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% Some of the points elicited in the discussions on the Miscellaneous Estimates are worth noticing . First with respect to the J \ ew Houses of Parliament . They ivera originally estimated at 7 * 20 , 000 ? . Twelve months were given to the architect to prepare a detailed estimate from specific data , in order to show that this sum was not a mere guess . At the end of that time the Board of Works reported tlat the p lans and details had been furnished as required ; that no alteration had taken place , and the Board was satisfied . On this assurance the building was commenced
' - nd carried on . The whole affair has been , to u * e one of Col . Sihthorp ' s homely but most expressive terms , " a down-right humbug . " It was not true that no alterations had beea Blade—vast and important changes had been mads—and Parliament has gone on voting one sum after another for the perpetuation of this iiuge job , until Lord Morpeth himself confesses tJiat more than a million sterling has been alread y spent en thebuilding . ThetotaVco&t , it iJ estimated , will not be far off Uyq millions , or Dearly three times the original estimate . If Mr Hayter , the Chairman of the Select Committee on the Land Company , and Sir B . Hall , ^¦ e acute and persevering critic of its accounts and brlaBce sheets , were to direct their
keen scent to this matter , we think they would £ nd what they decidedly missed in their late investi gation—all the materials of a rank job , < md a gross and costly imposition on the public . The two millions—or , at least , the million and a half—which will be wasted on the huge monstrosity on the banks of the Thames , would , at 300 / . a head , have located 5 , 00 i > families on freehold farms of three acres each with geod houses and capital to start with ! Our legislators might have been very comfortably provided for in a 500 , 000 ^ . building . But wholesale squandering of the money * ruug from the toil of the millions , calls for r . o reproof or investigation on the part of such immaculate legislators as Sir B . Hall .
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He reserves his Paul Pry propensities only for those plans which promise to improve their condition , and it is wonderful how microscopical , minute , and keen , in hunting for errors , he can then become . The class of legislatorial Pharisees , who straiD at gnats and swallow camels , is , unfortunately , too numerous . Another nice little job was detected by the indefatigable and smart Member for Middlesex , Mr B . Osborne , who is evidently a thorn in the
side of the Whigs . One item of expenditure the House was called upon to sanction , wasthat of 4 , 04-5 / ., " for services performed in connexion with the dislress in Scotland and Ireland . " Nothing could look more natural and unpretending than such an item , especially as Scotland was mentioned first ; and , but for the vigilance of Mr Osborne , the trick would have passed undetected . Scotland was evidently placed first , in order to throw the House off the scent . Mr Osborne , however , gave the House the information , that one mode of relieving this distress was the presenting of
2 , 500 / . out of this item of 4 , 0 + 5 / . to Sir C . Trevelvan , in addition to his year ' s salary , and the Order of the Bath . Pretty fair , we think , for one year ' s services even if they had been of the pre-eminent nature which his official panegyrists state they were . The gentry of Ireland with whom this Whig Commissioner came into contact , entertain a very different opinion of his merits and usefulness . But be this as it may , the nature of the proceedings by which his friends sought to smuggle an addition of 2 j 500 / . to his regular salary , was
fully indicated by Mr Gladstone when he said " , " who could suppose that a single charge to the amount of 2 , 500 / . was included in what appeared to be an aggregate of small items ?" Here is another indication oF " the way the money goes , ' ' which we recommend to the attention of the honourable baronet the member for Marylebone . " Mr Grey and Mr Finlayson should be called upon to overhaul the Government book-keeeping and accounts forthwith . We fear they would have to report upon more than " irregularities . "
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Notice io Agents . — -Those agents who haye neglected to discharge their accounts , rendered on t £ e 24 'h of June , will not receive any further supply of the N : iRTHEBif Stak after this notice , unless they remit in full before Thursday next . Ma Pcsver , Ka ' so , — Tour paper has beta regularly posted { # * Pres * of matter occasioned by the Chartist arrests and the Irish trials , has compelled the withdrawal of several communications ; including the letter of our Irish correspondent .
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RECEIPTS OP THE 2 f ATIONAi LB . KD COMPANY , FOR THE WEEE ENDING THURSDAY , AUGUST 17 . 184 S . FE ^ MR O'CONNOR . SAXES . £ 8 . d Horninghold .. 0 13 6 Horsley .. 0 3 0 Ilaswell - 0 7 6 Birmingham , Ship 2 10 0 Nerccastle-upon- Manchester „ 3 7 4 Tyne - 8 15 0 Iveston .. 2 16 0 Lambeth « 0 11 9 iferthyr , Morgan 3 7 5 Nottingham , Kochdale .. 19 9 Sweet .. 0 S 0 EU Marchanl .. 0 10 0 Birmingham , Thomas Thorn-Goodwin .. 1 0 6 berry .. 0 5 0 Salford - 4 11 6 Thomas Moss ., 1 710 Oidhaia « Oil 3 William Baillie 0 2 9 £ 33 1 10 BXPBK 3 S FUND . ——Newcastle upon- Manchester ., 0 11 2 TjKe - ISO Iveston .. 9 2 fc Nottingham , Kidderminster .. 2 0 0 Sweet .. 0 12 4 Merthyr , Morgan Oil G Salford » 0 7 6 Bochdale ., 0 1 0 £ 0 10 6
Land Fond 3-3 1 10 Expense Fund ... ... ... 5 10 6 Ruleg 0 10 33 13 4 Bank ... . r > ... in 50 1 0 £ 83 H 1 Returned on account of Transfers at Mioster Lovel - - .. .. 105 15 0 Returned on account of Aid Money on Two Three-acre Farms at ditto .. _ 45 0 0 Received on account of House and Ten Acres of Land at BromsgTove .. .. .. 10 GO 0 0 Received on account of a Three acre Farm at Lonbands .. . .. .. .. 52 Id 0 Ditto , for an Allotment at Snig's End „ 50 0 0 Giit .. .. „ ,. ,. „ SO 0 0 £ UJ 91 _ 19 _ 4 Wa . Dhoh . CaWBTOPHEl DoiLS , Thos . Cubs , ( Cones . 800 . ) Philip H'GRATH , ( Fin . . ) FOR FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . XECEIVED BT W . EIBEB . M . Ball , Mansfield 0 0 G Chester-te-Slreet . A Few Females , per M . Bobinson 0 4 0 Manchester , per Banbury , per J . E . Johnson ~ . 0 10 3 Hone .. 0 10 6 Ipswich , per J . Penrith , per H . Cook .. 0 3 7 Sherlicker * , 0 2 2 £ 1 ll _ o
THE LIBERTY FUND . For the Fortnight ending Thursday , Aug . 17 th . Deplford Lo- Somers Town , cality .. 0 3 0 per Mr Arnott 9 10 C Washington Bri- Mr Clark ., 8 4 0 gade , per Sir Northwich , per DanielB _ 0 10 0 Mr Rows .. 0 4 0 Manchester , per Whittington and Drll'Doaall 2 6 0 Cat , per Mr Cheltenham , per Bloomfield - 1 0 10 Mr Glenister- 0 10 0 Sittingbourne , Devonporr , per per Mr Willis 0 2 0 Mr Rogers - 0 5 0 Huddersfield , Bristol , per Mr per Mr Sykes 113 1 Hyatt - 0 5 11 Eadeliffe , per Dr Kidderminster .. 0 5 0 M ( Douatl .. 0 10 0 £ 8 _ 2 _ 10 The above are the receipts of a fortDight , and leave the seciety in debt . We call on a ll secretaries holding funds to pay the same immediately , and all localities to enter into subscriptions for the Liberty Fund on the Sunday ani Monday of next week . We are as plain in stating our circumstances as we are free in stating our opinions , and care nothing for the sneers and insults of thepres 3 . John M'Cbae , Secretary . BKCEITED BT W . R 1 DEB . Star and Gsrter Locality , Kentish Town .. 0 5 0 NOTICE . Mr Hamey has kindly offered to receive all lslters sent to the Executive . So , in future , all communications must be directed to John M'Csae , 16 , Great Wiadmillstreet , Haynaarket , London .
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NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . I sm instructed by the Baard of Directors to intimate ta thosa branch secretaries who h&ve made re mittanceE daring the quarter ending 24 th of Jane , it U imperative to make an immediate return of the Usual quarterly sheet . Thohis Clark . Corresponding Secretarj .
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South Losdon Chartist Hall . —An adjourned meeting of Land members ob ! v , will take place on Sunday , Aug . 20 th , at six o ' clock , for tha farther consideration of the proposition of Mr O'Connor . Choblet . —A general meeting cf shareholders , will be hftld en tht 20 th inst ., in the Land Company ' s rooms , behind Mr Mansley ' e , rope maker , Marketstreet , at one o'clock in the afternoon , fer the purpose of taking into consideration Mr O'Connor ' s pro position . Blackburn . —The quarterly meeting oi the Land members will take place on Sunday , in the Old Siz Douse , Chapel-street , at two o ' clock in the afterneon . Members are urgently requested to attend .
Dswsbcby . —An adjourned delegate mesting will be held on Sunday , August 27 th- Chair to be taken as two o ' clock . Every locality in the district , is requested to send a delegate , and each delegate must bricg proper credentials with him . Communications for the district must be sent to the district secretary , and those localities wishing to join must send a delegate to the nest meeting . ' Easisotox Lasb . —A general meeting of tha Land members will bsheld at Mr J . Hunter ' s public-house ,
on Sunday , August 20 tbt to take into consideration the new plan proposed by F . O'Connor , Esjj ., M P ., to carry out the objects of the National Land CompaDy . It is hoped that every msmbsr will attend . Birmingham —The members ot the National Land Cotnpanj , meeting at the Ship Inn , are requested to attend a special meetiDg of tha sbarefcoldera , on Sunday , A . ugU 6 t 20 tb , to take into consideration the propositions of Mr O'Connor ^ which appeared in his fetter of Satarday last . Chair to be taken at seven o ' clock precisely . _ _
Glasgow . —A . meeting will be held on Tuesday * the 22 nd , at eight o ' clock in the eyeninjf , in tha Democratic Hall . 41 , Irongate , to taks into cat aideratioa Mr . O'Connors proposition .
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NATIONAL VICTIMS' FUND COMMITTEE . The balance sheet of monies received towarda <" efrayiDg the expense of passage and outfit of Mrs Eliza Ann Jsnes , to convey her toherfixiled husband , the corapatriot of John Frost , August 8 th , 1 S 4 S : — £ a . d . Batb , S , Caatwln 0 2 8 MesBrs Hosklll and Wells "' "" 0 2 0 Mr House , Cambirws ]! ... '" "' o 1 0 JsracB Bubb , Lincoln ... " '" 0 8 0 Thomas Potter , Stockton '" "" 0 5 0 George Kendall , Ashfield "" \\\ 0 5 0 J . tn Gilbertson , Carlisle [ , ' , ' , ' , " 10 0 Fcinalo CbortistB , Rochdale "I "' . 0 10 0 W . N . R ., Manchester ... "' \\\ o 0 C Rotherham Chartists ... '" "" o 1 6 Mr Chippencl&le „ '" '" o 3 4 r . w . b . ... ;„ ;;¦ ¦;; oio
Mr GiiBlhy ... ... _ ## __ o 1 0 Mr andifra Draprr , Camberwell ' . ' . ' . 0 2 0 JoB'ph Hariiton , Burnley n | '" 0 3 C Bristol Chartiftta (> # "' " ' 0 4 0 Ritcliffe Bridge , Wm . Clough . ' . . 0 3 0 HydeBracch ofLnnd Cempany .. ' . .. ' . 0 7 6 S . Hobbs , Wjcsmba ... tii i ( 0 3 0 Drojhden , John LTi gh .,, o i c MaDBS ?] d , George Hbbard ... | " 0 10 Dean-strecet , Westmlnater Locality ... " 10 0 Glasgow , James R 3 y ... mi < it o C 1 DanJec . Jamos Gribsm 0 15 7
Camberwell Locality ... ... ... 0 10 0 Ditto , a Few FrKnds ... ' . ' . ... 0 3 0 Jofen P , Jones ,,, " \ \\ 0 10 Accrington ... ... ... [\ m 0 5 0 Swindcn . S . G . Manly .. ! ... ... 0 3 G Wiliiam Jameson ... ... ... 0 10 Maijlelonu Locality ... ... ... 0 C 'J From Stafford ... ... ... 0 6 0 Wallingford , C . PhlllipB ... ... 0 3 3 F-mv Friends , Viuxhall ... ... 0 5 0 Nottingham , Mr Sweat ... ... 0 1 G B-igbron , Wm Flowers ... ... 16 0 Ditto , No . 2 Locality ... ... ... 0 0 2 Paisley Cbartim ... ... ... 0 10 9 Leicester , P , Simpson ,,, ,,, ,,, 0 13 0 Robert Palino ... ... ... 0 10
Cheltenham , C . Hyett ... ... ... 0 10 0 B . rmiogbam , Jamei Brewsttr ... ... 0 5 0 James Parker , Camberwell ,,, ,,, 0 10 A Friend , ditto ... ... ... 0 2 6 Nottingham , Mr Sweet ... ... ... 0 13 Kilmarnock , Mr G : ilmaB ... ... 0 2 4 Suadeiland ... ... ,,, ,., 0 10 Ratcliffa Bridge , J . Booking ... ... 0 3 6 Washington Bruade and Mr Tolman ... 0 IS 0 Brighton , Wm . Flowers ... ... 114 Nottingham , Jobn Bodill ... ... 0 2 0 N .-wcastle-upon . Tyne , per M Judo ... OHIO Lembeth Locality ... ... ... 10 0 Northsmpten , ilr Munday ... ... 0 6 G Manchester , per Mr Licey ... ... 0 5 6 Niw Radfori , ditto ... ... ... 0 4 0 £ 17 10 10 JiMB 3 GflASfcBY . John finnwiv .
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THE MDOUALL DEFENCE FUND . A cigar dealer , Greenwich ... 0 5 0 Covsntry , per W . HoBier 0 1 fl H-bden Bridge , per Jag . Mana 0 5 0 Lincoln , per Thos . Sharp ... , „ ,,, 0 5 0 A Liverpeol Freeman , P . C . B , 0 10 Daniel John Chesterfield 0 10 Newcastle , per Robert Gardener 0 10 0 Burnl-. y Chartists , per Ja > . Wallaoa 0 5 0 Hasiingdon , per Htnry Green 0 4 4 Weetbromwicb , per Wm , Turner 6 2 6 Lnncon , William Shute 0 10 Old Shildon , Lacd and Chartist members , per Jobn Parker 0 5 2 Raehdflle , J > er Le : gh Gleare 0 " S £ 2 13 9
The abore Is all the money I hare received from any place except the Ashton subscriptions , and unless our Chartist friends in the country will bestir themselves and forward subscriptions , I fear we shall not bs able to tuke wiinessea down to Liverpool , W . Aiikin , Treasurer . [ The above should have appeared last week , but was omitted for waat of space . —Ed , N . S , ] The following Bums have been received up to Tuesday evening , the 16 : h inst : — Blackburn , Ricncrd Maiden 2 9 0 Penzsnce , W . J . Grooott 0 10 0
Colue , JoBhua Watson 0 14 0 High Town , W . Wardle 0 10 0 St Andrew ' s , Fifcshire , T . G . MnBtardo ... 0 5 0 Mid . iWon , a Chailist 0 10 Cheltenham , John HenmeiD ... ... ... 10 0 Aberdeen , 'Fair Piay ' and others 0 4 0 South Shields , John Kyle 0 7 0 LmdoD , per W . Ride * 0 3 G Presten , W . L'dJall 10 0 Winchester , Geo . Stnrpess 0 3 0 BeTtriej , Christopher Yateu 0 6 0 Lslcester , W . Goodman „ 0 9 0 Daventry Geo , Beale 0 10 0
n £ 8 11 G W . AlIKIN . Per W . Ridib . Banbury , per J . Howe ... ... ... 6 4 6 Dalstan , per T . Sowerby ... ... 0 5 G Traro , psr W . Bnrridge ... ... 0 5 6 Somtrs Town Chartists , per J . Arnott ... 0 5 0 CDDgle ' on , per T . Pickford ... ... 0 8 9 18 9 - ¦»¦ -
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( From the Daily News . ) Very considerable alarm has been created in the manufacturing districts—more particularly in Man . Chester and Ashton-under-Lyne—by rumours of intended outbreaks by the Chartists and the Irish Confederate clubs . Our correspondent states tbac he was inclined to treat the matter as an idle rumour , but on application to the police authorities he found the magistrates had been in consultation during
almost the whole of Saturday night , several of them being at the town-ball indeed as late as two and three o ' clock on Sunday morning . The ground of this alarm to the magistrates was not suffered to transpire , but something of an unusual nature is inferred , from the circumstance that the police are enjoined to strict secrecy towards the press , a course which has not before been adopted . The answer of the police superintendents to the most simple question is , ' We are not at liberty to answer . '
At Ashton , whither our correspondent went , in consequence of the news from thence being denied at the police office in Manchester , the same secrecy was adopted , but it was there denied that any alarm has been occasioned by any circumstance . From other quarters , however , it was ascertained that some serious grounds of alarm had existed on Saturday ni ght , and that rumours of an intention to barricade the principal streets , and to burn down the factories , in revenge for the apprehension of O'Brien , had caused the magistrates and military officers to concert steps for the suppression of any outbreak , that all the police were called together , in fact in readiness , and that a strong military picquet , with bavonets fixed , was sent down to the
neighbourhood of the Chartist and Confederate meetinghouse en Saturday night , where a meeting was then holding . The Confederates , however , had been apprised of the approach of this body , it is stated , and extinguished their lig hts in great precip itation and left the building , having been in secret conclave only a short time . Most alarming stories were afloat yesterday , also , at Manchester , where it is said a rising was to be effected during the night , and the town set on fire with a view of creating confusion , which was to be taken advantage of to pillage the banks and other depositories of money or
valuables . These rumours may turn out to be unfounded , as many equally alarming ones of a similar kind have been , but there is no question but that the magistrates see some grounds for apprehension , inasmuc h as tbey have taken steps for assembling the whole of th « police , and keeping thera in readiness in large bodies , ready for an emergency . Capt . Willis , the chief constable , it is stated , had been sent for by express , from . Rbyl , a smalt watering place , where he hs 5 gone , to recruit his health .
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SERIOUS DISTURBANCE AT ASHTON .-A
POLICEMAN KILLED . ( From the Manchester Examiner of Tuesday . ) Last evening , about twelve o ' clock , the town of Asht <> n was thrown into consternation and alarm by a report that the Chsrtists were intending to rise in insurrection at that hour , and from what occurred it would appear that the report wa 9 not without foundation . At about ten ta nutes before twelve , poV'ce constable James Bright was passing down Bentinckstreet , and when about fifty yards below the Chartist room he waa shot in the breast by some person at present not knoirn ro the authorities , although he must bB known to at least fifty persona who were in company with the a ? Bassin , most of whom were armed with pikes or guna , and all were more or less armed with warlike weapons of some kind or other . After this act of cold-blooded murder , the Chartist party
pursued two otber constables , who succeeded iD evading them , and made their way to the Town Hall , from which a messenger was dispatched to the bsr rack 0 , but on his proceeding about a quarter of a mile on the road he found it occupied by s number of men armed with pikes , who mado him turn back . Another messenger was then dispatched who succeeded in gaining the barracks by a differem route when the military were immediately got under arras and brought down towards where the mob had assembled . In the meintirno the special constable ? had boon called out , acd with the borough polics and several mounted special constables had attacked the armed mob , whom they put to flight , taking two oi them prisoners . The ? also found a pike on the road , the shaft of which is about eight feet long , the blade about twelve inches lorn ? .
With a view to prev . nt any further outrages , the soldiers were stationed in the Town Hall , while the special constable commenced a diligent search for arras . In their search they found a man who gnve the namo of William Healey . of Newloa M « or weaver , who had in his possession one pistol loaded , a butcher ' s steel , powder , slugs , Chartist Manual , shot bag , piko head , wadding puree , a slater ' s pick sharpened . Unite , and ramrod . A man named William Penny , who watin his company , had arme gun caps in his possession ; a third , named Thomas Lees .
cotton-spinner , and who lives at Godley , had two boxes of lucifer matches ; a man named William Eden , shoemaker , of Dukinfield , was alao seized . He had in his possession one pike handle , two knives , aad two ball tickets . There were also several pikea , pike handles , arjd othor artie ' e ? , evidently made for the purpose of destroying lite , acd of the moat formidable description . There were altogether , twenty-two persons apprehended , for various offices . At about two o ' clock , the mayor arrived at the Town Hall , and bad a oonference with Mr Jowett and Mr Lord , assisted by the clerk , Mr H . llall .
( From the Dail y News of Wednesday . ) So far as can be ascertained it appears that a num ber of the Confederates assembled in the evening at their usual meeting house , the CharleBtown Chapel , and for ones having evaded the eutveill&uce of the police were enabled to arm themselves with pistols , pikes , swords , and other weapons , and march out into the streets , thus armed , at a little before twelve o ' clock , without encountering any immediate oppoai tion . Persons who saw them Btate tbat there were some thirty or forty pike 5 carried by there which gleamed in the moonlight , and that several carried drawn s ^ orda , and others guns and pistols , Sojn after leading tha meeting houee they encountered two policemen , one of whom was shot through the
heart with a pistol ; and they pursued the other into an adjoining street , but he baffled them by running into a cottage , the door of which he locktd in ? ide , taking care to extinguish the light a 9 eoon& 9 possible . What the object oi their march was , beyond the assassination of the police , does Hot very clearly appear ; but it would seem that for a short tirna they entertained the insare project of holding the town against the military , for on messengers being sent to the barracks they encountered this armed forca and were turned back—some , indeed , being fired at . It is stated that the riotera wero encountered by these messengers in considerable force , drawn up in lines across the road to the barracks , but on the military being summoned ( as they were shortly afterwards through the instrumentality of nieasengerfl sent in other directions ) it was found that the rioters had moved , and it baa since come to the knowledge of the authorities
that they had gone forward to Hyde , a town several miles distant . A man named Bradshaw , who works for the Messrs Fowler , potters , was pierced through the thigh with a spear . Another man , named George Sbowcross , waB shot through the calf of one leg with slugs , and they fired a bullet through the wiedow of Mr Ap . j land , surgeon , Dukinfield , about two o ' clock , whilst that gentleman was standing at it , but bo wide of him as not to havo placed him in much peril . On their way throng Dukinfiuld they called at the seat of Mr Charles Hindley , M . P ., and dislodged one of the small cannons placed in front of it , carrying it off , bat ultimately abandoning it , probably on account of its weight . On arriving at Hyde , it appears they entered several factories and drew the plugs from the boilers , but dispersed without committing other mischief . The name of the policeman shot jb Jamea Bright , and hia dead bmly was picked up in Bentinrkatreet , Ashton , by Mr Grava publican .
, In the morning , withia a few hour 3 after the occurrence , tho magistrates of Aahton had assembled at the Town hall , and measures were taken at their suggestion by the polica to apprehend suspected persons , acd upwarda ot twenty have been taken into 0 U 9 tcdy , Bomo of whom were to undergo an examination last evening . One of these men , named William Penny , had only some gun caps in his possession ; William Eden , another , had a pike handle . Sevewl had piko heads ; but some of them had no weapons whatever found upon them . Wm .
Henley , of Newton-moor , weaver , had in his possession a loaded piBt ^ l , some powder , Blugs , shot bag , a slater ' s pick newly sharpened , and a Chartist Manual . A quantity of ball oartridaes wer « found in a garden balonging to Mr Binns of Dukinfield , which it is supposed theConfederates had left tae re to avoid the risk of boing detected with them ia thai * possession . A . sword , newly sharpened , and a pike head were found in the yard of the Ta bot Ina early in the morning . About noon , also , a number of p ikes were found in a field near Dakinfield .
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IIoxTOH .-The Chastist members of this locality are requested to attend at tho 'Hope Coffee-hows ?) Bridport-plftcd , c&Sun&yeveiupg , Augwfc SQJh .,
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THE RIOT AND MURDER AT ASHTON . ( Prom the Daily News . ) The examination of the prisoners taken at Ashton , on suspicion of being implicated in the murderous outbreak of Confederates and Chartists , during Monday night , has resulted in the committal of three of their number for trial at the assizes . I he pnsoners , 22 in number , underwent an exammationi on Tuesday ni ght before the istrates
mag . James Whitehead was charged with being found near the place where Bri ght , the murdered police man , was found ; but there was no evidence to implicate him , and he was discharged . James Mawdesly and Michael Morris were charged withstands :: SOntinel near to Messrs Kenwortny ' s pits , Mossierroad , and with having , along with 30 or 40 oilier men , obstructed the road , and prevented Thomas Ilaigh and another person from going home . Tliey had also threatened to shoot them . Near to where
Morns was taken , soon after the outbreak , a pike eight feet in length was found . On this evidence the prisoners were remanded . Jonathan Braithvvaite and six others , who had hern taken on suspicion merely from being found in the streets , were discharged . John Latimer and William Edpn , found in tlie possession of pike-heads , were remanded . Thos . Lees , James West , Wm . Healy , and Wm . Penny , were next examined . John Bradsbaw , a police constable , said : I was despatched on horspback for the milifarv abcut quarter past ple \ en
o clock , last ni ght . I saw a man with a large bludgeon standing opposite the Swan Inn , When he saw me , he gave a shrill whistle . I rode at him , ami he shrieked . I rode up to near the Kennely coal pits , and saw a great number of men armed , wit !) iheir pikes and guns in a defensive position , I returned , as I could not get by them , and when I got back I heard that Bri ght was shot . I went again , about one . o clock , in company with the chief constable and the other constables , and found the road barricaded .
After the examination of several other witnesses , the prisoners Healy , Penny , and Lees , were committed for trial , and West was remanded . James Horsefield , Benjamin Duke , and Thomas Rhodes , were next examined and discharged , the chairman intimating that if the police found anything further against them , they must be brought up again . This closed the examination .
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ARRESTS AT MANCHESTER . At Manchester the magistrates , no doubt impelled to more decisive measures b y the sanguinary outbreak at Ashton , took steps on Tuesday night , by a combined movement of the police and military , " to seize the Chartist and Confederate leaders in their various clubs , and were successful in laying hold of some of the more notorious . They had been watched very closely on Monday night , as was stated in the Daily News of Wednesday , but they separated without any outbreak . It was ascertained , however , that all the clubs were assembled that night , and that some of them held their conferences in the dark , and with arms in their possession , keeping a strict watch upon the movements of the police . It
was rumoured that , having been intimidated by the police tbat ni ght , they intended to meet again and issue from their clubs on the following night ( Tuesday ) , and make an attack on the mills and principal public buildings , to burn or pillage them . Against some of the persons known to be in their club-rooms , warrants were out from distant towns , and against others informations were sworn on Tuesday , bffore the Manchester magistrates , connecting them with the Ashton and other clubs , as having one common object in view , and with having possession of arms , The magistrates were assembled on Tuesday night , at the Town Hall , to the number of ten or twelve , and soon after ten o clock Captain Willis , the chief constable , and Mi lieswiek , chief supeiintendent of the detective force , divided a force of nearly 300 policemen into five bodies , under the command of
Superintendent Sawley , Taylor , Leary , Saynor , and M'Mullin , and despatched thera by themo ' st private routes , so as to make a simultaneous attack on the different clubs . At the same time , two bodies of military , consisting of two troops of the 4 th Royal Irish Dragoons and two companies of the 30 th Infantry , proceeded by otber routes , so as to take up a position to aid the civil force in case of need . They succeeded in taking fifteen Chartist and Confederate leaders in all , the greater portion of them being found at Whitaker ' s Temperance Hotel , Aneoats , the principal club-room , and these men they escorted to the lock-ups under the Town HaU , having taken them without any resistance . Mr Daniel J . ee , Mr Joseph Peel , and Mr Matthew Kcnntdy , three borough magistrates , accompanied the police .
On Wednesday , at the Borough Court , Manchester , tl . e whole of the fifteen prisoners were brought U | i before the following magistrates for examination : — Messrs E . Armitage ( the Mayor ) , D . Maude , F . IIodgsoD , F . W . Kennedy , W . ' Jackson , Alderman Watkins , Alderman Walker , R . Gladstone , and J . Kennedy . The names of the prisoners placed at the bar were-J . Leech , T . Whiiaker , H . Ellis , G . Rogers , H . Williams , G . Webber ( Englishmen ); D . Donovan , J . J . Finnigan , P . Deolin , M . Carrigan , J . Leaman , G . White , J . Dowlan , S . Cairns ( Irishmen ); and T . Rankin ( Scotohman . )
Mr Pollock , barrister , appeared for the prosecution , about twelve o ' clock , and asked the indulgence of the court for a short time in consequence of not having received his instructions , intimating at the same time that he should probably have to apply for the remand of all the prisoners , without going into evidence . Mr \ V . P . Roberts , attorney for the prisoners , and who is better known as the miners' attorneygeneral , trusted that the court , before they attended to any such application , would see that there was some charge against the prisoners beyond the mere fact of their being Chartists . Some time having elapsed , during which Mr Pollock was receiving his instructions , he rose and said he should now have to make the application of which he had before given an intimation .
Mr W . P . Roberts said , the prisoners had all been apprehended at a late hour , just as they were retiring to bed , and they were taken without any crime being alleged , except that they were Chartists . He therefore asked , that the application fora remand be refused . These men stood there on their deliverance , there being no evidence against them , and they having no consciousness of having offended against the law . To say the least , if the magistrates determined on a remand , he hoped they would take bail , and let the prisoners be informed of the charge against them , that they might have some opportunity of being prepared to meet the charge when it did come . He knew there was a fashion of saying , 'Wait till you meet your judges , ' but he protested against such a course in this case , and contended that it would be most unjustifiable .
Mr Pollock said the learned gentleman had anticipated him . He had not yet made the application , but he was not sorry to have heard the observations which had just fallen , because the application he had to make weultl meet one of those observations , and that the principal one , most completely . He applied to have the whole of the prisoners , some of whom had been apprehended with warrants and aome without , remanded to some future dayi in order that full evidence might be brought before the court with reference to their alleged guilt , and that , in the meantime , he would take care sufficient intimation was given to the prisoners of what the charge would be . The charge on which these men were
brought before the court did not consist , as he was instructed , in their Wing Chartists simpl y ; nor would they have been brought there for any political opinions they might hold , if they had not been guilty of other offences . On a future day he should be able to show that these men had been apprehended at a place where a club was held , which was only one of a great number of clubs ; End with respect to these clubs , they would be read y to prove that they had been organised for a considerable lime , and acted together in concert with each other , and with clubs outside the town , and in distant parts of the manufacturing districts , which bad counselled resistance to tbe lawful authorities , and some of which had already come into collision with the
pslice—in one instance , as the magistrates were probably aware , with the loss of htimau life , and under circumstances of a most alarming character . Some of the prisoners had taken an active part in some of the clubs ; had communicated with them by means of pasa-words , and some of those passwords and their proceedings had come to the knowledge of the police . So far from this being an attack by mere Chartists , they had reason to hope that the number of those persons sympathising with the prisoners as regarded their determination to attempt obtaining their views by physical force was very small . With regard to the prisoners , they had reasons to know that they and others who might be made amenable to justice , and against whom warrants bad been already issued , had taken
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such a part as to lead to a fear that they intended to excite their followers , and to disturb the peace , and that some of them , more dangerous and disaffected than others , had carried out their designs in a manner which fell very little short of treason , and would ccrtanly amount to a very serious charge of sedition ; for they should be tble to show that these clubs not only contemplated the distinction of property and tbe resistance of aulhorily , but even the destruction of human life . The ground on wh ch he app lied for a remand was , that not only were the police unable at present to bring < onvard all the evidence , but that the commission lor the Liverpool A ? si 7 . s was to be opened that day , when many of the principal witnesses were summoned to give evidence in other cases , and In consequence of which the prosecution in this case would bs i . 'eiJiived of iluir services .
Mr RrisEiu- s , on behalf of the prisoners , resisted the application , ami said that his clients had been rlrivni to hold their meetings in secrecy and privacy by the stringent ami unconstitutional means adopted by the authorities in preventing them meeting in public It' mpn wero not allowed to meet b : public , and to urge their complaints openly and fairly , as free-born Englishmen ought to do , there vasreusm to suppose that they would meet in private . Us opinion was that the authorities , by denying them the right of public meeting , were going the light way to destroy tLat bold independence of character which had been the boast of this countiy , and to convert it into a nation of assassins . But be that
as it might , let the prisoners have the semblance of justice . Let the evidence they had be taken at on ^ e , or if they had none , let the prisoners be discharged . He asked no favour ; he knew they would have none ; he only fctied that if they went to trial in the present state of the country , if they were tried , juries would be found too ready to convict tbem , under the name of Chartists , of any offence . But let the forms of the law lie gone through , and lee there be at leastaprima fati > case made out before the prisoners were remanded . He was the more anxious to have the policemen ' s evidence token at once , because it was apt to grow , and that they recollected many things after a lapse of time which was not in their knowledge on a first examination .
After a short consultation the magistrates agreed to divide the prisoners into two classes . Those taken without warrants were dismissed on their own recognisances in £ 20 till next Wednesday , and those taken on warrrent were also set at liberty on finding two sureties each in jE 20 to answer the charges against them on the same day .
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ARREST OF ARMED CHARTISTS IN LONDON . ( From the Daily Papers of Thursday , Aug . 17 ) Last night a scene of the utmost confusion took p lace in Webber-street , Blackfriars , which for two or three hours created considerable sensation in the neighbourhood . It appears that from private information received by the government , a strong muster of the P division of police was ordered to assemble at the L division in Tower-street . The men were immediately placed in reserve , armed with cutlasses , and were joined by about 150 constables and sergeants of the L division . The men belonging to the M section were also on duty at the Stoms-end station , under the direction of Superintendent Evans .
About half-past nine , on a sigual being made , Superintendent Rutt , and Inspectors Carter , Evan * , Arnold and Rogers , with nearly 300 men , marched to the Angel Tavern , in Webber-street , kept hy Mr Smith- Mr ltutt , with a pair of loaded pistols and a cutlass at his side , entered the house , accompanied by a strong body of constables , and at the same time upwards of a hundred officers were drawn up in front of the premises under arms . The moment the police entered the tap-room or parlour a general movement took pliuGOi the part of the persons assembled there , and Mr Rutt cried out , ' If anv man offers the least resista C € I v 7 U
run him through , ' at the same time show ng his drawn cutlass . This bad the desired effect , and little or no resistance was attempted , The police then , in a body , seized fourteen men who were in . the room , and conveyed them , umler a strong guard , to Tower-street , where upon being searched p istols loaded to the muzzle , pikes , three-corner daggers ; spear heads , and swords were found upon their persons , and others were found secreted under the seats on which they had been sitting . Some of . them wore iron breast plates , and others had gun > powder , shot , and tow balls . Under one man no ! es 3 than seventy-five rounds of ball cartridge were ilisnnverfid .
The prisoners were a ' , 1 placed in front of the lobby , and having been duly charged , their names and addresses were taken and scarcely a man was brought forward who was not xvell known to ihe police as being a prominent Chartist . The whole of the prisoners were locked up at Tower-street under a strong escort of police armed with cutlasses . Soon after Superintendent Rutt and Inspector Russell , from private information which they received , proceeded to Blue Anc ' nor-yardi York-street , Westminster , where , it was stated , a gang of armed Chartists were waiting to march out and join the other portions in the event of a procession being formed . On entering the house of a well-known leader , the man and a large pike were found . The whole of the Metropolitan and City police , not on duty in the streets , are to a man ia reserve a ; the station-houses under aims , in case
their services should be required . Upon the police pr oceeding to tbe house of Samuel Morgan , one of the men taken by the L division , the police found the leg of a chair loaded with lead and a number of nails driven in at the extremity-It was about the length of a policeman ' s truncheon , aud so heavily laden that a blow on the head wilh it must have caused instantaneous death . Sword * and weapons of various kinds have been found af the residences of the other prisoners . Mr Inspector Carter , with several constables , then proceeded ina body to search the abodes of the other parties captured .
Yesterday , in consequence of information receives at thellome Office that a Chartist demonstration ott a large scale was intended to be held at a house in Moor-street , Sevtn Dials , orderg were issued to the supeiintendents of the varisus divisions of police at the west-end of the metropolis , to muster all thor men , and keep them in reserve till further orders . At four o clock a strong body of police , under tfce direction of Superintendents Pearce and Grimwood , of the E and F divisions , proceeded to the unicespf the Mendicity Society , Red Lien-square , where th ^ f were kept in reserve till five o ' clock , when from in « formation received by Superintendent Pearce , the latter accompanied by Superintendent Grimwood
went to the Orange Tree public house in Orange street , and having satisfied themselves that a number of armed Chartists were in the house proceeded with several constables into the place , aad arrested about eighteen men , armed with pistofe ^ pikes , and blunderbusses . The landlord was also arrested , and several cabs having beta , procured , the whole of the prisoners w ^ ss handcuffed and conveyed to the police station ia 13 ow-street . The public house in question ia now closed . About eleven o ' clock an alarm was g iven that upwards of 600 Irish Confederates armed with p ikes were about marching from Moor-street to meet the Confederates in Webber-street , and In consequence of the alarm manifested by the inhabitants , the whole of the C division , fully armed , under the orders of Superintendent Beresford ,
proceeded to the spot , and found that a number of Irish had assembled at a public-house in the strefct under the pretence of having a saflie , in order to raise funds to defend the Confederate leaders CD their forthcoming trial . This , however , turned out a mere subterfuge , for on the house being entered the whole of the person 8 assembled were found with arms in their bands . A violent lesisiance was offered on the part of the Confederates ; but on the police drawing their cutlasses , ihey speedily threw down their arms , and ran out of live house . Four who were more violent than the rest were taken into custody . Quiet was not restored to the nei ghbourhood till a late hour . Upwards of 300 ball-cartridges were found secreted in St JameB ' s Churchyard , Clerkenwell ; b y one of the constables on duty , who took possession oi them and carried them to the station .
SEARCHING FOR ARMS . Last night Superintendent Evpns , M , received information from a private source , that a quantity « f muskets , pikes , and other weapons were concealed ** the Rechabite Coffee-house , Great Suffolk-street , Southwark . He went to the house with a body iff police , and searched the house without the lead opposition , but no arms were found , except an © $ d musket , which , being broken at the lock , was rendered useless . The coffee-shop in question is used by a number of secret temperan ce societies and stapicions have been , for some time attached to the ia « mates .
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RUMOURED CHARTIST A * P CQ ? , 7 ESm , AT £ DISTURBANCE IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS . ( From the Morning Herald . ) Manchester , Tuesday , August 15—For several days past rumour has been rife of an outbreak in Manchester and some of the other large towns in this district ; but the authcrities , although in possession of tho intended riots , appear to have given orders to maintain silence to the public press . These channels of information having been closed , I did not consider it wise to give publicity to the vague reports which reached me . There is now no doubt , however , but these reports were in some measure well founded . The intended outbreak here was fixed for last night , but it will be seen from the s ubjoined extract from a second edition of the Manchester Examiner that nothing serious occurred : — —
State of Manchester . —No attempt was made last ni ght to disturb the peace of this city , nor was there discovered any indication of the threatened inroad upon it by the Cl artists of neighbouring towns . Probably tlieamplepr paralions and great vigilance of the magistrates rnav have had some effect in preventing the outbreak ' which the malcontents in their madness , aic 8 aiJ to have contemplated From the events which took place last night at Ashton and Hyde , it would appear that there was , after all , some truth in the information which was received by our authorities . No douht
is entertained here that those events were part of an organised and wide-spread conspiracy . In every place , however , the authorities f , el the utmost confidence that they shall be able to preserve the peace , or promptly to repress any riotous proceeding ? . W e understand that fi om a late hour last ni <* h t till daylight this morning , detachments of soldiers and o ( police patrolled the streets , at various points so as to coverall the principal entrances to the city from Oldham , Ashton , Stockport , &o . All the Confederate clubs in Manchester met last night , and the rooms were crowded .
Oldham . —The authorities of Oldham yesterd ? y received information that the Chartists Of that locality intended , in common with all the other towns round Manchester , to meet last night , with the view of marching upon Manchester , and taking possession of it . The report brought to the authorities was , that parties would assemble from at least 100 different places , and that they would proceed in a combined body to Manchester . It was understood that the Oldham contingent would leave about half-past 11 o ' clock ; and the union of the grand army of the ' national guard' was to tafte place about one . Owing , however , to the rainor
, to the small number who came forward , the Oldhamites did not leave their room till one o ' clock in the morn i ng . They then sallied forth , from 50 to 60 in number , some of them carrying arms . With the view of exciting less observation they divided into seperate parties on leaving the t own . They were watched until they had made their way fairly out of town . The several parties then joined , and nothing more was heard of them . The authorities of Oldham were yesterday in communication with the magistrates of Manchester with respect to the apprehended disturbances . Up till noon to-day no arrests , we believe , had taken place in Oldham .
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August 10 , 18-18 . THE NORTHERN s'TAR . 5 ^^ - ^ " ° * ° " ° * — ° *~ fl" " ¦ ¦ ' '• " " . ¦¦¦ i rnmiiai . i " ' ' .. *"" Jn"atam »>>^^ j 3 w . -ti .- . - « ... i . m .. . 1 r- ' — ¦¦ - ¦ . 1 - 1 »¦ ,
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Ireland formed the topic of an animated debate in the Lords on Monday . A fourth Coercion Bill , introduced by the Lord Chancellor , furnished the ground-work ; the Earl of Shrewsbury attacked the Irish policy of the GovernmeHt , and showed what everybod y now admits , that it was directly in the teeth of all their former professions . They came into office pledged to govern on remedial and conciliatory principles ^ and their whole policy has been ona of miserable make-shifts , expensive to the country and useless to Ireland , ending in a series of the most stringent and despotic acts of coercion . The Marquis of Lansdoane , in a very warm tone and with much vehemence of manner , replied to the truthful exposition nf Lord Shrpwsburv . The Lord President
was decidedly belligerent in his policy ; the Bill before the House he considered was a remedial measure in its strictest and its largest sense , because no good whatever could be done in Ireland until discontent and insubordination were put down by the high hand . It was the o ! d story over again , the same reasoning in the vicious " circle we have so often commented upon . First remedial measures are promised —the people are great in expectancy of the fulfilment of these promises—then the Government and Parliament go to sleep because the people are quiet . After waiting long , " Hoped e
ferred makethtae heartsick , and bitter tooand disturbances recommence , and then the Government plead the hacknied apology—before anything remedial can be done we must jirst " put down " insurrection and restore order . Thus runs the story . The Duke of Wellington followed in a speech savouring strongly of drum-head courts-martial ; and , of course , with the usual celerity and unanimity , the bill for " putting down" illegal assemblies in Ireland passed their Lordships , and has found its way into the Lower House , where , no deubt , its progress will be equally rapid .
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successful . He strongly condemned the noninterference of our Government in tie affairs of Austrian - Ital y , at the time ^ en Radetzky and the Aiutrians weie driven from Lomb ; : rdy ; and now censured in equally severe terms , the mediation of France and England , when Austria iias succeeded in reconquering her Italian possessions . The "hole tone and tendency of Mr Disraeli ' s
' £ S betHhe father-in-law of the Premier as win " heen sent on a very peculiar and roving ""vion—he went to teach politics to various autries . Following Lord Minto ' s career , the hr-n . Member showed that the only result of /¦ peregrinations and his "interference , had been to produce precisely the opposite of wl . at ffaS int endedjby such interference—the results i , ; ' , d decidedly heen more interesting than
speech , was Iwhat we may call decidedly Pittite . He repudiated any connexian with the -Jacobinism of France . It was useless to attempt to act in any affairs of State with a Jacobin party . The name miffht have passed airay . and the modern designation be different , but he recognised in them the same features as of yore—he observed the same character and system . It was a system that commenced in fraternity , and ended by assassination—a system which hesan hy preaching universal f } i . . rity . and concluded by achieving general spoliation—and whether it was L-drn IJoJlin ,
or the man « h . ) shook hands with Ledru . Rvllin , [ meaning , we presume , General Cavaignac ) , he did not recognise in people of this kind the French nation , or any branch of it , with which he should wish to carry on an alliance snJ a cordial understandiuir . The speech was loudly cheered , and is the first indication we have had in Parliament . yet , of the existence of a war party . It so happens , however , that we have had the fortune to possess a Minister who J : e ! d and acted upon the anti Jacobin puh ' cv , so eloquently advocated by Mr Disraeli . We are , therefore , not obliged to reason
abstractedly as to its practical results . We san refer to facts , and these we think are the most conclusive reply to the rhetoric and the sophistry by which England is sought to be again deluded into the adoption of so fatal a policy . William Pitt carried on his Government on the very principles enunciated by Mr Disraeli . The result we all know . It caused a lengthened and destructive war , and saddled the people of this country with a debt of six hundred millions—the annual interest of which has to be swept from tbe Lard earnings of the inJrstrious classes to this dav . There is not 1
a labouringman in the country who does not find the pressure of this omnipresent curse . It stints the dishes on his table , tbe furniture in his house , the clothing for himself and family , the blrnkets for his bed . If Mr Disraeli , and those who preach anti-Jacobinism , would pay the piper for the wars they cause , there might be the less objection ; but we really must proteat againstjbeing dragged into such an insane , destructive , and costly war , as that which , during the early part of the present century , devastated Europe , and imposed a galling and unparalleled burden upon the productive classes of this countrv .
ror our own part , we do not gee why we should interfere with the internal affairs of other countries at all . That system of everlasting meddling , which has been tbe cause of to many and suck heavy burdens , has teen at tha same time the weakness and the curse of British statesmanship . We do not know in what way the country ever has been or ever can be benefitted by it . Let every nation fight its own battles and manage its own matters . What have we to do with them ? It will be time enough for us to move when they attack us ; in that case defence—bold , readv , and effectual—will never he wanting-.
If , however , instead of tbe wise and pacific policy of non-intervention , we are to have intervention , we should certainly prefer that it should be in the direction indicated by Lord Palmerston thaa tbat recommended by Mr Disraeli . If England mu . st he dragged into Continental quarrels we hope it will ba in support of constitutional government , not worn out and effete despotism .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 19, 1848, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1484/page/5/
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