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      ! 5 = ^~ . v of all p hilanthropy which does tf e are * f the root of the evil . We are sick cot & to ™ ^ wfaich lead tQ nothing- ,. ol" o-ition of the physical , mental , and ^ fr onditifn of that class of the juvenile pome ?^ - of London , may betaken , mutatis p ulation ^ that of t } j sa ' tne class of boysaud *?•„ ' every laree tot ? n in the kingdom . ? \ nld * ' here be a thousand onl y selected ^ - Vk from the Ragged School pupils ^ t don ? WIl > ' stl 0 uW not Manchester ° * A GlW ° « Birmingham and Liveri L ° dh Dundee , and Aberdeen , par-P ° . lte " in the same advantage ? Above * 1 ? £ hv take only a thousand and leave 29 , 000 is

      Vnd '? ^ il waDt ° mOne y' M sug-** i few thousands a year more to LordAshf ? which mig ht easily be spared for the puri For instance , suppose Queen Adelaide , f ' . ' noble and philanthropic a purpose , was firs- and live upon 10 , 008 ? . instead of 100 0007 . That would give 90 , 000 / . annually tnbWn with , and such a pious and charitable « i ofd Ja ^ y would not olject to that ! Then pjjnce Albert , who made such a nice little speech the other day , all about Labour and Capital ? and in praise of modellodging-houses for the : poor , and so forth—he might , for little try and content himself with his L 3 ? Field-Marshal ( 12 / . a day ) , his t * « ¦ . ¦ 1 _ - ** 1 *« vi i-m n-H 1 ** 1 rt ^ i r \\ r \^ n « -fc U «* M »« n a vuiuuci ui uic Liussttis

      ^ ^ ^ niCC lit *"' pitiuuga as . , Rgnser of Windsor Park , Constable of the Castle and i the other snug little offices , yhich in tne aggregate y ield him an income somewhere about £ 20 , 000 or r-25 , 000 a year . The £ 30 , 000 allowed him jy the nation , beside * these pickings , might ttis be all made available for the rescue of iiese worse than orphans , from destruction . 3 er Majesty would , no doubt , in like manner , = ¦ prep are | i to make a generous sacrifice " to iromote tht well-being and prosperity of her ieople , " and the other upper classes of society , -bishops especially—following the example bus set them by Royalty , we should speedily

      aTe the means of going to work on a somefhat larger scale than proposed by Lord . sbley . In what way we should go to work , supposjjr we had the money » is another question . fe think that the plan of sending them to the Lnti-podes , is not the best that could be de-¦ ised . The " Wholesale Transportation" adoeates have taken occasion of Lord Ashley's jposure to come out very strong in favour of beir scheme , which we commented upon a eek or two since . "We can only say , we like : no better now than we did then , and for ie reasons then adduced , think that we had etter try to make the best of " the Land we

      jve in , "' before we think of going off in shoals o make others the counterpart of this . Government gave his lerdship its " symathy , " plenty of fine words , and Mr Hawes lost magnificently added , that it was intended ) apply £ 10 , 000 this year , in aid of emigraon to Australia , and a small portion of this 10 , 000 would be devoted to the ragged school Dpulation . Lord Ashley thereupon withdrew is motion , and so ended another of those mirrable make-believe exhibitions of interest nd sympathy in the real condition of ' . the iople " , bv which our Legislature is in Uhe abit of attempting to satisfy their own conjences , and delude the country .

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      'Cosso ? . ville . —The allottees of the Peoples First 2 ita : e , are endeavouring to raise a band amongst themselves , end if any of their metropolitan friends can render the = any assistance in the shape of music , or SU ^ icsl instruments , &c , they Trill confer afarc-orby fjrwarding teem to the secretary , John Williams , 12 , O'Concorrille , Rickmansworth , Herts . Any of the iThitsun visitors having : extra copies of pieces of music , ; dli otiige by leaving it at the above add ess . l ! e : 5 Stevsssos , who has been a reader cf this paper :: ? tii ' ntvcaTs , objects to air ; a-. teration inth pablica « "ion cf the Stab , although he would not ol ject to a daily f-3 per . " ccttus Rivess , near Pswsey . —John North informs us ' : ii : iiimselfand 3 person called Hke ( both azricul-¦^ TilV-ibourers ) , have been served with notices to quit i V e " rtc . ust : snftst iJiahaelmai , for being mEmberi of tie Kitional Land Company . ' liSCLiriE Bkidss Csastists , should send their resoln-533 to die Executive . Its publication in the Stxs would be : ne perfection of fully . ' 3 . Clasct . — have not room for Mr Clancy ' s letter . . W . Gississ . —Xo room .

      ' . Jictsos , Chesterfieli—Should coiamuQicate Kith tis Ex-- # -tivc . 'fassosviiLs —Mr E . Farrell recommends the London Chirtiits risking O'Connorville , to refresh themselves i -. ths Falcon , trthe George Inn , Cxbridge . F . troiMSR . —Wo are sorry wthave no room . _ . Buses , Limehonse , suegests to the Executive the ne-: « £ ! ? of distributing tracts to the middle classes , and idis , * ' Somepersons may aik how they are to get them irinted witheutfunds ? Let every enrolled ChartUt nbscribsbis mite , and let those thai have collecting rooks fur tee Liberty Fuad , send in irhat tbey have co ! Irc : ed up to the present time , and I am sure that acre than sufieient would be collected in a few day ! , ' . o zzzki a commencement vritb . ' LT . Z ., D ; rbv . —Mr James Watson , Queen's Eead-\ iHd . zi , Patefnosttr-row , coald supply you . : C . ii . ' , Leicsswr . —Received . [ . B , Alamck . —So room . :. 3 aiclvt , Glasgow ; Anti-Bnclosurs Association and Eegeneration . —Ko room . ' PnvrrAKT Reabei :. — The brutalitj of the police is

      al-• aiv noticed 1 Sissy , Uirminghaa . —Send Xo . \ , of theYoiCB o ? tni Atnzis , and both numbers shall be noticed . ' : is ftzii . Accept the expression of our sincere symjithy for tout family bereavement . The mad conduct " cilhe unhappy wroug heads at Manchester is most dis i . * iTizning to rzBzct npon . J : tice . —The Execetive cannot undertake at the present ensii ' . o answer leiters , except they are of the icost

      -z £ V . nature . ii Ieiland's Letter . —CoMEcno . ts . —To the Editor of ie Ssethess Stab . —Sir , —There ^ vere 3 few typorr ^ phicil errors in my letter , which you were kind ecnf a toinstrt in list week ' s Stax , that I am decrsc 5 to correct . By publishing the following corresicas in yuar forthcoming number , yon will oblige , Sir , jours reipectfally , Thomas Ireland . —For ' Thoaias C :. 'ir : iuld , Esq ., ' " read Samnel Courtauld , Esq . In the s- ^ ter . ce beginniEg ' If it be a natural right , says Mr Cosrtau ' . d , why stou ' . a it bo exercised , read net be exa ; ut . J . ror at' I « h 5 t . ' read at btst , a conventional apeiuncy . ' For' may this right embrace all the other Kftts , " nay , this rizht embraces . For ' exclusive from ; : 'iuc ^; puwer , ' read ezclusim . For ' I have expressed ie erpre = sions Mmr mind . ' read , I hare expressed the - ; . 'i : - ivi , ; . After ' " acefrding to my Tery , ' insert "• ' wV ' -: ' means .

      i ' i :: rri 2 UL Ttbakvt . —Jeremiah Tates writes as fol-; j's : —A placard Laving been put out at my door , anf ' . UEtia j a Chartist camp Keeting . a policeman " carried ¦ : ww without my knowledge . I applied to the - ¦ ; .- i : i : ; r . danx o : thi ' police for it bat he would not give ~~ r , I then applied to Mr Rose , the stipendary magis-^• -r , thr-. ugh Mr Williams , the attorney , for the pla-: whli-li ' ne inso'ently refused , when a iir Betts , who ^ Si-jpenntendant of the police-force , in 5 ulte 4 me , u Ji"S that I , as wtllas the bill published , was a nnis' -i- . l&d the sooner I was removed the better . The ^• initg is a copy of the bill :- 'To the Working ^ k = c =. — 'WeoVJECtto the labouring man being bui-* isrd with the ta = k of providing all that wealth which i :.- » nho do not work enjoy at his expense , while they ' --t him , in return for unremitting toil , less food and - '¦ - ¦ -iiiz , worseshelterand coarser and JjanJer t ' ai ' e tlian J ^ w / 'india " planter allowed his slave ? , au Euglish i ^ iir zives his horses , or an English gentleman his

      ¦ iiTKriLiE , Oxo . v ., May 31 . —Sir , —By tho direction of •^ otTubere itre my dutj is to inform you that we have - ^ . -o-iaed en stlliiig your invaluable paper , and the ' ¦ ' - ~^ arisiEg from the sale are to go towards the supf-Uf tte Ccartist cause . In hopes that all Chartist - ¦ liUtii ? win te able to adopt such a plan , andparticut ^ -J those Land mgmber ! who are like us eo happily ' - -h-, I anj £ irj Tonr humble servant , Geo . Bcbs , : <' -i _ -c . " . ' . '•^ csss zis . —Thanks for inquiries , the answer ' * ihL niUs . ' Uc 01 - jjjg jao ^ unfavourable chiracter . ^ . - ^" -tstaniing strong political difference : will write

      - ' *¦* fAit , Alva . —We do not answer such letters ag ^ . » riTMt ! y . If Mr Swinton M'Lean asserts that r = _; » ib : r £ ; el j ' burked more than twenty votes of ¦ V ^ eace ia theAssemUv . or even one such vote , he ' . V : « t tu- ^ our Scotch friends will undentand tins 7 ~ 3 EsgUsh . i " J « E 5 . -The six stamps -were handed to Mr { '" . V 0 a < : 5 - () ar correspondent must look to the , ' ^ : ° - - ' tmtcating from the Executive for an ack-• - ' tJ' ?^^' - bi > contribution . :-.. h of tie XusTHxs . v Stab will not be nc it *" - "" " for mc ' i" sent to this office for tha Chartist » C ' ' ' TS - . I'i *« tiTOshaYe been pnbiished seising forth ^" -3 ' ^ , tj nhom , Euch monies should beforwarded , ; " r * , ' .. -s -cretarieB and other contributors will not ¦ c' ^ n " ™ t ! lots directiocs , tkey will have only to ii ~ " ; t . ^? - ves if monies sent by them are notacktj ^ ' , j l an < " - D . G . —We have no room . ;> 1 - Dale suggests that the best way to ex-»¦ : ¦ ' . ! J'i ^ f' ^ -y for the exiled patriot , John ilitchel , ; * v ; ' fjr fcTtI J Ccanit ; to order tUe number of the

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      ~~ —*™»» SgOBIpyS OF 7 HB NATIOKAI , &AND COIOPANT , FOR THE WEEK ENDING THURSDAY , JUNE 8

      ? BR MR O'CONNOR . 1 HA&EB . £ | d AlfrelLunt .. 0 5 0 Macclesneld « 5 0 6 Walter Glenaing 0 2 6 Market Rasen . 3 7 9 John Humber ^ 0 2 0 Aberdeen .. l o 5 ym \ eoman „ 3 4 0 Manchejter „ 315 0 Bern Hernott .. 0 5 0 MiddleBborough 2 4 4 John Leicester .. 0 2 6 Sleaford .. 6 0 0 Ehzafeea Comp- Leigh „ 2 9 9 _ * _ ~ 0 5 0 Easington Lane 10 0 ThosBungey , 160 Nettinghstn , CarolineSmith .. 12 4 Sweet » 1 17 0 Wm Bailey .. 0 16 Kexby .. 2 2 0 !* - 0 4 8 Sowerby Helm ,. 5 0 0 Henry Smith M 0 4 0 Birmingham , David Acker- Goodwin ,. 1 15 0 man „ 0 4 6 Oxford „ o 3 e HjHallett „ 0 4 0 Ditto „ 5 o e ChasMowl m 0 16 Northampton .. 12 0 Robt Russell „ 2 10 Leicester , AstiU 5 0 0 JasRuisell „ O 1 « 0 Edinburgh „ 2 12 10 Carnngtou M 7 10 1 HufiderBfield .. 3 0 0 Rochdale „ 1 13 6 Kewark-on-Trent 3 6 8 £ 75 9 8 EXPENSE FUND , *^~~" Csrr ington M 1 * 4 Oxford „ 146 Rochdale „ 6 19 O Ditto - 9 2 0 Market Ragen « 1 i 3 Huddersfield « 0 2 0 Aberdeen .. 0 6 6 Newark-on . Trent 8 15 0 Middlesborong h 0 15 0 Wm Teoman .. 0 2 0 Sleaford .. 0 2 0 CarolineSmith . 0 a 0 leigh . 6 7 0 Wm Bailey .. o 1 0 Nottingham , Robt Russell M 0 2 0 Sweet „ 0 4 3 S 7 9 10 Land Fund 15 $ 8 Expense Fond 7 9 10 Role * 0 U 8 83 14 J Buik ... . M 351 7 i £ 435 1 6 Wb , Diiow . Chbutophe * Doili , Tkoi . Cute , ( Cones , Seo . ) Philip JC' 6 &iTB , ( Fin . Sea . ) RECEIYED AT BANK , Birmingham , Jf H RudbaH „ » i > 5 0 9 T . Pwcr , Hanager . SHBECXIPTIOKS TOK LOSSES IT o ' caVK 0 S 7 lLLE . John Roe , Alfre- J Wilkinson , SaliBtoa „ 0 0 6 burr M 0 10 Flymontb M 0 3 6 Rotherhsm n 0 2 8 0 7 8 N . B . —The £ l announced under this head . from Ashton , was for the subscription lormanure . TOB SSED FOX OCCUPANTS AT o ' COJTKOBYILLE . S Hunt n 0 0 3 Two Friends . Lincoln .. O 6 0 Burnley „ 0 10 JS Lawson „ 0 0 3 £ 0 9 6 Thohas Mastin Whexizb ! BECEIPTS OF LIBERTY FUND . The Treasurer of the National Charter Association hag received the following Post Office orders np to thepresent date . Al ? a 1 10 2 Leamington .. \ 8 6 Peterborough .. 10 6 Northampton » 2 0 0 Bury Lane « 0 10 0 LiTerpool .. 18 0 Stalybridge n 2 0 0 AUa „ 18 0 Doncaster „ 0 10 8 Wallingford .. 9 10 e South Shield ' s H 10 0 Paisley „ l 0 0 Keighly .. 3 0 0 Penzance n 10 0 Bacup M 2 0 0 Truro .. 0 10 0 Bramhope H 10 0 Merthyr M 0 5 2 AshtOB-under . Hanley n O 10 0 Lyne M 0 Is 0 Sunderland H l 10 o Shefneld n 1 e o Sittingbourne .. 0 8 0 Nottingham M 10 0 Brighton ., 0 10 0 Loughborongh M 1 S 8 Frome „ 9 7 0 j £ 23 _ 3 __ 0 John Sewell . ? ik sscbeta 5 t . Parry , Chester .. S 0 6 Pershore - 0 5 0 Washington Bri- Easinpton Lane 8 3 2 gade , per 3 Ir Side ' s Book 0 2 8 Daniels - 0 10 0 Westminster Lo-Marylebone , per cality , per Buck-Lucas M 0 10 0 ley y . 1 10 0 Plans of Organ . 3 Jr Stnrge .. OlO Jsatioa M 0 7 6 Hoxton , per Easington Lane 0 2 6 Daddo - 0 5 0 John May .. 0 2 0 Snnder . ' and , per Leicester , No . 1 Haines „ 1 10 0 Branch , per Paulton M 0 10 Bnrtin ^ 5 0 0 £ 10 10 4 John M'Cbae , Secretary .

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      Bilstok . —The usual weekly meeting was held en Sunday evening last , when a lecture was delivered by Mr Linney . The usual meeting nighta for the Chartists are—Sunday , asd Thursday ; for the Irish Confederatei , Monday ; and the Land Membsrs , on Tneiday eight . It is hoped each locality contributing to Daddy Richards' support fund , will be punctual in bringing their quotk to the district delegate meeting , to be held at Wh amp ton , on Sunday , the 11 th . The coloured portrait of Feargus O'Connor , for ttw benefit of Mr Richards , will positively te balloted for the last Monday in Jane . Parties desirous of taking share ? , may remit six postage stamps to Joseph Linney , Malt-street , Bilston , treasurer ; or to Thomas Hammeraley , Homer ' s-field , Bilstos , secretary .

      WiBBisGioH . —A public meeting took place on Monday evening , Jane 5 , in the Market Place , to express Bympathy with the noble patriot , Mr J p hn Mitchel . Mr Owen Devine in the chair . William Wright proposed , asd Jofcn Hargreaves seeonded , s resolution espressifig syop&tby fer Mr Mitchel , and c ndeaming the condnot oft e Whig government . lDr Reynolds Enpported the resolution . Joseph Haughton proposed a re ^ 9 lntion in favour of co-operation with the Confederates of Liverpool . The resolution having been seconded , and a vote of thanks given to the chairman , the meeting was adjourned to the Chartists' room , when thirty-one new members were enrolled .

      Bihstali ,. —On Saturday last the Chartists of this locality ne ! d a meeting on Chandler's Hill ; the principal epeaker was D . LightowJer , of Bradford , At the close a collection was made for the benefit of the starving operatives of Bradford , and the sum of £ 1 6 i . Old collected , which was given to D . Lightowler , to be by him distr ibuted to the parties whom he tkonght were in the most helpless state of destitution . Nottingham . —The first meeting of the district council was held at the Seven Stars , Barker-gate , Monday evening hst , Mr Whitley in the chair , when councilmen from most of the localities were present . Two new localities have been this week

      established in the ^ town—one at the Black Swan , Goose-gate , and the other at the B 3 II 003 , Mount Eait-street . John Skerritt , shoemaker , 25 , Currantstreet , was elected distr i ct secretary ; Mr Jchn Ell-s . at the sign of the King of the French , w ^ b uoanimocsiy elected treasurer for the district . — All communications to be addressed to the secretary , as above . Ncrih Staffordshire asd South-east Cheshire —A Chartist camp meeting will be held on Whit Susday ( tomorrow ) , at Wetley Moor , Staffordshire , t cammence at ten in the morning , and close at n ' vd in the afternoon . Several talented speakers will address the meeting .

      Nottingham . —Tne district council will meet at three o ' clock on Sunday next , at the King of the French . —A public meeting will be held in the Market-place , on Whit Monday , at ten o'eleck in the forenoon . Mr Kydd , of the Executive , will address the meeting . Nokthchbbrlasd asd DoBHAji . —A camp meeting will be held en Whit Sunday , Jane 11 th , adjoining Mr T . Hunter ' s , Brick Garth , Easington-lar . e , Darham , at ten o ' clock in the forenoon . —A district delegate meeting wiil be held at Mr J . Huster ' s , Brick Garth , rEasinfiton-lace , Durham , oh Sunday , June lltb . attwo o ' clock in theafternooD , and it is requested that each locality will send a delegate , as business of great importance in connesion with the new plan of organisation will be brought before the

      meeting . Maschestee . —The monthly meeting of the Manchester branch of the National Land Company wiil be held ia the People ' s Institnte , on Sunday morning , Jane lltb . Members are requested to attend . Chair to be taken at nine o ' clock . Nottikgham . — The next meeting of the Land members will ba held at the Balloon , Mount Eaststre-t , on Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock . A freeand-easy will be held at the Red Cow , Colwickstreot , on Saturday evening , at seven o ' clock . Sutto . v in-Ashfield . —A public meeting will be held at Sutton-in-Aihfield , on Monday next , to sympathise with Mitchel , the first Whig victim under the Gageicg Bill .

      _ . . „ ,... Cuabtist Meetisg is Makchksteb—A Chartist meeting was held on Tuesday evening in the City Music-hall , Camp-field . About 1 , 200 were present . Wra . Grocott presided . DaRiel Donovan explained his conduot on Wednesday , and was applauded . Mr Ernest Jones , birriater-at-law , addressed the meetins at great length . _ UrDDEBBnELD . —A district meeting will be bsla at Mr J-S ' ph Ibstson ' s Temperance Hotel , Buxtonroad , on Sunday , the lltb , to take into consideration the propriety of engaging a lecturer for the district . All the localities are requested to sesd their delegates and also to arrange respecting tka We 3 t Riding n a ; ting on Whit Monday .

      Livbbpogl . — he Chartists of Liverpool will hold a camp meeting on Sunday aftwnoon , Jane 11 th , on the North Shore . Chsic to fee . taken , si t ^ o o ' clock .

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      The pmener Sharp vrr . 3 then placed at the bar . Tie witness FIardt said , that on the 26 th May he attended another meeting at the same place , which lasted until about nine o ' clock at night , when about 1 , 000 persons were present , in front of a van as a platform . Tho prisoners wpra both in it , and a man r . a . ii ? J K- ? 3 s 35 te 4 99 cbaJnasB .- Up to ^ sates * sw

      ¦ ¦—I ..... i ^ sasj . T ' n i . ii . on the other Occasion , which he destroyed on writing them out . The chairman having called upon Wil liams to move a resolution , ho commenced by reading extraots from a New York newspaper , stating that Canada wa read y to revolt vndor the loadoralrip oi Papmeau , if Mitohel was convicted , and that the 77 th was to bo removed from Montreal , because they shouted for Repeal ; that the Irishman at Now York nad _ a meeting , at which they resolved , if the inter national law would allow them , they would raise a brigade to send to Ireland , and if they were not allowed , at the coming election of President , only to vote for him who would allow them ; and to show thsir determination they had collected 200 dollars for the purpose . He then called upon the people to organise the different associations , that they were about to hold 3 , 000 meetings in various parta this season , and if they had more membersthey would

      , hold more than that number , by which means thoy would confuee and bother the government . The prisoner then read the following resolution — ' That th M ! i tlDR P a Toto of censuro against the dam-* a ° 'e > Moody , tyrannical government , for prosecutiBg John Mitohel , and will assist by every means in its power the Irish people to obtain their liberty , ' which was unanimously adopted . The prisoner Sharp seconded the resolution , and said he had been censured for usiDg strong language , but ho would repeal what he had said , by calliBg the government a base , bloody , and brutal government ; ( hat the time would soon come for the people to act , for they had marched in Dublin with 15 , 000 Confederates , all of whom * rere armed , and there was no doubt that John Mitchel would be free . He believed that the meeting caused terror to the inhabitant ? , and the prisoner remained till tho last .

      In cross-examination tho witness said he attended the meeting for the purpo 3 e of noticing the description and the language used , receiving orders from his superintendent , to whom he showed his notes . Tho apprehension of the prisoners being pvoved , Sharp s . iid that the notes were very incorrectly taken , and the eridence much exaggerated ; and the other prisoner having said it was all false , they were ordered to enter bail for the misdemeanour , themselves in the sum of < £ 200 , and two ia £ 100 eaoh , to answer the charge at the Central Criminal Court .

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      i i n rr-rg »^ . ' — , own ears , aud thus brCthe defiance to the Ijinp press ; Buppoee that this shou J be a 11 nec 8 S 8 ar >' . ' suppose that wo have not got the m ^ send {; hat man over , see what danger the moveni 6 uti " '' ~' ^ it may b » thrown back for a few paltry poilftda lu ratify the bond of union between the English and the IriBh people . Union of sentiment , union of democracy , but separation from a yoke that binds the one nation in the thraldom of another . Rest assured , I will be working fer you in Bradford , Halifax , Manchester , and other places where turbulence and broils are going on . It will bs my aim to brins ; the West Riding — Sheffield and Leeds — up to the mirk of

      Bradford . [ A large portion of thp speech was hero devoted te answering articles in the Wbeklt Dispatch , and a letter of Mr Ccbden . who had charged them with carrying tha wages of ds spotism in fheir pockets , forgetting the £ 70 , 000 he had lately pocketed himself . An attack on the ' miik-sop middle classes ' followed , and an exhortation to the people to join in a grand demonstration , he would tell them where , on Wcit-Monday . ] Only organise ( continued the speaker ) , and you will yet Bee the green flag floating over Downing-street . Let that be accomplished , and John Mitchel shall be brought back again te his own country , and Sir G . Gray and Lord J . Russell shall be sent out to exchange places with him . '

      During the reading of the speech , the prisoner corrected onoor two clerical errors of slight importance , which had been made in transcribing . Mr IIenby . —You have now heard the whole of the speech attributed to you by the witness . Do jou wish to pat any question to him respecting it ? The Pni 3 QNEa . —None whatever . 1 can only eomplitnent that gentleman upon the accuracy of his report of my Bpeach . It ' u a trae report oi the sentiments I then and there expressed , and of the sentiments I still entertain , believing them to be tbe sentiments of justice and truth . But I wish to ask why I have been arrested . It Burely cannot be , that I have been brought all the way from Manchester for delivering this speech , in which I contend there is nothing illegal—nothing that might not be said with the strictest propriety even by Elihu Burritt himself . Surely , the oharffe against me ia not founded upon any statement in this apeeoh ?

      Mr Hshrt aaid—As you haverf quested my opinion upon this speech , I must tell you that I am c early of opinion that it is seditious . The tone and spirit of it tnroughout are highly calculated te incite an ignorant mub to illegal acts . I shall have no hesitation in committing you for trial , and leaving a jury to form a judgment upou it ; but at the same time I am willing to hear anything you may wish to s&y inauBwer to the charge against 30 a . The Pbi 8 oner . —As it is your determination to send the oase to a jury I must bow to your decision , and shall reserve the observations I have to make . I presume I Bball ba admitted to tail ?

      Mr Hbnry . —It is a bailable offence . You apponr , however , to be a person of education , and superior in that respect and station to the other priaonere . I must , therefore , require from you a larger amount of bail than in their cases . You mnat find two sureties in £ 250 each , aud enter into your own recognizances in tbe sum of £ 500 ; and , in the me&ntime , yon Btand committed to Newgate . The same intimation as to the twenty-four hours ' notice of bail being required was then given , and the prisoner waa removed .

      paper concealed in his hand ; he used a great many piecea of paper—perhaps twenty—to take down wbafc ho had » aid ; he thrusi ihrm mfq his peckf t as he wratethem ; has been used to this sort of work con-! tinu $ )! y for the last fcw months . Mr Parry . —Was not Mr Vernon delivering a lecture on Man as an individual and social . being V Witness —1 don't know . I heard a fe # words about man being an original and social being . ( A laugh . ) Mr PiRm { to tho clerk ) . —Take that down if you please . [ To tte witness ]—With reapfct to whatyos heard flutmt Mitchel , y « . u can't tell me how that waa interwoven with the lecture on Man , an original and . social being . Witness . —No , I merely took what waa of an inflammatory character . I did not mind the test . The lecture had began when I entered the room .

      Cross examination proceeded with— I he phrasa used waa not ' A few hours will decide whether Mitchel will be tranaported or acquitted , ' bat aa wit » ness gave it before . This closed the case . Mr Pakry said , no doubt Mr Henry would attaob sufficient importance to the evidence of the witness to commit the prisoner upon this charge also . But he hoped light bail would be taken , considering the prisor . er ' 6 8 tation in life . It was then put in evidence that tke prisoner lived in a second floor lodging in Sussex-street , Tottenham Caurt-roail .

      Mr Henry said the bail ho should require would be two sureties ol £ 100 each , and the prisoner's personal security for £ 200 , on each of the charge . * . Mr Parry said that , to a person in the prisoner ' s station in life , this amounted to a virtual refusal of bail , and he prayed tbe magistrate to reconsider tho question . Mr Hknrt said he had considered it , and this eeemtd to him lo be the proper bail to be required ; the prisoner , however , could appeal to a judge , if ha thought the bail excessive . The witnesres were then bound over to prosecute , and the prisoner was committed for trial .

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      THE ARRESTS AT BIKGLEY . TO THE EDITOR OF HIE KPRTHERN 8 TAK . Bi . \ gley , June 7 tb . Sir , —Having seen reports of riots and disturbaBcea in Bingley , to all appearance emanating , from individuals either unablo or unwilling to give a correct account , I consider it my dutr , as a person ac « qnainted with the facts , to give them aa they occurred , aq that the country may know the crimes of the criminals—who they were—and who were the parties in reality , who produced all the routs , riots , and rebellions , in the peaceful and orderly little town of Bingley . It appeara that by way of frolic , or through some other similar cause , a few boys and joung men , had amused themselves once or twice , by going through movements , resembling those of the military , without , in my opinion ; knowing anything

      about military exercises ' , or the consequences of imitating them . For this horrible offence , two of the partieB named W . Smith and John Kelviugton , were apprehended at about five o'clock , on the evening of Friday , May 2 bth . From the nature of the apprehension , it appears that the authorities of Bingley wanted to shew eff , and make something out of nothing , as I am quite confident , that had the magistrates issued a caution of any kind forbidding such practices , they would have bten discontinued at once , and nothing more heard or' the matter . Instead of that , however , the two young men were apprehended , without having been previously informed of the nature of the offence , and in twenty minutes from the time of their apprehension , they were on the road to the Railway Station , for York Caatle . In the meantime a few of their neighbours , on being informed of the circumstance , collected about them in astonishment , and wanted to know the nature of the crime . On finding ifwas

      for training or drilling , one or two inquired if 16 was not a bailable offence , and the constables st their request , took the two young men back again to W . B . Fcrrand . the committing magistrate , to know if bail would not be accepted . On arriving at tbe magistrate ' 8 room , Mr Ferrand ordered the door to be fastened , and commenced an oration about the amount of bail he would require , taking care to fix it at an enormous figure . On the crowd outside hearing him givo orders to fasten the door , a rush took place into the room , and during tbe confusion the prisoners were hurried out . They were then oonducted to a blacksmith ' s ehop and the handenffij filed off , after which the men were triumphantly mai e aed through the streets . An insult of tliis kind could not be tolerated by a man of Mr Ferrand ' a temper , and on that even ' iDg the efficialsof Bingley , consisting of drunken constables and other low characters of different kinds , were busy ia scouring the country by horse , gig , and rail , in ques of military .

      On the same night a boat called the Water Witch , baloBginR to a special , who had made himself very busy in running about after soldiers was set on fa ' ra by some unknown parties but being out of date for passengers on account of tbe railway , it appears to have caused little uneasiness to the owner , the value being only ahout £ 10 , which it is supposed haa been made good by the authorities From that day till Wednesday the town continued tracqui' , if ve ex « cept disturbances caused by a few special constables , some of whom wandered drunk about the streets , attempting to keep a kind of military . step . On the Wednesday moraiog the effects of the riding and running about the country began to develop themselves by tho appearance of a quantity of old pensioners armed like military , who-had arrived

      by rail nt about seven o ' clock in the morning . Each carried a gun and sisty rounds of ball cartridge , and the apptarance of the motley crew of old men , like the fag-etd of Falstaffa ragged regiment of all sorts and sizes , appeared to excite a good deal of euriotity A quantity of Noodles from Otley , and of regular military from Bradford , next arrived , and when the whole ot the heroes of the different coFps were assembled , they presented an appearance which plainly showed tht . t something terrible was upen the point of being attempted . Tho noodles were appointed to guard the railway station , and the foot and old pensioners were marched to Borne factories and werkshops , with Ferrand acd a posse of constables at their bead , to seizs upon certain

      individuals they euspeeted of something ^ Ferrand aRd the constables , under tbe protection of the military and the sixty old British lions , then went to work , by dragging men and boys from their work in utter ignorance of the cause , and one man , named Isaac Ickeripgile , remarkable for his quiet and isoffar . sivo habits ,, was dragged out if bed ia his shirt . This feat ,. I am told , wes per * formed by Ferrand himself , who tore him out , telling him to come aleng for a d—d thief . Sixteen wero thus dragged from their homes , and hurried off by an espreaB train to York , ( without a moment's time to ascertain the cause , or for their relatives to know anything pbout their destination . After thus getting them safely erabaiked for York , without fear of a rescue , Forrand . with a quantity r > f

      his pete , comprising tho most unprincipled characters in Bingley , went to York aud commenced examining and cunirnitting thevictim » . _ Tbis examination , like the apprehension , was quite novel . One man appeared to have got mixed amorgat the prisoners bj Bomettean 8 unknown to either the magistrate or his men . Ferrand wanted to know how he happened to be amongst the prisoner * , whtnhis officials iof rmed him that Le ( F < r / ocd ) bad a izeJ the man himself , and they had brought hint accordingly . Thig he ( Ferrand J denied , and laid the blame on them , and tbe man wbb finally dismissed , with hia railway fare and wages paid . Three procured bail , one was acquitted , and seven are etiil in prison . One man named James Bland , a licensed hawher , who was on the list , but who was absent on his buaU

      ness , on hearing that they were searching every hole nnd corner for him returned home and surrendered himEolf . Ferrand , either through fear cf the man , who is very big and powerful-looking , or niahing to see him in the true character of a free « boro Englishman before his superiors , would pot deign to enter into arrangemmts with him about bail till he was secured by a pair of bandouffd . He then tkraanded the enormous amount of £ 300 ,. himself to be _ bound ia OBe hundred pounds and two sureties in one hundred pounds each , which was readily procured . Another of the party they wished to apprehend being also absent from home , two of tho tpecials , Varley and Foulds , went to his- lodgings and brolife open hia box but found nothing but bis clothes , Busficld Ferrand has made himself suite notorious in this affair ,

      aorta of the other magistrates biuing bad anything to do with it . Like a tirue Tory , he appears to hava imagined that the good old times of <^\ fdge Jefferiej or of the Irish Rebellion had again retamed , and that anything like libeHv for the labourite olas 3 is how laid aside under tho glorioua rule J Russell , © rey , and Co . The specials , who have madotbemselveB racsi conspicuous in the affair are beginning to open their eyea to their Jolly , nu > re especially on Saturday nights . One light-headed fellow -amongst tlttir party , distinguished by the appropriate title cf Cc * H , we are informed , had vary little to da on Saturday niKhr , except to walk about meditatin ^ upon tbo eveuta of' tbe past weak . It appears that if he is determined to was hi * staff on hia cuBtomsrs heads they arc deter ^ mined that he fthall not U 3 e hie rszor on tlieir chiiib . An Eye Wiimss to tus Whole itfFAiH .

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      Erhest CnABLTts Jones was brought into coart in the custody of Sergeant Uaines of the detective force , having juBt arrived from Manchester . The prisoner , who displayed m $ re assurance than either of the other prisoners , appeared about thirty five years of age , of fair complexion , and about the middle stature , fie eaid he was a barrister-at law of the Middle Temple , and member of the Chartist executive , and resided , until lately , at H , George-street , Portman-square . lie added that he was not at present exactly in any residence , but hia father was looking ont for one for him . Mr Henry . —Have you authorised any professional pewon to appear for you ? The Prisoner—Oh , no , your worahip . I have onij junt arrived from Manchester ; Mr Henht . —Perhaps you aro aware , ifyouarea barrister-nt-law , that you can cortpal the witness about to be examined , to read from hia shorthand notes , instead of the transcript ? The Prisoner . —I am not very well acquainted with the criminal branch of the profession ; but the point is perfectly immaterial . I am quite willing to trust to the gentleman ' s honour as to the accuraoy of what he is about to state .

      Jambs Whiib , of No . 97 , York-road . —I am a shorthand writer . On Sunday evening , the 4 th of June , I attended a meeting in Bishop Bonner ' sfields , between six acd seven o'clock . It was an open air meeting . I am sat a judge of numbers , but I should think there were fifteen thousand persons there assembled . The speakers addressed the meeting from a raised sround or gravel heap . There was no chairman . Tho prisoner Jones wa 3 one of the speakers . I took notes of all the speeches . The prisoner said , — " Mr Chairman and men of theTower Hamlets , in tbe first place , I have to apologise to you for not having been here s oner ; but a man cannot be at two places at tbe same time . There waa a meeting announced for Ir . iDgate-wharf , Paddington ,

      and the police , I understand , meant to forbid that meeting taking place . I was invited to attend it , and therefore did attend it . There were a good many police there , but they did not venture to interfere with the meeting ; acd I can tell you this : —hold your meetings ; for , although the government certainly are mad , they are not mad enough to put down public meetings ; and , if they were mad enough to do ii , I , fer one , hurl defiance in their teeth , and dare them to disperse this legal and peaceable assembly . I must ask the favour of your indulgence to-day , inasmuch as I start by mail train to-night for Lancashire and Yorkshire : and , as those places are both in a very excited state , I shall have to nse my lungs there a good deal . And , as London is not

      ro excited as those parts of the country ore , exouse me from addressin g you at any great length to-day . All I say is this : —Stand fast by your colours . Do not shrink from the Charter , and the wl * ole Charter . Do not listen to the nonsense of the half-and-half men . Do not pay any attention to the Dispatch , and if you see any bodies of police coming near to this meeting , marcliine on to this meeting , Btand your ground , shoulder by shoulder . Donotrun . Thereia danger for those who run . There is ca ' ety for those who keep together . Dare them to strike you , and , my word for it . they dare not strike a blow . If they were to strike a blow , bad as the laws are now , still they are sufficiently stringent to punish these men who assault peaceable citizens in the peaceable

      execution or performance of their duty . In nine oaBea out of ten it isyour own fault , it is your own cowardice , that invites others to strike a blow . It ia men Baying We will not do tbis , and we will not do that , because it is forbid . ' Make up your mind , —stand by it , — and , whatever comes , Btand to your ground , There cannot bs more beads broken than there are on those occasionD when men run away . All I aay ia , that government are desirous of marring the performance of your duty ; that duty h organisation . I have not been among you for aome little time . Where are your classes ? Ilave you made your wardmctes ? Have you got your clagg-leaders ? Have you per . fected your srganijation ? If not , call public meetings and elect your clasg-leaders . Do not let the classes be formed before you bave the class-leadera .

      You will find it much more eaty to form a class after the class-leader is appointed . For if you form classes , and then afterwards appoint leaders , you may spend two or three hour 8 or moreupon the formation of every class , and never come to a fixed determination with regard to it , aa one man will live here and another there . Elect tbe leader , and be knows the men likely to form the class living in hia neighbourhood . There will be no improper assumption , of that power , because you all eleot the clasp-leaders at tho public meetings . Rest assured if each locol ' ity e ! ect 9 100 class-leaders you will soon hare 1 . 000 men under the banner . This is the way to get up the organisation . And then you may elect wardmotes—one out of ten will be a ward , mete . Commence at tho foundation rightly—namely ,

      the clvsea , and the wwl * and all the rest will follow of itself . It ia no use csrainz among you whon there is no organisation , and it is not the executive that can get up the organisation . Show us your organisation , and we will show you how to get your rights . Depend upon it we will not leave you . Steer clear of all partial outbreaks and partial rioting . There has been an outbreak at Bradford and Manchester . We Bent Dr M Douall , who is tow addreesing a glorious meeting at Paddington , to tell them to engage in no partial riot—no partial outbreak . That ie just what ho eovernment wants . In a riot of that kind they

      immediately seiz 3 upon the leading men , and that will cripp le your organisation . Go on organising , organising , orcanisine , and thereat will come . Never r it . And there ia one thing more that \ a wanted , and that is funds . Funds are wanted . The country ia beginning to do its duty nobly , and that is a great teat of public feeling . But . mark you , suppose that it was true , as we heard last night , that fighting had bfgun in Dublin—that the government had ordered the papers to say nothing of the insurrection in Dublin , in order to keep tbis country in tbo dark about it ; * Buppoaiog it should be necessary for us to send a man over to see with his own eyea and hear with ilia

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      The ExKCtnvK Commiitbk iavo recommended DrM'Douall ' a pamphlet— 'The Charter—what it means ; Tho Chartistt—what they want *—aa their Qrst tract . Swindos . —At a public meeting , held here on Monday lust , Mr Morrison proposed , Mr Simpson seconded , and Mr Burton supported , an excellent address to the Whig made widow of the patriot John Mitchel . The address wag carried unanimously . Mr . Mprrison stated that , as news-agent , he would give hia profits on the Northers Stab , on Satarda next to Mrs Mitohel ,

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      : Sr ?" I -a = efield . —At a meeting of the fema ' es ¦^^• 4 ^ M , on Monday , Jane 5 ib , the folt , , " v c \ JiUt ! ua 5 were unsnisaeu ^ lv parsed : — ' Tfa 3 t * V ' l . ' ema ! e C 1 > art ; s : 3 of this ' place , in public ¦ - ) £ \ h r : ? S 5 Ehk d , ; . ! cdge ourselves not to support : !' .- '" .. , C : S 53 tradesman who is not favourable to Z- h " - ??? fha : t £ r- That we farther pledge curv : ; .: ^ ^^ w money out vrith any butcher '•¦ 1 i r > -f J ' P , ' or grocer , who may serve as a ^ -j ^ tade against the rights of thewoiking ' ^ ijr-. ' . We forthwith ferm ourselves into a *! " :. l *^ t' Association , to Cirry out tte above

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      ? — — j ^ vAO . 1846 . THEjfQRTHERy _ STAR . " 5

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      Having left her at tier hotel , I went and informed our friends . A deputation was immediately appointed to wait upon Mrs Jones , to sympathise with her , consisting of James George Clarke . Daniel Donovan , George Archdeacon , and Thomas Whittaker , who accompanied her te the Railway station to see her on her way to London . Judge of our surprise when we found one of the police in a plain drees dogging Mr Jope 3 ioto the Railway Office . The policeman had hia trousers under his arm and bis truncheon sticking out of the end of his bundle . Great God ! to what a state are we hastening

      when the right of pablic meeting is trampled uponliberty of speech refused—petitions treated with Bcorn and derision—starvation , poverty , misery , and general bankruptcy stalking o ' er the land—the mass wringing their hands and uttering imprecations deep and bitter on the government—fathers compelled to see their children die of starvation , or be craeliy sabred by policemen or dragged as felons from their homes if they d&re give vent to their wrongs ? The safety valves of pnblic opinion are closed and the bailer must inevitably burst . Yourstruly , J . G . Claeke .

      ARREST OF MR JONES AT MANCHESTER . { From cur own Correspondent . ) TO THE EDITOtt OF THE NORTHEBN STAB . { Vbdsesday . 12 p . ji —Sib . —Mr ErneBt Jones gave us a splendid address last evening . Wednesday ( this morning ) I met Mrs Jones ; I accosted her , and feund she had missed her hotel . I went with her to the Moseley Arms , and on the way she informed me her husband had been ruthlessly torn from her by two London poliee officers , bnt added that her husband had done his duty to his country , I wassnrDriaed at her calm and dignified manner under so severe a privation . God bless euch noble women , what man can now neglect his duty , when females display such heroic bravery under such trying circumstances ?

      was false ; for np to about nine o ' clock yesterday morning , Jones was quietly indulging in the comfurts of a feather bed at ene of the first hotels in Manchester . It ia now true , however , that he is in custody . Inspector Haynes , a metropolitan officer of police , arrived in Manchester , daring the night , with a warrant granted at Bow-s reet , by Mr Jardine , and obtaining the assistance of Mr Beswick , chief superintendent of the Manoheste ? police , yesterday mornin ? , they went to the Mosley ' g Arras Hotel , a few tninuteg after nine o'clock , and awoke Mr Jones to take his place in the 9 50 a rr . train fer London . I : was stated that the information on which the warrant was granted had reference to the seditieus language be had uttered at the Betboal-green meeting . He was hurried off without even getting his breakfast .

      ( From the Daily Newt of Thursday . ) Juke 8 th . —The morning paper which of all others is erroneously supposed to csntain correct information—the Times—announced to tho world yesterday btfore breakfast that Ernest Jones and another notorious Chartist had been arrested . Unless ic were posBible to ba guilty of truth before the facts the Times was wrong , lor at the time that statement was penned , Jones was at large and was most likely at that very time holding forth to a numerous audience in the City Hall , Manchester , directing a furious tirade of abuse at the ministry , to the effect that if he and others were transported it would only bato fetch Mitchel , together with FroBt , Williams , snd Jones , back in triumph , in order that Lord Jonn . 'Ruaeellor Lord Palmerstonmight beaentto occupy their places . At tha time the statement was printed it

      W e were threatened in a few days with a repetition of the Kennington affair . The government are to be commended for having taken time by the forelock , and the offenders by the collar . It is to be hoped they will not halt in so wise a course .

      nor any general sympath y throughout the country for tbe authors of the disturbances which have for the last few days disgraced the streets of London . We know enough of an English jury to feel secure that all indignation at their conduct , and all unfavourable impressions received before entering the jury-box , will be banished from the minds of those who have ro decide upon their fate . The trials will be open , and in the face of tbe country . Tbe prisoners will be dealt with as ordinary culprits , and their cases will be disposed of with as much indifference as though they had been arraigned for filching pocket-handkerchiefs .

      • ARREST OF CHARTIST LEADERS . ' ( From the Time ) of Wednesday , June 7 . ) _ The Irish Confederation will no longer have any right to complain that the government distribute the palm of martyrdom with anything like undue partiality . If Mr John Mitchel has been raised to the honours of the calendar in Dublin , in London Messrs Ernest Jones and Fossell with some others , are likely enough t o be soon canonised by his side . These persons were , we are informed , arrested yesterday on a charge of sedition , and will be brought to trial with all the speed the law permits . \\ e neither anticipate trouble from reluctant juries ,

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      EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF Mfc-SSRS ERNEST JONES , JOHN FUSSELL , ALEXANDER SHARP , AND JOHN WILLIAMS .

      On Wednesday at Bow-street police court , John Fussell , 2 , Corporation row , Clerkenwell , jeweller , Alexander Sharp , 51 , George-row , John's-row , St Lnke ' s , copper-plata printer , and Joseph alias John Williams , 33 , Half Moon-street , Bishopsgate Without , baker , were brought before Mr Henry , en warrants , in which they were charged with bavicg on the 26 th of May , in a certain open place called Clerkenwell-( freen , wickedly , maliciously , and seditiously published , uttered , and pronounced certain scandalous , wicked , snd eeditious words , in the presence of divers persons then and there assembled , of and concerning our Sovereign Lady the Queen and her government . The warrants were issued on Tuesday last by Mr Jardine , and the prisoners were apprehended at their

      residences at an early hour the next morning . Another warrant was issued against Ernest Jones , snd being apprehended upon it in Manchester , he vas brought to the Btation before the examination of the other prisoners had terminated . Mr Hayward , from the office of Mr Maule , Bolicitor to the Treasury , conducted the prosecution ; end Mr Davis , solicitor , of Holies-street , Cavendishsquire , attended for the three first-named prisoners . Shortly after two o ' clock Williams was placed at the bar , and Dokace IIabdy , an officer of the G division being sworn , stated that on tbe evening of tbe 15 : h of May , he attended a meeting at Clerkenwell-green , where there were about 1 , 200 persons assembled , consisting of working people , costermongers , and boyg ;

      a man , named Maunder May , being in the chair . The prisoner was in the van with the chairman , which was arranged as a platform , and being called upon , he caiie forward and moved tho following resolution : — ' That this meeting will assist by every means in ita power the Irish nation in obtaining their liberty . ' He then said he had been the cause of calling the meeting , as he considered the time had now come for the people of both countries to _ make a strike for their rights ; that he had been induced to do bo , in consequence of reading in the morning papers the determination of the people to assist the Irish patriots in

      thoir 8 tand | againBtlhegovernmentto obtain Repeal for tte Irish nation . With regard to the Charter , the last moral effort would be made in a few days , by a procession going up to the Queen with a memorial , which he would join , marching under a black banner , with a death ' s bead and bones , signifying death or liberty , and during the time he was frequently cheered . lie slso said , if a few men would now make a stand , they must ba victorious , as the time would Bhortly arrive , the Irish being determined not to allow Mitchel to bs convicted ; and if they arose , the soldiers would join them and free him from prison , if the verdict of the jury did not do so .

      In answer to Mr Davis , witness said ho could not write short-hand , bat he totk notes , and wrote them ont as they appeared en the paper he held . Mr Dati 3 submitted , that unless the notes were produced , the evidence was inadmissible , which was overruled by the court . The witness proceeded to say , that on the chair being taken , May said that the meeting wsb to unite with the Irish Confederates on the subject of ( he government trials in Ireland , that it waa tho duty of thi 3 country to render iheir assistance . The

      prisoner said , he did not wish blood to be spilled , but if a man did not fight for such a man as Mitohel , he ought to be damned . There were other speakers b ^ ida tha prisoner , who remained to the end of the meeting . He considered it was such as to cause considerable terror to the neighbourhood , and that it did so . Cross-examined : He took the notes on slips of paper with a pencil , and he csuld not form any idea , of the number of beys present . His opinion respecting the terror caused was formed trosi what he heard from peraona standing by .

      R , Moss , 135 G , having proved the apprehension of the prisoner , Mr Hatward paid , he had no further evidence to offer , but would call witnesses lo prove what took place at another meeting . Mr Davis considered there waa no seditious Ianiuage proved against the prisoner , and wished to look at the warrant . Mr He . vet said , that it was a general warrant for using seditious language , and there was sufficient proved to send the case before a jury ; but aa the prisoner was entitled to put in bail , he would fix too amount when the other charge vas concluded .

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      Tha prisoner Fussell was then placed at tLo bar . Frederick Fowler , a reporter , stated that on the 29 th of May he attended a meeting at Clerkenwell green , where there were 2 , 000 persons ; it consisted mostly of lade , desperate looking ctaractera . The prisoner on mounting the van said that tbe government had succeeded in convicting honest John Mitchel , and they did eo by packing the jury and by bad judges . He told Lord John Russell be had no sympathy with his damnable government . John Mitchel had asked whether the Queen had not fergotten her duty to her country . He now aaked the same que 3 « tion , and adopted these views . If the Queen neglected to recognise the people , then the people would neglect to recognise the Qmen . If John Mitchel waB sent out of the country , every Irishman should be up and revenge the injary , or he weuld be no longer worth the name . The government was sot worthy of any honest man ; it was too contemptible

      to be recognised , and they should use every endeavour to overthrow it , and one safe way waa to forget their duty to their rulers . He then said , I openly avow I am the advocate of open assassination . What made the Emperor of Austria fly from his country ? why , the fear of assassination , and it was by that m ^ ana our rulera would fly . I have five sons , and I do declare that I would disown one that would refuse to assissitate any one who may be instrumental in banishing me from my country fer such an offence as John Mitchel was found guilty . ' Witness concluded by saying that he omitted portions of the epeeohes , which ho considered unfit foic the public press . Tbe witness went on to say that Williams was the leader in the procession through the metropolis , which created such terror as to causo shopkeepers te close their window s , In cross-examination nothing material was elicited .

      The apprehension of the prisoners being proved , Mr Hknby ordered Fussell to enter bail , himself in £ 300 , and two sureties in £ 250 each , to answer the charge at the Old Bailey , with twenty-four hours notice .

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      ARREST 0 F * W . J . VERNON . B 0 W-8 irtBBT , ( THUB 9 DAT ) . — WlLLUM JOHN VeRnox—the fifth wha has been arrested daring the past two days—waa placed ot tbe bar before Mr Henry to-day . The Treasury Solicitor appeared for the proBecution ; Mr Parry defended the prisoner . Tbe Prisoner having given hia name , said he was a lecturer and writer , living at No , 9 , Sussexstreet . The first witness called was Frederick T . Fowler , a reporter , who said , on the 29 th of May last , he attended a meeting at Clerkenwell Green ; it was in the evening . There were about three thousand persons present—they were mostly riff-raff . ' Mr Parry . —I object to that impertinent expression , Sir : this man bimBelf may be ' rifF-raff , ' far aught I know . Let the witness speak English .

      Examination continued — fhey were mostly young men and boys present ; there were a few labouring men , but the great mass of the crowd were pickpockets , thieves , and low characters . Mr Parry intimated that the witness was stating what he could only guess to be true . "Witness—A man named Williams spohe first . The prisoner was not there when Williams first spoke . When Williams had done Bpeaking , he said , ' Now , my lads , fall into marching order . ' The assembly fell into marching order , four abreast . The prisoner took the arm of two yeuog men , who appeared to be his friends , aad walked with them . He was sometiineBin one part of the procession and sometimes in another . The procession went down Ayleebury street to St Ji , hn-9 treet-rcad . ^ y ¦ it ^ e sB went up Wilderness-row and met the proceasion at tbe corner of Old-etreet . Witness did not then see whether the prisoner was

      amongst them or not . From Old-street the prooession west on to Finsbury square , where witness again saw the prisoner . Ho was then marching round with the rest of the procession . The prooession continued to march round for Inlf an hour or three quarters . The prisoner was amongst them all the time . Tho procession proceeded along Beech-street , Chiswellstreet , Barbican , and Long-lane , into Sinithfield . Witness does not know the man who gave the principal words of command . The prisoner marched with them out of Finsbury-tquare , and witness was not sure he saw him again , but ho thought he saw him afterwards in Oxford-street . Before the procession Btarted from Clerkenwell , some one said , ' three curses for the government . ' The prisoner , wbe was standing by witness , turned round to him , and said , 'I don't like thrse things . They're of no use . Curses don't break banes . '

      MrHBTwooD asked witness whit he thought was the effect in the neighbourhood of the meeting and marching . Mr Parry objected to the question . What the witness thought was nothing ; what he saw was all that waa to the purpose . WitneBB said , tie snw evidences of alarm . People ran out and shut up their shops in a great hurry as tbe procession came along . The witness was crossexamiaed by Mr Parry : — After the expression , 'three curses for tho government , ' had been used , ' witness first spoke to the prisoner before he made tho remark above-mentioned . Witness understood his manning to ba that he disapproved of such strong expressions . He said nothing else on the subject , however . Mr Parry said , the expression ' curses break no bones , 'he believed waa a quotation from 'Venice ' reserved . '

      Examined by Mr Hknrt—The prooession marched along the middle of the road . When it reaebed Dean-street , about ten o'clock at nighr , it must have consisted of about 50 , 000 or 60 , 000 persons . Witness left them soon afterwards . William Godfrey , a constable , 147 C , said he apprehended the prisoner about half-paBt 11 o ' clock last night in Sussex-Btreet , Tottenham-court-road , by virtue of the warrant now produced . This closed the case for tho prosecution . Mr Parry said that ha would trespass on tho at . tentinn of the court very briefly ; but it appeared to him that a more flimsy case could scarcely be made out on so seroaB a charge . Mr Henry—Of taking part in an unlawful assemblv .

      Mr Pabrt—Yea ; but unless there is a prima facie case , not only that the prisoner was present at the unlawful meetin ? , but that he sanctioned it , no case could be made out to Bend the prisoner for trial . Many peisons , such aa tbe witness , and others , were present on that day , and the witness had siid that ie understood tho prisoner to disapprove of the expreasioEB used . Under these circumstances he Mr Parry ) contendod that no prima facie case was made out ; and he was sure the magistrate would treat this as an ordinary oase , and not be in any way affected by the fact that the government proBecuted in it . Mr Henry .-I have no hesitation ih saying that the prisoner did take part in that procession , and that all who did were Rtrilty of an unlawful act . I shall , therefore , commit him for trial . Anothfr case waa then gone into .

      Thomas Wells , a sergeant of the C division , aaid he was preBent at a meeting held at a Chartist meeting house in Dean street , S 9 ho , between eight and nine o ' clock on the evening of the 28 h of May . The prisoner spokejnt that meeting . Uo was speaking , in the first place , in reference to the trial of Mitcbel . He did not consider that he had had a fair trial . He a ' . BO hopsd they were all armed ; he knew they were at Blackheath and Paddingten , He was much surprised that they sent out bo many blue-coated men in Paddington , which was not tho case in any other district . He aaid he bad seen two iaspeotors whom he knew at Blackheath that day . but that did not prevent him from gpeaking his

      mind openly , which he had done since his first commencement of lecturing . He wished to bepreparedfor coming events . Those that could write could write as well with ' atee ! pens as quill ? , aEd it did not signify whether the pen 9 were dipped in red or blask ink-He advised them to get pikes—not to cor . ceal them under their coats , but to carry them on their slioulder 3 , 8 o that it might be seen they haa got them . He wished every Irishman to come forward , and the Chartists would oce and all assist them , and not suffer a man like John Mitchel to ba transported , and scut out of the country . Government should ace they would not have all their own way , and every man who would not come forward to rescue him

      should be served worse than Lord John TtuBsell , made himself so active in pnsaingtbe fiagfi ing Bill . A few hours must now decide whether Mitchel should be released o ? torn from his country . There was nothing further of anv consequence . The speech was received with considerable applause . No ene else epoKo afterwards . Tbe meeting broke up at about ten o ' clock . Cro-is-examined :- Is not a reporter , but a sergeant af Dolke ; took the Bpeech dovfa 0 B . little MtB of

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 10, 1848, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1474/page/5/