with the venue in the margin , for want of &uch special reference , it does not appear by the indictment that the Court where the indictment was

      found had jurisdiction , and that defect is not cured by the statute of 7 th of George IV . The Court has considered whether the 7 th of George IV . may not admit ot a different or wider meaning—namely , that the . offence should appear to be of such a nature that the Court has authority to try it ; and a strong argument in favour of that construction arises from the apparent impossibility of giving effect to the words in any other manner , but we are satisfied such is not the case , but we are convinced that the defects in veuue are not intended to be cured , unless the jurisdiction of the Court ia respect of locality is made to appear . One consideration , indeed , is decisive ot that .: Persons accused might otherwise be punished for offences committed iu another realm , if the

      quality of the offence alone gave jurisdiction ; this clearly was not intended . Mr . Dun das referred to a case reported not quite correctly in the last edition of Bunt ' s Justice , and also in 1 Moody ' s Crown C-Jses Wo iiave before us the very case in which the opinion of all the judges was taken , and also a copy of the indictment . The prisoner was tried for bigamy at the Old Bailey in 1833 . The first 1 marriage was alleged to have been contracted m Kent , and the second in Surrey , and the prisoner was alleged to have been apprehended on a day named , but of the place or county where he was apprehended no mention was made . The Conviction was held ! bad , because the witnesses proved the offence in . Surrey , though the venue in the margin was Middlesex , but no one suggested that

      Middlesex could be drawn from the margin into the body of the indictment , though that would unquestionably have cured the defect ; nor was it suggested that the Court appeared by the indictment to have jurisdiction over the offence of bigamy , which would have cured the defect if the reference had been to the quality of the offence , and not to the place where the offence was committed or the prisoner apprehended . An objection on ' the score of omitting the local venue is not merely technical , but real ana important ; for the allegation of material facts as occurring in a par * ticular county is not only that which authorises the grand jury to find any bill of iudiotment , but is also a warrant to the sheriff to summon the petty

      jury , which must pass judgment on those facts between tho Crown and ttte prisoner . The trial of witnesses for peijury mrght be embarrassed and justice defeated , if the jurymen were to be empanelled without authority . To make the act of trying confer the right to try would be a change so violent that we cannot believe it to have been intended by the Legislature , Upon the whole , we are of opinion that the judgment upon the fifth count must be arrested . An objection was also taken to the fourth count , on the score of venue , a material fact being alleged without place . Stottf « case . 2 East ' 9 Pleas of the Crown , was thought to bear directly on this doctrine , and was not successfully distinguished by the defendant ' s counsel ; but the Master of the Crown-office

      has found ihe paper books in that case in which Mr . Justice Ashurst took his notes of the argument offered by Lord Abiuger on the one side , aud the late Mr . Justice Vaughani on the other , in Michaelmas term , 1790 ; and the endorsement of the learned Judge intimates that the case stood tor further argument . The prisoner was couyicted in April and sentenced to twelve months'imprisonment , more thanfhaif of which had expired before the argument ! and there is every reason to believe that Sir Edward East ! was mistaken in reporting that case ae decided ; indeed , he himself intimates that if there was an error in the sentence , it might possibly have been amended by being changed to transportation for fourteen years—a strong reason for not pressing the

      argument founded upon- that case further . We think ' , that , however , here the statute 7 th George IV . ' appUen » remedy ^ as the conduct imputed co the defendants is criminal and is stated with venue . The count states the fact of unlawful assemblies having taken-glace at divers places , without naming them ^ though that statement is introductory to the charge , which is a charge of aiding and assisting persuus to continue the said assemblies , and the aiding and assisting is stated to have been in the county of Lancaster ; the count therefore has a venut ; , | thouKh an iooperfet't one , because though the mattri&l facts in the ear }} ' part of it are without place , the part which charg'ts the deftniianta with the off . tice hid a v « aue , and rei ^ rs t 0 a former part of the co mi , winch former part , th erefore , may be con-

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      sidered an imperfect venue , and as the offence itself is laid with a proper venus , it appears by tho count that the Ciurt haM jurisdiction ; and that is tho very case contemplated by the statute . We , therefore , think it necessary " to hear the argument on the validity of the mode of stating the charge in that count , and appoint Friday morning for that purpose . Mr . Justice Pa ^ teson thea said—I think it right to state that tho incorrect report ia my brottier

      D'Oyley ' s edition of Burn ' s Justice is not to be laid to his charge ; lie had the statement of the case from me , and put it in the very words in which I furnished it , and it is wholly my mistake . This is of course tantamount to an absolute acquittal of all the parties convicted under the fifth count of the indictment . It is worthy of cofcice thai the Judges , as they always do , rest their decision on a technical matter , rather than on one of principle .

      The want of venue iu the fiifth count was clearly , to the common sense of every man , a fatal though necessary result of the determination of the crown to strain the meshes | of their net for the encompassing of those whom they knew to be utterly without its pale . Had the venue been laid properly , it would have appeared at once that all the parties against whom this count was levelled were utterly beyond the scope of the general offence charged . Hence the Attorney General , having but the choica of two things—to lexve them entirely alone , or to hazard the defective veuue—chose the

      latter , and , as he sayn , framed the indictment in the form it b | oro specially and purposely to meet the case . They are greatly mistaken , who suppose that this kefect of venue in the Fifth Count was an oversight on the part of the Crown lawyers . On the contrary , it was a cunning trick of lawyer craft : it was a c etcrmined and dishonest effort to come at those who were not otherwise to be come at ; and who had so ' guarded themselves as that they oould not be legally charged with any offence whatever . This / and this only , is the reason why the fiifth count bad no venue ia it . The insertion of a venue would have demonstrated clearly that there was no manner of connection between those

      whom this count was specially framed to reach , aud those with whom it was impudently assumed , ou tho general face of'the indictment , that they had conspired together for the carrying out of an insame and illegal' . project . If there had been a proper venue to this couut , the parties to whom it specially pointed ] and to get hold of whom it was framed , must have been every one acquitted on the trial at Lancaster . The Crown lawyers knew that perfectly ; j and hence the " dodge" by which they have been subjected to bo much inconvenience and trouble , and robbed of so much time and money . The real objection , however , against the fiifthj count was of much more

      consequence than this , paltry technicality , of venue ; it was that it charged upon the parties ho offence whatever ; nothing but a legal act ; an act which they or any other men have a perfect right to do ; and on the legality of wbjch it is known that Lord Denman ' s opinion has been more than once Btrongly expressed . This utter vitiation of the Count on principle , though often pointed clearly out by the Judges during tie argument , was carefully kept out of eight in the Judgment ; and the thing made to seem rather a technical escape of the prioners than an upright Judgment of the Judges . We do not think that this mode of doing the thing redounds at all to the Credit of the Bench . It shews

      us clearly that we owe them nothing ; that tf they could have lent their sanction , to the effort of the Crown , without an utter sacrifice of their judicial character and a sinking of themselves to a level , with A singer and Gcrney , they would have gladly done so . It shews us , and it ought to shew the people , that we owe this termination of this , protracted enquiry to the caution which avoided to breakthrough the law , and not to any merciful construction of the law which we are to expect .

      It shews us , and it ought to shew the people , more than ever , the necessity of trusting , as leaders in the movement , none but those who have sense enough to look before they leap , and honesty enough to take no unsafe leap which may involve others besides themselves in its consequences .

      We shall be glad if the Attorney-General and the Judges will now do their duty in pointing out to the triumphantly acquitted subjects of this unjust and rascally prosecution how they are to be compensated for the personal indignities , the anxiety of mind , the scandalous inconvenience and loss of time , and the ruinous expences which have been inflicted

      on them , now is , the country to be compensated tor the wanton and wicked wasting of its funds in . the perpetration of these outrages \ We suppose that we may ask these questions till we are tired of hearing echo for tho answer ; And we can tell the people that it will never bo otherwise than thus till tho making and administration of the law shall be put under the controul of justice , and that will never

      be till they make and administer it themselves . We cannot ot course give , in our present number , the decision of the Judges as to the fourth count ; though it will be { given , before this reaches the eye of our readers . The parties interested in this count , and respecting whom we aro yet uncertain as . to whether they may or may not be required to "come up for judgment" are Peter Murray M'Douall , Jas . Leach , Christopher Doyle , John Campbell , Jonathan Bairetow , Bernard M'Cartney , James Arthur , Thomas Cooper , Robert Brooke , James Mooncy , John Leach , David Morrison , George Candelet , John Durham , James Fenton , and Frederick Augustus

      Taylor ; while those who are relieved by the present decision from further ha rrassment in the affair , are —Feargus O'Connor , William Hill , George Julian Harney , John Hoyle , John Norman , William Beesley , Samuel Parked , Thomas Railton , Robert Ramsden , John Arran , John Skevington , William Aitkin , Sandy Challenger , Wm . Woodruff , and Richard Ottloy . j

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      O'CONNOR AND REPEAL . The following communication is from our London Correspondent : — u I have refrained from hitherto alluding to a circumstance which [ has created a great sensation among the Chartists and Repealers of the Metropolis , being anxious to avoid everything calculated to keep up a fee ing of hostility between parties whose duty and interest it is to be united ; but , the cloven foot being now fairly shown , it becomes a duty to make the [ circumstances public . It is well known that Mr . O Connor , at the conclusion of his late lecture on the Repeal of the Union , expressed his wish to be enrolled a member of the Repeal

      Association , and tendered a sovereign as a contribution towards the j" Rent . " On Sunday evening , May 28 j 1 > , Mr . Dwaine , the chairman of the meeting , proposed Mr . O'Connor as a member , at Mr . Buckley's Repeal Warjd , Boswell's Court , Fetter-lane . Mr . Haynes , ex-sub-Editor of the Charter newspaper , ex-teetotal ] lecturer , ex-Cora Law lecturer , ex-sub-editor of the Statesman , and now Repeal advocate , objected to ) Mr . O'Connor ' s admission . . An animated discussion arose , and Mr . Buckley wrote to Dublin to receive instructions on the subject . Mr . Haynes also wrote , stating his views of the case . On Sunday evening , a large muster of Chartist Repealers , and others , met at the above house , to hear

      the result . Ou arriving there , all was confusion . Ou the previous Jmorning , W . J . O'Counell , Inspector General for London , had peremptorily closed the Ward , alleging they were unfit to be a Ward , for receiving O'Connor ' s money without consulting head quarters ; great was the indignation manifested by the independent repealers at this outrageous pro * ceeding , and epitheti of a very Btrong description were applied to its perpetrator . Messrs . Dwaine , Buckley , M'Carthy , Overton , Rathbone , Wheeler , and others expressed their opinions warmly , and in answer to objections proved , from printed documents , that O ' Connor had ever been an ardent

      advocate of the repeal of the legislative union . A repeal warden impressed lapoo the meeting the propriety of saying nothing j calculated to widen ihe breaoh ; private letters from Ray and Steele to Hayues had beui alluded to ; he repudiated the idea of being guided by the private opinions of any man , and called upon them to meet on the following Sunday , and they should hear the rtsult of the deliberations in j Dublin ; if they rejected Chartists he was one , and they rejected him also ; on thia understanding tho meeting dispersed . Siuoe Sunday a letter has been received from Ray as secretary , returning O'Connor ' s money , and desiring that the money of all Chartists should be iuamediiuu , t £ iy returned . Here the matter rejts uutii han-

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      ^ - — ^ day evening ; your readers will make their own comments upon this statements of facts . " Wo give elsewhere a letter from Mr . O'Connqs to the Irishmen in England upon this matter , to which we refer our readers , and leave them , as out Correspondent says , ' * to make their own comments . "

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      John Fheheley , of Scregg Ballyhamy % hy French Park , Ireland , will be thankful for a Star which any good English Chartist can spare him after reading it . . Manchester Lock Hospital . —We have received a long statement in reference to the resignation of her place ty the matron of this institution together with the letter of that person to the Cml mittee on tendering her resignation . We cannot insert it . The subject is one for the private investigation o / ths Committee ; and we must suppose that u committee ofrespectable ministers and gentlemen will duly enquire into any well founded allegations of abuse . Mr . Julian Harney . —Letters intended for Mr .

      Julian Harney must be addressed to him , No . 91 S / ieaf Bank , Lead Mill Road , Sheffield . Ma . Harnby has received for the Local Defen ce Fund the sums of Is . lid ., and lld ^ colleeted by Mr . Benjamin Richardson , Sheffield , John Miller , Halifax . —It is , perhaps , better just now to wait a little silently . We are looking on . But we are not to be driven out of our . course by either fools or knaves ; and we hope to see the same spirit actuating-all our friends . G . Charlton , Sunder land , sends us a long letter in reference to his expulsicnfrom the body of Wetley an focal preachers , on account ofhisenlertain . ing Chartist principles . These things are so much of course that've are net at all surprised

      at them . We cannot afford so much space as Mr . CJnrltori ' s letter would occupy ; but we can assure him , fbr Ms comfort , that he is no worse used than many other good men have been ; an £ wo think that the methodist parsons have paidhim a great compliment . E . Ferguson , Alexandria . —His last week ' s letter did not reach us until the Scotch papers were worked off .-N . W . B ., Preston . — We are not surprised . We never yet knew better of the ' * bawlers" A widethroated barking dog is always a cowardly cttr and generally an ill-natured one . " A Real Chartist , " Chorley . writes us that"

      Uohwages-ana-cheap-bread Louden hus been again reducing wages . We suppose this will surprise no one : but a real Chartist" should have gam his name and address ^ DERUt . —All letters for the Chartists of thisioim must in future be addressed to Mr . John Mess , Plum-tree place , Darley-lane . A Mechanic . —Hamilton ' s literal and interlinear translation of the Gospel of St . John is the best book to begin with . He may get it both Greek and Latin at any booksellers shop . St . Pancras Chartists . — We cannot interfere in the affair of Mr , Lucas . Alfred Linch . —No room .

      S . Boonham , Nottingham , writes us , in reUrenee to a notice in our last , that he sent no comnainica ion respecting the tea party at all , and thai his name must , therefore , have been appended to the one we received without his knowledge or authority . •*> John Gibson . —The signature of a boy ten ye ' arsofaQB would give no power io any parties to deprive him of anything which by law belonged to him A minor cannot be bounden to his own prejudice . A Regular Subscribes , Dodwobth . Wehave belter occupation for our lime and columns than answering " pintr' questions . If we should begin with them , we might soon spend a day or two in each week with nothing else .

      Stars 16 Ireland . — W . Foster , ofBingley , writes to call the attention of the Chartists of England and Scotland to ihe necessity , at this particular period , of sending all the Stars they can to Ireland Let all who % . can send their Stars to Mr . O'Higgins , No . 14 , North Ann-street , Dublin . They want them ; and he states that very few comparatively are now sent . . . James Hyslof , draper , Wigan , wants a few copies of the Northern Star for all last month . \ Justice for the Poor—A poor man in Wigan owed I Is . Qd ., which he was adjudged by the Court of Requests to pay at the rate of Is . per week , or 4 s . per mnnth . The costs were 1 Is . 5 d .: ' within one penny of the full amount of the original debt !

      Thomas Starket , Sioke-upon-Trent , sends us the following letter : — " Stoke-on-Trent , June 7 , 1843 . ' Dear Sia . —It is not enough for a man to'sell and mortgage all be has got , in defence of himself and principle , to claim your attention , and ask for a share of what his friends have subscribed , I sap * pose ? " Yours traly , "Thomas Starkey . " To Mr . Hill , Leeds . " // Thomas Starkly happens to know his own meaning ^ we fancy he is wiser than any one else can become from reading his letter . Manchester Chartists . — We cannot publish their resolution in reference to Mr . Cooper . Welsh Chartists . — -. 4 correspondent thus writes

      " In answer to the questions in last week ' s Star about the Welsh Ch . rrtists— " Wfcere are they ? What are they doing ? Are they Btill alive ? " We are here still , and doing as much as we possibly can under present circumstances . Yes , the brave men of the hills are still alive , for all some of the leaders have stood in the back ground for tome time , for reasons best known to themselves , the people are determined to do their own work , and trust not even to their friends any more . It is true that the oppressors have taken advantage of these bad times to clog the Wheels of Liberty ' * chariot ; but ere long they must give way , and confess that the people are enlignteued and are determined to have ( heir right ? " If our brothers in Engiand do not know whether we are dead or alive , tho tyrants here know well ^ to their mort-fication , that we ate still at our ppsf

      ^ Pr. Horner, Of Hull, Recommended Pot&To And Arsenic As The Most Effectual Means For T N» Destruction Of Beetles. We Have Tried It In Our

      ^ Pr . Horner , of Hull , recommended pot&to and arsenic as the most effectual means for t n » destruction of beetles . We have tried it in our

      houses with the most triumphant success . —w » r deners' Gazelle . Cheap Medicine for Horses . —For the disease commonly called the gripes , to which norse 3 ^?; subject , there ha 3 been discovered an inia « iW « remedy , and one that is in the possession of every person ; it is merely one spoonful of soot , an one of wheat flour mixed with a pint of cold spring water , given with a horn in tae usual manner . This will be fouad to afford instantaneous

      relief-ToTAt Wreck of the Ship Great Britain . We have to report the total loss . of the splendia packet-ship , the Great Britain , Captain Shaxsin $ master , on her outward passage to New York , together with the whole of the valuable cargo , one was frigate-rigged , four hundred and four tons burthen , and was built at Quebec in the year I'M * The preservation of her crew and passengers was truly miraculous .

      Extensive Robbery . —Information has been teceived from Edinburgh that a person named G&oti * Goldie had stolen and absconded with £ 340 belonging to the City of Edinburgh Lodge of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows of the M . « nchester Unity , of which he was treasurer . « f » stated to have been formerly a carver and gilderi and lately a hatter , residing on the North-bridge ,, and is about thirty-seven years Of age , five feat seven inches high , of fair complexion , stout , and bund o » the left eye , and is rather genteel looking .

      Abkivai . o * the King op HiJi 6 yBR . ~ Preci 8 e ! y at twenty minutes before four on Friday afternoon , his Majesty the King of Hanover and suite landed at the Custom-house Quay , from the Eagle Government ttearoer , having ttte royal standard at itsmain mast- His Majosty appeared in health , but mow than usuaily pale . Indeed , the reception he tm with was uos calculated to raise his spirits , loo number of persons assembled was about 700 ; » na his Majesty , followed by a Hanoverian ofiicer , walseo two

      uncovered through the crowd , which formed lines to admit of their passage . Not 4 hat w » raised—not a stogie cheer greeted his arrival on tna shores of his native land . At length hisses ano groans commenced , and became general . As hi » Majesty ascended tho steps of the Customhouse a respectable-looking man exclaimed , with a strong voice , " Dou ' t hiss tbo poor old maujlet us be tbanKful to , God he is not King of England ! " This remar * was loudly cheered .

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      FOE THE DEFENCE FUND . £ . 8 . d . From W . Cooke , Duckinfield 0 l * .. Hunalet , per J . LoagbottotB . ° * f „ Joseph Turner ... " ° ° a „ the Chartists of Coventry ... ° 8 » ., Bix other friends at Coventry ... ... 0 3 I * FOR THE VICTIM FUND . From Bristol , collected by Miss M . Williams ... „ 0 8 8 „ the Female Chartists © f Bristol ... 9 * * . W . Joalyn d 1 "

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      The 8 s . 6 d ., for Defence Fund , noticed on May 6 tb » from " J . Lonebottom , Leeds , " should have been —From Hun 8 let , per J . Longbottom Robert Whitpield , Bingley—Apply atthe Po « t » office for a letter .

      Co £Uat»Ev0 Ami ®T&Gt;Tvt&$Ovtot\\T$.

      Co £ Uat » ev 0 ami ® t > tvt& $ ovtot \\ t $ .

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      TO MESSRS . SWEET AND WGODHOT 7 SE . Ktrtfingham , May 24 , 1843 . €£ 5 Ti £ XES , —In reply to jour inquiries respecting a nanoor -which has l ) een circulated :, to the effect that 23 . 1 . O'Connor received the Aim of £ 28 for Mb services at Mr . Stnrge'a election , 3 leg Jeave most xmeqoivocaHy to Xlate that Mr . O'Connor sever applied for any payment nor received any tonsideratioD for Mb services in that election . Attheaune time , it-jrffl be right for me to state the arcomstancea -which so doubt nave given rise to this nnfoonSed report : —

      On the-day immediately foD owing the election , Mr . O'Connor preferred a elans of £ 27 20 s . Be stated then " Hud it hadsot been Ms intention io receive any rnpard for Au men services ; nor did he eiped nor vxnild Ju accept even &t repayment of his travelling expenses At / or Ms personal services hie had given them for ihe cause Mr Siurpe advocated ; but there were a number of mat vho had come at Ms ixviialion arid < d the request of the Chariisl body , and he conceived it ri-jht their expenses should iejwiiilr . O'Connor submitted the different item * tn -writing , amounting to ££ 7 10 s . I took itto tot Ocamittee ; and az some doubts arose in their mioda & » to this claim properly belonging to them , it was subscribed amonsBt a few genUemen , and I went and paid this zom immediately to Mm .

      The copy of Ms letter in acknowledgment of its receipt , and containing an accoHnt of its appropriation I annex to this eomxnnnic&tum . I tan assure yon , GenUerflefl , this ii the cu , ' y pecuuiary application that -was evw made by Mr . © Connor to the Committee , ana the only ton that was ever paid to iim on any -account vrhatevez . lam , GenUemen , Tonrs very respectf nBy , Tbohas Beggs . P . S . Ton are quite at liberty to make -what use jon like of tMs letter . iondoa , August JO , 1842 . Mt Dbxb Beggs , —As it -was from yon I received . £ 27 105 . for my brigade , and as all moDBy matters should be pnzctnaHy observed , I beg to snbmtt to yon -&& xecenst of the appropriation : —

      Dr . M \ D 3 naU £ az Cooper £ i j Jones £ Z 35 J ; West £ 3 1 O »; Mead £ 3 los ; and Clarke , £ 2 35 * " Total £ 37 10 s . Ton vfill see that a trifling alteration has been nude cf a few shillings in the application , "which trss oaring to travelling expense *; bat inch have been ihe disbnrs-Tonrs very trnl j . 7 . O'Cossob . To Hr . Begra , Nottingham .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 10, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1216/page/4/