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How The Poor Are Made And Kept Poor. It ...
lud , after great delay in the attempt to procure . JBoh a charter , to pay upwards of £ 1 , 000 fbr it . Many enterprises for similar objects were stated tr > Have heen prevented by the same « HUe . If the power onght to be vested in the Crown at all , it should be , as the Committee recommend , exercised at a far more reason _able cost . One of the greatest and gravest complaints made before this committee , was that arising oat of the obstacles presented by oar partner ship laws to any body of working men who
_desire to combine their money and labour in industrial undertakings . The report states : — bt some cues several industrious men vrork together oncer regulations of tbeir own with a small capital ; they are directed try _mansgirs whom they choose , the goods produced are _totA for their common benefit , and the profits are divided _among the contributor * of capital and labour , is certain proportions agreed to . At present the lav * affords no effectual remedy against the frand of any _ane _dithonest contributor or partner and no tummary mode of enforcing the roles agreed to for mutual government
All who know anything of the working of _eo-operafire societies will recall numerous instances in which they have failed , solely from the want of such powers to enforce tiieir rules , and to punish fraudulent officers . In many cases , we have no donbt that the' temptation held out by the defective state of the law was the originating cause of these frauds , and that men who would have been " reasonably " honest-, when they knew the law could be in-Yoked to punish defalcation , felt little hesitation in acting unjustly when they knew they conld do so with impunity . It is cot only in these trading co-operative associations thatthe
mischief caused by such a state of the law has arisen , it has been fatal to some of the most promising movements for tbe emancipation of Labour daring the last fifteen years . . It was owing principally to the want of a legal position that the Harmony Hall experiment of the Socialists , in Hampshire , was broken up . It is the same want which has prevented the National Land Company from "being earned on . If the Directors of that Company had had legal power vested in them
to compel shareholders to pay np their calls regularly , or to declare the shares forfeited , and thus to have procured a steady and densite supply of funds for the regular operations ofthe Company , the result wonld have been widely different from that we now see . There would have been no necessity for an act to wind-up the Company ; on tiie contrary , it would have laid the foundation for what is the great want of England—an independent selfsufficing Yeomanry .
The committeejustly remark , that " the _difficulties which affect tiie law of partnership ¦ operate with Increased severity , in _proportion to the _smallness of the sum subscribed , and the number of persons included in the Association ; " and they thus conclude a report which deserves to be commended for its tone and temper , when dealing' with the interests -of the ' prodacing classes , as a rare , hut gratifying specimen of what a Parliamentary report should be : —
Tour committee cannot bat express their strong opinion of the pressing aecesaty of the subject now referred to them hang speedily attended to hy the Legislature . The rapid increase in population and in wealth of the diddle and indartriotu classes within the last half _CeutUTJ zeuders this of great consequence . Tne great change in the social position of multitudes , from the growth of large towns and crowded districts , tenders it more necessary that corresponding changes in iha law should take place , both to improve their condition _and contentment , and to give additional facilities to investments of capital _which their industry and enterprise -are constantly creating aad _augmenting .
It is the conviction of your committee that if snch measures were carried Into effect a . stimulus WQV & d . be given to the industry ofthe country , likely to cause additional employment and contentment , without injury to any class , ¦ and with added security to the _welfare ti afi . We hope that Mr . Slake ? wilLnext session , make this report the basis of measures conceived in the spirit , and designed to effect the -objects so admirably stated in these paragraphs . It will afford us the greatest pleasure to aid any movement for such a purpose , in or ont of Parliament _^ to the utmost extent of < rar power .
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Parliamentary Review. The Death Of The L...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The death of the late Dpke of Cambridge has given Lord John and the Whig Cabinet the opportunity of making themselves agreeable at Court , at ihe cost of the tax-payers . When in office they never lose an opportunity ¦ of that kind ; and , if it were possiofe , the Royal Family should always retain them in office as being certain to " shell ont" liberally—_ ot to say extravagantly , whenever an opportunity presented . . It _ was the Whigs who
_-roted the late QUEEN DOWAGER the preposteronsly large income of £ 100 , 000 a year _ he same loyal party , when in ojice , proposed -to give Pktsce _Albeei £ 50 , 000 a year ; and it was only after a hard fight , in which the Tories joined Joseph Hume , that it was reduced to thirty thousand— -being still , in our -opinion , three times what it should have been . After the lapse of a few years , time rolls round , and finding them in office gives
them another chance of playing DonMagnifico at the expense of tiie people . Prince George of Cambridge may be a very fine young man , bathe has , so far , by no means brought his wares to a had market . His military position and emoluments are pretty considerable for his age and standing , and no doubt rangerships and snog sinecures in abundance are -destined for one who is lucky enough to be first Cousin to tiie Qveen . Rut apart from the income derived or derivable from these
sources , as his father ' s heir he might have been expected to have his nest tolerably well feathered .. For many years ihe late Duke was Viceroy of Hanover , and , -of . course , was supported by the revenue of that country . During all these years he drew at least £ 27 , 000 yearly from the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain , besides various other pickings . He has , all his life ,
been believed to be a saving , money-making man , and tne few scores or hundreds of pounds ihat he may have annually bestowed npon charities can have had bnt little effect upon his large income . Even if he had given more , And thereby reduced it considerably , that _fbnng no argument why his son and daughter should be quartered on the public for high pensions . We would apply to Royal fathers and mothers tiie same role as to other fathers
and mothers , namely : "to be just before they are generous , " and to provide for their own ofispring before " making ducks and drakes Of their money ' in any other direction . On the plea , however , ofthe poverty of the late Duke , Lord John proposed to give the present Duke ihe enormous _snm of £ 12 , 000 a year . To the Duchess-Dowager £ 6 , 000 a year is to be paid . By a former resolution , £ 8 , 000 a year is paid to the eldest daughter , Princess _Aegtjsta ; and now the youngest-, the
Process mas is to te quartered npon us for v ' _rfm VmM » _*& _MS the third of her late rafter's fortune , whateverthat may be . and the proportion * mt _. _uS ™ _?^ fc _^^ _j _^ _jsca ; gmng any idea as to lta amount Wm _^ deemed too barefeced to given _^ _. _^ 1 John ' s statement a few days after it made ? u _vaa
But let na only think of fee _po _^ _, _quencei of this monstrous and e _ Z , _^^ e- waste o f the public money . By _audv _^ _S _* new Duke will be looking out for a J ? 1 _*&* will then , of course , come to that mosu ** of all calves , Jons Bun , for _aatfJBr "dotation , " as the French call " it . _^ S _* there is a goodly host of Royal sprouts _spring ing np in the direct line , all of whom , as th | L arrive at'manhood and womanhood , _wii i _^ quire _dotefionB" afoo . Of worse , ft "will b impossibleto give fhe sons and daughters the Queer leas than the son aad daughters of bet uncle . Ihey must , in , order to kfep ¦
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up their . conventional _oignity _^ _hare ' _-. _ IMe TO ! _£ . P lea » nt Prospect for the poor , nard-workeo , and under-paid taxpayers , who « m hardl y manage to keep soul and body together asit ig S . . * z : ; TheHoi _ e of Commons , by overwhehning majorities , _sanctionedthis extravagance on two division _« i ; the Lords , of course , passed it nem eon . The people , we suppose , will bear it like _eekosed to be skinned alive . '' If Royalty and Whi g regal advisers were wise however , they would refrain in these days from such dangerous experiments npon national patience and long-suffering .
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The other business has been of a _verymjscellaueotiB description , and disposed of in that random and reckless manner which characterises the dog-days and the near approach of ihe partridge season . Lord Joux has thrown his Ul-nsed colleague in the representation of the City overboard once more ; and , from all we can see . Baron RoTHSCHltD'S M . P will he a meaningless tag to the end of his name while the , present Parliament lasts . At all events , if it depends on Lord John , the next General Election will find the question in precisely the same position as it occupies now . A long , discussion on the purchase of some
JJanwa forts on the Gold Coast of Africa , loads to the fear that we are about to perpetuate and extend the costly and mischievous _policyiin which we have so insanely persisted on that coast in reference to the slave trade It wfll be recollected that the Minister only saved himself from defeat on this question by the threat of resignation . If he has since taken advantage of a vote , extorted by such means , to involve us in plans which , will require us to prosecute the Quixotic enterprise by land as well as sea , we earnestly hope that one act will lead to his- being driven from office with ignominy and execration .
Mr . Hume endeavoured , bnt ineffectually to obtain the sense of Parliament with respect to lie worse than Austrian atrocities _perpetratedonthe Gephalonians , by _Haynan-Ward . A case more clearly calling : for recall , if not impeachment , never was presented to its notice . The Colonial office knew its weakness and its danger , and contrived to have the House " Whipped out" soon after nine o'clock . It remains to be seen whether this
contemptible trick will save it and its "tiberaP _* j ) rofeg « . Colonel SIBT . HOKJ ? made an effort to get the tenant-farmers relieved from paying Income Tax . It was a feeble , heartless , spiritless mockery ofa debate , and ended—as was expected by everybody— -ina defeat . We want no exemptions from that most iniquitous and oppressive tax , until it is re-considered altogether , which it mast be next year . We earnestly hope that the country will then speak out , and either compel its abolition , or that it shall be so adjusted as to fall equally npon all who are liable to be assessed to it .
The Irish landlords tried to repeal or neutralise the Poor Law , and were beaten in the attempt , while the Sabbatarians hare made another hypocritical attack on public liberty , with their usual success . We are , however , not without hope that in committee the Sonday Trading Bill will yet he rendered comparatively innocuous , or throws oat .
V / _lfirirtP 4 > _IlA fiffl *\ T \ 1 l _£ ia j- * _aab cr _^ _MfltllT ATI * _SMlfl-Voting the Supplies goes steadily on , and , we presume tbat , as soon as that business is fairly closed , the session will terminate . Humour states , that the Ministerial White Bait Dinner , atBlackwall , is fixed for Saturday next , August 3 rd . If it takes plaee then , we may look forthe rising of both Houses in the following week .
The Citizens Of London Have, At Last, Ma...
The citizens of London have , at last , made a bold and vigorous stand to seat Baron Rothschild in the House . The PRIME Minister _ vacillation and lukewarmness has roused them to action , and by the course they have adopted he is placed in a dilemma , which , we . apprehend , is little to his taste . Parliament must decide the question this session , and Loan John ' s great difficulty will he , on Monday , what side to take . If he decides to act with his own constituents , he will have to face a strong opposition in the Commons , which he by no means likes to do ; if he shrinks from this course his position , as Member for the City , is lost . Two Beats are at stake Jin this controversy _.
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MONIES RECEIVED Fob ihb Webb : _Esdlso _Thubspav ,: _Juxt 25 ih , 1850 . FOB THB WIMG-BP OF THE LASB COMPANY . _deceived at Laud Office . _—Aehtoa , per Mr . Taylor £ 5 —C . Kinrin 6 d—S . Worthingfon Gd-J . Moss 6 d—M . Walker Is—A . MTbe ed—J . Shelmadine 6-J . Barlow 6 _d—W . Whitehonse 6 d—E . Whitehoase 6 d—M . Bennett ls—M . _Moorcroftls—M . Exley 6 _d—W . _Boardman la—J . Townls —J . Wolstencroft _ —ft . Sykes ls-a Friend 6 d—W . Mawsoa ls—W . Thompson Cd—W . Foster ls—J . Sutton ls—J . AlcockU-J . Berry ls ~ G . Wallace ls-J . _Turhbullls—W Hason ls—J . Hodgson 6 d—5 : Hardingjjd—_ W . Messenger
_Gd—j . Davidson _"__ j . Wilson 6 d—w . Tickers Gd—B . Tickers 6 d—T . Roper 6 i—J- Triffia 6 d—J . Corkhill 6 d—T . Bell 6 d—P . _ffiggins Gd-W . 6 reuotdls-6 . Walker ls . Receired fey W Hides . —T . Willey , Cheltenham ls 4 d—D . _Frost Nether _Haagh , near Eothcrham Is 4 d—J . Mayman , Eainsgate Is—J . J . C , 6 d—Stourbridge , per W . Morris 1113 s Cd—A . Campbell , Inverness ls—3 . Player , ShoenixM _*** , near Dartford 5 s—J . Foxley , Tod trick 2 s—Lancaster , perT . Baines 3 s 9 _d—Jfottinfhani , per J . Sweet 3 _« 3 d—J . and 3 . Wells , London , ls—Carlisle , per 3 . Gilbertson ios—Badciifie Mage , per fi . Earner 4 S-B . Kitchen . Egremont _6 d—Messrs . Jones , Bull , and Powell , Merfhyr Tydvil ls 6 d—C . Sesgrave , Diss 3 s 6 < L _ ¦ s . d . Receired at Land Office .. .. 6 8 6 Beceired by W . Bider ., .. 3 13 4
Total .. .. .. ... £ 18 CIO THE HONESTY _TofiD . Beceired by W . _Ridee . —W . Stokes , Gretlonls-J . Mayman , Bamsgate ls—Fire Shareholders , Heywood , per J . C . Dawson 2 s 6 d . AGITATION FOR THE CHARTERBeceived by * _"V . B _ _Eaf—Badciifie Bridge , per B . Hamer , from T . B . 6 d—Kidderminster , per G . Hoiloway ls . TRACT FUND . Received hy W . Rides . — J . Mayman , Ramsgate Is . FOR MR . e . JONES . Keceived by W . Rrora . —Radeliffe Bridge , per R , Hamer 2 s 6 d . Received by John Absotx . —Swindon , per "John Bryson I" ls 9 d—Mr . John ArkeH , per John _Brysonls . FOR DRi M ' DOUALL . Received by Joas _Absott . —Portsea , per James Stroud uisca . FOR MR- HOOPER . Keceived 6 y W . Ku > a . — _Nottingham , per J . Sweet 2 s 6 d .
FOR MRS . LACYBeceived by "W _.-Rront . —Nottingham , per J _^ Sweet 2 sCd . FOR THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . Received byW . Runs . —Kidderminster , per G _. Hollo way ls . The monies received by John Arnott for the National Charter Association and the Tract Fund will be acknowledged next week .
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v _? ' CAMBRIDGE . Bbciai _Assawt . — Thomas _Dttkin , Michael Gintv , Thomas Dirkio _, jun ., and Martin Dowling _, fall iriflhmen ) , were charged with having , on the 26 th of May last ; at Chatteris , violent / wounded Edward * Jones witb a large wooden scoop , with , in ; tent to do him grievous bodily ha ™ .-Mr . C . Mills appeared for the prosecution , and Mr . Baylor for _tnTdefence .-The prosecutor is a navvy , and emplovedonthe drainage works now in progress at _ChMteris . On the 26 th of June , Jonesi _wmiemnlored to sit . nn all nfcht to watch the tools nsed by
* c 8 \ } e _^ _hisVeiiow workmen . Abont one o ' cioc _* in w > Mo raine a party of a down Irishmen ( reapers ; came up to him , and one , having a large wooden 1 _?*> p , struck him a violent blow on the head , tie _ _«; and several of the party commence d kicking tarn till he wa 8 insensible ; He was then robbed of \ _eW a ,-d Ss- " When he came to his senses he K J ? _?^ nn , and the party proceeded to the r _WriitftL ? •/ one 8 _» _* here , in a . barn , were found IA *« i _» _niv hDlei - ' ° nehad the prosecutor s _$ - _^ _iSJSf'L ? . Ph > ° _* half-crowns . Oneran * 1 _!? _$ _«* fc 5 ___*^ - ' he prosecutor then iden-» _* _P * _•«* . _tK _* ° na 4 Pee * most . prominent _ollfe _£ _**** _£ __*_ _» _^ ctlr swore . The _P _*» _* _ter _^_ * 2 ' _lu > would not swear to _^*^ _eatombed for _» fort
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mght . - _^ . extent of the injuries was * proved by Mr . Dean , a surgeon .. - of Chatteris . There was .. a dangerous , wound of the scalp , and for seven or eight days the prosecutor ' s life was in danger .-The jury . Acquitted Dirkin , the elder , and found the others Guilty ofa common a 8 _sault . _—Sentenoe deferred . ' ,,......: _.:, _Aasos . —The jury Acquitted Wmg , charged with setting fire . to : premises at Dry Drayton . "And ; in the case of John : Hay ward , charged with setting fire to outbuildings at ' Cottenham , by which a fourth of tbe vilbee- was burned down , the ' grand jury ignored the bill . .
WORCESTER . }" ¦¦ _PsBJcar . —Thomas Bomerton , aged 26 , baker , was Indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury . —Mr . Selfe conducted the prosecution ; Mr . W . H . Cooke appeared for the defendant . —This case excited much local interest , and occupied the court fur upwards of four hours . The defendant aud prosecutor resided in the small " village ' of White Ladies Aston , of which Mr . Berkeley , of SpetcMey , is the proprietor , a gentle ' niari _; who takes particular interest in theprSse ' rvation ' _-of his game . The defendant had been fined for Trespassing in pursuit of pheasants in January , " 1849 / on the information of Thomas _PetforoYsori of the prosecutor , and by way of retaliation gate notice toi the surveyor of taxes that Joseph Petford ! . the father , had . on the lst Janu-1
ary , J 849 , shot a brace of partridges without having a license to do so . A notice of surcharge was therefore given to old Petford , against which he appealed to the commissioners : ' On the hearing of this appeal the defendant attended as witness in support of the charge , and swore to having seen Joseph Petford discharge a gun and kill two partridges between ten and eleven o ' clock on the morning of Monday , the 1 st of January , on the farm of a person named Patrick . The prosecutor called witnesses to prove that on this identical day he had gone to Birmingham , and was actually in that town at the time deposed to by Somerton . On this contradictory testimony the commissioners , having adjourned the inquiry for further evidence , aeciaea
on the 3 rd May in favour of the appellant , who at the summer assizes following obtained a bill of indictment against- Somerton for _perjury . —On the part of the prosecution , seren members of the Petford family were examined as'to ' the fact of old Petford being in Birmingham on the 1 st of January —0 a the part of the defendant , four persons unconnected with him by any ties of relationship or intimacy , deposed with similar pertinacity tbat they bad seen old Petford in White Ladies Aston between the hours of eight and eleven on the morning of that day , and one of them , Mrs , Horn , who reaided
near the prosecutor , declared she had seen him with a gun in his hand , between ten and eleven of that day . —Lord Campbell , in summing up , left the jury to determine to which set of witnesses credit was due , and in the event of their believing those for the prosecution , then to determine whether tbe defendant had sworn falsely by mistake , or from wilful and malicious motives . —After twenty minutes' deliberation , the defendant was found "Guilty , " on which the Lord Chief Justice sentenced him to seven years' transportation , and he retired in custody , declaring himself to be unjustly punished .
Assault with _Ikxeni to KoB . —Thom * s Groves , aged 25 , was indicted for assaulting , with intent to rob , Thomas Had well , a shoemaker , at Kidderminster , on the lst of _Jurie'lKat '—Mr . Best prosecuted , and Mr . Powell defended the' prisoner . — -On the day above mentioned the prosecntor went to a public-house called the Weary Traveller , about seTen o ' clock iu the evening , and stayed there " refreshing" himself until abojut half-past eleven , when he . was fetched away by his wife and bis brother-in-law . On arriving home he found his house locked up , and accordingly he went alone to tbe house of a workman named Newbury for the key . At Newbury ' s door he found two young women , the prisoner , and two other young men , who were
Seeking admittance , and one of the young women , who had been tbere before that evening , stated that she had left some pence there . The prosecutor said that on the door being opened , there was a , rusK into the passage , and at the same moment he was struck twice by the prisoner ; that he thereupon went a few hundred yards towards a place Called Prospect-hill for a policeman , and that as he was going along the prisoner , Who had followed him on his hand and lsnee 3 , rose up suddenly by his side and knocked him down , put his hand into his pocket , saying with an oath that if he bad any money he would have it , and called to his companions to " come on , " but that they replied "it would not do , " and recommended him to " punch the prosecutor ' s ribs in . " The prisoner was proceeding to do so , wheq his wife and brother-in-law came to his
assistance , and the prisoner returned ou his hands and knees to his companions . The proseontor also swore that he was quite sober , and that although he did not know hia name , he was perfectly familiar with the prisoner ' s person . On cross-examination he admitted that he heard the young woman say she was come for her money , he said to her that he did not believe she had had any , and that it was thereupon he was first struck , and that , although ho had money in the pocket in which the prisoner put his hand , he had net lost any . His workman , Newbury , deposed , that the blows struck at the door were struck by the prisoner . —After a very impartial summing up , the jury . convicted the prisoner of a common assault , but strongly recommended him to meroy ; and he was sentenced to a week ' s imprisonment in the Penitentiary . f
_Bi / _RGLABT . —Thomas Bufton was indicted __ or a burglary committed on the premises of Riohard Hardwick , at Matbon . —Mr . E . V . _Itichards con ducted the prosecution , and Mr . Powell appeared for the prisoner . —Proin tbe evidence adduced , it appeared that about three o'clock , on the afternoon of Friday , the 5 th of April , the prisoner called at the house , of the prosecutor , who was a poor man , and asked him for a glass of water . The prosecutor went to fetch him a cup of cider , and on returning found tbe prisoner standing in tbe doorway , ina position where he could command a view of tbe interior of the prosecutor ' s _cottage , and could see two flitches of bacon hanging up there . . About ten at night prosecutor went to bed , having made his house fast . On . awakening at half-past five tbe next morning he found a hole in the window large
enough to admit a man ' s body , and discovered tbat his two flitches of bacon , together with a bag , had disappeared . About the same hour the prisoner , heavily laden , was overtaken by a man in a cart on the road from Mathon to Worcester . The man gave prisoner a lift as far as Worcester , and on their way the prisoner said that be was carrying bacon to his brother at the Spetchley station . About ten o ' clock prisoner offered the bacon for sale at a shop in Worcester , and received for it" £ l 5 s . He told the woman who bought it that he had been disappointed by the person who was to have sold it . The bacon was produced by a police constable and identified by the prosecutor , who produced a piece from home which corresponded exactly with that which had been stolen . —Mr . Powell addressed the jury on behalf of the' prisoner , who was found " Guilty , " and having been previously convicted was sen : tenced to transportation for ten years .
LINCOLN . ' Ward v , thb Torkshibe _FiBB Iksur ' ancb Comrm . —This was an action to recover the sum of £ 104 , the vafue of property destroyed by a fire at Rupham , in this county , on the 12 th of November last . The plaintiff had taken out a policy in the Yorkshire Company for £ 400 , and immediately after the fire he put in a claim of £ 200 for damage done to his corn stacks . In consequence of somo suspicion that this was an exaggerated claim , a coroner's inquest was held to inquire into tbe origin of the fire , and tbe result of tbat inquiry was a refusal on the part ' of the . company to Day for any damage whatever . ' Mr . Miller , for the defendants , contended that the plaintiff himself had set fire to the
stacks . Is support of this defence , he called the maid servant who had lived with the plaintiff ,-and she ' stated that at nine o ' clock at night , ' when she was in the brewhouse , she saw her master pass stealthily , and that shortly after sbe heard an alarm of fire , and on looking out she saw two stacks in a blaze . Other witnesses deposed that when the alarm was given the plaintiff ,, instead of going at once to the stacks and _throwing , water upon them , he went to his cowhouse and set some calves at liberty , and afterwards drew some waggons from a shed ; the inference being that this delay iu going to the stacks was to allow tbe fire to gain an
ascendency . In summing up , the Chief Justice commented on the practice of holding inquests on fires . He said there was no law to warrant it , and tbat coroners were not at all justified in swearing witnesses * to give evidence on such events . He mentioned that Mr Payne , one of the London coroners , had introduced the practice by _revwing what was alleged to be an _oldcusfon ; bat how far it was useful to ' re ? _ire ancient jurisdictions , and sit on royal fishes and sturgeons M for the benefit of the public " did not enter into the case at hand . The jury returned a verdict for tbe plaintifi ' for the full amount claimed .
STAFFORD . _HlflHffiir ROBBEBV AKD ATWMPr AT MUBDBB . — John Smith was indicted for assaulting and wounding Thomas _Gillaghau , on the 6 th of June , at Cresswell , putting him in bodily fear , and stealing from his person a bottle of whiskey , and other articles ,-his property . — The prosecutor , an Irishman , stated that he and the prisoner travelled together from Ireland , and had journeyed from Liverpool to Stone , near Stafford , where tbey slept toge ther on the night of the oth of June . Tbe following morning they pursued their journey together towards Stafford , and when they had passed tbe turnnike gate tba prisoner struck him a violent Wow on the back of the head with his walking-stick , which foiled him to tbe ground . When upon the ground , [ heSer kicfed and beat _hiuTwith the stick _unoJShwd ina most fewcioua and murderous manner , inflicting several severe wounds , one of which _swredthe upper lip . A _^ ie which , h
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S _«^^^™^ W _* _' ! _W _« e ; when he was first struck _^¦ _- . The ; prisoner then took hold of SKSSs _^ _S- _^ 1 _% _- _^ W W Prevented from in . _ghimirf ; in ; consequence _' of his _eraapiiis a post close to the wafer ' s euge . After again beatmg _S _£ v mg nim _»* _he ' Prisoner took' up tlie bundle , containing * 8 n , aU bottle of whiskey , _ sbirt , knife ' _S-T _^ f T _?' f articles ; and proceeded towards r „ _. _ _fl ; _"Vp 9 recovering . consciousness , he returneavto the turnpikegate , and gave , information to _the-keeper of the gate ., Hish ' ead and hair were then literall y staked- with blood , and the wounds r » _w e _?^ ed _^ _tovna . tip . " After recovering _himx ¦ ' _? « ! ' 5 ' _2 ' : in company with the parish constable to Stafford ;; where a police-officer apprehended the prisoner in a shop , with the whiskey
opine and shirt in his possession Z Upon being _oharged . with _tho-, ofience , he denied all _knowledge ? A v ? u ffar _^ acknowled ged that he had struck him with a black thorn stick which he had m his possession . -The prosecutor was then conveyed to the ' infirmary in a very weak state from the wounds he had received and the loss of blood , where he laidin a diiBgerouS state for upwards ofa weeK . ~ The ' prisoner , - in his defence , alleged that the prosecutor bad borrowed money from him , which he refused to return ; in consequence of whicb they quarrelled and ; fought . —Thia statement was distinctly contradicted by , the prosecutor , who stated that they had been on terms of friendship up to the moment when the attack was made upon him . —uis lordship then summed up tbe evidence , and the jury found the prisoner " Guilty , " when judgment of death was recorded against hiin
.. . ... NOTTINGHAM . - _MAtfstAUOHTitR . — George Toms was indicted for manslaughter . —Mr . ' ¦ W . H . Adams appeared for the prosecution . —ft appeared that tbe prisoner , on the 23 ml of April last , had been engaged in a fight withthe deceased _Henrys Flowers , in the . Nottingham meadows ,, and that Flowers had been killed by a blow given _byitheprisoner . On the partof the prisoner the fight had been conducted with fairness , and he had been greatly provoked by the deceased , botnDeiore the
_ ngnt commenced and during its continuance . Until the last round the deceased appeared to have had the advantage , and was actually taunting tbe prisoner , and singing "Meet mo by moonlight alone , " i when he received the blow whioh immediately knocked bim down , and on the Thursday following occasioned his death . —The jury found the . prisoner " Guilty ,- ' but recommended him to mercy . He had been in custody about a month , and . the loomed judge sentenced him to _« further imprisonment of three days .
YORK . His Lordship passed sentence on a number of prisoners . Among them was Augustus Holman , of Leeds , merchant , who pleaded " Guilty" to four distinct charges of forgery at Leeds ; was sentenced to be transported for fifteen years . _Embbzzlbment at Bridlington . —John Mercer was charged with embezzling' certain sums of money , at Bridlington , on the 22 nd of , May last . — Tho prosecutors in this case were the directors of the York and North Midland Railway . Company , in whose service the prisoner acted in the capacity of clerk at the Bridlington station . —Verdict , "Guilty . "—There We ' re other charges of a similar description against tho prisoner , but they were not proceeded with . ; n . e was sentenced to be imprisoned _and . kept at hard , labour for fifteen mQJliud ,
LEWES . MKUKcnow Case . —Mary Hardwick , a miserable looking creature was indicted for feloniously casting her child into the sea at Brighton , with intent to murder it . —It appeared from the testimony of two witnesses that on Saturday last the prisoner was seen by a man named March standing with a child in her arms , near the Custom-house ; at Brighton , and she suddenly ran down to the sea and threw tbe child into the water , and tben jumped in herself . March immediately ran into the water , and having fortunately succeeded in laying hold of the child , he brought it to the shore , and then went a second time into the water and brought out the woman . The child , it appeared , very soon
recovered , but the prisoner was insensible , and it was a considerable time before she was restored to consciousness . A man was upon the spot wbo was represented to be the husband of the . prisoner , and according to tbe testimony of the witnesses , after the melancholy transaction had taken place , . he was very violent and abused her , and expressed a desire that she should have destroyed herself . . The poor woman during the trial appeared hardly to be aware of the character- of the offence she was charged with , ' and sbe was evidently suffering most acutely . —When she was called upon for her de . fence , _sheeaprossed herself ignorant of what had happened . —The jury found her ' . ' Guilty , "f but recommended her to mercy , and . judgment was deferred . : '
DORCHESTER . , Charles Swyer was indicted for having set fire to a hayrick , the property of Edward Head , at Turnworth . —James Williams deposed : I am at present a prisoner , having been confined in tbe county gaol , to give evidence against the prisoner at the bar . On the 18 th of March last I met tho prisoner at Blandford , and the next day I proceeded with him along the road to Dorchester . We went across tbe downs to a hay rick , and the prisoner took a match from his pocket , lighted a piece of paper , _and sot fire to the rick . I asked him what he did that for , and he replied " for fun . " He walked away from me as fast as he could , and I at once went to . a boy who was working near , and told him to tell his
master of the occurrence . When I _. got to the village I informed the constable . —Will jam Head : The rick which was burnt was my property . It was worth £ 8 , and my . bey came , and told me that the rick bad been set onfire .-rJaraes . _jWells : The witness Williams eametome as I , was working in the field , and made a communication to me which caused me to tell iriy master that his rick was on fire . —The witness Williams was examined by the judge as to his calling , and what he was about when he entered into company with the prisoner . He said he was a . plasterer at Gloucester , and was working his way to Plymouth when he fell in with Swyer . —The prisoner , having nothing to say for himself , was found guilty , and sontenced to be transported for seven years . ''
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with bis creditors , and his insolvency was the result of heavy expenses by crown prosecutions and the injury done-to bis business . His debts exceeded £ 6 , 090 , running over a long period . In 1824 the prosecutions . commenced on account of his snuff . Ue satisfied the excise that it was made of British _hcrbB , and consequently not an excisable commodity , , and the prosecution was ended by a nominal verdict and payment of the costs , which he found were considerable . ¦ In 1827 he was _proseouted by the Stamp-office ; and ; in 1835 all his agents / _amount ing to more than 1 , 000 , were fined for selling snuff without a stamp , as the government considered it a patent medicine . In one day . ' , ' ninety" complaints were issued from the Stamp-office . The agents
brought back the goods , _horeturned tbe money , paid the expenses , and soon afterwards found his meahscr , ippUd . _, He was then paying £ 5 , 000 a year in advertisements .. The _^ expenses of the prosecutions , and the losses consequent thereon , cost him £ 11 , 000 . He had invented a liquid called " Regenerator , " forthe growth of the human hair . He had a place at Highgate , where he grew his herbs , and for which he gave £ 1 , 050 , and whioh he had mortgaged to Mr . Revett for £ 200 . There was a prior , mortgage of £ 800 , whioh Revett had paid off , and _flfterprofessing great friendship for him , had , since his imprisonment , brought an action of ejectment , to recover possession ofthe premises at Highgate . The insolvent had laid , out £ 2 , 000 on the property , and expected to pay bis creditors out of the growth of his herbs . He' had a p lace of business in Oxford-street ; out of wbich he had , since his imprisonment , been ejected . A Mr . Howe held a security on it to £ 1 , 000 , but had gained little or nothing from it . —Mr . White , a stationer , in
_Shoreditch , complained that he had discounted a few bills for the insolvent : and Mr . Willes , the other opposing _creditor , who was a creditor for a balance , complained of the security given to Mr . Howe . —Mr . Nichols asked . for possession of the premises at Highgate before the insolvent was discharged . —Mr . Cook resisted the application , aBone Of an unusual character , and made some sarcastic remarks oh the conduct of Mr . Revett , the opposing creditor , —In the course of-the case the insolvent alleged that he had offered the attorney of Mr . White £ 20 , besides costs on the bill held by him , but the offer was refused . On the other hand , it was denied that the money had been offered , but the attorney was not in court to give evidence-Tie Chief Commissioner required the attendance of the attorney for Mr . White ; and on the next occasion the court would hear any application forthe _appointment of an assignee with reference to tho premises at Highgate . —The case was adjourned .
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GUILDHALL . _—Charoe op _Siwuso Booxs . — Charles . Hamilton , William Harleyi ' and William Montague were charged with stealing a quantity of books , the property of _^ Thomas Blackwood ; abookseller _iad publisher , in _Paterhoster-row . The pro . _secutor had entertained suspicions for some time past that Harley and Montague , who'were in his employ , had been robbing him to a considerable extent , both in money , and goodB , and accordingly on Saturday last he marked three shillings and the _samo number of sixpences , and gave theni to a friend , with instructions to lay the money out in books at his ( prosecutor's ) shoo . Prosecutor left
home in the morning , and on returning . about five o ' clock in the same afternoon , he examined the till , And found the three , marked shillings and two _« ftbe sixpences there ; the third having , been abstracted , and a penny put in its place : lie theu gave both of thero into custody , when Montague stated that Hamilton had called during prosecutor ' s absen ce , and entered the warehouse , from whence he took five Bs . books , and gave Harley 5 s . —Several second hand booksellers appeared , and produced various volumesof " Bunyan s Pilgrim's Progress , " " Chever ' s Wanderings , " " Dick- s Future State , " ana other works , having bought them for about half their publishing price of the prisoners , Hamilton and Uaviey . —Hamilton said he had been led to
believe from Harley that Mr . Blackwood was in the habit of sending him out with volumes ot works , the sale of which had fallen off , leaving the prosecutor with a large stock in hand , to sell for any price he could get for them , nnd that on several occasions lie ( Hamilton ) bad taken some from Harley , and disposed' of them in the way mentioned by the booksellers present ) whereby he bad been _ena-Dled to make a few shillings from time to time . He said he had never been in the warehouse of the prosecutor , either witb or without his knowledge , and Montague ' s statement that he took five books away on Saturday was a mere fabrication , as he was not in Paternoster-row on Saturday . — -. fThe officer , Webb , stated that he searched Hurley before taking
him to the station , and found the marked sixpence tbat was missing from the _tiji _, and a great number of duplicates , chiefly relating to books , were given up before leaving tho warehouse . —Alderman Chains said that he should remand tlio case for a week , for the purpose of making further inquiries . MANSION-HOUSE . _—Disobaowui . Assault . — A tailor named John Hannganand his wife , and a young fellow named John Long , were charged with having desperately assaulted William Raw ley , one of the same trade . —The complainant went out at rather aa unseasonable hour on Saturday night last to get some beer , and meeting with the defendants , asked John Hanagan for the amount of a debt which ought to have been paid long ago . He received ah answer from each of the three , viz ., a
scratch from Mrs . Hanagiin , a blOWfrom Long , and from John Hanagan a bite , which actually made a mouthful of bis ear . —The biter stated that tho complainant provoked him by the most dreadful language to stand up to fight , and , at the commencement of the conflict , seized him by the ear and endeavoured' to drag it off his head , that the row became general , and every one in it got the worst of it , till the whole business was finished by an _interview with'f the inspector at the stationhouse .- _^ The woman said she only had done what any woman ought to do when hor husband was attacked—defended him when the complainant and two other-persons-attacked him . —The ear-biter was sentenced to imprisonment for one month , his wife to imprisonment for fourteen days , and Long to imprisonment for fourteen days .
_BOW-STREET—Gnosa Chubltt io Houses .-A . Fother , _" the driver of an omnibus , was charged , under the new act of parliament , with working tWO horses unfit to bo used . —A police-constable said tbat , on Monday , in Parliament-street , he saw the defendant driving an omnibus . He noticed a large wound upon the side of one of the horses ,- and tnc traces were constantly rubbing it as the horse was running . Witness stopped the omnibus , and told the driver he could not allow the horse to be worked in that state . On examining the wound , he found it very much swollen , and the horse must have suffered great pain . Tho prisoner said ho met with an accident that morning , and had run against a cart in Gray ' s Inn-lane . Witness then
lifted the collar , and found five or six wounds under the neck ,, each about the size ofa shilling _. They all appeared to be fresh wounds , and on taking the . horses and omnibus to tbe greenyard , he found another large wound upon the back of the , other horse , which was being rubbed by the har-i ness . At the station , the prisoner said the wound upon the side of the horse was an old one , and had been healed . -Thehorses were . quite sound when he brought them out , and he only intended to run them that journey . —The proprietor of the omnibus said he had 000 horsos , and he never allowed any animal to be worked that was not sound . The horses in question were quite well when they left thestable , and it was tbe heat of the morning that
had caused , the places to appear . They were only small pimples under the neck , which would be caused by perspiration . —Mr . Hall said he couldnot believe that the heat could cause such wounds as described by the officer , ' iu running such a short journey . The horses must have suffered great pain , and by the new act of parliament any person driving horses ihat were unsound was liable to the fine of £ 5 , and the owners were equally liable . He hoped the horses would not be . worked again ; and as a _Ciiu _» tion to the driver in future he fined htm the mitigated penalty of 30 s ., or fifteen days' imprisonment . —The proprietor assured his worship that the horses would not be worked again until perfectly recovered .
SOUTHWARK . —Chabos of Arson . — George Arnott , the son of an extensive ; hair manufacturer in _. the Grove , Southwark , and David Welsh , one of his workmen , were charged with setting fire to the premises of Mr . John Jeffreys , ironfounder , and proprietor of the Grove iron foundry , m the Grove , Great Guildford-street , Southwark . —Mr , Jeffreys stated that he left his premises perfectly safe about ten o'clock on tho previous night . There was at that time no fire lighted in the foundry . Wheuhe arrived ori tho following morning , he discovered a quantity of charred wood , and burnt shavings in the model room ; and from the position in which they were placed , he was astonished that the . whole of the warehouse ' was not burnt down . The property
in the warehouse consisted of models , tools , ' and other property , valued at nearly £ 20 , 000 . He afterwards heard that the prisoners had been on tbe premises at the time the fire was discovered , and from these circumstances he gave tbem into custody . —Elizabeth Higgott was called by the prosecutor , and stated that a little after _elCVeil 0 clock on the previous night she went into the yard at the rear of Mr . Jeffery s premises , when she . saw flames in the model house . She instantly called her master , when the flames were _ruBhing out of the factory windows . —Mr . A'Beckett . * Did you see either of the prisoners in tbe place where the fire took place ? Witness : Yes , I saw Arnott enter the _modebroom and . throw pieces of wood on the fire . near the
foundry . She then saw the other there , when Arnott took the wood from the pile andtbrewit about the room . —Other evidence having been hoard , Arnott said that tbey had been to the theatre , and , after they came home , they saw a fire ih Mr . Jeffery _' s foundry . They immediately jumped through the fence and put the fire out . —Mr . A'Beckett said he had heard sufficient to warrant bis remanding them . _Yiolemt Attack upon the _Maoistbatb bt Two Females . —Mary Grogan and Ann M'Carthy were charged with using improper language , in tbe public streets , and assaulting the officer in tbo . execution of his duty . —Mr . Ingham after hearing the evidence , ordered each to be imprisoned for one month . —Before the sentence had been distinctly
pronounced , each of them suddenly took off their heavy shoes and threw them with great violence at tho magistrate's bead , accompanied with dreadful oaths arid imprecations . Fortunately , for Mr . Ingham the missiles escaped his head , arid merely grazed his right shoulder . Finding tbey bad not succeeded in injuring the magistrate , < they attemptedto break down the front of the dock , but several officers being in the body of the court they were prevented , but it required the united _strengn often constables to drag them to the cells , and m doing so their clothes were torn from their backs . Their violence was so great when in the latter place that the magistrate ordered their instant removal to Brixton .
MARYLEBONE . — Charges oi ? Wilful . Damage and Assault by an _OmcxR . —Frederick Mundell , » member of the "United Service Club , and who resides at No . 101 , Milton-street , Dorset-square ( Ue refused to give his address when taken to the station-house , ) was charged with the following' extra * ordinary conduot : —Mr . Johnson , proprietor of a highly respectable boarding house , _Bituate at No . 4 , ~ _Cavendish-square , deposed , that on ihe 2 nd of December last , defendant , who represented himself aa a lieutenant in the army , ! and said tbat he belonged to the United Service Olub _^ . made application to him to be admitted as an inmate of the establishment , and after he had given in _thecamo of a party by way of reference , complainant'
consented to the proposal , but he subsequently men . - tioned to two ladies who were boarding with him , the agreement whioh he bad . come to , and from what ne heard with regard to defendant having been in Horsemonger-lane gaol for an assault upon a gentleman , he ( complainant ) wrote to him to the effect that he could not be admitted ; he sent to nuvW the leason why he' had come to this determination , upon which he wont to Peele _' s Coffee-house , and having copied from a paper the particulars of bis osmmittal to prison , forwarded it to bim ; he afterwards called upon complainant , tolling him it was all wrong , and that if he . would go to the Duke of Wellington with him everything could be explained , On tbe llth of December defendant _addrened , a few lines to _cwplainant , The
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_nnfa - » - . ' : '' tl V- - a _^ n forth , that note was here pat in and fWo , * . ¦? _i _» . _^ the writer , considered tbat _agmlinm ,. _™" _putiipon him , and ' of which he could not helptain _« . _^ cognisance , Complninantadded that since his refusal to admit defendant a number of panes of glass , pr incipally in the drawing-rooms , had been broken by some unseen band , and with the view of causing , if possible , the detection ofthe guilty party , whom ho imagined cdiild be no other than the defendant , he gave information to the police ; the ladies by whom he ( complainant ) was induced to come to the decision which be did had given him to understand that they sbould quit if ho ( defendant ) became an inmate ; be bad been persecuting one of the ladies ( the younger ) with his attentions , and had called in order to see her , but be was peremptorily told that
she would not grant him an interview . —Mr , Broughton : Do you know where the young lady first became acquainted with him ? Complainant : I believe in Harley-street , at my house , with her mother , aad , had I received defendant they would both have left me , —It further appeared _thut Superintendent Hughes , of tbo D division , had directed police constable Hawker , 271 , to station himself ia such a position in the square , as would enable bun to have a complete view of Mr . Johnson ' s dwelling ; he accordingl y did so , aud at length saw the defendant pick up from the road some stones , which he threw towards the house ; upon his going away after the last throw made by him at one o ' clock in the morning , witness followed him and took him into custody . At the station house a large stone was
_touitd in hia right coat pocket . Witness went back to Mr . Johnson ' s residence , when he called up one of tho servants , and four _stonesof a similar description to that produced were picked up in the area . —Evidence was also given as to defendant having on tbe way to the station house violently assaulted Hawker , and two other constables who came to his assistance . —Inspector Jackson said that he asked the defendant his name and address wben the charge was taken by him , but be refused to give either ; he was subsequently bailed , and the required information was then obtained . —Tbe solicitor said there was no proof whatever as to bis client having broken any windows . —To the constable : Did you hear the smashing of glass ? Constable : I did not , but I saw
stones thrown , and they rebounded from the building . —Defendant : Let me speak , sir , if you please . I heard that policemen had been making inquiries about me in a very improper way , and in consequence of their conduct I wrote to Sir George Grey , hoping that he would look to the matter , but I havo not yet seen . him . I know nothing about the breaking of any glass , neither did I fling a single stone , I was pounced upon by three men , and dragged along by them ; and if I had struck either of tbem , I Bhould certainly have made a mark . In trying to free myself from them I might have kicked out , but nothing more . —Mr . Broughton , after carefully reviewing the whole of the evidence adduced , _inflicted upon defendant a penalty of 40 s ., and two of 20 s . for assaultine the
police , and , in addition thereto , called upon him to eater his own recognisances in £ 100 , with two sureties ( with notice , in order that due inquiry might be instituted as to their fitness to be accepted as bail ) in £ 50 each , for his keeping the peace towards complainant and all his houso . for the next three months . The magistrate remarked that it had been intimated to him that he ( defendant ) bad also used threats towards the young lady who was not inclined to listen to or pay any regard to bis attentions ; that , however , would not now be entered upon . —Defendant : She had agreed to accept my hand before she went to Mr . Johnson's ; had it been otherwise , I should not hare been in any way troublesome to her . —He was tben locked
up . . WESTMINSTER . —Charge of _Robbbbv . _—LOUW _KonarzewsKi , a Pole , was charged with felony . — Elizabeth Fisher , servant in the establishment of Mr . H . F . Chorley , 15 , "Victoria-square , Pimlico , stated that on last Friday afternoon sho heard a knock at the street door , and upon opening it the prisoner walked into the hall without saying any . thing . She inquired if he wanted Mr . Chorley , and be replied " Yes , " and in broken English asked for pen , ink , and paper . She Went into the diningroom lo procure them , and there found herself followed by the prisoner , who , although provided with the means , did not attempt to write , but sauntered about the room , and having made some casual inquiry about a picture in the room , coolly sat
himself down . Witness finding he made no' use of the pen and ink , and considering his conduct very strange , became alarmed , and requested him to leave the house , which was unheeded . Hearing a ring at the street door bell , she was obliged to leave the prisoner in the room lor four or five minutes , " during which time she thought it prudent to send _, for Mr . Felton , a neighbour , and upon her going with him to tbe dining-room tbey met the prisoner at the door , ' who said he would go . Witness for some time requested him to write his name , which he refused to do , but , after a great deal of persua-| sion , wrote something resembling a name upon a piece of paper , and said he wanted to see Mr . Chorley at Verey ' s , in Regent-street , that evening . —Mr .
Chorley ' s valet proved that a £ 5 note and seven ot eight sovereigns were seen safe by him in an enve _« lope upon the dining-room table half an hour before the prisoner's visit and were missed shortly after his departure . —The prisoner denied the charge , and was remanded till Saturday . WORSHIP-STREET . — A Gaxo op Juvewls Burglars . —Twelve ragged and abandoned-looking young _urohins _, the youngest of whom was only eight years of age , were charge ] with having burglariously broken into the premises of Mr . Myers , a wholesale general merchant , in Wentworth-street , Whitechapel , and stolen a mahogany _writings desk , a quantity of sheeting and wearing apparel , and various other miscellaneous articles . At seven
o ' clock oh Monday evening the doors and windows ofthe warehouse were properly secured by one of the prosecutor ' s servants , named Dickman _, who was left in charge of the premises , on reaching which at six o ' clock next morning it was discovered by one ofthe workmen thata portion ofthe g lass and framework ofa first-floor window communicating with one ofthe store-rooms , had been shattered to pieces , leaving a sufficient aperture for the admittance of the thieves , who had completely ransacked tho place , and carried off a _considerabl quantity of property . Information of the robbery was immediately communicated to Sergeant Wake _, ford , of the D . division , who in the course of his inquiries , received information wbich induced him
to " proceed to a notorious haunt for young thieve * in Plough-street , Whitechapel , on entering which he found in a lower room the prisoners Dudley , Evans , and Shipley , stooping over a strong fire , on which was placed a large iron pot containing a quantity of pewter , which they were _t \ the act of melting down . One of tbe prosecutor's servants who accompanied the sergeants at once identified tbe contents of the pot , wbich were only partially fused , as _hig master ' s property ; and upon searching tbe room a quantity of sheeting and brass work was discovered , which was also recognised as a further portion of the plunder . The articles in question were secured by the sergeant , and conveyed with the prisoners to the station , arid he afterwards
proceeded to another receptacle of the samo description iu Lower Keatc-street , Spitalfields , where he apprehended four more of tbe prisoners , and found a further quantity of tbe stolen property in their possession . On asking what they had done with ihe rest of the property they denied all knowledge of it ; but tho owner of the house ,-who _was-standing by , immediately delivered up the prosecutor _, writing-desk , and three coats belonging to him , which ne said the prisoners had g iven him to take care of . The remainder of the prisoners were subsequently discovered secreted under some- archea in Commercial-street , and , upon the persons of each
of them , with only one exception , other portions of the booty were found . The prisoners listened to tbe evidence against them with the most im * _pertutbahle _havdihw > d . —Mr . Hammill said thai it was lamentable to witness sueh an exhibition o € depravity , by persons of such an age , but , _asth « case bad been clearly established against them , bo should order the whole of them to be committed until that day week , with the exception of the boy whom he was reluctant to send to prison on ac count of his extreme youth , and the prisoner Semen , against whom the evidence was not of sa conclusive a character .
Attempts io Commit Scicid _« v— Eliza Amos , was charged before Mr . Hammill with attempting to commit _suioide in the Regent ' s Canal . —Bulicemaa N 215 stated that about one o ' clock on Tuesday morning he- was in Haggerstone , when he was informed that a female had thrown herself into tl » Regent '* Canal ; He went-to the towing path and saw the prisoner sinking in the water . He got a pole , with which he succeeded in dragging her . ashore . She stated that she bad no pbice of refugo to go to > and tbat she was without friends or money —Tha- prisoner , in answer to Mr .. Hammill , sai 4 tbat she had been in service , and tbat she bad spent all her money . She- applied for assistanco to tho pajoehial authorities of Bethnal-green , by whoa she was refused _satisf , She was remanded for a week .
Emma Hawkins was charged with a similar offence . —The oficer to the Regent ' s Canal Company ; said that about twelve o _* cteck he saw ber jump from the pmiopet of the- Regent ' s Canal bridg _* . When he got her out sbo said that he should not prevent _bev-ftom drowning herself , and she _![*_* . try again tho first opportunity _! She lived _wjjygW j _^ . mother , who was a laundress , and was in _M' _^^^^ _raeV Mr . Hammill directed Sergeant _GodfreytX ?» v _**« ip | fr \ | k to take the prisoner , who is only fi ' ? ' _||^* S | ji . _^§> _- < ! L . _J ; age , to her mother . j _»(^| : _^ _' _*^^ - , ' ' * _N _
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 27, 1850, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27071850/page/5/
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