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^^ - —— - AsaTOs-BsrER-LTiiB —The members of this branch of tbe Land Company most in future pay their share money end levies at the house of the secretary , j 5 r James Tsylw , Tomer-lane , tear the Leeds njilffij . statitn The sjembera in arrears are requ ested to pay the same . Bsistol . —The Land members will meet en Mon-( jsy evening , to ducass the propositions , asd also tb 3 instructions for the delegates . —Names of the c andidates : —H- Hjatt , for Bristol ; Thomas BalffelL for Bath : P . R . Morgan , Merthyr Tydvil , jfo . 1 Branch ; Join Emery Jones , Merthyt Tvdfil , > ' o 2 Branch . Basist asd Shelioh . —All the members of this branch of the L % nd Company are requested to attend next Tof sday evening at the meeting-room , and r * y np their local expenses , as ic will be wsnte < to lead the delegate to the Conference at Birmineh » n : ^^^^ , 7 ' ' ' " ' . / icJTTOS-nSPER-LTSB—The members of this branch
Thb Cur aid Fksbtot Beakch cp ihe Nmiosai . Isso GeMPAJnt will meet at Hudson ' s Academy , 15 Cnsf-street , Hattongardeo , on Monday eveniEg Best , October 23 rd , at eight o ' clock . Maschbier . —Au adjourned meeting" of the shareholders will be held ia the People ' s Institute , on Tuesday eTening , October 21 th , at eight o ' clock . All p ? nons baldiag scrips not registered aie reques' ed to bring them in on that ffght—By order of the Bo ard of Directora . LocoHBOKorGH . —Oa Monday , October 23 . d at seven o ' clock , as the Yfneatsheaf .
H * twoa > . —A seneral meeting ef the Land Members will be held oa Monday evenine , in the ChartUt rorai Hartley-street October 23 rc £ to elect tfficcrs for the ensuing quarter . The members mn 8 t tear in mind that in consequence of their neglect there is no Committee to conduct the business , and the Iste Secretary will net ( after this notice ) be responsible unless re-elected by an average meetiag and plans laid down Lr the local ecvemtnent of this locality . A plan is prepared , which it is supposed will only t » ks about oca penny per quarter par member to defray local expense * . Sokxbbt . — Rubert Sateliffe of HaKfsx , w ill lectore at Holing , Bear Siwerby . on Monday , the " 23 rd , at seven o'clock , p . m . Subject : The banefits resulting from the Charter , and tow to obtain it . '
XOBTOX-FOLGtTE £ SD GrSIS-GITE BSSSCH . —Tbe sembersof tbe above branches are summoned to attend a general meeting on Sunday next , at the Duke of Lancaster , John-street , Kragsland-iead , at half-past eight o ' c ' ock , fcr the purpose of amalgamating and appointing officer * . 5 t < crbxibse —A meeting cf L « "d msmbm will be held at the Crown-room , oa Stodgy e , Yenur » October 2 Srd , relative te the local receipti of tte branck . Heyttcod—On Monday evening , October 23 rd , in the Chartist room , Hartley-street . CHiLTKyassi . —On Monday evening next , in the Land Members room , when Mr-J . P . O'Brien is expected to attend . HIBICG 3 rOB THE XUCTI 05 OF BBLEGATE 3 TO TES CDSFKBKKCE .
Bekmohjsbt , —Oa Monday eveainsr , October 23 rd , atMrFow ' er ' s , l ) ake of Susses , Grange Walk , st eight o clock . A levy is pat on all member * of this branch which must be paid by Monday , the 23 rd . together with l <*> cal expenses already doe . DaHBr--iOn Sunday evenins / Gctober 22 nd at fee Me 6 tine-room . Green-street , Derby , at five oVock , Basbust—On Monday evening , October , 23 rd , at the Butchers' Arms Inn , at eieht o ' clock . Manchester . —On Sunday miming Octobar 22 a «? , at nine o ' clock- in the People ' s Institute . Meeibtr Ttdvil —On Sunday afternoon , October 22 nd . at t « o n ' clocV , in the Branch-office , badk of the Thre Horse Saoes . All branches is South Vatemurt send their share of the expenses .
XEWCiSE . E-05-TxsB . —At 3 £ r Martin Jude ' s'Cfo country members ) on Saturday afternoon , ( this day \ at two o ' clock ., and Sunday afternoon , October ' . 22 nd at four o clock For town meabers on Monday evei--ico . October 23-d , at eight o eleek . BuRT .-J-On Saturday and Sunday next at Mr John Coulter ' s , Butcher-lane . Country members are requested to attend , as there will be no voting by prosy . Accbbcstos . —On Saturday night , October . 23 . st , in the TemperaEce room , Charel-street , for the Backburn district . Names of candidates : —Anthnny Armstead , of Blackbnrne : Accrington , Henry Hunt Thom ; Oswaldtwist ' e , WiWatn'Brooks . CsvEKtar —On Monday evening . October SSrd , at seven o ' clock , at Mr Pritchard ' s Coffee-house , Gosford street ,
^ OETHiai ? roH . —No . 1 branch , on Monday evening at seven o ' clock , at Kr Monday ' s , " Silw Btreet Glasbow ^— On Tuesday eveciae , October 24 th , at eight o ' clock , in the Democratic Hall , M Irongate . OLDHiK—On Sunday aftereoon nex * at ± wo o ' clock , in the School-reoai of the Working Miq " b Hall . RccHDASS i —Iu the ChartUt-rocm , Yoikshire-Etraet , at two o ' clock . Nohth Shikds . —On Monday -evening sext , at eight o ' clsck , as the house of Mr Pratt . Srinsi Toys , —On Wedtesdcy evenine next , € . t eight o ' clock , at the Bricklayers * &rm 3 , Tonbridgestreet . Towkk Samlets . —All tae breaches will ^ rceet at tbe Crown and Anchor , Waterloo Town , on Monday , Oct . 23 : d .
BmHLXGEAi : —On Monday evening next , at halfpsst seven o ' c ' ock . at 111 , Rea-street . BiBin 5 Gnie , Ship 1 x 5 , SiEiiKOTas Lake . —Oa Monday next , ^) ctob ? r 23 fd . Barsblct . —Gn Monday evening , October 23 rd , at seven o'clock , at Mr George Uttiey" * c . Prestos asb JfEiGp 3 tEH 00 D . —On Monday evening , frem esren to eight o ' clock , in Mr Frankland ' s rooro , Lune-strcel Hcu .. —Oa Tueiday p venine . October 54 th . Names op"Caxb : datk 3 to Rbpbeszss Lohdoh ik ths Corfjeekcs . —83 . Deac-itieet , Messrs Milns and Hitchin ^ g ; -Ssmen Town . Arnott and Cooper ; Tolunteer . JL ^ mehouse , Baird and Rawell ; Hamfflerfaitb , James MiUwrod ; Greeawich , Samuel Kyddand Frith of £ aig * s End ; Btr ^ iendsey , James Knight o * Minster Level , and Mr Kempley ; Camlerwel' , Mr Side ; € he ! se ? , James Milwood ; Lam--teth , Side and Cummings ; Matylebone , Parker and -Corderoy ; Whittington and Cat . Henry Melper .
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TO THE WORKING CLASSES . * Words are things , and a tmall drop of ink Falling—like d « w—opoa a thought , produces That which makjs thousand ! , pertapg millions think . ' BitoH . ' THB FRENCH REVOLUTION , versiu BARON BALDERDASH BROUGHAM . Brother Proletarians , Of late years , so little has been heard of the once renowned' slashing Harry , ' that gome of you may have supposed him to have been really consigned to 'the tomb of all the Capulets , ' If not to some less reputable resting place . But for the occasional galvanic-like contortions of the eld renegade , people .. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ Tr » Tn-n Trr / MiTrT-v-rn / -ir iomin
might naturally suppose that , after all , his breakneck death , which was reported to hare occurred some years ago , was really no hoax . Indeed , but that < Radical Harry' had show a his intense enmity to the people some years before that precious hoax wes manufactured , there would be good teason to regard the present « Lord Brougham' as only ths vampire-likeness of the once roaring Radical who -was for turning KINGS' HEADS INTO FOOTBALLS ! After all , I despair of convincing those who remember Henry Brougham as the candidate for Yorkshire , that that popular favourite ' is really the identical author of the ' Letter to the Marquis of Lansdowne , ' on the French Revolution . Even if half-persuaded , such sceptics will be likely to exclaim , with Macbeth . —
The t ! a « s have been That whea the Jieirl was out , the man weald die , And there&a end : fent now , the ; rise again , With twenty moral filicides on flielr crowns I * "Wonderful ! But , to have done discussing tte actuality < of « Lord Brougham , "* there can be no mis * take about his Letter , ' wbfch is as real as ' words' j can make it ; and which is -charged to a supposed gullible public , the very substantial sum of four shillings . I should be sorry to add anythiag that might lead the reader to suppose it worth that sum . la the course of his four shillings worth of balderdash , the ' noble' letter-writer goes out-af his way to insult Lotus Blahc , by sneering at tbat great and good man for taking refuge in this country from She
bloody—( 'The phrase is Branf / mnt , and not misapplied' )—• designs of his { ottrjeois-enemies . He does more . Authors are proverbially an envious race—there are individual exceptions—and Bho tshasi , who "has written works ^ hichhave already been damned without hope of Tedemption ; and who , when he really shall be dead and gone , has < no chance of being remembered as an author , tbcugh his name may have a shortlived notoriety , asthat of a secondrate political charlatan—alluding toloms Blanc ' s Organisation < qf { Labour—* * , work of which thousands were sold at what was celled the very low ' price of a franc '—says : I read it = at the desire of a friend of the writer , and was % annd in candour
to tell him I thought it the dearest book I ever : bought . ' Quite-sure am Ithat « wry one who has : bsen fool enough to lay out four shillings on tbe ' Letter' onder notice , will say ^ the same of 'his ' lordship ' s * Ifash . But , friends , -you shall see the wherefore -of the ' noble lord ' 3 slap at Lotot , Blasc ' s hook . The member * of tbe ex-Provisional "Government is the most successful political author in-Europe . The History of Ten Years , has been translated into several languages , and fets sold enormously . The Political - 'PAHesBphy— ( Lord B . ' s very elaborate work' )—on the other hand , has
been known only to Lord ^ Brougham ' s ' ad . snirers '—a circle ' more select than numerous . ' Brougham himself says , that' thousands weie sold ' of the Organisation of Libowr . The sale of the Poliiieel Thilosopk y ( which I would dare wager no * ten of you ever before heard tell-of ) , may be guessed from the fact , that its author—ao doubt with the view of getting * be unsold stock off his handshas contrived to'insert in his t » sw pamphlet a . j « # of bis precious Pmiosopliy , whioh would da credit to the inventive genius of Professor HoixowAtr * or the departed Momsson . ffhe political < n » ck says : —
At the deiire of on Vsefal 'Knowledge S K )! ety , and i n constant communication with ear lamented friend and colleBfjae , Althorp , I prepared a very elaborate work . The 'Poutical Paiaos sun . in-wbich the principles of garsniment are folly explained , and the theory ss well as the history « sd practice cf the various constrtn-4 ioni thai have flourished in ancient er in modern times is minutely dtscribed . Uow what would you have more ? Here is the wisdom of Confucius , Moses , Minos , Lyour gbs , Solon , Xuma , Jusrajii&x , Alfred , Jhffersok , &c , concentrated in Lord Brougham ' s
book ! Here you have the -whole art and mystery of coastitutioa-makingcaade plain 'to the meanest capacity . ' The 6 tuff k warranted genuine ; won-t you buy ? Alas ! no " . There stands ihe ' very-elaborate wori , begun in 1840 , finished 18 < £ 6 , ' ao much waste paper : whilst of that detestable -work Organisatita of £ a&aw , 'thousands were « old . •* "Who'll buy a bottle ? ' was the constant cry of tbe unlucky fellew who possessed the celebrated ' impi'iut ' who'll buy a book 2 ' is Brougha *' * cry , ^ ithas little chance , I fear , of finding a customer .
whatever chance there might have been previous to last February of disposing of the unsold stock of the' noble lord ' s' ' Useful Knowledge , ' that chance i £ now evidentl y gone . The Revolution which ' in a few hours-destroyed an established monarchy , and created off-hand a Republic , ' being ' wholly at variance with « very principle' of Loud Brougham ' s Political FiUosopAy , that philosophy is clearly done for . Factsarechielithatwlcnadkif , . An * canna be refuted . '
And the ' great fact' of the February Revolution being wholly &t variance' with Lord Bsougham ' s theories , ' his lordship ' can be no longer regarded , even by his seleet admirers , as an authority in political philosophy . No wonder he objects to ' revolutions made with the magic wand of an enchanter . —monarchies destroyed at a blow , —republies founded in a trice , —constitutions made extempore . ' Such strange doings have totally destroyed the value of his 'very elaborate work . ' Lord Brougham is politically bankrupt his ' trade * is ruined—his occupation gone !* 1 proceed to not ' iee three principal points of Bsodgham ' s 'Letter : * —his railings at the Revolutioa ; his vituperation of the Press ; and bis comical abuse of' agitators . '
Here I must premise that Bassanio ' s description of Gratieno exactly applies to ' his lordship , as self exhibited in his Letter ;'' Gratiano speaks art infinite deal ef nothing , more than any ether man in allVeutce . His reasons are ae two graks of wheat , hid in two bethels of chtff ; jou shall seek , all day , ere jon find them , and when jou haw them , thtj are not woith the search , ' While admitting that there were some defects in the system presided over by Look Philippe , the * noble lord' contends that all the reforms ' which might have been desirable , were really hardly worth a struggle ; ' at any rate not more than the struggle involved in' the common play of political party' a
sSraggleof the ' outs' against the ' ing / But a Revolution ! there was no reason whatever why a revolution should have taken place . That revolution he describes as 'the work of a moment ; ' a change 'prompted by no felt inconvenienee—announced by no complaint . Instead of acting iu accordance with the principles of his lordship ' s 'Political Philosophy , ' the indignation of the multitude in Paris suddenly bursts forth ; because the police threaten to stop a dinner and procession , an armed mob resists the authorities ? * * the populace , further exasperated , march to to the National Assembl y [ He means the anti-national
Chamber of Deputies ] , and withont the assent of any regular body whatever , proclaims a Republic . ' He describes the revolutionists as 'some half-dozen artisans met in a printing office , and leading on two or three thousand in a capital of one million souls . ' Again , he speaks of the actors in the g lorious days of February as 'a handful of armed ruffians headed by a shoemaker and a sub-editor , ' and associated with 'ten or twelve thousand felons , eager for the pillage which they jurely foresaw . ' He add « : — « Yes ! yes ! this is the truth-the terrible truth . ' If « his lordship' had written a' fcrrille lie , ' he would have been much nearer the mark .
The ' Boble lord ' . ' caiumnias will cot injure the pars and heroic men of the banicadts . Their virtues wer « proclaimed by their bitterest enemies -, and raytl and anitocraticconspirators are living menumentsof the magnanimity of their proletarian conquerors 'Lord Bbocghui' in trying to throw dirt at the founders of the Republio , will but soil hii finrera a ' -eady not too clean . A fe » facts will fully answer Brougham ' s asaertieni that the rtevolafon was ' promoted by no inooivenienoe—annouBoed bj no complaint . Wai it no inconvenience' fcrantion of thirty-five milliona to be ruled by- an electoral oligarchy of one
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WHIG PRISGNS ASD CHARTIST PRISCWfERS . 10 1 SS EOXTOK Of IHE HOSTESS * STAX . & £ . —It w& 3 my intention to hava " given a lesgth-«« d description of the treatment to which pelkfeal pruooers are subjected is the yarioua dungeons to whieh Whig duplicity haa . consigned them , and to pnbUA it in a lengthy an £ detailed form in a projected periodical , but as eama disappointment hss occurred . I think it my duty to call public attention to the eEbject , through josr friendly columns , in order te induce the people to cast off their present apathy and gross neglect towards the wives and fami- lies of their incarcerated brethrea . It is perhaps cot generally feoa wa that all the Chartist prisoners con- Saed ia Yorkshire sad Lancashire , are subjected to the silent , orseparate system , bsieg confined inEoIittsjesik for twenty-three out of «? ery twenty-four
hoars , one hoer each day being devoted to what is termed ' exercise / or , in other words a trotting mateb , like so osny hone * . At Kirkdale , where Dr M'Djuall has twe jean te serve , I waadetained fora week ; and , althoegh merely waiting for bail , was p ' a % d in solitary confinement , and treated in the fisme manner as tbe convicts under sentence of ¦ irans portaticn . Dr M'Dauall was ia the same soilding and witkia four cells of ras , and it i s 5 j firm conviction &at unless an eSort be made tc cause his removal that he cannot gsnive the pet&dofbisimpritoament . I contrived to hold a few £ hort conversations with . Lira whilst takipg our ' exec g ise , ' and he request ! his friends to exert themselves in getting him placed as a first-class ffiisdemeanact ; acd to direct atteatien to the case of Mrs M'Dauag .
He , in common with the other Chartists , is dressed in gaol clothing , and forced like thea te pick woo ! in his solitude . The bread is abamisable , tmng r early black ; I have shown a portion of it to the leading ChattisU ia Manchester , Oldham , Rochcsle , ud Halifax , Kho on tetiiy to ( he truth of fills statement ; and I believe f hat ths whole of our friends in tbe vsrioni dungeon are doomed to similar Ditee , as Igjnerallf found the turnkeys , and other fiffidali , make it their batinec 3 to insult the Cfaarfet pritonere , in addition to enforcing the most rigorens discipline of thepriion . I could give a dismal acconnt of the lock-up ? , and other places where I have teen pest up dnring my late arrests , bntitwou . d occupy too much of you space and perhaps deprive me of the meansof calling the attention of the thousands who have cheered tkese men on , tow to caute them to be placed in their present positionto a tense of their duty .
, Since I wu last liberated , I have been in leveral towns , ud visited the families of the imprisoned Chartists , acd ia nearly every instance I have found them bLamefulIy neglected—nay . deterted—bj the people . In masy instances the wives and children of b ice of our best men have feen suffered to feel all the honors of starvation . Oh ! shame on the working men for this injustice ! Surely it is enough for oar brethren to ecdate the heavy bodily tufferiog of starvation and Bolitndi , without having their minds tortured by akoowledgeof thepnv » ti « sendured by thsir families . I have conversed with several working
men on this subject , and they generally stated their willingness to da all ia their power , if proper com taittees were formed ; I , therefore , suggest to the real Chartists tbe propriety of forming small committees in each town , and to forward the name and address of Boms of their number to the Nobthrbn Stab , to which place all subscriptions should ba taken . There * re a large number of men yet to take their trial ? , a geat many in % fow wetki . aad it is high time thit M 8 work w « i vigorously began . 1 an , yonn truly , Gtoaot Wsm .
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S $ , a miUioa ? Und « * K « wd vfa of' K « K Smith . ' . the electors were said to number from 200 , 000 to 250 . C 00 . It U generally believed that the number m ? ot Kall S exceed tw ° hundred thousand . . The regular * placemen' numbered 286 , 000 , exclusive of the clergy , the offioiabof the courts of justiee , the rural police , pensioners , members of the ' legion ^ honour , ' &o ., making an addition of upwards of 200 . 000 salaried servants , or persons attached to the government from private interest ; lastly , those deriving emoluments from various monopolies numbered some 150 . 000 more .
Thi » gigantio system of patronage was earned on at a coat to the mass of the French people perfeotly inconceivable by tho people of this country . Where the English people pay three millions to the occupiers ef good bsrtbs in the civil departments of the ' public servioe , ' the French , under Lotus Phiuppb , were paying thir teen millions for the same service—mind , I W not francs , but pounds—thitUen millions of pounds sterling ! In the most disastrous yeai of Napolhon ' s reinn the taxes amounted to only £ 28 , 000 , 000 whereas in the last year of thereiga of the 'Napoleon of Peace , ' the taxes amounted to . £ 68 , 000 , 000 sterling ! This was not ail , a deficit was in contse of creation at the rate of £ 44 , 000 a day !
To say the least , between two and three places wera iu the gift of the government for 67 r / elector . Without any displacement , upwards of thirty thousand of these places must , in the natural course of mortality , have fallen vacant every year . Of coursealmost tho efitire body of electors wera bribed by the government . Under Bach a sjslem , Grjizox knew ho could always count upon a' satisfied majority . ' But the work of corruption and plunder went farther . Every description of malversation was contrived at as long as the cheats and robbers supported the government . Occasionally quarrels amongst the thieves themselves enlightened the public as to tbe manner in whioh this system of wholesale plunder was carried on . The condemnation o » Tests and his accomplices has not yet been forgotten .
I might string together other' inconveniences' to the extent of a column or two ; but having indicated the principal , I am satisfied that I hive supplied' my ord' Brodseau with a sufficiency of' Useful Knowledge' in connexion with this part of my subject . Bat hessys the Revolution was ' announced by no complaint . ' ' What a blind leader of the blind must be this teacher of'Political Philosophy . ' If there was no complaint why was the Press Ragged , seised , prosecuted , and oer ? ecoted throughout the reign of Louis Philippe ? Why did the scaffold flow with tun blood-of that ' illuBtrioDs Prince ' s' political enemies ?
Why were tbe dangeons of Saint Pelagic , Mount St Michael , < tc , gorged with political prisoner * ? Why wftsthe said' Prhce' eo 'renowned' for his * capacity , ' compelled year after year te make himself a prifoaer in his palace , or only appear in public when surrounded by thousands -of armed merosnaries ? If there was no complaiat vh&l web the meaning of the Reform Banquets ! and ^ by , at most of those banquets did the guests « ef use to drink the health , or acknowledge the sovereignty , of King Smith 1 Lastly : Why did the Parisians , even on the 28 rd « February , march against the government to the cry < tf' Down with the system ?'
The inconvenience' ef the system was notorious to every one both fnttid out of France , except those who profited by it ; and the' complaint ' of the overburdened people bad resounded through Europe . Brougham says the Revolution was made by 'half a dozen artisans in a printing-office . ' What better rrwf would hehanre that the system was undermined , rotten , doomed to perish before the first gust of the popular whirlwind ? Really « his lordship ' should go back to-echool ; it mn « t ba a Ion ? time since he and' Useful Knowledge' parted compan y . But , neaeBiary or unnecessary , it is evident that Lord BRoueHiK " would hare been satisfied-with the Revolution , if the 'Revolutionists had only shown the good cense to have consulted his wishes . lie it
furiously indignant that the Republicans did their work ' without even affecting to ask the consent of any hnman beiBg , or even to appriza any one before hand (!) of i 7 hat they intended to do . ' Ab ! wby did they eo ) apprize Lord Brougham ? Why did they not aak'ftfe' consent ? ' Had they dose so . ' his lordship'would , doubtless , have superintended the whole affair , and conducted the Revolution in accordance with the most approved ' principles of sovernment . ' es explained" * in his Political Philosophy . Had he only been ' called in ' at tbe birth of the Republio he might at this time have been iu champion , instead of its opponent ; and the wearisome task would have been spared me of wading through his four-shilling
rigmarole-Over asd over agaia , our political philosopher lets hia readers know that he entertains the most sovereign contempt for the men who were placed in power in February—men wha had ' not the shadow of a title to any authority whatever . '— - ' men who with the single exception of my illustrious friend , M . Arago , were even wholly unknown before in ary way even to their very names and existence ; or who were known ss authors of no great fame ; or who were known ss of so indifferent reputation that they had better have not been known at all . ' This laBt character exactly fits ' his lordship ' s' coble self ! The ' noble and letrned' critic also takei care to imprcsa upon bis readers that he has no faith in the Ref uVlic , which -he regards enly as' a panging scene , ' doomed to make way for a return to Royalty ' . He was aot always of this opinion . He denounces the preBa for having , as he asserts , 'joined the causa of the revolution , ' and for * the fawnine position assnmed
towards the antkora of the convulsion . ' I shall now proceed to show that this same Bbocgham did , at one time , voluntarily acknowledge the ' authority' of the revolutionary government ; did profess unbounded confidtneein the Republio ; and did himself assume a ' fawniEg-position * to the revolutionary leaders , until they cast him from them . I take the following from the Tims : — 'On Friday , April 7 ? h , Lord Brougham , being then tt Paris , wrote a note to M . Chbmibcx , te qnesting letters of naturalisation as early as convearient . On Saturday , April 8 , M . Cbbmhux answered this note , pointing out to Lord Brougham that if Francs adopted him as one of her sons , ha woald ceue to be an Englishman , —he would no more be Lord Brougham —but Citizen Brougham ; end , indeed , w aid lose all the advantages of every kind he pssaessed as an Englishman . On MoBday , April 10 . Lord Brougham , being then in London sent the fallowing reply to the above : — '
K . le MJntstre , —I bave the honour to acknowledge the receipt of yoor letter of the 8 : h . I never doubted that in being naturalised In Francs I ehoirtd lose all my tights of an English peer and subject in France , and should OBly preserve my privileges of an Eagllfhman in England . In Francs I must be all that the laws of France gr « nt to the citizens of the Republio . As I desire above all things the happiness and the mutual puce of tbe two countries . 1 thought it my duty to tkm ms confidence in Fnnch imiUutiow ly enoouraging my countrymen to trutthiihm as J would do .
H , BR 90 QH 4 M . ' The very next day , Tuesday , April lltb , Citizen Broughau made a speech in the House of Lords , on the affairs of Italy , in the coarse of which he digressed to France , and attacked the Revolution and the Provisional Government in the most unmeasured terms . He declared he had ' no confidence at alf In the Revolutionary government , and the aoto of that government he held op to ridicule and scorn . The next day , the 12 th , the Minister Cremibdx being , up to that time , ignorant of the' noble lord ' s ' rapid conversion from ' confidence' to' no confidence at all , ' sent another letter to Cit i zen Brougham , explaining more fully and clearly than before , tbat , in order to become a Frenchman in France , ' his
lordship' must cease to be an Englishman altogether , and all over the world . France allowed no partioip » Uon . The surprise and juit indignation excited b ; Brodoham ' s speech of the 11 th , when read at Paris , naturally induced the publication of the correspondence between the ex Chancellor and tbe Minister of Justice ; and Brougham , covered with contempt , became the laughing-stock af Europe : The eopyist of Bubks cannot plead that he gave in his 'adhesion to the Repnblio' in a fit of unconsidered enthusiasm , teeing that he professes to have always regarded the Revolution with feelinea of disgust ; and , moreover , had lUowed six weeks to elapse from the 21 th of February , before he first wrote far letters of naturalisation ' as early as convenient . ' It was then , after mature consideration .
that the' noms lord' acknowledged the sound' title of the Proririenal Government to exercise the anpreme' authority f that he declared he thought it a ' duty * to show his ' confidence in French institutions ;' and that , in his anxiety to become a French oitizw . he professed himself ready to resign' all hit rights as an English peer and subject in Franoa . ' Was not this joiniBg * the came of the Revolution ? ' Wai not this assuming' a fawning position towards the authors of the convulsian ? ' He vituperates the Parisian populace as ' thatmany . headed idol '— 'that Jaggernaut . ' To that' idol' he ' meekly bowed the head ;' before that' Juggernaut * he fluBg himself prostrate . Bat bis insincere worship wig rejected—his divided allegiance refused ; therefore , he is enraged—therefere , he has published his' Letter * —therefore , he baa ' written himself down an ats 1 '
' Lord BBoneHAu * ia the course of his * LetUr ' delivers himielf of each fierce and repeated tirades against the prew , that it is evident that it is from no want of good-will on his part that there is sot a Russian censorship established in this country . God knows I have no respeot for—or fellowfeeling with—the renal and heartless orew who constitute the g-eat body of our 'best possible iastruoton . ' Bat the noble ' censor' assails the journalist * not for their heavy and endless offences against the
cause of mankind's progression ; but , becauBe of tuppoied virtues , which—in general—they have co claim to . and indeed have been at some trouble to repudiate since the publication of' his lordship ' s ' pamphlt . I have already shown t ! a ' , the ex-Chancellor charges the press of this country , as well as tbat of France , with 'having almost entirely joined ihe csme of the revolution . ' As tbe Timbs , the CsaoNicu , the Globs , and the test of the * respectable' pressgang have . indignantly denied the 'soft mpeachment , ' I need say nothing more oa tbat item
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of his lordshipV charges . He misses no oppor-1 tumty of sneering at ' editors , writers , newsmongers , and dealers in daily papare ; a class ot men well known for the influence whioh ; ex « t considerably above thsir merits . ' After foaming through some pages against the press in general , he a 8 k » : — 'Is the press to be left entirely free even in peaceable times V Not so . In the first place he would have the law ' discourage anonymous writing , and give every inducement to publish in eaoh writer ' s own nBme . ' Very good . A law which
would unmask the veiled enemiei of the people would have the hearty approbation of every honest man , But this would not be likely to answer the ebject' his lordship' has in view ; he would therefore give 'the Executive Government the power of suspending , for a time to be limited , any journal once oonvicM cf seditiop .. ' Thank you for nothing , moat liberal legia . T ior -n ut l mU 8 t P lace on xemi in to" Mter m Lord Brougham ' s' estimate of the preae . He Bays mh an anonymous tyrant' and ' an obscure despot ' - an absolute power eelf-created , domineering over theatato andthelawe . ' He
addsthe t n I re ° SBl n e ? Ilinfo J : aic , d and Writable mu'titude that itS ^ - > u - dtokeepitshoIdoverthatmul t ^ e . saaa ^ sss SKtesrvTW SSto # R- «^ - party spue J What of undertaking to write nn n lind BS ? r * = "ifflSS EsSSS ^ -ksssssb lf
i ^ ° t ' ? ' ^ catural'y an ungrateful man , ' bis lordship must be possessed of a very indifferent memory . Either he is the most ungrateful , or the most forgetful ot men ; seeing how much he owes to the public press . When a candidate for the representation of lorkshite . Hekiw Brwoham * oid not think such small beer of the preas sb he seems to do now . On tho ODntrary , he was very glad of the support of the Lebds Mercury , to which he mainly owed his election . ' Heuri Brovoham' waB , in faofc , the
nominee of the late Edwabd Baines , proprietor of the Leeds Mbbcurt . It was the iorhted articles in that journal—puffing off ' slashing Harry' as the 'greatest Reformer alive '— as the showman says , aliteJ a'ive ! ' that got up the Whig steam and enaV . ed Harry to win Ms election for the most noble , but usually most misrepresented , county in England . * His lordship' did not always turn up his nosoat ' editors , writers , newsmongers , and dealers m papers . ' One Sunday , in tin time Of bit Chancellorship , being on his way to or frnm Mm
North , he appeared in Leeds , in ' a oarriaeo and four , ' and driving to the Mbrcurt Office , bis flankies tried the bell at the door of the newspaper office , but no one was within ; Mr Bainbb ' s private residence being in another part of tbe town . Some neighbour , or person standing in the street , informed the ocoupier of the carriage that the person he wanted was not to be feund there . On which tbe new-fledged lord made answer :- ' Tell Mr Bain ® the LoRD-UHAKCEiiciB fi « s called upon him \ \ \ My informanfc heard these words , he being on h ' iswaj to Church at the time , and was arrested in his progress by the unexpected eight of LordBRotCHAM * hom he well knew — m the Btreets of Leeds oa that occasion .
There is no doubt a good deal of truth in what Lord Brougham' eays of the press pandering to tbe delusions and' violentlpropeBsities' of the' multitude ; and inciting' to revolution , to mob violence , tothe invasion of private property , to making a run upon the bank , ' Ac , < feo . Within the last eiehteen yearBthepreBshas excited , sustained and inflamed two great popular deluaions—the ' Reform' and the Free Trade' agitations . 'His lordohij , ' of course ^ SS ? « f ^ "Oj ^ oKon <>* «* revolutionary years 1830 31-32 ; and points cartioularlv tn tWt
grand" delusion ; the Reform Bill' He remembers the wilful falsehoods' of the Press whioh led to the burning of Nottingham Castle , He remembers' the incitements to nv . b violence' which led to the sackma of a large part of Bristol \ He remembers that the Times recommended an application of 'Brickbats and Bludskoss' to the Tories to bring them to their senses ; and the formation of a ' National ! ' Censerva-Jw ' !] Gnard ' to coerco ' that faction ' the House of Lords . He remembers the advice given by the Whit ? prees to the people to' Run for Gold
!'—'STOP THE DUKE ! GO FOR GOLD !' And , I dare say , he has not forgotten that at the time « he was Lord Chancellor , one of' hia lordshipV most ardent supporters—one of the staff of the Lbbdb Mercurt , proposed to a great , and excited , and irritable m altitude' to eire
• THREE GROANS FOR THE QUEEN ! —Queen Adelaide . Doubtless the recolleotioH of these doings has fired the ' noble lord ' s virtuous indignauon against . the press I am sorry that I have yet the disagreeable task of abowing that his 'lordship ' was about that time an ardent co-worker with the Press m' pandering to the cherished delusions , and violent propensities of the multitude . ' Having exhausted hia wratb agninst the press , the noble and learned lord , next indulges himself with a slap at' the agitators . ' He says : — The trade of the agitator , the professional mischief , maker , should in every possible waj be discouraged . As long as every idle good . for . little person can be assured that if he only devotes himself to stiring up the people on any ground , eithpr as acanthi * preacher of grievances or a quack distributor of remedies , he will both become a popular favourite and earn a subsistence , rely upon it there will never be wanting many to follow this very easy and not very honest calling , and many more to be the dupes of thtir nostrums .
TWb is too bad ! Here is a successful qnack , who has made a fortune and retired from business , crying down the system by whioh he obtained his gains . Does'his lordship ' suppose such conduct is in acsordance with the principles of Free Trade ? ' Alluding to the ' great gains' of agitators , the ' noble lerd'hasaBpecialfling at the'late O'Conkbh ; this is very mean of' his lordship . ' He can hardly have a worae opinion of that prince of charlatans than I have always entertained ; but I cannot heln believing that his hostility to O'Conneil when living , and abuieofhin when dead , is to be accounted for in the faot that' his lordship' is conscious that he was bat a second-rate quack compared with the great Dan . Here I may remark that it is not true that
O'Connelt , made ' great gain 9 . ' His power over masses of his fellow-countrymen was never approacbed by Brough am in the latter ' s pilmiest days , still ' the northern lord haa been luckier in clutching the ' siller . ' True , O'Connbll got hiB fifteen , twenty , or twenty-five thousand pounds yearly for agitatiBg , but he alao ipent it in agitation —principally in keeping tbe cormorants about him . He died poor . Most probably lie would have died a rioh man , had hekept to his profession and never fin * gered the' rent . ' ' Lord Brougham' is mistaken if he suppose * that agitators generally make the pretty pickings he has made by hawking quack remedies for popular grievances . Of the notorious agitators of the last fifty years I know but two—Lord Brougham and a certain other' noble and learned lord '—who hwe made great gains by agitation . Certain Whig wire-pullers have also done pretty well such as the
, celebrated letter-writer , Thomas Toung , formerly secretary to Lord Mklbsurnk , and now enjoying a salary of £ 1 , 000 a year as PoBtoffioe Secretary j and the notorious Jok Pahkbs , now enjoying the good berth of Examining Master in the High Court of Chancery , with a salary of £ 2 000 per annum . As regards « Lord Bbougham' himself , it ib notorious -nat his doings as an agitator won for him the Chanre-lonhip . It is also notorious that he made a mar ket of his popularity to obtain that place . His electoon for Yorkshire waa made the BteppiBg-stone to the woolBackjand this , too , in defiance of his solemn pledge to the contrary . On the occasion of hi ( e ' ection , he Baid : — ' The King of England had it not m his power to bribe him . No plaoa ia ths King ' s government could induce him to desert the peiple ; not even if the King were to offer him that BAUBLE , hUcrown ? A few weeks elapsed , and ¦
io ! BiasniBBUarrr deserted the Yorkshiremen fer the woolsack . This wheel about was bo unexpected 5 Wff ?*' *^ the aeWB fint b 8 « B told to •^ ffiS ^ f- ^ rt "' would no" beliere it ; but added , jf it should prove true , 'he would S « f f \* r 0 BB a . T ° 1 Wed - believe the profeg . sums of a pobho man . ' I should add , that I believe lmJfc ^ 1 " ^^^ wlented and again took the erratio Haret to his sorely wounded affeotiong . J , « IMS £ eIIknown KMte ° "ly notable thing SlSLftf Brougham , during his Chancellorship , ~ £ f £ "''" DKBa'aty attached to his office in ! hEjEIw ? foup to fiTe thousan * POWdB a year He hw the assurance to continue to take that eum S 5 SSS ? / * 5 l « ple against whom he * Wi Ctar tt Poor L ? w Bill , to throw the aged the siek , and the unemployed upon their own re . 80 U £ ?* Hfi * Philanthropic " SrioU *
- «« But I promiied to speak of ' the noble ordV pensittes of the multitude . I might cite many iaoccasion of contesting the county « f York . Hmhy SKWr . 'Sfritjsr ^ s lONaaYp no rent , da » no * nishfc . « n t zL . LZ f" 5 f ?! L
?^ ni ? i tUtIOnB ' "T TomMd Jerry shVpJ aJose . M wM g ^? ag * » - " « «» r 'noble' andh ' nriiaa LnL «/ Z 8 xten 8 I I eIy exhibited over the free ^ pSmisesT ""' All 0 W 8 dt 0 te *""* ySv n «» Jn hUelect ! , ' in the ° « tle Ywd a * York , HiwBt Bkquqham delWergd a fUming addreii , * . « v t ' ? f Hen «» B-ough » m ' i election , the iiSibto M | " * ° * JMldlrtllet i >« « Bd lB -
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Jn 5 'iVltS ! i S'orifiad the ' herne . of thBMiS ? 5 ? J- ' ? t oa ' » « ad Gharles X . In lorKtnJ'Vrt , ^ « P « 8 « d the followinf IS OOMIN ? ttfefe 1811 * 1- THE DAI MADE 1 P ?? 7 pu ? S 4 I ^ HEADS WILL BE ISli ^ SSi I SiiHISSs SatorsT' denunoi 8 tor -2 eneralof ' pandering '
To cap the olimax of' Lord Brougham ' s reputa . twn , it is only necessary I should add , that in hia letter to Lord Lanadowne he bravely Btands ap for the gallows andtle ' guillotine . as the great safeguards ot humanity ! And his remedy for popular disturbance is aimply to ' mow down in masses ! ' But enough . The namo of Broi-gham now , and in coming years , 1 to every eje Tho climax of all scorn Bhall bang on h'gh , EtaUed o ' er his le ss ubhorr ' d oompserBAnd festering in the infamy of years . ' Ootober 19 , 1848 . L'Ami du Peupie .
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{ From our Third Edition of laj [ week , ) FRANCE . There is a ministerial crisis at Paris . Cavaignac ' a power is drawing to its close . He is trying to patch up an alliance with the ultra-moderateB . Good ! The sooner the ' reaotion' is complete the sooner wili eome tho Red Republic ' AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . The Emperox baa flod once more to bis beloved Tyrolese . The Constituent . Diet has assumed the ! reins of government . A triumvirate ot HornboBtl , DobWhoffi and Kraua has been appointed to oombino a miaistry ; the former teudered hia resignation in tho silting of the Yth , which was not accepted ; the military , driven from the town , were encamped near the Belvedere , which commands Ihe immense open plain or glacis that surrounds the inner city or citadel of Vienna , and the people were in possession of the town . Thero was but little further known in Paris yesterday morning relative to tho progress of the inaur . rrction at Yienna . Tho Reforms , ia apoBtcripti states that the people had burned tho Falace of Sob coabi unn after the Emperor ' s flight , and that the Imperial troops , in a state of intoxication , had marohed against Vienna , which by the laBt accounts they were bombarding . [ The bombardment of Vienna is discredited . ] It is further stated ( hat Baron Jellaohich was forced to abandon his position inconsequence of the rising of the population , and that he had fled into Bosnia .
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hip THE LATE HORRIBLE DISCLOSURES AT WALWORTH . Lambbih , Friday . —The prisoners in this case having beea remanded till this day , the charge waa to have been proceeded with , but a message was delivered at the court from the governor of Horaemongorlane gaol , to the effect that Mrs Dryden . one of those charged , wos bo unwell as to ba unable to attend . The oase wbb consequently postponed until Thursday next . The magistrate at the same time directed that if any of the prisoners wished to say anything , he was willing to hear them . This message was delivered to the ptisoKers , and soon after Mre Lindfield and her 8 ou appeared at the bar . —Tho Bon , addressing the mngittrata , wiBhed to know the nature of the charge against him ?—Mr Norton said , the charge up to the present was not of a serious characterand
, therefore it was that he had , on the last ; examination , agreed to accept bail for him . —Mrs Lindfield aaid that in consequence of the affliction of her Bon , and the secluded manner in which they lived , keeping themaelveB aloof frrm all their neighbours , a prejudice was entertained againat them , and to this she attributed the difficulty in proouring bail .- The ohargo against herself ahe would admit was of a serious description , and it was most essential to her that her Bon should be at large , to enable her to engage a counsel for her defence . —Mr Morton said , that under the circumstancf s , he Bhould accept the young man ' s bail in the sum of £ 50 , to appear en Thursday next . —The required surety being given , the prisoner was discharged . Mra Lindfield was again remanded .
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. ANOTHER BODY FOUND On Friday , Mr Bedford held an inquest at the Feathers , Dean-stivet , Westminster , on the body of a newly-born female child , found in a field on Thursday morning laBt . Police sergeant Pranger , of the A division , said that on the morning ia question he was pausing a \ ong the Vauxhall Bridge-road , when he was called 'o by gome boys who were in a field at the back e ! Ltllington-street . On proceeding there he perceived a bundle lying on the grrund , and , upon opening it , be found tbo body of the deoaased therein . He immediately conveyed the body to tho station house , and from thence to tho workhouse . The body waa packed , first , in four sheets of brown paper , and afterwards wrapped in some new Canvass . The hands of the deceased were folded across the breast , its tongue protruded , and the parcel was bouEd round exceedingly tight with cord . He had made inquiries , but was unable to ascertain who had placed the ohiid there .
Dr Wright , who had examined the body , said the child was full grown . It had not received medioal attendance at birth , and from the decomposed state of the body , it was hardly possible to tell the cause of death , although it was probable that it might have died from neglect . The Coroner said , after the horribl disclosures that had taken place a few days since at Walworth , he was in hopes that he should not be called upon to investigate any _ more of these shocking cages , but he was aorry to inform the jury tbat Buoh was not tha
caee , and as he was leaving his office to bold the pre-8 inquiry , he received information of another child being found in Hyde Park under similar oir < eutmtances . No one could ever make him ( the Coroner ) believe that tneBe children were born and disposed of in Buch a barbarous manner without the instrumentality of more persons than their parentB . it was not possible for a female ts be confined and take her child ont of her house without being seen by the neighbour ? . . Dr Wright said that the present was not a case of abortion .
The Coroner-No , but you state that the child had not been attended te at its birth , and it seemad quite probable to him that these children might be thus neglected ob purpose to cause their death . It was most extraordinary that during the many caBes of this description he had been called to investigate , no one had ever been seen to convey the bodies to the place Ttheie thsy were found . Sergeant Pranger wag here recalled , and asked by the Corener whether the police bad ever discovered a peraon wit » i one of these dead children ? The officer replied m the negative . The Coroner said a premium ought to be held out to the police to make such discoveries , for he was sure if that was once made , they would be able to get such information as would Btartle tha publio . The Jury returned a verdict of Found dead , ' and the Coroner requested the police to use all dilieenoo in searching for the parties who had placed tke deceased where found .
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n » THE MASONS . A crowded public meeting was held at the Tem . perance Hall , Broadway , Westminster , on Thursday evening , Ootober 12 th , to express sympathy with the twenty-onemen indicted for conspiracy , and about to take their trials at the ensuing Old Bailey Sea . lions . Mr Roger Grey was unanimously called to the ohair , and congratulated the committee and the audience on the very numerous attendance , and said most probably that would be the last meeting proyious to the trial , but after trial he hoped to see a tremendous meeting to congratulate their brethren
on their acquittal . ( Great applause . ) Heoallodon Mr Wood to read the report . The report was very similar to that whioh has already appeared in the Norihbbm Star ; he conoladed by stating that Messrs Clarkson , Parry , and Ballantine were engaged to defend the victims . The report was agreed to with great applause throughout . We learn from the report that the Bam already received on account of the matter exceeds £ 250 , from masons and the public . Mr Turnerlmored the first resolution , to the effect That the four o ' clock system was just , and should ba maintained . '
Mr Peel ( dyer , and member of the Execntive of the United Trades ) , eeoonded the motion , and said , he agreed with the resolution , as thero was a surplus of labour in the market , and one of the best means of getting rid of this surplus was the shortening the hours of labour . ' The resolution was adopted unanimously . Mr Joseph Wood , in an able and eloquent , speech moved tke second resolution , urgently calling for support in the cause and defence of those indicted men . Mr Walton seconded the motion , and said , he thought their indicted friends need not labour nnder any apprehension as to a conviction , as from the enquiries he had made it would result in an aoquittal . . Be it remembered that some of the beat of the employers had gone so far as recommending the 'four o ' clock ' movement , whioh had given rise to the indictment . ( Hear , hear . )
Mr A . Campbell supported the motion , whioh was put , and carried unanimously . ' A vote of thanks was then given to the Northihn Stab , and other papers , and tbe meeting quietly dispersed ,
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I Dublin , Thursday Morning . Mr Bntt , Q . C , opened the defence of Mr M'ManusyeBterday , in an address to the jury cha » racteriaed by eloquence , legal acumen , and , wo may add . ingenuity . He has certainly put the case ot his client in about the best position it could be placed before tho Court and jury ; but the main facts being admitted—of his participation in the affairs of Mullinahone and Ballingarry , whioh formed the overt aota of high treason of which Mr O'Brien « tandB convicted , leaves little room for anticipating any other verdict than one of' guilty . ' Mr O'Callaghan followed Mr Butt on the Bame side , and shortly after five o ' clook the court adjourned .
CONVICII 0 N OP T . M MANUB FOR HIGH TREASON . Cionmbl , Thursday Evening .-A . verdict of Guilty , after three hours' deliberation , was handed in by the jury against Mr M'Manus . Mr Barton handed in a paper , which was read by the clerk— ' We strongly recommend the prisoner to the merciful consideration of the enwn . ' The priBoner , who conduored lrirmelf throughout with great firmness and nonchalance , was observed to smile a * the reoommendation waa read . On being , ordered to be removed from the dock , the prisoner , j previous to his leaving , reached forward and shook hands cordially with his counsel , Mr O'Callaghan , bowed respectfully to the court , and retired .
Mr O'Donohuo waa then put on his trial , which very probably will occupy the court up to Saturday . We hesr it is not intended to try Mr Meagher at proaent , as it ia apprehended there will not be Buffi , ciont time to do bo before the opening of the Dublin commission , or before the day io the ensuing week when it wiU be necessary for the crown , officers to proceed to Dablin , to prepare for the commission there . The rumour is , that the special commission will be adjourned , and that when the court resumes its sittings , Mr Meagher will be put on trial . As the proceedings in Mr O'Djnohue ' s case are similar to those already disclosed on the former trials , ir would be a mere waBte of time asd space to mako any lengthened reference to them ; it is enough to say that the prisoner was proved to have been with Mr O'Brien during the insurrectionary movement at Killenaule .
The defence of Mr O'Donohoe was opened on Saturday with th . 3 examination o ? Patrick Hanrahan , whose evidence went to negative the proposition that tbe prisoner wag engaged in the insurrectionary attack on the 29 ch July , the day of the storming of Widow M'Cormick ' s house at Bailingarry . This witness and two others positively swore that O'Donohoe , Meagher , and Lejne spent the whole of that day m his house at Turloch , which is eight or ten miles from the scans of that famous battle ; Hanra han admitted that he knew of the proclamation against ; Meagher when he thus rendered himself liable to the charge of felony for harbouring him , and that he was a member of a Confederate Club .
§ Mr Butt delivered another powerful appeal to the jury . Ho maintained that the dear interpretation of the acts of the prisoner , and those with whom he wa » associated , was , that from the 28 th of July he and ¦ they separated from O'Brien-Bought shelter in the hills—resorted to no violence-joined no armed hodies , but merely eadeavoured to preserve them * seWes frorai arrest , and remained together wandering about till they were arrested b y the police on the hick road on their way towards HolyeroBS . The learned gentleman ably reviewed the evidence for the prosecution , and pointed out a variety of palpable discrepanoies in the facts depcBed to . He contended that h m ! i , w ! i e na Tery diffflrent 9 l 0 'y d what he had witneued for each of the three trials on which he had been examined .
The Solicitor General replied ; and Mr Justice Monre summed up . The jury retiredI at half-past seven o ' clock . Durio ff their absence , and that of the judgee , the following sceno occurred : — » ¦«» u « nu Mr Butt said-Mr High Sheriff , Mr Going the Under Sheriff has now bsen two or three times in with the jaw-he ib in with them now , and he ought not to be . You'll excuse me for calling your attln . tun to it , but it is my duty to do so on 'behalf of « rtR ri T e who has P'aoed his case io my " hands-While Mr Butt was speaking thesub-aheriffoame oat . t ^ Zml ?^ : H ° * ffas l * ^ The High Sheriff : The firat message , Mr Bntt , wa ! to know if the jury were likely to aeree . '
Sheriff , that I hi » vr ohjeoted to those repeated meB - Basea bens sent them ; for ( with emphasis ) they look like an intimation that they ought to agrea . nori ht ^ ° D 6 ral ~ Really ' Mr B " ttj youhave Mr Butt-Really Mr Attorney , I have a rieht . M » 4 Ihwe a ^ perfect right to say this , ¦ tha " the judges ought to come into court , and send their m ™ his counsel " khepreB 6 nceoftlie prisoner and After the lapse of two or three minutes , the judges hTh * M ° n h andhavi ? S taken ft * eeats on the ytrtdlps 1 !! ' rJ 89 8 Dd ** - ! ™ ** *! JlSt'ClSS ^" 9 don > t wi 8 h to hflar
Mr Butt-But , my lord ? , I wish to make a statement to the court , and it is my duty to mate it and \ V \ . » «'««» . that in the absence 3 your W ships the sub-sheriff was several times in thei jSr nTan t v S- r f inte " Pto& twice , and with-° »* WT dl « o'wn from your lordships . SS rSW ? "to ^ -That ' s a miflfake . M Butt—tie has been there , my lords Jtta Sub . Bheriff-That ' quite aSke ; I have Chief Justice Blaokbnrne-Mr High Sheriff ask toe jury xf they are likely to agree . ' S | h . Sh eriff P ^ eeded to the door of the jury room and having made the inquiry , returned and miln ^ V * !? { 0 . 8 iTe an a ^ wer for a few moments . ' At the same instant a rap was heard in-SS ? ii ? T ° f ? 6 jary - rOom - tKigh Sheriff ?« a n nt t 0 th . . ^ d on his return said . 'Mv ion mat
..., uwyiay they are not likely to agree ? i ksk sa *** - " ••* - t ^ LSsr ^ - ^ k ' KfftK M h « n , « -f of the Jn * y were aDX 'O" « to know SSSrJL * Tt - 8 uilty of hi 8 n treason , and that : another joined him , aad was not conscious of wfrnoT ' ° he ^ * "y ^ Hea ted in the Judge Moore : If he does any aot assisting the 5 SS 2 fh co ^ " g t « ason , the man who does that act , though not conscious of the intent ^ thl
oner , is equally guilty . After a few moments had fSSiXiPft P SH " GentleJnen - we wiled Jot tth « AS 8 tate i that ff ! Me DOff al » out to retire for the night ; and we wish to know whether we can afford you any further M « irtUU » in point of hw } or whether there » any other portion of the notes IZvt ? ^ haVeread ? If 8 » - ooulse we are ready to afford you every assistance ia our power The foreman intimated that they did not then reliln •? P r T aIlo 7 them a few minutes more SeSS befMe the coart was adjourned for At ten minutes past eleven o ' clook an intimation was conveyed to their lordahips that the jury hS agreed to their verdict . The jury then came into court with a verdiotof Goiltv . ' mt 0
. Alter a Bhott ptrase , Judge Moora perused the iBsae paper , and then handed it to the Clerk of the Crown , and directed him to read it . It was to th « following effect :- ' We find 'Sy ' on the fiwtfi ™ counts , and ' not guilty' on the Sixth We unan ? mously recommend the prisoner to mercy in the " strongest manner , iu wusequenca of his hSe with drawn and having disconnectedI himielf from hi W ^ SK ^ " ^* *** , wm wuhL and hi , „) , ) ,. Mr IS ™ S ? lS 2
s ^ si ^ ss isr ^ sjii and I will not pellote my . hand by touohine vS ^ nX ? ^ * > KOflSSL * 6 PnWn oommSfid aymonixng ' tl 16 tm «? ' R Mewher
The indiotment is similar to that on wWrii th « o her prisoners were tried ; bat there Sm £ Vi £ l W&M ^ Issmfi ss-tra ^ ^ The youth and personal attributes of Mr Mm . i . »
naewquww and ability , all combine tomdnhim * »« iPBOttlf » vi » riteirttS Bioh »^^ JHi £ f who are mor , rwdiiy MwwVby iffl uS »
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 21, 1848, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1493/page/5/
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