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      ^^ it use would such things be to ? P ' 1 OD ' Tnne of Mr . Hatibr's " men , " and is *• ** J vhat Ms master Mds him ? K , next time , however , that any of these 1 on great «« . and affect ^ stidiousf ? .- to "iv ' mg pledges , on the ground that ^'^ s lhein delegates instead of represen-H ^ - may fee as well to remind them that ^ reluctance is all mere sham and pretence ; ^ Tth-t as *^ e y autoraatonB J ^ * better f the " constituencies to pull the strings that them , that the Usdbii Secketaut who Specially charged with dispensing Treasury A' „«¦ n nne mnntnnc 1 Thn Trioh TVTaty >_ nos moutons The Irish Mem

      Rt&n ons a . ' - te - treated in tlie shabby "way we have a ^ jibed , and seeing on the paper two amendtfts of SirF . Thesiger ' s , of an exceedingly ^¦ n « ent nature , had to deliberate what to do * ,, stf If they stayed and voted for Lord John j w would repay an insult with a favour , and pre ' rent him from being beaten . If they left ihe House , the amendments would be earned , and the Bill so shaped that it might provoke a re-il religious strife and sectarian warfare , in the whole of the United Kingdom . They preferred the latter alternative , and marched out of the House in a body , and Ministers were then overidden by the rushing party of retaliators against Papal aggression , whom they hare hitherto restrained . Instead of being merely a defensive and declaratory Bill , Sir F .

      Thesigek , and the ultra-Protestants , earned i-wi > amendments by large , and the last by an increased majority ; the effect of which is to convert it into an offensive and retaliatory measure—to make it apply , not to the specific Brief of September 29 th , 1850 , Lut to all Briefs whatsoever ; and to place , at the same time all concerned in the procuring of encli Brief at the mercy of the common informer . Lord John seeing the battle going against him and other more severe and sweeping amendment before him , cried , " hold , enough" The discussi on was adjourned for a week , and on the third reading another grand strugg le « ffl " ° ¦ donb * ***> place . With bad tact and taste Mr . DlSRAELI

      exhibited the Protectionist party as the opponents of any reduction of taxation this year . Basing bis resistance to the abolition of the trindow tax , aud the substitution of a house ias in its stead , on the plea that a Committee had been appointed to inquire into the income tax , the member for Bucks gave a significant indication of what amount of Jaaueial knowledge we may expect when he comes into office . The " country interest " tras , however , not quite so stupid as to " foljow my leader" in such a losing game , with the prospect of the hustings before them . The two hundred and fifty members with which he opened thecampaign in February , dwindled down to one hundred and twenty-nine on the

      last day of June . He -was beaten by two to one ; and with that defeat , we presume , ends flie Parliamentary demonstration of the Protectionist party this Session . It is neither worse nor better than the rest , in one respect . Like all of them , it dreads nothing so much as success . A real victory would ruin it , because its loaders dare not " act upon their recorded opinions . The Chancellor of the Exchequer makes a sfcuid in defence of adulterated coffee , with a courage worthy of a better cause . It is in raiii that he is told of horse beans , dog

      biscuit , horse ' s blood , old coffin wood , and other more abominable substances , being mixed for that delectable compound called coffee by the scoundrels who poison the public , and who turu up the whites of their eyes at the same time at the very idea of deceiving it . Sir Charles has taken the adulterators under Ms charge . The abominable stuff fended as the product of the coffee plant , is , according to him , better than the original , and the people like it more . Well , perhaps it is so , but at all events there is some reason that it shall

      he sold under Us real name , and be charged no more than it is worth . At present , the " respectable" shopkeepers who palm off their " g-mnme cofiee" on the public , under his sanction , thus adulterated , cheat their customers to a shameful extent . Can there be any truth in the story , that chicory is largely grown on Sir Charles ' s Yorkshire estates , that he finds it a profitable crop , and is anxious , of course , not to lower reuts if he can help it ? Certainly his admiration of that root is exceedingly great .

      On "Wednesday the usual amount of miscellaneous business was despatched . Looking to the number of useful and practical measures that are ordinarily disposed of on that day , with small talk and little fuss , it would almost seem that day sittings "would be a great improvement on our present syBtem . Much amusement was created on Thursday night by an incident in the Commons . Early in the sitting , a messenger from the Lords summoned the tfrEAKErcto the bar of the Peers , to hear , we believe , the Eoyal Assent given by commission to some bills . The right hou . gentleman was proceeding to the Upper House , preceded by the Seugeaxt-aT-Amis ¦ with the mace , unattended by a single member of the House , when Mr . O ' Consor started from his

      seat , amidst great cheering aad laughter , and accompanied tho Speaker to the " other House of Parliament , " where the twain represented " her Majesty's faithful Commons . " On their return , the cheering and excitement ffere repeated , and Mr . O'C' oJfJTOR and the Speaker seemed to enjoy the affair amazingly . The Jew Bill was allowed to pass the last stage uuopposed . A short conversation took place on the third reading , which was evidentl y intended , on all sides , for the House of Lords : on the one , Sir E . Inglis and the Protestants , par excellence , renewed their

      solemn protest against a bill which would anchristianise the Legislature , and expressed their hope , in duly decorous words , that the Lords would kick it out a third time ; while , ob the other hand , Lord John referred to the return of a second Jew for Greenwich ; and the fact of the bill having been read a third time , as proofs that both the people and their representatives were in favour of the measure , aud , therefore , that their Lordships should , in a matter peculiarly affecting both , stand out of tie K-ay , and let them have their own will . The affair seems to have been a compromise . Alderman Salomass pledged himself , before his election , that he would take his seat and

      "nug the matter to a close . The potent charms of the Treasury Bench have been stronger than the recollection of his promises to the electors of Greenwich ; while Ingiis ° Hd the obstructives have , we suppose , been discreetl y advised to transfer the question , as ^ n as possible , to the other House , and SWe the Commons a " row , " and the loss of a * eek or two at this time of the year . On £ > e part of the Jews , however , Mr . J . A . Smith , the Chairman of Eoihschild ' s Committee , was somewhat provoked by the allu-£ ' ° ns to the small majority on the second reading , and dared the opponents to try the Ques tion again—an invitation they prudently declined .

      JKie remainder of the evening was occu-^ by the Chancery and the Woods and J « rest 8 Bill—two Whig abortions under the otle ofBefonne . The Lords hare ° woke np , as usual , at ™ s l ate period of the Session , " and Bet to * ork B pon gucn meagre materials as the J-ommons have as yet supplied them with , "EEides striking out some work for themselves .

      An i mportant discussion on the Colonies * onJd have taken place on the motion of £° « i Siasiey , but the illness and death ot j"s father prevented it from coming off . Pro-** ° ly the Government would have been . da » J » w a . Lucky Whigs ! There is always ^ We accident or other happening just at the ° 'ck of time to keep them in office . w * d BBox ; fi 0 i > f : b prsseEtisr a petition

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      s ^^—on Thursday night from Mr . Robert Owen , passed a high , and , we have no hesitation in saying deserved , eulogium on the character of that great philanthropist . In this , perhaps , few but extreme bigots would reiuse to joia ; but when the noble and learned lord proceeded to state that ho had no doubt , if the Peers granted the Committee asked by Mr . Owen , he could demonstrate to it the great utility , high importance , and practicability of many of his plans , it places the labours and the proposals of Mr . Otcs in quite a new light before the nation . It

      has long been fashionable to call Mr . Owen a benevolent visionary , and to deride his plans as impracticable ; ' but we have now the deliberate testimony of Lord Brougham to the contrary , after having , as we understand , devoted much time and attention latterly to a careful and searching investigation of the nature and scope of the measures proposed by Mr . Owen for the removal of ignorance , poverty , and crime . Now Lord Brougham is perhaps of all men in this country peculiarly fitted to pronounce an opinion on such subjects , Daring the whole of his

      long and busy life he has cultivated not only an abstract but a practical acquaintance with arts and sciences . There is scarcely a department of human knowledge in which he has not delved and mined . Scarcely a subject of public importance , a topic of general interest , in which he has not brought to bear the force of an acuta and powerful intellect ; . During that period , too , he has been peculiarly favourably situated for interchanging ideas with the most advanced minds of the civilized world , —of seeing whatever was most remarkable in invention and discovery , and by bis professional pursuits has had , at the same faculties of discrimination

      time , the judicial and mature balancing of evidence habitually cultivated . Add to all this that for years past the Ex-Chancellor has been almost solely the last and highest court of appeal in the kingdom , on matters of the highest importance , and involving the most comprehensive issues , and it will be seen , as we have said , that such an opinion takes " Owenism " out of the category of "Utopias , " and places it in the list of things practicable . At all events , persons less experienced , less informed , less capable than Lord Brougham , of pronouncing judgment , will , it is to be hoped , be more modest in future when speaking on the subject .

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      MONIES RECEIVED For the "Week Ending Thuesdav , July 3 rd , 1851 . THE HOHESTY FUND . DECEIVED Bl W . BIDEH . Oldham , C . Butter worth , per R . Haslam ., 0 2 0 NATIONAL CHARTER FUND . Received bj Jons ABXorr .- ~ Six Reds , Hoxton , per J . Edmonds Is Cd—Morpeth-street Locality , per W . Viewers 5 s Cld-Bingley per J . Wild 11 s Cd-North Shields Chartists , pev J . " Pratt 2 s 10 d—Ditto Eclectic Society , per Ditto Is 7 d—Hanley Potteries , per Ernest Jones Cs Cd—Worcester , per J . Harding 9 s 7 d—Peterborough , per E . Scholey 5 s . —Total £ 2 4 s Old .

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      FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION . The sum taken . at the doors on Saturday last was £ 1 , 590 16 s ., and the number of persons visiting the building , 11 , 501 . Ob Monday the numbers who entered the building during the day amounted to 52 , 870 . —The total receipts were £ 2 , 569 ICs . The whole of the glass in the east and west galleries has been removed , and such light airs as generally blow in that direction have free ingress and egress . A similar change is contemplated with respect to the north and south transepts , and that once effected , the rest mu 3 t be left to the pitying breezes . "What has been done has made the place much cooler , and there is little doubt but that the

      completion of the alterations will make the temperature all that could be expected in the middle oi one of the hottest summers we have had for some years . Among the crowds of country folks who availed themselves of cheap trains to obtain a peep at the wonders of the Crystal Palace was n detachment of 130 workmen from the extensive lime works near Rochester , all in holiday trim , and decorated with blue rosettes in their button-holes . These poor men were retiring after about two hours' bewildered gazing in every direction , irfien being met by a person more intimate with the contents of the building , and asked what they had seen , it turned out that they had really seen but few of tbe sights of the place . 3 t is expected that the awards will be placed in the bands ef the printer on the 16 th of

      next montt . The number of stray articles in the hands of the police is daily increasing . On Monday evening the little station hou 3 e looked like a parasol warehouse , and in an inner room were stowed away six stray female children , labelled and tickctted " Bath " and " Bristol , " who Lad formed part of a consignment from the great factory of Sir John Eyre , at the latter place , and had lost sight of the convoy during the day . They were wade as comfortable as circumstances would permit , and at last safely restored to their guardians . The returns of visitors for Tuesday again show a decrease , the numbers being 51 , 009 , and the amount

      taken at the doors £ 2 , 429 10 s . The interior wa 9 exceedingly cool and agreeable during the day , and there would no doubt have been a larger atten ^ dance but for the showers that fell during the morning and afternoon . A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday near the east enlrance of the buildiDg . The heavy rain which fell in the morning caused a branch of one of the large treea there to give way , and descending upon a boy who had taken refuge beneath it for shelter , it killed him on the spot . Two men were apprehended in the afternoon by the police picking pockets .

      On TVednesday 49 , 399 people entered the building , and the receipts amounted to £ 2 , 363 18 s . Every day the assemblage wears a more countryfied aspect , and is more popular in its character , so that the falling off in the attendance is less easy to account for . Until now the weather might have been pointed to a 3 the cause , but the decline is so steady that even this explanation ceases to be satisfactory . The presence of charity children still continues to form an agreeable feature of each day ' s incidents . The girls of St . Olave ' s school were enabled to go there by the liberality of Mr . Ex-Sheriff Pilcher , and the trustees of the Broad-street Ward School also treated their scholars to an inspection of the interior . Her Majesty the Queen , accompanied by his Royal Higness Prince Albert , the King of the Belgians , and their respective suites , visited the Exhibition ou Wednesday morning , at their usual early hour .

      The attendance of visitors on Thursday was greater than it has been for some days , the police returns giving 55 , 638 as the total , and the receipts at the doors amounting to £ 2 , 662 9 s .

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      FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT THE RAILWAY STATION , LIVERPOOL . At a little after seven o'clock on Thursday morning , one of the most awful explosions that has occurred for some time past took place at the goods station of the London And North Western Railway , Edge-hill , Liverpool , where a locomotive engine blew up , doing considerable damage , and inflicting severe and fatal injuries on two persons . The Conway locomotive engine , belonging to the above company , usually employed in the transit of goods , was in course of preparation for taking a goods train to Manchester , and at the time of the explosion was stationed at the Edge-hill junction , near

      the Bpot where the tunnels for the passengers and goods traffic meet the main lines . The driver who was in charge of the engine was not the man usually employed ; but he had , from causes not at present explained , brought the Conway from Manchester with a goods train , arriving at the place of accident about six o'clock . The steam had been brought up to the requisite degree of pressure , the merchandise waggons were ready , the signal had been given for the engine to join the train , and the men in charge were in the act of backing | for that purpose , when the boiler burst with fearful violence , causing a report that could be distinctly heard for several miles , and spreading the utmost consternation and alarm throughout the vicinity . Providentially no passenger trains were due , nor persons

      waiting for conveyance , or the loss of life must have been frightful . The driver , who was standing on the sole plate , between tbe engine and tender , was blown to a considerable distance ; the poor stoker w » b carried high tip into tbe air , and fell upon the roof of the adjoining offices , which was broken in , and the unfortunate fellow was discovered in a frightfully shattered state , tut still alive between the roof and the ceiling of the station Both were immediately conveyed to the infirmary It « believed that the catastrophe was occasioned by the sticking of the valve , by whioh a heavier pressure was thrown on the boiler than it was capable of bearing . A massive gat © with the heavy stone corners has been thrown itown , a great number of toe

      : . - . . wasgons were broken by the ooncussions , th fire ~ -box of the engine was found in a field some hundred yarda away from tho spot , tho boiler itself being carried over an adjacent wall and rent into small pieces . Four o ' clock , p . m . —The unfortunate fireman ( ov stoker , ) whose name was Griffith , has just expired in the Southern Infirmary , leaving a wife ana three children ; and the driver ( Valentine ) is iiot expected to recover , lie has a wife and nve children . The damage done to tbe goods in the train is very considerable , and for a great distance along the line fragments of the broken wo « gons and their contents were to be seen tor some time after the accident . Tho northern mail train barely escaped the explosion , having only left the station a few minutes before the fatal occurrence .

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      — MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The July General Quarter Session of the Peace for the county of Middlesex commenced on Tuesday mornimr , at the Court House , Clerkenwell . The calendar contains the names of fifty-two prisoners for trial . , „ ... m A Heabtltsss Swihdleb . —Aksander Smith , < sw , was indicted for having obtained by false and fraudulent pretences , from Jane Stewart , the sum ot 3 s . ; from Thomas Davis , 2 s . 6 a . ; and from Edward Kichard Summeifield , 9 a . Cd ., with intent to cheat them .-The learned counsel , in opening the case , said it was one of very considerable importance , the prisoner unquestionably having earned on a considerable system of fraud upon poor persons whose necessities brought them under the notice ot i

      the Mendicity Society . The prisoner naa oeen the service of that society as a " visitor , ' b y which was meant one whose duty it was to inquire into the circumstances oi tales of distress aud applications for relief that were forwarded to persons ot rank andforture , and by them sent to the Mendicity Society for inquiry , and since the prisoner had ceased to be in the service of the society he had defrauded a number of the poor persons into whose eases he had had to inquire . —Jane Stewart deposed that she was a . single woman , residing in Castlestreet , Oxford-street , where she got hev living by receiving a few scholars . In December , 1848 , she had occasion to make an application for assistance to Sir Charles Burrell , and that application having been remitted to the Mendicity Society , the

      prisoner called upon her to inquire into her situation and circumstances . On the 20 th of last month he called upon her again , and said that Sir Charles Burrell was anxious to render her some assistance , and he made all sorts of inquiries with reference to her then circumstances . Just before he left , he said be had lost his purse through a hole in his pocket , and as he had a long way to go , he should be obliged to her if she would lend him a few shillings until he called upon her again about Sir Charles Burrell . She bad 3 a . 6 d ., which sho h ? id saved up to pay a week ' s rent , and she offered him that sum . He took three shillings and went away , after which she did not see him until he was in custody . She told him that sho had saved this money for her rent , and she should not have suffered him to have

      it but for bis representation about Sir C . Burrell . — W . Jones proved that the prisoner ceased to bo connected with the Mendicity Society in January last . —Sir Charles Merrick Burrell , Bart ., said he resided in Richmond-buildings , Whitehall , lie remembered referring to tbe Mendicity Society an application made to him by the witness Stewart , in 1848 . In May last he received a communication about the prisoner having obtained 3 s . from her , and Jie ( witness ) sent that communication to the Mendicity Society . He never authorised the prisoner to go to the witness Stewart , or in any way to use his name . —Thomas Davis , a seaman , aged sixty-seven , living in Clarendon-place , Clarendonsquare , said the prisoner called upon him about

      eight months . tgo , in reference to an application he had made to the Duke of Buccleuch for assistance . On the Sth of May the prisoner called upon him and said he was out on business for the Mendicity Society , and wanted the loan of a few shillings , as the office would be shut up before he could get to Red Lion-square . Witness had half-a-crown by him , and on the prisoner ' s assuring him that it should be returned on the following morning , he lent it to him . The prisoner returned him 4 Jd . He well knew that witness had a wife Eoventyeight yea * S ot age , who-was blind , and helpless . — Mr . G . R . Sumraerfield , tailor , Croydon-street ,

      proved that in May last the prisoner obtained from him 2 s . 6 il . by representing that he was on business for the Mendicity Society . The prisoner ha < l previously made inquiries of him relative to two parties named M'Carthy and Lane . The prisoner , in his defence , read a lengthy document , the purport of which was that he borrowed the eums in question and intended to return them , and that had he been inclined to swindling , his connexion with the Mendicity Society had made him acquainted w-Uh the means of carrying it on differently than had been represented in this case . The jury found him Guilty . The Court sentenced him to one year's hard labour .

      Charles Edwavds , alia * BQUuwa , ft , tifetorous swell mob was convicted of pocket-picking at the Fancy Fair , Chelsea , and was sentenced to seven years' transportation . A prisoner named Riches , who was convicted at the last Session of stealing a portmanteau from the Eastern Counties Railway , was brought up and sentenced to six months' hard labour . Robbery . —George Thomas , a gentlemanly lookingyoung man , wasindicted for having stolen a carpet bag , containing articles , valued at £ 10 , the property of George Taylor , from the Shoreditch terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway . —The evidence showed that on tbe 20 th of Juno tho prosecutor had a carpet bag at the

      Shoreditch station , and just as the Ipswich train was about to start in the evening a bag was found in the possession of the prisoner , who said he iook it because it very much resembled his own . He was going down by the train , but neither ticket nor sufficient money to pay for one were found upon him . He endeavoured to ma-he away with some papers but was prevented . When apprehended he was about to carry them off the premises . —Mr . Spicer in addressing the jury for the prisoner , said he was a person of very high character , and was studying holy orders . The papers he had attempted to get rid of were testimonials from the Reverend Dr . Hughes , of St John ' s , Cler kenwell , and the Archdeacon of Cardigan , to both of whom he was personally known , and by whom he had been recommended for the

      office of secretary to the Welsh School . His ol'ject in attempting to dispose of these documents was that the names of those parties should not be mixed up in the transaction , and not from a guilty conscience . He thought that the prisoner might have taken the bag by mistake . —The Rev . Dr . Hug hes , rector of St . John ' s , Clerkenwell , said he had known the prisoner for six months , and during that time his habits were studious and literary . Believing him to be honest he gave him his testimonial , he being a candidate for the secretaryship of the Welsh School . He took an interest in the prisoner from other circumstances , one of which was that he had been under the tuition of the Archdeacon of Cardigan , under whose instruction he had himself been in fjrmer years . —Two other witnesses spoke to the prisoner ' s character , and the signature of the Archdeacon to the testimonial was proved by Dr . Hughes . —Guilty , with a recommendation toniercy .

      —He was sentenced to four months' hard labour . Child Stripping . —Mary Coffee , an Irishwoman , of forbidding appearance , was indicted for two robberies upon children . It appeared that last Sunday three weeks a iittlo boy , named Savage , whose parents live in Mare-street , Hackney , was sent by them to St . Mathew ' s Church . He sat near the prisoner , who told him to take off his boots and go up stairs , and she would give him a new pair . He did as she told him , and she went off , and the boy did not see her again until she was in custody at the station in Bagnigge Wells-road . Guilty . Mr . Witham said it was not necessary to try tho prisoner on the second indictment , which was of the same character , and sentenced her to six months' hard labour .

      Robbbry . —Ann Adams , 50 , and Elizabeth Adams , 24 , mother and daughter , were indicted for robbing ready-furoished lodgings . On the 8 th of March last , the prisoners took furnished lodgings of the prOHecutor , William Ferryman , in Comptonstreet , Soho , and about the 20 th of laBt month it was discovered tbafc every moveable article had been taken from the rooms they occupied , and all that had been traced was a looking-glass that had heen purchased by a marine 9 tore dealer for 3 d . The prisoners were found Guilty , and sentenced each to six months' hard labour . Robbery at the Exhibition . —Solomon Aarons , 20 , was indicted for having stolen a handkerchief , the property of Francis Richard Steadman , from his person . The jury found the prisoner Guilty . Mr . Witham sentenced him to nine months hard labour . On the sentence being pronounced , the wisoner ' s father , who waB in court , fell down in . 000

      a fit , and the prisoner in tears cried , " " n " . ; , " God , lam ruined for ever ! " It was stated that some French , Belgian , and Austrian detective officers who are engaged professionally at the Crystal Palace , had recognised the prisoner as a person upon whom they had been keeping a watch on the day in question , in the building . _ The Grand Jury returned a true bill against the Great Northern Railway Company fer ft nuisance in stopping up , with 2 , 000 tons of earth and ballast , two public footways , called London-road and Tottenham-lane , in the parish of at . Juarj , Hornsey .

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      DESPERATE AFFR , AV BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND POLICE AT LIVERPOOL . On Monday night this city was thrown into the utmost alarm and excitement , in consequonco of a temnc military riot , which broke out between the so diers of the 9 lst regiment , commanded bv Colonel Umpbcjl , and tho police of Liverpool , between whom and tie soldiers there has for some . lavs past been bad blood " erineed on both side ? , in ' coiisequence ot some punishment inflicted on tlireo soldiers ot the 01 st regiment ., at the instance of the police on duty . Whether on that occasion theve was any real ground for complaint on the part of the soldiers or not , they have continued to vow jongeance on the " blue-bottles , " ae they termed thei oonstobles and the latteron their partseem

      , , , to have been on the qui vive , to meet promptly any aggressive act ; while some disinterested witnesses go so far aa to say that they did not wait for an attack to occur , but that in the desperate affray we are about to detail , tho police in every instance save one were the real aggressors . Buttheevidence is so voluminous that it would be impossible to afford a clear idea of the conflict in . any other manner than by a careful and impartial epitome of tho testimony adduced btfwe tho magistrates to day . At two o ' clock on Tuesday afternoon , twentyseven soldiers of tho 91 st regiment were placed at r , he bar of the court Used for the nisi prius sittings during the asaizes . —Tho following is the substance of tna facts elucidated - .--About nine o ' clock on

      Monday night a number of men belonging to the 91 st regiment had assembled at Mr . Heague ' s public-house , in Dale-street—one of tho principal thOroughfarog in Liverpool—in order , as gome , of thorn were heard to express themselves , to wipe off the disgrace to the regiment which had been inflated on Saturday and Sunday night by the police . ' The apprehension of some of their comrados for an affray in which a policeman and a vespecUblo civilian , Mr . Wm . Yatos , were both seriously hurt , seems to have given deep offence to the soldiers , and many of them were heard to say that the night would not pass over without the blood of some of the police being spilt . Issuing from the public house above named into tbo Btreet , where were a

      considerable number of other soldiers belonging to the same rejjiment , some of them made up towards Duzgan , a policeman , who was at the time on duty in Dale-street , and unfastening their cross belts , they made a desperate attack with them upon the poor fellow , who , it is stated by the police , waa wholly unconscious of the feeling of animosity existing against tho force among the soldiers , and who was wounded so severely about the bead and body that he was considered in very great danger . On the other hand , it is alleged , that the soldiers were first provoked by a policeman , asking " How that chap of theirs was that was in the hospital ? " —alluding to one who was suffering from tlio injuries received in a previous conflict with the police . Be

      tins as lfc may , after severely and dangerously beating Du * gan , they proceeded in a body up Dalestreet and Shaw ' 6-brow , attacking every policeman with whom they came in contact . Bat word was passed to the Rose-hill police-station , where a number of officers were in waiting ; and these being joined by others despatched from the central station , and commanded by Inspector Towerson , speedily came to the spot , and a scene ensued which wholly baffles description . The soldiers had by this time spread themselves in skirmishing parties of tens , probably not expectingtho concentrated movement of the police , Attacking the military , however , thus in detail , the civil authorities effectually cutoff a junction of the straggling

      parties ; and although the conflict was kept up with desperate resistance , as each fresh b ; ind was attacked , and the whole neighbourhood was for nearly two hours kept in a -stato of the greatest apprehension , captures of more' than thirty of the soldiers were effected , by the aid of all the reinforcements of police which , under the personal direction of Mr-. Commissioner Dowling , were eventually brought XO the scene of the riot . At length a demand was m . tde at Everton barracks for assistance from the officors of the regiment , who promptly despatched several picquets of thirty men to aid in quelling tho disturbance . Uocwithstanding this , however , many of the soldiers within the barracks , hearing what had occurred , scaled

      tho walls , and proceeded to the rescue of their comrades , about twenty-five of whom had by this time been lodged iu Rose-hill Bridewell previous to their being convoyed to tho more secure prison of tbe borough . Watching , however , the absence of the picquets , who had been engaged in clearing the streets , the scattered soldiers again assembled at Rose-hill just as the van in which their comrades were placed was being driven off , and a renewed conflict ensued , in which the police would beyond doubt have suffered tho loss of many of their number , as the soldiers wero using their side-arms with horrible imprecations , just as throe of the picqupta were recalled and ended the affray . The van was then , driven off with great speed , accompanied by a large boiiy of police , at double quick time , and the

      prisoners weve ultimately lodged in the main gaol of the town . Throughout the night , however , considerable crowds mi ^ lit be seen throughout the line of streets in which the affray had been aimed on . Upon the application of tho commissioners , the men were remanded . A petition , very numerously signed , has been got up , praying for the instant removal of the regiment from Liverpool , it being quite certain that many lives will be lost , anu renewed conflicts of frequent occurrence will take place between that regiment and the police , should the former be permitted to remain in their present quarters . Tbe appearance of the soldiers before the magistrates certainly showed that they have met with considerable injury , whatever may be the " set eff" on the other side . The policeman Duggan is not expected to survive .

      On Wednesday the twenty-seven soldiers were pl-iccd at the bar for examination . Mr . Robert Weston , upholsterer , said he was passing up Shaw ' s-brow at a quarter past nine , when he saw a soldier coining down , walking as peaceably and quietly as himself . He had not passed him many yards when he saw a police officer walk after him and seize him by the collar , » nd shake him in a very rough maunor . The soldier risked him wlist he wanted with him , and tried to get away . In the scuffle the constable ' s hat fell off , and ho used his stick in a very violent manner about tho head and shoulders of the soldinr , before the latter struck or attempted a blow . The soldier certainly was not the aggressor , and witness went off towards the

      barracks , with a view of stating what ho bad seen to the officer on duty , when he met the picket . — After tho examination of a grant number of additional witnesses on both , sides , Mr . Commissioner Dowling addressed the benoh , and said he had a a number more witnesses present , but as all the prisoners had been identified as having taken part in the riot , he wished for a further remand , in order to complete the evidence against them . —The magistrates intimated that there were objections to this course . —Major Gordon said ho would be responsible for the appearance of the whole of them . He was aware that thoro were amongst them great blackguards , but ho felt assured that when they were put upon thoiv honowv as soldiers , they would

      keep their bail . His object was not that the men should be at large , but when coming out of those dreadful cells , thoy were in a stato derogatory to the profession of arms . lie hoped the men would not think that he was there aa their advocate , na be considered that they had disgraced themselves , the regiment they belonged to , and her Majesty ' s uniform—that , instead of showing the unblushing front they did , they ought to hang their heads in shame . On the other hand , he was obliged to say that tho soldiers had , for . i long timej receivec great provocation and insult from the police ; there was a Borgeant in court who had been most brutally treated by the policemen . —Mr . Crossthwaite intimated that upon Major Gordon undertaking to produce the men , and sending day by day a certificnte that the soldier in the hospital was not fit to attend , the prisoners would be admitted to bail ; the great desire of the bench was to have the case

      fully and fairly investigated , so that it might not be said the magistrates had acted with partiality towards the officers of the police force . —It was then agreed that the case should be adjourned . — As 6 oon as this case was concluded , the Rev Mr . Connor—upon seeing whom the soldiers had desisted in a great degree from their violence on Monday night—rose and said , pointing to one of the policemen ; I wish to charge this polioeman with creating a riot on Monday Uwt . —The magistrates decided that application must be made in the usual way at the office for a summons against the party charged . — -Mr . Commissioner Dowling said there was no occasion for a warrant , tho man should bo forthcoming whenever wanted . —Considerable asperity of feeliDg was here arising , which was , however , checked by tho bench—Adjutant-General Barnard has just arrived ( 4 . 30 p . m . ) in Liverpool , by desire of the Horse Guards , to assist in the inquiry , and has had an interview with the mayor . .

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      NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADES T . S . Buncombe , Esq ., M . P ., President . Established 18 i 5 < "FIAT HISTITIA . " "If it were possible for the working classes , by combinin ? among themselves , to raise , ov keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly be said that this would be : i thing not to be punished , but to bo welcomed and rejoiccO at . " Stuabt Miix .

      Tho preparations for tho trial of tho Perry CouspiraC / V case goes bravely on , on both sides . The prosecutors shrink from committiug their case to the consideration of a commou jury , They need , and will avail themselvGB of , all tlie aid to be derived from class prejudice , and from minds accustomed to look upon the relations between capital and labour through the jaundiced medium of a spurious , though plausiblo philosophy . Labour in rebellion against low wages seldom geta much consideration from our special jury class . It is a species of rebellion always handled much

      in the same fashion as despots do their subjects when d tiring to preach of liberty . Jus tice , reason , and equity , have little to do in these cases ; and law—that subtle and elastic contrivance—can bo squeezed into wonderful contortions , to meet these small insurrections of industry . ' Nevertheless , wo have a strong faith iii our cause . We agree with our legal advisers , who , not unmindful of tho great oddB we Bhall have to contend against , ave

      thoroughly impressed with the justice , the morality , the uuusual forbearance , which , for bo long a period was exhibited towardB the unprincipled aggressions of our persecutors ; and they ave not without hope that our patient and laborious perseverance to arrange the disputes upon fair and equitable terms , will prove tho entire absence of any desire to promote or sanction a hostile feeling botween the parties , and so be the means of leading us to a , triumphant issue .

      We know so wellthe peculiar temperament of the parties opposed to us , that we shall be quite prepared for the most unscrupulous employment of all means whereby a conviction may be extorted from judge and jury . Appeals to the selfish feelings of the one or the narrow claas prejudices of tho other will not be wanting . All sorts of irrelevant importations and inuendoes will be introduce into the case ; nor must we bo surprised to find all those appliancea resorted to that tyrants invariably adopt to punish those who dare resist their aggressions . To the London Defence Committee the defendants ave deeply indebted for their generous and laborious services in visiting

      tho London trades , who are nobl y responding to their applications . We hope , during the short interval which will intervene between now and the trial , that our provincial friends will go earnestly to work . The results of this trial will be felt for good or for evil—move immediately and extensively in the country districts than in the metropolis . There is nothing your small tyrants dread more than public opinion . The knowledge that an institution exists , to which their great and small extortion , and their mean and iniquitous practices are communicated , and by whom they may be exposed , haB very fvecruentry , -we believe , been the means of keeping these gentlomcu somewhat in check . An adverse

      verdict would , therefore , we fear , seriously impair that prestige which has usually attended our mediatorial l 3 bours , | while , on the contrary , tho successful maintenance of the great principle of the right of peaceful combination would add immense weight to our position , and raise our Association in public estimation . But there is a possible contingency where neither of these extreme suppositions may exist . A verdict may pass having no reference to the legality or illegality of the Association , but bo like the verdict against Selsby , in Jones and Potts' case—a violent stretch of the rules of evidence , whereby a man may be made responsible for the crimes or errors of others , and which ho neither knew of , sanctioned , or approved .

      buch a verdict would be of no further importance than the temporary inconvenience it might entail upon individuals , and could carry with it no moral weight . From our correspondence this week we regret to learn that the spirit of reduction is again manifesting itself in Coventry , where the miserably low tariff of wages still seemsto the avavice of the employing class—to present too wide a margin , and to offer an opening for the clipping process .

      Our fits of commercial prosperity arc indeed so brief , so evanescent , as to resemble in some respects a horse race—before you can well say " here they come / ' they are passed and gone . Foreign competition and enormous taxation have made sad havoc with the destinies of labour . The beautiful fabrics of Spitalfielde , Coventry , or Macclesfield are sadly out of keeping with the wretchedness which produces them , and the fair beings , whose charms they are intended to enhance , think little—and care leas—of the heart-aches and miseries of those , who early and late , with half-fed bodies and vacant minds , arc administering to their

      vanities and pride , What a hollow , heartless morality are we surrounded by . Is it to be ever thus ? It is not oven now , «« Live horse , and you shall have grass ; " that maxim is altogether too liberal for our modern morality . If our political economists would accomplish with labour the surprising feat the Frenchman so nearly effected with his horse—to bring them to exist without food , what glorious times we should have . But as long as nature provides men and horses with the anatomical appendage of a stomach , we may safely predict that grass must be found for one and bread for the other , all the learned philosophy of Adam Smith and Dr . Malthua to the

      contrary notwithstanding . We feel also pleased to find that the Silk Dressers of other localities are disposed to take the advice we offered iu the last week ' s " Star , " and to make common cause with their Leeds brethren in resisting the unwarrantable interference with their freedom , of action . Such a spirit of dictation must be protested against , and resisted by euch . mean ' s as we may legally employ . Such tyranny—for we can call it by no other name—can only be successfully practised upon man split up into individualities . The serried phalanx of a united trade , bound together to protect but not to injure , would produce Thermopylae ' s whereever and whenever labour and capital were brought into antagonism . '

      We hope , therefore , that the only response which will be given to the ungenerous and arbitrary threat of—we hope—a mistaken , and not a bad-meaning man , will be a general determination to treat the threat with scorn and defiance . "William Peel , Secretary . 259 , Tottenham-court Road , London .

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      Oi THE MEETING OP SURREY MAGISTRATES Tbe general quarter session for the county of . Surrey was held on Tuesday at the Shire Hall , Guildford : and in consequence of there being a good deal of important county business to be disposed of there was aa unusually large attendance of magistrates . Prison Discipline . —Mr . Johnson , the chairman of tho visiting committee , said that he had to inform the court that the prison was rapidly approaching completion , and he expected that in about fourteen days the building would be in a proper condition to undergo tho usual inspection by the proper officer , and if his certificate was approved , in about six weeks the prison would be ready for the reception of prisoners . He would suggest that at first ; only a small number of prisoners should

      he drafted from each , of the other prisons ; and although it might not be advisable to adopt it with thoso prisoners who had , up to that time , had the opportunity of communieatiug with each other immediately , yet in a very short time he should hope to see the system of separate imprisonment , for which the prison was intended , carried out in its full integrity . The committee had directed their attention to ascertain the best description of hard labour that could be employed in the prison , and they had adopted the plan of crank labour by machines , which appeared to answer the purpose—hitherto so difficult to attain—of meting

      uniform and severe labour to the prisoners , and he believed that those who were once subjected to thia aort of punishment would not hastily place themselves in a position to suffer it a second time . Mr . Johnson stated that the committee had ordered 150 of the machines to which he referred to be built for the use of the prison , and lie concluded by calling upon tho court to sanction their proceedings . —Mr . Austin moved as an amendment "That tho separate system should not be adopted in the prison until after the Michaelmas session . " After some discussion , the motion was then put and declared to be carried .

      The court next proceeded to the election of officers for tha new prison , and upon tho votes of the magistrates being taken , the Iteverend Mr . Hatch was elected as chaplin ; Mr . 0 . N . Wilkinson , surgeon ; Mrs . Freeman , matron ; J . Foster , chiefwarder ; G . Sangher , aa governor ' s clerk ; iiBd J . Ilollis , as storekeeper . A county rate of one penny in the pound was ordered to be made , and after some other business had been disposed of , tho court adjourned

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      The Charge Aoiisax the Master op St . Pancbas WonKHOUSB . —On Thursday , Mr . Wakley ,- M . P ., held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle , Kihg ' sroad , Csmuen-town , on the body of Eliza Smith , the orphan girl who had brought a charge of seduction against Mr . Eaton , master of the workhouse , of which she was an inmate . A number of vestrymen , guardians , and others attended the inquest , which had been ordered by tho directors oi tbe poor . Martha Glover , ft nurse in tho workhouse , was first called , and proved that the deceased died at five minutes past nine o ' clock on Saturday evening last . She complained of great paiu in her stomach and back , and had a cou / rb , but not very severe . She was under the care of Mr . Robinson

      and Mr . Waldegrave , the surgeons to the workhouse . She never complained to witness of any ill-treatment or violence having been done to her at any time , Mr . H . C . Robinson , surgeon of St . Paneras workhouse , had attended deceased medically from the latter part of February till her death . She was first admitted to the infirmary on tbe 4 th of March , labouring under gastric irritation and fever . She remained till tbe 28 tn March . She then left , but returned in consequence of having an epileptic fit on the 2 nd of April . She was not treated at any time for any violence sho had sustained . Under the treatment she reoeived she got better . Believed her age to be sixteen . She was rather a dull eirf About two . months back the first symptom ! " of cough and chest disease set in , and she then had tubercular disease of the lungs . She never was treated for real

      any or supposed violence , nor was &rer ff f T J «»» M . as a medical pra < J _ 'S , K ! ° 5 , th * t she was labouring ZtL ^ fr ^ ° f VlOlence- Dr - Qua »» depose ! iodv ?« mTI ? V ? k mortm «»» 'nationoV the pSrKHnli ™ jftf'V * ! * wasgre « t disease ef the flO-SlS * " ^ l e left less 80 - The cities were tion J f Uber f ' the di 8 e £ « e was consumption m its true character . Ho could find no traces ot violence whatever . The cause of death was pulmonary consumption , or diseaw of the Jungs . The ury returned a verdict , " That Eliza Smith died irom pulmonary consumption , and that her death waBnot caused by violence as had been Buspeoted . " A further arrival of 30 , 000 pine apples has taken , place b y a vessel from Sleuthera . This large arrival will have the effect of stocking the markets so plentifully as to bring this esteemed and delicious fruit within the reach of all classes of tbe-pubhe at a vary moderate price

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      The Mormons of Salt Lake City propose to construct a railroad from the Salt Lake to San Francisco , and this proposition is . liigbly favoured by capitalists and le « ding men in San Francisco . " Die Mormons , " remarks an American correspondent , " though a fanatical , are really a wonderful people for indomitable energy , industry , and perseverance . Already they form quite a powerful nation in tho very centre of savage tribes , and their metropolis contains 25 , 800 souls . " The Qceen ' s Colleoes in Ireland . —On Wednesday a bill in the House of LordB was printed to amend the several acts for the regulation of Attorneys and Solicitors . The object of the bill is to extend tho provisions of tho act mentioned to students of the New . Colleges in Ireland , in the same mannorasto . stud ents of Oxford and Cambridge , to facilitato their admission as Attorneys and Solicitors . '

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      — ^> WOLVERHAMPTON . Tpe Tin-Platb Workers . —On Friday week three more of the men charged with conspiracy by Messrs . Perry , entered into recognisances for the same purpose as the nine who appeared before the benoh last Friday . WEDNESBURY . Neglect of Work . —At the Town Hall , on Tuesday week , before John Leigh , Esq ., thirty puddlers in the employ of John Barker , Esq ., Lea-brook ironworks , were charged with neglect of work . Mr . Barker ( who occupied a seat on the bench , ) ht last tho defendants

      stated that on Wednesday nig , after working two or three heats , suddenly left work . He believed they had complained about the iron being too gray . Puddlers ought to make six heats in twelve hours , and he considered they ought to have made that number of heats , according t " the quality of iron served out to thern , They all left work on the night in question , and remained away two days ; in consequence of which he instructed Mr . Clarke to fine the whole of them 5 s each . Some of the men agreed to this , hut the whole of the defendants had declared" thpv wmilH not pay the fine ; he had , there * or , « % S

      whole of them to that courr , and should press for a committal no-ninst three of them—viz . Emanuei Rogers , Thomas Rogers , and Thomas Woodhnll , as they wero very impertinent on being remonstrated with —Mr . James Turley , manager , 3 tati ; d that the men had worked two nights ou the same qiwlftj of iron , ami imd made six lieats within thu time allowed . —In defence , tlio men assorted that the iron wns eo hud that it took thorn from two and a half to three hours to puddle one heat , and that was tho reason they left work .--Mr . Leigh said if they were liissntisiieil with the quantity of iron they should have < riven a proper notice . —About one-half of tho defendants wero finud £ 1 each , and the remainder 5 s . each and costs . —Tho men loudly protested against the decision of tho bench , and declared they would go to Stafford gaol before they would pay a farthing . —Mr . Barker replied , that the bench had the power to order tho amount to be deducted from their wages , which would accordingly be done .

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      TERMINATION OF THE WEAVERS' STRIKE AT BIXGLEY . "We are happy to say , that the strike of the weavers ntBingley lias come to an amicable termination . The employers have acceeded to the just demands of their operatives in every particular . On Tuesday afternoon , July 1 st , M ' r . William Anderton , of Victoria-mill ( who had 328 hands out on strike ) sent for the committee , who immediately waited on him . He informed them that ho was willing to give a penny in return for the threepence which he had pulled off . This the committee would not accept , Finally he agreed to give the v , iiole threepence , but said thov must bu content with that .

      However it would not do . Tliere were other grievances which tho weavers wanted redressing , and they were determined not to be satisfied with half ft victory . At length he agreed to grant them al 30 an extended time in which to get their meals—promised to fine none who were unable to get to their work exactly at tho proper , time through sheer want oi power—and said that the other fines foe wilful neglect should not be pocketed by himself , but distributed in relieving sick weavers . Messrs . Ellis and Homes ( 140 weavers out on stvike ) posteit up a notice en the same day to give the old wagesifor which their weavers had tuvned out . Accordingly a pulilic meeting -was held in the new Odd Fellows' Hall on Tuesday evening , for the

      purpose of laying these matters before the weavers . The large building wa 3 crowded almost to suffocation . Mr . Peter Lumlcv was called to the chair , and spirited addresses were delivered Iiy the Chairman , Mr . Abraham Robinson , of Hallar-bridge ; Mr . William Emmott , of Keichley ; and Mr . John Smith , of Bingley . A resolution was unanimously come to , " That as the employers had granted everything tbe weavers should resume their work . But tbo struggle is not yet finished . Other manufacturers in the town aided those who had their hands out on strike by reducing tho wages of their own hands , and thus lessening their ability to succour their brethren . The week after the turnout at the two firms mentioned a reduction was

      made by Messrs . Jones , Sharp , and Sons , and Messrs . Leach and England , for the express purpose of weakening the weavers , and strengthening their enemies . No turn-out took pl . ice then , as it was not thought advisable to have so many out at once , On tho same day , however , on which Mr . Anderton and Messrs . Ellis and Homes yielded to the demands of Justice , Messrs . Jones , Sharp , and Sons intimated their intention to advance wages to the old standard , thus sliowiii . c : that they had only reduced them for tho shameful purpose of paralyzing the efforts of the weavers . However , it was unanimously resolved at the meeting , " That the weavers of Messrs . Sharp should strike work until tho

      wages for the five weeks they had worked at the reduction were fully paid up . " Messrs . Sharp have poekelsd above £ 100 by this disgraceful proceeding , and seem to think that they can now escape " scot free . " But they are mistaken . Every shilling will have to be refunded , as , during the strike at the other firms , the -weavers have counted all their pieces , and know how muoh is due to each weaver , reckoning tho full wage—that is , threepence per piece more than they have been receiving for the last few weeks . Notice has been given to Messrs . Sharp , that , unless the money be refunded in twelve days , the weavers will strike work ; and it is probable that the weavers at Measrs , Leach and Eng * land ' s will do the s ; mie .

      The subscriptions in Bingiey and tbe neighbourhood are still going on , and it is hoped that friends in other parts will not relax their efforts , as everything may be acquired , if Messrs . Sharp's opera-Lives ( amounting to above 300 hands ) are compelled to strike ; and it is imperative on them either to strike or to get their money , otherwise tyranny will remain unchecked , and the tvrants will have quietly put £ 100 into their pockets . Thomas Sjiack&eton , Sec . Mosks IIolgate , Treasurer .

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      The Stoubbridoe and Bro . vsgrove BA . VHS . --le ' titions in bankruptcy were filed" in the court at Birmingham on Monday against MeJ 8 T 9 .- Jtunord and Wrasrge , and Rufford and Bistir .

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      him ¦ . 1851 THE NORTHERN STAR . ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1633/page/5/