Star.
London, England, 1830-09-07 00:00:00

MR.COBBETTS LECTURE AND CONCERT.

Yesterday evening Mr. Cobbe-77=7—ered his second lecture on Reform
to the working classes in the Rotunda, Blackfriars-road. The kotunua
yes crowded to the ceiling by persons who, in general, appeared to be
of the same station in society, as Mr. Cobbett expressed it, with those
who had achieved the really glorious Revolution in France. Mr. Cob-
betes appearance was hailed with plaudits that would have satisfied the
appetite of the most popular performer of the day, and throughout the
lecture, which took upwards of two hours in delivery, there wee a
continued succession of bursts of applause and laughter, in the letter
of which he frequently joined, to the ;peat amusement of his well-
pleased auditory. After the long-continued rounds of applause
with which he was received had subsided, he commenced by ob-
serving, with sarcasm in both his eyes, how highly gratified
their rulers must be to see so large an assembly of the working-
classes assembled to receive information. They, who had trade
so many exertions to inform the people—who had inundated the country
with cheap tract*, inculcating obedience to those in authority, which,
for the purpose of rendering more extensively useful, they published at
a farthing a piece, or a penny a doyen. But while they were so intent
on enlightening the people themselves, they had a great dislike to having
any fellow-labourers in the good work. It was proper that all the people
of England should know that Polignaes plan of keeping it down in
France wag hatched in England. The French people, notwithstanding
that the Bourbons had been forced hack on them by upwards of a mil-
lion of foreign soldiers in British pay, retained a Chan.ter of De-
isuties elected by the people by ballot, and they being so elected,
kel the honesty to tell the King that unless he dismissed Minhotre,
boom to be the enemies of the people, they would give him no taxes.
The boroughmongers of England saw that this proceeding would be of
dangerous example to them. It' the people of France should aluinue
free, the people of England would not continue enslaved ; therefore the
plot was batched for Polignse to make the Parliament of France resent-
ble the borotightnongers' Parliament in England. After a long
enumeration of the advantages of reform in the reduction of taxa-
non, and of the wasteful extravagance, with which the taxes are
DOW given to boroughmongers and their families, Mr. Cabinet
recommended that no time should be lost in presenting petitions
to the Kilos praying for • reform. It WY forty years since
the people had been allowed to peoition the King; but tow their petl-
time were received and replied to by the King. wl.o was determined to
reign in the hearts Bois people.—(Loud cheering.) Be fore, they might
indeed address a petition to the King, but they were oblii.ed to deliver
it to the Secretary of State. and neither King nor people heard any mere
of it. If 300 petitions for reform were presented by the workingmen
of London, he was c..nfident his Majesty would require that they should
be attended to. He was in Paris in 1791, when he saw the working
young men of Paris going forth to meet the army of the Duke
of Brunswick. followed by their fathers and mothers blessing
their spirit and praying for their success. They all knew bow
they 'swept the invader from the land t and he was confident that
the workit.g people of this country, and of every county,. would,
if necessary. act the tame noble part (Immerse chering.) The you",
melt of Paris. when they marched out against the Invader, sang the
:starsellois Hymn, composed by an officer of the army who still lived,
and the present cil:isen King of France had bestowed on bin s pension
for the good service he rendered the cause of freedom. ((heat applause.)
There was then a °macro= present who mad sing the Manieillois
Hy.un, and would be happy to oblige them. (Loud eheers).--A Frenen •
Gentleman Jeer Mr. Cobbett then stood up, and after complimenting the
audience sod Mr. Cobbett, sang the Hymn, Mr. Cobbett jawing in the
chorus with more than theatrie;ticulation. The 'boots of applause
that followed are nut to be desalted.

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ii the following narrative:
l• i. not out of enure men's reinenibrance, that a young gentleman of
I.‘, fortune, a student at Oxford, fell in love with an innkeeper's dough-
ur of that town, whose circumstances were also very narrow. He had
philosophy enough to &spire superfluous wealth, and judgment to fora
see the mce.sity of a competence; but love was headstrong, and too
hard for reason : so than after a year or two's ineffectual delay, they
bide defiance to their stars, and had courage enough to marry 1 The
scholar gained a wife, and lost a fellowship, the only small subsistence
he t ef..:c depended on.
Our innkeeper often upbraided tht bridegroom with the barren effects
of his learning, and thought it very strange, as he well might, that
wl.ile every body told hint his son.in-law was a great scholar, his whole
stork of knowledge could not help him to one penny of his own
getting.
Six i'M seven months after this marriage, the father-in-law died mi-
serably poor,—and the credit which his industry maintained in his life-
time dying with him, the goods he left behind were seized on by his
etc limrs and the student and his young wife turned out of doom, to
(..t the bread of fortune where they could find it.
The wife had a relation in town, unable to contribute any great as-
sistatice. She took them, however, into a garret of her house, where the
man could only waste his hours between books and sighs, while the part-
n.r . f his sorrows made hard shift to pick up a support by knitting
stockings, at a certain common price for every pair.
At last, by a very natural coincidence, the cares of the lady became
mote " weighty, and the patience of both less fortified. The only
subject of their conversation now was their dread of what would become
of the poor infant who was to be born a beggar ; but sitting constantly
together from morning to night, the scholar often fixed his eyes, with
stedfast attention, on the motion of his wife's fingers, in the dexterous
management of the needles : he took It into his imagination that it was
not impossible to contrive a little loom, which might do the work with
much more expedition.
This thought he communicated to his wife; and joining his head to
her hands, the endeavour succeeded to their wishes. Thus the ingenious
stocking loom, which is so common now, was first invented, by which'
the inventor did not only make himself va hi4family happy, but has
left his nation indebted to him for a benefit which enables us to export
silk stockings in great quantities, and to a vast advantage, to those very
countries from whence before we used to bring them at considerable loss
in the balance of our traffic.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER. SEPT. 4.
Before Mr. Justice JERVIS ands Special Jury.
OLDHAM V. SHAW.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a butcher at
Hyde. to recover from the defendant, who is landlord of the Navigation
public-house in that town, compensation in damages for an assault con.
mitted by him upon the plaintiff on the 9th of Sept. last.
The pleadings were very voluminous. The defendant pleaded the
general issue, and several pleas of justification stating that the plaintiff
came to the defendant's house in a state of intoxication, made a great
noise, was very abusive, and afterwards assaulted the defendant.
That the defendant, in his own defence, struck the plaintiff,
and that the defendant, in turning the plaintiff out of his (defendant's)
house, used no more force than was necessary for that purpose. The
plaintiff by his replication admitted that he was drunk, b.c. but denied
that the defendant had not used more violence than was necessary, and ,
upon this point issue was joined.
Air. Sergeant Cnoss stated the plaintiff's ease, and said this was a
special jury ease, and if it had not been made a special jury by the de-
fendant, it would have been tried yesterday, and the Anises would have
then terminated ; but the defendant for some reasons best known to him-
self, bad thought fit to submit the case to the consideration of those
respectable gentlemen who so attentively tried all the other cases on
the list.

The plaintiff was a butcher at Hyde, and a member of a building
club, which was held at the defendant's house, and on the Bth of April
last, about eight o'clock in the evening, the plaintiff having occasion to
attend a meeting of his club, went to the defendant's house, where
he partook of the good cheer afforded by the defendant to his cus-
tomers; and as the Wakes of the Hyde were held at that time, and
the house being full of company, the plaintiff thought that a large room
in which the meetings of the Club were usually held, might be
appropriated to the use of the other company, and that upon that oc-
casion the Club might hold their meeting in a smaller room, civilly
asked the landlord, who was in the bar, which was the Club-room,
to which question Boniface, instead of a civil answer, came out of the
bar, saying—" skew you the Club room," and immediatelyi struck
the plaintiff a violent blow in the face, and blackened both his
eyes, thus treating him to a specimen of Club law. —(A
laugh.) Not satisfied with so doing, be called his waiter,
who seised the plaintiff by his legs whilst the defendant laid
hold of his shoulders, and carried him into the street, where they
dashed him violently against the ground, and when the plaintiff got
upon his legs he was struck by the defendant's waiter, and knocked
down. The injuries received by the plaintiff were such as prevented
him, for several days, attending to his usual business.
The Learned Sergeant called three witnesses, one of whom confirmed
his statement as to what took place in the house, and the others confirmed
his statement of what took place in the street.
Mr. Sergeant JONES addressed the Jury for the defendant. Before
he made any observations upon the evidence of the plaintiff's first wit.
ness, be begged, for the information of his learned brother, to state
why this case was brought under the consideration of a special jury,
and it was this, that as the charge made against the defendant was most
extraordinary, and likely to injure his house, which was one of, if not
the most respectable in Hyde, he wished that some of those gentlemen
who were in the habit of frequenting his house, and associating with
those who frequented his house, should see by what sort of wit-
nesses the case was to be proved. He ( Mr. Sergeant Jones) put
it to the Jury, who were gentlemen of common sense, and some
of whom knew the defendant, and the manner in which his
house was conducted, and who had experience in the ways of
the world, whether it was at all probable that any landlord
could have behaved is the manner sworn to by one of the
witnesses. The plaintiff admitted he was drunk, and yet the witness
swore he had behaved in the most civil manner. He had witnesses to
prove the defendant had done nothing more than he bad a right to do,
in order to prevent his customers being annoyed, but he should not call
them, as he was convinced that the respectable Jury he had the honour
of addressing could not believe one word of the evidence.
His Lordship summed up, and the Jury immediately found a verdict
for the defendant. _ - _ - . .

BerieSnt ions, applied to his Lordship to certify that this was a
fit case for a special Jury, but was unsuccessful.
The Assizes terminated this day.
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INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, SEPT. 4.

This day the Chief Commissioner heard, in his private room, Portu-
gal.street, Lincoln's-inn-fields (the Court undergoing a cleansing), se.
veral motions, in consequence of the Court not sitting until the 20th inst.
in order that the prisoners might have the benefit of his attendance in
matters connected with their petitions and schedules.

IN RE GEORGE imwz ANDJAINES BARRETT.

This was an application on the part of the insolvents for an allowance
under the 56th section of the act of Parliament which enacts " That in
all cases where such prisoner shall be liable to further imprisonment at
the snit of his or her creditor or creditors, or any or either of them, it
shall be lawful at any time for the said Court, on the application of
such prisoner, to order the creditor or creditors at whose suit he or she
shall be so imprisoned, to pay such prisoner such MINI or SUMS of money
not exceeding the rate of 4s. by the week, In the whole, at such time and
in such manner and in such proportions as the said court shall direct;
and that on failure of payment hereof, as directed by the said court, the
said court shall order such prisoner to be forthwith discharged from cus-
tody at the suit of the creditor or creditors failing to pay the MM.
The insolvents had been remanded upon the opposition of the Mar-
quis of Anglesey for a period of eight months, for fraudulently making
over property, under the following circumstances :
At the original hearing (13th July last) it appeared that the insolvents
had been formerly farmers, residing at Stalbridge, Doesetahire, where
they, in 1821, occupied a farm called " Gibb's farm," of the noble
Marquis, at a rental of 4201. per annum. They paid their rent regu-
lady until 1828, when they fell in arrears, and at Michaelmas, 18111,
they owed 48GL On the 27th of Jan. they called on the Marquis's steward
( Mr. Castleman,) and assured him of their perfect solvency, and promised
shortly to reduce the arrears. However, they never called afterwards, and
on that very day about 20 heifers were removed clandestinely from off
the farm, and other property secreted and removed. Upon Mr. Castle-
man hearing of this, which was on the 2d of February, he levied a die-
tress on the farm for 5901. and took possession of all the property, the
insolvents having absconded, and by the vigilance of three of his men,
traced about twelve milch cows helooging to the insolvents, which they
seized and sold. They also took possession of twelve acres of wheat,
and the property seized was worth altogether about 2401. The insol-
vents had succeeded in concealing eighteen beasts at a friend's farm.
In February Mr. Castleman arrested both the insolvents, and they gave
bail, having a short time previously made over nine of the beasts to one
of their relations, for an old debt of 841. and the other nine beasts they
sold after their arrest, and spent the proceeds in their support ; and they
now had no property left for their creditors, of which the noble marquis
and the clergyman for tithes were the principal.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said it was evident that the insolvents
represented their solvency to Mr. Castleman in order to lull him to
sleep, so that they might easily remove the heifers from off the farm,
and of the disposition of the heifers the noble Marquis complained.
There was s gross preference to a relation, in making over the nine
heifers, and with fraudeody making away with the other nine.
The of ldavits upon which the insolvents applied for the allowance
stated, that they were in the most destitute condition, and wholly with-
out toe common means of support.
The Cum, Coanetssioirsa granted a rule nisi, against which the

noble Marquis will have to show cause when the Court resumes its sit-
tings, if he should be advised upon the merits so to do.
In the course of the morning, a petition was presented to the Chief
Commissioner, from a person of the name of Dowedell, who had for-
merly been a clerk in the employ of an attorney of this Court, of the
name Qf Moses Abraham, in which petition he stated his sincere con-
trition for having affixed the Initials (" H.D.") of the provisional
assignee in seven instances to an affidavit sworn to by an insolvent of the
name of Plunkett, and that the Court would be /dewed to restore him
to his former situation as clerk, which petition the Chief Commissioner,
rejected, the case, be said, being too &grant to be passed over without
the sentence be had deemed it necessary to make being carried into
effect as a warning to others—namely, that no papers should be received
by any officer of the Court from this person again.
An Attorney of the Court complained of a great hardship on account
of Mr. Barrett, the Governor of Whitecross-street prison, not holding
a commission for taking affidavits, whereby the prisoners were later in
their applications to the Court than they otherwise would be if he
held one.

The QUIT CONIMISIONIR wondered why Mr. Barrett should ob.
jeet to hold 'commission and inquired of the attorney if he knew the
reason why Mr. Barrett did not act as his predecessors had done ?
The attorney said he could not state the cause, unless Mr. Barrett
II thought it too much trouble. He further added, that when a prisoner
had to make an affidavit, he was obliged to wait for Mr. Dance, who,
in the vacation, visited the prisons but once a week, or must submit to
the
attendance in
The Curies COMMISSIONER said this was a great hardship, and
that he should cause inquiry to be made.