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      WATKI 2 TS' LEGACY TO THE CHABTISfS . 1 ECT 0 EE III . —CHBISTLAKITY A > 'D CHAKIISH . " Jesus of Nazareth trho went about doing good . " Abont this time , some eighteen centuries ago ( last Christmas ) , vras bom the meat memorable ma . ^ that ewsr lived , Jesus Christ ! the author of tha Christian Religion . If erer there was a good tnun , if gy ^ . there vas a great man , a man of genius and of virtue , H was be 1 Again , if ever there was a man of sorrow , of suffering , and of sacrifiee , it -was he ; and mark ! it was bia very goodness , his very greatness , hia very genius and "virtue , that brought on Win go mash sorrow sad Buffering and sacrifice . Yes , it was hia Tery worthiness , his trathfolnws , that exposed him to so much 6 t 3 , privation , and persecution . His attachlaentr ,. bis adherence , bis self-devotion to the interests of justice sad humanity ; the true , the real interests of » 2 men , made those jrho * eek their individual ox party

      interests , exclusive of , or to the destruction of the general interests of mankind , made all usurpers , all jaonop # 15 x 2 rB , and all oppressors , his bitter enemies , bis inveterate opponents—yea , they hated him because beloved them too well ; they doomed him to misery because he wished to render them truly happy ; and because he sought to save them , they destroyed him . i He was the gentlest , the most generous and best of beings ; and yet what was the treatment he received— i what was his fats ? He lived , as ha himse . f says , scorned and . rejected of men—ha had not where to lay bis head—he was driven from place to place , hunted lite a wild beast , and at last , this good man , this gracious gentleman , ( for he was a gentleman in the true sense of the word , ) was hung up like a murderer , not fojr taking life , but for Eaving it ; kung 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 Ticfcim of the vices of others i ( he had none of his own )—wicked men took his life ; because he was a good m » n . What ignorance and I pr ^ ndi « he had to conten&ag&inst J What privations j and -positive afflictions he « fcdured . ' What patience i was his amid all his pains ! . He did not appear in } pufelielife till &f : er he was thirty years of age , aad his \ ministry lasted only some three years—yet in that j abort period age * of labour , agea of trial , ages of tor- \ tore were compressed—and after doing and suffering i so much , he was at length betrayed into the hand * of ' his crnel enemies by one of his own disciples—denied j by another when all alse had forsaken him—mocked , j scourged , crucified—followed when bearing his cross , I when fainting beneath the weight of a wicked World , '

      follewed with taunts sad jeers of an unthinKi g crowd , who had been instigated to hoot their worn , to howl their hatred , to buffet , to spit upon their best , their only friend , to abuse him when about to di » for theminstigated by those who had ever been their worst enemies , who had made them the dupes of their bigotry , the slaves of their tyranny , the victims of their cevetoosness , their avarice , and their ambition . But the igaomisons , the agonizing death that was meant to extinguish the shining , the osefol life of Jesus Christ only made it blaze the brighter—bunt forth the wider , for , like the Phoenix , his fame rose from his own ashes—the very villains employed to execute him caught newness of life from bis death—they thought tlsStTiiera must be something supremely excellent in

      those principles which could enable the possessor to pass through such a terrible ordeal , ta stand such a trying test , that tint man must have been a good man , who , dying under such shameful , such shocking circumstances , could still exhibit so much fortitude , resignation , and marvellosa benignity , so much cheerfulness—for all the tortures inflicted on hiffl , extorted so groans , no curse * , extorted nothing but forgiveness from him . And if the very villains who were employed irO execute him , and who had been prejudiced , promoted , and paid , to do the damned deed by the authorities , if these villains , common executioners , were converted by his sufferings , and convowed of hb integrity , what think you must have been the feelings of his own beloved disciples—of those who had been witnesses of

      the blameless purity of his past life , of those who had imbibed the same principles , who were actuated by KimHRr zeal , what must they have felt on witnessing his untimely , his unmerited , his most barbarous fate ? Th * y did just what they aught to have done—what he wished them 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 V * death to drink fify 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 zeal second only to his own ; nothing daunted by his fate , nothing

      dismayed by the f ^ ffffl'Hpg , nothing deterred by the distresses in their way—they followed his example , they lived over his Iif 3 , and , indeed , they were faithful even unto death—aye , even to a death such as his , the most dreadful , the most cruel that tyrasny ever yet devised t © torture freebern man . Blessed martyrs ! this wes the way to make your principles fl : mri * h ; thus proselytes were gained , thus converts were Bade , and Christianity was thus promulgated , was thus propagated , till throned emperors , crowned kings , sceptred powers , sword » d principalitis , began to notice it , began to be swayed by it , and at length from persecnting they &J 1 to patronising it ( ah , patronage more iatal than their p = rsecatfou ) for the pure and spotless virgin of the church

      when wooed by the state , was won by it . Alas ! Chmanity wts Beduesd , it fell into the embraces of pomp and power , and became a proitituled harlot . Church and State—from that unholy alliance , that adulterous connexion sprung the bastard progeHy of bishops , abbots , popes , TnnpVK , friars , and all the rest of the Braan trumpery , black , white , and frey ; who by false prophecies , false miracles , ani falsa pretences of all kinds , made a grand handle of Christianity and esed , it cot to gain heaven with , bat to win the world withal—sot to ameliorate the condition of tha 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 tamed , as it were , against itself , and made to commit suicide . A system has been built on the foundation of Christ , worse than that which he ' died to overthrow , wnieh he died to rebuild , and such

      a horrid—s&ch an abominable use has been made of his came , that I verily believe , if he coald hsvc foreseen the atrocities , the Sandliie acts committed in it , he would have gone silent tirou ^ h life , and never have suffered his name te have been known at b ! L Now these demoniacal deeds- were not confined to the Catholics—the Protestants have had their full share 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 . Yea , taare is as much villany—as much col 4-D ; Ooded erufeity practised in the name of the blessed Redeemer as ever , and the mitred bishops , the shovel-haued iszns , the white-banded parsons , who support the preseEt system , and who profit by it , are as unchristian in so doing—are as anti-chrisasu—as inhuman , nsy , more so , than the heathen , than those whom we civilly term savages , than the Caribbees who drink human gore , and fest on human flesh .

      Jesus Christ , while he lived , was sneerea at , slighted , and contemned ; but after his death , and when his precepts and example began to take effect , began to operate a change in men's nunds and conduct , then it was asked—What is a Christian ? Who v ^ as this Christ ? Esquiry began to be made into all the particular . * of his life , and is was found by tradition and contemporary testimony , that he had been born of poor parents , in circumstances of great humiliation , at the . co' . dest season of the year , ia a manger , ( fur his mother could procure

      DO better lodging , not even in the hour of nature ' s sorrow—of nature ' s extremity , ) that bis parenLs were obliged to flee with Lain , while yet an infant , t-o save his life frosi an indiscriminaVs massacre deer bed by Herod ;—that after wandering from country to country , probably in starea cf werk , they fina ! Sy settltd in X ^ . raretb , "where the son followed his father ' s trade of a carpenter , till he went forth to preach—that his first comnanions and converts . were poor fishermen , and so on as narrated forty years aifcir his death by the ETangelists , and as preached by the apostle Paul and others . ( To be conducted in ovr stsLJ

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      TO THE CHABTISTS OF GREAT BB 1 TA 1 N . Brother Democrats . —By the time you wili heve seen this letter , the greater number of yon will have registered ycur votes for the five individuals who are to manage your aff Jrs for the next twelve months . The term of effice for the old Executive will then be nearly t xpirtd . When I calmly look back to the four months 1 act « d as your representative on the Provisional , andth * twelve marth / on the permanent Executive . I feel proud that I have contributed my niite towards making the Association * hat itis at present . When 1 became Secretary , there

      were about sixty or seventy places registered in our Asocistfon ; now there are nearly 400 . There had bt * n aeaily 10 . 900 cards issued ; during the last twelve Months there has been 35 , 000 issued . Ihiring cur term of oSce , from the letters I have received , every satisfcctioa has been given ; and the Association now wonders how we haTe accomplished so much with so little means . We have never had an angry woid in our body ; m « mhers cf the same family could not agree better than the Executive have done . Every tuly ct that was brought before us was calmly examined on its own merits or deme-Jits , and adopted or rejected according to the dictates of

      our reason . Bui if icuch has been done more remains for the Chartists to do . Although the -Association has now upwards of 40 , 000 members on . its books , —is that number enough f N > ; nor a th'ae cf what ought to be enrolled . There is not a county , city , borough town , or hamlet , into which our prir-dples should not be introduced . Kow 1 aak cf the National Charter Association to fake such steps as will enable its Executive Council to send lecturers into the agricultural districts , aad if possible arouse that portion of the labouring classes t-o a 8 eE » 3 of theii own worth and dignity . Every ergine BJQst be set in plsyto arouse the masses to declare in a voice of thunder , that they are determiced to tave evenbanned justice meted cut to all parties .

      We have one thing in particular to be proud of ; sanely , thai the trades are declaring for tfca Charter . I ^ t the united trades cf this great nation but avow opsnly and determinedly , that tbey insist upon the Peopie ' i Charter becoming law ; aid frill any govern

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      ment dare refuse them their just demands ? I unheaititingly answer No . The Chartist carpenter * and joiners of Manchester , already number a hundred members ; the fastian cutters a hundred . The mechanics have also i joined the National Charter Association . This week , it i ia expected that the bricklayers and smithB will be lnj ducsd to imitate their worthy example ; immediate ! steps will be taken to wait on the shoemakers , calicoi printers , silk and piece-dyers , and spinners , to prevail j on them to come out fer the Charter ; and there is not ! the shadow of a doubt on my mind , but before six j months , we will have the whole of the Manchester

      ] ! i j ] i ; trades with us . London also is doing its work ; aad j when the trades of London and Manchester have ; unitedly decided on agitating for the Charter , they j will give a tone of confidence to all the trades in the j 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 any little petty i grievance that may have existed amongst you . Djnot ! allow the disputes of leaders t ^ divide you . Tell tkem I if they will dispute with each other the censequence i will be on their own heads . Let us act unitedly . j Without union wa are powerless ; with it we are everyi thing .

      In conclusion , I would entreat of those parties who owe for cards , to pay off the debt . 'Tis really too bad to have so many cards out without being paid fer . I did expect that the new Executive would have come into cmsa with clear books . I am now afraid snch will not be the case . Hoping that during the next twelve months , the cause will progress even more rapidly t ^ n it has done for the last twelve , I remain , your brother Democrats , JOHN CiHPBELL . . Salford , June 6 th , 1842 .

      P . S . As the polling will be concluded on Monday night , June 14 th , I shall expect a ? 2 the returns to be forwarded to me by Saturday the 18 th . It will be impossibfe for me to receive any returns after that date , as I have to be in Yorkshire on the I 9 th , 20 th , 21 st , 22 nd , and 23 rd . The polling lists must be forwarded to the Star ofiice before I leave home , in order that they may agpear in that paper on the 25 th of June . There ia sufficient time given to each sab-secretary , and if not forwarded in time ^ the fault must not be laid at my door . I wish also to request teat jjartlea who write to me would be rerj eareful 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 sufficiently heavy without having to pay double for letters .

      TO THB EDIT 9 B OP THE SOBTHERS STAK . Sib ., —It is agread on all hands that great distress at present exists throughout the trading world . Of its cause , a multiplicity of opinions are aflsat . Perhaps , amongst the many , you will allow me to give mine . It is wall known that during the protracted war with Fraace , under the reign of Bonaparte , the landed interest , or aristocracy of England , " pledged their lives and fortunes" in support of our Government . How was this pledge f alfiUed ? Why , they created a fictitious capital , . which said fictitious capital enabled them to double , yea , trtble 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 pisaed the Corn Laws to protect themselves , they also passed measures to restore the old standard cf money ; or , in other words , to greatly curtail that "flctitions capital" which bad trebled their rent 3 , added to the salaries of our officers of state from the reigning aonaich downwards , a ^ d 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 , i . e . the landlords , had protected themselves from the consequences of their own acts by thtCom Bill of 1815 , enacted for the purpose of keeping op 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 bad at the time these measures were determined on , upwards of £ 120 , 000 value in manufactured cloth and in wool ; while I had another « £ SQ ; 000 sunk in mills and machinery . Whit did all this property sell for ? Less than £ 80 , 000 !!! Here was coiifiscation ! Here was a sweeping away !! Upwards of £ 120 , 000 silently , but effectually , filched from me , —owe individual , —by Acts of the Parliament ! Mine was but the case of thousand * : 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 ware forty or fifty years ago . I challenge any one to disprove these facts ; and I ask , Sir , if this ba the way to administer justice with impartiality and to give equal protection to the community ? I am , Sir , Your * truly , Willum Hirst . Leeds , June 6 th , 1845 .

      P . S . Was not the wool duty hud on for the benefit of the landed interest , and kept on for years , till the foreigners began to manufacture for themselves , anil 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 11 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 ! . ' J W . H .

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      ANOTHER PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY . TO THE EDITOB OF THE SOUTHERN STAB , Sir , —It is now some few mouths sinoe 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 of Reason , arrwted at the instance of a Bristol magistrate fur 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 upon Mr . G . J . Holyoake , a Social Missionary , who , on Thursday night last , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , was arrested at Cheltenham by two palicemen , xciOioui a iczrrant , and confined in the Station-bousa for the remainder ef the night , charged with using blasphemous expresaiens at the conclusion of a lecture delivered by him on Home Colonisation , on the Tn :-sday week previously , in the Mechanics ' Institution .

      In the morning he was committed to take his trial at Gloucester , at the ensning sessions , to the gaol of which county he was conveyed hamdcuffed , and would have been compelled to walk from Ch « ltenham to Gloucester , a distance of nine miles , but for the interference of his friends . Tee majority cf the public papers are so shackled by class intertsts as to render them entirely useless for the defence of an oppressed individual whom the strong arm of cigotry seeks to crush , for the advocacy of expression of extreme opinions , however honestly expressed . And I simply state my feelings when I say , that the honest working men cannot too highly appreciate the journal which has been found the impartial advocate of f qua ! freedom of expression for all creeds and shades of opinion . I remain , Youre , < tc W . J . Chiltox Birmingham .

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      TO THE EDITOB . OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sib , —In the report of the Nottingham election meeting beld on Tuesday last , it is stated " that Mr . O Connor ia a member of thirty-four Associations , and has taken out a card at Nottingham to entitle him to vote for the election of the new Executive . " Now , O'Connor , I presume , has taken out 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 wili be found ? In your remarks on Mr . Philp ' s letter , you ray there can be but one General Council , neither can there , in my opinion , be but one National Charter

      Association . It was not necessary for Mr . O'Connor to have taken one bis eard at Nottingham to have entitled him to vote for the Executive . It matters not where a inemper takes out his card , se that it is taken out ascordirur to the fifth rule , which says the card shall be renewed half yearly . If Mr . O'Connor had renewed his card once only within the six months , whether he lived in Manchester , Brighton , or-Nottiagbam , 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 . O'Connor will take this in good feeling , I remain , Faithfully in the cause of Chartism , Nathaniel Morling , Sub-Secretary to the Natienal Charter Association . BrtebtoD , June 6 th , 1842 . [ Mr . Morling is right There is bnt one National ' Charter Associatioi ; and if a man hold fifty cards he stiU is but one member , and can have but ene vote in its proceedings , which be might have , though he held but one card . We wish all efficers and members of the Association would take as ranch pains to understand its constitution as Mr . Korling seems to have done . We should have fewer blunders , less trickery , and a better spirit amongst us . —Ed . 2 f . S ' j

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      NOMINATIONS TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL . CARBINGT ) N , NBAB NOTTINGHAM . Mr . Wm , Grundy , laoe-maker . Mr . Richard Haukin , framework-knitter . Mr . Matthew Walker , labourer . Mr . George Upton , ] ace-maker . Mr . Abraham Widowson , lace-maker . Mr . BeDjamin Harvey , lace-maker , Uuion-Btreet , sub-Treasurer . Mr . Samuel Daft , lace-maker , Factory-street , 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 Roes , 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

      STROUD . Mr . Samuel Nissow , New Town . Mr . Samuel Paul , New Town . Mr . Wm . Ind . New Town . Mr . Thomas Hampton , Norfolk-street , sub-Treasnrer . . Mr . Francis Moyer , Parliament-street , sab-Secretary . DURHAM . Mr . Hugh Riohmond , tailor , Claypath . Mr . Michael Coyne , naiior , Elvet . Mr . John Dreghorn , carpet weaver , Crossgate . Mr . Robert Harrison , eordwainer , MUlburngate . Mr . Wil'iam Craig , cordwainer , Millburngate . Mr . John Mowbray , attorney ' s clerk , Framwellgate . Mr . John Bray , cooper , Framwellgate . Mr . Benjamia Hill , labourer , do ., sub-Treasurer . Mr . Johu Jones , tallow ohandler , Claypath , sub-Secretary . BULWfiLL , Mr . William Morrisj framework-knitter . Mr . William Green , ditto . Mr . Jamea Cliff , ditto . Mr . James Handley , ditto . Mr . Abram Goff , ditto . Mr . William Hicken , ditto , sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Cliff , ditto , sab-Secretary , care of John Pearson , near to the General Baptist Chapel , Bulwell .

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      SHEFFIELD . —Mr . Brophy lectured to an outdour meeting on the site of the Old Sugar Houses , top of Sheffield Moor , on Sunday Vteraoon last . The assemblage was numerous and respectable . Two or three O'Connellites interrupted Mr . Brophy with thsir 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 , for his jsaalous services in the democratic cause .

      Mb- Dcfft lectured in toe Figtree-lane room , on Monday evening , giving an account of the state of Lancashire , Derbyshire , Staffordshire , and other parts of the country , showing the miseries a-. d 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 he called " the coat of a free-from Englishman , " an article he had picked up in the neighbourhood of Hebden Bridge , and certainly such a scarecrow we h&ve seldom seen . It was indeed a fine specimen of "things aa they are , "—proclaiming " trumpet-tongued" the blessings of class-legislation .

      Woodhjouse . —Mr . Samuel Parks , from Sheffield , preached at the Market-cross , Woodhouae , 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 , < tc , after which dancing wa » kept up to a late hour . NOTTINGHAM . —On Son 4 ay . Mr . E . P . Mead , from Birmingham , preached two Chutist sermona , on the Forest , to a concourse of several thousand people . The ipeaker gave to the millocrats , shopocrata , the foreign mission-mongers , and the worshippers of mammon a severe castigation .

      OS Mosdav -Evening , in the Democratic Chapel , Rice-place , the same gentleman delivered another lecture upon priestcraft iitfiasnce , which lasted two hours . S 0 tton-i . v-Ashfield . —The Chartists of Sutton-in-Ashfk-ld , meeting at the Old Trooper , have resolved to spend their Sundays in spreading the principles of Chartism in those villages in the district where Chartism is unknown , and on Sunday last fourteen of that body wont to South Normonton , 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 Chartism . 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 severe declared that some families had not tasted bread for three days , and others five . The saaie party intend visiting Pinxtan on Sunday next , where Mr . Simmons will deliver an address at five o'clock in the af ternooa .

      X / EITH . —A demonstration was held in Leith Links , on Sunday last , in favour of those expatriated vict ims , Frost , Williams , and Jones . The meeting , ' which was very numerous , was addressed at considerable length by Mr . John M'Crea , in a very affectiug and eloquent speech , in which he made a feeling appeal in behalf of the above-named patriots ; after which Mr . John Tankard preached a sermen to an attentive audience , from the fifth chapter of James , 4 th and 5 th verses— "Behold the hire of the labourer , which have reaped down your fiwids , which is of you kept back by fraud crietb , and the cries of them which have reaued are entered into the ears of the Lord of

      Sabaotb . 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 such a feeling manner as must * have pierced the hearts of his audience , which could not be less than 3 . 00 © , among whom was a great many of the upper classes . A collection wa ? made , which amounted , after paying expences , 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 Asseciation then adjourned to Mrs . Watson's Teetotal CoflVe House , and had a comfortable tea party ; after which a variety of addresses were delivered , each speaking in his turn , and the evening was spent in the most harmonious manner .

      CaOYDOM . —A public meeting has been held in the open air , in the above locality , to consider the propriety of the inhabitants adapting the People ' s Charter , as the best means of removing the misery and degradation of the working classes . Toe chair 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 , R \ insley , J . C . Taylor , Esq ., the anti-Corn Law lecturer , Mr . Fairbay , and several other gentlemen , and carried unanimously . Several members were enrolled . ¦

      REBDEKBEUDCrE . —A numerous and highly re ' spectabie meeting was held in a large and commodious room , at this place on Wednesday evening , June 1 st , when Mr . Abraham Marshall was called to the chair . Mr . Beetley , district secretary for North Lancashire , gave » short report of the proceedings on the presentation of the National Petition , and a severe lashing to those who style themselves the Right Rev . 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 < ub-secretary , and wait his answer , or otherwise he will not be accepted . All letters must be directed to James Helliwell , in care of Mr . Abraham Marshall . DEWSB . UAY . —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 , East Ardsley , aad Llttletown . The accounts given in by the varieus delegates were cheering in the extreme , as far as re-¦

      gards the prosperity « i this . our glorious cause ; and the good feeling that is now animating the Chartists throughout 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 16 s . be sect to the Executive , and 10 s . for cards ; and -ti > at the delegates of the next CoQccil meeting do bring 2 i ± per member levy , for the lee ! uret'a fund . Itis requested tfeat those places that do net send a delegate do stsd their quota , by letter , to Mr . RobsLaw , district treasurer . Th < s next council raeuing was ordered to be held at Wakeflsld , on Sunday , the lt * th m » t ., at Mr . Alfred Lancaster ' s , top of KirtgaW , at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon .

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      . 8 AT&BT . CARR .-A fe * frienda of the Dewslmry Charter Association assembled at the House of Mr . Joasph Day , Forestert Arms Inn , Batley Ca » , to establish - -: a . new association . Messrs . Robflkaw , Lord , nd several other frienda , addressed them on the pteaent state of the country , and the remedy for their « * eTatl < J » - Ten new members enrolled their name * and took their cards . James Fox , secretory of the Dawsbury Association , acted as secretary , and volunteered to serve them for three months , until they got more organised . The landlord , Mr . Joseph D » y , was appointed treasurer . A vote of thanks was given to the worthy landlord for the use of the room . The meeting separated highly pleased .

      OSSETT . —On Friday evening last , Mr . West lectured here to a very attentive audience . Nearly tkirty 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 . BARMStEY . —Mr . P . M . Brophy visited this town on Monday evening , and delivered a lecture in the School-room under the Odd Fellows' Hall . Toe greatest attentions was paid to the lecture throughout

      STOURBRiaGE . —A public meeting was held in 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 duration , exposed the present rotten system of Government , and depleted theblesslngB which would be shared by all classes of the community in the event of the Charter becoming the law of the land , and earnestly exhorted all parties to aid and assist inthe glorious struggle for freedom : He gave the highest satisfaction to his numerous audience . Several joined the association ^ A CHABxisT T £ a-Pabty and Ball was held in the National Chartist Association room , on Monday , when upwards of fifty sat down to tea , after which several excellent sentiments were given ; whioh were ably responded to by different speakers .

      laANCHESTBK . —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'DciuaU . The meeting was called for eight o ' clock ; and notwithstanding the charge for admission and the day of the weak , the large room was nearly filled with an intelligent and enthusiastic audience . Shortly after eight o ' clock , Mr . M'DouaU 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 thoir political rights , and a brief account of his delegation to the mechanics ; and he was preud that the result of that delegation was the coming oat 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 ha received the thanks of the assembly . - ¦;• . . , V . . : ,- ,- / .: '' -, '" .. "¦ : : ' ¦ - .- ¦ ¦ . '¦'' -- ¦ "

      HotLiNGWORiH . —The Rev . W . V . Jackson preached three sermons in an empty mill , Padfleld , on Sunday last , which were very numerously attended . The Bum of £ 4 is . 4 gd . was 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 . Haworth—Mr . Doyle lecturedInre to the Chartists of Haworth , on Monday , May 80 th , and at Keighley , on Tuesday 31 st , and Blngley , on Wednesday , June 1 st .

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

      deliver bis second lecture , but Consented to answer Mr . Cftoper's questions beforehe began . The question was then put , " wuif is not Mr . O'Brien a tiennkn or the NationalCharteu Association ? ' Mr . O'Brien occupied an hour and twenty minutes in reply . First , he intended tobecomo the editor of a newspaper , and he would lose his character for impartiality , if he belonged to any one society ; it would fetter him , and prevent him from exercising the influence desirable on the public mind . Secondly , the Government sought bis life , but they could not take it so long as he ( Mr . OB . ) was responsible for his own acts only ; each member of the National Charter Association was responsible for the act * of other members of the body ; the Sfotr ' 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 not . think'it advisable to begin by firing the town at that end ; " plots of the moat 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 vMr . O'B . ) was not a member himself ; bttt he ( Mr . OBrien ) never had insistedi on any working man becoming a member of the association . Working meu he ( Mr . O'B . ) knew were often in danger

      of losing their employ , and even their bread , if they became members . Thcy were sure to be persecuted , and their very lives Wight 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 . Aiid , now , what must he 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's . advice ? Where would the leaders of Chartism be , if every man acted on Mr . O'B ' s . judgment ? Was

      not each and every man in danger if Mr . O'Brien was in danger ? Was not he ( Mr . CO 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 aasy to put them into the fite ; if they w ? Ve danzerous ? Did it rtq'ilre more than the brains of an infant to perceive that that was a ready way of preventing their mischief ? Had not other men suffered for the offences of sthers ? Had not O'Connor suffered for the offanca , as it was called , of a man who stood on that very stage at that moment—and yet , did this either incite O'Caunor to conduct himself spitefully towards that man , or to say he ( Q ' C . ) would not be a member of the National Charter ; Association ? Was he ( Mr . C . ) to say , because he happened to be

      publishing his little ConimonweaMhsman , " 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 . OBrien must know that working men had' more brains thaa to believe that a man of first-rate intelligence would put forth suoh 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 of tho middle classes lo-niuht , numbers of whom bad coma to bear Hr . O'Brien , although they would hot come to hear O'Connor ? These gentry had cheered Mr . O'Brien in every part of his argument wbich bore hardest on the

      National Charter organisation , —and why ? because tbey knew Mr . O'Brien was playing their game . It was time tor every man to stand without a mask . There stood 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 were always quarrelling aud pnvctising detraction . ¦ 'P . no ; Mr . O'Brien never quarrelled 1 He never practised detraction ! There was a pamphlet in existecce . He ( Mr c I held it in his hand . Did it com © from Mr . O Britn ? it began " Brother Chartists , —As one of your body / ' — Rather a strange sentence for Mr . O'Brien to ciutirntnce 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 lale Conference , bo far as I am concerned , and very , very little truth so far as others are concerned ; and ' - - ' that the whole is a base <*>» - coclioti of O Connor , yourself , and others , to discredit me with the Chartist public , " Mr . O Brien , who hated detraction and quarrelling , could write that sentence ; and yet he knew that the Star had . merely copied its account of the Stur ^ e . Conference from the Nonconformid 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 ! Yet this was the Mr . O'Brien who could not ~ become a member of the Nati « nai Charter AsaOcfatipn while there was so much detraction among its members ! He ( Mr . C . ) stood there unflinchingly to proclaim that the

      once great , intelligent , and patriotic O'Brien , was no longer to be' regarded as heretofore—that he had yielded to envy and jealousy , and now appeared as the insidious fda of the Charter organization , and the sly advocate of middle cl » s schemers . He called on workingmen to say , by holding up their hands , whether they approved of a proposition he would now put to them— " That this meeting haying listened to Mr . O'Brien ' s leasons for not being a member cf the National Charter Association ; and , regarding those reasons as so many couched aud iDsidions attacks on the Charter Association , hereby declare that they have no longer any confidence in >!>• . 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 ruet with hooting and derision 1 Let any "New Mover" come to Xdcfcster!—tb » ShakHpereans will t ««« h . bjni what is what . '

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      tUNSl'AUi . —Mr . W . S . Ellis , of Borsl am , delivered two lectures in Tdnstall Maxket-plaee , on Friday evenings , May 87 th and June 3 rd , to lsrge and attentive audiences . Sixteen members were enrolled , v I ^ AOTINGTON . —Wa are acquiring 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 caase . Moreover , we are resolved that Leamington shall presently take a very high placa in the list of Charter localities ; and , to effect this object , . vt » have made arrangements for the delivery of lectures during the summer months , and have already engaged the services of Mr . Bairstow for two lecture * , on theeyen-Inga , respectiTely , of Wednesday and Tfiarsday in the next week . . ¦'¦' . ''¦ ¦ ¦" -: . - ¦'¦ ¦' . ¦• "' . ' - ¦ : ¦ ¦' . -- ! . ' \ ' ' - - '¦ ' ¦ - ' -

      BIRjCttlNGHAM . —State OB THB DISTRICT . — 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 Stpurbridge , and new towns are being added to the glorious muster of the great National Charter Association every week , At Brierly Hill , Lye Waste , Sedgely , and a number ef other places , the people attend in thousands to hear the Charter explained . Messrs . White , Mason , and Linney have been visiting those districts lately , and the good cause is progressing rapidly . It bos been determined to hold

      open air meetings in various parts of Birmingham , in order te arouse the people , and a dspntatira are busi . y engaged in trying to secure a large building for the accommodation of the members , the want of which has been felt to be a serious loss to our cause in this town . A new spirit seems to animate the members , and those who were formerly apathetic are how coming forward with renewed vigour . A conference of all the members is to be held this evening ( Tuesday ) to draw np plans and make arrangements for giving a fresh impetus to the cause , and there is every prospect of Birmingham being brought into that position which is so essential to the success of our cause , -

      Open Air Meeting . —The usual meeting was held in the open air at the railway station ,: Daddeston-row , on Monday evening la % t , and tha advantage of those assemblages ate now being felt and acknowledged ; for it is far more healthful and pleasant for men and women to assemble in a field on a beautiful summer's evening , than being crowded in a room . The meetings have kept increasing every week , and on the last occasion a goodly assemblage were congregated to hear an addresa from Mr . George White ; he has continued this practice since his return from the Convention , and intends continuing it as long as the weather permits . Mr . White addressed the meeting on Monday evening , on the real cause of their poverty , and pointed out the mode by which all men mightr be made comfortable , bad

      they the means of applying their labour to the resources whioh 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 villanoua emigration system , and the modes which were devised in the British Colonies to keep working men the continual slave ? of capitalists . He exposed the enormous robberies perpetrated in Birmingham , in the thape of local rates , and held up the police system to publio odium , declaring that those vile instruments of a cortupt government , were employed more in the capacity of spies than preservers of the peace , as a proof of which , he stated that two or three of them were then in that meeting in disguise , and had orders to attend every

      Monday evening . 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 . Dauglas , 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 of concocting badly-written and foolish letters , and publishing them In his " Catch Penny , " aa the production of some supporter of Mr . O'Connor . After exaetting the working men to nnion and determination , he enrolled twenty-four persons as members of the National Charter Association , and gave notice that he would attend again on the following Monday evening .

      Aston-streex Meetisgs . —The usual meeting was held Rt the Chartist Room , Aston-street , on Sunday evening laat—Mr . Staart in the chair . Mr . John Mason delivered a short and interesting address , In . ' , whlot he described the ill-usage he had received from a stupid constable at Sadgely , while delivering a lecture there last week ; 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 BiTDttlnghom ; after which the meeting separated . The directing council afterwards met at the Ship Inn , to arrange for the conference on Tuesday evening . V » - '

      Monday EVBKiNG .- ^ After the open , air •; , meeting a nunib « ir of the members of tho Associatio ' aattetided at Astpn-street , forthe trnsactfon of ^ he u ^ al b ' usine ^ a Mr . Welsford was appointed chairman , and tho members proceeded" to the noBiinfttlou oipersons to fill two vacancies in the oouncil , and Meaira , White , [ Bough , and Onne , were placed in nomination . Short addresses were delivered by Mr . White , Mr . Peter Henley , and Mr . Saouders , and the chairman gave notice that all members of the AssociatfA would be expected to vote for members to the Executive Committee , by the following Monday . He then read the list as published in the Northern Star of Saturday lasti after - which the meeting separated ..

      COXjNE . —At a numerous and respectable earnp meeting , held on Sunday last , on the top of Pinna , near Cwltun , tb « following ^ resolution was unanimously 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 mind ; and In order to disseminate information amongst the people , and create that unanimity and firm resolution which is absolutely necessary , this meeting suggests and recommends to the friends of the people , and more especially the members of the various Chartist Associations throughout the country , to hold camp meetings In their own localities every Sunday , when the weather will permit "

      , G&ASGOW . — -Tolcross . —A meeting was held in the Chartist hall , on Saturday evening last , Mr . Cleliand in the chair , tohear addrasses from Mr . Brown , of Brldgston , and Con . Murray . Mr . Brown—Subject" Law of Primogeniture and entail ; " the ir justice and in humanity of which he exposed in a clear and masterly style . Con . Murray—Subject--- ** Past history , presint position , and future prosperity 9 l Chartism . " The lecturer dwelt particularly on the conduct of what is termed the " new-move" men , and more esptcially on that of Mr , C . Pattison , as Tolcross and West Muir , ( the latfesr containing 600 inhabitants , aud whicUseat Mr . Pattison to the lost Scottish Convention ) lying coutigioua , was for many we « ks preyioua to the meeting of the Scottish Convention , the fltld of his ( Mr . P . ' a \

      oseratlons , and his well-kaown denunciations of F . O'Connor and the ( Northern Star , was the means , for a time , of prejudicing the inhabitants of this important diutrict Tolcrosa—against the people ' s most disin terested and best friend . Con went on to shew the inconsistency <> f the " new-move ' gehttyj or Glasgowsynod , in rciereace to the question of che Repeal of the Legislative Uaion bstween Great Britain and Ireland , tbey > the * newmove" men being the bitter opponents of that measure , and contrasted this with tha misguided followers of Daniel O'Connell , who look upon Repeal as being the only panacea for Ireland ' s manifold wrongs . He proved to his audience , that the foundation stone of '' new moyism" in Glasgow , waa neither more nor less thtiu a determined enmity tq ' O'Connor and the Nortliem Star . He proved , to their entire satisfaction , that a union founded on subh » basis , and supported by vituperation

      and intrigue , would not be of long standing . Xiie juea of Tolcrosa thought so too , and g § ve expression to the most enthusiaetic bursts of applause in approval of the speaker ' s sentiments . He oo&oinded by calling on the meeting to , go on ,, till suob , time as they were able to procure five or six millions of aignatures to a Natioual Petition ; when he had no dpiibt , if then rejected , something else might form the ; , material ingredients of the next petition , : The meeting ,, which was crowded , having expressed their hearty and unanimous thanks to the two gtffltlemenjani their , worthy chairman , quietly broke uj ^ . £ We giye ^ this report justas we received it ; because particularly requested to do so ; but we do wish that our friends would find better » ccupation for their time ; that they would let the " Naw move " alone in its littleness , and not bestow upon it . unnecessary notoriety . —Ed : ] - . . - . ¦ . - ¦ " . ;¦ . ¦ ¦ - ¦ "' - ' . ' ¦ ¦' :. ¦ ¦ ¦

      DERBY— A . delegate msettng was held on Sunday , June 5 th 1842 , at the Chatter Association Rooms , Willow-row ^ Derby . Present—froni Derby , Fearn and Btlggs ; Bdlper , Vickers and Wheeldon ; Oldbroke , Thomas Taylor ; IlkiBton , Ellis Lathbury ; Burton , Thomas Taylor ; Bowarath , William Wert . Letters were read from various pistes , stating the necessity of haying a lecturer , and their willingness to do their best to support him . Mr . Tickers was appeinted chairman , and Mr . Thomas Briggs secretary to this meeting ; It waa determined that a lecturer be engaged for six weeks , and that Mr . West be tequested to accept the post . The lecturer a salary was fixed at 303 . per week , and his travelling expencas .

      New Mills . —A public lecture was delivered here on Monday , in the Chartist Association room , by Mr . John Campbell , Secietary \» the Executive , to a most numerous audience . :

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      Chabtist Beverage . —The following sums are doe to the Executive from the sale of Messrs . Crow and Tyrrel ' s Chartist beverage , for the week ending June * th : — '¦¦•¦ " : - ¦ : ¦ ¦• - ¦ . ' ¦• ¦ ¦ -. - . v . - .- - ¦ -: ¦ -. ¦ ,.. ¦ :- •' ¦ : ¦¦' ¦¦ <¦ -: ¦ : ¦¦¦ ¦ '¦ ' ¦ . : ' ' ' : ] ' : ¦; £ B d . ' : - . Mr . High , Chartist Provision Store , Hawiok , Scotland ... ... 0 6 0 Mr . Hey wood , Manchester , ... 0 5 3 Mr . Baird . Bolton ... ... ... 0 3 9 Mr . Gillespio , Boltoh-le-Moor ... 0 3 9 Mr ^ Brook , Leeds . ; .: . ^ ... 0 3 0 Mr . Vates , Staffordshire Potteries 0 3 0 Mr . Sweet , Nottingham ... ... 0 1 6 Mr . Johnson , Stoke , Staffordshire 0 1 « Mr . ThompsoD , Stockport ! , ... 0 1 « Mr . Skevington , Louihbro' ... 0 16 Charter Association , Hull ... ... 0 1 6 £ 1 12 3

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      The " Immense Cohcsslh MAWi . —lt i 3 a pre vailing insanity among shopkeepers of the present day to be * t the head of an immense concern , and it is a malady which , in almost erery case , finishes with a fatal result , not only to th&mdividuai who is the immediate sabject of the complaint , bnt _ to those Who may happen to be bitten m . the interim . It generaUy seizes the praprietors of lmendraper ' s shops , and , like the bite of the tarantula , seta them cutting the most extraordinary capew * in the course of which they start off with a most lively geuop ^ aa conclude with a pos , not of the moat gracefui feina , in the Gourt of Bankruptcy . An " immense concern generally begins in a &irigle house ,: and the disease first develope 8 itself in a strong , itching to take the

      next door , which , when once accomplished , is soon followed by an eccentric refioltttion to add the words " and Co . "to the name of the proprietor . The next stage is an eruption of large placards , convoying incoherent hints about ? giving away , " " selling under prime cost , " and other unacconntableacts or generofiity , which the patient professes to practice ; while , by degrees , he groWB bolder in the tone of his tiokets and Bundry commodities are placed under the puilio eyo , inscribed with mysterious allusions to fi farming 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 Failure ^ re ^ extrflinAlv ^ ohsDicudus : and there is a desperate efiort

      to arrest attention , by thrusting . goods almost juto the street , with a printed invitation to the pubhc to 'Look at tWs , " and a mos ^ unoalled ^ or alusion to the " distress of the Spitalfield weavers . " . The disease now becomes convulsive : enormous piles of druekets are deposited outside the shop ^ m bold defiance of the Paving Act , carpets dangle from the upper-stories , blankets float in the air , and pieces of calico flutter in the breezy while straw bonnets are dashed recklessly into the window , with xo intimation that there is achoiceof 25 , 000 , ail at a price not even wortb mentioning . Blooks are dressed like customeradresses that

      up in cloaks to look ; have been lying in the wareroom since last yearare labelled as " Quite new , and juBt imported . ' Ev .-ry thing iB markied at an astonhdingly moderate price ; but , by some strange accident , there is not a ticket , but what has slipped from one thing to another , if any one wants to purchase the labelled article . After these very active symptoms , the disease comes to its termination ; the immense concern" dies a natural death , and the proprietor amuses the public by a series of confessions to the Commissioner of Bankrupts , or gratifies a spirit of enterprise by bolting "to America .

      Mortality at Hampstead— Disease in a most Virulent form has made its appearance lately in a family at Haverstock-hill , Hampstead . The . son of a nurseryman at Hampstead was first visited by a medical man on the 18 th of M ay : ¦; he waslabounng under Symptoms denoting scarlet fever , and died oa the same day . The eldest daughter was next attacked , and on the return of the party from the barial of tho eldest son , she waa found dead , and two other children were in . a dying coadition . Between Wednesday aud : Saturday , four members of this devoted family perished ; two -were removed to an . hoanital . and another daughter ( the wife of a

      publicau at Woolwich ) , who had visited her sick relatives , was takea home ill . Situated nearly in fronts and within ten or twelve feet from the door of the cottage where this fearful mortalityoconrred , 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 higher ground has been washed in to this reservoir . This nuisance has existed . during 17 or 18 years , andhas frequently been complained of ; yet it still remains . —< Sun .

      Twelve Hopsks Cohsdmed . — -Bedpobd , June 4 . —Yesterday afternoeri a fire broke out at Clapham , a romantic village , situate about two milesdistant from this place , and burned with such fearful violence , that within two hours after it commenced no fewer than twelve hoHses and other premises were levelled to the grounds It was discovered between two and three o ' clock in the afternoon * i *^^* * the spacious homestead the property of Lord Ashburton , occupied by a gentleman named Grant , and is supposed to have originated near a stack of straw in the rick yard , adjoining two extensive barns , which had ignfeed , - and soon were burned to the ground . The flames were almost immediately after their outbreak observed by the inhatota . hts at

      Bedforo ? i who , with great - prOHipfitudd , proceeded with airposWbleiiaste t 5 ' m ^ mp ^^^^^ o ^ i ^ two pdwerful'engines' ^^ tioiineotediwAh ttiB'tO ' wft , out byMhe ' time they arrivea ^ he fire ^ afc- gafaM ftn alarttltttt ^ TOdan ^^ lr ^ fig ^ xte ^^ ^ e * i ^ farm . * Sooif ^^ afterward ^ 1 t was ^ iscbtewd mt ^ etera ^ Wmse ^ ifi-ttie ^ illage ^ wiW ds Of ToSlf a-inile aistan ^ haa oattgiiV ^ r some burning materialfilingnpoa , $ &' roofs , when a most painful sight jpresented itself / iint' conseqoehce of the confusion amongst" the ¦ occujoiers i' who chiefly consisted of poor labouring- families . > Within s quartfcr of an hour after ; the flames , had . communicated to font other honsesi whilo at" the homestead , fine

      where it originated ; the farm-house ^ a oldfashioned snbstantial brick building , bad fallen a sacrifice to the devouring' element . Grestapprehensions were now entertained for the ' safety of the entire yillagey for its destrucfibn becsme imminent , five other houses having been attacked while the firemen and others were unroofing others in . the hopes of cheokiflg its progress . Fortunately additional engines and assistance at this moment arrived ; wten , after two hoursV incessant exertions the fixe was mastered , not until , however , the whole of Lord Ashburton ' s homestead was destroyed , together with twelve houses in : the village . Th « amount of the property destroyed is not yet ascertained . We regret to ' say most part of it is uninsured .

      Witchcraft . —An extraordinary instance of snper . sfitiaus credulity and canning knavery camo iindef the attention of tho magistiates at Newton Abbot , on Tuesday . A young woman of Denbury , havini ; been taken ill , her friends gravely came to tte opinion that she had been '' Witched , " and took her to a man named Thomas , of T « gnmouth , by trade-.-a fchoemaker , but by profession a " white witch , " or witch fender . This impostor confirmed their fea ^ s , and insinnated that the mischief had been done by a poor woman , their neighbour , at I ) enbary . One of the means wliich he directed to counteract the evil , was to take the girl into afield aud exercise her ¦ violently for two hours by running round it , taking caro to jump her aad shake her about well at tha four corners . This the poor

      creatures -performed with such z . al that in a few hours after the girl died . The feeiing now aroused in the village against the poor old woman , falsely accused , was such that she was obliged to apply to the . magistrates for protecUoh . They iBsusd a warrant for the immediata apprehension of Thomas , who was accordingly brought before G- Garrow « Eaq ,, and — Monro , E-: qi , on the following day . Evidence having been heard , with the fear of the treadmill , before his eyes , being questioned with much tact by Mr . Garrow , witiithrj coolest effrontery acknowledged that all his protended charms were impositions—much to the surprise , and we hope to the-edification of hia former patients , some of whom were present , and clamourously demanded restitution of money paid in the purchase of them . Tho case ended in the maa ' a distn \ ssa } . -r-Western

      Times . ' ¦' : ¦¦ ¦ ' ¦ : - ' : ¦'¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ " / . .. ; : -: . -. ' . ' ¦ ' - ' r ^ - ' " . ' :. ' .-SnocKixq Affair —* On Friday , moraipg , &bcat half padt inine o ' clock as SeijeanfcFinley . anfll Hayward , of the , G diviaion of Poli . c < v w . eje passing through Crirence-strtet , near the Citytroad , they were o * lled into the Iiouse No . ; 3 , whera an attempt at murder and suicide had just been made by a young woman named Caroline Beyswprtfa ,, but . who had lodged there for a considerable time in the ixame Of Just , passing as the wife of a young man of that name , a . brass-founder , with whom fhV cohabited They had a female child about a year andniae months old , but Just , it appears , has another wife elsewhere , and was about to take tho infant to her , and to Withdra-w himself from its mother . The unfortunate

      woman in consequence determined on murder ; and auicide , which she proceeded to carry , into effect by puUing-tho child into a paii of Water . When the cessation of the child ' s straggles induced her to believe it was dead , she took the poor innocent out of the pail , and laid it out on the bed which they occupied in the front { parlour , aad then , mounting upon tho table , suspended herself by a cord from a nail in the room . The weight , however , whett she threw herself off the table , broke down the nail , and she fell upon the floor ; and she then took tha 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 , happened to discover her Mr . Mack , a surgeon , being sent for succeeded , after

      a considerable time , in restoring the unhappy creature to consciousness by bleeding aad other means . The attempt that she had made to drown the infant had in the meantime b « n discovered The poor child , although motionless when laid apoa the bed , was not dead , ana in a short time began to revive , and the surgeon found it in strong convul sions . The wet clothes being tekea off , and restoratives applied , it t as well as the mother , now appears likely to recover . On Saturday , the unfortunate woman , who appeared to bo in a dreadful state , of agitation and exhaustion , was examined before the

      Magistrate at Worship-street . On being asked by Mr ^ Br oughton , whether she h ^ d any thing to say in answer to the charge of attempting to destroy her childj-she repli $ d , 'that ehe Jiad not ; Mr . Broughton said the case on the pah of Just was one of heartless yillany , but as ; the charge against her Had been proved * he aanstitdnrinii her for trial . The prisoner fell-back ittyiolent hysterics , and was takenout of Courts Just was then placed at the bar ^ on a charge of stealing two table spoons belou ^ iu *; to his paramour , and was remanded until Wednesday . The prisoner iu a reokleBs manner said , he wished to be . transported , ee he bad been ofce before .

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  • 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-ncseproduct602/page/7/