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      THEWRAUfT Ag ^ ggg * D ' KISS *' of all capital puiuihment e , " JS s ^ S &P eloquently pleaded against the «• barbarous practice : "We are . I *™ st , free to discuss the question with a view to human justice , human expediency , and the great duty of repressing crime . 1 should be atrasing patience and insulting common sense , were I to waste ose moment of jour ' s in enforcing what no man who has once thought of the rudiments of these things will now dispute , what no government that has risen above a state of primitive barbarity does not adopt as an axiom , that with mere

      vengeance the law has nothing to do . That the mere phrase , " He deserves it , " is beside the whole question of justifying the punishment . That its sole object , its sole justification , lies in as far asmay / bethe prevention of crime . Example , then . ' ( Hear , hear . ) This is not a question to which to apply wild theories , vain conjecture , inconclusiv speculation . I wish to rest all 1 have to say , all , on the practical experience which is common to us all . Upon this ground I take my stand . In our own experience we know the example fails of its object . The example is bad . I put it to this test—I ask you whether , in any one instance of a public execution , it calls forth die feelings the law intends—it answers the object the law intends ! I answer in not one , proveably not one . I will show you that it is a moral and natural impossibility that it should

      effect the object it intends in the case of any one human creature -who ever yet saw an execution , or ever can be called upon to see one . I will prove this , and 1 beg you to attend to this , for it is one of the main hinges of my argument . The spectators are one of three classes : — 1 . The merely curious . Those who go to it because such a thing is not , at least now is not , to be seen any week us England . It is a tragedy of a coarse and vulgar mind . Sow , gentlemen , mere curiosity to see a man deliberately tilled is not what the law intends . There is another dass—those who behold it with deep sympathy for the sufferer . Deep sympathy with the guilty is not what the law intends . A thirds—savage exultation . Savage exultation is not what the law of any civilised land intends . Lynch law feeling is not what the common law of England intends to set up as the guardian influence of public

      safely . Sow what the law does suppose and mean , is a manifest impossibility : the existc . ee of a fourth state of mind , which never yet did exist , which God never intended should exist in the human mind , because he has so constructed the human mind as to make it absolutely and manifestly impossible : rogret that a felloiv creature should have justly subjected himself to the penalty of a violent dead , a mournful sense of the suffering we are witnessing , a deep regret that any human being should so suffer , and yet such a master sense of the justice of the law that if I could by raising my hand relieve that suifering and prevent that life being taken away which God gave , I would not do it . Sow this is a state of feelings co-existent in direct antagonism to each other , which it is plain never existed in one human breast since the breath of life was breathed into the firat man ' s

      nostrils , and which clearly never ought to exist , because it is directly contrary to nature , contrary to the whole organisation of the human mind as God has made it . Well , ttea , I bring you to this conclusion , that a public execution never did , never will , cannot , by the constitution of nature , ever answer with the spectators the object the law intends . Example ! Ask those who watch the course of the law in the example it gives . Ask the master if he sends his servant , ask the parent if he sends his son , ask the guardian if he sends his pupil , to profit by it . If he does , the example is in his opinion good . But if he does not—if he close the eyes and ears of his whole house against all view , and against all hearing of the horrid act —why then , in his opinion , the act of the law is such as , instead of example , threatens to spread a moral pestilence

      through his house . ( Cheers . ) So much for example Ask the chaplain of your gaol , ask that most excellent officer ( the governor ) of your gaol , ask the police , ask the jndge apon the bench , ask the Secretary of State , whether the crime to which alone the punishment of death is now practically limited—whether the crime of murder is dimi . nishing under the influence of the gibbet , or increasing . Look at the statistical returns of prosecutions and convictions . At every fire years' end since the punishment of death has been taken away from lesser crimes , and limited practically to murder , at every five years' end ( although there is no longer any reluctance to * prosecute for forgery , sheep-stealing , horse-stealing , privately stealing in shops and dwelling-houses , and from the person , as -was felt while these crimes were capital ) , the

      prosecutions for these crimes , and the crimes themselves , have considerably diminished . The one crime to which practically you apply the punishment of death , murder , lias frightfully increased—is frightfully and daily increasing Bo yon say this is because juries have often a reluctance to act up to their oaths , and have of late often acquitted in the clearest cases of guilt ? Do yon say this ? Then you admit yourselves out of court . Toushow that public opinion is against the law ( loud cheering ) ; and , where law and . " public opinion are opposed , the law must give way . Juries are empanneiled to try the prisoner ; they acquit the prisoner wherever they can find a shadow , however feint , of excuse for such a verdict , and they find against the law . # The law is found guilty by trial by jury . You show that , in such cases ,

      jurymen are placed in the alternative between tampering with their oaths , or inflicting a punishment they hold in horror , and that they act as thinking ( mind I do not justify , I only state the fact ) that there is one crime worse than perjury , and that is the giving effect to the law . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Why , then , I repeat you only show that law and public opinion are in conflict , and the law must give way . I desire not to be so totally misapprehended in what I say as to be supposed for one moment to speak disrespectfully of the jury who do thenduty on their oaths , or of the judge , who , whatever be his own opinions as to the justice of the penalty , is bound by the most solemn of all duties to direct the jurv aright according to Ms view of the evidence , whatever be the result , and to carry out with firmness and impartiality the

      provisions of the law whose minister he is . I reverence much too sincerely the great princi ple of trial by jurv , which , I believe , the best conceived and best administered niaranycounny ever saw for the protection of human rights , human safety , and , the greatest of all things , human liberty . I reverence much too sincerely the character of our judges , who , I firmly believe , administer the law with a parity andiinpartialiry , according to the law , unparalleled in any other nation . But of the law I may speak with freedom . I may call the law , that I believe it to be an unwise , a wanton , an unrighteous , ana a hateful law . ( Hear , hear . ) About a month ago , a human creature stood in that dock , righteously , I think , convicted on strong evidence of murder , as black , as deliberate , as cruel as the human mind can contemplate . From that

      dock he was sent , by the award of a public tribunalsent , for example ' s sake , to be publicly deprived , on that scaffold , of the life God gave him . For example ' s sake I "What was the example ! The space below was crowded with the curious . Sot a sound was heard . The feeling was deep horror of the spectacle and of the suffering . What was fte result ? How did that very evening close ? Before the sun which had shone on that dreadful spectacle had set , the public-houses were echoing with sounds of revelry . The streets were thronged , with what ? Drunken quarrels and ruffianly fights ! A publican on the Newroad , who had opened his house to a throng of those who had come from a distance to witness the law ' s example , was robbed of his watch and money by some of the pupils who had come recent from this moral lesson of a public

      execution . So much , for the example ! O , how rightly did parents , guardians , masters , act , who kept their children , their servants , aloof from the contagion of that whole day ! How wisely did the masters of families act who blocked their windows from the sight the law had prepared for public exhibition ! Where was the example * If taken well , then those who took it wanted no example ; if ill , then the example confirmed old ruffianism , and excited new . ( Hear . ) Am I singular in this opinion ? Ask those whose unhappy duty it is to attend ; and they wfll tell you . They will tell you , whose habit it is , from a sense of decency , if possible , to anticipate the hour of execution , and thus deprive the public of the spectacle , and defeat the law of its publicity . ( Great cheer ing . ) Men ! men ! I appeal to every feeling of manhood within you . Ton are husbands—you are fathers vou

      are brothers . There are hearts beating purely , tenderly , warmly , with every feeling of wives , of mothers , of sisters , of daughters . Sot a week ago , not three weeks after that execution , many of them—do I blame them ?—0 , God bless them , no !—innocently , joyousl y , they joined in the happy amusement which so wi-11 befits their happy youth . But where ? Almost under the threshold of that scaffold , which not three weeks before , was prepared by the hands of man to be—I will not proceed . ( Loud and general cheering . ) But allow me on another part of this subject On that scaffold stood two men . The one a murderer—the other the executioner of the law . I ask you , which of these two , the murderer and the hangman , which , with Hie spectators , was the object of sympathy , and which of disgust and repulsion ? Why , while the just and venerable judge in his ermine is an object , and justly , of reverence and honour—whv is he who

      carries out the sentence of the judge to be " a man forbid , " under a social ban , the object of repulsion and disgust ? Why , because public opinion , because the natural feelings of man , are against the law . Because the law itself shrinks , conscience-stricken , shame-stricken , before the fulfilment of its own ordinances . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) I know no of clearer rule of moral conduct than this—never command what you would be ashamed to do . ( Loud cheers . ) Apply this to the law . I heard the other day of a person—God forbid I should mention his name , God forbid I should mention Ms calling—I mention the feet only to show the tantalising effects of laws like thess on the mode of thinking , feeling , and conversing , even among men of education . A gentlemen , one whose

      station and calling might have bespoken something far different in taste and feeling , observed on a late conviction , " What ! not hang him , a vile and infamous murderer 1 I can only speak my own feelings—I would willingly have tied the knot myself ! " Gentlemen , I willingly repress every feeling of indignation and horror . 8 uch a speech & erves neither . It is but the speech of a mind that has lost its self-command , drunk with the •^ honouring excitement of the evil doctrines of a bartarouslaw . I would merel y answer , " Indeed , good sir ? Tastes may not be disputed . But it is only a pity jou ^ imsteken Jour profession" ( Cheers . ) Allgovernv £ 2 Z' £% T \ * UUwa B * ° "uiPact , ex . SS ^ lf ^ ^^ f crism to say ttatno ~** £ Z £ teS ^ J ^^ aothimself master of . ¦ * Cannot S ™ *» another , yon cannot give to

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      society , power over your life . It is not yours to give . It is an unrighteous compact . It is a compact to give what is not yours . The compact is void . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) Again , I have no right to deliberately kill a murderer . If I see a man going to commit a murder , which I cannot n any other way prevent , I slay him , trithout hesitation . Plainly , because I sacrifice a guilty life , if in no other way 1 can save an innocent one . But the murder once done , have I a right to take that murderer ' s life wherever I meet him—in his he J , at his board , in his path ! Undoubtedly not . It would be murder . The character of the act is not altered by the complication of agency . I cannot rightfully delegate to the hands of many what it would be wrongful to do by my own . ( Hear , hear . ) Again : An irremediable punishment is irreconcilable with fallibility of judgment . The prerogative of

      vengeance belongs to the Almighty—why ? Because his judgments are incapable of error . We can form ours only by the best attainable evidence . It is fallible . We havi no right to inflict a punishment which , if we shall hereafter find we have been iu error , can be neither revoked , nor repaired , tior compensated . My lamented friend , Sir James Macintosh , moved , many years ago , for a return , which showed , for a long lime back , during different cycles of years when capital punishments were very frequent in England , that the average had for many years been at the rate of one person executed every three years , whose innocence had been afterwards satisfactorily and publicly established . One every three years , on an average , in this well educated country , in this moral country , in this free country , this country of popular tribunals and incorruptible judges—once every three years

      a deliberate , cruel , unpalliable murder , committed by your tribunals publicly before your people . ( Hear , hear . ) Do you wish for an acknowledgment on the part of all society , on the part of the ministers of public justice , of their disconfidence in their own judgment ? I give it The prurient curiosity , the unappeasable thirst for the confession of a condemned culprit . If you distrust your verdict , why did you pronounce an irreparable punishment ? If you trust it , why can you not be tranquil till your victim has assured you that you are right ? Why this prying into the gloom of the condemned cell ? Why this treasuring up of the gleanings of the scaffold , to be winnowed at leisure by either a wanton curiosity , or a conscience ill at ease with the remembrance of what it has done ? ( Hear , hear . ) Hence the last hours of the dyiuL' man disturbed .

      Hence tin * impertinence of obtrusive advice . Hence the persecution of even his spiritual adviser , who is put to the question to disclose what he is bound by the clearest ties of honour , by the distinct injunctions of his religion , by the duties of his office , never to betray—what has been revealed in confidence to him by one whom he was preparing to meet his God . ( Hear , hear . ) He is to be appealed against before the Secretary of State : but fortunately the Secretary of State , more wise and more just , does give the applicants this lesson at least in their duty ; be declines any reply . ( Loud cheers . ) So much for your confidence in the justice of your own irreversible sentence , that a fellow-creature has been hurried by a human tribunal before the judgment seat of the living God . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) We are accused of being theorists , and upon the strength of an untried theory seeking to

      repeal what has invariably received the sanction of the wisdom of all who have gone before us . Untried theoriesand the wisdom of our ancestors ! Our ancestors had a theory which they did try for many generations . They applied the theory of the gibbet to forgery . They applied it to horse and sheep stealing . They applied it to stealing in shops , dwelling-houses , and from the person . They applied i : to cutting down fruit trees with malice , to consorting for twelve months with persons called gipsies , and to cultivating the tobacco plant in England , because it interfered with the produce of our colony of Virginia . But I appeal to you , our opponents now . You remember when the repeal of the death punishment for horse-stealing , sheep-stealing , and forgery , was resisted , aye , and by good men too , with just as much pertinacity as the gibbet is now retained for murder . I ask you , is there one of

      you , who clung to the punishment of death for forgery , who would restore it now!—who does not look back upon it with horror and with wonder ? I ask you , and lay y our hands on your heart , were you not as much in earnest then as now ! And is it not possible that when this barbarous , this wanton , this utterly inoperative law of death shall be totally repealed , is it not possible that you may look back upon it twenty years after it shall be repealed , as you now look back on what was the last twenty years ago , with equal horror and wonder ! At least do not call as the theorists . We told you the death punishment of forgery was unjustifiable , was inoperative , was what you would one day look back upon with astonishment . The time is come . We were right . We stand now with experience at our back . Your theory was wrong . You were the theorists , you admit You were wrong in your theory .

      You were the self-confessed sciolists . ( Loud and long cheering . ) Distrust your judgment on the like subject now . But we are told to see how frequent is the crime of murder now ! "It is increasing ! Would you try your experiments now ! See the disease is increasing under my remedies . 0 ! do not caU on me to alter my treatment now . See the birds of prey are flocking round my scarecrow . They are percMng npon it . Do not call on one now to destroy this venerable monument of the wisdom of our ancestors . " ( Laughter and cheers . ) Gentlemen , I have done . I have detained you too long . I feel it ; but I could not be content without expressing my opinions , and giving my reasons for them in full . I will conclude with a few words of prediction only . A deadly race is now running between atrocious crime ' and unjusti . fiablelaw . The example is inoperative except for evil .

      The memory of the punishment perishes with the wretch who is the object of it . I call upon you to adopt one which shall be lasting , exemplary , will meet the feelings of all mankind , and by which just retribution shall be kept alive in the minds of all . I beg a reply . I conclude with this prediction , I beg you to do me the honour to keep it in mind . Juries are becoming daily more reluctant ; to convict . The law will soon utterly fail . It will soon be repealed . Mark my words . The gibbet has not fifteen years' life in it . If in I 860 , fifteen years hence , there shall be a death punishment existing , if we shall still be in this world together , reproach me with being the falsest prophet , the veriest fool , that ever presumed to talk of the advancing spirit of the times , Meanwlule , unless I can be shown to be wrong in every argument I have laid before you , be , as wise men should ever be , a litflein advance of the times youlive in , andjoin your efforts to urge the repeal of this inoperative , this

      demoralising , this unjust , this barbarous , this hateful law . Petition both Houses of Parliament , address the throne . Address your Queen , as a good and gracious Queen , as a wife , as a mother , as a woman : for these are points on which the heart teaches wisdom , and whereof the wisdom of women , it is little to say that it is as much to be confided in as that of men . ( Hear , hear . ) Set your hands to tMs great work . It will be achieved before many years shall have passed . And whether we live or not to witness its achievement , if we but take our share in it now , you , and I , and all of us now in this hall , will not have lived in vain . ( Loud and protracted cheering . ) I move you , Mr . Chairman , " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the punishment of death by law is totally ineffectual in its object as to the prevention or diminution of crime ; that it is of bad public example ; and ought to be totally abolished . " The resolution was unanimously carried .

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      Murder of as Isfasi bt us Nurse . —On Sunday morning , about ten o ' clock , a frightful murder was committed at the residence of Mr . John Drake Ffinch , of South-street , Greenwich , solicitor . The facts of the case are as follows : —Martha Bricksey , aged eighteen years , theunder nurserymaidin Mr . Ffinch ' s family , went into the kitchen shortly before ten o clock , and asked the cook for a knife , and said she wanted to cut a pencil for Mary , who was up stairs in the nursery . The cook gave her an ivory-handled knife , but remarked that a smaller one would do better for the purpose . She said no , that would do , as she could use it for cutting the bread and butter at tea in the afternoon , and immediately proceeded upstairs . In a few minutes afterwards she came

      down stairs again , and , opening the parlour-door , told her master and mistress that she had killed the baby . Mrs . Ffinch , in a state of indescribable astonisment , asked what the wretched girl said ; and was in the act of rushing up stairs to the nursery , but was stayed by her husband and Mr . Traill , the Union Hall police magistrate , who was paying the family a morning visit . The girl again said that she had killed the infant , andhoped that" God would forgive her . " On Mr . Ffinch and some of his family going upstairs , his infant son , aged ten months , was discovered lying on the bed , with his head severed from his body , in a pool of blood . On this fact being made known the whole of the family became horror-struck Mr . Ffinch immediately sent for a police-constable .

      and James Quid , R 164 , conveyed the murderer to the station-house in the Blackheath-road . The name of the deceased is Robert Barry Ffinch , aged ten months , the youngest of seven children . The wretched girl , Bricksey , has been three years and a half in the family of Mr . Ffinch , as under nursery maid , has been much respected by her master and mistress , and beloved by the children . She had , however , recently intimated to her mistress that she was not quite satisfied , and wished to leave . Mrs . Ffinch said if so , she had better go home to her parents . She subsequently begged Mrs . Ffinch to retain her services , saying she was sure she could not

      meet with a kinder or better mistress . Some slight acts of irregularity and folly had very lately been observed , but nothing which led to a supposition that her mind was affected . Dr . Caleb Taylor , of Deptford , and Mr . Edward Downing , the police-surgeon , attended the prisoner in the police cell , and remained with her nearly two hours on Sunday , during which she was overpowered with frequent fits of grief , and as often calling aloud to God for forgiveness , and declaring that she had no dislike or ill-feeling towards either the infant or its parents . It was done entirely through a momentary impulse , for which she could not in the remotest degree account .

      The Ixquest . —On Monday a jury was impanelled before Mr . C . J . Carttar , the coroner , to investigate the circumstances attending the death of Robert Barry Ffinch , the infant son of Mr . John Drake Ffinch , who was found dead with bis head nearly separated from his body on Sunday morning . The jury having been sworn , the coroner stated to them all the circumstances which had come to his know-

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      ledge , and then proceeded to view the body . Martha Bricksey . the girl who stands charged with the murder of the deceased , was then brought into the room in custody of the police , accompanied by her mother and the female keeper who had been appointed to attend her in the police cell . The first witness called was Sarah May , upper nurse in the family of deceased ' s father . She deposed that she had been two years in Mr . Ffinch ' s family . The deceased was nine months old . The prisoner , Martha Bricksey , was under-nurse . Witness saw the infant last alive at a quarter before ten o ' clock on Sunday morning . She put him into his cot , and left him sleeping at that time . The prisoner was in the next room . Five minutes before she left the nursery the prisoner said , " Do you think Mrs . Ffinch will forgive me ? Will

      she let me stop ? " Witness replied , "No . " Mrs . Ffinch had candidly told her she would not . She then advised the prisoner to be quiet , as it would be much better for her . She had been worrying her mistress on SatHrday , begging her to forgive her , and let her remain . Airs . Ffinch hadsaid "No , " positively . She had seen a person that would suit , and could retain her services no longer . To all this the prisoner made no answer . On Sunday morning the prisoner said , she wondered if Mrs . Ffinch had seen the new maid . Witness remarked that she would call on Monday . This conversation took place while making the beds . Witness then left the room , and went down to the kitchen , taking one of the younger children with her . She there left the children with the cook and housemaid and went into the back

      yard , and while there she heard loud screams . She immediately ran into the house and went up into the nursery , whence the cries came . All the children were crying very much , and Mrs . Ffinch was in a frantic state . Mr . Ffinch was preventing the prisoner from going upstairs . The cook hau gone upstairs . Mr . Traill and Mvs . Ffinch were below in the hall . Witness found the child lying on its back , and the head nearly off . She had left it lying asleep on its side . On looking round she saw an ivoryhandled table-knifecovered with blood . The children were at this time all below , crying in the hall . About seven minutes elapsed during all this . The prisoner had always behaved very well towards the children . The prisoner had behaved very oddly about a mourning-gown which her mistress had given

      her , and she was going to leave partly on that account . About three weeks ago she complained much about the dress not fitting nor . She subsequently cut the body from the skirt in the nursery and -burnt . it . Witness told her she ought to be ashamed of herself , and that she wonld tell Mi's . Ffinch on her return home . The prisoner was in a great passion when she burnt the body of her dress , but became quiet afterwards , and seemed satisfied with what she had done . Witness repeatedly advised her not to burn it , as it fitted her . She was most determined , and said she wished the dress-maker had been at the devil before she had made the gown ; she further said she wished to leave and get a housemaid ' s place . Mr . and Mrs . Ffinch were exceedingly kind to her and to all the servants ; thinks it was mere pride , as the dress

      fitted well . All the servants had mourning alike ; prisoner bought a new body for 8 s ., and had it made up . She still did not like it , and took it to a pawnbroker ' s . She told her mistress that she had sold it , but could get it again . She was ordered ^ to fetch it , and did so when her mistress told her if she would conduct herself properly , she would forgive her , but if anything more about the dress occurred , she must go . She was sent out with thechildren on Friday and kept them without theirdinner . Mrs . Ffinch , on her return , remonstrated with her , and told her slip should write to her mother to fetch her away , and did so . Prisoner told Mrs . Ffinch that she wished to see her master to induce him to retain her , and mistress replied that her mind was made up , and that master would not interfere in her domestic arrangements . The

      prisoner had appeared unhappy during the last three weeks , and had taken medicine twice a day for three weeks or a month ; complained of her head at times , but had been better since taking the medicine . She was always treated with the greatest kindness . Mrs . Ffinch told her that she would give her a character , and that she was at liberty to come and see thechildren and the servants as often as she pleased . —Mr . James Traill , of Lewisham , policemagistrate , deposed , that he called at Mr . Ffinch ' s house at a quarter before ten o ' clock on Sunday morning , and went into the drawing-room . He was let in by the housemaid . Mr . and Mrs . Ffinch came to him in a minute or so afterwards , and they conversed together from five to ten minutes , when the door opened , and the prisoner entered ; she presented

      an unusual and distracted appearance , and immediately exclaimed , "What have I done ! What have I done ! " many times over ; and again , "What will become of me ? What will become of me ? I am a murderer . I have killed the baby . " Mi-. Ffinch demanded to know what had happened to the child , and rushed from the room . Witness ' s impression was , at the moment , that some dreadful accident had happened , and that the child had been dropped out of window . He then followed Mr . Ffinch up to the nursery , and saw Mr . Ffinch coming down . Mr . Ffinch returned , and drew his attention to the child ' s cot , where the deceased lay with his head severed nearly from his body . On leaving the room he met the prisoner , and ordered her down again . He then went into the drawing-room to Mrs . Ffinch .

      Witness next saw the prisoner in Mr . Ffinch ' s dressingroom , apparently in great distress , saying , " What will become of me ? What will become of me ?" Witness said , " You are a poor miserable wretch , " and she said , "Will God pardon me ? " He held her hands , and got the servants to assist until lie could procure a police-constable , and prevent further violence . The whole family had at this time assembled in a most distressed state of mind . The prisoner again addressed deceased ' s parents , and implored their forgiveness . —ElizabethMiddlewich , housemaid , said she saw the upper-nurse washing the deceased at a quarter past nine o ' clock on Sunday morning . AVitness went down stairs , and the nurse Mowed at ten o clock with the youngest child but one , and left it in the kitchen with the other in care of the

      cook . The nurse then went into the yard . Mr . and Mrs . Ffinch and Mr . Traill were in the parlour at twenty minutes to ten o ' clock . The prisoner came into the kitchen shortly after the nurse and went into the pantry . Witness Mowed , and asked her what she wanted . She took a table-knife out of the box , and said she was going upstairs with it to cut apencil for Miss Mary . Witness said , "You had better take a desert-knife , " and she did so , saying that the larger one would do to cut the children ' s bread and butter in the afternoon . She felt the edge of the large kuife to see if it was sharp . Prisoner stood a minute in the passage looking at the child standing by the cook , and then went upstairs . In three minutes after she heard a loud screaming , as if from the passage . She ran up , and met Mr . Ffincli

      coining down ; and the prisoner said , " Good God , I have cut the dear baby ' s throat . " She ( witness ) went into the room and saw the deceased , and the bloody knife lying on the floor . The prisoner said she was miserable about being discharged . —Sergeant G . Goode , 2 R , deposed , that he was sent for by Mr . Ffinch , and produced the knife with which the murder was committed . He saw the prisoner at the station , who said— " Oh , Mr . Goode , I hope God will forgive me . " He received the knife from the hands of Dr . Sutton . —A note was here handed to the coroner , written by the prisoner , and left by a policeman at the house of Mr . Ffinch on Sunday morning . It ran thus : —" Dear May—Pray send a gown , ic , and pray to God for the wickedness I have done . I do pray sincerely . Martha Bbicksey . "—Mi .

      Sutton , M . D ., deposed that lie was called in immediately after the melancholy event , and found the child ' s head had nearly been separated from , the body ; great force must have been used in doing it , and dcathmust have been instantaneous . —Elk . Garratt , monthly nurse , deposed , that she was engaged by the police to watch theprisoner in her cell . The note produced was written by the prisoner in her presence . She called for pen , ink , and paper , and said she was going to write to the nurse for something she wanted . Witness did not suggest the propriety of her doing so , or otherwise . The Coroner inquired of the prisoner if she wished to ask the witnesses any questions , to which she replied in the negative . He then asked her if she had heard all that had been said ; and ,

      after cautioning her , desired to know if she had anything to say as to the melancholy affair . The prisoner replied that she had nothing to say , but hoped he would plead all he could in herbehalf . ' This being the whole of the evidence , the Coroner summed up , remarking that there could not be the slightest doubt as to the cause of death ; and as regarded the sanity or insanity of the prisoner at the time of the commission of the dreadful act , that must be the subject of inquiry by a higher tribunal . The Jury then consulted together about five minutes , and returned averdict of " Wilful Murder against Martha Bricksey . " The Coroner then handed over his warrant of commital to Sergeant Goode , 2 R , who conveyed the prisoner in a carnage toNeweatefor trial . °

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      GLASGOW . The Glasgow Chartisis to the Chartists of Scotland . —Brethren , —We address you at this time , but not on the great principles for which we contend : tor on those we conceive you are resolved : conscious that they are the embodiment of the glorious and moral principle of "Do unto others as we would they should do unto us , " and can alone form the basis of a political system , the effects of which will be comrort and happiness to all . rendering the intelligence

      ot the people the security of the State , and the interest of the legislature the welfare of the people . That the teaching of our principles has done much for the enlightenment of the age , and the consequent preparation of the toiling masses for an improved mental , moral , physical , and social state , we think , will be admitted by every unprejudiced observer of men and things : and we assure you that we haU with pleasure the general movement of the Trades of Enehind and Scotland , as convincing proofs of the ability of the working classes to legislate for themselves , who , although labouring under the vitiated influence of

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      aristocratic laws and money power , with their almost countless train of wrongs , yet show that the influence of great principles is sufficient to effect a great change . Their practicability is proved by their constant application to every sectional movement : convincing evidence that the time has at length arrived when every man possessing an attachment to the princi p les of the people ' s Charter , should exercise every legitimate means in his power , consistent with the principles he advocates , to give a practical effect to his professions by co-operating with his brethren . At present Scotland does not possess either local or national organisation commensurate with her intelligence and attachment to democratic princi p les . We believe that local power must concentrate itself into national organisation , as sure as the free and

      unimpeded circulation of the blood in each vein and limb of the human body is reflected in the free and muscular power of the united and energetic construction of the whole man ; and had we possessed extensive local power , it would , long ere this , have resolved itself into national action ; and we , at this moment , instead of appealing to you to concentrate the scattered fragments of democracy , would have hud to address you in the happier tones of congratulation . Scotland would have assumed her proud and honourable position of the leader of the patriots of all lands , and with honest pride would have pointed to her shares , and exclaimed to their brethren in bondage , " Go ye and do likewise ! " Actuated b y no motive more noble than justice to all , and no inteveat less selfish than your political emancipation in common

      with our own , as a branch of the National Charter Association , we have resolved to employ a lecturer , on our own rcsponsibilitv and at our own expense , receiving from any individual or locality such contributions as lie or they please to give towards defraying the necessary expenses : the said lecturer to be provided with ca « te of membership for the National Charter Association , empowered to form new localities , to lecture on the principles of the People ' s Charter , or any other subject connected with the movement , also leaving him free to lecture to the Trades , or any other body , apart from political agitation : he being alone responsible to us for his conduct . All monies designed for Ids support may be remitted to our treasurer , and application for his services sent to our secretary . Men of Scotland ! We have laid

      before you our object , and our plan for its execution . We have engaged as our lecturer Mr . Samuel Kydd , a gentleman well known to us all , and in whose talent as a lecturer , and honesty as a man , we have the utmost confidence . We have resolved to strain our every nerve for the spread of purely democratic principlesand the general improvement of all . Hoping that no party feeling or narrow jealousy will lessen the sphere of our action or mar our success ; conscious that you have again and again , in assembled thousands , avowed your attachment to the principles for which we contend ; that your interest is our interest—your success | our success , we leave the matter in your hands , and confidently anticipate your co-operation and support . —Signed , on behalf of the Council ef the Glasgow Branch of the National Charter Association , Isaac Vincent , Chairman ; James Smith , Secretary .

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      householders , qualified for the vote , than all the present electors put together . ( Hear , hear . ) And if these men , so favourably placed for the obtainment of their just rights , would not take the suffrage the law placed within their reach , why then they deserved the richest '' licking " they could got . ( Great cheering . ) All power was not invested in a majority of the House of Commons , for a well organised and trusty minority could work wonders . At the present time , the working majority of the Tories did not exceed some thirty or forty ; and such a minority as he had spoken of could , by their combined and conjoint exertions , easil y be obtained . Suppose that the borough of Bradford contains 300 Whig voters and 330 Tory voters , and the Chartists have only fovty voters —it is quite obvious that the balance of power would

      be in the hands of the Chartists . ( Loud cheers . ) Whilst he was member for the county of Cork , his constituents asked him \ ri \ at could tlwy , the Radical party , do , seeing that they were in number only 43 ? He answered , "anything , if they would but act as one man . " Forty-two would always be the average balance of power . Thus , when Mr . Wilberforce was a member , if the minister of the day offended him he would take up his hat and walk out with " good morning ; remember we are thirteen . " " What ' s that you say ?" " We ate thirteen , and if one of my friends does not obtain a place we shall vote against you ! " Thus did Mr . Wilberforce carry his object with thirteen only ; and Mr . Duncombe has shewn what even one man can effect in that house ; and he ( Mr . O'Connor ) had

      the gratihcation of telling them that Mr . Duucombe had consented to become president of their Central Registration and Election Committee . ( Loud cheers . ) With regard to the land , he luid written in favour of the project as early as 1831 ; therefore with him it was no new subject . But then people said he was mad . Now he had the pleasure to find that all minds and all pens were engaged on the subject . ( Hear , hear . ) The land gave the franchise . But some asked what do the people knowabout the land ? Not much : the more is the pity . With the land locked up , he would not give a farthing for the Charter tomorrow . Under present circumstances a man might have £ 3 10 s . a-week for his wages , and another would come and say , I will do the same work for £ 2 10 s .,

      and this man would get the work . But let working men have the land , and then , instead of under-working his neighbour , each would ask £ i per week for his labour , instead of being willing to take the lesser price of £ 2 10 s . ( Cheers . ) It was not at all likely that the great capitalists , who were just now busily speculating with their funds in all parts of the world , would aid and assist them in getting the land ; neither did lie anticipate that the landed aristocracy wonld be a bit more generous . The working men must combine , and by that combination they could raise £ 5 , 000 , and buy land as a corporate body , and then they might re-sell it in small lots of £ 5 worth if they liked , and at the same time have the advantage o ' f the wholesale market , by which means they iui « -ht

      be enabled to rent two acres of land with a cottage thereon for £ 5 per annum . Mr . O'Connor here illustrated his arguments by reference to the successful practice of Mr . Biggs , of Sheffield , and Air . Linton , of Selby . He looked on the land as the working man ' s saving bank . The Chartist plan would grant leases for ever ; " but oh ! " exclaim some , " theland is theproperty of the people ! " He admitted the rich had no more title to the land than the poor . ( Loud cheers . ) But Mrs . Glass , in her famous instructions on cookery said , "first catch your hare and then proceed to cook it" ( loud laughter ); and he said , " first get the land , and then you mav be enabled to keeD

      it . " ( Much cheering . ) He had been twelve years labouring with and for them , and was still as able and as willing to obey their call as ever . ( Much cheering . ) He had been called vain and ambitions . He was vain of doing good , and ambitious of serving them . ( Cheers . ] Mr . O'Connor concluded by paying a high compliment to his colleagues of the Executive Committee , for their honour , honesty , industry , intelligence , and indomitable perseverance , and resumed his scat amid loud and protracted cheering . The resolution was earned unanimously . Mr . T . Clark then moved the adoption of the following petition : —

      To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . The petition of the inhabitants of Lambeth in public meeting assembled , Siiewetii —That the working classes of the united kingdom have for a long series of years suffered the most galling want and privation , consequent upon our unnatural social system . That during the last fifty years the trade and commerce of the country have increased enormously ; that the triumphs of inventive genius have given us the most astounding powers for the produce of wealth ; but that , notwithstanding , there has been a visible deterioration in the physical , social , and moral condtiou of our much-abuscd and deepl y-injured labouring population .

      That your petitioners , with feelings of pain , call the attention of your honourable house to the voluminous criminal calendar of the past year , as a proof of the lamentable condition to which the people are reduced . Your petitioners would likewise add , that the astounding revelation made a short time ago in your honourable house , by the Secretary of State for the Home Department , that " one of every ten of the population of England and Wales is a pauper , " is another added to the long catalogue of proofs of the horrible destitution to which the producers of wealth have been reduced by the baleful operation of the iniquitous system of misrule under which it is their misfortune to live .

      That in the opinion of your petitioners the destitution and crime existing in the country may be traced either to the existence of bad laws or to the want of good ones ; andtMt of attbadlaws upon the statute booh , time that prevent the working classes from employing their labour upon their native soil—upon God ' s free gift to his creatures—are the most destructive in their consequences , and unnatural in their operation . That your petitioners have observed with indignation , that whilst your honourable house has at all times

      squandered the public money upon objects the most unworthy—such as £ 70 , 000 fov the purpose ofbuilding royal stables , £ 21 , 000 a year to his Majesty of Hanover , £ 50 , 000 annually to another foreign monarch , Leopold , King of the Belgians , £ 20 , 000 , 000 us compensation to the unnatural , the anti-Christian traffickers in human flesh and blood , for relinquisliingjtlieir claim to what they never had a right to—your honourable house has not evinced the slightest inclination to legislate fov the elevation of the labouring population from their prostrate and degraded condition .

      That your petitioners would call the attention of your honourable house to the fact that a vast portion of the common lands of the kingdom has been seized by the aristocracy under the guise of law ; that your petitioners conceive that the people's right to the common lands is clear and indisputable ; that the reversion of the ten millions of acres of common lands to the people would be productive of incalculable benefit ; that those ten millions of acres might be divided into two millions of farms of five acres each , upon which two millions of families might be located , and surrounded with circumstances of health , peace , and prosperity ; and that the location of even half the aforesaid number of families upon the land would take the " surplus population" from the artificial labour market , leaving the residue in a position to secure an equitable remuneration for their toil .

      Your petitioners , therefore , pray your honourable house to repeal all Acts for the enclosure of common lands , and restore them to the people , their legitimate owners ; and that your honourable house will be pleased to vote a sum of money for the employment of the " surplus population" on such lands , which sum may be realised by reducing the civil list , the army and navy , and other Governmental expenses ; thereby reducing the poor-rates , and giving an impetus to a valuable and salutary home trade . And your petitioners will ever pray . [ The Executive Committee beg to call the attention of the several localities to the subjoined petition , which they recommend to be adopted at meetings called for that purpose ; to be signed by the chairman of such meetings , and forwarded to the member representing the borough or district in Parliament . —Tnos . M . Wheeler , General Secretary . ]

      Mr . Clark said it might be asked , why petition for any tiling less than the Charter ? If this was loss than the Charter , lie should say , because they were desirous of instructing the House of Commons , and they had no other means than by petition . ( Hear , hear . ) The people had plenty of work in general ; but they required more necessaries , more comforts , and more enjoyments in return for that labour . ( Loud cheers . ) He saw no necessity for going to other countries for food , whilst they had plenty of land , and hands willing to labour in its production at home . ( Cheers . ) It was the dut y of a Government to . find beneficial employment for the people , and if thoir rulers did not do this , they were not a Government , but a usurpation . ( Loud cheers . )—Mr Dovle said , the reason why the Executive had thoiHit it

      necessary to bring this matter before the meetin * was , that the House of Commons might be made aware that the people knew the land belonged to them ; and also that they might be informed that the people did not like their substance to be wasted on unworthy objects : and he thought further , that , professing , as those honourable gentlemen did , to be the representatives of the people , if the people petitioned for a sum of money to place them on the land , tney were bound in justice to grant it . ( Loud cheers . )—Mr . M'Grath said he would cordially support the adoption of the petition . That the people had a right to the land no one would attempt to deny . The legislature had at different times passed Acts of Parliament to the number of two thousand under which Acts

      they had deprived the people of not- less than six mDlion acres of land —( hear , hear ) - —and one of those precious legislators , Lord Worsle y appears anxious to deprive them of the remainder by enclosing the common and waste lands ( Hear hear . ) It was their duty to let the house know that they were acquainted with this , and that they were resolved to resist the fell destroyer to the utmost ( Cheers . ) The Convention had heard elaborated a plan by which the working class might toasreat extent regain possession of the land . Another thing the Convention recommended was the establishment of co-operative stores Profit-monger ^ g ^ England ' s bane and working men must be stultified indeed if they did not throw off this tax , and the

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      profit that might accrue from the stores nuVhT ^ employed in locating them on the land . The ! " of those who live without producing anything r is seven millions . It was said by some , "but ti ^ do not live on your industry . " He contended I ever , that those who produced nothing UiemL ] yet lived , must live on the substance of tW . ?> did produce . ( Loud cheers . ) And 11 C conte / i > until the divine injunction given by Saint Paul " ' carried out—namely , "He who will not work n , ' *^ shall he eat " -poverty , misery , degradatio n ?! starvation , would continue the lot of the manv ^ M'Grath resumed his seat amidst the lowW r - plause . The petition was unanimously ado pted ^ ordered to be signed by the chairman on bcLilf the meeting , and forwarded to the members ot ti borough for presentation . A considerable nm , i { came forward and took out cards of meniberO the National Charter Association , and tlie nio r then dissolved . u ' tln 8

      Ciiy Chartist Hall , Turnagaix-i . ane _ _ j ., tant Lecture . —Mr . M'Grath delivered a ve- ^ " " lented and instructive lecture in this hall , onSr . i evening last , to the most numerous assembk . ! persons congregated within the walls for a loim ' , ^ - ° j '"of time . Mr . Dear was unanimousl y called u ' ti chair , and after reading the leading articles from !' Northern Star , introduced the lecturer , who w-. his subject "The Present State and ProsZ ' t- - Political Parties , " which he handled in Ms ^ ° l style , clearly showing that , however mostri ? Chartism may be at the present moment , it v « maintains a supremacy above all " clap-trap'' ^' j

      " expediency-mongering" measures , lie then ^ t ably reviewed tho cause of the failure of Tri ) Unions and strikes , took a hasty glance at tli « p , peal movement during the last twelvemonths % ' demning Mr . O'Connell ' s wavering liolicv bi'tw »?' "federalism" and " simple Repeal , " and tfoS duct of " Irish Repealers on the Maynooth "rant " ' and he finally concluded amidst loud annlm , ! , Several gentlemen briefly addressed the mcctiii * tl the questions he had raised , pro and con . j \ l lecturer replied , and a vole of thanks havin . ; \ K 2 passed , the meeting broke up , highly delighted with the treat afforded them .

      AlETKOPOLiTAN DisiiucT Council , 1 , 'fumaiain . Jane , Sunday , May 4 th ; Mr . Pattenden in " ti , chair . —Mr . John Arnott moved— "That the 1 thanks of this Council are due , and are herebv civen to the members of the late Chartist Convention , fc ( the able manner in which they propounded and ,, „< into practical shape the highly important mea sut ^ brought under their consideration . And this C > Ull > oil earnestly request all localities to exert i \\ n ^ selves to cany the same into operation . " The icso lution was seconded by Mr . Milne ; anil Messrs ! v

      Linden , T . M . Wheeler , Tucker , and others , JiaVj n , ! addressed the Council in favour of the same , it w , m earned unanimously . A resolution was also ' unailj mously adopted , calling upon all Chartists ( cspecialh those residing in the metropolitan districts ) imiHodi ately to take up their cards and hand-books It ' wis likewise unanimously agreed that an address to > issued to the Chartists of the metropolitan district and that Messrs . J . F . Linden , J . Arnott , and k " Stallwood be appointed to prepare the sunc / anii bring it before the board on Sunday next The Council then adjourned .

      Chartist Hall , Blackfkuus-koad . — The Ism beth Chartists met in the above hall last Stni ' div evening , when an excellent lecture was delivered |» Mr . Candy on the " Poor Man ' s share of Prosiieriiv ' as set forth in Lord John Russell ' s resolutions Se venteen males and three females took up their eanUd membership , and on Monday , after the report oi the delegate to the National Conference , sixteen nWra were added to their number . The Chartists of Lambeth will carry out the resolutions of the Con vpitioii respecting the Registration and the Land .

      Wjiiiechapel . —Mr . Bolweil lectured on Sunday evening to a respectable audience at the White Hoisc St . Mary-street , Whitechapcl , and was greath- aV plauded . Mr . Shaw , late delegate to the Coin-en tion , also addressed the assembl y , and urged them to renewed exertions in the good cause . The chair wag ably filled by Mr . Perry . Several new menWi-g were enrolled , and the members present took uii'Vir renewed cards of membership . Victim Committee . —This newly-elected committal

      met for the lirst time on Sunday , May 4 th , at tip hall , 1 , iurnagam-lane : Mr . Mills was unanimously called to the chair . The secretary ( Mr T il Wheeler ) was instructed to write to Mr . Clark , sw ' r * tary to the late Manchester Victim Committee foe all necessary information . Also to communicate with Mr . O'Connor , that the committee mav be acquamted with the amount of funds in hand . One sovereign was then voted to the victim John Richards , and the committee adjourned until Smith ? afternoon next , May 11 th , at five o ' clock

      Makyledone . —Mr . Clark lectured on Sunday even . ing to an enthusiastic audience , at Circus-btrwt , Marylebone , on the subject of " Trades Unions ; proving that although they might be palliatives tothe present unnatural system , yet they of themselves could never enable the labourer to receive the lull reward of his industry , because he was not intto possession of equal political power with the capitalist who employed him . Mr . Clark ' s illustrations «•«« highl y approved of , and a unanimous vote of Uiaiiki was given to him for his services . Somehs Town . —Mr . Doyle lectured to a crowded audience , on Sunday evening , at Somers Town on the subject of "Registration , " and "The necessity ot carrying out the plan of the Convention to obtain possession of the Land : " both of which subjects k treated with great ability , and to the satisfaction of the audience .

      Gamberwell and Walwokth . —At a numerous meeting of the Chartist , of the abDve district * on Monday evening , . May the 5 th , at the Mout ^ Iiw Javcrn , "Walworth . — Mr . John Ingram in the eliair — the fallowing persons were nominatel General Councillors of the National Charter Association . Messrs . It . Sewell , John Sewell , John Siuuiwn , James Rhodes , William Ingram , Edward Murliall , II . b . Jordan , and John Llewellyn . Mr . Join : Simpson was likewise re-nominated to the Metropolitan District Council . A vote of thanks was passed to Mr . John Simpson for the great service randi-red liy him to Chartism in this district . At the unaninwiM request of the meeting , Mr . Simpson consented w become a member of the Central Registration . and Election Committee for this district , and mis appointed accordingl y . Several new membcre w " enrolled .

      City of London . —Sin , —The City of London localit request insertion for the enclosed resolution in the forthcoming Star . I am , sir , yours , respectfully , D . Govcr , jun ., sub-sec . Resolved— " That we , the Char , tists of the City of London , most heartily congratulate Mr . Thomas Cooper on his release from suffering and imprisonment in Stafford gaol , ; consequent upon his great and earnest exertions to ' promote the welfare and the best interests of mankind ; and us it was in the cause , and for the benefit of the working classes that he laboured , we feel in duty hound to render to him our hearty and sincere thanks for the noble and determined efforts made by him , ami the untiring energy he exhibited in endeavouring to

      regain for us those legitimate rights which the 'factions' have unjustly deprived us of . We deeply regret that anything should have arisen to martins otherwise happy and joyful event ; but we feel that we should fail in discharging our duty to him and justice , did we not express our regret at the manner in which his letters have been suppressed , vindicating him from ( what we deem ) the unfounded and unjust charges brought against him at Manchester . «« also most cordially and sincerely wish him in ' future progress through life that happiness anil prosperity which he , by his exertions , endeavour ed to confer on others , and , in conclusion , we hope that at witu

      no distant period those efforts will be crowned success , and that he will bo rewarded with the thanks of a happy and free people . " l" ° give insertion to the foregoing , though it conies unaccompanied by any explanation of the ti «* or j > lace where the meeting at which it purports to have been passed was held , or , indeed , any explanation or introduction at all , other than the one ^ have given . Respecting the resolution itself , ** have only to say , that the mjrei expressed respecting the " suppression of letter , " if at all intended to a }» - ply to us , is based on a falsehood : the fact beius > that every line , word , and syllable ^ sent by Mr . Cooper , in " vindication" of himself from the charge made at Manchester , found a readv p lace in the & < m

      NOTTINGHAM . Os Sunday , last a public meeting was held in tin ' Democratic Chapel , Nottingham , to receive Mr . Vf man ' s report of the proceedings of the late Conl ' " ' ence . ^ On the motion of Mr . Mott , Mr . Sweet y unanimously called on to pieside , and opened tW business by a few well-timed remarks , and then in * traduced Mr . Dorman to the meeting . Mr . Itornia " spoke for nearly an hour , calling the attention ot' ' audience to the several propositions of the Convention , which appeared to give satisfaction . At uk close he received the unanimous thanks of the uu ing fov lus amices . The enainuan concluded * meeting by calling upon all true democrats to act A to their principles , and to be united , for they wvw ultimately triumph .

      STOCKPORT . Ox Suxday evening last , a public meeting ot ;» inhabitants of Stockport was held in the Char "* - room , to hear the report of the delegate to the » Chartist Conference . The chairman being m } . i Mr . T . Webb proceeded with his report ; after whic he dwelt at considerable length upon the nccess " of the people beewnin ? members of the Cha ru-Co-operative Land Society , and als « the desirao " ' of establishing a registration committee . ^ Webb ' s report gave general satisfaction ; and at ti conclusion of his address fifteen peraoifl enter *" their names as members of the Land Society , a » are prepared to commence subscriptions asBOOn ¦ . the necessary arrangements are entered into by to board of directors . Seven members also joined w Chartist Association ,

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      NATIONAL VICTIM AND DEFENCE FUND COMMITTEE BALANCE SHEET . 1814 . S . s . d . May 29 Total Income from September 17 , 1843 , to May 29 , 1844 68 7 11 J Expenditure 67 17 4 i Balance in handMay 29 , 1844 .. .. 0 10 7 June 2 ThomasMarsden , Manchester .. .. 010 July 3 Per Mr . William Hamer , Oldliam ( Q"ota ) 0 7 7 14 Carpenters' Hall collection for the fund 0 2 8 21 ditto ditto 0 3 0 28 ditto ditto 0 4 0 Aug . 14 Christopher Doyle 0 0 C U A friend , per Mr . Naylor , for Jenkin

      Morgan 0 10 14 Per Mr . William Hamer , Oldham ( quota ) 0 7 7 14 Mr . Thomas Edwards and . a few friends at Soiners Town for Morgan 0 14 3 7 Carpenters Hall collection for fund .. 0 3 1 7 From general treasurer , Feargus O'Connor , Esq 10 0 0 18 Carpenters'HaU collection for fund .. 0 5 1 25 Joseph Barrett , Manchester .. .. 003 25 Carpenters'HaU collection for fund .. 0 1 10 Sept . 1 ditto ditto 0 0 7 1 Christopher Doyle 0 0 6 8 Carpenters Hall collection fov fund .. 0 2 0 8 Mr . James Gray 0 0 C 15 Carpenters Hall collection for fund .. 0 15 15 Second remittance from Somers Town locality , for Morgan 0 4 0

      15 Per Mr . Chippendale , of Halifax , for generalfund 0 18 0 15 Per Mr . Ardill , of Leeds , for Jenkin Morgan 0 5 0 29 Carpenters' HaU coUection for general fund 0 2 7 Oct . 0 ditto ditto 0 11 13 ditto ditto 0 17 20 ditto ditto 0 2 8 * Nov . 10 ditto ditto 0 8 3 17 ditto ditto 0 3 44 17 A friend , Manchester 0 0 2 17 Anne Lee , Manchester 0 10 17 Bridport , Dorset , for Jenkin Morgan .. 1 10 0 24 Choir of Carpenters' Hall , Manchester perMv . Wrigley .. 0 15 0 24 Carpenters' HaU coUection for general fund 0 4 9

      1845 . Feb . 9 ditto ditto 0 6 3 10 Ileeeived from O'Connor and the Star office , per O'Connor , for Morgan .. 621 10 From generultreasurer , F . O'Connor , Esq -.. 500 March 12 Carpenters' Hall coUection for general fund 0 6 7 Received from T . M . Wheeler , Mr . dear ' s subscription for Morgan .. 050 Income 30 4 10 Expenditure 27 0 t Balance in sub-treasurer ' s hands .. 347

      jEtpeiuKtore . £ s . d . July 7 Joseph Linney , Bilston , Staffordshire 0 10 6 23 Mrs . Cunliff , Staffordshire , to convey her to Brighton 2 0 0 28 Thomas Ardcn , of Royton , to assist him in a small business .. .. 110 0 25 Joseph Linney , of Bilston , Staffordshire 0 5 0 August 1 Thomas Cooper , in Stafford Gaol .. 1 0 0 14 WiUiam Williams , of Oldham , to support him home 10 0 28 Secretary , for postage and moneyorders .. ' 0 4 3 Sept . 4 James Williams , of Preston .. .. 0 15 0 11 John Richards , alias Daddy Richards , of Staffordshire 1 10 0

      11 Mrs . Murray , for cleaning room , fire , and candles , twelve weeks .. .. 040 Nov . 17 Advanced Jenkin Morgan .. .. 100 20 John Wright , of Stockport , late of Knutsford Prison 10 0 March 12 John Neal , of Shclton , Staffordshire , very ill health 10 0 12 John Richards , alias Daddy Richards , to convey him to his settlement—in plain terms , the bastile .. .. 1 10 0 12 Jenkin Morgan . Tredegar Ironworks , Monmouthshire 13 1 4 12 Mrs . Murray , for cleaning room , fire , and candles , from September 11 , 1844 , to February 13 , 1845 .. .. 060 16 Secretary , for postage , money-orders , and papers 0 4 2

      27 0 3 Income from Sept . 17 , 1843 , to March 1 M 845 98 4 8 j Expenditure 94 17 ;| Balance 3 7 1 LONDON . Important Pubmc Meeting . —A highly respectable public meeting was holden on Monday evening , May 5 th , in the South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blaekfriars-road . Mr . R . Candy was unanimously called to the chair , and briefly opened the proceedings . He concluded by calling on Mr . Law , the delegate to the late Convention , to give in his report of the proceedings of that body . —Mr . Law then delivered a clear account of the proceedings and

      measures ot the late Convention . During the delivery of the report the speaker was much applauded . —Mr . Gathard moved the following resolution— " That this meeting having heard from their delegate a report of the proceedings of the late Chartist Annual Convention , do highly approve of the same , and pledge themselves to use their exertions to cause the measures of the Convention to be carried into immediate operation , more especially the measures for the appointment of election committees and practical operations upon the land ; and that we hereby tender a vote of thanks to our delegate for his services on the occasion . " Mr . May seconded the resolution . — Mr . F . O'Connor rose to support the resolution . He said , it . afforded him much pleasure to find that they were satisfied with the conduct of their delegate , and

      with the measures of the Convention ; and he had no doubt that those measures would afford the country in general equal satisfaction . Chartism was the onl y ton that could keep its footing amid the raging fever of speculation that now prevailed —( hear , hear)—thus proving itself as dear to the people as ever . He was no prophet ; but he would nevertheless predict that so soon as the present transient fit of prosperity had passed over , then Chartism would be in the ascendant . It would be the only thiag left to fall back upon . Then would the delegates of the Convention of 1845 be thanked for furnishing the people with something practical to work upon . ( Loud cheers . ) He was glad to find that the two principal measures

      ot tne wmvenuon-Kegistration , and allocation on the Land-met with so much favour from the public ( Cheers . ) No one knew better than himself the importance of having members in the House of Commons to speak their sentiments . For instance , the press would report all against the people , every bit of slander eyer uttered : but their Execut ve , o 7 any ? f 1 J ^ . ^^ might sneak , no matter how truly , and not a single Une would appear . If , however they had only a few men in the home who really represented them , the sentiments they gave utterance to would be earned on the wings of the press to the four corners of the earth , and the Cha - tiste would at once become a great and influential party . ( Loud cheers . ) In Birmingham , Manchester , and other large town ,, , there were more Chartist

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 10, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1314/page/6/