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v * && 228 aB ! fe ££ & & * JM& their nsnal-weeHy ' ^ ti nss at tne above ew eTely Tuesday evening , at eigU o ' clock . - ; ^ idfobd . —Mr . William Jackson > U 1 deliver a ^ in the COffiffll Worn , Butterworfh-v ^ uldings , j&'dock in the afternoon of Sunday next . flrt ooseHAV . —A meeting of all tin ' sinjaiiQUen f ^ Co-operative Land Society will be held at tf dter Thorn ' s , news agent , 111 , Itea-Btreet , onMon-^ Best , at seven o ' clock . -D BDSS TncK Haix , Ropehaker ' s-melds , Lime-!« . —Mr . Ernest Jones , the elected delegate for Su district , will deliver a lecture here on Tuesday , S ^ gth , chair to be taken atelghto ' cloek precisely . J flje m en and women , of the TowerHamlets , are parftolarly requested to attend .
¦ * - * - ' - r ° ' _ - ' . — . ^ A d ^ ASK H ell . —A general meeting of the shareholders will Rep lace on Tuesday next , June 9 tb , at the Ship to , Church-lane . The members of the National Outer Association meet every Sunday at two Jfdock . in the afternoon , at the same place . ( foopsBTssnvoxitt . — As thereareyetafew tickets giL the Committee ate very desirous the same Jioald be returned or paid for immediately . Perwjm holding tickets are , therefore , earnestly rewed tot forthwith , communicate with me . ^ $ e Treasurer , Mr . Dunn . For the sake of the feterans , Widows , and Orphans , it is essentially necessary that this notice shoald at once beattended ja The Committee are respectfully desired to attjiia at eight o ' clock , on Wednesday evening , at Mr . gfraus han ' S fthe Old George , Snow-hill , when 1 trust < e shall be enabled to wind up our afikirs .
J . Shaw , Sec . CHiBTiST Haix , 1 , Turnagain Lane , Farringdontjreet—A meeting of the Shareholders will be held lathe Coffee-room , on Sunday morning next , June jtb , at half-past ten o ' clock . The adjourned discusson will be resumed in the hall , at half-past ten precisely . In the evening at eight o ' clock precisely , Air . Jiomason will lecture . Westminster . —A general meeting of themembers ofJhis district of the Chartist Cooperative Land Society , ( whether paid np or otherwise , ) also of the members belon-Ing to this locality of the Aationai Charter Association , will be heldat the Parthemuro , 52 , St . Martin's Lane , on Sunday evening , J nne 1 th , ithalf-past seven o ' clock !
Thk Chartists of Newcastle asd Gateshkad are particularly requested to attend a General Meeting on Sunday evening , Jnne 7 th , at six o ' clock , in the louse of Mr . Jude , Sun Inn , Side , to take into congderation the necessity of beginning an Election fund , and to decide upon other matters of great imp ortance to the welfare of the Association . JfeKcastle-upon-Tyne , June 3 rd , 1846 . Birmingham . —A Delegate Meeting of Chartists vill be held at the house of Air . Joseph Linney ffliite Horse Inn , High-street , Bilston , on Sunday jith June , at two o ' clock in the aftemooa , when Pelegates from the fallowing places are particularly invited to attend : —Birminaham , Dudley , Stourjiidjie , Wclverhampton , Bilston , and surrounding districts .
MonRiM . —The monthly Meeting of the Sharefolders iu the Land Society will be held in the Lecture-room , at two o'cloi-k , on Sunday 7 th Jui e , when sfl the shareholders in the branch are requested to jjtend . Brighton , Abuchoke . —A special Meeting of the Members ot the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , Hill be held on Wednesday evening , June 10 . Totee HAMtEis . —All persons holding Tickets for jJk Benefit at the City Theatre , are requested to ftricard ali returns on Sunday evening , at the Whitjineton anil Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green . Souebs Tows . —A Meeting of the Somers Town District of the Chartist L-uid Soaiety will be held at jfr . Daddridne ' s , Tonbridge-street , ^ ew-road , on Sunday evening next , at 9 o ' clock . Saltokd . —A Members' Meeting will take place in the Association-room , Bank-street , George-street , m Sunday mornins next , at eight o ' clock .
Sheffield . —A Discussion will take place in the Danocratic Reading Room , Fig-tree Lane , on Sunday evening , June 7 th ; subject , " Will two Acres of Land be sufficient to maintain a man and his fianly . " The Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock precisely . 2 J . B . —On and after Monday , Jane Sth , tne meeting of the Land Society will beheld at No . 33 , Qneen-street , Mr . Cavill having to remove thither in consequence of the present rooms being too small . The purchasers of the Northern Star are also informed , that they can be supplied as usual at the above place . Rochdaix . — Mr . Ambrose Hurst , of Oldham , will lecture in the Chartist-room , Mill-street , on Sunday evening , to commence at six o ' clock . The members cfihe Laud Society , are requested to meet in the Chartist-room , at three o ' clock .
Oldhaji . —On Sunday , ( to-morrow , ) Mr . A . Hnrst , « 31 lecture in the School-room of the Working Man ' s Hall , at six o'clock in the evening . The members of the Laad Society , meet every Sunday in the above mem , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , to receive snb scriptions , and enrol new members . All arrears be ^ longing to the Directory Fund are requested / to be paid immediately . 1 TheUext Gexehal Delegate Meeting of Lascishire Mdcebs will be held on Monday , the loth Jnne , at the house of Mr . John Jackson , the Colliers Anas , Hurst Brook , near AshtOH-under-Lyne . Chair to be taken at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . There nBl also be a pnblic meeting which will be addressed fc ? W . P . Roberts , Esq ., and several other gentlemen .
HoumsxB . — The members of the Holmfirfll branch of the Co-operative Land Association , are requested to meet at the house of Mr . Joseph Clegg Golly , on Monday next , Jnne Sth , at eight o ' clock in the evening .
THE PATRIOT "JOHN" FROST Is now oat of employ , in ill health , and in indigent circumstances , at Sydney , New South . Wales . The National Victim Commttiee are therefore requested to meet at the Chartist Co-operative Land Seriety's Office , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , on Sunday afternoon next , Jnne the 7 th . at three o ' clock predselv , witb a view of affording some pecuniary aul foiLe-suffering Welsh Martyr . Also to prepare a balance sheet of their affairs to submit to the ensuing National Chartist Convention .
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BOLTO 2 J . To the Chartists asd Members of the Chartist Co-otekativb Land Societt . —Brother Chartists . — For upwards of twenty years has Mr . _ Feargws O'Connor with unwearied industry , and in spite oi personal sacrifices and suffering , proved himself the Srtn and unflinching proponnder and supporter of He working man ' s rights and privileges . During this time he has constantly refused any remuneration Finally , aftc great exertion , he is now carrying to a successful issne , the Chartist Co-op ; rative Land
Society , through which , the working classes , with Cper exertions , may redeem themselves from dage . We , the Chartists and members of the Chartist "Co-operative Land Society of Bolton , propose that a subscr iption of not less than one penny each he Instantly made in all the Chartist localities for the purpose of purchasing a gold medal and ckain to be presented to Mr . O'Connor ; the medal to be appropriately engraved to convey a lasting token of onr grateful feelings for his long and faithful ser-Vtces , We further propose that a committee be appointed by tne members oi the London or Manchester locality , or two from each plate , to carry out this design . E . Uodgkksok , Secretary .
BRADFORD . A public meeting of the Chartists of Bradford was held in the Council Room , Butterwonu Buildings , Sir . George White , chairman , when Mr . Thomas Cole and Mr . William Jackson were put in nominat ion to represent Bradford in the forthcoming Convention , when Mr . William Jackson was duly elected .
TI 1 E CHARTIST CO -OPERATIVE LASD SOCIETY HAMMERSMITH DISTRICT . The members of this highly flourishing district met at the Temperance Hall . Bridge-road , on Wednesday evening , June 3 rd , when for the better convenience of the members and friends uf the sociiety . It was resolved— " That a district office be opened at 2 , Little Vale Place , Hammersmith Road—that such office be opened at eight o'clockevery morning , and continue open every day during the week , and'that all future weekly meetings be held at the above office on Sunday mornings at ten o ' clock . " Ifotwithstanding it ^ being holiday week , the sum of twenty-eight shillings was received as instalments on shares , < fcc .
TO THE CHARTIST BODY . Mr Bbethbej . * , —A letter has just been received by Mr . Rogers , from our beloved exile , John Frost , which contains matter demanding the instant and earnest sympathy of us all . After undergoing various probations , Mr . Frost was permitted to engage himself as manager to a large commission-agent in glass and earthen-ware , at a yearly salary of 2 U-. with board and lodging . He fell ill—was necessitated to go into an lospital—and his situation having been entered on br
another , when he left the hospital , he was constrained to live on the little savings he had accumulated from his brief managership . His scanty fund is now spent , he is ill , —out of employment—and datiiuie . With that noble independence which has erer * distinguished Jus large ieart , he asks that bis few books in the possession of his family , be raffled , and the proceeds sent him . I He utters no word of request that yon subscribe for tlsril ' dV batyonrortn hearts will tell JOU that it
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IS your bounden duty to fly to his assistance . Yo wiji not—you cannofc-suffer one whoso je >* L , * f » L i , « r £$ ? *^' rt ?«* w - '*»*? 5 KS itself for their rescue-to pen ?* i m Ws ne 2 eggity . J ™ will ypu . consent that hid fo ^ book 8- ( whichthe poor e » ij Hopes one tttky Sgain to opea , perhaps , the solace 6 f his venfcM , VSeage > -fihall be sold to meethis wants . Yon loittBtrain tvery nerve to help him .: You will not suffer your generous Frost to pine under the thought that you are ungrateful ! A friend quits England for the place of ^ Tohn Frnsf a exile in the coune of one fortnight . There is not a day to be lost , fie must be relieved .. Mr . Rogers gives two pounds , I give one . Mr . Moore
gives another ; and let every workingraan who loves John Frost for his benevolent heart , rather pawn a shirt for a week , than neglect to send his mite for the exile ' s relief . You all know my address : Mr . Rogers , tobacconist , 58 , High-street , St . Giles's ; or Mr . Moore , carver . 25 , Hartrstreet , Bloomsbury , —will also readily receive anything that maybe sent : or , if you prefer to send your contributions to any officer connected with the Chartist body , —do so , but do not , I conjure you , neglect to exert yourselves—even for one nay , — i am , dear Brethren , 131 Blackfriar ' s Road , Yours affectionately , June 4 th , 1846 . Thomas Cooper , the Chartist .
SOMERS TOWS . At a foil meeting of the members of this locality held on Sunday evening last , at the Bricklayers ' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , the following resolution was moved by Mr . John Araotfc , seconded by Mr John Hornby : — "Resolved . —That we , the members of the National Charter Association forming the Somers Town locality , having duly considered the resolution adopted by the Metropolitan Complete Suffrage Association , at the Crown and Anchor meeting , and also the suggestion of our City brethren in favour of calling an aggregate meetin" of the Chartists of London to take the same into consideration , do hereby express oar conviction that we have invariably , honestly , consistently , and zealouslyad located and { according to the best of our abilities ) energetically
struggled by peaceful , constitutional , and moral means for the enactment of our principles ; and while it would afford us the greatest possible satisfaction and pleasure to witness a concentration of the energies of all sincere Chartists , past differences buried in forgettulness , and an indissoluble union formed , yet we cannot consent to be any party to calling the proposed meeting . But in order to effect this most desirable amalgamation , we ad-• vise that the members of the Complete Suffrage Association forthwith elect delegates to the ensuing Ciiartiit Convention , where we are convinced that the spirit of cordiality and brotherhood evinced by them would be redprocated by our delegates , and there such an union might be formed that would eventuate in causing the People ' s Charter to he placed on the statute book of this realm . * ¦
Carried . On the motion of Messrs . Cockain and Child , it was agreed that a society be now formed to be called tie Somera Town Chartist Philanthropic Emergency Society , and a committee having been appointed to draw up rules for its guidance the meeting separated . Mr . Buston presided . At a meeting of the Somera Town district of the Chartist Co-operative Land _ Society , the following resolutions were passed unanimously : — "That the members of this locality hav « every confidence in the discretion of the directors , as regards the district for the purchase of land , and this meeting is of opinion that , it would he advisable to take the next ballot upon the estate at Herringsgate . "
NORTHAMPTON . Tea Pabtt . —On Whit-Tuesday the members ef this branch of the Land Society , held a grand tea party and ball , in one of the largest rooms of the town , which was well attended . After the good things had been done ample justice to , Mr . Munday addressed tbe company , in one of his telling speeches , for one hour and a half 5 when he sat down , the whole company stood np . and gave three cheers for the Land . Dancing then commenced , and waskept up with great spirit the whole night .
COVENTRY . The Chartists of this locality have engaged a large and commodious school room , at the bottom of Greyfriars Lane , New Union Street , where meetings will be held every Tuesday evening at 8 o ' clock . The members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society held a meeting on Tuesday evening , Juae 2 nd , when the auditors brought forward the first annual report , which gave every satisfaction . After receiving subscription and transacting other business , a Chartist
meeting was held , when Mr . W . Prichard brought forward lhe question ot electing a delegate to the forthcoming Chartist convention , about to be held in London . Mr . W . Hosierbriefly addressed the meeting , showing the necessity of making it a complete representation cf the Chartist body , with a determination to stand alone , while the factiens fight their own battle . The question was adjourned tillnext Tuesday evening at 8 o ' clock . All communication for the Chartists » f Coventry , to be sent to Mr . Hosier , Coach and Horses Yard , Much Park Street , Coventry .
DUNDEE . The Coxvestios . —At a meeting of the National Chartist Association , held on Monday evening in the Democratic Hall , Fuller ' s Close it was unanimously agreed that T . S . Buncombe , Esq ., M . P ., be solicited to represent this town in the forthcoming convention , and that intimation be sent to that gentleman of his election .
CITT OF L 0 ND 0 S LOCALITY . Mr . "Wilson in the chair . Mr . Govna moved that we pass a vote of censure on Mr . Dunn for sending the resolutions to the Star of Saturday , May 16 , 1846 , contrary to a resolution passed that they should not be sent to the Star . Seconded by Mr . Xobbs . Mr . Baglet moved , as an amendment , that a vote of thanks be passed on Mr . Bonn for his exertion to our cause . Seconded by Mr . WEflBT . Resolution carried . Mr . Baglei moved , that a letter be sent to the Star , requesting an answer when the Convention is to beheld . Seconded by Mr . WxstbT . Mr . ClUGHI . iN moredavoteof thanks to the Execu tive for their exertions in behalf of the Land Association , and for their exertions in behalf of the Chartist exiles , Frost , "Williams , and Jones . Seconded by Mr . Uobbs .
Mr . Westm moved , as an amendment , that a vote of censnrebe passed upon the Executive for their apathy to the Chartist cause . Resolution carried . Mr . D . Goveb moved that a notice be sent to the Exe cutive , that this locality does not hold itself responsible for any resolution emanating from this locality , unless signed by the sub-seeretary . Mr . Astim . moved , that we form a committee of nine , and that 5 s . be voted out of the funds for the delegate . Seconded by Mr . CUbghxan . Mr . Du 2 iX moved , as an . amendment ^ that it stand over till we know when the Conference takes place . The amendment carried . Mr . T . Coopee moved , that this locality observes with great gratification the fact , that the following resolution ivaspassed at the recent anniversary meeting of the Complete Suffrage Association :
"Resolved , that this meeting rejoices that the Metropolitan Complete Suffrage Association repudiates the employment of other than peaceful , constitutional and moral means for the attainment of its objects , and cordially invites all sincere Chartists , i n a spirit of brother , hood " , to join in an earnest , persevering , and xhey hope successful , attempt to secure for the princip les of tilt-People ' s Charter a place in thestatute book of the realm . And this locality hereby expresses its cordial agreement , with the spirit of that resolution , and professes its williDgness to join in any earnest effort made by tbe Complete Sufirage Association for establishing the principles of the People ' s Charter . " —Carried .
This locality respectfully invites the metropolitan Chartists to take into their consideration th « propriety of calling an aggregate meeting to consider the resolution emanating from the Complete Suffrage Association . E . > ' obbs , Sub-secretary .
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The Coti « jj Spinners of Ashios are in a state of great discontent on the subject of wages . A lengthy address from the operative cotton-spinners' committee , has been placarded on the walls of the town , in which it is stated that the Messrs . Kirk , of Stalybridge , are paying 8 d . lese per thousand hanks , on some wheels , than the masters of Ashton . It _ 3 . * intimated that unless an advance is given they will turn out .
Chesterfield Stockixgebs . —All the frame-work knitters at Chesterfield and neighbourhood are out of employ , and have been out of work for some time The consequence is , that many families are destitute ; and , what makes lhe case more lamentable is , that the major part of those persons who have been engaged in this branch of manufacture , from the employment being of a sedentary nature , are thereby rendered unfit for work of a laborious character . Some years ago , many hundred stocking frames were at work at Chesterfield and its vicinity , at present the aggregate does sot exceed twenty .
The Spjt * lfiei . ds Weavers . —On Saturday night , at eight o ' clock , a numerous meeting of the Broad Silk Loom Weavers' Union of Spitalfklds was held at the Crown and Anchor , Waterloo-town , Bethnalgreen . to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the House of Lords , to allow the weavers to be heard by counsel at the bar of the House , in support of their opposition to the proposed reduction of the duties on foreign wrought silks , as contemplated by the Customs Duties Act , Mr . Gurnell , j . resident of the Union in the chair , who briefly alluded to the objects that were about to come before the meeting , and urged the necessit y of some immediate steps being taken . M . Bradley moved— " That we , the members of the Broad-silk Hand-loom Weavers * Union , do petition the Honourable the House of .. ords to allow counsel to be heard at the
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bar of their Honourable House , in defence of the Bilk question , feeling that tlie now tariff will have a ruinouB effect on their trade . " ; Mr . Snow observed that he would second the resolution ; as he believed it would Le their last resource . The chairman put the resolution , which was agreed to unanimously . OpgBATLYE Tuwss * Jo » t Stock Gomfant . —The Certifying Barrister has declined to enrol the rules of this society , as the following letter addressed to the Committee will show : — "London , 4 th of May , 1846 . "Sir , — I am sorry to be obliged to return you the enclosed Rules , Mr . Justice Wightuian , in a late case , having decided that the Friendly Societies Act do not apply , to a Society established for the purposes mentioned in your Rules . Please to send me the name and address of the party whom I shall return the fee . "Tour ' s faithfully , "J . Tinn Pratt . "
London Paper Stainbrs . —Tliere are now about two hundred paper stainers idle in the streets of London . And why are these men not at work ? Why is the public , deprived of the benefit which might result from their labour—the shopkeepers deprived of the profits which might accrue from their earnings—and the wives and children of the men robbed of the . comforts which their husbands and fathers ought to be able to provide for them ? The simple facts are these ; Sir Robert Peel has not yet reduced , but talked of reducing , bye and bye , the import duty upon foreign paper hangings . What may be the actual effect upon the trade of this measure when it shall become law , it is not easy , perhaps , at present , to calculate . Many master
papernangers are of opinion that it will , not affect the trade at all ; that it will be no disadvantage , either to masters or men . But nine of the principal Lon ^ don masters have determined that it shall . make a great difference both to masters and men ; for they have taken advantage of the expected reduction of duty to make a present and certain reduction of wages to the amount ,: as the men say , "in some cases two-thirds , and on a general average of the rest , of one half . " We have heard of few proceedings calculated to awaken stronger feelings of condemnation than those of the nine master paperhangers of London . The men have now been out nearly 3 months , and we sincerely trust that other trades will not allow them to . be starved . —Labour ' t Advocate .
Tbrn-obt of Cabpentbks is France . —The working carpenters of Havre have recently addressed a Circular letter to the Mayor , and to the masters and contractors , in which they declare that after the 1 st of June they will insist upon their wages being raised from three francs to three francs and a half per day . From this circular we extract the following information , which may be useful , as showing the prices of labour with this description of artisans in various parts of France . The carpenters ef Havre are paid three feancs per dayand furnish theiy tools ,
esti-, mated at twenty-five centimes per day ; those of ilouen have tbree francs per day also , but they have their tools furnished , and have the use of the refuse weod , upon which they work ; those of Paris have tive francs per day , and furnish no tools . Ship-carpenters gain five to six francs per day , have the refuse wood , work from six to six , every quarter of an hour over is paid at forty centimes , halt' hour at one franc , an hour and a half at one franc twenty-five centimes . The working day at Rouen is from six to six : that at Havre from five to seven o ' clock .
The London Strqko , Trade of Boot and Shos makers held another en mane meeting on the evening of Wednesday last , when the proposition was again brought forward , as mentioned in our paper a fortnight ago , ot leaving the Cordwainers' General Association / and which was now almost unanimously carried . It will be recollected it was stated in a former notice , that a much cheaper ^ and altogether more effective plan of mutual assistance was in a state of preparation by the West-end Society of Men ' s Men ; and although this is not yet completed , themembers of the Stron < r Trade have that
confidence in the beneficial tendencies of the proposed alterations , that the present secession from the association has been mainly the result of this confidence . Manchester Carpenters Strike . —On Tuesday last , at the Manchester Trades Conference , Mr . Bonell , of London , paid £ 10 as two week ' s levy in part from the Pimlico Society of Carpenters ; £ 20 from the London and Westminister ditto , aad £ 3 from the Windsor Castle ditto , second subscription . Mr . John Bush , secretary of the London lodge of the General Union , paid in £ V 5 : making upwards of £ 600 from the carpenters of London to Manchester , besides the Other towns tbat have been on strike .
Wioan Colliers . —On Monday last the miners of Wigan held their anniversary- The members of the various lodges assembled at nine o'clock in the itiorning . and , preceded by an excellent band of music , walked in procession down . Seholes to the railway atatioB , there to await the arrival of W . P . Roberts , Esq . The day was beautifully fine , and the splendid silk banners waving majestically along the whole line of the ( recession , gave it a most imposing appearance . Mr . Roberts having unfortunately been thrown out of his gig before leaving Manchester , did not arrive in time . The procession then moved on to Amberswood common . Oil arriving there , Mr . John Berry was called on to preside . After briefly
addressing the meeting , he introduced Mr . James Price , who delivered a most excellent speech , which was loudly applauded .. Mr . Roberts having been seen approaching the meeting , thire was a pause , and then a loud burst of enthusiastic cheering , which made tbe welkin ring . On his reaching the platform , the cheering was again renewed , and lasted several minuses . Mr . R . addressed the meeting , and spoke nearly three quarters of an hour upon a variety of topics connected with trades unions . The meeting then broke up , " and the members of the Miners' Association retired to their respective lodges , ^ where they dined together , spending the evening in the greatest harmoney with each other .
The miners of Bolton and its vicinity are still out . "Labour ' s Advocate . "—This is the title of a new weekly Trade's Register ( price two-pence ) , the first number of which was issued last Saturdny , and contains a good deal of interesting matter connected with Trades' Movements . In tbeEditer's opining address , he says : — " The laboruers—the working people—have no press at their command . Among the shoals of periodicals which are issuing continually , we do not know of one which is fully , and solely devoted to the cause of Labour . Very few public prints profess any direct advocacy of the cause of Labour ; and those which do , connect with it some political or other partizanship , which cramps their energies and
binds them to a particular course of action . " We beg in self-defence to demur to this . We venture to assert that there is at least me journal which is " fully and solely devoted to the cause of Labour , " and that journal is the Northern Star . No other cause but that of Labour is advocated by us , and certaiuly Labour ' s tights , both social and political , have ever been advocated by us in no temporising spirit . If this is a political journal it is , nevertheless , open to all sections of the working classes , without regard to their politics . When a strike take 3 place , or any body of the working men are subjected to oppression , we never ask are the men Cliartists before ranging ourselves on their
side . It is enough for us tbat those oppressed are oppressed , we ask no more to induce us to cnanipiwiisc their cause . We endeavour to convince the working men of the necessity of acquiring political power as a means to accomplish social changes , but this his never hindered , nor ever will hinder us from aiding all rational attempts made by the working men to better their condition by other means . New Advocates of Labour ' s Rights have plenty ot room without depreciating the efforts of those who have struggled in the good cause for years past . We hope to see many such Advocates in the field , as the one before us ; the contest is a severe one , and , hitherto , the advocates of the working men have been but too few .
Bookbindebs . —At a general meeting , held at the Assembly Rooms , Theobalds Road , on Friday last . This trade resolved on establishing boot and shoe clubs , in support of the '' workman ' sown shop , " also that their general secretary ( Mr .. Dunning , ) do issue circulars to the several sections of the trade , calling on them to adopt the same course . Manchester—Tiie Conference . —The Conference of the National Associated Trades commenced its sittings in the Hall of Science , Manchester , on Mondafi last , T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . F ., the President of the Association in the chair . Against this association the masters have waged the most deadly war . All their former objections have one by one been abandoned , but the requirement that the trades should
not belong to this association has been clung to with the utmost pertinacity . The conference , by holuin « its meetings ia Manchester , the centre of that district in which the contest has been going on for upwards of three months , have fairly betrded the lion of capital in its own den , and thrown down the gaqc of battle . It has proclaimed its determination calmly atid coolly to measure ics strengnh against those ' who make use of capital as an instrument for oppressing the labourer , and defrauding him ot his just rights . And it has taught the press and the masters of this district , that there are surely gathering together talent , elements of wealth , intelligence , and numbers , which will in the long run ^ achieve a mighty and beneficial change in the position of industry . .
The great , unostentatious , but firm manner in which the meeting has been convened , and the cool manner in which its business has been conducted , are worthy of notice and commendation . Without parade , feasting , or bluster of any kind , it lias maintained its own ground , enunciated its own principles , explained its own objects , and shown by its whole demeanour that it is determined to carry them . Great interest has been manifested in its deliberations by the working classes generally ; and the tone of the debates has been characterised by the high intelligence , searching investigation into causes , and intimate practical knowledge of letails , which pecu-
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liarly distinguish assemblies of the people ' s real reprasentatives :. . ';¦ The " NoHheni Star clehbminated the fir st Conference of the Trades held in London ; " The Pe ople ' s Parliament ; " witli even ' more propriety may the present Conference be , so denominated . It has all the bone and sinew of the most minly qualities of the people about it . , '
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THE COMING ELECTION—DUTY OP THE PEOPLE LETIER II . TO THE EDITOR OF THE " NORTHERN STAB . " gjg jf food and clothing and Iwbitation can only be raisud from the earth , and if that earth must be monopolised ; if a few only amongst mankind must possess it , then the landless must necessarily lie at the mercy of these lew ; and their only hope—their only chance of enjoying any approach to a sufficiency of the necessaries and common comforts of life , depends upon the checks which government shall place to the rapacity of the monopolists . The least reflection , the smallest amount of consideration , will be sufficient to convince any man of this truth . In all ages , and by all eovernments , however
constituted , this has ever been done , either to a greater oralesB extent ; and in proportion to the efficiency of these checks have the people been ill or happily governed . In fact , sir , society could not long exist without them ; yet , in defiance of ( his obvieus truth , there are a set of men pretending to know more ot the science and philosophy of governing than hath ever before dawned upon the intellect of man , calling themselves political economists , who maintain that these checks ought hot to exist , and who have already infected government with their doctrines . If ever doctrines . deserved the name of " damnable , " these are of the number ; and if they must continue to pervade the councils of the nation , their effects will be direful in the extreme .
When inventions have been discovered calculated to mitigate the primeval ban , they have ever been wrested to the unholy purpose of ministering to the ambition of a few , and When , in the conflict of opinions , principles have been elicited which exhibited in too glaring a light to permit its continuance , the injustice of any law or institution then in being , advantage has been taken of the moment to make or establish another , tinsellsd over with mock liberality , which gave to the oppressor a still wider range , v U * der the pretence of fostering science for the benefit of the human race , the former was encouraged , and under the mask of growing civilisation , the latter
was removed . The landless were once the acknowledged property of the owners of the soil , and bought and sold them like their cattle . Benevolence and humanity Wfll'l'ed against the system , till the mind of age would no longer tolerate it . Their emancipation followed—a freedom which absolved the rich from , the charge of support in htlple 6 S infancy , decrepit age , and secured to the poor the privilege to toil whilst strength remained . Thus the advantages of emancipation have been on all sides ; the poor have gained in name only—the rich in reality . So that were the poor to desire the restoration , of their former state , it would net be permitted ; and they migat long for the flesh-pots of Egypt in vain .
But , sir , whether our wanderings through the barren wilderness since hath brought us nearer to the '' promised land , " I know not ; yet , from the tops of our long chimucjs " ge ou )} -countries" have been descried , where wine , and grain , and fruit exists in overflowing abundance . The " spies"hare g iven a good report ; Cobden is one of them . The march is begun . The advance-guard has crossed the boundaries as miraculously ; as of yore ; and Jeruho ' 8 walls are evidently about to tumble from the effects of mere sound , like the blasts of ram ' s horh £ , alone . Our sorrows are nearly at an end ; and ease , and
plenty will soon be enjoyed by all ; Do not suppose that the opposition of our great leaders to women and children toiling only ten hours a-day , proves anything against this ease and plenty being hereafter enjoyed . It is tmlj for a great principle that they contend— " to buy in the cheapest market , and sell in tbe dearest , either food or human labour , " without the interference of law , as heretofore , to limit the freedom of commercial intercourse . Wine and spirits may hereafter be brought us without incurring the penalties for smuggling ; and women may prostitute their persons and men their strength , without encountering laws to restrict their bargain .
If the land was not monopolized , and tithe and rent exacted for the mere liberty of cultivating the soil , there might be nothing in all this freedom inimical to man ' s happiness ; but owing to this monopoly , our females are driven from the country to overcrowded cities , where hundreds fall victims to licentious wualth ; and men depressed by competition , must hire out their labour , as in Ireland , for sixpence per day . It'is a gross delusion to talk about freedom of barter / whilst such monopoly exists ; ouv necessaries become a law more binding and imperative than any which van be made by man . Pride will do much , but hunger more .
This course then , fellow workmen , must be pursued in future . Either our natural inheritance to which we , as equal descendants of Adam , are alike entitled , must bu restored , or government must protect us from the avarice of our employers . Uitherto we have foolishly imagined that the removal of some great tax would benefit u » . If the national debt were removed , we should not derive a years' advantage therefrom . . We have alike deceived ourselves with regard to Trades Unions , forgetting that the power of Government was for good or ill .. Many legal restrictions have been placed upon the owners of cotton factories ; if no such restrictions had been laid , the machinery would have remained unboxed , regardless of tlio number of cripples , and our mills have still been running like the lace factories of Nottingham , night and day , though , thousands sunk yearly to the grave , from sheet' exhaustion . The battle must be transferred from the employers to the governing poiver , the petty war / are upon minor fortresses , for an attack upon the Capital .
Our labour is now performed , not as formerly in an isolated , but in a collective capacity . We must insist on tbe hours "f labour being reduced to those . limits , which crowded rooms and a vitiated atmosphere , renders absolutely necessary to tliepreservation of health and strength . The wages of the workman must not be reduced below tbat standard required for a full supply of the necessaries of life ; and our unemployed must have full support , not left to the Guardians or Poor Law Commissioners to limit , but fixed by law . These tilings are essential to our safety—our very existence in times which are rapidly approaching . , We may contend for them without losing sight of those principle of political freedom , which will enable us to command that which all are compelled to admit , as justly our due . They cannot deny the fact of a limit toman ' s cudurance of toil ; they cannot deny our
being entitled to a sufficiency of food for our labour , or our right to support when labour cannot be had , The mean dastardly villains , who , like Cobden and Bright , nru drawing thousands a year from your toil , may say , and will say , this cannot be done ; but when new inventions have multiplied so within tbe last forty years , that thousands may now produce , what Would without . these inventions have required as many millions , are we to believe that we cannot be as well fed as before 1 Pshaw they saw we are devoid of intelligence ; we have been fools it is true , but our folly has mainly consisted in bdieving tbilt Vhey meant us well , and in trusting to their professions . They have abused our confidence , and furthered their own ends at the expense of our too credulous faith . That credulity is at an end , all confidence is destroyed . Neither their , sympathetic twaddle in
Parliament , nor their professions at the hustings can be any longer believed ^ but if the presen t system must continue , it is high time to seize upon every opportunity to bring within the arena of public discusBSiou , the leading doctrines of the unfeeling political economist . If these doctrines must prevail , it would be mercy to put at once into practice Marcus ' s plan of painless extinction ; and also to g ive a death dosu of laudanum to every working niou who has attained to forty years of age . Already half our children die before they are five years old , alter enduring an amount of suffering which would make the stoutest heart bleed to behold ; ami if a mail has arrived at the age of forty , and should h ; ippcn to lose his situation in a mill , it is an hundred to one if he ever gets
work in any . of them again . If this horrid state of things must continue , I would if nothing better could be done , cry iondlyfor mercy ; mercy to the infant by legalising tbe theory of Marcus , and mercy to the unemployed , by hurrying them with equal speed to a premature grave , Notliintrbut a limit , fixed by law , to the grasping power of avaricious employers , will ever amend our condition , whilst society is constituted as at pre .-eiit . Peel ' s present measures or any others , however extensive and liberal , without this limitation , will only end in miserable disappointment ; and Hue Catholic Emancipation and the Reform Bill , hut increase the pewer of our oppressors , add to our privations , and rivet more firmly our chains , Yours respectfully , l ' reston , June 2 nd . 1846 . Richabd Mausden .
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Effects of Reading thb "Jmr Errant . "—We read the following in the Osservatore Trestino .- —inspired by the perusal of tha Jmf Errant { t \ ie Wandering Jew ) , an inhabitant of Ilcrniaunstadt has deposited in tne savings bank the" sum ' of 100 florins , of which lie lias disposed by will as follows : — -When the compound interest of that sum , joined to the capital , shall have produced 12 , 000 , 000 florins ( which will happen at the expiration of 300 years ) , 1 , 000 , 000 florins will be employed in raising at Hermannstadta church for the service of the reformed religion ; ] , 000 , 000 florins in founding a normal school for tho primary iusitructorsand notaries of thetown ; l , 000 , 000 florin * in the establishment , of a hospital ; anc 2 , 000 , 000 Jlorins iu the creation of a model farm and a school of agriculture . The remainder will be
appropriated to the paving ol the streets , and the construction of a railroad leading to the best quarries in the neighbourhood of Ueimanustadt , in , the amelioration of the labourers of the commune , and of the master workmen of German origin . 1 , 000 , 000 florins will be appropriated to the embellishment of the town , 2 , 000 , 000 florins will be distributed in works of charity , according to the spirit of the age , and finally , the descendants ' of the founder will be summoned to divide the last million , on condition that they establish their relationship by legal proofs . Here is a man who gives importance to the science of the genealogists . It ia to be hoped that the legacy will not , as in M . Eugene Sue ' s romance , provoke the crimes and mischievous machinations of the artful and designing Jesuits .
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THE MURDERS BY POISONING IN NOR-1 FOLK . ( Continued from our Gth page . ) Happisburgh , Wednesday Morning . —The inquiry was resumed yesterday morning at the Harbro' HilJ House of this village , before the same coroner and jury . . According to the instructions of thecoroner the remains of Maria Lacey were exhumed , but the body was quite decayed . The body of the child , Hannah Peygs , was disinterred on the previous evening at Hingham . The skeleton only remained . The jury being duly impannelled to inquire into the cause ^ of the death of . Maria Lacey and Hannah Peggs , the following evidence was taken : — Elizabeth Peggs , daughter of the late Jonathan Balls , deposed , that she had seen the coffins and knew one to be her diseased sister ' s and the other
her child's . The latter had been buried about seven years . It was first-taken ill at her house . It was in the habit of going to its grandfather ' s house all day long , while she was out at work . On Saturday the 7 th of June , 1809 , the child came home unwell and died on the following Friday . It was sick just before it died . The old man ( Balls ) only came to witness's house once before the child died ,. at least , after bein ? attacked , and that was on the day it died . It expired about five minutes after he arrived . Witness was with him all the time . She had no reason to suppose it died from any other than natural causes . She thought it had the small-pox . An inquest was held on the body . Mr . Clowes , the surgeon , attended , and witness considered it died of the small-pox . .
The investigation was adjourned with a view of hearing the result of the medical examination of tho remains of the deceased .
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|^ THE COLLISION ON THE MERSEY . ( Continued from our Gth page . ) On Tuesday the inquesb was commenced at the Magaziues , before Mr , Churton , the Chester coroner , upon the thirteen persons killed by the iatc collision between the Sea Nymph ' and Rambler , and whose bodies lie buried in Liscard Chapel-yard . Only six of the bodies were identified—namuly ,-James Lally , an old man seventy years of age : Bridget Fury , and her infant son , Owen Fury ; Martin Port ! , and bis daughter , Bridget Fovd ; and Patrick CharJes O'Malley , a lad . The seven other bodies were so dreadtully mangled that identification was rendered impossible . After the six had been identified , the coroner adjourned the court until ten o ' clock on- Tuesday next , to afford time for the inquest now holding at Liverpool to be concluded , and to enable the witneesas and medical gentlemen there engaged to attend before him at the Magazines . —Liverpool Paper of Wednesday .
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The Accident on board tiie Finn McCouil Steam Boat has proved more fatal than was at first reported . In . addition to the three deaths already recorded , it may be briefly added , that a fourth and fifth sufferer , after enduring excruciating pain , breathed their last , within a few hours of each other , before the close ot the day on which the accident occurred . The last , however , lingered until the forenoon of the following day , when he too died . At the moment of the explosion , the whole six unfortunates were blown , it appears , with great force to the farther end of the engine room , a distance of several yards .
Fire at the Fbeeuasons' Taveun . —Shortly before eleven o ' clock on Wednesday , while the masons were assembled in Quarterly Court at their chief Lodge , Freemasons ' -hall , Great Queen-Btreet , the Grant Master , the Earl of Zetland in tbe chair , tbe utmost excitement was caused throughout the numerous assembly by the discovery of a moat suffocating smoke , accompanied by an intense heat , which very much incommoded all present . Siiordy afienvards , the spacious room used by the masons for their meetings and for public assemblies , became filled with smoke , and immediately over the statue of the late Dnke of Sussex , directly below the orchestral gallery , fire was observed by the noble chairman . Upon this discovery the gentlemen of the craft present hastily dissolved their meeting , and the . assistants employed on the establishment commenced , as far as in them Jay , to pour water from paiJsaml buckets upon the fire , which appeared to have seized with considerable power
upon the joisting of the gallery . For a little time it was hoped that the fire was extinguished , but upon the arrival of the firemen from Uolborn and other stations of the brigade , with Mr . Braidwood , the euperintenolant of the London Fire-engine Establishment , and the foremen from the several stations nearest tho spot , it was found upon tearing up the boarding , that the ( ire was still silently progressing , the stop effected by the inmates being insufficient to stay the further encroachment of the flames between the ceiling and the skirting boards . From inquiries instituted on tbe spot , it appears , as far as cau be gleaned , that the fire originated either from the overheating of the warming flues , or iVois the gas , a considerable body of which is used for illuminating tlu marble statue of the Jatc illustrious Grand Master , the Duke of Sussex . The whole of the supporters of the gallery are very sci'iously burned , and tlic statue , which cost £ 4 , 000 , though not injured by fire , will require considerable cleansing .
Ripping open Negroes . —Senor Gcronimo Paez , director of a Brazilian diamond mine , having reason to suspect a negro of stealing diamonds , ordered him to be ripped open , when a magnificent rose diamond was found in his intestines . Encouraged by the success of this fu'dt experiment , he ordered it to be tried on the second , third , amliburth suspected negro , but in each case the victims were innocent , no diamonds were tumid . This result , however , did not check Senor Vnvz , who repeated this atrocious act upon two more negroes , but
unsuccessfully . His conduct at last reached the ears of the proprietors of the mine , by whon he was summoned before the tribunal of Villa Bella . By the judgment delivered on the 25 th Fob last , we Jearu that Paez was ordered to pay Senores Cifuentes and Co ., the lessees of the mines of Brassala , a sum of 2 , 600 piastres &i the value of the five negroes of whom he had deprived the company by putting them to death , without any utility . No order was made for the n ' tvt negro , as his death was for the benefit of the oivners ' . ' For the crime , no proceedings had been taken .
Fatal Accident at the Auction Makt Tavern . —Mr . William Payne , city Coronet' , hold an inquest on Wednesday afternoon , in Guy's Hospital , on the bedy of Patrick Harley , aged fifty . The deceased ; on Tuesday last , was employed removing some lead
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from the roof . of : the Auction Mart ' / J . ' avein , in Bartholomew lane when in endeavouring to throw a piece into the street , he missed hii hold of the lead , and losing his equilibrium , he fell head foremost off the tavern into' Bartholomew-lane . He . was removed to the above hospital , where he died yesterday morning , from com pression of tke brain . Verdict , "Accidental Death . " Fatai . Accident ok the Ritef , —On . Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr . W . Baker , jun ., at , the Shakspere ' Head , Shakespere ' s-walk , Sliadwell , on the body of James Dyer , aged twelve years . The
deceased , with several other boys of his own age , were amusing themselves on Saturday evening in a skiff off Pelican Stairs , Lower Shadwell . The deceased was stepping out of the boat on to a barge lying alongside the stairs , when he overbalanced himself and fell into the water between two boats . A waterman named Hughes immediately put oft and succeeded in picking the body up in a fCw minutes afterwards , and conveyed it ashore . Mr . Henry , a surgeon , in Wapping-wall , attended , _ and applied the usual remedies to restore animation , but without effect . Verdict , ¦ " Accidental death . "
Dreadful Accident . —A serious accident occurred on Wednesday near Howick-terrace , Westminster , attended with loss of life . There is a large sewer nearly opposite this house—a public thoroughfarewhich runs through Messrs . Elliott ' s brewery , and at this point it is quite exposed—no covering or rail whatever . It appears thai three young children , belonging to a poor man named Whitehouse , a coalheaver , were amusing themselves on the banks by catching corks that came from the brewery , when they all fell in . A lad , only eight year * of age , immediately plunged ' in and brought one en shore , but life was extinct , the water being only about two feet deep . Another of the sufferers was got out in an exhausted state , and taken to the hospital , but has since died . The body of the third has not yet been found . " ¦' ¦ ""
Fatal Accident on boabd Hkb Majestv ' s Ship Caledonia . —Plymouth , Juke 2 . —On Sunday , the 31 st ult ., at sunset , when lowering the maintopgaliantmaston board Her Majesty ' s ship Caledonia , 120 , Captain Sir Manly 11 . Dixon , lying in liamoaTie , the lizard unfortunately gave way , and the mast fell on the deck and killed three persons . At the time of the accident , Captain Dixon , the three lieutenants ( including Lieutenant Jones , the officer of the watch , ) and most ot the crew , were on Jeck . The lizard , unfortunately , was not securely stopped , and when the man -it the mast head found it slipping from the mast rope , he sum , ' out , as usual ,
"Stand from uncleri" There were trom forty to fifty hands underneath , who rushed forward out ot danger . The sufferers , who were more aft , and not in a daugerous position , unhappily follo » 'ed the others , and thus came right under the mast . In falling from the mast-head , the topgalhntmast caught in the rigging ,, canted , and fell horizontally across the deck . Three persons were killed on tlis spot , viz ., Mr . C . P . Lamb , assistant clerk ; William Slaney , a marine , leaving a widow , aud five children ; and Thomas B . Herbert , first class boy , Charles Pomeroy , a boy , had his shoulder disiocatea , and was otherwise severely injured .
- Birmingham to be Euectkd into a Gh eat Central Military Depot . —It has been stated in Birmingham this week in quarters likely to be well-informed , that government intend to erect the military station tiiere into a grand centra / , depot , and to remove to it the greater part of the troops now stationed at Weedon . The central position oi'Birmingham , communicating as it now does by railway with all the principal ports iu England , has , it is thought , suggested the propriety and advantage of making it the seat of a central depot , inasmuch asat-a moment's notice troops-mighb thence be dispatched and landed in a few hours in any part of Scotland , England ; or Ireland . -.- ; . ¦ .
ExTBAOBDWAitr LoK 6 Evnx . —Pied at Red Hill » Reigate , Surrey , on Wednesday last , Elizabeth Den " man , in the 107 th year of her age . Although stie attained so great an age , her sufferings ' for yeais in the earlier part of her life , from affection of the liver , were extreme . She ascertained from her medical attendant that one half of her liver was ulcerated , and that she would continue to suffer until the whole part so affected was entirely decayed . At tiie turn of 50 she began to recover , and afterwards enjoyed general good health , until within a very recent period of her death . There is an interesting narrative connected with the history of the old lady's life . When very young-, it was her misfortune to be seduced by the son of a wealthy farmer , in whose service she was living . The young man , to conceal what he considered his disgrace , had the villainy to hire two ruffians to take her life , and she had a very narrow escape from their bands . Returning home
'ate one dark evening from a neighbouring ¦• village , across some lonely fields , she heard some person engaged in alow tone of conversation , near to her on the other side of the hedge . All that she could distinguish was , "Surely she ib gone another way . " This greatly alarmed her , as she imagined herself to be the object of theirconrersa&ion , and so it wasafterwards found to be , for a short time after-a man in the neighbourhood , of a very bad character , \ vas taken ill and died . While on his death bed , being stung with remorse , he-made a full confession of the whole murderous design . He confessed that he and another were to have had ten pounds for tlie poor girl ' s destruction ; and that they intended to Have carried their design iuto execution the very night alluded to , had they have met with her ; and that they had a hole dug in a wood just by , wherein to conceal tlie body . The wood was afterwards searched , and a hole found corresponding with tlie one described by the dying man . -
Accident os the Newcastle a » d No imr Shields Railway . —An accident occurred on Monday , on the Newcastle and'North Shields Railway at the Newcastle terminus , but fortunately " without- ' any serious consequences to life or property . The seven o ' clock train from Shields , heavily laden with passengers , overshot the station , and ran with tremendous foree into a stone building , used as a warehouse at the end of the line . The engine struck the gable corner , and brought down a third of ihe building , which it penetrated nearly a yard , where it stopped , being little more than a . couple of yards from Che coal depot , a precipice h'fteen or sixteen feet below the level of .. the line- The engine was partially covered with
the debris , which arrested its progress , or the catastrophe would have been nppaling . As it fortunately happened , however , the steam had been turned off and the wasehouse checked the momentum of the train . The shock was , of course , extremely alarming , and the screaming of the passengers , principally females and young persons , was heard at some distance in the town , wliich seon caused a large crowd to assemble . The railway attendants , however , got the passengers out as soon as possible , and closed the station gates . None of the carriages were broken or displaced , and they were very soon detached from the engine and removed on to the ' other lino . Several ( if the passengers received blows , and two or three had slight abrasions . '
Fatal and Fiuchtful Accidents ketubnisg from Epsom . —On . Wednesday evening the following fatal and tearful accidents occurred while returing from Epsom Races : — -The first case was about one mile on this side of Epsonh A four-wheel chaise , in which were seated four persons , while tlmy were in the act of descending a hill , they came in collision witli another vehicle , when the driver Mr . John Winters , a cousin to the ex-Champion : t Kngland , was thrown to the ground , the force of tvUUh L-roke his back . The other persons in the chaise were likewise most seriously injured . Mr . Winter was carried to the nearest surgeon ' s who dressed the wouuds , and subsequently ordered him to be convened to St . Thomas ' s Hospital , where he was found to have
received the most extensive injuries of the back , which was completely broken , lie was put under the care of the house surgeon , but he expired iu two hours after his admission . Another accident , ofa frightful character , occurred while descending al » ill , situate about three miles from Epsom . A van of unusual si 2 e ,. belonging to Mr . Ma thews , caiman , of Guy-street , New Wcston-slreet , Berinondscy , was on the way home very heavily and injudiciously loaded , there being upwards of 35 iudividunls riding with the driver ( Mr . Mathews , ) independent of a large quantity of luggage . The van , was proceeding at a stead y pace towards town , in a narrow lane , when one oi tke near wheels run into a deep hole , which broke it
into atoms ; cue vehicle ' . consequently swerved , or turned completely over , throwing the passengers into an adjoining '' fold , and some into ' the hedge . The driver was lost for a few seconds by . failing among the horses , which were all in confusion , and plunging furiously . After a lew minutes had chipset ) , Mr . Barnes , landlord of the Two Brewers , Iiedcrossstreet , Southwark , was discovered with fractured ribs and contusions over various parts of his body . Another gentleman , landlord of the Rose Tavern , Snow's-h ' elds , received a fracture of tho left arm and severe injury to the head . Mr Windsor of Kingstreet , Borough , also sustained a liberated wound of the scalp .
Presentation of a Su / yt . r Ssdff Box . — Oa Saturday last , a meeting of the Philanthropic Engineers' Society ,, was held at the Bull ' s Head , Wigan , at which a beautiful silver snuff box was presented to Mr . John Berry , district ¦ secretary to the Coal iMinera Association , for his valuable services in the formatiou of the Society which was presented by the chairman , in behalf of that body . The inscription was as follows : — " Presented to John Berry , for his valuable services in the formation of this order , 1846 . " At the termination of the Chairman ' s addrees , Mr . Berry returned thanks in a mat and appropriate speech , which was received wi : h loud acclamations . During lhe evening , a number of toasts , scntinu'nta , &c ., were given , and the com « pany enjoyed themselves untila late hour .
The Late Fatal Aocidkjjt on the 1 Wi : r Railway . —On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at Maiden , a , village near Asbford , on tbe , bodyofthe engine driver , Samuel Hill , > ho was kiliediiyHjeraiSr eidenftm the railway on" Saturda ^ ffl ^ o ^ rf ^ Jffl ^ ^ < Jury returned a verdict /' ? That ; the .. dciieascja ^ as , V > 4 killed by the accidental ( allin ^ of a locomotive engine ; . ^; r / j £ ? ' " ' " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ •• ¦ v ; ^^ 5 >^ '" ¦ Pv ^ ^ _ MM
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' ' ~ ' ^ jMM ^ p ^^ ' ^ o -y .. r / The , neighbourhood of Widegate ^ street , JBisho ,. s . gate-street , was thrown into a state of great consternation on Wednesday evening , by the rumour that a man named Tawny residing at No ' . 13 , in the abov < street ; had committed suicide , haying fl «* murdered Ms wife . It appeared that the deceased and . ins wretched partner were the parents of three children , the eldest of whom , ; a girl about 13 years of age , went to the lodgings occupied by her parents , a .. second pair back in the house " in question , about 4 o ' clock yesterday afternoon . She knocked at the door , but receiving no apswor , the girl looked through the keyhole and saw her father in a position
which led her to beliave he was in a fit . Having given the alarm , the door , which was locked , was burst open , and Towny was fonnd quite dead , suspended from the bedstead . A paper was found pinned to his coat , which contained a statement of tlie motives that induced the unhappy man to commit the rash act , viz ., the dread of approaching starvation . Towny carried on the business of a jobbing tailor , or " slobberer , " as it is technically called , and had been out of work for a considerable period . About three quarters of ah hour after the discovery of his dead body , in pushing the bedstead nearer the wall the body of his wife was discovered on the floor under the bed . The poor woman was also quite dead , and from the appearances presented it was quite evident she had been inhumanly strangled .
Her hands were tied together , and were tightly and convulsively clasped . It is said she was given to drinking , and it is supposed that her husband , on ; oing home about 2 o ' clock , found her lying on ' the > ed intoxicated , and he thereupon proceeded to tie her hands . The act of strangling her was not accomplished without a scuffling noise , which excited the notice of the neighbours . They called out , snpposing them to be fighting , and the noise ceased , the woman boing unable to offer much resistance , either from the effects of the liquor she had drunk , or , as is conjectured , from the operation of some dru « which had been administered , with or without . her own consent j " by her husband . The ill-fated woman was at the time of uer death in daily expectation of her accouchment , and it is considered remarkable that the manner of her untimely death did not bring on the pains of premature parturition . It is rumoured that Towny or his wife made application to the parochial authorities for temporary relief during
. he period of her confinement , and that relief was refused them unless they went into the workhouse , with which condition Towny could not bring himself to comply . The truth of . this , and the various other rumours in connection with this most lamentable affair , will undergo full investigation at tlie inquest , which is expected to be held this day Thursday ) . According to some reports , the wretched husband took the life of his wife , with her own consent , but this is scarcely consistent with another statement which appears entitled to credit—that he has repeatedly been heard to threaten her life , and that he has on previous occasions proceeded tti various acts of ill-usage . Three children arc made orphans by this lamentable occurrence , which , from the circumstance of the woman ' s condition , the alleged refusal to give her temporary relief , and the misery which they were known to have endured during the period of the husband being out of work , has created the greatest sympathy in the . neighmnrhood .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 6, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1369/page/5/
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