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? _JttLHe felt _assured tbat they w _^ _Jj _& _JH . utter _ctadidlywdimpartiaUy an ¦ . _"fJ'J / _K _inglwhat tod beensaid fJ _^ JgS _^ cpening ; the case about the WI' ° »!» ? p _° " ths - Stan faeshouldhave torely , he _^ * e in his opinion , more respectable _"J _^ _fJSrESw _oaa . Could _t _^ r . _eJjnPonjhm _t * gafe _f _? _Ta 8 _L _? _ThToMe had not been properly _SaTe _? nt . _feteadof Beading a professiom . 1 Aart , SS writer , a person who . bj his profession and po . Won would ba above suspicion , a police constable was sent to aot as a spy , and he prafessed , out of a meecb whioh _wasadmitted to hare lasted three quarters of an hour , to pick out these . few sentences , omitting the whole of the rest of the speech , whieh tniobt have entirely qualified , or altered tho _sensa of
tie expressions imputed to Mm , if indeed the / were ottered at al ) . The learned connsel then commented upon the nature of the evidence , and said he wished tbem to understand that he did not impute perjury _teethe policeman , bat what he Baid was , that ao . cording to his own admission of the circumstances under whioh ha took the speech , the evidence oould sot be relied npon to convict the defendant . The government would never have thought of attempting to convict a _person like Smith O'Brien , or any other man in his position , of sedition , upon the evidenoe cfa policeman so obtained ; and he thought they ought not to endeavour to do it in the caw of a man in . the station of tha defendant . The learned counsel concluded a rery energetic and able address by expressing an opinion that the jury would feel the case-had not been made oat so clearly as it ought to hare been , and on that ground the defendant was _entitled to an acquittal . ¦ The Attorney-General replied very briefly . j
Baron Piatt , in _summiag np , said he did not think there was an ? pretence for applying the terra' spy' to the constable who had given evidence on the present occasion . The _voiation ef a spy w « a most odious and repugnant to the feelings of Englishmen , and tha term ought not to have been applied in this case . The question they had ta decide was , whether the man at the bw had committed the offence imputed to him ornot . If they were satisfied from the evidence that ha had . they wonld desert tbeir duty to themselves and their country if they did not say so ; and , en the other hand , they would equally desert their duty io the administration of justice if they did not giro the accused person the benefit of any reasonable doabi they might entertain of his guilt . Thejury then retired , and were absent more than two hoars , when they retained a verdict of guilty ; bnt at tbe same time expressed their opinion that it would be better in each cases to have the evidence of _tworwitneises .
The learned judge remarked , that it was m doubt more advisable , bat at the same time Bach s coarse wasaot always _practicable . Ara . 28 .-John James Bezer , 33 , was indicted for sedition . , „ ... Tne Attorney-General . Mr Welsby , Mr Bodkin , and Mr Clark appeared for ths Crown ; tbe defendant had ao counsel . The Attorney-General , in opening the case , said , lie wm very much surprised to bear one of the defendants who was charged with the affenee of sedition < m Friday state thit he could not understand the law , and that he could not follow the intricacies of { he charge . It appeared to him tbat the law was most _sianle , and the l & w of sedition . as it was termed ,
was the law of common sense ; and that , in point of fact , it said that a person should not make a meeting , ostensibly held to _disooss any political qaestion , ** > mere pretext for disturbing the publie peace and bringing the government of the country into contempt . Tbe Attorney-General then proceeded to State that the seating at which , the seditions speech wis delivered , was held bo the 28 _'h of Jaly , at the _JBlton-street Theatre , and at which more tban 1 , 000 _perasns were present ; and he reminded tha jury that on the previous day there had been aa unfounded report that a general mine of the people had taken place in Ireland ; that the troops were disaffected , and had been defeated . The meeting was convened hy a placard headed Is Ireland op !' and which went on to say that a great public meeting woald be held that night at the Milton-street
Theatre , to take info consideration the present momentous crisis in Ireland . Several talented patriots , it was said , woald attend ; and Englishmen , Irishmen , and Scotchmen were also called apon to be present at the meeting . The Attorney-General proceeded to state tbat the defendant , who seemed to ba a very clever person , addressed tha meeting , and read extracts of s most inflammatory character from cue of the New York papers , thinking that by so doing he woald evade the law . He was , however , Tery much mistaken if he supposed this was so , for he wonld find that if the jary believed his intention was to excite his hearers to violence , and to disturb the public peace , he would ba jast as amenable to the law as though the expressions made use of were _delivered as his own santioentf . The Attorney-General then read the speech made by the defendant upon the occasion in qaestion .
Mr J . White , the government shorthand writer , proved that the spaech in qaestion was made by the defendant at tae meeting referred to on the 28 th ef Jaly . The Attorney General then pat in the copy of the Tn _« s containing the extract from the American paps ' , and required that tha editorial remarks apon it , which had been omitted by the defendant , should ba read ; and tbis closed the case for the Crown . The defendant then addressed the jary ,. and said he did not take credit to himself for being so clever _« _stha Attorney-General would have made him ont to ba . and tha fact was he was only a poor man who thought he waa labouring under political disadvan tages which he was justified in endeavouring to
obtain a remedy for , aad that was tha oaly objeot of hia attending tha meeting in question . He admitted that he was s Chartist , and said that ia his opinion the Charter would cow all the evils under which the country was labouring ; and if the Whig government , which had so often for its own _purposes encouraged agitation , _tboight to pot down tbe expression of the feeling of the working population of tha country by such prosecutions as these they were very much mis taken , for they might rely on it that the people woald _bunme more determined to obtain their rights by that sort o ! treatment . It had _bten made a ground of complaint against him that he h > d read an extract from an American paper , to an audience of 1 . 000 _nerssas . bat they _should not fereet that he
was reading frcm a newspaper that had perhaps 30 . 000 subscribers , and if he was to blame' for reading it , ha thought tha _Truis ought alas to be prosecuted for printing it in the first . instance , as , if they had not printed it be could not have read it . The defendant then with _considerable _ugenuity endeavoured to explain away the most objectionable portions of bis speech , and attempted to show that ha had no intention of inducing his hearers to resort to physical force . In conclusion he described the _prcsecations that had been _instituted by the _government as merely intended to destroy tha right of free * dom of speech in tbis country , and he called npon thejury . aa members of tbe middle class of society , not to lend themselves te such a proceeding by _convicting hira apon the present charge . Tbe Attorney-General , in reply , said that the defence which bad been made by ths defendant confirmed the opinion he hid originally expressed of tha
dangerous description of ability which he possessed . It was quite dear that ba was perfectly Easter of the art of adapting his address to his hearers ; and it would ba unnecessary to comment open the mischief that might ba created by such a man when he employed his talents to excite persons in his own coadition of life to acts of violence and disorder . The manner in which he had artfully read the exciting extract from the American paper , and omitted the comtnaato upon it , giving the Sana bat omitting the antidote , likewise showed hia dangerous ability for mischief , particularly as ha expected thereby to escape irom punishment . Ia the coarse of hia farther Ob _ervations , the Attorney-General eaid that he considered tke Truss , ana all the other papers also with very tew exceptions , deserved great praise for the generous and aobla manner in which they had all exerted themselves , during the exoited times that had just passed , in the preservation of the publ o peace .
Baroa Piatt then summed np , and the jary immediately returned a verdict of guilty . The other _defendants—Sneli , Crowe , and Bryson who had beea convicted of a similar offence , were thereupon ordered to be placed at the bar with tbe -defendant who had been jast convicted , to receive sentenoe . Baron Piatt addrasing them said , they had severally been found guilty of the offence of uttering ¦ _editieos speeches for tha purpose of disturbing tha publio peace and exciting the people _toimnrrsction They had fortunately been stopped in their career for if the government had allowed them to persevere in their guilty object , and they had excited their dupes to resort to arms , they would have been guilty Of thecoma of high treason and their lives might have paid the penalty . It was a mercy ta them that they hud been stopped , They had in their addresses
talked a great deal about « the people . ' How could men suoh as they were assume to themselves that they were tha peop . _' e , or tbe representatives of the _S-f _; n _& _* L ka 8 W , _Tey weU tfaafc tha people really entitled to be so called were compelled upon wS _??^ - _^ r _relraa « aiMi * _fc _^ . and felTft _fc _^ l _**? * P <*<>**• fay tbem ? He did not know what object thoy had in _niSy . or that they considered themselves mart ™ to the Charter . . orthat _^ _j _^^ _V _^ te _^ oat ef thejoint parse of their companions , and mieht be _extent _foBuffer punishment for all thoBe obiecte as connected with their public exhibition ; bat what ever their _objfet was , it was clearly the duty of the _gotremmenttpput down such proceedings , andnro . woi io
saapoD : tn » ra _similir _violatioaB ofthe Dahlia _oeace So fer , therefore , as tha law had power , he -Jr _^ W _* , _* _° _* _!" , examp , e of _woh _peKona , MwJiad been convicted at a former _sewionof a _mmjlar offence , aad received sentence ; bat as that
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_^ sentence did not appear to have had tbe effect of deterring others from similar courses , it was clear that an increase of severity in the punishment mast bs _resorted to . The increase of the punishment would not be very great , but still there most be soma increase on the present occasion . He then sentenced _Gi-orge Snell , Robert Crowe , and John James Bezer to ba imprisoned in the House of Correction for two years , to pay a fiae of £ 10 eaob . to the Queen , and at the expiration of their imprisonment , to enter into
their own recognizance in £ 100 , with two securities in £ 50 each , to keep tha peace for five yean . Ths fourth defendant , Bryson , was sentenced to the same term of imprisonment , and to find the same amount of sureties for five rears , and ia addition to pay % line cf £ 20 , and tha whole of tha defendants were farther ordered to be imprisoned until tha sureties were entered into and the fines pa 5 d . When the sentence was pronounced Bryson ex < claimed to bis companions , 'Never mind , brother Chartists ; come along . '
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; ! LANCASHIRE ASSIZES . Liverpool , August 25 th . —Joseph Cuddy , Edward Muruhy , and James O'Brien were indicted for conspiracy , for insurrectionary and other unlawful par * poses , and for having sent 1000 pikes to Ireland for the purpose of being _ased as aforesaid . The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty , and all traversed until the _nextassiza . Thomas Lees , William Fenny , William Healey Michael Morris , and James West were charged with conspiracy and riot . The prisoners all pleaded Not Gnilty . bnt declined to traverse , stating that they wished to be tried at the present assists . Francis O'Donnell and Matthew Somers were indicted for having transmitted large quantities of arms to Ireland , for , the purpose ef being ased for j insurrectionary purposes ia that country . The . pri * _i _soners pleaded Not Guilty , and traversed to the next
_assu-ss . John Finn , Jamas Downey , John Meoney , Owen Gann , and Edward Birch were charged with riot and assault . Tbe prisoners pleaded Not Guilty , having been in custody more than twenty-one days they had not the power to traverse . I ' eter Murray _M'Daoall was then called upon . to plead to an indiotment charging him with a treasonable conspiracy . He was out on bail , aad did not answer ; bat it was intimated that ha would surrender in the course of tho day . The Atforasy-Genersl , . < Messrs _Watsoa , t < Q ft , Matthews , Paobett , aad Monk , appeared aa counsel in tbe cases . • . It was atated ia the ooart that about thirty other Chartists , against whom time bills have been found daring tho assizes , were yesterday lodged in Kirkdale gaol . '
_ . Two persons , named William Johnson and Charles Gauaher , who were charged with murder , and . ia _whese cases the grand jury had thrown ont the bills , were then arraigned on tbe coroner's inquisitions , and acquitted ; no evideuce beiag offered . William Macklin , Joseph Rstoliffa , ' and William Bolton were charged with conspiracy and riot . There were no less than six indictments against the _priso _nera , soae of which were similar to the above , aad others chargiag tbem with unlawful drilling and training . * The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty , and traversed until the next assizes . _ . .
Thomas Rankin , Edward Clark Cropper , Daniel _Doiman , Peter Feeny , James Hoyle , George Webb , Michael _M'Danough , William Chadwick , James Downey , Thomas Roberts , James Flinn , John Joseph _Finoighan , Thomas Whittaker _, Joshua Lemon , Henry Williams , Henry Ellis , George Rogers , Michael Carrigsn , Joseph Spooner , George Ramsden , Mark Home , and James Dowlain , were all placed at the bar on so indictment charging them with having at Manchester , on tha 1 st of May , and on divers otber days , between then and the time of taking the present inquisition , falsely , maliciously , seditiously , and riotously , by illegal and seditions means , exoited her Majesty's subjects to arm themselves , and being so armed , to obstruct tbe laws and government ot thB realm in their due execution . Other counts charged them with a riot . ' AU the prisoners pleaded Not Gnilty , and several of them traversed to the next assizes .
The following decided to be tried at the present commission : —Edward G . Cropper , Peter Feeny , William Chadwick , James Djwney . J . J ; Finnighan , Henry Williams , George Rogers , Michael CarrigaB , Joseph Spooner , and James _Dowlain . His Lordship inquired whether Mr _M'Douall'answered ? Tha Attorney-General said he had not , bat he wag told by M ? M'Douall _' a attorney , that ha would certainly appear the next morning to take his trial . That , however , woald be the only cue in whioh he would be ready to proceed . His Lordship inquired what ha proposed to de respecting the other cases ? Tha Attorney-General said he would not say at present , but it was not improbable _tbatheshoald have to apply to the court to postpone the other oases , as it might ba inconvenient to try part and not the whole ..
The Learned Judge said there were instances in which the judges had refused to try part ef the prisoners in one indictment where the other portion traversed . _.- "' - ¦ Ths prisoners Caddy , O'Donnell , Somers , Marpby . and . Brian , who had traversed in the early part of the day , were then brought up and withdrew their traverse , so as to take their trial daring tke present assizes . August 26 . —Thi Case of _M'Daam . — -The court was crowded for the purpose of hearing the trial . appointed for this morning , ef Mr Peter Murray M'Djuall , the Chartist leader , charged with sedition and conspiracy at Aehton > _ander-Lyne . _MrM'DpuaU had been oat on bail . On his name being called he failed to appear .. Mr Serjeant . Wilkins , who had been engaged for M'Douall , rose . He said : My lord , I hare to
move — . Mr Attorney-General Kuowles : Before my friend moves , my lord , I move to estreat the recognisances of Mr M'Douall . I should have done so yesterday , bat I was deterred by bis attorney , who pleaded that in the _owrse of the day , Mr M'DoaaU woald be here to plead . Mr Serjeant Wilkins : I am surprised , my lord , to see this opposition . Mr M'DoaaU , I am confident , will ba here shortly , and I beg that be may be allowed to traverse . Mr Justice Cresswell : He cannot traverse now . Mr Serjeant Wilkins : I think , with all deference , he can , my lord . He is committed for publishing a seditious libel , but he is indicted for another offence : he isiodioted for conspiracy . The Judge : I cannot hear any application for traversing unless the man is before me .
Mr Serjeant Wilkins :. True , my lord , I cannot resist that . His lordship then , is order to giro farther time , proceeded to pass sentences on other prisoners . The Attorney-General again moved that the recognisances ba estreated-. The Clerk of the Crown called over the names in tha _usutl manner , and the recognisances of Mr M'DoaaU , and his sureties were declared estreated . Tbe names of the sureties are William _( _ktkin , John Williamson , John Woodcock , and Elijah Cavendish Broadbent . In a few minutes afterwards , Mr M'DoaaU entered the court .
Tha fact was mentioned to Mr Attorney-Genual _Enowles , who declined , however , further to interfere . Seditious _Cosshbaci :. —In tbe _cais of the trial of Rogers , Spooner , Williams , and Carragan , for seditions conspiracy , aa application w _? b made to the wort by Mr Attorney-General Knowles _, founded upon an affidavit of the solicitor for tha prosecution , to the effect tbat sufficient time or facilities had not been afforded to perfeot the evidence , to havo the trial postponed untill the next assizes . Mr _Tindal Atkinson , counsel for the prisoner * , resisted the application .
After ao argument the Jadee complied with ths reqaest made hy the Attorney-General , and ordered _thatWjltiams and Carragan be discharged npon _thoirown recognisances . A similar application was made and complied with in tbe case of _Healy acd others . Also in the case of John Flinn and others , a similar arrangement was come to . Mr _M'Douall's Tbial . —About half-past twelve o ' clock Mr Serjeant Wilkins applied to his lordship ia the case of Mr M'DoaaU , whose _recognissnees had been estreated that morning , bat who , the learned _serjeant said , was then in court . Mr Justice _Cresswell Baid , before he could listen to any application , Mr M'Douall must surrender . Mr M'Douall immediately did so , and it was undtr stood that the recognisances would be restored .
An argument of considerable length then took place relative to wta ber Mr _M'Duua'l should be allowed to traverse , on the ground that the warrant of commitment was for publishing a seditious speech , whereas the indiotment charged a conspiracy , < _bs His lordship ruled that the trial should proceed this assiz ) , bat granted a postponement until this morning . Application was thon made that Mr M'Douall should ba restored to liberty until then . Mr Justice Cresswell , after a conference with his brother _judee , refused to comply with the reqaest . August 28 . —At the sitting of the Court this morning it was stated that tha prisoners Somen and O'Donnell , who with several others were charged with a _saditioas conspiracy at Liverpool , had an application to make to the Court .
On being placed at the bar O'Dmnell stated he wished to make an application for a copy of the information _agaios ) him . He stated he did not know what the cbarge was ; and as he should not have the assistance of counsel , but should be obliged to condact his own defence , a copy of tha information was necessary to enable him to do so . Somers made a similar application . Mr Justice CressweU stated , that if the prisoners had wished to have the indiotment read before tbey
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pleaded to it it would have been done . It was to be anppoied tbat in » pleading be was aware of the cbarge . He asked if the prisoners wished their trial _poitporied till nextassizea ' _. . i . i"' . ¦ . Somers asked if hia Lordship , would order him a copy of the indiotment , and postpone his trial till tomorrow ! .. _- .. ¦ . Mr Jastioe Cresswell . —I cannot do that . Somers stated tbat very unwillingly he would traverse to the next assizes . He hoped his Lordship would consider the amount of the bdl . .
Mr Justice CressweU . —I shall require yoa to give ¦ aoh bail as the purposes of justice require . The other prisoners , who had formerly expressed their intention of _proceeding with their trials this morning ( with the exception of Murphy ) then traversed to the next _assizas . The Attorney-General then submitted to _huLord-Bhip that he should not bs require to _prooeed _against Murpby only , and that his trial also should be ' postponed until he oould take his trial with the others .
TRIAL OF DR M'DOUALL . Peter Murray M'Douall _atM then put to the bar , charged with sedition , attending an unlawful meeting , and riot . Mr _Knswles ( Attorney-General for the county ) . Mr Crompton _, and Mr Matthews conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner waa defended by Mr Serjeant Wilkins and Mr Pollock . Mr Knowles proceeded to state the case for the prosecution . lie said , the prisoner was charged with uttering ( editions words and attending an unlawful assembly with intent to excite a spirit of discontent and _opposa tbe execution of the law-Throughout many parts of the country there had beea for some time raacb . agitation set on foot by
persons who entertained politioal opinions whioh bad now acquired a well-known popular name . lie wonld not _diBouss those opinions . Ia the present case he would show that the prisoner was the hired agent of others , paid to disseminate tbose opinions , and therefore not entitled even to tbe sympathy one might extend to one expressing conscientious but mistaken opinions . The prisoner had been a member of what was oalled the National Convention . He left London before tbat _bidy broke up , and visited a _namber of towns in the kingdom pursuant to previous arrasgement . He attended on the 10 th of Jaly a meeting in the town of Ashton , convened by public advertisement . This advertisement was headed with a
motto' Hereditary _eondsmtn ' . know ye bo _% Wis would be tree , himself mast eCriko tbe blow >' and closing' Freedom ' s battle once begun , Bequeathed from bleeding sire to ion , Though baffled oft if ever won . ' They met io what is called the _Cha-lestown _Meeting-honse . A certain seorecy was maintained , but he should ba able to give the substance of the proceedings there . It would ' appear that many of them were armed and carried pikes * that they were addressed by Dr M'DoaaU , and the subject of his address was advising to take arms .. They broke up about ten o ' clook , and went to the Odd Fellows ' Arms , where M'DoaaU addressed them . The
Attorney-General proceeded to read the address of the prisoner ; as subsequently proved ; commenting on it aa he proceeded . In this address , tbey were advised 1 to arm and practios drilling , both with and without arms , in the same manner as their enemies / Who were tbe enemies he referred to ? Could there be any doubt of the meaning of these words ? or of his speaking of the government as the enemies against whom they were to turn ? Bat the prisoner then went on to state that which he as an educated man must bare known to be untrue . He stated tbat the soldiers were with them , that all the military at Woolwich bad revolted in ore nir . bt , that there
was a committee sitting at he _Qi-se Guards for the redress of their grievances , and that in a few days a pamphlet would ns published setting forth their determinatum . Could there be any doubt of the meaning and objeot of suoh au address ? or that it wss intended by violence aid intimidation to oppose the administration of the law f It ' might be urged , that on these occasions much allowance should be made for tha warmth of expressions made use of by men speaking under exoitement , bat he oould not make any snob _allowaaee for a person of _edHostion like the prisoner , the paid agent of others , going aboutfor hire to disseminate the doctrines in whioh he dealt ; '
Robert Newton stated , he was chief constable of _Ashton-ander-Lyne . Produced the placard ennve ning the meeting on the 10 th of July . Witness went to the _Charlestown meeting-house accordingly . Eo * _dsavoured ti get in . It was a little after eight o _' clock at night : A person _nuned James Milligan , who stood at the door , prevented witness getting in . Dr M'DoaaU waa not there when witness was first _refased admission . On a second occasion he was . On the second time MiUigansaidit was not Mr Newton they were ' preventing going in , but the deputy con stable _^ There were ether officers with witness .
When- Dr M'D <> uall came op , they opened to allow him to pass . Witness then again attempted to get in , but tbey got hold of bis wrists and would not let him . He asked why he wsb sot admitted , and received the answers already stated . Could not see into the room farther than the passage . Great numbers went in . Witness remained a considerable time about the place , and then left hii men to watch the proceedings . Did not hear any expression of alarm among the inhabitants that night . The town seemed to be quite alive . A warrant was afterwards placed in witness ' s hands for execution againBt the prisoner . ' . Took him into custody on the 16 th . Told him he had a warrant against him for using seditious language , attending an unlawful assembly , and
riot . Took him to the police-office , and read to him the warrant . He said he protested against the warrant on account of tha erasures that were made in it , and insisted he had a right to the possession of it . Witness told him be would take oare tbo same warrant was produced before the magistrates . _¦ Foand on his person a memorandum book ; a song oalled 'the Song of tbe Soil , * from the _Irhf Fblon ; a letter from Bradford , dated July 14 , and two letters to bim ( M'Douall ) , from a person of the name of M'Crae , in London . In tha letter of the Uth were some depositions enclosed , which appeared to have been token before the magistrates . Of the letter from M'Crae , one was dated the 6 th of Jaly , and the other _theUth . Cross-examined by Mr Sergeant Wilkins . _—MUligan stated , that Dr M'Douall had said that
policeofficers had given such evidence as to language made _nso of by him at other places he was determined no officer should enter any meeting he was in .. Will not wear it was not said that the _poiioe-sffioers had given such false statements _bafore that they would not be admitted . Believes there is a paper oalled the _Stockpjbt _Advsbiiseb . Does not know if there ia a aherthand-writer connected with it . Knows several reporters . Did not employ any one to report tho _proceedings in the chapel . ' Directed the officers to _inske a _repi-rt of the proceedings whioh took place . Dr . M'Douall has epokeH at several meetings in Ashton , bat not lately . Thinks he was himself present at two when he has spoken . There was a teaparty in the Town Hall _sinoeDr M'Douall was taken , to raise funds to conduct his defenoe . Believes Mr _Tweedla has the letting of tha Town Hall ; he is a connoillor of the borough .
Mr Sergeant Wilkins . —D ) yon . not know tho town _oouaoU were unanimous ia letting him that hall ? . . Mr Justice Cresswell . —What has that to do with _tmscasB ? Mr Sergeant Wilkins submitted that it was to be presumed that the town council would have the best means of knowing whether these meetings were likely to disturb tbe publio peace ; and as some question had been made whether alarm had not been created , this afforded a fair argument that suoh alarm did not exist _. His Lordship said , there wbb no pretence for the admission of this evidenoe . It was nothing to the question , whether Dr M'Djuall had attended an _unlawful meeting on the 10 ; h of July , tbat a member of the town council , or all'the town counoil _, bad lot the Town Hall for the purpose suggested In the end of July , or the beginning of August , some weeks afterwards .
AbelSwann : Lives at Ashton ; is a tailor and draper . Knows the Charlestown Meeting-house has the letting ot it ; it is used as a chapel on Sundays-Was there on the 10 th of Jaly at a quarter before eight . Saw Dr M Douall there . He came tear eight o ' clock . Should thine : there were about 1 , 000 persons . Tbe generality of the people were allowed to go in . The police and . _reporters were excluded . That was all he saw objected to . Only saw one _there—Kerrison . Saw him m the passage . James Taylor was the chairman . He sat in the rostrum . Thomas Storer was with him . Riohard Pilling and otherB were with him . M Douall was iu the pulpit ; he spoke half an hour Took
or more . no note of what was Baid . He spoke with reference to the land ; he said tbe people mast look te the Janrl when they were thrown out of employment ; he said tho parks of the aristooraoy must be brought into cultivation and made to produce _aomethiDg . Cannot speak to anything particular . Milligan made an _announcements a meeting to take place on Friday night . Tho young men were asked to go to the _Chattwt room and join the National Guard . Ihe meeting _lasted about two hours . Before they broke up , it wsb announced they should form into _precession to aocompany M'Douall to his lodgings _. Two or three persons oame when the room was let ; West was one .
Cross-examined : M'DuUall is a rapid speaker . I did not hear him recommend the people not to bave anything to do with arms . Was not present aU the time . Did not go to hear the lecture at ail . He said that in consequence of the vast increase of machinery _peoplewould at last have to fall baok on the land . He said that the parks of the aristooraoy must be made prodnotive . Cannot say whether he alluded to the increase of population . Does not know if he Bpuke of anything in connexion with the Land Company . Henry Taylor : Is a police officer at Ashton . Went to the Charlestown Meeting-house on the lOih of
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Jaly . Went about eight o ' clock . Did not attempt to get in . Did not see if anybody had anything with them . They cams out and formei in ranks , four , fire , and six abreast . M'Douall was at the head . He had a man on eaob arm . Three cheers were gives . They then moved on . They went up Wellington * road , dorrn Oldham-road , up Old-street , through _llenry-cq'iare , _Siamiord-strcet , and Cavendish-street , back to Old-street again . They halted opposite the Odd Fellows' Arms in Old-street . There were from 300 to 40 Q at first-aboat 800 or 900-at last , The prisoner oame to the window and addressed the crowd . Heard part of what he said . Made a memorandum of it after leaving the place . He , Baid , ' I advise you to organise yourselves , and form yourselves into sections and divisions , and practice tbe same manoeuvres as your enemies , not only without arms ; bat with them . Several regiments have already revolted ;
there is no fear from them . The whole of the troops stationed at Woolwich bave , in one night revolted . Tbrre is a committee sitting at the Herie Guard * , be longing to the Ilorio Guards , to consider their grievance ; and in a few days you will hare a pamphlet _published with the 'news of their decision . I wish thoy would call out tbe militia , but they dare sot do that , for then we should have their guns , bayonets , and cartridges , and . we would then let them see . I te 1 yoa there are only about 10 . 000 disposable troops , and what are they to 5 , 000 000 people ? And I promise you , beforethe harvest is ia , or very soon after , you shall have the Six Points ot the Charter , and something more . ' He concluded— ' Organise ! organise ! organise !! It would be about eleven or a quarter-past he left the window . The town was in a very confused state . The crowd gave three cheers , and dispersed hooting and shouting .
Cross examined : Dr M'DoaaU spoke from fifteen to twenty minutes Witness has b _* en a policeman and _oonstablo since February , 1848 . Before that he was a sen-cant of marines . Was twenty-one years in tbe service . Dues not write well . Never reported any meeting before . The crowd pushed to and fro occasionally . Has not get the note of the meeting . Give it to the inspector the following morning . Has not naked bim for it . _Dalgleish is the inspector . Mr Sergeant Wilkins then asked the witness to write out a portion of the epeeoh . His Lordship intimated he doubted much the admissibility of _thisikind of cross-examination . It was
a kind of evidence most likely to . mislead . It was obviously a different matter writing at home , and still more so . writing . ia the agitation of aa exaraiuv tion in court ; and even if tbe man ' s writing , were bnd he might stilt ba able to write : what he himself could understand . He said he would hear Mr Sergeant _Wilkins's argument . Ia the meantime , however , it _appearing tbat _Dalgleishwas in attendance , he was called in and asked by Mr Serjeant Wilkins whether he could read the notes in questioi ? _.. He eaid be oould . Mr Serjeant Wilkins did not then press his oonrse of cross-examination with the witness .
Examination resumed . —In one part of his speech M'Douall cautioned them against any acts of violence . George _Daigleish , inspector of police , corroborated Taylor ' s evidence . Cross-examined . —Has been in the polioe force sixteen or eighteen months . Has not been in the habit of reporting speeches . M'Douall spoke aboat twenty minutes .. The _part'taken down was part of a much longer speech . - The sentences taken down occurred at different parts of the epeeoh , here and there . Tbere are two copies of the portions of the _speeoh in tbe note-book . The second was written out by _witneae ' d father the eame night . Did so beosuie witness was busy and his father was a better penman . Witness did sot compare tbe copy to Bee if it > wai correct .
Mr Pollock proposed to read to the witness several sentences to try his oapaoity of reporting them correctly . His Lordship said ; ha did not think there was anything objectionable in prinoiple in that , but it would be a very fallacious test . It would depend upon the witness being in the same _oooli state of mind , and in a great degree on the nature of the topic Cross-examined . —Will not say _powtively , it _may not bave been the troops at Windsor that ware spoken of * ' and not _troipa at Woolwich . Did not hear him speak of the _organisation of thef-Methodists , or nf the An ti-Corn Law League . Has known him hold meetings at Ashton before , two or three years back . Was at one whioh he held two er three
years back . They were peaceable : The people who formed the procession to the Odd Fellows '' Arms walked four , five , six ; or more abreast ; __ Matthew Maiden , inspector of police , was at the chapel on the 10 th of July . Was prevented from getting in . When witness attempted to get in there was a mBh from the inside , and many persons came out into the lobby to assist those at the door . Two men had some sharp instruments projecting from their pockets . They _aeemed to be the points of pikes . One man . who was standing at the door , said , if witness west in he would be WUed . Witness Baid . _< If vou kill me yea only kill one ; and if you
leave me life I shall know some of you . ' Tbe man said , reporters and police had ' done suoh swearing ' in London they were _determined not to allow them to go in . He laid , if witness had been ' Matthew Maiden' he might have gone in ; bnt he was 'Inspector Maiden . ' ThB witness detailed what took place np to tbe time of M'Douall addressing the crowd . His account didnot vary materially from that of the other witneifei . " ' ' ' Cross-examined . —Made some notes in his pocket _, book as _eoonas he oame from the meeting . Is provided with the bwk by tha authorities . Has bean an officer -. even yean ; before that served under the
overseers . Thomas Hollingswerth . —Is an overlooker in a factory ( Mr Rayner ' _s ) at _Ashtonunder-Lyne . Went to the meeting-house on the 10 th of July . Saw soma constables at the door . Witness was . on tbe doorstep . There was a rush to the door . Witness went outside . Saw several of themen . _goingin bad something in their breast that glittered ; it seemed to bea pike . Witness Went'hbmewb ' en the meeting broke np . The _precession marobed in ranks . Cross-examined . —Did not see anything but the glitter . Has a brother , who ie clerk to Mr Hall , the
solicitor for the proteeution . , The Attorney-General then tendered in evidenoe the book found on the person of M'DoaaU . Several _appointments for a' series of meetings at various towns were read , inolddihg one for Ashton on the 10 ft , running from the beginning of tha mouth to tbe end . There were , other , entries ef . wages , and salary , which it was . proposed to read . Hia Lordship , after looking at the entries , said , he had some little doubt" respecting their admissibility , from its not appearing frora whom this salary waa received . He did noi say he would hot admit it on argument .
The Attorney-General did not . press the reception of the evidenoe . . It was then proposed to give in evideaoe the letters _fonnd ou the prisoner . Mr Sergeant Wilkins objected that these letters referred to past transactions . Evidence of a similar kind was tendered _jnHardy ' s oase , being an account given by ona of several _oonspirators of what occurred at a meeting of a society of whieh the writer and the prisoner were members ; and there it was rejedted as not _baing an aot in furtherance ef the common purpose , but a mere account by one of the parties of a previous transaction . Mr Polmck followed on the same side , and referred his lordship to the contents of the letters , and submitted that even if they might be . evidence bad the charge been one of conspiracy , they had no relevancy to the present case ; which was one of a _speoino aot on a specifio day . ..... His Lordship thought the letters admissible , as tending to throw a light on the course the prisoner
was pursuing . The thvt read was one of tbe 6 th of July , from John M'Crae , enclosing £ 2 , as tbey had got in a little money . It gave an account of the proceedings against tbe persons indicted for sedition in London , stating that "Vernon had been convicted , and _, apprising M'Douall that there were many places , in England wanting a visit from hira . A second , dated 11 th July , stated tbat they were witbout money , and unable to send him any money at tbat time . It mentioned that his wages were paid up to that time , and . tbat tbe wages for the next week would be sent if possible . It stated that Jones had been convicted , praised hi * conduct and boldness at the trial , and apprised Dr M'Douall of their
having had a meeting at which some policemen in plain olothes attended , who were put out by the neck . __ A third letter _wos . then tendered , but his lordship expressing a doubt of its admissibility it was not pressed . The * Song of the Soil' found in the prisoner ' s possession , was then tendered . It was objeoted , that this was not evidence , as not being relative to the question , and as not tend ing in any way to prove guilt on his part . It might be in the ' possession ' of the most innocent person in the world . The mere faot of a _person having in his possession a printed document of this kind , without any evidence of his adoption nf its sentiments , oould have no _weight in this inquiry , His Lordship said , he thought the document might tend to show the meaning of the words used by tie
prisoner . Tha song was then read , as well as a prospectus of a newspaper called tbe _TnuiHmwsB , to be established for the advooaoy of the principles of the People ' s Charter and the tepeal of the union . It was declared that the _BjBtem of the deteotive polioe would meet with its firm _opposition ; and the right of the labourer to a maintenance sufficient to yro . vide himself and his children with food , _olothing _, and education , occupy a prominent plaoa in ix » columns . ' Mr Serjeant Wilkins then addre & _sed tha jury on behalf of the prisoner . He commenoed by rematking that so universal wsb the prejudice now in existence against persona professing the _volitical opinions described by the learned Attorney General—so much had men ' s fears , and apprehensions , and _indignation been exoited against tee . men professing _tuQgg epi-
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mom , that he declared he almost liokened with apprehension in entering on the discharge of the duty then devolving on him ; and he must say that some of the observations made by the Attorney-General did seem to him muoh calculated to rather increase those prejudices , rather to excite that indignation , aad rather to put , ths judgment of thejury to flight , than to enable them to come fairly and dispassionately to the' investigation of the , indiotment upon whioh the prisoner was then taking his trial . It was a common place thing with counsel to call upon a jury to discard prejudice , and to invite them to a fair and unprejudiced inquiry ; but they were little aware of the difficulty of the task whioh they , sought to impose on others . Prejudice swayed even the
wisest of men ' in the Ordinary transactions ef life ; but how much more strongly must it operate on the mind in the present case . All circumstances had oombinedj for many months past , to create such a prejudice , and to call forth such feeling ] , ae must be most disastrous to suoh a man as the prisoner at the bar . He implored the jury , therefore , not merely for the sake of the prisoner , but as they valued their own interests , as they set a right estimate on the tr ial by jury , toexerciBe all tbe vigilance of whioh they were capable ,, and _taiscrutinise this case with a deep sense of the solemn obligation under whieh they were placed ,. He knew not what might be the politioal opinions of the jury ; but this he did know , that that man did not understand our constitution ,
nor appreciate our liberties , who affected to frown on others , er to treat them with disdain , if they held opinions different from his own . He belioved that Dr M'Douall did entertain those opinions whioh were commonly known . as Chartist opinions ; and ha dared to say that if Dr M'Douall were called oa , he oould assign strong and cogent reasons fer having adopted those views . He would not pause to ask whether those views coincided with those of thejury —whether they were calculated to protect and render _liberty permanent , or whether they were calculated to let loose the prejudioes and passions of men , for the destruction of all that we most valued . What they bad to decide on tbe present occasion was , had the prisoner been guilty of sedition , of attending an
unlawful meeting , and of doing anything calculated to promote riot .- There was one observation made by the Attorney-General whioh might well have been spared . When he talked of the prisoner disseminating poison amongst the Working classes , knowing , as he must knew , how prone most men were at this moment to look with au eye of reproaoh at the prisoner , ho ( the learned sergeant ) thought that that expression might have been withheld , and tbat thejury might hare been left to . determine whether it was I _oison or not . Then , the Attorney-General broaobed the strange doctrine , that the prisoner ought to be _deprivedof all tbe sympathy usually bestowed on the honest ad vooste of a cause , beoause he was a paid lecturer . Ware not the ministers of the _eosoel _naid tor
their teachings—were not tbe men raised to official position in the law also paid for the discharge of their duties ? and was tbeir integrity on that aooount to be impugned ? If Dr M'Douall was the educated and eloquent man whioh he was represented to be , sorely it did argue something for his sincerity _,. when he laboured in the oause for 50 s . _a-week . It might be that tbe teachings ef thi prisoner were uapa _' atable , because they laid bare the corrupt places of our constitution , because they called m question the expenditure of the publio money , and because they sometimes questioned the sincerity and honesty of those who expended that mosey . AU this might be so ; but because a man was paid for his teachings , let not the
jury oome to the conclusion that he was a mere hireling , and insincere . But , said tha Attorney-General , resistance to the law is sot to be justified under any oireumstanoes . Now he ( Mr Sergeant Wilkins ) entered his Bolemn protest against such a saying . He was not awerting that wa had arrived at the point when resistance to the law beoamejustifiable ; but never , while he lived , wonld he give the sanction of h *> s poor voice and unimportant position in society , to a dootrine so slavish , so un-English , bo unconstitutional . Where would the privileges , rights , aud immunities of Englishmen have been at this day if our forefathers had aot resisted the law ! What was our whole history but a straggle of the people with their rulers ?' - When this resistance was successful , the
people engaged in it . became heroes ; when unsuccessful , they were called traitors and rebels . After dwelling on this point with great energy , the learned sergeant betook himself to the faots of . the cue . Taking tbe _Attorney-Generafr criterion of an unlawful assemblage , _heoonteuded that the meeting of the 10 th of Jul ; was not unlawful , seeing that it was not at all calculated to excite terror and alarm . The head constable of Ashton admitted that he heard no expressions of alarm . Only one offioer saw anything in the shape of arms , and he only saw ia the pockets § f two men something bright , whioh he took for pikes .- ' - Another witness saw something glitter in the breasts bf one or two men . For aught that the witness knew , the glittering light might
have been tbat of bright buttons , or of the tools whioh workmen ordinarily use , aud often carry with them . As to the refusal to admit the police to the meeting , that was accounted for at the time . Policemen and reporters bad been admitted ou previous occasions , and had so perverted whatwas said—had gives suoh mischievous meanings to what was innocent and harmless , tbat they were refused admittance . The polioe were sent to the meeting for the very purpose of reporting what was said : and done , although Mr Newton knewrepsrtere who wate capable of reporting . After the in-door meeting wai over there was ai procession . Why , a precession was a very ordinary affair in large towns ; and what was there in it to excite alarm ? There were certainly three cheers at
tbe clone of tha proceedings , and then tho people went quietly away—not having used any threatening language , nor an expression _indiaative of % desire to _prodace mischief ; nay , not a single man used an indecent or improper expression . Then , as to a riot , hiB learned friend must admit that there was no evidenoe whatever . The learned sergeant proceeded to take a survey of the evidenoe ef the prosecution . He dwelt principally ' oh the speeoh alleged to bave been delivered by the prisoner from the windows of the Odd Fellows' Arms , pointing out that the reports of the officers consisted only of detaohed passages , and that the omitted portions might have qualified the meaning given to them . He alto urged that some of the expressions attributable to the prisoner
were easily _auioeptible of an interpretation whioh rendered them harmless . The learned counsel , too , strongly contended that the reports of the . speeoh were not to be trusted ; They had been taken by men quite unaccustomed to the task—by men who were standing , at a late hoar of the night , ia the midst of a moving and shouting crowd—by men who , owing to the darkness , were unable to take a single note ; and he asserted that , under suoh ciroumstances , the first reporter in England -wild not have given a fair and true report . What , then , must ba expected from the unaided memory of uueduoated men ? But still , under these difficult _ciraumstanoaa , thera was a strange _agreement between the reports of the three _policemei—an agreement whioh was perfectly
inexplicable on the supposition that they had drawn up their _accounts separately and independently . Three men , placet ! in different parts of the crowd , had _se'eeted out of a speech of some twenty minutes' duration , the _self-samepassages , , _xoA many of the passages were couched in precisely the samo words . If three men , with the lame strength of memory as the celebrated WoodiaU _. bad attempted tho samo task , would their reports have presented tbis auspicious agree _, ment even to monosyllables ? The ability of Daigleish to report had been shown in tbat court , he having acknowledged hia inability to state even tho purport of a remarkable p \ _ssage from a speech whioh had been read to him . But , even though the words were _correotly given , they were only
isolated words , aid , . therefore , no confidence could be placed iu the reports . The learned sergeant next referred tothe documents given in evidence , asserting that they had nothing to do with the case , and bad only been introduced for the purpose of prejudice , by oonneoting the prisoner , to seme extent , with the Chartists who recently took their trials in London . Perhaps the jary hated Chartism , Did tbey wish to disarm it ? Did they wish to convict the Chartists of groundless complaint ? . Did they wish to show that they had a proper Interest for the rights , the immu _nities , and the privileges of their fellow creatures ? But let this be borne in mind , that , however much they might be disregarded at the moment , the wellgrounded complaint of the poor was a direct appeal to
tbe King or icings , it might be disregarded— -it might be trampled underfoot ; but , sooner or later , retribution would come . Every well-grounded complaint should be listened to with patience , and with a desire to remove it . Did the jary _whh to remove tbis complaint ? Did they wish to convince the prisoner tbat the laws were equal in their operationtbat there were no such things as packed juries , as prejudioed verdicts , and that he might with cosfi dence rely on them 1 If they did , for God Almighty ' s sake let them not be led away by prejudice that day . Let them judge , and think , and aot for themselves ; and let thera bear in mind that the very best men whomt bis kingdom ever knew , purchased our liberties , aud th « t . though subjected to like trials and prejudices , tho gnnd oauso triumphed .
Mr Kuowles availed himself of his privilege to reply , acd in so doing strongly denounced the dootrine of the learned sergeant , that resistance to tho law was justifiable . He contended that his learned friend bad not read our history aright , for that the cases in whioh resistance bad been resorted to by tha people were net oases of resistance to the law , but of resistance to encroachments upon the law . He indignantly noticed the insinuation tbat tbe jury would show itself to be a paoked jury if it did net accede to tbe wish of tha learned sergeant , and acquit the prisoner , stated that tho jury hid been called together in the _ordinary manner , and that he had not challenged one of the twelve . Indeed , he believed that the single challenge whioh had taken p _' . aoe bad been on the other side , Mr Poilook remarked that this was a mistake . The counsel fur ihe defenoe had not _objeoted to a single juryman . Mr _Knowlea : Some one did , aud it was not me . I Having replied to some of the observations oi Ser-
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geant _WiJkins , the learned Attorney-General con . oluded by earnestly calling upon the jury to discard all prejudice , but , at the same / time , to do their , duty fe & _rieeaty ; , ¦ : ¦ ¦ ' . His Lordship summed up . After defining what au unlawful assembly was , his lordship aaid tbat what had been said about having a right to violate tha law was a contradiction in terms , ft never _coajd be law * _ful to break the law . There were _itutanoesin history where resistance had been made to the acts of govern * ment , and successfully , and there were differences of opinion even in the present day as to the complexion of suoh acts ; bat those who would now call the men
traitors who did ao called them so because tbey regarded them as breaking the law ; while those who looked upon them as patriots did so because they considered the violation of the law was _iin the Bide of the government . Both parties appealed to the law , aud to speak of Hi being lawful to violate the law was absurd and unintelligible . Tbe learned judge , after pointing out the distinction between a fair discussion of a supposed grievance—a _legitimate opposition to an individual law-and a resistance to the government by violence , proeeeded to examine minutely the evidence for tho _proseoution , commenting upon it aa he proceeded .
Thejury retired for a few minutes and returned into court with a verdictof Guilty en all the counts of the indictment except those charging conspiracy , on wbich a nolle prosequi bad been entered by the At * torney- General , His lordship , iu passing sentence , said tbe prisoner had lent himself for hire to the dissemination of sedition and that he had addressed ignorant and Buffering people for the purpose of exoiting tumult , sedition , and armed violence . I ; was a _rasst serious offence _, in this part of the country there had Ion ? been evil emissaries abroad , and it was tbe second time tha prisoner himself bad stood at the bar on a charge of seditious _prtctices . It was necessary to pass on him a sentence similar to that wbich had beeB passed oh his accomplices in London , in whose fate the letters foand on him showed he took an interest , bnt fr . m whose fate he had received no warning , He trusted it would be a caution to him at a' future time to de *
vote his exertions and tha talents which God had given bim in endeavouring to obtain an honest livelihood by tbeir exercise . To be imprisoned two year ) . The following ia the conclusion of the proceedings as given in the _Makcqk _^ ibb Ex . minir : — ' The sentence _©* ' trie court was that be ( M'Douall ) bs imprisoned ia the gaol of this county for two years , and kept to hard labour , . The Prisoner : Am I to be committed to Lancaster Castle ? The Judge : I have sentenced you to tbe gaol of this county . The county gaol is Lancaster Castle . On Tuesday Dr M'Djuall was again placed at tha bar . when
| His Lordship said—I have sent for yon tbis morning , because I yesterday passed sentenoe upon yea to undergo your term of imprisonment in the county gaol at _Lanoaster . I have been told that it _wiU be | inoonvenient to place you there as a male prisoner , I and your place of confinement will therefore be the House , of Correction at Kirkdale . The Prisoner . —Will your lordship allow me to make a few observations * The Judge . —What are they ? The Prisoner . —I have spoken to the governor and the gaoler of Kirkdale , and I find that , from tbe con * fined state of the Kirkdale Gaol , it will be impossible for my constitution to bear it . His Lordship . —Yoa should have considered that beiore yoa made yourself amenable to the law . I cannot hear anything of that sort now . The prisoner was then removed .
Ths Cholera. A Letter From Aleppo , Publ...
THS CHOLERA . A letter from Aleppo , published in the _Cokbtito-TioKNSZ , gives a frightful account of the ravages of the _ohelera morbus ia Asia Minor . Tne number of deaths increases daily , and _between the 17 th aad 23 th of July newly 1 , 000 patients succumbed . Belief ia predestination prevents the Mahometan part of tbe population from taking any precautions er resortin ? to any rem * _, dies . Sinoe the 1550 of July the average diurnal number of desths bas amounted to 140 . To aggravate the evil there Ma _onljf three European _phjslo ' mn . In Aleppo , with a _population of 80 , 000 . Wabbaw , August 20 : b . —The cholera bas broken oat here ; but , bs yet , few persons bave been seized with it . It is _' making considerable progress in the kingdom of Poland . In Gjlioia it is spreading with great rapidity .
_CoHSTAMTitrorcs , August 6 . —The cholera bas again increased , and so bas tbe _ferer . From the provinces , to wbich numbers bare & J A to escape the scourge , the accounts are very melancholy . At _Trebfjond , wbere tbe cbohra bad oeaied _, it bas broken out afresh . The accounts from Adrianople and Salonioa state tbat the inhabitants are _soi _& ring from ibis epidemic , but with _, out exception it is tbe most appalling at Aleppo , A panic fear bas seized tbe inhabitants , and all are flying or seeking flight , as more than 100 dally fall viotirns _. Later accounts from the East state tbat tbe cholera is raging with increased virulence at Constantinople , Tie . Wzond and Sm-rna , The deaths in those _plaots being from tiS _' . y to eight ; a day .
At Odessa , It is on the decline ; but some of the neighbouring village ] have suffered most awfully , tbe deaths amounting to one-fifth of tbe population . In the Tartar villages of the Crimea tbe disease is also very virulent . At _Chlenia there have been 800 deaths ia 1 , 000 attacks , tbe population being 10 , 900 . At Angora tbe deaths were thirty per diem . Akiolou _, Toultcha , Tama , _Cjonmla , Adrianople , _Siras , _Salonici , Angora , Kutsja , Enoi , and Aleppo , are all mare or less suffering from the scourge . Io E / _ypUho disease first manifested itself _InBolaoco aud in Old Cairo , and about the same time It attacked and made sad baroc among a caravan of black slaves at the fair of Tanta . In three days 3 , 900 souls wero car . tied off by it . Tbe survivors fled to urrouodieg towns aud villages disseminating the pestilence In every _direc tion ; aud en . tht fob , _AviguU , at Cairo alone , the deaths numbered 300 dally . Running through Lower Egypt , ll manifested itself in Alexandria on tbe 22 ad July , and upwards of 1 , 800 peri . hrd in seventeen days .
_Lstters from Odessa , of tbe 1 st of August , mention that ef the 1 M _00 troops who crested the truth , full 3 . 000 have fallen victims to cholera . The _oholera bas also broken out in several parts of Syria , and tbe towns of Aleppo and _Dsmascas bare suffered severely from the epidemic , Thei > EUT _« _CHe AxieufCiifE Ziitdho bas letters from Qalioia of tbe 17 th , stating tbat tbe ebolera was making rapid _progress in that province , and had advanced as far as tbe circle of Wadowltcb _, which touohea the frontiers of Silesia . In _tbeiastmenliened province some oases bave already b en declared . Letters from Stettin of tbe 19 h announce twenty-one oases of cholera np to tbe evening of tbe 15 th , whereof nineteen proved fatal . Amongst tbe victims was Lieutenant Colonel Schmidt of the 3 th R glment . Tbe first victim of tbe disease in Damm wat a healthy and robust young man , who succumbed after excruciating agonies , which lasted eight hoars .
Tbe _AcauuaoH Gazette has letters from St Peters * burgh to the 12 th of August , whioh inform ut tbat the cholera has so subsided that several temporary hospitals and lazarettos have been closed . 163 deaths occurred between the 4 th and 10 th August . In Moscow and Rigs the malady is gradually subsiding , but , en the other hand , it rages im Fskow , wbere , in tbe space of seven days , 111 patients out ot 261 _succumbed , aud only twenty _, seven recovered .
Discovery " Of More Horrible Murders By ...
DISCOVERY " OF MORE HORRIBLE MURDERS BY _FOISOMHG IK ESSEX . Habwicb , Saturday . —Another most atrocious murder , by secret poisoning , bas within tbe last two or three days been discovered in the neighbourhood of _Wir , _connected with which are some unpleasant statements , implicating one or more femaltt with other murders , and which have led to tbe most painful exoitement throughout this pare of tbe country , Tbe particulars , as far as we have be _» n able to collect them , show tbat tbe wretched _wemsn , Mary Hay , who was executed nt Chelmsford ga * l , on _Monday _wetk , for tbe murder of ber brother , at W x , for his burial fees , urged and advised tbe commission if the dreadful crimes , one of which , at least , has been elearly eitabllihed . Some surprise has been manifested at the course the authorities adopted ia _no'iinvestlgating otber charges of murder in whioh Mary
May was said ts be implicated , and a general opinion U held amongst tbe police that she not only disposed of her former _hUsband b y tbe tame horrible means , but also several of her children ( she bad 14 , most of tbem died _suddeul )) _, Nothing appears to bave been done , however in tbe matter until Wednesday week last , when Mr _ItalsoB , inspeotor uf the constabulary stationed in tbe district , received a warrant from Mr Codd , one of the coroners for tbe county , directing tbe disinterment of thebo < iy of Thomas Haw , then lying in the burial-ground of Tendring Church , in tbe vicinity of Wlx , This party was tbe husband ot a sister ot Mary May , whose deaih _teok place in April last year . He waa a steady , induitrloii men , ind had accumulated a little money ; bit wife , however , was not so frugal , being * _ttber
irregular in hrr conduct , Haw quarrelled about a mas named Southgate _, and soon afterwards he was suddenly at > taoked with _siokness , and died In a few hours . There wat no inquest held , his death , like the other _suspeoted cases , being r'glst -red as from natural causes . His remains wete exhumed on Wednesday , A coronet **; Juij wat empanell . don same day , and _UessrB Manthorp and son were directed to secure the _siomaoh for _enalytatlon by Professor Taylor , who is en eminent lecturer en chemistry at Guy ' s Hospital . To day the authorities received _informatiin from Mr Taylor , lothe iffict tbat he had found sufficient arsenic in the intestines to acoouut for death . In _conBtquence of that discovery the _satpsctod party bas been arrested , and awaits tbe close of the coroner's _icqalry . Tho polioe have also reotived la-1 _strr-clions fo exhume _othsr remains .
On The 10th Ult., Mrs Batty, The Wife Of...
On the 10 th ult ., Mrs Batty , the wife of a printer , residing in New Kent-road , was confined of / our children at a birth , _^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 2, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02091848/page/6/
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