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      BBUEt _SEitlOHR Accidekt . —On ThlrfsdHJf week , the _SKffd iBKtant , as a li [ tie girl , tuffinod Aon Taylor , who resides in tligh-street Wills crossing _Bonruestreet , was thrown down aud Mn over by a mourning-coach , which was proceeding iii an opposite direct * ' « _-. i * body _reqoire -. conveyed to Mr * _West ' s _surpery , and e vary attention was paid to lief that file _distre _& Jiiig nature of the case demanded . ' She was leaving school _wlu-n the accident happened , and was told to be _enreful as a coach wan coming ; _shejvplied slie couldget across the road , and was endeavouring to do so . when she was thrown down bv a kick from the horse . Small hopes un : eutertained for her recovery . She is wot more that eight years of age . ¦ Sunday Schools , —A Ff-mon « . ij preached in St . Mary ' s Churcli , on . Sunday morning last , by ( he Boy . Stephen Bridge ; and a collection made , on behalf of the Sunday Sohools connected with that place .

      Police . —On _Thursday week , _Ahraia . Tamnder , a respectable young mini , appeared to answer a charge _prefered against him by his _masttir , Mr . J . Lorard , ¦ _wii tch-maker , _accusing him of neglect of business , and wiU ' _nllv spoiling his work . Mr . L . stated that the _defendant was occasionally late in a _inoniing , and that the work given hfan to du was frequently returned _spoiled or not finished in a workmanlike manlier . Hu stated that it * _afl with regret that he appeared against his _sdrvajlt , and that if after he had received the _sominons he would lump given a promise to conduct _himself with , propriety , he would not have done so . In reply , to this charge Mr , Taihinler said lie believed that oil _gome two or three _occjisions , he had been fiehin < J his _Sjiie for which hu was _yoriy , " but that a ? toliis wirfiilly spoiling his masters ' work , or ill any way doing hiui an injury it was altogether untrue . He assured the court hat 31 ' he had been asked t 6 gtte Ihe _prcWiifc _) referred ti by Mr . Larard bo would most _willingly have done so , as he never intended to act otherwise . He legged however to assure [] _, e _fcericli-tntit the work which he hiul had to do during th ? _lajjt twelve _raantbs was so bad , that it was _impossibly to make good work of it , and lie Lauded some specimens u to tilt- Coim which appeared on that part to _satisJ the magistrates . Mr . Thompson , solicitor , repliet on the part of Mr . I . acurd , hut failed in _making out a serious case , the only thiu _£ _yfoved" ijeJ _^ g that 3 _Eeat den ! of misunderstanding existed between . Mr , _^ _mlbis up prentice . _Thp Court enquire , ] whether the defendant _wm ready to promise Iu conduct himself with propriety , and on his replying in the affinmaive , his master , who had not produced a single witness in support of the charge * sitidliL 1 was _satwlied and the complaint was dismissed . Mr , _Scott was retained ou the part Of Che defendant .

      Satue ' day , Nov . 25 . - Willy v . _BetderneSt ami Jlblikriusa r . Wilty . Tnis was a complaint and coimter-complaiul , nut occupied the attention of the Court for ii considerable time- Mr . Thompson _appeaitd tor _Wjfyty , and Mr . Holden for _Holdi-rnass ; the . circumstances were sliortly these .: —Alfred Witty the complainant in the first , case , was an apprentice to Mr . llohh > rne ; -, to the _tea service , : _iud is now ill the fifth your oi" his apprenticeship : bv his indenture be _wws'to be pro _> vided with alt _tnin : rs _necessary while employed and to receive as wages the sum of _-fc'Si . and if lit completed bin U'nu of 'Servitude to the satisfaction of his employer the additional sum ol £ 'S 10 s j when 3 ioi employed , he wa _& to _receive as board wages for meat _, i ] rink , clothing , iftc . ior the fifth year 7 =. pe week . The indenture was proved in Court , W ] i _^ _wns wrecked in th « Mnria , Captain Robinson _^ or the 20 th August , and Intl . all _hifc clothes . He " got a pair of trousers and some other tilings at New York : all The men lost their _clothrs , and a sum of _monei was granted by rue Consul , but tho _apprentices go impart . After lit' tamw home he was direeii _+ d U proceed with another _apprentice to Liverpool to sai in the ship Favourite , lor Rio Janeiro , and tLeitui _£ o tile East Indies _, lie said to Mr . llolderncss tha lie had no clothes , and _wa _> told that lie should _£ re some at _fjivcrjiool , and ri'Ceiied a letter to t 5 a cllefl . When lie gut to _LiitTuoul , he found that tht ship bj ? _lunged to Mr . Beadle ; ami as he applieil to too _Taptam arid Male for _closhea and could not _nbciiu them ; thinking ' thai he was not bound to sewe in a ship belonging to another owner , lie re . turned lioine ; _wlieu he camp Lome both he am _iijfi father went to Mr . Hoideruess _, and _tulrf hin " thai lie was ready _u > _iccie bim in anj ; of _Iwa owi ships _j but Mr . ! fl . _thaiiEh he still claimed _Jiim a ; an apprentice , refused either to find him a sliip _noriopay lum his board w _; _ages _. lie said when In wanted him he would _sund _^ for him , iiud told Iti father that lie niiglil get _euyloymeiit . if _Tju coulc and he should claim no part of what he might earn _Hfiftsd been at _luinie two weeks , and he uowsongL . _* o _recover the sum of 24 s-. board wa _^ _es due to linn _'I'iiis _ca _^ _e was fully borne out in evidenc _*? . For the _di > E ? iiee M r . Hoi . leu contended _tbaf _aa Witty had _absented himself from his _mi ; _stul : s service without leiive , hehadforfcite . il his title to board _wHtres , -d .: he was employed ., or at least might have heeiij b _* _w his own _uuscGuduct _.--ilr- _Tiiorutj _^ OTL aJniitttLd _thni xbv condncr of his client had _been most improper , but submitted that as the juaster still _ret-aiued Mm as his apprentice , he _wpsbound toeitherlind _hianashipor _furnisti _huiizWiih tbu menus of snbsiatancL' . The case kad _tti > eu before the Court on i tonncr i 3 ay _, and die _jus _. _^ _i-strates had determinud on taking Counsel _^ opinion , and had _consulted Mr _Kaineh ou the _anuject . They now decided in accordance with the opinion of that _Centlemun _ilidi notwithstanding the very _lingrant miscondnc "iflbebiiy , _ptill the master _was liable and bound t ' pay him bis board wages .

      As soon as this case was disposer ! of . Mr . Holdei _ppefrrred a complaint against Alfred Witty , _charg Ing him with wiUhlly _abscnliug _liimsclf from tbi service of Mr . _Uolilsrness , his master . Thp evident ! if 2 b in all _mjLterial points tin ? samfr as in the las case , aud fully sustained tli « _comiilaiuL Mr . Holden _contended that the mji _^ tstrates linuld _puuialf hipi by abstractj ' _ug tin : whole or a part of his board "wa _^ t s . Mr . Thompson denied _llufi , bu _( admitted _lliat j part of Ins other wa _^ es , ot even the whole o the sum not paid , might he aljstrai .-ti ; d ; lie _howevchoped that the Court would be as lenient with hi client as possible . The _iniiEi-itetes . consulted am _senleiiced the defendant _ to ~ forfeit £ fr _offlmwage due to him . _Gfiorge _Seatoube tecperCollierstreet

      T _er-nouse , - _charged hy Andrew Me Manila , with _keepi _rf _^ hi _honsi . ' open ou Sunday , during divine service . Hi bad gimo out of town after he-had received the summons , and hiR wife appeared to Einswer tHe comp _. aint . Mr . Parker said he had a good ramd t _< have him apprehended on a warrant- Serecan _"Wilsonsaid truit he found "two men drinking in thi nouse _, at _lialf-past eleven u ' chick , on Simda _^ _morning , Mrs . _SWton said they were lodgers , the house is of very _disorderly repute . Fined . Eliza Cook , charged with lighting and causing ; _i disturbance in Mill-street on Priday night . ShL' said she wiis _going to the coofc shop lo get _soniethiug for supper , when ihe was struck by a- girl from ParkiuB , _ajirl _sr . she struck her again : " In answer to questions from the magistrates , she said she wnffeed at Mr . "Wright's Button Mill , that she cmie from _Kiiefiield , and bad been in Hull . about ten weeks . _She " was proceeding in this _straightforward at count of lieraelf , when Mr . Smith rose , and assured the court that he knew the prisoner well , and eouid take upon himself to say that what jhe was stating was almost entirely a fabrication . He said that about three months since _^ hc came to his house and in quired for _lodgiugs , and that as she appeared to be . in most _distressing circumstances , his wife , from pity , tout her in ; sh said that the ih treatment of . her husband had compelled her tti leave Sheffield ,- mid that all her clothi 'were in _pledge ; they _gapc'her shelter for a few weeks , and assisted her to redeem some of berthings . She then left them in debt and _wentupon _' the town , and is now a common prnslitute . Her husband bad in reply to a . letter which "Mr . Smith had written to him , answered in the most affectionate terms , and _requested her to return home . She had not been lanplnyed at the Button Mill for ten weeks . Mr . Parker said Mr . Smith h ' ail done perfectly right in mating this statement to the court *—Discharged on promising to leave the tu . wn .. . Her Ted n ; une is J _enkineon . d b

      Monday—Present , the Mayor and Mr . Parker . There was a crowd of disorderlies _hrouehtup this morning ; but none of a _vesy serious nature . Two or three boyn were _charged with -making a disturbance in the _Market-jilitte , nn Sunday evening ; -the . most disorderly of whom wan hound _flver to keep the _[ icace . The following were the principal _casaff . John Cottish , drunk und incapable of talcing care of himself on the Junction Dock Side , on Suuiiay _Hiornjiig . The _polimnan said he _Iwlieved if he hud not Been him , he would have pit into the dock , ahdi most likely have lost his life . Prisoner is porter at Ihe Crops Keys Coach Office . —Discharged . . Richard "Winiermsn wap disorderly in _Mytongate _, and insulted two respectable females in a _vtTE gro _^ s manner . He said he hadonly had two giUs of ale and went with the officer very quietly ; indeed _, he thought he was going to give him a gill . ' —Fined 5 s . and costs . , . .. I "William Smilh , drunk and unable to take care of himself in Blanket-row , on Sunilav . night . He said in answer ( o the charge , that he wag master of--a sloop , and _onlv arrived in the early part of the day : he was not drunk , but had Had two gills of _. ale , and was rather fresh , but it was with getting little or nothing to eat . Mr . Parker told'him he was a pretty fellow tolte master of _"a' _^ loop , and that he thought he must have had more ih _. _' LTi iw < i jrl ]\ t , _ur the _landlords would not thank him ior his custom—l'in ' _eii 5 b . and costs .

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      Job _Dudlili _, Michael Kerey , John _Brindlcj _' _charged with being drank and disorderly ic Mill street and Middle-street , on Sunday _morninjf . The _twn _Stst _weru fined 5 s . each and costs . The last _was a rate specimen of the sons of Green Erin He . addressed the e < _nirt with the utmost politeness he said , Please your honour one of ray neighbours was rather fresh , and I said to that gentleman ( turning to _^^ polieemau ) let him go , for God' sake , and he said you shall go too , and I said very vrell ; hut I do assure your honour that I was not di . _^ orderlv . In that the gentleman is mistaken hut I could nut be disorderly , because I was uo drunk , and vfiur honour knows that if a man is not drunk he oaBXLQt be disorderly . ( Much laughter . Mr , Parker told him that he was of a diiferent opinion , and had seen many men disorderly who were not drunk . " " _Piease your honour , " replied the defendant , _" if 1 am wrong , I humbly ask your honour ' s pardon . " Mr . Parker— " But- you are in ihj : habit of [ hinking so very wrong that I shall he obliged to order you to find sureties to keep the isade . If I could but _teath yuu that a man might ie disorderly without being drunk , you might be discharged ; for if you would treat the polite with the same courtesy as you have treated us , you would not be brought here again , for jour conduct this morning proves that yon are one of the politest men in Hull . " On hearing this , the defendant immedi ately declared himself a convert to the _magistrate' opinion , and was discharged . _Jniin Ostler disorderly on the North-bridge , Sunday morning . Fined 5 s . and costs . Eiehard Thornton , charged with been drunk and incapable of taking care of himself , in _( Jeorge-street on Sunday morning . He said he was a widower and bad a fitmily . He had only taken two and a half little glasses . On promising not to get drunk again he was discharged . Charlotte Thompson , a common prostitute , said she raiue from Selby was charged _w'ith bein drunk , in T _. owgate , on Moilday . Slie" was well known to the police . She said she was _^ _orryfrrher conduct , and would leave the town . Mr . Parker said he had not consulted bis _brotlier magistrates but for his own part he was resolved when he sent a prostitute to the trejd-inill again , he . would , add r . her sentence that her _'haic should be cut off- If _Rirls of this description would not behave _themselves he v . _i > ii ! d at auy rate deprive them of' their pretty locks for some time . Case to stand over . _TLtsnrtT . Present Messrs . Parke _^ Canic _^ _Iftiland aud Bonrne . _KUcluu v _Peurson . —The complainant . William _Kitchin said that r . _lie defendant was a shoe maker . ; md wits about five weeks since in his employ at that time be got leather for a pair of boots , and two pair ofla > t-S _enjiagi _& _gto have the work done in day and a half ; hi- bad drawn his pay For them , and luid now _engaged _himself to niuauer master . He promised several times that the work _should be finished , hut as he could not get it either done or undone , he was compelled to appeal to the Magis trates . Mr . Carrie sain * lie thought much lenity had been shewn to him . the _defandaut ; who seemed _tn . be one of those win ) _ji referred St . Monday to _aJl the other days of the week , maile a lou _^ r defence vt bich a mounted ( o nothing- —Sent to hard labour for o fortnight , H _' ED . _vraUAT . Present the Mayor , Messrs . Carrie and J ' arker .

      ( _JeKirt _; e Hay , chiirged with _beins disorderly on Tuesday night in the _'Ilieatre . —Polieemau No . 41 , said that when he desired liini to be cjuici he would nor , _jt-ud in consequence he trierl to _rejuove bim . but he became very violimt and struck the witness , endeavouring to tbriw him down stairs _^ h _« _? ot assistance , and be was conveyed to the SLationhouse , where he behaved _himself iu the most disorderly maiuier . Iieneson , another Policeman _, confirmed _thts testimony . Pri _.-ioner sajd he "was sure that he did not strike the witness . Mr . Parker . — Uu you remember anything _you saw last night ; Prisoner . —Yes , a little ; Isaw _Ji-anmy _Twitoher , and something about nibbing a hen-roost , 'hut 1 am sure that I did n *> t strike the Police . —Bouud over in the penalty of £ 11 ) . to keep the po ; _ice &> r dim : _inontha . Hubert'lai / lor , on old offender , was charged with being disorderly last night in the Marl ; el- " p ] ace . — Ordered to find two sureties in £ i > . each , tor hia keeping" the pesi . ee for three months . hf _/ _a- _'i £ adon was charged by _Atkin _^ un , a Police _Conttabte _^ with _being _engaged in making a disturb ance in the Lead en _ball-square , on _Ttu-silay Iligbr It appeared iliat while Tayler was being _lakeu into _custody , Ea _^ con commenced an attack upon the Ohieers , and was also taken , but _subsequently res cued , and re-taken near the _titation-lnnise . He _sjrii lie did nut assault the Policeman or try to trip _uj bis heels , it was a man of the name of _ilic hari Pape _, and called a man as a witness , _vvliom lie des cribed _aji William , from London , but who said bis name was Wiiliairi Graham . This man stvore tha Eastuu did m ) t assault the Police ; he Hrst said tha ire was never absent from the side of _. _Easton for hai a minuto- but _alierwardu admitted that be was nm prcw . ii tins- _« -iruik' _ofi-iiu _Otdk _~ _Hfc _* _fi'i nc _kue'iv Pape . but hi ? did nor see him assault the OIncer Carter , another Constable , corroborated the stalp inent of Atkinson iu every particular , _'llie Magis ti _' atds Wild Easton Ihey were satisfied of his guilt , and lined him _jj . s . anil coots , ur in default , to be sen tthe tread mill for nire _mmith

      o . -Fane . Smith , who was discharge ;! on . Thursday _, upon ] jer promise to reform her condnct , _was _agai _braught up , _chained with being drank and _figbliny in Chap" ! Court , _Waterhouse-lane at 4 o ' clock o ] Sunday morning , _ribe told her usual tale , sbe was \ e ; y _son-y rsud woidd never do _^ _jagjin , if the Court would only luck over it this time she wnulJ _gt > to Beverlav ; but all would not do ; Mr Parker _tidii her he would turn her nirr to the Mayor , for she was incorrigible . Hi ; asked her to _spHii troth for once and tell tlie Court how much , she had drank ; _uhe said she had not hail much , only a little ale , she could not say how many gills , bur . only a _^ _-hai'e oi ' _3 or' 4 quarts ; . < _Jie bad Jiot got a little dron of rum or cream of tlit valley . Mr . Parker said he would not _believe her , he diiL not think ale u'ould make he " drunk . The Mayor told her _shu ought to bi a _= bamed of _bersell , and he was determined to sen her to the tread mill . — Coimnittud fur one month . _Jiritit S / iurt / i an old man , charged with being drunk , and who had been most violently _assaultej while in the Station-house , was discharged ; and iinmediiitelyprefered a _chsrge for an insult , ugaiust a man named Hackney , who bad been eonlined in the same- cell , along with several others . _Haoknev arid ¦ _Siarkey _, two brutal looking fellows , where t ' . _ien ordered to be _brought into court . John Hackney and _Pxancifi _Starkey , were charged by Serjeant Butler , with making a disturbance Queen-street , early thij morning ; he told the in to (!( i away , hut they refused and set him at defiance . using Ihe _. most _imploperlanguage , and told him the ) would bed—n bctbre they would go awuyAfbr him he then ordered them to" be taken to the station _hoajse _. The prisoners denied the charge Kober ts , a _polieoumn , confirmed the evidence Sergeant Butler , arid added that a sailor charged them with knocking him down . Inspector Stevenson , said that Hackney was bo violent in the sf . iittonhouse , that he _wss . obliged to put handcufis ou him John Snaith then came forvrarti , and charged Hackney and others , whom he could not _identify ; with committing a violent assaull upon him , in the station-hu use , by knocking him down , kneeling upon bis breast , and dragging him about the cell , bv h ;

      hair and his legs . Three persons struck him , but he eooldswear to Hackney by his voiee . _Hacknev cross-questioned him , and tried io _ahSie his testimony _,, but without _effuet . Inspector Stevenson , said Hackney was in _tlie-e « ll . ana was very _vfMeut ; he heard some one call out murder , and as soon ss he could procure a . light went and looked in ; but" : li they were all laughing , he thought it was all a lark . Inspector _Cudworth , said there was a great de ; il of is _turbanae during _tl : e night ; he got no sleep till nearly five o clock ; kuows _Haclutey ' s voice well , and ilues not think that he was ever laid down during the whole , night , he _. heard him call some one an old g—r , Snaith said that " was said to him . _gtarkey utemrpted the proceedings several times , and _aasaured the Magistrates that his friend was fast asleep all the time . Mr . _Carrie told him toholdhib tongue , he seemed very _ansious in < _some way to have to do . with the _sase , perhaps he _w _ould get enough of it before all was over . Their worships consulted together for a short time , andthen told tbe prisoners thai they should require them to enter into _recngnizanee in £ 20 each , andto fiud . four substantial bondsmen in £ 20 each , to keep the pearefor sis months . Mr , Hopk _, the body of Mr . -J . L . 3 . Hope ; for _utanv _i p : \ t _? _.- ? respectable butcher in this town , haw been found nu tbe H umber Bank . He left his hums late En the _eveomg , about a month since , and had not been heard been heard of since , ( although a ¦ evvard of . £ 5 . Was offered for his discovery , ) until it . vas found as we have stated , on Tuesday morning . _Vi'e have nor been able to learn the partioularS , but _ueder _^ ta _' _nd that no satisfactory account can be _iven . how hp came by his death . " Cttf . riko _# Ase Coin . —Bridget Grimes and Tohn Ward , a couple of match-sellers , who cohabit ¦ ogether as _ maii and wife , were charged _wiih _l . teiii _^ _tiujf to ut _; _tr certain pieces of lead , made like _> enny airjt half-penny _pieces , and _discoloured so as o appear like burnt copper coin . Police _constable So . 85 , made the charge , which was supported 6 j _?> o . " 30 , and Miss Hardy , daughter of the | _ieisoh : o whom the coin had been paid . Tlie prisoners _, _arc a very confused account of themselves , and the _a «; v . as _remisdedvillto-niorrrcw .

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      , - . _; , , s _^ _£ ) - s , CHABI . ES _SlOKBJ . s , one of the most _hardened uvenile _olfenilei ;!! we ever saw , was placed at tbe ¦ ar _, charged bj his mother with drawing his wages jn Saturday afteraoun , and absconding from bis lome ; 6 he found him last night in a den of infamy , n Black _Pwaii entry , up in a top garret , " on a bed f rigs , nlpng with two women and some other boys . The house i » _^ ent by a fortune teller , aud mas _lescribeil by _the-alniost broken-hearted mother , as he most _wretched place she had ever beheld . This _s not the _firM offence , the boy has gone ou in this _say for the last iwo years and a half . He had had il good masters , but hnd ruu away from them all . iis mother said she liad Jonu all in her power to reclaim him , but it was all to no use . He had once been a week in solitary confinement , after whi _^ h his present master Mr " . Saul , took him back ; Mr . Hair said that when , he was up before , "Mt . Saul said he _K'as a remarkably clever _bov , and capable of earnug a great deal of money . In answer to questions ioni Mr . Parker , the boy who appeared perfectly careless , said he had spent the money . He _slept no where , on Saturday and Friday nights he was walking about . The fortune-teller did not tell liim " : e would be brought before tbe _magistrates , _ahe _' got nune of bis money , lias been oliee in Ihe gaol . Has not been flogged . The magistrates told him that he should go to solitary confinement for a week , and the end of it receive a severe flogging , and _then be brought up again J and if that did not appear to produce contrition , he should bave-JI second _week f and a second Hogging , and so on until something good _was produced . The court sentenced him accordingly ] and the police were directed to pay a visit til the den in ltlack Swan entry !

      _^ Body _Eoukd- —Tbe body of — - — - Lamb , unfortunate man who lost bis hfe , by falling from ilic paddle box of the William Darley , Hamburgh . _tfteamer , a few days since , was found and identified j the tide hud tioated it a considerable way un the Humher ; he has left a wife and' a large , family to deplore his loss . .

      _, ii , , - a - , SuorjEtcDEATH . — On Friday ( or Saturday ) last , Hie wife of Mr . G . Eden " , who was just recovering from a recent confinement , _expressed a wish to have a little fish for supper ; and Mr . E . _iminediatuly wentont to _procure soiue _, but bad not reached the shop where he intended to make the _purchase , when be was overtaken by some of his family and told that he _ust return immediately , as his wife i _? as taken suddenly _; nd alarmingly ill , he returned instantly , but before bis arrival ; be nail expiitd . The time which elap ? ed , between her being taken ill , and her death , it is supposed , did not exceed ten minutes . A Cckii . ee . —On Thurday night week , between ten and eleven o ' clock , a man named _Snowden , in a state of intoxication , walked into the Junetron-Bock . He , however , was _rescued , alter havinjr beeu under water twice , through tbe timely assistance of one of tht dock watchmen , "who had luckily heard the _splssh . He was conveyed on board the _stocji to which be belonged , and on the _folluwing morning was able to resume his _u-ork _* At _ths Mechanics' Institute on Thursday evening-, Mr , Gordon , of "Walton , delivered an able lecture on _Pbj _^ _iciil . Education . He also stated his intention shortly to present to the library a quantity of books on this important _suli ] ect , an announcement which was _received with mnch approbation . Fiki :. —Ou Tuesday night week , an alarming lire broke _* _iut in a shop of a jeweller , naiten Sterne , in Waterworks-Street . It appears _tbat about ei _^ ht _u ' eluok . a hoy locked up the premises , leaving a canille burning in the shop , and took the key to bis master , who was ataneighbouringtavern . At halfpast eight the place was di _.- covercd to be mi lire ; ha alarm _vi ' as given and the three engines hastened to the spoi , bat , ' through the prompt exertions of the neighbour _^ it was not necessary to put them into action . The fire , however , was of a very dangerous nature the shop being separated E ' roin that of a tallow-chandler on one aide b y nothing more than a boarded petition , and on the other side a thin nail divided it from tilt- shop of Mr . Heat . on , grocer .

      - . - ' - . - T . NO . TJKST . —On Monday last , an _inquest was held before Mr . Thorney , at llie Junction Dock Tavern , oil rhe _bcioy of James Hudson , aged ton years , a , son of one of the Dock Company ' s men engaged at- [ be H umber Dock Gates . It appealed that , on _Saturday _afiernonn , the Dock _Compaoy ' s steam-tug was wwiug the mud-lighters rmt of tbe docks into the Hum her ; the deceased and several- other lads having got on board , wiTe ordered down into the forecastle . Deceased , however , ' . stole upon deck and fcll down the hatchway upon the engine , _labile it was at ivork . The engineer snatched him up _before the engine had given a _Jii «> Dn ( l . _eJ-r-aLa _, _Kiif _hflu-ott 4 _uim _^ cad , tH _*< _fiivtstroke of the engine having reni , open his bowels . _Verdict—Aocjdental Death , with a deodaud of one shilling on the engine .

      _MibbbiKS of _tscoKSTAKcy . —The moral lesson contained in _tiie toilowing fact cannot . "surely be misunderstood . In a village , about eightmile . s from Hull , there resided ; i peasant and his wife , both , si far as _Heknow , othonourablt ; and industrious habits the female In particular is spoken of as possessing very amiable qualities . For some time after their ¦ marriage they lived together , and their union was blessed with three children— . two _girls and a boy , when , the man left the village without informing hia _w if _« of his intention ; he hud been absent about five years , and no tidiiigs had been heard of him , when , during the last _fummer , it _wes whispered that his wife was pregnant , and a subsequent illness , after which she looked amallet than before , served to conlirai the ruiiiour , _; nd it was stated _ihat _' _means were _used to procure abortion . The _^ holc was , however , most positively ciii _. tradicfed _, and _nochild being seen or heard of , the report in course of Lime gained discredit , and the female was _locked upon as before b y her neighbours aud friends . The unpleasant surmises had scarf el ? subsided , when the kng-lost husband returned , was received with affection , and thecoupl . appeared to live again very happy together , a circumstance that was hailed with joy by all their acquaintance . It was , _howeverAof but short duration . A very few weeks after his arrival , the woman sickened , and one short week _terminated her earthly career , an event which was much deplored , and her remains were , interred with marks of great respect . Ouc consideration alleviated the _universal regret on ber account , and that was the _tlmelv return of her husband to become again indeed the father of hi children ; but i . he fact has since _transukeil which has tilled the village with horror . About a fortni ght after his wife ' s decease , the _Jinsn was removing a quantity of accumulated lumber out of one of his rooms , which bad for a long tilne been little used for anything else- _Amongst the rubbish was _somtrfhiufr tied up in a bundle , which he , knowing the impoverished circumstances of his wife during his absence , . did not suppose coulr . comain anything valuable , and consequently helhrew it with other _things upon the dmtg-hill _; where it bail Iain a . day or two , when early one morning ., a couple of dogs were seen tearing at it . This excited his curiosity , and upon _examining its contents , he found the _diijfi ! had been earing _tbif hand of a child , tbe remainder of whose carca . » _a still lay upon , tbe dirt-heap . Hia feelings may be more easily imagined th _' an described . He has been heard ( 6 . _« ny he would much raiher have found the child on-the . knees of his faithless wife .

      December 2, 1387. The Northern Star, R

      December 2 , 1387 . THE NORTHERN STAR , r

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      Anecdote Of Thk Queen;—"Diiring The Time...

      Anecdote of _thk Queen ;—" Diiring the time that her Majesty , while Princess Victori _a , was _residrng at Claremont , she was much in the habit of taking waits with her mother in Thu neighbourhood , to enjoy views of the line country which _^ urronnd Ksher . In one of these excursions , while walking in a _beautiful and shady lane not far from the park , they found _themselves close lo an encampment of the _Epyntian tribe , and h _? d not long b _£ en in sight before" the ytmthfiil princess was addressed by a bright-eyed crirl with fho usual words , " Tell yonr fortune , my dear ; you were born to good lufk ; you shall have a Inrrl across the seas mw ; you shall have seven children and a carriage , o ride in ; " tbe poor girl ! _lttle knowing at the time _. o whom she addressed hpc _^ eif . The Princess was proceeding with the _Dutdi _^ ss of Kent , when the id asked _hsr for a trifJe to _iissisr her poor mother _tvho was very ill ; with a _iicart ever touched by the cry of poverty , our iuteresting _IJueen _iiniekly defired to be _eoniluYied to the poor woman , whom hey found extended on a hard and comfortless l > cd , suffering much . After leaving a donation they departed ; hut the following morning , notwithstanding its being a 'flay of drizzling rain , saw the _charitable young Princess fit the gipsy ' _s encampnent _, followed hy an attendant _carrying _blankets , _varn * clothes , a ' black honncr , food , & c , _j _ppej * red in no small degree delighted when the poor woman presented ber with a beautiful , though _-iwarthv infant , _whiiih had heen horn during the light . The PrinceHfi , after requesting that the little stranger mighf lie chri « _tened' by tht mime of her tftenilant , WaltBr ,- left them amidst fhuwers of bletsings from { h _$ tribe . TMs story _v as related to a y * mng lady in the neighbourhood b _} ' the _£ _ipsy , who was hired to _« it for her uictiu ' . * . —Globe .

      Lawcashikb Wews. Manchester. Power-Loom ...

      _LAWCaSHIKB WEWS . MANCHESTER . POWER-LOOM WEAVERS' MEETING .

      A Public Meeting Of The Power Loom Weave...

      A public meeting of the Power Loom Weavers' of _Manchester ivasLeld in Lbescluinl of Science , opposite the _( _it'orge IV ., New ( ji-orge-stroet , Manchester , on Tuesday Evening last , to take into consideration l ! ie bestmeans to defcnd James and John Allison , ( brathers , ) and Pn trick _Cnsady , lHl ( 'in tbe employ of Mr . _lluest , of H alt I ' nwn , hut now under prosecution by the aforesaid Mr . Guest , for standing out for all advnnce of _wnges _eqiml to what other employers are giving , and now suffering in the New _Daileyurison , awaiting their _triaJs on a idiarge of conspiracy , whir . li charge is . utterly groundless . Mr . _Jaques in the chair ; who , after performing the preliminary business called ti [> on Mr . _Ali _. isox , one of the persecuted brother & wbo bad just been liberated upon _brril who was received with loud and enthusiastic _fbeeringj which continue _^ some minutes . When order was restored , Mr . Allison in n short nnd pointed speech thmikert the _meeting Ior the hearty _uiiiuner in wtnch they bin' taken up the cause of tbe trade and tho mark of _gratitnde towards himself who was now sull _' _eringfiirtherigliti-ollfiboiir along with his brother and Cassidy . lie _therefore ratnrued his sincere _thsiiiks for the kind maimlt in which they had been received . ( Me then sat _rlowu amidst loud cheers . Mb . "D- _^ Lt _ssud _, in standing before tins _djeeting bo never did _* _exp . ? ct thai the men of Manchester would have assembled . in so numerous and in so respectable a number jib tlieydoupon this _iinpurtnnt occasion . He was prondto find that the I _' ower Loom Weavers were pn » gres _<< iiig _toward knowledge that their minds were _expanding , and if the old _udagi' was true , that iL knowledge was power , " that they were prepared with sufficient knowledge Wknow their rights , knowing they dare _inuintain them . " That the _mask'rs are determined to put ( town our unions if possible , is evident , and ibr what purposes w _<» _knnw well ; but they sluill fiiu ] that we will not submit to their tyranny _, il Kit wo _ivill not tamely crouch to them , but that wo will maintain our stand as men [ I can assure _yiui of lay own _knowledge ,, that tbe men charged with conspiracy by Mr . _Guest are iniiocent , that they never _hrykutht _las _^ upciiBiiiiitu-d nn unjust set . These men _baftj bt'fn _rasej ] ti _^ liit- _waikinu'tbi-siree _. , which you will _aihiiit every fiufn has a right to do ; it is one of tbe liberties of _Eugliiml , tlie law allows it , _bntuijr _employers do not- The _^ _fnn _^ _he _. _1 _ter ( iuaruiail _has I stated tliattliesemen have been _priijuethi _g _; I _doSenv that tliey ever did , upon the 21 st of _Noveinbw _lasl , parndeln trout of Mr . Gnest's mill . I assert * that they were not then-, but [ hat I w , ts' 9 iere , snil headed on Ihe men who walkedin front ii [ the mill ; I Ihj thi men up not to _brenk tins neace or w _disrurti any one , but to pee _who _^ wa _^ going on there , and the man that would say that _eiflmr of the three men was therif would be- irniity of _tlui _grossesl _. perjury ; _thry were not there ut half-piisE five , nor nt sis , nor at seven , as the witnesses swore Ihiy were . It _gi-ieves me to seu men who were power lo & in _weavers , and who professed ti ) be the friends of the yorking cla _.-iies , after they goi to he overlookers , to _ai so limcb against their real interest ; when a pour _ian finds a fault , they to iiud favour , go to tail the nit _^ ter of his impertinence , i _. nd if the man should _conmlun or _flsk for more wages _Ibi _* hid labour , ihe qverlookdr books him as a dnngerons niiin . If you need one phiof out of many of tbe meat ; and lyrrtiinicnl cimduct _<( Mr . _ISuesl I will tell you _., that m his _Hiillho _wringaaVnin each of _hiuhajids the snm of two-pence pi * r we * for hut water , which puts into his pocket nt the taiilof the jenr the enonu . ins sum of ± . " 1 SJ 5 , which he hVs no right to ; Ibr by the kiw , stoppage is no paymlnt , and it is worse than highway _ronbeir _tu _wniigUroiii a poor mnu ' s _hari ' earnings _Iwo-pence per _weif for that which costs him _ci'mpnratively _notlung ; tlfe is a _* _aoiple of tricks _prniHiM . 'd by ] Mr . Guest _wV-n he huts a chance . entreat you ( it support _yoW brethren _itgainst th . power of a faction- Money iitbe smews ol war . and without it we cannot light oi battJe ; for die sake o " your trade , for the sake of imr remaining liberties aid us in our cause . He who ji not , for us isngainstus . and tlie man who would _trAiniph over the poor and rob them isf their rights of labour cannot be a good man . " Look [ o yonr wives _; tid clnldrt n aud think of the _fsiiiitlifcB of _iheso three ifen ; they demaml your aid , and when you . . supportthem you support yourselves . He _CDiji-lndcd Jiy _irliviug tile 1 st _Hesoluriou : — "Thatit iithe opinion n | this meeting that the incarceration of John jLnd . JimesAihson , and-Patrick _Passidy is cruel _ajidnnjnst . tnd therefore calls for tlie sympathies of every workiig person in the country , Hud iilsi * the _peamiinry _assisiance of the "working classes _ifen _£ rttl ) y . ' j iie

      Mr . \ 1 _'klsh se _^ ouded resolution which was carried _unaniiuiiuly . Mr . Dison sti ! t % l that _iijwasa well known fact that Mr . Gu _*> st was _waking _^ ie hands lower than any other master in Ih _^ town , _aQd if they suffered him to do so , it was net d _( ing justice . to other masters who were now paying lisber wages . Mr . Guest hud in his _widiedr . _CEs _cltarged his weavers with being drunkard :- _jpuliiuuiflral _characters , and the Mttitc / t / :. _* - _tct' < i ' _w-:- ' ' ' _Ti-L-aH _lib _^ IE' _* _thrfu _^ _h _J . _hc town _, but that lying _. pi . jier w ; mld utit publish the facts , and in _constepience they had been obliged to _paj him 1 ( is . for azi _ad'verdsenient stating the truth which the _Manvhexhr and Sal / aril Advertiser bad published for notliMg ; and those truths were quoted from the _nio-it _resp ctahle authorities in town . It mast be evident lhat Mr . Guest ' s plan has been to break up the Uniim , by preferring charges against innocent individuals ; and now three of our men , I say our best meBj arc suffering under his unfounded charges . I dciy him to bring a charge and maintain it by truth , lle _^ like a tyra , at _, to crush _ua more effectually , _lna preferred thrue charges , thereby creaMng in the eye of the law A conspiracy ; but let him heitarc—let him loot to the Porchester labourers , in "whysc behalf popular indignation has been roused—let him look to _; he Glasgow _eotton-Spinners , whf 3 re now iutarceratcd for _adiiering to the rights of indnstry ; they are examples that ought to create dread in their minds _; ind inspire yon with a spirit of _ituignation . It is : t matter concerning all trade- * , and if we do not now _iirnily unite we shall be _crusheil to the earth ; the working man has no'legislative _jirotectioii ; a bill w ; _is passed , in 1833 , to protect the factory labourer , but it soon fell into disuse ; and the mastery were left to make a taw of their owii , by _yjiich our brethren are now confined with rogues , thjeves , and almo = t murderers . Yes , honest men are _ttoomed to endure their company uDtil the _sofsio ' iiq " _, , if you stir not and support them , perhaps ( is or twelve niontbs in Lancaster Castle ; then _rjQy round them [ jr their _protectionourtyraut-4 will leave no step _uiiturned to inflict the heaviest punishment upon them ; he concluded by Moving the _Jnd Resolution , — " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the whole of the Trades Unions and the public at large bo immediately applied to , to assist us in obtaining the best professional talent to defend I hem , and that no legal m eaus should be wanted tn obtain justice for them . " Seconded by Mr . TJonavan , and passed unanimously . The _learCai ! that

      . eoninihjBp baynig Mr . F _« stgna O'C ' miucr _hai'J ' arrived in Manchester , s _« nt a _di _^ putatiou from their burly tit _request his attendance . Mb . O _Coakoh _accompunifil the deputation 'to theplac of _nuvSiug . nnd , _ii |) on _entering Ihe room was received m ' th the uiost enthusiastic cheering which lasted for several minutes ; ht » then _niountedthe platform and said : —Working men and women , I _arnvedin Manchester hy mero chance , bnt so rife is oppression that the iriends of the people have always chance , business pu band .. Here , said he , was itnother Dorfliester _bnsmess _^ aiiothcr attempt , while reform was daily _cliaunted hi rhe ear to subjugate lnb _>> ur and _i-rui ihe _slrsady half stoned Operatives . ( _Chirrs . ) But it _shooW . ii < _ji _lio ; _ivrds bad been tried , and dods hud _'beerr _trieil _T imd dnl the _ttjtflickers in bLiod mean to drive them to stones , ( hear , hear , and cheers , ) All laws _wereuOw made lij the rich ; and machinery bad displaced loan from hisli' _^ _iliniiitii' position in society . They , flits people . inirM bestir _themselves ' mid meet the new mder of ( _hihgs in _tlieir origin . —The Whigs had tried Hie coercive _scre-w at Glasgow , and that having [ ailed by the _ilcterminntiou of a brave and united people , 8 iey von tu reil here into tlie heart of the hive . ( Cheers . ) But n " , the drones shall leave it irst . ( Cheers . ) His _-iiowfeagi ! tif fhe im-n of _Lutice _^ hire and Vorkshire , and of fhe Irish leaven which was , thank fiod , amongst ihem ( tremendous cheering ) would teach tb _« prond _oppressor that stately pride should bow bffhre majestic but _in-iilted poverty ; Chepr _^ . j Hf-wnuld in : _iiresent on fhe d ; _iy of trial , inunense cheering . ) Aw I having commenced the bflttle witb die people , he "would still iigbt in their ranks in » pite of nmlccratii froivnsand _govemmeut iutimidarion . ( Cheers . ) He tiien _advortod to the glorious position in which Wakely nnd bis little band of patriots hud placed the _lir _^ _sure from without ; the people , were saining itr . _'ugth , nnd ihe fault was their owu if they lost ' " single _iucfrof gruund . ( Cheers . ) Iti ! had not ese _. led tlie _penple—he never appealed tu their passions , hut if necessary , and if the present course was _peijeiefed in , he would . —(( . 'beers . ) Mr . _Cojj _|* or went on to address the _meeting ut coniderable _Isiiglli , and Wat loudly _sheared throughout _, lie concluded byreeommimi ) iii _$ " thosi 3 present to commence' a _stuiscriptiou Ibr the flefenca of the brave operatives who bail ihe _sirlnc nnd _the _manliness to _efenil _thriT natural iuheritiiiicc against the enemiesall aocinl order . —( Tremenilone dieering . ) The meeting was also addressed by Messrs . Finny , ones , Sinclair , and Freekleton , and the following esolutions were passed ;— " That it is the oprainn of this meeting , ih ; _i ( no honest _powor-loom weaver either man , woman , or child , should work in Mr . _Gnest's milt until tht ; men _nnw under prosecution for if any other should bo prosecuted ) until the whole diem be restored tu the bosoms of their _familh-s , which [ hey ought not to hive been excluded from . " [ a t b ( of _^ br

      A Public Meeting Of The Power Loom Weave...

      lt That a committee he chosen , consisting of seven persons , with power to add to _the number , to carry the foregoing resolutions into efi ' ect . ' — - That the following persons do form the committee . " And a committee was _afterwards appoiuted to carry them intoefitot .

      . Mkf.Aschoi.V Death Thrduoh Dbuxken-Ses...

      . MKf . AscHoi . v Death _thrduoh _Dbuxken-SESS . _' -On Monday night , about half-past eleven o ' clock , ]\ Ir . _"VVarton , boot . and shoe-maker , Bradshaw-gare , Bolton , and his _' wife , were alarmed by a strong smell of fire ; and on _esainiuing the premises , Mr . _"Warton fuund the staircase and front room tilled with smoke . He went round into Haslam's yard ( as it is called ) , behind the house , and discovered that , the smoke proceeded from a _cottage occupied by one Jnhn Smith , a small broiler , and ilis family . He _inimcfliately tried to gain an entrance , and at length Smith ' s eldest girl got up to Ehe wilidow , and said that her father was drunk and asleep in bed , and she could liot wrike hila . At length the succeeded , and Smith came down stairs und opened the door . JTr . Wartoti went in , and the girl lighted a candle ; and on looking into a sm ; il ! cellar under the stairs _^ used for keeping coals , she aaw her mother lying with her clothes on Ere . Assistance was procured and Ihe unfortunate woman brought into Hie house ; but she was quite dead , and her . body literally roasted . It is thought tha tthe woman ' s clothe * having _caught fire , shewft _^ _making the best of her way to the water tap to _quench il . She was in a state of intoxication when the accident happened , and was a woman of very intemperate ! habits . She baa left three children , the youngest only twelve mouths old . The deceased and her husband camefroin Manchester to Bolton . _ExtuacikdiKSky PaoDUUE . — -Mr . Gregory " _flarreit , late of _Manchester , now residing _1 Q Wigtown , Scotland , cut up a _polatoe last spring , weighing two pounds _^ into 12 _li _seU , and planted it in liis garden ; and _incriiditele as it may appear , this single potato , which was got up on the _2 . je 1 i of last muntb , produced the _amazing quantity of 7 bushels , 101 b . and 1-5 O 2 . ; _or 2 S stones , 101 b . 15 02 . The number of potatoe ? was 1 _^ 718 . -A _SusPEOTi-. n _Hiuhway ' . Robber - —On _ThurSElay hist a man _namcil Michael . Sullivan way brought up at tbe New _Itiiiley , undersuspiciou of his bi . 'ing one of the men who attacked and :-robbed Mr . Brown , jun . _"Egeitos Terrace , New _Btrctford Eoad , on Wednesday week , in New Stretfor'l Koad ; and also of being one of a party of men who , on Tuesday evening last , stopped a gentleman named Leislcr , in Plymouth Grove , not ¦ tar distant from his residence , with a view to rob him . Mr . _Leislfw was attacked by three men , one of whom presented a pistol at him , and demanded _^ his money . He unbuttoned his coat , with a view to take some money out of bis pocket to endeavour tcrinduce the rascals

      to let him pass : , aud just at the moment he sprang through an _opening they _happened to make , and ran to the house of a neighbour , followed by his attackers _. They , however , thought it best , when Mr . Leisler alarmed the inmates of the house , to decamp _. He gave a description of them , and the appearance of one of the men was described' to be that of the prisoner . Mr . Lei _^ ler _wa--1 nnt iti court in _ideniilV him , not being aware of his apprehension . Mr . Brown , juii . attended , and said he was nearly certain . that tbe prisoner was one of t | ie three men who attacked him ; hut be should not like to swear to him . The particulars of the rohlery of Mr . _Urown were _friven in our paper of Saturday last .- — Ihere was nlso another _charge _agaisst Sullivao , more direct than the two former j and in fact it was whilst in the commission of ths _cn _' ence , that he was apprehended . About seven o ' ebek on Wednesday _evening last , as an elderly _person named Franks , residing in _litdloek-street , _Hnhne _, was proceeding through that street , ho _ivas attacked by four men , throo of whom faced him , and rhe fourth ( being the prisoner Sullivan ) went behind him , _peHed him down . A man who just then came up caused the three men to walk away ; but the prisoner remained , and him the man charged with Vnocking Mr . Franks down . On hearing this the three men returned , imd _coimnenced a fresh attack upon Mr . Trunks and the man ; and the prisoner rushed upon iVIr _. Franks , and : _tgaiu knocked inin down . Several people came to their assistance , ond tbe four men then decamped , the prisoner , snatching up the hat of the man who had come to Mr . _Eranlca assistance . He was pursued and caught , but the other three effected their escape . After this , Sullivan was giren int the custody of Mr . _Alkockdepuly-constable of

      , Hulirre . ; and it then appeared that he answered the description given of one of the men who robbfc _*! Mr . Brown , jun . and also one of tbe men who stopped Mr . Leisler . The above facts having been stated , tbe prisoner waa _reinniiacd to Friday-last , to give time for Mr . Leisler to attend in-court , and for fi _» Etlmr . _in" _* _'Utifi' » _cirtii _fio-jii- _^ t i ] -jy thi . _i-ciunw _^ r _va . again brought up , when it was stated , lhat Mr . Leiskr could no ! identify him , and Ihe case of th assault upon Mr . Franks was aj _^ _ain gone into , and the fact of his having stolen ihe hat _behmging Lo the man who . came to the assistance of Mr . _franks was also stated . Sullivan was then committed for trial at the sessions .

      Accident . — - It is a common . md very mischievous practice fer hoys to jump up behind omnibuses and _coaches , for the pleasure of a ride , and to get down when it suits them , the vehifiie being _srill in motion . On "Wednesday evening , a youlh , of the age of I 2 oi _) 3 years , was amusing himself with a ride behind a coach , on the vrty to ihe Cresent , _Salford , s _» nd gvit down near St . _Stephen's-street . In order to avoid anorher coach that was following close behind , crossed fhe road to gain the footpa , th ; but just at that moment , a hackney coach Coming En the opposite _direction , knocked him down , aud one of the wheels went over his body . He was immediately taken to the Salford Dispensary , and examined bv the _houri surgeon , who found that , although lie was much bruised , none of bis bones were broken . Soon afterwards , bewa . _* removed to the house of his parents , who live near the Adclphi . He is still a patient of the Dispensary , and it is as yet by no means certain that he has not received a serious injury . Suudrn Death . —An inquest was held on Wednesday last , on view of ihe body of John Tripr . ear , n — .. il l- _™ . ™ - _~ ,. _*] :--..- _< _-.-- - _^ J _:.-. _* -.. — __ - __ I _3 _t . Came over to visit him , and that he indulged tcofreel in pin and waiter ; and , being poorly on the foMovfm ; morning , was persuaded to take a little brand y in his tea . About half-past one o ' clock , he became wcsvse , complaining _of a severe pain in his chest , and on rising from his seat to walk across the floor , he fell headlong down . Mr . Brownbill , surgeon , was sen _i for but in ten minutes _Trijipear expired . He had _frequently been attacked with _severe pain about ths breast , and bad been told by a person whom he consulted , that be must be careful of _indulging in liquor to any excess , asit would be very dangerous to him . It was Ihe opinion of the _surgism , that he died of apoplexy , but thatit was _independent of the complaint at the breast , which was considered to be caused b y an affection of the heart . The jury returned a verdict iii accordance with the above facfe . THK _RoVAt _PltOCLd-JI-lTIO . V _DjS THE DISTRESS OF the Wuiffiisd _Cussei . —A new _species of knavery ha _# within a day or two been practised upon the attention was attracted to a crowd _gathered _ground a man very respectably dressed , wbo was holding a moderate-si _/ ed brown paper _pareelin _his-baud . lit ' was _informing tbe crowd , that , by _vh'tur ? of her iii

      ;] ji--ty " _sT"yaI _proelarnationj he Imd heen _shutdown tofliquire in to _theprcscnt distress _amongst ibe working classes , and had beon empowered , provided hp saw good reason , to distribute amongst the puor people the sum of * ' _£ , 000 , in sovereigns , wliich be was to sell for n . penny each . The crowd were purpurchasing the alleged sovereigns .. as last as ihe _pretended jmbassador of Iier _luajcst } 'conlil take their pennies , and the demand _threaleiied to be _grejiitr ilu . u the supply , when Livingston , who had a . very clear _remern _bi"rauc <> of the countenance of tlie man , put a stop bi Ms traffic b y taking him into custody , ami con h-rating the _sovereigns , thus depriving the working _classes of her _majesty's royal bounty' . ' He bund , that the so-c : tllcd sovereif n « were ibeiiallions . in cojiiTneiuoration of the curon & _fiim of his 1 late majesty , anil recognised his prisoner as a marl named CliurlesJaio . es , uliim _Ge . _irau Hpriry Fox . who had , few davs ; _"go _, been , _discharged _frorci the _^ aol , after ! irt : e months _eonHijeuientto which he was sen teuced y the court t i at tho sessions in July last , for fraudulently obtaining ten _shillings from a poor woman . On that occasion , he _accomplished his purpose in tliu . following manner . The woman was _waKiug alone iri ; _at Anr . " _jsts-street , when FoXj who w as j use behind her , " kicked _ccmethiii _^ r with hia feet , and took from the ground a small brown paper parcVl . The woman , wb < _J 9 B curiosity was _excitwl , ran to free what if . was , when Fo _£ _siiiil , Oh dear ] some poor person has bad _afloat loss ; it's a _^ _overeipn ; as you appear & prior woman , aud saw me pick it up , you _sbnil have half it . ' Thy _wujnan was at length foolish _enough lo _iie _^ him ten _shillings , and _received in _wxchanjie the ring t __ _ tray last . On Friday this _ineurati ' e swindler was ought tip , at the _Itfcw _Bailey , when liu was a _^ _uin committed to _^ aol for 1 the apace of One inonth _' ns ri i

      To Our Subuviubers. Asplendid Porfmit, F...

      TO OUR SUBUVIUBERS . ASplendid Porfmit _, from a _Sfeel Eirr / _rai-iiig _, « f FEARGUS' _OTOXiSTOR ' upl £ _fe Presented , _Gndtdloiist y , rf / _i tht ; Ileai ! eri nf THE NORTHERN STAR , _with tin , Fifth _NtHfBSSlti _Specimen * mill be in the Hands nf our _several _st < jents early in the minting week , iv 6 o are requimted to semi their Orders to the _Ojfi'V nf the Paper , ax speedily as possible ,- as ; _-l' ) \ ' / Litnji : Orders hare nlrettdi / reafJted tie ; and those uJtfi tL'luy limeh _^ _Ajs _/ Juiifmiix _iiioi / be _disiqij _/ ointid .

      Makoss' Stihse.—By Some' Aecident The No...

      _Makoss' Stihse . —By some' _aecident the notice of this strike in last weeks il _Xwtlient _& _ar " was " _inserted under the head of _Hudderslield instead of Maiiches _' _ter : The strike yet continues ; more tliau _twu hundred men are out . . _THuria FitoM _LouaiNds . —A man named "William Lee _* vas brought up at the New . Baily on _Mon---day , _chiirpei ! witb stealing a book of tbe value of £ 2 the protjem ol' a person named Win . Ancell , residingiu _Curabci land-street , in whose house the prisoner lodged . I * _appealed that on Thursday week lie went _otit of the house , -ihere being then only a little girl there , and carried away tbe _buok with him , audit _wasmisfed about eleven o ' clock on the same evening . Ic was found pledged at the _ahop of Mr . Gee , pawnbroker , _Salford _" ; and from the description given of the man wko pk-d _^ edit , Hoiyanh , liie oflicer , succeeded in apprehending the prisoner , anil he wa _$ _identified . Theboi'k , a . commentary on _thefts * Testament , _wbs produce . ] , arid the prisioner was commitCed for trial at the _Sessions . ™ On the same flay a man named James _Grcenhnl | . ; h , a collier , was brought up . at the Kew-Builcy . charged wilh _stealing a number of articles of wearing _apparel from the house of John BrsdSnrn , Irbim _> : oth _' -He % ht . He had lodged in Bnidburn ' _shnuje during a period of live weeks , and on "Wednesday _last ho took an opportunity of _decajnpinp with . a . uomplete _^ _uit of new clothes , and other articles btlou _£ - _iug to _"Bnidliurn , _-ud was not heard of until thepro- _partj' was 4 bii nd pledged at the shop of Mr . Carter , ¦ pawnbroker , Nicholas-street . The prisoner was afterwards apprehended by Livin _^ ton , the office !" , an * was identmed . He Aaa committed for trial . it _tinsessions .

      _KOCHDAM . A Foul . —A ias . ii of the name of B . _Huward , . the individual who hiss « d Mr . O'Connor when _att was lecturing in the theatre in Itochdale ,. to shew his opposition to the principles- of Radicalism , burnt the _^ _orHiern Star last week , in a public-house in , this town before tile whole comiiany . Riicui _)* le Radical Association- —This Aasoci _^ _tioEt had sent a letter of remonstrance , to Mr . J _ Fen ton , the M . P . of this Borough , far not Toting for 3 Ir . Wakely- _' g _ameiiibueut on the Address . Lecture . —Mr . James Tavlor will give _ulecturc in the Association Itoom , on Tut _^ ilay the 5 tli of December , on ihe present _stutir Parliament , Man Found Pgowneu . —On Friday monunglast , the 34 th inst ., a man was discovered floating ' in the Rochdale Canal Bason ; when got out he wa _? tilkcn to the Navigation Inn _itod identified to be a boalnlau , who had been missing about & weelt ; but as he was in the h : ibit of absenting himself at manytimeS , no thought of making search after him was necessary . He presented a most horrifying appearance _; his head being three times its natural size and the face quite black ; che body loo was swollen to an enormous _si' _-e , ; _is his shir t could not be goc oH" without _riiiphig it open . He was a native of some part of _Yorkshire , and went by _Ihe appellation of " _Yorkshire Jack . " An inquest has been held on tlie _body ; the opinion is that he must have got drunk and in returning to the vessel had fallen intothe water

      . _Retail Bee a Fellers . —There Rro about lOCr Retail Beer Sellers _williin the Borough of Undulate , To ni which have _signed a 1 ' e _. tition _praying that an _Inior _lonj-vr might be allowed them to fell _liceriu the Evening , which was presented to the _Magistrates on Monday , bnt tile _Magistrates informed them they _ocnild nu ; at tlie present time comply _witli _Ihalr . Petition , and it would be _nes i September before they could give thamany positive answer lo their re- ' _lucst . _iNUi-EST at MiituLETON . —On Tuesday last , an inquest was held at the Hare and Hounds inn ,. 'i ' _ouftelane , near Midilietou , on tbe body of Jonathan , youngest son of the lute Mr . Fielding , late governor of _PresMvich workhouse , whose murder at the ahove workhouse , about two months , since , has formed Ihe subject of painful attention . The deceased had been in a low state of mind ever since his father ' s _J _^ _AlJi , _jinil-liail _££ !> eiit * _yiW- said _to-hxa witV be could not get _uYer il . His _condutre ln _« t week inductd his friends to remove the razors and house-knives out of his reach . They intended to place a man as _ivatth over him , but that step was not taken ; and on Sunday . last , about six o ' clock in the morning , he got up fa _liiiht the fire and _nhortly after called to _. hifl wife who was in bed and said lie bad cut his i . _hrost ; she went down stairs and found him with a wound in front of his throat , out by a knife used by weavers to dress their work witb . She ran out of the house _followed by him and called for help ; several neighbours took him into the house and sent Tor Mr . _Lirldle _surgeon , who rendered every assist--anee in a" short time . He became convulsed at . intervals and during one of those agonizing struggles _, the _lilfiod gushed out of hia mouth and nosirils andhe inimediately died . Verdiot' — Committed ijuicidu while in a state _of temporary insanity . " He was 31 years of age aiid was married only six months since . His wife is _pregnant . There is no doubt but the consequence of his father being murdered worked ou bis feelings .

      Spiitlakd OfERSEEh ' _s Degts . —A subscription is now in progress in the township of Sprotland , to pay oft' some old debts to the amount of . £ 9 UI ) , or thereabouts , which were contracted when Collinwood was overseer ] he was put in by the Rochdale Tory bencu contrary to the rate-payers _.. He proved to k i very _jireat defaulter and ran . away with the four books , and acknowledged before Mr . Lioyd , barrister , that he had taken £ 1 _^ 0 per year for thirteen years besides his . salary , whieb together with interest at the rate of five per eent . will amount to , _£ 2 J (> 2 13 s , !» d . Now as the overseers , who are now in in office , are not liable for old debts , the overseers then in office are liable for - some of them . The Tory rate-payera retiise to . contribute _^ unless the whole of the debts _together with the law _expenses , & c . be paid . Since the Liberal , party put overseers into office they have niaiiiisred the affairs wilh a-Teduction of une-third in- - the r . iws . So much for Radicalism in 5 _jiovJami > It is lo be hoped the Tories will not get into office again ; if they do , tbey will very Boon find thenway into the rate-payers pockets . Rochdale _ConSEkvatives . —The operative Conservatives have begun to find it out that the Church party are not going to give them another Tory feed this Christinas . They tell them they cautiot pay off the _expences of eating and drinking at _the late elections . ' It is to he hoped the operatives will open their eyes . Toryism in likely to be eitinet in" Kochdak amongst the work-people . Lecture—Rochdale . —On _Wednesday evoning a public meeting was held" in tile L _' liitarian Chapel , Clover-street , Rochdale , when a lecture wa _.-. delivered on the New SoOtal Systems , as taught by Robert Owen , Esq ., late of New Lanark , by Mr . George Fleming , of Manchester .

      Oldhflm, Tu'bl.Lc Disxkit To Mh. John Kn...

      _OlDHflM _, _TU'Bl _. lC DISXKIt TO MH . JOHN KNIGHT . . A public dinner in honom- of ( lie hiith dav of this ¦ old and well-tried patriot- was hedden at Oldhnm , oil _Woilntsday last . _W _tf nre _sorrv _thtf crowded . _£ t * Lt * j of imp columns _precludes the possibility of our giving a'report of the _speKches _tliiawnck , wo hoput to ilo so in our next , _. Tue _fallowin _^ toas ( s were -i _/ ivou froni Ih'j chair , aiid rapturously received . —' _¦ ' _'llie _Pei'pk * : ill * ' _jjrijductive people , ( _heSonrce of all le _^ _itimafc _PowuV . Our venerable aud worthy Guest , Mr . John . _Knight , nm ! ; a ! l those who have laboured in _advocating _fte Iti _^ bt _^ and Interests of the _pmdiictive _cliis-es , - ' _ind _buffered for so doing . That the Man whose : til nil regard-does not extend & i all tbe poor People- - nf hi 1 ' arisli , is unqualified for , and unworthy of - " ( mini an _Uvcrscor or ( _iirardian of _sucli foor _. - _iiichard Oasiler , J _^ sq _., _-tiie _Kealuus , the _ptrs _^ tr-» £ , kud tiia powBrtui _udvooali ; of tho _fauiprV' . ; ChiL _(! _rtji and the Ten _Uouiit Factory Bin . - _Feail-ps O'Connor , Jisq . _llto intrepid Defender of the _IXirditster Labourers : the ( _Jlasgijw Spinners * C ' _ommittfe' and _zealous ami powerful _Advocate of the _Radical AsBOciatioiil Rev . J . 11 . Stephens , and _L'liivcrsal _Suli ' rage : the Ballot ; Annual PiirliiimeiBs : and no l _' ropert _ v _tjualitication . Uev . _Jihuoh Taylor , and Civil _audRi . 'h ' _gions Liberty- I > r . J _. _^ ioes l ' _'letcher , nnd no New Poor Laws . The R _. _-wiical - ' Members of the _Boi-auoh ni Oldliam : _i--Q ,: iuid General Johnson . Ttie _IluBt , _Est [ . the Bold find t ' uuhiching Iho _M ' ui _^ ini . " ( . _'lapses . _& nd tbu _inu-iidtsd _sLvttcoih of _August , _taj ! _l . Tbe late Esd .: Major _Cartwrigbl . Robert _Ennnett _PoEticuHy , iiiid _Vhilnuthroiiic . _ally lll all _Netioiis . "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 2, 1837, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/nss_02121837/page/5/