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      temper and person « l feeling * in so short a lime as seven days , that I m , iy say , with perfect truth , I never remem . ber being so completely in possession of myself before , and free from all ncrv * us irritubility . —Wm . K , ReeveB , Stamford . 24 th October , 1818 . — Gentlemen , — I am bappy to be able to add my case to your list of cures . I was afflicted fourteen months with vi ? . lent pain in my head . Day or night I conld obtain no rest . It was accompanied with drowsiness , loss of mo . mory , giddiness , the latter to such an extent I was scarcely able to walk out alone-indeed roy strength appeared utterly failing me . I had a very good opinion of my medical attendant , but it appeared ou t of the power of medicine to effect a cure , when by chance I saw j our Re . ralenta Arabica Fooi advertised , snd was Induced , as a List resource , to try it . I have taken a 41 b . canisttr , and partof a 10 S > ., and have not requlfed any medicine bincel commenced taking . your food ; my neighbours and friends are a 1 surprised to see the wonderful change your excellent food has effected In a short time , as I am now quite restored to health . With many thankntoyou I send this , trusting it may tend to benefit others simi . larlv afflicted . —I remain , jour very grateful servant , John Manning Nutting . ¦ .

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      belonging to the Fate , which sunk at sea , owing to injuries sustained from a collision with the Gienayln steamer , had a very narrow escape from drowning , lie had turned into his hammock before the accident happened , and , strange to say , was not awoke either by the shock or the subsequent uproar on the deck of the vessel . The crew got on board the steamer , but the brig not eoing down as quickly as they expected , they returned to her , in the hope ol

      running her on shore , and so saving some of her stores . They soon , however , found this to be im . practicable ; but before finally abandoning her , at the suggestion of the master , they went down into the . forecastle to secure their clothes , and in searching for-these one of the men laid his hand on the face of . $ 2 sleeping boy , who had not heen previously missed ; of course he was soon aroused , but could at first scarcely be convinced of the dangerous predicament he was in .

      A New Idka of Choloroform . —A Bedford butcher has been giving a display of meat of the most splendid character ; but the most attractive fea ' ure was a long row of haunches and legs of mutton , very carefully powdered with flour , after the true epicure fashion . Among the spectators was a good old woman from the country , who had never seen mutton in such disguise before , and she thus interrogated a neighbour— ' Why , what the plaeue ha they been and done wi the mutt ' n ? ' ' Oh , ' said the man questioned , ' I des say they killed it wi ' this newchlory-forra !' Dahkg Attempt at Highway Robbery . —

      As Mr Henderson , the chairman of the Liverpool Dock Committee , was riding home , a little after dusk , ou Tuesday evening , a tall athletic man rushed from the footpath in Walton Breck Road , and att » mpted to seize his bridle . Mr Henderson instantly drtw up , and the horse , frightened , backed several paces . The ruffian promptly renewed the attempt , but Mr Henderson struck at h m with his whip , and called ' Police ! ' The fellow , alarmed , darted through the hedge , and Mr Henderson daned after him . No assistance being near , the villain effected his escape over a wail too high for the horse to follow him .

      Military Expenditure . —Amongst other governors of non-existent military fortresses , for whom the countiy has to pay , i : the governor ef Beiwick-. on . Tweed—an officer who never visits the town The walls of this ancient burough , in themselves a nuisance , have , by their dilapidations , become a greater nuisance ; and the magistracy of the place have called on the . Ordnance office to repair them . Whereupon , instead of despatching the governor down , that office sends at great cost an architect to report to it ; and , in all probability , the repair of these walls will form an item in next year ' s estimates .

      Political and Social France . —In a lecture on public hygiene , delivered by M . H . Roses' Cul-! ard ( given in the Medical Times ) at the Faculty of Medicine , Paris , he observes;—Into whose hands France is to fall , whether she is to be governed by kitij , s , or by directors , presidents , or consuls , are now question- ! of secondary importance , the political organisation of the 3 overnraent is but the outward form , the drapery , of the social organisation ; the latter consiitutes the true problem , the principal and most essential question for France to solve .

      Novel Application of Gus Cotdn akd Aibestos —In & communication addressed to the Medical GiZ-iTi * . Mr R ) bin ? on , the eminent demist ut Goffer-street , details a new application of tbete substances for the removal of the agonising \ ain oi toot ! i > ac 'e , when the patient is unwilling to submit to the radical cure of extraction . The collodion , to which s few grains of morphia are a ^ ded , is dropped iuti tte civity , which is tlien filled with asbestos , and the wbole becomes in a few Bec : > nds solid . fitd ,

      forming an « xcellent non-coiduc' . or of heat and cold to the exposed nervp . The plan has been followed w ; th thu most complete success , and ws doubt cot ibai it will bo very extensively adopted iu casts where there ruay be cither c institutional obstacles , or objectionson the s ^ ffdrtr ' s part , to extraction . I : U unnecessary to add , thai grea * camion muat be ob < erv , d iu the use . of this powfrful agtur , aid that the operation should only bo undertaken by a skilful bo g » ondentist .

      Shiptvrick . —It is our melancho ' y duty to an nounce the loas of anQther fine vessel on tho banks at the mou'h nf our river , which to ; k place on the 20 th ta * t . This vessel is a Prussian , hailing from the port af Rostock , and was only launohed about s'x w < cka ago at Mesnel , from which plaoa she waa bound to Dundee with a cargo of timber , &o ., principally we balitva for the purpose of beinp coppered with the view of proceeding for Buenos Ajre ° . The veaselV nwe is the J ) fcacn Freidrick , and the ciptain ' s 11 D B cdaerintr , whose property she is , and we ar < , sorry to say t ^ htnot a penny of insurance is ( ff . oted

      upon her . It was about teven o clock in the morniiii ; when the ship went or the Elbow End ; and then reinjr nothing remarkable in the proper oncnnel of the river , the wind being fsvourableand several othei vessels coming « P at the time , conjecture was rife a * to what had occasioned the unfonura ' . e mishap The captain himself blame * the pil » t , as being unqua lififd to have taken charge of his vessel . Ahiiut four h urs a ttr the Johann Freidrick grounded , the crew ( 'ou-lten in number ) includns tbe master and plot were taken » ff by the life boat , a verv heavy sea breaking over the ship at the time . — " Dundee Ad vcrtieer

      Sikol'lir Prbsbrvaiion . —OaTuesdiy intelligence was rereived at Lloyd ' s of the total ltss of the brit Fortfchrit , of Stottin , Rendfluiscb . master , bound to DaUin , c-u the North Sand . On the veseel striking the rass ' er aid crew , eight in number , got ia the long-boat , starting a large quantity of oil overfeo&id , which prevented th 8 sea as they went before it acrotB the saad from breaking into their bo&t This novel expedient preserved their live * , as tbe boat would otherwise kave been swamped and they must all have perished . They were thus able to crosB the Bind and were picked np and landed in Ramtga ' e .

      Whkat Sowi . p is Last Kent . —Tho wet B : a' . e of the iand , anting from the h < avy and long-con , tinued rains during the summer and autumn , beginn ti excite sime apprehensions with regard ( o tbe next wheat crop . Wheat at wing was never more backward , aad many farmers still find it impossible to ' get upon the lano ? It is remembered , however that after a somewhat similar season a few years eioce , when a great deal of wheat BOwine W 4 B r , f necewtty deferred until the Bpriniri the following crop whs ahundaoi and of gcod quslitv uauwic E HKsssB&as

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      ' YORKASSIZES , r , v ( Before Mr Justice Maule . ) Th-rbday , Dec . 21 . the oharti . t trial * . . John RobinsonTomkins , andsevennthera , named Lilley , Kerabaw , Farr « l , Radoliffn , Lee ? , PegsoB , and Ne » l ( all the priwnerE exc « pt Tomkins being very youne raon , er rather boys of eighteen or tvresty ) , were indioted for haying , on the 14 th of Aiujm Iaat , at Qairk , in the West Riding , with diyaia other pmoM , wn \ wwfttUy combined , conspired , confederated , and agreed to excite her majesty ' s anbjwta to sedition and disaffection against the law * of the realm , and to cbubb insurreotionB , riots , and tumultuous and illegal mestings , and to prevent her Majestj ' a subjects from following their Uwful ocenpa tions , and force them to depart therefrom , and to disturb thenublio peace .

      _ _ The Hon . Mr Pbipps and Mr Otter appeared far the p-oaec «! io « ; * nd Mr Oterend and Mr Haidy ton the defence . - Mr Phippa gave an outline of the charge , which will be found detailed in the evidence . George Platt , an informer , examined , fwod . that the prisoners Tomkins , Lilley , Neal , and Firrell were Chartists . The other foar were not Charliois that he was aware of . They belonged to the Chartkls , but th » y belonged to the O'Connor Land Soheme . They bad a Ckartht meeting room at Bagley . and three sorts' met at that room—the O'tfenncr Land soheme Chartists , the moral forco Chart ' iBtB , and the physical force Chaitista . WaB at a meeting there when it was determined to ascertain the amount ot

      physical force that could be nnis ' : ered . There were » bout forty' physicals . ' A division took place betwren the ' physicals' and the' morals' about a fortnight before the Ashton job ( the murder of the to'icwian ) . lie supposed » ni understood ' . hut the physical force men were to buy arms add to obtain the Charter by physical force ; the moral force men were to obtain it by moral force . He heard a delegate . ay at ( hat mealing that they maei gi t nrm « . He did not say they wero to use them . He couH not tell nbat delegates they were . They ( aid the'fHal decision of the delegates had net been settled . ' Ho could net tell what they meant by delegates . Delegates frequently sttended from Athlon at the room . On Sunday , the 13 ; h of August , was at a meeting at

      the WoFkiDR-man ' s hall . Tomkins ard Lees were with Lira . Many a hundred was there . Iv was called a Chartist meeting . Thwo were placards about convening that meeting . A man from M ^ cchcBter opoke . He F . aid the fi « a ! decision of the deogatemeeting was not settled yet . Saw non » of the ntbett there . Vf itne 33 was a member of the physical force Chartiitf . lliR nuobor wns nine . Was nt a mreline on the 14 h Autfust at Bagley . Saw Lil ' ey , Tfimkins , Kershaw , and Farrell there , and Lees and Ridcliffe at the beginning of tbe night . There were 4 ele ; ntes from Ashton there , who Addressed the meeting . The ; said , ' the time ws come when the blow must be

      atrucfc ; ' and they wanted them to go d > wn to Asht ' a 'Mat night and join them . They told tin m to go b ? Hirt ' a Brook to mies the military at the barracks . Thay eaid they should like them to have arms , bat could do with Ihem if they had nothing . They were to co to A . hton to throw up barricades , and were to meet a body of Ghartis ' s at Hiit ' a Bro ? -k Did not know » h ^ a barricade was ; BRTer saw one . They took in rho N ^ rtii British Exparfs at BagUy ' s room , and The Phoplk lie had no idea wbatuv ( r what a barricade was . He heard it was something to ' throw up . ' Mr Ju- tics Madlb —That might bo a ball .

      Witness ' s examination resumed . —Hi * idea was thatit . wasto barricade the streets . They 'ftld thrm to get * pop bottles , 'and fiil them with combustibles to throw at the police . 'Red Arcbj ' told them he knew bow to tn&ke them . He left the room that night at ten o ' clock . Lil ' ey and K « reh » w w « nt vrifch him He wenkto Kersbaw ' s hfuse . He caTe out attain with a wooden shaft bix or seven fe * t long , There was Iron at the top and it divided in the middle . He had something bright which be trapped up in brown paper , wkioh he put in hia jacket pocke t . It appeated to ba eonething ti put oa the

      end i . f th ? pale . The same night ha went to a stone quarry in the neighbourhood , to be out of the way , bjcauae it was rnmoured , that those that did not mo ^ t to go to Ashton they would fetch . The etone quarry was threa or f (> ur hundred yarda from Mol «* w » rtb . He left at two in the morning :, and wcat over tho brow of tho hill and flaw KsrBha * standing with his wife courting her . He had bsen parted from his wife twelve months and he was courting her again . ( A . laugh . ) When he got to Ashton be heard a report that a policeman had been killed . On ooiup into Ashton he met twelve polieamen near the Town Hall , going in eoarch of Jirms .

      Cre 3 S-examiped by Mr OTerend . —He waa a physical force man in a stone quarry . ( A latuh . ) Tn « y all subscribed to these rooms a halfpenny a week , aoout 120 in all , for the expenea ef lights and the nom , and newspapers . It was chiefly a place t * r newapapere . The room waa open to evorybody , except when they had their physical force meeting . The doors were not then closed , but all but the physical forcQ men staved away . They ( tbe' physicals ') met ion Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings . The delegates dropped in occasionally , when they phaied . Never heard National Guards montioned . Hia number was 9 . Cuuld not tell wh « was No . 8 . HUc- 'td was at the police vae « . nt Mlioc at Loed . He had no money , and went there to Bleep , and tbo . / pu'led it nut of liiu pocket .

      Cropg-examined by Mr Hardy . —Did not giveinformatien till the Uih . of September . Did not see L ° ei and Radcliffe af er tbe meeting on the 14 'h of August J . Schol-field , cotton-8 tr ! pp' » r , Lace-end , Saddlew « rtb , another informer . —Has 9 « on all the prisoners at tho Chartist rooms at BagWy . Temkins w » s a class leader over twenty men . He was appni-ited a rcoI w-iite before the Afhtcn job . Han h » aid Torakiustsll the people , in conversation ia the Bag ' ey rooms , to g-t arms ; th < time was short . Renemberod a man named M'Douall being apprehended at Ashton cne Sunday mornio ( r . There were about thirty men there , Chartists . They were National Guarda . All the prisoners were there . They tell in two deep to near Ey ? on Barracks and then broke up

      Cross examined by Mr Hardy . —He did not know tint he ever ? aw tha prisoners all together at the Bj < ley rooms . J . ihn Shaw lives at Cflrr Hill , is n cotton spinner by trade , and kecp 9 a small wares shop . About twelve o ' clock on the ni {; hfc < . f the Ulh nf Aueui 3 t was ia bed when he was arous : d by a' punch' at tho door . Went and opened the dour , and saw three men near the door . It was neither moonlight nor gaslight , Ccmld just see them . They said they wantta g ? rac ammunition ; h <) said he had none ; hs had given over sailing it . The men went aw . iy . Crosa-examined . —AH the prisoners had a good general character . Re-examined —Did not kiow that TomkinB waa a Chartist .

      John Fie'ding . —Lives at Carr-hill Mill , Remembers the night of the 14 h of August . Saw four or five men standing near Shvw ' s ( the last witness ) no « :-e . Heard a shot that night about twelve o ' clock . On the night of the 14 th of A'jguot saw Tomkicson and Lillpy about lour o ' clock in the morning going towards Bai ; U > y from StaleybrMge . They told him they had heard a policeman was shot that night at AsbtoB . He heard a shot that in ' ght . Will-am Clayton , a sickly-looking boy , not quite 18 , had seen the prisoners at Chartist iseetingB . Crosr-e-xarained . —Some of the prisoners were his companions as boys .

      William Buines , police constable at Aehton , examined —About eleven o ' clock on the night of the 14 th hear J shot ? , and then a trampling of feet . Was standing near the Albion laotnry . Saw a party of men goi' r in a body ftom Bagky . II « aiid two other . olicemen stsjed under tbo wall till they passer ) by . They went four abreaBt , about twenty fiv 8 or thirty of them . Could not tee whether or not they were ^ rnied . Went after them ; saw them Hiarchirjg towards A-: hton . Saw many pikes and guns , teo , amongst them . They wero btill marching in tho « arce order . Thej st'jpp . d near him and tol . l him 1 to stand back , friend . ' Another man said , ' D him . shoot him . ' Onemnn p ^ smUd a gun at witne&fi

      a jd struck the cap , and it missed fire . He was not three yards oil him . Heard the click . Witness stepped b 8 « k to the corner of the street , and the pii aocers marched awsy to Athton . Afterwards heard nno or two shots in the direction of Ashtun . He followed the party and saw Pogeon and Neal com ' w . f , from Ashton . In anBvrer to the police , they said iLey had bten to a home mar t ! e Juootion Barracks Ofiutttng , and had met nobody . They gave their i 5 ames 88 * WiUin ' td Henry Wood andjjseph Licb . ' Saw the kody of men marching afterwards about one n ' olick . Several bad pikes and guns . One man had two pikes and a gun . When he got to Aehton i he soldiers wtte out

      CrosMxannned —PogBtm and Neal had nothing with them , and were rot with the others . Had not seen them before . Fkat gave information against them a month after . John Holmes , police-officer , waa with last witness under the factory wall at Asht ^ n . He corroborated thn statement of the last witneea . John Fawcett , labourer , ABhfcn , examined —Was at Lilley ' B Louae soon after the 14-k ot August the ^^ Ch artisUob . Li . ley told him ' noth n i « biutit . All be said was that he vRsnfihawiof Lilley told him that he went that nigS tf Ash n rO 3 iBnT ! , | n- , r , f meilti 0 " CbartS ha ^ Llv ' t M ; t , loU IIa » i 8 on , thep . li « man , romsa L t fu « ntfwn « theCbarti 8 t 9 Kr 8 ix 7 t ? er ° . A 3 hlOn thcnight of the » with de ? i *» lS ' w i ! ?? ^ uot »«« fi « olory evi . denee to cstabluh facts agaiat the prisoners

      . . perjl ry . faipp 8 m ° Ved that the mn ta committed for 11 : b Lo-duhip did nil accede to this doS ^ . ^ keJ H « ti « m sent for him and took awnaa ^' ement from him at his own house . No Sat ? 7 IUIher iSv M * »«* " « d over whEt was !" ? , J » V Wh B L Hey told him was A . that 'he 23 £ » * ffenttoward 8 8 hton that

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      Robert Woods , > cottoa-Hpipner , examined .-r-Oa Ttiosday morciag , the 14 tb . of Aojturt , at seven o ' ekek In the morning , ho was getting stone in a quarry near Mossley , wken Farroll was there , and told h ' m that a policeman was shot the night before at A 3 hton . and he saw . the trigger ' strnck . V Witoem a-ked him where he w » a when he s < iw it , and he answered he was standing at hig own door . John Harrison examined . —Is a prliceman at Bagley On the night of the 14 t ' a of August wont to the Chartists' room and uonnted forty-nine men there . The prisoners Farrell ,, Kadcliff * , and Neal were amongst them , reading aloud . They were reading th » Northern Star , the Telegraph , and Barker ' s publication , called The Ph / tle . Mr Overcnd . —He ' d a towu councillor at Leeds . Mr JuEtice Miule . —What was it about ?

      Witness . —It was a prayer f * r tho people , and to the best of his rwoltection , it wai a prayer , That tho Queen was very sorry ; if G . d would forgiva her for robbing the poor , and taking their rights from them , she would runmit to anything for a reasonable livelihood . ' There was a general assent to it . and Lee ' s father said , ' Amen , d—n the Church and State , and all religion , and them that wants it , let them pay for it . ' He was on duty at Denton . three miles from Ash ton , on the morning of the 15 ; k ot August , and met Higgs , the superintendent of police , and he gave witnew information of the death of Bright . He was standing in Guide Lane , between Ashton and Dinton , at half . pasjb one o ' olotk , a . m ., and counted about forty or fifty shots . Went then to Ashton . The military were out than at two o ' clock in the / norningl Tho magis '* ates were sitting , and the town was in greit exu'ti-msnt .

      J"hn Thoasas Kerrison , a reporter at Ashton , van on duty on the night . tf the 14 h of August as a special constable . Heard Bright was shot that night . Mr Bradshaw wis sent to the barracks for tho foldiers . Ho could not get there , and witness , when he came back , volunteered to go to the barracks on Mr Br&dshaw ' s horse . When he had cot about a mi | £ on the road he heard the bells if St Miohael ' a ounrch ring , which wrh the signal for tbe special constables t <> assetnb ' e . He bearJ the voices nf men at Hirt ' s B'nok , and he took across the fUlds and reached the barracks . lie delivered the

      message to the commanding officer , and the military turned out . Ha received instruction ' s to eo back by the road . Got as fa * aa a ? lacs called Coke Ovens , when he saw a number of men , armed with pikes , across tho road . Saw the glitter of the pikes in tbe moonlight , and returned to the barracks Saw also a number of arnnd men coinq towards Dukecfi ? Id , from Ashton , at one o ' clock in the ttorn ' . ng . The town was in a great excitement that night , and remained so for s > me tirae afwr . Thomas ( Jreasdale , superintendent of pclice at Sadrilewortb . apprehtnded fiv » ff the prisoners / h tho 13 th of September .-Tomkins , Radoliffs Lees , Pi gsoii , and Neal , charging them with this offence .

      lN » JU said . ' He was not there hy himself on that night . Have you not warrants for others rb well ss me ? ' Was present in the look up when Tnakins ' s wife came to eee him . on Friday , the 15 ih of Septemlrer , and Tomkins said to her , "The witnesses had btom falsely against him . ' He Baid . ' He did nit tell them on his own account to buy arras ; he only tf » 'd them that the two delegates that cumu from Aah-on that night requested him to tell them tWat no one w&b to go from that room thai night to A'liton without carryirg arms ; He was on ! y the mouthpiece of the delegates . ' Radcliffe said he was at the meetine of th « delegates that night , but did not stay lo » er . . Pogson s ^ M he was there that night . This was the ca e for t ' ne prosecu ' -ion .

      M ( Ovtrend and Mr Hardy having addressed the jury for the prUoni ra , I Mr PhippB replied for the Crown , and gave up pressing the obarge against Ridcliffe and Lies . Ilia LordihiD thea gummed up tbe case to the jury The jury ! retired , and after an absence of two hours found the prisoners Guilty . Sentence deferred James K « lvirg ' , John Robinson , Ed ^ ord Harley . rod James B ' . sm I , appeared to eater and try their traveraa ohnrging th « rn with riot , conspiracy , and assault at Binfiley . They had no counsel . The Hon . Mr Paippsand Mr Maulo appeared for the prosecution . O-. ie of tho men said , they had been given to understand that no evidence would be offered against th * m , and that they would be diecharged en their own recognisances .

      It appeared , however , that they had not entered their traverse , nor paid the fees , and the counsel for the prosecution wfched to know if they were ready for trial . One . of tho men , John Ribinson , said they had paid already £ 8 10 * . 41 . traverge mnney , and now thc . v were aaked fur further fees to tho ' amount of £ 14 2 h before they could be set at liberty ; that would make more than £ 20 for four poor men to pay who earned 8 * a week . He considered that rather exorbitant . Mr Justice M * ale . —Nobody takes those fees to his own use , they go to the puolie . The officers dm ' t jet them at all , v . nd the officers cannot give them np . beoanse they are not their own monev .

      Mr Phipps . however , at the suggestion of his Lordship , one of the prnonera having been in gaol waiting bis trial six months , would not , on the part of the government , pre 3 s the charge . As tbcra would be no evidenco offered , the jury would acquit them . llobinajn— ' # e return our einoero thanks to the Crown and tho Court for the clemency they have shown to us . The prisoner were then discharged . Frid , t . Dec 22 . Daniel L : n < 1 on . Adam Strairon , Thnmag Wilkinson , Thomas Ihtatson Eli Wilman , Joseph Riddehalgh , James Helliwell , William Wood , Edward Power , and Jiaei Smyth wera indicted for unlawfully canspiring . confederates , and agreeing together to destroy the Bradford Gv Work * , and to eeiz" } Ihe magistrates and detain-town till the Charter should be granted .

      A'l the pri « onera . Trith the exception of Smyth and Power , pleaded' Guilty . ' Mr Overend and Mr Maule appeared on the part of the prosecution , aad Mr T . Campbsll Foster for the defence of Smyth acd Power . Mr Overend having opened thecas 9 to the jury , called the following witnesses : — Charles Inghnm , guperintpndnnt of police al Brad ' ford , said he went On tbe 23 rd of August to tha Charti 9 t section r"oa > , in Victori-i Street , Bradford , about eisthc o ' clook p , m . He found there nine men , of who-n Power was one . He took Power into ciBtudy , and on 'Oarchins ; him found some books , which he produced . One of thwe books contained various resolutions rcsdo at Chartist meeting , There w&re chslk mRrks on th ? flonr , Croaa . EXirained -There wa 9 nothing cabalistic in the chalk marks . Did not take much notice of them .

      J . Shepherd , an informer , said : Many Chirlist meetings took place in the beginning of the year at Bradford . Smjth was a Chsrtiat speaker in April . He was secretary of the pection that met at tbe Temper-vice Etting-house in Bradford . Smyth reoomraended a enllection for the purposa of providing arms . On the 26 th of Jane there was a meet / ng at which about forty persons were present , and Smyth waa asked to account for » he money collected , which he refused to d >> , and the reason he alleged for so doin * was thit he hud given £ 5 193 . Gd . to men in

      the 39 : h Regiment to induce them to desert , and not to fight against the Chsrtiata . and if that got out or appeared on the books and ihey were taken , the men would be tra-sparted . Witness was a momber of the ninth section of th ? Chartists ; there wera forty or fifty sections in Bradford containing 100 to 200 men . _ He was at a meeting on the 13 » h of August at which Smyth waa present , and he was proposed to > , e sent as a delegate to Manchester . Sm » tti eaid he expected a letter from Manchester , stating that the Chartists had turned out that nishc there , and he

      would w . sh them to co tbe same that night &t Rrsd ford and turn out and fight the military and pelice ; and he proposed that every gectio' ' . should hold it-self in readiness . It was agreed that Smjth should go to Manchester , as the letter bad no . come , and that every man should hold himself in readiness with big arms to strike the blow when he came back . The Chartist * present had not arms then , but he had seen them witharmu in their houses—Dikes and Runs and pep bottles fi , led with powdtr ard horse shoe Bt ' tbs and anythintr that would do damage . When thev tnwed out they wero to get arms at the first shop ? . r . ness had made gome of tho' pop bottles' himsalf

      a man named Bmns was the chHirraaE of that meetirur , and Smyth nrnl ho went to Maaenttr on the 15 : n , f August . Smyth returmdon tie 10 h , and there was then a meeting at Daly ' g publio houce 0 ' the councilo the CbartUtt . Thee uncl wa . formed ofaroprcBentattve from-ewh section . They w . re wamrg thwe for o « den ., exie 3 f 1 Dg a turn-out . ?\ Z nnS 5 i » , h ° ^ ? t 8 k , the P ° 8 tatio « . tO pull down the telegraphs aLd rive up the tails to prevent the military from coming from Leedf . UamtoerB and picks were to be taken to pull up the gas pipes and darken the town . Ho undented they were to fight the military and police , to get the Charter , and to have n Republic . Smyth allowed him a letter whioh ho had reoeived from Manchester it »« id that all was bn ken np and came to an end

      CrwB examined—Had giren efidenoo against Lightowler , who was tried as a ChartiBt ; Knew Ctowley , his brother in-law . Had never asked Crovr-Icy ti swear the same thing , and ho would be paid for it . Never told CrowlBj'they only called him ( vitneBs ) perjurer , and he was no wowe far it . ' Ha < teon charged with ftlony . Re-examined -I 5 was by the Chartists , and tho oharge wasdiemwsed . Michael Flynn , another hfotner , examined -. Wbb at a meetmK at the Land Company ' s rooms , at Butterworth ' 8 BuUdmgs . in Bradford , on the 4 ih April Stnythwas there acting as sscretary . HeteokalUhfl

      amounts and aeotion books . Heard him tell the dele . * «™ f M fL hons t 0 gob pikea wdall kindi of weiponi , foi the purpose of overthrowing th « WST ' -i - T ^ re wm another meetin 8 o * « w 12 th of Aptil in the Manchester Road . Smyth wai

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      there . He moved for a fond ts be raiaed for the supply of armsi B nns ma thtre , and said t ' jat men were wanted more than ammunition . On the 19 th of April and on the i \ h of May Smyth was present at meetings at wh ' ch witness was , when reports weei made to Smyth of tha progress of the sections in getting arn . a . On the 24 h of May there was a pwoessioD at Penkover Walks of 4 , 000 or 5 . 000 Charkists , with bands of music and fhg-staffa with pikes upon them , Smyth headed the prooession . Another meeting was held the e&mo night at Batter * w-rth Building ? . Dr Frith made a motion that they could never have a better opportunity to break out than that eight . Smyth sj . id that the town was not prepared , and that ho would not keep the name of a man on bis books who wished for blood so soon . The doo or said he did not eare for a pea through his name , when it was in his breast . He waa a quack doctor , not a rezu ' . ar doctor . ^

      Cross-examined . —Had nok deserted as a soldier . Had not twice been convicted of embi zz ' ement . Robert Emmett , an approver , examined . —Is an engine tei . ter asd Chartist . Attended a meet ' ng ia Victoria Street , Bradford , at wh ch Power acted as secretary . A collection was mide for arm ? . Eich man took his arms home . Ho had attended about ten meetings in May and August last , at whioh rules were adopted that there should be a corporal for every fourteen men . a sergeant for tvrenty-eijjht , and a superior offijnr for forty men . Oi the 15 ih of August , Powpr told the men present at a meeting to be in readines : Witness was a superior officer . They wero ordered to take np the gas-pipes , and to take wood from Crabtrco ' s yard and throw up barricades . They were to take the magistrates , aad hold them as hostages until they bad eo '; the Charter .

      Cross-examined . —Witness was to command when this was done . He koew ' Skipton Dick . That was bis nick-name . Got it because of a dog . Never Btole any castings from a foundry at Skipton . Had been married fourteen years , and believed his wife waa in Australia ; did not know that she- was living at Settle . Had some years since gone through the ceremony of marriage witk another womanat B *! Iy « shannon , in Ireland . It was not a regular publio marriage . Had never Baid it was . ( Witness ' s depositions before the magistrates were here handed to bisi by the learned oounoel . ) Had told tho magistrate ? ho wai married to this worn in ; but the clergyman that did it had only a kind of a gown pinnedon him , andhad been dismissed from the servioe fordrunkenrjess . ( A laugh ) He charged half-8 . crown for the job , He did not consider it a regular marriage . Had been in Waketie ' . d Houbo of C

      Jtreotion tor embezzlement , and also on a conviction for false pretence . Ho had also been eeno from Skip , ton Workhouse to Wakffuld House of Correction for breach of tha rules . Had been there a !? o for desertion . To ! d the magistrates at Bradford he had only beon at Wakefield oncp , and that was for desertion * Had never been flogged in the army fur theft . Waa not branded as a rogue , nor drummed out of his re * giment . Re-examined . —He was discharged frosa the army on a medical certificate .

      Pi . lice fonstablea were then examined , who had searched Smyth's house , and in a box in bis bed . room , and in a drawer down stairs , had foucd Be » veral tnoka acd papers , which they produced . On cross-examination they stated that there waa another man or men in the house at the time , who appeared to be of the family . There were only two rooms in the house—a bedroom and houaeroom .. There wero two beds ia the bedroom . The box in which the bioks were found waa not lucked . Mr Foster objected to these books and papers being given in evidence . There wa 3 no proof that they were in tho custody of Smyth . They were not locked np , and other men lived in the huuje . His Lord'hip thought auffioient ground was laid for putting thsm ia evidensa , The custody of tbe books was open to comment to the jury .

      These books and papers wero then put in . Tbey contained aocouata of various exponFea for Clmtht purposes , for Bifttand printing , delegates' expenses . & ? ., and several Clartistresolutions . One ofthepolic : men stated that the Chutists in their processions at Bradford carried Riga , with such iaspriptioHS as' England free or a dejert , ' Batter to die by tho sword than perish with hunger . * 1 Wo to the tyrants that obstruct the march of freedom , ' & \ Mr Foster ihen addressed the jury for the defence . He contended that the witnesses for the pro 3 ccution , who were Chartists , were as co conspirators and aoonmslioBS deserving of little creditand their

      cha-, racter showed them to be uode 3 erving ol bslief . By thc very eaaie course taken in this prosecution ; those who had promoted the passing of the Rjforra B 11 , or who promoted any change in the law , mi ? ht be indioted for a con-piracy . Tbe evidence of Em « matt , than whose cbarac er nothing couM be worse , flbne affected Power ; and he should call witnesses to contradict tho witness Flync , affecting Smytb , showing that Smyth was cot present on the occasion sworn to . The papers found at Smyth ' s house , the learned counsel contended , were not traced to his custody . Witnesses were called to csntr . tdicfc Flynn .

      Mr Overend replied , and his Lordship having Bummed up , the jury , after a shorfc consultation , found both the prisoners Guilty . Sentence deferred .

      Saturday , Dec 23 . There wa 3 but one case remaining this morning , which was tried before Mr Justice Maule , after which the Chartist prisoneis wera put to tha bar to rso * ive sentence . J « hn R-. binson Tompkins , cinvicted with others Ot having at Quick , on the 14 <; b . of August last , conBpir . d to levy war against Her Majesty and to excite IUr Majesty ' s auhjects to sedition and disaffection , and Edward Power and James Smytb , cohvicted of hiving conspired , on the 231 of August last , to destroy the Bradford Gas Works , and to scizi the magistrates nnd detain them until the Charter Bhould be granted , were eaok severally sen * enoed to be imprisoned ono year , nQd at the expiration cf th . ir suntenca to find each tiro sureties of £ 25 eaoh , and be bound themselves in £ 50 each to keep the peace for onevear morp .

      Farrell and others , iad ' ctid ahng with Torapkins , were sentenced to be imprisoned six calendar months each , and to find sureties in £ 25 to keep the peace for ono year , with the exc-ptiou of Noald ar , d Poeson , who were recommended to mercy by tha jury 6 a account ^ of their youth , and who were sentenced to le impawned one calendar month each . D « ni « l Lindon and Haven others , indicted along with Power and Smvtb , but who pleaded guilty , the couD 83 l for the progecutioo uudorhking to recomnund their discharge on their own recog . nuances , were discharged on their own recognisances to ke » p tbe peace . This terminatrd the business of the winter assize .

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      Loss op an- Emigrant Ship . —On Wednesday week the ship Bramraa , Captain Mat : on , from Hamburgh for New Orleans , with 115 emigrants and a general cargo , struck on and drove over the Goodwin Sand , and after losing her anchors , cutting away her main and mizen-masts , and losing a third anchor and chain , struck on the Pan Sand A Margate lugger , the City Queen , being in the vicinity , observed her signal of distress , and , in consequence of the hi gh sea , with great risk and difficulty

      ailMI'fl'WlMa / i hflH Ann < U .... l t . approached her . Another lar e lugger , the Intrepid , of Margate , also made the ship , and the boats sueceeded in saving the lives of 115 passengers , and the crew ( twenty in number ) , who were landed ia safety at Margate , about three o clock in the afternoon , but in a very distressed condition , and several suffering severel y from exposure to cold and wet . Ihe crews of the luggers exerted themselves to the utmost to save the lives of the unfortunate Germans without any prospect of remuneration

      LlVERPO 0 L ,-0 BTUSEN-ES 3 ' ExTRAORDrN-ARY in the course of the mining cue , tried by Mr Justice Erie , a number of old and not very brilliant witnessess were examined to prove the extent and mode of working the mine The following dialogue took place between one of them and Mr James , the barnster engaged for the prisoner , —Mr James : ' Now you say you worked at the raine ?'—Witness : « Ees S ' v S - Ir JulUes : ' How did you work ?' -Witness ' ' Why , it wos wool ked oop and down , you ' no—this way , that way , t ' other way , foot-ridden wav-dane

      it , every way . ' ( Loud laughter . ) -Mr James : 'f must confess ! don ' tundeman'lyou . '—Witness : 'I think I spoke plain euuf . ' ( Great laughter . )—Mr James : No doubt you did , bu . the stupidity is on my side , not on yours . ' ^ Yitness : That ' s it . You are quoit stupid . ( Roars of laughter . ) Youconna onderstand Ei . glish ! ' ( Continued laughter . )—The Judge : If we had been in the habit of working in mines , doubtless your language would be perfectly ineli gible , bu ! as it is we cannot understand J

      --A \ uum . . 'WeU ! I conna ' spake ony plainer . Dang me if ever I seed such stupid people since I lett pit . Some further attempts were made by the Learned Counsel to obtain a more definite answer to the question , but it was ' no go , ' and the mtnesss was at length told to leave the box , which he did apparentl y with a atill stronger conviction than before of the natural and irremediable obtuseness of judge , jury , counsel , and auditory . Effects

      of Marriage on a JKw .-On Friday morning week a suicide was committed under extraordinary circumstances . A Jew , named Cohen was married the previous day to a Jewess , whose parents reside in Lower Temple Street , Birmingham , harly in the morning he rose from bed , went into an adjoining room , apparentl y very disconsolate fell on his knees , and cut his throat with a knife . He was immedia-ely removed to the hospital , where he died within a few hours .

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      2 * V- ' M \ v •¦ ¦ THE NORTHERN STAR . ~^ ^ emberjQ IS ^

      Taesty-Fifth Edition. Ihktraled Bj Twenty-Tix Anatomical Engravings On Steel.

      TAESTY-FIFTH EDITION . ihKtraled bj Twenty-tix Anatomical Engravings on Steel .

      Providential Escapk.—A Lad, Named Seapy

      Providential Escapk . —A lad , named Seapy

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 30, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1503/page/2/