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_¦*^~^ _Tr _^ o _--CHiXOT or Musm * bv Poisoning . _yoa _^ _Itec- -f-- . _^ e _^ _ife 0 f Richard _TVindsoi-, was _^ _T _^ _lfSe _Bflrulmurder of Joseph Windsor , her _* _^ Se a _dngwoWin _thelformRimng , on the 17 th _Ssomng _^ S ** - _in _theinXc _tmen _^ _ad-Srtered in tea , in treacle , and in _hread . Mr . Bhss , nt _SSnTfhe 2 e , stated tt the prisoner aud her hushanu _^ ere lahouring people , ana employed in the neiehhourhooa where the alleged offence was committed . The deceased was the step-son of the prisoner , and at _tte time of his death was abont seven years of age . The ¦ hofs father and theprisonerhaaheen married in the year 1843 . Tiie poison was of a kind commonly known as "hng-poison , " and it was supposed that the chiiahad leen _kUIed hy the administering of a substance of that _Jdnu , some of which had , just before his death , been usea about the house inhabited hy the prisoner ' s tamily . The trial occupied the attention of the court for twelve hours , ana tenninatea in the acquittal of the prisoner .
_December 35 th . — Chabge of _Mansladgiex . —Thomas Wheatley , a young man of about 25 years of age , who had beeu an engine-driver upon ihe 2 Jorth Midland Railway , wasindictedfor the crime of manslaughter iu having * , on the 28 th of October last , at Rojstone , feloniously caused the death of William Fuller Boteler , Esq ., by neglecting aud unskUfedly driving a pilot engine , of whieh the prisoner then had the management . The circumstances attending the lamentable event will be in the recollection of _everyhody , from the great interest which was excited at the time of its occurrence . Thetriallasted
ihe _Tvholeoftheday , ana terminated in the jury finding the prisoner not guilty . A verdict of acquittal was then enteredVupon a second indictment , in which the prisoner was charged with the manslaughter of John Stuhhs , the police-officer , who died in consequence of injuries received ¦ upon the same occasion .
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The December sessions at this court commenced on Monday at the usual hour , before the lord Mayor , the Becorder , Aldermen Wilson , SiJney , the Sheriffs , Under Sherrifts , & c . Bobbebt OF Bask-xotes . —William Harding was indicted for stealing from the person of Robert Vaugham Williams , apocket-book containing money in bank notes , tothe amountof £ 2 , 750 . The prisoner , who was very flashily dressed , pleaded not guilty , ilr . Clarkson conducted the prosecution . Fiom the learned counsel ' s epenliug , and from the statement of the witness , it appeared that the prosecutor , who is a solicitor , was going from the City to the west-end , and as he was passing through St . Paul ' s-churcliyard , he felt his pocket
touched . He turned round and felt his pocket , and suspecting nothing , as he did not perceive the loss of tXpoeket hook , he proceeded , hut on arriving at his _ajKnation _. ie found the property mentioned in the indictment gone . About the same time the prisoner was Observed bv a policeman , named John Coram , in St . Tanl ' s-chnrchyaru , running away as hard as he could . Shis _mdueeahim to follow , ana whilst in pursuit he saw ihe prisoner take the pocket-book out of bis pocket . He _iraB taken into enstoay , ana the pocket-book , with bank notes , was picked np by a little boy of tbe name of Sell , -who _proved seeing the prisoner throw it away irom bis person . The prisoner being found guilty , the Hecorder sentenced hiai to be transported for the term of ten
Assault oh the High Seas . —Captain Alexander Gordon , the commander of the barque Matthesis , apparently abont 33 years of age , and John Cummins , his chief mate , were indicted for that they , on the 20 th day of June last , on the high sea , within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England , did unlawfully make an assault upon one William Scott an apprentice boy : After a lengthy investigation the case terminated in the _acquittal of both prisoners . Another indictment was then preferred . After some discussion Captain Gordon renewed his recognizances , ana departed the court in com . pany of his friends .
Tuesdat , —33 _ubci * 31 t . —John White , aged 2 S , and described as a brewer , was found guilty of a burglary in the dwelling-house of Frederick White , hisbrother , ana stealing therefrom twenty-four cigars , value two shillings , ana hx Bhinings ? jmI seven pence halfpenny in copper money his property . The Recorder sentenced him to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for six calendar months , sod to he kept to hard labour . Mieebt and Csmx . —William Yeoman was charged with having stolen a coat , value Ss ., the property of John Moore . The case was quite clear against the prisoner . He was seen to take the coat from outside the proseenter ' s shop , where it was hung up exposed for sale . _TTpon being apprehended , he pleaded want as his excuse for having committed the offence . In reply to the charge ,
the prisoner stated that for a considerable time past he had been in a state ofthe greatest destitution . He had apphfiu to the Greenwich Union for relief ; hut , instead of getting food , he was sent to break stones of one hundred weight each , and for breaking one hundred of these stones he deceived but three halfpence . By dint of great labour he was enabled to earn Old . the evening before committing the robbery , and with that he was obliged io provide himself with lodging for the night and food . Sir Peter _laurie remarked that it was no _wonder there were so many thieves when the workhouses meted out £ uch a starving allowance as tbat described hy the pri . soner . The jury returned a verdict of guilty , coupled with a strong recoinmendation to mercy . The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned in Newgate for space of seven days .
Isbecest _Pannrs . —William Nunn surrendered in court , and pleaded guilty to a charge of selling indecent prints . The Recorder sentenced him to be imprisoned in -ihe Westminster Bridewell far the space of six calendar months ; also that he should enter into his own recognisances in the amount of £ 50 , and also obtain two sureties 5 n the amount of £ 2 _a each , to answer for liis good conduct for the next three years , and to be further imprisoned mitil such sureties should be found . Ah _Iscokeigibk Gnti , —Eliza White , aged 17 , was indicted for stealing on the 2 na inst ., two dustpans , the property of P . Keeble . A verdict of guilty having been recorded , the prisoner was again indicted , for that she , in August last , was convicted of felony at the Surrey sessions , and sentenced to solitary confinement at Brixton forfourteen days . Guilty . Common Sergeant : You are quite incorrigible . You were here only last session , and _aad then lately come out of prison . Governmentmust lake yon in hand ; the sentence , therefore , is seven years transportation .
John _Kicharos was , for the third time , convicted of felony in this _court _^ an d sentenced to be banished beyond ihe seas for seven years .
The Murder At Westminster. "Waisesday.-—...
THE MURDER AT WESTMINSTER . _"WaisESDAy .- _—3 Iartha Browning was indicted for the Tnlfol murder of Elizabeth _Ifujjdell , on the 1 st of Decem-• fcerJast : Mary Gaze , who stated that she was fh _€ _^ ifeof Edward Caze , and the daughter ofthe deceased . She _resides in little Rochester-street , Rochester-road , Westminster She knew the prisoner at the bar , and has known her for about six months . She had lately lodged with her jaofter . she had lodged with her for three weeks , and they lived in the same room , and slept in the samebed . Her mother lived at 2 Jo . 1 , Providence-place , Brewergreen , Westminster . On _Monday , the 1 st of December , Ihe prisoner called atwitness ' shouseatahouta quarter to _tight o ' clock in the morning , and saia that Mrs . Mundell
• was very ill , ana baa had a fit about seven o ' clock . She also said that witness was required to go there directly . She also said that 3 Irs . if _undell had calleed out" Murder , murder ! What are you doing to me V On the way to the deceased ' s lodgings witness ashed her why she did not admit the person who had knocked at her door , and the prisoner said that she was holding the deceased ' s hands at the time . On arriving at the room witness looked towards the bed . There were three chairs on the bed . ¦ Witness was turning to go out of the room when she saw her mother lying on her back on a box . She was in her ¦ Bight clothes . There was a cord round her neck ; it was about as thick as her little linger . ( The rope was produced . ) It * was twisted twice round her neck , ana knotted at the side . The knot was the same as it is no w .
witness called out , and some other persons came into the room . A baker ' s hoy cut the string . Witness went for a surgeon , hut he could not come himself , ana sent his assistant . There was an inquest _heia on the body ofthe deceased ihe same nigh :. The prisoner was the first witness called . After the inquest was over , the prisoner went with witness to tiie house of the deceased . After they got home from tbe inquest , witness's husband said thathe did not like the appearance of the bed , as it was wet . The prisoner remained constantly with witness from Monday night io Wednesday morning . When _witness sat up she sat up , and when she lay down the prisoner lay down beside her . In consequence of something that she saia on the Tuesday afternoon , witness - _went-frith her to Bedford-street . The prisoner said that
£ 15 which she had saved in service was there , ana she offered to lend witness a sovereign . Witness did not gi . farther than the corner of the street , as the prisoner requested her to wait there . She was about ten minutes gone . When she came back she said that she had a £ a note , and that if witness had enough money for the present , she wonia not change it until the next day . She saia that her master haa recommended her to place the money with the person in Bedford-street . They then ¦ meat to witness's house . On the morning of _Wednesday , the prisoner kissed the bod y of the deceased , ana , turning ronna to witness , saia , "Oh , do you think she is happy ! " They then came out of the room . _Herhus .
band asked her if she had any money , ana she replied that she had not . Thatwasinthepresence ofthe prisoner . Witness then tola the prisoner to get the notechangea . Hr . Gaze offered to go , hutshe wonld not allow him to do so . She went into the Blue-coatBoy public-house . On ercoming _outshesaid , " Oh , they have played a trick on me ; they have given me a Bank of Elegance , instead of f t Bank ofEnglanu note . She said thatit was the parson Beufora-street who had cheated her . H y husband ~ L _* -. . her t 0 let Wm looU at 3 t - She hesitated , and I » _-fl . fcOh , Martha , let us look at it . " She then _n . i _£ _??? ae notc to loo : k at - B _« called _» a _tS _£ ?™! _£ _? * _° a 6 howea me tne note _* to let _uS _^ S _??* _" _* - _^ then asked her again "Imurtknowt _* tte note ' and then said to her , " _^ w _* » J ° n _gotflienotefrom , MymoW
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' - (¦¦ - > _-- _; ,, , n mi i . mi _TlifiirWH had two . " " Oh , yes > '' she answered , " she bad , Mr . Gaze . " A second time he returned the note . I had noticed it , however , and we went in doors . In knew the note had belonged to my mother , by its having two grease spotsupon it . At home I asked the prisoner to let me look at the note . She hesitated very much , but gave it me , and whilst I was looking at it she made a snatch at it ; I succeeded in keeping hold of it , however , and said to her , " . Martha , I shaU not let you have the note till I know where this has come from . " She went down stairs iato the yard , saying she was going into the water-closet , and she almost immediately came out into the passage . My mother used to keep the note in a housewife she had in her possession , and which was subsequently found in the bed of deceased .
The evidence of the other witnesses , Mary Cheshire , Edward _Gaze , Mary _Judkins _, Inspector Partridge , and Mr . Atkinson , surgeon , was but a repetition ofthe statements given in this paper of Saturday last . The evidence of the several witnesses left no doubt that the wretched woman had strangled the deceased for the purpose of depriving her of the two sham five pound notes , which she supposed to be genuine . Mr . Clarkson addressed the jury in a lengthy and forcible speech for the prisoner . Mr . Justice Patteson summed up the evidence and—The jury , after twenty minutes' deliberation , returned a verdict of guilty .
Mr : Justice Patteson proceeded to pass sentence of death upon the prisoner in the following terms : — -His lordship said _that after a very long , painful , and patient inquiry , the jury had come to thecBnclusion that she was guilty of the charge of murder for which she was accused . She had had the advantage of a learned counsel , who had urgea every topic in her behalf that was likely either to induce the jury to believe that she was innocent , or that the evidence for the prosecution was insufficient , and the jury , after a full inquiry , had felt that the facts which had been disclosed were quite incompatible with her innocence . He , the learned Judge , entirely concurred in the verdict , and aid not entertain the slightest doubt but that she was In fact guilty of this foul murder . It would appear that , while residing with the deceased , she became impressed with the idea that she was possessed of money , and it was very
probable that , in the first instance , her only intention ' was to possess herself of that money , and this had ultimately led to killing the deceased in a most cruel and deliberate manner . He was induced to believe from her own statements that the weig ht of the crime had laid heavily upon her mind , and that she had already probably turned to the Almighty and sought forgiveness ; but if she had not done so , he entreatea her to make the best use of the short time that remained to her on this earth for thatpurpose . Her life , by the law of the land , was forfeited , ana the crime was of such a nature , ana was committea under such circumstances , as percluded him from holding out to her the slightest hope that tlie law would not be allowed to take its course . He , therefore , entreated her to make her peace with God , and obtain that mercy from him which would not be granted by an earthly tribunal . His lordship concluded by passing sentence in the usual form .
The prisoner was then asked formally whether she had anything to urge in arrest of judgment , the object being for her to state whether she was in the family way or not . Upon this being explained to her , she said , " I am not guilty . " One of tbe female turnkeys then explained the matter to her , and as it appeared that there was no ground for an arrest of judgment , the sentence was recorded , and the prisoner was removed from the bar .
The Murder At Nbwingtoit. Thfbsday,—Samu...
THE MURDER AT NBWINGTOIT . Thfbsday , —Samuel Quennell , aged 22 , was indicted for the wilful murder of Baniel Fitzgerald . Mr . Bodkin , with whom was Mr . Clarke , conductea the prosecution ; and Mr . Clarkson and Mr . _Huddlestone conducted the defence . Mr : Bodkin stated the case to the jury , _1-riefly set . ting forth the leading points of the evidence . He then called Owen M'Carthy , who stated that he resided at No . 6 , Queen-street , Walworth . Has been in the employment of Mr , Wm , Quennell , a builder , in lower Kenningtonlane . Was in his employment on Thursday , the 27 th of November . Had known the deceased Fitzgerald . He was also in Mr . _QuenneU ' s employment , and was there on that day . He left work at about five o ' clock in the
afternoon , and proceeded towards Kennington-lane . Deceasod was in his ( witness's ) company . They crossed the JJewington High-road , and then went into Peacockstreet . When they got there witness saw the prisoner coming towards them . Had known the prisoner about ten or eleven weeks before that time . He had been in the employment of Mr . Quennell , but had been dismissed . There is no carriage-way in Peacock-street , itis quite a narrow lane . The prisoner came close to them , and immediately afterwards his ( witness ' s ) sight was taken away by a sudden flash ; he at the same time heard a report . As seon as he could see he saw deceased lying down , who said , "I am a dead man ; " The prisoner then walked quietly away towards rTewington . Witness followed liim , and cried out after him . Witness saw him stopped .
Mr . nenry Cutting was then examined by Mr . Bodkin . On Thursday , Nov . 27 th , was near the corner of Peacock-Street . He turned down Kennington-lane , which almost faces the end of Peacock-street . When he got near the corner he heard the report of a pistol , ana saw a man running down Kennington-lane . lie was followed by some others , who were calling out to stop him . Witness stepped aside until the man who was pursued came up to him , and he then seized him by the collar . That man was the prisoner . Some of the pursuers came up , and one of them attempted to seize his collar roughly . The prisoner said , " Oneis enough , " ana then "Take me to the station-house . " Witness went with him to the stat ion-house . He was then asked whether he had any knife or pistol with Mm . He said no ; but as they were about to search him he put his hand into his trousers pocket , when the constable seized his hand and took a pistol from it . The cock of the pistol was down , and a portion of an exploded cap upon it .
Harriet Denyer stated she was in Peacock-street at five o ' clock on Thursday , the 27 th of November . She was in the narrow part ofthe street . She heard the report of a pistol , and saw a man faU , She afterwards went to the spot , and when a light was brought she saw that it was Fitzgerald . She had known him by sight . On hearing the report a man passed rapidly by her , and almost knocked her down . That man went towards Newington-butts . Had seen ihe man before , and knew him by sight . The prisoner is the man .
Mr . Wm . Hope Popham stated that he is a surgeon , residing at Queen ' s-row , _Newington . He was near the Peacock public-house at about five in the afternoon on the 27 th of November . He heard an explosion of firearms . In consequence ot Information he received he went into the Peacock tap-room . He there saw the deoeased supported by two men . There was a wound on theleftbreast . He was very much exhausted , and died in less than a minute . Afterward'' made a post mortem examination . Found that the wound passed through the heart and lungs .
Thomas WiUiam Carter , inspector of police stated that on the 27 th of November , he was on duty at the policestation in Kennington-lane . The prisoner was brought in by Mr . Cutting-. The remainder of this wj _** n . es 5 ? _s evidence was merely a confirmation of that given hy Mr . _Cutting ; _ WiUiam Quennell was then sworn—He stated thathe knew the deceased . He worked for witness , and had been in his employment seven or eight years . The prisoner is a half-brother of his . His age is about 22 . He had been employed by witness for about five months . He made himself generally useful . He had been to sea before coming to work with witness . He had told him to look out for work elsewhere as business would be slack ; that was three or four weeks before the commission of the act . The last day thathe worked for witness was Wednesday , the 19 th . He came to witness on the Saturday before the murder and received 8 s . The
prisoner had a conversation with witness s wife about his leaving off work . His wife said , "How came you to speak so unkindly against WiUiam after he has been so kind to you . " The prisoner appeared surprised , and wanted to know what it was that he had been saying . She told him that Baniel Fitzgerald had told her that he ( the prisoner ) intended to give William a knock on the head , and also that the prisoner had said that if he got money he wonld set up an opposition business next door . His wife also remarked that she had not said all that Fitzgerald had told her . The prisoner said that Fitzgerald had urged him on to speak against witness , and that it was all Fitzgerald ' s fault . A gentleman then came-in' t » pay _a-bill , and that put an end to the convert sation . Could'not say-whether the conversation took place" before or ' after the payment of _the-Ss . ¦ Witness 'told him' that evening , to ' look for : work elsewhere ; Fitzgerald : and the prisoner appeared to live oh good
terms . - By Mr . Clarkson : The prisoner ' s father had been subject to fits of insanity . The prisoner had a brother that died about two years since . Had a sister named Sarah , and saw her up to the time of her death , which occurred about twelve years since . She used to complain of her head , and used at times to be quite unconscious . Was present when his father imagined that there were devils in the drawers of his room , No representation made hy Fitzgerald was the cause of his telling the prisoner to seek for work . No such statement was made to the prisoner . Has heard that the prisoner had set the bed on which he was lying on fire .
Julia Quennell stated that she is the wife of the last witness . Remembers the prisoner coming on the night of Saturday , the 22 nd of September , to be paid his wages . Had a conversation with the prisoner about something that he said . That was in the presence of her husband . On telling him something that Fitzgerald bad said of him , he appeared very much'dejected and hurt . Fitzgerald had made a statement to her the day before . By Mr . Clarkson . —The prisoner haa appeared very
much dejected for six months before the murder , but for three weeks before it , witness could not get a proper answer . Has noticed the prisoner to sit by himself with bis eyes fixed on the ground apparently quite lost to himself . p r the last three weeks before the murder , he could not give a proper answer . Her husband was always very attentive to him , There had been no cause for his apparent dejection . Witness could not tell what to make of it , and spoke of it to her husband . Has heard her husband talk of bis father , whojwas { deranged during his lifetime . _K-a
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James Parkcs stated thathe is a plane-maker , residing in _Tiinothy-street , Newington . On Saturday , 22 nd of November , he was at tbe shop of a Mrs . lubbs , in the New-cut , Lambeth . It was about eight o ' clock ; The prisoner was there . " He came up to the shop , and took a pistol which was hanging at the door , and examined it ; He pulled the trigger , and the cock broke . Witness heard that as . 6 d . was the price of the pistol . The prisoner paid 2 s . fox the damage done . He came into the shop after breaking the pistol , and purchased another , for whieh he paid 5 s . The pistol _produesd is like the one that he purchased . William Welling stated that he is an oilman , residing atNo . l , Amelia-place , Walworth . Knows the prisoner , who has dealt with him for some time . On Thursday , the 27 th of November , at about four in the afternoon , the prisoner came to his shop . He purchased a pennyworth of gunpowder . . '
John Marne , a gunmaker , residing , in the Walworthroad—On Wednesday , the 26 th of November , he sold a quarter of a pound of bullets to a person . Can't say whether the prisoner was the person . The person was dressed iu a different manner to the prisoner . Saw him before tlie magistrate , and his dress was then like that of the man who bought the bullets . They wcre to fit a pistol exactly like the one produced . It was dusk when he came into the shop . The evidence of this witness closed the case for the prosecution _.
Mr , Clarkson then rose , and said that in the observations he was about to make he would not attempt to deny that the prisoner was the person who fired the shot . Although tho law left it upon the prisoner toBhowthat he was not fit to judge of his own actions , he ( Mr . Clarkson ) hoped that he wonld be able to show them , on his behalf , that such was actually the case . The Learned Counsel then proceeded te comment at some length on the evidence , which tendod to raise a questionjib to the prisoner ' s sanity . At the conclusion of his address , The Lord Chief Justice Tindal proceeded to recapitulate the evidence in a general manner , commenting on the various facts » 6 tending to prove the prisoner ' s insanity . The jury then consulted for a short time in the box , ana then requested to be allowed to retire .
After an absence of twenty minutes tlie jury returned into thr court . On their names being called over , The foreman of the jury delivered a verdict of Guilty . The usual proclamation of silence having been made , the Learned Judges put on their black caps . The Lord Chief Justice Tindal then addressed the prisoner as follows : — " Samuel Quennell , you have been found guilty , by the verdict of a jury of your countrymen , of the crime of murder—a criine which has always been , with the exception of the crime of treason , regarded as one of the very deepest dye by the laws of England , and against which the punishment of death has always been enforced . It is my duty to say that the jury have come to a proper conclusion on this question . There are circumstances in this case
of great aggravation—as the crime was not committed under the influence of sudden anger , or circumstances of provocation ; and unknown almost to the unfortunate victim of your crime , you reserved to yourself the preparation of the instruments of death , against which the deceased felt quite secure . Under these circumstances , it is my dnty to impress upon your mind the sentence of the law , which will assuredly be carried into effect . Exert yourself therefore to employ the little time allowed you to prepare for that great change which you assuredly will shortly undergo . It only remains for me to pass upon you the sentence of the law . " His Lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form ; and ordered the prisoner into the custody of the sheriff of the county of Surrey . The prisoner , who seemed quite unmoved during the passing of the . sentence , was then removed .
Infanticide.—Eliza Huntsman Was Next Ind...
Infanticide . —Eliza Huntsman was next indicted for the murder of Emily Huntsman , her own child , aged five months . The particulars of the charge against the prisoner will be found fully detailed in our second page . In the course of the trial , Mr . Samuel Hammond , surgeon , deposed that he had attended the prisoner about a year since . She was then in a state of great physical debility . He had then ordered her head to be shaved . From the state of her health at that time such symptoms presented themselves as might result in partial insanity . The prisoner had , since the birth of her last child , lost her milk . In his opinion that fact would have the effect of
producing insanity , more particularly from the bad state of health in which the prisoner has been for some time past . Mr . _M- 'Murdoe , the surgeon of the gaol of Newgate , quite concurred in this opinion . The drying up of a woman ' s milk usually produced the direst consequences , and often resulted in a fit of insanity . Mr . Clarkson addressed the jury for the defence , and urged that there was ample evidence to show that the prisoner at the bar had been labouring under insanity when she had committed the rash act with which she now stood charged . The jury returned a verdict of not guilty , on the ground of insanity .
_FainAV . —Foboert . —Peter Schmidt and Knut Boll , were indicted for feloniously and knowingly having in their possession a plate engraved with a foreign note for the payment of money , to wit , the Kingdom of Norway . The jury found the prisoners Guilty , and the-learned judge then sentenced both the prisoners , severally , to be transported for the term of fourteen years .
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GUILDHALL . TDESDAV . —CHABos ' _o-r AasoK . —Mr . Ford , the printer , of Braim ' _s-huildings , Beech-street , Barbican , was brought before Mr . Alderman Hunter , for final examination , charged with wilfully setting fire to his printing-office , on the night of Sunday , the 7 th instant . The witnesses were again the same who had been examined before the coroner of London , Mr . Alderman Hunter said , in a charge of this nature " it was almost impossible to get direct evidence against a prisoner , but the magistrate had to see with what certainty he was implicated by ' cir . cumstantial evidence . In the present case he thought there was strong circumstantial evidence . The mere
circumstance of a person talking about the insurance he had effected , or his advising others to take that means Of protecting themselves would not of themselves make much impression on his mind ; but when he coupled such observations with the finding of the tarred shavings , and sack and books steeped in turpentine , all collected in a corner , and that the corner where the fire began , he felt it to be his duty , for the protection of the public , to send the case for inquiry before a jury . No one would be more pleased than himBelf to find the prisoner able to clear himself before a jury ; but putting together all the suspicious circumstances elicited in this inquiry , he could not help sending the prisoner to trial .
BOW-STREET . TBDBSDAX . _ROBBEBV i * _T THE TRAFALGAR HOTEL , Spring Gardens . —Charles 3 owen , George Lake , John Hancock , and George _lates were placed at the bar before Mr , Jardine , for re-examination , charged , the two former with stealing the sum of £ 150 in bank notes , from the Trafalgar Hotel , the property of the _Reverend William Price Lewis , of Cardiff , and the others with receiving the same , _weU knowing them to have been stolen . After a somewhat lengthy examination , the prisoners were again remanded till Wednesday next .
_MAflYLEBQNE . Mondav . —The Late Case of Stabbing with a Bavonet by a Soldier . —William M'Carthy , a corporal in the Royal Marines , doing duty at Deptford , was brought up and placed at the bar for re-examination on the charge of having wilfully stabbed with his bayonet a young man named John Muggeridge , who , in consequence of the injury inflicted upon him , has been under surgical treatment , and in all probability will be deprived ofthe sight of one of his eyes . The prisoner was fully committed for trial .
CLERKENWELL . Monday . —A Ruffianly Policehan . —Mr . _Gseenwood ' s "Jostice . "— Mr . John Seawood Griffiths , of 14 , King ' _s-road , who described himself as a constable of her Majesty ' s household , was charged with assaulting Policeconstable Nott , 99 G , in the execution of his duty , and attempting to rescue a prisoner from his custody . In the course of the proceedings Mr . Griffiths charged Nott , as will be seen , with brutally ill-treating his former prisoner . The case occupied a great part of the day . —Nott deposed that on Saturday night he took a woman named Jenkins into custody , in Laystall-street , ana was about removing her to the station , when the prisoner came over , collared him , and flourished a baton , surmounted by a crown , which he took from his . pocket .,... Amobof the
eighty persons assembled , an _^ woman gm _^ away . The prisoner said , . "; You vagabond , do ; you . dare . tele it-hat woman . ? . what do ; _j-ou want ; ' with her , you . ' shan't , take . her , " and added , "I am .- _ a _! _constable [ _joi- ' Me , QuVen ' s household . " Witness ga ' ve . the prisoner into , the ' , _custbuy of another constable . The - prisoner ' lius ' sober : He shook witness , and flourished the staff over _hii ' nead . Mr . Greenwood inquired if Nott was drunk at the time , which the prisoner alleged , and still persevered in stating . Inspector Penny and half a dozen of constables swore that Nott was perfectly sober at the time , and that he was a man of sober habits , who had been fourteen years in the force . The prisoner in defence said that Nott , who had taken a woman into custody , was ill-using her in a shameful manner , dragging her along the pavement . She was screaming ana crying out that the constable would break her arm by which he was dragging her . Witness compassionating her , went up to the constable , who appeared to be tipsy , and said , "Don't ill-use this woman , she will
go t » prison quietly . " The constable immediately released the woman , and seized him by the collar of the shirt , and squeezed and dragged him with bo much force , that had not his shirt collar given way , he would certainly have been strangled ; the mob was by this time very large , and in the struggle and bustle , both fell . Mrs . Smith , the wife of a tradesman residing in Portpool-lane , deposed that she saw the constable , Nottj- on duty , in Leather-lane , at seven o'clock on the same evening . He was then evidently in liquor . He was talking to a young woman , and she , too , said he was tipsy . Nott said at the time he would take the girl into custody . Between eight and nine o ' clock she was going to market , when she saw the constable go up to a boy , who had a little muffin stall , andteU him to remove it . The policeman kicked the stall with his foot , and it fell , whereupon he said it had fallen on his feet , and it must be removed . * Mrs , Jenkins , who was passing at the time , said that could not have been the case , for he was not near enough to it . There _, upon , he seized her , and dragged her along in a most
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brutal way . In the _dragging her cloak and bonn _« _fcwere torn off . _< The prisoner went up , and said it was a shame tosee _aladyuBedas Bhe waB . She : could ' not say what further occurred , as the mob was very great and surrounded them John Staine , living at 29 ; _Union-street , confirmed the last witness ' s account , as regarded the in" terference of the . constable , with the poor muffin-boy , in the first instance . The constable , _uraggfid the _> oman along in a shameful manner , She was crying out and screaming . She exclaimed that the constable was break-. ing her aim , ¦ The prisoner interfered in _* e manner described by the last witness . Tho constable seized him by the neck , although at the time the prisoner had done nothing whatever to the officer . Could not say what further occurred . —Eliza Sims described the treatment of Mrs . Jenkins , the woman appre-. _ .. . .. -. .,
hended in the first instance , as very cruel . Her cloak , bonnet , and shawl were torn off by the constable . The woman was crying , and exclaimed , "lama decent married woman—I have done nothing . " She begged of the constable , who held her by the arm , to release her . When the prisoner came up he gave the woman a push , and told her to go about her business . Several persons present told the woman not to do so , but to make the constable go before a magistrate , and say why he had so treated her . Mr ! Greenwood decided upon sending the case for trial , The prisoner said he was very glad of it , as he was determined to have the matter sift « d to the bottom , and have an example made of the constable . The prisoner was admitted to bail , in two sureties of £ 30 each . Mrs . Jenkins , the woman alluded to in this ' case , was charged with obstructing the footway , but discharged .
_Tdesda-s . —The _Se-duceb . akb his " Victim . "—The Law ' s " Justice . "— Jane Gough , a young woman , with a child in her arms , was charged with annoying Mr . John Atherly _, a jeweller , residing at No . 3 , Lloyd-street , by ringing at liis door bell . A solicitor , whose name did not transpire , appeared for the complainant , who deposed , that on the previous night , at a quarter past ten o ' clock , the prisoner came tohis door , and rung his bell . Witness went to the door , and seeing her , said , ' If you do not leave my premises , I will give you in charge . " He then shut the door , but she rung the door-bell again nine or ten times . Witness ' s wife was ill , and was alarmed at the noise . He gave her in charge . At the station house she said she would break every window in bis
house . She had rung his bell on last Thursday night , when he gave her in charge , but she was then discharged . Mr , Combe ( to the prisoner ) : What have you to say to the charge ? The prisoner said that herself and her infant in her arms ( of which complainant was the father ) were starving , and she went to get a little money from him . She had made an application to a magistrate concerning the support of her child , and was told that she might summon him , but she had not the price _« . f a summons , which she could not get without it . Mr . Combe ( to tho prisoner ) : You must pay a fine of £ 1 , go to the House of Correction for fourteen days . The woman said she had no money , and was committed accordingly .
_Wednesday . — " Vampebs" and "Flats . " — John Harold was charged with being an accomplice in robbing and assaulting Mr . John Webb , a gentleman , residing at 18 , _Goswell street . The prisoner , who is a thick-set able fellow , wns at once recognised by Inspector Thatcher as a distinguished member of a class of vagabonds called " _viimpers , " fellows who go about from one public-house to another inciting or challenging " flats" to fight , and when they fight robbing them . Mr . Webb had received a sum of money from the Treasury , and was at nine o ' clock on that morning driven to the Blue Coat Boy tavern , in the City-road , by a cabman named Dame . He was Standing at the bar there taking some refreshment , when the prisoner came in ; the prosecutor , in a jocular mood , asked several present to toss with
him , and did gamble a little . The prisoner perceiving Mr . Webb to be in a generous humour , made a very distressing statement , assuring him that his wife and two children were in great misery , tbat he lived by selling fowls , but had not now a penny to go to market with . The prosecutor compassionated his sad condition , and gave him Ss . Soon after , the prisoner , perceiviug Mr . Webb to be very merry , proposed that they should adjourn to the tap-room and toss . The prosecutor went accordingly , and soon after a crowd of the prisoner ' s associates , to the number of about twenty , collected . It was then proposed by one of them that Mr . Webb should fight the best man in the room for half a sovereign , Mr . Webb agreed , and a man named Mason accepted the challenge . The prosecutor had in his right .
hand pocket £ 28 in gold , of which fact the prisoner was aware , for Mr . Webb had pulled it out in paying the cabman , and in staking the bet , which was deposited in the hands ol one of the party , the prisoner , who seemed so ready a few minutes before , staking the halfsovereign for Mason . The pugilists " set too , " and were sparring , when one of the party ( Mr . Webb could not say that it was the prisoner ) came behind him and dealt him such a blow as felled him . He was no sooner down than the prisoner rushed upon him , and thrust his left hand into the prosecutor ' s pochet ; the prosecutor seized his hand ; one of the party told the prisoner to " mug" him—beat him on the head ; and the prisoner pummelled him accordingly . Mr . Webb ' s right eye was invisible , and the parts about it greatly inflamed . Mr . Webb cried out , " Will you see a man robbed ! " but no
help came . A poor painter , named Massey , who was at the bar , hearing the prosecutor ' s cries , peeped in , saw what was going on , and ran for a constable . When the constable came , the door of the . tap-room was fastened on the inside ; but having at length obtained admission , captured the prisoner , who exclaimed , " thatit was all over . " Mr . Webb had been robbed of thiee sovereigns , and was suffering great pain from the contusion on the upper part of iiis head . —The prisoner cross-examined some of the witnesses with great coolness and adroitness . —Mr . Combe commended the poor painter highly for his conduct ; and , after giving the usual caution to the prisoner , said he would send him for trial . — The prisoner thereupon beeame very indecorous in his conduct , lolling about the dock and jeering the spectators in the body of the court . He was fully committed for trial .
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LONBON . The Crisis . — A public meeting was held at the South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blackfriars-road , on Wednesday evening , December the 17 th inst ., to nominate and elect a delegate to sit on the Chartist convention , at Manchester , on Monday next , to consider what steps the Chartist body shall take at the present crisis , Mr . J . G . Dron was unanimously called to the chair , Mr . Stallwood was also unanimously elected secretary to the meeting . The chairman briefly opened the proceedings by requesting attention for all that might present themselves , and called on Mr . Stallwood * to state the purpose for which they were assembled , and the reason they were called together . Mr .. Stallwood then submitted the correspondence he had had'with Mr . T . M . Wheeler on the
subject , and the steps he had taken in consequence . Mr . Stallwood concluded by moving , that one delegate be appointed to represent the metropolis in the convention . After some discussion , the motion was carried . Messrs . Shaw , Knight , Cuffay , and Pearcey were then severally nominated . Alter several divisions , by show of hands and ballot , the chairman decided that the election had fallen on Mr . Shaw , and wrote that gentleman ' s credentials accordingly . On the motion of Messrs . Sowter and Glover , jun ., it was resolved , " That the metropolitan _locaUties be hereby requested to collect , or raise by means most suitable to the members , such sums of money as shall be necessary to defray the expense of sending the delegate , and that such monies , when collected , be forwarded to Mr . T . M . Wheeler , 7 , Crown-court , Bean _, street , Oxford-street .
City Locality . —Mr . Thomas Cooptr , author of the " Purgatory of Suicides , " delivered his promised lecture on the lives and genius of Bobert Burns and Sir Walter Scott , last Sunday evening , Mr , Walter Cooper , the instructive lecturer on Burns , ofthe preceding Sunday , was in the chair , —a circumstance that added much to the interest felt by the audience . The Chartist poet , after narrating some passages of the life of Burns , left untold by the chairman , and after relating the singular and striking manner of the early death of Burns , recited his great masterpiece "Tam O' Shanter . " The recitation was received with enthusiastic and prolonged plaudits Scott's life , evolving , as it does , so much of lamentable sordidness ( in his desire to possess a large landed estate ) on the one hand , and of noble independence ( in his resolve to pay his creditors after his insolvency ) on the other , —
afforded room for some highly useful remark . Mr . T . C . also briefly , but pointedly , characterised several of the novels , placing ' . ' . 014 Mortality" as the first , and " Wa-. _vei-iy _^ as the secon d ' : "Ivanlioe" as . the first of the romances / and " _KeiiilwoCth" as the' second- ; In ' eoneluBioh / tlie le ' ctu _* rer alluded'to the _progretss of : Knowledge , and ., the peculiar .: point to . which we were arrived _, lie _, said he could not . conclude the lecture without some pointed statement of his own views as to the proper course to be pursued by Chartists , at the present juncture of affairs . The agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws—gigantic as it had become , under the energetic and politic conduct of Richard Cobden , its leader—had been rendered trebly powerful by a blight in the corn-harvest and potatoe-crop . Lord Pinnlity had declared for free trade ; Sir Eobert Peel had broken up
his Ministry bocause his colleagues refused their consent to ftw proposal to carry out free trade . Whether Lord John Russell , or Sir Kobert , or whoever might be the future premier , he would be compelled to propose free trade in eorn . No one could deny that . Now , it appeared to him ( the lecturer ) that the carrying of this question resembled a stone on the edge of a precipice , it was about to fall , perhaps next February , perhaps after a dissolution of Parliament , and a gentral election ; but the stone was on the edge . He had often proposed amendments at Leicester , at Anti-Corn Law meetings—once at the hazard of his life . Yet he had always been for a repeal of the Corn Laws ; the Leicester _stoclungcrs could testify the
to that . It was always custom , at Leicester , to say — » the Corn Laws are a curse ; but they are not the only bad law ; and the great cure for all bad laws is the repeal of class legislation , and the enactment of the People ' s Charter . " But now famine was threatening his fellowmen , he ( the lecturer ) could not think of attending any meeting to propose amendments of the oia stamp , even if he were hkely to meet support ; above all , now the question of the corn law repeal was evidently about to he carried hy the popular voice _. he would not consent to make his own party ridiculous by recommending steps that would place them in a contemptible minority . _StiU more , did he ( the lecturer ) look to what was to follow the
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carrying of this question : _firet , it would open the people ' s eyes , generally ; they would see ,, when Corn Law repeal took place , they needed tlie Charter to acquire what would render them 'happy _^; thm would , therefore , be an overwhelming addition of force from the working classes , who were , ' at present , so apathetic . Secondly , a considerable portion of the middle , _clasfi , would feel the want 9 > _T a further reform as soon as this * repeal iook place , but it was vain to call on them before . Thirdly , and , above all , he looked to the conflict that would be entered into by all classes as soon as this question was decided , Aristocrats , landlords , tenants , parsons , tradesmen , working men , all would be placed in antagonism more or less ; and , from * ' _.:- _* _^ _flhia mtofltinn _firuf . would ODen the _Ceonle ' R
that state of change and general dissolution of old interests , he augured good . What , then , did he recommend ? He wished to leave every man as free as he was resolved ever to be himself . For his own part he could only say , he would never lift a finger to help the manufacturers ; he had witnessed too much of their unfeeling oppressions in Leicester ( where he knew but one firm that was exempt from the charge ); but he could not consent to oppose Corn Law repeal under existing circumstances ; and if he were an elector , and an election were come , he would vote for a repealer in preference to a protectionist ; yet , if a general election arrived , he hoped to stand on the hustings in Leicester Market-place , and again champion Universal Suffrage , and the rights of labour .
_VETEBAN PATEIOTS' AND EXILES' WIDOWS' AND CHILDREN ' S Fonds _. —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of 7 s . from the Marylebone locality ( being a collection made for me while in Stafford gaol , but which I apply to the above purposes with leave of the donors ) , of 4 s . from Hamilton , in Scotland , and of Is . from my valued and incorruptible friend , George White , of Bradford . —Thos . Cooper , 134 , Elackfriar ' s-road . Sosiebs Town . —At a meeting of this locality held on Sunday evening last at Mr . Duddridge's , Tonbridgestreet . Mr . George Humphries in the Chair . The following resolution was moved by Mr , John Arnott , seconded by Mr . Thomas Laurie , and unanimously agreed to : — " That we , the members of this locality , having for a long period seen with deep regret the mean , paltry , and inadequate amount forwarded by our brother members to the Executive , most earnestly call on those that were instrumental to their appointment to come forward and render them that support they are justly entitled to . "
BARNSLEY . At the Land Society meeting on Monday last , Mr . Jolm Vallance explained to the members the alterations and amendments in the rules , which gave great satisfaction to the shareholders , as demonstrated by the following resolution , moved by Mr . Peter Hoey , and seconded by Mr . George Ilargh : — " That th 9 Uamsley branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society return their best thanks to John Vallance , representative of Barnsley , Sheffield , and Ilotherham , and to the whole conference _, believing their deliberations have had for their object the best interests of the society . And that we most cordially sanction their every decision . "
BURNLEY . Meeting to _Petition 1 _' ahliament fob . the Belease op Frost , Williams , Jokes , and Eixis . —A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Burnley and Habergham-eaves , was held in the Temperance Hall , _Hommorton-sti-eet , on the evening of Monday , December 15 th . At eight o ' clock , the time for commencing _busi . ness , the hall was densely crowded by an audience desirous of manifesting their sympathy for the unfortunate patriots , On the motion of Mr . Williams , seconded by Mr . Webster , Mr . John Gray was unanimously called tothe chair , "ihe chairman opened the meeting by a few introductory remarks , and b y reading the placard announcing the meeting . Mr . Webster read nnd moved the petition for the release of Frost , Williams , and Jones , which was seconded by Mr . Taylor . Mr . Ambrose Hirst , of Oldham , supported the petition in a most able and eloquent speech , in the course of which he was repeatedly
and enthusiastically applauded . The petition was then read by Mr . Holland , and unanimously adopted by the meeting . Mr . B . Southwort next rose to move the adoption of a petition to the House of Commons for the release of William Ellis . Mr . S . then read the petition and moved its adoption , whicli was seconded by Mr . W . Williams , and supported by Mr . T . Tatter _.-all , who made a touching appeal . Tho petition was unanimously adopted by the meeting . It was then moved by Mr . Holland , and seconded Mr . llidehulgh , and unanimously carried , " That the petitions , now adopted at this meeting , be entrusted to Thomas Slingsby Duncombe , Esq ., M . P . for Finsbury , for presentation to the House of Commons ; and that the members for North Lancashire , J . Talbot Clifton , and Wilson Patten , Esqrs ., be requested to suppoi t the prayer thereof . " A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman , and to Messrs . Taylor , Hirst , and Tattersall , and the meeting dissolved .
MANCHESTER . On Sunday evening the news was read to the audience oi the defeat of the magistrates by Mr . Roberts , after which Mr . John Shaw , of Leeds , commenced his lecture , which lasted one hour and a-half . When about finishing Mr . O'Connor arrived , " taking the audience by surprise , and spoke for an hour . Mr . Roberts , tlie miners' Attorney-General , next made his appearance , and spoke for half an hour . We had a tveat not looked for , not expecting either of the above gentlemen .
WEST RIDING DELEGATE MEETING . This meeting was held at Halifax , in the Working Man ' s Hall , on the 14 th inst ., when delegates appeared from the following places : ¦—Dewsbury , Littletown , Bradford , Halifax , and Lower Warley . Mr . Richard Lawson was appointed to preside . " After the monies had been paid in , the following resolutions were adopted ' . —Moved by T . Cole , seconded by W . F . Sucksmitli , " That no person be received as delegate to tlie West Riding Delegate Meeting who is not delegated by the National Charter Association
and having credentials to that effect from the locality he represents . " Moved by Mr . Cole , seconded by Mr . Jackson , "That Mr . Smith ' s name be withdrawn from the list of local lecturers until he again becomes a member of the National Charter Association . " Moved by Mr . Sucksmitli , seconded by Mr . Cole , " That a special delegate meeting be held at Halifax the first Sunday in January , to take into consideration what steps ought to be taken b y tlie Chartists of the West Riding in case of a general election . " " That this meeting be adjourned to the second Sunday in February . "
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CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . Meetings for the purpose of enrolling members and transacting other business connected therewith are held every week on the following days and places : — SUNDAY EVENING . South London Chartist Hall , lis , Blackfriars-road at half-past six o ' clock . —City Chartist Hall , 1 , Tumi again-lane , at six o ' clock . —Westminster : at the Parthenium Club Rooms , ? 2 , St . Martin ' s-lane , at halfpast seven . —Somers Toim : at Mr . Duddrege ' s , Bricklayers' Avms _. Tonbridge-street , New-road , at _half-past seven—Tower Hamlets : at the _Whittington and Cat Church-row , Bethnal-green , at six o ' clock precisely . —Emmelt ' s Brigade : at the Rock Tavern , Lissongrove , at eight o ' clock precisely— Marylebone : at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circus-street , at half-past seven .
MONDAY _EVENING . Camberwell : at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth at eight o ' clock precisely . Newcastle-upon-Tyne : This branch ofthe Chartist Co-operative Land Society meet in the house of Martin Jude , Sun Inn , Side , every Monday evening , from seven until nine o ' clock , for the purpose of receiving subscriptions and enrolling members .
TUESDAY EVEXING . __ Greenwich : at the George and Dragon , Elaekheath hill , at eight o ' clock .
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A Democratic Supper , in honour of the birth-day of Thomas Paine , will be held at the George and Dragon Inn , Blackheath-hill , on Monday , January 26 th , 18 * 16 . Tickets to he had . of the following persons—Mr . Wheeler , 1 , Grown . couvt , _Dean-stveet Oxford-street : Mr . Julian Harney , Northern Star ofliee , 16 , Great Windmill-street , Haymarket Mr Morgan , 39 , Butcher-row , Deptford ; and at the George and Dragon , Blackheath-hill . South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blackfdjabshoad . —On Sunday morning next , December 21 st , at hall-pasttenprecisely _. tlieA griculturalMutuallnstruc tion Society will meet . In the evening , at six o ' clock precisely , Mr . James Knight will render an account ot his stewardship as a member of the recent Land Conference at Manchester . A _meetins of the _Onw holders of the above hall will be & S _^ S _^ i evening , December 31 st , at eight o ' clock _nre _^ lv .
H » nTTT u held n theCityChartisfc S « _T . _«\» day _»^ me . at half-past ten o ' clock . Subject : . Would a repeal ofthe Corn Laws , under fngkn d ?' _^ benefiUhe _whole P ° P _le of n + _? L _v ? i IUS , _TnAn ha _™» onic meeting will be held at the heathers Tavern , Warren-street , Tottenhamcourt-road , on Monday evening , Dec . 29 th , 1845 , at eight o clock , for the benefit of the widow of poor Booker , of Sheffield , who fell a victim to illness ; occasioned by an imprisonment , suffered in the cause ot truth and justice . All tickets issued for tbe 8 th inst . will be admissible on the above evening . Westminster . —All persons whose names are on the books of this locality , are requested to attend at the Parthenium Rooms , St . Martin ' s-lane , on Sunda y evening , Dec . 21 st . J
Marylebone . —Mr . John Skelton will deliver a public lecture , subject , — " What advantages would the working classes derive from the repeal of the Corn Laws ? " at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circusstreet , on Sunday evening next , December 21 st , to commence at seven o ' clock precisely Southwark and _^ Lambeth .-a public discussion will be held m the South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blackfriara-road , on Sunday evening next , December 21 st ; subject ,- " WiU a repeal of the Corn Laws benefit the producing classes ? " To commence at hall-past' seven precisely . Tower Hamlets .-A public meeting will be held on Monday evening next , December 22 nd , on behalf of Frost , WiUiams , Jones , Ellis , and other politieal exiles , at the Social HaU , _OBborne-street , Whitechapel ,
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Thomas Cooper , author ofthe Fur gatorv of < _T- ~ _^ and other advocates , will be present and i , U _™ _^ meeting . Chair to be taken at e _ght o ' the cisely . e 0 C 1 ° chpr (> . Camberwell and Walworth . —a meet ;™ -,. . held at the Montpelier Tavern , on _Soffit- _^ next , December 32 nd , to commence at ei " ht « v ? JS precisely , _° cl ° ek ; ' " _HAmlERSMiTit . -ApuWicdiscussion will be held , x the Dun Cow , Brook-green-lane , between _w friends of the Anti-Corn-Law League and tht > pu _tists of that locality , on Tuesday evenin _" next n cember 23 rd , to commence at eight o ' clock _preowrtT Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagalvlane _, FarrlngX sTREKT .-The public discussion will be resumed It halt-past ten precisely , on Sunday morning ne _4 Dec . 21 st . In the evening , at seven o ' clock _prechil ' Mr . T . Cooper . will deliver the eighth of his _aernifj course of lectures , subject , " Life and geniu , " f Handel ; music an essential instrument in real civilsation . " _wini . _Tlinmas _Pruinon _onfTinn . »«•« ,.. 7 i ... ' : _r-5 _^
City Locality . —The members of the city l 0 Miu of the National Charter Association , are _ui'Wlvi quested to assemble to-morrow evening week tk . day , December 28 th ) , in the Hall , _Turn a _^ _i _" _* to take into consideration the most efficient _mpT ' to be adopted to ensure the return of Frost , WjlJh , ' Jones , Ellis , and other exiled patriots . _Al 50 to i ' termine on the holding of an aggregate _meeting { the metropolitan Chartists , in furtherance of th said object . Chair to be taken at six o ' clock J , cisely . _yic " Marylebone Locality . —Alecture will be delivered by Mr . Skelton on Sunday evening next , at the Coach-makers' Arms , Circus-street , New-road . Sub jeet , " What advantages would the working classe s " derive from the repeal of the corn-laws ? " To com . mence at half-past seven o ' clock . Hebden Bridge . —A tea-party and ball will be held in the Democratic Chapel on the 25 th instant Tea on the table at four o ' clock precisely .
Oldham . —On Sunday ( to-morrow ) Mr . A . F . Taylor will lecture in the school-room of the Workine Man ' s Hall . Subject , "The Agrarian Justice . " Chair to be taken at six o ' clock in the evening . Halifax . —A public tea-party , and other entertainments , will take place in the Working Man ' s Hall on Thursday next . Tea on table at five o ' clock . Tickets may be had on application at the room on Sunday evening next . Manchmteh . _—Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., will
lecture in the Carpenter ' s llall , Manchester , on Sunday ( to-morrow ) , at half-past six in the evening . Subject , _"ThoChiu-toi ' , the Land , and the Ten Hours ' Bill . " A special members' meeting will be held on Sunday ( to-morrow j , at two o ' clock in the afternoon in the large ante-room of Carpenter ' s Hall , for the purpose of electing delegates tothe Convention to be held on Monday , Dec . 22 . The shareholders' meeting of the Land Association will be held on Sunday Dec . 28 , in the large ante-room of the Carpenters ' Hall , at two o ' clock in the afternoon .
The next meetikg for the Miner ' s Victim Fund will be held at Mr . Mason ' s , sign of the Swan-Inn ' _Wednesfield-heatli , on Sunday , the 21 st inst ., at four o'clock in the afternoon . Rochdale . —Mr . Thomas Clark will lecture in the Chartist room , Mill-street , on Sunday , the 2 lst inst ., at six o ' clock in tlie evening . —A public meeting will take place in the Public-hall , Bailey-street on . Monday the 22 nd inst ., for the _restoratieu of Frost , Williams , Jones , and Ellis . The following persons will attend , F . O'Connor , Esq ., P . M'Grath T . Clark , C . Doyle , and T . M . Wheeler .
Mr . John Vallakcb , of Barnsley , will address his constituents at Sheffield and Rotlierham , on the evenings of Sunday and Monday next , the 21 st and 22 nd , on the amended laws of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society .
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THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS . IMPORTANT NEWS . NORTHERN STAR Office , Saturday _Eveulag , Dec . 20 th . Tlie Whig Ministry that was to be , is at an end . Lord John Russell has abandoned the task of attempting to form a Government , and the Queen has sent for Sir R . i ' cel again ! We take the following from the second _edition of the Sun of this evening : —
RECALL OF SIR ROBERT PEEL . Lord John Russell has resigned the task of forming an Administration , and Sir Robert Peel has been again summoned . The Right Honourable Baronet left _coirn for Windsor at _tivo o ' clock _. Up to yesterday evening matters went on prosperously _,, so far as could be judged , but difficulties arose—difficulties , caused by the timidity of some , and by the pride and obstinacy of others , which have ended in Loid John Russell ' s refusal of the proffered Premiership . When Sir Robert Peel declared his inability to carry on the Government , we never doubted that the formation of a new Administration would devolve upon Lord John Russell . Whether he could accomplish the task remained to be seen ; but the gradually improving tone of all sections ofthe Liberal party gave the -strongest omens of success .
A NEW MINISTERIAL CRISIS . [ From the Globe of Saturday evening . ] We regret to learn , from the hest authority , that _thi prospects of forming an AdministratioH under Lord John Russell are at an end for the present ; and that the noble lord has seen reason to ielin < niish the attempt he was yesterday engaged in . We hear that Sir Itobevt Peel has left town this afternoon , by tlie Great Western Railway , for Windsor . fProm the Second Edition of the Globe ] We have ascertained , from undoubted authority , that Lord John Russell lias had this day an audience oi _tlis Queen , and explained to her Majesty the insuperable difficulties , in the embarrassing circumstances of the case , is forming an Administration , and that her Majesty bas again desired the attendance of Sir Robert Peel .
THE MINISTRY . [ Prom the Standard of Saturday evening . ] . Sir Robert Peel left town to-day shortly after one o ' clock for Windsor Castle ( as we understand * by cvpreM command of her Majesty ) . Previous to the Right Hon . Baronet ' s leaving Whitehall-gardens , there was a meeting of all the members of the Cabinet present in town , a : tk ( official residence of the Premier , in _Downins-street .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Saturday . —Stabbing . —Wm . M'Carthy , a corpora ! ii the Royal Marines , was indicted for stabbing n _youni man named Muggeridge . The particulars have alreadj appeared in this paper . The jury returned a verdict oi guilty of a common assault . Mr . Baron _Alderson s _« _- tenced him to be impr . soned and kept to hard labour for three calender months .
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE , MANSION HOUSE . Satoedat . _—Robbeey . —William Burgess , _chargdmtl " stealing two pieces of lead , was fully committed , to take his trial .
GUILDHALL . Satueday . _—Smabhinq . —A man , who gave liis n _^ William Charles , was placed at the bar before the sitting alderman , for _re-examination , charged with _lwiufi ¦ " * the 12 th of the present month , attempted to pa ss * counterfeit sovereign , under the following circumstance *' - —A gentleman , who acts as secretary and lecturer to tie Young Men's Association , stated that the prisoner _caioe on the Wednesday previous to his apprehension to tM office of the society , 14 , _Sergeant's-inn , and _madeapP _^ cation for some tickets for lectures , about to be g ives tj
witness , saying he had come from his employers at _&*' den Town . The reason , however , why he did not . _, them was that he was unaware they had to be paw _<«• He came again on the Friday , and aske _^ for _tfflW tickets , but forgetting he had orig inally said he cam from Camden Town , he then said his emp loyer bvea Hackney . —This raised the suspicion of the witness , _w he gave him the tickets upon which ho tendered ' sovereign , which he instantly saw was counterfeit ; . ) however , laid down the 17 s . change , which , upoa taking , he caUed in Isaac Knowles 318 City _Poh c ' ; „ rC gave him into custody . —The prisoner _tvas as * "'
manded . SOUTHWARK . , , . j Satubdav . —Illicit Spirits . —Francis P _* ' ™ - ' _^ man dressed in the garb of a rigger , was place _^ ia .. s dock , charged with having in his possession , two g » of spirits , without a permit , which rendered him UaJ a fine of £ 100 , or three months' imprisonment" Mr . _^ _• ford , supervisor of the Excise , said , that ho _^ _rcceive _^ formation that a man answering the descrip tion o ' prisoner , would remove some illicit spirit in the mor ¦ e from a house in _South-street , Borough ; ace 01 _f '' ° ' about nine o'clock , he proceeded there with ! _iiSli \ _^ and perceived the prisoner emerge from a « oUi ; | _\ jt _- bag on his shoulder . He stopped him , aud asked _« _^ contained , when he replied he believed it was oni . _« - _^ dirty rags . He , however , took it from him , and _J > . _^ the bag two bladders containing each a gallon 0 ' - _^ resembling brandy . He produced a sample ot _^ tt he proved to be of illicit manufacture . T »« ' . _£$ condemned the prisoner to pay the mitigated fin * - ' _^ or be imprisoned for three months . In default w _. v the fine he was committed .
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_Important to Omnibus Dei- ? ehs _asd _Cosdi' < - -The conductor oi' the " Royal Blue , " _? f fl _% nibus , was fined ten shillings , and six shilling ; i . _^ for refusing to convey a gentleman in his > _^ when he had plenty of room . The Lord M } _v ; o ! e that , had it not been that defendant was tne _^ support of an aged parent , he would JiaTe _oe-y him of his license . _^
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street , Haymarket , in the City of p _* Office in the same Street and Parish , _iori " _^ _*)} prietor , FEARGUS O'CONNOR , EBq _.,- _»* iP R 7 ando' Wuliah Hewitt , of No . 18 , Charles-street , _B _^ _g street , Walwcrtb _, in the Parish of SUJMfi _^ 0 ton , in the County of Surrey , at the Office . <• D _$ _> Strand , in the Parish of St . Mary Je-Str 8 _J _* "i City ot Westminster . Saturday December 30 , 184 f .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 20, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_20121845/page/8/
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