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Awust 30, 1851 • THE NORTHERK STAR . 7
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FATHER GAVAZZI IN EDINBURGH . j Father Gavazzi recently delivered the following ] oration against the Papacy ,. and in favour of political j tni religions freedom in Italy , in . this city . —[ His address was divided into three sections , an - outline of which was read in English by Mr . Greig , from a previously prepared translation , by some person acquainted with the Italian language—Mr . Greig iJauning ths indulgence of the meeting , on account of the shortness of the notice he had got to perform the duty which had been assigned to him ] . —I here represent , said Father Gavazzi , in . my person an idea and a principle . My name is henceforth associated with that great event—the fell of the m , nrping Papacy —( applause)—with the disappearance of that monstrosity , and the return of
the Church of Rome to the holy simplicity of the Gospel . But while certain of the result as regards jay native country and while I can boldly announce that my orations in . England already begin to bear wholesome fruit in Italy , I perceive with sorrow nor Jndeed the few convenfiuns of English to Romanism , because these are attributable to ignorance or duplicity , but I perceive with sorrow the weakness of England in respect to the Papal Aggression . ( Hear , bear . ) -Britons , be ye attentive to your situation . We can and must be tolerant towards all creeds aud towards every sect , except towards that of Rome , because Rome is intolerance personified . ( Lond cheers ) . The Pope must be treated in England just
as be treats the English in Rome . ( Cheers . ) The Roman Catholics should obtain nothing beyond what is absolutely , necessary for the free exercise of their reiigiuus worship , otherwise before the lapse of a few years you will be inundated wish Cardinals and Jesuits , and you will groan under the horrible tortures of the . Inquisition . ( Applause ) . If the legislation of ibe .-ession just closed has been rather weak and condescending , let the application of the sew law be quick and vigorous . ( Lond cheers . ) Rid yourselves immediately of Papal pretension , or you wiil infallibly become Papists , and you will be Obliged to embrace the sanguinary spectre which we shall have driven out of Itaiv . Unite with
mesecond my endeavours , and let us work together to bring about that desirable event—tlie fail of the usurped throne of the Pope . ( Loud applause . ) When we Italians have sworn to lioerate ourselves from this monstrosity , let it not be said that Cardinal Wiseman is forging tor England the chains which we have cast from us . ( Cheers . ) The throne of the Pope is the throne of a usurper ; therefore it must fall ; and may God grant that it may be speedily . ( Laud cheers- ) The Pope presides at the Vatican , not as a minister of religion , but as a spectacle of worldly pomp , lie has converted the Church of Chrish b- his earthly vanities into a den of thieves . Father Gavazzi went on to illustrate the abuses of Popery , by tracing many of its superstitions to Paganism . Under the Roman Emperors
and Consuls , he said , we were the lords of the world , under the Pope we are its slaves . ( Cheers . ) The Pope , by causing himself to be styled . Pontifix Maximus , destroyed that equality which Christ established among his disci ples . He claims jurisdiction over the universal Cnmxh—be interprets Scripture after his own fashion—he is infallible ? Was Leo the Tenth , the atheist , infallible ? Was Alexander the Sixth , although guilty of incest , infallible ? "Was John the Twenty-fourth , although convicted of revolting crimes , infallible ? Is Pio Nono , that bombardier of his people , infallible ? And yet they are ail santissimi . 1 am willing to be Menus with the 'whole world—even to embrace the murderer of my brother ; but with the Jesuits—the secret police and props of the Papacy—I will keep no
terms . There are no demons on earth worse than the so-styled Company of Jesus—for the followers of Jjoyoh there must be no pity , no mercy . ( Great cheering . ) These have invented the infallibility cf the Pope . God alone is infallible ; and yet , sav cardinals and priests , led the Word of God go , but not so the dictum of the Pope . This flagrant usurpation of the Pope perfectly resembles-the Devil j with this qualification , however , that whereas Lucifer said , " I will be , " the Pope says , " I am " equal to God . ( Cheers . ) The one was the sin of thought , an ambitious hope—the other is an actual sin ol fact . Ye Romanist bigots , and je Anglicists vacillating between Protestantism and Romanism , listen , till I tell you . Who calls himself the Vicar of Christ ? The Pope . Who calls
himself Vicegod ? The Pope . Who calls Himself God on earth ? The Pops . According to him , we have two Gods—one in heaven , and the other on earththe , one *» n earth superseding the one in heaven , and that one being the Pope . To our heavenly Father , as represented in" the Roman Catholic Eucharist , the believer is required to bow with one knee on the ground ; but to the Pope , that humble semut of the servants of God—as be ' styles himself—we must bow three times on both , knees . It is a privilege only conceded to a few favoured ones to address him erect . Let us imagine the A postle Peter rising from his grave in search of his successors on earth . The poor fisherman , who was commanded by our Saviour to go forth and preach the gospel , taking with him neither shoes nor scrip , nor two garments , would
naturally begin his search on the banks of the Tiber , among the b ^ ats and nets of bis former profession on earth . Nj , poor Peter 1 ' tis time and labour lose . "Where , then , will he go to look for bis successors ? Among the poor and needy—ia the prisons and in the fields f No ; all ia lost time . My good St . Peter , if you want to find your humble succts ^ r , you must look for him in the Palace of the Vatican . You must have a ticket from the major-domo , for unless you have that you cannot get in—you are a poor fisherman . Look at Pio . Nono , French and Swiss sentineU guard his gates . In tbe ante-chambers are gen * d ' annes—in the waiting room chamberlains and footmen . The door is opened , and there sits Pio Nono , clothed in srarietand fine linen , laces and jewels , and embroidery : —the fisherman ' s ring on his third finger ,
sparkling with diamonds . Dawn on your knees , St . Peter , and kisi the toe of your own successor ( Loud cheer *) . He is no longer a fisher of souls , hut a ruler of bodies . He must either be a priest or a prince ; if both , he is a bad priest and a bad pr ince . If a had priest , he betrays the Church of Gbd—if a bad prince , he betrays the liberty of the people , and he is a tyrant . ( Cheers ) . But the throne which is founded upon the trunkless heads of its subjects , and supported by foreign bayonets , is near its fail . The blood of the subjects of Pius cries from the ground against him . ( Cheers- } This tyrant , who has canonised despotism throughout Italy , we have sworn on the altar of our country to overthrow . The force of union is irresistible ; let the people of England unite ia the cause of my oppressed country , and the freedom for which we strive ,
will be the sooner obtained . We will have no longer a Pope King—because ws will nut have priest-kings —we will only have priests priests . ' And for this , which is a virtue in the face of God , but a crime iu the eyes of the Pope , Rome has been bombarded ; aud we are exiles . We hope to see the day when all this will be checked ; but you must unite with us . Public opinion will do miracles . The French and Austriaus now support the tottering throne of the Papacy and hare become the auxiliaries of the shameful apostate , Masta . But let the English assist n ? Italians , and speedily nothing will remain of tbe Papacy—not even its memory . ( The Padre concluded an oration of which the foregoing is but an outline , amid lond and reiterated cheering . Of the Striking effect of this declamation , " it is utterly impossible to give the slightest idea ) .
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Awust 30 , 1851 THE NORTHERK STAR . 7
__ The Income Tax.—We Have Often Denounc...
__ The Income Tax . —We have often denounced the income tax , but after perusing the report of the evidence offered before the committee of the House of Comm . iiis as-pointed to consider the nature of the impost , we regard the language we have employed as too moderate . This obnoxious burden is only conceded for one rear , and it will be an act of patriotism and morality to knock it on the head . If we are to have direct taxation , let us have a system universally applicable to all self-supporting citizens . The piesent system is unjust , partial , and ineffective . It leaves wealth exempt , and exacts the pound of flesh from comparative poverty and strngglingindustry . It offers a bouusonfraud , and tempts to deceit ; evasion , falsehood , and trickery . And it bears hardest , and is most profitable when dealing with tbescruputausconscience . The law here is fitted in tbe highest degree to create defaulters and cheats—indeed the amount
of evasion and lying to which tha income-tax & wes occasion mast be ccormous . And yet coerced by the Manchester selfists , a small tax dare not be imposed on the commodities poured into this country by the alien and foreigner . —Edinburgh Post . St . Giles ' s . —Perhaps few are aware that the miserable state of the greater part of St . Giles ' s is pnncipallv attributable to the will of a Sir Thomas Dy ot , who died in the .-sign of Charles II-, devising the property which formed what used to be called Dyotstreet , and several other streets of the same class , upon the express condition that it should be ^ PP ™" priattd entirely to the same style of building , and the same description of inhabitants which have so long
kept undisputed possession of it . Until the passing of the Thel ' usion Act nothing was easier than to tie up and control the management of an estate for a . century to come ; and even as the taw now stands it is perfectly competent for the Duke of Bedford , the Marquis of Westminster , and Lord Portman , to impede or accelerate the populationand improvement ot the metropolis fur seventy or eighty years after their respective deaths . The only limitation ona devise or settlement not extending beyond the period fixed by that set i .-, that the condition annexed to the gut shall not have aa immoral or illegal tendency , _ nor be contrary to public policy , nor to be physically impossible— Observer .
Postal Facilities . —The Postmaster-General has announced that correspondence addressed Post Iteitanie , or to be lrft at the General Post-office till called for , may be retnmsnuited ; and that arrangements have bJeu made for parties who may wish to avail themselves of the regulation previous to their departure trom the mctropolisto leave their address n toe Secretary ' s Office . % Martin's-le-Grand ,
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THE LATE MURDEROUS ATTEMPT AT TOTTENHAM . : On Saturday last an inquest was held before Mr . w . Baker , one of the coroners for Middlesex , ' before a re spectable jury , at the White Hart Inn , Tottenham , touching the suicide of Mr . Carl Crighlo , aged 36 , a German merchant , whose murderous attempt on the lives of Mrs ; and Miss . Brand , and whose subsequent self-destruction wo detailed in our second edition last week . . Mr . William Hbwht Bbakd , the husband and father of the wounded ladies , said—I am a clerk at a banker ' s in the City . I have Known the deceased since January last ; he is a native of Rattenbrecb ,
near Schwelin , in Westphalia , and was a kind of agent or merchant for his father , who was a steel manufacturer . He also acted for other houses . When he came to England be lodged at my house at times . He was in the habit of leaving for a short time and then returning . He was- very strange in his habits , and about a month after he had been with us he suddenly left , and we could hear no tidings of him . Knowing that he had no friends in England , and thinking he might have fallen into bad hands , I made an application to the Lord Mayor , at the Mansion House , vrita a view Of getting his description and mysterious disappearance made known . He came back in the course of three weeks , and to show is state of mind 1 will read an extract of a letter which I received from him at
Sheffield , dated 13 th April : — "Wherever I go you strike me incognito . You drive me from town to town ,. and you follow me through England , and force me to spend my money . " We had been on the best of terms , and when he came back and was shown tbe letter he could scarcely believe that he could have penned such an epistle . He then lived at Seyde ' s ( German ) Hotel , in Finsbury-square , but he often visited my house , and I may say that a more religious and moral man never lived . I frequently noticed his melancholy demeanour . In March last he was disappointed in not seeing his brother , and since then there was a strange change in his conduct . On last Monday three weeks he came to our house and informed us that he had been advised to return to his native country , and
arrangements were made for the ladies to see him off by steam boat on the following Wednesday morning but on going to the wharf , I found that he bad not been at the hotel all night , and nothing was known as to where he had gone , although he had left his luggage behind . On Tuesday last be returned to the hotel , and on Wednesday morning , about llo ' elock , he came down to my house . He left early in the afternoon and returned to the hotel , where he dined . lie suddenly left the dinner table ,. ran up stairs to his bed-room , and in a few minutes he hastened back to Tottenham . lie came to the front gate of my cottage , and seemed quite . agitated . My daughter ' s
first impulse was to shut the door , but he got to it before she could close it . He said to her twice , " Miss Brand , are you alone ? " She replied that her mother was in an adjoining room , He then rushed at her and stabbed her . Mr . Brand stated that deceased had paid particular attention to his daughter , and was her accepted suitor . They were , engaged in marriage , and he had expressed no objection to it if the deceased secured himself in a regular and certain way of business . They had never quarrelled . He had no doubt that the deceased destroyed himself and stabbed Mrs . and Miss Brand while in an nnsound state of mind .
Mr . Wu . Ryan , the station master of the Tottenham station of the Eastern Counties Railway , stated that at twenty-two minutes to eight o'clock on Wednesday evening his attention was called to Mr . Brand ' s cottage by hearing that his wife and daughter had been stabbed by some man who was in the house . He went in and saw the deceased crouched down in a corner of the washhouse . Blood was flowing from bis chest . He was not quite dead . His bead rested on his knees , and after giving two or three gasps he expired . The dagger he stabbed himself with was found close to the body . ¦ Mr . J . Clark , surgeon , of Tottenham , deposed to being called to the deceased and Miss and Mrs . Brand on Wednesday evening . Found the deceased dead . There were three wounds in the'
region of the stomach , and two in the region of the heart . There was also a cut on the side , and on the thigh . —Coroner : Could the deceased have inflicted those injuries on himself ? . Witness : I saw nothing to lead me to suppose that they had not been done by himself ; aud , judging from , his past conduct , and the acts we are inquiring- into , I should say that he was of unsound mind . lira . Brand was stabbed inTtbe upper part of tho left sido , and Miss Brand in the ri ght breast . One of her left hand fingers was cut , as if by a sharp instrument drawn through it . —By a Juror : It is certainly not impossible that the deceased could have , inflicted tbe wounds himself . The Coroneb then said , the inquiry had better be adjourned . It was possible , perhaps , ' that the females might have inflicted the injuries on the deceased in self-defence , but certainly very improbable ; besides , it would tend to remove any reports that might be raised prejudicial to the ladies . The proceedings were accordingly adjourned .
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Greenwich Park . —There seems a probability that the long promised improvements are now to be carried out . A lodge 'has been commenced at the south gate ; that probably , before long , the spot occupied by the keeper ' s house , farm yard , kitchen and flower gardens , & c , will be restored to the public , from whom it has been taken atvarious times . —Ken tish Mercury . The Statue of the Queen at Holyrood . —On the 22 nd inst . this statue , the production of Handyside Ritchie , was placed on its pedestal , in front of Holyrood Palace . It is by far the most successful effort of the sculptor , and of the most graceful statues of the Queen , which has yet been placed in connexion with any public building in her dominions .
Safety Valves in Steam Boats . —The following important provision appears in tbe Jatb act of Parliament on steam navigation : ¦— " After the 31 st oi March , 1852 , it shall not be lawful for any steamboat , of which surveys are required , to go to Sea or to steam upon the rivers of the United Kingdom , without having a safety-valve upon each boiler , free from the care of the engineer , and out of bis control and interference , and such safetyvalve shall be deemed to be a necessary part of tbe machinery , upon the sufficiency of which the engineer surveyor is to report . "
Watercress , —A supply of watercress for the autumn and winter may be easily obtained by planting some strong young top ? , about four inches long , in a line at tbe foot of a north wall . _ The cuttings should be of pieces which are protruding roots from the joints . The watercress will grow freely in such a situation ; and in many places where there are no artificial beds , and where natural ones are a considerable distance off , these will be found very useful . Supply the young plants with plenty of water until they are tooted .
Gu . vpowder Stokes ( Liverpool ) Exemption Repeal Act . —A notice appears in the Gazette , stating that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty , with the approval of the Master-General of her Majesty ' s Ordnance , and the commissioners for the conservancy of the river Mersey , have selected that part of the river Mersey , which lies along the we ? tern side of tbe Eastham Sands , to the eastward of Broomboro' Pool , for the mooring of vessels suitable for the reception and storage of gunpowder , in conformity with the act U and 15 Vict . cap . 67 . _ „ .
Dr . Cahill ' s Reception in Leeds . —Placards having 1 e ? n posted in Leeds announcing that the Rev . Br . Cahill ( the author of the infamoug letters to his fellow countrymen which have been already noticed in the Times ) , would lecture upon astronomy , considerable excitement was created among the Protestant portion of the community , and a resolution come to to bring his " reverence to task for his sanguinary epistles . This was anticipated bv the Irish and Roman Catholics of the borough , who assembled in numbers to take sides with the " Doctor . " Many of the persons present at tbe opening of the first lecture on Monday night were Irish men and women of the lowest class , who had evidently ' been introduced for an object , and tbey peered impudently into . the face of every stranger that entered , as though endeavouring to ascertain
whether they were friends or not . Before the commencement of the lecture , Mr . W . Whitehead , chief clerk of the Board of Works , mounted a bench , and , holding Dr . Cahill ' s pamphlet in bis hand , asked the " Doctor" if he were the "D . W . Cahill" who had written the following words , and printed them in a pamphlet addressed to the people of Ireland : — " There is not one Frenchman , or one Frenchwoman , or one French child , who would not dance with frantic joy at the glorious idea of having the opportunity , before they die , of burying their eager swords , and plunging their crimsoned French steel , into the inmost breast of every man bearing the bated name of Englishman ? " Immediatel y upon Mr . Whitehead rising , a yell was raised by the Irish present , and a Roman Catholic lawyer , named l ' rest , and an Irish sharebroker of the same
denomination , seized Mr . Whitehead , and dragged hihi partly across the room ' amid the yells of triumph of the Irish and the indignant protests of the Protestant English present , some members of the town council warmly remonstrating against this treatment . The lecture was afterwards commenced and <* one through ; and at its close Cahill slated that ° hc had been misrepresented by the English press who had made him " glory" in the idea of the butchering of the English Protestants by tbe French . All he had done was to point out a factthe state of feeling in France , as he had himself seen in his travels . On Tuesday morning Mr . Whitehead appeared before the Leeds magistrates , and we believe an assault warrant will issue against that gentleman ' s assailants . , . ., The ' potato disease has appeared in the vicinity of St . John ' s , Sew Brunswick . - It is not general .
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THE EMIGRANT IN NEW YORK . The following valuable document , containing directions for immigrants into New York , has lately been published in that city , It is dated " Ofljce of the Commissioners of Emigrants of the State of New York , New City-hall , Chambers-street , New York , August , 1851 , " and sighed " Guliaii'C . Verplanck , President of the Commissioners of Emigration , 3 Jew York " : — : 11 Passengers arriving at the port of New York with the intention of proceeding to the interior should make their stay in the city as short as possible , in order to save money . It will generally not be necessary for them to go to any hotel or inn , but the passage-tickets to the interior can be bought immediately and the baggage be at once
removed from the ship to the steam-boat , tew-boat , or railroad , some one of which starts every day throughout the year . This course saves not only much money for board , lodging , and carting , but also prevents many occasions for fraud . If passengers go to an inn or boarding-house , they should see at once whether a list of prices for board and lodging is posted up for their inspection , as is required by law . Never employ a cart that has no number painted on it , and be careful to note down the number . Always make a bargain for the price to be paid before engaging a cart to carry your baggage . The price allowed by law for a cait load any distance not over half a mile is 33 c , and for each additional half mile one-third more , Among the impositions practised on emigrant
passengers none is more common than an overcharge in the rates of passage to the interior , against which there is no protection , ' except by a close attention to the following remarks , and by insisting on a strict adherence en the part- of forwarders to tbe scale of prices established by the mayor of the city of New York and the Commissioners of Emigration , which will be found below . There are two principal routes to the interior from JJew York ; one is by way pf Albany and Buffalo , or by the New York and Erie Railroad . The passage from New York to Albany costs from 25 c . to 50 c . ( half a dollar ) . From Albany there are two modes of conveyance to Buffalo—one by canal , which takes from seven to ten days , at 1 } dollars the other b y railroad , going through in thil'ty-BlX
hours , at 4 dollars ; and no hi gher prices should be paid . The route to the south and west is by way of Philadelphia and Pittsburg . The passage from New York to Philadelphia is 1 dollar 50 c , ' and from there to Pittsburg 3 dollars to 5 dollars , making from N ew York to Pittsburg from 4 dollars 50 c . to fl dollars 50 c . There is also a route to Pittsburg by way of Albany in the summer season , which will cost 5 dollars 50 c . . On all these routes passengers have to find their own provisions , and , consequently , the difference in tbe cost between travelling by canal and railroad is not as great as it appears at first , ^ as the passengers by canal have to pay for a week ' s provisions more than those travelling by railroad , besides losing time and being longer exposed to fraud . Passengers areadvised in no event
to engage their passage to distant small places that do not lie on the main route , but only to engage to the nearest main station , and from there to make a new engagement to their final p lace of destination , If not differently advised by the Emigration Society , and in all cases when passengers have not been able to consult these societies , they should never engage passage further th ; . n Buffalo or Pittsburg , and there make a new contract . Otherwise , their passage-tickets , though paid for , may prove good for nothing . Passengers are cautioned that baggage is very often stolen , and tbe owners should always keep an eye upon their effects , and " not allow themselves to be enticed or bullied into giving the transportation of them to irresponsible people , or going into boarding-houses or forwarding offices not
of their own free selection . Emigrants should alwaysdecide , immediately upon their arrival , what they will do before they spend their small remaining means in the boarding-house , and thoy should generally proceed at once on their journey while they have the means . On their arrival here they should not give ear to any representations nor enter into any engagements without obtaining the advice and counsel of cither the Commissioners of Emigration , or the Emigrant Society of the nation to which they belong , or its Consul ; and in inquiring for the office of the society , or Consul , or the Commissioners , they should be careful not to be carried to the wrong place . There are many individuals sufficiently unscrupulous intentionally to mislead the stranger . If the latter , for instance ,
inquire after the agency of the German Society , or the Irish Emigrant Society , the person applied to will say that he is tbe agent , or that he will take the stranger to the offico of the German Society ; but , instead of doing so , wilt take him to a place where he is almost sure to be' defrauded . Asa general rule , if the emigrant is urged to take passage , or has to pay for the advice he asks , he may take it for granted that he is not at the place where hV wishes to be ; and he should bear in mind to look for the name of the persons or office he is in search of at the door of the house into which he is shown . All the foreign . Consuls and the emigrant societies , as well as tho Commissioners of Emigration , have signs over the doors of their offices . The office of the German Society is No . 95 , Greenwich-street ; of the Irish Emigrant Society at . No . 20 , Read-street ; arid of the Commissioners of Emigration in one of the public edifices of the city , in tho Park . N . B . The Commissioners
earnestly advise all emigrants who bring money with them to deposit is as soon as they arrive in the Emigrant Industrial Savings-bank , No . 51 , Chambers-street , opposite the Parlf , This institution was established by the Legislature for the express purpose of affording to emigrants a safe place of deposit for their monies , which tbey can draw out at pleasure , whenever they want it ; and , after a certain period , with interest added to it . Never keep money about your person , or in your trunks . Evil persons may rob or commit worse crimes upon you . Take it to the Savingsbank . Passengers while travelling should always bo provided with small silver change , as they may otherwise be more easily cheated on the way . Never take bank-notes , if you can avoid it , until you are able to judge of their value for yourselves , as there are many , counterfeit and broken bank-notes in circulation . What is called a shilling in America is not more than sixpence sterling . "
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The " own correspondent" of the Independence Beige reports that he met the Queen and Prince Albert in the Crystal Palace . Her Majesty , seeing a note book in his hand , asked him -what paper he reported for ; and when he gave the name , she begged hi a to be favourable ! " Own correspondents " do moot with such strange adventures ! Sittings of the Insolvekt Dbbtobs Court . — On Thursday next the Insolvent Debtors Court will sit for bail cases and motions . By this timely notice parties may prepare their applications , and save themselves an imprisonment of some weeks . Mr . Commissioner Phillips will preside .
A New Trick . —A number of pickpockets , who are now carrying on an active business in Liverpool , _ have adopted rather a singular mode of effecting their object . When they see a couple of ladies walking or standing together , one of them steps up to knock away from the dress of the ladies a large bee . The lady is naturally alarmed at seeing the bee so near her , and in the confusion cf the moment easily becomes a prey to the designing pickpocket , who for this purpose carries with him a box ot bees ready to be used when opportunity serves . ' Of course we need scarcely state that tl . « bee is placed on the dress of the lady by one of the thieves , and that his companion takes care to rifle her pocket whilst the other is apparently busy is protecting the lady from the sting of the insect—Liverpool Mercury .
The TBLEenAriF in Hungary . —Before the end of this year three great lines of electric telegraph will be entirely finished in Huripary : one from Pestb to Szolriok , the other from Czezold to Szegedin . andthe third from Cz-jngrad to Aradt These lines will connect together twenty large manufacturing towns and several smaller places . Fiuum by Money Orders . —The following notice has been just issued from the General Post-office : — "By command of the Postmaster-General . Instructions to all Postmasters , Sub-Postmasters , and
Letter Receivers , issuing and paying money orders . General Post-office , August , 1851 . —Several frauds having lately been committed by persons procuring money orders for very small sums , and then altering these sums to several pounds , and passing tne orders to tradesmen , I have to direct that when an order is demanded for a less sum than a pound , you will be careful to strike your pen through the word * Pounds' and the space before it , and also through the letter « £ ' and tbe space underneath it . -Rowland Hill , Secretary to the Postmaster-General . " . .
Assiriax Astiquiiies . —We have received from Colonel Rawlinson the following important communication , relative to a discovery made by him —in an inscription upon an Assyrian bull-ot an account of the campaign between Sennncherio ana Hezekiab . It is a most satisfactory step to nave established the identity of the king who built the great palace of Koyunjik with the Sennacherib ol Scripture . Wo have now a tangible starting p lace for historical research , and shall ( Col . Rawlinson asserts ) make rapid progress in fixing the Assyrian chronology . —Athenceum . ¦ p Acts of Parliament . —There were only Juo public acts passed in the late session , being the smallest number passed for some years . At -tne commencement of the session an act to shorten such matters took effect , and the phraseology of tbe statutes is different from those passed iu the pre-¦
ceding year . _ . . „ Lo . mjos and South Western Railway . — irainc for the week ending August U i-Paesengers , £ ly . 9 S 3 7 s . |; Goods , £ 2 , 070 4 s . 7 d . ; Total amount , £ 18 . 053 lis . 7 d .
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . « 0 ; L o e f- £ f , ad i ° fled general session of the peace lor the county of Middlesex commenced on ; f fiff ^ . 0 r - 'K Clerkenweli , with a calendar of fifty-stx prisoners for trial . ot , « nr * . i «* . ** wtw .-Vittfem Proctor , rnhhlZii ™* young man , was indicted for ^¦ 17- 2 ° f tho Pers ° n- The prosecutrix was a S iZ oll & ' wl the robbery was committed Inmi % * °£ -My , .-on . board the Clarence ¦ « I S ' St" Kat » arine ' sDocks , whither she had 1 ° l «^ i Se (! i 8 ome friends wfco were about to sail ;« ni i nd - u- , i , he was near the saloon , theprisoner placed his hand in her pocket and stole a
, R ° " >! g 3 s . 8 d . The jury found him 2 XL- ^ J ' . 'PPwredthat he *«« well-know as trequei ting the river steamboats in the character Thn n £ l pock 6 . J . Ho had beea convicted before . IS ? f- Bald , lf ^ e court w ° "ld overlook his offence this time , he would leave the country , and S , 7 e [^ PP ^ r atthebar of a court of justice again . The learned Judge said he would go out of tbe country under a sentence of that court for the term of seven years . The prisoner said if the court wouiu make it ten years , he should no doubt be sent abroad . •« Sevens » were not always > Sent out . Ihe court then passed a sentence of ton years ' transportation . v
Robbery by a Servant . —Reuben Dixon was indicted for stealing some kettles , value £ 4 10 s ., the property of Joseph Parkes , his master . The prosecutor was father-in-law of the prisoner , who had been employed by him , his business being that of a commission agent in Hatton-garden . The prisoner was taken into custody respecting a . £ 5 note , and on inquiries being made , it was found that he had been purloining articles from his employer ' s stock , and making money of them at pawnbrokers , lie was found Guilty . A conviction at the Old Bailey was proved against the prisoner , and the court sentenced him to seven years' transportation . Embezzlement , —John Butt , a journeyman baker , was indicted forembezzling three small sums
of money which ho had received en account of bis employer . The -prisoner was in the service of Mr . Henderson , baker , of Pitfield-street , Hoxton , and ic was part of his duty to take bread out to customers and to receive the money for it . Ho had failed to account for three small sums which were mentioned in the indictment , but whilst he had to receive such sums from a great number of customers daily , he had no guide but his memory in giving an account of who had paid and who had not . The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty . John Day , 22 , pleaded Guilty of feloniously embezzling the sum of 2 s . GR , and other sums , which he had received on account of . his master , William Payne . He . was sentenced to six months ' hard labour .
The Clerks ai hib Polick Courts and ihe Depositions . —Tho learned Judge complained several times in the course of the day that tho depositions from two of the police courts in particular were written so disgracefully that it was utterly impossible to read them . These were the Thames and Worship-street Courts , and he found that one of tho judges at the Central Criminal Court had declared that tho depositions from those courts were a perfect nuisance , and it -was really too bad that clerks who received hi gh salaries would not condescend to write legibly . To such an extent had this evil grown , that he certainly should forward a complaint to the magistrates ,
A PnAunuiEKr Servant . —John Naylor , 38 , a linendraper , was indicted for fraudulently obtaining by false pretences , one shilling , with intent to defraud Messrs . Thane and Juby thereof . —The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty , and the Court sentenced him to four months' hard labour . Malicious Assault . —Simon Hill , 33 , a savagelooking fellow , was indicted for having unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm upon Elizabeth Ann Lowe , by assaulting her and breaking two of her ribs . —The prosecutrix was the . wife of a glass-blower , residing at No . 1 , Three Kingcourt , Whitecross-street , between whom audthe prisoner there had been a kind of partnership . On the evening of theGth inst ., the prisoner went to the prosecutrix ' s house and was very abusive to
her , in consequence of her having said that her husband did not want to have anything to do with him . Irritated at having a variety of foul epithets applied to her , tho prosecutrix emptied upon him the contents of a certain domestic utensil , upon which be struck her a very violent blow on the side of the heid . At that time she was standing on the threshold of her own door , and tho prisoner attempted to pull her . down stairs by tbe hair of her head , but she got . into an adjoining room for protection . The prisoner followed , and having knocked her down , he jumped upon her , and broke two of her ribs , and beat her about the head with a brass candlestick until the weapon was broken into two pieces . The evidence of the prosecutrix was corroborated by other parties . —Tho Jury found the . prisoner Guilty . He was sentenced to four months ' hard labour .
' Shoplifting . —Mary Harris , 25 , was indicted for having stolen forty-one gold rings , the property of Charles Alexander Moore , from his dwelling house . —She was convicted , and tho court sentenced her to six months ' hard labour . IlBARirESsgltoBBEnT . —Catharine Lynch , 23 , was indicted for stealing a sovereign , tho money of Mary Ann Green , from the person of Elizabeth Groom—It appeared that on the 2 nd instant , about noon , Elizabeth Green , a little girl fourteen years of age , received from her mother a sovereign ,, and went by her direction to a public-house for the purpose of getting it changed .. The prisoner . was standing with another woman in front of the bar , and tho landlady having refused to change the sovereign , tbe girt took it up witb her right hand from the
counter , and having observed this , the prisoner said to the girl , "You used to know my sister Moggy , hadn ' t you ? " and made her drink a glass of something which she deposed was white . As the girl was about to leave , the prisoner pulled her back , and asked her to go with her , and the other womari ' s & ' id she ( prisoner ) was a very good woman who had onco taken care of £ 5 for her when she was drunk , and honestly returned till next day when she was sober . The prisoner then wished to know what she had got in her hand , and she replied " nothing , " but the prisoner said she knew she had rnonej' , and then forced open the girl ' s hand , took out the sovereign , and went out with the other woman , followed by the girl , who , however , became stupified and fell down . When she recovered her senses , she went to the publichouse to look for the woman and she fell asleep ,
but the landlady after some time aroused her , and turned her out of doors . She again fell down , and on recovering the second time , sbe'found herself at home , and she then told her mother what , had 0 C « curred . She swore positively to the prisoner ; It appears that she was taken home in a very excited state , screaming and crying , and shortly after the robbery took place , tho prisoner , another woman , and a man went to a beev shop , and changed a sovereign . It , was supposed that the girl was drugged by tho prisoner . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . —The learned judge said it was a very bad case , and sentenced the prisoner to . nine months ' hard labour . The grand jury threw out a bill which had been preferred against Mr . Thomas Ledger , master of the national school , Agar Town , for cruelly beating one of the scholars ,
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OLYMPIC THEATRE . A new " comic drama , " called A Night ' s Adventure ; or , Highways and Byways , by an unknown author , was produced on Monday night . The famous highwayman , Claude Duval , is the hero of the piece , and at the end of the " adventure" he is elevated to a respectable position in society . The catastrophe is the more remarkable , seeing that the victim of the highwayman ' s lawless achievement is a "lord chief justice , " who , however , turns out to be so amiable a personage that he honours the scoundrel that has robbed him with various marks of confidence and favour . Dramatic productions , of which highwaymen and pickpockets
are tbe heroes , have often succeeded on tho stage , but then the ruffians arenot" all evil . " The author has taken care to tackontohisp-oiSgesomeshredsof generosity , magnanimity , or kindliness of nature , which ' conceal and neutralise the ' more revolting parts of the moral deformity he has paraded bofore us and we are thus induced , not perhaps without some touches of self condemnation , to tolerate the final exaltation of ; amiable ruffianism . In the present piece , however , the language , plot , and uharnoterS . are so utterly destitute of dramatic power , and the mechanism by-which the story is developed of so puerile a nature , that , although the piece was listened to with some attention , the hissing at the end was vehement ,
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Not the least unimportant or attractive part of the lloyal Polytechnic is the section devoted to the illustationbf the application of gas to cooking , heating , and lighting purposes ; and we would strongly recommend all who feel any interest in tho production ' of gas to pay a visit to this Institution , where they will have the opportunity of being more thoroughly acquainted with the very numerous applications of this very important agent to our domestic comforts . The lectures , which are delivered daily , contain many practical and useful hints , more especially those in the evening , which refer , to the use . of gas as . a means of light ; Cooking by gas forms the subject of the morning lectures ^ and is exceedingly curious to those who have not witnessed the operation . At all events the subject ; of gas cooking deserves being inquired into .
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Allbobd Felony . —G eorge Strickland , 45 , labourer , was indicted for felony . —Tne prisoner had been butler to the Duke of Norfolk , hut latterly had kept a lodging house , No . 10 , King-street , St . James ' s . In the August of last year , being in difficulties , he applied to a Mr . Collins , of Goldeiisquare , an auctioneer an d money lender , to raise a loan upon tho house full of furniture . Collins , who is agent to Mr . Turner , of 75 ,. Mark-lane , wine merchant , and also a money lender ( and who prosecuted in this case ) , procured from him the loan of ± 200 , and a bill of pale was effected upon the furniture and fixtures , the prisoner remaining in the house and carrying on tlie business as usual . When the loan was effected a woman was placed in tbe
prisoner ' s house by Collins . Prisoner subsequently becoming more and more involved , went through the . Intsoivonfc Court , and there . swore that tho furniture and effects were marie over to Mr . Turner , and also mado a similar declaration when an interpleader action was brought upon an execution on the things . The prosecutor paid the rent of the bouse andtook the rent of tho boarders to do so With , but it was nover suthVienfc . Prisoner lived in the house the whole time until the 8 th of . August , when Mr . Collins found that the house had been quite emptied , the woman that had been put in was not anywhere to be found , and the goods were sold to Mr . Dent , a furniiure dealer , of Crawford-street , Marylebonc . Whereupon Mr . Crfiins gave tho prisoner into custody when he met him . —In
cross-examination , it was elicited that Mr . Turner had charged him twelve and a half per cent , per annum for the loan ; that Mr . Collins had £ 12 for bis valuation , although he was not now a sworn appraiser , or had been for seven or eight years . Prisoner had also to pay the solicitor , a Mr . Sidney , between £ 7 and £ S for his expenses . The woman put into tho house by Collins had to be bo . udod and paid 6 s . a week by the prisoner , The woman ' s lvu ^ band used to come and see her , but Mr . Collins did not know that prisoner had to keep him also . He never had any complaint on that score . Tho woman was to have been prisoner ' s servant . She had twins whilst she was there . ( Laughter . ) The fixtures ( goods left in the . house and money paid into Coilins ' s hands at the time prisoner sold the things and left ) amounted in the whole to £ 103 . Mr . Collins and the solicitor were distantly related . —Several witnesses gave the prisoner a high character . —The iury immediately acquitted him , AiLBeBD Assault . —Thomas Barber , a very
gentlemanly looking well dressed man , was indicted for assaulting Mary Macdonald , a girl between fifteen and sixteen years of age , with intent . —The prisoner is a messenger in the Adjutant-General'soffice , Horse Guards , and tho girl was in tho ser « vico of a Mr . Morton , messenger at the Houses of Parliament , and living at No . 6 , Parliament-street . On the 20 th of July tho prisoner called twice in the evening to see Mr , Morton , with whom he was on terms of intimacy ; tho second time he came he went down in the kitchen , which it would appear was used as a sitting-room , and there the alleged misconduct took place . Tho girl did not make any direct complaint to her mistress , and did not tell her mother until some days after , and then she made a different statement to what she did to her mistress , and on the trial her evidence differed from that given before the magistrate . —Tho jury acquitted the prisoner , who had been out on bail , and surrendered to take his trial .
A Miscreant . —Thomas Spurrier , 20 , glassblower , was indicted for unlawfully inflicting upon Sarah Elizabeth Brown grievous bodily barm by violently assaulting and beating her . —Tho prisoner a respectably-dressed , quiet-looking young man , pleaded Not Guilty . —The prosecutrix , a young woman , apparently about eighteen years of age , having been sworn , stated that she was a nurserymaid , and resided at 25 o , 6 , Aune-place , Ball ' s-pond . On the evening of the 22 nd of July , at about five o ' clock in tbe afternoon , she was going along the broad path near Hornsey-wood
House . She saw the prisoner and two other young men in a' field close by . There were two young women ahead of her on tho same path . After she had passed down tlio lane in tho wood she stopped to look round , when some one came and struck her a violent blow on the ear . She turned round and saw that it was the prisoner , and he immediately struck her another and more violent blow on the eye , which knocked her down . The prisoner then fell on to her -with great violence , sticking his knees' on" her stomach with such violence as to nearly deprive her of her senses . He then tried to force her clothes over her head . She
struggled as much as her exhausted condition would permit of to prevent the prisoner from accomplishing the purpose for which he had evidently attacked her . Prisoner had by this time dragged her some short distance into the wood , holding her all tho time by the throat , and endeavouring to stifle her cries by squeezing her tightly . Finding that she still resisted him he drew a large clasp knife from his pocket , and with most violent and disgusting language said ho would cut her head off if she did not submit to his desires . Some boys coming up at the time the prisoner relinquished his hold of her and ran away , throwing away the knife before he was secured . Her nose bled very profusely ; her eyes were swollen , and she was in great pain from the treatment she had experienced , and since that period she had been subject to fits arising out of the fright and illtreatmenc , and was still very unwell . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and he was ordered to be kept to hard labour for two years ,
Stealing Clocks , —John Newton Aurstwood , 38 , dealer , was convicted of stealing a dial clock , valued at £ 3 , tho property of Luke Wootten . — The dial in question had been stolen from the Merry Carpenters , St . Luke ' s , and pledged the same day , and it appeared that the prisoner had been for some tim . e plundering publicans by taking down the dials from the parlours and tup-rooms and making off with them ; duplicates establishing a host of cases , being found at hia lodgings , He had also been convicted at this court for plundering a number of publicans of bagatelle balls . —He was transported for seven years . The business concluded at a late hour , and the court sits again on the 15 th of September .
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Accidents to Steam Boats . —According to the act on steam navigation ( 14 and 15 Vic , cap . 79 ) , all accidents caused by steam-boats , or to the vessel or the machinery , are to be reported to the Board of Trade within twenty-four hours of the same , under a penalty of £ 50 . Convict Prison at Portland . —Captain Knight , superintendent of military prisons in Canada , is now appointed BuperiHtentlen ) of tho convict prison at Portland , in succession to Captain Whitty , promoted to be a member of the board of government prisons in London .
An industrial exhibition is . to be held in the Government Domain , Sydney , in October . It is to include products from Australia , the neighbouring countries , and the islands of the Pacific . M . Gustavb Bonmn , publisher and editor of the Feuilledu Village , has just been condemned to three months'imprisonment , 500 f . fine , and 2 , 000 f . damages , for publishing a defamatory article ou M . Lambert de Chamerolles , of Gy-les-Nouains ( Loiret ) , in which that gentleman is charged with having obliged two workmen todescend intoawell , although he knew it to be in a dangerous state , whereby one
of them lost his life , and of having acted with the greatest inhumanity towards the one who was taken out alive , but seriously injured . —tfaJionant . Tbe Amsrjcan Yacht at ins Cowes Rvqatta , —Unusual interest has been excited among nautical gentry by the arrival off Cowes of the U . S . clipper yacht , * ' America , " the owners of which were read y to back her against others for £ 10 , 000 . The £ 100 cup was run for on the 22 od inst ,, when the Yankee beat her eighteen competitors with the utmost ease . Though tbe first , it will not be the last trial .
Annette Meyers , who shot , the guardsman in Birdcage-walk , and whose case excited somuch commiseration in England , has arrived , pursuant toiler commuted " scntence in tho Emma Eugenia . — Colonial ( Van Dicmen ' s Land ) Times . 'Waitham and ErriNo Forest . —Accord in »• to a late Act ( 14 and 15 Vict ., cap . -13 ) the Forest of Hainaught , which is a part of 'Waltham'Forost , is to be disafforested , and public roads may be made . The act is not to extend to Epping Forest , Certain ' poor widows are entitled to a load of Timber once a year , on Easter Monday , or to S 3 , when they cannot procure a team to carry it away . B y this act their rights arc to be ascertained , and the amount
invested , so that at the end Of tho year the dividends are to be expended in fuel for the widows , andtb © same distributed at Christinas . The act will be enforced by paid commissioners , ' Ccxomial Bishops . — " It is said" that ' arrangements have been completed for the immediate eatablishmcntof a mission in Borneo for the whole of the Eastern Archipelago . The same authoritv adds that the first bishop of the new see will be the Rev . C . P . Childe , M . A ., Principal of the Cnurch Missionary College , Islington—that arrangements are also ia progress for erecting new bishopries h \ Western Australia , Sierra Leone and tbe Island of Mauritius ; and that one of tbe new bishoprics will bo offored to the Rev . Dr . Mortimer , bead master of the City of London School .
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LIVERPOOL . Assault with Intent . — Thomas M'Nally , 30 , was indicted for having , on the 17 th of December , 1851 ) , assaulted Michael Pye , with intent to do him grievous bodily harm . —It appeared that tho prisoner was the second mate of an emigrant ship called tho Arabian , commanded by Captain W . H . Lowrie , which left Liverpool for Now York on the 9 th November , IS 50 . On the vessel arriving in the Iri . < h Channel , Michael Pye , a man who had been engaged as a stowaway on board , was found secreted , lie was set to work , and placed in tho chief mate ' s watch , It appeared that Pre had a maimed baud .
and that lie bad great difficulty in going aloft , and the prisoner was continually beating him for not properly doing what he was directed to do . On tbe 17 th of December , about four o ' clock in tho morning , Pye was about to leave the mate ' s watch , when the prisoner ordered him to tho pumps . Pye said he was tired and wanted to go below . The prisoner then seized a rope , and beat Pye to the pump . Pye tried to get hold of the pump-break , when tho prisoner struck him on his maimed hand until the blood camo , and Pye cried out , "Oh , God ! I can bear this no longer , " and immediately throw . himself overboard bead first into the water , and was drowned . Several seamen corroborated this
evidence . The vessel afterwards proceeded to Charlestoil , and the witnesses made a complaint there- to tho consul of the prisoner ' s treatment of Pye . Tho consul , inconsequence , wrote to tbe authorities at Liverpool , and on tho shi p ' s return the present proceedings were instituted against the prisoner . — Tho jury returned a verdict of Guilty of a common assault . —Sentence deferred . Charge or Murder , —Joseph Allison was indicted for having wilfully murdered one John Hunt , at Manchester , on tho 30 th April last . —It appeared that the prisoner and tho deceased were both in tho employment of a Mr .. Goodwin , a coopor at Manchester , and on the morning of the 30 tb-April
last they were both sent to Stalybridgo and Ashtonunder-Lyne to collect tubs . Tho deceased had £ 7 given to him to collect the tubs , and the prisoner also had a little money given to him for botr and expenses , in tho course of the day they had collected a quantity of tubs at different ; places , and were returning home about nine o ' clock . As they" were later than usual , tho wife of tbe deceased went to meet him , as also did tbe prisoner ' s wife . ; The wife of the deceased met the prisoner and his wife on tbe Sfcal ybrldgc-road with his horse and- cart , and asked the prisoner where he had left her husband . The prisoner answered , ' At the Snipo Inn , where they had baited their horses , and that if she went on she would overtake him . " She
accordingly went on , and about half a mile further on she met her husband's horse and cart coming on ' without him . She shouted for her husband , and -receiving no answer , she took the horse and cart herself to Mr . Goodwin's , and next morning rose at four o ' clock to go in search of her husband . She then learned that he had been killed during tho Tiigbt , and that his body was then lying at the New Inn , where it had been taken by a man who found it lying in the read . It appeared the deceased had been found lying dead in the road with his feet towards the kerb , his cap off , and his whip lying beside him . There wore no marks of a struggle on the road , but there were some spots of blood , and a shilling was found in the dust . On the body boing exiimined by a surgeon , it -was found to have
received great internal injury , and four of the ribs were broken , and there was * u bruise on the right check . It was the opinion of the medioal men examined that the injuries had been caused by two distinct blows , and had not been occasioned bya cartwheel passing over him . They were injuries likely to have been produced by one man kneeling or stamping on another . It appeared that about eight o ' clock the prisoner and the deceased had been in tho Snipo public-house drinking together , and that they had been betting together which of their horses would go the fastest , and that , after leaving the public-houso , they were heard quarrelling on the road , and calling each other "liars" near where the body was found . An apron worn by the
prisoner on the day in question-was produced , on which wore forty or fifty spots of blood . The pri 1 soner , on arriving at bis master ' s with his h qpa and cart , had stated that he had had words witb tho deceased on tho road , and turned pale when ha spoke of him , When taken into custody on this charge he said to the policeman he had no doubt he should find it a bothering job , but he thanked . God he was innocent of it . He afterwards said that , on leaving tho Snipo Iun , they each rodo on the shafts of their carts—that he saw tho deceased ' s cart following him , but never saw tho deceased alive afterwards , lie knew nothing about the spot * of blood on his apron . —Tho iury found the prisoner Not Guilty .
Charge op Murder . — -James Macnamara , a shoemaker , was charged with having , at Manchester , killed with a hammer llenry Leckie , or Ellis , —On the evening of Saturday , the 12 th of July , Henry Ellis , who was a young man , was drinking -at the Prince of Wales beer-house , llulme . The prisoner , with a man and woman , came in and bad some ale . Tho woman had drank a glass , when Ellis came up to the prisoner , and exclaiming " It is you who were at mo in the street , " gave him a slap in tho face with his open hand . Prisoner asked what that was for , and immediately ran off . He went into the room where deceased and other parties were drinking . lie shook hands and drank ale with Ellis . About five or ten minutes after shaking hands Ellis went out . Immediately afterwards
Macnamara followed , and , when two or' three yards from the door overtook deceased , tripped him , and , when down , struck him on the head with the hammer he had procured , th * blow fracturing his skull , and ultimately causing his death on the 10 th of August . —The jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the prisoner , who was sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment with hard labour . ' Tub Dale-field Traoedy . —James Wych , was charged with having at Dale-field , Manchester , on the 21 st July , in a cellar , kicked Margaret Wcldon , a prostitute , so severely as to cause her death . The circumstances of the case have been fully detailed too recently to require repetition . —The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty of Murder , but Guilty of Manslaughter . —Sentence deferred .
Charge op Manslaughter . —James Ogden waa placed in the dock on a charge of manslaughter having caused tho death of Josiah 'Walker , at Rochdale . On Tuesday , the l .-fc of July , the prisoner , deceased , and some women , were drinking at the Farewell Inn , Both prisoner and deceased were drunk . While on tho top of a brow , making for home , deceased took indecent liberties with tho women , which Ogden resented , and a fight ensued , both falling and rolling down the brow . Ogden wished deceased to drop it , but he refused ; Prisoner afterwards got up , and gave deceased a kick , received one in return , and then placed him up against some rails , his feet up , and his head-down . All this resulted in Walker ' s having his spine dislocated , which caused his death on tbe following Saturday . —The prisoner was discharged . '
MAXsiMjaiiTER , —John Brown , 'a seaman , was in « dieted for the manslaughter of James Myers , at Liverpool , on the 26 th of July last . —This was another instance of the fatal results of the use ; of tho knife in quarrels among the lower classes . It . appeared that the deceased , who was known by the name of "Whisky , " and respecting whosereal name there was some difficulty of proof in support of tho indictment , had been drinking with the prisoner on the night ot the fatal event , and was urging him to go and hare more drink , when a quarrel ensued , the deceased struck the prisoner , and the - latter immediately drew his knife and stabbed him in the left side , from which tbe poor fellow died in a few hours . —Verdict , Guilty . —Sentence , ten ' years ' transportation . :
Charge of Murder . —James and AnneWaddington were indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Waddington , at Manchester , on the 24 th of April last . —The facts of the case were briefly these :-i-The deceasedwas a daughter of the female prisoner , by another man ; ' she was about sixteen years of age , and had been living in service , but owing to some fault which had been found with her by her ' mistress , she left her place and returned home . As this had . likewise occurred on a former occasion the male prisoner , who was a lamplighter in Manchester , was heard to vow vengeance against the uirl , and to declare that he would " get shut " of her . The evening before her death the girl was seen by the neighbours about eight o ' clock , in perfect health and spirits ; at half-past four' in the morning the male prisoner took home a fellowworkman , with whom he had'been . making a
bargam about a waistcoat . When they arrived the lemale prisoner was up , and in the pantry ; She said her daughter . had been ill all night , from , having eaten nuts the day before . The husband told her to "hold her blub , " but she went ' on to say , that she had asked the girl if she had been taking arsenic , as there was some in the house , but the deceased denied having touched itj—The woman also made many contradictory statements to various parties as to the cause of her daughter ' s death . On a post mortem examination arsenic enough to knl thirty people was found in the body , aiut these iacts taken in conjunction with- tbo receipt of 47 by the prisoners from a burial club on the day of her death , led to suspicion against them , and they were accordingly apprehended . — After hearing the evidence the jury returned ' a verdict of Not Guilty , and the prisoners were c-scharged
Charge op MuRDER .-James Wick wm indicted for having , at Manchester , on the 21 st ot July , wilfully murdered one Margaret Weeting .-l t ^ P peared that the prisoner , who ^ % ^ ^ X 6 sa and who had bene a good charaotci f 0 « K'njJJJ and humanity , went to Manchester ou ^ J « J »« of the 20 th of July , and , having net j ' £ e in ceased n the itrect . accompanied her to . 1 cousc in
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 30, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30081851/page/7/
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