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      TO NEWS AGENTS , SHOPKEEPERS , AND ASSOCIATIONS IN 6 NJBRAL . TTICKERMAN'S REAL CriARTFST BLACKV JNG , by far the CHEAPEST and BEaT ever yet offered to the Public . The Wholesale Profits will be devoted to the General Defence Fund . The allowance to the Trade more liberal than any other Manufacturer can allow . Give your orders immediately , and by so doing you will raise a fund sufficient to defend your noblo Leaders . Remember the " Idea of March" are coming ! All Orders and Communications to be addressed to Mr . Edward Clayton , News Agent , Huddersfield , who has been appointed Wholesale Agent . Give your orders ! Give your orders !

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      Now publishing in Penny Numbers , and Fourpenny Parts , VOLTAIRE ' S PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY , complete from the Original in Six Volumes . Part 13 is published this day , and Part 15 will contain the title Page to Vol . I ., and a most admirable Likeness of the celebrated Author , engraved on steel . The Publisher , in order to keep his word with the Publio , has doubled the quantity in the last two Parts , without increasing the price , so as to bring the Work within the price of Ten Shillings , at which the whole ^ fill be completed . Also , The DIEGESIS ; beinj ? a Discovery of the Origin , Evidences , and Early History of Christianity , never yet before , or elsewhere , so , fnlly and faithfully set forth . By the Rev . Robert Taylor , A . B ., in Penny Numbers , and in Parts price Fourpence .

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      jkiss- MADE XAW 8 HAVE MADE THEIR 73 CIIMSj EBT US ENDEAVOUR TO BEXBASE THBM . ys £ iow- 'ff'OBKl 56 ME 5 , —When I sent the ad-. ygtUesienS to be published , which has appeared for fia last few weeks , and "which states that I'will grve fonr shillings to the Executive and one shnHng to the ¦ yjctim Fnndeotor every oneinntlred pounds weight of beverage ; I say , my friends , at fiat fime it struck SB Tejy forcibly that the Victim Pond stood nrach need of augmenting , and I think so still , as yon may

      gee by tbsr letter ; and I also think , 1 if may jndge from appearance , that the country evinces bat little dispositinn to support the cause of Chartism throngh tie Executive , inasmuch as neither myself nor Messrs . Crow and 3 ' yrrel haTB iad much to add to their funds jar some -weeks past . I therefore propose that the "srhole of the five shillings per one hundred pounds be prento the Yicfima * Defence Pond , and it shall appear bb before in Mr . Cleave " * Snbsccption Xist weekly , jjjsta the asstes are over , when we caa make fresh jjjjugemenis as the times say require .

      Kow , my friends , it remains -with the people , whether Qjose men who have been made" victims for no other crime than thai ef demanding justice at the hands of oar oppressors be left t © the clemency of a merciless judge and & time-serving jury , or whether £ hsy shall iste funds suSdenlly supplied which 'will secure to them Justice ; -and we must remember that there is only a few "sreeis to raise tha money in , and we should also xenjember that we that are at liberty are only so fceesase tie fcw has not got hold of vs , but that we perfcaps may have said and dene more towards the flDTOfallfcf tyrants than those trhom it is our duty to

      3 now lesTE the matter m your hands , and only have to ay , that I pledged myself in 1819 never to rest until wb were free—I never hare nor never win Roger Pisdeb , HulL

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      BBXSTOXu—At a meeting in Bear-lane Chapel , on Tuesday evening , the following were nominated iotiudit ilr Campbell's accounts , Messrs . Wheeler , t ^ jhij JPGrsth , Bnfey Ridley , and Watkins . -B&T 3 . —The plaH of organisation , as proposed ij Mr . Cooper has been agreed to here . Aiexxxdxsa , Yxlb ot Leyes . —At a meeting igdhereon Saturday last , it was resolved to erect a hew Hall , for a church , school house , and other paific purposes . Sons Shields . —Mr . S . E 3 dd , of Glasgow , lectured here od Tuesday night .

      JBebdes Beibgb . —A public discussion took place inihe Democratic Chapel , on Monday . The discussion was between 3 Ir . Wm . Blackburn , Hebden JBridge ^ aEes , and Hx . J . West , from Macelesfield . Sackbnra undertook to prove that a repeal of the Corn Laws , under existing circumstances , wenld be abenefii to the working classes of England , and West that » repeal of the € orn Laws wonJd not benefit the working classes under the present system of f fag * legislation . Cotetebt . —Mr . John llason lectured in the Assoo&Sdb Room * n Friday evening , and Mr . R , G Gsnunaee , of Northampton , on Sun day evening .

      jrOTUWGBABX , —Operatives' Library asd ~ £ > ucb of TAxKxrsG . —A meeting was held in the Democratic Chapel , Bice-place , on Tuesday evenjug , to censdtr the best means of carrying out the above object- Mr . B . Humphries was called to the chair . Mr . B . T . Morrison said that in consfeouence of lie exclusion of works of the greatest interest and impor tance to the working classes , from the larger libraries , they had long seen the necessity of hiring libraries under their own Jmanagement , in which eiiberpdlitieaL , theological , or any other-works approved of by the members , would be admitted . It gave Mm great pleasure to see-them possessed of 2 at independence and soundness of judgment , which hid made them determined to consider subjects wMea so much affested their welfare—to carry out En 3 , libraries had been established by men of tfrml&r yiew 3 , and there were now several -of these

      Earsries which agree in these particulars , and have EztBir rules j now as each were originally estab-Med to giva to persons holding the same liberal 4 > pMona , the advantage of reading books to them all -3 f they -rere to carry out still further the princijjfis npon which they aD originated , and after connecting men together of dmilar opinions , for their amftnfl good , were now to connect libraries together uponths some principle- ^ -lhey ^ wonia give to each manber of the separate libraries , the benefit of the whole . —( hesrO fie beUeved that the treason this kid sot been accomplished soenex was from the want of a practical and equitable plan to effect it . There 9 ra 3 at the present time 3 ^ 300 volumes in these Sbraries , and if ihey weretbns connected it would

      soon become the most valuable library in Nottingham ; though if unconnected , none of them conld attain Enth a poation . They had also the resources to obtain a braiding and place of meeting . He concluded ij laying down the outlines of a plscn for fhat purpose , iir . B . Humphries agreed both with the Temaxka and plan proposed , and as the object was so desirable , he hoped they would all exert themselves to carry 3 t ont . The meeting was unanimous in their approval of it , and a committee conasang of Messrs . B . T . MorriBon , B . Hnmifcries , Skertitt , Betcher , W . H . Mptt , Braley , W . jjbrmati , and J . Bogers , was appointei to eon-Istwlth the various libraries , and further -eDnader laaplanio carry it out ? and then report the same toi&tnre meeting . A vote of thankB -was then progoixnd earried to the chairman , and to Mr . B »

      s . fflomson , for his services in preparing the plan . Bmghioh . —fO 7 Rt « ed in our lost . J— " A public ffiiaheldat the € ap of liberty , Parliament-street , aHonday , Jannary 16 , 1843 , Mr . Trowerin the tlair , when it was proposed by Mr . Allen , seconded fcj Mr . Howers , ** That the thanks of this meeting be given to theBev . William Hill , the Editor af the Afe ^ Se rn Star , for his bold , honest , and ' -consistent * froeaey of ihe rights of the snffering millions , and »!» TTSTgZL Tt OUTBLUVTr * ZO STATE THAT WE KSOTF CFJTOVOTEOP COXFIDESCE IS THE ExKCDIlYg being paaed Sjr ihe Chartists of Brighton , as alluded by Mr Jaaa Leach at the Conference held at Birmingham * m we are fnDy determined to support the BtBoag and Neither Stars to the utmost in their jwwa , anawe call npon our brethren generally of KB industrious classes to do the same . " Carried

      jammDDsly . Proposed by Mr . Page , and seconded tj Mr . Align , "That the foregoing resolution be sat to the Northern and Evening Stars for inser" » . - Carried nnanimonsly . —Whouxh Elul sab-Secretary , ^^ ^ aAX > POK » .-qn SHndaylast Mr . Smyth leotoea m the jassodaiion room . Park-lane , « n the uareney and Banking System . Ihsxehbehs of the council met on Monday "Hang , when it > vas nnanimonsly resolved that Mr . Joseph Aldersoa become agent ibr the Evening Slat

      , northern Sler and all Chartist pablications for one 9 aaner , ialf fhaproceeds to go to the council . " It ** s * lsoresolved "That Mr . Thomas Ibbotsonre-» re credenials as a Chartist lecturer , and the ffoe&ry be mstrncted to write the same on behalf fifths councfl . " Mr . Cleave received the thanks of ttseonnca for his offer to the Charfets of the back . Mfflbers of the Circular , and 400 were ordered to Je disposed of for the Defence Fund . The meeting framed to Monday evening next , at half-past 3 * Tratfeloek .

      Os Mosdat x * 3 Ssisg an interesting debate took JjMBjpn the best means of obtaining the Bepeal of £ » union , at the White Honse , Broad Stones , * CTreen Messrs . Jennings , Smyth ^ Hurley , Plyn , » d mersl members of the Jiepeal Association *« itepea ! ers declared they were Chartists to a ffl » , * Bd moved aTOte of thanks to the strangere , » meJi wag earried by acclamation .

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      A Hoesb Bidves to Death . —Cjlbuxbxses . — ^ Wednesday last , William Burnhill , a son of the ^ osor of ihe county gaol at Carmarthen , appeared 7 *®** mx . E . H . Stacy , mayor , and Captain Davies , *^» er the complaint of Mr . H . Thomas , the fj ™ " ? of the Society for the Prevention of Crnelty w ABimals , which charged him with having on the v ^^ t . JrtAbergwilly , -srithin the eotmty and 5 * W » ° ^ Carmarthen , wantonly and cruelly 311-^^ andimprsperly ridden a certain mare , the C ???^[« f © Be Margaret Xewis , in consequence of wudj tbe said mare died , whereby the said Mar-5 ^ 2 A *** 3 Bus ^ aed damage to the extent of £ 8 or

      : ~™«»« . Mr . Thomas stated that the charge * tw 2 : ^ e folbwing ciremastances : —On the ^^ ent the Hon . John Shafto Yaughan , of JJanieraftea , was ^ a prisoner in Carmarthen county gaol , gL ?? 10 ^ to ootaJa his discharge on that day , ^ ore the arnval of the London mai l , the defendant fit !? fSr 0 J 6 ito § ° to ^ Mdao to obtain the reguihtiu ^ f ^ ll ¦*** neeessary that this should 9 ^ - ¥° ^ s ^ B an ^ al of &e London m-ul ^ as it ^«» &a that if not obtained before then , a der ^ aight arrive by the mail , and Mr . Yaughan ^ a * prisoner . It would be proved that BnrniwtiZ \ P * beaonse of lAargaret Lewi * abont Sk 0 0 ^ aad iired the mare j at half-past « C * J » ^ Carmarthen , and proceeded to Llan-Q ' S . hs was detained somewhere about an * Jr ? ^ og Drocured the dischirpe . he Marted

      , ie cin ^ T OD * " * » turn , and witnesses would g ^^ who would describe the distressed condiaaa ^ QJ ^ anaal , ^ the violenfraad wanton « onaareirtffl-L en ^ * ^ ° confinoed to nrge on the po ^ ^^ reached Abergwilly-bridge , where the " aad-io ^? T ** 8 nt * € rly onable io proceed fHrther , 'bm */* * ** tte"aelendant iad / dismounted , it " '" wfiSi , n » ^ dL ^ iorfly-aftervfards died on the io B 2 rf * T- 'li&" ? iol « ait exertions It had been compelled - ^ UiS SOj ?»? & 6 ffl-Tisage of the defendant . To " % ~> , ™^ i to AbergwiUy-Mdge Is abont " ' *« i 2 & . V * ? saiMhaVhe andhis bro-« bj . ai ^ S ?*? considered the charge « learly made ¦ i 7 cs& ^ SJ . ^ mea * "was that the defendant pay *«* 2 sJ ilo 8 of : * l » mare , and the costs , and in defi onse dfr JB 2 en ? fiT 6 ''reels' imprisonment in the ¦ ¦ ¦ - * T 5 g ii ^!! £ 05- ^^ defendant was also fined ^" dLIri ™ foste for cruelly ill-treating the mare . % ^ S ¦ ¦? " ! aectrihe defendant to serea weeks ' -wsmtieat m de&nlt of payiae £ 10 .

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      ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MR , EDWAKD DRT 7 MMOND , SIB HOBT . PEEL'S PH 1 TATE SECBETASY . ( From ihe Times . ) On "Friday afternoon a most deteraiined attempt was made to assaBsinateiir . UittmmoEd , tha private secretary or Sir Robert Peel , in the open street , and in the broad face of day . The motives of the assassin are at present involved in mystery , not the slightest cine being yet obtained to the cause that could have impelled him to the commission of so aggravated a crime . But , whatever may have been the reasons influencing his mind , it will be seen , from the subjoined account , that his purpose was carried ont with the most cold-blooded ^ determination , though , fortunately , no fatal results are " at present expected to result from the wound which he succeeded in inflicting on his intended victim x

      It appears , from information on which perfect reliance may be placed , that Mx . Drummond left DowniBg-street at about half-past three o ' clock in the afternoon , in company with the Earl of Haddington . They proeeeded together as far as the Admiralty , where Mr . Drummond left the Earl of Haddington , and went to the bankinghouse of bis brother of the same name , at Charingcross . On his return therefrom , and when he had pr » - ceeded as far as the space between the Admiralty and the Horse Guards , he was shot at by a man who approached him from behind . The assassin walked up to Mr . Drummond , and , showing a determination not to fail in the perpetration of the foul deed which he

      contemplated , actually put the mnzz ! e of the pistol into the back of the unsuspecting gentleman . He then fired . Immediately after the pistol was discharged , a policeman , who had witnessed the act , rushed up , and seized the criminaL In the mean time he had returned the pistol with which he had shot Mx , Drummond to his breast , and had drawn ont another loaded piBtol from file same place , and was in the act of pointing it at Mr . Drummond , when the policeman seized him and pinioned his arms from behind . The pistol was discharged , bat the aim of the araasBiTi being thus diverted , the contents did not touch Mr . Drummond , nor was any other person irjored by them .

      Mr . Drummond was immediately conveyed t © bis brother ' s bank , which , as our readers are aware , is only a short distance from the spot where the shots were fired . Here a medical man from the immediate neighbourhood was called in , and he examined the wound made by the tall . He found that the ball had penetrated the akin of the back , through the coat and nnder garments , but he could not trace it fnrther , not having with him at the time the necessary instruments . As , however , Mr . Drummond did not seem too much debilitated by loss of blood to bear being removed to Mb own Tesidence , he advised Mb being immediately conveyed there . He was accordingly taken there in a carriage .

      Mr . wthrie , Mr , Bransby Cooper , the eminent surgeons , and Mr . Jackson , surgeon and apothecary , were in attendance , and proceeded more fully to examine the wound . It was then ascertained that the ball had entered near the spine , and that it had made a circuit fflther over the hip-bone or under the lower rib , and then lodged sear | the pit of the stomach wider the breast ; thence the ball was extracted bj Mr . Gathrie without any difficulty , as it lay near the surface . It was first thought that the wound was of a dangeroub . character , en the supposition that the ball had taken serious effect internally ; hut , on further examination , it did sot appear that any vital part was injnred . The symptoms exhibited by the patient , after the lall was extracted , were found to be favourable , and there seemed to be no reason then to apprehend that the event would be attended with fatal effects .

      The assassin , on being secured by the policeman , was conveyed to Gardiner ' s-lane police-station , where be gave bis name as M'Naughten . He refused to give his place of residence , but it is supposed that he is either a Scotchman or a native of the north of Ireland , who had been located at Glasgow . He was then searched , and there were found on him J . wo £ 5 notes , £ l in gold , and a deposit receipt of a Glasgow Bank for £ 750 , made ont in the name of " Daniel M'Nanghten .- Tins the receipt confirmed tee statement made by the prisoner with respect to bis same . The prisoner was well , tbongh-not genteely , dressed .

      Nothing transpired that conld with certainty lead to a knowledge of the motives which induced the prisoner to commit this dreadful act . It does not appear that he had had any previous correspondence with Mr . D / ntnmond , er that he had preferred any claim or complaint to the Treasury , or was a tUsajSMisted applicant for office . His demeanour throughajJHHjpas cool and collected , nor did there appear anjSlidence of Insanity . The policeman who apprehended him heard him say , on his being arrested , " He , " or " she , " Jtixe policeman is ¦ uncertain which ) " shall not disturb my mind any Unger . "

      It is stated that the prisoner had been Been loitering about the public offices for some days previously . On one occasion the office-keeper of the Council-office , who had observed the prisoner staying about the door , asked him what his object was in so doing , and inquired whether be was in the service of the police . In answer to this question , the prisoner said that he was , and that the gentlemen ef the omce need not be afraid far their property .

      FCB . THEB PABUCPLAES . On Saturday morning , the prisoner , who gave his name in a broad Scotch accent , John M ' Naughten , was examined at Bow-street , before Mr . HalL He is described as a young man , rather above the middle height , h&visg the appearance of a mechanic , and was respectably dressed in a black coat and waistcoat and drab trousers . He is rather thin , has & g&od colour , and his countenance betokened nothing ferecoaa ox determined . The statement of the affair given above was corroborated by the evidence of the witnesses examined , and Mr . Bransby Cooper , surgeon , described the process of extracting the ball , and explained Mr . Drummond ' a situation , which be considered not free from daoger . The evidence having been all gone through ,

      Mr . Hall , addressing the prisoner , said , I am abont to remand you for a fortnight , and if you wish to cay anything in answer to the charge , I am ready to bear you . Yon are not compelled to say anything unite you think proper . But it is my duty to tell you , that if you do say anything , it will be taken down In writing and made use of , if necessary , hereafter . Now , having given you that caution , do you wish to say anything ? Prisoner—I am much obliged to you , Sir , bnt I shall say nothing at present . The Clerk—Then you are remanded for a fortnight . The prisoner ' imm 6 diatelyileft the dock , aad was conducted to one of the cells attached to the court , but had not been there more than a minute or two , when he sent a message to the magistrates intimating that he wished to say something ; he was accordingly again placed at the bar .

      Mr . Hall—I understand yon wish to Bay something ; if so , I am ready to bear you . The prisoner , after a slight pause , said—The Tories in my native city have compelled me to do this ; they follow and persecute me wherever I jgo , and have entirely destroyed my peace of mind . TbBy followed me to Fiance , into Scotland , and all over England ; in fact , they follow me wherever I go ; 1 can get no rest for them night or day . I cannot sleep at nights , in consequence of the course they pursue towards me . I believe they have driven me into a consumption . I am sure I shall never be the man I formerly was . I used to have good health and strength , bnt I have not now . They have accused me of crimes of which I am not guilty ; they have done everything in their power to harass and persecute me ; in fact , they wish to murder me . It can he proved by evidence—that ' s all I wish to say at present T&e clerk—Is that all you wish to say ?

      Prisoner ( hesitatingly )—I can only say they have completely disordered my mind , and I am not capable of doing anything , compared to what I was . I am a very ti ifiarent "lftn to what 1 was before they commenced this system of persecution . The clerk—Do yon wish to say anything more ? Piisoner^—Ohi yes , I wish to know whether I am to be kept in that place ( pointing towards the cell ) for a fortnight ? If so , I am sure 1 shall not live . The clerk—Oh , no , yon will be taken to a proper place of confinement , where you will be taken care of till you are brought here again . Prisoner—Ob , very well , then I have nothing more to say . __ _

      Mi . HAIJj—Have yon any objection to Bign the statement yon have made ? Prisoner—No , I have no objection . The statement having been read over to the prisoner ; it was handed to him in the dock , when fie immediately signed it . He was then removed from the bar .

      ( From ihe Observer . ) t appears that M'Naughten had resided for toe last sixteen weeks in the bouse of a very respectable widow , named Button , residing in Poplar-row , I ? ew Rent-road . He had been well known to that lady for it long time previous . It is nearly three yean since be first came to lodge in her Louse , and he occupied

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      st that period the same apartment which he continued to rent up to the period of his apprehension on Friday . He was generally considered by Mrs . Button to be of a very quiet turn of mind , and appeared to have no occupation , as he seldom rose before a late hoar in the morning , when he left the boose , and retarded about ten o ' clock in the evening . He remained on this occasion three months with Mrs . Datton , and her general Impression was that he was in search of employ meat The rent be paid for Bis apartment was 2 a . 6 d . per week , and the payments were always regularly made once a week . Oa leaving Mrs . Datton ' s house he stated that he was going to France , and that lady beard no more of him for many months , when he returned and took the same apartment He

      stopped only three weeks in England on this occasion , and then told Mrs . Datton that he was about to leave for Scotland . Abont the first week in October he again returned , and on Mrs . Dutton opening the door to him he smiled , and said , " I gee you have a bill in your window . Is it for my old room ? " Mrs . Datton answered , " Yes Sir ; " and M'Naughton replied , " Ton see I am come back . I said I should do so . " Nothing particular was remarked in his manner at this time , but the gloomy temperament which marked his general character was considered to be rather increased than otherwise . He seldom spoke to any one in the house , though always obliging and civil when addressed by any person . He never took meats at home , but on one occasion , abont three weeks since , be caaght a violent

      cold , and Mrs . Datton supplied him during three days in which he waa confined to his bed . He was never observed to read a newspaper or any other publijation , and during the confines'ent /^ abo ve alluded to , Mrs . Dutton lent him a religious volume , which he appeared to peruBe with much interest Mrs . Dntton says , that her impression has always been that he had something on his mind . He was not at all communicative , but on one occasion told Mrs . Dutton that he was in Scotland when her MsjeBty paid-her recent visit to that country . He always appeared to be very moderately off , and on his taking up his abode at Mr . Dutton ' s on the last occasion , had only one shirt . He purchased a second after the first fortnight , and Mrs . Dutton regularly washed them for him alternately . Kia wardrobe , in other respects , seems to have been miserably provided . He had only two pair of Bocks and a flannel

      waistcoat He had no change of dress , and until within a fortnight , when he purchased a new pair , his trousers were patched and darned in every direction , and full of holes . About a week ago he asked Mrs . Datton if she could lend him a pair of old boots while his own were mended , and at her instigation he applied to a shoemaker in the naighbonrheod , who allowed him the use of an old pair for a day or two during the repair of his own . He had no boxes in his room , or property of any description . M'Naughten'B habits were remarkably sober and steady . The room be occupied was the back apartment on the second floor , and he seldom remained in it , if not labouring under indisposition , afttr nine o ' clock in the morning . It was his habit to get up about that time , clean his shoes in the back kitchen , and then go oat for the day . He seldom came home after ten o'clock , and sometimes he was earlier .

      On Friday morning he went out about nine o ' clock as usual , and , after being absent from the house a short time , returned and went up stairs for a few minutes . He went out again soon after , and Mra Datton heard bo more of him until she was told that he was taken into enstody . Mrs . Datton states that she never saw much mosey in bis possession , and her belief was that he was a young man in confined circumstance ? . She also ssyB , distinctly , that she sever beard him mention Mr . Drummond's name , or allude in any way to politics . It is very difficult to reconcile the apparent poverty of M'Naughten , as evidenced by bis landlady , and borne out by his personal appearance , with the possession of so large a sum of money as £ 788 . ' There can be very little doubt of the genuineness of the check or receipt of the Glasgow Bank for £ 750 , and that fact proves the sum to have been deposited by the prisoner in the bank alluded to .

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      THE EXECUTIVE ACCOUNTS . TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Having been nominated in various places as a member of a committee for investigating the accounts of the Executive ; while feeling grateful for this mark of yonr confidence , I must still respectfully decline the office . As a member of the Executive , pro . tem . < I have been forced , by circumstances , into the position of an accuser of the Executive , and for me or my brother members of the Executive pro . tem ~ , to sit on that committee , would have the appearance . ' of a jury of accusers being the parties appointed to try the defendants . This I am convinced is not your desire , and I have no doubt you will take immediate steps to reotify the error . Yours , Thos . M . Wheelbr . P . S . —Messrs . Dron , Cuffay , and Knight , fully concur in the sentiments above expressed .

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      THE PROPOSED ELECTORAL DISTRICTS . TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Fbucw Countbyhen , —Yon will , many of joa , have observed in the minutes of the late Conference , published in the Northern Star of last Saturday , that on revising that valuable document , the People's Charter , as we there , very happily , had an opportunity of doing ; you will have observed , I say , and those of you who were present as delegates may do me the honour to recolleot , that when you came to the clause which prescribes the number of Electoral Districts , I venturned to move that the number of thoBe districts be 500 , instead of the smaller number , 300 , as it had heretofore stood in the Charter . I contested myself with simply moving this proposition , without occupying the time of the meeting with a statement of my reasons for so doing , and my motion was kindly and spontaneously seconded by a brother delegate , without a speech , and as quickly disposed of in the negative by the

      meefe-I have just been reminded of this proposition of mine , by a neighbour who had been reading the minutes , and to whom I found , the proposed advance from 300 to 500 appeared somewhat unreasonable or extravagant . A brief statement of some of my reasons for the proposition , seemed to alter , very effectually , the earlier impressions of my neighbour ; and as deem it amatterofvery great moment to the cause we have so much at heart , I now respectfully and earnestly beg your attention to some of these reasons , and venture to hope that you will , in your several meetings , make this proposition of mine a subject of discussion : and if yon approve o ? It . and if you embrace

      it , as I flatter myself that 50 a will ; I hope that you will , on any further revision , or oa a confirmation of t \ e Charter , cause the alteration to be made . Perhaps I was remiss in abstaining as I did , from arguing the matter with my brother delegates . The reasons then present to my mind fox bo abstaining were , first , a settled aversion to retard the proceedings of the Conference , by raising a discussion on almost any point whatever , and so to incur any risk of prolonging our Bittings over Friday , the fourth day j and , second , a pretty confident belief that we should have another revision of the Charter , and an opportunity somewhat more favourable of discussing and settling the point .

      We have now that opportunity . The delegates assembled in Conference , after having , on their part , revised the Charter , and made some alterations in the minor details for carrying its great provisions into effect ; these delegates , in the honest spirit of representatives , submitted the alterations they have made "to the consideration of the people , " as a proper step previous to its final adoption . To your consideration , then , and to that of your late delegates , I would thus , in a more deliberate manner , submit the alteration I have named . The alteration proposed is , an extension of the number of electoral districts , from ' three , to five hundred ; and , inasmuch as it is wisely designed that each district shall return one representative and one only , so do I propose that the number of representatives snail be five hundred .

      Call to mind , first , if yon please , that our CHARTER ^ as its title announoes ^ is designed "for GREATBRITAIN and IRELAND . " And then say , what must be the sise , the extent , of most of the proposed districts , seeing that each district is to comprise a three-hundredth part of the whole people of the two islands . A three hundredth-part , it is true , in the populous cities and towns , will be found within a moderate extent of territory . And bo far , the arran gements might serve . Bnt snch cities and towns are neither so numerous , nor so overwhelmingly important , as to justify us in adopting our arrangements entirely for , them : nay , in every point of view , whether of justice 01 policy , we ought , as I shall perhaps make manifest , to adopt our scheme rather to the security and due representation of the agricultural districts , from whence must come all our strength , and all

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      the means of comfort and happiness . And consider , I pray yoa , how lunwieldy and how impracticable for airy honest of beneficial purpose , In matters of election , mustjthetoiral districts throughout the two lalands ^ be made , if eaoh be to comprise a threehundredth part of the population . It ia a matter of little or no moment which of the decennial tables of population we refer to for this purpose , seeing that the propositions in each of them will be innph the 6 ame . But I will here take the last census , ini which I find that the population of Great Britataand freland ia 26 , 856 , « 28 , a threehundredth part of which is 89 520 .

      . Now , this 18 a number so large as , in England , to be nowhere congregated together , save in each of the six Metropolitan boroughs , in the city of London , and in the five large boroughs , Manchester , Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , and Sheffield . In Wales , there is , of course , not a single community approaching this number ; Scotland can furnish us with only two compact bodies of people of this amount , Bamely , Edinburgh and Glasgow ; and Dublin and Cork , would be the only solid Electoral Districts to be foaad in Ireland . So much for the cities and boroughs , as Electoral Districts . And now a few words as to the counties .

      We have three entire counties in England , namely Huntingdon , Rutland , and Westmorland , and nine or ten , out of the twelve counties of Wales , not one of which would , of itself , form one of the proposed Electoral Districts . And Scotland , out of her thirty-four counties , has , I see , only twelve that are , each in themselves , possessed of the requisite number of people to form Electoral Districts ; so that we should nave to lay counties together , forming the Districts so large that no man of modest merit , however qualified by his wisdom and publio spirit to preserve and to benefit his country , not

      solon himself , unless possessed of vast estates , could become known and appreciated through a District so extensive , The elections woald , it appears to me , under such an arrangement , generally fall upon high and wealthy aristocrats ; as oar county elections ever have done ; or on active and noisy and unprincipled pretenders . So that , through an error on this single point , all our labours and sufferings for the establishment of the Charter might be thrown away , and our country continue to sink as it has done , even since the late abortive Reform .

      The desirable thing , it appears to me , is to have the Electoral Districts as compact as may be . To have them within such a compass , that plain and worthy aud sensible men , rather than the great wealthy and the showy , should be selected as representatives ; that tha electors should have an opportunity of becoming well acquainted trith the persons , tho acquirements , and the character tand conduct of the man presented to them ; a matter which is scarcely ever to be accomplished ia districts so large as those under contemplation . Towards the accomplishment of the desirable object I have just named , the smaller the electoral districts and the more effectual ; and , were I not restrained by other considerations , I should recommend a division of the kingdom into many more districts than the number which I proposed .

      But this number , namely , five hundred , was not , originally , of my suggestion . It was suggested by my excellent and chosen examplar , the late Major John Cartwright , in one of the notes to his admirable " Bill of Rights and Liberties , " published in 1817 . The worthy Major , in the note which I refer to , is arguing against the existing number of tho House of Commons ' , namely , 658 . Some writer has observed that so great & number is fitter for the purposes of a mob , than for those of a deliberative assem b ' y . And the Major says , " It were far better that the number should be reduced to about 500 ;" aud he adds . " An assembly of 500 , supposing

      attendance to be secured ( as under a Reform it doubtless will ) would be more than sufficient for mere consultation and argument ; while yet that number of representatives for carrying to the Common Council of the realm an accurate knowledge of the condition , the interests , and sentiments of their several localities of a great kingdom , and watching over their welfare , might not be thought too many . " With these words of the learned and venerable Major , I beg to recommend the subjeot to your 8 eserious attention . There are other more weighty recommendations ! than those I have here named , for the adoption of the larger number of electoral districts . Tnose recommendations I may submit to you on another occasion . I remain , brother Chartists , Faithfully yours , Thojus Smith . Liverpool , Jan . 17 th , 1843 .

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      DESTRUCTION OF A VESSEL BY EXPLOSION . On Tuesday , accounts arrived at Lloyd ' s of a melancholy catastrophe having occurred on board the schooner New Times , belonging to London , while on her outward f passage to the coast of Africa , by which the Vessel was totally lost , and all hands on board , consisting of her commander , Captain Alexander Rowe , and a crew of twelve seamen , met with a frightful death . It was occasioned by the explosion of nearly 100 barrels of gunpowder , that were stowed away in the magazine of the ship , but in what manner they ignited is wholly nnknown . The particulars below detailed ate extracted from a letter furnished by Messrs . Hal ton and Sons , the owuers of the schooner , who received them on Tuesday from a gentleman in the service , and who witnessed the ead calamity . The letter ia as follows : —

      , " Badagry , Oct . 18 , 1842 . " When I left Cap * Ooaston board of the New Times , with her valuable cargo , I was calculating on a sucoesBfnl trading expedition down the coast ; and of returning to Cape Coast in due time to perform the pleasing duty of acquainting you with the resnlt of my exertions , and little did I expect that ail my hopes and prospects would be in a sudden and extraordinary manner cut off by a painful dispensation of Divine Providence , which has at one stroke deprived ub both of the vessel and her cargo . To acquaint jou with the distressing catastrophe now becomes my painful duty , and , I assure you , I do it with feelings of the deepest anguish and distress . M Thursday morning ; the 6 th fast ,, we arrived

      and made a safe anchorage off this place , Badagry , and I went ashore . We landed no eargo , and after Wednesday morning , the 12 th , had no communication with the New Times ; but , as Captain Rowe was on board , we , of course , calculated on all being well , both with the vessel and her crew . At one o ' clock p . m . th © following day , Thursday ( the 13 th , ) we were alarmed by a- tremendous explosion , and on looking in the direction of the beaebjsaw an immense volume of black Bmoke rise immediately over the spot where the vessel was anchored . As I knew we had a large quantity of gunpowder on board , I instantly suspected the destruction of the ship . The shook was terrific , and must have been heard at a great distance . Although : the town of Badagry

      is situated about two miles and a half from the sea , and the ground so low that the hull of a vessel in the roads cannot be Been , yet the concussion was distinctly felt , and every house was shaken . I , with others , immediately hastened to the spot , and discovered that the masts had disappeared . We lost no time , and crossed the river to the beach , and I regret to say that en our arrival there we coald not see a vestige of the vessel or any person to give us the least information respecting her . I can form some idea of the distress which yon will feel on the receipt of this sad intelligence , and deeply do I sympathise with you in the heavy loss you have sustained . I wish I could add some information relative to the captain and crew of the vessel , as the means of alleviating in some measure the grief which you must feel ; but I fear the worst , and must add to the foregoing sad event my conviction that every soul on board of her perished . " To form an idea of the cause of this sad disaster is impossible ; none of her crew being spared , it must for ever remain a mystery , j At the time of the explosion I was busily engaged taking stock with Captain Parsons , from whose stores we could have seen the smoke had the vessel been on fire previous to the explosion ; and , moreover , had such beep the case , the crew would certainly have had sufficient time to take to tho boats aud to two large canoes which were lying astern of the vessel . This proves that the explosion was instantaneous . Half an hour at least elapsed after we heard the report before we

      reached the beach , at which time , as I have already stated , not a vestige of the vessel could be seen . 1 , nevertheless , got a canoe launched , and with the assistance of the two canoes that were lying astern of the vessel , and which had broken loose , search was made for several miles distant for the poor euffererers , but we returned at dusk unsuccessful . 0 Shortly after we reached the beach we perceived something in the water where the unfortunate schooner had been anchored $ which , on examination proved to be the jib-boom , windlass , and spritsailyard . They are still stationary , and are a little above water ; and not having Been any portion of her hull , with the exception of a piece of coppered Dlank about a foot eauare . which was picked up in

      the bottom of one of the [ canoes , we conclude that the stern of the vessel was blown out , and that she had sunk at her anchors . Whether her decks or inasfcs are blown ont we cannot say , but it is evident that the . principal part of the cargo ! has floated ont of her as in two hours after the accident the sea was covered with the ; tattered remnants of cloth , pieces of puncheons , cases , butt-ends of muskets , &o . In consequence , of there being no other boats at hand , we were utterly unable to save anything . " Besides the original crew , the vessel shipped three others at Cape Coast . I have kept a sharp look out for many miles along the peach ; . but , as yet , none of the bodies of the unfortunate creatures have been washed ashore .

      "J . H . AKHURST . " The New Times was considered a fine sailing craft , about 120 tons burden . She left London about ihe middle of June last with a cargo consist-

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      ing of oases of muskets , cloths , gunpowder , and a variety of other goods . She was , we understand , fully insured . The names of tho the crew who have perished are as follows : —Captain Alexander Rowe , Mr . Henry Hall fchief mate ) , ' Mr- Samuel Whitmore ( second mate ); William ] Johnson , Matthew Lynn , John William Holland , [ William Cahhorpe ( late of the Medusa ) , seamen ; Thomas Grey , John Sherlock , Marr , apprentices ; and two black Kroomen . Captain Rowe and several of the crewhave left widows and large families to lament their terrible death . j The loss of the vessel and cargo is estimated at several thousand pounds .

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      GKEENOCK . IMPORTANT TO SEAMEN . A public meeting of the seamen here was held in the Harvil-lane Hall , at eight o ' clock in the evening of the 17 th instant , to hear addresses from Messrs M'Donald and Bailie , seamen from Dundee , on the necessity of having the Merchant Seamen ' s Act either amended , or , if possible , repealed altogether . In the course of his address Mr . Bailie inad ; it appear that there are npwards of lone hundred thousand pounds sterling exacted annually from the seamen employed in our merchant fcervice , under the pretext of assisting them when disabled through accidents or rendered incapable : of going to sea through old age , while it is notorious that this enormous sum is directed to other purposes , and

      expended none of those from whom it is taken know how . Every seaman , he said , in the merchant service was compelled to pay one shilling per month into what is called the " Seaman ' s Fund , and yet when a seaman dies a natural death , no matter how long he may have paid into the fund , his relatives receive no benefit whatever from jit . Associations are now being formed iu all our sea-ports , for the purpose of having the present Merchant Seaman's Act either bo amended that those who are plundered by it shall have a hand in the future management of the plunder , or have the Ac& entirely repealed . Mr . Bailie , who is a genuine specimen of the hardy British tar , concluded his rough-spun , yet perfectly intelligible address , amidst the warm and hearty plaudits of the auditory . ; Mr . M'Donald then addressed the meeting in a very frank and animated manner , on the necessity of Greenock doing something in order to have this

      glaring grievance made known \ throughout the empire . It was well known , he affirmed , over the whole globe that were it not for her seamen , Britain would not j be valued a single straw by other nations , and that if they knew their own value , no Government in existence would long refuse to redress their wrongs . He read a well written address by the seamen of Dundee to the seamen of other places , urging on them the necessity of forming Associations in every port in the Kingdom , to . have the Act complained of either amended or repealed . In tha course of his address Mr . M'Donald took occasion to depict , in glowing terms , the former inhuman cruelties of the fiendish press-gang . How they used to tear the mariner from his wife and little one 3 , force him into the navy , and not unfrequently crimson the green sea with bis blood . These cruelties , he said , were once familiar to the British seaman ; ' and he had no guarantee that they would not be familiar to him

      again . At the conclusion of Mr . M'Donald's affeoMng address , the following resolutions were moved , seconded , and ably spoken to by several persons in the meeting , aud agreed to unanimously : — Resolved , — " That this meeting consider that the Act of Parliament enforcing the'Merchant Seaman ' s Fund , ' ia a violation of our civil rights as citizens of a free nation ; and , further , that we believe it to be unwarrantable , and that we shall agitate unceasingly till we obtain its amendment . " Resolved , — " That , in order to carry out the foregoing resolution , this meeting do immediately form itself into an Association to effect as speedily as possible the specified object . "

      The meeting , principally consisting of seamen , carpenters , riggers , &c , then proceeded to nominate a committee of twelve , who instantly entered into preliminary arrangements for calling another meeting of the whole seamen of the town and neighbourhood at an early period , to form an association in accordance with the resolutions they had passed . The meeting , which filled the Hall to ; the door , was presided over by one of the most notorious obdurate Chartists in this locality . In the course of the proceedings , he stated that he had been to sea for a short period in the early part of his life , and that he could never forget the hellish mode of maintaining subordination practised on shipboard . ! He most cordially concurred in the objects of the meeting , and hoped that while no stone was left unturned in their endeavours to have this infamous piece of classlegislation exposed and done away with , they would never for a moment forget the one thing needful , the People ' s Charter . i

      Mr . M'Donald intimated that they intended to visit Liverpool in the course of the present month ; and the newly formed committee agreed to postpone their intended forthcoming meeting till they returned . The meeting then broke up . ; Ship Building . —The business on which the great body of our population depends , has been for several months past all but annihilated , that is to say there are no vessels on the stocks at present , and those who live by rope-making , sail-making , block-making , rigging , painting , &c . are all , or nearly so , idle . Our foundries also , which sometime ago employed such an immense number of hands in all the various branches of steam-engine making , are ] likewise all but closed ; and from the stand-still state of these

      two professions , the working people here are in a deplorable plight indeed . From a statement respecting the present destitution amongst us , which appeared in one of our tool journals the other day , signed by the chief magistrate , we learn that there are from six to seven thousand idle starring persons in Greenock at this moment , and it is expected they will be on the increase for months . Of these six or seven thousand from four to fire thousand are supposed to lire solely on the rations whioh they receive at the soup kitchen . These rations consist of an English pint of transparent skilly , three ounces and three-fourths of an ounce of coarse bread , and four ounces of oatmeal to each individual per day . the expense of whioh is fivepence a-head

      per week ; and the committee who manage the relief fund declare that all the money in hand will not enable them to continue even that beggarly pittance for above a week longer . Weimuatbyno means , however , forget that provisions in Greenock all the while are neither scarce nor costly . Prime beef and mutton , with the same quality of bacon , we have ticketed in our fieshers' and grocers * windows at fourpence per 1 b . Good butter at sixpence , and excellent fish , fresh or salt , as cheap as you choose ! Oatmeal at sevenpenoe a peck , and the best dry mealy potatoes we ever bad the pleasure of eating , at threepence per stone . Clothing , likewise , whether necessary ox ornamental , was never seen so moderately priced in Greenook as now . From

      all this , then , it mast be pretty plain that those who are blessed with fixed salaries , and those who have high-ronted , substantially-let shops and dwelling-houses , must be in as comfortable circumstances as mortalB can well be , forming a most unchristian contrast with those who eagerly gulp the transparent sk illy and exhibit the hideous effects of class-legislation . Of those in Greenock who enjoy fixed salaries and regular incomes from well-let property , &o ., it is supposed there are about fifteen hundred , and from their manner of living it is conjectured they support about double that number of tradesmen , shopkeepers , &oM so that Greenock at this point of time may be said to be a perfect sample of what class-le&islatioB is naturally intended to

      effect . Five thousand rational creatures subsisting on the least possible quantity of the coarsest kind of human food doled out in the most insulting manner ; to these is a devil-loving black coat stationed in the soup kitchen to terrify the shivering recipient . While on the other hand there are five thousand of our population who principally owing ; to classmade laws and not to any merit of their own are enjoying every temporal comfort which nature or art can provide . But thiB is not the horrible ] and provoking state of Greenock alone . What is now communicated respecting Greenock may with much propriety w <» hear be applied to every large town in the empire . Subordination we know jis visible

      and necessary throughout the universe of God , but that the industrious portion of the crertion should perish for lack of bread , while the very feculence of humanity possess more than they can use , is a gross insult to the majesty of Heaven . # | Owing to the aforesaid stagnation of business here , and consequent want of employment , the j Charter agitation has rather subsided amongst us of late , more especially since our delegate returned from the late Birmingham Conference . One of our leaders , however , is getting np a concert , which it is understood will take place in our Mechanics' Hall , on the evening of Tuesday , the 31 st current , when it is expeoted the cause will receive- a > froh impetus .

      We were told the other day that Acland , the Corn Law lecturer , is about to visit Greenook again , but he need not put himself to the trouble . The working people of Greenock hold that the Corn Law Repealers are only throwing dust in the people's eyes . Men consider that a repeal of the Corn Laws without other accompanying measures , would be one of the greatest curses' our working population ever , saw . But supposing it were otherwise , is it reasonable to believe , that our class-legislators will repeal the Corn Laws to the detriment of their own incomes , withoat making themselves a handsome compensation 1 We know how they acted towards the West Indian planters , when ihe negroes were half-emancipated , and if twenty millions ] hardly satisfied them then , one hundred millions would be but a poor equivalent for the loss they would sustain in repealing the Corn Laws . We would therefore advise Acland , the sophist , to ponder on these things , and try some other community than ; that of Greenock with his blarney . We will have none of it .

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      O'CONNOR AND ACLAND . Mr . Editor —I havejuBt seen In the Northern Slar , that Mr . Acland , in Scotland , has charged P . O'Connor , Esq ., with falsehood , in stating that he Sir . Acland did not say at Halifax , that the masters vrete going to stop their mills . -My Dear Sir , I sat as joint chairman at the disenssion between Mr . Acland and F . OCennor , Esq , ; Mr . Martin Bat for Mr . Acland , I for Mt . O'Connor ; and fifter the discussion was over , Mr . Acland inclined himself towards Mr . O'Connor , and told him that either the Charter would become the law of th « land , or the Corn Laws would be repealed , and that ia a very . short'time . Mr , O'Connor said how ? The reply he received was jost word for word as stated ia the Star , on Saturday , the 21 st I thought it my doty to the character ef oar worthy friend , to make this statement , as well as to rebut the falsehood of this hired tool of the League . I have no more to add but my good wishes and suppoit unto our glorious cause , in which I have been a sufferer and defender for the last twenty-stvea years . Benjamjn Bushton . Ovenden , January 25 th . 1842 .

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      TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —I am a middle class man , but had the satisfaction of signing the first " National Petition" for '' the People ' s Charter , " aud of subscribing in support of the movement . No doubt there have been , and are , false and violent Chartists , just as there aie false and violent " physical force , " compulsory " Act of Parliament " Christians . ' But that is ne reason vrby undisguised and upright men should be ashamed of the name of Chartist , more than of that of Christian . And , therefore , why do Mr , Sturge and his friends shrink at the name of Chartist , and slink away from discussing the Charter . ' But , though thoroughly a Chartist , 1 have

      after reading the Charter , as revised at the late Con * fereace , thought it might still be amended , f " Would Bubmit the following suggestions . The Charter contains no enactment against the intimidation or the treating of voters . It does not assert , define , and secure the people's right publicly to meet and discuss . It sets forth no mode for trjiug controverted elections . It omits one most effectual provision against bribery ; that of always tendering the oath against bribery aud treating to all candidates and their agents . It constitutes the returning-ofScer of an electoral district , also the returninar-offieer of his own electioM ; should be , after serving three years , seek to be rechosen . I would also render cabinet ministers

      ineligible as members , but give to them and to the lawofficers of the Commonwealth , seats in both bouses , without votes , by virtue of their offices . And might it not be useful to levy on members daily fines for nonattendance , to be deducted ont of their salaries at the end of the session , except when absent unavoidably , or by permissiou from a given cause ? I own also that thinking we cannot be too jealous , and with thelesaons before us in history , of Annual Parliaments having enacted themselves into Triennial , and of a Triennial Parliament having alill further treasonably prolonged

      itself by enactment into a septennial . I think it net unwise to enact that , in case any resolution or motion or proposal of . any kind to prolong the duration of Parliament should pass either House , the Parliament then sitting shall be , ipso facto , dissolved- I am also disposed to enact that the Parliamentary candidates shonld be at least twenty-five , if not thirty , years of age , that we may not be legislated for by boys . I am not sure also that it would be improper caution , or unjust , to enact that all electors should be , twentyfive years old and able to read .

      I will not trench on your valuable apace by arguments in support of these suggestions , some of which it seems to me , every sound representative constitution should comprise ; bat if you honour and oblige me by inserting this in the British " Polar Star , " you may again beat from A Christian Comsionwealthsman . Pontypool , Jan . 20 th , * 18 43 .

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      DEATHS . Death of a Patriot . —It is with ho ordinary feelings of regret that we this week record the death of that veteran , philanthropist , and patriot , Charles Brooker , Esq . The deceased passed tha entire ef bis long- and honourable life—extended to upwards of seventy years—in the agricultural village of Alfriston , East Sussex ; but his name and manly viriues were things familiar as household words" to every inhabitant of his native county . Having by his industry in early life accumulated a comfortable competency , still further increased by the demise of a relative , Mr . Brooker devoted himself , " heart and soul , " to rescuing the labourers of

      SuBsexfrom the physical and mental thraldom in which they had been so long held by their local tyrants . His untiring opposition to the " coarser food" New Poor Law system , secured for him tho grateful attachment of the down-trodden " chopsticks ; " and , as a matter ef course , the enmity of squires , parsons , and " bull-fxoff farmers . " Mr . Brooker speedily perceived that he waa fruitlessly wasting his energies and fortune by attacking tha effect of bad legislation , eo long as the cause continued in existence ; and , therefore , became as ssealous an advocate of Chartism , as he bad been an antagonist to the Poor Law Amendment Act . An avowed Chartist , he stood two or three contests for the Borough of Brighton , affording the liberal electorB , on each occasion , an opportunity of record ing their suffrages at the poll . Mr . Brooker also

      represented the Brighton Chartists in the recent Conference at Birmingham , when he gave hia , unfortunately , last testimony of fidelity to the Chartist cause , by recording hia vote in favour of William Lovett ' s amendment . As an . evidence of the high regard in which Mr . Brooker was held by the Chartists of Brighton , we may instance the-fact , thai whereas a strong contest ensued for the election of his colleagues to the Conference , yet Mr . B . himself was the chosen of every party . Of Charles Brooker , indeed , the worst ever uttered against him by either Tory or Whig , was , that he was an honest enthusiastJ The Chartists of Great Britain , however , will require noother eulogy than this one from their foes , to convince them that death has , in . Charles Brooker ., bereft ihe world of a true friend to humanity ana liberty . May heaven call . forth many such " honest enthusiasts" !

      On Thursday , the , 19 th instant , at Kuaresborongh , Georgiana Frederica , the lady of Edward Strangeways , Esq ., of that place , and daughter of tho lata John Walker , Esq ., of Walter Clough , near Halifax .

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      DEATH OF MB . DRTJMMOND . ( From ihe Evening Star . ) 'With feelings of unaffected sorrow and regret it is our melancholy duty to announce the death of this highly respected and most amiable gentleman . Mr . Drummond expired at bis residence in Grosvenor-street , on Wednesday morning , at about half-past tes o ' clock . We understand that the eminent medical gentlemen by whom he woa attended , bad but little hope of his recovery from an advanced hour on the evening of Monday ; but at ten o ' clock on Tuesday night , what little remained to induce the continuance of that hope had fled for ever . It is stated in the morning papers that the departed gentleman experienced but little pain . We understand , however , that thiB is not exactly the fact . Mr . Drummond is stated to have suffered most acutely during the last twelve hours of his existence , bnt bore those sufferings -with that calmness and resignation which religion alone can inspire . He was sensible to the last , and died in the presence of bis afflicted family .

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      Bench , and at the Bar . Spiritual teachers were not left in the baek-gronnd , but , above all , the splendid observations on the evils of War , will not be soon forgotten . She then concluded the first lecture , by advising every young -woman , to do all in her power to emancipate her countrywomen ; her second lecture went principally to show the evil effete produced by the bad examples of parents , in "which the evils of drunkenness were painted in such a way as to be worthy of the notice of every one . Her advice to mothers was very affecting , and the whole was delivered so as to be interesting to all , and offensive to none . ,

      PERTH . —Tshazb Lecktrks , —Wlehavehadihe pleasure of rwo lectnres from Helen M'Donaid a jonng lady aged eighteen , in our Guild HalL upon the neglect of Female Education , or the Kightsof Woman ; in which she pointed oat how women were a-t first prevented from speaking in public , showing that it was the first cause of the present system of curtailing their education , aided by bigotry and superstition , to which she applied the-whip pretty smartly . The propriety of giving females a superior edncatoon was then ably advocated , and in the course pf which a few able remarks were made npon the justice administered in the Senate Honseon the

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      THE NORTHERN ST A R . 5

      Funds For The National Defence Fund.

      FUNDS FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND .

      Marriages.

      MARRIAGES .

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      At St . Peter ' s Church , Leeds , on Tuesday last , Mr . William Brown , cloth-fuller , Hunslet , * to Miss Jane Lawson , Holbeck . On Thursday , at Todmorden , by the Rev . J . Cowell , incumbent , Mr . John Butterworth , innkeeper , Rochdale , to Harriet , eldest daughter of Mr . George Stead , joiner and builder , Dalton , Yorkshire . On Sunday last , at the Collegiate Church , Manchester , Mr . Ashton Ashton , weaver , Hollinwood , to Miss Elizabeth DavieB , milliner and dressmaker , of the same place . On Tuesday , the 24 th inst ,, at Grimsby , Mr . Thomas Marshall , cornfactor , Stc , to Miss Catherine Babb , both of that place . On Monday , the 23 rd inst ., at the Superintendent Registrar ' s office , Utley , Mr . James Clapham , gardener , to Miss Ann Pattison , both of Otley .

      On Sunday , the 22 nd inst ., at Fewston , near Otley , Mr . Jame 9 Whitaker , tinner and brazier . Addingham , to Miss S . Bennington , of the former place . Same day , at the Superintendent Registrar ' s ofilce , Otley , Mr . I . R . Hill , of Yeadon , to Miss J . Winterburn , of the same place .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 28, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct466/page/5/