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Charge Of Rape Against A Clergimaif. Bbx...
CHARGE OF RAPE AGAINST A CLERGIMAIf . Bbxstwood . —For several days past an extradrdijutry sensation has prevailed among all classes in Jhis part of the county , ; . in consequence of a , very serious charge having been preferred against a clergyma n , of considerable influence in the church , and who , for some years , has held a lucrative living as rector of a parish adjoining this town . : The name pfthe defendant is tho-Rev . B . A . Johnstone . The offence imputed to the rev . gentleman ia no other than the violation ofiis . servant girl . Inthe , early part of last month the daughter of a decent labouring man , residing at Ingram , entered the service of the rector . Within a week afterwards she quitted turne
the parsonage , and re d to her parents' cottage " Ja the course of a few days the girl ' a flight became fcnown in the Tillage , and strange rumours , were Juized about as to . the cause . Eventually the alleged true story reached the ears of a magi strate » ho is a clergyman , and he ^ ommunicated withMr Coulson , the superintendent of the Essex constahulary , stationed here , and that officer was instructed to inake mquiries as to the truth of the allegations . Mr . Coulson proceeded at once to ^ he residence of ^ i ^'*? f- tanied ^ them and . their ^ S £ - ?' i P * station of this place . The € 1 T L S ^ wom « a : My . name is Mary Ann « ta th ^^ W ? ^ and Hv * at KfiBin . « ve 2 nd ?? # ° et ° W-. I went to live with the
iwK I *™ 6 mtoth 8 iifchen , and patted mi ^ JSL ^ TV *^ gave-me a kiss . Oh Tuesday ? E ™?* ' *» . tb nit ., he was in the kitchen when I came down stairs . He gave me the keys of , the two doors . a p ] aid vag on tho fl ( wr near the fire S ^ . iie t ook me round the waist and threw , me ° wn npon it . The witness then proceeded to detail the particulars which went to subitantiate the charge , bnt which are unfit for publication . She was for some time insensible . Witness continued : After I came round , I went upstairs and brought Sny clothes down to go home , and Mrs . —— came , and I told her what had happened , and she gave me some medicine to revive ; me , and I wished to go home , but she would make me take my clothes
upstairs again , and as soon aa I bad an pportunity I Jbronght them down again , and went home , and told jay mother what had happened . —Sophia Doe , wife of John Doe , labourer , said : On the 9 th ult . Mr . Johnstone came to my house , and asked me how Mary was . ^ I said , very sadly ; he said he was very sorry at what had happened , but he must own that he was very resolute with any child . . He asked me to let her go back again , and said it should not happen again . "He brought some medicine in abottle , and gave me 2 s ., and my other daughter Is . 6 d ., and asked me to go to his-house in the evening to see Mrs . . I did so , and she wanted my daughter to go back again , bnt I refused ) and said I should not feel happy for her to be in the house . Airs . Posterfield was inmy house when my daugh ter home
came , and I told her what Mr . Johnstone iad been doing . —On the following Tuesday the Eev . B . A . Johnstone appeared in answer to a summons . The girl was not in attendance ) and on the police being called upon for an explanation , they stated that they had ascertained that ; the girl with her father and mother , had on the previous < iay been hurried np to London by ' soine party .. The magistrates determined on remanding the ease , and liberated the defendant , on two sureties of £ 250 each , and himself in £ 500 . Saturday last being the day . appointed for re-hearing the case , the rev . defendant surrendered before the magistrates . The complainant was not present , but the superintendent of police had no doubt that he should be able to produce her at the next examination . The bench remanded the case for a week .
The Late Bubglary Lv Tbe Begext's Park ....
THE LATE BUBGLARY LV TBE BEGEXT'S PARK . On Monday the four men in custody for the bnrflary at Mr . Holford ' s , Begent ' a Park , were romjht up at the Marylebone court for farther -examination . A conversation took place between the magistrate and the police , from which it appeared that the officers had been closely watching the women with whom the prisoners cohabited , and "that they were of opinion that there was yet another party edneerned in the burglary ; Barry , one of the officers , expressed his conviction that his information was good , and that he shonld succeed in apprehending the person not yet in custody . —Mr . Joseph , surgeon , Great Marylebone-street , said : I examined Mahon ' s hands in this court and in the cell . On one hand there was a cut a little more
than an inch in length , and partially healed . On the right hand there were three distinct marks of shot . He was afterwards stripped by tha police , tut there were no other marks on the body . The shot marks had a circular inclination like shot wounds , and I think the marks were so produced . The marks would not have been caused by a fall on the gravel . The cut could have been occasioned by -a spike in attempting to get over a railing . 3 fo shot lias been extracted by any , instrnmehtr The shot had not been removed by a cutting instrument . The wound was a superficial one , and the shot might have been taken out in an hour , and the hand could become healed before the prisoner was apprehended , A wound got on the gravel would heal
sooner thin a gunshot wound . —Mr . Collins , surgeon , 1-5 , -Mornington-place : On Monday last , about a quarter to two , I was called up to the Albany-street station . I saw the prisoner Mitchell there , who said he was in very great pain , and had Tjeen taken away before he got his wounds dressed . 2 found the arm and shoulder enveloped in a poultice , and having about eleven or twelve gun-shot wounds in the back . There were no shots in the * wonnds . I saw no appearance of shot' coming out under the tongue , bnt I had not a complete iview of ¦ every part of the body . He acknowledged that tkey were shot wounds , but he did not say how he got them . —Police-constable D 31 produced the hat in wliich were shot marks . —Mr . Collins : The shot
marks I saw on the body could not have been caused by shot passing through the . hat .-- Mitchell was in great pain . — -Another hat was here produced , which was foand near Mr . Holford ' s house , and was tried on Bobinson , and proved a very bad fit ,, as it went over his head and covered his nose , ' amidst much laughter . The hat had a convenient'lfrawer in the -top for carrying a candle . The hat was then tried on Mahon , and nearly fitted him . —Mr . . "Wontner said his client was in bed at the time of the bur glary , as he would prove by witnesses , and it ; was a strong fact the police expected to . apprehend another party . —Several witnesses were then called to p rove an . alibi ; but the magistrates , however , -remanded the prisoners till Monday next .
As Etesifcl Cabeeb.—Our Obituary This We...
As Etesifcl Cabeeb . —Our obituary this week records the death of an individual ( Anna Duchess of ^ Palata ) the history of whoseforiunes would fill no small page in romantic story . She was the daugh- ' ter of John Peele , a small farmer at Corriagham , near Gainsborough , who eked out a somewhat declining livelihood by dealing-in horses , « fec . having previously been in better circumstances ., Being " an only daughter , and aware that she possessed no small share of rusticcbarms , our -embryo duchess , despising the limited sphere in which she lived , resolved to try her fortune elsewhere . She became 41 dressmaker in Gainsborough , and resided subsequently in Hull , and it is said as housemaid in a good family in London , where , her : attractions
obtained for-her the attentions of a person of rank , to ¦ whom she afterwards averred she was married ; and she from that , time occupied a ; position where "her fortunes led her into contact with some of tbe highest classes . A few years afterwards she . asto-. Dished her former companions ^ by appearing with her carriage and livery servants in the character of \ chere amie to Mr . Pauntleroy , then a flourishing lanker in London . Unfortunately the riches of tbe . tanker were of a doubtful character ; and some time afterwards he was convicted , of forgery , and paid the penalty with his life . Affected by the ruin , but not participating in the crime of Pauntleroy our heroine struggled-bravely with fate , and generally , maintained a fair appearance in society both
in London and in Paris . She shortly re-appeared m lier native county , as Duchess of Palata . At this 3 ame the fortunes of her family had reduced them to he the occupants of a small cottage at Morton , and age rendering her father incapable of active exertion , he filled the humble office of rural postman . To her honour , it should be recorded , that she " enabled her parents to pass the remainder of their days in comfort . Six or seven years ago she again visited _ her native place ,, a widow ; his grace , the 3 ) nke of Palata having paid the debt of nature . Her mother she left at Morton , paid the last duties to her fatner ( somewhat ostentatiously ) , and volnnisered her assistance to promote the advancement ¦ of her female relatives . . Again , however , " a . change came o er the spirit ofher dream ; " and some three the
or four years ago public journals announced her marriage to the son of an Irish clergyman of good family . In this character ,. accompanied by her Tflece as / emme dc chambre , but not by her husband # e one more visited Gainsborough and the scenes -of her youth ; after making her mother an allowance , to be paid-monthly ( to prevent some avaricious parties from defrauding , her of it , as she had too mnch . reason to suspect would be the case ) , she again departed for Italy , in good health ; but death , which spares neither rank nor character , has closed the '' last scene of all this strange eventful history . " The above are bnt the broad outlines of her career , although it would be easy to expand them to almost any limit : as related to the . writer of this notice they seemed more like the tales of romance than of veritable narrative . —Stamford Mercury .
Railway , is Piedsiost . —The Piedmontese journals publish the report made to the Federal Council of Berne by the English engineers , Messrs . Stephenson , Maclean , and Stillman , on the subject of the grand railway between Piedmont and Switier . land . In the course of the works they propose to turn to account the lakes of Genera , and Constance .
Conviction'of The Lowestoft Boatmelf. On...
CONVICTION'OF THE LOWESTOFT BOATMElf . On Monday at the Assembly-rooms of the Queen s , the . charges were heard against the beachmen of Lowestoft , for impeding the rescue of the Lunar , Capt . Pettie , from Archangel for London , irpra off the Newcombe Sands , and assaulting the crew of the Lowestoft steamer " ; which had put off to her assistance . —Mr . Ballantine , the barrister , and Mr . Maynard , attended to prosecute ; and Mr . Palmer , the Recorder for Great Yarmouth ,, appeared for the defendants . No fewer than eighteen " of the beachmen had informations laid against them ; hut Mr . Ballantine only selected two of the defendants to commence the inquiry , it being asserted that the part they had taken in resisting the
due authority of the law was more distinguishable than the other cases . Their names were William Norman and John Hollond Sanders , and they pleaded not guilty to the charge laid against them . <—Mr . Ballantine having opened the proceedings , the witnesses for the prosecution were then called . Their testimony extended tp some length , but the following aire the main and principal facts . On the morning' of the 18 th of October , thei Lunar struck on the Kewcombe Sands , and three men came off from the beach , and tendered their services in getting the vessel off . The Lowestoft steam-tug then came off , and eventually she was engaged by the master , Mr . Petty , to assist in getting the brig off for £ 50 .. By thisperiod other boats had come off , and their services "being positively refused , they
became indignant at the course pursued by the harbour " authorities in sending out the tug . The defendants , it would appear , waited upon the deputy harbour master , and desired the tug to be withdrawn . Such being refused , however , murderous threats wereield out to the captain . They said that they ( the tug ) were taking the bread out of their mouths that some one had better be sent out to read the riot act , for that they , the boatmen , intended to muster . Other boats—in all six—were nearthe brig , and on the . tug endeavouring to tow the brig off , they unhooked the towing hawsers by their boat-hooks , and , after resorting to every stratagem , they commenced pelting the captain , Mr . Cooper , and others of the crew of the tug , with stones . They succeeded in thwarting the exertions
of those in the tug , and the master was hit in the side with a stone , which rendered him insensible . He was taken ashore apparently for dead , and now continues IB . The deck of the steamer was strewn ' with stones , which the men had brought off purposely for the attack , and it being seen that . they were determined , if possible , to keep her away , she returned to the harbour , 'leaving the brig on the sands . The fellows again pressed their services , hut were as positively declined , when the coast guard officers arrived , and order being somewhat restored , another tug , the Pursuit , canie off , and got the vessel off into the roadstead . —The Chairman ( the Rev . Mr . Love ) , after consulting with the bench , expressed his regret at ' the occurrence . Had the injuries to the captain of l . the steamer
terminated . fataUy , they , might have alrbeen placed in' a very serious position . The bench were inclined to believe that they might have been acting under ah erroneous impression , and in consideration of . that circumstance , they reduced the penalties on each of the defendants to £ 10 of two months' imprison ment . —Mr . Ballantine then said that all the com ' pany required was to show the men that they were acting illegally , and as that object , had been attained , he would be content with their putting in their own recognizances to keep the peace . ^ -The bench acquiesced , and the ; remainder of the defendants being caUed in and pleading guilty , they
were bound over in the way recommended . —Capt . Stewart observed that while he lamented the necessity of the present proceedings , he . ' could not but bear witness to the courageous and daring conduct of the Lowestoft beachmen . In saying so , he regretted what had appeared in print about their being wreckers . " They had evidently acted under an erroneous impression , but now they had found out their mistake , he hoped they ' would exhibit a generous rivalry in ' saving life and property ; The circumstance of their saving 200 fellows on one occasion would ever remain sacred in his memory as an instance of their noble and daring character .
Desertion Is Canada.—The Kingston Chroni...
Desertion is Canada . —The Kingston Chronicle says that " Pursuant to garrison orders of the 5 th of October , the whole of the troops in the Kingston garrison were paraded at . the Tete de Pont Barracks , at eleven o'clock on the previous Monday , under the command of Lieut .-ColoneJ Young , K . H ., Assistant Adjutant-General , Canada West ,. to hear read the sentence awarded to . six privates of the 2 nd Battalion of Rifle Brigade , who were tried by a general court-martial at Kingston a short time ago , for deserting from a detachment of their regiment stationed at Sault St , ' Mary's , and not returning until brought back under an escort , and for making away with , or losing through neglect ,
certain portions of-their appointments and regimental necessaries , upon which charges the whole of the prisoners were found guilty , and sentenced as follows : —One of them to fourteen , and two others to ten years' transportation ; the other three each to 730 " days' " confinement with hard labour , and the whole of them to be marked with the letter By After being so marked , the three culprits destined-for transportation were marched to the common gaol , and the . others to the "Provincial Penitentiary , there to undergo their punishment . The total number now sentenced to transportation for military offences from the corps now serving in Kingston amounts to seven—namely , Royal Artillery , two , and Rifle Brigade , five .
Therapeutics . — The history of medicine is by no means flatterinpr to science . It is questionable whether more is known of diseases , their cause , and their enre , at this moment , than in the time of Galen ; it is certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fajtal . Every age has produced some new system of artificial therapeutics which the next agehas banished ; each lias boasted in its turn of cures , and they , in their turn , have been condemned as feilnres . Medicines themselves are the subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it has no established principles , that it is little more than conjectural ! ., * At this moment , ' says ' Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions on the subjectof treatment are almost as nuwerbns as the practitioners themselves . Witness the inass of contradiction < m the treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency , to the introduction of bark . Morton considers bark an effectual cure . Reid ascribes the frequency of the
disease to the use of mercury . Brillpnet asserts that . it is curable by mercury only . Buse says that consumption is an inflammatory disease— . should be . treated by Weeding , 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 the best preventative of consumption . Dessault and others assert that consumption is often brought on hy taking vinegar to prevent obesity . Beddoes recommended foxglove as a specific . Dr . Parr found fox . gleve more injurious in his practice than beneficial ... Such are the contradictory statements of medical men ! ' And yetihere can be but one true theory of disease . Of tbe fallibility and inefficiency of medicine , none have , been wore conscious than medical men themselves , many of whom have been honest enough to avow their conviction , and now recommend MESSRS . DP BARRY'S ItEVALENTA ARA ^
MCA FOOD , a farina , which careful analysis has shown to be derived from the root of 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 everv description in the effectual antLpermanent removal Of indigestion ( dyspepsia ) , constipation , and ... diarrhoea , nervousness , biliousness , liver complaint , flatulency , distension , " palpitation of the heart , nervous headache , deaf Bess , noises in the head and earsi- pains in almost every part pfthe body , - chronic inflammation and- ulceration of lie stomach , erysipelas , eruptions on the skin , incipient consumption ,,. dropsy , . rheumatism , gout , . heartburn , nausea and sickness during pregnancy , after eating , ' or at sea , low spirits , spasms , cramp , spleen , general debility , paralysis , asthma , ' coughs , inquietude , sleeplessness , inunfitness
voluntary blushing , tremour , dislike to society ;; for study , loss of memory , delusions , ^ vertigo ,: Wood to the , head , exhaustion , uielancho ! v , groundless fear , indecision , wretchedness , thoughts of selfdestraction . -andniany other complaints : It is , moreover , ' admitted by . those who have used it to be tlie 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 to the most enfeebled . It has tlie highest approbation of lord Stuart de Decies ; the Venerable Archdeacon Alexander Stuart , of Ross , a cure of three years' nervousness ; Major-General Thomas King , of Exmouth ; Capt . Parker , D . Jjingham , Jl ; X ., of Jfo . 4 I ' ark-walk , little Chelsea ,. London , who was cured of twemy-scven years dyspepsia in sir weeks time ; Captain Andrews , R . N ., ' CaptainEdwards , R . S .: William Bunt , Esq ., barris ' ter-at-law , King ' s
College , Cambridge , who , after , suffering years from ; partial paralysis / has ; regained the use of his limbs in a very short time upon this excellent food ; the Rev . Charles Kerr of Winslow , Bucks , a : cure Of functional disorders ; fMr . T . Tvoodhouse , Bromley—recording tlie cure of a lady from constipation and sickness during pregnancy . ; thellev . T . Minster , of St Saviour ' s , lecds-acure of five years' nervousness , with spasms and daily vomitings ; Mr . Taylor , coroner of Bolton ; Capt . Allen , recording the cure of epileptic fits ; Doctors Ure and Harvey ; James Shorland , Em So 3 , Sydney-terrace , . Heading , Berks , late surgeon in the 90 th Regiment , a cure of dropsy ; James Porter , Esq Athol-street , Perth , a cure of thirteen year * cough , ; £ & ' general debility ; J . Smyth , Esq ., 37 Lower Abbey street Dublin ; Cornelius O'Sulhvan , M . D ., P . R . C . S ., nnHin a nerfect cure of thirty years' indescribable agony fSe ^ whichhadr ^ dah knownindividualswho have sent the
inm ^ flwr weUT , , gS importers , Du ^ ABinr an d Co 193 r New oiscoverers" * " , £ ^ testjmonials of the extraordinary manS & fchSh ^ S ^ aul ° man ? othe 7 coni / in * , and * ¥ ™^ * £ fiX of the highest reepectability , , ^^^ X ^ o Babht and Co . ' -iforaii ^ Chronicle .. Bo ^^ ' ^ S L ' 127 KewBond-street . London ; also of *«™* W 3 ^ £ » Sutton , Sanger , and Hannay , andtiirough fl SWgj fl * mists , medichievenaors , and bootaeRers » f ? ^„ ; CA D T / 0 » . _ The ; name of Messrs . Du BlBUY S UlvalUaWe Pood . ' as . also that of the firm , have been closelj imitated that invalids cannot too can-fullylook attto wart apelhng of both , and also Messrs : DuBiBEY ' 8 address m i
» ew uona-street , London , in order to avoid ueing u" ««» upon b y Ervaleata , Real Arabian Revalenta , Lentil Powder , « r other spurious compounds of pease ,, beans Indian and oatmeal , under a close imitation of the name , which have nothing to recommend them but the reckless audacirvof their i gnorant or unscrupulous compounders , and which , though admiral , ! -, adapted ftr pigs , would P ^ sad hav oc with the de' jcate stomach . < rfan invalid or
« The Extensive Plate Robberies.. Willia...
« THE EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERIES . . William Sirrell , of Barbican ; appeared on Tuesr day before . Mr . Alderman Gibbs , ; at -the Mansion House , to answer the charges brought against him of haying-purchased goods knowing that they had been stolen .. Mr . Powell appeared as counsel to prosecute upon the part . of . the crown . < Mr . Lewis , 9 . C ; E ) y-place , attended as solicitor to . the prisoner . ' Mr . Henrt . Godden said , Iam ; abrewer > and , reside at Lunerfield-street , Maidstone . My house was broken into on the night . of the 25 th . or the morning of the 26 th of . September . Access was gained by the dining-room window .. I .: was first made aware of the burglary about seveno ' clock in the morning of the 27 th , when I ascertained that I had lost three silver pepper castors ahdvarious other articles .. I
have since seen the pepper castors at Scotland-yard at the police station , " These ( looking at three pepper castors produced by Inspector Lund upon the first examination ) are them . The cook , ' who was the . first person up in the house , informed me that the house had been broken into . ; Witness did not know , the prisoner , ' an'd had hot sold the articles to any one . ; The crest upon each of the pepper castors remains unde ' faced . They are ; except in a very slight degree , uninjured . : ' Mr . Goodman next read the evidence given by Edward Ashmqre ,: principal waiter tb Mr . Argent , the proprietor ' of the Rainbow Tavern , in Fleetstreet , as to the loss of a spoon about the 29 th of July last and his cross-examination relative to . that loss . This witness could not swear that the spoon produced was the one lost on the day mentioned . Mr . Isaac Arokkx ^ the proprietor of the . Bainbow Tavern . —I know something of the loss of spoons
and forks in my house lately . I cannot , exactly state the day , for the waiter keeps , ahdistesponsible for , the plate . About six or seven weeks ago the loss was reporteel to me . The last loss occurred oh Saturday week , when six prongs ' and one spoon were missed . About . six or' seven weeks previously to that , about the latter end of July or beginning of August , we had a loss ' of plate . ' I'have hot any books hero or 1 could exactly tell the time and particulars , ' I hate seen a spoon at 'Septland-yanl which I identify as having been lost at the latter end ' of July or . the beginning of August ! . It was ' engraved with ' eleven others . I bought a . dozen of them from Mr . Dismore , of which that spooifis one , and this is the spoon . -I never sold ono' of the dozen spoons I bought of Mr . Dismore to Mr . Makepeace . I have invoice attd every thing relating to them at home . My , waiter has ' -the custody of the pate , but I see it every day . ' l . can rely upon his
accuracy . Mr . Thomas Brockelbv , carver and gilder , of No . 12 , Bathbone-place : I was at Epsom oh "Wednesday , the 22 nd of May , the Derby day , and had a gold watch with me ., I missed it from my right hand waistcoat pbcket ' imriiediately , after the race was over . This is the ' watch . 1 saw . it in Scotland-yard , in consequence of a" communication which I had with the police .,. It is a Geneva watch , and I know it by the name of the maker , "Dubois ^" I do not know the number ; , but I purchased it ' at Machin ' ahd Deribehhamsls quarterly sale , in the winter of 1849 , and I paid for' it ' - immediately . 'A gentleman of the name of Sanger had worn it a fow days . —Mr . Lewis : ^ Vhat sort of a chain was ; there to the watch ? . Witness : It was a sort ox" Indian rubber chain!—Mr . Lewis : "Will you ; swear you did not drop it out of your pocket ? Witness ' : No , but
I lost it when a great rush was ; made . It was opposite the grand stand . . I missed it about three or four minutes after . I had looked at it . —What ia there iii the watch which enables you to 1 identify it ? Witness : I had the steel hands . removed , and gold hands substituted . . I paid £ 4 19 s ., for it . I had lent it to Mr . Sanger , who was . to purchase it from me , and he returned it to me about a week before the races . I never inquired its value . —Mr . Lewis : When you lost the . watch , where was the chain ? Witness : ' It wis suspended from my neck . —Mr . Lewis : Was' it cut ? Witness : _ Ifo . The chain was perfect , as was the ring attached to it from vrhich the watch was suspended . Thering was steel . ; I was surprised' how I could have' lo ' s't the watch at all , as the ring and guard were entire . Mr . SiNOEH ,. a barrister a clerk : Mr . Brockleby is a friend of mine . I had a watch from him which
I was about to ; purchase ahout ; six . weeks before the Derby day . I wore it three or four days .-1 do not know the number , but . I believe the , maker's name is " Dubois , " I observed it particularly , as I was going to purchase it , and there was something peculiar . about it . The words "Dubois , Geneva , " were very unskilfully engraved , ^ alm ost scratched upon it . I did not notice any other peculiarity . When I had it it had steel hands . 1 believe this , td be the watch . I was to pay £ 5 ' for the watch . ' I was at the Derby with Mr .
Brockleby , and was standing by his side at the time Of the loss . . I observed him place his watchvin or somewhere about his waistcoat pocket ! I will not swear that he put it into his pocket . In fact , he was timing the horses with it , ' and probably his attention , was as mnch attracted to the horses as to the watch . He stooped t Under the , ippes ^;! , do _ jiot think it-possible he . epuld . have lost it then . How thewatch could have been got away from the chain 1 cannot tell , neither the chain nor the ring by which the watch had been fastened ' to it had been broken .
Euizi Balehsa , of North-gate , Halifax , Yorkshire , jeweller , . said : On the night ' of the i 3 th or morning of the 14 th of July I lost above one hundred gold and silver watches , upwards of . 400 finger rings , five pair of gold spectacles , and other property . - There were four new and one old pairs of spectacles , and I have since seen the old pair . I know it from having worn it myself , and I have had them ten years in stock . I have occasionally wOrn them in the shop and in my room , and should , know them if I saw them again . . They are red oldfashioned gold . They have been , bended near the temple . The spectacles produced . are the . old pair I so lost . I'll swear to their . being mine . Ideal a little in second-hand plate , and . change articles with different makers in London . . I know of whom I buy them in geriferal . I do not melt plate myself . . Miss Euav Coates , of So . 25 , High-street , Whitechapel , said Mrs . Freemari , of No . 18 ,
Grove-terrace , Kentish-town , is my sister .. The ring produced is her ring ., I . have a similar ring . There is eri ' - « ravedon my sister ' s ring ,, " Wm . Thompson / obit " September , 1836 , aged 22 . " , Maiiy of Mr . Thompson ' s family are now living . My . father gave three similar rings away in memory of my uncle . My other ' sister has the third ring , The ring produced was lost about twelve , months ago . ' ' Jonathan Whichek , Sergeant , 27 A . —I was in company with Inspector Lund and Sergeant Shaw on the 2 nd of October , at the time the prisoner was apprehended . I afterwards assisted . in searching his place . in Barbican , and , amongst other watches in a drawer in a back shop , I found the watch produced , referred to by Mr ; Brockleby . ¦\ Ye . after wards cleared the shop out , and took the property to the stationhouse , " There was a great , many spoons ., There were four officers engaged in thecase-r-two were left in the house . "
Inspector Lukd . —Amongst tbe property I found at the prisoner ' s house were the gold . spectacles . and the mourning , ring produced . . They were in ' , the back shop . "I have the ^ list of the property wliich we removed from the prisoner ' s premises . There are , I should say ,. 1 , 000 spoons , some hundred ' s of watch movements ,. perhaps .. thirty patches , ' , ahd . between sixty and seventy rings . -There were , I should say , twelve or fourteen , mourning rings . AVe have had , I daresay '; a hundred or two . inquiries about the goods . ' . The . value of the ' property wo . took may be'hetween £ 3 , 000 and . ' £ 4 , ' 000 : 1 have heard that Mr . Sirfellhaa ' carricd oi . business , there ' tlihty or forty ' tears .. ' . ' " ¦ :- " '¦ i \ i . "'' Z ' X !
.. . . y ; Alderman ^ Gicns then consented " to take ' . l > ail . ' foi the appearance of Mr .. Sirrell upon a . ' future day , when the investigation , will be resumed . ' - ' - ' \
Imroniast, Geoxooical Discovert.—-It Wil...
iMroniAST , Geoxooical Discovert . — -It will ; undoubtedly belnteresting to geologists to learn that jihiost important discovery has just been made in that department of sciencer at Applecross , on the west coast of Scotland . A . large mountain called " Tore More , " on being accidentally excavated the other day | presented , a substratum of pure lime , within five feet of the surface . and on prosecuting the ' disebvery by a further excavation , it was asper-{ aihed beyond a . shadow of doubt that the whole mountain , except an average . surface .. of twenty feet , consists of lime fit for the field , or the mason , the r ' esult ' of organic heat . The hill , appears to haye been at one time a stupendous limestone rock , submitted tO , the influence ' of immense heat . . On the summit are found traces of volcanic origin , such as charred and vitrified stone ,, lava , & c . ;
EXTRAVAOANCE . CUUNAIRK A , LA ALDERMAN . —TUB One Burdrbd Guinea Dish . — This phenomenon of gastronomy ,, which ; has yet never . 'been known m the annals of cookery , was placed before his Boyal Hi ghness Prince Albert , the Lord Mayor of York , and the Lord Mayor , of London , at the grand civic banquet given in the Guildhall of the city of lork , containing the following articles ,, viz . : ~ -5 turtles heads , part of green fat and fins , £ 34 ; 24 capons ( the noix , or nut from the middle of the back , only used ) , £ 88 s . ; 18 turkeys ,, tho same , £ 8 12 s . ; 18 poulardes , the same , £ S 17 s . ; -. 10 fowls , the , same , £ 218 s . ; 40 woodcocks , the same , £ 8 ; 100 snipes , the same , £ 5 ; 3 dozen . nigeons , the same , 14 s . ; , 4 a
partridges , tho same , JE 3 , 7 s . Cd . ; 10 dozen ^ arks ,, whole , 15 s . ; ' 30 pheasants ; ditto , £ 5-Cs . ; G plovers , ditto , 9 s . ; 3 dozen quails , £ 3 ; ortolans , £ 5 ; . the garniture , consisting of cockscombs , trufSes , mushrooms , crawfish , olives , American asparagus , cronstades , sweetbreads ,,-quenelles . de volaiile , = and . sauce , £ 14 10 s . ; total , £ 105 5 s . 6 d . M . Soyer accounts for the great expense of this extraordinary dish in the following manner—that any gentleman ordering this dish , and having to provide the _ necessary articles , will easily account for the . title riven to it . This dish , which took some houx * to . dish , up , was kept hot by Roper ' s , paten t , wiaming apparatus .
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- ,,.. ... . MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . ; J [ ; ¦ ^? he . November general , session , of the peace for the , County " of Middlesex , commenced on Tuesday morning at the " , Session House , Clerkenwell , with a calendar of fifty-three prisoners for trial . _ Bobbery , of . Bora . —William Watson , ; 35 , and mUiarn Andrews , 22 , . were indicted , for ' stealing threehundredj )' oundsof rope , value ^ C , ; the property of , John Porter . —The prosecut ' or . was a rope manufacturer , residing ' at No . . 6 , Jamaica ' -r | ow ,. Bei > mondsey ; bis . manufactory being in Blue ( Aiichorr Pw , Rotherhithe . The rope , in ; question was safe in the factory when the workmen left at . ' six o ' clock on the . evening , of Saturday , the 26 thof last month , and on the Monday morning it was foiihd ; that the premises had been broken intoand a large quantity
, of rppe stolen . At ^ about half-past ten on the Satin g day ni ght the prisoners were , seen by a police con-Stable in . Lower Kent-street , Spitalfi ' elds , drawing a truck laden with rope , and not receiving satisfactory answers , as to how it came into their possession , he informed them that he should take them into custody . " . He secured Watson on the spot ; Andrews succeede d in making his . escape , but he was taken on the foIIowingMonday , when he appeared very indignant at the charge , and threatened , to make the Police pay dearly for making . it against him . —The prisoners were found Guilty . —The , police officer , 54 B , said the prisoners had not been convicted before , but they associated with thieves , and lived at a Iodging Thouso of the worst character in Spitalfields . -r-Sentenced each to six months' hard labour ;
Robbert of Brass and Copper . —George ; Nichols , amiller , was indicted for stealing aquantity of brass and copper , the property of Samuel Kidd , . his master . — The prisoner was in the employ of Mr . Samuel Kidd , a master miller , at Islewoith . For some time past quantities of old brass had been missed from the mill , and at length the . prisoner was found by the police shortly , after , leaving the premises with fifty , lbs . of brass and two lbs . of copper in his possession . He was apprehended , and the propertywas identified as , belonging to , Mr . Kidd . —Guilty . Six months ' , hard labour . ¦ . , Robbery of , . Silk . —James Bryant , 22 , was indicted . forj stealing thirty-six reals . of ' -silk , j and five skeins of silk , value £ 1 10 a ' . ; the . property of Ann 1
Harper . The prisoner it appeared , bad gotinto'a warehouse . belonging to the prosecutrix , j and had seereted the property about , his person , Iwhen he was detected by tho for ' eman .-rMr . 0 ; 'Brien elicited that the real name of the prosecutrix was Ann Harper , whilst in the indictment it was . laid as Ann Arthur . —The learned Chairman ' directed an Acquittal on this ground and ' ordered a fresh bill to he taken before the grand jury . —The prosecutrix declined to prefer another bill , and , the prisoner was discharged . '_ ; Robbery of Hay . —James . Cooper was indicted for stealing a load of hay , the property of Charles James , Gingell . —The prosecutor was a salesman in Whitechapel Market ,. and ho received . from the prisoner a load of hay for sale , the prisoner stating that it belonged to Mr . Sparrow , of Romford . He sold it . to a . dealer in the Hackney-road , and he
authorised the . prisoner to deliver it . to him , the ordinary course , in . such transactions ,, being for the salesman . to pay the person frorii w , horn he receives the hay upon the , production ' . of the : receipt of the purchaser . . The prisoner took the hay away with a delivery-note , and on his return he , presented : the note , which then , purported to he sighed by the customer , but , the . " signature was , " as it afterwards transpired , a forgery . One of Mr . Gingell ' s sons paid the prisoner £ 3 6 s , 13 d ., in the belief that the receipt was genuine , and that the hay had been delivered , " but not only was the receipt ; forged , but the prisoner had , in conjunction with a man named Borfham , who could hot now be found , actually sold the hay ; to another party , a wine , cooper , in Great St . Helens . —Guilty . Six months' hard labour . -r '
'Disgraceful Conduct of a Schoolmaster . — William Henry Warren was indicted for indecently assaulting Elizabeth Cuddeford ^ a child of ten years of age , upon four occasions . Mr . Ribtori defeadbd . —The defendant and his wife kept a school for children at No . . 50 , Judd-street , and the prosecutrix was one of their scholars . Theboys ' school was in the parlours , ' and the girls' school on the first floor , and it sometimes happened . that the girls had ' to go down from the first floor to the boys ' school , of which the defendant had : the charge , to have copies set in their writing books ; and it appeared , from the evidence of the prosecutrix , that the defendant had committed the , conduct imputed to him on occasions . when she had gone to the par-;
lours to have acopy set in her book . —The jury beinjr unablo to agree upon their verdict in the box , were locked up 1 in a private room , and tho court proceeded ¦ with . othercases . "When the whole of the business had been . disposed of , the learned chairman sentto the jury to ascertain if there was any probability of ; their coming to a decision , ahd an answer in the negative being returned , ho ordered the court to bo adjourned until half-past seven o ' clock , and the court was soon empty . Immediately afterwards the jury came into court , having agreed upon their verdict , but the court being'adjourned until half-past severi i the verdict could not be taken until that hour . Accordingly the jury were a ^ ain locked up . On this occasion there was a slight deviation from the general rule , which is , : that a
jury in' deliberation shall have " neither meat , drink ; nor fire , candle light' excepto ' d " - for oh "the jury regaining their room , they were supplied with eight pot ' s of ale , mutton chops , sherry , sundry glasses of brandy and water , and gin and water , and pipes and tobacco ad libitum , with which they regaled themselves until the appointed hour . ' At half-past seven precisely Mr . Witham and Sir Moses Montefiore took their seats upon the bench , and the jury wore brought , into court , In answer to the usual' question , thcy pronounced the defendant ' Guilty . —Mr . Witham , addressing the defendant , said he entirely agreed with the verdict , but he should not try him uponthe other'indictment , in which ho was charged with the like offence , the prosecutrix in that case being also one of his scholars .., lie was a person employing himself as a schoolmaster , in which situation it . waa / his duty to
inculcate in the minds of the young the strictest proprieties of life ,, but ,, instead of so doing , ho had availed himself of . the opportunities that situation afforded him to corrupt them with his infernal practices , for no other epithet could be apply to his conduct , arid ^ the sentence upon him was , that he be imprisoned in tbe House of Correction for one year . —The father here applied for the expenses he had been put to in prosecuting , urging that ho was but a poor working man . —Mr . ' Witham regretted that he had ho power to order his ' , expenses to be paid ; the offence being orio of misdemeanour , upon which Sir Moses Montefiore handed to the applicant a sum which more than covered the expense he had incurred ; It-was . stated , ; that had the defendant been " acquitted on this charge , a number of Others , of precisely the " , same character , would ' have . been ^ immediately preferred againsthim ., The court then adi ' o ' urried . ' ' " ' . " "¦ "' . >'< ' . ¦
" ; RoBBiNa' aCuelsea Pensioner . —Rose Hamilton , 28 ; and . ^ ane . Ingbam ' , 22 , were indicted for stealing , from the person of James Martin , a franc , a sixpence , and other monies , ; his property . —The pro-. secutor was a Chelsea petisionor , and ^ was accosted by the prisoners near Ranelaghrbridge ,. at about one o ' clock on ; the morning of the 2 Cth , ult . -Ho had some conversation with . thom as to where ho could procure a bed , and subsequently accompanied them to a public house , where one of the prisoner ' s helped herself to . the contents- of his pocket . ; . Thoy Were watched by a police , officer as . they , left . the hbiisei arid Vn the'person . of Hamilton wore found the identical corns of . which' the prosecutor had . beeri .
rcibbe ' d : —The jury JAcquitted' Inghani , and found Il ' aMiltoh / Guilty , ' ' and the latter . was sentenced to six months ^ " hard labour . —It was stated to' tlie court 'thaTthe woman . Ingham had cohabited with a man ' named Lloyd , who was one of the party con-Cerh'edin the hiurder , of Mr . 'Bellchariibers ; ' ' ' , ' ¦ ' RoBBiso Puusished Lonoisos . —Maria Nodds the elder , and Maria Nodds the younger , and Julia Nodds , mother and daughters , were indicted for robbing ready furnished lodgings .-fThe iwo . firstmentioned prisoners . were included in one indictrnerit ; there being a separate indictment against the third prisoner . They were all convicted and sentenced—the two former to six months' hard labour each , and the latter to three months' hard labour . '
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Singular Accident . — A few days since ( says the Poole Berald ) , ' one of the labourers employed in extracting the shale from the cliffs near Smedmore , casually remarked to one of his . comrades that he must take care he did not , slip from such ' a dangerous spot , and if such should happen he wondered what would be best to do . . On the following- day , returnihg ; to the works after- dinner , . thejsame man jumpedtupon the ledge , where he was to . work , and , in the carelessness which the familiarity ; of working iri such dangerous situations so often engenders , - his jttmp ' was attended with almost fatal consequences , for its force oaused him to losohia balance , and he found himself irresistibly impelled over , the face of
the cliff , and althoug h his peril was so great , yet , with wonderful presence of mind , he . sprung away from tho edge of . theprepipice with as a strong a bound as ho could give , and thus clearmg ^ the projections below , fell on the beach from alieight of nearly ono hundred feet ; his fellow- workmen ran With all speed . to the nearest place for , descending to tho-sands , and on rounding tho point in the expectation of finding the mutilated remains of their companion , they saw h im sitting on one of the rooks and . coolly . endeavouring with all his might to AdjustUm knee ioint which had been put out by the force of tho fall ' ; and this , with tho . shock the system had otherwise suffered ,. was all he complained ibf . andhe . isnow . convalescent . _
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COURT OT EXCHEQUER . ' sED OOTION .--r 08 TERi V . HOWARD . ^ ^ . This was an action by which the plaintiff sought to recover compensation in damages for the loss of the services of his daughter in consequence of her seduction by the defendant . — The defendant pleaded Not . Guilty , arid that the ' plaintiff ' s daughter was not his servant . —Mary ' Ann'Foster' said , I a m now seventeeiryears ' of age , and am the second daughter of my fafcheiy the plamtiff , who has eight children . My father , is a brickmaker . I never , know the defendant until I . wont to pay a visit at his house . I knew him about three months altogether . At that time I had left school about' two years . I went on this visit to " the defendant ' s house iri the month of October , ' 1849 . ' The defendant lives at Hadleigh ,
and' my father resides at West Barnet . When I first saw the defendant it was iii the month of July , 1840 , and from that day to the' day of my visit I had ? een him but twice . ' I heard the defendant ask my father and mother to allow ; . toe to visit , thom , to keep his wife company . The ' consent having ' . been given ' , I went over with the defendant in his gig on elie last day of . September , 1849 , and we started about six o ' clock in the evening . I was unacquainted ' with the road from my father ' s to the defendant's house . As we were ; passing through Barnet , the defendant wanted mo to go into ' the Salisbury Arms , and have some wine , but I refused . At this time' it was quito dark ! The defendant took the wrorigroad , and after we had gone some way , he put his hand upon my knees . 1 said that if he
did this I should go home , whereupon be desisted , . and ' returningback : into the right " road , heathen drove to his houso , whore I saw his wife . The defendant is about forty years of ago , and has a wife and four children , the eldest of whom is ten years of age . I slept in a . room over the kitchen , and tho defendant and , his wife slept in a room above that in which r was . When 1 had been there about a fortnight the defendant ' came into my room one morning between five and six o'clock for some gigtmshions , as he saidl At that time I was asleep , but being awakened I found that he was sitting on my bed taking indecent liberties with me . The defendant asked mo to accompany ' him to London and go to the play ; I replied that I did not want , to go to , the play . The deferidarittheri began
to struggle with me , in the course of which encounter I got out of , bed , and running towards the door , said that I would tell his wifo of his conduct , when he said ,. « ' Oh , don't tell Mrs . Howard . " The defendanfc ' put his back , ^ gainsTthe door to prevent my leaving the room . I then said that I would call out , but he seized hold of me , and , throwing me on the bed , effected his purpose , - arid so seduced me . Having done this , the defendant again asked me to accompany him to London , ' but I refused . He then left the house in about five minutes . Ten days afterwards the defendant again came into my bedroom . I was not asleep on that occasion ; it was , as before ; between five and six o ' clock . I had not expected such a visit . He asked me to go to London with him , and said that if I would , he
would give me a gold watch and a satin dress ; and he also asked ihe if I would have some money . I replied to the latter question that I had some , arid he then seduced me again . I told him he had ruined iiie . ; .. Oh this occasion the defendant was in the room about ten minutes , He was , as before , dressed with the exception of his coat . I remained three weeks in-the house after this , but the defendant did not take any more liberties with me . About a fortnight'subsequent to my return home , the defendant and his wife came over . ¦ At that period I had not made any mention of what had occurred . The defendant asked my father and mother to allow mo to return with them ; whenlsaid , "No , mother , I will not go . back with them , " . My mother said , "You have no occasion to go back unless you like
it . " I was brought to bed on the 12 th of July last , at East Barnet . I had told my mother on the 15 th of March that I was in the family way . Since that tiirie ray father has never spoken to me . I was , however , confined at his house , arid I still reside there . —Cross-examined : I : was seventeen on the 0 th of July last , and bad left school twoyears when thisoccurred . 1 assisted in managing and keeping my father ' s house . After the seduction had taken place I made no mention of it to the defendant ' s wife , nor to the servant , who slept on the same floor with the defendant and his wife . During tho seven , weeks that I was living in the defendant ' s house I went homo on two occasions ; but I did not on either of those occasions say a word about the treatment I had received from the defendant to any
one . I did not scream out when the defendant seduced me . The room in which it was effected was only about ten stops from the room in which Mrs . Howard was in bed . On . the succeeding morning of each seduction t breakfasted at the same table with the defendants wife , but I never said a wOrd to her as to her husband ' s treatment of me . The coach passed by the house every day , but I did not go home by it . W . Layard , a foreman to the plaintiff , stated that after the discovery of the girl's pregnancy the defendant had . coHie to his master ' s houso , and as he feared . some scuffle might take place between ^ his master and the defendant he had gone into an adjoining , room . The plaintiff said , on seeing the defendant , " Oh , Howard / you have ruined my daughter ! " The defendant made no reply to this exclamation . The plaintiff then said , V Ton scoundrel , how could you treat me thus ? You have ruined
my daughter ! ' The defendant thereupon said , " It is a bad job , let ns settle it as well as we can . I would not that it had happened for a thousand pounds ; what will my wife say ? " The plaintiff rejoined , " What will my poor daughter say ?" Since this event my master is quite an altered man , and is terribly dejected and cut up . — -Mr . Macpherson ; the landlord of the 'Woodman , " at Barnet , spoke to the propriety and strictness with which the plaintiff had brought up his family . . ; Since this affair , the plaintiff had become a broken-hearted man . —Mr , Berry , the medical man who had attended the girl in her confinement , said that the expenses were between £ 8 and £ d in consequence of her having an ulcer in her breast . He had known her family for three years previously , and had always considered the plaintiff to be a very strict and prudent man with regard to the bringing up of his children This concluded the case for the
plaintiff . —Mr . Serjeant Wilkins having addressed the jury for the defendant , the jury ^ retired , and , after a short deliberation , returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff , damages £ 200 .
The Attacks Upon The Poles And The •Poli...
THE ATTACKS UPON THE POLES AND THE POLISH BALL . A meeting of gentlemen connected with tho committee for carrying out the contemplated ball in behalf of the Polish Refugees , was held on Tuesday in ! the Privy Chamber of the aldermen , at the Guildhall , ¦ ' . 'Mr ,: Deputy Holfc presided , and several gentlemen of the committee were present . . LordDudley , Stuart defended the intended ball from the unkind'attacks made , upon it in some of the public prints . If a party of gentlemen had obtained from the Clerk of Common Council the use of the Guildhall merely in "' order to give them . a bachelors' -ball , or any ' other , entertainment whose announcement was not tbe meansbut the sole end arid aim , not a word probably would have been said against'it . ( A laugh .- ) ' ? IS , is not wrong , then , to
give a ; ball at Guildhall ; but lfr is . wrong , it seems , to . give it for . the Poles ; : Let me . ask , why : j s this iwron »? . The only . answer that can be made is , either that the Polos are undeserving ,. or . that they stand-in the 'way of some other still moredeserving obiects . -Tlie first is assumed by the objectors , ono and all , and if the assumptions were well founded they would be iri the right . If it can bo shown that the-proceeds of former . balls have been bestowed upon men able , but unwilling to work , and who have the opportunity , if they chosoito exert themselves , of finding employment—if that can beshown , then will the Polish ball not deserve support . ( Hear , hear . ) It has been argued that because ' many of the Polish exiles came to this country immediately after tho last Polish war of independence , some eighteen
or nineteen years ago , that therefore they nmstallby this time have got the means of supporting themselves ; : and the example of Louis Philippe iii exile is pointed at , maintaining himself by the exercise of his own talents and acquirements . . The man who has left the plough , the loom , and the workshop to tako up arms for Poland , cannot follow m the track of Louis Philippe ; and . do you think it is easy for him in the streets of London , where so many mechanics and artisans of our own country are constantly wanting work—is it easy for him , with his broken English and . Foreign accent , to find employment , and through all changes to keep it ? It is not easy , and it is often ,, with the best will in the world , Wholly impracticable . , And , while I am speaking of working men , allow me to pay a just tribute to the generous natures of our own working men , ever
ready to hold out . the hand of fellowship and assistance to their fellow man of whatever creed or country , and to spare to the exile a portion of their own hard-earned pittance , often setting a noble example to those , who in the gift of fortune are immeasurably their superiors . ( Cheers . ) Well , gentlemen , I think I have shown you that the Poles whom it is proposed to assist are not undeserving . They are not idle , disorderly , immoral persons . It is not those we assist , but men driven into exile in consequence of discharging their duty as they understood it , men whose misfortunes are not of their own creation , and : who only do not work when no work can he had , or when , incapacitated from taking it . ( Hear , hear . ) That is my reply , to those who are opposed to our ball , on the ground that its obieefs are unworthy ... Lord Dudley Stuart having ' concluded a lengthy speech , the committee adjourned .
The Rumour Of A U Comprehensive "Ministe...
The Rumour of a comprehensive " Ministerial measure of Parliamentary reform , to bo introduced in 1851 , is revived by the Morning Advertiser in a toueofconfiierjasL
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/¦•[¦^^ / y ^ - ' VB ^' -wmx . ; On Tuesday .. the fifty-sixth anniversary in commemoration of the acquittal of Home Tooke , Hardy , and Th ' elwall , took place at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blaokfriars . The chair was taken ? rn Wi J - ' Fo *» ' M -P-. who was supported by ™ ° ° t w » ng gentlemen ; Mr . J . Tonlmin Smith , «» ¦ « U ewmM 1 , Count Pulski , Mr . S . Shaen , M . A ., Mr . F Lawrence , Mr . Parry , Mr . Charles Pollen , Mr .. P . A . Taylor , Mr . W . Strudwick , & e . The Chairman said that were there' no other reason for upholding that annual commemoration , this would be a valid one , that it was a rallying point for the . veteran reformers of the generation that w ? fl passing away , and the rising reformers of the
veneration that was starting into political life , and united them in oneness of principle and of feelinc . They had still those lingering amongst them whose voices joined in the shout raised at the netiulttal of Hardy and his . associates . There were also many there to whom that event was a . matter of history , who associated it in their minds with events recorded of times gone by , but who' were there mado to feel the reality of those exciting scenes , tho importance of that struggle , and the blessed influence of that deliverance . ( Cheers . ) Their objects in that assembly were chiefly these—to preserve and do homage to the memory of good , true , brave men—men who were worthy of being held in continual remembrance , who were the confessors of liberty , and were ready to be martyrs —(
cheers)and to testify to the worth of the institution to whjch they owed their escape . But especially wore they assembled to commemorate the principle for which these men assembled , and for which their lives were put in peril . ( Cheers . ) They met to assert and to reassert , from year to year , thai great foundation truth of all politics , the primary article of their , social creed , that all power was derived from arid was to be exercised for the good of the people ^ its basis being the sovereignty of the people . ( Cheers . ) By the phrase "the sovereignty of the people , " they did not mean an unreasoning power to be put forth upon more impulse ; but tho primary ; authority of . the people to be exercised through the mediurii of representation . They meant that sovereignty wliich had been in partial exercise
from tho earliest periods . It was to be traced in the passing of . the great charter , when principles were laid down which to this day continued to be landmarksof rights and justice ; in the early days of the House of Commons , however imperfect might be the system Of representation , the redress of grievances -was connected with the granting of supplies . : ItiWastobo seen in tho : banishment of one dynasty and the substitution for it of another , involving-the principle that monarchs existed for the people with their sufferance ,, and that thecon « tinuance of their authority was dependent on the people's acquiescence and practical approbation . They . rejoiced in the extension of the means of bringingthis principle into operation . It was this which gave them a claim to the title of a people . On looking around the world they lamented to see how much the existence of the popular element was denied . In countries where there was only the
despot , the serf , and the soldiers , there was not , and it would bo ; in vain to talk of the sovereignty of the people ; but they believed not in the continuance of this chaos ; on the contrary , they believed there would yet be a Germany —( cheers)—one , great , and free—they believed there would yet be a Hungarian nation , and a Poland —( great cheering)—they believed that the sovereingty . of the people was growing , and would become a universal reality ( Cheers . ) The sovereignty of the people in this country could not , in his opinion , be realised without the universality of the suffrage . ( Hear , hear . Towards that end they were advancing ... Schemes short of that might be proposed , and for . atime might be worthy of adoption and support ; but still the inherent ; conviction of those who united with , and of those who had now succeeded the patriots of 1794 , was this—that nothing short of the universality of the suffrage could satisfy the claims of human nature or render to man that which was hia
right . It was with this conviction that he gave what had always been the introductory toast on those occasions , " The sovereignty of the people . " ( Cheers . ) The toast was drunk with the honours . Mr . TouLMiN Sunn , in an eloquent speech , proposed the toast of " Trial by Jury—the palladium of British liberty . " The toast was drunk with enthusiasm . The Chairman then proposed the health of the twelve men who in 1794 were acquitted , and proved the inestimable advantage of trial by jury , even under tho pressure of power put forth for their destruction . Those men had now all dropped into the grave , but the commemoration continued and would continue . ( Cheers . ) Since the great event commemorated on that occasion , heaven-born ministers had risen and fallen—thrones had been
shakenwars had been waged and concluded—and still there had been a gathering of true and honest men to celebrate the deliverance of fifty-six years back . No one of the twelve men in after life ever stained the memory of that great day of deliverance . No one of them was ever assailed by ' tbe breath of vituperation , or did anything to disgrace the cause with which his name had become identified . The course which they ail took , was a noble one . They sought for nothing but what , high political authorities had sanctioned their seeking , and they sought it by means worthy of freemen ; and after the trial they , returned'to their several occupations , and pursued them honourably . They always continued consistent to their principles , and several of them , having spent a long life , sank peacefully into their
graves , amid the blessings of all good men . They were not the notoriously profligate ; they were not offenders against the decencies of society ; but they were men who approved themselves honest and upright in their dealings ; and it could not hut strike tho youngest minds that there must be something wrong in a system which sought to make them die the death of dogs . These were the men whom the government of the . day sought to destroy . And by what means ? . By imagining or purposely inventing the notion of conspiracy ; by employing spies , and by attempting to tamper with the jury . The trials were conducted with rigour . The prisoners were confined in dungeons , and some of them deprived of their papers until it was too late to use them ; and upwards of thirty days were passed in
endeavours to procure . their condemnation . This was the feeling of the ruling classes of this country ; this was the feeling of a professedly religious king—( hear , 5 hear)—in reality , a-narrow-minded bigot , and whose long reign was marked by tho shedding of more blood , by the wasting of more treasure , ana by the loss of more territory , than that of any preceding monarch . This was the policy of the Church and State . ( Hear , hear . ) All that was retrogade in mind and heart—all the owls , and bats , and birds of night that hate the sunshine—all were alarmed at the principles which were dawning upon the world , and combined to crush those , who asserted that God and nature had made men free and equal . How undoubtingly they stood that conflict they learnt from the memoirs of Thelwall .: ' So warrants were prepared , and-would have been issued , had a verdict been' obtained . But tho accused endured
the trial , and they had their reward , hrthis affectionate commemoration . ( Cheers . ) . Although in these days the press , was free to an . extent of which they had no . conception ; although-in these days free trade had taught feudalism . that its day was over , and that it had now only to " die in peace ; " although the country , while showing its love of order had shown . also its love of freedom and of political progression ; although they lived in bettor days / and in hopes . of brighter days yet to come , still , let them not forgot those who contributed to this joyous-marchof events , and had their names inscribed ori the . page of-history , in letters which would never grow dim and bo read without emotion . Their spirit . ' survived ; it would not die ; it would outlast all struggles .-- There was a spirit of inherent immortality which inspired the bosoms of the men commemorated , and might well strengthen
their hearts in this . commemoration . The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm . Mr . Parky proposed " Tho memory of Muir , Palmer , and Skirving , and tho other Scotch patriots who were convicted and sentenced between 1792 and 1794 . " The toast was cordially responded to . . Mr . Fhancis Newman proposed , " The memory of the Hungarians who fell in the riiaintenanceof their liberties , an d iri vindication of the laws bf their country . " Count Puxskt returned thanks . He said local
self-government had been the palladium of Hungarian liberty . In England there were three safeguards of liberty—freedom of tho press , trial by jury , and local self-government ; in Hungary there was only ' one—namely , , local self : governmenfc . ( Cheers . ) In the name of the survivors of tho late war , and of tho prisoners in Asia and Europe , he returned his warmest thanks for the commemora tion of their martyrs . Mr . F . Lawrence proposed " The memories of the iury who acquitted Hardy and his associates , and of the counsel who defended them , Erskine and Gibbs . " - ' - ¦•' .
The toast was duly responded to . > The company broke rip at a Into hour , apparently highly pleased with tho manner in which tho commemoration had passed off .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 9, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09111850/page/7/
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