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      . The Northern Star. Jtjne 21 184§

      . THE NORTHERN STAR . _JtjNE _21 184 §

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      ' _''^ _JK _^ bF _lAW _jC _^ stus .. VI . The house met at five o ' clock . _Vondav next J _^ _JSSSSSSSSSS _^" _is-as _sasssSK _SnS « f tne doU . es _made for and « x , rn bythe _•^^ r v _anaoiiersxverfe not -made at the warehouses and _wotS-ops of the master _taUors , bnt _-wcrcgivenouttobe finished at the workman ' s own home , and that the places

      where the journeymen tailors lived were filthy unwhole some dens , wherein the garments on which they worked were likely to acquire some mfecthras , or at all events come noxious qualities . The petitioners stated that the cause of their complaint arose out of the system of emploving middlemen , who contracted between the master and the journeymen tailors for the work to be done , and also shared the profits arising from the latter ' s labour between them . The noble "" Marquis observed that every person who became acquainted with the facts complained of had the remedy in his own hands .

      The Bishop of Cashel presented several petitions from the _clergy of Ireland , complaining of the system of education as practised in the _National Schools . In his opinion the National Board of Education was a signal failure , and had only tended to increase the amount of ignorance in Ireland . The plan he should recommend was that of the Church Education Society , which provided for the Mfiriinal instruction of children under the superintendence of the parochial clergy , and he trusted this plan would find favour iu the eyes of her Majesty ' s Government-Thc Earl of St . Gebmaxs defended the "National Board from the charges of the _llightBev . Prelate . To say that ignorance had increased during the last ten fears in Ireland was a most extraordinary proposition , md one quite unwarranted by facts . He should oppose he proposition ofthe Bishop of Cashel , because it would -ive great offence to thc Roman Catholics .

      The Marquis of Nob ; u _> 'b * _t bore testimony to the ad-. _niraMe system of the Xational Board . The Earl of _"Wickiow insisted that that hoard ivas a ¦ Mtal failure ; and complained of the neglected state of die Irish Protestant Church , which he thought should be bronghtinto closer union with that in England . Lord -Moxteacix expressed his gratification at the statement made by theEarl of St . Germans respecting the Xational system , and deprecated the introduction of any new scheme of education into Ireland , where it was plain that the plan new in force was the only one practicable . lord _CtAscinrr hoped the Government would attend to tliese petitions , as he knew of nothing more fatal to the interests of Ireland _ilian ilie _National system .

      The Archbishop of Dublin hoped flie existing system would not be changed . _Xolhing could be more erroneous than the notion tliat it had failed ; the time would come when the public mind would be disabused , and thc merits of the Xational system acknowledged . lord STASinr declared the firm intention of her Majesty's Government to maintain the existing system , which had hitherto worked well , and from which he _expected the happiest results . The Bake of Wellington explained , that , although he had many years ago been most adverse to a system for the joint education of Protestants and Catholics , he had ever since that system had been approved by the Legisla ture earnestly supported it , and , as a law , done his best to carry it ont He exhorted the Irish people to follow this example , and declared the impossibility of making grants of money to the other religious sects in Ireland if the Boman Catholic , which ivas well entitled to be called the national religion of Ireland , were excluded .

      The conversation then dropped , and their lordships adjourned . TncEsniT , Jvsr . 19 . % Their lordships assembled at five o ' clock . The Schoolmasters' ( Scotland ) Bill was read a third time and passed . The Bishop of Dublin moved the second reading of the -Bishops * Patronage ( Ireland ) Bill . The Marquis of _Claj-bicakde moved tliat the second _seading be postponed until the 30 th instant . The Earl of _Wicklow opposed the amendment . Their lordships then divided , when tliere appeared—Contents ( for the second reading ) 35 _Xon-conteuts 19 Majority —IC *

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      _JlOrSE OF _COMMONS , Tn-sDAY , Jot 17 . The house met at four o ' clock . Petitions werc presented from _Siafi ' ord , "Lancashire , Aldcnnaubnry , _Haddersfield , Bury , Ashtcn-under-Line "Rochdale , Halifax , and _oiier places in favour of a tes hoars' _laoour hill . Mr . C . _SuLix-a commenced public : business by bringing cndei * ihe _disrassioc of ihe house a string of eighteen _resclntio-as relating io the policy pursued towards the colony of New Zealand . His task , h _£ said , would have -bee-slight if lei-ad only asd to rail thc attention of Parliament to tie sail- £ tie _y _^ -a * "Sealant ! Company sad ihe _GoverniMnt * bat ihat _eass of private v- _? _ong _-svas _mcrgeil in ihe greater pnblic mischief perpetrated by Ihe Col-mial-omce in lis mismanagement of Xew Zealand .

      The colonization cfXcw Zealand , after it had been successfully _commtuced by the New Zealand Company , had "been marred by the interference ofher Majesty ' s Government , and a large body _ofen-dgrantshadbeen cruelly , in some cases and in all cases fatally treated . He called upon thc hoase to contrast the scheme of colonization adopted _tw the Xew Zealand Company witli that pursued by the Colouia ! -oSce ; and if he coald make out that the plan of the Company was the most advantageous for the colony , and was founded on the soundest principles , and was best _calKiSated to relieve the destitute population of England _, and to create a £ ourishing and industrious population in jfew Zealand , then only wonld lie ask the house to enforce / or _iheXcn * Zealand Conmanv fhe agreement , which he said that it had a rig ht to have carried into eflect hy

      her Majesty's Government . After . pointing out the great importance of Sew Zealand in a national and political point of view , and thc fair f . eld which it afforded for sbe tlertlopmcnt of the capital and labour of England , he _shi ~ e £ ' Ax ii at the time when it was first colonised , strong _nsi-izs existed for colonising it regularly , lest it should xe £ < uos ised irregularly . The whole of the native _populiarc eid not exceed 100 , 000 souls , and they were principsSy concentrated in the northern parts of the island . _Wts . that a circumstance which ought to prevent any ether coimtry from colonising the southern parts of it , which were almost totally unoccupied , or the northern parti , which were almost all left uncultivated ? Itwas wicked to deny the rig ht of civilised man to cultivate the wilderness . He was hound , however , to treat the savage

      with kindness , and to communicate to him the advantages of nU own civilization . He showed that the "Sew Zealand Company in their attempt to colonise that island had never attempted to pillage the natives , but had made them an aninle compensation for the land purchased of them by setting apart for them a certain reserve of land after it had been brought into cultivation . The Colonial-office , however , thought that its duty was discharged towards the savage when it got for him a large price for his land , and had not taken any measures to apply it to his future amelioration . He then entered into a minute history of lie injudicious proceedings of the colonial authorities in Kew Zealand , from the time of tie conclusion of the treaty of Waitangi down to the present time . He vindicated the conduct of the New Zealand Company ,

      * _nd showed that their settlements haa been tonnded on a scale « " li _*? erallt } - "" fend munmcence hitherto unhnown in the "history of English colonization . The question of gam had always been a very subordinate consideration with them , as their principal object hadlbeen -merely io protect themselves from loss whilst engaged in diffusing the arts ar . d industry _rdo'Jg with the laws and language of England . "Whatever _jcajoni-y they had expected to encounter , tliey never _e-qiected to meet any from the Imperial Government . He admitted tbartheirletters to lord Stanley had "been very long , and perhaps somewhat deficient in respect ; bnt lord Sfmley ought not on that acconnt to have allowed his temper to have overcome his sympathy for so numerous a body of ik _countrymen as had embarked on a svstem of _emigraticr . in "Sew Zea .

      land . AH that those people asked ior w . _-v > to be allowed to continue their toil unmolested ; but _oim-ial jealousy and petty resentment _!&« so warped ih ? _misxA _r-f _^ 'o _? _ishipthat he had given his approbation to measures wiiich had marred aH their _protj-ects cf inters success . He then entered into a discussion of the land question between lord Stanley and the -lew Zealand Company . He contended , in the words of the select committee of last session , that the Kew Zealand Company had a right to expect -to be put in possession ly tbe _-iJoveTnnient with the least possible delay of fhe number of acres awarded to them , and that the Company had that right as against the state of the Crown , without reference to the validity ot etherwise of its supposed purchases from the natives , all

      claims derived from which had "been surrendered . After condemning in ihe most severe and pointed terms the conduct of Lord Stanley in having repndiatedthe engagement into which Lord John Bussell had entered , and in having broken his own , he called attention to the fact that the New Zealand Company , after expending - £ 300 , 000 of its own , and £ 800 , 000 more on credit obtained from the public , had not yet obtained the grant of a single acre ofland . Its capital was exhausted ; its proceedings were _suspended ; and , what was worse , the unhappy emigrants liad heen deharred from all access as owners to the land which they had purchased with hard cash in England . The crops which they had raised as cultivators , had been set oa fire , and their lives had been menaced :

      and when they had applied for redress to ihe _CcOonial ofiice , that redress had been coldly _andhc-artli-ssly _refused . They now apprehended a _scleral _xoassaert : and Captain Fitzroy , on whose eccentric eondactheadtsadvened with great _veheme- _* _ce , had _proiiilcted ' . " iieai frem aiming to _dc-$ _nd _ibc-isjelves . The policy of that officer , who ought never to have b . - . _i sent out as the Go _** _-irr . - ; i-of such a colony , had _isw-iu-d tiie New _Zealasdc-rs with overweening fSiSdence , :: r . 3 _c-ur _cousr _.-ymtn with Scree rescntmc :-.: ar . d tie _ci--i-e- - > _-J-- _--ice v . _r-i ! d he that thc _first would perish trader tiie aitac" _" :. - * of the Itiit , as they would be iw more in the hands of _Sn-n ' _shmtn titan mere children in the _i-ands of full grown men . The war , of whieh no oae conld _ion-iso the conse .- _* uC-nc ? , _«? .= already hog * : ? , _rcr . _vvtthe two rates , and if it conthvtcd , v . o _lo-at- ttac ' . . ould elapse fccfoieth ? couctry weald hear :-ews _i-. _; - _nccring it -whieh . ; t _.-U is ' --lwmaniiy _aiadder . _Harin-roecupicd nearly ton-hours in -riving what hi- called the " _tenory of ils war of the C _.-l-. nirJ-office against thc latest English » - * _.- £ ? . he espre- . _* ea ! ih deep rerret tha : lord _Stas-cv

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      had put down tiie most promising experiment of colonisation that had ever been attempted by England . It was just what he expected from that noble lord ; but it was at the same time that which he called npon the house most decidedly to condemn . It was its duty to show the country that the despotism of the Colonial-office was not uncontrolled , and that the grievances of its children inforeign lands were certain of redress when regularly brought before it . He then moved tliat the house resolve itself into a committee of the whole house to consider liis eighteen resolutions .

      Mr . M . Moses seconded the motion , and contended that Mr . C . Buller had made out a case for the interference of the house . He eulogised the munificent spirit in which this attempt at colonisation had been made , and showed that it had excited the greatest admiration in foreign countries . When he saw that Lord Glenelg had discouraged this project of colonisation , as well as lord Stanley , he could not think that it was from desperate wilfulness , but from some prejudice which haunted the Colonial-office , that this generous proceeding had been thwarted by the present Colonial Secretary . ' He excited the commiseration of the house by reading a letter from a gentleman ofhis own rank in life , and who hadleft Wakefield for Uew Zealand with all the appliances necessary to render emigration successful , in which he stated that his louse and crops had just been reduced to ashes , and that he and his family wcre Bring in daily terror of their lives from the threats of the enraged savages around them .

      Mr . Hope commenced his observations by defending lord Stanley from the unjust aspersions east upon him hy Mr . C . Buller . He denied that his lordship was influenced by any hostility either to colonisation or to the Sew Zealand Company . His lordship had entered into the discussion of this subject with that company in the spirit of perfect fairness - and as a proof that he had done so , he ( Mr . Hope ) read a resolution of its directors , signed by Mr . Somes as chairman , offering their acknowledgments for the generous spirit in which his lordship had doue justice to thc objects of the company , and their cordial thanks for his readiness to concur in their measures for the Government of New Zealand . He then defended the policy of the treaty of AVaitangi , aud contended tliat the right of thc Crown to land in New

      Zealand did not arise so much from the right of discovery as from the cession of its chiefs . He next proceeded to vindicate lord Stanley from the charges of fraud and deceit , and of dereliction of duty , wliich had been preferred against Mm because he had made thc company's title conditional on their proving the legal validity of their purchases of land from the natives before the island was a British colony . He showed that the construction put by lord Stanley on tlio agreement of November , 1 S _10 , was correct , and denied that lord John Bussell had ever given an unconditional assignment of land to the _coin-paiiy in pursuance of tliat agreement . He was not prepared to justify all thc acts of Captain fitzroy , but he was convinced that in many cases Captain Fitzroy did himself injustice by the

      scanty information which he sent home . He thought that Captain Fitzroy had done his best to put the company ' s settlers in possession oftheir lands ; and to justifythat opinion , he read several documents which had recently come into the possession of the Colonial-office . In reply to the allegation that the Colonial-office was chargeable with all the disasters ofthe colony , heinsistedth . it they wcre mainly attributable to the hasty proceedings of the New Zealand Company in taking possession of that island without authority from the Crown . The unfortunate massacre at Wairau arose from the transactions forced upon tlieir agent by the precipitate conduct of die New Zealand Company in seeking to obtain possession of a disputed piece of land . He then proceeded to give an account ofthe state ofthe colony according to the latest

      advices which the Colonial-office had received . Mr . C . Bulkr had furnished the house with au account of it , resting on the authority of Dr . Evans , which had excited general sympathy and commiseration . Dr . Evans left the colony on the 7 th of December last , and he ( Mr . Hope ) had information from it up to the 19 th of February . Up to that date no collision had taken place between the settlers and the . natives , and no apprehension was then felt with respect to the designs of the natives . He had seen a gentleman who left Auckland 011 the 25 th of January . The settlers and the natives in that district were on an amicable footing , and no collision was apprehended . At the Bay of Islands some disturbances had occurred ; but , on the whole , hc felt justified in declaring that the apprehensions entertained by Dr . Evans wcre not realised two months after his departure from the colony . It was true that Captain Fitzroy had sent for troops , but he declared at the same time tliat he did _iioi want them for active

      operations , but ior the maintenance of order , considering tliat tlieir presence would not only encourage the loyal , hut would also discourage the disaffected . After admitting the responsibility of the Colonial Department for the actions ef Captain _Pitz-oy , and after regretting that in some instances he had shown himself deficient either in judgment or in temper , he mentioned it as a matter of jusi exultation to that gallant officer , that the colony was already able to support itself , and was even beginning to pay its o ? i _* n expenses . He then entered into a consideration of the various resolutions proposed , by Mr , C . Buller , _soA _saiu that he could not oe _infiuccd to give them liis support . Ji * the assent of 6 _orenunci > _t to this motion wonld pacify the different parties in New Scalane , he weald willingly agree to it ; but convinced as he was that a declaration on the part of the house that the Crown had a right to all the waste lands of that island would combine all the native tribes in one vast conspiracy against us , he must protest on "behalf of the _Governtiieiit agaiusi thc course now proposed by Mr . C . Buller .

      On the motion of Captain Kous , the debate ivas adjourned . The other orders of the day were then _difposed of and the house adjourned . WEDyESDAV , Ju . VE 18 . Jir . _O'Comiau . asked if the Courts of Common law Process Bills , three in number , which stood upon the paper , were brought in by the Government ; and if so , whether lie Irish judges had been consulted as to their provisions ' Sir JiMEs Gkaham said they were not Government bills , nor was Government responsible for them . They were under the cave of the hon . member for Cork ( Mr . Serjeant Murphy ) . Mr . O'Conxell . —A very good reason for getting rid of them ( greatlaughter ) .

      Mr . Serjeant Mubpht . said he had just heard ihe words " getting rid of , " and did not know whether they were applied to himself or the mils ( a laugh ) . They came to him from the House of lords , with a desire that he wonld conduct them through the house . Finding , however , that they were unpalatable on the other side of the house , he was most desirous to wash his hands of them . Mr . O'Consell then moved that they should be committed that day six months , whieh motion was agreed to , and the bills were accordingly rejected . On the motion for resuming the adjourned debate on Mr . Butler ' s motion , relative to New Zealand ,

      Captain Rons went into a history of the proceedings of the New Zealand Company , which he commented upon in terms of unqualified condemnation , and concluded by moringasanamendment , "Thatthe ) treatyofWaitangi , in accordance with the directions of the Marquis of Normanhy , approved by lord John RusseU and confirmed by her Majesty , should be inviolably maintained ; also , that the conduct cf the New Zealand Company , in sending out settlers to New Zealand , not only without the sanction , but in direct defiance of the authority ofthe Crown , was highly irregular and improper , * ' * Mr . Agliosbt entered into a defence of the New Zealand Company from the attacks cf Captain Rous , which wcre , J ; e cc-stcnaed , _founded on misinformation . Ir . order to _enable the gallant officer to form a more correct judgment , he _wodd le happy to place before him every document without reserve in the possesion of the New Zealand Company .

      Mr . _BiSHi-sv said he was at all times desirous of supporting the policy oi the Government , jet could not avoid voting against them in the present instance . He should be sorry , however , if his support ofthe motion ol Mi * . Buller should be construed into a want of conndence in the Government . Sir . E . H . _Iseus contended that this country had r . o righ : vihaiever io colonise New Zealand , especially after -having recognises it as ati independent state , He defended the missionaries from ihe _chai-gts _maue against 1 h « a fc » IM . - . C . Buller . _3-fr . Hawzs contended ' . hr * all the evils of ihe coloEy were attributable to the course pursued by the Colonial OJSce , and that the remeilies son * proposed by the Government would not prove efficient . They would find that eventually they must establish a strong local government , founded upon representation , in New Zealand .

      SirH . Dooci _^ s strongly _aiged the iic _; essity ior maintaining inviolate the treaty of _Waitaag :. The _faihwe of the company was so signal that hc hoped the _Govcrnwjnt would raise New Zealand into that higher des : _ription of colony whieh was governed by representation , as the only remedy for the existing evils arising from thc errors of the Company . lord Howies agreed that the most likely remtdy was to apply the principle of self-government to New Zealand . The policy hitherto adopted was faulty , and thus believing he would vote for going into committee , though he could not support the resolutions without- v _^ ry considerable qualification . The noble lord then contended tliat there must have been bad government in New Zealand , for in those portions of the country belonging to the New Zealand Company affairs went on pretty well up to the period when the Government interfere : ! , a : n 2 ir . those parts with wiiich the Company had nothing _whatever to do , matters were much worse than ia any other parts ef the colony . The deb . ire w . - . s again adjourned .

      TncKsnAv , Jn ?*** - 9 . The _Spr-iE-ar . took thc Chair _sliorJ ? before four o ' clock . s' _-otch poor . lav . In _nnswi-r to a _f-wstiou from Mr . Fox Mr .: _tiC , Sir J . « ' } v . f .: x . \\ _v . Wl that , in the { ibscnee ofthe Lord . Vlvocsi ? , be cnu 1 ' _1 not say whether it vv . iV ! be possible topr _ococd - _-l'h the Poor Its ; _Vili for _j-coi-a ! -. . _' on _Monday ne :: t . sew 7 r . \ i . \ ssy—7 v . T . Ai ; jy ; T .: ' _- £ ii _r-ir-AT" . Mr . _EiLicF . opened thc debate ,. He ' . _lo- ' _-iht m the course of a long experience—nearly _•** years—with the colonies and colonial _admislrsitinn nf t * iis empire , hc had never seen such a want of _ftresidit , * _-y ? _'fem , and common sense as had been exhibited by tlic Government since the commeuceni ; e _* of _thc-se . _N-:-w Zeaknd transactions . He did think it w . isthc duty of the authorities cf this coimtry to have _izken care

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      that the settlement of strangers in that island should i have been made as little irksome to thc natives as ! possible . But instead'of that , the Government of this country had made confliction parties of thc missionaries and the New Zealand Company , and the New Zealand Company against the missionaries , and all these differences onl y tended to defeat the object it should have been their duty to promote . ( Hear , hear . ) In fact , to hear this question spoken of as it liad been in this house , one would scarce believe that they were In an assembly of reasonable men . When we had acquired a colony , it had been the acknowledged principle , that all the land which was not in the occupation of the natives , I or of persons to whom they had made real transfers

      of it , should be considered the property of the owner . ( Hear , hear . ) And supposing it were otherwise , still for the good of the natives themselves , for the advantage of the colony , and for the general benefit of mankind , the Crown should assume tliat right . ( Hear , hear . ) His right honourable friend the member for Oxford had spoken in higli * , he would not say exaggerated , terms of thc labours of the missionaries . But yet it could not be denied that there had been on the part of some of them an attempt to add to their duty iu spreading Christianity , too ready a yielding to the temptation to acquire property . The way in which everything hitherto had been done in the island was to mar prosperity , and to destroy an infant and promising colony . ( Hear , hear . ) But it was not his desire to discuss the misfortunes of the past , but he had risen rather to inquire the intentions ofthe Government for the future . Did they

      mean to continue the island of New Zealand a penal colony , and govern it as such ? Are the people not to be allowed to govern themselves ? and was it intended to establish any , and if so , what institutions , there ? He contended that the subject ought to be considered , divested of all acrimonious feelings . Let criminatiou and recrimination be put an end to , and henceforth let all endeavours be made to avert the evils which had been bi ought upon Now Zealand by a miserable line of policy which had brought that wliich might otherwise have been a flourishing colony to the briuk of ruin . The house was afterwards addressed b y Mr . Mangles , Mr . Sheil , and Lord John Russell , in favour of the motion , and by Mr . Cardwell , Sir James Graham , in defence of the Government and against the resolutions , when , after a brief reply from Mr . C . Buller , the house divided .

      For thc Motion 172 Against it 223 _ Majority against it ¦ 51 Ihe House then adjourned at half-past two o'clock

      Friday , June 20 . After a lengthy discussion on Railway matters , the house went . into committee on the Customs Act , and Mi * . E . Buller moved the repeal of the duty on tallow . The Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed the motion , as the whole disposable surplus revenue at the command of the Government had been already applied to the reduction of the import duties on various articles of general consumption . After some discussion the motion was withdrawn , the resolutions were agreed to , and the house resumed . On the motion for going into committee of supply , Mr . Williams rose to call the attention of the

      house to the condnct of Mr . Twyford , the police magistrate , in refusing bail for Mr . Meyer , who was recently comniitted at Bow-street for an assault on his brother-in-law for seducing his only daughter . The hon . member went on to say that the instance to wliich he liad called the attention of the house was by no means a solitary instance of misconduct . Scarcely a week passed but that something occurred to bring the conduct of magistrates in question , and this was mainly attributable to the laxity with which instances of misbehaviour were dealt with . The

      hon . member , after some further observations , concluded by moving for a copy of the correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Home Department and Mr . Twyford , the police magistrate , in reference to his commitment of Mr . Meyer , an inhabitant of St . Marylebone , to Newgate , for an assault , under circumstances of gross provocation , after his refusal to accept bail for liim , although tendered to any amount . Sir J . _Giuhaji repeated his former explanation , and refused to produce the correspondence , and the motion was then negatived without a division .

      After some further discussion , the house went into committee pro forma , and immediately afterwards adjourned .

      Case Of Svicide Prom "Utter Destitution....

      Case of Svicide prom "Utter Destitution . — A lamentable case of suicide occurred in Back Milkstreet , Bolton Moor , on Wednesday last , committed by John Haddock , a handloom weaver . An inquest was held on the body at the Lord Nelson public house at three o ' clock in tlic afternoon of the same day , before John Taylor , Esq ., borough coroner . The appearance 01 lus house was exceedingly miserable _, _aiui tbe attention of tiie jury was also drawn to another case of distressin a cottage near the reservoir , occupied by a man named SharpleB . There sat , as

      tliey entered a young woman pale and sick , almost in the last state of consumption , . ami occupying the only chair in the house . " How arc they for food ?" inquired cue , and upon examining the pantry , the _exekmation was , ' Why , there ' s not a pennyworth in the house!—there ' s nothing but buttermilk . ' '' The young woman was not in a fit state to converse with _, and being the only person present , without further ceremony the jury proceeded up stairs and there found not a single article of furniture save and except two miserable straw pallets , thinly covered ; one being on the floor and the . other upon a rickety old pair of low bedsteads , and the sheets having the imprint upon them "Lent by the Society of Friends . ' The jury , on their return , met the visiting officer of

      the Poor Protection Society , who promised to inquire into the case . The man , it was said , earned six shillings a-week "by handloom weaving , and one of the family of four children 4 s . Cd ., out of which rent , taxes , food , and clothing had to bo provided _. In these days , when handloom weaving has to meet the competition of mechanical power , it is astonishing that men will still continue * to cling to it ; for it is next to impossible to do anything but starve under the influence of such a rival ; but some are with a trade as with the soil , they will not leave it . On the return of the jury thc following evidence was given : —Robert Whittle , of Rotkwcll-strcet , weaver , deposed , that he had known deceased about eighteen months , and had worked as shopmatewith him about

      three weeks ago . About an hour before I cut him down ( eleven o ' clock this morning ) he came into my cellar , and asked my shopmate ( John Moscrop ) , if hc had an old pipe he could give him . He gave him one . I did not notice anything unusual about him then . He simply said to mc , "How are you ?" before he went upstairs for the pipe . In about an hour afterwards his wife came running shrieking into the house , and said he was hanging in the stairs . I took a knife from the table and three of us ran in , and I found him hanging in the stairs from the rail . His feet did not touch the stairs , and he was quite dead . Tliere was chalked on the room floor the following , and I know it to be his handwriting : — " To my wife—fare thc well to see thc starve i cannot

      endure and my family—be mindtul of my son and call it name William so fare the well . As _lou <* : as life is misery death his pleasure—to starve is pain , and * _-K < _jnwf & mil 5 _stavvcisatoraenttto it no longer . And I cease to exist by my own hand . " Catharine , widow of the deceased John Haddock , deposed that she had been acquainted with him three years . Jle w . ts a muslin weaver ; and we ivere married a fortnight before last Easter . We then lived in Little Bolton , in lodgings , until three weeks ago , when t ? o removed to our present cottage , belonging to Thomas Ptostron _, Back Milk-street . We have two pair of . looms , and two winding _machines , and a double box lathe , belonging to the WW , whieh the overseer is charged with . The other furniture

      consists of a small table , two chairs , a- cradle , pan , a few pots , and an old bed made of straw . My husband has earned 5 s . Gd . during the last three weeks , and the reason he has not got more is because he has beeii fitting up ihe looms . We received 2 s . from Mr . Kenyon , thc relieving officer , the week we came into the place , and that , witli the 5 s . fld _., is all the money we h : ive had to live upon since we went there , and out of that wo _r-nid 2 s . 9 d . to tho landlord . I have had no meat oh credit ; but I have pawned a dress for 2 s ,, a aannel shirt for 3 d ., and ] got 39 . upon a bundle containing a shirt , chemise , and two of thc girls' frocks . 1 am certain 1 have had no more money during that period—making 10 s . 0 d . for the time , which was a month yesterday . I went to Mr .

      Hash-mi ' s warehouse , at Lark-hill , for whom wo worked , this morning , to borrow 2 s ., and their man refused to lend it . On my return I found him hanging in the stairs . He sent me for thc 2 s . about cloven o ' clock . Wc had potatoes at dinnci ' yesterday , and at tea time dry bread , but nothing since . Wc purchased half-a-pound of mutton called "bits , " on Saturday , for twopence . On Sunday we had no breakfast . At dinner we had potatoes ; at tea-time we had dry bread , and nothing e _' . se but water in the house . We have had no butter this fortnight * , nor sugar for three days . Wc have lived the same way ever since . We drank cocoa instead of tea , because it was only twopence for a quarter of a pound _^ Wc had no supper on any of those days , I set him some bread this _inomi' 12 , ' ami vnme cocoa , but he said it was so dry

      he couid not _cai it . Wc have not had sufficient meat at any time whilst wo have been living here ; although he hr . _i been steady nnd working _havtJ at the time . 1 never saw him drm- lr .. When ho desired me to go to borrow the 2 ** .. lie said hc wanted his breakfast—lie _rou'd not _worJ : .- ; -Vjut meat . I was upstairs at ten o ' clock , P"A _tl . cwrhing was not upon tho floor then . I . v . - * emvinced helm hung liimself Irom destitution , ar . d rothim : else . —The Coroner summed up , and the . my returned the following verdict : — "Tbat the _ikcc-iscd hung himself in a fit of temporary ¦ _leiwirremeni , _owa-noncd by poverty and extreme destitution . " The "omncr gave thc widow of deceased a _sovei'c ' : _'' ! , and Mr . Hostron _, her landlord , returned her the-s . 5 M ., the amount of rent which tl . ev had _alvcad" paid . — Bolton Free Press .

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      Mansion House . - Tuesday.—Charge Or Fon...

      MANSION HOUSE . - Tuesday . —Charge or FonGERY . —A foreigner named Jean Deomer was brought before the lord Mayor , charged with forgery . Ifo . Clarkson , the barrister , appeared for the prosecution . Mr . Michel Schott , a merchant in partnership with Sir . F . Vf . Paas , and trading under that name , ssated that in 1843 the prisoner was a confidential clerk in the house , and about October or November in that year witness left town for Antwerp , leaving in the prisoner's hands some blank bills for use ia thc affairs of the house , but for no other purpose , and tiie prisoner had no authority to negociate them upon any occasion except as related to the bnsinesss of the firm . ( Here a bill of exchange for 5000 francs was produced . ) Witness gave to the prisoner a bill conformable to that bill , but it was not filled up by any person in the house , wliich had had no transaction with any person referred to in it . "Witness knew none ofthe persons mentioned in the bill . He was present when the prisoner was apprehended . The

      prisoner had absconded , 'flie bill for 5000 francs was produced atthe office between the 12 th and 15 th of May by an individual of the name of lhitehelor , who brought it for discount , but the house did not choose to discount it . Mr . _llatchclor gave the address of No . 63 , Regent-street , corner of Vine-street . Subsequentl y the house agreed to discount the bill if they had permission to send it to Antwerp . They accordingly sent it thither , and ascertained that the parties were respectable , but desired to know more about one of the indorsements . They , however , gave Batchelor £ 05 upon account of it . Policeman No . 118 stated that he went to the lodging of the prisoner , who made a desperate resistance , and endeavoured to free himself from all restraint . Witness , finding that the prisoner refused to open the door of his room , sent for a carpenter , who , with his tools , broke it open . Tho prisoner had placed his bedstead against his door , and defended himself with a poker and other instruments , with which lie struck the witness . The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next .

      QUEEN SQUARE . Thursday . —Attempted Murder . —Jane Walkev , 17 years of age , was charged with the following deliberate attempt to luiu'der her sister , a girl tiro years younger . — Mary Walkev , the complainant , whose right arm was bandaged up , and who exhibited _n slight cut on thc forehead , said that she lived with her parents , at No . 26 , Little Chapel-street , Westminster , At about four that morning , prisoner came there , aud having roused her from her sleep requested her to get up , aud go with her to her lodgings , at 10 , York-terrace . Her father being afraid that prisoner would create a disturbance unless her wish was complied with , recommended complainant to go , and she accordingly dressed herself and accompanied her sister . On arriving at the house prisoner told her to get into bed nnd go to sleep , and whilst she ivas doing so the accused left

      the room , " observing that she was going to sit for a little while at the street door . Complainant in a few minutes fell asleep , and was awoke by feeUng a knife passing across her throat . She immediately jumped up , and found tiie prisoner , who declared that she was going to cut her head oil * , standing over her with a large table-knife . She struggled for some time to get the weapon from her sister , during which x > risoncr tried to _c-ut her _tliront , aud in putting up her arm to prevent her doing so , the latter became severely cut . Complainant succeeded in wresting the knife from prisoner ' s hand , who immediately rushed to the table and took up another ; but the erics of tlio complainant having brought a man to the spot , she was prevented from using any further violence . Complainant said her sister was in liquor at the time , and added that she received the cut on thc forehead in the course of the

      struggle for the knife . A large table-knife was produced , which prisoner had taken away from her father at tlic time she went for her sister , and had some blood upon it . Prisonar in answer to the charge , said that sho was iu liquor , and did not know what sho was about at the time . The prisoner was remanded .

      MARYLEBONE . Tuesday . —A Member of Parliament Drunk and Disorderly , Assaulting the Police . — - A gentleman , who gave his name Mr . Alexander Oswald , and said that he was staying at Thomas ' s Hotel , Berkeleysquare , was charged before the sitting magistrate , Mr . Long , with having assaulted a police-constable of the D division . It was whispered by several persons in court that the defendant was a member of Parliament , and on our reporter referring to a list of members he found the name of the defendant as being representative of Ayrshire . Spiers , the constable , stated that on the siime morning , about one o ' clock , he saw defendant leaning against the railings in _Connaught-squarc , and vomiting ;

      another gentleman was standing a short distance off . Witness went up to the defendant and turned on his light , wheil he ( defendant ) exclaimed , " You scoundrel , what do you do that for ? " and threatened to report liim to liis superiors . Witness added that defendant , who was much the worse for drink , kicked him in the hinder part of his person with considerable violence . Defendant , in answer to the charge , denied that he was at all intoxicated , and said that at tho period when the constable found him as described he felt unwell through smoking a cigar ; he admitted liaving struck the oiKcer _, whose interference upon the occasion hc thought was quite unnecessary and unwiled for , Defendant was fined £ 3 , which he immediately paid .

      MARLBOROUGH STREET . Tuesday . — Infanticide , — Mary Ann Pouite : * was brought before Mv . Maltby , charged with having caused the death of her illegitimate child , The prisoner , in her defence , urged that when the child was born it foil out of her hands , and was so injured by the fall that it died immediately . She was committed for trial . * Wra . _vj-SDAr . — Plate _IIoxiberv Benjamin Morgan was brought up for final examination , charged with stealing some articles of plate from the residence of Sir John IiOwthei ' , Xo . 32 , _Grcsvcnor-sqnare . Mr , Maltby sent the case for immediate trial at tho Cenlrnl Oriminni ewt .

      SOUTHWARK . Monday . — Attempted _Suicidjj . — Mary Crowley , a girl of fifteen years of age , was brought before Mr . Trail on the following charge - -Policeman 251 M stated that , on the preceding night , the prisoner called at several chemists' shops in the Borough to try and purchase arsenic , whieh she said was for the purpose of killing vermin , but was refused tobe served at each of the shops . He ( the policeman ) followed her from the last shop , and as he suspected from her conduct that she intended laying violent hands upon herself , he went up , and having spoken to her , she made such an admission with respect to the poison she was trying to procure , that instead of letting her walk away in the direction of the river , to which she was approaching , lie look her to the station-house , at which place she candidly confessed she had made up her mind to _destroy herself . Jfr . Trail npon seeing the girl at once l'eCOgniged her , although SO young , as having " been brought up before him a short time since , on a charge of liaving robbed a man of his watch in a brothel . On that oecasion , as no prosecutor appearedhe discharged herbut

      , ; from her account it would appear that the treatment she experienced at home from a mother in-law was the cause of her absconding , and , subsequently , leading an abandoned life . But he ( the magistrate ) advised her , as she seemed desirous of returning to thc paths of virtue , to make application for admission into the asylum for the reception of such unfortunate outcasts of society , but instead of taking his advice it now appeared that she was endeavouring to procure arsenic to poison herself . The defendant said that , agreeably to the magistrate ' s directions when she was last there , she called at the asylum he mentioned , but they would uot admit her as the board did not assemble until the following Monday ; that , tired and disgusted with such a life , aud not knowing what to do , she intended to have destroyed herself with poison . Mr . Trail , on finding the uiifortnnate young creature still anxious to reform and lead a virtuous life , sent an officer ot the court with her to the Guardian Asylum , in the lietlmiil-green-road , an excellent institution for the reception of young females in her destitute condition , into which she was admitted .

      BOW STREET . Friday . —Eytensive Rodbery at Buckingham Palace . —Jolm Taylor , a cabinet maker , residing at 7 , Gillingham-street , _Vauxhall-road , was brought before Mr . Hall , charged with stealing a quantity of plate , and other valuable property , from Buckingham Palace . Mr . James Edward Seymour , 38 , Long-acre , being sworn , said , on Friday evening , the 13 th instant , between six and seven o ' clock , the prisoner entered my shop , for the purpose of selling a quantity of broken-up silver . Seeing that the articles were of a superior description , I told him I could not come to any understanding -ivith him unless hc first gave me his name and address , which he did , and having handed it to rny foreman , hc gave it , as I understoood _, to a policeman who was standing outside the door . Having demanded £ 8 for the silver , I gave him £ 5 30 s ., as he said he required some money to go into the

      country , and my I . O . U . for the remainder . He then went away . 1 have purchased silver in the same way from the prisoner on former occasions , the first of whicli was about six weeks back , consisting of about thirty ounces , at is . id . per ounce , when I thought it unnecessary to ask him any questions , as his _appearanse was respectable . The silver had since been melted down , and appeared to be part ol a _sih-er frame , upon which a silver telescope had been mounted . The second lot consisted of tho parts of a silver figure , which J have since burned down , and which 1 purchased about a week after . It was about thirty ounces iu weight , and I remarked at the time thatk appeared tobe very valuable property . — George Hurst , 76 F division , said he was acting gaoler at the station-house , when the prisoner requested to send a message to his wife , and liaving given him a pencil and paper for the purpose , he wrote the following note : —

      " Dear Wife , —1 hope you will make yourself happy as you can . Be _slmre you take this note to Mr . "Watson , and oe particular in saying those words at the office when you ave asked . I shall state a forcne gentleman gave it to us about two jeers ago , and boded and loged with us at thirty shillins per week , and hc told us he must be oif to trance , as he ad got some verry particular business , and he would leave some old silver which he had hy him , and if he did not return in three months he should not come back to England and we might consider it ouv own property . Be siravo and here in mind he could not give any riference ns we had been emty some time of any ledgers , and he was

      thc only one we ad at the time hc was lodging at our house , and we ad no servant during that time , and be shure f . nd say ] asked if we got into trouble about selling it ; say 1 give the name as Mr . Johnson , 54 Seymourstreet , but don't be positive the number ofthe _Jiouse . Be shuve and make away the key and the other thing ; Mr . Watson put you in the way . Give the berer 2 s . Cd . Mrs . Taylor , 7 , Gillingham-street , Vauxhall-road , Pimlico ; tell Mr . WatsonboshuregoandseeoidMr . Laddifht know my fase , ns he took me from Pimlico to Long-acre , whic Iefmybag and vnse in , and told hhn I should not be long ; he will tell you what became of it . ' Witness showed the note to the inspector on duty , and he kept it in his possession ever _sinee . "—Mr . Henry Saunde _** _--

      Inspector of Itoy . _'il Palaces under the Lord Chamberlain , said the prisoner had been employed us cabinet-maker for upwards of seven years ' is _Buckingham Palace _u-itii the month _ol'March of last ; , ea : *; but lie was occasionall y engaged since , and on the second week in Aprii he was agaiu taken for a _continuance until he was giver , in in charge . The _dilVerein pieces of silver produced were the property ofher Majesty , and consisted of part ofa silver equestrian statue , ivith two moveable heads , one representing it , armour Louis XIII ., and the other Marshal Saxe _, being eleven anilahalfinc _liesinlieigiit . Thevwei _.-taken from the enclosed book-eases in the lower l " tb _>* ary in Buckingham rained . I had not missed them before

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      I saw them in the possession of the police , and I value them at . forty guineas . I also identify the vase , which is turquoise blue , ground reeded spirally , and painted in flowers , ormolu stand , and ram-head handles , as being the property of her Majesty , and value £ 10 . It 6 tood in an empty book-case in a closet adjoining the library from which the statue was taken . It was safe about twelve months ago , and I never missed it till I heard it was in the possession of the authorities at Somerset-house . In consequence of the information I received from Mr , Seymour , I made a further search among the ornaments in the

      book-cases , and missed a silver microscope , which I believe was safe about twelve months back , value £ 200 , the entire of which was taken away , and the fellow of which I now produce . They both appear to have been manufactured about eighty years ago . The prisoner was employed in all parts of the palace , and had frequent opportunity of entering thc rooms where the property was deposited , which wcre left open during her Majesty ' s residence at the palace . The several witnesses were then bound over in the sum of £ 100 to give evidence , and the prisoner was removed .

      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Tuesday , June 17 . —Felony . —Mary Ann Sailsbury , alias Salisbury , aged twenty , was arraigned upon three indictments for felony . The _| case has excited much public interest in consequence of the romantic statements made bythe prisoner , all of which on inquiry proved to be wholly without foundation . On being called upon to plead , the prisoner fainted , and restoratives having been administered , she in a low tone of voice pleaded " Guilty" to all thc indictments . Mr . O'Brien , who appeared for the defence , called the sister of the prisoner , and Mr . Evans , a bookseller , resident in Bath , and their evidence went to show that the prisoner was of unsound mind . The Recorder directed thc prisoner te be removed ,

      and respited the judgment until further inquiries wcre made by Mr . Cope , the Governor of Newgate . Shoplifting . —Caroline Allen , aged sixteen , Catherine Gale , aged sixteen , and Mary Ann Smith , were indicted for stealing eleven yards of mousselindc-laine , the goods of Thomas Simpson and another , his partner . The case was of the ordinary character of shoplifting . The three girls went together to thc shop of tlic prosecutor , and succeeded in purloining the property in question . They were on tho instant taken into custody , and the stolen dress was found in their possession . The prisoners , when called upon for their defence , recriminated upon eacli other in strong and vehement terms . Au inquiry was set on foot by tho Recorder , and tho result showed that the

      mother of the prisoner Smith was the proprietress of several brothels in Whitechapel , and that the girl Gale had been seduced from her situation to enter upon a life of profligacy . The fate of the unhappy girl presented himself iu the witness-box , and stated that his daughter had previously borne an excellent character , but had been decoyed from his roof about nine weeks ago , and had lost sight of her until the intelligence reached him that she was in custody upon this charge . The police-constable stated , that the prisoner Smith was the ostensible proprietress of one of the infamous houses in Trumpet-court , and that her mother conducted another house in the same neighbourhood . Thc jury , after a very short consultation returned a verdict of—Guilty against all

      the three prisoners . The Recorder , in passing sentence , said the court felt it to be its duty to make a marked distinction between thc convicts . It appeared that the elder prisoner Smith had been without doubt the decoy of the unhappy girls who stood by hcv side . They had been decoyed from their homes for the worst purposes , and it was fitting that a marked distinction should be made in the punishment to be awarded . The sentence of the court was , tliat tiie prisoner Mary Ann Smith should be transported for thc term of seven years , and that the prisoners Gale and Allen should be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for the space of six calendar months . The prisoner Smith , on hearing her sentence , fainted , and was carried out of the dock by tlic officers ofthe gaol .

      Pocbki-pickisg at ine Gallows . —James "Wai'bui _' - ton , aged eighteen , was indicted for stealing two half-crowns and onc shilling , the moneys of Henry Bryan , from his person . The facts of this case lay in a very narrow compass . The prosecutor was present at the execution of Joseph Connor , convicted of thc St . Giles ' s murder , and the prisoner stood near him when the drop fell . The prosecutor felt a hustling at his pocket , and immediately turned towards the prisoner , and seized his right hand . In it hc found one half-crown , and at his feet thc constable found the second , and the shilling . The prisoner received a

      good character from his former employers . Thejury returned ? , verdict of Guilty . Tl . e Recorder stated " , that but for his previous good character he should have felt it his duty to send the prisoner out of the eountry . The circumstances under which thc offence had been committed added _coiisideivibiy _toitsaggravation . It was clear that the enforcement of the law in iU most fearful extent had no terrors , and though the prisoner would not , on account of his age find previous good character , be sent . abroad , still he must undergo a severe and lengthened incarceration . The sentence ofthe Court was , that lie be imprisoned and kept to hard labour ir . the House of Correction for tho term of oixe year .

      Wi ; D . \ TSDAY , —Feloniously Kimjxg . —James Halt , aged twenty-six , was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying "William Temple . Jt appeared from the evidence of John M 03 S , a City policeman , thathe was on duty on the evening of Friday , the 23 rd of May last , on Snow-hill ,- when he observed the deceased driving a light cart out of King-street , in the direction of Snow-hill , at about thc rate of four miles an hour ; immediately after he saw the prisoner driving a cab at a violent rate in the same direction that the deceased was going . The cab struck the back part of thc cart , which overturned it , and thc deceased was thrown out on his back . Tho prisoner stopped his cab , and the deceased was taken into a public-house close by , where he remained sometime in an insensible

      state . Lhe prisoner appeared to be in liquor , and might have avoided the accident had he taken proper care . The deceased was removed to St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , and the prisoner was . taken into custody by the witness . James Stetton , " a friend ofthe deceased , who was on horseback riding a little in advance of his friend , corroborated the evidence ofthe policeman . Mr . James Ree , the house surgeon of St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , stated that the deceased was brought there in a state of insensibility , with a severe wound on the back part of his head , ' of whicli hc died at three o ' clock on the following morning . Mr . Clarkson having addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner , called several witnesses , who spoke of the prisoner as being a kind hearted and humane

      man . Ihe jury returned a verdict of Guilty , accompanied with a strong recommendation to mercy . Sentence , two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction , without hard iabour . Thursday . —Charge oy Murder . —Daniel John Cock , 21 , a respectable looking young m an _. dcscribed in the calendar as a waiter , was indicted forthe wilful murder of Hannah Moore . Mr . Payncappeared for thc prosecution , and Mr . Parry defended the prisoner . From the statement of the learned counsel , and from the evidence adduced , it appeared : —That the prisoner and thc deceased lived together in service ; they had been discharged from that situation , and being unhappy in their minds they determined to commit suicide . Thc prisoner bought some oxalic acid , which he administered to the voumr woman and

      also to himself . That portion which was given to Hannah Moore caused her death , but the prisoner recovered from the effects ofthe poison he had taken : this being ihe case , and thc prisoner being present at the time the poison was taken by the deceased , in the eye ofthe law he was considered guilty of murder , and hence the present charge . Mr . Parry _addresssd the jury on behalf of the prisoner , —Mr . Justice Patteson summed up at considerable length , and the jury retired at two o ' clock . After an absence of hall an hour they returned into Court , and after their names had been called over , and they liad answered to them tho Clerk of thc Arraigns said , Gentlemen , are you agreed on your verdict ?—The Foreman : We are . —Clerk of the Arraigns * . Ho you find the prisoner at the bar G uilty or Not Guilty ? —The Foreman : Not Guilty . —The prisoner then be wed most respectfully , and left the doek ,

      Alarming Fike At Livenrooi,.—About A Qua...

      Alarming Fike at _LiVEnrooi ,. —About a quarter after one o ' clock this morning smoke was observed to issue in dense quantities from the top story in the warehouse of Messrs . Garnock _, Eibby , and Co ., ropemakers , shipchandlcr ? , and sailmakers , Chapel-street , opposite St . Nicholas ' s Church . "Thc word" having been passed to the fire-station , Mr . Hewitt , with a body of the fire-police , engines , water-carts , £ c , were promptly on the spot , as was also Mr . Howling , thc head constable . By this time thc fire had burst out , and was forcing its way downwards , two stories being then enveloped in flumes . With the least possible delay the engines were got ready for working , but there were no hands to be procured for this purpose . There werc very few men about , and those

      who wcre tliere refused to work . With the assistance , however , of thc police , who were called off all the beats in ihe nei ghbourhood by Mr . _Bowling , an engine was got into play , and soon exhausted the necessarily limited supply of water i ' uvnished by the water-carts . Mr . Dowling then directed that an engine should be placed at the Prince ' s Hock gut , and thence a good supply of water was , after considerable delay , forced . By this time thc fire had made rapid progress , and had extended to the second story of the warehouse , but with the assistance of a bod y of the 47 th Regiment , the police officers , aiid those men who coufd be induced to work , ' she engiuos were got efficiently into play , and tin ; lire was ' _wtin checked , not , however , without gutting lite premises . _—Fx-om the Scto _. id Edi-tii _. xi of the Liverpool Mrwy of i ~ > _jcitmluv ) Fx'hhui , June 20 th .

      Aluimi . vg Fikk . —On Sunday morning , shortly after nine o ' clock , a very alarming five broke out upon the premises in t ! ie occupation of Mr . Ratikino , anatomical bootmaker , situate No . _9-i , Cheapside . A servant maid liaving been sent into the kitchen to procure a scuttle o ; coal 3 with a lighted candle in h er ham ) , ir : returning -she incautiously placed the light under a bunch of paper patterns hanging to the partition ot the shop , Tlte consequence was , that the pattern *

      oi water was discharged upon the flames , insnt » J which they continued to bum for nearlv 4 i f before any impression was made upon tW _newest of _England engine and firemen , with _i * .. , others , were also early at the scene , and _owi- m ¦ _»« , u exertions ofthe Brigade the flames wcre even » n extinguished , bnt not before damage to aconsi . _lZi amount had been done ; thc whole of Mr »• , i . * T stock in trade and furniture being nearly des mv" *' , * and the adjoining premises of Messrs . Pon ' ten ' , Bean , hosiers and glovers , as well as one or two mi buildings , are severely injured by fire m \ ,, _™ ' _* Mr . liankine was insured in the Sun-office . Messrs . Ponten and Bean were similarly- prow /) !' the Atlas-office . * _i' « w « C (|

      became ignited , and before thc cirl rmiW mi : . the flames they . _ccmim _^ _lreft * rapidity to the staircase , whence thev travelled ft upper portion of the house so fiereelv that the in ™ , he had not time to save any ofthe contents . cX « * books , which were rescued by Mr . Rankine \( tl tlle sidorablc difficult y . With all speed _ffe 5 l &> the London Brigade , with Mr . Superintendent iw _!' wood , reached the spot ; but so rapid had l _»«» ., progress of the flames during thc brief - periS ?! had elapsed , that the flames were brcakm _** ill , _^ the top windows with such fury as to threaten v' _?? destruction thc surrounding houses . The oil engines liaving been set to work , a nowprfni . » - Te

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      Loxdon.—City Chartist Hall, 1, Tuvn Asai...

      Loxdon . —City Chartist Hall , 1 , Tuvn asain l —On Sunday morning next , June 22 nd at ' n f ' ten , the following question will be _disn-I-. _s-., * ' / v ? the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland iu- ' tiiip i - ° their opposition to the collegiate cduc . _rior n . ! " by Government V In _tto Vl _^ _TtfiW Metropolitan District Council will meet for tlm i patch of business . At six o ' clock the fi * ,. u' _?*' will meet . At half-past six the Chartist diSif meet . Vl " _WusnaxsTER . —Mr . Charles Bolwell wil' W _*„ _, tho Assembly Room , Parthenium Club , _: _* * $ I ? tin ' sJane , on Sunday evening next . June ' 'Wn , i eight precisely . ' "" ar The Westminster- District of thc Chartist c operative Land Society will meet at the simUi , i , " every Sunday evening , at halt-past seven precisely Camberwell and Walworth . —A mce * _hi'M _. ; i ' i i held at thc Montpelier Tavern , Walworth on J , day evening next , June 23 rd , at _eis-ht o ' clock , ™ cisely . " i _'** - "

      A Chartist _Festival will bo hold at -. he _i-- Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagain-lane , on M < v * dav , ' ¦ ' _-, ing , _JuncuOtli , for the benefit ofa brot ] ier " eJ « r tS ' Hammersmith . —A meeting will lm bq . i „ ¦ _. Dun Cow , Brook-green , on Tuesday _ciwiV _IvT June 24 th , at eight o ' clock precisely ; ° x _*' South London Chartist Hall . —Tbe _mr-nito * arc requested to meet in the hall on Sundr _. _vevcnin , at six o clock . Mr . Ridley will lecture or ' \> ' „? craft , " at eight o ' clock precisely . On _Alondav e » n ing , June 30 th , a meeting will be lie ! - ' -it Pi , i o ' clock " , to elect a delegate to the Re"i < _- ( _in- _* , ) rfe mittee . "' u " _*' Whiti-ciiavel . —A general moetimr of the Whit * Horse locality , St . Mary _' s-slrect . U _'' n _' tm .:, _»„ _M ... ' .,

      will take place on Sunday evenine , at sk o ' clock , n business of importance . Mr . T . _M . _Whaler wil lecture on the Land project , at ei ght o clock . Chartist Water Party .-TIic Chartists of Mar lebonc inform their friends they have _enle- _'ed _intn-Jn engagement with the proprietor of the Bar -e to r ' m the samffevery Sunday during the _seasour from tiie Way-bridge , Paddington , at nine o clock in _•) . « morning , to Grecnford and back ; the proceeds to lie disposed of in the talcing of a hall for the _Cliartii-s of the locality . They hope the cntcrpritv and _» commodation will meet with the support , of their friends and tlic public .

      _To'vkr Hamlets . —The members and frie : nis of the Land Society are requested to meet at the Whittington and Cat , ' Church-row , _iBethnsil-greeii , on Tuesday evening , at eight o ' clock , when the details of tlio plan will be explained . Somers Town . —HaU of Science , ] 9 _, _Cuniberlasil . row , King ' s Cross . —On Sunday c . vc : _iing next Mr . T , S . Sherrard will lecture , at hall-past seven , in Ik above hail , on "The Wealth of Nations . " As Apjouh . nid Meeting of the Registration Committee will bs held on Tuesday _eveniiis : "it ' Mi ' ,, Strand , when all the delegates ave expected ' _-: ¦ _alt-cml , Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock .

      A Puiilic _Meetlvo on the Land question will ie held at the George and Dragon Inn , Bli _' . c ' ci . _eatli , mi Monday evening ; Messrs . M'Grath , ' Vh _** e ' t . * r , ik _- well , and others , will address the meeting . Chair _;• be taken at eight o ' clock . City Lof . _'AUiY . —Tho _moinbei's of the Oily localiiy will meet for the _iransaction of business on _Sim-Jay evening next , iu the Hall , _Turnagain-lain-, at halfpast six . The council of the locality have great pleasure ih announcing that the Chartist choir established here lias received a considerable addition to its numbers during the last week and thoy _coniidently anticipate rendering it superior in nunilwrti and talent to anything' ofthe kh : d ever before attempted . They will meet on Sunday next , at ih o ' clock in the evening .

      Sanfonipts, &??,

      _Sanfonipts _, _&?? ,

      Bankrupts. ~" (From Tuesday's Gazette, J...

      BANKRUPTS . _~" ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , Jime i : _th , l & ts ., " Thomas James Hill , ( _iumberlanil-row _, _lslingron _+ _ww _, " . * lk _* ' ' - _^ ¦ p e «' - 'M , _Somly , Bedfordshire , a , rn . f _* ut .-r-. _« i _rn ' L n _«* _on-temice , Hackney-road , _,-iwe--Alfrcd Tallent , con , Ipswich , j . _rovisiou-. leaior- Job 1 eters _, _lu-nt-siveei , naggevston , faiicy . tvimnriii _** _.-aaniii _'* i _. _; _turer-JoijepIi Bond , _JSeadiiijr , grocer-. Samuel Tliomaf , Urnlnll , _biillwn-nierchant-John Simons , sen ., Camilen 1 own , ¦• _••!; . _l-inercliant— Charles Barnes _Wilson _Savillf . place , _-vuie-end , builder— "William Lax Brown Liven ..... ) . merchant-Mary Spence and William Whitak-Sn ' r ..- ! _Aewcastle-upoii-Tyiie , woollen-drapers .

      _PAMNEHSniPS DISSOLVED . I . Hoses , S . Isaacs , and J . Mose ? . jun ., _ri-rtoa , Han- ' _, sluve , navy agents-W . Sugden and IS . Hcdic-rn , Man *? _, ter , _stoiio-niasons-J . Overbury and J . 1 -. _ilam _- , _Frvltrick ' s-p _/ ace , Old Jewry , _Blackwcil-iiall fai : m-l Wai _* u | and B . _Bovill-G . aud H . _Chalhu-. d , Hml _. lvrsfieW , vuvudealers-. ! . Hudson and IV . _Forjrie , . Vo _* u ' a _** 1 i . _* iiii , _laienianufacturers-J . On * and It . M _' . i _laster , _Livwt . »> 1 , _sliiibrokors-: N . Brown and T . IJetllev , _Kwha _,.:, . \ V-JiihmIw _* . land _, sawyer ** _.

      DECLAIUTJONS OF DIVIDENDS . G . Chapman , Aylesbury , _Buckinpliamvliire , •¦ _imcim _* , _tirs dividend of 3 s 6 tl in the pound , on : _n--v mm *"* oalv , an * Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Graham , " _Colnn-ia-strMt , City . S . Clyde , _Soutliampton-row , R _* . isseli . * - ( _isiiivi ' , _. nwer , second dividend of fid in the pound , anv _ll'winesiiav , att / if ofticc ot Mr . Graham , _Coloman-street ' , City . J . Andrews , Threadneedle-9 treet , Citv , _sloe _' _i-broker . third dividend of ls Sid in the pound , anv _tV flicu ' Mr . Whitmore , Birmingham , J . Storey j . Gibh _, Liverpool , _slrip-eiianillci _**" , te ' - dividend oi" 's in the pound , any 'Wednesday , at : lii ' t ' _* cf Mr . Morgan , Liverpool .

      _ J . Storey , Liverpool , ship-chandler , first _divii : * _: ul « _i- " in the pound , any Wednesdav , at the office cf Mr . Mon * Liverpool . G . Oharli . ? , Liverpool , ship-chandler , dividend ** f H _*"* ' _*" in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office o : . « i _* . ' _''•' 'V " _*'' Liverpool .

      _DIV'iDlWDS . July 1 G , F . _JvnUy-A-j _. Lwe-lani _' _i _Sanehcap , _mc-r . _VM- - July !* , C . _Dotc-sio , Slough , Buckinghamshire , lni : oU _*««* f ; ' —July 9 , J . and J . '" . Heav , _Maii _' _-laj-t ; , meixta _' _- t . * - . _™ I 11 , _H . Iviplim ; and Vf . Atkinson , Wood- £ : m * t , n : e : _ip- _>! _'Jt '* ' _warchouscuitti-July 31 , J . and A . 2 mnu : t , ' _nnfacturer-JulylC _, D . Hilton , _Grcenacrcs Muc : ' . I- ' - " ' * shire , cottwi spinner-July 10 , T . L . Parker , Eii * _ibasto "> " i Warwickshire , coal merchant—July ] j , J . A . Fori _*** ¦ Liverpool , glass merchant—July 11 , " ij . John , _Penna' "" » money _scrivc-: er—July 11 , ( 1 . F . . _* - _* . Isherwpod , »« _" t ; f ; Lancashire , engraver to calico printers—July 1 ) , O . _$ a * , ' T , ' Oldham , Lancashire , cotton " pinner-July 14 . 1 . Meti _«« a-I . ivcrpool , si-owl '—July JO , Vi ' . JSancks : ind j B . IV" - ? r ? _Bimiiugiiiim , merchants . _CjjllTincA'j'Cs to lie granted , unless cause be shown * . _•'•• ••' eontrnry on the day of _meeiinir .

      July F , M . t :. _I _' ainter , Great Voter-street , VFcstmin ; : _* _'' '•' grocer-July s , J . and T . Bait , Old JJroad-street , O ' _- _** _** i _? dealers in silk-July 8 , R . S . Darveii _, Great _Twer-str-. _* ' City , colonial-broke ;* -July io , S . _IJarvov , . " .. ' _ewea , _!'•* _*••'•' cattle-dealer-July P . ii . V . Cook , CiWcshal _' . fc ' s _*" _¦¦'<* _* Heeiised-viciualler-July 14 , W , V . l . Kitr , ' Alder : * . - :- ** ' -. * - >•! City , silk-niamuactnrer-JulvH _, Vf . Start , _Sat-nto" . _•* ' * •* ** t ' _uighainslm-e , lace-niaker-Juh 15 , J . Heaton , l . iu _!!' - _' . _'•' Shropshire . staJioncr-JulvJf , J . Treviu , Wheat a .-I- ' * '•' _Sttifforikl . ire , _bmolicr-Juiy t « , J . A . _iiick , _Letds ca _**«; _•"•' . : ied gilder-July S , J . Jones , Chester , yim .. _"igei _*~ J _<* . H ' W . Meek , . Southampton , ironmonger-July rt . J . _llolli' _""'"'''' ; worth , _raddington-strcet , _Marvlebono , _bufiiev—J " . ' . _* •' W . Adie , Birmingham , button-maker .

      BANKRUPTS . ( Fro ;* Friday ' s Qazettl , June 20 , _IS-i _'* . ) Thomas _Cit-iv Smith and Richard ll ; v : c _; , I :: * r , i _' ' _'!' - ' ' _* - ' - strect , Cover . t-garden , _hotel-kcepers-Tho-iia-i _Tlion'l- _' •' _' : " _>'• : _iN _' orlliainpion , hi : l-broker-IIenry Kohno , Laurv ;; ¦ ' I . ' 0 , . ''"'' , ''' _ncy-lane , f . iy , wholesale _stay-maiusiactiirw- Vl , f : ' * . * . i : * . _Coniu'tt , Exeter , _cabinst-inaker-Sd-. vard '•"•••' it ! : ; _W : [' _.- : [' . _stx-eet , auctioneer-Charles Bregriei _:. t . iiic-. > _fsi , _!^' ' _- '' [ _.- ''' , -John _Crabt-oe and William Burnley , _Tiiiiftf . v ! . I . ' "; " - ; i ' ; _'; , " shire , _wiioUeii-mamifactiivers-Joiiii t _- _' _wii'j . i . is , _"' •" _' '" _!"' Dorsetshire , l _.-jokscller-. ! anics _Kl-er-. - _.-iu- ! . B ., ' _^ . "' " .. •" _. oashire . i _^ mkteper-Charies _^ _'ve'l Cii ' . e _' . _* ' _* ' _- , I '" -- '" - ' "" " "*' vonsliiio , _j- . r / gcoii .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 21, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21061845/page/8/