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~. a x', ,~ 4 . t ~: i. I ~~ ' Itla PANORAMA OF fIIF minim EMPIRE. BLACKBURN GAZETTE, July IS. The following very extraordinary statement has appeared 'a this Paper. copied from a magazine called the "Christian Advocate." We have often heard of tl;is Captain Ashe as • ((centric man of talents, but did not know before that he ‘s so wicked as he describes himself to be. We hope his onfession will answer his purpose, for at his time of life he t .:ght to find safe anchorage in some port. " To the Rev. Fdwnrd Ford, Portsmouth. " Rev. and Dear Sir,—The mantle which descended upon !n Green-row Chapel, has not fallen off: I hold it fast, nd pros Son they I may wear it for the remainder of a re tormed life ! I pessel Stinday ri ; ;ltt in tears. and walked to 'his town on 'Mon :ov I was insensible to fatigue, hunger. thirst. or heat. I was supported by an invisible and undefined agency. I often cried aloud, What meaneth this? Is there. then, cemoassion for the lazar ? Can 1, the veryaworst. the most offensive r•f all lazars. vet expect to be healed , and to go on my say rejoicing ? Th e' very worst, the most offensive of all lazars ! hat a confession ! But the hour of unqnalified remorse and of (I, ep penitence is not the hour for the contrite sinner to wear the mask of disguise. No ; it is the precise hour to draw up the curtain behind which the proud and hardened sinner would wish to hide mortification and crime. It is the hour to confess aloud, and to cry. • What must I do to be saved ?' •• I commenced life with all the advantages of birth, edu cation, and fortune; I was even trained up under a strictly moral and religious system ; and I promised at one time to be good from principle, and to be correct from a sense of the beauty of religion. But at the age of Ili I obtained a mmission in the army, and before my twenty-first year, mainly from vicious society and corrupt examples, I be came weak in virtue, lax in principle, and as much a heathen as if I had never read the Holy Bible !! " For several years I continued to lead a most profligate career—that career finally terminated in the most utter loss, diappointment, ruin, anti sorrow ! I merited a prison, and was frequently incarcerated. At length I became a vaga bond in appearance, and a beggar in fact. Repeatedly, while in this shameful condition, I applied to my friends, and to the - world, but was told , reply, that my vile con duct had dried up the sources of pity in every breast. " I did then, and do now feel an honest conviction, that while postrate, wounded, and bleeding on the road side, had I met with the succour of a good Samaritan, I might have risen up and recovered my station in society ; but I was ac costed by no such humane character; and those who pro- Eared me aid, did It on the condition that I should become an instrument of iniquity in their hand.. That is, my ne cessities forced me into the profession of a public writer and no person would assist me unless I bartered all remaining honour and principle for bread "Ashamed, shocked, and terrified, at such a course, I frequently interrupted it by departing for the Continent, for North and South America, and by serving both by sea and by land in different parts of the world. At each time of my return home I sought the aid of some good Samari tan, but was called a monster of iniquity, unworthy to be served or saved. " This unchristian treatment tended to confine me to a vicious course of life ; and, repulsed by the virtuous pub lishers and booksellers of the day, I was literally driven into tl , e arms of such men as Carlile., who exist themselves by poisoning the fountains front which the people are to draw the waters of eternal life d Often have I fled from this terrible employment, but it was to add crime upon crime I What is the consequence? It is most dreadful ! And who, are the greatest sufferers? The Methodists ! For I was instructed by my licentious employers to brand as enthusi. acts or fanatics all those who believe the Holy Scriptures, ' and lead a peculiarly pious and exemplary life. Hence it is, that I (though ever against my feelings and opinions), in all my writings, appear hostile to the methodists ; and never, till last Sunday evening, did I visit their places of worship, but with the distinct view of ridiculing the minis. ter and making the public drink deeply of infidel poison, which my blasphemous employers directed me to prepare and concoct. _ " I had no business whatever at Portsmouth; I went there contrary to my interest and my judgment ; my desti nation was Southampton—my object to bring the Evangeli cals before the public, and into contempt; but when I at tended your church, there was a hand-writing upon the wall, and I learned from you, Reverend and dear Sir, that the LORD compassionate. the poor sinner, and that it is not too late, even at the eleventh hour, or at any hour, to believe in the Sacred Records, and to humble oneself in repentance and in the dust. You witnessed, Sir, the erect of on my mind; you witnessed my remorse, my contrition, and my tears ; and I who, for years and years, sneered at sudden conversions, and strange providences, now gratefully and joyfully proclaim that they are operating in favour of myself. " But such is my public criminality—such has been my public hostility to the Methodists, that my penitence should be of a public nature. I feel this as a first duty. 1 cannot expect mercy and forgiveness, but in proportion as I maid test deep humility, and a perfect disposition to make ample atonement both to Gon and man. My first appearance and confession should be at your altar, and next in coulee at every Wesleyan chapel throughout the United Kingdom.- 11 I assisted to deaden religious feelings, I run bound to assist in their resuscitation. " Reverend and dear Sir, the Repentant Sinner, " THOMAS ASHE. " Southampton, May 31, 1831." In consequence of the partial turn-out of calico printers in this neighbourhood. occasioned by the detetnunation of twenty masters to reduce the wages of their men, a general meeting of operatives was held on Howley Hill, In Great Harwood, four miles and a half from this town. on Monday last, to form a National Association for the Protection of Labour, and the Encouragement of Co-operation. The meeting being announced to take place at eleven o'clock. in. dividuals from the surrounding neighbourhood began to as semble about that period, and their numbers continued to augment until one o'clock,when there were about a thousand present. Mr. Thomas Miller, a calico printer, was called to the chair a little after one o'clock, and proceeded to point on the object of the meeting. He knew, he said, that each trade was incompetent to protect itself from the rapacity of the masters, whose power, when wilted, was sufficient to annihilate them altogether, unless they were determined to support each other. They saw that nothing would satisfy the masters but the whole produce of their labour : at present they got the greatest part of it, by which they were enabled to accumulate princely fortunes, and to live splen didly in halls and palaces ; and yet they were not satisfied, and would never be satisfied until they obtained the whole, and left the poor man without the means of subsistence. Unless, therefore, they united and formed a National Asso ciation to resist the tyranny by which it was designed to op press them, they would soon sink to the level of the wretched wearer. Even the existing prices were incompetent to sun tort them and their families in comfort; and it was evi dent, that neither Reform, the repeal of the Corn Laws, nor any other Legislative ennactment could do them any good, if their tyrannical masters were suffixed to reduce wages in the same proportion. (Loud cheers.) In con clusion. the chairman also warmly recommended the prin ciple of co-operation, and exhorted the tnec.ing to hear all parties whit attention, end to conduct themselves with order end propriety. Mr. RICHARD RANT/011AR, a calico printer, moved the first resolution, condemning the practice of reducing wages, and expressing a belief, that a repeal of the burdens which now oppress the poor, would not ameliorate their condition, so long as reductions were made in the price of labour. He was convinced that the system of rednetton practised by the ma , :ers had brought misery and ruin to mankind; and, if not checked, would end in their total destinction. It was toe object of the masters to reduce them to such a wretched state that they should not have the tue.tris of uniting for their own protection : they were worse than slaves, for ti c pittance given to them was denied to the labourers here ; atai •tn!ess they sabmitted to employment at any price the masters of fact], there was no relief for them. They were driven, ti ere fore. to unite for their own support—it was a union of syn.- paths. and mutual se:lei:in, and, it edopted extensively. would prove beneficial to all. Mr. Tagg, also a calico printer, seconded the motion, and condemned the system of 'eduction as destructive of the cha racter and comfort of the labouring classes. There was a conspiracy among the masters to reduce wages, and if they could succeed in reducing the printers, did any mats heliete they mould stop there? No: they would assuredly go for. ward in their reductions, and the block-printer anti the dyer would next be attacked, until they gut them down to the same wages as the weaver. This was evidently their aim, for they were continually telling them how much more they earned than the weaver. (Cheers.) It matured not what they were reduced to : if they worked fcr a Denny a day, their oppressors would take a halfpenny of it, the same as they now wanted to take nearly sixpence of every shilling. They would have them go to their dour& and lick the bones which the dogs had picked-- ( La-eliter)--ar el if they re fused, they were called refractory, and not even allowed the privilege of a dog to growl when they were kicked.(lAughter and cheers.) But they could not oppress them if *as 'Were ' no " black sheep ; " the rich men could not work for them selves; and, inded, if they could, they were too lazy to do it. (Laughter.) If, therefore, they stood true to themselva, they were sure to succeed. They saw the miserably squalid state of their families ; and If they did not unite to save them from pauperism, in twelve months they would have nothing to suck for. (Cheers.) EXTRAORDIXMLY Drsczosuna...—Upwards of 30 years ago the town of Wigan was thrown into the greatest con. sternation by the mysterious disappearance oS two young men, one a weaver, residing in the neighbourhood, named Peter Howarth, andthe other a recruit of the 63d Re2,l. meat, named Draper. Both the young men had been seen entering the Roe-buck public-house together, but never were observed to leave It by any person who knew them.— Circumstances wore such a suspicious aspect at the time as to fasten the actual guilt of the young men's murder upon Melling, the landlord of the Hoe-buck, and certain of its inmates ; and a medical man, not remarkable either for the soundness of his undentanding or fur his temperance, who made this his house, related a dream of his, wherein he saw tc murder committed ; that the servant maid held the yes. sel ir.to which the blood of the victims flowed ; that the guilty parties attempted to sink the bodies in the Douglas, which runs at the back of the premises, but finding this impracticable, they then buried them in the garden ; with other details of flesh creeping, blood freezing minuteness. The authorities wrote to the commander of the forces in the Isle of Wight, at that time the depot of the 6lld Re giment, and were informed by that officer that Draper was then under his command, and preparing for India.- 1 part of the story was disproved, but what was become of Howarth 1 So convinced were the inhabitants generally that a murder had been perpetrated, that the place panted out by the surgeon, as seen in his dream, was examined, but in vain. Here the affair rested for years, but these dreadful reports brought Howarth's mother to an untimely grave, and entailed expenses upon the family which reduced them to poverty. Some years ago, the matter was again revived by a surmise, industriously circulated, that Mel. ling, being on his death-bed, had acknowledged the bloody deed, and another search was made, but .in vain; still the general opinion remained unchanged, and the we of Mel bag was looked upon as a solitary exception to the truth of the adage, " murder is always sooner or later found out; when, a few weeks ago, to the indiscribable astonishment of Howarth's surviving friends, he presented himself, and was instantly recognised by one of his sisters. He gives the following account of himself. After leaving home, he ob tained from his employer 18 or 19 shillings, went into the Iloe-buck, and was there robbed of his money. Not daring to face his father, from whom he expected severe treatment, be resolved to leave the neighbourhood. He removed to Manchester, was employed by a dyer, and resided there four years. He then enlisted as a soldier, was sent to India, re. mained there twenty-one years, and was discharged on a pension of 17d. per day. He returned to England six years ago, married, and had come once more to visit the scenes of hie youthful days, and to wipe off the odium which had been cast on the life and memory of the late Nehemiah Melling.—Preston Pilot. SUNNY/ADZ RlOTB.—Robert Montgomery, ELM. Dickenson, and James Roston, who had been out on bail, appeared at the sessions to answer a charge of having riot. ously assembled together with others, and violently assaulting Mr. Brooks and his men, at Sunnyside. The sentence of the Court was that they should each be committed to Lancaster Castle to hard labour for 12 calendar months, and to find sureties for their good behaviour for one year, themselves in 401. each, and two sureties in 201. each, or be imprisoned till such sureties be found. The sentences on other rioters were as follows : William Clough and Joseph Astley, found guilty of a riot at the Colliery of Colonel Hargraves, were sentenced to hard labour in Lancaster Castle for six months and to find sureties as above for one year. Thomas Reid, Samuel Anforth, John Holden, James Bradshaw, Henry Walton, Hargreaves Hartley, and Jonathan `Hodson, for having rioting at Marsden, were brought up. Their sentences were—Thomas Reid, twelve months' hard labour in Lancaster Castle, and sure. ties for one year as above • Anforth and Holden, nine months and like sureties ; Br adabaw and Walton six months and like sureties ; and Hanley and Hodson, three months and like sureties. Henry Dilworth, charged with an assault on an Orange Club, on Whit-Monday, was found guilty, and sentenced to hard labour in Lancaster Castle for three calendar months. On Friday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, the clonal' assumed a dark and lowering aspect, and soon after. wards Manchester was visited by a most tremendous thunder-storm, accompanied by a heavy fall of hail and rain. The lightning was frightfully vivid, and the rapidly successive peals of thunder was such as to appal the stoutest heart.' The storm continued for upwards of an hour. No accident happened in the town. About half-past three the storm, similar in effect to the foregoing, reached Bolton, where the streets where flooded by the rain. The electric fluid struck several houses in Boarelman's Field, and did much damage by shattering the doors and window frames. Coax LAws.—A petition from the labouring classes of this town and neighbourhood, for the total repeal of the cora laws, was last week in the course of signature. The Crops in this district, particularly potatoes, appear most luxuriant ; indeed the accounts which we have seen, from various parts of the United Kingdom, all agree in stating that there is every prospect of an abundant harvest. SPINNEUS AT OLDHABLAt present there are about ten mills and parts of mills out of work In consequence of the notice given by the masters, of a reduction to the Ash. ton and Stayley-bridge prices. The works now standing employed about 350 spinners, 700 piecers, and other hands, the whole amounting to nearly 2000. This week and other employers will stop their wor ks, and the number of unem ployed will be considerably inc reased. In the beginning of this week, a number of the workmen applied to one of the masters requesting to he allowed to continue at work n the terms offered, viz : the Ashton prices; but the of not coming from the men generally, it was declined, the master alleging as a reason that it was better to remain at a stand thau have the works partially engaged. This is the stute of things at present. MARRIED.—At Preston, Mr. It. Monk, gentleman, to Miss Nancy Hoghton. DIED.—At Oak Mount, near Burnley, J. Massey, sen. Erq—At Haslingden, Mr. R. Teasdale, cotton spinner.— At Bradford Colliery, near this town, R. Bradley, in the 95th year of his age—ln Brownlow-street, Liverpool, 04, the Rev. Li. K. :11ilner.—At Stackhouse, near Settle, Win. Can, Esq. 49.—At Kirby Lonadale, 87, Elizabeth, relict of ' the late Richard Gathorne, Esq.—At Ulverston, Martin Dunn, Esq. 75, Comptroller of the Customs. MIDLAND REPRESENTATIVE, BIRMINGHAM. _ BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNlON.—Monday last, the seconu annual meeting of the above important body took place, agreeably to the laws of the Union, for the purpose of receiving a Report, electing a Council for the ensuing year, &c. At about a quarter before two o'clock, the Council, preceded by a band and banners, and followed by a long procession of the members and friends of the Union, wearin their medals, started front the Globe Tavern, Temple-atreet, and arrived at Mr. Beard:monies Repository soon after two. The number present was equal to those on any former occasion for ten thousand ! On the motion of Thomas Attwontl, Esq. G. F. Hunt:, Esq. was called to the chair. The Cuarawarr opened the business of the day, by read ing the resolutions or the Council appointing the meeting. Before they proceeded further he considered it his duty to endeavour to counteract a very erroneous, but very preva lent idea, which was entertained respecting the operation of the Reform bill. It was expected by many that ft would give immediate prosperity to the country. He did not he sitate to say, however, that then people would be disap pointed. It was rot possible that it should do so. It would first operate in preventing a recurrence of those evils which had brought the country into its present difficulties and distress, such, for instance, as nnjust, unnecessary, and ex. pensive wars, into which the country had heretofore been t.r:ven. The operations of reform night be likened to the regimen arid diet prescribed for the purpose of restoring a sick man to health. It was like it in more respects than one, far regimen and dirt would never he attended to until it became absolutely necessary fur the life of the patient ; and ft was very certain that there would have been no Re term ; thay would not have been assembled that day but for the moss: urgent necessity arising out of the prevailing distress. Sir Robert Peel had, in his (Mr. Muntes) opi nion, though unintentionally, done more to forward the cause of reform, by enacting measures which had the ten dency silently to double the buidens of the people, than all the efforts of the reformers put togetker. Mr. ATTwooD said it became his duty to bring forward the report for the past year; a very serious mistake having been committed in making an alteration in - the refortsLlll. It would be recollected, when the Union wri4 firs- foaped ei tern mouths ago, I.e made then . fine He told them that they would certainly owed in the pest work of reform, or that if they did not, they would bring the public mind to inch a state of excitement that the dying & 1 6a should call his children around his bedside, and, =ID. int the Holy Scriptures in his hand, should make them sum etanal enmity to the borough system. (Applause.) At the period of this first meeting the public mind was asleep; there was then no talk about reform. The soli. Lary voice of Mr. Cobbett was alone heard, sounding as It were in the vast depths of the political wilderness which surrounded him, for, generally speaking, there was no loud demand for Reform. By the very set, however, of establish ing their Union, they bad declared the national mind should slumber no longer; it had the effect of arousing it from Its I long and torpid repose, and they were now about to reap the reward of their labour.— They had not been like what aak- spasm calls,— " Fools and cowards, and men cautalous, f,eble, onions, and such suffering souls That welcome wrongs." They had sent against the enemy " the pestilence that walketh in darkness, end the arrow that flieth at mid-day," and, thank Gov, that pestilence had withered his arm. and that ureic had catered his heart. (Loud applause.) They had been like the little cloud which the Prophet saw at a distance, " no bigger than a man's hand at first," but which suddenly became larger, and ovmpreod the earth. This must not be called boasting, though perhaps It might be a little moderate exaggeration, for their enemies, even in holy places, had given them credit for having effected this great work. Then our friends, in their warm enthusiasm, gave us credit for it also; and surely they could not be blamed for receiving honours which were bestowed upon them both by friends and foes. But to be serious, he must confess that the sudden and swi,t destruction which had come upon the oligarchy was very remarkable, and more than he ex pected. He (Mr. A.) could not behold their downfall without calling to.mind numerous passages of Holy Writ— for instance, " I saw the wicked man flourish like a bay tree; I looked, sod lo! his place was gone." Methioks we hear the oligarchs crying out in the language of another por tion of Scripture, which you will all recollect—" Ah I how have they besought us, and we would not hear them ; there fore has this distress come upon us." Yes, he thanked GOD, it was come upon thew, for the distress of these cruel and reinurselees men was their prosperity. They had refused to hear the innumerable prayers of the people,and therefore they now cried to them in tab for succour. (Cheas.) They had tuld the people that it was ridiculous to think of governing themselves, and we must be governed by either force or fraud—by bayonets or by humbug. They tell us that if we were masters of our own house we should get into confu siou. In reply to this, he would invert the expression of Lord Carnarvon, sod say, that the man who held such opi. talons "had either a blockhead's heed upon his shoulders, or a traitor's heart in his bosom." (Applause.) Although the people bad suffered innumerable wrongs and injuries, still they had never called for vengeance--they had always been peaceable, generous, just, humane, and forgiving; and he firmly believed, that if those who bed misgoverned this country would heartily repent,—case to do evil, and learn to do good,—they might yet obtain forgiveness hem the people for the numerous frauds and errors which they had committed. Trey wanted no government of humbug, and none they would have. If they were exposed to the thole • of being governed by fraud or the bayonet, they would pre fer the la ter, for Englishmen knew how to deal wi,h bayonets and tainnon.balls ; but they could not deal with hypotrisy, which Milton had said— " Nor man nor angel could detect." With regard to the refortn bill, (said Mr. A.) I think we should be content with it, but not one atom less; and if it gives as honest profits and good wages, I, and I am sure you too, will be content. But if, on the contrary, it should be found not to give justice, and restore happiness, prosperity, end content, wholly and entirely, I, for one, will never be content with this bill. (Tremendous cheer ing.) Although it might not go so far as they could wish, still it was, in fact, the straiten revolution that had ever taken place in England. The revolution of IdBB was not at all to be compered with it, nor was that which brought Charles to the block. Magna Charm itself was unequal to it. All these had been revolutions of parties, and "the transfer of power had been from one faction to another; but in the present instance it would be transferred to the people themselves. (Cheering.) The bill would destroy the power of the oligarchy completely, and for ever, without interfering with the just rights of the aristocracy. (Hear.) On that dsy the power of the council bad expired, and the members of the council appeared before them that day to give an account of their stewardship. The election of • council was certainly a serious duty for the members to per form. There were certain high qualities necessary for the council to possess; such as integrity, humanity, loyalty, courage, prudence, and talent. Without the first, no man could be trusted to discharge the Important functions of the office, and the union would be liable to be betrayed. As regarded the second, he would observe, that a man, though he had an angel's heed upon his shoulders, if be had a de vil's heart in his bosom, was not worth a rush. By loyalty, he did not mean the worshipping of a man, or an oligarchy who pieced their foot upon the necks of the people, and their hand in their pockets. The meaning he would attach to the term was. lore and respect to the King, a willingness to pro tea his social and other rights; but,at the same time, jealously guarding, to the death, it' necessary, the rights of the people. Courage was also necessary; it might be said that they were to no great danger, but he spoke not of mere an i coo. rage, but moral courage, which was of an higher order, and much more requisite. Gentlemen (said Mr. A.) I can de dare to you, with truth, that I could have faced a battery of cannon with less hesitation and anxiety than I entered the Council of this Union. Every one who joins, must expect the displeasure of his friends—the jealousy of rivals—or the bitter hatred of enemies. He must be prepared for alum. nies of every kind, and must not be surprised to find himself entangled In the meshes of the law, or possibly to have to contend against military power. To meet these various dif. ficulties great prudence was required ; and if talent could be added, it would be very acceptable. (Cheers.) Now, it was generally supposed, that these qualities were to be met with among the middle classes of the community. Voltaire had compared the English nation to a barrel of their own beer ; when at the top all was froth, at the bottom all was dregs, but the middle was excellent. (Laughter.) Now from his (Mr. A.'s) knowledge, he should be almost inclined to reverse this order, and say, that the middle classes were the worst part of the community, although be himself be. longed to that class. They were very proud, servile to their superiors, arrogant to their interiors, malignant to their rivals, and jealous and captious to all. These were certainly very bad qualities, but still it was not to be denied that they had some good ones, and it was to be hoped the weeds would perish and the flowers flourish. In the name of the Council he expressed his satisfaction at the conduct of the members of the Union. When it was first formed, they were told that they had .created a power which they would not be able to manage. The enemy told him (Mr. Attwood) that the people would deceive and betray him, and that he would get Into gaol, and, perhaps, die on the scaffold. Now be could say with truth, that let his death come when it would, and how it woald,wh:thee on the bed of down, in the battle-field, in gaol, or on the scaffold, as might be God's pleasure, if be had nothing worse to torment his museletics than having been in strumental in forming that union, be should die a happy man. He was happy to tell them, that their example had been followed by upwards of fifty other places in the kingdom.— Knowing that they were thus backed up by the working classes, they had no fear of speaking to the enemy within the gate. In conclusion, he would urge them, as a man to whom they had shown peculiar favour and confidence, to con tinue to use their giant's strength with the innocence of a child, and then there was no distress or calamity, which, with a little patience, they would not be able to overcome. Mr. Enmouns had to congratulate the members on hav ing conducted themselves in a mannner worthy of their prim. ciples. There had not, from its establishment been a single deviation from order, or a single breach of the peace, although they had contrived,by their energy and intrepidity, to strike terror into the hearts of the borougbmongers. had also to congratulate them on the effect the union had had in the affairs of the town. (Bear.) Formerly all public business was managed or controlled by parties. The essence of our movements in the affairs of this great town was fac tion ; but now our great body had absorbed or extinguished these petty sections. Like Aaron's rod, the Union had swallowed up all the rods, of party and faction. They had hitherto conten:ed themselves with striking out many beauti ful theories of liberty and government, as if all that was wanted to obtain a reformation of abuses was to Salk about them. Since the Union had been established, however, men asked what they did not, what they said, they had now substi tuted deeds for words—practice for theory. He would appeal to the history of the past year, as a proof that the Union was at all times prepared, when the necessity arose, to act on any occasion which presented itself. They bad determined, and pet their determination in force, that no man should fill any situation in the town, over which they poestased any ennead, simply foe the enjoyment of its 11 "Tot.:r t Fat bad requitod that he should be well fitted to the o:.;' :t. d men in uti l e of vari (Che ou alh the U s caa nion e , An w o r ah the e t r be e to ltrod t arkin acti k li z e f i r :of is responsi th a tru : sta m b b e S s y - . Churchwardens ? Have you not been made responsible (Laughter.) Messrs. Constables, can you do as you like, and commit wrong, without being broug ht to the bar of pub. lie opinion ? (awn.) Messrs. Governors of the Free Grammar School, who have obtained office, for what earthly purpose GOD only knows, certainly not to apply the funds of the charity to their legitimate purposes, has not the Political Union made you strike your flag, and succumb to this great power—public opinion? (Cheers.) Messrs. Guardians of the poor, have not you a tolerable specimen of the estimation in which the Political Council are held. by the public, by the fact of a great proportion of the Council having been infused into your body ? (Cheers.) There was another body in the town which he would leave to his friend, Mr. Russell,who stood near; but this be would say, that he hoped the day was not far distant when the con. stitution of commissioners under the Streets Act would an. dergo an amendment, and when,like the House of Comm, the commissioners would no longer be elected by themselves, but by the great body of the ratepayers, whose money they expended. He hoped he should not be deemed out of order if be alluded to another body, whom they taught to I feel the responsibility of their office--he meant the memixes for the county. It would be recollected that in the ' course of last year a deputation from the Council went to a meeting at Warwick, accompanied by many members of the Union, where they required certain pledges from the county members on the Reform bill, or prepare to be rejected at the following election. Were they not proud that the expression of public opinon, made by them on that occasion, had induced one of the then mem. bens to obandon his sent when he failed to redeem his pledges, (Hear, hear). He would not trouble them further upon the local influence which the Union had beneficially exer cised—there was another view in which it was sti ll more important in the eyes of the world. It was not the Import ance of their numbers ; (hear, hear,) it was not the name and authority even of his friend, Mr. Attwood, which placed them in the commanding Fituation which they now occu pied. Much as they bad valued the character, talent., and high authority of Mr. Attwood, he was sure if he proposed any measure inimical to the interests of his country, they would consider it as the lapse of au overflowing and ge nerous mind, and as such withhold its Lloption. The Union was the grand means of awakening the country from that state of lethargic despair into which it had been driven by the despotism of the Castlereagh Governmem. The blow, however, bad been struck ; and Mr. Atwood. had he no other claims upon the good-will of his fellow.vubjetts, de. served the everlasting gratitude of his country, fiur having become we key-stone of that arch over which they were about to march to victory. When he (Mr. E.) first advo cated the c: use of civil liberty, be was subjected to a most abominable and atrocirus prosecution, upon constitutional principles, as they were termed. They would all recollect the atrocious attack made upon a body of people met to claim that liberty which, upon the present occasion, it was their object to secure. He meant the Manchester massacre. They uould recollect the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act. At the time that iniquitous measure of Government received the sanction of the legislature, he (Mr. E.) declared at a county meeting, at which the late Dr. Parr attended, that, in his opinion, during .he suspension of that act, the allegiance of the people was suspended also. This was his present opinion ; and he did not hesitate to say that when a Government undisguisediy arranged itself against the liber ties of the people, it becomes the duty of that people to use every means, moral and physical, to destroy its domination. Not only was the Habeas Corpus act suspended at the time to which he had alluded, but the atrocious Six Acts were passed, the object of which was by the destruction of the press to keep the people in perfect ignorance, in order to op press them more effectually. He trusted, however, that we ' should soon see these acts wholly and totally repealed. Mr. RUT SELL desired to make a remark or two. The It pert insisted on the support of the throne and the altar. Non, was the meeting prepared to support the iniquitous tithe system, for this they were pledged to do if they passed the report. He thought all altars should be supported by the voluntary contributions of those worshipping at them, and not by forced exaction, as at present. Mr. Asmoon thought the expression slid not limit the terns altar to any . particular kind of religious sect, but m inted to religion in its enlarged and general sense. Rev. T. M. Mc DONNELL suggested, that wherever the phrase' lower clauses' occurred in the report, the words 6 teser classes' should be substituted. Thessigestion was adopted, and the motion then put and 'Meld unanimously. TY Caarnatax then proceeded to put the names of the Osniell to the vote, for re-election or rejection, in the order Ili which they stood in the books of the Union. The whole of the names were then put, and unanimously racketed, except Mr. John Allday, who was rejected. The Bev. T. M. Bl , Doanell, Mr. William Trow, Mr. J. P. Laces, Mr. Wm. Parkes, Mr. Geo. Wright, Mr. Samuel Morris, and Mr. Joseph Wilkes, all new candidates, and who had previously been proposed and seconded, were then unanimously elected members of the Council &anus Scsoxer, 6 cur, Esq. in moving a vote of thanks Whirl Grey, said it would require very few words from him. He believed that the administration, formed by Earl Grey, woe the only honest one within his 4collection. The recent alteration in the bill,which had since been withdrawn,woldd, if it had been persisted in, given pain to all, and he was con vineed it would have been equally painful to his lordship as to the country. If it had been inserted designedly all be (Mr. S.) would say was, that he sincerely hoped th at when ' the Premier discovered the offender, be would instantly dis. .Hakim from his office. (Cheers.) He was sorry to say that there was another wicked and unjust attempt being made to deprive a man of the exercise of his franchise, if he should not have paid up all his rates, thus taking a most unjustifia. ble advantage of a man's poverty. He very strongly sus. pected that the suggestion to insert this clause had come from this town. Earl Grey had proved himself a constant politician, and be trusted his name would ever be remem tiered as the benefactor of his country. Rev. T. hllDowintee addressed the meeting, and said, unaccustomed as he was to public speaking—(a laugh)—he wished he had received an earlier notice of the resolution which had been put into his hands. After expprr ing his satisfaction at the re-appearance of Mr. Edmonds amongst them, he proceeded to remark upon the clause lately intro duced into the bill for reform. It is said that the bill is to be thrown out in the House of Lords, and Lord Londonderry has called upon these "things with human 'ons" to combine against the people. He moved the following petition s Suewes.u—That your Petitioners re joice to learn that a bill is before your Night Hon. House, for amending the re presentation of the people in the Commons House of Parlia ment. That your Petitioners will not believe that your Right Hon. House can refuse its assent to a measure demanded by the unanimous voice of the United Kingdom. That your Pctitiooen respectfully deny the constitutional right of your Right Hon. House to control the people in the enjoyment of their constitutional rights, one of the first of which is that they may be adequately, and according to their own views, represented in their own branch of the legislators. That your Petitioners, therefore, respectfully but firmly protest against any opposition of your Bight Hon. Hosm, to a bill, in which your Right Hon. House is wet oseeseamb, but on the success of which the rights, lihemiesesidl of the people, and the safety and integrity of the mainly depend. He trusted that the Lords would not be mad enough to make war upon the people ; should they be so infatuated, it re quired no spirit of prophecy to fortel that they would be the last of the generation. A Dutchman giving an account of his breakfast and racoon hunt states, that "in consequence of an accident when climbing a tree after the animal, he tumbled slam bang from the bottom to the top," and concludes his narrative by stating that he " caught nothing but von dam toomble." It was easy to foresee that If the House of Lords was obstinately bent upon parAung the chace of the people, they would eventually catch nothing but "von d— team. ble."—(Laughter and cheers.) Mr. ti. DE IT. ATTWOOD proposed the WET resolution. He said, that in order to prove to them, that It was the duty of civilised Europe to interfere in behalf of the Poles, it was not necessary for him to mail to their memory the ancient periods of Polish history, when the Polish people shone Berth conspicuous amongst the nations of that day, for all the splendid, though rugged virtues of the age of chivalry ; neither was it necessary for him to dwell upon the atrocity ::I=ttity of the partition of Poland, between the three ng states, in the last cm always uuiversally acknow , even by the par- Us —a partition which tea rbrace had been ties ed wr e gfited by the spoil, to be a to the did ' Mr. 11; Hams, seconded the remind a. There was le is= after the excellent ampillioadoisalthe subject into by Mrattwood, jsm for him to say stuck. I tt battle the brave Poles were DOD fig. was the battle of the whole world ; for if Itasda - cantinered Poland, ism assuredly would that poet sad end march to- Trett.:l Prance. and then, perkaps, tome& I=3d. Mr. Frame moved the eighth Resolution. He said that It had been mentioned at insinsated, by parsons and tat. eaters, that the aim of Political Unions was only the anti,. meat of power—gulity power. It was only necessary to appeal to the rectitude of their own conduct to oppose and triumphantly overthrow that opinion. Mr. hi. P . Jimmie said, the Council of the Binning. ham Political Union bad been the focus in which the bright rays of populm'powsr and popular wishes had been cot.. eienthi and not only had its lustre adorned Birmingham, but it had shown to the people afar, a beacon which loudly and successfully called every man to the embraces of that liberty which he loved. He did not feel justified in fres = furthe g r upon t his d h y d i ridatte ntiot option o t i but ev he cou t l i d me n n o t t refr h am Mr. Attwood, jun. had expressed in behalf o f . the su ffering Poles. (Hear.) Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, and 'nimbi; acknowledged, Mr. ATTWOOD proposed that the day's proceedings should conclude with the national anthem of " God sari: the King," which was well performed by the band, acorn peeled by the voices of the assembled thousands, and the meeting then separated. SCINTILLA?. EPIGRAM ON DIEBITCH. Diebitch, though dead, will surely still defend The Imperial Autocrat, or Fm an ass; For as before young Nicky was his friend, So now he'll have for friend old Nisk, alas ! (Nicholas; ORDONNANCE ROYALE..---The following is one of the many curious ordinances of Catharine Alexowna, for regulating assemblies in Russia, and which we specially re. commend to the notice of all tippling dowagers of modern days :—" VIII. No ladles are to get drunk upon any pre. tence whatever, nor shall gentlemen be drunk before nine." PROPER PETITION.—Mr. Hodges presents a petition from Torsbridp against the Beer Bill—Of cone the hon. gentleman prefers his own " best blue rain." The petitions against this bill would come with effect from Beer. alston Beer.segis and Aylesbury ; against cyder they would well f rom Appleby ; against corn from Barn. staple ; against resurrection-men from Burkshire ; against commutation of tithes from Bishop's Castle; for the dis. franchisement of Wareham from Chester; against macadam. isation from flintaltire. A caricature of the 16th century thus satirized the superlative iniquity of priests in the midst of apostolic Rome. The reigning Pope and the German Emperor are thus accosted.—A husbandman declares to them, " I serve you two '." a merchant, " I cheat you three ;" a lawyer, " I fleece you four ;" a physician, ' 6 I poison you five;" a priest, " I pardon you six I" Dent's Plain Pathway k Heaven. _ . -------- To some friendly monitors who were lately with the best intentions, recommending to Sir Walter Scott two pieces of advice for the sake of his health ; the first to he. come a member of the Temperance Society, and the second. to abstain from literary labour, the worthy Baronet good. humouredly replied, that the first would imply an admission that he, as well as his advisers, had been sots all their lives : and that, as to the second, Molly might u well tell the ket. de sot to boil, when she had put it on the fire, as he could not, tell his mind to abstain from thinking. ADVERTISEMENT.—In a town in Belgium is to be seen a sign with the following announcement: " Monsieur Ardheim teaches reading, religion, and hour to make pens !" NEWYORK TEA GI oy.—A young man, who had failed In obtaining laudanum wherewith to commit suicide, was detected by the druggist in hanging himself at his board. Ing.house: he is now doing well. A slip of paper was found directed to a young lady whom he bad that afternoon visited, B aying, " Mary when you see this, and learn the deed, you may think you have treated me badly." The coincidence of the deaths of Jefferson and Adams, on the 4th of July, 1826, was one of the most sin. gular circumstances of ;the times, and elicited many an exclamation of wonder, and, indeed, cannot now be regarded without astonishment. A writer in the University Mame. icon, proves from certain data, taken in connexion with the most accurate Tables of mortality, that the odds were more than 1721 millions to one against the concurrence of the deaths of these illustrious men on that day; and that a bet against it, to correspond with the chances, should have been more than 17 millions of dollars to a ant.—dress. A PROLIFIC FAMILY.-..—We copy the following remarkable instance of longevity and increase from an Ame rican paper :—John Howard Smith and 13habeth Ireland, both of Huntington, Suffolk County, L. J. were married in the year 1785. They are still Heft in the enjoyment of health, at a ripe old age, the farme* being in his 87th, and the latter in ber 83d year. Their descendants are as follow, viz. 17 children, 07 grand children, 136 gras grand children, 1 great great grand child ; total26o, of whom 210 are now living. As a proof of the good example and the sage coun sels of the aged pair, in all the 210 descendants yet living, not one of them is known to be dhsipated or intemperate. Blessed is the man," says the psalmist, who hath his quiver full of them." SOME OF THE LATEST " BAD THINGS GOING." —ln Mrs. Gore's Pin Money' we are told that poets are edema things—attorneys' offices, factories for deeds without a name—turnpike trusts, trusts which trust not—and that tolls are Medic:able. TIM SCHOOLMASTER.— A party of gentlemen this summer paid a visit to a noted fishing village in the North. Riding, and, prior to their departure, mine host" pre sented them with ' 4 the bill," of which the following is a MI 2 May 12 A parte of Growl Men To eaten 10 of them To 6 Bottles of Wine To IQr Bread to Bee To alle to 8ee.... 3 0 To retie to Dynes: and and post Boie Balers ..and— and poet Buie all and spret Hay Coro 2 0 12 0 Mr. Henre--to for 10 Giese he' l had won at Bet at he gat York Commit. A FEMALE BOROUGH.—There is nothing like a good representative; and no doubt many of die boroughs are well represented, and have members very well informed on their borough matters; hut it is not every one of them who will tell all they know • for instance, few of them dis ose the borough's sex. cl Last night the Hon. Member for Great Grimsby must eaudidly disclosed the sex of his bo rough, by using the appropriate female pronouns " she" anti " her, " when he alluded to the borough. The Hon. Mem ber also took care to imorm the House that " she' was of ancient days, and " she" was very respectable. Hence we may safely conclude that the Borough of Great Grimsby is a very relytctable old woman.—Morning Advertiser. BIRTHS. Tae 15th inst. in Guildford-street, the lady of C. Leta, Esq. of a son.—The 15th inst. Mrs. G. R. Cotner, of Can terbury.square, Southwark, of a daughter.—The 14th Mg. in John -street, Bedford-row. lilys. R. Lambert, of awn. lARRIED. The 12th inst. at St. Alphage, London-wall, Mr. J. E Wilson, of Gracechurch-street, to Christiana, second daugb• ter of W. Smith, Esq. of Fell -street, City, and Bedfoid• square, Brighton.—The 6th inst. at Sc. Pancras New Church, Mr. F. B. Cook, of Highgate, to Alice, daughter of T. P. Coops, Esq. d Btu:slakelwarrace, Upper Claptoo. DIED. Yesterday, the 15th iau. at hL house in Wimpole•ureet. in his 811th year, General Loftus, Colonel of the 2d Dragoon Guards, and Lieutenant-Governor of the Tower of London. The 14th inst. William, son of the Lord W. Montagu, aged 6 months.—The 12th hut. at Cheltenham, General Sit C. Green Bart. Colonel of the 37th Regiment, in the 831 year of his age.—The 18th ult. at Esher, Mrs. Porter, Of venerable mother of Sir Robert her Porter, in her 06tit year.—The 16th intt. at his house at Chelsea, W. Tibbi., Esq. of Doctore.commons, in his 69th year.—The 15th inst. at his residence, Ha en, Mr. 0. Miles, in his 73d year.—The 12th Inst. at Peckham, W. Webb, Esq. Ito of the Stock Rxchange.—The 14th inst. at his charrhen tr Lincoln's-in B. Duppa, Bac'. barrister.at.law.—The last. at his h ouse at Putney), J. Turner, Rsq. aged 89.--Thc 10th inst. J. Weir, aged 23, late chief placer of the ship Cs. tonne, from Bombay, and son of R. Weir, master, Royal Navy.—The 11th inst. at his son's house, Bromley, Mid' diem, T. Deane, Rag. of Bexhill, Sussex, in the 80th Tea' of his age r —The 11th inst. at Stoke Newington, in the year of her age, Miss Sophia Patch. niece of Mr. W. Patch. of Flnabury.street. Lownos : hinted and rubliebed by Join MATIS. at the STA* Orrics, No. 1, Plekett•pltioe, Temple 8•r• I . t 4 • 1 , , i I II i . i l it 7 , ~. I 7 1 i ,11 .11 I . 1 ~ ... 1J t i • 1 • I , 1