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2 v\,_ * . ^ THE NORTHERN STAR. November...
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EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY AND IMPOST UR Cb...
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¦ IHHH.M.I The Free-traders and their Wo...
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LOSS OF Ag WHALING SIIIP.-M ASS ACRE OP ...
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EXECUTION IN SPAIN. On tbe 28th ult. a n...
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An American Plenipotentiary.—In a report...
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accidents, 4^£feiuesJ, & $nquest&
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Robbery at, thr Leeds Workhouse.— The re...
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2 V\,_ * . ^ The Northern Star. November...
2 v \ , __ _* . _^ THE NORTHERN STAR . November u , _^ _< . ¦ - _\~; _~ _- _*_ _, _*' _P _* _% _i _^ - * v ¦ i _ ¦ .. ¦—¦ — _^ —— ¦ ¦ — - _** _^^^^** _-- ' _^»^^^^ __
Extraordinauy Cores
_EXTRAORDINAUY CORES
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_# BT HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . wonderful Cure of dreadful _Ulttreus Sores in the Face and Leg , in Prince Edward Island . Tie Truth of this Statement was dul y attested before a JIagistrate . I . Kcgh Macdonald , of Lot 55 , in King ' s _Ceunty , do hereby declare , tbat a m % st _itonilerful preservation of my life has been effected bj the use of Holloway ' s Mils and muni-nt ; and I furthermore _dcclnre _, that 1 was very mucti _atou-ted with Ulcerous Sores iu my Face and tig ; go severe was my complaint , that the greater part of my nose and tbe roof of my mouth was eaten away , and my l | _g uad three large ulcers on it , and that I applied to several Medical gentlemen who prescribed for me , bat I fount ! no relief . Mv strength was rapidly failing every
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM .
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ties of matrimony , and _ivho ever * ad tke misfortune dur their » ere youthful days to bo affected with any > m of then diseases , a p rions . _« . rftlu . medicine is highly essential , and of the _^ _^" _ _*™? J _* * . ore serious affections are visited _upw an most- ¦ _ - » fr and ffsDrinc from a want of thes . simple _jrecauti . _ns . 2 L 53 S 3 _** woru is . . vare ,: _ft- _'r ** remembered , where the fountain is p . lluted , the streams hat flow from it cannot be pure . PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS , Trice 3 s . 3 d ,, 4 s . 6 d ., and lis . per box , With exp licit directions , rendered perfectly Intelligible to every capacity , are well known _throughout Europe t _» be the most certain and effectual remedy ever _discovered for gonorrhoea , both in its mild and aggravated forms , by immediately allaying iuflam _* aiation and arresting further progress .
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COUGHS , HO \ RSENESS , AND ALL ASTHMATIC AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS . _EFFECTUALtV CUKEO _BI ( KEATING"S COUGH LOZENGES . Upwards of thirty years experience has proved the infallibility of these Lozenges in the cure of Winter Cough , _noarat-ness , Shortness of Breath , and other _Pulmonari Maladies . The patronage of bis Majesty , the King of Prussia , and his Majesty tbe King of Hanover , has been bestowed on them ; as also that of the Nobility and Clergy of tin-United Kingdon ; and , above all the Faculty havo especially recommended them as a remedy of _unfailing ofilcaey . Testimonials are continually r < ceived confirmiitory of the value of these Lozenges , and _proving the per feet safety oftheivuse , ( for they contain no Opium nor any preparation of that drug ;) so that th _* -ymay be given _toi'emalcs ofthe most delicate constitution , and children ofthe most tenderest years without hesitation .
Bankrupts.
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[From The Gazette Of Tuesday, November 1...
[ from the Gazette of Tuesday , November 10 . ] William Townbridge , Lawrence-lane , wollendrnper—David Pattie , St Alban ' _s-place , Edgeware-road _, stationer —William _AUen , Wheeler-street , Spitalfields , saleboard manufacturer—Henry Godfrey , Milton , nest Grarcsend , builder—William Bond , llolhorn-hill , linseed victualler—John Diyth , late of _llurges , Belgium , wine merchant—Robert Milner Jerman , Rocking , Essex , cbymist—Hit-hard Glo _/ er , Hitcham and Mordam , Surrey _miliar—Thomas Harris Real , AVhiiigham , Kent , grocer—Thomas Wyatt , Oxford terrace , King ' s-road _, Chelsea , builder—John Ilall , Martin ' s lane , Cannon-street , merchant—John Lamb , Oxford-street , haberdasher—Rosetta , Edcrslitim , Man . Chester , draper—William Imray , Liverpool , stationer—John Lester , Pen . _y-gelle-lodge , near Wexham , Denbighshire , farmer—Edward Pipes , Derby , plasterer .
A frightful case of a bad Leg cured by Holloway ' s Pills and Ointment . —Mr . Thos . Clark , a _retired captain from the South Sea trade , residing in Glube-lane , Mile-end , had had a bad leg for five years , there were about twenty holes in it ; several pieces of bone had come away , the hmb was often the size of a childs body ; it frequently caused tlie most excruciating pain . The captain was told that his leg must be amputated ; and lie , like hun dreds of others , has just got it soundly healed by means of these surprising remedies , which are infallible in the cure of all -wounds , sores , and ulcers . Atmospheric Changes . — Although changes in the
temperature are more prevalent m the temperate , zon than in other latitudes , there is scarcely a spot to be found where such great differences exist as in Great Britain , varying in a iw hours some twenty degrees or more . The eft ' eet of such rapid changes oil the bodily health is very afniet _' ng to many thousands of persons ' , especially those in the middle and more advanced ages of life , _causing attacks of those painful disorders , Sciatica , Gout , aud Rheumatism . Happily for those who are afflicted with those painful diseases , cliiniical science has produced that excellent Medicine , Blair ' s gout and Rheumatism Pills . _^ . . _
Extraordinary Credulity And Impost Ur Cb...
EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY AND IMPOST UR Cboidon . —A well-dressed , middle-aged woman , who gave the name of Kuziah- Siddoiis , but who is better known in Croydm as Anne Trust , was examined last week on the following charge : — Miss Elizabeth M . Dodd deposed as follows : —I reside with my aunt , Miss Markley , who carries on the _business of a stationer iu Croydon . I know the prisoner . About last May she came to me and said that a young gentleman belonging to the East India College , at Addiscombe _, was anxious to pay his addresses to me , and that he had employed her as bis agent to convey _messnge . i and letters between us . She described him ' as being tall and fair , and said that his name was _Anderson , and the reason assigned for the secrecy was , that if it were known that he was corresponding with any young lady , the
authorities might deprive him of his commission . A gentleman answering the description given by the prisonvr had been to the shop , and she believed tho informa'ion made to her by the prisoner , and they communicated together from time to time upou the subject . In August , the prisoner showed her an advertisement in a newspaper to the effect that the communications were still to be kept up through " a friend , " and she said this advertisement came from Mr . _Andersun _, and referred to her . The prisoner told her that everything must be kept very secret , aud it would be necessary , as her lover had teeen sent to India , and that she would follow him there to be married , and she , the prisoner , was to accompany her , and it was necessary that fhe should have an outfit . In consequence of this , witness gave the prisoner several dresses , and she said her lover was to meet her at Bengal , aud they were then to be married . The prisoner
then eaid she must have some money to pr . pare for the voyage , and witness sold out somo stock belonging to her , and the first sum she gave the prisoner was £ 19 , and she afterwards gave her another : um of £ 15 , On last Friday week , upon the prisoner ' s r presentation that everything was ready for their journey _,. he clandestiuely packed up her clothes and left her aunt's bouse , and accompanied the prisoner to the Greyhound Inn , at Sutton , where they remained until the Wednesday , and during that period she gave the prisoner another sum of £ 10 , but she returned her £ 5 . They pioceeded from _Sutttm to the Red Hill station of the railway , and from thence by train to Dover , intending to go to France , and proceeding by the ove / land route to India , to meet her lover . While they were at Dover , however , some gentlemen from Croydon overtook them , and the prisoner was taken into custody , and the witness returned with her friends .
In answer to questions , the complainant said she had begun to have suspicion of tbe prisoner , but she was induced to accompany her on account of her threats of personal violence , and she repeatedly threatened to shoot her if she broke her promise to go to India . Mr . Adam * , who appeared for the prisoner , asked the complainant if she knew anything oftlie prisoner before this transaction ?—She replied , that she had known her for two years , and she added , that she believed she got her living by fortune telling . Mr . Adams : Has she ever told your fortune •—Complainant : Several times .
Mr . Adams : Did you never have the curiosity to make - -iny inquiry ' whether there was any young gentleman at Addiscombe of the name of Anderson!—Complainant : No , I did not . because the prisoner said * . that if any inquiries were made , It would spoil all ( roars of laughter ) . Mr . Adams : Then did you never see the gentleman , or hare any personal communication with him ? Complainant : No , sir . The prisoner said he was tall and fair , nnd I recollected a gentleman answering that description cowing to the shop , arid that h \ s name was Audeeson , and this was all I knew about him . Mr . Adams : Then you actually started upon an overland journey to India , to meet and to be married to a gentleman whom you bad never seen or spoken to upou the subject?—Complainant : I did , sir ( Inugliter ) . Tlio prisoner , upon being called upon for her defence , repeated her statement about the young gentlemen biing iu love with Miss Dodd , and said that the money was only applied to the neeussary expenses .. ,
The magistrates said there was no doubt that the prisoner had acted in a most crafty and wicked manner , although at the same time they considered it wns most extraordinary that a young woman of the age of Miss Dodd should have been so credulous as to allow herself to be duped by such an absurd story . They were of ( pinion , however , that the evidence did not support the charge , and tbey were therefore compelled to dismiss it ; but they , at the same time , remarked that tiiey saw ({ uite enough of the prisoner ' s uourse of life to induce tbem to caution her to be careful in future , or she might depend the would get into a scrape , and receive some punishment . The prisoner was then discharged . >
¦ Ihhh.M.I The Free-Traders And Their Wo...
¦ _IHHH . _M _. I The Free-traders and their Workpeople ,- —We are not niuch in the habit , says the Carlisle Patriot , of following the strong- teraotation to draw a comparison every week between the misery of tlie working classes and the alleged prosperity in many of our manufacturing establishments ; but this week we cannot avoid directing the attention of our readers to the simple but harrowing facts which transpired in a ease of death , apparently from starvation , before the Coroner on Monday last . An old man of seventyeight years ditd suddenly . He could not work , and one daughter did not seem to be occupied , so far as any evidence transpired , but rather the reverse as the Coroner ' s report states : —" ills wife and one daughter wind bobbins in Messrs , Dixon ' s factory ; their united _cavninna were on an avenue 4 s . 2 d . per
week , Is . 8 d . were left in the wareroom for rent ; ihe remaining 2 s . 6 d was the only means of support for the whole family . During last week , however , their wages amounted to one shilling , after the reduction of rent , and _upo-i this four human beings had to procure the means of existence for sevo'i days . On Friday their oniy sustenance was a threepenny loaf ; and on Saturday four halfpenny biscuits , three of which f ormed the only food the wretclied family tasted that day , the fourth biscuit being reserved by the wife and children for the old man ' s breakfast on Sunday morning . " God help him ! He died—and as far as man can judge his fate , it was well he did . But will some of these _Free-traderi teli how the bobbin-winders live upon this flourishing system of Free Trade which their employers have helped to establish .
Thb Land thy . Remkdt . _—Thoro is a featuro cf ' our Foreign advices which we regard with a lively and joyous interest . We pllude to the new British mode of dealing with Irish complaints and grievances . Instead of doubling the troops , or even the police , and passing coercion bills , as would have been done a few years since in view of apprehended famine in Ireland , the British Ministry has resolved to provide relief on a gigantic scale for the suffering Irish by jiving them employment . No new _Poor-J . aw Bastiks or Curfew bills , but new Canals , Railroads , bog-drainings , « fcc . Ac . —these are the means resorted to in preparation for an expected scarcity of fond . Meal in vast quantities is sent into Ireland , and work devised at which the poor are to be steadily and usefull y employed until the crisis is past . Such
is the new safeguard against the anticipated turbulence and sedition of ' starving millions ; who will say that it is not an improvement on the devices of former ages ? Who does not see that it _suggests still farther improvement ? How many _thousands on thousands is not England supporting in Poor-houses , year after year , who , with an acre and a cottage to each family " , would more comfortably support themselves ? Why sheuld not public ctarity , to all but incurably infirm , ultimately take this shape alto _, gethcr , and secure to each unfortunate a place to live and a chance to work , rent-free and inalienable , inetead of subsisting him at a heavy annual charge in an alms-house 1 Is not the principle susceptible of universal application ?—Xew York Tribune .
Improvements in tub Army . —The 2 nd battalion of Grenadier guards , stationed at St . John ' s Wood barracks , commanded by Lt . Col . Sir 0 . ilonyman , are now enjoying privileges formerly unknown in the British army : they have now a library that would do credit to any institution in England- It consists of nearly one thousand volumes of various works ( the battalion ' s own property ) , including ancient and modern _history , naval and military history , including the whole of the latc . campaigns in India , nearly all the new works of our modern writers , together with biography , geography , die ., with the most excellent maps on a very large scale , maps of India , America , Great Britain , and all Her Majesty ' s colonies . The men are furnished free of expense , with copy books , pens , ink , and every accommodation in the library , so that the man who objects to go to the regimental
school may here improve himself . Those men who do not wish to attend cither school or library ean have copy books in the barrack-room , free of expense , by applying to the pay-seijeant of their company . The dail y and weekly papers are also taken in lit tne library , together with the monthly periodicals . Various sorts of games are also followed up ia the barracks , such as cricket ( of which there is an excellent club , including many ofthe officers ) , racket , quoits , skittles , and fool-ball ; and in tho evening , every accomodation is afforded in the library lot chess , _drauiihs , and dominoes , where tea or coffee is provided extra for those men who _miy wish for it . The members of the library ( which is open to all ] subscribe one halfpenny weekly , and a number oi the officers have subscribed most handsomely to wards it .
Keatiko ' s Cough Lozenges . —It is a prevailing opinion that ali Proprietory Medicines come under the denomination of quackery , such is not the case . Having the maker ' s name affixed to the Government Stamp "is merely a guarantee against all Spurious Imitations of valuable Medicines , " and to copy that , subjects the imitator to transportation ; consequently as a safeguard to the public , the Commissioners of ner Majesty ' s .-tamps , have permitted the words HEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES to be engraven in the Stamp affixed to each Packet . If all Proprietory preparations are to be classed under the head of Quack Medicines , "James's Fever
Powder , " Dover ' s Powder , " " Singlctou ' a ; Eyc Ointment , " *¦ Battley's Sedative Solution of Opium , and many others , which are constantly prescribed by the most eminent of the Faculty , would come under this denomination . Upon this subject tlie r ' mrmaccittical Journal , of the 1 st of August , 181 ( 7 , page 51 , under tbe head Pharmaceutical Quackery , states : — "The sale of an ordinary domestic Medicine may be extended by a judicious _exposition of its qualities and virtues , and wc are not disposed to call in question the propriety of this practice , when nothing "but the simple truth" is stated . THIS IS NOT QUACKERY , although it subjects the articles to Stamp Duty .
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LOSS OF _Ag WHALING SIIIP .-M ASS ACRE OP HER CHEW . For sever . il months anxiety has been felt « _iHfog the fate of a whaling ship , named the Cape 1 acket Captain Powell , last from Sydney , and ¦ _*»« nty-eight seamen , I er crew . We regret to state that "formation has now been received from Sydney that the unfortunate vessel ( which has beeni _ihmbwI two years ) had fallen into the hands of the nat _ves of the New Hebrides , Sandwich Mantis and _thrse belonging to her , excepting four band * , » v _* _ww « _ar _* derSd . The particulars _hftVfi _bOGO _MpOTtcd W O . _ipt . Jones , of the Barque Flfeabeth _, which arrived at Sydnev from the New Hebrides en the 9 th of June havinhad narrow escape ot meeting a similar
g a fate . From a native who was on board the Cape Packet , but escaped the massacre , Captain Jones learned the following particulars :- ! wo or three davs after the vessel ' s arrival , three boats were sent off to tho shore for water , and while tho crew were so employed , the natives attacked them , and every ono ot them were killed . The canoes then pushed off to the ship , on board of which were Capt . Powell , ten English , and four coloured men . They were permitted to come upon deck , Capt . Powell being _unconcions of the fate of those whom he had sent ashore . For a few minutes they behaved themselves in their usual friendly manner ; having surrounded their victims , the signal was given , and the slaughter commenced . The attack was so sudden , that not
the least resistance could be made ; the captain , with the whole ofthe crew , were killed . The four coloured men were not molested . The bodies ofthe murdered crew wero taken ashore and devoured . The ship was then ransacked and pillaged of everything of value . She had TOO barrels of sperm oil on b . iard , but the casks wero broken up for the purpose of getting the iron hoops ; and after stripping the ship , securing ( he fire-arms , powder , & c , she was set on fire and t' . _tally consumed . Three of the men whose lives had been spared by the natives had managed to escape from the island in aoanoe , and had been taken on board by a French vessel .
Execution In Spain. On Tbe 28th Ult. A N...
EXECUTION IN SPAIN . On tbe 28 th ult . a notorious brigand , namsd Clavero , expiated a host of assassinations by the ignominious punishment of the _carrole . The instrument of punishment is no other than a tourniquet fitted to a stake , against which the patient is seated ; _anjiron collar is passed round his neck , and after two or three turns of the screw , which is armed with Archimedean force , the culprit is _strangled , Jose Clavero walked with the firmest _stf p from his dungeon to tbe scene of expiation , _courteously bowing to his friends and the _surrounding _spectators ; one would have thought that he was no more than an amateur observer of the scene . The priest exhorted him in vain ; ho shrugged his shoulders , and smiled at the numerous pretty woman whom he descried . His coffin precceded bim , borne by penitents ; the scaffold was before him ; and yet , like _Fiesclii . he could joke
and chatter . Arrived before the fatal stake , he leapt _rtther than walked up the steps of the scaffold , examined the ratal machine with all the attention ofa connoisseur , asked for a glass of wine , which he swallowed at a _draught ; and then , _taking off a handkerchief which hound his hair , he gave it to the priest , and begged him to transmit it to be his Pepa . All the priests obliged him to kneel , exhorting him in an earnest manner to reconcile himself to his God , whose image they exhi biteri before him—in vain ! he turned away bis bead , and asked if they were going to tenzehim much _longer . The curates at length left him , when addressing the crowd in a sonorous tone of voice , and with marked emphasis , he
said , that "If he had had 2 500 reals to buy justice with , he should not be in such a plight . " lie then sat himself down with great nonchalance on the bench _backed by the stake , aud refused to have his face covered with a white cop . wishing , as he said , to enjoy the fine spec . " tacle before him till tbe last moment . The executioneer applied the screw . Scarcely two seconds separated Jose from the great gulf of eternity , which he employed by calling out in a firm voice to the Executioneer— " Screw tight—screw tight ? " An instant afterwards he had ceased to live , and the crowd separated with the following moral reflection upon the corpse : — "Era un _valiente , " —( He was a brave fellow . )
An American Plenipotentiary.—In A Report...
An American Plenipotentiary . —In a report of a singular case of bigamy , honourable mention was made ofa Mr . Earl , one of the witnesses . Respecting this gentleman the Liverpool Journal publishes the following interesting particulars : — Mr . Earl's life is romantic , and one chapter of it relates to Liverpool . Some two months since he arrived here in a packet ship from New York , and although not encumbered with . superfluous luggage , he patronised Mr , bynn , at . the Waterloo . He had all the ease and elegant appetite of an accomplished gentleman , and the cook was delighted . at having in tho hotel so atlroiruble a critic of the productions of his _eiiijine . ne drank no wine but claret , savo and except a pint bottle of champagne during the process of mastication , and his hubits
were exceeding regular . Like the Irish . Dragoou of Washington Irving , he gate the house a world of trouble , but everybody was delighted with him . He talked so pleasantly , and promised so liberally , that the waiter was delighted to obey his orders . To us he described himf elf as being the agent of a great Americanland . compnny , the _leasee of two theatres , the proprietor of one newspaper in New York , and the editor of another . HU means were ample , and no one asked him for money . To the Mayor , on his arrival , he applied respecting tha polictf , and he invite 1 half tho Town Council , from time to time , to dine with him . Almost every day a gucBt or two honoured him to dinner , nnd the resources of tha Waterloo were sufficient to satisfy tbem all . Among other projects which brought him to England , was to
negociate with tho _London assurance offices to open an office in America , and , in the way of business , he appointed an advertising agont inthe Goree . In hie moments of leisure ho _sauotered up and down _Bold'streut , and got quite familiar with several shopkeepers . To them be represented himself as a man of fortune ; and by way of encouragement , he gave an order to one for £ 150 worth of ladies' stays , and from another he ordered a twenty guinea shawl . He received them , but did not pay for them ! In due time , he announced his intention of departing , took his berth in the Halifax boat , and ordered his bill . He expressed his astonishment at tha moderation of the charges , put the bill in bis pocket , walked out , and—did not return that day nor tbe next _. He will no doubt return—for he is an honourable manpay the bill for the stays and for the shawl !
1 hk Great Impostor . —Mr , Daniel O'Connell has probably met his match at last . His shameful alliances with the unprincipled Whig Government have hitherto been sanctioned by the Irish leadables as often as he chose to make them . But the young Ireland party have broken ground with him at last and they are likely to get the better ofthe hoary Queenworshipping impostor . This is of importance . The great drag chain on progress in the British Islands has for the last 40 years been Mr . Daniel O'Connell . He humbueged and misled a people that could not be cowed and beaten dewn . But such , has ever been the fate ofthe millions!—Albany , { U . S . ) Anti-Renter . Better not to know too much or oor Ancestors . —It is an old saying Hint it 13 a wise chi d that know its
own father . We may rather call that a happy child thnt scarcely can tell who bis own father is . So far from regarding a clearly traceable descent as a blessing , we look upon it as one of the greatest curses . What a throng of fools , villains , and spotted characters is heaped on that devoted head , which can count up a long string of ancestors ! What a real blessing it would bo not even to hive known one ' s own grandfather ! for then all the horrors and shame of the past are buried in oblivion , and no one could upbraid us with the crimes of our ancestry . To take the highest family in these kingdoms for an example—Who would have dared to tell our present amiable queen , if history had not preserved the names and deeds of hor fore-fathers , what a race she has sprung from ? What mad head would have dared to assert that
her family annuls _prosent such a precious set of thieves , murderers—ay , murderers of their own kith and kin , quarrelsome savages , " unnatural monsters , smotherers of innocent children , _tearera out of eyes , burners of peoph alive , killers of wires , and perpetrators of offences that cannot be named ; a catalogue of characters so leprous with crime and disreputable that no honest sweep would care to own kinship with them ? But history and a thousand pens have blazoned this everlastingly abroad , and has thereby , if we will but look sensibly at it , for ever unweaved all the mischievous mystery and proud pretensions of pure blood ; and satisfied us tbat if any man has an advantage in this respect , it is ho who possesses the benefit of want of evidence against him , and , be his blood what it may , can boldly say— " Let him who can
charge my ancestors with _wrong , do it ; but I myself can charge the ancestors of the highest boasters of high blood with crimes which ought to hare been visited by tha hangman or the axe . " We do not mean to assert thin melancholy truth , and ono which , for the happiness and dignity of humanity , has been too much overlooked , as affecting only our royal race , but as affecting all _rojal and all noble rates ( socalled ) whatever . You hare only to look through the most authentic records of any nation , or of auy family , to convince yourself that there is not a _dasceut of a thousand , no , nor oue of five hundred years , whieh is not crowded with such a throng of cruel ,
bloody , unprincipled , unnatural , murderous , covetous , lustful , traitorous , and godless monsters , as puf the bare fiction of pure blood to the utmost shame , and teach us that it is not in the past that we are to seek for tha honour of ourselves or human nature , but in the present , It is not from Savage and Ignorant antiquity , but from the civilised and christianised present , that we must win genuine distinction , if we aro to have it : it is not from others , but _fram ourselves . The course of true glory , like the course of population and refinement , turns not backward on the rising , but _^ owards the setting sun . It travels not eastward , but westwai _H . _—Hampderii HUlory of the English Aristocracy .
Brigands . Tke £ mail from _Corunna to Madrid was stopped on the 30 th ult . by a band of brigands , and all the passengers were robbed , One person l ( at 10 , 000 reals ( 2 , 500 ? . ) Mr . Macready read Macbeth to a large audience in the Mechanics' Institute , Manchester , on Tuesday eveninc . The sum realised by the institution was £ o 0 _.
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Robbery At, Thr Leeds Workhouse.— The Re...
Robbery at , thr Leeds Workhouse . — The relieving officers' rooms at the Leeds _Workhouse were entered last week , and a sum of upwards of £ 170 was abstracted from the desks in the rooms and carried _awav , There can be little doubt that the robbers had been well acquainted with the premises , and the arrangements of the offices , from these two facts : —First , the night chosen for effecting therobbevy was the one immediately preceding the pav-day , when , of _necessitj , they must have had a _' _Jar _^ e amount of cash in their possession ; and , secondly , no other drawers were broken open , except those of the two relieving officers mentioned . The Burglary at Ealing . —On Saturday , the young woman whose daring and singular rubbery of Mr . Jones , at Ealing , we reported last week , Was finally examined at the Brentford Petty Sessions , and was fully committed for trial .
Fire at a Coach Factory . —On Sunday morning the coach factory of Messrs . Witham and Co ., Lincoln ' s-inn-iields , was discovered to be on fire . The surrounding property was saved with great difficulty , and for some time it was feared that every building in the cifcv would be destroyed . The fire was not _extinguished until property valued at several thousaud pounds was burned . Fuse at tiie Victoria Hotel . -- A fire broke out at this extensive hotel , _Euston-square _, on Saturday _nij-ht , but , by the speedy assistance of a large number of the railway porters and constables , was extinguished before much damage was done .
Burglary at tub Manchester v > orkiiousb . — La » t week , some thieves broke into one of tho ollices attached to this workhouse in whieh the documents and papers are kept , evidently with the expectation of providing money , or articles of value . They were disappointed ; nothing but some bread and cheese rewarded their search . Attempted Suicide . —On Saturday a gentleman of Jong and high standing on the press , and who lias lately filled the situation of official assignee in the Bankruptcy Court , attempted todestroy himself . The circumstance occurred on Friday morning about eight o ' clock . The servant having called her master at the usual hour , he rose from his bed , but not having come down stairs , the maid , as was her custom in such cases , knocked again in about half nn hour , to learn if anything was wanted , lie replied that he did not want her at present . ... In about ten or fifteen
minutes afterwards , the servant again knocked at her master ' s bedroom-door , when she was told , in a weak and inarticulate voice , to come in . On entering she was horror struck to find her master hanging over the side of the bed , and holding his hand to his hand to his throat , in which there was a deep gash , and from which the blood was pouring in a copious stream . The surgeon found not only the throat cut with a razor , but a large incision also made on the left wrist of the unfortunate gentleman . Every possible assistance was rendered , and hopes were entertained of bis recovery . There are various rumours as to the motives which led to the rash act . One thing which may aid in throwing light on the causes which led him toattempt bis life , is the circumstance ofits having occurred on the first anniversary of the funeral ot his wife , to whom he was most warmly attached .
Fatal _Accident . —Three young men who reside at the New British Iron Company ' s works , Ahersvciian , went out for a day ' s _shooting on the adjoining mountain ; and on their return in the evening , upon _descending a steep road , Parfitt being in advance a few yards , Wandsworth and Arnold following , the hitter ' s foot slipped , and the trigger of the gun unfortunately caught in some part of his dress , the muzzle pointing towards Parfitt , the contents ( a heavy charge ) entered the poor fellow ' s back between the shoulders , and lodging in the heart and _luny _, caused death instantaneously . An Inquest was held last week at Iiemsby , Suffolk , on the body ofa miller in that village who a few days before had while employed in his garden , accidentally overturned a skep of hees . The insects attacked the intruder , and stung him so dreadfully , that he died a short time afterwards . The jury found a verdict accordingly .
A Few days ago a man , employed at the paper mills of Echarcon ( Seine-et-Oise _) , had his arm _caught by part of the machinery , and was drawn with his breast over the cylinder , highly heated with boiling water , and thus underwent the double torture of having his flesh burnt and his limbs dislocated . In this frightful state he lingered forty-eight hours , and thenexpired . Horrible Affair . —We have been informed that the master of the Ennistymon workhouse has been committed to Ennis gaol for having confined two little boys in tlie black-hole or refractory ward , and that having forgotten he had left them there , he found them dead when he went to look after them .- — Limerick _Reporter .
Suspected Poisoning . —A case involving a strong suspicion of _poisoning , which took place two years ago , has been discovered at Sutton-upon-Trent . The person , whose de _.-ith is in question , was a farmer of Garlton-upox-Trent , Taylor , who died on the 26 th of November , 1841 . Some remarks having got abroad relative to the cause of Vis death , orders were given for the exhumation of the body , and a jury was empannelled , which sat on Friday and Saturday last . From the evidence adduced it appeared that the deceased was unmarried , and that a woman named Elizabeth Smith / who was described as somewhat prepossessing in appearance , intelligent , and twentyeight years of age , took care of his house . In September , _ISii . Taylor was attacked more than once by severe illness , during which his housekeeper nursed him with great care , but he ultimately sunk
under the complaint and died on tbe day above named ; his disease , being , in the opinion of the medical attendants , ulceration of the stomach . After his decease , the woman Smith showed signs of much mental suffering , and at length confessed to other parties that she administered mercury to her master at two separate times , which she put in his coffee . It appears that a preparation of arsenic is frequently kept by the farmers to steep the wheat before sowing , and this prepaiation is commonly known among them by the name of ' mercury . " The witness who spoke to having heard Smith confess her having administered the drug , said that at the time she declared her only intention was to make her master ill , but not to cause his death , for which she felt great remorse . The inquest was ultimately adjourned that the contents of the stomach of the deceased might be taken to London for examination .
A Collector of tolls at Waterloo-bridge , who absconded with £ 25 belonging to ihe company , has been taken by the police at Chelmsford . It seems he had dissipated the whole of the money he ran off with , and on reaching Chelmsford , and finding himself destitute , he gave himself up to the county police , and confessed the embezzlement . He was handed over to the Metropolitan force . A Wealthy Thief . —Last week Charles Donellan , a labourer of East Ham , was discharged from Ilford thiol , where he had undergone an imprisonment of
twenty-one days , tor stealing some cabbage plants at East Ham . It seems that in this case poverty was not the incentive to his crime , for on bis being searched at the prison , the sum of . £ 95 in gold was found upon him , and also £ 2 5 s . in a little bag . It appears that he had , on the evening he was taken into custody , drawn the money from the Barking Savings' Bank , and we understand he also possesses £ 500 in the funds . He formerly kept a small shop , and was always noted for his penurious habits . — Essex Paper .
Narrow Escape from Suicide . —A determined attempt at _[ suicide was , on Monday , made by a sailor , named Thomas lumber , belonging to the Britannia East Indiaman , while under the influence of drink _, lumber , together with his wife , came home late , and about half-past four o ' clock in the morning , Webb , his landlord , was aroused by a loud kicking _noise in the passage , and on going down stairs to learn the cause of the disturbance , he found his lodger suspended by the neck with a rope , one end of which was fastened to the banisters . He was kicking and plunging about dreadfully , and his face was quite black . He was immediatel cut down , and
a surgeon was sent for , and after bleeding and the other usual methods had been used , animation was restored , and he was taken to the Southwark Police Court . The prisoner , on being asked wh y lie attempted so _ras-h an act , replied that he had received his advance note from the shipowners on the previous morning , and having got it cashed , he was spending it somewhat freely when he fell in with a female , who he accompanied to a house in Tooley-street , where he had more drink , and he believed she must have put some deleterious drug in it to take away his senses , as when he got home he thought he could not do better than hang himself , whieh he accordingly did .
_Seductio-s , Desertion , and Suicide . . —Bradlovd , Monday . —A case of a most deplorable and heartless character , which has occupied the attention of a Coroner ' s Jury for several days , was brought to a conclusion , this afternoon by Mr . Jewison ,, the Borough Coroner , at the Wharf Hotel . The circumstances are briefly told . Between six and seven o ' clock , on Sunday evening last , an infant , carefully wrapped up in a shawl , was found lying upon the bank-i of the canal . The suspicion being entertained that the mother ofthe child was drowned , the canal was searched , and the body of a young woman , named Elizabeth Smith was found . In the
excitement that prevailed in the neighbourhood , it was reported that she deceased had ( the previous evenin" ) had a quarrel with a young man , named William Mlis , who was the putative father of the child , and that the fatal result had arisen from this difference between them . Suspicions being ewtettavned of lvis being concerned in the deceased ' s death , he was apprehended and taken before the borough magistrate , who remanded _hhu until the result of the in _<** uiiy . The deceased was a native of Darlington , and worked at one of the factories in the town . Her only relation in tho town was a brother . Ellis had . paid his addressee to the deceased , who was aho _\ . t
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nineteen years of age , and the foundline rpiwT _'" was the result of their intimacy . II refused to ever , to marry her ,- and in _consequent 0 , t ' _--information , with a view of affiliating the off , ¦ ai 1 was obtained , and served upon him , and would I " ' been disposed of on Saturday . Ellis had DP acquainted with another young woman also _r " fcorygiri , residing * in lodgings in "Wellington .. . r _< vT and on Sunday the deceased saw them tegeth Subsequently deceased and Ellis met , but wifj ! transpired between them it is impossible to say f nothing was seen of the deceased afterwards unt _* i her body was got out of the canal . The prison * "* was present during the inquest , and conducted _Iiifo self in a manner to create the utmost indi gnation of those present . The Jury , unable to obtain any fa ,, ther evidence , returned an open verdict— " Thaf the deceased was found drowned , but how she cam into the water there was no evidence to shown The prisoner , on leaving the Court , was met hv ' „
large mob , who , but for the interference of the police would have _ir-flicted on him severe punishment . Tub Latb Mordek at Bristox ,. —The Brhuj Mercury contains the following particulars relative to the murderess and her victim -. —White , the _u ceased , was an Irishman , about thirty years of a- * dunngthe last seven of which he has acted as a con ! stable in the St . Phili p ' s division of our police * 4 murderess , Ferris , is a married woman , with tw _™ children ; her husband was formerly a carrier rp Siding in this cit y ; but about twelve months a « 'n in consequence of domestic disagreements , he sena rated from his wife , and went to reside at Mai hern near Chepstow , where some say he has a small d ™ perty . White lodged and boarded with lC _I'crris , and it is feared that an intimacy of an im proper kind ; had subsisted botweer _. them to im lousy arising out of whieh the dreadful crime _m-u
very _prooaoiy oe auriouteu . we are informed thaf there are circumstances in the history ofthe iiniiaim _* prisoner , and particularly in relation to her eon nexion with White , which make her , to some extent an object of commiseration . She was married afe the early age of sixteen to her husband , Ferris , and had by him three children , one of whom has ' since died . We are assured by these who had the means of knowing , that her conduct as a wife was unrxecn . tionable '; and that her separation from her husband rendered necessary by oontinuul domestic different _^ did not arise from any misconduct on her part . After he had left her , her mother and stepfather consultfil , _is to the best means of supporting her , and thev
tooic ana lurni . tiied the House in Lion-street , under the idea that , by taking in lodgers , she mi « ht half contribute to the support of herself and children In an evil hour for them both , Patrick White who had for a long time been acquainted with her ' went to lodge with her . He had before made overture *! ot an improper nature to her , which she more than once rejected , and there is loo much reason to be lieve that he accomplished her ruin by means of drugged liquors . After a time she became pre » nant by him ; and , it is said , in order to avoid the di 3 closure ot their joint dishonour , he prevailed iinon
ner to adopt means ior procuring abortion . What his motive could have been in pJyiV the two women with drink , on the day of his murder , and contrary to his habit , abstaining- from it himself ; can only be inferred . The remains of White were In . terred on Thursday afternoon , in the _bury- ' n' _- ' - ' _-round attached to the New Catholic chapel , at CJifton Notwithstanding that pains had been taken to keen thetime fixed for the funeral as secret as possible in . _fceillgence of it got abroad , and many hundreds of ' persons assembled in the neighbourhood of the _burying ground to witness the ceremony . Tlie chapel was crowded to such excess as almost to impede the performance ofthe service .
_Dhath froji Reckless Drivisg . —On Tuesday , a young man in the service of Mr . Wheatley , coach proprietor , at Greenwich , met his death under reck _, less circumstances . The deceased and several shop . _Yiif-Aes had been to a supper , two of them stopped to speak before they separated . A t the momen t a light chaise cart containing two individuals passed by at a rapid speed towards town , and before either could reach the footpath , they were both knocked down by the cart which the driver did not _. stop , but continued to drive at the same rapid speed until out of _si-dr _" - , One ofthe men was carried to the nearest surgeon ' s ' where it was ascertained that he had received a ' fracture of the base of the skull , a severe scalp wound , and other injuries . He expired a few hourj after . The other man is going on favourabl y . When the police were made acquainted with the circumstances , a mounted messenger went in pursuit ofthe persons in charge of the cart , but owing to the time that elapsed , the delinquents effected -their escape .
Cruelty to a Do . _mcey . —At the counly magis . trates' office , Rochester , on Monday , William Taj . sell , a blacksmith , living at Chatham , was chawed with having poured boiling water into a donkey ' s ear . The donkey , belonging to a wood-dealer , _ivai passing through Rhode-street , when the defendant came out of the forge , and , holding the animal b y ti . e ear , poured the water into _itjfrom the saucepan . The donkey , writing with agony , ran back some distance , and it became necessary to place it under the care of a farrier . The magistrates , after severely censuring the defendant for his cruelty , convicted him in a penalty of 20 s ., including costs . IThe wretch should have been flogged with a cat-o-ninetails . _l
_UETEnUINED ATTEMPT AT _SuiCIOE . —On Muluky the neighbourhood of York-terrace , Westminster , was thrown into a state of considerable alarm , in consequence of a report that a young man , who is connected with a respectable family in Gloucester _, shire , had committed suicide . On inquiry it appeared that the unfortunate gentleman , whose age did not exceed 28 , had been estranged from the society of his iriends , and had abandoned himself to indolence and dissipation . An allowance to the extent of _i _! 0 per month was made to him , which he regularly _receivecl through the hands of the legal advi-ers of the family , a solicitor of Gray ' s-inn . Some time ago he became acquainted with a young girl , a dancer at tha Opera , and who was known by the name of Ellen . She continued to live with him for some time , joining with him in his excesses on the receipt of the monthly allowances , which was soon spent , and tha remainder of the month they were often in a
complete state of poverty . About a fortnight ago this g irl received an authority to receive his allowance which , it is stated she did , and absconded , leaving her paramour in the greatest distress . He commenced selling what little furniture they had , the proceeds of tvhich he spent in drink , and on Saturday repeatedly said he should not survive it . No notice was taken at the time , but on Monday morning he not appearing as usual , his neighbours became alarmed , and the landlord ' s agent went to the rear of the premises and discovered the unfortunate man lying weltering in bis blood , which was fast issuing from his throat , in his bedroom . The doors were broken open , and the wretched being , who was alive , but perfectly insensible , was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital , when it was found he had inflicted so severe a wound in his throat , that although the carotid artery was not sepaiated , but little " hopes were entertained of bis recovery .
Alarmixo Firk xear Regent ' s Pare .. —On _Tues _« day evening , between the hours of seven and eight , 3 fire of a very alarming nature broke out in the residence belonging to Mrs . Needham , No . 12 , Stanhope Street , Park Place , Regent ' s Park . It appears that whilst the inmates were in the drawing room they were alarmed by the crackling of wood . Upon examination it was ascertained that the upper room was in flames . An attempt was made to subdue tlio flames by pouring buckets of water upon them , but the fire had already obtained a strong hold , and bursting through the roof the flames rose to an
alarming height . Information having been despatched to the stations several engines speedily arrived . Unfortunately , however , the firemen had to wait upwards of twenty minutes before any water eould be procured , and meanwhile the fire continued to descend down the staircase and through the flouring into the rooms beneath . Water naving at length been obtained , the engines were set to work , and the flames were by nine o ' clock entirely extinguished . The damage done is considerable , but , _fortuivifoly , Mrs . Needham was insured in the County Office . The origin ofthe fire could not be ascertained .
Serious Railway Accidest . •—On Sunday nig * '' last , an accident ofa dreadful character tcok p lace on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway , near Kendal , which is likely to terminate in " fatal consequences , A party of _sub-contractors and other persons engaged on the line had gone on a pleasure trip to Shap , a distance of about sixteen miles , to celebrate the completion of the railway , and for that purpose procured two _eBginea belonging to the cool " pany , we understand entirely without their consent . On returning , one of the engines went on in ii " ont _* > and arriving at its destination first , was inc _'*\* liott r left standing on the rails when the second ens" _^ arrived . A collision ensued which dashed the _tust engine to atoms , and dreadfully iniured those P _; _" _'* ™
who were on the latter , who were thrown ° V f'f " directions . One man , Smith , was dashed in _* _<> _ furnace of the engine , and dreadfully scorched am otherwise injured , so that no ho e remains ot " Jl - * covery . Another person had his thigh la ** ' ' and others were injured to a great extent . ' I ** gineer has absconded . The Dageniiam _ruRD-ER . —Three of the poli « e _»^ who committed perjury before the coroner ' s JUJ _) this case have been dismissed from the police The opinion ofthe law officers of the Crt _*«" _hppn talon sis to \ vhf > tVipr a _pnnvintion for P * _- _- ! . i
could be obtained , and these authorities have *•* , that it could not as regards the men Bulloy , * . and Stevens , because they were not on oatu _^ their first statement was made . As soon _»! yea opinion was received , the above-named cons . were dismissed from the force . W ith respect * " . _^ sons , lCempton , and another constable , . ° _* , _- has as yet been given , they , therefore , remain" _^ the same surveillance as heretofore : but , as { t _- _fen''e was committed out of the jur isdiction ' » _fl Central Criminal Court , they cannot be tneo _^ _, Xbc Spring assizes of March , in all P * _' obi _\^" , ; mva | result of the entire proceedings Will not W 1 VH until then .. .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 14, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14111846/page/2/
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