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      JOUSE OF LORDS , Tcesmt . Joss 17 . ^ -S : &r ;«^ - » ^ r , k 6 « honM m 6 r « the second reading of the Scotch Binkiiig ' - . tixL " - The XarqciB of Xomunbt presented a petition from certain parties ( tailors ) at Liverpool , complaining that a jrreat portion of the clothes made for and worn by the gentry and others were not made at the warehouses and ,. noritfhops of the master tailors , bat were given oat to be . '' ' faished at the workman ' s own home , and that the places

      ¦ wfeere the journeymen tailors lived were filthy unwhole some dens , wherein the garments on which they worked :. were likely to acquire some infections , or at all events - ¦ some noxious qualities . The petitioners stated that the . _ - cause of their complaint arose out of the system of em-- , ploying middlemen , who contracted between the master \ . and the journeymen tailors for the work to be done , and also shared the profits arising from the latter's labour be tween them . The noble MarquiB observed that every person who became acquainted with the facts complained of had the remedy in his own hands .

      The Bishop of Cashel presented several petitions from the clergy of Ireland , complaining of the system of education as practised in the National Schools . In his opinion the National Board of Education was a signal failure , and had only tended to increase the amount of ignorance in IrclanO . The plan he should recommend was that of the Church Education Society , which provided for the Spiritual instroctloa of children under the superintendence of the parochial clergy , and he trusted this plan would find favour in the eyes of her Majesty ' s Government . The Earl of St . Geehass defended the National Board from the charges of the Right Rev . Prelate . To Bay that ignorance had increased daring the last ten years in Ireland was a most extraordinary proposition , tad one quite unwarranted by facts . He should oppose She proposition of the Bishop of Cashel , because it would ¦ Tve great offence to the Roman Catholics .

      The Marquis ofXoEUKBT bore testimony to theadtniraMe system of the National Board . The Earl ofWicKLOw insisted that that board was a tetal failure ; , and complained of the neglected state of the Irish Protestant Church , which he thought should be brought into closer union with that in England . Lord J-okieigle expressed his gratification at the statement mam by the * Earl of St . Germans respecting the National system , and deprecated the introduction of any new schssne of education into Ireland , where it was plain that the plan now in force was the only one practicable . Lord Clascaett heped the Government would attend to these petitions , as he knew of nothing more fatal to the interests of Ireland than the National svstem .

      The Archbishop of Dbblis hoped the existing system would not be changed . Nothing could be more erroneous than the notion that it had failed ; the time would come when the public mind would be disabused , and the merits of the National system acknowledged . Lord Staxlet declared the firm intention of her Majesty's 'iovemment to maintain the existing system , whicliiad liitherto worked well , and from which he expected the happiest results . The Bake of Wellington explained , that , although he had many years ago been most adverse to a system for the joint education of Protestants and Catholics , he had ever since that system had been approved by the Legislature earnestly supported it , and , as a law , done his best to carry it out lie exhorted the Irish people to follow this example , and declared the impossibility of making grants of money to the other religious sects in Ireland if the Roman Catholic , which was well entitled to be called the national religion of Ireland , were excluded .

      The conversation then dropped , and their lordships adjourned . Titobsday , Juse 19 . Their lordships assembled at five o ' clock . The Schoolmasters * ( Scotland ) Bill was read a third time and passed . The Bishop of Dublin moved the second reading of the Bishops' Patronage ( Ireland ) BilL The llarquis of Clakbicasde moved that -the second reading be postponed until the 30 th instant . The Ear '; of Wickmw opposed the amendment Their lordships then divided , when there appeared-r Contents ( for the second reading ) 35 Son-contents 19 Majority 16 ^ HOUSE OF COMMONS , Tuesday , Jcxe 17 . The house met at four o'clock .

      Petitions were presented from Stafford , Lancashire , Aldermanbury , Huddersfield , Bury , Ashton-under-Line , Eoclidale , Halifax , and other places in favour of a ten hoars'labour bilL Mr . C . Bulleb commenced public business by bringing under the discussion of the house a string of eighteen resolutions relating to the policy pursued towards the colony oi New Zealand . His task , he said , would have been light if he had only had to call the attention of Parliament to the case of the Sew Zealand Company and the Government ; but that case of private wrong was merged in die greater public mischief perpetrated by the Colonial-oiliee in its mismanagement of Sew Zealand . The colonisation of New Zealand , after it had been successfully commenced by the New Zealand Company , had

      been marred by the interference of her Majesty's Government , and a large body of emigrants had been cruelly , in some-cases and in all cases fatally treated . He called upon the house to contrast the scheme of colonization adopted by the New Zealand Company with that pursued by the Colonial-office ; and if he could make out that the plan of the Company was the most advantageous for the colony and was founded on the soundest principles , and was best calculated to relieve the destitute population of England , and to create a flourishing and industrious population in Sew Zealand , then only would he ask the house to enforce £ > r theNew Zealand Company the agreement , which he said that it had a right to have carried into effect by her Majesty's Government After pointing out the great importance of New Zealand in a national and

      political point of view , and the fair field which it afforded for the rlevclopmcnt of the capital and labour of England , he Shored that at the time when it was first colonised , strong leMGr existed for colonising it regularly , lest it should be cria ised irregularly . The whole of the native popular r . £ d not exceed 100 , 000 souls , and they were principc 3 / coicentrated in the northern parts of the island . Was feit a circumstance which ought to prevent any other country from colonising the southern parts of it , which -were almost totally unoccupied , or the northern parti , which were almost all left uncultivated ? It was wicked : o deny the right of civilised man to cultivate the wilderness . He was bound , however , to treat the savage with kindness , and to communicate to him the advantages of his own civilization . He showed that the New Zealand

      Company in their attempt to colonise that island had never attempted to pillage the natives , but had made them au ample compensation for the land purchased of them by setting apart for them a certain reserve of land after it had been brought into cultivation . The Colonial-office , however , thought that its duty was discharged towards the savage when it got for him a large price for his land , and had nottakvn any measures to apply it to his future amelioration . He then entered into a minute history of the injudicious proceedings of the colonial authorities in New Zealand , from the . time of the conclusion of tht treaty of Waitangi down to the present time . He vindicatea the conduct of the New Zealand Company , and showed that their settlements had been founded on a scale of liberality and munificence hitherto

      unknown in the history of English colonization . The question of gain had always been a very subordinate consideration with them , as their principal object hadjbecn merely to protect themselves from loss whilst engaged in diffusing the arts and industry along with the laws and language of England . Whatever jealousy they had expected to encounter , they never expected to meet any from the Imperial Government He admitted that their letters tQ . -I . ord Stanley had been very long , and perhaps somewhat deficient in respect ; but Lord Stanley ought not on that account to hare allowed his temper to have overcome his sympathy for so numerous a body of his co ( j ntrymen as had embarked on a system of emigration in New Zealand . All that those people asked for was to be allowed

      to continue their toil unmolested ; but official jealousy and petty resentment had so warped the mind of his lordship that he had given his approbation to measures which had marred all their prospects cf future success . He then entered into a discussion of the land question between Lord Stanley and the New Zealand Company . He contended , in the words of the select committee of last session , that the Sew Zealand Company had a right to expect to be put in possession by the Government with the leastpossible delay of die number of acres awarded to them , and that the Company had that right as against the State of the Crown , withont reference to the validity or etherwise of its supposed purchases from the natives , all claims derived from which had been surrendered . After condemning a the most severe and pointed terms the con .

      duct of Lord Stanley in having repudiated the engagement into which Lord John Russell had entered , and in baring broken his own , he called attention to the fact that the Sew Zealand Company , after expending £ 300 , 000 of its own , and £ 300 , 000 more on credit obtained from the public , had not yet obtained the grant of a single acre of land . Its capital was exhausted ; its proceedings were suspended ; and , what was worse , the unhappy emigrants had been debarred from all access as owners to the land which they had purchased with hard cash in England . Tha crops which they had raised as cultivators , had bean set on fire , and their lives had been menaced ; and when they had applied for redress to the Colonial office , that redress had been coldly and heartlessly refused . They now apprehended a general massacre ; and Captain

      Fitzroy , on whose eccentric conduce he animadverted with great vehemence , had prohibited them from arming to defend themselves . The policy of that officer , who ought never to have been sent out as the Governor of snch a colony , had inspired the Jfew Zealauders with overweening confidence , and our countrymen with fierce resentment ; and the consequence would 1 » that the first would perish under the attacks of the last , as they would be no more in the hands of Englishmen than mere children in tte han ds of full grown-men . The war , of which no oae COUldforesee the consequence , was already begun between the two races , and if it continued , no long time would B » pse before the country would hear news respecting it M ^ wnfldadteiTOHni ^ . shudder . Having occupied Slrf ^? 1 ^ * ' 118 called the history of orionf * Colon « a- « ffice against the latest English ¦ " ¦ W-le expressed ** deep rlgret that Lord Stanley

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      had put down the most promising experiment of colonisation that had ever been attempted by England . It was just what he expected from that noble lord ; but it was at the same time that which be called upon the house most decidedly to condemn . It was its duty to show the country that the despotism of the Colonial-office was not uncontrolled , and that the grievances of its children in foreign lands were certain of redress when regularly brought before it He then moved that the bouse resolve itself into a committee of the whole house to consider his eighteen resolutions .

      Mr . M . Humes seconded the motion , and contended that Mr . C . Buller had made out a case for the interference of the house . He eulogised the munificent spirit in which this attempt at colonisation had been made , and showed that it had excited the greatest admiration in foreign countries . When he saw that Lord Glenelg had discouraged this project of colonisation , as well as Lord Stanley , he could not think that it was from desperate wilfulness , but from some prejudice which haunted the Colonial-office , that this generous proceeding had been thwarted by the present Colonial Secretary . He excited the commiseration of the house by reading a letter from a gentleman of his own rank in life , and who hadleft Wakefield for New Zealand with all the appliances necessary to render emigration successful , in which he stated that his bouse and crops had just been reduced to ashes , and that he and his family -were living in daily terror of their lives from the threats of the enraged savages around them .

      Mr . Hope commenced his observations by defending Lord Stanley from tne unjust aspersions cast upon him by Mr . C . Buller . He denied that his lordship was influenced by any hostility either to colonisation or to the New Zealand Company . Bos lordship had entered into the discussion of this subject with that company in the spirit of perfect fairness ; and as a proof that he had done so , he ( Mr . Hope ) read a resolution of its directors , signed by Mr . Somes as chairman , offering their acknowledgments for the generous spirit in which his lordship had done justice to the objects of the company , and their cordial thanks for his readiness to concur in their measures for the Government of New Zealand . He then defended the policy of the treaty of Waitangi , aud contended that the right of the Crown to land in New

      Zealand did not arise so much from the right of discovery as from the cession of its chiefs . He next proceeded to vindicate Lord Stanley from the charges of fraud and deceit , and of dereliction of duty , which had been preferred against him because he had made the company ' s title conditional on their proving the legal validity of their purchases of land from the natives before the island was a British colony . He showed that the construction put by Lord Stanley on tho agreement of November , 1810 , was correct , and denied that Lord John Russell had ever given an unconditional assignment of hind to the company in pursuance of that agreement He was not prepared to justify all the acts of Captain Fitzroy , but he was convinced that in many cases Captain Fitzroy did himself injustice by Uie

      scanty information which he sent home . He thought that Captain Fitzroy had done his best to put the company ' s settlers in possession of their lands ; and to justify that opinion , he read several documents which had recently come into the possession of the Colonial-office . In reply to the allegation that the Colonial-office was chargeable with all the disasters of the colony , he insisted that they were mainly attributable to the hasty proceedings of the New Zealand Company in taking possession of that island without authority from the Crown . The unfortunate massacre at Wairau arose from the transactions forced upon their agent by the precipitate conduct of the New Zealand Company iu seeking to obtain possession of a disputed piece of land . He then proceeded to give an account of the state of the colony according to the latest

      advices which the Colonial-office had received . Mr . C . Buller had furnished the house with an account of it , resting on the authority of Dr . Evans , which had excited general sympathy and commiseration . Dr . Evans left the colony on the 7 th of December last , andhe ( Mr . Hope ) had information from it up to the 19 th of February . Up to that date uo collision had taken place between the settlers and the natives , and no apprehension was then felt with respect to the designs of the natives . He had seen a gentleman who left Auckland on the 25 th of January . The settlers and the natives in that district were on an amicable footing , and no collision was apprehended , A . t the Bay of Islands some disturbances had occurred ; but , on the whole , he felt justified in declaring that the apprehensions entertained by Dr , Evans were not realised two months after his departure from the colony . It was true that Captain Fitzroy had sent for troops , but he declared at the same time that he did not want them for active

      operations , but for the maintenance of order , considering that their presence would not only encourage the loyal , but would also discourage the disaffected . After admitting the responsibility of the Colonial Department for the actions ef Captain Fitzroy , and after regretting that in some instances he had shown himself deficient either in judgment or in temper , he mentioned it as a matter of just exultation to that gallant officer , that the colony was already able to support itself , and was even beginning to pay its own expenses . He then entered into a consideration of the various resolutions proposed by Mr . C . Buller , ana said that he could not be induced to give them his support If the assent of Government to this motion wonld pacify the different parties in New Zealand , he would willingly agree to it ; but convinced as he was that a declaration on the part of the house that the Crown had a right to all the waste lands of that island would combine all the native tribes in one vast conspiracy against us , he must protest on behalf of the Government against the course now proposed by Mr . C . Buller .

      On the motion of Captain Rous , the debate was adjourned . The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the hcuse adjourned . Wednesday , Jbse 18 . Mr . O'Conjjell asked if the Courts of Common Law Process Bills , three in number , which stood upon the paper , were brought in by the Government ; and if so , whether the Irish judges had been consulted as to their provisions ! Sir James Gbahasi said they were not Government bills , nor was Government responsible for them . They were under the care of the hou . member for Cork ( Mr . Serjeant Murphy ) . Mr . O'Conneli ,. —A very good reason for getting rid of them ( greatlaughter ) .

      Mr . Serjeant Mdkphi said he had just heard the words " getting rid of , " and did not know whether they were applied to himself or the biUs ( alaugb ) . They came to him from the House of Lords , with a desire that he would conduct them through the house . Finding , however , that they were unpalatable on the other side of the house , he was most desirous to wash his hands of them . Mr . O'Coknell then moved that they should be committed that day six mouths , which motion was agreed to , and the bills were accordingly rejected . On the motion for resuming the adjourned debate on Mr . Bailer ' s motion , relative to Nbw Zealand ,

      Captain Rons went into a history of the proceedings of the New Zealand Company , which he commented upon in terms of unqualified condemnation , and concluded by moving as an amendment , "Thatthejreaty of Waitangi , in accordance with the directions of the Marquis of Nornianby , approved by Lord John Russell and confirmed by her Majesty , should be inviolably maintained ; also , that tie conduct of the New Zealand Company , in sending out settlers to New Zealand , not only without the sanction , but in direct defiance of the authority of the Crown , was highly irregular and improper . " Mr . AGUONK entered into a defence of the New Zealand Company from the attacks of Captain Rous , which were , he contended , founded on misinformation . In order to enable the gallant officer to form a more correct judgment , he would be happy to place before him every document without reserve in . the possesion of the New Zealand Company .

      Mr . Bieklei said he was at , all times desirous of supporting the policy of the Government , yet could not avoid voting against them in the present instance . He should be sorry , however , if his support of the motion of Mr . Buller should be construed into a want of confidence in the Government Sir . R . H . Isglis contended that this country had no right whatever to colonise New Zealand , especially after having recognised it as an independent state . He defended the missionaries from the charges made against them by Mr . C . Buller . Mr . Haves contended flirt all the evils of the colony were attributable to the course pursued by the Colonial Office , and . that the remedies now proposed by the Government would not prove efficient . They would find that eventually they must establish a strong local government , founded upon representation , in New Zealand .

      Sir H . Douglas strongly urged the necessity for maintaining inviolate the treaty of Waitangi . The failure of the company was so signal that he hoped the Government would raise New Zealand into that higher description of colony which was governed by representation , as the only remedy for the existing evils arising from the errors of the Company . Lord HewicK agreed that the most likely remedy was to apply the principle of self-government to New Zealand The policy hitherto adopted was faulty , and thus believin " he would vote for into

      going committee , though he could not support the resolutions without very considerable qualification . The noble lord then contended that there must have been bad government in New Zealand , for in those portions of the country belonging to the New Zealand Company affairs went on pretty well up to the period when the Government interfered , and in those parts with which the Company had nothing whatever to do matters were much worse than in any other parts of the colony . The debate was again adjourned .

      Thursdav , Jcni 19 . Tlie SrEAKEit took tlic Ghair shortly before foui o ' clock .

      SCOTCH POOR 1 AW , In answer to a question from Mr . fox Maule , Sir J . Graham said that , in the absence of the Lord Advocate , he could not say whether it would be possible to proceed with the Poor Law Bill for Scotland on Monday next . SEW ZEALAXD—THE ADJOURNED DEBATE . Mr . Ellice opened the debate . He thought in the course of a long experience—nearly 40 years—with the colonies and colonial adniistration of this empire , he had never seen such a want of foresight , system , and common sense as had been exhibited by the Government since the commencement of these New Zealand transactions . He did think it was the duty of

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      the authorities of this country to have taken care that the settlement of strangers in that islnnd should have been made as little irksome to the natives as possible . But instead of that , the .. Government of this country had made confliction parties of the missionaries and the New Zealand Company , and the New Zealand Company against the missionaries , and all these differences only tended to defeat the object it should have been their duty to promote . ( Hear , hear . ) In fact , to hear this question spoken of as it had been in this house , one would scarce believe that they were in an assembly of reasonable men . 'When we had acquired a colony , it had been the acknowledged principle , that all tho land which was not in the occupation of the natives .

      or of persons to whom they had made real transfers of it , should be considered the property of the owner . ( Hear , hear . ) And supposing it were otherwise , still for the good of the natives themselves , for the advantage of the colony , and for the general benefit of mankind , the Crown should assume that right . ( Hear , hear . ) His right honourable friend the member for Oxford had spoken iu high , he would not say exaggerated , terms of the labours of the missionaries . But yet it could not be denied that there had been on the part of some of them an attempt to add to their duty in spreading Christianity , too ready a yielding to the temptation to acquire property . The way in which everything hitherto had been done in the island was to mar prosperity , and to destroy

      an infant and promising colony . ( Hear , hear . ) But it was not his desire to discuss the misfortunes of the past , but he had risen rather to inquire the intentions of the Government for the future . Did they mean to continue the island of New Zealand a penal colony , and govern it as such ? Are the people not to be allowed to govern themselves ? and was it intended to establish any , and if so , what institutions , there ? He contended that the subject ought to be considered , divested of all acrimonious feelings . Let criminatiou and recrimination be put an end to , and henceforth let all endeavours be made to avert the evils which had been hi ought upon Now Zealand by a miserable line of policy which had brought that which might otherwise have been a flourishing colony to the brink of ruin .

      The house was afterwards addressed by Mr . Mangles , Mr . Sheil , and Lord John Russell , in favour of the motion , and by Mr . Cardwell , Sir James Graham , in defence of the Government and against the resolutions , when , after a brief reply from Mr . C . Buller , the house divided . For the Motion 172 Against it 223 Majority against it 51 The House then adjourned at half-past two o ' clock .

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      MANSION HOUSE . THDB 8 DAT . —ROBBINO A SAILOR . — James and Mary Foy wore brought before the Lord Mayor , charged with having robbed a sailor , named Richasd Hodgson , of two five-pound bank notes anel a quantity of clothes . —The prosecutor , who appeared to be in great trouble about his loss , stated that he came from Hull on Tuesday night m a steam vessel , and James Foy applied to him at the Custom-house as a porter to be employed to take his goods , and waB accordingly desired by him to carry away his hammock and chest to the Dundee Arms public-house , Wapping . Witness having given the direction , went into an eating-house to dine , and Foy started off with the goons . Upon going to the Dundee Arms , however , witness found that Foy had not been there , and away he roamed in search of the fellow . During the whole night

      he went inquiring from place to place , and on Wednesday between two and three o'clock he fell in with the person he sought , in Thames-street . Foy said that he had taken the tilings to the station-house , in Tower-street , because ho could not find out the place to which he had been directed to go . The witness , upon going to the stationhouse with Foy , found his hammock and chest there , but observed that the lashing on the chest had been disturbed , and that the lock had been forced . Upon opening the chest , he missed a small box , which contained two fivcpouna notes ; and , upon examining his hammock , which contained his heading and clothes , lie missed an oiLclotu

      jacket and three flannel shirts . Foy , upon being told that the property was stolen , replied that It might have been douo on board the steamer for what he knew . He was then detained , and witness went with a constable to apprehend Mary Foy , the prisoner's wife , and afterwards went to their lodgings in the Borough , where , in a cupboard , the officer found the small box in which the two bank notes had been contained , and beliipd two boxes the oil-cloth jacket . The two bank notes ^ ere gone . —The prisoner Foy was committed f ar trial , and the Lord Mayor directed that if it was proved upon application at Moorfields Chapel , that the female prisoner was married to Foy , she should be at once discharged .

      1 biday .. —Forgery . —Thomas Peat was brought up in the custody of John Forrester , for final examination , charged with forging and uttering for discount , at Messrs . Robarts , Curtis , & Co . ' s banking-house , four forged bills of exchange , amounting to £ 500 , aud purporting to be drawn by Mr . Joseph Smith , upon , and accepted by , Mr . Richard Latham , formerly t , partner in the house of Sir Henry Mcux and Co . The prisoner was committed for trial . Saturday ,. —Smuggiing . —Andrew Home Cook , on board the ship Elgin Castle , from Rotterdam , now lying at . Brewer's Quay , was brought before the Lord Mayor

      charged by Charles Edward Hunt , a searcher at the customs , who deposed that he went on board the Elgin Castle yesterday , and found the ) stone bottle now produced containing five quarts of gin , laid in a box of dirty linen belonging to the prisoner . The prescribed duty had not been paid on the liquor . —T . Pellett deposed to accompanying Hunt , and giving the prisoner into custody . He valued the spirit and duty at ten shillings . —Cook had nothing to say , only that they took the gin away from him , which he was about to take home for the consumption of his own family . —His lordship fined him £ 3 , and in default of payment one month ' s imprisonment .

      Gin and Biiters !—Rebecca Locock , servant in the employ of the Reverend J . S . H . Smith , who has been twice remanded on a charge of being found drunk , aud in possession of sundry bottles of rum , sherry , and gin , was again placed at the- bar . One of her femicr employers , Mr . Grapper , appeared and gave her an excellent character—her only fault was a love of drink . He had also received an excellent character with her . She was again remanded until Wednesday next . The reverend ptosccutov did not appear , Tuesday . —Chaiioe of Forgert . —A foreigner named Jean Deemer was brought before the Lord Mayor , charged with forgery . Mr . Clarkson , the banister , appeared for the prosecution . Mr . Michel Schott , a merchant in partnership with Mr . F . W . Paas , and trading under that

      name , ssated that in ^ 813 the prisoner was a confidential clerk in the house , and about October or November in that year witness left town for Antwerp , leaving in the prisoner s hands some blank bills for use iu the affairs of the house , but for no other purpose , and the prisoner had no authority to negotiate them upon any occasion except as related to the bushiesss of the firm . ( Here a bill of exchange for 500 . 0 francs was produced . ) Witness gave to the prisoner a bill conformable to that bill , but it was not filled up by any person in tho house , which had had no transaction with any person referred to in it . Witness knew none of the persons mentioned in the bill , He was present when the prisoner was apprehended . The prisoner had absconded . The bill for 5000 francs was produced at the office between the 12 th and 15 th of May by an individual of the name of Biitchelor , who brought it for discountbut the

      , house did not choose to discount it . Mr . Batchelor gave the address of No . ( J 3 , Regent-street , corner of Vine-street . Subsequently the house agreed to discount the bill if they had permission to send it to Antwerp . They accordingly sent it thither . and ascertained that the parties wore respectable , but desired to know more about one of the indorsements . They , however , gave Batchelor £ 65 upon account of it . Policeman No . 118 stated that he went to the lodging of the prisoner , who made a desperate resistance , and endeavoured to free himself from all restraint . Witness , finding that the prisoner refused to open the door of his room , sent for a carpenter , who , with his tools , broke it open . The prisoner had placed his bedstead against liis door , and defended himself with a poker and other instruments , with which ho struck the witness . The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next .

      GUILDHALL . Saturday—An Impostor . —A tall gaunt individual , who gave his name as James Scott , was charged with imitating fits in the public thoroughfares , with the object of exciting charity . He was found by a policeman in Bridge-street , Blackfriars , apparently in a fit , with a crowd of people round him . He was taken to Bartholomew's Hospital , where it was discovered that the fit was feigned , and he was removed from there to the station . He was brought up this morning before Sir John Pirie , and , though three medical men deposed to the fact of liis being perfectly healthy , he still persisted that the fits were real . Ho said the surgeons were all wrong , and knew nothing whatever of the nature of the fits under wliiclihe laboured . Sir John Plrie admitted that the last remark might be perfectly true , but that their character might not be exactly known : their object was very apparent—the exciting of charity from the public . He would send him for a month to the House of Correction .

      BOW STREET . Saturday . —Extensive Robbery by a Servant . James Hailings , a shopman to Messrs . Aillin and Co ., ironmongers , 22 , Pavliament-street , was charged with robbing his employers to a considerable extent . A suspicion had for some time been entertained by his employers that they were robbed , as things wore continually missing , but no discovery was made till last Friday . Information on that day , however , was obtained of the prisoner offering to make away with a quantity of penknives aud other articles of cutlery ; and ou being charged with the fact lie admitted that it was so , and that his intention was to have made away with the articles . As many other cases were likely to be brought forward against the prisoner , and a remand was prayed for , which was acceded to , the further hearing was postponed till Monday .

      A Suspicious Cabe . —A young fellow , rather smartly dressed , called John Taylor , was brought up on the charge of having attempted to sell a quantity of silver motal , of which ho could not give a proper account . On Friday evening the prisoner offered for sale to Mr . Edwards , jeweller , 38 , Long Acre , thirty-six ounces of silver ; also suspecting that the acquisition of so much treasure had not been a legitimate transao tion , he sent for a police-constable—The prisoner , named Johnson , left the shop , aud the policeman having got his cue , dogged him , when , noticing that he did not go in the direction of the place at which ho told Mr . K . I .

      wards he resided , viz ., Seymour-street , SomcrsTown , he took him into custody . —In answer to the charge the prisoner said that , afew months ago , a French gentleman took a suite of rooms from him , and being suddenly called out of town , and ' being in arrears of rent , he left the old silver as security . He therefore thought it right to sell it , in order to raise money , as the gentleman had never returned to redeem it as he had promised to do . —Mr . Jardine said it was altogether a most suspicious case . The defence he had no doubt was a mere subterfuge . He would remand the case for a week , in order that full inquiries might be made . —The prisoner applied to be liberated ou bail , but was refused .

      QUEEN SQUARE . Saturday . —A Case of Bird-Nestino . —A boy , of tho name of Thomas Lambert , was charged before Mr . Bun-el with being found that morning concealed in the ivy of Lord Morley ' s mansiou in South-place , Westminster . The policeman on the beat about five in the morning saw a ladder reared against one of the windows of the mansion in question , and , conceiving that all was not right he re connoitred tho ivy , which covers the whole front of the house , when the urchin was found embedded among the leaves , and taken into custod y . The defence set up was that he was bird-nesting . The defendant had previously been convicted of felony , and was known to be connected with improper characters . There being no evidence that the defendant had any other intention than that 3 et forth about the bird-nesting , he was discharged , with a caution .

      Uproar in the Workhouse . —Margaret Devlin , an Irishwoman , was charged with creating a disturbance , that morning , in St . Margaret ' s Workhouse , and calling the master every name but that of a gentleman . She had been admitted the night before along with her husbiiud and five children , and supplied with food and lodging , On being requested to work next morning till eleven o ' clock , according to the rule of the workhouse , she refused , and set to , to rate the party who asked her to do so in pretty round terms , many of which are not fit to be mentioned "in ears polite . " An uproar ensued on which a police constable was called in , and the refractory damo taken to the station-house . The charge being substantiated , the magistrate sentenced her to seven days ' imprisonment in the House of Correction

      TnuRSDAY .-ATTEMPTEn MtRDEB .-Jane Walker 17 years of . age , was elmrged with the following deliberate attempt to murder her sister , a eivl two w « ii 4 vn ,, ni « . MaryWalker the complainant , K SISS SS sU i ht cut ° » SS ; iHSSHSSxS SHSsSSSi with , recommended "B ^ . £ ft ; & ^ B 5 J

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      ingly dressed herself and accompanied her sister . On arriving at the house prisoner told her to get into bed and go to sleep , and whilst she was doing so the accused left the room , observing that she was going to sit for a little while at the street door , Complainant in a few minutes fell asleep , and < vas awoke by feeling aknifo passing across her throat . She immediately jumped up , and found tho prisoner , who declared that she was going to cut her head off , standing over her with a large table-knife . She struggled for some time to get the weapon from her sister , during which prisoner tried to cut her throat , and in putting up her arm to prevent her doing so , the latter became

      severely cut . Complainant succeeded in . wresting the knife from prisoner ' s hand , who immediately rushed to the tablo and took up another ; but the cries of the complainant having brought a man to the spot , she was prevented from using any furtner violence . Complainant said her sister was in liquor at tho time , and added that she received the cut on the forehead in the course of the struggle for the knife . A large table-knife was produced , which prisoner had taken away from her father at tho time sho went for her sister , and had some blood upon it . Prisonar in answer to the charge , said that she was in liquor , and did not know what she was about at the time . The prisoner was remanded .

      MARLBOROUGH STREET . Satdrday . —A Vixen . —A stout masculine looking woman , named Kitty Haggerty , was charged with being found in a state of intoxication and uproariousness in Poland-place , that morning , about three o'clock . At that hour she was found quarrelling with two other women engaged in similar pursuits to herself , namely , venders of fruit , The noise occasioned by tho refractory damsel was so great , and a breach of the peace was 90 imminent , that the police , hearing the din of words , came up and endeavoured to disperse the group . Miss Haggerty showed fight at what she called the "imperence of tho spalpeen policeman , " on which the constable took her

      up , and placed her under lock and key . On the defendant being placed before the bench , sobered from the effects of the previous night ' s debauch , she looked very woe-begone , and begged of his " wurtcuip" not to be hard on her , as she did not mean any harm , but was merely enjoying herself by a little conversation with her two acquaintances , when the policeman interfered . They had all been in a public-house in the neighbourhood , and were returning home at the time . Mr . Hardwick said it was not his intention to be hard on her . He would merel y fine her 5 s ., or one week in the House of Correction , which , he hoped , would be a warning to her to observe the rules of sobriety more strictly in future . The friends of the defendaut clubbed the money in court , and she was liberated .

      Tuesday . —Infanticide . — Mary Ann Poulter was brought before Mr . Maltby , charged with having caused the death of hor illegitimate child . The prisoner , iu her defence , urged that when the child was born it fell out of her hands , and was so injured by the fall that it died immediately . She was committed for trial . Wednesday . — Plate Robbery . —Benjamin Morgan was brought up for final examination , charged with stealing some articles of plate from the residence of Sir John Lowthcr , No . 32 , Grosvenor-square . Mr . Maltby sent the case for immediate trial at the Central Criminal Court .

      MARYLEBONE . Tuesday . —A Member of Parliament Drunk and Disorderly , Assamtihg the Police . — A gentleman , who gave his name Mr . Alexander Oswald , and said that he was staying at Thomas ' s Hotel , Berkclevsquare , was charged before the sitting magistrate , Mv . Long , w ^ th having assaulted a police-constable of the D division , It was whispered by several persons in court that tho defendant was a member of Parliament , and on our reporter referring to a list of members he found the name of the defendant as being representative of Ayrshire . Spiers , the constable , stated that on the saint morning , about one o'clock , lie saw defendant leaning against the railings in Comiaught-square , and vomiting ;

      another gentleman was standing u short distance off . Witness went up to the defendant and turned on his light , when he ( defendant ) exclaimed , "You scoundrel , what do you do that for ? " and threatened to report him to his superiors . Witness added that defendant , who was much the worse for drink , kicked him in the hinder part of his person with considerable violence . Defendant , in answer to the charge , denied that he was at all intoxicated , and said that at the period when the constable found him as described he felt unwell through smoking a cigar ; he admitted haying struck the officer , whose interference upon the occasion he thought was quite unnecessary and uncalled for . Defendant was fined £ 3 , which he immediately paid . '

      LAMBETH . Saturday , —Rape . —John Harper , a stout young man , apparently about twenty years of age , a stonemason , was charged before Mr . Norton , the sitting magistrate , with violating a young girl named Emma Scopes , on Monday evening , the 9 th instant . —The prosecutrix , who is a very good looking girl , aged fourteen , and who was accompanied by her parents , said that she lived in Joiners ' - street , Lambeth-road . The prisoner lodged aKNo . 2 , in the same street , at the house of a shoemaker . She had been acquainted with him for some time , and had often spoken with him . On the evening in question he was at home , and tho prosecutrix , who lives next door , came into the house on an errand . The prisoner called her by her name into the room where he was sitting , and there succeeded in accomplishing the offence for which he stood charged . He put his hand upon her mouth , so as to prevent her Crying out at the time . The shoemaker ' s wife was above , and could have heard if she had cried out . —A

      brother to the prosecutrix came into the room , and discovered the parties . She told her mother of the affair the same evening . The mother of the prosecutrix deposed that she was informed of the facts set forth by her daughon the same night , but that she did not call a medical man in at the time , nor till the following Thursday . The reason she assigued for not doing so was , that she did not know her own mind , she was so flurried . She , however , applied to a doctor as 8 oon a she became composed , Mr Nwton asked the prosecutrix if she attempted to cry out , or to wrest the hand of the prisoner from off her mouth Her answer was , that she migh have done so , but di not . She did not assign any reason for thi 3 silence . O this answer being given , Mr , Norton said it would be us less . to send such a case to a jury , as there was no satisfactory evidence to support even an assault , much less the capital charge . However bad might have been the conduct of the prisoner , he must discharge him . T prisoner was then liberated .

      SOUTHWARK . Monday . —Attempted Suicide , Mary Crowlcy , a girl of fifteen years of age , was brought before Mr . Trail on the following charge : —Policeman 251 M stated that on the preceding night , the prisoner called at several chemists shops in the Borough to try and purchase arsenic , which she said was for the purpose or killing vermin , but was retused to be served at each of the shops . He ( the policeman ) followed her from the last shop , and as he suspected from her conduct that she intended laying violent hands upon herself , he went up , and haviug spoken to her , sho made such an admission with respect to the poison she was trying to procure , that instead of letting her walk away in the direction of the river , to wliich she was approaching , ho took her to the station-house , at which place she candidly confessed she had made nn w mimi + «

      destroy herself . Mr . Trail upon seeing the girl at once recognised her , although so young , as having been brought up before him a short time since , on a charge of havine robbed a man of his watch in a brothel . On that occasion , as no prosecutor appeared , he discharged her but from her account it would appear that the treatment sho experienced at home from a mother in-law was the cause of her absconding , and , subsequently , leading an abandonedhfe . But he ( the magistrate )' advised hei % s she seemed desirous of returning to the paths of virtue , to make application fov admission into the asylum for the reception of such unfortunate outcasts of society , but instead ot taking his advice it now appeared that she was

      endeavouring to procure arsenic to poison herself The defendant said that , agreeably to the magistrate's ' directions when she was last there , she called at the asylum ho mentioned , but they woi : ld uot admit her as the board did not assemble until the following Monday ; that , tired and disgusted with such a life , and not knowing what to do , she intended to have destroyed herself with poison . Mr Trail , on finding the unfortrinate young creature still anxious to reform and lead a virtuous life , sent an officer of the court with her to the Guardian Asylum , in the Bethnal . green . ro : id , an excellent institution for tile reception of young females in her destitute condition , into which she was admitted . '

      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Tuesday , June 17 . —Felony . —Mary Ann Sailsoury , alias Salisbury , aged twenty , was arraigned upon three indictments for felony . Thc ' case lias excited much public interest in consequence of the romantic statements made by the prisoner , all of which on inquiry proved to bo wholly without foundation . Un being called upon to plead , the prisoner fainted . and restoratives having been administered , she in a low tone of voice pleaded " Guilty" to all the indictments . Mr . O'Brien , who appeared for the defence , called the sistev of the prisoner , and Mr . Evans , a bookseller , resident in Bath , and their evidence went to show that the prisoner was of unsound mind . Hie Recorder- directed the prisoner te bo removed , and respited the judgment until further inrtuirics

      were made by Mr . Cope , the Governor of Newgate . Shoplifting . —Caroline Allen , aged sixteen , Catherine Gale , aged sixteen , and Mary Ann Smith , were indicted for stealing eleven yards of mousselinile-laine , the goods of Thomas Simpson and another , his partner . The case was of the ordinary character of shoplifting . The three girls went together to the shop of the prosecutor , and succeeded in purloinin " the property in question . They werc on the instant taken mto custody , and the stolen dress was found m their possession . The prisoners , when called upon for their defence , recriminated upon each other in fSnnfvfip " ? * T / An inquiry was « . t on foo by the Recorder , and the result showed that the mother of the prisoner Smith was the proprietress of several brothels in Whitechapel , and that the gir Wehad been seduced from her situation to enter won a Me of profligacy . The father of the unhappy girl presented himself in the witness-box , and stated that his daughter had previously borne an ex .

      ceneni cnaracter , but had been decoyed from his roof about nine weeks ago , and had lost sight of her until tnc intelligence reached him that she was in custody upon this charge . The police-constable stated , that the prisoner Smith was the ostensible proprietress of one of the infamous houses in Trumpet-court and that her mother conducted another house in the < = amc neighbourhood . The jury , after a verv shoi-t ' consultation returned a verdict of— Guilty aeainst ill the three pmoners The Recorder , in passing sentence , said the court felt it to be its duty to male a marked distinction between the convicts It in pearedthat the elder prisoner Smith had been without doubt the decoy of the unhappy girls who stZ 1 by her side . They had been $£ J $ SZ t £ homes for the worst purposes and it was fitting that a marked distinction should be made in thennnkh mentto be awarded The sentence of Oic S'S " that the prisoner Mary Ann Smith should be tS ported for the term of seven years , andI that the prisoners Gale and Allen should be impriSSl Si

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      kept to hard labour m the House o ^ Co ^ TT " the space ot six calendar months . T ' ... " iot 1 Smith on hearing her sentence , fainted , LT ** earned out ot the dock by the officers of the £ & * Pocket-picking at the GiLLows . -James w t \ ton aged eighteen , was indicted for ateaWr * halt-crowns and one shilling , the monevs of n ° Bryan , from his person . The facts of th ' is casr . l nr a very narrow compass . The prosecutor \ vatr . v ln at the execution of Joseph Connor , convicted ^ et [ i St . Giles ' s murder , and the prisoner stood ruZxW when thedrop fell . The prosecutor felt a 1 , 5 hlD l his pocket , and immediately turned towards * i g at soner , and seized his right hand . In it he fo » , i pri half-crown , and at his feet the constable C ° ne 1

      second , and the shilline . The i ™ , Z : ! OU ! the second and the shilling . The prisoner 3 * c good character from his former employers ti " returned a verdict of Guilty . The Recorder i ? ?' that tut for his previous good character Wi'S have felt it his duty to send the prisoner Z i- ^ country . The circumstances under which tt ! tlle had been committed added considerably to ft * , c c tion . It was clear that the enforcement of F'V ain its most fearful extent had no terrors ami ti tlw the prisoner would not , on account of liis w" * b previous good character , be sent abroad tt ; u a d must undergo a severe and lengthened inca ' rcHi he The sentence of the Court was , that be be S ' ' - and kept to hard labour in tho House of Co ' , ^ tor the term oi one year . v " » « ioii

      "Wednesday . —Feloniously KituKo . -Jan , , it , aged twenty-six , was indicted for feloniousl l-Vi- ' and slaying William Temple . It appS f , . '" ii'S evidence ot John Moss , a City policeman thnfi . lc on duty on the evening of Friday , the 23 rd ( , M last , on Snow-hill , when he observed the . 1 . ' a - uss ^ assssst& sn ^ si immediately after he saw the prisoner drivC , , at a violent rate in the same direction Until i ceased was going . The cab struck the back , 1 ^ the cart , which overturned it , and the decew , l of thrown out on his back . The prisoner sto pfe cab , and the deceased was taken into a pub if . L c ose by ,. wherche remained some time in an hi , S state The prisoner appeared to be in li « ui S might have avoided the accident had he taken ,, !• J care . The deceased was removed to St ]]' . i T

      . , , mew ' s Hospital , and the prisoner was taken in n tody by the witness . James Stetton , " a friend of ??* deceased , who was on horseback riding a little i , vance of his friend , corroborated the evidence nfti policeman . Mr . James Ree , the house surgeon of si * BartholemcVs Hospital , stated that flit d « JLi wasbroughttlicreinastateof insensibility "Eh ™ severe woundon the back part of liis head , ir vn , il he died at three o ' clock on the following 12 ' Mr . Clarkson haying addressed the jury mi E 1 If the prisoner , called several witnesses , who spoke I the prisoner as being a kind hearted and umL man . The jury returned a verdict of Guiltv T compamed with a strong recommendation toiu ' erev Sentence , two months' imprisonment in the Hous ,. ' . ' ? Correction , without hard iabour . w

      Thursday . —Charge of Murder . —Daniel Ini ,,, Cock , 21 a respectable looking young man , destviU in the calendar as a waiter , was indicted forth wflfirf murderof Hannah Moore . Mr . Payne apn rC I ! Wieprosecution , and Mr . Parry defeudedt ^ 2 mi r l ; rom the statement of the learned counsel , £ S £ the evidence adduced , it appeared - .-That tlio ~ i soncr and the deceased lived together in service ! they had been discharged from that situation -mi being unhappy in their minds they determined to cominitsuicide . The prisoner bought sonic oxali ! acid , which be administered to the young woman and a so to himself . That portion which las g " n to Hannah Moore cause _ d her death , but the % r \ lZ

      recovered trom the effects of the poison he had taken t us being the case , and the prisonor being present at the time the poison was taken b y tho deceased in the eye of the law he was considered guilty of nniii ' ler and hence the present charge . Mr . Parry addrcwj the jury on behalf of the prisoner—Mr . Justice Patteson summed up at considerable lcn « th ami the jury retired at two o ' clock . After an ' X senceofhalfanhour they returned into Court and after their names had been called over , and tlicv lml answered to them the Clerk of the Arraigns " said gentlemen , are you agreed on vour verdict ?—The Foreman : We are .-Clerk of ' the Arraigns : Do you find the prisoner at the bar Guilty or Not Gnilty i -IheForeman : Not Guilty—The prisoner then bowed most respectfull y , and left the dock .

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      BANKRUPTS . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , June I 7 ( ft ; I 8 t 5 . j Thomas James Hill , Cumberland-nm , Islingtuu ^ rccn , builder-John rcstcll , Sandy , Bedfordshire , eorn-factoruiiuert Slater , London-terriicc , Hackney-roail , groccr-Alfrcd Tallent , sen ., Ipswich , pvovisioiwlealer- Mn i etors , Kent-street , Haggerston , fancy-triinming-mamifao tiu-er-Joscph Bond , Heading , grocor-Sauwel Tliomas , Un-nhill , bullion-merchant-Joh n Simons , sen ., Caraden Town , coal-merchant—Charles Dames Wilson , Saville . place , Mile-end , builder-William La * Brown , Uvev \ wol , merchant—Marj- Spence and William Whitakcr Spente , fteweastle-upon-T yiie , woollen-draneis .

      PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . I . Moses , S . Isaacs , ana J . Moses , jun ., Portsoa , Haiipsnire , navy agents-W . Sugden and B . Bedfern , Munches , tor , stoue-masons-J . Overbury and J : L . Harris , Frederick s-placo , Old Jewry , Blaekwoll-hall factors-J . Watnej and B . Bovul-G . and H . Challaml , Huddersfield , corn . dealers-J . Hudson and \ V . FiM-cie , Nottingham , lace . mairatacturers-J . Orv and It . M'Slaster , Liverpool , ship . brokcrs-N . Brown and T . Hodlev , Hcxham , Nortlnrnbsr . land , sawyers .

      DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS . & . Chapman , Avlesbury , Buckinghamshire , grocer , first dividend of 3 s Gd in the pound , on new proofs onlj , any A \ cdncsday , at the office of Mr . Graham , Coleiiiaii-itrcet , City . S . Glyde , Southampton-row , Russell-siiuare , grocer , sc coml dividend of Cd in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Graham , Coleman-street , City . J . Andrews , Threadneedlc-street , Citv , stock-br oker , third dividend of Is 9 Jd in the pound , any Wednesday . « the ofticc of Jlr . Graham , Coleman . street . C . Carter , Saddington , Leicestershire , miller , first divt-* Jr ° , U . 5 l 1 in the I " "" " any Tuesdav , at the office ot Sir . Wlutmore , Birmingham

      J . Ashbarry , llolm Lacy , Herefordshire , farmer , first ™* 01 ls '" . t " P ° « nd , any Tuesday , at the office ot Mr . Whitmore , Birmingham . J . Storey and J . Gibb , Liverpool , ship-chandlers , first dividend of 4 s in the pound , any Wednesday , at the offii-e of Mr . Morgan , Liverpool . J . Storey , Liverpool , ship-chandler , first dividend of U in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Morgan Liverpool . G . Charles , Liverpool , ship-chandler , dividend of Us Od m the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . Morgan . Liverpool ..

      DIVIDENDS . July 16 , F . Jenkyns , Love-lane , Eastcheap , merchants- ' July 8 , C . Dotesio , Slough , Buckinghamshire , hotel-keei'tr —July 9 , J . and J . R . Keay , Mark-lane , merchants—Jnlj 11 , H . Kipling and W . Atkinson , Wood-street , CheansidA warehousemen—July 11 , J . and A . Emmett , Old Keutroad , market gardeners-Jul y 11 , J . F . Buisson , Brabantcourt , Philpot-lane , merchant-July 11 , A . CrossficU , Wlntechapel-road , scrivener-Jul y 11 , C . Webb Oxford , apothecary-July 0 , W . G . Seed , Manchester , cottou manufacturer-July 1 G , 1 ) . Hilton , Greenacres Moor Lancashire , uotton spinner-July 10 , T . L . Parker , Edebaston , Warwickshire , coal merchant—Jul y 11 , J . A . Forrest . Liverpool , glass merchant—July U , S . John , Penzniu-ei money scrivener—July 11 , G . F . S . Isherwood , llulme , Lancashire , engraver to calico printers—July 9 , G . Shaw , Oldham , Lancashire , cotton spinner-July 14 , J . MetcaK , Liverpool , grocer-July 10 , W . Bancks and J . B . Per ry , Birmingham , merchants . Certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting .

      July 8 , M , C . Painter , Great Peter-street , Westmins ter , grocer-July S , J . and T . Batt , Old Broad-street , Citv . dealers in silk—July 8 , E , S . Darvell , Great Tower-street , City , colonial-broker—July 10 , S . Harvey , Mersea , Kssi * cattle-dealer-July 0 , U . p . Cook , Coggeshall , Essefc licensed-victualler-Jul y 14 , W . U . Lester , Aldernianbiiry , City , silk-manufacturer-July 14 , W . Start , Sncinton , Si * tinghamshire , lace-maker—July 15 , J . Ileaton , Liu llotfi Shropshire , stationer—July 8 , J . Trevitt , When ton Aston . Staffordshire , butcher-July 8 , J . A . Hick , Leeds , carrtf and gilder-July 8 , J . Jones , Chester , fellmongcr-Jnly ? i w . Meek , Southampton , ironmonger-July 8 , J . Hulling' / worth , Paddington-street , Marvlebone , butcher-July >< W . Adie , Birmingham , button-inaker .

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      vmcein tne same street ana i"arisn , w prictor , FEAltGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., and published Wiixiak Hewitt , of No . 18 , Charlos-street , Brandon street , Wahvorth , in the Parish of St . Mary , NewioS " ton , in the County of Surrey , at the Office , No . 3 ^ Strand , in the Parish o St . Mary . le-Strand , ' « " '' City of Westminster Saturday . June 21 , 1845 . *

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      Alarmiso Fibe . —On Sunday morning , shortly after nine o clock , a very alarming fire broke out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr . Rankine , anatomical bootmaker , situate No . 94 , Cheapside . A servant maid having been sent into the kitchen to procure a scuttle of coals with a lighted candle in her hand , in returning she incautiously placed the light under a bunch of paper patterns hanging to the partition of the shop . The consequence vraa , that the patterns became ignited , and before the eirl could extinguish the flames , they communicated with the greatest rapidity to the staircase , whence they travelled to the upper portion of the house so fiercely that the inmates had not time to save any of the contents , except the books , which were rescued by Mr . Rankine after considerable difficulty . With all speed the engines of the London Brigade , with Mr . Superintendent Braidwood , reached the spot ; but so rapid had been the progress of the flames during the brief periedthat

      had elapsed , that the names were breaking through the top windows with such fury as to threaten with destruction the surrounding houses . The above engines having been set to work , a powerful stream of water was discharged upon the flames , in spite of which they continued to burn for nearly an hour , before any impression was made upon them . The West of Fngland engine and firemen , with several others , were also early at the scene , and owing to tho exertions of the Brigade the flames were eventually extinguished , but not before damage to a considerable amount had been done ; the whole of Mr . Rankine ' s stock in trade and furniture being nearly destroyed , and the adjoining premises of Messrs . Fonten and Bean , hosiers and glovers , as well as one or two other buildings , are severely injured by fire and water . Mr . Rankine was insured in the Sun-office , and Messrs . Ponten and Bean were similarly protected in the Atlas-office .

      Cask or Suicide prom Uiier Destitution . — A lamentable case of suicide occurred in Back Milkstreet , Bolton Moor , on Wednesday last , committed by John Haddock , a handloom weaver . An inquest was held on the body at the Lord Nelson public house at three o ' clock in the afternoon of the same day , before John Taylor , Esq ., borough coroner . The appearance of his house waa exceedingly miserable , and the attention of the jury was also drawn to another case of distress in a cottage near the reservoir , occupied by a man named Sharpies . There sat , as they entered a young woman pale and sick , almost in the last state of consumption , laud occupying tho only chair in the house . " How are they for food ?" uiu

      uitjuucu ; , auu uuuu examining me pantry , tnc exclamation was , "Why , there ' s not a pennyworth in the house !—there ' s nothing but buttermilk . " The young woman was not in a fit state to converse with , and being the only person present , without further ceremony the jury proceeded up stairs and there 'found not a single article of furniture save and except two miserable straw pallets , thinly covered ; one being on the floor and the other upou a rickety old pair of low bedsteads , and the sheets having the imprint upon them "Lent by the Society of Friends . " The jury , on their return , met the visiting officer of the Poor Protection Society , who promised to inquire into the case . The man , it was said , earned six shillings a-week by handloom weaving , and one

      of the family of four children 4 s . Cd ., out of which rent , taxes , food , and clothing had to be provided . Ill these days , when handloom weaving has to meet the competition of mechanical power , it is astonishing that men will still continue'to cling to it ; for it is next to impossible to do _ anything but starve under the influence of such a rival ; but some are with a trade as with the soil , they will not leave it . On the return of the jury the following evidence was given : —Robert Whittle , of Rothwell-street , weaver , deposed , that he hail known deceased about eighteen months , and had worked as shopmate with him about three weeks ago . About an hour before I cut him down ( eleven o ' clock this morning ) he came into my cellar , and asked my shopmate ( John Mosci-od ) . if he

      had an old pipe he could give him . He gave him one . I did not notice any thing unusual about him then . He simply said to me , "How are you ?" before he went upstairs for the pipe . In about an hour afterwards lus wifecarao running shrieking into the house , and said he was hanging in the stairs . I took a knife from the table and three of us ran in , and I found him hanging in the stairs from the rail . His feet did not touch the stairs , and he was quite dead . There was chalked on the room floor the following , and I know it to be his handwriting : — " To my wife—fare the well to see the starve i cannot endure and my family—be mindful of my son and call it name William so fare the well . As long as life is misery death his pleasure—to starve is pain , and

      see my family starve is a torment therefore i can endure it no longer . And I cease to exist by my own hand . " Catharine , widow of the deceased John Haddock , deposed that she had been acquainted with him three years . He was a muslin weaver ; and we were married a fortnight before last Easter . We then lived in Little Bolton , in lodgings , until three weeks ago , when we removed to our present cottage , belonging to Thomas Rostron , Back Milk-street . \ Ve have two pair of looms , and two winding macWiies , and a double box lathe , belonging to the landlord , which the overseer is charged with . The other furniture consists of a small table , two chairs , t > cradle , pan , a few pots , and an old bed made of straw . My husband has earned 5 s . 6 d . during the last three weeks ,

      and the reason he has not got more is because he has been fitting up the looms . We received 2 s . from Mr . Kenyon , the relieving officer , the week we came into the place , and that , with the 5 s . 6 d ., is all the money we have had to live upon since we went there , and rat of that we paid 2 s . 9 d . to the landlord . I have lad no meat on credit ; but I have pawned a dres 3 or 2 s ., a flannel shirt for 9 d ., and I got 3 s . upon a bundle containing a shirt , chemise , and two of the girls frocks . I am certain I have had no more money during that period—making 10 s . 6 d . for the taae , which was a month yesterday . I went to Mr . Haslam ' s warehouse , at Lark-hill , for whom we ! 2 W # i m ?™ # borrow 2 s ., and their man refused to lend it . On my return I found him hangthe stairs

      ing m . He sent me for the 2 s . about eleven o clock . We had potatoes at dinner yesterday ; , and at tea time dry bread , but nothing since . We purchased half-a-pound ofmutton called " bits , " on Saturday , for twopence . On Sunday we had no breakfast . At dinner we had potatoes ; at tea-tune we had drv bread , and nothing else but water iu the house . We have had no butter this fortnight ; nor sugar for tbrce days . We have lived the same way ever since we drank cocoa instead of tea , because it was only twopence for a quarter of a pound . We had no supper on any of these days . I set him some bread this morning , and some cocoa , but he said it was so drv he could not eat it . We have not had sufficient meat hl 1 ! £ liT J" j * ¥ ve becn Uvin ? here : although "l ^ L 81 ^ and working har 3 at the time . I

      hnrrnw L 9 1 ^ , I *"" h ( $ deslred Me t 0 8 ° borrow the 2 s ., he said he wanted his breakfaafr-hc ^ wr Wtl -r Utmeat - Iw ^ s upstairs at ten 0 clock , and the writing was not upon the floor then . 1 am convinced he haslung himself from destitution , and nothing else-The Coroner summed up , and the jury returned the following verdict — " That the deceased hung himself in a fit of temporary derangement , occasioned by poverty and extreme destitution . " The coroner gave the widow of deceased a sovereign , and Mr . Rostron , her landlord , returned her the 2 s . 9 d ., the amount of rent which they had already paid , —BoUon Fra Press

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      . ^ f « ^» FIFKSHIRE . -A labouring man residino in this vi Inge , named Robert Motion , bavin" for I long time been very serviceable to the people of tliia place and neighbourhood in setting broken and dislocated limbs tor those who by any accident required snch help , it waa some time ago resolved by a number ot persons to present him with some mark of public gratitude for his humane and praiseworthy services

      Accordingl y a sum of money was collected , and with it was purchased a silver snuff-box , bearing tlie following mscription : — " Presented to Robert ; Motwn by the inhabitants of Denhead and vicinity , as a mark of esteem for Ins services as an expert bone-setter . " On rnday evening , June 13 th , a procession of the working men , with music and colours , went through the village , and afterwards assembled in the schoolroom , where a large mcctincr gathered . Mr . Wa II ™

      tne schoolmaster , was called to the chair ; and the meeting was addressed by a working man , who at the m W L P eecl 1 presented the snuff-box to Mr . Motion . Mr . M . returned thanks , and the meeting dissolved [ How much more truly honourable is this simple snuff-box , both to the givers and the receiver , than all the costly "honours" heaped upon a military conqueror by a foolish nation . In the former case a man is rewarded for being an export bone-setter and life-saver , in the latter case the soldier is rewarded for being a wholesale bone-breaker and life-destroyer . Strange that society should uot aTDSffi ^ sr taught by thc 8 ensiblc

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      4 JW 8 THE NORTHERN STAR June 21 . i 845

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 21, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1320/page/8/