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      Jasha-.Y 6. 1840. The Northern Star. M

      _JASHA-. Y 6 . 1840 . THE NORTHERN STAR . m

      Colonial Ana Mxttoau

      _Colonial ana mxttoau

      France. Dxfsat 0? Thb New Ulutbtbt. ' Th...

      FRANCE . DXFSAT 0 ? THB NEW _UlUtBTBT . ' The government ofthe new President have already _bB-funtoexperience the diflicalties of office . The chief odium which bora down the repntoio ir & _s its increase of taxation . The ministers of Lonis Napoleon are Obliged to come forward with a demand for the maintenance of this taxation , and of the salt duty , which is the most onerous npon the poor . M . Passy _Pegged that it might be allowed to remain six -months longer . Sat the _Cbsmten were inexorable . Amotion being made to reduce the salt dnty to lOf . the 100 kilos . Immediately , the ministry opposed it , bnt wera defeated hy 403 votes against 360 . The Barrot ministry haa thru allowed itself to be defeated by their adversaries in the Chamber , tnd on a question which places their adversaries on the popnlar tide . The second part of the amendment , for the "total suppression of the fax , on and after the 1 st of April , waa rejected without division .

      _BBSIQHATIOBSM . Leon de MaUoville , Minister of the Interior , snd M . Bixio , Minister of Commerce , have resigned . Ihe _Monitxub ef Saturday published three decrees , appointing M . Leon Faucher . Minister of the Interior _, in place of M . Leon de Malleville ; M . Lacrosse , Miniiter of _Pab'ic Works , in place of M , Leon _Fnuehsr ; and M . Buffet , one of ths representatives of tbt people . Minister of Agriculture and Commerce , in place of M . Bixio .

      THB AUNKBTT . We extract the following from the correspondence ofthe Mokhihg Hbbald : — 'I understand that ibe amnesty ia ready . It will apply to all tho * e _insurgents who were takes with arms in their hands , and * _s ? simple identification were transported withont * _X _\ \; but those who were tried before councils of — _ X and condemned after full examination , are ta be exempted from the benefit of this gracious measure . The _prisoners at Yineennea are to be tried forthwith . joub ns l _' ak :

      Pabib _Mon'ky Evening . —The whole of this day has been occu _, * * _" * br the Parisians in the usual New _YearVday yhiih and the new President of the Repnblio haa had jnoro than hia share of the compliments of the _aeaso . i- From an early honr this morning , deputation after dopatation has been wending ita way towards the Palace of the Elysee Bourbon , and the _gamefptooeM will continue till a late hour this evening , when the corps mplotnatique will attend . Among the deputations whieh went to the Palace of the Elysee to-day , was one consisting of several handred of the soldiers of the Emperor Napoleon's Celebrated Yielle Garde . They were dressed in the nnifona ofthe time of the Emperor , and carried an enornoui bouquet tnonstre , which they presented to the nephew of the Emperor . They attracted great soBce as they passed along the streets on their way to ihe Palace .

      To-day the President of the Repnblio , by way of ¦ _etrenne , presented the Prinoe de Moahowa , the son of the nnfbrtnnate Marshal Ney , with the decree , signed thia morning , appointing him Minister of the Repubiie at Berlin , in the plaoe of M . Emanuel Arago : asd to Count _Waleski ( who ia a natural son ofthe Emperor ) the decree appointing him Minister ofthe Republic at Turin , in the place of M . Bois le Ctmte . M . Jerome Bonaparte was yesterday installed in the ( _juTernoTihi p of the _Invalides .

      THK LATE HXCnON FOB FBBSIBErr . We have waited until the whole of the returns , _including Algeria and Corsica , were made np ; to give a correct Hat of the _votea in the different departments . The total aumbtt of totes given to each of the _candidate * was as follows : — Lonis Napoleon Bonaparte ... 6 , 048 . 872 General Cavaignao 1 , 479 , 121 Ledru Rollin 355 . 515 Raspail • 40 , 068 _LBHiartine _- _> _. 17 , 581 _m-Qalignani .

      GERMANY . AUSTRIA . —The Alw . Obeb Zutuno ( Breslau ) publishes a letter frora tbe well-known Dr Schutte -flate bf Yienna ) , narrating tho cruel conduet of the Austrian authorities towards Herr Hafner , formerly the editor of the suppressed Vienna Commrnoir . It appears that the latter was arrested , near the Austrian capital , on tbe 12 th of Ootober . _consequently before the Diet was prorogued by the Emperor , or tbe proclamations of Windisohgratz were issued . The only oharge against him was , that he

      had written in the _Cobbhtdtioh . He has been con--fined tinea that period in the fortress of _Josephstadt , and there appears to be no intention to bring him to trial . The Austriana have obtained military _assistance from the Turkish empire , tome hundreds of Bulgarian cavalry ( according to tha Joubkal or Austrian Lloyd ' s ) having passed ever the frontiers and taken np a position along with a portion of the imperial army , at Thomasovacz _, against which place the Magyars were preparing to aet .

      Three chiefs of districts of tbe National Guard have been condemned to death , as being implicated in the affairs of October . The sentence of the cointil of war has been communicated to Prince Win dischgratz . with a prayer to commute the sentence . The condemned are MM . Brann and _Plattensteiner , andDrSattner . PRUSSIA . —The Natkwal _Zmwkg states that Herr Schubert , a gnnmaker of Berlin , in easy , circumstances , has been arrested en the charge of having armed several of hia _workman with _riSss , _Ton the day after the proclamation of the state of siege , and 4 old them te shoot certain high personages , whom he named to them .

      THE WAR IN HUNGARY . After the capture of Presburg the Hungarians fell _tiak npon _Wieselburf . where a _saDguioarj conflict ensued between them and the Croatian ! . The Ban himself headed two charges , and at one time was in great danger . The Magyars were obliged to retire from _Wieselbaif , a portion of which was reduced to ashes , and a still larger portion plundered by the Croatian ! . _NranbeiaoftheinhabitantsofWieselbarg as well as of Raab and Komwn , carry on an immense corn trade , and are enormously rich , so that tbe _Croatiaus no doubt found good booty , unless the Wieselbnrgera bad packed off their valuables before the -arrival of their _npaoious visitors . It is said that the imperiatisis lost at Wieselburg two generals , four staff officers , and fifty-seven sub-officers . On the

      other hand , the Magyars lost , in prisoners alone , 792 , who were forwarded to Olmii z . Meantime the Magyars claim a complete victory over the troopi of the well-known Pastor Urban , who has been taken prisoner . On the 16 th nit . the defile of Jablunka , which leads from Moravia into Hungary , was entirely in the hands ofthe Magyars , who bad rendered it impassable _^ even for smugglers . According to the latest intelligence General Schlick was advancing towards Pesth from the _Galidan side . It is thought , however , tbat the Hungarian army on the fioatiers of Siebenbargen will contrive to hold him in check . Letters from Warsaw of the 10 th ult . announce tha confiscation ofthe property of General Bem , who commanded a portion of the insurgents in Tienna , and who is now in the Hungarian service . The Bbbslau Zkiidkg contains the following : —

      HOBBIBLB ATB 0 C 1 TIS 3 ! The army of the south , under the command of General _Dablen , is within a few miles of _Buda-Pesth , waiting the arrival of the main army from the west ; to maroh against the sister cities , As we have said before , Schlick , coming from thenorth , has penetrated as far aa _Miekoloz . en the route to Pesih The war in the Bannat and Transylvania is more fearful than oan be conceived . The leaders and _principal clergy are put to death in the most revolting manner ; one of the Romaic chiefs was flayed alive , another crucified , his eyes put oat , Ms arms and legs _*" _TT _^ -p" _-, it ' _-k ¦ ' >* ergvs and Kessor , head quarters of the 3 s-i \ ie * x . offer si to surrender , but on conditions _** b . l . ' . ¦' - _naeral " _cchnor refused . He demands com-: ' M . _i , tnd _oaconai tional surrender , the delivery of the ¦ niiief . _* n & tbe i _^ rt to ratiou of all good s whic h had bee n

      Th " . wmUaed _stacks of the Hungarians npon the _"isrviaa mcc hi . ru proved _unsuocesjful . They were everywhere repelled with loss . At _TomosoraJ , and the entrenchments of St Thomas especially , their losses were very considerable ; but they have gaiBed * splendid viotory at _Tersee , where Maurice Perizel took the commandant of Peter Warsdin _, and carried the two Austrian commanders of that fortress prisonfirs to Ofen . The Nbw Rbshisb Gazkm of the 30 th nit , says , it was reported at . Vienna ou the 24 tb , that the Imperial troops had bean beaten by the Magyars . At all events , the bulletins of the Austrian army were very ahsnure . It is believed great check hu been

      experienced between Baab asd Comoro . The _Atj-tbia * Lloid contains a correspondence from Presburg , under the date of the 21 st ult , which says : — ' And , whioh is daily surrounded by twelve sal eighteen pounder * , has not yet surrendered Peace , bas been concluded with the Servians of St Thomas . General Bam oommanded the army near Transylvania . ' A bulletin from the seat of war in Hungary is _. _pabliahed in tbe Vienna journals of the 28 th ult . It announces the capture , by tha Austriana , under the command of Marshal Berger , of the strong fortress of And , with a loss on their part oi fifteen killed , and fort y wounded .

      _CAPTOBI OF BAAB . Raab also has been taken . Early on the morning of the 2 7 _* u _* ulf- Prmee Windisohgratz directed two columns to cross the _Dannjie ** two points , above the town and below it . The latter _crying was effected at the juncture of the river Raab with the 1 W » , and the whole of the _matceovre was m , fended to cut off the retreat of tbe . Hungarian amy . The <> ommander-in-ohief advanced [ Meanwhile with S-w _^ cor _ptto the bank of the Rahnilz , oyer _- _wtMnVthrewa bridge , the oonitmction of which wurrcaroely com pleted when he was informed ofthe _Staa _^ _tteHim _^' -as- *»•» * - * abandoned their _fostiacations aid Men bade into two ooluons , or _WftTtbi ro » 4 to the fortes * of Comoro , mri the

      France. Dxfsat 0? Thb New Ulutbtbt. ' Th...

      _-JJier proceeding in the direction of Ofen . ' On his -f _ - to the town of Raab , Prince Windisohgratz was met by s deputation of citizens , who presented him with the keys C _* _the to" 15 * . In Pesth the gits ?** * excitement prevails : old and _yeung , high and low , iJi ? ? ob ] e lady and the meanest beggar , are working on tbt ) fortifications . Private houses whieh are considered io be in a favourable _iocalitv , are conveit _' _-d into a sort of citadels ; everywhere and in every case private property-rights are sacrificed , either voluntarily or compulsorily , to carry ont the one grand idea of defence .

      ITALY . ROME , De « . 21 . —The ministry has been reconstructed . It consists of Sterhini , Mariani , Campello , and another . The Galletti ministry is no

      more . D 1 _FLOKATIC BSLATIONS BBTWBBJl TBI POPE AND ACSTBJA , The following is an extract from the Wibrbb _Zeitdsg of this day , relative to the state ef affairs between the Pope and Austria :- _> ' The Pope , driven to the laat extremities by the shameful ingratitude of those whom he wanted to load with benefits , and whom they had shortly before lauded to the skies , was compelled to avoid their violence by flight . Anived at Gaeta he protested solemnly in the face of the world against the attempts of the 16 th of Nov ., and declared all the aots resulting therefrom to be null and void . This protest was communicated

      officially to the Imperial Court of Austria . As it appears clearly from this document that the Holy Father has escaped from the hands of his oppressors , and bas recovered the liberty necessary for the discharge of his apostolic 'dice , his Majesty the Emperor , following the dictates of his heart , will renew with the Sovereign Head of the Church those diplomatic relations whioh are so important to the religious interests of hia _peopie , and will express to him those sympathies of which the virtues , the misfortunes , and the exalted position of Tiae IX , are worthy . ' The _Ofjnio-ix of Turin announces from Milan , 22 nd ult ., that Radetsky haB been created Prince of _Cuatosa .

      Ihe _Pibdmontksb _Gaebxzb quotes correspondence from Pavia , 23 rd ult ., stating that , on the preceding day , the whole garrison of the place was nnder arms , intelligence being received from Milan that a considerable body of Hungarians had deserted to Pied _, mont . Among the deserters were also man */ individuals ofthe regiment Kinsky , hitherto considered a paragon of fidelity .

      SPAIN . The official accounts of the oivil war show that the Queen's troops were worsted in their recent an . counter witb the Catalan insurgents at Albans , and that the advantages gained by them are little better than nominal .- Cabrera , with 2 209 men , very nearly took Gerona by a coup de main , on the 17 th , and was only prevented by the arrival of reinforcements from various quarters . The persecution of the Progreustas continues , and hundreds have been ordered to the penal settle * ments without any form of trial .

      Rbvsn*Jb Of Thk Pbbbkni Qcartbr,—There !...

      Rbvsn _* jb of thk _Pbbbkni Qcartbr , —There !¦ Still a week to run before tbe tabular returns of the quarter ' s revenue can be published . A whole week ' s receipts bave yet to be added to the present quarter —to be published on Saturday next—before a strictly accurate estimate can be made of the comparison of the present quarter and year with the corresponding periods ending the 5 th January , 1848-There ia enough known , however , to allow us to make a close approximation to the probable result , and to institute a comparison , which ,- we are happy to say , will be a favourable one . It is satisfactory in the highest degree to find that the falling off in the revenue of the country , whioh was observable at the olose of 1817 and the commencement ef 1848 . has at

      length reoeived a wholesome check , and that our ordinary resources begin to show a buoyant and apward tendency . The Customs revenue is expected to exhibit an increase over the corresponding quarter of last year little abort of half a million . We are sorry to add that the other most important indication of the state ef trade and of employment the excise , will not answer so favourably to the wishes of the publio . In this important item , the receipts will vary little from those of the last January quarter . The only' other item from wbicb aa increase is expeoted is that _olsssed under the head of Miscellaneous , ' which is expected to yield mote than £ 200 , 000 in this quarter ; £ 80 , 000 of whioh , however , is the laat payment on account of the

      Chinese ransom , which was referred to in the Chanc ellor of the Exchequer's estimate last session . The other items , stamps , taxes , property-tax , dec , will bs scarcely as good as laat ' year . The most considerable falling off is apprehended in the stamps , whioh is expected to be about c £ 200 , 00 O , a great part of whieh is accounted for by the transfer of the carriage dnties from the stamps to the excise . In noticing the excise revenue ss one of the great tests of the condition of the people , we may _remark that the duties en malt—the largest in amount aa well as tbe moBt important in marking thn ability to purchase on the part of the labouring population—are in a much more favourable state than ihey were at this time last year . The Post Office shows little

      difference . The amount of falling off in the _property-tax in the quarter is not much of a criterion , since that impost iB collected with mere or less uncertainty in the different quarters of the year , by muoh the larger portions being received in tbe April and October quarters . Tbe gross revenue for the year will also show favourably in comparison with the corresponding period , ending 5 th January , 1848 . But a still more correal criterion of returning prosperity is to be found in the fact that the nine months , counting from 5 th April , 1848 . to the present timt , exhibit a considerable advance over the corresponding nine months , counted from 5 th April , 1847 , to 5 th January , 1848 . From this , and from theaotivity of

      trado , still eo happily observable , it is fairly assumed that the conclusion of the financial year on the 5 th April next will find iu in a much more _ratisfactory and prosperous condition than we were on the 5 th April last , and will folly bear ont the anticipations ofthe Chancellor of the Exohequer at the olose of the session , on which , with the knowledge he then had , he was justified in the calculations which he made for the year that was to come , Tbese calculations , it is now found , will ba completely borne ont , aud upon a review sf our entire financial and _commercial prospects , we are able to congratulate the country upoa a steady and progressive improvement . —Observer .

      Lola _Monibb . —The Countess of Lansfeld , so well known by the ' name of Lola _Montes , bas arrived in London . This celebrated individual , who has achieved an European notoriety by the events wbioh have taken place in the Bavarian _^ dominions and elsewhere , and which are too fresh in the memory ol the publio to require especial mention , attended on Saturday at one of the wharfs in the neighbourhood of London Bridge the examination of her luggage and effects , which bad arrived by a steamer from Boulogne a day or two before , and made a declaration before the authorities in the Long Room of the Custom House respecting them , which she attested with her signature , as ' Marie , Countess of Lansfield . ' The Countess had previously arrived from Boulogne , we believe , via Dover or Folkestone .

      Dailt Nbws . —The Daim Nbw 3 is to be raised in price and enlarged ; the Reform party intending to make it their organ , have thrown £ 25 , 000 into the treasury , it being understood that the speeches of all the Parliamentary men connected with the Hume and Cobden section of the House shall be fully reported . Fbbnch _Vbgktablss . —A vessel lately arrived in the Thames , from S t Nalerysnr-Somme , has brought —in addition to sixty tona weight in bulk of potatoes —the extraordinsry large quantity of forty _, tons weight of carrots , the produoe of France . This is , we believe , an unprecedented large arrival of this description of vegetables from foreign countries . Ibi s , in common with every other description of raw vegetable , ia now free of duty on importation into this country in a direct and regular manner .

      Pbogbbbs ot Choujbaat GiAsdow * . —It u painful to report that the disease has as yet shown no symptoms of abatement in this city , on the contrary , since our last ita ravages have been as fearful as during the previous week . Many estimable citizens have fallen victims to this scourge . We ha 7 e heard that several medical gentlemen are not inthe habit of reporting cases which occur in tbeir private practice , so that the published returns must not be held as exhibiting the full extent of tbe epidemic' Since our last , till yesterday inclusive , there have been 679 new cases , 327 deaths , viz ., on Saturday , 03 cases and 36 deaths ; on Sunday , 95 cases and 46 deaths on Monday , 87 oases and 48 deaths ; on Tuesday , 84 cases and 45 deaths ; on Wednesday , 118 eases and 64 deaths ; on Thursday , 78 cases and 87 deaths ; and Friday , 115 cases and 51 deaths . We are thankful to learn that a more extended medical

      machinery is now in operation , and we earnestly trust that it may , under Providence , be instrumental in checking the malady . The medical staff in attend _, ance on the poor has been greatly enlarged by calling in the aid of advanced medical students ; and on Thursday a new hospital was opened for the treatment of oholera patients at the comer « f North _Wcodside , opposite Phillip ' s Quarry . Additional dispensaries have also baen opened in various distrusts of the oity . Arrangements have also been made , by whioh every house in the various districts —especially those in poor and wretched localitieswill be visited , at least onoe daily , and _inqwnei made into the Btate of health of all the residents . A vast number of cases have already been discovered acd treated is this way , whiob , undoubtedly would have been allowed formerly to take their _feonrse without any medical , aid being asked . —Scottitn Timet .

      _Impobtatiokb of _PouXTRT . —Large importations of poultry are taking place from the continent . The quality of the turkeys imported from 'France is reported to be excellent , although , generally speaking , not solars * sad . fine as thoie produced in England ,

      The Kirkdale Chartist Prisoners ' . (Ccm...

      THE KIRKDALE CHARTIST PRISONERS ' . ( Ccmeludedfrom our last . ) The _BCandftlOu' ? and humiliating position in which Ball ' s evidence _placttf tfle Crown prosecutors was the general topioof oonv _*) H » i . 5 on through the court , and ene feature of the _proceedinsiK ' ' seems to have been overlooked by the press . It wa _$ « laughable scene . When Ball was ordered to the doek to 'dentify Chadwick , M'Donongh , Rankin , and Grocott , net 'tared about him like au idiot . When he failed there , r ? waa ordered to proceed io the table wbere West , White , Leach , _Dsnovan , Cropper , and Nixon wero seated , and a long rod plaeed in his right hand to lay on tbe defendants' heads as he prononnoed their Bimes . Let your readers fanoy the pioture _thii

      cadaverous looking wretch appeared , whilst with a vacant stare he passed his eyas from one to the ether , whilst the contortions of his countenance , and trembling of his limba , at once proclaimed the guilty , cowardly perjurer . He knew none of them , acd skulked _^ like a whipped dog back to the witness box which is close to the judge , where he was welcomed by one of Baron _Aldenon ' s most bitter scowls . The desperate atate _* of the Attorney General ' s oase may be judged from the fact tbat , on White putting two questions to Ball concerning his connexion with the Chartist bsdy , and indignantly denying that such a scoundrel was in any way identified with the Chartists , he shouted : 'Do you know that voice » can you swear to it f' Ball said , ' He coald ; ' but was ordered away by the Judge in a tone of contempt .

      All parties now considered tbat the prosecution would be given np , as the evidence ofthe police waa of suoh a disjointed , contradictory , and doubtful nature . Or else that some other witnesses would be brought forward ; bnt , contrary te expectation , the Attorney General _suddenly closed the case , and asserted that there was sufficient evidence to insure a _conviction , independent of that of Ball , whose evi dence he withdrew . Mr Atkinson tben addressed the jury on behalf of Rankin and Grocott , and Mr James spoke in defence of Chadwick and M'Donongh . The other defendants were called on by the Judge as tbeir names appeared in the indiotment . The first called was that

      of—Edward Cure _Ckoppsj * . He commenced by complaining of the mode in whioh tbe prosecution had been got up , as he had no chance cf rebuttine the evidence given against bim , not having received a copy of the depositions ; for , if time were allowed bim , be could prove tbe ' _evideace of Cook-on and Cottenbamtobefalse . The latter had sworn that he was present at a meeting on Blackstone Edge , whereas he oould prove tbat he did not leave Manchester on that day . He bsd been a teetotaller for eight years , and had advised others to da likewise , and he trusted that the fact of his being a Chartist would not cause the jnry to conviot him innocently on the evidence they had heard , as he sought the attainment of the Charter by peaceable means .

      Dabibl Donovan - next addressed the jury . He commenced by entering into a lengthened defence of Chartist principles , and boldly avowed his adhesion to these prinoiples . He denied all connexion with riotous proceedings , and had even risked his life to preserve the peace . He concluded by stating that he conld scarcely expect an acquittal at the hands of thejury , they being men of property , whilst he was represented by the Crown prosecutor as one who had conspired to destroy property . John Wist next addressed the jury , and after aoo . Jogising for appearing in person , proceeded to defend Chartism frem tbe attacks ofthe Attorney General , who had asserted that the Chartists wished to take the property _» f the rich and divide it amongst tbe

      p oor . [ The Attorney General denied the statement . ] West then proceeded at length to expound the views ofthe Chartists on the social question , and the rights of Labour , when he was interrupted by the Judge , who told him ' that they were not there t » discuss these matters , and that it would be best for him to confine himself to his own oase . ' West replied , that as the intentions of the Chartists had been misrepresented , he felt it his duty to disabuse the minds of thejury and the oountry on those matters . After proceeding for some time tbe Judge again interfered , telling him , 'that he could not sit there to hear _s discussion on the merits of the Charter . _Thkrk WAS _NOTHIMJ ILLEGAL _IN-. _THK ChABKR , NOB IN ADVOCATING ir in a peopsr _jjAN-fB-i' The Judge

      added— 'If I bad you in private I think I could convince you that the Charter wonld not meet yoor expectation , and then we would be of one opinion If you could convince me I would agree with you . ' West _answerei— ' I think I oould , my lord . ' Tbe Jndee— ' I don't think so . ' West then prooeeded to analyse the evidence , and made a strong appeal to the jury not to stultify the great privilege which tbey exercised , and whioh British subjects so highly prized , by finding a verdiot for the Crown on saoh evidence as had been adduced . Could they reconoile it with tbeir oaths , tbat the evidence of _Cookson oould be believed ? * Tbat witness had admitted the meetings he ( West ) attended were peaceable , and

      that bis ( Cookson ' s ) reports only contained such extracts as were likely to serve tbe interests ef his employers . Suoh extracts conld not be fairly entertained by thejury withont the context , whioh would give them an entirely different meaning from that which had been attempted to be put upon them . Wby did not tbe government , with ail thaivresources , put an accredited reporter in the box f Why not bring even one newspaper reporter ? Because they knew their case was rotten . As both the Conrt and the Attorney General had admitted the legality of Chartism , and the constitutional right to agitate for the Charter , he was perfeotly satisfied and confident , that if justice ruled , he wonld get an acquittal . He wonld leave hiB case ia the hands of thejury .

      George Whits next arose to address the Conrt . He said it was not through any vain glorious feeling that he was induced to condnot his own defenoe , nor with a desire to depreciate the talent of the gentlemen of the bar ; but feeling that he was gnilty of no erime he was resolved not to avail himself of the quibbles of law , nor would be take shelter behind the gown of a lawyer . He felt thathe was the aggrieved party , as he was placed on his trial without a chance of defending himself ; and , consequently , whatever might be the result , heshould not have had a fair trial . He had not received a copy of the depositions , nor had he any knowledge of the parties that were to be brought _sgauut him ; therefore it was evidently the determination of the Crown that they should not

      have a ofcance of acquittal . ( The Judge here interrupted , stating tbat the law had been complied with . ) My lord , it may be law , but still it does not alter the position of which I complain . He then prooeeded to remark , that on a former occasion he bad been supplied with a copy ef the depositions , snd could not understand why it was aot done . on the present occasion . ( The Judge explained that the finding of a true bill by the Grand Jury debarred the defend ' ants from that claim . ) The defendant proceeded . He pointed out to tbe Jary _thediBOTepanoiefl in the evidence of the police—the glib manner in which they read their notes—and pointed out the faot of one of them not being able to find out the pages of his own notes without the assistance of the Attorney

      Genera ) , ai proof presumptive that they were not made by bim , bat concocted by other persons . The Jary would also bear in mind the oharaoter oftheindividuals who have sworn againBt them . Cottonham , the polioeman , had been discharged by Bes wiofc _. the superintendent , for robbery ; and he must have been an infamouB character when Beswick felt bound to dispense with his services . Then there was Ball , than whom a greater villain never appeared in a witness-box . ( Attorney General : His evidence is withdrawn ; yon bave ne need to refer to it . ) He would refer to it ; for it was clear that he _waabroufht forward for the purpose of _nroouring-their condemnation , and the faot of having done so exposed the whole animus of the prosecution . Heasked the Jury ii

      they could reconoile it to their consciences as fathers of families , to separate him and the other defendants from their wives and ohildren on snch evi . dence ? The indiotment oharged him with conspiracy . He denied it , and . the evidence had failed to prove it . He resided fifty miles from Manchester , and how could he be drawn into a conspiracy there , or be made accountable for the folly of the unemployed workmen spoken to by Ball 1 The whole of the evidenoe was of a ridiculous character , and was only used as a pretext te brin g them within the trammels of tbe law . Their real orime was tbat they were Chartists , and , -i far aa he was concerned he insisted on hia right of private judgment . He bad aB good a right to be a Chartist as any other person

      had to bo a Whig or Tory , and he would never resign to any man tho power of thinking for him , oonsider ing the mind of man' the noblest gift of God . He then stated that if time could be allowed to bring forward witnesses , he could bring some of the most respectable inhabitants of Bradford to rebut the evidence for the crown . How was it that no shopkeeper , manufacturer , or honest workman was produced as a witness against them ? If they were such desperate characters as the Attorney General wished to represent them , surely some persons besides polioe Bpies and perjurers oould be brought forward ? He then took np a copy ofthe Lancaster trial , 'The Queen againBt O'Connor and others , ' in order to show that Baron Rolfe did not consider suoh evidenoe sufficient to cause con viction ; but before proceeding to do so , ! he informed dedicated to Rolfe

      his lordship that it wu Baron . IBaroB Alderson : It could not be dedicated to a better man . ] Defendant proceeded : My Lord , he is here addressed as a just judge , and I hope we Bhall not find you unjust . ( Laughter . ) He then stated that ifthe proceedings were adjourned that evening , they would produce witnesses on the following morning to contradict the evidence of the police . _HisLoBnsaiP declared his intention of adjourning the court at the conclusion of the defendants ad dress , upon which . Whets made a final appeal to the jury , calling on them to _disoharge from their minda tbe prejudices ef class , and to remember that although the Attorney General in his final reply wonld use thine abilities whioh he possessed , in addition to the fact of his holding ** high position as first law officer tf the Crown , they should not allow that to influence tbem , but that the ; would take the oase on . it * own

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      merits , and by doing so , he bad no donbt they Bhould _rtoeive an honourable acquittal , t _Jamks Lbacij next addressed the court , He _fai _? he was not aware of any evidence which had been brought-forward calculated to inculpate him , or fix any _crimS upon him , he Bhould , therefore , be very brief in the _reniarks he had to make , and warned thejury against _GOnT . ioting men on sueh evidence as that which had been produced ; for although Ball had been withdrawn , still the fact of such a base cha . raoter having been relied on by the Crown , revealed ? he animus of the whole proceeding . He denied baviiig had . anything whatever t » do with conspiracies _oroonipit _^ _" _, 0 ' baring any intention to injure the person oV Property of any one . He had reovet

      sided in _Manchester twenty years , during whioh time be had _broitfh t up a large family by bii own labour , and he defied any parson to lay any crime to his charge . He baa been through life peaceable man , and he should produce napootsble evidence of the fact . He again warned the jury against giving credence to the evidence of the police detectives , and concluded by declaring hia consciousness of inaocence and his expectation ofa verdict of ft quittal , vYiltjam Nixon next addressed the jury from the prisoner ' s dook . He said that if the evidenoe of the polioe who had Bworn against him was correct , instead of the present jury having to try him , there would have been more need for a jury of physicians to inquire into his sanity . He admitted having made some foolish and violent speeohesand if they were

      , calculated to produce disturbance , they ought to have stopped him before . He acknowledged having attended meetings where Ball was present , but those _meetings bad no connexion with Chartism , bring solely meetings of the unemployed . He had been removed from the National Charter _Assooiatiui , for the part he had taken in the meetings , where Ball was present , and bad be taken the advice of the Chartist council , be should not bo there under the present charge . He was working at bis trade , _glasB making , on the nights that Ball _ewere he wbb at committee meetings . If he had broken the law , he hadeBdured four months' _solitary confinement , and _he'lrusted that from hia youth and inexperience , that weuld bs considered & sufficient _| atonement for any error he might have committed . The Court then adjourned .

      On Wednesday morning the Court resumed at nine o ' olook , when _severairgwitnesses from Manchester attended to give evidence en behalf of the defendants . Among tbe rest , Mr Hibbert , a _townaouaoillor from Manchester , attended to speak to the oharaoter of James Leach . They were severely cross-examined by the Attorney General , whe endeavoured to destroy the influence of their testimony by making them admit holding Chartist prinoiples . At length the case fer the defence was closed , many witnesses residing at such a distance , ( hat itwas impossible to get them to Liverpool in time .

      The Aitornbt General then stood up to deliver his final reply . He said the painful duty devolved on him of showing how far the defendants were guilty of the charges laid against them , but before doing so , he wished on the ' part of the government , to state that they had nothing to do with originating the present prosecution , but that ' it was got up by the Manobester _^ Corporation ' and as for himself _, though he had to conduct it , ha confessed he felt some misgivings in consequence of the discrepancy whioh he observed in the depositions . With regard to the witness Ball , though he had sworn that

      Leach and Donovan were present on the llth of April , he was himself aware that such was not the faot . He knew they were several miles from Mancheater at the time . He knew they were in London , for he had kept a olose eye on them , and had watohed the proceedings of the treasonable assembly of which they were members . The defendants objected that the police were not competent persons to report the speeches in qaestion in a proper manner ; but it was a notorious faot that at several meetings which had been held by those parties , even when govern ment reporters were Bet at their elbows , they did not hesitate to make use of language of a treasonable oharaoter . It bad also been objected that the police reports , being from memory .

      were not to be relied upon . But he was aware that persona who reported mechanically , were often _uuable to read tbeir notes _aoourately , and he was thus led to believe that reporting from memory was preferable in such cases as the present . As regards tbe evidence of Ball , notwithstanding that he discarded it , and that he did not wish them to allow it to operate on their minds , yet itwas clear , from it , that there was some under current at work , of such a oharaoter as had been described by him , although the defendants might not be aware of it . He then went through the evidenoe of the polioe , dwelling en tlie particular points that affeoted tbe several defendants . He wanted to know wbat business WeBt had in Manchester . He was not a resident of that

      place , and it was clear thathe must bave beea there for an _unlawfa ! purpose . Then , there was White at Blackstone Edge , who , although it was admitted that he saved the life of a policeman , yet it should be remembered that it was . through the violent _speeche : A such as White that the people were nrged to such conduct . One thing , however , was cleartbat it was an unlawful assembly , and that White was there , and from the general tenor of the evi . dence , he should not feel disposed to press the charge of conspiracy against West or White . He then referred to the fact of Leach , Donovan , and others , being also present at the Blackstone Edge meeting , and also alluded to the fact o ! Donovan and Leach being delegates to London , and cited tbat faot as a proof tbat they were guilty of conspiracy . He then

      delivered a clap-trap barangue , concerning the revolutions on the oontinent , and tbe bloodshed resulting therefrom , and painted the insurrectionary attempts in Ireland in tho moat horrifying colours . He alluded to the excitement and insubordination whioh existed in England , and said it was perfectly clear that there was a secret _understanding between the disa _footed iu both _countries . He held up the whole of the defendants as being atthe bottom of the riotous proceedings whioh occurred in various parts ; and as the _fomenters ef sedition , and from the free-andeasy manner in whioh he pointed out the duty of the jury , it was easy to perceive tbat he knew his men , and had no doubt of the result . He wound up with an exordium concerning the _saoredueas of property , and _theneoessity of convioting the defendants .

      The Judge summed up briefly and fairly , aud the jury then retired and returned in a quarter of an hour . On the question being put by the clerk , the foreman deolared West guilty of unlawful assembling ; and on the question being put regarding White , the foreman deolared him guilty of unlawful assembling , conspiracy , and treason . Both Attorney General and Jadge stared at the ignorant bigot in astonishment , and they were ordered to reconsider their verdict . They thrust their heads together , aud in a few minutes Mr Ignoramus again appeared , and found White guilty of unlawful assembling only . All the other defendants were found guilty of the

      general oharge . The defendants were then ordered into the dook . and the sentences , whioh have already been published , were passed upon them ; West applied to be sent to Lancaster , and was told that no person waa allowed there but women . White then made an application to be placed as a first class misdemeanant ; he referred Baron Alderson tothe fact of having received similar treatment when tried before him on a former occasion at Warwick . The Attorney General made no objection , and the Judge ordered that tbe whole ofthe defendants Bhould be treated as firat class misdemeanants . They were then removed into the cells under the court , in custody of

      the gaoler . Remarks . —Your readers will see a prime specimen of Whiggery in the Attorney General persisting in the examination of Ball , after he bad sworn against Leach and Donovan , although he subsequently declared that he knew Bail was committing perjury at the time . Let tbe working man ponder on tbis great fact , openly admitted by the first law officer of the crown , and then say whether any man ' s liberty , or life , is safe under such a government . Let them also look at the conduct of the foreman of thejury , whose malignity was only exceeded by his ignorance , in finding White guilty of a crime of which he was not charged , It is now ascertained that the jury who tried the case , were the same who found a verdict against the Ashton men , but it was not known in time .

      Upon the whole , it is the deliberate opinion of the Chartists confined in Kirkdale gaol , that they are the victims of a foul conspiracy on the part of the authorities , by being deprived of the means of knowing the evidence against them . That the _witnesseu for the Grown sigually failed in establishing the charges laid in the indictment , and that they are now in prison through the malignant prejudice of a middle class jury . They also wish to direct the public attention to the fact , that not a single acquittal occurred during the late Chartist trials , and are of opinion that trial by jury is a mere farce in political matters .

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      Thk Palack-Wobkhoobb . — The _Darukgion Times states that the present workhouse was ' once a pretty palaoe in the town , ' and tbe resting-place of Margaret , daughter of Henry VII .. when on her road to Sootland to marry James IV . The Sixth James , when travelling southward to fill the English throne , was ungrateful enough to repay the hospitality shown to his great-grandmother by _christeting the town , ' Darnton in the Dirt !' Milk as an Abiiclb o ? Diet . —It is common to regard milk as little elae than mere drink . But this is an error . Milk is really an artiole of solid food , being coagulated soon after reaching the stomach .. New milk contains thirteen per cent , of digestible solids , and skimmed milk ten percent . ; that is , tbe former fully one half , and the latter above a third o the nutrimentcontained is the leap pari oi beef and mutton .

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      I CLEBKBNWBLL . —Henry Philip pjerce , alto * Phll-. _, _- «« , was oharged with having committed two forgeries , also *> . ' lh Dl _B I _' ' ana wltB desertion from the Grenadier Gaards < _* _* Bon , 3 r ' on Tuesday morning week , aoooatea a p « _- > M"t * M f , n St Jobn Street , _Ohrken . w « u , and informed iJ ™ that he forged a bank post bill for £ 27 on Mr Sam **! ' ' G ' _-rdlner , a gentleman residing at Brentford ; that he had _6 "ot _° { or lt , whlon he had spent la profligacy , and tha * he * *™ so miserable In hia mind he had dotermined on _delivBr ' . _' . ' _- ' himself up to justice . He was taken to the statloa . _bouse . ' ° 8 _re Wells Road , where ho adherad to his atataaeni , aod be was looked up , and _subseqosntly brought before . _^ Combe at this oonrt , snd remanded . He tben ssld be pioked up In the street a letter containing tbe bsnkpost bill for £ 27 , which he took ts the _bankonfl , after

      re-, cdptlng , got it cashed . From what ho _furihsr stated . Inspeotor Julian , G , iustltuted _inqulrlts , and ascertained his statement to be true , and a _olsrk from the / _"gue-effioe In the Bank of England attended and con . firmed tho _statemsnt . He also discovered tbat the prlsooer bsd formerly been a corporal In the Grenadier G _aards , from whiob be had deserted . He further traeed bim to have formed a _cennexlon with the servant-maid of Mr Singer , a gentleman waiting at _Wanfliworth , to whom he paid his addresses , and ultimately married ber ; and tbat he bad also married two otber women who wera now living , and two of whom were pregnant . He was in the habit of _viiiiog at Ur Singer ' s house and regaling himself with the servant , w . thout that gentleman ' s _sanetlon or knowledge , wben he sought an opportunity to steal some checks from his cheok-book _.

      whioh were mined . Ur Singer banked at Coutts and C < v ° i , where the prisoner obtained the bank post order , which he _teok to the Bank , and esoaped , after cam . _mltting ths forgery , iia . He was afterwards traced to have _eoae to PBrtamoa'b , where he waa lodging ot the Fountain Hotel , and whilst there he wrote to Gouits ' s , and obtained a bank po-t order for £ 15 ., through the medium of another forgery , wbich , it was said , oould be brought home to him . —Inspector Julian said that he had two certificates of the prisoner ' s marriages , and be was using efforts to produce a third one , and he had no doubt of success , —A sergeant and a corporal of tbe Grenadier Gaards identified the prisoner aa being a _destrtar , and elerka from _Contta aud Co . 'a were alto In attendance , and identified theprisoner . He waa remanded for a week .

      HAMMERSMITH . — Robbeby or Bahk . _hoti * , JSWKLLIBV , ASD _CoiHS , TO TBB VlLUK OI £ 500 AT _KaMKHft- _'o * - . — Thomas _Cbllcott , a sweet , _IMagatSS , High Bow , Xnlghtabridge , waa obarged before Mr Beadoa on suspicion of having been concerned , with other persons not in custody , in breaking Into tbe residence of Count Carlo Pi-pelfo , II , St George ' s Terrace , Gloucester Boad , Kensington , on _theevening of Monday week , and stealing therein bank-notes , gold coins , and jewellery , & o ., to the value of upwards of £ 500 . The Count Pep-lio _. _abo is stated to be a relative of the u-King ofthe French , was preient at the examination , and was the first witness called . He deposed tbat on tbe evening of Monday , the 25 : h ult ., ( _Christmas-da ;) , about half-past eight o'clock , In oonec quince of an alarm given by one of hia servants , he went up to one of

      the attics , tha door of which he found locked on the in . side . An entrance was _ImmedlaUly effected , and on going In he found inside two dressing-cases , which had been taken from bis own and his Countess ' s dressing roomB , where they were always kept . On examining them , he found they had been opened by false keys , and their contents , which consisted ot diamond ear-rings , brooches , ringt , several gold bracelets studded with _precious stones , two representing the likenesses of the members of the Bonaparte family , several maislve and heavy gold chains , numerous ether rings , and other jewellery ' , three gold watches , one having on the back a miniature ofthe Holy Virgin and child , had all been taken away . Witness also found in the attic a desk he . longing to himself , which had been broken open and about £ 180 in Bank of Eagland notes , together with a

      number of gold asd silver medals , and French end Italian geld Bnd silver coins of Napoleon , Charle * X „ Louis XYI ., Gregory XVI ., Pius IX , « fco ., stolen there _, from . Among the notes were two for £ 10 eacb , and eighteen for £ 5 , numbered 90 , 117 to 90 , 131 , and dated the 2 _no of October , 1848 . He likewise saw muddy and sooty footmarks , _whish extended from the attlo he had spokeaofto tho bed-rooms and dressing-rooms and back again . Inspeotor Havill , T division , deposed that be had subsequently carefully and minutely examined tbe premises , and fonnd that there was an empty house in the same terrace , No . 19 , which he had also examined , sod found therein similar footmarks to those the Count bad described in his evidenoe , { whlob also extended over tbe leads of the eight intervening houses between tbe empty house and tbe Count ' s residence . He had also _atcertained tbat theprisoner had been employed at tbe empty house on the day of tbe robbery to remove some coals , and had the possession ef tbe key of tbat

      house for tbat purpose . He was also seen in the nelghbonrhood of the Count'a honse from time lo time between five o ' clock In the afternoon and about eight o ' clock In tbe evening , the robbery being presumed to have beeu committed between seven and eight o ' clock . He had , however , no doubt , from tbe information he bad received , that if the prisoner was remanded for a few days , he shonld , at the next examination , be able to produce other and iaportant evidence against him . The prisoner said be waa quite innocent of the robbery . He conld prove tbat he gave up the key of the empty house when he had removed the coals , and he oould also prove that be was at a relative ' s , at _Kaigbtt-brldge , all the evening . Mr Beadon said the evidenoe at present against the prisoner was slight , and he would remand him for further inquiry until tbat day week ; but If In the meantime the police , from their inquiries , were satisfied that he had nothing to do with the rebbery , should be discharged before tbat time , Theprisoner was consequently remanded for a week .

      SOUTHWARK . — Revolt in thb _Wobxhodse . — Battle or the _Pahmiiki .- —On Saturday , Sarah Foster , E . iza Donova ? , Ellen _Moyrick , Margaret Bennet , Catherine M Denald , Hary Ball , Eliza Taylor , and Emma Stewart , eight stoat yoang women , inmates of Bermondsey workhouse , were charged with a furious attach en the master , the schoolmaster , and yardsman , and also with having broken upwards of thirty panes of glass . In consequence ef the violent conduot of the defendants , all of them belag ' window breakers , ' three polioemen were stationed near them at the bar to prevent them from smashing the windows of the court . —It appeared that on tbe previous evening , when all ths inmates of the ' workhouse were assembled in the hall , at supper , the defendants commenced larking with ono another , and making a great noise . The yardsman , who

      was present , endeavoured la vain to make them qniet by threatening to report their conduct , but be bad no sooner made use of the threat than a general attack was made upon him by the defendants . They first threw tbe contents ef their ttn pannikins of milk-and-water orer the man , and then began to beat him about the bead and face with the empty tins , until hia cries brought the master and the schoolmaster to bis belp . Other evidence was given of the violence of tbe conduot of the prisoners , who were committed for trial at the sessions . _Theeatenino Letters , —Joseph Henry Kellerb / , a young man , was placed at the bar before Mr Cottingham , charged with threatening the life of Miss Ward , who keeps a ladles' seminary at Camberweii . Previously to entering into the evidence adduced against the prisoner , It may be necessary lo advert to some

      _elroumstanoes couneoted with the case , and which ocourred ab nut two years ago . Upon tbat occasion the prisoner was taken into custody for sending threatening letters , soma of them containing poison , to Mrs Humble , the wife ol a hop merchant in tbe Borough , to a Miss _Cleuter , and also to a Miss Sprlggs , the latter of whom at the period In question wae a pupil of Miss Ward , the lady at whose instance the prisoner was now taken into custody . The letters , all of whioh wero anonymous , wera couched in language ef the most threatening description , and as the writer had expressed hia Intention to lay wait for and assassinate some of the parties , considerable terror was inspired in their minds , until he was at length apprehended asd breught to jastice . On the first oooasion that the prisoner was committed for trial from thiB court be was sentenced to twelve months '

      imprisonment . ' After the expiration of his sentence , he had not been long at large when he again oommenoed writing anonymous letters to Miss Sprlggs , at Miss Ward ' s aohool , threatening to murder her , and upon thia charge be was apprehended , and , having been tried a second time at the Old Bailey , be was again sentenced te twelve months' imprisonment , and to be publloly whipped . Ia the month of August last , having undergone hts punlthmen * , the prisoner was liberated , and in tbe month of November last he again oommenoed similar _prastlces , and continued them up to his apprehension on the preceding night , when he was taken into oustody with a long and sharp pointed knif * concealed on his person , lurking about and watching at tbe residence of the complainant In Trinity Square . Ser . geant Kendall , of the detective force , stated thathe was

      the officer who apprehended tbe prisoner en tbo two former occasion * * and tbat , having been present on eaoh of his trials at the Central Criminal Court , he knew bis hand writing well . Seon after the prisoner ' s last sentence of imprisonment expired , witness reoeived information tbat anonymous letters of threatening nature bad bten transmitted to Miss Ward , and tbose letters be ( witness ) having examined , he bad no doubt tbey wero in tbe prisoner ' s _handwriting . _Thelettera were put in and read by the magistrate . The sergeant said that on the previous night he went , acoompanled ' by Wild and Burton , two constables ofthe M division , to Trinity Square , and saw tbe prisoner waiting about in the violnity of No . 22 , apparently watching for the arrival of Miss Ward , who , with another lady , was expeoted home from ohapel . Shortly

      _afterwards the two ladles came up , aad on their approach the prisoner took his stand at the entrance of the honse when he ( the sergeant ) and the two constables took him into custody . The prisoner on being seized attempted to draw something from underneath his coat , hut he was prevented , and ii was thsn dlioovered that he had the knife produced hidden there . He was very violent , and made strong and repeated efforts to get away , Bnd In tbe course ofit kioked and fought in suoh a mannei tbat it was found necessary to place-handcuffs upon him , and be was then conveyed to tbe station-house , Mlsi Ward being , sworn , stated that ebe wss present on the prisoner's trial at the Old Bailey . The letters alluded to were exhibited to her , and she said that _sheTrad ao donbt they were la hia hand writing that Miss Sprhjg _»* ffMform _« rly her pupil , aBd that while tbat

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      young lady was at ber sohool theprl . _oner was Dn- _„ . 7 in the habit of writing anonymous _tottm . to hT ' of them containing poison -that Miss _8-X . & T " - _^ wr itm _^^^;^ «« _- _*»*«* _-oa then Vh . ' tli I * ? _' _" _" _^' _Produced that dav iife wa . ' : diz : kr £ _¦* _, * _^*« ¦ * " £ . _omaoflhe _UtLs _wcTenlt . _^ L * Sbe addfd » dropped into the _ardVhVZ _e'Tat _^ ' _^ the _prisons ) : I am ready _toTulTn _' _CoUinBham _«" you may think proper to give in : n 3 _lVro _^ _H _TtJ ° a charge .-Prisoner : _Atoresent r *\ Z \ * ,. eriou 8 a _anytbln- _.-Mr _ftm _^ ffi ' . _^ 'JJ * " * " savin , until Monday . yu fitnnd » ° * _-a _** ea

      m 2 _aW T _^ _»™ _"' ° » _.-Hatl _* daCron _* a . _, _, v ' _*"**¦ ' ««• ' _^ « Mr _G-orgo M . r . h a ra - ¦ dent at No . H ,-Dudley Street , _Paldlng _^ under _£ following 0 _tOUSStances :-Mr Ma » h staled thathe was asleep In his bed when he waa _aroo-ed . from the arms of Morpheus by a serenade , the burthen of which waa something In tbe _follot-lng style :- ' Como down como down , you scurvy George M _. rsh , and I'll tell you some . thlBj- thst _wills-tonl _"* * your _wenk nerves , and no mistake . ' * Ho got ont of bsd , opaaed the door , and there to his _astonlshraeat , beheld the lovely Matilda , who ba ! Btowed upon bis sinister cheek a blow that gave him a tinging in bis ear ever sinoe . Maria bolted , he pursued , she doubled , and got te his domicile before him ; upon hia arrival there he found her pursuing tho aotive

      occupation of smashing bis windows . He gavo her into custody for so _d-iag . Oa being _cross-qaestloned , he ad . mitied that be and Miss Cronln had lived up a the most affectionate terms , but he said that wan a lsng time ago , —Defendant was ordered to pay for all the damage she had done . All ' s Wilt , that _Ehds Well -MIbs Mary Biggs preferred a charge against Mr Goorge Arbuthnot for having wllfally and maliciously much Injured her person by Inserting a quantity of holly _botwo-n her sheets on the night of the 26 : h ult . Mj George Arbuthnot preferred a counter charge against Miss B ggg , for having , by oondaot whioh was anything bnt _ledyHko on her part , destroyed a very nice French velvet hat of the value of Mj . It appeared that there was a largo party of counter-jumpers and _bustle-makcra enjoying themselves on B xlng nlgbt In Llsson Grove . Miss Blgga observed Mr

      Arbuthnot fumbling abont het bed , ( the soiree wai held in tke bedroom , ) and _auspeotlng he had some sinister motive , determined to be even with him . Sho cut off a large slloe ef pnddiDg , and _ssfely deposited it In the crown of Mr ArbulhnoiV _tlloj The party broke up and went to their respective homes . Betweea the fat ot Mr Arburtbno . _' s head and the suet ef the pudding , his bat was quite destroyed , and he sought reparation . — Miss Biggs said that on getting Into her bed it turned out to be one of thorn s Instead of _rosn , Rod tbst sbo was considerably lacerated by the insidious deposit Mr Arbuthnot bsd placed therein . She would show the marks to the magistrate If he wished . —The worthy ma _« _gistrate declined . —Mr Arburthnot , on being sworn , was obliged to admit that he paid but Ss . 3 d . for h _' _s hat when ner- . —Tho worthy magistrate _reoommeaded a reeonclliatlon , which , aftsr sundry and divers simperinga and sly looks , was _acoedod to by the parties .

      WE 8 TMINSTER . - A Healthy _SiTOATtoi- . —Mr Burrelt gave judgment in a oase of very considerable importance to a number of poor persons , Which hid been exhibited under the _Nuisanc sb Removal and Disease Preventive Aot by tbe authorities of St Lake ' s , Chelsea . Nine ocoup ' _ers of small tenements In Bull ' s Gardens , Chelsea , had been summoned a few days ago , aud the evHence produoed by the parish authorities went to show tbat the nuisance complained of _tttn from the defendants' beeping a number of pigs in tha yard in front of their dwellings , which were In a very dirty state , and from whioh a very powerful stench arose ) , as described by one ef the _wltneeioa , but partially ' negatived by the other , who admitted that the pigs were pretty clean , and also the bouses , and ascribed the _iffenslva

      smell to the food giv . n to the animals , wbicb , however , he believed to he such as pigs are ordinarily fed' npon . In the course ofa very lengthened cross-examination by Mr Gllbam , wbo _conducted tbe oase for tbe defendants , tt was admitted by the two witnesses ( both bf whom held situations la the parish ) that pigs had been kept in Bull ' s Gardens for a great number of years ; that al . though tbere were ISO persons living tbere , they ( thfl witnesses ) had never heard of their belcg visited with ) Illness ; that no person iu Ball ' s Gardens , although many did not keep pigs had ever made any complaint ef nuisance ; that there was no person In attendance wbo resided ia tbe neighbourhood to complain before tha magistrate- , although some _persons In Jure Street bad complained of Its being a nuisance , asd that the two

      _pewons who had signed the formal notice to tbat effect , as required by tbe statute , both lived more than a furlong off . It was farther elicited that there was an opea sewer , from which night soil and other matter _dlscbargsd Itself , running la front of tbe whole of tbo bouses Irs Bull's Gardens , close to tfae piggeries , and that it sometimes smelt very _rfftnslvely , and both witnesses admitted that no steps had been takea to remedy tbat . For the defence a vast number of the pi g dealers and others were called , who declared that tbe sties were washed oat three or foar times a day—that there was not ths slightest offensive smell caused by tbe pigs , but tbe ditch or sewer should bare been the subject of complaint . Themselves and families , they deolared , ' . iyed capital health ; Informed the magistrate that keeping pigs waa

      their sole means of existence , and added , tbat , If not permitted to do this , they ma » t wl'h their families go into the workhouse . —Mr Burrell said he had paid si personal visit to tbe place in order to judge for himself , tbe complaint was oae under tbe Sanitary Aot , wbicb required , to justify tbe interference ofa magistrate , that a publio nuisance should exist , bo great a _nulsacce as to be _InjBtJoBi to health . In tbe opinion of Lord Ellenborough , a nuisance must be _eomothisgtbat would causa tbe life of others to _Ve _oncomfortsble , bathe could find nothlBg in tbe ease which came within tbat denomlna tion . It was aot , certainly , such a place as those ao . customed to the luxuries of life would select , 'but his Inspection of the buildings afforded him the _opportunli * of stating tbat they _esblbited tbe utmost cleenliness ; there was no smell from the pig sties at two yards distance , nor was the effluvia such as could be deemed injurious to health . The persona and their families an .

      peared In good health , and those towarls tha end of tha building * , who did not keep pigs , made no complaint whatever of being _iscomenlenced or annoyed by thera . It never could have been tbe Intention of the L _gislatare , indeed It would be a very extensive application of tha Act if it were made to apply to eacb a case as this . His opinion , from the result of personal Inspection , was clearly tbat it was not a nuiianee , nor was there anything improper In It , and he therefore dismissed ths whole of the complaints . The decision was hai ' ed wltb a burst ef applause from a crowded auditory —Mr Barren then oalled the attention of the distriot surveyor ta the open sewer in front cf these bouses , and , having observed that he had heard the < fflavia frcm It was vary offensive , said tbat some proceedings ought to be takers with respect to it . —Mr _Pattison , the district surveyor , said that tbe magistrate's observations Bhould meet with proper attontlen .

      WORSHIP STREET . —Violikt Abjauw . — Sarah Perry , Henry Lecomte , James Swayno , and James _Lo'Jgh were charged with assaulting and wounding the husband ef the first named prisoner , a mlddle-agod man , named Henry Perry , residing in Boston Street , Hackney Road . —The proseoutor , whe npon applying fcr the warrant exhibited several wounds In his head , bnd whose drain was completely saturatod with blood which hsd poured from them , stated tbat , while In his bedroom en tha event : g of the 26 : b ult ,, dressing for a party to which ha had been invited , he was alarmed by a loud knocking at his street door , and before he had time te resell it it was forcibly burst open , and bis wife , from whom be hod been for some time separated in consequence ef her violent temper , ruabed into tbe passage , followed by the

      three male defendants and a second woman . It waa evi . dent they had made up their minds for eome serious misohief , and observing that his wife wbb _brandi'hing a short heavy poker , he endeavoured to avoid her , and tried to induce his asadlants to quit the bouse peaceably ; but tbe female defendant instantly flew at him , and exclaiming that she had got an _instrnment . wlth her wltb which sha had determined to kill him if she could , struck him a blow with it upon the forehead' with all her force , The _prisoner Lccomto at tbe same . time com * menced a furious attack upon bim , beating bim about the head and face with his fists , and forced him haek Into the kitchen , where his wife renewed tho _atteck , aui struck bim upon the head , arms and body with the _pckic till he was almost senseless , assisted by _Srcayne and

      Loagh , who likewise struck bim Bnd actively incited tha others to Ill-use him . They at length left the _, bouse , and he contrived to get to the door and secure ic against tbem ; but he had no sooner does so than they all returned and made another attempt to break in , exclaim _, ing' Give It tbe — , ' and' Let's have another try at h ' m ; * but being foiled in their tffortt to burtt In at the deor , tbey commenced pelting showers of stones and other _mlestles at the window * , until nearly the whole of ths glass in the front ofthe house was _demolished , when _tbejf proceeded to the back through some adjoining premises , and smashed eleven mere panes , wben , _havlng-satlsfied tbeir vengeance , they leit aU together . The . prosecutor produced the poker , which was bent from ths force of tbe blows _Infl ' cted upon bis peraon , and had been hurled

      through one of the first-floor windows after all the glaw In It bad been smashed , and added , that such was tht outrageous nature of tbe violenoe the defendant bad tx » hibited , that the street in front of kis house wai completely blocked up by tbo crowd of people tbeir conduot had collected , and the whole neighbourhood was kept In a _stata of extreme exoitement . for _nearly two houra , during which time the attack ; lasted . — To show tbe vlndlotlveness which _aoluatedsthe defen * dants , Mr Heritage , wbo appeared for the _prweeutlon _, stated , that Lecomte had come from Poplar , Lough from Hoxten , and client ' s wife from Walworth to . take pari in tbe affray , and called HollSnd , the warrant officer ,

      wbo deposed to the _speotaole tbe prosecutor presetted when he first eaw him ; and that npon . going to hia house , he found thit his account of tbe destruction tba assailants had there committed bad not been at att overrated . —Mr Morgan , from the office of Mr Hum . phreys , severely cross-examined the _presecutor , with s > view to ehow that the misconduct attributed to the de » feadants was nothing more than wbat , in their _estimatloa , was a just ? ots ! Uf . on for his own mlscenduet , is having , as they suppose !! , _wtieoc' «> young _womnvj , t _* B daughter ofthe _ataeci . _' _sofc -Lou * . _~ _* . _* om tier fr . _tiw _* house , without hiu fcuowla < Jg <\ for _aie « "Vf . osi' ottonsi ioi * SO immoral _mUmaoj » StU her ; but . ao . *;* * • sn _^ _tag

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 6, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06011849/page/7/