Star.
London, England, 1831-07-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Majesty gave audience to Earl Grey, the
31arquis of Lansdowne, Lord Holland, the Hanoverian
Minister, the Marquis of Winchester, Lord Hill, and Sir
William Houston.

The Earl of Gosford was the Lord in Waiting.
The King left the Palace, on his return to
Windsor, a few minutes before seven o'clock.

Previous to attending the King's Court, the same
Cabinet 'Ministers, Great Officers of State. and others, had
a previous meeting at the Council Office, Whitehall.
The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday
from the Duke of Sus.ex and Prince Leopold. In the even.
ing her Royal Highness entertained a select party at dinner,
at liar residence in St. James's Palace.
Prince Leopold had a conference yesterday
morning with V.arl Grey, at the Treasury.
The Spanish Minister had an interview with
Viscount Palmerston, yesterday afternoon, at the Office of
'he Secretary of State hit Foreign Affairs.
King Leopold left town to-day for his new king-
dom. He goes by way of Calais, probably by
way of complimentary acknowledgment of the cor-
dial co-4 pt.ra iin of the French government in his
election to tl.e throne of Belgium.

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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 ? The' 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 ; Bradabaw 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 works, and the number of unem-
ployed will be considerably increased. 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
&16a 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.

dmeninutileofvari(Cheoualhthe Us
caanione,Anworahtheetrbeetoltrodt arkinactiklizefir:ofisresponsithatru:stambbeSsy-.
Churchwardens ? Have you not been made responsible
(Laughter.) Messrs. Constables, can you do as you like,
and commit wrong, without being brought 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 still 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 that 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 rejoice 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
tearbrace
had been
tiesed wregfited 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.
Itt 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-
= furthegr upon t
his dhydiridattentiotoption oti butev he coutlidmennott refrham
Mr. Attwood, jun. had expressed in behalf of. the suffering
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 from 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. _ .

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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,
Baying, " 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'lhad 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 house 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 ager—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
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