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TUB _6 H . E CO RUSSIAN church . The national faith of Russia is well known to be that of the Greek ehnrch of the eastern empire . B y the conlent of the Greek patriarchs—too much occupied , after the faHot Constantinople , with their own safety to feel ambitious—it was a ! _lowed to deUch itself in 1588 , ana _lefi to its own government At this time , the patriarch of Constantinople , haTin _^ travelled for the purpose to _Moscow , anointed its _metropolitan Job , as the first _Bubsian patriarch , giving him thus the supreme authority over all the faithfuiinthe MuECOTiteEmpvre . The separa . thus
lion was peaceable ana amicable , and it is only in a few forms ana ceremonies , but not in any of its dogmas , that the Russian Church has since differed frem the m < r ther establishment . Few readers arenot aware that the Grafcchwicb . heave the closest resemblance to the "Roman-catholic , both in its tenets ana its rites ; the differences which exist are indeed so insignificant , that the Greeks and Romans term eaeh other reciprocally only 8 _C _* nvsmatics , re * erring the epithetof "heretic * " to a more determined departure from the fold , such as that ofall the sects which have sprang from the Reforms of Luther and of Calvin .
The Greek ehureh it said by theologians to difiJK- in _ferty-onepoints from the Roman-catholic ; but some of these distinctions are so subtle as to escape altogether the preception of an _nnsnbtiliiing inquirer . The most important is but trivial , with the exception of what relates to church discipline , and . the _independence of papal authority . It acknowledges , as the only rule of its faith , the Hol y Scri ptures and the authority ofthe eeven first general _covmoUV , but the _interpretation of the declarations ofthe one -ma the decision of the other is only allowed to its patriarchs , which , in the Russian « hurch , are represented hy the " Holy Synod . " It acknowledges the creeds of "Sice and of St Ath & _nasius , and holds the doctrine of the Trinity , but _differs from the Roman catholics in believing the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father alone , and sot from the Father and the Son .
The Greek church denies the existence of purgatory _, but permits prayers for the dead . It inculcates a profound veneration for relics , repudiates carved images ofthe virgin , ' saints , & o . ; but commands painted representations . Predestination is one of tte chief dogmas ofthe Greek Church . The secular priests are not only allowed , but compelled , to marry .
PAST ACT _IRISESI STATE OF THE RUSSIA * PRIESTHOOD . After the creation of a patriarchal see in Russia , _tht patriarchs , in a few years , acquired in Muscovy as much temporal authority as the popes In the middle ages exercised over the rest of Europe . They took the first seat after the tsar , who on certain occasiens was forced to hold their stirrup ; neither war nor peace conld be tradertaken without their Me * sing-, and they had a power of life and death orer all his subjects ; even the united _tsai and boyars were always obliged to yield to the _patrisrcl and his clergy . Oneof the first steps of Peter the Great was to destroy this ' mperima in _imperio , turning the vice * _, snd ignorance of the clergy against themselves . Bt means of firmness , cruelty , and ridicule , he succeeded in nrterly subverting the hierarchial power ; the faith it-Self he left standinga * a U 6 cralin * "trument , but wrenched its direction from the "hands of the priests .
On the death of the Patriarch Adnan , in 1700 , Peter utterly abolished the patriarchal office , and declared him self head of the church . He appointed au exarch , with very limited authority , immediately to preside over all spiritual affairs ; but , twenty years after , he _abolisliti : the _exarchy also , and _instituted the " Holy _Xegisl . _-iirn Synod / 5 which still continues to this day _^ to govern them _, nnder the immediate cognizance of the emperor , who . besides appointing the members of synod , chosen from th . higher clergy , is always represented in this assembly b _\ tie ober-procurator , a layman , who can oppose all tfceii resolutions till submitted to the decision of the emptr « r When Peter began his reign , one-half of th e kr . _tb of the empire are said to have been possessed by thepriesthood . The most hideous crimes are charged against the priests , monies , and nuns of that time ; and strange orgies , and fearful crimes , even at the present day , are said to occasionally disgrace the Russfaa ( Greek ) convents and monasteries .
The Russian clergy are divided into three classes—tfc « _- _archiri's . the black clergy , and the white . The arc _' _iir ? are the superior authorities of the church , and eomprisi the m _-tropolitens , the archbishops , and the bishop * .. The black clergy , or _tchornoidtthovenslro _. is the monasticpor tion of it , from which the former must be chosen ; i _* comprises the archimandrites , or abbots ; the begunnr . s , abbots of the smaller honses of reclnsion ; the ieronin _nschs and ieradeacens , who perform divine service in tlit monastries , and , lastly , the monks . Both the black clergy and those who have risen from it are obliged to lead austere and rigid lives ; tbey are forbidden the use of animal food , and are not permitted to marry after they have entered this order . They are very wealthy , but wealth can have bet few attractions for them , unless in
ihe case of those who feel a satisfaction in the consciousness ofthe possession of gold , although they cannot apply it toanyof those purposes which make it coveted by men ; aad oh the whole , at the present day , those best acquainted with the subject land both their learning anil tneir piety . As much , cannot be said for the secular priests , the _biafoe _dzhonenslo , or white clergy , who officiate in ike cities and _parishes , and appear the plebeians of this body . They are divided into protopopes , popes , deseons , sacristans , and readers , and are too often drunken , _profligate , and grasping characters , extorting greedily every fertking they can from the superstition _« - ' their flock , and ueglecting no _means-of working on it Iis common to see them intoxicated , and very uncommon tomeetwith one who has not got a pack bf cards or twu
abont him , which he produces directly tHey are in -request _, - fine-tenths ofthe remuneration attached to their office arises from voluntary contributions , which they practise every method unscrupulous ingenuity cau devise to wr < .-si from the fears and hopes of their fleck , who nsually look span the _priest as the chosen of H 6 aren , in whom many things are allowable which would not be so in the laywan ; jnst as they see the man whe wears the Imperial bntton pilfer and rob with impunity , _whUst"tbe retribution ofthe lash awaits the _moqjik who should -venture on the same course . On the other hand , the duties which the Russian seenlar priest ought to perform are so arduous snd exorbitant that tbe church ceremonial alone would fi _. l np alibis time , and leave him none to devote to study or to sets of charitv .
The long monastic service of the < chnrch must bep ? rformed three t imes a day ; he most attend to the administration of baptism , marriage , and the burial of the dead , with all ihe _complication of their numerous and inter _, minable ceremonies ; he is enjoined _^ to visit the si ck , to comfort and instruct his flock , and he has , besides all this , to look to his own pecuniary interests—the only part of all this _catalogue which he never neglects , unless when other duties happen to go hand-in-hand with it .
THE _nCSSIJL _* . * _CHUHOHEB . _Thesehuildings are usually large , built either of wood or brick , in the form cfa square , a quadrangle , but especially in the figure of across . There is a peculiar and picturesque aspect about their semi-Asiatic architecture , and the well-known enormous mosque-like domes , either _bhiiun" in one-sheet of gilding or silver leaf , or painted green or blue and _studded with gold and silver stars . Besides the larger , there _aregeneraHyfour-smaller domes , which are apt to assnme too much ofa pepper-castor appearance . The belfrv is commonly 6 # perate from ilia church ; it often rises ina column-like stc-e _^ e , from tlie midst of the churchyard which surrounds the house of worship . The Russian foible for enormous bells , we have long cince read of in _evjry elementary buok of _geography .
The interior of the churches is more striking than imposing . Decked out witt a pompoug magnificence , _*** icu renders it gaudy and _^ llttering , the Russian clergy lave not had the art of investing it with that character ef solemnity and grandeur which , in the Komaa-catholic cathedrals , involuntarily fills the breast of the beholder withawe and _veneraticn . In tie true spirit of a barbiric people _^ they lave sought in a mass of Jlaini and gilding , in rich staffs , and in a display cf gold , silver , and jewellery , to produce the effect which the intellectual Italians sought in the ideal conceptions of architecture , of sculp _, tur _^ and _ofpslnting , embsllisbimj indeed at times with too ajnch finery , but never depending on the mere gorgeoutness of decoration .
The church is divided into _thr _*> e parts . The inner and most holy division , contents Uie alter , on wliich i 3 _rai'ed a massive cross of gold or diver , aud on it a _ricMyb-Kindcopy of the Scriptures is placed , clasped with hands of silver or gold , often richly set with precious . stones . The second division , intended to contain Ihe congregation , is the name of the church ; itis separated from the altar part by thelkoaostas , a kind of screen , On which are pictures of our Saviour , of the Virgin , of ihe _apostfes and saints , and containing in the middle what are called I'be royal doors , wliich are shut or opened to admit the vii * _-w ofthe congregation into the sanctuary , at _aifierentphas' _. * 6 ° f the service . These pictures , always _fetched daubs , _** _" * " ¦ . ver 3 often on , _2 * the face _« bands , and feet of the ho ' J personages they are intended to represent , all the body * _andgarmimts being formed by one wi se * and embossed ' *** ° f S ol < w _&™ _> an oit _™ _teddid with precious'Jd _* rws of incalculable value , the I _& _Bii offerings „ : " the f _* _«** _*™> 2 m 21 _^ _««•
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S _^™ _* " _«*» " ?«*• " *« nchingcertain books wh ich ftey _wwider too _^ _odavttfW _^ _^^ worship . Bven _ _theirelergyTery seldom possess anentire copy orthe Scriptures . Their church books are aii wntttn in ihe old Scalronic , in which language the _ser _vicets also performed , aad which resembles tha modern Ross about as nearly as the _Bnglish tongue of tho reign of Kmg Henry the First assimilates to the . _T " s » iui » a * X prewntday . The " fasts" of the Russian Church are long and severe , and occupy , oa the whole , more than half the Sear / All the peasantry and lower order of the
_Hussiaas are profoundl y devout , and blindly superstitious . The landed aristocracy , most of the employes , and many of the mercantile class , have no faith in the popular belief . Ornamented pictures of the saints , & e ., are in great request . These pictures are in every house , aud usually in every room of the house ; and before them the llussian is almost everlastingly crossing himself . "Even nnder the piazzas of the market-place these pictures , richly chased in silver , and illuminated by lights , gratify the piety of buyers and sellers , and draw from the passer by the sign ofthe cross , and a five-kopeck _pictc . "
The Russian Church , like most other _ohurches , has been guilty of many cruel persecutions towards schismatics of its own creed ; hundreds of the sect ¦ whose principal distinction was , that they signed the cross with three fingers instead of with two were burned alive by the last patriarch and Peter the Great ! The Russian Church has , however , never persecuted other communions altogether distinct from its own , such as the Catholics , _Lutherans , Jews , & o . Yet the Chapter from which we have taken the above extracts , treats of religious persecution in Russia . Catholics , Jews , and Lutherans have been , and are being persecuted ; but not by the Russian Church .
Thepersecuting party is the Tsar . The Greek Church has never been a proselyting church , and therefore , has wanted the motive which usually stimulates religious persecutors . The members ofthe Greek Church , like the Jews and the Scotch Covenanters , believe themselves the" elect ; " a comfortable belief , because it gratifies their own vamty , and at the same time saves them from engaging iu the useless task of attempting to convert the non-elect . Nicholas is not so liberal , he would have all his subjects and slavesoi one belief in aU things ; henee _, his persecution ofthe Jews , and United Greeks , and Catholics in Poland _, and the Lutherans in the Baltic provinces .
The journals have teemed for a long time past with accounts of these persecutions , and some columns of this paper have at different times been occupied with the frightful details of the tyrant' s atrocities . It is . therefore , not imperative that we should follow our author in his sketch of these persecutions contained in the chapter before us . No one need suppose ihat Nicholas is himself the dupe of a fanaticism which prompts him to these persecutions , proofs in abundance exist that he holdin perfect contempt the creed he makes use of for the promotion of bis own selfish ends : here is an illustration :-
—A certain monastery in the government of Minsk boasted of possessing the very cross on whieh the Redeemer of the world was crucified , whereby this fortunate commanity had succeeded in accumulating untold treasures . The emperor unceremoniously borrowed" thc greater port of their funds , and brought the cross with htm ( on a pious speculation ) tobe exposed in Moscow to the veneration ofthe faithful . This relic , whole and intact , ( notwithstanding the number of authentic p ieces scattered through the churches in the very city to widen it was brought , to say nothing of the rest ofthe empire ,
« id which collected together might have sufficed to build a shed fer the entire one , ) whan it had done duty in Moscow , vras brought to St . _Petersburgh _, aud exposed in thc Kazan church , which was besieged day and night by an ¦ mceasing stream of devotees . But piety at St . Fetenburgh differed in this respect from piety at Moscow , that though it prostrated itself in as humble adoration , and beat its breast with as much compunction and fervour , it did not open its purse-strings . Only some fifteen thouinud pounds' worth of offerings repaid the imperial ingenuity , whereas Moscow yielded ten times that amount . rhi < toek place abont the beginning of 1812 .
The emperor has further enacted the farce of canonsing some holy man whose body was discovered in a erfect condition , but this miraculous relic falling to pieces by exposure to the air , after an ukase had given kim placeinthehierachy of heaven , and being recognized < s the earthly coil of a very disreputable personage , Nic" lolasby smother u"kase degraded him from his saintship *; id banished his bones and dust to Siberia . So much for the rapacity and hypocrisy , as well as _ruelty ofthe tyrant , Nicholas—Victoria ' s honoured _juast—the pet of Ascot-racing blackguards and base sycophantic English aristocrats . [ Towards the conclusion ef the article in last Saturday ' s Star , there appeared the following lines" The following extract describes—TIIE KXOCT ASD THE PUTT . '
The reader no doubt rubbed his eyes to find tbe ' extract , " for no such extract was there . Although * he passage in the hook was plainly marked for extract , the compositor had neglected to " set it up •" we observed this in the ' * proof , " but finding it would then be inconvenient to transfer the extract to our oolumns we directed that it should stand over ; nt ihe same time directing that the two lines above quoted should be removed . To our mortification we _liscovered , when the paper was printed , that th * lines had not been removed ; but had been left to _^ poil the article and mystify the reader . The following is the extract which should have accompanied the two incomprehensible lines : —]
THE KXOnT AKD THE PUTT . Ths * kaouti 5 a long , thick , and strongly-plaited whip , at the end of which is a tongue of leather , something the shape of an arrow-head , but hard andheavy . It is principally the skill of the executioner which renders the instrument so formidable . He is always himself a con-¦ iemned felon , who is pardoned on condition of _exercising this calling for twelve successive years . Daring tbis dme-lie is incessantly practising , and can generally use liis knout _withsuch effect as to smash a brick-bat to pow-• ier atthe first blow . He has two ways of killing his
victim when required : one is by binding a eord round the unci in such a manner , that by _his-own efforts the _sufferwr dislocates the vertebra ;; the next is , by cutting into the intestines , whieh he can generally do at once . Tlri _* _-, however , excepting in political cases , or to execute the vengeance of some official , he is never permitted to do , andit is of rare occurrence that death is the consequence of this punishment ; excepting , indeed , subsequently , on the two years'journey to Siberia , whither convicts are marched , chained together , and upon which a large proportion of them _perish , whether they hare received the
knout or not . The only difference between the punishment of the knout and of _thejiIUt is , that the latter , instead of being administered in public , is given within the walls of a siege , with an instrument a little less heavy than the knout , aud from the strokes of which it is very questionable whether the culprit suffers one iota less . A _-furtlicraoco'infc of these instruments ol torture is given in the chapter from which we have taken the extracts contained in the above articlo : — The pint Is a sort of knout , and in experienced hands is no less formidable ; and both are not , as it is _Talsarly imagined , mere-whips er _scourges , but the most
formidable instruments of torture and of execution ever devised . By the plitt _, as well as by the knout , the executioner can at every stroke tear out from the muscles on each side of the spine , pieces of flesh the size ofa walnut . With _aiiend-like dexterity , the little horny tongua ol boiled leather , whieh is fastened on a brass or iron ring at tlie extremity ofthe heavy thong , is just so much softened . -by _dippingitinmilk , as to enable it , after bruisin * t !« e fiesh , to draw ont the piece by the power of suction , US we sec schoolboys with a piece of wet leather and a string , lift up a brickbat . A few more strokes of the plitt _tlsan are required from the heavier knout will suffice to inflict a mortal injury , or to take life on tho spot .
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CoKoxEit 6 * _Ixquests helu Last Mokdat . —By Mr . Bedford , at the Grange , Carey-street , on the body efMr . Geor _« e Buckley , aged 34 , a paper-stainer , of 329 Strand . On the 2 Gtu of last June , his daughter fell down stairs , and cat her forehead . Upon seeing the child bleeding , his wife called out to tho deceased— "Father ! Father ! " At that time he was upon the steps leading to a loft at the back of tbe house , and , in hurrying down , he slipped and fell on the stone flags in the yard and broke his leg . Deceased _was removed to the hospital . Previous to the accident , the deceased had been very unwell , and exceedingly depressed in his mind , and he had frequently said that he thought some _lie-ivv troublwas hanging over his head . The leg was set by one of the dressers ofthe
hospital , and Mr . Partridge , one of the professors , saw him _t- _* c same evening , and the _lmbs went on very favourablv for three weeks , when delirium came on , and mortification followed . Mr . _rcrgnsson poriormd amputation of the le » on fuesday week , but deceased died on Friday night . Verdict , « 'Accidental death . "_ At the Wellington , Samuel-street , St . George in the East , before Mr . W . Baker jun on John Maclean , aged 44 , a seaman on board tiie Vlctor , lying in the London Docks . On Saturday afternoon , deceased wasgtandmgonthe upper decks , engaged in _removiBg some wwl , with his back towards the hatchway , whon he _suuaenly fell down to the bottom of the ship'B hold a distance of seventeen feet , _fraetHrino * hia skull ' Verdict , "Accidentaldeath . " * _e _*« _« u _^
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"'" ¦ ; \ _ ( From tl _^ _ffmf 8 . r ' _- _y- _» The following extract from a private letter , which has been kindly handed to us for publication , gives a vivid account of a very serious outbreak at Cologne- *— COLOGNE Aug . 9 th . Ifydear _*—— , I received your kind letter on Tuesday last , for which many thanks , and repl y to it in haste , _sooner than I intended , fearing you might all be alarmvd and anxiousby the newspaper reports of the disturbanees in Cologne . We have indeed very narrowl y escaped a serious _revolution , and although very great excitement still exists , still I trust , by the Government not having _i-eeourso to _^ Violent measures , that all will end well . I must now give you some account of ' the affair . It all arose from one ofthe kirmess ' s , or Saint ' s-day
feasts , and had no political grounds whatever . Last Sunday was St . Martin ' g _kirmess , which h » held in thai part of the town , near tbe "Rhine , and where the market place is . On the third day of the kirmess , ( Tuesday , ) some boys wanted to let off .-oroe _fire-works , which is hot allowed here . The police interfered , and the people , who were already niuch displeased by finding that piquets of soldiers had been placed about the market , began to murmer . The soldiers wera ordered to clear the market _plRee . This was of course resisted , as no cause had been given for such a proceeding , and in the fray a gendarme eut down and killed a man , literally hacking him to death . This was the signal for battle . I have heard from an eyewitness that it was something quite awful to witneBs the dread silence that prevailed , while
the priest administered the last sacrament to the poor dying creature . " Hundreds stood silent thero with faces whiu with passion and clenched fists , The battle then began between the soldiery and the people . The former behaved most shamefully , using their bayonets and swords upon every one they could reach . . At last the people began to throw down stones from the tops ef the houses . At eleven o ' clock the Dragoons came over from Deuts , dashing in amongst the people , and cutting them down without discrimination , shouting out , "Cut the Cologne canaille down , " "Down with the dogs , " _ifcc . This shameful conduct enraged the townspeople still more , bnt the military being too strong for them , they dispersed , and the streets were quiet by two in the morning , but not , I am sorry to say , without bloodshed .
Six were mortally wounded , ( four are since dead , ) and a very great number wounded more or lees . Amongst the latter were several of the principal townspeople who where returning home from the Casino , & c , and knew nothing of the riot until they were attacked and cut down by parties of soldiery , who came dashing up the streets as if they were mad . Clergymen , bankers , merchants , all shared the same fate . They made twentytwo prisoners , mostly people who had nothing to do with the affair . You may imagine the excitement that prevailed the next day . The heads of the town called on the Burgomaster to call a meeting . This he did , at which all the first citizens wore present , thus making it no longer an affair of the rabbl » , to assert their rights as citizens of Cologne . The presence of the commanding
general , Von de Lundt , was required ( I forgot to say it was by his orders that the troops fell « n the people , and a severe remonstrance was made to him and the president of the town The prisoners wire required to he set at liberty , and also a promise demanded that the troops should all be consigned to their barracks , that neither the police or the soldiery should patrol the town , and that citizens , the heads of the town , should be permitted to form a guard of themselves to patrol the streets , in which case they would ensure the peace of the town . But they told the military authorities in plain terms , that if this was refused and the military or police acted , they would not- answer for the _consequences .
You have seen enough of Cologne , to knew thatthe people must be in a dreadful state of excitement to dare to ask so much . There was no use in striving with the _ptKiple , so at 3 in the afternoon the answer was returned from Berlin by telegraph that the terms were to be conceded , Upon this 600 ofthe chief citizens formed themselves into companies , and the town remained quiet , although thousands assembled at the market ; yet hy means of a few well-timed remarks and gentle persuasion , the peace was not again broken . It is impossible to describe the anxiety that prevailed until thefavourable answer was given , and well it was for us all tbat the Government was wise enough to give way ; had it been otherwise , llea _\ _-en knows what _m- ' ght have happened .
It has since been ascertained that the working classes had taken their measures secretly , to act in a most decided manner in case the citizens were not allowed to take charge of the town . All the workmen and boatmen at the Rhine had provided themselves with long _knit-es . and intended to cut off the bridge and sent it floating down the river , so as to prevent the Dragoons from coming near . The common market people had provided themselves with sithes . Other workmen , armed with their workinf tools , were to attack and storm tbe arsenals , so as to provide themselves with arms and ammunition ; another party were to . attack and burn the barracks , drive tbe military out , and take possession of the town ; in short , a most fearful revolution was planned , and would have been executed most surely , if the Government had notgiven way . The citizen guard were unarmed , and yet they kept the rabble quiet by telling ihem they must now commit , any excesses , for the honour ofthe town . So much for V 7 cdnondny _,
On Thursday , the cooper , the man who was first killed , was buried , and the citizens determined to follow him to the grave , not so much on account ofthe man , as for the purpose of making a demonstration to the Government el the real feelings of the people . 1 never saw such a sight . Hot as it was ( 95 deg . in the . Ehade , East Indian heat , ) everybody was in the streets . Every window on the line of road was filled with women . The procession was more than half an hour passing the house I was in . Generally , thc processions here are headed by the police to clear the way , but this time there was nothing of the kind . Not a ghost of a police officer , soldier , or officer _, was to be seen in the town . The way was cleared by the church vergers , then followed two fine bands of music ( not military , ) then one of the singing societies , then a
groat number of priests , with candles , crosses , & c , then the hearse , decorated with festoons and evergeens , and wreaths of immortelles , then another cross . The hearse was imrae _» liatcly followed by the friends and fellow _, workmen . After them , came the "Manner Gesangverein , " singing as they only can sing , and they were followed by at least 5 , 000 citizens of Cologne , in a tripleline , with uncovered heads , and in perfect silence , among whom 3 , 000 were of the most respectable class of the peop _' o , as no great house was unrepresented either by the principal himself orsome one for him . Those whoformed the citizen guard wore a white ribbon in the button-hole . You may judge what this gcard is , when I tell yon that Engel , the first merchant here , is one of them , besides bankers , & c , Not a word was spoken amongst the dense crowds of people while the funeral passed , every head was uncovered , and you might have heard a pin drop . After
it was over , they all returned quietly to their homes . But in the evening there had nearly been an uproar again , through the folly of the commandant , who had _ordcreiltlic guardto be doubled atthe chief guard-house . The people found this out and began to assemble in great numbers , threatening to storm it , and getting stones together for that put-pose , but the citizen guard came and persuaded them to disperse , which they promised to do if they would let them sing one song . This they were obliged to do , so they fiang a sort of revolutionary song and ' went off , I should tell you that the mayor and the citizens sent to the commandant , and remonstrated with him for having doubled the guard , thereby exciting the people to riot . After much ado he was obliged to witlMraw it , and all went off quietly . Friday _nipht everything was quiet . Knots of the people met here anil there , but nothing further .
Yesterday ( Saturday ) , the citizens held a _meetin- ; ( which by the bye they haddoneevery day for-the purpose of receiving the reports ofall those who had been attacked by the military . The Chief Justice , a sort of little Lord Chancellor here , is as enger as any of thom in the cause , although he is a Government officer . We were all put _inaft-ight yesterday , in consequence ofa proclamation from the Government having been sent to be inserted in the paper for to-day , in which the guard of the citizens were ordered to dissolve , and the military were to keep Ihe streets clear . It contained alio observations on the Tuesday's massacre , tending to rekindle the anger of the people . The editor of the paper laid it before the committee of citizens , and itwas immediately resolved to protest against this proclamation . A deputation waited on the President and General Van de Lundt , and told them what they thought , advising the withdrawal of the
obnoxious proclamation , and offering to give up their Sunday ' s pleasure ( a great thing for a Colognois to do ) , provided they would give them a promise ih writing that neither police or military should interfere with the people to-duy ( Sunday ) , but leave the citizen guard to keep order and quiet . If they were refused , and the military allowed to act , then they said the Government must be answerable for any excesses committed by the people , a to . day there is what they call an after-kirmess in the same parish . After obstinately refusing for some time , the heads of tlie Governmentat last gave way , the permission for the gusrd of citizens to continue their functions was granted , and the proclamation withdrawn , so it is to be hoped that to-night will pass off quietly , though some still entertain fears lest the lower orders , in their cups , which they always indulge in at these _kirmesss , should forget themselves . I shall not close my letter till to-morrow , in case there should be anything to communicate .
Monday , August 10 . —Thank God , the night has passed orer quietly . The streets were of course full of people , excited enough , but more with joy at having for the second time got the mastery than anything else , and I ti ust now that everything will subside into its usual quiet . We arc now all pondering what the King will s : iy nnd > ' 0 . At the present he is ns still as a mouse , possibly waitiug till the flame has burned ou t . The principal citizens are drawing up a protocol which is to he presented to the King in person by a deputation of the first people in thc town , giving a fair statement of the affair ,
and also it is said they intend complaining of the excessive dcirness of evrrything here , begging for a diminution of the taxes with which Cologne is burdened , on account of being a fortress . I hope and trust that all will end well , for though nn absolute monarch , he has certainly shown himself to be a good King , and it is to bo hoped that he will show his moderation now . Next Sunday is _kirmesB in our parish , and I assure you we look forward to it witli some anxiety , as the St . Giles' of Cologne is situated in our parish , and if any disturbance was to break out , it would be no joke In snch a low neighbourhood , but , there is yet a whole week to that , and in tbat
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day . We have al 50 had a shock of an earthquake her * , bnt very slight . "We did not knowit . ' It seems that this year is to be an eventful one . Business is still very bad , and no wonder , with the hot weather and this state of confusion . Adieu .
What Will, The Protectionists Do?
WHAT WILL , THE PROTECTIONISTS DO ?
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TO TUB EDITOR OF THB MORNING * POST . .. 5 ra r ° _t ? ° _^ i ' _^ more > and x _have done . Do the "Protectionists" intend to yield , to- the Freetraders ? Or dp tbey hope to triumph over their foes ? Shall the hoax that has been so successfully played upon them prove to be a reality ? Or will the -Protectionists" expose : the trick , and assert the truth ? So far , the Free-traders have the game in their hands ! Ib it the wall of "thecountry party that the Free-traders shall win ? If so , let the " Protectionists" sound the retreat , give up the game , and , like men , acknowledge tliat they are heaton .
Be it remembered , however , _thatthe game once lost , can never be regained ! Free Trade in commodities ,. implies Free Trade in institutions ! The _levellinir spirit will not stop at corn or cattle , or _coMs . or labour . It will , if not resisted , ride _roughshod over crowns and mitres ! and coronets—aye , and funds ! . ' The spirit of the Censtituiion being once broken , we shall be governed hereafter by the sordid spirit of commerce , upon the principle of "buy at the cheapest market . " Gain will change place . with honour—the high and noble spirit of chivalry will yield to the sordid trickster's _grasping resolution to obtain wealth ! The Crown may still glitter , but it will be held in subjection by the mean ! The coronet may shrine , but not on the brow of the Noble '
Well , well , if it must be so , the glory of England is faded , and her most sordid sons will be her proper _mlers . "If her nobles consent , they deserve their doom ! If they dare not resist , they prove that they are not true sons of their reputed sires ! _** ¦ . How often have I warned thc aristocracy of England— "that when , in an evil day , they consented to disinherit tbe poor—by the enactment of an unchristian and unconstitutional law—thev were selfshorn of their locks—and reduced to feebleness ' . " How feeble they now are , Mr . Cobden can tell .
Still , if justice has a place in the _heartB of British Peers —there is . hope . Let them give back the paupers' right—and thus deserve their own . ' If not , they are justly doomed ! Jam , Sir , Yours respectfully , Richard _Oastler . # P . S . Take my word , Sir , if the Nobles intend justice for the people—the , people "ill very soon set the League right . R , 0 . London , _Augusts , 184 G .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE IIMES . Sir , —The state of moral degradation which is daily being brought to light by the proceedings of the Andover Committee , will not , I hope , be without salutary effect . We have been accustomed to view the New Poor Law as an _engine of oppression , to drive the poor from national relief , We knew that it was a most dangerous innovation , an utterly unconstitutional and _unsocial institution . We now find that its internal machinery ( irrespective of its baneful influence
externally ) is demoralizing to a decree that eould not have been anticipated—reducing its chief ofiieers , nay , even the Home Secretary , commissioners , and assistant-commissioners , in no other light than that of p lotters , contriving and working out ( under the cover ofa false report ) the means to silence a member of Parliament ! Nay , we knew that the dishonest scheme ( although unsuccessful with reference to the hon . member for Knaresborough ) has placed the House of Commons in a most humiliating positionthat ofa party in a foul conspiracy against one of its own members !
My present object is not to inquire what punishmoni _awrtUo the delinquents . It is to ask , will the House of Commons allow its present session to nxpire without rescinding tho resolution which was intended to whitewash Sir James Graham , and to " blackball , " the noble-hearted Ferrand ? Surely , after tbe exposures now daily takipg place , my friend will be vindicated , and his traducer condemned ! Else , the House of Commons will become a willing party to one of the meanest and most degrading crimes . In due time we must inquiro , what punishment the constitution awards to the concoctors of such a scheme as theNew Poor Law ; and to the perpetrators of such crimes , as the late Home Secretary and the New Poor Law officials have committed ? Let what may befal thera , I do hope there is honesty enough in the Ilouse of Commons to shake off . all connexion with such degrading
proceedin _f- * . .. .. _. ¦ ¦ . ; _, I think , Sir , the time is not far distant when we shall be gratified by witnessing the total repeal ef the hated New Poor Law . I remain , Sir , your m _« st obliged servant , Riciunu OASTLtri . London , August 13 . P . S . —How humiliating is the reflection—these self-convicting persons are those who , for so many years , have held in their disposal the rates and the poor of England ! making laws , and _balieving in their own infallibility ! How are tbe mighty fallen
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MATERIALS FOR THINKING , TO THE EDITOR OP TIIE _NORTHERN STAB . Dear Sib , —I have great pleasure in forwarding you the sum of nine _sbillingB _, —for that sterling old democrat " Daddy Richards . '" Some of my constituents have suggested the propriety of purchasing him a four-acre allotment , while others think , if he had a cow he might be -enabled to get a living , and be in no fear of finishing his days in the horrid Poor Law Bastile . Under any circumstances , it would be an eternal disgrace to the Chartists of England to allow him to want . We are willing to act in any way which may be deemed be ? t to render assistance to our aged Patriots .
It is our intention to uominence a fund forthwith , to assist Messrs , "Williams and Jones , whicli we hope the people generally will respond to . Tho memorials In bohall ' of tlie Welsh Exiles should be proceeded with at the earliest opportunity , backed up by Petitions numerously signed from all parts ofthe country ; this would pave thc way for the great _Aixtionol _/' cUlioa / _oi-thc People ' s Charter , to be presented early in the next session of Parliament , whicli Petition is to be acoompanied to the House by thousands of thc people and their delegates to the next Convention . When bad men conspire , good men ought to combine , let our mottos he "Organize , Organize , Organize , "" "Onward and we Conquer , " "The People ' s Charter , " and "No Surrender . " I am , dear Sir , Your ' s truly , . Tamer Swbet .
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Snociuxo and Fatal _Gccuiuu-nce os the Great Westeiw Railway . —On Monday nigbt , upon the arrival ofthe nine o ' clock train from Bristol , the engine , as usual , was stopped within _half-a-mife of the Paddington terminus , for the purpose of affording an opportunity of collecting of tickets ; when Mr . George Grant , aged fifty-six , of Anne-strcet , Staple-street , Bermondsey , feeling somewhat unwell , look the opportunity of opening the door of the carriage he was in , being disposed to vomit ; unfortunately , at the moment of his doing so , the train went on , and by
the sudden jerk thereby occasioned , Mr . Grant was precipitated from the carriage on to the line , when the wheels of several carriages _passed over him . lie was picked up as speedily as possible , and carried to St . George's Hospital , where upon examination it was discovered that one of his legs were broken in two places , and that he was otherwise injured internally . Every attention was paid to bim by the surgeons at the institution , but their efforts unhappily proved fruitless , as the patient expired ina few hours after his admission .
Singular _Ronnunr . —On'Ttiesflay , Mr . Inspector Henderson , belonging to the New Cross station , Kent-road , gave information to Mr . Superintendent Mallalicu _, at Ihe station of the R division ofthe Metropolitan Police , in the "Blackhenth-road , that tbe galvanic apparatus used forthe electric telegraph had been stolen . He had no clue to the robbery , but it was suspected that ft party of low fellows frequenting thc vicinity of the spot where the apparatus had Been fixed were tbo thieves . It was used lately for the purpose of trying experiments on the cutting through tile inclined plane between the Kent-road _, station and Sydenham . It had been placed at considerable exi » and would / if sold as old metal to _daalers in marino stores , feU very _Httte . B _jJ . _' _^ J ever , be made no other use of . Mr . Henderson _jeit an engraved plan ofthe apparatus , for the purpose of assisting the police in _tlTwr exertions to Uacc the _property .
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_X ., r ,, ' _,-- » . _v-- _* , ' _... _^~ _.- < _-.-- _™ _r _^ _- _. A- * - _- _-D- 'l ' _-I _^ _Toproride for removing the Charge of the _Consta-. bulary Force in Ireland from the Counties , and fer ' enlarging the Reserve Force ; and to make further Provision for the Regulation and Disposition of tho said constabulary Faroe . Bo it therefore Enacted , by The _QUEEN ' s _mesk Excellent Ma jestt , by and with the Ad vie * and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons , in this present Parliament assembled , and by the . Authority of the same , THAT from and after the pasting of this Act , so much of tho saw ! recited Aets , or any of them , or of any other ' Act or A _ets as provides that One Moiety of the . monies advanced imtoi the Consolidated Fund for the payment of any I cit . tnecosts _ and expenses ofthe said Constabular y
rorce or the said Reserve Force , or of any part thereof , shall be defrayed by aiiy comity , county of a city , or county of a tewn , barony , half-barony or place in Ireland , or by presentment of any Grand Jury in Ireland , or as provides that any part of tbe ostB , charges or expenses of tho said Constabulary Force or tke said Reserve Force shall be borne or paid by or raised or levied by any such county , county ofa city , county ofa town , barony , half-barony , or place , save and except as hereinafter mentioned , shall be and is hereby repealed , save and except as to any matter or thing , heretofore dono , or any sum or sums of money hertofore become due and payable and now remaining in arrear and unpaid . And be it Enacted , That from and after the passing of this Act , all menies duly payable , and all _neotssary and reasonable costs , charges and expenses
tor and m , respect of the said Constabulary Force and the said Reserve Force respectively , under the provisions of the said reoited Acts or any of them , or any Act amending tho same , or of this Act , and also for or in respect of the addition to the said Reserved Force hereinafter provided , ' shall , save as hereinafter mentioned , be charged upon and paid from time to time out of the produce of the _Conss-. 'idated Fund of the United Kinedom of Great Britain and Ireland ; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of >• Her Majesty ' s Treasury , or any Three or more of tbem to order that all such sum or sums of money as they shall think _noceesary for tke purposes aforesaid shall from time to time lie advanced and paid out of the produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland arising in Ireland .
AND whereas by the said _fii-st-recited Act it is amongst other things enacted , that it shall and may bo lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland , by the advice ofthe Privy Council of Ireland , to declare by proclamation , that any county , couuty ef a city or county ofa town in Ireland , or any barony or baronies , haltbarony or half-baronies in any . county at large , or , any district of less extent than any barony or half-barony to be therein specified , is or are in a state of disturbance , and requires or require an additional Establishment of Police ; and thereupon it shall and may be
lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant , or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland , to appoint such and so many Chief Constables , Constables and Sub-Constables as he or they shall _thinK proper , not exceeding 0 ie such Chief Constable , Two Head Constables , and Fifly each Constables or Sub- Constables for any one barony or half-barony , or or any county of a city or county of a town or district of less extent than any barony or hall-barony which may have been so declared to be in a state of _disturbanee : And ithereas it is expedient that in any case such as last aforesaid th said restriction as to the number of sueh Chief und
other Constables so tobe appointed should le removed ; BE it therefore Enacted , That in any such case as in thc said recited provision mentioned , it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland , ta appoint , or cause to be placed , for or in any barony or half-barony , or for or in any county of a city or county of a town or district of less extent than any barony or halt-barony which may have been so declared to be in a state of disturbance , and also ( if he or they shall so think
fit , ) for er in any barony or half-barony , or county of a city or county ofa town , or district ojf less extent than any barony or half-barony adjoining to a barony or half-barony or county ofa city er county of a town or district which may have been so declared to be in a state of disturbance such and so many additional Sub-Inspectors , Head Constables , Constable and Sub-Constables , exceeding the numbers aforesaid , as he or they shall think proper , and to remove such Sub-Inspeotors , Head Constables , CoMtaMesand _M-CtmsHibles , or any of them , from lime lo time ,
And whereas it is expedient that the said Reserve Constabulary Force provided and appointed under the said recited Act ofthe second and third years of the reign of Her present Majesty should be increased in number : BE it therefore Enacted , That in addition to the number of Sub Inspectors , Head Constables , Constables and Sub-Constables , which by the _lass-recitod Act the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors is or are empowered to appoint as and for a Reserve Force , it shall " b * ° wful for the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chiei'Governor
or Governors to appoint Two additional Sub-Inspectors . nin _, ' ~ <« iJU ! o ... vi-ii « .. d _oonstauiesanu _auy-m ' i . uber not exceeding Tivo hundred additional Cons ' _iables and Sub-Constables , who shall constitute am- shall be deemed to be a part of the said Reserve For < e , and shall be subject to ali and every the provisio ns and regulations applicable to thc said Reserve Force under tho said Act of the second and third years oi thc reign of Her present Majesty , or any Act amending the same , save so far as such provisions may be altered by this Act .
Provided always , and be it Enacted , That in any case in which , under . the . provisions of the said firstrecited Act , Seven er more Magistrates of any country at large , at any General or Special Sessions held as therein mentioned , ia manner therein forth , shall certify or shall have eertified to the said Lord Lieutenant , or other Chief Governor or Governors , that the number of Chief of otV . er Constables or Sub-Constables appointed for any such county is inadequate to the due execution of the law within the same , and thc said Lord Lieutenant , or other Chief Governor or Governors , shall by reason thereof appoint or shall have appointed a further number of Sub-Inspectors , Head Constables , Constables or Sub-Constables in or for such county as so certified to be
necessary , or in any case in which any part of tho Reserve Force aforesaid shall have been or shall be removed to or employed in any county , county of a city or county of a town , barony , half barony or district , by virtue of any such order of the Inspectorgeneral as aforesaid ¦ or in ease tho number of the Constabulary Foree in or for any barony , half barony , crunty of a city , county of a town or district of less extent than any barony or half barony , shall be increased by the Lord Lieutcnant or other Chief Governor or Governors stationing or appointing therein or therefore _addditionil Sub-Inspectors , Head Constablos , Constables or Sub-Constables as aforesaid or otherwise , then and in any ot such cases , nothing in this act shall extend to he
construed to extend to relieve any such county , county of a city or county of a town , barony , half barony or district from the payment of One moiety ofthe costs and exnenses of such further or . argumented number of the Constabulary Force or of such Reserve Force as aforesaid , but in cither or any of sueh cases such moiety shall be payable and shall be raised in like manner as a moiety of the expenses of such further number of the Constabulary Force , or as any such part of the Reserve Force , while remaining in'that county , county ofa city or county of a town to which they may be " removed by virtue of such order as hereinbefore recited is now payable , or may now be raised under the said recited Acts respectively , or cither ofthem .
And be it Enacted , That from and after the passing of this Act , the officers heretofore under the provisions of tlie said Act of the second and third years Of ller present Mnjesty ' s reign , sty led '' Provincial Inspect _> rs , " shall henceforth be styled " Ausistant Deputy Inspectors General . "
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TRADKS , FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRY . Tiie Central Committee met at their office , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury , on Tuesday , August the 18 th . Mr . Bonell in the Chair . After the reading of Correspondence , whicli occupied a considerable time , it was announced that the Nail makers of Liverpool had sent in their adhesion , and with it tbeir first month's contribution . " That the weekly levies , towards the JE 20 , 000 funds , must be remitted monthly , or ofteimr , in order to entitle the trades to the support of the Association . "
Mr . Jacobs ( Bristol ) having been appointed Missionary , vice Mr . Robson , who , in consequence of his engagements in the management of thc _Workmeiis' own shop , cannot leave the metropolis at present will proceed on his mission to the following places in the order as they stand ;—Edinburgh , " on Monday next , whero he will attend the trades in the Scotch capital , and surrounding towns immediately , and proceed thence to Holy town , Glasgow , Paisley , and thence make his way to Carlisle , visiting the manufacturing towns en route , from thence lie will pass through Cumberland and Westmoreland , into Lancashire , Cheshire , Staffordshire , Warwickshire , Northamptonshire , to London , visiting all thc trades in the districts through which he will pass .
Mr . _RonsoK , at the request of the framo work knitters , is deputed to attend tho three counties meetings at Nottingham , on Monday next , August the 2 'lth . Alter the transaction of much routine business , the Committee adjourned until _Monday August the 24 th ,
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Fall of _Tiihee Houses . —Yesterday three small houses in the Mint , Southwark , which have been built upwards of 300 years tumbled down in one mass of ruin . They had been for some time condemned as unfit to be inhabited ; but , nevertheless , eight families were housed in them . Fortunately the greater part of the members wero absent at tintime _ithose who were in the house were warned , aiid escaped without receiving any injury .
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Per Afr . Ross , Dunterlie "Mill , Barrhead , per John Campbell - _¦« _- . . Andrew Loudon * " ' * J } ° G « t . 8 id » , _PrintneId , pe » John Tec ' 0 i e Balance of Victim Fund , Barrhead per Andrew Loudon , Treasurer ' 0 3 2 Book No . 8 , per James Clarkson ... l is j > Alloa , per James C , _Laing . ... 8 2 4 ¦ . * 5 7 9 _Ptr . Mr . Moir . A Tradesman _, „ 0 1 o Robert Perry ... o 1 o Hi A . ... 0 1 o
From _Paisky , per Thomas "Snows . Por IV . Park and Robert Cochrane . 2 8 0 * Seedhill factory , per J , Sutherland 0 7 7 _Garthland factory , per * W . Muir 0 4 . 9 Caledonia factory , per J . Duncan 0 5 7 A number of Friends , per A . Gtvinnell 0 7 4 } Ditto ditto par A . Wright 0 6 0 Ditto ditto per J . Gilmour 0 12 J . Motherwell . 0 2 0 A number of Friends , per John _Pinkstons > t- 0 12 C Ditto ditto per T . Brown 0 S 01 Sundry small sums .. 0 1 4 ~ r _, _, £ 6 4 4 Deduct , previously announced from " ) John _Stutt _, Greenock , having been ( intended for the monument to f ° _** Hardle and Baird _, J >¦ . i i 4 9 4 £ 56 8 7 Subscriptions receired by Mr . Georoe Rogers , acting Treasurer to the Fund , up to August the 20 th , 1846 . Already acknowledged ... 266 18 3 ColleoUonsperT . M . "Whtele » , thirapaymBnt " 3 " 5 10 £ 270 4 1 i ii
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GREENWICH . . On Monday a very respectably attired middle-aged man , described in the police sheet as Ilenry Loe , of Haggerstone , lungsland-road , London , linendrapor , was brought before Mr . Traill , charged . with indecently , exposing his person , threo distinct times , to nurserymaids , having the care of children , in Greenwich Park , under the following circum . stances : —( Mr . Hodson , of Commercial-road East , solicitor , attended forthe prisoner . ) J . Long , a very prettygirlj aged 15 , deposed that she is nurserymaid in Mr . R . Stedall ' s ftimily , ironmonger , Nolson-street , _Greenirich . 6 n Saturday afternoon , between half-past 4 and 5 o'clock , she was walking mth the children on tho lawn fronting the . Asylum wall in the park . ' . Tha prisoner stood near the wall and deliberately exposed his person . _Witnass walked away » and the prisoner proceeded iu the samo direction near somo trees , and again exposed himself . Had no doubtthat he did so intentionally . He turned round to see ff
any person obserrod him before ths second oft ' once . Witness then made hor way up the park , and told a fruit woman whom she met what had taken place , and she went in search ofa police constable . James Jeffries , aged 12 , deposed that his mother sells fruit in the park . He was with her on Saturday afternoon . Witness was on _Flamsted-hill , and _b « ii the prisoner by the side ot the •• Royal Observatory next Maize-hill . The prisoner had his back to a tree , and was exposing his person to two ladies with _, children , and was laughing at them . Witness rim away and told a police constable , who apprehended the prisoner , but the ladies had gone away . A girl told witness ' s mother that the prisoner , had beeu guilty ol similar con . duct _abont' 2 e minutes previously . Braddick , R 64 , deposed that he apprehended tlie prisoner , who was quite sober at the time . The witness Jeffries pointed the prison * r * out , and told him distinctly what he had seen . The prisoner did not deny it , but said ho was sorry to have such an
accusation againat him . Witness took prisoner to -. Mr . Stedall ' s house , and whilethere heremarked that he should like to palliate the offence , or some such word , Jfr _, Robert Stcdall , of Nelson-street , Greenwich , deposed that Jan _« Long is his servant , * nd has the care of bis children . They were directed to take a walk in the park on Saturday last . Witness was in his counting hous » when the prisoner was _brought Into the shop by the police constable . The nature of tlie case having been communicated to witness by the police-constable in the prisoner ' s presence , he turned and said he was very sorry for what had happened ; that he did not attempt to palliate the matter , and continued to apologize ; but . on _being told that lie must go to the station house , replied , "Oh , I don't mean to acknowledge any . thing ; the aft ' aii- was merely an accident . " . .. The ; witnesses were subjected to a long cross-examination by , Mr . Hodgon , but their testimony ' was not only unshaken , but move fully satisfied the m " _iRistrate of its correctness . The charge was denied , and a defence set lip that the prisoner
was labouring under an inward complaint , and was in a corner by the asylum wall , when some boys threw stones while so engaged , which caused him suddenly to turn ,, not thinking for a moment of _exposing ' hi * _«¦•; ' _- ~ . ~'' f _^ _"' _™ .. _» . J ? . «» - _ ... _* -. _« ... t-. „ ie «> ' _»\ iimrat 8 aud distinct charges had been proved against tho prisoner . He was sorry to see a person apparently so respectable in life in such a , disgraceful situation . If he was a person of high rank , or a near relative , it would bo his imperative duty to _cohyict , let the consequences be ever so distressing . A clearer case of guilt lie dia not remember . Thepruonor said he had been brought to the station house through a heavy rain , and kept in a miserable cell 2 G hours in that state . Mr . Traill said the prisoner was liable , for so serious an offence , to be imprisoned in the House of Correction and kept to hard labour for threo months . He would , however ,, considering that he had already received some punishment , mitigate the sentence to 10 weeks'imprisonment and hard labour iu the county gaol . ' The prisoner left the bur ex . claiming that it would be his total ruin .
Death From Eating Poisonous Berries. An ...
DEATH FROM EATING POISONOUS BERRIES . An inquest was held on Wednesday , at thc London Hospital , before Mr . W . Baker , jun ., on the body of Thos . Parks , late proprietor of the Veteran _beershop , in the _Whitechapel-rpad , who died inthe above institution on Monday last , from the effects of eating poisonous berries , suspected to be those ofthe deadly nightshade . A child named Samuel' Jones , aged three years , died in the same hospital on Tuesday , from a , similar cause . There are three other persons in a dangerous state in the hospital , who _liave partaken ofthe poisonous berries . On Sunday afternoon the wife ofthe deceased purchased a pint of berries , for which ahe paid 3 d ., of a man inthe garb of a countrymen , ' who had two baskets on his arm , one containing herbs , the other * berries , described as being about the size ofa small sloe . The man said they were nettle berries , and superior t » black currants in the manufacture of home-made winestarts , pies and puddings . Mrs . Parkei ; said
, that Sunday was the anniversary of her _weddni _^ -dhj , She formed the berries into a pie , of which her husband and herself partook . About one o ' clock on Sunday , while they were eating the pie , the child of a customer ( tlte deceased Jones ) came in , aud looked very anxiously ac the pie . She gave him some . About two hours after eating the pie . the wiraesa . her husband , and the ehild , wero violently affected with pains in their limbs , drowsiness , and convulsions . A medical gentleman was called in who' attempted to administer emetics to the sufferers , but Parker was unable to swallow it and ho became quite delirious . Tlie uufortunate man died on tlie following morning , after enduring great agony . The child expired twenty-four hours afterwards . After a long discussion the inquiry was adjourned , to afford the police an opportunity of . finding the man who sold the bsrries .
Military Outrage.—Early On Tuesday Morni...
Military Outrage . —Early on Tuesday morning , two privates of the 52 d Light Infantry , who were mi guard at tlie barracks , Brecon , deserted from tbeir posts , taking with them their accoutrement ? , firearms , and ten pounds of ammunition each . They first of all proceeded to a cottage near Brecon , called Turnpike Bach , and demanded money and victuals , which they succeeded in obtaining , presenting their loaded muskets at the terrified inmates . The villains then went to two or three farm-houses , and got beer , liquor , and money in the same manner , stating that thirty more of their comrades were following
them . Fortunately , however , their career was but of short duration , for the serjeant of the guard , upon going his rounds , missed tho men in ten minutes after their desertion , and soon went in pursuit : they were found in an intoxicated state in Wera "Wood , near Tioederhnrn , about three miles from ' Brecon . Upon the gnard coming up , one of them levelled his p iece and threatened to fire , when they surrendered . The men were brought before tho magistrates' on Wednesday , and the case adjourned , to enable all the parties upon which contributions were levied to come forward to prosecute tho offenders . —Cambrian .
- Tim Championship of tub Thames . —This grcafj aquatic contest , which has created so much sensation , and beeii the theme of conversation for some time , between Charles Campbell and Robert Coombea _, for £ 100 a side and tho Championship of the _ThiflmeB , came oil ' on Wednesday afternoon , and terminated ia Coombes arriving at the winning boat ene minute and three-quarters before his opponent _^^ performing tlie distance in _twcnty-sevcu minutes , ihe attendance was _vory great , the shore being thronged wittt spectators , and an immense number of cutters , steamers , Ac ., wore on the river .
_Incendiabism _w _KmuDALE Gaol—On Wednesday forenoon , a prisoner in Kirkdale Gaol of the name of Samuel Greathead was _brought before Thomas Rawson , Esq ., one of the county j magistrates , on a charge of having wilfully and maliciously set fire , last evening , to a part of the gaol known b y the name of the Western-lodge , in which th _« warders of tl » priBon usually sleep . Tho prisoner , who declined to say anything in his defence , or to _crosa _^ xamin e thc * y _*| - nesses , was fully committed for trial at the _aa = « C 5 now being held ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 22, 1846, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_22081846/page/7/
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