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      John Hull ' s idea of hit Qaeea ' f partiality to foreigner * u sot likely to be removed by the speech . The Kojal lady slightly allude * to attack * upon other nation * , aad -directly threaten * a tam upon her own * u m coma to own Parliament , " quoth Victoria to pretty PolL * Parliament is like an oyrter , then —70 a open it first , tad swallow it after , leaving the hells for the people !" A dahy contemporary » yi , " the appearance of Prince Albert , dressed as he was in & field-marshal ' s niforxD , wiih the collar and star of the most noble order of the garter , was most imposing . " There cusot be a donbt , we think , about the natter-. liELBorENi akd Wxujsgto * hare become friends and allies . Righteousness asd peace hare kissed « aeh other .

      Paine * Albert htB appointed fo « r chaplains ; this is as it should be—the provision for the soul should be npoa a scale with that of the body . A Prince could not possibly do with less than four ehaplains , when we reflect that four chaplains voud not more than npply the spiritual wants of forty thousand ordinary people ! " Should yon not like to see all that ' s going on V Mfred Tictoria of the learned parrot , just before ettinx out to open Parliament , w Ko , " replied PoU , * 1 am tired of poppet shows 5 " Jos Hcxk , on hearing " the people" / riven at a Reform ftast , is said to hare declined drinking it on the score of its being a "fooftsh toast , " asd yet one jninnte befofe he had drank the Royal family ! The following advertiaement is copied from a Sew Jersey paper : —** To be Sold , one hundred and thirty-one suits at law , the property of an eminent attorney , about to retire from business . Kote . — Che clients axe rich and obstinate . "

      O ~ of oub jokers , the other day , on reading the deaths in a downcast paper , asd seeing the ages of many on the list to be eighty and upwards , said he couldn't tee how people afforded to live bo long at the north—he was out thirty , asd hadn ' t money —longh to hold out much longer . —Jonathan . Faxocs Shoemakers—A correct catalogue of shoe-Bakers "who havein any one way or" other made the—selves remarkable , would be a curious tbixig . It is yet among the undiseoreraMe mysteries way dustmen should wear red plush breeches , and as masuccessful hare b $ en all attempts to- account for those very peculiar reflective feabits to which the raft of Crispin are notoriously addicted . The mere eirenmstance of ihe reflecting turn presents no difficulty ; more or less it is incident to all sedentary

      pursuits ; its especial tendencies in . the case of the afcoemaker are the great marvel . From- the turbulent days of Quaker Tor , and reformers Hans Saohs end Jacob Bohmen , to tb « scarcely less unruly 'imes Of radicals Holcroft and Hardy , we note , in this Siost respectable trade , such a long list of religionfems , radicalisms , jacobinisms , and every variety of km * , as we find in no other class of men . It was gainst this tendency , indeed , the old proverb was launched , as far back as the age of Appelles . Why ft this ? Can any one explain it ! Fitness is the object and endeavour of the trade . la thers of necessity associated with it the restless impulse to discover in everything else an eteraal unikness ! We wish we could consult Philosopher Square . —Emrnimer .

      Wages op Membees 0 ? Pabliaxsxt . —It appears fcat the eastern of boroughs maintaining their representatives in Parliament had not ceased in the «» rly portion of last century , Hall , whose collections werft brought down to about 1739 , Epeaking of Hektone , Eajs , This place and others in Cornwall xre not able to maintain their burgesses in London , during the Sessions , at tfceir own proper costs and Aarges ( as of old wa 3 accustomed ) in anytolerable pt > Et or grandeur ; but hare found that profitable expedient ( as maDy others ) of making country gentlemen free of their town , who bear the burden and ieat of the day for the honour of their corporations , distress their paternal estates to exalt the reputation and perpetuate the privileges of a petty society , made up of mechanics , tradesmen , and inferior trractitioners of the law . " The same author states that "Padstow , Lelent , and Marsxion , formerly tent Members to Parliament , bnt were excused « pon their petition on the score of poverty . "

      Pabdo . y vxdzs the Great Ssal . — " There ia a orioas record of pardon in the Tower of London , fronted to CeciJy Ridgway who , refusing to plead « uilty of murdering her husband at Nottingham Assirsg , AJ ) . 2337 , was remanded back to prison and remained forty days without sustenance , for which miraculous preservation she obtained this pardon under the Great Seal of England . — Tide Astle ' i Btcords of the Tower . Goisg to see as Execctto ?? . —During the disturbances in Clare , in the winter of 1831-2 , three brothers , named Casey , from the neighbourhood of Corofin , in that county , figured prominently in the arsons and onslaughts of that eventful period . Two of them were concerned ia the brutal murder of Mr , Blood , of Applevale , and the other ( John ) was

      one of the party that fired upon , and wounded , Mr . \ Synge . It so happened that John Casey ' b trial , for 1 the latter offence , was to come on the day his brothers paid the penalty of their lives for their offences —a matter which seemed little , if at all , to affect the prisoner in . the dock . He was asked by the clerk of the crown , in the usual manner , if he was ready for his trial . " E ' then no I ' m not , sir , " was the reply . u His lordship wishes to know the reason . " " Eira , dy ' e hear V returs&d the " gentleman in difficulties . " "Don ' t I tell ye , I'm not ready at all , at all " * But , prisoner , why not V reiterated the . man of fikw . " 111 tell you that , thin , as you ax the question , " replied Mr . Casey , and he grinned a ghastly jmile , "because my witnesses , an d—1 t » ke their j cariosity , went off wid themselves to tee the eicecunott ;

      A Dutchman ' s Dkjescb . —A variety-loving Hollander , who had married some dcien wives , was tried ia England for bigamy . " You say , " said the Judge , " that the priest who married you to the first wife , authorised yon to take sixteen . What do you mean by that 1 M Well , " said Hans , "he dold me dat I should have four better , / &ur vorser . our richer , four boorer ; and in my country four domes four always makes sixteen . " Apology fob Tobacco . —In the " Marr » w of Compliment" ( London , 1654 ) , we met with a song in praiEe of tobacco , which contains as much , perhaps . as can be said in its defence : —

      Much meat doth gluttony procure To feed men a * fat as swine -, But he is a frugal mas , indeed - That with a leap can dine . He need * no napkin for ln » liand » , His finger ends to wipe , Tfcat oatii a kitchen in hi * box , Si * roast meat in a pipe .

      A Pleasant View op the Tweltb Moths . — January , for new year's gifts ; February-, for pancakes and valentines ; March , for leeks in Wales ; April , for fools ; May , for milkmaids and their garlands ; June , for green peas and mackrel , bsans and bacon ; July , for hay in the country ; August , for orn ; September , for oysters ; October , for brewing good beer ; November for drinking it . After all these have passed , some for work , but all for meat and drink—after all , comes Deoember , with the barns full of corn , the larders full of beef , the ovens full of Christmas pies , the pockets full of money , the masters and mistresses full of charity , and the joung men and maids full of play . — Old Almanack .

      The Death-Worse of Hampdes . —The first accounts of this eventful ciay , published by the Parliament irians , spoke with confidence of their great champion ' s recovery : — " His wound was more likely to be a badge of honour than any danger of life . " Bat these hopes were quickly dissipated . On moving from the scene of conflict , Hampden was first observed to mike for the hou 3 e of- a relation in the reigbbonrbood . But Rupert ' s cavalry were covering the plain between . Turning his horse , therefore , he rode back in the way to Tiiame . When lie came to a brook which divides the plain , he paused a while ; but it was impossible for him , in his wounded state , to remount , if he had alighted , to turn his horse over , he suddenly summoned his strength , clapped Mrars , and cleared the leap .

      Through such particulars the recent biographer of this eminent person naturally delights to carry his reader . Bat what must have been Hampden ' s thoughts , as he crossed the field of his youthful remembrances , staining the green blades that glittered in the Bun of & bright morn in May with no ignobleblood ? There he had first practised his confiding neighbours , and his admiring tenants and erring-men , in the use of those pikes which they were to level at the Crown and the Mitres of Englrnd ; and there the avenging ball of the royalist had shivered his vigorous right arm 1 The cause was , to all appearance , declining—the army weakened , and commanded by a cold and vacillating partisan ; the enemy victorious , and every day fathering new strength ; the Parliament rapidly Tosinj ? the confidence of the people ; Pym , his great

      fellow-champion , lying on his deathbed , the moat entient nerve of freedom , the toughtest sinew in the scroll ! Yet , could he hsve looked further , and with prophetic eyes beheld Naaeby , C&risbrook Whitehall , defiled by the blood ot a king and the residence of an usurper , more appalling would have been that contemplation of its triumph . Where would he have discovered the laws he had vindicated ; the libarty , at whose shrine he had sacrificed ao much , besides what was his own ; or even a free field for that sly but strong ambition , which , more , it may be , than he was himself aware , directed the movements of his life ? In great pain , and nearly « xhansted , Hampden reached Thame . The surgeons wno dressed his wound 3 encouraged his fellowpatriots and brothers in arms with hopes of his recovery ; but bJ 3 ovm impression from the first was , t ^ t his hurt was mortal . It was too trne an one . iBer ' six d&js of intense suffering , Hamgden iftathed his last .

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      FURTHER REFORM : MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION AT LEEDS . ( From the Spectator . ) " We look upon Universal Suffrage as a right with keld one that cannot tafdy be withheld much longer ; and we consider the question with regard to it to be rapidly narrowing itstlf to the consideration of these two poinU—ho * ? and vhen 1 " Since the 27 th October , 1838 , when we expressed the above opinion , nothing has occurred to shake , and much to strengthen it . Every folly or outrage of a Chartist has been dwelt upon by the Whigs and Tories as a proof of the badness of the cause : every imprisonment or banishment of » Chartist has been announced as the extinction of Chartism . Still the stupid ChartiBts could not or would not understand that in propriety they ought to cease to exist j and continued stubbornly to live on . Till at last it has oome to this , that a tolerably numerous body of the

      middle classes , having at their head some men of great wealth , countenanced by influential Members of Parliament , have invited Chartists to appear on the same hustings with them for the purpose of expressing their common opinions ; and nave most sedulously avoided the expression of any aentiment or opinion that might hurt the feelings of their Chartist allies . The Leeds meeting has materially changed the position and prospects of Chartism . The existence of the Chartist body as an influential portion of public opinion has beea solemnly recognised the assistance of the Chartists has been invoked by a portion of the enfranchised reformers , and only granted in consequence of important concession * The difference between the position of the Chartists before and after the Leeds meeting , is the difference between the position of Texas or the South American republics before and after their recognition , as independent states by the European Powers .

      The Ministerial and th « Tory journals eqnenr in tanntisg the gentlemen with whom the Leeds movement originated , as having intended a demonstration in favour of Household Suffrage only , yet having been drawn into a demonstration in favour of Universal Suffrage . It cannot be denied , that many of those who had a Bhare in originating the proceedings , have been carried much further than they intended . Some of them believed that by setting op Household in opposition to Universal Suffrage , they would lure away the followers of the Chartist leaders . Some of them gwdnaturedly clung to the vain belief , that if they could muster a strone enough body of supporters , they might induce the Whig Ministers to place themselves at their head . Both have been

      disappointed . Earl Fitawilliam tells them flat—and he Epeaks the sentiments of his " order , " and those who cling to it—that he u will not march through Coventry with them . " If the Leeds Association is to go honestly and firmly on with the work it has taken in hand , it must make up its mind to break with Ministers . Again , not one Chartist has been induced to say that he will postpone his claim of Universal Suffrage if the instalment of Household Suffrage be . paid in the mean time . The Leeds Association , taking upon itself to speak in the name of the advocates of Household Suffrage , has met the Cdartist Delegates , speaking in the came of tho advocates of Universal Suffrage

      and the two parties have agreed , that the change effected cpon our representative system by the Reform Bill has been found inadequate to insare good legislation , and that further constitutional changes are necessary . The two parties have not yet come to the discussion whose plan is to be tried first , or what modification of both , or of either . It is aa likely ( for any thing that has been said or done ) that the first move will be for Universal , as that it will be for Household Suffrage : nay , inasmuch as all the advocates of Universal Suffrage expressed distaste of the limited suffrage proposed , while the advocates of Household Suffrage admitted the superiority of the other abstractedly considered , the probability is , if aDy thing , ia favour of unrestricted , unqualified Suffrage .

      Much has been gained by the mere fact that member * of the middle and working classe »* have again 60-eptrated at a great public meeting . Men who have st ^ od sid e by side on the bomb hustings , » triving tor a common object , hoirtver uuimpoTtant , have already began to be acquaintances . The majority of the middJeclaM *? en at the Loeda meeting will henceforth view any unqualified attack upon the Chartists as personal to themselves ; and the Chartists , who took part in that mesting , ¦ will , in like manner , feel themjielvoi called upon to patronise their associates of the middle classes . The partltion- 'wan , -which circumstances hvl run np

      bfetwecn Refouners of the middle and ¦ working clv * es , is already begua to be pulled dovm . A vigorous movement party is in the course of being formed , at the very moment that tba various fraction * ot the draff p&rtf , >; for , properly spsaking , there is not . and cannot be , a positively stationary * party , ) seem on the eve of being re-comoined . The shades of difference between Tories , Whigs , and Parliamentary RadicaU , are daily becoming more imperceptible ; and inuch-decried Chartism i * in the fair way of becoming the nucleus around which the scattered elements of a popular party ara to gather into form and subatanee .

      This result will not , u has already been observed , be immediate . Where there is co-operation there mast be mutual confidence , and that does not at present exist : confidence ia a plant of s !« w growth . The distrust of Mr . O'Connell , -which the outspoken Colonel Napier expressed aloud , was shared by many who did not give it voice . We do not inquire as to the grounds or justice of his distnut ; we merely advert to it as a fact , the existence of which is acknowledged . The middle-class politicians distrust each other , and the working classes distrust all of them . This is the necessary consequence of the substitution of " faith in

      the Whigs" for faith in principle . The gullible and the interested supporters of the Whigs are necessarily unfounded in the popular estimation , for there is no external distinguishing mark whereby to know the one from the other ; and even men who have had the moral courage to separate themselves from both , are , in the nareasoaiflg anger ot the T » wling men , jealously watched , for no other reason than thai they d » not belong to ( heir class . It ia only by men ' s adv&nca in knowledge of their common interest * , and by perseverance in an independent course of policy , that confidence can be established ; and until it be , there can be little progress made . ? Some ingenious arguments have been used to show that we are ail wotking men ; but thtre is an essential difference between head-work—which it edncatiwn , and hand-work—which impedes education . The working classes feel this , and will not , on the strength of a play upon .-words , admit a man to-the privileges of their " order . " They don't understand " metaphysics . "

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      THE QUEEN versus HETHERINGTOS

      JUDGMENT . The Attok 5 et-Geneeal prayed the judgment of the Court upon Henry Hetherington , who had been convicted dnriDg the sittings of the last term of selling a blasphemous publication , entitled " Haslain ' s Letters t * the Clergy of all Denominations . " Lord Den mas having read the minutes of the trial , and the passages -which the Jury found to be blasphemous libels , Mr . Thomas , on behalf of the defendant , was instructed to move the Court in arrest of judgment , or for a rule to show cause -why there » hou \ d not be a nrw trial . The ground on which he moved was , that the offence laid in the indictment referred only to that part of the Scriptures called the Old Testament , and there

      sever was a case of an indictment against a publication which discussed matters relative to the Old Testament only ; it was not an offence which was punishable at common law . Although not exactly bearing on the case , he woald remind the Courl ot the observation made by the defendant at the trial , that the doctrine of Christianity being parcel of the law of the land originated in a mistranslation of a case in the Year Book in the 3 d and 4 th Henry VI ., and that error had been copied into all the succeeding sea . Ha would now refer the Court to the judgment of Chief Justice Hale , in the ease of the four witches -who had be « n hanged in the reign of Jaiues the First , that learned Judge averting that there was no dcubt of their existence . The Court wa « aware that during the reign of James

      th « First , when tha law originated , there was no ead of the legal itsorders that took pla * e under Ihe charges of witchcraft and blasphemy . The law certainly could not be traced further back , and had its origin in religious or political animosities , when Judges were found to carry into effect the wishes of persons in power or authority . In the case of the King » . Woolstone , who -was tried for a libel , impugning the miracles of Jesus Christ , the objection was taken that it was not an offence indictable at common law , but the objection was overruled by-the Court , on the ground that the Christian religion was part of the law of the land . The Learned Counsel then referred to the cases of Jacob , Peter Annett , Wllks , and the King and Williams ; in the latter case the Court held that the libel wxs indictable at common law , because the libel denied the authority of the Holy Scriptures , and that the Christian religion was part and parcel of the law of the land . In all these case * the divinity of Christ , and the authority

      of the Scriptures generally , were questioned ; bat he submitted that where the Old Testament only was called into question , the rule laid down in these eases did not apply ,, as it did not call in question the great troths of the Christian religion . He would now refer the Court t > the able work tf the Archbishop of Dublin on the subject , in which he referred to the Old Testament as a peat historical narrative , and , in a great measure , distinct from the Christian religion . Bishop Taylor also said that there were so many errors , mistake * , and mistranslations of the Old Testament , that it was open to the discussion of any party . The Court would see , from these authorities , that there was a license given to persons to discuss matter * contained in the Old Testament ,- and to that portion of the Scriptare * only did the libel of the defendant refer . Ho believed there waa no case on record where a party had been triad in that Court for a matter which bad no reference to tbo Christian religion . Another objection was , that the Learned Judge had put it to the Jury to

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      say whether tiw psblieatioa was a libel upon the Christian religion , although Kbe libel had no reference whatever to Oat matter . Now , ( nasonch as the law proceeded on the ground that the obligations of civil society wen injured and . loosened fcy bringing the Scriptures into contempt , jurors and witnesses being sworn upon the New Testament , any controversy upon matters contained in the Old Teatameni , which had 00 reference whatever to Christ ( the Christian religion being altogether independent of the Old Testament ) , could not be said to come within the role laid down in these coses . '

      The Court did not think then vu any ground for the role , There was that connection between the Old and the New Testament that one part of it c * uld not be amiled and vilified without reflecting upon Christianity generally . It was their duty to Uke the law as it was laid down in the ttatute-book , and then was nothing in tbese statutes to take the case before them out of the ordinary rule . It had always been considered an offence of the highest magnitude to make attacks of that sort upon the Christian religion , and the Jury had found that the publication in question was a libel of that nature . Affidavits , in mitigation , having been put in and read ,

      Mr . HElHKaiNGTOH applied to tha Court fox leave to addreaa it in mitigation , which being assented to , be said he conld first rely npon th « fact set forth in the affidavits , namely , that it waa a common practice in the trade to insert on the title page the name ef a publisher like himself for the purpose of serving him , that had been done in the present case—his name had been put to the title-page without his knowledge or consent , and he could safely assert that he had never read a line of it until he bad been informed tkat the book contained a libellous passage . It was clear from that , that there could be no criminal intent in selling the book , as be had merely done so in the usnal course of his business . When truth waa the object in discussions of this sort , he fully agreed that decorum and respect for the feelingi of others shonld be observed , and he avowed that he did not stand there as the apologist of the passages

      contained ia that publication . Nay , the author had given a candid admission of bis error , in having withdrawn these offensive passages in a recent edition . How , then , could the Court punish him for the sale of a work of the contents of which he was ignorant ? He admitted that legally be was the publisher of the work , but the statement that his name was to the book went to the Jury unaccompanied by the explanation that he was not the original publisher . Mr . Heywood had , at a trial in Manchester , pleaded guilty to being the original publisher , and had been discharged , after giving hail to appear when called upon . All be asked waa , that the same punishment might be imposed upon him , And he felt confident they woald never have to call upon him . He humbly trusted the Court would not take him from hia home and his family in a cue where there was in absence of all criminal intention , and he left the case In their hands .

      The Attorney-General said it was for the Court to bzj whether the prosecution was nofr one which ought to have keen instituted . It was only necessary for him to refer to some of the passages in the libel to show their mischievous and blasphemous tendency . Mr . Hetherington had not in his affidavit staked that when he ascertained the libellous nature of the publication he had withdrawn it from publication , and had ceased to sell it Whatever had been done in the case of Mr . Heywood was no precedent fur their Lordships ; they were to judge of the facts -which came before them , and it wes for them to eay what punishment onght to be inflicted on the defendant for the publication which had been laid before them .

      The Court having consulted for some time together , Mr . Justice Uttledale pronounced the judgment of the Court , which was , that the defendant be imprisoned In th © coatoij ot the Marshal of the Marebalsea for the space of four months .

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      MEETING AT SHAW , IN THE BOROUGH OF OLDHAM , TO MEMORIALISE THE MAGISTRATES TO EXEMPT THE TOWNSHIP FROM THE ASSISTANCE OF THE RURAL POLICE , OR COUNTY CONSTABULARY FORCE . The constables of the township called the meeting In compliance with a requisition , signed by forty ratepayers , among which were the names of some of the principal ones , araoog both Tories , Whigs , and Radicals . The meeting was held « n Friday evening , January 29 th , 1841 , in one of the largo rooms of the New Mill , belonging to Anne Milne and Sons , of Greenfield , Shaw . The meeting waa chiefly composed of working people . On the platform were some of the requlsitionists , chiefly consisting of the supporters of Messrs . Fielden and Johnson . Mr . John Hamer supposed that Joshua Milne , Esq ., took the Chair , trhicb . opposition having been seconded , was carried .

      The Chairman commenced the proceedings by observing that the inhabitants were called upon to express their opinion of the Rural Police , now amongst them . He was glad that the requisitionista consisted of men among all parties and professions in the township , lie took the chair without any objection , because be considered it to be his duty to do all he could to rid the county ot so expensive an establishment He asked for a patleat hearing for all the persona vrho would address them , and requested that the speakers woald confine themselves entirely to the object of the meeting , and not allow the feelings of abhorrence and disgust which cucb a subject was likely to ' create , to lead them astray . He would call upon

      Mr . Nathan Stott , who said . Gentlemen , it devolves upon me , I suppose , to move that the magistrates be memorialised . ( Cries of" What for ?"| Will any one second it ? ( A voice in the body of the meeting " me . " ) Stott continued " It ' s moved and seconded that the magistrates be memorialised , those that think so will" —The speaker was here told tLat this duty devolved upon the Chairman , he sat down , and Mr . Barnard Ward , an active man among the Chartist * , rose and said , Mr . Chairman and Gentlemen , I think that it is incumbent upon persons who move resolutions at public meetings to otato their nature and purport , and I call upon the last speaker to do so .

      Mr . Nathati Stott again roae , somewhat excited , and « iid that he did not think it was at all necessary to waste the time of the meeting , by saying anything . They all knew -what they were collected together for , and he would not waste their time by saying anything mere than what he had done . The Chaiemah explained the nature of the resolution , and Mr . John Smith supported it in a speech of considerable length and energy . Mr . Barnard Ward said , Fallow-men , I congratulate you—yes , I congratulate you that you have our Chairman and Mr . William Taylor once more in the field . Yes , I congratulate you on having these men once more in the field . { He&r . i Had they done their duty we should have had no occasion to

      meet here . The working men , the poor working men did all they could to prevent this county having a rural police established . The working men had called meeting npon meeting—bad printed billt—had waited time upon time upon Messrs . Milne and Taylor , whom they had been led to believe were their friends , but all to no use . No . They like others said , " The police are required , you wish to rob us—you want to divide property . We must have the police , or our persons and property will not be safe . " ( The Chairman denied this . ) Why not assist us to prevent their introduction ? One ounce of prevention is belter than a pound of cure . The manufacturers have introduced the police , and now they want to entrap the public into the belief that they ¦ were -wishful to do away with them . Let the public bo

      aware , it was a clap-trap ; all they wanted was to throw the expence off the county-raU into the general taxes . In the county-rate , property paid its quota ¦ , bnt lot these men succeed in getting the expence of the police thrown into the general taxes , and , then , every ui . in would have to pay , not according to the anount of his property , but according to their consumption of taxed articles . Now , then , ( continued Mr . Ward , ) let the police be paid as at pre » ent , for if the amount of their burden had been on the backs of the working classes , we should never have heard of this meeting fr » m the parties who had got it np . The police bad been introduced by them to put us agitators down—to protect property—and let them pay . One object had been attained , for which

      these Vuttoned-iap blue vagabonds were brought kere for , namely , to » v ? e the people into a quiet submission of 3 reduction of wages ; and , having effected this , they now -wanted to turn their backs upon their friends . This was ungenerous . —[ The speaker was here interrupted by the Chairman and Mr . Taylor , both of whom denied that the remarks were applicable to them . ]—Mr . Ward continued—Gentlemen , as a working man , I have not had a chance of a College education ; and though baring bad no education , only what could be attained on t ' -ie loom , I did not interrupt those men when they spoke . The moment I begin to speak , they continue to intirrupt me . Is this fair » If tbeae remarks are net app icable to these gentlemen , let them state to his meeting that they neither connived at ,

      or encouraged the introduction of the Rural Police into this county , and I will believe them , and apologise to this meeting ; and till then I cannot retract ( Hear , hear , hear . ) They have appealed to the public , and to the public they ought not to fear appearing , and have their conduct investigated . I am a poor man , but small not shrink from my duty , though my only grammar be that of Shoie-edge , ( Mr . B . ' a residence . ) [ Interruption followed from Messr * . Milne and Taylor , and some few others , the bulk of the meeting remaining neutral . ] Again , continued the speaker , I say let them stand before this meeting , and say they did not connive at their introduction , and I will apologise . ( Mr .

      Taylor . Yon know yon axe fabricating one half of what you say . ) I know that if oar pretended leader * bad Dot shrunk from their duty , we should not have bad the police . [ Uproar , in the midst of which Mr . Milne said , that if the meeting thought Ward ' s remarks were applicable to him , he was unfit to sit in that chair . He should like to know the opinion of the meeting . Mr . Nathan Stott again came forward and said , -without any motion being made , " Those who think Mr . MUne is not guilty of what Barnard Ward ch : r . jes him with , will bold up their hands . ( A number of hands were held up . ) Stott then said , Those who think that Barnard Ward should not speak in this meeting , again will show the same by holding up their hands , "

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      A number of hands were agal « held up ; Stott proceeded , with great haste , to the contrary ;' no hands held up . He the * said , Mr . Chairman , both motions are carried ] Mr . Ward here sat down on his seat on the platform , And the Chairman , pat the resolution moved by Stott , which was declared to be carried . Two memorials , which had been proposed by two different parties , were then read , after which Mr . William Taylor , of Yale Mill , rose and said—Fellow-townsmen , —Are there any of the police here t Will any one inform me whether then are any in this roomf ( No answer . ) Because if there be , I shall be guarded in what I say . It affords me considerable pleasure , after what has been done , to be allowed to address yon . I am sorry that Barnard Ward has taken the steps he has done . ( Uproar . )

      Mr . Ward—You deny to me the right to speak , and if I must not reply , I will not be attacked . ( Considerable uproar . ) Mr . Taylor continued—I am not going to attack anybody if you will only be quiet ( Hear , hear . ) I can cay that na man . more strenuously opposed the Introduction « f the police than Mr . Milne and myself , nor has any man done more to render their situation more uncomfortable after they did come than myself . Previous to their introduction , I had two interviews with Mr . Hordern , our resident magistrate , one of them of an hour ' s length ; I did more good by that hour ' s conversation than Ward could have done with all his Shore-edge grammar in six months . I found , however , that Mr . Hordern was like nineteen out of every twenty

      who are placed in his situation ; he had made up his mind to go with the stream . He said to me , " The police will be introduced into Lancashire , and this township will have to pay its quota ; would you prefer paying , and not have the men ? " I answered | continued Mr . T . ) " Decidedly so . If you are determined to rob us , do it fairly ; but do not insult us in the bargain . " I know that the police dread me—that they have their eye on me . I know that they have said , " We can associate with all parties , but W illiam Taylor ; we cannot tell what to make of him . His looks are so forbidding , that we are afraid to meet him . " This has been brought to my own house . I have made some calculations , and as you know I am so fond of office , I have had a chance of making them accurately . One

      year I was overseer , another year surveyor of the highways , another year I was Boroughreeve —( laughter )—and several years one of the select vestry . In 18 J 7 we had a great deal better opportunity of paying the rates than now—lost quarter of a year we have to pay more for the « xpon * e of the police than the whole of the county rate amounted to in 1837 . The county rate was then one-third of what it now is , or two-thirds less than now . If this state of things is to go on , you will never have the collector off your door . We are all agreed , both Tories , Whigs , and Radicals , rich and poor —ne matter whether a man has hfs six mills or his six landed estates—no matter whether he is in receipt of six pounds per week , or six shillings , whether a pauper , or an able labourer , there is but one mind and

      one Toice , viz . — "We will not be strutted over with these idle vagabonds . " I congratulate you that this is the first time in this township that there ever was an appearance of unanimity amongst us . Let us not spoil it Why object to the police ? not so much on account of the expense as on other grounds . They are an un-English , anti-christian force ^—but not only are they on-EngWsh , but at strict variance with the constitutional laws of Englaud . If there be one thing more conducive to the destruction of the rights and liberties of the people than another , it is the rural police . The expense of maintaining this force cannot cost the country less than £ 30 , 000 . a-year . In a short space of time it has cost this township no less than £ 187 17 s . 4 d . — this would amount to 1 , 602 half-crowns ; supposing

      we had 1 , 502 half-crowns at our vestry meetings , how would it look , It , instead of bantering the poor old people down to an odd sixpence , we threw 1 , 502 halfcrowns to them r Weuld it not do more good than keeping an irresponsible and unconstitutional force to spy our every action ? Who sent these men amongst us ? ( Mr . Ward— "The £ 10 voters . " ) It is true the Legislature passed a law , but threw tho responsibility on the county magistrates . The introduction of this police is only the forerunner of another devil-begotten law—the New Poor Law . I know from hints that have been thrown out to me from head-quarters , that it is probable that an attempt will be made to introduce it among us before March is ov « r . These vagabond police are the spies—the traitors—the vassals of the Government No man would accept the office of a county constabulary policeman who has a drop of English blood

      in his veins . I * hope none of them are natives of Lancashire : I hope they come from China , or Syria , where we have been knocking out their brains . I would advt&e you not to dirty your bands by touching such degraded beings . So far as I am concerned , I would see the man who has the baseness to become one ot this force starve , and not give him a bit of bread ; or thirst , and give him nothing to drink . I abhor them from my heart . Tho speaker then alluded to the memorials , and thought one * drawn up by Smith was the best He continued—I conclude by calling upon yon to keep up the present good feeling , and let no . petty jealousy mar our proceedings , but let us do our utmost to rid our country of a set of Russell-espionage-men , whose duties are not so much to look after crime , as to act the base and disgusting characters of spies and traitors .

      On the recommendation of the chairman , a committee was appointed to choose out the best portions of both memorials , which was agreed to by the meeting . Thanks being voted to the chairman , the meeting separated , having occupied about one hour and a half . One singular part of the proceedings , was that the whole of the Chartists stood aloof from taking any active part in the proceedings , and appeared to be mere spectators , excepting Mr . Barnard Ward , who it was expected intended moving an amendment to petition for the Charter . Another remarkable feature was , that Stotfc , who was always wishful to be considered an active radical , should have established ao tyrannical and deapotio a precedent as to move , second , and put a resolution debarring a person from speaking at a public meeting to one of the resolutions .

      The meeting was ridiculously conducted . Had a meeting conducted by working men been so badly arranged—the speakers committing ao many glaring and absurd errors , the whole of the Whig-radical press would have pointed the finger of scorn at the conductors , and asked " -are these men fit to have a voice in chocsing a representative in the Commons' House of Parliament" Still all these men were the voters of a Whig-radical parliament No meeting of the working classes we ever attended cut so truly ridiculous a figure as this one . Mr . Taylor spoke last , but his feeling often ran away with his discretion .

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      Attempt to Escape from Goal . —Four prisoners in Kirkcialo gaol , made au attempt to escape on Thursday night or Friday morning , the 29 ch . On © of them named Mitchell , managed to saw a hole in his cell door , and make a lead key , by which he let himself and comrades out of their cells ; but beinn baffiad in their attempt to escape , by want of means , they agreed to try their scheme again next night , and Mitchell was proceeding to act the turnkey , and lock the others up again , when his lead key broke . They were of course found by the turnkeys out of their cells , and thus their clot was detected .

      RosBiivo Furmshed LODGINGS . —Caroline Clitheroe , an aotresa , was charged , ai Lambeth police office , with stealing from her ready-furnished lodgings a large quantity of bed-clothing and other articles , value £ 7 , the property of Agnes Kerr . The prisoner had been cast off by her connections , who wero said to be of the highest respectability , on account of her predilection for the stage . Want of the means of living , was said to be the cause . The prisoner was fully committed fur trial , and was taken out of court in strong convulsions .

      The London Police . —Shameful Case of Extortion . —A townsman from Bury St . Edmonds , who now resides in New Leeds , Bradford , Yorkshire , sent for his wife , by way of London to Bradford , the parish of Bury St . Edinoud ' s having agreed to give her £ 4 towards defraying her oxpences on the journey . On arriving in London , a porter very accommodatingly offered his services , aud kindly took her box , to relieve the poor woman of such a burden ; she , thinking it would safely arrive at the plaoa it was intended to go to . The porter , under the pretence of decently stepping aside to attend to a call of nature , told the woman to walk forward whilst he made water , » a ho politely termed it : she .

      of coarse , thinking him an honest man , moved forward , and the porter not returning as soon as she thought he might have done , modestly turned round to look for her box , but the porter and box were both missing . The woman made her ca ? e known to the police , and iho bluo bottle imp took her to the Station-house , to make a sham show of investigating tho affair , and failing to restore tho box , which could not be expected to come without BeaTchiug for , charged the poor woman 5 a . 6 d . for walking a few yards through the streets . The poor confiding creature lost her box containing wearing apparel and other articles , as also the 5 u GU ., which those villains extorted from her .

      Thb late Inundation At BRENTFORD .- ^ -The adjourned inquest on one of the sufferers by this disastrous occurrence was continued on Wednesday week , and a number of witnesses were called , who deposed to the variouB circumstances which had come under their notice . The only important point , however , which has not been already several times before the public , was , that a breach had taken place in [ the walls of the Kingsbury reservoir , belonging to the Rflgent's Canal Company , through which » vast body of water waa poured into the Brent . The r « -

      Borvoit itself , as it was stated , covers upwards of 140 aereB of ground , and the walls by which it was enclosed being insufficient to resist so immense a pressnre as that thrown upon them by the thaw , And the consequent influx of water from the country , the flood both overtopped the walls and forced a passage through one part , by which a considerable volume reached the Brent , and , as it ia supposed , tended in great measure to produce the calamity at Brentford . The inquiry continued until nearly eight o ' clock , and the Jury being then bound over "in the usual recognizances , the inquest w » s adjourned until Wednesday last .

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      Thb Law ! thb Law !—In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , last week , Stone Mann , formerly a purser in the navy , obtained » mandamus to compel the Commissioners of the Navy to pay him the sum of £ 500 , being due to him as wages and emoluments . It appears Mann had been * purser in 1824—5 '; bat had been cashiered in the latter year . Since that time , litigation as to the validity of the Court Martial , and with Lords of the Admiralty as to the sum he claimed , had prevented him obtaining % settlement of his claim . So much for the " glorious uncertainty of thelawl "

      Another Samplb . —In the same Court as the above , an individual , who was indicted for perjury and who was acquitted , because the tenth often counts , and an immaterial oae , top , in the indict * ment , broke down , obtained a verdict for defamation of character , with £ 800 damages . A rule was , however , applied for to set aside the verdict ; -which course of proceeding led the Judges and applicant to fix the damages at 4250 . The case now again came before the Court , on the ground that the Master , in taxing the costs , had disallowed the plaintiff ' s expences for all those parts of the declaration' in whioh he bad failed ; and , after a long and able discussion of the matter , in which all the Judges took a very earnest interest , the Court took time to consider their decision .

      A Silesia n Chronicle states that the winter of 1740 waa so Revere in that part of Europe-, that whilst the stove in one part of a room was red hot , water placed near the window was frozen , and -water thrown from a third floor became ice before it reached the ground 1 It war impossible , says the chronicler , to walk a hundred yards in the open air against the wind witkont the face being frozen . In Bohemia and Moravia all the ponds were frozen to the but torn , and the fish died ; domestic animals were frozen to death in their fltablep , as were she birds in the woods and the game in the forests . Three thousand persons are said to have died of cold in Sweden , and 80 , 000 head of horned cattle , were frozen to death in Hungary .

      Giundmaha " at it" again !—A few weeks . ago , tho Times received an extraordinary foreign express , which caused the publication of that morning's paper to be late ; whereupon the Morning Herald , having published at its usual time , as soon as The Times appeared , pretended to have received ah express also , and out came a second edition ! \ , The trick , however , wan too soapy ; the merchants and business-men generally , saw through the unworthy artifice , and the Herald caught nothing but odium for its dexterity . On Monday last , Grandmama tried her hand at a similar game with the Chartists and their late " demonstration" at Leeds . In in article , professing to be furnished from Leeds by its own correspondent , tho following passage occurs : —

      " At this most stale and unprofitable muster , a new publication , called the ' English ChartiBt Circular , ' was put forward , in which wag given a list of the ' patriots , ' now , or lately , in durance vile . *• * Making in all 443—among whom there is one surgeon ( Peter Murray M'Douall ) , one barrister ( Feargas O'Connor ) , one schoolmaster , one magistrate ( John Frost ) , and about half a dozen licensed victuallers , the remainder are , with very few exceptions ,- all ignorant and uneducated men . " All this would doubtless have been ve ~ y passable to the readers . Grand mama ; but , unfortunately for its Leeds correspondent , the publication which is stated to have

      been " put forward" at the " gathering" there , was not put into " ohase" till four o ' clock in the afternoon of Friday , twenty-four hours afterwards ; and the printer is ready to testify , on oath , that it was not composed , even in " slip ? , " till after-the meeting must have separated . Clever Grandmama to keep Leeds correspondents , who rusticate in . the " Old Globe Hotel , " Shoe-lane , and to call foreign expresses from over the channel whenever a contemporary gets a "fat bit" worth filching . But " what a falling off is there , " when the poor old lady is reduced to the necessity of telling a palpable He to screen ft piracy from a halfpenny Chartist paper !

      Thb Armstrong Liver Pills are recommended , as an anti-bilious medicine , to every sufferer from bilious complaints and indigestion , or from an inactive liver , and are procurable at all druggists , and at the Northern Star office . It is only necessary to see that the stamp has "Dr . John Armstrong ' s Liver Pill" engraved on it in white letter * , and to let no one put you off with any other pills . N . B . —The boxes in marbled paper , and marked B ., are a more active preparation than the others , and are particularly and universally praised . They are admirably adapted for sportsmen , agriculturists , men of business , naval and military men ; as they contain no mercury or calomel , and require neither confinement to the house nor restraint in diet .

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      THE WISHEDFOR UNION OF THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASSES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR . Sir , —A very ncnslble , pithy nnd opportuno letter appeared in your invaluable paper of Saturday last , from tho pen of my friend , William Hick . He not only depicts therein the true character of the gentocracy , distinguished in tbe political arena by the soubriquet ot " The Fox anrt Goose Club , " but very cogently points out the interminable mischief with which an amalgamation of Chartism with the sophisms ' of tbeso pseudo-Liberals will be fraught . The propriety of Mr . Hick ' s warning none can dispute , yet his fears may have taken too wide a range . The principles of Chartism are cot only invulnerable to the attacks of tbe already vanquished troops of the " household " army , but they are

      made of materials -which will stand unimpaired amid " the wreck of nature and the crush of worlds "—they have their foundation in truth which endureth for ever , and there is not one fustian jacket , blistered band , or unshorn chin , connected with a heart on which thoie principles are Impressed , that can abandon the sacred cause , and fight under the banner or in anywise countenance , the movement * , of this doubly base , doubly brutal , and doubly bloody fragment of a faction . Political adventurers , trading politicians , the Jim Crow fraternity , and a few soft-handed political apouters , with " Wha wants me ? " inscribed on their foreheads , may form » n alliance with the crack-skulled brotherhood , but the loss of such will be the gain of our cause , and such an accession to the club ( if it can boast of entity ) will be like the Irishman ' s victory—they will win a defeat .

      The Chartists of Great Britain know full well the incalculable benefits the cause has derived from the almost superhuman exertions , and the peerless powers of mind , evinced by their now cell-bound chieftain , Feargua O'Connor ; and they never can abandon their leader to follow in the train of a disguised foe . The Northern Star has guided their footsteps , and led them into the pathway of pure political truth , and they will not ; now follow tbe ignis fuiuus generated either In the bogs of Ireland or the marshes of Water-lane . Yet still an attempt -will be made—yea , and now is making ' , to seduce and bewilder the unwary , and no exertion ought to be spared to frustrate the insidious designs of the execrable squad who coil round the Big Beggaraan , and sustain an ephemeral existence by licking up his stereotyped venom , and vomiting it upon tbe uncompromising advocates of equal richts .

      On Saturday last , the pigmy Doctor who compounds the ingredients for that weekly dO 3 e of delusion , ycieped the Leeds Times , has administered to his spongy-brained patients ( for , God knows , they are patient to endure his stuff ) a bottle of smoke , impregnated with a few drops of humbug , a little fulsome , soft soap , and a few lumps of speedily-dissolved falsehood . Ho has labelled his phial thus : — " The Lessons taught by the Great Leeds Meeting . " The Leeds Meeting certainly taught some very salutary lessons , which the concootors of the " Festival" will not soon forget ; but Mother Goose should not p . tlm the nonsense and fictions of her own cobweb brain as the veritable " lessons taught " at ManhaU ' 8 new school . Teachers of a superior order took their station on that evening , and scholars from a higher academy made their appearance , consequently , Mother Goose ' s hom-book waa thrown under the desk ; a different system of teaching was propounded ; and the whole of the originally intended process of tuition was arranged .

      Ae Mother Goose pons the "lejsons" which she dreamed wero "taught by the Great Leeds Meeting , " in the fonn of verses , in order , I suppose , that her viaians of the night may pasa as gospel , I will correct her errors by the same method . , By that meeting we are taught , First—That Mother Goose has no power in her tall , and no more Influence over the people than she ought , which is just none at all . Second—ThaV tho Fox and Goose Club are powerless and insignificant . They are like burning and crackling thorns under a pot—then make a momentary blaze and a discordant noise—they vanish , in smoke , leaving only a few worthless ashes behind , which the most gentle breeas of Chartism may scatter Into oblivion ' s tomb .

      Third—That the mighty one of Erin has fallen from his once proud eminence—that his " occupation ' s gone . " He is itreclaitnably lost ; and cannot even serve the purposes ot Mother Goose , the last of faction ' s dying clique . Fourth—That King Humbug is dethroned , and cannot t » reinstated—a sure and certain sign that tbe Messra . Marshall , Stanafeld , and Co ., must apeedily commence aomo other line of business than that of twaddle-spinning—such stuff being too fragile to hold the tottering s )» tem together . Fifth—That the Chartists of the West Biding of Yorkshire know their righti ; and , knowing , dare maintain them . Sixth—That the Chartists are proof against tbe cant , « qphi « try , jugglery ; craft , deceit , and fraud of the whole tribe of associated hypocrites .

      Seventh—That the Chartists are all-potent , and can , with the greatest facility , vanquish their opponents , even upon their own dunghill , and in spite of their best-contrived stratagems . And Eighth—The " lessons" teach that the Chartists have attained that elevated position , from which no power on earth can dislodge them , save intestine brails .

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      Row , Sir , th « chagrined Doctor is aware of , n ¦ . yet he hma racked hi * poor fcnOa to devi » e a oomj for his now unmasked coadjutors ; and what Im 3 covering * Why , one of the mott flimsy thintjf S ginable— -it has neither warp nor woof—it huiS ? the shadow of a shade of rabttanee . Hehaj hw ?* but in vain , U identify Um foxes and geeae , JqX ? H the Anti-Corn Law agitators , with the Chartist * , cj help the poor fellow ! he must be hard up , wbendjS ? to attempt the amalgamation of saeh opposite */ -tr * vel not , shonld he affirm , in bis next lucubratW the arms of her " moat Chriatlan" MajettyTx ^ Tictoria , and those of the Celestial Emperor , ffj ? employed against each other , hut that they are emjiL ^ as " a new manifestation" of peace and amity . ^* The Doctor ' s extraordinary discoveries are aD&cmM to the little world to which is oracle speaks , in tb ^ I lowing conundrum-like manner : — * ** " What is the Leeds Association but a new nuajL ation of Chartism ? " And , again , —• mu ^ " Whatare the Anti-Corn Law agitators but Cbw ^ nnder another name t" ' ¦ ' ^ P *

      I hall not trespaw tipon yonrjpace , or on $ » ,. tience of your reader * , by any prolix commeafcBt * the Doctor ' s new discoveries , because it !• nnncc ^ lr I always thought that Chartism had Univen » TS frage as its fundamental principle , and , if my en . 4 I ceived me not , the organs of the association htw { u the emanations of their master-minds , declared tiftJ sal Suffrage " impracticable ; " they have repndfrte £ and Inscribed Household Suffrage npon their bs ^ l ? Now , what affinity there exists between anfnuST * tional , reflecting , and feeling man and inanimatelwL ^

      mute mortar , ana unieenng stone , is a problem I w for the Doctor ' s solution , which I opine Will be ttoH ' manifestation" of his inventive faculty . ¦ ™ As to the Anti-Corn Law agitators being " Chitf ^ under another name , " allow me , in a word or UoTw point out the object * of each . That of the Chartljt ! ? to obtain the enactment of such laws as shall gtaairiZ to the working man "a fair day ' s wage for a fajr dw ! labour , " and to abrogate thoce despotic laws *)^ militate against the accomplishment of such objeeti

      The object of the Anti-Corn Law agitators Is , ( tU bared of all the rnbWsh they rake into the qneifU to obtain a Repeal of the Corn Laws , that the priced bread may be reduced ; and for what p urpose ! iv increase the comforts of tke operative ? No ; j ^ ! leaf of that tree . It is to enable the milloctg , merchant * , or slanghtor-house gent * , to compete ttS the foreign manufacturer , whieb they find they otto do without reducing their profits , or the wage * of g , labourer . The former they cannot brook , and ' ^ latter is impracticable , being already screwed do » i ^ the starvation point ; therefore , their scheme ii ^ reduce the price of bread , that the " workey" wjt * bis morsel at a cheaper rate , and the grinder be fta enabled to turn the wage-screw a little lower .

      And this is "Chartism under another name ! " Uj Doctor must he either ignorant , completely ignonai , of the principles of Chartism—subject to fits of may nberration , or ambitious of aping the " thieviih Got * If the first , I would advise him to place himself ttpd » the tuition of some fustian jacket , and vacate fcfc Editorial chair , until better qualified to give " lewnf on politics . If the second , I would give hit conw > tions the hint to place him in some lunatic asylum , and , if the latter , I would suggest to him tha propriety of throwing away his mask , and openly avo » h » himself the rival of " the Great Liar of the North . * In another part of his dirty rag , is a parsgnpJi replete with falsehood and scurrillity . He states tbi the Chartiste were supplied with money , during ftj recent demonstration , by the Tories , which is alU , The lists of subscribers will settle that point

      He speaks of the placards which were issued , uj which portrayed the character of his fallen friend Dm , aa being slanderous and false , yet he has forgot t » show wherein the slander and falsehood cont&tei This he could not do , as every reader of the ptaarti knows that not a twentieth part of Dan ' s treaday , profligacy , deceit and fraud , was hinted at HwotlJ be impossible to depict the true character of-Uok arch-impostor , or to chronicle one-half of the ftatfc deeds within the limits of a thousand posters , anil ) is not in the power of the Doctor to cleanse that political leper , as well wight he essay to change tht ^ pa into a " sucking dove . "

      He concludes the paragraph I allude to , by soaping Messrs . Moir , Calling , and Deegan ; but I miit » i » these men if they place any value on the congratulations of this unfledged plural-unit , since the ChartaU full well know that his praise is censure , and to censure praise . This , in part , verifies the opinion of Mr . Hick , yet . depend upon it , the old birdi are not to be caught by such worthless chant Chartists ! beware—keep your " eyes open . " Yours , truly , WlLLUU RlDBB . Leeds , Feb . Snd , 1641 .

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      WAKEFIELD HELL . TO THE EDITOR OF THE N 0 BTHEB 5 STAB . SiB ., —I think my last letter will satisfy your mien as to the cleanliness of tbe pest-house I am endeavour ing to show up in these letters . I might cite senal other instances of the extreme filthiness of tbe p !« e , did I not think them too disgusting for publication in the People ' s Paper . " I will , therefore , proceed to that part of the Rules , " which orders scales and weights to be kept for the purpose of weighing tb » prisoner * ' bread . The prisoners are served with a half-pound loaf three times a-day , in the following manner;—A penoa called Thomas , ( one of the most overbearing tyruti ia the place , ) who has the management of the bread ud " skilly , " places a large basket , full of loaves , in thi

      hands of one ot the prisoners , who walks backward , between the forms on which the prisoners are Mated , at a smart pace , whilst Thomas , with a scornful grin , ia throwing tbe morsels , right and left , to tbe hillstarved wretches who are anxiously awaiting them , heedless whether they full on the dirty floor , or into the hands of the prisoners . A goodly portion of the loaves thus thrown ab « ut are badly baked , and serenl of them are not above six ounces in weight . Well , let us see how the " Rules' * are carried out I b&veteea several men stand up in their places with a little ill shapen thing like a cinder between their fingers , whiti bad-been given to them as eight ounces of good bread ; they have stood in this manner for an hour or more , and were then compelled , through intense hanger , to

      sit down and cat it I have watched a man , v&om number was 315 , stand up for an hour and a naif , ia order that bis bread might be weighed , and ntboty went near him until the prisoners were marched off to bed , when he received another in exchange , which seemed no larger than the first I have several toe * taken notice of the manner in ; which a foppuh-11 officer" treated an idiot , No . 289 , who had beensentenced to three yeara' imprisonment One mormug . iB particular , he stood up , with his bread in bis hand , which is the signal that they required it to be weighed ; the above mentioned fop went to the basket ml sought out the atnalUst loaf ho could find , and gs «

      it to the poor idiot ; after which be ordered him to til dawn , and then turned round and laughed heartily at his humane exploit . This will sufficiently prove tba Y&liie of that part of the rules concerning " scale * *»* weights , " and fully bear me out In my former assertion — "That the whole is a brutal mockery and farce # regard to the prisoners , and a gross imposition ou th » public . " I could give scores of instances of the tynnnj and brutality , to which the prisoners in that filthy deo are subjected ¦ , but , as I intend attaching hereto balance sheet of the money received for supplying tfl « Chartist prisoners with flannel , I . must conclude lot tM present , and subscribe myaelf ,

      Yours , trnly , Geokge Whitb . P . S . —I understand that my esteemed friend , Wilto * Ash ton , of Bnrnsley , has written his last monthly letter to me , but that the humane Governor has detain ** " I dont know by what authotity . We shall * ee E ¦ a c <• < o © © * ai 1-1 © 3 » « J- « 2 * 1 © © < - > ° I $ > oowe « w c |» « •* C » 1 ^ rt r- ( * S ^ 1-1 •* .. Noooo © ° qJ ••**•• •• • • • • ••• # »• • • • - ¦ ¦»•• * ** •••»»••• » * * ^ ° • - £ *•••• .. - • • a *»«¦ : ' j ... I SV . A : W : : : }* : : .. -g . oS S : fe -9 o P , * i | 1 V 4 Id : . | 5- " fliH 3 ! l £ . 1 * 1 { lill'iP lip A * m _ w S - *» & » S *» 3 Ti ft * 49 1 H ** ssUl- iH % - I j M"j-4 | | 4 j | ' ~ ' oisiS . ^ Sod 6 6 * o •¦ 3 HOflfiAOMRft ftflAH I ' : ' & 4444 +.-: &i 35 | © OHOttHrlH d £ J r-t rt , H i-l . a . « © sap 433

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct693/page/6/