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      NEXT MONDAY , NIGHT . O N the Evening of May 3 th , a Dramatic Entertainment will be given in the New Theatre op tbs Rotunda , in the- Biajakfriar ' s Road , near tho Foot of the Bridge , selected with a"mw to the peculiar gratification and aausement of the millions . Sonthey ' a Wat Ttleh . j Sheridan . Knowles ' s Virqikius ; or , the . Liberator of Rome I and Lord Byron's Cain , a Mystery ! -willfara a portion of the bill of fare . New Scenery , Talented Actors , and good Music are engaged to give eclat to the night , which will be wtani up by a Baxl , to commence when the Play is . over .. Tickets , One Shilling only , may be bad of Agr . JcAin Cleaye , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fieet-Btreet ; and at Ya / jous Shops in the neighbourhood of the Botur , da

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      THE PEQf ^ E'S CRY- " THE LAND 1 THE LAND I " TO THE , PRODUCERS OF WEALTH , AND ALL THOSE WHO UVfi BY 1 NDUSTBY ON THE LAND . MOW Publishing , in the ENGLISH CH- KTER 1 X CIRCULAR , AI > . L THE LETTERS OF F . O ' Connor , eso . on the land . ^ ^> The whol e of the aeries referred to by Mr . 0 Connor in last week * Star caa still be had at , Une Halfpenny each . j London : Cleave , Shoe-lane ; Heywood , Manchester ; Hobson , Leeds ; and all the Agents of the t Star , through the country .

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      -nr ROYAL FUNERAL AND THE ROYAL T BIRTH . qxx royal Brion has gone ! and another has eome q # iaa left **> * nd left ^ L 000 » -ye » r ! 1 and -ajtber has oome to fill np the niche . There can Mdo doabt bat that it vrill also require " demonish" / Poor John Bull . ' The draw is never done ! as u * %£ one drops oS , another drops on . 2 S' o rest ; ^ respite ; no cessation ' . Pal ! , pull , pull ! Suck , fflek , tact ! No -wonder he i 3 nearly dried up ! since he first

      crSi £ s ha 3 cost us a pretty penny hononred us with his preseBce . We hear much Ajsomeness , abont hiB " virtues" and his" patriotic None of them ever t&nght him that it was ,. ^ jy t # earn hiB own living ! He was an inenml—ace ' froir the first moment he drew breath ! jj ^ y a belly has had to go supperless to bed , and T s back has been shirtless , to proride him with ; ? ve means of living in lux-iry withont labour . Talk ^ -nttous of " virtues" trader such circumstances as rtgge . If he could not a ford to be " virtuous" out [ . £ 2 i ooo a-year , it would haTe been bnt a sorry come-out . ' Hanj a man has to be " virtuous ' - ' on ' ¦ men less ;

      li is true that he was not quite so bad as his eldest , irother—the most finished gentleman" of the age— -jmsenthis strumpettohiBnewlymarriedwifeadorned j jjj jjer own jewelry ; and who drove that wife from I his starts , with an infaat baby in her arms , tell- j tiji her that " oar inclinations are not in our pow-: rf " I ; is true that he did not surround his turned-off j •^ 2 with spies and perjurers , who swore to the fact j af pregnancy and dkljtebt , when there had been ' neither ai all , as was proved to the satisfaction ^ tbe " Extraordinary Tribunal . " It is true that ! he did not drive her from the shores of England , to : ¦ I : ¦ ! | i j j ,

      geek comfort in travel ; and then when she returned ; -resent against her a " Bill of Pains and Penalties , " j supported by the evidence of Italian cut-throats , j jad Xjn-mi-Ricordo's . It is true that Srsssx did not & these things ; nor did he do a 3 his brother ' William did , beget seven " bastard baibxs" on one ; Jto&er , when not possessed of even the means of keeping himself by his own earnings , much less to j ttep others ! It is true that he did not after- j nris desert such Mother , and leave her to die in mot and penary , while he was revelling in the ; -roeeeds of other people ' s industry . It is true that ' he did not saddle the expenee of his bastards upon

      ihat people who had already paid much too dearly fyT his own keep j nor did he afterwards sign the execrable Poor Law Bill , to threw the burden of nuiiitaining bastard children upon the poor seduced » nd deluded Mother ! It is true that Sussex baa sot playsd such freaks as these ; and their absence say be accounted virtue , " — " virtue" by contrast . Bat even Sussex , " virtuous" as he has been , had h » d some peccadilloes , which will not bear " peark- 'l inf'' I He has had two wires alive at one and the j game time ¦ ' He has been the means of giving existence to several children , who are far from being in their natural position ; they being born in ' wedlock , thoagh treated as illegitimates . |

      He is gone , however I His remains are to be in- \ tared this day , ( ThnrsdayJ in Kessax Gbkkh ; ¦ Cqdext . There let them rest , alongside of the I ieser man , because more useful to his kind , ; RfEfRD Cablile ; and while their dusts co-mingle iapfcber , let the -world draw the moral that it is not ask or station , or advantages that wealth can imprt , thai will prove the passport to the temple of doe , but usefulness and moral worth .

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      TO THE PEOPLE , j Mr deia Feissbs , —This morning has shewn me { tie vilae of lawyer gab , when rightly used . Every t t * 1 * - ias some good in it ; and so has lawyer gab . j We mustered at . half-past ten in Westminster H * U ; and a goodlj gang of "jolly conspirators" i jere we . There were some defaulters among the j B wide mouihed ones , " as usual . Your " Captain I & *« iis" we always minus , if but ihe suspicion of

      f 5 qaeneea fiits across the pathway of their "bonne- j ° ^ There were one or two , I believe , who were oesitute of the means of travelling to London , and * ao consequently could not ccme ; and I know that i "me of those who did come , have made sacrifices ' tf the moH fearful personal character to do so . Soat of them , whom the people did not assist as ; Wy onga : «> have done , pawned almost every thing j fc ? J b ^ , to get here , sooner than rally the fair flig j of Chartis m by skulking—I need not say : aat these * "e bo : open-mouthed men The men most deter- j tt -2 rd i S ^ hung a battle tfcroa ^ h are a ' .-ivays they * a » are jeo = i wary in pitching up-. n iheir grouod ,

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      However , with few exceptions , there the conspirators wete , and % finer lookingjpet of fellows I have seldom seen . After the preliminaiies , calling over names , &c , the lawyers on our side began to state their objections—legal , technical objections—to the indictment under which we were convicted . Dundas opened the ball , Sergeant Murphy followed him , and was sustained by Messrs . Bodkin and Atherton . It is needless to annoy you with the particulars of their technical speeches , which , as plain , unsophisticated men , Borne of you would but

      i imperfectly understand ; suffice it that they made . the -Government Attornies look very much like fools . They stated several grounds of objection which they contended must be fatal to the indictment and the verdict , both as to the fifth count and ! the fourth . The Whig Lord Chief Justice Denman helped them to another Btunning objection , which i they had apparently overlooked , and which seemed ; considerably to flabbergast the Attorn « y-General The Court held that all the objections taken were feasible and deserving of attention , and granted a a rule to show cause why judgment should not be

      \ arrested , both as to the fifth count and the fourth count , of the indictment ; and appointed the second day of next term , ( which will , I believe , be about the 26 th of May ) , for the hearing of the argument . As it would have involved serious expences to all the defendants to have been obliged Ut come up to London again , whether wanted for judgment or not , the Attorney-General , with that handsomeness of manner which characterised his whole demeanour at Lancaster , stated at onoe that he would not require the personal attendance of the defendants , during the argument . The

      Attorney-General then applied to the Court to have poor Fen ( on , who was the only one brought up in custody , released and put in the same position as the other defendants . This the Court acceded to , and bound him and all the others in their recognizances of £ 100 to appear for sentence when called on ; so that the whole matter stands thus : —On the 26 th of May we have the grand fight of lawyers , as to whether the two counts of the indictment , under which verdiot has gone against the whole of the defendants , be , or be not , bad in law . If the counsel who may be retained for the defence , succeed in proving that

      : I i \ ;• j ' : they are , then the whole of the foregone proceeding * , | trial and conviction , are so much waste paper , and 1 the Government is foiled and beaten with its own I infernal machine , —the monster indictment will have i cut its own throat . If they fail to substantiate theii objections , and judgment is to be , after all , pro jnounced , the Go vernment , incensed and infuriated with the trouble we have given them , will press hard for the heaviest punishment they can get in-Eicted . You see , therefore , the necessity—the abso - [ lute necessity—of going through this battle well-; There are bnt two oi three weeks before the

      argument ; THB BEST AND ABLEST LAWTJKBJB OF THE yElT . y must be had ; for the Government will put forth their whole strength . The fight will be a sharp one , md ice must win it . We can only win by dint of lawyer-gab , and we can only get that for money ; the funds therefore must be seen to ; not an hour must be lost ; all hands must " to the pumps" and work li ) p dragons . I know it is hard to be thus ever dragging M you for money , money , money ; I bate the necessity which calls for it ; bnt I can't help it ; the necessity is there ; it docs call , and it must be answered . You know that if my advice to

      [ you had not been over-balanced by that of those I who now ekulk from the consequences oi their own } "bravery , " the necessity would never have existed j j the trap would have been avoided . But my advice ] was not taken ; the trap was gone into ; your , bravest and best men are " ia for it , " and I you must see them through . The scorn of all i hoaest man , and the curse of all patriots would blast your names for erer if you should now be base

      I enough to 6 ee thiB cause lost for lack of means to 1 carry on the war . You responded well to my last ! call upon yon . You have done mobly . You must go on . The able Counsel employed to-day have j done their work . They have placed you in a position of all but certain triumph , if you don't yourselves fail to provide the means of going on . I do hope and trust that this will be the last time that you will 1 be called on to make such exertion . We must have 1 no more of these freaks—Chartism cannot afford it .

      Thanks to your spirit and the indomitable energy of Mr . O'Connor and others , out of this evD much good has been made to come . Chartism has received a great impetus from it . Bot any more such exhibitions would do us more harm than this has done us good . However , this m « B 8 you are in ; and this you must pull through . You have but one more pull to make ; it is for the argument on the 26 th inst ; and for that top MUST make an bffobt —sueh an effort as you have never yet made : we must have the best Council the country can find us . Money must be no object : talent must be had . I

      assure jou that I can feel very acutely for your position . I do not get through all this without cost myself . It has involved me in very heavy and serious expenses , into which perhaps some might have thought it a little hard to be dragged , as I have been , in opposition to all my exertions in your behalf , at the time when the whole might have been averted , and much other mischief besides ; but there is no use in regretting all this now . It is gone . I have my reward and satisfaction in the knowledge that you are not incorrigibly blind—that your eyes are now open—and

      that you at last see who would have led you from the ditch , instead of leading you into it , and leaving you there . It is not nngratifying to me to receive , as I do , yonr thanks and votes of confidence , in bundles , from all part of the kingdom ; but it will be much more gratifying to see you now make a mighty effort to repair nobly the mischief that has been done . I ask no thanks ; but I do a * k you to learn wisdom from experience , and to gather courage from exigency . J do ask you to fight this battle through like men , and to take care that you are never ma de fools of again .

      I vca , as I have ever been , Yonr faithful friend and servant , Wm . Hill Old Bailey , London , Thursday , May 4 , 1843 .

      ( Ft om our London Correspondent . J I write to inform you that at this moment , halfpast five o ' clock , Cooper ' s case is adjourned until to-morrow . You are already aware , from another source , that the " conspirators" are to appear next term , or when called upon , to receive judgment The day has been one of great interest to the Chartist public ; the paltry show of the funeral prooe 3-sion being entirely lost sight of in the superior attractions of the Court of Queen's Bench . Nature sympathised not with the mourning groups ; the euq shone out resplendent .

      A large meeting was held this afternoon , on Kenniugton CommoD , to take into consideration the disgraceful cosduct of a knot of the League , and this eTening we shall give the Repealers the most notable defeat they have yet experienced , and prove to honest Duncombe , that though a faction may denounce him , the people will support him .

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      Scddkn Death —On Thursday last , Mr . William Goaier £ all , aged 9 o , of Bip ^ erholme , whilst sitting in his chair , s-nddenly expired . He was never known to have a day's sickn ? ss during the whole period oi his long life .

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      F . M . T . —Next'ceeh , if possible . W . Daniels . — We think his notice of the second lecture of A eland would only be conferring upon the latter a greater honour than he is entitled to . J . HeighwaT informs us of a piece of shameful conduct on the part of a Dr . Mannix , a magistrate of Wolverhamplon , who , because his son , « young lad of thirteen or fourteen years of age , had signed a petition against the Factories' Bill , went to the shop where it was laid , and . after tearing the petition into two , curried it off with him . — We do not think it necessary to publish the long account sent to us . I W . H . C . been received . It is for the present

      laid aside . J . S .. Newark . —No . We have received a communication signed "A . A . Woolfenden , " but without any place being mentioned in it . Of course ue do not know to what district of the country it refer * . George Williams , of Glasgow , writes to say that Dr . Gbkbb , of Glasgow , "is a stern , bold , and consistent patriot , " and that he is astonished that the Dr . is not represented in our columns . " We hardly know what this means . The Doctor , we believe , has some pills to sell ; and we have advertised them for him when he has chosen to M order" us to do so , and paid for it . What more is wanted ?

      Caution . — We deem it necessary to caution the public against a person named Thomas Montgomery , who is now , through false and lying pretences , levying contributions , and otherwise imposing upon the friends of the poor man , and also upon the poor man himself He was examined before the Track Committee of the House of Commons , where he gave evidence that has been contradicted in many essential points . Since then he has represented himself as being employed by Mr . Ferrand , M . P ., to get up petitions against the Truck System ; and in that assumed capacity he has contrived to fleece pretty considerably . Poor Dodd , the factory cripple is a sufferer from him , to the extent of £ \\ . We have heard also of his doings a : Bingley , Oldham , and Hudders-field

      Having had these facts brought under our cognizance , we deem it proper to give this public caution . We have seen letters both Jrom Mr . OaStler , of the Queen ' s Prison , and Mr Fer-Band , addressed to private parties , desiring them to be on their guard against him . Mb . Ferrand says " that he has never received a petition from him ; and that he has no authority from him ( Mr . F . J to act as he is doing . " The pretence , therefore , that he is employed by Mb . Ferrand is a fraud . We have also seen a letter from himself to Mr . PWcethly , of Huddersfield , which , of itself , shows the man to be a thorough knave . James Sinclair has received 4 s . 9 d . for Mr . Cockburnj ' rom some friends in Coxhoe . who have not given their names . Mr . , C . returns them his sincere thanks .

      THB P 0 BTRAiTS .-7 n the Sheffield parcel from our Correspondent there , this week , was the following note : — A Subscriber at Copenhagen , Denmark , wishes to know the cost of all the Portraits published with the Northern Star , except the renegades . " Now this question is a puzzler . He wishes us to except the " renegades" / Were we to do so , we fear that we should bring a "hornet ' s nest" about our ears . Perhaps the " Subscriber " himself would be the very first to complain , and hold that those we singled out as " renegades " were all"good men and true ; " and that those we held to be " good men and true" were the greatest " renegades" of all ! Seeing then the risks attending such a proceeding , we shall leave the task of " excepting the renegades" to the

      Subscriber himself ; while we barely inform him that he can have copies of all the small Portrai ' s at id . each ; and of the large ones , after subscribing six weeks for the Star , for Is . each . JOHN Smart , Aberdeen WehavehosU of letters oh the subject tchich forms the ( he thane of hU . We deem it right to withhold them until the xheim is ftitty developed , and the public in a position to judge of the matter . James Bronton , Manchester , must apply the above notice to himself . Cap op Liberty , Brighton . —The letter from this place , stoned by the Council , affecting Mr . John Cleave , has been handed to that gentleman , along with the one from William Flower , in which it was enclosed , Mr . Cleave ' $ attention to them is hereby resptel fully requested .

      Joseph Greensmith , Nottingham . — His letter has also bten handed to the same quarter . Thb Factory " King'' and the Factory Bill . —• With much pleasure we give the following letter from Mr . Oastlkr . With his opinion of the system of" relays" we entirely agree ; and it was because of such agreement that we gave his little Fleeter entire , so that the working people might all know what the feelings of their " Old King , " respecting the New Bill , were . We were

      glad , too , that he laid at the right door the responsibility" of having commenced that system , ft was not the * ultra philanthropists" who either coneocUd or introduced it : it was the Whig Ministry , in spite of all the opposition that the Ten Hours' Men could give . All this , however , is now conveniently forgotten ; and we are glad thai the ll King" stirred up recollection , and showed the people that it was not their friends who proposed " relays , " but their enemies . Mr . Oastler ' s letter is as follows : —

      To the Editor—Dear Sir , —Accept my hearty thanks for the insertion of By letter on the Factory Bill . I am certain , if the system of " Relays" be perpetuated , increased distress must follow . I am satisfied now , that my " people" will all see my opinion on the subject . God prosper the right—Amen ! Believe me , dear sir , Gratefully and faithfully yours , Richard Oastler . Queen ' s Prison , April 29 , 18 * 3 .

      I . vqcirer . —7 / is certainly true . John Campbell has H piked his bones off" to America . The letter inserted in last week ' s Star from W . Butterworth , had a P . S . conveying the information that Campbell had landed xn New York ; so that it is certain he was not , nor could he be , in the Queen ' s Bench Court , on Thursday , io receive judgment ! John talked loudly at the conspirators'" meeting about" doin ^ r things on his own responsibility " The " things '' were done ! but John found it convenient to shift his * ' responsible" eaicase across the Atlantic , and to leave others at home to " take the responsibility" ! As to the second query , we

      cannot answer . Whether he has delivered up the books of the Association , or taken them with him or destroyed them , ( as he once before proposed to do , when the London men had found out their glaring discrepancies and evident falseness , is best known io himself . We are not aware which course he has pursued . We certainly have not heard of his having placed them in any body ' s hands , to be forthcoming when called for . Honesty would have dictated such a course , even when flying from the " responsibility : " but John ' s notion was , as expressed in a letter to a friend of his in Huddertfield , that " it was not worth while for any publio man to be honest" !

      H . S . desires io know the estimated amount of producing power in England about the year 1798 . We answer with an extract from the Northern Star of July 30 , 1842 . — In 1792 we are stated to have bad a population of 15 , 000 , 600 . By far the greater proportion of that population was occupied in agricultural pursuits . Manufactures were with them a secondary consideration . They seemed to act according to the dictates of nature : food first ; cloth in ? the next . The inrentions of Watt and Abkwright were then new . Their introduction into use was but slow ; yet they were being introduced . The population , too , possessed a * that time other mechanical and scientific power . According to the Sta > tiscians of the day , about one-fourth of the population were engaged in manual labour . At that time , however , banian labourers were men ; not women or children . The producing power of England , at the period we speak of , ha » been computed by those most conversant with the subject to h » ve been : — Manual labour 3 , 750 , 000 Mechanical and scientific power equal to 11 . 250 000

      Total 15 . , 000 The population -was also 15 , 000 , 000 . Thus the aggregate productive power and the population in 1792 were about equal , or as one to one . The condition of the population then was that which it has never sires been . Indeed they experienced a degree of substantial prosperity equal , if net superior , to that of th / j inhabitants ef any other part of the world . PauperlsTii was comparatively unknown . The poor rates amounted only to £ 2 , 000 , 600 ; and out ot them ¦ were paid , as now , the county rates , salaries , and law exp-gDces . Now , we are told , the poor rates amount to £ ' 8 , 000 , 000 ! 1 This can be accounted for . The manufacturing system had then attained that point which gave the highest yalue to manual labour , compared with the price of th » necessaries and comforte of life , which it was calculated to afford ; and it had not then introduced the demoralizing effects which soon afterwards began to emanate from it .

      Such was the amount of producing power in the year 1792 ; and such was the stats of the population . Let us now set how both these matters Btand at the present Manual , or rather human , labour has been increased . Tbe labour of women ami even children has been ea / led into long , uuceas : Dg rfaiiy action . To such 5 b extent lias this been the case that Statiscians now estimate tfcp . t one-third of the population are € -ngac * d in hand Ubour , instead of one-founh , M computed is 1792 .

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      But if the producing power of England has been increased by adding to her man-ml labourers the wives and daughters , and the infant boya and girls , of working men , what , O I what has been the increase In her mechanical and scientific power ?! In the year 1817 , when the population was estimated to be 18 , 000 , 000 , it was found that there had been a real increase in , our mechanical and scientific power to produce wealth equal to that of much more than two hundred millions of stoat , active , well-trained labourns ! an increase eqoal to more than ten times the then population I an increase equal to more than thirty times the manual labour England could then supply for the production of wealth ! 1 In 1817 / then , the producing power of England stood thus : — Manual labour ( one-thlrd of the population , 18 , 000 , 000 ) ... 6 , 000 , 000 Newly-ereated scientific power ** . from 1792 to 1817 , understated 2 OT , # 00 , 000 Scientific power in 1792 11 , 250 , 000

      Total producing power ... 217 , 250 , 000 ! ! I The population at this period , as we have before seen , was 18 , 000 , 000 . The proportion which tbe producing power now bore to the population was as twelve and a fraction to one . In 1792 the proportion was , as we aave before seen , just equal—as one to one . * * # The population at present , as appears from the last census , is , in round numbers , 27 , 000 , 000 .. As the employment of females and children since 1817 has not decreased , but , on the contrary , greatly increased , we adopt the last estimate—that one-third of our population is employed in band-labour . ( We are now arguing generally , and not with reference to tbe present " depressed ' state of trade" as It is called , and consequent want of employment ) Those most conversant with the question aver that we have now a mechanical and scientific productive power equal to the labour of more than six hundred millions of " hands" >

      This is no random guess . It is the result of deep and searching inquiry and extensive practical knowledge . One of the means to ascertain the amount may be here stated . It will give an idea of the kind of data on which the conclusion just named 1 b founded . Some time ago three of the principal British manufacturers of cotton yarn in different parts of the kingdom made separate estimates of the quantity each workman in their respective establishments produced , compared with the average production of one person on the plan formerly pursued , that is , with band-cards and single spinning-wheel . They found , on examination , that they agreed in the conclusion that the proportion between the quantity produced by one person with

      the then machinery , and one man on the former plan , was as one hundred and twenty to one I Subsequent improvements have raised the proportion to that of more than two hundred to one . It is computed that there are above 900 , 000 persons employed in cotton-spinning in Great Britain . It would therefore require 60 , 000 , 000 of workpeople to produce , on the old method and unaided by the late mechanical and chemical inventions and improvements , as much cotton yarn as is now produced by the 300 , 000 ! Now 60 , 000 , 000 is just onetenth of 600 , 000 , 000 , —the estimated present amount of mechanical and scientific producing power : and yet cotton-spinning is only one branch of one manufacture ! The present amount of producing power possessei by us , then , would appear to be—Manual labour ( one-third of the population , 27 , 000 , 000 ) ... 9 , 000 , 000 Mechanical power 600 , 000 , 000 Total producing power — 609 , 000 , 000 I ! ! Showing an increase since 1817 of power equal to the labour of 371 , T 66 , 0 « 0 " hands" 1 !! The proportion which our present producing power bears to the population is more than twenty two io one ! !!

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      FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND . £ s . d . From Sandbach , per R . S 0 2 6 „ J . Longbottom , Leeds ... 0 8 6 „ Wm . Pybus , Leeds 0 0 6 _ Friends at Middleton , near Manchester , per J . P 0 11 6 „ Smiddles Lane , Bowling , per Wm . Thornton 0 2 8 ., the Chartists of Morley 0 5 6 „ the Chartists of Honley , per J . Hobson ( fourth subscription ) ... ... 0 10 0 „ Dooker , Knaresborougb 0 0 2 „ J . B . and a friend , Manchester ... ... 020 _ a few Chartists from Bury and Heywood , per A . Smith 0 7 6 „ a few friends at Prescot , per J . W . ... 0 12 2 „ a few poor men at Longholme 0 2 0 „ Skegbnry , per G . D ... 0 6 0 „ the New Town Class at Bishop Wearmouth , ... 0 10 0 „ a few Chartists at Balgonie Bleachfleld , Fifesbire 0 2 0 „ a few friends at Holbeck , per C . Cluderay ... ... ... 0 5 9 „ N . B ., Nottingham , perC . W . Simeon 0 0 6 „ J . Newman , ditto . e 1 0 „ three friends , Nottingham , per J . Sweet ... 0 11 ^ T . Queen Caroline , ditto , ditt ® 0 12 „ J . K ., Nottingham , ditto , ditto ... 0 15 0 „ W . Mortimer , Mill Bridge , or Newark ... 100 „ J . R . Watson , Boston : an old Chartist , eighty years of age 0 2 6 „ Northallerton , collected by T . Smith ... 0 4 6 „ Rev . J . Scholefleld , Manchester ... 1 0 0 „ Wm . Scbolefleld , ditto 0 10 0 „ Lower Warley , near Halifax 0 5 4 J

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      W 1 GAW .-Dahi . no Burglary and R > bbert at Standish . —About one o ' clock on Saturday morning last , the inmates of the house of Mr . John Bolton , farmer , of Standish-with-Lang-tree , near Wigan , were alarmed by the noise of some persons attempting to break iuto his dwellinghouse . Mr . Bolton , whose family consists of himself , his housekeeper , and a servant boy and girl , on being alarmed , prooeeded down etairs from his bedroom , and on reaching half-way down , he heard the door of the back kitchen being smashed in ; and on gaining the floor of the house part , found there six ruffians , wearing masks , their coats turned inside out , and armed with iron crows , bludgeons , and a pistol . Two of the villains proceeded up

      Btairs , causing Mr . Bolton to follow them , whilst the other four followed him in the rear . On reaching his bedroom , they rifled the pockets of his clothes , and demanded from him his keys , which were hung up in a cupboard in the houso part , and which the thieves eventually found . They laid Mr . Bolton on his bed , threatening that if he did not deliver np all hiB money , they would shoot him . They then bound him to the bed , two of the party remaining with him whilst tho other four proceeded to the adjoining room , whereiu were the housekeeper and servant girl . Mr . Bolton having by some mrans liberated his hands from the bandages with which he was bound , made an attempt to reach the window of his bedroom , with the

      intention of making hia escape that way and giving an alarm . On reaching the window he was laid hold of by one of his guards , whilst , from the ostside , he was assailed by stones from two oi the party , wbo , it appears , had been stationed there previous to breaking into the house , for the purpose of Riving an alarm in case of surprise . Mr . Bolton was then most cruelly beaten with bludgeons , kicked , and otherwise much abused , and tied to his bed a second time , and a guard placed over him . In the meantime the other depredators were in the housekeeper ' s bedroom , from which she had made her escape to the cheese-room adjoining , and from

      thence through the window of the room to the ground outside , where she had no sooner reached than she was seized by one of the party stationed on the watch , and carried back iuto the house . She was nearly in a state of nudity . Her hands were then tied , and she was carried up stairs and thrown on the bed where Mr . Bolton lay , also bound . The servant girl having been threatened to be quiet , had hid herself among some provender sacks . The servant boy had a handkerchief tied over his head so as to blindfold him ; and so the depredators proceeded to break open the various articles of furniture in the house on which there were locks . From

      Mr . Bolton a bedroom they took bank cheques , a savings' bank book , his watch , his father ' will , and money , all of which , excepting tho money , they offered to return , providing he would discover where other money , which they said he had , was secreted ; threatening that if he did not comply with their demandB , they would only allow him five minutes longer to live . On Mr . Bolton declaring that he had no other money in the house but what they had got , they left his room and went down etairs , having four candles lighted . They plundered the house of bacon , butter , cheese , preferred fruits , women ' s wearing apparel , &c . and then left the premises , having been there an hotir . Mr . Bolton then contrived to untie the bandage 3 from the hands of his

      housekeeper , by using his teeth . She then eet him at liberty ; when he proceeded to give an alarm » Some implements which had been used for breaking open the door of the house , where left behind ; and which , it is supposed , from the clue that has been obtained , will materially assist in leading to the apprehension , of the villains . Notwithstanding the length of tiino which was occupied by tho de « predators in ransacking the premises , and though there ara a large number of inhabited cottages , within a distance of two hundred yards from where ibe deyredifions were committed , yet , stiaiigo to say , not one of neighbouring population heard tbe slightest sound of what was going on . The prisoners iett the premises with their booty a little after two o ' clock .

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      LEEDS . Bprglary . —During the night of Monday last , the dwelling of Mrs . Rsth Rogers , of Faraley , near Leeds , was entered by means of skeleton keys , while the family were asleep . The thieves obtained possession of only a trifling booty , consisting of wearing apparel , bed linen , and some bread . Woollen Cloth Stolen . —During the night of Thursday last , the burling room , at the manufactory of Mr . John Barker , of West Roy da House , Bramley , near Leeds , was broken open . The thieves obtained possession of two ends of olive and two ends of blue cloth , ia the scoured state , with which they have hitherto managed to get clear off . Mr . Barker and the Bramley Association for the prosecution of felons , have offered a reward of £ 10 for the discovery of the offenders .

      Sheep Stolen . —During the night of Thursday last , a shearling wether sheep , marked on the near side " R . H . " was Btolen from a field at Methley , near Leeds . It is the property of Mr . Robert Hollings , of that place , who , in conjunction with the Association for the prosecution of felons , has offered a reward of £ 10 for the discovery of the offenders . Pktty Charge of Thefi . — -On Thursday week , a boy , fourteen years of age , named Henry Marston , was brought before Edward Baines , Esq ., and Ja-. Musgrave , Esq ., at the Court House , Leeds , charged with bavins plucked a jonquil , out of the ground in front of the house of Darnton Lupton , Esq ., Pottemewton . After hearing the charge

      against the prisoner , the Magistrates remanded him until the following day , in order that they might have the boy ' s father present ,-and hear from him what was the general character and coaduot of his son . Accordingly , on Friday , the youthful flowerplucker , who had been in prison forty hours , was placed in the dock in front of the two Magistrates who presided on the previous day . Mr . Baines , addressing the boy , told him he was charged with wantoaly plucking a flower in front of the house of Mr . Darnton Lupton and said that seemingly he had palled the flower for the mere gratification of his passion for mischief . The boy stated that he weDt into the grounds of Mr . Lupton to pick some young nettles , and , seeing the flowers

      he thought he would like to have one . Mr . Masgrave said he was like to know that the flowers were not hia property , and tha > he had no business to take them . The boy said he did not know that he was doing any harm by taking a single flower for himself . The father of the boy having been called forward , Mr . Baines asked him what sort of a behaved boy his son was . The father replied that he was a very good lad , and he had never known him charged with an offence before ; he was not in work just then , but he had been up to about a week or two back . Mr . Lupton here interfered with the magistrate ? , and it seemed as if he was determined to have him punished . Mr . Baines , after conversing with Mr . Musgrave , said that

      under such circumstances the Beuch would not like to send the boy to Wakefield House of Correction , for that would be a great stain upon his character , and he would , in ail probability , come from the place worse than he went ; and he did not know what effect flogging mighlhave upon his future character . The father said thlt he would not like him to be sent to Wakefield ; and in answer to Mr . Baines , he said that he could not give an answer as to the effect which flogging might have upon the boy . Mr . Musgrave asked the father if he would give his consent to the boy being flogged . The father , with much reluctance , gave his consent . Mr . Lupton , who sat on the bench , though at some distance from the two Sitting Magistrates , said that a great number of garden depredations bad been committed ia his neighbourhood by boys , but , of

      course , he could not say that the prisoner was one who had committed them . Mr . Baines , who evidently " halted between two opinions "—whether to order the boy to be discharged with or without a flogging , was reminded that the father had given his consent to have the youth flogged if the Bench thought well ; but to this reminding Mr . Baines replied , " Yes , he has consented to the least of two evils . " Mr . Lupton then rose from from his seat , wont to the place where Mr . Baines and Mr . Musgrave sat , and a whispering conversation of the duration of a minute or two passed amongst them , at the close of which Mr . Baines said the Bench had determined that the boy should be flogged and then discharged . We do not like to trust ourselves to comment on this case ; it is one so utterly heartless that we hope never to see its like again .

      WHIG CONSISTENCY . A thieving ** soldier" if they flog , Whigs cry— " you treat him like a dog !" But Whjgs appiy this flogging" pill , " If luckless lad steal their "John Quill !" North-street , April 21 , 1843 . LINES REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED TO A REVEREND gentleman , very recbntly . I ' ve read tour sermon on your wipe , And find you led a happy life ; Bot , if again you aim to wed , I ' ll not bk partner of your bed , Unless you solemnly agrbb—NO SEBMON SHALL BE PHKACH'D—ON ME . ' IGNOTA . St . George ' s Street , April 12 , 1843 . BTOCKPOB . T . —Informations against Publicans . —A number of publioans and beersellers were summoned before the magistrates , on Saturday , for . having company in their houses during divine service on Sunday the 16 th April , contrary to tbe tenor of their license John Shelmerdiue , of the Church Inn , Edgeley , ; Charles Leah , of the Old Admiral , Hill # ate ; William Massey , Sun and Castle , Hillgate ; and Samuel Burgess , of the Steam Engine , Wellington-road , were the publioans summoned . The case against Cearles Leah was dismissed ; the other parties were fined in the amount of costs . Three beersellers , named Joel Thorniley , Joseph Makin , and Thomas Adshead , were also fined in the amount of costs , for offences against the tenor of their licenses .

      Destructive Fire . —About a quarter past eight , on Monday evening , a fire , which resulted in the destruction of a considerable amount of property originated at the cotton mill of Messrs . Thomas Fern ley and Son , cotton spinners and calico manufacturers , of the Weir Mills , Chestergate , Stockport . The building in which it took place is situate on the southerly bank of the river Mersey , and adjoins the westerly side of the Stockport viaduct of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway . The mill in addition to two smaller buildings , consisted

      of six stories and an attic ; being about fifty yards long and twelve broad—there being two rooms on a floor , all the doors opening on one staircase , and the rooms on one side beiDg thirty yards long , and on the other twenty yards . The three lower stories , were occupied by power looms , the next as a carding room , the two next as spinning rooms , and the attic as a dressing room . The fire commenced in the upper large spinning room . It is supposed to have originated in consequence of the flame of a lamp coming in contact with tome roving .

      BOI / TON . —Fire at Horhobin Bleach Works . —On Friday evening la . it , a fire broke out in the upper story of the bleach works of Messrs . Cartwright and Co ., situate at Horrobin Mills , in Turton , about four miles from Bolton , which spread with such extraordinary rapidity , as to bid defiance to the exertions of the workpeople to subdue it . On being discovered , the person who first tan up staiis , found two children asleep on the top landing , where they had laid down , and would have lost their lives if they had not been thus rescued from impending destruction . The fire was observed at the works of Messrs . Ashworth , and also at those of Mr . Hardcastle , and horses were immediately put to their fire engines ; but they have been so rep « atedly

      deceived by the appearances of fire , arising from the shameful practice of what ia called swealing , " at night time , ( clearing the land by burning the long grass , &c ., ) by the farmers in the neighbourhood , that a delay of at least twenty minutes took place before it could be ascertained from whence the fire arose . When Messrs . Ash worth ' s engine arrived , therefore , the building was one mass of flame , and it was evidently impossible to save it from destruction . Mr . Hardcastle ' s engine followed 8 «> on after , and subsequently two from Bolton ; and there being an abundant supply of water , the fire was fortunately prevented from spreading to the adjoining premises . The firemen connected with the engines ( and especially those of Mr . Hardoastle ) conducted themselves

      admirably , and by their well-directed energies a great amount of property was daved . The building in which the fire originated is completely gutted , and most of the roof destroyed ; but the cloth consumed being , of a common description , and no machinery injured , the damage will not be so great as might have been expected ; and , in a fsw days , the works will be again in full operation . Messrs . Cart * wright aad Co ., we are happy to say , are fully insured in the Royal Exchange fire office . The practice of u sweating" in the night time has been long complained of in the neighborhood , and the es&ines have often been called out in consequence of it ; and we trust that some steps -will be taken to pat a stop to a custom , so dangerous in a manufacturing district .

      ROCHBAXoE . —A Diabolical Act . —On Saturday afternoon , last , two persons went to 'see the Opening of the sixth seal , " by Danby , which was exhibited at the lecture room , Town Hall , RocW . 'lg . They tad not been ia the room more than two minutes , when they came out and observed to the female who had the charge of the picture ^ that it was an excellent painting . She observed to them that they had not had time to view it , ' when they hastened down Btairs and disappeared . On immediately entering the room Bhe discovered that the centra of th \ j painting , Tepresentuag the slave , was cut out . One of the men appeared between thirty and thirty-five year 3 of age , dressed in a dark velvoteen shooting jacket , light-coloured trousers , plaid handkerchief , and about five feet seven inches high ; tba other was rather taller , aJid dressad . in d * - . j , clothes . [ These parties professed to bo ' ¦«?' . utie men . " ]

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      SHEFFIELD . —A public meeting was held on V \ edues < iay , to take into consideration the grievances uu der which the able-bodied poor are labouring , On Mi . Briggs being called to the chair , Mr . Drury , ia an a ble speech , set forth the misery of the recipients of pivrocbwl relief , and concluded by moving a resolution condemnatory of the guardians , but which was afterwards withdrawn . Mr . Staniforth ( one of the sufferers ) "stated the impossibility of men living on the parish pay performing the work of navigators , who are well paid and fed for such labour , aDd that the scale of work requires the parish men to wheel sixty-fou ? barrow * of earth every hour , each barrow , on a geaeral average , containing 200 cwt ., Mr . John Ward 1

      committee to wait on the ( iuardians , and to state the grievances of the able-bodied poor—which was seconded by Mr . Kent . Mr . Wm . Gill wished the ratepayers to demand for the parish men their week s pay from the Guardians . Tbe following persons were then elected to form a committee w < £ « power to add to their number . Mr . Fisher , Mr . J . Cresswell , Mr . Peter Champion , Mr . Luke Falfreman , Mr . Kent , and Mr . 8 . Roberts , jun . The following working men were also elected . Mr . Wm . Gill , Mr . Kirk , Mr . Drnry , Mr . Briggs , Mr . Wardlo , and Mr , T . Stone . On the motion of Mr . Xirfe , seconded by Mr . Kent , a vote of thanks was given to the chairman , and the meeting separated . The meeting was numerously attended , and the greatest unanimity prevailed .

      Mesmerism . —Two lectures were delivered oa thi 3 interesting and marvellous phenomenon , by Mr . Blaokhurst , in the Fig Tree-lane room , on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday , April the 26 th and 27 th . The Judgment . —Mr , Harney delivered his farewell address on Sunday evening . The Fi « Tree-lane room was crowded by a respectable and enthusiastic audience . Oa Monday evening , Mr . Parkes dejivered his parting address , At the conclusion Mr . Gill proposed for adoption a strong ! y-worded _ petition , demanding enquiry into the conduct of Baron Gurney . The petition was unanimously adopted ; and ordered to be sent to Mr . Duncombe tor presentation .

      BARNSLEV . —Two individuals have committed suicide , and a tnird has made the attempt ia this town , during the past week . Mr . Moone , who kept a shoe warehouse , hung himself on Thursday morning in an old building belonging to a Mr . Bargess . iwhere he was found in a day or two , after a considerable search haviug been made in the different waters about the town ; various causes have been assigned for the rash act , but the most probable one is decline of business and a decline of years , which caused temporary insanity . On Monday morning about six o ' clock , Charles Brandon , him

      a bleacher , in the employ of Mr . Jackson , hung - self by a small cord fastened to the door . He was a man highly beloved and respected by all who knew him , particularly his fellow workmen . He was a sober and industrious maa . He suffered much from illness , which caused him to be of weak nerve , and it iB supposbd a © committed the rash act while labouring under mental derangement . He has left five children and a wife to lameat his loss . A widow woman of the name of Bell was the third person who attempted the rash act , but fortunately one of her neighbours happened to see her , and cut her down , and by medical assistance she recovered .

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      Manchester District of the Independent Order op Odd Fellows . —The ofikers of this district opened a lodge of the above order on Monday evenings at the house of Mr . John . Kennedy , the Temperance Hotel , Oldham-street , Manchester , entitled the Temperance Lodge , No . 3 , 941 , of the Manchester Unity , { and established upon tbe great principle of temperance . Fatal Railway Accident . —On Saturday afternoon last , betwen five and six o ' clock , a distressing accident occurred on tbe braach railway at Blackwood , a few miles from Newport , occasioned by the blowing up of a locomotive engine used on the line , by which , we regret to say , two persons were billed , and two others seriously injuried . The branch

      railway in question is the property of the Tredegar Iron Company , is entirely used for the conveyance of iron , from the company ' s mines in Monmoathsbire to Newport , and is about twenty five miles in extent . On Saturday , about the time stated , an engine called the Vulcan , with a train of waggons , returning from Newport to the mines , stopped at Black wood , where the engine-drivers and stokers got off and went to the George public-house , which was opposite the railway , for refreshment . They had not been in the house many minutes before a terrific explosion took place , which shook the entire village , and produced the greatest consternation amongst the inhabitants . Upon the men rushing oat they discovered that it was the engine on the line that had exploded , and in

      the carriage-road alongside of the railway they beheld two gentlemen who had been knocked down by the remnants ef the boiler , which with the engine , was totally destroyed , and scattered several hundred feet from the place where the accident happened . One of the unfortunate persons was Mr . Pavis , a farmer residing at Buttrey Hatch , in Monmouthshire , who wa 8 in his 70 th vear ; and the other proved to be Mr . Phillip Williams , a tradesman living at Blackwood . The Iattei was quite dead , part of the skull having been carried away : and Mr . Davis expired from the frightful injuries he had sustained while the men were conveying him to a house in the neighbourhood . Two other persons were afterwards discovered in a field near the railway , having been struck by pieces of the engine , and

      much mutilated . They were immediately picked up and placed in safety , but it is supposed , from the extent of injuries they have received , it is impossible fbs them to recover . Great damage was done to several houses near the spot . All the window-pains in the George public-house were blown in , and part of the roof carried away , besides the walls of tho stables and some cottages attached thrown down by the concussion . Some pieces of the boiler and engine were picked up nearly 400 yards from the railway , and one was upwards of 1 cwt The explosion ia reported to have resulted from the engine-driver neglecting to open the valve after shutting off the steam when getting off the engine . The loss of property , engine included , is estimated at least at £ 1 , 000 .

      The Condemned Criminals at Kirkdale . —The unhappy individuals who are confined in Kirkdale gaol , under sentence of death , are both members of the church of England . Wilmot Buckley ha ? , since his condemnation , Bpent much of his time in readiag , writing , and religious meditation . His letters are principally epistles of consolation to his father . They exhibit great knowledge of the sacred writiags , aDd the consolation which they breathe is of a religious rather than of a worldly nature , while they show a determination in tbe convict to meet his fate with resolution . He has not said any thing decided as regards the justice of his sentence , but he says he is perfectly prepared for its fulfilment . He £ ays but little touching the deed of blood which led to his

      present awlul situation . He has observed , however , that he-struck his wife he knew not how or where , or what the effect or consequence might be . He must have hit her mouth , or her faoe , or her breast ; knew not aught , save that he struck . The convict presents much the same appearance that he did at and antecedent to his trial . Betty Ecoles , though ehe seems composed , has wasted greatly since her sentence . Sbe seems anxiously to desire to frame her mind , as far as is possible , for the great change which must soon take place . She is earnest in her attention to her religious duties * and looks forward to her execution with resignation . She has not made any confession , but it is observed that neither does Bhe deny the heinous

      offence imputed to her . Her health is visibly affected , and this appears to be from tha action of the mind , on which , it is evident , something of a distressful nature is heavily pressing . She seems , indeed , to wish to make some communication , for the purpose of unburdening her mind . The governor of the prison spoke a few words to hair on the subject , telling her that , if there were anything pressing on her mind , she would certainl y find herself much easier , if sbe made use of one of the-frequent opportunities which she had of conversing with the Rev . Mr . Appleton , to disencumber herself of the oppression . She coloured slightly , bc&- did not speak . These unfortunate beings are to suffer on Saturday next , at noon . —Livernool Albion * Monday .

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      From the turn which tbe proceedings have taken , it will not be necessary for us to publish the later Editions of the Star announced last week . If we receive the Report of the Proceedings in Court today , respecting Coop eb and Richards ' s case , b y to- morro w morning ' s Poet , we « hall give tiepj in an Edition to be ready about noonj and shall be able to supply orders that same evening to most towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire . J ^ ore distant places will not receive their paper ? till Sunday Morning .

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      Secohd Edition. Globious * Triumph.

      SECOHD EDITION . GLOBIOUS * TRIUMPH .

      THE JUDGMENT" ! Below we gfre all that this morning's post { Friday ) has brought us , respecting the appearance of tbe M Conspirators" in the Court of Queen ' s Bmeh yesterday . The subjoined letters will be read Thh interest . JUDGMENT IS ARRESTED ! There is to be another fight for ii , on the ^ ih of May . The fight must be fought well ! To fight it , neons are required . Those means must be found ! Let the people see to it !

      TO THE CHARTISTS . Ht Feiends . —I pledged my faith that vre Ud greeds for arresting judgment upon the Terdict obtained against us at Lancaster , That I was not a false prophet the following report will fu lly prove : — QUEEN'S BENCH— 1 BTTRSDAT . THE CHABTISTS . " It being hnown that thu day was appointed for pMsing judgment on tbe several Chartists convicted it tbe \ &e assizes , the Court was crowded immediately ifter the opeaicg ot the door ot tbe Court at ten o ' clock .

      " Mr . Dundas , Mr . Sergeant Mnrpby , Mi . Bodkin , > ad Mr . Atherton , addressed the Court in arrest of j ^ afmEst with regard to several of tbe defendants , who tad bten convicted only on two eennts . u The Court granted the rale for arrest of judgment , * && tbe second dsy of next term wa * appointed tor £ tovkj cause against tbe rule . "The Court then proceeded to read ever the evi-^ w Uken on the trial of Cooper and Bich&rds , wbo * e « eairricted at the late SUffordabire aasizss . "—San . Tks far hare vre rriumphed over our enemies ! zsi iins hi has the law triumphed over injustice ! " e are jus : beginning to learn the use of the law ; sad henceforth out party may rest assured that do point shall be lost of ¦ which we can avail our-K- Tes . I shall now be more amongst you , as in truth I bare been sadly hampered since August kst- I do indeed rejoice that tbe poor fellows fouiid guflry upon the Fourth Count , are once more restored to their families , and that they are no : again likel y to be troubled about this u ttorm in a teapot "

      I shall address the sood men of Manchester on S&today next , the 6 th inst ., the very next Saturday , either in Capenters' Hall or the Hall of Science , whichever the managers can procure , &nd shall remain to enrol new members after my address , and thus commence the good , work of ¦ ik-Onranization . Hurrah for our side . Poor Fenton -wh o was given up by his bail , and who ** s brought to judgment in custody from Kirk-&K has also been liberated : so that our triumph

      is complete ! Now is there no use in law ? j Yours faithfully , j FeARGITS O'CONNOB . j P . S . I am attending the proceedings in Cooper [ * ad Richard ' s case , -which is now going on . > t i F - ° ' - i ¦ itursd&T afternoon . 1

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 6, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct649/page/5/