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The Chartist Delegates agreed, on Wednesday, to appoint a Commit. tee to "collect materials" which would enable the Convention to decide on the propriety of proclaiming a " sacred month." It is plain that the leaders shrink from that measure.
A public meeting of Chartists was held on Tuesday evening, ono piece of vacant ground near the needle-manufactory in the Borough Road. Some violent speeches, recommending physical force, were deli. vered ; but in other respects the behaviour of the people was orderly.
Waddington, a Chartist bill-sticker, was brought up at Hatton Garden Office on Tuesday, on a charge of having two unloaded pistols in hh possession. He had been taken into custody on Clerkenwell Green that morning. Witnesses were examined at great length, to show that he was connected with the Chartists, and was present as a speaker at all their out-door meetings. He said he was going to raffle the pistols; and attempted to show that Chartist meetings were not illegal, and that every person had a right to go armed. He quoted Lord John Russell as his authority for this latter statement. Waddington was remanded; and the next day he was liberated, on entering into his own reeog• nizances to meet any charge which may be brought against him at the Sessions. The amount of the recognizanees is 201. He took advam tage of his liberation to distribute among the persons in the office an inflammatory handbill, calling on the " men and women of England' to make a run on the Bank for gold, as " Rothschild the Jew sends 20,000!. daily in sovereigns to France !"
Charles Willett, the commercial traveller who insulted the Queen last week while her Majesty was riding in Hyde Park, was brought before the Magistrates at Bow Street on Thursday. He was ordered to pay 51. for assaulting Light, the Queen's outrider, and to enter into his own recognizances in 2001. and find two sureties in 100/. each to answer for good behaviour towards all her Majesty's subjects for the next twelve months.
At the Lambeth Street Office, on Thursday, John Clifton was corm omitted for trial on a charge of having poisoned his wife by giving her • arsenic. The prisoner is a young man of twenty-nine. The evidence against him was far from conclusive, and there is much doubt whether his wife was poisoned at all.
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