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      I . I GLOBIOUS A > T ) TRIUMPHANT DEFEaT OP ALL THE ROBBER FACTIONS BY j THE WHOLE HOG CHARTIST BRI- 1 GADE OF SUXBERLAKD . j On the morals of Friday , ihe 20 th , large bills j appeared « n the -walls of this town , announcing a 1 public meeiing , ior the purpose of tafcing into con- j sideration lhe barges made against Mr . James < "Williams , by Feargus O'Connor , Esq .. in the > Evening Star of the 3 rd , and repeated in the NorVicrn Star of the 7 th . of this n ? onth . Tae meeiins was j called with a penny admission in the Athei seam Lectuie Room . Bv the terms of the hill * tok > of j censure was to have been passed on Fesrens O'Con- j nor , E ? q ^ bnt , alas , for the -sneenanty of all human ] schemes , poor Mr . WiiJiams reckoned witbont his i host ; the £ harri * t-= 05 the Erst appearance of the bills : met in their-nicil RoomsRoMnson ' s Lane , to i

      , ¦ m ake arr = . < oicnts for defending tbeir braveleader . j All thia «> ^ ingsettled to their jrs-ual satisfaction , ; they sr-tmlv awaited the tus -5 . war on Moaa&y , night and to their ^ reai deni&i and satisfaction , two of their brother boss , Mcass . Con Murray and Samnel K'dd , arrived from Newcastle at lour o'clock in the afternoon . On their itcmes being a » noQHced in the CouneFi JL * sm , all was jot and gladness , and it was at once as . Teed that Mx . Kidd shoald appeaT against Mr . Wiiliams , as the friend of O'Connor . We should also have said * hat the Chartists sent a . xiepntation to Mr . Williams , requesting him to allow the poor Twking men "free admission , is some

      thousands hsd no penny Ko pay . They -contended that the- public character-of O'Connor was the property of every Chartist , and before ke should be pnt on trial , it ~ wouid 'b * only justice that all were allowed to hs present . Tae depatatios -offered to pay the half ^ f the exp enses of the hall , if Mr . Williams " would pay the other half jthis he wasid not accede to , and hundreds of our best and bravest men , through porertynwere kept trirhout the building , and the hall "filled with those only who could pay their pennies . Having now skctri > ed the prerions proceedings in as short a manner as possible , we proceed to . give a candid , fair , and impartial report of the meeting and discussion . Long before eight , o ' clock , the ialL which is capable of holding ^ tK ) , was densely iLlled in every

      jwrnPT corner . Mr . "Williams arose and proposed that 3 d > . Knot , a "working man , should take the chair . ( Loud cheers ) . Mr . Hesketh Reillt proposed , as an amendment , that Mr . ^ ohn Chalk , atother working man , - and one of the Council oi the ^ hole ho $ brigade , should take the chair . Thi 3 . amendment was received with tremendous thunders oi applause and load cheering , which lasted for several minutes . Mr . " R-btt . t . t then took a show of hands for Mr . ¦ Chalk , -when , % o our judgmeKt , two-thirds of ± he meeting t o : ed for him . Mr . Wiu . U 3 is next for 3 ir . Knot , when about 150 supported him .

      Mr . Chale ., on taking the-chair , remarked thai it ¦ was well known to ihe audieuce that he was not a speech-maker , and would not therefore waste their time loager xhan by calling e ? every mas in that room , no matter what were his individual opinions on the subject about to be oiscussed , to give a fair hearing to both speakers ; nothing elicited trmh so "well as a fair discussion , if they did not h ^ ar all parties patiently , they could notjndge impartially ; lie would now leave the matter in their ora hancs , sad trusted they weuld all sepport him in keeping good order . After thanking his brother Chartists for that mark of their confidence and respect , he Bst down amidst loud cheers .

      Messrs . Williams and Kndd then entered into the following arrangements ,: —Williams to take fifteen minnies in opening the discussion , and proving < PConnor * 5 charges to be false . Kidd , fifteen minutes in defending O'Connor , and proving his charges against Williams to be strictly in accordance "With truth ; each speaker thereafter to have ten mino&es alternately until the close of the debate . ATI things being now settled , Mr . Williams came forward , londly cheered by Ms friends , and said in snbRtJinee s . 5 follows : —

      Mr . Chairman and Gentlemen , I am charged in ihe leading article of the Northern Star of Saturday , the 7 th , copied from the JEve&uig JSiarof the 3 rd of ihi 3 month , and from the pen of Feargus O'Connor , 32 sq .,-with having made a base compromise of principle to the enemies of the Cnarter in the Birmingham Conference . Secondly , in having impudently and audaciously endeavoured to form a third party 5 n the said Confererce ; and lastly , -with being actuated by ^ mercenary motives in the part I have taken to secure the sis pounds a-week as a Cozepleie SnSrageieernrer . These charges , couched as xheywere in language of the most insniting style * ¦ called upon him as a man to whom character was Tilnable to defend himself , and that such defencs should appear tbronjrh the same channel . He did not stand there to deny the right on the part of a free press to discuss tie character of -every public man , but -while he -would freely admit this r ight , he would also maintain th * t if a man found that he

      ¦ was unjustly charged , ihat same press ought to hear him in reply . He would then take these charges one by one , and show to any nnprejndiced and unbiassed man that they were each and all devoid of truth , that they were slanderous and ungentlemanly . The frst charge was , that he bad made abase compromise of principle to the enemies of the Charter at the Birmingham Conference . Now , he denied that he had made a base compromise . He denied that he had violated any one single point of the Charter . He proceeded to discuss the points of the People's Charter , seriatim , at each point turning to Kidd , and asking Mm to prove to that assembly , which of them he had compromised . He admitted that he had differed in opinion with the majority of the Conference , but he

      lad done so consciention 5 ly , and hehoped histalented opponent -would not deny him the privilege of thinking for himself , or exercising his judgment without being abused for so doing , or pinning his convictions to the skirts of any man living . If a man were to be denounced in such a manner as he had been , by O'Connor , and such denunciation wa 3 called Chartism , thenhe ( Mr . Williams ) "would eease to be a Chartist . If this were to be called liberties would declare before God that he would cease to advocate its principle In conclusion , he called npon them in the most feeling manner to pause , ere they came to a decision that evening , to banish all prejudice , if they had any against him , and give his opponent the same impartial hearing they had given him . He sat down loudly cheered by his friends .

      Mr . Kjdd came forward amidst the most deafening cheers . When silence had been restored , he said Air . Chairman , ladies and fellow-working men of Sunderland , I must keg leave to correct an expression which Mr . Williams used to me individually . He has told yon that I am a very talented gentleman , now he believed Mr . Williams had not said so disrespectfully , but he had been in error , for the fact waSjhelMr . Kidd ) was only jast a poor hard " working man , who must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow , and as to his talent , he could lay no pretensions to that , hut he had truth and justice on hi 3 a « Je . He stood there on the sure fonnaation , on the glorious , on the pure and unsullied doctrines -of democracy , and on this solid roek he stood

      to prove that Mr . James Williams had compromised , not any one particular point of the Charter , but that he had done the mischief by wholesale—that he had basely violated all the Six Points—that he had grossly compromised the fundamental principle on which the-People ' s Charter was built—( deafening cheers , clapping of hands , and waving of hats and liandkerchiefe . ) And now for the proofs . They ¦ would all be aware that the Conference at Birmingham was elected by Universal Suffrage , at least the major ity—it was virtually a fair representation of the -whole people of Great Britain - ; its members "were elected st pnblie meetings fairly called , unless in mch cases as thai of Paisley , Doncaster , and the second returns of such a 3 Newcastle-upon-Tyne and

      Oldham , where the villany of the Stureke 3 interfered to suppress the pnblie voice . Tke address of the Suffrage Union called upon the country to elect their delegates and send them to Birmingham for the purpose of conferring -with one another in framing a bill to be sentinto the House of Commons on the part of the people . This address did not say to the people , you must send delegates who , on their arrival in Birmingham , are to n sil silently and swallow every-nostrum we , the Suffrage Council , think proper to propose , without consulting tiieir own judgment , or the instructions or opinions ef their constituents . If it : had said so , the people would have treated snch a proposition with contempt , by not electing

      one single delegate , and in his opinion very justly too ; but the reverse was the fact Tney were called together on purely democratic principles ; it was not pretended , by any party , thit they would all db of one opinion -on any point ; but it was expected that , in accordance with these principles , tne ^ minority would give in and be goversed by the majority , otherwise there was no use of their meeting . Did the Complete Suffrage party act on this principle ? ( Hear , hear , and lead cries of so , no . ) ** ° 5 f »« Lmost strenuously maintained not . Their doctane was simply this , we will agree with * U the world if all the world agrees with as—( loud cheers ) —tney lost their dogmatical motion on their hnee ] * l ? & ** ° dafter ° e ™« left in a minority ; they then kick np their heels against the m-eat majoritv

      and got off to a room by themselves . In thus « ct- = ing yon Trail observe they did not take , as I have : sud ^ ny particular point of the Charter for vioLv } taon—they did not pick them—thry were bo fari whole hog men , for they swept the principles with ' one fell swoop —( laughter and cheers }—Mr . Kidd tnen turning to -Mr . W ., you nave asked me , Sir , to fihow yon which of these points you have compromised , here jb my answer—the wnole of them inasmuch as yon ran away with the minority —( contained cheering ) . If Mr . W , could show Mm that the majority were to be guided and governed by the mitorjty , flien would he be preparedio admit that he had not made a compromise . In further illustration « f such a libel on democracy , he instanced the Corn-L * wBepealers . If their lying great gnn , Dickey

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      Cobden , introdoced a mrasure to the next session of Parliament for the repeal of the Corn and Provision Laws , and vhe majority were to divide against him , what would be thought of the eighty cr ninety repeal members , if , with Dickey at their htad , they were to leave the House of Commons , meet in another place , and declare themselves ihe Parliament 1—( cheers ) . Now he held this was just the position in which Mr . W . and his Sturgeite friends were placed . They had aeted on the old Tory principles of the few dictating to the many . He would , before sitting down , call npon his opponent to answer his question without endeavouring to hide himself under a tioak of sophistry , for he ^ Mr . Kidd ) was not to be iumbaggvd after that fashion . Here is the question , is

      the right of the minority to govern the maj&rity in accordance with the principles of the ChxTterl—( great cheering ) . Mr . WTtLiAMs , on rising the second time , showed by his evasive and shuffling attempts to answer the question of his opponent , that he was writhing under the first speech of Mr . Kidd . He contended that , in some instances , the minority "bad a right to act independent of the majority , in proof of -which , be refer-Ted to the Protestant Reformation and the persecutions of thefrst reform ers , fey the admission of every ¦ man . Thej were in the minority , and a very small minority at the commeaeement of their career , and ¦ would Mr , Kidd dare to hold that tkey should have given in tt the majority 3 yet , this he mnst do if he contended for this dootrine under all circumstances

      He called their attention to America , where their Charter principles "w < 5 re in full operation . In that country , the majorit / y of 1 . 7 , 000 , 000 white people kept the minority of 2 ; 000 , 00 u in bondage , on no other 1 pretext than that of their skin being black . i Here then was convincing evidence to prove that there was extreme cases in wbieh the minority i i ? ere justified in opposing the nwjority , and acting ' independent of them . He held tnat tne case of the ¦ Conference was ooe of them ; he did not leave the I majority uctil be found there was no good to be pff . cted by remaining longer with them , until he 1 fouEd that the seeeeding party were active business men , and more likeiv to bring about the regeneration

      of the country . He tried to do some little good to ; the people ' s caase , by moving the preamble of the Bill of Rights , in the Chartist Conference , as being j preferable to tbe preamble of the Charter . When this was lost , he considered he was in duty bound to ¦ go over to the minority ; he maintained that this was fully answering the question of his opponent . ; He then called ea Mr . Kidd to show what point of ' tbe Charter he had eom promised , as in his whole -speech he had never attempted to do so . He contended this was the whole foundation of the discassion , and , as yet , he steod acquitted of the charge of compromise , and would in his next ten minutes take up the second charge . —( loud cheers . )

      Mr . Kii > D le-ould not permit his tnly opponent to lead him from the real subject under discussion to that of negro slavery ; he would say , in reference to the poor slaves , that they were kepi in bondage , not as Mr . W . erroneously held , under the full operation of the principles of our Cnarter , it was under tbe damning influence of elass-legislation the poor blacks were kept in bondage ; as a proof , Mr . W . woald now be informed that , in the Northern States of the Union , where universal suffrage was the basis of their State Assemblies , there was scarce a vestige of slavery to be found ; while in ihe Southern States , where there existed a forty dollar qualification , there were more slaves than freemen —( loud cheers)—it was the rascally middle

      classes that kept the poor Indians in chains—it was ihe rascally class that formed the minority at the Conference , and to whom Mr . W . had now become allied . He would ask them what interest the poor working American conld have in keeping his poor negro conntryman a slave J—( continued cheering . ) Mr . Williams was more unfortunate in his attempts to make the minority at the reformation serve his purpose , for there was no similarity between a minority on the question of religion and the question of politics . In the qnestion of religion he held the rule of majorities and minorities was uncalled for , and not only that—it was tyranny of the worst description to compel a minority in religion to believe with the majority , when at the same time

      their holding different tenets could not injure their majority , while they paid their owb clergy on the voluntary principle , but it was quite different as regarded politics ; for if Mr . W . ' s minority had the power of making laws affecting the lives and properties of the majority , it would be high Toryism , and not democracy . He would again call the attention of Mr . W . to the simile m his last speech , viz . the Corn Law Repealers , as a minority in the House of Commons , which was quite to the point , and which he had not yet answered . ( A great uproar here ensued on the part of Mr . W . ' s friends , and they continued to interrupt Mr . K . during the rest of the evening ) Mr . Kidd , standing until the respectables became a lifJe more quiet , coolly observed ,

      Gentlemen , these arguments are nipping ye—your troubles are only beginning—you will get more of them—( roars of laughter , and cheering , and rnffiDg , which made the gallery shake ) . Mr . W . gave another reason for leaving the majority , and going with the minority , it was this , because the minority were men of business ; yes , he iMr . Kidd ) could not decy it ; they were men of business , and no mistake ; their hug ? and overgrown bill p f rights , that took five hoars to read , was a practical proof that they conld do a deal of business , but it was no proof that they had done it well . He had been told by Mr . W . that the preamble of ihe bill of rights was preferable to the preamble of the Charter ; this they would see was only an assertion ; he had offered no proof . How , in what consisted the superiority of th : s preamble to ours ; why , because it was written

      by lawyers ; it was made up of a whole bushel of legal phrases , such as whereases , aforesaids , &c . &c . &c , and in a very holy and reverential style , added to that of extreme loyalty . They addressed the robbers of this nation , including the big-bellied bishops , a 3 the lords spiritual and temporal —( great laughter and cheers . ) Ho had been asked by Mr . W . what point he had violated ; why did he ( Kidd ) not prove that he had violated the whole by destroying the principles ; and until his opponent met the question in its proper form , he would keep him as firmly nailed to it as a bad shilling to a grocer's counter—daughter and cheers ); he wonld keep him there till he answered openly as a man , and a professing patriot , and from what they had heard , he wa 3 not likely to answer it—( continued cheers and disapprobation . )

      Mr . Williams now came to the consideration of the second charge , viz ., thathe bad imprudently and audaciously endeavoured to create a third party in the Conference , by proposing the preamble of the Bill of Rights . Why if this wa 3 a crime against tbe majesty of Mr . O'Connor , he could prove that that Gentleman held in 1839 that the Charter was deficicient in its details , and not only did he eay this bnt had almost damned the Charier by declaring its detaib to be nonsensical . He then read Mr . O'Connor ' s speech delivered in the Convention from an old Star of that year , went on to say , " am I to be denounced for endeavouring to amend what O'Connor has told us was nonsensical , and after being so denounced in the columns of a Chartist

      journal , without being allowed the insertion of my defence ! " He wished his opponent to note this well , and as he undertook to defend Mr . O'Connor , show him how he conld square this with Chartist principles . Mr . Kidd held it was an attempt , an impudent and acdacious attempt , to create a third party by Mr . W . introducing a document for discussion , when on the day before , it was rejected by a majority of 99 . Was there any thing more clear and reasonable than this view of the question ! His opponent finds fanlt at not getting free acceES to the columns of the Star . Did he take a proper method of defending himself ? He denied it . A letter which would occupy three columns and made up of Ecnmlous abuse , was not likely to find a place in any paper . Were the poor working men to pay 4 JH .

      for such trash , to the exclusion of better matter 1 It was quite common with the enemies of Chartism in their dispntes with the Star , to "write such letters as would disgraee a fish wife in point of abuse , well knowing that they would not be published , nay that in point of fact ^ thcy were unfit for publication , and then cry out against the conduct of the editorin not giving themfairplay . Mr . W . had told them that Mr . O'Gonnor called the details of the Charter nonsensical in 1839 : well , for the sake of argument he would jrraiit thi * to be true , and what did it amount to ? why , that Feargns O'Connor had not changed his mind in the Birmingham Conference , for he there speni the greater part of two days in assisting to amend these details—( loud and enthusiastic cheering . )

      Mr . Williams now rose to repel the lying insinuation that he was ingratiating himself with the Complete Suffrage party for the pnrpose of becoming their lecturer at five or six pounds a week . He said this was done to injure him , for those who knew him , and the physician who attended him , knew perfectly well that from the state of his health he was quite unable to deliver a lectnre for any party . Mr . W . by this time had got off his coat , and drawing himself up to his full height he made one of the most powerful appeals to the sympathy of the people we have ever heard . He asked them were they going to censure him after what he had suffered in tiieir cause ! were they going to Bend him to his grave and leave his wife and family without a guardian ! were they now going to tell him who had so

      often stood their friend , James Williams we will never again allow you to appear on our platforms as the advocate of oar principles ! Surely they would not ; he thought he knew them better ; but after all , if they did he coald not help it . Mr . W . h % re became much affected , and many of his friends , esi ^ eeially the females , shed tears ; indeed we frankly own that we ourselves began to think the whole hog men should relax their stern severity for his desertion of t * ieir cause . Mr . W . sat down in a state of complete exhaustion , crying out don't blast my characier—( loed cheers from the friendB of Mr . W . ) Mr . Kidd , in rising for the last time , said , he felt himself iAther awkwardly situated , not as regarded the stt ^ BPth of his position , for he now stood master of the field—( loud cheers , and cries of

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      " yee , yes , " and '" no , no , " from all parts of the houfe ) ; but , he felt that he was now approaching the must d elicate part of the dispute , viz ., the money matters 'n . Mr . O'Connor ' s charges . Mr . W . was said to K » e on the look out for a Sturge office . Well , even on this snbject , he would boldly give hia opiniojis , —and here they were . All those lecturers who had been brought into public life , who had been made valuable by the poor Chartists , and had since joined the ranks of our enemies , did not go away all at once . No ; they went bit by bit , just as Mr . W . was now goiDg . True , Mr . W , fiad told them , and referred to his physician to bear him out in it , that the state of his health would not on any account permit his giving alecture 1

      but was it not a fact that no man in these countries was in the habit of giving such speeches and lectures , Mr . W . had made a strong , and he woald say , a very feeling appeal to their feelings and their sympathy . He asked them not to censure him . ( Cries of " It wont do ; " and great disapprobation and hissing . ) He ( Kidd ) had no wish to see him censured , if he came forward and honestly acknowledged his errors , and faithfully promised to be a good boy in future . But why did Mr . W . cry bo loudly against being censured , when he wa 9 using his every exertion to censure such a brave and disinterested advocate of suffering humanity as that bold indomitable patriot Feargus O'Connor 1 ( Loud and long-continued cheering . ) In conclusion he now

      called upon them to vote in accordance with their honest convictions , regardless of the sympathetic appeal of Mr . Williams , or the many and valuable services of O'Connor . He held , and he was proud to say , that he had by his humble abilities defended O'Connor , and confirmed the charges preferred against Mr . W . He had one word more to say , betore sitting down , which was , that for the character of his species he was sorry to be compelled to admit that all who now endeavoured to injure O'Connor were creatures whom he made respectable by his purse and his press . He would bid them farewell , and sit down by again calling on them to do their daty . Tae cheering which followed Mr . Kidd ' s last speech surpassed anything we have ever heard .

      Mr . Williams immediately rose and without comment , moved the followicg motion . " That the principle of democracy and of natural justice requires that a wrong done to the humblest member of the state should be regarded as equally important aa one inflicted on the most distinguished ; that it is one of tbe most sacred and inalienable rights of man to ba permitted freely to exercise the powers of his mind and as freely to declare and act on bis bonest conviction ? . That this meeting is , therefore , of opinion that tbe conductors of tbe pn ^ s have a right to examine and comment upon tbe public conduct of all pnblie men , while thu latter are equally entitled to

      vindicate them stives through the eaine medium . That as the character of a man is as sacred as his life , and as Mr . O'Connor , as Editor of tbe Evening Star , has broURht charges and made insinuations against Mr . Williams , ¦ which , if true , would Tender him unworthy of public esteem and confidence ; it was , therefore , the right of Mr . Williams to be permitted to rtp ' y to the sam « , and the duty of the Editor of the Star to insert such reply ; and this meeting finding that the reply of Mr . Williams to Ibe said attack has been -withheld by the Editor if the Star , are ef opinion that snch conduct is at varianca with the principles of democracy and "with the principle of doing unto others as we would they should do unto us . "

      Mr . Kidd immediately moved this amendment : — * " That it is the opinion of this meeting tbe conduct of Feargus O'Connor , E ,--q , in exposing the dishonest and treacherous trickery and shcffllng of Mr . Junes Wiiliams , as one of tbe delegates from Sunderland , to tbe Birmingham Conference , was manly and straightforward , and entitles that gentleman to tbe thanks , gratitude , and confidence of the bud-working , illused sons of toil throughout Great Britain and Ireland ; and it is also cf opinion that every word written on that subject in tbe Evening Star of the 3 rd of this present month , is strictly iu accordance with truth , and justifies us in withdrawing any confidence which we reposed in Mr . James Williams , in tbe early part of tbe Chartist agitation . "

      The Chajrsuk then pnt Kidd ' s amendment , calling upon all who supported his as being the resolution of this meeting to bold up both hands . With one universal shout , up went a forest of hands , which , to our appearance left none down . He then , in the same words , put Mr . Williams ' s motion , for which we should think about 200 voted . Tno Chairman then declared the amendment carried by a large majority . Tnis amendment was carried with every demonstration of applause and loud cries of " Long live O'Connor , the people ' s champion . " Mr . Wiiliams ' s friends here created a great confusion , denied the correctness of the Chairman ' s decision , and called for the appointment of

      tellers-Mr . Kidd then appointed Mr . Con Murray , of Glasgow , as his telleT ; Mr . Williams , another gemleman , whose name we could not learn . The votes were again taken , when the majority seemed even still larger . The tellers consulted , when , strange to say , the gentleman chosen by Mr . Williams declared he could not say on which tbe majority was . Mr . Williams then remarked , " O , then , we will give it op on both sides , and stand as we began . " Mr . Murray stopped him : " Not bo fast Sir , " ho had an opinion in the matter now , and ho would toll Mr . Williams that ho wa 3 prepared to prove to the best of his judgment that there were at the very least between 80 and 100 of a majority for K-dd ' a amendment ; and this , with the chairman ' s decision , and the fact that the Chartitts had carried their friend to the chair , completely knocked poor Jemmy almost stupified . The meeting then separated in a very nprorious manner .

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      HUM *—Defeat of the Cojiplfte Suffragists —On Wednesday evening hot , Mr . J . Collins , cf Birmingham , delivered a lecture in the Free Masons ' Lodge , Myton-gate , on the principles of Complete Suffrage . The meeting was but thinly attetded ; the great majoiity , however , being Chartists , as the result proved . At eight o ' clock Mr . Firth waa called to the chair , who btitfly opened the business by stating that as discursion waa anticipated at the close of tbe lecture , any person would be at liberty to ask Mr . Collins any questions that might be to the point Mr . Collins then went through the Six Points of the Charter , defending them very cleverly , and replying to tbe objections raised by their opponents in a convincing manner . He then pointed out the ntility o £ the

      Complete Suffrage union , in bringing the electoral body to act in concert with the non-electors , and concluded by requesting all parties to join with them . This was very coldly received . The chairman then asked if any person bad any question to ask . Mr . West rose and asked if he might be allowed to make a few observations in reference to the conduct of the Sturgiten at the Birmingham Conference ? The chairman siid that was contrary to rule , as the questions put should be in reference to Mr . Collins * lecture . Mr . West stated that with the lectnre he perfectly agreed , but he bad charges to make against tbe Complete Suffrage Union , and against Mr . Collins in particular . There was then an universal cry for Mr . West to get on tbe platform , which he did . Mr . Bums , or "

      Moscow Burns / ' he is called , lose and said they wauld allow Mr . West ten minutes to make good his charges . Mr . West said be was in the hands of the meeting , and that when be wanted the permission of Mr . Burrs to address a meeting , he would apply to him , but that at present it would look much better for him to sit dewn until his services were needed . The Chairman thon pnt it to the meeting , and Mr . West waa allowed balf an hour to state the case . He commenced by referring to tbe Conferen . , aud tbe shameful manner in which they had treated tbe people ' s delegates after putting the country to an enormous expense , and then because they could not have all tMngs after their own fashion , to kick np their heels and run away . Mr . Collins here interrupted , saying he was not the representative of

      the Complet e Suffragists , bnt ao-Mr . WestrsaW h ' ehad chirges to mabu against him he was sorry that gent , did not do so Mr . West , then I charge you with being a renegade to your principles , and a traitor to the cause of the people . A ? a Chartist you suffered imprisonment with William Lovett . and yet in tbe Conference yon voted against Wm . Lovett and the Chaster . You went -through Scotland , rallying the people under the banner of the Charter , receiving tbe tribute of their honest gratitude j yet in tbe Conference yon voted against their representatives ; and , not only that , but , like a sneaking coward , you ran away and 1 < ft them , thuB treating the People's representatives with scorn and contempt . Mr . Collins attempted to justify his conduct by saying he

      never deserted his principles , that they were the same now they ever had been , but , aa a member of the Complete Suffrage Ciuncil , he contended the minority bad no right to yield their opinions to ths majoritythat their Bill was superior to the Charter ; and , therefore , more worthy the attention of the poop ' e , Mr . West replied , and exposed the hypocrisy of the doctrine , that the opinion of tbe majority should not rule . He defended the Charter for its simplicity and clearness , compared with the Sturge "MONSTER , " and concluded by moylng ttw following resolution : " That it is tbe opinion of this meeting that tbe best means of carrying out the principles of Complete Suffrage is in a steady perseverance in the advocacy of those

      principles , as defined and laid down In the document ( as amended ) called tbe People ' s Charter . " The Chairman refused tojput any resolution , when Mr . West said , then he should be under the necessity of moving another Chairman . Ihe meeting responded , and this brought them to their senses , the Stnrgites saying it ought to be pnt The Chairman , makia a virtue of necessity , put it to the meeting , and it was carried tjnakimobsly , Collins own committee voting against him , and thus by their vote stamping their champion as the renegade wWch Mr . West so euccessfully proved against him . The Stargites looked blue , and their boast thafe they would destroy Chartism in Bull , has met with a signal exposure .

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      Lectures . —Mr . Weat delivered three lectare » on the influence of Chartism on the physical , moral , and intellectual condition of the people ; the first , on Saturday night , in Mr . Hill ' s room , which was well attended ; the second , on Sunday night , in the same place , ! the room being crowded , numbers going away who were unable to obtain admission . On Monday night there was a public meeting in tbe Masons' Lodge , to adopt a petition to Parliament for a committee of enquiry into the conduct of Lord Abinger . The spacious hall was crowded to suffocation , Mr . Hickman was called to the chair , who opened the meeting in a few appropriate remarks , and called on Mr . Barker to move the petition ; Mr . Barker , in a very sensible speech , pointed oat tbe necessity of the people speaking

      out on this subject . He read extracts from Abinger ' s charge , which were highly unconstitutional , and proved the necessity ef Lord Abinger being removed from the Bench to preserve it from impurity , or being sullied by political bias . Mr R . Pinder seconded it . Mr . West supported it , and it was carried unanimously . The Chairman then introduced Mr . West to deliver his third lecture , who commenced by contrasting the present state of society physically , morally , and intellectually , with what it would be under a system of Government responsible to the people . These lectures have done much good in removing a deal of prejudice from the minda of many who were misled by tbe misrepresentations of our enemies , as to the objects of the Chartists . At the conclusion , Mr . West invited

      discussion ; but no one appeared . Mr . West then rose to set himself right as to Wednesday night ' s meeting , a false report of his resolution having appeared in the Hull papers : this brought out Mr . Burns , who , injthe end substantiated the truth of Mr . West ' s statement . Dr . Richardson then tried his hand with but little bettor success . He tbeu asked Mr . West how he would get the Charter ? Mr . West aswered satisfactorily . The Doctor then commenced an attack on the Chartists and Feargus O'Connor , and said , we never could get the Chatter without the purses of the middle class ; that all our leaders could be bought , and that the intellectuals were leaving us ; that be bad a conversation with a member of tbe government , and that he save his opinion of all parties , and that the Chartists ; were the most insignificant because of theit poverty . He then made an attack on Mr . Maloney , the

      honest delegate to the Conferance , for voting as his constituents instructed him . Mr . Maloney replied to the dentist's insinuations , in a manner the man " of teeth" will never forget . Mr . West gave him the finishing stroke , telling him to go and tell bis party they might keep their gold , for tbe Chartists pitferred honest poverty ani principle to competency without principle ; that they might buy some of tbe leaders , but the people were independent of them . He wished them joy of their "lumping pennyworth , " but they would find out , in tbe end , it was not worth the purchase . Tbo meeting gave three cheers for Feargus O'Connor , three tor Mr . Hill , three for West , and theu sung " We'll rally around him , " in grand style . The meeting was a most glorious one , and we think will be a finisher to the petty faction of discontented " renegades , " who for some time have beeu trying all schemes in their power to destroy the Chartist movement .

      COZiNE . — At the Council meeting held on Sunday it was agreed that a delegate meeting should be held on Sunday , tbe 12 th of February , in the Chartist News Room , Wiudy Bank , at two o ' clock , p m . TODMORDEN . —Mr . Isaac Barrow preached two sermons on Sunday last to numerous and respectable audiences , and gave great satisfaction . WOHCEBTEK . —Mr . R . Q Gammage , of Northampton , visited this town on Saturday , and delivered aa able and argumentative lecture on tbe present state of society and the People ' s Charter , in the Chartist Association Room , bottom of Bank-street ; and another on Sunday , in the same place .

      Carlisle . —the Working Men ' s Mental Improvement Society . —This society held their usual weekly meeting at their room No . 6 , John-street , Caldewgate , on Sunday evening last . After some conversation on the subject , tbe following resolution was carried unanimously : — " That the members of tbe Working Men ' s Mental Improvement Society , anxious for tbe increase of the general defence fund , more especially as tbe Liverpool Assizes are rapidly approaching , -would respectfully recommend to tbe notice of the members of tbe Council of the ' Carlisle Chartist Association , ' a letter , signed Con Murray , which appeared in the Northern Star of January 14 th , 1843 , suggesting an excellent plan for increasing the said fund , being fully convinced if that plan be rigorously followed out , a considerable sum of money might be raised in Carlisle , fur that laudable purpose . "

      LEAMINGTON . —At the usual weekly meeting at the Prince of Wales Inn , on Sunday last , Mr . James Green in the chair , Mr . Henry Sansford delivered a very eloquent and instructive lecture on tbe evils of priestcraft—the different opinions they promulgate , the evil tendency those different opinions have on society , and concluded by proving that essential saving religion , or true Christianity , wholly consists in doing good to each other . MANCHESTER . —The Chartist mechanics held their usual weekly meeting in the Association room , Brown-street , on Thursday evening last , when an instructive lecture upon tbe position of political parties in this country , was delivered . CAnPENTEBS' Hall . —On Sunday last , two lectures were delivered in the above Hall by Mr . Dixon and Mr . Little .

      Cropper-Street . — The Chartists of this part of Manchester have opened a new room for the purpose of advocating th « J principles of democracy ; Mr . Dixon lectured upon the monetary system , and the policy of Sir Robert Peel . The following resolution was carried unanimously : — " That wo tbe inhabitants of Miles Platting and neighbourhood , consider the Evening Star to be the only daily paper that ever advocated the true principle of democracy , and we pledge ourselves to support that paper to the utmost of our abilities . " BURY . —On Monday evening , a lecture was delivered in tbe Garden-street Working-man ' s Hall , by William Dixon . from Manchester .

      NOTTINGHAM . —A meeting of delegates from the various localities in Nottingham , was held in tbe Democratic Chapel , when it was resolved that local lecturers be employed to agitate the surrounding villages , and twelve names were taken down for that purpose . The Chartists also met at the above place on Monday evening , when a resolution was pissed that a quantity of the Bills containing Mr . O Connor ' s challenge to tbe Cora Law League should be sent for , and five shillings was -voted from tfiat locality as their share of the expence . Ten shillings was also voted to the local victim fund . Arnold , near Nottingham . —Mr . Richards , from the Potteries has been lecturing here to good and attentive audiences , and has given great satisfaction .

      iCarrington , near Nottingham . —The Chartists of this locality met at their room , Mansfield Road , on Sunday evening last . The Tea Party Committee met on the Bame evening ; and , efcer transacting business , agreed te meet every Sunday evening , till the tea party takes place ; they will meet next Sunday evening at six o ' clock . BARNSLEY— The Chartists held their weekly meeting in the schoolroom , under the Odd Fellows ' Hall . Mr . John Vallance was called to the chair . The Council laid before the meeting the plans they intended carrying out , in the hope of giving new life and energy to the movement , such aa reading , lecturing , and providing matter for general discussion , by which they bopu to give a new impetus to the agitation here , Ten shillings and fonrpenee was voted for four hundred Circulars , in the disposal of which they earnestly solicit the support and assistance of all those who have tbe regeneration of their common country at heart .

      Those parties holding monies belonging to the Defence Fund , are particularly rtquested to attend with it next Monday night SHEFFIELD . —Ch artfsm . —A meeting was hold in the Fig-tree-lane Room , on Monday evening , Mr . Harney read from Oastler ' s Fleet Papers a withering castigation of the Freebooters , —tbo " Old KinS ' s" unveiling of the infernal theme by which the late " strike " whs brought about and his cutting exposure of the rascally objects of the Sturgeitea -were -warmly responded to t > y th « meeting . Mr . Harney added some comments , and was followed by Mr . Parkes who de-Q vered a brief address . Dungworth . —Messrs Harney and Gill visited this 11 highland village" on Wednesday week , and in the evening addressed an excellent meeting . Home Colonization . —Mr . Lloyd Jones lectured on this ) important subject at the Hall of Science , on Sunday evening lost , to a crowded audience .

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      NOMINATIONS FOR THE GENERAL COUNCIL . SALFORD . Mr . Peter Pollitt , Davis-street . Mr . Robert MacFailane , Heath-street , Pendleton Mr . John Eccles , canal-yard , Windsor , do . Mr . James Sanders , Hope-streat . Mr . James Wilkinson , Methvine-placo . Mr . William Surxmer , Ford-street . Mr . Robert Hulme , Durham-street . Mr . Ralph Buckley , Market-street . Mr . William Gillebrand , Bevel-street . Mr . George Roberts , Legeuder-street . Mr . James Sandiford , Corporation-street . Mr . John Millington , 43 , Hope-street , Bub-Trea surer . Mr , John Miller * , 1 , Boundary-street , Bub-Secre tary .

      THOWBRIDOB . Mr . Edward Payne , weaver . Mr . Israel Say , do . Mr . George Eames , cloth-dresser . Mr . James Harper , do , Mr . Alfred Marchant , do . Mr . John Johnson , shoemaker . Mr . Arthur Heath , grocer ; and baker . President . Mr . James Watts , do . sub-Treasurer . Mr . James Ames , marc ^ ant'spinuer , Mortimer street , sub-Secretary .

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      . jl * OTTINGHAM . Mr . B . Humphries , framework-knitter , 11 , Lee's Yard , Narrow Mareb . Mr . J . Burkland , ditto , Colwiok-street , New Snenton . j Mr . Walter Smallwood , do . Crossland-street , Narrow Marsh . I Mr . Isaac Barton , do . 5 , Cherry-street . Mr . William Rice , needle-maker , 21 , Wade ^ street . i .... . Mr . Silvester Truman , boom and carnage maker , 4 , Oat Yard . ! Mr . Samuel Richmond , shoemaker , 21 ,

      Drake-Mr . ' Henry Barker , framework-knitter , 8 , Commerce-street , j Mr . Charles Roberts , tailor , Hackley . Mr . John Baum , ; framework-knitter , 16 , Abingerstreet . i Mr . William Farley , do . 21 , Tiler-street . Mr . John Haslem , gardener , York street , sub Treasurer . i Mr . George Clarkstone , lace hand , Old Radford sub- Secretary .

      ! DERBV . Mr . Thomas Briggs , millwright , City-road . Mr . Edward Drewcot , weaver , Nun ' s-street . Mr . Stephen Heather , petrifactioner , Kensington . Mr . Thomas Chester , smith , Castle-place . Mr . William Chandler , weaver , Leaper-street , sub Treasurer . ! Mr . Enos Ford , tjoiner , City-road , sub-Secretary . Mr John Moss , ! cordwainer , Darby-lane , corres ponding Secretary . ^ . ^ ^~~—

      MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS . The following very important railway circular , was issued on Friday by ! the Board of Trade : — " TO THE SECRETARY OF THE RAILWAY ; COMPANY . 11 Railway Department Board of Trade , ^ Whitehall , Jan . 27 , 1843 . " Sir . —In consequence of the late occurences on the North Midland Railway , the Lords of the Committee ef Privy Council for Trade think it right to call tbe attention of the director ' s of railway companies generally to the extreme importance of observing the utmost caution in making reductions in their establishments by which tbe public safety may ba affected . The experience of tbe last three years { has fully satisfied their lordships

      that the comparative exemption which has been latterly enjoyed from the alarming accidents which occurred so frequently in the infancy of railway travelling , is to be attributed mainly to the gradual formation of establishments of expriencfed and trustworthy engine-drivers and other servants , ' upon all the leading passenger railways , and that ; it is only by maintaining such establishments that \ a repetition of such accidents can be effectually prevented . This opinion has been confirmed by the recent accident upon the North Midland Railway , and the investigations which their lordsnipa have directed , in consquence , have fully satisfied them that sudden and sweeping reductions in tbe branches of the establishment connected with tbe public safety can rarely be attempted without occasioning great danger .

      " Under these circumstances , although my Lords have no wish to interfere with the discretion of tbe directors of railway companies , especially in cases where pecuniary considerations are involved , they think it their duty to remind them of the heavy responsibility which they will incur if they allow themselves to bo influenced by a mistaken economy , so far as to attempt reductions , either in the number and efficiency of tbe establishment which previous experience has led them to consider necessary for conducting the pubtic traffic in safety , or in tbe accustomed wages of tbe class of servants upon whose intelligence , sobriety , and habitual good conduct tbo safely ef the passengers depends . ' " I am , Sir , your obedient servant , : " S . Laing "

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      Captain Thomas Roberts , master of the ship Ann Mundell , appeared at the Thames Police Office , on the charge of assaulting John Crouch , the carpenter of the vessel , on the 28 th of August last , on the high seas . The misdemeanor was of a serious order , and the defendant [ was ordered to find bail , himself in £ 200 , and two sureties of £ 100 each , to answer the charge at the sessions . Loss of the War-Steamer Ariadne . —By a private letter , received on Monday , we regret to announce the total loss of the splendid war-steamer Ariadne , in the service of the Hon . East India Company , attended with melancholy consequences , which occurred at about eleven o ' clock at night , on the 23 d

      of June last , near the entrance of Chusan harbour . The Ariadne was an iron-built steamer , about 400 tons burthen , with two powerful engines . She was constructed upon a new principle , for the purpose of navigating the Chinese rivers . The Ariadne was 130 feet in extreme length , and about 50 feet from one paddle-box to the other . She carried two swivel guns of largo calibre , one aft and the other before the mast . The British fleet in China during the late war , received the most valuable service from the Ariadne and four other small steamers belonging to the navy of j the Hon . East India Company t The officers and crew were saved , but three Chinese who were on board ! perished .

      Scandal . —Dublin , Jan . 28 . —A trifling inoident occurred at the drawing-room on Thursday evening , which has furnished a subject of much conversation , and of some dark mysterious paragraphs in . the newspapers . The Freeman ' s version of the affair is as follows : — " It is | rumoured that a certain member of the legal profession—who , however , has recently figured in the courtjmore frequently as a client than as an advocate—was in the act of ascending the Castle stairs , with the intention of mingling in the glittering throng at the drawing-room on Thursday evening last , when he was intercepted by an inspector of police , who disputed his right to enter . Mr . , who had gone to the trouble and

      expence of attiring himself in a full Court costume , was highly incensed at this interference , and demanded to know how it was that he , who had attended the Courts of the Monarch , and had himself introduced debutants to the halls of St . James ' s , would not be permitted to confer jthe favour of his company upon the mere representative of royalty in Dublin . The inspector conifessed that he was not fully prepared to assign ! a true and veritable cause for this anomalous circumstance . So it was—* But wherefore it was bo- 'twas not in him to say '—and all that he knew was , that if Mr . — - did not take himself away , he ( the inspector ) would have to digcharge that office for him . Mr looked unutterable things at the inspector , but having the fear of the stretcher , as well as his person before his eyes ,

      * pnlled his bonnet ; over his brow , ' and , thrusting both his hands desperately into his breeches pockets , walked away evidently highly disconcerted . Some Galway gentlemen , ! who happened to be entering the saloon just at the moment that Mr . —— was ascending the stairs ; and before the ill-omened inspector had crossed his path , meanwhile spread the report that Mr . —¦ -, the barrister had been admitted , and was one of the company ; and this mischievous rumour having reached the ears of some of the Castle officials , two inspectors of police , 1 attired in ball costume ! ' were introduced to the ballroom for the purpose of ejecting the intruder , in case he should be found amoug the courtiers . It is needless to say , that jowing to the interference of the officer on the stairs , their search was unavailing " Globe .

      Murderods Conspiracy to take a Convict Ship . —Intelligence jhas just been received of an intended massacre of the officers and civilians on board the Eliza , Government transport , which Bailed from her Majesty's Royal Arsenal , Woolwich , a few months since , ] with convicts for South Australia . It appears , as the vessel neared the Line , a murderous conspiracy existed among some of the convicts , which would have terminated , no doubt , in the certain destruction of those marked down as their victims . There were two hundred and sixtyseven convicts on board , among whom was a soldier , who had been transported for fourteen years for striking a [ sergeant , lie privately sent a lmter to the him of the

      surgeon ^ informing intended outoreak , on the morning of the 4 th Maroh ; that the design was to put to death all the soldiers , officers , passengers , and such of the crew as offered the least resistance , and then to steer for the Brazilian coast . The man was prudeutly conveyed to the cabin , so as not to excite suspicion , where he was minutely examined by the surgeon and captain . if * u ? r varied iH h . statement , and so answered ail the interrogatories put to him as left no doubt on tnc . mmds of his hearers of the intended horrors . Extraaentinels were immediately posted , and at 3 o ' clock on tne eventful morning the passengers and crew were summoned on deck , when their situation was explained to them , and all then being well armed , were ordered to defend their lives to the last . The morning , our correspondent writes , was calm and uoauteousnot

      - a whisper was heard on the mighty deep , when suddenlyleight bells announced the hour wnen the murderous Conflict was to take place . The bolf « n ei ]? ^! re weI 1 FSaniz-d , and armed with iron poiia and other weapons stolen from the ship * s stores . nnwm W Wilh * aIJthe Sa ! la n * ry of the navy , was K ^ » sacnfice tbe life of the sergeant whose outy it was to open the convicts' gate at four o ' clock unW , ^ deathless anxiety , when the surgeon a conn « n ? fii ? hlma ef advanced to the gate , desiring feat nriLn file £ J oldier 8 t 0 adyanoe «* shoot thl nameT * £ * dared to P 858 ex . cePt ' « " one he c ? Sred Syytf ^ JPawewwl their plot was disand airS lred to th ? ir berth * , **»* threw the bolts 2 ? Had ? T"W ona out of thd P 0 ^ «*<> ^ e would it ? L ° J ? «» a taken place , the loss , of life youBe raS 0 fth d ^ Bad ^ The ringleader was a an apotWrl' e name of Di <* enaon , who had been He wasTd r £ 8 as' 18 ant in Thavies' Inn , Holborn . board Unmefcfat « 4 ° P ° eater . He leaped overstandine eW * y aT * er a ««> very , and notwith-* Wy ISrfn ertl ^ J save him howas downed the oLffifaSSV *** * £ t 8 d for lbe Btourity of power © n SiKai 7 Were ed 0 TertotheoitiI

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      From the London Gazette of Friday , Jan . 27 BANKEtJPTS . Alexander Hay , of Great Queen-street , Lincol n ' . Inn-flelds , coachmaker , February 3 , at halfJ a * twelve * and March 10 , at twelve , at the Conrt n * Bankruptcy , London . Mr . T . M . Alsagai , officS assignee , 12 , Birchin-lane ; and Mr . J . B . May , sohciteff Queen-square . w » George Cole , of Bexley-heath , Kent , grocer , Pebrnaw 3 , at calf-past ten , and March 10 , at eleven , at th * Court of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . T . M . A 1 sm » official assignee , 12 , Birchin-lane ; Mr . SadgroveT a ^ . tor , Mark-lane ' John Bead Gowing , of Lowestoft , Suffolk , grocer February 4 , at half-past ten , and March 3 , at eleven ? at the Court Bankruptcy , London . Mr . Penns ]} official assignee ; Mr . C . S . Oilman , solicitor , Nor ! wich , ; and Mr . Storey , solicitor , 5 , Field-court , Gray '* Inn-square .

      Jeremiah Gillman , of Stewkley , BacMnghamahte . grocer , February 9 , and March 13 , at twelve 7 at tbe Couit of Bankruptcy , London . Mr . William Turquand , official assignee , 2 , Copthall-buildingg . and Mr . W . B . Buchannan , solicitor , Basinghall . gttggj * Alexander Winton , David Winton , and Janer Webber , of Wood-street , Gheapside , warehousemen February 14 , at half-past twelve , and March 13 , j * . eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London ^ Mr William Turquand , official assignee , Copthall-buildingg ! and Messrs . Reed and Sbaw , solicitors , Friday-street , Cbeapside . John Emson , jun ,, of Sawbridgeworth , Hertfordshire veterinary surgeon , Februaiy 4 , at half-paat-one , an ^ Maroh It , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy . , Loj . don , Mr . Edward Edwards , official assignee , 7 , p ^ derick ' 8-place , Old Jewry ; Mr . Lewis Henry Brahao solicitor , 101 . Chancery-lane . '

      Richard Payne , of 20 , Hatton-walk , Hatton-garda brass-founder , February 10 , at two . and MawliiQ * at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , London . Hi James Foster Groom , official assignee , 12 , Abehmdi » lane ; and Mr . Lewis Heury Brahatn , solicitor , 101 Chancery-lane . John Orbell , of Brandon , Essex , miller , February l \ at two , and March 3 , at ene , at the Court of Bankruptcy * London . Mr . James Foster Groom , official assignee * 12 , Abchurob-lane ; Mr . Thomas Marston , solicitor , 66 * Tomngton-square , London ; Messrs . Siedmau , Bolicitors Sudbury . Suffolk . Thomas Brighton , of Spalding , Lincolnshire , apothe . cary , February 8 , at half-past twelve , and March 14 , at half-past eleven , at tbe Court of Bankruptcy , Binning , bam . Mr , Richard Valpy , official assignee , Birmingham M esare . Cnarles . Bonnor and Son , solicitors , Spaldio g ^ LAncolnshiie .

      John Bancroft , of Salford , Lancashire , grocer , Feb . ruary 9 , and March 9 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester . Mr . Richard Powdell , offi . cial assignee , Hobsen ; Messrs . Gregory aid Co ., solid , tors , Bedford-row , London ; and Mr . MakLnson , solicitor Manchester . Thomas Simpson , of GateBhead , Durham , painter February 6 , at eleven , and March 10 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upou-Tyne . Mt Thomas Baker , official assignee , Newcastle-upm . Tyne ; Messrs . Crossby and Compton , solicitor * , 3 . Church-court , Old Jewry , London ; and Mr . John Theodore Hoyle , solicitor , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Charles Mottram , of Liverpool , wool oroker , February 6 and 28 , at eleven , at the Court af Bankruptcy , Liferpool . Mr . James Cofcinove , official assignee , Liverpool Messrs . Cornthwaite and Adams , solicitors , 2 , Dean ' s , court , Doctor ' s-commons , London ; Messrs . Fisher and Co ., solicitors , Liverpool .

      Samuel Highfiald , formerly of Liverpool , bnt now of Birkenbead , Cheshire , merchant , Febrnary 13 , tt twelve , and March 7 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool . Mr . John Follett , offidal assignee , Liverpool ; Messrs . Mallaby and Townsend , solicitors , Livepool ; and Messr « , Cheater and Toulmin , solicitors , Staple Inn , London .

      DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY . Joseph Morgan , Earl-street , Marylebone . loot * maker . Nancy Williams , Powick , Worcestershire , publican . William Hopton , Wakefield , out of business . Mary Ann Ogisthorpe , Wallasea . Cheshire , out of business .

      Joseph Tocge , sen ., Manchester , dealer in manure . James Lidgote , Upper Rosamond-3 treet , Cletkenwall , journeymen carpenter . Stephen Travisa , jun ., Doncaster , builder . Alfred Harvey Bristol , licensed retailer of beer . William Bedford , Wick , Bedfordshire , victualler . Rev . James Day Heckford , Pidtey , Huntingdonshire , curate . Thomas Chaffey , Brighton , auctioneer . George Snow , Kinnington-street , Newington , com * positor . Henry Brown , Nicholl-square , Cripplegate , engraver ,

      William Biddle , Cornbury-street , Old Kent-road , out of business . William Mallinson , Mirfleld , Yorkshire , farmer . John Harrison , Sedberg , Yorkshire , hatter . Robert Whitaker , jun ., Rochdale , woollen weiTH . John Gerrard , Thelwall , Lancashire , publican . John Cater , South Island-plaee , Nerta Brixton , officer of Her Majesty ' s Customs . Edward Fox . Liverpool , perfumer . John Vatas Simpson , Union-court , Old Broad-street , corn operator . James PcnniBtone , alias James Penistone , Sheffield ,

      cord wainer . John Warburton , Stockport , joiner . John Eoimett , Bradford , Yorkshire , wool-sorter . William Gilbert , Bland-street , Dover-road , ont of employ . John Townsend , Great Barr , Staffordshire , farmer . Walter Armitage , Birstal , Yorkshire , beeraeller . James Hall , Oxford , journeyman plasterer . Henry Pittmaa , Patriot-row , Bethn 3 l-green , bootmaker . Anne Percival , Halkin-terrace . Cadogan-plaee , ofl * liner . David Boast , Pbeenix-row , Great Surrey-street , to * count agent

      . Robert French Laurence , Charlgrove , Oxfordshire clerk in holy orders . Tnomas Marshall , Sheffield , bntcher . John Bayly , Woolwich , shopman . George Wiikina , St . Alban's , eoach-bniider . James Jones Dransfleld , Hales Owen , WorcestsriH » s accountant . John Rankin , Manchester , b ^ ker . James Armitage , jun . Sheffield , fender-maker .

      PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . Andrew Birrell and George Wright , of Liverpool , vinegar manufacturers—John Kay and George Kay , of York , boot and shoemakers—Thomas Case , Jama * Mort , and John Simpson , of Liverpool , and of St . Helens , manufacturers of earthenware—John WoolfaB and William Ryder , of Higher Grirasby , Lancashire . caal getters—John Simpson , Joseph Simpson , ana Robert Simpson , of Leeds , Tobacco manufacturers ( so far as regards Joseph Simpson . ) Jobn Moore Ingham and Rachael Baines Ingham , of the Olive Branch Ion . Swinegate , Leeds , innkeepers—James Johnstons ana Richard Aspinall , of Liverpool , timber merchants—Artner Oughterson and Company , of Liverpool , bto * e" ( so far aa regards Arthur Oughterson )—Cuthbert Batesen , Christopher Biteson , Jobn Batesen , and W" ^ Bateson , of Castleford , Yorkshire , potters ( so far » regards John Bateson)—Charles Joan Waddington , Robert Le win Holt , David Ogden , and Joseph Ogden , of Liverpool , and of New York , America , mercnanw

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      From the Gazette of Tuesday , January 31 . BANKRUPTS . . Francis Fenton , grocer . Little Pet ; r-street , West ' minster , February 10 , at half-past twelve , and »»*" 10 , at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , B ^«! "l . street Whitmore , official assignee , BasinghalMK ««>' Lucas and Parkinson , solicitors , Ar gyle-sqoare , » W William Woods , sen ,, and William Woods , jnn-, hardwaremen , Newgate-street , City , Febrnary H , ¦ one and March 3 , at twelve , at tha Court of f" * ruptcy , Bisinghall-btreet . Pennell , official assignee Goddard , King-street , Cbeapside . —

      11 , and March . 10 , at eleven , at the Court ot i * £ * ruptcy , Basinghall-atreet , London . Btlcber , omt * assignee . Cox , Pkmer ' s Hay , solicitor , Old mow William Henry Turner and Thomas Blucber Turner , cotton-spinneis , Blackburn , Lancashire , FebTa " ? rl and March 4 , at twelve , at the Manchester Dj « b » Court of Bankruptcy . Fraser , official * 8 'f U ^ Chester . Grimsditcb , Maccleafield ; Slater and hm Manchester , solicitors ; Bell , Brodrick and aeu > ° » churchyard , London . **««•» 16 # Joseph Brad well , ironmonger , York , •™ ? r * t and March 16 . at eleven , at the Leeds D'stric \ "T of Bankruptcy . Fearne , official 28 S ^ ' ^ . fc Wood , solicitor , York ; Richardsons and «? £ " 13 John Ridsdale . etuff merchant , Leeds , £ <* " £ * $ and March 6 , at eleven , at the Leeds Distort Com Bankruptcy . Freeman , efficial assignee , Lee ds , w >» 6

      and Rawson , solicitors , Bradford . Mmwnool . John Jones , wine an d spirit merchant , ^ rr ^ ool February 8 , and March 7 . at twelve , ^ J ^^ j S ^ District Court © r Bankruptcy . Turner , official ass * Liverpool ; Robinson , solicitor , Ling p bnury p , David Robertson , merchant , Li'erpoo 1 , r ^ ° ' j at twelve , and March 14 , at eleven , t ^ £ J £ , District Court of Bankruptcy , B « d , official aa » S " Liverpool ; Wation . solicitor , t ** " * * ^ bruary Richard Kymer > houMP amter MancbMter ^ tfet 13 , and March 8 , at eleven , at the Mane **** ^ Conrt of Bufnpf * Pf- « J ^ STi **** King-street , Manchester ; Lake and Woiaron , Basingball-street , LondoD . Norris , Land-Thomas Cartwright , banker , Heaton Won * aa rfiire , Febrnary 13 . and March 8 a » W ^ offl . Manchester District Court of B » nkn « P *^ ^ &oi cud assignee ; Lingard , VaughMK " ^ r ^ , Cfl-n-Vaughan , solicitor , Stock port ; Bower afld & **> eery-lane , London .

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      THE NORTHERN STA R ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 4, 1843, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct968/page/6/