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HOUSS OF COMMOSST TdIsday , Mahch 18 . The house met at four o ' clock . The York and North Midland ( Doncaster Extension ) Railway Bill , and the York and North Midland ( Harro gate jBranch ) Railway Bill , were each read a second time and ordered to be committed . ' Lord BpsciN moved for ' the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the present mode of assessing , levying ! and collecting the window duties in Great Britain , and to report tfieir opinion thereupon to the house . The tax was , he contended , very unequal in its pressure , the ratio of charge ^ diminishing &S the number Of windows increased ; thus reducing that ratio in proportion to the increased means / of the occupants . The Noble lord also urged various sanatory reasons applicable to large towns , to &onthB impolicy of excluding light and air Taj the operation of these taxes . ^ . Captain Rons seconded the motion .
JThe Chanceixok of the ExcHEQOEB opposed the molion for a committee of inquiry , because agreeing to it tronld be equivalent to an admission that the tax ought to be immediately repealed—a step which no Hon . Gentleman " would , under existing circumstances , think of recommending , wired it is remembered that no less than one miiTnm and a half of revenue was involved in the questiuii . Tiie dwellings of the humbler classes were altogether exempted from the operation of the tax , and wen in lod ging-houses , where it might be supposed it -would indirectly reach them , its repeal would be of little advantage , for the xentals in such houses were governed fey the circumstances of the locality , and the landlords would pocket the full amount of the remission , without rnalnTi ** the smallest redaction to their tenants . Captain Fechell , Sir C . Xapier , and Mr . E . Ellice , jun ., supported the motion .
Mr . Home regretted that the house did not appear to attach the same importance to the iBotion as it related to the health and social comforts of the labouring classes that he did . As we were now in a time of change , he thought it a proper time for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to turn his attention to the subject , and if he thought there were any chance that Government would have agreed to the motion , he would have suggested that the committee should inquire , whether the amount now levied as window duty might not be commuted or levied as a house tax . Mr . F . Babisg did not see that , in the present state of the revenue , the tax could be given up , and he would therefore oppose the motion .
Mr . Ivakixy , seeing lord Duncan rising to reply , asked whether the house was to suppose that this tax was to be given up 3 The Chancellor of the Exchequer had made a most lame excuse ior it , and nobody else had said a word for it . Was nothing to be said in behalf of it ! Then , of course , it was going to be given up . He declared his intention of voting in support of the motion for a Committee . Hit had been for a repeal of the window duties , he could not have supported it , because the house had already affirmed Sir R . Peel ' s budget for the present year . Sir 11 . Peel was sure that the house would believe him : when he said that he had not proposed the remission of : taxation contained in this budget without reviewing the ' urindovf tax , and several other taxes . He had , however , been of opinion that the remission of taxes which he had
proposed would he more advantageous to the public than the remission of the window tax . . Another Gentleman might follow and propose the remission of the soap duties , and so make a strong impression on the public mind . It would be impolitic for any Government , before it resolved -to remit any tax , to enter into a denunciation of it . Whenever a Government denounced a tax , it onght to be prepared to follow up its denunciation by a repeal of it . Sir R . Peel then proceeded to examine Mr . Hume ' s proposition for imposing a per eentag-e of 3 d . or lOd . in the pound upon every house and cottage in the country , for the purpose of making up the loss which would be occasioned to the revenue by the repeal of the window tax , and said that it would surprise the country very much
indeed if the house should adopt such a proposition in the same session in which it had imposed a property tax of 7 d . in the pound , from which it exempted all persons with incomes of less than £ 150 a year . To induce Lord Duncan not to go to a vote on this question , he would not say that he would take this subject under special consideration , but he would say that it should be taken into consideration with other taxes when , ever another remission of taxation was practicable . He could not promise at least a year before any remission of taxation could possibly be made that he would repeal any particular tax , or any portion of a particular tax . This tax had one circumstance in its favour—it was easily collected , and nearly every farthing of it came into the Exchequer .
After a tew observations from Mr . ILiwes and Colonel Sibthoip , Mr . Ddscombe hoped that Lord Duncan would follow np his motion by a division , and on the very ground laid down by the other side , that the motion for a committee -was tantamount to a motion for the repeal of the tax . His constituents wanted bo inquiry—they had no doubt of the oppressive and unequal nature of the tax . After a short reply from Lord Duncan , the House divided , when there were for the motion—, Ayes 47 Soes 93 Majority against it —i 6
Mr . G . W . Hope then rose , pursuant to notice , to move far papers relative to New Zealand , with a view to the defence of lord Stanley from the charge of having given instructions to Captain fitzroy on the eve of his departure to assume the government of that colony , in direct variance with the agreement between the Colonial Office and the New Zealand Company . The hon . Gentleman entered into a lengthened defence of the Noble Lord , drawn almost entirely from official documents and correspondence , tending to establish the fact that his Lordshp had sot committed any deception whatever , though some portion of the correspondence might have been misunderstood or misconstrued .
Mr . C . Bdues entered into a history of the transactions between the Colonial Office and the New Zealand Company , with a view to make the House , if possible , without reading the correspondence , understand the precise nature of the complaint which the company preferred against Xord Stanley . Under any circumstances the instructions of the Xoble Lord were so vague and ambiguous , and contained so many very wide and indefinite qualifications , that the company to this hour had never been able to obtain the execution of the agreement , or to obtain possession of the land to which they were entitled . The
company had laboured under a deception , and that deception sprung from no fault of their own . They had ei-ery rea-Bon to suppose that the agreement would be carried out in . one spirit , whereas it was carried out in . a . spirit vfholly the reverse of what they expected . They remained in this state of deception for a period of nine months , and all because Lord Stanley had not , according to the ordinary course of business transactions , made the company aware of the second series of instructions given to Captain Ktzroy . The hon . Member concluded by moving as an amendment , for the production of all the correspondence between Lord Staulev and tae TJew Zealand Company .
Mr . G . W . Hope said , the difficulties in Lord Stanley ' s way , arising ont of the claims of the natives , had been entirely overlooked by the hon . and Learned Member , and yet it was entirely owing to those claims that the title of the company had not been completed . After a few observations from Capt . Rice Trevo . Mr . Sheii , said , that Lord Stanley ' s construction of the agreement ( addressed to Captain ritzroj ) -was marked confidential , and this word was afterwards carefully erased . He wished to know why such a word should have been written on a public document , forming an agreement between two parties ! Why was one of those parties , the New Zealand Company , Kept in ignorance of instructions given by the other party , Lord Stanley to Captain Fitzroy , who was acting for both ? They might quote the words of one of the New Zealand chiefs , who said to some of the settlers , " speak your words as you mean , but do not speak one tiling and mean another , " words which he ( Mr . Sheil ) said should he written in letters of gold in the Colonial Office . The Soiicxtob-Gexebai referred to various portions of the correspondence , in « rder to prove that there had been no breach of faith whatever on the part of Lord Stanley . After some observations from Mr . Hutt , Captain Bods contended that every step taken with -regard td New Zealand was opposed to equity as regarded the rights of the natives . Lord Ihgestbe said the whole affair originated in a misunderstanding , which , however , was a fetal one to the company . Mr . leuoNBT professed Ills inability io understand the szplanation of Mr . Hope . Sir K . Peel said the impression left upon his mind by the discusaou was , that Mb Koble Nriend ( Lord Stanley )' had neither deceived the New Zealand Company intentionally nor otherwise . That the House shared in that impression he inferred from the fact that of the few Members on the Opposition benches , who staid to listen to the debate , three out of four were members of the New Zealand Company . It should not be forgotten that Lord Stanley was placed in a peculiar position as the natural protector of the rights of the natives , which it became his duty to guard against infringement ; and the House would also bear in mind , that after the company was perfectly aware of all that had taken place , they addressed a letter to MsKobleFriend , in which ' they stated that they placed the whole affair under consideration in his hands with the most perfect reliance ;_ and yet they now said that his breach of faith was so great that it was impossible to liold cf > mTmiTi * mHfm Tviih him . Mr . Agmojtbt explained that the word " confidential , " and its erasure , had given a stronger colour of deception to the facts previously known . ' After some observations from Mr . Mangles , Capt . Bice Trevor , Mr . C . Buller , Mrl M . Milnes , and Sir B . Peel , the motion was agreed to ' .. "'
MOTECTIOS OF WOSKS OP AS . T . The SoucrroB-GEKEBAL' stated , that he had prepared abOlontHis subject ^ the necessity for which had been recently forced upon them in a very striking manner by the destruction of the ' Portland ; vase at the British Musenm . The matter was one of great importance , but he ^ Id no l propose in' the then condition of the House" to do more tfcau simply move for leave to bring in a bill for tae protection of property contained in public museums , galleries , cabinets , libraries , and other public repositories , from ¦ malicious injuries ! ' ( Hear , hear . ) -- ¦ . "' ¦ The tor was rpad a first time , and the second reading was « pp < Sm ^ aft * Tbjuriday . ¦; The Souse then' adjourned . ¦; - /¦ - ¦ ' - ¦ :-X .. - . ? : > h . ¦ . ' -
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- ~ — Wednesday , Mabch 19 . In reply to a question from Mr . Aldam , Sir K . Puei , expressed his . regret that the President of the United States should have made the treatment of slaves captured by the English the subject of a message to Congress ; but if the President would appoint a commission to inquire into the subject , there existed every disposition to give all the requisite information as to the condition of the liberated slaves . The message asserted that the captured negroes were subjected to an apprenticeship in the West Indies for a term of years . This was
a mistake arising from the treaty with Spain in 1835 , which contained provisions by which the captured negro was placed on the same footing as an apprentice ; since then , however , the system of apprenticeship had ceased , and the captured negro , on being landed in the West Indies , was in the same condition as a freeman . With respect to another portion of the message , which alleged that British capital was employed in the Blare trade , he must say that he was not prepared to deny the accusation ; but he hoped that Parliament would be able to reach and remedy the eviL CAPTAIN WABNEB ' S LONG BANGE . In reply to a question from Mr . Somes , respecting Captain Warner ' s long range , Lord Ingesthe read a letter from Capt . Warner , stating that he had no wish for another inquiry , not expecting a favourable result ; but he adhered to his undertaking to Wow up , at his own expense , a line-of-battle ship at a distance of five miles , restricting the spectators of the details of the experiment to the Prime Minister , the Commander in Chief , and certain other official personages . Sir C . Napier asked if the Government would not allow Captain Warner to try this experimeot at his own expense ? SirR . Pjeel said he had received a great number of letters from individuals , offering to blow up line-of-battle ships on much more reasonable terms than those proffered by Captain Warner . If , however , Captain Warner was reall y in earnest , he would advise him to apply to the Master General of the Ordnance , from whom his proposition might receive favourable consideration .
THE NEW TABIFF , The House then went into committee on the Customs Acts . Mr . Bbamston moved , that the article of grease be omitted from the remission of duties proposed by the resolutions of Sir R . Peel , and that the old duty be retained . His reason for making this motion was , that butter would be introduced under the title of grease . Sir 3 . Tybeli , seconded the amendment . Sir G . CtEBK observed that grease , in the language of the Custom-house , meant butter so damaged that it could not be used as human food . Before it could be landed it must be mixed with tar . It was then used for smearing sheep . The reduction of the duty was absolutely a benefit to the agricultural interest . ' ,
Mr . Wabd said there was something grand in a comprehensive monopoly , hut such paltry , dirty , contemptible monopolies as those which were about to be repealed , were calculated to reduce the bold barons and aristocracy of England to a level with area sneaks . After some discussion , Mr , Bramston said he would not divide the house , and the motion was negatived without a division . . . . Mr . Serjeant MoBPnr moved , that tanned bides , in the first stage of manufacture , should be omitted . Be made this motion in consequence of a representation from a numerous body of his constituents . ' " Sir R . Peel advocated the retention of this article in the tariff , and gave his testimony to the superiority of English tanned leather over that of every other country . ' . Mr . Serjeant Mubpht was on the point of withdrawing his motion , when ' Mr . Long supported it , and expressed his intention of dividing upon it .
A division took place ; immediately before it Mr . Serjeant Murphy quitted the house . The numbers were—For the amendment 27 Against it ... ... ... ... ... 73 Majority ... —16 On coming to the article of lard , Mr . Gbogan moved that it be omitted from the list . Lard could be produced in foreign countries so cheap and so good , that it must drive all other lard , be it Irish or British , from the home market . Colonel Windham regretted to perceive his agricultural friends imitating the members for the manufacturing districts , by starting up every moment with these claims of
exemption from the remission of the protective duties . There were three Parliaments sitting outside the walls of that house—the Conciliation humbug in Dublin , the Covent-gardeu League , and the little House of Commons in Bond-street , issuing its edicts to the representatives of the agricultural interest , which was an unwarrantable liberty . He declined , at their dictation , to vote for the motion of Mr . Miles ; nor would he he dictated to while he continued a member of that house by a society where a certain noble duke pulled the strings and moved all the "little goes . " The agriculturists , like Polyphemus , had but one eye , and could see nothing but a turnip field , instead of being able to take a comprehensive view of the general interests of the country .
Lord A . Lennox thought that such sentiments would not be very grateful to the hon . gentleman ' s constituents . Mr . Wabd applauded the speech of Colonel Wyndham , and expressed his contempt , in the parliamentary sense of the word , for the paltry , peddling opposition to the measures of Sir R . Peel , offered by the agriculturists . Sir J . Ttbell said , that the advocates of free trade proceeded on the principle that ever } - man was justified in keeping up the protection for his own pig . The hon . member for Wolverhampton held an office in the Court of Chancery . That office might be a sinecure , and might have alargc salary attached to it , andyet if offered for open competition , people might be found who would perform the duties for £ 500 a year for which he was paid perhaps £ 1000 .
Mr . ViMJEBS could not see what the office he held in the Court of . Chancery had to do with protection to agriculture . He worked for what he received from the public , whereas the landholders taxed the people in order to enrich themselves . Sir E . Peel deprecated such personalities , and . maintained that hon . members on his side of the house had a right to bring forward any propositions which they might think calculated to benefit their constituents . Lord J . Russell said , if the agriculturists were disposed to act intelligibly , they would at once either suricnder the principle of protection altogether , or otherwise resolutely stand by it both in and out of Parliament . Mr . Gladstone defended the reduction of lard , not because it made a reduction in the price of an article of food , but because it entered largely into consumption as a raw material of trade . Mr . Gbog&n then withdrew his amendment .
On coming to the art icle of rosin , Sir W . James asked the Committee to proceed gradually with the reduction of the duty or this article , and to retain a shilling duty upon it . Sir G . Clebk contended that the turpentine distillers of Hull had no reason to feel any alarm at the proposed reduction of duty on this article . Sir W . James , after a short speech from Mr . Gladstone , withdrew his amendment . On coming to the article of thrown silk , Mr . T . Egebton objected that the reduction of the duty on this article would be very injurious to the silk throwsters , and would give a bounty to the foreign manufacturer .
Sir G . CtEBK defended the reduction , on the ground that the silk trade had flourished and increased undr the successive reductions of the duty which had taken place on this artiole , although the parties engaged in the trade had regularly predicted that each reduction would be its ruin . Since the last reduction of the duty the importation of raw silk had steadily increased . After a few words from Mr . Grimsditch , Mr . S trutt gave his support to the proposition of Government , and read a memorial from the silk-throwsters of Derby , in which they declared their readiness to give up the protection which they enjoyed at present . He trusted that their example would be followed by other protected interests .
Mr . Banks observed , that whatever might have been the beneficial result in other places of reducing the protection given to thrown silk , it had been very prejudicial in Dorsetshire and Somersetshire . Before the last reduction , there were two silk-manufactories in Sherborne ; now there was only one , and that must be abandoned if this reduction were carried . There was also a silkmanufactory at Ilminster , but , as he understood , it was declining . SirR . Peel also considered that the alarms fait by some penons engaged in the silk trade were visionary , and read several returns , for the purpose of showimg that the quantity of raw silk imported since the reductions made in the silk duties in 1 S 35 had increased from fifteen millions to thirty-seven millions of pounds , and that the quantity of thrown silk had diminished from 3 , 608 , 000 lb . to 2 , 300 , 000 lb . If the silk trade had failed at Sherhorne and elsewhere , it was owing to local causes , over which Government had no control .
Mr . Laboucbebe said that there was no article of manufacture as to which predictions of ruin from reduction of duties had been so completely falsified as in the ease of silk . He believed that the changes now proposed , which met with his support , would he equally beneficial to those engaged in manufactures with the previous ones . The state of the silk duties was such as to cry aloud for revision . An alteration could not but be beneficial to the revenue itself , for now all the advantage was reaped by the smuggler , to whom some of the duties offered a premium of fifty per cent ., although nominally of only fifteen percent . . ..
Mr . Brocklehuiist said , if the smuggler had henefitted by the duties , no seizures had been heard of . The loss to the revenue seemed rather to have been in the Customhouse . They would not , by reducing the duty on thrown Bilk , obtain all the advantage they expected ; and , so far from the looms in this country bring stimulated , they would be in a worse position than they were now , because they "would encourage the silk trade abroad . Mr . Hume said , he had visited the silk establishments of France and Belgium , and also that of the hon . gentleman who hadjust spoken , and he must say , that he had seen none so perfect as the hist . He was , therefore , surprised to hear the opinion of the hon ; gentleman upon the present proposal of the Government . He thought that the 'Government oug ht to have removed the duty from manufactured silks altogether . He feared that his hon . friend , being . a th rowster was biassed by . Jui profits . against the interests of the general manufacturer . ( Alautrh . ) ; . :: . ¦ .- " ¦
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with whom they were entering into competition , he was quite convinced that distress of the most appalling character would visit almost every department of our manui factures . " Place his constituents- on an equality with regard to the price of provisions with the artisans of other countries , and they would not want protection . Their industry was equal , ay , superior to the industry of any people ; but , having to pay half their wages in taxation and for the support of the aristocracy , they could not compete with foreigners . The Government should reduce the taxesnot only on bread , hut on other articles which were equally essential for the comforts of life . He expressed a hope that her Majesty ' s Government would pause before they took into consideration the recommendation of the hon . member for Montrose to abolish the duty upon manufactured silk , by which trade , according to the statement of the hon . member for Whitehavcn , 800 , 000 persons obtained their livelihood . He >' was a free trader , but not one of those who would take away the bread of 800 , of his fellow-countrymen , women ; and children , and give it to foreigners , for the sake of carrying out any particular scheme . ' . .... .. After a few words from Dr . Bo wring and Hr . Brocklehurst , in exolanation , the nailery was cleared for a
division . The numbers were , — ¦ For the repeal of the duty 85 Against it ... ••• ... 26 Majority —59 The other articles of the tariff were then agreed to . The resolutions were then ordered to be reported to the house . The house resumed , and the report was forthwith agreed to . The house then resolved itself into a . Committee of Supply , and in the committee two votes , amounting to £ 140 , 000 , were then granted to the Ordnance Department . The house resumed , and immediately afterwards adjourned . Thursday- , March 20 . The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock . Mr . Doncombe gave notice that he should , on the 8 th of April , move for leave to bring in a bill for securing letters from being opened at the Post-office .
HATN 60 TH COLLEGE . Mr . Wabd said he held in his hand a motion of which he intended to give notice , but before he did so he would wish to ask the right hon . baronet at the head of her Majesty ' s Government a question , namely , whether it was not customary , in moving for a money grant , such as that of the proposed grant to Maynooth , to first bring it before a committee of the whole' house . ' SirR . Peel said the hon . member opposite was correct ; such was the course pursued by the house in all cases of motions for money grants , and such certainly was the course he intended to adopt in reference to his motion for the increased grant to Maynooth . . Mr . Wabd then begged to give notice that he would , at the time it was most fitting to do so , move that all further money grants for the purposes of religion be made out of the funds at present appropriated for the maintenance of the Protestant Episcopal Church . ( Hear , hear . ) , Mr . Dennistoun wished to know whether it was the intention of the Governmentto support a measure for preventing burial in towns , and whether that was intended to be extended to burghs in Scotland ? Sir J . Gbaham was not prepared to prevent interment in towns . Mr . Mobbison , in a speech of some length , in which he contended that the public ought to have the benefit of railway travelling at as cheap a rate as was compatible with the present reduced rate of outlay , movod the following resolutions : — "That it is the duty of Parliament , in giving its sanction to the establishment of new railways , to render them the means of affording to the public the best and safest communication , and the greatest possible amount of accommodation , at the lowest possible rqtcs . " " That for this purpose every committee on a Railway Bill , in the present or any future session of Parliament , shall report a table of fees and charges , the lowest which they shall judge to be consistent under the circumstances of each case , with a fair and reasonable return for the capital to be invested . " Mr . Wabbueton seconded the motion , and briefly supported the view taken by the mover . . Lord Granville Somerset was opposed to the motion in its present form . He did not , however , object to the principle of the resolutions , but thought the object sought to be obtained could be had by an alteration of the standing orders of the house with respect to railways . Lord Howick also supported the motion , and expressed himself in favour of a system by which the railways of the country might be made to revert to the Government for the benefit of the public . SirRoBEBT Peel thought it was not advisable to interfere with railway projects , as proposed to be done by the resolutions . He did not think it would be safe to meddle with the fares of railway companies , further than to compel them to run third-class trains at a low rate on . each line , so as to secure ample accommodation for the poorer classes . Mr . Demustouu and Mr . S . Wortley having briefly spoken , the motion was , by consent , withdrawn . i Some routine business having been gone through , the orders of the day were disposed of , and the house adjourned till Monday , the 31 st . The Fibst Good Act passed this Session . —Parliament adjourned on Thursday for a week , —Punch .
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MANSION HOUSE . Satdbdat . —Stolen Notes and Bank Post Bills . — William Day and John Johnson were brought before the Lord Mayor , charged by Mrs . Catherine Maxwell Logan , a lady of fortune ( who was accommodated with a seat on the bench ) , with being in iUegalpossession of some stolen notes . The case had been partly heard on Monday , and adjourned to this day . Mrs . Logan stated that on the 14 th ult . she went to the banking-house of Messrs . Smith , Payne , and Smith , and in exchange for an order obtained two Bank Post Bills for £ 100 each , and twenty-five £ 5 Bank of England notes , and on her arrival home she discovered she had lost them . —Mr . Wm . May , ( an accountant ) deposed , that he went to the house of Mrs . Logan , on the 21 st ult ., and obtained the numbers of the
lost notes ; the two notes produced arc a portion ot them . The prisoners , it appeared , bad gone to the shop of Mr , Morris , tailor , of 76 , Cheapside , and purchased a wrapper and vest , for which they paid SA 13 s ., tendering a £ 5 note , and receiving one shilling in change . The prisoner Day then asked change'for another £ 5 note , which excited the suspicion of Mr . Morris , and he despatched a messenger to the Bank of England . In the meantime the prisoners walked out of the shop , . and were again professing to admire the surrounding building ; at length a clerk from the Bank of England arrived , accompanied by Henry Montagan , an officer of the City police force , and the notes having been proved to
be stolen , the prisoners were given into custody . —Mr . Robinson , a solicitor , who appeared on behalf of the accused , said , his clients were highly respectable men . They had come in possession of the notes in the legitimate way of business , namely , by the sale of a horse in Smithfiold market . The officers of the detective force had closely examined the defendants , and admitted that they knew nothing of them . Under these circumstances he appealed to remand the case until Wednesday next , in order that he might have the opportunity of calling witnesses who would place his client's innocence beyond doubt . —The prosecutor acquiesced in this arrangement , and the case was remanded accordingly .
GUILDHALL . Satpbdat . —the " Hbie-at-Law" Society Ahaix , — Mr . Williams , whose name has figured recently before the public in connection with the Heir-at-Law Society , applied to Sir Peter Laurie for a copy of the depositions taken in a recent case of a man named Joseph Bridges , who had summoned the secretary of this Society for taking between two and three pounds of his money , on the plea of finding a register of certain names % vhich were required to recover a sum of money that the complainant alleged he was heir to . Mr . Williams . also wanted to know the date of the summons , and : who had taken it out , as he was given to understand that it had been issued without the consent of the ' party whose name it bore . —Sir Peter Laurie intimated that the
applicant might hare a copy of the depositions at auy | time he pleased ; but with respect to the summons being issued without the consent of the applicant , he did not believe it was so . It was never the practice of the court to act in such a manner . Bridges had called upon him in his private room , before the summons was taKeil Out , and there denounced , in very strong terms , the Heir-at-Xaw Society , for the treatment which he had received at their hands . In fact , it was with the greatest difficulty that ho ( Sir P . Laurie ) had been able to get rid of the man . With respect to the proceedings of the Society , he had that day issued a fresh summons against it , and another tribunal would have to adjudicate upon the conduct of its managers . He was only sorry
. that the directors were not known , that they : might be brought to account for the charges which * had been brought against the Society . Sir Peter Laurie then asked Williams very pointedly , who the direetors were ? Williams : I decline to answer tbat question , or go into the subject . They are respectable men , and do not like to have their names paraded iu the police report , Sir P . Laurie : Where is the Secretary , Ross ?—On the applicant refusing to answer this question , Sir Peter Laurie said he believed he knew very well where he was ; in fact , he was in " Surrey , " as they called it ; or , in plain language , in the Queen ' s Bench . —Williams aftertvarda withdrew . The fresh summons will come on for hearing either on Monday or Tuesday naxt .
Robbery of Plate . —William King and William Todd , who had been remanded from Thursday , were brought up for final examination , on the charge of stealing fifty ounces of plate from the house of Mr . Thomas , No . 8 , Thavies-inn . About twelve o'clock on last Wednesday , the servant ' girl had gone out on an errand , and left the door ajar . During her absence the prisoners , who were on the look-out , went in , there being no person in the house , ana abstracted the plate . They'Were subsequently detected trying to sell it . The prisoners were fully committed to take their trial at the Central Criminal Court .
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' i the boy into , his service from charity , his parents being exceedingly desirous that he should have something to do , ; Ori Wednesday last he ( Mr . Pratt ) sent the boy to make a purchase , and gave him a sovereignfor that purpose . Instead of executing the errand , it appeared that he went and spent the money . When taken into custody there was only lid . of the sovereign found on' him . A police-constable stated that the boy had already been convicted and imprisoned five or six times for offences of this kind , and thus he appeared to be perfectly hardened , ! His parents did not know , what to do with him . The father of the boy stepped forward , and entered into a long statement of the boy ' s delinquencies , , stating that he had tried every means of reforming him , but without success —The prisoner was remanded . . ' "
MARYLEBONE . S ATOBDAT .. Begging . — 'William Bothroyd , a tall powerful man , attired in the garb of an agricultural labourer , was charged before Mr . Long with the atrocious crime of being in a state of destitution and of begging in the public streets . —A policeman in private clothes found the defendant soliciting alms in Berldey-street at ten o ' clock this morning . He was going from shop to shop , telling a mournful tale of his distresses . He took him . into custody , when the defendant stated that he was driven to
that course af livelihood by distress . —In answer to questions from Mr . Long , he stated that he came up from Mirfield , near Iiuddersfield , about a month ago . Soon after he came here he became unwell , and was obliged to go into Westminster Hospital , where he remained for three weeks . He came up to London in the expectation of obtaining employment , where a dock is in the course of being made . His intention was to make his way back to his native place as soon as possible . — Mr . Long gave him a shilling to help him on his way . —The defendant thanked him , and withdrew .
Tuesdat , —Novel and Extensive System of Robbery . —A tall , respectable-looking young man , who gave his name John Parish , was placed at the bar before Mr . Rawlinson , upon the following charges of robbery : —Henry Flood , a lad in the service of Mr . Giblett , butcher , Bond-street , deposed that on . Tuesday , the 11 th . inst ., he went out on horseback as usual to deliver meat to hia master ' s customers and collect orders , and amongst the houses he called at was Sir George Murray ' s , 5 , Belgrave-square . On making his egress therefrom , he found that the horse which lie had left standing opposite the area gate while he went into the kitchen had disappeared . lie ( witness ) returned home as speedily as possible , and made Mr . Giblettacquaiated with , what liad occurred .
The horse had since been restored , but the saddle and bridle had not . —Cheshire , 188 , D , stated that in consequence of information which had been given at the station-house , relative to a person who was supposed to have committed the above and other robberies , he imagined that the prisoner , who was his lodger , at 3 * , St . John ' s-place , Lisson-grove , . answered the description of the thief , and accordingly on the previous night he ( witness ) took him into custody , on suspicion of being the guilty party . On being told that he was charged with stealing a horse of Mr . Giblett , he said that he knew nothing about any horse , except one which he had bought ofa man in the Uxbridge-voad , and that soon after tlie purchase thereof he ( Drisonerl had "swanned" it away
to a man named John Mbnkhouse . —John Monkhouse stated that he was a butcher's carrier , and that on the previous Tuesday ( the day of the robbery ) , as he was proceeding with his horse and cart along the New-road , he met the prisoner on horseback ; witness had some difficulty in getting his horse along , owing to its not liking the collar , when the prisoner offered to exchange his animal for the other , upon condition that £ 1 should be given to him in the bargain ; This having been agreed to and the money naid , the prisoner saddled witness ' s horse as soon as it was taken from the cart , its place in the vehicle being supplied by that from which he ( prisoner ) hadjust alighted , Sometime after the prisoner was gone , witness fancied that the horse ho had got
possession of was one which he had often seen driven by persons in the employ of Mr . Giblett ; and on his meeting one of his ( Mr . G . ' s ) men on the following Friday , he ascertained from him that the animal was the identical one which had been stolen . Witness had since given it up . —Mr . Rawlinson : Did you know the prisoner prior to your having this dealing with him I—Witness : T had seen Mm before . He told me he brought the horse from Bristol , and had ridden it from ten miles below Windsor , on the morning of the Tuesday when I met him . —Cheshire , the constable , produced a saddle and bridle , which he found under the prisoner ' s bed . The articles were identified as being Mr . Giblett ' s property . —Jacocks , 81 D , said that about two years ago the prisoner
was tried tor stealing a set ot harness , and suffered six months' imprisonment ibr the offence . —A second charge was then gone into . —Joseph Jackson , in the employ of Mr . James Cover , a Butcher , in Southstreet , Berkeley-square , deposed that on Friday , the 28 th ult ., he went out with a horse and cart , and called at the Marquis of Lansdowne's in the square ; he was not absent more than five minutes , during which time he was waiting for orders , and on making his egress from the mansion by the area steps , he was surprised to find that both horse and cart were gone . t-A man named Walpole identified the prisoner as having been seen by him lurking about in front of
the marquis ' s residence a few minutes before the robbery was discovered . — Cheshire , the constable , further stated that , in addition to the saddle and bridle before referred to , he found under the prisoner ' s bed a smock-frock and a blue coat , such as were usually worn by butchers . 81 D , said . that on the night after the robbery he found the cart standing in a mews in Copland-street , Lisson-grove , and it was ^ now in the owner ' s possession . Numerous robberies of a similar description have within the last few months taken place , and in order to afford time for further inquiry the prisoner was remanded till Tuesday next .
MARLBOROUGH-STREET . Tuesday . —A Desperate Riot . —Francis Nix , Edward Ford , John Shephard , and John Shaw , were put to the bar , charged with having violently assaulted and beaten several persons in the Royal Tar publichouse , Pitt-street , Tottenham-coiirt-road . It appeared that about half-past four o ' clock on Monday afternoon Shaw and Shephard went into the tap-room of the Pitt ' s Head , and interfered rudely with seme persons who were playing at dominoes . This interference was resented , and the result was that Shaw and Shephard began to fight with the persons with whom they had interfered . Shaw and Shephard were put out of the house , but in a very short time they returned , accompanied bv a sane of their comrades .
and commenced a violent and indiscriminate attack on all persons in the house . —Francis Mozer proved tfiat he was merely drinking a glass of ale at the bar , when the defendants and others rushed into the house , and he was immediately knocked down . The man who assaulted him ran out of the house , but he followed him into Cumberland-street , where he was again assaulted by others of the party , and severely beaten . —David York proved that he had been beaten by the defendants ana their party . —Henry Thompson , William Thompson , Stephen Silmere , and William Best , also proved that they had received ill usage from the defendant and his party , without cause or provocation . —The landlord , Mr . Garter , said he
interfered to keep the peace , but he was struck b ; several of the party .. His wife was also knockei down by one of them . —The defence of the partie was , 'that they met Shaw and Shephard in the street bleeding , and on being told by those defendants tha they had been assaulted in the Royal Tar public-house they offered to accompany them to the house to gei the names of the parties who had assaulted them , ii order that assault warrants might be procured . Whei they got to the public-house they were all assaulted and they merely defended themselves . —Mr . Maltb was satisfied that the defendants had acted violent and unjustifiably , and accordingly fined Nix , Ford and Shephard £ 5 , or two months , and John Shv £ 3 . er six weeks' imprisonment .
WORSHIP-STREET . Tuesday . — Ferocious Assault . — John Purcell , a powerful journeyman blacksmith , and his wife , Emma PurcelJ , were charged with violently assaulting and endangering tne life of a police-constable of the H division , named William Sparks , at the house of Mr . ' Stainbury , a beershop-keepcr , in Old Montague-street , Whitechapel . — It appeared from the evidence , that at ien o ' clock on the preceding' evening the prisoners , in company with other disorderly characters , entered the house in a riotous manner , and proceeded upstairs to the club-room , where they demanded refreshment . While the landlord was considering whether he would execute the order , he ieard the fall of some heavy body on the floor of
the room above , and ongoing up found the female prisoner lying on the ground , and the male prisoner standing over her and ill-treating and kicking her in the most brutal manner . Mr . Stainbury forced the male prisoner away from the Woman , whom he assisted on to her feet ; and in return was instaatly assailed by the prisoner and his companions with such violent and threatening language , the former declaring that he would dash Ills brains out , that he was compelled to retreat down stairs . Thither he was followed by the whole of the party , and the male prisoner , seizing a quart pot , dealt him > blow on the head with it . A struggle ensued , and he succeeded In westlne the pot out of the prisoner ' s hand , but was instantly cnocked down by him , and the wife , to whom he had but just before rendered such ' signal service , actively assisted her husband , and rushing at him like a
tigress , bit torn severely in the arm . His cries for help at length reached the ears of the policeman Sparks , , who entered the house ; but he had no sooner made his appearance , than he was also knocked down by the prisoner , two of whose companions lacked him with savage violence arid trampled upon his body . One of tke party , a cabman named Barnett , then ran into the road and returning » ith a large granite stone struck the officer , as £ e was freeing Himself from Jus assailants and rising from the ground , a terrible blow on the back of the head with it , which Md ° C u t { f w ^ nd in the skull , covered him with blood , and rendered him totally insensible for more ; than ten minutes . As he was . returning to a state of . consciousness , M'Mitchin and several other constables , who had been sent for , arrived , and s ecurea the two prisoners , after a violent resistance , '
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but the rest of the party succeeded in effecting their escape . The injuries the officer Sparks had sustained were of so serious a nature that the divisional surgeon « was < of » opinion he-would . beJbr , a . longtime wholly unfit for duty , and that should erysipelas supervene , which was ' very probable , he might lose his fife . —The stone the witness was struck with was produced in court . It was a large jagged piece of granite , about nine inches long , five in width , and the same in thickness , and altogether such a formidable instrument that it was wonderful the officer had escaped death . —In answer to the charge , the male prisoner said , that having had a quarrel with his wife , the landlord had interfered with them in the first instance ^ in an uncalled- fo r manner , and that all tliA siiKs ^ nnnVit violence eomnlained of liad been
perpetrated by the other men who had escaped , he himself having had little or nothing to do with it . —Mr . Bingham had very great doubts whether he ought not to remand the prisoner till the other man who had inflicted such serious injuries upon the constable , and for whose apprehension he should order a warrant to be instantly issued , was in custody , and then send the whole of them for trial at the sessions ; but , as it had not been clearly proved that the prisoners had positively incited the man Barnett to the commission of the brutality he had been guilty ot , he should , on consideration , deal with the case summarily , and order the male prisoner to be committed to the House of Correction for one month with hard labour , without the infliction of a fine , and the woman to undergo a fortnight ' s imprisonment .
CLERKENWELL . Wednesday . —The "Burial Ground ^ bisance " Again . —A poor woman entered the court in a state of great affliction , and in an earnest manner besought the assistance of the magistrate . She said her name was Harrictte Jesse Nelson , that she lived at No . 3 , Cross-court , Vinegar-yard , Drury-lane ; that she was a widow , and earned her bread by working as a laundress , had three children , and was in very destitute circumstances . Having read an account of the revolting occurrences alleged to have taken place in SpafieWs burial ground in' the newspapers , shfe be came greatly alarmed lest the remains of her poor husband , which had been interred there on the 23 rd of March , 1842 , should have been removed from the grave in which she had seen them placed . She
further learned from the newspapers that Mr . Bird , one of the managers of thegraveyard , 'bad publicly ottered to open any grave , and show the relatives of deceased persons interred there that the remains had not been disturbed . She accordingly went to the burialground on Monday week , saw Mr . Bird , and asked him to open her husband ' s grave . He declined , saying , ' * That ground had not been opened for fifteen years . " She went over , pointed out the spot , and begged of him to open it , but he replied ,: " It shall not be opened , " and then walked away . —Mr . Combe : Were you at the funeral ?—The Woman , crying ; Oh , yes ; I was at the funeral with my three children . It was a wet wintry day , so I could not see exactly how deep the grave was , nor how the coffin was laid . I lingered about the crave on Monday week until one
of the gravcTdiggers came , and I asked him to open the grave for me : he skid he would , but had scarcely begun , when Mr . Bird came up , and said to me , " I told you the ground was not to be . opened , " and sent the man away . I followed Mr . Bird down the churchyard , and again entreated of him to show me my husband ' s coffin , but he replied , "You have got teeth to dig a grave yourself . " I went back to the grave again , and having seen three men near the churchyard , and not connected with it , I asked them to dig the grave ; they said they would . The first man had not been more than a minute at work , when the stench became so intolerable that lie was obliged to leave off ; the second and third tried consecutively , but the smell became so intolerable , that thev were obliged to quit the place . —Mr .
Combe : How soon did the stench issue ? - —The Woman : The very first shovelful they threw up . A fourth man took up the spade , but he too was driven away by the smell . I asked him what the charge was ? He said a pot ot beer , and I gave him my last 3 d . to get it . I went the next day again , and made the same request of Mr . Bird . He took down my name and address , and said he would write to me on the following Friday , but I never since heard from him . I forgot to state that Mr . Bird" told me that Superintendent Macey , of the G division , had given directions that no more graves should be opened . —Mr . Macey : I gave no such directions . —The Woman : On the Sunday after my husband was buried , I went to the graveyard with my children , and found the grave in which he had been buried , open . Tasked the grave-digger to allow me to see the coffin of my husband ; but lie said there was
another coffin in the way , and that he could not do so . _ Myself and my children went every Sunday during the summer to see the grave ; at length my children became dangerously ill , which plunged me into such distress , that I have not recovered from it yet . Mr . Wakeling , vestry-clerk of Clerkenwell parish , said he attended there on behalf of tke parish , knowing the . woman was about to make the statement . It appeared that the managers of this graveyard had , by an . advertisement in a weekly newspaper , expressed their readiness to open the graves at the request of relatives of persons interred there . They had not complied with this advertisement , but had opened a whole batch of graves about ten days ago , which were still open , and from which a steuch issued that was diffusing itself over the whole neighbourhood . Mr . Macey never had given any such directions , and the advertisement was inserted as a means for tlio defence to tlie indictment which , the parish would assuredly prefer against them at tlie ensuing sessions . It might be said that the statements in the newspapers regarding this place were of arevolting character , but facts ten times more revolting relative to this place had come to his knowledge . He had evidence to show that the corpses were tumbled out of the coffins in heaps , and thrown upon a mound of clay , then beaten and chopped up with the clay , and when compounded together the whole was thrown to the bottom of a pit dug for the purpose . —Mr . Superintendent Macey : I went to the graveyard a few days ago , and the smell was so intolerable that I could not remain more than a few minutes in it . The effluvia was dreadful , and Mr . Bird himself said ho could hardly stay in the ground . Sixty graves Mere open . One man , in looking for the remains of his child , struck Ms pick-axe into a coffin , and its contents poured out m a thick fluid state , emitting the most horrible smell . These graves had not been opened at the request of the relatives , but opened on speculation , in order tc pacify the relatives of deceased persons . —Mr . Combe said , the mode adopted by the managers of the place was most unsatisfactory Jo the relatives of the deceased , as well as most pernicious in its consequences . The magistrate directed that Mr . Vinall should be communicated with forthwith , and humanely directed a small sum from tlie poor-box to be given to the poor woman , who left the court in the deepest affliction .
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prisoner liad possessed any otheT ^ a ^ ^ 777 to nflict the wounds on the head of Del " .. ' . ^ in his favour , so far as negatiSiE ) m ^ would indeed , have , some . &S ^ fWV . H * other , though minuter , parts of the pv $ ' -fining him ; but the line . « f g& 2 fet £ ? 3 H would be supported bv several of tlm ;! ^ cntl ( " «; d that have been adduced iaiSt llim Cir cuni 8 taucc 3 Shocking Affair at Whittinoioh ' — On ti -, morning , about ten o ' clock the village onyhitW two miles from Chesterfield , was the scene of gton * excitement , in consequence of the runS fe *' Mrs . Green who res des there , hadTe " tL f murdered or had committed suicide 1 > ¦ , n beca shortly before the hour named , she hid jSP " that . several neighbours to enter the ! JSfoM SOen ^ premises , leading one of her grand-rlii'll ¦ own nand , and holding the other End toZ >' One of the neighbours going to the place cl ,,- - Mrs . frWftn rnn ininnr nnnn n , u _ . ? . W SUClnnn / 6 .
Ceding irofus 7 iy " fr ^ a % S Zffl " 5 throat . She was unable to si > 5 > h ' m i ] * at once given , and a inessenn-L V- c a , ' m was Chesterfielt for medical af |^ LdtSEI * 5 ^ to arrived Inayery short time inif lift . ° " ""' o ton before his arrival . The wound icxcVrtfn i f Ilct and deep , extending from " ^ *^ oesophagus and jugular vein were nartiill 7 r * lhc and the carotid artery was laid bare ™ SL T ' < cut . A razor marked with bloodwas fOlI J j" ^ ' the hearth ; the deceased appeared to lm ? ° cleaning the hearthstone . It is stat ed thit \ i eci 1 seen to run out of her house , holdimr her if , i 83 her throat , and to go to the door of thi , o 5 s to Magpie public-house , and then to a neiVhhn , ^' house , but it appears that she failed to £ 5 ? " * person hear her . Her house adjoins that ol'BSJf yi-law , . Joseph Hawskley , and it is staled tw i " le
d" ^ ed We time Hfa . IiSleH Sf * out shortly before , and a boy agcd sLvvM , ^ s S ° , Green , a grand-son of the deceased , who W J' ^ with , her , having been sent away fromherho , » « the same morning . The farm belonged toZ ^ ceased Mrs . Green , of whom Hawkslev lield it tenant . Many disputes have arisen bet ween M « Green and her son-in-law of late , and it is notions since they appeared before the magistrates , on whJ occasion Mrs . Green applied for Hawksley to !» bound over to keep the peace . The application rm refused by the magistrates , who reprimanded | ji parties . At the same tune , a son of tne deceased ffno fined for wilfully damaging a plough belongintru Hawksley . The origin of the melancholy affair of Thursday last is at present a mystery . ' Deceased in
was gooQ neaiin ana spirits at eleven oh WetW day night ; previous to which hour Hawkslev Z tempted to force his way into her house , but wm prevented by Sidney Green , her son . Hawkslev states , wo learn , that on the Thursday mornin . r he immediately went towards his house , ' thinkiniMW some of his children had set their clothes on fire ju he approached he saw his mother-in-law run outV her house , holding her hands to her throat . I ,, ^ i , ^ to his own door he mot her , and immediately sent a boy for assistance . The statement of one of tlie diil dren is very different to this . An inquest was opened before Mr . Hutchinson , coroner for Scarsdale ou Thursday afternoon , at the Cock and Magpie but immediately adjourned to Friday next . The circuiiistances to which we allude have made a vorr gr .. at sensation throughout the district . —Derb / shin Courier . '
Extensive Fire at a Lunatic Astlum . —At about nine o ' clock on Monday morning the inhabitants of Nottingham were alarmed by a report , that the Lunatic Asylum , which is erected just outside the town , on the Southwell-road , was on fire . On has . tening to the spot the rumour was found to be correct ; jut happily the conflagration was subdued before any fatal accident occurred , although it has been attended with a considerable destruction of property . It ap . pears that at about twenty minutes past eight , one of the female domestics went into the laundry , a new and commodious building at the west end of the asylum , to fetch some chips which had been placed near the steam-drying apparatus , and found that thev
lad ignited , and that the room was full of flames The alavra . being given , a messenger was instantly despatched to the town for assistance ; and in a short time the engine of the Nottingham and Derljjslure ire-office arrived on the spot , drawn by two " posthorses . It was immediatel y taken up the lawn and commenced playing , and by its means , combined with the energetic exertions ofa large body of firemen and the Nottingham police , who were in attendance tlie fire was got under by ten o ' clock . The scene after the fire was one of extreme desolation ; large heaps ot half-burnt rafters lay in cheerless contrast with the snow which lay on the lawn to the thickness of several inches ; and the roofless building , with Its blackened
walls and windows deprived of their glass , proved that the devouring element had done its worst . Tlie asylum is an extensive range of building , erected in 1810 , and at the present time contains about 200 patients . The laundry and other buildings winch have been burned had been recently added from designs furnished b y Messrs Hawksley and Jallaml ol ; his town , architects . They consist of a room 61 feet by 2 L in which is the drying apparatus , ami tivo other apartments , that would niake together a room of similar dimensions . The drying room is completel y gutted , and the other rooms are consiucraWy damaged ; a large quantity of clothes , whielnvere being dried , were also destroyed . These building
are detached from the patients' wards , so that it was not considered necessary to remove those unfortunate persons ; but had the wind been east , it is thought that the fire would have communicated , in which case the consequences must have been dreadful , as the part nearest the fire was occupied by the mosl dangerous of the lunatics . Immediately alter tlie news had become public , a considerable number of the committee assembled on tlie spot to make inquiries into the circumstances of the case . Amongst those present were Mi . W . Hodgson Barrow , of Southwell ; the High Sheriff ; the Rev . T . Coates Cane , of Southwell , Chaplain to the High Sheriff and magistrate of the county , - Messrs . " T . Close , J . Braithwaite , W . Hannay , and Dr . Williams , magistrates of the town ; Mr . G . Kawson , clerk to tlie borough magistrates ; and Dr . Powell , the resident physician . Having- examined the buildings and tha servants , they came to the conclusion that the occurrence was purely accidental . The damagecannot now be ascertained , but it must amount to several hundred pounds . The building is understood to be uninsured .
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; The Hampsxead Mobdeb . —In addition to the mass of evidence whic h has already been laid before ; he public with regard to the investigations before Mr . Wakley the : coroner , and Mr . Rawlinson the magistrate , as to the late horrid murder of Mr . JauiesDelarue , aovae particulars have been brought , o light , having a tendency to substantiate more fully le guilt , of the accused party . A young man named Ihibblewaite , whose father keeps a chandler ' s shop at Finchley , has made the following statement : — " On the night of the murder I accompanied the constables towards the field with , the stretcher , but I ran forward , and on arriving at the spot where the body was lying , I saw a man in conversation with Baldock , the officer . I said to the man , 'Is he dead ? ' and he replied , ' 0 yes , he is quito dead . I have felt his hand , and he has no pulse . ' As soon as the stretcher came up the body was removed , arid I with the
constables proceeded up the field . The young man I have spoken of went with us , and he reqeusted that I would allow him to light his cigar , which I permitted him to do from a lamp belonging to one of the constables who had asked me to carry it for him . I returned the lamp tc- the officer , and leaving the party , turned off to the right : the man went off in another direction , towards the Swiss Cottage . " Thibblewaite describes the person to whom reference has been mado by him , as being about 23 years of age , and wearing cither a cloak or a cape ; he is quite satisfied that he should be able to recognise him if he were to see him again , as a strong light was thrown upon his features by the lamp when he ignited therewith his cigar . Thibblewaite will , no doubt , have an opportunity afforded him of seeing the prisoner in Newgate , and in the event of the latter leing identified by him , he ( the former ) will of course be supposed as a witness at the trial .
Hockeu s DEFENCE .-The lme of defence that will probably be . adopted by Ilocker on his trial , for the murder of Delarue , seems pointed out by his conduct , and by his anxiety to correct the evidence of the loliccman , who was left in charge of the body in the field whilst the stretcher was brought . He will , most probably , assert that whilst waiting by the body , ie ana the policeman agreed to plunder it , and that that was the whole extent of his criminality . Many of the circumstances would bear out such a defence . First , the great improbability that a murderer would revisit the spot so soon afterwards for no apparent object ; secondly , the withholding by the policeman of the fact that any one had been with him in the field : and , thirdly , the buttoned-up pockets of
Delarue ; as it would not be likely for the murderer to stop and button the pockets of the man he had killed , whose cries , continuing nearly two ' minutes , would most probably have been heard . Such a line of defence would also account for the blood on Hooker's clothes , and for the silence Ue observed on tho subject . The presence of the three ill-leoking men in different parts of Hampstead , on . the day of the murder , who were last seen going towards the place , and have not since been heard of , would also afford some countenance to the statement thai Delarue had been murdered by them , as originally ' supposed , an < i that becoming alarmed they had run away before plundering the body . The fact of the supposed murderous weapon having been discovered before the murder was committed , and the abscnw of proof that the
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' MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'CONNOR . FOB THE KXECVTIVB . £ S . d , From the Chartists at llouliu-a-Vapeur , per David Heid .. .. 387 From James Dick , Lille „ „ „ .. ,. o I 3 From Alex . Low , ditto 0 13 From James Brown , ditto 0 13 From James Thomson , ditto 0 13 From Henry Pashley , Hansworth .. .. .. 010 From Rotherham , per George Eskholme .. .. 0 10 0 From James Stevenson , Callen .. .. .. 0 I o From the Chartists of Hamilton 0 10 0 From the Chartists of Coventry 0 3 0 THOMAS COOPER . From tho Chartists of Moulin-a-Vapeur , pei David Reid .. 10 0 RECEIPTS PER GENERAL SECRETARY . SUBSCRIPTIONS . £ s . d . s . d . Clock-hcmse .. .. 030 Wheatley-lane .. 018 Sowerby Longroyd 0 5 6 Bacup .. .. 0 3 -t Burnley .. ,. 0 5 7 $ Camborne .. „ J U Colne 0 5 1 Carlisle .. .. 040 Haslingden .. .. 019 Cummersdale .. 0 7 G Oswaldwhistle .. 0 2 4 J Clitheroe . . 049 Haggate .. .. 019 Barnoldswick .. 050 levy . Tonbridge Wells .. 0 10 0 Holrafirth , J . Holmfirth , T . Brad- Quarmby .. .. 006 ley .. .. .. 010 Ditto , two friends .. 0 I 0 Ditto , W . Bradley 0 10 Stoekport .. ., i u » Ditto , A . Bradley .. 0 10 Pilton 0 5 B Ditto , J . France .. o 1 0 Hollinwood .. .. 0 10 * Ditto , J . Sandford 0 1 0 South Shields .. 066 DONATIONS . Berry Brow , proceeds of Mr . Doyle's lecture .. 043 Ruffy Ridley 0 2 fi
ACCOUNT BOOKS , CARDS , &C . OswaldwlUStlC , ae- Holmfirth , ditto .. 0 S 5 eouutbook .. 040 Preston , ditto .. 0 0 ( 5 Clitheroe , ditto .. 040 Holmfirth , cards .. 109 Ditto , handbooks 0 0 6 Oswaldwhistle .. 029 In last week ' s list of Nominations for the Executive , Penzance , Rochdale , Camberwell , Burnley , and Bromsgrove were omitted , in all which places the five members now in office were nominated ; the names of Messrs . Clark and Doyle were also omitted from the Bii-tningliani and Todmorden list . CANDIDATES FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . I have received answers from the following persons , declining to stand for the above office , viz ., Messrs . T » ttersall , Dixon , Bairstow , and West ; from the majority of the other candidates I have as yet received no answers : 1 shall , therefore , include them in my printed list . THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER , Secretary
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— * THE NORTHERN STAR , Ma » ch 22 . 1845
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