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THE DAGENHAM MURDER . CONCLUSION <) 1- THE ISQCEST . Qn Tuesday morning , at ten o ' clock , the inquiry into t $ se ™ j « -. iioos n-. urcsr .. f poller conMalrie , Gi'orci-C- larle , Tras resumed for the sixth time , before C . C . JJ e « ris , E « q _) Coroner for Essex , at the Cross Kqs Taverr -- < bis village . eU fhlb ^ 'dr . v , although upwards of two months ha . * a . 7 * nce tl , e Vtrjo-tration of the murder , excited «« asider . bleinterc £ t . ^ - > V . llawliiigs , solisitor , of Romford , appeared r . P » rtofSerse . - . nt Parsons { who is still undtr tin « nct sirveillance of the police , ) whilst the lN . lice Commis sioBjrs w , Tv- represented hy Mr . Superintenclatn fearce . of the F division , and Mr . Superiuteudaut Mae Qu ^ d , of the X division .
P « li .-e constable George Dunning , K 397 , was the first Witness . —He said , I have been on « : uty at the Dageiihani station about nine weeks . I recollect the nip lit of the 27 th of August . Between eleven and twelve o'clock on i & at night I was at the station in the hark room , anil I IJ >* ard quarrelling between Serjeant Parsons and hU J jto , wlio were at the time up stairs . I do not knot * TJIJiiat they wire quarrelling about , hut I heard hii accuse , him of something . I could not distinctly understand yhat it was , but the reply Parsons made to that was , "Do you mean this affai : V What affair he alluded to I do not know . When hi said , "this r . ffair ! " she replied , " Yes , this affair , and others too . " Parsons then began to cry , and I heard i o more . I know that he was crying , for he cried alond s > that I could hear him . I spoke of this to Sergeant Pearson , who was at the time in the charge room , aud to Acting Sergeant Corvan .
By the Coroner—I heard Persons and his sister quarrelling when'I was in the street , and I then heard Par-I » n » threaten to throw his sister down stairs if she did / iotaold her tongue . I heard no other threat . I have ; | iL * youain heard , to tbe ten of my recollection , and T ¦ ,. all I reported to Sergeant Pearson . ' | i ';| The Coroner—Do not you know that you reported to j -Sergeant Pearson that you heard Parson ' s sister say , v ' | ** Yeu know you are guiltj of it !" Witness—No , I did not report those words . _ _ ' George Corvan , police constable 100 K , said I am acting sergeant of police stttioned at Dagenham . On the night of the 27 th of Aus-ost I was on duty at the Dagenham station . Betnrea the boors of twelve and
one . Dunning , the constable , called me to the stairs to listen to Sergeant Parsons and his sister quarrelling . They were up stairs , and the door ch-sed . 1 could not hear one word distinctly that they spoke . Dunning stated to me , while standing at the stairs , that Sergeant Parsons' sister had said , "You know you arc guilty of It" Tbat Sergeant Parsons made answer directly , "In this affair ; " and the sister replied , " , and man ; more . " Sergeant Parsons lhtn called her a b b——and burst out cryiug . That is the report Dunning made to nie . I am certain evety word I have stated is correct . By the Coroner—I heaid a noise as if some one was —¦ - crying when 1 was at the lot-om of the stairs . I could not tell if it was a man or wo-iian crying .
Dunning was recalled , nnd Raid be bad no recollection of making use of the word ' g jilty . " The Coroner—Why , you . repeated to me , word for -word , in the yard of this house , that which Corvan has sow stated . I was very particular in questioning you , and the statement now made by Corvan is exactly the report you made to me . Dnnning—I don ' t recollect making use of the word " guilty . " Sergeant Pearson was next called , and declared tbat Dunning said to him , that Parsons' sister bad said to Jiim , "Yon know you are guilty . "
Julia Parsons , the sister was here called in and sworn —She said , I recollect being at the Dagenham station on the night of the 27 th of August , 1 was with my brother upstairs on that night , llis wife went away from him at her father ' s , at Barkiu-side . We bad a few words on that night concerning our own family . I don ' t know how long we were quarrelling , but should say about halt an hour . Coroner—Do you happen to recollect what you said to bid during tbe quarrel % Witness—I said very little to him during the time we were qoarr . IIiug . There was no allusion made to the death of Clarke . I was in a passion , and do not recollect saying anything about the murder of Clarke . I did not say tha ; lie knew tbat be w : is guilty of it . Coroner—Will you undertake to swear that you did not say so ! Witness—Yes , I will . I do not remember having said anything like that .
Edward Langley examined—I am a sergeant of the detective police , and cam ., to Dagenham on the 16 th of August . I recollect going to the spot where Clarke wav xmird * rcd . in o-mpsny with Sir ^ eant Parsons , on the lSdi , two days after I cemi lur ^ . On my return I picked tip a handkerchief ( produced ) iu a meadow adjoining the field where the murder took place . On attempuns to pick it up it stuck to tbe ground , and then I iound that it was clotted with blood , as it is now . ( The handkerchiet was here produced to the Jury . It is composed of silk , having a blue ground , with a figured orange , yellow and crim = on border , very old , and much torn . There was a great quantity of blood stains upon it . ) By direction of the Coroner , Kimpton , Fains , Ilickton . and Butf iy , the constables , who are under the servtillance of the police , were here teat for from the Dageuham station .
Kimpton was first called in , and , in answer to the Coroner , sail , he had nothing furth r to state , and that the last evidence he save was the truth . The other men said , they had nothing to say in addition to their previous testimony . The Coroner proceeded to address the Jury . He said that the charge , which they bad so long iu hand , could only be viewed as a saurd . r o *" a very atrocious and mysterious character . Tbe unf jrtuna ' . e young man . George Clarke , was but twenty years of age . lie had only been iu the po ice about sis months , aad bad come to Dagenham but six weeks before his death , in company with Hicklon , from the poll-e-itation in Arbour-s « ju : ire . Kothinr particular orcurr . d until the 20 th of June Ithfc night of the murder ) . On that evening it was proved
that tha deceased went on duty at nine o ' clock with bis brother constables , and proceeded to his beat . The 3 ast constable lie was seen in company with was serge-int Parsons , about half-vast nine o ' clock . The servant was then in tbe road on horseback , and Clarke on lout , and at this time the wife of Sergeant Parsons and bis filter came abing . Mrs . Parsons complained of beii-g tired , on which the poor iUlO v , Clarke , who was in good spirits at the time , « . fifcred to lift heron the sergeant's horse , but did not do so . Clarke and Parsons were left together , and the iormer was not seen again until half , prist ten o ' clock , wlicn be was met by a man named Luke TVhite . That was the last time , so far as the evidence went that tbe deceased was seen alive . He was missed at one o ' clock in the morninsr , aud at six o ' clock he was
reported a * missing . Tbe body , as the Jury wereawart-, was uot discovered until four days after , when it was found in the corn-fi ^ ld where the murder took place . In reference to the medical evidence he ( the Coroner ) wishid particularly to draw their attention to that portion of the case , as it was most important , clearly proving that the murder was the result of revenue . The murderer was not aaiiifitd with killing his victim , but mangled him in a frightful maimer teen by the Jury , and detailed in the medical evidence . Had the deceased been killed in an ordinary quarrel , or in the performance of his duty , his assailants w » . u ! d li . ve been satb-fisd with inflicting on liim a iinqle bbjw or cut , Mich as had been described , and then- left hi-a . but uhen the Jury refi-.-eted orthe horrible wav in which tbe unfortunate man
was mutilated , they could come to no other conclusion than that this most atrocious murd . r wa * the result of revenge . The Learned Coroner here proceidid to read over the voluminous erid . nee , comim-uling on it J : S he proceeded . With r « fcrcn . e t > the evidence of the police , he said it appeared clear th * t during portions o : tbe night of tho murder Sergeant Parsons was not on duty . "What became ofl ' are- > ns between half-past ten o ' clock and twelve on tbat night and l-etwccn oceand six o ' clock the nest morning did not : i ]>;> = ar , nor di ( 3 Parsons cxhil . it any disp .-sition to inform ti > e Jury . Again , the constable iiuifov endeavoured to nsul e ' : ' . appear tbst be was not on Uisry on the nt ^ ut of the murder , having-, as i-. e said , g .. t drunk ut Romford , and that In ; was in bed from live t-VIock in the afu-rm-on of ths iOtfc of June until sis
o'clock the next tnornmr , « h-u he beard that Clarkfc was Biasing . Now , this was . t si : ivcly contradicted by Kimpto : i xaA by l ' arsensbinveK , wlio saiu JJutioy eaiue to tl . e stai . v » . vtiw « lv < s o ' clock a-.-- d sslid »• AU right S * rS fc « v . t . ' If U uifoy could prove thai I : ? was really in bed , why thai his time would be account- d ' or < m tb night of the mur der , butif he did not , then th re must be some sasj .-icion attaching to his conduct . They had it proved that < -n : l : e morning after the murder , v . bt : i Clarke was r < parted to be missing , fcat Parsons lift the station basse with coiistiibie Kimpton , and before be bad proceeded £ 00 ysi- ' -s from the station , he proposed to Kimj >* ou what tile they were all to stick to in referen-.-e to bis being on duty on the nig ht of themurder . Sow , that had struck hint ( the droner ) as being a very strjug xud . suspicious
circumstance in the case . With reference to the con . iuct of the police generally in the case there were no words strong enough to espriss the disgust which ev ^ ry right n . iuded psrion must feci at their ctnduct . He spplfcu his okcrvarious to those policemen who had been guilty , to say th- least of it , of wilfal and c irrupt perjury . The unfortunate circumstance was , that these very men , theser-T ^ nts of tbe public , bad in the first instance been ciiga ; w
tba perpetrators of the diabobcal deed , and they bad coue every thins in their j > ower to suppress the truth . In consi quence the greatest : iffisulty and mystery had been thrown around the case , lut it would be for the Jury to consider whether there was suspicion founded on the evidence enoug h to warrant then in returning a verdict oi wilful murder against tome person or persons . If lhuy did not think tho circumstances sufficiently strong to ir . cui i ate any person or persons on a charge of wilful murder , then it would he their duty to return an open ¦ verdict . With these remarks he ( the Coroner ) would leave the case in the hands of the Jury , knowing they would come to a proper conclusion .
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The room was then cleared of sti angers , and after consulting for upwards of an hour tbe Court was re-opened , when the Coroner announced that the Jury had agrtid to : » vertictof "jWilful murder against some person or
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Mr . ltawlings , on the part of Sergeant Parsons , wished to know whetlur Parsons was to remain under the surveillance of the police any longer . Mr . SupcrinUiidant Ptarce said , h « had no authority to an « wer that question . The Coroner said , he would undertake to say that not only Sergeant Parsons but the whole of tha men who bad sworn falsely wouldb » indicted , forthwith for p » ryury . The proceedings in this most extraordinary case then terminated .
Poisonings In Essex, Last Friday, An Adj...
POISONINGS IN ESSEX , last Friday , an adjourned inquest on the bodies of Joseph an- J .-. mesChe * ham , alleged to have been poisoned by their mother , was resumed at Clavering . The following are the circumstances of tbe case , as sworn to in the evidence adduced , which we briefly recapitulate , bt-cause considerable time has elapsed since the first apprehension of the prisoner , owing to the long adjourmncnti of the investigation - . —In the beginning of August a farmer , named Newport , was brought before the magistrates at Saffron Wnldon for the affiliation to him of tbe illegitimate child ofLydia Taylor . Pending the short discussion which attended the business , suspicions were accidentally created that tho child's life had been tampered with , and the inquiry was sufficiently pushed
at the time to warrant the apprehension of Sarah Chesham , the prisoner , upon charge of this attempt . After t'vo examinations , which elicited those extraordinaryparticulars of which the public is already in possession , ihe was committed to take her trial . The gossip of the nciahbouruood . however , fed and stimulated by these remarknble proceedings , soon took such a turn as to lead to fuithcr investigations . Humours were current that rte prisoner ' s own children had died by poison , and so probable was tbe tale tbat the coroner iseued his warrant for the etbumation of the bodies of her two sons—aged ten and eight years respectively—which had been interred in one coffin iu January last . These bodies were found to contain arsenic enough to kill a whole family . An
iuquect was accordingly held upon them , whieh was adjourned till last Fiiday . In theintervalthe investigations of tho police resulted i . ~ . the obtaining of some extraordinary information , which seem to impart a deeper shade of atrocity to the transaction than was at drat believed . Among the witnesses examined at the adjourned inquest , was Philip Chesbam , tbe eldest son ofthe accused woman , who answered the questions put to him with such evasion and evident reluctance , that the Jury openly expressed their conviction that he had been tampered with and had perjured himself . A similar suspicion was entertained respecting the evidence given at the previous inquest by another son , John Chesham , who was again called in and sulject to an examination , which elicited the following circumstances .
Susan Green stated that on the Thursday night previous to the last sitting of the Jury she heard the boy John Chesham ( supposed to have been tampered with on the former occasion ) talk to Cole about tbe evidence he was togivaat the inquest . The boy replied , "Oh , I know what to say , for mymaster bastoldme . " The Coroner . — - Where docs Cole work ! Witness—At Mr . Thomas Newport's . ( Great sensation . ) The boy , John Chesham , was here confronted with the witness , and denied that he made such a statement . Coroner—Do you mean to say you do not recollect speaking to Cole in the presence of Mrs . Green ! The boy—No , I t ' on t ; but Cole spoke to me . The Coroner—What did he say t The boy—He told me to mind what I said at the inquest . The Coroner—What did you say then f The boy
pertinaciouslydenied having made any reply , and no persuasion or threats could induce bim to say another word on the subject . The Coroner , addressing him . said—It is vory evident to me that you have been tampered within the most unjustifiable manner , and it is confidently stated that your master is the person who has interfered with you . It appears tbat your master is a person named Wisbey , and at the present moment sitting in this room as a member of the Jury . ( Much sensation here manifested itsel in the Court . Wisbey deilared that he had done nothing with the boy , further than counselling him to tell the truth . Mr . Spencer , a Juryman , said—Mr . Wisbey , it seems to me that yon allow your servants to
take a liberty with you which no servant of mine would dare to take with me . When that boy , John Chesham , left this room on the last inquiry , he touched you on the arm , looked up in your face and smiled . You then said , " Well done , boy , you did it very well . " The Coroner ( to Wisbey)—I have nod ubt you made that remark to the boy , and that coub ! not have been done without an object . It was a strong remark to make , because it was the conviction of all present that the boy had committed perjury . In answer to other questions Wisbey prevaricated very much , and Mr . Spencer expressed his conviction that the conductof Wisbey had been disgraceful , and that bis criminality had been increased by the fact that , as a Juror , be bad sworn to do justice .
The Coroner ( addressing the boy )—Now , can you fell me who it was who spoke to you about tho evidence you should give in the course of the inquiry ? The boy persisted that he had forgotten all about it , and as it was found impossible to draw from him anything tbat would tend to the clearing up the mystery , the Coroner dismissed him . Similar unwillingness to give evidence was shown by almost every witness examined on this occasion , notwithstanding the fact , tbat if the facts alledged be founded on troth , the accused woman seems to have bad tbe reputation of a professional prisoner , ready to put any disagreable or expensive object out of the way "for a consideration . " The Coroner summed up the evidence , after whieh the Court was closed , and tbe Jury remained in deliberation for an hour and a-half , when the Court was again opened , and
The Corontr said—Prom certain circumstances which have been disclosed , and of which until just now I was perf « ctly ignorant , the Jury as well as myself feel that a further adjournment is necessary in ord . r that evidence may be obtained , which will in all probability prore of a very important and conclusive character . The investigation was adjourned for five weeks .
Manslaugtheb By A Policeman. A Protracte...
MANSLAUGTHEB BY A POLICEMAN . A protracted inquiry has been held during the pa « t week at the New Inn , Barrington , Gloucestershire , before J . Barnet , Esq ., coroner , and a jury , regarding the death of Reuben Bushby , who died from the effects of a blow - ^ iven by James Probert , a constable belonging to the rural police , at the Po * Inn , Windhurst / pon the 6 th inst . Some particulars of the occurrence havealready appeared in our columns . The inquest lasted five days , terminating on Fridaylast , and from the voluminous evidence adduced , it appeared tbat the unfortunate affair happened on the evening of what was called Barrinston feast , which brought together a large number of the labouring inhabitants of the neighbourhood : and in the evening of the day in question a party of these were in the parlour of the Fox
Inn , but there was no riot among them during the time , nor were any of them dru-. > h . The deceased and another man of the name of Clifford were of tbe party , and on some dispute arising in reference , to a broken glass , which the men who broke it refused to pay for , the landlord of the inn called in the p dice . A Sergeant Adams and the accused man Probert entered the room , and shortly afterwards Probert , without , as the witnesses declared , any provocation whatever , struck Busby on the ' bead with bis staff , and-felled him to the ground in a state of insensibility . On being removed , and a surgeon summoned , it was found that Busby was severely injured by the blow , and , in fact , he never rallied , but expited the next day . Probert also struck Clifford so as si riously to injure him . On being tailed before the coroner , Clifford d < pss < d as follows : —
I am a pig and sh-rep dealer at Great Rissington . I was t Great Barrington on Sunday , the Gth instant . I went into the parlour of the Fox , about six o ' clock . I was ri' -t tipsy . I remained about half an hour . I went out , and on my return , about nine o ' clock , I went into th patlour . I bad not been there two minutes , when a young policeman struck me a blow which stunned me . I recollect nothing' afterwards . 1 do not know where I bad the blow . Wlicn I went into the parlour , at nine o'clock , I saw no rn-, v . There was loud talking , but mi fisbting . I was standing up filling my pipe , and w . v about to light it , when 1 received tbe blow ; I did not n ake any noise , or threaten any one ; there was no fighting while I was in tbe room ; I am sure I br . d done xU'ihirig to provoke the pi-lio tSsvn . I heavd no words pass between ihe polici-man and any one else . I did not know the deceased Busby , and I am not aware of any other pe--so i having bean struck ' but myself .
Mr . Cheatle , who was called in to attend on-deceased , said : Sunday night , the / Kb inst ,, Lord Dvnevofs keeper came to me about II o ' clock , and requested my imined'RtcattcnuanccattheFoz Inn . Windrush , I went there immediately , and on arriving saw the deceased , Reuben Busby , in a state of collapse , and insensible , labora'in £ under some injury of the brain . 1 proceeded to ascertain the nature of bis injuries . I found on the top of the bead a contused wound , about two inches in length . The wound was from the cnuvn of the head , and directly across from the centre « xteuditig down on the skull bono , which was exposed to the touch . I could not then trace the extent of the fracture of the skull , t discovered it was a compound fracture . From the nature oftkc symptoms I considered the injury to be of a fatal character . I liad recourse to ail the ^ expedients which wereiii my power for the relief of the patient , who was then lab-jurir . g under cemprcssbm of the brain , and apparently in a dying state . I had no hope of saving his
life . I found there was great ( xrituneut , and I did what I c . ' inld to allay the irritation . I attended also on Clifford , r , Iio appeared to have received several blows . Jle had an injury on tbe lift eye , another on the nose , and another . on the right side of the herd . I left at two t / cio ; k on Monday morning , and returned between seven and eight . I found Ksul-en Busby was dead then . I marie a post morUrr . eiaininatioti of the head of the deceased on Tuesday , the Stb instant " . There was an effusion of blood on the substance of the brain immediatel y under the fracture , the existence of whieh alone produced the symptoms which occasioned death . There was extravasaled Mood usiwecsi the skull aud the pericra » ium in the vicinity of t !; e fracture on either side . 1 consider the injuries I found must have bsen the result of unusual violence . A violent blow over the head might have occasioned such a fracture and injury . A right-handed blow with a weapon of the length and size oi the staff before me might have rroijised the fractures and Injuries
Manslaugtheb By A Policeman. A Protracte...
I found . I consider the staff a dangerous weapon for any man to strike another on the head with . The Coroner having summed up , the jury consulted for some time , after which they returned a verdict ol "Manslaughter against James Probert , the policeman , " who was accordingly committed on the Coroner ' s warrant for trial at the ensuing assizes .
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FIRE AND LOSS OP LIFE AT PRESTON About half-past eight o ' clock on Friday night an alarm was given by various fire bells that the size house of Mr . Ifibbert , in Stanley-street , was in flames . Imme . diately on the fact being announced , tbe fire brigade , with the hose reel , was on the spot . Owing to the com . bustnble nature of the materials used in the works , the flames soon got to an alarming height , illuminating the neighbourhood to a very considerable extent , and being visible in almost every part of the town . The Victoria engine , and the engine of Messrs . Horrocks , Miller , and . Co ., were on the spot a short time afterwards , but a considerable time elapsed before oith . r engine was pot into play , and a still further time before they were effective .
In the mean time the fire gained a rapid ascendancy , every portion of thebuilding being soon under the uncontrolled dominion of the flumes , and it then became evident that no portion whatever of the stock or property beyond the bare outer walla could be saved . Attention was of course directed to saving Mr . Pickles' ( the Sovereign ) mill , the west wall of which is close up to the size house . The very thick substantially-built walls of the mill proved impervious to the fire , and that property was saved , as were also tbe cottages adjoining . The close vicinity , not only of the Sovereign mill , but of Mr . Paley ' s and the extensive premises of Messrs . Horrocks , Miller , and Co ., gave to the fire , at one time , a very threatening aspect . Towaids half-pant ten o ' clock , however , owing to everything combustible in the premises having been burnt d , the flames abated .
The size-house , in which the fire originated , is entirely gutted . The whole of the apparatus , stock , < tc ., is entirely destroyed , and nothing but the bare wall remain standing . It would be difficult , as yet , to estimate tbe loss , but we understand that there was a considerable quantity of warps on the premises . The stockand building are insured to pretty nearly their full value . The cause of tbe lire Is not ascertained , but It commenced in the top , or fourth story—a room used for drying warps , which is done by means of steam pipes . The most melancholy part of this unfortunate ocur . rence ie the untimely death of Mr . Pickles . He was pretty early on the spot after the alarm was given , anil feeling naturally anxieus for the safety of his property , was in his mill when the fire raged most violently .
From the fourth story of the factory is a passage over a portion of the size house to the 'Devil , ' or blowine rosm , a detached building . This passage was fire-proof excepting the floor , which was Hugged . Mr , Pickles was standing at this passage with an overlooker at his mill , of the name of Rftbert Wilton , when , stepping forward , tbe flag upon which hebad placed his foot immediately snapped , having been cracked by the intense heat , and Mr . Pickles was at once precipitated into the midst of the flames , and falling through the fourth and third stories alighted on the sreond floor , uttering as he went
down only a faint " oh ! " A spiral name for a moment hid the unfortunate man from the sipht of Wilson , but on its subsiding the latter saw the body of his master stretched on the iron floor below , then glowing with a white heat' This agonizing sight was , however , soon concealed from him , by the falling of portions of thereof and flooring , and tbe rising of a dense column o ( smoke . After the flames had subsided the ruins were searched , and the body of the unfortunate man was found , sadly burned ; the arms , legs , and faee being dreadfully scorched , tbe latter , indeed , beng almost wholly obliterated .
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Jf governm application r renen authorities to aid in discc-wing the delinquents , and in 1 S 41 sent to Paris a speci > 1 officer to make , in concert with the police of this city , tho necessary inquiries . But aU the exertions made were fruitless . Early in 1 S 42 , a despatch fi-om London made known tho emission of forged notes of the Commercial Company of Belgium , and , in consequence of the information thu < given , a woman , named Danelle , wa arrested at the Prefecture of Police , while applying for a passport , which there was reason to suspect was intended to facilitate the escape of a forger . On searching her house at Passy , a press , with tools and materials used in making false notes , were seized
and a man who called hitmen Presscl , an -architect , a native of Stuttgardt , who had been introduced to the woman Danelle at London , by a man named Itomanzow , with whom she lived as his mistress , was arrested . It wassoondiscoveredthatthenotesofthc Commercial Company of Belgium were forged by the same hand that produced the false Prussian notes . This was Romanzow , who was in Danelle ' house at Passy when it wa : » first entered by the pulicc , hut made his escape to his own private lodgings in the Rue do Fosses Monsieur le Prince , where he destroyed every trace of his malpractices , and then made his escape . In the course of the searches at Passy , as in the Rue eles Fosses Monsieur le Prince , a strong likeness of Romanzow in oil colours was found . Of this
portrait the police had lithographic copies made and distributed , and the Bank of England published a large reward lor his arrest and conviction . Two years elapsed without any recurrence of these forgeries . At last a man calling himself Linder , went to M . Bouchon , a money changer in the Rue Nenve des Pctits Champs , and asked for French money for an English bank-note for £ 100 . M . Bouchon suspected the note to be false , and at the same time remarked the strong resemblance between Linder and the portrait of Romanzow , of which he had a copy . The man , perceivinc the suspicions of M . Bouchon , at once rushed out of the shop , leavingthe bank-noce behind him , which after all proved to be genuine . The declaration made by M . Bouchon of this strange
occurrence , led to a conviction that Romanzow had returned to Paris , and the Perfect issued orders to his officers to redouble their vigilance in seeking out this able and dangerous foreigner- Suspicion soon afterwards fell on two men , living in opposite quarters of Paris , under the names of Rene and Germain . Warrants were issued , and a commissary of police went with one to a small apartment , at No . 35 , Rue d'Anjou St . Ilonore , where he found the man living under the name of Rene , but who was at once recognised to be Romanzow , who did not attempt to deny either his identity or his culpability , for flagrant proofs of his crime of forgery Jay all around , lie is youngand of prepossessing person and manners , lie protested that he never meant to do harm to individuals , but only to avenge himself of governments for having been despoiled of his own fortune by an iniquitous judgment . In his possession were
found thirty-two Bank of England five-pound notes , aud twenty-five sheets of water-marked paper , which he declared he had himself manufactured , besides various tools and implements for forging , including several engraved copper-plates , one of which was for notes of the Bank of France , not finished . Whilst this seizure was being made , another officer went to the abode of Germain , whose real name is Knapps , at No . 5 , Rue de la Tour d'Auvcrgne . This man , as well as his accomplice Romanzow , is a native of Rhenish Prussia . lie was in bed , with loaded pistols within his reach , but the officers came upon him so suddenly that he could not use his arms against ( hem or himself . He also made a full confession , and gave up many papers , < fec , which will become evidence . If the two accomplices arc to be believed , they have lately issued false paper to no Hi-eater amount than 40 , 000 f . —GuKgnani .
The Two Forgehs , Theodore Ilerweg , alias Romanzou or Raumanzow , and Knapps , have un dcr gone several interrogations before the examining magistrates , and .. several witnesses have also been examined . It appeared that Romanzou scarcely ever remained in one apartment more than a quarter ol ' a year . The preliminary proceedings are likely 1 o occupy several months , on account of the evidence which will be required from several foreign countries . Both the prisoners have made a full confession . " Romanzou states that , after having so narrowly escaped from arrest on the GtU January , 1 S 32 , Uc made his way Into Italy , where iio Jived for four months upon a . mm of money that he took with him . Fearing an application for his extradition , he returned to France , ttvnking he would be ablcthe more easily to conceal himself there . His resources were then reduced to two genuine Bank of England notes for . £ 109 each
anaconccived for fhe first time the idea of imitating them . But the difficulties he had to contend wi { h were so great that ho was for two years working assiduously before he could succeed ; living hi the most parsimonious manner upon one of the notes being obliged to keep the other as a model . At the end of the two years he ibund that ha had produced a perfect forgery , but not daring to trust the uttering of his false notes to any third person , ho issued tlicni himself , and in tl > re * i days exchanged twenty-six of them for £ 100 each at different money-changers' offices . lie then stopped , till he saw the effect- produced upon the Bank of England . At the fciine of' his last capture , Romanzou was engaged , with the assistance of his accomplice , Knapps , in miwiufactiiiing a greater number of notes of the Bank of Emdand , with the intent , as he says , of raising 100 , 000 !' ., with which lie hoped to get over to America , and there J / vc an honest life .
A " Cuaiiacteuistic" Note .- —The pvesident-of the Institution , Mr . John Paley , Jan ., presented , on Tuesday last , to the museum of that sfcicty an autogi-iip . ' i letter of his Grace the Duke of Wellington . The advice contained in the uhavaetemUc and piquant epistle is eo excellent , and so generally applicable , that we present our readers with a copy ' ol ii .: — "London , Feb . 13 , 18-13 . —F . M . the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mrs . C , He really regrets mush that ho lias not been able to read her letter . lie entreats her to write in a plain hand , in dark ink , and in a few words what her commands are . Mrs . C- ^— , , Liverpool . " _ JWston
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Chronicle —[ We beg the especial attention of our correspondents tothe excellent advice of" The Duke " as to " plain hand , " "dark ink , " and "few words . " ]
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HE-OLIGANIZATION OF THE CHARTIST BODY AT EDINBURGH . A meeting of those favourable to the re-organization of the Chartists of Edinburgh was held m Cranston ' s Temperance Hotel , on the evening of the 10 th instant . The meeting was numerously and respectably attended . - Mr . Archihau ) Walker was unanimously called to the chair , and Mr . JohnGiuht appointed Secretary , pro tern , . The CiMiRMAif , in a brief , but comprehensive address , introduced the business of the evening , — namely , to take into consideration the best means of resuscitating the Chartist cause iu Edinburgh . He was willing to . ' adopt any means that might be thought best by the majority of the meeting for
giving new life and vigour to the cause , but was of opinion that the only effectual means for gaining the desirable object they had all in view was , the establishment in Edinburgh of a branch of the National Charter Association . He then read copious extracts from the Hand-Book of the Association , entreating the meeting to give the subject their serious consideration . A highlyjnteresting discussion ensued , in which many of the tried friends of the Chartist cause took part . A number of young and new friends were also present , who strenuously supported the opinion of the Chairman , and warmly eulogised the principles of the National Charter Association , stating it as their conviction , that nothing short of a national movement would secure to the unenfranchised portion of the Unite d Kingdom their political rights
and privileges . . Mr . William Andbrson , in an energetic speech , proposed the following resolution . — That it is the decided opinion of this meeting , that tho Chartists of Edinburgh would advance the principles contained in the People ' s C / iartermore successfully were they to unite themselves as a branch of the National Charter Association ; and being convinced that , by this means alone , our political rights can be obtained , this meeting uovi agree to form thems « lves into a Branch nf the National Charter Association .
He remarked , that one cause of the apathy which had characterized the working classes in reference to the enforcement of their political claims was the season of comparative prosperity which marked the premiership of Sir Robert Peel ; but this indifference he considered highly criminal . Instead of relaxing their exertions in seasons of prosperity , it was the sacred duty of the working classes to bring their resources to bear with greater effect on the important question of their political enfranchisement . After a warm appeal to the meeting in support of the principles of the National Charter Association , Mr . Anderson concluded by again moving the resolution . Mr . Joh » M'DoKAbD cordially seconded the resolution . It did his old heart good to witness the
presence of so many young and enthusiastic friends , but they would find themselves all the better by an infusion of the old blood amongst them . Mr , Morton was willing to abide by the decision of the majority , but for his own part , he thought that a great national movement would end in a great national failure . ( The speaker then alluded to the declining state of the Odd Fellows' and Rechaliites' Sick and Burial Schemes , and argued that it was in consequence of their grasping at too wide a sphere that they fell so much in the confidence of the public . ) He thought the machinery too unwieldly and unworkable ; but he trusted that his fears would prove visionary , and , for the sake of the good cause , he would offer no opposition to the resolution .
Mr . Alexakder Grant then addressed the meeting . He remarked that the preceding speaker had sadly confounded cause and effect . Even admitting for the sake of argument that nil were fact which had been stated in reference to the Odd Fellows and Rechabites , he denied that the alleged event of success was in consequence of the i-chemes being national , their decline did not occur through but in spHo oi their existence as National Assertions . He thought the machinery ef the National Charter Association admirably adapted for securing the enactment of the People ' s Charter , and he was more and more convinced by every day ' s experience , that nothing short of a national movement would secure to the working classes their legitimate share of Parliamentary representation . As to the alleged unworkableness of the machinery , he confidently gave it as the result of the experience he had in matters qf
the kind , that five hundred members could be menaged as easily as five dozen if proper business habits were adopted , and strict attention paid to the minutest details of the scheme . He was convinced that the present was a peculiarly favourable for urging the claim of the Charter . The repeal of the Corn Laws had occupied public attention in places of the more important question of the Repeal of class legislation ; but since the fate of the Corn La , vs was considered as setled , for three years at least , what other question so fit to engage the attention of the working classes as the question of their political freedom— -the question of their complete and constitutional right as men and citizens , in opposition to their present degraded and abject state of political slavery . He was assured that they would acquit themselves in the struggle with that intelligence for which they had obtained credit , and which certainly could not be devoted to a nobler and loftier
cause . The Cmaibsian then put the resolution to the meeting , when it was carried unanimously . ; Upwards of fifty individuals were immediately enrolled as members of the Edinburgh branch of the National Charter association . The Chairman having read the law in reference to the appointment of members for the management of the affairs of the branch ; the meeting proceeded to the election of nine members to form a general council , and the apointment of a sub-Treasurer and sub-Secretary . It was carried unanimously , that a report ef the proceedings of the meeting should be forwarded for insertion in the iVortncrn Star ; the People ' s Journal ; and Douglas Jerrold's Newspaper . A vote of thanks was tendered to Mr . Walker for
bis efficient conduct in the chair , and to Mr . John Grant for his valuable service as Secretary to the meeting . The meeting then broke up at a late hour , highly gratified with the proceedings of the evening , and iu high hopes of the ultimate success of the People's Charter .
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THE LAND . FINSBURY LITERARY AND MECHANICS INSTITUTE , GOSWELL ROAD . The elegant lecture room of this Institution , was densely crowded on Sunday evening , September the 20 th , to hear a lecture from Mr . P . M'Grath , on the " Land and its capabilities . " Mr . T . Shorter was unanimously called to the chair , and briefly introduced the Lecturer—whosenrst appearance at this Institution , washeartily welcomed by the enthusiastic greetings of the auditory . The lecturer said , prejudice had instilled into the human mind from infancy , tbat the land was the property of a lew aristocrats , and hence the difficulty of inculcating the great truth , that the land was the property of the whole people . ( Loud cheers . ) Yet true it is , at Icastso says history , that about the year 10 GG— -a certain royal person
came over to this country , took tho land by force from its peaceable legitimate possessors , the people , and [ divided it amongst his retainers , who are now called Barons —( hear , hear)—but he ( Mr . M'Grath ) would ask , could rapine , spoliation , and bloodshed , give either right or title to the lands of this country ? ( Loud cheers . ) Yet some twenty or thirty thousand did claim and hold the broad acres of this kingdom , to tho great detriment and injury of the toiling millions—( hear , hear)—and in Scotland the whole land was held by some three thousand persons , and there one of those parties , more valiant than his fellows , ( the Duke of Hamilton ) had not scrupled to state how he held it , lie did not profess any right divine , or heavenly patent , no , he drew his sword ,
and flourishing it , said , ' tis by that I hold it , ' and he ( Mr . M'Uriith ) belt'lved that w ^ s the only right by which any of them held it . ( Cheers . ) But was not this a scuAidalous perversion oi ' the right God gave toman . ( Great cheering . ) A t mo is coming when men will be acquainted with their agrarian rights , and then there must be a change . ( Much applause . ) America , was already awaking to that knowledge , —( hear , hear)—she had obtained her political rights , and would doubtlessly soon obtain her social rights . ( Great applause . ) Mr . M'Grath next proceeded to shew the great capabilities of tho soil , aud in so doing , quoted largely from Mr . O'Connor ' s work on Small Farms , which was much applauded . He next proceeded to demonstrate that a man could support
himself and family in cmtort , from the produce of two acres , and illustrated his subject by living facts , much to the satisfaction of his audience . The lecturer said he was aware , that some held , that any man not bred to agriculture , could not cultivate the land effectually , but this was entirely fallacious , as was well evidenced- ; by the Northampton allotments , which were' cultivated in a superior style by shoemakers , under the presidency of Dr . Faber . Ayaiti , at Sheffield , a Mr . Ledlcy , a mason , is cultivating a small plot oi * ground on the system propounded ' hy Mr . Fcargns O'Connor , > nd producing 2 000 fbhi more than his neighbo v . 9 . Well , if shoemakers , and masons , made such geot' agriculturists , what was to
prevent the mechanics of London , or any other large ton-n , from following tlwk example . ( Loud dicers . ) Mr . Linton , a largo man nfscter at Selby ( Yorkshire ) hud recently written a letter in thelitis' Times , in whieh he oflered to prove fi ' vui his own practical experience , on a plot of laud he Why himself at Sidby , that a man and his family could'be " maintained from the produce of one acre of groun d , in a tar superior manni r to what any mechanfe com 'd , «™ n though he was in possession of the best Leetls fages , and constant employ . ( Loud cheers . ) The lecturer next entered into a most minute and lucid statement ol the principles of the " Chartist Co-ope TAtiv . e Lan . Society , " and clearly demonstrated its waking abi-
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lity , and was rapturously applauded . The League and free trade papersj had been most virulent in their opposition to that Societv , whilst the Tory press had betrayed an omnious silence , notwithstanding this , they had extended its emancipation to almost every part of the United Kingdom , and their barqua was now floating onvrards , over the stream of popularity . ( Much cheering . ) The delusion of increased trade , by means of foreign order , had not diverted the people from their righliteous object , true they had been promised " plenty to do , high wages , and cheap bread , " instead of which they had obtained scarcity of employ , notice of reduction of wages , and dear bread . ( Much applause . ) The present manufacturing system appeared
to Mm a most murderous one , as tbe Census showed , that in the manurVturing districts , 600 out of everv 1 , 000 persons died before they arrived at the age of five years , and the average duration of human life wasonly seventeen years , whilst in theagricultural districts , to which the Chartist Co-operative Land Society wish to send the people , the average of human life was fortv-five years , this had been proved by the British Association for the Advancement of Science , at their recent meeting , and how was this ? why , the wretched mother was compelled to go to slave in the unwholesome atmosphere of the mill , and leave her child , to bo murdered by another , consequently drugs was administered to quiet the poor thing , and those drugs frequently contained a considerable portion ot
poison , then was he notjustified in denominating our manufacturing s > stem , a murderous one ? ( Great cheering . ) The talk of creatine n foreign trade was moonshine . There were several nations that could now manufacture sufficient , for the whole world , and to use the language of Mr . R . R . Moore , "for the moon as well , " the only way to create trade was to place the people on the soil , and thus raise an home market , the people being at once producers and consumers . ( Loud Cheers . ) The capability of the soil to ensure happiness and plenty ( said the lecturer ) was well illustrated by James Silk Buckingham , in his ably lecture on the six statesof America , wherein he showed that the possession of a small quantity of land , brought with it , Bet only food and clothing for ,
the body , but for the mind also , ( hear , hear , ) then look to Jersey , there the people had no dread of being compelled to resort to the vise of Indian Corn , no fear of Poor Law Bastile ' s . Why ? Because they have plofs offend to cultivate for themselves , ( much applause , ) and never would the people of this country have permanent happiness , until such times as they re-possessed their natural element—the soil . ( Loud cheers . ) The Chartist Co-operative Land Society , gave a great security , to its members , by allowing " them to select its officers , and bv means of its trustees ol whom their able representative , T . S . Duncombe stood at its head , ( great applause ) they had endeavoured to get enrolled , and made . application toTidd Pratt , for that purpose , but it was refused . Mr . Duncombe had obtained a new act ,
since tbe passing of that they had again applied through a Barrister-at-law , but with no better success , however they were still resolved to have all the security the law could give , and they had come to the determination of Registering it under the Joint Stock Act , ( hear , hear . ) Mr . M'Grath concluded his highly instructive address , by appealing to all who wished well to his fellow-men , to come forth , and join the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , and resumed his seat amid the most vociferous cheering . Mr . Daniel Hot kins , a Teetotaller , said he much approved of the principles of co-operation , and by sobriety and co-operation , he had obtained a house near the White Conduit , and was so well pleased with Mr . M'Grath's lucid and able address , that he was ready to put his money down for a share in the society . ( Cheers . )
Mr . Walter Cooper said , he had been prepared to ask some questions and make some slight objections , but Mr . M'Grath had already answered his questions , and removed his objections , and now the pleasing duty devolved on him ot moving a ' vote of thanks to that gentleman * for his very able
discourse . Mr . Mamot in seconding the motion , said he had listened with peculiar pleasure to the discourse of M'Grath , and he trusted , that the lecture would be published and sent forth to the world , and if it were , he would be most happy to subscribe for ten copies , and sure he was , it would be reprinted in America , and thus illuminate both hemispheres . ( Great cheering . ) The motion was adopted by acclamation . Mr . M'Grath in responding said he would consider the suggestion thrown out by Mr . Marriott . The meeting then dissolved .
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CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS AND ASTHMA , AND THE POSSIBILITY OF CURING THEM . TO THE EDITOB OF THE NORTHERN 6 TAH . Sir , —The subjects at the head of this letter are of such general importance , that I flatter myself you will allow me " space in your valuable Journal to bring them prominently before tho attention of the public . It is strange , that in the middle of the nineteenth century , when chemical science has made such brilliant discoveries , and furnished us with such efficient remedies , there should still remain an impression on the
minds of many well-educated persons , and even on a great portion of the faculty , that Consumption is incurahie . This opinion was quite correct about fifty years ago ; for then , indeed , jthere was no known substance which we could depend upon for the complete eradication of this insidious disease ; but now the ease is totally altered , eminent men , of first-rate talents , have drawn from the world of chemistry the most valuable treasures , and placed within tbe hands of the medical practitioner , a host of powerful remedies , which may be said to act with certainty and specifically on variou ? diseases , and , amongst the rest , in a preeminent manner , on Consumption of the Lungs .
It is with reference to tbe impression above alluded to , and with a desire to place the matter in a correct point of view , that I am induced to offer these observations . The question is decidedly one of humanity -, for , if well-grounded hopes can be held out to patients , that they can be restored to health , instead of leading them to tbe gloomy anticipations of speedy dissolution , it is manifest , that this invigorating influence on the mind , will net beneficially on the body , and aid materially in strengthening the general powers of the system . But to the point—Is real organic Consumption of tbe Lungs curable ? I answer fearlessly that it is , except in thu last stage : for if we suppose the disease divided into three stages , two out of the three are as easily cured as any other complaint . To be more explicit—I mean to assert , that even alter ulceration bas destroyed a con .
siderable portion of the lungs , they may bo healed and radically cured , so trat the patient may live free from tho disease to a good old age . This is not theory , but the sober and deliberate conclusion of long experience , ardently devoted to a consideration of this destructive malad . t , and a minute inve » th ; ation of all its symptoms and inorb d characters , backed up by a successful treat , mentof the most critical cases , on the principles shortly to be mentioned . But with regard to the third , or last stage , it would be madness to affirm that medicine in any shape can stem the torrent of disease ; for here , dis . organization of : he lungs is so extensive , the ulcerations are so deep and widely spread , that a sufficient portion of substance is not left to perform the necessary function of respiration . In such cases , all that medicine can effect , is to mitigate suffering , not produce permanent benefit .
Now the means to effect the desirable results above enumerated are not those which are generally pursued . The established mode of treating this disease is avowedly useless ; even the advocates for it freely confess the fact , and lament sincerely , that their efforts are . in ninetynine eases out of a hundred , completely futile . So deplorable a want of power has led many first-rate physicians to reflect whether other means cannot 1 . 0 adopted to overcome this falal complaint , nnd happily , their labours and experiments have not been in vain ; for they now employ a mode of treatment , altogether different from the usual one , and proofs are occurring every day , that by this method , a very great majority of patients maybe cured , who , by the common routine ot practise , would have fallen victims to the disease ; this method is Inhalation .
By Inhalation or Inhaling is not meant the fumigation of a room , as is sometimes erroneously imagined , but the drawing in of medicinal vapours to the lungs themselves , by men ns of a glass n pparatus , invented for that purpose . The process is at once soothing , pleasant and efficacious , and differs altogether from any plan which requires the slightest operation . Remedies thus administered , escape the change that would otherwise be produced upon them , by being taken into the stomach , which causes them to undergo the various processes of digestion , absorption , ifcc ., and thus lose their active property before re-aching the seat of disease ; but by being inhaled at onee into ' . he lun ;? s , tlioy come unchanged into immediate contact with tho organs affected , precisely in the same manner as the common air of the atmosphere is
received into the lungs , without undergoing any previous alteration . This mode of proceeding is the only one that is ronsislcnt with reason , and in harmony with the principles we adopt in other cases ; for if any external part of the hotly has rec .-ived an injury , or become ulcerated , we apply an ointment , lotion , or other substance , to the immediate seat of the m .-i ' ndy , and thus speedily effect its enro . Now , thziwhich tho ointment effects foi any outward part , inhaling performs for tho lungs . The system of Ishad & tion , therefore , involves \\ o theory difficult to be understood ; it is merel y plain , common sense , di-YC-itud of all mystery and uncertainty ; for when the c ? se of any patent is curable at all , it must surely be by those means which gain a direct access to the very parts which require the remed y .
Ly the certain aud powerful action of medicines introduced into the lungs by inhaling , we find that ulcers , which are broken out into a state of abscess , can be compktely healed ; and that tubercles , which are only in their incipient stage , can be removed by absorption , without the usual softening down into ulceration at all . At the same time , it is to be observed , that internal treatment is not neglected ; for disease- in the lungs is alwnjs complicated , more or less , " with derangement of
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other parts of the system , and this circumstance renders auxiliary measures sometimes necoseary , m order to correct the constitutional error ; but without inhalation , it may be positively asserted , that all other means will be tried in vain . This is proved by the utter failure , la almost every instance , ot the methods hitherto pursued . It may here be observed , that Asthma is treated lika * wine on this plan , and with the same beneficial results as Consumption . The practice of Inhalation itself is not new , but the medicines formerly used were not adapted to the end required ; its efficacy now entirely consists ( as was observed at the outset ) in the employment of remedies which modern chemistry has discovered , and which were totally unknown forty or fifty years ago . These remedies are now acknowledged by many eminent men-to be their sheet anchor ( when used by tbe way of Inhalation )
for tho euro of Pulmonary Complaints . It would be easy to record a long list of powerful advocates for the system , but It may be sufficient to mention the names of Willson , Copland , Corrigan , Coxe , Murray , Scudamore , Cotterean of Paris , Blliotson , Harwood , Ryan , and Thompson . The bare enumeration of such individuals as these , who Aro at the very head of their profession , is surely sufficient to convince every unprejudiced person of the superiority of this method over that which has unfortunately been practised , with such loss of human life , up to the present time . Perhaps I may be allowed to odd my own feeble testimony , that few cases have come under my eare which I have not found the Inhaling process fully equal to subdue ; and reports daily received from patients who are now under my treatment , both here and at a distance , render my conviction firm , that this method is destined to accomplish such favourable results , as no other plans would warrant us to expect .
I consider it my duty to diffuse a knowledge of this system more generally among society ; for it is certain , that Consumption is making greater inroads than aver upon the population of these islands , it being known , from authentic sourcts , that no fewer than sixty thousand individuals die annually from this scourge in Great Britain alone . . < Should you , Sir , think proper to aid my . efforts , hy inserting this in your paper , I shall feel myself highlyobliged , and beg to subscribe myself Your obedient Servant , Daniel Cabx , M . D . * 62 , St : Paul ' s Square , Birmingham .
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TO TBI BDITOB OF THE NORTHERN STAS . Sib , —The perusal of the Star of the 12 th instant must h : we been a source of gratification to every member of the democratic body in the United Kingdom , and the knowletfge of the triumphant entry and the enthusiastic recaption of Labour ' s emancipator , our Liberator Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., in- Devonshire , should be a spur to the rousing up of any dormant energy that may exist towards a renewed agitation for man's natural birthright—the laad and the Charter . Among the mass of . rubbish with which tho press of this country teems from week to week , it is truly refreshing to meet with such language as tbe following , it is a" green spot amidst the waste of waters , "—very " oasis in the desert , " and as Jerrold's newspaper will , in all likelihood ha seen by a very limited number of the readers of the . Star , I think that a portion of yourcolumns might be worse occupied than by it * quotation . Under the title of " Wealth , and Want , " an article in the paper alluded to , says : —
" Among the social and political speculations which have engaged the attention of modern publicity , none are so interesting as those which investigate the relative condition ot the different classes of a communit y with a view to remedy the glaring inequalities whieh obtain between property and labour . * * * The extremes of wealth and poverty maybe traced up to political institutions , founded in' usurped authority , so framed as to deprive labour of its just reward . " Slavery , primogeniture , hereditary pririhge , indirect taxation , electoral disfranchisement , these are not necessary conditions of social existence , but are various modifications ' of that system which hag been called the-• law of tbe strongest . ' Statisticians estimate the annual surplus of wealth in this country at Fifty Millions ! hut if we place this amount to the credit of the nation , are we not entitled to put on the debit side the poverty and destitution of the great body ef the people by whose
labour this surplus has been accumulated ? if the surplus is ' evidence of high powers of production , does it not afford equal evidence of low powers of distribution ? Suppose that the distribution had been equitable , so that the whole produced of labour had been the recompense of labour fast-it ou ? ht to be , and as Adam Sn-ith affirms was the case before land was appropriated and stock accumulated ) where would have been the surplus , ? Clearly it could not exist , but as full compensation for its absence , there would remain neither pov « rty nor privation among the working classes . Shall the bees annually consume the money they have collected , and thus sustain themselves in vigour , or shall it be hived up for tbe use of the drones ? We perceive tbe productive classes are compelled to subsist on the scantiest necessaries , while the non-productive classes fare sumptuously every day ? Industry can no longer sustain itself because idleness abstracts its earnings , "
This requires no comment ; it proves that the Star is " sowing the good seed , " and will bring out those master minds of the present age who , seeing the existing state of society through its proper medium , have the manliness to acknowledge it and suggest the remedy . There are two suggestions in the last Star , which I think cannot be too forcibly impressed upon the brethren of tho Land Co-operative Society . The first is , the caution emanating from the Chartist body in Glasgow , against any infringement of the rules of the societv , as such I am sure wouU damage the cause most vitally ; the other is , the propriety of getting up a subseriptura to defray the travelling expenses of our pioneer O'Connor . It is truly disgraceful that he should be allowed
to be put to the expeuce he necessarily must in further ing the cause of the people during the many years he has laboured in their service , and never accepted a farthing of remuneration . How different from the Repeal Quack , old £ . s . d ., whom our lovite O'Higgins is opening up so beautifully . It is all very well for Mr , O'Connor to think and know what a monument of gratitude he is raising within the breasts of so many thousands of his fellow-creatures , whose position be is toiling , both bodily and mentally , so hard to elevate , still I would like to see a more sterling testimonial of the people ' s respect and gratitude , and I shall be most happy tc learn , that the subscription is immediately set agoing , that I may contribute my mite .
I was present at Mr , Doyle s lecture on Tuesday evening , and I must say that I never heard a more able , clear and lucid explanation than what he gave , of tho rise , progress , and present position of the Land scheme , while hi * eloquent exposure of the evil effects of the law of primogeniture , entail , ic ., & e ., and his powerful demonstrations against the system of robbery , tyranny and oppression which has existed for so many centurie . i by the aristocracy against the working classes , brought down the acclamations of the house , which was crammed to the very door . Mr . Doyle ' s reception must have been most gratifying ; he mentioned that it was hiB first appearance before a Scotch audience , but it was such as ever to be remembsred by him with feelings of pleasure .
Doyle is one of the right sort , and I am confident his lecture will cause many to think and join us iu our regeneration . I am , Sir , yours most obedient , Glasgow , Sept . 1 G , 1846 . Tom Ten .
Im Sixcuiiar Cape Of Restored Aximatiqx. — On
iM SixcuiiAR Cape of Restored Aximatiqx . — On
.. Mere Was A Regatta As , Accompanied W...
.. mere was a regatta as , accompanied with a variety c- > f amusements of a rastiecharacter . Shortly after the conclusion of the regatta a party , who had been out fish'n ? in a boat some distance below the pier , discovered the body of a man , respectably dressed , floating on the surface . It was immediately taken on shore tothe Ship Tavern , where , after using the usual restorative means for several hours , animation was at length restored . lb appeared that Lieu'ef . ant Drake , ' R . N ., had been , walking on the pier , which is a mile and a quarter in . length , and by some accident foil off unobserved b y the spectators , lie was home away from tho pier by the title , and floated to a considerable distance till he was thus fortunately rescued , whilst in a complete state of insensibility . Lieutenant Drake is now convalescent .
As Awfui , Cask of Svdpo Death occurrc . ) on Sunday morning last , in . the demise of Mrs . Hendricks , the respectable wife of Mr . Hendricks , tho omnibus proprietor , of Church-lane , Whiteehapel , deeply regretted by * all who were acquainted with her . ' * Respectable " Tiukves . -Crewe Smut Ses « sioxs .- On Friday , Georire Rodgcrs , Anthony Beech , lhomas Moss , James Bland , and Benjamin Wild , all ot Monks Coppenhall , flour sellers , were summoned < 0 answer informations laid against them by tbe special high constable of Nantwich . for bavins in their possession unjust scales . The scles of
Rodgers and Beech , were 3 oz . deficient in tho balance , and . Moss , Biand , and Wild , 2 or ., each . Rodgcrs , Beech , and Bland , were convicted in the penalty ofouj . and . costs . Moss 20 s . and costs , anil n iki ( iOs . and costs . The fines were immediately paid . The latter person had been cautioned soma time ago by the inspector . Great complaints havo bsen made by tho mechanics employed at the Railway Company's works , at Crewe , against the breaddealers there , for not weighing their bread .. & n heir " purchased h-oro . them in their ( the purchaser ' s ) pre " sence , which would give them an opportunity of ascertaining who sold the most for money . —Liverpool Memmi .
Ma . Waklf . y the Patriotic M . P ., axd People ' s Couoner . —On Tuesday evening , a few friends , who are in the habit of frequenting the parlour of Mr . Gilbert ' s the " Royal Oak , " Charles-street . Fieldgate-street , Commercial-road East , assembled for the purpose of considering the propriety of forwarding the subscriptions for The purpose of purchasing the release of Matthewson . Mr . Shaw , was appointed to the chair . In the course of the evening , the conduct of the patriotic member for Finsbury , was very much lauded , and it was ultimately agreed that , tho meeting should adjourn to eight o ' clock , next Tuesday evening , when the subject will he entered into , and in all probability the landlord , will be appointed treasurer .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26091846/page/6/
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