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      AN ADMIRER OF THE KEW-POQR LAW As the T 3 e-ril one night in Ma parlour sat , Ai unhappy & -wretch as could be , Hii lights Omened low , and the tricks grew long ; And he grumbled aed growled as lie sat all alone , A disconsolate Devil -was be . - Se had long been complaining that trade grew dull , Andihe world had improved too fast ; And he said , If suchthlnjs are suffered to be , I * will soon be all up -with my kingdom and m »; Such a state of things can never last *• There once was a time , -when I travelled on eoxta , In the dayi of the olden men , I -was safe to meet "with a jovial crew , Bare , jolly old ' sinners , '—wherever I flew , — Good pickings for Satan then . IK Ammjr . p nv ti ™ ctw -onn-D t iW

      " And welcome I was , too , whenever I came Iheir social oigiee annm *; Ifcey bonsted my presence ! they owned my power , — Tfeey shouted , and called on my name by the hour ; Twas the burthen of every song . " Ob ! they were the sons of my flourishing days , — f The children I loved to see . 2 f o » , -what with the -ways of the-temperance men , Hie numerous chapels and churches 1 ken , I " m afraid they ' re' too fast for me . Poor , short-sighted Devil ; how little he knew . As he sat in his inmost den , Tfcat chapels and churches lead elsewhere fh * n Heaven And fiiat to the sons « f tlie age tis given To in-rent a new method of Bin .

      Sbea the Devil arose , and he took his stick , — And he drew on his gloves with care , And off he walked , in a h- —1 of a pet ; Sqrs he , ~ 111 be up with the rascals" , That cumber the upper air . " • • • # ? He journeyed on , and he saw strange scenes , That gladdened his heart with glee ; A mansion he saw with its windows barred , I \ ale faces peeped out with keen misery bared . Which tne Itevil-was proud to see . " ¦ li isgood , —It is glorious .-Hare to behold , * . He criad as lie capered by ; " Tis all my own doings , escape from my fa-ng Yictims of pauperism , now if yon can ; Starve "wretches , or lio down and die .

      Here is a scene on "which lean gloat ; Here is a-cre-vy for mynet : Commissioners , your salaries and pensions are sure , — Go on , lads , and starve them—how dare they be poor ? My work is not half done yet . " Guardians be firm—but be cruel as w-ell : I loTe you all—each as a son . Crxuh down the pauper , be is but a man ; Grind up his bones too , to fatten the land ; You're my pride , you ' re my glory , my-own I " They called me a Whi ^ in the days of old , But these are the , WiiigB for me ; Ho "Whig in the days of old could do Hie work of the Devil so well as you , _ As old England now mav see .

      "Ah ! ahi my braTe Englishmen , where is now Yonr boasted freedom gone ? I thought I should have you , and here von are—Caged by the Devil and off afar is your genius , ' Liberty' flown . JI Britons how sunk , how degraded , how low 1 Say , do ye feel my power > * I thought the best way was to raise a storm , — Andset you all clamourinjf lond for Reform , It was done in a happy hoar . "Tour leaders tura out now , soon as you please , — They have * one my work full well ; Send them to me , III provide them with room ; I « e * M—1—e , an&B —« s—1 , and P—4—Bt—n come , IH giTe them a welcome in .

      " Say , cant you raise now , a bit of ' a din ?—Is your conrage all fleeted away ?—Would you like to give P—1 and the Itaie , now a turn ?— * , Ml engage to find fuel , ( you ' ve plenty lo burn , ) Provide " em as fast as yon mar . " How sternly you spoke when the Coisican chief Had threatened to land on your shore -, Tbe badge of j > roud liberty sat on each brow—Ofo . 1 -where are those high-spoken sentiments now ? Gone , gone , and we hear them no more , " As my old friend , * the Dean , * once observed in a joke ( And truth oft arose from his shamming ; How . sadly that truth now , you Britons may trace , ) * Yan . ' ie & low-minded , paltry , pitiful race , And aze scarce worth the trouble of-damning . )*

      "But 111 travel along and see what I < aa find To furnish me food for my maw ; Per since tie Kew Poor Law is working so well , The deepest , the hottest , the best place in ——Siall be -theirs wlio concocted the law . " Otufcfieia ; 1 S 39 . TKDIBrSH . Dean Swift is said to haTe made some such observa tion as the above upon a portion of his flock .

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      Thk Life of "Woman . —The farr ,-haired girl is content with her little doll ; sue smooths its pillow in a tiny cradle with all a mother ' s care ; while the boy is ir . a field , robbing the poor bird of its young . He brings them home , and perhaps fora day their chirping may arrest Ms attention ^ he . then grows weary , and the fair girl becomes their nurse . She takes them np stairs , has placed them by her little cot , and in the Jiightshe arises to feed them . So in childhood are the seeds of tender emotion sown , that come to full growth in the breast of the woman—the tender plants of pity and lore , hope and sorrow , and fear—flowers that spring np to a future day , and make her still the beloved Eden . She leaves her home and her friends , aud becomes a wife ; the

      tcenes that are imprinted upon her memory are forsaken , and she puts all her trust and hope tff future happiness npon man . She sheds a few natural tears when crossing the threshold , but gentle in her nature as a lamb , she donbts not but that-he , with whose fate she is abont to link her own , will ever treat her as he has done bitherto . She reck 3 not iben that he whose voice is soft and penetrating , ^ fnV ^ -nj T into the very gentleness of her heart , will erelong leave her for the noisy chase , tbe tavern dinner , and the midnight revel . What hours will « h " e sit alone without a murmur , looking love into file face of her -first-bora ! But see , her eyes brighten with joy—he has comel ^ o' he enters ™ t -ther « is " a confused noise in the passage , a

      mixture of many voices ; they have borne him o ™^ «» fcei Throttle has a -greater charm for him than the prattle of his child or the angelic features of his wife ; bnt even all this she can pardon , and her Haile breaks npon him as brightly next mprning m Sfa SS ^ h » ho wrong . Wf * - * g £ l £ fiowers from the tender stem , m J ? f '^ jfe grant baauty for an hour in proud tanaph , ^ then 32 h them heartlessly aade to wither for erer ! How much has woman suffered through , teuton « to ihe love of man ! how many young le «** * f ™ fe ^^ r ^ s&M iSh ^^^ srSF memberedia the grave ! Haypy indeed are they

      " "Who never told their love , . Bnt let concealment , Eke a worm l the bud , Feed on their damask cheek f - Sffs ^^ ssissss ^ ss sssffsfssss ' y srwpfti imagination , and never lived to see him . measured by ft ; who have fancied that his heart is all lore , li £ e their own , and never endures Ma shilling n #£ ie « . — Milieus Rural Shetchet .

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      • J ^ - v M AND Substancb of Equality . —Equality of rights is the Tery soul of society ; but equality oi nghts ^ cannot eiigt nnallied with equality of auties . Ihi 8 is the snm and substance of equality . Inns , if three men be placed Tipon a dssert island , and they each give an equal portion of labour for the common good , and receive an equal reward , the communion is equally beneficial to air the three . JBut if one of the party , by force or fraud , obtain double allowance of produce for only single work , the union cannot longer be equally beneficial to all : he three . If , again , the same man compel his fel-> ow 3 to give him double allowanco of produce for 710 labour whatever , every shadow of equality and justice vanishes at once .: and no lawuor regulation can restore the of ri gll *^ dnt ^^^^^ l ^^^ . ^^^^

      equilibrium ght , unless it compel this receiver of an-unearned share to jjive his labour for such share ; for tha -very essence of the inequality and the wrong « onsist * in the inequality of the duties rendered and the rewards received by the several parties . There ii no exponent of equal rights but that which also stands for equal duties ; and if duties be unequal , _^ or equal duties be unequally rewarded , the very principle of justice is at once invaded , and equality of rights destroyed . In all civilised countries , as they are called , society is thus divided into idlers and producers—into those who obtain double allowance for doing nothing , and those who receive only half-allowance for doing double work ; and so long as this difference of position and inequality of condition is suffered to exist , inequality of rights aud laws and enjoyments will also exist . It matters not how society came to be in its present state It is sufficient that it is found thus , and that it be altered

      may and amended . Why should some men receive double allowance for doing only single work , or quadruple - allowance for rendering no service whatever 1 All the excessive toil , and poverty , and misery of the working classes of all countries arise solely from this most unjust and iniquitous manner of apportioning the labour and the reward ; and never , until we alter the social arrangements which produce aud' perpetuate this injustice , can we obtain relief . What arguments are needed to prove to common sense , -that , if ten men have to maintain twenty , the ten must work harder or longer than if they had only themselves to keepl What kind of equality of rights can ther * possibly be between the keepers and the kepti -There is neither © quality of service rendered nor received ; for the one party gives all , and the other party takes all—and herein" lies the essenco and spirit of all inequality . —Bray ' s Labour ' s Wrongs and Labour ' s Remedy .

      CciTivATiox of Yocal Jlt'Slc—Whatever tends to refine ^ to civilise , to exalt the intellectual faculties of man , is not merely ornamental , but useful . This is xhe character and purpose of all arts , whether paintings sculpture , poetry , or music . Rising above and beyond the limits of the sensible aud material , they delight in the contemplation of the infinite aud the spiritual , a » d know no bound or limit for the sphere of their exertions . Every power and every faculty with which man is endued was given to be improved and enjoyed . There is the same mutual adaptation between knowledge and human miiid as there is between light and the eve , sound and the ear , seed and the earth . When" the Almighty on the one hand so constituted the seed that when deposhed in the earth it germinates aud grows and prouuees fruit , and when on the other he so constituted the human body that the fruit nourishes and

      sustains it , he in the most emphatic manner commanded mau to cnltivate the earth and to reap its fruits . In like manner , when he endued the human voice with sweetness , compass , flexibility , ' -and power , and made it capable of giving expression to every emotion of the heart—when he bestowed on the ear the powBr of the nicest discrimination , and rendered it one of the channels through which pleasure is conveyed to the mind ; when he also established those laws which control and regulate the production , diffusion , and combination of sonnd , rendering each beneficent pTOTision tributary to and dependent upon the other , and uniting all in beauteous harmony ; can we doubt that these gifU were dispensed with a view to their enjoyment , or that , by cultivating the powers thus bestowed , we are not only best consulting our own happiness , but rendering to their giver the acceptable tribute of obedience —Taylor ' s Gresham Lectures .

      Philosophy of Shaking Hamds . —It is but lately that we nnderstood the strange constructions that are sometimes put upon & squeeze . With some it is entirely equivalent to a declaration of love ; this is very surprising , indeed . We must take hoVi of a lady ' s hand like hot potatoes ; afraid of giving a squeeze least we should burn our fingers . Very fine truly ! Now it was our " ancient custom to squeeze every hand that we got in our clutches , especially a . fair one . Is it not * a wonder that we hare never been sued for a breach of promise ! We would not give a rusty nail for one , of your cold formal shakes of the band . ETery person who intrudes one » r two fingers for your touch ( as if he were afraid of

      catching some cutaneous distemper ) , should go to school awhile to John Q , Adams . Me shakes you with a vengeance ; and shakes yonr body too , unless you should happe * to bo as thick as himself . Wellthere is nothing Eke It , it shows a good heart , at any rate , and we would rather a man would crush the very bones of our fingers ^ and shake our shoulder out of joint than that heshould pokeourpaw , as if he were about to come in contact with a bear or hysena . The ladies may rest assured of this , that a man who will not squeeze their hand when he gets hold of it , does not desorve to have a hand in his possession ; and that he lias a heart seven hundred and forty-nine times smaller than a grain of mustard seed . —American Paper .

      Slow Pkoghrss op Hcmax Adva > temej « t . —When we take into consideration the various circumstances which have retarded human advancement , we cannot be surprised that the disenthralment of man from man has not yet been achieved . Under despotisms —and the majority of governments are little else than despotisms—theknowledge of truth and liberty progresses slowly ; for the gibbet and the dungeon are of too easy access to be neglected by the governors , especially where custom has made the immolation of a victim a matter of but little ' moment . Should the ruling few think fit to give a re&son for their bloody acta ^ they fabricate some black and odious lie , calculated to mislead the multitude , and work upon their passiouB and their prejudices ; and

      the unhappy and enslaved people are made to gloat upon the sufferings and decry the principles of him who would have made them enlightened and happy : they are taught to regard him as one of the deadfiesi enemies of the human race , and , believing him to be such , they exult at his discomfiture and glory in his downfall . The governors cry " Crucify him !'•' and the delnded governed loudly echo " Crucify him ! " Should the fearless champion of truth escape for a time with life , it makes but little difference in favour of his cause . Everything is against him . The great body of those who are oppressed , and who stand most in need of deliverance , are perhaps-unable to read ; and the oral communication of political knowledge , even in countries professing to enjoy the liberty of thought and speech , is almost as slow and

      unsafe a method as that adopted by means of books . Wherever the bod y is enslaved , the mind is still more tyrannised over ; for the anathema of the priest is ever at the call of the despot ; and the hereafter of the first is always more dreaded , by an iguoraiit people , than the present t 3 "ranny of the last . The minds alike of the oppressed and the oppressor are warped and confined from infancy to manhood ; and thus , benighted and enslaved , tloes generation follow generation ; aud those simple truths and principles which , under certain circumstances , might have become universally known and acted upon during the passing of one generation , are , under other circumstances , almsst unknown anduuregarded at the end of centuries . —Bray ' s Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Jtemedy .

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      TO THE EDITORS OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Gentlemen , — Falkirkis an-elective burgh , ia the Eastern district of Stirlingshire . It is beautifully situated , having on the East the Callendar Estate ; the Forth and Clyde Canal on the West ; the Moorlands on the South ; and the river Carron on ~ the 2 sorth , on whose banks the ever memorable battle was fought which led to the freedom of Scotland . But it appears to me that the inhabitants of the town have lost their ancestors' spirit . They will do anything for Whiggery or Toryism , but nothing for the Charter , with the exception of s . few noble spir its . Now , Gentlemen , the town is governed by what are called stint masters , who are chosen yearly by Universal Suffrage . These stint masters impose a taxunder the name of water money , which is to

      , defray the expenses of the town . The steeple and bells of the town belong exclusively to all who pay water money , and they can be rung npon any occasion , by any of the inhabitants who wish , and will pay the man who has charge of them his fee . He has , besides , a small salary , Now , Gentlemen , for a stretch of power . The Working Men ' s Association had a lecture on Thursday , the 10 th current , from Mr . O'Neal , of Glasgow ; aed when the bells were required to be tu = g , the bellman told them that he eould not do it , for he was ordered by a stint master , who represents that body , which goes under the naae of the shopecracy , not to ring them for any

      Radical meeting- The bells were rung , however , although not by the bellman , and the poor man lost his situation ; and when he wished to explain that it was not he who rung them , the shopocrats would Jiot listen to Km , Next morning , when reflecting on their conduct , * nd what they had done the evening before , they gave him back the keys ; but on what conditions I am not aware . Now , Gentlemen , I should wish to know who gave these saucy shopocrats the power so to do ? If it was the stint , masters , I ask who gave them the power ! Did their constituents desire them so to do ? I answer eo . But there is not anything too low , base , or mean , for Whigs or Tories .

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      Notwithstanding this , there wm . a meeting , although not so numerous as could have been wished , owing to the dispute that took place about the ringr ing of the bells , and their not being rung at the appolntedhour . But I can tell the low ^ grovelling ; VVnig aud Tory animals , that their doom is sealed 5 tor knowledge is advancing with steam-power rapidity . Tho first number of the Chartist Circular sold 20 , 000 . J&r . O'Neal delivered himself with great tact and address . He continued for above an hour , and received much approbation ; but the peoples of Falkirk are too well off to be stern Radicals , and seem to bo contented with their political slavery . Much , very much , do they need agitation . * | A Friekd ^ to FAift Flai . Palkirk , October , H , 1839 . ?^§ ^

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      __ ^^ ,, .. . . N E W BE E R TE-ADE ; { From our own Reporter . ) A public meeting of brewera and retailers of feoer , washeld on Thursday week , at the London Mechanics ' Institution , Southampton-buildings , Chancerylane , at four o ' clock iu the afternoon ^ wSen the Committee of the Metropolitan NeAy Publicans protection Society , gave in their report of the / proceedings duriig-the past year , particularly in defence of tho trade m the last session of Parliament , and presont a financial statement of Hie society's funds , and also to elect officers for the ensuing yesuy and to declare four vaeancies on the Pensitn Fund . It was stated that the object of the soeiety was to protect the Beerseller from the attacks of the powerful arii interested opponents of a free trade in beer , as well

      as to delend him m tae lawful exercise of his businessfrom the mauy difficulties with which he has to contend ^ particularly the vexatious annoyances by the common informer—to furcish information upon any point connected with thejtrade , and to secure his property from petty depredations : Upon every occasion , it was declared , that the uncompromising hostility of the licensed victuallers and the interests therewith blended , evinced itself— their opposition to a free trade in beer , and hatred of the beerseUev , are carried on in a spirit of deadly animosity ; that the latter had not as yet learned , the moral lessbii " live «> d let live . " It had then become with the beersollers an imperious necessity to unite in selfdefence . It had been also stated that the

      Metropolitan Society : was in connection with similiir Societies in England , and by that : a focus of information , and medium of information were established / advantageous to all parties and conducive to the best interests of the trade . The meeting was , thinly attended , and the chair was taken at halfpast four o ' clock . Mr . Kysnetisly was called to the chair . - Mr . Bssuop , tbe secretary ^ read the report . It appeared that the Society was now under legislative protection , being enrolled under the provisions of the Act of Parliament , 10 Goo .. 4 , and i arid 5 Win . ' 4 . Tho necessity of obtaining legislative sanction to , aud defined lawd for tho regulation arid conducting of the Society , became imperative on the great increase in the numbers of subscribers and the greatly extended sphere of operation of the committee , consequent on tho repeated experimental

      attacks in the Parliament and elsewhere , with which the interests hwolved in the New Beer ^ Trade , had had to contend / That desirable result was then achieved , the Association possessed all the rights , powers , privileges , and protection of au Act ot Incorporation , and might then lie considered as an incorporated society . Tho objects which the society contemplated in its formation would still he kept in view . These were to defend the trade at large—to form a ' general medium of communication and correspondence—to obtain information useful to the beerseller , and available to every member of tho society , and to form a fund for the relief of its decayed members , their widows and orphans / During the first year , the committee had been actively

      engaged iu defending the interests connected with , or engaged in , the trade . Tho committee had much to contend against . The repeated attempt * in both houses of . Parliament , to neutralize or repeal tho principle contained in the act for permitting the general s&lo of beer by retail—^ the opening of the Beer trade to public competition— -had given the committee much anxious employment : . hitherto their ondeavours aiid exertiona , aided and supported as they had been by those of the committees of Birmingham and other towns with which the metropolitan society had been 111 connection , had succeeded in a few enterprises—their further continued efforts would be directed to that principle of equalisation which a select committee of the House of Commons

      declared to bo an assimilation of all the regulations as to hours and mauagenient , to which every description of houses liconsed to sell beer or spirituous liquors should be subjected . " All the details of complaint were involved ia the existing unjust laws —the assimilation therefore would be the only measure which could be satisfactory or remoUial . So much had been attempted against the beersellbrs by tliehosta of their opponents , that » service had been thereby rendered to tho new beer trade , . which was neither intended nor foreseen . By Betting Up the gin shop as tc s&ndard of moratuy , ttnXT holdtng torth the beer house as having _ a contrary tendencyj they had eiiabled the public to judge of the truth of the tras

      con t , and institute an enquiry : into facts and motives ; and the result of that o » quiry did . not terminate to the exclusive advantage of tho advocates of the ardent and intoxicating dram . All the beersellers asked was to be governed Uy the same regulations with other dealers in the same artiolo of general consumption , and connected with the same locality . That they had a right to demand—that claim had been admitted ; to carry out their views would the exeniow of the committee be porseveringly and steadily directed , until an equality of prWUege v ? ould bo conceded by the Legislature .: Jlr . Perry moved , and Mr . Clark seconded , the adoption of tho report , which was carried unanimously .

      -. Air . Bishop then read a statement of the finances , by which a balance of £ 1 ( 16 lUs . 6 d . remained in the hands of the treasurer . ' Officers for the ensuing year were tlion nominated aud appointed . : . Lord Mounteagle was announced as a member of the society . CHear . ) . - , - '" - ; A motion was then made declaratory of the interested motives of the opponents of the beeisellers , when the meeting adjourned , thanks having been voted to the chairman .

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      SOCIAL LECTURE AT KEIGHLEY . On Monday night week , Mr . Ki . ight , Social Lecturer for the Leeds district , delivered an address in the Working Men ' s Hall , at Keighley , on the benefits of Socialism . A great portion of the discourse was employed iu drawing a contrast betwixt the present state of b -ciety and that pictured out by Mr . Owen ; showing tho immense superiority of the community system over the present state of competition , v / hich he did in a very clear and able manner .

      One great aim of the speaker , appeared to be to make the audience understand that , the taxation' evils arising from the present Government were a mere nothing when -compared with the immense sums extracted from the people by tho middlo clax .-profit mongers . To give his audience an illustration of this , he described the numerous expenses attendant on the manufacture of a bale of cotton through its conveyance from town to town > before its final purchase by the wearer . After having gone through the usual topics advanced in behalf of . Socialism , he concluded a very plain and clear discourse bV expressing his readiness to be questioned by aiiy of the audience—nothing being , iu his opinion , equal to discussion for clearing up things , of-a . doubtful character

      . ; : Mr . Thomas Knowles , taking advantage of the invitation , immediately got up and told Mr . Knight that he had certainly drawn a very pleasant picture of a Social community , and had represented it as a heaven upon earth in comparisou to the present system . For his part he would be equally happy with the lecturer in seeing such a poor man ' s paradise established ; but he would candidly ask him if he was sincere in believing that a government like the present would allow any institution long- to exist which they believed would have the effect of relieving the labouring class from their task-masters , unless the people were protected at the same time by Universal Suffrage ? . The question was answered in the affirmative

      by Mr . Knight , Who said that no government could interfere with the property of communities without violating the laws of private property , aud making all equally insecure . Mr . James Bedford , another Radical , then stood up aud begged lea , ve to differ with ilr . Knight on that subject , as he had long since lost all conjidence in the preseut Government either in regard to their protection of private property or any thing else that did not square with their interest . 13 y way of proving this , he would refer to the attempt lately made by them to break Sick Societies , ^^ by pouncing upon their mo » oy ,: and throvfing them out of the pale of the law . Another strong . instanee of their respect for societies formed for the protection of the poor was their breakiug ; up of the Trades Unions , and transporting honest industrious individuals for

      merely attempting to prevent a reduction in their wages . But it ' anything more was wanting to prove the insecurity of private property belonging the labouring class , in their present unrepresented state , he would refer them to the New Poor Law which was passed , to strip the poor and destitute of a descr iption of property which had been considered time immemorial strictly sacred by all laws human and divine . For his part , he found no fault with any attempt to benefit the condition of the poor , but he was forced to confess that after so many proofs of the insecurity of ^ omeMnds of property , lie had his doubts about the success of the community scheme till proteetediby Universal Suffrage . Another observation \ vbich had fallen from the lips of the speaker he should wish to hear explained a little more to his satisfaction . Mr . Knight had stated , in

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      the course of his address , that the taxes paid to the ^ K ^^ T + ^ riim 5 ? t ^^ ^^ ere * mere ^ nothing when compared to the profits swallowed up by the middle class ; the ^ . taxes Of the former amounting ¦ & to tSof tS | m ^ wrweek , while flie exao " SiLSf latter , would be seven ^ times that sum . lo place the ^ inatter m a conspicuous light , hd would take , for in 8 tance ; a . man at the head of a family of 4 ^ ; C ^ wth au Wcom e ^ amongst : them of twelve shillings per week . According to the statetheJ ^ rBnm ofa shilling ^ per , headv taken by Government , would amount to seven shillihgs pei week , and he . simply wiahed to know how tho land sharKs ^ r middlo men would come at seyen times theamount of

      what wasleft . Another thingiu which the lecturer appeared to him to be grossly inistaken , waa . . tb « opinion that Chartists had done all they . ^ rrt .- ' ^ - ^ ^ *^ ' ^^" -- ' r « 1 ^»* to - 1 ( aawout their object but an appeal to physical force . For his part he was very tar from being of that opuiion . Ho admitted that moral persuasion , the f fc r ^^ ^ drhad proved a Llu ^ but ^ hl believed ttot moral : force ,: according to his idea of tlie term , had ^ Ecarcely been tried at all . Under the head , Aloral Force * ho claasedall the ^ means of resistance possessed by the people : of a legal nature , and 1 over which Government could shave Vcontrol such , fot instance , as exclusive dealing , refrairiinE from ^ all exciseable articles , with a variety of others ; which , in h ^ opinion , were sufficient in thpmselves to procure the suffrage any time when t . h « »> nrtl »

      could . be persuaded to act upon them . He , therefore , considereU that Mr . Kv had acted unfairly ia de ' r ¦ f 1 m i . ^^ icahBin impraoticable . when ao Very little hadjret boaa doiie to obtain it . These a * ia Tariety of other questions aud arguments were ail asked and answered in a very shroyrd - and able manner ,. and the discussion ivas only terminated by the lateness of the hour , Mr . Knight observing that as he would be probably paying a visit again , fi the course of a few weeks , he would be very happy ia reaumvng the . argumeut . The attendance wS " numerous , and the discoureo appeared to give general eatisfaction , With the exception ^ that numbers of leadipg Radicals appeared to consider the community plan iinpracHcabla till protected by the Sutiraije .

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      r Wi . . . . ¦ . . w . * m . . EXTRAORDINARY CASE . EXHUMATION OF A CORPSE ON SUSPICION OF HAYING BEEN POISONED . Tho Nottingham Review contains a long and most painfully interesting statement of a coroner's inquest lately holden at fcuwiustowei in Nottinghamshire , on the body of an elderly lad y , who died just after the close of the : harvest last year : The evidence accompanied as' it-is . by the Voluntary statement of the Son oi the ^ deceasod , tends to a charge agaiust the son s wife of having poisoned tho deecasod i and of having ruiued the health and- paralyzed the limbs of her husbaud by aUininistering poisonous drugs to him . Tho following is * condensation from that pa per oi thetacts contained iu the evidence , and in Air Cutts ' s Btatemeut : — ¦ - ¦' ¦¦ On the 29 th of January , 1838 , Mr . Henrv fliitts .

      who occupies a farm of four or five hundred acres , at Carburton , in-this . county , belonging to tho Duke of Portland , married Miss Mary Aim Steel who resided at Littlewood , near Warsdp ; andj according to Mr . Cutts ' a statenieiit , immediately on their marriage they went to London , where they staid about a Tort night ; on thoir return home his wife appeared discontented ; and dissatisfied with everything . Mr . Cutts ' s mother was at his house when they arrived and he Btates received his wife very kindly ; however , she seemiug dissatisfied with her staying , Mr . Cutts ' s mother went away . A party of friends were iuvited to pay the wedding visit , and upon this oocasion his wife camo down Btairs intoxicated ; she was unable to makei tea . or eit at tho table , and Mr . Ciitts , kiiowing that the exposure would make his doinesti *

      life the country ' s talk , for the party consisted of tourteea or fifteen young men of his acquaintance , and a female friend ( the only one who accepted the invitation although Other ladies Were invited ) remonstrated with his wife upon tho impropriety of her conduct . After that period , finding his wife frequently : in a etate of excitement produced by hquor . and hot kiipwingby what means she obtained it , no searched her box , and found yrine and spirits . On one occasion , on coming ; home out of the fields , and finding her intoxicated , he insisted upon searching tho linen chest , aiid asked licr for the Itev ; she denied being intoxicated , and refused to give it to him : however , ho took the key from her ; he Bays she eadeavoured to prevent his examining the chest , on doing which ho discovered an ounce of oxalic aci £

      and a ; poiuid ofVarBomerhe said to her ^ " Good Grod ! what are you doing Trtth poison : id your chest 1 there ' s arsenic aud oxalic acid , how came they theroi" She replied thov had b « eu throwing : about at home , ( meaning her homo prior to marriago ) and had . be « a ' . put into the chest . These poisons were by Mr . Cutts ' s order , buried . Early in tho : spring , Mr . Cutts ' s ' . ' mother , visited them for a fortnight , and during that timo Mrs . ILOutts frequently : mado the ^ Wl » dy ' Bbed , although ^^ she ^^ diid not make lior own : she ( said eho made it vto please hor . Oiid morning Mrs . Cu « s ( tho deceased ) said to hier son , that Mary Anne' ( his wife ) would make her bed , and she > wished she would not , for she *\ yas sure she had wettdd it . pn ^ mentioning this to his wife , sho replied that she bad " rpilt the pot" upon it . Mrs . Cutta ( deceased )

      afterwards stated , that : in her belief Mary Anne wetted the bed to gtve hor coM , and added , if she would do that she would not mind what she did to her . About the same period Mr , Cutts observed on pouring out some ale at supper , that it creamed on the top in au extraordinary way , which he remarked to his . jyifij , and she said she did not know what occasioned it , unless tho jug had stood on " 'the '' -fireplace-and . go . t Warm . He said it was not warm , and she attempted to account for the appearance , by . suggesting that some tooth powder might have 1 fallen mto the jug wheu it was in tho cupboard . Mr . Gutts , who had drank onco of the ale before he diaepvered its creamy appeavaiice , refused to drink any more , and locked it up in ; the cupboard , putting the . key in his breeches pocket , and coinc to bed .

      ihi 8 transaction , " ho saya , " preyed on my mind , and I did not sleep . " He then detailed circum-Btancea ^ which - ' . induced him to think thathis wifewas desirous of getting possession of the key ; lie took it out of hw * reeches pocket , and placed it under his pillow ,. The next morning he oxamiaed the ale , and . finding a considerably sediment or powder at . the bottom of ¦ ¦ tho ale , tho colour of which was gone , he poured it and its ' contents into a bottle , which he placed in thogranaryfor . the purpose of having it , as h « stated , analysed ; but , as his health was not seriously auected by what he Kau drank , and as his temper subsided , he says , " 1 forgot it , and the bottle and its contents remained iu the granary many months ; " until one of his brothers , by hia . desire , fetched it and todk ; it to I ) r . Hutchinson , ui

      ^ oiungnam , to 00 anaivsod . Upon analysing about one ounce and a quarter of this ale , some salt of Jcad was discovered .. Mr . Cutts then goes on to state , that his mother came again to stay with them at the close , of the harvest , to romain' whilst he and his wife went to " : Astern Spa , for , during tho summer , ho had been several times attacked withpains inhis toes andlegs , which ho considered to bo rlieumatism or gout . On the . Wednesday ' evening , wheu ho had his harvest supper , ho says , " My niothor and I were both attacked after tea , with violent sieknesB , aiid continued ill all the evening . " Oii the Friday ^ Mr . Hayes , a , sUrgeonv ssiw the deceased , who was then in the sitting-robin violently sick ! he advised her to go to bed , and said he would send iier medicine ; and in answer to -Sir , Cutts's inauirv

      as to the cause ot Ins mothers illness , lie said : he thought it a litflo sickness , perhaps infiuenza ; there was not much the matter , - " aud ho / . said 1 might lepvo home safe enovigh ^ , as ho thought my mothov would be bettor by iVl pnday . The next day sho bocanie worse ; I went up stairs to her iu the afternoon , and asked her to take her medicine : slid wm insensible . 1 gave her the medicine , and I told the servant-girl 1 thought my mother was dying ; I s « nt the boy to MansSeld for my brother and sister , as I . was | fearful they might not arrive before she died ; this was about four o ' clock , and my motlicr waa dead ^ in less than ah hour afterwards . 1 had also sent for Mr . Hayesi but he did not come until after her death . Mr . Hiiycs and my wife both expressed their astonishnieiJt at my mother ' s-death . " Mr . Cutts adds

      , " All the family thought it odd that my mother should go ott" so suddenly , for on the Sunday prior to her death , slid had said that she never was better m her lite / ' The examination thei proceeds a , s follows ;— " On th « nfeht on which , tho cofiin was brought , my wife ' s conduet and conversation was very , oxtiaoi-dinary ; she . said that ' she was in the family- way—that the black coffin had frightened hor , and sho hoped . the . child would be a black ono , as black as . the 'devil . ' Why she said so , I iievcr could underttand ; she wasnot in the family-way , but ehe ¦ was always -conducting ' : hersili " . iii a similar extraordinary fnanncr , which made mo misevahlo . After the fuiieval , they went to Askern , where they : stayed a week ; he was not "VYell then ; and whcii they had been at homo a fovv days , he says , "I began with sickness aud pain ia my legs and feet ; sickness : and subsequent illness came first , aud then the pains in my legs and feet , which gradually became . wpr « e . " The examination ^ heii mentions the various medical \ gentlcnieu whom ^ ho consulted , yet he * tm kept getting ¦ worse . ; " I gradually lost the use ot my legs , feet , and hands , aiid am Still ubable to use them ; 1 cannot walk or assist myself . ' ? In January last , I consulted I ) r ; Russell , of Wbrksop , and under his treatmeut ho says , " my bodily health lurproved for a Avv-jk ^ Qr , fortnight , and then I was again attacked with , piu-ging and sickness j . then I became better for some % ys , and again was attacked m the same way ^ I generally could for a . ibrinight or three weeks keep : £ etti ; i «* hotter ^ and . then had a return of purging and sifcknes "? , without any . apparent ; cause which could be discovered oi- accounted for by niy medical man . My wifogeyerally , during all the time , gave me ihy foci . 1 and medicines . " . Mr ! Cutts th ph details the ctrcumstaiices attending the sudden sickness of several if his workpeople and all

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      hisvservanta , except one , iu January last , after dming on a pndding and some pi g-meat . On this occaeion , the wife said it was a disorder about the honse » attd ttio ; people were : seized thesame as he ( the husband ) . : Mt . Cuttsf then saysi tho farmin « servants were frequently attacked with siokness and illness , and proceeda ^ ^ asfollotra : —^> In ^ March ; last , Lliarles Smith , one of the lads , was Bent to Worksop forborne medicines , and did not return till" very late . Myvwjfe . had gone tpbed . y She had written tneorderforthg medieines to be procured atMr . Utbgo b . On Smith ' s return , the maid-sorvant brought the packet into the bed-. room and Mrs %£ & 6 £ S as i P »» be , opened it . I observed more fefefe , « x S ^ r »» a J ° m ° n * labelled tubBuwiw

      -x ; .- i aeicea ttv « girl what prussic acid coulee sent forTand ^ said a | w drops 4 uld S all ot us , 1 took the phial and put it under my pillow ' the next morning I observed my wife looking about for something , but she-did not ask for any thine ; nor say what she wanted , nor did I enquire till I took tho bottle from under my . pillow ; -, and asked if she knew anything of that ? calling Iier attention to the phial with ^ prussieacid' written on it , andshesaid she did 5 for she had sent for it to take herself / I sa ., f 9 * quite sui-0 of that ; I thought it was as likely for : me as for her , and at all events for ono or us ; and I ordered the servant tobreak the bottle and destroythe stuff , whichshe did . " . * _ In May , Dr . Russoll advised Mr . Cutts to go to Buxton ; he went there , accompanied bv nis wife

      and in a few days his " general health becau to improve , but about the fifth or sixth day I had one of my . old attacks of pur | ing and sickness , with pain in- my _ bowels , more violent than I had ever- before experienced . ¦ ¦ ¦ Dr . Buxton attended me , but could not account for the symptoms ; they must , he said , " . ^ arisenfrom something I had eateuoir drunk ! All this _ time ; I kept my bed , and my wife or our servantrbrpught me my food , ivly attacks were after tea . About this time , my brother Richard made mp . acquaiuted with ' the conduct which he and his wife had observed of my wife at - Buxton ; that she was lavishly expending mpriey in useless tbiiio-s ; atid wasj froln the effect ofthe 1 liquor , in . a very excited stato . -As I could not account forherhaving money this ledto at

      . enquiry the bahk , ' * and it wls aScer ^ tamed that she had kept £ 13 $ , which he had given her in March , to take to the bank ; to bo placed to his credit , and £ 10 out of £ 1 GO , which ho had in ; May given her for tho same purpose , and that she had made false entries iii the passage book . "My brother blamed ino for my confidence in my wife , in allowing her to give me food and medicine , aad they mai . tipiied : some facts to Dr . Buxton , which induced mm to insist that my wife should no longer give me my food or medicine . " This direction was obeyed , and " from that , time , " says Mr . Cutts , " niy health has gradually becomq better ; my general healtli is £ « od , andl have not since had any sickness or purging , or any of those attacks which used so frequently to beset me . The uso of my limbs , is , Ihope , cradually returning . " Mr . Cutts then proceeds to partjculai-ize his wife ' s conduct , nainely , that '' on io aoout the

      sspqaKin ^ ner money , and her conduct , she pursued a Bysteiri of habitual drunkonness for some days ; threatened to hang or destroy herself , and playing all sorts of antics , to . attempi to induco mo to believe that sho had taken poison , ormeditated the commission of suicide ; she sent for laudanum ; found a bottle containing three ounces ; Sho then showed her throat scratched , and declared it was caused by her having attempted to hang herself . Since my return home , my wife has sent property away from iny house ; bought articles of dresa , acaounting to upwards of £ 100 , and silks of the most costly kind , and forwarded a box of theso articles to Buxton , directed to tho people whera she lodged with me , aud from , whom I have obtained them . Sho had desired those persons to deny having them , and they did so . She tampered with tho servants , and tried to send away plate and other articles . "

      Upon calm aiid anxiouss reflection , considering all the foregoing circumstances—iny preseut state of debility—my frequent illness—my poor mother ' s extraordinary and sudden death—the illness of the servants—and my wjfe ' sfrcquent possessiontof noxious poisonous drugs—the fact of my not having experienced any . of those violent symptoms in my health since my mediciucs andfpodhave notbeen given to mo 'by my wife—that my general bodily health ha ? gradually improved , and is now good saye that I have but little use of mv

      none . my limbs ; my le ff s antt thigh 3 are wasted away , my feet swell and are painful : Ieay , considering all . these circumstances , I grieve to be -obliged-. to ¦ ' come to the awful conclusion , that my wfe has , by admiuistering deler terious drugs to me at various times , occasioned . niy past illness and present debility ; that she ga ^ my inothor mineral poison drugs , which occasioned her death ; and that she also has , at yarious times , mixed poisonous drugs with the food eaten by myself , my friends , and servants , with intent to destroy us or injure our health . " :

      The preceding Btatement shows that whilst Mr . Henry Cutts , ana wife , and his brother Richard and wife , w « re at Buxton , the latter had their suBpicions axeiteel thatihe / # ife of . ' Mr . Henry . Cattsiwasgivine him poison . On further inquiryj Mr . Henry Cutts » nd his brothera Richard and 'WilKam , became morally convinced that thoir sugpicious were too well founded , and -Mr . fieardshaw ; of Worksop , was employed by the husband to examine the servants . The examinations taken by him were laid before Mr . Henry Cutt ' s landlord , the Duke of Po ' rtland . Circumstances : which it is not necessary to mention now , induced the family to consult Mr . of

      Pay no j Nottingham , and that gentleman took the exam »» ation& afresh , which were laid before Mr Henry Qhitty , for his opinion , who advised the diV interment of Mrs . Cutts . Accordingly , the coroner , P . R . Falkher , Esq ., Newark , was applied to , and that gentleman issued his w : ajrant for the exhumation of the corpse , of Mrs . Cutts , which was accordingly dismterredy arid on Tiiesday / thd 1 st inst ., the coroner and jury assembled in vie ^ f of the exhumated bodv . ¦ -. " ,. ; ¦¦ . '¦ '¦ ¦ - ' - . ¦ ' •' ¦' .. : ¦ - ¦ : . '¦ ¦ ¦ ; '• ¦ - ' . ¦ . - _ - .. The medicai gentlemen having disembowelled the deceased , for the purpose of aualysatipn , the inquest was adjourned to ten o'clock on the mornlnK of Friday , the 10 th instant .

      The first witness examined at the adjourned inquest was Ann Lowe , servant to Mr . aiid Mrs . H . Ou ' ttSi , Her evidence was priscipaLly confirmatory of the pr « cedihg statement , with this additional account :--, \ - "Mrs . H . Cutts waited upon the deceased after she was taken ill on Wednesday . She always waited upon her , except on the Saturday morriing ; Mrs . 11 . Cutts would wait upon her ; the deceased generally hacl tea and toast , I cannot recolieet her having anything else ; she hadtoast buttered by my mistress , who always took it up herself . * * * * The toast which Mrs . H . Cutts took up to the deceased was never afterwards used , but mv mistress

      always put it away . I am sure she did' not eat it herself . We found one piece in the parlour cupboard . I found it in the bottom cupboard , on tlie floor in the sitting-ropm . I can ' t recollectr the time pf the day on Wednesday when the deceased fell sfek . . Tsaw Mrs . II . Cutts bring down stairs several times , tho buttered toast whiGh the deceased had not eaten ; the usual place of keeping buttered teast was the pantry , but she did not : put it there . Sho mado away with it . I am certain sho would never eat it , because she never would eat aavthnig which had been taken to the old lady . I can't tecollect the deceased having had any pudding ud staira . ; - ¦ - ¦ . •¦

      -Mary Taylor , fourteen years of age ,, being sworn , saidr-My father lives at Elston , near Kewark ; 1 lived half-a-year . ' . with Mr . Henry Cutts . I lived there when his mother died ; , which -was on a Saturday ; I recpllect the harvest supper . The witness then detailed the . illness of decessM- her vomiting ; her being chiefly attended by Mrs . H . Cutts ; and the visit of Mr . Hase , surgeon ; in terms very similar to AnrijLowe ' s statement . On the Friday , this witness says , ilrs . H . Cutta tookdeceased ' s brcaktast , aud I saw heir put . a powder into the teapot ; it was of a darkish colour ^ rather brown ; she stood near the cupboard in the front kitchen , a , ^ d I was in the back kitchenj and the door between the two kitchens was open . ' , She stood with her face

      towards me , ahdl stood next the punip iniho back kitchen . The teii and water were put . in the pot before she put the powder in ; She took it out of a paper with her fingers , and put jit into the . teapot , aiid she left the paper in the cupboard in the front kitchen ; I looked at it after she was gone ; it was in white paper screwed up . I had never seen such stuff before , and . I did not know what it Was . 1 did not taste it , and I could not perceive any smell . I told Aim Lowe what I had seen . There might be as much as about half an ounce of tea . Mrs . Henry Cutts made tea and toast « n Friday , after llr . Hase say / deceased . I saw her make the toast ; after she had buttered it , I savr her sprinkle spnicthing white upon it , but I waa net Very near to her , aud I . eould not very well perceive what it was nor where she took it from . She -stood near the l-ouiid table , in the front kitchan . I was in the back kitchen ; Shesaw me . She said to me , when I went mto thofrentkitchen

      ' : , 1 am putting sdino" salt upon Mrs , Cutts ' s ( the deceased ' s ) toast , as the butter was not salt enough in the morning . It did not look like salt . She buttered the bread on the large table , which stands under the window in the kitchen , and cut up the toast ou the round table , in the same kitchen , baw her all-the time she was making the ™ ' There . ™ salt kept ia the ; front kitchen . Ihe salt was in the back kitcken . She took up the same toast to the deceased ; it was half the round of the loaf . I don't recolleet hovr many , pieces she cut it into , but iny inistress brought oi » e piece db-wn stairs . 1 don ' t know what she did . "with it . I found a . piece of toast in the ash ^ heapthe same day , wken I was ojeanbg theiire-piacB . I took it up " , it was all over ; ashes . Iput it on the fife back . This piece was cut in the same form as the piece by mistres brought dowu stairs . It looked fresh broad , us if it had been toasted that day . I tokl t ' iiG oih ' cr servant , Ann Lowe , what I had fpund ; J iiiiver

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      . The luggage on the top of a Bath coach , then on the Great Westorii railway betweeh London and Maidenhead } was set on firo on Saturday nighty by sparks from the chimney of the engine ; but before much damage was done the tram was stopped arid the life extinguished . : " . . ¦ ¦ " :. -. ¦ ¦" On Tuesday nigrif , Richard Gopdnian , acoacbman out of place , was rescued from drowning iu the Serpentine , by two boatmen in the employ of the Iioval Humane Society . He was put into a warm bath , and on partial recovery went into violent convulsions , raved like a madman , and four persona Were required to hold him : lie was bled profusely , and thenext

      morhing taken to his own house . When ho was able to speak rationally , he said he had been to receive some money ; and on his . letufn homebeing perfectly soberat the time , two : men , one ot them a soldier , came upon him just aa he was / crossing the bridge over the Sefpentihe : the soldier thrust his hand into his . "trousers pockety . and snatched a fivo-poiind note : ( Joodnjau caught him by the collar , and * a struggle ensued ; when the other , man interfered , and the- two robbers threw him o * feir- the br |^ ge ; he clung to the parapet , but a blow compelled him to lose his hold : ho tried to save himself by swimming , and called but to two women , who alarmed the boatmen . . . ., - ¦

      At the Court of Common Council , ou Thursday , Lord Dudley Stuart and Mr . Mackenzie appeared at tlie bar to support a petition presented by Deputy Peacock , praying for tlie use of the Guildhall after i , he LprdrMayort dinner , for a grand ball to bo given in aid oi '< the funds for relieving the distresssd Poles . Lord Dudley said he hoped that he would not appear to be importunate when he again applied to them on ; a subject which was become familiar : to them by . the eminent services they had alrciaay rendered to those whose cause he came forward to advocate . He hoped they would again repeat the great favour tp which thev petition alludedi If he was constantly indebted to that court for sin ^ gular liberality , they would allow that it Was for no Sordid object . he became their petitioner ; . far he > begged tlieir aid for a . noble and most distressed

      people , The petition stated that the Poles wore in asfate of wretchedness . ; They wef « , it was truejin a , deplorable condition ; and it was in conseqMpce of their ardeit devptipn to their country , and their determihation to fight the battle of liberty , a caUBe which Englishmen well understood from frequent practice in supporting it ; He 1 was cpnviueed that those whom he . had - the hoiiour to address would readily lend the assistance which they had neve * refused to his ; entreaMes . Iu their hands he would leave the ^ question , without presuming to tttenW longer upon their : attention . < Loud cMffi ^ K motion for granting the use of the hajjflfa ^^ Sfid unanimously , amidst loud cheers ; and 3 te ^ W * fe of the whole court was of deredto assevfNslJ ^ fw day n&xt , tptako measures for makingSffiS ^ ttfllal ptacti «; vl benelit ta the Poles .: ' :: = ¦ ¦ ^ TI ^ W ^ : - - 'Pi ¦ ' ^^¦ ¦ ¦ ¦^ Wm M

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      THE ACONITE . BT MBS . XSGH CL 1 KFS . All ! thon g » 7 little flower , nast thou never been told Thoa resembleet & miser , encircled irith gold 1 For thonlt scarce admit one thy dart pillow to share , Hjo'the snowdrop is drooping with envy aod care . Onlj see how the crocus is op ' ning his Test , As asking thy leave to repose near thy breast ; He wouldf&in to an heiress hia wishes unfold , And hekno * s that thou wearest a mantle of gold . But thon seemest too trarjto list to hia tale , Or the to * s that he sends by hia page , the young gale ; Thou art right : —his professions , tho' tutor'd by art , Titm the lover of gold never yet had a heart !

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      EPIGRAMS . BT XEGH OLIFFB , ES < 1 . I . BeseaTH the moon ' s soft al very- shade , Thus to a maid her Iotbt said : — w YThat shall I call thee , ssfeetert love . ' ily goddess—itas , el—bouI—my life ; Myrose—mr lusirt ' s-ease—turtle dove !" " I ' d rather fax be called your isife , " She answered , as she . fondly prest Her blushing cheek unto his breast-II . What said your fair , when press'd to tell "Whetner she lov'd yon ialf as Tcell As you loved her 1—or if she choose To be your bosom's blushing rose ! Thus she replied— " Ton silly e wain , All promises and words are vain ; Yon should know where the secret lies , So read your answer in my eyes . ' "

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      kuew Mrs . H , Cutts drunk whilst I was there ; I never saw the bed wet , npr did I ever help to ; maka it ; but my mistress told me ^ to : say I had -made i * . I he deceased generally made her own bed , and aim asked me if I had made it , because : it was wet . Sba asked me who had made it , and I said I had not ; Annsaia , perhaps my uustress had made ° it . Sh » overheard us ,. and said I must say . that Idid help her tp ;; make it ; and shejjrpmised to give me a new ttock at Mansfield fair . ; . She said . I must s * y Ihad caugj ^ k my foot ap ^ inst the '' , " and knocked it ov « r . - r Mrs . Brett deposed that-i&eV saw the deceaaod about an hour before her doathi and that shaeoriiinued with her until her decease . ; : That she did not complain of any one , nor say what she thought wa » thoxauie of her death ; and that she died quietly without being convulsed . ; ^ : ; ^ Zaccheus Ohad wick , of Cuckney , in the county of JNottingham , carpenter , deposed as follows : —I waa at work at Mr , H . Pnft ' o vs ? D * i-Kii . tnn- " . »» k a **

      , bmith , a sawyer , arid William Green a blacksmith , it was after to death of Mrs . Cutts . I , and Smith , and Green , were taken ill after dinner , and were all Sick with pains in the head . We had pudding ; pig ' s feet andface . We were all taken ill together , and betore I had got far from the house I was taken sick and ^ tlirew ; np . -I had some conversation with Mrs . li . Cutts abputit , and she said both the girfs had been taken ill , I said , it ' s a very singular thing . we should all be taken ill this way , and she said old Mrs . Ciitts had brought the disease and died of it . She behared very well and brought u » brandy . -I had two ounces of sugar of lead to mix withmy paiut . : Iput it upon the Copper among tb » pamtpots . v .-.-. ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ . " ¦ .,- / u •;; .. - - . '• ¦• ' \ i' . ' , .- '¦ . . ' ..- . . Mr . Ljthgow of Workspp , druggiat ,-deposed thak ho supplied the family with drugs .-: and produced several orders for drugs 13 the hand writing of Ml . H . Cutts ; The orders were read , and oxalic acid other poisons were atuoiigst the articles enumerated . : . '; . ' ¦ . ¦ , " ¦ . - . ¦'• ¦ ' , ° r .: \ . - : ¦ ¦ ' . - ¦ ¦ ::. ¦ : ' : ¦¦ ¦ :.

      ° \ tbe medical witnesses , Mr , > Kfayea , : Surgeon , otAvprksop , who attended deceased , deposed tha * he observed no symptoms ^ hich could canse him to suspect that poison : had been administered aiid that ho ^ upposed it to beau attsek of influenza . Richard Scpler Hutchinson , M . D . j of Nottinghamj sworn—I noVer , saw Mrs . Cutts during her lifetime . I was present when the cofiin ; wasI opened-at Edwinstowe , on the 1 st of October insti , and I then mada a miiiuta and particular examination of the head and body of the ueceased , and 1 have sihee analysed the stomach and the bowels of the deceased , and I find no trace of poispa whateyer . : I could not , from the state of the body , determine -what vfas the cause of her death . If she had died froln vegetabla ppieori the appearances might havo been as 1 found

      tnem ; but 11 she had died from miueral poison I should have found some portion of it , had it been , giyen in any considerable quantity . She might bi . v « dieu from oialic' acid frequently adminjstered in small doses . But if she had died from , one dose it must have been a considerable quantity , - ¦ I hav « heard : the evidence given to-day to tho jury , and I think the symptoms described were not such as aia ordinarily produced by oxalic acid . . The only symtoms we have had mentioned mdicativei of poison are the vomiting and sickness ; and these ; symptoms are produced b y many poisons . I . cannot , upon consideration of tho whoJo case ^ arrive at a satis-, iactory judgment as to the cause of her death found no organic disease ; but from the decomposed state of the lungs it was almost impossible to have discovered orgauio disease ¦ if ithy had existed . ,

      In answer to Mr . BeardshaW , Dr . Hutchinson said , that pain is an ordinary , " but not a constant symDtom from .: taking : mineral poiaon , particularly oxalic acid . In : all the cases I have seeii where oxalic acid has beea . taken , it ; has created great thirst . Convulsions generally precede death when , mineral poison is taken . Sugar of lcad ^ usually produces spasms of the stpmach . Thirst is not : SO prominent a feature as When oxalic acid is taken . The evidente of Dr . Hutchinson was fully corroborated by Drw Percyj pf Nottingham ;^ ¦ - ¦ .- ? . ' - ¦' : ; ' The proceedings were watched by Mr . Beardshaw on behalf of Mrs . H . Cutts . and by Air . Payne on behalf of tho Crown ; ¦ :

      The Coroner , ia addressing the Jury , expressed his solicitude that : they should divest : their , minds of all they had heard 'put ' -of .. dftors , and come to a conclusion } from the evidence now given . Ho would for once remark generallyj that there was nothing to shew that any quarr « l existed between tlie deceased and Mrs . H . Cutts . / it present tha » e : wa : s an ; absence : of all motiye to shew a disposition to depriv « Mrs . Cutts of life . The old lady herself had : no aui * - picio * Of being under the iniiuoace of poison . If there had been poison ,, in the tea , he thought -it was hardly : likely Mrs . H . Cutta would have left tha teapot on the hob . " After a few more highly' appropriate remarks v the Coroner read over the evidence ^ commenting upon difierent portions of it . and

      Pointing out their bearings upon the inquiry . Tha Coroner then assigned his reasons for thiiiking thi inquiry was highly necesBary , and said that , ' under similar circumstances , ^ e . woul'd agaia order a ^ corpse to be exhumed . Before they foiiad a -vardict against any individual , it Was ; nece 3 £ ary they shoiild be certain thepersbndidnptdw by the visitation of God , but from some oifier cause . In this case thera were : certainly - , suspicious circumstances- ^ the obtaining of poisonous' articles ^ i-ftdip . a di-uggist—th # brown and white ponders which they had heard of— - the throwing of the toast into the ash-heap ; and the finding ; of toast in the bottom of tho cupboard . But then agam ,: they must satisfy their : minds before they : charged any ona With murder , that the

      evidence proved that she died bv unfair me would remember that Ajfr . Hayes , the surgeon , said , ; that in his opinion the case was one of influenza ^ arid that the , examination of the stomach arid bowels afforded no traoe of poison . Then agairiv there Was no motive proved which could , induce the . on > inittal of the cririlo . Th » Jiiry might imagine -what they pleased , but they must be guided by what was proved ; now the only ground of suspicioh amounts to this , the young woman did not like the old one to be at Carburton ; this was not a sufficient reasonfor the mostfouldesd of murdering her mother-iri-lawy The Coroner

      having expressed his hope that he had conducted the enquiry : with ¦ strict ^^ impartiality , observed ihcre ' waJs much to show that the mdrals and feeling of Mra . H . Cutts were such as they all must regret ; inducing the child to lie was most disgraceful ^ The Jury must recollect s-. theyshould . onlyfind . . ^ verdict of guilty upon the clearest evidence . The Coroner then called tneirattention to the various kinds of verdict which might be returned , and coricluded by saying , if they-wished to retire to consider of the evidence , and of What kiiid of verdict they should return , he should ,: if they washed it , be very happy to render them every assistance- , ¦'"¦ ¦ : ¦ : : ; '

      The Jury found the following verdict : —'' Died from some . cause unknown . " . .-. ¦ ¦ - / The Coroner- — -It is a very proper verdict . The Editor ' of theNdttbiffhamlieviinO yBiya / 'Wo are given to understand , that although the Coroner ' s Inquest did not find a verdict against the implicated party ; , the affair may ^ and probably will , find its way into the criminal court . "

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 26, 1839, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1080/page/7/