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PROPOSAL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE _UIJEMPLOTED POOR . BT SUV JAMES MUBRAT . Merrion-square , Feb ., 1845 . The following observations and extracts were submitted to several noblemen and gentlemen of different political opinions . The principles of this paper were recommended by Mr . O'Connor to the _consideration-of the raaimfactwring employment meeting at the Royal Exchange on the 13 th inst . That gentle * . man has several comfortable families located upon his own estate on the allotment system .
_Althotigh it is not expected that an acre of ground added to each poor man ' s present resources , would remove every evil—yet , such supplemental aid would certainly better enable him "to bear the ills he has , " and might greatly tend to prevent the temptation " to flv to others that he know 3 not of . " Tliis consideration , with the general approval of those who read the annexed suggestions , encouraged me to sur _> mit them to the rulers and people of Ireland , in the hope that some modification of a simultaneous national plan may be adopted . This hope is strengthened bv the feeling now prevailing " that it is high time to do something effectual for this country , " or at all events to enable the country to do something effectual for itself ! - - °
The allotment system is not a novel or untried proposal—nor 13 it pretended to he a panacea for even * grievance . It -will , if general all over the country " , Jdlimate some ills , and prevent others ; and it will _tntmitate all the educational remedies that have been loudly recommended in _theoiy , but very limited in practice . It will enable millions of human beings to profit h y the invaluable examples presented by the model larms of Glassnevin , Larne , and Deny , and by the precepts of Blacker , Johnston , and Lcihig . M y desire of calling attention to the allotment system is more ardently excited by late opportunities of observing the unspeakable advantages which the poor experience in health , comfort , conduct , and complexion , by air , exercise , recreation , and domestic enjoyment , upon pieces of land of their own
cultivation . This is particularly the ease on the continent , and is becoming common in England . With these proofs recently in view , it cannot surely he thought obtrusive to recommend the nation in which we five to effect a desirable improvement whieh no individuals em possibly accomplish in a complete and _effiek-Hi . manner . It is the duty of every observer to _cucour-iic the prevailing sentiment , that it is time to purchase peace at any price , to terminate cabal , JidjKtion , aud contention between landlords and cottier-tenants , and to remove the cause of real or imputed oppression on the one hand , or of violence ana revenge on the other . it Is now too late to wait forthe partial benefits of insulated voluntary allotments in a few places , or to trust altogether to the slow ameliorating progress of time .
Some general and entire improvement is imperative at tliis moment , particularly when we contemplate fee forlorn hope of the excellent land commissioners , who "deeply deplore the difficulty which exists ia _suggesting any direct means of ameliorating the condition of the cottiers and labourers , " and end ihatseeilon of their " report" by the following _consolation : — " We have , therefore , felt ourselves unable to recommend any direct measure for that purpose , viz ., to compel landlords to keep cottiers' cabins in tepantable repair . " The commissioners terminate this section by saying , "We trust the exposure of such a state of things may lead to its remedy . " This remedy of "exposure" isverv old , bnt it is also very useless . Undoubtedly , it should he the object of this empire to remove the causes of contention between rich and poor , and to rescue both classes from mutual distrust , cnniii y * _-indi-cvengc .
Time , -education , model-schools , humanity , and- pm lience , are all very good things , and will confer _invaliianle benefits on future generations ; but the existing millions want food , air , exercise , shelter , cloHies , and _etfyjloymoit—H'oiit them now—cannot wait—will not ivait , << nd should not wait _. Let _iis" consider the justice and expediency of avast and _magnanimous effort at this momentons period ; the old routine will do no good ; the industrial education of _xbc present race of paupers , and of their ancestors , was prevented by uncommon circumstances ; uncommon causes produced then" ruin and degradation , and , therefore , uncommon means must be employed to recover or to save tlteni . _^ Their state is the result of unnatural and extraordinary operations , and no Kainral or ordinary processes of time or patience arc _adequate to remedy their untoward condition .
_PMXCITAI . CAUSES OF IRISH _IHSERT . When we consider the following causes , to which destitution has been generally attributed , we may better understand how far some modification of the principle hereafter proposed would be calculated to remedy xhe consequences : — _ISTEMPJURAXCE . This baneful source of many sorrows formerly reduced the country to such a state that good men became hopeless of improvement , and abandoned the people in despair ; hut now under the glorious Apostle of Temperance , the steadfast conduct of Irishmen prepares this nation for that social and moral advancement which is so richly merited . by a sober populatioa .
COMBIXATIOX . However justified men may be in regulating their trades , yet the history of all ages and nations proves ihe impolicy of intefering in the market of wages , or of fixing bounds to the terms or number of apprentices . Trade and manufactures should , at all times , be free , and enjoy , like the subjects of a good Sovereign , universal and unbounded liberty . Now , above times , there ought to bo no force of _resfa-ietions when so many mcilities exist which enable people to deal in other places where no compulsory Unions can interfere . If the State will aid the nation in allowing eveiy honest poor family land , one of the conditions should be that the occupier docs not belong to any club or union to dictate prices , wages , or strikes from work . A man may be an idler himself , but he has no _riirht to force others to he idle also .
WAST OF AGRICULTUEAL SKILL . This _-v-neial source of poverty arose from want of fixed ic ; n _.-e , want of implements , and want of will . Give Pat a long lease , and he will soon learn , and rapidly seta good example to others . Agriculture is now becoming an art , a science . Hitherto it was only a _blicd chance kind of hereditary blundering .
WAST OF CAPITAL . Fui * mci * s on a large scale require capital , and cannot pay their workmen without it ; but labour itself is capital , and a poor man , with eveiy member ofhis family , can apply that species of capital if blessed with a spot of land ; therefore , every fit being ought to be put in a condition to work , and by that means to make all his capital available to himself and to socicty _.
WA 5 T OF _EMrLOTMEXT . When all depend npon precarious wages alone , all are contending in the market of wages ; bnt let the wife and children raise some domestic food at home , and tbe husband can then save part of his pay . If overtaken by illness his family need not be torn from their little homes , as now , to be ruined by being plunged into a workhouse . WAST OF DRAINAGE . This is an awful source of infertility in Ireland . The cost of effectual drainage is too much for poor fanners , already impoverished by high rents and short leases . But give every labourer an acre , and he will soon drain and fence it , in an effectual and permanent style , when his tenure is permaimt This is one reason why this plan should be a national one , because small and insulated experiments cannot be improved on a grand scale or scientific system .
WAX ! OP MEAN'S OP EM 10 IUMOX . _^ Emigration may be veiy well for those in circumstances to profit by it : but , as a measure of relief for the abject poor , itwould cost four times more to transport and locate poor families abroad than would be requisite to open up comfortable resources for them at home . _SCBFMJS rorBLATIOX . This is enumerated as one of ihe most extensive causes of Irish poverty . If there were no surplus lands we might listen to the cry of "surplus population . " But whilst millions of acres remain , in " dog andm ; mger" state , idle , useless to the owners and to the nation , there is abundant room for all our people , and for millions more .
ABSENTEEISM . 'Make the poor content , give them reason to he grateful and happy , and then the rich need not run away . TIXCERTAIS _TEXCKEt Lease national lots of land at 20 s . each , and you rescue the tenants from idleness or vice , ther e will { hen be no business for " VaL M'Glutchy" " Captain Bock . " _Jfo lease , no improvement . A long tenure creates comforts and keeps them .
ixunLrnr of half measures . To abate _existmg misery and prevent the farther growth of poverty in Ireland , require some _ont-an-i out measure , at least as effectual as that which was applied to emancipate the slaves ofthe West Indies . Experience has proved that temporary alms , charity sermons , poor-houses , and prisons do not cure or prevent pauperism . It is a growing opinion that the present poor-houses furnish no prospeet for the future amelioration of then * inmates , owing to the want of trades or industrial information .
It is , ther efore , the interest and _duty of Government to effect a complete change in the moral and social habhs _, resources , and happiness of the people , it becomes absolutely necessary to abandon all useless and tempwlsing expedients , and " since the poor _ahaUnever cease out of the land , " to apply a portion nfov tw _^ - itself 1 ? - snst ? _fl * _indigent , and to em-Se _?^\? rlQD 2 _*«* SU H" »* _^ all _*»^ hen tney cannot obtain employment from _J _^ _SKSh ?? lfa , _^ _aann _& _cturesis _aafasaffiaaj
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this country , where a vast number of artisans are already unemployed , or working so frequently under great disadvantages . But there is in eveiy district of Ireland " ample scope and verge enough" for one general _masufaciobb , the products of which glut no market , compete with no superior capital , entail no infirmities of body or mind , always obtain a ready market , and contribute to the support , health , peace , and comfort of old and young . This universal and primitive manufactur e is the manipulation of an allotment of land by every poor man for his own use and benefit , and that of his wife and children . It is too true that in the present state of things , half-starved labourers , hired for half wages , and that commonly for only half tho year , give but half work in return to their employers , and the land is
consequently only half cultivated . ' On wet days , and during slack seasons , when labourers can obtain no work near home , they wander forth to seek it abroad , or become the dupes or instruments of idleness and vice , whilst their families are deprived of any means of applying then- minds and hands to useful purposes . On the contrary , it is well-known that poor men enjoving the blessings derivable from a patch of ground , however useless and barren hitherto , can soon turn iuto a garden the spot which they may call their own , make it produce ten times the quantity of nourishment it had' formerl y yielded , spend in its effectual culture those days in which they cannot earn wages elsewhere , and thus furnish to their families eniploynient , recreation , air , exercise , health ,
and comfortable crops , the grateful fruits of their own labours . When the spade is wielded by the owner himself , it becomes a wand of enchantment , changing the aspect , and even the nature of the allotment , calling up a succession of the necessaries of life , as if by magic , frein a soil so _thoi-oughlyimproved . The millions of industrious China proclaim this truth for ages . The patient and enduring exertions of the zealous proprietors and their children overcome all obstacles ; surpassing the powers attributed to music , they not only " soften recks and bend ihe knotted oak , " bat they convert the acorn into the oak itself , when now , at last , their long lease leads them to hope that their ehildrens' children may yet enjoy the trees planted by theh'humble ancestors .
As all other trades and manufactures are already overstocked by numerous workmen , it becomes a matter of vast importance to that class to advance the condition of the rural labourers , so that they may be able to afford to purchase those , comforts of life of which they are now almost entirely deprived .
alterations essentially necessary . To effect objects so essential to the peace and happiness ofthe people , it is proposed thatthe present poor-houses shall be new-modelled , and converted into asylums and hospitals for lame , blind , aged , and infinn , and for all persons deprived of mental or physical capacity , and that an area of at least twenty acres shall be procured convenient to those establishments , so that the inmates may enjoy some useful exercise and uncontaminated air—for want of which the persons now so closely confined become pale , exhausted , and indolent .
The present ill-chosen sites and clustered confinement of- many workhouses seem more intended as a test of the htmcity of life than a " test of poverty . " It is further proposed that no children shall be suffered to remain in contact with the veteran , illeonducted inmates of poor-houses ; but that the young of both sexes shah * he placed , at fair rates , with honest families in the country to learn some useful calling or industry . To accomplish a magnificent improvement , a magnanimous effort , worthy of a gi'eat nation ought to be made , and made in a manner suitable to the occasion . Our enlightened empire bought from the planters of the West Indies a number of slaves , who were considered to be the property of those planters , and paid twenty millions in a lump for them .
Those twenty millionsVere paid away without any prospect of pecuniary return , rental , income , or repayment . It will not be denied—for it has been proved by a long and patient inquiry—that two millions and a hah" of human beings suffer more privations—cold , hunger , and anguish—in this island than our black fellow-creatures endured in the islands of the West Indies . Let , therefore , the rulers of this gr eat empire make another munificent effort , and as fhey purchased slaves from the planters , let them purchase acres from the landlords . Let these acres , purchased by national
means , become national property , to be subdivided into suitable allotments , and granted hy proper commissioners , in each district , to indigent labourers and workmen ' at a moderate rent , on long leases , and subject to sneh conditions of good behaviour and other considerations as may bo thought necessary . It appears by the last census and valuation of Ireland , that it contains , in round numbers , above twenty and a half millions of acres ; that about thirteen and a half millions of these are arable , and six and a half millions uncultivated ; that the annual value of all arable and uncultivated land amounts to thirteen and a half millions pounds sterling , which is an average of about thirteen shillings per acre ,
Ordinary districts valued at 10 s . per acre , and twenty years' purchase , would be £ 10 , price paid for the fine or cost of each acre , or £ 1 , 000 for every allotment of 100 acres , which would be sufficient for each single location of poor , because it is more economical to spread these humble plantations at convenient distances , so that the men might be near farmers , to work for them when it can be obtained , and Avhen work is scarce , to have their own small holding near at hand to employ then * time .
The thousand pounds thus obtained by landowners for 100 acres ou some remote border of their estates would relieve them from incumbrances to that amount , so that they would the better enjoy the ' remainder of their property , which they could call their own , when released from mortgages or debts . No rational objections have been urged against the principle of this proposition , except the Malthusian idea that allotments would increase paupers , aud make them multiply inthe country ; but that reasoning is founded in error .
First—Because idle creatures increase more than persons busily and profitably employed . Second—Because it is unnatural to refuse relief to existing beings , through the fear of some remote or contingent disadvantages .
PROPOSITIONS . Although no price would be too high to secure the peace of Ireland , yet wc do not ask for any pecuniary gift—we only seek a yearly loan for five years , which can be undoubtedly repaid within ten years afterleaving a valuable national property , or rental available for ever , to sustain the lame , blind , and infirm , who are unable to work for themselves . If ordinary land be procured at twenty years' purchase of 10 s . per acre , and be improved by the labour ofthe tenants themselves to pay 20 s . yearly for ever , such investment would be profitable even to individuals and capitalists , but infinitely more so to the state , by many other public benefits , direct and indirect .
One million expended in the year 1846 , would purchase 3 , 000 acres in each of our thirty-two counties , and leave four thousand pounds to procure gardens for as many artisans near towns . This would organise 100 , 000 allotments , and return £ 100 , 000 into the treasury , in 1847 , when a second million would be borrowed for a second similar allotment for that year , and so on for live years , * or until all the labouring and manufacturing poor would enjoy a garden of one acre for each family . When the yearly rental pays off the principal and even interest , if demanded , then the future rents to be applied to the support of the institutions for those helpless poor , who can do nothing te assist themselves .
This would relieve farmer * and all other classes from the heavy burthens they now sustain—burthens which are already almost insupportable . ( To be concluded in our next . )
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Thb Hampstead _Murdek . — Adjourned Inquest . — The adjourned inquest on the body of Mr . James Delarue was resumed on Monday morning before Mr . Wakley , M . P ., and the same jury as assembled on former inquiries . The rush to gain admittance into the room was terrific ; so dense was the crowd , that some of the jurymen could not obtain admission until positive orders were given by the coroner to the police to clear the passages . The prisoners , Thomas Henry Hocker and James Hocker , were brought into the room in custody immediately after the coroner had taken his scat . Thomas Henry Hocker appeared very composed , and nodded to several person * in the room . James Hocker looked pale and distressed . Inspector Shackell , of the detective police , was first called , and said—I am stationed at Scotland-yard ; , I have seen two persons in custody on tho charge of being concerned in the murder of James Delarue ; I first saw thein on Wednesday morning . I heard of
the murder having been committed , and examined the place , when I was convinced that a murder and robbery had been committed . I afterwards went to No . 55 , Whitflebury-strcet , Euston-square . I examined the different drawers , having heard that the deceased had a watch in his pocket at two o ' clock on the day of the nuirder . I found in one of the drawers of the deceased s room a great number of obscene prints and a bundle of papers , which I now produce . One of the papers related to the description of a certain watch , its number , < fec . I have seen the watch since . After obtaining possession of these papers , I proceeded with Inspector Partridge to No . 11 , Victor ia-terrace , Portland Town . We examined a back bed-room occupied by the two prisoners . On searching the room , which was in a dirty state , we found a number of papers and two obscene prints . Inspector-Partridge found a shirt sleeve , which was saturated with blood , and also a silk button . The room was then locked , and I proceeded immediately to the father ' s residence . This was about three o ' clock in
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the day ; he said his son James had just left . I asked for the clothes his son had left there , at the same time picking up a macintosh . I asked if it belonged to his son Thomas , and he said that it did . The macintosh was stained with blood . I now produce it . I asked the prisoner ' s father when his son hist wore it , and ho said that he went out with it on about seven o ' clock on Friday night . The macintosh was here minutely inspected by the coroner and jury / There were two large blotches of blood , beside smaller spots . —Examination resumed : I then asked to see the prisoner ' s linen ; his father and mother were both present when I asked to look at the linen which he pulled off on Saturday morning . His mother gave me the shirt , which I now produce .
The wristband and part of the sleeve were torn off , and it was in the same state as now . I examined it , and found on the left wristband blood . I afterwards found the part of a shirt sleeve which , on comparing it with the shirt , I found exactly corresponded with it . I also found some stockings belonging to the prisoner , Thomas Hocker , which were stained with blood . I told the father that I must take the things away , and he said , ' "That is what I expected . " Prisoner ' s father then told me , that his sou Thomas had informed him that he had borrowed £ 12 of Mrs . Edwards , of Bath-place , New-road , which he was afraid was not true , and wished me to ascertain whether it was true or not ; he further said , the prisoner had given him a sovereign , but if his tale was
not true , he would immediately give it up to me , I asked if his sou had taken out a stick witli liim on the night of the murder , and he replied that he did , and he gave it to me , wliich I now produce / ( The stick is a black ebony cane—not a very formidable instrument . ) Mrs . Edwards informed mc that she had not lent the prisoner any money , but that she had received two letters from him , wliich she gave to me . On comparing the writing , it exactly corresponded with the letter sent to the deceased signed " Caroline . " On searching the prisoner ' s room , I found an answer from Mrs . Edwards to one of his letters . —In answer to the coroner , the prisoners both said that they had no questions to ask tins witness . — Inspector Partridge repeated the evidence he gave at
the police-ofhce . He added—on Wednesday , the 26 th , I took Inspectors Shackell and Haynes with me , first to Victoria-terrace , * we searched the room : there were two cupboards in that room ; in one of them Hound a wristband with a portion of a sleeve of a shirt attached to it . I have fitted the part of the sleeve which I found with the prisoner ' s shirt , and it matches exactly . In another cupboard I found a pair of shoemaker ' s pincers , which 1 now produce , they were lying in the prisoners' room ; they were not concealed , and do not appear to have any marks of blood upon them . From Victoria-terrace wo went to No . 18 , Charles-street , Portland Town , and searched the room occupied by the prisoners' father ; we found a pair of irousers whicli had spots of blood on the
bottom of the legs and on the knees ; the trousers were lying on the bed ; they were not concealed . Prisoners' father told me that the trousers marked with blood were worn by his son Thomas on the Friday evening of the murder . I also produce a waistcoat belonging to the prisoner Thomas , which I understood from liis father aud mother was worn by Thomas on the Friday evening . There arc small spots ef blood on the left side . The waistcoat is much torn . — 'i he Coroner : — Who found the coat ?—Inspector Shackell ; The coat was taken off the prisoner ' s back after * , he was in custody . — Inspector Haynes examined : I live at No . 11 , Peter-street , Westminster . I attended the examination of the prisoner Thomas Hocker at
Marylebouestreet Police-office on Wednesday last . I afterwards , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , accompanied Inspectors Shackell and Partridge to No . 11 , Victoriaterrace , the prisoner Thomas Hooker's lodgings . I assisted in searching the room , and on the sideboard 1 found a button , wliich I now produce . It is a silk button . I afterwards accompanied the two prisoners to the father ' s lodgings , and from what I then heard I was induced to go to Clerkenwell Prison , to see the prisoner ., Mr . Iviisby , the governor , at my request , sent for the prisoner , and 1 desired hun to pull off his body-coat , which he did , and I now produce it . I also desired him to take off his trousers and drawers , which I also produce . On the coat , trousers , and drawers there is a considerable quantity of blood . The
knees ofthe trousers and drawers had a quantity ot blood on them . I examined the prisoner ' s person , but found no wound whatever to cause blood . I should say that the marks of blood on the knees were very likely to be caused by the head of deceased falling against the knees ' of the accused party . Tho right hand cuff of the coat was also stained with blood , and it appeared as if a bloody hand had been put iuto one ofhis pockets . It appears as if the cull of the coat had been washed . I have not the least doubt but that the button wluch I now produce belongs to the coat which I took off the prisoner ' s back . —The prisoner declined asking this witness any question . — Inspector Grey , and police constable James Thomas , were next examined , but merely repeated the
evidence they had formerly given . —Mrs . Edwards examined : I am a married woman . My husband at present is out of business . I live at Bath-place , New-road . I know the prisoner Thomas Henry Hocker . I have not lent the prisoner any money within the last fortnight . He has not applied to mc to borrow any . I know the handwriting of the prisoner Thomas Hocker . The three letters now produced are in his handwriting . I saw the prisoner the Monday night after the murder . He had then the watch now produced ; I never saw him with a watch before . The prisoner also had a ring on lus finger , but I cannot identify that . I never saw the prisoner -wear a ring until after the murder ; he represented it to me as being a brilliant . The watch
either had a gold chain or an imitation gold chain attached to it . I have known the prisoner Thomas about ten weeks . I think that I saw him the Tuesday previous to the murder . I say positively that I have never lent him any money . —Inspector Shackell said there was a young woman present , but she could only depose to the same facts as Mrs . Edwards , and she was particularly anxious that she might not be allowed to sec the prisoner . —The prisoner Thomas here showed evident marks of anxiety and mental suffering . —Sarah Jane Philp . [ When this witness entered she requested that she might not be allowed to see the prisoner , and several persons stood up to screen her from _lihn _]' - I reside -with the last witness in Bath-place , New-road , St . Pancras . I have no , profession or occupation . Mrs . Edwards is not related to me , but 1 live with her . I saw Thomas Henry Hocker the last time on Monday last ,
about eleven o ' clock at night . I went with him to No . 15 , Portland-place . [ The witness here nearly fainted ; she wept bitterly . ] Sir Oswald Moseley resides at 15 , Portland-place . Prisoner left me at Sir O . Moseley ' s , and I slept there : he thon went away . I saw the prisoner before on the Tuesday previous . Thomas Hocker showed me a watch on the evening I last saw him . Ho told mc he had bought it ; he told mc where he bought it , but I do not remember . It had a chain , but I cannot say whether it was gold or silver ; it was , I believe , the colour of gold . [ Four watches were here produced , and the witness identified the one which was given up by the prisoner to the police as the same which he had shown ner on the Monday . night . Thomas Hocker , who had previously remained unmoved , here coveted his face and shed tears . ] The prisoner also had a ring on Monday night . I have seen the prisoner with a watch and _rinff before . —Mrs . Edwards . * Then I am deceived . —
The coroner here requested Mrs . Edwards to retire , and the examination was resumed . —Witness 11 saw the prisoner Thomas Hocker on Friday week , about ten minutes past nine o ' clock ; he was then in Portland-place , at Sir Oswald Moseley ' s ; lie was in the housekeeper ' s room . Mrs . Maria Edwards was present at the time ; she is sister-in-law to the last witness . I expected the prisoner te meet me that evening . I cannot exactly 3 _«* vy how long he was with me , but ho did not leave until half-past eleven . He left the house in Portland-place alone . During the time he was there he showed me a watch and a ring . I believe they are the same as produced . The _prisoner remarked that the ring was too large for his finger . He told me that he had bought the watch that day ,
but did not say when he had become possessed of the ring . The prisoner on the occasion that I liave been speaking of had on a black coat and trousers and a macintosh . I did not notice that he had on any new clothes . I cannot state what colour the macintosh was j it was a dark colour , I should know it again if I was to see it . I did not notice any blood on his clothes ; but he told me there was some blood on his shirt-front , caused by his master having cut liis nose in play " . I understood him . to mean that the prisoner's employer inthe City had made his nose bleed ; there was no wound . [ The macintosh was here produced , which the witness immediately identified as the one worn by the prisoner in Portlandplace on the night of the murder . 1 I did not see anv
blood on the prisoner's clothes ; there was dirt ou them . He told me that he had just come from Grafton-street . He had no stick or weapon with him . Prisoner had never mentioned cither the name of Cooper or Delarue to me . The letter now produced is very much like the prisoner ' s handwriting . He did not mention the name of any person that he had been with on the Friday evening hefore he came to me . On recollection , prisoner said something about his brother James and a young lady with whom he was acquainted . He did not say anything about his brother being with him on the Friday night ; he did not say anything about his leaving London for a short time . I think he told me that he was going
to Dulwich on the following Tuesday . Prisoner did not appear at all flurrica or excited on the Friday night . I had never seen him with a watch before that night . Prisoner never called me Caroline . I never heard him mention the name of Caroline ' either in connection with himself or his brother . I do not recollect-that the prisoner ever called on me so late as on the Friday evening . I have known him about ten or eleven weeks . I never saw the prisoner with a large stick in hia hand at any . time . The prisoner declined asking this witness any questions . —Mr . Wm . Watson examined : I am a baker residing at Windmill-place , Turnham-green , conducting : a business for Mr . Drew . I knew the prisoner Thomas Henry Hocker ; he is a teacher in a school . His parents at present lodge with me in Charles-street ,
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Portland Town ; my family resides there . I did not see the prisoner on Friday evening ; I saw him on the Saturday evening . My wife told me that the prisoner ' s father wished me to go up stairs ; this was about eleven o'clock . I did go up stairs in the room ; there was the prisoner Thomas , and his father and mother . Thomas showed mc a pair of boots , and whilst I was taking a cup of coffee , I alluded to the Hampstead murder . Prisoner ' s father said , "Itwas a _coldblooded murder ; I wonder who could do it . " The prisoner said , ¦ " Oh , don't let us talk about this , " and began to sing a song . I afterwards had a glass of ale and a glass of rum , which Thomas gave money to hia mother to pay for , observing , "We do not always do it in this way . " I remarked that I was
happy to see the family so united , after a quarrel which had taken place . Prisoner afterwards showed me part of the sleeve of a shirt , which had some blood on it . He accounted for it by saying that he had been romping with some girls . His father said he did not know what Thomas had been up to . Whilst I was up stairs , the prisoner came in , and he said , " Oh dear ! what a talk there is about a gentleman having been murdered near Hampstead , and a love letter found in his pocket ! " When I heard who the murdered man was , I believed , from what had occurred , that Thomas Hocker was the murderer . The deceased and Thomas Hocker were on most intimate terms . Having strong suspicions from what I read in the newspapers , and what I had heard
that Thomas Hocker was concerned in the murder , I gave information to Police-seijeant Scotney , which led to his apprehension : The two prisoners for the last four weeks have been in the habit of taking then * food at my house . I was only at home , however , on Saturday nights . My wife was at home on the ni g ht of the murder . I never saw any ring or watch in the possession of Thomas Hocker before the murder . He had for a length of time been in the habit of carrying about with him a heavy yellow coloured stick . I never saw the deceased at my house . I have seen him two or three times . I have seen the prisoner frequently of late . I have strong suspicions against Thomas Hocker , but I believe James Hocker is as innocent as the child unborn .
None of the Hookers ever asked me to conceal any clothes , or not to give information to the police . — Thomas Hocker ( father of the prisoners ) , of Charlesstreet , Portland Town , sworn : I am a ladies' shoemaker . I never saw Delarue , but have heard his name mentioned by my son Thomas perhaps fifty times . I had a misgiving of the person who had caused the murder when my son told me that he had taken a watch out of pledge . He told me so on Saturday evening , while we were walking from our house to Marylebone-lane . I saw the watch again on Sunday ,-when he said he had taken it out of p ledge . Iwaspresentwhenmyson came to get a pair ot boots , on the morning when he was taken into custody . ( The trousers and waistcoat were shown to the witness . ! To the best of mv belief these are my son ' s .
This ring I found on Friday last , and gave to the officers . I found it amongst the cuttings of the leather for burning . I was taking a handful to burn , when I found the ring amongst them . The cuttings were rolled together on the floor beneath one of the windows . I had never seen the ring before . I never had heard of the ring before . Thomas left his home at halfpast six or a quarter to seven o ' clock on the Friday week . He had dined and taken tea at home , with his mother , myself , and brother . We took tea about four , and after that he was occupied in reading and a conversation with us . I do not recollect that he took any tiling With him . It must have been fully half-past six when he left . James was working until twenty minutes after eight that night ; then he changed his clothes and washed himself before lie left the house . That would take him twenty minutes
longer . Tho brothers hardly ever wont together . Thomas was in the habit of using a very large stick , which he said he had lost three weeks ago . He had brought it from Sheffield some two years before that time . My son had no watch or ring before last week . He had not worn a ring before I found that among the cattings . He represented to mc for some time back that some kind friend was going to lend him some money , and he told me that he had received a note fr om Mrs . Edwards , stating that she would lend him some money on Sunday night , but lie said he should go on Friday night , and hoped he should get it . I said she must be a great friend to lend a stranger- £ 10 . I never knew Mrs . Edwards before this affair . Before he went out he said that if he were successful in
getting the money he would return home earlier . I saw him again on Saturday morning at ten o'clock . That was his usual hour of coming to breakfast . He seemed , as usual , cheerful , and after he came into the room he pulled money out of his pocket . I understood he had got twelve guineas , and I congratulated him , and said , "I hope you'll be careful with it . " On that night going to Marylebone-lane , he said he had got a watch out of pledge . I said _^ " Better keep your money in your pockets , or it will slip through your fingers . " I recollect the tune Watson was tliere , and he told us of the murder , and dwelt on it some time . My son , Thomas , said , "Don't talk more about that . It's a gloomy subject . " He showed his shirt sleeve to Watson and ns , but I saw no blood .
Thomas was very intimate with Delarue , but I never saw him in my life . __ ( The letters so often mentioned were exhibited to witness . ) I know writing greatly like this ( then bursting into tears ) . —I believe it to be my son Thomas's writing . I never saw letters addressed to "James Cooper , Esq ., Hampsteadroad . " Mrs . Watson was at home nearly the whole of the Friday evening . I have lieard my son call Delarue , Cooper , and afterwards he has told me that his name was Delarue , and not Cooper . I _expressed my suspicion that any respectable man should deny his name , or use another ; and lie accounted for it l > y saying he was somewhat eccentric . I believe my son was acquainted with him for three years . —The
Coroner ( to prisoner ) : Is there any question you wish me to ask your father ?—The Prisoner : Everything my father has said is quite true . I have nothing to add . —Daniel Delarue identified the watch and ring as his late brother ' s property . He was not aware why he should be called Cooper or Curteis . —The " brother , James Hocker , was discharged from custody , and then examined as a witness : The prisoner is my brother , and I sleep at 11 , Victoria-terrace , but have my meals at IT , Charles-street . I took tea at home on Friday evening , and my brother then handed me a slate , ou which was written " Jem , I received a note from Mi's . Edwards this morning , stating that ten sovereigns will be at my disposal this evening ;" and he then added that he would be at home in
tolerable time . He left not later than seven . It was quite dark . I did not sec that he took any stick with him . He came home between two and three o ' clock , and the noise he made on coming into t ! . e room awoke me . He said , "Well , Jem , I ' ve been successful ; I ' ve got the money that I so long expected . " He then took off his coat and waistcoat , and showed me the right sleeve of his shirt , and said , " I ' ve been skylarking , Jem , as you see , I ' ve had the sleeve of my shirt torn off . " I said , " How comes that about ? " He said , " I ' ve been to Sarah Cock ' s , " a young girl I had heard him speak of before . I forgo : to say that he showed me some money , and said , "Here arc twelve sovereigns , that's two more thau I expected . " I rose in the morning , and went off , and
he came over to Charles-street , and began to dispose ofhis money by giving father some and mother some , He was in their debt , as he had been out of work . That day passed over without any allusion to Mr . Delarue . * At night Mr . Watson was invited up . We were all in high spirits at the idea of having so kind a friend , who had enabled us to liquidate a few debts . Mr . Watson ' s statement is perfectly correct , with this trifling difference , that I said also , "That murder was a gloomy subject , and out ofplace then . " I saw , when going to bed , the watch that has been identified as the property of Delariie . He said , " You see it ' s going . " He some time ago pledged a watch for £ 3 , and I thought it was it . I read in the newspapers on Sunday of the murder , and then
thought it was Delarue . I could hot sleep that night , for 1 was so excited ; and my brother said to mc , "What's the matter ? " But I did not tell him then . At four in the morning Itoldhim , andhesaid , " Who is it ? " I told him I thought it was Delarue , and he turned very pale , and said , " 1 must get up ; but you must get mc a pair of old hoots . " I wont over to Charles-street , and when I returned I could see that hehad been crying , as I was myself . We then went over to Charles-street , and my mother said the body has been owned by his brother . Thomas then said , there would be no utility in his going to sec the body , as he could give no clue to the murderers . The letters were shown to witness , and he said that it might be the handwriting- of his brother , but it was not his
usual style of writing . I have heard him speak of " Caroline , " and say ihe poor devil , meaning Delarue , was embarrassed . I know of no one going with him on Friday night to Mrs . Edwards ' s . I do not know the Cocks's , or where they live . My brother often met Delarue at the corner of Henry-street , Portland Town , usually of a morning . About seven months ago ho gave my brother £ 5 . I lieard from my brother that Delarue had been robbed of , a gold watch-chain and ten sovereigns . —The prisoner had nothing to ask of witness . —James Hooker ' s examination continued : My brother and Dclaruc ' _s , usual place of meeting was on the side of Primrose-hill , just
opposite to Henry-street . He first became acquainted with the deceased by meeting him there . —George Leveridge , in the service of Mr . _Windgloss _. newsvender , High-street , Portland Town -. On Friday night , at or about half-past seven , he _w _^ . at the bar of the Swiss Cottage , and saw the prisoner come in , seemingly much agitated , and ask for the parlour . He ( _Level-idge ) then left the house . —The coroner then briefly summed up ; and thejury , without retiring , returned a verdict of—Wilful Murder against Thomas Henry Hocker . —The witnesses were bound over to appear at the Old Bailey , and the inquest-room was cleared .
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witness that I have loved you but too dearly . let me be happy in the conviction that you will one day restore mo to your arms for ever . Earse my suspense by meeting me to-morrow at the place where , alas 1 you have always made ine happy ; yet not so if it wiU put one smile of hope and comfort on my countenance . You can render mo for ever light-heartod and happy , or for ever heart-broken and conscience-stricken . Oh , that-a bended knee might procure me the former lot . —Ever yours , "By Miss F , "Caholine . "James Cooper , Hampstead-joad . "
Further Examination of Thomas Hocker , at Marylebone Police-court . —Tuesday being the day to whieh the prisoner Thomas Henry Hocker stood remanded , on the charge of murdering James Delarue , the court and its approaches were crowded to excess by persons anxious to catch a glimpse of him . Hewas brought from the New Prison at half-past eight o ' clock , and placed in one of the cells in the rear of the court . He shortly afterwards requested to be supplied with pen , ink , and paper , for the purpose , as was stated , of writing his defence , and he was so occupied up to the time of his being brought before the magistrate . At a quarter past twelve o ' clock , the prisoner , Thomas Hocker , was brought in and placed at the bar . Mr . Rawlinson ( addressing
the prisoner ) , said—Before any fresh evidence be taken the evidence taken against you on Wednesday last will be read over to the witnesses . Do you wish to say anything ? I thought you appeared about to speak . —Prisoner ( in a cool and indifferent manner ) : No , sir , I do not wish to say anything . I beg to say , however , that I should wish you to see the waiter at the Swiss Cottage Tavern . He was present yesterday at the Coroner's Court . —Mr . Rawlinson ( to the Inspector ) : What can he prove ?—Inspector Gray ,: He is a witness the prisoner wished t o have called to speak in _Ijjls favour , but he cannot prove anything ot advantage to him . —Is he here ?—No , sir , he is not , but we can have him here if you think proper . The witnesses before examined were then re-sworn , and their
evidence read overtothem by Mr . Fell , the chief clerk . Inspector Shackell was tlie first fresh witness called , who repeated the evidence which he gave before the coroner and jury at Hampstead . —Inspector Haynes was next called , who also repeated the evidence he gave at the inquest . —Mr . Rawlinson : During the time the prisoner was taking off his clothes at your request , did you make any remark to him , or he to you?—Inspector Haynes ; No , sir . —Mr . Rawlinson : What , did you say nothing about the blood on the clothes ?—Inspector Haynes : No , sir . Thc-cvidencc of Inspector Partridge and the other witnesses , given before the inquest , was then proceeded with . Inspector Gray and Constable Thomas having also given their evidence , as already reported , the prisoner ' s
father , Thomas Hocker , was sworn . The prisoner , who had up to this time maintained the most apathetic composure , seemed to lose all his indifference at the sight of his father , and was on the eve of fainting , when a chair was placed in the dock , and he fell rather than sat upon it . The feeling was only momentary , for almost immediately he rose , and stood again erect and calm as before . The poor father suffered more than he , and he was humanely accommodated by the chief usher with a chair , placed in such a position that he could not sec his son . He added nothing new to the evidence given before the coroner . —Mrs . Edwards was called in . She stated that she had never lent and never promised the prisoner anv money . —Sarah _AmiPhilps : I have known
Thomas Hocker for about ten weeks . —Mr . Rawlinson : How did you become acquainted with him?—I Witness : Am I obliged to answer these questions ?—Mr . Rawlinson : Yes , certainly . —( The question , however , was not pressed . )—The witness then stated that she had met the prisoner on the night ofthe murder , and he showed her a watch and ring . The watch he stated he had bought , but he did not account for the possession ofthe ring . The watch was that now produced , but the guard was not the same . The letter signed- " Caroline" is like his handwriting . The remainder of her evidence was exactly similar to that given before the coroner . —William Watson recapitulated his evidence of the conversation which had taken place in the elder Hooker's liouse on the
Saturday evening , in the presence of the brothers . During the whole period of this witness ' s exahiination the prisoner was busily engaged _taking notes ofthe proceedings . At that part of his evidence where he stated tliat the prisoner said , in reference to the "happy meeting" that evening , "We don't do it always in this style , " the prisoner smiled , and again when the witness referred to the torn sleeve which the prisoner had shown him that night . —James Hocker did not add any thing " material to the tacts already detailed by him . ' One slight difference was in the words used by witness to his brother at the time of his being taken into custody . When the duplicates were being given to the policeman , - witness observed one for a watch among them , and said
'' Why , Tom , I thought you bad taken the watch from pledge ? " He replied , " _* Ko : the fact is , Jem , Delarue gave me the watch at ten o ' clock on Friday morning . " His brother , when he could get an engagement , taught writing a . nd music in private families . —George Leveridge , newsman , sworn : lie saw the prisoner on the night of Friday , February 21 st , at the Swiss Cottage . He pushed up to the bar , but witness saw liim sufficiently long to know him again . — Mr . Rawlinson said that he had determined to adjourn the further examination of witnesses till the Tuesday following . The prisoner might , if he wished , say anything ; but ho cautioned him , that his words would be taken down and used elsewhere . —The Prisoner : I will say nothing to-day , then . —At this moment the waiter from the Swiss Cottage arrived , and being sworn , said -. A man came into the parlour and asked for a glass of rum and water ; he paid me
out ofa shilling , and I noticed that he wore a sort of dark cloak . I have looked at the prisoner , and lie is not the man . —Prisoner ( with a very peculiar smile ) : I am the man . —Mr . Rawlinson ( astonished ) : Why , this is the witness you called for . —Prisoner : I have no witness . 1 want the thing to bo correct . I am the man . —Mr . Rawlinson : Very well . The case is remanded till Tuesday next . —The prisoner , in the event of this being his last examination , was prepared with a roll of manuscript , but whether a defence or confession none could know . He has reserved it , however , till the next examination . He was uncommonly cheerful , with the slight exception mentioned above , smiled frequently , and gave snuff out of his box to those around him who were inclined to try a pinch , and strange though it be , his box was often in r equisition . The prisoner waa then removed to Clerkenwell prison .
Strang *** _Conduct of the _Prisoxer . — After the termination of the coroner's inquest- on Monday , and the return of the verdict of Wilful Murder , the prisoner withdrew to a private room with _Willoughby and Jackson , the warders ofthe prison , and Serjeant Gray , G 12 . He appeared there totally unconcerned . His father and brother , James Hocker , were allowed to see him . In the course of the interview , his father ( who was deeply affected ) remarked to him that the evidence was very strong against him , and trusted that he would be able to prove his innocence ; but urged him to prepare for the worst . He replied that he was fully prepared for the result , whatever it might be . His father then alluded to the disgrace that had been brought upou the family . He remarked
that he was sorry on his father ' s account , and that he was indifferent what became of hin _\ self . His lather shed tears , and eveiy person present was affocted but the prisoner . Hocker subsequently stated that if twenty policemen had seen him commit the act of which he was alleged to be guilty , he would not move a muscle of his countenance ; and said that he should conduct his owndefence , for that he had not money to pay counsel . In the course of his corn-creation Hocker familiarly handed about his snuff-box , and partook of some half-and-half . At the termination of the inquiry , Hocker was conveyed privately , in the custody of Willoughby and Jackson , with Serjeant Gray and two policemen of the G division , into an omnibus hired for the occasion , bv which he was
taken to the New Prison . Upon hearing that he was not to be led through the immense crowd which was in front of the Yorkshire Grey , he expressed his thanks to the serjeant of police . On his way to town he entered into conversation about the dificrcnt lo calitics in the neighbourhood of Hampstead , and , in reference to hia absence from chapel at the New Prison that _daj _* , remarked that he supposed the chaplain would be able to do without liim . The omnibus reached the New Prison about a quarter before six o'clock , when Hocker was immediately delivered into the custody of Mr . Kilsby , the governor . He was taken to the roOm where prisoners are usually placed on admission , when he wanned his hands by the fire and smiled . He then took some snuff , and
offered his snuff-box to a person present , after which he was conveyed to the infirmary . After the prisoner left the admission-room , the head clerk observed to Serjeant Redmaync , of the G division , "I don't know what murders will come to now : here is a man brought in on a verdict of Wilful Murder , and he has come smiling . " Dkstructive Fire at Greenwich . —Shortly before cighto ' clock on Sunday evening a fire , involving the destruction of property to the amount of from £ 40 , 000 to £ 50 , 000 , occurred on the extensive premises belonging to Messrs . E . 11 . and G . Endericy _, patent rope , twine , and canvas manfacturers , East Greenwich . The fire was first found burning in the rope-walk at the rear of the factory . An alarm was soon spread , and notwithstanding the secluded situation of the premises , assistance in a very short timo arrived .
lhe factory was a strong brick budding of about 140 feet long by forty feet deep , facing the river , nearly opposite _Blackwall-stairs . This range included the dwelling-house of Mr . C . Enderleyat the east end the contents of which were nearly all destroyed . The entire of the range of premises forming the manufactory , including the dwelling-house and the greater portion of the rope-walk sheds at the rear , are all down . — Of the main factory , whieh was a noble building overlooking the Thames , in fact the most prominent object on that side of the river between Greenwich Hospital and Woolwich , nothing remained but its lofty walls , which in the course of the day were blown down with tremendous force by the wind . The machinery it contained was most extensive and its immense value can be better judged from the fact that its completion has occupied a space of ten years The firemen went into the ruins at an early hour
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to ascertain whether any of it had escaped injury , but the whole was found to bo destroyed . The loss ,-we are assured , exceeds £ 40 , 000 . It is clearly proved that flames were first seen raging In the store-room in the rope-manufactory , which was detached from the main building , where there has not been a light for several weeks . There was a considerable quantity of manufactured goods deposited there , which wero seen perfectly safe a few hours before the outbreak . The supposition is , therefore , that the fire either arose from spontaneous com bustion , or was wilfully raised by some incendiary . In the course of Monday the ruins were inspected bv the surveyor of the district and those connected with the Imperial and Royal _Exchange Fire-offices , and from their report wc learn
the exact damage done to the property . The factory , or waterside premises , containing joiners workshops , spinning , card , and loom-rooms , is totally destroyed . The hemp and _spinning rooms over the engine and boiler-house arc _hui-nea out , and the iron roof has fallen in . The engine-room beneath is considerably I damaged . The weaving workshops , fronting the I factory , arc greatly damaged ; the roof has been ! partly demolished by the falling of tho opposite . walls . They contained twelve weaving looms , worked by machinery , which are all damaged . The dwellinghouse of Mr . Enderley , jun ., on the north side of the
factory , is partly damaged by fire , and most part of the _fiu-niturc and its contents destroyed . The stores at the hack , where the fire commenced , with part ofthe rope manufactory , are destroyed . The former building was about 10 feet in length . The rope _gallei'v , adjoining the manufactory , is a quarter ofa mile in length ; about 100 feet is gone , and but for the firemen cutting off the communication , the whole would have been levelled to the ground . The amount of insurances effected on the property does not , wc understand , exceed £ 6 , 000 , while the total loss is between £ 40 , 000 and £ 50 , 000 . Upwards of-250 workmen are thrown out of employment by this calamitous event .
SnocKixG Death of Miss J xhe _Chesiek . j _ AiV inquest was held ou Saturday upon the remains ot ' this lady , who was in her 84 th year , at the mansion . of her brother , Sir * R . Chester , near Hertford , ft appeal's that the deceased , on the previous Tuosdav _, about three o ' clock , had gone into the kitchen , where she directed one of the servants to go up stairs . While left alone the saucepan on the fire boiled over , and the deceased endeavoured to remove it , when lice shawl caught fire , and she was immediately en * veloped in flames . Her cries for assistance were lieard by the servants , who _ endeavoured by everv means to extinguish the flames , but could not do so until the unfortunate lady had been _mostdangerously burncd about the arms , face , chest , and lower part of the body . The deceased continued in the greatest agony till twelve o ' clock at night , when she expired , having been perfectly sensible to the last . The jury returned a verdict of—Accidental Death .
Extensive Fire . —On Sunday afternoon , a some * what serious fire took place in a range of buildinga in the occupation of Mr . Evans , bookbinder and . fancy stationer , and Mr . W . Leader , coachmaker , in Berwick-street and Noel-street , Oxford-street . The accident was occasioned by two children playing with a inciter match in Mr . Evans ' s worldIoj > having ignited it they threw it among a mass of paper shavings and ran . off . The place was soon enveloped in flames , and although the engines of tlie London Brigade , the County , and West of England offices were promptly on the spot , tlie conflagration was not got under until Mr . Evans ' s workshop and stock were destroyed ; his warehouse and the goods in it had been much damaged , and considerable damage was also done by fire and water to five eon . tiguous houses in the two streets abovcnientioned , Most of the property was insured .
Sthaxge _Apprbhkxsio . v . —a theft was committed _, at the farm of Struthers , near this town , on tlie 5 th of December , ofa man ' s grey body coat ; and Alexander Fletcher , rural police-officer , residing at Ri « carton , having ascertained that the party who was " wanted" on this occasion was William Leister , labourer , formerly farm-seiyant at _Sti-utliers , proceeded in search of this individual , when he learned that he was j list about to enter into the interesting state of matrimony . As the officer was not aware of Leister ' s place of residence , lie could find no more fitting opportunity of reaching him than by repairing to the place where the marriage ceremony was about
to proceed on the evening of Friday , the 7 th Feb . He stepped in just a few minutes before the minister , and most effectually forbade the banns , by abstracting the principal party concerned , who , instead of being earned before the altar of Hymen , was brought before the Procurator-fiscal , Mr . Andrews . The consternation of Leister and the marriage party can neither bo pictured nor described . On the 10 th a precognition of the case was taken . The _nawnbroker with whom the coat had been pledged identified Leister as the person who had pawned it ; and he was ultimately committed , on Tuesday last , to Ayr gaol , till liberated in the course of law . —Mhaariwk Journal .
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BANKRUPTS _, _^ _i-ow Friday ' s Gazette , Feb . 28 J James Welch , Ring-cross , Itolloway , licensed victualler —J . Ultd C . _Ct'een , Borough-road , _SouUwark , corn-dealers—James Brodie Gordon snd Robert Gordon , Poplar , coopers—William and James Dees and James Hogg , New * uastle-upon-Tyue , builders—Mary and Francis John Rawlings , Cheltenham , cairinet-maUers—John Ralph , Bath , innkeeper—James Dalton , Salford , Lancashire , joiner-Edward Bayley , Cheswardine , Shropshire , apothecarv .
BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , March ith , 1 S _45 . J Lewis John Nieolay , Woolwich , Kent , draper—Thomas Meteher , Southampton , plumber—James Hart , Greenwich , builder — William Hardwick ; Holborn , draper — Robert Clark , jun ., Paradise-row , Rotlvevhithe , wharfinger—Ely Walker Crowther , Scammonden , Yorkshire , woollen-clothuianufaoturar .
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS . R . Robinson , Strand , coal-merchant , first dividend of 2 s . in the pound , on Saturday next , an * three following Saturdays , at the oftice of Mr . Groom , Ahchurch-laue , City . J . I . _anglioi-a , Berwick-upon-Tweed , banker , first dividend of 10 s . in the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Baker , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . T . Dunn , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , grocer , first and fiual dividend of Gs . 5 _| d . iu tha uouud , any S _^ _tui-day , at the office of Mr . Baker . Kcwuustle-upon-Tvne . W , Cock , Bungay , Suffolk , grocer , fifth dividend of id . in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Follett , Sambrook-court , Basingiiall-street . J . If . Denison , Nelson-square , Blackfriars-road , first dividend of Gs . in the pound , any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Green , Aldermanbury . _ M . W . Vardy , Newbury , Berkshire , bookseller , first dividend of 8 s in the pound on new proofs , and second dividend of 3 d in the pound on all proofs , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Graham , Coleman-street .
S . Eccles , Manchester , cottoii-inauufacturer _, first dividend of 8 s 4 id in the pound , any _Wednesdav , at the office of Mr , Pott , Manchester . C . Ridings , Manchester , cotton-manufacturer , first _divu dend of Is 4 _| d in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Pott , Manchester . J . Coles ,-New Bond-street , jeweller , first dividend of 8 s Id iu the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Graham , Coleman-street . S . Eccles and C . Ridings , Manchester , cotton-manufacturers , first dividend of 9 s 6 d in the pound , anv Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Pott , Manchester . M . Martin , Bristol , upholsterer , fim dividend of 3 d in the pound , any Monday , at the office of Mr . Miller , Bristol . R . B . Palmer , Bath , watchmaker , first dividend of 3 s 4 d in the pound , any Monday , at the office of Mr . Miller , Bristol .
W . and P . Charters , Merthyr Tydvil , Glamorganshire , tea-dealers , first dividend of is Wdiu the pound , anv Monday , at the ufficeofMr . Miller , Bristol . T . Pare , Liverpool , painter , first dividend of Is Gd in the pound , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . Cazenove , Liverpool . _ W . A . Mearns , Acre-lane , Clapham , ale-brewer , first dividend of Is 3 d in the pound , on Saturdav next , and three following Saturdays , at the office of Mr . Groom , Ahehurchlane , City . W . L . Dore , Egham , Surrey , innkeeper , first and fiual dividend of 4 s 2 _id in the pound , any Saturdav , at the office of Mr . _Green-Aldernianburv ,
DIVIDENDS . March 25 , R . Graves , Edward-street , Portman-square , saddler—March 28 , T . _^ lf * Ford , Rochford , Essex , victualler —March SS , * W . _' ood , T . and R . Smith , and J . Stein , Workington , Cumberland , bankers-April 8 , W . Roberts _, jun ., _Farslcy _, Yorkshire , merchant—March : _J 9 , W . Schofield , Oldham , Lancashire , macliinc-maker—April 5 , W , Walker , Birmingham , hatter—Aprils , J . Wilson , sen ., W . Newton , J . Wilson , jun ., -II . Newton , and G . Wilson , Derby , colour-manufacturers—April 5 , G . Harvey , Hands _, acre , Staffordshire , spirit-merchant—April 5 , M . Coolev , Spalding , Lincolnshire , tailor—April , 5 , R . R . Timings Birmingham , grocer—March 13 , R . Thelwell , Manchester ! silversmith-March 25 . 0 . D . Broughton and J . J . Garnett ! Nautwich , Cheshire , bankers . CERTIFICATES TO BE CHANTED , UNLESS CAUSE BE SHOWN TO
THE CONTUARr ON TUB DAT OF 5 CEETING . March 25 , A . N . _Aiunini _, Seott ' _s-yai-d _, Bush-lane , City , merchant—March 28 , H . 1 ) . Williams , Southampton plumber—March 28 , J . Martin , High-street , Shoreditch ! tallow-chandler—April 1 , A . Brideson , Clare-street , Clare _, market , cheesemonger—March 25 , * W . Vallance , Liverpool merchant-March 25 , T . G . Martin , Cold Harbour-lane ' Camberwell , wine-merchant—March 25 , W . Oliver Dar ' _lington _, Durham , printer—Mar _^ _sh 25 , II . D . Watkins and J . _Innes _, Manchester , lead-merchants—March 25 , T . Hodrjson , Manchester , calico-printer—March 25 , T . Sedgwick Leeds , grocer-March 35 , T _, Wright , Tuustall , Staffordl shire , earthenware-manufacturer—March , 25 , V . Swift and J . A . Hensman , Copthall-court , Throgiuorton-street . billbrokers . '
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . J . Bath and W . Estwick _, _Charlos-street , Drury-lano paper-stainers-J . Orniston and T . Backhouse , Sheffield ' harness-makers—J \ Silcock and N . Lowe , Birniiugham ' plane-manufacturers—T . and H . Taylor , Liverpool , bookl sellers—C . Ironside and J . Napier , Buhia—W . Moore and J . Gatliff , Huddersfield , share-brokers-S . Brabner and J . Atkinson , Liverpool , attorneys-J . Ingo , ft . Doee -R Pratt , and W . S . Haswell _, _Kewcastle-upon . Tyne , shin * _brokers-C . and W . J . Cross , Manchester , coSS agents-. } . Wilson and J . T . Nottle , Hartlepool , Darham ironmongers- ! . C . Gibson and G . Burnett , _NeweaEn Tyne , coal-fitters-G . Glanvile and G . _Plummet £ Ss * hnendrapers-T . M . and II . G . Sutton , Liverpool Than ' _rance-bi-okers-J . _Maxey and W . Doughty , Se ' nS " Berkshire , cabinet-makers-R . Leach and-S , Tavlor Bnry , Lancashire . _eotton-waste-deaWs-E . p . Turner anrf E . . P . Turner , jun ., Birmingham , coal mercSs- _? dips and H . Kemp , Leicester , drapers _^ _wS _^ W . E . Boddington / Chesterfield , De P _rbysWre _suSo _^ W . Rawlins and R . Adkins , Lei ghton _Sard _^ _rnfltr makers-W . Thomas aud i ) . _W-ZLST _&& shire , _Ume-burners-J . Passman and j * _M ™ s _? ock _ton-upon-Tees _, curriers-W . Bagshaw _Jt rZ . Liverpool , timber-dealers . - b _* autt i " tt 0 S * * .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_08031845/page/6/
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