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      XXSCELZiAMSOCT HEWS . A eepkiete has been received at Newgate , oh behalf of the convict , Samuel Bay ley , who was respited spout a fortnight since . Thb Botxl Anciett Shepherds held their anni-Tersary on the 30 th ult ., at the bonse of Mr . Robert Allen , the Royal Oak Inn , Castle Hall , Staley Bridge . Grasd Umted Obdkb op Odd Fellows . —A Lodge was opened at the house of Mr . Peter Fraters sign of the Newcastle Arms , Wiagate Grange Colliery , on Saturday the 13 : h June , under the title of the " Loyal Lord Howden Lodge , when upwards of 60 members were initiated .

      REPEESErrATiox of Abe&debh . —Sir George Mnrrsy declines to stand upon the Conservative interest for Aberdeen , and Captain Ross , of RosFie , appears to be forgotten ; but a new candidate , Mr . L ' ndsay , has been found . Two meetings of his supporters have been held last week . —Aberdeen Banner . Ths Ikpsisoxed Chabtists . —We are desired by Mi . J . Leech , of Huddersfield , to notice that he has remitted 8 s . 6 d . from Honley , for Mr . Richardson They have no fund for Mr . Richardson in Huddersfield , and therefore thought it better not to mix it with the other . He has also received , from two Char : iit 3 at Berry Brow , fer the incarcerated -Chartists , 03 .

      A RcFriAS , by name William Eke , murdered his wife on Friday last , at a village near Bromyard , in Worcestershire . Enraged because his breakfast wa ? not ready at the usual time , he knocked his wu ' e d ^ wn , kicsed her when on the floor , and then made off . The poor woman was found by the neighbours in the agonies of death . The HoNonuBi ^ E Edwasd Crazos , a son of Lord Teynham . was last week brought before the magistracy at Exeter , charged with creating an obstruction by preaching in th * open air near the market-place . He was discharged on promising not to repeat the offence . It appears that Mr . Cation is a preacher among the body known by the name of the Kew Lights , — Wlils Independent .

      FesIaLE Dbttskesssss . —The Aberdeen Herald publishes an abstract of the number of persons brought into the watch-house there from the 1 st of May to the 1 st June . There are no less than . 333 ca > s ? of drunkenness , of which 48 were males , and 285 females . Endowed Charities ih Great Bbitaik . The receui publications of the last division of the report of ihe Charities Commissioners closes an inquiry which has occupied upwards of twenty years , and toil ihe country &t least i £ -2 tk ) , &O 0 . It is " supposed thst the total annnal income of endowed charities amotints to nearly £ 1 , 500 . 000 .

      The death of the old King of Prussia , which was prematurely announced , actually occurred on the iih instant , at Berlin . Frederick William was in full possession of his faculties to the last ; and wa 3 gratified by the arrival of the Emperor of Russia , who came to take leave of him , just two houra before his death . His daughter , the Empress of Russia , 4 &d been with him for some time . The Lokds assembled on Friday at one o ' clock , and the Commons at half-past one , for the purpose of proceeding to Buckingham Palace to present their loyal and congratulatory address to the Queen . In both Houses the attendance of members was very lar ^ e—127 Lords and about 400 Commons ; and as , with few exceptions , all were in military uniforms or conn dresses , the show was very splendid and -ttrikiiig .

      . Os leati 5 g the Palace , Lord Melbourne , Lord Hulland , and Lord John Russell were , according to the Times , TehemejrJy hissed by the crowd . The Morning Post says that Mr . Hume and Mi . Raines were hissed , and Mr . O'Consell took care . not to ride in his own carriage . Fatal Fight . —A man . named Falkner was charged at Hatton-garden Police Court , on Monday , with killing Charles Hey wood , in a pugilistic encounter . It appeared on the inquest , wkich was held at the Rvyal Mail public house . High-street , lsliug : oa , thd ; 'be deceased had nut been struck on the head , bat that he muEt have fallen on a stone , which closed an excravatioa of blood en the brain , and produced death . A verdict to that effect was returned .

      A Letter fbox Bateeuth state ? that , on Easier Monday , 4 , 000 pilgrims bathed in the river Jordan . They were escorted by the Governor of Jerusalem , 1 and a strong detachment of troops , during who ? e absence the Arabs took possession of the governor ' s tent , and carried off several objects belonging to the kitchen . Vas Amburgh has returned to Astley's , and is now exhibiting the feat 3 of hiB elephant ; a much more pleasing spectacle than his dangerous intimacy with lions and tigers . The Cork Reporter informs us that the Tinner of emigrants from that pun this year amounts to 4 , 870 . The average of the six preceding years amounted to 4 , 934 .

      A 5 ATCKALIST , i * Icelasd , has lately made a carious experiment on the vitality of the toad . He caused several of these reptiles to be so completely frozen , that all the interstices of the muscles were filled with granules of ice , and it was impossible to bend one of their limba without breaking it . B > -he application of a carefully graduated head to the body , the toads , in a short time , resumed all the functions of life . The Axti-Slatkey Convention commences its sitting ; on Friday ; delegates have been appointed to attend from Tarious quarters , but the most numerous will be those frum America .

      At Hattos-Gabdes , on Saturday , it was decided I uai all the indentures of apprenticeship binding buys educated at the Duke of York Militarr School I for twenty years past are invalid , the seals there not fianng had something " affixed upon" th 9 instrument ., but black round mark in imitation of a seal printed thereto . A Rital to Father Mathew . —The Rev . R . G . iiason , whose labours have been arduous and faithtui beyond calculation , in the course of the last two months has travelled over a district of countryttusuy on foot—containing an area of upwards of a thousand miles , has visited forty different places , Preached fifty sermons , and deliverd eighty teetotal tenant . —Aberdeen Herald .

      Little WoxDEE , who won the Derby , is barely nf : « en hs . nd 3 high , and was bought at Doue- * ster , for ~ 3 , and while in training by Forth gave such prom > - ~? as to canse some of his admirers to be less 3 urprii-ai at the little horse ' s success thft-Ti perhaps many w the knowing ones were . "W e have talked with an intelligent and observant f emleman , who has lately been trave ' j ing through Cumberland and Northumberland , and he assures us Kit there never were iu the north of England sueh I aeavj crops in the memory of man . In our own I county , too , both wheat and oats are abundant and I fleaatny . — Westmoreland Gazette .

      1 On the l = t of July , Sheriffs Evans and Wheelton I * i" give a splendid entertainment to the judges , I £ te * n of whom have accepted the invitation . Sir I £ eler Laurie , ihe President of the Bridewell and 1 xJetalehem Hospital ? , and Mr . Price , vhe Treasurer , iire erantea the great Hall of the former building I for the occasion . I At Maelborough-strebt , on Wednesday , a per-I v ° - yrn ° * lns naume ° f Jones , was charged with 1 caring indecently assaulted a policeman ; he was 1 Wr . Tieted , * nd fined £ 5 . It was proved that the 1 £ iQe man had been charged a short time ago with I the same offrnce , but the Grand Jury threw out the I fcpL The name given , in both instances , was ficti-1 t ' -ous . The man's rt al name is Baid to be Fitzgibbon , I * ad that he is one of the directors of a public coni-I Put .

      I kocuusM . —On Monday evening last , 8 : h June , I we braucu of Socialists in Edinburgh , held the first I ° > a series of tea parties , in their ball , 24 , Waterloo-I ^ e . About one hundred and thirty sat down to I *** , at eight o ' clock . The evening ' s entertainments I e- iainenced by a select band of musicians , both pro-I lessioa&l and amateur , playing one of their best I ? ^ ? variety of which , they continued at inter-I ± ^ j iuroughout she evening , to give with consideraDle I d Cbic ? Match—France p . Esglasd . —On Mon-I «* J aid Tnesday last , a grand match at cricket I ]> ^ V ^ " BWe 8 t tijttle village of River , near I . , jTer » . between eleven cricketers from Calais and

      I " fti m tbe neighboorhood , when the men of I Tfr ' ** " * severely contested field , were trioin-I j-zf they kaTin £ seven wickets to eo down . The I ? = mra nuich is to be played at Calais Downs shortly . I ££ ? tere « iras excited by the match , and not I ^ d r 3 > 000 Persons were on the ground on the I 0 ' r } f * Weatheb akd the Cbops , —From all parts I icLT ^ C 0 HlltI 7 w « have most cheering accounts re-I ] g ^* ^^ weather and the appearance of the vh n ^ P - ^ various pans of Lintaliishire evenf ^ ! * «« ! km * ear , and have t , f 7 & Ppeaance of producing & very heavy yield arrest is expected to commence generally in the ^ T ' ' of LmeOnshire and East Riding of Yorkg £ e » not l » ter dian the middle of August . The hay l ^ k " ** ^ feady comm ' . need , and will be general 111 «*»» a fortnight .- ^ u // Packet .

      Ga ^ LiST AHai ' * r £ on Italy , " says the i > n «\ k France , ** bring the most incredible re-Wn , ^ L ^ coo n and Ae Apollo Belved ere have S bfifJS P lhe PoPe to the Emperor of Russia for WAT ? - » and that the whole of the Dacal gali-Lid u ^* » ^ k ^ Raphaels , three Carraccis , ^ J ?^ . r ^ a Bartholomeos , Barrochios , Domenipi ^ h ^ ottssins ., GaeTchinoa , and other splendid W so ^ j ' H e Oil ship-bo * ' d , bound for London , to £ w si' WlIli the exception of one Rapiiael , one Pg ^ tr 1 ana one Francia , which wiil corns to

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      Lobd Nomujibt bu oommnnicated to William 3 rd , Esq M . P ^ m answer to the memorial sent on behalf of John Bell , now confined in Newcastle gaol for publishing a libel , that he caanot find it consistent with his pablic daty to recommend her Majesty to mitigate the punishment of that indi-^ lduaL—Durham Chronicle . DESTBtrcTiTE Ftee at IsLiNGTos .-Between two and three 0 clock on Monday morning , the Ship public house , in Camden street , Islington-green was totally ^ burned to the ground . The family of tae landlord had to effect their escape from the upper J > urt of the house ia a state of nudity , and were received into the residences of their neighbours the whole of the furniture is destroyed , and al > o a great portion of the stock . Ord . * lLv ° M p w , JL ^ i ^?? i ^^*? J ^

      Ox Whit-Monday the United Order of Odd Fellows , of Lodge No . 96 , held their anniversary at the - New Inn , Huddersfield . About one hundred members sat down to a sumptuous repast , and spent the day in harm « ny . On Tuesday they met again , and proceeded in procession to Mill-Bridge , to open a new lodge , preceded by a band of muaic ; after the usual ceremonies the harmony of the evening was kept up to a late hour . ^ Melaxcholy Case . —On Sunday morning , the wife of James Aid well , a gunner in the Royal Artillery , at Woolwich , was delivered of twins , and died witnia a few hours afterwards . The two children are aim and well , but they must severely feel the loss of their mother , their natural protector and nurse , as the pay of a soldier is insufiicient to obtain proper attent-. on for them under these afflicting circumstances , especially as he has another child , oniy ntteen months old , to provide for .

      * v u MISSAI ' , ' * stebs . —A spirited petition to tne House of Commons has been agreed to at Dumferaline , praying the House to address her Majesty for the dismissal of her present Ministers , the calling to her counsels of men who will make it a Cabinet question—that all tax-payers be collectors—that her Majesty be graciously pleased to restore to the country and their families , all persons suffering punishments for political offence 3 . Political Prisoners . —A petition had been got np at Stockton , for the liberation of Mr . F . O Connor and all other political prisoners , the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and the dismissal of the present Ministers . The Detition was sent to Mr . Fielden , on the 4 th June , with 5 , 000 signatures attached to it . It never was carried about for signatures , or more might have been obtained .

      - Political LErrrRES and the Stocktox Bludgeon Men . —Mr . G . Binns lectured in the Marketplace , Stockton , on Friday night , for half an hour , till his andience was dispersed by the bludgeon-men . They adjourned to Thornaby-green , numbering about two hundred persons , and although it was near nine o ' clock before they set off from Stockton , and the distance is about one mile and a half , an excellent and effective lecture was delivered . Edwatld Oxford . —Hannah Oxford , the mother of this young man , whose extraordinary conduct forms the general topic of conversation everywhere , was formerly housekeeper to William Prescott , Esq . ; and , after quitiing his service , took a confectioner ' s shop , and , afterwards , a small coffee-room in the

      Borough-road , where her goods were taken in execution . In 1836 she took the Red Rover public-house , in Market-street , Southwark-bridge-road , which proved a failure ; and , on the 6 th of December of the same year , she applied for and received the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act . Her debts were £ 300 , and her assets amounted to between £ 3 and £ 4 , in excepted articles . When she petitioned , she was in the Borough Gaol for Southwark . At the ceffae-house her unfortunate son was considered a mild and inoffensive youth , and frequently went of errands for persons who attended the rooms . On the day that he attempted the life of her Majesty he partook of coffee at Lovett ' s house , in the London-road , and there appeared nothing in his manner to excite the least suspicion that he was in an excited state .

      A few days ago two seamen entered a cafe' at lecamp , and called for a bottle of beer . It was brought by the landlady , who was filling the glasses , when she suddenly turned pale , and let the bottle drop , fur she had just recognised in the two customers her husband and her brother , who had been serving in ths same vessel in distant parts , and to whom a letter had been written at her instigation , stating that she was dead . The husband and his brother-in-law , having in their turn recognised her , were beginning to inquire into the motive of the information which they had received , and how sne came to be mistress of a cafe" at Fe " camp , wnen they heard two children crying out to their * mama" for bread and butter . This was a sufficient answer to the injured husband , who quitted the house immediately , followed by his brother , and went on board bis vessel , resolved to avoid the shame -which his faithless partner had brought upon him . The Btory , however , got wind , and the cafe" has beea filled with

      curious inquirers ever since . Ribandism . —I send you the following extract from the founder ' s Xevrs Letter of this day , which appears to me to be eo important that I cannot assume to myself the responsibility of abridging it : — " Ballinamore , June 10 . —I have to inform you , that in consequence of private information , Mr . James Perrin , stipendiary magistrate , with subinspectors Stewart , Meredith , and a party of police under their command , proceeded on tho 8 ih inst ., bein * market-day , to the house of Mr . Thomas M'Keiran , publican , Ballinamore , county of Leitrim , and succeeded in arresting aad lodging in Bridewell fourteen Ribandmen , with their papers and other documents connected with the Riband Society . The organs of the Castle may pretend to deny

      that Ribandism exists in Ireland ; but the arrest of these individuals is a convincing proof to the contrary , and that it is not confined to a single district , but prevails throughout the United Kingdom . The following day the prisoners were marched under a strpDg escort of police to Carrick-on-Shannon , and fully committed to take their trials at the ensuing assizes . Great praise is due to sub-inspector Stewart , who arrested one of the party as he was leaping out of a window . So conscious were the party of the crime , that they endeavoured to destroy the papers aad other documents ; but they were prevented from eo doing by tbe vigilance and exertions of the conttabulary . " —Evening Mail . I have to add , that the

      Government organ , the Dublin Evening Post , of this niglif confirms the foregoing intelligence by the foliowing paragraph;— " Ae&est of Riband Delsgates , — We have the satisfaction to announce , that the Government has succeeded , through the exertious of Mr . James Perrin , resident magistrate in Leitrim , in effecting some further arrests of persons connected with the Riband system . The individuals arrested are fourteen in number , and they were taken in custody on Wednesday at a public-hoase in the town of Ballinamore . At the same time some documents were discovered which show that the persons assembled were delegates from various districts . "—Times Correspondent .

      Central Criminal Covrt . —The June Sessions of the Central Criminal Court commenced on Monday morning , when the proceedings were opened with the usual formalities before the Lord Mayor and the other Civic Authorities . The Court was extremely crowded in consequence of its being generally understood that some allusions would be made to the important cases which stand for trial at the present Sessions . After the Grand Jury had been called over -and sworn , the Common Sergeant , in the absence of the Learned Recorder , who was prevented from attending by indisposition , proceeded to address the Grand J .. ry . There were a great number of cases for trial , two of which required some observations from him . There wa 3 another case , also , of

      considerable importance , upon which bills could be seut up to them , namely , that of Edward Oxford , who was chargtd wiib the crime of high treason After expatiating upon the enormity of the crime , the Learned Sergeant proceeded to allude to the several acts from the time of Edward which had been passed with reference to the offence . The Act of Edward had been amended by the Act passed in the 39 th and 40 th year of ths rei gn of George the Thira , which continued the penalties awarded in cases of high treason , but rendered it necessary that there should be two witnesses to the overt act . Subsequent statutes further modified the proceedings , and it was now enacted that all persons charged with attempting or compassing the life « f the Sovereign

      , should-be tried asin ordinary casesofmurder or attempt to murder . The case of Oxford would not , however , come before the Court in the present Sessions , as the law required that 14 days' notice should be given to the prisoner . The next case was that of Benjamin Fr&nfoiB Courvoisier , who was charged with the murder of Lord William Russell . The Learned Sergeant here referred to the facts of the case , which had been already fully before the public He dwelt at some length upon the facts of the two handkerchiefs and the gloves stained with blood , which had been found in the prisoner's portmanteau some days subsequent to the murder , and after search ha ' been made by the police officers . That point was of the highest-importance to the prisoner , and , in common jagtioe ^ it should be known . At the same time , there were circumstances of strong Buspieion against the prisoner , more especially the marks on the doors ,

      many of them having been made from the inside , the fact of , no trace of any party having left the house by the back entrance , of no property having been taken away , but concealed in the house , and in places to which the prisoner had access . All these were circumstances of strong suspicion , which it would be their duty to weigh welL The l&ut case which he should allude to was that of Gould , and , after referring to the facts of his case , he observed that the confession whinh the prisoner had made should be very guardedly received , inasmuch as the prisoner might have been tempted by the offer of the reward to ao bo . If that was so , the confession could not in point of law be received as evidence . If there were any points upon which they required his advice or assistance , he would be happy to afford them all the information in his power . The Grand Jury then withdrew , and the Court proceeded to call and swear ths Psity Juries .

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      ^^ p 1 * ft * body of Mr . John Speechley , airespectable farmer at Smton , St . Edmonds neir Wisoeach , was- found by his daughter suspended trom a beam ia a shed , a short distant * from his aouse . ihe daughter immediately gave the alarm , aud a man who-was working a short distance off ran to the spot , and he not having Buffloient courage to cut the body down , ran about half a mile fer assistance . When cut down , the deceased was not quite dead , and there is not the least doobt that had he been cut down- wh * n first discovered he would have recovered . —Norwich Mercury . A Havre paper gives the following ; aecount of a dargerous espeniacut , which had nearly verified e a 1 P cient adige of the two stools : — The owner of a Newfoundland dog , walking the other day on the south jetty with a friend , was boastinc of the ° * Fwdat ia * r , the bodv of Mr . John Sn « echl « v .

      qualities of the animal , and the certainty of his saving a man from drowning , which hia- companion questioned . When they had reached that part of the jetty which is unprotected by any para pet , the master of the dog pushed his incredulous Iriead into the outer basin , where the water was deep though calm , lhe dog justified the praises of his master , and in-Btanly plunged after the fallen man , seiaed him by the coat , and was bringing h » m safe to shore , when another dog of the same species , which happened to be the

      on north jetty , saw wbat was goiug on , and determihtd to have his share in the salvage . He plunged in , seized another portion of the drowning man ' s coat ; but as the respective masters of the two dogs were at pposite points , they pulled in opposite directions , till two portions of the coat were torn off , and carried by the dogs to their owners , leaving the real object of their endeavoHra to his fate . This would have been inevitable , had not Ms kind friend , who , fortunately , was a good 6 wimmer , plunged in , and brought hin safe to the quay . "

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      CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBT AND JOHN WATKINS , RELATIVE TO THE DELIVERING UP OF BROPERTY TAKEN FROM THE LATTER . " Aislaby , near Whitby , May 15 th 1840 . .,.. ** LORD . —WUl jour Lordship confer an additional obligation on me by ordering the magistrates at ? Stockton to return me my paper * I applied somo time ago to , the offleer who took them from me , and the clerks of the magistrates , but without effect " My Lord , " Your Lordship ' s obedient servant , " John Watk ^ s . " To the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby , Secretary of State , && &c , London . " rnpBt . an ™ .. v ^ _ . „_

      " Whitehall , 18 th May , 1840 . " Sir , —I am directed by the Marquis of Normanby to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15 th instant , and to inform you that his Lordship is not aware to what papers your letter refers . " am ,. Sir , " Your obedient servant , " S . M . Phillipps . " John Wattnns , Esq ., Aislaby , near Whitby . " " Aialaby Hall , Whitby , May 22 nd , 1840 . " Mt Lord , —I am sorry that my note did not contain the requisite information to enable your Lordship to act upon it , without your Lordship being again troubled by me in explanation .

      The papers taken from me by the police officer tHenderson ) at Stockton , and lodged in the magistrates * office there , were fifty printed copies , of a pamphlet entitled " The Five Cardinal Points of the People ' s Charter , explained and advocated , " and my pocket book , with its contents . Your Lordship was so just as to send an order to the magistrates to stop proceedings against me ; and Mr . Justice Coleridge , in his charge to the Grand Jury at Durham , dismissed my case as too trivial to occupy their attention . I made application , first to tbe police officer , afterwards to the clerks of the magistrates at Stockton , for the restoration , of my papers , but without effect ; and this must plead my my excuse for requesting your Lordship's necessary interference . "My Lord , *• I have the honour to subscribe myself , " Your Lordship ' s obliged obedient servant , " John Watkins .

      " To the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby , &c . " " Whitehall , May 26 th , 1840 . " Sm , —I am directed by the Marqui 3 of Normanby to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22 nd instant , and to acquaint you . that Lord Normanby baa written to the magistrates with respect to the delivering up of your pocket book and its contents , according to your request ; but his Lordship gives no directions respecting the political papers . " I am , Sir , " Your obedient servant , " S . M . Phillipps . " Mr . John Watkins , &c " " Aislaby , near Whitby , June 1 st , 1840 .

      " Mt Lord , —The magistrates of Stockton have not Beat the pocket book ; so , it seems , they pay as little regard to your Lordship as to me . Permit me to say , my Lord , that I do not regret this ; because , if tho pocket book had come , unaccompanied by the pamphlets , I should have refused to take it in . My Lord , I place little value on the articles—the accidental loss of them would have given me no concern ; but the seizure and confiscation of them imputes a guilt in my possession of them , which I am wholly unconscious of . By your Lordship's leave , I will recapitulate my case , that your Lordship may , if you please , give the matter a second consideration .

      The police officer arrested me for the sake of & j « b , and tbe magistrates committed me for the sake of pleasing their groundless prejudices . I refused to accede to an unconstitutional demand of bail , and for this my refusal , I was doomed to solitary confinement in a felon ' s cell , which I was not allowed to quit for more than ono hour in the twenty four , when I was indulged with liberty ts walk in a narrow yard . At the worst , I ought suie ' . y to be considered aa a debtor , whose body was lodged , as it were , in pawn for his appearance to answer the charge ( whateves it was ) against him , —I having refused to give the requisite security , as he to pay his debt , -whether for want of means , or otherwise ; but I was branded and punished as a felon . After having been thus seizsd , criminated , and degraded—after having been put to the expense of preparing for trial and appearing in court , 1 was told , that the charge against me could not be sustained—that my crime existed in the minds of the magistrates only ; and I was acquitted by the Judge , without a trial .

      My Lord , don't you think , that the magistrates owed me some reparation for the wrongs and injuries which ( whether unwittingly or not ) they had done mo 1 some compensation for the losses and expenses they had caused me to incur ? I asked none ; all I asked was , the restitution of my property . But they , thinking to justify wrong by further wrong , or vexed that my innocence had cleared itself from tho foul imputations which they had cast upon it ( although they ought to have rejoiced at this , ) took no notice of the humble and moderate request which I had respectfully made Consequently , 1 wrote to your Lordship , placing implicit confidence in your Lordship's love of justice , as a man , and in your obligation to do it , and to see it done , as a minister ; but I am sorry to find that my confidence has beon misplaced . Your Lordship has tacitly sanctioned the unjust detention of part of my property , although you have given orders for the restoration of the test .

      My Lord , I beg to decline any participation in this arrangement ; because , were I to agree to it , I should be guilty of compounding a felony , and should then justly deserve the treatment which I have complained of . Nay , were I even to accept the pocket-book as an instalment , I should be guilty of abandoning a just right ; because the whole can be aa easily restored as a part I should despise myself , and your Lordship might despise me , were I to yield to so humiliating a proposition . No , my Lord ; I had far rather be deprived of the whole without my consent , as consent to my deprivation of a part I would suggest to your better

      judgment , my Lord , that you sot an inordinate value on the pamphlets , if your Lordship permit their detention in defiance , I will not say of my claims , my Lord , but of the claims of justice ; and as I account them of little worth , except in so far as a principle , or a question of right is involved in their detention , I beg leave , although I lament the alternative which your Lordship forces upon me , to make a present of them to your Lordship , also of the pocket-book with its contents , to prevent a precedent being established t « the injury of others in like cases . My Lord , I have the honour to be Your Lordship's very obedient humble servant .

      Joun Watkins To the most Noble the Marquis of Nonnanby fee June 8 th , 1840 .

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      CARLISLE . GREAT PUBLIC MEETING IN BEHALF OP FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQUIRE , AND OTHER INCARCERATED CHARTISTS . On Monday , the following handbill was circulated through the city : — " A public meeting will take place on the Sands , on Monday , 15 th June inst , at halfpast seven o'clock , for the purpose of petitioning the House of Commons , in behalf of Mr . O'Connor and all other incarcerated Chartists . Letters of importance will be read from James Bronterre O'Brien . Esq . and H . A . Aglionby , Esq ., M . P . f « r Cockermouth , respecting the treatment of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and other prisoners for political offences . " Although the notice was very short , tke people assembled in considerable numbers , and up to the time of taking the chair , there would be at least eight or nine hundred persens present , which number very much increased as the business proceeded . On tbe motion of Mr . Joseph Broom Hanson , Mr . James Arthur , bookseller , was called to the chair .

      The Chairman returned thanks for the honour done him , and regretted that the meeting had not chosen one mote competent to fulfil the office ; however , he was at all times glad to see his friends , and though he -was no great speaker , his heart was in the right place . It was a meeting of great importance , and ho trusted they would hear the various speakers who might address them with attention . As Mr . Hanson himself , and others , had been slandered by the Editor of the Carlisle Journal , he hoped that gentleman tad come forward to meet them , as he had got an invitation to do so . The Chairman then called on Mr . H . Bowman to read , the letters , ere it became dark .

      A rery interesting letter was read from Mr , O'Brien , who is now confined in Lancaster Castle , giving an account of his treatment , and the manner he , and some others , were compelled to lire , or find themselves . They hod hitherto been enabled to do the latter , which secured them asainst suffering felons * treatment—to herd with misdemeanants , and be subjected to the same indignities and privations . This letter was moBt attentively listened to , for Mr . O'Brien is a great favourite with the people here , who bare sent bis wife £ 4 daring the last few weeks . Two letters were then

      readW H . A . Aglionby , Esq ., M . P . for Cocketmouth , which stated , that he had . been one of the first to more , as regarded the unjust treatment of Mr . R O'Connor ; and that he would continue to do all in his power to obtain a mitigation in his punishment , and also in that of all those now incarcerated for political offences . These letters gave very great satisfaction , and we have little doubt , should Mr . Aglionby allow himself to Ibe brought forward at the next election for Carlisle , but he will be returned in preference to either of the imbeciles who now misrepresent that place .

      Mr . Joseph Bkoom Hanson then came forward to move the first resolution . He said—My Friends , — I am glad to see so many of you here on the present occasion , to serve the cause of humanity and justice . You must tell the Government , that you feel indignant at the cruelties they have inflicted on your best friends . To read of the cruelties and hardships to whieh Mr . O'Connor and others have been subjected , would make the blood of an Englishman boil within him . And this is in the nineteenth century , whea we have Missionary Societies to inform the heathen , and other societies preaching up humanity and tread , will towards

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      men , and yet a * i these Indignities practised without the slightest contt stion on the part of our cold hearted oppressors . Whil e God gives ma breath , I will continue to denounce these : men , who- have so wantonly punished many of oui best t ft ' . ends . Yob ha Ye read of the cruel , insulting , anddegnvding punishment to which our excellent friend , Mr . O'Connor , has been subjected , for adTecating our cau& e , and should the people permit Mm to suffer in silence , they would be guilty ef the blackest ingratitude . If the House of Commons fail in doing its duty , we still hsve a resource left We must apply to the Throne , and not relax in oirr efibrts until tbe punishment of our friends i * materially altered for the better . Why Lord Sandon , who is a Tory , conM not but consider the treatment of Mr . O'Connor aad

      others as most disgraceful , and should we praise him we shall be taunted with being " Cia , ngo Chartists " Should tbe Government not give-way they must be driven from office . Why they are much worse than the Tones , for Leigh Hunt and Gobbett were-allowed every indulgence under Tory domination-, the-latter 1 believe , when imprisoned wrote- his famous-work " Paper against Gold , " which many of you wiU have seen , and those who have not , I would strwjdy recommend it to their notice . Ihave not the least hesitation in bserving , that the treatment 01 our friends , is a disgrace to humanity and a gross perversion of justice . Mr . Hanson went on to enu merate the sufferings of Mr . O'Connor , and denounced Lord and

      Normanby Pox Maule for their cru « l and unfeeling conduct towards him while in a state of bad health . He then exhibited several charges made against himself and others by the Editor of the " Journal , " who had not dared to meet him in public , but who sheltered himself in the columns of his paper ' but could not substantiate a single charge he had made against himself and friends . This Editor had deserted the principles he formerly professed , and had Income the rank tool of a party for the sake of gain and emolument But , to return to the subject of our meeting ; let us go on in a steady and determined lnanatr , and never flag until all our friends are liberated ; and , in the meantime , we must do all we can to assist their wives and families .

      Mr . John Dobson seconded the resolution ,-which was carried unanimously . - The first resolution was moved by J . Brook Hanson , and seconded by John Dobson : " That this meeting have heard , with the strongest feelings of disgust and indignation , a recital of the cruel and cold-blooded treatment to which that sterling patriot and friend of the people , Foargus O'Connor , Esq ., has been , and ia , subjected to in York Castle having been deprived of his money , compelled to ht-rd with felons of the worst description , including thieves and murderers , to live upon felon ' s fare , and further , to suffer the greatest indignities and privations . This meeting consider such treatment , cruel , vindictive , and altogether uncalled for , and contrary to the pnwtice of punishing persons for political offences , and that they can placo no confidence in , much less respect for , a Government who can thus cruelly and wantonly outrage the liberty of the subject "

      The Chairman then called on Mr . Bowman to read the petition which had been prepared .

      The following petition was unanimously agreed to : To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , in Parliament assembled . Petition of a public meeting assembled on the evening of June 15 th , at Carlisle , to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament relative to the sufferings of the numerous persons now incarcerated for political offences , HrJMBLV Sheweth—That your petitioners have heard , with feelings of regret and indignation , of the cruel , unjust , and uncalled-for hardships to which Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., and other persons , now incarcerated for alleged political offences , are subjectedincompatible with justice , and contrary to the general

      practice of punishing persons for similar offonces-and that we cannot but believe that aueh cruel and unjust punishment has been inflicted by the Government and the magistrates to gratify feelings of hatred and revenge towards those opposed to them in political opinions , and not from that love of justice which ought , at all times , to characterise the conduct of those who make and administer the laws . Your petitionersconsider itunnnecessary to enumer . it the cruol treatment and unheard of indignities to which many very many , good and honest citizens , have been , and are subji . ctod , in many of the various prisons throughout the country ; more especially as an inquiry i 8 now going on for tlw purposo of correctly ascertaining the

      manner in which Mr . O'Connor and others are treated with a view , we hope , of making a material alteration 1 ? , „ treatment of all persons incarcerated for political offences ; and your petitioners fondly trust that tho New Prisons' Regulation Bill will be so framed , as to secure such persons against those indignities and hardships to which they have bten moat unjustly subjected , Your petitioners have no desire to subvert the laws , but , on tbe contrary , are anxious to obey them , at tho same time , they can have no respect for a Government that has so cruelly and vindictively persecuted political opponents , whom they formerly taught the very same doctrines for the advocacy of which they are now persecuting them .

      We , therefore , pray your Honourable House t « take such steps as you may deem necessary , under pres -nt circumstances , to remit tho sentences of all persons at present confined for political offences , as the only means of allaying the wide-spreading discontent of the working classes , and establishing tliat respect for the Government which ought to exist in ail well-regulated communities . And your petitioners , as in duty bound , will ever pray , lie . Signed ia behalf of the meeting , James Arthur , Chairman .

      Mr . Alex . Baird then came forward to move the second resolution . He said , you have heard two letters from Mr . Aglionby , M . P . for Cockermouth , to whom I and some of my friends at Cummersdalu had entrusted with their petition , and he must say that he ( Mr Aglionby ) had showed tb * . ni tho greatest court , ay and attention , and he was decidedly one of the most liberal Members in tho country . He voted for the inquiry into the claims Bet forth in the National Petition . I am glad to see that he is respected by others , for petitions ate being sent to him from various places

      Sergeant Talfourd , too , had acted well ; he had given poor Vincent a most splendid character , and he hoped soon to see the day , when that talented young man would be placed in a better situation . Mr . Aglionby is , I think , worthy of representing you ; and , should General Wyndham be returned for Cockermouth at the next election , which is most likely , then the power that returns him can return another Tory with him and ia this case Mr . Aglionby ought not to be forgotten by you , far he is a straightforward , honest , and independent man .

      Moved by Mr . Baird , and seconded by Mr . Blythe " That the petition just read be adopted , and simed by the Chairman in behalf of the meeting , and forwarded without delay to H . A . Aglionby , Esq ., M . P . for Cockermouth , for presentation to the House of Commons and that Messrs . Talfourd , Wakley , Fielding , Duncombo ! and Lord Sandon , be respectfully requested to support it . This meeting tenders its best thanks to the abovenamed gentlemen and all others who so fearlessly denounced the cruel and vindictive treatment to which Mr . O'Connor and others had most unjustly besa subjected . " Mr . Bowman , in moving a vote of thanks to the Chairman , strongly denounced the Editor of the Carlisle Journal , who had made a most savage and slanderous attack on his private character .

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      THE EMIGRATION HUMBUG . ( From the Weekly Dispatch . ) A pamphlet has just been published by Simpkin and Marshall , entitled " The Adventures , Sufferings , and Observations of James Wo « d , a native of Ipswich . " Mr . Wood , like many other persons , appears to have been the victim of a parcel of jobbers , who bad by some means or other possessed themselves of a lot of land at Vera Paz , in Central America . This settlement (?) was represented t « him as a perfect paradise , whereas , it is a rocky , barren soil : the country is rough and broken ; full of deep ravines , with a plain half a league in extent , covered with Impenetrable woods , and the

      rain falls in torrents nine months in the year . We extract the following from the book , in the hope that individuals intending to expatriate themselves , will receive tbe information as a caution . The emigration schemes of the present day , with one or two exceptions , are delusions ; they are promoted by gangs of fellows who have no money to lose , and whose only chance of obtaining any , is by artfully wringing it from those who have procured it by unceasing toil and frugality . The following picture appears to us to be a correct sketch of the horrors to which emigrants are exposed : —

      At tho latter end of April , 183 « , a ship having entered the river Orwell for the purpose of taking passengers to Canada , I applied for a passage . But immediately afterwards being informed that seven lads were going from Ipswich to the Bouthem part of North America , and hearing a good account of the place to which they were going , I made up my mind to join th « m , and accordingly applied for a passage , which I readily obtained . On the 8 th of May , in company with the other lads , I left Ipswich for London , for the purpose of joining the ship , which was waiting there to take in her passengers and cargo . Hero I had printed papers put into my hands , containing the most flattering statements concerning the place to which we -were about to sail . They stated that the province had formeriy * beloDged to the Spaniards , that they had given it up U a British company , and that it was to be settled

      on certain conditions . The climate was stated to be temperate and healthy , and within a few miles of some Spanish towns . The country -was said to abound in high land and fine savannahs , with large quantities of cedar , rosewood , logwood , mahogany sarsaparilla , and other valuable kinds of woods ; besides pine apples , plantains , banannas , peaches , oranges , and a great variety of other fruits , which the soil produced spontaneously . Three crops of Indian com were to be raised in a year , and coffee , cotton , silk , indigo , and many useful and valuable articles in addition were to be produced in groat abundance . The woods were

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      I p i issi sgpssgss spirits . On Tuwnay , tbe 13 th , we left the iw [ ^ S on tho 25 th of June we ran by the fataLi tfSUta ?

      of Honduras , awl on Saturday , the last

      soon as we were landed , the boats returned for the other passengers . We then- walked through the road which leads to the settlement . At the Tery first sight of it , w » discovered how much we- had been imposed on . It wa » a wild forest , inhabited by all sorts of wild beasts , and surrounded by rocky mountains , higher than the cloud * . "ft e afterwards found it was very subject to stormsindeed the thunder and lightning were most dreadful , so that the ground would sometimes shake beneath onr feet ; and there was nine months' rain during tho year . The agent was there , and had hired a body of Indian * , who had . felled the trees , on a space extending about half mile in

      a length and a quarter in breadth , leaving SV ti t " ^ ' «*¦«» t « w »» ying one across another The brushwood- was slightly burnt off ; and % lew hujj had been erected , with the stumps of trees standing in the middle of them . These w . re intended Cor us to live in . We found we had boon deceived but as there was no way of getting to a better place , w « were forced to stay ; yet wo did not foresee the sufferings w . uch ^ e should have to endure . In a few day « the remainder of the people camo up , and the first thing that we employed ourselves in , was taking the stuiaps up in the huts ; but th flies were as annoyine in the settlement aa they had been in tha

      nver , so much so that we could $ ot «? et any . rest in the ni ^ ht This , fly , which ia about the sia » of a gnat , would bite through all our clothes , making great holes in our legs , am ! causing them t > swell Thd insect called the chigve would also get int > our feet , and make us so lame that we could hardly walk Thia insect is very small , but it pets into the feet , aad produces a bladder about the size of a pea , which after a time bursts . They filled our feet so full , tkut we had to take needles to prick them out , or they would liavo destroyed our feet The ground was also covered with ants of all serts , which would get into our hutsaud swarm our beds ; and the place was also infected with scorpions , which annoyed us continually by gotting into our ciothea . There was likewise a fly , that would bits and breed

      a worm in the flesh called the beef worm which grows as large as the end of th 9 little finger , and wou'd torment us in a most dreadful manuer . Cock roaches would also get into our boxes and destroy our clothes : In addition to these sources of incessant molestation and pain , thtre were also snakes , -which in the rainy season would harbour in the hatch of the huts , and sometimes drop down upon our beds in the night , when we had to light pine torches and hunt them . There were three sorts , the barber's pole , the coral snake , and tho tom-ogoss , or black snake , whose bite is instant death . One of our peoplo , when about to put on his boot , found one » f these snakes coiled up inside of it . But besides the sufferinga caused fey the insects , and the danger we were exposed to from the

      snakes and the tempests , we had other hardships to endure ; for , some of our people caught the fever , which was a bad sort of ague , and maie thom shake terribly ; and what made our situation much worse was ,, our having no provisions of any kin 1 , except a small quantity we h ; ul carried from the ship . We suffered so much from these different tilings , that wo at last begged the agent to take us to another place ; and on Friday , the 3 rd day of August , hi- took ono Spaniard , live Indians , and ten of the English emigrants , with guns , hammocks ' and such other things as ho thought wouid be useful ' ami ascended the rocty mountains ; but they wore so high ami so steep thar five of our number were obliged to Teturn ; The test of us reached the top about four o ' clock in the afternoon ; and although on the low

      grounds the heat was oppressive and sultry , yet on tha top of the mountain the temperature was beautifully cool ; nnd as there were no musquitoes , we slung our hammocks upon the trees and enjoyed a good night ' s rt st In the morning , wo proceeded on our journey , travelling on a ridge of mountains until we arrived at a most splendid water falL Towards night we came to a rivulet , where we erected our huts , but being in danger from the tigers we had to keep watch till the dawn of morning . The declivities of the mountains were so steep that we could not find a place fora new settlement , so we returned to the old one , still urging Mr . Fletcher , the agent , to take us to a better place . He told U 3 he . could not till the steam-packet came out Our scanty provisions being almost exhausted , we were

      put on short allowance , and were still tormented in a most dreadful manner ; but we bore our sufferings as well as we could , expecting the steam packet every day . About the 10 th , the agent sent te Cagabon , nearly forty leagues distant , for some Indians ; about thirty came down , whom the agent set to work , giringme charge of them . They immediately turned to and cleared the foot of the mountains , throwing the tree * down , but leaving a handsome pine hero and there standing . Some of the pine trees that were a littl # holUw swarmed with small flies , almost like flyinr ants , but harmless , -which made a great deal of honey I haYo . sometlmes obtained three pints of honey froa one tree . Our stock of provisions was now reduced so low that we were forced to go on a hunting expedition

      , to obtain meat for the settlement Most of the people were afflicted with the fever , so that a few of us had to provide as well as we could for the whole . It rained so very heavily every day , that we could not hunt much the agent , therefore , proposed to send the Spaniard whom he had taken to interpret the Indian language , to Tileman for some meat Tileman is a Spanish colony about sixteen leagues from our settlement . About the last day of August he left , and was gone about a week . About this time the agent and myself went out hunting early one moming , taking with us an Indian . After ^» had gone about three miles we fell in with som * quams , or wild turkeys , but shot only one . We wen * further and « hot a monkey , and then proceeded onwards for

      about eight miles without seeing any thinr else ; so we determiaed on returning to the settlement On our way home , we shot a lap , spotted like a leopard and about half its size , with legs short in proportion to its body . It was fine eating , better than any fowl . W « returned to the settlement with what we had , but It was not much to divide amongst so many , for we were almost etarving . The agent divided the turkey and lap amongst the ppeple who were sick , and gave ths monkey to the others , telling them that monkeys vrew not bad eating , for he bad tasted them himself . Part of the monkey was boiled and part roasted , and then some began to eat it ; this enticed others to do the same , so that nine or ten ate of the monkey , which they would not have done had they not been so short of food

      as to be driven to eat almost anything ; after thia w » were glad to get even monkeys to eat . About the sixth of September , the Spaniard returned from Tileman without anything , so that we were in a sad , daplorable state , most of us being likely to die of starvation , unless the steamer sh » uld happen to arrive Bhortly with provisions . The Indians brought us some corn from their settlement , and made cakes for us . About September the 8 th , Marshal Bennet , a slave owner , came to the settlement He has a large estate in Guatemala , and came to see if he could induce us to go up the country He told us that he had got a place at St O'Ronemy in the province of Guatemala : that it was a fine country and much cooler than where wo were , and that all sorts of provisions were very cheap . We asked him -what he would

      wages give ; he said that the regular waeea was a real y medio per day , which is about equal to ninepence in Britishcoin ; but to agriculturists he would give a quarter of a dollar , which is equivalent to It . * per day . Two or three families agreed to go up « they were determined to' get » way from the horrid place they were in at present : but most of us resolved not to go up the country , as we had been already deceired : and , indeed , we began to think that we had been , in in a manner , sold to Marshal Benoet , for it appeared to us impossible to make a colony where we were . Wo accordingly determined to stay , and see if the steamer would come out Bennet returned to Isabel , and sent aome mules to take the few that had agreed to go up the country . About the 14 th of September , the second

      ship arrived from England , as we learned from two sailore , -who were sent up to the settlement in quest of the agent' We were also told that both the third ship and the steamer were on their passage . Whentb * sailors returned to the ship , I gave them a letter to carry to the passengers on board , and accompanied them to the boat About the 30 th , the agent came np to the settlement , and two of the people with him , who said that the Bailors had giren my letter to tbe passen gers ; and Who , after they bad seen the contents of it , said they would not c « me np to the settlement ; upon which the agent told them he would land then at Santa Cruz , upon the lakes , -where they were accordingly taken . Mr . Geugh , one of the settlers , a bricklayer by trade , offered the Spaniard some money to take him , and his wife and two children , down to tha

      Gulf of Dulce . The Spaniard agreed to take them to the sea shore , which he accordingly did . One of too people from the lower settlement came np irtth the Spaniard , who told us that the settlers -wen dying off very rapidly with the ferer , and bad nothing to eat but a little rotten Indian corn , which , Marshall Bonnat supplied them with . In thte emergency , the agent went down to Isabel , to procure ^ prorlaions for the people in the lower settlement , but all be obtained waa some Indian cem , which , they were forced to mate shift with- He then returned to the upper settlement , where some of us were still in a most skocking skate . The children and women were the greatest sufferers . About the 2 oth of January I left the settlement I bade the settlors farewell , and , with a person named James Canham , took my final leave , after havin * straggled for six months with constant privation and haxd SOlp . . .

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      THE ATTSIttPT TO ASSASSINATE HER MAJESTY AND PRINZE ALBERT . ( From the Morning Herald of Monday . J Since the examination and committal of the prisoner Oxford , on Thursday last , before the Privy Council , the deadly weapons with which the assassin attempted the atrocious act , have remained in the etistody of Mr . May , the superintendent , and one of the inspectors ( Mr . Pearce ) of the A division , to whom they were given by the policeman who first received them from the hands of Mr . Albert Low , the person who secured the prisoner , and wrenched the pistuls from him . Upon tho breaking up of the council , strict orders were givtn to the police that no person should be allowed to inspect the pistols , without first a pplying and receiving an order from the Home-office , in the course of Fridayand yesterv % vmj 4 ¦ j

      , d ^ — *~^ v w w ^^ • ^ m ^^ ^^ j ^_ ^ v ^^ A ay , great numbers of persons , many of distinction , applied to Mr . May , at the chief police-station , in Sx > tJand-Tard , for permission to examine the pistols , but , in consequence of the peremptory order issued by the Council , they were , in every instance , referred to tne Home-office , and , in many cases , obtained the required order . AmongBt the number were several individuals who had been recently robbed of p . stols , Bimilar to the ones described as having been taken from the prisoner in the various accounts which have appeared in the papers . About half-past four 0 clock , yesterday afternoon , Mr . Lawson , a pawnbroker and salesman , residing at No . 258 , in the Blackfriar ' s-road , having obtained the Home-office order , through Mr . Pearce , the inspectorwas

      al-, lowed to see the pistols , when he at once identified them as his property . Mr . Lawson was then introduced to Mr . Mayne , and Colonel Rowan , the commissioners of police , before whom he underwent a long and very strict examination , as to the identification , and fnlly satisfied the commissioners , from his having , previously to his seeing the pistols , moat accurately and minutely described them , that they were the same aa were stolen from his shop door , whfre they were exposed for Bale , on Tuesday last , by a young man , whom he had every reason to believe was the prisoner Oxford , from the description given of him iu the newspapers . Great interest is attached to this discovery , from tho fact of the

      pistols being so recently stolen as on I ' ues-day last , The prisoner , it is presumed , could not have been in connection with other designing parties , as , in that event , there would have been no occasion for a robbery to be committed , in order to obtain the weapons with which the lives of her Majesty and her royal consort had been attempted . We have heard that the prisoner was practising pistol-shooting at the shooting gallery in Waterlooroad nntil a late hour on Tuesday Uhe evening before the attack on her Majesty ) , and that he was applauded for the excellence of his shots , having moro than once passed a ball through the eye of the target .

      vVe understand that ihe trial of Oxford will not take plac e at the ensuing session of the Central Criminal Court , but that a special commission will be appointed , and that Lord Denman will try him , assisted by Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Lord Abinger . If the statute is to be complied with , it would be impossible to try him next week , as ten days ' notice is to be given , with a list of the witnssseaand jury ; consequently about three weeks must elapse before the country at Jarge is put in full possession of the evidence which has been adduced before

      the Privy Council and the Home-office . A doubt is now beginning to be raised with many of the public as to whether the pistols were loaded with ball when fired , and the balls not being found seems to strengthen that doubt . Many experienced persons who have examined the wall in the Park are of opinion that the marks which are upon it are not those made by a bullet fired from a piBtol , and many persons express surprise that an experiment was not made by firing a pistol at the wall to ascertain whether the marks would be similar .

      ( Frtm ihe Morning Herald of Tuesday . J The mother and sister of the prisoner were at the Home-office again yesterday , and had a lengthened interview with the Undersecretaries ; bnt the object of the interview is not known . Oxford ' s mother has come to the conclusion that her unhappy son is certainl y deranged . It has been ascertained where the pistols used by the prisoner were purchased . The accounts in the papers yesterday on this point were incorrect . The following are the facta : — The piatols now in the handB of the poliee , and which were taken from the prisoner on his apprehension , were purchased at the shop of Mr . Hayes , in Farringdon-street , by a young man , about a fortnight since , for which he paid £ 2 . About a month rinee Mr . Haye 3 received two brace of pistols from

      Birmingham . One brace wer « not inclosed in bags . The 3 e he ( Mr . Hayes ) sent to a shop which he has in Blackfriars-road , from which they were subsequently stolen , and havo never since been heard of . The other brace were sold at the shop in Farringdonstreet , by his assistant , to a young man about a fortnight since , for £ 2 . There is no donbt as to the identity of the pistols , as they have ' the private mark of Mr . Hayes , which he made himself with a carver . These pistols also were in bags at the time they were sold , and two bags have been found at the prisoner ' s lodgings , which Mr . Hayes can positively swear are the same . The pistols stolen from the shop in Blackfriars-road were not in bags . Mr . Hayes and his

      assistant are to accompany Inspector Pearce to Newgate thiB afternoon for the purpose of seeing the prisoner ; the assistant Bays he has no doubt whatever of being able to identify the young man who bought the pistols if he can Bee him , as on that occasion he was very particular about the make and quality of them . After examining them some time , he asked how far they would carry a ball , and was told twenty or thirty yards . He then said that would do , and agreed to buy them . He also on the same occasion bought a powder flask , for which he paid 2 s ., bnt we do not know that this has been found . Ths person who bought the pistols did not ask or say anything about bullets . Mr . Hayes and his assistant expect to be summoned to give evidence before the Privy Council to-day .

      Tho Hon . Mr . Fox Maule , one of the Under-Secretaries of State , called at Newgate on Saturday , and saw the prisoner ; but be failed to elicit anything of importance from him . Mr . Alderman Harmer next put some questions to Oxford , but with no better success . In the course of the same day Sir Peter Laurie and Sir George Carroll , the visiting aldermen for the present month , in ihe presence of Mr . Cope , the governor of the priBoa , held aome conversation with Oxford , which may hereafter be found to be of some importance . Sir Petre Laurie inquired of the prisoner if he placed a ball in each of the pistols , and upon mention being made of loading them with ball , the prisoner laughei derisively , and denied that any ball was in them . The alderman reminded the prisoner that Mr . Fox Maule

      had a bullet in his posaession , upon which Oxford burst into a hearty laugh . Sir Peter states that the prisoner has positively ref used to be provided with professional assistance , and appears to triumph in the notoriety he has gained . Oxford carefully avoids answering any questions that are put to him relative to his having had any associates in the crime , and the only time when he has let fall a single observation on the subject was upon the occasion of his first interview with his mother , wnen he exclaimed , " There are others in it " On Sunday afternoon , two men arrived from Nottingham for the purpose of ascertaining , as was understood , if the prisoner ( Oxford ) had been engaged in any of the late Chartist riots . He was taken from the cell or room in which he is placed , and put into a cell with eight or nine other prisoners

      and then the men were admitted , and after a close scrutiny they failed in identifying Oxford . Sir Peter Laurie afterwards asked the prisoner if he was a Chartist ! and he replied * No . The alderman then inquired if be was an Owenitet and he again replied in the negative , adding , with a smile , " 1 belong to the other party , " alluding , as Sir Peter understood , to the npper classes of society . Oxford appears to be in robust health , and his manners are cheerful . He is not placed , as was stated , with other prisoners , but is confined in a room , and is provided with a bed and other comforts ; and the oaly person who is in the Bame place is a turnkey te watch him , who is relieved night and morning . Oxford ' s appetite is good , and he sleeps souodlj *

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 20, 1840, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2689/page/3/