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"I WILL HATE MERCY AND NOT SAGHIFIGE . " LlXES for the consideration of those who pay tithe of mint and annise , attend to outward religions observances , —bat neglect to do justice and loye mercy , the weightier Blatters of the law . Ye call me great , acd food , and just , Tfce neeuy ' s say and the orphan's tru 3 t ; Ye name my name in your place of prayer , And speak of my loving-kindness there ; Your bands are spread to my holy throne , Your lips nuke HiEsic to me alone , And your songs below are like those above , And their mutual theme is , the GKkJ of love .
But my ear is filled with a- other strain" Tis the piercing plaint of nnheedf-d pain , The deep , dread tones of a nation ' s wail , As the hearts of her strong men f j : nt and fail j It has s : ili'i the raptured seraph's lyre , It is louder fa ? than your loitisit choir , It has risen first to the golden ^ ate , And pl ? a . ^ s like a claimant that wil l not wait ; A ^ d shall I not in my ttrensih arise , And sTcsga me on all who the claim tespise ?
Ye h ? ar it not or yv cive no heed ; In Tiin Tritii you do the people plezd ; As y ~ 3 r hi «; h hunt ' s spnrn their lowly suit , As yo&r cars are deaf , kt your lips be mu » e ; For yur chorus of pnise I cannot biar , Ani say spirit contemns yonr solemn prayer . Yuu * h > D ' . ai > e ia hollow , y ^ ur worship Laughtj Tat icc ^ nse with odour is all nnfniucht j TJilcivca'd by love such § ifcs I sere—Ye heed not your brethren ' s case forlorn !
Once , in the lapse of ag ~ s px 3 t , y iy ^ sopis Were fcrl .: ia tetters fast , In a la-cd of drought anJ the shadow of death , "Where they spent for others their sweat and breath . But thsy prayed no me ia their starless night , And I he ^ rd and pitied their dismal p » ght ; My hand their tyrant-trc abler smote , And for thtm 3 great deliverance wrought ; 'Till the people ' s rightful cause prevailed , And I was the Lord of tktir freedom hailed . * Ye read ard admire my grace di « pl-iy'd , "VVhtrn I gave these tramp ' ed bondsmen aid ; Their deeds your &ibb 3 th-songs employ , Ar . d you shire in their jubilee of j 'y , In thinks for freedom ' s Sght and i ; a ^ n .- } - Whi ' st sarery gird / es your own domain , Avd brands with its joy-dispelling shade
Your fellow-men in my image made ; Though its withering blight on thonsands fall . Thrush i : s tanner of diead is thfir 1 urisl-pall , Th ' -u ^ h its cords are crushing my children dear Tiil life is stayed in its young career , And the sUzZsooe land which my sweet showers lave Yields little to them save a birth and a grave . J » o ? r they are falltn from their high estate , JC . jtt do their tyrants exult in the gate , 2 s" jw is the bbza of their glory dimmed , Kow is the cup cf their bitterness brimmed ; Blasted and dry are their channels of biiss—But ye heedless pass by and think nothing of this . Er . ongh that you " Abba , Father , " cry , "Whilst the people ' s poor one ' s pine and die ; Bus their blood I shall yet at your hands require , "When I rise in the day of my terrible ire . W . M'Dowall . Ex ^ dns xx . 2 . f Psalm cxiv , exx-ri , and others .
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LINES -OX SEZIXG THE ACCOUST OF THF MEETING OF ELLIS "WITH HIS FAMILY , IN 2 HE " > 'OBTHEE > SIaR" OF > 0 V . 5 TH , 18-42 . Who is yon woman with four beauteous bibes , Seeking the prison gates . ' She knocks and weeps . And at the sight the artless babes weep too . The iron gate * unclose with heavy sourd , But she's d = ny'd admittance , e'en to Uike One long and last farewell of him she loves . O how her gentle bosom heaves with woe !
At length she seeks the gaoler—him she liks And with a look resistless "wins consent With hurried steps the mournful grcup is led , And now she thinks to cla * p him in her arm 3 And give her grief full vent—but that ' s denied The formal turnkey tells her where to stand That lit may witness all the tragic scene , And place the heavy ban between their forms . The husband comts , and with a frantic loek Turns to avoid the sickening scene of woe . But the lov'd Toice of one soon calls him back
* Tis his own child that speaks . And uqtt he stands And thinfa- 'when l * st be heard those lisping sounds , And then he thinks of Fite . On , GoA ! the thought That ytsrs and seas mus ; roll bttween their lives Whose happisess fond niture had e :. tw : n'd , Calls the big tear , and with an eiger look He seems to ask his dear ones to his arms . In vain—the' indulgence is fvrbid to him ; Be may not even kiss them , thongh h . s own . Tnis hurts him worse thqn -wbsn the well-paid Judge Pronounc'd his doo ; n . Interminable woe . ' Be cannot speak , but with indignant brow He mutely tells the conflict in his heart ,
To be thus made tbe mock of Christian laws . With stifi ^ d sofes they look one last farewell . Ah , wretched man , conld not thy tyrant fees Be satisfied to cmsh thy nob e soul , But they must make a sport of all those ties Which knit thy heart to others ? And thy wife And little babes be pnnish'd with thyself ? For -what ? Because , forsooth , tltou dies : disdain To crouch in sovile mood , to lick the hand TJprsis'd to make them * ufikr . Now the law Assumes the name of justice , and imprints "Upon thy brow the lasting brand of crime—Chains thee with felons ia a . Christian land , And tears thy nature from its gencaous bonds . H . H . H Birmingham , Nov . 5 th , IS 42 .
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HOR-OVS POLITICAL ALM-4 AAC , and Pour Man ' s Gsmpanion for 1343 . Loii ' . ^ n : CUave , 1 , Shoe-lane , Fkei-strtet . Manci . es : er : Heywood , Olch 3 m-srrret . Glasgow : Pa ton and Love , Nelson-street . Leeds : Hobson , Marketstreet . We have here the mest efficient mullum in parro that we have ever eeen . As a " Poor Man ' s Companion— " a book of ready reference upon many subjects in which he is vitally inrertsted and of information upon matters which he ou&ht to know—it is the thing which every poor man needs ; as a text book for political lecturers it ia invaluable .
There is a ; i amount of information contained in it ¦ nhich we nerer before saw crammed into so emalJ a compass . , Facrs , figures , tables , and calculation ? , all of them regarding matters of national importance , and all arranged and made ready for general and immediate use—affording at- a glance almost whatever information can be wanted—stud the whole book ; while a few happy and judicious comments afford a kind of guide to the uninitiated ia statistics for their application and use in the various matters of civil and gocial polity -WH . ch may come' under coateiHpIa'ion . An advertisement elsewhere sets forth its-contents wiih considerable exactness ; we refer thereiure to it , instead of here giving the particulars .
From such a br . n-JIo of raluab ' cs there is difficulty in ? elec ; ing any panieular one for iminf-diste atter . i : on . We t ' ake , howevtr , as a sample of the sack tn-3 " Frj . 15 Tradeks . '" Looking Glass ; or a table seuin ^ fordi the amount of Exports of British prodi : re and 2 \ lanufac : ures for every yenr fruta 1793 to 1841 , calculated boih at the official and D . ciarea vaiues ; with a statement of it . e Declared value which the Ufncial valur . should have produced , and the Annual Ay ^ reyate Depreciation in Price *; showing also the ^ r . ii-ual average price of Wheas iu every yearfroa 17 S 8 io 1841 , with the amount of wa ^ es pa : d every year for weaving a certain amount o ;' a ^ iven qmlny of Cambric ; also tha amount of Taxes raised in Great Britaia , wkh the amount of Parochial Arsessments , and the number of Committa ] ^ for Criir . e iu every ytar of that same period frum 17 S 8 10 1 S 41 : being , in fact , E * glj .. nd " s 1 ) bg sadatiox at a Glance ' "
Fur the figures of this Ta ^ le we , of course , refer our readers to ihe Poor AI ^ d ' s Companion itself , while we give , therei ' rom the following txplaiialory observations : — - ' * We have amongst us a party wr . o are continually calling cut for ' Extension' cf our ' Foreign Trade . " Thi 3 party would make us beiitve that the main source of j \ rr power acd our greatness is in the- ct ' . ent of our external tradings . Tht-y predict all sorts of a « ful consequences , including the utter min of the country , should we , through any cause , lose or injure that 1 Foreign Trade , " " Xow , b ^ tore we take all these representations for truth , it may be * rell to examine what have been the fjrecis c ? furiuer ' extensions . " We have extended' our foreign trade over , and over , and over again . What ara the benrjits that have accrued to us from such ' extension' ?
" The annual accounts of our Erports only extend backw ; u-d « to the year 1798 . At least , th ^ re are no accounts that can be deptntstd on , prior to that year . From that yejs , the ¦; hafe been regularly k-pt , and recu iariy pubiifhed . We have , thertfore , the means of comparison , and of estimating the YALT / Eof our foreign trade , from that time to the present The annexed table shows the amount of the trade / or every year during tl e tt 2 perioa 179 S 1841 . It also siiowa the REAL VALUE of each year ' s transactions , in the moiit-y value c-t the goods exported .
" It will be p ' siiily apparent , that a comparison of one year wiih mother , to tee the relative amount of Exports in each year , and the relative mouey value of them , will enable us to estimate the amount of advantage derived from ' extended' commerce , should the latter of the two ytar 3 fixed on for comparison show an increase in the amevst of trade . For instance : say that in the year 1 S 15 we exported £ 41 . . 000 of ojkial value , which is the relative measure of quantity ; ai . d that , fur the amount of Produce and Manufactures j > o txported , we received £ 49 , 000 , 000 of money ; and say , too , that the amount of money so received for the said quantity of goods , was a fair price ; ltft enough
to psy the labourer good wages , ana to afford a liviBg pri . S :: ssy all this , and say in audition that in 1 S 41 we txpcrtsd £ 102 . 0- 0 . ofkial va ' . ue , or one-and-ahalf times MORE in quantity than we exported in 1 H 15 ; does it not full > w that , in order to make that ' tx ' . cnsion' of trade beneJScial to us , it « ought to have brought to us ont-and-ont- ^ alf-timts more money than the lesar quantity brought ? If the lesser quantity in 1 SI 5 was exported at a fair price , dots it not follow that in every addition to that trade , that fair price should " have been maintained , to render that addition bznrfieia } * and does it not also foll-w , that if such fair price were maintained , every ' extension' of our trade would be beneficial ?
" Are the facts , then , as we havs supposed ? I . ? t us see . Tae table wi , ka follows , caikd the ' Fn-e Traders" Looking Glass , shows that the amount of Experts in 1815 , was £ 41 . . 00 u official value , cr quantity [ to £ jh _ -&k in round numbert ); and that the Gi-c ' ared or mci . ey value of thusts Exports was £ 49 . , 000 . The table also shows tha : in 1 S 41 our Exports amounted to £ 1 O' J , OOO . ou 0 < ffi .-ial value , or oue-Mid-a-half-timss increased qua 7 : iiiy ^ and the table further shows , that instead of our realising £ 92 5 ' 0 . ( . ' 00 , we only realised £ 51 . 01 6 000 !! The comparisons ! : o ^ 3 ,
beyond disputv , a most enormous ' extension" of trifle ; but . it shows also , a most enormous depreciation of prices ; and , as a matter of cumss , if the tir » t price was only a fair one , an ent-rmcus depreciation in toth theprictof labour and tha employer's profits . The comparison jnst made shows , that the Exports had increased £ 61 , 0 ( 0 , 000 official value ; while for that astounding quantity of Briti-h produce anil manufactures taken abroad we only received the paltry Bum of jE 2 001 . 000 !! At the very first blnsh of the thing , even when viewed is its most simple forra , we are involuntarily for « 6 d to isk . tehere is the BENEFIT of ' extension * ?
. . " Bui we have noi yt-s seen the whole of the operation of this depreciation of prices . We have seen that it entails mere labour upon tbe producer for a le . 'S amount of money ; for the comparison just made shows that we exported in 1841 , two-and-a-half times the amount of raw material and labour exported in 1815 , for just upon the same amomnt of money ! and we are now going to Bee what t ff- ^ ct this depreciation of prices has had upon out national engagements . " Every body knows that taxes are yearly raised fr * m us without reference to tbe prices of produce . The taxgatherer when he goes to a corn-grower , or to a hatmaker , or to any other producer of wealth , does not trouble himself with askieg the price of corn or hats . He doei not say , when he calls for the fcix he is
collecting , " you paid me forty bushels of wheat last year , or eighty hats , for your share of the £ GU , 000 000 we have to raise for the Funtibolder and Prince Albert ; and therefore you must give me the same quantity of corn , or the same cumber of hats , this time . ' But he says , * y ^ -nr share of taxation amounts lo no much money ; and yon must find it and p 3 y me . ' The corn-grower or tbe batter has no means of raiting tbat amount of money but by taking a portion cf his produce to ma ; ket , and disposing of it at tbe market price . When he has sold eiiowjh to raise the tax-gatherer tbe smeunt he wants , he psys him ; and there Beercs to b » an end of the matter . "Bnt does not a moment's rtflection show that it depends upon tha rate of prices of produce how mw . he has It hell to satisfy the Ux-aather ' s claim ? If wheat
be selling at 10 s a bushel , and tee tax-gather wants £ 20 , the wheai-growtr has to p 3 r * with forty bushels to pay his tax . In fact , hesvts furty bushels of wheat to the tax-gatbertr . But suppose when the fcix-man next ctKies for his £ 20 the price of wbeat has g * ne down to - 5 s . per bnshel . The wheat grower would now have to pirt with eighty bushels to raise the amount of money nt . et ! ed . Bis taxes woU'd , in fact be just doubled ! fur it is evident tbat if he has to part with eighty bu « bels instead of forty , he has forty / e * s for himself and his laboiirimj-haTids than he formerly had . It is prexi&ely the same with the hatter , and with every other producer . Every depreciation in prices of produce ADDS to the amount of taxation , when that taxation is , likeour * , a fixed money amount Taxt ^ cm only he paid in produce . " Unless the produce is the re , taxes cannot be paid . The producer is forced to se ' . L to much
of his produce as raisss the amount tbe tax-man wants . " The depreciated prices . tbvn , in 1841 , compared with the pricta of 1 S 15 , besides causing the producer to have to give tbe foreigner one-and-a-half times more raw material and labour for the sime s nil unt iA money , have also caused him to give one-and-a hu / f times MORE PRODUCE to the tat eater H One hundred pounds now will purchase Prince Albert £ 250 worth ot manufactured produce , when estimated :. t the prices of 1815 !!! His £ 30 , 0 i-0 a year is thus made to be worth £ 75 , 000 ! ! Here it is wbeve the wages of labour and the prcSts of tba employer are swallowed np ! We give the benefit cf our increased production to the , foreigner and the tax-eater ; and while every ' extension ' of that sysUBi ados to their ga ' cs , it diminishes in an exact proportion tLe means cf comfort and living for both the employer aad the employed !
"The ' Free Traders Looking Glass' table givea the rate of wages paid for weaving twelve yards of a certain -quality of Cambric for every year from 179 S to 1 S 31 . It shews tbat the average wates paid during the Erst ten years of that period waa lls . lid . If ting man oould weave 36 yards of tbat csmbiic in a week , it would have taken j » re ueei's wages of 5 , 000 , 000 such weavers to pay the average taxes of these ten years , amounting to £ 42 534 434 : while it take * forty-firs weeks' wages of those 5 000 , 600 weavers to pay the gross amount of taxes raised in 1841 . supposing them to receive as mnch for weaving in 1841 as they did in 18 S 1 , which they do not ! ' Wheat was dear during those ten years . It averaged 76 * . 7 d . per quarter . Tbe returns for the six weeks endi-ig October 29 tb , 1842 , shews that the price per quarter ia 51 s . 8 d . Very ' cheap' according to nominal value . But how fares it with tbe means of the "working man ?
" When wheat was dear , a weaver cculd earn a < rnart > r in two weeks acd a day . It will take him TWELVE weeks and two days to earn a quarter of 1 OHEAP" wbeat in 1 S 42 I ! A rare commtntary on the ciy of cheap food" ! " Here is the Table . Ltt the Free Trader Etu y it WelL . Let him look at the last column particularly . What a proof of morality "with extended trade !
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Ourtra . de h ^ s increased six times over since 1798—arH CHIME has increase ; : fcix tunes over also ! !! Our readers may from this form au idea of the manner snd tb . 8 use of the varied calculations introduetfd rn ?* " ^ ° ^ * ° his Companion . ¦ The last yaar ' d Companion had a most extensive eale , and we cannot thiuk that this will be less gene-Tally appreciated . We would hint to Mr . Hobson that m his continuations of this annual boon it should be hereafter printed , so that the calendar mi ^ ht , it necessary , bo separated from it , without detriment to the apparent wholeness of the book ; leaving the Poor Man ' s Companion , independent of the Political Almanack , to be referred to in afier yeara , not a » " an old almanack , " but as a repository of faots and figures , forming a fit , useful , and complete Poor Man ' s Companion .
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LEEDS . —Charge op Stealing Tallow . —On Tuesday last a case of this nature , in which the prisoner ' s name was Charles Wriggleswcrih , came before the sitting magistrates , Ralph Markiaud , Esq ., and Win . Smith , Esq ., at the Leed 3 Co&r ' - - House . The prosecutors wvre Me ? srs . Sellers , tallow-chandlers , in the Shambles . From tbe evidence for the prosecution , it would appear that the prisoner disposed of a quantity of taliow to a butcher of iho name of Henry Wormald , on Saturday night la > -t . for the sum of £ 1 2 < . 6 d ., it having been prcviou .-ly taken from the premises of the prosecutors . On the other band for the defenco , tho evidence ' . veii * 10 fhow that Woraiaid had some criminal knowledge of tho transaction , from tfce several
contradictory versions i : iven by him * . f the purchase of Messrs . Seller's taliow , and also that ho wad sill further implicated in transactions of a biinilar nature , having disposed of other stol-n tallow along with that more immt-diatrly m question b : longiutr to > lr . George Beverley , butcher , and to whom , on tbe ciiscevtry of hia 1 allow , WormaM had given a consideration to let tho matter at rest , and ho would afterwards find htm the man of whom he purchased it . Tiio evidence for the defence also went to show that the prisoner was absent at the lime of the alleged robbtry and disposal of tho tallow to Wormald . Altogethtr such was the contradictory nature of tbe evidence , tha ' . the magistrates decided that they had nothing wherewith to send the case before a jury , and hence they dismissed the prisoner .
DEATH FROM WANT . Death from want ! Aye , from absolute want In the nineteenth century , in a Christian country , in enlightened Leeds , fanv ; d for i ; s bible societies , its tract societies , its missionary societies , its conversion-of-the-Ji-ws societies , its spread-of-the-gospelin-foreign-parts societies , its clothing societies , and its soup kitchen estab ! i .-hm ^ nt , —a jury of Englishmen are compelled to return a verdict at a coroner's inquest , of " Died from starvation , and the want of the common necessaries of life . " And poor Halstead 13 not tho ouly victim to tho system . His constitution has been unequal to the ordeal , and he has prematurely sunk ; but there are thousands now in this game town of
Leeds who are suffering from the sanio cause , and to whom tho slightest , morsel of evtn unwholesome food coiEP 3 almost like an angel ' s visit , so few and far between are the dodngs-oul of coldhearted charity . Livid lips , pallid faces , ehtunkea limbs , skek-toiiiz rd forias , with scarcely rags to screen them from t !; e winter's wind , ave to be seen at every corner of our 5 T ree : ? , and almost at every hour of the night and uay . solid'ing from tho passers-by some means whereby they maybe enabKd to eke out their miserable « xisience , and drag on another weary hour , in hope of somelhiugbttter turning out the next . We repeat there are thousands of those , and who can gainsay it ? In the case wo
are recording , the Coroner remarked that it was tho first case of the kind which in six years had come under his notice—the first verdict of the kind he had had to record ; but who shall say it will be the last ? Who can say it would have been the first had every case where death has ensued from the same cause been known ? The sufferer in this case appears only to have mace hisconoitiun known when he could keep it to himself no logger , when , iu fact , nature was entirely spent , and the functions of the body were quite suspended ; then he got into a stable , where he was comfortable ; from thence to the vagrant office , where he died in a v < ry few hours . Over his wretched remains an inquest was held on Saturday afternoon , before John Blackburn , E ; q ., and the following
witnesses were : — Henry Sinclair , ostler at the Harewood Arm ? , Ebentz ' r . r-fctreet , deposed—I know tho dmased , vtho came to me a ' - my master's stable , on Wednes ^ day night week . I have known him fcr seven or eight months ; ho was a cloth dresser by trade , but had been for seme time out of employment . lie wished me to allow him to sleep in the hay-loft , but I declined , tolling him that I s ould get myself into trouble if I did . Ho said he had had nothing to cat , and I gave him twopence ; a woman who was by ah-o gave him somoihing—I think a cake . He said he was nearly pined to death . I did not give him permission to flcep in the hay-loft , nor do I know how he got there , but I found him there on
Tnursday morning week . I then got him a-veuuywi < -rth of milk , and desired him to go away as soon as h < y could . He had some bread with him . I think about a pound ; it was a small loaf . lie staid in the hay-loft all day , and at night , when I wished him to go away , he said he was over lame , and could not bear to walk . I then got him some more milk . Idid not tell any one that he was there . I told deceased he bad belter go to the workhouse , but he said he had been there , and they would neither take him nor give him anything . lie did not give auy reason why they refusod to give him anything . Ou Friday I gavo him somo more milk , and continued to supply him with it twice a day as long as he stopped , which was until Thursday last , at which time ho had
some of his bread left , which he Eaid he could not eat . I did not tell the circumstance to my master at all ; 1 should have done so , but deceased kept saying he would go away ; I wished him to go away , because I told him I should get into trouble , and on Thursday afternoon I got another person to help me , and we got him out 0 / the hay-loft . I knew that deeeased had a -wife , and I told him to go to her , but he said he would go to the workhouse again . He vas brought here on Thursday night , and up to that time had not had his clothes eff after he went to Bleep in the hayloft . Whilst there he had some loose hay to lie on , and two empty sacks to cover himself with ; ho said he was warm enough . He did not complain of pain , but thirst . He was very ill clad . I gave him a pint of bter on Thursday night before he came here .
The Coroner—It is 3 very strange thing that you should have allowed this man to have slept in this way on your master ' s premises for so long a , time without acquainting him with it . Beyond this , no blame seems to attach to you ; you appear to have ousted the unfortunate man by all tbe means in your power . Thsre is no reflection on your humanity . Witness—I assure you , sir , I did my best to get him away . I Ehould have told my master , but he ktpt saying he would go .
Mr . William Sharp , landlord of the Harewood Arms Inn—The statement made by my servant is , so far as I know , strictly correct . I was first told that the deceased was on my premises about halfpast nine o ' clock , on Thursday night last . I immediately got him into the house , and gave him some tea and muffin . I sent to the workhouse , and a gentleman came and examined him , after which he was removed here . It would be near eleven o ' clock when he was got here . Mr . Christopher Fountain Brown—I am one of the town ' s surgeons ; I have examined the deceased since his death ; 1 found him much wasted , and a mark of an old burn ou his left eide , with ulcers on both his legs of long standing ; the left leg
particularly was very bad . On opening the head , I found the brain much paler than natural , and very flabby , but without any marks of disease , beyond a little fluid in one of the ventricles . On opening the chest , I found the lungs healthy , except a Blight touch of inflammation in one of the air tubes ; the heart was smaller than usual , flabby , and only contained a very small quantity of blood . The liver was large and healthy , and throughout the abdomen there was a complete absence of fat , none whatever being on the muscks . Ths viscera were contracted as if with severe pain . The stomanh was coatracted and empty , except ¦; about a gill and a half of greeenish brown-coloured fluid . There were
no symptoms of disease in the stomach . Tho intestines were empty except a Email quantity of fluid , and the abdominal intestine was contracted , by nothing having passed it for some time . One of the kidneys was slightly deceased , but all the other viscera were healthy . Ho had evidently suffered from tho want of proper nutrition ; and I should say without hesitation , that the cause of death has been the want of proper sustenance , and exposure to the cold ; in other words , that he has died from want and starvation . The ulcers on his legs would naturally increase his debility , and render him more susceptible of cold ; it is unusual for one so young to be so afflicted . I believe all was done for him that could be done . There was no disease which would
account for death . Eliza Halstead . —The deceased was my husband ; we have been married two years and eight months ; he was a cloth-dreeser by trade . It was three weeks last night since I sv . w him alive . I have been separated from him some timo , and am living with my father and mother in St . John ' s-place , Holbeck . We have no children . I do not know how nor where he baa been living . It has been his own fanlt tbat he has been in the state he has , for if he had work found for him it was very seldom he would go to it , and if ho got any money he would spend it anywhere but at home . I do not moan that he was intemperate ; but he liked to live well , and woHld go to other places to get his meals rather than bring his money home and be comfortable . I know he has applied at the workhouse for assistance . but J do not know when ; 1 believe he belongs to somewhere by the side of Huddersfeld . He came to my father ' s three * weeks
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since ,-at which time I gavo him some porridge , and ali « i . v ;; . i him to bleep , but I tiara- not lot my father know th » t ho was thtere ; he ia receiving parish pay , and lot my living by plain sewim , ' . I gavo him somethiiig warm nex ; morning before ho went away , and ou abkiug him where he was going , he replied " Dont ask mo ; i dont know . " He vva 3 twenty-four years ot age . Miss Ann Hollings , matron at the Vagrant Office . —Ihe deceased came here first en the Ilth of June last , and stopptd all night ; ho came again on the 28 : n ot" September , with a note from the workhouse , stating that he was to have a bed , aud to bo seen out
of tho town nexc morning . This was done . The first time ho was here he stated that ho belonged to Upu « r Wikeley . and the next time that he belonged to Thurstonland . I did not see him ag xin till he was brought here on Thursday night last , at which time 1 saw he was very weak and ill . I gave him some tea , and had him washed in a warm bath , ai . d placed in a warm bed , after which ho said he tele very comfortable . His clothes were filthy , and were all burnt after being taken off him . He said , 111 reply to my question , that he had no pain . I saw him again the fir » t thing on Friday morning ; he had some warm milk before eight o ' clock , and some coffee a littlo after nine . I talked to him
between nine and ten , and he then complained of his feet being cold , upon which I got some extra bed clothes . Whilst I wa 3 talking . to'him I saw him change all at once , and I then imniediately ; sent for a surgeon . Uu died about ten minutes past ten , just beioru ir , f surgeon ' s arrival . I did not think ho wotiid have died , go soon , when I saw him change . I hu . a hot administered tbhim any stimulant . Tho Cohonisr then addressed the jury and said—It is much 10 be . Luaeuted that in a town likej this , where thore are so many charitable institutions , soaio person acquainted with the ' pariah authorities had not yiven iiitbrmau ' on of tho state the d < -ceased was in when ho first asfcod leave to sleep in the hayloft at the Ha-ewood Arms : for though , he mav hot
have belonged to Leeds , there are other- . ' institutions —the oni ) we are in amongst the number—where ho would have been taken caro of . There doc 3 not appear to be auy person to blamo for the death of the deceased so far as I can see . The ostler was tho only one who know of tho deceased boinj ; in tho stable , and apoours to have done as much for him as his means iiff > rded , though ho cortainly .: ought to kavi 3 made his caso known . However ; he had not , and ho hail stated why he had not , that he expected the man would go away . After his case was known , ho was brought here , and all had been done for him that could be done . From the ' evide . noo ' of thesurgeon , it appears that the man has actually died of want , and starvat on . This is much to bo lamented in ' its-elf , and more ko because it had occurred in a largo town lskb this , and , if 1 may be allowed to say it , iu secresy .
I h ^ ve been coroner for near six years , aud this is the first case of the tort which I hava hid . I ha . ve had cases -, of persons exposed to cold , which produced that which was the cause of their death , but never ono where tho party has actually died from want and starvation . 1 think the only verdict you can return will be that he has died from want and starvation ; for he has not had sufficient food * and has been exposed to the cold in a pkico not , tit for a human being to live in . Ho appears to have been a thoughtless young man , not intemperate ( as his wife f = ays ) , negieoted his work , and spent his money in refreshments in places where ho could get them , and not at home . It is not necessary for me to go tlrough the evidence : you know sufficient of the ca ; o to lead you to a decision .
Tho Jury immediately returned a verdict , " That the deceased died from starvation , aud tho want of the comiuou necessaries of life . "
CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER . On Tuesday morning , au inquest was held at the Court-house , Leeds , before John Blackburn , Esq , on the body of Wm . CjihuH , late of Oultoji , stonemason , who died in tho Infirmaryon Sunday mornin ^ from the . effeccs of a gun bh « Rvouud . How u was inflicted may be gathered from the following report of tho inquest : — Wm . Kidd , Oulton , labourer , said—I have worked nearly forty years fur Mr . Farrar . I knew the deceased : he was a alone mason atOulton , and livod about a quarter of a mile from Mr . Thos . Furrar ' s house ; Mr . Farror knew the dtceaned . Mr . Farrar calltd me up on Sunday morning , the 23 rd of October , about half-past two o'clock ; Mr . Farrar &aid , " Thou must get up , for I have catched Wm . Conneil stealing my bens ; I . have shot at him and I be-lieve I have hit him ; he is laid at
the third stoop over the bridge , and must not be left ; on the road . " I got up directly snd went with iMr . Farrar to the place , bat the man was gone . Mr . Farrar would have to pass the man to got to my house ; we went to search for him but could nut find him . Mr . Farrar had the gun in his hand when hu came to call me . The third stoop was about a hundred yards on the carriage road leading to Mr . Farrar ' a bouBe . Mr . Farrar told me that when he got hold of Connell he had a fowl in his hand . Hu said he got hold of his collar , and was going to take him into the kitchen , when ho ( Connell ) twisted kiiuself out of his grasp aud ran away , upon which he fired at him . He rtid not tell me what the gun was loaded with . Mr . Farrar did not tell me that there were any more men with Connell . The hen roost is in tha farm yard , and is not connected with the house . Mr . Farrar had been
watching tbat night , and had watched for several nights . Hehasfactu robbed of his poultry and other things several times . Tha road where the man was lying is a publie road . I Jive about 200 yards from Mr . Farrar ' s house ; tbereare four or rive bouses between my house aud his . When we could not find the man , we went to the constable ' s and told him to apprehend him . Joim Butter field , of Kothwell— I am . a slubber ; I have known the deceased lor nearly a dcBtjn years . I was with my brother iGeorge Butteifield ) and Thomas Armisttau on the Sunday morning the deceased was shot ; we met tho deceased on the road at Oulton , about three o ' clock that morning ; he told us he had get shot in hia leg ; he walked lame ; we went with him to his uncle ' s , at Quarry-hill , Oulton ; he complained of suffering great pain , and said it stung him up into his body . There was bo otker person with him when we met him . We had not been in bis company , nor do I know who had .
Thomas Armistead—I live at Roth well , and was in company with the Butterflelds on the morning that this man waa shot . I did not know CoBuell ; we met him walking up Quarry-hill , and at first I thought be was drunk . He walked very lame . We asked him -what was the matter , and he told us he had been shot at in the leg , and that the pain stung up into his body . We had heard a report of a gun about an hour , I Bhould think , before we met the deceased . I thought the sound came from towards Oulton . There waa no person with the deceased when w . imet him . I bad met with the Butterfields at Woodlesfor < 3 . The road through Oulton is not t ^ ie nearest to Roth well ; but I went that way because I could have company ; it is not more than 300 yards further than the other road . .
Charles Cockerham . —I live at Oulton , and am a labourer ; I am uncle to the deceased ; he is about twenty-six years of age ; he resides at Oulton with his mother . He came to my house on the Sunday morning , in question , about twenty minutes p ; ist three o'clock . I was in bed -wh * n he came , but he called and I got up . 1 assisted to take his stocking eff , and found that he was lame ; it was his right leg . It had been shot , and was bleeding ; I saw shot In the leg ; my house was nearer to Mr . Farrar ' s than his mother's . I put him to bed , aud he was removed to the Infirmary about three o ' clock the same afternoon . Mr . Dawson , surgeon , of Oulton , attended him btforehecame to the Infirmary ; it was between two and three when we fetched him , and he recommended us to take him to the Infirmary . The deceased was not in the habit of sleeping at my house . I neither saw nor heard any one with him . Benjamin Connell , another uncle to the deceased , corroborated this evidence .
Mr . John AHanson—I am house surgeon at the Leeds Inflrmary . The deceased was brought to the Infirmary on the afternoon of Sunday , the 23 cd of October . I examined him , and found he bad been shot in the back part of his right leg , about the knee joint . There were a number of shot holes in tho leg , and the knee joint , we had reason to believe , had been penetrated by the shot , as it was much swollen , and the cavity contained a quantity of fluid matter . I made no incision , as it would have been fatal to the man to have followed them . I should siy that the gun bad contained an average charge , and to the beat of my judgment I thiuk the deceased must have been at the distance of thirty yards from the gun . The shot-holes were all
distinct , and it did not appear that two of them had gone in together . He has remained at the Infirmary ever since , and died on Sunday morning at about halfpast seven . The cause of death has been the injury to the vessels of the leg , and the mortification arising therefrom , occasioned by tbe wounds inflicted by the shot ; the vessels being wounded produced fever and mortification . The man refused to have his leg amputated , and professed his determination to die with it on . I cannot speak as to the success of an operation ; kut there would have been a better chance of bis recovery : as it was , ha had no chance . I have no doubt whatever that death has resulted from the gun-shot wounds . He was apparently a man of sound constitutioD . i
Thomas Spiers—I am a policeman at Leeds . I yesterday went to Mr . Fanar's , at Ouiton , and examined hia premises ; they consist of a dwelling-house and farm buildings ; tha hena roost on the top of a rack in a cowshed ; there ia a door to the ehed , but a person could get in -without breaking open the door ; it would depend on which side he entered . The door of the shed ia twenty-eight feet from Mr . Farrar'a back door . There is a private road from the highway to Mr . Farrar's premises . it ia eleven feet wide . Mr . Farrar told me he took tbe man in tbe shed with a fowl in his posse :-sion ; he pointed out the place where the deceased was . He said he took him to the kitchen door to get a light to see who he was , and the deceased twisted from him and ran away . He pointed out also the distance the man had ran when he fired , and where he stood himseif : tbe distance is eighty-seven feet . Mr . Farrar said he told the man if he did not ttop he-would fi ' . e at him . The statement made to me by Mr . Farrar was entirely voluntarily : 1 asked him no questions .
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The CoiiONEn . then sumraeil up tho evidence , and in doing so observer 1 , ihjti . ttw ' dtath o ! thj man Jj . i : i bean clearly caused by the gun shot wour . ds in question , nnd you are to consider whether tbe party « iisobarj | inij the gun ^ as justified in so doiu £ or aot . If he v ? as , your verdict must be justifiable homicide ; if not , manslaughter . To muka homicide justiSabie , it must be owing to some unavoidable necessity to which tba person who kilis another must be reduced , without any fault in himself . Now the law saya that a man may repel force by force . in defence of his person or property agaiust any one manifestly intending * by . . Violence or surprise to commit a felony , such as a rape , robbery , arson , burglary , or the like . It ia not necessary that a felony should ba committed , but the circumstances
must be of such a nature , attended by violence or surprise , as to mtrraiit a person believing that a felony was about to be committed . If a mm commit a trespass , and breaks the hedges of another man ' s field , it will not warrant tho patty achieved in using a deadly weapon ; and a patty has no right to use a deadly weapon to a parson who he discovers poking his pocket A trespass , however waaton and pvavoking it may be , wiil not justify the use of a deadly weapon . A man must not make an attack upon another unless he can justify a full conviction in hia own mind , that if he doe * not do so hia own iifa tvould be in danger . Now what was the nature of the offance committed by the deceased ? It is true that he wan trespassing—he had no right to be in
Mr . Farrar's hen rooit . It may be that he was caught by-Mr . Farrar with a fowl iii his pos 3 tssion , an-1 supposing this to be so , and that Mr . Farrar caught , him in tao aut of committing a felouy , it does nut appear that tno deceased usad any violence , or that his conduct was of such a nature as to alarm or terrify Mr . Farrar . Mr . Farrar had a right to apprehend hint , aud t * usa sufficient reasonable force to accomplish hia purpose . It appears he did so audtuok tbo deuea&ed to the kitchen door . During this time it is not suggested that , the deceased offered violence , or that he made any great resistance . When at the kttehen door , it appears that the deceased got louse f 10 m Mr . Farrar , ami ran a ^ ay . Up to this time it is difficult- to say whether Mr . Farrar had sufficiently
recognised Ihu deceased—ha certainly had doua bo soon after ; but if he knew the deceased at the tiiny , be might have gon « immsdiately to a constable , and had him apprehended . But when the dtcaaswl ran av ? ay Mr . Farrar charged him to stop , and threatened to shoot him if he did not . Tho m ; vn still continued to run , and when about thirty yards off , Mr Farrar fired , hit him , and occasioned the mischief which has caused the man ' s death Now , it is for you to say , whether this conduct en tho part of Mr . Farrar was justiaa ' nle—was his life ia danger?—was the nature of thy . offence such as to betoken ur ^ eet necessi ty , contradistinguished from a felony -without violence , as pocket picking . If in attempting to rob the hen roost , the deceased had offered violence , Mr . Fairar "would haye been justified
in using u » in ? u deadly weapon . Bat the shooting took place atter the felony was committed—after the deceased had been Bo " & 3 d—after he ran away and as he was escaping . It seems to me , therefore , that Mr . Farrar , as a private individual , had no right 10 shoot the deceased bee ; s , u 3-j he vsaa making his escape ; anil there does not app .-ar to be any prettied for saying that tha deceasoii had other persons assisting him , or that there was anything iu the affray which coul < l fairly warrant Mr . F . irrar iu considering himeslf iu danger . The following case will elucidate the present : —a perdon was set to watch premises ia tha ni ^ ht , and on seeing a man on the garden wall hailed him , and the man said to another , " why dont you fire ? '' and after hailing the ixan again heari : )/ the same person repeat similar words
ha fired , and shot one of thi ; men . The Ciuvt said 41 any person set by his niasa-r to watch a garden or yard ia not at all jiutifiad in shooting at or in any way injuring persons who inn / como into those , premises eveu in tbe night ; and if he raw them go into his master ' s hen roost , still ha woaid not- be justified in shooting them . He first ou ^ 'ht to see if he could not take measures for their apprehension . But here the life of the prisoner was threatened , and if he considered his life in actual danger , he was justified in shooting the deeeased . " Now , in the present cast ) , if you think Mr . F ; irr *! r waa attacked by violence or surprise , while tbe deceased was committing , or about to commit a felony , or if you think that all the circumstances of
tbe case were sufficient to create a well-founded apprehension and fear in his mind , that his own life was in danger , then your verdict must be justifiable homicide . But if you think that Mr . Farrer shot at the deceased , merely because he was escaping fram him after he had apprehended him , tbeu it ia niy duty to say that as a private individual , and not a police-oflicer with a proper warrant , he . 'had no . right to do s » ; and if you think there was no violence off-red by the deceased and none intended , which you must gather from the circumstances of the case , and that Mr . Farrar was in no personal danger from what really occurred , or if you think he rashly shot this niau , thyu your verdict must be manslaughter .
The Jury then retired , and after a short absence returned a verdici of " MANSLAUGHTER . " against Thomas ¥ arrar , -who was forthwith placed in custody , until an application can be made to the Judges for bail . BRADFOB . D . —Independent Order of the Golden Fleece , B . U . —A lodge of the above order was opened on the 7 th instant , at the house of Mr . j-amuel WaterhouBe , Rain ' s Head Inn . Previous to the Jodge being opened , the offioers and candidates sat down to a sumptuous supper , provided by the landlord and landlady , to whom great praise is due . After the cloth was drawn , the lodge being pponed , Mr . Thomas took tho chair , and Mr . Waite was vicechairman , when a number of respectable individuals were initiated into the order .
CAR'LISL'E . —A public meeting of the members of tho Corporation took p'ace in the Town Hall , on the 9 ch instant , for the purpose of choosing a Mayor and Treasurer for the ensuing year , when George Dixon , Esq . j of Abbey-street , was elected Mayor ; and William Jackson , Esq ., solicitor , Treasurer . Several committees were then appointed ; and a cordial vote of thanks was given to the late Mayor , George Gill Monnsey , esquire , for the very able and impartial manner in which he had discharged the dutie * of his office . Mr . Moun ey returned thanks in a neat and ' sensible speech .
A TBRy interesting and instructive article was read by Mr . Bowman , on Sunday evening last , to the members of the "Carlisle Debating Sooiety , " at their room , No . 6 , John-street , Caldewgate , "On tbe importance of the working classes securing and exercising the Municipal Franchise . " After which the following resolution was unanimously passed : — " That it is the opinion of this meeting that it is of the greatest importance that the people should secure and exercise the Municipal Franchise ; and we strongly recommend them to do so . " It may be proper to state , that it is the duty of all overseers
to place the names of all the inhabitant householders in the parish or district for which the poor rate is made out , upon the rate book ; otherwise the rate will not be legal . In making out the BurgeBS List , the overseer ought to place upon it the names of . all persona 80 rated and whose rates are paid ; regardless whether they have been paid by the landlord or tenant , nor is it material whether the landlord compounds for his property Or not . These points have been decided by the late Mayor and assessors for this borough , and will , if acted upon by the working classe , lead to a greatly enlarged constituency . '
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' . * ^ "—~ - ' " We have good reason to know that a confidential agent of the Government is at this moment engaged in examining the speeches delivered at the various Anti-Corn Law meetings , and in selecting and arranging what appears to him to be the moat violent passages . This compilation will contain the names of ' he several speakers , the places at which they were delivered , and the dates of their delivery . Care will bo taken to Set down the names of the members of the various committees over the country , the position they hold in society , whether magistrates or town-councillor : !; but , above all , whether they were in any way connected with the late
Government . Strict orders have been given that th « most violent passages shall be printed in italics or Jarge type . It is not for us to say what the object of this proceeding is , but we should not be at all surprised to find that these elegant extracts should some night be produced in the House of Commons as a justification for some coercive measure , which the Government would lay at the feet of the Corn Law Lords as an act of homage to those monopolists , to whom the Duke of Richmond declared the Tory Ministers owed their origin , and to whom alone they were indebted for ooDtinuance in office . —Observer .
Murder . —On Sunday evening last , two young men , liamed James and ; Thomas Scamell , went to the Rising Sun beer house , on the Boreham-road near WaraainBter , accompanied by three young women of Bishopstoio , '¦ -Shortly afterwards ttvo young men . named John Jeffries and Stephen Paine , came to the house , where tfcey remained together till about half-past nine , when Jeffries and Paine left . Tho other party quitted in about a quater of an hour , and proeeeded towards Boreham . James Scamell and two of the girls were a little in advance of Thomas and the other girl . Thomas soon heard load talking , and James called him to coma on . On coining up , he met James and the girls returning towards Warminster , Jeffries and Paine following them . Jeffries offered to fight J . Scramell , and took hald of him . when they had a struggle , and both fell ,
Thomas said there should be no fighting , and the men stood about two yards apart for a second or two wheu John Jeffries , without saying a word , made an underhand thrust at James Scamell , and immediately stepped baok . Scamell exclaimed , I am killed , and one of the girls ran to him and caught him round the waist ; he dropt his head upon her Bhoulder , and looking down and seeing blood , cried , ' Lord hare mercy upon me , I am a dead man , " and immediately expired in the girl ' s anas . John Jeffries then eame up to the girl and said , D—n you , I'll serve you the same , " and struck her a violent blow on her head , which knocked her backwards —he then ran away . An inquest has been held , aud a yerdiok of " Wilful Murder" against John Jeffries returned , who has been apprehended and fully com * mitied . —D&rixes Qaxette . %
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An AreiaL Stkam Carriage . —This mine has b r eu given t-i a now machine , t-ir which a company has taken oaf , a piterit , and which is to convey pas-. s ; iigcrs , gooJs , and dispatched through tho air , porj ' oruiiu ^ the ' jourm-y from London to Inuia in fuur days ! and to travel at the rat ? of seventy-five to one hundred miles per li : our . At the first glance of such an announcement our readers will doubtless feel disposed to treat it as some chimerical absurdity , merely to exi : e wonder , and expressly for the marvelloving mas * of society ; but thefact 3 connected with the subject are of a kind to diminish disbelief , at least as to the truth of tuch a contrivance being in
process of formation . A company of gentlemen is really foraied , even of mec ' iarjiohai men : the paten ! was form ally scaled on iho " 29 ih » f September last , and systematic uvraugements are in progress to compute the debi ^ u . In such an age of improvement we really have .-no right or precedent to deny the possibility cf this measure . In January the mackine will be thoroughly organised , and until then we take leave of the sui > jei : t , and only trust that this alleged iuvenuon is . - ' neither : exagtieratsd , nor an Utopian pruj 6 ct ; and from the conversation we have had with those in couuec . ion with the design . ywe have every reason to -believe } that' neither is | che case . —Atlas .
Chesham . —On Saturday night last , about twelve o'clock , a fire was discovered on the farm promises occupied by Mr * JR . Lazanby , at Lay-green ,-in this parish , distant about two miles from , the town . An alarm was immediately given , and the engine was dispatched to . tho Bpos . Upon its arrival a 9 tack of oats was found onfire ; and it appearing probable that it woiiid extend tothe buildingSj the efforts of the firemen wore principally directed to preserve them , in which they were successful . The buildings were not insured , but the etook is insured in the British Fire Office ; . the damage is estimated at £ 50 . The origin' of tho fire has not beeu discovered . — Bucks Gazette .
Bushsiead . —On Wednesday morning , between ten and eleven o ' clock , a destructive fire broke out on tho promises of Mr . Gray , farmer , Bushmead , near Eaton Socon , Bedfordshire , which consumed nine or ten stack 3 of barley , beans , and other corn ; but , by great exertions , the wheat ricks , house and farm building were preserved . Tho property is insured in the Sun Fire-office , and we regret to aay that tho fire was the work of an incendiary . The continued occurrence of these calamities induces us
to impress upon tho farmers , in all places where thero is the slightest dissatisfaction amongst the labourers , the necessity of immediately resorting to tho ? anie mearsnre 3 which were so generally adopted by them in 1830 , when a similar evil spirit was at work through the country , —that of appointing a nightly watch of half a dozen or more in every parish , and using all vigilance for the protection of their property . This was found to bo the only way of effectually stopping the midnight incendiary . — Cambridge Chronicle .
Committal of a Man for Stealing his oww Property . — A labouring man named Matihevr Leonard , was brought before a county magistrate at Stockport , on Thursday , charged with _ felony , under the following circumstances . The prisoner resided at Castle HilI , Bredbury , and he had lately had his furnituro distrained upon for rent , the property being removed from his house to a school-room for security , in which place it was safe on Monday . On the following morning the property was missing ; the prisoner having obtained a key which would unlock the school-room door , had taken away the furniture , and conveyed it to Stockport , where it was found by Galley , the Bredbury constable , at the house of a person named Wild . The prisoner was committed for trial . —Manchester Times .
South Lincoln . —Monday morning the whole of the contents of the stackyard of Mrj John Foster ' s farm , about seven miles from Loath , inoluding nineteen stacks , barns , &a ., were being rapidly reduced to ashes . An attempt had been made on the previous day to destroy the premises ; bat the fire was discovered and extinguished before it had reached any head . There appears to exist no doubt whatever that tho fire on both days was the act of an incendiary ; and the second , which has proved so destructive , commenced in a part of the stackyard the most likely to communicate with and destroy the whole . The damage done is estimated at from , £ 1 , 000 to £ 1 , 500 . Mr . Foster wa 3 insured in the Norwich Union , but only for £ 800 . The Lincoln Mercury says . , V We are informed , oh the best authority , that the dreadful fire on the premises of Mr . Foster , of Great Carlton , on Monday last , was wrltully caused by his servant , Sarah Baldock , aged fourteen , who has confessed to the fact . "
On Tuesday evening last , about seven o ' clock , another fire was observed from Chesham , in the direction of-Lee-common , about four miles and a half distant- An engine was immediately got in readiness , but did not start , from the absence of certain information as to the place where the fire wast A great number of psTsons set off , but many of ' hem soon returned , having gone in the wrong direction and the fire appearing to subside ; whilst others more persevering , went through the woods ( which are numerous here ) and guided by the light , arrived at the spst about eight o ' clock . The fire by this time had . nearly subsided , after having entirely destroyed a barn and a bay of oats . Great praise is" due tothe farm labourers and other persons , who , immediately oq the . discovery
of the fire , rendered their assistance , and succeeded in saving a quantity of barley , and the wind being in their favour also prevented the fire from extending to the dwelling-houses , which were at one time in great danger , being only a few feet distant . No engine arrived , the fire not appearing likely again to make head , although the names were continually bursting forth from tne half burnt corn . The premises belong to Mr . Clark , and are insured in tho Norwich Union , but the stock is not insured . The owner , Mr . John Barnes , experienced a similar . calamity about twelve months since . The fire originated throngh the carelessness of a boy fourteen years of age , the son of a farmer ' s man living on thte preaaif es , who acknowledged that he was playing with a light in the barrii a portion of whicn fell on it . Tae damage is estimated at £ 150 . —Bucks \ Gazelle .
BlRKENHEAD POLICE COURT . —DaBING KOBBERT in Cheshire . —On Saturday morning , John Brophey , Michael Maher , John Hopkins , John Maher , and John Connor were brought up at the Town-hall , Birkinhead , before J . D . Case , --E .-q ., and J . W Harden , Esq ., on a charge of having committed a most daring robbery in the house of Mr . Peter Wood , farmer and shopkeeper , at Capenhurst , in Cheshire , about seven miles from Birkenhead and an equal distance from Chester . Mr . Wood ' s premises stand alone , at the distance of about a quarter of a mile from any other dwelling . Margaret Woods , the wife of Peter Woods , having been sworn , deposed that on the preceding night her husband was absent from home on business . A little before nine 0 clock ,
she , her daughter , a neighbour named Thos . Edwards , Thomas Woods , her husband ' uncle , Mary Morton , and a boy , were Bitting round the kitchen fire , when the latch was raised , a man entered through the back door , and presented a pistol at the party . He was followed by several other men , two of whom came towards where witness stood , and also presented pistols . There were three or four persons behind them at this time . AU the men had their faces blackened . Witness screamed out on the entrance of the men , and exclaimed , " Spare our lives . " She then asked theintruders whatthey want * d , adding , " If you want food , there are three flitches of bacon and plenty of bread , which you may takeif you will spare our lives . " The men with
, the pistols commanded the parties in the house to sit still , declaring that if any of them dared to move , to speak , or even to look round , such party should be immediately shot . At this juncture , she ( witness ) ventured to look roand , and for so doing received a severe blow from a pistol . The witness then went on to state that the three men stood with their pistols presented at the party around the fire , whilst the others went up stairs , and were heard to break open the drawers . After having ransacked the house for about twenty minutes , they went away by the back door , taking with them all the money they could find ( about £ 20 , ) and also a watch from Thfts . Edwards . From the further evidence brought forward , it appeared that after the arrival of Mr .
Wood , information of this daring robbery was given to R . Richardson , Esq ., a magistrate residing in Capenhurst . That gentleman immediately mounted his-h ' orse , '; proceeded to the house-of the constable of the township , and sent him to Mr . Palmer , Special High Constable of Birkenhead . Mr . Palmer , on receiving the intelligence of what had occurred , gave instructions to Mr . Boughey , superintendent of the Birkenhead police , to keep a strict look-out for any suspicious characters that might appear , whilst ¦ ho ywivh a , couple of officers , went to the spot at which tho robbery had been committed . About two o ' clock 011 Saturday morning , Boughey encountered five men , whom he suspected of having been concerned in the robberyTwo of them he succeeded
. in apprehending , but the three others ran ott . Boughey then sent instructions to the Eastham and othor ferries that any suspicious characters should be stopped , and the result of thoso proceedings was that on Saturday morning one of the persons who had escaped was apprehended at Eastham ferry , attempting to get across , and the two otnera were apprehended in Birkenhead in the course or the morning . A sum of £ 7 10 s . was found on one of the prisoners , and other sums on two ^ 01 we others . AmongBt the money was a crooked sixpence , which was sworn to as the property or Mr . forwara
Wood . Other circumstances were brought , which tended to confirm the suspicions against the prisoners . They were all remanded till five 0 clocK on Monday evening , when they were brought np again at about half-past five o'olook . The court was very crowded , and the case seemed to excite great interest amongst the inhabitants of Birkenhead . Mr . Palmer , ha ¥ irig been sworn , stated that he had additional evidenoe to bring against all the prisoners . except Connor , which he thooght would be ready by Wednesday . Connor was forthwith disoharge * , as there was no evidence to implicate him , and the other four prisoners were remanded until next Wed * nesda y , at two o ' clock .
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THE TOICE OF AN OCTAGENARIAN , DE-> 'OU- \ CL > 'G WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES , Addressed to Sib Rcbebt Peel . Shtfield , Whitaker and Co ., Iris Office . ^ Thia is one of tie most soul-stirricg pamphlets which has appeared for some time , and is the produrv . 02 of a master mindj and a venerable veteran in the cause of the poor and Euch as have none , to help them . Mr . Roberts 15 a Christian of the old schcol ; he is , as he informs Sir Robert Peel in his introduction , four score years of age , and has devoted half a century to enhancing the welfare and happiness of his fVliow-men . It is indeed cheering in these days of treachery , perjury , and guilt , to find
an £ geu advocate of right even from the verge of the grave boldly , and -with all the sterling honesty of truth , telling the Queen's Prime Minister of the dfi . ni . frs which threaten the nch , as the just and inevitable coDSfqnence of their tyrannical and nnju » t conduct towards the sons and daughters of l&bour . Here is no pandering to the corrupting and bewijdfrinK jargon of the political economist ; no Teilius ihe picture of national degradation and distre ==, Its ; perchance a mock sensibility should be Ehocied at the bare recital . We have here homely truth in ail its rative power ; and that man must be less or mort- than mortal that can read these pages unmoved . Yet the venerable author rckht as well
address his pleadings for justice to the poor to the stones oFthe mountain , or to the ragirig ton-eat , as to the men now in power . Mr . Roberts might pJead with the most snrpissing eloquence , bu ; his tffbrts would be addressed to the deaf adder , and the lnoDsier he tried to impress by th ? appeals of justice and hamanity would only laugh at them as the imbecility of age , or the ravines of insanity . " ft " ell , be it so . We hail the work vf ith delight , and We doubt not that its effects will yet be felt , perhaps when the hand that traced the Iine 3 shall be psralisid in death . We sincerely recommend to the peo } i ? e to make his mono theirs—** Never despiir in a good cause . "
them are excellent , and are well calculated to ele-** ie and purify the mind . The compiler remarks in » he preface that he " has been most careful to admit nOitiLg into its pages that was inconsistent with that punty asd delicacy waich innocence can never fail to J ^ 'Je . Hia aim has been—whiles-eking to amuse 9 5 ? re nour—to call forth into activity the best iff'Kions of the heart , and to le * d to tbe cultivation ° * t 2 e cnnoblinij sentiments of genuine goodness **« truth . " This is jutt what the aim of all who - ; -o , asd especially of all who write for the young , f ^ - ' -- ! be . Tha woik ia neatly got up , and vriii 'Ore , no donht , an acceptable present to many an KaZEvm-. j i fair .
THE LOVE GIFT , FOR 1843 . LcndoD , H . G . Claeke , and Co . € 6 , Old Bailey . . Afiis is the third volume of a little Annual , directed to the celebration of that pasdon , of which Scott has beautifully said : — " Love rules the court , the camp , the green , And mtn b = low and gods above , For love is heaven , and heaven is love . " And we are glad to perceive that in many respects « e toI . for J 843 , 13 very superior to those which «» Te preceded it . The whole of the Annual for the coming year is we believe selected from our own poets , Jnio have , with various degrees of merit and of feel-^ g . wriuen on this favourite and universal theme ; * nd tke selections are on the whole good . Some of
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 19, 1842, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1187/page/3/
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