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— "T BEAUTIES OF BTEON . SO . XXI . ' " CHttBI HAB 0 LD . '' nar extracts this week commence with . the follow _jBj h _' neSOB _KTBABCH . _ , _jsatomh _lnArqua;—rear * dinair , _SihuM in their sarcophagus , repose _P hones of Laura ' s lover ; hew repair ** feroiliar with his _well-sung-woes , The * pilsri " lsof I , issenlus - nearose t ,, ;« . a language , and hw land reclaim
W _r- . .. _,. _ _~ e _¥ . „_ 7 . —>» . _ : _ r . PrtHD _lh e dull joke of her barbaric foes I 1 . _j _^ _jog the tree which bears his lady ' s name _vftthis jnelodious tears , he gave himself to fame _, ¦ _n-ev Veep hisdast ia Arqua , where be died ; _'/ mountain village where his latter days went io * _n _* e Tale of J 6313 ' and ' tis their pridehonest pride—and let it be their praise , To off * *• _&* _Passes _strangerti gaze _tju mansion and his sepulchre ; both plain ad Tenerably simple , such as raise K _feding more accordant with his strain Than af a pyramid _form'dhis monumental fane .
TASSO . ycrrara ! i _° _**» y _^ de and grass _^ rown streets , "Whose symmetry was not for solitude , _jjjere seems as 'twere a curse upon the seats nf former sovereigns , and the antique brood Of Este , " bleb for many an age made good Its strength within thy walls , and was of yore patron or _tyrant , as the changing mood Of petty power impell'd of those who wore jie « re » tk which "Dante ' s brow alone had worn before Xud Tasso i 3 their glory and their shame _, jferk to his strain 1 and then survey his cell ! And see how dearly earn'd Torqnato ' s fame , And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell :
Ihe miserable despot could not quell The Insulted mind he sought to quench , ana blend _Tfith the surrounding maniacs , in the nell Where ho had plunged It Glory without end _cgcgfer'd the clouds away—and on that name attend _< rjxe tears and praises of all time ; while thine _TTouI <» rot in its oblivion—in the sink Of _worthless dust , which from thy boasted line Is shaken into nothing ; but the link Thou formeit in his fortunes bids us think Of thy poor malice , naming thee with scorn—Alfonso i how thy ducal pageants shrink From thee ! if in another station born , Scarce fit to be the slave of him thou mad ' st to mourn
Peace io _Torguato ' _t injured shade ! 'twas Ms In life and death to be the mark where Ytreng Aim'd with her poison'd arrows ; but to miss . Oh -victor _unsurpassM in modern song ! Each year brings forth its millions , but how long The tide of _generations shaU roll on , And not the whole combined and countless _thronjj Compose a mind like thine I though all in one Condensed their _scattered . rays , they would not foim a
DAKT £ . Ungrateful Florence ! Dante sleeps afar , liko _Scipio , buried by the upbraiding shore ! The factions in their worse than civil war , proscribed the bard whose name for evermore Their children ' s children would in vain adore With the remorse of ages ; and the crown Which _Fetrarch' s laureate brow supremely wove , Upon a fair and foreign soil had grown , His life , bis fame , bis grave , though rifled—not thine own .
BOCCACCIO . Boccacdo to hit parent earth bequeath'd His dust , —and lies it not her great among , With many a sweet and solemn requiem breathed O ' er him who fonn'd the Tuscan's Siren tongue . That music in itself , whose sounds are song , The poetry of speech ! J _« o ;—even his tomb Uptorn , must bear the _hyasaa bigot ' s wrong , Bo more amidst tbe meaner dead find room If or claim a passing sigb , because it told for whom !
_AXGTXO , ALTIEBI , GALILEO , XACHUVEUJ . In Santa Grace ' s holy precinets lie Ashes which make it holier , dust which is Even in itself an immorality , Though there were nothing _sare tbe past , and this The particle of those sublimities 'Which have relapsed to chaos!—here repose Angelo _' s , Alfieri ' s bones , and Ids , The starry Galileo , with bis woes ; Here Machiavelli ' s earth return'd to whence it rose . These are four minds , which , like the elements , 3 f % ht furnish forth creation : —Italy ! Time , which bath wrong'd thee with ten thousand
rents Of thine imperial _garment shall deny , And hath denied , to every other sky , Spirits which soar from ruin : —thy decay Is still impregnate with divinity , "Which gilds it with revivifying ray ; Such as the great of yore , Canova is to day .
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The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Pbisoh Rhym...
THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Pbisoh Rhymz is Tek Books . By Thomas Coopxh _, the _Chartist . London : J . How , 132 , Eleetstreet .
( _Contuiuedfr on the Star of Nov . 22 _»( U _SIitdeidates speaks : — _LycoTgas , though thy modesty would ware Our full soul ' s tribute , —he arose and said , — Tet here 1 laud thy wisdom deep , and sauve Torbearance ' mid the scorn that on thy head "We in our rashness—by old pomps misfed And _Orcrblown—poured , when we should have praised "Wisely thou say * st the lessons here outspread _. Through hall and dome and aisle , have in ns raised "Wonder that we so long in ignorance on them gazed .
Por ages did the lesson us invite To contemplation , —but the soul was held In earth ' s old bonds of prejudice , nor right From wrong discerned . In thraldom thus we dwelled Of self-deceit : vile thraldom , though we swelled "With blindly arrogant imaginings . Darkness and vagueness from the soul expelled , — Her chambers Sled with Yirtue's symbolings , — Reason disdaineth pride and its false _glisterings . Sage Spartan , thus I read our visioned state . Rehearsal , how our sufferings passed away , And bow old Earth became regenerate , I yield _mvto my brethren , —though I may , Por opening of the theme , thus much essay : Twas conquest over Evil physical That ushered in Earth's glorious brother-day i"Whence came , by law of sympathy whose veil Is still unrent , our soul-state beatifical .
I judge that Earth had still in bondage been To Error , had tbe sons of _enterprise And science , unobservant , failed to glean The truths Great If ature spread before the eyes Of heedless man , whose pssslon for life ' s toys Ilobbedhim of its true treasures , and so doomed Him all bis days with pain to agonize , "With want and woe : a creature _spwit-gloomed , Though tenanting a world where jocund beauty bloomed A world whoso elements were his to wield And govern . Sow , —behold the storm-tossed se » Bis pathway J—see his chariots o'er it wheeled More swiftly than o ' er land , by energy Electric—which men deemed a mystery , Or sign of wrath divine , till from the cloud A sage , with children ' s kite , and string , and key , - Drew the winged essence , and the truth foreshewed , Unwittingly , how , one day , men would tame the proud .
All-scathing power , and dandle its huge strength With chadlike effort ! Mountain , stream , and mine Their wealth afford him : Earth , through all the length And breadth and depth of herrotnad confine , — Th" impalpable and vital _chrystalline Itself , are , each , his se rvitor I Of want Men talk as of some ancient _fsble : pine They cannot , for the soil , exuberant fieudexed . by art , of food is orer-ministrant . The senses know no craving : neither strife 2 ? or guile to win indulgence , or obtain "Whatall enjoy , embitters human life : Disease is banished—until mortal pain Approaches : —ev ' _n the bounds of life ' s domain Are trebly larger . Brothers , do I deem Aright that mortal men and spirits gain Their high beatitude , because supreme Men grew o ' er natural Evil ? But I yield the theme . —
Cam follows , arguing that the fault of mankind / miservlay not in nature , but in man , the _slothlul pupil in her school , or the wild and perverse truant after vice . He adds : — lis , then , unto the Few , the tireless Few , "Who through all ages and in every clime Pursued the Good , our gratitude is due . Thus moral , mental conquest was tbe prime Of human victories : triumph sublime O ' er outward elemen ts sprang from the wreath Of moral victory ; and through all time They shall be held glorious who did bequeath lessons of moral strugg le in their lives or death . —
Zeso , Cleaseseb , and Metbocws , it is intonated , express views similar to those of Cato , but their speeches are not . given . _Lucbetics toIIows , and _3 * aks at some length . The intent of his address is contained in the following stanza .: — The march of Thought was onward from of old , — Onward , for aye , to _Nature ' s eye , —thoug h dense _Film-sigbted men no progress could behold : Thought spring from _flight by chain of _oonse quence , — In old or newer clime , —till violence ,
The Purgatory Of Suicides. A Pbisoh Rhym...
Fraud , ignorance , want , woe , and pain , and thrall Evanished at tbe new omnipotence _ . 0 f _M 111 _* _Mature brought forth : Mind that through all The Universe nowreigns [ bySight immutable : ~ _^ _ArncDa , Gracchus , Cumius , Charondas , _Cod-WS , _Themistocmw , Dbmostubsbs , Coxdohcjbi , and c r _^* 2 _*' are _** " * rem _!« ning speakers , hut the speech ot bBAccHus only is given . We reserve the concluding stanzas till next week , when we shall bring to an end our review of the . " Purgatory of Suicidos . "
Pictorial Penny Balladist. Part Ii., Iii...
PICTORIAL PENNY BALLADIST . Part II ., III . London : J " . C . Moore , 12 , Wellington-street , North Strand . Since our first notice of this admirable publication we have received farts II . and III ., and a careful examination of their contents fully confirm the _anticipatkna we had formed from a sight of Part I . The Parts before us contain several ancient ballads , and several of modern date , from the pens of Dr . Letdew , Scott , _Caklbton _, and others . Here are " The Lists of Naseby Wold ; " " The Children in the Wood ; " " Sir 'furlough ; or , the Church-yard Bride ;" " Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne ; " " Sir
Aldingar ; " " Glenfinlas ; or , Lord Ronald ' s Coronaoh ;" "King Estmere ; " "The Cout of Keeldar ; " and "Lord Soulis . " Ancient traditions , superstitions , feuds , customs and manners , are faithfully depicted in these ballads : even the food and dress of the generations of bygone times are set down in these poetic chronicles . Not the least interesting feature of this publication is the _preservation of the old spelling , so ouaint but so expressive . The illustrations , as we have before remarked , add much io the beauty of the work . Wo repeat our earnest approval of this publication , and most heartily recommend the Fenny Balladist to the support of our readera .
Pictorial Penny Shakespeare. Pahts I., I...
PICTORIAL PENNY SHAKESPEARE . _Pahts I ., II ., III . London : J . C . Aloore , 12 , Wellington-street North , Strand . The Englishman who has not read Shakespeare may doubt his nationality ; he is , at best , but half an Englishman , when ignorant of the works of his greatest countryman ; and yet , to how many million ? has SHAESSP £ AKB been but little , if anything , more than a mere name . It is painful to reflect that thousands , nay , millions have lived and died , and never known him , who , "though dead yet speaketh , " and speaketh those words which , of mightier import than the words of priests or prophets , never fail to elevate the minds and purify the hearts of those who ¦ willingly list to them . Of late years a knowledge of Shakespeare ' s works has been widely diffused through the medium of theniany cheap and beautiful editionswhich iir . _Kwonr and _otherenterprisiog booksellers have published . Still , an edition , which should he within the reach of the poorest of the peoplewas a
, _aesidcratum unaccomplished . Half-crown and shilling parts , or numbers , of any work is , no doubt , cheap enough for many thousands ; but such prices are above the means of a still more numerous class . To meet the wf . ns of this latter class the spirited publisher of the Hernial Penny Balladist , has also commenced tbe publication of a Pictorial Penny Skaktsptare , of which the first , second , and third monthly parts are before us . These parts contain the " Tempest , " "Two Gentlemen of Verona , " "Merry Wives of Windsor , " _"Pleasure for Measure" and the commencement of the "Comedy of Errors : " and the three may be purchased for la . 2 id . ! But this is not all , the work , as the title bespeaks , is illustrated—and neatly illustrated too . A separate set of wood engravings , intended to form a pictorial biography of Shakrspeabe , will also be gi _/ en with every alternate part ; two of these haveappeared , the first being , all the known portraits of Shakespeare ; the second , two views of the house in tuhicli he was lorn .
As an Immense sale must be indispensable to enable the publisher to meet the expenses of this enterprise , wc trust that the public will show their appreciation of this spirited undertaking , by giving it the support it so well deserves . No » an need now be without a copy of Shakespeare . We perceive that Mr . Moorb is about to publish , or has already commenced publishing , a "Pi _ffr _^ Z . frimy _^ _rafiiait Nights * Entertainments , " a Pictorial Penny _Rolinson Crusoe , " and a " Pictorial Penny Eunyan's Pilgrim ' s Progress . " We heartily wish him success .
A Botanic Guide To Health, And The Natur...
A BOTANIC GUIDE TO HEALTH , AND THE NATURAL PATHOLOGY OF DISEASE . By A . J . Coffin . Leeds : Moxon . London : Watson , Paul ' s-alley . . Dr . Copmjj is well known throughout Yorkshire , where his friends are numerous . Those friends applaud him as a " medical reformer , " whilst his enomies decry him as a " quack . " Ho repudiates roost of the remedial agents employed by the doctors , and confines himself to those ordinary and simple means of cure which nearly every field , garden , and hedge-Tow abound with , and which , while known to almost every village dame possessing ordinary _inteli ligence , are unknown to . or despised by , tho great body of medical practitioners . Now , in rejecting these simple remedies , which the experience of ages has proved the value of . it appears to us that tbe doctors are the " quacks . " Dr . Coffin has travelled much in America , where he associated with the naturalist Thomson , and spent some considerable
time with the Indians of that Continent , to whom he professes to be much indebted for his medical and botanical knowledge . Whatever may be thought oi Dr . _Cofpjs ' s " system , " which is , however , backed np by several cases of well authenticated cures , there can be but one opinion as to the virtues of those medicinal plants and herbs on which hi » " system " mainly depends . At least , then , so far as th _' _ia work throws light upon the too much neglected science ol medical botany it is valuable , and deserves our com * mendation . Unlike some gentlemen connected with the press , who assume to know everything , we . must confess that our medical knowledge is extremely circumscribed , and , consequently , ve dislike the task of reviewing medical books ; we hall , therefore _, content ourselves with recommending Dr . Coffin ' s work to our readers , leaving each to decide for himself as to its merits . The work is freed from all technicalities , and will , consequently , be understood by every one .
The Family Herald. Pabtb Xxix., Xxx. Lon...
THE FAMILY HERALD . _Pabtb XXIX ., XXX . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . These two parts of the family Herald attest the continued talent of this publication , which still maintains its high and honourable position at the head of the penny press . The editorial articles are most cleverly written , and we shall be surprised if these admirable essays are not at some future time reprinted by themselves . From one of these we extract the following sensible remarks
on—BAILB 0 AD 3 . T hat much of the railway business is substantial , productive , and profitable business , there can be no doubt ; but there can be as little doubt that there is a very large remainder that will be unproductive and ruinous . The mushroom rapidity with which it has shot up is rather a suspicious and unfavourable symptom . Itis a species of revolution , producing great constitutional changes , without giving the old interests sufficient time to accomodate _themtelves to the new system . It is a rush of blood _t" nne portion of the body politic , which either creates a ( ore sponding deficiency in some other , or produces inflam nation in the part affected . "We bave no means of ascertaining the amount of capital required for projects at present in the market , but if the Times , which has
ample means of receiving : the best { information upon such _subjects , it amounts to about five hundred millions sterling . This is five-eighths of the National Debt ; and , as all the projects at present before the public comtemplate as speedy a realisation as possible , we may safely suppose that this enormous amount of money is expected to be forthcoming , spent , and permanently invested in less than five years . Commerce never yet encountered a change so great and so sudden as this . It would be a commercial revolution . That it would ruin the country , we bave no fear ; but that it would ruin many interests and many individuals in the country , and give them little time and few opportunities to protect themselves from the storm thus let loose upon them , must be evident to all who only think for a moment , that activity , labour , and capital
suddenly directed to one department , must be , to a corresponding extent , diverted from another , unless there be such a superabundance of each _unemployed in the country as to supply the demand . Now this is not the case . Supposing a million of labourers were required for these railways , and this for 500 railways is only 2 , 000 men to each ; where are the men to be found!—and if they be found , where will they be taken from f According to ths census of 1841 , there are 1 , 082 , 165 male labourers in Great Britain employed in agriculture . It would take the wholeof them to construct the mil wajs contemplated ; aud then what would become of the land ? There are 193 , 877 miners ; but , if they were taken , who would supply the population with coals , and the engines with fuel , and the road-makers with rails ? - _^ we shall want more miners ,
rather than fewer . There are 386 . 157 labourers , whose particular employment is not mentioned ; perhaps they are day labourers . TVeU , if they are making railronds , thev cannot be carrying hods , and paving streets , and do . ing _' many other useful things , which cannot he enu . luerated . There are 1 , 687 , 477 engaged in trade and com . _merce Were the road-makers taken from this class , there would be a sad falling off in the revenue and resources of the country . This number is expected to be increased rather than diminished . There are 741 , 872 engaged in manufactures . _TVe cannot spare one of these . We expect rather to increase than diminish their number . Now these five numbers embrace all the available labour of the country with the exception of men-servants , pro .
, fessional men , gentlemen , and others , who would not con . descend to have any thing to do with the construction of the roads , but only with the mania of the share exchange . Where , then , are the million labourers to comefrom ! -. from Ireland » A million Irish labourers , with a million wives , and four million children—six millions of the _finestyfcxaaUinthe world imported into England ! Itis a splendid idea ; but , even supposing one-half of them were to come from Ireland , h _» W could Great Britain supply the other half , and , at the same time , the directing mind and capital , without deducting largely from t _' . ie amount of vigour at present prevailing in other _departments of industry . * * * * Moteover , the fears of the mercantile world are now be-
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ginning to be aroused . Tha . _deDt » * re not now so easily collected as _formerly . Th _» . _fleblor _* , want . time ; _^ _and many of the manufacturers are . instituting inquiring respecting their ? customers , - _resolved- to -withhold : their credit from those who are gambling _% } n the _roa 4 s . Whilst other , departments of the revenue ha _vo'filles ou to . amount of ai million sterling : in three n . on £ hf , t / _te stamp and post-office departments have increased _ilielatter to tho amouns of £ 9 , 000 , which represents » _pirar , ds oi ' millions of letters . These additional letters no _&«/''' chiefly consist of applications for shares , aiwe arvfo . " formed thai' one company alone , in twenty-four _bourse . received 80 , 000 . J
That such a change is sufficient to regenerate a country is what we should be sorry to affirm ; but tliat it is a a ehange which is indispensable in the wori of mundane regeneration cannot well be gainsayed . It is a new medium of intercoune between nations and individuals—it is the contribution of . mechanics to tbe great work of social amelioration . * * _\ new era of Kind is approaching , aud the mechanical means are preparing _: or its advent . Can we _discover what is likely to be the character of this era from the symptoms already discernible ? Itis an era of more universal sympathy and interchange of kind _ftelings than any preceding . The iron links of union are but the types of a common understanding and a common humanity . The idea of re-union is going abroad amongst the hearts of men . There is a striving
—a powerless one hitherto , we must confess—after the realisation of the w . sh . Churches seek to unite with churches , sect with sect . They deplore their division . They meet to propose the terms of re-union . ' They make vows to observe hereafter mote strictly than formerly the precepts of charity in controverting with each other . And in this they are not behind the commercial world _, which cares for none of these thiags , for they are aiming at a virtue ] whilst omers are aiming at a profit . In the literary world we sec a determined resolution to suppress every appearance of bigotry , intolerance , and party spirit , and an indulgent feeling is prevalent there for all pecularities of opinion which do not show themselves in contemptuous , reproachful , persecutlve , spiritually proud , and scornfnl behaviour , bat which mildly and politely maintain tlieir own rights of thought , ans accord
corresponding rights to others , In the commercial world , monopoly , _cxclusiveness , and restriction are _fest giving way to more generous principles . National interests are giving place in rank to imperial or humanifary interest . And though each individual in alt these _departments of activity is acting for himself and seeking an mdividnal good in all that he does , yet , associated with this indivi . lual spirit of selfishness , of which be cannot be divested without being divested of life , there is growing up slargeminded , enlightened , universal spirit , which looks at the whole in preference to theparts—which seeks the good Of humanity at large rather than tlie individual in particular , and which promises , when fall-grown and well matured in experience and the _powtr of thought , to be the great ruling power of the coming age . To this tbe individual _. pirit will be subservient , and the elder shall serve the
y _iunger . The above is a specimen of the original c & ntents of this excellent publication . The following extract from a work entitled , Scenes on the Shores of the Atlantic , is a specimen of the selected matter contained within its colamns : —
THE DS 5 _XNCIES Or DEATH . There is one _verj striking characteristic of the Irish peasantry , and which I believe they possess in common with other nations in a backward slate of Civilisation ,-an extreme solicitude about their burial . To have a wellattended funeral , to be a " handsome corpse , " and above all , to be interred with their own kindred , are objects of the highest ambition . Those who are totally regardless of the decencies of life hold tbe decencies of death in such estimation , tbat to procure a good coffin , grave-clothes , and the wherewithal for a " creditable wake , " they will undergo the greatest privations . I have known a poor woman pawn her only flannel petticoat on a bitter winter ' s day to procure a meal for her starving children , reduced to pinching want , rather than intrench on the sacred hoard kept carefully for the funeral expenses . Some there are who keep their coffin at the head of their bed for years , and old persons have generally some good clothes stored up to " dress their corpses in . "
An old woman applied to us for an under garment , and having received one , together with a cap , exclaimed in the greatest joy— "Oh ! such linen , fit for a lady ; and a cap with elegant frills to it , bordered all round . The likes of them are much too grand for a creature like me to wear . I'll keep them for the day of my death , aud they'll look beautiful at the wake . " " But , " we remonstrated , " they were not given you for that . They are meant to make you comfortable while you are alive , and you must wear them now . " " And hot have a decent rag to cover me in the coffin ! Ladies dear ' . " she added in the most appealing tone , " sure now you wouldn't he so unreasonable . " But we were " unreasonable , " aud insisted on the garments being worn ; suggesting , however , as a mitigation of the case , that as the old woman was so far advanced in years , they might possibly last long enough to answer the double purpose _, this was a bright and happy thought on our parts , and our old friend departed , expressing a fervent wish tbat she might die before such " elegant clothes" were
worn o . When I was a child , we had a house-carpenter named Murphy , a very faithful creature , but one to whom the French saying , " . ses qualites _surpassent set charms , " applied most strongly . He was a -most ugly man ; bigheaded , hard-featured , and forbidding-looking . His person was distorted from having fallen off a high ladder in his youth , which had injured his spine and legs , and made him a cripple for life . Iu short , to any one not accustomed to _his appearance as we were , he must have looked something : monstrous . One morning , poor Murphy came limping up with a most rueful countenance , complaining of feeling very ill with " pains in every bone in his body , and such an impression on his heart ( the lower orders always call chest affections by this name ) that he could scarcely draw his breath . " Hehad evidently caught a violent cold . Various remedies were proposed , and he seemed greatly comforted by the prospect of approaching relief .
My dear mother recommended a warm plaster to his chest , aud gave him one to put on . He looked very _suspiciously at it , " This is a _farming-plaster , mu ' ain , is it 1 " « ' Yes ; a very good thing for your oppression . " " May be so . Would it hurt a body , now ? " " Oh no ; you will find it very comfortable , on the _contrapj , " " Thank you ma ' am ; but will you tell me , would it leave any mark behind it ! " " It reddens ths skin a little , that ' s all . " Ah , that ' s what I misdoubted all along , from the looks of it . I ' m greatly obliged to you ma ' am , and thank you kindly , ever ; bit as much as if I had made use of it _. But ( returning the plaster ) I wouldn't put a mark or sign oh myself for all the gold you could give me , or do anything that would hinder me from making a handsome corpse , plaze God ; and that's what I'd be if I was to die this night , without speck or spot , or any such thing upon mj whole skin . "
And no argument could induce poor Murphy , unsightly and crippled and ill-favoured as he was , to run the risk of spoiling a "handsome (!) corpie"by applying the warm plaster . It was a strange , but , among his class , a _^ ery common species of vanity . Eugene Sub ' s story of the " Wandering Jew , " of which 80 able » translation has been given in the Herald , is , at length , concluded ; but Its place is well supplied by other well-written tales . In prose aud poetry , from the first page to the last , each number teems with information and amusement of the best possible character . Great as is the support given to the Family Herald by the public , it is not greater than it well deserves .
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turn took place before Mr . William Payne , at the Sir John Falstaff , Kent-street , Dover-road , respecting the death of MaryHarrowfin , aged _sixty-aeven years , lately living at No . 89 , Ann-street , Kent-road , who , it was alleged , died from injuries inflicted upon her by her son . Elizabeih Bryant , of No . 80 , Annstreet , Kent-road , deposed that she lived in the same house , and had known the deceased for nine months . On Saturday night last , whilst in bed , witness heard John Harrowfin , the son of the deceased , call out for
witnesB _' _a daughter to fetch some brandy for- his mother , as sue was taken ill . It was then after twelve o ' clock , therefore she could not obtain any . Witness got out of bed , and went into their room . She was standing against the room door . Witness ran for Mr , _M'Manns , but he being from home , witness went to Mr . Babbage , who attended , but she was then dead . The son told witness that his mother had been subject to a complaint in her throat , and he supposed it was a return of her old complaint . Witness did not see any blood about the place , nor was there anv on her clothes . This witness made _sueh
prevarication in her evidence , in endeavouring to keep back important evidence , that the coroner threatened to commit her to prison . Jessie Edwards , lodging in the same house , stated that she heard a violent noise on the night in question , as if they were quarrelling . Witness went into the room , and there saw the deceased lying on the bed in a dying state . Deceased said that " she had received her death blow , and that it was her son Johu who had done it . Witness lifted up her clothes , and saw a wound bleeding very much . Deceased died before the arrival of the surgeon . A policeman came in . The son said that the deceased had received the injury by falling against the latch of the door . Mr . William Babbage , of _JVo . 1 , Be » gal-place , New Ivent-road , said that when he reached the house the deceased
had expired . Nothing was said of the wound at first , ] but the son told witness that deceased had been troubled with a difficulty _« f breathing , and had . gasped and died . Witness subsequently examined her person . He found a wound on the lelt side of tbe spinal chord , about midway between the sixth and seventh ribs . It appeared to have been inflicted by a sharp knife . The wound was about th « _eequarteraof an inch in length , and one inch in depth . Witness had made a post mortem examination oi the body . Death had arisen from the rupture ot a blood vessel in the brain , which was much _congested . 1 he coagulum mi § ht hare arisen from excitement consequent upon the injury , or from excessive hermonnage The coroner remarked on the evidence at great length , after which the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against John Harrowfin , " who was committed en tbe coroner ' s warrant to _Newgatei
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_JPositivb _asn Comparative . —He who travels I y th _» quick train « a Fast Traveller ; but he who _staL a I home , all day without eating : or drinking is a Faster _—lhe , _inoffrti 3 ive Frog "is often looked at with disgust and trodden to death _rbuta Toad-in-the-hole h _£ v _* _SrJ & n _^ T _? P hael is a very Fine Painter : pu _tMubos the informer , is a -Finer . —A good _has-SfS _m -r ther ] _? » _8 ood man 5 but he wll ° ° ring > himselt , wife and family to destruction through gambling is a better . A , _3 } _P 0 _¥ , ST 0 MBR _- —A correspondent of the &» . ' ° n * 03 t , tromthe Granite State , says : — "Weare sick * . suspense , and want the matter settled , so that we roa v next prepare to annex 'Jvanadn , _Kalifornia , and Ka _° a . which will be a very Kurious _Kombination , trou TI " A Kute fellow—this , ' ? says the Brooklyn A > . _ie would be a Kapital Kandidatc for Kongra _"• ~ IS -Kapable of a _KommLssion in a Kompany ; a _Kojnetcy , Korporalcy , Kaptaincy , or Kolonolcv- _^ ro _, nI ( i not roflhe a bad Korps de gardeno Kommon _jfo , ie to Kan'v a Kamp or Kannonade a Kastie . ' ,
A _conscientious . opponent to If angino . —A gentleman in one of _theriiat _'"erior _towna is so much opposed to capital _punishzaeai' tflat he refuses to hang his gate ! THE hm . LAZARUS . Hark ! hark ! _Uths-Btfv ' _ling'boxghikins ! For whom is this alro # * K , n « y _suidaj ? 'Tis Dan—who- i » _^ ramming His wallet while _* aS «» b Sets the heart of tha _peiUaat _aqualung . Man ' s food in earth ' s _bost _^ a is rotting , And charity ' s dole ii _alloKi ' uif—T _« whom t At ohurch door Till _PAHPERKSD , OnOO _l"U 0 r « , To plunder thi paumb is ploth ' _ug . The priest from the altar _invtigh' *; Th * _pemant reluctant yet higgle ! , Ilis children ' s support
Is bagged—a _yenr ' s sport Is in store for the D « _rrynan _« " _btaglsiV ' 'Tig " _godless"topireeducation , 'Tis " godless" to teach a _jrullod nation , But Gon . LiKS . oh ! call it To shoulder your wallet , Swelling huge , in this hour of starvation J HU rounds lee the Mendicant plyinff , Io where in his _cubin ii lying , Death-9 tricken and gaunt , The victim of want , ( to ! enter—aud pillag * the < 5 _ji » _B ! Take , take it , in meal or in m _# i _» _l—But , hush ! where is infancy ' s-prattle ? On its mother ' s parched breast Lies tbe _balis iu Death ' 3 J * St—Pshaw ! Come ! give tho box a coed rattle
The land is all blighted with famSw . ' The land is all blighted with fawlw 1 Yet still doth he crave ; And like Ghoul at a _gravs , Rakes rottenness , rooting for _Mammow ! Low _Lazaudslire ! while the victim , With a hand from adovi to afflict _aimy , In his anguish implores , But in vain , for his _aoros , That the _beagixs of _IHvia may liek then *! _london , _ITev . J 3 . T . M .
Saxok _Revrnok . — _" England ' s weakness-, " says Mr . O ' Connell , " is Ireland ' s opportunity . " We would reverse the maxim . Ireland's _weakness is the opportunity of England ; and we hope that _England will take it— -to help her . When her potatoes are gone , let us give her bread . But let us take speeial care that it shall be , literally , bread , Let us relieve her in kind ; but not trust her with a penny of cash ; at least , whilst her Agitator keeps a begging box ; Candour . — " Did you attend ehurch . to-day ? "
inquired an African planter of one of his slaves as hereturned to his dwelling . "Sartin _, _niassa , " w _» Cudjo _' _s reply— " an what two mighty big stories da _4 preacher did tell ! " " Hush , Cudjo , you mustn't talk that way ; what _storieB were they ? " " Why _,, he tell de people no man can serve two massas ; now dis is de fuss story , ' case you seen ole Cudjo sarves you ; my ole _massa , and also young niassa John . Den , de preacher says , * ' he will lub the one and hate de other "—while the Lord knows , I hate you bof !"
A Powjerfox _Pbeachek . — " Ah , Sir ! " exclaimed an elder in a tone of pathetic recollection , " our late minister was a man S lie was a powerful preacher ; for , in a short time he delivered the work amongst us , he knocked three pulpits to pieces , and banged the life out 0 ' five bibles . " The Sublime _ajid Beautiful . —A gentleman having occasion to ask a lady for the snuffers , addressed her in the follewing emphatic and enamoured strain : — " Most beautiful , accomplished , and charming lady , will your ladyship , by an unmerited and undeserved condescension of your infinite goodness , please to extend to your most obsequious , devoted , and very humble servant , that pair of ignipotent digests , that I may exasperate the excrescences of this nocturnal cylindric luminary , in order that the refulgent brightness ot its resplendent brilliancy may dazale the vision of our ocular optics more potently . "
THE ANDOVEIt SMALL SONG . " We wunt b » beat ! " was once our zong , «—VTe ' v » found as how that we was wrong ; But _howsomcdsTer , wrong or right , Wi wunt be hinder'd of our spit * ; Thof * _Meeaster we did vn ' ainly back , To Zargeont we can gio the sack ; Dwoan't let '» _l & _ye off till we hs . ' done 't _. We ' 11 zarve ' un out : blett If we wunt ! A Doctor in the feaee to fly Of them ' a yarns his liv ' n by ! A purty zort o' feller he , To think for to crow _» ver w _» * As well expect a hog to budge , As think that we ' 11 _vorget our grudge ; Let ' 1 jine in one harmonious grunt ! •¦ Wa wunt , we wunt , we _nuit , w « want . " ' Pvnch
A Promisixg Speculation . —It is rumoured that a company is in the course of formation to lease the contents of Lord Ashley ' s waste paper basket at a rental of so much per annum . The enormous number of persons who make Lord Ashley the medium of subscribing large sums to benevolent purposes , added to his Lordship ' s habit of throwing down his letters unread , must render his waste paper basket oiie of the most profitable as well as the safest investments of the present day . Supposing that only two £ 100 . notes find their way into this receptacle for his Lordship ' s correspondence in the course of a week , there will be an income of upwards of £ 100 , 000 per annum . Several of the waste paper dealers have promised to join the direction , ana an influential provisional committee will be forthwith advertised . — Ibid .
Budget . —The annual financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , which is called a Budget , because the Ministers must Budge if they cannot carry their measure . Some etymologists derive the word Budget from the old French word oougette , a bag ; and it is probable that in the days of corruption the Minister bagged a considerable amount of the budget . Shakspeare speaks of a "sow-skin budget , " which would seem to indicate that the public money had been formerly kept in a sow ' s car , before silk purees came into fashion . —Ibid . Cabinet . —A common appellation for the Ministry , and supposed to be derived from the word cabin , because of the number of snug berths to be found in it . -Ibid
THE JOLLY OLD BEGCARMAN . Tone . —The Jolly Young ir « t « r » n « n . H ! did you not hear of a jolly old beggarman , Who for Repeal was accustomed to cry ; And he feathered his nest with such skill and dexterity , Winning each heart , and delighting each eye ? He talked so fair , and he vowed so steadily _. His countrymen docked to hear him so readily ; And so charmingly eyed he the peasants around , That this beggarman ne'er was in want of a pound ! What sights of poor victims he gathered together , Hunrbugging them out of their money—theirall ! And how , too , would he blarney the lino Irish ladies _. At a meeting on Tara , or Corn Exchange Hall ! And oftentimes would they be giggling and leering , But ' twas all one to Dan , their jibing and jeering ; True lover of Ireland he never was found , For the beggarman cared for nought else save his pound ! _Jae Milter .
Pm for Iuasixo . —A lover gazed in the eyes of his mistress until she blushed . lie pressed her hand to his heart and said , " My looks have planted roses on thy cheek : he who sows the seed should reap the harvest . "—North American , A Surprise . —One of the most singular and unheard of scenes perhaps ever witnessed in a Quaker meeting-house took place at Baltimore . Shortly after the hour for meeting to commence , whilst the brethren and sisters were silently communing with their own minds , one of the delegates to the assem-Wage from Pennsylvania quietly , and without being observed , stripped himself , and appearing before them in a perfect state of nudity , insisted on being allowed to sneak . He was immediately seized by his friends , and the partition to the female side of the
meeting closed , and it required almost main force to compel him to put on his clothing . He aiterWards explained the matter in the following manner : —He had a dream on tbe previous night , and thought that the spirit of the Lord had appeared before him , and commanded him to humble Mmself before the meeting on the next day , by appearing in their midst with his person exposed , and to address them in that situation with respect to certain matters , which wouK ( then and there be revealed to hira by the Holy _Spirit It was in the fulfilment of this imaginary comnrand and whilst filled with a holy zeal and _enthup ' , iaBTi ] tbat he thus acted . He was finally _conveyed home and appears since to be almost entirely dew inged 0 1 the subject of religion . These facts may _b _, _re"iied 0 1 as correct , singularly as they may sound as they at I well _Jinowii throughout the city . —tow . icon vapcr ,
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_SAB 8 J & 9 _HS Xrkaimbhx of a Last by her Husband ASH _li-j . ou . Y , TUB LATTER A _CiKROVJIAS . —At the Petty Sessions court . of Carrickl ' ergus , on the 9 th . November , ;' -Richard Battersby , Esq ., and the Rev . John 0 . Battersby , were ' cahed upon io answer the charge of Mrs , Battersby , the wife of the former and ihe mother of the latter , for haying _cominitted upon Her a series of assaults , extending from October last over six years ; and , also , to show cause why they and each of them should not enter into recognizances 0 be of the peace and good behaviour . It appeared from the statement of Mr . Davidson , of counsel for Mrs . Battersby , that his client was married to Mr . Battersby hi the year 1818 , to whom she brought £ 4 , 000 . For a short time after the marriage they
lived on good term ? , but subsequently matters wore a different aspect , Mr . Battersby refusing to allow his wile means for the support of the house . Counsel proceeded to say—Instead of being furnistied _ with the necessary comforts of life in accordance with her _sta . turn , the ordinary duties of my client were inoro those of 4 domestic servant than of a wife . Mr . Battersby , in place of bringing up his family as he ought to do , for ten or twelve years had been in the habit of eating his meals with the servants in the kitchen . Of course , such a line of conduct would not tend much to the comfort or respectability of himself or family . Mrs . Battersby remonstrated with him on his conduct , and , no doubt , spoke her mind plainly and strongly ; and the consequence was , that afterwards they did not live iu the most comfortable
manner . But there were other circumstances which led to breaches of domestic peace , which ho felt bound to state . Suspicions arose , perhaps not justifiable , that Mr . Battersby _' s attentions were a little diffuso ; and the consequence was that servants had to leave the house under suspicious circumstances . There is no doubt that » servant in the family was delivered of a child . In November , 1843 , aud on a Sunday , Mrs . Battersby was sitting in her own parlour , with Mr . Battersby , and there was some altercation on a favourite topic , namely , the alleged drunkenness of Mrs . Battersby ' s father and mother . Mrs . Battersby remonstrated , and said that sueh conduct was inhuman , and that 110 child could « it and listen to it . Mr , John Battersby , her son , was present , and , instead of interfering to bring about
peace , he caught hold of her , and in a most vialent maimer pushed her out of the room . Again , in the month of November , the father and son went to Belfast to dine . They came home at a late hour , " When tiiey came home they wanted some refreBhmcnt . Mrs . Battersby was in her bed-room , and hesitated giving the keys , but ultimately gave them to her servant to take down . However , her son , Mr . John Battersby , went up stairs to his mother ' s bed-room ( I suppose in ignorance that tho girl had got the keys ) , and took the chamber utensil , and , while she waa lying in bed , emptied it upon her , _( lireat sensation . ) In l & ia this young gentleman went to England , and in a short time after returned . I would mention that at this time he had been ordained a clergyman of the Church of England . Well ,
he was not long home till he—this peacemakerhad an altercation with his brother , in the presence of iiis mother . The result was , that he got up and seized his brother by the neck ; and , as was natural , Mrs . Battersby went between them . What was the consequence ? Why , she and her son 'lhomas were knocked down , as were the table and a chair . 1 merely mention this to show the court the violeiiee which was used . On another occasion , in the year 1 S 45 , this John Battersby assaulted his mother ; and I should state that his father was present on several of the occasions on which these a _& _sauils were committed . Mrs . Battersby was _esainined _, and folly corroborated the tacts stated by counsel . Mr , Jackson , for the defence , said that Mr . Battersby ' s i » - structions to him were , that he should not recrimi *
nute . JLet them measure the security m whatever way tl _« y pleased , and he was perfectly willing to enter inio-it . The cstirt retired _1 ' of . i short time ;¦ 011 their refcawvMr . Moleay ( U . M . ) , said , in this- case 1 have beea . requested to state tbe opinion of tho bench , _ani when I _siate they ware- unanimous in that opinion ,. I am quids sure I _uto- correct . As- to the conducSef the sou towards his _mstheiyit _isof the Most _revoltisg . description . I cannot express s » yselt as strongly as- h would w » h > with refesence to it , and i » sre , particularly-when-1 _sonsider that that _soiv is-a clergyman—o » o whose duty was to- endeavour to make peace in _> tho family . It appe _«* s that ,, while the-son was acting , in _tliesmnner deseribed towards his mother , tbafr his- father was looking 01 :: his father , who shoald have been the director and guide
of the lamlly . Sach _conduct was had in . the extreme ; . but Icannot _sutiwiently express my horror at tieconduct of the son ,, in acting as- he has- doue—it isquite beyond the means of expression . My only regret is , that , as wc have been , requested , to _iuflk-t summary punishment in this case , the limit of ou _? jurisdiction only extends to a fine of £ _*>¦ , or twomonths' imprisonment in the House of Correction . Our wish would have been to send the case to the Quarter Session ; but , as- this is not wished by the counsel for the prosecution , we award the utmost punishment in our power—that is , that Mr . Richard Battersby and the Rev . John Battersby , do pay a line ot _AS > each ; or , in default , be imprisoned for two months ; and that they give security , themselves in £ 600 each , and two sureties in £ 250 each , to be ol the peace towards Mrs . Battersby .
LlVEKFOOL . _—ChAKCB OF _WltTOTj MlkBER . —All elderly man , of genteel exterior , named Thomas Davis , was on Wednesday week placed at the bar ol the police-court , before E Rushton and J . Lawrence , _Esqrs ., on a charge of having in the mouth of May last , murdered Elizabeth Johnson . The deceased kept a grocer ' s shop in _Jvirkdalc-road , in this town , and cohabited with the prisoner , by whom she had two children . She had also a daughter by her husband , and these children were the chief witnesses ill the case . It appeared that after the death of their mother , on the 17 th of May last , these children became chargeable to tlieir parish , that of Ledbury , in Hertfordshire , and that in consequence of statements which they made , ihe relatives of the deceased brought the case before the magistrates of that place .
The result was that Dam was apprehended , and , after evidence had been heard , he was sent to Liverpool , by order of Sir James Graham , so that the case , which seemed shrouded in mystery , might be iurther investigated . Margaret Johnson , an intelligent girl , about thirteen or fourteen years of age , deposed that one night , about fix months ago , the prisoner came home drunk and quarrelled witli her mother ; that at last she came into the children's bedroom , whore the quarrel was renewed ; and that there Davies struck her on the breast and temple , and kicked her on the leg . During the three or four following days the deceased was almost entirely confined to her bed ; she was attended by a medical man ( Mr . J . Johnson ) , and at length died . Thomas Davis , eleven years of age , and Richard Davis ,
seven years ot & ge , sons ol the prisoner , corroborated this evidence . Mr . James Johnson , surgeon , said that when called to attend tho deceased , a day or two before her death , he found her labouring _linger congestion and depresssion of spirits . lie inquired whether she had any mental distress , to which she made no reply , but the prisoner gave him a very distressing statement of their circumstances . He prescribed for her and saw her again the following morning , when she was still worse , with the same symptoms aggravated , lie saw her again the same evening , when it was evident she was dying fast . The prisoner called him out of bed to her that night ( Saturday ) , and in witness ' s pre « sence she died . Witness ' s attention was never directed to any wounds or bruises she had received ; lie was never informed of them . His impression was , that she was dying of congested fever , caused by mental agony . The injuries spoken of by the witness
would produce the symptoms he had seen . Leeches were not applied , nor was a post mortem examination held . It was now too late for a post mortem examination to throw light upon the present inquiry . Alice Darlington and Elizabeth Wibbey , the women who had washed and laid out the body , deposed that they had found Mack marks on the temple and down the side ; those _dowft the side were apparently caused by kicks . The prisoner accounted ; for the mark on the temple by saying that the deceased , in getting out of bed for a drink , had fallen ; The prisoner , who waa _undefondecUhiclined either tocross-examine the witnesses or to say anything in bisdefence . Mr . Rushton said his impressina wr _^ _-to commit him for trial at the winter assizes , bat he should order him to be _remandiecl for the present . He was accordingly remanded . On Friday , the prisoner waa fuily committed fW- trial at the _easuing _assises , He still declined saying anything _.
fan Laib _Muhdek ix _Seaefoudsjiirk . —Mrs . _Oolclough , the owner and late occupier of the cottaga where the horrible deed was-committed , has . abandoned the scene of _bloolE _* and taken up her abo _^ o with her son , a HiarrirAlman , residing near the _ckapel , at Alsager ' s bank .. Mycock , the paramour _ofihe homicide , and their iittle boy , still continue ia the hamlet , and are _staying at the house of William Scott , the collier who so narrowly escaped with ' his life while attempting to secure Dean immediately after the murder . 'flic little boy says , that just before the dreadful crbjae was committed , his lather ( Dean ) put him on the wooden squab or bench , placing un axe and a hrlTnmer underneath it . Dean told tho child that if he stirred hand or foot he would cut his
head oil . Pjor Fielding came in just at the moment , andthem _Aniac—forsuch we must consider himfelled his . victim with an axe hammer before a word was exel janged on either side I What an iil-stamd visit toe the quiet inoffensive Fielding . What a _pro-Vldeftaal escape for the child ; as there seems little _tioulit , but for the momentary accidental appearance of the unfortunate deceased , the hands of Dean would ' have been imbrued in the blood of his own offspring . And supposing the statement of the child to he correct : — and there is no reason to doubt it—there was no previous quarrel , nor anything to excite the deadly animosity of Dean . My cock ' s statement also—that Dean had never seen his victim until ( he Mai daywould seem to _disproveall charge of malice prepense . The shocking catastrophe eannot be accounted for on any rational prbvoiple . It appears that Dean
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burnt several articles of clothing belonging to Mrs . Colclough , in his revolting attempt to _consumo by firo the head olthe . murdered man . , Thi » portion of the ' startling narrative is sickening to contemplate . We hear that Dean , Mycock , and the boy slept in a little room on the ground-floor , adjoining the cottage . From and after the Friday night previous to the murder , the other inmates who slept up-stairs took the precaution of drawing up the ladder by which . the chamber was approached . . This plainly shows that their fears were aroused , that Bean was considered in a dangerous state of wind , and itis much to be regretted that steps were not immediately taken for placing him under effectual surveillance . The life of one human being might , in all probability , _hllVflf been saved . On the night of the inquest Dean wa * kept in custody at the house of sub-inspector Price , at Audley . The guilty or unconscious man did not
sleep lor a moment . In the morning Price , _assisttU by the police-constable Webb , took the evim ' md to-Stafford County prison . They were accompanied as far as the Whitmore station , by Mycock . Guilty as she know him to be , and questionable as was tlieir connexion , Mycock could not leave Dean in his darkest hour of need . At the Whitmore station . Dean refused to set into the railway carnage unless accompanied by his " Fanny , " as he called Mycock . Topacify him she got into tho vehicle , and escaped a * the opposite door . Seeing this ho appeared peevish and disappointed , renting his spleen by throwing after her a portion of the victuals he waa eating at tho time . Dis conduct during thejourncy was rude and incoherent ; he frequenely made use of 1 ambling and unmeaning expressions . Since his incarceration , Dean has written to Mycock , and the letter has been received by her at _AIsager ' B bank . He expresses a wish to see her , and states that he is growing worse in his mind .
Noble Instance op Iktbkpiditv . —A Snip ' s Ckbw _Saud , —About the middle of October last , the barm 0 Helen , Captain Clayton , of Belfast , lef t Quebec on her homeward voyage , with a cargo of timber . Theweather proved favourable till towards the end of the month , when it began to blow a stiff gale from the eastward . < Early on the morning of ths illat it increased w violence , but the vessel , under doublereefed topsails , rode gallantly on , and , as she wa » Stout and trim built , the crew felt little il-ar . About eight o clock , whilo off the cast end of one of the _Nowfeundland banks , they discovered a vessel less fortunately situated , and Captain Clayton hailed this vessel , and naked whether they had any boat which might boar thun on board tho Helen i Tho answer
returned was in the negative , accompanied with an earnest prayer that he would do his best to save them . Captain Clayton hesitated for a little what to do . The vessel was water-Jogged , without a rudder , and _heriuizen mast and foremast carried away ; and if her abandoned her to her fate she must soon be buried with her crew beneath tho billows > on the other hand , if he ordered some of his own men to push off in a boat and attempt their rescue , they might perhdi , and his-own vessel would be left with too few hawk to work her with efficiency . In this dilemma he placed a boat at the disposal of any o ' f his crew whe would volunteer as-a _ibrioi'ii hope to the ilMated ves » sel . Three men , without hesitation , oliered themselves . Wc feel pleasure in recording the names ot *
the men who- could thus cast aside ail ideas of personal safety ,, that they might at least make jib effort to rescue their feilow-creatures fffoiu a watery . grave . The men who- acted thus nobly , were , Daniel Mearns , seeond- mate , a native of the _noi-th of Scotland ; J : iB » es _Ai- _'iCelilsa ,. the carpenter ; _asd John- Martin _^ of Belfast . Without much Joss of time they entered a- small t » ooared boat , ths-only one . & hey could command , and rowed on to the-wreck , wk kit they reached at tor encountering a h « st of danger * . - " The ship hung heaving on the- verge of death , " and the 1 rew , in number twenty-two , were standiug on the poop , their voices rising _iotut above the air of the tempest , eu » treating _deliverance . Seven of them were got without acsident into- the boat , _aad the captain : of tha vessel , which proved to be tbe Harrison- of London ,
told the boatmen to return low the others , and h « would reward therau- But they did- not require a _pecuniary inducement to _stimulate them in their mission of mercy . Again and- again , they returned to the Harrison , and at length e ? cry individual wa * placed in _comparativysafecy on board- the Itelen . A poor eat , tooj it is worth while mentioning , which hod shared tho fate of tho crew , a 4 so participated ia the deliverance . About the 10 th inst . the Helen fell in witha > vessel- bound for ( _ireenoch ,. which relieved her of nine of the crew of tlie Harrison * _iisthe provisions- of 30 many m _* n pressed rather closely on their supplies .. On Monday week tho Helen reached the port , of Belfast , where the cautHtii of the lose vessel acknowledged the services of the three men . who had acted so heroically , by giving , each , of _tlieut a handsome douceur in _nsoney , as he promised .
_Accideso : at xhe _Ilou-su of LoitDSv— lu . tho _easly part of Wednesday morning ,, as iwonicn ,. named . _Tatrick Malyii and ileury Lute ,, were at , work on . some _scailbhling . at tho Victoria Tower , neatly forty tuet high , some _oait of it gave way ,, and _tlicy fell to & he ground with frightful viskmce . Without loss of time they were conveyed to the Westminster Hospital , where every attention wa » paiii to tnem by-Mr . Stoekvvell and the other _suageous . _Malyn . is-suffering from a severe concussion of the brain ; . Lote has one of his shoulders disleeated ,. and . is- otherwise ) much shaken .
Death » v Dsow . ving . —On . Wednesday forenoon Mr . W . Baker held an _inijusat at the Q , ueen !' s Head Tavern , Poplar , on the bouy of ltobert Itarity , aged 22 , a carpenter . Louisa Wood ,, of No . _uo _, Sta : ii _*; iitlaouth-street , Greenwich , deposed _tiiut she - Icuew _tlia deceased , who resided at 35 , _Bioad-street _,. U . _i-eenwich ; she saw him inst alive on the evening of Sunday ,. tt « 2 nd instant ; he had been siiendiiuj the evciuujj with her , and left between eight and nine o ' clock to gohome ; he was in perfect health and of cheerful spirits __ when they parted , and she knew of nothing that distressed his mind . He Jiad no occasion to go > near the river in hU way home . i > he wa * _ttt haVft been married to him in a week ' s time . On Monday morning the dead hotly of deceased was picked- up floating down the river by some _lishermcu , on tlieir way to Billingsgate . There were no marks of violsncc upou the body . There being no I ' ucther evidence , the jury , at the coroner ' s suggestion , returned a verdict of " Pound drowned . "
Fatal Accident . —On Monday hist , a futiilaccident occured on the York and _Nsrth Midland railway-It appears that a post boy named VVm . _lluseroft . In the service of Air . _Shilluto , innkeeper , of lio too . Percy , had been engaged in removing s _^ _Melujfc & _se from a truck attached to a train , which he did whilst the train was in motion , and in endeavouring to leave the truck , his foot slipped , and he wa * thrown _, between the truck and a passenger carriage-,, with his back laid across the rails : a passenger caryhigc _, ami three empty trucks passed over him , aud the injuries inflicted were so serious as to _produce death in about two hours afterwards .
Fatal Accidknt . —On Wednesday morning Mr . Wakley held an inquest at the King ' s Head Inn , Acton , on the body of George Graham , aged eighteen . It appeared from the evidence that the deceased wan tho sou of Mr . Graham , a carrier at Aetou . On the 5 th inst . ( Guy Fawkes day ) in the evening , the dece ; ucd wus in a cart with a younger _bruthtit ' _,, returning homo from town ; when . at Siieplierd '» Hush his brother _lighted aud discharged a cracker Ikework , by which the horse was so frightened , that , k / t started off at full _s-pced , and the deceased , iu , his _emlaavoure to Stop )) i »> , wa * thrown eut of the- cart ., ths- wheel of which passed over his body . _Evwy proper surgical assistance wac rendered him , bat he cxpii « ti » _u dunday last . Verdict , Accidental Death . Extensivk . Failure . —An extensive f & Lkiro has just occurred in DaWin , _imaiely _,, Messrs . Williams , stock-brokers , for a . sum , •! between £ 2 l ) _% uU 0 aud £ 250 , 00 _»> .
_Fibe—Bsooit . —A most dBstmictt . v . c"See-took place on Monday even-lug ,, at _Ik-uorn ,, nom- _JJigglcswade _, on the farm of Mr . Samuel Nc : d ,. by . _wiik-h twenty stacks of corn and hay ,, _withtw-onty-one-shecp , were ? _-, destroyed , _aiso > 4 bc dove-house ; , ifce .. 'JL'h * ro is _littler doubt thai the lire was tha-act of . alii Uieeudinry . —• --€ a > nbtidg . e Adunvtizer :. _Makjess- ix . Fk . ix . gi .:.. —Since tho publication , s ? . vs the Gazette de Fr , mv & ,. oil nowols- in * the shape 0 % " _^ _ie'iilletons _^ and t ?« bo- _ndlassjobbing in railway , _siuiros-, men & di deraageuients . have increased iu . so dreadful a proportion , thai the _director of osevof the most _Gftlebtat _& L _maieor- _# de , saute , ot l _' aaUr ,. i * n % w _buildiag & pavilion , ia ordei _.-- to iiud rotm / oi ki > new initiates ,.
Two . _liinssx _lisi & ED . br FiH . iiSUi wro a \ V : _^ l . _^ _Betweea eleven and _Usshse o ' clock on Mon _& y forenoon ,. a . s ! nguhKraml vary distressing occurmiec happened in the yard _attacked to . the Weshtyan Methodist School , _Lcve-iotrect , Aiaachcater . Some of tho _c-MdHen educated in . _the-swhoi-1 were slaying lit the yard , _whsiiaiLag which covered an _ciu well _sud _^ . _dcaly sank down at one side , and two buys , named _EtSwa-rd SpearritA and Thomas _Gregory each abuuti . s _* vcn _ycasfl of age , fell into , the _wehk which U up-. _-snaL-da of twenty-live yawls deep , aud _nothing cuiild ; be seen o £ th < aa . Win . Edwards , av _* excavator ; , de-. _seendeii into the well . About a quarter-past V # e ) . _vo o ' clock he- succeeded in bringing ; » p tho My ot Thomas- Gregory , bit * the poor bov . was quite Ure _' ibs *
luvriBg been in the well about an S © ur . _iifltsits w , ve > then made to get out the body of _Sjearriiti _,. but _t was nearly halt ' _-past four when this was _accsmplishi-i \ owing to tbe necessity for removing t _' _*> ilig as , other materials . The body was at last ftuud al . th , l bottom of the well , covered with wate ? to , th © _dsvt _' i of live feet , and by a quantity of earth , which had fallen upon him . Ilis skull was fractured , and his ankle dislocated . Before the inquest , Inspector M'Mullen made various _inquiries in order ta ascertain whether any one knew of tho _existence of ths well , but no one could be found who had the _leajrt knowledge on the subject , even amongst those who had known the premises for forty years . Tho well seemed to have been covered with timber , iiftov which some earth aud the flag had been placed over it , and the timber having votled , the whole had given way . A verdict of " Aceidcutsd death" was returned .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 29, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_29111845/page/3/
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