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THE QUEER'S VISIT TO GERMANY.
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As Old Odd Fellow . —His letter next week , and also some other information of considerable importance to the Order . ^^ .., . . .. . . . .
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The Queer's Visit To Germany.
THE QUEER'S VISIT TO GERMANY .
On Saturday last , almost . immediately after ilie proro gation of IVtrlianiciit , the Queen and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace for Woolwich , where at five o ' clock she embarked on board the Royal yacht for Antwerp « n lier visit to Germany . The Queen looked remarkably well and was attired in a Tuscan cottage bonnet trimmed with primrose-coloured ril » - bon . wmiueshut silk dress , and a black , silk shawl . The Prince carried his white hat ( immortalised in /'« jir /<) in his hand to the barge . He wore a black surteut and French , grey trousers , and light drab wrapper . A goodly muster of sight seekers aud fools Were present , whoof course annoyed the poor Queen tfltk their impertinent staring and silly chatter . At
3 ialf-i » nst five precisely tlie lloyal yacht cast oft' her mooriii ^ s and proceeded at slow speed down the river . The yacht anchored in the lower ' Sea Ueach , nearly opposite Southcnd , on Saturday night , aud at an early hour on Sunday morning sailed for the Scheldt The Queen is expected to be absent about four weeks . How weare to get on in the meantime goodness gracious only knows ! Peter Boithwiek is in a sad Hurry , and expects nothing else but that President Polk , Prince Join viJle , or King Dan , will be snugly located at Buckingham palacebeforcher Majesty can return . Peter thinks the accident to the crown ( which the stupid Duke of Ar « ylc let fall out of his finders ) is ominous of some fri » htful calamity . Thank heaven there is no llichardln tiic wav—the Duke of Cumber
land is safe in Hanover , otherwise Peter would iusist upon having the lords justices to take care of the royal "babies . " , AsxwERP . —The Royal yacht reached Antwerp on Sunday evening after a tempestuous pa&sase . The voyagers , however , did not disembark till the next morning ( Monday ) , when the Queen and her husband enjoyed ihc usual reception . The Royal party proceeded immediately to the Liege railway , of course attended by a vast number oi people . At the Malincs and Louvain stations large numbers of people had assembled . Describing the stoppage at the Louvain station , the Junes correspondent says , " The people received the Royal travellers witll " the . customary Tvelcomc . The quiet caurtesy of the people seemed , however , not enough for a travelling Englishman who
happened to be among them , lie setup at once the national hurrah , or rather , in his fashion , the 'hooray , ' and tried , by actingasfugleman , to induce the rest to join . But tlie chorus was verv faint . The train stopped , however , for a few moments , and when it was once more in motion our Englishman again setup his cheer , waving his hat most energetically . By this time the people had entered into ' the humour of it , ' and they joined him with a cheer as liearty as could have been produced by any given number of John Bulls . The fugleman seemed intensely delighted at the result ofhis feat . " What an ass 2 We arc sorrj the poor annoyed Queen did not pull this donkey ' s eats . liege " wasascenc of great excitement . ' After a few minutes ' stoppage the train proceeded on to Aix-la-Chapclle .
Cologne , Acgcst 12 . — After leaving Liege the next place arrived at was Vcr viers , near the Prussian frontier . According to the Times here "there was a grandsensation . " Ha c"thelviugandQuscnof the Belgians , who had accompanied her Majesty thus far , took their leave of the travellers and turned about for Brussels . The next station at which the train stopped was Uabersthal , the point at whieh the Prussian tcrritoiy commences . Here the Crown PriHCc of Prussia , made his appearance immediately on the arrival of the train . He went into tlie Royal carriage . The characteristic enthusiasm of the Prussians was exhibited here also . The cheering was deafening . " At Aix-la-Chapel ! e " . " a similar scene was presented , but on alarger scale . The Prussian
troops lined the station , in which also there was a very large assemblage of Ilerrcn andFrauen . Ilcre the King of Pirosia was waiting . " llere too there was " fireiug of salutes , " " triumphal arches , " " immense multitudes , " " enthusiastic cheering , " < fcc . Here the Queen visited the iombof Charlemagne , in the Cathedral . The party returned to the station at about a quarter to five o ' clock , having been away aliogeQier three Lours . In a few minutes the train was again in motion . At a small place , called langerweide , the train stopped for a few minute s , and again at Daren , " where there was a great
display of Prussian beauties , troops , music , laurels , and enthusiasm . " But , accordiug to the Tinux , " gratifying as the reception of her Majesty by flie Prussians must have already been , Cologne presented a stttl more striking spectacle . As the spues of the an-icnt city became visible in the distance , so also vex there signs that Us vast population wercon the stir . AYhcn the train neared the station , a dense mass of people were to be seen , who had collected there to view her Majesty ' s arrival . There ivcre triumplial arcljes , festoons , bands of music , and above all , troops in abundance—in fact , the same scene which had been enacted at almost everv station
on the way down was now repeated , but on a gigantic scale . The whole population of the city seemed to have poured out . so dense and so enormous was the crowd . " The royal party left the railway for the private carriages , which were drawn up outside the station , and drove off at once to the station of the Bonn Railway . To d ) this they had to pass through tlie principal part of the city of Cologne . A short time on the Bonn Railway brought the travellers to the Bruhl station , close to the palace of the King of Prussia , " where her Majesty arrived soon after in safety , in the presence of multitudes who gave her a right hearty welcome . "
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™ , . ^ E FATAL COLLISION ON THE LONDON AXDBIRMINGHAM , RAILWAY . Adjoubsed Incest ox hie Body op Mn . Giiaiu . es ueax . —On Alonday forenoon this inquiry was resumed . The jury , by a previous arrangement , assembled m the first instance at the EustOll station , where they were afforded an opportunity of inspecting the remains of the broken cairia « cs and trucks . } lie jury having answered to their names , proceeded m company with the coroner to view the spot where the accident occurred . They next examined the signals at the bridge , and questioned the officer on duty as to the mode of working them under different circumstances . Subsequently they procee d ed to tlie mouth of the tunnel , where the same course tf
examination of the officer on duty and inspection of the signal was adopted . Returning to thebridge a number of carriages and trucks were placed upon the line in the exact position of those to which Uie accident oeeurrcd , the result being that the jury were enab cd very clearly to understand the manner in winch the collision took place . On the return of the jury to the inquest room , Mr . John Thomas Griffiths said he was one of the house surgeons at University Hospital , and saw deceased immediate ! v after his admission . On examination witness found that the left leg below the knee was dreadfully lacerated and the bone ^ much crushed . A consultation was held , and Mr . Liston kavmg pronounced amputation necessary the operation was performed by Mr Mor-I ^ JKrT aftOT f ob : , TIie ( leccascd' « cnt on well for three or four daysbut on Mondav last
, his countenance became anxious , the constitutional system began to weaken , and he graduall y sank , and died on the morning of the 5 th instant . Witness had since , by direction of the coroner , made a post mortem examination of the body , which discovered extensive mortification of tlie muscles of the left lc extending some distance up ike thigh . -Witness considered the immediate cause of death to have been exhaustion arising from excessive irritation of the stump . Tlie deceased had been a vorv free liver and that might accouut for the accident having terminated fatally . Had the leg not been amputated he might not have lived twenty-four hours . AVitncs asked deceased no questions on the sultiect of th accident , because he felt it necessary that he shoulde be kept as quiet as possible ; but he heard him say on one occasion that when the collision occurred lie
was sitting in the carnage with his back to the engine , and that the shock forced him forward against the opposite scat by which his knee was crushed . Witness did not hear Mr . Dean express any opinion on the subject of the accident . The Coroner : Have you any doubt that the injuries deceased sustained by the accident caused his death ? Witness : None whatever . —John Halse was here introduced ; He said , I am a police constable ( No . 95 ) , in the service of tke London and Birmingham Railwav , and reside at No . 2 , Ferdinand-place , llampsteadroad . I was on dtity at the " crossing" near Chalk Fann Bridge , on the morning of the 29 th ult . I was thercwhen theco'Jision between the trains took place , and was the first to run to the carriage in which Mr .
JJean was . Jfc was the third carriage from the tender attached to the engine of the up train . I do not knowthe number of that engine . ( A gentleman connected with tlie company here stated that the engine was numbered 01 . ) The spot where the collision took place was a short distance upon the London side of the Chalk Farm Bridge . The carriages of the up train were upon-the rails when the accident occurred ; anda portion of the luggage trucks were upon the " crossing . " Mr . Dean was taken out of the carriage about five minutes after the accident and conveyed upon a truck to the Euston station and thence to the hospital . The collision took place about three minutes after five o ' clock . I had fears there would be an accident as soon as I saw the incoming tram
coming up . Thefogwasso thick at this time that I could not see more than five or six yards before me . The incoming train is called the Liverpool and Lancashire mail . I was on duty at the " crossing , " and it was my duty to ¦ " shunt" the luggage trucks from the " sidings" on to the main line . I had been on duty about ten hours and a half when the accident occurred . Directly after I first saw the engine of the lip train it struck the luggage train . The latter is called the first Birmingham train from London , and its proper time for starting is 4 . 13 a . m . It was three minutes past five when the collision took place , and the luggage train was crossing on to the main line at the time . The train was not actually in motion , it had been standing still about a minute . There were
two engines attached to the front of the luggage train , Jios . SS and 90 . I believe there were as many " as forty-seven waggons in the luggage train . Three or them were struck by the tip-train engine , the point wncrc the latter came in contact being about the sixteenth or seventeenth truck from the tender . The names of the drivers of those engines" were William finch and George Grace . The . luggage train was stopjjingat the moment . of the collision , because -we had ioui-more waggons to attach tu it . The luggage tram was forty-eight minutes behind timein starting that morning ; but if the mail train had not come u ? when it did , in another minute , the line would have been / clear . I account for the delay in starting the train by the extra quantity of goods to be conveyed thatmorniug . 1 have never known a train with a greater number of trucks f tart at its proper time . I
have seen as many as forty-nine or fifty ,: wasgons in one train . At this stage of the inquiry one ' of the jurors ( Mr . Gray ) was suddenly taken ill , ' and after some delay oneof the medical men in attendance entered the court an *! gave it as his opinion that as the gentleman was labouring under a severe , attack of palpitation of the heart , arising from excitement , it would be very desirable to dispense with his services if the coroner could do so . Mr . Gray was ultimately led into court , and having expressed his inability to take any further part-. in tlie proceedings that day , the coroner at once determined to adjourn the inquiry , remarking that he thought very little time would be lost by such an arrangement , as they might then be able to obtain the evidence of several important witnesses who did not appear to be present on that occasion . The inquiry was then formally adjourned until Thursday .
MURDER AT LEICESTER . Leicester , Moxdat . A murderofa most appalling character has occurred here this morning . A young man , about four or five and twenty , named William Iiubbard , a framework knitter , had lived with his wife for sometime past in a small tenement leading out of what is called the Xewarkly , occupying it jointly with his brother , who is also married . The matrimonial career of the former , though but of three years' duration , has , it is said , been most unhappy from its commencement . She is reported to have been a still , steady , hardworking woman , and lie , on the contrary , to have been improvident and idle . They had been poorlv off for some timeand he was determined to fall upoh
, the union . ^ This his wife resisted strenuously , declariug her intention of proceeding to Birmingham , where her mother and a sister reside , and there earn her own maintenance . This morning was fixed upon by her for her departure thence . About six o ' clock her husband , who . in consequence of their disagreements , had slept at Ms mother ' s over night ; knocked at the door , desiring his wife to let him in . She came downstairs , with but her night-clothes on , and had no sooner opened the door than a scream was heard , and the brother and his wife , coming down on the instant , the unfortunate woman , the wife of William llubbard , -was found weltering in her blood , with a
frightful gash in her throat ; indeed , she was only noticed to give one deep sigh ere she expired . The murderer fled immediately down a lane leading to the Leicester Canal , along the towing path of which ae ran some hundred yards , and , crossing into a Mr . Stretton ' s field , hid himself in a dike , nearlv covered with nettles and briars , where he was found in less than an hour afterwards , by some lads , who , with a great number of neighbours and policemen , instantly set elfin search of him . He made little or no resistance , but expressed his sorrow for what he bad done . He uudenveiit a brief examination this morning before two or three of the borough magistrates , and was remanded until Monday next .
Tire Ixqcest . —The inquest on tlie body of the nnfortnnate Hannah Iiubbard , was held on Tuesday before Mr . John Gregory , coroner , at the Bowlinggreen Inn , Oxford-street . A very respectable jury was sworn , and they immediately proceeded to view the body ; it was not without some difficulty , hoirercr , that they reached the liouse where it lay . in consequence of the vast number of people who had assembled , and amongst whom , it is perhaps needless to state , one universal feeling of execration exists . The female portion of the crowd more especraliy appear to have become endued with an extraordinary spirit of revenge against the murderer . Their indignation at the " bare supposition of the murderer's escaping on the plea of insanity is almost without bounds .
It was truly a fearful sight where the shocking deed was consummated . In the kitchen and on a chair were pools of blood , not dry even yet . The body of the hapless woman was laid upon the bed upstairs . Iler throat showed a gash about three inches and a half long and two or three inches deep - , so deep , in fact , as to lay the vertebne of the ncefc quite bare . The windpipe was very nearly cut through , as were several important arteries . * Her . hair hung dishevelled down her shoulders , and blood was scattered in horrid profusion over her hands , neck , and bosom , and upon the clothes she wore . On the return of the jury to tlie Bowling-green , Jane Mitchell was called , who deposed as follows
—I am a single woman and live next door but one to the deceased ' s brother-in-law , John Hnbbard . I knew the deceased , fler husband , William Hubbard , is a framework knitter . Deceased lived at John Hubbard ' s , and had one child livin ? with her . Her husband came out of the Infivmavy last Tuesday , and rthink had not since lived with his wife . About six o ' clock on Monday morning Iheard screams of "Murder / and cries of "Help , " which appeared to proceed from Hubbard ' shouse . Iopenedmy window , and looking out , saw John Hubbard in the yard holding deceased , whilst bWd was flowing from * a wound in her throat . He liad one hand asainst her chin , and the other on her forehead . John Hubbard ' s wife ' gfljd . " For GodV . sake Jnne , comedown ; Bill ' s mur-
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| » ft-r-Sffi ^ einuTSln K J 1 ' v WilIi »™ Hubbnril about |» AMft ^ Sj $ S 3 £ -s « £ JB SLt letter there ban at Leicester , as she could go out to wrrico wlulc her mother k of ho iii ---- mvuitr iuumcarts in
( oocnve . _; i ... „ . . nur ¦ IXL WilS a Y , some time previous to hear"Vine screams , but heard no noise or quarrelling te-, « Vi ? o ierc be . " - aa l th «* 1 . should lmve leartt it . borne ot the furniture was sold one day lasMveek , and taken away either on-Thursday or tnday evening . Deceased was a very quiet , hardworking woman . She was 21 years of age , ami made button-holes tor flannel shirts . She worked for Mr Angrave , hosier , iu Silvi'i ^ strce ' . By a Juror . —She never assigned any reason to me lor living apart from her husband .
^ Elizabeth Bates called . —I reside nextdoovto John iiubbard . 1 was awoke by cries of " Muriler" about six o dock on Monday moi-ning , and on opening the window saw John Iiubbard supporting the deceased in . . the yard . Her hair hung over her face , aud she was bleeding very much from the throat . John said , uill , whatever have you been doimr ? " He then looked up , - and seeing me , said , " For God ' s sake come - -and assist us . " 1 asked wi , cro m \ m $ , and J «?« swiiorepheathat ; lie was gone . 1 did not sec William llubbavd that morning . I did not « o down stairs , I was so much afraid . I saw William Iiubbard in Bonncr ' s-lane on Saturday , and on Friday at noon in the house ; John Uubbard and his wife ' were in their night clothes , and the deceased was only partly dressed .
Amv Chesterton was next called . —I am aricigh-.. T . , Hubbaitfa , and heard the first cry of Murder a few minutes before the six o ' clock bell rang lhe noise came as if from Hubbard's liouse . 1 looked out of the window and saw John Hubbard holding the deceased . I at first thought if Was William , and called out "You rascal , what are you doing ? Are you throttling that poor woman ? " No answer was made , but John Hubbard ' s wife continued to cry out " Murder . " I then went down stairs to the door leading to John Hnbbard ' s yard , when I saw the prisoner , William Iiubbard , come from-. John uubbard ' s kitchen , and turndown the entry to the left , to \ vavds tbe lane , lie walked at a sharp pace . It was John Uubbard who was holding the deceased . I went into the street , awl called Mr . Orange , wlio was passing at the time , to assist . He lifted deceased
into the kitchen , &nd placed her in a chair , where skc expired in about eleven minutes / 'Deceased "had a very "heavy" wound in tlie throat , and was bleeding very profusely . Mr . Orange went for a-surgeon , and Mr . llighton came immediately . Mr . Harding , from the Infirmary , soon followed . William Iiubbard had not lived with his wife since he left tlie infirmary on Tuesday last , lie had slept at his mother ' s . Deceased had a child living with her . The property of the deceased was sold on Thursday for 27 s . It wr . s furniture given to her bv her mother at her father ' s death . William Hubbard had a bed , and gave her 12 s . out of the 27 s . He-knew , she was going to Birmingham , and that the furniture was sold for that purpose . Deceased told me on Sunday that her husband would not have her go . She appeared to be in great trouble about it . I don ' t know how it was that deceased did not live with her husband . . : ¦ ; ..
--By the Jury . —! did not see William Hubbard ' s face , nor that he had the blood on bis hands . James Orange corroborated the previous evidence , and said—The deceased expired on tlie chair in the house , while the two women , Chesterton and John Ilnbbard ' s wife , had gone upstairs to finish dressing . When he first went to the spot , Mrs . Hubbard was crying "Murder ! " and lie , witness , endeavoured to stop the bleeding by wrapping a towel round the deceased ' s throat / Witness asked who had done it , and was told by John ' s wife that William ¦ Iiubbard had done it , and had run away . He then set off for a doctor . Deceased had been dead five minutes when Mr . Ilighton enme .
El zabeth llubbavd , wife of John Hubbard , deposed as follows : —The deceased was the wile of William Hubbard , my husband ' s brother , and had lived atonr house for about eleven months . Her husband lived with her till he went to the Infivmavy , three weeks since . It was said he was inadccline . I don't know anything , about any other complaint he had . He came out on Tuesday , and remained with his wife until-Thursday' night , when lie left . It was understood that the deceased should go to her friends for two months , until he got better . On Thursday night William Iiubbard took the bed and bedding and three chairs ¦ to his mother's : The rest was sold , ' and tlie money divided . William'Hubbard did not tlien ap : pcav to object to his wife ' s going . ! lie ' was at our
house several times in the course' of Friday , ' but nothing unpleasant "took' place : He came also on Saturday . His mother ' s house was about a hundred yards oflV On Sunday morning he came in between nine and ten o ' clock , and was frequently in the house until the afternoon , when deceased ' s brother , James Walton , came and fetched her to go out to tea . Her husband . went out with them . He did not make any remark . He came in again about four o ' clock , anil asked me- whether the deceased was going by the waggon at six o ' clock that'evening : She told him she was not , for her clothes were riot packed lip ' . ' He appeared very uneasy . and said be should riot like to part with his child , or his wife cither , while he was so ill . - . - . - 'He said he had . fast heard she wasgoing 6 ffi
and asked me if I should like to leave my husband and child , and my huiband so ill as he was . I said she was only going for . a few months ; and he would bo better then . About six o ' clock Hubbard came in again , and whilst he was in the house , his wife came home and put the child to bed . She then went out with the young woman she had been drinking tea with . About nine o ' clock the deceased came home , and remained in conversation with the prisoner in the entry for about three-quarters of an hour . He appeared to be in his usual state , and bade us all good night . A little before six o ' clock on Monday morning I heard deceased go down stairs . She unbolted the kitchen door immediately , and I heard William Hubbard say something to her , but could not say what it was . Deceased Jighted the fire , and cleaned the kitchen up , and I heard them talking together during the time it occupied , but not in an angry tone . Their child cried , and William Hubbavd came up to the top of the stairs . I then heard him sav . "She has
dropped off to sleep" ( meaning the child ) , and he went down again . He had not been down more than three minutes before I heard a most dreadful noi ? e ' , resembling a groan . I awoke my husband , and said , " John , whatever is the row . ? '' We both got out of bed directly and ran down stairs . In tlie kitchen 1 saw the deceased standing against an arm chair , but without support , bleeding very fast from the throat . My husband ran tip to her and carried her out into the yard . William Hubbard was standing at the back of her in the corner , and had something in his hand , but what it was I cannot say . I did not see whether it was bloody . I said to him , "Oh , Bill , what have you done ? " He said , "I intended to do it , if I got hung for it . " I then began to cry out "Murder , " as loud as I could , and saw no more of lim . I could not say which way he went . My husband continued to hold the deceased and cry out ' Murder" also . Deceased never spoke after we went down stairs .
John Iiubbard , the husband of the last witness , was then sworn and corroborated . in part his wile ' s evidence . He said , I heard a scuflle before I went down stairs , and a noise as though some person was endeavouring to speak , bnt could not . At the request of my wife I went down stairs , and saw the deceased standing in the middle of the floor , the blood running from her neck . I went and laid hold of her and said , " Good Lord , Ann , whatis the matter with you ? " She did not appear to have power to speak ; and made no reply whatever . I did not sec any one
else in the room . I carried the deceased into the yard , and called out " Murder . " The first person I saw was Robert Pratt , looking over the wall of the yard , and I beckoned him to assist . I was so flurried I cannot say whether I saw Jane Mitchell then or not . It was possible some other person might be in the room , but I was so flustered I did not notice . 1 would not swear that no other person was in the kitchen . I had not heard my brother ' s voice that niorning . Other witnesses were examined , and the jury returned , without hesitation , a verdict oi" " Wilful Murder against William Iiubbard . "
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' . ¦ ^ l } NDERLANDELEeTIONn : ;;; " ' The NoMi . vATiox . —Uustings , Iligh-street . Sunu erland , August 13 . —While I now . write there is sueb a disturbance ns has seldom ever been witnessed . Mr .. Hudson's party approached the .. hustingslor the purpose of dividing Colonel Thompson ' s forces , and ohntemiptiiig the Colonel ' s proposer , while addressing , the multitude . Tlie . splendid , banner they earned was thrown to the ground in a moment , and in a . short space of time torn to ribands ; the poles werebroken and laid over the ' shoulilcis of the bearers of them . Mr . Hudson ' s party , the first thing at-thehustings to-day , commenced the buttle oi' the arm ,, and they have surely been worsted . One or two oi " Hudson ' s bullies have been taken into custody . The crowd assembled before the hustings is numerous . Prom the Bridge Hotel down to the George ( the space oi" nonrly . ¦ T qnartei' o f a mile ) isonc Aclsc ? mass .
r Cotton balls arc now flying about in the crowd " - Ihc cotton balls arc emblematical of an affair . of " honour that foolc place between two ( listiii « uislied " gentlemen on Whitbournc Sands . Joshua Wilson . Esq ., proposed Colonel Thompson * , ind John Hills , Esq ., seconded the nomination . Sostrong ' is popular feeling in favour of the Colonel ,, that by no possible means can Mr . Hudson ' s hired ' friends ( and he lms a good vminberoftlicm ) maintain their nhiee in front of the hustings . . J . Wight , Esq ., is now ' addressing the people , butnot one word , I am sure , cau be heard at tlirec naeesdistance . ' -:- ¦ ' ¦ tturhard Spoor , Esq ., now attempts the same impossibility . ' I firmly believe popular feeling has never beense * strongly evinced in favour of any nnm living as it has been in favour of Colonel Thompson at ' ihe ' present election .
Colonel Thompson now rose , and said : ' . "Electors ,.. —Yovi have used the popular candidate very ill ; but it is no fault , of mine , lie might have waited a little longer / and seen how popular feeling was . There hasbeen a thousand pounds offered to one of my leading , committee-men to let ns be in a minority for the first two hours—not by the Tories , but by railway speculators . Is this not for the purpose of robbing the purchasers of railway shares ? " The Colonel spoke only a few minutes , and was attentively listened to . Mr . Hudson attempted to speak , but not a word could be heard . , . . - 'Thcshbw of hands has been ' " taken , and is in the proportion of a hundred to one in favour of the Colonel . More than a hundred hands were not held up for Hudson , while many thousands were held npfor the Colonel—the Sun , Thursdnv .
Warwick Election-. —In conseqnenee of the appointment of Sir Charles Douglas to the office of Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital , and Sir Charles coasemientl y having to vacate his scat for this borough , an . election to supply the vacancy caused thereby'took place on Wednesday last . There was no opposition , ami the election excited scarcely the slightest interest . The usual moving and seconding having been gone through , nnd no other candidate being proposed , Sir Charles Douglas was declared to be duly VC-elcctCu . Chiciiksiku Election . —OiuciiESTEnAcgust 13 .
, —The appointment of Lord Arthur Lennox as CJerk ot the Ordnance havinginvolved the loss ofhis scat , a new election took place for this city yesterday , at the Guildhall , before Mr . II . Silverlotk , the Mayor . Lord Arthur Lennox had offered himself for re-election , and was unopposed . After the Bribery Act had been read by Mr . J . Powell , the town-clerk , and the other preliminaries duly observed , his Lordship was put in nomination by Mr . R . Henty , and seconded by Dr . M'Carogher . His Lordship having been dec-Jared duly elected , the proceedings terminated .
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- - ' London . — City Chartist ILux , 1 , Tuuxagatt une . —Mr . Cooper ' s second lecture to commence at half-past seven precisely , next Sunday night ( to-morrow ) : subject—Ancient Greece ; her patriotic glory , matchless poetry , profound philosophy , and' splendid achievements - in the fine arts : ThemistocleS ; Aristides , ' Miltiadcs , and the victories of Marathoii and Salamis * . Lycurgus and Solon , and the politi ' ehJ institutions of Sparta and Athens : Pericles , Demosthenes , and their oratory : Socrates , PhtO ; Aristotle , and their schools of wisdom : Homer , th < father of poetry , and his illustrious successors Philip , and the corruption of Greece : Alexander am his conquests : the fall of Athens . Singing before and after the lecture .
City Locality . —The members of this . locality are requested to meet in the Hall , Turnagain-kne , oi Sunday evening next , at five o ' clock precisely . Land Society . —All persons who have , taken ou shares ot" this Society in the City district , are re quested to meet at the Hall , Turnagain-lanc , oi Sunday evening next , at six precisely , to elect tlvei oven officers ibr the district . The Chartists of Manchester will hold a niectj ingthis day ( Saturday , August ICth ) , in commemora tion of the ever-mcmorablc ICth of August , 181 ? when a drunken and infuriated yocmniiry cavalij butchered our fellow countrymen on the field . ( Peterloo . The meeting will beheld in the Hall < Science , Camp-field , when those distinguished advc cates of popular rights , Fcargus O'Connor , Esq and Mr . 1 * . M'Grath , will address the meeting . . Tii chair will be taken at halt-past seven o ' clock in th evening . . , ; . .-,.. •
The South Lancashire Camp Meeting will held on Sunday . ( to-morrow ) , near the Gvamnif School , Middle-ton , when the following gentleme will be present and address the meeting : —F . O'Co ! nor , Esq ., James Leach , Wm . Dixon , Mr . Coope A . Hurst , ¥ . A . Taylor , Win . Bell , and D . Donovai Chair to be taken at one o'clock precisely . All coy munieations Ibr the Manchester Chartists for t future must be addressed to Mr . Richard lladfor No . 8 , Violet-street , Wilcomhe-strect , lluhne . NEwcASTix-vrox-Tixr .. —This branch of the Chs tist Co-operative Land Society meets in the liouse Martin Jiule , Sun Inn , Side , every Sunday cvenii at six o ' clock . ¦ Maxciiesieh . —Mr . P . M'Grath v- \ l \ address t Chartists of Manchester . in the C .-in-fji ^ VlIalJ , Sunday , August 21 th , at half-past six c / deck in t evening .
Halifax . —The committee meets « ery lu ^ incs' night , at eight o ' clock , to enroll member ! u .-Ui < s Vh , tist Co-operative Land Society , Oldiiam . —On Sunday ( to-morrow ) ,, a lecture v be delivered in the Working Man ' s Hall , Horsed street , by Mr . Philip M'Gralh , of London—subje "The Land , as a means to the Charter . " Chair be taken at half-past six o ' clock in the evening . I cussion invited . Mossi . ey .- ~ The members of tlie Mossley local of the National Chartist Association arc requested . attend at the Association Room , Brook-bottom , Tuesday evening , August 19 th , at eight o ' clock . Bradford . —On Sunday the Chartist Council \ i
meet in their'Room at ten o'clock in the mornii A public meeting will he IieW in the Large Roo Butterfforth-buiMiiigs , on Monday evening , at-ei { o ' clock , when Messrs . Aldcrson , Wilcoek , Smyth , { others will deliver addresses on the Land questi On Sunday evening a meeting will be held at 1 Dabley ' s , Green Man , Uiulercliffe . Chair to taken at six o'clock . The members of the Char Co-operative Land Society , resident in Idle , n Bradford , will meet for the transaction of business thejhouso of Mr . Sugdcn , on Monday- evening eight o ' clock . The committee of the Power-lo Weavers will meet on Saturday cvenine , at ei o dock , in their Room . ' "
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. their respite were comrnvnieated to the prisoners , they all received it with gratitude and delight , except the imperturbable Serva . This man ( the captain of the Ijcuo , a schooner of seventy tons only , wlth 43 i slaves sferared anil packed In it ) lias stood alike unmoved by ilic . terrors of this world and the world to come . For 'three days , though smitten with a foul and loath-» eme <| isease , lie underwent the ordeal of the trial wthrat manifesting theslightest sigh of uneasiness . Hereseived the doom of death without emotion , and lie has since rejected the consolations of religion and ihe Ms offices of tlie priest with a cold and bitter sneer . " He received unmoved the merciful declaratioE . eif . tbe high sheriff ; and turned away with as jnueh apathy as if the message of prolonged life and rekindUpg hope had been the most ordinary matter tvhicli a heedless man could impart to an indifferent one . — £ aeicr Gazitte , August 0 .
The Brazilian Pirates . —It was expected that these nnbappy men would Lave been executed this day ( Friday ) in . front of the county gaol , and steps had already been taken by the proper authorities . On Monday imraing , however , acommunicationfrom the learned judge who tried the prisoners wasreceived bytheMglisIierifij nespitinff the execution of the sentence until Friday , the 5 th September . This delay lias been graute ' d in order that the important legal questions which were raised by the learned counsel for the prisouers , on the occasion of the trial , may uudergo further consideration by the whole of " ihe judges . Yesterday a communication -was received from , the authorities , announcing : a further respite of ihe sentence until the 25 th of XoVember , wliieli will be the last day of Michaelmas Term , during which the case will be considered . When the tmWs of
-Alaemixg FntE et Oxford-street . — On Wednes day night ; , between the hours of eleven and twelve , a fire of rather an alarming character broke out upon the premises belonring to Mr . James Xunn , jiosierand silk mercer , situate at So . 217 , Oxfordstreafc , near F « vtman-street . It originated in the fSttntshop , a spacious compartment filled with costly ^ articles , and owing to the combustible nature of the . stack . the flames f « ry speedily had obtained a firm tdd , they bavin ; :, m less than five minutes , commua ^ C&ted to each si'iesf the shop and the two windows andiihey were aseendingwith . treat rapiditv up the . ataifease and through 4 he fanlight . The ' firemen , iow ^ k -er , were enabled to arrest the further progress of tie / James Just « thcT were entering the sho » r Ks ! oms , « i tliefirst floor . Before , however , the fire was « ntissly extinguished , the principal portion of the cosily . stock in the shop was destroyed and the buildingfievenSr damaged . The loss , at the lowest calculation , must amount ( o several hundred pounds .
Deaths jape * Accidbsts bt Machtsert at Hotdeksmeui . t-As . inquest was held at the house of Mr . Ehodes , the Ramsden ' s Arms Inn , Huddersfield , before Mr . Dysoa and a respectable ju * y , on Wednesday , the 6 th of Apgust , touching the death of Harriet Knowles , a girl « f seventeen years of age , who died in the infirmary frem injuries she had received from becoming entangled in the machinery at Mr . Kenyon ' s mill , Doghy-kjie ,. near lurkburton . Verdict—Accidental Death . Also , before the same jury an inquest , was holden on the body of Mary Ann jtsoi , aged sixteen , who died in the infirmary from injuries received l > y .. being caught by an uprightshaft , and ffhirled round several times , Iler left arm and legw-eeebrolcen , and berliead gadijr bruised . Ver diefc ^ pied throngh jnjaries reeenrsd bjr not fiaving the Bss ^ JDcry properly - parded . "
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Steam-boat Accident . —We regret exceedingly to state that a most serious accident , attended with fatal results , occurred on the Thames on Tuesday evening . It appears that the steamer Father Thames , on her voyage from Gravesentl , made the Pool about ten o ' clock , with a great number of passengers , where , from some unavoidable cause , she came full on to a heavy barge , and with such force as to instantly cany away her paddle-box and side cabin , in which were several persons . It maybe readily imagined that consternation and confusion arose immediately , the vessel being thrown on one side , and several persons in the water . Six persons weveveseued from a , watery grave , but whether any or several are lost we have yet to learn . From the disabled state of the vessel the passengers had to be
landed at Wapping from small boats . —( From another CqiTespondent . )—The Father Thames was so much crippled by the collision , that slie could not proceed to her destination , Hunnerford Market ; and she was brought tin off Wapping for the night . Wednesday morning the steamer was towed down to Blackwall for repairs . The wreck of her paddle-box , the deck cabin , and a quantity of geav were picked ui by Inspector Webb . The ' barge sustained very little , if any , ^ damage . It appeared to be deeply-laden- to within two or three inches of the water ' s edge . It was reported on the river that the bargemen were drowned , nnd that in the confusion three or four persons : fell oyerboaiNl from the steamer and were drowned : hut Mi . Creed maile diligent'inquiry , and found that no one had gone overboard besides the six pejsohs in the deck cabin , w ] jo are flJJ doing well .
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Lamentabu : OccunKExcE .--We regret to stato that a most . jame ' nlable occurrence took place between six and seven / o clock on Sunday * night ; ; by which two young men , who are bothers ,- lost their lives in the S V V t llC na mcs oftho deceased aro George and Robert Lynn—the former about twenty-four years ot age ,, who . a fortnight .-since : entered into cmployment at the Ijarrowlield Works us a bleacher , anil the latter about . sixteen or seventeen roars b ' . age , who , ye have been informed , -was cmi loyeu as a tailor in I ais . ey . i ]; e young men hud inei on Summy , and , unfortunately , had celebrated the r . e -ting by drinlc ! ing Irecly . In the course cf the exeninp , they proceeded to the Green , on their way . it is believed t . n
Kuthcrglen , when they were , then so much intuxicatcdas to attract the notice of the officer o i the Green , who requested them to pass or . Thev did so ; but it was observed that a quarrel took ' i . Iucc between . them as they wentaJoni ' , > vliieiMvas believed to be mure in the way of ** tlatHn- , " than of real ill-nature . At all events , tlio yownger ¦ brother , Robert , either felll or was thrown down , and while the other was refreshinghimseJfat the weJI ,- between the Upper Springboard mid , Allen ' s Pen on the Green , the lormcr .. . rushed , past him . saying , ' " Farewell Geordie , " and " plunsed into the river . The elder brother being apparently - . brought to liisscnses bv the iriglitlui loap . of , the younger , sprung in after him , and tie two ; were seen struirelimr foi . « timn in *! m
water by . two young women and others , who were attracteu to the bank but had no means oflcnding them assistance . . Robert , however , disengaged himself , ynd mccecded . in reaching the bank of the Green , where he lay tor a minute or so with ' his bodv nartlv m and partly out of the water . On . ¦ turning " round " , he saw . his brother a hands uplifted above the stream , imploring hel p . when ho . in turn rushed . into him ; and both sunk , completing tins dire tragedy—the one brother perishing in his turn , as it were , to save the lifo ^ tho = other ; Mr ,: Gcddes , of tho Humane bocicty s house , was promptly on the spot , ami after a search oHialf an hour in the one instance , and a full hour in the other , succeeded in recovering botJi bodies which , 'after , the usual attempts at re-animation had been made in vain , were conveyed to their friend ? . The youths , we believe , are natives of Dennv , where their father fills ii respectable situation . *
Destruction of Richardson ' s Theatre . —On Monday night , shortly : before twelve o ' clock , the inhabitants of ] ; artlbrd were thrown into some excitement by an ; alarm of fire ; It was first stated that the church was in names , and . on looking in that direction an extensive fire was seen raging . On proceeding'thither ; - however , it was soon known that Iticliardson ' s theatre ( which iwd been erected at the rear of the church ) was on fire , and the flames spread with such rapidity that before any of the fire-engines could be procured the whole theatre was in flames . 1 lie performance had fortunatel y concluded , and the audience . ^ left about ten minutes before . The fire originated under ths centre af the pit . Two of the waggons , in which some of the company slept , were saved , but the stage and all tiie theatrical property , with the booth , were destroyed . The loss is estimated at £ 1 , 200 . .
Mkuncholy : Death of the African Roscius . — UanidIiOES , July 28 . —It is > ith extreme regret I have to inform you of a , most melancholy and fatal accident that occurred to Mr . Aldridge , the African Itoscius . ¦ ¦ . From the interest you anil your friends took in"him ' ; during his sojourn' among you , I feel satisfied that-you ' would-sympathise-in - his friends ' bereavement , and the loss to the stage of one of its most promising ornaments . Air . A . Was returning in his ' carriage from the seat of Colonel Powell , where he had been driving about , and when within half a mile of this town one of the horses took fright at the ¦
blaze ot light from the iron-works with which this country is studded ; this occurred on the brink ot a , precipice , over which the carriage swerved with its inmate , ' dragging the horses and postilion , who had not time to disengage himself . The footman had a providential escape ; he was in the act of alighting to seize the horses' heads as the carriage was precipitated over the cliff . It is needless to add that Mr . Aldridge , the postilion , and horses were killed upon the spot—th .- carriage being dashed to atoms . The place where the frightful accident oeeurrcd is 120 feet from the summit to tho bottom . —Correspondent of the Kerry Evening Post .
Extensive Fire . is ; Finsbuut . —Great Destruction of PRorEnTV . —On ' . Wednesday morning , between three and fouv o ' clock , a , fire of considerable extent , and -which , has involved a Joss of property to the extent of £ 800 . 0 ,- / occurred in the neighbourhood of Sun-street , Tirisbuiy ' . ' creating for many hours the greatest excitement' in that crowded district . ' The subjoined is a list of the damage as made' out at the chief station , . of the brigade ; in Watling-strcet , ibr the guidance ' of the insurance offices interested : — No . 31 , Sun-street ' , Mr : J . V . ' Tiickcr , plane and tool maker , workshop and contents ? destroyed , dwellinghouse , and contents , seriously ' damaged ; Insured in the PlKenix .: iNo . 32 Mr . P . Phillins . cane-mercliant .
, damaged by , fircamU water . Insured in the Sun . No . 33 , Mr . . W . Bermingliam ,. considerable injury by fire and water . Insured . No . 34 , Mr . J . Waldeglase , surgeon , much fired . Insured in the Globe . Mr .--Henry Batcman , mahogany and . timber-merchant , mahogany rack , . veneer stores , and countingboiise , and oihershedding destroyed ..-.- ¦ Insured in the Cilobe and . Dissenters ' , Office . _ A dwelling-house in the timber-yard ; occupiod by Mr . Bateman ' s foreman , nearly . consiimed . ; , Contents insured in tlie Sun . The list also . details a host of small , tenements in Longalley , Crown-street , - and Brewers ' -court , which were damaged , the occupiers being for the most part un-. insured .. A large body of the City and Metropolitan police rendered much assistance during the raging of thefire .. ..:..,- " . ; , ¦ • - -. ¦ .. ¦ ¦ . - .. ; . |
Serious Colliery Accident . — An ' -accident of a very serious character occurred on Saturday morning last at Moira Colliery ; near Ashby-de-h-i-Jo ' uch , from an explosion of hydrogen gas in the Bath pit , from the effects of which three persons afterwards died and fifteen others were seriously injured , several of whom are so dangerously hurt as almost to preclude the hope of . their recovery . An inquest was : held on Monday before J . Gregory , Esq ., coroner , ' .. when it appeared that the gas by which the explosion was caused had exuded from the roof of the pit , and that no blame was attributable to the managers of the colliery . —Morning Herald . , .
Escape of Coxvicts in Spain , and Muhdkr of hie Escort . —A letter fi om Madrid , of the 2 nd inst ., states that as 200 convicts were being conducted from Carthagcna to the Canal of Castile , they rose upon the troops escorting them , massacred them all , hanged the commanding officer on a tree , and escaped in different directions . —Qcdi gnani of Tuesday . Pirates * in the West Indies . —We have just seen a gentleman- ' who came as a passenger on board the St . Vincent , from Trinidad to Bristol , which vessel , as was stated in the Herald , on Tuesday , was boarded on her homeward voyage by a . schooner supposed to be piratical . He says , that during the whole of the previous day the St .- Vincent had been followed by a suspicious looking brig . When morning came the
scuooner was discovered m company with the brig . They parted , and the schooner bore down on the St . Vincent . There were only two men on the deck of the schooner , one at the wheel and another with a telescope , but below she was crowded with men . Shc hoisted Spanish colours , as didthe ' bvig , which also bore down on the St . Vincent , Tlie brig having spoken an Americam man-of-war , which was insight , the schooner left the St . . Vincent , joined the hrip , and they sailed off in company , the brig leadin" the wav The schooner was alow Baltimore clipper , and had a pie .-e of ordnance on her deck . She gave the latitude and longitude , chalked on a board , but shc was at least 20 decrees out in her reckoning , so that , in all probability , she had no chronometer on board . — emu ¦ - . . ¦ :. - ¦ ; -. -: ¦'¦¦¦ . ¦ ' :... : ¦' .. - '¦
" ¦ Mi'rder at Seuiy —On-Monday week an inquest was held at the Junction Tavern " on view of the bodv of Elizabeth Watson , who had died by tlie hand of her husband , . lolm Watson . Mrs . E . Lowther stated that she had known the deceased some time She came to her house on Friday , the 1 st of August ; about one o ' clock r . m ., and said her husband , George Watson , wanted to ; spwk ' Trith her ; she went with deceased , when George Watson told her lie hnd determined to become a new man ; lie said he had written down m a book that lie would never taste liquor again : . that , ho kneeled down and kissed tlie book , and sat down beside his wife and kissed her , said BSSlW + 1 wifebct ^ than he did , and w ufi behave better than ^ er ho had done . Went in SA , r ° - ° ? , i -hc ««»**» ed ' m the same state and quite . penitent . W tnr . ss riw ^™ i ;™
, toh ^ nni i he . ocei " Tence . ™* considered him two i ™ S ^ i ? k ^ evening ; ran out and found S ? nJS ; - ea ?« tk l \ ? Sed t 0 ller ^^" J ns £ t t ^ ? d asked ( lcceased where she £ S n tllC Pl f . showu P"tto bed shortly '' Sn ! Sv Deceasci said lle Lad Mled her-« SJ w liiiiafl 6 heesPecteafiofct ° l ? RSiif « i ^ f WIsh t 0 do 50 - Deceased * M asked , f they had been on as good terms as before , during the afternoon ? Sho said yes Deceased stated she went down the yard with some shoes ; when she : returned he ( G . WatsonUook her nuAi / SI ? t \*™ ir her shoulde * nd nut Hie knife to her body , and the deceased . Wd
much as the kmfe . Witness sm her freouentlv borne il $ * /^ ^ n said , I was iu Watson ' s deSLS Jn- i " i o ^ l' ^ nce took place ; R Sjfixtass-jutis "Oh £% * ° cut Hs tllrojlt ' : ^ tnegg said , to wiiW , w ° i y 0 , u lmve done fOT-yonr wife ; » do for mvJIf » T-i ? ' -n it , then , I will SSthT ? hLM- " Mfa e knife » 8 » £ vmh ? wWi ; ' ! ho : ^? with »'' kn'fe ^ 1 Wl « ot S ^ JSf ' -- ^ ^ ldence ' ^ astl > cn '« l < l « i <« d ; and JS ^ ft verdict of , WiIful Murder against W ? ta .:, Tlie . te ( lwag . interred fn the Tim ^ ln presence of aIa «» number of people . Jd » « *? T \ T - vemovcd to ^ oric" Castle by the tvelve o dock train on Tuesday .
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Lamentable Accident . —Windsor ,. Tuesday . —An accident of a most dreadful nature , which it is i ' eared will prove fatal to one of the parties , occurred yesterday evening , - between eight and nine o ' clock , to Mr . Stiicey , bricklayer to her Migesty , and Mr . Cnrtlaud , bookseller , b » th residing jvt Eton . They were on their return homo from Isleivorth , in a gig ; Jlr . Stiicey driving a hcrse hired of a livery-stablu keeper at Eton , which , it has since been ascertained , has frequently before run away , even so lately as Saturday last . On descending at a sharp trot the steep and dangerous hill in Thames-street , Windsor , leading to tho bridse , the horse started off at a tremendous pace , all attempts to stay its progress proving utterly fruitless . On arriving opposite to the bank
oi iNevilJ , lU-id , and Co ., at the bottom of the hill , tlie horse swerved to the right on to the pavement dragging the" chaise against the iron , "ails , tearing away the iron , and stone worlr , ' and / iiiiftiV cJearin '' itself from the vehicle by dashing between the railings and the iron lamp post . Mr . Stacey was thrown with great force into the road , sustaining very severe internal injuries . Mr . Cartland was discovered under the chaise , and in a most pitiable condition , i lie blood streaming from his head aud face , and so disfigured that the persons who humanely went to his rescue and who were his neighbours ' , were not aware until some time afterwards , when he was enabled to speak , who it was . lla was carried to ' tho Swan Hotel .
where he experienced every attention , and five suriicons wove almost instantl y in attendance . The injuries he received were of the most painful and afflicting nature . In addition to two deep cuts on the tbrenead . 'lbur inches in length , the skin being torn away from the skiill and hanging' over the eyes ; his nose was completely flattened , and adeep wound extended I Him the left eye to the upper lip . Uis tongue was also nearly severed across the centre , supposed to have been occasioned by its - protruding 'f rom Ii Is mouth at the time he was ( lashed against the iron rails . He was conveyed to his residence in a carria « e iitteivhiswoumls liad been dressed , where he now remains in an extremely dangerous state .
. The : Alleged Murder of a Child by Burning it to Death— Carlisle , August 0 . —At the'Cum berland Assizes , before Mr . Baron Rolfe this day , the case of Jane Crosby ; aged 30 , charged with the murder of her daughter , Sarah Anne , by burning- her at Skclton , in this county , upon the 29 thday . of January last , was called on , and the prisoner arraigned ; John Wilson , next-door neighbour to the prisoner , said his liouse was forty yards from Crosby ' s house , which stood a Jittle back from the road ; said he saw the prisoner ' s little child ; since dead , ' running " up the road , and the mother following her , calling her to come back . She did not come back , and the mother went away . This was in the day time , about three o ' clock , of the 23 th of January . The child
changed her place and came nearer to its home , and he took it home . Prisoner ' appeared to conduct herself . a 8 i \ | n ] jqUOr ) h nt not very violently in liquor , ilus was nc&v five o ' clock . About nine atniglit ; the witness said , I went into the road . The evening was calmand lightish . . There was snow on the ground . Immediately afterwards I wont to bed , but was called up about ten minutes to ten o ' clock . The prisoner ' s elder child called for some warm water , and said her sister had been burnt . She added ; Sarah ' s mother had been to Skelton . I went into the house of the prisoner . She had the younecst . child on her knee , which had nothing but a , blanket on it . I asked the prisoner what she had been doing . She answered I might see the child , and would see it was burnt .
1 was , ' . said she , " coming up the road from iKelton and fount ! tlie child lying on its side burning , and no one would put it out . " I asked her would she have a doctor . She answered ; yes . I went for some assistance and to send some one for a doctor . Cambridge stile is twelve or fourteen yards across the road from the prisoner ' s house . Before eleven o clock I returned and found Jane lluggins , Elizabeth Scott ; and my wife at the house . I looked at the child on my first visit ; the burns had a reddish cast , they were when I returned much changed , and had become black . I asked who had set the child on fire . The mother asked the child ' Who set t-hee on fire ? " in a rather violent manner . I said , -the-child is distressed , and told her not
to ask it questions . I hoard the prisoner say , ' I had been to Skclton . and when I came to the millhouscs , 1 found the smell of fire . I sought for my children , and could not find them . ' The millhouses are two hundred yards from the prisoner ' s , and . Skclton is two miles olF . The same evening , she said that when siie got to the limekilns slie had smelt IS ? ; ,. ' rho ^ mekilns arc a mile from the millhouses . — William Carriek , coroner for ' the county , put in the voluntary examination of the prisoner , which stated that the children were obstinate , the latter particularly ; The eldest assumed to rule the younger , she was sharper and harder with the younger than with the elder child . Sbesaiil , " I have kicked them when in my-passionperhaps ; but I am quite
inno-, cent of the death of my child . "—Mary Crosby was put into the box , a very vulgar sheepish child , without anything to prepossess in her appearance , and in face very strongly resembling the prisoner . —The learned Jud ge asked the child hcr age . She answered eleven years . She remembered perfectly the night her little sister died . Her brother was at home , and went out again for a short time . The child for some time could proceed no further for sobbing . At length she added that she remembered Mr . Wilson bringing hcr little sister Sarah home . Her mother did not go out the whole of that ni ght ; slie was in the bar all the evening . Her mother went to bed after eight o clock , 'l he witneu was sitting in the kitchen ¦} her sister Sarah was sifting on flic fenderShe b 4 VA 4 UVI
. was y ' Q — -- **^^ 0 9 ^ * lw MllkJ burnt when sitting on the fender . Again the witness paused , and would not answer . At last , in rcplv to t he judge , she said she saw her mother put her sister on the lire . Slie put her on tlio top of the fire on hcr face Witness said she did notsce anymore , butliormothor took her off and nursed her . Her sister ' s eyes and head were all burned . She said nothing when her mother took her offi I went afterwards to Dame Iliiggms . That was after my sister was burnt . The prisoner told me to say my sister was burnt . Mother told me to go to John Wilson ; and tell him Sarah was nigh burnt to death . I told him so when I wont . Cross-examined : I said my sister ' s eye was burnt out and her ear burnt off , and her nose burnt off level to her face . And all this was as true as
what she had said beside . The Counsel : The doctor is behind you . Now mind ; do you mean to say you saw the eye burnt out , and one of her cars were gone ? witness : She had no ear . I saw it burnt off . She ™ i ' afc < God knows what she was thinking about . Mother did not go out that night , nor did she and her httlo sister play with the hot poker . The poker was not in the fire when mother went out of the room . [ The child concluded in deep afflition , but very firm in her inculpatory evidence respecting the presence of the mother at the burning of the child ' lhe surgeon Carriek examined : The child ' s eye was not burned out . nor her ear burned off . Had she recovered she would not have lost her sight . The face was so swollen it mighteasilyliave been supposed that her nose and eyes were gone . The piece of paper produced contained part of the skin of hcr hand , lhe prisoner had displayed proper maternal feelines
on other occasions when he attended this child , lhe Court asked Mr . Carriek if there was not a notion prevalentamoii Kstignorantpeoplc thatholdin * a burnt part ot the human body to the fire was a sood thing to ease it and make it better ? Mr . CiUTick rcphod that such a notion prevailed . Mr . Wilkins insisted on the inconsistency of the evidence in respect to many important facts detailed , and the impossibility ot the jury assenting upon such evidence to take away the life of a woman who had been proved to act as awoman of tender feelings towardsthisvciy child when ill and attended by her medical attendant , lhe Judge ably and humanely summed up the evidence , and tho jury , after retiring for about five minutes , acquitted the prisoner , who ; after a feeling admonition from the learned judge " as ' to her future conduct to her child Mary , was released from confinement , and privately led out of the gaol .
DEATH OF HENR Y HUNT , SOX OF THE PATRIOT HENRY HUST . On Tuesday , Aug . 12 , the remains of Mr . Hunt , the only surviving son of the late Henry Hunt , the celebrated advocate of Universal Suffrage , and who for some years represented Preston in Parliament , were interred _ m the new burial-ground ; near the old Church ,-Lambeth . The deceased , who is the subject of this notice , succeeded his father , in the extensive blacking manufactory which his father amidst the turmoil of political agitation , established in -Broadwall , BJaclifnars ; but as he did not possess the spirit or enterprise of his father , the business soon went to decay , and for several years past he subsisted partly upon an annuity , and partly on the bounty of his late father ' s political friends ' - The
de-. ceased was the last of an ancientfamily , and the only one that had obtained notoriety was his father , who began his political career as a Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliament man , and continued te advocate those principles till the close of his political career . Ilenry Hunt , the younger ; during hia father ' s lifetime , made the tour of Europe , and travelled through the whole of the United States of America and Canada . For some time past he had been living in a very retired manner at No . 41 , George-street , Regent-street , Lambeth . About five weeks ago he was attacked with illness , and he died on Wednesday , July 30 , in the forty-fifth year of his age , Many ofhis father ' s political friends wished to follow the remains of the deceased to the crave as
mourners , but the offer was declined by those who had the management of the funeral ; and the mourners consisted only ofhis late father ' s servant , a very old man , who said he had witnessed the burial of fliree generations of the Hunts ; Mr . Mackintosh , ' propnetor of the Old Red Lion Tavern , Westminsterbridge ; tlie brother of Mr . Mackintosh ; Mr . Braitliwnite , the deceased ' s solicitor ; Mr . M'Dermot and Mr . Newman , his medical attendants ' ; and Mr . Elmore , the horse-dealer , of Ockendon . The deceased has left a , widow , from whom he has been separated many years , in consequence of ft distressing malady ,-under which she is still . labouring .-: Mr . Henry Hunt was greatly respected , and a more estimable man never ' existed . - ' ' His ' mother is still living at Bath , aud is upwards of fourscore years old .
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DUNDEE . The OiinisTiAx Ciluitist Church held a soiree in their usual place of worship , Camperdown Hall , Barracks-street , on Tuesday evening , August 5 th , in honour of Mr . John M'Crac ' s coming to reside among them . The hall was gracefully decorated with evergreens , and the " portraits of the noble patriots who have suffered in freedom ' s cause . There ' was a full attendenceof the sons and daughters ol ? toil to welcome Mr . M'Crac as their future pastor , knowing that he has been tlie unflinching and consistent advocate of the rights ' of labour from his earliest years . The evening was enlivened by ait excellent vocal band , who charmed the audience with a number of pieces of sacred music , which were weli performed . The chair was filled by Archibald
M'Donald ( late of Aberdeen ) , who , in introducing tho speakers , spoke to the following ' sentiment / :-- " " The Christian Chartist'Church , may its objects bethe glory of . God and the happiness ' of- maijlvind ; - ' may its principles ever be truth ' and'justice ' , and may success attend tho efibrts made to promote its'iaterests . " The next sentiment was spoken toby Mr . M'Crac : — "May the present struggle for freedomthroughout the world pave the way for the spread of the pure principles of Christianity . " By Mr . James Ga \ v . — "May the human family soon enjoy that civil and reli gious freedom their Creator designed for . them . " By Mr . T . G . Mustard , a gentleman from Fifcsbirc : — " May the prison doors of all political victims be speedily burst open , and the exiles be brought in safety to their native land . "
Betweenthe speeches tliccompany wasentertained by patrioticand other songs , among which was the Scotch National Anthem— " Scots wha line wi ' "W allace bled , " in which all joined , standing . The viands were provided by Mr . Robertson , of the Railway Coffee House , Dock-street , and did him great credit / ' " Tlie tor , the people ' s press , with its talented editor , " was given amh ' esponded to with great enthusiasm . Thoname of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., the-people ' s advocate , drew down plaudits timt Listed for sora ' p time ; and when Mr . M'Crae favoured tho company witk the song "O'Connor ' s welcome to Scotland , " thc ^ cheering was again and again renewed , " till rooS and rafters a did dirle . " A great many patrioticsentiments were given-during , the evening , and the meeting broke up at '" the wee short hour ayout thfr twal , " highly delighted with this feast of reason and . flow of soul .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1328/page/5/
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