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and forward * , by Joseph Linne y and Thomas Ham . j _mertley . J . Totnra ikd 0 T __ U ~ -. lt wonldbe quite impossible « o . _jfte employmentto onr in every fifty , who apply to me fer work . The joiners' work is all contracted for , fcaK the parish is out of employment , and r _. i _ K * shareholder will not indnce _ ie to employ any on > _- ¦ whom I do not . . qn __ . _ -F ____ r _s _O'Coshob : Jo __» _M'Aixak , n ? ar Glasgow . —If his plan fer balloting was adopted , _tre conld notpurcha se one estate in tares yean . The present mode of ballot in by far the most beneficial to thecompany that conld be devised . A LOT-- of _¥ A _ ftP __ AT . _ I have stated before that I have nothing to do witb , and that the Land Company bas nothing to do with , Mc Stalls-rood ' s Benefit Society .-and as to its ban - headed , " Acxau-f to
the Natioxa _. __!•» Commst , " I have ne- control over _adnrtisemenis , nor am I responsible for their contents . — f ___ g _. s _O'Cokxo-. D _. _ttd _Sirr __ .- —JFr Raacombt ' t address is "Spring Gardens , Pall-mall , London . ' " _fiT We beg to remind our readers of the notice which appeared in the Star ot April _Wih . respecting a tea-tray _embellished uiih a view of O'Con _. nrvil ' e and other _ rn __ ments pnt up for public ballot at Bilston ; the proceeds to be applied for the benefit of ihe veteran patriots , and widows an 4 orphans of the political victims _» f _class-usuri'aiioD . The generosity cf the donor -f the tea-tray and the j _. atri * _- -c cx < rtinr . s of the Bilston D emocr _. ts should command an cquall * generous an . universal _mp _. nie on the part of the -Chartist public . Ibe Bah * * _, res . the O'Cossoetuxe t _ a Tkay . «_
_-ebaifnf thc Widows' , Orphat . s ' , _Teterrns' , and Victims' Fund . —To thc Chartist FuVJc — Prime ' s : We earnestly implore you to _considtr -he < _-bjtct to which the proceeds of tbe above ball « t are to be applied , and we f * el confident bnt little argumt _. t ti _ 1 be necesfai-T to indnce you to pive is yonr support . What true "Democrat but would feel consolation and pride in haviejr _ one bis share in placing those who have suffered , and are still suffering , fur the active part they or their relatives have taken <> n the b-Ule . -rld of liberty ,. f comfortable drcumsfancts . aud beyond the reach ot tyranny and opptession * How smsn _„ g : jrt _je necessarf to accomplish thi * -esiraMe object ! Tbe small sum of fid from each Land member and Chartist ( who can afford it , ) would yield a sufficient amount to place these victims on the Land , where they would enjoy the fruits of their onn labonr . and possess that freedom which they have _laboured to win f _*? r us . We
are sorry to say the abovsnam * . l pr _.-ject , altVoogb responded to by several individuals , has not , thus far , been taken np hy any locality . Thisu __ ccou _ tat . lt apathy in so _nierilorio-S a cause we _dwply deplore , and earnestly lug of the leading men in each locality to place it prominently before thtir meetings , ant srnd in their united subscriptions to Mr linney , High-Street , Bilston , as early as possible . Thoh-s _Alswxd . Secretary to the Ballot P _. S . —The time oi balloting is fixed for the 10 th o Juno . The following _subscrip-ions hava baca received up to 21 av 10 - —G . C Williams . London , 3 _subscriptions ; Wm . Ila _' " - lam , Bingley , 1 ; John _Yonnj _. Kilmsniock ,- ; F . KendeU . Brad _. rd . . ; A . Smith . _Heyt-ood . 3 ; if . _Dungicr ,
Ely . 2 ; Thos . _GiIUW _ k __ -.-, 2 : H . Tlnmb , Lambley . 2 : Jas . Tumbril , Wigton , 7 ; Wm . Alinutr , London , 2 : Hannah Stone , Dankirk , 1 ; Elias Hitchen , Hebden Bridge , 5 ; Geo . Hollo-ay , _KH _ ei _ ii n * tcr , fi ; Wm . Bri _ -bnr-. Smethwick . 1 ; James Douglas Bander 5 * Bicbard Hamer . K . tcK __ _Bridge . S ; Geo . _Si-nmcck _, " _Brishton , . ; G . J . Harney , London , 5 ; Geo . Shaw ' near Leeds , _; W . Sennet , Wotten-undtr- _ Mg « . , 5-George _Sturgess . Winchester , 2 ; William Cr-btr . e , Derby . 6 ; Jufcn Dibb . Dewsbury , 3 : FrancisTaughau , Liverpool , 1 ; A . _Ctareeon , _Paislev , 5 ; V . _ .. 22 BirstaU , 1 ; F . O'Connor M Kay , _ . - J . A- _ r _ - > _ Iin 5 ter f K * nt , 2 ; James Rcmaid _, Paislev , 8 ; W . Stevenson . _Spihby , 2 ; John Sidaway , Rouen ,. ; J * Sweet , _Sfottinsham , 5 . —Thomas _Atiosn , Secretary to the '' allot .
His- E--is . —Th _ _sfidrcsB of this ¦" victim" is "Emma EUis . Grange lane , Co-ridge , Staffordshite Potteries . " Notice—Persons _. csirons of _gratuitoas anvice ( _l . gal or otherwise ) mil oblige by payirg pos _aee , or other incidental _eipeoses , _ tten _ i _ _** the transmission of their commantcatioas . Oue parcel from Chichester arrived this _w-ik , pa- railway , with a _charge of one shilling and twopence . In future we shall return til . unpaid letters and parcels . _ . £ __ - __!__—AU the Sab-Secretaries of the _National Charter Associ _. tiun of the _Wcst-Bidin . of T « rkshire will greatly oblige by forwarding their addresses to "Win . Lacy , Cleckheabm , West Ridirg Secretary . __» S . J-qces . Bank Top , Darlington . —W . had not a copy left . _Ansner to _question ;_ H « w _ s not . G . Foc ___ s , Wellington , _SJop—On Wednesday , the trial was postponed till Saturday next . MrE . V ___ ., BristoL—We had not one left , or should hava sent it .
llr J . SKtviKGTON , Loughborough . —Four shillings and aipence is the charge to subscribers . This has been announced repeatedly . Mr J . Lowbt , Carlisle . —You are not to blame for the delay _^ the coloured plates . We have not yet been able to keep pace wish the demand . We trust we shall be able to 5-ppl j- most of the orders on hand during next week . __ E D-Hoif-r __ Tios to 0 ' -ow-asvn .- _ . — AUfriend « intending to visit tbe People's first Estate oh Whit Monday are informed that the several allottees will _ e happy to . apply hot water , tea , salads , & C l ata _inolerate charge . Poos __!___ GnjEDi _. y _SociexY .-Press of _mattfr com . pels the _p-stpo-tnient of s _notire concerning this us--ful institution . J . _M'C-ae _, Dundee . —Received . Yonr wishes shall be attended to . Send the inscription on the" box" a „_ other particulars .
To the Enrron or the Sokthebk S _ Aa _~ Sir : We have been directed to ccknowUdge the snm of one pound nineteen shillings asd rixpencc , r _^ cdved of _ITr _Wrn . Byd _ r , il . rt _ ern 5 /_ r Office , handed to bim on the part of the West-end District London Bootm _. _krs . by Messrs Park and _Joaes , ofthe _Xatnal-Assistant Assodation . The money , _aceordin- to the kind wishts of _t-ehnmane donors , has been forwarded to Ireland for the relief of those wh _» arc miserably suffering therenet to any of the aristncrat " c committees _havin-j a Marquis or an Earl at their head , with well-paid deputies _nnaerthf-m to di . charg _. those duties which they nominally assume , and so preventing a great portion of the funds generously contributed from finding its _* ay to the cabins of th- hunger and pestilence-stricken people , bnt to one in the soath , whose whole life of
efiantr , and wonderful efforts to raise his prostrate fellow-men , convinca *; us he indeed would rather add than diminish—we allude to the Very Rev . T . Mathew . * _Webaveah-o ehosn in the West another slmoner above suspicion—the Very Rev . James Hughes , Claremorris , Mayo , a gentleman who long previous to the receipts of any sums to enable him to relieve his famished parishiosers , parted niih his horse , his far . niture _. _a-d \ n _* _arables . To such men we _fi-arlesslY entrust wLatever we can collect for the unsheltered " , the hungry , __ d the diseased . We gladly avail onr--elveaof this opportunity of _retarninff yon onr best thanks for yonr kind notice of oar _procsedings—for Mir Ernest Jones ' s powerful appeal , in _MHtOH-street Theatre , _i-ifkroar of our subscription—and for yonr confidence In thus confiding to oar care the mon « y entrusted to you for distribution .
We arc . Sir , your obedient Servants , GEOSCEAH--D £ _ . Cjr , 1 „ . . J . S . £ _ _.-, / _Secretaries . Rnsbary Irish Relief Committee Rooms . Prince Albert Coffee-house , _Milton-street , gth May , 18-7 . Jfaj . _' - '" A _fi-faid in need is a friend indeed . ' ' — Old _^ _age . * —Fnends of nnmaniry , —In addressing those wnomItlmsdenominate . I restrict mvs-lf to _Republteaas . Radicals , or Chartists , a _^ it would be fruitless to see-the aid of the adherents of Faction . I am fullv aw .-ire thnt the Anti-Corn Law League have so far succeeded in ba -iboox-ugthepeoiaeas to leave a dearand a little l _. _i-if upon the labouring man ' s table-much less and much dearer than etthe commencement of their campaign ; yet there are those _amoncst us , still able to succour tlie needy , and help the helpless . We
have been maligned , by the greatest adept in vituperation , as bearing an inveterate hatred—a " Saxon" antipatby—towards our Irish brethren . I deny our ever baying evinced such hostile feeling It cannot find an -bi-iiig-place in the bosom ofa true Chartist . Itis r « - pngi _ uit to our nature and inimical to onr faith . We believe" the whole human race to be as one common family , _and'Mhewcrjd asone vast city , " and we care not _wht'ther a suffering br . _* t-er pine in _England street , in Erin alley , or on S beria waste ; * our _^ ympathy can wing its way alike to alL 1 blush to Own that England has been , forages , disgraced by _i-nling factions—Ride an * Tve men—who tare made us * appear before all the nations of the earth m » the chara . ner of a plundering banditti . Robbery , carnage , _desolation , and death , have ever followed in the train
ofthe " enterprising" English . Happy would K-avebeea for thepeople ofthe east , the west , the north , and the sc * uth , had England been a blank on the map of ereation . o r bad we , her enterjirisingsons , confined our adveuturi * within theshade of our own black-Daryoush . _Wemaj endeavour tbutinvain ) toremove the onus of guilt _fi-ont _« nr own _shonlderscthefactis _, the fall of Ireland is the work of au English government . As Poland is t . * * R _»* 5 * aa so is Ireland to England , conquered by blood and frand , and its vitals incessantly gnawed by the gory-bea . * n * Jt _ res of State . Ireland cries aloud for help . Fi * _aaine , pestilence , death inall its horrors , stalks alongh . 51 " * tree _* 5- Her sons are onr brothers in bondnge who tl . ns perish . Let us share qur morsel with the dying . "It _Mffiorebl « MJto . ' w * than to receive /* God forbid that we . _should litcomerecipiente , and so _circumstanced as - _^ _i _" - " of _Mand now are . 0 ! that I cou * d prevail ni _"onone now sick , bat _^ alas ! possessed of a petriSedlue _^ » _*^ _™* _-J tl 2
_ mean one who _it- _ _refeito * i _^ fe _ e . „ i ° _•?" idolued-one who was fedwitli 1 « * a _"JJJ _, _! " _*! , Wl 0 e on thelecS , likethebni _« . idolof _ **; _^ eg , n _ hec-rtai _) y -nder * - _ n . ' stheF 0 n _ in _ _P-Ttt » Pn- * _T his _sateUiteshave had much practic _* _£ _™ J _£ _2 _£ Theyhave raised the _Fnndstoancwi . _7 _fT _* tof _ - « which has proved a " sinking" fund to ' . , _ ? _ _™ Z piantry in the world . " It has sunk their _fflg j _ into a nonentity . Ireland now calls up < _u f _^ L _^ A ttunder-tones , to _practice _thecystem not yet :. ~ _** 51 _^ r She calls upon him to RE-FDSD . Should thi _^ _^^ _Z ¦ rator "< fj _ i _^ rgea portion of the very many th . _*^! _fT of pounds so eagerly swallowed from the t _^ J _*^„ trencher be would , doubtless , confer the greatest _^ "t his country ever yet rewired from his hands . But * _;* * i thele _. ipardh -snotchanged - i 6 !? pots , nortlieEtMopi . _^* his skiu , as the lion cannot yet lie down" with the lamb . I letpoor men help poor men . It is a noble example set I tiy tbe West End Boot and Shoemaker .. They have ) verified their profession as "Members of the Mutual I
Assistant _As-oda-on , " . Will other trades do likewise We shall see . Yours , trnlv , . London , May 13 , IU 7- Wu . Rider .
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T . _O-HrsarK . —B _« eeivtd . Tbank « . 3 ' . M-Kekkw , __ _lbar-hen . __ —¦ The Petition Sheets have been recaited and will be handed to the Executive . We cannot » ay when the _National Petition will beprese _ ted , but we donbt not that the subject is * n _. gaging the attention cf the Executive . Wit _GBAMHJoir . —Received . Thanks .
Lion . t _° g- Press of matter compels the poitp _»_ ement of a number of answers to legal questions . ' _JoH-f KiHOHt , Stockport . —Send me the copy of yo _. r gri . ndfather ' sK _ l , _andlth _ U then be able to advise you what to do . . A Burnt _Chakist . —A . can . rite for the rent owing by B . notwithstanding B . 's tenants may have paid him ( B ) . B . shonld either satisfy his tenants that he has paid his .-nt to A . , or allow them to pay their rent to A . , or at least so much as may be dne to A . _R . _ B—If the debtor duly pays the debt according to the judgment ofthe abolished conrt , no fresh proceedings c _* n be instituted against him in any conrt , William P _ ek _. _ , _Manchester . —Th * farmer had no right to nee the hay : under the conditions of sale he might
have re-sold it . If be refuses to do you justice , you mnst proceed against him ; and under the circumstances ofthe case . I think it wiil be the best to proceed only for the recovery of the deposit money , and which yon mnst do nndtr the Small Debts Act . S . B ., Leven . —If your society has conformed to theprovisions of thelOthGeo . 4 , cap , SG _, it cannot be dissolved , withont the votes of five-sixths in _Wiie ofthe members , and tbe consent of all persons receiving relief from tbs society . See section 26 . E _.-. tok ir List _Knx-. _s . —J . Cook , _Ilkciton , Derbyshire . —For " Mortgage Deed ( Princlpal , ) "read " Mortgage Debt . " KOTICE . —Mr Ernest Jones not having time for per-«» ia ! interviews with clients , begs that they will , in ths fiest instance , send him their cases in writing , drawn up in as plain and concise a way as they can .
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' LAMBETH . — _Lovb ahd _Att-mptw ) Soicid _. — Martha Hill , a yonng woman , was' charged with attempt . ingtocommit 8 elf-m _ r . tr , by swallowing a quantity of laudanum . It was stated that the prisoner had , a s __> -rt time _siuce , been about to be married to a young man , to whom she was much attached , bnt the match from some ahexplained ctuseha ' d been broken off , and this circumstance so operated on her mind that the present was the second attempt she had made at self-destruction . The prisoner ' s mother , a respectable-looking woman , wat on Mon _. ay in attendance , and not only promts * d Mr -Elliott fo t ake her daughter home , bnt to look closely after ber . Sbe was given up , after a severe adniOnit'on from the bench .
A _V-tT SlNGClA * _DlSCOr-ft- OP A N . T 0 _. -0 . 8 HoSSG asd _GtG Steales , —Henry Baynton , a middleaged man , who was said to be connected with , a highly respectable family , was charged with stealing several gigs and horses from the keepers of livery stables . in Berkshire and Oxfordshire . Sergeant Morton , an active ofiictr belonging to the P division , has been engaged for some weeks in endeavouring to secure the prisoner , but it was not until the night before that he succeeded in his object . From his owk statement , it appeal ed that while watching the house No . 9 , _William-strtet , Lotk ' sfields , where he suspected he was concealed , he distinctly saw through the window-bliuds the figure of a man answering his description , and having _satisfied himself of tbif fact he knocked for admission . The door was opened by a female , and , on getting in , he searched the house thoroughly , but could not find the
object of his search . Peeling perfectly confident thathe saw a man in the honse a few moments before , and feeling equally certain tbat he could not have made his escape , he ( Morton ) , insisted that three , females , who were in the same bed , should get up . They very reluctantly did so , and on turning over tbe bed and mattress he discovered the prisoner underneath , lying on the Kicking . Fn finding himself dcte . - d ,. the prisoner exclaimed , - . Will , jou have got me at last ; it ' s now all up with me . " The officer produced the "Hue and Cry " containing the various robberies committed by tbe _pristner _,. andsaidhe was ina situation , or would be in a day or two , to bring one offence , namely , that of stealing a horse and gig of tbe value of £ 50 , fron . Mr Collis , of the White nart Tap , Kewbury , Berks , on the 9 th of March last , home to tbe prisoner . The prisoner , who declined _spying anything iu defence , was remanded to a future day .
THAMES . —EXTBAOKDlNARY CHABOE OF M 01- > . » . — Gilbert Macdonald , a _sbip-joiner , about forty years ot age . was charged with the wilful murder of Agnes , his wife , w _ o _* died in the London Hospital on Monday morning . Thecase wasinvolved in some mystery , and the i - _ftRirtr-te had a difficulty In getting at the facts , in consequence of the ignorance of the policeman who had charge of the case . The prisoner , who has the appear _, ance of being a very dissipated man , lived with his wife , in ' _Rayraond-place , Green Bank , Wapping . The dc ceased waiulso a person of dissipated habits , and lived very unhappily . with her husband . They repeatedly quarrrlled _, and she _wai in the practice of taunting him and using very provoking language , for which he frequently beat her . A woman named Sarah Gray , who
lived in the room nndernrath the parties , had often interposed daring their quarrels , and protected the deceased from thc _violence of her husband . Tbis _witness described the prisoner as a tnest violent man when he was inebriated , but on the contrary , when sob r , he was particularly harmless and quiet , and had more than once requested her and ' others to keep him away from his wife when he was tipsy , for she was a very bad woman . He had repeatedly said thathe would be hanged at Newgate for his wife , and that she wasted his hard earnings . Thc quarrels of the prisoner and his wife had lately been more frequent . Three weeks ago the prisoner beat his wife severely , and said she had spent all his money . On Saturday , the lst inst ., the prisoner and his wife again _quar _. elled , and sbe absented herself from home ,
and did not return nntil Friday , assigning as the reason , that she had spent all ber husband's money , and was afraid of him . The husband persuaded her to come home on Friday night , but on Saturday morning , at one o ' clock , either through caprice on her part , or owing to some threats on the part of the prisoner , she left her owb room and came down stairs to the one occupied by her landlady , in which there waa a mangle , and crept under it . Sbe remained tbere until her hnsbnnd left home after breakfast on Saturday morning . On the afternoon of the same day , about halt-past two o ' clock , the _deceased was in ber landlady ' s room when h . r husband returned home . Ho was rather inebriated , but knew what he was about , and after some friendly conversation with his landlady , he began to converse with his
wife , and in a jocular tone said hehad bad his spree out and shonld go to work again on Monday , and bring up his lee-way . His wifo commenced abusing him , and although her landlady reqnested her not to kick up a row . she taunted her husband in a very foolish strain . The prisoner said that Mb wife ' s slanderous and provoking tongue caused ail the trouble and the rows between then . After a while the 1 risoner said he had money enough for a drop of gin , and invited his wife to accompany him to a public honse close by . They life the house together , nnd proceeded to the Anchor andHnpe in the _adjoining alley . Neither the landlady nor Mrs Gray , saw the man and his wife return home , or heard any more of them until about 5 o ' clock in the evening , when Mrs Gray hearing some one moan , opened her room door , and found the
deceased on the landing , at the top of the second flight of stairs , nnd close to her ewo room , weltering in her blood , Which was flowing profusely from her mouth , nose and ears . Mrs Gray raised tbe woman from the floor , and she faintly articulated "Don ' t let him come near me , I am dying . " Mrs Gray asked what her husband had been doing , and she said he had kicked her and jumped on her breast . The deceased was assisted into her landlady ' s room . She appeared greatly disfigured . Her clothes were torn and very bloody , and there was a severe wound on the side of the head , from whieh the blood was flowing copiously . It would appear , however , from the evidence of the landlady , tbat the excessive hemorrhage which took placearosefrom another cause , and itis supposed tfiat some intern al bloodvessel was raptured
by a kick , or by tbe prisoner trampling on his wife She was removed on a police stretcher to the hospital where she lingered till Monday morning , when deatb put an end to her sufferings . Directly alter the deceased wai found in the situation above . escribed . 'Mrs Hookham , th * landlady , and Mrs Gray , went into tbe prisoner's room . They found him lying on the bed , and informed him thai his wife was very seriously injured . He treated the matter with some indifference , and on his way to the station house said that his wife irould not appear against biro , and that she had fallen down stairs . There couli be no doubt the deceased received thc wonnd on her head , and other injuries , before she left the room , as no part of her body was upon the stairs when she was discovered by Mrs Gray . The prisoner ' s son was in the room when
the quarrel took place between his parents . He is only eight years of age , and with very little- intelligence . He was called np on thebencb , and some questions were put to him by Mr Yardley , but he professed his ignorance of a . future state ; and on being asked if be said his prayers , be replied that he did sometimes , bnt only to please his father . His replies generally to the questions put to him were snch , that the magistrate did not consider it safe to examine him . as a witness ; and it appearing that he had no . relatives , or any one to take care of him , Mr Yardley directed that he should be taken to the workhouse , where he would receive some instructions to quality him to take an oath . The magistrate inquired ol'Shechan , the police constable , if hehad made search for anv instrument by means of
which it was probable the wound might havebeen inflicted , and he replied in the negative . He was also asked if ho had examined tbe stairs and tbe room for the purpose of ascertaining if there wire any stains of blood discernible , and he said he had not , and excused himself by _saving there ' was no light . He was tben asked if hehad _erarai-td the prisoner ' s dress or his boots , and ho said he had not thought of doing so , and knew very little of the affair , _although specially directed by his inspector to make the necessary inquiries . Mrs Hookham , who exhibited more tact and discernment than the police constable , locked the door of the prisoner ' s room after he was taken into custody , to prevent anyone entering the apartment . Some time afterwards sbe procured a _lu-lit and examined tbe stairs and the landing , on which she
discovered a grcat deal of blood . It was quite fresh . She also stated there was a " clod of blood " oa thc floor by the side ofthe bed . She thought thc wonnd on the deceased's head had been inflicted by a kick , and tbat theprisoner wore very heavy boots . Mr Yardley directed Roche , the gaoler , to remove the prisoner ' s boots from his feet , which was immediately done . Tbere were stains of blood on both sides ofthe right boot , just above the sole . Tbe prisoner appeared to be _samewhat staggered at this discovery , aad he said tbere was no blood on his shoe , that his shoes never touched bis wife at all ; but Mr Yardley said there could be no doubt of tbe fact , and Mr Ross , a surgeon , who was present as a witness , said the stains on the boots were certainly those of blood . Mr Yardley expressed his astenfchment at the neglect
and ignorance ef the police-constable Sheeban , who bad neglected to da all those things which he ought to havt done , in a case of very great importance and involved in some mystery . H _** asked the _potfeeman if hehad traced any blood npon the stairs or in thu room , and tbe _exesse begot was that it was dark , and that he bad no light The old woman , Hookham , appeared to have acted from the dictates of common sense , a quality which the policeman did not possess , and she had done just what the constable ought to have done . Yarioui * other things ought to have _suggc ated itself to the policeman , who had done nothing , and made no inquiries about the affair . Mrs Hookham was then further questioned ly the magistrate , and she 3 tated that she believed the prisoner had kicked his wife , and her reasons for thinking so
were , that he was always very handy with his feet—very , indeed . All tke deceased ' s clothes were torn but her chemise , and she complained a good _dealjof somo pains about the abdomen . Mr Yardley asked how long it was before the deceased was sent to the hospital after she was found bleeding on the top ofthe stairs ? _Sheehar _. replied an hour or more . Inspector Bilston asked the police constable if he did not issue orders for the woman to" be removed to the London Hospital Immediately he heard of the affair . Sbethan— Y _. s , Sir , you did . Inspecter Bilston said that dinctly he understood the cast was a very serious one , he ordered four men to convey the womaH to the hospital on a stretcher , which was done without delay . Mr Yardley—Perhaps the _constable meang J t was an hour after s _ e received the wounds
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before she reached the hospital . : The , pr _iBpner : aiked Mrs Hookham if his wife did not return home bleeding very muchf . Un Hookham—No , no ; no such thing , Mr Yardley—Did any one see her return home with her husband ! Mrs Hookham—No one , Sir . _Sheehanwas thea called upon to veiato a conversation which took place at the « ac * o _ . -ouse . but he did it so imperfectly that Mr Yardley called upon inspector . _Bilson , who was sworn , and he stated that , after , taking the charge and reading it over to the prisoner , he said , "I struck her , but sbe fell down stairs , " Witness then questioned tke lad , who said , ' "He did jump upon htr . I saw my
_fatlur jump upon my mother and kick her , '' The prisoner again said ,. «« I did not , I struck her and she fell down stairs . " The prisoner , in defence , said his wife _ft-ll down stairs as she was returning ta her room in his company , and that after he went to bed she was _continually passing up and down stairs . She abused him very much , and was very , _tipsyi and she was always abusing him . Mr Yardley said this case was not so clear as it might have been if the police constablehad only display ed common intelligence , and that all thb witnesses who conld throw any . light on the transaction , must be . produced at ' the nextexamination . Heshould rcniand the _prisomr on the charge of wilful murder _until'Mondaj
next . An inquest on the body of the deceased , Agnes Mncd _< nald ,. was cor _. o ' uded " on Fridny , and resulted in , a verdict of Wilful Murder against tha husband , Gilbert Macdonald . .. ' , ' ' " ' MARYLEBONE _^ St ? alin . ' ; a _DiAMOHn Riko . —On Tuesday John Simpson , and Ann Simpson , bis sister-inlaw , wire placed at the : bar ' before Mr Rawlinson , charged with having been concerned in the robbery oif a diamond ring valued at SO guineas , the property of a ludy named Caroline Dawson Bruce Wetherilc _, desctihing her . * elf as the authoress ofa paraphrase of the '' _, - _¦' _PUgr ' _nt . Progress , " and other works , and who resides at No . 6 , Seymour place , Brjanstone . 6 qii . re . ' It appeared that on ' saturday last themale prisoner delivered at the house some coalB , and some time after lie was gone prosecutrix
missed the article from a troy in ber parlour . Information of fhe loss was given to the police , aiid hnndbiliB were also circulated principally _amengst the pawn _, brokers in the district . On the morning of Monday Ann Simpson went to the shop of Mr Thompson , corner of _East-street , _MniioheBter-square , and offered a ring for ¦¦ led ge , when the foreman , Collins , iiot being satisfied with the account she gave of it , detained her UBtjl the arrival of the prosecutrix , for whom he imm'diatclj sent She came down accompanied by Hesseltine of the D division , and on the ring being identified as the one stolen , sho ( the femule prisoner ) wan conveyed to the station house . The officer' subsequently took thc male prisoner into custody at the shop of his master , within a short distance ofprosecutrix's ' dwelling ' . ' John Simpson on being asked what he had to say , ndmitted having laken the ring and given it to his brother ; and the female prisoner said that the brother , her husband , bad given it to her to pledge . They were both ' cominitted . Atte )« teo _Stiicme or a _yodns Feka _. e bv Uai _^ _ok
A well-dressed young female , named Maria _Poulton , was charged with attempting suicide . B . Tralte , one of the Rcgcnt ' _s-park constables , deposed , that ' on the previous evening , be saw the young woman reclining upon a seat in the "Broad Walk . " Sho seemed unwell , and he toldher she had . better get up and make the best of her way home , ae he mnst shortly close the , gates / upoii which she remarked to him that sho was unable to rise , as she had taken sixpenny worth of laudanum , which she had purch-sed at three different places . Witness then took her to a surgeon near at hand , and subsequently to the . University . _pHrge ' - _Hospital . ' Her father , who had been standing by his unfortunate daughter during the recital of the above facts , and who seemed much distressed at her unhappy situation , was britfly addressed by Mr Rawlinson , who said , « ' I will not distress _either you or her by putting any questions as to tiie motives by which your daughter was actuated in this melancholy affair . You wish me , ' I dare say , to deliy . r her up into your charge . " The father said that that was what he _mpstearneetly desired .
An Ex-PoLicEMAN isr _ bo-B __ . — William Jones , an ex-police constahle of the Thames division , was charged with obtaining £ 3 irom Mrs Lydia Cherry by means of a forged advance note for seamen ' s wages . . Theprisoner cohabited witha young woman who lodged at the house of the pidsecutrir , Palmer ' s Folly , St _G-orge-in-tbe-East , He requested of the prosecutrix to advance £ 3 on a seaman ' s note purporting to be made payable by Sir Jebn Vander Rampte Johnstone , 27 , Grosvenor-square . Having with some difficulty raised the amount ,. she banded it tothe prisoner ; but when the note became payable , it was found that Sir John hud no connection whatsoever with any shipping ' department . Finding that she bad . been , impostd upon , she gave Jones into custody for the fraud . The prisoner , who seemed to make very light of the matter , said he would leave his defence in the bands of the counsel whom he should employ . He was committed to Newgate for trial .
MARLBOROUGHr STilEET . _—Damni _* , _Hobbebt . —W . Cox and Eliza Smith Were brought before Mr Bingham , charged with having committed the following daring lobbery . Sarah Ann Tanner , the wife ofan artist , living at No . 9 , Lloyd .. place , ' Brompton , said she had been to see her niece home on Monday , and was returning to Brompton , through Hyde Park , when she met with two _roraen and two men , who entered into conversation with her . When they got out of thc Park she was induced to accompany the four persons , whower « strangers to her , into a puHic-house , where she partook of some beer . The small quantity that she drank had such an effect on her that sbe became giddy , and soon lost all recollection . When she recovered her senses she found herself in a cab with her four companions , and on . inquiring : where she was , she was informed she was in the Haymarket .
The cab stopped , and she got out . Some one immediately pushed her down , aud Smith snatched her shawl from her shoulders worth £ 2 and ran off .. She gave an _ularm , and soon afterwards she saw her shawl at , the station-house , and the two prisoners who hnd robbed her of it . A boy named llatton , said he was in . the Haymarket between one and two o ' clock on Tuesday morning . He saw five persons get out of the cab , ono of whom was the complainant . lie saw one of the men give the complainant either a blow or a pasb , wbich knocked ber down , and he then saw a woman snatch her shawl off aud run _s-way . . * _iYitnee 6 immediately went in search of a constable , and gave him information of what he had seen . Police-constable Caught , C 1 . 0 , said , on being told that a robbery had been committed in the Hajmnr . ket _, he ran into Orange-street , and saw four persona in company together . lie followed them , and on finding be was noticed , and that an attempt was about to be made by tbe party to escape , he ran forward and seized the two prisoners . Cox struggled violently , and got
away . Smith threw a shawl away , which was . feet wards picked up and identified by the complainant , as witness was taking the prisoner Smith to the station-house , a man came up to them and said tothe prisoner "Keep it dark , L _' , and all . will be right . " Witness immediately knew the man to be the prisoner who had mnde his escape from him , and he accordingly took him into custody again , - The prisoner Cox said the constable had made a mistake . , He had not been in the Haymarket that night , nor had he been in the company of the prosecutrix at all that night . The prisoner then gave a circumstantial account of his . movements on Holiday night . He was a supernumerary at the Lyceum Theatre , and bad played in the Wood Demon on the evening in question . The prosecutrix said she was quite positive the prisoner was one of the persons with whom 6 he had been in company at the public-house . The _couet-sble was also positive of the . prisoner ' s identity . The defence of Smith was , that ) she saw the Bhuwl fall from the shoulders ofthe prosecutrix , and- she merely picked it up . Both prisoners were committed ;'
_HAMMBRSMlTH . _—B-rvtED Hoveb . —Four Irish ; two men and two women ,, from the county of Cork , who hed only been at _Kensington a week , from Ireland , _n-cre brought by the parish officers to be passed back to Ireland . . They appeared very anxious to return , and taid they _thousht there was plenty of work to bo got in England , but they found there was not . They said that with a great many more , they had money given tbem to come over , by a gentleman , v ho was a sea cuptatn . One of fhe parish officers told tho reporter that the two females , who were good-looking young women , twenty years of age , when asked in the workhouse to do some needlework , said they had never sewed in their lives , and when told to assist in tho washing , they declared they did not know how to do it , as all tlicy had ever done was to milk the cows .
BOW STREET . — Selmsq Obscene Books . — On Wednesday , Thomas _Biaeltoter appeared upon a summons before Mr Henry , to answer a complaint preferred against him uuder the 1 st and 2 ud Yictoria , cap . 88 , * ec . 2 , for having , on the 8 th inst ., exposed for sale to public view in his shop window , in . Wych-street , certain obscene publications . Mr Piritchard , solicitor to tiie Society for Suppression of Vice , attended to support the complaint . A young ' geutleman , named Short , having seen a book in defendant ' s window , the print and titlepage ofwhichleft . no doubt on his mind that tbe contents were equally abominable , waited at the Society ' s Chambers iii Lincoln's Inn-fields , and gave . information ofthe circumstance , ne then returned to the shop , accompanied by the secretary's _mannging clerk , and purchased it from the defendant , Mr Pritchard said that it would be unnecessary to call the defendant ' s landlord to
prove thathe was the occupier of the premises , as he Had already admitted such tobe thecase , in addition to which the shop was well known to the society for a consider .. We time . In answer to the charge , the defendant said that he never sold the _bookpvoductd . _' _as hehad a private mark npon every work of the kind ho disposed of . Mr Robert Neal , managing clerk to Messrs . Pritchard and CUett , proved that the defendant called at the chambers or Monday , and informed witness thathe had been summoned for selling some publications , thut he did not wish to go into court upon the subject , having formerly been in respectable circumstances , and if the society would forego the present prosecution he would clear his shop . Witness told hira he could not
entertain sucb a proposition , and that be could sot forget his having made large seizures at the same shop , and that on every occasion he hud faithfully promised to abandon r » ucli an abominable trade , at the same time referring hiin to the secretary , who told him that he was bound on behalf of tho public to proceed with the case . The defendant then examined tho print and title-page in front of the book , and again requested that the prosecution would be dropped , at the same time admitting the facts . -C- Henry _s » id there could be no doubt of the obscene character , both ofthe picture and the title-page , and as sufficient warning had been given by the seizures made nnder the directions of the Commissioners of Cu 8 t « m 6 , which seemed to be totally disregarded , he iaw
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reason for any " mitigation of punishment for such ai offence , and the _defendant should be committed to hare labonr for three months . ' .
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FO It THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRY ; ... u" _Cnioii for tlio Mim _^ _n In another week from the day on whicli this paper is published , many of our Association ' s members who are elected as delegates to represent their respective branches at the ensuing Conference , to be held at Birmingham , on Whit-Monday , the _2-ith inst ., and following day , w _^ htwe proceeded from their homes 011 that important duty , and others will be on the eve of their departure ; consequently they camiot . generally be expected to see any remarks which might be _., made on their approaching duties , in next week _. paper . Under these considerations
we shall steal a march upon time , by calling the attention of delegates fo the subject , in the present number . Far be it from us , in the capacity we now exercise , to > suppose that our numerous members are likely to act inconsiderately ' in the " selection they ¦ maUe .: 6 f representatives , by electing delegates who require instruction from us to fit them for the discharge . of the duties they are appointed to perform ; on tlie contrary , tve hope that every branch of our Association has seen it their duty to select , as far as their capabilities would permit , delegates possessing the'essential qualifications of intelligence , philanthropy , integrity _. discernmenf , and general good feeling—men whose object in responding to the call of their fellow
. -iera-ers is not to gratify their own private , feelmgs ,, but to promote the utility ofan institution which is founded on principles of philanthropy , and seeks " . ' benefit not only its own members but the whole human race . But ' while we deprecate ; cvery idea ofa dictatorial character . we bear in mind that there arc comparatively few . persons who on being temporarily removed from their usual occupations , and required to consider and decide on numerous complicated and interesting subjects , -with which they are not practically familial ' , and which are of such importance as to merit the _' serious attention of the many thousands of persons composing our Association , and who , on considering the serious
consequences and bitter reflections that might result from ah _Erroneous decision on any important matter , at such a critical juncture as thc present , when the Association ; though yet in its infancy , is attracting the attention of numerous persons fn various classes of the _communify;—we say that there are comparatively few persons who , under such circumstances , would not feel in a great measure overcome by a sense of the great responsibility they had incurred by their appointment , and perhaps be led to entertain fears of their inability to discharge the duties of their delegated trust with equal credit to themselves and satisfaction to their constituents , and to the ultimate success of the Association . A
conference composed of delegates of this character are likely to arrive at correct decisions , as their deliberations may reasonably be expected to be calm and dispassionate , and their decisions the result of conviction , after all requisite points have been impartially heard , and duly considered . However inexperienced some may be " on matters of public business , if they ardently wish to promote the great objects of our Association they will , by the exercise of good feeling and patient hearing of the
statements that will be made during the proceedings , and a common-sense view of the subject , will be prevented from going far wrong in the discharge cf their duties ; It will he requisite for them fo bear in mind that while _rsw _& i good that has heen attempted by the Association has been effected , and ha 3 _exceedf-d in results the expectations of . the Executive Officers of thc Association , that such success has not attended every effort that has been made . Some cases have been attended
with circumstances of such a character as to prevent the same results that , have followed in others , and some ofthe circumstances were unforeseen . In all such . " cases , however , the delegates will require to remember that mortals cannot command success , even though they may do their utmost to deserve it . The Conference is the legislative assembly of the Association , ahdthe central committee and agents are its executives . A certain degree of discretionary power is necessarily vested in the latter , and all they can do in the exercise of that discretion is to be guided . by the best of their judgment , taking all circumstances concerned into consideration , it is
also the duty of the delegates in Conference to take all circumstances into consideration , and to give the executive officers credit for having done their best , according to circumstances . By the exercise of those . feelings any unsuccessful result ' s that may occur from the proceedings of either the Conference or the . executive officers will at all times be turned to good account , as the circumstances which produce disappointment will ever operate as a caution in future proceedings , and , unless such feelings be exercised , the good that tlie Association is capable of effecting would ever be subject to be retarded , as no proceedings ' could be pursued vigorously and satisfactorily if the parties moving therein were to be
subjected to . unpleasant reflections should success not attend their efforts , or should they not receive credit for the best motives in their proceedings . We hope these brief remarks will have the desired effect , and those delegates who from inexperience iu public business , or from excessive sanguine expectations , may be . led to . consider that uninterrupted success should attend all our proceedings , will notbediscouraged ,. or be led to use any useless or painful reflections in cases in which the results have not been followed by ordinary success . We deem these remarks necessary as a precaution , not that we anticipate any manifestation of recriminatory feeling in any of the unsuccessful efforts to which we allude , but , knowing as we do that some may be appointed
as delegates who may , from not being practically familiar with the difficulties attending public business , and knowing the success that has attended our efforts generally , be led to expect more than is possible fo achieve , and finding that some cases have not been so successful as others , may be * . ed to the use of useless reflections thereon , rriiich , while they could do no good , might do much harm . Our Association is yet in its infancy . ; it has been instrumental in doing immense good , and doubtless it will do all that is intended , if the proper means are adopted - hut patience , and good feeling , and forbearance , in cases of disappointment , will ever require to be exercised in our Association as in every other institution . .
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The central committee of . the above Association held tlieir usual meeting on Monday , T . S . Duncombe , Esq . M . P ., in tbe chair . The minnles of the pluvious meetings were read and confirmed , the financial accounts read and received , An immense number of letters were read , amongst which was one from the miners of Darcy Lever respecting a proposed reduction , and the men would be out in a few days . The central committee resolved to send down Mr Williamson to mediate between tbe men and their employers . The central committee have since learned that Mr W . succeeded in effecting an amicable arrangement .
The delegates elected to serve on the Conference of the United Trades' Association are respectfully informed that the * . ; are requested to deliver in tbeir credentials , aud receive admission cards , at the Hall of Science ,. Lawrence-street , Birmingham , at ten o ' clock on the morning of _Whit-Monday , The President will take the chair at three o ' clock inthe afternoon . SCOTLAND .-GHEENOCK .-On Monday evening a public meeting of the coopers of this town and Port Glasgow was held in the Free School-room , when Mr Jacobs delivered a lecture on the National Association , for the purpose of confirming the new members , and converting those tbat remained isolated . A vote of confidence was nassed in the
Association , and a number of members entered . A vote of thanks to the Lecturer and the Chairman , and the meeting adjourned to Thursday , to elect delegates to the Conference . DALKEITH . — On Tuesday evening a public meeting of all the trades and woiking classes generally was held in the Public Hall , to hear a lecture on the National Association ' s means of protecting and enriching the Labourer . The missionary , Mr Jacobs , thoroughly expounded the question iu all its bearings , in an interesting manner . A vote of approval of the plan was carried unanimously , aud a provisional committee elected to organise the town . The usual voles of thanks were passed , and the meeting separated in revived spirits .
GLASGOW . —On Wednesday evening a public meeting of the carpet weavers was held in their room , at Tradeston , to hear the plans and progress of the National Association explained . A vote of confidence was passed in the Association by this branch ; the question of strike amicably arranged ; and an increase of members has been effected . BUSBY . —The missionary attended the officers of the block printers , representing 300 members ,
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who , after the explanation given by Mr Jacobs , agreed to . call . ' , a meeting of the body and other trades at the earliest day the lecturer could attend . " . BARRHEAD . —A public meeting of the trades was held in the Free , Kirk School Kooni ; a sprint . ling of the female power-loom and other worker were present , when Mr Jacobs entertained them with a lecture fraught with facts conducive to their well-being . A committee consisting of spinners , printers ,, weavers , shoemakers , tenters , smith ' s , _mouid-TS , miners , and other trades , was formed to organise their bodies in the Association . GLASGOW , Saturday Evening . —The district committee met and agreed to commence a series of district public meetings , to enable the lecturer to further publish the plans of the Association . tbat
NETlIERl'ON . —Mr J . W . Parker reported , on Monday he attended ' a _ ic . t'ting . of the horse iiail-nirikera and blast furnace-men , at the Dog and Duck , Darby Hand , to explain the principles and objects of the Association , which he did after his usual manner . A deputation attended from the _vice-m . _ikei's of Dudley , ' _whi . expressed themselves highly satisfied with the National Association _^ and would , on , their return toltheir body , _uso ali their influence and persuasion witha view to their joining immediately . They were exceedingly anxious for a general meeting of the trades of Du _. ley . _bt-iiig called , as they were assured that every trade in Dudley would unite themselves irith the United _Tivides , were tlicy made _acqtmin ted with the glorious objects ; _bui the _enragements of Mr P . prevented him from Axills ' a time , but referred them to the central committee , who would _sladly comply with their wishes in sending an agent for the purpose . ' - '
BROMSGROVE . —Mr Parker also attended a meeting of the nail makers on Tuesday evening afc the Townllall . The Rev . —Villers , the vicar , a relative of Sir R . Pcel' . _** _, was nt the meetin ; , likewise tho lush bailiff , and several of the gentry and tradesmen of Ihe town , also a great number of females . The Rev . Vicar is interesting himself with , others ofthe town , in preventing children ofan early age being apprenticed to the nail trade , many of whom , at the age of fourteen , become _jp-irneymen—thus creating early marriages and otherwise miVitaurig against the improvement of their mental faculike _, and creatin _» a numerous progeny . Ou Irs _advising tho nailers to abstain from apprenticing their children
at so early an . age , he was met by the statement , that the wages tiiey _receivrd ( the maximum being twelve _shiliini's per week ) prev . nted them , in fact , they were not able , to support their children out of such wages , therefore were compelled to put ; them to the nail trade , in order to enable them to support them . Tbe rev . gentleman waa astounded at the statement , and declared that there must bo _something wrong in society ,. that such a state of tilings existed , and assured them he deeply sympathised wi : h them , and would doall he could to alleviate and improve their condition . The nailers promised to take into consideration thc views as set toith by the worthy vicar , and carried a vote of thanks to him amid loud cheers . Mr Parker was then called
upon to state the principles of the National Association , which he did at great length . Votes of thanks were passed to T . S ; Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., the Northern Star , and the Missionary ; and a resolution , approving of the United Trades' movement , and- their determination of supporting it to tho utmost of their ability . After a vote of thanks to the chairman , the meeting , a very interesting one , was dissolved . MANCHESTER . —Mr Parker attended a meeting ; of the disf net committee and nas appointed one of a deputation to wait upon Mr G . B . Clarke , of Hope Mills , Pollard-street , who , three weeks ago , reduced tho hand-mule spinners and the self-acting minders 10 per cent , and ; since a further reduction
to the extent of 35 . per cent ., the latter reduction will affect the self-acting minders at tho following rate : •—The price they hare been receiving was seventeenpence per thousand hanks , now reduced to thirteenpence ; they can spin twenty-one _thou-iand hatks per ; week , which will make a difference of sevea shillings per week in wages . The reduction of the hand-mule spinners is to one and ninepenee per thousand hanks , the amount originally paid being two and sixpence—being a reduction of ninepenee per thousand . The amount usually _spunin a week is twenty-two thousand , making a reduction of sixteen and sixpence per week . In some cases where these men are employed at two off pair wheels , thereduction will effect to the extent of double the above ammiif . The spinners in the above department have to employ a certain number of piccers and scavengers , who
receive their wages from them , not the millowner , therefore they would be compelled to reduce the wages ofthe piercers and scavengers also , were they to submit . Mr Parker and . another sent in a respectful note on Friday , soliciting an interview with Mr Clarke , who conceded it . On meeting that gentleman , they stated tbeir object : he wished to know if they were in his empley ; on being answered in tha negative , he asked by what right they presumed to interfere between him and his hands . They endeavoured to reason with him , but it was no avail ; he said if the United Trades did not like the price he could afford to give his hands , let them , the United Trades , keep them ; he would have nothing to do with the United Trades , hor would recognise any such body . The dcputatiMi tried their hardest to persuade him to forego the reduction , but he would not listen to them for a moment . When he
informed his hands of the intended reduction , he made use of these words— " You have doneitnow ; I am obliged to reduce you , _beci-usc you bave been signing petitions at thc corner of the . streets for the Ten _Honis'Bill , it is all your own doings and Lord Ashley ' s ; you see what it has brought yon to . " Thia millowner was not csmpeiied to reduce his hands on account of a heavy stock , or the high price of cotton , because he has sold out all that he has made ; but his hatred to that beneficial measure , the Ten Hour . ' Bill , induces him to wreak his vengeance upon the poor factory workers . Mr Parker will resume his labours in Sheffield on the 17 th inst .
One thousand ef the spring-knife trade hare paid their first month's levies as tbeir adhesion ; one of the results of the former visit .
Trades'movements. Roc_Da__ Card-Room Or-...
TRADES'MOVEMENTS . Roc _ da __ Card-Room _Or-samvES . —The following is an extract from an Address issued by thc Rochdale branch of the _Card-roc-m Operative ' s' Association , ofthe Northern Districts , to the public : — " We are induced to address you in consequence of the position taken by J . Pilling and Sons towards their hands , endeavouring to compel them to sign a vile document against our union , in order that they may with ease reduce our wages to thc lowest miserable pittance . The handsknowing thata redaction would be thc result ,, refused to " sign •'' the consequence is , they are driven to walk the streets ; we , therefore ,
deem it the duty of every humane being to pour m their support for those who have fallen a sacrifice .- — Friends , we earnestly solicit the support of the shopkeepers and gentry of Rochdale . Parties contiibuting to our support are cautioned against giving to any but those who have the word " Justice" stamped on the collecting Books . " By order of the Committee . " To the Joursetmbn Boot and Shoe Makers op Chatham :, _Rocuestfb , and Stroud . —A special general meeting of Ihe above trade wili be held at tha Rose , _High-street , Chatham , on Monday , May 19 th , at eight o ' clock in the evening , to take into consideration the propriety of joining the United _Tradea * Association .
Tub Darmstadt Factories . —The Second Chara _* berofDarmstsdt has decided that children under ; nino years of age shall not be allowed to work in the manufactories children of from nine to twelve may be authorised by the police to work for a period not exceeding eight hours each day , and those _between twelve and sixteen may work ten hours . Ia the course of the debate on tlie measure it was stated that there are more than 10 , 000 children employed in the manufactories inthe Grand Duchy of Hesse * Darmstadt .
Alleged Cowardice Of Thk American Troops...
Alleged Cowardice of thk American Troops in Mexico . —The New Orleans Topic gives a _vi-ry explicit statement of the cowardice of portion of the Indian aregiments at the battle of Buena Vista :- » * ' While the enemy ' s cavalry bad been pressing ita way around tbe mountain , and just as they wera ready te attack the Americans in the rear , the Indiana regiment turned upon its proper front , and commenced an inglorious flight . The efforts of Col . Bowles to bring it to its position were in vain , _and over hills and over ravines they pursued tlieir shameful career , to the great delight of the enemy , who rent the air with shouts of triumph . Several officers ol -encral Taylor ' s staff immediately dashed off to arrest , if possible , . the retreating regiment , and restore it . again to reputation and duty . Major
Dix , ofthe Pay D . parttuent , formerly of the 7 th . Intantry , was the first to reach the deserters , asd _seeing the colours of thc regiment appealed to tha men to know whether they had determined to desert them . He was answered by three cheers , show * iBg that though the men had little disposition to become heroes themselves they were not unmindful of au act of distinguished gallantry onthe part o £ another . A portion of thb regiment immediately rallied around him , and was reformed by the officers . Dixthen led thera towards the enemy , until one of tho men volunttered to take the flag . The party re- *
turned to the field , and thou . h not in time to repair tho disaster which their flight had caused , to retrieve , in a slight degree , the character of tha state . " At another stage oftho battle , it is said thathe Arkansas cavalry rode afc full speed to SaltiiJo , and reported General Taylor in full retreat ,- and during the very hottest ol the fight , " says the correspondent of the Topic , " while every effective man was wanted in the fields , hundreds , some say thoufandsot volunteers , had collected in therancho , with the . waggon train , whom no ' _efforis orentreaties could induce to join their brethren , neighbours , and liiend then hi the last struggle for death or viotory .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 15, 1847, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_15051847/page/5/
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