The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-29 00:00:00

3IINGHAM CHARTIST.

BIRMINGHAM, Friday Evening.
This morning, about ten o'clock, George White,
the Birmingham Chartist, against whom a warrant
had been in the hands of the police for some days
past, was apprehended under the following circum-
stances : Inspector hale was proceeding along
Hurst-street, when he accidentally saw White com
ing out of the Fox public-house. The officer imme-
diately accosted him, stating that he had a warrant
for his apprehension, and took him into custody. He
was cited before the town Magistrates at one o'clock
to-day, and after his trial, and the examination of wit •
nesses, the Magistrates, after duly weighing the evi-
dence, were of opinion that they ought to connnit the
prisoner for inditing and publishing seditious pla-
cards, and alsO for uttering language calculated to en-
danger the public peace. They had some doubt whe-
ther the language proved against him did not amount
to treason. They therefore committed him to take
his trial at the borough Sessions. They should re-
quire sureties, himself in 2001., and two bondsmen in
1001. each, with 48 hours' notice of the bail offered.
BIRMINGHAM, Friday Evening, 9 P.M.
• O'Neill was arrested near Dudley to-day, and com-
mitted to Worcester.

LEICESTER, Friday.
ARREST OF COOPER, THE LEICESTER

CHARTIST.
Yesterday morning, Superintendent Cotterill, of
the Newcastle-under-Line police, and Superintendent
Rhcdes of the Handley police, arrived at Leicester by.
the 9 40 p.m. train, with a warrant for the appre-
hension of Thomas Cooper, the leader of the Leicester
Chartists, on a charge of using seditious language, and
exciting the mob to acts of violence. The warrant
having been backed by the Borough Magistrates,
Sergeant Wright, of the town police, accompanied by
Francis Smith, police constable, proceeded to execute
it. Upon arriving at the shop occupied by Cooper,
as a place for vending the publications issued by the
body of which he is a member, and also as a "coffee-
room" for the assembling of parties connected with
the Chartists, he looked at the publications displayed
in the window ; when Cooper, looking over the blind,
said—" Sergeant Wright, I don't want you here ;
you have no business with these papers, so move on."
Wright went on a short distance, when he beckoned
to Smith, with whom he entered the shop, and after
reading over the warrant, took Cooper into custody.
After hearing the charge against him, he. said to his
wife—" I'm done now, my wench," kissed her, and
after telling several of the by-standers that he was
"going to gaol," proceeded, handcuffed to Sergeant
Wright, to the station-house.
During the time our reporter was at the station-
house Cooper communicated the following particulars
of his " life," which we give in the first person singu-
lar I was apprenticed at Scarborough, in Lin-
colnshire, to a cordwainer, and over the ' last' (an
instrument used m the business) learnt myself five
different languages. After leaving Scarborough, I
became master of a schoel at Lincoln, and it was at
that F lace I formed my connection with the Press. A
lecture was delivered upon an interesting subject, a
report of which I furnished to the Stamford Mercury.
After this, Mr. Newcombe, the proprietor, entered
into arrangements that led to my engaging with him
as reporter at a salary, with perquisites, amounting to
nearly 3001. a year. I remained in this situation
about 4t- years, after which I went to London, where
I remained about 17 months, employing myself by
supplying articles to various periodicals and news-
papers, and also acting as transcriber at the British
Museum. I subsequently became editor of the Green-
wich Gazette, bat my ideas being too liberal, I left it,
and engaged as reporter to the Leicester Mercury,
which situation I vacated in a few months, and shortly
afterwards took the lead amongst the Chartists, whose
rights I will advocate even if it lead me to the scaffold."

FATAL ACCIDENT AT MESSRS. MAUDSLEY'S.—On
Saturday a frightful and fatal accident occarred at the
manufactory of Messrs. Maudsley and Co., engineers, in
the Westminster-road, to a lad named Roderick M‘Leod,
14 years of age. The unfortunate lad was at work at
the planing-machine, and having occasion to stoop down
for the purpose of picking up something from the ground,
he incautiously did so too near the machine, and whilst
the plane was in full work, which struck him on the head
with dreadful violence. The machine was immediately
stopped, and a surgeon sent for, but in vain, his head
Leine. literally smashed to pieces. The father of the de-
ceased is an engineer, employed in the factory, and had
but just returned from Naples, where be had been for a
considerable time, in charge of an engine fitted out by
the firm. The body
was conveyed to his father's horse,
No. 3, Thomas-street, Westminster-road, to await a Co.
rover's inquest.
The ViEcountßarbneena, Lady Slade, the Honour.
able Mr. Hervey, and Lady, and many other passengers,
arrived here on Saturday by the Antwerp Company's
steam-ship Princess Victoria, mhich got up to St.
Katharine s Wharf, Tower, at an early hour.