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      yesonioes to suppress it , rarely , mutatis mutandis , » nd bj * P * ^ of reasoning , vre have now a justifiable 3 anwid upon tie French Exchequer , for the Tjnrpose ofOppressing the same spirit in England , ¦ Hica if not silenoed would set a bad example to TiancB and to the world . All the bickering and . ^ 81 Ej as to the right of search , hostile tariffs ^ Spanish mani *^ insnlring gasconade , murdering ^ a mere fisherman , Portuguese commercial treaty , wd sack Kte ii ^ 53 ! ^ ^ matters of micor detail ¦ when compared with the roaring thunder of the popular tows , now universally directed against jfogenR , Priestcraft , and Class Legislation , and j ™ Trbieb Engcr&ft and Priestcraft hare been bo long uphfili It is well known that for the last fifty

      yeiM England has been in a state of Bankruptcy , bn raght about by her over-kind interference in the poGej of other nations ; and all with a "new of holdjji ? America in subjection , and upholding the Bourjxo title to the throne of Prance ; whereas , if the gjjjs squandered in those two fruitless endeavours bid been expended upon the cultivation of our iemestic resources , we fihould now hare been independent of Loras Phtlifps and the Chelsea Pensioners ; of Americas Tariffs ana Portuguese Comxaercial Treaties 5 of French restrictions and Spanish revolutions ; of Russian pride , Chinese markets , and the Gates of Somnauih : in fact , we should hate been in & position to haTe given battle to all who daxed to invade our shores , our liberties , or our

      lights ; instead of , as now , our weakness making us » prey to all who choose to insult us , and our dependency placing us at the jnerey of all who will eondecend to traffic with as . Who will venture to assert thai the invasion of Ireland bylaaanny of Irenehmen , may not be at tig present moment matter of diplomatic consideration 1 Sir Robert Pkkl has very wisely and rery pndentiy abstained from the use of physical force fa the suppression of-the Repeal agitation . We i&ve said it before , and we repeat it here , that Sir Eobsst Peei is"very far from being a cruel or a

      iioodtbixsty man , but , cut time , if his temperance jud forbearance can be overawed by the cunning of Lons Phtupsk , and the pliant subserviency of Gniot , who in all filings isready to obey the injunctions of his . wily master . Gmaor is a Tory of the ftlden school j professing much liberality , of which , low-ever , he and his party must be the dispensers . "With him and them it is notlwhai shall be done , bnt who shall do it ! And the question with both will be , how O'Cohoxl ean be subdued , and bow Ireland can be preserved as the draw farm of England , upon condition that Spain should become

      the Poland of Trance ? As we stated last week , if the visit of her Majesty and her Ministers to Ions Pbuxipk and bis Ministers abonld take any political tarn , Lons will take care to play Spain against Ireland ; and , as if our Ministers were determined to be ready to cover the stake without hesitation , they have , sinee we last wrote , recognised the legitimacy of the present ruffian Government of Spain , whose policy ft is to proclaim a little creature p ! thirteen years of age as Queen of a country whose Government ha 3 , for scores of years , baffled the sagacity of ihe wisest statesmen .

      The abandonment of the anti-Repeal demonstration by the Orange usurpers of Ireland , in compliance with the mandate of Losdoivdebby , the brother of the memorable Castlebeash , must have been a consequence of some Cabinet secrets , communicated by the Noble Marquis to the Earl of "Eoi > E 5 , head of the Orange faction . We can well understand the effect which something like the following note would have : —

      Mt dbax Bodes , —In my former communication I tinted to yon Qat the Dnke bad » grand Stroke of policy in contemplation . Yoa- are aware that with Mm , although slow to speak , yat it u ever a word and a blow , execution rapidly -following design . Should you rtill persevere in holding the contemplated meeting on the 5 ih , job win zxm tbe enemy , and disarm our friends . Though J felt rather sore about Durham , yet these are sot times to xtick at trifles ; and when I would abstain from embarrassing P « sel *« administration , yon may guets that it fa for a wise purpose . There are drcumrtsnces ww in Mita&oB , whicli I dare not even hint at , bnt of ¦ rhlch you will be shortly pui in possession ; and nothing could more tend to frustrate what I am sure you

      anxiously desire than a perseverance in the determination to bold the Anti-Repeal meeting upon the 7 th . A » howrer , you may probably require some feasible pretest far its postponement , I have -written a letter concocted by - — , and which has received the eoncnrxeaeesl the whole cabinet , taking toe responsibility upon jHjself , and which you are at perfect liberty to piibush . Roden , reaember how we won our estates ; ki ns be cautions ho"sr we xnn tbe chance of losing them . Trusting that yon will see the wisdom of the course suggested is my letter , I am , dear Boden , Ever yours , YaSX LKSDOSDEBBT .

      2 fow , whether tie Noble Marquis did or did not write any such letter as the above we cannot come to other conclusion than that his published letter to IIoden was a stroke of Cabinet policy ; nor can ire think otherwise than that Rode * wonld lave re-SaireJ Eomt stronger inducement than any contained in that letter to prevail upon him to abandon Ms long-talked of project . Meantime , however , we eaanot for the life of na see how they are to reach ( yCoxszLL hy sword or statute . He is too strong for the former , and too sage for the latter . How , then , we cannot help asking , is the Repeal Agitation to be suppressed : or wherein are we to have the

      first evidence thatier Majesty , notwithstanding fler Express derermination , is more powerful than O * Cosxexl ? Indeed we never have been able to discover fiat royalty gives strength ; and therefore her Majesty ' s Ministers Bhonld have thought twice before they made her Majesty say , that she wonld do , what in all probability , she may not be able is effect . O'Cokssll laughs aiihem the while j and instead of relaxing , actually hurls defiance ; and in the very ieetb of the annih 3 adon speech be HienDy - proposes &S very strongest measure ever yet propounded for weakening the Queen's prerogative . We mean the eleetion of Arbitrators who shall henceforth

      con-Kitute the Executive of the country . "We , who hive always contended for tbe right of the people to appoint their own magistrates , and who have always desired to destroy the trade of Seetiug attomies , bail this new move with pleasure tad delight ; because it is a step in advance ; a measure with which the public mind will be familiarr ; d , by the time that the People ' s Charter will render it perfectly legal to adopt it . If the Rodens and the Lotodxderbts , the Weujngios 3 and tbe Grizoxs had been wise , they would have tried the self-couaijtting system , in the bope that the Repeal agitation wonld have exhausted itself j while &ey may rest assured that the very first act of

      tyranny against Ireland or O'Coxheli , will rally around him an amount of sympathy , strength , and determination which all the crowned heads in ^ srope would attempt to resist in vain . There are many , very many , who now look upon the Srnggie withent taking ' part in it , bat who Eever"tefes , ahhoagb slow in joining , will be sure to take &e righi jade . There is something so truly ludicrous in our mode of government that we cannot avoid bemg forcibly Etrnck with the contrast which ^ Irish Arms' Bill and the thundering reception het Britannic Majesty furnishes . In Ireland the

      possesioa of * pocket pistol is prima fane proof of eason against the possessor ; while monarebs cannot meet to indulge in the common courtesies of life ^ tkoHt being enveloped in clouds of smoke , and Btuiaedj ) y the noise of * hose arguments by which Aey hoia tjiejj j ^ - ^ ca ^ ot aT 0 [ a directing k ! ^^ * ttention ot sUrving operatives of «» IS ' orth to the loud and flattering reception which « J * Qaeen has met at the hands of the King of ihe -Sanicades ; not can we refrain from thinking that those operatives will contract their present condition ¦ " ^ h what it might be under a system of cheap fovernment .

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      E . Btlet , City Shoemakers , has sent ns notices of two - meetings , and has neglected to * say on what even . ingB they ¦ were -to be held . Ant Locality wishing to engage the Old Commodore , may communicate their' wishes to him by letter , ( pre-paid , ) addressed—Mr . E . P . Mead , Mr . Prankland ' B , Printer , How Street , Burnley , Lancashire . Ali Comhtjnicatioks intended for D 3 vid Boss , late of Manchester , must , for the f nture , be addressed to Mm , at his residence , Victoria-street , Bunslet-lane ,

      Leeds , Yorkshire . William Johnson , cooper , Market-place , Qainsbro ' -, vrishas to correspond with W . West , if that gentleman will favour him with his address . Tbs Addbess of the Wbitehaven Colliers waB received too late for the current publication . The mclb Twjsibbs of B&jlvtob . d have sant us & letter in 'which they return thanks to Mr . Banister for having advanced their wages 3-8 th ' s of a penny per lb ., ot about 3 s . per week . Mr . Turner , of Brig house , they say , has followed bis example . Thb Editor ' s Abseuce from his desk , during the present week , most be an excuse for the

      non-&ckno \? ledgment of a variety of correspondence . Rebecca is ihe Coxjstv op Ddbbak . —A oorrespondent informs as that Rebecca made her appearance in Kellae on tbe 28 th nit She appears , he says , to be a lady of principle , for no BOo-.-er had she made her appearance than Bhe ferretted out some unprincipled blacklegs to tbe colliers' society , and wreaked her vengeance on tber treacherous heads . It wonld appear that she was not ¦ well acquainted in the locality , for instead of avenging herself on the old known blacklegs , she discovered some new ones , whom she has punished .

      Mb . STEPHEN'S was tried at Chester , before Mr . Justice PatBson and a Special Jury , on Thursday , the loth of August , 1839 . One of the Wobktn g Classes—We shall not lose sight of tbe object of his letter ; we do not see , however , that be advances anything new . P . Mac a—His letter WM received . W- DAJiJELLS- —Write to Mr . Moir , of Glasgow , who will either procure you the acts you want , or put you in the way of obtaining them .

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      - ^ FOR MB . MCHABDS , WHO IS IS STA ? FoB . D GAOL . 8 . d . From London , per J . Rouse ... „ . 4 0 VICTIM FUND . Prom 4 persons at Koaresbro , per Dooker 0 4 Prom the Chartists cf Kensington , London 10 0 Mb . Roberts , Dsbst . —Shonld bav * sent his order Booner . Wai . B ^ lloch Biggas—Send la . for each large plate and postage -, and 6 d . for each small one . Ralph Dakllng . —Post stamps win do .

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      My . dear Fbikkbs , —Once more landed on the shores of Merry England , " you will be looking to me fer some notice of my " journeyings ^ in *» the land o'cakes . " You will be wanting to know ** what the land-looks like "—what is the aspect of our cause —what the people's opinion ef our prospects—and what my own opinion of the people where I have been . We have ** held chat together" so long that many of yo « have identified yourselves with me in a kind of personal friendship ; you get interested in all that appertains to me , and wait anxiously for my detail of " adventures , " "incidents of travel , " and all the etceteras of a friend's ramble among friends ; and a still greater number of you , debarred from all chance of travelling yourselves , like to learn something , from parties whom you can trust , about places which yon cannot see . * All this is a very proper and a reasonable feeling , and I devote this letter to its gratification .

      My ^ tour was have been one combined " agitation' * and recreation ; in the hope of serving to some extent the cause , and of reinvigorating , to gome little extent , my shattered constitution . The latter end has been served , faT bejond my most sanguine expectations ; I am worth more by half for the field bow than when I started ; and I hope that the cause has received no damage from my tour . But the labour pretty effectually absorbed all the " recreation " , and converted my rapid gallop through the country into what , if my heart had not been in the work , might have well passed for " a toil of a pleasure" . Posting from place to place as fast as four horses , a steam-boat , or a railway carriage could rattle along , seldom stopping beyond a

      night or so in a place , lecturing somewhere almost every evening , and two or three times on Sundays , together with the * ' long chats" of scores of friends who in every place crowded to my lodgings , left me precious littie time for " sight seting " . I « an teD yon very little , therefore , about the " lions" of the different places which I visited : I had no time to look at them . But I can tell you of that in which you will , 1 am persuaded , feel at least an equal interest ; of the state , aspect , and proBpect of Chartism ; and something of the condition of the people . The general complaint , which met me in almost every town , was " The agitation is dead " . The enthnsiasm of the people seems to have greatly gone down , every where . Great demonstrations ,

      expensive and numerous processions , and fu ^ s , banners , music , and hurraing noises are by no means so plentiful ; iti 3 even difficult to get tbe people out to hear lectures . All this has , to some parties , * discouraging aspect . They interpret it as evidence of apathy , and of declension in our cause . To my mind , it conveys altogether different information ; 1 rejoice-to see it . It is evidence to me of onward progress of the only character likely to be lasting , and therefore worth anything . It showB me that the people have ceased to be tbe creatures of passion j that they are less easily sffected by sudden gusts of feeling , and more addicted to habitudes of thought . The best evidence that thi" is so ; and that the quiet , sober demeanour of the people is not from apathy is

      : the fact , that however ** dead" Chartism may be in any town , I always find , upon inquiry , that nothing else can live . Let bnt the factions , either , or any of them , take the field fairly ; let them but venture to give room for the expression of opinion , and they soon find ont whether Chartism be "dead . " This was the universal cry thronghont all Scotland . In almost every place 1 came to , my first question was— " Well , how stands Chartism 1 ' And the answer was—** -Why , we are all dead here . We can get a meeting upon any great occasion . If the enemy take the field , the people will tarn out . If an anti-Corn Law meeting was to be held to-morrow , with bnt slight notice , and discussion allowed , they would muster

      strong , and carry all before them . Any other party never thinks of it . Neither Tories nor Whigs , merely &f sneb , would dare to hazard any appeal to the public voiee . They will turn out , too , upon extraordinary occasions to our own meetings . If a stranger , who is much respected , come ; or one from whom they expect to learn something ; we shall have a good meeting for instance , to hear yon ; but , generally Bpeaking , there is a great slackness about ine people , They require some excitement to stir them up . They seem tired of lecturing , and tired of the agitaiion altogether . " Now , lam well pleased with this . 1 rejoice 10 see the " agitation" giving place to a " determination , " cool , noiseless , and unostentatious , but r * -ady , whenever wanted , to

      shew that principle sinks deeply into honest hearts . It is to me tbe most pleasing feature of the times ; worth all the ** great demoustrations , " all the processions , all the Ilsgs , banners , and music , and expensive iole pageanwy which erstwhile made onr ** agitation" as puerile as it was conspicuous and impo > iog . These things were useful then , and they were necessary then ; they had their work to do ; and there are districts of xke country in which there are still line uses for them . When tbe public mind is but indifferently informed , and when its judgment is to a great extent uniormed , it is necessary to enlist the senses , and to claim attention by external di&p ' ay , that yon may form that veiy character which is now in process of development . The people

      co not " agitate now , because they have learnt the valae of " agitation" ; they have discovered it to be the froth upon the surface of the good liquor , and they now blow the froth aside and drink the liquor . ' They do not , in the old cultivated Chartist districts , come oat to hear lectures ; just because they know all that tbe lecturers can tell them . They have heard the old story over and over again till ibey are tired of it . Tney are quite aware that " God and namre did not make one man with a Baddie on his back and another with & pair of spurs on his heels "; that " no man was born with a pen behind his ear and an iakborn at the tip of his nose "; they Know that all the points of theCharter are pointB of righteonsnessand truta ; that every man has a right

      to the vote , and that no man has a right to more votes than one ; that each has a right to be represented , and that all should be represented equally ; that no man has * right to coerce or control another in tbe exercise of bis vote ; ibat intelligence and honesty should qualify a wan to represent Mb fellowB whether be have "property' or not j that " abort reckonings make long friendships " , and tnat ** the labourer is worthy of his hiw" : tkey know all about t :, es > e things jtbey know that they are all true and that no good argument c&n be brought against them ; they have heard them stated , proved , and argued by nil sorts of lecturers in all sorts of ways : they find

      thai , thongh each man may have a different way of telling it , they all do tell the same story ; and , as thtj know the sioiy off by heart , they don ' t care to hear it told any more : and hence the appearance of apathy and carelessness which bo dispirits uuitflirting minds . It does not dispirit me in the least degree . On the- contrary , I rejoice in it . Bm there is one feature connected with it which is not so pleasing to me , and which I hope to see instantly corrected . The same feeling ot " conscious intelligence which induces the people to c&a ^ e ** agitating ' , and to ** lie on their oars" waiting till successive c&Us for esergy may come , has

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      induced them also to become careless , to a great extent , about organizing . In the absence of any effective National Organization , the several local Organization , having been ^ identified with the " agitation " , have been neglected ; und thus in many of the very best Chartist districts there iB no Association—no Committee—no " public body" of any kind although , individually , there are more Chartists than there ever were . I have many letters by me stating the anxiety of scores of Chartists in different places for me to visit them , but statins that they cannot" invite" me in the term 3 which I require ; because I had publicly declared that I

      would not accept individual invitations , and there was no public body from whom , as a body , the invitation could come . This I do regard as matter of regret . Without Organization of some kind , the people , however intelligent , are powerless . And no National Organization can exist , save as the aggregate of local bodies . The people must see to this ; and at once . They must keep together . This is not more necessary for the concentrating of their powers than for their increase . They have a formidable * aaemy to rope with ; and they need the moral energies of all their brethren combining with their own .

      A large mass of society is yet uninformed , and can never be informed , upon Chartist subjects , until they , who do know them , send out missionaries , which they can never do individually : they must , for this purpose , act together . I have endeavoured to point the attention of the people where I have come to this subject ; and to shew them the difference between tbe uses of Organization , and those of " agitation . " Each has its uses . Those of Organization are permanent ; while those of " agitation cease when the people become enlightened and their opinion fixed .

      I trnst that I have not handled this subject vainly ; that the plan of Organization which is being adopted by the Conference at Birmingham , while I am writing , will receive , when it appears , all due and careful attention ; and , if Bitnple , efficient , and legal , as I hope it will be , that it will be at once universally adopted , and acted on . Scotland has no delegates at Birmingham ; but the Scotch » Te not therefore *• apathetic" as to tbe labours of the Conference . They are looking to them with great anxiety , and will , I believe , heartily co-operate in any plan which may , in their opinion , bave these three characteristics . Whether they do so or not I . do trust that they will at onoe gee that Chartism shall have in every place not merely * ' life " but have

      " A local habitation and a name , " a formal front and bearing which shall make then known , not merely to the friends of faction round them , but all oveb . I never saw Chartism more prosperous in any place than I think it to be just now in Edinburgh and Leith . They are choice spirits ; the Chartists there ; and though comparatively few of them hold together ; though they have no regular place of meeting publicly in Edinburgh ; and though they are the Eubjeots of foul vituperation and petty annoyance by quondam " leaders , " they are , almost to a man , intelligent , deep thinking , sober-headed , far-seeing , honest meu . They are sound at th « J core . They look to principle and to that only . They will natter no man ' s vanity , nor suffer themselves to be hoodwinked . They walk on their own feet and borrow no stilts . They are a sound , healthy , hearty , set of fellows , to whose warmest affections the best and only passport is honest ? and truth .

      To any Chartist friends who may visit Edinburgh I commend the Coffee House of Mr . Cranstoun , 129 , High-street , as an abiding place . It is the resort of the Chartist friends . They will find there tbe elite of Chartism for companionship ; and accommodations as comfortable , and charges as reasonable , as any man can wish . And , while upon this subject , I may say as much , and with great propriety , for the Odd Fellows' Arms , Queen-street , Aberdeen , kept by Mr . Bain ; and the Temperance Coffee House , at Hamilton . I forget the Landlord ' s name , at Hamilton—he is a bookseller ; but at both these houses I found everything in the way of comfort , civility , and kindness that any man could wish ; and I think it due to my English friends to teil them where they are to be had .

      In Aberdeen the movement stands high . There are here two distinct bodies ; the Church of which Mr . Lowery is pastor ; and the Democratic or Chartist Association , meeting in their own Hall . They both muster pretty well for atrength , and they work cordially together , There has been lesa of " bickering" in Aberdeen than in most other towns . A beautiful spirit of friendly fellow feeling seems to be now prevalent among them ; and , I pray God it may long continue . In Montrose a few gallant lads have determinedly made head against the storm , and under many difficulties still " man the ship" and keep her afloat .

      In Dundee the Church has kept Chartism alive . It has been long the only prominent form in which it could be recognized . The Democratic Council — a few choice spirits — kept themselves together ; they kept up "life'" in the thing , to be sure ; but it was a disembodied spirit ; while the Church supplied to it flesh and bones , and biuewa . Such is their condition now ; and I have great hope that this united spirit and body of Chartism will derive new strength from the pastor who has just gone from England to reside among them . The Vale of Leven is like situate . The spirit of Chartism is diffused throughout the whole population ; the Church is the form in which it appears , and the school 1 b the means of ensuriag its continuance and

      progress . The pulpit and the school desk are ably occupied by Mr . Roberts . Of Glasgow , I may tell about the same story as of Dundee and of the Yale . There are a few fine fellows j Moir , Colquhoun , and a few others , who may perhaps be called non-Cnvach Chartiats ; not that they oppose the Church , or that they place themselves in conflict with its leaders , and vituperate them for being "Church Chartists , " or " Bible Chartists , " or " Temperance Chartists" ; they bave more sense . But they do not identify themselves with the Church ; they advocate Chartism separately and distinctly from it . But thongh these excellent men are " in themselves a host , " the streBgth and power of Chartism at Glasgow is in tbe three Chartist congregations of the City , Gorbals , and Andemon . Tbe O'Connellite Repealers muster very Btrong in Glasgow . It was

      thought exceedingly desirable , if possible , to effect a junction between them and the Chartists : an effort was made for it at tbe end of my lecture , as I told yon in my last letter . It failed ; and I advise that no more such efforts be made . Leave the O'Cohnellites alone . Let them go their own way . At public meetings , when " the Repeal" is the matter of discussion , give them your assistance by the assertion of your opinion on that question abstractedly and on its own merits , and independent of any other consideration . If they have the manly honesty to act similarly by us , let us at public meetings receive their assistance cheerfully ; if they do not ; if they join with the M League" and with the enemies of freedom to BuppresB us , let us pity them ; let our warfare be merely defensive—never offensive—against men who are struggling for liberty .

      In no part of Scotland did I find Chartism more pleasing in its aspect than at Hamilton . Here in the midst of a very poor population—chiefly bandloom weavers—I had a Church full of as intelligent and honest looking faces as I ever saw . Temperance , intelligence , and industry—all the best qualities of individual character combine to give the Chartists of this place tbe stamp of superiority . I was delighted with them . Campsie is a spirited little place , and there are some good men in it . Of the other places which I visited , I have not much to particularize ; 1 was well received by all of them ; and the general description above given of the " dead agitation" but the living principle of freedom may well enough describe all of them .

      The thing most gratifying to my mind in the Scottish Chartists is the cool-bearing and discretion of tbe people . They have very Jiitie of the blind trustfulness of tbe Irish or of the hotheaded , unreasoning enthusiasm which characterizes many of the English ; and hence , thongh they bave enough of dissension among "leaders , " the people do not let the cause bo damaged ; they coolly kick the brawlers overboard . I have no doubt that when tbe news came of my separation from the Slar , and ef my difference with O'Connor , which induced it , the scamps who live and feast upon disunion wero in high glee . la fact , I know they were . They thought" Now , we 6 hall have a feast ! " The jackals of faction were in like expectation ; and some of them attended my soirees

      to " look out . " At Glasgow , one of these eavesdroppers cams big with expectation ; pencils , notebook , and all prepared , to make the most of the ** ex ~ pose " J Well , the " expose" came ; and the scamps tound that they had miscalculated ; they had mistaken their man ; they had nothing to feed on ; and the poor fellow gathered up his "traps" —pockr eted his pencils and his books , and went away grumbling , " D d caulious speech ; that J" No ; no ! The rogues will get no quarrelling from me . I am not in the habit of making the peoples' cause to bear every blow aimed only at my own head . Let my head take care of itself ; and if I cannot keep it above water , I will not ask the knaves who are disappointed at my *? D-- —d cautioua Bpeeoh" to help me .

      After I had left Edinburgh , on my first going there to the soiree , a gentleman of some sort , who described his self as ** a delegate to the late Conference at Birmingham , " put out great billa , announcing a lecture on " the treachery of the late conductor of the Northern Star , < ko . ^ ' and invited disc * ssion . Some of my friends attended and civilly told him that they thought him no gentleman at all . Another gentleman ^ a friend of the first gentleman , spoke somewhat largely about some mighty matters of accusation whioh he had in pickle , but which he would tell 'I to nobody till he should have me at a public meeting ; to answer thea . Some of my warmest friends advised me very strongly not to notice the matter at a 1 : ; the more especially as no commuuicatioa had been made to me by the parties , and I had uo means but common rumour of knowing that my name was

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      being thus "taken m vain . " However , I determuted to set my foot upon the thing . I think no man stands so high as to justify him in despising anyotner man as an enemy . I am desirous not to make enemies , but to remove causes of enmity ; and hence I wrote to the party , and I suppose the result of the correspondence is to be a public meeting in Edinburgh in a few weekstime—when ! c * d return thither , tor the purpose of calling me to account for certain of my sayings and doings while Editor of the Northern Star . And , though I do not think that any of th 6 matters of complaint are at all fit subjects for public discussion , or such aa any man has anynght to / require public answers to , beyond those whioh have alread y been given . I have no doubt

      that the explanation I shall give will remove much misunderstanding , and therefore do good ; and it is on this account solely , that I submit them j and not merely for the purpose of gratifying the gentleman ' s passion for a display of gladiatorship ; though I do not like to inflict disappointment upon any man if I can help it . I like , as far as I can , to * ' give to every one that asks . " I Bhall return therefore to Scot / and very shortly , when this gentleman shall be gratified , and , I hope , satisfied , with my public explanations . At the same time I shall take an o pportunity of visiting several places to which I was invited while there ; but whieh I could not go to ; my routes being previously fixed , and my engagements at Hull compelling me to keep to the ti

      me . I have already written more than I purposed , and perhaps as much as space can be afforded for ; I must therefore here conclude , and subscribe myself , Your faithful friend and servant , Willum Hill . Leeds , Thursday , Sept . 7 , 1843 . P . S . I will be thankful to as many of the genuine good men and true as choose to write to me now and then from any and every place , telling me ' * how things go . " I have not now the means of information which I formerly had from the correspondence of the Star ; but I should still like to know "how matters go . " Let each man who writes to me gend his address , bo that I may write again , if necessary Any letter addressed for me at Hull will find me . Will Mitchell , of Stockport , send me bis address 1 W . H .

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      Committal op a Notorious Prostitute . On Monday last , a noted prostitute , named Amelia Kay , who bas been on the town ever since she was about twelve years of age , was committed for trial by the magistrates at the Leeds Court House , on a oharge of having robbed a man named James Carline , of two half-orowns . The prosecutor said he was going along East-street , on Sunday night , when he met the prisoner , who seized him round the waist ; he distinctly felt her hand in his pocket , and immediately missed his money , upon which he gave her into custody . She denied having any money at all about her , but on searching her two half-crowns were found in her bosom . ' :

      Juvenile Delinquency . —On Tuesday last , a precocious youth named Jamea Smith ,: 14 years of age , was brought before Henry Hall , and Griffith Wright , Esqrs ., at the Leeds Court House , charged with a criminal assault on two little girls of the respective ages of eight and six years . The little rascal was caught with the children in a field , and the offence was so clearly proved that the magistrates fined him £ 5 , and in default of payment aent him for two months to Wakefileld . Odd Fellows Fdnekal . —The members of the Earl of Durham Lodge , No . 405 , of the Grand United

      Order of Odd-Fellows , held at the house of Mr . Broughton , Bay Horse Inn , Briggate , Leeds , accompanied by the District Officers , and other visitors amounting to nearly 500 members , walked in procession on Sunday last to the Cemetery , the officers of the Lodge carrying splendid gold and silver regalia , for the purpose of paying their last tribute of respeot to the mortal remaiojs of their lamented Brother , P . Y . G . Robert Hunt , who has been many years a sincere advocate of : the cause of Odd-Fellowship , and in whom the members of his Lodge placed the most unbounded confidence for honesty and integrity

      Robbery . —On Saturday night last , a man of the name of Isaac Bradshaw , residing at New Wortley , near Leeds , who proenred a livelihood by hawking blacking , and other articles , was returning home about eleven o ' clock ; when about half-way b * twixt Newton Bar , and the Smith's Arms , on the Gelderd Road , he was stopped by four men , add robbed of his watch and 18 s . in money . The villains so illtreated the poor man , by beating him , that he lies in a very precarious state . Fatal Accident from Machinery . — On Friday , an accident , in which two persons lost their lives , occurred at Holling ' s Mill , near Sowerby Bridge . A woman was in a room employed sorting rags , and an upright shaft which connected the machinery in the rooms below and above , passed through it . A little girl of the name of Bates was sent an errand into the mill , and she , from curiosity , went to see

      the woman sort rags . No one being in the room but the two parties , what transpired atterwards must of course be conjecture , but from the position in which they were found , the probability is that the girl ' s clothes had , by some means or other , got entangled by the shaft , and that the woman , in endeavouring to release her , got entangled also , and when they were found both of them were quite dead , the girl folded fast in the woman ' s arms . An inquest was held on the bodies at the Friendly Inn , ou Monday ,: and a verdiot of " Accidental Death" returned , with a deodaiid of £ 5 upon the shaft . We understand that this is the first fatal accident at Holling ' s Mill , whioh , until June last , bas been run more than half a century by Messrs . S . and J . Waterhouse , and that the parties who have taken the mill had a box making for the shaft which has hurried two fellow creatures so suddenly into tho presence of their Maker .

      Fire . —About six o ' clpok ou Sunday evening a fire broke out in a small room in a mill situate at Chapel Hill , Huddersfieid , occupied by Mr . Bannister , and formerly occupied as a wood turner ' s shop . It was speedily extinguished by the populace , who assembled in great numbers , and lent every assistance in their power . The fire originated in consequence of the diversion of the old flue into a new one whioh had just been built , and the flue being left open on Saturday night ignited the boards immediately above it . The damage done is very trifling , but bad the fire happened a few hours later , in all probability the whole mill would have been destroyed .

      Suicide . —On Saturday night ot early on Sunday morning last , a man named Francis Mason , by trade a butcher , and woll known in Bradford , committed suicide in a cell at the Court House , by strangling himself . He bad been found in the street drunk , and was locked up by the police . The Coroner's Jury considering that he w&s insane at the time , returned a verdiot of " Strangled himself while temporarily deranged . " He was sixty years of age . Seizure ! of Meat . —On Saturday morning , the

      constables of Bradford got information that some bad meat was in the town , and in consequence Mr . Inghamwent to the shop of Mr . Thomas Jackson , in the market , and . there seized a quarter of a carcass . He then proceeded to a house in New Leeds , and in a chamber there found a quantity more . Ou their return they searched Jackson ' s house , in George street , and there found nearly another quarter , in an upstairs room . All the meat was handed over to a jury of butchers , whe condemned it , and it was sent to tbe Gas-house to be consumed .

      An Expert Thief . —A man named John Ibbetson , was taken before ihe Halifax magistrates , laet week , upon numerous charges of robbery . The prisoner has been in the habit , as appeared trom the evidence s-dduced , of frequenting public houses in the neighbourhood of Halifax , for several weeks past , and when opportunity offered , of making off with whatever he could lay hold on , such as copper kettles , brass pans , irons , wearing apparel , spoons , &c . Though many oases might have been proved against him , it was deemed sufficient to take two of the more recent ones , on both of which he was committed for trial ac the ensuing sessions .

      Coach Accidents- —On' Wednesday afternoon , aa one of the Leeds coaches Was on its way to Bradford , when opposite the Sun Inn , at Stahniugly , it ran into a phaeton , in which was Mr . Haigh , of the Bottoms , Halifax , and another gentleman , and injured it bo Beverely that it will require extensive repairs before it can be travelled in again . The coach was also nearly upset , and the horses taking fright at the time , ail things seemed unpropitious , but , fortunately , with the assistance of iho inhabitants of the town , further mischief was prevented . Several of the passengers got off , and refused to proceed further on the coaoh , and waited until another coach came up . The ' coachman alleged that Mr . ti . was on the wrong side the road , while !• that

      gentleman blamed the coachnaaa , and said he was driving so fast that it was impossible to get out of tlio way . —Last Tuesday , as one of the coaches was ^ oiug past Northowram , a boy of the name of Barrett got up behind to ride , and when getting dowu his trowsers caught hold of some part of' the coach , and in stretching out his leg to get it loose , it became entangled in the wheel , and was broken . He might bave been killed bad not one of the passengers seen bis perilous situation , and called out to the coachman to stop ; he pulled up immediately , and -no > further injury was done . The boy is recovering . Such an acoident , and so narrow an escape , from death , ought to be a warning both to himself and others , / against the practice of riding behind coaches .

      A » vanck op Wages—Oa Saturday last Messrs , Craven and Harrop , manufacturers , Thornton , advanced tbe wages of their hand-loom weavers 6 d . per out on some sorts , and 3 d , on others . Many of their weavers reside in Clayton , and as soon as the workmen received the advance , they made the case known m their locality . It soon got to the ears of Mr . J . Tempest , manufacturer , Clajtoa Heights , and he advanced 3 J . per out .

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      Wages . —Two meetings have ; been holden iu Barnsley within the last fortnight relative to a dispute concerning wages with a newly established firm , Massrs . Norris , Brady , and Co . The first meeting was held on Tuesday , the 29 ih ult ., F . Mirfield in the chair , when the following resolutions were unanimously approved of : f- " That it is the opinion of this meeting that , in a town like Barnsley , depending entirely on linen manufacturers , it is the true interest of both masters and workmen that a uniform rate of wages should be paid by all manufacturers engaged in making that fabric ; and this meeting pledges itself to use its utmost endeavours to maintain the present rate of wages , as contained in the manufacturers' arranged list . "— " That this

      meoting having learned with regret that Messrs . Norris , Brady , and Co . have paid a less rate of wages for certain kinds of work than the rest of the manufacturers in Barnsley jare at this time paying , this meeting is of opinion that it is an unjust aud oruel attack upon the wages of the poor weaver , and ought , to be resisted by every lawful and available means . "—" That every weaver employed by the above firm do give up their worksaa their pieces are finished , and withhold their labours until such time as they will pay according to the printed list . ' The meeting then adjourned to Monday the 4 th inst , at which time they again assembled on Mayday Green as before . Mr . Mirfield opened the business of of tbe meeting intimating that there was a

      probability of some men employed by the firm in question refusing to give up their work , and he , along with the committeo , was afraid to an extent which might prove injurious to arriving at a ^ successful issue , in the result of the strike . J . Shaw , J . Grimshaw , and others followed ou in the same strain , and recommended the meeting to reconsider , and only strike the men who were under-paid . To this the meeting seemed unwilling , fearing that it would at no remote period lead to greater encroachments . The meeting was then addressed ! by R . Garbutt and John Harper , whe argued at some length the

      necessity of more strenuous exertions , and the more especially as some respectable houses had already declared a reduction of wages would be of no benefit to the trade ; but that should Messrs . Norris be allowed to pay under the general list , they should be compelled to lower in the same ratio , and thus the list of prices would be virtually destroyed ; a circumstance that would prove perplexing to the masters and injurious to tbe men . It was then agreed to increase the number of the committee from five to twelve , and grant them additional powers in order that all may be done that is possible to secure justice to one and to all . !

      Boy Drowned . —On Sunday afternoon last , as two boys were playing in fomo empty boats lying at the coal wharf on the Rochdale Canal , Manchester , one of them observed something floating on the water , which was soon recognised to be the body of a boy . Information was given to some boatmen who were near , and after a short time tbe body was taken out ; and , from the decomposed state in which it was found , it could not have been inline water less than three or four days . The same afternoon it was identified as the body of a boy named James Hibbert , aged six years , who had left home a day or two previous : the last time he was seen alive was near the aqueduct on the canal . An inquest was held on the body on Monday , before Mr . Chapman , borough coroner ; and , after hearing the above statement , the Jury retimed a verdict of " Found drowned . "

      A Child's Ear Bit off by a Pio . —Matthew Brady 4 and his wife Catherine , ! two genuine specimens of the rougher portion of the Irish peasantry were brought up at the borough court , Bolton , on Saturday last , for an assault upon Elizabeth Clayton . It appeared that the Bradys live at Nevvtown and , after the fashion of their Country , keep a pig " to help them a bit in the winter time . " At night , the animal is accommodated with lodging under the same roof as its master , and in the day time it is turned out to ramble in the neighbourhood . Now , it appears that this pig had acquired a peculiar antipathy to children , and had bitten nearly every child in the street ; and when any of their parents complained , Pat very coolly told them to keep their

      children in the house ! Thus matters stood , the Bradys and their pig being the terror of the neighbourhood , when Mrs . Clayton ' s child was seized by the animal and thrown into the channel , and the savage brute bit off part of its ear before it could be extricated . The mother , alarmed for the safety of her child , ran out with a hammer , and threatened to kill the pie ; when Brady came up , snatched the hammer from her , and knocked her down . —Mr . Harris said , he had had several complaints from parties whose children had been bitten by this pig . —The defendants made a terrible uproar in the court ; and Mrs . Clayton being afraid of farther annoyance , they Wero required to find sureties to keep the peace and pay exponoea . !

      Deficient Weights and Scales . —At the Bury petty serious , on Friday last , Mr John Warburton , inspector of weights and measures , summoned the following persons , who were convicted ia the sums named : —John Wood , Rock-street , Bury , a pair of small scales for weighing sugar , a quarter of an ounce deficient , caused by having a piece of lead hung on one of the scales ; Georga Moacrop , grocer , Old Market Place , Bury , small / sugar scales a quarter of an ounce against the buyer , caused by having paper concealed under one end of the scales . Mr . Thomas Grundy , solicitor , appeared for the defendants , on the grounds that tbe profits on sugar were so small that the grocers were obliged to use the above , or similar means , to recompense them for the

      paper which they used to wrap the sugar in ; and that an inspector had no right to seize any scales on any pretence whatever , not even if he found them deficient . He then called Mr . } Andrews , the late deputy-constable , who stated , that it had been common for the last twenty years for grocers to weigh the paper with sugar , or to have the paper under the scales . —Mr . Warburton , ! the inspector , contended , that if persons must be allowed to put their scales out of balance , either with paper or lead , there would be no safety ; and , according to the 28 ih section of the 5 th and 6 oh William IV . the parties so doing were liable tola penalty of £ 5 — The magistrates said , they could not sanction the parties having the scales wrong on any grounds whatever ; and , if the profits on Sugar were so small - ' — ^ -- — _ w _ _ _ ^ -j _ _ .. _ .. _ _ , — _

      ^ that the grocers could not deal \ honestly , they had the same power to raise the price of the article as they had to reduce it . Mr . Wood was convicted in the penalty of 20 j ., and Mr . Mbscrop 5 a . and costs . —Honry Barnes , Pifcs-o-th' -Moor , for having scales similar to the above , was fined 53 . and costs . Alice Yates , green-grocer , Huntley Brook , for one illegal lead weight , a quarter of an ounce deficient , dismissed with a caution to mind better in future . Lamber Walkden , green grocer , Free Town , for a four-pound weight three quarters of an ounce , and a one pound a quarter of an ounce deficient : ordered to pay costs . William Barnes , beer-seller and green grocer , for one four-pound weight half an ounce deficient , and two half-pound weights nearly a quarter of an ounce each deficient ; dismissed on forfeiting the weights . .

      Seizure of Apples , Onions , &c . in Bolton Market . —On Saturday last , complaint having been made to Mr . Fogg , inspector , by a party who had bought two baskets of apples considerably under weight , he went round the market and weighed all the apples , pears , onions , &c , that were put up for sale , and a considerable quantity ! was seized as under weight . Two or three of the parties appeared before the Mayor , at the Borough Court , with various excuses , but the property was declared forfeited . Leaving Work without Notice . —James Rudd was charged before the magistrates of Wigan , on Friday last , with leaving the employment of Messrs . Johnson and Ai us wroth , without giving the notice required in his agreement . This was the second

      charge of the above nature preferred by the complainants in the course of tbe week . They said in consequence of a number of bands having absented themselves without a moment ' s ] notice , they were constrained to make an example . The bench discharged the defendant , on condition that he returned to his work , and ordered him to pay the expences . Serious Assault . —At the Borpugh Court , Stockport , ou Saturday , a young man , named Joseph Bibby , was charged with having ; committed a most serious assault upon Arthur Sheridan , by striking him on the head with a hammer , and thereby fracturing his skull , and placing his life in jeopardy . Mr . Hudson , solicitor , appeared for the prosecution , and Mr . W . Vaugban for the defence . It appeared

      from the statement of Mr . Hudson , and the evidence of a number of witnesses , that on Friday , the 18-h August , tho prosecutor and prisoner were engaged in repairing the mill formerly -occupied by Mr . Cophus Howard , near Portwood Bridge , whioh has for some years been ontenantedj At the end of the day's work , several of the meu assembled in the warehouse , and began to dispute about a clock which had been clandestinely ] taken from the engine-house ; and the prosecutor stating that he had seen tho case in a room of which the prisoner had the charge , the prisoner called him a Jiar , and said if he repeated the assertion ! , he would knock his bloody Irish brains out . Prosecutor repeated : the statement , when the prisoner struck him on the face with his left hand , and immediately afterwards

      struck him a violent blow on the left temple with a hammer 2 ib . 3 j * . in weight . The blow inflicted a contused wound an inch long , causing a depression of the skull , and the displacement of the temporal bone so much as to allow a little finger to pass within the skull . The prosecutor has been an inmate of the Stockport Infirmary since the occurrence , and is not yet considered out of danger . Prisoner was apprehended the night of the ocoarrenoe ; and , after being kept in custody & week , was admitted to bail to appear when called upon . — The magistrates , having heard the facts of the oaee , committed the prisoner to take ! his trial on the charge at the next Chester asslzes .- ^ AppHoation was mado for his liberation on bail , till the assizes , but it was refused . 1

      Calic > Printers , Kilmarnock . —The briskness still cofltiiroefl , and every manufacturer in town is fully employed . — Eilmtrnock Journal .

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      Illegal Appropriation of Upwards op £ 900 . — A good-looking youth , about seventeen years of age , named George Highfield Morton , was , on Saturday last , placed before Mr . Rushton , at the Police Coart , Liverpool , on a charge of having gon * « ff with £ 909 7 s . of his employers' money . Police constable Kehoe stated , that , from information whioh he had received , ho proceeded , on Thursday after noon , to Chester , in search of the pri ^ ner ; and r .. Friday morning found him at tho shop of NTrp . De Silva , in Watergate-street , in that town , wha keeps a genteel lodging-house . In the handbills , the prisoner , had been described as having the initial ? of his name marked in Indian ink on tho left hand , between the joints of his finger aud thumb ; and the

      witness , on apprehending him , found his hand deeding , from an attempt to obliterate the first letter . He brought him back to Liverpool . The prisoner was remanded . On Monday he wag again brought up ; and Constable Kehoe further deposed , that , on Saturday afteraoon , he was informed that he wa % wanted at the bridewell . Ho went tht-re , and saw the prisoner , who said , " I am going to Chester with you , to show you where tho incney i < 3 . We shall have to go beyond the bridge , to the other side of the Dee , and the money will be found in a hedge . Witness eaid , that they accordingly went together to Chester that day ; and , after passing the bridge , the prisoner , about six o ' clock in the evemnsc , pointed ont to him , at the bottom of a hedge , or

      fence , a hole ; and , on searching in it , witness found a bag , in which there was a pocket-book , In the book he found eight £ 100 notes , one £ 50 note , seven £ 10 notes , . three £ 20 notes , and five sovereigns ; making in all £ 905 . The prisoner , who wore a new syit of clothes , similar to those of a genteel apprentice in the merchant seaman ' s service , told witness , that he had purchased them iu Oldhall-street , Paradise-street , and other things at other places in the town , which accounts for the residue of the money . The prisoner , on being asked for his defence , with the usual caution , declined to say any thing . He was committed for trial . The prisoner was in the service of Messrs . Musgrave and Vance , cotton-brokers , Exchange Buildings . —Liverpool paper .

      The Fobce op Conscience . —On Monday morning last , a mas , who stated his name to be Moses Wood surrendered himself to the police , at Manchester , stating that he was a deserter from the S 9 h Regiment . Ho was brought before the magistrates on Tuesday , at the Town Hall , and still persisted in the statement , and said that about twelve months age he had been apprehended for being a deserter , but there being no proof of his desertion in tho depot whither he was takfD , he had been discharged . Mr . Maude then told him the serious consequences of any one , without caufe , giving himself up as a de » Berter ; to which the prisoner replied , " I wish I could say I was free . " It was his conscience , he said that made him uneasy , and give himself up . Orders were given for inquiries to be made into the truth of the above Btatement , and a communication to be addressed to" the War office .

      Ireland—Anti-Rent War . — " On Sunday last , " says the CarlowSentinel , " about 200 persons , men and women , principally strangers , from the county of Wexford , assembled on the farm of Patriot Murphy , of Ballylean , near Ballon , in this county , and cut down and carried away upwards of ten acres of oats . The crop wag not under seizure , and the object of cutting down and carrying away the corn on Sunday is supposed to be for the purpose of evading a distress for rent , which ifc is said Murphy expected on the following day . Tho Ballon police were present and identified some of the parties , bat could not interfere Murphy ' s daughter having stated that it was cut down with her father ' s consent "

      Murder of an Infant » y its Mother . —It appears by a report of a coroner ' s inquest in the Cork papers , that Mary Hill , an unmarried woman , was delivered of an infant last week , and that she threw it immediately after it was born icto a deep well at the rero of the premises of the house in which aha was at service . This inhuman parent confessed that the child was born alive , and that she threw it into the well to preveut exposure and detection . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of WHfal Murder . Two Men Sdffgcated . —Oa Thursday week , as two men , of the names of John Daweon , of Hampsthwaite , plumber , &c , and Wm . Habishaw ,

      mechanic , were employed by J . Greenwood , Esq ., of Wreaks , near Ripley , Yorkshire , in descending a well for the purpose of putting down a pump , they incautiously descended without adopting the usual method of testing the purity of the air , and consequently both fell victims to their imprudence . Dawson first commenced the descent , and was soon followed by Habishaw , and they had not gone more than five or six yards before they were unable to return , by inhaling the carbonic acid gas , when they both fell suddenly to the bottom , a distance of fourteen or fifteen yards , and were taken out quite dead .

      Important Discovery . —Imperishable Bread . — Wednesday we were present in the Mayor ' s private room , at the Town Hall , Liverpool , during the opening of a box of bread which was packed at Rio de Janeiro , nearly two years ago , and which proved as sound , sweet , and in all respects as good as on the day when it was enclosed . It appears that , as regards the staff of life , at least that sort thereof required for ship or other stores which it is desirable to keep a long time , we shall have no reason in future to speak of " the bread that perishetb , " seeing that Mr . Gilbert Claude Alzard , a Frenchman , has discovered a mode of making biscuits , on which time

      effects no deterioration . This bread is manufactured of a mixture , in certain proportions , of rice , meal , and wheat flour , and it has other important advantages in addition to that very material one already named . For instance , the coarsest quality of flour may be used , and will produce bread not inferior to that made of the finest description of flour by the ordinary method . It is also , Wo are informed , extremely nutritious , very beneficial to the system , and a certain antiscorbutic . It is asserted by M . Alzard , that the bread would keep two centuries without the slightest alteration . The discoverer of tho process has secured the right to manufacture it in this country by patent . —Gore ' s Advertiser .

      Liverpool , Tuesday Evening—The steam-ship Caledonia , which sailed this evening , shortly after sis o'clock , carries ' ont eighty-five passengers , amongst them Mr . Macteaiily , the actor , Mr . Edward Gibbon Wakefleld , an American manager , and others connected with tho theatrical profession . The arrivals to-day have been confined to a few vessels from Dmtz ' c and Smyrna . No arrivals from the United States . The incoming packet of the 19 th is anxiously looked for , though nothing has transpired respecting her whereabouts . The winds have been favourable for her of late , but light , and , as she has now been out upwards of seventeen days , she may be looked for daily . The present state of the cotton market , which is still very firm , though the sales have only reached 6 , 000 bales to-day , is one of the " primary causes why intelligence from the other side of tne Atlantic excites , at the . present moment , so much interest .

      Seizure of a Manufactory of Spuriois Tea . —From the number of cases of retailers of spnrioua tea that have lately come before her Majesty ' s Court of Excise , and in which convictions of the parties in large penalties have invariably followed , the officers have been strictly on the alert to endeavour to bring the wholesale producers or manufacturers to justice , espep | aUy as the poorer classes are , in most instances , the purchasers of this trash , to the injury of their health and the loss ot the revenue . From information received , Messrs . Spurgln and Rowlandson , supervisors of excise , proceeded to premises in Anchor Yard , Oldstreet , St . Luke ' s , where , after some trouble , they succeeded in obtaining an entrance . Oa going into tho " manufactory" they found it fitted up with large stoves , pans for drying , plates for the final process of drjing , colouring matter , and drugs , besides a large

      quantity of ' * tea , " black and gteen , ready for sending out , with some only in progress from black to green , — the whole amounting to nearly a ton in weight Ths place was fitted up in the most extensive manner , suit , able for carrying on a large traSe , as wa 3 evinced by the large s ' zs of the stoves , and the stock ot coke found upon the premises . The whole stock of " tea" consisted of spent leaves , re-dried and coloured to represent black or green , according to the demand . The apparatus appeared to have been recently used , but no person was found upon the premises ; they having , it was supposed , made their escape' during the entry of the officers . A van having been procured , the whole was conveyed to fcha chief office of the Board of Excise , in Bread-street , where the circumstances will be adjadicated upoa by her Majesty ' s Commissioners . —Litndon Paper .

      The QUBEK ' S Yisit to France -Among the numberless questions to which her Majesty ' s via't to the Continent has given rise , not a few have been mooted respecting the supposed incapacity of the Qu « en to leave her British dominions without the sanction of an express act of Parliament Some persona ( upoa what grounds it is difficult to conjecture ) have maintained that the Prince of Wales , and not her Majesty , is the person affected by this restriction . la order , therefore , ; to remove ail doubt upon the subject , it is right to men&m that the thitd clause ia the Aet * f Settlement , which enacted <« th » t no person who shall hereafter come to the possession of this Crown shall go out of tbe dominions of England , Scotland , or JMand , without consent of Parliament * " was repealed very soon afterwards , In the fiwt yeai of George I . ( 1 st <* S « : . * ' 31 ); " whose frequent joorneya to Hanoveri " says Mr . Hallam , " were an abuse of the graciousneaa with which tbe Parliament consented to annul the restriction . " .

      REDACTION OP RB » T IN WATFJ 1 —Tftn TJari of C&wdor has announced ihat he out of his last lady Day ' s rente pay full rente , but not to the His lordship , we are informed , the Ctolden Grove estate to come attention to all that was said hy told them that * redaction to the be made . Under similar must ibe adopted by others . < Mr intends to return to the »^ cent oat of theiri rente at his Lloyd , Brynog , Cardiganshire , allowed all his tenants and » nd S pei cent— Welshman .

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      Thb Shtoield Chabieb . —All tbe formalities a ttenoaainpon the grant of the Charter having been aBmpleted , ft has this week been transmitted to Sheffield . In accordance with tbe Charter , the bnr-^ i ? * i > een Prepared , and will be published on iflfc * -n of September . The list eonvains aboBt 5 . 300 ™** w- » tfkld Independent .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1843, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct946/page/5/