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THE PATRIOT'S PBATER . God of heaven and cl earth , god of all that breathes and lives , 53 ioa -who gave creation birth , Whose goodness eTery blessing gives , God eternal i source from -whence JU 1 motion Is that filleth space , . Fountain of Qnuupoicziee , Father of ihe hmnan race , Iitsd , ve beseech thee , lend thine ear , Besiken to our fervent prayers , Come to aid us , come to cheer , And to free m from our eves . Cra&i 4 be oppressor is Biy wrath , And in thy mercy free the slave ,
Xnm laou the tyrant from his path , . isd stretch thy strong light aim to save The suffering -paor from grief and -woe , From -nesting want and torturing toil , — Thou surely can and "will o'erthrow Injustice cloik'd in treacherous guile . 1 st do * She widow ' s burning tears Gosh from her sorrowing soul in Tain ; In pity htah the orphan ' s tears , In josuce burst the bondsman ' s chains ; Succour the captive , "Whose desire Was that bis fellow-man should be Xa social Tirtne raised higher . Jn purpose pure , in action free , Is it a sin in man to say
That tyranny is fonl and base ? Is it a sin in man to pray Por freedom to the human race ? Shall iron fetters hind him down Who fUres to tell men ol their rights ? Shall cruelty those feelings drawn In which the free-born bouI delights ? Perish the mortal that wonld dare Bssson to blind or thought uproot , Paving thine image to despair , DegisdiBg man to senseless brute ! All-sefimg God , Tonchssfo to hear 3 Jhe pinion'd patriot * ' gracious moan , To whom this glorious truth is dear—That thou art God , and God alone . BESJum Stotx . vsncbester .
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AN ODE , Oh , shame to tie land of the free , TjTbeae children submit to be slaves , m » basely to tyranny bead the vOe knee , Or ebX to theii ignoble graves . The scorn of the just and the good SlallforeTer ding to thy isle ; - Hi cry of the widow and orphan for food Shall greet thee , instead of their smile ; And thy glory and greatness descend to the tomb , X ' BjBOnni'd and torgot in futuiivy "s gloom . Ai - ' wher » is the spirit of old , That burnt in the breasts of year sires , When , with giant might , and ¦ with freedom bold , They eherish'd pnre liberty ' s fires ? "Risen freedoms Sag floated on high ,
And justice and truth were unfurrd . liberty or death -was iheir batVte cry , "Midst the cheers and praise of the " world ; And their falchions flash'd fire , and the steel clank'd loud , Ati / 1 the crimson-tide EtainM the fajB 8 loemill ' i skn > n 3 . Awaie ! arouse from thy slumbers , Throw aside delusion ' s daii veil , Join the rants cf the brave in your numbers , Ani the " good old cause" shall prevail . Burl tyranny down from its throne , Biise Mberty up in its stead ; Ana your sons ^ witb pride will their fathers otto , And their maniies bless "when dead . Then haD the bright banner of sweet Liberty . ' AH hail to the Charier , tie light of the free ! Edtfis Gill . shtfisia .
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HYMN 10 5 PBIXG Thon bringer of new life , Welcome thon hither . ' Though with thee comes the strife 01 changeful weather . Ob .. ' young and ooldly fair , Come with thy storm-blown hair , Down Ago *™ 3 snow-pearls fair , Tot earth to gather - Approaches * thou in shower ? Mst hath enroll'd thee , Till , changed by -viewless power , Bright we behold thee > Whilst dulling gales do ly , Tihoa -roidssest xnsetty by Green nolm and mountain high ., Till shades unf old ihee .
By dmkj woodland side , Slent icon roTest ; Where lonely TfafHas glide , Unheard thon moveat ; Wide-strewiBg buds and fi ^ weis . By fields , and dells , and bowers , "ilid ^ rinds a nd sonny Bbowers , Bounteous thon provest . IcoBgh ever changeful , still Iter pesttmng ; The ^ aith receiTes her fill Of thy good sowing ; And lo ! a spangled sheen Of herbs and flowers between , Blent -with the pasture green , AH beauteous growing !
Sow comes the dxrvsn hail , Battling and bounding ; A shower doth next prevail , Thunder astounding ! "CatD the glorious sun Looks through the storm-cloud duDAnd , as the light doth run , Glad tones axe sounding . The throstle femes his throat , On tall bough sitting ; The oazle ' s -wiaxrd ^ note By dingle flitting ; The lov * d one , too , is ther e , AboTB his snow-plaah'd lair—Be ESgM , in soo-brifht air , Carol beSxiJnc .
Come every tone of joy ! Add to the pleasure ; Sires Bobin ' * melody John in the measure : Aaa edioesTpaie asd sing , And fairy-bellB do ring , TFBere silver bubbles fling Their sparkling treasure . The btz ' e "bloom is hung Where beams aw shining Ifes iocey-bine hath clung , Saiiaatta entwining , Ten one who wanders lone TTnto that oowet unkBown , And finds a -world , his own , ^ crfejoys combining .
Thai , brmger of aear life , Welcome lion hither ; Ano welcome , too , the strife Of -changeful weather 1 Obi erer young and fair , CasJ from thy storm-blown hair Bright drops , and sno-w-peaxls fair , For earth to galheil Sajtcel BiiiroRD
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DEATH FROM STABBING IN LEEDS . Oa Wednesday morning , an inquest was ield at the ^ o » Co urt House , before Z . C Hoppa , Eso . ^ depui ^ ^^ = r , to require concerning the ^ eaQi of James rota , who died at 4 he fceneril Infirmary on Tnesflay *???«• ^ e deceased came to his death by the hand * Lrl * ttte *> " » ho stabbed him-with a knife on 6 ood ^ ofl sy aaemoon . The circnmstanceB -were of a pain-« f aanre , and will be found fully detailed 3 n the eri-^ P ^ tecea at the inquest , » Ml -report of -which « tcre grren belotr . PrtTioas to the jnry proceeding ^ f * &e boay , aii . Hopps addresBea them , and ex-Q 0 & 4 tt . 6 HBfaire ^ the Ib-w as It bore on the case , i ^ . / 158 Qm atnee between murder , manslaughter , and k ^ bymisadTenture . „ « 7 Ann V-rfh . -chn ha / I > v »« ? n ra ^ toriT from
* v 7 T ^ aommg Tras ia the rocm in custody during KSXBgasgj . ^ iollosiEg -witnesses-srere examined . : — j ^ Ba lancaBter—I reade in Z . on-street , % \ the gr * J and am a mKiaiac by trade . I lire -with my "" ** - Ifa « rw the deceased , James Firth ; he fired ?! " * > 2-oo-sireet , with his father- He ** aa in onr gj ™ f «> « ooa Friflay last ; a * abont a , Quaitei lo j 2 ? the afternocm . ffis sister , Mary Aim g ^ » aj there at that time ; ahe had t > een W S . ^ J £ he aBktB fe ™? mbe * * £ * There -were in the bouse bedfle * , » t the time a Tr *^ ' my lafter and myself ; ire -were all in the ~ r ?« K > eni , but I \ eGsn an fatte * -was hist sdinsnrt eame in . viij Ann
^^» hen he I belieTe waa ^| « ae " « nrter irhen Jmu auoe in . Mr b&et ^ Jifft X ?™» . aad left me , Jameo , « a 4 Mary Asa gp ^™ the loom below . When James eame in be sat ^ Jair-L * ride ; we had some conTeraaUon , about i-f cj ^^ ^ feg—I tt « fastening nyahoe «« le-witti 1 )<) B rj m > "Od tooi oat my pockeUanfe tot the pur-^^*^« ttie end tfL Mary Ann than eame up , W ^ CT « tooa Tralching me . Wiem I had done j « 7 Jcnifel put it Gown , * n& HaxyAunTiiflitodk % ^| i- would not haye inch an old knife as ttii , I ta , ^ * lffi 1 ' one .- I said it -would last-while it WT ** " ^ dI then ^ west on menain * my shoe . The " *** aast astet then began playing together ; she
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Eaid it was a bad knife and be K . id it was a good one . Tfeey were in play , and aot . qnarrelling . I had not " seard that they had had any words previously . They then got to scuffling , but 1 took no more notice . He "was a very queer chap , and had fearful queer sort of speeches . I took no further notice of them until he sat himself doirn , when I looked at him , and saw that he looked -very white , and held his head down . Be made no scream or cry . He said , " She has cut me . " I asked him where , and after some persuasion be showed ma 1 saw a « nt is M » body , on the left side . He loosed the -waistband of his tro-WEers to let me see . I told him h » had better go home , and he got up and walked to his father ' s bouse . 3 followed him there , and then left him . There was not
much blood—next to nothing . J did not look at Mary Ann Firth , * ntll I had returned fr » m her father ' s house . I cant say -whether ahe had a knife in her hand or not when I first saw James looking pale . She was somewhere behind me when 1 looked at him . They were standing up on the floor playing -with each other before he sat him down . My father came down stairs just ss James Firth -was sitting down in the chair . He remained in the room until the deceased went home . I heard some -words pass between deceased and b 3 s Bister , but I took no notice of what they were . They were not Quarrelsome worda , nor did I hear any blows Btruck When the deceased said , " She has cut me , " Mary Ann did not siake any remark . She got him some water . They had not hadiany conTersation preYious to beeiiining to play as I hare described .
By a Jnror—They had not been playing for more than a minute before James sat him down . Mr . Jehn Allanson—I am house surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary , the deceased was brought to the Infirmary abont half-past ten on Good Friday night I examined him , and found a small -wound rather less than a quarter of an inch in length , in the lower part of the abdomen to the left side , penetrating the cafity of the abdomen . I considered it a dangerous wound . There were do signs of the btneels being wounded . Be died yesterday ( Tuesday ) morning about three o ' clock . Death was
caused by inflammation arising trom the vouuQ . The -wom . d aeemed likely to haTe been inflicted by a stab with a sharp instrument . On a post mortem examination I found that the wound -was a little longer internally than externally , though there was -sery little difference ; it had been done almost by a direct ttab The clasp tnife now produced would cause the weund . The point of the knife had not penetrated much more than half as inch at the very deepest The knife is Tbry sharp , and a Yery slight degree of force would be TftQulred to produce \ b , e -wound .
Matthew Lancaster . —1 live in 2 on-street , Bank , and am a linen weaver . The deceased -was at my house on Good Friday last , in the afternoon . There were myself , my son George , and Mary Ann Firth , in the house -when be came in . I went up stairs when he came in . I staid there about a quarter of an hour . I heard no noise while I was up Ftsirs—no quarrellingno blows . When I came down the deceased -w ^ a sitting down on a chair . I saw something was amiss with him and * aquired what wus the mattor with Lim . 3 received no answer , and then I asked him again , when h « said , " She has cat me . " Be afterwards said he was sick , and his sister gave him some water . 1 looked for the place in his trousers and found it . The trousera notr prodnced are the same that the deceased bad on . I afterwards saw the-wound on his body , which corresponded with the cut in his treusers . The deceased then went home .
" Hannah Firth- —I am mother te the deceased . We live in Zion-stxeet The deceased was eight een years of age in l > ecember last . I visited my son after his removal to the infirmary ; hp did not tell me any particulars as tohow the wound had been inflicted ; he never gave me ssy account of it I had heard from others how it bad been done , and that was my reason for not asking ? i | m . Joseph Craven . —I am a serjeant in the Leeds Police , lwent to the honae -where Mary Ann Filth lives yesterday morning ; and took her into custody . I got a clasp knife from George Lancaster . That knife I produce ; he said it - was the knife the deceased had been cut with , and it was his knife . I got the trousers of the deceased from the Infirmary , and bis shirt at his o-vn boose . The shirt and trou * era are both cut through on the left side . Mary Ann Firth cried , vhen 1 charged her with having cut her brother ; she said it was trne , and that she did it because he had " iiurat her month . "
1 then told her she had better not say any mare about it . This being all the evidence , the Coroner told Mary Ann firth that she was then at liberty to make auy statement ; but that it wonld be taken down , and might be ~ nsed against her if the verdict » f the Jury rendered it necessary . The girij who -wept bitterly , sat for some time unable to speak . At length she said she could not tell what her brother and her were talking about , but she bad the knife in her hand , and he hit her over the mouth , so she hit him with the knife . They werd not quarrelling ; but she could not tell wh-tt they were talking about The blow be Btruek her made her mouth bleed . She had no intention whatever of slabbing him .
The Coroner then addressed the jnry . He said there could be no donbt on their minds that the deceased , James Firth , had come to his death from a etab by a knife , given by his sister , Hary Ana Firth . There was no evidence before them to » how that any previous intention existed or that the parties had had any previous qcanel ; indeed if they believed the evidence of George Lancaster , the parties were playii . g togttbtr when the unfortunate accident occurred . The only question f-OI th&xo to consider , therefore , -was whether their verdict should ba one of manslaughter or homicide by misadventure . —[ He then read over th « whole of the evidence which had been given , and afterwxrdB proceeded to lay down the la-w of the case . }—The simple
question , he Bald , was whether the wound was given by Mary Ann Firth to the deceased accidentally or by intention . If it was their impression from the © -ridene * they iad heard , that the wound had been inflicted unintentionally while the parties were struggling or playing together , then their verdict would be one of homicide by misadventure ; but if they were of opinion that the -wound had been kiicted in return for a blow , and "Whilst suffering under the pro vocation which such blew -would awaken , no matter -whether tbe intention iras to stab or not , then tbe verdict must be one of manslaughter ; for , in pity to human frailties , the law mercifully reduced the crime from mnrder to manslaughter , in cases where sufficient provocation had immediately preceded the blow -which caused death .
The jury then retired , and , after an absence of about Eve minuus , returned with a verdict of Homicide by . Misadventure . Offensive Conduct . —On Monday last , a fellow named Thomas Blaielock was charged with being drunk , on Sunday , at midday , and with indecently exposing iis person . He was fined 20 s and costs , or in defanlt of payment sent to Watefiald for a month . ~ -r ~ Wm . Gilbert , for a similar offence , was subjected to the same punishment .
HUIA . —Bsxrrja Conduct of the Police . — On Wednesday evening last , a public meeting was held in tbe Market Place , to petition Parliament to investigate the conduct of Baron Gurney at Leicester in reference to William Jones . Tha meeting was a unmeroos one , and remarkably peaceable . Air . West rose to propose the adoption of a petition , and had spoken abons half an hour , whea a large body of the police , in rank and file , headed by Superintendent M Manns , made their appearance . M' Manus approached West , and told him he must « on » e do- « T > . West asked by what anthority ! and the constable told him he was Eent—that he did not wish to do any harm—that they might retire to their private rooms , and no one would interfere whh
them . West remonstrated , bat in vain . Meantime the work of dispersion was going od ., and , had not the people been peaceably disposed , no donbt there would have been a riot . la the morning , Mr , West ' waited on the magistrates , to have their opinion on the subject . He detailed the facts as ihey occurred , and asked whether it was the intention' of tbe magistrates to prevent the peace&ble meetings of the people . The magistrates said they knew nothing about it ; bnt they considered the police justified in removing any obstruction in the Market Place—it beiDg a thoroughfare . Mr . West said he could bring hundreds to prove there was no obstruction . Magistrate—But there might be . Mr . West said if the people bad not
peaceably dispersed , no doubi the conduct of the police would hare prodnced a riot . Magistrate-Then that proves the right tbe police had to interfere . Mr . West expressed bis surprise that a magistrate should use such language on the Bench . Sir William Lowthorp wished to know i ^ hat Mr . West wanted of the magistrates ? Mr . West—I want to know before taKhig further steps in this matter , whether the magistrates sanction or authorise tht dispersion of the peaceable meetings of the people , for ws have the able opinion of the most able Crown lawyers as well as Judges , that the people have a right to meet when and where they please , to discuss x « al or imaginary grievances . Sir William Lowthorp—We do not wibh to interfere with tbe
meetings of the people in proper limes atd places Town Clerk—Yes , your Worship , in their private rooms . Mr . Wtsi—No , your Worship , whatl contend for is , the Tight of out-door meeting—the people are too poor to pay for your large rooms , and had they the means , they wonld not be let to them . The Snperintendant here said that he went on bis own responsibility , and if they met again he wonld disperse them . West-Then we will resist yoa . Magistrate—Yon know ibo police must do their duty . West—Yes , and the magistrates must do theirs , and I biubi do mice , -which is to uphold the rights of the people at all
hasanis . Mr , West then left the office . The conduct of the poliee has excited universal disgust among all classes . —On Monday evening , a publle meeting was held on the Dock Green , and the petition adop f ed . The meeting was nnmeronj , and great numbera of the blues" were present in disguise , but eo interruption took place . Mr . West also delivered two disconrseB on Sunday , in the same place , without interruption . —There will fee a pnblio meeting on Monday next , in the Freemason's lodge , to adopt a petition-to Parliament , praying for an investigation into tbe condoct of the police . That is the way to beat them .
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STOCKPORT . —Bku-cal and Disgusting Conduct of a Druwken Policeman . —At the Court House , on Saturday , before John Marsland , Esq ., William Andrew , Esq , and Alfred Orrell , Esq ., Mayor , Bitting Magistrates . Mr . Thomas Clark appeared to make the following charge against P . Potter , one of the Borough police : —Mr . Clarke's statement was as follows .- — "On Thnrsday evening last , about twenty minutes or a quarter to seven o ' clock , Policeman Potter opened my door , and entered the house . He { proceeded towards the stairs leading up to my bed room ; he turned from there , and went to tfee pantry , opened the door , and shook it almost off its hinges . From there he went to the door leading into the back kitchen , and used it in a
similar manner ; he then proceeded to open the < loor opening into the back yard . All this time I stood bohindjmy counter . Seeing that he bad gone so far , 1 followed him into the kitchen , and demanded to know by what anthority he entered and conducted himself in such a manner in my house He answered by telling me to be off ! I then opened the back door , and ordered him to go about his business . He would not go . I again ordered him out . He told me he wonld not go , oat that I moat put him out . I desired a third time that he would leave the house , when , without the least provocation , ho turned round and knocked me down . I then fastened on him and a suffle ensued . i which doubtless wonld have
terminated in my being throttled bad not a person Who is now in Court , and was in the house all the time , come to the rescue , and assisted me in forcibly ejecting him , which we ultimately did with great trouble , but during the scuffle Mrs . Clark , who had been confined only five days before , and who had only j » 9 t before that got out of bed , for the first time since her accouehcment , ShearJDg the disturbance , and not knowing the cause , came running down stairs with a young babe in her arms , and seeing me almost choked by a policeman , fainted in the back yard . It has thrown her into a relapse , and the consequence as far as she is concerned , will , I am afraid , prove serious . This , gentlemen , is the case against policeman Potter . —The Mayor—Have you any witnesses ? —Mr . Flinn , * of Bradford , was here called and sworn —He stated that on Thursday evening last , passing
through the town of Stockport , he had occasion to call on Mr Clark . He had not been in the house more than ten minutes , when the policeman entered , and conducted himself in the manner already described . He ( the witness ) went to remonstrate ¦ with Potter , but before be had time to say a-word Potter struck him a severe blow . He then assisted Mr . Clark in turning him out . He was mad drunk , and behaved himself in a most brutal manner . Mr . Clark had exercised the greatest forbearance until he was knocked down . Mrs . Keedham was sworn , and corroborated the foregoing statements , adding that she never lived neighbour to a more peaceable or a better dispoaed person than Mr . Clark . Potter was then called upon for his defence . He 6 tated jthat about one o ' clock on Thursday afternoon , some rolationa called to see him . He went out with them
and had a few glasses to drink . On his way home he met two of the other officers , who were in search of a certain person in the town . After leaving them and going down by the Bull tap , he saw one of the bad women running down the street , and as it was market-day , he thought she had been commiting a robbery , followed her , and she ran down an entry , near Clark's house . He wanted to see if she had got into his house , that was the reason why he entered it . —Mr . Clark—He was in a beastly state of intoxication , and since then he has made several overtures to me , through different persons , to compromise the matter . Yesterday his wife waited upon me and offered me two pounds to abandon the case , bat thinking I had a duty to perform to myself
and the public , I refused to come to any terms , but to lay it at onco before the bench . —The Mayor to the superintendant . —What ' s Potter ' s general conduct 1 Superintendent—H « has been brought up before . Bowers , another policeman , was worn , and stated emphatically that Potter was drunk beyond all dispute . The Magistrates consulted for some time , when tht Mayor said he did not think they could do anything in the matter , they had not tbe power . The Clerk pointed out an act or clause of an act which provided for the interference of the Magistrates in such oases . A second consultation was hdd on the bench , when the Mayor addressed Potter , and said he was very sorry that any officer of that court should conduct himself as it had been
proved he had on this occasion done . If he were again brought up , he should discbarge him from the force . This time he wonld inflict the severest penalty the law allowed him . He must pay a fine of forty shillings . Mr . Clark applied for expenses . The Mayor said he had no power to grant them . Mr . Clark—Is there no appeal from this court J Can I not now take th # case before the Watch Committee ? The Clerk—Yon can take it before tha Watch Committee if you like ; bat I don ' t think they will interfere , as they have a resolution that the Magistrates ' decision shall be final . Mr . Andrews , who is the chairman of tbe Watch Committee , and wht was on the Bench , said it was so . The case was done with .
ASHTOKr-UWDEB-LYNE -Change Ringing Extraordinary , for upwards of Six Hours . —On Easter-Monday morning , six of the College youths of Ashton-under-Lyne , and four of the mem tiers of the society of St . John ' s , Manchester , ascended the Tower of of St . Michael ' s , Ashton-under-Lyne , and rung , in a masterly stylo , a true and complete peal of grandsire cators , consisting of 10 , 259 changes , which was completed in the short space of six hours and ten minutes , the longest peal ever rung in that method on ten bells , north of the river Trent . The artists were stationed as follow : —treble , John Hobson , Ashton ; 2 od . Joe Burgess , ditto ; 3 rd , Jas . Wood , ditto : 4 th , Charles Wood , St . John ' s : 5 ih ,
Robert Howe , ditto ; 6 ' . h , Samuel Farrand , Ashton ; 7 th , Joseph Winterbottom , St . John ' s ; 8 th , William Rayle , ditto ; 9 ih , George BnrgesB , Ashton ; tenor , Brian Vernon , Ashton , who rung it single banded . Weight of the tenor , 28 cwt ; weight of the 9 th , 20 cm , on the same day there was a prize ringing at Rochdale fora very handsome silver cup value £ 5 , for hand-bellrin ^ ers at iunes , which was won by the Royal Harmonic Victoria band , established at the Horse Jockey , Ashton-under-. Ly . ue , in their usual scientific and masterly style , defeating the following societies : The Independent Youths of Ashton ; the Godlpy Hand-bellringers , and the Oldham Victoria Society .
CflRTiTSLE . Phbeno-Mesmehism . On Thursday and Saturday evenings last , two lectures were delivered on this science by a Mr . Adair , of the Sheffield Phrenological Society , at the Athenaeum , Lowther-street . Mr . Adair was accompanied by a young girl and a boy , on whom he operated . The girl he had brought from Sheffield , but the boy ( a tailor ) , he had picked up a few days previous , at Skipton , in Yorkshire . He operated on the girl first , ana the principal points which struck us as remarkable , were , firstly—the girl keeping her arms rigid and extended at right angles for about five minutes , apparently in a cataleptic state . Secondly , on a medical gentleman forcing open vhe eyelids of the boy , the eyes were turned up and did not seem
susceptible of the influence of light . Mr . Adair then operated on the -various organs by pressing them with bis finger . On pressing the organ of tnne , the girl SUDg in a lively and animated manner ; but on Mr . Adair taking hii finger from this organ she instantly ceased to sing , and on his replacing it , she commenced as lively as before , exactly where she had left of . On exciting the organ of imitation , she closely imitated various singular expressions and eounds made by the audience . On exciting the organ of acquisitiveness , flhe abstracted a number of articles from the pockets of several gentlemen who were placed on the platform ; and when conscientioasnesB was touched restored them again to the owners without making the slightest mistake ,
strongly resi&ting the taking away of the property by others to whom it did not belong . Mr . Adair invited the audience to state in writing any organ they wished to have excited , when several slips of paper were handed in and the organs exoited accordingly , with a happy and singular effect . On the organ of fear being excited the female rushed from her seat , started back , and exhibiting all the expression of this passion , fell with great force on the platform . On the organs of progenitiveness and tune being excited together , she rocked backwards and forwards in the chair , as if nursing an infant , and on a gentleman ' s plaid being rolled op and put into her hands , Bhe hugged it to her bosom with an apparent motherly
affection . Many other organs were excited with similar accurate results ; and if we are to credit the evidence of our senses ( providing there is no deeeption or collusion practised , ) we must certainly believe in the truth of phrenology . Mr . Adair was asked if- he would mesmerise any one from among the audience ; but this he refused to do , alleging as his reason , that this course would be attended with a great loss of time and inconvenience to the public : but if any gentlemen would meet him on the following day , in a private room of the Athenaeum , he would endeavour to operate upon them . On Friday , a number of persons assembled to witness the exhibition ; bnt Mr . Adair would not operate until the whole left the room , with the exception of those anxions to be operated upon , and two or three others who might remain to Fee that no deception was
practUed . This request was accordingly complied with , and the principal portion of the company retired into the Museum to await the result ; as Mr . Adair promised to call them in if he suoceeded . After repeated attempts ( which lasted for upwards of an hour , ) to mesmerise two individuals , Mr . Adair , in a great measure failed , for though he did put one of them into a temporary sleep , it was not lasting . This circumstance increased the doubts already existing in regard to the truth of this Bingular Bcienee , if-such it may be called . On Saturday evening , however , these doubts were partially removed , by Mr . Adair effectually oriarating on a young female in the service of Dr . Thorn , a medical gentleman of this city , who came forward , and informed the audience , that Mr . Adair bad successfully operated on this young woman , at his house , in the fore-part of the day .
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LASS WADE ~ A general meeting of the oarp < 3 t weavers of this place was held oh Saturday last , when after transacting some business connected with the strike ; of the Glasgow carpet weavers , the following resolution was passed nem dis . Moved by Mr . W »«» Bi Daniells , seconded by Mr . Charles Buchan , JLaat a cordial vote of thanks is dne , and ia hereby gives , to Messrs . Crossley of Halifax , and Henderson of Durham , carpet weavers , for their handsome conduct ia coming as a deputation to Scotland , for the purpose of endeavouring to ' heal the differences that existed between the employers and the employed , in i Port Eglington Carpet Works , Glasgow , and for using their influence to prevent a reduction ot the prices paid for carpet weaving in Scotland .
Also we heartily thank our brethren the English carpet weavers , for their spirited conduct in sending the said deputation , and hope a good understanding with a view to each others interests , will ever exist between m . That the Secretary of the work send a copy of the above to each of those gentlemen .
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The first steam frigate for the royal navy to be propelled by the Archimedian screw , named the nattier , was launched at Sheeraesa on Thursday . Health . — " How much is expressed in this short word , and how few Bet a true value on its enjoyment . Howreadily wonld the high and ; mighty when racked by pain , and approaching a premature dissolution , sacrifice all factitious distinction , and part with all their wealth to add a few more hours to their existence . Ought not this startling fact to induce us to secure by all the means in our power a good constitution ! This desirable state can now be secured by a steady course of Parr ' s invaluable Life Pills , "
Sicily , March 28 . — Within these few days no less than three murders have been committed in the city of Palermo , whose population does not exceed 160 , 000 . A , naval captain , having obtained proof of hia wife ' s infidelity , killed her by stabbiDg her with a knife . Another man , irritated hy the well-grounded reproaches of his wife , whose anger was roused by his bad conduct and love of gaming , cut her throat whilst she was asleep . The third murder was committed on Sunday last , in open daylight , and in the most frequented street of the city , where a man was stabbed with a stiletto by his own relation , to whom he refused to return a certain sum of money , which the murderer alleged he had lent him .
Extraordinary Case of Polygamy . — -It will be remembered b \ oar readers , that in the month of February last Wigan was visited by a strange young man , who called upon several parties in the town , producing documents and declaring himself to be entitled to property worth £ 600 , 000 per annum , The man has been known in different parts of the country , particularly in Birmingham , and Bilston , in Staffordshire , by the name Of Robert Tavlor , alias Lord Keaaedy ; and has attained considerable notoriety by his extraordinary conduct towards the fair sex . Not content with adhering to tho laws of marriage as instituted in this country , his Lordship , though possessing a most repelling countenance and unseemlv person , has " connifoaled '' to use his own
term ) no less thau half-a-dozon fair ones in the snare ; and the unfortunate damsels who gave credence to his " rich effusions" respecting the handsome dowry he would settle on them have severally had the mortification to discover lhat the soi-disant rich lord was ntill a coal-getter , and she a femme sole . His 11 lordship" states that his first wife was transported ; that he has suffered for having taken to himself four others , by imprisonment ; and for one very unjustly , because the marriage was null aud void , having been performed after iwelve o ' clock at noon . The la ^ t one ho married from this town , after going down from the different factories , and promising to settle £ 300 a year on his wife immediately after the ceremony . The marriage took place on the
13 ih of February last , m the parish churoh , and created a great sensation in tho town , as a warm dispute arose in the street between two young women , to both of whom he had offered marriage , he himself appearing quite undecided in the matter . On arriving at the church doors , he , however , made up his mind and took to himself , " for better for worse , " Deborah Forster . The adventurer was taken into custody on tha 4 th instant at St . Helen ' s by Mr . Storey , the active superintendent of police for that district , on a charge of obfcaitiingmoney under false pretences . Through Che instrumentality of Mr . Charles Pigot , solicitor , of this town , the charge of
bigamy has been brought against him , and he arrived here on Wednesday last in the custody of Mr . Storey . He was brought before Mr . J . Acton , county magistrate , when Mr . Pigot proved the prisoner's admission that he had a wife living at Todmordeu and produced a letter from Littleborough , proving his marriage with i a girl named Kershaw , at that place Mr . Pigot called a witness to prove the prisoner ' s marriage at wigan , and he was remanded for a week in order to give Mr . Pigot aa opportunity of bringing farther evidence against him , His fast wife declared she would stick to him , and both were locked up together . —Manchester Courier .
Iwqujest —On Saturday , Mr . Higgs held an m-O j Uesi at the Plough , Carey-street , Lincoln's-innhelds , on the body of a woman named Eliza , Delmer , aged 44 . It appeared in evidence , that deceased was a married woman , but- many years ago her illconduct caused her husband to abandon her for ever . She then cohabited with a noblo lord , had children by him , but afterwards she chose a plebeian paramour . With him ( a man named Dear ) , living in a court in Drury-lane , she remained for fifteen years , during which time she abandoned herself to drink and dishonesty , robbing continually the man of her choice , and receiving at his hands continuous and summary punishment . On Wednesday week , she ran away ,, with what intention the following letter , left behiud her , will show : — " Dear , —When you see this I hope I shall be no more in the world .
1 have been very ul-uped by you , a » d by those belonging to you . 1 forgive you . I am mad with your unkind treatment , and your beating my face . — Eliza DslubbJ' After thia , the wretched woman disappeared until Thursday last , when she called on a Jemale nam « d Ewers , in Wych-street , and having drunk some gin with her , afterwards swallowed hat ? an ounce of laudanum , and & very large dose of arsenic . E-wera immediately sent for Doctor Edward Johnson ^ of Drury-lane , who used the stomach-pump , and , having drawn off as much of the poison as he could , he advised the immediate removal of deceased to King ' s College Hospital . Though she was able to walk thither , she soon began to sink , and died , Dr . Russell , the resident physician , said , on Friday afternoon , from the effect of tbe poisons . Verdict— " Temporary Insanity . "
MELAfJCHOLY Occurrence . —We copy the following melancholy account from a letter addressed to Captain Joseph Cooke , Superintendent of Pilots , by Captain Cornish , of the ship Pickwick , dattd March 2 , in lat . S 10 N ., long . 20 40 W . — " On Sunday , the 19 , h of February , at twenty minutes past eight o ' clock , when in lat . 18 20 N ., long . 25 10 W ., ship going seven knots before the wind , and rolling much with a heavy northerly swell , Mr . Cooke . the chief mate , and Mr . Henry J . T . Browne , a passenger , were skylarking about ihe decks . I then went on deck , when they gave over , and I thought no more about it . About ten minutes after , as I was standon the break of tho quarter deck , I accidentally turned round , and at that moment saw a leg—I think of poor Cooke—ley el with the rail . I ran aft , but was too late . 1 then threw the life-tuoy overboard , put the helm down , and brought the ship right aback ,
cut away the gig with four men , and hoisted a light at the staff end . The gig returned about ten o'clock after pulling about for more than an hour ; but , I am sorry to say , brought no tidings of either Mr . Cooke or Mr . Browne . I think they must have been stunned in falling , by striking on the quarter-barge , as they neither spoke nor made any noise whatever ; indeed , we should not have known what had become of them , had I not turned my head at the time of the accident . I never saw them afterwards . " Mr . Cooke Was brother-in-law of Captain Cooke , of the Pilot service of this port . ' He was a young man of considerable promise , and high in the estimation of the owners and captain of the Pickwick , of which vessel he had been for some time chief mate . He has left a widow to mourn his untimely fate . Mr . Browne , the other unfortunate individual , was a respectable young man , on his way to settle abroad . —Liverpool Albion .
Niw Locomotive Carriage . —A steam carriage has been invented by a young man lately connected with the flrm of Messrs . Barrett , Exall , and Andrews , extensive ironfounders iu this town , which appears to hare overcome the obstacles hitherto experienced in getting these machines to act upon the common mads . Several experimental trips have been made wiih it "with complete success , the average rate of speed being fourteen miles per hour . Tbe journey from Reading to a mile beyond Maidenhead was formed in about an hour , but it is possible to greatly accelerate the speed . Our reporter was kindly permitted to inspect the machine , which is about fit teen feet in length by five feet in width , and contains a tank , a fateam engiue of four horse power , woTked with either one or two pistons , a boile * holding two buckets of water , and a convenient place for coke and conveyance of ; passengers . The consumption of coke-is but trifling , from one to two
sacks only being required for a trip from Reading to Maidenhead , and we are not aware of any other expense attaching to it after the first outlay . Although not fitted up for the carriage of passengers being only , aa it were , in its rough and primitive state , we have been ; informed that not less than a doten persons rode on it with perfect easa and safety . It goes upon three wheels , in a- somewhat similar manner to a Bath chair , and tarns the corners with more facility than might be supposed . The pace up the hills on the Oaversham-road j towards Henley was about twelve miles per hour . The principal inconvenience to be apprehended is from toe taking fright of the horses at this novel machine . We understand that the ingenious inventor has left this country , and has taken up hia permanent abode on . the continent , notwithstanding which we hope he ¦ will not lose Bight of the object we are attempting to describe , but that it may turn out a aubjeot of public utilits and private emolument . —Reading Paper , K
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Awothkr monomaniac has found the way to Buckingham Palace , fromj a distance . A woman wad discovered on Thursday morning , crouched up under a tree , in a wood at Walton upon-Thames , unable to speak a word of English . Taken before the local Magistrates , sVie proved to be a native of France . She says that she is the ; wife of a mechanic ; and shegives two reasons for coming to Engli ® d--to see two brothers whom she imagines to hold responsible situations in Buckingham ] Palace ; and to claim the throne of England , which ia here by right . She also calls herself Queen Isabella the Second of Spain . On Friday evening she was brought to Buckingham Palace , to see if her story had any shadow of foundation ; which , of course , it had not .
Patriarchal Almsmen . —The ebanfcy trustees , at their monthly meeting on Wednesday last , elected Joseph Andrews , glover , to the vacant almshouse in Berkeley Hospital . Andrews is one of a venerable trio of brothers whose united ages amount to 250—viz ., Moses , 86 , | an inmate of St . Oswald ' s Hospital ; Samuel , 84 ; and Joseph , 80 . Samuel , as wv ? ll as Joseph , is now enjoying the otium cum dignitate of Berkeley ' s Hospital . Wo believe them to be the only survivors of a family of 23 children by the same mother ; and , singularly enough they were all born in the month of March—viz . Moses
on the 6 th , Samuel o « the 4 th , and Joseph on the 10 th . The blessing of a tolerably numerous family appears also to have been the heritage of each , having had no less than ; 40 children between them ; of these , however , the largest number fell to the lot of the youngest , Joseph ] who had 19 ; next Samuel , 16 ; aud Moses , the eldest , 5 . Considering their advanced age , they enjojy good health , and may be said alike to be worthy and deserving objects of the munificently-endowed charities which have provided a comfortable asylum and shelter for them in their latter daya . — Worcester Herald .
NOHTHLEACH HoP 8 K OF CORRECTION A GAIN !—Another prisoner ia pronounced to have been killed by the rigorous treatment of Northleach House of Correction . An inquest was held at Cheltenham on the body of Richard Jones , who died soon after his discharge , and the inquiry closed on Friday . Jones had been sentenced to twelve month ' s imprisonment , and to be flr » ggod in the Jaat month : the term expiring on the 1 st March last . After his admission to the prison , his health became bad , and he was affected with dropsy ; but he died of consumption . John Barton , a fellow-prisoner , said that the soup was so thin , that two sheep-heads served to make it for all the prisoners , forty . Jones was kept on the treadwheel when he was too weak to stand . Tbe
prisoners were removed from the wheel in a state of perspiration and' placed in cold damp cells with etone Roots . Jones used to walk about the yard , [ complaining of pain and crying like a child . The Under-Turnkey , Harding , said that he was shamming ; and once struck him with a key on the leg , so that he was lame after it . Thomas Lamy , another prisoner , said that Harding gar » Jones some extra rounds for complaining : He heard Harding say , when he struck Joue 8 , " I will make you remember Northleach aa long as you live ? ' John Ralph Bedwell , the Prison Surgeon , described the state of Jones's health . He suggested that the man should be discharged , as perhaps be might then recover ; and the Secretary of State was written to ; but he would not consent . The flogging , however , was dispensed with . When he was discharged , Mr . Bedwell advised him to apply for medical assistance as soon
as he reached Cheltenham . Richard Townaend , the Governnor , said that he importuned the Visiting Magistrates toi obtain his discharge , but without success . They used to give only three shillings a-week for the meat of which they made soup for the prisoners : theigruel diet was thin , but as eood as Mr . Townsend dared to make it . There had now been a great alteration in the prison-diet ; an order having come down from the Secretary of State on the 16 th February . The new allowance , Mr- Townsend thought , was sufficient to support the prisoners iu their work , i Among the other witnesses , were Elizabeth Jones , the mother of the deceased ; Dr . Hartley , Surgeon of tbe Cheltenham Hospital ; and Joseph King , a discharged prisoner , who was himself too weak to give evidence . The Jury returned the following verdict" That the deceased , Riohard Jones , died from the ill-treatment he received while in Northleaoh House
of Correction , from hard labour , want of food , and from no other causes . " Toe Jury also desired the Coronor to record their declaration , that the authorities of Northleach were disserving of censure for their cenduct throughout the affair . Singular and Fatal Casualty . —Mr . Baker , on Saturday last , held an inquest at the Prince of Orange , Philip-street , St . George's-iu-the-E&St , On W . Rogerson , aged three years . It appeared by the evidence Of several witnesses , that on Friday afternoon last two little lads , one of whom was named Coates , broke into » cooper's yard , in Sarah-place , in which were several empty sugar hogsheads . Their mischievous design was to upset some of these casks , which nrere placed end-wise one on the top of the other , in order to see them roll about the yard . They approached three hogsheads , piled in the way described , and , inserting between the top of the lowest and bottom of the second lowest of them
a piece of plank aa a levwjthfry leant upon it and caused the two upper casksito topple down . They then ran away , unaware that loss of life would be the result of their frolic . Unhappily , deceased was playing on the other side of the hogsheads , and one of them fell upon him in such a way that its edge rested on his neck , covering his body beneath it and leaving bis head only exposed . The pressure of the cask was so great , that the child could not cry out for help , and another child , who saw the fatal posi tion in whieh he iras , wont and merely said that he was'in a tub , so that no notice was taken of that information . The poor deceased child remained unobserved beneath the hogshead for three hours , and when at length extricated , he was of count * in a lifeless state . The Coroner ! severely censured the boy Coates and his companion , telling them they had very narrowly escaped being sent to gaol , on a charge of manslaughter . Verdict— " Accidental death . "
Mallow . —Luxuries of the Workhouse . —At the last meeting of the Guardians for this Union , Mr . Williams asked th Clerk to state the dietary of the Workhouse , as Sir D . Norreys boasted in the House of Commons of the " luxuries" of the Workhouse system ? Clerk—the ( dietary consists—for able-bodied men 3 ^ tb potatoes ^ and one pint of porridge . Women , 3 lb potatoes ,: and one pint of porridge . Children , 21 b do . and half pint do . Mr . Barry—Sir Denham should be made feed on it for a month ( loud laughter ) . Mr . Barry—I propose that the paupers of this Workhouse get a meat dinner on next Easter Sunday , at the cost of the Union . Mr . Williams—I second it . Mr . A Newman—We gave them a meat dinner at Christmas by subscription , and 1 don ' i think we can entertain this proposition . Mr . Barry—I am aware such ; was the case , but I want to establish the spirit of our competency to
give meat to the paupers on thejtwo days mtheyear , Mr . LongSeld did not think it could be put from the chair , as fourteen days' notice was necessary . Mr . Haines— We did not give fourteen days notice when changing milk for porridge , and I am certain there ia not a Rate payer in the Union would object to it . Mr . Longfleld—But that alteration was a saving to the Union . Mr . Barry—The expense is swallowed by other parties , and if we cannot order meat to the poor creatures on two days in the year , I don't see what is the U 3 e of Guardians at 'all . The Chairman —Mr . Barry would you alter the resolution SO as to request Mr . Voules to order what you require ! Mr . Barry—I most rec-pectfully begito decline doing so , aB I want to establish a principle . Mr . Webb Ware — I think you ought to put the resolution . The Chairman then put the resolution which was carried , there being eleven for , and four against it .
Atrocious Outrage . —The neighbourhood of Boherburg was greatly excited on Monday evening by the report of a boy having been found , almost lifeless , with histhroatcutfrom ear toear . iu a lonesome piece of ground adjoining the new barracks . On enquiry it was ascertained that the foul deed was perpetrated by a young soldier of the 36 th Regiment , named Thomas Rafferty , a native of Galway , who privately induced the Jittle fellow to sell f pair of boots and regimental trousers for him , and at dusk had thrown from his window the boots , and subsequently the trousers ; but it appears the boots were taken off by some person who heard them fall , and the young accomplice , not buiug up to time , found only the trousers . The soldier , exasperated by the loss , knocked
the boy down , and with a knife which he drew from hw pocket , cut his helpless victimis throat across in a shocking manner . The poor creature was bleeding to death , and was removed to his father ' s house , where he was promptly attended by a surgeon of the 36 th and surgeon Wilkinson , who j entertain hopes of his recovery . Immediately onjheaving of the outrage Colonel Maxwell , on the eame evening , issued a regimental order expressive of the liorror ho felt at a soldier of the 36 th being charged with such atrocity , and called upon every soldier in the regiment to indeavour to discover the lawless wretch who had disg&aoed his uniform by so inhuman 4 deed . The commandiiigoffioer also directed every | inan to be confined to barracks till the assassin was found out . This prompt and well-advised order ms read in every man ' s room that evening , and had j the desired effect ,
for tbe suspected party was soon discovered and lodged ia the military prison ; andjthe colonel issued a second regimental order on the following morning , conveying the great pleasure he Had in rescinding the previous order confining the men to barracks , and that it was a consolation to him to know that the prisoner was none of his old and valued soldiers , but a young recruit , undisciplined and unprincipled , who , during bis brief military career , had been repeatedly a delinquent . The accused was yesterday escorted , handcuffed , by a sergeant ' s guard , to the police-office , and handed over to the civil authorities by the ao jutant of the corps , and remanded f <* v farther examination . He was hooted out of barracks by the soldiers of his own regiment , so indignant were they at this disgraceful conduct .--Limeriefc Chronicle .
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Arrest of a Murderer . —On Tuesday last constable Kearney arrested a man named Murtha Walsh , on private information , at Mountbolus , for the murder of a man named Cleary , about thirty years ago , on Buckley-hill , within a mile of Tullamoore . There was also a person named Boon implicated in the transaction , and he and Walsh having absconded at the time , they had not been heard of till the present . Walsh was broaght before Dr . Wallace , fully identified , and committed to take his trial for the oSeneo . —Leinster Express .
A Packet Ship Strcck by Lightning . —By th © arrival of the packet ship Virginian , Captain Allen t at Liverpool , on Friday morning , from New York , advices have been received of the arrival at New York on the 20 tb ultimo of the American line-ofpacket-ship Toronto , Captain Bobert Griswold , which sailed from the St . Katharine's Dock oa the 27 th of January with emigrants and a general cargo of merchandise , after having been detained twontyeight daya west of the Banks in consequence of one continual gale from the west-ward . On the 1 st of
March , in a tremendous gale from the north-west , the Toronto was struck by lightning , which passed down the foremast , knocked down all hands upon deck , and iustautly killed a boy named James Col-Una . About half au hoar after the mast was struck , the electric fluid burst ten feet above the deck , the whole of which was covered with fire , but fortunately no damage was sustained . Tho American line of packet ship Ontario , Captain W . R . Bradisb , arrived at New York on the same day as the Toronto , vfer 20 th of March .
Barristers and Attorwes . —At the opening of the Doncaster Sessions , on Monday , the Recorder , Sir Gregory Lewin , intimated to the attornies present that he had received a letter the night previous , signed by two barristers—Mr . Allen , and Mr . Johnston—members ef tha Northern Circuit , in which , they said it was their intention , along with two other barristers ( Mr . Hammerton and Mr . Stapleten ) to attend these sessions regularly in future . Sir Gregory had intimated at the previous sessions , that if four barristers chose to attend , he should feel
bound by common law and the custom of the realm to give audience to the bar , to the exclusion of attornies . Mr . Fisher , on behalf of the attornies , objected to this course of procedure , and said he believed the solicitors and the suitors in the court had made up their minds never to deliver a brief to a . barrister appearing at these sessions , unless he w ? a a counsel of eome standing—seen and heard ia Westminster-hall , and at York Assizes . Mr . Hammerton , for his brother , bariaters , said it was their intention to attend regularly , and here the conversation dropped .
. Coal-Pit Explosion near . Babjwlet . —On Friday morning , shortly aftei the miners ( forty in number ) had descended the coal-pit at Darley Maine , near Harasley , the property of Messrs . Travis and Horsfal ) , an explosion of a frightful nature took place . The alarm on the occasion was exceedingly great , as it was feared that a great number of lives must have been sacrificed . Fortuntaely , however , the whole of the miners mentioned above , with , the exception of two , almsst entirely escaped injury , being when the explosion occurred in a contrary draught ; but two of their number were bo dreadfully burnt that one of
them ( called Senior ) has since died . It appears that the pit in question has not been in a working state foT some weeks past , in consequence of having been filled with water * , and thia was the first morning of the colliers resuming their labour . The cause of this sad accident was occasioned by one of the men fastening a naked candle against one of the props , and he was in the act of taking off his jacket when the draught of air produced by this movement disturbed the sulphuric gas which was lodged near the roof , and which , coming in contact with the name of the candle , iguited and caused the explosion .
The Late Hurricane at Barcelona . —Intelligence has been received of the total loss of tha schooner David , of Perth , 132 tons register , Captain M'Callum , during a hurricane , on the rocks of Barcelona . It appears , from authentic particulars * that , on the 27 th of February , as the David was discharging her cargoe at Barcelona , it came en to blow a strong breeze , from W . S . W ., when Captain M'Callum , fearful of danger , orudently hove the schooner off from the quay and although still riding at anchor , the wind having increased to a . tremendous gale , the vessel dragged her anchors , in
consequence of which she went on the rocks . Captain Al'Callum immediately applied to , and received prompt assistance from Her Majesty ' s steam-packet Geyser , then lying at Barcelona , By great and continued exertions , the David was , next morning , got off the rocks into deep water , when she was supplied with au additional anchor and hawser , from Her Majesty ' s brig Savage ; but , as the gale had now increased to a violent hurricane , fine was again driven on the rocks , although she had four anchors down , aud soon afterwards became a total wreck , the captain having only time to save part of hia clothes .
The Learned Attokney-Gesebal . —At the last meeting of the Royal Society a paper was read " On a method of proving the three leading properties of the Ellipse and Hyperbola , " by Sir Frederick Pollock . The method , though founded on a well-known property of the circle , is described to us by a very competent judge as distinguished by perfect originality , and demonstrated with great clearness and eloquence . That a good lawyer should also b * a good mathematician is nothing surprising
( for where should a first wrangler succeed if not at the bar 1 ); but that a gentleman at the head of his profession , and holding a high office of the first importance , should , amid the multifarious , arduous , and harassing duties which he has to discharge , and discharges so well as Sir Frederick Pollock does , be able to snatch a leisure hour to contribute to the philosophical transactions of kis country , and inclination so to employ it , is surprising , if not indeed without a precedent in tho history of Attorneys-General . —Mechanics Magazine .
Longevity . —A very aged couple , Joseph Sargeant and his wife , are now residing at No . 6 , Kirk ' s-yard , Belgrave-gate , in this town . The former is in his 9 Sd year , and the latter in her 89 th , and they have been married 62 years . Though so far advanced in life , the old mau still follows his occupation of a chair-mender , and may be seen walking about our streets almost daily in pursuit of business . He was a soldier for 18 years in the reign of George III ., aud during that time was in the East and West Indies , North America , aa well as in various parts of Europe . His period of service having expired while in America , he solicited his discharge from General Burgoyne . He was at this time a sergeant , and being an active steady soldier his request was reluctantly complied with , and ho returned home . This was so far back as 3783 , when , to use the
veteran ' s own jocular remark , he " quitted one service to enter upon another "—meaning that he took unto himself a wife , his present venerable partner . He remembers the north , south , and west gates of the town being removed , and also the shambles being near to Mr . Jones ' s toy-shop , and the "Gainsborough , " a building used for the administration of justice , BtandAng in front of the Lion and Dolphin Inn , Market-place . He has only been once seriously unwell during his long life , which was about fifty years ago , when an attack of fever confined him to his room for some weeks , and he now seems more robust laud energetic than many men thirty years his junior . He is an early riser , seldom remaining in bed after five o ' clock , and he says he feels more comfortable up" than in bed after that hour . — Leicester Chronicle .
The Iron Trade . —The usual quarterly meetings of the ironmasters and parties connected with the iron trade took place during the past week . The business transacted at these meetings has usually been the settlement of accounts and the making of bargains , contracts , and agreements of all kinds connected with the trade . The taking of mines and royalties of mines , the supply of coal , ironstone , and all materials in the manufacture of iron , and the prices pf carriage—these have generally been settled at the principal meetings , held on the Wednesday and Thursday , at Wolverhampton and in this town . The meetings of the last week were looked forward to with some anxiety , arising from the late
depression , not only with reference to the prospects of the trade generally , but also iu regard to the settlement of existing and current accounts . The result has shown , that notwithstanding the prevailing unfavourable impression , the engagements were met and no defaulters were reported ; and has also proved that the trade in Staffordshire and Shropshire is now in the hands of a much more substantial body of capitalists than it had been at any former period of depression . The price of pig-iron was merely nominal , as very few if any sales were made ; with regard to manufactured iron , the prices offered , being founded upon the depression of the trade , were scarcely in any instance accepted : thus again
confirming the conviction that the trade is in the hands of men of real capital , who will look fof remunerating prices . The products of the Scotch furnaces were frequently referred to by buyers as tending to the depression of the Staffordshire market , but without producing any material effect . The superiority of the Staffordshire manufactured iron was asserted and acknowledged ; and a determination , was expressed on the part of several manufacturers to adopt an improvement which has lately been introduced into some works in the neighbourhood , namely , that of running tbe iron in a heated state direct from the smelting to the paddling furnace , by which tha expense of casting into pigs and re-heating would
be saved . By this means the cost of manufactured iron will be materially reduced ; and it is probable that the determination expressed by two or three influential makers , to compete with the Scotch makers in price with the superior quality of Staffordshire iron , although it did not meet with the concurrence of the trade generally , may be not only justifiable but advantageous . The fluctuations ia the iron trade have always been great , but thepricea at this time being below the oosWAft J ? roduotipn , afford such an opportunity for spwuaiiomiQhf Jm ^**' » , ment as the-present Btate of the nK (^^ saaX * fitl £ Bfe ^ . / not fail to eneotaage . —Birming i ^ atj ^^ ltet , ' | fe ' - > ^ \ y « tf ^ % s *^* j
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1209/page/3/
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