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( From the Northern Liberator . ) We believe we are the c-aly real" Conservatives . " People Adopt the title who disgrace it , and therefore men hive &t last beeome ashamed of it ; bat the term is a good one , notwithstanding . "We sot only value and venerate the really old English Canstitutioo , of which Universal Suffrage was parttike old good-natured an si just common law of England , whieh &r Edward Coke held , had a corrective and controlling power over . mere statute law—a sentence which Holt confirmed—we not only Talne these things hut we also Tenerate exceedingly all manner of old custom * peculiar to this our beloved soil of England . We lore to drink healths after
dinner , and give toasts ; we delight to see wassail kept at Christmas , and "Whitsuntide , and merry Shrovetide . Old as we are we bowl our Easter eggs amongst the child res ,, bet eschew the bad CUStBDV of "janping" them to see whieh it hardest , taking it to be a mere contemptible and cerrupt modern innovation arising out of the worthless conflicts of Whigs and Tories in thesa Utter degeserate times . If we missed mince pie in the last week of tJie year , or had a Sunday ' s dinner without a podding or dumpling , we should expect an earthquake . Let there b * a buH baiting within ten miles and we ¦ hall b « there . "We regularly attend " iir * suppers , " snd patronise all "sword dancers , " and "fool pi » ughs . " "We loBg to see the pesple practising the
use of arm » 8 n holidays , shooting atmarks , and playing matches at broad sword and quarter staff . And isstly , we are , or were , great admirers and writers of Talentines . Such berujt the case , we have great pleasure in writing this article , whieh has fallen to ur lot , in an odd , but we must insist , providential manner . There has been a monstrous deal of postoSiee accidents thi » year . Last week the / rJusting don mail bag was mwsmg , and we don ' t knew whether it his cast up yet . All that we can say is , that * ee have Bot found it . In the twopenny post the
same disastrous fatalities have occurred ; and ^ amongst other things there has been a prodigies lass of " Yakntines , " this -fourteenth of February . How the following packet escaped the twopensy postman ' s bag and found its way down to our office it would fee toe tedioa * to recount—suffice it to say , that after marvellous " accidents by flood and field , " it at Uugth found a . haven at 89 , Side , Newcastle , probably so ordaine-i that its bright contents , which otherwise would have beea , might not be lost to the world .
A packet of Valentines to Ministers of State must have been a weighty affair for a twopenny post—no woader it miscarried—if coming into hands like oars can be called a miscarriage for anything , which we are inclined to doubt . "With these observations , we at once apply to oar packet , -and dipping at a venture , catch Jso . 1 . "Captain Swing to Lord Howick : we declare ! what a blaze of a beginning ! and all by good lnck too . No wonderwe win . it raffles .
CAPTAIN SWING TO LORD HOWICK . Tver ] logician , who cu'tt nike A " Lucifer" the eonititntioa , Aceept the think * of Swine , ud take Ttua complimentary effusion . "Witii it aceept » "bex of matches , Dark leathern , and » mi » k so tragic ; For » 1 ) lh »* e implements ire » m » tth »* Of thy famed conflagration logic . I » fe , jot Lord , trith deep delight , Thai niee dark February weather ; A&d hnpe some murgv , mistv , sight , We'll set »« me nets on fire together . Thos wlojri » tie » llT wen-ing According u > thy trgal notion , Bow well the People ' * Charter '< moving , And the full TCBith of their
devotion-So come and he my Valentin * , And for the people let n » wrestle ; The fl » il-like crwt of Swixg be mine , Tnine shall h « Fletcher ' s" turning pestle . '" SWING . • • • • " vTTiat comes next . ' Hcxza ! " Peter Thimble te Lord Durham ! " <¦ Finis corxmat Opus . '' The Ead crowas all .
PETER THIMBLE TO LORD DURHAM . Vy Lord , my fingtn long hare had the itch , finee ro » ir rrtnrn t' indiw to yoa » letter ; la shcrt , my Lord , U gire you a long stitch ; Or , in politer phrase , to write a sweater ; And ant jour Lordship * * ear to all the newt Aiwnt the poor , the drril , and the Jews . Yotrr Lordsha ml , I know , too trinse « uogntal , Not TXUo Jd » ith-o » t » iam gives great heed , And seen ihat soon there ' ll be as end to ratal , If the pauper people be allowed t » breed . Bat now , my Lord , we ' re Ml ' n npen a fellow Who beats both Malthms and hi * " checks" dead hollow . Halthvs night prate of prnience and restraint , But what ' s restraint vhea men ae * girls have diana * ? Or who , tales * it be some Popish taint ,
Can keep them ont of one asother ' i arms ? Lore says to Malthua , ' tis in rain ywir goll to trr ; And married once , by jingo they wnB multiply ! This was o « r case , as well you Lordship know *; And hence cape many a most sopernooos carcase ; Whgn fortune in onr waj a God-send thiowi A prime ¦ hiloaopher ! His cams is " Marcu * . " And he > -Twljim < " now by the holy poker , 111 gire their surplus progeny a choker !" In short , jcy Lord , wb find that onr aalvattcm Rests solely is eaTbonie acid " GAS ;" And to oar Aoctrine to convert the nation Is ail we now need bring to cease te pass : . To put the matter cat of all conjecture , " MareuV next week , my Lord , intends to before ' .
The lectare to take place at Hertford College , - In the same room where Malthas once held forth ; And te drink np this sew found spring of knowledge Come » U the iilleuiiu , soath and north ; May we not hope yonr Lordship will he there To meet Mia Hartineaii ? Breugnam takes the chair . ' We hare eesrei th « XorO&m ISttretor , Who , thoogh a scamp in many things notorious , Is jet a troe phi ] aaopher by nature—Anl for igpwt * of meetings mlly glctrkm * , I nerer yet beheld » Peer so nimble . — Your Lordship ' s swat obedient— Perm TnriTRi . E .
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SOCIALISM , AS A RELIGIOUS THEORY , Irrational and Absurd . The first of three Lectures on Socialism ( as propounded by Robert Owen and other * , ) del'iTered in the Baptist Chapel , South Parade , Leeds , September 23 rd , 1838 , by John Etjstacb GiI / RS , Minister . London : Simpkin , Marshall & Co . ; G . Wightman . Leeds : John Heaton . SOCIALISM AS IT I §! Lectures in Reply to the fallacies and misrepresentation * of the Rer , John Eustace Giles , Baptist Minister , Letds . Bt Joshtfa Hobsos . —Leeds : Joshua Hobson .
Theological controTeruy is of so expansive a character , that , when once introduced into the columns ef a newspaper , it u extremely difficult to restrain its encroachment * within such reasonable limits as shall not oecupy at least a portion of the space which . oMht to ha * e been demoted to subjects mere properly adapted to the sphere of a newspaper . Besides which , tbe opinions af mankind ingeneral are . so high , upon religious matters , that the most unreasonable prejudices are eften formed against the political , social , and eren private characters of
those who are obnoxious upon religious grounds . As a proof of this , many excellent Christians who hold political opinions similar to those of Thomas Paine , are so filled with abhorrence of Paine ' g character on account of hi » thtologjcal writing * , that the Tery name of Paine , even as a politician , is offensiYe to them . The knowledge of these facts has induced us , throughout our whole career as journalists , as & matter of » rnde » oai necessity , to exclude from the correspondence and origi&al matter of this paper all controversy on theological opinions . For the same reason , we have also , in tbe literary
department , abstained fr « m firing any opinion of the controversial merits of such works of this nature zi have been forwarded to us for notice . As journalists we deaira to be held accountable to the public only for our riewson politics and society , and hence in whatever notice , whether in the shape of reviews , or literary criticism , we have found it necessary to take « f tbe pe « on « called " Socialists , who have recently made no small noise m « Teral parti of the country , -we hate inTariaWy confined our remarks t » those txrwJgeHjenta of tocierj contemplatedby tbe Socialists , by which the gradations of rank , the accumulation of wealth , and the distribution would be affected ; leaving untouched all the metaphysical dogmas or d&ctrines is which they comWt the generally received opinions on
Theology . "We do not intend to deviate from onr usual practice npon this occasion . The two works whose titles are set forth at the head of the article are intended by their respective authors to bear ^ v&Tas each other the relation of "bane and antidote . " TVe ghall give no decision between tbe parties as to ^ e cogency or eonclusiveness of their . arguments . Our criticisms will ¥ e merely literary and historical . The circumstances out of which Mr . Giles ' s work arose are thus stated by himself in his preface : —
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"The following u the first of a series of three lector ** ielirered by tfc * writer , at his m nl » e » « f wonkuvaader cire » B »» t » a 5 « * hieh he trosta wiH be deej » eT 7 « umdr » t apolsgy for has presenting feuurff , in so promaent » manner , Ully alluded to come of tbe own of Socialism , m he had see * them « xlubijeff in " ewT « two pnblie journals , her * aired , sheriljr after , a communication from tht Commute . oTboeiahaUjnthM town , mcloaiag tickeU for free admi&don to * cow * of lectoxes by Mr . Owen , and requesting him to oflr « rpibMy « aehrtmari ^ at the close of eih , as&e might v ? r r SoA eoo ^ wuwtion he eonld regard in no other B | ( b . t tkas * riattenge to pu > lie diMusrioB ; for which fte nafl neither time nor inclination ; hit u it mu couched in rMpecUn . 1 term * , snd confirmed or a note eouallr nolib . ¦
oy « r . Owen himself , with the extreme wickedness of whose seatuaenu he wu then unacquainted , ht deemed it his « ty to attend one of tha lectures , in which there was little , eomnaratirel y peaking , objectionable ; and » t the dote , after wantang the Socialist ! for their ehrilitr , informed them that , -noagh he eonld » ot sanction ih « praeti «»* f committing smb-Jeeti ttflmterr important to the merey of erteffiporaiieoM tbouht and tlw passions of a personal debate , he won \ a willinglr , if famished with a statement of thsir seBtimenU , give ^ them a serious elimination , and . if he thought they required it , refute them in print . Accordingly , he was soon after gratuitously fnrnished with some of Mr . ' Owen ' i publications , which he praeecded to rend with as little delay as his nomerens enfmgeBKaU , during tba nmnjar , would s , Uew , and with a prraossessioa in their far our that thev were th «
productions of a mind Mmewhat sceptical and visionary , ret incapable of a mjaligmant hatred to religion , and by no meui nnfnendly to go » d ntorals . The pemsal soon convinced him of his mistake ; and unfolded so maay impious and licentious principles ; so many hypocritical pretences , petvrithstandiag , to virtu * and philanthropy ; so many apologies fer crime : so xroch inveterate hatred to civil government ; to many artful cantrivancea to ensnare th * superficial o * t crude metaphysical subtleties , the indolent by promises of luxury without labour , and the »> nsus . l by a ptrpptual eulogy of the animal appetites , and the prospect of a Muhomedan Paradise , as awakened in his mind a dttests-tiea to the » y > -tem to which he was
preriously a stranger . With ths *? altered impre » , ions , the writer . after aliitle farther delay elsewhere explained , felt bound to caution the public against th « felly , wtckedness , and misehi « r * us tendency of a system , which he saw prossgaud with an industry worthy of a better cause ; and , consequently , delivered his three lectures , which awakened a sensation , and were honoured with an attendance , that be had little right tt expect . The same motives which first led him to deliver hi > lectures , combined with tue circurcstaace that icaiiy persoi » werenjiible to gain admittance , induced him , at the reqnei ' of intelligent friends ef different denominations , to annou&chi * determination to print what was delivered with such alter ations as he might think desirable .
Arailmg himself of the liberty which he retained in that announcement , he haa entirvl y omitted his nrsfyTopositiun en the imporUnc * or religion , as he fuund that the same senttments w «; re necessaril y repeated in other parts of the Ui » cour » e , while the omUsisn would enable him to exsand hii aixuiaent » n rttpontibility , as well as introduce » ome observ . » Uoau on thf s « K : ialUt ' views of death and eternity , whUh , for ^ i nt sf toe , wnre onaitted whrn the lecture was d « Hrertd . He has also made occasional alteratiun- < in the phraseology and illu . strs . twns , aU of whieh , he tmtts , will be regarded u improTenienti . "
^ fe happened to hear the first ef Mr . Giles ' s three Lectures on Socialism , delivered by that gentleman in his chapel at Leeds ; and from the assertion contained in the title page , and repeated at the commencement of the preface , we naturally expected on reading the book to find this the same lecture which we then heard ; or , at least , something bearing a dose resemblance to it . "We have seldom bgea more entirely deceived . The pamphlet before us , which purports to be the lecture delivered by Mr , Giles is do more like the lecture wkich Mr . Giles did deliver than au elaborate and moderately well reasoned treatise is like a very loose , unconnected , and ictemperately worded harangue . A large amount of
new matter has been added since the delivery—a considerable portion of what was delivered is here suppressed , imd the greater portion of tbe remainder rewritten in such a manner as , in some instance * to completely to change its application . Never before did we see the licence of a lecturer to improve a lecture , preTiou . i to publication , so literally interpreted . " We tnok , for own gratification , copious cotes of Mr . Giles ' s lecture as delivered . "We have compared our note book with the present pamphlet , and find so little resemblance , that if tbe Rev . author had not assured us in his title page that this is the lecture delivered by him in the Baptist Chapel at Leeds , we certainly should not have been able to recognize it .
5 lr . Giles "hopes , " in hii preface , that his " alterations " will be all " thought to be improvements . " No doubt they are so . There was abundance of room for improvement ; but we would very respectfully suggest to Mr . Giles , that when the il improvements " of any work amount to the entire remodelling of tie whole , it looks very much like an outrage of morality to persist in calling it the sa . 77 ie work . Vf e assert unhesitatingly , that the book before us is no mor « the lecture delivered by Mr . Gile * in the Baptist Chapel , than the new parish church , now building in L . su * , will be , when finished , the old parish church , which was pulled down .
vVe have already stat « d our intention to give no opinion of the controversial merits of the two works btfore us , bnt we cannot keep from such of our readers as incline to read both , the knowledge of the fact , that the reply of Mr . Hobson was published , at leajt so much of it as relates t « Mr . Giles ' s first lecture , long before the publication of the " lecture " to which it is a reply ; ard that Mr . Giles seems tn have taken advantage of that circumstance for a fflo't disiDgenuou . « purpose—that of altering or expunging all the portions ef his lecture quoted and commented on in the reply . In Mr . Hobson ' s book , Quotations are made from Mr . Giles ' s lecture
as delivered , which we perfectly recollect , and know to be Accurate , of which not a single word appears in the pamphlet purporting to be Mr . Giles ' s lecture . Other quotations from Mr . Giles , upon which Mr . HobsoB remark * very astringently , are so rewritten by Mr . Giles as to convey quite a different meaning ia the book front that which they did convey when he uttered them in the pulpit . On the whole , Mr . Hobsou has been completely "jockied . " The prior publication of hit reply has enabled his adversary to disarm , and so to arrange his pamphlet , as that , though intended to form the bane and antidote to each other , the counter lectures shall have little apparent connection .
This is the most fraudulent and dismgtnuous mode of conducting a controversy we ever knew ; but it is Mr . Giles ' s mode , and no doubt he can reconcile it with hu own notions of morality . We confess it does not square with ours . Of tbe literary merits of these two works we shall « iy but little . The production of Mr . Giles has no extraordinary merit ai a literary composition , but it is certainly far beyond anything which we expecttd from hi » pea aftet tbe exhibition we
had heard from his pulpit . Mr . Hobson describes himself as a plain working man , without any pretension tn either talent or learning . Hi 3 lecture * are written in smooth , flowing , harmonious language , which sometimes ri * es into eloquenee . His sarcasm is severe , but polished , and the didactic portions of hi * discourses are perspicuous and well calculated to secure a favourable consideration of bis subject . He complains bitterly , and justly , of -the trick which has been played him by his uncandid opponent .
THE REV . DR . PYE SMITH , and the NEW POOR LAW . ByStMBJSL Roberts . London : Whittaker and Co ., Ave Maria Lane ; Shef&eld , Whitaker and Co ., Insurance Office . This is a work arising out of local circumrtances connected with the persecution , by the withdrawal of a large portion of his very scanty li ving fron an Independent Minister resident in the neigbbourheod of the author , on account of his honest denunciation of the law of devil s for the imprisonment and murder of the poor . The matter is thus stated by Mr . Roberts : —
" Within a few miles of Shefteld is situated a considerable tract of land which , till within these very few yearn , was ene of the rudest , most barren wilds Is the Kingdom , producing very little besides rocks , ferns , heath , and holly bushes . During many ye » TS there swung with the wind on the highest peak ( contained in iron ribi , ) the bleached bones of Frank K « a . rn , the treacherous murderer of poor Andrews . This was in those savage times when the bodies of murderers were rdeted to be gibetted , or delivered up to the surgeons for diasectisn—practice * now so revolting to our refined feelings , that the fortnfr is entirely prohibited , and the latter solely confined ts those who , for the crime of poverty , hare been east into vriaon . and bare been there famished . This wild
tract of country , called Loxley Chase , is reported to have been the native place of Robert de Loxley , alias Robin Bood , the house in which he was born being said to _ harp bee » standing some few years back : his well still remains . About the centre of this wild , almost houseless wilderness , was built some time in the beginning of the last half centary , by a clergyman of the name of Greaves , a chapel ( swing to some dispute about it , sold to tht Independents . ) Here it still stands—a church in the wilderness—it has during » even or eight yeart been supplied by the Rer . John Hanson , who , from there being no higheT dignitary near , ha * been long Btrlei the " Bi » bop of Loxley . " I nerer tad the pleasure of knowing him till my opposition to the unchristian Kew Poor Law induced him to naxe himself kn » wn to me .
Mr . Hanson evidently felt very waraly on the subject , ¦ which , I think , every Christian minister must do , who , faithfuiito his trust , dares boldly , as e good shepherd of his Lori asd MasteT , » t whatever risk , seek to prouct the feeble flock committed to bis charge from the fangs of the devouring wolves . Still I knew bnt little about him;—at length on again meeting with him , he requested me to afford him an opportunity of disclosing to me th « way in which he bad been treated by the Rer . Dr . J * ye Smith . Thw he represented as being tyrannical and unchristian in the extreme . He produced Bondry papers , letters , and documents , in confirmation of his assertions ; 1 , however , declined looking at them , till 1 h * a hsS an opportunity of making further inquiry respecting him—the accuser . _ . _ . _ ,, Sheffield distantl
Dr Pve Smith is a native of —we are rerj y related ' lhad known something of him in his youth , but exeeutine as a public man , 1 havelcnown nothing of him since . After » while , applications were made U me to centnbnte with ethers toward the requisite . meansi of supporting Mr . Hanson in his fltuation as Minister of the Independent Sof Loxley , since he had , it was stated , through the bKrWntality of l > r . Pye Snmb , been deprrred of a greal SrtoHiis accustomed scanty . upend , fur having opposed the &l Poor Law . Tue circumstance * induced Hi . to commenee tiK following correspondence with the Dxtsr :-. .
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"XV THB KKV . ]» r > rit SMITH . : v ¦ Pufc ttsjige , fai ? 16 th , 1898 . " REVERB !* r / SrR r -I b » v « beea applied to on behalf of a Mr . HauwB , I brffcye-tro Independent Minister preachiM at Chapel , U Loxley , fer whom it appears ai » attempt is making tonke a » ub * criptioD , » eoiweqaBnee , h k is- stated , of bis having been deprived •! 3 considerable part efhia very mall uwseme , because he mi strongly opposed to th » New Pour Law Bill . Te m « it we * slated that yos was . tb » erase of thi * being 4 m 1 have laoagbt U only justice to y » D to state thi * cireum » t » nee , that you may , if- yon think propnr , favour me with yow statement of the cue , as I mm always careful of kcitnjr or the representation of one party . I dare say that you are acquainted with my sentiments on the subject •/ the satdBilL Bat lest you should not , I have sent along with this what will satisfy jrou on that head . I conceive that J ft » ve been ealled » pon in an especial manner to expose said Dww » e the Bill U » the mtmoet of » y power , as measure eifcmnve to 6 ed and deetrocttve to nan , both individually and collectively . I skaU be obliged by speedy answer , as 1 most soon do nomething on the occasion . Waiting which , I remain , Reverend Sir , your * , 4 e . " Samuel Roberts " A long correspondence follows , for which we must refer o « r readers to the book—after which the author resumes : — Now , it wen » to me that these eireiunatencps feireumstances previously detajUei ] tend strongly to elucidate the inramoua , iugniyM means By ' which the accursed New PoerLaw w yet , in name , i . t least upheld ; a * well as the cause of the Rer . Mr . ilauon ' s having been s » cruelly and tvTanmcaUy treated . , It seems rmm ' uite her * to mention that the Ministerial income of the ( so * tyled } Bishop arises from the rental of pews or sitting * , his share of whUtt has been only mbont eleven pound * a-yew , or mbout few shillings and Hixpence a-week , or ssvenpence d-day . The » tmo » t that he had in those )'«™ , wb * n all the additions were allowed him , did not double this . He i » a fine , stout man , and could earn three times this amount by working at the railroads . It then a » ervi » nt , who does his duty—and tiU ha eppo » ed the Hew Poor Law , I underatand , he was not an / way complained pf— bi » worthy » f his hire , he certainly Was not then overpaid , even 011 the scale of Bubop ' s alle > ranee in the Apoatle * ' times . Thure are , it ia
true , some thing * that were required of the latter in which he tails vhort ; for liutaact , he is not the husband of onu wife , for he cannot afford ( . keep one . If he be given to hospitality , it must » e the hospitality of others . Neither doth he rule well his own hoane , for he has aot one to rnl «; while from having no such thing * , he do * i net keep his children in subjection with all gravity . Bating these deviations , I have heard of nothing to have aUqmlified Wim from baing an Apostolic Bishop . I do not knuw *( hat he has more than » ne coat , at any rate he can ha . ve no very hlameahle superabundance '' of them . When it is knowu that his lodging * are four milea from hw chapel , that his congregation i » a very widely » cattered or * ; that as on hk freqnest Tiiits among the rocks to the poor , aadj >« n hu journey backwards and forwards , he is obliged to be content with two leather , or wooden shoes , i » . stead of four iron » neu , it may be supposed that he n-ean them out an fast a * he can well afford to replace them . I dare say that from plain living , and plenty of exercise in a bleak , wild country , hia » toraach does » ot often require wine , otherwise , I fear , ihat ha would find it difficult to obey the Apostolic
injunction . D- ! 7 evioU 8 t 0 ^ P " ? ° f the inhuman New Poor Law BUI , it would scarcely have been credited that Mammon could so far have overcome all the dictate * of Christianity in any of jto proresaors-es ^ ciall y in any of its appointed euloreers-as " > n * . ve induced ihem to h » ve buen actively instrumental in withdrawing Irom a regularly ordained—( he was regularly educated atMasbrough College)—aetiri . Minister of the Gospel ot Christ , a considerable portion of a stipend , so scanty , as to be barel y adequate to the nffurding liun a bare m . intenance , and even a moderately decent appearance , and that solely , a * it appears , for having rertued to be the servant of mea in mhathe justly ooneeived to be the ways » f wickedness , and determinedly persevering in the paths of Christian charity andholmess . > rom ths situation in which thi . Minister of t&B Uospel was placed , hw flock were , irenerallv sneaki ™ . tram
poor- the scantmt-ss of hU means , his connections were prineip * ny among the poor . He heard of , he knew , hef . lt their suffering * He . nodonbt , ha . himself experienced the gnaning pau . of h « nger , and has , in a theiwand instances , witnessed , u effects on other * . { sincerely wish that ev-rv advocate and mlent eawurager of the acenrsed N « w Bill , might , once » -week , feel it in it . full force for a few hours , till farff . r e " ° W ftfeUn « for ^ P" ° - ThU fello " m irg < w ? * n 80 or other ' thU humble Minister of HIM , who . when on earth , had not where to reit his head , wno was reviled and rejected of men—who was a man of » . rrows and acquainted with grief ~» f whom it was truly said , No sorrows were like unto his son-own , " is , it seenu , per » e < uted and impoverished by the Scribes and Pharisees of these dayn , becauSHhehas dared to espouse the cause of tho »« whom the Sayionr loved , and to care ter these for whom Uk son of God cared and died . "
The whole work is written ia that racy style of raanl y , English feeling , which essentially characterises the many works of thin truly excellent man , upon the suhject of the poor lawi . It contains , besides the matter of Dr . Pye Smith aad the R * v . Mr . HansoB , mueh valuable matter that ought to be generally read and well digested . e ^ i .
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™ ^ Ks ^ AdVrV ™ ™ The seven years' war originated in a dispnte with the trench , about a tract of land in the wilderness of Aorth America , and has often been called a strife about so many acres nf snow . " Hostilitie * quickly spread from one nation to another , and in various parts of Germany , the work of destruction was so complete , that many opulent families having los every thing were compelled to subsist themselves by eating grass . The Grand Seignor invited the European ministew at bis Court to n conference , and after deplonng ; the miseries of the war them raging between Christian nations , offered hit mediation to restore
peace . This offer , however , wag rejected , and ho » - tihties were continued till 1763 . Ttis war was the most fortunate England ever engaged in . onehnnhred ships of war were taken from the enemy , and twelve million * » terlmg divided in prize money ! o ™ ™ " ° successes cost the nation the lives of 250 , 000 of her sons , and one hundred ana eleven millions of treasure . George the II ., did not live to see the termination of the war , but died at Kensington , October , 1 "GO . It was during this war , on one of the public fastdays appointed to pray for victory , that a clergyman delivered the following impressive address to his hearers , viz : —
" When the workings of bad passions are swelled to their height , bvmntual animosity and opposition —war ensues . War is a state in which our feeliBgs and » ur duties snffer a strange inversion , a state in which it becomes our business to hnrt and aanoy our neighbour by every possible means . Instead of cultivating , to destroy—instead of building , to pull down—instead of peopling to depopulate . A state in which we drink the tears and ieed up » n the miseries of our fellow creatures ; yet war may be said to be with regard to nations the rin which most easily besets them . We , my friends , in common with ether nations , have much guilt to repent of from this cause , and it ought to make & large part of our humiliation on this day . When we carry onr eyes back through the long records of our history , we
ee—Wars of plunder , Wars of conquest , Wars of religion , Wars ef pride , Wars of succession , Wars of idle speculation , Ware of unjust interference , and hardly among them one war of necessary selfdefence xn any ef onr essential or very important interest * . Or late years , indeed , we have known none of tbe calamities of war in our own country , bat the wasteful expense or it ; and sitting aloof , we have calmly voted slaughter , and merchandized destruction ;—so much blood and tears for so many rupees , or dollar * , or ingots .
Oar warshave been wars of cool calculating interests , as free from hatred , as from love of mankind ; the passions which stir the blood have had no Bhare in them . We devote a certain number of men to perish on land and » ea , and the rest of ui sleep sound and protected in our usual occupations , and talk of the events of war , as what diversifies the flat uniformity of life . We should , therefore , do well to translate iirT war int 0 lan E « more intelligible to us . When we pay © ur army and onr aavy estimates , let ns net down , — So much for Jailing . So much for maiming . So much for fer making widows and orphans , So much for bringing famine upon a district . So much for corrupting citizens and subjects into spies and traitors .
So much for ruining industrious tradesmen and making bankrupts . So much for letting loose the demons of fury , rapine , and lust , within the fold of cultivated society , and giving to the brutal ferocity of the most ferosious , its lull scope and range of invention . We shall by this means know what we have paid our money for , whether we have made a good bargain , and whether the account is likely to pas . *—elsewhere . We must take in , too , all those concomitant circumstances which make war , comridered as battle the least part of itself .
W e must nx onr eyes , not on the hero returning with conquest , nor yet on the gallant officer dying in the bed of honour , —the subject of picture and of song , but on the private soldier , forced into the service , exhausted by camp sickness and fatigne—pale , emaciated , —crawling to an hospital wita the pro ** pecU of life , perhaps a long life , —blasted , useless , and suffering . We mnst think of the uncounted tears of her who weeps alone , because the only being who shared her sentiments is taken from her ; no martial music » # BDds in unison with her feelings ; the long day passes , and he returns not . She does aot shed her sorrows over his grave , for she has . aever learnt whether he had one ! If he had returned , his exertions would not have been remembered individuall y ; for be only made a smallimperceptiblepart of a httmaa machin » called a regiment .
M e must take in the long sickness which no glory soothes , occasioned by distress of mind , anxiety , and ruined fortunes . These are no fancy pictures . We must take in the- consequences , felt perhaps for ages , before a country which has been completely desolated , lift its head again , —like a torrent of lava , its worst misGhief is net tbe first overwhelmiag ruin of towers and palaces , but the long sterility to which it condemns the tr $ ct it has covered \ vithita g fream , ' " - " "
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Add to these the danger to regular jtimrnmeuts which are changed bjr war , ¦ om « in » # to anarth * and aometime * to despotism : and then let us tbipk ¦ u I& ?\ , / P ^ tonning these exploits , . isidated W )* r \ , ?* ' « ood a ** Wthfttl ^ rvant" ^ whether ( Ae ptaudti is likely tx be echoed m mother place . ¦ ' .. ¦* ¦
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How to atoid HAViKo Visitobs ^ Jb persob complaining that his noraifigs were too mueb taken up with tuitors , *«* adriMd by a friend to lend money to the poorer sort , and to ask favours « f tbe rich . The plan '« ucoe « ded . Doctoring . -Dr . Pitoairn ' taring been pot oa a shooting party one whole morning without killing any thing , hw servant begged heave to go over into the next field , for he was sure there were aome birds t . ere : And , ' added he , « if there are . I'HphvBic
mem . ' vnysic them , ' « aid the roaster ; * what do you mean U that ? ' « Wh y , kill them , tobe sure , ' immediately replied the gerrant * Sir Joshua Ebynolds . —' "What do you ask for tbis sketch ? ' said Sir Joshua to an old picturedealer , whose portfolio he was looking over . 'Twenty guineas , your honour . ' « Twenty pence , I suppose you mean . ' * Ne-, sir : it is true I would have taken twenty pence for it this morning , but , if you think it worth" looking at , all the world will think it worth buying /
Chkstprfibld ' s Advice . —Lord Chesterfield had a chaplain who led a life that did no great honour to his cl « th . His lordship was at length compelled to take notice of his conduct , but , knowing the patient was squeamish , be gweetentd the medicine in tbe following manner : ^ he told him , with a smile of good humour , that if to the few vices be had already be would add one more he did not doubt his character might be much improved . The plergyman desiring to know what it might be , he was answered by his lordship , * Hypocrisy , doctor : only a little hypocrisy . ' ,
Irish Hanging—Two Irishmen about to be hanged dtrring the rebellion of 1798 , the gallows was erected over the margin of a river . When the first man was drawn up the rope gave way ; he fell into the stream , and escaped by swimming . The remaining culprit looked up to the executioner , and said with genuine native simplicity , and an earnestness that evinced his sincerity , 'Do , good Mr . Ketch , if you please , tie me up tight , for if the repe breaks I ' m sure to be drowned , for I can ' t swim a stroke . ' A Monkish Bull . —An Italian monk , in his Life of St . Francis Xavier , asserted , that by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island .
Assertion without Proof . —Mr . Boaden , the dramatic twaddler , gave Drury-laue Theatre the title of a wilderness . This reached the ears of Sheridan , who did not forget it when he was requested to accept a tragedy of Mr . Boaden ' s . ' No , uo , ' said Sheridan , ' the wise and discreet author calls our house a wilderness . Now I don't mind letting tbe oracle have his opinion , but it is really too much for him to expect I will suffer him to prove his words . ' Sketching Adventures . —The late Mr . Brown , so justly famed for his knowledof desij
ge gn having often remarked in his neighbourhood a ruinous cottage , where the line * came in as one could wish , and admitfed a fine breadth of light and shadow , resolved to make a . drawing of it . Wkile he was at work , an old woman came out to him dropping many a courtesy— 'I am very glad your honour has eome to laok » t it yourself . I bare told the steward , over and over and over again , that the heuse would fall down about my ears , but he did not mind me . I hope your honour will order it to be either pulled down or done up s « on . '
Eddystone Lighthouse . —Some time after the Eddystone Lightbpnse was erected , a shoemaker engaged to be Hght-keeger . VThen in the boat which conveyed him thither , the ikipper addressed him said , ' How happens it , Jacob , that y » u ghould choose to go and lb « oooped up here as a lightkeeper , when you can on shore , as I am told , earn balf-a-crown and three shillings a day in making leathern hb » ( leathern pipes go called ) , whereas the light-keeper ' s salary is but £ 25 a year , which is scarcely ten shillings a week ?'— ' Every one to hi * taste , replied Jacob , promptly : * I go to be lightkeeper because I don ' t like confinement . '
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THE SAVINGS' BANK MURDER . To the Editor of the Northern Liberator . Sir , —In the Tyne Mercury newspaper of this week , the editor baa inserted , the following paragraphs in reference to the Savings' Bank murder : — 1 st . " We have heard that Bolam last week expressed a wish te see a Magistrate , and one would have been sent to him , but his solicitor came in the meantime , when nothing more was said about it . " 2 nd . " Bolam has , by advice of his solicitors , made an assignment of his property to his relatives . " 3 rd . " Up to this day , Bolam had not decided where he will be tried , whether in the town or county—he oscillates between tbe two , but cannot fix . "
Now these paragraphs appear to . me calculated to have an influence on the public mind very prejudicial to Mr . Bolam ; and it becomes my duty , as Mr . Bolam ' s solicitor , to counteract , as far as I am able the ill effects likely to result frem them . ' With respect to the first paragraph , I am able to state the circumstance from which it has probably arisen . Mr . Bolam conceives that the act of the Directors of the Savings' Bank in disposing of-hia situation of actuary , previous to his trial , might have an injurious effect on the public mind , and believing that the Directors could have no desire or intention to prejudice his case , he is desirous of having an interview with some of the authorities of the Bank , as he thinks that something might be done to counteract the ill effect of their proceedings
and he has for some time been hoping to have a visit from the Secretary or some of the Directors , in cqnjjequence of a letter which he lately addressed to the Directors through the Secretary j he thought also that it might be desirable for him to see the Mayor of Newcastle respecting it , he being , by virtue of his office , a Trustee of the Bank . With this object in view , he some days ago enquired of the Chaplain of tbe Gaol » whether be could be permitted t » « ee a Magistrate , " the Magistrate he having in view being the Mayor of Newcastle , as a Trustee of the Bank . The Chaplain replied he did not know , but he would inquire of the Governor , which he did and afterwards communicated to Mr . Bolam that be eonld . ••¦ ¦ ' .
Now this is the sole groundwork for the statement made in the first paragraphV ' ef wiicb I complain . I venture to aisej-t that few ^ Jji read that paragraph who will not come totheconclusioB thai Mr . Bolam expressed a wish to see a Magistrate in order to confess but that his solicitor came in the way and prevented it . ; I need hardly sajr-that the facts of the cane do not in tbe slightest degree justify such a conclusion ; but the paragraph is untrue i » all its essential parts . Mr . B . did not express : a wish to see a Magistrate , and one would not have been sent but for his solicitor coming in the meantime . The second paragraph is also totally devoid of
truth . Mr . Bolam has not made any assignment of bis property either to his relatives or to any other person . ' With respect to the third paragraph it is certainly true that it is not yet decided whether the trial will be in the town or the county ; but it is not true that Mr . BoUm " oscillates between the twe , but cannot fix . ' ! Mr . Bolam has from the first adhered to one opinion upon this subject . From that be has never varied ; bat as the application to try in tbe eounty will , if made at all , be made to the Judges at tbe Assizes , and as circumstances may occur up te the last moment which may influence the decision , it hag hitherto been considered premature to decide upnn this point .
I regret that I should have to occupy so mush of your paper on this subject , but justice to any unfortunate individual requires it . It appears to me there baa been an opinion too generally entertained that Mr . Bolam , and be alone , is the guilty party , and attention has been too exclusivel y devoted to ferret out circumstances tending to establish Aw guilt , instead of being mere generally directed to the discovery of some clue to the perpetrator of the appalling crimes with which Mr . Bolam is charged . Some of the public prints have , I thinktoo much
, acted upon this principle ; In the present instance , ' the untrue statements of _ the Tyne Mercury are novr in the shape of halfpenny handbills , hawking about the tewn by the bill-venders , and the injurious stdtemeuts are thus tarried into quarters which the refutation will never reach . As respects Mr . Bolam , himself , I can truly state , that his conduct and demeanour have been widely different from what might have been expected from a guilty man ; he has uniformly rejected every suggestion that has been brought under his notice which could indicate a con .
sciousness of guilt , or a fear of the result . ' of his trial . It was suggested to him that an application might he made te put off the trial till the suin , meT Assizes , on the ground of prejudice at tiiig \\ m % pep .
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vading the public mind , which , he was to . ld , would , ^ W ' P ^ blibiKty ^ te ' iati ) inrfai / . v : ' : Oath » tiawe . gr 6 a »* H ww "Oggested to him that , he might * pply to ¦ hwrrtta tpil at York , or aome other distant p ) a * e , The subject ef waning his property was-alsp . brought under bis notice . AH these suggestions , and other * which I mj gbt mention , ho at once and unhesitatingly rejeoted j - respecting hig property , his *? . ? 1 ° I" * > " lfti * J tak » » r life for a crime ^ Jl 10 Blft inn () cent * key may take my ptojerty Iain , Sir , Your obedient servant ,
TH 0 S . SWINBURNE . Gateshead , Feb . 13 , 1839 . P . S . I was not until to-day aware that the statement respecting tke assignment of Mr . Bblam ' s property was in tae Newcastle Journal of Saturdav last ^ had I known this in time I should have noticed it in the Mercury of last week .
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ADDRESS OF THE RADICALS OF LIVERSEDGE IN 32 IE WEST RIDING , TO THEIR BROTHER RADICALS AND FELLOW COUNTRYMEN OF THE UNITED "KINGDOM . Fellow Countrymen , —The crisis of England ^ greatness seems to be at hand , , aad without the united efforts of the working classra nntbmg can prevent tbis country—once tht- envy of surroundiHg nations , and , the admiration of the world—from sinking into the common grave of nations . For what , fellow countrymen , w our Hituation at the present P 0 a the one haad , an Aristooraoy Hinting in wealth intiaitelr greater than that of many
eontiBentarpotentates : factory lords more vain , more insolent , more tyrannical , and in some instances almost as wealthy as the Aristocracy : ships- fitted up in the style of palaces , to convey the produce of ub industry , to the furthest corner of the worldw , and bring , in retura , all that a bountiful Creator ba » made conducive to the comfort or caprice of man i with jpachinery . capable of producing , if properly applied , inbnitety mere than our extravagance cari consumer a population the most patient and industrious the world ever saw : with a country bedecked with palaces , and cultivated like a garden , and yet with all our advantages , what is our situation ? A government with a debt , funded and unfunded , of more than one thousand millions contracted for'the
express purpose of preventingthe people from having their just share of the legislature of the country : with taxes to the amount of fifty-four millions a year , and yet unable to carry on the affairs of the country !—and the people who produce all this wealth , who build and man all these ships , who erect all these factories , and make and work aU this machinery , who cultivate this garden-like country , and rear these sumptuous palaces—the people who created aU steeped in poverty to the very lips , called idle and improvident , told that they have ne right to the smallest portion of that food which their labour has produced , told , after having spent their lives ia producing the wealth of this immensely rich oountry ., that they must then be thrown on their
own resources , and , that nature has doomed them and . their progeny to starve , plans openly proposed to murder them at their birth , and transporting them when grown , laws actually passed to tear the wife from tbe husband , children from their parents , and the sucking infant from the frantic mother ' s knee to immure them in bastiles to starve , and at the end of their hurried career to g ive their weak ; emaciated bodies to the surgeons for dissection . _ . We shudder as we write . Cruelty , combined with despotism , can go no further ; and it requires not the wisdom of a Solomon to predict that a . eriws is at hand in the affairs of England . Such being our liUation the question naturally arises , what is to prevent the evidently impending ruin of our country ? The only means capable of saving this country , and restoring tbe labourer to that station in society to which he is
justly entitled is , in obtaining for every man who is liable to be called upon to fight the battle * of his country and contribute to its taxes , a vote in the election of those men who are to make the laws by which he 13 to be governed . There is no other remedy . Then let us press us , united in hand and heart , to obtain so glorious a prize . Let us not be led , to the right band or to the left by any of the decoys which the cunning of despotism may throw out to allure us ; for of this be assured , our friends , that tbe questions of the Ballot and repeal of the Corn Laws are but baits thrown out to the whole to divert our attention from the all-important object of the Suffrage . With Universal Suffrage , all that is good and proper'for mankind can he achieved ; and without it notluug can be obtained that will better the condition of the labourer .
-Fellow countrymen , you have wen by the speech from the Throne tbat the Government is determined to crush us . You must be prepared to meet the « veat . With all their cant about moral force , they are evidently preparing to use physical force , and we have therefore no alternative but to sink quietly into abject slaves , or shew the- determined front of men who are conscious of their rights , and are determined to obtain th « m , or perish with arms in their hands in making the attempt . Away with all siekly stuff about patience and petitions , have they not arrested Stephens ? Are we to stand idly by and be patient while they crush our best men ? Gr are we to
remain unmoved until they glut in his streaming blood and not make a determined effort to pravent it ? If we do , may our fate be a mock word , may the men of all lands laugh out with a sound that shall ring to the poles . -We must first prepare to assi *^ him tnth our purses to obtain for him all the aid . wnich the chicanery of the law will allow . We must make determined efforts to preserve Stephens . If we da not , who are the men of fortitude and talent to be found , where . will endeavour to rescue us from the hands of oppression , if we desert the-m the
moment they are ponnced upon by lawless power ? Then by the saored name of liberty , by the love you bear your homes , your wives , your children , we conjure you to precs on in the glorious cause . Let us render all the assistance in our power to the men who have nobly dared to go to tbe National Convention . And let us tell despotism to its teeth that for a nation to be free , it is sufficient she wills it . We are in good faith and hope , Thk Radicals of Litbbsedge . Radical Room , Liversedge , February 11 th , 1819 .
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m The whole charge of Coroners in Middlesex and Westminster last year was £ 4 , 709 15 s . 4 d . More Police Centralization . ^ -In the true spirit of centralization , the Uader Secretary of State for the Home Department , walking in the steps of the Chief Secretary , has obtained leave to introduce a bill for extending the metropolitan police to places not now within the sphere « f its operation , and especially to include the City of London . Some of our Tory contemporaries have sturdily opposed the proposed plan , as an unwarrantable interference with the chartered rights of the London corporation . It ix needless to cay , that in such feelings we do not participate ; for , did we , we most oppose the reform of that corporation , which is wanted bad enough . We have no respect for what was once a chartered right , when it has become a vested wrOBg ; bat Mr .
Fox Maule ' s bill is particularly ill-timed , as regards tbe city of London . Great changes in the police have just been made , and at a large cost . Why not let the new system alone for a time , in order to ascertain whether it works well ? Why should the Home Secretary at once come down upon it , and , before its merit is tested , declare that it shall be abolished ? See to what lengths our centralizing ministers will go , for the gratification of their captions fancies ! The metropolitan police is ako to be extended to other * places . ' ' What those '' places" are , we are not told . But this bill is obviously a part of the rural police scheme , and ia in conformity with tbat great plan of concentration , which , if permitted to proceed , will become so fatal to the liberties of the country . Lord John Russell seems determined—are the peeple watchful ? —• Charter .
Three Wives Murdered bv a Husband . —In November , 1827 ,, an inhabitant of Beaupreau , in tbe Maine et Loire , married a young woman of some property , who , in the February following , made a . will inlavonr of her husband , and died the next May , after suffering the most horrible convulsions . Jn October 1830 , the same man named another woman by whom he bad four children : of these two died after enduring dreadful j > ains in the stomach for two or three dayjs ; and ; in May , 1837 , the * ecbnd wife expired witntne same symptoms , and in the following week pne of the two sumving children . In : February 1838 , the widower married a third wife with property : and in May lwt she made & wffl in H «
tav « ur , and shertly afterwards died in the same manner asher predecessoii ) . Notwithstanding thiairaccession of .. circumstances which mighiha , ve been justly considered suspieipns , noinqtiiry into theeanses of these deaths was made till October last , when the maa ia question was arrested on snspicion . and a postbnmous inspection of the tody Of thfetbird wife proved the existence of arsenic among the remains . The bodies of three other * of tbe Yic % ,, were exhumed and exammed last month by somechemlsts and medical men , but the resalt has not been m ^ de pnbli ^ , i he man baa been committed on suspicion of murder , and w to take bis trial before > the Court of A « sizesfor the department ' . It 'is stated that at the time ^ of bis arrest he tfri pn tBe poiat of fproung a fourth , matnage , "" ¦ " ^^«
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"DRAPURS' PUFFS . " TO THE EDITORS pr THE NORTHERN 8 TAB . Gbwtmmen , —Allow me , threngh ' the medium of yooF widely and extensively circulated paper , to address- a few lines to the labouring daises rf Hnddersfleld and ite vicinity , to be on their guard at the present ame , how and . where they lay out their small overplns a * the drapers' shops in Huddersfield , as there are twe-w fliree who , at tbepresefnt time , ( and have been , ) if you will allow me ' the word , enllinr the public , with' putting ont bills , headed " sellmr off , " " decliBiHg business . " drc ,, and it is weU known to severali of the inhabitants its all a heap 01
ruage , merei 7 to deceive tbe people and tbi lewer classes , who may not have the knowledge and foretHought whkh the generality of the labouring classes in the town have and know from facts rt- ^ all humbug ; for the very same trick was played aboat two yews ago b y tbe same individuals , and they still continue to do the same every two years . Let me as ope who earns his bread by hard- working , early ; tad lateu warn my fellow operatives , to RO where-they will be u ., ed better and no flummery . I remain , yonrs , Sir , Haddmfield , 14 th Febru ^ riX P *'
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Suicide . —Last week , a- respectable farmer , ofthe name « f Newman , at Lattan , near Crickl « de , comwas tite ' dea ^ ahootW 8 himaelf - Whe n found he Reward of LABOTJB . —An enormous quantitr of shirts and stays ara-made in Portsmouth and . Porteea , but infamous and unjustly low prices are given for the work performed . The best workers cannot obtain two shillings a-week , thougfi they work early and late ; and the fact . will be scarcely credited , that a dozen of 8 eamens * shirts are made foxjenpence ! and even this price has been known to be withheld , on the ground that the work is bad r A better article , ealled yacht-shirts , ' with full bosoms aad sritohed eoUitrs and cuffi » , are made for & . j | d ; per doten ^ At these prices , the wretched ^ alest } annotjeain- / t » oip « M ? e a-day I—Hampshire Telegraph . * " '
i . b ^ Accidb Nt . —A serious accident occurred at Bnshngton , a few miles distant from Bristol , on the line of the Great Western Railway , on Thursday evening . Some workmen employed in the formation of the centreing of the arch in ; tunnel No . 1 , were alarmed by a portion of th © Ibnck-work giving way ^ and before they were enabled to escape , the masonry fell upon them , and three of the men were killed upon the spot . A number of labourers engaged in another part of the tunnel . ran to their assistance , and almost immediately they reached the spot a still larger mass of brick-work fell H , by which two others sustained very severe fractures of the skull , and seven or ei ght others were injured . At an inquest held en . the-bodies ef tbe deceased , a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned .
Triple ^ Murder . —A triple assawtinatioH was committed on the morningof the 8 th insi ^ on th » persons of twoa ^ ed peasants , named Boileau ( man and wife ) and their daughter , 19 years of age , in the commune of St . C yr , department of Indre-et-Loire . 1 be ill-fated victims were murdered in their bedroom , and the body of the old man was shockingly mutilated . The crime was apparently an act of vengeance alone , as no property was taken from th © apartment As soon as the authorities were mformed
of the horrible deed , a warrant was issued forth © apprehension of an iadividaal named Romain , who had lived as servant with Boileau , and who , a fewdays before the murder , had been discharged by him ,, and accused of robbery . On being cMlronted with the victims , Romain ^ who is a rrari of most ferocious character , preserved the utmost sangfroid but his replies to the iaterroeatery to which he was subjected being far from satisfactory , h » was committed for trial . —French Paper .
Awetjl Sodden , Death . —A professional gentleman named Christopher Waggett Dunsoombe , Esq ., from Cork , who was stopping at Hughes ' * Hotel , Wicklow-street , Dublin , returned from the residence of his brother-in-law , a Mr- Baeheloraboutsix miles from town , on Tuesday , got off the car at the hotel door , walked up stairs ,, spoke to a gentleman in the drawing room , and seemed in perfeet health and spirits ; He called the ^ waiter , and de 8 iredhim to pay the carman- The Waiter had scarcely left the room for the purpose when he heard him fall , and , upon returning ,, found him in an apparently lifeless state . Doctors were immedi ately called in , when bleeding and other means were resorted to in vain—the vital spark had fled . . He was a , fine-looking young man ,, about / thirty ; years of age . —Dublin Packet .
Settlement of an Illegitimate Child . — In an answer . toa . auestion _ respecting the settlement of an illegitimate child , born . since the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act , whose mother has married subsequeatly to that period , he ? htwband being now deceased , the Poer Law Commissioners have stated , tbat " The 7 lst section of the Poor . Law Amendment Act declared , that bastards born since the passing of that Act shall have and follow the settlement of their mother uatil they attain the age of sixteen , or acquire a settlement in their own right . The Commissioners , have had occasion to take the opinion of Counsel as to the construction of the section , and they are advised that the case where the mother marries is Hot an exception , and that the settlement acquired by such marriage would be to her illegitimate children .
^ Horrible Murder . —A horrible murder—that of a Bon by his-father—was committed on Thursday , the 31 st alt ., in tbe parish of Cloyne , and under circumstances of great infatuation ^ The name © f the murderer is James Forrest . He had been , on the day mentioned , in the town of Cloyne , and , returning abyut ai o ' clock in the evening , he found his son , -a little boy of 13 , alone in the house . The child ate his supper , after which the father rose from the fire , at which both had been sitting " took up a shovel , and , without giving the son any reason to suspect his intention , struck him with it heavily behind the ear , and killed him . He then dug a hole near the wallunderthe bedand buried him
, , , . The murder was a secret until Sunday , when , unable to conceal it any longer , Forrest confessed it to some 6 f his neighbours . He afterwards went into Cloyne , and , meeting an acquaintance , got him to accompany him to the police , to whom he gave himself up . The body was taken up on Monday by the police , and properly interred . An inquest was held on Tuesday by f Bjlr . Geran , coroner .. Drs . Butt and Cashman , who made a post mortem examination , declared the death to have been occasioned by the inflicted , and awrdiet of " Wilful Murder" was returned . against the father , who was yesterday brought iptogaolby the Middleton police . —Cork Constitution .
Death of a Miserable Old Miser . —A woman , named Grace Lock , died recently in the villaw of Sutton-at-Hone , Kent . We snbjoin the following « tatem « nt of her death , also a list of the persons who are benefitted thereby r—?* Infirmity seemed rapidly coming upon her , and she wasInduced to have adistant relation , AUred Richardsen , a Wan with a large family , to look after the hoase , which was nowkept more cleanly ; bnt a clean house is a poof substitute for an empty stomach , and she c « ntinaed to deny herself that sustenance which her feeble and almost bed-ndd « n state so urgently demanded . Every attention / was paid to her by Mr . Tippett , of Dartford ; bnt the most earnest entreaties of that
gentleman woaldnot persnade her toalter her * crat « e of We , and sh * expired , without pity or T ^ rlt , om Wednesdayfojtaigbt , at the age of *; an ? on th » foHowmg ^ Wedaesday her impoverishexl bones were laid in Ue famU ^ v sjlt at Ash Church . There was jnst room left for her coffin ; and she is the last of her family bearing ike name of Lock . Tims has the tomb _ cl < wed opon the ashes of a being who sustained fifty yeaw of human suffering and die bitwhich , if irhad been properly applied b * herself , might have : convened ind a ^ aradS t £ t earth which ,, accordiiw . to her mode of livin *
. must have presented to her all the homw of " &W «; 1 ? r \ Sntton-at-Hpoe , jEIQO ; James fl ' ? ^ "?! ^^/ % Browa Bear vGreenhitne £ 100 Mm . Mary DeaB ^ favegeBd ^ j £ 300 ; to the late MT ^^ * ***»« & Ightham ^ lawl Mr . rhomas Dean , of VTrotJiam , £ 300 , and an S ^^ ^ ' ^ htsd » e « » ofVShant 'SSr K ^* ® V F y- «« wl-rorveyor irl E ? seiu . £ 2 flp ; to eacfcof the executors , £ 1 ^ 00 ; Mr . A ^ 8 ^ d » a ,. 4 !) fld ., Mr 8 , A-VluSoX £ 1 , 000 ; the executorsuxirustfor thechildwn ( th © ?
^ , 500 V ^^ hitak ^ £ ^ 00 rMr . l » S ^ ^>^ J , te * 5 Tans , disWrsjof Sadro » £ 2 , 000 j to the fenily df the . above , gentT emaiu . £ 2 , 450 ; ¦ Mrs . Harriet FeUows , at , W ™ aS £ 1 £ 2 , 000 } the cousins 'or Miss L&k V' SvWoi of the family of Mr , MagmrtfS'VV ? ^ Z £ * A green , ) foOQjMr . R . Tipp ^ X ? / ; S ) . Mr . WhitakwandMi ?;|®* - . Dartford , £ 3 , 000 , each £ 2 , 400 . i . The- r ^ fe ^ .. es , before-me ^ Woned , eq . uaUykvided ^^^ , of ^ e • &&' % & ! Fellow ' eB , ¦ : ' ! & *?? . ^ Mr . Whittaker ^ Mrs . pertj whi <^ sV . iold residence wiih ^ aftjhe pro ; exeeWa . -- "T- held on mortgages , to Jp i ®** w » datt ^ 4 m ; S waada tedOctober ^ ge . ¦ ^ y ^^^^ Js ^ & -vorton , 01 T Mau ^_ . r ^ dhurat , o / Sd rtoa . ^^ " ' ?
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 23, 1839, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1046/page/7/
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