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      WATKINS' LEGACY TO THE CHARTISTS . LECIUKE III . — CHRISTIANITY AUD CHABTISJI . ** Jesus of Nazareth "who went about doing good . " About t&iatim * , some eighteen centuries ago ( last Ghristmss } , was bora the meat memorable man that erer lived , Jesus Christ ! the author of tha Christian Religion . If ever there was a good roan , if ever there was a great man , a man of genius and of Yirtue , it was be ! Again , if ever there was a man of sorrow , of suffering , and of sacrifice , it was he ; and mark . ' it was his very goodness , kis Tery greatness , his very genius and virtue , that brought on Hm so much sorrow and Buffering and sacrifice . Yes , it was his -very ^ rorthiness , bis truthfulness , that exposed him to so much e-ril , priTation , and persecution . Hia attachment , hii adherence , hia self-devotion to the interests of justice and humanity ; the true , the real interests ol an men , made those who aeek their individual or p&rty WATKINS' LEGACY TO THE CHARTTSTR .

      interests , exclusive of , or to the destruction of the gmersl interests of mankind , made all usurpers , all monope ^ zars , and all oppressors , hia bitter enemies , his inveterate opponents—yea , they hated him because he loved them too well ; they doomed him to misery because he wished to render them truly happy ; and because he sought to save them , they destroyed him He was the gentlest , the most generous and best of beings ; and yet what was the treatment he receivedwhat wa 3 his fate ? He lived , as he himself says , scorned and rejected of men—he had not where to . lay bis head—he was driven from placa to place , hunted Die a wild beast , and at last , ffrin good man-, this gracious gentleman , ( for he was a gentleman in the true sense of the word , } was hung up lika a murderer , not for taking life , but for saving it ; fenng on the cross , where he died with these tender words trembling on his tcrtured lips , " Father forgive them for they know Bot what they So . "

      Jesus Chnet was the victim of the vices of others I fhehsd noaeof his own )—wicked men took hia life ; beeause he was a good man . What ignorance and prejudice he had to contend against . ' What privations j and positive afflictions he endured ! What patienea i was his amid all his pains ! He did not appear in i ptffiic life till after he was thirty years of age , aad his I ministry lasted only some three years—yet in that short period ages of labour , ages of trial , ages of tortare were compressed—and after-doing and Buffering , so much ., he was at length betrayed into the hands of j bis cruel enemies by one of bis own disciples—denied j by another when all else had forsaken him—mocked ,, scourged , crucified—followed when bearing bis cross , when fainting beneath the weight of a wicked world ,,

      iollewed with taunts and jeers of an unthinsi- g crowd , ' i who had been instigated to hoot their scorn , to howl their hatred , to buStt , to BpiV upon their best , their ; only friend , to abuse him when about to die for them— j instigated by those who had ever b&en their worst ] enemies , who had made them the dupe 3 of their j bigotry , the £ lave 3 of their tyranny , the victims of their I cevetousness , their avarice , and their ambition . But i She lgnomirous , the agonizing death that was meant ; to extinguish ths shining , the astful life of Jesus-Chriat only made it blaze the brighter—burst forth the ; wider , for , like tha Phoenis , bis fame rose from his own aib . ea-r-tb . 8 very "villains employed to execute aim caught nesmess of life from his death—they thought that there must be something supremely excellent in

      those principles which could enable the possessor to pass through such a terrible ordeal , t # stand such a trying test , that that man must have been a good man , who , dying nnder such shameful , saeh shocking circumstances , could still exhibit so much fortitude , resignation , and marvellous benignity , so much cheerfulness—for all the tortures inflicted on him , extorted no groans , no curses , exturted nothing but forgiveness from him . And if the very villains who were employed to execute him , and who had been prejudiced , promoted , and paid , to do the damned deed by the authorities , if these villains , common executioners , were converted by bis sufferings , and convinced of bis integrity , what tfr'nfr you masi have been the feelings of his own beloved disciples—ai those who had been witnesses of

      the blameless purity of his past life , of those who had imbibed the same principles , who were actuated by rimflgT Z 3 al , what must they have fait on witnessing his untimely , bis unmerited , bis Htost barbarous fate ? They did just what they aught to have done—what he wished them to do—they did not sptnd their time in useless lamentations in making a parade of sorrowthey did noi content themselves with meeting together on the anniversary of iis death to drink his memory in solemn siitnee—no , tcey revenged him—revenged him in the noblest manner—they went and premnlgatei hia doctrines—they Epread Ma principles—they devoted themselves to doing justice to his motives , to his conduct , to bis character , and with a s .-al second only to his own : nothing daunted by hia fate , nothing

      dismayed by the dimcu'ties , nothing deterred by the distresses in their way—they followed bis example , they lived otbt his life , and , indeed , they were faiiMul even unto de » tfc—aye , even to a death such as bis , tie most dreadful , the most cruel that tyranny ever yet devised te torture freebsrn man . . Blessed martyrs . ' Siis was the way to make your principles fljurish ; thus proselytes were gained , thus converts were » ade , * and Christianity was thus promulgated , wss tins propagated , till throned emperor , crowned kings , sceptred powers , sword&d principality began to notice it , began to be swayed by it . and at length from persecuting they fell to patronising it sab , patronage more fatal than their ptrseen tioD ) for tfce pure and spotless virgin ol the church

      when wooed by the state , was won by it Alas ! Chrisanity was seduced , it fell into the embraces of pomp and po-wer , and became a prostituted harlot Church and State—from that unholy alliance , that adulterous connexion spnng the bastard progeny of bishops , abbots , popes , monks , friars , and all the rest of the Eoaian trumpery , black , white , and grey ; who by false prophecies , false miracles , ani falsa pretences of all kinds , made a grand handle of Christianity sad used , it not to gain heaven with , but to win the world withal—not to ameliorate the condition of the people , but to sick them into a state of double vassalsre ;—in fact , Christianity has been perverted from its true path—it has altogether gone out of the way—it has been turned , & 3 it were , against itself , and made to commit suicide . A system has been built on the foundation of Christ , worse than that which bs died to overthrow , wbich be died te rebuild , and such

      a horrid—such an abominable use has been made of his name , ijr . t I verily believe , if he coaid have foreseen the atrocities , the fieudUke acts committed in it , he would hava gone silent through life , and never have Buffered bis name ta cave been , known at alL Now these demoniacal deeds were not confined to the Catholics—the Protestants have had their full Ehare in them : nor were they things of former times , gone by with bygone times ; no , they exist at present—tiey are acted on eYen now—only in an altered or modified form . Yea , there is as much villany—as much cold-blooded cruelty practised in ^ he name of the blessed Redeemer as evtr , and the mitred bishops , the shoval-hatted deans , the white-banded parsons , who support the present system , and who profii by it , are as unchristian in so doing—are as anti-Christian—as inhuman , cay , more so , than the heathen , than those whom we civilly term savages , than the Caribbees who drinkhuman gore , and feart on human flesh .

      Jesus Christ , while he lived , was sneered at , slighted , ana contemned ; but after his death , and when bis preempts aad example began to take effect , began to operate a ehaage in men ' s minds and conduct , tben it was asked—Wbas is a Christian ? Who was thi 3 Christ ? Enquiry began to be made into all the particulars of his life , and it was found by tradition and contemporary fceitiiEony , that he hai been born of poor parents , in circumstances of great humiliation , at the co'dest season cf the Tear , in a manger , ( far his mother could procure

      no better lodging , not even m the hour of nature s sorrow—of nature ' s extremity , ) that Ins parents were obliged to flee with Mm , while yet an infant , to save his life from an indiscriminate massacre decreed by Herod;—that after wandering from country to country , probably in search of ¦ w « rk , they finaliy Settled in Xazareth , wh ^ re Vbe Bon followed frig father ' s trade of a carpenter , till be -went forth to preach—that his first companions and converts were poor fisherman , and bo on as narrated forty years after bis death by ths Et&sgclists , and as preached by the apostle Paul and others . ( To be concluded ia osr nc&l . )

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      TO THE CHAKTISTS OF -GREAT BRITAIN . Bsoxhes Democrats , —By the time you will hive setn this letter , the greater number of you -will have registered ycur votes for the five individuals who are to mac 3 ge your affairs for the next twelve months . The term of i / . mce for the old Executive vrill then be nearly txpired . When I calmly look back to the four months I acted as your representative on the Provisional , and the twelve months on the permanent Executive , I feel proud that I hare contributed my mite towards msiing Uie Association "what it is at present When I became Secretary , tcere

      wera about sixty or seventy plAces registered is our Association ; now there are nearly -tCO . Ttere had been nearly io , OGO cards issued ; during the last twelve ttOEtLs there has been 35 , 000 issued . Daring cur term of o £ ce , from the letters I have received , every satisfaction has been given ; and the Association now wonders his ire have accomplished so much with bo little means TVs have never had an angry word in oar body ; members cf the same family could not agree better than the Executive have done . Every subject that was brought before us wes calmly examined on its own merits or demerits , and adopted or rejected according to the dictates of

      our reason . j But if much has been done more remains for the , Chartists to da Although the Association has now upwards of io . 000 members on its books , —is that nnm- j her enough ? Ka ; nor a tithe cf what ought to be en- j rolled . There is not a eonnty , city , borough town , or J bamlst , into wMeh our principles should not be intro- j duceo . Xow I ask of the National Charter Association j to take men steps as will enable its Executive Council to send lecturer into the agricultural districts , and if ; possible arouse that portion of the labouring classes to a ; s ^ -se of their own worth and dignity . Every engine j must be set in play to arouss the masses to declare ia a j voice of thunder , that they are determined te have even- j banned justice meted out to all parties . j

      We have one Cling in particular to be prond of ; j Jsmel y , thai the trades are declaring for the Charter , j Let the united trades of this great nation but avow openly and determinedly , that they insist npon the People ' s Charter becoming law ; and "srili soy govern

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      ment dare refuse them their just demands ? I unhesitatingly answer No . The Chartist carpenters and joiners of Manchester , already number a hundred members ; the fustian cutters a hundred . The mechanics hare also joined the National Charter Association . This week , it is expected that the bricklayers and smiths will be induced to imitate their worthy example ; immediate Bteps will be taken to wait on the shoemakers , calicoprinters , silk and piece-dyers , and spinners , to prevail on them to como out fer the Charter ; and there ia not the Bhadow of a doubt on my mind , but before six months , we will have the whole of the Manchester ¦ mm < rA , ~>~*~^ * v . _ a ^ . i ... „ , . . ]

      trades with us . London also is doing its work ; and when the trades of London and Manchester have unitedly decided on agitating for the Charter , they will gvre a tone of confidence to all the trades in the united kingdom . I now call on yon as men , as fathers , as hasbands , as patr iots , and as good , true , and sterling Chaitiata , to bury at once and for ever aDy little petty grievance that may have existed amongst you . Do not allow the disputes of leaders to divide you . Tell them if they will dispute with each other the censequence will be on their own beads . Let us act unitedly . Without union w « are poweilesa ; with it we are everything .

      In conclusion , I wouia entreat of those parties who owe for cards , to pay off the debt 'Tie really too bad to have so many cards out without being paid fer . I did expect that the new Executive would have come into office with clear booka . I am now afraid snch will not be the case . Hoping that during the next twelve months the cause will progress even more rapidly than it has done for the last twelve , I rsmain , your brother Democrats , John Campbell . Salford , June Gth , 1842 .

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

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      TO THE EDlTeB OP THE KOBTHEBX STAR . Sib ., —It is agratd on all hands that great distress at present exists throughout the trading world . Of its cause , a multiplicity ef opinions are aflaak Perhaps , amongst the many , you will allow me to give mine . It 13 well known that iuring the protracted "war with France , under the reign of Bonaparte , the lauded interest , or aristocracy of England , " pledged their lives and . fortunes "in support of our Government How was tais pledge fnlfi'Jed ? Why , they created a fictitious capital , which said fictitious capital enabled them to double , yea , trtb ' . e their rentals . At the conclusion of the war , they procured the enactment of tho Corn Laws , by the operation of which they have contrived to retain those rents te this day .

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

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

      Let it be borne in mind , that all articles of wear are now disposed of &t one half the prices they ware forty or fifty years ago . I challenge any one to disprove these facts ; and I & . & ' , Sir , if this be the way to administer justice with impartiality and to give equal protection to the community ? I am , Sir , Yours truly , Wilium Hirst . Leeds , June 6 th , 1542 . P . S . Was not tha wool duty laid on for the benefit

      of the landed interest , and kept on for years , till the foreigners began to manufacture for themselves , « n . i undersell tie regular maEufaciurera in the London market 1 Then the duty wa 3 altered ; and at the time this measure was passed I had by mo 500 , 000 lbs . weight of wool , for which I had paid about £ 14 , 000 duty ! ! When the measure was passed , I applied to Government for redress ; but none could be afforded ! rhat measure took out of my pocket upwards of £ 20 , 000 . ' . ' . ' W . H .

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      ANOTHER PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY . TO THE EDITOB . OF THE KOSTHESN 5 TAR . Sir , —It is now some few months since I requested the favour of your giving publicity to a flagrant case of interference with the liberty of expression , in the- person of Sir . Charles Southwell , Editor of the O-ac ^ e of Reason , arrested at ths instance of a Bristol magistrate for blasphemy . He was tried and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment , and to pay a fine of £ 100 . He is now undergoing his sentence in Bristol GaoL

      The editorship of the work , upon his confinement , devolved upon Mr . Q . J . Holyoake , a Social Missionary , -who , . on Thursday night last , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , was arrested at Cheltenham by two policemen , tciihoui a xcarrant , and confined in the Station-houss for the remainder tf tbe night , charged ¦ with using blasphemous expressions at the conclusion of 3 lecture delivered by him on HoHie Colonisation , on the Tuesday week previously , in the Mechanics ' Institution . In the moraiBg he was committed to take his trial at Gloucester , at tbe ensuing sessions , to the gael of which county he was conveyed JiA > "DCtFP £ D , and wculd have teen compelled to walk from Cin . ltenba . ai to Gloucester , a distance of nine miles , but for the interference of his f .-iends .

      The majority cf tbe public p 3 pers are so shaeiled by class interests as to render them entirely useless for the defence of an oppressed individual whom the strong arm of bigotry seeks to crush , for the advocacy of expression or extreme opinions , however honestly expressed . And T simply state my feelings when I say , that the honest wortiDg men cannot too highly appreciate the jouiral which has been found the impartial advocate of equal freedom of expression for all creeds and shades of opinion . I remaiD , Yours , &c , W . J . Cuiltox . Birmingham .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE XOaTHEBX STAR . Sia , —In the report of the Nottingham election meeting held on Tuesday last , it is stated " that Mr . O'Connor is a member of thirty-four Associations , and has taken cut a card at Nottingham to entitle him to ¦ vote for the election of tbe new Executive . " Now , O'Connor , I presume , has taken cut thirty-five cards of membership of the National Charter Association ; he has joined the Association in thirty-five different towns ; and , if they are to be called Associations , I sbculd like to know where the nationality of our Association will bo found ? In your remarks on Mr . Philp ' s letter , yon Hay there can be but cue General Council , neither can

      there , in my opinion , be but one National Charter Association . It was not necessary for Mr . O'Connor to have taken cue bis card at Nottingham to have entitled him to vote for the Executive . It matters not ¦ wbereji member takes out his card , se that it is taken cut according to the fifth rule , which says the card shall be renewed half yearly . If Mr . O Connor had renewed bis card once only "within the Eix months , whether he lived in Manchester , Brighton , or Nottingham , upon producing his card , he would be entitled to vote . Persons in the habit of travelling from town to town , and renewing their cards at every place , create a false impression , without adding one more member to the

      Association-Hoping &at Mr . O'Connor will take this in good feeling , I remain , Faithfully in the cause of Chartism , NATHAK 1 EL MOBL 1 SG , Sub-Secretary to the National Charter Association . Bii £ hton , June 6 th , 1842 . [ Mr . Morling is right There is but one National Charter Association ; and if a man hold fifty cards he still is but one member , and can have but ene vote in its proceedings , which he might have , though he held but one card . We wish all efficers and members of the Association would take as much pains to understand its constitution as Sir . Morling seems to have done . We should have fewer blunders , less trickery , and a tetter spirit amMigst us . ~ ED . N . S-2

      Nominations To The General Council.

      NOMINATIONS TO THE GENERAL COUNCIL .

      CARE 1 NGT ) N , NEAR NOTTINGHAM . Mr . Wm , Grandy , lace-maker . Mr . Richard Hankin , framework-knitter . Mr . Matthew Walker , labourer . Mr . George Upton , laoe-maker . Mr . Abraham Widowson , lace-maker . Mr . BeDJamin Harvey , lace-maker , Unien-street , sub-Treasurer . Mr . Samuel Daft , lace-maker , Factory-street , sub-Secretary . MKBTHYB TTDvjr ,.

      Mr . Wm . Gould , grocer . Mr . David John , smith . Mr . Matthew John , do . Mr . Wm . Miles , miner . Mr . Wm . James , do . Mr . EvanRees , do . Mr . David Kees , do . Mr . John Bailis , confectioner . Mr . Henry Thorn , cooper . Mr . David Ellis , weaver . Mr . Morgan Williams , do . Mr . John Thomas , sub-Treasurer . Mr . David Davis , smith , sub-Secretary

      STROUD . Mr . Samuel Nissow , New Town . Mr . Samuel Paul , New Town . Mr . Wm . Ind . New Town . Mr . Thomas Hampton , Norfolk-street , sub-Trea Barer . Mr . Francis Moyer , Parliament-street , sub-Secre tary .

      DURHAM . Mr . Hugh Richmond , tailor , Claypath . Mr . Michael Coyne , nailor , Elves . Mr . John Dreghorn , carpec weaver , Crossgate . Mr . Robert Harrison , cordwainer , Millburngate . Mr . Wil ) iam Craig , cordwainer , Millburngaw . Mr . John Mowbray , attorney ' s clerk , Framwell gate . . . . ..... Mr . John Bray , cooper , Framwellgate . Mr . Benjamin Hill , labourer , do ., sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Jones , tallow chandler , Claypath , sub Secretary .

      BUL W £ LL . Mr . William Morris , framework-knitter . Mr . William Green , ditto . Mr . James Cliff , ditto . Mr . James Handley , ditto . Mr . Abram Goff , ditto . Mr . William Hicken , ditto , sub-Treasurer . Mr . John Cliff , ditto , sub-Secretary , care of John Pearson , near to tho General Baptist Chapel , Bulwell .

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

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

      Woodhouse . —Mr . Samuel Parka , from Sheffield , preached at the MaTket-cross , Woodhouse , on Sunday evening last . A large and deeply attentive audience lister . ed to the truths propounded by the preacher , illustrative of the harmony of Christianity with the principles of liberty and equality . BACUP . —A meeting was held here on Friday evening last , in the Chartist Association room , which was well attended , especially by females , when they formed a Female Association , and the evening was passed in recitations , songs , &c ., after which dancing was kept up to a late hour . NOTTINGHAM . —Oa Sunday , Mr . E . P . Mead , from Birmingham , preached t ^ ro Chutist sermons , ou the Forest , to a concourse of several thousand people . The speaker gave to the miUocrats , shopocrata , the foreign mission-mongers , and the worshippers of mammon a severe caatigation .

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

      delivered an able and impressive address on the state of the country and tho principles of Chartism . The greatest attention was manifested throughout and at the csncluaion an Association was formed , and twenty members enrolled themstlves and strongly rtquested Mr . Simmons to attend on tb ^ m again , which he agreed to do in a fortnight The distress in thU village amongBt the colliers is aim oat unparalleled , and several declared that some families bad not tasted bread for three days , and others five . The same party intend visiting Pinxton on Sunday next , where Mr . Simmons will deliver an address at five o'clock in the afternoon .

      XiBXTH . —A demonstration was held - in L-iith Links , on Sunday last , in favour of those expatriated victims , Fro * t , Williams , and Jones . The meeting , which was very numerous , was addressed at considerable length by Mr . John M'Crea , in a very affecting and eloquent speech , in which he made a feeling appeal in behalf of tbe above-Bamed : patriots ; after which Mr . John Tankard preicbed a sermon to an attentive audience , from the fifth chapter of James , 4 th and 5 th verses—" Behold the tire of the labourer , which have leaped down youi * fields , which is of you kept back by fraud crieth , and the cries of them which have rsaDed are entered into the ears of the Lord of

      Sabaoib . Te have lived m pleasure on the earth , and been wanton ; ye hwe nourished your hearts as in day of slaughter . " Mr . Tankard expounded hia text in such a feeling manner as muBt h : ive pierced the hearts of his audience , which could not be less then 3 , 000 , among whom was a great many of the upper classes . A collection was made , which amounted , after paying expences , to £ l 2 s . 6 d . A few of the frieuds from the country , and a few of the Committee and members of the Leith Charter Association then adjourned to Mrs . Watson ' s Teetotal Coffee House , and had a comfortable t ? a party j after which a variety of addresses were delivered , each speaking in bis turn , and the evening was spent in the most hp-rruonioua manner .

      CROYDO ? f . —A public meeting has been held in tbe open air , in the above locality , to consider the propriety of the inhabitants adopting the People's Charter , as the best means of removing tho misery and degradation of the -working classes . . The chair ¦ k&b taken by Mr . W . H-dges . Resolutions for the People ' s Charter , and expressive of their determination to bold aloef from aiiy other agitation than the present one were proposed , and ably supported by Messrs . Brown , Rainsley , J . C . Tayior , Esq ., tho aati-Corn Law lecturer , Mr . Fatrbay , and several other gentlemen , and carried unauimoualy . Several members were enrolled .

      HBBDENBRiDGR—A numerous and highly re " spectable meeting was held in a large and commodious room , at this place on Wednesday evening , Juna 1 st , when Mr , Abraham Marshall was cailed to the chair . Mr . Beesiey , district secretary for North Lancashire , j gave a shore report of the proceedings oa the presenta-, tion of the National Petition , and a severe lashing to j those who style themselves the Right RdV . Fathers j in God , who are receiving such eiiormous sums of ] money , whilst there are thousands who are starving j by being plundered by such avaricious beings as these , j Sixteen then came forward to jain in the glorious j cause for freedom . The meeting separated , highly j delighted with what they had heard . .

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

      regards the prosperity cf this . our glorious cause ; and the good feeling that is now animating the Chartists throughfut the whole of the district , by the eloquent and talented lectures &f Mr . West , which have done much good , besides adding numbers to our ranks . After the financial business of the meeting bad been transacted , it was resolvad that 16 s . be sent to the Executive , and 103 . for cards ; and that tbe delegates of the next Council meetiDg do briDg 2 id . per member levy , for tbe lecturer ' s fund . It is requested tb . it those places that do net sen « a delegate do seud T '^ eir quota , by letter , to Mr . Robshaw , district treasurer . The next council meeting was ordered , to be held at Wakeield , on Sunday , the 19 th inst ., at Mr . AiCmd Laccasfcer ' 8 , top of Kirkgate , at eleven . < i \ lock in tUe foieneon .

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      BATiEY CARR . —A few friends of the Dewsbury Charter Association . assembled at the House of Mr Joseph Day / Forester ' s Arina Inn , Batley Carr , to establish a new association . Messrs . Rohsbaw , Lord , and several other friends , addressed them on the present state of the country , and the remedy for their gn ! Tfn ** 8 * Ten new members enrolled their names and took their cards . James Fox , secretary of the pewsbary Association , acted as secretary , and volunteered to aervo them for three months , until they got more organised . The landlord , Mr . Joseph Day , was appointed treasurer . A vote of thanks was given to the worthy landlord- ' for * he use of the room . The meeting separated highly pleased .

      OSSETT . —On Friday evening Jasfc , Mr . West lectured nere to a very attentive audience . Nearly tkirty ' enrolled their names , and received their cards of membership . A committee was formed to engage a proper place of meeting , when the people cheerfully retired to their respective habitations , highly gratified with the evening's transactions . BARNSI . EV . -Mr . P . M . Brophy Visited tbw town on Monday evening , and delivered a lecture in the School-rcwm under the pdd Follows'Hall . The greatest attentions was paid to the lecture throughout

      STOURBRXOGfE . —A public meeting was held in the Association room , on Wednesday evening last , Mr . Cassidy was unanimously called to the chair , and after a few remarks introduced Mr . G . White , " who , in a speech of about an hjur and a baif duration , exposed t 6 Preseut r ° tten system of Government , and depicted the blessings which , would be shared by all classes of the community in the event of the Chatter becoming the law of the land , and earnestly exhorted all parties to aid and assist in the glorious struggle for freedom . He gave the highest satisfaction to hia numerous audience . Several joined the association . A Chartist Tea-Party and Ball waa held in the National Chartist Association room , on Monday , when upwards of fifty sat down to tea , after which several excellent sentiments wore given , which were ably responded to by different speakers ;

      lWANCHEBTaR . —A public meeting of the trades of this town ; Wns held in the Carpenters' Hall , oa Friday evening , to hear a lecture On trades' unions , by Dr . P . M . M'DduaUL The meeting was called for eight o ' clock ; and notwithstanding the chargo for admissien and the day of tho week , the large room was nearly filled with an intelligent and enthusiastic audiehce . Shortly after eight o ' clock , Mr . M'Douall entered the Hall . He was received with loud and long-continued cheeiinsj . Mr . Whitaker , a working man , was called to the chair . He opened the meeting by a few remarks to the trades generally upon the necessity of their joining in the movement for their political rights , and a brief account of his delegation to the mechanics ; and he was praud that the result of that delegation was the coming out of the mechanics for the Charter whole and entire . Mr . M'Douall was received with rapturous cheers , and delivered ; a long and excellent address , for which ha received the thanks of the assembly . ¦ ¦ "' ¦ . •' . ¦ ' ¦¦'•

      Hollingworth . —TheKev . W . V . Jackson preached thrfco sermons in an empty millj Padfiuld , on Sunday last , which were very numerously attended . The sura of £ i is . 4 ^ d , was collected . Glossop . —The Rev . W . V . Jackson lectured here on Saturday evening to a very attentive and delighted audience . A large number of . new members weie enrolled . Haworth . —Mr . Doyle lectured Ime to the Chartists of Hawotth , on Monday , May 20 th , and at Keighley , on Tuesday 31 st , and Bingley , 6 * u Wednesday , June 1 st .

      Eccles . —We bad a glorious meeting on Monday night , for both numbers and enthusiasm . The Rev . W . V . Jackson gave us a soul-stirring and talented lecture this evening . The subject was " a remedy for the national distress ; " which ho handled in such a manner as repeatedly called forth the approbation of his numerous and delighted audience . The Chartists of this place have voted thanks and confidence in the Executive severally by nani 9 . IiBICESTSR . ——The Shaksperean Chartists how nuvabers 1 , 800 : we enrolled 1 Q 5 last Sunday alone , after thTe ' e discourses : by Mr . Cooper ; and our additions during the week amount to thirty per day on an average . An eventful battle was fought in our Amphitheatre , last Monday night . Mr . O'Brien appeared to

      deliver hia second lecture , but consented So answer Mr . Cooper ' s questions before no began . The question was then put , ' ! WIO IS NOT Ma . O'BlUEN A JIEMKER OF THE Nation alCuaktek . Associ ai ion ? * Mr . OBrien occupied an hour and twenty minutes in reply . First , heintendedtobecome the editor of a newspaper , and he would lose his character for impartiality , if ho belonged to any one society ; it would fetter him , and . -prevent him from exercising the influence desirable on the public mindv Secondly , the Government ; sought his life , bu t they could not take it so long as he ( Mr . O'B . ) was responsible for his own acts only ; each member of the Natienal Charter Association was responsible for the acta of other members ot the body ; the Star itself had shewn that ; he bad Buffered for other men ' s offences ,

      and' he did not waist to suffer foi them again . ' Letters had boen sent to him provlous tp the Nowporb outbreak , of tho most atrocious character : ; one of them began , " We do not think it advisable to beg in by firing the town at that end ; " plots-of-the rno 3 t diabolical kind had beeu devised to draw him into danger . So long as he was not a member , he could not thus be brought into danger . Mr . Cooper had said it was inconsistent in him ( Mr . O'B . } to go about the country telling working men that they ought to become membera of the National Charter Association while ha ( Mr . O'B . ) wa 3 not a member himself ; but he ( Mr . O'Brien ) never had insisted on auy workiDg man becoming a member of the association . Working mon he ( Sir . OB . ) know were often in danger

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

      not each and overy man m danger if Mr . O'Brien waa in danger ? Was not he ( Mr . C . ) in danger ; and -yet he avowed his . membership , and defied persecution . Might not letters be sent to bira , ( Mr . C ,, ) and would it not be easy to put them into the fire , if they were dange-cus ? DL't it , requite mote than the brains of an infant to perceive that that was a ready way of preventing thel ? mischief ? Had not other » ven suffered fir the cfiviicaa of ethers ? Had not O'Connor suffered for the offenco , as it was called , of a man who 3 tOt ) d on that very . stage at that moment—anil yet , did this either incite O'Connor to conduct himself spitefully towards that man , or to say ke ( O ' G . ) would not be a member of the National Charter Association ? Was lie ( Mr . C . ) to say , because he happened to be

      publishing his little Commonicedllhsnian , " O , I cannot be a member of tho National Cfcarter Association ? the public will aiy I am not isnpartial . " Why people Would laugh at him ; and Mr . O'Britin must know that working men had more brains thaa to believe that a man of first-r ; ita intelligenfia Wcakl put forth such a reason , in sincerity . Mr . O Brien ' s argument had been one continued insidious attack on the Charter organisation ; it was one purposed and connected contrivance to persuade working men not to belong to it . What olse meant the vociferous cheers of the middle classes to-night , numbers of . Whoiu had come to hear Mr . O'Brien , although they would not come to hear O'Connor ? These gentry hr . d cheered Mr , O'Brien ia every part of his argument which bore hardest on the

      National Charter organisation , — and wny ? because tbeyknew Mr . O'Brien was playing their game . It was time for every man ts atarid without a mask . There siood Mr . O'Brion : let the working classes judge cf him . But Mr . O'Brien was opposed to denunciations , he could not join the organisation because tho members were always quarrelling and practising detraction . O no ! -Mr . O'Brien never quarrelled ! He never practised detraction ! There was a pamphlet in existence . He ( Mr . C ) held it in his hand . Did itcome from Mr . O'Brien ? It began " Brother CbaTtists , —As one cf your body , "—Rather a straDge sentence for Mr .. O'Brien to commence -with -, aud it contained also this sentence : — " I repeat , and y ' . edge myself to prove , that there is not a particla of truth iujour account of . the proceedings

      of the late Conferencts , so ur as lam concerned , and very , very ' ' little truth so far as others are concerned ; and that tlie tvhole is a base concoclion of O Connor , yourselfi and . others , to discredit cie with the Chartist public . " Mr . O Brien , who hated detraction aud quarrelling , could write that sentence ; and yet he knew that the Star bad merely copied its account of the Sturgo Conference from the Nonconformist and British Statesman . And , to conclude , Mr . O'B . had appended to hia pamphlet the " description of a demagogue , " by Mr . Henry Vincent ; and that description was intended for . a portrait of O'Connor I Yet tki 3 was the Mr . O'Brien who could not become a member of the Natienal Caarrer Association while there was so much detraction among its members ? He ( Mr . C . ) stood there unflinchingly to proclaim that the

      once great , intelligent , and patriotic O'Brien , was no longer to be regarded as heretofore—that he had yielded to envy and jealousy , and now appeared as the insidious foa of the Charter organization , and the sly advocate of middle class schemers . He called on worbiDg men to Bay , by holding up their hands , whether they approved of a proposition he would now pat '' . to them—" That this meeting having listened to Mr . O'Brien's reasons for not being a member of the Nar tional Charter Association ; and , regarding those reaBons as so many couohed and insidious attacks : on the Charter Association , hereby declare that they have no longer u > y confidence in Mr . O'Brien . " Tho vast majority of the assembly , being workies , threw up their hasds in a moment ; and , when O'Brien appeared again , he was met with hooting and derision ! Let any " New Mover" come to Leicester !¦« , # & Shakspereana will t « Mb him wbat U what !

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      TUNSTAMu—Mr . W . S . Ellis , of Burslara . deUversd two lectures in Tunstall Market-place , on Friday evenings . May 27 th and June 3 rd , to large and attentive audiences . Sixteen members were enrolled . IiEAMINGTON . — -We are acquiring a large accession of strength every day from the middle and trading classes , and many aie ' with us in BenUvaent who do not appear prpniinently as the champions of our holy cause . Moreover , we are resolved that Leamington shall presently take a very high place in . the list of Charter localities ; and , to effect this object , we have made arrangements for the delivery ef lectures during the summer months , and have ; already engaged the services of Mr . Bairstow for two lectures , on the evenings , respecfcivelf , of Wednesday and Thursday in the next week . , . . - ¦ ¦¦ ' . ¦ ¦ -

      BIRMINGHAM . —State of the District . — The towns surrounding this former hotbed of political agitation are getting on gloriously , AJeetiugs are being held in the colliery district in the neighbourhood ^ of Dudley and Stourbridge , and new towns are being added to the glorious muster of the great National Charter Association every week . At Brierly Hill , Lye WastO i Sedgely , and a number of other places , the peoplo attend in thousands to hear the Charter explained . Messrs . White , Mason , and Linney have been visiting those districts lately , and the good cause is progressing rapidly . It has been determined to hold

      open Bir meetings in various paita of Birmingham , in order te arouse the people , : and a deputation are busily engaged in trying to Becure a large building for the accommodation of . the members , the want of which has been felt to be a serious loss to our cause in thie town . A new spirit seems to animate the members , and those who . wera formerly apathetic are now ^ coming forward with' renewed vigcur . A conference ' cf all the members is to be held this evening ( Tuesday ) t ? draw up plans and make arrangements for giving a fresh impetus to the cause , and there is every prospect of Birmingham being brought into that position which is so esaential to the success of our cause .

      OPEN Air Meeting . —The usual meeting was held in the open air at the railway station , Duddeston-row , On Monday evening last ; and the advantage of chose assemblages are row being felt and acknowledged ; for it is far wore healthful and pleasant for men and women to assemble in a field ou a beautiful summer ' s evening , than being crowded iii a room . The meetings have kept inmuaing eveiy -week , and on the last eccasion a goodly assemblage were congregated to hear an address from Air . George White ; he has continued thlspractice since his return from the Convention , arid intends continufng it as long as the vyeather permits . Mr . White addressed ths . meeting on Monday evening , on the- real cause of their poverty , and pointed out the moda by which all men might be made comfortable , had

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

      Monday evening . This caused a little excitement . Mr . White then explained the various plans whioh were resorted to : for the purpose of dividing the men of Birmingham , and gave a report of the result of the deputation who waited ori Mr . Douglas , ot the Journal , from which it appeared , that through lack of other matter to £ 11 the columns of that pre-eminently fctupid print , the Editor had recourse to the miserable plan of concocting badly-written and foolish letters , and publishing them in his " Catch Penny , " as the production of some supporter of Mr . O'Connor , After exhorting the working men to nnion and determination , he enrolled twenty-four persons as members , of the National Charter Association , and gave notice that he would attend again on the following Monday evening .

      Aston-stheet Meetikgs , —Tlie usual meeting was held at the Chartist - ' Boom , Aston-street , on Sunday evening last—Mr . SUart in the chair . Mr . John Mason delivered a short and interesting address , in which he described the ill-usage he had received from a stupid constable at Sedgely , while delivering a lecture there lost week ; after which , the tried vttDran , Mr . John Williamson , made his appearance after a ; severe illness , nnd delivered an animated address . Mr-J&eorge White then addressed the meeting on tho uec ^ sity of each member exorting himself to extend the organization in BirmiDghaiM ; uftor which the meeting separated . Tho directing council afterwards met at the Ship Inn , to arrange for the conference on Tuesday evening .

      MorfDAY Evening . —After the . open , air meeting a number , of tbo " menibera of the Association attended at Astpn-street , for the trnsaction of the usual business Mr . Welsfoitd was appbinted cUauman , and the niembers proceeded to the uoininatlon of persons to till two vacanoiea in the council , and . Messrs . White , JJough , and Ornie , were placed in noniination . 1 Short addressee ¦ were delivered by Mr . White , Mr . Peter Henley , anil Mr . Saunders , and tho choir man jgaye notioa tiafc all members ot the Association would be . expected to vote for members to the Executive Comrnittee , by the f illowing Monday . He then read tlie ' . list as published ia the Northern Star of Saturday last , after which the meeting separated .

      CiiliNE . —At a numerous and respectable eamp meeting , held . on Sunday last , on the top of Pinna , netur Carltun , this foilowiug resolution was unanimously passed : — " ! That it ia the opinion of this meeting that the present alarming and destitute condition of tha working classes of this . country calls aloud for renewed exertions ou the part of every humane and benevolent mind ; and in order to disseminate information amorist the people , and create that unanimity and firm resolution , which is absolutely nec 8 asa * y » this meeting Quggeats and recomnieudfi to the friends of the people , and more especially the members of the various Chartist Associations throughout the country , to hold camp meetings in their own localities every Sunday , when the weather will permit "

      GLASGOW . —ToLCROSS . —A meeting was held in tbe Chartist ball ,, on Saturday evening last , Mr . Ciellaud in the . chair , to heat addresses from Mr . Brown , of Bridgstou , and Con . Murray . Mr . Brown—Subjcct"Law cf Primogeniture and entail ; " tiie . 'ii ^ usti c ' e and in humanity cf which he exposed in a clear and masterly style . Con . Murray—Subject— " Past history , pres . nt pasifcion , and future prospartty of GhartiBin . " The lecturer dwelt particularly on the conduct of what is termed the " new-movo '' men * and more especially on tbat of Mr . C . Pattison , aa Tolcross and West Muir , ( the Jatter containing 000 inhabitaats , and which sent Mr . Pattisou to the last Scottish Convention ) lying conti ^ ious , was for many weeks previous to the meeting-of the Scottish Convention , the field of his ( Mr . P . ' si

      operations , and his Well-known ( ' entiuciatiors cf F . O Conuor and the Northern Star , was the means , for a time , of prejudicing the inhabitants of this important district Tolcross—against the people ' s most disinterected und best friend . Con went on to shew tbe inconsistancy of the " new-move" gentry , orGlaagow synod , in reference to the qutstion of the Repeal of the Legislative Union botween Groat Britain and Iriiliand , they , the " newmovo" men being thebi-ter opponents of that measure , and contrasted this with the misguided followers of Daniel 0 'ConneH , who loot upon Repeal as being tbe only panacea for Ireland ' s manifold wrongs . He yroytd to hia audience , that the foundation atone of " nuw raovism" in Glasgow , was neither more nor less than a determined enmity to O'Connoraiid tbi 5 Northern Star . He proved , to thtir entire satisfaction , ttiat a -uuioii " founded on such a basis , and supported by vituperation

      and intrigue , wouid not bd of long standing . Xiie men of Tolcross thought , so too , and gave expression to tbo most enthusiMtic bursts of applause in approval of the speaker ' s sentiments . He oonciuded by calliuK on tho meeting to go oa , till suuli time as . they vfaio abie to procure five or six railikms of signatures to u Na . tion ; il Pistition ; when he had no doubt , if then r ^ jocle'l , uoHiething else iaight form the material iagrediKits of the next petition , The meeting , which was crowded , having expressed . their hearty and unanimous thanks to the two gentleman and their worthy chairman , quietly broke np : [ We givo this report just as we received it ; because particularly requested to do bo ; . but we do wish that out friends would nnd better occupation for their ( iiae ; that tkey would-Jtt . fc the " New muvo" alone in its littleness , and not bestow upon it vmnecebsary notoriety . —Ed ] ' ' .

      D 3 RBY . —A delegate meeting was held on Sunday , Juno 5 t& , 1812 , at the Chartir 'Association R'loiits , AVillow-row , Derby . Prassnt—from Derby , Fe&rn and Briggs ; B . slpsr , Victers and Wheeldon ; 0 > lvVoroke , Tcomas Taylor ; litiston ,, Ellis Lathbui-y ; Buvton , Thomas Taylor ; Bowarath , William West . Letters were read from various plac&s , stating the n&cesaity of having a lecturer , and-their willingness to do-their bess to support him . Mr . Vickera was appointed chairman , and Mr . Thomas Brigjjs » eorbtary to this meeting . It was determineil that a lecturer be engaged for six weeks , and that Mv . West be requested to accept the post . The ; lecturer ' s salary Was fixed afj 31 ) 3 . per week , and his travelling expences .

      New mills . —A public lecture waa delivered here on Monday , in the Chartist Association rooiii , by Mr . Johii Campbell , Secretary ta the ExacutLye , to a most , numerous audience .

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      ChaktiSx Beverage . —The following sums ate due to the Executive from the sale of Messrs . Crow and TyrreVs Char . list beverageitot the week , eudiflg June 4 th : — ¦ ' "; - : ' : . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' : ¦ ' ' - .- .. ... £ S ' -d . ' Mr ; High , Chartist Provision Storo , Hawick , Scqtlaad ... ... 0 6 0 Mr . Heywoad , Manchester , ... 0 5 3 Mr . BairdYBoitou ... ... .., 0 3 i ) " Mr . Gillespio , Bolton-le-Moor ... 0 3 9 Mr . Brook , Leeds ... ... ... 0 3 0 Mr . Yates , Staffordshire . Potteries 0 3 0 Mr . Siveet , Wottiugham ... ... 0 1 6 Mr . Johnson , Stjfco , Staffordshire 0 16 Mr . ThompsoD , Stockpovt i ... 0 10 Mr . Skevington , Loughbro' ... 0 1 6 ' Charter Association , Hull » . ... 0 1 6 £ 1 12 3

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      The " Immense Concern" Manias—U 13 » p *" vailing iuaanity amon « shopkeepers of the present day to be at the head of an immense concern , and it is a rxialady which , ia almost every case , Swishes with a fatal result , riot only to tho iridividnal who is tho immediate subject of the complaint , but' to those who tnay happen to be bitten in the interim . It generally seiz 5 s tbe proprietors of linen draper ' s shops , and , like the bite of the tarantula , sets them cutting the mosit extraordinary capers , in . " . 'the coarse of which they start off with a most lively ffaiop , and conclude with a pas , not of the most gtacefal i ; ind , in the . Court of Bankruptcy . An " immense concern generally begins in a single house , and the diseaso iirst deveiopes itself in a strong itching to take the

      next door , which , when onco accomplifihed , is soon foliqwed by an eccentric resolution to add the words " aud Co . " to the name bf the proprietor . The next stage is an eruption of large placards , conveying incoherent hints about " giving away , " selling under prime cost , " and other unaccoumable acts of generosity , which the patient professes to practice ^ ; while , by degrees , he }^ rows bolder in the tone of his tickets , and sundry commodities are placed under the public eyo , inscribed with , mysterious allusions to " an alarming sacrifice . " The breaking out upon the goods shortly flies to the windows themselves , which are scon covered with enormous voating-bills , in which thW words " Sxteusi ye Failure " are extremely conspicuous ; and there is a desperate effort

      to arreat attention , by thrusting goods aimoFt into ( he street , with a printed invitation to the public to Look -at this , " and a most iiuca kd-ibr allusion to the " distress of the Spitalfield weavers . " The disease now becomes convulsive : enormous piles of druggets aro deposited outside tha shop , in bold defiance of the Paving Acf , carpets dangle from the upper stories , blankets float in tha air * and piece 3 of calico flutter in the breczv while straw bonnets are dashed recklessly into the window , with ah intimation that there i 3 a choico of 25 , 000 , all at a prica not even wort- mentioning . Blocks are dressed dresses

      up in cloaks to Jopk like customer ^; ; that have beeii lyiEg in the wareroom since last year , are labelled as " Q , uito new , and jusk imported . " Every thing , is marked at aii astoundingly moderate price ; but , by some strange accident , there is not a ticket , but what has slipped from one thing to another , if any one wauta to purchase the labelled article . After theso very active syniptoms , the disease come 3 to Ub termination ; the " immense concern" dies a natural death , and ths proprietor amuses the public by a series of confessions to the Commissioner of '¦¦ ¦ Bankrupts ,- or gratifies ia spirit of enterprise by " bolting "to America .

      MoRTALitf at Hamfstead—Disease in a most virulent form has mads ita appearance lately in a family at Havcrstock-hill , Hampstead . The son of a nurseryman at Hampstead was first visited by a medical , man Oa the 18 th of May : he was labouring under symptoms denoting scarlet- fever , and died on . the same day . The eldest -daughter : ' : ' was next attacked , aud oa tha retufnof the party fiytn the burialof ; tho eldest son , she Waa found dead , and two other children wera in a dying condition . Between Wednesday and Saturday , four members of this -devoted Family perished ¦ j ; two were removed to an hospital , and another daughter ( the wife of a

      publican at Woolwich ) , who had visited het sick relatives , was taken home ill . Situated : nearly in front , and within ten or twelve feet from the door of the cottage where this fearful mortality occurred , is a stagnant pool , whonco water had been taken for the purpose of irrigating the nursery-ground , and the highway tank communicating with this pool wa 3 furnished with a pump . The tank and pool appear to be supplied with water from the surface drainage of the road ; hence , after a heavy fair of rain , the filth from the road and houses on the higher ground has been washed into this reservoir . This nuisance has existed during 17 or 18 years , and has frequently been complainedof ; yet it still remains . —Sun .

      Twelve Houses CoKsumed . —Bedford , June 4 . —^^ Yesterday aVtetnosn a fire broke but at Clapham , a romantic village , situate about two miles distant from this place , and burned with such fearful violcnce t that -within two hours after it comEienced no fewer than twelve houses and other : premises were jevelTed to the ground . It was discovered between two and three o ' clock in the afternoon , raging oa the spacious homestead the propevty of Lord Ashburton , occupied by a gentleman named Grant , and is supposed to have originated near a ftack of straw in the . rick yard , a , djoining two extensive barns , whicli had ignited ; and Boon were burned to the ground . The flames were almost immediately after their outbreak observed by the inhabitants at

      Bedford , who , with great pcomptiiudo , proceeded with all possible haste to thff gcene . of dGyastatioHi and two powerful engines cohnected with . the town ^ but by the ' time they ' arrived the firo had gained an alarming ascendancy , having extended over the entire farm . Soon . "' afterwards- ' i 6 was 'discovered that several houses in tho ^ illagtj-upwitdg : of ' half a mile distant , had caught fire ^ in , coh ^ quetfte of some burning mateml ' fal 1 ih'fettp ' on-:: tlie :-t o ^ fs , wlien , a most painful sight . presented itself . In cohs ?< iuence of tlVeco . rifusionamorjESfc the ¦ occupicrs ^ Whp'ehiefly consisted of poor labouring families . ;¦ Within a quarter of an houi ' after the flames had communicated to four other houses * while at tha homestead , fine

      where jfc originated ; the farm-lioaire , a ; oldfashioned substantial brick building , haJ fallen a sacrifice to the devouring clement . ' Great apprehensjons were now entertained for the safety of the entire- - village , for its destruction became "imminent , five other nouses haviiig been attacked while tho firemen and others were unroofing others in the hope ' s of cheokiDg its pro ^ repp . Fortunately additional engir . es and asfistance at thisnibment arrived ; w ; eh , after two hours' incessant / exertiohs the fire was mastered , not until , However , the whole of Lord Asliburton ' s homestead was destroyed , together witk twelve houses in the viliago ; Tne amouut of the property destroyed is not yet ascertained . We regretto say most part of it is uninsured .

      Witchcraft . —An extraordinary instauce of superstiMuus credulity and cunning knavery came under the attention ' or tha . magistrates at Newtoa Abbott on Tuesday . A young woman of Dtubury , havina ; been taken ill , her fri ? nda . . "' g ' ra-voly : came to tho opinion tliatflie had been 4 * witched , " and took her to a man named Thomas , of Teignmouth , by trade a . shoemaker , but by ¦ profession a " white witch , " or witch 'fender . This importer confirmed their i ' ea . r ' 3 , an . d insinuated -vhat the mischief had been done by a poor woman , their nei ^ libour , at Deiibury ; . One' of-the means ' -which he directed to couuteriict tho evil , y . as ro tnko . the girl into a field and exercise her violently for two hours by running routul if ., - ' taking tare to jump mv a-d shake her a ' bout ' . veil at the fonr cornvra . Thiithe poor

      creatures performed with such z « al that in a lew hours-after-the girl died . The feeling r . oiy arouFcd in tho village -against the poor old woman , ' falsely aceii 5 ed ,. wa 3 such that she was obliged to apply to the maeistrates for protection . ' They i ?? ued a warrauc for the ininiediatj apprchenEi' ; n _ of Thpiaas , w' o wa 3 . accor . dii ) gi . y brought before G . Garrow , E-q ., aud — Mouro , E : q ., on tho ioiio ' . ving ' dayi Evidence having besu heard , with the fi / ar of the tread mill before his eyes , being questioned with jjjuch tuck by Air , Gnrrow , with th >; coo'ost ' effrontery acknowledged that all his-.-protended charuia wero imposi ! io : is—much to the surprise , ' and we liopn to the edification of his former ' patieuts , sense o whorri wera presect , and clamuurons ' iy deniauded reFtuaiiori of money paid iu the purchase of them . The case ended in the man ' s dismissal . — Western

      limes . Shocking Affair . —On ' Friday movir ^ ng ^ abcufc haif pa = t nine o ' clock as ' Serj ^' aht Fiuley and ILiy wavd , of tha G -division-.-of . Police , were parsing through Gl ^ i ' cuco-strtetj near tho City / road , ' -they were called into the house No . 3 , where an attempt at murder aud suicido had just been niade by a . yonng womau named CarQU-yBeysworiTi , but \ vh » hud lodged there for a consifierable time in the name of Just v passin ^ as the \ vife cf a young man of that name , a brass-founder , with whom tha cohabited . They had a female child about a year-andciue nioiuha old . but Ju » t ,. i ' t appear . * , has anotht-r wife elsewhere , aud was about to take ilia infant to her , and to withdraw himself from its mother . ' The unfovtiinato

      wointn in coasequence doienniiied on ruurdrr and suicide , which she proceeded to carry inio effect by putting the child into a p . "u of water . . ..- "When . the cessation of the child ' s ssrugglcs induced her to believo it was dead , she took tiio poor iniiope » it , out of tho pail , and laid it out on the bed which they occupied in the front parlour , and ' -theri ,: mounting upon tho table , ' susp . ' ende'd heraclf by a cord from a nail iu the room . Tlw weigV . t , howerer , when she threw hers ' ' cff ' -tho table , broke down the nail ,, and she fell . upon the floor . '; ' and she thcu tock the cord and with it suspended herself a second feie in the bacli kitclien , aud bad been hanging there some time , wlieuMra . Long , a lpdgty , happened to ( iiscoyev her . Mr . Mackj ' a surgeon , btiiig sent for succeeded , after

      a coniiderablo time , in . reitoring lixo unhappy creature to consciousness by bleeding and other mtans . The attempt that ste had . made to drowa the iniaiit' had in th « ; meantime been discovered . The poor child ; although motionless when laid upon the bed , was not dead , and in a short time besan to revive , and the surg-eou found it in strong cbnvulsioas-. The wet clothes being takou off , ari'i . restoratives applied , it , as well as the mother , now appears likely to recover . Oa Saturday , the unfortunate womaui who appeared to he in a dreadful state of agitation and exbaustiori , was esamiaed beiore the

      Magistrate at Worship-street , Un being asked by Mr . Broughton , whether she had anythiEji to say in answer to the charge of attempting to destroy her child , she replied , that she had not . -Mri- ' Brov . ^ hton said the case on tuc part of Jutt was ono of : hi . artlesa villauy , but aa tho ^ liarge agaiust her bad been proved ^ hei must commit her for trialrTJe prisoner iell back in violent hysterics , and was t aken out ot Court . Jus !; was taeii placed ; at the bar , ou . a charg 3 oi btealiug two table spooaa belpaging to ^ his paramour ,: and was remanded uutil Avfedaesday . Tiie prisoner in a reckless manner a& ' d v he wished . tq be traQsportedj as he ha 4 Wea Q& «^ j befox ^ .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 11, 1842, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct757/page/7/