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The Bermondsey Murder. M"Ex «K^-^The Man...
the bishop ofthe diocese as a day of humiliation , in which case tbe prisoners would be brought up on Thursday instead . They were then remanded until Wednesday . Mrs . Manning stood during the whole examination , but her husband remained seated , except when some ofthe witnesses were called upon to identif y him , when he stood up for a moment . The proceedinos did not terminate -until near five o ' clock , when ihe prisoners were taken hack in the van to the gaol .
WEDNESDAY . The court had much the same aspect as on the last occasion , except that the number of ladies present on the bench and through thc court was greater than we have yet seen . At three o ' clock the van was despatched for the prisoners , who were _brought into court at a quarter past . They were dressed as on Saturday , and bore much tlie same appearance in health , Mrs . Manning looking quite ¦ well , and her husband still pale and sickly . He did not , however , seem so dejected ; he walked more buopntly to his usual seat , and soon was observed to laugh somewhat merrily afc some fejnarkmade to him by his solicitor , Mr . Binns , who , with Mr . Solomons , had taken their seats at three o ' clock .
_Neither the magistrate nor the professional gentlemen for the prosecution were then present , nor did they enter the court for some time after the prisoners and all other _neccssavy persons appeared in their respective place ? . During the delay , which , * we believe , was occasioned by the absence of Mr . Bodkin , Manning held rather a long conversation with Mr . Solomons ; and Mrs . Manning ' s complexion , generally good , rose to a still deeper hue . She threw off her mantle , and changed her position , sitting with her back to the bench , by which she had an opportunity of glancing occasionally at her husband . She also appeared in good spirits , and "was several times observed to smile . At ten minutes
to four o clock the magistrate , Mr . Seeker , took his seat on the bench , and was followed hy Mr . Hay"ward , solicitor to the prosecution ; but Mr . Bodkin did not appear . The prisoners were then desired to rise . They both did so , which would lead to the belief that although Manning was still looking ill , he did not feel so , otherwise the same application would have "been made as on the last day for the permission of the court to sit . Mrs . Manning , on rising , threw np her veil . The evidence of Mr . Coleman , the landlord , and Mr . GrifSn , the clerk of the Bank of England , was then read aloud to them previous to affixing their signatures .
Mr . Moxay , superintendent of police in Edinburgh , was then examined by the magistrate , and repeated ihe evidence tbat he had already given at the inquest and also at this office . When the witness came to relate what Mrs . Manning , in her conversation with him , said respecting her husband ' s ill treatment of her , particularly at Taunton , even to the extent of threatening her life , Mr . Solomons ohserved that that was not in the depositions , and ought not to be inserted . He submitted that whether for or against the female prisoner , the conversation should be inserted complete as the witness stated it . —Mr . Binns objected to any statement that had nothing to do with the charge against his client .
—Mr . Seeker agreed with Mr . Binns that it was unnecessary to take down anything that was antecedent to the transaction . —Mr . Solomons said , that if that were so the depositions already contained much that was antecedent to it . They contained part ofthe conversation that witness bad with his client , and hc contended that it ought either to he taken down complete or altogether expunged—The Magistrate was of a different opinion , aud ruled accordingly . —The evidence of Mr . Moxay , when concluded , was read over to him and signed . Boththe prisoners seemed to listen to it with much attention , and atthe close their faces were flushed as if they had been excited by the relation ofthe facts it contained .
Mr . HAMiio"sn , Clerk of Messrs . Kellick and Co ., stock brokers , was called on to give fresh , evidence . He stated , in reply to Mi * . Hayward , that on the 2 ' Jth August he went to the Bank of England to stop the £ 100 note , dated Sth of June , 1849 , which had been given to the person who represented himself as Mr . O'Connor . In reply to Mr . Bodkin ( who entered at this period of the proceedings , halfpast four o ' clock ) he stated that he was shown at the Bank of England the said - £ 100 note , and recognised it as that which he gave to Mr . Bassett ( deceased ) , and which he saw Mr . Bassett give to the person representing himself as Mr . P . O'Connor . He recognised it hy the number awl a _' so by the endorsement . These two circumstances enabled him to swear it was the same note . There was no one
present when he gave the note to Mr . Bassett . He had not the least hesitation in saying the prisoner at the bar was the person who received the £ 100 -note from the hands of Mr . Bassett as Patrick O'Connor . His evidence having been read over , he signed it . Mr . _Stevex-j , the stockbroker , was called , but did not appear , upon which the magistrate inquired if he had been duly served with a summons , ¦ aad thc police-officer answered that he had served him with one , and that he at the same time said he would come . He went for him since the court met , and was tqid he had gone into the country . The prisoners wore then remanded to two o ' clock on Thursday next .
Mr . _Bisxs and Mr . Solomoxs both applied to thc magistrate to order that the moneys , to which there was no other title , should he g iven to the prisoners to enable them to procure eminent counsel to defend them , the sum that had been awarded heing utterly inadequate . The magistrate declined to interfere further , observing that he declined with less reluctance as there was another authority which might be appealed to in the matter . The prisoners were then removed .
_Tiual of the Maxxlvcs . —The next session of ihe Central Criminal Court , at which Mr . and Mrs . Manning will bc tried for the Bermondsey murder , will commence on Alonday , the 22 nd of October . The presiding judges will be the Lord Chief Baron , . Sir P . Pollock , Mr . Justice Maule , and Mr . Justice Cresswell , and , in probability , therefore , the trial will take place before that first-mentioned judge . Mr . Ballantine and Mr . Parry have been retained to defend Mrs . Manning , and Mr . Sergeant Wilkins and Mr . Charnock , it is said , are , or will be engaged on behalf of thc male prisoner . A retainer on behalf of Mrs . Manning was sent to Mr . Clarkson , hut that gentleman had already been retained for the prosecution by the Treasury Solicitor . The counsel for the prosecution will be Air . Bodkin , Mr . Clarkson and Mr . Clerk . It is not known , as yet , whether the Attorney-General will lead the case for the crown .
Suspected Goilt of a Thibd Pabtt . —Since the last examination of Manning and his wife , at the Southwark Police Conrt , for the murder of Patrick O'Connor , a circumstance has come to light which is likely to throw guilt upon a third party . Mi * . Yates and Burton , on Friday ascertained that O'Connor was seen by a female who keeps a tobacconist and news shop * at twenty minutes before six , in company with Mrs . Manning , on the evening of thc murder . They passed her shop arm in arm , and proceeded towards London-bridge , followed about twelve yards in the rear by Manning and another man , whom she has minutely described . Itis , therefore , supposed that they all entered a public-house , *
while Mrs . Manning hurried off toO'Connor ' s lodgings , to ascertain whether his property was safe , and that , in the meantime , Manning and the other man contrived to get O'Connor to his house , where they were shortly afterwards rejoined by Mrs . Manning , and the murder committed . Circumstances of " unportanee , inculpating a third party , are known ; but until the whole affair has been laid before the authorities at the Home-office , it wonld be improper to publish the facts . On Friday Manning threatened to report the Governor of thc County Gaol to the Secretary of State , for p lacing two murderers in his cell . He considered that he oug ht fe have better company .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Thijrsdav . —The _E- * fieu > Mt-kd-er . — Caroline Cock , 2 S , was indicted for the wilful murder of her husband , John Cock , hy stabbing him to the heart with a knife . Evidence having been given , Mr . Baron Platt summed up , and the jury , after retirin _" half an hour , returned a Terdict of "Not Guilty . ' ' 3 The prisoner was ordered to be immediately discharged from custody . Friday . — . Attempted _Exronnox bt _meaks of Threatexdcg Letiebs . —T . Smith , 70 , and Harriet Smith , 27 , were indicted for feloniously sendin _*** a
letterio Sir Walter Rockliff _Farquhar and others , demanding money of them with menances , and without any reasonable and probable cause . Mr . Ballantine was for the prosecution , and Mr . Bodkin and Mr : Huddlestone were for the prisoners . Mr . Ballantine did not press the charge against the female , and a verdict of "Not Guilty was recorded with regard to Harriet Smith . A demurrer was then put in to the indictment on behalf of the male prisoner . The jury , however , returned a verdict of " Guilty , " bnt the point of law being _reservedjudgment was respited .
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_IscExniAKisa is tee City . —Last night Mr . Payne res _?™ ed 1 afc the Queen Tictoria , King-street , West bnuthfield , the inquiry ( adjourned from tbe 7 th _^ _ftant ) respecting three fires which occurred in the Alton Ale Stores , belonging to Mr . Ward , No . 30 , mthe same street . The jury returned a verdict _t . _^* _A prenuses _were "wilfully set on fire , bufc J _^ * not /> snfficientevidencetoproVe . " More Gbayeyaros CLosEn .-Thc Gazette of last S _^^ SHf rdet _4 fr 0 m tlie _G _^ ral Board llf Health for the discontinuance of interments in the _buAal grounds of Cadoxton , Glamorganshire ; of St . , George the Martyr , Southwark ; and in _Benamm-rfreet / and that of St . John , Clerkenwdl
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BOW STREET—In-decent ExposuaE . —Au elderly well-dressed man _. named _ThomasErskineGrant , described as an annuity-broker aud agent , residing at No . 1 , Salisbury-street , Strand , was placed at the bar before Mr . Jardine , charged with indecently exposing his person to two children . —Richard Wood , a lighterman , stated that about four o ' clock in tbe afternoon of Sunday he was attending to his barges afc tbe bottom of George-street , Adelphi , known as the dark arches , when he saw the prisoner at Mr . Haynesman _' s wharf with two female children , his trousers being open before them , and seeing that he was observed he walked away , followed bythe children . On meeting with the constable on the beat ,
and stating what he had seen , the officer considered there was not sufficient to take the prisoner into custody , which induced him to follow them to another wharf , where he again saw him expose himself to the children inside the folding doors of the steps leading to the Adelpbi-terrace , and the children having run away apparently frightened , he took the prisoner into custody , and handed him over to the constable . In answer to a solicitor , who attended for the prisoner , thc witness said he was a candidate for the situation of beadle , but it was uot on that account that he had come forward , but for the good of society . The evidence of the witness being partly confirmed by the constable and a porter employed on the Adelphi-pier . —Mary Anne Rollins , the elder of
the children , who was accompanied by her parents , said she with was her younger sister and an infant in Salisbury-street , when tho prisoner made them a present of a feir waJnnts , after which they went into Adam-street , where he followed them , and on arriving under the dark arches he gave them apples , still following them until they arrived at the steps leading to the terrace , where he acted in the manner described by tbe witness Wood , which caused them to run away from him , being much frightened . The younger sister of tbe witness having given similar evidence , the solicitor informed the court that he had not attended professionally , but was on terms of intimacy with the prisoner , who was remarkable for his kindness to children , not having any of his
own , although a married man , aud he believed he was totally incapable of acting in the disgraceful manner described * , but in consequence ofhis labouring under an infirmity he went under the arches , where persons seldom pass , being entirely ignorant that the children were near him . —The prisoner admitted that he was in tbe habit of giving fruit to children in the streets , as was well known to persoas who vend it , and his only object in going to such a retired place was for relief , which he very often required , as-could be proved by his medical attendant , from the nature ofhis complaint , and he had left his house for a short time intending to return in a few minutes . Several householders , who had known the prisoner for years , came forward and proved that he had lately-been married to a lady much younger than
himself , and that he always bore a most moral character . —Mr . Jardin said , that it was a very painful case , particularly as the prisoner not only moved in a respectable station , and , for anything that he knew tothe contrary , supported a spotless character 5 but he could not for a moment entertain the least doubt of the testimony given in support of thc charge , without imputing the most improper motives to the witnesses , in whose evidence there was not the slightest contradiction ; aud such being the impression ou his mind , he considered he would not be doing his duty impartially if he did not put the law in full force , by ordering the prisoner to be sent for three months to hard labour in the House of Correction . The prisoner , who seemed electrified at the sentence passed upon him , was then removed from the bar .
MARLBOROUGH-STREET . —Heabtl-ess Case of Desehtiox . —Frederick William Nicholl Crouch , of Surrey House , Surrey-lane , Battersea , music composer , was summoned for having deserted and made no provision for two illegitimate children , of which he was the father . —Mr . Chubb , solicitor , of Verulam-buildings , appeared for the complainant , and said the case was one of a most painful nature . His client had been seduced from a comfortable home ( the complainant was at the time in the service of the late Sir Francis Burdett , as lady ' s maid to Lady Burdett ) , under promise of marriage . Indeed some form of marriage had been gone through with the defendant , who represented himself as a single ma * - * .. She had borne the defendant two
children , and at the end of July last she and her children had been suddenly deserted , and left in a totally destitute condition . The complainant could nowhere be found , but ifc was well Known he had absconded with a female pupil , with whom he was now cohabiting . The defendant was in circumstances of sufficient affluence to enable him to support his offspring . He was a concert singer of some note , and known as the author of " Kathleen Mavourneen , " "Dcrmofc Astorc , " and other Irish songs . —Police-constable Scott proved that he had served two summonses personall y on the defendant at Battersea . —Elizabeth George , of No . 2 , Fitzroystreet , the mother , was examined . She had lived with the defendant as his wife for some time . She
had been taught afc first to believe that the defendant , who then lived at Portland-chambers , Great Titchfield-street , was a single man ; bufc she had since found out hehad a wife and family living . The marriage ceremony of tho Roman Catholics had taken place between them . ' The defendant had deserted her since July , and had done nothing towards the support of his children . The defendant had robbed her of the little property she had saved and of her furniture , and had left her totally destitute . —Letters were then put in and read , in which the _defendantaddressedtnecomplrtinantashis "beloved wife , " and they were directed to Mrs . Crouch . —
Mr . Hardwick wished to know if therd was any other proof of the complainant and defendant having lived together as man and wife ?—A gentleman , named Williams , came forward and said that he knew the complainant and Mr . Crouch had lived together as man and wife for a considerable period . Mi * . Crouch always recognised the complainant as his wife , and witness had often heard him call the two children his own . —Mr . Hardwick said the evidence was sufficent to justify him in making an order on the defendant , hut he could not go beyond the limit fixed by the law , which was half-a-crown per week for each child . An order was made at once on the absent defendant .
CLERKENWELL . —The Mao _Douge . —William Grindley , alias William Grice . alias William Edwards , who represented himself as being the son of Captain Grindley , of the 43 d Li ght Infantry , was placed at the bar for final examination , charged by Mr . Isaac Jacobson , a jeweller , of _Oxford-street with stealing a valuable dressing-ease . —The particulars of the case hare been already detailed . The prisoner , on being placed at the bar , bellowed and blubbered like a child , as at his former examination , and paced backwards and forwards . —Some further additional evidence being taken , —Mr . Combe asked the prisoner whether he had ever gone by the name of Grice ?—Prisoner : "Sever , oh never .
—Mr . Combe : I have got the certificate of your baptism here you were christened William Grice ; you gave yonr name William Grindley , and William Edwards , which name will you go by ?—Prisoner : I don ' t care which—any name you like . —Jlr . Combo Ifc is immaterial . Your father ' s name was John Grice . —Prisoner : I know nothing of that ; my father always told me my name was Grindley . —The depositions having been fully taken and read over the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial , and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute . —He was taken from the bar crying , and conducting himself in a wild and distracted manner , which was evidently assumed , and ho was conveyed to Newgate .
MARYLEBONE . _—Boroubt . —A roan named Weston Still was charged with a hurglary and robbery to the amount of nearly £ 40 , at the residence of Mr . J . Goodwin , No . 9 A , Adams-row , Hampstead-road . —Prosecutor gave evidence which went to show that at seven o ' clock on Sunday evening he went out , and on his return he missed from a drawer in his first floor front room £ 30 in gold , £ 0 or thereabouts in silver , and half a dozen silver spoons , all of which property he saw safe an hour before he quitted home . Upon thc discovery of his loss be immediately repaired to the station-house and there made known , the particulars to the inspector on duty . The prisoner was a journeyman carpenter , and was engaged by him on Wednesday last to mend some flooring , and ho had also empfoved his wife —— - _ - _» _. _j , » _w t v * j-u _** _** tnii *
as a charwoman . An attempt had been made to break open the door of the hack room adjoining the one alluded to , and he found the blade of a chisel close to it , the handle of which had broken off in the endeavonr to effect a forcible entry ; in that apartment a much larger sum than that which hehadlosfc was deposited .- —The chisel was produced , bnt no one was able to identify it as belonging to the prisoner . —Mason and Lockerby , police constables of the S division , and another witness , were examined , and the evidence given by them afforded a strong presumption tbat the prisoner and another person not yet in custod y , were the persons by whom the property was stolen . —The prisoner , who declared that he was innocent ofthe robbery , was , in order to afford time forthe officers to inquire more into the matter , remanded till Tuesday next .
WORSHIP-STREET . -VioLE . vr Assault ok a Police ; Constable . - A powerful fellow named yoked and brutal assault upon police-constable Carney , A < 6 , who had sustained SUch Serious ininrin _* that hislife was placed in _danger _IXffiS the statementof the constable , who _g ££ _dhimself mthe witness-box with his head bound ud , and in such a state of suffering and debility that he was scarcely able to give _rs evidence , tliat while on duty ia Me-street , Iloxton , shortly after twelve o ' clock on the preceding night , he heard the sound of footsteps advancing rapidly behind him , and at the same moment received a heavy blow under fche rig ht ear , which felled him to tho ground , and rendered him insensible . He remained in a state of total unconsciousness for upwards of an hour , at
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the expiration of which period he found himself in the station-house , to which he had been removed m the interim , and bleeding profusely from a dangerous wound on the temple , occasioned hjr his having fallen forward on his head , which cattle intojiolent contact with the edge of the kerb . From the sudden and stealthy manner in which he was attacked he was unable to distinguish the person of his assailant , but two tradesmen , who had witnessed the assault were in attendance to give . evidence as to the prisoner's identity . Mr . Frederick Birchmore _, _bridesman in the ; neighbourhood , positively
denosed to the prisoner being the person who committed the assault under the circumstances described : and Sergeant Saunders stated that , from information derived from the last witness , he su _*> _.-PPdpd iu tracing the accused to a house of bad Stein the viefnity o f Old-street and took him into custody . —A certificate was handed to the magistrate from Mr . Coward , the divisional surgeon , to the effect that the constable was suffering from a severe scalp-wound and also from an injury of the iaw and that he considered his life to be in danger . " The ' prisoner declined offering any defence , and was remanded , to ascertain the result of the constable ' s inquiries .
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THE CURRENCY QUESTION . TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERS STAR . Sm , —I Irarvo long wondered that thc pages of the Star has been silent on this important question , as in my opinion , next to that of the land , it is the most important of all social questions . The one contains the elements of production , the other , those of distribution . With these two questions properly settled , every other necessary and needful reform would speedily follow . "Without a proper settlement of them all other reforms would be comparatively useless .
Wn . \\ _n . n , (\ WAm # * _.-m-m ! 1 + J- >/ I / n _* _J- 4 _* TiA _*}> O _^ _AfVii i'n _4-VlA _Ortlf-l _ We have now arrived at that stage in tho agitation of the public mind when a discussion of the social question must supersede the political , or be added to it . It is imperativel y necessary that a people seeking political power should have a clear knowledge ofthe powers that oppress them , as well as a knowledge of tho proper means of redressing , permanently , their wrongs . It was a want of this knowled ge on the part of the French people that caused the efforts of the real reformers to fail , and returned such a
set of scoundrels to the National Assembly . Le _^ the reformers of this country be prepared , and let the public mind be prepared , with just and permanent plans of social reform against tho day of their political emancipation . I had intended to have written last week in reply to Mr . Brook , of Huddersfield , but was prevented by other circumstances . My excellent friend , Mr . _Ctilpan , of Halifax , I see has done so , but as his letter is of too general a character , and does not grapple with the fallacies of Mr . Brook , I have thoug ht proper to forward you thc present
communication . Mr . Brook seems to think that we are . about speedily tobe invested with political power , judging , I suppose , from the position lately assumed by certain of the middle class . Now , for my part , I have no faith whatever in this party . I have watched their movements long and closely , both at home and abroad , and I have ever found them to he the most implacable enemies to real reform . Indeed , how can ifc bc otherwise ? Can we expect a set of men who live immediately out of the labour of others to assist in destroying the very means by whieh they live ? That some paltry alteration will be attempted by them , and probably carried , I have no doubt , but it will only he just sufficient to render that
party omnipotent in . the government , without adding one iota to the real liberties of the people , or freeing them from the domination of capital . Mr Brook says , he has observed with pain , that there are some professed democrats who have a hankering after some wonderfully improved sort of paper money . Now seeing as he admits that the present system is so very bad , I cannot understand why an imnvovement in it should give him so much pain . However , Mr . Brook , himself , solves the difficulty , when he states that these professed democrats propose setting themselves up as bankers , and beginning to live on usury . Pray who told him so ? I am firmly convinced he never heard it from professed democrats . He has seen the evils resulting
from the present absurd and unjust money laws , which evils he lias associated with the paper on which the stamps have been impressed , instead of the nature and character of the stamp which gave the apparent value to fee paper . Onl y thin k of a nation throwing down their tools and commencing the profitable business of bankers . The idea is enoug h to frighten any sensible man out of his wits . I am happy , however , to inform Mr . Brook , that the intention of those said professed democrats is directly the opposite of this ; that their intention is to break up the entire system of usury in all its forms , and make money what it oug ht to be , the representative of real wealth , and not as it is at present , the mere representative of faith and credit ,
which the slightest unfavourable circumstance may destroy , and with them their representative , and , by so doing , doom thousands to unwilling idleness and starvation . But , says Mr . Brook , the best thing to hc done with this pernicious systcm is to let it alone . I believe , says ho , that all the reverses of the reformers , and reactions of the despots , and their dupes and tools , are fairly to be ascribed to the loanmongering and funding system , —but the best thing to be done is to let it alone , & c . Thc only thing desirable for all honest men is , that it be as free from fluctuation as possible , says Mr . Brook . No doubt this is very desirable , but there is another thing which wc professed democrats think it should be free from , viz ., the grip of usurers .
Butif Mr . Brook think that thc only thing to bo desired is , that it be as free from fluctuation as possible , and , at tlie same timo , concludes that the best thing to do with it is to let it alone ; it follows , as a matter of course , that it is as free from fluctuation as possible , otherwise he is not consistent widi himself . But is it free from fluctuation ? I think Mr . Brook will hardly be bold enough to assert that it is ; and if it is not , ( and I assert , and am prepared to prove , that it is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all the institutions in existence , and that so it will continue to be so long _' as it rests on a metallic base , ) then is he bound to assist in making such alterations as will free it from fluctuation . He draws a figure ofa person going to _Calvfovaia
ana bringing home a million of sovereigns . With the manner in which Mr . GoWhuntcv spends his money Mr . Brook and I shall not quarrel . Every man that consumes any portion of thc wealti _^ of society without producing something equivalent to it , is nothing less than a robber , unless he is incapacitated through age and infirmity . It is the effect of this million of sovereigns , after it has been put into circulation , that we shall'differ about . Mr . Brook asserts , that if the quantity of money before was twenty millions , this extra million brought over by Mr . Goldhunter , will reduce the value of the twenty millions five per cent ., or , in other words , will have reduced the _pyn'chasing power of every sovereign to nineteen shillings . Now this is a
great truth , which I wish to be borne in mind , as it will be of the utmost importance in the future stages of this discussion . By thus reducing the value of gold , says he , every holder of a sovereign will have been defrauded out of a shilling , * but though the above statements are abstractedly true , they must be taken with certain explanations . If the producing power has remained stationary during thc time that the extra million has heen put into circulation , then the statement is true , * but if the producing power has increased in tho same proportion , then the purchasing power of the twenty millions will remain the sanie as it was previous to the introduction ofthe goldhunter ' s million . This question , therefore , has two sides ; one , if an
increase be made to thc circulating medium without a corresponding increase ofthe floating wealth , the purchasing power of the circulating medium is reduced in the exact ratio of the addition made to it . The other , if the floating wealth of the country is increased without a corresponding increase in the circulating medium , or purchasing power , the _ValtlO ofall the _floating wealth ofthe country wil * be reduced in the exact ratio of the extra quantity produced . If we keep these facts in our mind they will materially aid us in discovering how , and why , it is that the people have heen eternally sinking , while tho monied classes were rising in the exact proportion as the peop le sank . Having said this much by way of explanation , I shall now turn back to Mr . Brook , where I left him
mourning over thc loss which an additional million added to the circulating medium would cause to the holders of money , and ask , who arethesesamemoneyholders ? certainly not the working classes . No , — they are the tax-eaters , tho Jews , and the moneyjobbers ; and as Mr . Brook has shown , that whatever they gain we lose , so , on thc contrary , whatever they lose we gain . If , therefore , tie extra million reduces the purchasing power of every soverei gn to nineteen __ shillings , it must , as a necessary consequence , raise the value ef every nineteen shillings' worth of labour and its products to one sovereign , which will be equal to a tax of fivo per cent , upon the income of every state pensioner and tax-eater , and others who live upon fixed incomes .
inasmuch as they will get five per cent , less of our products for their money . Supposing the annual taxation ofthe country to amount to fifty millions , the purchasing power of that money being reduced five per cent ., will be equal to a reduction of two millions and a half of taxation . In other words , the industrious classes would liave to give two millions and a half of their products in return for this money when brought into the market . It is an invariable rule through the world , make a thins scarce , and you enrich those who deal in it _. —niafce it abundant , and you destroy their profits . But mv letter , I find , is getting long , and as this part of tho subject will have to be more fully cnteredinto hereafter , I shall leave it and go to Mr . Brooks ' s nvn positions . _^
The Currency Question. To The Editor Of ...
He states that _•« were all the other institutions of society as they ought to be , the quantity of money is not oftho slightest moment . " . I- am not aware whether Mr . Brook is a Communist , hut that , in my op inion , is the most perfect state of society that the mind of man has yet heen able to conceive . This state of society would require a less quantity of money than any other , and yet the quantity would he of the utmost moment . Each locality would havo productions peculiar to itself , the surp lus of which would have to bo exchanged for the surplus of some . other locality . Some common _, measure of value would therefore be required , which could be exchanged into all the surplus products of society . This measure of value must be — -- - * : _—«—1 . U UUUliS VJl ou * j _* a _. _wj . . _* ... —
' equal in quantity to all the surplus or disposable wealth ot society . And as the productions of society increased , either throug h an increase of population , or of the artificial wants of society , thc medium by which ifc was circulated must increase in the same proportion ; or if the floating wealth decreased , the money must decrease in the same ratio , otherwise confusion wonld arise ; that portion who might he holding money in the one case , or goods in tho other , getting an advantage over the others . With regard to his second proposition , it is a selfevident truth , and therefore needs no debating . There is a certain amount of wealth in existence ; there are two parties struggling for it , —if the one gets it the other will he without it . Take ten from twelve and two will remain . That is Mr . Brook's
position , who will dispute it with him ? And as for his third proposition wo are apparently agreed , —with this exception : —that knowing it to be an evil of such magnitude he would still continue it in existence . He deals with the currency somewhat like a fond father scolding his turbulent and erratic son , and when any one proposes strong measures he hugs him to his breast , and seems to love him all the more for his vices . The best plan , in my op inion , of dealing with a system fraught with so much evil , is to destroy it root and branch . Mr . Brook must take a decided course as to what part ofthe present currency laws he will defend , as it will be perfectly useless to lay down the details of a new plan until the old one he fairly discussed , I have therefore purposely avoided the attempt . C . Shackluton . _Queenshead , near Halifax .
Ten Hours Bill-Law-Makers And Law-Breake...
TEN HOURS BILL-LAW-MAKERS AND LAW-BREAKERS . The Ten Hours Bill is law ; then why is it not practised ? There are still districts in which ifc is wantonl y and openly violated , and there are magistrates in England who havo sanctioned the violation . Never was there a measure agreed to by parliament of greater importance , or fraught with more powerful results . 1 confess it was humiliationwhen fathers appealed to the legislature to protect their daughters , sons , and wives—it was , ou the part of the workers , a declaration of their own vassalage A proof , strong as holy writ—that all " free-horn Eng lishmen " were not freemen . No matter—the hill was nassed—received the ro yal signature—and
was heralded into existence with all the solemnity of power . Yet it is a bill and no bill—a law and no law . In one district the relay system is interpreted to be law , in another it is declared to he illegal ; as circumstances stand at present it only serves to perplex us . And how is this ? The act of parliament inexplicit ! If so—let her Majesty ' s Attorney-General give the unmistaken and unmistakeable interpretation , and let Sir George Grey enforce that interpretation . It is grievous and annoying for workmen to he compelled to hold meetings , keep up committees , and hire gossiping lawyers to plead their cause before interested magistrates . Are country magistrates more powerful than ' pavliament ? if so , give up law-making and end the farce , and we will know what to do next . Who violates the law ?—a hand of merciless unprincipled money-making cotton lords , fellows who
have neither the education of gentlemen nor the decency of labourers , I have just returned from a iourney of ten miles on foot , expressly to see how England looked . I still see here and there along the old pack horse , roads , the last standing stones of decayed cottages ; and I have walked with an intelligent man of sixty years of age , who has given me a complete history of the past and present . These cottages were the abodes of an industrious , frugal , manufacturing peasantry , who loved their country and maintained their families . The aggregation of manufactures have swallowed up their descendants , and made nine out of every ten factory slaves p oor , decrepid , miserable , starved wretches _.
, whom the legislature , in a fit of remorse , pitied and promised to protect . These cotton lords , too , are themselves the children of labourers , many of them born in humble dwellings , whose mansions , I this day saw , and noticed footmen and flunkies lounging about their coach-houses and stable-yards . Tliey cannot afford to run their factories ten hours a day j ifc is wrong to interfere with labour . Disband your servants , you proud and senseless Mammon-worshippers—turn the wine out of your cellars—sell your horses and dogs . Limit your desires within reasonable means—live once more in a cottage , and allow your workmen to exist , and see then if you cannot live by running your factories ten hours a day .
. foreign competition , you cry ; home competition , by no means . Spinning jennies and railway scrip have given you 1 rapacious appotite for fortune making , and you always measure your success m business by thc fortune of your neighbour , and not by your former possessions . Wrong to interfere with labour ! yes , it is wrong , and you havo been thc aggressors ; you have coined thc coinable blood of England into gold , and looked vacantl y round without observing industry in rags and patience in despair ; and when you have chained the slave to your footstool , you look " Sir Oracle , " and exclaim , " Don't interfere with labour—it is wrong to interfere . " Wrong , you cormorants ; would it be right for thc landlords of
Eng land to unite together , turn thc peasants and farmers off their lands , and drive them into thc sea ? And is it right for a few men owning factories—a few cotton Barons—to turn their hands off at will , and work them when they p lease , and as long as they please ? Oh ! the factory operatives can refuse to work , now well you know the mockery and cruel irony of your words ? Refuse , indeed—to look at an empty cupboard , and be told to go to the workhouse . Refuse to work , did you say ? to he turned out of their miserable dwellings and see their palefaced wives and littlo ones starving beside them , and imploring them with tears in their eyes to go to the factory ? Refuse to work ! and let you have their
beds and bedding for rent , find turn them outon the turnp ike , shiftless and penniless ; hang tho key of their tenantless dwellings up in your countinghouses , turn over the pa _^ es of your ledger , and feel how independent ifc is fov " a man to do with his own as he likes . " Tho factory operatives may curse you in their hearts , but obey tney must * the magistrates who refuse to protect will be but too ready to punish—thc bastile , the gaol , thc handcuffs , and the police , are all prepared , and " property must be protected . " " The law is on our side . " O how 1 wish the workmen of this district had manhood about them . Were they like Magyars or savages I would havo hope ; but as ifc is , these poor , shirtless slaves mwst kneel and kiss the hand
that smites them . What can they do ? Their strength is exhausted , their frames shrivelled up , and the law a mockery . And what of our parliament , who know tho law ; who enacted the bill to protect children and women ? Edmund Burke , that sublime and commanding genius , mourned over the fallen grandeur of chivalry in France when tho populace of Paris humiliated Marie Antoinette , and made monarchy obediently humble . Hc exclaimed , " The age of chivalry is gone , * that of sophists , economists , and calculators has succeeded , and tho glory of Europe is extinguished for ever . " What would he have said if hc had lived until now in his own chosen England , the country of his pride and adoration , and seen the law trampled under foot , and "humanity _outraged bv a
small knot of factory masters ? What would he have said if ho had seon the very signature of royalty spat upon by a Lancashire cotton-spinner , and the will of that House , from which his pet _pccra- _** e was recruited , laughed at and held in surly defiance 1 have no reason to mourn over the fato of chivalry but I can sorrow over England ; her workmen in bondage , and her parliament are imbecile . I have ever believed that the parliament of England was omni potent , and allegiance was the price of protection . I do know that a parliament once regulated tho succession of royalty , and mado William Prince of Orangfe , king . I also know that it interfered
_witn unurcn property , and commuted tithes . Oftener than once it has suspended the Habeas Cor pus Act for Ireland and England . Tho ministers boast with what caso they can put down rerolufcion yet they cannot enforce the law against a few rich rebel millowners m Lancashire . I say , shame on such a ministry , and more than shame on such 1 par lament . As for the poor slaves who submit to such acme usurpation of power , and such a contemptible abuse of it , 1 suppose we must pity them I am dear sir , yours faithfull y , Samuel Kydd .
TnE Chartist PnisONEns . —Mr . Tindal A'l- _* > n » nn _ataMcetingofthe N _^ Association , held afc tho Duke of York _WoS street , on Wednesday ni ght , _sU- _fl _l-h _^ _SKfe of the Association ha 3 memorialised he Homo Office on the subject of the treatment , & c Sffi Chartist prisoners , and touching tho death of W \ hams and Sharp ; and that good wouldfi | wh . « sulfcfromtho remonstrance ? _OnVfin _? _tt , _^ was certain , that thero were i 1 the Sonf n _** ' mons , oven now , eighty members of 1 XfLi _° _7 " with tho veteran Mr . flume at tWM ° 1 > l 0 ' ' termined to institute a most ZZ _^' - Wero _* ' tion , in Parliament , into ff _reat ? Bn _^ f _» _° _^ _" tist prisoners , and tho onuses _nfW ° i P " _iiams and Sharp . X aZl 12 ? _^ atha of wiI > with enthusiast c _cheerst Q mat ms received
The Late Chartist Victims, Williams And ...
THE LATE CHARTIST VICTIMS , WILLIAMS AND SHARP . ( From the Sun of Thursday . ) _Rece-ntly , among the many distressing inquests held on occasions of sudden death by Cholera , ifc may have been observed that several Chartist prisoners havo been destroyed by this terrible epidemic during tho period of their incarceration . We would particularly direct attention to these cases , because we regard these unfortunate men as haying been subjected to very cruel and unjustifiable treatment—treatment which , inasmuch as it terminated in painful and premature death , wo cannot term otherwise than as something very near akin to deliberate assassination . Let us take as a case in point , perhaps the latest instance of this melancholy ill-usage recorded in the public journalsthe instance of
Alex-, ¦ _--i -ut tit : 11 ; _^ ander Sharp , a person implicated with Wdliams , Fusseli , and other Chartist agitators . On the Win of July , 1848 , the time of his first entrance into tho place of his confinement , namely , Tothillfields Prison , this unhappy man , recently deceased , was known to be in excellent health , and would in all human probability ; have still continued in existence , but for the unjustifiable ounishment to which he was subjected during his lengthened incarceration . From the particulars elicited before the Coroner , it would appear , that up to the 11 th of August , 1849 , the prisoner was exempfced from the customary prison employment of picking oakum , in consequence of the payment of five shillin gs weekly by his relations . Since then ,
however , the usual pittance not being continued , ne was re quired by the deputy governor to pick the ordinary allowance of oakum . On refusing to com ply with this requisition , Sharp appears to have been conducted as a criminal before the visiting magistrates on the 20 th ultimo , when those authorities , by some extraordinary perversion of the power entrusted to their keeping , ordered him to receive for the next six days , as nutriment , a _certowv _Qva-utity of water , aud on the average about lilb . of bread per diem , and to receive this in a state of uninterrupted solitary confinement . Be it observed , this was the decision of the visiting magistrates at the very time when cholera had _appeared within the walls of the prison . The result
was only what might have been naturally anticipated . The abrupt change from full diet and p lenty of exercise to a wretched diet of bread and water , and solitary confinement , produced a violent attack of _diarrhosa , which ended at last in death by Astatic cholera . When these distressing , and we must add , most disgraceful ciroumstanceB were elicited from the different witnesses summoned before the coroner , it was very pertinently inquired by one of the jury , how it happened that tho deceased had either to work or pav for his exemption when his sentence did not include hard labour ? The reply given by one of the Inspectors of Prisons was to the effect that , for the sake of prison discip line , the local authorities were empowered to force such an alternative upon a prisoner , referring , in corroboration of his statement , to the Act 4 th George IV .,
chap . 64 , sec . 38 . So , for the sake of prison discip line , a supplementary punishment , apart altogether from the decision of the court of justice , is at any time inflicted upon an unfortunate prisoner b y the local authorities , and in the event ofa refusal of compliance is severely enforced by the visiting magistrates ! If this be permitted to continue , then are the sentences pronounced by judges in open court mere humbug . We insist upon the necessity forthe abrogation of this 38 th section of the 4 th George IV ., chap . 64 . Until the law he modified in somo measure the public will be liable to hear of repeated instances such as those of poor Sharp and his companions—men subject to treatment so cruell y superfluous that they ave driven into the jaws o f death through the ghastly medium of the ' Asiatic Cholera .
So imperatively necessary , indeed , is wholesome nutrhnent , or rather , we should say , generous diet ,. for the prevention of the spread of this destructive epidemic , that wo do seriously believe it to be a duty required from us by the common sentiments of humanity to supply with better food than ordinaril y the wretched inmates of our places of incarceration . This , at the very least , we conceive to bc a temporary duty forced upon us by the occasion , if wc are nofc also imperatively called upon for such a relaxation of the confinement of the inmates of our gaols as would enable thein to breathe move frequently and more freely than usual the invigorating air of heaven . So far from striving in this manner to ameliorate the condition of prisoners at a period when a terrible disease is decimating the
population , our local authorities ave only diminishing the already paltry amount of exercise and nourishment . If our prisons are not the filthy and miserable receptacles of crime which they were in a previous generation , before the sublime philanthropy of tho benevolent Howard shed its purifying consolations into those lairs of sin , and dens of affliction , these occurrences , which have of late saddened the heart of thc community , show sufficiently well that there is still great room for improvement . They tell us that we must not boast prematurely of changes that are still incomplete . They demonstrate that our vaunted benefactions are , up to this moment , rather nominal than actual . They cry out in voices that are but too
audible fov that interference of tho Press which has become the precursor of all the interferences of Parliament . Listening to these inarticulate but still easily cognisable appeals , rising from the silence and the solitude of our prisons , we feel , that in speaking as we now do , we only acquit ourselves of a deep and heavy responsibility . And earnestly do we trust that the Members oftho House of Commons will perform their part in the beneficent labour of innovation , by bringing under the consideration of the legislature , as early as possible in the approaching session , theso sudden
and melancholy deaths from Cholera of several of the Chartist prisoners . Common justice , common decency , common humanity , call for somo speedy interposition , so that fche community may not be pained hy a recurrence of such calamities . If prisoners are to be required to labour during the time of their incarceration , then , in God ' s name , do not ridicule the majesty ; of the law , and set at naught the sanctity of justice , by sentencing them to imprisonment without hard labour , yet rendering them liable at the samo time to be compelled to work , or in the event of their refusal , to he so bitterly punished as to perish prematurely 1
Latest Foreign News. Austria And Hungary...
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . - Tho _Cologne papers of Wednesday , stato it as certain that , ¦ ' The fugitive leaders ofthe Hungarian revolution have no mercy to expect , and already a long list of names is drawn up , to be forwarded tothe authorities in all pavts of thc empire . This list contains sixfcyninc personal denunciations , or steck-briefe , includm _* the names of Bem , Kossuth , Madame _Kossutlf ( born Meczlengi ) , Pctofy ( described as poetl , and Perczel . •'
The Pesther Zeitung , of the 13 th , contains as usual , a long list of court-martial sentences ' and executions , Matthias Gahcl , master-miner in Schemnitz , was shot for taking part in the rebellion Peter Boczio , for concealment of arms , was con--demned to three years' hard labour , and Josonh Dilnch , bookbinder , for keeping back money belonging to tho State , to four months ' imprisonment . Lieut Field Marshal Moga , and E . Geneml Telck y have been cpnvicted ° of _pTrLfion ? _A _^ # { U ? . ed ro _^ nioa » and sentenced the first to fave years' imprisonment in a fortress t _^ , _InS _«/ ° _* _* S 8 ion ' _™ M , ( - <* s thelatS to loss of commission and pay . BADEN . —The last date of the 15 th _instint from Rastadt brings us another sentence of _dSim vvieis bitzki , a Prussian , convicted of havinir ioined the insurgent cause . The sentence , _IowSK heen commuted to ten years' imprisonment ' _^
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CHOLE RA . _J _SXtaK _^ E , _s _* . 7 > r ' _S ? " _*& S ?" Total , deaths fromcholera , 520 ; _diarrhS 123 ?
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The Old _Wojuj * and heb _IIe-ibs . —It is well known that iu every _couutry village there is to bo ¦ fouud one old woman well versed in the curative powers of herbs , and in fact every one who has resided in a country village for a few months must have been astonished at the extraordinary cures _edeetcd by the old woman by means of her herbs nftcr the most eminent of the medical profession have been tried for years to effect a cure , but in vain . Sen _hw- with her little nieco going tiloug b y the _sido of the hed ges , and every now and then stuopini ; to pluck same potent herb . "Tliere child , pluck a good handful of tliis herb , forthe ItuJy at the vicarage has a breaking out in hor face and neck , and sho wants to know if I can't cure hor . Ay , marry , I believe I can ; she little knows the virtue of this herb . J ' ufore tho new moon appears her skin shaU be as fair ns alabaster . " _Tte old woman Is ai ..- — - • _- ' ' - _ilnoc - m" _*«« - * •—* - — oik wond
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COM . Mahk -LANE , Monday , Sept . 17 th .-The suppl y of En- * * wheat to-day was only moderate , and all ofthe _ne-vX _*** whieh was Wkew off yvetty freely by the imUevs at is ¦ _„??• advance upon last Monday's prices . Forei gn wheat It reade r sale , andwasls dearer . For good _fl-Mr _-ve } _, _^ bettter sale at last week ' s prices . Ihere was rather ro " a e demandf _** foreign barley for grinding , but not muel _, dZl ifnew English , which as yet comes only _spavi-. _g , _^ market . Malt dull and rather cheaper New _heaaArl neas held much the same . Bye almost nominal . TlC wasWe inqvnry after good fresh oats , whicli sold _p-J ! readilv . a _«^ Gd . per qr . dearer , hut no im provement in middling and inferior soi * ts . First quality of linseed eak " met a retail demand , In . rape and carra-vay see ' d no _deration . The current prices as under . Suffolkand Kent 1
_Bamsn . -Wheat .-Essex _, , , _re-, 30 s . „ 42 s ditto white , 34 s to 48 s , Lmcon , Norfolk , and York liire _T red , 30 s to 36 s , Northumberland and Scotch , wl % ' 0 s to 35 s ditto red , 30 s to 34 s , Devonslure and Somerset ! shire red , -s to -s , ditto white - to _ s , rye , 22 s to - > is bariev 24 s to 32 s , Scotch , 23 s to 25 s , Angus-s to J ' Malt ordinary , -s to -s , pale , 52 s to 55 s , peas , grey , „ ew 27 s to 29 s , maple 29 s to 31 s , white , 24 s to * 2 bs _, boilers ( new ) , 27 s to 30 s beans , lai _# * _, new , 25 s to 28 s , ticks 27 s to 2 o , harrow , 29 s to 32 s , pigeon , 32 s to 3 is , oats , Lincoln and Yorkshire , feed , 15 s to 21 _e , ditto _I'oJand and potato , 17 s to 24 s , Berwick and Scotch , 17 s to 25 s , Scotch feed , 17 s to 23 s , Irish feed , and black , _igs to 21 s , ditto potato , 17 s to 2 is _, Jinseed ( sowing ) 50 s to 52 s , _rapes _*^ _, Essex , new , £ 27 to £ 30 per last , carraway seed , Essex , new , 28 s to 34 s per cwt , rape cake , £ 4 to £ 410 s per ton , rm seed , £ 910 s to £ 10 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per sack of 2801 bs _, ship 28 s to 30 stown 38 s to 40 s .
, , , Fob-sign . — Wheat , —Dantzig , 40 s to 48 s , Anhalt and Marks , 34 to 42 s , ditt _« white , 38 s to 44 s , Pomeranian red . 3 Cs to 41 s , Rostock 38 s to 4 < ls , Danish , Holstein , and Friesland , 30 s to 35 s , Petersburgh , Archangel , and _Hig-i , 32 s to 34 s , Polish Odessa , 32 s ta 36 s , Marianopc-li , and _Bi-r dianski , 30 s to 3 is , Taganrog , 30 s to 32 s , Brabant and French , 34 s to 3 Gs _, ditto white , 3 Gs to 42 s , Salonica , 30 s to 33 s , Egyptian , 23 s to 20 s , rye , 20 s to 22 s , barley , IVismar and Rostock , 18 s to 22 s , Danish , 18 s to 22 s , Saal , 22 s to 24 s , East Friesland , 15 s to 17 s , Egyptian , 14 s to 15 s , Danube , 14 s to 15 s , peas , white , 20 s to 28 s , new boilers , 28 s to 30 s , heans , horse , 25 s to 2 _us , pigeon , 31 s to 33 s , Egyptian , 21 s to 23 s , oats , Groningcn , Danish , Bremen , and Friesland , feed and black , lis to IGs , ditto , thick and brew , 15 s to 22 s , Riga , Petersburg , Archangel , and Swedish , 14 s to 17 s , flour , United States , per _l'JOlbs ., 21 s to 23 s , Hamburg 20 s to 22 s , Dantzig and Stettin , 20 s to 23 s , French per 280 Ibs ., 32 s to 35 s .
_Weekm Avebage for SEPTEMBER 8 . — "Wheat , 44 s fid ; _Sarfey , 2 s Od oats , ISs 4 d ; Rye , 25 s lid ; beans , 31 s 2 i - . peas , 29 s 7 d . Aggiiegate Avebage of the Six Weeks . — Wheat , 45 s lid ; barley , 20 s 3 d oats , 19 s Od ; rye , 2 Cs 5 d ; beans , 31 s IOd ; peas , 29 s IOd . Doties . — Wheat , rye , barley , peas , beans , oats , and maize , ls per quarter ; flour , 4 * 4 per cwt . ; cloversed , 5 s per cwt . Corn Exchange , Mabk Lane , Wednesday , Sept . 19 . — The arrivals of graiu fresh in this week are moderate . Every article is held firmly at _Jfonday ' s rates . Mark-ianb , Friday , September 21 . — The arrivals of foreign grain during the week have heen large , and moderate of English : Monday ' s prices are supported for wheat of all kinds , hut the attendance being smaM , " business was 2 ' mited . We observe no alteration in the value ot barley , oats or peas * , beans are the turn dearer . Flour continues to be held at our quotations . Indian corn is inquired after _; 27 s has been obtained for a cargo of Ibraila .
Arrivals this week - . —Wheat—English , 1 , 900 quarters ; foreign , 5 , 320 quarters . Barley- —English , 320 quarters ; foreign , C , CG 0 quarters . Oats—English , 3 , 210 quarters ; Irish , 230 quarters ; foreign , 16 , 510 quarters . Flour—12 , 510 sacks .
BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from rd . to 7 _Jd . : of household ditto . 5 d . to Gid . per i & s . loaf .
CATTLE . _Ssirrin-iEii ) _, Monday , September 17— The supplies o £ foreign stock in to-day ' s market were somewhat extensive , but of very middling quality , especially as regards the sheep . From our own grazing districts the arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning were seasonably good , both as to number and quality . As thc ileaii markets were well cleared of their late supplies , the weather more favourable for slaughtering , and the attendance of buyers somewhat on the increase , the primest Scots , Devons , &* c , commanded a steady sale , at prices quite equal to those obtained on Monday last , viz ., from 3 s IOd to 4 s per Slbs . A good clearance ot most other breeds was effected , though , in some instances , ata slight decline in the quotations . With 6 hcep we were heavily supplied for the time of year . On the whole , the mutton trade was firm , and last Monday ' s currencies were fairly supported . Ihe primest old Downs went at 4 s to 4 s 2 d ; half-breeds , 3 s IOd to 4 s per Slbs .
Lambs ave wow neavly out of season . That description of stock moved off slowly , at about last weeks prices . Prime small calves sold steadily , at Ml prices . Otherwise , the veal trade was heavy . Very few pigs were on offer . The sale for them was slow , at last week ' s currencies _. Head of Cattle at Smithfield . —Friday . —Beasts , 845 ; sheep , 10 , 400 ; calves , 305 ; pigs , 300 . Monday . —Beasts , 4 , 232 ; 6 _heep , 31 , 850 ; calves , 109 ; pigs , 210 . Price per stone of 81 bs . ( sinking the offal ) . —Beef , 2 s IOd to 4 s Od ; mutton , 3 s Od to 4 s 2 d ; veal , 3 s 0 d to 3 s 8 d ; pork , 3 s 2 d to 4 s Od ; lamb , 4 s Od to 5 s _0 d . Newgate and leadenhall , Monday , Sept . 27 . —Inferior beef , 2 s 6 d to 2 s 8 d ; middling ditto , 2 s IOd to 3 s Od ; prime large , 3 s 2 d to 3 s 4 d ; prime small , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Od ; large pork , 3 s 2 d to 3 s 8 d ; inferior mutton , 2 s IOd . ' to 3 s 2 d ; middling ditto , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Gd j prime ditto , 3 s 8 d to 3 s IOd ; veal , 3 s Od to 3 s Gd ; small pork , 3 s IOd to 4 s 2 d ; lamb , 3 s IOd to 4 s 8 d per Slbs . by the carcase .
_Shithfield , Friday , _Septembw 21 . — Ihcvewas a full supply of meat ofall kinds at market to day , for which the demand was very limited , and trade consequently ruled dull and heavy . Decf aud lamb both declined 2 d per stone , and _vcM could hardly be got rid of at any price . Scots madc 3 slQd , and inferior beef from 2 s IOd . Mutton was steady at 3 s to 4 s , pigs went at 3 s to 3 s Sd , and Down Iambs did not make move than 4 s -id . The current rates for veal were 2 s IOd to 3 s 4 d per stone .
• _PROVISIONS . IiO * s * -os , Monday Tho arrivals last week , from Ireland , were 18 , 370 firkins butter , and 370 bales bacon ; and from foreign ports 0 , 810 casks butter , and 770 boxes and bales bacon . The transactions iu butter , during the past week , were to a fair extent , at fully the rates of this day se'nnight for general sorts ; and on the finer descriptions an advance of full ls per cwt . was realised . Dutch , 84 s . Prime fresh cuved bacon meets a ready sale on arrival , but other sorts move very slowly . English _Butteb Market , Sept . 17 . —Our trade is firmer for new-made butter , at 2 s per cwt . more money ; but no improvement whatever applies to stale goods . Dorset , fine weekly , 84 s to SGs per cwt . ; do ., middling , 6 Gs to 74 s ; Fresh , 9 s to 12 s per dozen .
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES . Covent Gakden _Jiarket , Saturday , September 15—This morning ' s market was but moderately supplied with both fruit and vegetables , considering thc time of year , with a middling trade doing at tiie following prices '—Raspberries 4 d to 6 d , and mulberries 4 d to Sd per pottle ; peaches , and nectarines , Gs to 12 s per dozen ; cucumbers , 4 d to Is per brace ; melons , ls to 3 s Od each ; French beans , _9 d to ls 3 d ; plums , 3 s Gd to 4 s Gd ; greengages , " s to Ss ; damsons , 4 s Gd to 5 s Gd ; apples , ls 3 d to 3 s Gd ; pears , ls Gd to 5 s 6 d ; aud onions ibr pickling ls 3 d to 3 s per halfsieve ; red cabbages , ls to Ss , white , ditto , Gd to MM ; and horseradish , 2 s to 3 s per dozen iieads ; turnips , ls Gd to 2 s ; carrots , 4 s to 5 s Gd ; onions , ls to 3 s ; and greens , 2 s 3 d to 2 s 9 d per dozen bunches ; hothouse grapes , ls Gd to 4 s foreign ditto , 6 d tols 3 d ; pineapples , 4 s Od to 7 s .
SEEDS . London , _Jfonday . _—JTo'liing of the sli ghtest interest having for some time past been done in clover seed , priees must be regarded as quite nominal . Canary seed was in lively request this morning , and rose fully 5 s , per qr . Jfustard seed was plentiful , and rather easier to buy , Rapeseed brought fully as much money as on this day week . Winter tares were Gd per bushel lower .
_WOOL . Cot , "Monday . —The arrivals of wool have been large ; within the last few days , and comprises some quantity from . Australia , and other colonies . From the Capo there is > _- about 2 , 000 bales , exclusive of Algols Day , which sends G 52 ' :. bales . Van Biemen's Land has furnished some few hun- - drcd bales , Taganrog 435 bales , Port Philip abont 2 , 000 , _, attd Bombay C 00 to 700 hales , Germany , i & c . t contributing <¦• the rest . The public sales commenced on Thursday even- - ing , at the Hall of _Commei-ce , and Ml 40 , 000 bales " will bc es put up . The series will last for four weeks , and at present tt is going off f _. iirly , LivEurooL , Sep . 15 . —Scotch . —The demand for Laid U Highland wool is still limited as well as for white . In m crossed and Cheviots there is little doing . The late clip is ss coming to hand more freely , and with a better selection wc ee shall no doubt have more doing . Laid Highland wool , per _-Mlbs ., Ss to Ss Gd ; White High- _w land do ., 10 s to 10 s Gil ; Laid Crossed , do ., unwashed ,. II 3 s Gd to 10 s ; Do . do ., washed , 10 s to I 2 s ; Laid Cheviot "ti do ., unwashed , M ) s to 12 s Gd ; Do ., do ., washed . I 4 « f .-. ¦ * _* *
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BIRTH . ltcgistered , John Frost Wilcock , son of Thomas lVilcoclccc Secretary ofthe _National Chartist Association . DEATH . At Monk Frystone , near Terry-bridge , Yorkshire , I'e _. e _, Asiatic cholera , Henry Hancock , late of Hull . DuceAs'orec was a confectioner , aud well known amongst the Chartfiaw bod y at Hull , "Manchester and other places ; ho was ve much terrified at the prevailing- epidemic , and left Hull ullil thc 7 th inst . to escape its effects . He was taken ill till 11 same night , at Monk _Fvystone , where he lingered _thirty-irt ; t ; hours , and expired on Sunday morning , the Oth inst . * it ' . was a true democrat , and his loss will be felt by his frien'rieU both social and political .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 22, 1849, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_22091849/page/8/
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