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      WATKFN S' LEGACY TO THE CHARTISTS . lECIU ^ E ni . —CH&ISTIAKITY ARD CHARTISK . it jesxs of Naareth irho went about doing good . " £ bout this tim » , eome eighteen eentarlea ago ( last Gkjissnas ! , vu bom the meat memorable man that erer lived , Jesus Christ ! the author of the Christian Religion . If ever there vna & good man , if ever tkere was a great man , a man of gsnhu and of virtue , it tras he . ' Again , if eTer there was a man of eonow , of EoSedag , and of sacrifice , it was he ; and mark ! it was his Tory goodness , his very greatness his very ggjjiassnd virtue , that brought on him so much sorrow and gufferins and sacrifice . Yea , it -was hij very worthiness , bis truthfulness , that exposed him to ao modi ctU , privation , and pewecntion . His attachment , his adherence , his self-devotion to the interests of justice and humanity ; Hie true , the real interests of all men , made those -who aeek their individual or party

      interarts , exclusive of , or to the destruction of the general interests of mankind , made all usurpers , all monop&lszirs , and all oppressors , his bitter enemies , tii inveterate opponents—yea , they hated him because beloved them too wellj they doomed him to misery beeaose he wished to render them troiy happy ; and because he sought to save them , they destroyed him . geir&sthe gentlest , the most generous and best of beings ; and yet what was the treatmtnt he received—That was his fata ? He lived , as he himseif says , icomed and rejected of men—he had not where to lay bii hssj—he was driven from place to place , hunted liie s wild beart , and at last , thia good man , this graciocs gentleman , ( for he was a gentleman in the true sense of the word , } was hung up like a murderer , not fes taking life , but for saving it ; hong on the cross , where he died with , these tender words trembling on his tortured lips , " Father forgive them for they know not what they da "

      Jesus Christ was the victim of the vices of others ihs had none of his own)—wicked men took his life because he was a good man . What ignorance and prejudice he had to contend against . ' What privations and positive afflictions he endured j What patienoe was his amid all his pains ! He did not appear in paslicriife-tiil-afteFhe was thirty yean of-age , * ad Li 3 ministry lasted-only some three years—yet in that short period ages of labour , ages of trial , ages of tortare were compressed—and after doing and suffering so much , la -was at length betrayed into the kands of his -cruel esemies by one of his own disciples—denied by another when all else had forsaken him—mocked , scourged , crucified—followed when bearing his cross , when fainting beneath the weight of a wicked -world ,

      foUewed with taunts and jsers of an unthlnki g crowd , who had been instigated to hoot their scorn , to howl their hatred , to buffet , to spit upon tfceir best , their only friend , _ to abuse him when about to die for theminstig&te 4 s ^^ hose who had ever been their worst enemies , who had made them the dupes of their bigotry , theslaves of their tyranny , the victims of their eevetousness , their avarice , and their ambition . But the ignominous , the agonizing death that was meant to extinguish the shining , the useful life of Jesus Christ only made it blaze the brighter—burst f jrth the wider , for , Eke the Phoenix , his fame rose from his own ashes—the very villain * employed ta execute him caught newness of life from his death—they thought that there must be something supremely excellent in

      those principles which could enable the possessor to pass through such a terrible ordeal , t » stand , such a trying test , that that man must have been a good man , who , dying under such shameful , such shocking circumstascas , ooold stall exhibit so much fortitude , resignation , and marvellous benignity , so saueh cheerfulness—for all the tortures inflicted on him , extorted no groans , no curses , extorted nothing but forgiveness from him . And if the very villains who were employed to exeeute him , and who had been prejudiced , promoted , and paid , to do the damned deed by the authorities , if these villains , common executioners , trera con-Tertsdby bis sufferings , and convinced of his integrity , what think you must have been the feelings of bis own beloved disciples—of those who had been witnesses of

      the blameless parity of his past life , of those who had imbibed the same principles , who were actuated by similar zeal , what must they have felt on witnessing his untimely , Ms unmerited , his mast barbarous fate ? They did just what they anght to have done—what he wished than to do—they did not spend their time in useless lamentations in making a parade of sorrowthey did not content themselves with meeting together on the anniversary of his death to drink his memory in solemn silence—no , they revenged him—revenged him in the noblest manner—they went and promulgated his doctrines—they spread his principles—they devoted themselves to doing justice to his motives , to his conduct , to his character , and with a zal second only to his own : nothing daunted by his fate , nothing

      dismayed by the difficulties , nothing deterred by the distresses in their way—they followed his example , they lived over his Ufa , and , indeed , they were faithful even unto death—aye , even to a death such a * bis , the most dreadful , the most cruel that tyrasny ever yet devised te torture freebera man . Blessed martyrs ! this was the way to make your principles flourish ; thus proselytes were gained , thus converts were Hide , and Christianity was thus promulgated , was thus propagated , till throned emperors , crowned kings , aeeptred powers , swordad princi-1 palites , began to notice it , began to be swayed ! by . it , and at length from persecuting th . 6 y fdl to patron- i iiLng it ( ah , patronage moie fatal than their persecution ) for the pure and spotless virgin of the church when wooed by the state , was won by it Alas l Chrisanity was seduced , it fell into the embraces of pomp

      and power , and became a proitituted harlot Church and State—fjpm ?*»¦?¦ ¦ unholy allimca , that adulterous connexion sprung the bastard progeny of bishops , abbots , popes , monks , friars , and all the rest of the Roman trumpery , black , white , and grey ; who by false prophecies , false Tnim *!** , and falsa pretences-of all fr ™ ri » , made a grand handle of Christianity and used , it not to gain heaven with , but to win tha world withal—not to ameliorate the condition of the people , but to sink them into a state of double vassalage;—in fact , Christianity has been perverted from its true path—it has altogether gone out of the way—it has been turned , as it were , against itself , ana made to commit suicide . A system has be ^ n built on the foundation of Christ , worse than that which he died to . overthrow , which he died te rebuild , and such a horrid—such an abominable use has been made of his

      name , that I verily believe , if ha could have foreseen the atrocities , the fieuolite acts committed in it , he would have gone silent through life , and never have Esfieredhis nam « ts have been known at all Now these demoniacal deeds were not confined to the Catholics—the Protestants have had thtir full shars in them : nor were they things of former times , gone by with bygone times ; no , they exist at present—they are acted on even now—only in an altered or modified form . Tea , there is as much villany—as much cold-blooded cruelty practised in the name of the blessed Redeemer as ever , and the mitred bishops , the Bbovel-hatted tUsns , the while-banded parsons , who support the preset sysUm , and who profit by it , are as unchristian in so doing—are as anti-Christian—as inhuman , nay , more bo , tyn the heathen , than those whom we civilly term Borages , than , the Caribbees who drinkhuman gore , and & ~; t on human flgah .

      JeiUi ChrLt , while he lived , was metre ! at , slighted , and contemned ; but after hia death , and when his pretepis and example began to take tffeer , began to operate a change in men * B minds and conduct , then it was asted—What is a Christian ? Who -was this Christ ? Enquiry began to be made into all the particular * of his lif& , and is was fonnd by tradition and contunporary testimony , that he had beta born of poor parents , in circumstances of grsat humiliation , at tha coidest season of the year , in a manrer , if-jr his mother could procure

      no better lodging , not even in the hour >> f nature ' s bohow—of nature ' s extremity , ) that his parents were obliged to flee with him , while yet an infant , to save his life froEi an indiscriminate massacre decreed by Herod;—thai after waniiering from country to coun'ry , probably in search of weik , they finely settled in Sajaretb , where the son followed his father ' s trade of a carpenter , till he went forth to preach—that his first companions and converts were poor cshennen , and eo en &s narrated forty years aftjr his de * tih by the Evangelists , and as preached by the apostle Paul and othe : a . ( To oe concluded in our % txt . )

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      TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Bbotheb Democrats , —By the time you wiJi hsve seen this letter , the greater number of you "wiil have registered your votes for the five individuals wk «> are to manage your £ Jf * ixB for the next twelve months . The trrm of office for the old Executive will then be neariy txpired . When 1 calmly look back to the four months 1 actedas joar representative en the Provisional , and the twelve Tnonthson the permanent Executive , I feel proud that I have contributed my mite towards making the Association what itis at present When I became Secretary , there * oe about sixty or seventy places registered in our

      Association ; now there are Eearly 400 , Taere had been nearly 10 , fiu 0 cards issued ; duriDg the last twelve months there has been 35 , 000 issued . Daring tur term c ! afice , from the letters I have received , every satisfaction has been given ; and the Association now wonders how we hare accomplished bo much with so little means . We have never had an angry word in our body ; members cf tha same family could not agree better than the Eecniive have done . Every tu ' rj : ct that was brought befan ^ u was ralmly examined on its own merits or demerits , and adopted or rejected according to the dictates of sur reason .

      JSa&d much has been done more remains for the Chartists to do . Although the Association has now up" » ards of 40 , 000 members on its books , —is that ekhibei enough ? N- >; nor a tithe cf what ought to be enrolled . There is not a county , city , borough town , or hamlet , into which our principles should not be introduced . Now I ask of the National Cuarter Association to take such steps as will enable its Executive Council to Bead lecturers into the agricultural districts , and if Possible arouse that portion of the labouring classes to a sense of their own worth and dignity . Every engine ^ ast be Bet in- play to arouse the masses to deciare in a foice of thunder , that they are determined ts kave eveniaaced justice mated out to all parties .

      . We have one ti " g in particular to be proud of ; Eamely , that the trades aie declaring for the Charter . I « t the united trades of this great cation bnt avow openly and detenainediy , that they insist npon the Pst-pie ' e Charter becoming law 5 a&d vriil any govern

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      ment dare refuse them their just demands ? I unhesitatingly answer No . The Chartist carpenter * and joiner * of Manchester , already number a hundred members ; the fustian cutters a hundred . The mechanics have also joined the If ational Charter Association . TMs week , it is expected that the bricklayers and smiths will be induced Co imitate their worthy example ; immediate steps will be taken to wait on the shoemakers , calico printers , silk and piece-dyers , and spinners , to prevail on them to come out far the Charter ; and there ia not the shadow of a doubt on my mind , but before six months , we will have the whole of the 34 anehester

      trades with us . London also is doing its work ; and when the trades of London and Manchester have unitedly decided on agitating for the Charter , they will give a tone of confidence to all the trades in the united kingdom . I now call on you as men , as fathers , as husbands , as patriots , and as good , true , and sterling Chartists , to bury at once and for ever aDy little petty grievance that may have existed amongst you . Dj not allow the disputes of leaders to divide you .. Tell t&em if they will dispute with each other the consequence wiU be on their own heads , let us act ' unitedly Without union we are powerless ; with it we are every , thing .

      In conclusion , I would entreat of those parties who owe for cards , to pay off the debt . 'Tls really too bad ta bave so many card * out without being paid fer . I didtxpect that the new Executive would have come into office with clear books . I am now afraid such will not be the case . Hoping that during the next twelve months the cause will progress even more rapidly than it has done for the last twelve , I remain , your brother Democrats , Johm Campbell . Salford , June 6 th , 1842 .

      P . S . As the polling will be concluded on Monday night , June 14 th , I shall expect all the returns to be forwarded to me by Saturday the 18 th . It will be impossible for me to receive any returns after that date , as I have to be in Yorkshire on the 19 th , 20 th , 21 st , 22 nd , and 23 rd . The polling lists must . be forwarded to the Star office before I leave home , in order that they may 8 f > pear in that paper on the 25 th of June . There is sufficient time given' to each' sub-secretary , and if not forwarded in time ; the fault must not be laid at my door . I wish also to request that ^ ties who write to me would be very careful how their letters are directed-Lately I have had to release several letters that cost me twopence each ; whenever I am written to , the parties who write such letters ought to prepay them . The postage is Euffiiiently heavy without having to pay double for letters .

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      TO THE EDITOR OP THE KOBTHEBN STAB . Sib ., —It is sgretd on aU bands that great distress at present exists throughout the trading world . Of its cause , a multiplicity of opinions are afl » at . Perhaps , amongst the many , you will allow me to give mine . It is well known that during the protracted war with France , under the reign of Bonaparte , the landed interest , or aristocracy of England , «« pledged their lives and fortunes" in support of our Government How waa this pledge fulfilled ? Why , they created a fictitious capital , which said fictitious capital enabled them to double , yea , treble their rentals . At the conclusion of the war , they procured the enactment of the Corn Laws , by the operation of which they have contrived to retain those rents te this day .

      But-while they passed the Com Laws to protect themselves , they also passed measures to restore the old standard of money ; or , in other words , to greatly curtail that " fictitious capital" which had trebled their rents , added to the salaries of our officers of state from the reigning monarch downwards , and affected the prices of produce and all existing contracts , to an almost incalculable extent Now , what effect had those measures upon the manufacturing and commercial interest ? for , mark , the landed interest , L e . the landlords , had protected themselves from the consequences of their own acts by the Corn Bill of 1815 , enacted for the purpose of keeping up the produce of the land to war-prices . What

      effect had their measures upon me , for instance ? for my case was the case of thousands , and it will fully illustrate the confiscating nature of the measures then passed . I had at the time these measures were determined on , upwards of £ 120 , 000 value in manufactured cloth and in wool ; while I had another £ 80 , 000 sunk in mills and machinery . What did all this property sell for ? Less than £ 80 , 000 . ' 11 Here was confiscation . ' Here . was a sweeping away ! 1 "Upwards of £ 120 , 000 sileniit , but effectually , filched from me , —ont individual , —by Acts of the Parliament ! Mine was but the case of thousands : judge then of the alteration made in the . value cf property by the measures of our lawmakers , affecting the standard of value !

      Let it be borne in mind , that all articles of wear are now disposed of at one half the prices they wore forty or fifty years ago . I challenge any one to disprove these facts ; and 1 ask , Sir , if this be the way to administer justice with impartiality and to give equal protection to the community 1 lam , Sir , Tours trnly , William Hibst . Leeds , June 6 th , 1842 .

      P . S . Was not the wool duty laid on for the benefit of the landed interest , and kept on for years , till the foreigners began to manufacture for themselves , and undersell the regular manufacturers in the London market ? Then the duty was altered ; and at the time this measure was passed I had by me 500 , 000 lbs . weight of wool , for which I had paid about £ 14 , 000 duty I ! When the measure was passed , I applied to Government for redress ; but none could be afforded . ' Ihat measure took out of my pocket upwards of £ 20 , 000 I ! ! W . H .

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      ANOTHER PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY . TO THE EDITOB OF THE NORTHERN STAR , Sis , — -It is now some : few months ain » e I requested the favour of your giving publicity to a flagrant case of interference with the liberty of expression , in the person of Mr . Charles Southwell , Editor of the Oracle 0 / Reason , arrested at the instance of a Bristol magistrate far blasphemy . He-was tried and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment , and to pay a fine of £ 100 . He is now undergoing his sentence in Bristol Gaol . The editorship of the work , upon his confinement , devolved npon Mr . G . J . Holyoake , a Social Missionary , who , on Thursday night last , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , was arrested at Cheltenham by two policemen , without a warrant , and confined in the Station-houss for the remainder ef the night , charged with using blasphemous expressions at the conclusion of a lecture delivered by him on HoHie Colonisation , on the Tuesday week previously , in the Mechanics ' Institution .

      In the morning he was committed to take his trial at Gloucester , at the ensuing sessions , to the ga » l of which county he was conveyed handcuffed , and would have been compelled to walk from Cheltenham to Groncester , a distance of nine miles , but for the interference of his friends . Tne majority of the public pipers are bo Bhackled by class interests as to render them entirely useless for the defence of an oppressed individual whom th 8 strong arm cf oigotry seeks to crush , for the advocacy of expression of extreme opinions , however honestly expressed . And I simply state my feelings when 1 say , that the honest woriing men cannot too highly appreciate the jouriial which has been found the impartial advocate of tqual freedom of expression for all creeds and shades of opinion . I remain , Yours , ia , W . J . Chilto . n . Birmingham .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THB NORTHEB . S STAB . " Sia , —In the report of the Nottingham election meeting held on Tuesday last , it is Btated " that Mr . O'Connor is a member of thirty-four Associations , and has X&ktn out a card at Nottingham to entitle him to rote for the election of the new Executive . " Now , O'Connor , I presume , has taken » ut thirty-five cards of membership of the National Charter Association ; he has joined the Association in thirty-five different towns ; and , if they are to be called Associations , I should like to know where the nationality of our Association will be found ? In your remarks on Mr . Philp ' s letter , you cay there can be but one General Council , neither can

      there , in-my opinion , be bnt one National Charter Association- It was not necessary for Mr . O'Connor to have taken one his eard at Nottingham to have entitled him to vote for the Executive . It matters not where a member takes out his card , s » that it is taken out according to the fifth rule , which says the card shall be renewed half yearly . If Mr . O'Connor had renewed his card o > 'C £ only within the six months , whether he lived in Manchester , Brighton , or Nottingham , upon producing his card , he would be entitled to vote . Persons in the habit of travelling from town to town , and renewing their cards at every place , create a false impression , without adding one more member to the Association .

      Hoping that Mr . 0 Connor will take this in good feeling , I remain , Faithfully in the cause of Chartism , Nathaniel Morling , Sub-Secretary to the National Charter Association . Brizhtoo , June 6 th , 1842 . [ Mr . Morlinf is right There is but one National Charter Association ; and if a man hold fifty cards he still is bat one member , and can have but ene vote in its proceedings , which he might have , though he held but one card . We wish all efficers and members of the Association would take as much pains . to understand its constitution as Mr . Morling seems to have done . We should have fewer blunders , less trickery , and a better spirit amongst us . —Ed . 2 fS ]

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      NOMINATIONS TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL . ; CARRINGT )! T , NEAR NOTTINGHAM . Mr . Wm . Grundy , lace-maker , Mr . Richard Hankin , framework-knitter . Mr . Matthew Walker , labourer . Mr . George Upton , lace-maker . Mr . Abraham Widowson , lace-maker . Mr . Benjamin Harvey , lace-maker , Union-street , sub-Treasurer . Mr . Samuel Daft , lace-maker , Faotory-etreet , sub-Secretary . MERTHYR TTDVIL . Mr . Wm . Gould , grocer . Mr . David John , smith . Mr . Matthew John , do . Mr . Wm . Miles , miner . Mr . Wm . James , do . Mr . Evan Rees , do . Mr . David Rees , do . Mr . John Bailis , confectioner . Mr . Henry Thorn , cooper . Mr . David Ellis , weaver . Mr . Morgan Williams , do . Mr . John Thomas , sub-Treasurer . Mr . David Davis , smith , sub-Secretary . &TROTJD . Mr . Samuel Nissow , New Town . Mr . Samuel Paul , New Town . Mr . "Wm . Ind , New Town . Mr . Thomas Hampton , Norfolk-sfcreefc , sub-Treasurer . ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ Mr . Franois Mover , Parliament-street , sub-Secretary . DURHAM . Mr . Hugh Richmond , tailor JClaypath . Mr . Michael Coyne , naflor , Elvet . ' Mr . John Dreghofn , carpet weaver , Crossgate . Mr . Robert Harrison , cordw ' ainer , Millburngate . Mr . Wil'iana Craig , eortfuvainer , Millburngate . Mr . John Mowbray , Attorney V clerk , Framwellgate . - ; ¦ - - ¦ Mr . John Bray , cooper , Framwellgate . Mr . Banjamin Hill , labourer , do ., sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Jones , tallow chandler , Clay path , sub-Secretary . bclwbll . ;¦ " ¦ ¦ •¦ Mr . William Morris , framework-knitter . Mr . William Green , ditto . Mr . James Cliff , ditto . Mr . James Haudley , ditto . Mr . Abram Goff , ditto . Mr . William Hicken , ditto , sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Cliff , ditto , sub-Secretary , car « of John Pearson , near to the . General Baptist Chapel , Bulwell .

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      SHBFFIEIaJ . —Mr . Brophy lectured to an outdoor meeting on the site of the Old Sugar Houses , top of Sheffield Moor , on Sunday afternoon last . The assemblage was numerous and respectable . Two or three O'Connellites interrupted Mr . Brophy with their abuse , but their disgraceful conduct found no support with the great body of the meeting . Mr . Brophy lectured again in the evening , in the Figtree-lane room ; his statements of the deplorable state of the different districts he has recently visited was listened to with deep attention . Thanks were voted to Mr . B . fer his zealous services in the democratic cause .

      Mr . Duffy lectured in the Figtree-lane refjijfi , on Monday evening , giving an account of the state of Lancashire , Derbyshire , Staffordshire , and other parts of the country , showing the miseries aid wrongs engendered by class-legislation . At the conclusion of his address , Mr . D . excited the astonishment and laughter of the meeting by exhibiting to their wondering gaza what be called "the coat of a free-born Englishman , " an article he had picked up in the neighbourhood of Hebden Bridge , and certaiuly such a scarecrow we have seldom seen . It was indeed a fine specimen of " things as they are , "—proclaiming " trumpet-tongued" the blessings of class-legislation .

      WoODHOtSE . —Mr . Samuel Parka , from Sheffield , preached at the Market-cross , Woodhouse , on Sunday evening last A large and deeply attentive audience listened to the truths propounded by the preacher , illustrative of the harmony of Christianity with the principles of liberty and equality . BACUP . —A meeting was held here on Friday evening last , in the Chartist Association room , which was well attended , especially by females , when they formed a Female Association , and the evening was passed in recitations , songs , &a , after which dancing was kept up to a late hour . ' . NOTTINGHAM . —On Sunday . Mr . E . V . Mead , from Birmingham , preached two Chartist sermona , on the Forest , to a concourse of several thousand people . The speaker gave to the millocrats , abopocrats , the foreign mission-mongers , and the worshippers of mammon a severe castration .

      ON Monday Evening , in the Democratic Chapel , Rice-place , the same gentleman delivered another lecture upon priestcraft influence , which lasted two hours . Sctton-in-Ashfield . —The Chartists of Sutton-in-Ashfiuld , meeting at the Old Trooper , have resolved to spend their Sundays in spreading the principles of Chaitism in those villages in the district where Chartism is unknown , and on Sunday last fourteen of that body want to South Normanton , in Derbyshire , where a numerous meeting was soon got up , and Mr . Simmons

      delivered an able and impressive address on the state of the country and the principles of ChartUm . The greatest attention was manifested throughout and at the conclusion an Association was formed , and twenty members enrolled themselves and strongly requested Mr . Simmons to attend on them again , which he agreed to do in a fortnight . The distress in this village amongst the colliers is almost unparalleled , and several declared that some families had not tasted bread for three days , and others five . The same party intend visiting Pinxton on Sunday next , where Mr . Simmons will deliver an address at five o ' clock in the afternoon .

      LSXTH . —A demonstration was held in Leith Links , on Sunday last , in favour of those expatriated victims , Froat , Williams , and Jones . The melting , which was very numerous , was addressed at considerable length by Mr . John M'Crea , in a very affecting and eloquent speech , in which he made a feeling appeal in behalf of the above-named patriots ; after which Mr . John Tankard preached a sermon to an attentive audieuce , from the fifth chapter of James , 4 th and 5 th verses— " Behold the hire of the labourer , which have reaped down your fields , which is of you kept back by fraud crieth , and the cries of them which have reaised are entered into the ears of the Lord of

      Sabaoth . Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth , and been wanton ; ye have nourished your hearts as in day of slaughter . " Mr . Tankard expounded his text in Buch a feeling manner as must have pierced the hearts of his audience , which could not be less than 3 , 000 , among whom was a great many of the upper classes . A collection was made , which amounted , after paying expeoees , to £ 1 2 s . 6 d . A few of the friends from the country , and a few of the Committee and members of the Leith Charter Association then adjourned to Mrs . Watson ' s Teetotal Coffee House , and had a comfortable tta party j after which a variety of addresses were delivered , each speaking iu his turn , and the evening was spent in the most harmonious manner . -

      CZIOTDON . —A public meeting has been held in the open air , in the above locality , to consider the propriety of the inhabitants adopting the People ' s Charter , as tho best means of removing the misery and degradation of the -working classes . The cb&ir was taken by Mr . W . Hedges . Resolutions for the People ' s Charter , and expressive of their determination to hold aloef from any other agitation than the present one were proposed , and ably supported by Messrs . Brown , Rainsley , J . C . Taylor , Esq ., the anti-Corn Law lecturer ,- Mr . Fair bay , and several other gentlemen , and carried unanimously . Several members were enrolled .

      REBDENBiUDGB . —A numerous and highly respectable meeting was held ia a large and commodious room , at this place on Wednesday evening , June 1 st , when Mr . Abraham Marshall was called to the chair . Mr . Beesley , district secretary for North Lancashire , gave a short report of the proceedings on the presentation of the National Petition , and a severe lashing to those who style themselves the Right Rav . Fathers in God , who are receiving such enormous sums of money , whilst there are thousands who are starving by being plundered by such avaricious beings as these . Sixteen then came forward to join in the glorious cause for freedom . The meeting separated , highly delighted with what they had heard .

      The Council met here on Thursday last , when the following resolution was unanimously passed : — " That any lecturer wishing to visit this place must correspond with the sub-secretary , and wait bis answer , or otherwise he will not be accepted . All letters must be directed to James Helliwell , in cars of Mr . Abraham Marshall . DEWSBUftY . —District Council Meeting — A district council meeting was held at Batley , on Sunday , when delegates ware present from the following places : —Dawsbury , Dawgreen , Birstal , Potovens , Bitley , Wakefield , Earlsheaton , EiBt Ardsley , and Littletown . The accounts given in by the varieos delegates were cheering in the extreme , as far as

      regards the prosperity of this our glorious cause ; and the good feeling that is now animating ' the Chartists throughrut the whole of the district , by the eloquent and talented lectures of Mr . West , which have done much good , besides adding numbers to our ranks . -After the financial business of the meeting had been transacted , it was resolved that 163 . be sent to the Executive , and 10 s . fcr cisrsJa ; and t ' aat the delegates of the next Council meeting do bring 2 ii . per mombsr levy , fcr the lecturer's fond . Itis requited that those places ! hat do net send a delegate do s&Hd their quota , by letter , to Mr . Robstaw , district treasurer . Tho next council meeting was ordered to be held at Wakefield , en Sunday , the l& : h iust ., at Mr . Alfred Lancaster ' s , top of Kirkgate , at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon .

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      BATLET OAHR- ^ A few friends of the Dewsbury Charter Association assembled at the House of Mr . Joseph D * jt Fowatert Arms Inn , Batley Caw , to establish a new association . Messw . Robahaw , Lord , and several other frienda , addressed them 00 the present statt of the country , said the remedy for their grievances . ^ Ten new members enrolled thei * names and took their cards . James Pox , secretary of the Dewsbury Association , acted as secretary , and YOlunteered to serve them for three months , until they got more organised . The landlord , Mr . Joseph Day , was appointed treasurer . A vote of thanks was given to the worthy , landlord for the use of the rboin . The meeting separated highly pleased .

      OSSETr .-On Friday evening last , Mr . West lectured here to a very attentive audience ^ Nearly Uurty enrolled their names , and received their cards of membership . A committee was formed to engage a proper place of meeting , when the people cheerfully retired to their respective habitations , highly gratified with the evening ' s transactions . BARNSLET . -Mr . P . M . Brophy visited this town on Monday evening , and delivered a lecture in the School-room under the Odd Fellows HalL The greatest attentions was paid to the lecture throughout

      STOURBRXDG 5 . —A public meeting was held Jn the Association room , on Wednesday evening last , Mr . Cassidy was unanimously called to the chair , and after a few remarks introduced Mr . Q . White , who , in a speech of about an hour and a half durat ion , exposed the present rotten system of Government , and / depleted the blessings which would be shared by all classes of the community i& the event of the Charter becoming the law of the land , and earnestly exhorted all parties to aid and assist in the glorious struggle for freedom ; He gave the highest satisfaction to his numerous audience . Several joined the association . A Chartist Tka-Pauty and Ball was held in the National Chartist Association room , on Monday , when upwardB of fifty sat down to tea , after which several excellent sentiments were given , which were ably responded to by different speakers .

      MANCHESTER . —A public meeting of the trades of this town ^ was held in the Carpenters' Hall , on Friday evening , to hear a lecture on trades' unions , by Dr . P . M . M'Douall . The meeting was called for eight o ' clock ; and notwithstanding the charge for admission and the day of the week , tha large room was nearly filled with an intelligent and enthusiastic audience . Shortly after eight o ' clock . Mr . M'Douall entered the HalL He was received with loud and long-continued cheering . Mr . Whitaker , a working man , was Called to the chair . He opened the meeting by a few remarks to the trades generally upon the necessity of their joining in the movement for their political rights , and a brief account of his delegation to the mechanics ; and he was proud that the result of that delegation was the coming out of the mechanics for the Charter whole and entire . Mr . M'Douall was received with rapturous cheers , and delivered a long and excellent address , for which he received the thanka of the assembly . .-- -. ¦ ¦ ¦'¦ . ; ¦ ¦ " - ' . - ¦¦• , " ¦ . ¦' ¦; ' . ;•¦ . : ¦¦ " ¦ / . ' : ' ¦¦ ¦¦'

      HottiNOWoaiH . —The Rev , w . V . Jackson preached three sermons in au empty mill , Padfield , on Sunday last , which were very numerously attended . The sum of £ 4 Is . ty& . was 1 collected . GlosSOP . —The Rev . W . V . Jackson lectured here on Saturday evening to a very attentive and delighted audience . A large number of new members were enrolled . Hawobth— Mr . Doyle leotured Q 3 re to the Chartists of Haworth , on Monday , May 30 th , and at Kelgbley , on Tuesday 31 st , and Bingley , on Wednesday . June 1 st

      Ecclbs . —We had a glorious meeting on Monday night , for both numbers and enthusiasm . The Rev . W . V . Jackson gave us a soul-stirring and talented lecture this evening . The subject was " a remedy tot the national distress ; " which he handled in such a manner as repeatedly called forth the approbation of his numerous and delighted audience . The Chartists of this place have voted thanks and confidence in the Executive severally by name . liBICESTER . — - —The Shaksperean Chartists now numbers 1 , 800 : we enrolled 105 last Sunday alone , after three discourses by Mr . Cooper ; and our additions during the week amount to thirty per day oh an average . Ah eventful battle was fought in oar Amphitheatre , last Monday night . Mr . O'Brien appeared to

      deliver his second lecture , but consented to answer Mr . Cooper's questions before he began . The question was then pnt , " Why is not Mr . O'Brien a memrer op the National Charter Association ? " Mr . O'Brien occupied an hour and twenty minutes in reply . First , he intended to become the editor of a newspaper , and he would lose his character for impartiality , if he belonged to any ono society ; it would fetter him ; and prevent him from exercising the influence desirable on tho public mind . Secondly , the Government sought his life , but they could not take it so long as he ( Mr . O'B . ) was responsible for his own acts only ; each member of the National Charter Association was responsible for the acts of other members of the body ; the Star itself had shewn that ; he had suffered for other men's offences .

      and he did not want to suffer for them again . Letters had been sent to him previous to the Newport outbreak , of the most atrocious character ; one of them began , " We do . nbt think it advisable to begin by firing the town at that end ; " plots of the inost diabolical kind had been devised to draw him into danger . So long as he was not a member , he could not thus be brought into danger . Mr . Cooper had said it was inconsistent in him ( Mr . OB . ) to go about the country telling working men that they ought to become members of the National Charter Ascociation while he ( Mr . O'B . ) was not a member himself ; but he ( Mr . O Brien ) never had insisted on any working man becoming : a member of the association . Working men he ( Mr . O'B . ) know wero often in danger

      of losing their employ , and even their bread , if they became members . They were sure to be persecuted , and their very lives might be in danger . Ho had said , " if you become members of any association let it be of this . * But he had never insisted on it peremptorily . Aud , now , what must be say about inducements to become a member ? When there was less quarrelling and bickering—when the members ceased to devour each other * and to attempt to destroy each other ' s reputation , then he ( Mr . O'B . ) might be induced to become a member ; but could not otherwise . Mr . Cooper , in reply , asked who would be a member of the National Charter Association if they took Mr . O'B ' a . advice ? Where would the leaders of Chartism be , if every man acted on Mr . O'B ' a . judgment ? Was

      net each and every man in danger if Mr . O'Brien was in danger ? Was not be iMr . C . ) In danger ? and yet he avowed his membership , and defied persecution . Might not letters be sent to him , ( Mr . C , ) and would it not be easy to put them into the flre , if they wtre dancerpUB ? Did it require ; more than the brains of an Infant to perceive that that waa ft ready way- . of preventin 2 their mischief ? ' Had not other men suffered far the offence ' s' of ethers ? Had not O'Connor suffered for the offence ,, as it was called , of a man who stood on that very stage at .. that niomenfe—atid yet ;• ¦ did this either incite O'Connor to conduct himself spitefully towards that man , or to say fee ( O'C . ) would not be a member of the National Charter Association ? Was he ( Mr . C . ) to say , because he happened to bei

      publishing his little Commonioealthsman , " O , I cannot be a member of the National Charter Association ? the public will say I am not impartial . " Why people would laugh at him ; and Mr . O'Brien must know that working men bad more brains than to believe that a man of first-rate intelligence would put forth such a reason , in sincerity . Mr . O Brien ' s argument had been one continued insidious attack on the Charter organisation ; it was one purposed and connected contrivance to persuade working men not to belong to it What else meant the vociferous cheers ot the middle classes to-night , numbers of whom had come to hear Mri O'Brieq , although they would not come to . hear O'Connor ? Thes&gentry had cheered Mr . O'Brien in every part of his argument Which bore hardest on the

      National Charter organisation , —and why ? because they knew Mr . O'Brien was playing their game . It was time for every man to stand without-a mask . There skood Mr . O'Brien : let the working classes judge of him . But Mr . O'Brien was opposed to denunciations , he could not join the organisation because the members wure always quarrelling and practising detraction . 6 no ! Mr . O'Brien never quarrelled ! He never practised d < traction ! There was a pamphlet in existence . lie ( Mr , C ) held it in his hand . Did it come from Mr . 0 Brien ? it began " Brother Chartists , —As one of your bo-ay , "— Rather a strange sentence for Mr . O'Brien to couimtuce with ; and it contained also this sentence : — "I repeat , and pledge myself to prove , that there is not a particle of truth in your account of the proceedings

      of the late Conference , so far as I am concerned , and very , very little truth so far as others are concerned ; and that the whole is a base concoction of OConnor , yourself , and atfusrs t : to discredit me with the Chartist public . " Mr . 0 Brien , who bated detraction and quarrelling , could write that sentence ; and yet he knew that the Star had merely copied - " . its account of the Sturge Conference from the Nonconformist and British Statesman . And , to conclude , Mr . O'B . had appended to his pamphlet the "description of a demagogue , " by Mr . Henry Vincent ; and that description was intended for a portrait of O'Connor I Yet thiB was the Mr . O'Brien who could not become a member of the National Charter Association while there was so much detraction among its members ! He 1 Mr . C . ) stood there unflinchingly .. . to proclaim 1 that the

      once great , intelligent , and patriotic O'Brien , was no longer to be regarded as heretofore—that he had yielded to envy and jualousy , and now appeared as the insidious foe of the Charter organization , and the sly advocate of middle clias schemers . He called on worklog men to say , by holding up their hands , whether they approved of a proposition he would now put to them— ' That this meeting having listened to Mr . O'Brien ' s leasoiis for not being a member of the National Charter Association ; and , regarding those reasons , as so many couched and insidious attacks on the Charter Association , hereby declare that they have no longer any confidence in Mr . O'Brien . " The vast majority of the assembly , being workies ; , threw up their hands in a moment ; and , when O'Brien appeared again , he was mot with hooting and derision ' . Let any "New Mover" come to Leicester ' --the Sbfikspereans will te&ch him what is what !

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      TUMSTALL ;—Mr . W . S . ElUs . of Barslem , delivered two lectures in Tunstall Blaiket-place , on Friday evenings , May 27 th and June 3 rd , to large and attentive audiences . Sixteen members were enrolled . tiEAMING'i'ON . —We are acqniring a large accession of strength every day from the middle and trading classes , and many are with us in sentiment who do not appear prominently as the champions of our holy caHse . Moreoveri we are resolved that Leamington shall presently take a very high piace intiielist of Gbarter localities ; and , to ^^ effect , thia object , w « ha ? e made arrangements for the delivery ef lectures during the summer months , and have : already engaged the services of Mr . Bairstow for two lectures , on the evenings , respectiTely , of Wednesday and Thursday in the next week . . ' . '¦ ¦ : ¦; . . - ¦' . ¦ - .. ' ¦ ; :, ¦ " ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦' . ¦ ¦ - - > : - ¦¦ ' ^ . ; '¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : .

      BlRxniNGBAK . —State op the DisxaicT . — The towns surrounding , this former hotbed of political agitation are getting on gloriously . Meetings , are being held in the colliery district' in the neighbourhood of Dudley and Stourbridge , and new towns are being added to the glorious muster of tka great National Charter Association every week At Brierly . Hill , Lye Waste , Sedgely , and a number « f other places , the people attend in thousands to hear the Charter explauied . Messrs . ' White , Maaon , and Llnney have been visiting those districts lately , and the good cause is progressing rapidly . It has been determined to hold

      open air meetings in various parts of Birmingham , in order to arouse the people , and a depntatiAn are busiy engaged in trying to secure a large building for the accommodation of the members , the want of which has been felt to be a serioas loss to bur cause in this tows ; Anew spirit seems to animate * the members , and those who were formerly apathetic are now coming forward with renewed vigour . A conference of all the members is to be held this evening ( Taesday ) to draw up plans and make arrangements for giving a fresh impetus to the cauae , and there ia every prospect of Birmingham being brought into that position which is so essential to the success of our cause .

      Open Air Meetino— -The usual meeting was held in the open air at the railway station , Dnddeston-row , on VIonday evening last , and the advantage of those assemblages are now being felt and acknowledged ; for it is far more healthful and pleasant for men and worn en to assemble ia a field on a beautiful summei'a evening , than being crowded in a room . The meetings have kepi incKoaing every week , aud on the last eccaaion a goodly assemblage were congregated to hear an address from Mr . George White ; he has continued this practice since his return from the Convention , '; arid intends continuing it as long as the weather permits . Mr . White addressed the meeting on Monday evening , on ttie real cause of ^ ^ their poverty , and pointed but the mode by which all men might be made comfortable , had

      they the means of applying their labour to the resources which nature had provided for man ' s' sustenance and comfort , and referred them to Mr . O'Connor's pamphlets on the land , and its capabilities , as a proof of his assertions .. He described the viilanpufl emigration system , and the modes which were devised in the British Colonies to keep working men the continual slaves of capitalists . He exposed the eriormpus robberies perpetrated in Birminghaw , in the fbape of local rates , and held up the police system to public odium , declaring that those vile instruments of a corrupt government , were employed more in the eapacity of spies than preservers of tho peace , as a proof of which , be stated that two or three of them were then in that meeting in disguise , and had orders to attend every

      Monday evenmg . This caused a little excitement . Mr . White then explained the various plans which were resorted to for the purpose of dividing the men of Birmingham , and gave a report of the result of the deputation who waited on Mr . Douglas , of the Journal , from which it appeared , that through lack of other matter to fill the columns of that pre-eminently stupid print , the Editor had recourse to the miserable plan ot concocting badly-written and foolish letters , and publishing them in his " Catch Penny , " as the production of some supporter of Mr . O'Connor . After exhorting the working men to union and determination , he enrolled twenty-four persons as members of the National Charter Aaaoclation , and gave notice that he would attend again on the following Monday evening .

      Aston-Street Meetings . —The usual meeting was held at the Chartist Room , Afiton-street , on Sunday evening last—Mr . Sfcaart in the chair . Mr ^ John Mason delivered a short and interesting address , in which he described the ill-usage he had received from a stupid constable at Sedgely , while delivering a lecture there last w ^ ek ¦; after which the tried veteran , Mr . John Williamson , made his appearance after a severe . illness , and delivered an animated address . Mr . George White then addressed the meeting on the necessity of each member exerting himself to extend the organization in Birmibgham ; - after which the meeting separated . The directing council after wards met at the Ship Inn , to arrange for the conference on Tuesday evening .

      Monday Even ing . —After the opah air meeting a number of the members of the Association attended at Aaton-streflt , for tiae trnsaction of the usnal business Mr . Welsford was appointed chairman ,, and the ; mem .-bers proceeded to the nomination of persons to fill two vacancies in the council , ; and Messrs . White , Bough ; and Ornie . wero placed In nomination . Short addrescea were delivered by Mr . White , Mr . Peter Henley , and Mr . Saundera , and the chairman gave notice that all members of the Association would be expected to vote for members to the Esecutive Committee , by the following Monday . He then ; read the 1 list as published in the Northern Star of Saturday last , after which the meeting separated ; - '

      C 3 > X > NE . —At a numerous and respectable eamp meeting , held on Sunday last , on the top of Pinna , near Culton , th « following resolution was unanimoualy passed : — " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the present alarming and destitute condition of the working classes of this country calls aloud for renewed exertions on the part of every humane and benevolent mbid ; and in order to disseminate information amongst the people , and create that unanimity and firm resolution which is absolutely necessary , this meeting auggesta and recommends to the friends of the people , and more especially the m « mbors of the various Chartist Associations throughout the country , to hold cttnp meetings In their own localities every Sunday , when the weather willperinii "

      GIXASGOW . —TotCROSS . —A meeting was held in the Chartist hall , on Saturday evening last , Mr . Clelland In the chair , to hear addresses from Mr . Brown , of Brldgston , and Con . Murray . Mr . Brown—Subject"Law cf Primogeniture and entail ; ' * the icjastiee and in humanity of which he exposed in a clear and mastevly style . Con . Murray—Subject—" P ^ st history , preSLnt position , and future prosparity &f Chartism . " The lecturer dwelt particularly on the conduct of what is termed the new-move" men , and more especially on that of Mr . C . Pattiaon , as Tolcrosa and West Jiuir , ( the latter containing COO inhabitants , and whick stiit Mr . Pattison to the last . Scottish Convention ) lying coutigious , was for many weaks previoaa to the nwttiug of the Scottish Convention , the field of his ( Mr . P /

      sjoparations , and bu weU-known denunciations of F . O'Connor anithe Northern Star , ^ ^ was the means ^ for a tioia , of prejudicing the inhabitants of this , important district Tolcross—against the people ' s most disinterested and best friend . Con went on to shew the inconsistency of the " new-move '' gentay , or Glasgow synod , in reference to the question of the Repeal of the Legislative Uuion between Great Britain and Ireland , they , the" newmove" men being the bitter opponents of that measure , and contrasted this with the misguided followers of Daniel Q'Connell , who look upon Repeal as being the only panacea for Ireland's manifold wrongs . He proved to his audience * that the foundatioa stone of " new movlsni" in Glasgow , was neithervmoie nor less than a determined enmity to O'Connor and the : Noriher > i Star . He proved , to their entire satisfaction , that a union founded on such a basis / aud supported by vituperation

      and intrigne ,-would not ba of long standing . The men of Tolcross thought so too , and . gave expression , lo the most enthusiastic : bursts of applanse in approval of the speaker ' s sentiments He concluded by calling on the meeting to go on , till such time as they were able to procure flv « or six millions of slgnatares- . a National Petition ; when he had no doubt , if then rejected , eomethmg else might form the material ingredients of the next petition , The meeting which was crowded , having expressed tb *} r hearty aud unanimous thanka to the two genaemen &a £ ^^ their wo ^ y c ^ irman , quietly broke up , utWe giye ' 'iJH | ii report jus ^ as we received it ; because particularly requested pq do so ; but we do wiBh that our friends would nnd better « ccupatiou for their time ; thatihey' wouid . iettheVvifawinova" alone in iUlitttenoss , and notbefltoWBpon it nrinecesssry notoriety . — Ed 1 ¦ ' :: ; " :- : *' . ¦ , v . ¦ '" " / : -. ¦ .-. ¦ - . : . ¦ ¦ ' .

      DBRBY . —A delegate meeting was held on Sunday , June 5 th , 1812 , at the Charter Association Booma , Willow-row , Derby . Present—from Derby , Fearn and Briggs ; Bjiper , Vickera and Wheeldou ; Oldbroke , Thomas Taylor ; IlkiBton , Ellis Lathbury ; Burton , Thomas Taylor ; Bowarath , William : Weat . Letters were read from various places * stating the necessity of having a lecturer , and their willingness to do their best to support him . Mr . Tickers was appeiuted chairman , and Mr . Thomas Briggs secretary to this meeting . It was determined that a lecturer be . engaged for six weeks , and that Mr . West be requested to accept the post . The lecturer ' s salary was fixed at 30 s . per week , and his travelling expencea .

      New Mills . —A public lecture was delivered here on Monday , ia the Chartist Association room , by Mr . John Campbell , Secretary to the Executive , to a most numerous audience . - ;

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      Chabtist BjsviauGB . —The following sums are due to the Executive from the sale of Messrs . Crow and Tyrrel ' s Chartist bererage , for the week ending Juneith : — ¦ ¦ ' ¦ .-, '• : ' . . : ' ¦ ¦ ¦' : ' " ' ^ - ¦ . ' . :: ) ¦ -.. ; ¦¦ ¦ : :. > V ;; - ' ¦; -s V : : '¦ £ e d . ¦ Mr . H i ^ h , Chartist Provision Store , Hawick , Scotland ii . ... 0 6 0 Mr . Heywood f Manchester , ... 0 S 3 Mr . Ba « d , Bolton ... ... ... 0 3 9 Mr . Gillespie , Bolton-Ie-Moor ... 0 39 Mr > Brooke Leeds ... ... ... 0 3 0 Mr . Yates , Staffordshire Potteriea 0 3 0 Mr . Sweet , Nottingham ... ... Q 1 6 Mr . Johnson , Stoke ^ Staffordshire 0 1 « MT . ThompsoDjStockporti ... 0 1 6 Mr . Skevington , Loughbro * ... 0 1 6 Charter ABBOoiation , Hull ... ... 0 16 £ 1 12 3

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      The " ImmeN 5 b Concern" ManUv—It 13 a pre vailing insanity ainong shopkeeper ^ of the present day to be at tho head of an immense oonoern , and it is a malady which , in almost every oaseifiQwhea with a fatal result , not only to the individual who is the immediata subject of the compiamt , butto those who may happen t » be bitten : m the isitenm . It KeneraUy seizss the proprietors of linendraper a ehopa , and , like the bite of the tarantula , seta them cutting the ' moat extraordinary capers , in iho course of which they start off with a most lively galop ^ f-na conclude with a pas , not of the most graceful Kind . in the Court of Bankruptcy . An ^ immense eoncern generally begins in a single house , ; and the disease first developes itself in a strong itching to take the

      next door , which , when , once accomplished , is soon folipwed by an eccentric resolution to add the words " and Co . ' to the name of the proprietor . The next stage is an eruption of large placardB , conveying incoherent hints about " giving away , " " selling under primecost , '' andother unaccountableacts of generosity , which the patientprofesses to practice ; while , by degreea , he grows bolder in the tone of his tickets , and sundry commodities are placed under the public eye , inscribed with mysterious allusions to s alarming sacrifice ; " The breaking out upon the goods shortly flies to the windows themselves , which are soon covered with enormous posting-bills , in which the words" Extensive Failttro " are extremely conspicueus : and there is a desperate effort to arrest attention , fey thrusting goods almost into thii Rtreet . ' with a Drinted invitation . tc 1 the public .. ip

      • Look at this , " and a most uncalled-for jUlnmon to the " digress of the SpUalfieid weavers . " The disease now becemes convulsive : enormous piles ol druggets are deposited outside the shop , m bold defiance of the Paving Aot , carpets dangle from the upper stories , blankets float in the air , and pieces of calico flutter in the breeze , while straw bonnets are dashed recklessly wto . thewindow ^ with , an intimation that there is a choice of 25 , 000 , all at a price not even wortn mentioning . Blocks are dressed up in cloaks to look like customers ; dresses that have been lying in the wareroom since last year , are labelled as " Q , 'iite new , and jusfc imported . Every thing is marked at an astoundmgly ' moderate price ; but , by some strange accident , there is not a ticket , but what has slipped from oner thin *? to another , if any one want 3 to purohase the

      labelled article . After these very active symptoms * the disease comes to its termination ; the " immense oonoern" dies a natural death , and the proprietor amuses the public by a series of confessions to . tho Commissioner of Bankrupts , or gratifies a spmt 01 enterprise by " bolting "to America . Moriauty A . T ttAMMiB i ^ -Disease m & moflt yiruient form has made its appearance lately in a family at Hayerstook-hili , Hampstead . The son of a nurseryman at Hampstead was 2 rst visited by » medical man on the 18 th of May r he was labourmg under symptoms denoting scarlet fever , and died on the same day . The eldast daughter was next at-( acked , and on the return of the party from the barialof th $ eldesS son , she was found dead , and two other ohildren were in a dying condition .

      Between Wednesday and Saturday , four member 3 of this devoted family perished ; two were removed to an hospital , and another daughter ( the wife of a publican at Woolwich ) , who had visited her sick relatives , wa 3 taken home ill . Situated nearly in front , and within ten or twelve feet from the door of the cottage where this fearful mortality occurred , is a stagnant pool , whence water had been taken for the purpose of irrigating the nursery-ground , and the highway tank communicating with this pool was furnished with a pump . The tank and pool appear to be supplied with water from the surface drainage of the road ; hence , after a heavy fall of rain , the filth from the road and houses on the hi g her ground has been washed into this reservoir ; This nuisance haa existed during 17 or 18 years , and has frequently been complained of f ^ efc .-it still remains . —Sun .

      Twhi-vb Houses Cowsujied . —Bkdpohd , June 4 . —Yesterday afternpen a fire broke out at Clapham , a romantio village , situate about two miles distant from this place , and burned with such fearful violence , that within ^ wo hours after it commenced no fewer than twelve houses and other premises were levelled to the ground . It was discovered between two and three o ' clock in the afternoon , raging on the spacious homestead the property of Lord Ashburton , occupied by a gentleman named Grant , and te supposed to have originated near a stack of straw in the rick yard , adjoining two extensive barns , which hai ignited , and , soon ^ were burned to the groand . riThe flameswerealmost ; immediately after their outbreak obaeryed'by theI ' mhabitantiBi at

      Bedfor 4 K ^ , ^ ith : great ; T ) WmptUudo , proceeded with all posaiwe Kis ^ e to the scenei-pf devastation , and two nowlr ful'eMiiei'connected with 'the toWn , but by ; 'm , M t % ; ffltiffi . the ; ' ^ re : * adr gaJtfed jb afirmlnf' aaoenaancy , Hfving extended Over the euWr&m : : Sobn af € ctwatdfe : i * ^ "discovered tbit-seveis'al ' i houses in the village upwards oT half ? Lmile . ' di 6 tanti ! had caught firoi-iti ' consequence of « oma " fcirning ; inaf ^ riarfa ^ infeupion'lh ^' roofsi ' when a moai pa ^ itui '^ giit ; gie ^ iited'itBelf [ -in cons ^ uence of the confusion amongfitt' the ocimmers , who ' ehiefly consisted of poor labouring families . Within a quarter of- ah hdur after the ^ flames had communicated to four other nouses , while at' the homestead

      where it originated ; the fann ^ puse , a fine oldf asliioned , eubstanttal . bnck buiMing , had fallen a sacrifico . to ' . tl ^ e deyounng elenierit : ' Great apprehensions were now entertalnedi ' for the" safety of the entire ^ village , for its destruction became imminent , fiye « iherhouses , hafirig been at tacked while the firemen and others were unroofing' others in the hopes of checking its progress . Fortunately additional engines and assistance at this moment arrived ; when , after two hours' inceesant exertions the fire was mastered , not until , however , the whole of Lord ABhburton ' s homestead was destroyed , to / tether witk twelve houses in the village ; The amount of the property destroyed is not yet ascertained . We regret to say most part of it is uninsured .

      WiTracEiFX . ^ An ' extraordinary instance of superstitious credulity and cunning knavery came under the attention of th « magistrates at Newton Abbot , on Tuesday . A joung woman of Denbnry , having been taken ill , her friends gravely cauie to the opinion that'she had been " witched , " and took her to a man named Thomas , of Teignmouth , by trade a Bhoemaker , but by profession a " white witch , " or witch fender . This impostor confirmed their fears , and insinuated that the mischief had beon done by a poor woman , their neighbour , at Denbury . Ono of the means which he directed to counteract the evil , was to take the girl into a field and . exercise her violently for two hours by running round it , taking care to j ump her and shake Ker about well at tho four corners . This the poor

      creatures performed with " such , ztal / that in a few hours after the girl died . The feeling now aroused iu the village . against-.-the : pvor old . woman , falsely accused , waa such that she was obliged to apply to the magistrates for protection . They issued a warrant for the immediata apprehension of Thomas , who was accordingly brought before G . Garrow , Esq ., and — Monro , Esq ., on ; the following day . Evi'ience having been heard , with the fear of the treadmill before his eyes , being questioned with much tact by Mr . Garrow , with the coolest effrontery acknowledged that all his pretended charms were impositions—much to the burprisie , and we hope to tae edification of his former patients , some of whom were present , and clamourously demanded restitution of money paid in the purchase of them . Thscase ended in the man ' s dismissal . — Western

      Times . . . SHOcitiNG Affair —On Friday morning , about half padt nine o ' olopk as Ssijeant . Finley aud Hayward , of the G division of Police , were passing through . Clarence-strbet , near the City-road , they were called into the house No . 3 , where aa attempt at murder and suicide had just been made by a young woman named Caroline Beyswortb , but who had lodged there for a considerable time in the name of Just , passing as the wife of a young man of that name , a . brass-founder , with whom she ^ cohabited . Thay had a female child about a year and niue months old v but Just , it appears , has another wife elsewhere , and was about to take the infant to her , and to withdraw himself from its moiher . The unfortunate

      woman in coneequence determined on murder and suicide , which she proceeded to carry iiito effect by putting the child into a pah : of water . When the cessation of the child ' d struggles induced her to believe it was dead , she took the poor innocent out of the pail , and laid it out on the bad which they occupied in the front ' parlour , and then , mounting upon the table , suspended herself by a cord from a nail in the room . The weight , however , when she threw herself off the table , broke down the nail , and she fell npon the floor ; and she then took the cord and with it suspended herself a second time in the back kitchen , and had been hanging there some time , when Mrs . Long , a lodger , happeued to discover her . Mr . Macka surgeonbeing eent for succeeded ,- ' after

      , , a considerable time , in restoring the unhappy creature to consciousness by bleeding and other means . The attempt that she had made to drown the infant had in the meantime been discovered . The poor child , although motionless when laid upon the bed , was not dead , and in a Bbort time began to reviveV and the surgeon found itin . strong convulsions . The wet clothes being taken off , and restoratives applied , it , as well as the mother , now appears likely to recover . On Saturday , the unfortunate woman , who appeared to be iu a : dreadful state of agitation and exhaustion , was examined before the

      Magistrate at Worship-street . On being asked by Mr . Broughton , whether she had anything to say in answer to the qharft © of attempting to "destroy her child , ' she replied , that she had not . Mr . Brpughton said the case on the part of Just was one of heartless villauy , but as the charge against her had been proved , he niust cojamivher foitrial . The prisoner tell back'in yiolout hyet < Bri < j 3 , and was taken out of Court . Just was then placed at the bar on a charge of stealiog two table spoons belonging to hia paramour , and waa remanded until Wednesday . The prisoner iu arecfclesemanner said , he wished to be transported , as he h&'i been ouce belore .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR . _________^_

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 11, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct434/page/7/