Zbe tirobinces.

The decisive measures taken by Government on Saturday gave a con- siderable check to the proceedings of the rioters in the centre of the chief disturbance at Manchester. Up to the end of last week there had been little change : the trades continued to meet and pass resolu- tions expressing much obstinacy, and various outrages occurred. The engine-house of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, at Miles Platting, was attacked on Saturday night by a large party : they attempted to prevent the departure of the mail-train ; but failing in their attempt, they expressed displeasure in howls ; and one man was heard to offer five pounds to the first who would knock a brick out of the engine-house.. Two men who had uttered very violent language at a meeting on Fri- day—Isaac Tinker, a dyer, and George Seddon—were arrested in their houses by the Police : Seddon had jumped out of the window of his room, and concealed himself in a back building filled with ashes.

On Sunday arrived the subjoined proclamation ; and it was exten- sively circulated in the town on that and the following day— "BY THE QUEEN, A PROCLAMATION.

"Victoria R.—Whereas in divers parts of Great Britain great multitudes of lawless and disorderly persons have lately assembled themselves together in a riotous and tumultuous manner, and have, with force and violence, entered into certain mines, mills, and manufactories, and other places, and have, by threats and intimidation, prevented our good subjects therein employed from following their usual occupations and earning their livelihood ; "We, therefore, being duly sensible of the mischievous consequences which must inevitably ensue, as well to the peace of the kingdom as to the lives and properties of our subjects, from such wicked and illegal practices if they go unpunished, and being firmly resolved to cause the laws to be put in execution for the punishment of such offenders, have thought fit, by the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this proclamation, hereby strictly commanding all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and all other civil officers whatsoever, within the said United Kingdom, that they do use their utmost endeavour to discover, apprehend, and bring to justice the persons concerned in the riotous proceedings above-mentioned. "And as a further inducement to discover the said offenders, we do hereby promise and declare, that any person or persons who shall discover and appre- hend, or cause to be discovered and apprehended, the authors, abettors, or per- petrators of any of the outrages above .mentioned, so that they, or any of them may be duly convicted thereof, shall be entitled to the sum of fifty pounds for each and every person who shall be so convicted; and shall also receive our most gracious pardon for the said offence, in case the person making such dis- covery as aforesaid shall be liable to be prosecuted for the same. "Given at our Court atWindsor, this 13th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1842, and in the sixth year of our reign.

"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."

Considerable bodies of troops arrived at the same time from London, and by Liverpool from Ireland; so that on Monday the military strength in the town amounted to 2,210 men, with two howitzers and four six- pounders ; including 300 Dragoons and Lancers, 1,100 Grenadiers and Infantry, and 600 Rifles. On that day, the County and Borough Ma- gistrates issued a notice forbidding all numerous assemblages, as mani- festly tending to endanger the public peace, and therefore illegal. The effect of these various measures was apparent in a quieter demeanour on the part of the crowds who still filled the streets; but the " turn- out 'I continued. The Trade Delegates held one of their daily meet- ings at Carpenter's Hall on Monday ; and they were informed by their Chairman that meetings were to be held by the Dissenting Ministers and the shopkeepers to aid them. Some violent language was used ; but the speakers generally objected to declaring war against the autho- rities • and the following resolutions, indicating a modified policy, were carried— "1. That this meeting pledges itself to discontinue all illegal proceedings ; and further, that they will endeavour to preserve the public peace. "2. That they could not exist with the present rate of wages ; and that they are determined not to go to work until they obtain the wages of 1889.

"3. That each master do pay the same for the same fabric of cloth through- out the whole of the manufacturing districts.

"4. That it is the opinion of the meeting that their political rights are im- peratively necessary for the preservation of their rights when they gain them."

They therefore pledged themselves to act with their other friends and trades generally in gaining the People's Charter, as the only means of securing the said rights. The number of Delegates present was eighty- two of whom fifty-two declared for the Charter, nineteen desired to stick to the mere demand for an advance of wages, and the remainder objected to introducing politics. On the same evening, the fustian- cutters, a numerous and leading trade, passed resolutions declaring stoutly for their "rights," but recommending negotiations between masters and men on the subject of wages. Several of the rioters were examined on Tuesday, for the purpose of clearing the prisons (now crowded with 200 political offenders added to their usual inmates) of those against whom a ease could not be sus- tamed; but the greater number of the persons examined were re- manded; and it was the same with another set who were examined on Thursday. There was to have been a procession on Tuesday, to lay the founda- tion for a monument to Henry Hunt in the burial-ground annexed to the Reverend Mr. Scholefield's chapel, it being the anniversary of the affair of 1819 : but the authorities prohibited the dangerous cere- mony ; to assist at which, Mr. Feargus O'Connor had arrived in Man- chester. The Committee of Management took the hint, and posted placards about the town, stating that the procession and meeting at Mr. Scholefield's would not take place, " in consequence of the very unex- pected excitement of the town of Manchester and its vicinity, occa- sioned by the turn-oat for an advance of wages." However, a tea- party took place in the evening, on an understanding with the autho- rities that order should be observed. Mr. Murray was appointed to the chair ; and among the speakers were the Reverend William Jackson, a Chartist preacher, Mr. Cooper, (the Leicester Chartist, we believe,)

Mr. Dickson, and the Reverend Mr. Scholefield. Of the number a toasts were—" The People, the source of all legitimate power," " The memory of Hunt and of the illustrious dead," " The amiable but ex- iled Frost, and his compatriots, Williams and Jones ; and may they speedily be restored to their country and friends."

Several meetings were held during the day ; but those who composed them made arrangements to disperse quietly on the appearance of the military. At a meeting of the Trades Delegates, various conflicting resolutions were proposed : one was to recommend the Delegates' con- stituencies to adopt all legal means to carry into effect the People's Charter, and to send delegates to all parts of the United Kingdom to endeavour to procure the cooperation of the working and middle classes : another, that the meeting should recommend the people to resume their employment forthwith ; the mover, a delegate of the engravers, ob- serving that it was complete folly for one part of the community to cease working while others did not do so, and that those who had ceased were doing neither harm nor good. A third resolution was much to the same effect as the second. One delegate remarked, that there was plenty of provisions for the people on the hills ; while another asked how they were to be obtained consistently with "peace, law, and order ?" the motto of the Chartists. Charles Stuart, "the Secretary," stated that "many of the proprietors of mills were favourable to the movement, and

willing to subscribe to support those engaged in it, provided they looked

for their political rights." This meeting adjourned till three o'clock.. When they had reassembled, Mr. Beswick, the Superintendent of Police, applied for admittance. Their door-keeper at first denied that there was

any meeting in the building ; but eventually the Superintendent WU let in ; and he introduced Alderman Kay, a Magistrate; who came to aft agreement with the Chairman, that the meeting should be suffered to continue if the Chairman could induce a large crowd outside to disperse. Presently, however, the Superintendent and the Alderman returned with, two other Magistrates, Mr. D. Lee and Mr. T. Cooke ; who declared the meeting illegal, and gave them ten minutes to disperse. The Chair- man put the amendments ; they were rejected; the original motion was carried by an overwhelming majority, and the meeting adjourned.

Wednesday passed off with a few minor disturbances to stop works which had resumed, others continuing without interruption. In the afternoon, a printing-press was seized for the issue of a placard ; a proof copy of which, the printer said, had been sent to Dr. M'Donall. Warrants were issued for the apprehension of Dr. M'Douall and of Mr. Leach, a noted agitator ; but they had not been apprehended on Thnrs-, day. The placard was an address from "the Executive Committee of the National Chartist Association to the People," exhorting "brother Chartists," in very turgid language, to improve the occasion : its spirit may be gathered from a sample-

" Englishmen !—The blood of your brothers reddens the streets of Preston and Blackburn, and the murderers thirst for more. Be firm, be courageous, be men! Peace, law, and order have prevailed on our side c let them be revered until your brethren in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, are informed of your reso- lution; and when a universal holyday prevails, which will be the case in eight days, then of what use will bayonets be against public opinion ? • • • "Intelligence has reached us of the wide spreading of the strike • and now within fifty miles of Manchester every engine is at rest, and all is still save the miller's useful wheels and the friendly sickle in the fields. "Countrymen and Brothers!—Centuries may roll on as they have fleeted put before such universal action may again be displayed : we have made the cast for liberty, and we must stand, like men, the hazard of the die. Let none de- spond. Let all be cool and watchful, and, like the bridemaids in the parable, keep your lamps burning ; and let your continued resolution be like a beacon to guide those who are now hastening far and wide to follow your memorable example."

The boot and shoemakers and some of the machine-makers returned to work on Thursday.

In the country round Manchester, the influence of the stronger mea- sures taken in that town was not so immediately felt ; but upon the whole, the week opened with less appearances of violence. At Stock- port, where the mob invaded the Workhouse and plundered it of pro- visions on Friday, (about thirty of them being taken prisoners in the act,) there was subsequently a manifest disposition to avoid extremes; and at a large meeting in the Waterloo Road, at five o'clock on Mon- day morning, the Chartists were fairly beaten by a more numerous party who desired to exclude politics. They appointed a deputation to wait on the Mayor, to beg that the Borough Magistrates would head a peaceable procession of the unemployed, that they might show them- selves. This request was refused : at the same time, the Mayor told them, that their meetings would meet with no interference so long as they continued peaceable. At another meeting, in the afternoon, one Pilling, who said that he had addressed three hundred thousand persons since the strike, alluded to the dispute between Messrs. William Bayley and Brothers and their men at Staleybridge, and then made the follow- ing avowals-

,. I am the originator of this move, and I do not care what I suffer so that the point [the higher wages demanded by the workmen] is carried. We began our meetings at Ashton, then at Stayleybridge and Dukinfirld ; and if at the end the cause is gained, I do not care if I suffer within the wills of a prison. The manufacturers had offered a reduction of 25 per cent ; but all except Mr. Bayley, a Corn-law Repealer, withdrew the notice ; and the ope- ratives swore by the God of Heaven that they would annihilate him and the system, before they would work at the wages offered. • • • I also pro- posed that we should cease from work till we obtained the wages paid in 1840. If there be ever an honour attached to a man, I claim that honour for this movement. All labour is ceased; and it is spreading like wildfire through Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire. I have heard a person sty that you turned out for an advance of wages; but I mean to tell you yea del not. You were compelled to leave work by the people of Ashton; and if yoa go in again, the people of Ashton will again visit you, and will again make yea leave off work, and give you a good hiding too. I have been instrumental in making you all ladies and gentlemen ; and the day I did it was the proudest I have ever had. This movement shows to the aristocracy of the country that you could annihilate them if you thought proper. You now know your power; and if you go in as you came out, eternal damnation is your deserts. • • •

i Our object is to get the masters to pay the same list of prices; and f you can do this, there is an end to reductions. During the last summer and winter, you have felt the pangs of hunger; and if you go in, before this time next year you will be labouring for less than 6s. per week. • • • If the mas- ters do not give us the wages we are contending for, we must and will have something to eat, wherever it comes from. As a friend said to me yesterday, if we turn thieves and get taken into custody, the soldiers would guard us, and cook for us while we were being tried ; and this would eat up the system. Mind

one thing—if you go to work, and the people of Ashton catch you. they will give you a damned good thrashing. And won't you deserve it ? (4 Yes, year) And by God you will have it."

A number of rioters were examined on Thursday, and committed to Chester for trial. The town was quite tranquil.

Messrs. William Bayley and Brothers have addressed a letter to one of the local papers, to correct some erroneous impressions respecting the origin of the turn-out They say- " The real facts arc, that the reduction, about which so much has been said, was confined solely to the weavers in our employ ; and in their case, finding that we were paying, and had been paying for some time past, higher prices

than were paid by many manufacturers in the neighbourhood for similar de- scriptions of cloth, we gave notice, some weeks back, of an alteration in our wages. At the expiration of that notice, we proposed to our weavers areduc- Bon of a halfpenny per piece ; which was only one-half the reduction which had been made by others, and amounted to sixpence per week upon their wages. This they refused ; alleging that, though they were aware that in many in- stances we were paying more than our neighbours, still, as the markets were improved, they would not allow it in our case. This we thought unreason- able; and they left our employment.

" We at the same time beg to contradict the many idle tales and remarks which are stated to have been made by us to our workpeople, which we under- stand are in circulation; and can only treat them as too absurd for any parti- cular notice.

"In connexion also with the above, we wish to state, that for the last six months our weavers have had full employment ; and in order to show the real condition of our workpeople, whom some of the newspapers have represented to be reduced to starvation, we beg to subjoin a statement of the wages paid at our mills for a period of five weeks previous to the turnout: To 914 men,

women, and children, in our employment, five weeks' wages, from June 18th to July 23d 1842, 2,620/., or Ils. 51d. each per week. To 426 weavers, (prin- cipally girls,) for the same five weeks, 1,150E, or 10s. 91d. each per week."

At Disley, a millowner acted with singular but not altogether suc- cessful intrepidity, on Thursday. He guarded his engineer personally, armed with a firelock, to the factory. Having done this, the same millowner went to a meeting of the operatives then sitting, and told them they might as well go to work, as they would never get the prices for which they were contending; and, pointing to his own factory chimney, he defied them to stop its smoke. A party shortly afterwards vent and pulled the fires from the boilers and stopped the works.

Bolton, on Monday, appeared, says a writer in the place, "in a state of siege." He observes that the people of each town seem to visit some other town, so that the rioters in every place may appear as strangers. At noon, a riotous body entered the town, armed with bludgeons. There was a conflict, in which twelve rioters were seized ; another had his nose cut by the sabre of a trooper ; and then the streets were quiet.

A meeting in this town revived an old demand : they declared against all "illegal proceedings "; but also against reduction of wages and in- jurious abatements, [deductions from wages on account of faults in work, which are very numerous and vexatious in some establishments] : the remedies they demanded were, the Charter, "an efficient Ten Hours Bill," and colonization of Crown lands ; and they undertook to cease labour in order to devise the best measures under the circumstances.

Some of the worst disorders have occurred at Preston. On Friday, attempts were made to throw an engine off the railway, by placing some obstruction on it. There was but a small military force in the town, and on Saturday they came into collision with the rioters. The crowd were supplied with some broken stones for macadamizing, by a number of lads and women : they succeeded in knocking down and kicking Captain Woodford, the head of the Rural Police ; and a stone struck the Riot Act out of the Mayor's hands. The soldiers, thirty-three in num- ber, were ordered to fire : about twenty did so, and eight persons were wounded : one man soon died, another died afterwards, two others were not expected to recover, and another was obliged to have his leg amputated. The blow, however, as at Bolton, restored comparative peace to the town. A Coroner's Jury sat on the bodies, on Wednesday : the dead men were but nineteen and seventeen years of age. A verdict of "Justifiable Homicide" was returned in each case. Work was re- sumed in Preston on Thursday. At Wigan, a crowd of factory hands and colliers made their entry on Monday, after having stopped the works in Hindley, Leigh, and other places on the road, plundered the provision-shops, and stopped the em- ployments of the Wigan folks. One of the curates, the Reverend Mr. Bessell, who remonstrated with the disturbers, was struck : the mob then passed on.

Burnley was contested by the soldiery and the mob, on Monday ; the military dispersing their opponents, and remaining masters of the field. Several mills at Blackburn, of which the hands had been turned out on Monday, resumed work on Tuesday ; but they were again stopped by a mob from a distance. The workpeople of one mill, that of Messrs. Hopwood, vigorously defended it, and kept the assailants at bay until a detachment of military arrived and put them to the rout, taking several prisoners. Many of the rioters were shot from the mill- windows. A false report was now spread, that more rioters approached by the Burnley road: but the soldiers sent to meet this were met by a party of the Eleventh Hussars, who had been detached to reinforce the troops at Blackburn, and reported the Burnley road all clear. They had scarcely reentered the town when they found it occupied by a large mob, who had come by another road. This mob was dispersed ; and more prisoners were taken ; in all eighty. The town was tranquil on Wednesday night.

A meeting was held at Liverpool on Tuesday ; a sailor being the Chairman ; and a Delegate was appointed to join the National Con- ference at Manchester. Mr. Robinson, who proposed the Delegate, (Mr. M'Carthy,) declared that the people were not yet prepared to use physical force to carry the Charter. Another resolution was passed, averring that the manufacturers had caused the present turn-out by lowering the price of wages ; and that the Charter was the only means by which the amount of wages could be properly regulated. The au- thorities had been alarmed by the announcement of this meeting, and had taken precautions for keeping the peace ; but it gave them no fur- ther trouble.

The alarm was renewed on Wednesday: by another Chartist meeting at the Socialist Hall. The principal topics consisted of an exposition of Chartist principles ; a denial that the Chartists had originated the present movement in the manufacturing districts ; abuse of the Anti- Corn-law League, the Whigs, the Tories, and the Established Church; and an expression of sympathy with the malecontents in the manufac- turing districts. The principal portion of the speakers conjured the Chartists to act a quiet and orderly part, and not, for the purpose of working out the objects of the League, to brave the muskets of an armed soldiery. Police were in the room during the meeting; but it passed off without the slightest disorder.

In Yorkshire, the disturbances have not been so general. But Had- dersfield was taken possession of on Saturday, by four parties of the rioters from Manchester, Oldham, Ashton, and Staleybridge; who turned out the factory-people. More entered the town on Sunday and Monday ; and they kept the people in a state of continued alarm. An attack on Mr. Brooks's mill, on Monday, brought on a conflict : the Riot Act was read ; the soldiers charged ; the mob fled in every direc- tion; and the peace has since been unbroken. A meeting at which Mr. Acland was to have lectured in the market- place at Hull, on Tuesday evening, was forbidden. A "despatch," written "by order" from the insurgents at Ashton to a person in Hull, fell into the hands of the Mayor. It recounted with laconic brevity the proceedings in and round Manchester: here is a specimen-

" Wednesday, 10th.— Went to Glossopdale; stopped every mill there. Masters thought to stop us; got knocked down. News from Manchester. Master-manufacturer sent a two-pound weight from the top of his mill; killed a 'lass.' He was taken up; vengeance sworn against him. Bloody fights. Two Policemen get killed. The lockups on Oldham Road get pulled down. They are crying out for vengeance on every side. The shopkeepers are going hand-in-hand with us, giving 51., 4/., and 21. a piece for men to go to Preston, Hull, and every manufacturing town in Great Britain and Ireland to stop them. Now is the time or never—lose this opportunity, and we are lost ! lost I lost Ill We get plenty of something to eat : the shops are open, they give us what we want.

"Today, August II, to Stockport. They are stopped; but we go aparading the streets like soldiers, six abreast. News from Manchester: bloody fights; soldiers ready to fight for the people ; Police the same; now's the time for liberty. We want the wages paid in 1840: if they won't give it us, revolution. is the consequence. We have stopped every trade—tailors, coblers, brush- makers, sweeps, tinkers, carters, masons, builders, colliers, &c., and every other trade."

Ilalifax has been the scene of repeated combats between the soldiery and the populace ; and several rioters were shot on Monday. A party of Hussars, who were conveying some fifteen or sixteen prisoners from Halifax to the Wakefield House of Correction, were fiercely attacked at the Elland Station ; and three privates were thrown from their horses, two of them remaining for a time in the power of the mob. One of these Hussars had his eye knocked out. An omnibusful of pas- sengers, who happened to be present during the affray, suffered mach alarm ; and one young lady was severely cut on the head by a stone. Halifax was quiet on Wednesday.

At Rochdale, the mills were stopped; but they have nearly all re- sumed work.

Much alarm was felt in Leeds, in the expectation that the disturbers would extend their march as far; and the authorities made due pre- parations for their reception ; while Mr. James Marshall issued a didac- tic address to the workpeople of Leeds, asking them if they could bene- fit by the strike—if it would not increase their own intense suffering— if it could even forward their political objects ? recommending them not to relinquish the fortitude which has really advanced their political interests, and to continue their support of Mr. Sturge. The worst dis- orders there were the stoppage of about a dozen factories, on Wednes- day; four in Leeds and eight in the outskirts. Prince George of Cam- bridge, with a troop of the Seventeenth Lancers, a party of artillery and one gun, and some 600 special constables, repulsed the disturbers,. who came from Bradford ; and some prisoners were taken. Lord Wharncliffe presided at their examination in the Court-house on Thursday.

The chief interest had for a time been transferred from the Potteries, the original site of the turn-out, to Lancashire ; but the at- tention to the state of Staffordshire is revived by some reaction for the worse. A number of colliers met at Shelton, at eight o'clock on Mon- day morning, and passed resolutions to cease all work until the Charter should be law ; Mr. Cooper' the Leicester Chartist, taking a prominent part in the proceedings. The meeting over, they marched to the Hanley and Shelton Stationhouse ; which they broke open, liberating a boy, and removing the arms and irons. The Collector of Poor-rates was next visited, and robbed of his books ; his windows and furniture being smashed, and several Policemen being wounded. Having taken the road to Stoke-upon-Trent, the rioters met Mr. Rose, the Stipendiary Magistrate, on his way to Hanley in a gig ; which they turned back, and he fled the district. They then went to the Court of Requests, which they rifled; and the Stoke Stationhouse, where they beat Stonier, a Policeman, and left him chained up; and so to Fenton, where the Stationhouse also suffered a visitation. Their measures now grew more destructive : they gutted the house of Mr. Allen, and that of Mr. Rose; and in the night they burned down the houses of the Reverend Dr. Vale and the Reverend Mr. Aitkin ; and rifled the house of Mr. For- rester, Lord Glanville's agent. They gave Mr. Aitkin ten minutes' " law " to walk away, he being lame and only able to walk by the aid of two sticks. Mrs. Rose begged hard for her house; but was fain to be content with the sparing of her own life. On Tuesday morning, Hanley streets were strewed with furniture, which had been turned oat of the houses. The pawnbrokers' shops were much visited by plunderers.

There was a fatal affair at Burslem, on Tuesday. About fifty Dra- goons were drawn across the street to prevent the entrance of a mob from Leek ; but the crowd refused to retire, and threw stones and brick- bats. After bearing the storm for some time, the troops fired, and three men were killed, six others being wounded ; and more probably were hurt, but slunk off without being observed. Among the prisoners taken, was a deserter from the Twelfth Regiment of Infantry, which was on duty in the district.

The Birmingham correspondent of the Times says—" I was informed today (Thursday) by several of the coal-proprietors residing at Dudley and West Bromwich, that they feel convinced that the great majority of the colliers would return to work at the reduced prices, were it not for fear of personal violence from the discontented."

Wolverhampton races have not been interrupted, though the attend- ance was thin.

Birmingham has not had its peace broken ; though attempts were made early in the week to produce some excitement, by a placard an- nouncing that soldiers had been drawn off to the Potteries ; and hinting at the forced liberation of Mason, the Chartist lecturer who was recently imprisoned for seditious language at a meeting in Sedgley. There have been reports of desperate "excitement" at Nottingham ; but the excitement was vented in nothing more formidable than words and public speechmaking.

A very orderly meeting was held at Merthyr Tydvil on Wednesday, at four in the afternoon, to consider an address to the Queen on the distressed state of the inhabitants. A shoemaker named Jones pre- sided. The following resolutions were passed unanimously-

" 1. That it is absolutely necessary to inspire into the unparalleled dis- tress now prevailing in Merthyr and its vicinities. "2. That workmen and their families cannot possibly support themselves and families unless they shall have the same wages as they had two years ago. "3. That it is much better for workmen to be idle, without a sufficient quantity of provisions, than to be toiling their bones and marrow by working without the common necessaries of life.

"4. That it being almost impossible for the ironmasters to make any ad- vance of wages at the present low price of iron, it was therefore agreed that an bumble address be sent to her 'Majesty, praying her to recall Parliament immediately, to do more for the people than they did the last six months."

Arrangements were made for holding an adjourned meeting next day

The nomination for Ipswich took place on Monday. There was a very scanty attendance, and the whole proceedings were dull in the extreme. Captain Gladstone was proposed by Mr. Sparrowe ; who de- clared the last election one of the purest that had ever taken place in that or any other borough ; and a most "unjust and partisan-like deci- sion" had been given on the petition. Mr. Lane Fox, Mr. Thornbury, Mr. Henry Vincent, and Mr. Nicholson, were:successively proposed ; and then Captain Gladstone addressed the electors. He assured them that he had never possessed a slave in his life (some placards had been circulated, coupling the word " slavery " with his name); that he was firmly attached to the constitution in Church and State, an advocate for the education of the people, opposed to the five points of the Charter, a firm friend to Sir Robert Peel's Government ; but with respect to the Poor-laws, prepared to support any proposition for reducing the power of the Commissioners and increasing that of the Guardians. The fol- lowing dialogue ensued— Mr: AlTherson, a Chartist—" Do you believe the present House of Com- mons a full, fair, and faithful representation of the people?"

Captain Gladstone—" As full, fair, and faithful as is possible in the present state of human nature."

Mr. M`Pherson—" Do you think it was right to tax White slaves to pay for Black ones?"

Captain Gladstone answered in the affirmative. (Groans and cheers.)

Mr. APPherson—" Is taxation without representation just ? " Captain Gladstone—" It does not practically exist."

Mr. APPberson—. Will you vote for the repeal of the Poor-laws?"

Captain Gladstone—" Not a total repeal ; but I do not pledge myself to

take any course without due consideration." (Cheers.) Mr. Thornbury avowed that he did not go the length that Mr. Vin- cent did ; but he agreed in many of his principles. He came forward as an inhabitant to promote the interests of his neighbours ; but so little was he actuated by ambition, that he would give 2001. that moment to find another person instead of himself. Among other pledges, he pro- mised to vote against "taxation without representation," all unmerited pensions, and the standing army. Mr. Fox lauded Sir Robert Peel, and declared himself in favour of the Corn-law, improvement of the Poor-law, and of a measure for the better observance of the Sabbath ; but he never would agree to any law which would go to bind men's consciences. Mr. Vincent repudiated the charge of desiring to inflame the minds of men or having led to the disturbances in the North ; and then launched into a variety of general subjects. Mr. Nicholson, who was much interrupted, finished by saying, "We have a new coin, a half- farthing : well, I would not give a half-farthing for the whole lot of you." This so incensed the independent electors whom he thus propi- tiated, that the interference of the Mayor was necessary to save him from violence. The show of hands was in favour of Thornbury and Vincent, and a poll was demanded for the other candidates.

Finding that he had polled but two votes, Mr. Nicholson issued the following notice on Tuesday-

" TO THE ELECTORS OF TILE BOROUGH OF IPSWICH.

"Electors—You, who like roast and boiled beef, and Peel's hams, who vote for John Nicholson, will be entitled to a ticket, which will give you, your wives and children, the right to a dinner and a dance the day after the law allows it to be done, and no mistake." It did not add a single vote to Mr. Nicholson's poll. The numbers for the other candidates stood thus, according to the official declaration at the close : Gladstone, 651; Fox, 641; Thornbury, 548; Vincent, 473. The correspondent of the Times accounts for the number who polled for Mr. Vincent by his having had the countenance of Mr. Thornbury, who has much local influence.

The nomination for South Hampshire is fixed for Tuesday next, the poll for the two following days. At a public meeting in the Society's Hall on Monday evening, Lord Charles Wellesley was introduced to the electors by Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, with an eulogium on the candidate's father, the Duke of Wellington. Lord Charles's speech was general ; and in chalking out his own views, he described the policy of the Premier. He declared that he would imitate his father in never swerving from what he believed to be his duty. The meeting adopted resolutions approving of Lord Charles's principles, as sound and consti- tutional, and of the public career of Mr. Fleming, the late Member an& then it broke up, with three cheers for the Queen, three for the Duke of Wellington, three for Sir Robert Peel, and three for the success of Lord Charles Wellesley.

It does not appear that the Liberals are yet provided with a candi- date.

The Assize Court at Devizes was occupied on Wednesday and Thursday, with an action for breach of promise of marriage, brought by Miss Rooks', aged twenty-six, the daughter of a tradesman at Salis- bury, against Mr. Conway, a hale widower of sixty-seven. Miss Rooke passed eleven months at Mr. Conway's house in 1839, ostensibly on a visit to the daughter ; and in that time the host "gained her affections.* He went so far as to sit on the same sofa with his arm round her waist, to walk with her morning and evening, and to correspond by letter; wording his effusions cautiously, however, and using a feigned name. He was proved to be worth 2,000/. or 3,000/. The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with one farthing damages.

At Wells Assizes, last week, the Reverend Thomas John Theobald, Rector of Nunney, was tried for two criminal assaults on Caroline Dornis, a housemaid at the Rectory. The prosecutrix described the assaults as having taken place, the one in Mr. Theobald's dressing- room, where she went to take some hot water one morning, and the other at night in her own bed-room, which she had been provided with at the defendant's special desire apart from the cook. She did not tell Mrs. Theobald, who was very near her confinement ; but she told the cook and her aunt of the first assault, who advised her not to leave her place, as Mr. Theobald promised not to repeat the offence. She left the house on the morning following the second attack, and told her aunt. Cross-examination drew from the prosecutrix that she had some time back admitted one Piper to the closest intimacy ; and before Mr. Cock- burn had concluded his address for the defence, or called evidence, the Jury interrupted the trial and acquitted the prisoner.

At the Gloucester Assizes, on Friday week, William Dwyer, Jeremiah Dwyer, and Charles Dwyer, (three brothers,) James Regan, Patrick Donovan, and Dennis Callaghan, were tried for the murder of Roberts, a Policeman. Very early on the morning of the 19th of June, some ox the men were found by Roberts and another Policeman quarrelling, and raising a disturbance in St. James's Back, Bristol. In leading them off to the Stationhouse, Roberts was attacked by the Dwyers : Charles Dwyer struck him on the head and kicked him very brutally ; and he died in consequence of the injuries within eight and forty hours. The Jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against Charles Dwyer, William Dwyer, and Regan ; acquitting the other three prisoners, and accompanying their verdict with a recommendation to mercy, on the ground that it appeared to them that Skinner, the other Policeman, struck the first blow. Charles Dwyer was sentenced to transportation for life ; and Regan and William Dwyer to ten years' transportation. On Tuesday, Hollyoak, a young Socialist lecturer, and Adams, the publisher of a blasphemous libel, were convicted of blasphemy. Holly- oak was sentenced to six months', and Adams to one month's imprison- ment.