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March 8, 1351. Toe Kottthern Sta^. 7
March 8 , 1351 . TOE KOttTHERN STA ^ . 7
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HIBRARCHICAL USURPATIONS OF kPMB ... ^ A crowded and brilliant auditory testified to tne intense interest the , Italian preacher ' s vigorous intecttves have created in ibis metropolis ; and with unflagging energy' fie continues to . demoiish the su- ' petstructure of fraud and delusion , which successive Popes have built on the . weakness and credulity of Christendom . The tenor : of his discourse was almost entirely historical , and the rapidity with which he traversed the several centuries oi eccl-siastical , anaa ! f , drawing , copious inferences as he aash ej along , renders it hopeless to convey a widideapf the plentitude and piquancy of his argument . ^ He insisted at the outset on the mani-( tttly popular and elective constimtion of rimative
p churches , pointing out the utter absence of any anproach to a despotic centralisation in the proceedings of the early Christians . Scriptural records are not merely silent , bat absolutel y in direct and re pguant bostdity to any notion of that kind . Not only are the three hierarchical ranks of bishop , presbyter .-and deacon expressly set forth , hut the form of appointment and the nature of their functions . To the assembled faithful was invariably entrusted their selection , and the notorious example or the great Ambrose , civil governor of Milan , raised hy popular acclamation to the archtepiscopal dignity without tbe slightest reference to any other Italian diocese or prelate , shows the Christian flocks of that period in the full possession of their primative privileges .
Nor was the practice of the African church less palpable indicative in the case of hisgreat contemporary Augustin , who was by the voice of the people of Hippo called to the priesthood and to episcopal functions in 395 , irrespective " of bulls from Italy , then equally unheard of in Spain , Brittany , or Gaul . How were the Roman bishops created ?—not a whit otherwise than their brethren throughout the rest of Roman empire . The faithful met in crypts and the catacombs , and the comprehensive conclave was co-extensive with the whole bodv of believers in the imperial city . Silvester I , ia 330 , marked the first ys-ars of emancipated Christianity , hy a solemn enactment that such should ever be the elective
franchise regulating that bishopric to which the whole Roman empire naturally yielded deference and precedency . Yet a few centuries later we find Gregory V . the nominee of a German monarch , -ousting the popular incumbent , John XVI ., cutting off his nose and ears , and parading him on a donkey through the streets . Hildebrand next appears . Like Guy of Warwick , to make and unmake popes uatd It suited him to seize the mitre himself and trample on the rights of empire , episcopacy , and universal humanity . With Innocent III ., that ferocious autocrat , the close corporation of cardinals becomes consolidated , and wrests the nomination of Popes equally from emperors and the
people ; but schisms and strife for the tiara are not abated by the new arrangement , hut made chronic and inveterate ; the imputed working of the Holy Ghost in electioneering : ' tactics' becomes more visibly the paltry handiwork of intrigue and cabal . Thirty contests disgrace a single century ; Popes and anti-Popes wage sanguinary battles , and lay siege to , or are besieged hy , each other ; the battering-ram decides the possession of infallibility ; Peter de luna suffers eclipse ; Boniface Till , forcibly deposes Celestin V . in the face of scandal Used Europe ; the council of Constance demolishes without ceremony two rival pretenders , to erect a pillar of troth of a composite order in Martin V ., of the house of Golonna . So varied are tbe influences
brought to bear on the production of this impersonation of the Holy Spirit , that skipping over intermediate manoeuvres , and coming down to our own times , the elections of Leo XIL , of Pius Vlir . ; and Gregory XTV ; , were all three the work of Cardinal Albani , a layman unordained but paramount to the conclave ; Rossi upset the chances of Lambruschini , just as similar generalship , among yourselves'defeats the hopes of Stanley , Disraeli , or Graham ; and when Bio 3 Sono abdicates , as tho Times will have it , if Wiseman plays the game of Austria and the Czar , so as to . damage England effectually , the man will get his wages and another Uicolas , of English origin , mav mo unt the throne of Hreakspear . ( Cheers and laughter . )
_ The speaker , returning to the episcopal institution , showed , by a variety of proofs and instances taken from the first four centuries , that throughout Christendom the system of domestic nomination formed the role—a reference to Rome the rare and remote exception ; that the metropolitan ' s recognition was the only confirmation sought for or dreamt of in the various national churches of Europe ; nuiropoliiaos themselves were instituted by the patriarch of the east , to whom a letter is extant from the patriarch of the west , allusive to the acknowledged exercise ef that ri ght , as ah in T herent and independent prerogative . Benedict XL was the first who dared to question the free
constitution of the oriental churches . Clement V . claimed the right of nominating the bishops in the vicinity of Rom £ John XXII . followed np this first attempt on the episcopacy , by taking advantages of the disturbances ' of Italy , and put forth , from Avignon , a similar claim to nominate the bishop of Aquilea , Ravenna , Milan , and Pisa , hitherto elected hy the respective chapters and clersy of these diocesan districts . ¦ JohnXXHI ., in an edict still on record , avails himself of , the continued troubles to prolong the exercise of a power , the illegality of which he is so conscious of , that he limits it ( o his own life , pledging his successor to its restoration . Bat the next comer kept the
illgotten advantage , and as the plunder of capitular rights bad come into fashion , kings and feudal lords took their share in the general scramble ; an iniquity which in the long run corroborated the usurped power of the first plunderer ; as the clergy and people fled from petty tyrants to the Papal throne , and voluntarily surrendered their immemorial franchises to the Pope as a lesser evil than the monstrous intrusion of feudal patronage and kingly interference . Then arose the base and scandalous transaction called concordats , by which a bargain was made between the bishop of Rome and the local sovereigns , for a division of the spoil of which neither had legitimate raasterdom , and thus the
independence of European churches was bartered away . The first of these nefarious negotiations was that between Nicholas V . and Frederic HI ., to whom in exchange for temporal assistance the Pope coolly made over the rights of every diocesan chapter in broad Germany . The disposal of advowsons b y wholesale was exhibited on the very eve of-the Reformation , when Leo X . for a consideration made over lo Francis I . what never belonged to him , the right of presenting to all the bishoprics of the Galilean charch . Henry VIII . secured the same , right to himself and successors , not hy an invalid Pspii grant but by a more ligitimate course , the voluntary surrender thereof by the Angelican church in full
convocation . ' Charles V ., in the general confiscation of Christendom , struck a bargain with th * Firming , Adrian VI ., whom he had placed on the Papal chair , as having been his domestic mtor , and received in return the complete investiture of Spanish bishoprics , a proceeding which the Jesuit historian Mariana and the equally unscrupulous Thoma ? sini , uublushingly describe as a repxlw quid pro quo between the contracting parties . Clement VII ., whom Charles had taken prisoner , came to terms with his captor . by the bribe of twenty-seven bishoprics in the kingdom of Naplrs , which were accordingly put to his credit in the Papalledger , and per contra he was set at liberty .
And thus was the whole body of Christians swindled out of their birthright ; their episcopacy become the property and " the tool of the secular power . The pledge of- Pope John XXII . remained unredeemed , and still sleeps with him five centuries in the grave—the original robbery has passed into proscription , and adverse possession holds ¦ what it never owned . Hull-created . bishops replace the elect of the faithful , and what have been ; what are now the results ? Ask Switzerland , where a foreign appointed episcopacy lacerates the bowels ofthe land , creates the intestine broils , and maddens the ignorant cantons into a frenzy of Sunderbnnd rebellion . Ask Piedmont , where the outlaw
and outcast , Franzani , has left behind him initered fellow-labourers , still busy in the retrograde cause of obscurantism and treason . ( Cheers . ) Ask Naples , where cringing , and courtier bishops bless the bigot oosnbordator , and keep the dark deposit of ignorance , vice , and brutality in its dismal in- ; tegrity—ave , safe from the' printing-press , the spelling-book , or thegosple . ( Cheers . ) AsKbpamwhose downward declivity and imrnedicab . e decrepitude results not only , from what , her bishops did , but from what they left undone .. Ask I piano , where the Koman court has handed over its consecrated prelates to swell the ranks of Bussian slave-Andfinalh
drivers and Austrian spies . ( Cheers . ) . . , ask . England , into whose peaceful precincts twelve mitres have been flung from Rome , sowing broadcast her venomous seed , whose rapid harvest is alreadrreapedinrancorousdiscord . ( Cheers , ) The Father touched on the position of the parochial clergy , and showed how the third council of Carthage , in 397 , as well as-the third , held at Drleaas . in 538 , had required the incurrence and acceptance of the flock in the appointment of pastors . In the sacramentary of the great Gregory no priest could be ordained withbatf thei publication of bans , such aa used now-a-oays for marriage ; and the people was called on to object if tbe candidate
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wsreobjeotionabhj .., The M . S . codex , No . 4 , 348 , in tne Vatican , ; BtiiI exists ; but the formula hag disapr > *™ . V ** ?* 'gMerpponii / tcitle , and with it tbe valaabhJ , recognition of ' a sound primative principle . He ^ escribe'd ' tbVd ^ radedI condition of the Italian ckrgy . ; , , showed aovy ? fgnbbly * its ' ranks were recruited ; and dwelt on the frivolous ( when not flagrant ) pursuits of the priesthood ; tbe coxcombry 0- Ignorant monsiffnori , and titter absence of earnestness , honesty , or zeal . Hopeless at home the Pope bad sought compensation for the contempt of Italians in the conquest of this country , and sent hither a' prince and privy-counsellor of his puny court to carry out the joint intrigues of absolutism and Loyola . This man must necessarily abjure the i iterests o'England to do his toaster ' s work . His
thoughts and his talk are of Rome , his accomplice , UJlatborne , openly tells the country he will disobey the laws ; tbe bravado of an infuriated Cossack , not f e meek utterance of an apostle . ( Cheers . ) . The bu'l of their appointment is equal is arrogance and iusidt to the bull in covd Domini , which bad to be ignominiously disavowed when the majesty b < Europe ' s monarchs and the parliament of Franc * flung back its insolent contents with scorn and derision . Rome , if she met hut faint resistance now ; willquickly follow up the blow ; her cardinals , once the ' r foot has pressed the English soil , will never depart from the laud that has endured the contact , but trample it into ultimate subjection . Let England understand her true position' in the present crisis , and either scout the intruder or prepare to succumb . The Father continued in an animated
strain to denounce the aggression , and drew a ludicrous picture of tbe amazement which would spread in Rome on receipt from a newly appointed English "archbishopof Trasteve ' re , " of such a rigmarole from Ludgate , Bishopsgatej or Billingsgate , as tbe famous flaminian document dispatched from a gate of tbe Papal city . Fur two bours he spoke with a fervour and flow of eloquence which bafffcs all attempt at transcription .
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LABOUR IN THE UNITED STATES . "We extract the following interesting article from the Neiv York Tribune of the 11 th ult : — The Journeymen Printers and the " Journal of Commerce . " An earnest effort is now being made by tho great mass ofthe journeymen printers of this city to place their calling on a basis of justice and security . They do not ask nor expect high wages ' ; on the contrary , their average recompense per hour , at the rates prescribed in their scale , is less than that of hatters , shipwrights , blacksmiths , or almost any other trade requiring intelligence and capacity
commensurate with theirs . They do not claim tbe ri g ht of themselves to establish and regulate the prices even of their own labour ; for they began by invitingthe employers as a class to confer aridunite with them in a free and friendly council , wherein the rates of ' compensation for all descriptions of journey work at printing should be established by mutual and general consent . Such a scale , once adopted , would of course have been binding on both parties until changed by mutual consent . A good portion ofthe employers responded to the invitation , by holding one or two meetings , but concluded by simply rejecting ( 19 to 14 ) the scale
proposed by the journeymen , and adjourning without day . Tbey' suggested no modification / proposed , no substitute : they gave the journeymen no ultimatum , no chance to understand wbat portions or provisions of their scale were deemed inadmissible , and what modifications would render it acceptable . The only alternative practically offered to the journeymen was this : — " Submit to work at as many different rates , and under as many different sets of regulations , as the several hundred different employers in the city may sec fit to establish and to change at their own good will and pleasure , or help yourselves . " '
Thus repelled , the journeymen have waited , deliberated , reasoned . expostulated , and finally . g ' . ving ample notice of their resolve , fixed the 1 st ult . as the day on and after which their scale should be the common measure of their duties , their rights , and their recompense , while working as journeymen printers within this city . Most ofthe employers have acceded to their scale , and the great mass of the work in our city is now executed and paid for in accordance therewith . The daily journals have nearly all acceded to it , promptly aud cheerfully . The Journal of Commerce is a conspicuous and natural exception .
The Journal is not content with rejecting the scale , and refusing to employ any journeymen who respect it—that paper engages in a bitter and disingenuous warfare on those who framed and support it . It stigmatises the Printers' Union as " a selfconstituted tribunal , " when in fact that union was expressly ^ authorised and instructed to frame a scale of prices by a regularly called and fully attended meeting , of the whole body , of journeymen printers , seven or ei g ht months ago . It speaks of the scale as an " edict" of said " self-constituted tribunal , " utterly concealing-the facts that the Printers * Union embraces employers as well as journeymen , and that the employers as a class have been invited , entreated , and patiently waited for to unite in forming a scale which would be satisfactory , to and binding upon all . It drags in certain regulations of the printers' scale of a distant city in
order to excite prejudice against those of this city , which contain no such provisions . It talks loudly of "liberty" and "dictation , " but seems to have no idea of any right on the part of journey men mechanics to frame general regulations as to the hours of their own labour and the rates of its compensation . Carefully avoiding any clear statement ofthe principles involved in this contest , the Journal virtually . maintains a creed which would make of every printing-office a despotism , every employer an autocrat , every journeyman a slave , with the single exception that he might runaway without dread of arrest and return under the Fugitive Slave Law . So long as he remains in any office , he must work for such prices , during such hours and under such regulations in every respect as the employer may see fit . to dictate , subject to any changes which that employer ' s caprice or cupidity may dictate .
Xow , without presuming that the journeymens ' scale is in all respects perfect , and deeply regretting that the employers as a class have not seen fit to participate in forming a scale which should be theirs also , we yet repel the principles on which the / ouraoJ proceeds and the course to which they have impelled its conductors . There should be a regular scale of prices and code of regulations in each trade , binding alike on employers and journeymen , and conclusive in all cases of difierence likely to arise between them as to their reciprocal duties and rights . There ought not to be one rate of wages in the Tribune office and another in the Journal ' s for doing precisely equivalent . There should be no chaffering and higgling between employer and journeymen as to tho rate of payment on a definite
amount and kind of work ; there should be no power in employers nor journeymen to change the rate of compensation , once established , to suit their interest or pleasure . In short , the relations of employers and journeymen should , whenever it is possible , be placed on a basis of order , harmony , and system , instead of anarchy , antagonism aud chaos , ind herein is exhibited what the journeymen are striving to effect and the Journal to defeat : Tha triumph ofthe Journal in its present course would he a degradation and enslavement of labour , not in our trade only but in all . " How any printer , with a man's soul in his body , and not over nineteen , children crying to him for bread , can hold a situation on the Journal under existing circumstances passes our apprehension .
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Tub Law of Bcrui — For some time past a memorial has been in course of signature amongst the derov in relerence to the law of burial . Ic has , up to the * present time , received the signatures of nearly 5 , 000 clergymen . The memorial , which is addressed to the archbishops and bishops of the provinces of Canterbury and York , will be presented in the course of afew days . One of the clergymen who has signed the memorial , has recommended to his reverend brethren that , ' until some alteration in the service shall have been made , a clergyman shall make a public declaration before reading the form over a person who has disregarded the offices of the church , to the following effect : — *« All ye who are here assembled hear me witness I . do solemnly ,-and in the face of Almighty God , declare that I . only read this burial-service over the body because I am
compelled by law to do so . " FqRKiGX Arrivals fob the Eshimiiox . —The arrivals of packages of articles for tho great Exhibition from abroad are . now pouring in- from all parts of the continent consigned to the foreign consuls and agents : for the foreign governments and other authorised parties in this country . - The arrivals have included several hundreds of packages from Belgium , and also Prussia and Germany , via the Han sea tic ports ; and also arrivals from Holland , France , and the Chnr . nellslands , and from India , via Southampton , * for the East India Company , which latter are transmitted to the Company ' s premises , or the East India House for disposal under the special privilege granted by the Treasury to the directors for the purpose , with respect to articles for the great Exhibition . .
The National Gailsrx . —Three new trustees havelatelv been appointed—Lord Overstoae , Mr . T . Baring and Mr . W . Russell . Let us hope , that this infusion of new blood'ihto the . systemi which baa been for ' some time flagging ; will . lead to some efforts towards forming a gallery . that will deserve the name of" natiosal , " -J » K"'ry ftwito ,
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AllotmenV ' onthe night of the 22 nd of last November , and between eleven and twelve o ' clock , seeing two men , one . of whom had a gun , he . went in pur » uit , and succeeded in overtaking one of them . At about this time a scuffle took place between his assistant , George Parker , and another man a fewyards off . Whilst he ( witness ) was struggling with one of tho poachers , a third man came up and struck him a tremendous blow on the forehead with the barrel of a gun , which rendered him insensible , and thej / ellows consequently got away . —G . Parker , the assistant keeper , saw Poster seize a man by the collar of his coat , upon which the fellow called out to his comrades for assistance , and the prisoner Ranscombe ran up with the view
of releasing him from the keeper s custody , hut he ( Parker ) stepped in to prevent mischief . Ranscombe , however , commenced scuffling with him ; they fought sometime with sticks , and he received some very severe blows on the head . In the course of their struggle they both fell on the ground , and whilst lying there a third man , named Weston , whom they had been unable to apprehend , came up and struck him with a gun barrel on the head . The poachers got tho better of them and escaped , lie was quite confident the prisoner Ranscombe was the man he encountered . —Both prisoners were found Guilty , and his lordship sentenced them to seven years'transportation . Arson at Bbat . —Joseph Rowls , 21 , ' Joseph Clark , 20 , John Bushnell , 28 , were arraigned on the charge of having , on the 7 th of September last , in the : parish of Bray , feloniouslv and malioiouslv
set fire to six stacks , of oats and four stacks of wheat , the property of Mrs . Mary . Hamaton . —During the last autumn incendiary fires were of very frequent occurrence in the neighbourhood of Maidenhead , and in order to discover the perpetrators , recourse was had to the assistance of a London detective officer , and the result . was the apprehension of the three prisoners for firing the property of Mrs . Hamaton . _ The property destroyed was stitted-to have consisted . of ten ricks , four . barns , two stables , pigsciesjand several out-buildings , and the total Joss was estimated at . £ 1 , 100 ; of this £ 1 , 000 was covered by insurance , which had since been paid by the office . —A large . quantity of evidence in-support of the prosecution was adduced , and the jury found Rowls and Bushnell Guilty , and Acquitted Clark . —His lordship impressively addressed Rowls and Bushnell , and sentenced each to fifteen years'transportation . ¦ .
Another Case of Arson . —James Cross and John Tucker * two agricultural labourers , were also found Guilty of having , on the 5 th of last December , at the parish of Kingston , Bagpuizo , maliciously and feloniously sctfire to two stacks of barley , the property of . Wm . Brookes . —They were sentenced to be transported for fifteen years .
NORTHAMPTON . Sktuso Fire to a Military Pwsojy . —James Watkins , a private in the 15 th Regiment of Foot , was charged with feloniously setting fire to a certain district military prison , .-it Weedon , near Northampton . He had been sentenced bv a court martial to two years' imprisonment , and attempted to destroy himself by sotting fire to bis cell ; but his cries betrayed the attempt and his own ' imminent peri ! . —Baron Alderson sentenced the prisoner , who avowed that he had intentionall y fired his cell , to ten years' transportation .
Arson . —Benjamin Eaton , aged 34 , described in the calendar as a groom , was charged with having , at Woodford , in this county , on the morning ofthe 13 th of January last , set firo to a straw stack , tho property of one Joseph Walker . —It would seem the prosecutor , on the morning in question , was alarmed by a cry of fire about half-past five , and , getting up , discovered a straw stack in flames . When the alarm of fire was given , a man was seen running from the wheat hovel near the spot in question , into the orchard . The footprints left by that person were afterwards measured , and were eleven and a half inches long . The prisoner has a very long foot , and his boots measured the exact lenjjth , and there were certain peculiarities about
the soles Of the boots themselves that would seem to show clearly those footprints were produced by the boots Eaton wore . —The jury returned a verdict of Guilty . —Sentence postponed . , Chabok of Fouoery . —Catherine Tilley ; a goodlooking woman , 22 years of age , was charged with uttering and forging the name of her late master , John Somes , to a cheque for £ 20 , on the Wellingborough branch of the Northamptonshire Banking Company . —The man Somes is a farmer living near Wellingborough , and having a banking account with the . Northampton branch , as mentioned ; at Wellingborough . The prisoner was hired by Somes ' s wife in tbe character of housemaid , and had lived in their service one year and a quarter . - On the
11 th of last October , she left , receiving a cheque for the balance of her wages per ± " 5 6 s . On the Mth , she presented the cheque in question for £ 20 , ntthe head bank at Northampton , and received four £ 5 notes for the same . The cheque was drawn " Pay to Richard Baker or bearer £ 20 , " signed John Somes . The writing ofthe body of the cheque was admitted by Tilly to he her own hand , hut the signature was averred to be Somes ' s , and the case for the prisoner was that Somes had been in the habit of having connexion with her , and in one of his moods and tenses , when the fitful passion was on him , and she probably holding' back , he gave the . cheque in blank , signed with his name , desiring her to fill it up with what she thought
proper . ' Somes ' s manner of giving his evidence was anything but satisfactory , and he admitted facts as occurring on the night of the 26 th of September , on his returning from Higham Ferrers fair , with " hot more liquor in him than he could hold , !' his wife being in bed , and his sister , who usually lived with him , away ,: which left no doubt that on that night , at least , he had had some improper connexion with his" servant Tilley . Tho girl ' s story was plain , straightforward , and consistent throughout ; whilst Somes ' s was precisely the reverse , particularly about the counterfoils to the cheques . — Tbe jury acquitted the prisoner , who immediately walked out of the dock . '• . ;; . A Wife shot bt her Husband . —William Hurst
was charged with shooting at his wife with intent to murder h « r . The man and his wife have resided at Northampton several years , tbe husband maintaining a reputable character as a shoemaker . His marriage took place about twelve months ago , and for a short time they lived together comfortably . At length the wife ' s conduct betrayed the fact that he had been deceived b y her . She robbed him of his property , and absconded with another married man . It appeared that they had resided at Turvey , in Bedfordshire , and afterwards at Kettering , in Northamptonshire , to which latter place the husband traced them . He was willing to pardon her , and entreated her to return home ; but she coldlv refused . On Saturday , the 8 th of February , having
learned that the guilty parties were at-Daventry , be proceeded thither , and perpetrated the crime , for which he was arraigned . —The landlady of the Waggon and Horses testified that he was at her house on the night in question ; another witness ( Edward Moss ) was conducting him ,,. at the landlady ' s request , to that portion ofthe premises where his wife and her paramour lodged , when the wife herself happened to entered the passage and pass the prisoner . She turned round , and the prisoner stepped one step hack and fired . —It was also stated in the evidence , that the wound was dangerous ,-and that the woman , though much better , was not yet ableto : leave hey bed , —Guilty ofrsnooting with intent to k ' ill . —Sentence of death recorded , Robbkri . —Joseph Clarke was indicted for
stealing five £ 40 notes , the property of Mr . Preston . — Mr . Preston deposed as follows : Hive near Oundle . On Monday , 25 th February , 1850 , Iweut to Oundle fair . Near . the Talbot lun I met a man ; . he called himself Proctor . It was about half-past one . , 1 had a conversation with him about beasts . He said , " Will you let roe have the beasts ?' , ' .. I said I had none . Clarke , the prisoner , came up behind me , and Proctor said , " Am I to have the beasts ?' Prisoner said to Proctor , ' « You have bought one out of the lot , and inv father is an , old man , and won t
forfeit his word , and won ' t . let you have them .., They asked me if 1 would step . into . -the Talbot with them to put them together ., We . all went into the Talbot . Proctor , gave me £ 50 , and eight £ o notes and ten sovereigns .,, He put them into my hand . He said it wits to pay for the beasts , because Clarke '? father would not forfeit bis word .. Thorp . fore , I was . to handiihe money over . , 1 did tanjUt over . : Clarke said that , would not do . He said « I can'ttakeyb ' ur money for the sake of . my fathers word , " and clapped his hand upon hM-hefk He said to me , " It must beyour money ItoUhiip anoui uic
1 bad not any to signuy . ** "" rr * " ™ know what I had got . I said / SO He said that would do .. Hold him I . could not part with that He said that I could to to the Bank and get it if I liked . I said I could . " I went over to the Bank and got . five £ 10 notes . When I came out Clarke was in the middle of the road . I told him I could change theuioney then . We went to . the inn again . Proctor came in , but did not sit down . . The other £ 50 ( eight £ 5 . notes and ten sovereigns ) lay on the table . , 1 sat down : with Clarko at my right hand and gave Glaoke . the "five £ 10 notes . Proctor kept shifting : about . ; He saifc " I'll order dinner ; you shall ! have-some with , us ;" , but mstead of doing fcbafcbe-toafc up thajaoney and went away . Uarke
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wentoui-to a stable door , and told the ostler to let mo have the great bay : horse . I knew . " nothing about { he / corse . ..-It had not been named before . I considered-there , was soinething wrong , and I went to look , for . Proctor ., ^ There I saw them ' both running away tho , bapk way . I . eailed out" stop thief , ' - ' but . icould , hbt catch ' jhehi . VI went to Me ; Cros ' s Keys , . They had . Mne . that . way . —The ostlerpf the ' Cross . Keys proved that Clarke . andiwo other men had come there together—Clarke on horseback , « nd the others in a gig ; ' and . that tbey went off in a hurry . —The same men had left a horse at the Talbot Inn , which , was afterwards sold by auction . It
was worth about £ 5 . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and he was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to . hard labour for two years . Bigamy . —William Munday , aged 35 , pleaded guilty to a . charge of bigamy , in marrying , on the f Soth of September , 18-13 , at tho parish of All Saints , in ftorthampton , one Mary Anne Jones , his former wife being then alive . —Mr . Ponsonby on the part w the prosecution , recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the court , and the second wife stated that he had always behaved kindly to bev swwc their marriage . —The learned Judge , taking into consideration the length of imprisonment which he had already undergone ( since tho 23 rd of August ) sentenced him to three months' imprisonment .
NEWCASTLE . Shooting at a Gamekeeper . —Luke Skelly , 24 , and William Skclly , 22 , were indicted for shooting at John Smith , with intent to murder him , at the parish of Eglingham , on the 24 th of December , 1840 . ' There were counts charging the intention to bo to do grievous bodily harm ; and the last to prevent their lawful apprehension . —John Smith said he was gamekeeper to A . B . Creawell , Esq ., lord of the manor of Kilburn , and had several watchers to assist him . On the 24 th ot December ; 1849 , witness was out looking after the game , and on the road he saw . four men going in the direction of Pond-wood . Tho prisoners were two of them , the two others were named , one Richardson , the other
Orange . He went and got the assistance of two of his watchers . In crossing a field adjoining Pondwood , they came upon the four men , three of whom they . then saw had gun ' s , and the other a stick . The poachers cried , " Stand back , or we'll make your wives widows , " and the three who had gtins presented them at witness . Witness answered , " We ' ve guns as well as you . " The poachers then turned and ran away , and witness ' and his men followed , on which they again turned , and the prisoners Luke and Richardson again presented their guns at witness . That of Richardson missed fired , but the cap was struck and exploded . Prisoner Luke then fired , his so near , witness that his cap was blown off , his . face blackened by the explosion , and for the
moment ho was quite stunned . The poachers then ran away , and witness fired off both the barrels of his gmv after them , hvfc-witiMwrt , taking any aim . They were then . in a'turnip-field , and in running Richardson and Orange fell ; the watchers came up and a struggle ensued , in the course of which Orange ' s gun went off , but did no harm . While Richardson was on the ground he called out to those still running ; he said , " Luke , come back—you ' ve bad hearts . " Witness was then struggling with him , Orange and Richardson were taken into custody the following day , and were tried at the last Assizes . —The prisoners were not seen in tho neighbourhood till the following October , when they were apprehended . The two watchers were called
and corroborated the ahoro , but could not positively identify the prisoners . The jury found them Guilty , and they were sentenced to he transported for fifteen years . Gross Outrage . —Joseph Saunders , a yoimg man of respectable exterior , was convicted of having committed a most gross , and diabolical outrage on Isabella . Lydia Pullen , „ of Maidenhead , a-girl fifteen years of . age , of prepossessing appearance , and the learned judge sentenced him to be transported for the term of . his natural , life . Robbery op Money . —John Brown , a boy employed at Messrs . Plummer's flax mill , in the Oufceburn , pleaded guilty to having stolen £ 150 in silver , the property . of his employers , on the 23 rd of
January . He was usually sent to the bank for silver to pay wages , anil on the day in question he took the money , and- instead of going to the mill gave it to one Wright . James Wright , a young man employed by the same firm , was then indicted for stealing the above property . —Evidence was given as to the money havinir been delivered to Brown , and as to Brown and Wright having been seen together that' day , after Brown had gone for the money . —Brown was then caliedto give . evidcnce , and stated that Wright had-frequently asked him to get the money from of
the bank and to go off with it to another part the country in his company . He had often refused but at length consented ; and on the day in question-he gave the money to . Wright , and then , at his suggestion , dirtied his clothes , ' and went and stated at the mill thathe had been knocked down and robbed of thomoney . —Nearly all the money was found beneath the . floor in the house of Wright's father . — The prisoners were found Guilty . —Brown wns sentenced to six months '' , hard-labour and to be twice whipped , and Wright to twelve months'hard labour , the Judge directing them to- he kept separate , as far as possible : from hardened offenders .
Manslaughter .-: Thomas Baglee was charged with the . manslaughter of Robert Johnson , in the Cloth-market , on the ni g ht of December C , The parties had been acquaintances ; they had both been drinking . It appeared that Baglee had pushed deceased ' s wife , which had led to a fight between them ., After ho was down , prisoner kicked him with great violence on the head , which j according to tlie surgical . evidence , produced an effusion upon the brain , which caused almost immediate death . —His Lordship , who had characterised the kicking of a man when down as most cowardly and savngo , then addressed the jury , and they immediately convicted the . prisoner , who was sentenced to twelve months ' hard labour . . .. .
CHELMSFORD . . Charge of Wilfux , Murder . —aiillicent Page , 42 , married , an inoffensive , motherly looking woman ; attired in deep mourning , was indicted for the wilful ratirder of Susan Smith Page , her daughter , bycutting her throat . —The learned counsel , in stating the case for the prosecution , said that the prisoner had been arraigned upon the present charge tit the Lent assize in lSyO . and was then found to be insane and mint to plead , and since that period she had been confined in gaol , hut having now recovered she was placed upon her trial . IIo apprehended the obief question the jury would have to decide was to the state of mind of the prisoner at the time she committed the crime imputed to her . —
Some witnesses were then examined , from whose evidence it . appcared that the prisoner was the wife of . a labouring man in this town , and that up to the time of the occurrence she had always borne tho character of an affectionate wifo and mother . -. In November , 1549 , she was delivered of tho child in question , and it appeared that shortly after she had recovered from her confinement , she was observed to he in a very low and desponding way , and she was frequently heard to exclaim' that she did not know how she . should be able to live , as her husband had had his wages reduced . . It appeared that soon after this , her husband was discharged from his employment , and this still'further preyed tipon her mind . On the morning of the day named in the
indictment she went in her niglit clothes . to the house of a neighbour named Cooke , a shoemaker , in a wild and excited stale , and she exclaimed to him , " I have killed my poor dear babe , ; and have tried to kill myself , but can't . " Mr . Cooke said that' he hoped what she said , was not true , and she said it was , and put her hand up to her throat , and ho observed blood oozing between her fingers . He then obtained assistance and proceeded immediately to the prisoner ' s house , where he found the child with its throat cut , covered over with the bedclothes and quite dead ; and a razor , with which the dreadful act had been committed , was lying by its side , — The jury returned a vcrdiet . of Not Guilty on . the ground of insanity . . ' .. "'' . '' . ' . '
-. Burglary with Violence . — John Martin , ' 21 , Walter Cranfield , 30 , ' John East ; 18 ,- and Charles Smith , 21 , labourers , were indicted for burglary , with violence , at the house of William , Hurrell , at Middloton . —M . Brayhrook , an old woman , said :. I am housekeeper to Mr Hurrell , who lives , at Middletoji . i . On the night of the 2 nd of December ' we went to bed at half past eijjht , and all the doors were fastened up safe . In a quarter of an hour I heard a . noise and sat up in the bed , and about half an hour after some one came into my room . The first hpise was a' sort of . blundering blow . Cranfield and Martin / came into the , room . -Cranfield came and hit my hoad . ' i-he had alight in his hand . I called Mr .. Hurrell down stairs , and I saw Martin pay on to him with a great stick on the ' head ; they remained , in my room a Jong while , and set on fife a lot of papers . After they were gone , t went down Stairs and found tlie . room all , on fire with papers ' , . the bureau broken , open and ' the apple-cake audit
puddipg , gone ; this npplu-calio I know to he mine , and this brass weight . I bpl'cvo to be mine ; this bottle is Mr . Huvrell ' s . After , the prisoners were gone I found this , cap , which I pulled off'Crahfield ' s head ,, and gave to the constable . —William Hurrell , .. who . ' appeared ; With his head bound-up , said : I heard Mrs . Braybook call for me , and I went on to the landing , and there stood a stranger with a . largo bludgeon in his hand ; I seized the stick , but . was obliged tdleave ' go . . I went to Mrs . Braybropk ' s door , and another man met me . By some . means he put lnVfinger in my mouth , and I bit it aa hard as I could , and think I must have left a . mark . Then , the cudgel went to ' work oh my head by the man on the stairs . ' The blood flowed from my liead , and I ' called " murder , " The one in " Mrs . Braybrdok ' s room then said " we will have no more of this , " and they . went down . I followed them , gave an alarm ,, and called for assistance . In 'the morning I missed a mariner ' s compass , a sovereign balance , some papers , " amongst them mUtt a'letter / wliiehiliha-Ye siaee seen—this is it ;
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the orass piece produced I cannot . exactly speak to . "" ! 'found on examining the'house that the keeping room window had been clean taken Put , and that enabled them to get in . The bottle with cement in it was taken away ; when Cranfield was in custody I saw a mark on his thumb , , and I believe it was more like a bite than a cut—I think I bit hard enough . to make that mark . Co . TObOMtive evidence having been given , ' Lord Campbell , in summing up , said it appeared to him that the offence was committed before nine o ' clock , and therefore under a recent law the charge of burglary could' not be sustained . —The jury found them Guilty of housebreaking ,. each to be transported for seven years .
Shooting with Intent to Muroer , —Isaac Barber , 20 , labourer , was indicted for shooting at Robert Feetham , at Saffron Walden , with intent to murder him or to escape from custody . —Robert Feetham : I am gamekeeper to Lord Braybroke on the niglit of the 24 th of December , I was with my assistants watching the preserves ; I henrd shots fired in tho direction of Pound's-ivood , a little after twelve ; I went there and saw my own men ; I went in tho direction of Martin ' s-wood , about 100 yards from it ; I hoard shots fired in the wood , and made towards the spot , with my assistants , Carter , Cox and Kidd ; when wo got there wo saw three men after the pheasants , one of whom said , " standoff , " and another said , " shoot himshoot him ; " and immediately a shot was fired hy ono of them in the direction of my man Cox . After that I heard a man and a dog cry out as if they had been struck . I drove two of tho men before me for a few rods , when thev turned round upon me .
nod when I was within two yards Isaac Barker put his gun to his shoulder and pointed it at my breast . 1 jumped andjstruck at him as quick as I could . I had no firc-aruis with me , none of us had anything but sticks . As soon as I struck at him he fired the jrun , and I was hit in the arm , and my clothes wore sot on fire . I flow at the man with my arms , and trot him down j we struggled and got up . I called out . fbr help , and John Barker came up and knocked him . down ; when down I pulled his face on my knee , and I can swear the prisoner is the man . I have known him fourteen years , I said to my man , "Thisis Old Spring , " the prisoner ' s nickname . My three men all saw him , and answered me . The prisoner said , "You know me ; what do you want to knock me about for ? " I beard other persons in the wood , and I left him on the ground . The three assistants corroborated the prosecutor's evidence The jury found the prisoner Guily , and ho was sentenced to be transported for seven years .
Highway Ronnunv . —John . Bun-ells , 22 , and Thomas Purkiss , 20 , were indicted for robbery , with violence , upon David Littlechild . —It appeared that the prosecutor was a \ yaggoner , and on the night of the 15 th of November he was going with his waggon on the London-road , hear Brentwood , A boy was driving , and he whs asleep in the hinder part of the . waggon , when two men jumped from the hedge by tho road side , ' and got into the waggon , and . rifted tho pockets of the prosecutor , using considerable violence to him in tho course of the proceeding . Tho prosecutor positively identified one of the prisoners , imd the lad who was
driving spoke to the other ; and there were circumstances deposed to which tended to establish the ffuijtof tho prisoners . Mr . Parncll addressed the jury for the defence , and endeavoured to satisfy tho jury that the witnesses were mistaken in speaking to the identity of the prisoners . —Mr . James summed up the case very minutely to the jury , and he particularly reminded them that , before they could return a verdict of guilty , tbey ought to be satisfied that , the identity of the prisoners had heen established beyond any reasonable doubt . —The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , and the prisoners were sentenced to be transported for seven
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OXFORD . Sheep Stealing . —Richard Dover , an old offender , was convicted of stealing one ewe sheep , the property of Henry Hedges , of Headingtou , and was sentened to ten years' transportation . William Gilkes , a publican , was charged with breaking into a dwelling-house , and stealing ten promissory notes , value £ 5 each , and gold and silver coin value £ 20 . —The trial occupied a considerable time , and the case rested entirely on circumstantial evidence . —The jury Acquitted the prisoner . Case of Murdkr . —John Lambourn was charged
with the wiltul murder of \ m wife , AnnjLamhourn , at Watlinglon , on the 28 th of September last . — From the evidence it appeared that tho prisoner and his deceased wife lived together very unhappily , and were frequently quarrelling ; that he had beaten her about a twelvemonth ago , and' had on many occasions used violent expressions towards her .. On the evening of the 28 th of September last they were observed to be quarrelling at their cottage by some of the neighbours soon after seven o ' clock ; that soon after the pvistmei" left and went to a beerhouse , where lie stayed until eight o'clock . About eleyen o'clock the same night , the prisoner went to a neighbour and asked him to come to his house , for his wife was either dead or dying in the garden . On reaching the spot the wife was discovered lying in the garden covered with blood , which was flowing from a blow at . the . back ol her head . She was taken into the cottage , and died the following morning . —The case occupied about six hours , and terminated in the acquittal of the prisoner .
Steamso Railway Tickkts . —Job Beecbam was charged with stealing three railway tickets , the property of tho North ' Western Company , at Kidlington . . The evidence failed to substantiate the charge , and the jury acquitted the prisoner .
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Therapeutics . —The history of medicine is bv no means flattering to science . It is questionable whether more is known of diseases , their cause , and their cure , Hi tills D 10 ment , than in the time of Galen ; itis certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fatal . Every age has produced some new system of artificial therapeutics which the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn of cures , and they , in their turn , have been condemned as failures . Medicines themselves are the subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it lias no established principles , that it is little more than conjectural ? ' At this menient , ' says Mr . Pinny ,. ' the opinions on tho subject ot treatment are almost as numerous as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction on the treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency to the introduction of bark . Morton considers baric an effectual cure . Held , ascribes the frequency of tlie disease to the use of mercury . Jirillonct asserts that it is curable hy mercury only .- Ruse says that consumption is an
inflammatory disease — should be treated by bleeding , purging , cooling medicines , and starvation . Salvador ! says it is a disease of debility , and should be treated by tonics , stimulating remedies , and a generous diet . Galen recommended vinegar as tlie bestpreventative of consumption , Dessaultatul others assert that consumption is often brought on by taking vinegar to prevent obesity . Beddoes recommended foxglove as a specific . Dr . Parr found foxgleve more injurious in his practice than beneficial . Such arc the contradictory statements , of medical men ! ' And yet there can be but one true theory of disease . Of the futlihility and inefficiency of medicine , none hare been more conscious than medical men themselves , many of whom have heen honest enough to avow their conviction , and now recommend MESSKS . DU SAURY'S KEYALENTA . ARAU 1 CA FOOD , a farina , which careful analysis has shown to be derived from the root ot an African plant , somewhat similar to our honeysuckle , It appears to possess properties of a highly curative and delicately nutritive kind ; and
numerous testimonials from parties of unquestionable respectability , have attested that it supersedes medicine of every description in the effectual and permanent removal of indigestion- ( dyspepsia ) , constipation , and diarrhoea , nervousness , biliousness , liver . complaint , flatulency , distension , palpitation ofthe heart , nervous headache , deaf , ncss , noises in the head and ears , pains in almost overy part of the body , chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach , erysipelas , eruptions on the skin , incipient consumption , dropsy , rheumatism , gout , heartburn , nansen and sickness ' during pregnancy , after eating , or at sea , low spirits , spasms , cramp , spleen , general debility , paralysis , asthma , coughs , inquietude , sleeplessness , involuntary blushing , tremour , dislike to society , unfitness for study , loss of memory , delusions , vertigo , blood to the head , exhaustion , melancholy , groundless fear , indecision , wretchedness , thoughts ofseifidcstnicfioii , and many other covnpimivts . Itis , moreover , atlmittedby those who . hare used it to be tho best food for infants and invalids
generally , as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach , but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner , and restores the faculty of indigestion and nervous and muscular energy tb the most enfeebled . It has the highest approbation of Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Venerable Archdeacon Alexander Stuart , of itoss , . a cure of three years' nervousness ; Major-General Thomas King , of . jExmouth ; Capt . Parker , D . . . Uingham , , B . N , of No . 4 Park-walk , Little Chelsea , London , who was cured of twenty-seven years dyspepsia in six weeks time '; Captain Andrewsi'K . N ., CaptainKdwards , It . iV . ; William Hunt , Esq ., barrister-at-kw , King ' s College , 'Cambridge , who , after suffering years from partial paralysis , has regained the use . of Ins limbs in a very short time upon this excellent food ; the . Iter . Charles Kerr of Winslow , Bucks , a cure of functional disorders ; Mr . T . Woodhouse , Uvomley—veco ' vding the cure of a lady from constipation and sickness during pregnancy ; the Hov . T . . Minster , of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds—a cure of five years' nervousness , with spasms and daily vomitings : Mr . Taylor ,
corouer . of Bolton ;< Capt . Allen ,, recording the cure of epileptic fits ; Doctors Urc and 'Harvey ; James Shuvhwu , Esq ., No . 3 , Sydney-terrace , Heading , . Berks , late surgeon in the 90 th Hegimeut , a cure of dropsy ; James 1 ' orter , Esq ., Atliol-street , Perth , a curc . of thirteen years cough , with general debility ; J . Smyth , Esq ., 87 Lower Ahbey-Streot , Dublin ; Cornelius O'Sullivaii , M . 1 X , F . lt . C . S ., Dublin , a perfect cure of thirty years' indescribable ajfony from aneurism , which had resisted all other remedies ; ami 10 , 000 other well known individuals , who have sent the discoverers and importers , Do Barry and Co ., U 7 ftew Braid-street , London , testimonials of the extraordinary maimer in which their health has been restored by this useful aud economical diet , after all other remedies bad been tried in " vain ( or many years and all hopes of recovery abandoned . ' A full report of important cures of the above and immy other complaints and testimonials from parties is undsent gratis
ofthe highest respectability , , wo , by Du JiAEar and Co . '—Morning Chronicle . Do Dim and Co ., 127 Sew Bond-stveet , London - , aUo of Barclay , ' Edwards , Sutton , Sanger , and Ilannay , and through all grocers , chemists , medicine vendors , and booksellers in theKigdom . Caution The name of Messrs . Dd Bahbt ' s invaluable Food , as also that of . the firm , have been « lostlj imitatcd that invalWs cannot too , carefully look at the exact spelling of both , and also Messrs . Du Biitar ' s address 127 Hew Bond-street , Loudon , in order to avoid being imposed upon-by trrnlcnta , ' . Beal Arabian Kevalenta , Lentil Votvder , or other spurious compounds of pease , beans Indian and oatmeal , under a close imitation t > fth « name , which have nothing to recommead them but theno ' tless audacity of their ignorant or unscrupulous comu » unders , and which , though , admirably adapted for pujs , would j lay sad havoc with the delicate atoma . h of » n Invalid or infant .
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. - -Tho court resumed its sittings on Mondav , pursuant to the adjournment from the last session . KoraKBT at the Losiw . v Docks . —Coates FcnUetl , 33 a person of . respectable appearance , described » 8 an agent , was indicted for Stealing a quantity of cbfl ' eo , the property oftho London Dork Company . In . other counts . the prisoner was charged with feloniously receiving the . coffee , knowing it , to have been stolen . —William Compton deposed that in tho year 1849 he was in the service of the London Dock Company , and he was engaged as delivery foreman at the South Quay warehouse . The prisoner , ho understood , was a commission agent , and had known him in that capacity for seven years , but
ior six months before October , 1840 , they were on intimate terms . It was witness ' s dutv to deliver out goods from the warehouse , aud shortly before October he arranged with tho prisoner that ho should purchase a quantity of i ice , and send a delivery order for it , and witness agreed to substitute coffee for the rice . He shortly afterwards received an order from the prisoner for the delivery of four hags of rice that were lying at the South Quay waro house , and witness made up four ba « s of coffee in stead of rice , and they were taken away in » truck Ue took the coffee from the stores of the company and when the hags had been put into the truck lit ? gave a pass for four bags of rice . Tho prisoner afterwards gave him Cd . per pound for tiie ceffee ,
which was his share oftho amount it fetched , after deducting the price that had been paid for the rice . —Cross-examined : Rice and coffee were kept in the same warehouse . Witness left the service of the ? Dv ck Company in May , 1 S 50 . He was discharged , but it was not for a fraud . The company discharged him because ho substituted one baij of coffee for another , and not for any fraud , lie was put in prison for a supposed fraud upon her Majesty ' s Customs . IIo was not now in anv employment , but received ISs . per week from thb Customs , lie was subpoenaed as a witness upon the trial that took place in the Court of Exchequer , but was not examined . There were a good many discharged dock servants at the present time in the
pay ofthe Customs , and he had received his pay since the commencement of the present prosecution in January last . The coffee he sent away was taken from , the bulk of sweepings and from bags that out to have been delivered before . —Mr . " E . 6 . Wealc , superintendent locker under the Customs , deposed that , in October . 1 S 19 , the average prico of coffees , duty paid was is . ncr pound . Tho duty on iiee was only 6 d . percnt , —Jlr . Parry : Canyon give us an idea how many of the discharged dock servants were " wanted" at the Custom-house for the same reason ?—The witness objected to answer the question . —Mr . Parry insist cd tipon his right to have the question answered ; and the learned Hccorder ruled that it should be . —Tho witness then
said he believed there were between twenty and forty discharged dock servants at present in the pay of tho Customs . There ivero . different scales of payment for these persons . Some of them received twenty-five shillings per week , and others ten shillings only . —Re-csamined : Believed that some of the persons he referred to had been discharged ticcause they refused to sign certain documents that were required by the Dock Company . Some of thoni had been in communication with the Hoard of Customs before tliey were discharged —William Elston , a carman , deposed that ho went wtt'i a truck to the South Quay warehouse in October , 1849 , by direction ofthe prisoner , to bring away four bags of vice , and took ihem afterward * to the office of the prisoner , in Billiter-fctrect . As he was going along , he observed there were coffee berries
sticking upon ono of the bags , and this circumstancecscited his attention , —Cross-examined : AYitness was paid by the Customs for his loss of time . Ho had received four sovereigns altogether , which was ten shillings a day . Ten shillings a day iras his " figure . " Ho was a master carman , but dirt not keep any horses or carts , and on the day in question he borrowed the truck from a person named Cox . He had been in trouble himself , but he would rather not tell what it was about . Upon another occasion he was also locked up in Arbouraquare police station , but ho should decline to stuto what it was for . —This closed the case for the prosecution . —Mr . Parry made a very energetic address to the jury on " behalf of the prisoner . —The jury gave a verdict of Guilty ngainst the prisoner upon the count of the indictment which charged him with feloniously receiving the property .- — Judgment was postponed .
Puitjunv . —Sarah Dawn , 25 , was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury —The prisoner was one of the witnesses in support of a prosecution pvefi-rrod by a woman named Parncll against two persons named Edith and George Ilopwood for feloniously cutting and wounding her , but upon tho trial it bocame quite apparent that the accusation had been trumped up out of jealousy , anil Parncll , a man named Hogan , and the present defendant were ordered to be committed hy the court to take their trial lor perjury . Parncll and Hogan were convicted at the last session , and the former was sentenced to be transported for seven years , and the latter to bo kept to hard labour for eighteen months . Tlte evidence in the present case was
precisely tho same as that which was adduced en tho former occasion . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty , but recommended her to mercy on tho ground that she had been led into the transaction by the woman Parncll . —Judgment was postponed . —On the next day the prisoner was brought up for judgment , when the Recorder said that , paying attention to the recommendation of the jury , and thinking that the prisoner might have been " drawn into tho commission of the offence , he should sentence her to two years ' -confinement ; hut for those circumstances llO ( should have transported her . Rouukky . —James Scholefield was indicted for stealing ninety-seven sovereigns , the property of William Uawley . —The prosecutor stated that ha
keeps some refreshment-rooms in Thames-street , which he some time since took of tho prisoner , who continued to lodge in an adjoining house , he being about to emigrate . The prosecutor ' s bouse was apart from the place of business , and , his children being at school , and his wife assisting him , the house was left unprotected . On the 29 th of January he placed the money in question in a carpet bag , and locked it up in Lis room . Tho prisoner left his lodgiugs on the 1 st of February , and on the 0 th tho prosecutor found that tbe bottom of the bag had been cut open and the money abstracted . Information was directly given to the police , who discovered that the prisoner had taken a passage to Port Natal , in tho John Wright , for which he had paid £ 10 . They went on board the vessel just as it was
leaving tho dock , and proceeded with her down to Gravesent ) , whence they brought the prisoner back . Upon him was found between £ 0 and £ 7 , and on searching his boxes some tools that belonged to the prosecutor , and which had been in the same room from which the money had been lost , werefound . A key was aho found on the prisoner that opened the room in question . —The remainder of the evidence proved that the prisoner had been tinable to pay his passage previously , and that sinco then he had bought a largo stock of wearing apparel , a sword , and pair of pistols . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . —The Recorder said , the offence the prisoner had been convicted of was a very cruel one , and sentenced him to seven years ' transportation .
James Sande' / son and Sarah Green were indicted , Sanderson for stealing a quantity of coffee and figs , tho property of Thomas Willhim IVing , and Green with receiving . James Sanderson pleaded Guilty . The facts of the case were very simple . The prosecutor is a wholesale grocer in Eattcbeap , and , suspecting the male prisoner , the police were set on the watch'at'a public-hmiso at St . Mary at-llill , when they saw tho male prisoner come in ami meet the woman , to whom he gave a bag containing seven pounds of coffee , which she put into her basket , and was going away . She was stopped and the coffee taken from her , and at a place , opened viith » . key taken fvow her M . tho station , ffei'fl foundsome figs and Spanish liquorice—The jury Acquitted the woman , and the man was icntenced to six months' imprisonment .
Coiners . —TinibthvO'Sheaaml Patrick Mnlcahey were indicted for having in their possession a mould on which was engraved the reverse and obverse sides of a halfcrown , for the manufacture of counterfeit coin . The facts of tho ease , which have verv recently appealed in the police reports , were those—the prisoners , who are Irishmen of the lower class went about the middle of last January to tho shop of a die-sinker in Ruport-stieet , Haymarket , and requested him to make thorn a die for stamping halfcrowns . The die-sinker took tho
order , they paid him a deposit , and he then communicated with the police , under whose guidance he completed the order . The prisoners called several times to see how the dies were progressing , and said they should want one for SOVlTClgll !) , . 111 ( also asked if he could get them a note engraved for Irish bank-note ' s . On the-12 th'of February they called , by appointment , for the two dies , and took them away ; wh ' enthey were taken into custody by Langley : and Lund , the detective ofh ' ceis , and ( he dies found upon them ' .- —Tho ' Jury found them Guilty , ariil . they were transported for ten years .
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"Ear-bings . —Tlie custom of wearing ear-rings is said-to -have originated in this wise : —Originally , among-, the Hebrews , Arabs , and other nations , the ears of the slaves were bored to signify the obligations of the servant to hearken to tbe commands of bis master . Rings were afterwards invented to denote the perpetuity of his bonds , as the slave who had his ears bored was a servant for ever , thus , ear-rings were tho badge of slavery . In modem times , they mean no more , perhaps , than that the persons' progenitors were slaves , or . P ° « h jn « J that the persons themselves are the slaves ot vanity aD THa 3 S ; in front of St . Paul ' s has been thro *« open to the public .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08031851/page/7/
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