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Providentiai Escape.—A lad, named Seapy
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YORK ASSIZES. (Before Mr Justioe Mauls.)...
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Loss of an Emiorant Ship. —On Wednesday ...
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Providentiai Escape.—A Lad, Named Seapy
Providentiai Escape . —A lad , named Seapy
Belonging To The Rate, Which Sank At Sea...
belonging to the rate , which sank at sea , owwg . to injuries sustained from a collision with the Glenayln steamer , had a very narrow escape from drowning . He had turned into his hammock before the accident happened , and , strange to say , was not awoke either by the shock or the subsequent uproar on the deck of the vessel . The crew got on board the steamer , but the brig not eoing down as quickly as they expected , they returned to her , in the hope of
running heron shore , and so saving some of her stores . They soon , however , found this to be impracticable ; but before finally abandoning her , at the suggestion of the master , they went down into the forecastle to secure their clothes , and in searching for these one of tbe men laid bis band on the face of the sleeping boy , who had not been previously missed ; of course he was soon aroused , but could at first scarcely be convinced of the dangerous predicament he was in .
A New Idea op Choloropobm . — -A Bedford butcher has been giving a display of meat of the most splendid character ; but the most attractive feature was a long row of haunches and legs of mutton , very carefully powdered with Hour , after the true epicure fashion . Among the spectators was a good old woman from the country , who had never seen mutton in such disguise before , and she thus interrogated a neighbour- — ' Why , what the plague ha' they been and done wi' the mutl ' n ? ' ' Oh , ' said the man questioned , ' I des say they killed it wi ' this new cblory-form !'
_Damno Attempt at Highway Robbery . — As Mr Henderson , the chairman of tbe Liverpool Dock Committee , was riding home , a little after dusk , on Tuesday evening , a tall athletic man rushed from tbe footpath in Walton Breck Road , and attempted to seize his bridle . Mr Henderson instantly drew up , and the horse , frightened , backed several paces . The ruffian promptly renewed the attempt , but Mr Henderson struck at him with his whip , and called « Police i * The fellow , alarmed , darted through the hedge , and Mr Henderson darted after him . No assistance being near , the villain _effected his escape over a wall too high for the horse to follow him .
Military Expenditure . — -Amongst other governors of non-existent military fortresses , for whom the country has to pay , is the governor ef Berwickon-Tweed—an officer who never visits the town The walls of this ancient borough , in themselves a nuisance , have , by their dilapidations , become a greater nuisance ; and the magistracy of the place have called on the Ordnance office to repair them . Whereupon , instead of despatching the governor down , that office sends at great cost an architect to report to it ; and , in all probability , the repair of these walls will form an item in next year ' s estimates .
Political and Social Francb . — -In a lecture on public hygiene , delivered by M . H . _Roges Cullard ( given in the Medical Times ) at the Faculty of Medicine , Fan s , he observes ; -Into whose hands France is to fall , whether shais to be governed by kings , or by directors , presidents , or consuls , are now questions ol secondary importance , the political organisation of the Government is but the outward form , the drapery , of the ' social organisation ; the latter constitutes the true problem , the principal and most essential question for France to solve .
Novel _Applicatioh of Gum Cotton asd Asbestos —In a communication addressed tothe Mbbioal _Gmiu , Mr Robinson , the eminent dentist of _Gower-street , details a new application of these substances for the removal of the agonising pain oi _toota-ac'ie , when the patient ib unwilling to submit to the radical euro of extraction . The collodion , to which a few grains ol morphia are added , is dropped into tbe cavity , which is then filled with asbestos , and the whole becomes in a few seconds solidifiid ,
forming an excellent non-conductor of heat and cold to the exposed _nerve . The plan has been followed with the most complete success , and we doubt not that it will be very extensively adopted in cases where there may bs either c institutional -obstacles , or objections on the sufferer ' s part , to extraction , It U unnecessary to add , that great caution must be observed in the use of this powerful agent , abd that the operation should only be _undertaken by a skilful _sa-eeon-dentiBt .
_Shipwreck . —It is our melancholy duty to announce the loss of another fine vessel on the banks at the mouth of our river , whioh frok place on tbe 20 th inst . This vessel is a Prussian , hailing from the port of Rostock , and was only launched about six weeks ago at Memel , from which plaoe she wat bound to Dundee with a cargo of timber , & o ., principally we believe for the purpose of being coppered with tbe view of proceeding for Bnenos _Ayres . Tho vessel ' s name ia the Jobnm Frcidriok , and the captain ' s 11 D , Bradfaerine , whose property she is , and we are sorry to say tbat not a penny of insurance is tfLoted
upon her . It was about seven o clock in _taemorniBg when tbe ship went oh the Elbow End ; and tbere being nothing remarkable is the proper channel of the river , the wind being favourable and several other vessels ooming up at the time , conjecture was rife as to what had occasioned the _unfortneate mishap The captain himself blames the pilot , as beinj ; unqua titled to have taken charge of his vessel . About lour hours after the Jobann Freidrick grounded ; the crew ( fourteen iu number ) , including the master and pilot , were taken off by the life boat ; a very heavy sea breaking over tho ship at the time . —Dundee Advertiser .
SiHGULiB Phesirvation . —Oa Tuesday intelli gence wu received at Lloyd ' s of the total loss of the brijt Fortschrit _, of Stettin , Rendfluiscb , master , bonnd to Dablin , on the North Sand , On the vessel striking _, themas _' er and crew , eight in number , got ia the long-boat , starting a large quantity of oil overboard , which prevented the sea as they went before it _aoross tbe sand irom breaking into their boat . This novel expedient preserved their live *; as the boat would otherwise have been _stamped and tft « _y muBt all have perished . They ware tbns able to cross tbe lsnd , and were picked up and landed iu Ramsga _t e . Wheat Sowikq id East Kkmt . —The wet Btate
of the land , arising from tbe heavy and _long-oontinned rains during the summer and autumn , begins to excite some apprehensions with regard to the next wheat crop . Wheat sowing was sever more backward , and many farmers still find it impossible to' get upon the land . ' It is remembered , however , that after a somewhat similar season a few years since , wben a great deal of wheat sowing was , of /" necessity , deferred , until the sprint * , the following crop waa abundant and of good quality . * Vjby Lies a Wham !* -An orator in Utioa _ooff . pa ed John Van Buren te a whale whose oil would feed the lamp of liberty to all _etereity . '
York Assizes. (Before Mr Justioe Mauls.)...
YORK ASSIZES . ( Before Mr Justioe Mauls . ) _Thursday , Dkc . 21 . TUB CHARTIil TRIALS . John Robinson Tomkins , and seven others , named Lilley , Kershaw , Farrel , Radoliffe , Lees , Pogson , and Neil ( all the prisoners exoept Tomkins being very young men , er rather boys of eighteen or . twenty ) , were indioted for having , on the Uth of August last , at _Qairk , in the West Riding , with _diveis other persons , unlawfully combined , conspired , _confederated , and agreed to exoite her majesty ' s subjects to sedition and disaffection against the laws of the realm , and to cause insurrections , riots , and , tumultuous and illegal meetings , and to prevent her
_Majest ' s subjeots from following their lawful occupations , aud foroe them to depart therefrom , and to disturb tbe publio peaOP . The Hon . Mr Pbipps and Mr Otter appeared fer the p * o * eou'iOD ; and Mr Overend and Mr Hardy for the defence . MrPhippa gave an outline of the charge , whioh will be found detailed in the evidence . George Flatt , an informer / examined , Btated , tbat tbe prisoners Tomkins , Lilley , Neil , and Farrell were Chartists . The other four were not Chartists that he was aware of . They belonged to the Chartists , but they belonged to the O'Connor Land Scheme . They had a Chattnt' meeting room at Bagley , and * three Bort * ' met at tbat room—the O'Connor Land
_BOheme Chartists , the moral force Chartists , and the physical force Chartists . Was at a meeting thero when it was determined to ascertain the amount of physical foroe that oould be , mustered . There were about forty * physicals . ' A division took place between the ' _phyHoals ' and the ' morals' about a fortnight before the Ashton job ( the murder ef tbe _policeman ) . He supposed and understood that the physical force men . were to buy arms s _< id to obtain the Charter by physical force ; tbe moral force men were to obtain it by moral force . He heard a delegate -ay at that meeting that they muBt get arms . He did notsay they were to use thera . Ho could not tell what delegates they : were . They said the' final decision of the delegates bad net been settled / He
oould net tell what they meant by delegates .: Delegates frequently attended from Ashton at the room . On _Stwdty , ( he 13 ih of August , was at a meeting at the Working-man ' s ball . Tomkins and Lees wero with bim . Many a hundred was there . . It wat called a Chartist meeting . There were _plaoardsabout convening tbat meeting . A man from Manchester spoke . He eaid the final decision of the de ' egate meeting was not settled yet . Saw none of tbe others there . Witness was a member of the physical force Chartists . His number was nine . Was at a meeting on the Uth August at Bagley . Saw Lil ' ey , Tomkins . Kershaw , and Farrell there , and Lees and Radcliffe at the _beginning of tbe night . Tbere wen delegates from Ashton there , who addressed the meeting . The / said , ' the time _wsb come : when the blow must , be
struck * , ' and tbey wanted them to go d _<* wn to ABhton that night and join tbem . They told them to go by Hirt ' _s Brook to miss the military at the barracks . They said they _should like them to have arms , but could do with them if tbey had nothing . They were to goto _Ashton to throw up barricades , and were to meet a body of Chartists at Hirt ' s Brook . Did not know wh nt a barricade was ; never saw one . They took in tbe North British Express at Bagley a room , and Thb People . He bad no idea whatever what » _barricade was , He heard it was something te ' throw np . ' . _, Mr Justioe Mauls —That might be a ball . Witness ' s examination resumed . —Hi * idea was that it was to barrioade the streets . They teld tbem to get ' pop bottles , ' and fill them with combustibles to throw at tbe police . ' Red Archy * told them he knew how to make them . He left tbe room that
night at ten o clock . Lilley and Kershaw went with him . He went to _Kersbaw _' s _hcuae , He came out again with a wooden shaft six pr seven feat long . There was iron at the top and it divided in tbe middle . He had something bright whiob he wrapped up in . brown paper , wbich he put in his jacket pocket . It appeared to . ba something to put on the end f the pole . The same night he went to a stone quarry in the neighbourhood , to be ont of the way , because it was rumoured , tbat those that did not meet to go to Ashton they would fetch . The stone quarry was three or four hundred yards from Molesworth . He left at two in the morning , and went over the brow of the hill and saw Kershaw standing with his wife courting her . He had been parted from his wife twelve monthB and he was courting her again . ( A laugh . ) When he got to Ashton be heard a report tW a policeman had been killed . On doing into
Ashton he met twelve polioemen near : the Town Hall , going in search of arms . Cress-examined by Mr Overend . —Ho was a physical force man in a stone quarry . ( A laugh . ) They all subscribed to these rooms a halfpenny a week , about 120 in all , for the expense ef lights and the reom , and newspapers . It was obiefly a place far newspapers . The room was open to everybody , except when they had their , physical foroe meetings . The doors were not then closed , but all but the physical force men stayed away . They ( the « physicals ') met ' on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings . The delegates dropped in occasionally , when tbey pleased . Never heard National Guards mentioned , His number waB 9 . Could not tell whe was No . 8 . His _oird was at the police vagrant offioe at Leed * . He had no money , and went there to sleep , and tbey pulled it ont of bis pocket . "( .
Cross-examined by Mr Hardy . —Did not give information till the 14 th of September . Did not see Lees and Radoliffe after tbe meeting on the Uth of August . . J . Scholefield , cotton-stripper , Lane-end , Saddlewsrtb , another informer . —Has seen all the prisoners atthe Chartist rooms at Bajtley . Tomkins Was & class leader over twenty men . He waa appointed a good while before the _Axhton job . Has heard Tomkins tell the people , in conversation in the Bagley rooms , to get arms ; the time was short . Remembered a man named M'Douall being apprehended at Ashton one Snnday morning . There were abont thirty men tbere , Chartists . They were National Guards . Al )
the prisoners were there . They fell in two deep to near _Eyson Barracks and then broke up . Cross-examined by Mr Hardy . —He did not know that he ever saw the prisoners all . together at the _Baijley rooms . John Shaw lives at Carr Hill , is a cotton spinner by trade , and keeps a small wares shop . About twelve o'clock en tbe night of the llth of August was in bed when he was aroused by a ' , punch' at the door , Went and opened the doer , and saw three men near tbe door . It was neither moonlight nor gaslight . Could just see them . They said they wan tea seme ammunition ; he said be had none ; he had given oyer selling Hr The men went away .
Cross-examined . —AH tbe prisoners had a good general charaoter . Re-examined . —Did not know that Tomkins was aCharti 3 t . ' . ' * John Fielding . —Lives at Carr-hill Mill , _Remembers the night of the Uth of August . Haw four or ere men . standing near _Show ' s ( the last witness ) house . Heard a shot that night about twelve o ' clook . On the night of the Uth of August eaw _Tomkinson and Lilley about four o'clock in the morning going towards Bagley from Staleybridge . They told him they had beard n policeman waB shot tbat nigbt at Ashton . He heard a shot that night ; William Clayton , a sickly-looking boy , net quite 18 , bad seen the prisoners at Chartist meetings . Cross-examined . —Some of the prisoners were bis companions aB boys .
William Baines , police . constable at _AbMou , examined . —About eleven o ' clock-on the nigbt of the Uth heari sbot-, and then a trampling of feet . Was standing near the Albion factory . Saw a party of men going in a body from Bagley , Ho and two other policemen _stajed under the wall till they paBsedby . They went four abreast , about twenty-five or thirty of them . Could not tee whether or not they were armed . Went after them ; saw them marching towards Ashton . Saw many pikes and suns , too , amongst them . They were still marching in the same order , Tbey stopped near him and told bim ' to Btand back , friend . ' Another man said , ' D-- — - him , shoot him . ' One man presented a gun at witness
and Btruok tbe cap , and it missed fire . He was not three yards off him . Heard the click . Witness stepped back to the corner of tho street , and the prisoners marched away to Ashton . Afterwards heard one dr two ' shots in the direction of Ashton . He folio wed'the party and saw Pogson and Neal coming from Ashton . In answer to the polioe , they said they had been to a house near the Junction Barraoks _csurting , and had met nobody . They gave their names as ' William Henry . Wood and Joseph Lees . ' Saw the body of men marching afterwards about one o ' olock . Several bad pikes and guns . One mas had two pikes and a gun . When he got to Ashton the soldiers wtre out .
_Crosr-examined . —Pogson and Neal bad nothing with them , and wero not with the others . Had not seen them before , First gave information against them a month after . John Holmes , _pohVofficer , was witb last witness under the factory wall at Ashton . He corroborated the statement of tbe last witness . Jobn Fawcett , labourer , _Ashtf n , examined . —Was at Lilley ' s house soon after the 14 th of August , the date of the Chartist job . Lilley told him nothing about it . All he said was that he was a Chartist . Lilley told him that he went tbat night to Ashton with some others . He never _mentioaed Chartists ' rooms st all . Did not tell Harrison ,. the policeman , that Lilley told him he went from the Chartists ' rooms at Bagley to Ashton the night of the job with fifty or Bitty others . u ' His Lordship said this was not satisfactory evidence to establish faots againBt the prisoners . Mr Pbipps moved that the man be oommitted for
perjury . His Lordship did aot accede to thia . Cross-examined . —Harrison sent for him and took dowa a statement from him at his own house , No one eUo was there . He did aot read over what was wuttendown . What Lilloy told him was . that 'he _wMaCaartirtinM _* ., and-went towards Ainton that _tftw
York Assizes. (Before Mr Justioe Mauls.)...
Robert Woods , cotton-spinner , examined . —On Tuesday morning , the 14 th of August , at _sey . en o ' clock in the morning , he was getting stone in a quarry near Mossley , when Farrell was there , and told him that a policeman was shot the night before at Ashton , and he saw the trigger ' struck , ' Witnew asked him where he was when he saw it , and he answered he was standing at his own door . John Harrison examined . —Is a policeman at Bagley . On the night of the 14 th of August went to the Chartists' room and counted forty-nine men there , Tbe prisoners . Farrell , Radoliffe , and Neal were amongst them , reading aloud . They were reading the Noktbbbh Star , the Tilegbaph , and Barker ' s publication , ealled ThbP _« oplb . Mr Overend . — . He's a town councillor at Leeds . Mr Justioe Msule . —What was it about ? .
Witness . —It was a prayer far the people , and to tbe beat of his reoolleotion ; it was a prayer , 'That tbe Queen was very sorry ; if God would forgive her for robbing tbe poor , and taking their rights from them , she would _Bubmifc to anything for a reasonable livelihood . ' There was a general assent to it , and Lee ' s father said , Amen , d—n the Churoh and State , and all _religion , and them that wants it , let them pay for it , ' He was on duty it Denton , tbree miles from _Asnton , on the morning of the 15 th of August , and met Higgs , the superintendent of police , and be gave witness information of the death of Bright . He was standing in Guide Lane , between Ashton and Denton , at half-past one o ' olock , a , Bu , and counted about forty or fifty shots . Went then to Ashton . Tbe military were out then at two o ' clock in the morning . The magistrates were sitting , and the town was in crest exoitement .
John Thomas Kerriion _. ' a reporter at ABhton , was on duty on the night of the Uth of August as a special constable . Heard Bright was shot that Bight . Mr Bradshaw was sent to the barracks for the soldiers . He could not get there , and witness , when he oame back , volunteered to go to the barracks on Mr _Bradsbaw ' s horse , When he had got about a mile on the road be heard the bells of St Michael ' s ohurch ring , which was tbe signal for the special constables to assemble . He beard the voices of men at Hirt ' s Brook , and he took across the fields and reached the barracks . " He delivered the message to the commanding officer , and the military turned out . He received instructions to go baok by the road . Got as far as a plaoe called Coke Ovens ,
when he saw a number of men , armed with pikes _, across the road . Saw the glitter of the pikes in the moonlight , and returned to . the barracks . Saw also a number of arm / ad men going towards _Dnkenfield , from Ashton , at one o ' olook in the morning .. The town was in a great excitement that night , and remained so for some time after . Thomas _Greasdale , superintendent of polioe at Saddlewortb , apprehended five of tbe prisoners ob the 13 th bf September , —Tomkins , Radoliffe , Lees , Pogson , and Neal , charging tbem with this offence Neal said . 'He was not . there by himself on that nigbt , Have you not warrants for others as well as
me ?' . Was present in the look-up when _Tomkins ' _s wife came to see him , on Friday ,: the 15 th of September , and Tomkins said to her , 'The witnesses had sworn falsely against him . ' He said , 'He did not tell them on his own account to . buy arms ; he only told them tbat tbe two delegates that eame from Ashton tbat night requested bim to tell tbem tbat no one was to go from that room that night to Ashton without carrying arms . He was only the mouthpiece of the delegates . ' Radcliffe-said he waa at the meeting of the delegates that night , bnt did not stay long , Pog _« on said be was there tbat night . This was the case for the prosecution .
Mr Overend and Mr Hardy having addressed the jury for the prisoners , Mr _Phipps replied for the Crown , and gave up pressing the oharge against Radoliffe and Lies . His Lordship then ' summed up the ease to tbe jury The jury ! retired , and after an absence of two hours found the prisonera Guilty , Sentence deferred . James Kelvington , John Robinson , Edward Hurley , and James BUnd , appeared to eater and try their traverse oharging them with riot , conspiracy , and assault at Bingley . They had no counsel . The Hon . Mr Phipps and Mr Maule appeared for the prosecution . One of the men said , tbey had been _givon to understand that no evidenoe would . be offered against thtm , and tbat tbey wonld bo discharged en tbeir own recognisances ,
It appeared , however , that they had not entered their traverse , nor paid the fees , and the counsel for the prosecution wished to know if tbey were ready for trial . One of the men , John Robinson , said they bad paid already of 6 10 a . ii . traverse money , and now they were asked for further fees to the amount of £ 14 2 s . before they oould be set at liberty ; that would make more than £ 20 for four poor men to pay who earned 8 j a week . He . considered that rather exorbitant -. ;
Mr Justice Manle . —Nobody takes those fees to bis own use , they go to the _puolio . The officers don't get tbem at all ; and the officers cannot give them up , because they aro not their own money . Mr Phipps however , at the suggestion of his Lordship , one of tbe prisoners having been in gaol waiting his trial six months , would not , on the part of the government , press the cbarge . As tbere wonld be no evidenoe offered , thejury would acquit them , Robinson- —We return our _Bi ' ncera thanks to the Crown and the Court for the olemenoy they have shown to ub . The prisoners were then discharged .
Fridat , Dso . 22 . . Daniel Lindon , Adam Stratton , Thomas Wilkinson , Thomas Ibbetson . Eli Wilman , Joseph Riddehaigh , James Heliiweli , William Wood , Edward Power , and James Smyth were indioted for unlawfully conspiring , confederating ? , and agreeing together to destroy the Bradford Gas Works , and to seize the magistrates and detain them till the Charter should be granted , All tbe prisoners , witb the exception of Smyth and Power , pleaded' Guilty . ' Mr Overend and Mr Maule appeared on the part of the pro _* eoution , and Mr T . Campbell Foster for the defence of Smyth and Power . Mr Overend having opened the case to the jury , called the following witnesses : —
Charles Ingham , superintendent of police at Brad ' ford , Baid he went ou the 23 rd of August to the Chartist section room , in Victoria Street , Bradford , about eight o ' clook p _, m . He found there nine men , of whom Power was one . He took Power into oustody , and on searching him found some books , whioh he produoed . One of these books contained various resolutions made at Chartist meetings . There were obalk marks on the floor . Cross-examined . —Tbere was nothing _cabalistio in the obalk marks , Did not take muoh notice of them . J . Shepherd , an informer , said : Many Chartist meetings took plaoe in the beginning of the year at Bradford . Smyth was a Chartist speaker in April .
He waB secretary o ! the _seotion that met at tbe Temperance Esting-house in Bradford . Smyth recommended a oolleotion for the purpose nf providing armB . On the 26 th of'June there was a meet _' ng at whiob abont forty persons were present , and Smyth was atked to account for tbe monoy collected , whiob he refused to do , and tbe reason be alleged for so doing was that he had given £ 5 19 a , 6 d . to men in the 39 th Regiment to induce them to desert , and not to fight against the Chartists , and if that got out or appeared on the books and they were taken , tbe men would be _transported . Witness was a member of the ninth section of the Chartists ; there were forty or fifty sections in Bradford containing 100 to 200 men . He was at a meeting on tbe 13 th of August
at wbicb Smyth wbb present , and he was proposed to be sent as a delegate to Manchester . Smyth said he expected a letter from Manobester , stating that the Chartists had tamed out tbat sight there , and he would wish them to dp the same that night at Brad ford and turn ont and fight the military and police ; and he proposed that every seotion should hold itself in readiness . It was agreed that Smyth should go to Manobester , as the letter had not come , and that every man should hold himself in readiness with bis aras to _Btrike the blow when he oame baok . The Chartists present bad net arms then , but he bad seen them with arms in their houses—pikes and guns , and pop-bottles filled with powder and home shoe stubs , and anything tbat would do damage . When they
turned out tn » y were to get araB at the first shop . Witness had made some of the' pop-bottles' himself ; A man named _Binns was tbe ohairmaa of that meeting , and Smyth and he went to Mancester on the 15 th of August . Smyth returned on the 16 tb , and there was then a meeting at Daly ' s publio bouse of the oounoil of the Chartists . The oounoil was formed of a representative from eaoh section . They were waiting therefor orders , expecting a turn-out . Plans of operations in the different streets were laid down , and they bad orders to take tba police station , to pull down the telegraphs and * rive' up the rails , te prevent tbe military from ooming from Leeds
_nammers anu picas were to be taken to pull up the gas pipes and darken the town . He understood they wero to fight the military and polioe , to gat the Charter , and to have a Republio . Smyth showed him a letter whioh he had received from Manchester it said that all was broken np and oome to au end . ' Crossexamined . —Had given . evidenoe against Lightowler ; who was tried as a Chartist : Knew Crowley , hu brother in-law . Had _nerer asked Crowley to swear the same thing , and ho would be paid for it . Never told Crowley ' they only oalled him ( witness ) perjurer , and be waino worse fer it . ' Had teen charged with felony .
R « -exftmined . * -It " wai by the Chartists , andthe oharge was dismissed . Miohael Flynn , another informer , examined . —Was at a meeting at tbe Land Company ' s rooms , at Butterwortb ' s Buildings , in Bradford , on the 4 th April . Smyth was there acting as seoretary . He took all the aooonnts and Motion book * , Heard him tell the delefates from the sections to get pikes and all kinds of weapons , for tha purpose of overthrowing the Ioternmeat . There was another meeting on the 8 tb of April ia WW Manchester Road . Smyth wai
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there . He moved for a fund to be raised . for tho supply of arms . Binns was there , and said that men were wanted more tban ammunition . On the 19 th of April and on the 4 th of May Smyth W _8 B pre- _, sent at meetings at which witness was , wben reports were made to Smyth ofthe progress of the sections in getting arms . On the 24 th of May tbere was a procession af Penkover Walks of 4 , 000 or 5 , 000 Chartists , witb bands of muBio and Hag-staffs with pikes upon them . Smyth beaded the prooession . Another meeting was held the same night at Butterworth Buildings . Dr Frith made a motion that they oould never have a better opportunity to break out tban that night . Smyth said tbat the town was not prepared , and that he would not keep the name of a man on his books who wished for blood so soon . Tho dootor said he did not care for a pen through his name , when it was in his breast . He was a quack dootor , not a regular doctor .
Cross-examined . —Had not deserted as a soldier . Had not twice been confuted of embezzlement . , Robert Emmett , an approver , examined . —Is an engine ( enter and Chartist . Attended a meeting in Viotoria Street / Bradford , at wheh Power acted as secretary . A collection ' was made for arms . Each man took his arms home . He had attended about ten meetings in May and August last , at wbioh rules were adopted that tbere should be a corporal for every fourteen men , a sergeant for twenty-eight , aud a superior officer for forty men . On the 15 th of August , Power told the men present at a meeting to be in readines _** Witness was a superior officer . They were ordered to take up the gas-pipes , and to take wood frem Crabtree ' s yard and throw up barri . cades . Tbey were to take the magistrates , aud hold them as hostages until tbey bad got the Charter .
Cross-examined . —Witness-was to command when this was done . He knew ' Skipton Diok . ' That was his nick-name . Got it because of a dog . Never stole any castings from a foundry at Skipton , Had been married fourteen years , aud believed bis wife was in Australia ; did not know that she was living at Settle . Had some years since gone through the ceremony of marriage with another woman at Bally * shannon , in Ireland . It _[ was not a regular public marriage . Had never said it was . ( Witnesr ' a depositions before the magistrates were here handed
to him by the learned counsel . ) Had told the magistrates be was married to this woman ' , but tha clergyman that did it bad only a kind of a gown pinned on him , andhad been dismissed from the service for drunkenness . ( A laugh . ) He charged half-a . crown for tbe job , He did not consider it a regular marriage . Had been in Wakefield House of Correction for embezzlement , and also on a conviction for false pretences . He bad also been sent from Skipton Workhouse to Wakefield House of Correction for breach of the rules . Had been there also for
desertion . Told the magistrates at Bradford be had only been at Wakefield once , and that was for desertion . Had never been flogged in tbe army for theft . Was not branded 83 a rogue , nor drummed out of his regiment . Re-examined . —He was discharged froB the army ona medioal certificate . Police-constables were then examined , who bad searched Smyth ' s bouse , and iu a box in his bedroom , and in a drawer down stairs , bad found several books and papere , which they produced . On cross-examination they stated that there was another man or men in the house at the time , who appeared to be of the family . There were only two rooms in the bouse—a . bedroom and _bouseroom . There were two beds in the bedroom . The box in which the books were fonnd was not looked .
Mr Foster objected to these books and papers being given in evidence . There waa no proof that they were iu the custody of Smyth . Tbey were not locked up , and other men lived in the house _. His Lordship thought sufficient ground was laid for putting them in evidenoe , The custody of tbe books was open to comment to thejury . These bookB and papers were then put in . They contained accounts of various expenses for Chartist purposes , for flags and printing , delegates' expenses , Ac , and several Chartist resolutions . One ofthe policemen stated tbat the Chartists in their processions at Bradford carried _fhgB , with suob inscriptions as' England free or a desert , ' Better to die by the sword tban perish with hunger . ' Wo to the tyrants that obstruct the march of freedom , ' < feo .
Mr Foster then addressed thejury for the defence . He contended tbat tbe witnesses for the _prosnoution , who were Chartists , were as co-conspirators and accomplices deserving of little credit , and their character showed them to be undeserving ol belief . By tbe very same course taken in this prosecution those who had promoted the passing of the Reform Bill , or who promoted any change in the law , might be indicted for a conspiracy . The evidence of Emmett , tban whose character nothing cou \ d be worse , alone affected Power ; and he should call witnesses to contradict tbe witness Flynn , affecting Smyth , showing that Smyth was not present on the occasion sworn to . The papers found at Smyth ' s bouse , tha learned counsel contended , were not traced to his oustody , Witnesses were called to contradict Flynn .
Mr Overend replied , and his Lordship having summed np , tbe jury , after a short consultation , found both tbe prisoners Guilty . Sentence deferred .
Satijbday _. _Dj'c . 23 . Tbere was but one oase remaining tbis morning , wbich was tried before Mr Justice Maule , after which the Chartist prisoners were put to the bar to receive sentence . John RobiDBon Tompkins , convicted with others of having * , at Quick , on the Uth of August last , conspired to levy war against Her Majesty and to exoite Her Majesty ' s subjects to sedition and disaffection , and Edward Power and James Smyth , convioted of having conspired , on the 23 d of August last , to destroy the Bradford Gas Works , aad to
B _61 Z _3 the magistrates and detain them nntil the Charter should be granted , were eaoh severally sentenced to be imprisoned one year , and at the expiration of their sentence to find each two sureties of £ 25 eaoh , aud be bound themselves in £ 50 eaoh to keep the peace for one year more . Farrell and others , indicted along with Tompkins , were sentenced to be imprisoned six calendar months each , and fo find sureties in £ 25 to keep the pesos ior one year , with tbe exception of Neald acd Pogson , who were recommended to mercy by the jury on account of their youth , and who were sentenced to be imariionedoneoalendar month each .
Daniel Lindon and seven others , indicted along with Power and Smytb , but wbo pleaded guilty , tbe counsel for tbe prosecution undertaking to recommend tbeir discharge on their own recognisances , were discharged on tbeir own recognisances te keep the peace . Tbis terminated the business of the winter assize .
Loss Of An Emiorant Ship. —On Wednesday ...
Loss of an Emiorant Ship . —On Wednesday week the ship Bramma , Captain Mat * on , from Hamburgh for New Orleans , with 115 emigrants and a general cargo , struck on and drove over the Goodwin Sand , and after _losiag her anchors , cutting away her main and mizen-masts , and losing a third anchor and chain , struck on the Pan Sand . A Margate lugger , the City Queen , being in the vicinity , observed her signal of distress , and , in consequence of tbe hi gh sea , with great risk and difficulty
approached her . Another large lugger , the Intrepid , of Margate , also made the sbip , and tbe boats succeeded in saying tbe lives of 115 passengers , and the crew ( twenty in number ) , who were landed in safety at Margate , about three o clock in the afternoon , but in a very distressed condition , and several suffering severely from exposure to cold and wet . The crews of the luggers exerted themselves to the utmost to save the lives of the unfortunate Germans without any prospect of remuneration .
Liverpool _,--Obtusenkss _Extraordinary—In the course ofthe mining case , tried by Mr Justice Erie , a number of old and not very brilliant _witnessess were examined to prove the extent and mode : of working the mine . The following dialogue took ; place between one of them and Mr James , the bar- . rister engaged for the prisoner ;—Mr James : ' Now r you say you worked at the mine . ' '—Witness : « Ees . sir . ' Mr James : ' How did you work _?'—Witness : : ' Why , it wos woorked oop and down , you ' no—this i way , that way , t ' other way , foot-ridden way-dang ; it , every way . ' ( Loud laughter . ) -Mr James : < l I must confess I _don'tunderatand you . '—Witness : ' t I think I spoke plain enuf . ' ( Great laughter . )—Mr _, ' r ¦
James : No doubt you did , but the stupidity is on n my side , not on yours . '—Witness : 'That's it . You u are quoit stupid . ( Roars of laughter . ) Youconna a ondemandEnglish !* ( Continued laughter . ) - _* The ie Judge : If we had been in the habit of working ia ia mines , doubtless your language would be perfectly ly intelligible , but as it is we cannot understand you / i . ' —Witness : Well 1 I conna' spake ony plainer , ar . Dang me if ever I seed such stupid people since I : I left pit . ' Some further attempts were made by the be Learned Counsel to obtain a more definite answer to to the question , but it was ' no go / and the _witnesss _issi was at length told to leave the box , which he did Ml apparently with a still stronger conviction than an . before ofthe natural and irremediable ohtusauess of of ;
judge ; -ury , counsel , and auditory . Effects of Marbuokon a Jew .-On Priday layr morning week a suicide was committed under ex- extraordinary circumstances , : A Jew , named Cohe » i & ai was married the previous day to a Jewess , whose io «« parents reside in Lowev Temple Street , Birmingham , anu Early iu the _momiu- g be rose from bed , went intointoi an adjoining room , , apparently very disconsolate , fell felB on his knees and . cut his throat with & knife . He Hi was iromediate ' iy removed to tha hospital , where bee bo _dWwitbia p , f | W houra .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 30, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30121848/page/2/
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