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      THE COMMITTEE OF THE EDINBURGH CHARTi 3 r ASSOCIATION TO THE CHARTISTS OF THE SOUTH } UDliAND AND EiSIER'N D-SCRICT , C 0 aPE . 151 > G XUS COUNTIES OF EDIXBUBGH , HADDI > GTO >\ 1 IMITHG 0 W . PSEBLES , BERWICK , i . \ D THE 50 CTH OF FIFE . Bf . otkkb Dehocbats , —The hurry and bustle attendant on the geitin * n ? and presentation cf Xhe Ka : JE 3-1 Petition is s , or . s by , and the excitement that natural ! v arose in the mines of the care-worn sons of toil . h 25 passed away . Bat let not apathy and infiifffrenca rain tte ascendency over you . It is now time that -we shouM set to work la earnest , and pat cur hon ^ e in order , so that all deficiencies may be snpplied , and errors rectified ; at tho same time taking care that our outworks are so strengthened that the foe maj be repulsed by our united -energies , and victory sscured .

      F . rr this desirable purpose it 5 s necessary that the district , of which Edinburgh is the centre , according to the p ' isn agreed upon by the Convention , held in Glasgow , in January last , shsnlil be speedily organised For this obj-.-ct , "we request all the associations in the above e ^ enrirs to send a delegate to attend a meeti-g to be held in E linbun ? h . on Monday , June 13 th , 1842 , "with a certificate of their appointment , to consider the bes * plan for the agitation of the district In taking this step , we have no desire to dictate , and

      trust that delay , -which has already occurred , will be a sufficient apolocy for thus hurriedly calling-upon you to lend your aid in forwarding the great cause of universal liberty . By oraer of the Committee cf the Chartist Association , THOIUS BLACKIE , Secretary . Edinburgh , 7 , Milne Squire , May 29 , 1 S 24 . K . B . Tee delegates w «; J n : eet as tsro Vclock , P-ir ., in WhiieSeld Chspsl , Caixubber ' s Close , Highstreet . ' _ _ ^__

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      MACHINERY . Tha follo-rria ? is a copy of a petition which was presented to tbe House vf Commons by Mr . Wailey , en the 3 rd of May , from the L ; ttsr-Pres 3 Printers of Londoa : — To 1 he Rvihi Honourab l e and Honourable ihs Commons of iht United KUigdom of Great Britain and I . eland , in Parliament asscrr . b ' ed The Humble Paiition of the Members of the Press Dspart — cnt of the P / intlng BcgiDess , distressed by Ss&iid Power being U 3 sd in the printing of G-oveminent and ether Work 3 : HtJMBL ? SHEWETH ,

      Trat sincfc tee introduction of Machinery in the Press Department of the Printing Bn » tcess your Petiti"ners have suff = red extreme pnvitioni , unmitigated hardships , nndeservina deeradston and ojipivssion from poverty , through dfef . rudon of tiuJr accustomed occupation : ¦ which circumstances seem to be totaliy inconsistent With the T-. 3 : ! h cf the courtly , the liberality of the various Las ' -ituuc-us , and the b ^ u ^ voltnce of tha public nt lar ^ s . Teat yfur petitior : 'rs scorn the humiliating and degrading position cf !> tir ; z C' Esidered as dependents on charity , xrisy be evitwnctrt by the sums contributed by members of sbeir own profession ( and many of those members only partially employed ) during tha late period cf unparalleled distress ; when the enactments of the yew Poar Law were the only provisions which presented themselves to save an industrious and deserving body cf Eagiish Artisans from the severities fittendine absolute waDt and dt ± -t tut ion .

      That your petitioners humbly fconceive no raving can accrue to the revenue from cheapness in printing . Ict 3 of Parliament , public ot private Mils , votes of your Honcurable House , Hiinutes of evidence , reports , or any oth * r documents in any other department of the state , while cumbers of industrious , deserving , and once respectable individuals are suffered to want the common nectsssTits of existence , and , consequently , the means of adding their quota to the revenue , through want of the necessary occupation which would enable them so to do .

      An 1 your petitioners humbly suomit to your Hononrable Hous ? , test the self-aetinz instrument adopted in the printing of Government works can have no other effect tha : tbat of emohment to the master , and misery to the man ; that no private advantage can accrue to the state that it can confar no national advantage or public heneS . 5 ; tint it effects no saving ; and if it conl 4 , your petitioners humbly pray your Honourable House uot to snrcour teat saving , and consign numbers of your fenby-criaturcs to writhe in , the pangs of poverty , wretchedness , tad ignominy . Teat it is Bole . 'y by machinery that the kinr 2 om is inundated from one txcremity to the other with the scurrilous pr-nts which , emanit-o from the I « ondon m * rtet , and - ^ hicii are t ae cause of much immorality , many delinq'icncieSj thsprofanatiQn of Xhe S * i ) baih , and open contempt of religion .

      That jcur p 3 lit . on ; r 3 do not eomplain of the machinery used in the offices cf ihs public journalist , by reason of tha public luYinsj iaduced the necessity of those journalists having recourse to enlargement That w ^ o avs no luxuriant indulgences ; wa ask you not to lift us above our spheres— -we are not dise-ntented with our portion in the gradation of society—we respect property ia single instance never having occurred ¦ wherein machioerr , tie propertj of-on ? emr-loyers , ha-s FttfiiTed mc >\ c 5 tation os injury at cur hands )—we seek

      not more thsn we are bound in charity , truth , and justice to ask , corisidaring tijat we have sacrificed seven © f the most vigorous years of oui lives to ike attainment of an art from which we were ltd to expect & fair proportion of employment—we implore your Honourable House not to conseat to oar being placed bansatb" the common level—not to thrust us into iits degrading circle of pauperism—not to suffer the manly spirit of the Ec-sli ^ h artisan to droop and witter in the midst of boundless wealth , and a pienteoosne&s which God alone in his blessing can bestow .

      That your petitioners , finding everything being lowered in the scale of cheapness of production—labour curtailed , t ; meet this—tiie wages of industry reduced te compete with this—invention being multiplied to effect this , therefore appeal to your Honourable Honse , &s the representatives of all circumstances which concern the welfare of her Majesty ' s loyal subjects , to de £ nesbme limit to this cheapness of production—to concert some means whereby an alleviation of the wretchedness and uncertainty to which we are daily exposed may to some extent be established . ¦ - . - That there are about two hundred printing offices ( exclusive of newspaper offices ) m London—and that amongst that number , about one hundred and twentyflve machines are steamed into operation , to the deterioration jupon an avfirajje ) of the labour xf eight persons for each machine : that , taking -into account the number of machines , the labour of one thousand men is entirely superseded by a nan-consuinlpg . nontax-paying automaton , -whereby a loss is sustained by the home msrktt anl the revenue , to the amount of about Beventy-2 ve thousand pounds per annum . And your petitioners humbly submit "to your Honourable House , that this labonr-destroyicg T > cwe ? has been brought into operation by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge , for the especial purpose of printing the Holy Ssriptures ;—that your petitioners f = el this with an extreme degree of severity and heartfelt pain , seeing that suck power was wholly and entirely unnecessary ; ttfat tb ^ se Univereities are not trading capitalists ; that no cheapness of production coula affect their patent rights ; that no competitive

      principles could toucn them ; that by the introduction of such destructive power , above one hundred ana j twenty individuals have be « n thrown out of employ- ment , who , together with their families , are scattered through the business , to the further detriment of ; their already over-numbered and distressed , f .-lluw-1 ¦ workmen . ¦ j That there can be no injury sustained or depreciation } of property ei&cted by the hand printing press , raayi be instaB&sd 07 the wkcioin cf the sysrem adopted by i that highly respectable , influential , and religious body , j the Wesleyan Methooists , whose works constitute i Tast numbers , era of extensive circulation , and of a ; character conducive to the happiness and contentment j of those by whosi they are perused , and which are all j produced and disseminated by the hands of man , ' through that philanthropic and Christian body of the community having acceded to ax appeal made to them i by your bumble petitioners . i

      That your Petitioners have laboured incessantly and strenuously to pl ^ ce themselves above the degrading position of Pauperism;—t ^ at they pension their own poor and aged brethren , from fends raised by annual contributions from numbers of their own profession , and donat ^ ns from tiw Christian , -Charitable , and welldisposed of their employers .- that weekly contributions are also collected for the purpose o £ " establishing Alms Houses , to shelter frors the scorn of a frowning world , the respected , poor , and inarm members of their own body;—that if your Psdtloaers are deprived of the means "whereby they live , they must fee deprive'd also of holding out the hand of charity , and the" aged , infirm , and despised artisan , whose Iimb 3 refuse to perform a oaee cheerful occupation , must be left to extreme indigence , or become tha inmate of a Workhouse .

      That your Petitioners pray your Honourable House to use the mest desirable means o £ extending the labour of man in preference t « Inanimate operation ; that where there ia a continually increasing population , who possess no other inheritance but that curse which was pronouneed upon their first parents , no naneceasary saving of labour can be nationally bezeflciaL And you . - Petitioners farther pray your Honourable Honse to render them that assistance which- they caanot render themselves ; they entreat your Honourable House to take the subject into your most serious

      consideration ; they pray yon in the name of Him who giveth , and who can take away—in the crayers and « ntieaaes of those whom they love above " all earthly Joys , to give to their prayer tint attention which justice requires , reason dictates , and sympathy calls for ; _ that" your Honourable House would" have -the printing of Government works performed by the hand of man in lieu cf steam power ; that by granting this their prayer , the virtue of so noble an example m ' ' gh f soon be foliewed in other channels , that their hopes may brighten , their prospects cheer the hearts of fathers , mothers , iriTes , and ebildren . And jov PetitioBcri will , as in duty bound , ever p » r .

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      THE NEW POOR LAW . —PUBLIC MEETING I * LANCASHIRE . ( From a Correspondent . ) The sta t ements of the Bight Hon . Secretary for the Home Dapattment relating to the working of the New Poor Lat 7 Bui in the out-townihips of large towns , made in his place in the House of Commons , appears to have § iven . great offence , not only to the operatives who suffer under the Bill , but to the overseers , Guardians , and millowners who manage it in the out-townships of themanufaoturing districts .

      Tne township of Newton , in the parish of Manchester containing a population of about 7 , 000 persons , instead of a-1 :: ? benefited ( according to the statements of Si ' -l-ut-b ( xnihsm ; by bebr , ' -iltached to the Union of a ¦ . 4-J town , has had iis p- > - r-rates doubled s . nce it has l > : vn under the operation of tne New Poor Law Bill , and thi . 3 does notarise from increased distress in the townships , but from the sums they have had to pay to an extensive "Union for the purpose of defraying tho enormous expences of officials under the new law . The largest amount that the township of Newton Heath paid for the rclitf of the poor for one year during three ths ban of the

      years prior to its being placed under Poor Law Commissioners was £ 31 12 a . Id . This was in 1840 , when distress was very prevalent , and two cotton-mills were , from the depression of trade , compelled to cease working . During the past year , when only one mill is stopped , and the distress by no means so great as in 1840 , they have been called upen to pay £ 665 13 s . 6 d . to the Union ; and I have the cuthority of the assiitant-overseer or relieving officer for stating that the poor are much worse fed than when the ex penditure "was less , and the pocr managed by local protectors . ef the out

      This is f-mnd to be the case in most - tow nsbips attached to large Unions in the manufacturing districts , and yet oa the 11 th of May Sir James Grabam is reported to have said , " Judging from the example of Manchester , and the great advantages -which bad there occnired from the uniting of tha adjoining districts UEder one Board cf Guardians , he would not wish to prevent the union of rural districts with large towns . He the ught a striking example was afforded by Manchester of the great advantages resulting from the union of districts ¦ with large towns . " In order to show Sir James Graham tbat he has been acting under false information with reference to the Mil , and particularly as to its beneficial workings in the out-townships , some of the nioit respectable and i :. flueatial iniilowners and manufacturers of Newton Heath , among whom wera twelve of the principal fitms , signed a requisition to the authorities , of which the following is a copy : —

      To the Constables of the Township of Newton . — We , the undersigned ratepayers of Newton , beg that you will call a public town ' s meeting of the inhabitants , f > r the purpose of considering the propriety cf addressing Sir J . Griham on remarks made by him during the 6 cbata on the Nt ir Poor Law , EtatJnz that the ii = fornntioa from the Manchester Union vraa thit it worked \ 7 ell in the cut-townships . " In compliance vrlth tbe above rf qTisition . the high constables convened a public meeting , which was held last evening ( the 27 ih ) in the £ c > ool-room , Newton , and was 11 : 0 s : numc ^ -usly attendei by ratepayers of different grades in politics . The chair was ' eccupied by Mr . N . Varley , one cf tbe high constables

      Mr . J . Letgh , a manufacturer , Euer producing the report of the account of the overseers of the poor for the year ccvmmc-ncing March 25 , 1841 , and ending March 25 , 1842 . and showing the increase of rates under the new bill as compared with the old one ( as previously stated ) , Eaid that they bad no centrnul over ths money demanded from them by the union , and where it went to they had no opportunity of knowing , excepting by judging from salaries that were paid . He then read from the Times of May 12 th the statements cf Sir J . Graham , which he reprobated in strong ttrms , and said that he sfeouid move that a letter be sent from the meeting to Mr . G .-imsditch , the Member for M-. cclesne d , putting that gentleman in immediate poEsession cf the facts , so that he would be enabled to refute

      the statements of Sir J . Graham in the House of Commons . Mr . Leigh then rsad tho letter he proposed to send , which wens to show , so far from Sir J . Graham ' s statement being correct , " that the Manchester Ution worked well in the out-towiisbips , " that in ci . nsequt-nce of it 3 Trorking so ineffectively the inhabitant * of Newten had refused to nominate any guardians to represent them ia tbe Union ; that the increase of expenditure of the new system had been fifty per cent over the old , aud this could not be accounted far by any extra outlay npon the poor-, and that instead of the law meeting the wants of the needy , they had been compelled to resort to voluntary coutribu . ion for their relitf ; tbat they bad painful experience tf the hardships the poor ha < 1 to undergo by bting compelled to travel such distances to obtain a paltry pittance , which frequently they did not get Allusion was a : so ni ^ de in the letter to the case of a poor woman at P < .-cningten , who , for several

      successive dsys , had travelled a great distance backwards and forwards to the relieving offiier ia vain , and who fcsd subsequently liied of starvation . Quite contrary to the statement of Sir James Graham , the Union was too lar ^ e ever to be huuiantly or properly worked . Mr . D . J 3 uOTH Eiid that be should oVjeet to a letter being ssnt to Mr . Grimsditch having for its or j act the correcting of Sir J . Graham ; he should move as an amendment , —" That the n : &eting should petition fjr a total repeal of the iniquitous law . " He was afraid that Sir J . Graham and his patty were intending to pas 3 a worse la \ 7 ( if it were possible ) than the previous one . Tee law tras un-Christi ^ n , and alike disgraceful to the statut =-b ^ ok and tbe country at large . ( Hear , hear . ) Being inconsistent with Christianity , noxou ^ tiy couid possibly stand under such a Jaw , and if not abolished the end of it must be an insunection in t ! : e land . He was for petitioning for a total repeal of the law , and nothing ebe .

      Mr . Leigh said that they had found petitioning was of no use ; their petitions had been unheeded . Mr . E 00 TH said that that had been found to be the case , and he thought , under such circumstances , they ought to seek for universal suffrage . VIr . Leigh hoped that his motion would be allowed to pass , as it was necessary that a member of Parliament should be , without delay , put in possession of the state of the on . t-townr . hips in the Manchester union . He had no objection to join them heart and soul in a petition for the total repeal of the law afterwards , and be did not believe there was one individual iu the meeting who would not join them . Several of the working men then addressed the meeting , and were in favour of a strong remonst'anca or petition being proposed and sect to tbe G-Jvernment , prayins them to withdraw tbe measure . This they were of opinion would ba the best ansfrer to the calumnies of Sir J : unes Graham . One of the operatives if ad ¦ a statement from a pauper nwned Alexander R'gby , confined in the Manchester workhouse . It was addressed to the Rsv . Mr . Scholefield , of Every-street , Manchester . The writer stated , that they were never allowed to go out of the workhouse , and t : cy supposed ihej must consider themselves prisoners fur iife . When they complained of the confinement to the iiovernor , he

      informed them the same strictness was used ihnxi » hoY . i England , and if they did not like it tkey must be cail-.-d together and discharged . The boys were kept at work from fire in the morning until seven in the evening breaking stones , and the giris were employed from five in the morning until six in the evening , picking oakum . The writer concluded by stating that the girls hid bten dreaii fally beaten by the taskmaster with EUcks on their bare backs , and by hoping that the Rev . Mr . Schole-£ t- ! d would cause an inquiry to ba made int : > xhtir treatment .

      Having read the above , the " speaker fitateri that the food alluded to the paupers in ths Union Workhouses was scarcely sufficient to keep soul and body together , and yet out of "the poor rates " thesalaries of commissioners , assiBtant-comtnissioners , their travelling expenses , &c , amounted in 1840 ts £ 50 , 173 . Mr . Wood , a manufacturer , said that he should vote for toe amendment , but he would rather that the meetiEg-should adjenrn , and in tha mean time prepare a petitian . It was ultimately agreed that the amendment Ehould be "withdrawn , on condition that a petition ior the total repeal should be sent to Parliament at tbe same time . This wa 3 agreed to , and the motion that the letter be presented t « Mr . GriEisditch was passed .

      A petition for tho total repsal of the '' Iniquitous act " was subsequeiitly adopted and signed , and the meeting separated peaceably . It is a well-known fact , which says little in favour of the New Poor L w , thit thtre is not 6 ne union in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire , Yorkshire , or Cntsaire , where the law is not broken . The guardians dare not carry out ths law for fear of their lives , and the conirniesionera dare not pre 3 S them to do so for fear of their Ealaries . —Times ,

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      A Panic . —The Courrier Beige states that the railroad train froa 31 ons to Brnxelles having been stopped by the bursting of a pipe tube , a traveller , who no aoubt was occupied with the idea of the accident on the Versailles railroad , exclaimed , "We are going to be burnt , " when a scene of indescribable confusion arose . The travellers endeavoured to make their escape thrcu 'b the doors and windows ; but though many had tL eir clothes torn , nofi one received tte slightest injury . -

      Heabtlbss Villaxy . —A . 'nost heartless case of seduction is recorded in the Sj daej papers as having occurred on beard the em % "rant ship Agricola , arrived at Port Philip , the sedui "er being the surgeon ef the vessel , named Brown , . * ad the seduced a poor orphan girl , about eighteen 5 "ears of age . The magistrates are investigating the an ^ with the hopes of awarding the prisoner the punisj ^ mentdne to his crime , and the charge of having nef . dieted his dnty while on board the Agricola ivill also *** preferred against him to make doubly sure of his not escaping with impunity . The conduct of Captain Jflnes i t&e master of the resBei , in the matter is sp . ^ ° ? in terms of praise , he having released tho i "xxw-creature ' s boxes , which were held in chargt a £ ^ lodgings for the rent due , which , althouj . ^ - - Brown had taken them , he had the effrontery u " *» sa > ve- - unpaid . .:

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      IRISHMEN IN JAMAICA . At the annual meeting of the British and Foreign AuU-Slavery Socie ) y , held on the 13 th instant , the R 3 V . Mr . Kuibb alltried , in the following terms , to the inhuman treatment and fearful EuftgringB to which the Irisa emigrants to Jamaica were Bubjected : — I do implore this respectable assembly not to allow their feelings to be harrowed up by the bloody and niurderoua system of European emigration , l have witnessed eceneB with respect to this .-which * I . shall never forget . I have seated myself by the side of a poor deluded Irish emigrant / though of a different religion t-s myself , and , in the absence of one whom he considered his only spiritual guide , he was glad to recsive temporal and spiritual consolation from myself . I have stood by his side , when in the deepest depths of

      poverty , joined to despair , and on a bed covered with ra § s , he has breathed his last , a dupe to this infernal schema—( hear , hear ) . In circumstances which I could not mention to this respectable audience , have the victims of this accursed plan oeen hurried into eternity . I declare , without the leas : f ; ar of being contrjidiutfid —and , if thsIIuHe of Commons think that I cannot prove it , let them call me as a witness to their bar—( loud cheers )—I declare that there have been scenas in Jamaica , witfein the last two years , unequilled in atrocity by all the abominations connected wiih the foreign slave-trade . I say this not on account of the number ; but when I think of the manner in-which these poor deluded people came—when I think that comfort was tbe lot of some before they left their homes .

      and that I have stood by their bedsides , where poverty , disease , and starvation have combined to hurry them from the world—when I have seen the misery and the last gasp of breath , and I have had the office of consigning them to the tomb—I implore , on behalf of Ireland , that she be rescued from a system ¦ which entails ' misery on all whe go , and must bring down the just judgment of Gad—( hear . ; So convinced was Sir C . Metcaif of this , thai at his request I interfered . I know his Excellency thought I could not prove what I had asserted with respect to one estate ; but r . n investigation was ordered . Mr . Keily , a special magistrate , was invited to Spanish Town , and h . a evidence was taken ; but it was so ubominably filthy that it was suppressed . I have it , however , and the world shall have it too . If it is

      necessary to suite how I obtained it , that shall be done , for on that subject I care for ho individual that breathes on tarth—( cheersj . It is fcut tfce other day that I went to one of the jails iu Jamaica . I dare say a great many people vrill say , I had no businass there—( ltughter ) . I have business everywhere where tyranny dwells . I saw in that jail a poor Irish girl , seventeen years of a ' je . fed upon the coarsest corn meal ^ without cuffce or tea , or anything bat uxiler . Saeine her there I enquired what was her crime ; she told me that she had been hired by Mr . Hylton at < £ » ptx year , and that mr fjod was to be found htr ; when he had taken her seventeen niiks up the country , he told her he would only give her £ 6 . ( Hear , hear . ) She was one of the unfortunate victims uho went out in the Robert Kerr .

      For refusing 10 vroik for vlx pounds , what did tho cuitf magistrate do ? Hoc-tiled two of his brother magistrates into his house to dine , and after dinner they hold a court in the house , and sentenced this poor Irian girl , who had nut be . n in ths island three weeks , to pay a fine of three pounos , or , in difault of finding goods upon which it could be levied , to imprisonment for Siteen days . ( He : ir . ) Tho moment I-saw her I said , " I will pay the mon ^ y , and you can come out " ( Cheers . ) The poor girl had been walked barefooted seventeen mile 3 under a burning sun to a jail , in which she was placed for fourteen days in tho midst of a deadly morass . I had her taken care of in the mansion huuse . I said to the jailer , " Give me a copy of ber commitment ; " he replied , " I dare not do it ;

      what would tbe magistrates s . iy ? " I answered , " I dont cato whether you duTst or not , but you shall : you know that every person has a right' to a cany of their eorunmwent , and I demand it on behalf of this poor girl . " ( Cheers . ) And here it is— " Wh ( .-re' < -S , E izi KeunPtiy , an immigrant , located on K < tirtment , the property t f Thomas Kicketts Hylton , Esq ., has teen convicted before ua , David Masi : n , sen ., ami D . ivi : i Mason , jun ., Eiqrs ., two of ber Majesty ' s justices of the peace , for tbe parish of Westmoreland , ( i re : u .: ing "—mind how logical they are — " to do the duty sfce had agreed upon to perform to the said Thomas Riukttta HyKon , and baa been se : iten&id to pay a fiie of three pounds sterling , or , in default of goods to levy upon , to fifteen days in the Honse

      if Correction , agreeable to tue act to encourage immigration'to this island , dm . ( Loud laughter . ) And whereas no goods to levy on have been found ; these are in her Majesty ' s name . " I thought my first duty was to tell the govern » r about tkis . I wrote to Daniel O'Connell , but I think the Pyst-offica stopped tho letter . You . shall have tLe governors reply : — ¦ ' Sir , I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26 th ult . Inquiry wiil be mtide into the circumstances of tbe easy therein reported , and , ptnding the receipt tf the result , tha G jvcrnor suspends his judgment oa the conduct of tLd partita concerned . But , whatever the cauj-cs way li . iva k-en , his Excellency deeply laments t ^ at a yuuug female , immediately after her arrival in t ! : i- > : ^ ljnd , siiuuld have been subjected to

      a fine which the could mt oe expected to pay , and tt > th& c . inst-quent degradation and danger of - impruunlufaut . He requestjjuu to accept bis tn&ka for your gtiierons interfe-iii : ce in paying tha fine , and rescuing the uufortunato prisoner from cuntluement , and begs lsave to transmit herewith the amount of the expense which he understands jou to have incurred upun that Occasion . " - ( Cii « rs . j I say honour to whom honour is due —( renewed cheersj—and I shall feel pleasure in referring more than onca to the kindness the Governor has manifested to these poor deluded creatures . I only regret that iu the laat dttpatch , 011 leaving the colony , he Las still recommended , under certain conditions , a new trial of this eniii / ration scheme ; and if he bad not done this—if the whole of h : s cfiicial weight had not

      been thrown i : if > tLe scale , I should not have stated some circumstances which duty now compels me to lay before you—( cries of " Hear , hear . " ) I have here an account of emigration to different parishes . I wish you to unders : and th&t I have been there ; mine is no hearsay evidence , fur I bavegoue to the bedside of these poor victims , and I have endeavoured to smooth their passage to the tomb . On Hyde Hall estite , between March and July , twenty-one emigrants arrived , sixwith wnes and children , tho rf ; st single men ; in November the same year , twvive of the men and women were dsad , four of the children were dead , six of the widows aud orphans were shipped by the kindness of an individual to America , fi ? e were iii the hospital , and three remained fit to work . On the 19 th of April , four

      persons from Ireland were situated at Glamorgan , and these estates are net on the plain , they are . on-tne mountain ; the man , tho wo ^ an , and their children wero dead by the 10 th of Juno . Tho other day I went to : ' . ao ; hfcr estate at E-idin . ^ tcc . I saw . on that estate , to the windward of Duncee , two Irish families from L'ji ; don . Ou one bed , without a rag to cover them , lay the father vomiting blood ; en the sumo bed lay two children , one four , and . tbo other two years of age ; i . -j a corayr of ths room lay a girl of fourteen , ill with ague and f ^ ver , and the mother bad not a farthing to support auy of them—( loud cues ef '' Hear , hear . ") Iu tbe lifexl room which I viaited , after having prayed with this poor Irishman , and done something el = e for him—for it is of no use to attend to the bouI if

      you do nut taka care of the body —( hear , hear)—I saw another Irishman on his dvathbed . 1 wrute to the G jvtrnor , teiin ; him that the only alternative was the removal of the . aurviv .-.-ra back again to Eogland , or their death . The GuVe / nor wrote back , nnd 1 have his letter ; it is to tuis efi ' .-ct : — ' * It these are tho only means , take a pa-taee for . the whole , and I will pay the espuuee , ltt it be v . 'hat n , ay . " jLoud cheers . ) 1 returned to these poor people with joyful tidings ; but , though a vessel was to tad in ten days , three of tho pareDts were dead , and t *^ o of the children ! There were three . or fUaus whom L Bint ia a carnage to \ ny own house ; one died b < . f -re it had been there six hours ; the other two are in tiio Normal School , iind they tire supported by his Esc-ikncy Sir C liar lea

      Metcalfahere is the letter vrttli which ' he sent m 8 the'money" Sir , I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter , " sajs the secretary , " of the 8 th instant , aud to transmit herewith a cLeqati for £ 30 , beirg the amount stated to be tuflicii-n > for the board and education of three orphan ciiilarcn for one year . " Ono being dead , I told the'Governor tbere were plenty of others , and I should fiud one . I aver that I can prove that a mother bas lain with her t-. vo children beside her , the one ten yeais of age , and thu other an infant dying at her breaat , while her other daughter has been w . e . spiug over the putrid remains . 1 aver I can prove that my poor iellow-creaturts utc suh-.-isting on what is called Spanish Heed ! es , what is given-t <> feed rabbits , mixed with wat-r ; t ' at aturvat-o . i , misery , spoliation . .. and

      death is the resuit of tiiis aciursed new slave-trade . I speak strongiy , becvu .-e 1 have a right so to speak—( cheers . )—A body of tiwae poor Irishmen cama to me , aud our pockets ougut tu bu faher than Baptists ' potkeU usually an . —( laughter)—to supply all the demands that are nmlu , and implored me to do something for them . —\ Vkat can I du ? Oh , get ua out of this country . Another man said , " t will walk a mile on my knees to tbank y-. u . if you can ' -get me out of this piace . " A woman who landed in 1835 , assured ua tbat she came out with one hundred and fifty emigrants , twenty of waoiii returned home , and all the rest were dead . Lbt those who are carrying on this plot in reference to the West Indies hear these facts ; they certainly shall through the public press . ( Cheers . ) I would implore that a ship be immediately freighted by the British Govern ment—it cannot be better employed—to fetch home these emigrant ? . Let

      them throw their guns overboard , and put up hammocks for the dying . I hope there are spirits in thia country that will assist me in carrying out this object . I hoped tbat Daniel O'Connell would have been here , and I would have asked his aid on behalf of his countrymen . There are a few withered creatures left ; there are a few orphans and widows , and I implore that no time be lost iu fetching them home again . I am eure that if you could see them , you would not want the eloquence- of Djniel 0 Connell to convince you of the atrocity of European emigration . Emigration , even from Africa , though it may not be so fatal in its tflkclB . -wilv be quite aB abominable in its principles . Were it necessary , which it is no » , I could detain you for hoiirs withfltatemects of this kind . But I dare not conclude- without reiterating the earnest cry frtm dying , starving emigrants in Jamaica that yet suffer in that climate . Gunld you tee them as I have beheld them heartbrokOO , Ajing and dead , you would implore her

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      Majesty's government not to let a month pass without sending a vessel is bring the deluded -yictirns back to the land of their fathers . Think you we are afraid of them competing with the negro ? No ; nor is the negro himself . Ha treats them kindly . * One of my brethren saw the other day a deacon of his own church walking on the road-side , and a poor Irish emigrant was riding on a horse . His minister asked" how that came ta paw ?¦• His deacon replied , «« I saw bim lying under a tree starving , I got off my horse and put him on , and I am walking by his side to take him home and give him something to eat "—( leud cheers . ) I ask you 'whether

      he could have done more ? I ask you if a black man would have been fio treated if he had come to reduce wages aere ? No Irishman has perished , because the black man would , to the utmost of his pow-er , prevent it ^ - ( chcers . ) I ask the meeting not to allow the Govcrnmont to be palmed upon by those who thiuk they can reduce the negroes to serfs . They cannot , and they will not , for we have a mountain-top to which to flee . We have already suffered enough- —they fihall not extinguish the ethereal light which now , beams on tho islands of the west : Cmie what will , we will be free , and enjoy the blessing which God has given us—( cheers . )

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      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Monday , May 30 . The Earl of Glen gall , in moving for returns respecting the number of rewards offered by tho Irish Government for the detection of offenders , commented o . 'i the statements which bad been made by Lord Wharncliffe on Friday night last , with respect to the condition of the county of Tipperary , and the influence of the Catholic clergy . He also defended the conduct of . the' landlords , and blamed the younger portion of the Catholic priests , whom he considered as largely implicated in exciting aud perpetuating that cenfcempt for so ' ciaV order , which led to these outrages . Lard YVharncliffe briefly defended his previous observations .

      Earl Fort £ SCUE defended the Catholic clergy of Ireland , as being , on tha whole , a niofct exemplary body , from -whom he had received , while at tbe head of tha Irish Government , most efficient assistance in the suppression of crime . A short debate ensued , after which the motion was agreed to .

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      HOUSE OF eOMMuNS , Friday , May 27 . The Houso went into Cofflmittee on the Tariff question ; as to tho duty to be levied from traiu and spermaceti oil , blubber , aud whale fins , Mr . Lvall moved to postpone the commencement ef these imposts from the dates imposed in the tariff , to certain 1 periods of the years 1843 and 1844 reapectivfily . In this he was supported by Mr . G . Palmer , Mr . Hawcs , aiid Jlr . Chapman , upon grounds : peculiar to the oil trade , ami to the adventurers iu . the whale fishery , who had goce out without notice of the proposed reduction . Sir . C . NapieR concuired in the motion , for the sake of that important nuivery of fieauien the mercantile marine , which hs greatly feared was pit the decline , while the competing marine of foreigners seemed to bo increasinsr .

      Sir II . Peel and Mr . Gladstone resisted the extension of time , Kiaiiily on account of the very high prices incident to this fluctuating trade , referred to an official return of the mercantile marine in the years 1840 and 1841 , from which it appeared that the numbors of British Beamen and ships , -and the amount of British tonnage , had been considerably greater in the latter than in . ' the former cf those years ; while the foreign marine exhibited , on the contrary , a greit diminution in 1841 , as compared with 1840 . Lord J . Russell arid Mr . C . Buller argued for the extension of tho time , on ths ground that if the tariff was properly 'adjusted in allowing any extension at all , it ought to allow snch an extension as would tlo comp ! e . o justice to all the pereons engaged in tha now pending voyages .

      Cai > iv . in FiTZROV doubted the conclusion drawn from tbe comparison of the years . 1840 and 1841 ; and expressed bin disapprobation of many provisions in our navigation laws ; but made . some , adnnssions respecting the present state of the fisheries and of the prices , upon which Sir K . Peel founded another earnest exhortation to tho Hoiiao that they should permit , without further extension of the time , a reduction ' so obviousiy necessary for the relifcf of manufacturing and other consumption . The Committee , on division , decided against the extension . On the schedule relating to timber , Mr . HaWes and other Members objected not to the duties , but to the system cf measurement on "which it ia proposed to levy them ; which system Mr . Gladstone and Sir ii . Peel defended on the authority of practical

      men . Mr . Cjiai'MAN carried his objections further , reuioiiBtrating aguinst the niaiu principle-of . the proposed reductions ' on timber .. Mr . Hume recommended it to Government to make the reductions at once , instead of postponing thtm to October ; for , as carpeiiters and Others who had no stock of woud in hand must postpone their purchases of that artic 0 until after the reduction , it was ^ lairi that in tha interval there would be no employment for the woiknien .

      T :: is suggestion was resisted by other members on behalf of tho numerous parties at present possessing stock ; and Sir R . Peel was of opinion that justice to those parties precluded him from altering the course which he bad announced , and on the faith whereof they had been ' acting . . . The mode of .. ' . measurement , ' however , was a subject which he would reconsider , though not at present inclined to alter the view he had already taken of it : The Committee then adjourned , and the House having resumed , Mr . C . Buher brought on his motion for referring it to Mr . Roebuck ' s committee to inquire into a corrupt compromise alleged to have been made by .-Mb Warburton respecting the Bridport election . In the cases of Nottingham arid of the other places included

      in the charge of Mr . Roebuck , the allegations of bribery and of ceinpjoniiBO rested only upon rumour , but here they rested on the direct evidence of Mr . Warburton himself , contained in a petition to the House ; and on the fact that so fewer than fifty-one actions had been brought for bribery against Mr . " 'Mitchell * . , one of the sitting Members , and discontinued in pursuance of the general compromise respecting tho Bridpprt election . That this compromise was made in a former , and not in the present , session , was a frivolous distinction . Mr . Builur then stated the circumstances of compromise severally affecting Mr . Mitchell and the other sitting Member , ; Mr . ' Cochrane . He thought it should be a strong additional reasen with the House in favour of his motion , that the case was one involving the characters of two of its Members .

      Mr . Cochrane then entered into the details of the case , first , as concerned his own conduct , and secondly , as concerned tha conduct of Sit . Warburton , of which he considered himself as having reason to complain . The Hon . Member , in the course of his speech , repeated various ' passages from the conversations and correspondence between himself and Mr . Warburton , which raised repeated roars of laughter at the simplicity of thut eminent Reformer , aud at his anxiety to preserve his reputation for purity amidst the potent odour of his own admissions of corruption .

      Next came the turn of Mr . Mitchell , who made a statement of his own . case , controverting much of Mr . Warburton ' s petition j and throwing very seriaus cenr sure on his conduct . He distinguished this case from the cases referred to Mr . Roebuck ' s committee . In each cf those instances one of the sitting Members had made a tacit admission of guilt by ' . retiring '; , . ' but he had not retired ; he bad manfully stood his grouud , and kept it . And as to the actions against ' him for bribery , they had been brought , he beiieved , for the purpose of frightening him , and had been abandoned because it was fult that they could not be maintained . :

      SirT . Wilde said that the admissions of the two preceding Epeakers had left no doubt as to the existence of facts which required invustigaMon by the committee . After censuring tho House for . the cheers of derision with which they had received the , quotations from Mr . Warburton ' s conversations and letters , he proceededto defend tbat gentleman , and to retort upon his accusers . It was remarkable , ' that Mr . Warburton sought inquiry , and that his accusers resisted it There had btiCBS resignation of a seat in thia case as well as in the others , namely , tbe resignation of Mr . Warburton ; on what just . ground , then , could the reference to the committee ba . ' opposed t

      Sir John Walsh moved , as an amendment , that Air . Roebuck ' s 'committee should limit its inquiries , in the several cases before it , to the subject of the alleged compromises , omitting all investigation , respecting the iuiputed bribery . He thought the precedent ' of these references a very dangerous one , which , in the hands of an unscrupulous majority , might be made the instrumsut of much mischief . ¦ -. ; -,.- . ' ... ... ¦• . ' ¦ ' ¦ : Mr . EscoTX said , the inquiry in the other cases was asked by a man who stood untainted ( Mr . Roebuck ;) but the inquiry in the present case was asked by a man who admitted his own guilt .

      Sir R . Peel did not think tbat distinction sufficient to exempt the present case from the desired inquiry ; nor did he see how Sir John Walsh ' s limitation could bo adopted , though he certainly apprehended that the committee had undertaken a much larger duty than it could discharge . Again , these compromises had been usual for thirty years , and no member had considered himself bound to go on for the public , if he could secure the seat for himself . The committee would do more usefully to devisa means of future prevention , than to occupy themselves with the facts of the past cases . He

      should be glad if Lord John Russell ' s announced bill for the prevention of bribery could pass before the now proposed inquiry should take place ; but be should feel himself bound , if the motion of Mr . C . BUtLER was pressed , to vote for it . . '¦' . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' . - ' . Lord John Russell did not think this quite so streng a case for inquiry as the others ; because , from the statements of Mr . Warburton and the two sitting members themselves , the Housa was now in posseBsion of all tbe facts . He thought the cemniittee could never do j « Btice to the various inquiries which 'would be in-

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      volved in the investigation of the bribery committed at all the places denounced before it ; but nevertheless he ¦ would consent to the proposed reference . Sir R Ihglis said that this jurisdiction belonged , by law , toElection Committess . Lord Palbibrsxon questioned ¦ whether a compromise was necessarily illegal or culpable . Indeed , the statutes seemed rather to recognise the legality of such arrangements . He would rather amend t ^ ie law both as to compromise and as to bribery , than enter upon these enquiries into particular cases . The system , and not the individuals , should be tho object of their attention . And after the decision against enquiry in the case of Ipswich , he did not see how the House could consistently send this case to the Committee . ' ¦

      Lord Stanley observed , that Mr . C . Bulleir ' s mstien was in two separate clauses ; the first affirming the expediency of an enquiry , and : tUe second delegating that enquiry to Mr . Roebuck's Committee . He was prepared to vote at present only for the first of those two clauses . . . ¦;¦ : ¦ . ¦¦ ¦ . . : ; . - . ¦ ' ,. Mr . George Banks warned the House against a precedent which would be usod by every disappointed candidate . : ' ' ! ' Mr . C . Buller said , that if the House adopted the first clause of his motion , affirming the expediency of some enquiry , he should not object to defer the question , in what mode or before what committee , that inquiry shoulii be pursued , The Hou 3 e divined—For tho motion ... .. » ... 37 Against it ... ... 156

      Majority ... ... ... 119 The other orders > f the day were then disposed of , ond and the House adjmrned at half-past two o ' clock .

      Monday , May 30 . Mr . Thomas T 3 uv-com . be presented a petition , from John Wr ^ n , of Southampton , offciirig : to uiake certain discJosures rt / ating to the bribery practised at the last and preceding tltcUons , if he were protected by indemnity .. Ou the . motion that the petition be printed , a . somewhat animated ami singular debate arose , which , hywevwy ended in the motion being agreed to . The Witnesses' Indemnity Bill passed through committte . Sir R Peel moved the order of the day for tke third reading of the Property Tax Bil ? . On tbe question that tha bill be now read a third time" bt , ; ing put , Mr . S Crawford rose to bringforffard , asaiiamendment , tho motion of which he had given notice , and which was as follows : —

      ' < Tliat , as by the existing laws a large proportion of the people of this realm are excluded from voting : for Members of Parliament , and'as it also appears by the reports of different election cdmniittees that cortupt practices have been used to an extraordinary extent in procuring the return of Members to this present House cf Commons , and as , from both these causes , this House cannot be conavdered » fair R epresentation of the people , it is , therefore , unfit that auy system of increased taxation should be- imposed by Parliament until all juatcauaea of complaint with regard to the mode of electing the Members of this Houso shall be first redreBsed . "

      The Hun . Member , who spoke in an exceedingly low tone of voice , and was most indistinctly . heard , was understood to commence his observations by saying , he thought it was necessary for the House to consider whether tbey were in a condition to adopt a mode of taxation hitherto unprecedented , except in the case of an European war , and he felt he should not do his duty as a representative of the people and pledged to protect their rights , if he did not now rise to oppose such a priociple of taxation as that now presented for the final adoption of the House . It could , hardly bo necessary for him at this : tiina to prove th ' a . t the principle of taxatiou aud representation ought to co-exist aud be identical . That principle had been asserted in tbe time of Cbariise I . and of William III' .,

      and Was recognised by the jealousy with which any interference by the House of Lords with money bills was regarded . This jealousy arose fora the rule that all money or tax Mils . must-originate in the Commons House of Piir ' . iame ' rit , on the great principle that the people ought only to be taxed by themselves through their representatives . But were tho people under the present syttom at present represented ' , iu that House ? It might be said tuat because property wa 8 represented the people were virtually represented ; bat he ( Mr . S . - Crawford ) denied that there was even a virtual representation of a great portion of the property of the country . But if they looked to the stata of the suffrage of the people at large , there was net even » pretence of representation . If they compared the amount of

      population with the number of electors—if they , compared tbe numbers of those who bad toe suffrage with tl--03 e who had not , it would appear from returns which from time to time , had been moved for by various Hon . . Members , that in England and Wales the number of- electors , as compared with the amount of population , was in the proportion of 1 to 18 ^ , in Scotland of 1 to 30 , and ia Ireland of 1 to 57 ; and in the United Kingdom on the average as 1 to 44 , ( Hear , hear . ) But these evils hud been aggravated by corrupt practices in the return of members in . an immense decree . The house had by reports of its own conniiittees , by the declaration of Members of Parliament thcmfielves , and by various , other means , undeniable evidence of the corrupt state of the repeseutation ;

      but he required no fctronger . proof : of that corruption than the fdet that had been elicited by the motion of the Hon . Meaibei- for-Finebury ( Mr . T . l ) uncombe ) , when he desired to apply a test to the Members Who might be called upon to serve on the committee to ba appointed pursuant to the motion carried by the Hon . and Learned Member for Bath . That test was t ? the effect that the individuals appointed had not themselves been guilty of any illegal expenditure in procuring their own returns to Parliament , and that motion had been resisted on the ground that the test would upset the " desired inquiryj inasmuch as a sufficient number of Members could not bd found who , by taking the test could serve on the Committee . So that the House , by the rejection of that motion , bad condemned itself , and- no wonder then

      that it should stand condemned in the eyes of the country . Again , if reference were made to the reports of election committees , made ( as we understood ) during the present Parliament , it would be found that do less tban forty towns and other places returning Members to Parliament were tainted with corruption ; in other places compromises had been effected to prevent exposure of corrupt practices , and in others gross bribery had been proved to exist . Was it not necessary ' then on theae grounds that the House should take into its consideration the means , for making that House the fair representation of the people ? . On a former occasion he had stated the remedies he had to suggest Tiibsq remedies chiefly were an extension of the suffrage , an improved distribution of

      the electoral districts ^ - "tbe - vote by ballot , and the shortening the duration cf Parliaments . He should not now dwell upon those propositions , which the House refused to adopt when he made them . The House had refused them . . ' again when they negatived the motion of the Hon- Member for Finsbury , though that motion was based upon the petition of- upwards of three millions of the people , and he ( Mr . " S . Crawford ) now caded on those who had joiued in those refusals to name what remedies they would propose for tho great mass of evils which were known to exist , and to make that house a just , fair , and free representation of the people . It had been urged as an argument against reform , that 1 he people had prospered under the old system of reprtfseutasion . That argument could

      not now avail , . because it could not be denied that universal distress prevailed throughout the whole kingdoHi , and afforded a distinct proof of bad legislation . The people complained that the legislation of that House was class legislation , and iu proof they pointed to ; the Corn Laws and to the New Poer Law . They referred also to the extravagant expenditure in all departments of the state , " ' and they complained that this Property Tax was imposed to defray the expences of the wars now carrying on In India arid in Cnina—wars as unjust as they were ' impolitic ' If a corrobomtion of this were wanted , it existed in a paper which had been signed by all the the Birmingham delegates to the Complete Suffrage Conference . In this , after deploring the

      recent disasters and losses in Affghanistan , the paper went on to say that the wars both in China and A tf ghanistan , having originated in unfairness and injustice , cannet be expected to . terminate except in national disgrace . Such were the sentiments of tha great body of the delegates , and the paper must , he conceived , be considered as a very fair test of the feelings of the people . " If the people ' s voice , " they said , " had s just share in the deliberations of the representatives , such wars would / not have been undertaken . ' The delegates also adverted in this paper to the war in Canada , and they stated that that war was an attempt to put the minority of the people of that country over tho majority , contrary to the opinion and wishes of their House of Commons . If the people had been justly

      represented such a war as that would never have taken place . In his opinion it would be unsafe for the House of Commons to tax the people , if the people did hot think that they were fairly represented . As an illustration of this he might refer to the result of the proceedings which Charles I . and James II . originated for the taxation of the peojole without their consent . The people rose ogainsS thorn . So it might be with a Parliament which attempted to impose taxes without properly responding to the popular ybice the people might be driven to resistance . It might be asked , if the motion were carried , -what were the results which he could expect from it ? He expected that if it were « atied the

      immediate effect would be that the House weuld proceed to take into consideration the state of the representation , or else to have a new Parliament altogether . This was his object ; bat he did not call on the House to adopt the principles of the Charter ; he asked only that they should be ready to redress all just causes of complaint against the present defective representative system . He had only to say that this motion was made with no party views , ; and so he hoped it would be understood generally ; but , concur 1 ing in the view that representation and taxation were intimatsiy allied rights , and thinking that when taxes were brought forward that was a fair and ju 3 t opportunity for bringing on such a nation , tetruftjd tlat the House would consent tait .

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      Mr . O'Connell seconded the motion . Sir RoBEar Pbbl thought that if the House of Commons , as at present constituted , was disqualified from increasing taxation , neither could it undertake the reform of the tariff , or even reform itself . He would rather have met the motion as a substantive one , on a more suitable occasion . ¦ ' ' ... ' - ¦ -. ' ..-. ' . '¦' . " ¦ -.-. . ' . ¦'¦^ ,- ' - ' After a few observations from Mr . O'Connell , Mr Hume , and Lord John Manners , v Lord JoHNRussELi . intimated , that tfiongh he could not vote for Mr . S . Crawford ^ s amendment , he would take the sense of the House oa the third reading of the Income TaxBUL ; '"" . ; . ¦ . On a division , there appeared 21 for the amendment and 156 against it ^ Mr . F . T , Barin g then proceeded to state his reasons for opposing ths third reading of the Income Tax Bill , but was interrupted by :

      Sir Robert Peel , -who said that he had just received information that an attempt had been made on the life of her Majesty . In answer .- ' to some loud exclamations , "Is the Queen safe ? " he replied that her Majesty waa perfectly safe , and that the assassin was in custody .:- : " ¦; .- ' '"¦ ; " ' ¦ ' ;¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ . " ' . . . ¦ ¦ ¦' -. - ' ¦ ' ; ' : " . '• • . In ebedience to a universal call the House then adjourned .

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      A Valuable Bustle . —Some amusement wa 3 occasioned oae day this week by the town crier proclaiming the loss of a lady ' s bustle , and offering a reward for its restoration . But great was the surprise of all who heard the public orator when he announced that this elegant appendage contained a large sum of money in notes and gold . It is to be hoped that this notice may meet the eye of the finder , who is , perhaps , unaware of the value or use of the article . —Monmouflishire Beacon .

      Djeath through Intoxication .- —Between ten and eleven o ' clock on Saturday night , James Calcrafl , a sawyer , was crossing the carriage-way b y the Marshgate turn uike , Lambeth , in a state of extreme irit' » xication , when he stumbled , and staggering back a pace or two , fell directly in front of one of the " Atlas" omnibuses , on its way from Paddington to the Elephant and Castle Tavern , and before he could scramble out of the way , although he appeared fully sensible of his danger , and feebly endeavoured to do so , or that any of the many persons who witnessed the occurrence could rush forward to render him assistance , the fore and hind wheels on the near side passed over his chest . The unfortunate man , as the heavy vehicle passed over him , gave a piercing and

      loug-continued shriek , during the utterance of which he rolled several times over in the road , evidently convulsed by the agonizing struggles of death . He was removed to t ^ e surgery of Dr . Brooks , near to the Marshrgate , who , detecting the fracture of at least six or seven ribs on the left Bide , with a corresponding depression on the cavity of the stomach , at once pronounced the injury to ba fatal . Tho deceased remained at Mr . Brooks ' s for three-quarters of an hour , and some signs of life being . still displayed , it was thought expedient to remove hinj to Westminster Hospital , where he expired in a short time after his arrival . The deceased * who was a well-behaved , hard-working man , has left a widow and several children totally unprovided for .

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      From the London Gazette of Friday , 2 Iay % 7 . BANKRUPTS . ' . : ' ¦ ¦ Edward Bowra , Gracechurch-street , umbrellavware houseman , to surrender June 7 , at twelve o'clock , July 8 , at one , at the Bankrupts * Court ; Solicitor , Mr . Sturmy , Wellington-street , London Bridge ; official assignee , Mr . Whitmore , Basinghallstreet . . : Elizabeth Style , Windsor , bookseller , June 2 , a ^ eleven o ' clock , July 8 , at twelve , at the Bankrupts' . Court . Solicitor ,, Mr . Burbridge , Hatton-garden ; official assignee , Mr . Balcher .

      . William . Hill and William Kemble Wackerbatb , Leadenhall-street , ship and insurance brokers , June 6 , at ^ -half-past ten o ' clock , July . 8 , at eleven at the Bankrupts' Court . Solicitor , Mr . Williams , Copthall-court ; official assignee , Mr . Grabam , Basinghall-street .: William Gooding , Chathara , boot-niater j June 8 , July ; 8 , at eleven o'clock , at the Bankrupts' Court Solicitor , Mr . Hughes , Chapel-street , Bedford-rowj oificial assignee , Mr . Johnson , Basinghall-street . Thomas Dykes , Broad-street , St . Giles ' s , statjoner , June 11 . at two o clock , July 8 , at eleven , at the Bankrupts' Court , Solicitors , Messrs . Rhodes , Bsevor and Lane , Chancery-lane ; official assignee , Mr . Groom , Abcaurch-lane . . ¦ '•"¦ '

      Charles Pendlebury , Bury , Lancashire , bleacher , June 14 , July 8 , at eleven o ' clock , at the Swan Hotel , Bolton-ie-iloors . Solicitors , Messrs . Milne , Parry , Milne and Morris , Temple ; and Mr . Briggs , Boltdn . Francis Davis , Weymouth and Meleombe Regis , Dorsetshire , wine-merchant , June 7 , July 8 , at twelve o ' clock , at the Antelope Inn , Dorchester . Solicitors . Mr . Combe , Staple-inn ; and Mr . Phillips , Weymoutli and Meleombe Regis . , ¦ ; ; - Georgo Hutton , Liverpool , ship-chandler , June 8 , July 2 , at one o ' clock , at the Clarendon Rooms , Liverpool , Solicitors , Mr . Roscoe , Raymond-buildhigs , Gray ' s inn ; and Mr . Moss , Liverpool . ¦ . - .

      James Diwson , Hudder&field , woollen cloth-merchant , June 10 , at three o ' clock , July 8 , at two , at the Pack Horse Inn , Huddersfleld . Solicitors , Messrs Bittye , Fisher , and Sudlow , Chancery-lane ; and Messrs . Stephenson , Floydi and Bobthj Holmflrth , near Hucldersfield . ' ^ . :. Wiiiiaiu Heywood , Basinchall-street and Manchester , warehouseman , June 10 , July 8 , at eleyen o ' clock , at tho Commissibners' Rooms , Manchester Solicitors . Messrs . Abbott and'Arn ey * Charlotte-street , Bedfordsquare ; aiid Mr . Bennett , Manchester . Thomas E ? ans , Welchpool , Montgomeryshire , and Oswestry , Shropshire , draper , June 13 , July . 8 , at ten o ' clock , at the Royal Oak Inn , Welcbpool . Solicitors , Messrs . Milne , Parry , Milne , and Morris , Temple ; and Mr . Yearsiey , WelchpooJ . .. /•

      Charles Homer , sea ., West Bromwich , Staffordshire , wine-merchaat , June 11 , July 8 , at two o'clock , at the Waterloo Rooms , Birmingham . Solicitors , Messes Smithson and Mitton , Sauthampton-buildings , Chancery-lane j and Mr . Smith , Liverpool .

      PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . Donglas , Whinery and Co ., Liverpool , curriers . W . C . Gardner , and Co ., Sunderland , brokers . Hardy and Stephenson , Kingston-npon-HuIl , coal-merchants Haigh and Crow . Milnes-bridge , near Huddersfleld , fincy woolku-manufacturers . Fernandes , Dunn , and Co ., Wakefield , Yorkshire , coal-owners ; as far as regards T . Casson and H ; > I . Walker . NayJer , Mt-rrall , and Harkers , Bradford , Yorkahire , machine makers ; as far as regards W . Nayler and M . Merrall . Yewdalls , Robinson , and Co ., Otley , Yorkshire , acribbling and fulling miilerB . T . Birton and Co ., Preston , Lancashire flix-spinners ; as far as regards L . Spencer . Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company ; as far as regards D . Marshall . / : ¦

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      From the Gazette of Twsday , May 31 . BANKRUPTS . George . Biggs , coal-merchant , Lower Thames-street , City , to surrender , June 10 , at half-past twelve , and July 12 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Alsagtr , Birchin-lane ^ official assignee { Solicitor , Mr . Stephen , Skinner ' s-pInce , Sise-lane . Edward Emerson , thread-manufacturer , Manchester , June 14 , and Juiy 12 , at two , at the Commissioners ' Rpoms , Mauchestar . Solicitors , Mr . Newman , Lincoin's-inn-nelds ; Mr . Willoughby , Manchester . John Hardman and Edward Herd man , Junior , millers , Consleton , Cheshire , June 9 , and July twelve , at one , at the Clarendon -Rooms , ' Liverpool . Solicitors , Mr . Norris , Liverpool ; Messrs . Nortis , Allen , and Simpson , Bartlett's-buildings , Holbom , Londoni

      Thomas Tham Johnson , ribbbn-manuracturer , Wood-streeet , Gheapside , June 10 , at half-past eleven , and July 12 , at eleven , at th ^ Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Graham , Basingball-street , official assignee ; Solicitor , Mr . Sadgrove , Mark-lane . John Standford , architect , late of Pall-mall , June 8 , at one , and Juiy 12 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Lankington , oflScial assignee ; Solicitow ^ Messrs . Barber and Bircham , New Bridga-street , Blackfriars . . Samuel Wooley , coal-dealer , Birchwood , Jnne 8 , and July 12 , at twelve , at the George the Fourth Inn , Nottingham . Solicitsrs , Mr . Yallop , Funiivul ' s Inn ; Mr . Parsons , Jun ., Nottingham . Henry Rose , oil-merchant , Blackburn , Lancashire , June 15 , aud July 12 , at eleven , at the Town-hall , Preston . Solicitors , Messrs . R . and W . Ascrott , Preston ; Messrs . Adliagton , Gagory , Faulkner , and F «> lJett , Bedford-row , London . ' ¦

      Caleb Robinson , tailor , High Holborn , June 10 , at eleven , and July 12 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Gibson , Basinghall-stTeet , official assignee ; Suliciters , Messrs . Mardon and Pricbard , Newgatestreot . - '¦ . " ¦ ' . - ¦ ' . /;¦ - . : ¦" - . ' ¦¦¦'¦ ; /¦¦ :- ¦ . . , :. : /' ¦ _ George Gibson , upholsterer , Ratcliff-highway , June 7 . and July 12 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mt . - Balcher , official assignee ; Solicitor , Mr . Howell , Ritclifi-highway . James Jackson , chemist , Lincoln , June 14 , at tih )» and July 12 , at twelve , at the Office of Dadding and Danby , Lincoln . Solicitors , Messrs . Hawkins , Bloxam , and Stocker , New Boswell-court , Lincoln ' s In »/ London ; Messrs . Dudding and Danby , Lincoln . Benjamin Simmons and Jonathan Brook , iron . foanders , Dockhead , Bermondsey , June 7 , and July 12 , a * one , at the Court of Bankruptcy . Mr . Green , official assignee , Aldennanbury Solicitors , Messrs . Lindsay and Mason , Cateaton-street . '

      Joseph Besnland , wool-stapler , Birkenshaw Bottoms , Yorkshire , June 13 , at ten , and July 12 , at twelve , at the Commissioners' Rooms , Leeds . Solicitors , Mr . Fenton , Fenchurch-street ; Messrs . Fentoa and JoncB , or Battye and Clay , Huddersaeld . Benjamin Thompson , iron-manufacturer , Newcastle * npbn-Tyne , May 17 , and July 12 , at one , at the Bankrupt CommiBsion Room , Newcastle-upon-Tyne Solicitors , Messrs . Crosby and Compton , 3 , Chnrchcourt , Old Jewry , London ; Mr . Hbyle , Newcaatle-Hpori-Tyne . . . " ' ¦ - ' ' ¦ "'¦• " ; ¦ : . '¦ ¦¦ . ¦' ' - •¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' .-. - "¦ ; Jphn Frank , farmer , Oswestry ; June 11 , and July 12 , at ten , at the Shire-hall , Shrewsbury . Solicitor , Mr . Edward Oswell , 52 . Lincoln ' s-inn-flelds , Lpndon .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 4, 1842, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct891/page/6/