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"* ~ Beauties Of Bykon. »». Xxxix. I 'Ma...
"* _~ BEAUTIES OF BYKON . »» _. XXXIX . i MARMOT * . " _-t-bow cometo Btros ' _s dramatic poems , the first % Est being that strange , wild , wondrous , _beautjjt _^ Qn—Mimtred . This poem has won the _^ 1 , praise of such princes of criticism as Jeffrey , _V _^ sorWnsoH , and Gobtbe , Shakspxabk and J _^ arif not matched , ate at least nearly _ap-^ _Eed in raany parts of this co mposition ., Gokthe r _^» jjanfred was to me a wonderful phenomenon , _^ eae that closely touched me . " Jvexaxi _aayB _S _, the tone and pitch of ihe composition , as well as _^ character of the _dictioa in tiie more solemn _£ _jtt , Manfred reminds ua" mueh more of the ' _Prc-S _geus' of _jEschylus than of any modern _perform-* _£ The chief differences are that the subject of ™ / _r _„ _. t » Muf ma aanAttfiafl « nt * l ilYATfoll h » _thf _* PStm _lfwcnHaaHbuuvu wi _^ .- _~ _j ——
_Ajltrv _cSL « « » ..- » . » , - ~ * A ** sued belief of his country , and that hia terrors _^ _oowhere tempered with the sweetness which SLthes from so many passages of his Englishxml . " _ftofessor _Wixsos aays " There is in the character 'rjfcs _'^ d _more of the _self-might of Byron than in _JJJ 3 previoas productions . He has therein brought , _** jl wonderful power , metaphysical eoseepfiODS _^ fonns- _^ ndwe hnow of no poem in which the _Lpeetof external nature is throughout lighted up - _$ an expression at once so beautiful , solemn and Ljesric . Itis the poem next to ChQdc Bardd , _jjjch we should give to a foreigner to read , thathe j _^ g hfe "know something of "Byron . " Our extracts _gsst necessar ily be few , brief and imperfect- We _^ _amenee with tbe "Voice" of the Spirit of the gggntains : — . " .. Mount Blanc is the monarch of mountains , They crowa'd him long ago , On a throne of rocks , in a robe of cloud * , With a diadem of mow .
_Aromud his waist _, are forests braced , The Avalanche in his hand , Bat e ' re it fall , tbat thundering ball Must pause for _« y command . The GJacIer _* . cold and restless mass Mores onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass , Or with its ice delay ; X am the sptritof ihe-pUtee , . Could make the mountain bow , And quiver to his caverned base—And what with me _wooldat Thou ? Ihe opening of the Mowing lines will remind the _( _gider of Honda ' s soliloquy , with which they are not _^ worthy of being classed : —
We are the tools of time and terror ; Days Steal on us and Steal from HI ; yet we live , Loathing our life , and dreading still to die , In all the days of this detested yoke ; This vital weight upon the struggling heart , Which sinks with sorrow , or beats quick with pain , Or joy that ends in agony ot Mntneis , In all the days of past and future , for Is life there is no present , we can number Howfew—how IwsthaB few—wherein the soul _Porbeart to pant for death , and yet draws bask , As from a stream in winter , though the chill Be but a _moments . I have one resource * Still in my science—I can call the dead , . Ana * ask them what it is we dread to be . The sternest anBwer can but be the grave , And that is nothing .
b there anything more " [ beautiful in the English { Signage than tbe following thrilling appeal by Manfred to the spirit of Astarte ? Hear me , hear me—Astarte ! tsybeloved ! speak to me : I have so much endured—so much endure—Look os me ! the grave hath notchanged thee more Than I am changed for thee . Thon loveds true Too much , _asllovedtbee . we were sot made To torture thus each other , though it were The deadliest sin to loveas we have loved _. Say that thou loath ' st me not—that I do bear This punishment for both—that then wilt be -One of the blessed—and that I shall die ; Tor hitherto all hateful things conspire To bind me in existence—in a life Which make * me shrink from immortality- " A future like fhepast . I cannot rest . I know not what 1 ask , nor what I seek :
I feel but what thou art ; and what I am ; And I would hear yet ouce before I _perish The _Toice which was my music . Speak tomsl For I have _eall'd en thee in the stall night , Startled the slumbering birds from the fittsh'd boughs , And woke the mountain -wolves , and made the caves Acquainted with thy -vainly-echoed name , Which _answerM me—many things answer'd me ! Spirits and men ; but thou wert silent all . Yet speak to me ! I have _outwatched the stars And gazed o'er heaven in vain in search of thee . Speak to me ! I bave wandered o ' er the earth _. And never found thy likeness-r-Speafc to me ! look on the fiends around—they feel for me : I fear tiiem not , and feel for thee alone—Speak to me ! though it be in wrath;—but say—I reck not what—but let rae hear thee once—This once—once more !
Beautiful as is J _^ _uj / red ' _* speech to the Sun we are _impelled to omit it , with many other beautiful filings in the poem . We conclude our extracts with file fist soliloquy of _Ikxafred , : — The stars are forth , the moon above the tops Ofthe snow-shining mountains—Beautiful I I linger yet with _Katore , for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Ofdim and solitary loveliness , I _leam'd the language of another world , I do remember me that in my youth , When I was wandering , —upon such a night I stood witlkin the Coliseum ' s wall Midst . die chief relics of almighty Rome ;
The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the bine midnight , and tiie stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog bayVl beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars * palace came The owl ' s long cries and interruptedly , Of distant _centinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind _. Some cypresses beyond the tune-worn breach _Appeared to skirt the horizon , yet they stood "" Within a how . shot—where the _Cesars dwelt _. And dwell the tuneless birds of * nigh " , amidst A grove which springs . through levell'd battlements , And twines its roots with the imperial hearths , Ivy usurps the laurel ' s place of growth ;
But the gladiators' bloody Circus stands , A noble wreck in ruinous perfection ! "While Cesar ' s chambers , and the Augustan halls , _Grovel on earth in indistinct decay . And thon didstshine there , rolling moon , upon All this , and cast a wide and tender light , "Which softened dowh the hoar austerity -Of ragged desolation , and fill'd up , _^ As ' twere anew , the gaps of centuries ; leaving that beautiful which still was so _. And making tbat which was not-, till the place Became religion , and the heart ran o ' er , With silent worship of the great of old—The dead , but spectered sovereigns , who still rale Our spirits from their urns _.
Songs For The People. 50.Xvih. A Chartis...
SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . 50 . XVIH . A CHARTIST MARCH . Here ' s to that gallant band , Throughout our English land , That CaQs each freeman , brother true ! and joins him heart hi hand . Confusion to each knave * Who loves to meet a slave , Bat fears to face an honest man , or battle with a brave
We are the same race still , "Who a t the loom and mill , Outmatched the marts of Europe with the mastery of our skill . Whotrimmed the Victory's sail , And cast npon the gale The sounds that made Trafalgar great , and turned old Egypt pale ! _T _* _Tho dashed our bayonets true The cloven column through , And drove the electric charge along Poitiers and Waterloo .
Who made old MattStOfl ring , The ruin of a king , When faith and truth were trodden down beneath a sceptred thing . And would ye make lis slaves ! Ye miserable knaves ! "Who sink in silken revelries what starving labour craves ! Is this the fruit to yield , For each red harvest field , Where * we threw round our tyrants'hearts the
people ' s living shield ! Ours were your victories , — "Not ours your enemies , — And ours shall be—a nation free—our chartered liberties . Then — ruin to each _lsnave , "Who loves to meet a slave , But fears to Dice an honest man , or battle with a brave . And — here's tbat _gallant hand , Throughout our English laud , That calls each freeman , brother true i and helps him heart in hand . _Sf . _v-ptttaA , 2 & _J , 30 ft , 1846 . _EaHESI JOKES ,
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DOUGLAS _JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAIH 5 * Jo ! , K - London - p < _i «(! h Office , 85 , Fleet - _otrect _, _„ --t :.- _ . We cannot say much . for this number , we miss ¦ _rS—wrr _??*^ coa _S ibDtore ' _"JclurfiDg the author * _fe ' 3 _^ Ll _Pfi England , " and excepting tfie editor _e contributions , always excellent , the articles generally are of an inferior character . From the editor ' s story of " St . Giles and St . James' " we extract the following picture
of—THK UBBBEB _' _b TKMPIATIOflB . When Snipeton turned his horse ' s head from Dovesness—he resolved , as he rode , " upon closing his accounts with the world , that freed from the cares of money , he might cherish and protect hisyonthful , blooming partner . Arrived in London , seated at his books in St . Mary Aze , the resolution was strengthened by the contemplation of his balance against men . He had more than enough , and would enjoy life in good earnest . Why should he toil like a slave for gold-dust , and never know fhe blessings of the boon t No : he wonld close his accounts , and open wide his heart . And Snipeton was sincere in this his high resolve . For a whole night , waking and dreaming , he was fixed on it ; and the next _morniag tbe uxorious apostate fell hack to his first creed of money-bags . Fortune is a woman , and therefor * where sbeblindly loves—( and what Bottoms and Calibans she does embrace and fondle !)—is not to be put aside by slight or
illusage . All his life had Fortune doted upon Snipeton , hugging him the closer as she carriea him up—no infant ape more tenderly clntched in ticklish places , —and he should not leave her . And to this end did Fortune bribe back her renegade with a lamping bargain . A young gentleman—a vetyyonnggenQeman—desiredfor so much ready metal , to put his land upon parchment , and that young gentleman did Fortune take by the hand , and , smiling rain , lead him to St . Mary Axe . In a few minutes was Snipeton wooed and won again ; for to say the truth hi * weakness was a mortgage . The written parchment , tike charmed characters , conjured him ; put imagination into that dry husk of a man . He would look upon the deed a * upon a land of promise . He would see in the smallest pen-marks giant oaks , with the might of navies waiting in them and from the sheepskin would feel tbe nimble air of _Arcadr , There it lay , a beautiful bit of God' s earth—a sweat morsel of creation—conjured and conveyed into a few black syllables _. This number concludes the third volume of this deservedly popular and successful publication .
The Connoisseur.—1/Mdon: E. Mackenzie, H...
THE CONNOISSEUR . —1 / mdon : E . Mackenzie , HI , Fleet Street . —June . This number opens -with an excellent article on " Patronage of Art and Art-Unions ; " with the views expressed therein we heartily agree . Most of thk number is occupied with critical notices of" The Royal Academy Exhibition , " and the exhibitions of the "Old" and "New" Water Celour Societies . A short bat smart critique on Mr . _Macready'aifocheth , has much interested us . The critic says , *• "We have always considered the Macbeth of Macready to be not only thevery best of his own personations , but the finest embody ment of that character within stage
memory . " The critic complains , and justly , of the " getting -op" of the play at the Princess's , the scenery and machinery , was in some parts most wretched ; but this was not the worst , a greater drawbaektoMacready ' _sexcellence , was Mrs . Tehran ' s incompetence to play the part of Lady Macbeth . We experienced the pain of witnessing this lady ' s performance , and we agree with the critic in the " Con " noisseur , " that Mrs . Ternan not only stripped the LadyAhcbeih ofall dramatic attraction , but operated as a wet blanket on Mr . Macready ' s best" efforts . When depending upon himself alone , bis performance was magnificent . "We agree with , every word of the following : —
Tbe wholetumultuougsceneofDunsinanewas sustained with jconturaom energy . Study had been applied'till study was masked from observation . When the soldier shook his confidence in fate with the tidings of the muring wood" As I did stand my watch npon the hill , I look towards Birnham , and anon , methought The wood began to move ! "Xacbefh . — ,. liar and slave !" was given with such intense exactness . of troth In attitude and expression , as created for the time an example Of high art which would immortalise the painter who could reproduce it _faithfully on canvas . It was one of those bits of perfection that are seldom to be witnessed .
To the fight at tbe end we have some objections to offer- If actors were occasionally to set-to , even with the sticks , for a _bellyfull _, they would be more alive to the absurdity of two . men about commencing a mortal conflict , excited by hatred and received wrong , standingin such a position , that either may at once , without risk to himself , pnt the other horsde combat . This is called stage attitude , and get applause sometimes from the Ignorant ; but it is absurd . There is no attitude good that is not true ; and the true attitude for commencing a fight is that in which the party is as little exposed as possible to his enemy . It may' be urged in reply that Macbeth bears a charmed life and is consequently careless . This would not push aside the habitudes ef a soldierhe would be instinctively en his guard . But although Macbeth is aware of this , it can have so effect on Macduff ; that he , with all his motives for revenge , should not strike at once when he could strike with advantage , places him in an unaccountable position , that is a blemish in the scene of which Macbeth has a share , and be cannot escape his portion ofthe mischief .
This number is embellished with & portrait Of Madame Castellan . After the noble portrait-gallery of illustrious painters given in the preceding numbers , it is only fair that nature ' s gentlewomen should be cared for ; we hail this , therefore , . as the first of ( we hope ) a long list of the ' portraits of distinguished women of onr own , and past times . We shall be grateful to Mr . "Maguire , if in some future number he will favour the _readers of the " Connoisseur" with a portrait Of the angelic Malibran .
The Family Herald. Part Xxxvii. Lon Don:...
THE FAMILY HERALD . Part XXXVII . Lon don : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . This part forms an . excellentcommencementof the fourth volume . The several writers appear as fresh and racy as if they had but just started , andthe editor is even more than usually happy in his choice of subjects , and his truly unique and pleasing method of treating them . There are two articles on the"Titles of "both sexes . Different modes of address in writing and conversation , " which are not only entertaining and instructive , but which also will be found exceedingly useful to many who , having occasion to address public and other personages , may be not quite sure as to the proper terms to be adopted to steer clear of rudeness on the one hand , and servility on the other . The first of these articles is on the title ? , & c , of men ; the second , on those of women . From the first we give the following
extract—The two words , sir and madam , are the standard terms of compeuationin England ; and etymologieally or synonomically speaking , in Christendom also . The Frenchman says " If oa-sieur , " that is , my lord , to every man of respectable appearance . This sieur , in France , is even more universal than sir in England ; for if it is given to all classes , nobles , and burgesses , and is only varied when addressed to majesty , by being used in the more simple form of sir t . Sire is the term of compellation to the king in England also , and is precisely the same word sir , or sieur , in its _etymological meaning . Seigneur is another form ofthe word , and vumseigneur is addressed to the heir apparent , archbishops , bishops , marshals . & c , in France , In France , therefore , all men are _lords _, from the king on the throne down to the humblest operative of respectable appearance or character . In speech , at least ,
the sovereignty of the people is there established . 'Tis the same in Italy , _sijmor ( pronounced aeenyore } is precisely tbe same word as the Trench seigneur . ¦ Itis Lord , and it is addressed to the humblest burgess or tenant farmer . So that all the Italians are lords . They call each other lords ; and we call them lords , when we style themSignorSivori , SignorDragonetti , or Signor Fornasari . This lordly style of address also prevails in Spain and Portugal . In spain , the word takes the form of senor ( pronounced senynior ) and by this word all the Spaniards are ennobled . Nay , they even address one another by the form of " your majesty , " if " vuestra merced , " as some affirm , is originally synonimous with tbis . Even the grave Germans have followed the ambitious and aspiring custom . Htrr is lord in German the
Very Lord of prayer and of praise to God ; and every man is _Serr in Germany , aud is addres * ed _rtiein herr , or my lord . There is no higher title than this , even for the Saviour himself . Thus in translating the 110 th Psalm , " TheXord saia unto mv Lord sit thon at my right hand , & c , " Harfin Luther ' s Bitterenders it , "Ber Herr sprach zu meinem herrn , & c . " You would say nothing less to a fanner or a vinedresser on the basks of the Ehine—** Guten morgen mein herr , "— " Good morning my lord . " The grave and lowlier Dutch , who not only speak the low German , hut inhabit the low or Nether _lands i even they have adopted the same ambitious style of address' Goeden morgen myn heer , "— "Good morning my lord , " says one simple Burgher of Amsterdam or Rotterdam to another .
For the multitude of good things contained in this sixpennyworth of eighty pages , we must refer the reader to . the publication itself , which is truly the Herald of useful information and amusement for tbe million .
The Musical Hhrald-Part I. London: G. Bi...
THE MUSICAL _HHRALD-Part I . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . The sight of the first number was sufficient to enable U 3 to predict the worth and success of this publication . The Musical Herald proclaims the downfall of . thc musical monopolists ; for , when twentyfour pages of music , together with sixteen pages of letter press , can be had for _Zen / _imce , of course only those who have more money than wit will give halfa-crown for a solitary piece of music—the old charge of the monopolists . Without speaking of the merits of the music , we may say , that in this part we have BlUSic " wedded" to the "immortal verse" of sueh poets as Ben _Jossos , Bohxs , and Bvrok . a musical and literary curiosity is contained in thi- _parW
The Musical Hhrald-Part I. London: G. Bi...
the famous " Song of Roland , of which every one has heard , but which _fftWi _comparitively , have been hitherto acquainted with .. The curiosity of all may now be gratified { fer here it w , in the original French , with an . English _transition by Dr . _Bubnbt , accompanied by the music : In the literary portion , we have Biographical notices of oiRauBLha , Malimux , and Dr . J ., Cwbkk . We _gire tie following brief extracts : —
MAUBBAH ' _B _BBirevOLKNXB . The year before her deatb , an Italian musician had a benefit concert in london . He had engaged her to sing for hint on her usual terms of twenty guineas . The con . cert failed , and was attended with loss to the poor artist . He called to pay her , or rather to . offer her _. half of the stipulated sum , which she refused to accept , saying she must have the whole . The Italian ruefully counted out twenty sovereigns . ' " No—another sovereign—my terms were guineas , not pounds . " He put down the sovereign , ejaculating te himt If , " My ' poor wife and children I " _ifalibran took up the money , and saying , " I insisted oh the whole that the sum might be the larger for your _ac . ceptance " pnt the gold into the hands of the astonished musician , and , with tears in her eyes , hurrried out of the
room . The following is quoted ( by the Editor of the J /« sical HerciJUl ) from Hogarth ' s " Memoirs of the Mu sica Drama " : —
CHARACTER OF _UAUBRAIT . "Madame Malibran , " says one of her biographers , * " possessed in an uncommon degree the affection and esteem of those who knew her ; and we speak from our own knowledge , as well as in accordance with the general voice , when we say , that few women here been more richly endowed with tbe highest virtues of the female character . Plunged at a tender age into circumstances of deep adversity , her sacrifice to integrity was heroic * , and she remained uncorrupted by the prosperity of her latter days . Her feelings _. retained their primitive warmth —her tastes their primitive simplicity . Notwith standing the seduction * of her profession , her pleasures lay in the occupations of domestic life , and in acts of generosity . Large as was the revenue which she derived from tbe
exercise of her transcendent talents , it was as worthily employed at well deserved . Perhaps there never was an income earned by the exertions of a public performerexertions which broke her constitution and brought her to an early grave—of which so large a portion ' wan . dered , heaven-directed , to fhe poor . ' , She was devoid of _OStentatiin , and her beneficent deeds were known to few ; but they were of daily occurrence , for tbey constituted tbe greatest happiness of her life . Living among the song and daughters of pleasure , her only luxury was the luxury of doing good ; and , in the midst of wealth her only profusion consisted in beneficence . The regret felt by the world for the loss of an admired end cherished artist was unquestionably feeble , compared with the grief with -which many a bumble family lamented the un . timely death of their benefactress . " A sight of the Mitical Herald will be its best recommendation .
The Reasoner. No. I. London: J. Watson, ...
THE REASONER . No . I . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster-row . . This is a new weekly twopenny publication , Communistic in Social Economy—Utilitarian in Morals —Republican in Politics—and Anti-theological in Religion . "When , in addition , we state that the editor is Mr . G . J . Holtoaeb , we have said sufficient to explain the principles of the " Reasoner . " From an article on "Theological Controversy , " we give the following extract : — From abjuring false date we shall proceed to adjure false diction . What we mean we hope to write down in unmistakable language . Tbe grand effort of our public
writers and teachers ( we speak of those- no-longer shackled by the popular superstition , nor superstition of any kind )—theu- grand effort in the majority of cases is , and long has been , to produce that literary 'fit which shall fit everybody . ' They have reached the summit of their glory when they hare clothed the discoveries ' of science , the teachings of philosophy aud the brilliant conceptions of poetry in the rags and tatters of worn-out creeds . This they call making truth respectable—while , in fact , inch is their poverty or parsimony that they cannot afford new . garments for their new thoughts . Yet these are Progression ' s sons ! If Freedom had " Ragged Schools" the teachers of this age would be found in crowds there .
_YTe have read { we think in Speuce ' _s _anecuoUs ) ofa clergyman whose duty it was to repeat prayers to Queen Elizabeth . Her Majesty wishing to lose as little time as possible with affairs of heaven , used to ' order the reading to take place while she was dressing—the good chaplain kneeling in an adjoining room . But the Queen , during some changes Jof her attire , wonld direct her maids to close the door . The Chaplain on first perceiving this , at once stopped reading . Her Majesty , indignant at the immediate cessation of prayers , demanded the reason of it , when the chaplain , to Us eternal honour , bad the dignity and spirit to reply , that " he could never consent to whistle the words of God through a keyhole . " We would that the teachers of this age had half the spirit of this court pastor , and ai much respect for the revelations of nature as he had for his litany—we would that they would refuse to stoop to proclaim the mandates of truth through the ignoble media of an obsolete and parasitio diction .
Endless is the uncertainty thus generated . "We have thought enough among us , was it but plain spoken and _ceuragtous , to annihilate error and put sophistry to everlasting confusion . As it is , many , of our new thinkers only increase our perplexity—raising only to disappoint expectation—and , hastening to comply with the fashion , put their new light of reason Jin tbe dark lanthorn of theology . Was it otherwise , who can doubt tbat we should soon put cant , wrong , and ignorance out of countenanee , outof power , and almost out ef existence . We recommend the ' ¦ "Reasoner" to all who dare to reason , who proving all things , will hold only to that which is good .
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, ileputy Uoroner , held an inquest at tne London Hospital , on the body of Jeremiah Beech , aged 61 , a poulterer , who committed suicide at his residence , in Eizabeth-street , Hackney-road . It appeared from tbe evidence that he was formerly in good circumstances . Since Christmas last , in consequence of an asthma , he was unable to obtain a livelihood , and depended upon the assistance he derived from his friends , and during the last fortnight he had relief from the parish . That morning , about five o ' clock , He asked his wife to go out for some gin , as he was very feint .. On ber return , she found Mm sitting in a chair aud covered' with blood , which was gushing from a wound in his throat . He had razor in his hand . He died about eight o clock . Verdict " Temporary Insanity . "
Attempt to _Mubmsb . —At the Tnnbridge Wells petty sessions , on Monday , Thomas Chessman , a waiter at the Camden Hotel , in that town , waB charged with cutting the throat of Frances Saunders , a servant in the same hotel , with intent to destroy her life . It appeared that the prisoner was desirous of paying his addresses to the young woman , but as she refused to receive them , he frequently vowed that if she did not , he would either cut her throat or use some other means to destroy her life . On Sunday _atternoon he saw her walking with a young man through some fields , and followed her , and pulling a clasp knife out of Ms pocket began to sharpen it upon a stone , declaring that if she did not leave go the arm of her lover and go with him he would kill her , She , _hewever , as well as the young man she was with , thought that he only said this to intimidate her . but alter repeatedly following them about , he ftt length made a rush at her , and cut her throat .
Dr . R . H . Powell , surgeon , was immediately sent for , and succeeded in dressing the wound . He stated that the cut was about five inches in length , on the left side of her throat . It was a ragged incision , and extended from below upwards . And from behind forwards . It nearly severed the jugular Yein , but the carotid artery was not touched by about a line . It appeared to him that the incision was made with a hooked or _hollow-bladed instrument , for if it had been a straight one the carotid artery must have been cut , and then death would have taken place in a very few minutes . The knife shewn him by the police constable , a hook-billed knife , he thought was such a knife as wouid inflict such a wound . Ifc would be extremely dangerous to remove the young woman at present to come and give evidence , but she would be in a fit state , he thought , in the course of eight or ten days . The prisoner was then remanded for a week .
Metropomian Improvements . —A government bill has just been brought into the House of Commons to enable the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to construct a new street from Spitalfields to Shoreditch and for that purpose , te raise a 8 um of -6180 , 000 on the " Metropolis Improvement Fund" account . By an act oi last year ( 8 and 9 Victoria , o . 101 ) for regulating the vend and delivery of coals in the port oi London , it was provided that the duty of Id . per ton from the 31 st of December _lasi ; , should be _invisted in government stock , to create a fund to effect improvements "for the opening of poor and densely populated districts in the metropolis , and for keeping open spaces in the immediate vicinity of tne same . " Money has been invested under the act , and
Parliament ia now called upon to sanction its application , and to charge the fund to £ 120 ' 000 to construct the new street from' Spitalfields to Shoreditch . Ifc is to commence at the north end and in continuation of Commercial-s . rcet , crossing the west end of Fashionstreet , and the east end of White's-row , and to pass northwards , in or nearly in a line with and alon « Red Lion-street , crossing tho ends of Union-street _, and Church-street , and the ends of Lamb-street , and Brown _' s-lane , and thence to run in a north-west d ' _reot' . on across Vine-street , Vine-place , Wheelerstre _^ ' t , Fleur-de-Lis-street , Maidenhead-court , Elderstreet , and _Blossmn-street _, to Shoreditch , south of and adjoining the present terminus of the Northern and Eastern Counties Hallway ,
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' _iAWSrai _^ MUROBR lK _SHA-DWBIii ; . On Monday Mr . Baker , Jun ., deputy-coroner , and a jury met for a , third i * ime at the Half Moon , Lower Shadwell , and proceeded _further to investigate the circumstances attending the death of Ann 'Slomah , ' who met with her death at " / house in I , a , bour . in . Vain . street , Shadwell , ifiere a private still had i _^ een in operation / A man named Gibbins is in custody charged with the wilful murder of the deceased . William Darldw , of Jamaica-pl . » ce , limehouse , scumboiler , _jstated that the deceased had woTked for him in that trade for two months up to her death ' .. On ' the morning of Monday , the 1 st of June , wiitne . W proceeded to the house in Labour-in-Vain-atreet , with his cart , and Qlbbins assisted him in removing some coke and treacle from tbe
Cart into the house . The witness admitted the still was his , and that his wife generally worked it . The treacle was brought into tbe house for the purpose of illicit distillation _, fie knew very well be washable to- a penalty of £ 50 under the "Excise laws . On the afternoon of Monday , the 1 st of June , witness again called at the boose in _Labonr-iri-rain-street . The deceased and her _nwUher , the wife of witness , and his child-were there * Gibbins had previously left , to fulfil an engagement , to turn a swing up-and-down in Stepney Fair . When he last sow the deceased he gave her , at her own request , 2 s „ and she handed one of them to her mother . The deceased said she would go to Stepney Fair , and see if her husband ' ( Gibbins ) had anything to eat . . The deceased was
allowed Ss . per week , to keep the house clean and keep inquisitive people out of the house . He removed his wife and child from fhe house on Monday evening , and the deceased was then from home . ¦ He returned in his cart to High-street , Shadwell , at about nine o'clock , and sent his wife to the house in Labour-in . Vain-Btreet . She returned in about ten minutes , and said the deceased had not returned . He then went home . On Tuesday morning about seven _ojctock , Gibbins came back to his house and said "My wife is dead ; , ! sent her home atone o'clock in the morning , and I came home at three o'clock myself , and found she had fallen down stairs and broken herneck . " - _.-. '>• ¦ ' _¦¦ •' ¦ •¦ ¦ A Juror . —Are you certain as to the time ! .
Witness . —Yes , I am . I then asked him if he had told any body of bis wife ' s death , and he said only one party , and that he was going to make Mb wife ' s mother acquainted with the affair directly . Just as he was going ont at the door he said . '' Bear a hand , get the things out ; _, I don't wish to _doyouanyharm . " I immediately proceeded with raj _hoTse and cart , accompanied by my wife , to the house in Labour . _in-Vain-street , and a woman who was standing there , admitted us through her dwelling , No . 7 . [ The witness lewis , who wu examined last _ireehi was here called up and identified by the witness . ] He proceeded as follows * . —I got over the palings into the yard ofthe house No . 6 , aud a voice said , " Hake haste , make haste , the police are breaking , open the door . " I then got in at the window , and handed the still out to my wife . " A Juror . —Bid yo get it out easy t The witness . —Yes , very easy .
A Juror . —Are you aware ef a waterhutt being under the window ? Witness . —I can ' t swear whether there was a waterbutt there or not , there was a small ladder raised against the wall . I forgot to state that when Gibbins came to my house he said he had left the door unfastened . When I heard a noise at the front door I made my escape through an empty house . My wife came to me half-anhour afterwards , and I went to . _Tooley-street , and left my child . The witness was interrogated by the Jury at great length .: He said he came to speak the truth and would do it . The still was at work on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock , under the direction of his wife . Gibbins appeared like a mad person When he came to him on Tuesday morning . He did not see the body in the passage . He was in ton much ofa hurry to remove the still .
Martha Darlow , the wife ofthe last witness , confirmed the evidence of her husband . She contradicted Mrs . Lewis in one material point , That person swore that Mrs . Darlow ran up the stairs at the house , No . 7 , with tbe copper in her hand . Mr . Darlow swore she gave the boiler td Mrs . Lewis , and ; that person assisted in tbe removal of thestill and apparatus . At the conclusion of Mrs . Darlow _' l evidence , the inquiry was again adjourned until to-morrow ( Wednesday ) at ten o ' clock . "' The Jury desired the Coroner to forward a requisition ta Sir James Graham , the Home Secretary , to have the prisoner Gibbins brought before the Court on the next iaquiry .-The Coroner said he would comply with the request of the Jury . It was very desirable the prisoner should be present to hear ths evidence .
On Wednesday , an inquest was { held by _adjournment , before Mr . W . Baker , Deputy Coroner , and a Jury , on the body of Ann Slowman , who was found dead ia a house , 6 , _Labour-in-Tain-sti-eet , Shadwell , under suspicious circumstances , on the morning of Tuesday , the 2 d inst . A private still , Temoved hastily while the police were breaking into the house after the alarm had been given , had been in full operation only the day before , and a man named Darlow admitted Upon the last investigation that he was the owner of it , and allowed the deceased Ss . per week to keep the house clean . ; The Deputy Coroner informed the Jury that agreeably to their request he had written to the Home Secretary relating to the prisoner Gibbins , and had received a letter from tbe Home Office stating tbat Sir Janes Graham considered tbat it would be improper to interfere in sending the prisoner Gibbins before the Jury .
The Jury regretted the prisoner was not sent before them . If Gibbins had been present the witnesses would have expressly identified him , and facilitated the inquiry . The inquiry then proceeded . Evidence of the same character as that already published was given . The Jury havingbeea _sittingfromten o ' clock until two , and the Deputy Coroner having " other cases to attend to , it was agreed that they Bhould adjourn until half-past seven In the evening .
At eight o ' clock tbe _inguiry was resumed , and several witnesses were called , who added " no few facts to those already stated , with the important exception tbat the key of the tenement , "So . 6 , _Labour-in-Vain-street , was found in the pockets ofthe deceased , together with a number of dup'icates . The production of the key by Farramore , a police constable , was in . corroboration of the eridence given by two women , that when theprisoner Gibbins knocked at the door and asked the deceased for the key of the street-door , she refused to throw it out of the window .
Mr . Robinson , a surgeon , agreed with Mr . Itoss that it would not be possible for the injuries to the back part of the head , and the ' marks on the face of the deceased , to be produced by a fall down stairs . The injuries might be inflicted by a blow from a blunt instrument , by a fall against a projecting surface , or by a blow from such apieeo of iron as was produced to him , provided that the blow was struck upwards , in such a position as to be powerfully acted upon . ( The witness alluded to a piece of iron found by the police in the yard of the bouse . )
The Deputy-Coroner summed up , and the inquest room was cleared . Thejury deliberated , and at one o ' clock returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unkno wn .
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Melancholy Occurrence at Mr . "WARawroij ' s Lunatic AsTLUM .--On Saturday night a jury was empanelled before Mr . "Wm . Baker , deputy coroner , at Mr . Warburton ' _s Lunatic Asylum , Bethnal-green , to investigate the circumstances attending the death of Robert East , aged fifty-two , a lunatic , which took place at the abore institution , in consequence of injuries inflicted on him by another un & rtunate lunatic _, named George Pearson . Thomas Jones , one of the keepers , said that deceased wasa pauper lunatic from the parish of Great Marlow . He had a delusion that he was a saint . He was at times trouble _, some , but was never- under restraint . He used to steep in a ward called the " "Long Civil Room , " of which witness has the management , and where there were thirty-seven other patients . On Friday morn " ing , about five o ' clock , witness was in bed , when he heard a noise at the end of the room . On getting up
he found _deceased on the floor , and a lunatic named George Pearson kicking him about the head with great violence . Pearson was dressed , and had on a pair of thick shoes . "Witness pulled him away and and was struck by him . Deceased was taken to the infirmary , where he was immediately attended by Mr . Miller , the surgeon of the establishment . Pearson never before behaved violent to any other patient . Ho used occasionally to knock himself about , and has been under restraint . He _has-been at work lately , at his trade as a painter , inlhe ward , accompanied by another man . Witness asked him why he struck tho deceased . He replied that ho did it for his own ( Pearson ' s ) good . He did not seem to be aware thathe had done wrong . Verdict . — "That George Pearson , not being of sound mind , did kick the deceased about the head , but not feloniously nor of malice aforethought , giving him a mortal wound , of which he died . "
Murder and Attempted _SuicidS . —Hull . "— A wretched mother is now under tbe surveillance of the police ( being too ill to be brought before the Magistrates ) against whom the double charge of wilfully taking the life Of her offspring , and attemptin _g to terminate her own , will , upon her own confession , supported by other evidence , shortly be made . The facts were brought to light early this morning , when a man named Green , and a constable , who were near the watehhouse , at the harbour side , saw something like a bundle of clothes floating down the river . They took it out , and found it to be the body of a
woman , insensible , but not quite dead , which was supported on the surface of the water by the air that inflated her dress . On being taken to a neighbouring house , and medical men called in , she recovered her speech , and said b' _^ r name was Jeffries , and that she had thrown _herself and her child , aged three weeks into the rive * -, This fact was confirmed by the finding of the _bo-i y of the infant , an extremely wellproportioned one , about four hours afterwards , ol course quite , dead . The mother is unmarried ; tho father _stored to be " highly respectable , " and residing in tin ' s town . The inquest Villi lieMd _aSSQOP j as tire female is able to attend .
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Thk _Lj- aouk . —Letters from Manchester state that the principal members of the Auti-Coro-Iaw League held a meeting on the 3 rd , and decided on the bill for the importation of corn bein _; passed by the legislature , their Staff . Should he disbanded , a statement Of their funds should be rendered , the League should be abandoned , their number should be reduced to six , and a subscription hy the general public should beset on foot to raise £ 100 , 000 for Mr . Cobden . . ¦ Ait American Witness . —When I entered the Court , the principal witness was under examination ,
in the course of which the counsel observed / that in the earlier part ' of his evidence , he , the witness , had stated that such and such was a foot . "Np , I guess not , stranger , " said the witness . The counsel , however , persisted that he had , and referred the matter . to the Jttdge , ~ who ~ , after looking at _his ~ notes , told the witness that in the earlier portion of his evidence he certainly had said _snch and such waa- the faet . " Did I say so , Judge , " replied the witness , with the most imperturbable coolnm ; " then I'll stick to it \ d _d if I don't . "
Mourn * or a French _Tbatsllbb—A letter from the Isle of Boarbon gives details of the death of M . _Maisan , a _yoang midshipman , who towards the'end of 1844 , set out ' to explore central Africa . Her left Zanzibar on April 21 , 1846 , and arrived safely at Grande-Terre . He was provided with a firman from _Sultan Said for the principal c & wfs of tribes in the country . Having learned that vae of them , named Paazy , had hostile intentions respecting him , hemade a circuit to avoid the territory of this chief . He arrived after twenty days ' : marcfci at the _village of "Daguelamahor , which _isonly three dan ?*' journey from the coast , and determined to remain there and wait for his luggage , which he had _confitfed'to an Arab servant . This man , it appears , was ' acting in concert with Patty , and had . inforraed him of the route which
his master had taken . The chief-and some of his men came up with the unfortunate , traveller at Daguelamahor , and there tying his haru $ » and feet , " cut his throat . These details were given to the . French Consul at Zanzibar by another _strvant of M . _Maizan , who had been forced , after his master ' s death , te enter the service ofPazzy , and had afterwards been purchased from that chief by the Sultan for 100 piastres ( fiOOfr _. ) A part of M . _Maizan _' _s luggage , and particularly the instruments plaeed at his disposal by the Government , have been collected by the French Consul , Fatal _Effects or Hot _Wsathkh . —On Moaday evening Mr . Joseph Payne held an inquest at the Swan and Sugar Loaf , Fetter Lane , on the body of
Martha Ann "Valentine , aged forty-three , wife ofa cutler , residing at No . 6 , Plough Court . The deceased , her husband , and six children , tire eldest being a lad of sixteen , had but ono room to live in , and she was a delicate woman , subject to dizziness and pain in the head , which hot weather aggravated . Last week , in consequence of the uncommon sultriness of the weather , she continually complained of her head , and particularly on Saturday last . She attended to her business , however , and was cheerful up to eleven o ' clock at night of that day . She was then seized with a violent pain in the head , and whilst undressing to go to bed , she fell down upon it , aud almost immediately expired . Verdict—Natural death .
Despbratb Cash or Stabbing on Towan-Uiu . — On Sunday morning , at ah early hour , considerable alarm was created on Tower-hill in consequence of a man named Thomas Stead , aged thirty years , of No . 30 , King-street , Cheapside , being stabbed by two foreign sailor . * . It appears that he | was on his 'way home with a companion , and while passing through Postern-row , Tower-hifJ , they met two drunken sailors , who began abusing them . A _fij-ht at length ensued , and in the struggleone of the sailors inflicted two deep stabs on the person of Stead , one on the breast and the other in the left groin . An alarm was raised , but the two ruffians escaped before the arrival of the police .
Destruction by Fire op thb "Bloating Dock at Havke . —About midnight on the 3 rd instant , the floating dock at Havre was perceived to be in flames ; the alarm was immediately given . In less than halt ' an hour the flames were put out by sinking the dock . Happily , but one small schooner was in the dock at the time , which escaped without injury . The fire originated in the carelessness of a workman . Mammoth in Switzerland . —In the excavations for the new road at _Kaiserstuhl ( Aargen ) the jawbone of a mammoth , in excellent preservation , was found in the chalk stratum .
Poikts op Honour . —Colonel Montgomery was shot in a duel about a dog ; Captain Ramsey in one about a servant ; Mr . Fetberstone in one about a recruit ; Sterne ' s father- in one about a . goose , and another gentleman about '' an acre of anchovies . " One officer was challenged for merely asking his opponent to enjoy _aseeond goblet , and another was compelled to fight about a pinch of snuff ; General Barry was challenged by a Captain Smith , for declining a glass of wine with him in a steam-boat , although the General had pleaded , as an excuse that wine invariably made his stomach sick at sea ; and Lieutenant Crowtherlost his life in a duel because he was refused admittance to a club of pigeon-hunters . Public * House _Pibtv , —On Sunday last a printed notification might have been , and was read by thouin
sands of her Majesty ' s loyal subjects , passing along the Lower-road , Islington . Itwas pasted on the outside ofthe house of a licensed victualler , and stated in effect that in future the said house would not be open for business at any hour on the Sabbath-day . As the Bishop of Calcutta is at present on a visit from India , and residing at his own house in Islington , his presence may have exercised some spiritual influence on the mind of the good woman by whom the public-house in question is kept , so as to induce her to forego her Sunday profits , for the sake of improving morality . Shakspeare nt America . —We were just in time to visit the theatre ; -which was well attended , but I can't say much in favour of the performance . The play-bills { called it a tragedy , but I laughed more heartily than I have done at many a comedy ; and
well I might , for the ghost of Hamlet ' s father had its left cheek so full of Virginia , that it could scarcely speak for expectoration . It is only those who have seen a ghost in such a fix , that can formany adequate idea how very ridiculous it looks . Couporal Punishment . —The system of corporal punishment , which has been practised to a great extent in the French Colonies , is about to be partially abolished . It is stated that on the report of the Minister of Marine and Colonies , a royal ordonance will shortly be promulgated abolishing corporal punishment as regards women , and restricting its app lication to very lew eases with regard to men . It is also stated , but-with what truth we cannot say , that while the French are attempting to do away with the disgusting practice _©^ p ersonal chastisement
among slaves , thc local legislature of British Guiana are submitting to the English government a measure for the re-establishment of that punishment amongst the recently emancipated population of that colony . OvjTRAfiE .. —The Newrw , Examiner relates thc following outrage : —At Laragh _, county Mon 3 ghan , about twelve o ' clock at noon on the 29 th ult ., two men dressed in women s clothes with false faces , entered the house of Mr . M'Kinley ( manager of a spinning mill ) and , in his absence broke his furniture and beat Mrs . M'Kinley , his wife , who was alone , in a most cruel and brutal manner . She is continue ! to her bed from thc injuries she received . Mrs . M'lvinley called on several persons to arrest or pursue these monsters in human shape , but not one would interfere .
The _Obegos . — The Crocodile troop ship . Commander Gower Lowe , was to be taken out of dock at Devonport on Monday , and as soon as re-equiped will embark a detachment of artillery under the com * roand of Captain Blackwood , for service at _Hudson ' s Bay , where also a wing of the Cth regiment of 390 men , undecthe command of Mojor Ciofton , is to be sent . The latter are to embark at Cork in the Blenheim transport . These detachments are destined for Fort Guwrier , a settlement of thc Hudson Bay Company , to the Westward of tho Rocky Mountains , near and around which there is a population of 5 , 000
to G _OSd hunters and trappers , trained from childhood to us » the rifle ; and which the military nucleus now . under orders for Oregon will soon bring _iniio a highly _efficient state of tactical organization . A large force of excavators , for the purpose of cutting round the portages which impede the navigation of tbe river , are forthwith to be sent out to the tcjritory of the company . These , in ease of need , will be also rendered subservient to military purposes . Thus . Fort Gurrier will form an advanced base from which , in the event of hostilities , a point with a numerous and highly efficient forco will he made on the American territory .
Status op Sir Walter Scott . —This beautiful white marble colossal statue , from _| tbe chisel of our eminent sculptor , Mr . Steell , is now in such a state of forwardness , that we understand it will be ready to be placed on its pedestal , in the monument in Prince ' s-street , on the 15 th August , the anniversary ofthe natal day of the great novelist and poet , on which day there will be a grand procession and inauguration of the statue , at which the public bodies here , and tho masonic lodges here and from many parts of Scotland will give their attendance and _asaiStailCei The procession altogether ia expected to exceed in numbers and external show that which took place at laying the foundation of the monument six years ago , —Caledonian Mercury ( Edinburgh ) ,
Warlike Preparations The guns at the top of the keep at the castle are to bo dismounted , and others of a larger calibre mouuted in their place ; and the fortifications round Dover and the line of coast are to be placed in the best possible state of defence , We hear the Royal Artillery are to be greatly augmented . Tlie detachments round the coast ave to "be reinforced , and companies to he sent to Sbeerness , Pembroke , & o ., these ports not having had any of the Artillery stationed at them for a considerable period . Free _Cnuncn Assemblt . —It is admitted by the leaders ofthe Free Church of Scotland , that she has received sorae £ 3 , 000 . from individualser Churches ill tile United States implicated in slave-l-. ol . _Une ,. Mr , George Th . ompa . on says , she shall send back tiie
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money ; Dr . Campbeli aays she will ; for onr owl part ; we * can only sa . v she should ; and we have dread assigned wliat even the Banner ofUltter , an _avoww and _distingts _^ edally . of the Free Church r seema t < _reganias weighty reasons for that _opinion . _^/'/ _Brfof , -. A Wolf Sa « r « . _BATtLE-BKroQB » —For seTwal days past some considerable alarm has been _occasioned amongst the residents in the vicinity ol Maiden Lane , Camden Town , b ; the knowledge that a wolf had been observed prowling about tbat neigh _, bourhood . The amim * , which had no doubt escaped from some travelling Menagerie , had been observed to have its _Jairiira large field , about _ft icreew belonging to Mr . Rhodes ' , and about midnight , on C .. _u . Iah _flAUAnnI _waaItmow fetal « w __ 2 ... _j _ j ill . t
gentleman , armed with bludgeons , _dsc , as also * _several _gentlerabn with _fi- _» _-armv repaired to tb » spot , and after waiting for a considerable time ; thv short quick bark and growl of the / animal was heard , attended at the same time _byiheaquaHing of a eatf a Tiew of the dreaded wolf having been almost ? instantly obtained , one ofthe pasrtylevelled his piece and fortunately hit the animal , Bnt without causing immediate deatb , as it was found accessary to striker it several blows on the head before if could be finally destroyed ; it was then discovered _ta ' _at * it had made ? a prey of a large black and white _catVahd which th _» " ferocious creature had held with such _tenacity as not even to relinquish it in death , ' the * oat actually remaining in the mouth of the animal when the **
body was conveyed to . the White _Swany .. Maiden-Lane , Sing ' s Cross . It is a female , not * of a very ' large size , but in excellent condition , 'weighing _, upwards of 401 bs . Ibbabim Pacha ' s Diamonds . —The diamonds * that , Ibrahim Pacha has brought over with hiEf ' are of enormous'value , some of them are as large as they half of a hazel nut . The state robes of scarlet and 1 gold are gorgeous-, and the hilt ofthe _scymitar _' i _^ - ornamented with jewels of great value . The trumpets , drums , and other military emblems with ' - _whfeh-ifc is ornamented , being brilliants of the finest - wattr .. and in the centre of the- hilt is a diamond of _veryi _\** ge size . Eis pipe » of great size , and ' _studoV _^ nth diamonds . _CaptainSturt- ' b- _EkplomnspFartt . _—Intelligence ***
has been received at Adelaide , South _AuBtraliarfront Mr . P & _sse ' s party , which was en its return to Cap *•• tain Start with- supplies . The letters are dated 3 Nor . li % and they were- then art a distanoe of 350 miles from Adelaide , _and ' hadinot been visited with _i a shower from- the day of thenr departure . They had fallen in with an overland party , twenty-one ia number , so- much-distressed fronv the exhaustion off their provisions , that they had-killed some of their own beasts for subsistence ,. This- party had lost between 2 ( _* _" 9 'and 300 'head of cat % out of about double the number with which they started from the pasturage of New South ; "Wales . The number of wild cattle in the _interior 08 New Setith Wales , tho descendants of' _estrays frem- the herds of settlers ,
would appear to > be countless .. Mr , _Piesse's party had met with innumerable herd * , in the highest possible condition ; . The writer of one letter says that millions , rather than thousands , would most adequately convey an idea of the _vaat numbers of these cattle , wbo * roust have- had the * advantage of some extensive ,, r ich ,, and uninterrupted pasture . Tumult ik a Church ; . —A . letter ftem Jerusalem _, says : — " A deplorable scene occurred in the church ofthe Holy Sepulchre ,, at Jerusalem-, on Good Friday . The Latin priests were- engaged in the ceremonies of the day ,, and a _proee-sion was _passing through the church . of the "H oly Sepulchre , when a carpet happening t » be placed in the part of th » church set aside for the use of the Greek schismatics , gave rise to an extraordinary tumult . Tho Greeks
insisted that the carpet should be takes away , tha Latins insisting upon * its- remaining .. An exchange of abusive words ensued , which were speedily followed by blows . A tremendous battle was tbe _consoQsequence , in which the wax candles were upset ,, the candelabra destroyed ,. the banners pulled down , and their poles turned-into pikes for the use of tha combatants . A great number of persons were seriously hurt , and some were killed v but at length tho Pacha came with a body of troops-, and chared tha church of both parties . It was then found that nob only had a great deal of damage been done to tb 9 church , but that _some-of _themost valuable and portable objects had beer * stolen by the pious and pugnacious pilgrims . " Tub Polish Ball . —Jn Monday evening the grand
Polish Fancy or Full-dress Ball , in aid ofthe funds of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland , took place at Willis ' s' Rooms , under peculiarly favourable auspices . It was very difficult to ascertain anything approaching , the truth-as to- the numbers present , but those wno = _had-the best means of judging , stated they could not be-fewer than 1 , 000 . Among the company were Lord : Dudley Stuart , the son of Dwarkanauth Tagore , Sir William Molesworth , tho Earl FiTtescue , tke _Bord : Mayor , £ ord Fitzgerald , Earl Pomfret , Lord Portarlington ,. oic . The dresses of the ladies were remarkably splendid ; and elegant ; and , indeed , the whole scene was at once most gratifying ( as to its sure results ) and most brilliant in itself .. Political Rumours , —We may elate , on good & u _» thority , we believe , that the Duke of Wellington will send in his _resinnation very shortly ,, even should the present Government not be broken up i » a lew days ,
as is conhdently expected .. It is-said that the Marquis of Normanby will be sent to- Paris' to _replaea Lord Cowley , when the "Whi gs- oome into office . — Evening paper . Supfoskd I _*> tas 2 Ioidb . —Aa inquest was held oa Tuesday evening , at the Vestry Hall , Slorselydown , on the body ofa newly-born mole child , found under the following circumstances - > -On the- afternoon of Sunday , as a police-constable- of the " v ? division was OD duty at _D-ickliead- _. ho- saw a _pausel lying in a place called St . _Sawour ' _s-I > ec } r .. G > n , oj > eni » g it , the * body of a child presented itself . The covering consisted of black cotton-velvet . Al surgeon made a postmortem examination of the body " , and he was of opinion that the child had-been born alive .- There were several marks of violenceon : the body , and tha Jury , in the _absenoe of moro _dapioiye evidence , returned a verdict of " Found dead ' . " "
An Attempt was hade aus M ! a » shestbr on Fridat to shoot a Police _Oibicbb ,. by a young man about eighteen years of age .. Police-officer Russell stated before the magistrate that he saw theprisoner a little before twelve o _' _elock atn % ht in Barlow-lane , putting a shirt on over his _clothss , and asked hira where he had come from-, andhasaid from Somerset * and was on his way to _Liy-erneo _!* . The officer observed that it was very strange that he should be putting the shirt over his cloMies in that manner , and having a suspicion that _aJh was not right , from seeing his person rather bulky h said he ' Would feci in
his pockets .. He ( the office *?)) was about to seareh , when the prisoner drew ibrthi ai pistol , saying , if he uttered another word he woaJdfbJowouthLj brains , at tho same time pointing _thu-dfeadly weapon towards _, him . The officer , with _greua _promptitucie , knock ed * him down with his staff , and : afterwards succeeded in taking him into . _custody _,. aaid lodgirg % ! tiim in Bride- . well . On ' a search being made , a _quantity of powder * ¦ was found in hiapoeltets _; tdke pistol was loaded , bub coniiined no ball . He had ! also upon * hira Inciter - matches , some pawn _ticT _^ _ts , dated at . " 5 vistol , and . ' » _.,. _smalfcbook with the sigEifiiamfc title . ai "A History ? ofa Highwayman . "
The _Gouonawos _oe-. © scab tub First , and hia _, consort Eugenia , _dangler of _PsJuiee Eugene de - Beauharnais , as _liin _* and Queen ot * Norway , % is * fixed to be held on the _ISth of October next , on _w hick _Occasion the _Storthing will be coumked . Serious . Acoinusx- t & _a . Poon W _^ mas seaul _^ Onb Hundbejd , Years Olb , —On Tuesday mornin'T , _i- . s a poor woman , named _iinn Perry , upwards _ofainety-. eight yea « s of age , _seeding iu North-street , Whitechapel , was in the > act of _crossing tlie road of the High-street , atthe _asoment a os _* _b was coming _aluiip _^ , at a moderate pace-,, and hearing the noise , of wliich , and her vision bemg _indiatin-a _'* _, instead cf avoiding ; thfeoourse of tho-, vehicle , site became so _& eonfused , tliat before thfe . driver ' couhl stou his , horse , sheranagainst ifc , aad was k & ycked downv hy whicti , she sustained a > severe _sesjp wound , h \ WA which .-, _thebleod _flowed profusely besides othe _& _mU'rn-il in- ,
| juries . She was ultimately _conveye't- to thc _lws---. pital _, where , faem her _adYaaeed age , hss- recovery vs .. precarious . Expulsion ofa _REPSAiWts . —At tJifr weekly \ nc ' et » . ing of the _Repeal Assaoiation in _Qoaeiiiation Uall _,, _, on Monday last , the _Secretary read a _eomsii'mdsjica between a Mr . _ArchiffflaooM , of Liverpool , and Mr . O'Connell ,. touching certain _sediripas _lan _^ _ua-i _^ _-iniids . use of by the forme )* at some public meeting , Mr .. Archdeacon _refused to , cry otifc _pecevvi , _nayl Mr . O' _Connell recommended that Mxx _Arclnleacoa-shoulili be expelled from so peaceable , _leyal , and a _«? i-physi-. cal force a body , as th © " Loyal _National _"R-ipcal As- _, _sociation" of Ireland . The d _& _tum of the .- " _Libera-, tor" was immediately acted _u-pn , anil _thtexpolsioin of Mr . Archdeacon carried into _effeci . _"Met'S-vs . . Steele and Barry enlarged _apon the enormity and " danger of the members of "fee assc _. cia _& _an _iuclul' _-ing * in physical force _laneiuage .
A Destructivb Fike occurred in S irmlr . g " _ta . m on * Saturday morning , between one _a-aet twn o ' _oiaj-lc ,. on . premises occupied as a _tnanufaeira-y by Mr . Williaili . EUiott _. ' papier tray and button-n-. _oki-i' , sit ante in . liie-Regent Parade . The premises un which _slu-firetm-k place , wero used for the papier _mainii ' _.-ialure , and it is supposed that some sparks falling t ' n > m ihc _farnaoeor chimney of a _steam-engine caused _Xh-s _co-nfls-si-ation ; for two hours thc flair _. es raged so violently , anil spread so rapidly , that - property to the extent of many thousands of pouivJs was placed in _jeopaidy ; the fire having , howevei , reached a room which _lml
been recently plastered ., this served to check _its'iscgi-ess , and a plentiful supply of water being at band , the fire was got _umlyr at four o ' clock . The damage is cstimatedj _* at £ _im > , _which the proprietor is insured . YhiAh _Acciobvi 0 ; , niii Easteks Counties _Uailway . —On _Sativrtin * . " _afu-viMKui a line roim-t young * man . named _'Choi- _^ _' is Turner , _n- „ 'ed 35 year s , n p latelayer , was ett $ rny _j w _* tu SCVonif men in _h'ji" _-- " _•'' ' '"" a turn-table , * _-Vi « _hii . g about 12 cwt ., wli « _' » "v _amio _unwiis i' sl _' _i >* , j , . inid . ' ihe _pondei-mii * _wiMght u _* Il upon _, him . Us , r . _( _,-xtvicaU'd as speedily as _pi * _silili _* , and Ico vey .-u t 0 ttu ! i . _imdon Hospital , where ma tew IraiuuV .-he expired .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 13, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13061846/page/3/
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