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BEATJTIES OF BYRON . KO . Tin . In Byron's works there will be found , immediately JWj" " English Bank and SwicKS ^ (« e the one volume edition ) , a poem entitled " 3 mte ^ Horace " intended as a sequel to bis Sng \ i& , Jda , Ac The Mm , were imposed at Atbens . inlSll . andAeauthorbron ghttbemhomein ttesamedesk with the two first cantos of " Childe Harold . He intended to have published the Hints first ; but by amdent , or nearly so , the Harold first appeared , lne reception thi 3 wonderful poem met j atn soflattenng tothepoet thathisbitterness towards J ^ bet an others , whom ' he had so vigoroudyassailed m h js "Satire , " and who were the subiectsof his wrath in the Hints also , evaporated ; and the HmtsTor the time being was withheld This was most fortunate for the poet ; for this production
^ V « 4 . f . « 7 worst-lar below his previous work , "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers . " Btbox , however , held a very different opinion of its merits , and before the appearance of Childe Barold , looked to the Hints , rather than to the Harold , as the work that was to make him famous . Nine years -after the tune the poem was intended to have been published , its author again , expressed bis wish for its public appearance . The advice of his friends , however , prevented its appearance at that time ; and it -was not until the year 1831 , seven years after the poet's death , that it was first published . WehavetooUedthrooglitue " Hints from Horace , " and though there are some vigorous lines where the poet praises or vindicates Maios or Pope , or where he lashes high-life vagabonds , on the whole the piece is unworthy of his pen . Perhaps the best lines arc the thirty-eight ,
beginning—Bebold him Freshman ! forced no more to groan O'er Virgil ' s devilish verses and—his own ; but we see not anything in tlie entire poem -we can extactas "Beauties . " HowBTROxcouldhaveregarded tnis poem with the partiality he did is astonishhig . Poets , however , are rarely the best judges of their own compositions , as , for instance , Milton preferred "Paradise Regained" over "Paradise Lost . " It is well knovm that in that opinion MttTOJ ? stands alone it is the fatter and not the former of these poems that has made his name universally , as it will do eternally , iamou 3 . We conclude these few remarks bv quotin " jHoobe ' s opinion of the " Hints from Horace " : — ° In tracing the fortunes of men , it is not a little carious to observe how often the course of a whole life has depended on one single step . Had lord Bjron persisted in Mb original purpose of giving this poem to the press , instead of ChiMe Harold , it is more than prohable that he
would have heen lost , as a great poet , to the woria . Inferior as this paraphrase is , ia w « ry respect , to his former satire , and , in some places , even descending below ttelerel of under-graduate versifiers , its failure , there can be little doubt , would have lreen certain and signal ; —his&nner assailants would hare resumed their advantage over him , and either , in the bitterness of his mortification , be irouldhave flung Clriiae Harold into the fire , or , taa he summoned up sufficient confidence topublisb that poen , its reception , even if sufficient to retrieve him in the eyes of the public and his own , could never hare at all resembled that explosion of success , —that instantooaons and universal acclaim of admfcation , into which , coming , as it were , fresh from the land of song , he sur ! prised the world , and in the midst of whichhe was borne , Inoyaut and self-assured , along , through a succession of new triumphs , each more splendid than the last 1 Happily , the better judgment of his friends averted such a risk .
It is now our happy task to forthwith proceed to Our great poet ' s beautiful and immortal production . " Cuu . de Huiold . " The extracts from which we purpose to give , will really be " Beauties of Byron . " We pass by the Dedication to " Iaxthe , " though its beauty strongly tempts us to copy it : we pass by the opening stanzas , almost every line of which teems with beauties ; and here commence our extracts : — Childe Harold had a mother—not forgot , Though parthig from that mother he did ehun ; A sister whom he loved , but saw her not Before his weary pilgrimage begun If friends he had , he bade adieu to none . Yet deem not thence hi * breast a breast of steel : Ye , who have known -what ' t is to dote npon A . few dear objects , will in sadness feel Such partings break theheart they fondly hope to heal .
His house , his home , his heritage , his lands , The laughing dames in whom he did delight , IVhose large blue ejes , fair locks , and snowy bands . Might shake the saintship of an anchorite , And lon » 3 iad fed his youthful appetite ; His goblets brimin'd with every costly wine , And all that mote to luxury invite , ¦ Without a sigh he left to cross the brine . And traverse Paynim shores , and pass earth ' s central line . The sails -were fill'd , and fair ths light winds Mew , As glad to waft him from his native home ; And fast the white rocks faded from his view . And soon werelo 3 tin circumambient foam ;
And then , it may he , of his wish to roam Repented he , hut in his bosom slept The silent thonght , nor from his lips did come One word of wail , vrlnlst others sate and wept And to the reckless gales unmanly moaning kept . But when ihe sun was sinking in the sea He seized his harp , -which he at times could string , Ana strike , albeit with untaught melody ! \ Vhcn deemed he no strange ear was listening : And now his fingers o'er it he did fling , And tunetl Ins farewell in the dim twilight . While ik-w the vessel on her snowy wing , And fleeting shores receded from his sight , Thus to tli ? elements be pour'd his last " Good Night . " " Adieu , adieu 1 my native shore
Fades o ' er the waters blue ; The Sight winds sigh , the breakers roar , And shrielts the wild sea-mew . Yon suu that sets upon the sea We follow in Ms flight ; Farewell awhile to him and thee . My native Lsnd—Good Night !
" A few short hours and lie wVU rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies , Bat not mj mother earth . Desertedis my own good hall , Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weed * are gathering on the wall ; My dog howls at the gate . ** Come hither , hither , my little page !• Why dost thou weep and wail ! Or dort thou dread the billow ' s rage , Or treaible at the gale « But dash the tear-drop from thine ej «; Our slap is strift and strong ; Our fleetest falcou scarce cau fly More merrily along . * Let winds be smin , let waves roll high , I fear not ware nor wind : Yet marvel not , Sir Childe , that I
Am sorrowful in mind . ; Tor I hare from my father gone , A mother whom ! lore , And have no friend , mtb these alone , But thee—and One above .
• My father Wess'd me fervently , Yet did not much complain ; But sorely will my mother sigh Till I come back again '"Enough , enough , my little lad ! Such tears become thine eye ; If 1 thjr guileless bosom had , " Vine own would not be drv . " Come hither , hither , my staunoh yeoman . i "Wh y dost thou look so pale ? Or dost thou dread a French foeiuan * Or shiver at the gale ? « Beem'st thou I tremble for my life ? Sir Childe , I ' m not so weak ; But thinking on an absent wife WiU Manch a faithful cheek .
* My spouse and bojs dwell near thy hall Along the bordsrin ™ lake . * And when they on thrir father call , What answer shall she make V " EllOn sb , flnough , my yeoman good , Thy griaf let none jiainiay ; But I who am of lighter mood , Will ] , Ugh to flee away . 'Tor who would trust the seeming gj gni Wwifc or paramour ? * r « sh foes will dry the bright blue eyes "elate saw streaming o ' er . * orpl « asura « past I do not grieve ,
* or perils gatbsriug near ; « J greata * g ^ is tnu j lww nothing that claims a tear . " A * j ! w I ' m la the world alone , Cpoa th . wid , , wide tea : ^ H * shoala * for others Si °° » Wh « n 9 will gj g j , for me % f wchane . mj dog wilt whins in win , "I ul ftd by atranger hands ; Hut . long era I eonwbaok again Jl = < 1 totr ma where h « « tands . § " With thw , asy hark , ITl swifdv go AthwMl tho foaming brine *« «„ , what UjlA lljou bMr . st ma
Soi > ota aintomin » . ^ eoma , w » lcomB . y « dark bh » waves ! And when you fail my light , ™» w » . y « deserls , and ye caves ! _^ a * "a *™ land—Good Night . ''
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jNewstead Abbey . f Here follows in the original MS . : — Methinks it would my bosom glad To change my proud estate , And be again a laughing lad n ith one beloved playmate . Since south ! scarce havepassed an hour Without disgust or pain , Except somethnes in lady ' s bower Or when the bowl I drain . '
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. landed Estate of . the Nation as a Joint-Stock Property m Parochial Partnerships , by dividing the Kent rh , s lecture ym nt&rat warmly applauded ; but its publication was speedily followed by the per ' secutionof the author . ' ; JFjrst his enemies procured bis expulsion from the Philosophical Society ; then means were employed to break up his school , by representing him as a teacliiT of strange doctrines . " lhe plottmgs of his enemies . were but too successful , and he was compelled to retire from Newcastle . Ihomas Spexce next repaired to London , where he commenced employing himself as a bookseller . Jle was too poor to rent a stop , and began by keeping a book-stall at the corner of Chancery-lane , 7 -x . 1 m . ' Ue afterwardsremoTed to a small shop in Little lurnstile , Holborn , where he published his celebrated "Pigs' Meat , " which Jbad a great sale . In 1 M , during the suspension of th » e Habeas Corpus Act , ho was arrested , and was confi . ued in Newgate .. _ _ . _ : " *"" ^
tor some time . On his liberation hegotasmallshop , No . 9 , Oxford-street , where he continued publishing his plan in a variety of ways , one beintr the striking of copper medals containing inscriptions embodying 1 m 3 principles . In 1798 he was again arrested , \ mdev the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , and confined m the Houseof Correction , Coldbath-fields . Jn 1801 he was prosecuted for a political libel by the Attorney-General . He defended himself , but was found guilty , and sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months in Shrewsbury gaol , to pay a fine ot £ 20 to the lung , and to be further imprisoned iu dctault thereof . He was released from the operation ot the fane by a subscription amongst his friends . He died suddenly in September , 1 S 14 , at his lodgings in Oastle-street , Oxford-street , somewhat more than sixty years of age . He was faithful to the end . His disciples buried his remains in the burial ground , lottenham-court-road .
Ihese leading iacts of Thomas Spexce ' s career will be found move , fully detailed in the pamphlet before us . . At the top of Grey-street , Ncwcastle-upon-Tyne , there stands a monument , erected while vet the ltelorm Bill fever was not altogether extinct ; on tlie top of that monument is perched a , fig ure of the recently deceased aristocrat Earl Gket . His haughty lordship declared upon a memorable occasion that he would /; , stand by his order . " Now , as that " order " is destined to fall—as its destruction is as sure as
time an d as certain as death , we may reasonably expect that Lord Gkev . will / cttt with his " order , " and the democratic earthquake topple his lordship's statue over . Oi ' course the column may stand . Korrtat a use can be found . It will form a capital support for tlie statue of the mas who stood by Ma " order "Ihomas Spesce . The Gkey monument is at present an eye-sore to every true patriot ; but let our JSewcastle friends not" despair ; a use will yet be iound Jbrit , when the max shall take the place of tlie' Lord , " and Spenck be honoured in the place of Grey ..
We shall say nothing here of Spjsnce ' s land system . We hope to have an opportunity of calling attention to his plan shortly ; iu the meantime -we hope our readers will purchase what few copies of this pamphlet are to be had , and learn therefrom the principles therein advocated . It is now some years since this little pamphlet Cwinch we believe may be had for sixpence ) was published ; but being informed that some frw copies remain unsold , we have thought it right to give it this notice . We should be glad to leavn that the demand for this little work was such as to warrant Mr Datekpori publishing a revised and larger edition , it would be a concluding act every way worthy of his political life , and we are sure would be undertaken by him as " a labour of love . " It appears to us that the present time is mostnvonitious for such nn nmW
taking ; and we shall be glad to learn that our Chnrtist friends show that they are of tlie same opinion oy . ™» acdiately W >» gup tho copies remaining ol this " Liic of Spence . "
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——«• - . POOD FOR THE POOK . « . ,. « ^ ° S 0 0 F THE ak «> vhi BS 1 ON . Grind ! Grind ' . —the air is musical With nature's voices now , The breeze amid the wavy wheat of The bird upon the bough ! The rivers flow , tlie cattle low With music in their tones , Grind on ! grind on ! the pauper plays The music of the % ones ! Hot as when gamblers stake their souls On hazard of the dice , Xot like the midnight melod y Of passion and of vice . Sot amid storm and strife—Not amid tears and groans , Xot like the butcher when his knife Sings slaughter to the bones ! So , but when butcher-work
Was dead and done and past , And men had feasted far and wide , And homes had ceased to fast ; And fat and torpid things Were sleeping like the drones , The meat was eaten all away ! The paupers crushed the bones 11 Yes , in the soft sweet air , Under the summer sun , The paupers group'd around tlieir feast—Every—every one ! The shredB and patches of putrid flesh Clnng to their whitening thrones , And tlie marrow oozed with a sickening breath Up from the tainted hones !
The paupers sat like a ghastly crew After a starving wreck , And they saw the black flesh quiver and reek And the bones wear a plague-like speck . But as famine shrilled forth its deadly shriek They leaped to its echoing tones ; And they scratch'd for the carrion broughtfor the fltsb And howl'd for the marrowy bones ! Thcu on—then on they cruBh'd , And on , and on they ground ; As the putrid bones were picktd and eUaned , Oh . ' for the feast they found ! But the pauper-things were glad , And made no mawkish moans ; For like Death ' s treat ; was the rotting meat , And the marrow of the hones 2
And the stench that rose from the pauper-feast Grew fearful in the sun , You could ' nt scent the air , the field , The crops , the flowers—not cue . But the paupers feasted on , On one of charity's loans ; Fruits and flowers were nothing to them , Only meat and bones ! The feast is over and past The starrer ' s battle is o'er , The terrible bones are crush'd at last , But hunger haunts their door . Kow with fainting of heart , Now with breaking of stones ; Till the pauper cannot bear to part With the had meat and the hones I—Joe JIMer .
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WADE'S LONDON REVIEW-Aucust . London . C . B Christian , Whitefriars-street , Fleet-street . * we have in this number a continuation of the poetical Greek tale , " Ambition . " We say " poetical , " for , although the tale is in prose , theluxuriancc of the writer ' s imagination and language leaves but little to be desired to make this story a truly poetical production of no mean order . " Leaves torn from a record of Life , " introduce us to " The Rival Lovers ; a tale of Uindostnn ; " apparently the first of a series of similar contributions . This first illustrates the old and universally acknowledged truth that " the course of true love never does run smoot ' a . " This intimation will be quite sufficient to recommend the story at least to the young . The retuaining contents are mostly "reviews" of new vorks , the most important of which is an
analvzation and critique of Dr . Pkitchard ' s " Natural History of Man . " The article is written with great ability , and will befcund -very interesting . "While , however , we admit the ability of the witcr , we cannot acknowledge ourselves a disciple of his views , as to the " Adam and Eve" origin of mankind . True , the reviewer does not argue or insist upon this , but he admits it ; not so much , we fancy , in obedience to his own convictions , as because the admission is a sop to the tenner stomach of alarmed orthodoxy . Really there is something exqnisitely ridiculous—we had almost said disgusting—in these silly attempts of clever writers to make their researches and theories harmonise with exploded fables . When will the day come when men of mind will be " bold enough to be honest , and honest enough to be bold" ?
< lhe other " reviews" are much shorter , but all impartially and ably written . The concluding article has " the Drama" for its subject : the praise therein bestowed on the management of the Haymarket and Sadler ' s Wells Theatres is well deserved , and is as worthily given . As a cleverly-conducted pprimlical , in which aKc criticism is judiciously combined with a due admixture of light and entertaining reading , we cordially recommend Wade ' s London Re view to our readers .
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THE ORPHAN ; or , MEMOIRS OF MATILDA —By Ecgbsb Sbe . Pam X . London : T . C . Newby , 72 , Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square . The part for August of this singularand wonderful work contains two terrifically interesting chapters , beautifully illustrated by RonBui Crciksuaxk . Wo would gladly have given ac extract , but that to do justice to the author we must have taken at least one of his " scenes" entire , and that would occupy more space than we can spare . Besides , the work must be read from the beginning to be properly appreciated , e r j v
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CASES AND OBSERVATIONS ON SPINAL DEFORMITY —Bx Samuel Hahb , Surgeon . l /> ndon : John ChwelnH , Princes-street , Soho . This is a cheap and abridged edition of Mr . Habe ' s valuable work on spinal diseases , which we have twice before noticed in this paper . This cheaper editian contains , too , some more recent cases which hare been entrusted to the author ' s hands with rignnl Buocess . The various disorders of the spine , ¦ whether "lateral curvature , " " eaxurvation , " "incurvation , " or angular projection , " ate each explained
and oases illustrative of each are d » 6 cribed , and thoir progress to complete and happy cures narrated . Eighteen engravings on wood illustrate the work , and adi to its value . We believe Mr . Hahb lias been highly successful in his efforts to relieve the afflicted from the distressing diseases and malformation ? , to the onuses and eure of which he has mainly directed his attention , and we shall be glud to know that the wide sale of this work has helped to make mmgttll better known tothe publie at large , that thereby the afflicted may come to l » arn that their sufferiigs ore { in all probability ) not without a rcuitdy .
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THE LIFE , WRITINGS , AND PRINCIPLES OF THOMAS SPENCE , Author of the Snen-• ecn System , or , Agrarian Equality . By Aixbx Davekpokt . London : Cleare , Shoe-fane , Fleetfitrset . ^ At the present titn » , when the subject of the Lan < is ooenpyine eo much tho attention of the working classes both in Europe and . America , it mu 8 t In interesting to learn something of tho man , * ho , in England , was the first to proclaim the revolutionary doctrine that " the Land is the People ' s Farm . " Thomas Smsxcb was a native of New ooslk-upon-Tyne , n town which lias produced many
« imnent men . and whose inhabitants generally have ever been famous for their patriotism and love of ; liberty . Spkxcr was born a sWrttiiafc before the American revolutionary war ; his father was a shoemaker , who , though poor , gave his son a fair education . In the early part of his life , and during bis stay at Newcastle , he kept a school , and it was while thus occupied a remarkable circumstance occurred , described in Mr . Davkxpout's pamphlet , which first drew his ( Spexce ' s ) attention to the question of proper ty in land . A short time after , as a member of the Newcastle Philosophical Society , he delivered a lecture to that body " On the Mode of Adiniaktering
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OUTLINES OF NATURAL THEOLOGY ; or , Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity , Deduced from Nature . London 3 i 1 ) Cousins , IS , Duke-street , Lincoln ' s-inn-fields . " We can recommend this little work to our readers tor the pleasing information it contains . In this pamphlet , divested of all scientific jargon , the yovuv and uninformed may learn much of tho wonders of their own irames , and not a k \ v of the mysterious and beautiful formation of the animal world at large As regards the theological argument and intent oi ' the work , tlie reader thereof must judge for himself The author , or compiler—for the work is avowedly a compilation from other writers—uses the old argument of the " watch" which most of our readers
, must be conversant with . The admirable mechanism ot the watch proves that it had an intelligent designer : therefore the still more admirable and wonderful mechanism of man , and the universe at large proves the » me . It may be ; but the question will force itself : If , granting that the watch must have had a maker , and by tlie same rule of reasoning that the watch-maker had a maker ; who then made the maker of the watch-maker ; or how came that maker to exist ? ^ The argument employed naturally gives birth to this question , which only the more involves us in inextricable confusion . The tact is , the subject is beyond man ' s comprehension ; and such inquiries and speculations are , and must be , fruitless and useless . As Btrov has it —
Socrates said , our only knowledge was " To know that nothing could be known ; " a pleasant Science enough , which levels to an ass Bach man of wisdom , future , past , or present . Newton ( that proverb of the mind ) , alas ! Declared , with all his grand discoveries recent , That he himself feit only " like a youth Ticking up shells by the great ocean—Truth . " As we have before said , the anatomical and physiological information contained in this pamphlet constitutes its worth , and , we may add , entitles it to an extensive circulation .
DISTURBANCES IN FIFESHIRE . KiRKAwr , August 21 . On the night between Wednesday and Thursday last the town of DunfennVme and neighbourhood were the scene of outrages indicating the most deliberate conspiracy and the most murderous purpose . Ever since tl < e disgraceful riots of 1812 , a company of soldiers had been stationed in Dunfermline till about four weeks ago , when they were removed by orders from head-qunrters , iu opposition , vit believe to tho earnest and reasonable remonstrances of the local authorities Those who were best acquainted with the recklessnnddesperate character of some of the inhabitants , looked on this removal as this signal for an outbreak of the most terrible kind in
Dunfermlme , and people not destitute of sufficient courage became alarmed ; whiln the fear of being marked out as victims , perhaps , preventtd thom from communicatingi ' nformation on the subject to the public authorities . Towards nightfall on Wednesday the streets of Duufcrmline presumed she usual sight of a groat number of working people walking and standing in groups , but there was nothing to put the police on the alert , audfar loss to suggest the calling in of any » xtra force to keep the psace . About nine o ' clock , however , a person in disguise began beating a drum at the west end of Golfdrum-str « et , and soon colUcted a large crowd about him—the boaiingof the drum being evidently a signal that hud been eipected and agreud cm .
The drummer and the crowd , which increased prodigiously as they went along , proceeded wound bj lialridge Burr , back of tbo Dam , and threugh Foundry-street , Canipbi-ll-strtet , down H ^ w-row , along Xctlior-row , nr . d upttieKew-roaO , to the premises of Mr . Thomas Alexander , manufacturer , in Canmore-streot , wliera they stopped , and with slabs and stonea kuockedin or smashed to pieces all the windows iu th » house , tho frames as troll as the glass . The magistrates and town polica were soon on the spot , but there was no adequate force at hand cauabto of dispersing ths mob . In thesu alarming circumstances , Provost Itonaldson
, with the most commendable courage , and perhaps , trusting to tho universal respuct and esteem jn which he anu Ms friends hiid reason to belieYe that he wa » held by all classes , and by none more than the working and lower classes , went forward wilh Haiti * ]) , rr » ll and Mr . ilacdonsld , the fiscal , and attempted to stize the drummer , when a ruffiau , with a stick , came behind him and felled him to tho ground . On Promt KonaldBon being raised nphii head was found to be sevtrely eat , and he was otherwise so much injured that it mi not till Friday that hia medical attendants could report that he was doing well .
As soon as the tumultuous astembl y M « m » d « jiti » fltd with the work of demolition on Mr . Alexander '* property In Canmore-street , the crowd , which might now comist of 3 , 000 persons , proceeded about garin abruasl to th » dwtrlli . g-houw of Mr . James Alexander , on hi « estate at Daltnule , about thrw and a half miles , from Dunftrnsline . On passing Wellwood Cottiery , w « learn that a *« uwr ¦ mnding in a group that had turned out or tie oeeniioa , eneouraged the hearts of the meals by soiling ent H them , "Jfoo , lads , iteand do jowr vmV ilglrt »* o » t » , on'no need to be gaun baok again . " On leaving Dub . feralint the drummer eesiod hia be « H » g , amdthewob moTea on in great sileueo— scarcely a word being spokem . It was about eleven o ' elook when the orowd , in qnietness and in order , reached Balmiile-honse . hnTingtrossod th # fields to it , in o * d » r to omit all at onee is a body ipon it , initead of walking up th » Menus in a line . No voitt or » ound gave intimation H the inmates till % » hower of itones demolished the window panes . The rtmat «» , however , smtceededin riosing tie shutters withl » .
At this time Mr . wid Mrs . AUxnadsr were »» le » p In bad , as well as their lire thildreu , the oldert only » er » a yeara of age . The othw lanutes wer « four women . The « rowd , after literall y demolishing every pane of glass In oil the four sides of tin houie , andlabor * thofront door , besides breaking the window-frames , and in « ome places ttia pannelinj of the inner ihutUrs « nd tbv * e of theiron rails at ft , front of the door , now burst into the lobby by smashing the door with » large stone , and thus breakup open tht lock . The servants flew up stairs to save themselves , and the rioters now set abom thoir murderous work with all deliberation and quietness . There was a screen before the kitchen fo % Vith clothes upon it , : and to these clothes the ruffians set five , and at the same 1 time brought in the hats , cloaks , and other articles in the lobby , and tore them to pieces , and added them as fuel to the flames . Oue of the women , hoping to divei
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Smrefr , Mr . Mnedonala , procurator fiscal , and Mr . Bell Inspector of County Police , drove off ft , a a ^ sky far Ba - mule-house , but th , mob had left and dispeS J andfa l was quirt before they could mdl the p ] , > aml al Mr h riff aV "T -i , mmeaiatel y sent off to Edinburgh to Mr . ShenffMonteith , and to Pimtoiita ™ . * , JUu tary . and the sheriff arrived on Thursday with a troop oS J !** J ™ 800 » 0 u ^«< W *) . command by Captain . AvkwvigU who were soon landed at QueeMfary " und vodeinto BunSermlme at a sharp trot by ten or eleven o ' cloek in the forenoon . The cause of this dreadful riot appears tabs an alleged breach of faith of the Messrs . Alexander with the other manufacturers in not adhering to the table of prices agreed on b y the manufacturers in 1843 or 1844 . It is re ported , however , that the Messrs , Alexander never signed that agreement with tlie rest of the manufacturers .
Numerous partieshaveheen ( Wednesday ) apprehended , and are being examined by Sheriffs Monteith and Shivcff and the other authorities . The Dragoon Guards are to leave Dunfermline this day ( Thursday , Aug . 21 ) , being , at tho same time , replaced by a detachment of infantry . ' ¦ On Monday the justices of the Dunfermline district met m Hie town-house , and resolved to memorialise Government on the necessity of making Dunfermline a permanent military station , and having barracks built for tho accommodation of the men . —Times . KikkcaidtAugust 23 .
, During Thursday a proclamation was issued from the Provost and magistrates of Dunfermline and the Sheriffs , intimating that if the evil-disposed inhabitants of the town ana neighbourhood should again assemble after nightfall in a lawless and tumultuous manner , tho civil authorities are prepared to suppress such an attempt , and , if need be , with the aid of the military ; requesting all the respectable inhabitants of Duirfevmline to Btoji within doors after nightfall , and not to assemble in groups in the street ; and intimating that if they fail to give hted to this warning , they will have themselves to blame for the consequences .
Since Thursday morning Mr . Sheriff Monteith , Mr Sheriff Shireff , and the other authorities , have benn constantly engaged in examinations connected with these outrages . Since Mr . Jlouteith left , Mr . Sheriff ShirelV and Mr . MacdonaUl , the fiseal , hnvo been indefati « ably employed from morning to night in examining the parties brought in by the police , and at the time we write these labours are still continued . We are glad to believe that the result of these laborious investigations will bo the conviction of some of the leaders , notwithstanding the secresy and mystery in which their crimes are involved , and the evident fear of being marked out for vengeance felt by those ivho may know the circumstances .
On Thursday evening great numbers of persons wero seen uUUe streets , but they were soen dispersed by the police . It was rumoured that an attack was meditated on tho property of some individuals in the employment of the Messrs . Alexander . However , tha exertions of the police were such as to prevent any assembling , and Dunfermline since the riot has remained perfectly tranquil . On visiting Balmule-house on Saturday morning , we found that every particle of wood in the kitchen had been deliberately and separately set fire to , including the least bar or stick . A salt-box placed in a mche in the wall is reduced to a box of charcoal . An old clock , of very hard wood , is charred from top to bottom , the dial-plate and hours being blistered with thuflames . The kitchen , however , is a chamber of solid stone , though the painting had
concealed thw from the incendiaries , and to this circumstance it is owing that the house of Dalmule is not now a heap of ashes , mingled , it might have been , with the ro . mains « f the unfortunate inmates . To prevent even ths possibility of deliverance , the rioters tore down tho two water casks at the hack of the house from the stonea on which they wero placed , and rolled them away in the shrubbery , breaking the hoops and the leaden pipes . The work tnat we have described was the work of half an hour , and about tliis time the mob , us cowardly as they were cruel , were alarmed at the appearance of some servants coming from Crnijjducltie . The watch-wonls "Fiw ! ' and "Home , home , " wove given , and the whole body-look to flight , one of them , it is said , being heard to exclaim that it was beyond the power of man to save the house from the flamu .
On Thursday torenoon Mr . and Mrs . James Alexander , who were so barbarously maltreated on tho night in question , and their family , crossed to Edinburgh . Nor is it wondered at that a mother who had witnessed tlie deeds of that night should resolve for the rest ofher life to keep the waters of the Frith of Forth between her children and a district where suoa atrocities were committed . From the details which we have given , it is impossible to come to any other conclusion than thatthtre is in the town of Dunfermline a regular baM of ce-naviHsrtoYs , wganised and disciplined with watchwords and signals , bound together under obligations of secrecy , and with hearts to conceive and heads to execute any crimes , however atrocious . We need not say that such afearful state of things must be met by the authorities with tlio utmost vigilance , and that Dunfermline requires the eoustant protection of the military .
There are other circumstances which will in future make this protection still more indispensably necessary than it is at present . In addition to tho unquiet population of Dunfermline , and of the disortlorlj inhabitants of Crossgates , Halbeuth , and Hell ' s Kitchen , ana the numerous collieries around Dunfermline , wo have now before us the prospect of a new village of 2000 or 3000 inhabitants , arising at once at the great iron-works about to be opened at Onkley ; and between this new population and the strangers whom the dcrnnnd for railway labourers will bring into Fife , it is to bo fvared that the prevalence of peaceful arm moral habits , uim of good order nnd socurity to person and property , will not b » in proportion to the increase of the census . —Times .
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NOTICE . The next" feast of the poets" will be holden in the Nortkern Sarof September 20 thnext . Poetical contributions thereto must be at the office of this paper by Saturday , September 13 tU .
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PUNCH'S JiBOENCY . INTSODCCTiON , TnE only man of any mark In all the town remaining , I sauntered in St . James ' s Park , And watched the daylight waning . " The Speaker ' s lips , " r said , " are seiled , They ' ve shut up both the Houses ; Sir Robert ' s gone to T . rn ibout field , Sir James to shoot he grouses . The Queen and all the Co u-t are out In Germany and Fl : nd rs , And , happy midst his i at ve kraut , My princely Albert wa iders . J \ o move the dumpy l '; ia 8 arch The royal standard gnces ; Alone , upon his lonely ni u-ch , The yawning sentr > p ces . " Beneath an clm-tree , n a bank , I museil , ( for tired my hunch was , ) And there in slumber * oft I sank , And this the dream of Punch was , THE DltEAJr . I dreamed it was a chair'O ; gold , Thegrnssy bunk ' Isutoi ; I dreamed Saint Edward ' s sceptre old I wielded for a baton . Men crowded to my throne , fie elm , In reverend allegiance ; And iW . was pnblish'd through the realm , Thejolliust of Regents . Back came the ministerial rout From touriUR nnd can using ; Back came Sir Bob from Turnabout , And back Sir James ft om grousing . I tnvn'd upon a scornful ho 1 , TVhen Graham ask'J niy favour ; I sternly hanish'd Bobl y Peel To Turnabout for n er . To courtly Aberdeen , I sent A mission influential , To serve the Yankee Pr iident As Flunky Conficl . nthl , : lord Brougham and Vnux in banishment ¦ I order'd to Old lUekie , And Stanley to New Zealand went
. muuti&auuui ll > ilclil . And Kelly , whom the world assails , But whom tho bar lakes fame Jrom , I made Lord Viscount Keiv South Wales Where poor John Tawell came from . And then I asked his Grace , the Duke , What ministers to go to , On which he geierously took The Cabinet in toto . O then ! all other rw ' tns which shine Upon our page domestic , "Were mean nnd dim ( omjiared to mine , Tliat Kegenty msijesiic . And ajjes hence the Jr ' vRlish realm Shall tell tho wor s » i legend Otl ' mwlt , when at tit n i-. ion's helm , Her Majesty's High Result . Around my empire ' s wide frontier No greedy bully swaggered , Kor swindling Yankee buccaneer , Nor savage Gallic braggart . For threats and arms nere flung aside , And war-ships turned to traders , And all our ports we opened wiiie To welcome the imatttrs . At home the cottier coursed his hare , Be ? ide the Duke his neighbuur ; The weaver got his livi . ig lair For his tea hours of 1 :: 1 our . Ani \ every man without employ Got beef—not bones—to fied on , And every little working boy His page of i '« n « ft « oultl jeail on . AM Imlvmen k-. \ v « ti \ common sur . se , Anil prurience brought Us ™ riches ; Repeal ceased pilfering for jieueu In Paddy ' s mended breeches . : Old Dan was grown tuo rich to beg , Auu in a Union jolly I linked Mae Hale with Tresham Gregg . And Beresfutd with Crolly .
Then gentlemen might earn their bread , And think there was no shame in' t ; And at my court might hwhl their head Like any Duke or J ); miu in 't , A Duchess and a fnvmii ' . ' -s The same f \ u : idrillu 1 claptin ; I asked oW Wellington to mess , And meat : i lialf-jiay Captain . The liar and Press 1 ncuiicileil ( They th ' . mki > d » u > one and all for'l ) , Eenigiiantly tlie Thunderer smiled On Mr . Serjeant lVfourd * * * I know not where my fancy strayed , My dream grew wilder—bolder When suddenly a hand w ; is laid FuUvougMy on my shoulder . It w . \ s H > e Gunruum of tlie Park , The sun was sunk in Heaven ; " Git up , " says lie , " it ' s after uar " . » , We shuts at hall-past seven . " And so I rose jind shook myself , And , sfltiatiis luJi , Resigned tlie crown to Eor : il Ouelph , Ami went to tea to Jud y . —tmwh . Military Ji'stici :. —There have been several revolting cases of military Hogging at "Winchester . We propose that the cliisskjil li » urc of Justice ) w altered lor thu especial use ot tUu army . The sword should bo taken from her , as an instrument r . ot cu ting deep enough , anil tho cat-o ' -iiino-tails put into her hand ins-teaU . The bamla » b over her eyes should remain the t-awc ; for it would never do " for Justice t » sec the uiK-lties that an- practised in the army under her sacred name . — lli ' nl .
1 RcoitKss <« r Science . —Science is gcncra'l y represented with a lighted torch in her hand . This will account for some of the atrocities that h tve lately followed from the so-called scientific expt di-. ion of tlie Vrencli into the interior of Algiers . —It fe . "Welj . worth tub Mosey . —AYc learn fr < m the late debate on the Estimates , that sonic ot the d > oi' - keepmof the House of Commons receive as micli as £ 500 a year . Far from thinking this sahuy too much , we consider the functionaries are nuclei p iiil , if they have to remove all the dirty tilings , both real and imaginary , that people lay at thu duor of the House of Commons . —Hid .
" Thk Tukasukks oi tub JJekp . "—Tlie following intelligence—quoted from the llinupahirc Teifgrapftconies from i ' ve » -hearted , libui'iy-luviug t \ murie » : ¦—" By a private letter whieb . has readied us from Gibraltar , we are iufonned , upon good authority , that 20 , 000 slave shackles , for men , women , ami children , —in all fourteen cart-loads—have been fished up trt . m tho wreck of the American wnr-stCHnier Mmuri , lately burnt at that port . " Now , as tlie timbers and other relics of our Royal George have been worked into boxes and nick-nacks , we propose to Americans
—the traders of the human shambles , the moiieyseeking breeders of " God ' s likeness in ebony "—that they should turn the penny with thesis 20 , 000 stove shackles . If wrought into utensils for domestic bc , or what would still be better , turned into on amenta for the women of America , they would endear to them that sweet principle which coins money from , tho "marrow and the bones of man . " Some of these shackles might also be manufactured into steel cla-p 3 for the bibles of the very religions breeders of the black . —/ faV .
A Ykhy Good Excuse . —We haTC been nssiuod , on tho best authority , that the absence of the S * n . is attributable solely to the fact , that since ho h a * acquired so much fame by his photogenic pictures , ho has been keeping out of the , way for fear ho should ) enuvde rvtskkntof the , Uvnil Academy . —Ibid . Rmmyat Llm'KHs , —The profits annually ret ' , l ' . ioi on railways are something enonnons ; but the truest iUm in railway returns bids fair to be the lat if the killed anil wounded . —Hid . Tub Miaous . —ThenunaborsavconUwMoor ? , aid it may b » stiid that the llyuu has gone to tho ( Jroutt . Thu sejiseu began well , or , as tho limes las it , was ushered k " by a iino dry bracing monung . "—The 1 ' act of iis bo nig a Irochy morning aceouats pirbaps for Wvi lagging oi Vox MaiJu of 1015 foeuce ! That fox kae ^ Ts huvf to tauul ' mi is thw nature ! ojaoulaticn of ovvcsnovUttg tosmIws . —IWtl .
Awtttuuttxsios ov iim 1 ' rimis MisiSTiin . —Peel , tho othei' uylit in tho house , said he vrat anxious tho oouutry sthould appiehond htm . Y »'« hupu U . o omnt > 7 "will tak » the hint . —Ibkl . Kpwoact » y Ao » oi < vtiox . —Whon the infpanoua Twitzol , a Dominioau Monk , and tho Popa ' s t ^ cnt , was ratoiViug indnlgonees iu Germany ( a . d . JolS ) ,. and bad eollovtod a groat sum of money by the Hale of them at Leipsi * , a gentleman of tb » t « itj Mp ^ lied to him i ' ov an indulgence to commit a cori ^ ' n eriniQ
witltottt sy « flir > ing what it ira » . Tentecl wnseoleil , ree * i » ed his fe » , and granted th « iudulg « ttt « in due fora . Soon irfwn , tho gunilanwu . v ; ntU ; ii T > HM ? . el on hisdepauhJPtfi'om thooity , ondg » lled him ou-idly , anil robbed him of nil his money , K >' i ) iug biu . at parting , that < W » was thg ortnw for « hiJi h * bad purehasod abaolntion . George , Dnkt of Snxo * y , a 3 »» lo \» friend to * h » see of llome , when 1 » . eaitl of the robber , * m highly indignant at first , l . ut whoa he kwued all tit * eirounuttftticas , he laugliid heartily , [ and pardoned the offender . —Jortin ' s Jtf « o / hramius
Bivucat . CouyssT . —At the oonimeucomunt of tho l » t « wnp , an liotfot farmer , who rend his IJtb ' c ^ wy Sunday , wont whin raclor andm-kfld Inm wh * thw h » did notthinWthe ooiuwt would pi v <;> y ! , « ,, •} ^^ i \ a FwsTift \»! ' pn twin * iani ' n > t \ MmS , ' if '•; pb ;;<> x < i \ God , ho hopefl jt would . " N » y , " ft . Vui % in > Vani- ^ f " 1 am stire i » vill ihc « ; lor Uc says : y ; Urn uivj-Vsoi hzelnel xxxT . a . , 2 . 3 j . ' Ao «; . i ViAt >; KPj C \ n hm aminst MnmtSeir . ' >;» vv ]; : y n-t i- ti w i ; . Vt ! 0 | . j scliolar than I am , sajs ;! rs « ,, „ U r ^ , u \ MX \ Mouniec-r , _ the I-Kh ^ imaii ; ; .-,: ; , , 11 . . ., . . ; . , ; . . , ' ¦ verse it is r , till "" sti '( , i ! i : i ; r !\ j .- : !¦(¦ -, t > >• . ' ,-j . Vj ¦ ,. ? " : < yo , M' ! Wn & «> , 1 am " i i , » t iiivcl ' jttiil ' iwamiiUtt theo mOiU « sola , « " '
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Tub Ribhco / Iith Costicts . —Aotivo measures are low in progress in the town of Neath , for the purioae of petitioning her Majesty , praying for a vemis-l sura , w nt le »» l , nn amelioration , of the punishment [ now being nndergono by tho indWidi ials who were engaged in the Rebeeoahe disturbances .-. TftbAmaM . A Pau >> bui Rbaso ^ . —Is tho Du' ^ o of Richmond I pMsideat of the Agricultural Associ ation and a feeder of fat eattle ! Yes . —Then why does ho allow bis brother , Lord Airihw , to take o ffice under a Freo Trade Government ! Beeausa Lord Arthur u a lean-o * , and place is tery likely to fatten him . —Joe iUlkr . A Maoic Cum bt IIoLtovAY ' s Viux a » d Oistmmj l-Jane Forsyth , resid ' mg in the Oalton , Glasgow , had been a . oripple fro-, n her youth with a contraction in the knee , oe casioned by a fall , which produced fifteen nbscesso , in different parts of the leg ixnd thigh -, it need scarcely be said that she had had the advice of medical mcn of the greatest eminence , but failed to afford * . ne least relief , hut she may now be seen walking al ' . out Glasgow , perfectly cured , tinr . bscesses healed . , and the limb quite smiud , and this after every other i , eaushad failed , by oulvusing these - Wonuertul uvo ' aicices .
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THE BURY MANSLAUGHTER . Liverpool , Thuibday , Aug . 21 . ( Before Mr . Baron liolfe . J Fredkihcr IlAiaus was indicted for havinc at Bury , on the 26 th of May last , lulled and slain one John Sngdcn . Mr . GnxixoF-u and Mr . Fuy conducted tho prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr . Wimuss Mr . Robkbts , known as "tho Mind's' Attovncyi General , ' was attorney for the prosecution . A great number of witnesses were called to establish the case against the prisoner . Their statements varied in some minute respects , though detailinp generally pretty much the same fact * . 1 « substance the account which they gnve of the mattoi
was as follows : —In the month of Mavthe town of Bury was m a state of excitement , and some alarm was felt in consequence of a very extensive turu-out among the sawyers , spinners , nnd those of other occupations . In some of these trades a number of persons not connected with the « ni 9 n , had taken the places of those who had abandoned their work , and IhTtl n ^ K - ee ^^ of pwtdiBlik . among J ? "" 1-018 ' be"iB followed in tho streets when Smuch XSi I threatmtl with vlolcncc : so mucn so t hat it became ncceBsnry to have Uip fin nf ° r ° ^ V » ^ from S So ! k The town of Bury was " nieketed , " that is , posts of the JKS T ° e 8 tflb " ished » the « SSS ? who object was to prerent any nersons enmin * , U ( U
STtonSh Sd £ tllC T i 0 U 8 ft * . ? " whSi w t aSS Sli f H ? ^ y ^ - SeTer » l of the TS f fi ed fo - the P ^ cc » tion had been om-Sfert ^ i " « f . ? the y » "eged that thosl object of these « pickets" was to look out for 'tramps , ' who ynm taken to the " dub-howo ? of the union rccewed sw * fooa flna iv Sd were sent on their way ; and they denied that violence arrangement . Among the works at which "knob , stieks" h « dbeen employed w « s the foumlrr of tU okT ^ tf * ' ¦ ?* «' Prisoner w «? tlfr Cm ! ploy . On the evening of the 26 th of May he with SS 3 »?» sSS f
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^* | * ^ m ~ m — " —^ ¦ ^¦^ ito liavo been present on the occasion , was called to corroborate this fact , or the expression said to have accompanied it . Shortly after , according to Radcliffe ' s statement , tlie prisoner and his companions came out of the front door , and proceeded out of Rochdale New-road into Ohapel-street , where they lodged at the house of a person of the name of Turton . They were received witu nootmgs , and the crowd followed and pressed upon them as they went down the street . Radclifte lollowed , and on coming near to Turton ' scloor , wheve the prisoner and his companions had arrived immediately before , hesnw the prisoner beating some bo r * m lithe same yellow stick which he bod had in h ' is iiandintheyardofthebeer-housG . ¦
n « i ? i " rt . witn 1 ll ° " vell stated that her went « p and took the prisoner by the collar , dcsirin » him to givo over , and go into the house . The " prisoner struckoverthewitness ' sshoulder twice or tlirice , and some one cned out that the prisoner had stabbed two men . He aftcrwavds went up the steps in Turton ' s house . From the tcstunony of other witnesses , it would iappear that . the deceased had received the i * . jury which resulted , in his death before Rotlm-eS came lip . It was said that in coming down tUe stvceS the prisoner was waring to the crowd which followed , as it caUmg them t » come on . Uo was at that time apparently in good hnmotir . The crowd was pushing the little boys against him . On reaching Turton ' s doorhewentuptwoof the steDs . and thnn nltho ..
eanie down again or was-pulled down , anil n cry was raised that there was a dagger in the stick , and that it should be taken Jtam-him . He thcu struch about lura several tnnes with the stick , and in a few seconds thes \ vc * dit contained was seen to be out of the scabbard , ; but as to whether the prisoner drew it , or whether rt flew off while strildng , or was pulled n „? , nf ^ H 8 trE « S . » ot exsctlv appear ; The deceased was ia the crowd at seme little distance frois the prisoner when he first came up to larton sdoor , and was leaping up tolooh omthe lieaGS of those S » front , and see what was coffii : on . While tlie struggle for the stick was proceeding the prisoner was forced some yards from the door towards th * corner of Chapel-street and Butcherstreet , and m the change which took place in the position ot tiie crowd the deceased earao oppssite to aim and received a thrust ; from the sword in the pit oi tlie stomach . There -was . as was tob& iint . inin . itnrl
sonic little confusion as to what took place at the time the wound was indicted . Some said the deceased was close " to him , aad that he saercly thrust ouS his arm at the moment ; others , that he rushed smise steps towards the deseased and stabbed him lie fthen struck at another , Who alleged tbatliis waistcoat vas cut by the stroke , and in making a further thrust tho sword came in contact with the- wall and was Broken . The prisoner then retreated into the house , taking with him the remains of the swordcane , tne scabbard portion being left in the street . 1 he deceased was taken to seek medical aid , and the pnsonerwas shortly after appvehenvkd . by the police On being pointed out to the officer , who asked him it he was the person , he said , " I am the man they say has stabbed him . " The remains of the sword-cane which the prisoner took with him into the house have not been found . The prisoner said he had left it m the street .
Ihese were the main facts of the occurrence , but the witnesses varied in many minute particulars which it would be uninteresting to detail . They all ' or nearly all , were either of the turn-out party , w connected with it , and tlieir evidence generally seemed to be more or less coloured in consequence . On the deceased being taken to a doctor , it was foimd he had received a wound in front near the pit of the stomach , whichwas bleeding a little . There was a swelling near the part , for which the medical man could not account , and shortly after he vomited a great quantity of blood , showing that some of the blood-vessels of the stomach were wounded . lie sank rapidly , and died from loss of Wool On a ix » t mortem examination , the surgeon found in the body a
large portion of the sword-cane , which had broken oft . It had tvamfixed the stomach , and penetrated nearly an inch into the cartilage between two of the bones of the spine . The other extremity produced the npparent swelling for which the medical man had been unable to account . This being the case for the prosecution , Mr . Wilkiss addressed the jury for the defence . He said it most clearly appeared that Bury was , for some time before this occurrence , in a state of great disturbance , calculated to produce the greatest alarm in the minds of the peaceably disposed , who , by taking service at the works which tho turn-outs had left had rendered themselves obnoxious to that party . He , the learned counseltrusted that the workiii "
, classes , availing themselves oi" the increased means of knowledge within theiv reach , would ere long learn to have more regavd for their own welfare , and a better appreciation of theiv veal interests , than to be led into such courses by the advice and at the instigation of interested men , who made them the instrument of their own sordid ends , lle , the learned counsel , hnd inquired into many particulars apparently not very closely connected with the transaction , but which would be found not to be unimportant or irrelevant . He had inquired into the wages which had been paid to the several witnesses who lv . ul been called , and who belonged to the party of tho turnouts , that the jury might sec the animus with which these parties came into the box . Thev were cett \ v .
good wages , they had no ground of complaint aaainst their masters , and yet they threw themselves but of employment , and exposed themselves to poverty and privation , to further the great turn-out , from which they expected some extraordinary benefit . IVJien they made such sacrifices for the cause , it was not to be expected they would be unbiassed witnesses against one who had committed the crime of claiming in this free country the liberty of disposing of his labour as lie pleased , and who , in consequence , had come within the ban of those who attend public meetings for the purpose of organising these unions , and throw un theiv caps hi honour of those who preach to them ot liberty , while they themselves arc acting as tlie most reckless of tyrants . The learned counsel then
went minutely through the details of the evidence , contending that the whole of it , so fav as they couM see through the contradictions byjvliich it was surrounded , and the evident bias on the part of the witnesses , v «;» consistent with the ease , that the prisoner was set upon by the mob , and palled down the steps of his house ; that he struck with the stick to defend himself ; that the sheath was pulled from the sword in the scuffle ; and that while he was holdinu the sword to keep off the crowd , from whose violence lie might well suppose his life was in danger , the deceased was pushed upon it by the crowd behind , and thus came by his death . Ho complained that a great number
of the witnesses called before the coroner had not been examined on this trial ; and contended , that though then called by the prisoner , the prosecutor should have them called on this occasion , the object of the coroner ' s inquest being , for the sake of the public , to ascertain the cause of tho death cf one of her Ma . ) esty ' s Mibjects . After some further observations , the learned counsel concluded with a strong appeal on behalf of the prisoner , a poor man , and without the means of procuring the attendance of witnesses to moet the statements of those whom he had made his enemies merely by seeking honestly to cam his dailv bread .
# Mr . Baron Rolfk summed up , leaving it to the jury to say whether the prisoner took away the life of the deceased by his intentional act . If it was a mere accident , he would , of course , bo entitled to be acquitted , though for that hypothesis he ( the learned J udge ) did not see any reasonable ground . If it was intentional , the act would be manslaughter , unless done in self-defence—in defence of life or limb . A party , there is no doubt , may , when assailed , repel force by force ; &ut there must be some proportion betwtcn tin force offered and the force used in resisting it . A good deal of inquiry had been made into the state
ot the town of Bury at this period , with a view to show that the party might reasonably apprehend such violence as to be justified in supposing that life w limb was in danger when so assailed ; but it would be a dangerous thing , without tho strongest evidence , to come to the conclusiou that the stale of society at that time was such as to justify a man in itsiitg a . mwd-rtirt- and running through ikbodt ) any one ivho might o ttempt to take it from him . His lovd ' ship then minutely recapitulated the otidftnee . The Jury , after a few minutes' deliberation , returned a vordict of Guilty , but with a recommendation to morcv .
Sentence deferred till tho next morning . ; On tha following morning Fredaick Ilarrii was brought up to reeeivo sontence . His lordship remembered that he had delayed sentencing the prisoner in order to consider whether tho reconunomlatioa of the jury to mercy could bo attended to ; hut tht oiremutanci of thi pritowr being anned with a deadly wtupon wa * wkolhj inconsistent with that re-• mtutndation . Ha mssi bb nussvoatEis . » o » tWXSII 1 BAB 8 , I - — - - - - — A - ^ . ^^^^^ fcte ^ K-A __ _ _ . ^__ -. _
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 30, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1330/page/3/
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