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of civil aud religious liberty now acknowledged by the constitution , arguing that if those principles were infrinired . thcv were far more so by the attempted usurpation of the Pope than by the protective measure ' indicated by tbe Government . Commenting upon various arguments adduced by preceding speaker , the hon . member observed upon the practical anomalies tbat mustalwaya arise when the policy of a government was anti-Protestant and their legislation anti-Catholic . Such was tbe inconsis tency shown by the existing ministry , as testified by their use of patronage , especially ; in the legal promotions in Ireland , by their recognition 01 ep iscopal titles and influence , and their submission of legislative acts to the authority of tbe Pope . He wisiied to bave our policy rendered consistent and constitutional , and the papacy instructed that we were competent to manage our own affairs . ( Cheers . )
Mr . Keogu animadverted with much seventy upon the speech of . Mr . Napier , whose new-born ardour for civil and relig ious liberty and the act Of IS 23 he contiastcd with his connexion with the Brunswick Club in Ireland , the avowedI object _ of which was to set the Lsff ' alature at defiance if it emancipated the Roman dtholios , and with bis opposition to the ? vstem of mixed education . He disputed various allegations of that gentleman rcseetififf the proportions of Protcstonia > nd Cathol cs appointed to office in that country , in support of his argument that Protestantism was a positive disqiialificition . Witt respect to the measure in question , he opposed it because he disputed everyone of the grounds « p » n which it was based . He
denied that " the Queen's prerogative bad been interfered with , that there was an assumption of territoral power , or that an insult had been offered to the Sovereign on her subjects . There was nothing in the common or statute law to prevent the creation of sees , or that made the act of the rope an invasion of the prerogative . That act was no assumption of territoral power , at least beyond what was sanctioned by precedents , se-\ eral of which be cited ; and he complained tbat the government , for a series of years , had been leading the See of Rouw to believe that tbe act would be acceptable . With regard to tbe details of the meagre , he asked the noble lord whether be had considered maturely the effect of the bill
in Ireland , the practical working of which would be , he believed , to si op the ecclesiastical functions there . Was he prepared to rouse the fell spirit of religions bate ? Did he intend to execute the law , and to prosecute the Roman Catholic prelates of that couutiy before an Irish jury ? ( Cheers . ) Mr . C . Axstey argued against the propriety of extending ti : c provisions of the hill to Ireland , dikt ' ns upon tbe different condition of the respective rel ' iffions in England and Ireland , and contending that repressive measures , which were politic in one , would be wholly inappropriate io the other . ( Hear , hear . ) lie announced that at the fitting stage he should move a clause , restricting the
operation of the bill to this side of the channel , and endeavour so to improve its clauses , as to ensure protection to the liberties of Roman Catholics in general . The moment that Mr . Anstey sat down , much amusement was excited at the eagerness displayed bv hon . members to speak , nearly twenty starting np in a'l parts of the house . The Speaker ' s eye was , however , caught by Jfr . Spooxer , who wished that leave might be at once given for the introduction of the bill , that they itiizht know what they were debating . He meanwhile encouraged L-wd S . llusseil to perse-Tere , and to throw himself , if necessary , upon tha country to support him in protecting the Protestant constitution of these realms .
Mr . A . J . B . Hope thought the bill had been dictated by mistaken bigotry , and was an unfair and ex post facto law . Colonel Thompsos said , if the Roman Catholics bad conducted themselves with the same wisdom as the Wealeyans , they would not have been molested ; but there had been an aggression on their part , and though he repelled the charge of bigotry and fanaticism , he should have been glad if the bill had proceeded furtber in the way of penalty than it did . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Hume was surprised at such a declaration , breathing persecution from one who had been a friend ofcivil and relig ious liberty . ( Hear , hear . ) He deplored the measure , though he wished the bill had been laid upon the table , for , from the
exp lanation given by tbe Attorney-General , it appeared that it would be % different measure from that proposed by the First Minister , whom he accused of obeying a " No Popery " cry , and making a retrograde movement that would replunge Ireland into anarchy . ( Cheers . ) Mr . A . Oswald believed tbe Pope ' s act to have been purely a spiritual one , and declared that the Free Church of Scotland had done what bad been attempted by the Pontiff . He remarked to Lord John Russell that there were those on the Liberal side of the house who were quite ready to go over to the ether , and if his lordship persevered in giving a wrong interpretation to the supremacy of the Crown , i . e might find himself in presence of a formidable opposition .
Lord J . Russell , in reply , said that the act against which this bill was directed was contrary to the public law of every country in Europe . In answer to the excuse that the conduct of government had misled the Court of Rome , be reminded the House that after Lord Minto had left Rome , lie ( Lord J . Russell ) bad distinctly declared in that House that government would not give its consent to the establishment of Roman Catholic sees in this country . ( Cheers . ) It was evident , therefore , that this measure was adopted by the court of Rome in opposition to the government of this country . And in reply to the allegation that the measure was inconsistent with his former declarations , bis lordship was not about to say that it was not so , or that his former declarations did sot amount to this , that it was puerile to fear any thing from the pretensions of the Popeto create English bishops or
archbishops . But whatever confidence be might bave h id in respect to the Roman Catholic eccleesiastics , or the Pope , he had found was misplaced , and he plainly avowed that he was mistaken upon this point . ( Cheers . ) He had trusted too much in the forbearance and respect for the Sovereign , evinced by the Roman Catholics . Defending , at some length , his own conduct in reference to the Catholics of these kingdoms he declared that he would not be fri g htened by the word "persecution" from asserting the due authority of the Crown and the independence of the government , and he reiterated that the recent Papal step was an insult to the country . ( Loud cheers . ) He thonsbt that we ought to have a parliamentary declaration to free us from the stigma and the shame of having submitted to have our country parcelled out as if it were conquered and submissive . ( Cheers . )
At the close of the noble lord ' s speech the honse was crowded , and a division momentarily expected , 6 o clock beinz but a few minutes ' distance . Mr . Moobe , Mr . " Faoas , and Mr . Lawless , however , interposed some observations , and the last-wwtvad member continued to speak until the hour arrived , and the Speaker left the chair without putting the question . THURSDAY , February 13 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The house sat for half an hour , when Lord Stanley gave notice , on behalf of Lord Mahnesbury , that on Tuesday next he would bring forward a motion upon the state of the country .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . —On the motion of Jord J . UvsseiL , tbe Budget statement was postponed till Monday . Agricultural Distress . —This adjourned debate on Mr . Disraeli ' s motion was resumed by the Marquis of Gbaxby , and , after speeches had been delivered by several leading members on both sides , the house divided , when there appeared—For the motion 267 Against 2 SI—H The house adjourned at a quarter-past two . [ Through press of matter , we are compelled to abridge the discussion on the subject . —Ed . N . S . l
FRIDAY , Tsssvar 14 th . Papal Aggression . —The order of the day having been read for resuming tbe adjourned debate on ibis subject , Mr . Fjgak contended that no aggression whatever was committed on her Majesty ' s prerogative or the rights of the nation , inasmuch as it was an act of a purely spiritual nature . The ordination ot the priests ordained by such bishops would be invalid , and marriages solemnised by them of no effect in law .. These priests would by law be laymen , and 105 Roman Catholic priests might , in consequence , be returned as members of this bouse , and could not be prevented from taking their seats . Sir J . Doke supported and Mr . Barisg Wall opposed the introduction of the measure . Mr . Sauleir contended that the Protestant Establishment in Ireland was an utter failure , and had only been successful in securing the undying bate of Roman Catholics to the Protestant religion
, Mr . Milker Gibsox observed that he had often Seen urged to oppose the repeal of civfl disabilities , but during aU the years he had sat in tbat house , ibis was the first time be had been called upon to lapose labilities . He did not believe that tbe organisation of any religion for tbe better propagation of their faith was a matter calling - for the interposition of that house . Mr . C . Bbcck said that the people of Scotland were entirely opposed to this aggression , instead of the contrary , as had been stated by the hon . member for Ayrshire . He approved of the speech of the noble lord , as the head of the government ; but te thought the measure he had proposed did not go fax enough . It ought to interdict and render penal the introduction of all Papal bulls and rescripts .
Mr . F . Mauls defended the policy of government , against the attacks which bad been-made against it . Mr . Seen ? condemned tbe course which bad
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been taken by government , and ojmawd tbe mea . sore . After a few words from Colonel Sibhk ;^ . Mr . Moxtz would vote for tbe int- ^ j u * j on 0 f the bill , but reserved to himself t ^ ^ fght of forming an opinion upon it when it ^ me before them . Mr . Brotberton als ^ supported the bill being brought in , as he be '; t gTe ( i it was required by tbe circumstances w \' , icn occurred . Mr . Fearo ;^ O'Connor thought the debate bad lasted si' ^ gigntiy ion g at this stage of the measure . He therefore trusted hon . members would not protract tho debate , but go to a division at once . Mr . Scuolefielb opposed it , because it was inefficient in itself , and only calculated to create irritation . The house then divided , and the motion was carried by a majority of 395 to 03 . The house then a liourned at half-past twelve .
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ABOLITION OF THE WINDOW TAX . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster was held on Wednesday in Drury-lane Theatre , to consider the proposal for the unconditional repeal of the window tax . Viscount Duncan , M . P ., presided . There was a very numerous attendance . Amongst the gentlemen present were Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., General Sir De Lacy Evans , M . P ., Sir B . Hall ., Mr . Charles Lushington , M . P ., Mr . Wakley , M . P ., Mr . J . Williams , M . P ., Mr . William Williams . M . P ., Mr . Mowatt , M . P ., & c .
Lord Dcscax said he would not waste the timo of the meetiisg by a reiteration of those arguments which he had for six years been in the habit of annually bringing forward in the House of Commons . He had again this year put his motion upon the paper of the House of Commons , and unless previously the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have risen in his place , and should have taken up his ( Lord Duncan ' s ) arguments , he should again urge upon the house , on Thursday next , tbe necessity of granting a total and unconditional repeal of this tax . ( Hear , hear . ) It was nearly carried last year , and this year , perhaps , it would be entirely carried . When he first brought forward the motion ho was told that he was an impracticable man , seeking an impossibility . ( Laughter . )
But now he was told that the repeal of the window tax was not only a possibility but a probability . ( Cheers . ) They had fought the battle in the time of adversity , and they must not be run away with in the day of prosperity , or consider that the tax was repealed until the Chancellor of the Exchequer had said so in Parliament . Last week he ( the chairman ) went with a deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and asked him whether he was willing to agree to the repeal of the window tax . The Chancellor said very little ; and he trusted that in this case his silence might be intcrpretnted as consent . ( Cheers . ) It had been whispered ( he did not know on what authority ) that when other parties had asked the same question , it had been answered in Downingstreet , " Why , do you wish a house tax ?" They wanted nothing of the kind ; but tbey wanted the total and unconditional
repeal of the most obnoxious tax that had ever been raised in this country . ( Cheers . ) In Westminster the people had always been alive to this srbject . In 1797 , the constituents of Westminster sent down Mr . Fox to oppose the Triple Assessment Act ; in latter days they must all have read with pleasure the speeches which Sir J . C . Hobhouse , as representative of this city , made against the window tax ; and in later times he had" seen with pride General Evans always ready to second his motion when he brought it forward in Parliament . ^ Cheers . ) There was no need , therefore , to give them a history of the window tax . In the time of George III . some Chancellor of the Exchequer discovered that a commutation of the unpopular hearth tax was necessary , and he changed it into a house tax and a window duty . It had often subsequently been tinkered , but every succeeding modification had made it vorse than it was before . There was now
in tbe Exchequer a surplus of two millions and a half . This tax amounted only to £ 1 , 700 , 000 , and he thought it was now the duty of the government , in a time of peace , to endeavour to do without this obnoxious impost . What had placed them in this bappy situation with a surplus revenue ? Was is not those Free Trade measures , of which they had heard so much . ( Cheers and hisses . ) We had a Free Trade government supporting Free Trade principles , and therefore the people had a right to demand at their hands free-trade in light and air . ( Loud cheers . ) This demand they would make , and be hoped tbe day was not far distant when every Englishman might , if he was so minded , be able to raise a crystal palace for himself . ( Cheers . )
Mr . W . Geesin , churchwarden of St . James s , proposed the following resolution : — " That the window duty is a tax upon light and air ; that it is unequal , unjust , and detrimental to health and comfort ; that it is opposed to sanitary reform and architectural improvements ; and that it is a mode of levying taxation tbat never ought to have been adopted , and in the opinion of this meeting should no longer continue . " The speaker at some length endeavoured to prove the inequality of the taxation , showing that some ot the larger houses only paid from 1 % to 2 } per cent , upon the rental , while the bouses of the working classes paid from thirty to forty per cent . Not only in a monetary point of view was it unjust , but it did vast injury to the
health and morals of the lower classes , by compelling them to live in houses which were defectively supplied with light and air . This caused an additional tax upon the country ; for when , in consequence of living in those filthy habitations , a working man fell ill , his wife was compelled to go to the parish and obtain out-door relief . Mr . George , churchwarden of St . Ann ' s , seconded the motion , and announced his intention to resist tbe payment of the tax in future . Sir Db Lacy Evans , M . P ., supported the resolution , stating that he had given his support to a similar measure for seventeen years ; but he trusted that within forty-eight hours they would hear mat agitation upon the subject was no longer necessary
—that tbe tax was already extinct . ( Cheers . ) The imposition of a house-tax was talked of ; but he could only say that if tbat was attempted by government , they would moro than lose any good opinion they might have gained by the abrogation of tbe window duty . ( Hear , hear ) Mr . Lcshisgion , M . P ., said that bis colleague and himself had been called upon to stop the supplies if the window-tax were not abolished ; and both of them had agreed to obstruct every financial arrangement till it was repealed . That , however , would not be necessary , for he could almost pledge his existence that Friday night would sec the Chancellor announce that the tax bad been abolished . ( Cheers . ) otdakt
uura u . , M .. L-., agreeu in tne opinion that the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not for a moment think of retaining this odious impost . They would hwe repeal , but would it be unconditional ? He feared that some attempt would be made to substitute it by another tax . That mast not be submitted to ; and even though the finances were not in such a favourable state as they were at the present moment , he would still demand the total and unconditional repeal ei this unjust tax . But with such a large surplus , be would not be satisfied with a repeal of tho window dnty . He was in favour of the abolition of the taxes upon knowledge ; but what was the use of a cheap newspaper , unless the man had a light to read it by ? ( Hear , hear . ) He also believed that the duties upon
tea , soap , < fcc ., might be taken off without injury to the Exchequer ; and when the window duty had been entirely removed , he trusted to see attention turned to other important reforms . SirB . Hall , M . P ., supported the resolution , which was then put and carried unanimously . Mr . Nelson , of St James ' s , proposed ;— "Tbat thb ) meeting pledges itself to use every legitimate means to cause the removal of this obnoxious tax from the statute-book , and earnestly appeals to all members of parliament , in the event of the government refusing its total , immediate , and unconditional repeal , to offer such constitutional opposition to the passing of the supplies as will
show tbat tbe present ministers no longer possess the confidence of the people . " Tbey bad assembled tbat morning , not by command of her Majesty , but on the invitation of the Prime Minister . The Chancellor of the Exchequer had told them tbat no proposition , could be successful without popular agitation . He thought the right honourable gentleman would have plenty of it there . Really the Prime Minister was acting the part of a blushing maiden , who only wanted to be importuned , and it appeared that the humble citizens of Westminster must waste their time , spend their money , and neglect then- business , in order to make the Prime Minuter do his duty . ( Cheers . )
Mr . Colwell , of St . Clement ' s , seconded the resolution without comment . Mr . Wakwt , M . P ., was received with tremendous applause . He appeared there as an elector of old glorious Westminster , theancien t cradle of their liberties , and a city always active and full of zeal in every public cause . He was there , therefore , ; to tell his representatives , tbat if they did not act up to the pledges they had made tbat day , they should never more have support from him . ( Cheers . ) But let the constituency depend upon them ; they would do there duty , and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer , knowing their determination , would blanch and quail before he dared to resist the demand for the repeal of this odious and infamous J * - ( Cheers . ) Having paid a compliment to the ladies who were present , and one equally graceful to the noble lord in the chair , the hon . member proceeded , in terms' similar to those which we have frequently reported of late , to denounce the tax , and to censure the people for having so long submitted to it . His mind upon this subject was made up . While he should oppose tbe granting of supplies in the House ,. be called upon tbose
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„ uu oi doors to resist the payment of the tax m future .. After this year let them resolve , as he had done , to allow seizures , but upon no account to pay the tax , for such a proceeding on the part of the public generally must inevitably prevent its collection by this or any other government . ( Cheers . ) He believed that in a few days he should have to hold an inquest on this tax ; and he was convinced , if he did so , he should behold the most monstrous , the ugliest , the vilest , and the most infamous corpse that it had ever fallen to the lot of a coroner to sit upon . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Mr . bhsttisoham , of St . Pancras , observed with reference tb ' the recommendation to allow seizures , that the government had long ceased to levy for the assessed taxes . 'The process now adopted was an Exchequer process , the peculiar feature of which was , that whether the Crown were successful or not , the individual had to pay his own costs . ( Cheers /) .
After a few words from Mr . W . Williams , M . P ., the motion was carried unanimously . Mr . Wilson , of St . Margaret ' s , moved , and Mr . Brown , of St . James ' s , seconded , the third resolution : — " That this meeting cannot anticipate the possibility of any attempt to re-impose the unpopular house tax , which was repealed in 1834 by Lord Althorp , demanded by the unanimous voice of the people , more particularly as since that period houses have been made subject to tbo property tax , which is in fact a house tax . Should any . such attempt be made , this meeting pledges itself to give it every opposition iu its power , being convinced that sufficient reduction can be made in the expenditure of the country to meet this as well as much larger reductions . "
Mr . Mowatt , M . P ., said he had always voted for tho removal of this and all similar taxes . But members of parliament were of themselves powerless ; and if the people desired the removal of any oppressive impost , they must arm their representatives with full power to get them removed by the government . This tax was especiall y unjust , because it not only did what taxes were intended to do , take money from the pockets of the people , but it took from them their comfort , then" health , and even their lives . It must be immediately removed , and then other grievances as heartfelt as this would , be hoped , be quickly made to follow it . Mr , Jobn Williams , M . P ., having supported the motion ,
Mr . Ernest Jones rose , amid prolonged cheering from all parts of the bouse , mingled with hisses from the private boxes and the platform , and said he was glad there was one question on which all could agree without dereliction of principle—and he felt lie could , as a Chartist , support the measure for the repeal of the duty on light and health . ( Cheers . ) Government thought to hold a monopoly of light ; but it was itself a monopoly of darkness . Some gentlemen had done him tho honour to hiss him . Now , they might see what a pitiful thin ? prejudice was—they hissed before he spoke ! Yet he was proud of getting the hisses of the rich , as Jong as he got the cheering of the poor , lie addressed them as a resident in Westminster in a double
capacity , for he had an official residence for two years in Tothill-fields Prison—and was ready to go there again for the same cause . ( Loud cheers . ) The noble lords and members who had addressed them had told them , if this bill were not carried , to resist the payment of the tax . It was lucky for him that he bad not said anything as illegal , as a Chartist ; but he applauded the advice , and did not see if the middle class could do this for a pocket question , why the working classes could not do so for the franchise . ( Hisses , and loud cheers . ) Most of the gentlemen on the platform were members of the Financial and Parliamentary Association . Let them be consistent , and carry out the plan tbey had adopted in this window tax agitation . The bill he held in his hand was headed , " Total , immediate , and uncondi
Uonal Repeal of the "Window Tax . " There was no " putting in the thin end of the wedge" there—no "taking the thing by instalments "—no saying first eight windows , then nine , then ten—oh no ! They said they would have no half-measures for their windows—then the Chartists would have none for their votes . ( Enthusiastic cheers . ) If they now asked us to be'p them in a half-measure—the people would remind them of their present act . The people were no longer to be deluded ; and he told them , while trying to throw light into their houses , at the same time to draw up the blinds of their intellect , and open the windows of their understanding . ( Mr . Jones resumed'his seat amidst deafening aud prolonged cheers from all parts of the house . ) The motion was then carried .
Thanks were then voted to those members of tbe House of Commons who had supported Lord Duncan in his agitation for the repeal of tlie window tax , and also , the noble chairman , for his indefatigable exertions . The proceedings then terminated .
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THREATENING THE PREMIER . Bow-stbeet Police Court . — Charles Gill , described as a working jeweller , living at 36 , Surreyplace , Old Kent-road , was on Friday brought before Mr . Henry , on a warrant charged with having sent a threatening letter to Lord John Russell . — Mr . . Arthur Russell stated that he was the private secretary to Lord John Russell , aud in that capacity received the letter produced , about a fortnight ago , at the Treasury , in Downing-street . —The letter , which was very long , was read by the Chief Clerk . It commenced by abusing his lordship for neglecting bis previous communications , relative to some discoveries which he had made iuthe " material law of leverage and gravitation , " he
demanded a commission of inquiry to test his theories , especially as he impugned the construction of the Britannia tubular bridge , & o . And finally threatened his lordship with personal violence , both by means of his fistandabullet , if necessary . — Mr . Henry said it might have been only a morbid love of publicity that induced him to write such a letter to Lord" John Russell ; but persons occupied in distinguished public offices must be protected from any annoyance or intimidation of this kind . His worshipthen ordered the defendant to find two sureties of £ 50 each , and to enter into his own recognizances in £ 100 , to keep the peace for twelve months , or to be committed for that period , in default . —The prisoner was committed accordingly .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . The music of Wales is now in course of demonstration at this Institution under the able direction of Mr . Ellis Roberts , who gives a lecture , and illustrates it on the harp , the vocal portion being given by Miss Blanche Young . The Dissolving Views are a source of great attraction to the visitors of this Establishment , and lately there have been added some of peculiar interest . They consist of the Palaces of Ibe European Mbnarchs , and give a most excellent idea of tbe sumptuous dwelling ' s of these
Princessome , like the despotic thrones of the Czar at St . Petenburgb , and the Emperor at Vienna , who lord it over their unfortunate 6 ubjects , as well as tbe Pope by aid of French arms , and the petty rulers of Germany and Italy , whose civil power is small indeedso unlike the gentle and benign sway of our own Sovereign Lady , whose various abodes in Great Brittain will be viewed with pleasure , while the splendid buildings which enclose the tyrant , showing the fruit is glorious , but tbe kernel is rotten to the very core . The views are extremely well painted and reflect great credit on the artist . We are most happy to find that this truly National Museum U to deservedly supported by the public .
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Tbe Blood of a Murderer . —The following extraordinary statement is made in a letter from Ystad , in Sweden , dated tbe 28 th ult .: — " This morning having been fixed for the execution of a journeyman butcher , named Marcusson , and a woman named Botilla Nilsdotter , for having murdered the husband of the latter , a vast number of persons of all ages and both sexes , and especially of peasants in their national costumes , arrived last evening , and bivouacked in the town all night . Although for upwards of sixty years no execution had taken place in the province , and for upwards ol eight years none in all Sweden , it was not so much curiosity which attracted tbe multitude , as tho desire to swallow a drop of the blood of the
criminals at the moment it should spurt from beneath the axe of the executioner ; it being a popular belief in Sweden that itlrenders the weak strong , cures all sorts of maladies , and secures a long life . When the scaffold was erected , the people assembled round with cups , glasses , bowls , some even with large saucepans , to catch the blood . The soldiers had the greatest difficulty in forming and maintaining an open space . The two culprits , who were very penitent , arrived on the ground at seven o ' clock , and after listening to the exhortations of the priests , gave themselves up to the executioner . The woman was first beheaded , then the man . The anxiety of the spectators was very great , and the
moment the man s head was severed they broke through the line of soldiers . The soldiers to drive them back lustily employed the butt ends of their muskets ( the muskets were not loaded ) , and a desperate conflict ensued . At last the crowd succeeded in reaching the scaffold ; but in the meantime the police bad placed the bodies in a cart , and bad sent them off under ' a strong escort of cavalry . They had , however , to take the precaution of removing by spades and pickaxes the portions of the road on which drops of blood happened to fall , to prevent the people from lapping up the blood . When the bodies had got fairly off , tbe crowd gradually dispersed ; two hundred of them were grievously injured , and-a greater number £ . ad received smxe contusions . ' * . . ¦
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THE SLOANES AND THE BIRDS . .- . ¦ LAW v . JUSTICE . . - : ¦' Another page has been added to the catalogue of crime—the Newgate Calendar—which , for cool blooded atrocity , and wanton , reckless , barbarity , is not surpassed , if equalled , in that guilty chronicle of ages . - The public mind has been most intensely excited ' ^ by the investigation into the conduct of George and Theresa Sloane , towards the unfortunate parish orphan committed to their charge , the termination of which has caused disappointment and disgust , _ Wilbred
Tho statement of their victim , Jane , 'was so revolting in all its details , so " Cruel , strange , and unnatural , " that although her emaciated appearance authenticated the main portions of her : story , still it was generally believed that some parts of her evidence were exagerated , and that in the full and searching inquiry , which the learned gentleman for the defence repeatedly said his clients courted , facts would be produced which would strip the case of its revolting details ; thatthe evidence of Miss Duvaux , aided by the ingenuity ' . of counsel , would have accounted for the wretched condition of the girl , and that the case would dwindle down to the level of a common misdemeanour . Nothing of the sort , however , has been done , no palliation has been offered , and every particle of Jane WUbred ' s statement has been proven by t ' e tacit admission of the truiltv parties . Hence arises the disappointment of
the public , and the loathing and abhorence which follows the culprits who could so horribly and wantonly ill-treat a friendless orphan without advancing anything in extenuation . Devoid alike of the boldness of tho villain , or the sophistry of the lawyer , this guilty pair pleaded guilty , without the slig htest defence or apology for their unparalleled and unnatural conduct . . True it is that-they said "Not Guilty" to the two first counts , but those counts did not involve the facts , but mere questions of law . Jane Wilbred was set forth in the indictment as an infant of tender years ; whereas , being between sixteen and seventeen years of age she was considered old enough to have claimed the protection . of the law , and the neglect of supplying her . witb a sufficient quantity of food , & c . was not an indictable offence . The facts of the case were not disputed , but acknowledged .
It is somewhat gratifying , however , that by this mode of procedure the public mind is not again shocked by a repetition of the disgusting stovy . This case , unlike the violent murders perpetrated by Rush or the Mannings , from the total absence of a supposed benefit arising in perspective is a frightful libel on our countrymen ' s nature . It shows human beings , revelling in heretofore unheard-of cruelties , for the mere enjoyment arising from their Miction . The Sloanes were sentenced to two years'
imprisonment , the judge not having the power of inflicting a heavier punishment , unless he bad coupled it with hard labour . They will thus be ranked among first class misdemeanants , and , unless placed in a prison where tbe rules are stringent , they will only suffer the punishment of confinement . This naturally leads attention to the state of our criminal jurisprudence , and to the comparison of crimes with their punishment . The necessity of an entire change in our law , as well as in our prison discipline is shown by comparing the sentence in the case of thb" Sloanes with the sentence delivered
on their trial . On Saturday last , at the same court , and before one of tho judges who presided at tho trial of the Sloanes on the previous Wednesday , Samuel Pizzey , 28 , William Randall , ¦ 21 , and Thomas Simms 21 , were indicted under tbe statute for having been , to the number of three and more , in certain enclosed land in the night time , . armed with guns , for the purpose of taking game . It appeared that the prosecutor of this indictment was Mr . Clark , one of the magistrates for Middlesex , and who resides near Uxbridge . On the night of tho 12 th of January two of his keepers , named Stent and Wilding , wore out watching in a wood called the Park wood , in the parish of Ickenham , when they came
up with four men , who immediately upon seeing the keepers ran off . On their arriving at a gate the keepers came up with them , and a struggle ensued , during which Wilding received some severe blows from Randall with the butt-end of a gun , and Pizzey also struck him with a stick . The keepers succeeded in securing Pizzey , but tbe other men got away . Sims and Randall , however , were apprehended the next morning , but the fourth man succeeded in making his escape altogether . The keepers positively identified the prisoners as being three of the persons who were in the wood upon the occasion in question . —Tbe jury without any hesitation , found all the prisoners Guilty , and Mr . Justice Cresswell sentenced theni to be
transported for seven years . Here we have three ynung men , prosecuted for breaking the abominable Game Laws—foran offence which ( except by law ) is not a crime—who had not killed a hare belonging to their magisterial prosecutor , but who fled from their pursuers ; and , toavoid arrest , assaulted the keepers , sentenced to transportation for seven years ; while those who have outraged thelaws of God and man—who were perpetrating a murder , and were dailyand hourly gloating overthetortureoftheirvictim , adefenoeless orphan , who , according to the evidence of the surgeon , on
the discovery of the crime , weighed only sixty pounds , and could not have lived many days longer , were only sentenced to two years' imprisonment ! The poachers will be sent to work either in the hulks at home , or in our Australian colonies ; while the Sloanes are imprisoned without labour . The poachers were uneducated men—the candidates for the gallows were a lawyer and his lady . Many similar cases could be cited to show the injusticenay , positive iniquity—of our criminal laws ; but the one already given will no doubt answer the present purpose .
Again , it should be remembered , that , had the starving of Jane Wilbred been the only charge against them , tbey would have been acquitted . They were indicted for starving a child of tender years . Those counts turned out to be bad . She was old enough in the eye of the law to have complained of starvation ; but they had inflicted other acts of barbarity at various times—and for this they were punished . Thb system of slow murder appears to have more chances of escaping the lynx-eyed law than minor offences . Had Jane Wilbred died of starvation the law would have said that she was art and part accessory to her own death , and her murderers would have been acquitted .
The difficulty of comprehending the meaning of the criminal law , and its incompetency of meeting such a case as the one under consideration , cannot be better argued than by giving a brief sketch of the case of the Birds , who were tried at the last Spring Assizes , in the county of Devon , for the murder of Mary Ann Parsons . This poor girl , like Jane Wilbred , was the inmate of a workhouse . The evidence adduced on the trial went to show that the prisoners had been inthehabitofconstantlymaltreating the poor girl ; and the surgeons who were examined on the occasion gave it as their opinion tbat the deceased , Mary Ann Parsons , had died from the effects of a blow on the head . The learned iudsre . unon this , directed that the iurv
should acquit the prisoners , on the ground that there -was a lack of evidence to show that cither of the prisoners separately , or both conjointly , had inflicted the blow which had been the cause of death . An intimation was then made to tbe learned judge that the prisoners ought to be found guilty of the assaults proved against them ; but his lordship withdrew the case altogether from the consideration of the jury , without permitting them to form an opinion on the credibility of the medical testimony brought forward , and directed that a verdict of acquittal should be entered . On the 10 th November , 1849 , another indictment was preferred against the prisoners , charging them with having assaulted Mary Ann Parsons . The trial accordinelv
took place before Mr . Russell Gurney , who , on the last Western Circuit , presided as judge . At this time the prisoners pleaded that they had already been tried and acquitted of the offence charged . A lenghty discussion then ensued , as to whether the general acquittal pronounced at the former trial could operate as a bar to a prosecution for each and every of the assaults given in evidence ; after which the jury returned a verdict of Guilty . But it appeares that a doubt existed in the mind of the learned judge as to whether his direction was right , and be did not pass judgment against the prisoners . The case was then argued before five judges , constituting the court sitting to decide upon cases of appeal from the criminal courts , reserved for their consideration . But as they could not agree upon their decision , the case was again argued Wore all the learned judges , except Mr , Baron Piatt , and
the question remained undecided . On . Wednesday , the 12 th inst , the case was again argued by fourteen judges at the Exchequer Chambers , when six were of opinion that the conviction was bad , and eight thought the conviction good ; thusamajority of two decided the knotty point , after the question had been fifteen months under the consideration of the judges , and tbe Birds will receive sentence at the next Devon assizes . Thus the law , which should be so plain , ' that he who runs mav read , " is so incomprehensible that the hi ghest judicial functionaries cannot agree . If ei ght judges understand its meaning , six at least do not . Surel y it is hi « h time that a sweeping revision should be made when suoii monsters escape withso . Iittle punishment , and are again let loose to prey upon society , while the most trivial offences , such as pocket-picking or poaching , are so severely dealt with .
Even Chartism is a worse offence in the eyes of the judges , than what for want of a better word we must call " Sloaneism . " Not only were the Chartist misdemeanants imprisoned but sentenced to hard labour . Scores of pounds bad to be paid to purchase immunity from their degrading and disagreeable occupation of nicking oakum , p or Xl 9 .
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fusing to-submit to the stringent regulations an harsh discipline awarded to the lower class of misdemeanants , some of the Chartist prisoners in Tothill-fields Prison were doomed , to death , and heavy bail was required for others previous to release , Are the laws just that sanction such doings ? Is the system endurable that permits judges to gratify personal class , and political prepositions at the expense of equity , common sense and common humanity ? Pro Bono Pobhco .
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LAMBETH . —Appalling Profwoact . —Mr . W . 6 . Smyth , a surgeon . in very good practice , and residing at 59 , Yauxhall-walk , was brought up on a . warrant , and placed at tho bar before the Hon . 6 . C . Norton , on a charge of assaulting Mary Ann Hall , a girl thirteen years of age . The case occupied upwards of two hours in its investigation , and the evidence , the greater portion of which was unfit for publication , disclosed scenes of tho most disgusting profligacy that can well be conceived . It appeared thatthe prisoner , who is a married man and nearly sixty years of age , hut separated from his wife , had in his confidence two little strumpets named Ockingden and Macklalin , with whom ho was
on terms of profligate intimacy ; and those persons he induced to . invite to his house a number of girls whose ages ranged from sixteen to eig hteen years . Once within his reach , the prisoner commenced by plying his victims with spirits or wine , principally g in , and by these means , and stating that he should require their services in assisting to clear up the house , ho soon effected his purpose , and the names of seven or eight were mentioned whom he thus succeeded in ruining . Of the number , one of t ^ e procuresses , Ockingden , and two of the girls , Hall and Home , were examined at considerable length , and their testimony as to the prisoner ' s profligacy was perfectly conclusive . —In the course of the proceedings Mr . Korton exclaimed , that in the whole course of many years' magisterial duty it had not been his misfortune to hear disclosed such a
scone . of . profligacy as that related , and which made one doubt whether we lived in a civilised or barbarous state of society . —An application was made to admit the prisoner to bail , but it was refused , Mr . Norton remarking , that he never knew of a case in which the accused was less entitled to any favour . THAMES . —An Englishman ' s Right to bb Merry . —It . Trulove , a respectable-looking mechanic , was charged with being disorderly and assaulting the police . —Sheppard and Wakefield said that prisoner end others were coming down Fieldgate-street , Whitechapel , singing loudly . Being remonstrated with , they refused to desist , and behaved violently to the police . —PrUonev said he had been to a musla ! party , and on his way homo was repeating some of the airs . Ho justified his behaviour to the police b y producing a young woman who had been with him , and upon whose shoulder the policeman ' s truncheon had left a bruise . —Mr .
Yardley having looked over the Police Act , said that he found nothing in it which prevented people singing at the hour of twelve , unless there was a sick person in the vicinity , or some other reasonable cause assigned . He did not hesitate to say that this was a case in which the police had no right to nterfere with persons singing merrily on their way home , and if a row ensued , and blows were struck , it was not to be wondered at . No one , however , was warranted in striking a constable ; but if disturbances arose out of their undue interference or abrupt interposition , they must be answerable . Though he did not like making general remarks , he could not help saying- that , in cases where he had to observe on the conduct ot the police , there were three to one in the H division as compared with the K . —The . prisoner , who complained that he and his party were knocked about shamefully , was then discharged . MANSION-HOUSE . —SEmons Kobbeky . —James
Scolfield Was charged with having robbed WUUam Hawley , a coffee-shop keeper , at No . 64 j , Lower Thames-street , of ninety-seven or ninety-eight sovereigns . —The prosecutor said , on the 1 st of January I took the place I live in of the prisoner , who was going to Port Natal as an emigrant . I had succeeded him in the business , and he continued to live in the next house , between which and my house there is a communication . On Thursday week I had in a carpet bag in my trunk under my bed ninety-seven or ninety-eight sovereigns . On Thursday last I had occasion to pay some money for freight and other matters , and upon going to my trunk I found that the carpet bag was cut , and all the money was gone . I had not seen the prisoner
since Friday week , but he was seen leaving his house or lodging on the following Saturday in a hackney coach with two boxes . He wrote to me from Poplar a letter , which stated that he had gone to Liverpool , and I have since ascertained that he never left town at all . I gave him £ 10 for the articles and the fixtures . There was no stock , and he was unable to go on a day longer for the want of money . He told me that he had not more towards his passage-money to Port Natal than £ 5 , and he could not take his wife with him on account of the expense . —The Lord Mayor : How did he know that you had all this money ? Witness : He had seen forty-five or forty-six sovereigns with me , and he knew that I had nearly a hundred pounds in
sovereigns . I had got sovereigns at the bank but a short time before for a £ 100 note . As soon as I missed the money I called out to my wife that it was all gone , and she immediately suspected Scolfield , and advised me to go after him . He knew the name of the vessel in which he was going was the John Bright , and I took down an officer to the East India Dock , which the vessel was at the moiment leaving . When he saw me he said ' Oh , is it you Mr . Hawley ? " "Yea , " said I , "I have come about the ninety-ei ght sovereigns you robbed me of . " "Oh , could you suspect me , Mr . Hawley , of such a thing ? " " Yes , " said I , " you are the only person I do suspect , for you are the only person tbat knew of the money . " He made no reply , and tbe officer took him into custod y . ' We found that he had on board eight or nine new suits of clothes , and new articles of various kinds , although he had just before scarcely any money . We
then brought him here , and your lordship detained hini i and we went down to the vessel , which had gone to Gravesend , to make further search . We there found some sovereigns in his trunk , and we also found a number of working tools of mine , some of which my father had made himself . —The Lord Mayor : You are sure of the identity of the tools ?—I know one of them , a file , these thirty years . 1 know two adzes as well as 1 know myself , and I know several other instruments . —The officer who accompanied the prosecutor to the John Bright for the purpose of more closely examining the prisoner ' s trunks , said he found in them eight new coats , eleven pairs of new trowsers , and quantities of linen and necessary articles which were of considerable value . He also found a key which opened the prisoner ' s bedroom door and the door of the bedroom of the prosecutor , in which the carpet bag containing the sovereigns had been kept . —The prisoner was remanded .
BOW-STItEET .-AtLBOED Piunber ur a Shopmas . —John Fox was charged with plundering his employers , Messrs . Bull and Wilson , woollen drapers , St . Martin ' s-lane . —The manager of the firm stated that the prisoner had heen shopman since August last , receiving a salary of £ 40 per annum , and board and lodging . On Monday the prisoner was about to leave his situation very suddenly , which excited the suspicions of Mr . Wey , who was connected with the firm , and who also received information that the prisoner had been carrying on a system of plunder to a considerable extent . A certain portion of the premises was set apart for the reception of goods purchased by customers and made up into parcels to be left until called for . It
was the duty of each shopman to place his signature to the bills , and attach them to the parcelt when lefi in the repository , and they were then entered in the cash-book , in the charge of the cashier . Mr . Wey found the prisoner ' s signature to a great number of the parcels . One of the bills referred to a parcel which was alleged to contain goods to the amount of £ 2 19 s . 9 d „ but which really contained goods not mentioned in the bill , worth £ 4 . 5 s . 5 d . The system of plunder was this : The prisoner served a stranger with goods , and the parcel was to bo called for . On packing up the parcel , the prisoner placed articles not mentioned in the invoice . When the stranger called for the parcel it was handed to him .
The prisoner would afterwards meet his confederate and divide the spoils . Mr . Wey was afraid the firm had been plundered to a considerable extent in that manner . The prisoner , who wore a fashionably-raade coat of camel ' s hair , was asked where he had purchased tbe cloth . He said it had been supplied to him by another young tnaii in the shop , named Mayhew , and that he believed he had paid for it . Maybew was asked , in the presence of the prisoner , and he denied having served the nrisoner with the cloth . The boxes were searched and several yards of camel ' s-hair doth were found ! and also a quantity of other cloth . It had been as ' certained that the prisoner had had several new coats made lately , and , on being questioned , he said he paid the tailor for the making of them , in cash .
ine tailor was sent for , and he informed the manager that the prisoner paid him principally in goods . " The prisoner denied all knowledge of the person to whom the parcel was addressed , —Mr , Jardine remanded the prisoner until Saturday WORSHIP-STREET—Capture of a Burglar . —Robert Grove , a robust , daring-looking fellow , was placed at the bar on Monday charged with having burglariousl y broken into and plundered the premises of Mr . William Johnson , a grocer , in Hare-street , Bethnal-green . —The prosecutor stated that he retired to bed at one o ' clock on Monday morning , having previously seen that all tbe doors and windows were properly secured , and about an hour and a half afterwards he was aroused from sleep by the violent barking of his
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house dog , followed by * loud no ^ Sf ^ 55 glasem the lower , part of the premSp ? ck n stantly hastened down stairs , anHRv llc « shop , discovered that a pane of « ffi" ? 8 & U winuowhad been dashQd in , one of the ! l , 'Q tors having been previousl y removed ™ , > ^ '"t . quantity of cocoa and other articles of < W htlt 3 been abstracted from the show-board im » !? bad under the aperture . The prisoner was b . ^ y his shop soon after in the custod y 0 f t ""' to stablos , who had in their- possession thr > Co , i - packages of cocoa now produced , and whi i !' " * once identified as a portion of the stolen n a ( l -The prisoner , in . defence , said that bev !? * . drinking to such an extent that ho did n ™ i ee what he was about at the time , and hew , nowr to be fully committed for trial . 0 ft , eret | CLERKENWELL .-DANOEROTI 3 Statp Clerkenwell District . —James Ilardine ° T 1 IE man , was charged by Mrs . Francis Mills ¦' . ' ! " 5 lady , residing in Georgiana-strcet . Can ' i . i , ! m ' n
with a daring highway robbery .-. The nrn n » was walking in High-street , Camdon-tm tri Tuesday night last , with her purSe m T \> on " when the prisoner seized . it , and draesim ' U , nd violently , struck her a tremendous blow " S nearly stunned her . Ho succeeded in ni-iki "' ^ escape with the purse , containing 12 s . Cd ' ¦ ,, ' " /" property . The-prisoner was traced ami tllcr bended by Charles Bow and was pbsitivV-T " " tided by the prosecutrix . The prisoner del fr charge , but he was fully committed for trl , Elizabeth Collett , a desperate well-known „ i racter , was charged by Miss Bennett , ffiillin . „ » High-street ; Islington , with the followin (/ i ,, ; , ° f outrage . —The prosecutrix was walkin * Zi *
servant m High-street , Islington , when the mi V seized her and demanded ber money . She Jf j i bad got none . She was then joined bv uu , i' ° woman , who tore witness ' s bonnet and dress 11 servant ran for a policeman , who took the nii < 0 , ! 5 into custody . —Tho inspector said that several i „ stances of this sort of outrage had recently «„ ' cuvrcd in the neighbourhood . Tbe prisoner \^ l sentenced to one month ' s'imprisonment with haul labour . u MARYLEBONE . —Assault on a Clergyjuv a'Female . —Elizabeth Waldion Penny was ch- in ;^ with having threatened the Rev . " Septimus Gov
Holmes Hansard with violence . —Ihe rer . com . plainant is curate of St , ' Mary Paddington , ay some months ago in the course of his pasior . il visitations met with the'defendant , from whom L learned that she had lately been living with a ten . tleinan as his mistress and been ill-treated . Out of compassion to her Mr . Hansard waited on tlie "en tleinan and found that she had been well treated " ultimately he succeeded in obtaining from the « en ' tleman an allowance of 12 s . a week , of which 1 ^ was to _ be tho medium . Subsequently she was taken ill , and was supposed to bo in a dvin * state . Complainant attended her , and endeavoured to obtain from the gentleman additional assist . mice Ifor her , but it was given only on the umleV
standing that 2 s . a week was to be stopped from her allowance on recovery . These direc tions hay . ing been complied with , defendant no sooner re . covered than she became dissatisfied , and benan to annoy Mr . Hansard , and on the evening of tifeSlst ult ., as that gentleman was engaged in the school . room , she rushed in and created a disturbance threatening to tear his eyes out . —The Rev . Mr ' , Gurney , rector of St . Mary , said that the cotni plainant had acted in tbo matter with his sane . tion , and his interference was exclusively of a benevolent character . —Mr . Broughton at first ordered her to put in sureties , herself in £ 30 , and two others in £ 20 each , to be of good behaviour for a month , but , on the intercession of the com . plainant , accepted her own recognisances for tliroo months . "
GREENWICH . — Serious Charge . - Thotnas Bishton , of Lime Cottage , Lewisham , genlieman and who it was mentioned had latterly been a lieutenant in the 6 th Royals , was charged wiih & loni . ously assaulting Martha Boulton , a child a ged thirteen years . The evidence of the child was very staightfortvard and specific ; and it was proved by other evidence that she had been extremel y ill in consequence of ill-treatment of the nature al . leged . —Mr . Seeker ultimately committed the prisoner for trial , and said he would take bail in £ 209 , and the prisoner ' s recognisances of £ 200 .
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HUNGARIAN REFUGEES . The following communications from the Secre * tary of State ' s office has been received by the Mayor of Southampton : " " Whitehall , Feb . 12 . " Sin , —I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to inform you , that itapperas , from a despatch received by Lord Pahnerston from Sir Stafford Canning , that sixty-six Hungarian refugees will bo embarked at Constantinople for England in tho steam-vessel which will leave that port for Southampton about the 19 th inst ., and that the Porte is stated to havo supplied these Hungarians with money to defray the expenses of their passage , and to provide for thsir personal wants on their fivet an-ival in England . " 1 am sir , your obedient servant , "H . WADDixero . v . " Tho Mayor of Southampton . "
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* , CORK . Makk-lane , Wednesday , Feb . 12 . —We had a very short supply of English wheat to-dav , and ihe quality being generally inferior , it met a very dull sale , at rather lotrc-r prices , unless for prime qualities . The arrivals of forcya wheat and flour have been only moderate during the hist week , but the l . usiness done in both articles has been quite in retail . We have had large arrivals of bailey , both foreign and Enqlish , and the demand leinu' very limited , the sales were extremely sIjw , although oft red fully Is per qv . cheaper than on Monday last . Fine leans were scarce and fully as dear . In peas no alteration , Owing to the increased supply of oats coastwise andfnia abroad , the trade was extremely heavy for ail sorts and prices 6 d to Is lower .
CATTLE . SMITHFrElD , Monday , Feb . 10 Notwithstandiw that tho supply of beasts on offer in to-day ' s market exhibited a slight falling off compared with that shown on Monday last , it was more than adequate to the demand . The attendance of buyers was tolerably good ; but all breeds ol beasts met a very inactive inquiry , at unaltered quotations . The highest figure for the best Scots tvas 3 s ii per 81 bs . The general quality of the stock was good . We were again tolerably well , but not to say heavily , supplied with sheep for the time of year . For most breeds the inquiry was firm ; and , in ' some instances , the currencies had an upward tendency . We may observe , however , that the extreme figure for the best old Downs in the wool was is 6 d per 8 ibs . There were about 1 , 000 shorn sheep in the market , together with ninety Dorset lambs , which latter sold at 5 s Gd to Cs per 81 bs . Calves , though in short supnl y , were dull in sale at late rates . We had a . better inquiry for pigs , the prices of which vrero wfli supported .
PROVISIONS . London , Wednesday . —There was a decidedly better feeling towards Irish Hutter in the past week , and sales to a respectable amount made at a further advance of -s . to r is . per cwt . Holders were not disposed to sell freely at ; the rates current ; otherwise the transactions would have i been of more importance . The market closed with firm- ness , and prices inclined upwards . Foreign in suai-y . ' request . ^ Frieslnnd , 2 s . per cwt . dearer , hacon : There ! wiis a fair business done in Irish and ilambro' singed sides > landed , at last quotations ; buyers move inclined to pur- - chase for forward months . Hams , landed , scarcely vavko J in demand or value . Some sales were reported at 70 s . per r cwt . for shipment in April and May . Lard more soug ht it after , and prices Is . to 2 s . higher . . . English Bdtteb Mabkbt , Feb . 12 . —We experience a fatf a * demand generally for English Butter ; a little net » -i » ' » * Dorset is now making its appearance , and the best quality it is readily taken at Is . u pound . Dorset , fine weekly , 100 s : is : to 112 s . per cwt . ; do ., middling and stale , 70 s . to Sis . ; , ; Fresh , 0 s . to 13 « . per dozen lbs .
BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from o > 7 d . to 7 * d . ; of huusehold ditto , 5 d . to ( iid . per 4 lts ' ' loaf .
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From the Gazette of Tuetday , February U > BANKRUPTS . ,. John Barugh , High Unworn , oil and cc-lcAtrfflan- ^ 'M ' ham Leighton Wood , Charles . street , Drurv . lane , piano- moforte-maker ~ Edwin Bliss , Barbican , brushmaker- ; r-Itichard Brickwood Coltman , Itegent-strcet , Court »*»* liner—John Murrels , Colchester , barge owner-iI «> r , 'IirJ Durham Stevenson , Bishopwearmouth Durham , Bitr-itrchant , SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . C . Scohie , Perth , coppersmith . From the Gazette of Friday , February
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BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED . C . Wi ' son , Lberpool , dealer in railway * ar , t " : ' ce Alspp , Plymouth , potter-B . Holman , Westb « uro « tMr ace " " Paddmgton , builder . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . J . Towers . Glasgw ,- merchant-J . Sunth , OW »;' grocer—A . M'Keclinie , Greenock , ikosman-A . fc «» lu » 11 Kelso , currier .
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TYFATIT •• Died at Stroud on the 4 th inst ., Feargus O'Connor g ? < g sold , aged nine years , the son of George and EIkWW ' Chssolu . He was accidentally burnt to death .
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