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THE NOETHEEF STAR. SATURDAY , MARCH 30.
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PBANCE . The Citizen King has now been for two or three wetks in a quandary . Ba £ as the electoral and representative sjgiem in that country it , the voice is yet faintly heard through the electors of the middle ranks , is whom the spirit of patriotism and independence i » not wholly extinct . These hare taught the traitor-tyrant , by the result of the late ejections , tha : his systematized aggressions upon the liberties of the people whom he had cheated ef their freedom , was about to be checked in its ajeer—that he wax not to be siufered to go on goveraing the country in the teeth of all those sacred princi p les of liberty and popular right which fee had swore to maintain and uphold . The spirit of
despotism is erer blind and reckless ia its folly , and hence , as no ministers can he found hardy enough to stxnd in the gap and take the responsibility of setting the aroused people at defiance , the political wheel has been for some time tnrnitc and returning in a state nearly approximating a stand still Hatters have evidently come to a crisis , on the issue of which the future destinies of France depend . The question is not whether this or that man shall occupy this or that position in the cabinet ; but whether Louis PhilV . poe shall put his heel en the
French people and keep it there . The major portion of the pop-alar French papers intimate very legibly that rulers are oftt-n so stupid as to require frequent lessons in the book of revolution , one , or two , nr tfc-ee examples seem to be little heeded , and when it is so , another and more impressive les « on becomes necessary and must follow . "We hope ¦ iEcereiy that the next leaf which the French turn over in the book of revolution , will be a closins lesson—a last cat sat acainst tyranny in all its form ? , by the establishment of the supremacy of the whole people .
SPAIN . Bayonne letters of the ISrh inst . state , that the impression wjis general in the North of Spais that the contest for the Spanish Crown would be settled by treaty . The troops of . Espartero and of Maroto respective ! y had rercrred to t ' aeir quarters after a military promenade . As amelioration in the system of both leaser . * was perceptible . The Cartists permitted the entry oi the country people with their produce into the town , and the Christinos tolerated extended ii ; irre « -vir > e between the population of the town * and cities with the country . The cause of Don Carlos it was thought , was about to merge into a more general one , which would set aside his pretensions to the throne .
ALGIERS . Tie Touionattis of the 17 th in ? t . brings ho intelligence from Algiers o : a later date than the 8 th . The preparations for the expeditioa to Hamza wers arried on with much acrinty , and Marshal Valice intended to command it in person . Biida had not yet be ? n thrown open ro European colonists ; the Marshal wishes to people it witfl German emigrants , and 600 soldiers were ; employed every day in repairing the works of dtfence , aad fitting out beildings
a < birratii for the troop ? . The 12 th Heglmeat of the Line was to sail i .-om Bobs for Toulon on the 3 rd . Teas corps wa ? totally disorganized , and had lost one-third of its men in Africa . " It was reported in Cons tan tine , tha : toe soldier ? of the 3 rd battalion of Africa had sworn to avenge themselves on Lieatenast-General Gaiboi . * , for the hardships they had isffered at DjimmiiUs . The General had , aeeoriii ^ Jj " - removed from Constantint to the command of an . isolated camp , aad never went out without beisr protected bv a * tronir escort .
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It is said that jrcvernniwnt intends to restore tat three suspended Canadian Judges . Mr . Ellis , a "Whig , has been returned for Leicester . A TorxG woiiAK in Radnorshire came by her death lately by driaking a strong Decoction of yew , maware of its poisonous cualitie ^ . HorsE of Lobds . — There are now on the orderbook of the House of Lords four bills , three of which are tl divorce" bills . Mr . Brces had given notice to the Speaker oi the House of Commons , tiio . ! he do ? s EOS intend to defend his scat for Cariow .
The Wesleyan Confebexce has voted the rcm of £ 5 . 000 as a nrs : graatfor establishing " Weekday Schools . The City ci London Police Bill will , i : passed intxi law , give the patronage Government tie disposal of thirty places at £ 1 , 200 each per annum . ly Londox , masy persons f-xist by imposing on it- Aristocracy- by means of beecing letters , —a degraded , iafainoiis , existence , to be sure , but sail it is ODiy biting the biter . Losd Glenblg is , we hear , to have a peasion of £ 2 , & 00 a-year , as if he bad not been surficieatly paid lor helping to ruin our foreign affairs whilst he was in ofiice .
"We rXDEKSTAXD Sir Charles Tfecherell ha = betn retained by the city of London to appear at the bar of the House of Commons against me City Police Bid . Mk . Jones , a Tory , ha < beea returned for Aaalesey by a majority of three over his Whig oppocent , Mr . Dew . An AnTifvcs B 3 . A . S * s ? ear has b % tn Teeentlr found twenty feet deep in a bog in Ireland , beside a huge pair of aatiers , belonging te a spec ' : e > of deer no * extiHct . At the Cheltenham police office , an unnatural mother who had sent faer two children out to thieve for her , in order to screen herself , afforded evidence en which her offspring were committed fer trial .
It appears from a Parliamentary paper that 4 . SOO . OO 0 less persona travelled by stage coactes in 1 S 3 S than in 1 * 36 ; and 14 , 400 , 000 more persons by i&iiway in the same period . Rcsal Police . —The report of the coa-Ehssioners appointed to inquire into the propriety of establishing a rural police will very shortly be laid before Parliament . The neuroes or Jamaica have presented the ilarqui ? of Sligo with a magnificent candelabrum , in eratituce for the humanity ne evinced in being the firs : to grant complete manumission to the slaves on k : a property .
Is Bataeia , vaccination is performed at tne expense of the state , and parents , however reluctant they may be , are obliged to rubmit their children ta this operktios . Out Govemmeat will do nothing but drvcar 3 * . Tee colonies of the British empibe have an area of 2 . 200 , 000 square miles , and a . « eaeoa ? t of 20 , 000 nautical mile *; population , 105 . 000 . 000 , with an average of fifty months to the square mile . Valuable SrBscsiBERS . —A Limerick paper elites that" a meeting of the subscribers to' Lewis's TopoHTaphic 3 l Dictionary" is to be heid . n Cork next weik ^ to ' dfefeat , if possible , the publishers actions for narment . '''
GovEa ^ MENT e entered a contract for c-oareving the mails by large and powerful stearavesssis from Liverpcol to Halifax , and thence by braach steamers to Boston , and in the summer to Quebec . Tee operative masons in Paisley have this week struck work for an advance of wages . The demand is for 5 > £ d . per hour , or 2 "s . 6 d . per week . Upwards of one hundred men haTe stopped . An Indian ' s word ( says Sir Frascis Head in ' tis Surrativej , when it is formally pledged , is one of the strongest meral seccritit * on easth ; like the rainbow , it beam * nnbroken , when all beneath is threatened with annihilation .
The Members of the She&eld Literary ana Pciiosopbical Society have refused to elect Ebecezer E . liott , tbepeet . a member of their "body by a majority of five . Tee size of thb Bones of the 3 Lastedon recently Joiind near Bccyrus , in Crawford County , Ohio , show it to haTe been of extraordinary oimensons . The nppsr jaw weighs 16 Qibs ., the under ,,. —Nnc York Paper . The Emfsrob of Russia has decreed the abolition of lotteries in Poland , because they exercise * : atal iafiue 2 . ee over the poor and manufacturing classes of the country .
A "SYexford paper states that the authonaes there have been informed , when the reward offered tor the discovery of the murderers of a man named Haniey shall have amounted to £ ^ , 000 , a new light vill then be thrown on the horrible transaction . A poor baby , very lately , was crushed to death is Stamford . It appear * that nnder a certain be-< jaest there is an annual scramble for loaves in that ? Uice : a poor woman , with the baby at her breast , rushed into the throDg , in the hope of gaining a Jtorsel . when , Vr the pressare , the psor infant was bailed . '
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A Man -xjoixd Leddiwoton , in Wotcettershire , has been committed as an accessory before the fact , for the murder of Ann Burton , & woman with whom he cohabited , by advising her to take arsenic to procure an abortion . Eight to caret Arms . —A batch of disorderly respectables at a masked ball in London , brutally assaulted a policeman , and having beaten him almost Benseless , they rusted npon him with iaggen and swords , and oaly for two of his brethren came to the rescue , would , in all probability , finished the work by committing murder . The re-pectables ! were heid to bail (!!!) b y the sympathising ma-I gistrates .
j Persecution . —John and Robert Scott , employed at present at "Wallbottle Colliery , have j received notice from Hunter , their employer , that I so soon as their engagement expires , they are to get j no more employment there . "When asked what was '; the crime for which they were to be discharged , ! Hunter answered , that they were Radical * , agita-; tors , and disturbers of the public peace ( by the way I would our Nimrod hunt out the gpeeisc a ' cts of dis-¦ turbance they hare been guilty of ) . We are not I certain whether this is a species of crime to which j the Black Mark attaches , which mark prevents its i victim from obtaining employment trom any coal j tyrant in the north , though his family perish oi ! hanger . Oh ! society is rorten in all its ramifica i tions ; it must be remodelled whatever the sacrifice , j and teat too right speedilv . —Xori / iern Libcrutor .
] Independent Odd Fellows . —The indepen-( dent Odd Fellows in Almondbury have set a noble example by establishing a co-operative provision warehouse instead of lodging their surplus money in the banks . Mr . Robert Dibb , the VTharfdale Poet . — "We understand that this gem of native geniuj , whose effusions have frequently enriched our Poet's Corner , Is about to publish a small volume of poems . Judging of the whole by the specimens we have seen , we can have bo doubt that they will be highly creditable to the author , and gratifying to the reader . " \ Ye sincerely hope that the muse * of " Mr . Dibb , on her first introduction to the public , will be liberally re ctived
I A Man named Driver has been committed , j charged on his own confession with the brutal mur-| der of an aped woman , named Hancock , a small | shopkeeper , near Newark . The murder was com-! mined whiie the poor woman wa » in bed , between , three and four o ' clock in the morning . It appears i that he filled her month with rags to prevent her I cries awaking the neighbours , struck her on the | head , and then strangled her . The mother of Driver ' , als » has been apprehended on suspicion of being im' plicated in the affair .
The Alleged Murder at Hayes . —A verdict of " "Wilful Murder" as statwi in our la ? t , having been returned by the jury , at the coroner ' * inquest , against Francis Hastings Medhurst , who Btaobea Mr . Jeseph Alsup , his fellow pupil , at the house of-the Rev . F . Stunner , " Wood End-green , Have * , it was expected he would be committed te Newgate on ih * . coroner ' s warrant . The magistrates , however , on examining the warrant issued by the coroner , finding it only authorised the apprehension of the party accused , and directed the constable who might take him into custody to ' convev him before the said coroner , or any of the magistrates
justices of tke peace , that he may be dealt with according to law , " ditenained on proceeding with the investigation commer . i-ed before them on Friday week , and accordingly issued summonses for the attendance of the waole of the witnesses . On Thursday , therefore , the whole ea < e was aeain gone mts before the magistrate * , and after a long exami-H 3 U 0 D the prisoner wa 3 committed on the charge of manslaughter . This is another gross instance of tke manner in which we have one law for the rich aad another for the poor . Had this young ruffian beea a poor mj . n it is not probable that the coroner ' a warraat would have beta so loosely txpressed .
Indian Marriage Promise . A young Indian faiied in his attention to a youne squaw . She maee complaint to an old chief , who appoints 1 a hearing or tnal . The lady laid her case before the judge , and explained tie nature of the- promise made ner . It consisted of M ^ idry visit * to her wigwam , " macy little undcfnalle . autntios * and present . * , a bu-ch of feathers , aad several yards of red flannel . " Tnis was the charge . The faithless swain denied the " undefinabie attentions' in toto . He had visited her father ' * wigwam for the purpose of passing
away , wnen vra . « not convenient to hunt ; and had civen the feathers and iianne ! from friendly motives , and xothing further . During the latter part of tne defence , the voung ? quaw fainted . The p : ea was considered invalid , and the offender gentenced to give the lady " a yellow feacber , a brooch , that was dangling from his Eo .-e , and a dozen coon skins . ' The sentence wa » no sooner concluded than- the squaw « prung upon her feet , and clapping her hands , exclaimed wita joy , " now me be readv to court a « rain . "—Sundicich Island Guzttte .
EXECI'TION Or HlLLlARD , THE MfBDERER . — Hiiliard , the wretched man convicted at the last asfizrs of ihooting Mrs . Playl , at Mountnessing w&i executed in front * f the convict gaol , at nins o ' clock this morning . Three of the prisoner ' s sister * and a brother took leave of him . on Tuesday ; but he has _ not ? een either of his parents since his condemnation , they being too old to undertake the jonr-Bey . His . mother visited him before the trial and was deeply affected at the interview . On Wednesday last the prisoner made a fall statement of all the circumstances connected with themnrder , in the presence of the Rev . C . Lewis , chaplain , and Mr . Xeale , the sovemor of the prison . He commences
by stating that he went to livu with the Hon . C . Petre . in ~ ltS 31 , and proceeds to say , that having heard the prisoner make some improper observations in the tap-room ( which are until for publication ) a criminal acquaintance commenced between them on the 9 th of November , Is 33 . After that he used frequently to visit her . and when her husband went to Grays or'Stifford ford for lime , which h * did sometimes twice a week , she used to let him knowj and he went and slept at the house . The hnsband died in October . 1 ^ 37 . rie adds—" She nsed to say , if Playl died , she would have me , and she niade me znake a vow two or three years before he died , tha : if ever I went wi ; h another woman
she might poison me cr kill me any how , and 1 promised her . if 1 knew her to be acquainted with any other man , I would kill her . She said I might and welcome . There was no writing , we did not use 8 book , bat we declared to God by word of mouth , which is an oath as I call . They said on the trial that 1 said i would do as I had promised ; that is what 1 meant—that I would kill her , but they did not understand what I meant when I said it . After Piayl' s death I took charge of the nonse as a master , but I did not say anything to Mrs . Playl for n « afly a year afterward .- ? . Sne then said she would cot . marry a . young man like me . 1 said . ; You shall not marrv anvbody else . " She said nhe
would , if she iiked . 1 did not say much more about it . She sliehted me , and gTew ' more stingy to me , and she told me she wished I wou : d leave the hou * e , and not come there any more . The night before I killed her . as I knew her son had come home , 1 asked her what the meant to do . and the ? aid , ' Yon shall ^ ee—you shall find it out as you come al it—you shall rot have any victuals nor drink but what youtav for , like other people . ' I sbook mv hetd , and said . ' Very well , then 1 k :: ow what to " do . ' She said , Don ' t threaten me . ' I replied , 'No , I don't threaten yco , " Then we went into the tap-room . She "k - 'pt jangling with sne ; 1 o'rn't recoiJt'ct what she s-iid , except that she said ,
• I will be married before a month . ' I said , 1 know you will not . " I wt-nt away and bid her good night , la the rnorniDg I went u > the Crown ; 1 had 13 s . in my pocket . 1 paid 2 s . 0 \ l . to Mrs- Dean , and spent all the rest but 2-. Gi .. drinking gin-he ; and jum-hot . I nsed to wra money hy working , but wiien 1 was without money she used , to give me some . In her husband ' s time 1 hardly ever worked ; > he iUeu always kept me , and when Playl was at liome 1 paid him for what 1 had , and when I wanted money I u » ed to have it of her . YTL . se I left the Crown it was daylight , but I don ' t know whit o'clock it was . VA'Len 1 got into the air , T became wonder . ^ : iv drunk . 1 went tome—the ostler a '
the Crown wexn with . me . I have no recollection of what happened until 1 found that 1 was lying bv the water-batt ~ and young Playl standing over me with a gun-barrel in his hand . 1 think I remember pulling the trigger , but I de not recollect seeing Mrs . Playl . I aave tried to remember , but 1 cannot : I do not recollect loading the gun . Mrs . Dean saw me wriangin the memorandum-book , and she asked me to let her lunk , but I-would not . I left half-acrowu and n&v watch with , Mrs . Dean . 1 counted of killing myself that night . The daughter swore her name was Mary Playl ; her name is Mary Rencett ; her father w& * Mrs . Playl ' s first husband ; he
belonged xo tlielOth Light Horse , and vras a German , between 40 and 50 years old , when they married , and she was about 1 / . The statement then goes on to make some reflections npon the daughter , who , the cnlprit state . * , after swearing a child to a labourer named . Marriage , when ihe was not encie / de , has had a child to James Passfield . an illegitimate son of Piavl ' s . He denies that there is any ground for saying * « w young woman is now pregnant by him . He proceeds- 'I meant to have killed M » . Plavlfir- -t , arid myself afterwards , but Dy the bles-Sr / ofGod I got / topped . If I had killed myself , I should have had no opportunity of repenting of my wicked & ~ ei , '~ C / , ek-isMdC'ftrvmc { e , March 21 .
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Vaxtjs ox PfcOHiKRS . —An »\ ectoT ef a country town in France , who was warmly pressed daring the recent contest to give bis vote to a certain candidate , replied that it W&i impossible , since he had already promUed to vote for the other . ' Oh , ' said the candidate , ' in election matters , promises you know , go for nothiHg . ' ' If that is the case , ' rejoined the elector , ' I promise you my vote at once . ' Penny Postage . —The Cheltenham Free Press mentions that a striking proof of the succeBS that would follow the adoptioa of Mr . Rowland Hill ' s plan fora reduction of postage has taken place in Gloucestershire . The postage from Stroud to Nailsworth hae recentiy been reduced from fourpence to » ne penny ; the consequence has been that more than four times the usual number of letters have , on an aTerage , passed through the offices in those places .
Coffin Stea-lino . —Some of the degraded human beings wiio swarm the purlieus of London , have stolen several lead coffins out of ta « vaults in Shoreditch Church-yard . The silent tenaits were carefully deposited in the outer wooden slips , and the sacrilege was not discovered till the lead was offered for sale . Tke dealer who offered it has been held to bail , but it is not likely that the actual perpetraitors of the crime will come within the grasp of justice . Attempted Suicjde from Distress of Mind . —Last week , about nine o ' clock in the evening , a « police-constables 169 A , and 156 C , were on duty in the Green-park , they suddenly heard
the ncreams of a woman proceeding from the direction of tke reservoir . They immediately went thither , and upon their arrival found an elderly woman standing on the bank near Piccadilly , wiio stated that her daughter had just thrown herself into the water . As the woman was speaking the girl rose to the snrfaee , and fortunately was brought near enough to the sidd to enable the constables , withsom « exertion , te rescue her . She was is an almost lifeleis state , and , a ladder having been procured , she was taken to St . George ' s Hospital ,
where the proper restoratives were applied , and the unfortunate creature soon rallied . It appeared from the statement of the mother that ker daughter , whose name is Mary Anne Denby , a short time since had married a man , who , within two menths of the present time ha . « received sentence of transportation for life . This so preyed upon her mind that she was at times perfectly frantic . Last night they had occasion to cress the park , and when they approached the reservoir the poor creature suddenly threw herself in .
The " Shabby Set . "— " One topic which may be looked upon as a very closely connected ( though not in a manner the most reputable for those interested ) with the conimenctfment , the course , aad issue of the debate itself , is the light in which her Majesty ' s Ministers have placed themselves—the miserable destitution of all public principle , of all manly spirit , of all views beyond the dirty precincts of Downing Street—the shabbine *? , the ' cowardice , the crawling beggarliness , of their whole Com Law exhibition . The Government indeed has , for once " out-ghabbied " itself . It has been actuated bv no
feelings but those of cupidity and terror . It has left the Corn Law more unsettled than before . It bas lost friends and multiplied adversities . It has proved that on no one national question , whereon any difference « f sentiments exists out of doors , will it dare to offer a decided opiuiou within doors . It has no one principle of cohesion more binding than the chance-medley juxtaposition of articles huddled together in a pawnbroker ' s shop . It has made "VYnitehall a filthy magazine of unredeemed yledges , and the customers whs support it are the it-fuse of political Bocietv . " —Times .
Accident &t Sea . —Account * have b * cn received from Edinburgh , stating that the Leith steamer , on her passage from London toEdiubur ^ h , was , during & heavy gale and high sea , run foul oi on Sunday eight , about ten o ' clock , off the Newark Light , near "Wintertonntss , by a collier called the Richard and John . The Le ' ith received considerable damage , but , notwithstanding , was able to proceed oa her voyage , which she did a ' ter lying-to for two hours , duriug which time every exertion which the bad state of the weather and ' heavy » tw would permit was used by the captain of the Lcilh with hi * crew and her boats , to regain the collier in
order to reuder assistance . One of the collier ' s men , who had taken to one of her boats , was pieked up ; and from bis account it appears that , if the vessel could not be saved , the rest of the crew would have the means of escaping , as they had another boat and ample time to do so . No * tidings of thera , however , had been received at Edinburgh when the last accounts came away . The passengers who were on board the Leith « pe * k in the strongest terms of the praiseworthy exertions of the captain of the steamer , who , with his crew , wi-re upon the lookout , and had lighti burning used to avoid accidents at se-i .
vv ^ nted a Deliverer . —Although public affairs at this juncture may seem vehemently to desiderate practical men , we are not sure that it is oot theoretical men that they more especially demand . By theoretical men , we do net mean theorising men , centralization rsen , " coareerfood" men , check-the-population men , cottage-and-cow mea , nor any other class of schemers and dreamers and disciplinarians of the new-crotchet and candle-end schools ; but men of good intellectual dimeasions , who can look over the heads of one generation and see the next comingfarsignted and reasoning men , who can foretel a storm without augury , and assuage it without
miracle . One would thiuk such men had departed from the face of the earth altogether , carrying away with them , for ever , the godly gifts of human foresight a « d sagacity . The masters ef political science are no more , and we are left at the mercy of the journeymen—the jobbing journeyman , who charge by the day and never have dene with their work—who botch everything tkey put their hands to and rob the house into the bargain . Oh ! for a Pitt or a Dundas , and a scientific despotism , and the privilege of an intelligible hatred and an effectual resistance ! Oh ' . for a tyrannous master , rather than a botching thievish journeyman ! — Spectator .
Murderous Attack . —On Sunday -Bi ght week , about nine o ' clock , a fellow of decent exterior ( being respectably clothed , and wrapped in a Mackintosh ) eatered the kitchen of Mr . \ Vilmot ' s house , Coundon which is in a somewhat rather secluded situation , and iuquired of a female servant if her master was at home ? To which she replied in the affirmative . He then asked whether Mr . Wiimot had any company ? and the servaut answered he had not—she believed her master wa * alone in the parlour ; upon which the man in the Mackintosh said he wanted to see him ; and at this niomtut , observing ilr . Wiltnot passing from one parlour idio another , followed him , and , in a verv unceremonious
manner , told him he wanted him to sign a cheek for £ 30 . Mr . "VYilmot of course expressed his astonishment at such a request , and without hesitation reiWed to comply ; upon which the fellew made a peremptory demand , and intimated very distinctly that the only alternative was for Mr . Wiimot either to give the check or bis life , and then drew from underneath his Mackintosh a cuuple of pistols . Most fortunately it happened that Mr . Swain Wilson a neighbouring farmer , wa . s in the adjoining room , where he had been sitting with Mr . Wiimot , and being alarmed , went to his assistance , and at the critical moment when the ruffian was levelling one pistol at Mr . Wiimot , rushed in , and by a prompt b ; ow on the assassin ' s arm diverted the direction of
the Dail dischargea from the pistol , which struck into the wall near the ceiling . Baulked in his first attempt , the bloodthirsty villain without tbe least drlay snapped the second pistol at Mr . Wilson , who was saved by the failing of the deadly weapon to go off ; for , although the percussion cap exploded , it did not take effect npon the contests of the barrel . Defeated in his murderous purpose , the daring villain made a desperate resistance , and did not suffer himself to be captured uatil he had received from Mr . Wilson some rather severe puDishment about the head and face . At length be was made secure by the pinioning of his arms and legs , and , upon being searched , he was found tobave upon his r . ereon the most complete apparatus of robbery and murder , consisting of a portable dark lantern , phosphorus box , luciler matches , and sand-card
besides an ample supply of bullets and powder . Having been made fast to prevent his escape , a messenger was sent to Coventry for officers to take him into custody , and be was ultimately conveyed to the station-boUBe , and brought on Monday before the Coventry magistrates , by whom he was ordered to be taken to Anstey on the following dav , to undergo examinations by the W arwickshire magistrates , the offence having been committed within their jurisdiction . We understand that the fellow had some knowledge « f Mr . Wilmot ' s premises , from having had occasion to call there a short time ago to deliver tip a dog which had been lost , and for which he was treated with greatliberality , besides receiving the reward offered for the recover ) - of the dog . He gives his name as "William Read , and states that he comes from Birmingham . Leamington Spa Courier .
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INSOLTKNT GOVERNMENT / CLBRXS . —It VTM stated in . the Insolvent Court , on Friday , that Sir Robert Peel , while in office , had ordered every Government clerk , who took the benefit of the act , to be dincharged from his situation forthwith . This determination bad , it is said , been productive of much benefit . Irish Outrages . —Government Rewards . - From December 1 , 183 " , to February 20 , 1839 , the 8 im of £ 13 , 390 was offered as rewards by Government for the discovery and apprehension of 186 murderers , homicides , &c . Of these , the official returns produced before Parliament state that only eight rewar ds were claimed and paid , and ITS , of coarse remained unclaimed .
Lynching in Ohio . —The Canton Repository of the 31 st of January records the following outrages : — " We regret that Judge Lynch has commenced operations in Stark county . A few nights since 50 or 60 persons assembled at Berlin , and caught a German doctor , stripped him , led him about some distance , and t .-. rred him . In Huron Huron county , Ohio , a few day * since , two negrocg were arrested on a charge of committing an assault on a Germaa woman . On examination , one wan committed , the other released . The one released was taken by a mob , whipped and mutilated so as to cause his death . And all the negroes in the town had been notified to leave in a few kours .
Drowsing a Man to save his Life from Fire !—At the late fire at Woolwick a man persisied in atanding on a parapet wall to yiew the conflagration . The imminent danger to which he was exposed was repeatedly urged upon him by the naval and military officers present who were endeavouring to subdue the devouring element ; but the fellow was utterly regardless of all admonition . At last one of the officers directed the men at the
engine to turn the hoseupon him , and by a powerful jet of water he was soaked in an instant , and turning round to abuse the people his mouth was supplied with the liquid , and though standing in " mid air , " he was nearly drowned . He had scarcely arrived on terra Hrmu when the whole wall gave way , and he declared that he would sooner have been roasted to death than so deluged with water , a * it struck him with a death chill , and nearly suffocated him b y taking his breath away from the hydraulic pressure .
HoNESTY .-On Thursday week , as the Hon . Capt . Ogilvy was returning from Cortaehy Castle , where he bad been visiting his brother , the Earl of Airlie , he dropped his pocket-book on the road leading to Kirriemuir . The pocket-book was found by David Crighton , farm servant at Inverarity ; who , on examining it , found it belonged to some of the Airhe family . He hastened , as soon as possible , to Cortaehy Castle , and had an interview with tbe Earl , who sent him to his brother . Although the pocket-book contained only £ 5 and some papers , Captain Ogilvy gave the young man a present of £ 10 as a mark of his esteem for his honesty , besides an assurance of his future attention . The promptitude of the finder in returning pocket-book , aad the generosity of Captain Ogilvy , reflect the highest credit on both parties . —Dundee paper .
Sense of Honour . —At tke Queen ' s-square , Metropolitan police office , on Thursday , a dashing young doctor ' s journeymen , called Henry Calthrop , was charged with using threatening language to a Mr . Murray . It seemed that a brother of the prisoner had been sent on the previous day to extract a tooth for Mr . Murray , but bungled so about the business , which he seemed quite incompetent for , that he had been sent back , Mr . Murray , in the agony of pain occasioned b
y the blundering incapacity bestowing some uncourteous expressions upon him . On which account the prisoner presented himself at Mr . Murray ' s residence ; and on being shewn up stairs , Mr . M . being in bed , demanded an apology—refused to leave the reom when required to do " so , and threatened to post Mr . M . in the newspapers as a coward and a scoundrel . The touehous " gentleman" was bound in recognizances to the amount of £ 100 to keep tbe peat * for six months .
Murder .-. On Sunday morning this town ( Falkirk ) was thrown into great excitement , in consequence of the rap idl y spread report that a woman had been murdered , under circumstances of much unprovoked cruelty . The facts are briefly these : — jbe deceased , whose name is P «> ggy Baird , of middle age , hvtd in East Bridge-street , and was a washerwoman . She was the previous night in the house of * neighbouring woman , along with others ; among whom , unfortunatel y , happened to be a fellew named
Thomas Inglis , a shoemaker . He has been long notorious here from his connexion with the melancholy murder of Boyd , for which he was indicted along with Armstrong , a confederate , who wan tried and acquitted . Previous to the trial Inglis absconded and was outlawed . He has , since his return to Falkirk , been subject to outrageous conduct when under the influence of liquor . On tbe present occasion , the whole had been drinking together till about three o ' clock on Sabbath morning . The daughter-of the deceased was then sent out for
more spirit * , leaving htr mother alone with Ingli .-. On her return , the alarming appearaace of the unhappy woman told what had occurred , and after a slight movement of the head , she was a corpse . Inglis has fled , and a post mortem examination has clearly proved that she must have been strangled , or rather throttled , from the marks on her neck and mouth . Her body was otherwise ahoekingW disfigured , as if by tbe pressure of a person ' s knees . — Edinburgh Journal . English Oaks . —The oldest oak in England is supposed to be the Parliament Oak ; tradition says that Edward the First held a , Parliament under its branches , in Clipstone Park , belonging to the Duke of Portland : this park being also tbe most ancient in the island ; it was a park before the Conquest , and was seized as such by the Conqueror . The tree
is supposed to be 1 , 500 years old . The tallest oak i « England , the Duke ' s walking-stick , was higher than Westminster Abbey , and stood till of late years The largest oak in England is the Calthorp Oak , 1 orkshire ; it measures seventy-tight feet in circumference . The Three Shire Oak , at Worksop was so ealled from covering parts of the counties of ork , Nottingham , and Derby . It had the greatest expanse of any recorded in this island , dropping over n ' t square yards . The most productive oak was that of Gelonos , in Monmouthshire , felled in 1810 . Its bark brought £ 200 , aad its timber £ 6 / 0 . In the mansion of Txedegar Park , Monmouthshire , there is said to be a room forty-two feet long and twenty-seven feet broad , the floor and wainscot of which were the produce of a single oak tree grown on the estate .
Attempt of a Husband to Murder his rvEWLY-MARuiED Wife . —A good deal of excitement has prevailed among the inhabitants of the secluded village of Southgare , Middlesex , owing to a deliberate attempt on the part of a young man , named Richard Whiting , to cut the throat of a young woman to whom he had been only three weeks married . Whiting had lately expressed a wish to emigrate to Australia , and had made application to the Rev . Mr . Sales , the Rector of the parisk . At the same peried , Elizabeth Dwytr , a young woman , whose parents lived in the adjoining parish , and who had been herself a swvant for some years in different families in the neighbourhood , made a similar application to the Reverend Gentleman . Up to this time Whiting and thu young woman were strangers , and unknown to each other ; but some party to whom they had made known their intentions to leave this
country , suggested the propriety of their first getting married , 3 nd brought them together for that purpose . The courtship was short , for on last Monday three weeks , they were married by the Rev . Mr . Sales free of expense , and without the usual fees . From that time they continued to live in the bouse of the husband ' s father , and appeared to be very happv but it . ' seems the wife had since their marriage ehapged her mind , and made some objections to leave this country , and this , it is supposed , led to a determination on the part of her husband to take away her life . The following account has been given bv the wife : —Between six and seven o ' clock in the morning , her husband got out of bed and dressed
himself , and then went into the room opposite leaving her still in bed . After remaining there a few minutes , he returned to the bedside , and said " I have got something nice for you ; shut your eyes aad open your mouth . " At this " time he was standing over her , and having no idea that he meant any harm , she complied with hie request , upon which he placed his hand upon her throat , and said , " Is not my hand very cold ? " He then proceeded to the left side of the bed , and having pulled her nightcap over her eyes , he began to cut her throat ; she instantly threw up her left hand to save her throat , and received a severe wound on her fingers , as well a « a deep one on her throat . She called out
for assistance , upon which he ran out of the room , and she endeavoured to follow him , but he held the door fast . She then threw up the window and called out "Murder ! " and Mrs . Levenge , a laundress in the neighbourhood , came te her assistance . The prisoner has been committed . to Newgate for trial , and the witnesses bound over to appear and give evidence against him on the capital charge . The examination occupied the bench ^ upwards of five hours , and the Court was much crowded throughout .
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NISI PRIUS COURT .-Fbidav , March 22 . Before Mr . Baron Parke . L 0 CKW 00 D t ; . LUND . ( Special Jury . ) Mr . Cress well and Mr . Tomlinsox , and Mr . Raine were for the plaintiff ; Mr . Alexander and Mr . Knowles for the defendant . This was a cause of no public importance , being brought solely to determine whether the inhabitants of Easingwold were liable to pay for stallage , or merely tolls ; and after several ancient documents had been examined , and old witnesses called , the following result was come to—Verdict for the plaintiff— Damaees , Is ., so far as regards the rights of stallage , and " for the defendant as regards the tolls , with liberty to move the Court above for a nonsuit , or to turn it into a special verdict .
ROBERTS V . IVESON . Mr . Hildyard was forthe plaintiff ; Mr . Martin for the defendant . The parties reside at Hedon , near Hull , and tbe action was brought to recover a sum for rent and dilapidations to a house which the defendant occupied from Sept . \ % 37 , to 1838 . The defendant alleged tbat he was not liable to the rent ; he had not occupied the house , and bad paid sufficient into Court for the dilapidations . The Jury 1-eturued a verdict lbr the plaintiff-Damages — )
, * - "" -e- " Baron Aldkrson then left the Court , and the next morning proceeded to Lancaster , to open the Commission of Assize there .
BENTHAM V . MARTINDALB . Mr . Cresswell and Mr . Matthews were for tbe plaintiff ; Mr . Stabkie and Mr . Robinson for the defendant . This was a question between a farmer at Fulford , near York , and Earl Fitzwilliam , the Lord of the Manor of Malton . Mr . Bentham was a freeman of Beverley , and on his attending Malton Whitsuntide Fair last year , he refused to pay the toll of Id . on each head of cattle purchased , not having his certificate with him . Baron Parke strongly summed up in favour of the Lord of the Manor , represented by his servant Martindale , stating that every freeman was bound to produce a paper certificate ' when he claimed exemption from toll , The Jury gave a verdict for the defendant .
Saturday , March 23 . ^ Baron Pauke attended this morning at nine o ' clock an usual , but the only cause in tbe list , Beverley v . Duke was referred , and the Court shortly afterwards rose . The business was thus concluded earlier the ? e Assizes than for many years past at this season of the year .
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. ^ . PUBLIC MEETING OF WOMEN AT BRADFORD . At a public meeting of the Northern Union Women of Nelson-street and the adjacent streets in this town , collected in the open street by the ringing of a bell , to tak « into consideration the present case of the Rev . J . R . Stephens , Mrs . Topper was called to the chair , and the following resolutions were agreed to . Moved by Mrs . Robinson and seconded by Mrs . Flynn , 1 st . That this meeting views with abhorrence tyranny of every description , more especially when its sharts are levelled against defenceless innocence . Moved by Mrs . Smith and seconded by Mrs . Flynn .
2 nd . That this meeting view , with contempt the proceedings of our Government in the unconstitutional , un-English , and illegal arrest of that friend of humanity , the Rev . J . R . Stephens . Moved by Sarah Twynam and seconded by Ann Raspin , That this meeting pledges itself to assist the friend of the ill-treated poor of this country with pecuniary aid against bis coming trial , and if necessary , to go with their husbands , fathers , sons , and brothers , defend with their arms that friend of the factory child , the Rv * . J . R . Stephens . Moved by Mary Atkinson and seconded by Mary Smith ,
4 th . That in the opinion of this meeting slavery is abhorrent to human nature , and whatever our legislators may think to the contrary , we are determined to be free . At the close of the meeting , two persons were appointed to go round tbe neighbourhood and collect a voluntary subscription in aid of the fueds of the Rev . J . R . Stephens , and bave the amount received sent to the Bradford treasurer for that purpose ; 15 s . ll ^ d . was the amount received on the occasion . It is hoped other parts of Bradford will follow the example . The meeting was ably addressed by Mr . George Flynn , and Mr . Richard White .
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WAR WITH AMERICA AND FRANCE . We have again and again warned our readers that the last desperate effort of the tyrannous factions , by whose dominance our country is cursed , would be to plunge the country into war ; hoping thereby to divert the attention of the people from the pursuit of their object—political right ; just as the hunters of wild animals , when one of their parry is in danger , effect a diversion of the efforts of their victim , by attacking him from a fresh quarter .
That which we predicted has already come ta pass . The ereatures and dependants of the factions in America , acting , no doubt , under instructions , covertly if not definitely given , have taken such means as they knew were sure to involve us in a quarrel with the United States . A portion of country on the boundary , the right t « which has never yet been settled between the two countries ,
has been taken possession of by the British , and occupied by military force : this encroachment has been resisted by the Americans as it deserved to be ; and the organs of the two senseless , shortsighted , and bloody-minded factions are , accordingly , yelling forth the war who ^ p in most discordant harmony . Some of them suppose that , ere this , hostilities must have actually commenced , and nearly all take for granted that the result must inevitably be
war . Now , we tell the noisy brawlers , one and all , that there is no chance we fear of war between England and America , except in the dull brain and villainous intention , of those whose " wish was father to the thought . " Commercial nations , whose Governments—founded on an universal basis—seek tbe interests of all , have ever , and necessarily , peaceful
Governments . Hence , the Federal Government of thfl United States , though suffering under the ivfliciionof an unprovoked and rascall y aggression upoa one of their States , manifest no disposition for war , if it can be fairly and honourabl y avoided . The Tory papers affect to find a ' warlike tone in the American Gavernment-we can find " no such thing . The following is the language of the President n his message to Congress —
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* ' Between an * effort on the part of Maine to preserve the property in dispute from destrnction by intruders , and a military occupation by that state of the territory ; with a view to told it by force , while the settlement is a subject of negociatio ' n between the two Governments , there is an essential difference as well in respect to the position of the state , a » to the duties 6 l the general Government In a letter addressed by the Secretary of State to the Governor oi Maine , on the 1 st of March laat , giving a detailed statement of the steps which had been taken by the federal GoY ^ rmnent to brin g the controversy to a termination ; and designed to apprise the Governor of that State ofthe views of the federal Executive in respect to the future , it was stated that , while the obligations ofthe federal Government to do all in its
power to effect ; the settlement of the boundary question were fully recognised , it had , in the event of being unable to do so specifically , by mntaal consent , no other means to accomplish that object amicably , than by another arbitration , or by a commission with an umpire in the nature of an arbitration : and that in the event of all other measures faih ' ng the President would feel it his duty to submit anothlr proposition to the Government of Great BriSlo re er the decision of the question to a thirdI powe ? These are stilmy views upon the subject , and until this step shall . have been taken , I cannot think it proper to invoke the attention of Congress to other than amicable means for the settlement of the controversy , or to cause the military power of the federal government to be brought in aid of the State © f Maine , in any attempt to effect that object by a resort to force . * :
On the other hand , if the authorities of New Brunswick * sbqula attempt to enforce the claim of exclusive jurisdiction set up by them , by means of a military occupation , on their part , of the disputed territory , 1 shall feel myself bound to consider the contingency provided by the constitutien as havine occurred , on the happening of which , a state has the nght to call ior . the aid of the fedoral government to repel invasion . " 5 ""* CUI < Now , we defy any man to find in this any manifestation of a desire for war . There is certainly a determination not to be bullied nor trodden on , which does not less credit to the due and proper spirit of the American Government than is done to its prudence and good sense , by the anxiety manifested for an amicable adjustment of the dispute .
If this matter do end in war , it will be a war forced upon us by the insolence of the combined factions , for no other purpose than that of providing a subject of national excitement , by which to occupy the attention of the people , at the certain cost of an immeasurable amount of national suffering , superadded to the loads they have already laid upon the shoulders of a sinking people . The consequence of a war with America at this crisis would be-more fearful in ita effect on our commerce than can be calculated . Let the people , therefore , mind this : he who ministers by any means , direct or indirect , help to a scheme so infernal , as that of festering a war between these
countries , for the ostensible and avowed purpose of supporting a few thieves in New Brunswick , is a Traitor to his Country , and ought to be branded as such by every honest man . Let them remember this , if the formal declaration of war come to te discussed before tbe House of Commons—let them remember this , if , war having been declared , the sound of the drum and fife be heard in their streets , inviting them to effer their bodies a sacrifice to the demon of robbery and misrule ; let them remember this when the costs of a war so iniquitous are attempted to be filched from their pockets , or rather extracted from their stomachs .
Lest this should be a failingrtw , and the arrogance of British faction be overborne by the mild prudence of Democracy , a few of our " liberal" Legislators are trying hard to screw Government into a quarrel with France about the Mexican blockade . No doubt but aaothe r bloody war between France and England would be hi ghly gratifying to the heartless factions of oppression , in both countries , as affording a mutual chance of escape from political auuiuilation ; but we do trust that , by the prudence and energy of the people , they will be alike disappointed . W " e do hope that if the people either of France or England , or both , do find it absolutely necessary to employ tnelr powers of natural defence , they will find other occupation for them than in the cutting of each others' throats . for mutual esslavement .
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MR . HUME AND HIS HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE MOTION . 'Tis not often that we can either commend or acaord with anything said by L « rd John Russell . But even the father of lies may sometimes speak truth , either by mistake or from a mischievous intention of perverting it to the establishment of evil . Just so my Lord John , in the debate on Mr . Hume ' s motion , delivered himself in support of his intention to abide by ' the present swindling system of the following sentences , in which there reallv is a
considerable share of truth and good sense : " He could not wonder at the inattention which prevailed when he look « d at the propiuuion which ihe Hon . Member lor Kilkenny had put upon the rotes , Dut had declined to pot into the Speaker ' s hands ; for that proposition was not , that , hnding fauUa in the Reform . Act , we should make a new scheme of representation , on which we should be prepared to rest , but that we should establish a certain intermediate step to be changed again , whenever it was deemed advisable to give still further extension to the suffrage . The Hon . Member had shown that under the-present system , one in every hve adult males in Kngjand and Waleg had the right o ™ » 8 e » and h , w Proposition was , that one eut of everf three should be qualified to vbte . At present , four out oi every aauiu
nve were excluded from voting ; according to the Hon . Member a piopoartion two out of every three would be excluded . Wh j , if his proposition were carried , we should have fresh applications the next day to change a constituency ao narrowed , and we should have , as many application )) then Irom the two that were . excluded , aa we had now from the four . He _ contended that there was at preset t no demand lor Household Suffrage ; bn . Mfcat there was a demand for Universal Suffrage from a " number of persons who were eager to eflect a . change in the basis of oar representation . The real question , then , for the , House that evening was , whether it would adhere to the svjrteia . of representation as it then stood , or whether it would . adopt Universal Suffrage Each ot those propositions had its followers ; but * the notion of going through all the agitation and all the contest which must be gone through to car r / Household Suffrage and then to begin a new agitation aad a new contest , as tie Hon . Member for
Kilkenny proposed , for a « tiU naoTe extensive right of suffrage was little likely to meet the approbation of mar . y Members in that House . ( Hear . ) -The . Hon . Member for Kilkenny had said , ' Hen . Gentlemen may seek to put this question ott but in spite of their manoeuvres , all the people eounted bv heads will ultimately obtain the right of voting . ' Now he would tell the Hon . Menxber for Kilkenny that it was not he ( Lord J . Russell ) but the Hon . Member himself who was putting off the settlement of that question . It wag not likely that the Hon . Membsr ' s proposition could erer give satisfaction to the people . He would not give Universal Suftrage because all thtt operatives were not sufficiently enliah ten » d ; he would only give Household Suffrage . Why would not the inevitable result ot this be , that the Universal Suffrace men would ask the Hon . Member how he knew that they had not acquired that knowledge which he . deemed guffieient to entitle thera to that Suffrage which he { Mr . Hume ) admitted must ultimately be granted to tlfem ?" - ¦•¦ ¦¦ .- .
Now , we certainly must admit that these observations of the Noble Lord have much sound good sense in them ; they form a perfeet and unanswerable reply to Mr . HuME-a reply which he , of course , expected , and , no doubt , intended to receive . The time for half , measures has gone by . The people are no longer to be gulled ' and ' cheated by a mockery of representation based on . bricks . and mortar instead of flesh and blood , The -extension of the fraachise
under the Reform Bill has . but created a stronger and more formidable opposition , to the demands of justice for tbe poor , by-leaguing together the " higher" and middling classes . \ The extension of the Suffrage to householders would , but admit into the , unholy compact many who are now shut from it , and the struggle forright would not only be to begin again , bat more severe and " more obstinately con - tested than even now . The people ., have set their shoulders to tbe wheel , and they will notsuffer their
attention to be diverted , and their strength , wasted by any false starts or moveipents , such as this of Mr . Brownbread Joseph . Unless we have grossly miscalculated their energies , ; they will settle the question by the aceom plishmen , t of the full measure of right , in less time than Joseph would spend ia putting back the whole work of agitation to ita
commencement ., . < ¦ - ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦;' It > the course of his speech Mr . Hume , adduced a series ^ of statistical details , * calculated strikingly to exhibit the shameless political - robbery . ' practised by the present system , and famishing admirable arguments for Universal Suffrage , bat bearing on the terms of his own motion , in . qo « tb . er way than i » exhibit its deficiency in one of-the twV'important , qualities—honesty or commou . sense-.
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TO&KSBZ&S SPRING ASSIZES . CKO"WN COURT . —Friday , March 22 . Sbntbnces . —John Dennison , 28 , who pleaded gnlty to having , on the 22 nd of October last , at Bradford , committed wilful and corrupt per-J ^ th ° te 8 timoD y he g ave npon oath before Matthew Thompson , Esq . aHd another magistrate in a complaint between Jacob Mitchell , complainant , and Edward Parkinson , defendant . To be
imprisoned 18 months . —George Richardson was sentenced to oae year ' s imprisonment ; Jo .-eph ^ wton , to two years' hard labour ; Bromley Brooke , Crowther , Thompson , Mitchell , and Hoult charged with noting at Dewsbury , to six months ' impmonmentin York Casile ; and Robert Locking , to be transported ten years . In sentencing the prisoners from Dewsbury , his Lordship said that he hoped their punishment would be a warning to others not to resist the New Poor Law .
THE QUEEN V . UN WIN . This was an indictment preferred against Edwin Unwin , of Sheffield , charging him with havfng , bv false representations , induced Edward Habershon * a clerk in the Court of Requests , to alter the entry of a judgment in the Court Book . This entry caused the arrest of Thomas Walker , the prosecutor , earlier by ten days than it would have otherwise taken place . On the witnesses being called , the Learned Judge intimated that the indictment could not be sustained , and a verdict was accordingly returned for the defendant . This concluded the criminal bu » inesa , and his Lordship then took two unimportant causes .
The Noetheef Star. Saturday , March 30.
THE NOETHEEF STAR . SATURDAY , MARCH 30 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 30, 1839, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1051/page/3/
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